Guild Wars 2

Ario.8964:

As the topic says, is there any intention of anet to add other legendary backpacks requiring the spending of league tickets to obtain or are we free to spend them on ascended backpacks and llamas?

There are no current plans for a new backpack. But that does not mean never.

It was announced. We actually had this in at the end of last season, with a much smaller number, since it wasn’t announced at the start. For this season the total games needed to get on the leaderboard goes up by 15 each week.

Xanctus The Dragonslayer.2318:

I just took a look at EU leaderboard and saw that numbers 2 Metrix and Sindrener are not ranked numbers 1 and 2 respectively. I also saw that the game requirement changed from 15 to 30. I tought that u simply needed to play a minimal of 15 games in general to get a position at the leaderboard. Is my leaderboard bugged? Or did I misunderstood the game requirement for the leaderboard? does it change weekly? What are the rules regarding to the leaderboard and maintaing that position?

The number of required games goes up every week.

I’ve been keeping an eye on this post, and I’ve seen several comments asking for the removal of the penalty box. Unfortunately, that mechanic is intricately involved in the design of the entire instance and removing it is simply not feasible.

Added an icon field to v1/event_details; it should reach live in a month or so (release process takes awhile). Some events don’t have icons — I presume that the event icon, if specified, overrides the default icon.

Dariya.9380:

NeXeD.3042:

would really skew the ratings with DC’s and afkers

On paper, nothing would change if we still have DCers and AFKers. However, if the proposed system is implemented it would perhaps encourage players to try harder.

So for example if the score is 500-480:

Winning team +17
Losing team -5 (instead of -17)

Glicko would actually give +5 for the winning team (simplified example). So the winning team would also be encouraged to win by as much as possible.

Chaba.5410:

Edit: Your inbox is full (figures). What’s the best way to send you the key?

orz, cleared out my inbox. You can PM me, or email to lawton@arena.net.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when attempting to deploy siege disabler after deleting the item from inventory.

Sol.6213:

sheriffsauer.com is gone. Domain expired on 3/1/2017. No point in this sticky anymore.

Thank you for pointing that out. I’ll unsticky this thread.

If someone picks up the ball and runs with it in relation to this resource, we’ll be happy to consider re-stickying an updated thread, or stickying a new one.

There are some interesting suggestions here, and I will pass them along today.

I’m sorry for what happened, Doug, but glad you got everything quickly sorted out! Thanks for sharing your observations, and thanks to others for adding their thoughts.

Rating volatility goes down as you play. Your friend as played 3 times as many games as you this season.

BlackBeard.2873:

These are looking a little bit better, but a few concerns:

1. Why do some sigils apply there effect on-swap (stagnation, revelation) as opposed to on your next attack after swapping. I think there is more counterplay if these proc on-next attack (aoe around target) as opposed to instantly.
2. For sigils that have longer CD’s, is there any idea on how this will work with engie and ele (or warrior with fast hands), who will be 50% less efficient taking these sigils. For instance, something like a ranger can put escape and revelation on one weapon, then greater nullification and something else on the other weapon, and get 4 procs over a 20s period. Ele and engie, meanwhile, would be stuck with just 2 procs. Likewise, other on-swap effects have less control for these two classes.
3. Duration sigils should not all be the same duration. 25% longer burn is WAY stronger than 25% longer vulnerability. Similarly, 25% longer bleeds doesn’t do as much for you as 25% longer burns, as burns are applied as a burst condi, while bleeds get built up and cleansed when there is a large stack.
4. Purity, cleansing, and escape: This is a LOT of condition cleansing available. It is conceivable to remove up to 4 conditions from a single swap (slotting cleansing + escape) which really helps builds that might struggle with condis (something like druid will put these super-defensive sigils on their “now I just spam defensive evades” weapon set) and hurt condition builds who are already getting some of their free proc-bursts reduced?

1. We have been debating which effect makes more sense.
2. The longer cooldowns are simply because we like the effect, but are just too strong for classes that have frequent access to ‘swaps’ like engie and warr. You are right in that they have much less control. However, making every sigil viable on every class/build is probably an unrealistic goal.
3. We will look at the numbers
4. Escape was changed from only cleansing immobilize because it felt weak, but perhaps it could do something like only cleanse cripple/chill?

Artaz.3819:

nicknamenick.2437:

25% more burn

or

25% more vuln..

lol like Blackbeard mentioned, these should not have the same %.

