Guild Wars 2

WooHooo!

Patch is up! Downloading at a decent speed too :-D

All is forgiven, I am now at peace.

but still no patch notes….

Ha, supernatural! I thought I was the only one who watched that anymore Connection issues are having me watch that as well!

Johnson.3874:

Then isn’t it possible to leave out of the patch note the thing that risk to impact economy, and meanwhile keep players up to date with changes that are gonna take place in their profession ?
Let’s take a silly example. I want to do some condition damage build on my Thief. I stuff him, spend my gold to buy/craft equipment. And all of a sudden : Huge nerf on condition damages in the patch note (like I said, silly example). My stuff is useless, I spend my money for nothing.

Getting information about that would not have impact economy, but at least I wouldn’t have spent that money for nothing.

Actually, it would have an impact on the economy to a moderate extent. That would mean that medium Rabid, Rampager, and Carrion gear would dip down in price after hearing the example news of conditions thieves taking a nerf. Sure Rangers and Engineers could still wear it, but what if their conditions specs have been affected as well? Let’s also say that Engineer and Ranger condition specs got buffed beyond measure, then the prices for condition gear might shoot up.

same here connection errors

I doubt they want to be pressed and pressed and pressed and finally forced to admit something when they claimed something completely different. This way they can save face and not have to worry about being called out on a blatant lie.

The patch is rolling out right now so those that are experiencing login server issues – this is the reason why.

Be patient as the update is quite large.

1mb sec atm, looks to be a big download

Also the first time for me patching was this slow and hickuppy. All other patches, small and large, just breezed through so far. But at the current rate (merely 50 MB downloaded, still displayed at 0%) the patch is gigantic and slow, I might as well give up hope of getting into the game again today.

Edit: Heh, as I posted this, the launcher started recalculating the percentage and sped up. 9% @ 120 MB and around 1MB download speed. Much better.

Any sign of the patch notes? O.o

my download currently sitting at 27%, downloading rather quick for me

….Oh wait lost connection at 47% xD

no sign of patch notes, not even on the client downloader

Patch notes would be nice. I would like to see what they did to rangers.

…“you’ll be able to download half the game again.” Why, thank you. Exacttly what I was planning to do with my game time.

Wont start the DL for me >_<

Patch Notes to be released upon the first person to complete the download? :P

Well, ANet has a tendency to release patch notes several hours after the patch is live. It bugs the hell out of me.

I want. Hope I’m not disappointed.

On 45%.

Soon one demographic or another of forumers will be eating their words. I hope I don’t, I already had dinner.

speed is back back “up” now… its jumping up and down between 500kb to 1.0MB for the most part with a few breakdowns in between…

Ratphink.4751:

Patch Notes to be released upon the first person to complete the download? :P

i think thats what they are waiting for, some1 else doing their work

Chuck Norris was a Ranger once. Remember that Anet, he might come back and check your patch notes, if something goes wrong… you-know-what can happen.

^________^

I wished they would at least post the patch notes as soon as the patch starting to get rolled out. Because the one thing I want to do when a large update is downloading – see what is going to get changed, not end up in the game wondering without knowledge of at least the class changes.

Just wish they would have posted the patch notes to read while i download at a snails pace

arrownin.3128:

Feedback can be given before it’s too late. An overpowered change or a horrible concept could be criticized and discussed which allows the developers to know what players want/need.

Yes, I agree. If only ArenaNet would talk about overpowered changes or game changing concepts. They really should come up with some method of informing us about major changes…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/november-2012/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-message-from-our-Studio-Design-Director-Chris-Whiteside

…And then, that would allow people to voice their concerns about it. I just don’t know how they would do that, though.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Thoughts-on-Ascended-Gear-Merged-threads/first

I think you’re on to something!

Is it the front or back half? And Do i have to find someone with the other half to play?

Looks like this patch is a disaster. Possibly major class balance changes and the patch notes are top secret? Even blizzard drops patch notes before the patch, and they aren’t exactly considered the model for dev communication and transparency. On top of that, my launcher has been sitting at 0.00 KB/sec for nearly 20 minutes now as Anet server simply isn’t responding. Checked connection with speedtest and pingtest, my 30Mbps connection is fine.
I paid for this game? It’s a good thing it’s not monthly sub.

GaizkSnow.1423:

…“you’ll be able to download half the game again.” Why, thank you. Exacttly what I was planning to do with my game time.

I can’t even believe you’re complaining about this

do you expect all the new stuff with this update to be small? what the hell do you expect them to do? never provide content updates because you can’t wait 10 minutes to download something?

holy kitten

No no no! Supernatural is like the best freaking show ever! Love it! <3

Patch going smooth now, hope patch notes will arrive soon.

I would dearly appreciate a size indicator instead of a file count, but we cant have everything.

Notes are out
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

Lol the client is trying really hard to get the patch downloaded, I am about half-way now but it keeps breaking down and reconnecting.

Well the only patch notes we have atm are here https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-november-update/

Huge patch but im sure 15 minutes of your life could be spent doing something else….

Lol apparently I can’t even download it. getting “Connection errors detected”

I’m at 46% and 355MB in… judging by this sample, could be around 720-750MB? give or take depending how good live stats are…

EDIT… I hit 50% at 409MB… could be more by these calculations… 820MB new estimate?

Sef.6918:

it was supposed to be at noon PST and nothing… i just wanted to log on to see the changes to my profession, now im going to slit my rists!

What the …… your going to do what now !!! Seriously ease up ……

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

DashutoRyoko.5463:

Notes are out
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

Thank you very much

Yeah I was thinking it’s around 750MB going off my progress indicator.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

DISCUSS!

1) “Ascended rarity falls between Exotics and Legendaries on the rarity spectrum.”
Do you mean legendary weapons? Arent they still exotic in quality? Or is there going to be a legendary quality? >_<

50% 355.72 Already half way there with the connection errors etc etc

people complain about the weirdest things, arenanet has the best patching style in any mmorpg ever and still people complain !

WoW: has a weekly scheduled downtime of hours for maintenance plus more hours for updates.

Swtor: same as wow but more hours needed.

GW: minimum down time all you need is to download the new build and play !

Still people complain seriously !!

well if it’s any indicator (I know it won’t be but hey), it was 8k odd files, mine’s now halfway and I’ve dl’d 325mb .

They can easily do what wow does and use a background downloader, instead of forcing people to download it all at once.

Thanks for posting that.

Thing is, its based on the number of files, not on the total size so you cant judge by the %.

Im done with the DL… Why the fuss?

patch notes are up, news

I agree, it’s so strange that all this new content didn’t fit in a single megabyte.

Faction.4013:

See what I did there?

You took my silly example and tried to make it even sillier ?

More seriously, it was just a way of showing how you can inform people on upcoming changes, without necessarily inducing a sudden market speculation. Anyway, I guess whatever changes will come, there always will be mass speculation… So I will concede that you and Ari Kagura are both right on the matter. It’s difficult to inform people, and expect them not to overreact.

Nevertheless, I just wanted to explain that players like to have constant info about upcoming changes. Giving the impression that Anet know about current issues, and are able to prioritize them. Surely, stuff about up and nerf is not the most relevant thing in this matter. But maybe about current troubles that we meet everyday in game. Bugged event for instance ?
About that, I was pretty surprised that people already knew a week ago that the exploit allowing mesmer to port people through Ara’s gate would be fixed, but didn’t have a clue about the event in itself, and whether any fix would be done about that.

I have to admit, this issue is quite delicate, and I know it’s not easy to come up with a solution that will satisfy everyone.