Guild Wars 2

I always thought that I would enjoy having items that people couldn’t get anymore, but that was ruined for me when the wardrobe came out and I had deleted some items such as the desert rose and the non shattered holo wings. or the sun catcher. and the zephyrite backpack. sigh

I loved prosperity. A town full of lawless people in a remote region. But it was in the game for literally 2 weeks before you destroyed it. Why not with prosperity, salma, and concordia and all future places you have attacked just have the tendrils appear in the mission and maybe in the open world for the 2 week window? so far you have destroyed LA (which I had no problem with), but now concordia, salma, and prosperity too.

As long as you have plans to put in the effort of rebuilding these towns and not leave them destroyed forever, thats fine. But I have a feeling that you guys are just never going to get around to it because you have other stuff to do.

Prosperity specifically is weird because there is a story step early on that has you going to the bar in town and talking to the bartender and some locals. Why the hell is the bartender still hanging around? Only because he is a part of the story. it doesn’t make any sense. Prosperity should be cleaned up and the people moved back in.

I think what they have going now is fine. Whats wrong with a map being opened up bit by bit as the story takes us through it? A new bit of map every 2 weeks is better than 1 whole map right away but nothing new for the rest of the season.

And what more do you want out of story missions? There is dialogue, and then there is fighting, and the end of each episode has a boss fight. I think the LS is going great. The only thing they could improve on is the speed at which they are working. 2 maps total and 8 releases over isn’t enough. They should be able to keep up with their biweekly release schedule especially with breaks in between each season to prepare for the next.

We SHOULD be getting 12 episodes and 3 maps in this season. I couldn’t ask for any more than that

Kurrilino.2706:

People: we want contend. A-Net:
We agree, we will work on a wardrobe.

People: We want more skills and more game play.
A-Net: We totally agree… this armor clipping must be fixed

People: There is nothing beside farming and countless repeating
A-Net: We see this is a huge problem. Soon we will deliver a hair make over kit.

You should send your papers to A-Net they will hire you instantly

Players all really wanted a wardrobe, so they made one. Players are asking for clipping fixes. How long do you think the hair makeover kit took to develop? The hair makeover kit isn’t the reason that the game has a lot of farming

First of all, I didn’t say these are the most urgent, I said that they are frequently asked.

Kurrilino.2706:

People: we want contend. A-Net:
We agree, we will work on a wardrobe.

Living Story IS content. it is. there is no denying that. When a new LS chapter comes out it takes me about 2 hours to get through it. If you don’t care about the story then of course its gonna take you 20 minutes, but if you can speed run a new dungeon in 10 minutes, that doesn’t make it only 10 minutes worth of content. It takes 2 hours the first time through, and then a bunch more hours when i am replaying it for achievements and on my alts for loot.

Not only do they add LS missions, but they have also added megabosses and Dry Top. I bet you don’t like dry top. But if they make a raid and you don’t like it, that doesn’t make it not content. A new map with a bunch of new events is the same as WoW adding a new map with a bunch of new quests. Its content.

your tellin me that you played through the living story and you came out of it thinking “I was literally just clicking through boxes for 10 minutes”.

Dry top is useful as hell, I spend all my time there. I am not going to use all of the skins, but I still want to complete the collection. Even if you dont care about that, you at least have to go there to get some ingredients for mawdrey. You can also make some good money farming dry top. but I wont tell you how hahaha

I am assuming your mentioning aetherpath towards the top, and come on, dude. YOUR TELLIN ME that you went through aetherpath and thought it was the same as the other path but they moved some kitten around?

They cant just open up the map. That takes a lot of time. They ARE opening up the map, but you didn’t seem to like that when they did it with dry top.

The only real valid points you had was the thing about zerkers and the skills. Every time they add a new LS chapter, it takes me probably 2 hours to go through it my first time. And I am still getting hours from replaying the LS for achieves and other loot.

I think that was because nobody was playing it (or not enough) and same with the rest of the activities, so they made all of them rotate so they would never be empty.

A lot of times it just seems like the official forums are where all the angry peasants and hobos gather up to yell at Lord Arenanet from outside the castle.

I think the reason that Arenanet seems like they aren’t very responsive is because a lot of times, people don’t know what it takes to fix something, they just want it fixed NOW. And sometimes, they aren’t willing to jump into the cesspool of negativity by replying. So here is me answering some of your most asked questions.

