Guild Wars 2

First thing is I liked the change in the middle of the borderlands. I think it is much better than the quaggan mercs. I also thing the mechanic of claiming and holding the 5 ruins of power isn’t really bad.

But the Bloodlust boni is terrible. It is exactly the same problem as it was with the orbs. A winning server just keeps winning, because it is hard to face someone who has just better stats than you.

However with the WXP upgrades which allows you to use siege more effectively structures are fall faster. So I would like to see the Bloodlust bonus only applied to allied NPCs, not player and also make Gates and Wall more duriable . Call it mystical protection or whatever. This way the runis would strengthen the defensive structures of your server not the players directly.

This way you would have a reason to fight for dominance on the places of power but you don’t have this really annoying orb problem.

Oh cool a second Tequila Guild. ^^

boot up game to send a whisper

No you fools I want them alive!

But on a serious note that is pretty awesome.

I took a hiatus from GW2 and when I came back WXP was implemented. I thought cool that sounds like a neat system. It is easy to aquire just by playing and it gives you a fe interesting options with siege equipment and the reward chest for leveling up is nothing spectacular, but I am always looking forward to it.

The thing that you can’t reset you point is kind of meh, but I can live with it. What I really don’t like is that the progression is locked on a character and not to my account, so switching out characters is unnessessarly punishing.

Another thing that annoys me more than it should is that the WXP progression bar is split into 6. To level up you usually need 5000 points. 5000 devided by 6 are 833,33 points. That is an oddly unhelpful benchmark if you wanna no how long it will take to fill up the next bar. a split by 4, 5 or 10 would be far more helpful. 6 is just odd.

An asura with a flamethrower perhaps?

Yeah ingame titel should be really easy to do. And it is a cool idea.

The ability to craft back items would be a welcome addition to Jeweler.

You probably could just run past everything til you reach the kite. That actually shouldn’t be to hard…

Well, we all know which male Sylvari could lead a new Destiny’s Edge to glory.
Of course the man whos second in command killed the Elder Dragon Zhaitan. No other than Marshal Trahearne himself!

I don’t mind crafting I am not good at crafting, but I dodn’t mind it.

However I always thought that trade is an integral part of crafting, I would have reached my current crafting levels by farming the mats by myself. I did buy some of these things.

So being able to aquire crafting material and selling the crafted product is something which makes things accessable.

Now I have to gather all the mats by myself and have to charge the quartz once per day. I also need at least 2 recipes to craft something worthwhile. Once the Insigna/Inscription and than the piece I really want to craft. and than it is account bound.

I am so not going to bother with the whole stuff. I charged my 8 quartz for the archivement and also got my Node in my home instance. But I will ignore the node until I can do something interesting with this stuff like selling for example. But that will probably never happen.

I actually take quite an enjoyment out of this mini game. However I think it would be nice, to get a map symbole when we use a Blech Kit just that people can see that someone wants to drink and you don’t have to spam the map chat.

The Boxes of Fun also go the activity symbole if you place them so why not the Kits?

On a side note… If we get more activities in the future, perhaps an activity forum wouldn’t be so bad. Because I seriously wasn’t sure were to post this.

I have to say I was pretty disapointed in the Living Story in terms of story so far. But when your theorie is right, I would say I was pretty well planed out.

I always found it disapointing the Evon just pops up and is the second canidate. But if Evon is Mr. E, he would have had in awesome introduction.

Also I am hoping that Scarlet is someone who is already known, and not someone new. It that is really Ellen Scarlet Kiel now again Captain of an Aehterblade Ship that would be plain awesome.

At least my head canon works that way until something more awesome shoudl happen.

I like this living story appoach and I think it keeps things interesting. My main problem is that the whole projects seems like an incredeble waste of resources. You make an event, the event passes all the content is lost for those who wasn’t there or are fresh to the game.

I realized this because I had to take a rather long break for real live reasons and just missed out on quite a few things, which – I think – is totally fine by the way. But my client was updating quite a lot and thought: “well, there surely did a lot of things” and than realized: Not much has changed. Yes, there are a few more waypoints in the game, there are settlements from the refugees and the coolest thing are the changes in Southsun Cove. But I am still not entirely sure what exactly happend to the refugees etc.

