I think some things need to be changed. Heres my opinion. By the way this opinion is coming from a Guild Wars veteran so you can trust it.
1.) Something NEEDS to be done with the LFG part of the game, I find it to but very corrupt, slow, and boaring. The Devs said you could play for 30 mins and accomplish somthing, I dont see that happening it takes 30 mins to find a good team. It seems if your not a Mo or a W/Mo your screwed. Thats all people are looking for and it really sucks. My suggestion- When you go into and area in you menu have a tab for LFG it will open up a seperate window (like friends or guild or inventort ect...) and it will list everyone who is LFG. It will ist their Lvl profession and name. If you click on their name it will give a description (set by the player) such as. "Dedicated e/mo LFG to do the xxxxxx quest" Or "Wanting to do the mission." This would reduce spam and be a whole lot easier to find and form a good team. Accomlishing something in 30 mins is a little more realistic this way.
2.) Auction House. If you have guild wars I want you go to into ascalon city or lions arch district one and type some thing and see how long you can see it for. Like 1 maybe 2 seconds due to the spam. Its nauseating. I cant even handle it. Sometime I go into the international districts just to get away from it. With so much spam happened you have to spam yourself to say something. If you message goes away almost instantly due to spam your gunn have to say it over and over till someone reads it. The buy/sell system is a spam maker. I myself spam because there is simply NO OTHER WAY. My suggestion- Similar to my LFG system. But it will list the item name, stats, and asking price set by the seller. I would like it to have VERY precise search functions. Like how much damge it does, what lvl you need to be to use it what kind it is. So you dont spend hours searching through an endless list of items. I wouldn't care if the game itself have 1 auction mart or every district had its own (To reduce the size of that endless list.) But this will ONLY work if it is easy to use and easy to search on.
3.) Quest sharing. How many countless times have I gone out and done a quest with a group of people, but because I didnt have it listed in my log I got how much expierence? 1000? 500? nope 0! I did the quest for gods sake I want my exp! My suggestiong-Go into your quest log click on the quest then click on the person you want to give it to's name, then send. That person has the option to accept or decline a quest. Of course if the person sending it has already done half of it your going to have to to do the half that they did, but it is better then nothing.
4.) More variation. Im talking more armor, more professions and most importantly differn't looks. I swear every W looks the same as every other W. The armor is so similar you cant tell the difference. I think something like a w/n would look alot difference then a w/m. It should be different. And there is only set armor made by the game. I think that if you goto the crafter with 13 scales and 5 iron ingot he should craft you an armor with its own stats and unique style. Every professions armor is the same. Thats so boaring. The craft system NEEDS to be rethought and replaced. My suggestiong (For the crafting system). Well this is obvious. Make it like every other MMO out there. I love those kinds of systems, and so does most other people. I think alot of people would agree with me on this.
5.) Tweak friends/Guild lists. This is simple I wanna know where people are playing. I want to know what district. This would make grouping with your friends so much easier. And playing with your frinds is the best thing to do.
Alot of people will disagree with me on my next one, but alot of people would agree. 6.) Higher the Lvl cap, make the game bigger. (Before we have to wait for the expansions.) I think 3/4 of all people who have bought the game have either beat it, or have max lvl. After that the game get seriously boaring, and lacks appeal. I think 40 would be a good lvl cap for this game. (you lvl at the same rate you do now) It would make the game last alot longer. Its more like an RPG then anything. I checked how long it took me to beat the whole game (/age) and it was like around 60 hours. Thats not very long. Most MMO's (even though this isn't an MMO) last like 1000 hours. Thats why people love them and play for years. Guild wars will be done in 2 years if they dont change it.
7.) This is more of a game element, then something that needs to be changed. But this game needs MUSIC! Its pretty boaring only hearing your foot slap against the ground. The only time the game is exciting (due to music) is when an ele casts fire storm. Its so dull and needs different music, or taveling, fighting ect... It would be very nice to have.
