Guild Wars 2

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Razor, I like the cut of your jib.

~EW

Edit: and you, too, Behellagh.

Oh I love that term. Other words not being used nearly as much as they should be: Flabbergasted, gobsmacked and cad.

Yeah, off topic – sorry.

(I can put these words into context of the thread if needed).

The whine is strong in this one. I’m not sure I can find a cheese that measures up to it.

This thread is hilarious and perfectly showcases how the GW2 community is NOT the best one around. 50 percent of the people replying here nominate themselves for the goodies. Well done GW2ies.

At this point – the more exclamation marks I see in a post made by an Arenanet employee, the less excited am I.

Ohoni.6057:

I am as casual as they come, and hell will freeze over before I do a raid in GW2. Even so, I think it makes perfect sense if legendary awards are only available from completing raids. This content is lined up to be the hardest to be found anywhere in the game, so why shouldn’t it be rewarded with the best rewards in game? The hard-core raiders deserve that kind of progression.

Stockholm Syndrome is no reason to do anything.

Stockholm Syndrome? You are being condescending, is it possible I just have a different but just as valid point of view as you have?

I am as casual as they come, and hell will freeze over before I do a raid in GW2. Even so, I think it makes perfect sense if legendary awards are only available from completing raids. This content is lined up to be the hardest to be found anywhere in the game, so why shouldn’t it be rewarded with the best rewards in game? The hard-core raiders deserve that kind of progression.

My take on the new dailies:
They don’t really bother me – but I wish they did.

Before, I would log in – wonder what to do – look at the list of optional dailies, and let that guide me into various activities.

Now, I log in – get a bag of goods – look at the dailies, and think “Nah, I don’t really want to go to Ascalon today”.

I really like the extra bag of goodies you get from doing each of the dailies, but if I don’t feel like going to a vista in Timberline Falls that day, I simply won’t do it.

And I don’t feel like I am missing out on anything by not doing it.

The end result for me? I log in, get my bag of daily goods and log out again. Where before I would log in, look at the list of dailies and spend at least half an hour completing as many as I needed to get my laurel.

Before: Half an hour in game or more, which might or might not lead to me spending more time in game.

Now: 5 minutes or less.

I know people will tell me that I can just make up a list of tasks to do, and it will be like having the old list of dailies. But it’s just not the same thing for me. I can’t explain it, but the bottom line is that the new system has given me less reason to stay in game once I log in than the old system did.

Traveller.7496:

I didn’t find any way to go past the 3rd flag (where you come outside near Camp Resolve) so I guess I’ll have to wait for Dulfy.

Same for me. Can someone pm me a hint on where to go after this? I don’t want to ruin the fun by looking up an entire guide for the JP.

justkoh.4073:

In reality, my brother was the victim and I really have no idea why he was kicked except it was sudden and without warning (the guy admitted as much).

I have no idea if its really because they have a guildie who has Nomads/Magi but when I thought about it, it was the only reason I could think of.

I’m confused as hell. You have no idea why your Brother was kicked but the guy who did it admitted it was sudden and without warning?

You have no idea if it was because a guildie insisted on using Nomad/Magi but it’s the only reason you can think of?

Is it a normal thing for you to make up wild scenarios to explain things you don’t understand?

Edited to add that the screenshot posted above by the OPs Brother doesn’t really clear anything up for me but simply makes the whole thing seem more suspicious.

Are we ever going to get a meaningful, official response to this? While – as I stated – I am not a lore fiend, I find it deeply disturbing that ArenaNet seems to have so little regard for their own creation that they chop it into illogical pieces the way it has been done here. It makes me concerned for the future direction of the game, and I would really appreciate a response.

Danikat.8537:

New story summary part 2:

Snip.

Awesome summary Danikat, and good suggestions for fixing it. If Anet doesn’t respond to this soon people will be forced to conclude that their attitude to the personal story is something along the lines of “lol kittens happen”.

