Someday in the distant future, people on this site will finally realize they are a tiny meaningless niche of gamers who don't actually buy video games, and absolutely NO major gaming company has EVER thought for a single moment of spending ANY money whatsoever on covert advertising here. Its not worth it to them. You aren't worth it. You are nothing. This site is nothing.
If you care about the story you'll need to buy the expansions and living world in order, which you can find on the wiki.
The beat expansion imo is HoT, but don't play with mounts because it breaks the maps. PoF is a good expansion too despite the bad story.
LWS3 and 4 are the best living worlds. 3 is varied and experimental (in a good way) and 4 is probably the second best block of content after HoT.
If you care about the story you'll need to buy the expansions and living world in order, which you can find on the wiki.
The beat expansion imo is HoT, but don't play with mounts because it breaks the maps. PoF is a good expansion too despite the bad story.
LWS3 and 4 are the best living worlds. 3 is varied and experimental (in a good way) and 4 is probably the second best block of content after HoT.
Haven't played since last year, so idk what the game is like right now. By the expansions after you hit level 80 and if you're thinking about doing group content like WvW and Fractals.
One of its selling points, removing the 'trinity' of tank/dps/healer actually became the biggest detriment. It's so aimless. I think they started to bring some of that dynamic into the game at some point but it was certainly too late. Last i saw, the only people who play are those who get to max level and spend real money on cosmetics and stand around chatting.
>the only people who play are those who get to max level and spend real money on cosmetics and stand around chatting >have a friend who plays this >only comes back around expansion release time >buys it day 1 >buys new cosmetics for everything from weapons to armor to glides >plays for a month before dropping it >does all this again for the next release
I just don't get it.
That's how whales do it. They usually can't play for long cuz of real world obligations, so they come back for a little while, splurge, and take a break.
I occasionally check back in like that too, but I don't bother with gem shop stuff
Did you play this game one time 10 years ago or something? They added roles game has roles now, but they are tank/healer (tanks are healers most of the time), boon/support DPS, and DPS. Plenty of people still play the game. Metas from as far back as Heart of Thorns still get multiple full maps of people running them.
>the legendary orbs >the legendary weapons looking like a discoball >the legendary weapons also leaving extremely bright and shiny prints >the legendary weapon skins on top of the legendary weapons adding the ugliest elemental VFX I've ever seen in a game except maybe FFXVI >the 10 types of VFX from infusions all stacking >the pure black and pure white, or max saturated colors >the extreme bloom that can't be disabled without losing metal and VFX effects for spells >the terrible actual armor designs, with like 2 or 3 exceptions >the mount skins leaving bright and obnoxious trailing and shining brighter than the in-game sun on top of all that
It just looks awful and the players seem to always be doing everything they can to make it even worse
I don't have a pic right now, but it is shit like this that made me adopt a less is more style. My Sylvari ranger with Kudzu simply wears a mix of cultural armor. Looks much less obnoxious and fits with the plant footprint.
What annoys me about the legendary weapons is that they're for the most part completely unrelated to the lore.
A disco ball? A short bow shooting unicorns? A pistol shooting confetti?
Then the 3rd gen shat the bed even more, making the entire set share the same theme.
>giving players too much freedom only helps reveal how shit their tastes are
It's funny how often this happens. From some of my own recent experiences, PSO2 is full of black/white/neon color braphogs. Even FFXIV, with it's limited number of faces, has people trying real hard to stand out. Then you enable that mod sync and suddenly everyone looks like they've stepped out of Second Life.
>Then you enable that mod sync and suddenly everyone looks like they've stepped out of Second Life.
This is why I cant take FFXIVgays seriously, that shit on the right looks fricking awful. I hate how these games suggest giving players too much agency is a really bad idea, because 90 percent of players out there look like shit
10 months ago
Anonymous
at least thats opt in to eyesores, shit like
>the legendary orbs >the legendary weapons looking like a discoball >the legendary weapons also leaving extremely bright and shiny prints >the legendary weapon skins on top of the legendary weapons adding the ugliest elemental VFX I've ever seen in a game except maybe FFXVI >the 10 types of VFX from infusions all stacking >the pure black and pure white, or max saturated colors >the extreme bloom that can't be disabled without losing metal and VFX effects for spells >the terrible actual armor designs, with like 2 or 3 exceptions >the mount skins leaving bright and obnoxious trailing and shining brighter than the in-game sun on top of all that
It just looks awful and the players seem to always be doing everything they can to make it even worse
left guy you will have to see going into towns or doing content
10 months ago
Anonymous
>at least thats opt in to eyesores
Having the most polished turd isnt exactly a win
It's great and arguably the best MMO on the market right know but as you can see it's nearly impossible to discuss it here. There's an irrational hate against this game here. The usual far-right schizos will outright lie to make the game look like the worst woke shit ever. And GW1 fanboys pretending this game that has been sucessful for 11 years somehow died the month of its release are not helping.
If you're not bored after hitting lvl 80 with your first character, and you want to explore new maps and unlock new things like mounts you can safely buy all the expansions. They're all good but they all have different strengths.
The fourth expansion is coming in august with an interesting 'revamped' weapon system that seems to have a lot of people hyped. It's a good moment to get back into the game
Only good expansion is the pack with Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire. It's currently on sale.
Due to the dumb business model, you have to buy separately the season passes for each expansion, though there's an option for buying them with in-game gold. >Heart of Thorns
Comes with gliding, raids, a new subclass for each profession and four new maps. >Path of Fire
Introduces five mounts, plus one for open world PvP, one more round of subclasses, two more raids, five maps and TWO season passes that introduce respectively two more mounts and strike missions (i.e. easy mode raids). >End of Dragons
Unlocks gliding and two mounts, plus introduces two group mounts (for land and for sailing), more strike missions, another round of subclasses, four new maps and fishing. Has no season passes. >Secrets of the Obscure
Recently announced and releasing this August. Two maps at launch + a third one after six months, brings no new subclasses but more weapon choices for the existing ones as well as airborne mount combat and a battle pass. More info to be released SOON™.
>what's a season pass
A season of 6—8 episodes linking together each expansion. As said before, you buy it either in-game OR in the mega pack from either Steam or the official site.
Season 1 is a freebie, you get it in the core game. It's also the worst one BY FAR.
Season 2 is the longest and lightest in content, requires the base game and nothing more.
Season 3 has a dumb, 6-chapter story and good map variety and lets you unlock a legendary piece of equipment. It requires owning the Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire.
Season 4 has probably the best story as well as the aforementioned two mounts, it's as long as the previous one and likewise gives you access to a legendary trinket. Also requires the HoT+PoF pack.
Season 5 started as a "season to end all seasons" and got its own title, too, being often referred to as "The Icebrood Saga". Consists of one prologue, four episodes and an EXTREMELY rushed and unsatisfactory conclusion. It comes with strike missions and has the best gold farm in the game. Like the previous two, it requires the pack with Path of Fire.
my problem with living stories is they essentially let arena net half ass expansions. you can definitely see it with the last two, and it will REALLY be obvious with the upcoming one.
>and it will REALLY be obvious with the upcoming one.
I still can't get over how much it looks like "we'll put in half the effort for a $5 lower price".
You actually get less than half of a living world season now.
Three maps instead of six, power-ups for one mount instead of anything new, one mastery recycling existing weapons and another one for accessing the new totally-not-a-battle-pass. As shit as EoD was, at least it came with five maps, two mounts and a set of elite specs and this shit costs five bucks less.
Maybe the new expac is actually good but I'm certainly not getting it at launch.
As I said, more info to come. On paper it sounds like shit and the developers have been underdelivering the last three years so I'm not exactly optimistic.
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[...] >sudden shillsplosion
Weird but definitely organic.
First two posts you quoted are mine (as is
[...] >what do I do in the game
PvE is split between open world (exploration and mostly mindless meta events where you autoattack mobs until they shit out loot), fractals (short 5-man dungeons with vertical equipment progression) and raids/strikes (10-man encounters, longer than fractals though strikes are very easy). Raids have been silently abandoned by the devs, so there's only going to be new strikes and fractals in the future.
PvP only has two modes called Conquest and World vs World (a third one, Stronghold, was abandoned right after release). Conquest is a 5v5 score-based mode where you capture objectives, sometimes you can also play it 2v2. World vs World, or WvW, is an open world setting where three servers fight each other by capturing bases, securing resources and laying siege to forts/keeps. Conquest is played separately from everything else and your level and equipment don't matter, but it's a dying mode due to an abundance of bots and wintraders.
), I dislike the direction GW2 has taken as of late but there's definitely SOMETHING decent in the game. That said, PoF has the best mounts ever made and the class fantasy is unique enough to warrant trying out.
Wasnt the last fractal like 5 years ago?
There's been two new ones, unfortunately both are very conversation-heavy. The last one came out last week and it's a glorified strike mission preceded by a jumping puzzle so I'm not too happy with it.
Every new expansion is apparently going to include a new strike mission and a new fractal from now on.
>what's a season pass
A season of 6—8 episodes linking together each expansion. As said before, you buy it either in-game OR in the mega pack from either Steam or the official site.
Season 1 is a freebie, you get it in the core game. It's also the worst one BY FAR.
Season 2 is the longest and lightest in content, requires the base game and nothing more.
Season 3 has a dumb, 6-chapter story and good map variety and lets you unlock a legendary piece of equipment. It requires owning the Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire.
Season 4 has probably the best story as well as the aforementioned two mounts, it's as long as the previous one and likewise gives you access to a legendary trinket. Also requires the HoT+PoF pack.
Season 5 started as a "season to end all seasons" and got its own title, too, being often referred to as "The Icebrood Saga". Consists of one prologue, four episodes and an EXTREMELY rushed and unsatisfactory conclusion. It comes with strike missions and has the best gold farm in the game. Like the previous two, it requires the pack with Path of Fire.
Yeah played it since the launch, 11 years now
Its honestly a great game, fantastic even. The best part of this game by far is exploration. Jumping puzzles remain my peak experience of this game. From the easy ones to the hard ones.