After some rough math, all the condi duration sigils are way too high. What happened is the Force/Air/Fire/Blood/Leeching/Hydromancy sigils have been removed and basically replaced with mostly lesser Direct Damage versions in the pvp sigil overhaul. The exception is condition duration (which correlates to damage output over time) sigils have been increased 20% in value (increased from +20% to +25%).

If anything, all these damage condi sigils need to be reduced as well by 20%-25% or should be +15% duration sigils. Vulnerability (and if added, any other non damaging sigils) could easily be +25% and not impact much of the play.

We will take more looks at the numbers. It could be that 20% is fine with a new set of available sigils.

Shwyx.8190:

I don’t understand the strong focus on swapping sigils.

It’s essentially a gimmicky mechanic that goes contrary to how the game is played at any other point in time: you swap for melee/ranged or to access another skill.

Sure, a skilled player will now be able to reveal or steal a boon. Everyone else will probably lock themselves out of the weapon they need, or simply not utilize the mechanic.

It’s fair that there can be conflict between sigils and weapon swapping. If the sigil has a powerful effect, you care more about holding weapon swap for the sigil than the weapon skills. Ideally all on-swap sigils could complement your choice of weapons and not overshadow them.

Some months ago, we asked forum members to not create or engage in threads requesting the reopening of a server or the adjustment of Glicko ratings for a specific server. We explained why at the time, but a little more information and an expansion of our request seems in order at this time.

Server Reopening Requests: Worlds reopen most often due to the natural ebb and flow of players, which impacts the number of play hours on a given world. If a world reopens, it is usually because players or guilds changed worlds, players have stopped playing on that world, or, rarely, because we made an overall adjustment to world capacity. We do not reopen servers upon request and ask that you not post such appeals.

Thread about Worlds: While we appreciate “world pride,” quite a few threads about game worlds become unnecessarily contentious and negative, and we need to close those. Sometimes the mods use the term “matchup thread” when taking action. Yet you should know it’s not the matchup that’s the problem, it’s the unpleasant comments or tone. I’ll work with the moderators to help them make closures, warnings, and infractions clearer.

• An example of such a thread is here. As you can see, the thread included several insults. If you want to bash a world or a player, do it in the game!

Glicko Resets: The devs don’t reset a Glicko rating upon request, and resets are not based on perceptions or opinions but on factual data derived from the game info itself. We’ve seen understandable confusion when a reset takes place shortly after someone posts a request thread, or when a reset did not happen even though someone requested it. In order to avoid that kind of confusion, we ask that players not submit Glicko reset requests.

• Here’s an example of such a thread. Again, the thread became unpleasant and the initial request wasn’t in line for action, anyway.

Arguing World Links: The devs make world linking decisions after on a neutral review of data, using algorithms, and based on their best judgment. If you want to discuss your opinions about specific world linkings, you’re welcome to do so. If you have questions, my best advice is to pose your questions in a conversational (not combative) way, because sometimes a dev will be able to provide some information, such as here. However, as a general rule, ArenaNet employees simply do not have the time that would be required to answer individual questions or debate a world linking topic. They do read the forums, however, and will review your constructive feedback on the subject.

I hope these additional details and explanations will help everyone understand our desire for communication coupled with our need to set realistic standards for discussions and forum topics.

We have temporarily disabled the acquisition and use of the Siege Disabler item in order to correct a bug related to the item. We will re-enable the item as soon as the bug has been corrected.

We have temporarily disabled the acquisition and/or use of the Siege Disabler item in order to correct a bug related to the item. We will re-enable the item as soon as the bug has been corrected.

So funny thing, I looked at the actual bits and bobbles after posting that. Not only was I totally mistaken about the story data being hard to expose, at some point I’d already written the backend implementation to dump out the journal stuff?

It needs to be massaged into a usable API, but I can probably have a PR for the details on github next week.

The patch last night shouldn’t have had any effect on the API stuff (but then again, distributed systems happy fun times).

Do you happen to have the actual error string? Is it “invalid key” or “ErrBadData” or something else? There’s an unexpected blip around that time which would have generated ErrBadData — but that wouldn’t make keys go invalid permanently?

I’ll spend some time rooting around to see if I can some idea about what could have caused this :<

EDIT: Do you happen to still have the broken API keys? On Jeremy’s account I’m seeing what may be two broken keys? But want to verify that I’m looking at. They probably won’t be in the account site anymore — you’ll have to get them from whomever runs the TS verification bot.

EDIT2: This story is becoming more and more terrifying.

drunkenpilot.9837:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Wow, that’s wonderful! Congrats on that reward.

