Guild Wars 2

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All of us (GMs) have character names starting with GM (GM Proheals, for example). We are online 24/7 and responding to reports sent by you via the in-game reporting system. 98% of the time we’re invisible clearing bots and the like.

To remove someone using hacks (teleports, speed, etc) we have to witness the act in game so you must use the in-game reporting tool. The only exception is if you can point us to chat where the player cheating has said they are using a 3rd party program.

Hope this helps, I’ll check in later for questions.

Hello Geekfox! If you don’t mind, could you provide a name of someone in that particular who would be willing to serve as a taxi into that particular map instance? We’d like to send in a krewe to investigate and see if we can identify the root of the issue once and for all!

Edit: In addition to this, please let us know precisely where it has stalled along the chain. The more information you can provide, the better equipped we are when approaching the event!

Thanks!

Thanks for the report. The team is aware of the issue and currently working towards a solution. Sorry I can’t provide and ETA for a fix at this time.

The team is aware of this issue and actively working towards a solution. I don’t have an ETA for a fix at this time.

Did you play “Source of Orr” with another player as the person who started the story step, and accept their progress? At the end of “Source of Orr” it does a check to see if the story owner completed “Temple of the Forgotten God” (i.e. they’ve played chapter 8 already) and sends them to the final step IF they already played it. If they haven’t played that step, it sends them to that step so they won’t miss any of the Chapter 8 steps.

11/18/14 – November 18 Release Notes
Release Notes:
LIVING WORLD
Tangled Paths
The war against Mordremoth rages on in the Silverwastes as a new mystery arises. The Zephyrite Master of Peace has taken his precious cargo beyond the front lines. Where has he gone, and what answers will he give if he’s found?
Achievements
After completing “Tangled Paths,” showcase your tactical mastery as a hero of Tyria by completing challenging, episode-related achievements.
Rewards

• With the release of “Tangled Paths,” players can continue to build their Carapace and Luminescent armor sets by collecting the light, medium, and heavy gloves.
  • Carapace gloves are obtained by completing the new Silverwastes reward track, completing the storyline, and exploring the Silverwastes.
  • Players will once again have the chance to prove their mastery of the region by unlocking all three weight classes of Luminescent glove armor to complete the Luminescent Gloves collection.
• Explore the newly discovered labyrinth, and find nightmare pods full of rich rewards.
  • Nightmare fragments can be found in small pods throughout the maze. Combine them with a bandit skeleton key to open the greater nightmare pod.
  • The greater nightmare pod contains rare and masterwork gear, dragonite ore, and a chance to discover new recipes for Bountiful and Furious Maintenance Oils, Sharpening Stones, and Tuning Crystals.

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from assigning, removing, or reassigning healing, utility, or elite skills while in a cosmetic transformation (e.g., during the siege of Ascalon in the Urban Battlegrounds fractal).

World Polish

• Silverwastes
  • The cryptobotanist now correctly indicates the parts he is looking for.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

• World Tournament finishers are available to support your favorite region in the World Tournament Finals. Players purchasing the winning region’s finisher before the finals will receive three Celebration Boosters after the event. Each region’s finisher is available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 600 gems each.
• A new Pact weapon set is available at Black Lion Weapon Specialists for a limited-time price of one ticket per weapon. Tickets can be found inside Black Lion Chests.
• The Jungle Explorer outfit is now available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 700 gems.

Copestetic.5174:

Josh Davis.6015:

skcamow.3527:

Josh mentioned a special RU episode during the last one, but I didn’t catch when that was going to be. I thought he said it wasn’t going to be it’s normal time. Anyone know that info?

Next Ready Up is Wednesday, November 26th, at 12PM PST. The upcoming Thursday (11/27) is Thanksgiving in the US, and the studio will be closed on the following Friday.

On the last Ready Up, you mentioned to stay-tuned this week for some updates regarding PvP ( or at least how I interpreted it ). Will that information be distributed through PoI?