Exploring maps is also really rewarding and have a nice feel. And they let you go quite deep with the achievments for each map after the vanilla maps, so you can really grind out each map
The combat is good, not fantastic, but good. I do wish certain aspects of it was different and it wasnt so timing-based, and theres too big of a difference in damage between good players and bad players
My main issue with the game is endgame challenges and itemisation. We have quite a few now with raids, fractals and strikes but still it always feels like something is lacking. The grouping system is also trash which makes it quite frustrating to get into these systems.
Itemisation also feels lackluster. You can grind months for legendary gear but it will only be as good as other ascendant gear except you can easily swap the stats. I wish there was more impact and chase items
>sudden shillsplosion
Weird but definitely organic.
>what's a season pass
A season of 6—8 episodes linking together each expansion. As said before, you buy it either in-game OR in the mega pack from either Steam or the official site.
Season 1 is a freebie, you get it in the core game. It's also the worst one BY FAR.
Season 2 is the longest and lightest in content, requires the base game and nothing more.
Season 3 has a dumb, 6-chapter story and good map variety and lets you unlock a legendary piece of equipment. It requires owning the Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire.
Season 4 has probably the best story as well as the aforementioned two mounts, it's as long as the previous one and likewise gives you access to a legendary trinket. Also requires the HoT+PoF pack.
Season 5 started as a "season to end all seasons" and got its own title, too, being often referred to as "The Icebrood Saga". Consists of one prologue, four episodes and an EXTREMELY rushed and unsatisfactory conclusion. It comes with strike missions and has the best gold farm in the game. Like the previous two, it requires the pack with Path of Fire.
>what do I do in the game
PvE is split between open world (exploration and mostly mindless meta events where you autoattack mobs until they shit out loot), fractals (short 5-man dungeons with vertical equipment progression) and raids/strikes (10-man encounters, longer than fractals though strikes are very easy). Raids have been silently abandoned by the devs, so there's only going to be new strikes and fractals in the future.
PvP only has two modes called Conquest and World vs World (a third one, Stronghold, was abandoned right after release). Conquest is a 5v5 score-based mode where you capture objectives, sometimes you can also play it 2v2. World vs World, or WvW, is an open world setting where three servers fight each other by capturing bases, securing resources and laying siege to forts/keeps. Conquest is played separately from everything else and your level and equipment don't matter, but it's a dying mode due to an abundance of bots and wintraders.
Oh rly? I should check it out. I downloaded the game 3 days ago but havent gotten around to play it again. I stopped playing a couple weeks after the expac launch
Something I like in GW2 is you really can do whatever the frick you want as everything rewards you experience, karma or money. You could theoretically run around reviving npcs and players to level 80 if you were deranged enough, for example.
Yeah played it since the launch, 11 years now
Its honestly a great game, fantastic even. The best part of this game by far is exploration. Jumping puzzles remain my peak experience of this game. From the easy ones to the hard ones.
Exploring maps is also really rewarding and have a nice feel. And they let you go quite deep with the achievments for each map after the vanilla maps, so you can really grind out each map
The combat is good, not fantastic, but good. I do wish certain aspects of it was different and it wasnt so timing-based, and theres too big of a difference in damage between good players and bad players
My main issue with the game is endgame challenges and itemisation. We have quite a few now with raids, fractals and strikes but still it always feels like something is lacking. The grouping system is also trash which makes it quite frustrating to get into these systems.
Itemisation also feels lackluster. You can grind months for legendary gear but it will only be as good as other ascendant gear except you can easily swap the stats. I wish there was more impact and chase items
of the obscure only adding new weapon types, no new specialisations.
While I agree it's a lazy expac I'm glad they're not adding more elite specs and are giving more options to the core professions. Like if you want to play a necromancer for example the core spec is dogshit and none of the elite specs really play into the necro fantasy of summoning minions to do your bidding. I don't think giving everyone access to elite spec weapons is going to be the magical bandaid fix to this issue but it's a start.
I am watching teapot right now discussing the expansion reveal. Whats the problem with him? Drawn out vids?
He's an anet partner and basically hypes up everything without being critical of anything.
>I'm glad they're not adding more elite specs and are giving more options to the core professions.
They should've given the core specs some niche, then, rather than opening the floodgates.
can players get that armour skin, or is it exclusive to NPCs?
As a rule of thumb: if it looks good, you can't wear it.
I once met a girl with around a 1000 hours in this game, she was really cute but I was way too autistic to ask for contacts so I will never meet her again
Play up through LW season 1, watch a story recap of living world 2, then play Heart of Thorns. LW season 2 has important story, but it's the most expensive one and you don't even get any new maps. Probably worth picking up living world season 3 at this point, but you can probably get away with a YouTube recap again. Play Path of Fire and definitely play Living World season 4 as it's probably the best part of the game. At that point if you're cheap you can farm Dragonfall for a while to buy the other living worlds with gold, they're probably going to go on sale for the anniversary next month.
Do NOT buy the $100 pack even on it's current sale, what a fricking scam. Buy 3 expansion pack on sale, then wait for a Living World sale on the gem store. It's cheaper even if the LW is only 20% off which happens every few months, and WAY cheaper if you skip living world season 2.
>Probably worth picking up living world season 3 at this point, but you can probably get away with a YouTube recap again.
LS3 is fun but LS4 and 5 bring better value. I'd say LS4 then 5 then 3 then, if you want the free legendary thingy, 2.
Did you play this game one time 10 years ago or something? They added roles game has roles now, but they are tank/healer (tanks are healers most of the time), boon/support DPS, and DPS. Plenty of people still play the game. Metas from as far back as Heart of Thorns still get multiple full maps of people running them.
>They added roles game has roles now, but they are tank/healer (tanks are healers most of the time), boon/support DPS, and DPS.
NTA but the roles pretty much just rotate around granting two buffs (increase attack speed and decrease skill cooldowns) which is pretty terrible. Healing is usually carried out by one of the two boon providers and tanking only exists in some instanced content.
>canon trannies >canon homosexuals >literal quests requiring you to "catch the bigot".
Have fun, sis, just don't forget to dilate between sessions
You are also forced to attend a lesbian wedding to complete the story of EoD.
Not really, though you do have a point. The game has been a woke dumpster fire as early as Aid Worker Sya but the last expansion dialled it up a notch by talking about fascism, open borders and genders and being very preachy about it.
The problem is that the storytelling has gotten very bad and can excuse the virtue signalling anymore because there's nothing at stake and every character is unlikeable.
I COULD get mad at the "beat up the bigot" story mission or the "fascist fattener" achievement but I can't even remember when they happened in the story because it's all so damn boring.
I remember when it launched on steam, people were so eager to help the newbies they blinded them with neon cosmetics and killed all the mobs so nobody could level
>people were so eager to help the newbies
Nah, they were eager to take screens about helping the newbies and post them on reddit for upboats.
It's a purely mindset thing, but game being B2P or F2P affects how I approach it. With a sub there's always this impending feeling of obligation or I'm "wasting my money".
I have tried to get into GW2 so many fricking times but I always fall off because >bag and bank space is abhorrent without spending money >personal story is genuinely the worst I’ve ever played in an MMO by a mile >huge world with people everywhere but incredibly lonely because there’s no incentive to do dungeons or anything. jointing guilds is nowhere near as intuitive as it is in other MMOs >see that my class doesn’t get cool until I’m max level and get mastery points >conquest pvp is 2 real players and the rest are bots
Waiting for the shill to respond to all of my points with a tirade that I will completely ignore because they’re sunk cost fallicied and stand in lion’s arch as a disco ball of $300 cosmetics
A bag slot is only 140 gold and the personal story is only like 4 quests that end and merge into the main story by level 30... Did you play for like 1 hour?
The game gives you so much space for free... You get 5 character slots, even if you want to play an alt that's 3 character slots where you can get 120+ bag slots to store stuff on each one
Tried it multiple times
necros wth minions are still shit
Tried getting the jade golem expansion but realized you have to play like 30 hours to levelup all the skill points for it
>Tried getting the jade golem expansion but realized you have to play like 30 hours to levelup all the skill points for it
You're thinking strictly in hard leveling. Like one anon said everything you do gives you at least experience points. Not to mention levels in GW2 are already a breeze compared to the usual curve you see in games.
I mean since i t's an expansion power you need 30 skill points but form what I remember you can only get those in the expansions meaning playing with a gimped build
Dropped with EoD release. No, I'm not mad about this particular quest, I'm mad about fundamentally shit mechanics and company behind it which I'm lazy to describe.
that's nothing, there's much worse
there's a "Fascist Flattener" title or something to that effect
the entire game is written in quips, alliterations and puns, with the worst Funimation-tier voice acting money can buy
it really is nothing but pain
you do recognize that fascism is bad, right? like anything to do with modern-day misuse or misappropriation of the word nazi, fascist dictatorships and an exploited sense of nationalism to empower an authoritarian ruling elite is bad.
that's nothing, there's much worse
there's a "Fascist Flattener" title or something to that effect
the entire game is written in quips, alliterations and puns, with the worst Funimation-tier voice acting money can buy
it really is nothing but pain
It's just part of the plot of the expansion that there are those seeking to amass power to a select few to overthrow the government in a way not unlike some real life fascists, as least as relates to Cantha. It's not about an agenda, it's about you being an above-the-law hero who can try to stop the sort of social or political dissent that will lead to abuses in Cantha's government and be pretty bad for everyone while your dragon is having a straight up bad time overseas and Su-won is being (voluntarily) used for some bad shit.
10 months ago
Anonymous
so glad i skipped that shit and dropped anet years ago thanks
It's sad that EoD was supposed to be the Cantha expansion but it will only be remembered for this, the devs fricked up in a way that shouldn't be possible.
I am watching teapot right now discussing the expansion reveal. Whats the problem with him? Drawn out vids?
Constantly hyped about everything, treats everything he says like some controversial hot take, feels like a tiktoker constantly trying to get your attention in the most obnoxious ways yet sounds rehearsed and in no way genuine or convinced of what he's saying.
His teatime videos can be decent when he invites people who actually have something to say, too bad it's mostly yes-men.
