Guild Wars 2

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

If you have a teammate DC for 2 minutes or more and you lose, you should not lose rating. Every case we’ve investigated of people still losing rating under these circumstances has turned out to be false. I attribute it to people having an altered sense of time during a match.

All that being said, we’ve been talking about possibly reducing the time. There are some considerations, like making match manipulation easier.

We’re currently thinking of trying 1 minute as a trial and keeping an eye on player behavior.

What do you guys think?

Is there any way we can get a pop up on the screen when 2 mins pass that notifies the team with the dc that they wont lose points since 2 mins have passed? that could helf clarify who should lose rating and who should not.

u can use hot masteries in Pof so i cant se why you wouldnt be able to use autoloot. Also masteries are a universal system between expacs. Other than the Hot masteries i fully expect Pof to have its own ones plus the core tyria ones.

Much like rev is a hot feature and yet you unlock rev from buying pof as well.

Like the glider clutter works.

It doesnt have to be raids only its that its fitting for ppl who put efort and time.

Mount can be also achievement tied like for example codas flame or winterspresence. Windersday could have an collection with apolar bear skin for the jackal etc.

And even if it was just raids fractals monthlies etc whats bad about that? It would incentive ppl to try and for a change we would get something in game and not in the gemstore.

What if instead you five boosts to gloders in higher tier zones?

T0 basic
T1 youc an soeed up slow down
T2 you have unlimited bar
T3 theres updraft around the towers keeps you have on this tier.

Abakk.9176:

If GW2 devs stripped and copied every feature in WoW and introduced it in their own game, it still wouldn’t be WoW.

If they completely destroy the entire leveling process because ‘hurr endgame durr’, THEN it will be like WoW.

Introducing mounts with no restriction in cities and whatnot would also not make it WoW. That would be ‘making the same mistake as the WoW devs’.

In my humble opinion of course.

And wow legion did it as well so i guess we are good now.

JustTrogdor.7892:

^ So I wonder if there will be legendary mounts that offer the same thing?? Oh gosh now I’m feeling a bit dizzy, legendary mounts…..uggghhhh…….!!!!!! Be still my screen exploding with even more particle effects.

Inb4 the first thread asking for legendary mounts.

Your screen survived the crow glider. Its gonna be fine.

Im fine with elite specs being stronger than core somce you have limitations with them ( being able to have only one). But they should not be stronger than elite specs really

flog.3485:

Crinn.7864:

zealex.9410:

we might see some tuning on both rows of elite specs.

For the millionth time, it’s already confirmed that you can’t have two elite specs in the same build. The entire reason elite specs are restricted to your #3 spec slot is specifically so you can’t take two elite specs.

We already know that the existing espec as well as core will have some tuning. WP mentioned it in his livestream. Reaper for example will basically be tuned for power and not condie since the torch offers some condie pressure.

As for spellbreaker or any other elite spec, no point to calling it OP said since we still didn’t have time to test them.

^

Just a flesh wound.3589:

ANet said years ago that they tried to get working capes in, but apparently they clashed with Charr animations.

So you can cross that one off your list.

They could always do a cape that splits in half for charr much like how the fabric on the wvw backpiece is.

Being unique and diff for the sake of being unique and did isnt always amazing or oraise worthy. If there are systems in other games that have been proven to work you need to take inspiration from them and improve upon those systems. Like Colin said “Innovate”.

Both mounts and ra9ds in gw2 are vastly diff from their ff14 or wow counter parts.

Saying is bad that the game has its take on sucessful ideas and needs to be unique is just stupid.

/rant

Id like capes actually, as for voice channels i dnt think that would benefit the game that much really. At least in open world. I could seeit be cool for pvp.

JustTrogdor.7892:

I feel fairly certain one of the reasons they went through all the work to introduce mounts is for gem store sales. Look forward to every few weeks of something like, “Buy your sparkle fire blazing chicken mount in the gem store for a limited time.” I doubt you will see something in the game release notes like, “Complete this story collection to earn a special electro mega firework exploding rhinoceros mount.”

