Guild Wars 2

They used to. Isn’t that how it should be? Like, shouldn’t they reset the moment the day changes? I’m pretty sure that’s how it’s always been.

For some reason they’re now resetting one hour later at 1 am instead. What changed it? Can I change it back?

I don’t want to stay up late because of work. Dailies resetting at midnight is good because I can just do them and be done with it.

DirtyDan.4759:

Does it say that you can play on Crystal Desert this weekend? No.

That sucks ’cause that was legit the only good thing about preview weekends; exploration.

DirtyDan.4759:

From the FAQ
Q: Will there be a beta test or early access?

A: We will hold two preview weekend experiences, during which every player with a Guild Wars 2 account in good standing can jump in and play selected expansion content. In the first preview weekend, running August 11-13, players will get a taste of the first open-world map of the expansion and the raptor mount. In the second preview weekend, running August 18-20, players can create demo characters and play in Player vs. Player or World vs. World with the nine new elite specializations. If you don’t have a Guild Wars 2 account, you can register here to play the preview weekend event and the core Guild Wars 2 game for free! Please keep checking http://guildwars2.com/path-of-fire for more information as it becomes available.

See, this is still not super specific, and doesn’t really blatantly state that the new zone won’t be available in the second preview weekend. Reading it again, one can sort of imply that it will be the case, but it’s still not very clear. I don’t doubt it, of course. It’s just that they could’ve phrased things better.

So I take it that’s a no, then?

Can any dev confirm this?

Will we be able to go into Crystal Oasis and ride the mounts again this upcoming preview weekend?

The way I interpreted the official posts was that during the 11-13 weekend we’d get access to mounts and crystal oasis, and during the 18-20 one we’d get the elite specializations, But I thought that meant getting the specializations on top of what we already got.

Plus, it’s called “Path of Fire” preview, not specializations preview. The new zone is part of Elona, and part of the core of the expansion. Why not have it available during the second preview weekend?

Ayrilana.1396:

Factions: We have to prevent some guy from the past from further releasing a plague to the world and come back to the mortal realm. Meh.

Nightfall: We have to prevent some woman from further releasing Nightfall to the world and freeing her god.

EotN: Destroyers are bad. Defeat the destroyers.

There’s a difference between demonstrating the simplicity and lack of complexity in something and it being justified, and what you just did. You were pretty much just loosely describing things.

But you know what’s funny? Even in the way you described the events in the story, they STILL sound much better than what we got with GW2.

The story writing in GW1 was objectively on a whole different level. If “meh” is the only reaction you could muster from the Factions campaign, then you just can’t appreciate a great narrative.

Ayrilana.1396:

The evil dragons being so simplistic can be said about anything in GW1.

How so?

Danikat.8537:

I remember exactly the same complaints about the story in GW1. The characters were terrible, the overall plot was unoriginal and predictable

You must’ve been dreaming, then, because the story was one of the most loved aspects of the game, if not the most lauded thing, especially in comparison with other MMOs back then.

Lokki.1092:

We learned 2 things after killing Mordremoth.

1. Killing an elder dragon causes all other dragons to gain their abilities and become more powerful
2. the elder dragons are tied to the fabric of Tyria, killing them would cause a cataclysmic event that would destroy the planet. We didn’t learn of it until after we killed the second dragon.

See, that just sounds like lazy story writing. It’s like they pulled that out of their kitten at the last minute, to be honest.

The point is, a narrative like “There’s evil dragons out there, we have to destroy them” is pretty much something anyone could come up with. It’s so simplistic it’s kind of laughable considering the scope of Guild Wars lore.

And as for Balthazar, he’s one of the six gods; he’s an important, mystical figure that’s been part of the lore since its inception. Making him just another baddie we’ll interact with directly just diminishes the character immensely.

It feels like the story of the game has been lacking these past few years, to be honest, especially when we compare it to GW1. Back then there were a lot of twists and turns, and no clear cut antagonists who were evil just because they’re evil. They had reasoning behind their actions. Plus, you never really knew who the major antagonist was until the final portions of the story/expansions. It felt like character development was at a higher level overall.