The writers failed to see that they actually proved the evil fascists right by making the Aetherblades show up and wreck shit the moment Cantha opens its borders.
I'm so glad the whole dragon metaplot is over. I knew so many elder dragons would get old after the second or third dragon. Even Arenanet was sick of it by IBS.
They were just too incompetent to pad each big, boring dragon with an actual compelling villain or two.
The writers failed to see that they actually proved the evil fascists right by making the Aetherblades show up and wreck shit the moment Cantha opens its borders.
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They were just too incompetent to pad each big, boring dragon with an actual compelling villain or two.
Has /misc/ brain rot implanted itself so deeply in your head that you think the purists, who committed genocide on the dredge, wanted to genocide the tengu, wanted to seize total power and oppress Canthans and take civil Liberties were actually good? Fricking pathetic.
>muh pol
If you could read, you'd notice how the problem is indeed that ANet's shoddy writing managed to make the Purists, of all people, have a point in the plot.
I remember when it launched on steam, people were so eager to help the newbies they blinded them with neon cosmetics and killed all the mobs so nobody could level
I should have bought this when it was on sale for $15 on steam last year... it hasn't been on sale again all year. I only played the base game when it came out and never touched the rest. I never liked it because I wanted WoW without the sub, but I can probably appreciate it a lot more as a single player game now.
>I quit a heterosexual game with attractive female characters, for an openly marxist game that champions transexuals and sodomites >Best decision of my life
You could have just typed you are a dick-vacuuming homosexual.
>a heterosexual game with attractive female characters,
Damn straight, look at these ABOMINABLE women that these evil american devs are pushing in their games.
Thankfully BASED JAPAN is here to save us from this subversion of God's creation.
This screenshot is from the core game storyline which is over a decade old. You will have no more attractive women in your storyline. You WILL adventure with her bumbling moron mutt child and the wisecracking crippled jimmy neutron asura. You WILL attend the lesbian wedding. You WILL beat up the bigot and you WILL be happy.
I play both GW2 and FFXIV off and on. GW2 is easy to come back to whenever since it's free outside expansions. XIV is something to play for 1 month every 2-4 years.
I like GW2. I like how early in EoD story, one of the lesbians makes sure to emphasize that some unimportant NPC nobody gives two shits about who was killed pre-Heart of Thorns was gay, had a husband and a son. Something that was never ever mentioned before. Guild Wars 2 always had great worldbuilding. You gotta let the player know these things to build a connection.
I also like that they made a whole entire mission out of the lesbian characters getting married. I like that the representative of the nordic race is a Black person. I like the portrayal of tradition as bigotry. I like that there's zero nuance to the political opinions that are being pushed onto the player. Makes it easy to understand. You no want refugee = you r bigot. Very high educational value.
And frick them for putting one of the turtle mount components behind the strike mission, too, I spent 3 hours in matchmaking and got the most incompetent fricks on the team
strike missions are puggable and the one needed for the turtle isn't even hard. you're casual+bad and even though the politics are cringe you're just using it to cope with being beaten at video games by cat-owning redditors
when that got brought up in the past that one guy from the gen would post his beetle mount slidding around like a hunk of dog turd on a sheet of ice
also >ctrl f
no frog image
and no
link to the youtube vid showing their agenda pushing and why the last pack was a steaming pile of flop
>most of his points don't stand anymore
They still do, fricking shiller
OK anons, then post the pic yourselves. I was there when the frog guy wrote his posts and agreed with pretty much all of them but that was also a long time ago and everything that's not the story or PvP has since improved.
is the light armor mesmer still the best heavy armor tank in the game?
kek
Nah, ANet spent all of 2018 and 2019 nerfing chronomancer. Now it's still got some niche but it's nowhere near it used to be.
As those other anons said, it's not that outdated.
While they have learned to do better in the expansions, the core experience was pretty much left untouched, which is where those criticisms arose from in the first place. It's even more laughable now when that core experience is the one given to the f2pers.
ohhhh, the image with the multiple Ganker posts that was too long of a read even for tl;dr standards? To be fair it was a poor shitposting image in the first place, these days you need webms and videos like
Well there you go anon, here's the youtube thingy
Frog guy was years ago and most of his points don't stand anymore, you're free to write your own essay on why GW2 is bad.
yeah you know the exact one you used to reply to it probably hundreds of times
thanks, can you post it again or are you just that avatar poster from the gen?
10 months ago
Anonymous
>you used to reply to it probably hundreds of times
Dont get schizo with me, I never replied to it. Ive literally never read it because its unironically too many words
>almost no gameplay or screenshots posted
It bothers me this is the case, its never been easier to make webms these days, on the very computers required to play this decade old game in the first place.
the game is not in a good state right now. all classes are overpowered and destroy all the raids easily. the gameplay is also being homogenized across all the classes to make them play similar, and rather boring.
the devs added a shitty overtuned class in PoF (firebrand) and it ruined the game. and instead of nerfing it, they doubled down on it by adding another one in EoD (mechanist) that ruined the game even more.
>they doubled down on it by adding another one in EoD (mechanist) that ruined the game even more
Mechanist hasn't been good for close to a year now, m8.
Rifle/Alac!DPS Mech is THE lowest-damage Alacrity provider in the entire game and nobody wants it. Pistol/Condi!Mech is middling at best (parsing ~33/34k when braindead shit like Virtuoso is pushing 40k+). Heal/Alac!Mech is just okay/10, only passable for tanking and desperately lacks a good source of Stability for serious encounters. Plus, the distance check on how far away you can be from your mech before it starts shitting itself has been getting smaller and smaller with every patch, to the point where it basically has to be right ontop of you to function properly.
The ignorant masses still go on like Mechanist is somehow still top tier, but it's just lackluster across the board compared to the alternatives these days.
Heal/Quickbrand is still OP in PvE even after numerous reworks, however.
sword/axe soulbeast with proper gear, food, and boons does 25.7k afk damage on a golem after pressing 1 once and then taking your hands off the keyboard.
Balance is all sorts of fricked at the moment after the latest patch. >Druid is better off being a Condi!DPS spec than an actual healer >Heal!Scrapper is dead >All new Quick/Alac specs have boon generation built into their existing rotations and feel fluid, meanwhile old Quick/Alac specs have to go full John Fricking Madden on their keyboard to get the same results they did before, with unenjoyable elements littered all over the place (burning utility/defensive tools just to give Quick or Alac, etc.) >Quick!Deadeye nearly pushing 38k with a three-button rotation >Virtuoso being buffed despite already being the best Condi!DPS spec in the entire game for six months straight >Untamed is beyond garbage
Guessing anet is hoping weaponmaster training in the new patch will pave-over all their bad decisions, but it's just going to make buildcraft a nightmare.
She's likely coming back in the new expac, hopefully with a VA that's not Felicia Day.
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They replaced her with Taimi and didn't have a use for two asura tech geniuses. Not that I miss Zojja, but they could've at least mention her ONCE from 2015 to 2021…
>Mechanist hasn't been good for close to a year now, m8.
Yeah I guess I should just ignore the sea of green and yellow everywhere I go huh? I'll believe it when the screen isnt 30% mechs
the game is not in a good state right now. all classes are overpowered and destroy all the raids easily. the gameplay is also being homogenized across all the classes to make them play similar, and rather boring.
the devs added a shitty overtuned class in PoF (firebrand) and it ruined the game. and instead of nerfing it, they doubled down on it by adding another one in EoD (mechanist) that ruined the game even more.
>Give the jade bot a lot of skins >Don't make actual mech skins
How come Holo is the only engi spec that wasn't high APM, only good in WvW or ugly?
No, you dumbass. The base game is kinda okay but the expansions are fricking shit. They kill off / retire everyone you adventured with by the first expansion and replace them with a bunch of unlikables.
That snaff part is just "WE KNOW YOU HATE BRAHAM BUT GIVE HIM A CHANCE! SEE HER DEAD MOM FORGIVE HIM!" It is also a lesson of not letting ECeleb as VA.
Why they didn't just recast Zojja's VA with a soundalike and bring her back into the main plot is beyond me.
It's not like Anet hasn't done that before with Canach's VA even if he doesn't sound a thing like how he used to.
She's likely coming back in the new expac, hopefully with a VA that's not Felicia Day.
Why they didn't just recast Zojja's VA with a soundalike and bring her back into the main plot is beyond me.
It's not like Anet hasn't done that before with Canach's VA even if he doesn't sound a thing like how he used to.
They replaced her with Taimi and didn't have a use for two asura tech geniuses. Not that I miss Zojja, but they could've at least mention her ONCE from 2015 to 2021…
I was really hoped in in this game, but I just lost all my drive when I was forced to level one level to put a point into the expansion skill tree, with how fricking slow you level in that game I just can't fathom being forced to do that without any quest or anything.
Great game otherwise, maybe the MMO with the best monetization system.
>Spend month uniting the different orders to combat the great evil >Slowly crawl through Orr from outpost to outpost >Strategically disrupt the dragon's powerbase through the pooled effort of all races and orders >After the impossible is done and the world was saved from a zombie apocalypse return to the main fort with everyone celebrating and Fear Not This Night starts playing
Gameplay aside, from a rp perspective, I had a blast.
>too much of a pussy to reply directly
many such cases. Also it is kind of shitposting when it is that frog image. Wasnt it dated back in 2012 or 2014?
In no specific order >thunderhead peak >desert highlands >auric basin >drizzlewood coast >fields of ruin
Bjora marches gets a special mention for the spooky atmosphere, too bad for the colour-coded mobs and chests locked behind masteries.
Man i have watched this guy ever since the game released and he's always been there, always covering the game.
I didnt play GW1 but I know he was around even back then. He must be one of the biggest OG guys of this game
Sad example of why you shouldn't pick "content creator" as a career for your one autismo game. I wonder why these people never move careers into an announcer or a radio host or some shit, anything they can use their voice in. AVGN would've definitely done better that way than by still making shitty videos into his 40s.
GW2 is a bad MMO and a bad sequel to GW1. That said, it's a good single player open world RPG. HoT is incredibly based, PoF was fun (and the mounts were quite a good addition to the game), haven't played EoD yet, living world varies in quality.