1) Why does my charr’s tail still clip through my armor? Its been 2 years?

Well, they COULD just get rid of tails all together when they are covered like hair and helmets, but that would please some people and kitten off a whole lot, so they chose not to do that. The other fix would be for them to go through every armor set in the game that clips with a tail (so most of them), and redesign each one so that the tail is not clipping. But that would take a ton of time and resources and at the end of the day, is that where you want those resources to go? I have a charr character, and I don’t even know whether my tail clips through my armor or not. It probably does. But it for sure did at one point or another and it hasn’t bothered me, not once. Why is it hard to believe that your character just cut a small hole in the armor and popped his tail through?

2) I still cant wear shoulder pads because they float! ITS BEEN 2 YEARS!

I attached a picture that a person who asked this exact question posted with his complaint. Guys. You can’t take the bulkiest shoulder pads in the game and pop it on the most tightly fit armor in the game and be like “it doesn’t look right, Anet is ridiculous!”. your ridiculous! What!? Those armor pieces don’t go together. The reason that some shoulder pads float is because they set it to a position that matches the armor set it goes with. Every single shoulder piece in the game floats, but ones like in the picture float more and smaller ones float less. If they made them all look attached to an armorless body, then when you equipped the chest piece you would take to the forums and be like “UMMMMMMM… why does my chest piece clip through my armor?”

3) Legendary scavenger hunt?

no

4) Why is all the armor so skimpy on female characters but not on male characters?

Not all the armor is skimpy. Some of it is, but that is kinda what they were going for. But a lot of times, if it is showing a crazy amount of skin, it does on the male version too, but you accept that more. Somebody said the raiment of the lich wasn’t skimpy on males but it was on females. It has nipple piercings. There is only so much you can do to make male armor skimpy, and let me tell you, I don’t want any armor showing a tuft of my character’s pubic hair.

5) Why can’t I make my character obese?

Well, because you are running around the world on foot fighting monsters with martial weapons. Even if you use magic, you are still getting tons of exercise. Have you ever tried chopping a tree? Its hard work. My guardian chopped 200 of them in a row. Then slayed a dragon.

6) Shadow of the Dragon is way too hard

no. it isn’t.

Dhuum isn’t a lesser god, he was a god, but Grenth overthrew him. Menzies seems more like a demigod to me. I think the only reason he has any power is because Balthazar is a god and he shared some of it. Cause I don’t think Balthazar was a god to begin with, I think all the gods pulled a Kormir and seized the status. And I think when Balthazar did that, he took Menzies with him and then he turned evil afterwards.

right. but those are probably the worst example. And doesn’t it make sense that shoulder pads from a massive set of armor wouldn’t fit right on some of the most tightly fit armor I have seen in the game?

A couple times now recently, I have used “Swoop” and the eagle that appears when you leap sticks on my character even after the skill ends.

I dont get it. Whats the problem? If its that the armor is floating a bit, that’s because those shoulders don’t go with the rest of your armor, so they aren’t going to sit right if they are meant for a bulkier chest piece.

Well having leveled 9 characters before the change and now being on my 10th, I like the new leveling system. I love how they reward you with different stuff each time you get a level. The fact that skill points are bundled now instead of 1 per level isnt that much of a change since later on skills cost 6 or more points (up to 30), so you wouldnt be able to spend them every level anyways. And if you find yourself 1 short, that is no problem. Just go do a skill challenge. But I never change my skills anyways. I know from even before I make the character what build it will be using. So I pop my level 20 scroll and probably have all the skills I will ever use anyways.

I like the collections system, but I wish there were more collections to do, and it cant be hard for them to add more in the future. So in hopes that maybe they add some more in with future patches, here are my ideas for what other collections could be added

Bundles
-there are vendors around that sell items you can double click to gain a bundle (like a rock you an throw or something or elemental powder). There should be a collection for using all of these

Potions
- Use every kind of potion of _ slaying. Maybe that will raise the price of them and make people care a little more, though it would be short lived

Tonics
-Use every kind of tonic

Cultural Weapons
-Including Lionguard

Dungeon Specific Items
-There are trinkets and accessories that drop in certain dungeons like the Charred Back Brace from CoF or the Jar of Lost Souls from AC.

