Guild Wars 2

GuzziHero.2467:

What will be the recommended minimum specs? If my machine will not run it efficiently, then no purchase from me.

Same specs as now, only filesize will increase. Maybe they’ll sharpen out a few textures, but as far as I know the specs don’t change.

We all do, I missed the whole shiverpeaks part. I didn’t know taimi existed until I played LS2 :p, she was just randomly suddenly there. And I missed the marionette that came with it. It sounded like a good boss.

But alas, I’m assuming it will never come.

But I was wondering, if anet has a shortage of staff, why not hire students who need to run internships. Free/cheap labor and I’m pretty sure in the current market there’s plenty of them. Let them work on stuff like this, and then have your own men do the finishing touches. I mean, thats about half the work off everything.

Will ghost mobs make a reappearance in HoT or will they finally be gone?

For those who don’t know, ghost mobs are units that fight like real mobs, but don’t trigger secondary effects. they’re more like living turrets than actual creatures. As a result they don’t trigger traits and on-kill-buffs. They don’t drop loot and stuff (the last I don’t have a problem with)

If anet really doesn’t know how to work this way around.. just create normal mobs and set the entire loot table to 0%. Maybe a bit more datademanding, but it’s better than not having your traits working. My weapons have runes that gives me buffs on kills.. except.. LS mobs don’t die.. they just disapear..

Mine too, I loved it last year. Having a little bit less fun this year because I have to sort through all the people who only want the 2 rounds of attendance daily. That’s just plain horrible design. I would’ve liked it better if it was win 2 partake 5 or just remove the partaking alltogethr.
Oh, and my guildies love it too, so why can’t I join with them? that would make it an actual sport if you have teamplay

How is this event right if the spawning of lyssa is a fail condition? shouldn’t Lyssa spawning be the right course?

I was wondering, is anyone still doing them since they were removed from the daily/monthly section?

I never did them for the reward, a lot of work for 1-2 blues/greens and a gem (is what I usually got)

Maybe anet should rework the rewards, I enjoyed doing them, but since I need money (working on my legendary) I don’t have time for fun stuff that doesn’t reward

To date it’s asian server only, maybe they release it in western gem stores for 1 day for 1600 gems xD

“I’ve got so much to do” NO YOU’RE NOT, YOU’RE JUST STANDING THERE
“I’m rich, you know” THEN WHY THE F ARE YOU A MERCHANT
“What a lovely day, think I’ll visit dwayna’s shrine today” THEN SHE MUST ANNOYED AS HELL WITH YOU BECAUSE APPARANTLY VISIT HER EVERY 2 MINUTES

zenleto.6179:

Zomaarwat.3912:

You… you’re joking, right?

If you’re talking to me then yes. If you’re talking to the OP then who knows?

It’s a divinity’s reach line, you hear every 0.003 seconds.

this whole discussion is, we don’t like this aspect. What happens though, if you remove everyone’s unpopular parts, you end up with.. nothing.. there are people who don’t like hearts, there are people who don’t like the wvw maps, there people who.. you get the idea.. if they start removing stuff they may as well disable the whole thing

Vepo.4208:

1) The downside to “Use all” is that some people will use it by mistake because they weren’t paying attention and it would greatly increase the amount of contracts that their customer support will receive.

This can only be combated with a confirmation system to confirm that you want to use ALL items and in doing so, no assistance will be provided due to mistakes.

Personally I would love to see a use all feature

2) I would have loved a buy set number feature, when I was doing my crafting. We have this feature in the Trading Post, so there isn’t much coding to be done on the development side of things.

3) It would indeed put that karma to use with the spamming of recipes. Again the system is already in place and will just need the developers to add the use of those items into that system and then generate the need random system to give you a recipe back in return.

I guess we can only keep our fingers crossed that they are already in the expansion or may come in a future build, when hotfixes/content is being applied.

1) Right Click → Use All → popup This will use X [item], are you sure you wish to consume these? Note this process is irriversible.