So we have this world that moves forward and changes the face of the world, but it is hard to follow up on the history. So I think it would be a nice idea to change the personal story so that when you killed Zhaitan, the living story that has passed becomes available as personal story so that you can relive those past events and reach the point in time were Tyria currenly is. Obviously the content need a few tweaks and the archivements should be for those people who participated in those events.

I hope this all makes sense, and that you will consider this. Because I really would like to play though these stories that you created to understand what is currently going on.

alcopaul.2156:

I see many people hating on RNG.

BUT..

Life is based on RNG. Your conception was RNG. Out of 375 million sperm cells, one only get to fuse with one eggcell and formed you.

1/375000000. that’s still worse than the mystic forge.

To be technical the problem isn’t the RNG in general, but the specific probability distribution. You search for a specific drop which has a fixed very small probability.
So you get drop after drop and search for that specific event. This is called a geometric distribution and this one has a very long tail because of the small properbility of the event. Or to make it simple it is basiclly the worst way to hand out loot period.

You see there are many kinds of disributions in this game for example the damage generator or the crit generator. You see even if the RNG hates you and you roll never crits and always minimum damage. You still have an effect. You can work towards your goal and slowly take down your enemies’ HP.

In case of the loot you either get the loot or you don’t get the loot. You do not find parts of your loot in every loot drop and may assamble the pieces to the stuff you want. You either get it or you don’t. And since it is the geometric disributed which no memory means every failure brings you back to square one. You can loot 10 years straight and never see the loot drop you want. Or you go there kill the next mob and there it is…

And since you gave this example with the children… Looting in this game is more like a couple trying to get a child. They try for years and consult various doctors but they can not figure out what isn’t right… And after years of trying both are so tired and exausted that they can’t even keep up their relationship and get devorced…
Or you have this party get drunk can’t remember what happen last night, but congratulations you are pregnent.

So yeah RNG can make your life a misarable place… So why should this kind of thing be included in a game, which is there to escape my life for a few hours and immerse myself into a fantasy world?

Real life argumentaion always doesn’t work in games. And yeah I studied statistics.

Just wanted to say that I also encountered this bug. I am running Windows 7 on 64 bit, since GW2 works on 32 bit this could possible be a source of the problem.

Yes and no, they are balanced because there are three of them and each one puts one server in the middle spot. My idea goes more in the derection to have 3 diffrent borderlands where the middle spot is somtimes harder and sometimes better to defend.

Good servers would get the hard borderlands and weak server would get the easy borderlands. Leaving them with more recources to push in the EB ord the harder to defend borderlands as attacker.
By the way I would argue the middle spot in the borderlands is usually an advantage and not a disadvantage.

I guess the rule goes like this: Every tier has a first a second and a third place.
third place will be first place one tier lower, first place will be third place one tier higher and second place stays in the tier.

Except for the first and the last tier in the first tier place 1 also stays and in the last tier 3rd place also stays.

The rule is usually used in every major sports league whic features many “tiers”.

I have been doing WvW again. Mostly because my day night cycle is beyond repair and I am awake at 3 o’clock in the morning with nothing better to do…

But I had really fun these past week and had some awesome moments, and really enjoy the late night shift.

Anyway, something that I realized playing on Desolation is that the Tier system will probably never work. VS is really awesome and they are a tier of their own and as we dropped to Tier 2 the other week we basiclly mopped the floor with the other two server. Even though I think all servers I experienced so far are pretty good opponents.

So why do we have balanced maps? If we would introduce maps that would put one or two server in severe tactical disadvantage the matches will probably be a lot more balanced and probably be more fun for everyone.

The server which would normally get steamrolled would have a fighting chance and the handycapped server would face a stronger opposition.

Thoughts?

The go back to WoW thing really baffIes me.
I played CoX and Champions Online, which has Superpower Fast Travel
I played Dungeons and Dragons online and Vindictus where you basiclly had one city and all traveling in the loading screen.
I played Star Trek online, where you had a Starship with Transwarp.