ANet as a company is famous for having good ideas and then shitting all over them, Guild Wars 2 in itself is a masterclass on how to get everything wrong. If the company wasn't managed by clowns, GW2 would be up there with WoW.
I wonder why literally every GW2 thread on Ganker is filled with jaded GW1 players who hated GW2? What attracts you people to fill up half the thread every time with your whining?
Even removing the vet, the game shit on their own players constantly. Scarlet was a giant insult in character. there was whole lot of frick nothing in the living story. dev refuse to fix shit unless they simp for a female twitter or china. etc.
How does an >MMO that's like 12 years old or something get away with absolutely tanking frames so hard? If like more than 10 people are actively on screen my framerate fricking halves and I'm on a 5600x and a 3070 ti. How has optimization been ignored for so long?
ANet as a company is famous for having good ideas and then shitting all over them, Guild Wars 2 in itself is a masterclass on how to get everything wrong. If the company wasn't managed by clowns, GW2 would be up there with WoW.
, clown management. They used the old GW1 engine which was created when multi-core CPUs weren't even conceived so it only runs on a single core. Because of the spaghetti code formed throughout seven years of development, it's impossible to touch the engine without breaking something. Instead of fixing what was broken, ANet used >muh spaghetti code
as an excuse to be lazy and not address any of the technical issues. For example, back items are considered weapons by the engine which is why, even with lowest model quality setting, you always see wings and other equipped items on players.
After ten years ANet decided to do something about it and upgraded the game from using DirectX9 to 11, and only after some reddit autist had dabbed on them by creating an add-on that made GW2 use DirectX12.
Yo, haven't played in ages. Are there finally Pale Tree/sylvari themed mount skins?
There's a magical stag mount. It uses jackal animations and is sold at premium price.
There's also a mordrem hound jackal skin, so you can only ever have one salad-themed mount at a time.
Huh, I thought it would have been trivial to just resize the fern hound and maybe make similar skins for the others. No need for complicated sparkle stuff.
Though the mordrem one might be intresting.
You'd think that was pretty simple, yet we have nothing like that. They did rip the sand lion model and made it into a premium mount, though.
fug, that really sucks
I guess this jade tech skin is similar, but not as good looking
Anon, you have no idea how much I'm seething that we have no minsec armour sets.
I've preordered the deluxe version of the expansion because I fricking love wizards. Really interested how the use of more weapons will work. There's gonna be some wild unkillable build everyone will abuse, knowing Anet's incompetence they'll do nothing for at least a few months.
There was a beta last weekend testing the current weapons and people swear by hammer soulbeast, hammer weaver and sword/warhorn cata.
>hammer soulbeast
I hope anything replaces sword/axe. Sword is so fricking ass to play with, the first 2 abilities make you fly all over the fricking place.
man aion classic was kinda fun but they fricked it up from the get-go by adding battlepass shit and consumables that broke low level PvP if you weren't a paypig
every time i think about playing gw2 again i log in, kill 2-3 enemies in the open world and log out because i've experienced everything the game has to offer
>lemme post cute art of an asura that doesn't actually exist
Meanwhile >actual asuras look like dysgenic israelites, full with sassy quips and nasal kvetching to boot
I've preordered the deluxe version of the expansion because I fricking love wizards. Really interested how the use of more weapons will work. There's gonna be some wild unkillable build everyone will abuse, knowing Anet's incompetence they'll do nothing for at least a few months.
Skill issue, the return-to achievements give you literally all the materials you need for the mount. All that's left after that is the four-day time gated collection and some scavenger hunts.
I'm so glad the whole dragon metaplot is over. I knew so many elder dragons would get old after the second or third dragon. Even Arenanet was sick of it by IBS.
the elder dragons were a classic case of "Always a Bigger Fish"
by creating something so big, so awful, and so terrible to be bigger, more awful, and more terrible than literal walking deities whose mere battles could permanently destroy and later the landscape; they accidentally backed themselves into a literary corner, and since they didn't have the talent to avoid this they clearly couldn't write a good way out of it so we got the macguffin dragon who fixed all the issues nbd
The best part about EoD is how the Purist basically got everything they wanted, were widely successful, and made Cantha stronger:
>successfully eliminated the Afflicted, >crushed the Am Fah and the Jade Brotherhood >crushed all dissent and opposition >crushed the Tengu and forced them into hidding >crushed the Kurzicks and the Luxons and formally annexed them
They successfully united the Canthan Empire under one flag and protected Cantha from humanity's downfall in Tyria and Elona.
They only felt from power after Zaithan sank old Kaineng into the sea and began to abuse their power trying to turn the Empress at the time into a puppet. Even after their downfall (100 years before Gw2) Cantha still followed isolationist policies. Nobody is clamouring for downfall of the Canthan Empire for their past crimes or the restoration of Kurzick or Luxon independence. The Canthan Empire is still united under one flag. It is not only the strongest human nation, the most advanced empire, but a superpower on its own right.
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't notice any of this until it was pointed out. How mentally ill do you need to be to go out of your way to get trigged by literally nothing?
how vapid do you have to be to not see it?
I'm a long time player, I actually enjoy the game, and the constant pandering in the stories is fricking stupid as shit
EoD ends on a big gay (literal) wedding and then the LW content made you choose a date with several people who make it very clear they don't have a gender
yes, exactly, they have been constantly doing this shit for years
it's annoying, because the story isn't even good, it's actual literal bottom of the barrel trash
Custer's Revenge has more literary depth than this game, which only has good shit from GW1 to go off of and they seem to be trying to destroy everything from that game
The story is your standard MMO garbage, but in this game it takes priority over everything else: raids took forever because they had to have a plot, strikes only exist as bosses from the story (and must be unlocked by playing the campaign), fractals are now more dialogue than gameplay and the few modes that don't require a story, like PvP and WvW, get shafted hard.
If ANet put more focus on what's actually good in this game, there would be much fewer complaints about the plot.
Yao being agender feels tacked on. Everything about him scream male. There's no hint of femiminity outside of his voice actor.
When he's introduced he talks shit about a female colleague (i.e. Mai Trin) and accuses her of sucking up to their boss. ANet must have realised that this was problematic and chopped off his peepee.
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I didn't mind the story too much. Haven't played EoD yet but I enjoyed Season 4 and IBS. Season 3 haven't played yet. Season 2 was an absolute fricking slog. The real criminal thing they did was get rid of those cutscenes where the characters talk to eachother that you could just skip.
Barring the fact that Winds of Change were shit, it had nothing to do with agender engineers and Ministry of Purity had nothing to do with fricking racism and everything to do with the post plague recovery of Cantha.
Winds of Change was great. What are you talking about? And yes, the Ministry of Purity was all about eliminating threats to the empire and expelling or exterminating any non-human in Cantha. The fun parts is that they basically won. The heroes from Gw1 only delayed their rise to power and everything they did basically made the Canthan Empire stronger.
You should've played on launch when literally every PvP tryhard played Asura since you couldn't see shit from their animations. The forced human skins option was a blessing.
Just rebalanced a lot of stuff. There isn't a single bad profession in the game right now, only a few remarkably bad specs that are scourge and chronomancer.
Just rebalanced a lot of stuff. There isn't a single bad profession in the game right now, only a few remarkably bad specs that are scourge and chronomancer.
stated, minor changes
however, they now have access to an elite called Catalysts which makes AoE fields which pulse buffs/damage/conditions/heals and has basically turned them into cancer
how to improve gw2 >make all expansions as big as PoF but as difficult as HoT >host daily troony and homosexualry bashing competitions >beat the authors until they write something better and then beat them again >beat the shit korean artists for their shit armor designs
gw2 saved
nah, that frog has been wrong for a long time, and in a world full of pump and dump MMOs and most recently Amazon's abortion of an MMO, living under a rock
HoT release was peak adventure. I have never felt that sense of danger and wonder in a savage land since I was a fricking kid. Too bad a couple weeks later they nerfed the regular enemies so people had an easier time traveling through the maps.
PoF had great maps that used the mounts to great extents. Sadly the mounts break the rest of the content including the original maps and HoT. They break the atmosphere of both previous releases.
EoD looks like a PS2 game. I dont know what happened. The game is old yes, but there were beautiful maps, specially HoT. EoD looks like shit.
I dont know if its worth to start right now, I wouldnt even know where to start if I wanted to play from the beginning. I would probably see the pozz and abandon them game. I dont know what happened with the game, but it became extremely pozzed and the quirky millennial borderlands "did i?" dialogue is awful. Doesnt help that you cant skip conversation in the newer story arcs.
First year of the game and HoT release were peak mmo.
shill
Someday in the distant future, people on this site will finally realize they are a tiny meaningless niche of gamers who don't actually buy video games, and absolutely NO major gaming company has EVER thought for a single moment of spending ANY money whatsoever on covert advertising here. Its not worth it to them. You aren't worth it. You are nothing. This site is nothing.
go back shill
If you care about the story you'll need to buy the expansions and living world in order, which you can find on the wiki.
The beat expansion imo is HoT, but don't play with mounts because it breaks the maps. PoF is a good expansion too despite the bad story.
LWS3 and 4 are the best living worlds. 3 is varied and experimental (in a good way) and 4 is probably the second best block of content after HoT.
>The beat expansion imo is HoT
he's right though
It's true though, unless you have the spatial awareness of a sub 100 IQ troglodyte.
going through HoT without a mount is the most tedious bullshit tho
Not him but isn't that only a problem if you didn't buy a single expansion? Which would not be possible if you're playing HoT?
If you enjoy the gameplay, yes you should it is a lot of fun.
I haven't played this game in over 10 years. I don't even know where my disk is at for it
Troon game.
It's just not a good game at all.
Haven't played since last year, so idk what the game is like right now. By the expansions after you hit level 80 and if you're thinking about doing group content like WvW and Fractals.
One of its selling points, removing the 'trinity' of tank/dps/healer actually became the biggest detriment. It's so aimless. I think they started to bring some of that dynamic into the game at some point but it was certainly too late. Last i saw, the only people who play are those who get to max level and spend real money on cosmetics and stand around chatting.
