[Thoughts about GW3 [Merged]]

I think GW3 is a great idea if they take issues from GW2 into consideration and made a better more mature game with a more fluid engine. GW2 had too many niche ideas and never found its rythm. ANet seem to have an identity crisis and the game was all over the place since launch. Consistency is important. The story in 2 was horrendous and makes GW1 look like oscar winning material.

Maybe this time they can add battlegrounds and GvG since its clearly never happening in 2, though with the toxic spammy combat system none of that would work anyway and ANet are obviously aware of that. Combat and class design restricted the pvp to 1 functional instanced mode since release which is essentially unheard of in the MMO world. GW2 failed in many area's, and as I understand it they even stopped making dungeons and raids. So what does this game have that others don't? The ability to endlessly farm events in large groups with terrible visual clutter?

There isn't much reason to play GW2 today compared to when there was much less competition in 2012. My guess is most people playing this game have been here since day 1 and won't let it go and its probably not making a lot of money hence the talks of a third installment. GW2 will never see a resurgance, because nobody cares like they do FF14, ESO, and WoW. ANet could have made a titan, but they wanted to be special. And the crimes commited against GW1 will never been forgiven 😝

[The Graphics improvements are good, But you're going to lose a Lot of players.]

11 hours ago, Witch of Steam.5138 said:

Especially By forcing People to upgrade or use a subscription service ( Geforce now ) To play your game. 

One of the major appeals to GW2 is that it's Free to Play, which means that people who are poor Can access and play the game. 

You wanna know what poor people don't have ? The money to go buy new graphics Cards. 

You're Kinda shooting yourselves in the Foot Here. 

Especially since there's a Lot of issues w/ Dx11 That have not been resolved or even remotely Addressed. 

My Card can run it, Thankfully, Even though It's So poorly optimized it causes Mass screen tearing with VSync turned off. Why? Nobody's answered, a few people say to go Buy a new Monitor ( Complete 4head answer btw ) , Some people say to go buy a new HDMI Cable for my monitor ( Still 4head) 

But there are a lot of people who won't be able to that you're Pointing at like 

" You, Peasant, You're too POOR for entertainment, Go Away " 

There was always screen tearing without vsync, in fact I don't think I've played a game without it enabled since I can remember. What's wrong with using vsync? It matches frames to your screens refresh rate.

 

I have a $2000 rig and have issues with GW2 since dx11/eod that's just how games are sometimes they are terribly optimized and the players have to be beta testers. I've noticed the most difference in eod zones.  

 

Gw2 and MMOs in general are usually more cpu bound than gpu, most modern gpu can run pretty much anything.

 

In WoW I have massive stutters in the new zones while dragon riding and there's no realistic setup that can fix unoptimized content. 

 

ESO at least has always been extremely well optimized , though server performance is another story . 

 

Sometimes I do like playing my PS5 and knowing a game is most likely to just WORK.

 

6950xt with a i7 12700f 

 

Maybe I should have bought a $800 CPU as well 🤣 PC gaming is just a pita.  I know players with worse rigs than me that have less issues not everyone is gonna have the same performance that's just the way it goes unfortunately.

 

 

 

[Need more Awesome Looking Armor sets]

Anything without a buttcape/buttflap/genitalflap/genitalcape/whateverdumbassaddition is fine by me. 

 

Less is more, ANet..

[The newest WoW addon is being highly praised for something I'd also love to encounter in GW2s next expansion ...]

3 minutes ago, Sobx.1758 said:

You can still watch the landscape, I find it pretty ridiculous that these complaints are more or less repeatedly demanding for the players to be able to safely randomly afk at any time, any place they are in. The game is designed around active gameplay, not your wishes to just leave character in the middle of the map and go afk to do something else. Want to sightsee? Plenty of space to do so. Want to randomly afk in the middle of the map whenever/wherever and be unconditionally safe? Too bad.

I was merely acknowleding the OP, calm down. I already can afk in the middle of the map though.. on skyscale like I said. If the game is designed around active gameplay then why did I have to rp walk through 9000 lines of dialogue in the story? Check mate my brother in Christ.

