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Esan

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wars

28 Apr 2009 at 07:58 - 121

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gigashadow

Features like "upgrading your armor can break it", and the ridiculous grindiness, expense, and punishment of every facet of that game, are like getting kicked repeatedly in the balls.

Isn't that what Asian mmorpgers love, though? Well, at least Asian mmorpg companies love to make their games that way.

Asyntyche

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

UK

[ptrm]

D/

28 Apr 2009 at 09:12 - 122

I would love to see two things:
1) still hoping to see Inscribable drops in Cantha and Tyria

2) ability to add more weapons into HoM (like BMP skins & any greens)

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

28 Apr 2009 at 10:48 - 123

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lyphen

I still want simple things, like organizing the character select screen.

This. I think they should make Prophecies and Factions match Nightfall/EOTN with the enter mission button removed and the more obvious portals to new places.

And let us view ALL storage at once like inventory bags.

BUT MOST OF ALL... START FIXING SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES.
Some professions should have PvE/PvP versions of their primary attribute created.

cataphract

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ashford Abbey

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Mo/Me

28 Apr 2009 at 11:57 - 124

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra

I'm not saying a new area is beyond the realm of possibility; what I am saying is that it would be a BIG challenge given the current size of the Live Team.

We pulled in a lot of people to work on this update, people who are working full time on GW2 (many of them worked out of office hours and in their spare time). We may call on the help of fulltime GW2 devs with the next Content Update, but it depends on their schedules.

Wouldn't using already existing armor art *cough* White Mantle *cough* make it less of a burden?

beaverlegions

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

The Siege Turtles

R/

28 Apr 2009 at 13:37 - 125

What's left?
An equivalent of fow and uw for the other god's shrines, if they make it drop some good lookind stuff and make it so permasins get dmged through SF that could keep people busy for nearly a year.

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

28 Apr 2009 at 14:30 - 126

The creation of content management and development systems and procedures.

This could also be useful for Guild Wars 2.

I mean, we have seen a list of people connected to the Live Team, and it is not that small.

The creation of any kind of new content, areas, bags or even something like a moving collector seems to take months. And the team still has to crunch a lot. Brrr!

Nobody can put ideas and especially good ideas and concepts on a schedule, but maybe there is need for better tools, better procedures or maybe less overhead when it comes to implementing ideas and all that into the game.

Given the described situation, for what can we hope? The team seems to be so small that I do not have hopes for anything major.

Chico

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

28 Apr 2009 at 14:57 - 127

Live team did a wonderful job and should be proud. The team that failed epicly was the marketing/sales/pricing team... unless their job was to ruin live's team work putting overpriced tags everywhere. Greedy b*st*rds.

Last content update? I think that was EotN and the bonus missions, this update wasn't a 'content' update. I'm not saying it wasn't one hell of an update, just it wasn't a content update.

What's left to do is that, add some new content. Balance (not live team's job anyway). Perhaps some new quests featuring new skillbars on already existing enemies, quests log & quests title (% of quests completed), new emotes perhaps.

Sucks that the extra storage got ruined either by price or grind. I'd be better off without extra tabs but with an increased capacity in the materials tab and more stackable stuff (runes, inscriptions, etc). That's what I would call a real storage improvement.

Still wanted after this update
* Stackable runes
* Stackable inscriptions
* Increased capacity to materials in materials tab
* 3+ heroes (even if only 3 can be controlled and the rest behave as henchies with custom armor custom weapons and custom skillbars)
* Drop statistics (percentages, totals, etc), wouldn't that be nice? Display them in a new window or just have a /command to display current stats in chat window.
* Jumping! (nah, I'm kidding on this one, jumping is overrated :P)

bursta91

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Canada

Gangsters In The [HooD]

Rt/

28 Apr 2009 at 15:48 - 128

Moar weapon slots
Gogo

Shursh

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2008

KaVa

N/

28 Apr 2009 at 16:40 - 129

Quote:

Originally Posted by Symeon

Auction house
3 remaining god realms
Ability to switch between maps so we don't have to go through laggy cities when changing continents

First two aren't likely though.

^ This. having to go through crowded cities gets really annoying. Surely it can't be that hard to be able to cycle through the maps?

