Guild Wars 2

Elfo Bianco.3786:

Your proposal is good as it has been described, but I don’t understand why to work with more than one language simultaneously.

It would make it take fewer requests to pull e.g. /v2/items into a local database.

It’s not a bad idea but it would require more refactoring than I have spare time for, I think.

OriOri.8724:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Spartacus.3192:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Spartacus.3192:

I really hope min games for next season will be at least 100 matches.

but thanks for doing this now.

We were thinking something like 10 per week, but it is configurable. We could to 1 a day, 20 per 2 weeks, etc.

The only problem with 10 per week is if people going on vacations for a week and failing the requirement,

So it could be every 2 weeks at least with a minimum total amount of at least 100 please.

The cutoff works just like dishonor in that if you come back and play those 10 games, you’ll go right back on the leaderboard. If you go on vacation a week before the season ends, well, then decay will remove you anyways.

So if I understand this correctly, someone could play just enough games to meet the minimum total requirement and place high on the leaderboards, AFK the entire rest of the season, then come back and play 10 more ranked games a day or two before the season ends and still keep their rank near the top? Or is this a 10 games per week thing where if they stop playing for say 7 weeks they have to play 70 games to get back on the leaderboard? Because I don’t think the prior is all that fair to the people who do play everyday and are risking their MMR every day.

The total is cumulative. If it’s 10 per week and an 8 week season, you need to have played 80 games by the end of the season.

BeepBoopBop.5403:

has the leaderboard been updated?

It will update when decay happens on daily reset.

Spartacus.3192:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Spartacus.3192:

I really hope min games for next season will be at least 100 matches.

but thanks for doing this now.

We were thinking something like 10 per week, but it is configurable. We could to 1 a day, 20 per 2 weeks, etc.

The only problem with 10 per week is if people going on vacations for a week and failing the requirement,

So it could be every 2 weeks at least with a minimum total amount of at least 100 please.

The cutoff works just like dishonor in that if you come back and play those 10 games, you’ll go right back on the leaderboard. If you go on vacation a week before the season ends, well, then decay will remove you anyways.

Spartacus.3192:

I really hope min games for next season will be at least 100 matches.

but thanks for doing this now.

We were thinking something like 10 per week, but it is configurable. We could to 1 a day, 20 per 2 weeks, etc.

A message from the PvP Team:

In order to ensure the league leaderboard maintains a display of healthy competition, we will be enabling a new minimum games requirement. Players who do not have the minimum number of games required to stay on the leaderboard will be removed each time decay is calculated.

The current season is more than half complete, so the games threshold will be set to a lower value than what we expect future seasons to use. The current minimum is 40 games. Future seasons will ramp up the minimum game requirement over the length of the season and a UI component will display this value.

We are excited to see how fierce the competition gets as the season comes to close. See you in The Mists!

Hi all,

We’re wrapping up work on Episode 4 of Living World Season 3 and expect to launch it in February, hitting our normal cadence of a new episode every 2~3 months. I want to give a quick heads-up here on a few topics that I know the community is anticipating, things that will and won’t be bundled with this episode.

This release will include the promised fix to AB multi-looting. The fix is simple: you can loot each of the great and grand chests once each time you complete the meta, once per map cycle.

This release will also include a new, challenging group-farming spot for leather.

This release won’t include legendary armor. We’re getting close to completion, though, and may be able to ship legendary armor with the Ep5 release.

This release won’t include a skill balance update. As we did last time, we’ll ship the next skill balance update off-cycle from Living World releases.

Mo

Thanks to everyone for helping Thralia get started on the game.

Thralia, your posts were removed because they did not simply ask for help, but also, like this one, made continuing complaints about necessary forum moderation. You are welcome — even encouraged! — to ask for help here. But please don’t continue to refer to past post removals, especially when they were initially removed because you were cross-posting in multiple forums, and especially since you were only given a note, no points, no penalty, and the moderators are simply doing their job of keeping the forums on topic and focused. You can imagine how the value of the forums would drop enormously if we had people making random duplicate posts all over the place!

