Guild Wars 2

So you want to rule the community through annonymous fear like the Gestapo and KGB.

No ty.

as long as its 1080p your good. Gw2’s ancient engine doesnt support anything about dx9.

I love my engineer flamethrower! AKA the loot vacuum B-)

I play only female toons. No male ones and i’m male.

It really has to do with how secure you are with yourself. Why does it even bother you? You need to really think about it.

As for me. If i’m going to be looking at something for hours on end I’d rather it be a females rear then a mans lol

Zordimus.5901:

It would be really nice if we could drag the Minimap closer to the center of the screen when we are farming. Please, this is a minor change to the game that would mean a lot to us!
(Looking to any of the corners of the screen too often is not healty to the eyes at all. Sitting to face the Minimap in GW2 is a must at long time farming, so please let us move the Minimap.)

Thank you in advance.

Its been 5 years and they won’t even let us disable tooltips that cover 90% of the screen and you think they’ll let u move the minimap?

You dont have to worry much. gw2 can run on a toaster on max settings. It use DX9 and the engine is ancient (its only a modified gw1 engine) so really the system specs for this game are for a 10+ year old game.

Ariurotl.3718:

Arden.7480:

Where’s Weaver?

Do you really want it added to a poll that can’t possibly even tell anything of any substance due to specs being randomly paired together? I’m surprised this thread still hasn’t been deleted.

Straw poll only allows you 4 options so i did the best I could. If you don’t like it you don’t have to use the poll or read the results.

No way i love mine! the sounds the best part lol

Haishao.6851:

Why not use strawpoll.me instead?

I have an account on an app on my phone and just used that hehe.

I would think with 5 large maps theres going to be a little bit of everything.

New maps/content

I would be first in line and LOVE to see an underwater expansion but it just isn’t going to happen.

HOT was enough of a colossal mess and that was vertical on LAND.

https://straw.pl/6252a39

Only 4 slots are available so had to combine some and forgot one sorry.

(oh yeah and super is supposed to be sniper LOL)

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Short Answer: No. I can’t remember where it was stated by Anet but they have already said there is so spaghetti code that theres no chance of engine improvement.

To be fair, I find the graphics good enough for me as they are so i’m pretty happy

I’m looking forward to POF and the new maps and mounts/specializations coming, but just wondering, what else is coming that we know of?

Maybe i’ve missed some things so that’s why I’m asking. New pvp maps? New additions to the game like fishing etc, features like maybe UI customization (or improvements)

Anyone know what else we’re getting with the new maps and mounts/specs? I’m imagining they are holding back some surprises to wow the gamers when it hits ( I hope)

Necrossis.6318:

So I played only a little into heart of thorns, But Path of Fire looks pretty sweet and I would like to come back. With experience that you currently have would it be logical to come back and not really play through Heart of THorns and go straight to Path of fire? Thanks for any input.

Don’t play HOT, its probably one of the wort expansions i’ve ever seen for an MMO. It almost single handidly killed GW2.

Half the community hated it so much they basically gave up on the game until the next expansion and thus why POF is nothing like the Titanic disaster that was HOT.

SmirkDog.3160:

I can’t wait for people to figure out how to AFK fish so they can periodically make 5 copper while they’re doing something else instead of playing the game.

You mean like they do now with rangers and pets and looting?

mauried.5608:

Fishing is extremely easy to create a bot for, and its hard to differentiate between fishing bots and players fishing, so unless the fishing doesnt really provide anything useful, in which case not many people would do it , its more trouble than its worth.
Mainly the enforcing of players complaining about fishing bots.

Theres bots for EVERYTHING in gw2 already.

Fishing is probably one my favourite things to do in all MMO’s i play and gw2 has so much water in it, its a shame its not more utilized.

I know its probably not coming in POF, but are we EVER going to get fishing in gw2?

I know not everyone likes it, but i’m one of those people that absolutely love it, and I just hope that the water exploration gets the love and TLC that the land does for exploration

I was just going to make a thread about this.

I like many people am a clicker, and half the time i cant see my screen because of box up box upon box of TOOLTIPS that are spamming my screen.

Why does a 4 year old MMO not have the most basic of options?