You see I never played WoW. And in all the games I mentioned there were no mounts. And these games seriouly didn’t need mounts. Superhero MMOs usually have a much higher travel speed than Fantasy MMOs. DDO and Vindictus both basiclly did not have a percitant world, so no mounts need there. And well, when you have Starships…

The reason why I see that mouts would fit into GW2 is that it has a huge persistent world where you want to explore things… The point is I don’t want to explore on foot, because even with perma switness and signet of speed the travel speed is kind of abysmal.

So yeah mounts seem resonable, fit into a fantasy world and are looking cool. Just like legendary weapons or dungeon armor sets.

You see for people who play a game where one major feature is the whole dress up mechanic. Transmuting and dyeing your cloth and spend hours grinding for a new fancy head. Or a weapon that changes your footstep, I really can’t take you serious if you say you don’t want any status symbols in this game. Because there are already a lot and one and two extras won’t hurt, and guess what, will be added whit each major update.

The only reason I hear is that adding mounts would turn this game into WoW. Which is a seriously silly argument, because WoW plays completely diffrent. Actaully if you guys said that adding the holy trinity in this game would make it more like WoW I could really see your point.

But to be perfectly honest. This game is a lot like WoW because both are fantasy MMOs and obiously share a lot of of similar or identical ideas. Is that bad? No!
Because WoW isn’t a bad game, it is just not my cup of tea. I like GW2, not GW1, because I couldn’t get into this game either.
But saying I like something, also let me think about how to improve the experiance. Why do I like the idea of mounts? Because the ability to get from point A to B fast without a loading screen and be able to enjoying the scenery, seems like something that I really really want in this game. And seriously when you still want to be faster than the mount and have no problem with a loading screen by all means use the waypoints.

On top of the gold sink question. I usually don’t use waypoints on higher level, and I know a lot of people who don’t like to use them either. There is the one exception of WvW where I teleport a lot via waypoint, but these thing cost no money there. So these aren’t exactly gold sinks. So I honestly don’t think the waypoints are such a great gold sink anyway.

Actually I did but I proposed a geometric mean because it is a percentage increas.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Magic-Find-in-Dungeons/first

Fro some reason this achievement cathegory feels very cluttered. The Legendary Collector seems more like something you would find under Tradesman. (By the way the whole Fashion section looks like you could put them under Tradesman.)

But the main crunch are the dungeon archivements. There are so many of them and I think it would be good just to create a Dungeon Achievement category, and move the whole fractal and classic dungeon stuff in there so, the Explorer category isn’t so messy anymore.

Ah thanks, now I know what bugged me the whole time in Brisban Wildlands. It is for some reason a area I don’t like to visit, even though usually love the Maguuma Jungle zones…
So yeah… Please fix that texture, it is horrible.

Actually I have only had two fractal runs both level 1.
The fitst run two people disconected during the first fractal, the second run I disconnected from the very end of the third fractal. Usually the game is extremly stable the only issue I have if that sometimes the games takes forever to load a new zone.

But why would you want to punish people for disconnects? There are punished enough. I know I was pretty kittened that I disconnected so close to my first successful run. But I will probably run it a few times more, because so far the fractals were very nice and I don’t know jet if I really disconnect often or if that was just a really unlucky moment for my internet connection.

As I said I know this is a PvE picture. I just choose this picture to exaggerate something that is also present when only a small number of players are involved.
Like you exaggerated when you said there would be 100 people on the picture which also isn’t completely true.

The point is that some attacks are just to flashy. The frame gets cluttered really fast with particle effects. 2 vs 3 can be just as messy to look at. In addition it is also hard to tell where the origin of an attack is when you are not involved in the fight itself.

This combinate makes this game not really fun to watch which is required to be an e-sport. Don’t get me wrong, I think this can be an e-sport, based of the core gameplay mechanics, but nobody would watch it.