Regina Buenaobra

ArenaNet

Join Date: Apr 2008

Me/

29 Apr 2009 at 18:39 - 130

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apok Omen

Then how did the Live Team manage to add a whole new area just for pets? Doesn't even look unprofessional; all the specific places for each species looked geographically correct. And, isn't the Team used to reskinning? (not bashing them, just saying it would be a lot easier and exciting)

Note that I said we don't have a _dedicated_ artist for Live Team. We got a lot of help from people who are working on GW2 full time. They work on their spare time. We couldn't have releases this update without their help. Even with reskinning, we would need artist resources, and right now that's pulled from whoever's available to spare time from GW2. That needs to get scheduled and planned with the GW2 team -- who all of course have their own production deadlines to hit.

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

02 May 2009 at 12:36 - 131

Some people are missing the Fort Aspenwood end cutscene. It was mostly annoying and got removed.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10371288

But now we cannot see it anymore at all, but the work has been done, the cutscene exists, so why not give players an option to watch it?

Gunther has already a text button that allows players to watch the opening cutscene.

The Live Team could add one more button for the ending cutscene, a la

"This is how God's Vengeance is supposed to work".

Tyla

Emo Goth Italics

Join Date: Sep 2006

02 May 2009 at 12:40 - 132

Quote:

Originally Posted by zwei2stein

So, we got all the 'Big' updates.

So, got Renames, Pet Stables, More storage, Barber, Dailies, 365 days a year way to get event stuff for titles. Even small-ish stuff like merchant summoning, some lore and even new skin.

That leaves one wonder ... what exactly is left for August update?

Actual new content?

Or even... a decent skill balance going over a ton of stuff?! *Tyla scratches his head*

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

02 May 2009 at 15:26 - 133

7 heroes.
Maybe also the ability to buy extra heroes for $9.99 each.

Aljasha

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2009

02 May 2009 at 19:15 - 134

i only wish for decent pvp modes beside gvg, ra/ta and tombs. i saw npcs getting nuked for too long.

LONGA

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Thailand

Agot

N/

02 May 2009 at 20:10 - 135

Ability to teleport to visited Eotn dungeon perhaps.Might charge for some gold if needed

Back then

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2009

03 May 2009 at 04:29 - 136

Quote:

Originally Posted by Symeon

Auction house
3 remaining god realms
Ability to switch between maps so we don't have to go through laggy cities when changing continents

First two aren't likely though.

The first two would be so cool though! I've always imagined what melandru's realm must look like. I imagine it as a giant forest. Lyssa's would be like wonderland or something.

faraaz

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2008

India

Hey Mallyx [icU]

A/

03 May 2009 at 09:58 - 137

I see people asking for skill balance a lot here. What on earth do you want that badly? SF + SY! + CoP Rape? RoJ Nerf? What else? This is getting old...less q.q please.

And on topic, I would kill to have a half decent auction house feature in game.

own age myname

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

Minnesota

[TAS]

R/

03 May 2009 at 11:58 - 138

Quote:

Originally Posted by faraaz

And on topic, I would kill to have a half decent auction house feature in game.

Same here. Sitting in Spamadan isn't playing the game for me.

iriyabran

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

[Lord]

E/

03 May 2009 at 12:10 - 139

Quote:

Originally Posted by Back then

The first two would be so cool though! I've always imagined what melandru's realm must look like. I imagine it as a giant forest. Lyssa's would be like wonderland or something.

yeah it would be awsome
with a new set of elite armor

englitdaudelin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

East Coast

Soldier's Union [SU]

N/Me

03 May 2009 at 18:37 - 140

If not new, fresh armor.... the ability to swap armors skins from one class onto another.

So, a derv could buy ranger or rit-skinned armor, or even paragon or mesmer.

Paragons can finally get armor that doesn't have nice metallic nipples.

Essentially, make any class's armor SKIN available for all other classes, set to the appropriate armor level.

Whoever suggested Zaishen Vanquishing needs a pat on the back. Smart idea.

Repairs to spawning power.