Badges
-Just like the spoon one, but with badges instead

Pact Weapons

Bones
Collect bones from around Tyria (Trash item bones, im pretty sure there is a weapon that is a bone, crafting bones, maybe even a couple collection only items that drop from AC or teq.

Cups
Collect cups from around tyria. (There are a couple cup weapons, cup accessories.)

Relshdan.6854:

agree………the fact that you are stuck with it i silly.

should be all 3 of these:
able to be sold on the TP
able to be salvaged
Mystic Forged for the chance of different stats.

I dont think it should be able to be sold on TP. otherwise it might become too easy to get. Having it soulbound makes you craft it yourself or actually go out and find some from the hardest content. If you could just buy it, it would be no harder to get than exotic armor. Then I could just run CoF and champ trains to get it

So I decided that I would be interested in hearing the devs talk about the game and give previews to incoming changes in the ready up livestream. But right away I was thrown off by the bad quality. I think the content itself isn’t bad, but it had a “school project” vibe.

-MOST IMPORTANTLY the skill bar. I was excited to see the changes being made to the ranger, but holy crap. The guy reading the script was RIDICULOUSLY bad. He was stopping to squint at whatever he was reading off of, he clearly didn’t know what he was talking about, he was just saying the words. Once again, it seemed like he was a fifth grader reading a speech that he stole from the internet. It was as if you could have replaced all the names of ranger skills with names of mesmer skills, and said “here is the new script for the ranger skill bar” and he wouldn’t have known the difference.

-The keying job of the green screen isn’t atrocious, but it you can see that they are obviously in front of a green screen when you look at the people.

-the two hosts on the episode I watched didn’t know where to look. I guess it was one guys first time or he was new, but it was awkward to watch.

I understand that it is a livestream and you cant edit the video up that well to get some kinks out, but that isn’t the problem. It isn’t even an issue with money. All you need to do is tweak the chroma key settings or whatever key you used for the green screen effect, have your hosts relax, and have the skill bar guy either rehearse his bit a few times beforehand, or at the very least be familiar with the game so he knows what exactly he is saying.

Thoughts?

And you want story having to do with your race/ class combo. Do you know how many branches they would have to make to get every race or class choice in there? that is exactly what they did with the personal story, and they suffered for it. They cant make living story have a different version for every race or class

The entire personal story was about you. as for living story, YOU the leader of Destiny’s Edge 2.0, and you get to do some cool things in the living story. YOU got to go into Omadd’s machine. YOU defended the pale tree from a dragon, if you are a sylvari, it is the same dragon you saw in the dream. Then the pale tree showed YOU a vision. YOU got to bring the world leaders together and lead a summit.

Why? If they roll them out slowly over the 6 months or whatever this will take, I think 5 is reasonable. I dont believe that they would only do 2 or 3 maps and leave the rest of the maguuma wastes alone. They learned from southsun that in order to make a map people will go to forever, they need to add hearts and such, and how much extra effort can adding hearts be?

What do you think of this layout for the new zones? I dont think they will go any more north than this, and I think that 5 maps is the perfect amount of new maps. If they don’t make them all 80 only, 5 will allow for maps with levels of 25-35, 35-45, kitten, 55-70, and 70-80. I hope that each of these maps include world completion stuff so we can choose to go level up there. If they give us 5 new full maps, a dungeon, and 2 jumping puzzles, I couldn’t ask for more

They were celebrating the death of scarlet. It wasn’t a huge blowout party because instead of being celebrated on the streets, they wanted to hang out as friends. I think the brisban hint was awesome, and taimi is an interesting character to me. Her talking to braham was cool because they have a lot of the same things going on. Both have a hurt leg, and both agree they would rather do something than talk about doing something. But yes, I would have liked to have a little more, like what did scarlet have on caithe, and I would like to have seen the conversation with rox and rytlock. But I don’t think the party itself should have been changed, just more after that.

I find the wolf form and the human’s hounds of balthazar to be very useful

Everybody hates scarlet and blames her for the crappy delivery of the story and sometimes crappy content in the living story, but don’t worry. There is an end sight, they have said they know when and how she will die. Hopefully this means when she dies they will try and revamp the way the living story works.