Now that you’ve found this forum, and several players have shown themselves willing to help you, you should be good to go. And although you said you find the Guild Wars 2 Wiki “useless,” I assure you that, even as a veteran player, I find the wiki incredibly useful. It is a resource that I use virtually every day. Please note there are “Discussion” options for every single topic on the wiki. So if you have a question, you can post on the tab under the main page and someone may be able to expand on information if you need more details. Or, again, you’re welcome to post your questions here.

Best of luck in the future! And again, forum folks, thanks for helping this new player get started!

Chickens. So many chickens.

January 2017 Episode

Guest: Linsey Murdock, Design Team Lead — ArenaNet

• Lioka Qiao
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• Atomic Soldier
• Wilhengard
• Dona Vajgand
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• Portalentre
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• sbslink
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• Commodore Fluffy Pawz
• Starlight Sylph

Many thanks and much apprecaition to all the talented artists who contributed to the show. Keep that art coming, folks!

If you share here, great! Sharing on the forums means you have given us permission to feature the art. If you’re sharing on Tumblr, please always use the hashtag “#GW2 Fan Submission” to ensure we can showcase your art!

We’ll announce the February show date in the next week or so.

Hey all,

I wanted to make you aware of a new program related to GW2 merchandise. We have partnered with WeLoveFine, and they are looking for ideas for items to make with a Guild Wars 2 flavor! I love the idea, and even more I love that:

• Some of the designs will be by players (and the creator will get a commission)
• You get to vote for your faves

So head over to the WeLoveFine Fan Forge to vote, or to submit your entry for consideration.

I’ve been voting and there are some fantastic things on the slate. So help us choose what to make — no obligation, of course — and let’s get some merch out there!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

LucosTheDutch.4819:

Ameepa.6793:

I really do enjoy the kitten filter

It does help to keep the forum nice to read. It even changes the posts that would otherwise be full of kitten and kittens into readable versions that sound way less idiotic.

Are you kittening kidding me? You kittening think that godkitten kittening kitten bullkitten kittening up my entire post sounds less kittening idiotic than proper godkitten kittening swearwords? Jesus kittening Christ. The kittenty kitten filter is kittening bullkitten.

Seriously, for kittens sake. Aren’t we all adults here? What about the old saying “sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me”?

kitten. kitten. kitten. kittening kittens. kittening bullkitten. Godkitten it. I hate kittens.

The reason it’s here is because this is the forum of a business, not an unofficial fan generated forum. This is the face that ANet presents to any one who comes by to check and to all who post. A company that bills itself as being friendly and actively keeping the player base friendly can hardly have an official forum full of profanity. It looks bad.

In addition, profanity heats up conversations and derails threads as people get angry. Using the kitten filter takes the bite out of kitten kitten you and allows tempers to cool.

It serves a purpose even if you don’t like it.

Well put, and thank you!

Wanze.8410:

nope, only the old ones over the trading post.

But you could be banned for this post because it breaks the ToS.

This post was re-instated so that I could answer the question. It’s not asking to buy, but asking about buying. I wanted to take the opportunity to give information that may help this player, and others, keep their account safe.

Telemin.7380:

Press ‘O’ while in game. Brings up your trading post. Go to buy more gems. Buy gems. Exchange gems for gold. Buy legendary weapon off trading post.

The trading post interface is its own web browser. So that right there, is the website you are looking for.

Edit* Screenshot of some ones TP that got infected with Malware. So yea, its a web browser. (not my own screenshot)
https://gyazo.com/b355b2dca4fe947e80f37f8b186c7ef8

Correct. There is no source for in-game items that will not (1) put your account in jeopardy of termination for breach of the User Agreement and (2) put you at risk of account theft.

I see the incidents, and they happen often. Between getting hacked or having your account stolen, it’s not worth the risk. Breaching the User Agreement is not wise.

Buy only through the Gem Store/Black Lion Trading Company.

Thank you for your patience while we addressed this issue. The content has been re-enabled again.

Bug Fix:

• Reenabled content in Ember Bay that is related to Rurik’s Engagement Ring.

The mastery level in /v2/account/masteries is a 0-indexed reference to the /v2/masteries.levels array — so 0 is the first level, totally omitted is “haven’t started”. I should update the wiki page to be more accurate.

