Guild Wars 2

It was instant for me but I believe they have changed the security since due to some sort of system abuse.

Just read your post more carefully and noticed you specifically mean the armor types…
I guess they could also add naked legendaries for this but I think seperate collections like Tom mentioned would make more sense since they are different skins.

They said they were working on a “naked” legendary (just the functionality) for the new legendary weapons so that you could still get two legendaries. I would suppose they are working on these for the armor too. That would mean though you can’t get two legendary armors at first.

On the 16th of December.

Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-road-ahead-for-2015/

Edit: btw, there are a lot more dates and details about other things coming this year in the blogpost.

You can actually go to your achievement panel and then the tab under heart of thorns: “mastery insights” or something like that. I believe it says which mastery points you’ve gotten and still need on the maps.

Umm… spoilertag maybe?!….(

Has anyone found a pact supply network agent from the pact commander mastery line yet?

Also, you could actually say that hero point in the Heart of Maguuma take hours because you do not only have to do the challenge, you also have to get there and play all the content before it whereas in WvW you don’t have to do anything extra, you just play the normal WvW game and get them instead of having to go out of your way in PvE.

They are making hero point, which have been PvE only up until now, available in WvW. The very fact they are doing that already not makes this a “kitten you” to WvW players. Thats like getting an xbox 360 and being mad because it isn’t an xbox one.
Secondly, if the difficulty would be roughly the same in WvW there wouldn’t be much incentive to go to the Heart of Maguuma which is the originally intended way of getting them. You are just getting an extra, harder, option in case you really do not want to do the first one.

If you really don’t want it to take longer because you are in WvW then you cab always go to the Heart of Maguuma.

Varonth.5830:

Pakkazull.6894:

No it’s not possible, and no I doubt it ever will be. Simply because you’d basically be the only person ever to use it.

Alot of people would use it to stay within the level ranges required to collect certain types of cloth and leather.

Good point, you would however still level quickly from other sources. Also, anet is fixing the cloth etc. balance with HoT.

The idea behind it btw is that you are earning that experience for something, exploring. Imagine climbing a mountain or traversing a sea in a time like GW2. These things are incredible feats, even without killing a bear of something like that. I do get your point that as a player you are not doing much except for going to a new place. However, anet, in my oppinion rightly so, wants you to feel rewarded for exploring and going to new places.

But if you would really want to turn it off I would be fine with it ofcourse. I am afraid however anet will never add an option like this since it would require extensive work, e.g. the bug testing (since bugs in this could be game breaking) and there would hardly be anyone using it. Especially with the masteries coming.

Randulf.7614:

Anyone else getting error messages when trying to go from SW to Verdant Brink? When entering the story star is comes up with an error string and wont load VB

Had the same problem. When you go to character select and back you are forced into Verdant Brink. From there I was able to enter the story instance without a problem. Already send in a bug report.

Qugi.2653:

Probably about bug where all character get login reward. Some player if lucky and on right day of reward going to get a lot of laurel to turn to gold.

It actually progresses normally with each character. So character 1 is considered as day 1, then character 2 is considered as day 2 etc.

Here are my thoughts:

The events
Positive I actually think the events are pretty fun, there are special objectives for the three types of events. They are not just waves of enemies we need to kill which is a nice change to some other events.
Negative Sadly these cool mechanics are drowned a bit in the huge zergs of players doing the events. Also there are only three varieties of event, this can become a bit stale. I do understand however this is just intended as a little extra before the launch of HoT.

Motivation
Problem Because the only motivation for these events is the blooms and they are awarded based on the amount of events done people are not motivated to stick around and learn the mechanics. The most rewarding gameplay is to tag two mobs and go to the next event.
Possible solution Give the blooms based on the map wide completion of events. This encourages cooperation, people need to work together to complete the events as quickly as possible. This means they need to pay attention to the mechanics. This also means players will need to spread out to complete all the events, which means less zergs and more fun!

Rewards
Positive I really like the way the bloom-rewards are handled. There are some seriously big and cool rewards to work too, gem store skins, big season 1 rewards, and there is also a lot of choice. I also think it is good we need a lot of blooms to get them, these are big rewards, it shouldn’t be easy to get them! (It needs to be very, (very!) hard to get all of them.)
Negative I however don’t think this should be the only reward, give some loot, perhaps like the Silverwastes do (just don’t overdo it like the Silverwastes). Also give these rewards on a map wide basis to encourage cooperation. Lastly I don’t really understand why we shouldn’t be getting experience for these events? Especially since these are low level zones meaning there are lots of players trying to level…
Summing up By combining these rewards people will always feel rewarded because they are getting loot and they will also slowly be able to work towards bigger rewards with the Blooms.

I bought the game in EU so I am not entirely sure but I believe all prices already have tax included in the price

As with all other rewards earned by beta characters these achievements will probably not be saved for your main account. These achievements are probably just there to guide you through the content and to get some extra mastery point in order to test the mastery system.