~Muses to self: I wonder if I need to try that kitten-y kitten of a kitten-y JP again.~

As I say to anyone who has trouble with JP’s, if you need a mesmer to help you out, feel free to whisper me. I love running jumping puzzles and am more than happy to assist with any JP in the game.

Though I doubt you’ll take me up on the offer, the offer is there nonetheless. And that goes for anyone reading this.

Very kind of you, DP. At one time I eschewed any help in doing JPs, because I thought that might be “cheaty.” Then I asked a dev and they told me that getting help from other players is part of the game, and that there are some designs that definitely benefit from — maybe are designed to lean towards — the assistance of one of our amazing mesmers. So now I do avail myself of their help, and quite honestly, mesmers have been responsible for quite a few dailies completions for me (you know who you are!), with the attendant reduction in bruising from pounding my head against the keyboard.

So thanks for the offer, and y’know, I may just reach out sometime!

Greener.6204:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

DeanBB.4268:

Next up: My first precursor?

You never know. My precursor came from the King Jalis Refuge jp in Snowden Drifts.

I traded in six frozen weapon fragments yesterday, thinking “mmm, two ecto”.

I got the Leaf of Kudzu, and a Shamans weapon used to make the corrupted shard.

Slippy, this is something I’ve never done before so I hope you take no offense to it, but could I rub my mouse on you? Perhaps my keyboard, as well? And if you hold really still, I can grab my computer tower… Oh, and I would be remiss if I left out my router. Would the cables be taking it too far?

I think somewhere around “router” is where you crossed that line.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a bug that caused the Deimos fight to behave incorrectly.

roj.1085:

Am I missing something? Is there a clear story progress indicator that you can tease out of character or achievements?

Not currently, unfortunately. The hacky achievement approach is the closest you can get to via the API, at the moment.

roj.1085:

Likewise, you can cobble together that first list from achievements; I’m actually currently doing this, you can look at the achievement for twilight arbor (twilight’s idol) and the part of it with ‘story’ in the name is the story

Annoyingly enough, the story mode completions are tracked on a per-character basis, not per-account. There’s no current way to get those per-character unlocks out of the API

Other notes:

• issue for exploration bits.
• issue for story progress.

The exploration/story stuff is, uhh, surprisingly complex and very difficult to expose in a structured manner.

Shaman.2034:

Dariya.9380:

Can Sigil of Compounding stack?

From the last thread, it stacks to 5%. Same with Punishment.

We’ve gone back and forth on this, so I have the percentages unlisted at the moment. The conditional damage is harder to reach than the other conditional sigils, so it could be balanced if there is a higher limit than 5% or no limit on the damage increase.

Svarty.8019:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sigil of Paralyzation
+30% Stun duration
Deal 3% more damage versus disabled foes.

30% more stun?! This seems rather powerful to me.
Will there be any nerf to stunlock in the patch, or can we just expect nerf to damage?

I ask because if there is no new mechanic to put a cap on stun, I suspect that even though damage is nerfed, people will still be dead before they can do anything. Which isn’t fun.

If you think it’s OP, then you should go use it because it’s on live right now, but without the damage increase

I think this is very well done. It’s a pleasure to hear this, and honestly, your voice is exceptional! The range on this particular song and the various modulations in key are very challenging — you handled both well.

Since you said this was a work in progress, I look forward to hearing future versions. Keep up the good work!

Roksiel.6123:

This is for Cernoch, one of my guildies from River of Tears. The character’s name is Kuchi Fluffy Tail, a Guardian Charr he often uses in WvW. He’s usually the last one standing, so this painting is not that far from the truth. XD

deviantArt | tumblr

LOVE this! Although I’ve already selected art for the March CSL show, you know that pieces can be featured on a future show!

You should read the Content Terms of Use for information on the use of our IP (Intellectual Property), which of course includes art assets. Here’s that document: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-content-terms-of-use/

As you can see, creating something for your own personal use, or as a gift, is different that contemplating creating something to sell. I’m sure you can understand that allowing individuals or companies to sell merchandise without permission or licensing is not a reasonable thing for us to do. No matter the size or scale of such an endeavor, we need to carefully retain all rights to our own properties.

However, there is a possible outlet for your creativity! Check out the WeLoveFine Fan Forge: http://www.welovefine.com/feature/guild-wars-2-fan-forge-info.html You can submit your ideas for merchandise, and if it is selected (there’s a fan vote system which, in part, determines what is made) then you would earn a royalty on each piece sold.