2) Right Click: lockdown menu →
- Buy 5 [price]
- Buy 10 [price]
- Buy 25 [price]

I already made a post that stated daily participation needs to be removed, because that attracts slackers/AFK’ers. Instead have a 1 win for the laurel and then continue on in the daily 4 (so still 5 total)

my average is 1/2 per 5 keys, so I need like 25 keys for 5-10 scraps.. which is really bad in my opinion considering you pay money for them.. or a lot of ingame gold. Maybe they should remove the normal drops, or move them higher in the PS to stop the farming altogether and make the drop rate above 50%

These are things I just wanna say, I’ll leave it to them to find it useful or not.

I consider:
A) daily participation a bad thing. especially if it’s participate 2 rounds and win 5. Low participation rewarding will result in AFK’ and slackers who only join for that purpose, dragging down the fun of other players. Make it something like Pick 100 orbs, or kill 5 people or something. That will discourage entry for participation and encourage actual play.

B) Party joining a good thing that I miss. To avoid slackers and lack of teamplay I wanted to join with a guild group. That way we can have actual teamplay like a sport rather than random luckgrouping.

currently it’s raining tomes and writs, plus you may have some lv20 tokens on your alts. SImply start and roll a lv30-40 character

Garambola.2461:

Are they plants? There is Plant Slayer.

there is plant slayer yea, but I checked it, killing mordrem do not count towards it.
Which left me to wonder what is. Pretty much only jungle wurms?

No point is speculating on it, but I hope that it will be a normal level 1. Until then you have plenty of time to rally some writs and tomes, plus a lv20 ticket. So you can start in ‘quick mode’ but don’t start at 80. I would see it happen.. all these eighties dunno what they’re doing

LS2 is already available. I think OP meant LS1?

Ankushp.7245:

Isnt there a existing or soon to be added feature where u can buy S1 content and play it ?

While people may grumble about Scarlet’s story line her inventions and attack on LA gave us some of the most fun events……Marionette was awesome (setting aside the difficulty people seem to have working together) and I sold one of her gun skins for 500g.

So no she cannot be forgotten O:<

Not yet. The problem is that most content was designed as open world raiding content. So if they reimplement it, it would cause open world issues. But anet did state they were working on a solution because they wanted to have it returned. Among the options are summarized story in fractals or instanced locations.
Albeit now that they announced HoT I don’t think will be any updates on the subject until after the release. or maybe the HoT comes with a fractal bundle for LS1.. dunno.. wait and see I guess

All I know is that they are willing to bring it back but dont have a solution for how

Technical issues aside, the problem will be mostly that in FP mode you can’t see whats happening behind them, and then people will be removed from content if they want to play FP mode. anet philosophy is that no one may be excluded anywhere, so FP people must be catered then as well. (I don’t mean removed from content normally, but parties will kick people who refuse to play 3rd mode)

a (-) hole is apparantly a censorable word? whats next? pancake?

I noticed there isn’t a mordrem slayer like there this for the other dragon minions. There is plant slayer but isn’t triggered by killing mordrem, though.
Kind of a – hole in the list, don’t you agree?

They said they will feed us some info later on. But the problem is.. they didn’t say how far they’re done. So we could get info next week.. or the first piece of info might not be until summer.. thats the sad part.. we don’t know how far they are and how quickly they can start releasing information
..
kind of like world war 3.. we all know it’s gonna happen.. but.. this year.. next year.. in 50 years????

Same here, registered both my gmail and hotmail, checked spam and trash and such, added them to the rules. Neither of the two is receiving a confirmation mail

Please remove hitler from history

This is a really harsh comparison, but it’s the same thing. think about it for a second.

Astral Projections.7320:

Novuake.2691:

List, no, random roll, sure.

A list would just split the playerbase.

Guild Wars 1 had districts in their cities. You could choose the one you wanted based on a friend in a district or how crowded it was, and move to it if it wasn’t full. If they had that in this game, people who want crowded maps can go to district one and those who don’t can go to the highest number district.

Think how useful something like this could be to a map like the Silverwastes. The chest farmers can go to their own map and the people who want to do events can go to theirs.

Example of a Guild Wars 1 district menu.