A Zaishen armor skin as reward for Z-coins (100 gold coins and materials? Requirement that the coins be earned in any combination of Z-Bounty, Z-mission, and Z-combat, but needs to include all 3?)

InfestedHydralisk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

The Netherlands

None

R/

04 May 2009 at 23:38 - 141

Quote:

Originally Posted by Back then

The first two would be so cool though! I've always imagined what melandru's realm must look like. I imagine it as a giant forest. Lyssa's would be like wonderland or something.

melandru would be a jungle, you're walking around peacefully, you see some nice creatures...and suddenly...tons of spiders come down from trees and start shooting you with mass poison and blind all your physicals, scarabs pop up and headbutt your monks and then plague touch them and they keep on attacking with IAS on, trolls comes around the corner and start trolling you....and you party wipes..the end.

lyssa would be some kind of illusion stuff with mass hexes, sins or w/e.

dwayna would be some tank realm, big dmg reduction, big heals, hard to get through.

idk

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

05 May 2009 at 00:14 - 142

Random misc. things.
-Scoreboards at the end/during RA/AB/TA/FA/w.e showing who's done what the most - be it getting the most kills, most damage, etc.
-New hairdos!
-Random "fun stuffs": more things to pre,
-eh, other lil things? I had a lot of ideas a while ago then my brain farted.

I'm really not expecting anything right now, but if it'd have to be something it would have to be tiny. Considering how long it took them to make all of this stuff with the latest update, I wouldn't expect anything big.

A few balancing fixes to PvE would be nice, though.

InfestedHydralisk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

The Netherlands

None

R/

05 May 2009 at 12:55 - 143

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Random misc. things.
-Scoreboards at the end/during RA/AB/TA/FA/w.e showing who's done what the most - be it getting the most kills, most damage, etc.
-New hairdos!
-Random "fun stuffs": more things to pre,
-

I'm really not expecting anything right now, but if it'd have to be something it would have to be tiny. Considering how long it took them to make all of this stuff with the latest update, I wouldn't expect anything big.

A few balancing fixes to PvE would be nice, though.

i like your first idea

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

05 May 2009 at 15:49 - 144

Quote:

Originally Posted by InfestedHydralisk

melandru would be a jungle, you're walking around peacefully, you see some nice creatures...and suddenly...tons of spiders come down from trees and start shooting you with mass poison and blind all your physicals, scarabs pop up and headbutt your monks and then plague touch them and they keep on attacking with IAS on, trolls comes around the corner and start trolling you....and you party wipes..the end.

Sounds like Maguuma Jungle.

Quote:

Originally Posted by InfestedHydralisk

lyssa would be some kind of illusion stuff with mass hexes, sins or w/e.

anything even remotely close to that? all I can think of is the Jade Sea.

Ġ ō Đ??

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2007

In the ★'s

No guild i quit and went to Aion! :)

A/

05 May 2009 at 16:10 - 145

i would like to get some new weapon skins and new armor thats it...if they could at a later date maybe add some of the missing god realms

please please Anet..

Chico

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

05 May 2009 at 18:49 - 146

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Random misc. things.
-Scoreboards at the end/during RA/AB/TA/FA/w.e showing who's done what the most - be it getting the most kills, most damage, etc.

I second this is a must have.
- Damage dealed
- Damage healed
- Deaths counters
- Most kills

Wait a second... didn't we have that years ago with G-Stats? I still don't know why Anet never made it part of GW.

Apollo Smile

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2008

[LORE]

E/Mo

05 May 2009 at 19:02 - 147

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Random misc. things.
-Scoreboards at the end/during RA/AB/TA/FA/w.e showing who's done what the most - be it getting the most kills, most damage, etc.
-New hairdos!
-Random "fun stuffs": more things to pre,
-eh, other lil things? I had a lot of ideas a while ago then my brain farted.

I'm really not expecting anything right now, but if it'd have to be something it would have to be tiny. Considering how long it took them to make all of this stuff with the latest update, I wouldn't expect anything big.

A few balancing fixes to PvE would be nice, though.

Last thing we need is MORE ePenis in Alliance Battles. Keep that crap in WoW Battlegrounds.

wetsparks

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

05 May 2009 at 22:59 - 148

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apollo Smile

Last thing we need is MORE ePenis in Alliance Battles. Keep that crap in WoW Battlegrounds.