This is probably included to make sure people have enough mastery points to keep advancing their masteries since most other ways of acquiring mastery point are not available yet.

Hi Gremlin,

When buying Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns you are actually just paying for the expansion. The base game is also included for free for new players but it is not included in the price. Therefore you are not buying the base game again when buying Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. In case you are not aware yet the base game of Guild Wars 2 has gone free-to-play*.
However whether you consider the price worth the expansion is entirely up to you.

*https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/play-for-free-today/

I really like the idea of having them show up with something like “Strange Mushroom”. It adds to the idea of mastering your knowledge.

Elidath.5679:

…
And about this 2015 release: no release date, or even window, was ever mentionned. For the exact reason they where too far from release to get any prediction on it. Some specialization being unfinished is exactly what we should expect at this point.

Arenanet has actually confirmed a release in 2015.

(I agree with the rest of your reply though)

Edited source in: https://mobile.twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/629069828054192128

Just thought I would leave this here :
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32654414

Thiagugu.9682:

http://breonnick.tumblr.com/post/110228431745/serpentwined-greekceltic-kisskicker

Nothing more to say here

Too bad I live in Europe.

But best of luck everyone and to whomever is selected: have a tremendous time!

You can also still get a daily laurel from the wintersday dailies.

Well if the low detail map is based on what the ingame characters think is there. (which is than replaced with what is actually there once they see it) This could be explained by the fact the last time the ingame characters went to the Maguuma it was still the maguuma jungle, with lakes etc. However due to an unknown event (possibly Mordremoth) the Maguuma jungle has dried out becoming the Maguuma Wastes.

This would mean the lake which can be seen on the low detail map has just dried out over the years.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Maguuma_Wastes

For as far as I see it the fastest way of getting the blade shards you need is by:

1. Doing the ‘Not so secret’ jumping puzzle. (skip if you already have a blade shard)
2. Duplicate your 1 blade shard in the MF using 50 watchwork sprockets, 1 pile of glittering dust, 1 pile of shimmering dust and your 1 blade shard. Yields 10-15 blade shards, with the occasional 50.
3. Repeat step 2 until you have anough blade shards

You can buy the spinal blade blueprint scraps of the trading post and as suffish already said, if you want the colored versions you wil have to buy the power cores of the TP as well.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Hmm..there’s a Mysterious Fog down in the sewers under LA. When you talk to it/him/her, you say (as an Asura, anyway) ‘What happened to you?’ It isn’t you that says this, but the Fog, as it turns out.

Then the Mysterious Fog disappears, and you can ‘Interact’, and do the picking up animation, but my character didn’t seem to pick anything up. Strange….

Edit: After Mysterious Fog passes a particular place, a ‘Suspicious Area’ (or Suspicious something) appears, and that is what you can interact with, and subsequently do the ‘picking up’ animation. Still picked up nothing that I can see…

More edits: The ‘Mysterious Fog’ says different things if you follow it/him/her…one of which is ‘Wanna play?’, giving the impression it is a child.

When I followed the mysterious fog it led me to samson, he was part of the scavenger hunt in 2012 for the mad memoires. When interacting with him he even gave me his piece. Maybe we can get the mad memoires again this year? Or maybe it’s just a bug/remnant from 2012?

This. Is. Awesome!

I agree, that would be helpful ^^

Could you explain a bit what exactly you mean? ^^
Do you want to know where you have been recently or all the time? Do you want to see sections of the map you’ve already been to or just a line of where your character has walked?

I believe it is just bad wording just like most of the ‘unlocks’ you get while leveling even though you can already do/use them.

Vayne.8563:

Easy question to answer. It’s called brainstorming.

The CDI doesn’t make choices for Anet. It gives input to Anet. It doesn’t mean that Anet automatically takes that input. It looks at the input through several different lenses (at least most businesses would) and figures out if that input works for their game, can be produced in a reasonable time frame at a reasonable cost, doesn’t interfere with other plans they have etc.

Just because you’re a minority doesn’t mean you don’t have good ideas.

BTW, I don’t think that you’re the only minority. I think we’re ALL minorities.

I don’t think any group has a majority as in more than 50%.

I think we suffer from a divided player base.

^This

I do agree most (parts of) collections have been poorly executed. But there are some pretty cool parts such as the enchanted key scavenger hunt. An example for an completely account bound one is the hylek one. The hylek weapons have to be crafted by yourself and are accountbound. I hope Anet will indeed try to follow this path more in the future. I do think the rewards are pretty well done! Also keep in mind we don’t know how many hidden ones there actually are. ^^

RubiBayer.8134:

We have found that it happens with “Dwayna” and “Moa”. So… that’s interesting. We’re working on it; just avoid doing that for now. I’ll keep you posted!