We’re getting set to offer you this month’s CSL, coming to you live on…

Wednesday, March 15th, at Noon Pacific time.

Special guest this month is the amazing Bobby Stein!

Join Bobby and me while we look at some incredible fan art. Our community is sharing so much great art on the forums and Tumblr that I already have 10 selected for April, and another dozen for next February’s Valentine’s show!

We look forward to seeing you on March 15th. (And yes, there will be a giveaway! )

I’ve posted the second iteration of the proposal here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Sigil-Proposals-v2/first

There has been some good discussion internally and externally regarding the sigil proposals. The biggest changes in v2 are the re-addition of condition duration sigils and additional percent damage sigils. Some number tweaks were made across the board.

The first proposal discussion is here.

On Hit

Sigil of Frailty
On hit: Inflict Vulnerability (10 Seconds).
(Cooldown: 2 Seconds)

Sigil of Generosity
On hit: transfer a Condition to your foe.
(Cooldown: 15 Seconds)

Sigil of Purity
On hit: Remove a Condition
(Cooldown: 10 Seconds)

Sigil of Nullification
On hit: Remove a Boon
(Cooldown: 10 Seconds)

Sigil of Strength
On hit: Gain Might (10 Seconds).
(Cooldown: 2 Second)

On Swap

Sigil of Agility
Gain 5 seconds of swiftness and 1 second of quickness when you swap to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Sigil of Battle
Gain 4 stacks of might (5 seconds) when you swap to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 9 seconds)

Sigil of Doom
Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts Poison (5 seconds).
(Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Sigil of Energy
Gain 25% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 9 seconds)

Sigil of Exposure
Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts 5 stacks of Vulnerability (5 Seconds).
(Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Sigil of Stagnation
Cripple nearby foes when swapping to this weapon while in combat (3 Seconds, 240 Radius).
(Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Sigil of Intelligence
Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat have a 100% critical chance.
(Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Sigil of Escape
Remove movement-impairing effect from yourself when swapping to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 18 Seconds)

Sigil of Revelation
Reveal enemies around you when swapping to this weapon (1/4 seconds, 240 radius).
(Cooldown: 18 Seconds)

Sigil of Greater Nullification
Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat removes 2 boons from your target.
(Cooldown: 18 Seconds)

Sigil of Cleansing
Remove 1 conditions when you swap to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Passive

Sigil of Compounding
Deal 1% extra damage per condition on your foe.

Sigil of Exploitation
Deal 5% extra damage to targets below 50% health.

Sigil of Opportunity
Deal 5% extra damage to movement-impaired foes.

Sigil of Punishment
Deal 1% extra damage per boon on your foe.

Sigil of Separation
Deal 5% extra damage to targets more than 500 distance away.

Sigil of Paralyzation
+30% Stun duration
Deal 3% more damage versus disabled foes.

Sigil of Agony
Increased Inflicted Bleeding Duration: 25%

Sigil of Peril
Increased Inflicted Vulnerability Duration: 25%

Sigil of Smoldering
Increase Inflicted Burning Duration: 25%

Sigil of Venom
Increase Inflicted Poison Duration: 25%

Sigil of +Confusion
Increase Inflicted Confusion Duration: 25%

Sigil of +Torment
Increase Inflicted Torment Duration: 25%

Update 3/15:
We’ve made some minor revisions to this list

• Removed Sigil of Generosity. We didn’t like the inconsistent on-hit cooldowns required for balance.
• Doubled Sigil of Agility cooldown and double quickness duration to 2 seconds.
• Removed Sigil of Revelation. While we like this effect, we will keep it in our back pocket for some more thought.
• Sigil of Punishment is now Sigil of Enhancement and deals .5% damage per boon on yourself. We didn’t like the idea of a damage bonuses based on something you didn’t have direct control over.
• Removed Sigl of Peril. We don’t feel this sigil would be a strong choice compared to the other condition duration sigils.
• NEW: Sigil of Ruthlessness: Gain 5 might (3 seconds) when interrupting a foe.
• NEW: Sigil of Absorption: Steal a boon when interruption a foe.
• Various sigils that changed have been renamed (not listed).

Altie.4571:

So a dual longbow with the animation of the character head banging each time they shoot a bow?

I can imagine rapid fire right now with dual longbows on a ranger!
Thanks for the image Ben, it cannot be unseen….

Perhaps I will suggest it to Karl as a new elite spec. Heavy Metal Ranger.