I can’t say I blame them it makes good business sense. Just saying.

It doesnt have to have partocle effects to be cool tbh. Nor does ot need to be easily obtainable. As witha lot of the infusions id put mounts in begind big feats or hard achievements etc.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

We have kept the time and cost of upgrading the ascended armor in line with raids armor.

What about the actual ascended armor tho. As it is right now it take more tha getting the whole legendary armor for just the t2. Any plans to adress that?

DeanBB.4268:

I just have to ask… what does “kms” mean? Or is it a typo?

End my suffering to put in in… a nicer way.

Kms. I had high hopes for mounts because they are just that more exciting to go for than gliders. And its been an ongoing complain that theres not nearly enough cool things added in the actual game for ppl to go for. Meanwhile theres something new i the gemstore every 2 weeks.

Nick.6972:

Finally managed to win Arkk on 100CM. Platform drop phase started after the last Orb phase, which made everything somewhat easier.
Also, thanks for the advice on Guardian.

Now for leaves no hore behind

Is there any chance we could see stuff like. Mount skins being very rare drops from raid and fractal cm bosses. Mount skins that are awarded to the winners of the monthly tourneys as well as mount anet awards to winners if they ever do another pvp lan event. A kitten charr bike for mount in wvw gated behind x tickets or w/e.

Just in general more in game means to get some cool rewards. I think that would make alot of ppl extremely happy and more open on buying gemstore stuff.

Doggie.3184:

Spiders can be cute.

Oh wow thats actually cute af

YES PLS give us spoder mount. Atleast Devs when younare gonna do the mount guild xhat pls do show us the spider mount at w/e stage you left it.

Idk looking at some arguements i feel like i played a diff game. Other than the lockout that they had (which sucked) they never felt to me like they were taking away from the mmo. i remeber doing the charr war machine race with alot other on the scarr outpost. I remeber swearing with ppl while trying to get gold on the rifle one pre hot. I remeber asking for help and on how to do x adventure for gold and helping ppl how to cheese the sactum inside the egg champer.

I raraly of ever felt like i was doing those alone tbh. It sure felt more mmo’y than afking in La thats for sure.

Im not saying they were perfect but come on, nothing is ever perfect the first time. Hot elite specs were/are a mess, the new fractal system was a mess the masteries were a mess. Only the maps were perfect tbh :p

Bottom line is this is an mmo ever evolving and changing idk why its bad to give this feature 1 more chance and its not bad to give a second try to masteries and elite specs.

Hibiskus.8294:

Old posts from HoT Beta / Release, what should i say, since i know this i feel….well nerfed:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Alacrity-from-66-to-33/first#post5922167

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Is-Mesmer-Nerfed-for-Chronomancer

Should i say anyting else? I think the nerv from 66% to 33% wich is the half..i think the poster dont mean 25%…..i think he means 20%…or….fewer……i have chrono unlocked since 3 months…and i dont feel the alacrity…..to see the diference between with and without alacrity i must watch very, very close to the CD´s of my Skills…….i just have Chrono unlocked because it is one of the rare things with AoE for Mesmer…..and for the little raptors we need aoe……and the speed boost, since we can´t have a speed boost through signets….but when the chrono dont get a change i am 100% changing to the mirage when PoF is released……..skills of shield are ok…just the CD…not…so, when they dont change something at alacrity it is useless for me…most CD´s from Mesmer are high: and for real: i would love to choose 3 normal traits and 1 elite…i just give up one of the traits for the little aoe and the speed boost….

and also i think: for every class the PoF elite sounds better than the elite from HoT so maybe every Elite needs a change…and that the Rev can use Alacrity too…well that is something i did´nt know…since i just play mesmer i thought that was special for the chrono elite….now i am more than a little bit…i dont even now to describe..i feel some sort of useless as class, but unlocking the story + every map with a new char when even my Mesmer don´t have full ascended (i miss 3 pieces they are on a good way)…and with power i feel weaker then every other class…so for what beside portals is mesmer good?

