Guild Wars 2

Since all proffesions have voiceovers done by their voice actors in the personal story, and assuming that revenant will not be mute in addition to being blind, does that mean we will hear our characters again too? I hope so…that was one of the very few things I missed in the LS.

Okay, this update…I experienced somehting like this the first time in my life. First the scene with Caithe, Faolain and Wynne – it was so well done, and finally the secret was revealed and I was screaming and such. Then the first cinematic – the animation was very coll and I was like “called it”. And I was very satisfied with the update. And then out of nowhere the HoT expansion appeared and as soon as I seen the city turning into gold I was sure it was the expansion. I was screaming like hell, and at the end, when it showed the logo, I jumped and almost broke my computer. It is few hours since then and I am still shaking with excitement. ARAARGARargarGARG!!!
EDIT: An the trailer was so well animated! It is so beautiful the style and palette! And the music oh gods! The best cinematic yet!!

So you will still be able to get to the top with few wins, but you will have to do it each season?

I’m so hyped! But a huge let down for me would be if the ladders weren’t in-game…I really hope they are in-game, looking for official game stuff outside the game is just not cool, but otherwise, I am so glad these changes are coming! Good work Anet, here, take a cookie. gives a cookie <3

DISCUSS /15char

I’m sorry if anyone suggested before, but I would very much like having a cleaner tab for guild upgrades. Right now there are so many things, missions and banners etc are just there together. I would like few tabs with a few iterations as you click them.
ie
-Guild missions >> Guild Bounty >> Tier 1,2,3, Training
-Banners>>…
and so on. Hope you get it and again sorry for not reading the whole thread

Sorry, but kinda everyone realized that. At least I think so. o.o

I expect the next feature pack to introduce pvp ladders and templates with that. I really do.

that much in seven months?? wow….if you play that much ANY game, you will start burning out on it. Just don’t play it that much

ipan.4356:

My prediction:

Old school MMO’s (and games in general) are going to seriously recede into the background when the Oculus Rift is released next year.

I just won’t have time to waste on a boring retro game like GW2 (and many other games, for that matter like Starcraft 2 or Diablo 3) because the Oculus will take up all my time.

Unless GW2 can somehow manage to port itself into the Oculus – in which case it might be enough of a radical revamp to warrant sticking with it awhile longer.

I don’t think it’s too hard to implement oculus into the game. And imagine how much more immersive and addictive it will be, being in that beautiful world.

I LOVE those changes. But I would love it even more, if they made the minis little bigger and made them so they are close to the character, just like in the preview panel, so they aren’t 5 metres behind.

It seems to me like it is future place for the portal to the next map, or an entrance to a dungeon. The map boundaries end just beside that cave, so I’m guessing it is the case.

1. – Player housing, Guild Halls
2. – More weapons available to each class, each weapon slot can be additionaly customized
3. – UI QoL improvements, such as “Use All”, “Buy All” etc. (what is so hard about implementing these?!)

Excellent idea! I would want that. Badly.

Collaborative Development Initiative. Basically players and devs discuss on the forum about the game’s future, and what is best for it. Hope that helps

The name Shatterer gives me an idea of the dragon that, when destroyed, shatters and creates more creatures. I’d love to see something like this: Shatterer(the default one) gets killed, it spawns 2 smaller versions of himself. Those are more mobile. Also other Branded mobs can be killed near the shatterer(-lings) to cause extra damage. When one of the second-born Shatterers die, he spawns another 2 mini shatterers. And maybe there could be fourth iteration so there are 15 shatterers in total. In addition to that- if one in the pair of shatterlings isn’t killed in time(few mins, decreases with each iteration), the pair merges again into the previous bigger version. Hope you understand, my english isn’t that good.

Summary: Killing the first Shatterer creates two shatterlings. If neither of those is killed within, say, 5 minutes, they merge back into the Shatterer. If they are killed, each one again creates two smaller shatterlings. And the same applies. They just have less hp, require less effort to kill and the time before they reassemble is shorter.
The smaller the shatterling is, the more mobile it is.
When all shatterlings are destroyed, the event is done.
After the event, we could see the remains reassemble and fly away(not really necessary)

Klmor.1250:

And imo , they can work on expansion while LS is still there Like i said in other topic , i don’t think A.net uses their all resources for LS.So why don’t we get an expansion like every 2 years and bi-weekly content like current LS system ?