8.) Fix the econmy. Okay this is simple im not going to even rant to much about this. Yester I say a BLACK DYE going for 2 Plat. 2 PLAT! Give me a goddamn break. Dyes should be 500 TOPS. Its retarted.
Well im done. Tell me what you think about my ideas and such. PCE!
Guild Wars - Rorick Aurlith E/Mo pumped up with the best armor and weapon, has all his skills, and runes. PvP King!
Dark Age of Camelot - Leaton 50 Vampiir - Lamorak - Guild: Magic and Mayhem!
What I would like to do is create a website that entails the following things:
- Item Database + Price Submit
Allow registered users to input price listings for various items thereby setting up a standard for cost to aid in the equality for selling/trading. These measures would need to be at a max of say 3 items voted per day and with minimal average weight to avoid griefers screwing it up -- it could very well be done and would make life A LOT easier for many.
- Ability for registered users to add items via a confirming screen where players can make sure items arent bogus before they go up for listing
- LFG hosted program that runs in your toolbar where you can search for people who are looking for a group - interface would be something small like MSN messanger docked in the far right. Example:
LFG (Sylvia Wolfmourn - Lvl.18 - Riverside Province - Dist.4)
This program could via the website list all LFG people throughout all districts in each zone and compile them into an easy to read listing on the site.
We could add more great features as time progresses to make the GW community easier and more enjoyable then ever! If the devs wont do it we will (or atleast I will!)
I am a webdesigner but am not too familiar with the more heavy backend part, XML databases etc, mySQL etc. If anyone is interested in making this happen please respond to this reply and/or email me directly. If you have hosting services you could be of some help too.
[quote]Originally posted by chrisel [b]LMFAO!!! How bout playing A major MMOPRG outthere?[/quote]
like what??? if you cna give me one that is currently worth paying for right now i would REALLY love to hear it. Combat + grpahics are better in GW than any of the MMO's out there right now.
I'm not like mocking GW.. i'm not saying GW is better than WoW... or vise versa.. i'm just making a point that people are always comparing things... and the people on this forum are trying to make GW like any other mmorpg... when it's not like the others.
GW is NOT .. I repeat not based on level and xp like WoW is. You do things.. you earn points to put towards skills. (I believe.)
GW is ... an rpg.. but it's not made for the masses, imho. Visuals are hot, combat is hot ... but there's not a lot of free movement["invisible walls and lack-of-jump" ], no player based economy...and basic rpg interface... but that's how most rpgs (consoles in anycase) are like. this is just like that..... but BETTER...
I just think it's HUMOROUS that people are so fast to judge and compare one thing to another that are really TOTALLY DIFFERENT! WoW is MADE To get people attention with player based things and interactive interface.... GW is made to wow ya. (no pun intended)...
I just think that the people trying to bash one are just not thinking hard about it. People play either games because it appeals to them. If you want all this stuff you are listing.. you are going to ruin the other pluses of GW ... you can't have both hot graphics and combat and hot addons... it just won't work. WoW takes a dive in graphics for a massive amount of interface options and addon options.. that WoW. GW takes a dive in interface and addons for EXCELENT GRAPHICS!!!
The only thing they have incommon are... some employees ^_^ hehe I don't really know what else to say except i am rather intregued by both in different ways.
Random Fact about Roke: fav non-mmo - Fusion Frenze, DDR, Kirby, Harry Potter
More character faces and hair cuts and more body builds.
More cooler looking armor for everyone. Atm, warriors only get these really sweet looking armors that really look like that they defend you against the enemy, others just have plain clothes and everyone should have the ability to wear an helmet.
Events! Start doing those in-game events already!
Fix the brainless monk henchmen please. They are so stupid. Enemies tend to hit your henchmen all the time so they stay put and take the damage and after a few secs they run away and your warrior usually gets the aggro, but oh my god! What then happens, the stupid henchmen runs into the enemies again so she could heal one of your allies and then gets all the aggro. How stupid is that!?
