The Guild Wars 2 Thread

[Caim]

Note that the "new" weapons for the professions (guns for Guardian and Elementalist, Staff for Warrior and so on) won't come out until the second content patch, somewhere in February. So don't go splurging on weapons you can't use yet.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Started playing this game recently. On the surface it feels OK and like something I wouldn't mind getting into, but I'm struggling to find a class I like to play. I rolled a Necromancer as pets + DoTs is my favored gameplay style for all MMOs since EQ but here it's not engaging at all and the pets look lame. I'll give the Mesmer a try next, hopefully I'll have more luck with that. I also took a look at some of the end game armor models and most of the Light suff looked like crap people would wear in a carneval. Are there no class sets?

 

[rubinstein]

Started playing this game recently. On the surface it feels OK and like something I wouldn't mind getting into, but I'm struggling to find a class I like to play. I rolled a Necromancer as pets + DoTs is my favored gameplay style for all MMOs since EQ but here it's not engaging at all and the pets look lame. I'll give the Mesmer a try next, hopefully I'll have more luck with that. I also took a look at some of the end game armor models and most of the Light suff looked like crap people would wear in a carneval. Are there no class sets?

5 races to play (even if 3 are humanoids) means no class sets

 

[Rahdulan]

Cultural armor is probably the closest, but that's race-based. Everything else is divided based on light, medium and heavy armor categories. Then again game is called Fashion Wars for a reason which just demonstrates money can't buy taste when you see what most people wear. Big thing in GW2 is acquiring equipment skins to mix and match, as well as costumes.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Started playing this game recently. On the surface it feels OK and like something I wouldn't mind getting into, but I'm struggling to find a class I like to play. I rolled a Necromancer as pets + DoTs is my favored gameplay style for all MMOs since EQ but here it's not engaging at all and the pets look lame. I'll give the Mesmer a try next, hopefully I'll have more luck with that. I also took a look at some of the end game armor models and most of the Light suff looked like crap people would wear in a carneval. Are there no class sets?

5 races to play (even if 3 are humanoids) means no class sets

WoW had class sets and wildly different race sizes and shapes and it wasn't an issue (apart from some looking silly or awful). Is there something that GW2 does differently that makes this a problem?

Cultural armor is probably the closest, but that's race-based. Everything else is divided based on light, medium and heavy armor categories. Then again game is called Fashion Wars for a reason which just demonstrates money can't buy taste when you see what most people wear. Big thing in GW2 is acquiring equipment skins to mix and match, as well as costumes.

Looking at the cultural armors they aren't too bad, except for the humans (Light). Norn have better looking light cultural armor, but their proportions are somehow goofy. Maybe I'll have to roll one and see how it looks and feels in-game in motion. A Norn Necro is looking better right now, but I'm not so sure about a Mesmer unless I go down the path of snu-snu.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Are there no class sets?

No. Each class has three elite specializations, and each elite spec has a unique unlockable weapon skin and an equipment skin (like the Druid's shoulderguards), but that's it.

WoW had class sets and wildly different race sizes and shapes and it wasn't an issue (apart from some looking silly or awful). Is there something that GW2 does differently that makes this a problem?

Nothing different. Anet just didn't put as much effort into their art department. WoW has released far more armor skins over the past 10 years than GW2 has over the course of its entire lifetime, and a large swath of GW2's armor skins are locked behind the cash shop.

 

[Average Manatee]

Don't know if this is still the case but I recall GW2 performance was so shit in large fights that you had to dial your settings down to the point everyone but you had generic looking ugly clothing anyway.

 

[pickmeister]

You bet it's still the case. The only thing that helps with it is turning down model count, so you see only yourself and 5 other players out of a 100.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I have a 3070 Ti. I have 60 FPS most of the time, but there are certain areas of the game that will cause framedrops (such as Verdant Brink).

Reflections are a massive FPS drop. IIRC there is a plane of water below almost every map in the game, so even if you can't see water you're still losing a lot of FPS. If you're struggling with FPS you can turn off reflections and only turn them on for screenshots.

I have character model limit set to high. I might get framedrops during a WvW zerg or a meta event like Dragon's End, but for me it's usually tolerable. This isn't a super fast paced game. I have character model quality set to medium.

 

[Vyvian]

Lowering shadows will net you the biggest gains and you won't lose much either.

 

[Prince(ss)]

Note that the "new" weapons for the professions (guns for Guardian and Elementalist, Staff for Warrior and so on) won't come out until the second content patch, somewhere in February. So don't go splurging on weapons you can't use yet.

I'm surprised ANet had the audacity to release an unfinished expansion packaged with the equivalent of an IOU. Not surprised that the general GW2 community didn't make more noise about it though, since they usually love the taste of dog water.

 

[Vyvian]

Note that the "new" weapons for the professions (guns for Guardian and Elementalist, Staff for Warrior and so on) won't come out until the second content patch, somewhere in February. So don't go splurging on weapons you can't use yet.

I'm surprised ANet had the audacity to release an unfinished expansion packaged with the equivalent of an IOU. Not surprised that the general GW2 community didn't make more noise about it though, since they usually love the taste of dog water.

As you said, the GW2 community laps up whatever ANet shovels down their throats. Look no further than how they collectively creamed their jeans when Colin was brought back, forgetting that he was a big reason the game went to shit and his extreme overhyping of things that never came to pass.

 

[Caim]

Note that the "new" weapons for the professions (guns for Guardian and Elementalist, Staff for Warrior and so on) won't come out until the second content patch, somewhere in February. So don't go splurging on weapons you can't use yet.

I'm surprised ANet had the audacity to release an unfinished expansion packaged with the equivalent of an IOU. Not surprised that the general GW2 community didn't make more noise about it though, since they usually love the taste of dog water.

As you said, the GW2 community laps up whatever ANet shovels down their throats. Look no further than how they collectively creamed their jeans when Colin was brought back, forgetting that he was a big reason the game went to shit and his extreme overhyping of things that never came to pass.

Or, you know, the Icebrood Saga climax.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

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[Vyvian]

They added hero point scrolls to the Gem Store. The proceeds on pace.

 

[TedNugent]

They added hero point scrolls to the Gem Store. The proceeds on pace.

That shit literally doesn't matter though

I've probably got 400 levelup times and two max level boost books just from buying the game and playing, and that was after boosting two of my alts that I don't even play.

The level cap hasn't even changed since the vanilla release anyway, and neither did end game gear.

Go hit up WoW if you want to play neverending treadmill to keep up with the Joneses. And that even has a stupidass WoW token system to fuck it all up.

New players still have to grind for ascended or legendary crap, but it's only a 5% increase over the exotic garbage you can buy on the TP for 50 gold for a full set.

 

[Vyvian]

They added hero point scrolls to the Gem Store. The proceeds on pace.

That shit literally doesn't matter though

I've probably got 400 levelup times and two max level boost books just from buying the game and playing, and that was after boosting two of my alts that I don't even play.

The level cap hasn't even changed since the vanilla release anyway, and neither did end game gear.

Go hit up WoW if you want to play neverending treadmill to keep up with the Joneses. And that even has a stupidass WoW token system to fuck it all up.

New players still have to grind for ascended or legendary crap, but it's only a 5% increase over the exotic garbage you can buy on the TP for 50 gold for a full set.

It's not there for you, it's there to fleece new players that don't know any better.
That's scumbag shit no matter how you excuse it.