This is kind of what I was refering. But since I saw there was an /ip command, I thought it might be easier to use that, but the IP apparantly dont translate to map instance here

My question is roughly this, will there only be endgame maps, or also new maps for my other characters to train. Don’t get me wrong, the mainland is fun, but running through the same zones on 8 chars gets to you in a while. Would be fun to get into the new areas and experience the joy of levelling there as well.

This idea works really well for singleplayer games.. not so much for multiplayer games. Dunno if you play(ed) wow, but they had it two times now, where you get dragged into a story bit and cannot leave until you reach a certain point. Like the new expansion, when you step through the hell gate, you can’t leave until you reach a certain point in that hellish jungle.. people didn’t like that gently speaking

Sometimes you’re on a bad map.. I don’t mean a map where things might be a tad harder than others.. I’m talking about a BAD map.

If you’re even on such a map, you’re stuck on it. You can’t communicate with people on other IPs of the same map let them help you jump over. How about a new command
/IP (exists)
/LeaveIP

/LeaveIP will roll you into another IP adress if there is one. No more landing on bad and dead maps please

no one else has this problem? still no luck till today

sigh… another one of these, okay, back from the top

1. You bought the game with the story to assault orr, everything that comes after it, you didn’t buy. THe buy to play section doesn’t apply to future stuff. You Buy2Play the assault on Orr. Then you either log in to receive LS2 or Buy2Play LS2, depending on how much effort you had put in keeping track of the game. if you stop tracking the game, and not read their mails or forums, then you are to blame for not knowing the status quo

2. They warned everyone several times there would be a 2 week free claim period and afterwards you had to pay 200 gems. This system was designed to reward people who actively played, and kept cheap for the people who returned.

Ronin.7381:

I think they can get away with it only because you can use in game gold and transfer them to come up with gems in a relatively simplistic way. Not at all like say Champions Online that has you going through multiple different currencies just to get Zen or say Dragon’s Prophet or NeverWinter. The transition between transactions for GW2 is rather seamless and it doesn’t take really that long to hit 80. However, to get enough gold to even get 100 gems… that’s going to take a lot of farming.

get away with it?
You mean, like, they commited a crime, or broke some unspoken rules? as far as I know they did everything by the book. Some lazy thing didn’t bother to read the status quo and now complains about not knowing it

Brave Mallyki.1563:

Daddicus.6128:

Don’t be upset at your opening post. You are absolutely correct. ANet could have sent you emails explaining the situation, but did not.

That’s funny because I got emails telling me to log-in to unlock the episode for free for the next two weeks.

They did, it was in every single mail: Log in now to unlock chapter X

If the guy doesn’t read his mails, it’s his own fault

CureForLiving.5360:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Oh, and new players also don’t get Living Story Season 1. In any fashion. ANet, I’d love you to rectify this somehow.

Well wouldn’t we all. But I keep getting this feeling that ANet sees the converting of Season 1 into Season 2 format to be this big complicated and possible not possible. Although then again they probably know more about the technicalities of these sorts of things (since they did make the game and all), but from my perspective it seems like the sort of thing you could throw a 5 man team together for and have them slowly trickle out adapted/converted S1 content. At the very least a story instance here or there. Doesn’t even have to be chronological, do the easy instances first and then move on to the kittenes.

Ayakaru.6583:

Hey, remember when we got Grand Theft Auto, that old 2D game? I was really shocked to find out I had to pay for the futue stories. I mean, who in their right mind does that??

I can’t help but get the feeling you’re trying to contradict Tobias Trueflight with a separate example of your own. Having mercilessly played GTA though (back in the day) I’m not understanding the analog here. Did Rockstar bring out new stories after the game launched? I don’t seem to remember that. GTA was followed up by GTA2 and you had to pay for that.

eingefallener.1603:

Anet you’re kaks… plain and simple.

… Please don’t tell me your South African… Oh god you might even be Afrikaans…

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

How is this even creating so much drama?

People love drama. Gamers especially love drama.