The ability to choose not to spawn enemies again in fields that you have already killed. The thing that each time you gotta kill the same enemies over and over at the same place is stupid and it really doesn't make you feel like doing a quest from some older place again. Also, not to mention that enemies don't give any exp at all if you're like a few lvls higher than them. Totally stupid and pointless!
Am I the only one who thinks its a bit unnerving that NO other players are visible outside of towns?
Or is it just like that in pre-sear ascalon (I haven't gone into the academy yet)
this is what makes gw diferent , you have to go with a party , you can always take the hench , but feels completely diferent when you go with all human team ... feels better.
and if someone doesnt get along with another player on team , or doesnt like to take orders , all lose.
teamwork is the key for this game.
im not going to add anything to the list cose is already big.
Originally posted by nephillim also, the reason why monks always die first is because the enemy AI is so good. they will go straight for your healer. those monsters will fukken gank your monk before you can say 'brrrrrupp' if you're a warrior, and you're smart you'll figure out how to best protect your healer
Monk henchmen are dumb. Scroll up this page and read my post about monks.
There is obviously only one thing GW needs...and that is larger chests on the female chars. Plus a more advanced physics model for...umm, the chests on the female chars.
ADD BETTER WEAPONS THING THAT PISSES ME OFF THE MOST CRAPPY SWORDS AND AXES ETC... I HAVE THE BEST SWORD IN THE GAME AND I HIT THINGS FOR CRAP! THERE SHOULD BE ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF WEAPONS!
1: Guild Vault 2: Storage at Guild Hall 3: Larger Guild Battles, I was expecting 16v16 or better 4: Guild Training Area 5: Auction House Zone, Stores, or something better that what is going on now. 6: BE ABLE TO STORE BAGS OF ITEMS IN STORAGE!!!!! I want morethan 1 Armor set, cant store it with this storage system now. 7: Last but not least.... a dueling system. I would love to see some of these kids put there money where their mouth is.
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I think some things need to be changed. Heres my opinion. By the way this opinion is coming from a Guild Wars veteran so you can trust it.
1.) Something NEEDS to be done with the LFG part of the game, I find it to but very corrupt, slow, and boaring. The Devs said you could play for 30 mins and accomplish somthing, I dont see that happening it takes 30 mins to find a good team. It seems if your not a Mo or a W/Mo your screwed. Thats all people are looking for and it really sucks.
My suggestion- When you go into and area in you menu have a tab for LFG it will open up a seperate window (like friends or guild or inventort ect...) and it will list everyone who is LFG. It will ist their Lvl profession and name. If you click on their name it will give a description (set by the player) such as. "Dedicated e/mo LFG to do the xxxxxx quest" Or "Wanting to do the mission." This would reduce spam and be a whole lot easier to find and form a good team. Accomlishing something in 30 mins is a little more realistic this way.
2.) Auction House. If you have guild wars I want you go to into ascalon city or lions arch district one and type some thing and see how long you can see it for. Like 1 maybe 2 seconds due to the spam. Its nauseating. I cant even handle it. Sometime I go into the international districts just to get away from it. With so much spam happened you have to spam yourself to say something. If you message goes away almost instantly due to spam your gunn have to say it over and over till someone reads it. The buy/sell system is a spam maker. I myself spam because there is simply NO OTHER WAY.
My suggestion- Similar to my LFG system. But it will list the item name, stats, and asking price set by the seller. I would like it to have VERY precise search functions. Like how much damge it does, what lvl you need to be to use it what kind it is. So you dont spend hours searching through an endless list of items. I wouldn't care if the game itself have 1 auction mart or every district had its own (To reduce the size of that endless list.) But this will ONLY work if it is easy to use and easy to search on.
3.) Quest sharing. How many countless times have I gone out and done a quest with a group of people, but because I didnt have it listed in my log I got how much expierence? 1000? 500? nope 0! I did the quest for gods sake I want my exp!
My suggestiong-Go into your quest log click on the quest then click on the person you want to give it to's name, then send. That person has the option to accept or decline a quest. Of course if the person sending it has already done half of it your going to have to to do the half that they did, but it is better then nothing.
