Guild Wars 2

Suddenflame.2601:

Zaxares.5419:

Grend.6251:

Perhaps I am among the minority, but as a player who spent my first 400 hours in game saving for the Triforge amulet, I am worried all my hard work will be for nothing once these new ascended amulets are introduced. Does anyone feel the same?

You’re not alone. I’ve been waiting (probably in vain) for ANet to announce a way that Exotics can be upgraded to Ascended tier items. The introduction of Ascended items basically kills the Crafting disciplines because there is no way that crafters can make items that are as powerful as Ascended items. Weapons and Armor still have a place in that their skins are still visible and players might buy items just to transmute their appearance, but Jewelers are completely out of luck. Why would you even bother levelling Jeweler to 400 (outside of crafting Legendary Gifts) and amassing crafting materials when you can just save up your Laurels and buy an Ascended ring or amulet instead?

Your thinking way to far ahead atm. I believe that they will introduce new recipes for 400 crafting for the ascended gear (mind you it will be more expensive then making exotic). They havnt introduced Ascended Weapons or armour yet. Jeweler is becoming obsolete but all they need to do is introduce a new recipes and then its fixed.

I would hope because the mystic toilet business is old. There’s a reason I got 400 in chef, leatherworking, and huntsman, for it to go to waste is just wrong in so many ways.

I would hope that they have the wisdom to add a karma vendor for the T6 materials so we can stop relying so much on RNG for everything. We have a separate RNG for the bags to drop and then an RNG when one opens the bags. It’s crazy.

Does anybody know exactly what time on the 28th the patch will be implemented?
Also will There be new monthly achievement on 28th or will that still be feb 1?

Shadoekin.3928:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Just want to step in here for a second to comment on a few speculations:

There will be no mounts, no Cantha and no dragons coming with this story arc.
Sorry if that destroyed some dreams.

No mounts? Good.
No Cantha/Elona? No problem, I’ll wait.
No dragons coming? Errr….does that mean the events introduced will not be part of the greater storyline?

I sincerely hope Flame and Frost will not be anything like Southsun Cove which was terrible from a lore standpoint. It could have happened in any other MMO world since it has absolutely no link to Tyria per se: an arbitrary company disturbing a new arbitrary race for a one time, yet meaningless event…leading to said race’s demise.

If Flame and Frost involved Primordus and Jormag minions scouring the lands, terrorizing the people, that would make me feel like I am back in the game…as opposed to constantly doing Fractals which feels beside the actual world of Guild Wars.

Please bring back more lore to the game, I want my gameplay to be driven by storyline and not solely for the quest of loot. Heck, give Fractals more of a semblance of a narrative! Less content like Southsun Cove which I will ultimately not care about once the loot chest has despawned.

For example…more hints to the origins of the dragons, the previous races (especially the seers), and even the conclusion to the Mursaat called Lazarus the Dire. There is so much story to be told and expanded upon, instead of introducing crabs that really don’t matter (unless they are minions of the Deep Sea Dragon and will have their backstory fleshed out later).

Also…cut scenes with “visions” of the human gods…would be so cool to hear a double-voiced Lyssa or booming Balthazar telling about the war with Menzies (is that still raging on btw???)

Yeah, I strongly agree with you. My heart sank a little when Martin said there would be no dragons coming with this story arch. That could be interpreted in different ways (no additional dragons added, but we deal with old ones, no dragons killed/fought but the plot line deal directly with them and the consequences of their corruption etc) but it sounds like they are doing another side story. Guild Wars 1 told three epic and conclusive story archs in the space of two years. They weren’t side stories, they were quests befitting of heroes, they made you feel like a hero. Southsun Cove made me feel kind of mean and largely disconnected from the story of Tyria, it really has no relevance to the rest of the world and that’s truly disappointing, there is so much potential for a good story but ArenaNet is really bad at harnessing it.