This is Anet we are talking about.

They never leave anything alone.

They do stuff just to be ‘different’. Get used to it.

I’m glad.

The less Thieves playing the better.

Thx anet for once again screwing with something and kittening everyone off.

Skipping this season along with everyone else in my guild.

They’ll introduce this feature.

And lock it behind a mastery like auto-loot lol

I really like the water aspect.

Even if they just keep the water exploration aspects in the game for those that enjoy it and leave it at that i would be happy

Diovid.9506:

wrathmagik.3518:

Title says it all. Especially for players like myself that own HOT, it should come free with the expansion at the very least and lock it out from free to play players.

Why should people that bought the base game before it went FTP and own the expansion still not have access to this feature thats locked behind senseless GRIND.

I think Anet stated at some point that it has to do with keeping it (somewhat) out of the hands of bots, since they are unlikely to get the associated mastery.

Then they should just disable it for free to play accounts.

Tenrai Senshi.2017:

To be honest I can’t think of an other game that has auto loot in the same manner that GW2 has. Would you mind listing some that you’ve encountered? You say it’s a basic feature that every MMO has, but not even WoW has it, which could be considered the one of the most prolific and successful MMO’s to this day (it has an aoe loot type of option, but it still requires interaction and has basically the same functionality as GW2’s area loot option which is available without masteries).

Honestly speaking, if you’re going to resort to sensationalist claims that can easily be proven false, people will not take you seriously. There’s nothing wrong with making what you feel might be a helpful suggestion, but don’t make the mistake of making false claims in order to try and justify your suggestion, because then it comes across as less credible.

Gee this is hard

WoW (addon) that they endorse

FFXIV

LOTRO

DDO

need i go on?

The only claims proven false here and being sensationalist are yours.

sophiewhite.3149:

wrathmagik.3518:

sophiewhite.3149:

its part of the game. it gives you something worth it to work towards.

No its not “part of the game”. its basic feature that every MMO has that anet has not made ‘part of the game’ unless you GRIND for it.

you basically want to remove progression because your impatient? this is a great time to start practicing it.

I’m not sure if your nieve or trolling, but an auto-loot feature is not PROGRESSION.
Its a BASIC feature in every game that anet has locked behind GRIND.

Thats like callling the hang up/end call feature on your cell phone progression where you have to make 800,000 phone calls before they allow you have that feature.

sophiewhite.3149:

its part of the game. it gives you something worth it to work towards.

No its not “part of the game”. its basic feature that every MMO has that anet has not made ‘part of the game’ unless you GRIND for it.

option to turn off TOOLTIPS that cover half your screen!

being able to hide TOOLTIPS that take up half the screen.

Title says it all. Especially for players like myself that own HOT, it should come free with the expansion at the very least and lock it out from free to play players.

Why should people that bought the base game before it went FTP and own the expansion still not have access to this feature thats locked behind senseless GRIND.

Anet has bigger problems then that holding this game back. Heres a few.

KEEP IN MIND THIS GAME IS FOUR YEARS OLD AND THESE PROBLEMS STILL EXIST

1. Terrible UI that is completely uncustomizable.

2. Name Plates. Still all you see is blobs of green writing.

3. Tooltips that you can’t even turn off that blot out half the screen.

4. Way to many junk currencies.

5. Still hiding auto-loot behind an achievement

6. HOT. They took the game everyone loved, threw it out the window and re invented the wheel again and drove away half the player base.

7. PVP. 4 years later and we still don’t even have CTF or King of the Hill.

This is just the stuff off the top of my head i can think of.

The point is the little things that Anet never bothers to fix and makes it feel like a cheap experience is what kills alot of the game and makes it feel subpar and unpolished.

It will be interesting to see where anet goes with this.

I would be fine if the new ‘elite’ spec’s had the same amount as the ones from hot and the power creep stops.

If not its just going to keep rendering older content (spec content) more and more irrelevant as time goes on, phasing them out.

Maybe this is a one off? Are ‘elite spec’s the equivalent of World of Warcraft’s “Hero Classes” and maybe we’ll only see elite spec’s once every few expansions and the new ones will have the same ability cap as the old ones?

