Guild Wars 2

Hi I felt the need to login and say this because this truly is ridiculous:

This change hurts active players more than it does the pip farmers who would afk.

The priority should be to reward active players for their efforts. This change does not do that.

Rewarding active players > combating afkers

This change should be reverted immediately and then discussed with the community.

Likely to see offensive support; Mace/Pistol. Already have scrapper for defense which is going to see increases in its PvE utility over the next couple of balance patches before the next expansion.

The new aura is going to be in place of Pinpoint Distribution. This was a lesser revealed part of the leaked info that has been circulating.

I am pretty sure this was brought up in a CDI, personally, I am quite glad that this new map only has one WP – means not getting caught by a massive group of mobs is slightly dangerous now.

Banzie.5248:

Rip in pepperonis, Dont think IoJ got a single dev.

Piken feels that pain

Tunnel Snakes

To begin with, I am posting on behalf of my guild. For the past 5 or so minutes, (20:25 BST) both my guild and the we were facing in OS were suffering from random disconnects of players, namely when we were just standing still and not fighting. The disconnects did not appear to be related to region, as those from the UK, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, and Germany all seemed to be affected. From what I can tell, it happened in groups, as at one point 5 or so from the enemy disappeared at once, with a couple of ours going at the same time.

If you need any more information, I will try to provide.

Okay so the way I would love to see this work is:

Using the old underwater area set up a similar area to the Royal Terrace. Put an unlimited pass on the gem store (personally I think most people would prefer them to be available to be purchased all the time, so that they can build up to them). With that, put passes (like how the Captain’s Airship passes worked) into the loot boxes in reward tracks – not super common, but also not super rare so players might get one once every 1-2 days.

However, with that – if a player owns an unlimited pass enters a pvp game, then returns from it, they should reappear in the exclusive area. If a player enters a pvp game and then returns, they should appear outside (please no kicking animation!). If they have multiple passes they can just use it again to go back in.

One alternative would be to make the passes, like day-passes as players tend to enter and return from pvp games quickly, the sense of value may be lost in using one bar when you are afking.

Finally, one change I would like to see with this is already existing unlimited passes: Royal Terrace, and the Airship, should be usable within the HotM so to be more fair to those that already have those.

As someone who is very much interested in a career in economics, how did you get involved in MMO economies? Also, what would you consider your basic day-to-day routine?

Piken is ready.

Love it, it’s perfect!

Okay so let me get this straight, you are complaining about an Engineer condi bursting you. Its not that Conditions are overpowered in this case, its that you were outplayed – Engineer is hard to get right – especially as many of our conditions are on the grenade kit which can be hard to hit, so if you as a DD ele were not able to avoid most of the conditions, let alone kite away from nade range – you as the player were doing something wrong.

This looks really good, looking forward to seeing how mine will turn out!

Hi there! I would be in for a full coloured piece. Link to the album: http://imgur.com/a/lruXC

Preferably a full face somehow incorporating The Predator into it – let me know if you need any more references. Thanks!

People continue to complain about the price of precursors/incredibly rare items like the Chaos of Lyssa recipe. Why do you think they are this high? Because people will pay that price. If you manage to get every player to not pay a high price for something like this, then price will fall. On the other hand, everyone talking about it having a high price is only keeping it up there – making it more desirable for people like me who like rare and shiny things. By making a big deal about it, you are letting more people know about the situation, the more people who forget about it, the less people will potentially be interested in the good, resulting in those holding the items losing out on large amounts of money. Complaining is only netting in these guys more money, remember that.

I have not found much official information about this, so if anyone could please tell me whether it will just be a straight up tie, or the ranks will be decided on the glicko score that could be earned pre-tournament. Thanks.

Ronin.5038:

I remember reading an idea posted by someone that was for our glue abilities (glue bomb and glue shot) to provide pulsing aoe stability.
I’m not a PvP guy, but that sounds like it could be useful.

I really like this idea – it would give the pistol #5 as well as the bomb kit #5 a lot of use, as well as even Kit Refinement (if that cooldown were to be reduced – that could be a seriously awesome trait again!), on switching to the Elixir Gun.

Strike.1340:

Angel what server are you on? a lower pop one?
I already have a wonderful Community … the server of Blackgate.
We did all that that you mention in your post the problem is I just dont spend all that much time just wandering around random zone X. I like the concepts of mega servers .. what I dont like is the Schedule for various world events .. maybe you are not 80 yet and have yet to reach any content other than wandering around an empty zone. If so Im sorry for you.