X T D.6458:

Gaile Gray.6029:

We all have our favorites, but the Kittenizer™ has been with us for years, and I’m not sure we’re willing to move up to the Skritt-o-Matic 2000 quite yet.

The skritt just hit the fan…the dream is dead…kitten everything!

You ain’t kitten!

We all have our favorites, but the Kittenizer™ has been with us for years, and I’m not sure we’re willing to move up to the Skritt-o-Matic 2000 quite yet.

Sounds like fun, guys!

Hey Ash

I spoke to a few people and it looks like this is a problem with the beta version of Windows. I"m glad you found a work around, for anyone else reading some other of our customers also were able to pop into windowed mode (Alt+Enter) and set his refresh rate of his game to 144Hz, the max allowed by his monitor, and was able to run with no further issues.

I hope that helps! We appreciate the heads up

A Message from Matt Pennebaker

Hello Legendary Crafters!

I wanted to give you all a heads up about an upcoming change. We discovered a bug in the crafting recipes for the new legendary weapons Eureka and Shooshadoo. One of them used a Visionary Crystal and one used a Legendary Inscription to craft the third tier precursor. Neither was wrong but it was actually intended that both items be used in the crafting process. To resolve this, when the next legendary weapon is released, it and all weapons going forward will use a new item, the Visionary Inscription, in their third tier precursors. The Visionary Inscription is crafted from a Visionary Crystal and a Legendary Inscription. In addition, we will adjust the recipe for Eureka’s and Shooshadoo’s third tier precursors to use this new item in order to maintain consistency between all of the recipes. If you are working on Eureka or Shooshadoo now, you will have until the next weapon is released to craft it using the current recipe.

Bio Flame.4276:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Cynz.9437:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Found a couple minor bugs in addition to the lack of reshuffling. I’ve also worked on a new version of the matchmaker that will improve roster size and profession matching. We will likely trial it during the off-season.

If I remember, I will update the wiki!

So we have to endure the bugs and flaws of the current system (that certain players abuse) until next season? Lovely… :/

Perhaps you’d understand if you researched a bit on game development. Should be tons of resources if you feel like googling; things like quality assurance, build processes, release management, etc.

Since your reply was so disrespectful and pratronizing, I’ll answer on the same tone:

Perhaps you’re understand if you researched yourself on PvP-centric games and their balance schedule, such as GW1, LOL, DOTA2, Overwatch, etc…
There’s tons of resources if you feel like googling or better yet, just ask ANET’s Devs how they managed to do fast updates on GW1.

Get off your high horse, it’s not helping you, nor the players, nor the game, nor your job…

Didn’t mean to be disrespectful! I also don’t have access to a horse. I just didn’t want to try describing our entire internal build process to explain why a change won’t get to live as quickly as players may want. The bugs I mentioned for the matchmaker are so minor that they don’t warrant a hot fix. The new matchmaker is not worth risking game stability in a hotfix either. The earliest build to ship these on with adequate testing that doesn’t throw off the rest of the studio will be the off-season build.

There are a whole lot of other teams shipping things here that are part of the flow too, and its a fun dance to make sure we’re all getting things shipped with a comfortable cadence. If PvP was its own standalone product with no shared resources like the games you mention, then shipping changes quickly might be easier.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused Stronghold matches to persist after a lord died.
• Sylvari Elite—Summon Sylvan Hound: Fixed a bug that caused these creatures to persist when used in conjunction with Rebound.

We have disabled a portion of this content again while we investigate a possible continuing issue. We will let you know when that content is re-enabled.

Are you adding the daily_ap and monthly_ap from /v2/account as well? That might cause the difference.

There definitely is a bug somewhere in the AP calculation, but IIRC it’s a difference of 1AP that we haven’t been able to puzzle out.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause rotated effects to display improperly in the Nightmare Fractal.
• Fixed a client crash.

01/17/2017 – Late Notes
General

• Commander-icon sorting has been adjusted so that it may appear ahead of everything besides combat events. This will help improve the visibility of commander icons.

World vs. World

• The shared-participation slot in WvW has been updated to function across maps.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Danikat.8537:

You can preview all dyes in-game by checking ‘show locked’ in the dye menu. So if anyone wanted to see how it compares to other black dyes they can do that before buying it.