Alacrity isnt massive as quickness is but sonce mesmer can perma upkeep it it counts as aprox 3-3.5k dps increase to each members of your party.

Albadaran.1283:

I seem to be missing something: When HoT came out, Anet announced that every new expansion would include ALL earlier content… For free! It was mentioned somewhere in the discussion about why new players got the core game for free when buying HoT, and those allready owning the core game got nothing extra. I don’t see this promise being honored now, since those who don’t have HoT are offered to buy it in a bundle with PoF… confused

Because ppl would complain for the bulk of free stuff for the price of 30 dollars. The devs decided to sell them asndiff things and bundle them at an oncreased price. Which is cool tbh.

I dont see Elona being in the pros meanwhile you have cantha on the cons. Maybe they should bundle also a special snowflake jackal skin for thsoe who dislike the whole mount thing.

I personally like and welcome as like with gliders i dont believe this will take from the game. Just add on it.

30 for the content it provides and the content it unlocks for you to buy or play (if you were active certain times of the year) is fair tbh. Pretty cheap when you compaire to what other mmos give you and for what price.

Uzunari.1964:

Fatalyz.7168:

TL:DR – Do you what you enjoy doing, and the rewards will come to you.

That’s not how it works, you either end up grinding something all over or you get nothing. Nothing comes in this game from casual play or “fun play” or those short time spans you could actually afford to grind. The usual grind that we can find in other games simply is nonexistent in gw2.

zoomborg.9462:

Uzunari dude, the requirements and materials for armor were released 1+ year ago so people actually know how to NOT GET STUCK ON TIMEGATES. So u can go cry somewhere else.

Well, you only prove my point. I have GW2 for the whole time (almost 5 years now).
It doesn’t matter now if my life was way too busy to play or I didn’t have the time to play in those exact intervals (13 LI’s a week). Maybe if I were able to reasonably grind or the system was setup differently. I’d have it now..

Might be biased but i love doing fractals and some pvp and such a d i try every day to log in for login rewards and the dailies. I usually by the end of the month have passively gathered enougj items for mystic tributes just from doing wjat i like.

Elyssandariel.2679:

Kusumura.8642:

To be fair, I’ve never gone past the level 30-something quest where you pick your choice of joining Red Valor, Blue Mystic or Yellow Instinct. Beyond choosing Yellow Instinct, so I could have access to some hidden spoopies here and there around the maps, I really didn’t bother with the quests. At all.

Still managed to figure out what was going on. Context is king, exposition dump is dumpy.

… Now that I look at the team names, I’m either avoiding spoilers, or I’m jumbling up my games. Pretty sure I’m on-point, though.

Did you play any of the living world season stories? If so, you probably knew why you were the commander. Did you play Heart of Thorns? If so, more clues about being the commander. My point is, you didn’t start off at level 1 in a HoT map. And you more than likely won’t start off at level 1 in a PoF map, either. It wouldn’t make sense for those who DO play the story.

Just play the personal story and you will know why everyone calls you that.

Famine.7915:

Agreed. They are supposed to be dungeons, not raids. Anet has been failing miserably for the last 3 fractal releases, each one becoming more raid than dungeon. Nobody gave a kitten about stepping stones to raids. If you want to get into raids, find a group for raids…

Really? I thought fractals were supposed to be.. well fractals creations of w/e setting in the mists. That gives the devs unlimited creativity to make w/e encounter they enjoy.

If you really think that fractals are supposed to be like dingeons then u should have been complaining since the first fractals they added because they are nothing like the dungeons we have…

Standalone as it doesnt require Hot. It will still include the base game bundled with it and come with a lvl 80 booster.

Im not saying if they came up with something better thay should add adventures over it. Im just saying that this expac is supposedly All About Content. Which i have yet to see any of.

