Guild Wars 2

Also did event a couple times – he wandered in circles without attacking, and dropped no nectar (let alone did anything really).

I like the proposed changes. I think it would fit much better into the existing traits and skill types that guardian has today, maybe them fit the guardian overall (and probablly inherently more useful as they will be affected by those traits).

I do like the idea of tomes, but if it came back in a future spec where tomes was a pretty specific thing with traits affecting them – it would be much better than today’s implimentation.

Unsure why… but it appears to be fixed now. Victory?

Thanks for the tips. Neither windowed mode or a fresh install of my drivers seemed to fix the problem. Don’t think I have any overlays trying to comingle, at least that I know of.

I am able to open up the launcher, login and hit play. When I do, the game window opens for a brief second (like it about to take me to character login), it disappears appears to close. The client still shows as running in my task bar, and I hear the in game sound (the song that plays when you hit character screen). Clicking the icon on the task bar does not open the game up, so it’s sort of running but not running as best I can describe it.

Any idea what could cause this? I’ve did -repair and even a fresh reinstall, but it has not seemed to help.

Would like to throw in my feedback without hyperbole.

Must like the rest, I am disappointed at the pricing of the new commander tags. I had always seen new colors as a ‘quick win’ opportunity to offer the community a way to get a slight increase in organizational features for WvW. Instead, it has been proposed as a high barrier to entry system to use, and in layman’s terms “a whole big thing”. I am unsure the reasons for this increased barrier to entry of use of the system (e.g., don’t want an increase in folks using commander that should be?), but I have a hunch they do not outweigh the positive effect that an easy to use system would do for the community.

Love the idea! I too would see more use out of some of my old finishers I’ve purchased.

Evan Lesh.3295:

I think the best option would be to replicate the targeting UI where you can see both health bars at once. Question is: will they fit? :P

Disagree with solution – this information would be most helpful if readily available. Having to target them would be very annoying and add something else for me to do while in already busy fights.

I think the solution has a few requirements – always see both health bars (we should know if the necro is about to die if he comes out of DS). Also should show how much DS they have left. Optional goodness would be it showing us when they are in DS (nice to have, but if i see the number droping or not I can make assumptions).

Same sentiments as many others in the post – the storytelling this release was fabulous (writing, pacing, design of the new zone heavily on the story). Looking forward to future episodes.

Small spoiler comment:
Also, thanks for giving answers to some outstanding questions.

A video from some of our early fights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fecPaT-Ol7g

Very polished, very fun. Thank you.

Thank you for making the Heal-O-Tron dialogue. I really really enjoy watching some of these side stories play out, and it means a lot that the work was put into it. I’m excited to see what he does with his requested items!

Real excited to watch this one. Thanks for the reminder.

I’m also pretty impressed with the conversations. They were fun to listen to, especially our little asuran friend who does NOT speak like a 4 year old

Does for me now too. Looks fixed.

I wanted to post some very positive feedback on the new AoE visuals during the Lornar’s Pass fight. There is in variety in that fight – some large, some small, some that overlap, and some that are cone shaped. First, they are very very nice on the eyes as far as seeing where area of effect skills are happening (and much easier to see than the current rings).
Second, they really created some fun reactive play due to the nature of being able to see them, and understanding how to move around. Third, they were just visually appealing
(even the dark shading when two circles would overlap and form a venn diagram).

Nice work.

Edit: To drive the point home that I didn’t make earlier, I would love to see this updated around the game, even with player created AoE.

First, love the new release page. Second, other than the newest release (origins of madness), the release pages for all previous releases appear black with no text or images.

Example: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-10-2013/

Ixl Super Ixl.7258:

Thanks everyone, I will make a guide for foefire and khylo once I finish my exam this week. I will try to point out as many scenarios/ splits as I can and how to counter them.

Great news, because this video was very nice. Simple, but impactful. Learned a few guard movements

When on the main guildwars2.com website, if you click the Community link in the top navigation, you are taken to the following page:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community/community-news/

If you hover over Community and click news, you get this:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/

The second link seems to contain all news, while the first one seems to be missing some news, which is misleading. Should default link on the Community intention instead go to the second link?

No suggestions, but thank you ahead of time for doing this.

What does the first image say?

cesmode.4257:

I dont know how fansites such as Dulfy come by such vast amounts of information a day or so before content release, but please stop providing fansites with information before the content is released.