Nope, it will not be distributed through PoI, but you should watch it anyways!

skcamow.3527:

Josh mentioned a special RU episode during the last one, but I didn’t catch when that was going to be. I thought he said it wasn’t going to be it’s normal time. Anyone know that info?

Next Ready Up is Wednesday, November 26th, at 12PM PST. The upcoming Thursday (11/27) is Thanksgiving in the US, and the studio will be closed on the following Friday.

The event is on December 5th, at 1am PST. We’re in China, and that unfortunately means that at least one of the involved regions is going to have the event happen at a bad time for them. The event is during Chinese prime-time on Friday evening (16 hour time difference, after all).

We’ll be releasing more information on the tournament over the next few weeks.

Ayrilana.1396:

This is about DR. Is it based on when you kill something or when you pick up the loot? I vaguely remember people stating during the Blixx farm to pick up loot in 4 min intervals to slow down DR. Assume you’re allowed to answer this of course.

I cannot speak on the specifics, but I will say that it’s not really a thing anymore. In the last hour 26 people hit DR. Virtually nobody ever hits DR.

Discussion of moderation policies or decisions is not permitted on the forums. Please send an email to forums@arena.net to appeal a moderator decision.

Right now we’re sort of splitting out things you can “spend” between three different places: Your inventory, your bank, and your wallet.

At its core, we need to decide on one of these to compliment your inventory and call it good. As we’re continuing to introduce more items like the geodes and bandit “hello my name is” crests, this has obviously become even more of an issue

Ultimately, we either need to let you spend materials from your bank directly at vendors so you don’t need to keep them in your inventory (and then make geodes/crests materials) OR continue to make the wallet larger and larger. Or option #3 we haven’t considered yet you might think of in this suggestion forum!

Either way, we’re aware of the need and will address it “when it’s ready™”.

Congrats to the Abjured and Cheese Mode on taking week three.

There’s two options for respawns in custom arenas – wave and individual.

Setting a custom arena to wave will give you different respawn timers based on the game timer, such as Zietlogik mentioned. Individual will give you a static respawn time, regardless of how/when you were stomped out.

The aforementioned settings can be found in the custom arena control panel.

Welcome to our community! I hope you have a long, pleasurable time playing Guild Wars 2.

One asset that I don’t think was mentioned previously is the awesome Guild Wars 2 Wiki. I really like the details provided, and of course the Discussion pages are active, beyond the “facts and figures” provided one each specific page. For instance, you might look up skill points on the wiki, and when you get to that page, note that there are player tips and suggestions on the related discussion page.

Our wiki community is incredibly passionate, active, and dedicated, and I encourage you to visit that incredible resource any time you’d like to know more about the game! (Of course, the forums are a fantastic place, too — but when you’re in the game and need some quick info, the wiki has it right there without waiting for an answer.)

See you in Tyria!

Cithryth — I agree with you, there’s so much “under the surface” that we can do to customize our characters and our experiences. I love the dye system, and some of the names just make me smile. The skinning is wonderful! Back in the day, I was known to keep a bow or piece of armor in GW, even if it was inferior to other items, simply because I loved the look. Now, best of both worlds.

Vikkela is right, there are even more options through the makeover kits. I forget that fact myself, at times: that amongst all the face choices, there are even more in the kits. (No, this is not a “brief commercial message” for the Black Lion Trading Company, just a note that, again, the choices are so plentiful!

I hope you and your husband have many years of pleasure in Tyria!

Glad that sorted out for you, poke. And thanks for updating.

I’m sort of mulling over whether this suggestion might be best in the Black Lion Trading Company Sub-forum. It seems to me it would be more likely to be seen by the relevant devs in that forum.

OP — you might want to make a [Suggestion] thread over there and if you do, please flag this thread with a request for closure so a moderator can close it, to focus the discussion in that new thread.

Thanks.

