Guild Wars 2

Alright yeah I poked around a bit and got the same certification error in Java. Glad to know it wasn’t just me messing up haha.

I believe its been stated that there will never be API’s that allow you to change stuff server side.

Hi I would love to learn how to write my own simple apps for the API, I have some experience with Java and am currently learning Python and Javascript, if anyone could point me towards a good tutorial for one of those that would be great

Lucky number 77, if you please

Name: Righteous and Roguish Explorers [RARE]
Gameplay Choice: PvE (including Fractals, Dungeons), some WvW, some sPvP
Server: Yaks Bend (not required, but encouraged for WvW)
Active time:
Contact Info: Dra Keln.2015
Other Info:
A new guild, we are aiming to grow into a mid sized active community. Our only requirement is that you log on once every 4 weeks, after 4 weeks offline you are kicked, but given a mail inviting you to rejoin when you return to the game. We’re all very helpful, and welcome players of any skill level. We generally just want to be friendly and enjoy the game together.

Map Reward System
The map reward system could use a proper UI, as it is its very easy to forget its even happening. Additionally, I would suggest including the higher end rewards (lodestones and t6 mats) in the lower level maps as part of the rotation, so as to spread the wealth out a bit. No one really wants t3 scales. In fact I think it would be great if there was always a map that rewarded each of the top tier rewards and those maps rotated all the time (ie. week 1 you get powerful blood from one map, powerful venom from another, charged lodestones from a third, etc. Week 2 the materials are still available, but at different maps)

Specializations
Chronomancer
I’ll start with Chronomancer, I have to say I liked this one the best. The skills worked well, it felt like good support and good damage, and was generally fun. Biggest issue was with tides of time, the wave got destroyed by hitting terrains and walls, and also didnt travel far enough backwards, imo. Nothing was more dissatisfying than watching the corner of it catching on a wall and getting destroyed, or seeing it disappear just short of reaching me, in both cases denying me the cooldown reduction mechanic (which is really fun!).

Dragonhunter
I liked dragon hunter a lot, but it had a few small issues. I’d love to see a trait that made traps ground targeted and increased longbow range. As is, the traps don’t synergize very well with the longbow. Tactically setting them up beforehand doesn’t work well when you’re attempting to advance into the jungle instead of defending a point. Additionally, the low cooldown and root effect on skill 2 really hurt the mobility of the class. I understand the need for the root to balance the high damage, but the fact that its ready to use so often and is a really hard hitter (making it hard to ignore once its up) lead to the class feeling very trapped and stuck. I would suggest taking away the root, and nerfing the damage and making the cooldown slightly longer to compensate.

Reaper
Honestly this one felt really good too. A long cooldown gap closer might be nice, but I could see where that might make it a little too stong as well. It would n=be nice if the shouts provided a bit more support to the party members, as thats an area necros tend to be lacking in.

Tempest
Have to say, I was fairly underwhelmed here. My main is an ele, primarily staff, and this was the first specialization I just couldn’t see myself taking, The overload mechanic is an interesting idea, but it felt too clunky and like I wasn’t really getting enough bang for how much time went into the cast. Rebound is supremely disappointing because I often found my autoattack eating the cooldown reduction, and I can only imagine how much worse that is when it shows up on allies. They probably wouldn’t even notice it. On the flip side, warhorn was surprisingly enjoyable, i have to say nice job with that one.

Masteries
I like the general outline for time investment, I calculated the exp required to complete all the magumma masteries to be roughly equivalent to earning 266 levels. I think that’s a pretty solid timeline, provided that we see new masteries added on a somewhat regular basis. The one thing I would change is how the current system of spending points and training works. Earning mastery points is a nice reward for content, because it feels like youre being rewarded with progression for your work. But if you don’t have a line already trained, your gratification is delayed because you can’t spend a point. Meanwhile, leveling up and finishing training of a mastery should feel like the culmination of effort, yet if you have no mastery points at the time, it means that you really just passed a roadblock. The current system doesnt play to the strengths of the different reward systems involved. I would reverse it, spend the point first and then do the training, that way you get the feeling of success when and progress by earning a mastery point and getting to spend it right away, and the sense of culmination when training is complete by getting to put start using the new skill right away.