Adventures provided at least a few days worth of content with replayability for mastery xp and ez masteries as well as extra longterm goals for completionists.

kurfu.5623:

Please don’t waste dev resources on more stupid mini-games that only cater to a small portion of the player-base.

O could use the "small player-base excuse for all kinds of things. For example raids, mounts, fractal cms, pvp and wvw just to name a few…

TexZero.7910:

Blaeys.3102:

Expressing any opinion other than raids are great as is will get you attacked on these forums. It’s pretty much an uphill battle to get any other opinion heard on these forums any longer.

Rest assured, however, that as new raids or other raid related news come out, new people will continually bring this up (as your post continues to prove – unfortunately usually to cave under the hate of the forums after a week or two. It has been the case for the past two years.

Hopefully Anet understands that just because people don’t want to subject themselves to the forums doesn’t mean this isn’t something they still care about.

No, it’s not expressing any opinion other than raids are great. It’s spewing misinformed, misguided and ultimately biased post on a near daily basis that get that treatment.

Now then, anyone who wants an easy way to have legendary armor now has it. They just have to invest time into WvW which requires very little individual player skill. GLHF.

Glad Anet made the change, now the “easy mode” crowd can go get their armor while the rest of the raiding community can enjoy quality content that isn’t compromised due to the incessant complaints of a minority out for rewards.

Im sceptical if this will actually lead to harder raids really :/

Cloud Windfoot Omega.7485:

kazaa.9140:

So if you do purchase HoT with PoF, does it come with the base game as well (with HoT)

so all together youre buying the PoT and then base game with HoT

the base game is free now, so sure, the bundle gets you all 3

Base game is on a trial version. Its just so its meaningless to buy the standalone basegame when every expac includes it.

Will it have any? I always found adventures to be a great feature from Hot with qyite abot of replayability to it.

So since it wasnt mentioned by either the partners nor the devs i got curious and thought id ask.

I would expect some buffs to hot metas just fkr ppl to be able to either get their kitten faster or complete it smoothler with less ppl.

Soubeast weapon set and traits have alot of condi infuences.

Im curious how ez were 40-50 fractals back pre hot really? That this “new” direction is so hard for ppl to deal with.

IseeU.4519:

They are taking too much influence from Wildstar and other hardcore MMO’s. GW2 was never about that. I’m concerned the direction this is taking the game.

I like when ppl come and say “gw2 was never about this/that” i will gladly w8 for you to find me a dev comment saying " gw2 isntanced content isnt about challenge or alot of aoes"

Nick.6972:

What about reflects for red orbs? Should Wall Of Reflection also be taken? It seems really unreliable. Should other professions in party take care of that?

Also I’ve been thinking – on below 40% phase – should everyone stick closely together?

Feedback and warr of reflection should be casted on you or the group position and not the boss. That because the projectiles travel from a higher point and they ignore feedback.

As for <40% i really suggest you see clears on this. Iv seen ppl that split abot to ensure no one will get 1shotted by orbs or ppl that just bring 2 necros and trivialise the boss by poison cloud and melee range it.

Jahroots.6791:

zealex.9410:

Raids bosses. Can be killed. Without weapons. Theres has never been anything as rediculous as that in any game that takes “raiding” srsly. Could you pls at least beat your head against w4 after you practiced and do the content? It’s not hard.

This is not logical at all. I can accept you want a niche to yourselves. I can accept if you want to to be too hard for most people. I can even accept you lording your success over those who’ve failed.

But please, stop saying something can be done by anyone because others have done it. Nothing in the history of things has ever worked this way.

You dont need Razor sharp precision to kill Mo without weapons. Imagine how much easier it is with them.

TheOrlyFactor.8341:

That’s really debatable and it’s going to vary on who you ask. Personally, I feel like the story has gone downhill since the start of LWS3, maybe even as early as mid to late LWS2.

True it varies from person to person. Still not orr lvls of downhill.

