Guild Wars 2

Personally, I like staff more, and seems to have more benefits for Fractals, since you can place fields for control/support at will, not to mention the high AOE damage output.

But it is GW2, your personal playstyle matters a lot. Go with what feels right for how you play.

Seems pretty permanent. That said, might want to get on it before HoT comes out. It’ll be much easier to do with the map at its peak, rather than when people move on to other content.

The lore of the thing is actually really interesting. Apparently Mordrem, given enough time, nurturing and companionship, can be turned into the friend. Says a lot about Mordrem and Sylvari.

Seriously, why are we still able to cheese our way though Golem Mark II by standing on a box?

XD I highly doubt someone designed that boss with electric fields to dodge and so on, and then said, “Y’know what would be great? If people just avoided all that and stood on a box spamming ranged”

Seriously, I can’t possibly think why removing a box would be so hard. Not even mad at people exploiting, more embarrassed for Anet for not making such an obvious fix.

There are little things like that, or Shatterer’s hill, or even some of the cheese that goes on in dungeons, that really seemed like easy fixes, but have yet to be resolved.

I would have figured Guardian would fit it better, but hey, I like my support in my Ele.

I always had the theory of elemental specialization, sacrificing abilty to switch for more abilities in one element, and weapon swap presumably

Actually can’t you use mail for giving items to people?

BrunoBRS.5178:

yanipheonu.5798:

BrunoBRS.5178:

yanipheonu.5798:

And honestly yeah, I totally dismissing people asking for stuff not to be added. Seems a bit mean spirited to not want others have something just because I may not like it.

then you completely missed the point of my post, where i said that… you know what, here’s an example:

ANet designer Bob has 3 features he really wants to work on with his team: masteries, profession specializations, and personal housing. however, each of them will take a year of development time, and they only have the money for two of them. ANet designer Bob must pick two, and put the third one on the backburner.

ANet designer Bob chose to push personal housing away in favor of masteries and specializations. now he can either work on personal housing, or in other new features that came up within those two years of developing.

when a player says “i don’t like this, so i don’t want it”, they’re saying “i don’t like it, so i don’t want it to be taking development time from other things that i might like more”.

what you’re doing is being arrogant and assuming your option is superior, because why can’t i have personal housing? those people that don’t want it can just not use it.

So what, I should say they should remove PVP if I didn’t like it, so those resources could have gone to content I actually play? Seems mean spirited to me.

Not saying Anet doesn’t have limited resources. But I am saying the fact that a feature make take resources from another is a poor argument.

This game will always have content that people don’t want, or actively dislike. They’re allowed. The poor thing to do is to say “no one else shoudl have it”

If Anet truly cannot muster the resources for Housing alongside it’s existing gameplay that is an entirely different story. But one entirely seperate from our own opinions.

Put straight: me not liking apples doesn’t mean id like them to tear the trees down and grow grapes instead.

the difference is PvP is already there. housing isn’t.

you can argue in favor of housing, but you’re being petty if you won’t let someone argue against it because they want something else.

=_= not even my point. Whatever man.

With the new Boons and mechanics, the vanilla classes will need at least some changes, so we’ll see what they do.

shrugs Honestly I think it’s the best map they ever made.

Requires cooperation all the way through, does a good job of managing mob mentality while still providing some challenge and yet remaining relatively un frustrating, great loot.

And dunno, it’s an MMO. You fight things, do events, get loot, rinse and repeat. Part of the experience really, even in the least grindy MMOs.

BrunoBRS.5178:

yanipheonu.5798:

And honestly yeah, I totally dismissing people asking for stuff not to be added. Seems a bit mean spirited to not want others have something just because I may not like it.

then you completely missed the point of my post, where i said that… you know what, here’s an example:

ANet designer Bob has 3 features he really wants to work on with his team: masteries, profession specializations, and personal housing. however, each of them will take a year of development time, and they only have the money for two of them. ANet designer Bob must pick two, and put the third one on the backburner.

ANet designer Bob chose to push personal housing away in favor of masteries and specializations. now he can either work on personal housing, or in other new features that came up within those two years of developing.

when a player says “i don’t like this, so i don’t want it”, they’re saying “i don’t like it, so i don’t want it to be taking development time from other things that i might like more”.

what you’re doing is being arrogant and assuming your option is superior, because why can’t i have personal housing? those people that don’t want it can just not use it.

So what, I should say they should remove PVP if I didn’t like it, so those resources could have gone to content I actually play? Seems mean spirited to me.

Not saying Anet doesn’t have limited resources. But I am saying the fact that a feature make take resources from another is a poor argument.