If you stop funneling fansitesinformation, this might spark what we like to calll “wonder”….that feeling we got when we first logged into the game and didnt know what to expect. The experiences that ensued after the “wonder” are talked about for years.

But currently, we go to dulfy, and get a step by step guide to complete the content. And if you dont read the guide, people in map chat tell other folks how to complete parts of it anyways so it is difficult to avoid the information whether you want to follow that website or not.

This is a very interesting topic. Though, as you mentioned you can just not look at the website (thus solving your issue yourself), but people in game are giving spoilers. They can do that without early info. Thus, I think your problem is not with the fansites, but moreso something else (in game chat / filter / ect?).

I am surprised by your results. I have set my model limit to lowest, and model quality to low. Essentially, I’m only seeing a low number of character models, but a number of them show the real gear. You didn’t mention your model limit setting (maybe try this?). Performance is great, and when running small groups its unnoticeable because I’m getting all the people to show up in normal models (so this really just kicks in for zergs).

I’m getting the same results your wanting with my settings, maybe your setting for model limit is what is holding you back? (truly asking, i still don’t know how those two dials work in combination, I just feel I truly landed on the right setting by playing with them).

Side anet Praise: super great performance with the limiting effects and culling in PvE. Real impressed with how some of the peripheral things look (i can have all my other settings on high), and how unaffected small team gameplay is.

Very cool video!

Does anyone have a link to the recording of the cutscene? After seeing it, I kind of want an item to rewatch like we got before – I really like those videos!

A vote for Evon is a vote for Tyria.

I’ll see you Sunday!

Voting Evan here!

The guildwars2.com main page and most of its children pages use the new header which lists “Game Releases Media Community Services Shop”. Lovely and clean – yay!

The forums and the leaderboard pages do not use the new header, making it inconsistent when navigating around the site (the header switching when going to leaderboards just feels off).

Not a big issue, but just posting here should it have been forgotten.

Yeah fun videos. I think our chances of getting paired with a T1 server are increasing… should make for some great videos soon.

I was super pleased with that cutscene. Very good conversation and voice work, and I have always really liked the style of those cutscenes (much more interesting than the two characters standing talking). Well done!

Am looking to possibly switch servers – when do they gain more space? From what i know, they give a wave of space to each server (so fulls go to high or very high, very highs go to medium).

Is there a pattern i should look for, or certain times?

What is one of the guards had an extra CC (knock down… chill?) with a decent cooldown that would promote the attacker to be keen on stability / a well timed dodge.

I wouldn’t want it too intrusive or annoying, but at least raise the skill cap a single person needs a touch to kill those yaks solo / duo.

So a number of real good responses.

I think two things I forgot to mention as to why you would upgrade supply camps that folks pointed out:

• Empty enemy supply camp’s supply when you see their group coming in for supply
• Raise the supply cap on your own supply (an inherent benefit to upgrading supply camp)
• Guards help keep yak’s alive against the aggressive mobs

So that is good info – though the annoyance still falls back to the other things people mentioned (sorry, doing a lot of recapping)

• Supply camps get flipped a lot in prime time
• Costly to upgrade in prime time (a result of the first bullet)
• Seems to be agreement that the NPC escorts are not so hot

I do agree the extra supply amount from caravans is a must, and that is something I would always put on a local camp (though, again prime time its flipped a lot).

Maybe I’m hang up is with the NPC escorts to the yak. I guess I should not look at them as protection from players – instead increased supply cap, and protection from the angry mobs.

Some thoughts on a topic I do not think is the utmost priority right now for WvW, but I wanted to understand if others thought likewise or no.

Its on the topic of supply camp upgrades. I started thinking about it when roaming in WvW a couple nights ago, and I looked at the upgrade gal and thought “I would never buy one of these.” So I started thinking about why I would never buy one.

A recap of the upgrades available:

• Tier 1 – Hire Caravan Guard: Hires one Veteran Guard and one Veteran Scout to escort each caravan.
• Tier 1 – Increase Supply Deliveries: Increases the number of supplies delivered by each caravan from 35 to 70.
• Tier 2 – Hire Additional Guards: Reinforces the camp with two Veteran Cabalists, two Veteran Scouts, and one Veteran Zealot.
• Tier 2 -Strengthen Guards: Increases the level of all the camp’s guards (excluding Supervisor) from 80 to 82.

Why I wouldn’t upgrade:

First, I was in enemy territory. I was mostly running havok, so maybe its fine that I did not feel like upgrading (I expected the enemy to be coming in a short bit to reclaim). But therein is an issue, I also don’t feel like upgrading my ally territory supply camps because of how quickly they fall to enemy havok (defending is a touch boring – wait-wait-wait for some weirdly sized zerg to come in and just take).