[I am shocked in the best possible way that Anet listened to our Deadeye patch feedback]

The thief changes are great, coming from one that hasn't played in about a year.

 

Deadeye D/D power with rifle on swap using the updated shadow arts is really good for open world & general questing. Dancing daggers does a fine job of aoe tagging and also happens to be your main spammable to build malice for backstabs, I feel like this skill is far more accurate than it used to be too.

 

Swap the shadow arts out for crit strikes and its very good in strike/raid/fractal as well. I can finally drop Daredevil staff which I had been using literally since HoT. Dual daggers will forever be the OG and best thief fantasy, it deserved a good power variant.

 

I'm not a fan of rifle thematically, but now that its fluid and easier to use its a powerful range option. I feel like aoe on rifle doesn't fit and some people want to have everything on a single weapon set so thats basically a 1st world problem kinda thing. I wouldn't be opposed to pistols (yuck) getting ricochet on unload only, that way its kinda the aoe range damage option. Shortbow can remain the boring 1 spam utility weapon it always has been. 

[The newest WoW addon is being highly praised for something I'd also love to encounter in GW2s next expansion ...]

GW2 really isn't a game where you can stop and smell the roses. I will agree that you can't really appreciate an expansion zone so lower mob density would be nice. If you stop in a random spot anywhere in xpac , likely you will die unless you fight or run. I always fly up and hover my skyscale if I need to afk a sec or whatever cuz I know I'll be dead when I get back otherwise. Its pretty ridiculous but I'm used to it by now of course as we all are, god forbid  we look at the scenery for 2 seconds without being attacked.

[Why can't we skip dialogue [Merged]]

10 hours ago, LSD.4673 said:

Sitting through edgy teen fanfic-level writing is part and parcel of the GW2 experience.

Gotta admit EoD took it to astronomic levels of giga cringe and staring at my phone during missions isn't exactly well designed gameplay. I liked the end fight, but that's literally it. The twilight books and twitter are readily available if I want terrible writing and woke propaganda, next expansion can we just please play a game.

[Your bad-guys are merely unpleasant]

On 10/7/2022 at 4:10 AM, Mariyuuna.6508 said:

I try not to comment on this kind of stuff, but this is something I see come up often.

 

Just so you know, the minorities they're "confirming to" would be over half the employee roster, if not more at this point. If you don't like progressive, somewhat left-leaning games then don't play a game developed by a progressive, somewhat left-leaning company with a very diverse hiring pool.

 

It would be like if I started attacking a Christian company for making a Christian-themed game.

 

And its nothing new, the company has always been this way, and always will be. So I just don't understand why players with conservative values keep playing it, only to come and whine at the forums that the game doesn't reinforce those same conservative values, and instead pushes a "political agenda" .

 

If you don't like something, just leave it alone. its that simple. You don't have to tear it down, and no matter what you think, not everyone feels the same as you do. Probably not even the majority, because those minorities, as you call them, aren't as much a minority as you might think.

 

But its hard for people to accept that they've been systematically lied to.

Anet was not woke during GW1 I played it for many years. Let's not pretend anet is [b]somewhat[/b] left leaning now, we've all seen their employees tweets and their writing lol. Many of them hate men , especially Caucasian.

 

I have never seen someone irl introduce themselves by gender or sexual preference because most people have actual personalities. The game is clearly drawing from real world influence so at least put miniscule amount of effort to making it realistic and digestible without killing me with cringe.

 

When you're in an environment that encourages you to "Express" yourself I'm sure it's hard not to, but it's rather annoying.

 

What you're saying is basically anyone not left leaning doesn't belong in playing GW2. Well that's fine.. financial reports will speak for themselves. I've read a lot on the topic outside of GW2 forums because you have to walk on pins and needles around here not to get banned for wrong thinking which is why most ppl here will probably agree with you, since most of us normies have been banned. I believe the general consensus is gameplay good, story bad.