>the only people who play are those who get to max level and spend real money on cosmetics and stand around chatting
>have a friend who plays this
>only comes back around expansion release time
>buys it day 1
>buys new cosmetics for everything from weapons to armor to glides
>plays for a month before dropping it
>does all this again for the next release
I just don't get it.
This is the age of the consoomer. People want their purchase-dopamine hits, then it wears off and they move on to the next thing.
That's how whales do it. They usually can't play for long cuz of real world obligations, so they come back for a little while, splurge, and take a break.
I occasionally check back in like that too, but I don't bother with gem shop stuff
Did you play this game one time 10 years ago or something? They added roles game has roles now, but they are tank/healer (tanks are healers most of the time), boon/support DPS, and DPS. Plenty of people still play the game. Metas from as far back as Heart of Thorns still get multiple full maps of people running them.
>look at me I can parrot shit from 2013
grandpa it's been 10 years the game is basically guild wars 3 now
Isnt this just wow ripoff that was popular 10+ years ago?
decent fashion simulator but shit gameplay wise
>decent fashion simulator
looking like a collection of random neon and lightbulbs isn't fashion
99% of characters are a veritable punch to your eyes
those flying orbs are legendary so people of course want to flex them so everyone ends up looking the same
>the legendary orbs
>the legendary weapons looking like a discoball
>the legendary weapons also leaving extremely bright and shiny prints
>the legendary weapon skins on top of the legendary weapons adding the ugliest elemental VFX I've ever seen in a game except maybe FFXVI
>the 10 types of VFX from infusions all stacking
>the pure black and pure white, or max saturated colors
>the extreme bloom that can't be disabled without losing metal and VFX effects for spells
>the terrible actual armor designs, with like 2 or 3 exceptions
>the mount skins leaving bright and obnoxious trailing and shining brighter than the in-game sun on top of all that
It just looks awful and the players seem to always be doing everything they can to make it even worse
I don't have a pic right now, but it is shit like this that made me adopt a less is more style. My Sylvari ranger with Kudzu simply wears a mix of cultural armor. Looks much less obnoxious and fits with the plant footprint.
What annoys me about the legendary weapons is that they're for the most part completely unrelated to the lore.
A disco ball? A short bow shooting unicorns? A pistol shooting confetti?
Then the 3rd gen shat the bed even more, making the entire set share the same theme.
>giving players too much freedom only helps reveal how shit their tastes are
It's funny how often this happens. From some of my own recent experiences, PSO2 is full of black/white/neon color braphogs. Even FFXIV, with it's limited number of faces, has people trying real hard to stand out. Then you enable that mod sync and suddenly everyone looks like they've stepped out of Second Life.
>Then you enable that mod sync and suddenly everyone looks like they've stepped out of Second Life.
This is why I cant take FFXIVgays seriously, that shit on the right looks fricking awful. I hate how these games suggest giving players too much agency is a really bad idea, because 90 percent of players out there look like shit
at least thats opt in to eyesores, shit like
left guy you will have to see going into towns or doing content
>at least thats opt in to eyesores
Having the most polished turd isnt exactly a win
God I miss PSO2 and my Mexican gringo. Why did they have to kill that game??
looks like a genderbent Captain Marvel
no
Cringe troony game play gw1 instead
It's great and arguably the best MMO on the market right know but as you can see it's nearly impossible to discuss it here. There's an irrational hate against this game here. The usual far-right schizos will outright lie to make the game look like the worst woke shit ever. And GW1 fanboys pretending this game that has been sucessful for 11 years somehow died the month of its release are not helping.
If you're not bored after hitting lvl 80 with your first character, and you want to explore new maps and unlock new things like mounts you can safely buy all the expansions. They're all good but they all have different strengths.
The fourth expansion is coming in august with an interesting 'revamped' weapon system that seems to have a lot of people hyped. It's a good moment to get back into the game
my main gripe with the game is the combat feeling like weightless floaty shit.
it could be a great game with proper combat that feels good.
Only good expansion is the pack with Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire. It's currently on sale.
Due to the dumb business model, you have to buy separately the season passes for each expansion, though there's an option for buying them with in-game gold.
>Heart of Thorns
Comes with gliding, raids, a new subclass for each profession and four new maps.
>Path of Fire
Introduces five mounts, plus one for open world PvP, one more round of subclasses, two more raids, five maps and TWO season passes that introduce respectively two more mounts and strike missions (i.e. easy mode raids).
>End of Dragons
Unlocks gliding and two mounts, plus introduces two group mounts (for land and for sailing), more strike missions, another round of subclasses, four new maps and fishing. Has no season passes.
>Secrets of the Obscure
Recently announced and releasing this August. Two maps at launch + a third one after six months, brings no new subclasses but more weapon choices for the existing ones as well as airborne mount combat and a battle pass. More info to be released SOON™.
>what's a season pass
A season of 6—8 episodes linking together each expansion. As said before, you buy it either in-game OR in the mega pack from either Steam or the official site.
Season 1 is a freebie, you get it in the core game. It's also the worst one BY FAR.
Season 2 is the longest and lightest in content, requires the base game and nothing more.
Season 3 has a dumb, 6-chapter story and good map variety and lets you unlock a legendary piece of equipment. It requires owning the Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire.
Season 4 has probably the best story as well as the aforementioned two mounts, it's as long as the previous one and likewise gives you access to a legendary trinket. Also requires the HoT+PoF pack.
Season 5 started as a "season to end all seasons" and got its own title, too, being often referred to as "The Icebrood Saga". Consists of one prologue, four episodes and an EXTREMELY rushed and unsatisfactory conclusion. It comes with strike missions and has the best gold farm in the game. Like the previous two, it requires the pack with Path of Fire.
my problem with living stories is they essentially let arena net half ass expansions. you can definitely see it with the last two, and it will REALLY be obvious with the upcoming one.
>and it will REALLY be obvious with the upcoming one.
I still can't get over how much it looks like "we'll put in half the effort for a $5 lower price".
"Remember those drip feed story updates you used to get for free? Now you PAY for them!!!!"
You actually get less than half of a living world season now.
Three maps instead of six, power-ups for one mount instead of anything new, one mastery recycling existing weapons and another one for accessing the new totally-not-a-battle-pass. As shit as EoD was, at least it came with five maps, two mounts and a set of elite specs and this shit costs five bucks less.
Maybe the new expac is actually good but I'm certainly not getting it at launch.
Is the new expansion even worth the money? It doesn't look any exciting since it doesn't introduce new classes or specializations.
As I said, more info to come. On paper it sounds like shit and the developers have been underdelivering the last three years so I'm not exactly optimistic.
First two posts you quoted are mine (as is
), I dislike the direction GW2 has taken as of late but there's definitely SOMETHING decent in the game. That said, PoF has the best mounts ever made and the class fantasy is unique enough to warrant trying out.
There's been two new ones, unfortunately both are very conversation-heavy. The last one came out last week and it's a glorified strike mission preceded by a jumping puzzle so I'm not too happy with it.
Every new expansion is apparently going to include a new strike mission and a new fractal from now on.
>sudden shillsplosion
Weird but definitely organic.
How am I a shill exactly?
>what do I do in the game
PvE is split between open world (exploration and mostly mindless meta events where you autoattack mobs until they shit out loot), fractals (short 5-man dungeons with vertical equipment progression) and raids/strikes (10-man encounters, longer than fractals though strikes are very easy). Raids have been silently abandoned by the devs, so there's only going to be new strikes and fractals in the future.
PvP only has two modes called Conquest and World vs World (a third one, Stronghold, was abandoned right after release). Conquest is a 5v5 score-based mode where you capture objectives, sometimes you can also play it 2v2. World vs World, or WvW, is an open world setting where three servers fight each other by capturing bases, securing resources and laying siege to forts/keeps. Conquest is played separately from everything else and your level and equipment don't matter, but it's a dying mode due to an abundance of bots and wintraders.
Wasnt the last fractal like 5 years ago?
I think they added a new one like a week ago
Oh rly? I should check it out. I downloaded the game 3 days ago but havent gotten around to play it again. I stopped playing a couple weeks after the expac launch
Something I like in GW2 is you really can do whatever the frick you want as everything rewards you experience, karma or money. You could theoretically run around reviving npcs and players to level 80 if you were deranged enough, for example.
Yeah played it since the launch, 11 years now
Its honestly a great game, fantastic even. The best part of this game by far is exploration. Jumping puzzles remain my peak experience of this game. From the easy ones to the hard ones.
Exploring maps is also really rewarding and have a nice feel. And they let you go quite deep with the achievments for each map after the vanilla maps, so you can really grind out each map
The combat is good, not fantastic, but good. I do wish certain aspects of it was different and it wasnt so timing-based, and theres too big of a difference in damage between good players and bad players
My main issue with the game is endgame challenges and itemisation. We have quite a few now with raids, fractals and strikes but still it always feels like something is lacking. The grouping system is also trash which makes it quite frustrating to get into these systems.
Itemisation also feels lackluster. You can grind months for legendary gear but it will only be as good as other ascendant gear except you can easily swap the stats. I wish there was more impact and chase items
Shit MMO.
Play Albion Online instead
>Secrets of the obscure only adding new weapon types, no new specialisations.
>Not even adding a new weapon type
This is one of the laziest expansions yet.
What they are adding is unchaining the weapons selection. First they will make specialization weapons universal. Then they will add new ones.
of the obscure only adding new weapon types, no new specialisations.
While I agree it's a lazy expac I'm glad they're not adding more elite specs and are giving more options to the core professions. Like if you want to play a necromancer for example the core spec is dogshit and none of the elite specs really play into the necro fantasy of summoning minions to do your bidding. I don't think giving everyone access to elite spec weapons is going to be the magical bandaid fix to this issue but it's a start.
He's an anet partner and basically hypes up everything without being critical of anything.
>I'm glad they're not adding more elite specs and are giving more options to the core professions.
They should've given the core specs some niche, then, rather than opening the floodgates.