Kythan Myr.4719:

Cassandra Nea.2507:

My confusion is now complete. I have reached level 80 and thereby advanced to the “Temple of the Forgotten God”. Before I can go there though, I must meet with Trahearne at Fort Trinity. The Marshal greets me with a speech about the inconsolable Ceera and her husband Tonn, who gave his life for the Pact. I am told I cannot take this tragedy on my own shoulders – their sacrifice was needed (I am paraphrasing here).
I go “Huh? Who the heck is Tonn or Ceera?”. I have never met these people before, and now it seems I never will….
Moving on – Trahearne beckons me to a distant corner of the fort and bursts out: “It is now safe to show yourself”. Out pop Sayeh al’Rajihd, who I am politely introduced to. She says she is honoured to meet me (or something similar) and that she has heard a lot about me. I am confused, since I met her at the end of chapter 7 (I was confused then too since she said it was good to see me again, while I hadn’t met her at that point).
Sayeh and I go to the Temple of the Forgotten God, where we meet a Mouth and Eye of Zhaitan. I am astonished again at the idea of Zaitan having eyes and mouths, even though I killed one of those eyes in chapter 7.

I haven’t gone any further – at this point the plot holes are so glaring that I just don’t know how anyone can overlook them.

I have to ask. Are you one of the “new players” that they made these changes for in the first place? If so, I believe they did this to make the game less confusing, or so I think. If you are saying it’s confusing now, then I still have to ask Anet what justification did they use to make these changes?

I am a veteran player all the way back from early access, and I had 4 other level 80ies already. The specific character that I used for this latest run through the personal story is a guardian that I created after the september patch with the NPE. Even if I was a brand new player I don’t believe there is any way things would be less confusing with the way the personal story is put together now, with events taking place out of order, various npc’s being thrown in with no explanation and so on (as in the Tonn and Ceera example I mentioned above, and with Sayeh al’Rajihd greeting me in chapter 7 with “we meet again”, only for me to be introduced to her in chapter 8). If I were new, and hadn’t gone into this knowing that there are now some huge inconsistencies in the story, I would be completely befuddled by what was going on.

My confusion is now complete. I have reached level 80 and thereby advanced to the “Temple of the Forgotten God”. Before I can go there though, I must meet with Trahearne at Fort Trinity. The Marshal greets me with a speech about the inconsolable Ceera and her husband Tonn, who gave his life for the Pact. I am told I cannot take this tragedy on my own shoulders – their sacrifice was needed (I am paraphrasing here).
I go “Huh? Who the heck is Tonn or Ceera?”. I have never met these people before, and now it seems I never will….
Moving on – Trahearne beckons me to a distant corner of the fort and bursts out: “It is now safe to show yourself”. Out pop Sayeh al’Rajihd, who I am politely introduced to. She says she is honoured to meet me (or something similar) and that she has heard a lot about me. I am confused, since I met her at the end of chapter 7 (I was confused then too since she said it was good to see me again, while I hadn’t met her at that point).
Sayeh and I go to the Temple of the Forgotten God, where we meet a Mouth and Eye of Zhaitan. I am astonished again at the idea of Zaitan having eyes and mouths, even though I killed one of those eyes in chapter 7.

I haven’t gone any further – at this point the plot holes are so glaring that I just don’t know how anyone can overlook them.

If anyone is still interested, I just finished all of chapter 7 of the personal story. I’m no expert on how this used to be since I only did it once before and am hazy on the details back then. But this is how the chapters fall now for a character created after the patch:

1) Forging the Pact.
2) The Battle of Fort Trinity.
3) Against the corruption (you are airlifted to Orr from Fort Trinity, so no requirement to explore your way there on your own).
4) Cathedral of Silence (my choice, there was another option open involving a Norn mapmaker or something. Again, you are airlifted to Orr from Fort Trinity).
5) The Source of Orr (Airlifted again. This section of the chapter concludes when you are told to regroup with Trahearne at Fort Trinity. Here you have to talk to Sayeh al’Rayihd, who greets you with “We meet again”, though you haven’t met her before, so something is clearly still off).