 

This whole forum is an echo chamber , it'll be interesting to see if they double down or abandon the wokeness. If they want the game to be an exclusive liberal paradise then that's their prerogative but that's not what the game was advertised as. 

 

I don't care if you are a gender or gay or whatever why does the world need to know? Why the need for approval from random strangers on the internet . Imagine not caring about left vs right and just wanting a game to be a game.

 

I dont fight for this country to only have 1 side be allowed to speak. I struggled for 15 years with alcoholism for what I went through.  All I see is endless support for lgbt these days, I think youre gonna be ok without turning all games into gender studies. Your gender or sexuality is literally the last thing I'm ever going to bother thinking about, until I have no choice when it's being forced into everything.

 

Maybe if you loved and accepted yourself more, you wouldn't need everyone else's approval.

 

Anet is behind the curve though.. they gotta remove genders all together like blizzard did or they're bigots 🤣

 

In the end though , it's all just first world problems, enough to make me laugh as long as I don't play the game . ESO does a better job of lgbt. Every once in a while I'll have to safe a dudes husband or a chicks wife. No big deal. Pretty low key and good writing, very human and relatable, even if I'm not gay. But relationships in general are mostly ignored for the big baddies and world ending catastrophes!

[Backstab should teleport you behind target in pve if within melee range or remove damage penalty.]

Yup

[Do you guys find fishing fun/relaxing?]

They didn't put any effort into it. I figured they would do something cool with fishing like copy zelda or something but nah you just follow a bar back and forth randomly. I actually prefer the average cast and wait version than this.

[What was GW2's peak era for you?]

I don't think GW2 ever had a real peak but HoT pvp was definitely the most enjoyable and was still alive back then so I guess I go with HoT, though for pve I think it only got worse in open world. That whole xpac was just annoying af to travel though. They've continued the trend as well... every zone has 9000 elevations and horrendous layout.

[The existing Tutorial achievement category has been deprecated and moved to the Historical category for anyone who has already completed them [Merged]]

On 8/23/2022 at 9:42 AM, phantom.1675 said:

I like the new adventure guide so far from what I have seen and I am glad it's in the game, but why did you remove the old tutorial and the associated AP access?

 

It's very frustrating to have AP removed and made forever inaccessible to newer players or players that prioritized doing other things.

 

Why not just add it back or list it as an older tutorial system? I want my equal access to AP.

AP has been borked since the beginning, unless you've played this game since day 1 and nolifed every single AP on temporary content then you'll be behind forever.

[I think AFK players dislike being repeatedly downed in few hits...]

On 9/28/2022 at 7:46 AM, Fueki.4753 said:

SpiderZ.9146 probably assumes that the people, who are afk in the spawn for the majority of matches, just hate playing against people who can quickly down them.

However, I doubt this assumption reflects the reality.

I think its fairly accurate, pretty often team mates would begin to afk after they get owned, I get the logic of what's the point if there's no chance to win. Can't count how many  times I've alt+f4'd through some real kittenous metas. I won't even bother afking I'll just go play another game LOL.

[Your bad-guys are merely unpleasant]

The saddest part is they are conforming to a minority and eventually once people are fed up with it they'll have nothing but enemies as they keep crossing lines and making people uncomfortable, not even children are off limits to them.

[Your bad-guys are merely unpleasant]

On 9/23/2022 at 12:43 AM, Dib.4612 said:

Yeah Minister Lee kind of came out of the blue. I don't even recall anymore what he was doing inside the ministry that was wrong.  

 

I just remember from the strike that he thinks he's the future of Cantha or something. And I have a vague memory that he's right wing or something. And supposedly that was enough to oust him and portray him as a villain.  

 

White Mantle are kind of obviously kittened up, drugged on that Blood Shard magic and such. Although they do want to oust the Charr from Ascalon, man would I like to see that! Perhaps a WvW map based on it. I digress.   

 

Yes the devs at Anet are very progressive and seem to struggle to make good story because their propaganda checklist also needs to be met while writing said story.