I don’t want to build up excitement for another underwhelming side story that we are all going to forget about, I’d rather deal with the big guys or at least something to do with them. If the full content update is used to flesh out the struggle against Primordius and Jormag, but doesn’t actually have you fight them (saving that for an expansion) then I’m fine with that. That will help me become invested in the struggle of this world (something I find difficult to do for Zhaitan) and will make any content which actually takes on these dragons become that much more enjoyable. If it’s some cute side story about Kodan and Quaggan and a “new threat” which we will conveniently defeat and never hear from again, I’d be disappointed. This isn’t a long running anime, we don’t need filler archs.

seems that we will not have any teaser trailer…

they said they will fix The Frozen Maw (that never had any problems for me) and the Cowtapult Vista, would be easier to remove them from the game with this new update, but they will not be removed… so I think these two areas will not suffer great changes, should happen similar things as Hautend Doors and Giant Gifts… but I hope not, otherwise I’d be disappointed

SquirrelKing.8964:

I believe this event should be retitled ‘A Dirge of Flame and Frost’…

For those of you who still don’t get the pun, the title sounds awfully similar to George R.R. Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’.

Dirge? Dirge!

Stridix.4260:

Does anybody know exactly what time on the 28th the patch will be implemented?

I doubt Anet even knows that. Big patches can take a lot of last minute testing and work, so basically the release is “some time on the 28th in PST zone”

TurtleofPower.5641:

Stridix.4260:

Does anybody know exactly what time on the 28th the patch will be implemented?

I doubt Anet even knows that. Big patches can take a lot of last minute testing and work, so basically the release is “some time on the 28th in PST zone”

Yes, “testing”….

Revamped Box o’ Fun. Take my money!

So do we have any idea how the new daily achievements will work? Will they be a set achi for a set day of the week? Or maybe a random achievement from a pool of X different? Or even an achi composed of random elements, each pulled from a pool?

I’m interested to see how these new dailies are supposed to bring people back into the open world. And if they will, will it be the same achi for everyone each day so that spot X in the world will be overflowing and the rest will be the same graveyard as today?

If only ANet would do test servers… if only.

KinkyPotato.4219:

ColinJohanson.2394:

PhilipRed.9473:

Just ascended amulets? what about the rest of the gear?

Good question!

Ascended rings will also be available for laurels as well. Back slot items will be made more widely available in the future and will likely tie into a different reward system.

(Please note, the ascended gear purchased for laurels will not have agony resistance built in, since that mechanic is currently unique to progression in the fractal dungeons. They are however statistically the same as any other ascended gear.)

We will also introduce an additional reward system (or systems) in the future to make these items more accessible to WvW players on top of the laurel system.

The remaining ascended item types will be introduced in future releases, and may or may not tie into the laurel system, TBD.

(Edited to add note about agony)

Will we also be able to purchase rings with nomenclature currently not existant at the fractals merchant including: Cleric’s (Healing/Toughness/Power), Giver’s (Toughness/Healing/Boon Duration), Carrion (Cond Damage/Power/Vitality), Apothecary’s (Healing/Toughness/Cond Damage), and Magi’s (Healing/Precision/Vitality)?

I’d like to know this as well. Are there any plans to integrate the itemization options we have been getting used to from gearing up before the arrival of ascended gear? As a condition ranger, I typically itemize using Carrion gear, as I don’t get much return from precision. As it is, there aren’t many valid choices for condition builds from ascended gear.

reads the article New Rewards and the Achievements System
sees a cat with a bowler hat
Never have I wanted a digital thing more than now.

2.7GB, correct?

I thought dailies were supposed to be :complete any 4 of these 6 progress bars. Looks like we still have to do all of them.

I also see now reason why this would bring people into the open world.

I knew to prepare to be disappointed by this update, but still it’s underwhelming in so many ways.

Hey everyone – I finally decided to join the forum here, since I’m so excited about the new update for GW2, thank you so much <3

I already got one of my questions answered in here; that the monthly for January won’t be rewarding Laurels until Feb, that really had my concerned.

Second one though: Will the infusions you can buy with the Laurels be stacking with each other? I saw at the Laurel-vendor that there was a +20% gold loot, +15% karma and exp. If you have two ascended gear items with +20% gold loot, will it be stacking into 40%?

Azjenco.9425:

Ah! Such a bittersweet teaser. I want to now more!
What will the new achievements look like?
What items can you buy with laurels?
How expensive will the ascended amulets be?
What improvements will we see in the UI?
Will we get a token tab in our collectable storage?
And what the frak is happening in the north? Is it a prelude to Jormag and the first expansion, or will this storyline revolve around the free content primarily? Will we get to fight something big after the 28th? How will all of this play into the big changes that are coming?

Sigh, so many questions, such a long wait.

lol you would have loved war in kryta, sometimes we waited a month just to watch a conversation on that living story :P