Well I have a strong suspicion for a long time now, that they are working on something big behind the scenes. They say it themselves quite often really. Many of the big faces we used to see before launch – they are now “in hiding”. And Living story served as a school for newer and older devs alike. They are refining it with each release. I still think what LS gives us is almost expansion-worth but there is surely something in working what we don’t know about. Something big. And I’m hoping something awesome what will bring all those players who left back.

But, where did we get the seed? Leftover from one of the charr? Even if this is very likely and I like this idea, one of the big mysteries was where is the cave with those seeds….Maybe the cave was part of Mordremoth? Not impossible

What’s so hard about it? Kill the menders and dps the statue when RYTLOCK TELLS YOU…

Wow, they deleted my post Q_Q I meant no offense, it was just fun ._.

I didn’t even see “lay” lines…but I do often see “PRIMORDIUS” and that is starting to crack me up. It’s PRIMORD*US*. Not “primord*IUS*”

OP, I recieved Fury boon after reading your post. You clearly didn’t pay any attention at all and that is entirely your fault.

Well…what if krait came to north from the west? Maybe they came to Janthir Bay from Unending Ocean, and as we know, the northern Shiverpeaks are flooded. I think it is possible.

StinVec.3621:

locoman.1974:

I would have say it might be Mr. E (Mr. Ed?.. .Mr. Equine?) if it wasn’t that because of the short story, chances are E is either a human, sylvari or rather short norn.

Unless it happens that Mr. E isn’t a single person in the first place.

“Mr. Exposition” has long been a term for an individual that only exists for exactly what the name portrays, which is exactly the role this mysterious Mr. E performs within the game. Mr. E is likely not even an actual character in the game that we will ever see and is just a tool the designers use for, well, exposition.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MrExposition

A character whose purpose is to provide “infodumps” and explain the plot. Ostensibly, this is for the benefit of the protagonists, but most of the time their real reason for existing is to provide exposition to the audience.

Yeah. :\ Pretty disappointing, really. They probably thought they were being witty or that it would be seen as funny and creative or something and did not expect people to actually write pages of theories on who it was or how they tied into the ongoing plot of the game.

Ahem, Mr.E is confirmed to be revealed this season. That means he’s an actual character.

I think it’s very possible we’ll get one I hope so, and if so, the dungeon would be the only other one for level 80. That means it should be hard, like Arah. And the armor and weapons could be really nice. …could be

Tamias.7059:

I wonder…

When ley lines are explained, the analogy that is normally used is the one of them being the river or stream through which magic (the “water”) flows. I guess, then, that would make Mordremoth the greedy monster at the end of our river, drinking all the water for himself. But what does Nochtli’s story tell us about what will happen when we kill Mordremoth?

Oh gods…if we will kill him, we will destroy Tyria

Yes, it is like that since launch I studied the map a little bit

I just don’t get why people complain about not getting content, when they for example even don’t bother to do the story. They ask for PROPER content. What is content? Apparently some grinding or I really don’t know what you people want. I see content as everything, because this game is about story happening on a planet known as Tyria. And if there is anything that expands the playable world and story, then, for me, it is content. I just can’t understand it, what you mean by content. Probably something long, boring and so-called hardcore. And then you will complain it is too hard. This is my only answer to topics like this and from now on I will ignore them. Just sharing my opinion…and I also think that most of people complaining about these things aren’t very creative…because then you would know that everything needs time.

Maguuma Wastes will be the new region. Notice if you log off a character when in Dry Top, the background in character select is something new. Every region has its background.

“Her” is Glint, and the race is apparently the Dwarves.

I’m sure this vine wasn’t there before! Really interesting. Things like these make me love the game even more!

Atlas.9704:

I do like how they mentioned something about how Sylvari might be corruptible.
It makes me think, maybe they were immune to Big Z’s effects but are susceptible to something else.

Mordremoth is obviously somehow connected to Sylvari

I thought so too and then I saw some mentions about monthly releases. I hope it’s still bi-weekly :||| I just can’t wait for the story to unfold.

I enjoyed every bit of it. Definitely my favourite release since the game launched. I just can’t say anything bad about it except some little flaws. I could also have some suggestions but nothing is perfect.