Verdant Brink
The new map is an absolute blast. So much to explore and see. I love gliding around, one of the most fun thing in the game right now. I like the events that were working, but I have to say that the one where explosives were being laid to get into the temple took way too long. That one could definitely stand to be toned down quite a bit, since not much happens if you’re doing well, but you still can’t make it go any faster. With the hylek village, I think it would be better if you weren’t able to communicate with the villagers at all until you had the language mastery. As it was, it felt weird that I would try to talk to the merchants and get a “you can’t understand each other” dialogue and then immediately have a complex conversation with the village elders.

Revenant
Revenant felt really good. I think sword/sword could use a little more PBAoE, or a slight damage boost, because its relatively high risk but it doesn’t feel like it hits much harder than the other options. I would buff the damage on shiro skill 8 a bit, because as it is Shiro has fairly low damage for a legendary assassin, even if his skills are more about setting up damage potential.

I’m sure theres already a plan in place for how to rebuild LA, but I had a really cool idea for how to do it and felt like sharing.

1. Set up relief effort events all over the world, wherein various local groups are gathering supplies. So Charr engineers in ascalon ore and scrap, human architects gathering lumber, sylvari mendors collecting seeds and sapplings, etc etc. The events can entail collections, escorts, killing bosses guarding the areas, whatever.

2. Participation rewards various amounts of (Human/Charr/Lionguard/Sylvari/Asura/Norn/whatever else you want to include) Relief Tokens.

3. In LA there are various reconstruction coordinators, each associated with specific areas or buildings. (So, a gate hub rebuilder, a plaza rebuilder, eastern housing, western housing etc etc)

4. Players turn their tokens into these coordinators. Once enough tokens have been turned in that building or area becomes queued for rebuilding with you guys.

5. The design of the building is dependent on which type of token had the greatest turn in rate. So if lots of charr token are turned in for the gate hub, we get a hub that looks like the black citadel.

Sorry this plan is fairly complex, I know its probably got way too many issues to be implemented but I think it would be a really cool way to make us feel like we were actually rebuilding LA so I figured I’d post it here anyway. I’m sure whatever ends up happening will be great, keep up the excellent work guys.

10 minutes /15 chars

You guys do realize theres no special one time ting right? Anet confirmed this. The intro will be instanced most likely and EVERYONE will get to see it, regardless of when they log on

ITT: People acting like scarlet is the first video game villain to have plot breaking unlimited source of resources.

If Kralkatorik stopped sending the Shatterer to fight us every 3 hours, and just kept the new ones in reserve for a week, he would have 56 dragons, which I’m pretty sure could wreck most of ascalon. Same for Jormag and the Claw. The population of bandits and pirates in the human territory would be enough to completely overflow any city by sheer volume.

Are they plot holes. Sort of. Are they bad writing? No. They’re handwaves done because it makes for better gameplay. Reduce it to the degree that makes sense for you, and call that lore. Is scarlet still a little over the top? Yeah, but not nearly as bad as you people are making her out to be

I’d say expect it in the balance/feature patch (3rd patch from now, including this one)

So there’s really two (major, still lots of sub-proposals) crowds of people complaining about overflows, and I think its important to distinguish that. You have the people who are frusturated that they can’t play with their friends. To them I think the general consensus, is yeah, it definetly sucks to a certain degree, but you have the Taxi system, so you’re not that bad off while Anet works out a solution for you. Then you have the Anet needs to magically summon up the server space to hold all of the players that want to do an event. These people either lack basic the understanding of computer systems and money required to understand what they request is impossible, expect anet to develop 10x as much content so that we can have epic invasions spread out across the maps, or are pro trolls. Whichever it is, they are immune to logical argument, so lets just leave them out of this and have an otherwise reasonable discussion

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Or are you saying overflows in general are a nightmare?

I haven’t been a fan of overflow since it was invented, as a response to the karka catastrophe. Shortly after that event we players had a chance to fill out a survey from Anet itself and the responses were overwhelming; that Anet doesn’t develop these super massive events very well.

Since then we’ve been given large scale boss invasions that have triggered overflows and in my opinion overflow technology is not a good bandaid for events that attract large numbers of players, never mind the massive numbers we had for the karka event, and what we will get again next week.

Many players can’t even get a map to load, never mind play with friends. Events start to fail and the resulting imbalance in rewards is really distasteful. Lions Arch might end, but it wont end well.

Overflows have been in the game since well before launch, they were added as a way to combat server limitations, and not in response to the karka at all, optimizations have been made in response to the karka event. As far as designing events that are too popular, i have no clue what to tell you. Maybe they should make bad content so they don’t have as many players, I guess that’s the only real solution.