End of chapter 7. Hopes this helps, if there are any questions I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.

Is Hero of the People still bugged – or has anyone figured out how to activate it?

Please, can people please stop using this phrase? I get it, you are annoyed that people are criticizing aspects of the game that you really like or even love. And they can be really rude when they do it. But they have their reasons for being critical, just as you have your reasons for being defensive.

I know you will go there: Yes, some people still complain eons after they have stopped playing. You wonder why they still bother. I stopped playing myself for a while because I got bored, but I never lost interest in GW2. And now I am back, because I found new reasons to play and enjoy the game.

There is only one good answer to the question/statement: “Maybe GW2 is not the game for you.”

Yes it is, because I am still here.

Off to top of my head: Ideally, legendaries “should” require an effort in every single part of the game, from levelling to personal story to living world to WvW – all of it should be an element. In practice however…as long as you can buy a legendary off the TP with no effort of your own except waving your credit card…I don’t really see the point.

(Has no legendary and wouldn’t want to buy a finished one).

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

Please find below Orpheal’s summary for the CDI below:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-CDI-The-Complete-Summary-Edition/first#post4419141

What are the top 3 improvements you would like to see to Guilds in regard QOL and Logistics.

Once we have a good idea of folks favorites we can have a final discussion.

Chris

1. Alliances
2. Alliances!
3. ALLIANCES!

(I know this is not what you meant but alliances are really close to my heart).

Same for diving goggles inside Deidre’s Steps in Mount Maelstrom. Level 80 ranger (since long before the feature patch) – “you cannot use this item at this time”.

I just have to say this…Michael, your upfrontedness ( yeah I know that is not a word) in making Anet’s stance clear here makes me almost giddy with happiness. I’d offer you my firstborn quaggan baby in return – but I don’t plan on having any.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Happened to me in Frostgorge post-Claw.

On the plus side, every time it did I got more Ancient Wood and Orichalcum

Hehe I had it happen to me in Frostgorge yesterday too. Was down in the crevice chopping wood when the skritt burglar suddenly appeared. Chased him and killed him near where the snow troll champion lives. Killed troll – got asked to move/moved – killed troll again – got asked to move/moved – killed troll a third time. Was pretty funny

For some inexplicable reason the guild banker in Ebonhawke has also gone MIA. Very annoying since the layout of Ebonhawke used to be really convenient for crafting, trading, bank access and guild bank access.

Please bring him back!

Belzebu.3912:

Really, people actually think THAT far?
The is absolutely no chance at all that the in-game RNG algorithm use user forum semantic content towards compliment as variable.

But it is one HECK of a funny theory. I’m still giggling.

Absconditus.6804:

I get a feeling Vayne works for ArenaNet anyways.

This is actually unfair. I have plenty of problems with the direction of the game development itself, but from reading these forums I have come to realize that Vayne is actually NOT a white knight. It seems like he just takes offense to some of the hyperbole being spread around, and I don’t blame him.

In recent days there have been plenty of examples of people spreading misinformation about the patch and the changes to the levelling experience. Some of them openly admit that they haven’t tested these changes themselves – they are simply against them on principle and based on WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD from others.

This is not helpful in any way. We have legitimate reasons for complaining about parts of the feature patch, but that legitimacy goes out the window once people stop sticking to the facts. By using hyperbole, exaggerations and outright lies you are simply giving Anet reasons to not pay attention to us.

And if you really want to talk about white knights, I know a few that qualify more than Vayne: LordKrall is one (though he seems to be posting less lately) and so is Dusty Moon, who can be really detrimental to any kind of discussion because he gets downright mean in his replies to other people.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

zenleto.6179:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I would be personally very unhappy if the amount of Guilds a player could belong to was reduced to only two.

Ideas that add to the game are great…ideas that remove what we already enjoy? Not so great. As evidenced by the player-base reaction to the latest Feature Patch.

