Storm.1629

What team were you placed on? Skrittsburgh What team did you expect to be placed on? Seven Pines Did you change/toggle your selected WvW guild after Thursday night, even briefly? Don't think so, I had it selected early in the week Have you shard/world transferred recently? No What is your default world when World Restructuring is disabled? Northern Shiverpeaks

I get it it's Norn not Norm, now get over it. The message here is not how it is written, don't be all riled up about what's really unimportant.Also what I did was express my opinion, you don't have to agree with it, or be rude about it, and I did say I love the game right? I was writting as someone who had the fortune of playing this game since GW1 (I even have the books, do you know there are books too?), what I'm saying is basically if you played it since the start like I did, now there's like a sense of lacking from what it was in the beginning...

Arena net, if I may be a little bold, I just wanted to let you in on some issues with GW2. First let me start by saying this game has so much potential it’s not even funny, however, you seem determined to kill it, the way things are going I don’t give it 3 more years for it to go into maintenance mode only and disappear shortly after as keeping those servers up is very expensive.In my humble opinion, I really don’t see what the strategy here is, if you really care about the game, please do this, ask players with over 6 years game play and over 30k achievement points for their opinions, you might be surprised. I’ve been with GW ever since GW1 and let me say this, GW2 story “sucks”, not because of the story itself but because how it was developed. Tell me one character on gw2 that left a mark on people. For me I can mildly accept three, Taimi, Canach and arguably Tybalt, all the rest, in my point of view I say “screw them, I don’t care for them”, I mean, honestly did people feel sorry when Faolain killed Eir?, Hell I actually even want her son to die, and this is because they have no personalities (I actually enjoyed Scarlet better than most other NPCs, she was crazy but consistent and had her reasons). I remember GW1 where I was sorry for Rurik and felt bad for having to kill him, the Dwarves story, pre-searing,…, amazing. When Jora first appeared and it was like “Nobody move that’s a Norm!”,..., you could feel the threat (I immediately wanted to have a Norm character, which I did the minute I was on GW2). The trip from Ascalon to LA is still etched in my memory, the Luxons (turtles with canons on their back, what a concept), Kurzick,…, I more than once had trouble forcing myself to go to bed because I wanted to play “just 5 more minutes”. I mean, back then it looked like you were unable to create “bad content” in the game. As for GW2, let’s go through a few issues (not all by a long shot):Market: Although the idea looks good, it allows to for guys like those of Team MM to exploit it like crazy (which I think they were really smart doing it), however, it started killing the game, wasn’t it better like GW1 where you announced your wares in towns, haggled with other players and made deals? How about skins, if you put everything in the black lion to buy with gems and so many, people will eventually lose interest, why don’t you make like “this adventure trip to mount whatever to kill the cursed dragon and use his skin to make a leather armor with an exclusive skin that shines this way or that,…” (you know, something with logic, not just a brainless grind), It will create purpose for a ton of people go for PVE and even bring in more new players. Legendaries: Again their name says it all, they are supposed to be almost unique, as in very very hard to come by, I'm not supposed to have 20+ legendaries. What happens when I get all that I want? There will be no new shinies for me, I will loose interest and go play Albion online,.... Classes: What do you mean by balance patches? Classes are there to make it different, how come the tankiest class can be a light armor chrono???? Why can I solo anything on my necro???, Guardians/Warriors should be the tanks, you shouldn’t be able to go melee range with a warrior and have a fair chance of coming out alive, the classes should compensate each other (not be a "do it all" class), they should still need the guardian to cleanse/heal them, make every class needed for a purpose and make that purpose logical. What looks like is happening is that a Dev with a Mesmer goes to fight a skilled player with a warrior (the outcome expectable), and then next patch let’s nerf the warriors adrenal health, healing signet, take out his stability…. NPCs: As I explained before, give them strong personality traits, like you did with Canach, the “I don’t care if you help me or not, I’m not here to help you either”, I want the real thing, I don’t wanna know or care about if they are lesbian, or black, or blue, or whatever, just give them a purpose, a behavior and back it up with a realistic event / situation of their past. Now a whiny obnoxious Norm,…, really??? (aren't these supposed to be the giants that brave the extreme weather conditions, and instill fear on other races with their presence alone?),…, just kill him and be done with it. Lions Arch: Now this is an old grudge of mine. The story behind LA, is that it started as the meeting grounds of merchants, pirates, cut throats, harlots,…, do you really think that after an attack that nearly burns it down to the ground (btw I loved that part of the story), they get together as law abiding citizens and build “Shiny Lobster City”???? really?, where are the Lions, the slums, the beggars, the cutthroats, the smelly sewers, the shady alleys, … Did it become Divinity’s Reach without us knowing?? And what happened to the Tengu? WVW: Unbreakable walls and gate (even if for a min)? A couple defenders can hold a tower against an enemy zerg? Whatchtowers? Disablers? Why do you love defenders so much that you feel the need to help them? We don’t want ppl turtling up inside objectives, we want fights. If you want to slow down attackers, make them have to push/pull the siege from tower to tower or make it a lot more time consuming to build (so that it pays to move it instead of building it), also make siege repairable,… As for mounts, give them 1 HP and stop their stomping crap and running away crap (also as a side note, you started to kill wvw when you introduced stability and killed the hammer train…, before that, it was so much more fun!!!) Edge of the Mists: What a real shame!!! That’s a beautiful map, please use it! Even if you just make it something like GVG grounds. This is already a long post, bottom line is that there’s a lot that can be done to save / reboost this game, please be creative, consistent and logical with the content. Please hear us “veterans” who love the game…. If you have ran out of ideas, please really please, go play GW1 for a little time and at least try to emulate that feeling, please!!! p.s.: these are only my personal opinions and they're meant to be taken as constructive criticism, maybe a place where other players can post their ideas/feelings as well, regarding this great game, it's not my intention to slander other peoples work...