Yes, they did bring out new stories? Ballad of Gay Tony is an example
I didn’t contradict him, I furthened the list of examples

Check your alts, maybe one of them has a birthday booster, that gets you up to lv20 and a few tomes to add to it.. and all the daily experience writs

The achievement of “covered in bees” in which you avoid a beam by standing behind a honeycomb has after three tries yet to reward me. Is this achievement broken or is the ingame notifaction incorrect?
I stand behind a honeycomb and don’t take damage from the beam. Then the fight continues, kill the beekeeper and nothing happens….

When you receive a chest, the dial goes to the next day. If you lose the chest, you lose it, you cannot receive it again. Log in a day later to receive the next day’s chest. Receiving the chest is the only criteria for the system to keep moving.

You can destroy them all if you like and open only the last one

I had the bloodstone debuff, completed the entire instance, got the mail for the next bit and everything, even killed the shadow doppelganger with the debuff. Everything was a 100% cleared.. yet.. the achievement didn’t trigger. Since there was nothing left I thought maybe I had to leave the instance then.. nope.. all effort was for nothing

I ahd the “qualify fr..” buff the entire time.. so what went wrong???

If you don’t sign up for the newsletter, you can’t blame them for not telling you things. And if you did, it’s your own fault for not reading them.
Sorry, but this whole rant sounds like a “I was too lazy to put in effort and now I blame them for it”

Masteries are effects which take place only in the new zones. Specializations I don’t know, I think they will be available for everyone.

Aren’t we forgetting someone?
Snaff

Can you imagine channeling him as an asura? Snaff was one of the few people who went down without an asterix to his name

Crovax.7854:

Ayakaru.6583:

Tackle challenging group content.

Yeah they also called those ridiculously easy achievements from season 2 ‘a challenge’
so it remains to be seen if it’s challenging for your average spam#1 zergling or actual organized pve groups/guilds.

I’d love to be able to kill epic bosses with my guild, not this open world stuff with hundreds of other players that render my individual contribution completely meaningless.

My point is, don’t jump any boat until you see. Anet both surprises and lets us down sometimes, so dont make too kittenumptions

Silalus.8760:

Ayakaru.6583:

No raids (no explicit raid-group-only instanced content)

This is actual ingame content, of which they revealed very little. It may very well be there, or not, just because they didn’t announce it. There could very well be bosses in the maguuma as big as tequatl and EJW

Very true- in fact I’m quite certain there will be and I’m freaking excited about it! :P

But those are really massive world events and world bosses. By raid I’m specifically talking about what people were speculating about- which was essentially dungeons with a much larger number of people required.

The Heart
of Maguuma

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies.

Tackle challenging group content.
Explore new open world jungle maps.
Experience new events and storylines.
Test your mettle in new boss battles.

LordBanon.6803:

- Shiro Tagachi since we know he was last in the Realm of Torment like Mallyx, so accessible through the Mists (we did kill him there though)

- Master Togo, just cuz GW2 needs an Uncle Iroh character.

- Kuunavang. The dragon other than Glint Rytlock could be channeling in the trailer?

- Turai Ossa. C’mon, they already have his character model

Someone mentioned Palawa Joko, but I believe the lore is that he’s still running things in Elona.

Shiro is the underworldish area, that area was disconnected from the mists to seal evil things like abaddon and corrupted angels and spirits and stuff. I don’t think you can channel anything from there.
Kormir said she’d clean the place up, but since we haven’t heard from her since…

It would be BS for them to do absolutely nothing, I mean, I don’t even mind if they copy-paste Dragon bash like they did halloween. That was fun, at least

like this if you cry evertim

Rodgort, who else. He was my favourite mystic character never revealed. I mean, all you ever saw of him was two skills. Considering them I always figured him as a fire elementalist or demon or something who left book of overpowered magic all over the world. can you imagine channeling that?

No raids (no explicit raid-group-only instanced content)

This is actual ingame content, of which they revealed very little. It may very well be there, or not, just because they didn’t announce it. There could very well be bosses in the maguuma as big as tequatl and EJW

I never said there wouldn’t be an expansion, I preached hold the train until we know the destination, and now we do, I say.. LET HER RIP!!

Well, I didn’t exect the tengu, anyway, and no other race has had as much fortune as them. If anything, the mursaat were the only canditates, and I saw them only once during the manifesto