I am on Piken Square, which whilst not the population size of BG, is still highly populated, I have 3 level 80s, I participate in all forms of gameplay: WvW, sPvP and PvE. I never guest. The problem is, you cannot have both systems – the megaserver and the old boss timers it would simply not work due to the server infrastructure. The fact remains the Megaserver system is better for the game as whole in the long term, whilst it may seem rough on the short term to those who like to hunt the bosses.

It isn’t broken.

I voted with my money too – just bought a whole load of gems. Why? Cause as I was wondering around the world yesterday, finishing off my Monthly Jumping Puzzles, I came to the southern Diessa Plateau one (the one on the wall), now, around 10 new players were all attempting to do it, chatting in map chat about it, helping each other – that’s when I realised, this system is brilliant – so what about the Mega Bosses, whilst really annoying, a community like this is far more important, not just to me, but to everyone else too. If you don’t want a community like that, caring, giving, participating together when changes are made to make that happen more often – I’m sorry but I think you are playing the wrong game.

Okay I tried this build in sPvP, however substituting in Krait runes, as well as Bomb kit – it’s condi burst is absolutely brilliant. It is pretty much a 1v3 build due to the vigour uptime from the healing turrets, and the might from the flame turrets. The utility from the bomb kit from the blind field, as well as the flame turret were really useful in stopping classes that made use of high burst. I would say the strength of this build is being able to quickly decap any point, though it weakens slightly when defending. The runes of the Krait 6th effect was really powerful in combination with Supply crate as it effectively put Poison, Torment, Immobilise, Burning, and Bleeds on the foe immediately.

You talk as though having a lot of gold is an issue to the game society, for your argument, sadly not. We are an intrinsic part of the community, imagine us like those big corporate companies that charge a lot. You complain that we charge a lot, but in order to maintain a stable, competitive market, we are needed – with us in place, consumers know that they will have to pay ‘x’ for a certain good or service. Without us, volatility within the market rapidly increases, no longer do you have 5-10 sellers all trying to sell 200,000 silk scraps, rather you have 100-200 all trying to sell that number – prices will rise and fall dramatically causing confusion and putting a lot of people off their goals. As a result we maintain the circular flow of income, thus making sure that prices keep in line with inflation, rather than falling and creating deflation – which is good for no one. As a I said earlier, we are an intrinsic part of the community – we need the consumer to buy our stuff, and the consumer needs us to sell it at a stable price.

With this, your suggestion of a tax for rich people with a lot of gold is not at all implementable – it will only mess up the market for everyone else, just like in real life where governments put up taxes for high earners through income tax (e.g. 50%). This results in those who earn a lot taking advantage of a tax loophole to make sure they keep as near 100% of their money as possible. Likewise in GW2, if I see that I am going to be charged 50% on all my TP earnings, I would just pass it on to the consumer, I will just add that 50% tax on to my listing. Alternatively I could just not use the TP anymore for selling stuff, in which case my large amount of gold is going to keep me going with purchases for a very long time – either way, it’s not effective.

Playing the TP will always be the best way of earning gold in game, because it cannot be nerfed – the time, effort, risk, and knowledge required to do it effectively is much higher than any other gold earning method in the game – thus it has the biggest payout. If you are interested in getting involved, you may want to look into learning about market forces in an economy – there are some brilliant resources out there – make use of them!

Teratus.2859:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Just to point something out: there are many people that only ever want to play WvW because that is the game type they enjoy playing, yet they HAVE to go into PvE to get the maps and mats necessary to get their legendaries and map completion. Is it fair for them to have to do PvE content? Honest question for you OP.

Not at all I actually agree with you on that

have it my way I would have made PvP gear usable in WvW instead and simply had WvW as a second form of PvP content

Sorry, but that would have been horrible. Really horrible.

What I love about this game is that if I don’t want to do something, I am not punished for it. I’ll keep on repeating this: A good Developer will always get players to try all forms of gameplay in their games. This is what Anet have done.

Well.. I suppose you could max out the siege masteries so whenever you run with a zerg or whatever, you will always be able to participate in that sense. You could throw grenades into a zerg from 1500 range, or run with the cleave with bomb kit/Elixir Gun – providing lots of nice boons. I think though, that the best way you could Roleplay an Engineer would be to come up with your own way of doing it (as that’s what the class is all about right?).