I am from Desolation and completed the border jumping puzzles yesterday.
In one of them I encountered an enemy player. I can’t remember if he was a Vizunah or Seafarer. The situation was kind of tense… But anyway, we completed the jumping puzzle together. Seriously you rock and I wish you good luck in putting these blueprints to good use.

We will meet on the battlefield. You will never catch me alive. O_o*

It is a PvE event garanted, but this picture sums up, why GW2 isn’t fun to watch and therefor will never be a e-sport unless they change something about the particle effects
http://i.imgur.com/fm9ZE.jpg

Ah ok, that explains a lot. Thanks that was in fact pretty educational, and now I can better understand why PST is used instead of GMT.

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) If that means PvP gear, being immediately level 80, having acess to all builds and paying no repair cost? I probably wouldn’t leave WvW ^^
5) Not really
6) No
7) Yes
8) A bit
9) Yes
10) Hard to tell without the metrics
11) No
12) No

Yeah you are right, it is good to stick to basics and try to stay coherent.
I just wanted to point out that a story without twists an turn is pretty bland.

And yeah you have right the current personal story is pretty messy especially the NPC death, were lots of NPCs die where I have almost no emotional investment in and can just quote Trahearne: “Moving on!”

Actually the only death scene which had in impact on my was the mentor and therefore you are right Trahearne would be a good canidate to die if you want to create drama.

It would have also been good if Logan wouldn’t have pulled a deus ex machina and returned with a giant airship, but would have become a Risen and would be the encounter before you smash Zhaitan.

So long story short I understand that you understand how story structure should work, but your story needs an interesting twist or an unexcpected turn to become memorable.

I would so play my engy again if I had a gattling gun ^^

Urthona.3198:

For what it’s worth, GMT is as foreign to the majority of Americans as CET. It’s rarely taught in public schools. Really, the US is about the same size as the whole EU, so far fewer Americans are directly involved in international business and travel.

Seriously?! O_o
What kind of educational system do you have? Because that sounds pretty horrible.
I understand that you don’t know how to utilize metric mesurements unless you want to become scientist or that you are not forced to be fluent in at least two languages.
But understanding time systems and standardization of time is simple geography. That is something you learn in elementary school and my geography lessons were pretty bad for german standards.
You also have diffrent time zones in your country, so isn’t that something pretty important you should learn?

I really apologize if this sounds offending or anything, it isn’t meant that way, but I am seriously baffled by this.

Yes I know there are such sites, but there would be no reason to use these if people would stick to the standard.

I just need my watch to check the time and since I know my time zone I also know the GMT. So times given in GMT are international and easy to grasp for anybody who has an elementary school degree.

I wouldn’t use a calculator for 3×4 or 5² I can do this in my head and I know what time it is – GMT that is.

The problem is that all time zones besides GMT are always hard to grasp. Because PST is not always GMT -8 because sometimes it is daylight saving etc.

GMT is always GMT and is free from seasonal changes. That doesn’t seam to be much, but seriously who should I know when day light saving time somewhere on the globe starts and if there is even something like daylight saving.

The best ist when you talk with people on the southern globe. Boy that get’s confusing. So yeah, could you please use the GMT. I acually live in the CET time zone, but I prefer times in GMT regardless.

And yeah living in the USmakes it easier for you to understand what PST is. CET would be as foreign to you as PST is to us. That is why we have a time standard in the first place and that is GMT, so there is no reason not to use it.

Oh and even if you read guides etc and grasp the game, you will probably still die a lot.

And like most of us your first dungeon experance will be a pretty horible one. Because nothing you do in this game teaches you how to play in dungeons. So you have to go in there try out and die until you get it right.

I seriously do not mind that WvW is part of the map completion, I still ask myself why the Heart of the Mists isn’t part of the completion. But what I realized it how boring the Borderlands completion is.
I didn’t relized it with my first char, because for some reason I got the completion over time. But I really didn’t play much WvW with my ranger and so the final 3 zones that I have to complete are the three borderlands maps.
Talk about repetition: ‘I swung a sword. I swung a sword again. Hey! I swung it again.’