Second, I think Caravan Guards are terrible. Any character, even under leveled, I just kill the yak and let the guards disappear before they do much of anything to me. I’ve just never had to think twice about these guys, they are just super easy to ignore and kill yak. Anyone else feel differently? I’m unsure how to fix these without making them gimmickly strong – maybe they don’t disappear until they have no aggro (so they continue to fight after yak goes down… maybe pair with an extra CC on them, they could work someone down a bit more?). Maybe pair them with the increase supply upgrade, and add an entirely new one in T1?

Third, defending supply camps is kinda boring while they upgrade (wait wait wait, god forbid someone comes to grab 10 supply and help a group out by building something, and then you have to wait for more supply so you can trigger the upgrade). Do others feel this way, or am I just looking at this the wrong way? Would it be possible to lower supply cost of these a bit (80) to decrease build time… or just flat out decrease build time?

I would sacrifice many things to the gods to get something other than “-Report” to show up in the right click list.

Its an incredibly common occurrence that someone logs off without remembering to leave party in WvW, leaving us stuck with them. We have to decide to reform, or deal with it, or have someone step to LA to boot quickly. Lame.

Making this post for the purpose of feedback / suggestion

I recently sent in a support ticket as my mobile authentication (the little number generator than changes every 30 seconds) had stopped working with my account – was unable to log in from locations with the number.

Worked with NCSoft support a bit to gather info, see how to fix this. Mostly generic question answering and the providing of data. They said they were sending me to GW2Support to help resolve the mobile authentication issue.

The next response I got was that the email authentication had been removed from my account. That was the entirety of the response. I wasn’t so terribly bothered that the response was very unhelpful (of which they didn’t help with the actual problem at all) – but they make my account less secure! This is coming from a person who had to recently prove ownership of the account after someone tried to take it.

So the suggestion / feedback part: Please don’t do that! Would rather the problem not be fixed instead of being made worse!

Reference # 130515-000100

Getting this almost every group now – progressively getting worse (was just happening every now and then a couple weeks ago). I can’t seem to see any specific pattern.

Fishing would be cool. Standard systems could come into place (rods and lures), and it could play well into the cooking line – fish recipes and so on.

As for the gardening, I see a number ideas about associating it into the guild or personal housing. I would love to see that play into land that players own, as opposed to it just being out in the world, which i think is a bit less interesting. (people farm their own land, but you go places to fish and so forth)

Bring it back for Mr. Potatoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thVuIZDdn80

Loving the icons on the map. Adds a lot to non verbal communication, and just for the sake of general clarity as to what is going on! Very cool.

Did not see in the FAQ – do you lose rating over time when not playing? Example: Person is in rank 100, does not play for 2 weeks, slowly starts to bleed rating so they clear out of that spot until they play again.

Problem here as well, I was playing fine, but logged out and attempted to relog in and was not fine…

42:6:3:2158

A few images I took while doing a guild mission with the guild. An area in Mt. Maelstrom I thought looked amazing, the other is us mid combat, and then a guild photo afterward!

Reloading but not seeing GW2 in the list…

Edit: seems it just works with guild wars.

So would mumble needs to create a plugin on their end since GW2 is not a supported game yet? Or is there a way we can get this to work now?

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Games

Completely on board with this idea. I do not think the way mini’s sit in storage now is horrendous, but it does stop most people from having theirs around and out – which is the idea of them.

Been laughing pretty hard – “I’m commandeering that sucker!”

I started to like staff a bit more as I used it, but started pairing it with some of the traits to get a good deal more efficiency out of it for group play. That is when I really started enjoying it.

Example, Altruistic healing! Symbol of Swiftness, and especially Empower, becoming self healing machines (Empower does 12 stacks of might on 5 allies nearby, which can mean lots of of Altruistic Healing heals).

This is why I initially didn’t find the staff as useful when I was doing solo play.

What specifically are you looking for thoughts on?

In an effort to not use this thread as an attempt to debate non-existent facts, I will say that I am very much looking forward to the beginning of 2013, and very appreciative that you put the blog post up. Looking forward to seeing the more detailed blogs month over month, when some real debate can start

Totally understand the priorities here and why these folks we re-assigned as you mentioned, but hopefully you hear that the community greatly looks forward to such features to expand this game in very different and modern areas