We seem to have a couple of threads about this, and while they may not fit together perfectly, for efficiency and broadening the discussion, I’ll merge them now.

Please note that reporting for exploits may or may not be a workable solution, as the data required may be different than that culled for other types of in-game reports. The devs may be able to look into that in the future.

In the meantime, thanks for understanding if the thread seems a little messy, but in the end, good input is welcome!

MountainPanda.5831:

After almost a year and completely find that GW2 had changed so much. I start to appreciate the effiency of the devs in GW2 in terms of speed of fixes, class balances and content. Yes, some stuffs are delayed but imagine ESO could not even fix guild bank and took weeks to fix gamebreaking exploits and still could not fix the problem. You wont see ppl working together for world events coz there are non.

My point is, be thankful to GW2 team for a good game with high replayability. I am enjoying the dungeons, pvp and world bosses. Thank you Anet, you guys are great.

Thanks a lot for your insights, MountainPanda! And welcome back to Tyria.

You can report the use of exploits via Exploits@Arena.Net. That’s the better course than adding a check-box to the report function in the game, because it allows you to describe what’s going on.

I’ll ask about changes and improvements to the in-game reporting system. This is something that’s come up in the past, and I’ve thought about, too. I’ll see if we can learn if this is in the works.

In the meantime, player input is welcome on how to improve the reporting system. One stipulation: I have never heard internally that there are plans to add the ability to “write notes” in the in-game report system. That may be on the docket, but at this time it would be best to make your suggestions around the existing system and not based on one that would include report notes.

Thank you.

Infernia.9847:

I think a major question should be asked before this change takes place:
Exactly how event scaling works.

The GW2 Wiki page:

Events scale both up and down according to the number of players who are currently participating. Events can scale in a number of ways:

Enemy stats can be increased
Enemies can gain new abilities
New enemy types may appear, including veterans or even champion versions
Enemy count can be increased
Objective requirements may increase

Most events scale for up to 10 players.Group events and large scale events such as the finale for meta events will scale much higher. For example, The Shatterer scales up to 100 players. Events can detect that players have not performed any actions relating to the event within a period of time and will scale down the event accordingly.

Dang, I knew I should have consulted the wiki about that!

I wasn’t sure if scaling adjusted (as it clearly does) and that was one of the questions I was going to ask the devs. So thanks for sharing that info!

This is an interesting idea. I’d love other feedback on this before taking questions to the dev team. (I’m sure they’ve thought of this, but there may be info to share on the subject.)

What do you guys think about auto-waypointing people (assuming after a certain period, of course) in the midst of specific types of combat encounters? And because I don’t think it’d work for every situation, can you specify which combat instances you believe would benefit from this functionality? Somehow I think dying to a rampaging bandit in Ashford wouldn’t count.

Crovax — I hope you don’t mind, but I changed “bad” to “downed” in the subject. It just seems better (and more relevant) that way. S’ok?

Gulesave.5073:

Gaile was not asking whether the promise of more LW is sufficient to sate our desires for intel, just whether it counts.

Yes, this is correct. When I see comments like “there’s nothing new to do” or “we need fresh content” it just occurred to me to ask if you’re taking LW into account, if you see that as new content and pretty significant chunks of it, at that. (Admittedly, it may not be what you personally have requested, but if the statement is “there’s nothing new” that doesn’t seem quite right.)

Thanks everyone for not barking at me when I asked the question. Again, the question was not “is it enough?” I really was pointing to it to ask for your impressions of the concept and the execution as continuing, new content in an ever-changing world.

Please see a similar discussion in the Audio Sub-Forum and do feel free to share your suggestions in the sub-forum as well!

Thanks.

Alerno — Taking what you have (and everyone else has) put on the table I do wonder something. I want to ask, and hope nobody will bite my head off here.

You mention wanting to know there will be more to the game. The new and continuing episodes of the Living World count towards that, right? The fact that players know there’s a team working on new content and features, and that there are releases on a regular basis? I fully understand that may not fulfill every desire, but it does show a continuing commitment to “new stuff” for us players, wouldn’t you agree?