With the arrival of “Path of Fire” it becomes even more simplistic and, maybe, nonsensical a bit? Hear me out.

“Now the god of fire and war, Balthazar, has made an unexpected return, only to reveal himself as a ruthless manipulator with little regard for mortal life.”

Why? All of a sudden, one of the gods just pops up and gets directly involved in things out of nowhere? And why does he have little regard for mortal life? What’s his reasoning in the first place?

It gets more confusing.

“Tyria’s heroes thwarted the first stage of his catastrophic plan to destroy the Elder Dragons”.

Wait, what??? Weren’t WE trying to destroy the Elder Dragons? I mean, we killed Zhaitan and Mordremoth. So why are we now doing a 180º and stopping Batlhazar from getting to the other dragons?

See what I mean?

…to my GW2 account?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Not sure what to tell you, except it’s best to join a Guild in your own region?

It’s way better than it used to be, before MegaServers and joining Guilds on a different server, at least. =)

What bothers me is why can you join a Guild on a different continent if you can’t do anything with them? It’s like you get no warning whatsoever.

I just found out I can’t even meet him in our Guild Hall. That’s just kittening ridiculous.

Again, if I’m able to join a Guild, then why can’t I meet up with its members? They should make it so that EU players can’t join NA guilds and vice-versa. That way people become aware of such a limitation.

Like, what the kitten. What CAN I do with him? Nothing? Matter of fact, what can I do with the rest of the guildies? This is absolutely ridiculous.

This is just wrong.

If they can’t meet, why make it possible to join Guilds on worlds in different continents? I’m in an American world, and I’ve recently joined a guild whose players are all in EU worlds. Meaning, I can’t meet up with any of them in PvE.

Being able to communicate with and join Guilds on worlds in different continents gives a player the illusion that he/she can interact with its members, when in reality they can’t.

If megaservers are a thing, why not make a similar feature for players from different continents? Even if it’s just for folks who are in the same Guild.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Thanks for the reports everyone. I suspect this is still a latency issue. After seeing this behavior, can you try waiting ~5 minutes to see if your main league UI updates and the game shows up in your match history?

This isn’t a latency issue. Can’t be. It’s been an entire day and the pip still isn’t showing up in my League UI. The match I played isn’t on my game history, either. When will we get our pips?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Just thought of something: Those of you reporting, if you can share your region and your world/server, that may help in the analysis.

Thanks.

My Region: Europe
My World/Server: Isle Of Janthir

I’ve always had a relatively high ping, but that has never affected the gameplay nor has it caused issues similar to not gaining pips and such. I never had a problem back in Season One, too.

When the match in question ended, there was no text above the pip counter like it was supposed to, either. Super weird stuff. Moreso, the match doesn’t show up in my game history.

I just just played and won a Conquest match and I did not get a pip for the victory (this was at around 23:30 UK Time). Also, I’m currently in Amber.

After the match was done, I asked around in map chat and it turns out tons of other players were also complaining they hadn’t gotten a pip for winning their matches. There’s also several other threads here on the Forums that indicate that sometimes, for whatever reason, there’s a certain period of time where players do not get pips for winning matches?

Anyhow, this feels like it could be a major bug. Please take a look at it.

Thank you.

…in the Heart of the Maguuma region?

I feel like the yellow bar takes forever to fill up. Any advice on things to do that I can get experience from faster? I know doing story stuff helps, but it won’t allow me to progress until I’ve filled the bar all the way to the end, so for now I’ve got no choice but to do stuff in zones. Are there items that I can consume to get experience, though?

Anyone else can confirm this?

PvP League Tickets. Will we still have them in our wallet after this first season ends? And will we be able to use them during the next one?

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sunshine.5014:

Evan Lesh.3295:

The changes for season 2 will make this less of a problem. Each team will have a tight MMR grouping such that each teammate should be very similar in skill to you. This is different from season 1 and unranked where we balance players on each team, i.e, high MMR and both sides and low MMR on both sides.

The goal is to ensure than if the higher skilled team wins, all the higher MMR players go up the ladder. Less unlucky high MMR players will drop on the ladder, and fewer low MMR players will get carried up the ladder.