New OutRiders (NOR)
Website: www.NewOutRiders.org
Server: Sanctum of Rall

RP: Low
PVP: Medium
PvE : High

Weekly Dungeon Runs
Peak Playtimes: 8pm eastern – Midnight eastern.

Our guild is a Casual Mature Family Friendly Guild, thats has been together since 1992.
Our unofficial motto is “To have fun and help others do the same” and we are looking for more friendly mature members that enjoy the many aspects of the game. The friends you make here in the NOR branch of Guild Wars 2 will be with you as you explore future games.

NOR is active in several games making your casual play a easy transition between swToR, GuildWars2, Rift, Neverwinter and many more games to come. We encourage Altoholics so bring all your alts on over.
It is important to us to keep the guild active together so we do host weekly and monthly events and encourage our passionate members to host additional events.

Current Regular Scheduled Guild Events:
WEEKLY Dungeon
WEEKLY PvP/WvW
WEEKLY “Living Story” group.

Current Officers:
Officer Zallis.2138

Contact our Officers:
Ingame /whisper or mail any of our Officers.
On the forums here or on our website.

If you wish to join or learn more about our guild please:
Visit our website
Read our Wiki
Listen to our podcasts
Read our newsletters.
Follow us on FaceBook.
Fill out our Online Application:)

Thank You and have a great gaming day!

New OutRiders (NOR)
Website: www.NewOutRiders.org
Server: Sanctum of Rall

RP: Low
PVP: Medium
PvE : High

Weekly Dungeon Runs
Peak Playtimes: 8pm eastern – Midnight eastern.

Our guild is a Casual Mature Family Friendly Guild, thats has been together since 1992.
Our unofficial motto is “To have fun and help others do the same” and we are looking for more friendly mature members that enjoy the many aspects of the game. The friends you make here in the NOR branch of Guild Wars 2 will be with you as you explore future games.

NOR is active in several games making your casual play a easy transition between swToR, GuildWars2, Rift, Neverwinter and many more games to come. We encourage Altoholics so bring all your alts on over.
It is important to us to keep the guild active together so we do host weekly and monthly events and encourage our passionate members to host additional events.

Current Regular Scheduled Guild Events:
WEEKLY Dungeons
WEEKLY PvP/WvW
WEEKLY “Living Story” group.

Current Officers:
Officer Zallis.2138
Contact our Officers:
Ingame /whisper or mail any of our Officers.
On the forums here or on our website.

If you wish to join or learn more about our guild please:
Visit our website
Read our Wiki
Listen to our podcasts
Read our newsletters.
Follow us on FaceBook.
Fill out our Online Application:)

Thank You and have a great gaming day!

Hello, New Outriders is a casual well rounded guild. We are currently looking for new active members to replace those that no longer are active on GW2. We do dungeons runs, WvW, living story, Map completion, etc weekly. New Outriders has branches across many MMO’s, and continues to grow with new releases and date back to 1992. Check us out here http://newoutriders.org/. Apply on the guild website, and then contact me in game, and I will tag you. We are on Sanctum of Rall

daros.3407:

Even 100 chcest would not be enough as reward, becouse they contain mostly green and some karma. It is absolutely nothing.

don’t you think being rewarded for failure is kind of weird?

WHY is there no bauble counter. WHY cant we go back and walk around the map after we finish. WHY did you make me back track half way through the map to get to the shortcut eagle over and over and over and over and over and over until I could finally pull of that IMPOSSIBLE jump (unless you pull of the dodge jump).

The World 1 bauble things were fine. still would have been awesome to be able to tell if you missed one. Though the W1 zones are way shorter. WAY shorter. I finally manage to pull off that dodge roll jump and not get knocked off the eagle, I get to the end, grab the last 6 baubles, kill the boss, jump into the chest with a feeling of great accomplishment and satisfaction and then… well, nothing. no achievement. awesome.

I know that you guys wanted to make up for the lack of lore normally gotten from quest text by making in game books that you could buy from karma vendors that will explain the history of the area or a certain monster or something. What happened to that? You already wrote them, why take them away? It is a karma sink at the very least

The number one complaint that I always hear about this game is “Oh its great but the camera this and camera that”. I have not, since early access, noticed a problem with the camera. jumping puzzles are all good. tight spaces not a problem. the gauntlet works fine. Can somebody link a video or something showing me the problem with the camera? Maybe its because I have my camera centered on my character, I believe it defaults to the right a bit. Seriously, it is annoying to hear a complaint so much that I don’t even believe to exist.