Yep that seems to be the resounding feedback about reduction in guild occupancy. Alliances can exist outside of that though.

Chris

Indeed. Alliances would be adding something to the game, and I’m sure they would make many players pleased. Especially, Alliance chat. =)

Not sure about the logistics of Influence, Bonuses, Buffs, or anything else. What I mean is would people be asking for such things? Would several smaller Guilds want to pool their resources in such a way as to be able to, then, participate in content only the larger Guilds are able to now?

It might require some thought.

I think small guilds would Ally . WvW guilds would. And potentially for PVE content to with larger guilds. And WvW alliances with pve guilds. I have been adopted by a WvW Zerg Smashing guild called Helioz on TC and they wanted to ally with a PVE guild to do the content.

Depends on how progression is distributed and the communication channels etc.

Chris

I might be a little late to this part of the conversation but I’d be all for this. I’m in a tiny guild (2.5 people!) and very hesitant to join a large one, though I have a slot reserved for just in case. Anything that would allow family guilds and small groups of mates to get together and get things done would be wonderful.

This is one of the main reasons i like the idea.

Chris

I can’t stress enough how much I am in support of this too. We have 4 active members in my current family-based guild, and though we have managed to do one Bounty training mission, all the “real” guild missions are way beyond us. I know I could just join a bigger guild, but I really don’t have that urge – on the other hand it would be amazing to be able to do these activites in an alliance.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Am I the only one who got himself downed on purpose to read what the skills did?

No.

I’d like to join as a student (NA). I am mainly interested in doing Fractals but could probably get into all dungeons.
For communication I much prefer ingame chat since I tend to have people around me when I play, and said people tend to get highly annoyed if I am on voice chat.

Note: If I am invited to the guild I may not jump into dungeons right away but prefer to see if I can get to know people a little bit first. In the past I’ve had some experiences with pugs that have ended with people swearing and yelling at each other with the result that at this point I tend to freeze up completely if a run starts to devolve in that direction. This is part of why I would like to join – to learn in a friendly, non-hostile atmosphere – and I hope that is okay.

Bumping this, in case I can find some to help again. I am online now and probably the next 3 hours or so.

I hope the fix Anet is planning is simply to change the timer for failing the event. I’ve been running this chain for the past couple of weeks and I honestly didn’t think people could be so shortsighted as to decide it is better to fail it than complete it. It’s 20 frigging minutes between completed events, you can either go farm some other champs during that time or empty out your bags.

But there ya go, just ran the chain a while ago and the commanders were telling people to leave the last shaman alive, just to restart the whole thing 15 minutes earlier…

Stuff like this makes me lose faith in humanity.

Minister Caudecus and his guests have been monopolizing the carnival/shooting range in Divinity’s Reach for two years now – isn’t it about time to tell the guests to go home so us common citizens can see what the fuss is all about?

Yes please, that would be great.

I’ll definitely be doing it again over the next few days at least, thanks for offering your help, I’ll be in touch!

Thank you SO much to the very nice people who helped me out
I will probably be bumping this tomorrow or the day after if I don’t break any rules by doing so.

I am working on the next stage of the back piece and would really appreciate some help running a few low level fractals for pristine relics. I’ve tried running them with groups from the LFG tool in game the past few days but it is a pretty harrowing experience with everyone in the group being relatively new to Fractals (I’m new’ish myself, have personal level 12 but haven’t played Fractals in many months until this).
So if anyone in this forum feels like helping me out, it would be awesome – I don’t ask or want to be carried, I’d simply like an experience that won’t scare me off of Fractals for another six months…
I am in NA and will be online for the next 3 hours or so – whisper me if you want to help:)

For me, that special sense of acheivement in having discovered and made my way to a remote, hard-to-find location could be rewarded by something as simple as a “postcard” that you discover once you get there. Maybe a visually appealing picture of the area that you can then access from a tab in your personal story panel.
I doubt this would cause an uproar of protest from the people who don’t take pleasure in exploring just for the sake of it.