This game will always have content that people don’t want, or actively dislike. They’re allowed. The poor thing to do is to say “no one else shoudl have it”

If Anet truly cannot muster the resources for Housing alongside it’s existing gameplay that is an entirely different story. But one entirely seperate from our own opinions.

Put straight: me not liking apples doesn’t mean id like them to tear the trees down and grow grapes instead.

Well we don’t know much about what other tools it may have, a big overarching weakness will just be it being very different kind of character.

Legend management? More directional control needed? Energy management? We’re going to see a good part of the inevitable deluge of new revenants just not knowing what they’re doing.

Not to mention having to really figure out a more advance rotation to use a Revenant to its full effect.

Knighthonor.4061:

yanipheonu.5798:

Yeah I’d agree, taunt implies a whole aggro mechanic that isn’t in play with that ability.

In RPGs a taunt usually, well, makes enemies more likely to hit you, not just in wow, but in other RPGs like Final Fantasy.

Not that they can’t establish their own nomenclature, but they don’t exist in a bubble. If I had no idea, I’d assume taunt would increase aggro not reverse fear.

That said, not sure what a better alternative is.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro

Aggro system been in the game. you just have no way of seeing it.

This should have been obvious to players that play Elementalist,Engineers or Ranger, by now, because Bears, Trimmer Turret and Earth Elementals have natural taunts already for holding Mob AI aggro.

Denial is heavy now that Anet added a player casted taunt…SMH

Never said there wasn’t aggro in the game, well aware of how it works. Just said this taunt function doesn’t directly influence aggro like it does in most other games,thus potential confusion.

It’s hard to be “good” when trying show stuff off XD

A good example is when Street Fighter V gets shown off. Even if they have top players playing, they’ll usually normally nonsensical moves, not because they suck, but because they’re trying to show off a specific move or stage gimmick.

Yeah I’d agree, taunt implies a whole aggro mechanic that isn’t in play with that ability.

In RPGs a taunt usually, well, makes enemies more likely to hit you, not just in wow, but in other RPGs like Final Fantasy.

Not that they can’t establish their own nomenclature, but they don’t exist in a bubble. If I had no idea, I’d assume taunt would increase aggro not reverse fear.

That said, not sure what a better alternative is.

Kentrey.3251:

BrunoBRS.5178:

the problem is your tone, that dismisses people that would rather have, say, masteries, than personal housing.

“look at those goofs, asking for a feature to not be added just because they don’t like it”.

Just from what i see. I think he’s not trying to dismiss people who want more masteries. But he’s saying everyone has a right to want what they want and ask for it. So while one side might ask for more pure PvE content the other side can ask for housing. And if Anet as a good company can handle it well both sides can get what they want without anyone suffering. And that saying by getting housing you’re losing out on more important stuff is just as kittenaying by them working on masteries we’re not getting housing.

Make sense?

This.

And honestly yeah, I totally dismissing people asking for stuff not to be added. Seems a bit mean spirited to not want others have something just because I may not like it.

shrugs It’s bound to happen, if you’re really that upset about framerate, get a new computer.

Plus it’s a part of the community honestly, I’ve had in Lion’s Arch just having a faux duel, or spamming Firey Greatsword in a group as a fun but stupid distraction.

Doing stupid pointless things with our abilities is just part of MMo really.

That said I guess if it’s for harassment then I can sort of agree. But I’ve never seen it that bad, and at that point, you can usually just map out. Haven’t found it to be egregious in any instance personally.

BrunoBRS.5178:

yanipheonu.5798:

In b4 for the “don’t like it, therefore, we shouldn’t have it” rush.

when there are only so many resources a company can spend in features, it’s entirely logical to say you don’t want them to work on a feature you don’t like, because that’s taking time, devs and money away from another feature.

game development is a zero-sum game. you can’t just have it all, you need to pick what you want to work on.

Kind of a confusing response.

I’d like housing to be in the game, as a personal opinion.
Recognizes some do not want this feature, and would argue it should not be added due to this.

Response: Anet has obvious budget and limitations that may not fit what Anet is currently doing.

I dunno, seems a bad response.

Like, I could say I don’t like PVP, and then argue that PVp shouldn’t exist because it takes money away from other game modes. Which you could mistake as true.

Simply adding x to a game doesn’t mean y suffers.

And seriously, Anet, all developers, or the good ones at least, can budget this stuff out.

Again ,lots of other MMOs have housing, some very robust. This doesn’t directly hurt the other content in that game in terms of resources. I don’t hear of WOW losing a dungeon because they added barracks.