4.) More variation. Im talking more armor, more professions and most importantly differn't looks. I swear every W looks the same as every other W. The armor is so similar you cant tell the difference. I think something like a w/n would look alot difference then a w/m. It should be different. And there is only set armor made by the game. I think that if you goto the crafter with 13 scales and 5 iron ingot he should craft you an armor with its own stats and unique style. Every professions armor is the same. Thats so boaring. The craft system NEEDS to be rethought and replaced.
My suggestiong (For the crafting system). Well this is obvious. Make it like every other MMO out there. I love those kinds of systems, and so does most other people. I think alot of people would agree with me on this.
5.) Tweak friends/Guild lists. This is simple I wanna know where people are playing. I want to know what district. This would make grouping with your friends so much easier. And playing with your frinds is the best thing to do.
Alot of people will disagree with me on my next one, but alot of people would agree.
6.) Higher the Lvl cap, make the game bigger. (Before we have to wait for the expansions.) I think 3/4 of all people who have bought the game have either beat it, or have max lvl. After that the game get seriously boaring, and lacks appeal. I think 40 would be a good lvl cap for this game. (you lvl at the same rate you do now) It would make the game last alot longer. Its more like an RPG then anything. I checked how long it took me to beat the whole game (/age) and it was like around 60 hours. Thats not very long. Most MMO's (even though this isn't an MMO) last like 1000 hours. Thats why people love them and play for years. Guild wars will be done in 2 years if they dont change it.
7.) This is more of a game element, then something that needs to be changed. But this game needs MUSIC! Its pretty boaring only hearing your foot slap against the ground. The only time the game is exciting (due to music) is when an ele casts fire storm. Its so dull and needs different music, or taveling, fighting ect... It would be very nice to have.
8.) Fix the econmy. Okay this is simple im not going to even rant to much about this. Yester I say a BLACK DYE going for 2 Plat. 2 PLAT! Give me a goddamn break. Dyes should be 500 TOPS. Its retarted.
Well im done. Tell me what you think about my ideas and such. PCE!
Guild Wars - Rorick Aurlith E/Mo pumped up with the best armor and weapon, has all his skills, and runes. PvP King!
Dark Age of Camelot - Leaton 50 Vampiir - Lamorak - Guild: Magic and Mayhem!
Okay now -- lets make it happen.
What I would like to do is create a website that entails the following things:
- Item Database + Price Submit
- Ability for registered users to add items via a confirming screen where players can make sure items arent bogus before they go up for listing
- LFG hosted program that runs in your toolbar where you can search for people who are looking for a group - interface would be something small like MSN messanger docked in the far right. Example:
This program could via the website list all LFG people throughout all districts in each zone and compile them into an easy to read listing on the site.
We could add more great features as time progresses to make the GW community easier and more enjoyable then ever! If the devs wont do it we will (or atleast I will!)
I am a webdesigner but am not too familiar with the more heavy backend part, XML databases etc, mySQL etc. If anyone is interested in making this happen please respond to this reply and/or email me directly. If you have hosting services you could be of some help too.
resilience@cox.net
Unarmed/staff fighting for monks
+
fighting style customization
+
Permanant pets for a neco
everyone else covered a lot.
*Add a physics engine so we can have jumping
*Add a more global PvP tourney system.
*Give prizes in arena.
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"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~Abbie Hoffman
[quote]Originally posted by chrisel
[b]LMFAO!!!
How bout playing A major MMOPRG outthere?[/quote]
like what??? if you cna give me one that is currently worth paying for right now i would REALLY love to hear it. Combat + grpahics are better in GW than any of the MMO's out there right now.
I'm not like mocking GW.. i'm not saying GW is better than WoW... or vise versa.. i'm just making a point that people are always comparing things... and the people on this forum are trying to make GW like any other mmorpg... when it's not like the others.
GW is NOT .. I repeat not based on level and xp like WoW is. You do things.. you earn points to put towards skills. (I believe.)
GW is ... an rpg.. but it's not made for the masses, imho.
