Keep this in mind – how about if the trinket you get added an effect to your character?
I.e. glows, footsteps, lightning, chrome, e.t.c.
Then it’s a must have! Even if it only gives out special emotes I’ll be ahpy
Another interview by Colin:
Legendary skins coming to PvP
good time to prove the theory cof1 raised inflation so high n making stuffs on tp really expensive. now with unknown amount of guaranteed gold reward or whether its account/character bound, there’s a possiblity it won’t change much?sure the average welfare of players will go down quite a bit (not to mention t6 mats, lodestones prices will probably decreased by quite a margin), will it lead to poor peeps and overall lower prices on tp ?
- Specific way of getting the precursor
that were useless until they dcided the bait and switch making egendary a tier
- More skills and traits as progression
Still to see how much of them and paired to how much grind……
They felt the necessity to pair ANYTHING with grind and as you can read you will need to grind your way to new skills and traits also.
- Improvement on rewards
- Doing something about MF
Nerf in drops and stuff about grinding again?
Nope, ANet doesn’t listen at all.
No they dont listen their playerbase who made it extremely clear they didn t want ascended stuff and “progression”.
And unless you show me some feedback of the proportion of the anti ascended thread then you can t say the opposite.
(but you can see in ANY site talking about gw2 how the game is defined as a grindy with no endgame).
1. It sounds like you are suffering from confirmation bias, in that you expect something and are searching for only things that may confirm what you expect.
2. You want us to look on a thread designed to complain about ascended gear and find more people in it who like ascended gear? That’s like going to an apple festival and saying that obviously everyone prefers apples because the 100 people at the festival all prefer apples to other fruit.
3. I imagine most people who like things don’t run to the forums to say why they like it. Many, many people complained about lack of end-game content and then were quite pleased with the introduction of ascended jewels and fractals.
4. You can call anything a grind really. Grind just means that you are doing something over and over and you probably don’t like doing that. In any game you will be doing something over and over, so the grind function really just means that you are doing something you don’t like. If you don’t like doing it, stop.
5. I am personally looking forward to everything you listed as faults.
Another interview by Colin:
Dahum he’s been busy aint he?
Anywho…. “Return of holiday events, but the focus will be on more permanent and impactful content.” Holiday events with more impacting lasting effects? More so than the loss of the lion statue maybe? Could get…interesting…
Edit: I do not particularly like this:
“Whichever one gets voted in, the other will very likely never be added to the game.”
In regards to the 2 potential ‘new’ fractals (Fall of Ab, and Reactor Explosion). Although, I guess if its server differentiated (and not an overall calculation) one could potentially guest to another server to experience the other fractal.
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Not all magic-find related stuff is getting removed. One or two items are staying in the game (speculation is the infusions/amulets) and foods are definitely staying.
“Colin says there’s even more stuff that they can’t talk about yet, including just how the game will truly “expand” beyond the living world updates”
pretty sure that means new maps (even though it’s confirmed no new dragons this year)
I speculate Crystal Desert
New Skills/Traits: Give Engineers a Mesmer portal please?!!
This could be “Manifesto” all over again.
New skills, when? Next month? Next year?
Not all magic-find related stuff is getting removed. One or two items are staying in the game (speculation is the infusions/amulets) and foods are definitely staying.
Do you have a source for this?
They’re forcing players to stop farming dungeons and go do JPs…scumbag move.
crafting to 500 and new tier of items – more money down the drain
play how you like? lol, rather it’s “play how anet dictates”
A good thing i see is no more MF scumbags in dungeons.
Well guess Anet did not mean, when they said play how you like. Good bye the MF farmers that did it the right way and not leech in dungeons, why couldn’t Anet just put some code in for dungeons and block all armour that has the MF code.
Well thanks again GW2 team for ruining the market even more when this hits…..
I’m worried that crafting will be the only possible way to acquire ascended armor and weapon. As an avid fractals frequenter, I was hoping I could finally have some use to all the accumulated pristine fractals relics, or even have a new fractals currency usable to afford the new ascended gear.
However, by no means this minimizes all these great news, and it’s good to see Anet does listen to our feedback. Hopefully everything goes according to the post.
Please, for the love of god, let me change and chose my Greatsword skills.
Dont add just utilities or new weapons.