Hell, with sales of Gem Store items for housing, it could very well enhance other content.

Let’s be honest, if we’re saying housing should or should not be added, it’s opinion plain and simple. If anet bungles their budget that’s their issue. If they can comfortable add housing without affecting their other parts of the game, why not?

In b4 for the “don’t like it, therefore, we shouldn’t have it” rush.

I love housing in, well, all my games. While I understand the potential drawbacks, I feel like Anet could really make an interesting more socially viable version given the chance.

That and, frankly, all the other completing games are doing it. FFXIV, Old republic, wildstar, even WoW’s Garrisons. Clearly there’s interest, and a space to compete with that Anet could really innovate on.

That and, gw2 is a pretty cosmetic game. Having a place to decorate seems a logical progression IMO.

And yeah, lunar hound more or less nailed,p it. Seriously, someone mail that to Anet.

I’ve kinda hoped the Legendary Giant would be added to the World Boss timers, I like how heavy the DPS of the entire Zerg had to be, not to mention his attacks could be brutal.

I find this lack of bacon disturbing. First ascended food? Lol

This really needs to get addressed. The problem is, waiting for a Rez is a trained response for a lot of new players.

Throughout most of your levelling expereicnes, if someone is nearby, you let them Rez you. Experience points and no need to WP, all good. Suddenly a new player gets thrust into a situation where, despite their previous conditioning, people are yelling at them to do the opposite, due to a mechanic which is not explicitly stated as part of the game in-game.

I’d call for some civility, if people aren’t wping, they aren’t necessarily leeching or bringing down the team intentionally; it’s just a conditioned response for many.

Clearly the intention was for rezzing to be more ideal than wping, and ideally, it’d be like dungeons, where you can’t WP unless you fully wipe.

… It’d suck for a few reasons, but it might be an option for wping to just not work if you’re in range of a world boss. If you scale, you stay, as it were.

But that itself is problematic, just closer to it’s intended purpose. Perhaps a lighter touch ,such as WPing being available but having adverse sidefeffects. Maybe a boss gets slightly stronger each time you WP from death. You can come back and fight, but too many people do it, and you’re screwed. Suddenly rezzing becomes more viable. This could be a good balance, where wping is good but cannot be abused or be the end all solution to death.

It’s not an easy problem to fix.

There needs to be ways for certain items to not be tradable, be it for economy reasons, or making something challenging to obtain. Anet intended for Carapace Boxes to only be obtainable through their respective events. Bare in mind there are collections based on these items, and a challenge they clearly didn’t want to be won through trading post.

Here’s the thing, as much as you may like or hate the levelling storyline, the bigger issue is that it may increasingly get in the way to new expansion content.

New races will be harder to implement if you must create new storylines for their respective personal stories.

As we get further in GW2’s story, the original story of Zhaitan’s defeat will become less necessary to the following events. Imagine if we’re three expansions in, and we’re still starting with Zhaitan’s defeat, while new races and classes continue to make the story make less and less sense, and we’re already walking over an Elder Dragon corpse or two.

We’ve already seen problems with the ruined Lion Arch in personal story, for example. While some implementation of phasing may provide some fixes, if Anet wants to keep changing things, it’ll continue to make less sense.

I dunno, it’d suck, but maybe it’s time to let that part of the game die. Ideally it’d be nice to just make a whole new personal story, but that would be a huge undertaking. Still, if Anet was up for it, maybe if we get a second expansion or something, I’d love it.

But perhaps if they’re looking for more endgame than levelling experience, it might be best to let if fall by the wayside.

In other news, the sky is falling!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

http://dulfy.net/2015/01/26/gw2-current-trait-unlocking-system-to-be-removed-in-hot/

We know at least the unlocking system will be changed, and are “replacing it with a more simplified system that supports where skills-traits-specializations are going in the future.”

shrugs it’s like letting someone play you character for a while. I don’t see anything wrong with it, and hell, how would Anet even catch you? And I doubt anet’s intention is to soup kitten style take away control from anyone other than the one intended user.

But yeah, there are obvious reasons this is on the TOS. Just know the potential risks of letting someone else use an account. If you know them and trust them, I see no problem at all.

I’d love to have a cosmetic only inspect feature! I’ve often seen someone walk but, love some armor piece they have and want to know what it is, but am unable to check.

nGumball.1283:

Is it even official the Rytlock is the first Revenant? I don’t remember any interview in which there was an official statement that Rytlock was actually the first Revenant in Tyria.

As much as I can see, it is only stated in GW2 wiki. And this wouldn’t be the first time with GW2 wiki having false/unconfirmed/misunderstood ’’facts’’.

