Moving parts is a cool concept, but I don’t like the armor skins and the combat mode didn’t improve it. What I’m currently wearing looks 1 million times better in my mind so it’s never going to be something I’m interested in.
I’m curious if they will release an episode every 2 weeks like the LS2.
Sadly they won’t
They said it before and they just said it today in the Reddit’s AMA: they are splitting resources between LS and the nex expansion to avoid having a content drought pre-expansion launch like the one we had in the pre-HoT months. They don’t have final fixed dates of course, but they said they will release new LS chapters every 2-3 months.
That is incredibly frustrating to hear. And they aren’t avoiding a content drought at all using this approach. This update was fun, but I’ve done the story and all the achievements before even putting 10 hours of playtime into it, and I felt like I was moving slow. I literally have nothing new to do again for 2-3 months now. That is a content drought. This isn’t even close to high enough quantity to keep players active while we wait months for the next release. This is a day of content. They need to release a helluva lot more than this to keep me active between patches.
Working on HOPE and I’m on the part of the third collection where you need to do various things and then double click the synergetic generator. After doing the Great Destroyer event I went up to the chest like the tool tip says and double-clicked the generator and nothing happened. I did not receive the item I need for the collection and after running around the entire area of the volcano after discovering that the item in Goemm’s Lab was also not where the tool tip said it would be, I still came up empty and spent over an hour waiting for the great destroyer and have nothing to show for it.
Please fix these bugs or give us detailed instructions on exactly where to stand when double clicking this item to get the needed items. this is ridiculous.
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The main issue that most people are missing is not a lack of testing, or more people than expected or any of that. It’s a problem with design. These living stories should never require an open world event like this in order to progress the storyline. The storyline itself can spawn open world events to increase immersion into the happenings, but the actual story should be 100% instanced like it pretty much has been up until this point for season 2.
With the first two releases, the actual story parts were instanced. The only progression that wasn’t was just going from point a to point b. We weren’t forced to wait for an open world event to hopefully spawn and not bug out on us before we could proceed with the story. The design of part 1 and 2 of this season was perfect and exactly the formula A.Net should always use from now on. What they did with this part is a breeding ground for the bugs and issues we are seeing now. Stop designing the story this way, and go back to what you were doing. It worked perfectly how you were doing it.
Back on topic though, it very much sounds like it is going to be from other tournaments. Even if they do add a reasonable method to obtain later, it’s making the game feel more exclusive and elitist and that’s unfair. Especially a game like GW2 which seems to be built around fairness and playing casually at your own pace. Most people throw their reflects up at the start of the fight rather than waiting for the attack they are supposed to be reflecting. I just want the chance to experience everything GW2 has to offer without having to worry about whether I can get into a team with people serious enough to take on the challenge.
To put it simply, it’s a video game not football and people need to stop making it out to be.
But why was it okay to have stuff locked behind dungeons and completely impossible to get without doing said dungeons for more than a year?
Dungeons are accessible to anyone. The hurdle to obtain the gear isn’t impossible for anyone to accomplish, and it really isn’t that high. Being an “All-Star” PvP player is impossible for the majority of the player base to accomplish because by definition, not everyone can be one. Only the best of the best are considered as such and the number that is considered is very limited. There is a huge difference between the two things you are trying to compare. It’s an apples to oranges thing.
That said I’m personally fine with this. I understand why others are upset about it and they have every right to be. It just doesn’t bother me personally.
Or stands GvG for Group vs Group ? Since thats what i would call it. Just a mode where 2 groups are built and then they fight against each other.
You don’t get to change the definition of GvG just because you didn’t like it or didn’t play it for any number of reasons. The fact remains, in the Guild Wars Universe (which this is), the definition of GvG is the game mode from Guild Wars 1. Those giant zerg vs zerg open world fights in WvW are nothing more than organized zerg vs zergs. They may be referred to as Guild vs Guild in other games but, in the context of Guild Wars, they are not.