TFW I just spent 50 laurels on The Golden Lotus and the Magical Infusion last night…
Not all magic-find related stuff is getting removed. One or two items are staying in the game (speculation is the infusions/amulets) and foods are definitely staying.
Do you have a source for this?
TFW I just spent 50 laurels on The Golden Lotus and the Magical Infusion last night…
Yeah well I threw 100 laurels at the kitten tonic only for it to be incompatable with the kite.
Seriously, 100 laurels for a kitten with a kite? I’d pay for that if it worked.
This could be “Manifesto” all over again.
New skills, when? Next month? Next year?
Supposedly, all of this is supposed to happen between now and then end of the year (12/31/2013). The blog/interviews are intended as a second half of the year guideline as to what they are expecting to release to us; however, as with all development, some of it is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances that may arise.
I spent 25 Laurels on Dye Packs, got no Rare Dyes, get over it.
And what do they mean by a new “Legendary Gear”?
TFW I just spent 50 laurels on The Golden Lotus and the Magical Infusion last night…
Yeah well I threw 100 laurels at the kitten tonic only for it to be incompatable with the kite.
Seriously, 100 laurels for a kitten with a kite? I’d pay for that if it worked.
I have been mulling over buying the kitten tonic for the past few months now… and was disheartened to have a strike against buying it when someone posted that the kite was incompatible with the kitten tonic… my tears…
I just better not lose my achievement tiers for all that crafting I did.
I’m only 50 points away from the 5K chest!
Other than that this looked interesting. I’m not going to be hopping around giddy until I see something more like patch notes for things.
Ok, so anyone that reads the forums a lot knows I’m not exactly a fan of Anet, and probably wonders why I play GW2 at all, but..
I have to admit these potential changes have me excited. I don’t trust Anet to not totally screw them up on implementation, but a stopped clock is right twice a day, so I can hope.
Things I don’t want to see:
-If blue/green items have a chance to salvage for MF consumables, I’m hoping that means more than a 0.0000000000000000000000001% chance. If it’s comparable to BLSK chance on Ectoplasm, then sweet, but the consumables need to be done in a way that they don’t kill cooking.
For example, if they introduce a consumable that when salvaged adds +25 to MF for half an hour, and if it over-rides current food items, then things like Lemon Bars and such will be somewhat useless. Countering this problem means either making the new MF consumables something that adds MF to currently applied food bonuses, or, making the probability of a blue/green dropping a consumable so low that people will still need Lemon Bars and so on.
-Crafting precursors. This is a great idea, but it needs to be a gate. As I’ve said elsewhere, I want a “Precursor Fabrication Specialist” title to distinguish myself from those who got lucky at the Mystic Toilet or used a credit card. It would be nice if Anet would also involve something like.. well…crafting to the equation. “Run each dungeon in game 1000 times” is not “crafting”.
-New Legendaries. I don’t have one, but I’d like to build one, and as such I’ve looked at each one available, and paid attention in world to how they look, and so on. Also I’ve read a lot of the threads and seen some of the complaints people have about them. If Anet is going to add new ones, that is great, but please, Anet, polish the current ones as well. Do not just shelve them as finished. There are many examples on the forum of things people would like to see added. Kudzu raining down flowery arrows when using Barrage as an example.
The changes listed in the blog have a LOT of potential. I’m hoping that Anet doesn’t waste it all in the name of the gem store.
With new materials , existing T6 and T5 prices will go down, cheaper legendaries?
This could be “Manifesto” all over again.
New skills, when? Next month? Next year?
Before 2014, as the blog says “2nd half of 2013”.
They’re forcing players to stop farming dungeons and go do JPs…scumbag move.
play how you like? lol, rather it’s “play how anet dictates”
Incorrect.
Time gated gear? really? kitten you Anet!
Bout time wild star comes out…
I spent 25 Laurels on Dye Packs, got no Rare Dyes, get over it.
Your fault for tossing your laurels to rng? You got what you paid for, on the other hand, the thing we paid for is being taken away.
Not saying we wont be compensated, because I don’t know, but those situations are not comparable.
With new materials , existing T6 and T5 prices will go down, cheaper legendaries?
There is always a give and take. It’s only a matter of how much.
Cheaper t5/t6 means more people will go for a legendary. Which means more people will attempt one and keep the price of t5/t6 sustained up. And then more people will want to buy the lodestones and precursors. Those prices will go up too.