I feel like you wont be doing a normal expansion. you probably even stated that somewhere. But we cant just throw away the elder dragon story. And the LS is supposed to be about temporary content. well, what you can do is lets say we are going to do kralkatoric next. basically, incrimental LS releases with permanant missions but temporary achievements and such.

You could have living story content that pushes us north into the charr homelands starting with blazeridge mountains, releasing that zone one month, having the pact establish a foothold there for that month or a bit more. then release the blood legion homelands. they just keep pushing north and you release a new map every month or so until you have all the maps you want to release in like 6 months or something.

now, the missions that you do will stay there forever so the new players can see what is going on. But you release achievements that go along with it just like you do with normal LS content now. Same with dungeons. Keep them. one new dungeon per map.

Or you could do an expansion type thing that just makes your personal story longer. no major updates, save that for living story. just new missions, and new maps to go along with those missions. hearts and events cant be that hard to make. you dont even need hearts. Orr doesn’t have hearts. Don’t increase the level cap and make the new maps just like Orr. New missions, new maps for those missions, you are already increasing crafting so you wouldn’t need to do much in that field. just let LS take care of everything but the new maps and missions.

Don’t get me wrong, the scarlet story feels like it is going to wrap things up nicely and bring all the previous stories together quite well. not to mention that you have been releasing great living story content lately. the latest mission was the best i have seen, and the updates such as AP rewards and champion loot bring much needed change and improvement.

However, once we finish up the next couple of things about scarlet and the aetherblades and such, bring us to a new map. what I would be most interested to see is the crystal desert or the charr homelands. do something where we start by entering the blazeridge mountains and every month or so we push farther north into the blood legion homelands. why we would need to go there, well, a year has pasted, lets go fight kralkatorriks minions and the dragon himself. just a thought.

Kirschwasser.3972:

I do think that the Queen’s Jubilee is definitely the worst Living Story thing that’s come out and I’ve generally enjoyed most of the ones that have come out. (I missed the last bit of F&F and the entirety of Secret of Southsun). What’s ridiculous is the sheer profitability of this patch’s farming.. If it was just marginally more efficient it’d be one thing.

Oh well, they experimented with it, they’ll decide whether or not it accomplished what they wanted and here’s hoping the Queen’s Speech makes up for it.

I think that the jubilee one of my favorites. the best mission so far, the previous stories are going to start coming together with the nemesis in this next one, the gauntlet is really challenging and not all casual, the new champion rewards is a much needed addition. It all makes a great update and it sounds like Anet likes it too

thats the one that I use. seems to be the most effective. I, too am a guardian

The only useful racial elites I have come across are hounds of balthazar for humans and wolf form for norn

Zacchary.6183:

When I shoot lasers with my Greatsword I stand upright.

this comment sounds like a joke but isn’t lol. I still laughed

There are a couple threads complaining about how hard the gauntlet for the jubilee is and how they should make it easier so people can complete it. no. The gauntlet was meant to be the more challenging of the content for this LS. The achieves for this were split into the normal easy content and then the harder gauntlet.

They did this so you could complete the main jubilee content without having those empty uncompleted achieves taunting you. They didn’t want to force you into content you can’t beat without a lot of trial and error. It is there. If you want to attempt it. But you don’t have to. There is a separate reward for the gauntlet, but it isn’t really “better” than the other mini.

The last thing they should be doing is making content (especially temporary content) easier because some players aren’t skilled enough to complete it. The only exception to this is if the content is hard because of a bug.

With all that said, the only thing that they should have done differently is to change the time limit. I am stuck on subject 7. I can beat him fine. He doesn’t kill me, but just at the last second, i fall through the floor. Same with the crew. I know why they did this. It is because they didn’t want to waiting people to have to wait forever to get their turn. But I don’t know why they didn’t just make the fights instanced. That way there is no wait and the announcer wouldn’t be spamming her announcements.

don’t use the official forums for class advice. when I want a guide for builds and such, I use other websites. They are better for that kind of thing

“The cities will be more vibrant and bustling than ever”. too bad I won’t be able to witness that because the character models wont load before I leave lions arch

You have the “My Story” tab in the hero page that summarized everything that happened in your living story so far, and it tells you what you gotta do next. Nobody ever looks at that really. And currently, you use the mail and achievements to tell people where to go for living story, and people who are not familiar with the heralds and how living story works might be lost and give up.

solution: make a sub tab in the my story tab titled “Living Story” that tells you where you have to go for the living story that is going on, and recaps the story that happened so far. This way people dont have to worry about not getting mail because their inbox was full and it will make the location for missions more apparent.