That is “in game”, look it should be fairly simple. How did you handle the personal story? You looked at what it told you to do, you went and did it, and then you said great, thats done, let me look again and see whats next. Its the same system, its just yellow instead of green

FYI overflows aren’t the problem. It’s really getting annoying, the people who say they do more harm than good. The deal isn’t: “overflows instead of crowding everyone into main” it’s “overflows instead of waiting in a queue” So your option is to do the event in overflow, with a chance at success (it can be done believe it or not), or stare at a queue and do nothing. If you don’t feel like this is actually an option since the game just puts you in an overflow anyway, you can simulate it by going and standing in a safe corner of the map and stare at your screen while doing nothing.

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend with these Living Story updates.

Players don’t seem to believe in reading.

See every patch people complain about not knowing where to go or what to do. And I’ll admit that for a while in the beginning they did a pretty bad job informing us in game. But now we get a detailed mail in game at the start of every patch telling us where to go to get started. You do the thing there and then the Gold panel in the corner updates with where to go next.

But players don’t seem to want to read that.

It seems that many players need the game to literally reach through their screen and slap them with the information.

I had the achievement colored in before I went to Kessex, however I also had 0/12 for the meta achievement. After completing the instance and getting the Euthanizer achievement I have 1/12 for the meta and did not get a pop up for the Nightmare Ender. Anyone experience something similar?

Yeah absolutely once per account. I feel like once a week would be even better than once per day, that way people feel compelled to journey outside of just a few zones while they play hitting up familiar events. As far as how much to give, 10s was just spitballing, but I definitely think group events should reward more than regular events

What does everyone think of putting a heavy buff on event rewards (like 10s per event) BUT making it so those bonus rewards were given out once per event per account per (day/week/whatever) as a way of encouraging people to spread out into the mid level zones?

Well the tower heart is destroyed as per patch notes, so when does everyone think THAT will happen?

The tower dies when we fill the antitoxin meter, and when that happens the content goes away. I’m sure the physical tower will remain as ruins, but thats not what I’m referring to

So, how long does everyone think it will take to destroy the tower? I would love to hear how long Anet expects it to take too.

Literally for the exact reason you just described. So that people don’t join a party from the base, join in instance with someone up top, and get the chest with no effort

Not sure if this has been suggested already, but what about a system in which having the outmanned buff slows the point gain for the other servers on a map by map basis

I should add that my favorite thing about the actual content is the sylvari having downed states. Please keep that up, not for all foes, but for some of them, it adds an extra layer to combat

Hey Anet! I hope you guys are having a good day! Mods included. I just wanted to let you guys know that I’m really enjoying this patch, it’s easily my favorite and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed basically every patch so far. Just thought you guys might appreciate some positive feedback every once in a while! Seems like you’ve listened to what people have said, requesting that living world stuff feel big and world changing. I cant express the awe I felt the moment I hit m and saw the new effects on the world map. Absolutely INCREDIBLE feeling! Anyways keep up the good work, and have a great day!!!

Looking at your list, some of those things were under the category of “working towards but may or may not happen this year” and some have since been moved to the category of "at risk of not making it this year, but heres my thoughts on it:

- The rest of the crafts to 500 and ascended armor (expect to coincide with the new fractals because its what the gear was originally made for)
- New sPvP rewards system (possibly legendaries in sPvP) (honestly no idea when this woud come, pvp stuff tends to just kind of happen)
- Scavenger Hunt or craftable precursors (possibly the same thing) (been moved to at risk but if it happens I would expect with the new legendary stuff as one big overhaul patch)
- New legendary weps and a new type of legendary (working towards but if it happens I expect it in the first december update)
- New skills and traits (working towards, but we are getting a new skill this patch)
- If i’m not mistaken the council election also promised a new fracs level (this year?) (expect it at November 12th to coincide with the one year anniversary of fractals. Also its 4 months after the election meaning theres been a full development cycle to produce them)

Just a small request, please don’t turn this into a thread whining about the removal or anything else.

Next time you remove a dungeon path please give us a month’s warning or so, so that those of us who have not done it, but would like to, get a chance. Thank you very much.

I don’t know if you guys are trolling or mixing up world 3 with zone 3….

Josh foreman (creator of SAB) has formally apologized already. He acknowledged that he got carried away adding in mechanics and it ended up being to the detriment of the experience. World 2 is getting redesigned for the next time SAB is available. Regarding world 3, do it, it’s jut one level with like 5 jumps and no foes to get to the genie for a little story reveal.