I would just like to say that playing the ESO beta made me realise just how ‘spoilt’ we are with all the innate systems and features of GW2 that we just take for granted. Sure we may only be getting now a wardrobe, account bound legendaries, etc. Sure they may be calling it a ‘feature patch’, does it really matter though? We are getting things that we asked for – things they have undeniably spent a long time putting together, if that stuff doesn’t excite you, you should probably take a break from the game.

Meglobob.8620:

Cheers John!

I virtually never died, so with nerf to champion loot/events I will be considerably worse off gold wise.

Cheers again John, thanks very much!

Here is why you will not be worse off ‘gold wise’ as a result of this change (graph included):

1. Gold will sink from the game far faster than it is being brought in with the reduction of Champ Farming and Event Completion gold. This will occur as players pay taxes.

2. Due to each player having ‘less gold’, they sell items that they received from Events and Champ farming, such as T6 Materials. As well as this, these items fall in price due to an increased supply[Graph: AS shifts down the AD curve to AS1, Price level drops down to P1].

3. As a consequence of this, all items associated with the materials being mass sold (T5, Weapons, etc.) will fall in price too – the number of associated items are a lot, and pretty much cover everything that a player needs.

4. Because a lot of players have listed all their materials and items due to the price fall (known as panic selling), no one really wants to buy any of that stuff due to it falling in price thus demand falls. [Graph: AD curve moves down the AS curve to AD1, Price Levels fall further to P2].

Okay, now you are probably wondering how this means you have more gold than you did before, lets say before this all happened, I could buy 100 vicious claws for 50g (random example), due to the price drops my gold will now buy me 200 vicious claws for the same amount, thus my gold is worth more. Please remember that this is more of a long term scenario – this could not necessarily happen overnight and this is only taking into account the changes implied by the blog post today – they may just as easily be counteracted by another change mentioned another day.

To begin with the title is a little misleading as it is very opinionated. Secondly, it is not useless, I am now able to transfer my rabid ascended trinkets across to my second engi – or in fact any character without having to infuse them. It will allow me to pass over any ascended armour I have when I want to test a build on another class – it will also mean that looks and stats can be easily transferred to another char if say I want to reroll my human engi to an asuran.

I had to put up with going through every PvE map getting world completion, running through the same dungeons 6-7 time to get my legendary, in the grand scheme of things what you are complaining about is nothing compared to that. So please, the time you spent complaining about this, you could have done 1/14 ranks as it is.

In regards to SAB, harder content (Tribulation mode was a really great addition!), new World and a nice deep story that links in with the short story that was posted back in September – it would be great if the story didn’t necessarily have achievements but unveiled itself through cutscenes, etc. as you go through a (new?) SAB world – we already have a brilliant platform, princess captured – please expand on what Moto wants, who this ‘dark shadow’ is and his motives, as well as why the Princess was captured in the first place.

Angeels – 142

Though I am on US so you would need to use my account name: AngelsShadow.7360

Dawdler.8521:

Congratulations SFR for this evening of being the cheapest kittening server I’ve ever seen, building rams everywhere to exploit the damage reduction. Rushing out of a gate? Build a ram inside first of course! Getting attacked in the field by a smaller or equal force? Slap down rams and build fast as kitten, its brilliant!

Building 8+ ballistas and arrowcarts in a camp, meh we can see past that. Siege is siege. But rams? That’s just low.

Does SFR commanders really stand by this cheap tactic? Or did you simply ran out of arrowcarts?

Nah.. That’s actually a pretty clever tactic.

In regards to chasing roamers, every time we kill one, we have another chance at getting a precursor.

I really do love the gas mask skin – it just fits so perfectly with all the recent Gem Store medium armours – Aetherblade, Magitech, etc.

I hope SFR have noted what happened to Jade Sea last week when they had a 25k point lead on us.

Qrakan.1392:

This Matchup has been the most boring thus far… just encounter the enemies at keeps with tons of siege and when meeting on the battlefield only to see them scatter like kittenroaches and port away not fighting at all. cant wait till reset on Friday… really disappointed mostly on the French server

Krakan – PS

It’s been pretty tense watching it on MOS whilst waiting for queues, etc. :p

Quite looking forward to it, to be honest – will give me something to do, even if I could buy the precursor outright.

We aren’t under an NDA, and no, the tests haven’t started yet – we don’t even know when they will actually start. Hold tight, I am sure that as soon as they do, ArenaNet will post about it and Guilds will start livestreaming/making videos.

Have fun all, and please try to keep the drama to a minimum!

Hehehe, too true Bamby, I’m looking forward to seeing which other guilds will be in it too.