That being said, due to all the design changes and combat mechanic changes from GW1 to GW2, the spirit of GvG from GW1 that made it such a beloved game mode for those who played it is impossible to recreate. Dedicated healing and support tactics would need a complete reworking in order for the spirit of the game to recreate itself. An exact copy could still be a lot of fun considering it would basically just be organized BYOB (bring your own build), which was a very fun way to play GvG when you wanted a break from the tiresome meta of the time, but it still wouldn’t elicit the same fanfare that GW1 GvG had.
As a fellow GW1 vet, I need to inform you that GW2 is completely different than GW1 and nothing feels similar. No class plays like it did in GW1. No class has the defined roles they had in GW1. So throw everything you liked about GW1 out the window, it does not apply in GW2.
Warrior is all around better than Necro. Necro is a very selfish class that does a lot to buff itself but not much to buff its allies. Warrior is superior in group play.
Build variety is virtually non-existent in GW2. There really isn’t much you can play around with at all. Compared to GW1, might as well say it just isn’t even there.
Population is good. You’ll have plenty of people to play with. Only thing you need to worry about is WvW server population. Do some research, pick one based off things you think you’ll like.
Personally I feel Mega Servers are simply a terrible alternative to closing down some servers. It simply seems like a clever way to avoid bad press but at the expense of the death of community.
A.Net would have gotten bad press for closing X number of servers down and giving everyone on those servers a free transfer to any remaining server of their choice, but it would have solved the population issue without destroying everything else the Mega Server has ruined. You’ve essentially punished your existing players to avoid looking bad for potential new ones. The problem is, if you upset your current players, you lose them referring their friends to this game.
I really think the better choice would have been to close down servers and just give everyone from those servers a free move. They would have been upset they lost the community they built, but they would at least have a chance to join a new community that felt similar to their old one. Now everyone is without a community and just thrown together in one big mess. Not to mention this did nothing to solve WvW’s population problems and closing servers would have actually had a pretty significant affect on that. I really think this issue was addressed in the wrong way. Bite the bullet and close servers, do what is right for the game and stop trying to sugar coat and hide the issue.
That statement is them admitting legendaries will be a part of the wardrobe and the skins will be unlocked for use. There are plenty more but that 1 from the original source should be all you need.
pretty sure that was just a PvP reward system that you can use to unlock dungeon skins by completing the reward track and has nothing to do with the actual dungeon itself.
You can’t put WvW weapons (and I think armor as well) in the mystic forge anymore. The only thing you can do with it if you no longer use it is delete it. This really should be changed but I don’t care anymore since I got tired of them taking up space and just bit the bullet and deleted all mine already.
It really isn’t all that difficult to do what they should do to make people happy, just time consuming and the tonics are a terrible shortcut and show an unwillingness to do what is right for your community. If the problem with Town Clothes is essentially that they are akin to a 4th set of armor or are basically weighted like light armor, then the solution is to actually take the time to modify them into the three different armor weights and make three separate models for the one piece. Every single person who bought the item should get three versions of the item added to their wardrobe (a light armor, medium armor, and heavy armor piece) Due to the weight changes they will look a little different but at the end of the day they will be properly weighted and can be used like any other armor piece.
This is really the route I think A.Net needs to take, and I’m sorry but the tonic route seems like a really lazy short cut to me. I just can’t get behind that decision at all.
I still think the question about whether the last login time is only viewable by the guild leader or by the entire guild still needs to be answered. The wording in the blog post is confusing and doesn’t really definitively say. It alludes that this is something guild leaders should be happy about but it doesn’t explicitly state it is leaders only.
Just wait. “Removing restrictions” means NA <-> EU server guesting.
did you even read the blogpost, removing restrictions —> no repair costs, no trait change cost, less silver in champion boxes
They haven’t even released the “Removing Restrictions” blog yet. You’re thinking of the “Say Goodbye to Armor Repair Costs and Hello to Free Trait Resets” blog.
That was the removing restrictions blog actually. That is why people are expressing their displeasure. It was a huge let down of a blog post that seemingly has no connection to what the locked title actually was. Notice how removing restrictions is no longer in the list? That’s because this is it.