So here is my suggestion: When I watch a vista in one borderland. I get it in all borderlands. If I discover a POI, I also discover the two corresponding POI on the other to maps.
The skill chellenges do in fact feel diffrently so I wouldn’t mind to do them on all 3 maps.

Yeah and that is the whole suggestion…

I hated the card game in FF8 so much, also in FF9 ant that is still my favoured FF of all times.

I think something like a CCG in GW2 could be interesting and could work, but I don’T want the boring ruleset from one of the FF card games.

A noble spirit tempted and corruted with power, realizing the error of this ways and does this one good thing shortly before he dies.

You see that can be a compelling stoy. I t was tolled many times before and is still tolled today. But you see there is nothing special about it nothing that sets the story apart from standard fantasy 101. The current story we have is definitly not ground braking but to be honest your story is also not ground breaking.

It isn’t an upgrade of the personal story as it is right now, therefor not really worth the time to implement. The story department has bigger fish to fry imo.

The major point would be sectator mode. Games which have a god view like star craft or LoL are much better to watch, and make for a better e-sports entertainment. Therefore the spectator view should not be a 3rd person view but a god view.

Second problem with GW2 are the particle effects. You can’t see anything when 10 player on one spot bash on each other. The spector mode needs to fix that so you can actually see what people are doing.

The last thing is the balance. The balance of the classes and class synergies is all over the place. This needs to be addressed before any half way interesting e-sports can happen, which by the way means not that there has to be a perfect balance between all classes and synergies. But there has to be certain counters for certain classes and combos aka a meta game, which imo currently is not really there.

The key lies in the the “A Light in the darkness” mission where the avatar of the pale tree asks your for your greatest fear. This is an important stoy choice but isn’t marked as one. So most people do not relealize that the 7th story arc has 3 diffrent branches.

The 7th plays out very diffrently with the exception of the Battle of Forty Trinity which is done by all player. There the storylines come together. The krait orb and the enemy mesmer are major plot points during these arcs. The krait orb is the one you did first and the enemy mesmer was your second playthrough.

Actually two things.

1. Allow us to ascend very exotic item. So it is actually usful to know a crafting profession, so you are able to create exotic gear by yourself. That wouldn’t be so hard if there would be a mystic forge reciepe that would use:
1 exotic item + X tier 6 ungrade component + Y of an item that determs if the result will be offensive of defensive + 1 ascended item (2 if the end result should be infused)
The end result would be an ascended item with the combind stats of the exotic item and the upgrade component and an infusion slot that keys to the 3rd item. Obviously should item 3 be hard to aquire.
That would also solve the limited range of stat the current ascended system has.

But that isn’t my major problem with ascended gear. Acually in PvE I don’t mind it at all. Which brings me to number 2…

2. Change WvW to the sPvP format. Relocate the WvW portals into the Heart of the Mist and only leave the Heart of the Mist portal in LA. Seriously if you just would do this you can vertical progress your PvE as much as you like.

Chuo.4238:

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

G…As long as it doesn’t bite us all in the kitten by the non RP servers refusing to join our parties …

When did we get RP servers?

Tarnished Coast is the inofficial NA RP server and they seem pretty successful with that claim.

rtommaso.3120:

Have you EVER played Guild Wars (the good one, not GW2)?

That never got me interested for various reasons, but yeah I would like to see a bit more GW1 things, that I heard about, in GW2, but I have to say that from the basic game design GW2 is superior in my eyes..

rtommaso.3120:

The game is 7+ years old and people still spam the SAME site with the SAME message. I have reported the spam messages literally HUNDREDS of times. Ill keep reporting, but I dont think Anet/NC$oft will give a kitten since the spammers have to buy accounts to spam.

Two things:
1. I didn’t reciece any in-game e-mails from Gold Seller for quite a long time. So at least in this game it seems to work. Please don’t ask me why it doesn’t work in the original GW.
2. That is 60 bugs for ANet every time a new Spammer arives, it is actually a nice way to support ANet without paying with your money. So it seems like a win-win situation ^^

@MrJinPengyou.1560
I never looked into Dungeon World I will definitly check it out.