And its in the form of the new specializations from HOT.

Simply put you get more powers/abilities from the new spec’s than you do from the previoius ones.

Its just power creep in the form of specializations and not gear.

I wonder why they are doing this? Anet obviously knows its doing this when you get way more perks per specialization from the HOT ones then you do base game. My only answer would be to push sales of HOT.

Want the most powerful spec? Need to buy HOT.

Whats more interesting is once we get into the newer expansions, this is going to make the old spec’s irrelevant if you don’t want to be under powered by not using the new ones seeing as they are much less powerful.

Power creep was supposed to be something not in this game (along with grinding but that’s a different issue altogether)

Thoughts?

Unfortunately i’ve been waiting 3 years and counting for a gaming experience in gw2 where half the screen isn’t blocked out by text boxes.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Later. Given that the next expansion is full speed ahead and get there quicker now . . . definitely later. You’ll be able to buy the next expansion with Heart of Thorns free within said expansion . . . if history is any indication.

Play your new toon through the core game and take your time. By the time you’re done with almost everything, the expansion should be around the corner.

But, if you’re not sold on waiting, you can buy the expansion for twenty bucks on Amazon.

Exactly. I’m not making the same mistake twice. When Anet turned around and stabbed the entire playerbase in the back by giving away what we had to PAY FOR thats the last dollar they’ll see from me.

I’ll just wait till the next xpac comes out like most people and get it for free.

I can’t remember where it is but a former anet developer has been lobbying HARD for fishing ever since the game was in development.

He still to this day hounds for it (his wife posted about his comments) and he’s not an anet employee anymore but he still wants/wanted fishing in the game too.

From what I read I remember of the post, ya, its not going to happen.

I love fishing. The most in depth fishing in any MMO i’ve played is in FFXIV. Absolutely amazing.

Pretty simple and straight forward. Alot of people are number pressers for various reasons like myself (carpel in both arms yay)

It’d be nice to have this simple feature so everytime you mouse over to use abilities half the screen doesn’t appear in boxes of text.

3 years later and this game still doesn’t even have the most basic features. Will it ever?

It would be great if this would ever be fixed, becuase alot people with tendonitus like myself use the keys to turn (along with alot of other people i’m sure)

and even on max sensitivity, when your running and turning its terribly sluggish. You have to hold down the keys forever and the character doesnt even turn fast or responsively, its more akin to driving through quicksand.

I doubt this will ever be fixed but it would be great if they could adress this along with UI issues in a patch or expansion.

Any chance of this kind of thing happening or should i just accept it’s bad?

TheBlackLeech.9360:

its fairly dead.

This.

After HOT was to insanely hard for most people and didn’t like the 3D map, WvW is dead atm and the players that did pay for HOT felt betrayed when the game they paid for is now being given away to new players for free.

All in all the base game is pretty decent ( alot of F2P’ers running around)

HOT is a ghost town most times and you need to do whats coined as getting a “taxi” where groups of people make a group to bring others into their instance just to try and fill a map in HOT let alone play.

And if your not sure about HOT do what all the free to play players are doing. Just wait until the next expansion so don’t have to pay for HOT either and it’s free.

Because I can’t fish

I main a rev along with my engi and I actually don’t see the big problem. I use all the Gods depending on the situation and find it quite fun.

I always found it odd they turned a ranged DPS pet class into a healer myelf.

Maybe monk will show up in next xpac?

Mesmer’s if you play them right are VERY survivable. I would recommend mesmer.

Ditch the 3D multi layered crap of HOT.

Thats my only wish for the next xpac.

Considering it took 3 years to get the first one, I really don’t care right now.

I agree for the simple fact that the elite classes now trump the rest.

The games supposed to be about playing your way, but when you know you should take a certain core or your sub-par really defeats the whole purpose of equal diversity, because now you dont have it, just the illusion of having it.

Donari.5237:

They seem to be relying on keeping expectations nonexistent so anything we get seems major in comparison to the nothing we had.

Finally. Someone that gets it.

Its called “under promising and over delivering”

The first rule of business.

Unfortunately Arena net got this motto backwards for the last 3 years and the players lost all faith in them.