As a rule of thumb: if it looks good, you can't wear it.
fug, that really sucks
I guess this jade tech skin is similar, but not as good looking
I once met a girl with around a 1000 hours in this game, she was really cute but I was way too autistic to ask for contacts so I will never meet her again
>missed opportunity to be beta orbiter #330
Sad.
Play up through LW season 1, watch a story recap of living world 2, then play Heart of Thorns. LW season 2 has important story, but it's the most expensive one and you don't even get any new maps. Probably worth picking up living world season 3 at this point, but you can probably get away with a YouTube recap again. Play Path of Fire and definitely play Living World season 4 as it's probably the best part of the game. At that point if you're cheap you can farm Dragonfall for a while to buy the other living worlds with gold, they're probably going to go on sale for the anniversary next month.
Do NOT buy the $100 pack even on it's current sale, what a fricking scam. Buy 3 expansion pack on sale, then wait for a Living World sale on the gem store. It's cheaper even if the LW is only 20% off which happens every few months, and WAY cheaper if you skip living world season 2.
>Probably worth picking up living world season 3 at this point, but you can probably get away with a YouTube recap again.
LS3 is fun but LS4 and 5 bring better value. I'd say LS4 then 5 then 3 then, if you want the free legendary thingy, 2.
>They added roles game has roles now, but they are tank/healer (tanks are healers most of the time), boon/support DPS, and DPS.
NTA but the roles pretty much just rotate around granting two buffs (increase attack speed and decrease skill cooldowns) which is pretty terrible. Healing is usually carried out by one of the two boon providers and tanking only exists in some instanced content.
Not really, though you do have a point. The game has been a woke dumpster fire as early as Aid Worker Sya but the last expansion dialled it up a notch by talking about fascism, open borders and genders and being very preachy about it.
The problem is that the storytelling has gotten very bad and can excuse the virtue signalling anymore because there's nothing at stake and every character is unlikeable.
I COULD get mad at the "beat up the bigot" story mission or the "fascist fattener" achievement but I can't even remember when they happened in the story because it's all so damn boring.
>people were so eager to help the newbies
Nah, they were eager to take screens about helping the newbies and post them on reddit for upboats.
Post Asuras, homosexuals.
Nah, Sylvari are better.
It's a purely mindset thing, but game being B2P or F2P affects how I approach it. With a sub there's always this impending feeling of obligation or I'm "wasting my money".
>canon trannies
>canon homosexuals
>literal quests requiring you to "catch the bigot".
Have fun, sis, just don't forget to dilate between sessions
You are also forced to attend a lesbian wedding to complete the story of EoD.
I've seen unnatural number of GW2 discussions and mentions recently. Has ANet started virally marketing their upcoming expansion?
>Everyone I dont like is a paid intern
HoT had the most fun maps of any MMO I ever played.
game has some of the weirdest genre bests
>heart of thorns
indeed has some of THE best zones in any mmo I've ever played, down to having verticality and not being cakewalks by default
>path of fire
they added THE best mount system in the genre after at first refusing to even have mounts + flying that's somehow even better
sadly, end of dragons had nothing on that peak level. maybe fishing is decent and siege turtle is interesting, but that's it.
I have tried to get into GW2 so many fricking times but I always fall off because
>bag and bank space is abhorrent without spending money
>personal story is genuinely the worst I’ve ever played in an MMO by a mile
>huge world with people everywhere but incredibly lonely because there’s no incentive to do dungeons or anything. jointing guilds is nowhere near as intuitive as it is in other MMOs
>see that my class doesn’t get cool until I’m max level and get mastery points
>conquest pvp is 2 real players and the rest are bots
Waiting for the shill to respond to all of my points with a tirade that I will completely ignore because they’re sunk cost fallicied and stand in lion’s arch as a disco ball of $300 cosmetics
A bag slot is only 140 gold and the personal story is only like 4 quests that end and merge into the main story by level 30... Did you play for like 1 hour?
Absolute shill moron
The game gives you so much space for free... You get 5 character slots, even if you want to play an alt that's 3 character slots where you can get 120+ bag slots to store stuff on each one
Not to mention that the bank and purse store away all the mats and currencies that still waste space in some other mmos.
I don't like the game a whole lot, but it really is full of tiny QoL features you don't see often.
Yeah there’s nothing better than hoarding crafting materials for a crafting system that sucks fricking balls
Tried it multiple times
necros wth minions are still shit
Tried getting the jade golem expansion but realized you have to play like 30 hours to levelup all the skill points for it
>Tried getting the jade golem expansion but realized you have to play like 30 hours to levelup all the skill points for it
You're thinking strictly in hard leveling. Like one anon said everything you do gives you at least experience points. Not to mention levels in GW2 are already a breeze compared to the usual curve you see in games.
I mean since i t's an expansion power you need 30 skill points but form what I remember you can only get those in the expansions meaning playing with a gimped build
Dropped with EoD release. No, I'm not mad about this particular quest, I'm mad about fundamentally shit mechanics and company behind it which I'm lazy to describe.
Those were the fun times indeed, but with this turnabout I'm simply not interest in participating the globohomo.
wtf is this real?
that's nothing, there's much worse
there's a "Fascist Flattener" title or something to that effect
the entire game is written in quips, alliterations and puns, with the worst Funimation-tier voice acting money can buy
it really is nothing but pain
you do recognize that fascism is bad, right? like anything to do with modern-day misuse or misappropriation of the word nazi, fascist dictatorships and an exploited sense of nationalism to empower an authoritarian ruling elite is bad.
unlike**
it may be, but why should i care about that agenda in a video game?
It's just part of the plot of the expansion that there are those seeking to amass power to a select few to overthrow the government in a way not unlike some real life fascists, as least as relates to Cantha. It's not about an agenda, it's about you being an above-the-law hero who can try to stop the sort of social or political dissent that will lead to abuses in Cantha's government and be pretty bad for everyone while your dragon is having a straight up bad time overseas and Su-won is being (voluntarily) used for some bad shit.
so glad i skipped that shit and dropped anet years ago thanks
It's sad that EoD was supposed to be the Cantha expansion but it will only be remembered for this, the devs fricked up in a way that shouldn't be possible.
Constantly hyped about everything, treats everything he says like some controversial hot take, feels like a tiktoker constantly trying to get your attention in the most obnoxious ways yet sounds rehearsed and in no way genuine or convinced of what he's saying.
His teatime videos can be decent when he invites people who actually have something to say, too bad it's mostly yes-men.
story is fricking terrible and so is gameplay
going around the world exploring is one of the things they got right also not enough giant Norn qts
>go into land you are not wanted in
>start pushing your agendas and beliefs onto everyone
>calls other biggots
they have not self awarnesss do they
The writers failed to see that they actually proved the evil fascists right by making the Aetherblades show up and wreck shit the moment Cantha opens its borders.
They were just too incompetent to pad each big, boring dragon with an actual compelling villain or two.
Has /misc/ brain rot implanted itself so deeply in your head that you think the purists, who committed genocide on the dredge, wanted to genocide the tengu, wanted to seize total power and oppress Canthans and take civil Liberties were actually good? Fricking pathetic.
>muh pol
If you could read, you'd notice how the problem is indeed that ANet's shoddy writing managed to make the Purists, of all people, have a point in the plot.
Weren't they a bunch of conspiracy nuts plotting a coupe?
>Beat up the bigot
I remember when it launched on steam, people were so eager to help the newbies they blinded them with neon cosmetics and killed all the mobs so nobody could level
GW2, like most cosmetic-centric games, just shows you can't buy good taste.
combat feels impactless and while the stories and zones are nice I'm not really a fan of endgame being 99% sideways progression or cosmetic unlocks
I play LotRO instead. THAT is how you nickel and dime people with half-assed expansions.
Game is alright.
I don’t like the latest xpac though
Shitty archaic game for troons
Nothing could beat Guild Wars 1 and you know it
is that wizard's folly?
I should have bought this when it was on sale for $15 on steam last year... it hasn't been on sale again all year. I only played the base game when it came out and never touched the rest. I never liked it because I wanted WoW without the sub, but I can probably appreciate it a lot more as a single player game now.
Get expacs ASAP to get the roller beetle
I quit XIV for GW2. Best decision of my life
>I quit a heterosexual game with attractive female characters, for an openly marxist game that champions transexuals and sodomites
>Best decision of my life
You could have just typed you are a dick-vacuuming homosexual.
>>I quit a heterosexual game with attractive female characters,
>press Square to be gay
What are you referring to?
Sorry, the anal worms are eating at your brain, and you are not making sense.
Why are you in a GW2 thread, troony?
>a heterosexual game with attractive female characters,
Damn straight, look at these ABOMINABLE women that these evil american devs are pushing in their games.
Thankfully BASED JAPAN is here to save us from this subversion of God's creation.
that's great but did they really nerf boobs and actually went back into GW1 and nerf statue boobs?
This screenshot is from the core game storyline which is over a decade old. You will have no more attractive women in your storyline. You WILL adventure with her bumbling moron mutt child and the wisecracking crippled jimmy neutron asura. You WILL attend the lesbian wedding. You WILL beat up the bigot and you WILL be happy.
Eir unironically got BLACKED and gave birth to a coal shitter Braham. And then they kill her off.
>posts a white woman from a decade ago
>who fricked a bantu subsaharan Black person
>and canonically gave birth of a mulatto mongrel
You can't be serious Black person.
m8, Eir got shat on and was removed from the game 8 years ago, probably this horrid c**t here was furious about her popularity.
I play both GW2 and FFXIV off and on. GW2 is easy to come back to whenever since it's free outside expansions. XIV is something to play for 1 month every 2-4 years.
I like GW2. I like how early in EoD story, one of the lesbians makes sure to emphasize that some unimportant NPC nobody gives two shits about who was killed pre-Heart of Thorns was gay, had a husband and a son. Something that was never ever mentioned before. Guild Wars 2 always had great worldbuilding. You gotta let the player know these things to build a connection.
I also like that they made a whole entire mission out of the lesbian characters getting married. I like that the representative of the nordic race is a Black person. I like the portrayal of tradition as bigotry. I like that there's zero nuance to the political opinions that are being pushed onto the player. Makes it easy to understand. You no want refugee = you r bigot. Very high educational value.