I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that current MF gear users will just apply it to their account wide bonus and only a one time deal. Current achievement bonuses are really small. So i’d think that would be the direction they’d go with current gear.
With new materials , existing T6 and T5 prices will go down, cheaper legendaries?
In one these interviews, he says that the higher tier mats can be crafted from current mats.
Still no mention of the legendary kit issue.
/sigh
Funny, i was JUST saying i wanted Amulets or some other trinket so give sweet particle effects. Sounds like legendary trinkets are EXACTLY what i was talking about
Overall I am happy with many of the changes. Account wide MF that isn’t bound to equipment will save me personally a good deal of grief, though I wonder if this is also meant to cover the XP and gold boosts as well. The bonus champ rewards will really help improve the rewards of group events, which have not been worth the trouble. More skills and traits is always great, I hope they include swapping some weapon skills as well.
I like the idea of high level crafting mats being made from lower level ones, but in the same breath he mentioned more time gated and account bound items. Binding items kills much of the sense of reward that the items could give (i.e. ascended ring drops are just vendor trash). Time gating kills the sense of reward by invalidating the game-time investment you made (i.e. I have enough quartz to make a full set of celestial gear already but it will be months before I can make a full set of gear). The time gating would be fine if it were unbound (the time limited supply would make them valuable and therefore rewarding even if you don’t have a personal use for the item), but most automatically bound items quickly become vendor trash.
More ascended gear is fine, I guess. I was already resigned to the fact that any exotic gear I made at this point would be invalidated eventually anyways. Even if they don’t release any further rarities, they built a loophole into ascended via infusions. There are already 2 different infusion rarities (white and blue) so I would not be shocked if they planned on releasing rarities straight up to legendary in the future with larger stat boosts. So while I’m not expecting them to break their promise of no more rarities, I am expecting them to use this loophole that they built into the item system. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they will provide avenues of acquiring the existing ascended gear that isn’t time gated, but that doesn’t seem likely. The multi-purpose legendary gear sounds awesome, but it is kinda sad that we need to wait to get legendary gear before the game starts to promote experimentation.
So overall, my reaction is Cautious Optimism. Many of these changes will improve my personal gameplay experience, but many of my personal beefs with the game will remain: Excessive amounts of bound items, severe time gating, resistance to experimentation, huge amounts of temp content, etc. So I look forward to seeing much of this implemented, but as of yet I don’t think it will be enough to change my “no spending money in the gemstore” stance. Until the game becomes something I feel I can play on my own terms and schedule, it has not earned more than I spent on CE.
With new materials , existing T6 and T5 prices will go down, cheaper legendaries?
With the new materials being able to be created from T6 mats, I think the price will likely see an increase in the beginning as people rush to build precurors. If I read it correctly, the new materials, in regards to legendary items, will only be used for crafting precursors, not the legendaries themselves. So you’ll still need 250 of each T6 mat in order to craft the appropriate components for the Legendary. The new materials are only related to precursors (when it comes to legendary crafting).
edit: regarding the time gated stuff – Anet has a chance to do something right with that. It’s likely being put in to prevent people from being able to “farm” precursors by crafting them. I just hope they don’t limit things such that the amount of time it takes to craft a precursor doesn’t “encourage” the traditional methods of obtaining them.
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None was aking for new gear tier. Do not implement the ascended gear. Please, don’t!
Also there are so many questions around this new – are we going to be able to insert runes in those? Are they going to have a new design? Are we going to see new runes in the game (i.e. the most expensive runes are going to became obsolete)?! Etc. etc. etc…
None was aking for new gear tier. Do not implement the ascended gear. Please, don’t!
Also there are so many questions around this new – are we going to be able to insert runes in those? Are they going to have a new design? Are we going to see new runes in the game (i.e. the most expensive runes are going to became obsolete)?! Etc. etc. etc…
Actually some where.
But I don’t really see the point of your post. Ascended gear already exists in the game, it is not a “new gear tier” it haven’t been since back in November when they added the tier.
Overall very exciting news.
No mention of GW2 “raids with a twist”, guess that’s further out.
I hope the legendary trinket provides something visual, or it won’t ever be pursued.
New crafting is exciting. Nerf to CoF and buff to other dungeons is probably my favorite part. Time to come up with an investment and money scheme to capitalize on this and make myself rich for a change.