Thanks for the response

Yeah other Dwayna items do the same xD

The game crashes when I type Dwayna in the TP. It happened to some guildies of mine too. :/

Orpheal.8263:

I lost all my exitement yesterday due to the black lion achievement crap that will turn this game even more into inflation wars 2

PS. and insteasd of wastign time with implementing 48 new backpack items nobody has ever asked about, they should put their prioritiy finally first on other stuff, thats way more important …

Please explain to me how adding those achievements will cause more inflation? Are the rewards for those achievements gold or something?

In the subforum concerning your suggestion.

You can buy recipes for the plant foods and the pot at the vendors in Dry Top from tier 3 onward. ^^

O.o I need it!!!

+1 Great idea!

I agree, however if they want to start using this as a reward giving system they should probably make it more clear for people less interested in the story on where they are.

But I absolutely loved this, the journal, scarlets secret lair and all the story/lore in this update!

Jaken.6801:

Darkmorphos.1530:

First of all I never played Deus Ex so I hope that didn’t make me misunderstand you. ^^
I think their goal with this character was to make her come out of nowhere. She has apparently been doing a lot of research into Scarlet and actually wants to meet her. If we had know she was going to/doing this research it wouldn’t have been such a surprise. However I agree she’s introduced a bit late for the Scarlet storyline, but don’t forget this storyline will flow over into the next storyline for season two. And our little friend already has some theories regarding Scarlet and the dragons. ^^

I was talking about the plot device of a “deus ex machina”. It is basicly a solution out of nowhere that saves the day.
Hence the name, deus being god etc. …

Thanks for the explanation! And I have to agree with you here. It looks like she’s gonna be a deus ex machina. ;(

CharrGirl.7896:

Can somebody enlighten me where is the new story instance?

Nothing on my map indicates anything eh

After you’ve particepated in the marionette fight once you will get a message in your living story UI telling you you can go to the LA docks for the story instance.

Jaken.6801:

While i apreciate the story we got, it all just feels like a big exposition dump.

Mostly that touching szene with Kas and Maj felt forced and out of context. it is something we could have gotten anywhere else but there.

In the dead end for example. There was so much time. Putting it in there felt wastefull.

I agree, the living story has been very lacking in the past. But I think the fact they are now making up with this in the patch means they’ve learned from that. Meaning Season two of the living story will have a lot better character building. Altough they don’t have to introduce a lot of new characters since we already have a lot of new ones.

Jaken.6801:

Then the new Asura character. Cute, a big mouth, the usual asura.
But out of nowhere. She is supposed to be Zojas aprentice or whatever, but no foreshadowing of her. If she has a major impact on the story now, she will be nothing more then a Deus Ex Machina in my book.

First of all I never played Deus Ex so I hope that didn’t make me misunderstand you. ^^
I think their goal with this character was to make her come out of nowhere. She has apparently been doing a lot of research into Scarlet and actually wants to meet her. If we had know she was going to/doing this research it wouldn’t have been such a surprise. However I agree she’s introduced a bit late for the Scarlet storyline, but don’t forget this storyline will flow over into the next storyline for season two. And our little friend already has some theories regarding Scarlet and the dragons. ^^

Jaken.6801:

The rox thing was… okay that was done well, but Rythlok lost some respect here (yes i know his reasons)
also. No Logan on Rythlok action. I mean come on. We got them both so close. Let them have their moment. They have to be lonely after CoE (yes, sadly LS and PS still do not coexist )

I absolutely agree we should’ve seen some Logan-Rytlock action! And I guess you’re right, this has to do with the fact they don’t want to merge LS and PS.

Yes I defiately reccomend you to do the instance!
There’s lot’s of story and espacially character building there!:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/madness/Character-building/first#post3528390

I just quickly wanted to say I loved the way you build the characters during the first story instance in LA. I think the characters are already a LOT more alive for me after having talked to them!

Spoilers ahead, ABSOLUTELY DON’T READ if you haven’t done the LA story instance yet because you will be missing out on a great deal!

(To do the story instance you will first have to participate in the marionette fight once. You will then get a message in your Living Story UI that you can go to the LA docks for the story instance)

Even tough this is just a first impression, but seeing I most love the story in updates, for me this is the best update yet(first impression)! You really have my hopes up on the future of the living story! I hope everyone else will be as excited as I am after talking with everyone in the story instance.

Pls don’t flame me for this ^^

Edit:
I just found her lair after a long search. Just a tip to everyone: Just look for her lair after doing the LA instance instead of looking up a guide. It will be a lot more rewarding, since her secret lair is actually hidden well. ^^

Second edit:
I've finally gotten entry to her lair! It looks like we'll be getting a lot of story in there but I'm now going to have to find 25 of each of the fragments to open the chest and get the pieces of Scralets journal. And then I can activate the console ^^

Third edit:

Scarlets Journal

First Fragment:
I wake up from nightmares--screaming, confused, and scared. It's getting wOrse. I've decided to talk to a mender. I've probably just been working to hard.

Arenanet said something big was going to happen to the sylvari in 2014 right? ^^

Yeah, I did indeed notice my bags filling up with runes and sigils?

Yeah, those are the ones I watch.