Mitch.4781:

It’s amazing how the players have to create their own challenges and content because ANET couldn’t provide enough themselves lol

It’s just fun, I don’t really think that ANet should put achievement for reaching every possible location. I hope you are not being very serious.

I made the last leap with a little help from my fellow Lightning Hammer ^^

It would be interesting if Aerin wasn’t the bad guy…but do you remember? The vines(probably Mordremoth’s) were letting Aerin in and then closing themselves. And then even husks and hounds spawned. So I think Aerin really was affected by Mordremoth. If so – why would Mordremoth want to kill Master of Peace? What is he after? Something that can harm Mordremoth? Is it something about Glint? Or the bloodstone? I’m very eager to know.

Nevermind, I got it!

Randulf.7614:

How do u get them started? Im halfway through the story and all are locked

You have to complete all the missions, you can then replay the episode and do the achievments

How did you do Zephyr’s Ascent? I don’t have a clue

The dragon in lair wasn’t white, but red I think M is undoubtedly west of LA

I threw a cow at her, sadly, screenshot folder was full

I just want some story instances…Hope it will be more than just new WvW map.

BobbyStein.2315:

We’re putting some content in the upcoming releases that will recap the Scarlet LW releases to put it into context.

Looking forward to that! I am playing since beta and I know what is going on, but I understand how one can be confused if one is new to the game. Keep up the good work!

They said they do not mind champion trains. Everyone can play the way he wants.

I play only elementalist, and I have never ever heard anyone say that eles are useful. Maybe sometimes good dmg, but that is all. From my point of view, I really notice that in 1v1 the difference can be incredibely big. I mostly play solo queues and I have won a little bit over 50% of them. I have been trying various builds over the past year and a half(two years soon if we count betas) and the most viable build for me was the Fresh Air one. Other than that, just meh.
Since I play only ele, I can really just complain, I’ve never played much of other proffesions but I can tell that warrs are constantly somehow OP and thiefs can be very annoying. I’m just kinda sad because it seems to me like elementalist is really overlooked and don’t get much love. Tho the recent updates were kinda good, sorta…yeah
So, from my point of view, as I encounter them:

Warrior As I said, I have zero chance, unless the player doesn’t know how to play, but that is rare.
Thief They just appear and are like stab stab and in some cases I’m dead within second. If I survive, they just cloak and go somewhere, then they again jump on me.
Necromancer If it’s condi build, it can be really tough to shake off all that conditions. Sometimes I use everything I have and I still get them back. But generally necros aren’t that big of a problem.
Engineer They can be annoying too, especially in Skyhammer, where they can kick me off the edge even if I am staying in the middle of cap point.
Mesmer Aren’t too hard to deal with, unless the real ones behave like clones.
Guardian Can be tough, especially bunker ones. They are healing more quickly than I am.
Ranger In 1v1, no problem at all.
Elementalist I think in 1v1 I defeat the other ele in 95% of the cases. I guess having experience is an advanage after all.

If the next living story season will be about Elder Dragon, I think it will be most probably about Primordus, due to hints And if that is so, we should see Dominion of Winds and maybe Tengu as a playable race.

ANet said that there is story behind it. I don’t think it is about Scarlet and I hope it’s the third option of yours. But there is this livinx vs. personal story again. If we get living story about comback of Zhaitan, there could be new players who are doing personal story, where they didn’t even defeat Zhatian yet. This is major problem but I don’t really see a way of fixing it. Maybe just saying that the personal story is happening before living or something like that.

I really have a feeling that this discussion is leading to improve the game a big bit ^^
Happy new year Chris and all at ArenaNet, you are the best x)

skullmount.1758:

Wasn’t one of the end beta events branded attacking outside DR? (or was it a different capital?) Where players became branded themselves if they died, or something along those lines. I’ll have to look for it.

nvm, it was Plains of Ashford – “The Beta Weekend finale took place on June 10, 11:20pm PST, where the branded minions of Kralkatorrik invaded the Plains of Ashford. If a player was killed by one of the branded, they would turn into one themselves. Subsequently, characters would receive a set of five skills to use and had their affinity changed to hostile, allowing them to attack unaffected characters.”

I have played all the betas but I’ve never heard of this. :’(