And frick them for putting one of the turtle mount components behind the strike mission, too, I spent 3 hours in matchmaking and got the most incompetent fricks on the team
>turtle mount components behind the strike mission
You can buy that directly with research notes now.
strike missions are puggable and the one needed for the turtle isn't even hard. you're casual+bad and even though the politics are cringe you're just using it to cope with being beaten at video games by cat-owning redditors
>every gw2 thread is just the logo
>almost no gameplay or screenshots posted
mhm, totally natural
literally like From Software games
when that got brought up in the past that one guy from the gen would post his beetle mount slidding around like a hunk of dog turd on a sheet of ice
also
>ctrl f
no frog image
and no
link to the youtube vid showing their agenda pushing and why the last pack was a steaming pile of flop
Well there you go anon, here's the youtube thingy
Frog guy was years ago and most of his points don't stand anymore, you're free to write your own essay on why GW2 is bad.
>most of his points don't stand anymore
yes they do.
OK anons, then post the pic yourselves. I was there when the frog guy wrote his posts and agreed with pretty much all of them but that was also a long time ago and everything that's not the story or PvP has since improved.
Nah, ANet spent all of 2018 and 2019 nerfing chronomancer. Now it's still got some niche but it's nowhere near it used to be.
>most of his points don't stand anymore
They still do, fricking shiller
>no frog image
which one?
the one that gets all the (Yous) but they are learning to filter it and for a few year(s) are claiming it's "old and outdated"
think it is
>frog.png
As those other anons said, it's not that outdated.
While they have learned to do better in the expansions, the core experience was pretty much left untouched, which is where those criticisms arose from in the first place. It's even more laughable now when that core experience is the one given to the f2pers.
ohhhh, the image with the multiple Ganker posts that was too long of a read even for tl;dr standards? To be fair it was a poor shitposting image in the first place, these days you need webms and videos like
yeah you know the exact one you used to reply to it probably hundreds of times
thanks, can you post it again or are you just that avatar poster from the gen?
>you used to reply to it probably hundreds of times
Dont get schizo with me, I never replied to it. Ive literally never read it because its unironically too many words
im playing 🙂
>almost no gameplay or screenshots posted
It bothers me this is the case, its never been easier to make webms these days, on the very computers required to play this decade old game in the first place.
What the frick would we take a gameplay webm of? What for?
You learn to intuit WvW because you sure as FRICK ain't getting anything from actually looking at zerg vs zerg.
Honestly it's one of the few games that I would call legitimately bad.
And they somehow made it worse with every patch and expansion.
the game is not in a good state right now. all classes are overpowered and destroy all the raids easily. the gameplay is also being homogenized across all the classes to make them play similar, and rather boring.
the devs added a shitty overtuned class in PoF (firebrand) and it ruined the game. and instead of nerfing it, they doubled down on it by adding another one in EoD (mechanist) that ruined the game even more.
>they doubled down on it by adding another one in EoD (mechanist) that ruined the game even more
Mechanist hasn't been good for close to a year now, m8.
Rifle/Alac!DPS Mech is THE lowest-damage Alacrity provider in the entire game and nobody wants it. Pistol/Condi!Mech is middling at best (parsing ~33/34k when braindead shit like Virtuoso is pushing 40k+). Heal/Alac!Mech is just okay/10, only passable for tanking and desperately lacks a good source of Stability for serious encounters. Plus, the distance check on how far away you can be from your mech before it starts shitting itself has been getting smaller and smaller with every patch, to the point where it basically has to be right ontop of you to function properly.
The ignorant masses still go on like Mechanist is somehow still top tier, but it's just lackluster across the board compared to the alternatives these days.
Heal/Quickbrand is still OP in PvE even after numerous reworks, however.
sword/axe soulbeast with proper gear, food, and boons does 25.7k afk damage on a golem after pressing 1 once and then taking your hands off the keyboard.
Balance is all sorts of fricked at the moment after the latest patch.
>Druid is better off being a Condi!DPS spec than an actual healer
>Heal!Scrapper is dead
>All new Quick/Alac specs have boon generation built into their existing rotations and feel fluid, meanwhile old Quick/Alac specs have to go full John Fricking Madden on their keyboard to get the same results they did before, with unenjoyable elements littered all over the place (burning utility/defensive tools just to give Quick or Alac, etc.)
>Quick!Deadeye nearly pushing 38k with a three-button rotation
>Virtuoso being buffed despite already being the best Condi!DPS spec in the entire game for six months straight
>Untamed is beyond garbage
Guessing anet is hoping weaponmaster training in the new patch will pave-over all their bad decisions, but it's just going to make buildcraft a nightmare.
Taimi a cute.
Taimi deserve death. LS1 made her suck a scarlet dick sucker, and then turn her into deus ex machina while forcing your Asura character to follow her.
643531594
Imagine being pissy about not being quoted.
>Mechanist hasn't been good for close to a year now, m8.
Yeah I guess I should just ignore the sea of green and yellow everywhere I go huh? I'll believe it when the screen isnt 30% mechs
>Give the jade bot a lot of skins
>Don't make actual mech skins
How come Holo is the only engi spec that wasn't high APM, only good in WvW or ugly?
is the light armor mesmer still the best heavy armor tank in the game?
kek
post yfw when you meem'd them into wasting billions on the whole DX9 fiasco
ty, it was me.
whoops not sure how kittened that up but it was meant for
>I was there when the frog guy wrote his posts
No, you dumbass. The base game is kinda okay but the expansions are fricking shit. They kill off / retire everyone you adventured with by the first expansion and replace them with a bunch of unlikables.
>a bunch of unlikables.
Rytlock got to stay and he's cool, the rest are also shit except Eir because of her legs
>They just shoved Zojjia away and didn't even get her when Snaff appeared
That snaff part is just "WE KNOW YOU HATE BRAHAM BUT GIVE HIM A CHANCE! SEE HER DEAD MOM FORGIVE HIM!" It is also a lesson of not letting ECeleb as VA.
Why they didn't just recast Zojja's VA with a soundalike and bring her back into the main plot is beyond me.
It's not like Anet hasn't done that before with Canach's VA even if he doesn't sound a thing like how he used to.
She's likely coming back in the new expac, hopefully with a VA that's not Felicia Day.
They replaced her with Taimi and didn't have a use for two asura tech geniuses. Not that I miss Zojja, but they could've at least mention her ONCE from 2015 to 2021…
Base Necromancer is so boring but the Harbinger sounds so fun.
I was really hoped in in this game, but I just lost all my drive when I was forced to level one level to put a point into the expansion skill tree, with how fricking slow you level in that game I just can't fathom being forced to do that without any quest or anything.
Great game otherwise, maybe the MMO with the best monetization system.
>Spend month uniting the different orders to combat the great evil
>Slowly crawl through Orr from outpost to outpost
>Strategically disrupt the dragon's powerbase through the pooled effort of all races and orders
>After the impossible is done and the world was saved from a zombie apocalypse return to the main fort with everyone celebrating and Fear Not This Night starts playing
Gameplay aside, from a rp perspective, I had a blast.
ASURA BEST RACE
yeah if you’re unhinged
Then I guess I am. Every character I've ever made has been an Asura.
she fricks human men btw
>That not brothel in old Lionsarch with a male Asura and scantily clad Norn female at the top
I kneel
asura best punching bag
643531145
>tells the truth
>it must be shitposting!
Why do GW 2 players have brainrot
>too much of a pussy to reply directly
many such cases. Also it is kind of shitposting when it is that frog image. Wasnt it dated back in 2012 or 2014?
Which are your favorite zones?
For me it has to be Grothmar Valley
In no specific order
>thunderhead peak
>desert highlands
>auric basin
>drizzlewood coast
>fields of ruin
Bjora marches gets a special mention for the spooky atmosphere, too bad for the colour-coded mobs and chests locked behind masteries.
They really upped the level on zones, its such a massive difference between the new and the old
Anybody else stoked for the apache skyscale skins coming out in the new expac?
Commando should've been the last engi espec instead of mechanist, change my mind.
Love how he's basically got nothing left to discuss. The game's lore nowadays is as deep as a puddle.
At least he's not Teapot, I actually manage to watch WP videos till the end.
I am watching teapot right now discussing the expansion reveal. Whats the problem with him? Drawn out vids?
Thoughts?
homosexual and anet dick sucker that think his theories are facts
In what way is he an ant dick sucker?
>wooden potatoes
still alive? long past his heyday.
Man i have watched this guy ever since the game released and he's always been there, always covering the game.
I didnt play GW1 but I know he was around even back then. He must be one of the biggest OG guys of this game
>I didnt play GW1 but I know he was around even back then
never heard of him
t OG gw1 enjoyer since long time forever ago
Sad example of why you shouldn't pick "content creator" as a career for your one autismo game. I wonder why these people never move careers into an announcer or a radio host or some shit, anything they can use their voice in. AVGN would've definitely done better that way than by still making shitty videos into his 40s.
beat up the bigot
GW2 is a bad MMO and a bad sequel to GW1. That said, it's a good single player open world RPG. HoT is incredibly based, PoF was fun (and the mounts were quite a good addition to the game), haven't played EoD yet, living world varies in quality.
Is the pvp any good?
looks like things are really bad
How can you play GW1? Do you really have to buy it for $40???
https://gg.deals/game/guild-wars-trilogy/
The campaigns go for $15 on key sites and you can get EotN for about $12.
All they had to do was make guild wars 1.5, how can you possibly frick that up? Bought this shit day 1 and was so disappointed.
ANet as a company is famous for having good ideas and then shitting all over them, Guild Wars 2 in itself is a masterclass on how to get everything wrong. If the company wasn't managed by clowns, GW2 would be up there with WoW.
I loved GW1 becuase it was not WoW and had hella based PvP. you could move UI elements.
jesus christ i miss that.
It was never gonna be up there with WoW
I wonder why literally every GW2 thread on Ganker is filled with jaded GW1 players who hated GW2? What attracts you people to fill up half the thread every time with your whining?
gw2 is a shit
they really fricked over their veteran supporters
>muh veteran status!
i gave that up when guru shut down and died. it was sad.