That’s the whole point, this speeds up character loading

Hey hate to tell you but there was advanced notice. The patch notes told us exactly when the votes would end. Ill admit they could’ve been a little more loud with it, but it was there

Anet, I don’t have a problem with temporary content. I don’t have a problem with challenging content. I do request that you not make temporary challenging content, that you have to queue up to complete. All the reports so far are saying this will be extremely difficult content that will require changing your build and weapons. Well What if I don’t have the money or ability to do that right now? This is something that should be made permanent. Please please please consider this as an option.

So a lot of people feel like the elder dragons should be a bigger threat, and thakittens ridiculous that we’ve not touched on them since release. I’m here to help explain how that’s ok, and how why they are still a problem that needs to be dealt with eventually. First of all, we must remember that Primordus has been awake for 200 years, Zhaitan, 150, Jormag 50, and Kralkatorrik 6. They are destructive, nearly indestructible forces, yet life has continued fairly unchanged. Yes they are an ever present threat, but they aren’t imminently destroying everything. So why even worry about them at all?

Here’s the thing. Dragons eat magic. They consume it, and search for it, and that’s what leads to them destroying magical based civilizations. This is why they are dangerous. It is brought up in the Asura storyline because that makes Rata Sum a prime target. The reasons the dragons haven’t attacked it yet is the same as why they aren’t a major concern at this point in time. Location Location Location.

Primordus lives underground, with the ruins of Asura civilization. There were over half a dozen grand Asura cities that make Rata Sum look like a play pen. There were dwarven villages, and skritt hidey holes. Primordus has enough magic down there to last him an eon.

Jormag is in the Northern Shiverpeaks. Norn homesteads, ancient Jotun magic, not quite as rich as the depths of Tyria, but he’s only been there for 50 years so he’s doing ok.

Kralkatorrik is hanging out in the crystal desert, where Turai Ossa took his people for ascension. It’s littered with their relics. He also has Glint’s highly magical corpse to snack on. There’s no way he’s wanting after only 6 years of wake time.

Zhaitan was awakened with the most magical human city on top of him, he had no need to leave for 150 years, likely only conducting his attacks because his home came with a move in ready undead army, so he might as well do something with it.

In short, the dragons are a threat, because when they do get hungry, they are capable of destroying all that we hold dear in an instant. But they aren’t imminent until the run out of free food where they are.

It’s coming out the 6th but its the content for the month of August. It’s likely that the first bit will be prep work and whatnot but that the actual celebration, and any ceremonies will come on the anniversary

Saw a red post on this a while back. Basically adding a new WvW map takes months of work, and they’re working on one now, but itll be longer than theyd like

You guys do realize this is the anniversary festival right? like 1 year of GW2? Did you really expect something different?

Ahem. If we could get that opened up soon that’d be great, thanks guys

I don’t remember the interview I saw it in, but Collin said any new zones would likely be Orr style, with no hearts. They only had hearts in the first place because alpha test groups said they needed more direction and couldn’t figure out what to do without them

To be fair it’s not the primary method. The primary method is experiencing it in game, but just like in the real world, you have to go to a summary if you weren’t at the event

If they had an answer to this question the feature would be in game already. The changes they’ve proposed are relatively simple so the only thing they could possibly be working on right now is a method of refunding people that bought MF gear. Though I think for the time being they should remove the ability to buy MF gear

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_movement_of_the_world

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ecology_of_the_Charr

Those two should help @Teofa, but essentially, when they overthrew the flame legion the charr went through a period where they rejected magic completely, and this brought on a full scale industrial revolution building weapons of war in order to just keep up with magic users. Imagine this as a world where instead of ignoring DaVinci’s helicopter design, it was embraced on and tested until it succeeded because that was the key to staying alive

Dang. That’s too bad

Will achievements tied to mini games remain available after this living story ends? Such as the survivor high score?

Try the wiki page Living world Summary

I have to say I prefer not knowing. It makes the world seem like its actually living, and evolving, as opposed to moving down a railroad toward a goal. I’m also glad were not moving straight to the next dragon. My biggest dread was that this game would turn into just killing dragon after dragon after dragon when there is so much more in the world to deal with.

Very helpful and all, but if I might direct everyone’s attention here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_Summary

If anyone wants to read my quote at the top of the thread you’ll see that Anet had states they don’t plan on doing both fractals as a way to not cheapen the impact o the vote. I think that doing this actually really cheapens it because now we will vote only based on which fractal we want, not about who we want directing the future of the story

Wasn’t this /thread like 10 months ago?