@Zeldain.5710
I doesn’t get your post at all O_o

@Horrorscope.7632
The point is P&P RPGs are reletively cheap to produce. You basiclly have to cover the printing cost for books which are not really so bad. (at least not in germany)
The rest is writing a book, which is hard work, but it can be done by one person and since you have rules which should follow technical documentation guidlines you can keep things relativly simple. The most expensive part would be the artwork, which is basiclly one of the better payed jobs in the industry.
Developing a system itself can be a bit challenging but if you have a basic education in statistics it is rather simple. More busy work than anything. (That is by the way the reason I wasn’t able to continue on this, because my schedule hates me at the moment.)
So yeah it is not really surprising why kickstarter works out pretty well for tabletop games.
The systems by the way aren’t really that hard to learn either, because you usually ask yourself “Did I succeed?”, which makes the mathematic behind the whole thing rather simple.

@Sinister Syx.9451
Cool, do you have something like this somewhere online where I could look at it. I would be really happy to have a look at it. ^^

Just keep reporting the whole thing will die out soon.

MikeFerguson.8921:

Account bound blueprints

We tried changing blueprints to being account bound and it completely broke the pack up skill when holding the blueprint so we can’t do that either unfortunately.

I have a suggestion for a programming workaround. If the blueprint needs to be soulbound so that the skill can work properly you can obiously not touch the item itself.

But you could include an item which would work like a loot bag and would contain a soulbound blueprint, but itself would be an account bound item. Let’s call this item a “blueprint map-case”. You would hand out the blueprint in these map-cases and if you want to use a siege weapon you would first use the map case and than the blueprint.

For example I would want to build an arrow cart. So I would pick up the “Arrow cart blueprint map-case” stack from my bank, would open one of the cases and would recieve my soulbound blueprint and than use it to build the cart.

I know this is a bit convoluted but is more comfortable than having to remember which one of your character has a certain blueprint or not. And it should definitly work in your engine.

Another thing you could also add a mystic forge reciepe which would transform a “Catapult blueprint”, “Spool of Wool Thread”, “Bolt of Wool” and a “Cured Thin Leather Square” or something like this to a “Catapult blueprint map-case”. So we can transform these items back an forth between acount bound and soulbound.

Just my two cents on this topic.

Ok, just my two cents on this topic. (And sorry for my bad english I am a bit tired and not native.)

Until now I thought your banning policy was quite ok, not perfect but it did work and was always reasonable. Therefor I had not really a fear of being banned, because I thought things were transparent and if I work withing the rules I would be save.

I never had a ban. I once got a warning in the forum and I totally understood why I got the warning and tried to do not fall into that behaviour again.

But latly I got this fear of being banned. Mainly because of the whole snowflake incident. The problem here was that it took me very long to understand what excactly could be seen as an exploit here.
To understand what exploiting is you need an understanding how the game is supposed to work. And since I only started to salvage things for ectos I am fairly new to the mechanic and it is hard to understand how a proper salvage should look like and what kind of return is to expect.

I am sure most of the people who salvaged the snowflakes knew pretty well what to expect from a salvage, but this time it involved a new mostly untested material the snowflakes. When I would have run into this problem I would have thought it is supossed to work that way, because these things are new and it is hollyday stuff etc.

To get banned for this is really harsh. It is in fact so harsh that I now fear to run into an exploit and are not able to tell that it is one. This is highly irrational on my side like most fears are, but your handling in this case was so unfortunate that I can’t help but feel this way.

You know I really like your game and think that you do an overall good job on adressing these topics, but this time was just not really good.

That is a pretty awesome idea. ^^

There is one in the game. You need a squad commander to do so however.

The last time I checked it wasn’t account bound. I had to complete the Heart with my eng and my ranger separtely. Even the 3 hearts in the starting area are repeatable if you choose to visit this place with another character.

And being easy to complete is not really an argument, because the Chantry of Secrets is even easier to complete and part of the world completion…

tristen.7684:

mmm nope

care to explain?