I thought there was going to be a video and explanation of what all the teams are doing and what not?
further proof anet doesn t care AT ALL of players feedback….unless you tell hwat they want to hear of course.
Usual pattern of MINIMAL gameplay updates opposed to a lot of grinding and nerfs.
making all exotics skins useless and i bet they won t add as much ascended skins.
Subjective material has no use. Exotic skins are already useless. If you thought otherwise it was an expectation that you had which let you down, not something Anet did.
And unless I read the forums poorly, the only people whining are the ones who don’t understand the actual update. Anet is doing only what people have been asking for nearly a year. Work on dungeons. Check. Work on rewards. Check. Work on crafting, make it useful. Check. Allow us to get precursors another way than RNG. Check. Make more legendaries. Check. God I could just keep going.
Cheers, good luck and HAVE FUN in the game.
I just better not lose my achievement tiers for all that crafting I did.
I’m only 50 points away from the 5K chest!Other than that this looked interesting. I’m not going to be hopping around giddy until I see something more like patch notes for things.
By the time they implement it you would have already gotten the chest, unless it was sarcasm I what you said doesn’t make sense.
Time gated gear? really? kitten you Anet!
Bout time wild star comes out…
And be stuck with a real gear treadmil?
None was aking for new gear tier. Do not implement the ascended gear. Please, don’t!
Also there are so many questions around this new – are we going to be able to insert runes in those? Are they going to have a new design? Are we going to see new runes in the game (i.e. the most expensive runes are going to became obsolete)?! Etc. etc. etc…
Ascended gear has been in the game since November.
Time gated gear? really? kitten you Anet!
Bout time wild star comes out…And be stuck with a real gear treadmil?
Your signature says so much in so few words.. I love it that I had to comment.
None was aking for new gear tier. Do not implement the ascended gear. Please, don’t!
Also there are so many questions around this new – are we going to be able to insert runes in those? Are they going to have a new design? Are we going to see new runes in the game (i.e. the most expensive runes are going to became obsolete)?! Etc. etc. etc…
Back in 2012 when the release of Ascended trinkets came they told us their plan all along was a max level of ascended items. All of it. How you can think that they wouldn’t do that is beyond me. They’ve promised that’s the top. It’s a 3% increase. Woopty.
Mmmh, btw…
We’ll also expand the competitive options for game play: providing a queue and leaderboards for solo rated play separate from team rated play, adding new map types, adding
new map types
Tell me that you’re giving us something different and better than conquest.
Please.
Time gated gear? really? kitten you Anet!
Bout time wild star comes out…And be stuck with a real gear treadmil?
TBH i prefer gear treadmills to time gated content. And I don’t understand the hate on gear treadmills. They’re a nice past-time and you can set new goals.
Also the new ascended items will be treadmill AND time gated.
Time gated content is the worst content. ever.
Even having been around since GW1, much of this hardly sounds appealing. To be fair though, that’s probably because I’m not:
Honestly, I enjoy the gameplay despite the story and gear, because I enjoy the world and I’d enjoy it more if they did it a little more justice than the little hamster wheels they’ve been building lately. Not knocking anyone else for enjoying them, mind you, they’re just not my thing. I’d actually be a little more interested in a good bit of content that actually tried to draw my attention without the irrelevant odds and ends attached. Give me a good story or something, on par with the semi-decent quality of the short story blurbs on the old blog or on this very site.
I’ll remember that. I’ll hardly remember getting a new skill/trait/piece of gear. That experience is basically the norm.
What am I saying though. The populous has spoken, and they outnumber me.
I like the changes coming up. Great blog post, great changes incoming. Can’t wait!
I just better not lose my achievement tiers for all that crafting I did.
I’m only 50 points away from the 5K chest!Other than that this looked interesting. I’m not going to be hopping around giddy until I see something more like patch notes for things.
By the time they implement it you would have already gotten the chest, unless it was sarcasm I what you said doesn’t make sense.
Actually it was pure concern. Most of the Achievements I can strive for now are either weapon based or slayer based. Since I don’t play for countless hours I tend to accumulate points at a slower pace compared to my previous gaming hours.
Even if I do get the points for the chest, I still would be bummed out if they went and altered the tier. I like seeing all those pretty completed bars on my crafting achievements.
I think my best case scenario would be them adding in a new achievement for crafting items in the 500 level, thus leaving the other one alone.
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