Here’s a merge of two threads about the in-game reporting system. For efficiency I’ve merged, and we welcome your continued input.

GoogleBrandon.5073:

Ayrilana.1396:

Is that a soda can on the bottom left of the picture?

I cannot quite tell what kind of beverage that is, can someone inform me? This is really intrigueing

After several image-enhancing filters, meticulous manual levels adjustments, magnifications, and Josh telling me, it is diet dr. pepper.

Do you think it would go over well now or better in the spring?

I’m happy to ask the team, but I imagine they’d want to schedule it properly.

The viola is an awesome instrument, often rather forgotten because it’s overshadowed by the fact that so many orchestras have a gazillion violins.

I hope it happens!

Thank you, Rip. Voice of reason here.

Jmaster: I’m sure you know this, but you can locate the nearby nodes shown on your overmap by holding down Ctrl and looking around the local map.

What a lovely post, and so perfect for a Friday evening after a busy week.

Thank you for the graciousness of posting, all of you.

<3 <3 <3

Torsailr.8456:

Ok, time to get to the heart of who Evan is.

Coke or Pepsi?

Tea plz.

maestrochino.7104:

I pass this every day to work and think, “Ooh, an undiscovered waypoint!”.

:D

brunana.8519:

When you try to collect rewards from the Thomas Cook in town…

That is darling! <3

Fyrebrand.4859:

Some (embarrassing) real-life ones for me:

• I’m watching a gameplay video of GW2 and I try to hover my mouse over their skills to see more info

Oh, I have never done that. ~blush!

Aerinndis.2730:

Hubby has played too much because his license plate is now Tyria.

Seriously? Luv that!!

Raeysa Penrose.8450:

When your go-to reaction for people who get on your nerves is “Foo!”

I do that! Someone gets carried away and I say “Oh foo!”

Ok, I’m back. About Harry Potter…

I think that the whole basis for the presentation in this and other threads about communication has a few pillars. And it’s one of them that I’m thinking about. J. K. Rawlings wrote a series of well-loved books, and I am sure (although I didn’t follow it) that people gave feedback to her on every release, heck, probably every nuance of every release, and that they also provided suggestions for future books. It’s a natural thing: People were highly invested in the series, loved it a bunch, and wanted to know more, or to have input.

In that small sense — and yes, that’s only part of the communication question — I don’t think I’d want our team to communicate about the game’s direction. Like, “Yes, so in the future, all frogs will become sentient, treble in size, and take over Lion’s Arch, leading to the elimination of all non-amphibian races. Yep, yep, that’s where we’re heading with the story.” NOTE: This is NOT where the story is going. This is only a wildly-improbable scenario offered for purposes of… umm… providing a wildly-improbable scenario.

My question: Do you agree that it’s good to not share that sort of information, information related to the actual direction of the game saga as a whole?

If so, then my sense is that you want to know more about the nuts and bolts.

• “Are you looking at XXX new feature?”
• “Do you intend to improve ABC functionality?”
• “Is ### working as intended, or is it bugged, or will you incorporate player feedback to change it?”

Again, this is a small part of the discussion, but I wanted to make sure I was looking at that part accurately. I wondered if generally, no one is asking about the whole “Tell us where the story is going” bit.

You can’t go by the Wiki, since it’s showing the (restructured) story step order. If you were in Chapter 8 when “The Source of Orr” got moved to Chapter 7, you’ll still get that step near the end of Chapter 8.

dlonie.6547:

I still feel bad for Gaile. It feels like after the communication blow-up, they just shoved her outside of the ArenaNet fortress of silence, bound and gagged, and told her to do a little dance to keep us entertained. As much as I’d like to see the things she’s said in that thread come true, it’s not up to her to make them happen. :-(

<3 Gaile, even though I’ve been a kitty to you sometimes!