Eitherway, I am not awaiting Anet to give any special connections between the lore and the class as no calss in GW2 so far, have had any actual impact in the story.

http://youtu.be/gxLkfXwxLTs
@40:43

To be fair, all he says is Rytlock is simply the first, whether he means first in all Tyria, or first we’ve seen in terms of gameplay, is not clear.

It’d be cool to see alternative versions of existing weapons in the game.

Wow had the Shadowmourne when you certainly couldn’t own the actual Frostmourne.

There could be a third sister blade to the Sonothin blade, or a blade that shares similar origins to Caladbolg.

After all, Caladbolg is made from the Pale Tree’s bark. Seems an ideal precursor mastery quest to obtain bark of your own.

I like having differing armor options and storylines based on our choice of allegiance. While the pact means we’re working towards a common goal, I’d like to see more stuff given to our initial choices.

Maybe new missions, sneaking around as the Order, or finding new texts with the Priory, getting new loot and mastering our parts in our respective allegiances.

It’s a map of mapwide cooperation towards a common goal, taking and defend camps, defeating champions, and finally taking out a boss. It’s not, say, a Raid, but for events with tens/hundreds of people, its a pretty well designed area. Zergs happen of course, but its bound to happen with that many people.

Though Chest Farms can throw a wrench into things XD but then you just LFG for a better map.

lol Not going to lie, I want one of those mask if only for the sheer kitten factor XD

And gold is big colour for my main :/ so may have to go for the gold dye,

And that balloon is too cute.

Edit: seriously? D with erp at the end is censored? Lol

I’m still thinking that “staff” was a hammer, if only for length reasons, and the general bashing animation.

Though that may just be me wanting a more martial artist twirl to the martial staff, than just a blunt instrument,

Man if we got something like, say, Cod’s emblem maker, you could do some cool stuff.

Though the down side would be, well, kittenes everywhere. Which could be lessened by only allowing guilds with enough clout to actually use an advanced version.

Edit: seriously, the male reproductive organ, even in a clinical terms, is censored? Alrighty.

Well they did mention “more powerful Infusions” as rewards for Fractal mastery, so it wouldn’t be far fetched for another mastery line to have unique armor or other items as a reward.

Well I mean there IS an expansion coming up, not to mention Living Story afterwards…

I’d buy the hell out of those. Still love my GW2 mousepad.

It’s not even out yet. And was only recently announced.

The sheer fact they call them “DPS” and “Support” stance makes this seem fishy, though it could just be a beta placeholder.

I do love how well hidden some of the jumping puzzle and other thing are in this game,remember having to do one for Mawdry, and thinking, “I’ve 100% this area and been here for lots of different reasons. I’ve NEVER seen this before!”

Wish Anet would do that more in new content actually, hoping we get some neat secrets in HoT.

God forbid developers borrow aspects of other competing games in an attempt to improve a game.

And hell, Moba elements seem a good fit for an MMO. Why not experiment?

A PVP map with towers and enemy unit hordes coming down the lanes sounds fun IMO.

All this said, I’d venture to guess that it would only apply to future personal stories.

I seem to recall Essence of Luck being a mat for Mawdrey. Couldn’t hurt to have a few other small ways you can use your luck.

Lifestealer.4910:

Corner stacking is so 2014, there is like only a really handful of situation where that is beneficial. But then again pugs are always slow with adapting to changes.

THANK YOU. Had too many people so hellbent on stacking even to the point of wiping because all the aoe was being focused, yknow, on our stack.

I honestly think anet’s design chops shine in their dungeons/fractals, when you don’t have the Zerg and mob mentality to worry about, and can really make some interesting bosses and puzzles. I hope we get more content like this with HoT,

Been pretty consistently getting at least a few each week, maybe 1 – 4, if the RNG gods are kind or not of course.

MIght just be a sheer number of bags I’m opening, or maybe the Nightmare Chest has better chances. I’m sure the Rare Loot bag does.

Actually makes me wonder if we’ll see a change to throwing stuff into the mystic forge for clovers, since we’re getting a change to precursors.

Man I remember when I never saw a Teq or Marrionette downed on my server. So yeah, I understand the cons of megaserver, but I’d rather have them than not.

AP is probably one of dumbest ways of judging someone’s gameplay strengths I’ve heard.

May as well just judge them by their choice of name at that point.

Man, maybe one day we’ll be free from exe tyranny of Microsoft.

This is not that day

Oh man, I love unsubstantiated,likely made up statements!

Confirmed: In HoT Caithe is pregnant with Rytlock’s unborn plant-cat child