That kind of "crap" has been happening in shooters for years and is quite popular. Just because it is in WoW doesn't mean that it is bad and GW shouldn't do it so that fan boys won't cry, "WoW clone!" wow has 11 million subscribers for a reason.

I like the idea of kill counts showing up and what not at the end of a match.

Gigashadow

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Bellevue, WA

W/

06 May 2009 at 00:40 - 149

For the scorecards issue, I suspect that making it correctly count total degen and regen done may be more complicated than just tallying direct damage and healing. If those aren't counted, it will skew things in favor of one build or class or another.

Guild Wars is different from other games in that people have much more specialized roles, so I don't know if tallying these things makes a lot of sense. Interrupt rangers, shutdown mesmers, debuffing necros, and prot monks aren't going to show up with much in the way of numbers, for example.

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

06 May 2009 at 01:08 - 150

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gigashadow

Guild Wars is different from other games in that people have much more specialized roles, so I don't know if tallying these things makes a lot of sense. Interrupt rangers, shutdown mesmers, debuffing necros, and prot monks aren't going to show up with much in the way of numbers, for example.

That would be the only difficult thing, really: tallying not just the simple things of damage or kills, but listing so many other effects when can have on the party.

Interrupts should be tallied, KD's should be tallied, *anything* that's contributing to the group would have to be visible on the scoreboard. It's easier to do in shooting games because (not to make it sound skilless or simple or anything) that's all you do: shoot. But there are so many other things you can be credited for in a game like Guild Wars.

Also: the board would be in no way tied to any in-game rewards/benefits. It would only be used to see how well you did, although problems relating to that have been listed above, both in my post and the quote.

ele pl

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

E/

18 May 2009 at 21:43 - 151

Imo, the best thing would be Pomylock PvP. We got many useless pieces. The new Polymock arena would be similar to HB (rank, ladder, title, and that stuff). Bring balance to the polymock pieces. I think that would be fun

ImpressiveSkilled

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2008

Stop Kiting [cwrd]

Mo/

19 May 2009 at 09:05 - 152

I would like:

- Dyes and tomes able to put in the material storage
- Inscriptions and mods to be stackable
- Emote for champ title

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

19 May 2009 at 13:58 - 153

Oh, and an account-wide keyring would be nice too.

And a Dwarven brawling PvP mode for festivals, that goes like this:
- 8vs8.
When one side wins, the 8 remaining ones get randomly separated in two teams, and fight 4vs4.
- Then the wining team of four gets divided into 2 teams.
- And the remaining two fight each other.

Lord-UWR

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Fiction We Live In [FaKe]

W/R

19 May 2009 at 17:17 - 154

Contrary to what most people think, there is still a huge amount of ideas floating around, which can be implemented into Guild Wars. Some ideas would be:

1- AUCTION HOUSE (how long has it been since we asked for this now? 4 years?)
2- God Realms
3- Make Hall of Monuments more interesting
4- Some of the titles need to be revamped.
5- New Emotes
6- New Skins is a good choice all the time.
7- Perhaps new Dungeons
8- Add better and longer lasting, more interesting, perma-minigames.
9- Add new lore to endgames, kind of like Prophecies Dragon Quests (BTW, no one does those anymore, I still have a few left on my other characters)
10- And Lastly, small bux fixes, and a more secure trading system, like a two step comfirming one.

There is however, one HORRIBLE truth. Given the latest NCSOFT Earnings report, Guild wars, due to the lack of expansions, has been making less and less money for NCSOFT.
So, Guild Wars is slowly turning and changing into a MICROTRANSACTION, TYPICAL GENERIC KOREAN MMORPG. That is both disappointing, and scary. Hope that will not be the case, or at least, decrease your prices for God's Sake.

Vel

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

W/

19 May 2009 at 17:55 - 155

1. God Realms -- Possibly reuse an area or dungeon maps for new God's realms. (Easier said than done).

2. Elite Dungeons -- Similar to what was done w/ MOX quest. But, make more scavenger hunts leading to Elite Dungeons and spread them across Tyria, Cantha and Elona.