DeanBB.4268:

Next up: My first precursor?

Magic 8 Ball Says: Reply hazy try again.

Wow, that’s wonderful! Congrats on that reward.

~Muses to self: I wonder if I need to try that kitten-y kitten of a kitten-y JP again.~

I don’t need my Legendaries. I can play just fine with some well-chosen exotics. The thing is, though, I want my Legendaries, and I don’t regret the time, effort, or expense involved in acquiring them.

Other players’ mileage may vary. Some will like A, others will prefer B. No one is right or wrong, and only you can make the decision about which to get, or whether to try for one at all.

But every time I take one of my bows in hand, I’m happy. I mean, I honestly think about that every time I play. Not that others see them, or admire them, or they’re super-special and rather rare, although I guess any of that may be true. I love them because they’re just so beautiful, and awesome, and they make me smile.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The gem/gold exchange needs to be regulated. It’s always high when I want low and low when I want high. This is unacceptable

What, that happens to you, too?

Sister Saxifrage.7361:

…I won’t pretend it’s optimal; it’s just fun.

And that in my opinion, is what matters most. Hey, I play dual-bow Ranger, for goodness sake!

vpy.6183:

Ranger has been boring for me as my pet takes care of almost everything for me.

Sorry, but that’s blasphemy! Ranger is the best. Full stop.

zealex.9410:

for me is mesmer but mesmer is a wierd class

But oh so good to party with, and our mesmer community is marvelous with helping get the dailies! I am a major mesmer fan!

Hm. I guess I say “Thank you for the helpful thread” and leave it at that?

We did at one point explore the possibility of account bound AR, but in the end decided on simplifying the agony system (back when we simplified infusions) rather than doing a huge system change.

A larger system change would have taken many resources away from actually building content, and would have caused other problems. Like.. what happens to agony infusions? All those infusions on the market suddenly either become worthless, or need some other reason to be consumed. Additionally, what would the effect be on ascended gear? Would you need ascended gear still? What happens to demand?

Ideally we would have designed the system as account bound in the first place, but that is not the reality we live in.

Unfortunately, at this point I do not see a switch to account bound AR any time in our future

Fractals Leak

Don’t tell anyone. I’ll get fired.

Exedore.6320:

Just to clarify, the list in the original post are the only options once this change goes through?

That is the proposal, yes.

Nice times! The chrono PoV was particularly interesting of course. I wonder if you guys could have shaved off a couple seconds by moving the dredge boss to the next bucket slightly faster.

Cicilla.4038:

Technically there is a way to semi-“auto-salvage” gear and loot if you right click your salvage kits. I told my fiance about it and he went from whining about having to salvage everything to going right back out to farm so he could play with the auto-salvage button again.

As for the auto-selling…is it really that big a deal to find a random merchant on the map or (if you have one) go to the guild hall and sell things off? And auto-gathering sounds more like a cheat code to me than playing the game as intended.

I guess I forgot you can do that with kits. I sure do it daily with my Copper- and Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matics. (Why I put off buying those things is beyond me, btw!) Anyway, with a right click, I’m noticing a huge savings in time and it’s fun as heck to count the goodies fly by as I go through a batch.

DiogoSilva.7089:

I know this is a pvp discussion, but I have a question for Anet. Are theese changes going to hit pvE someday? or, alternatively, considering the massive split between pve and pve sigils that will come from this patch, will this open the opportunity for the skill & balance team to make PvE sigils stronger and more impactful without fear of pvp balance?

The skills & balance team can make whatever changes to the PvE sigils they see fit without affecting PvP sigils.

OriOri.8724:

Do you have a timeline of when this update will ship? Will we see it during S6? Before S7? End of 2017? When?

We have a few target dates, which we can’t share yet. But definitely not during S6. Especially considering we’ll need to work with the Skills & Balance team to make skill changes in support of these changes.

Timelord.8190:

Can we make it so that sigils isn’t attached to the weapon itself but in a standalone slots? Which also would work better for the balancing of the game. When you got 2 classes that only has two sigils to work with at the time (ele and engi) this really becomes unfair when you see on the other classes who can use bloodlust on one weaponset and swich over to the other weapon set without the bloodlust sigl and still have the bloodlust effect activated.

Bloodlust would be removed.

We’ve decided that Sigil of Lethargy (slow) will not be a thing that happens.

03/07/2017 – Late Note

Necromancer
Epidemic—WvW Only: This ability no longer has an effect on structures or targets with resistance. Updated the description to indicate this WvW-only functionality.