Visuals are hot, combat is hot ... but there's not a lot of free movement["invisible walls and lack-of-jump" ], no player based economy...and basic rpg interface... but that's how most rpgs (consoles in anycase) are like. this is just like that..... but BETTER...
I just think it's HUMOROUS that people are so fast to judge and compare one thing to another that are really TOTALLY DIFFERENT! WoW is MADE To get people attention with player based things and interactive interface.... GW is made to wow ya. (no pun intended)...
I just think that the people trying to bash one are just not thinking hard about it. People play either games because it appeals to them. If you want all this stuff you are listing.. you are going to ruin the other pluses of GW ... you can't have both hot graphics and combat and hot addons... it just won't work. WoW takes a dive in graphics for a massive amount of interface options and addon options.. that WoW. GW takes a dive in interface and addons for EXCELENT GRAPHICS!!!
The only thing they have incommon are... some employees ^_^ hehe
I don't really know what else to say except i am rather intregued by both in different ways.
Random Fact about Roke:
fav non-mmo - Fusion Frenze, DDR, Kirby, Harry Potter
More character faces and hair cuts and more body builds.
More cooler looking armor for everyone. Atm, warriors only get these really sweet looking armors that really look like that they defend you against the enemy, others just have plain clothes and everyone should have the ability to wear an helmet.
Events! Start doing those in-game events already!
Fix the brainless monk henchmen please. They are so stupid. Enemies tend to hit your henchmen all the time so they stay put and take the damage and after a few secs they run away and your warrior usually gets the aggro, but oh my god! What then happens, the stupid henchmen runs into the enemies again so she could heal one of your allies and then gets all the aggro. How stupid is that!?
The ability to choose not to spawn enemies again in fields that you have already killed. The thing that each time you gotta kill the same enemies over and over at the same place is stupid and it really doesn't make you feel like doing a quest from some older place again. Also, not to mention that enemies don't give any exp at all if you're like a few lvls higher than them. Totally stupid and pointless!
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i would add more variety of weapons and armour. remember how diablo had tonnes of randomly generated magical weapons? that was cool.
ability to name your weapon at level 20 would be cool really. just aesthetic though.
as far as the game mechanics go, i've never played a more solid online game, so no complaints.
i'd like to be able to see my party members on the big map rather than just the radar. that way you can find eachother if you get lost.
[we need a worldwide genocide/ a planetary suicide/ and when the whole damned world is dead/ there''s your f***ing peace]
also, the reason why monks always die first is because the enemy AI is so good. they will go straight for your healer.
those monsters will fukken gank your monk before you can say 'brrrrrupp'
if you're a warrior, and you're smart you'll figure out how to best protect your healer
[we need a worldwide genocide/ a planetary suicide/ and when the whole damned world is dead/ there''s your f***ing peace]
Monk henchmen are dumb. Scroll up this page and read my post about monks.
ADD BETTER WEAPONS THING THAT PISSES ME OFF THE MOST CRAPPY SWORDS AND AXES ETC... I HAVE THE BEST SWORD IN THE GAME AND I HIT THINGS FOR CRAP! THERE SHOULD BE ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF WEAPONS!
Some people have too much time to waste by reading and reply to these topics endlessly.
Oh wait, what am I doing ?!?
+ they should add a area in the guild halls where members of the guild can fight each other (4 vs 4)
+ there should be things you can buy to add to your guild hall like new rooms, training areas, and the chance to make a mascot for your guild
+ new skills made for different mixes of classes eg warrior/monk skills for example
Remember....life is a game play it through well
1: Guild Vault
2: Storage at Guild Hall
3: Larger Guild Battles, I was expecting 16v16 or better
4: Guild Training Area
5: Auction House Zone, Stores, or something better that what is going on now.
6: BE ABLE TO STORE BAGS OF ITEMS IN STORAGE!!!!! I want morethan 1 Armor set, cant store it with this storage system now.
7: Last but not least.... a dueling system. I would love to see some of these kids put there money where their mouth is.