Hey, dlonie — <3 you too!

And that is not what happened, with me getting this job. I’m not bound and gagged and told “don’t dare talk to them!” On the contrary, I’m here to do whatever I can to increase our talking to you! That’s the objective for my whole team.

Quite honestly, this is my best, most favorite, most beloved of all opportunities, and I’m thrilled to be here. Extra thrilled to be able to give some tasty information, like this about Engineers or this about copyrights, or this about the Gem Conversion Tool and any variety of other significant topics that you care about. Ok, fine, happy, too, to talk with players about favorite game moments, attainments, welcomes, and squirrels, too.

I have a thought, but I have a meeting. I want to ask a question so I’ll come back to this in a while. Remind me: It has to do with Harry Potter.

Ayrilana.1396:

Is that a soda can on the bottom left of the picture?

Yeah that soda can is pretty cool, I guess. But look at that UI!

The teaser was a screenshot, not a trailer. I believe all ready up episodes get uploaded to youtube as well.

Please keep the conversation respectful, even if you strongly disagree with someone else.

Thank you.

Jinx.7258:

Bro, Ive always considered you as one of those devs like Grouch that are being liked by the community for w/e reasons. No offense but u dont know anything about what PvEr and PvPer stand for. There’s no such animal like PvX.

I disagree, there are certainly players that play multiple game modes. There are also PvE players that would play PvP, but just don’t know anything about it. I see this feedback every time we do a visible event which causes people to play PvP for the first time.

The amount of rewards produced via reward tracks have to be balanced very carefully with the amount of sinks in the game mode. Having a relatively fixed-rate of progress for all players also makes for unique balancing. This is why we need rewards that are skill-based.

Not all rewards have to translate to gold gain, though. Are there rewards that people would want or don’t feel are earned fast enough that don’t directly generate gold?

Silverwastes is also in the Maguuma region, so I hope we go back and update the reward track with the new rewards like bandit crests, keys, and shovels.

Liam O’Brien voices that character. We love Liam.

skullmount — thank you for taking that time, that’s very helpful!

And my apologies, too, for the off-topic conversation here.

ON the topic: I’ll remember this post and if there’s something new on the subject, will update.

Deified.7520:

You hit on the main point that we can’t make rewards tracks simply better than PvE farming. They are there as an alternative. Players can go between PvP and PvE and not feel like one section of the game is worth less of their time. If you burn out on farming events, come spice things up in PvP and still get rewards!

Reward tracks also give us the ability to put unique rewards into PvP, like we’ve already done. I don’t see a reason why we would stop. It’s an effective way to make people want to play PvP.

We also already have some RNG PvE rewards as guaranteed on reward tracks as well: Mystic clovers.

wwwes.1398:

Hey John, it seemed almost as if the huge influx of t5/t6 bones during the labyrinth were secretly designed to try and provide a floor for elder wood, knowing that a lot of people would use the opportunity to craft rare weapons. I don’t know whether this was actually the case or not, but in general, when you manage to sneak in some sort of hidden mechanism to shape the economy without the players really realizing, does it make you feel like a god? Do you laugh maniacally?

When we implement effective economic stimuli I do feel really good.

I also sometimes fall into fits of maniacal laughter, but I think that’s just a facet of my personality.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

the only time i wow’d

Show off.

Ok, just kidding. Congrats!

Are you suggesting that once you have a level 80, of any profession and race, you get some sort of advantage for every other character, including those of different professions, races, or personal stories?

Do you mean, for instance, that you play your Level 80 Mesmer, but the benefits (XP) go to your Level 10 Engineer and your Level 31 Thief? All of them? One designated one? Does that apply to karma and other attainments?

I’m curious about what you have in mind with this suggestion, so thanks for the details.

Using a macro to gain an advantage any time there is a reward or game progress involved would not be allowed so; No, macros would not be allowed for use to complete the Bell Choir event.