Even removing the vet, the game shit on their own players constantly. Scarlet was a giant insult in character. there was whole lot of frick nothing in the living story. dev refuse to fix shit unless they simp for a female twitter or china. etc.
>twitter
twitch*
I think it's fun but it runs like total SHIT
How does an >MMO that's like 12 years old or something get away with absolutely tanking frames so hard? If like more than 10 people are actively on screen my framerate fricking halves and I'm on a 5600x and a 3070 ti. How has optimization been ignored for so long?
As I said in
, clown management. They used the old GW1 engine which was created when multi-core CPUs weren't even conceived so it only runs on a single core. Because of the spaghetti code formed throughout seven years of development, it's impossible to touch the engine without breaking something. Instead of fixing what was broken, ANet used
>muh spaghetti code
as an excuse to be lazy and not address any of the technical issues. For example, back items are considered weapons by the engine which is why, even with lowest model quality setting, you always see wings and other equipped items on players.
After ten years ANet decided to do something about it and upgraded the game from using DirectX9 to 11, and only after some reddit autist had dabbed on them by creating an add-on that made GW2 use DirectX12.
There's a magical stag mount. It uses jackal animations and is sold at premium price.
There's also a mordrem hound jackal skin, so you can only ever have one salad-themed mount at a time.
Huh, I thought it would have been trivial to just resize the fern hound and maybe make similar skins for the others. No need for complicated sparkle stuff.
Though the mordrem one might be intresting.
You'd think that was pretty simple, yet we have nothing like that. They did rip the sand lion model and made it into a premium mount, though.
Anon, you have no idea how much I'm seething that we have no minsec armour sets.
There was a beta last weekend testing the current weapons and people swear by hammer soulbeast, hammer weaver and sword/warhorn cata.
>hammer soulbeast
I hope anything replaces sword/axe. Sword is so fricking ass to play with, the first 2 abilities make you fly all over the fricking place.
Yo, haven't played in ages. Are there finally Pale Tree/sylvari themed mount skins?
yeah and they added tengu as a playable race
My acting Minister of Security can't be this cute.
can players get that armour skin, or is it exclusive to NPCs?
bros is it true that there's a GW3 in development?
Aion whatever number it's at now or probably the mobile version if there is one.
man aion classic was kinda fun but they fricked it up from the get-go by adding battlepass shit and consumables that broke low level PvP if you weren't a paypig
>korean mmo
this is typical behavior, never play a kmmo even if it looks fun
they all follow the credit card meta
every time i think about playing gw2 again i log in, kill 2-3 enemies in the open world and log out because i've experienced everything the game has to offer
discuss.
99% of asuras dont look this and the ones who look like this doesn't look as cute as your pic
what armor is that?
also groce feet
I cannot wait until yordle mmo become a thing. It would probably be the biggest asura migration
you want some, rat boy?
what the hell
>He doesn't know about the giant pile of Asura and Charr porn.
>lemme post cute art of an asura that doesn't actually exist
Meanwhile
>actual asuras look like dysgenic israelites, full with sassy quips and nasal kvetching to boot
it's just tumblr man calm down
i mean that is what gw2 -is-
thumblr the game
it's okay to get hard, anon
Not a pedo. Sorry.
I've preordered the deluxe version of the expansion because I fricking love wizards. Really interested how the use of more weapons will work. There's gonna be some wild unkillable build everyone will abuse, knowing Anet's incompetence they'll do nothing for at least a few months.
Never https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-q5sItZyZM
Maybe I will return because I read they will give everyone a skyscale, that shit was a fricking grind
wait, seriously?
yes, they said that they are adding a very easy method to get one.
>inb4 Black Lion Skyscale Unlock, get your flying mount for 4,000 gems!
Skill issue, the return-to achievements give you literally all the materials you need for the mount. All that's left after that is the four-day time gated collection and some scavenger hunts.
I'm so glad the whole dragon metaplot is over. I knew so many elder dragons would get old after the second or third dragon. Even Arenanet was sick of it by IBS.
the elder dragons were a classic case of "Always a Bigger Fish"
by creating something so big, so awful, and so terrible to be bigger, more awful, and more terrible than literal walking deities whose mere battles could permanently destroy and later the landscape; they accidentally backed themselves into a literary corner, and since they didn't have the talent to avoid this they clearly couldn't write a good way out of it so we got the macguffin dragon who fixed all the issues nbd
Guild wars 3 when?
mobile
buy the expansion then begin the path of fire quest and get your free raptor, it's gonna help immensely
The best part about EoD is how the Purist basically got everything they wanted, were widely successful, and made Cantha stronger:
>successfully eliminated the Afflicted,
>crushed the Am Fah and the Jade Brotherhood
>crushed all dissent and opposition
>crushed the Tengu and forced them into hidding
>crushed the Kurzicks and the Luxons and formally annexed them
They successfully united the Canthan Empire under one flag and protected Cantha from humanity's downfall in Tyria and Elona.
They only felt from power after Zaithan sank old Kaineng into the sea and began to abuse their power trying to turn the Empress at the time into a puppet. Even after their downfall (100 years before Gw2) Cantha still followed isolationist policies. Nobody is clamouring for downfall of the Canthan Empire for their past crimes or the restoration of Kurzick or Luxon independence. The Canthan Empire is still united under one flag. It is not only the strongest human nation, the most advanced empire, but a superpower on its own right.
Cringe fashy
How many bigots will we get to punch in the new expansion?
None, because there's still no fist weapon.
The big bad and his minions look like a torment demons, although I suspect he will have a evil wizard lieutenant.
>agender engineer
>this line was altered without a hint of irony in a fricking medieval fantasy game
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't notice any of this until it was pointed out. How mentally ill do you need to be to go out of your way to get trigged by literally nothing?
If it wasn't such a big deal, why include it in the first place?
how vapid do you have to be to not see it?
I'm a long time player, I actually enjoy the game, and the constant pandering in the stories is fricking stupid as shit
EoD ends on a big gay (literal) wedding and then the LW content made you choose a date with several people who make it very clear they don't have a gender
>big gay wedding
Bro.. it's a few lines of dialog in the middle of a bar. The close up kiss from like 10 years ago was way more in your face.
yes, exactly, they have been constantly doing this shit for years
it's annoying, because the story isn't even good, it's actual literal bottom of the barrel trash
Custer's Revenge has more literary depth than this game, which only has good shit from GW1 to go off of and they seem to be trying to destroy everything from that game
The story is your standard MMO garbage, but in this game it takes priority over everything else: raids took forever because they had to have a plot, strikes only exist as bosses from the story (and must be unlocked by playing the campaign), fractals are now more dialogue than gameplay and the few modes that don't require a story, like PvP and WvW, get shafted hard.
If ANet put more focus on what's actually good in this game, there would be much fewer complaints about the plot.
When he's introduced he talks shit about a female colleague (i.e. Mai Trin) and accuses her of sucking up to their boss. ANet must have realised that this was problematic and chopped off his peepee.
I didn't mind the story too much. Haven't played EoD yet but I enjoyed Season 4 and IBS. Season 3 haven't played yet. Season 2 was an absolute fricking slog. The real criminal thing they did was get rid of those cutscenes where the characters talk to eachother that you could just skip.
Usoku and the Ministry of Purity were already planned by the time Wind of Change 10 years ago.
Barring the fact that Winds of Change were shit, it had nothing to do with agender engineers and Ministry of Purity had nothing to do with fricking racism and everything to do with the post plague recovery of Cantha.
Winds of Change was great. What are you talking about? And yes, the Ministry of Purity was all about eliminating threats to the empire and expelling or exterminating any non-human in Cantha. The fun parts is that they basically won. The heroes from Gw1 only delayed their rise to power and everything they did basically made the Canthan Empire stronger.
She's back.
>can disable skins and races in pvp so everyone looks the same
made me uninstall
You should've played on launch when literally every PvP tryhard played Asura since you couldn't see shit from their animations. The forced human skins option was a blessing.
Yao being agender feels tacked on. Everything about him scream male. There's no hint of femiminity outside of his voice actor.
Game is casual fun, quickness deadeye and just spamming 3 buttons for max dps is comfy.
is Ele still bad?
ele is literally broken OP in every content mode currently
the lead balance dev is a israelite who plays ele
What'd they change? Last time I played, they made power builds useless.
Just rebalanced a lot of stuff. There isn't a single bad profession in the game right now, only a few remarkably bad specs that are scourge and chronomancer.
as
stated, minor changes
however, they now have access to an elite called Catalysts which makes AoE fields which pulse buffs/damage/conditions/heals and has basically turned them into cancer
how to improve gw2
>make all expansions as big as PoF but as difficult as HoT
>host daily troony and homosexualry bashing competitions
>beat the authors until they write something better and then beat them again
>beat the shit korean artists for their shit armor designs
gw2 saved
Might as well just buy the IP, then declare GW 2 not canon follow by having a quest where you burn down the pale tree when its just a sapling
I would be fine if you could skip the dialog. But no, or else how could they push their political agenda?
Play GW2
Worst MMO of all time
nah, that frog has been wrong for a long time, and in a world full of pump and dump MMOs and most recently Amazon's abortion of an MMO, living under a rock
HoT release was peak adventure. I have never felt that sense of danger and wonder in a savage land since I was a fricking kid. Too bad a couple weeks later they nerfed the regular enemies so people had an easier time traveling through the maps.
PoF had great maps that used the mounts to great extents. Sadly the mounts break the rest of the content including the original maps and HoT. They break the atmosphere of both previous releases.
EoD looks like a PS2 game. I dont know what happened. The game is old yes, but there were beautiful maps, specially HoT. EoD looks like shit.
I dont know if its worth to start right now, I wouldnt even know where to start if I wanted to play from the beginning. I would probably see the pozz and abandon them game. I dont know what happened with the game, but it became extremely pozzed and the quirky millennial borderlands "did i?" dialogue is awful. Doesnt help that you cant skip conversation in the newer story arcs.
First year of the game and HoT release were peak mmo.