Wonna play the rip off game? Ill start: world quests, mythic plus, world bosses…

Unlike ragnaross balthazar has an actual character. And balthazar wont be all “too soon” he will be like “when its ready”

yes

Nick.6972:

Ignore mechanics?

“Retreat!” – block red orbs?
“Stand Your Ground!” – avoid gravity circles?

Interesting, worth giving a try tomorrow.

You can jump over both btw. Wel jump and move from orbs.

Blaeys.3102:

Expressing any opinion other than raids are great as is will get you attacked on these forums. It’s pretty much an uphill battle to get any other opinion heard on these forums any longer.

Rest assured, however, that as new raids or other raid related news come out, new people will continually bring this up (as your post continues to prove – unfortunately usually to cave under the hate of the forums after a week or two. It has been the case for the past two years.

Hopefully Anet understands that just because people don’t want to subject themselves to the forums doesn’t mean this isn’t something they still care about.

Raids bosses. Can be killed. Without weapons. Theres has never been anything as rediculous as that in any game that takes “raiding” srsly. Could you pls at least beat your head against w4 after you practiced and do the content? It’s not hard.

I will ignore the majority of your post look at your comment about nomads then look at your post about ff14 all classes + stats and say:

No the hardest form on raids in ff14 has a total of 8 classes and ff14 has like what 15 classes?

Also correct me if im wrong someone who plays ff14 can tell me but id expect i wouldnt be welcome in a group if i went in with samuria and a gear stat type of magical resistance, physical and idk hp.

Gw2 is forgiving but going in with w/e gear is just stupid and doesnt benefit anyone.

Looking further in your posts i wonna add that raids are the “hardest” content in the game and that gear doesnt make you better or good enough. Its the time you put into learning the builds the rotations etc.

Gear will help you yes but experience will take you the furthest.

Also gorse is a dps check that means even the tank needs to gove up on ttankiness to help with the overall dps.

I also wonna add that as of august 8th you will be able to make legendary armor in pvp and wvw.

Last thing, raids are the ahrdest content in the game going in with w/e gear and build os disrespectful to the group as well as the content it self.

Fay.2357:

ITT: WvW should be a flat, featureless plane where 2 groups face off and ritually proceed to murder each other. This will be repeated until one group gets bored and leaves.

I saw you mentioned cc stuff like being chilled or slowed count tho? Because in pve i can deploy glider and move away.

rewards and getting the lore (armor skins asc trinkets and such)

Leon de Damasco.8105:

Sad sad.
To me, that bug added a new flavor to Thaumanova Reactor Fractal. Maybe I was the only one, oh well.
GG.

Yeah tbh id like to see that boss get a little bit more flavour with moving around every now and then and executing a mechanic or something.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

zealex.9410:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

AuroraW.7149:

Well, yes, there have been mount talks before and I never bothered. Mostly because I couldnt imagine that Anet would give into the mount-crowd. Now everything is different and I just have to add my 2 cents: First, I have nothing against mounts in MMO’s in general. I can see the certain role of mounts in Elona and I understand Anets approach of including mounts into the mastery system. What really annoys me about mounts in GW2 is not the presence of mounts itself, but how people are going to use them. I have watched lots of MMO’s during the past years and in every single MMO with mounts, people are using them constantly, even in the most useless situations. If possible, they would even ride to the loo with them. :-P Mounts cluster all places in these MMO’s and they downgrade the games somehow. Turning them into a silly kindergarten, where there could be graphic beauty and depth.

Couldn’t have worded it better. I’m not against people using mounts (still dislike them), however, people will use them in such unnatural/unethical manner inside buildings, ultra thing pathways (that it would fall off) etc, that it will ‘graphically’ kill the crap out of the immersion of the game.

The immersion that isnt there because teleporting devices?

When I see people using the word “immersion” I just mentally substitute it with “my enjoyment” and then their statements make sense. /shrug

Pretty much :/