450 hours on that class? I can understand the level 80 part, but I have 1080 hours. 4 80s. I think I can give advice on all 4 without having 450 hours on each

My suggestion is this: 1: change killing blow on weapon master to just plain kills.
OR 2: lower the cap on weapon master and keep killing blow

Title pretty much says the main point. Basically, I am trying to finish some of my slayer achieves and I looked at the weapon master achieves also to see my progress. I am five 80s into the game. 1080 hours and I have only gotten greatsword master. The next most complete under GS is mace at 32 percent. Why is it that you have to not only kill, but get a KILLING BLOW on 5000 enemies.

I like the idea of minis but the main problem I have with them is that I always forget I have them in my bags. In other games you can place an item into an action bar for easy use. This game doesn’t have that kind of action bar, but there should be a function which allows us to use any items by clicking the icon we placed on our screen.

Items that you could place would be the following:
Tonics
any consumables (food, etc)
minis
utility items such as the portal gun and the new portal bundle
bundles
and anything else that would be useful.

is there a counter or something that tells us who is winning?

finally. and just when i finaly figured out who i will be supporting. my original plan was evon all the way. but in the end, i looked at how cool the thaumanova fractal might be, and i decided if ellen isn’t voted for council, she might be taken out of the story all together. we need to care about npcs more in this game, and kiel needs more time instead of being replaced.

People are mainly voting based on the fractals. People seem to favor evon for the abbadon fractal. cause. come on. abbadon. ABBADON. but wait. the thaumanova reactor might seem boring, but lets look at both of these fractals.

abbadon. If I believed that Anet had no chance of screwing this up in any way, i would choose this one. im assuming this is going to be the fight where he was banished to the realm of torment, not the same scene as from GW1. Since this takes place on the crystal sea, they could have a really cool ship fight where boarding is involved and such. And the abbadon here is not changed like he is in GW1. He would look normal. And once the fight has ended, the crystal sea dries up instantly.
But things could go wrong. They could somehow make this whole thing with bad mechanics and overall be boring. We know what happens here, and the only thing that would keep this interesting is good gameplay. If they for some reason show the same abbadon that you see in the realm of torment, then it wouldn’t make much sense or be as cool. Also, how would they make us able to see abbadon? humans go blind after seeing a god.

Who am I going to support? no idea.

you gave us the notice for the patch coming in one or two hours. but that was like four or five hours ago. why did you do this again? the same happened for bazaar of four winds, but this is taking longer. just dont give us the notice until it is for sure coming in one or two hours

the cultural armor is meant to look good on that specific race. For them to be seen as a prophet (i think thats what you meant) child, would require them to make many more storylines, something like 40 more. one for each race in each different other race’s zones. not to mention the different choices you make would have to be different. as a sylvari, you wouldn’t be able to join a warband, which is what your story is as a charr. you have to remake your warband. Even if they didn’t make you special as an orphan and they kept it the same story, they would have to record a lot more dialogue and such.

There is no way they could fit this into the lore. A charr nobleman of divinity’s reach? i don’t think so

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Why-Skin-Wardrobe-should-be-a-high-priority/first#post821720

This is somebody else’s post about the subject, I thought it was a great idea. We need to be heard about this one. More people should repost it so Anet knows that we want it and how it will benefit them more than they probably think

Olba.5376:

1. Because they can sell the books. They can’t sell NPC conversations.
2. Because people are more likely to read a book than read tons of NPC conversation / watch tons of cutscenes
3. Because the book doesn’t make people complain nearly as much as tons of cutscenes / NPC dialogue would
4. Because writing a book takes less effort than scripting the same book, voice acting it and animating all the characters and locations relating to it

i am totally fine with the books. i mean the short stories they release on their website