Bingo. 

 

Cantha was my fav campaign , but I refunded EOD because its trash writing and it was a stain on the good memory of GW. 

 

I just wish games could go back to being fun instead of pushing political agendas. Funny how its always the left that force it in your face, like a kitten jehovas witness at your door, yet rightwing are the evil ones that just wanna be left alone and have some sense of normalcy.. crazy.

 

Imagine seeing politics day in and day out in real life, people talking about it at work, the news shoving it in your face , only to have the same crap in the games you play. I feel like in the last 10 years everyone has become so brainwashed they are obsessed with extreme progressivism and become fervently political to the point that their self worth is defined by mainstream idealisms and no one has any thoughts of their own. How exhausting, and what a miserable existence. Its become a religion in itself.

 

Anyone got a time machine so we can fastforward past all this insanity? Oh well the nukes will probably have dropped by then lol.

 

 

[Why....one shot mezmers]

just dodge v irgin lool;

[My honest feelings about map mob difficulty in PoF]

12 hours ago, Sobx.1758 said:

No, as I said I had no problems while not having skyscale, meanwhile that very obviously wouldn't be the case while having no mounts. Your claim is not only some poor attempt at strawman, but it's just false. Again, skyscale convenient due to being most versatile, but nowhere near needed, just use your other mounts efficiently.

I, on the other hand, hope the difficulty level won't go down to core. With time, people become better at things they do, suddenly going backwards would make no sense in my eyes. We've played HoT/LW3 maps without mounts, so I still don't know who even tried making any arguments about those being in the current state "due to mounts". That just seems completely false.

I also find it interesting that you think new mechanics introduced in expansions are getting boring fast, but core experience somehow didn't.

Difficulty = annoyance in open world

Was nothing difficult about HoT, any newb could do it, point is it was frustrating & tedious just to travel through the maps with random one shots. That is arbitrary difficulty. Its easier now with mounts, PoF has same issue with mob density, an annoyance nothing more. Please show me where the game is actually difficult in open world , outside of some travel hinderances I've never been challenged in open world unless you count pre-power creep Liadri. I been playing since prelaunch and even I hated HoT, it was so easy with daredevil compared to other classes and it was still AWFUL to traverse, like who the hell wants to play that crap when they get off work. Open world should be faceroll I will get real challenge in instanced content. Pve has more snares and CC than pvp does its actually a joke and clearly intended to waste your time.

[How is this even possible? Can we not? Please Fix Anet.]

>thief noob friendly no skill

>runs perma immob autoattack condi ranger with trapper runes 

 

lmao

[I don't feel bad for necromancers]

I'll never understand the design of gw2 Necro or WoW warlock. It's a crime that these are tankier than any plate wearing class and makes no sense. Necro can cry me a river , the sooner that noob crutch class dies the better lul no mad pls

[PvP Literally not even mentioned in the Live Stream]

29 minutes ago, Buran.3796 said:

  Is really easy to collate if a competitive game mode gets enough love and support from a company just taking a look at the Twitch top 30 games. The competitive ones which remain in those spots for years are both appealing and have enough support from their creators to keep the things insteresting and ensure the popularity. You can like HotS as a game the same as I like GW2's combat mechanics and PvP gameplay, and neither of the two have had a relevant pressence in twitch for years. But at least for GW2 I keep buying expansions and (from time to time) some gems whereas the last time I spent a dime in a Blizzard game was more than 5 years ago in the RoS expansion for DIII.

Well you're not wrong, I was just speaking on the update thing. Hots still gets new heroes and balance updates I play it all the time. I don't care what is active on twitch to determine whether something is good or not, I don't need other people to think for me streamers bring in a lot of bandwagoners to games that aren't even good. GW2 is just not fun to watch and we have no personalities like asmongold but really what hurts the games presence is no variety in pvp, who in their right mind is gonna watch conquest for ever? In WoW hardly no one watches arena because its pillar humping boredom and random 1shots but battlegrounds have HUGE following. In GW2, there is only "arena" and nothing else unless you count wvw as pvp which no one does.