So is it only guild leaders who have access to seeing when members last logged on, or can the entire guild roster see it? If it is only the guild leader, then you will run into problems with guilds who have an inactive guild leader and the person who actually is leading the guild and needs that info is 1 rank below. Such is the case with the guild I am currently in. The leader has every privilege unlocked to him, but there is 1 inactive person who is 1 rank above him who will likely never log on again. I would greatly appreciate if this was cleared up.
Now we spend the rest of this thread guessing which server the OP is on. My guess is SoR.
SoR would still finish in the bottom of bronze. We have very few WvW based guilds left and none of them are even remotely close to being as good as the guilds who left. SoR might very well be the worst WvW server in the entire game at the moment.
Honestly the main issue is that there are too many dead servers…
It should be 18 servers, split in 2 leagues of 9 or 3 leagues of 6.
This wouldn’t just help WvW, it would help PvE. The bottom half servers are desolate places.
Bingo. The solution to the problem is to, unfortunately, close servers and give free transfers to people on the servers that are being closed. Right now there are too few people spread out amongst too many servers. Research would have to be done on what the ideal number of servers would actually be given ACTIVE players, and not just how many accounts are actually on a server. The reality is, most of the servers should not be at Very High population and I would say at least 6 servers if not more need to just be deleted. It’s a touchy subject because no one wants to see their beloved server get deleted but it is needed for the health of the game.
Seriously, people aren’t shouting for an expansion (well at least I’m not) because it is what we are used to. We are shouting for an expansion because LS hasn’t delivered what we want. If I could get an expansion’s worth of content through the LS for free, you bet your bum I’d be asking for that and waiting impatiently for it rather than wishing for an expansion. I was excited about the initial LS idea and looked forward to it. The reality of what it turned out to be was a huge let down and extremely disproportionate to what I was hoping for.
Expecting them to actually deliver with the next LS season is foolish. Expecting it to be vastly different from what we got with LS season 1 is asinine. I’m not going to be happy with more of the same. It isn’t enough to keep me vested and interested long term. The only thing keeping me in this game is my guild and friends, not the actual game’s content. If they get bored and move to other games, so shall I.
I ask for an expansion because I know what I should reasonably expect from one based off of the Campaigns and EOTN expansion from GW1. They were amazing additions to the original game and added years of replayability to the game for me. That’s what I want from Guild Wars 2 as well, and if they could actually do it via the LS then I would obviously prefer that route. Season 1 tells me they can not therefore I ask for it in a means where they have delivered in the past and that is expansions/campaigns.
Alliance bags are an additional reward and remove nothing from the chest at all. They do not take the place of any other reward you may have gotten. Your luck is just bad and you didn’t get a scrap.
This is probably going to backfire tbh. It gives all the serious guilds from tier 1 an opportunity to move off BG, JQ, TC, etc. to get away from the massive amount of PvE pugs that will no doubt invade WvW and stack a server in an attempt to get all the best WvW guilds on to one server for free. They no longer have to worry about their server being full and not being able to recruit that one SEA or EU guild they need to fill their 24/7 coverage.
I’m going to be shocked if a server like IoJ, HoD, CD, or NS doesn’t get stacked with tier 1 guilds. They get to take it easy the first week and then get their fights in the later rounds of the tourney. This isn’t going to balance things out more. Everything will stay how it is, or one or two of the rank 12-15 servers is going to get stacked with WvW guilds. Meanwhile SoR is destined for last place desperately needing new WvW guilds to transfer, yet it will cost them 2400 gems to do so. Same story as season 1, just the potential for a new name.
You can preview the skins in the mists from the lockers but you can’t actually buy them from the gem store yet. Pretty disappointing as they look really cool.
no new armor models in the southsun shore story stuff.
Although looking like a crab would be pretty sweet.
A lot of you are misinterpreting this post. He doesn’t say there are no new armor models at all. He says there are none in the southsun shore story stuff. He says nothing about no new armor models in the gem store, which is what all signs have been pointing to. It just means if there is new armor we have to pay for it with gems and it won’t be a reward from playing the new content.