Mea.5491:

Meh, I will never understand this obsession with black dyes, they are so boring.

It depends what you do with them. I agree it’s boring if you just dye your whole outfit black (and I say that as someone who often wears all black in real life), but if you use them with other dyes it can look really good.

Agree. I need to get a true black to go with my orange for Halloween.

Do you really need a blacker black than the ones available in-game, though? That’s kinda what I’m talking about here, that it’s already at the point you can use black dye that makes the armor featureless…

I guess the next step is a “black hole” costume to match the cosmic gathering tools, so we end up with this black void wandering around, occasionally popping out this galaxy to eat an ore node…

That’s a good point. I do think we want to remain in the Tyrian galaxy and not one far, far away.

My plan is to set the respawn time to default (15 seconds) plus the maximum amount of bleed time they could have suffered on disconnect. This should be the most fair for everyone. If you accidentally d/c, then you want to get back in as soon as possible.

If there is respawn time left on reconnect, the player will be killed.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

I’d also suggest that crediting “the Guild Wars 2 development and design team” is a good way to do this – it’s reasonable to say that the team, working together, rather than an individual artist from it, inspired you.

(Generally. I’m making the assumption that the people reviewing this are using good judgment to read what you say and kitten it from a sensible, neutral-ish point of view. If they have a checklist of names and you have to list the correct ones, all bets are off.

Agreed.

The OP is admiring the work that the team produced using the tools available to this game, not just the original design or mock-ups from a single person.

I agree. Plus we work so collaboratively that it is unusual for someone to be the only person with “hands on” in a specific element of the game. While credit where credit is due is very nice, I like the idea of the team credits and I think the members of the teams themselves would agree.

Nope, cache-control request headers are completely ignored.

Otherwise one of the game db servers would fall over <3

Danikat.8537:

You can preview all dyes in-game by checking ‘show locked’ in the dye menu. So if anyone wanted to see how it compares to other black dyes they can do that before buying it.

Mea.5491:

Meh, I will never understand this obsession with black dyes, they are so boring.

It depends what you do with them. I agree it’s boring if you just dye your whole outfit black (and I say that as someone who often wears all black in real life), but if you use them with other dyes it can look really good.

Agree. I need to get a true black to go with my orange for Halloween.

Yep, we’re tracking this.

Cynz.9437:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Found a couple minor bugs in addition to the lack of reshuffling. I’ve also worked on a new version of the matchmaker that will improve roster size and profession matching. We will likely trial it during the off-season.

If I remember, I will update the wiki!

So we have to endure the bugs and flaws of the current system (that certain players abuse) until next season? Lovely… :/

Perhaps you’d understand if you researched a bit on game development. Should be tons of resources if you feel like googling; things like quality assurance, build processes, release management, etc.

Thanks for creating this thread! I’ll have the team keep an eye on it.

Looking into it.

Crinn.7864:

Evan Lesh.3295:

This happens after taking breaks, but doesn’t really make sense for season play. We are looking to change this behavior for season 6.

How long can breaks be before they start mucking with my rating?

I typically don’t do ranked for a couple days then binge queue. Are those couple day breaks really making that huge of a difference?

It gets more volatile the longer you don’t play, so it depends.

This happens after taking breaks, but doesn’t really make sense for season play. We are looking to change this behavior for season 6.

Thank you for your patience while we addressed this issue. The content has been re-enabled.

Fifteen forum bugs?

Sins.4782:

Nice. Does this mean profession specific MMRs will actually be used then? Or are the changes just to class stacking/shuffling?

Nah, we can’t use profession MMR without locking them after queuing. It can better handle mirroring comps across teams.

Found a couple minor bugs in addition to the lack of reshuffling. I’ve also worked on a new version of the matchmaker that will improve roster size and profession matching. We will likely trial it during the off-season.

If I remember, I will update the wiki!

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a bug in which title text for the Lunar New Year firework effect would not display properly.
  PvP
• Removed achievement points associated with end-of-season placement on the leaderboard.