 

Hots and GW2 pvp have about the same playerbase but both are "dead" for different reasons. For hots its the perceived abandonment by blizzard due to dropping esports and sheep only follow esports, for GW2 its the literal abandonment of the mode and not fun to watch while being frustrating to play. 

 

It would be interesting to see how popular GW1 would be on twitch today if it were new, its still the best pvp an MMO has ever had. ANet refuse to capitalize on anything that made it successful. 9 years later we still slowly being drip fed basic features. I just saw a video the other day of a spectator mode in GW2, I had no idea this even existed, must be recent but its still like a decade too late. Its never going to have a presence cuz it already missed its opportunity , first impressions are everything, but that doesn't mean that it still can't be a good pvp game its just very unlikely because the devs also know they have missed their chance and would rather double down on pve or whatever than waste time trying to appease the pvp playerbase that will never gain traction aka revenue in the esport department.

 

If eod brings no new modes to pvp it is only going to get much worse, the only time worth playing will be on launch when the influx of new and returning players are queueing. I'll give it 1 season of popularity if its just the same ol conquest before the inevitable posts of how toxic the builds are come flooding in because they don't design specs with pvp in mind at all and everything is going to be broken af.

[PvP Literally not even mentioned in the Live Stream]

On 8/8/2021 at 8:49 AM, Buran.3796 said:

  

   Doesn't matter because even if they promised new maps or game modes for PvP the effort would be useless if they don't plan to hurry the pace at which they update they patches.

 

   If Blizzard isn't able to update games as Starcraft II or HotS to make them appealing in the competitive scene I don't known how your dare to think that ANet would be able to do it with the GW2 PvP.. MMOs are a niche genre in a niche segment (PC) of the gaming business, and PvP is even more niche inside all of that. Just accept it as it is.

Wym hots is updated very often . They just abandoned eSports it's still a fun game. Sc is for Uber virgin nerds so who cares

[PvP Literally not even mentioned in the Live Stream]

I'm still waiting for literally anything worth 30$ to buy eod. The story is gonna be Disney sjw garbage so it will ruin anyone's vision of cantha that played the original. That leaves battlegrounds imo , the only thing I would buy the game for. They are high if they expect people to just continue in conquest after 8 years or whatever.

 

Lol I'd rather keep pvping in WoW where the devs molest their employees honestly BGS are just so good compared this wannabe eSports trash.

 

They didn't mention pvp and GvG or such would be a pretty important announcement so that essentially means this is dead on arrival for anyone except the collection addicts who wanna farm same events 24 7 good luck with that boys

[How much would you be willing to pay for this gloryfied DLC EoD?]

Based on how much enjoyment I've had in ESO over the last year with its mature story & immersion, I am considering not even buying eod. I'm a huge cantha fan but that trailer just seem more of disney garbage with cringe dialogue. I die more inside every time aurene speaks I swear to god the characters make me wanna smoke myself stupid just to tolerate them. Pls , GW2 writers, go team up with WoW shadowlands writers and make some new twilight books or something and never ever return to gaming.

[EoD is a $30 Patch.....]

Expansions are literally big patches , they aren't separate games. If you don't like gw2 now odds are you probably won't like eod unless you're a diehard gw fan like me and will suffer through the Disney story just to see my favorite campaign in hd because if there's one thing anet kept from gw it's decent art.

[That wasn't a trailer]

21 minutes ago, Arnox.5128 said:

 

If you really want to get picky with me, then fine, it's a trailer, but it's still a first look trailer. Either way, I see nothing wrong with it.

What the heck is a first look trailer? It literally says trailer on the video description on anets gw2 YouTube profile idk how that is being picky. Never seen an mmo release multiple trailers for an expansion I guess anet is so groundbreaking they're going to do a series of crappy trailers instead of just one?

 

@Zephire.80492 minutes of cringe dialogue is far inferior to the alpha Chad og cantha trailer , sad that gw went from being bad kitten to disney