Oh in that case.. [VG] Varangian Guard on Piken Square were selected.

It might be worth noting that guilds may not be able to say if they are in the Alpha or not, yet…

Jayne.9251:

Well crap. Viz I seem to be out of the loop on the double-team secret handshake.

Can you remind me what is is again so we know when to hit SFR? Do I need a special decoder ring? (I’ll have to check the bottom of all my cereal boxes). *wink, wink.

You missed it, the strategic double team strike-force epic attack was earlier! Unfortunately, Vizunah may have forgotten their end of the deal and not only killed SFR but us too!

Toby.2357:

Hands down SFR commanders / blobs and are actualy better then VS and Piken, not tryng to start a fight, but sfr blobs were wiping vz and piken blobs twice bigger, at the same time vz was getting farmed in they borderland north camp. One SFR commander defended sfr garri while getting attack by both vs and piken at the same time. Despite SFR getting double teamed SFR is still keeping it together and arent that far behind in points (lets not deny it, its been admitted that SFR is getting double teamed).

Admittedly yes, some guilds do want to beat SFR as there is some ex-Piken blood there. However I wouldn’t put it as full out as you suggest it to be – whilst fighting on VS BL today whilst defending Garri, both VS and PS did try to wipe out SFR simply because you were the weaker force at the time – but that’s just strategy. There is no point going around saying “Oh we are getting double teamed all the time” – you aren’t, there are times when both Piken and VS are being double teamed, based on the situation. In regards to who has better commanders – there is no point even comparing, simply because there is no standard way of testing – each battle will be different and as such, no one can judge. The important thing to note about how each server plays though is that VS play purely for points – see their points spike before the count, in terms of that playstyle, they are second to none. SFR have some of the best trained friendlies – which again are second to none. Piken has the guild groups that continue to deliver – there were three guild groups on VS BL tonight with very few friendlies. So again, we cannot compare ourselves to each other as each of the top 3 servers plays differently and more importantly uniquely – and thats what makes it more fun.

Well it seems like its going to be an interesting week. Piken with our sudden increased strength against the reigning champions SFR, with the underdog Elona in the perfect position to gain quite some points! In regards to morning shift, you have Xerkule to contend with – personally I would not want to be up against him

Good luck; Have fun!

I am from Piken Square, and I think they should definitely post their score.. Under the guild name they fought with, as is within the rules of GvGs if I am not severely mistaken?

Grok.6714:

AngelsShadow.7360:

Grok.6714:

Apparently the oh-so-professional Piken guilds cannot handle defeats in GvG and choose to run under fake guild names whenever they face a real challange.

Is this daily business on that server?

I am a little confused about this.. Which guilds? Also, are you sure you didn’t misread the guild tag or something as there are many, many guilds on Piken who run in WvW.

Ask Noobfilter. The guild seems pretty versed in GvG 20v20. Wonder why I haven’t seen them on the battlefield yet

Not sure who this Noobfilter is, please could you just tell me yourself?

Grok.6714:

Apparently the oh-so-professional Piken guilds cannot handle defeats in GvG and choose to run under fake guild names whenever they face a real challange.

Is this daily business on that server?

I am a little confused about this.. Which guilds? Also, are you sure you didn’t misread the guild tag or something as there are many, many guilds on Piken who run in WvW.

In regards to population is king – that is not exactly true. Piken Square as of tomorrow will be third on the rankings and we are a medium population server. On most days we struggles to field numbers during the night. As such, WvW is all about communication. Vizunah aren’t all that great in an open field fight, however they win due to their communication, just before points are totaled every 15 minutes, you will see their potential points rise massively. Try this on Whiteside, have several small groups that take out towers and camps just before points are totaled. Perhaps take the Riverside approach and fill every tower, camp and keep to the brim with seige, just two arrowcarts can act as a deterrent for a whole zerg – try it. If you want to boost morale, go into LA map chat and shout out to everyone that you are going to take Stonemist, rally your zerg at the keep and talk them through how it will work, then when you take it, it will have that really epic feeling that everyone came together and took the castle. Make everyone feel that they are a part of something bigger and you should have no issues with morale.

I do, running a confusion build so I need to flip from Toolkit to Bomb kit to Pistol skill 3, anyway in WvW Shield 4 is great for blast finishers and Shield 5 is amazing for charging into the a zerg with due to the double bout of CC, if anything I would say that P/S is more useful in a zerg busting squad than any toolkit. If that were not so, I would still use them just so I can see my Aetherized Pistol.