So if you’re unlucky and got matched with a low MMR team, you will keep losing and have no way to recover?

You wouldn’t be matched with a low MMR team unless you also have low MMR.

But what about the opposing team? If the system’s going to choose team mates as skilled as us, then what about the enemy players? What if we get paired up against enemy players with a much higher MMR?

We all know just how ridiculous it is to get collateral damage from someone else’s poor performance and lose points because other people in the team didn’t contribute enough, or even worse, went afk or simply disconnected, leaving the rest of the team completely impaired.

Say your team loses a match, but you did a lot more than your team mates; you capped points, defended them, scored player kills, rezzed people, etc… And if you lost by a relatively small margin, even, then all that should be taken into account. Meaning, some of your team mates would end up losing a pip, but you wouldn’t. Now, obviously, gaining a pip for losing would be out of the question, because players would just end up farming points and losing on purpose, or just not even trying at all, but what about not losing a pip? Players want to progress to higher divisions, so they know that they still have to play to win. I think that’d be a way to combat that. Regardless, this is pretty much the general idea.

I reckon this sounds like a really good idea. Now, mind you, not losing a pip for losing a match would only happen assuming you did and contributed enough. What this basically does is encourage people to try harder and give it all they got. They know they can’t just sit around and do nothing if they realize their team’s gonna lose, because if they don’t contribute to the match enough they’ll still lose a pip.

This whole idea is still in its infancy, but I really hope a dev or two ends up stopping by this thread to take a look, and, hopefully, consider adding this system (or a similar one) to PvP Leagues. I know criticism, analysis and suggestions rarely get taken into account, but I still had to come here and share this little concept with you.

At the end of the day I’m sure most of you know or have gone through the struggle of getting affected by other players’ wrong doings. Granted, it’s a team game, but everyone ends up having different performances, and I think that should definitely be taken into account.

Evan Lesh.3295:

The season is currently configured to end on the 26th at 00:00 UTC. This would be at the 4pm reset on the 25th PST. There will be a 1 hour grace period to allow matches to end before rewards for the guild team leader board are distributed.

Will we still be able to participate in regular ranked matches in order to finish achievements for the 4 Paths of the Ascension?

Yeah, though I still need to know exactly when it’ll end

Rezzet.3614:

its clearly a scam
they claim they need donations to purchase the ingame instruments to make the supposed concert , they also claim they ask for donations because they are too busy making real money

if you work so much how is it you cant afford a 10$ transaction

college has me with a 20$ a week income and yet by enduring hunger somedays i managed to save up 800$ to build my computer and yoou telling me this guys with “full time jobs” cant afford 10-20$ ? gtfo

This

They complain they’re incredibly busy with work, so therefore they’ve got a job, and, subsequently, earn money. As it’s been stated before, how come they can’t afford something as trivial as a 10 dollar purchase for an in-game item?

Will it end as soon as the clock reaches midnight on the 26th? Meaning, when the 26th of January starts? Or will the 26th be the last day we can participate in PvP Leagues? And if it does end as soon as the 26th starts, then which time zone will it be? Or maybe it’ll end at different times for different regions?

Any info would be appreciated.

In order to create The Ascension, you need:

-Gift of Skirmishing
-Gift of the Competitor
-Gift of Fortune
-Wings of Ascension (the precursor)

Wait a minute. So the division we’re in is what’ll be taken into account when selecting oponents for us, and MMR for selecting team mates? So MMR won’t influence any thing when it comes to the system choosing our oponents? But that means we’ll end up getting paired against people that can have a much higher MMR than ours, right?

ATTENTION EVERYONE

I’m super worried, guys Hopefully, one of the devs or Gaile can clear this out for me? You won’t change the amount of PvP League Tickets one gets from crossing division thresholds, right? I understand that The Ascension shouldn’t be a super easy item to acquire; only through hard work and dedication should players be able to get it, and I’m totally fine with it. But please, and I do stress this, don’t make Wings of Ascension (the precursor which you get by combining all 4 Wings of Glory) incredibly hard to get and out of our reach. All I need to do is complete Amber next season, and I’ll be able to buy the third pair of wings for 30 tickets. Once I’m done with Emerald and Sapphire I’ll finally be able to get the fourth one, and thus, the precursor. Please don’t change the amount of PvP League Tickets one gets from crossing division thresholds

In short, I’m fine with not getting The Acension, but one of the great things about PvP Leagues is that you feel like you’re getting a lot of great rewards as you progress, namely those 4 awesome wings, and subsequently, the precursor by combining all 4. Please don’t put it out of our reach, ArenaNet

Shadowflare.2759:

Win games with a different profession.