YOU sir/madam take the prize in the “Chicken Little” sweepstakes. It’s been out for what, less than 30 minutes? And you are already crying doom.
Amazing, just amazing

Disclaimer: I may be wrong and it has actually been out for less than an hour. Kittens happen.

I was just wondering, is there a trick to getting into LA on your main server? Obviously it doesn’t matter if you are on main or overflow on one of the adjoining maps, and so far I’ve had no luck at all getting into LA main. Is it simply a question of how fast the LA map loads for you? Or is there some other way to increase your chances? I’m not asking for a “cheat” or any kind of exploit here, it would just be nice to try the escape from LA on a non-overflow server some time.

Zaxares.5419:

I’m looking forward to this update. It should be suitably climactic.

That said, I HIGHLY doubt LA will be destroyed and gone for good. This will likely only be a “temporary destruction”, after which it resumes its former role as the hub city of GW2, but with changes and new layouts to represent what has gone by.

Also, whoever came up with the “By Ogden’s Hammer, MY SAVINGS!” line needs to be hired by ANet immediately. XD

And seeing Evon running away from the BLTC building as it burns down was hilarious. Run, you fat cat!

I agree – in the trailer, the catchphrase for this patch is “the siege begins”. What usually happens when an enemy has your city under siege is that you gather all your forces and do whatever is in your power to lift the siege.
I think this is what will be the focus of this patch, then in the next one we show Scarlet the door (and she gets killed maybe/maybe not) and then after that the work of rebuilding LA to its former glory will begin. That last part possibly tying into the beginning of the next season of the living story.

Nice – chewing someone out for trying to help.

I think my husband really likes that set of armour, at least he’s offered to give me the gold necessary to buy it. I’ve declined the offer, because I do in fact agree that showing underboob is tacky and I have no desire to prance around Tyria with half a boob on public view.

Does that mean I think the armour shouldn’t be in game? Not in the least, seeing others wearing it doesn’t bother me at all – at most it gives me an opportunity to stick my nose in the air and feel superior because I have standards – sticks said nose in the air and wrinkles it delicately

I agree completely with what another poster said: Don’t ask for armour to be removed, ask for more to be added!

((Priceless. If this doesn’t end in a mad lovestory for Cap’n Storyteller and the Mermaid, I will never believe in love again))

Yes, yes, yes – bring him back please, I miss him so. Nicholas ensured I had at least one task I could work on consistently every week, with a chance of getting something awesome I could either use or trade. I loved that scavenger hunt to bits.

I will get my legendary I hope – if I get lucky with RNG or the Mystic Forge. I don’t know why but I have some kind of block that says, if I don’t get the precursor myself then I don’t want the legendary. Weird I know…but I won’t be buying a precursor off the TP so unless I get it as a drop or from the forge, I won’t get a legendary. If I did get the precursor though, it would definitely give me a reason to start logging in regularly again.

I would like an invite but I have to be upfront and admit I’m not willing to join on TS – I just hate voice chat with a passion (probably because I’m embarrassed about my accent…)
I would appreciate it if I could get an invite even so though. Have managed to be in one fight where Teq was killed and would very much like to try it again.

Is there any kind of cap on how many guests can enter a map on any given server? If not couldn’t that be a kind of solution? Say if a map can contain 200 people (random number pulled out of thin air), a small percentage of those slots are reserved for guesters, the rest are “natives only”.

There are lots of undiscovered but named zones on the map that may or may not become available in future updates/expansions. Ring of Fire, Far Shiverpeaks, Crystal Desert just to name a few.

Thanks so much. In that case it’s something else I’m missing…back to poring over lists and maps!

Question: Do I have actually do the Forsaken Halls minidungeon for this area to count? It looks like the kind of place I would hate, so please say I don’t have to….

I have to hand it to you, Bobby – I may not always like the answers you give (though sometimes I do) – but at least you take the time to give us reasoned, well thought-out answers, and I appreciate that more than I can say. Thank you.

I SO agree with this.