December 2016: The Annual Wintersday Episode

Guest: Nellie Hughes, Game Designer – ArenaNet

Featured Artists:

• Paragon Broadcasting
• Fenrir
• serenitymoonshadow
• tari-r
• robithecat
• Koreena Anchalis
• Drawner
• Dona Vajgand
• Copper Jellyroll
• Anh Ngoc
• A. W. Parker
• Vitakorpen
• Eexa
• Millanne
• Lucy Ferie
• Schlaya
• Yadovid
• Hot Disenos
• Dirt Salad
• Techcat
• Setius
• QSDragonLord
• changtsetheranger
• Artkitt
• Postcards from Tyria
• Silkla
• Sherenathan
• Serenity
• Marie
• Hahnchen

As always, a huge thank you goes out to all the talented artists who contributed to the show. I’ll raise another cup of holiday cheer to those who joined us during the broadcast — it’s always a pleasure to visit with you while viewing the show.

Remember that we select art from any period in time on the forums or Tumblr, not just recent weeks. So art that fits a theme in the future may be chosen but held until that show. Halloween and Wintersday — I’m looking at you.

If you share here, great! Sharing on the forums means you have given us permission to feature the art. If you’re sharing on Tumblr, please always use the hashtag “#GW2 Fan Submission” to ensure we can showcase your art!

Next Show: Wednesday, January 25, 2016 — Noon Pacific Time

Wednesday, January 25, at Noon Pacific Time (+8 GMT)

Please join me for our monthly stream featuring all sort of wonderful creations from our community! Guesting this month is Linsey Murdock, who has been involved in a lot of great projects at ArenaNet. I’ll be in chat watching with you, so we can visit while we view the creations.

Please stop by to meet Linsey and check out the art! I’ll post the artist’s names and a link to the YouTube video after the show.

It wasn’t in the patch notes, but swapping teams via the volunteer button to balance a match has been fixed this year to increment your dragon bash achievements.

01/17/2017 – January 17th Release Notes
Lunar New Year

• Come celebrate the year of the rooster in Divinity’s Reach!
  • Lunar New Year festivities have returned with the strong and trustworthy rooster.
  • Collect and open lucky envelopes to earn essences of luck, delicious foods, fireworks, valuable items, and a chance to find the new Lucky Great Rooster Lantern backpacks.
  • Speak to Phaedra in the Crown Pavilion to purchase very valuable Divine Lucky Envelopes.
  • Trade extra essences of luck to Fion in your guild hall to purchase Red Lantern decorations.
    • Red Lanterns can be used by scribes to craft one additional festive decoration.
• Bash and kick your way to victory in the Dragon Ball arena!
  • Speak to Finolla in the Crown Pavilion to enter the arena and prove your mettle.
  • Win rounds to earn Tokens of the Dragon Ball Champion, which can be used to purchase extra Divine Lucky Envelopes.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

• A new Celestial Rooster Harvesting Tool is available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 1,000 gems.
• A new Solar and Lunar Dye Kit containing six exclusive colors is now available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems.
• For a limited time, the Imperial Outfit is 20% off, found in the Style category of the Gem Store.
• The Red Envelope Mail Carrier is 20% off in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for one week.

Improvements

• For a limited time, the Miniature Ram, Mini Tiger, Mini Puppy, Mini Golden Pig, and Mini Red Panda are available for 1 Black Lion Miniature Claim Ticket each from the Black Lion Miniature Claim Ticket vendor.
• Many Merry Minis is no longer available at the Black Lion Miniature Claim Ticket vendor.
• The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Lunar New Year Chest and can be previewed for a full list of its contents.
  • The Divine Lucky Envelope has been added as the new guaranteed seasonal item.
  • Only for the duration of this seasonal chest, the Mini Celestial Rooster is available as an uncommon drop.

Evan has a fix for this. Should be in tomorrow.

FWIW, I’m looking into other possible stacking issues after dissecting the crap out of the substitutions problem.

ThatNAESLGuard.6238:

for the record, you guys mixed up NA and EU. obviously not a big deal except your URLs are wrong.

W-wot.

I’ll have that fixed sometime today; literally no idea what’s going on there.

EDIT: deployed a fix for that — leaderboards should return the proper regions now.