That’s a rather vague answer, wouldn’t you say? Win games? How many exactly? And how are you sure that’s what it’s about? Also, how are you sure it’s with a different profession? It just says “2 profession achievements”. It could be 2 achievements for one profession, too.

There’s a task in The Ascension Part I: The Thrill Of Battle that reads: “Complete 2 profession achievements”. It says I’ve completed one already, but I need to complete another. What achievements are those exactly? Where can I check what I need to do?

Also, do I need to complete Part I before I can do anything in Part II?

Once everything restarts, and everyone’s put back in Amber, will we keep getting PvP League Tickets from crossing division thresholds? Will the amount of tickets be the exact same?

Does it start right after the current one ends? If not, then will we not be able to progress through divisions while we wait for the season to start? How does the whole thing work?

That’s kittening hilarious, lol

AegisRunestone.8672:

Is there a “-png” assignment? bmps are much larger, but pngs are about the same quality without the large hard drive space.

This, this this!

I’ve always wanted to know this. PNG is a far more preferred file format. At least for me.

Bumpity bumpity bump

Sunshine.5014:

The image on Dulfy is correct. The Ascension is only a bit different from the Elite one. Look carefully at the bottom part.

That makes no sense. The Ascension is what the Leagues Vendor NPC dude is wearing. The Ascension Glider even looks exactly like it, for christ’s sake. And yeah, I see it. It’s those little additional wings on the bottom. Still, I’d say that’s probably the precursor for The Ascension, Wings of Ascension. I still wanna preview exactly what the NPC guy is wearing. The Ascension Glider is just that, except with the wings slightly down.

Raikuben.7489:

http://dulfy.net/2015/12/01/gw2-upcoming-items-from-dec-1-patch/#PvP_League

Isn’t these ascension pics (and chat code) ?

Nope. I already know the code for The Ascension’s glider, but there isn’t one for the Ascension itself. In that link, in the PvP Leagues section, the top middle pic is most likely The Ascension’s precursor. Notice how the glider version next to it is totally different. Someone’s made a mistake. Some guy on Reddit also data-mined the codes, and he put the wrong code as well. See the NPC in HotM? The wings are all the way up. Not like in the Glider preview on the link you showed me. I want to preview The Ascension itself T,T

Come on, Arena Net.

Ad Infinitum and its precursors were available for preview in the Wardrobe Storage section as soon as they were added to the game, so why isn’t The Ascension there as well? I’d love to drool at the sight of my character wearing it, before I have to waste months trying to get it, so when are you guys planning on putting it there?

Ohoni.6057:

. . . even more than I already did.

I mean, I never liked PvP, at all, but I still played unranked a few times a month to fill out my dailies sometimes. And it was usually awful, but I had a pretty decent win/loss average, and it wasn’t completely intollerable.

But now there are the PvP leagues, and for that you need to play way too many matches per day, and win way too many matches, with every character class, apparently, and it’s the most horrible experience that I’ve ever had in this game. I keep ending up on teams where the opposition is WAY stronger than the team I’m on, I haven’t been on a winning team yet. I don’t know how I’m meant to get the 40+ wins I’m expected to get to clear out just the first tier of achievements.

This is just horrible Anet. Make it better. Or at the very least, avoidable.

With every character class? Wait what?

We have to create other characters just to get the wings, then? What the kitten? Please tell me that was a typo or something. There’s no way they’d impose that on us. Please, no. Please.

Darknicrofia.2604:

getting rank 20 is the PvE equivalent of earning 5 gold…

just play normally and you’ll get it without going out of your way to farm for it.

But do you have any advice on what I should do other than continuing to do the aforementioned thing?