3. Challenge of the fallen -- Every day have a challenge to defeat a fallen fiend or a hero, e.g., Mallyx, Shiro, Lich, Uber Diablo (err...that's Diablo hehe). Let that battle take place in a map like Zaishen Menagerie. Let the rewards be pretty cool and random but, well worth the challenge.

4. Just get GW2 released!

Apollo Smile

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2008

[LORE]

E/Mo

19 May 2009 at 19:22 - 156

Quote:

Originally Posted by wetsparks

That kind of "crap" has been happening in shooters for years and is quite popular. Just because it is in WoW doesn't mean that it is bad and GW shouldn't do it so that fan boys won't cry, "WoW clone!" wow has 11 million subscribers for a reason.

I like the idea of kill counts showing up and what not at the end of a match.

I've had an active WoW account since it has come out. I don't need to be educated on the game.

I would love to see new quests and bosses scattered around the different campaigns. Not only would this add some new life to all the campaigns, but it would actually be do-able for the Live Team.

street peddler

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

19 May 2009 at 20:15 - 157

auction house is never going to happen. thats a GW2 feature.

probably something theyll use as a perk over GW1.

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

19 May 2009 at 20:52 - 158

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apollo Smile

I've had an active WoW account since it has come out. I don't need to be educated on the game.

Does this mean you're still against implementing the scoreboard feature in GW? If so, why?

WhiteWasabi

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

KAMADAN AD1

Zealots of Shiverpeak

E/

19 May 2009 at 21:26 - 159

I would like to see some PVP features added. Something that has been NEEDED for a long time is the ability to see GVG statistics after a match. For example how many SUCCESSFUL powerblocks the mesmer did or how much DPS overall the warriors or eles did. How many failed interrupts the ranger did......I would REALLY like to see more GVG/HA statistics. Also how about a pause and rewind on the playbacks of matches??

Lonesamurai

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Cheltenham, Glos, UK

Wolf Pack Samurai [WPS]

R/A

19 May 2009 at 21:39 - 160

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord-UWR

1- AUCTION HOUSE (how long has it been since we asked for this now? 4 years?)
Not gonna happen, already confirmed for GW2 though, its on the wiki and in interviews
2- God Realms
Linsey mentioned in her on air interview on The Sanitarium.FM on the birthday event that these are on her note wall still and if they have time MAY get a look, but nothing confirmed
3- Make Hall of Monuments more interesting
How do you propose?
4- Some of the titles need to be revamped.
Again, how? (apart from making SS/LB/EotN titles account wide)
5- New Emotes
for what?
6- New Skins is a good choice all the time.
by who? another thing Linsey mentioned in her interview is that with all the teams working on GW2 there is no one to make new models and new skins or test them
7- Perhaps new Dungeons
Again, who's gonna make them?
8- Add better and longer lasting, more interesting, perma-minigames.
Like what? this isn't Final Fantasy
9- Add new lore to endgames, kind of like Prophecies Dragon Quests (BTW, no one does those anymore, I still have a few left on my other characters)
Ok, I'll agree on that, Titan style endgame quests would be cool
10- And Lastly, small bux fixes, and a more secure trading system, like a two step comfirming one.
we don't need a two step, theres a step therefor a reason, if you miss the step congrats... Thats what the step is there for in the first place

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Vel

1. God Realms -- Possibly reuse an area or dungeon maps for new God's realms. (Easier said than done).
Answered above...

2. Elite Dungeons -- Similar to what was done w/ MOX quest. But, make more scavenger hunts leading to Elite Dungeons and spread them across Tyria, Cantha and Elona.
Again, I'd go for these, but who is gonna take the time from GW2 to make them?

3. Challenge of the fallen -- Every day have a challenge to defeat a fallen fiend or a hero, e.g., Mallyx, Shiro, Lich, Uber Diablo (err...that's Diablo hehe). Let that battle take place in a map like Zaishen Menagerie. Let the rewards be pretty cool and random but, well worth the challenge.
We already have this, its called Zaishen Bounties and were added to the game in April, but why do we have to have an arena for them?

4. Just get GW2 released!
/sigh

Right, I think that sorts some of those out...