Heya, folks. PvP noob here. As noobish as they come.

So I want to start working towards getting the absolutely gorgeous, ethereal-emanating, orgasm-inducing Legendary backpiece, The Ascension. However, I need to play ranked matches, but I’m not rank 20 yet.

So far I’ve been playing on servers meant for dailies, in which one team gets to cap all three zones, and then teams switch at Bear throughout the match. Then the other team gets to cap, etc… It’s worked quite nicely, I’d say, seeing as I’ve already reached level 12. Still, I wish there was a faster way of doing things.

Any advice?

How does the whole process work exactly? All the release page says about is that if we participate in the PvP league we’ll unlock the ability to build the precursor (which probably means unlocking a collection?), but that’s about it.

Where do I go and where do I talk to? And will we be able to unlock the skin to be used outside of PvP? Or maybe I’ve misinterpreted the whole “PvP exclusive” thing.

Anyhow, I find this all rather confusing. What do I have to do?

Now that the Ascended Chests’ drop rate has been nerfed into oblivion as a way to force players into HoT’s content in order to get them, which, I’ll admit, is just another one of ANet’s clever—albeit somewhat of a kitten move—business decisions, the only way for me to get my hands on Ascended Armor pieces (I need the Balls of Dark Energy), other than resorting to currency exchange and the Gem Store, which seem to be ANet’s new economy meta, sadly (cause let’s face it, unless you play more than 2 hours a day, it’ll take months and upwards of a year to get enough gold for things like Legendaries and the items needed to craft them), is to participate in Raids. At least there I’ll have better chances to get Ascended Stuff, right? I’m sure the drop rate is nice, right? Right, guys?

With that out of the way, how do I go about doing it? Where do I have to go to participate in a Raid and get a chance at Ascended Stuff as rewards?

Vephar.8475:

Gathering nodes reset with the daily reset.

But that doesn’t make sense, cause I gathered them all, then teleported to a waypoint, came back and they had respawned. I then went to character select, came back, and boom, they respawned as well. It was only when I tried it the third time that they didn’t respawn and have yet to do so.

But kitten , if they only reset each day, then that’s a kittening kitten move on ANet’s part. It’s already hard to make money, and they have the nerve to limit our alternatives to farming? kittening ridiculous, really. It’s as a wise poster once said; the Gem Store is their new economy meta. Only way to get gold fast is to use currency exchange it seems. Getting Ascended armor pieces to salvage for Balls of Dark Energy is going to take forever…

What exactly do we have to do so that the Flax nodes respawn? I Waypointed back and it worked at first. I also tried going to character select and that worked too, but now that I tried to do it again, the nodes aren’t respawning. Tried WPing back as well, but nothing.

What exactly are the steps, here?

I’m pretty much a Masteries noob.

Which activities/events will give me the most experience? I’m training the Fractal Attunement ones, and since those are not part of the Maguuma region, doing the HoT story missions won’t count towards them. It’s a shame, really, cause I reckon that doing story missions is what usually gets you loads of exp. What else can I do?

Let’s say I had World Completion before HoT was released, and got my two gifts of exploration. Will the four new zones make it so that I’ll have to get World Completion again? And if I do, will I get another two gifts of exploration?

Thus, for me the best way of earning gold right now is doing fractal 40 with champ skip. There are many parties in lfg, give it a try. 60s minimum comes from selling fractal encryptions (u might want to save them for patch), not counting t5/t6/rare mats that drop and magi/cavalier/soldier exos and rares. I could get around 20 gph when i was really lucky and around 9 when i decided to deposit mats and had no luck with exos.

Wait, what? How does that work exactly? You sell the encryptions you get as rewards? How many do you usually get?

So what’s the holy grail of gold farming now that HoT’s been released? I’m talking the highest rate of gold per hour. Is farming the Silverwastes still the best option at this point? Or are there better alternatives?

Do you have any idea how profitable the Gem Store is? Let alone the currency exchange? ANet’s filthy rich. You’re essentially asking them to remove one of the ways they make a kitten ton of money.

Not that I don’t sympathize with you, of course. I’m all for fixing the economy. Good luck.