Guild Wars 2

it’s a cool map, but for team deathmatch? no thank you. it’s so small, that whichever team has the first death usually wipes shortly after and therefore gets spawn-camped or close to it

while i dislike this decision, i REALLY appreciate you being open with us about it, Mo

Stilgar.6437:

prec on rabid because no power to make use of the crits

this just made me chuckle. maybe you don’t know that many classes proc bleeds on crit

awesome post, Joel. as a necro who enjoys the flesh wurm shadowstep, thank you very much

Calcifire.1864:

so much for “no gear treadmill”

a treadmill is something repeated, not something done ONCE

Tyler Bearce.3427:

We have no plans to add a jumping puzzle to the desert borderlands.

this makes me sad

Tristan.5678:

I rerolled guard just lvl 7 but necro I’m not going to play any more tried PVP kitten so much easier and 1v1 win ratio is much higher and is much funnier to play than that cursed necro I wish I could get back my time spent on Necro

Additionally I will leave this here this is 45 min on lfg tool with necro GJ arena you made a clkittened by every one including those who play necro

I hoped Reaper could make a change for this class but no ….just remove necromancers from the game

i run lvl 50 fractals on necro, almost everyday, and i never have any trouble finding groups via LFG. i just roll swamp, then post “50, swamp.” works every time

ColinJohanson.2394:

Everyone will have to do the actual mission to capture the guild hall once per hall though no matter what. If your group online is too small, you’ll need to invite friends (or pay/beg/sing-songs-to-woo peeps in Lion’s Arch!) to come with you and help you claim the guild hall to own one. Or you could always grow your guild

can you please explain how the whole inviting-non-guildies-to-our-guild-hall thing will work?

ColinJohanson.2394:

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear (weapons and armor) next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ
(Edited to clarify weapons and armor)

o bby…
seriously, thank you for this!

omg yes please o.o

Roy Cronacher.1576:

dulfy.1493:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

…and this is why we showed all the things. Awesome job getting all the info dulfy.

Thank you for showing us everything!

Haha, np! Jon and I before the stream decided to at least quickly mouse over all traits to not take up too much time just because we were like: “Yeah dulfy will get screenshots and be able to post them all.” xD

seriously, thank you SO MUCH for making that live stream amazing!!

Leah Hoyer.9382:

Hi folks! Now that I’ve settled in a bit at ANet, I wanted to check in again on this thread. The first Living World episode that I was involved in, “Echoes of the Past,” has now been live for a few days. We’ve all been really pleased that people seem to be enjoying the story and content a lot. But I’d love to ask you all for more specifics. What were your favorite narrative moments? What did you like about the content? About the way it was told? And of course, I want to hear what you think we can still do better on.

Thanks in advance to everyone for their comments. I’m very excited to be part of such a great game, and to work with such an excellent team of creative people.

to be frank, lately i’ve been a little disappointed in things that ArenaNet has done with new content and whatnot; Echoes of the Past has completely renewed my faith in ArenaNet and the future of Guild Wars 2. i love the lore-rich dialogue and how it flows so well. please keep it coming!

Lady Elvea.2847:

Nate Anabe.6091:

Lady Elvea.2847:

shogei.8015:

Lady Elvea.2847:

Theftwind.8976:

You do NOT want to get a roll of everlasting toilet paper from the Mystic Toilet! Thinks carefully here, if it comes OUT of a toilet then it is USED!

It could be a focus with a corresponding Toilet Brush scepter. I’ll leave it to you what the combat effects could be.

We could make a whole weapon set out of this. There would, of course, be the toilet seat shield and the plunger mace. It gets more difficult after that, but I am sure we have the imagination.

Washbasin hammer?

Someone. Please. Stop me now.

20 Slot Chamber pot

Air freshener pistol.

duster (like a feather duster, but no feathers) axe

i’ve been wanting more token systems in-game for a while. it works great with dungeons. please <3

ColinJohanson.2394:

We’ll go into more detail soon, just to re-iterate so it’s clear:

“The next round of major features will be bundled together into a large “feature only” release that will come after the first season of the Living World 2014 has finished.”

A feature release is not an expansion, it’s a release focused on game features. Examples of game features we’ve done in the past would be: guild missions, account achievement system, spectator mode, new pvp maps, daily world boss chests, removing culling and giving visibility options, the WvW WxP system, etc.

oh my god, thank you SO MUCH for that clarification

i recently reinstalled Windows 7. i did not uninstall anything, before doing so, and i’ve been able to download and install Chrome and Teamspeak, since i reinstalled Windows. when i run gw2setup.exe, via disc and via download, it opens the client, loads the primary bit, then asks if the program can make changes to my computer. however, after i click “yes,” the client opens back up, for a split second, then closes.

i’ve tried almost everything, and i have no idea what to do.

g e o.2589:

Ummm……how do you get it?

it’s automatically sent, via mail, to a new character

LiveSpartan.8206:

This concept art was posted on reddit and its a concept for something called a Krait Obelisk

maybe this is just wishful thinking, but maybe we could be seeing Leviathan soon?

so much for Anet not wanting to punish players.

ColinJohanson.2394:

This is totally our fault, we dropped the ball on this plain and simple. We planned to have this messaged ahead of time to be fair to everyone, communication broke down between those who knew it was supposed to be messaged, and those who were supposed to message it and it simply didn’t happen.

As game director this is ultimately my fault first and foremost, and I’m sorry for those who potentially lost some karma as a result. It is our policy to message these kind of changes ahead of time with lots of warning, I’ll do everything possible to make sure this doesn’t happen in the future.

I’d recommend not using your karma consumables yet, give us a day or two to try and see what options we have available to help mitigate the issue.

lots of respect and appreciation for accepting complete responsibility and apologizing, even though i’m not bugged much by the accident.

so much yes! i totally agree!!

2 options: beginner zones or Orrian temple zerg run, if your server does that

or maybe give weapon skills different levels. they would start at level 1, and could be leveled up.

oh my god, i’ve been wanting this since i first swam around Straits of Devastation. to simplify it, all NPCs could be white-named, and there wouldn’t have to be very many of them. i’d love to explore the scenery. underwater cities would be pretty rad.

thank you. that fixed it. weird…

it’s as simple as the title. i’m unable to receive any mail in-game. people have sent me food items and a pearl dagger, all of which went M.I.A.

was in Malchor’s Leap when i logged in after the update. tried to enter Cursed Shore, got dc’ed, and haven’t been able to get passed the character select screen since.
Northern Shiverpeaks server

for the 2nd time just now, the system message told me that i had much more time than i really did. around 7:45 or 7:50 PM central time, the system said i had 2 hours, 30 minutes. right after i finished CoF at 7:59, the game reset for the update. the same thing happened with CoE and the previous update. all i ask is that y’all please stop lying to us about how much time we have left.

although i’m pretty content with how my gear and weapons look, if they’re gonna put somethin in an update, they should get all major kinks out before it—the individual part—goes live

Sekkira.3796:

PS: It didn’t get fixed at all.

yea, i see that now x_x

looks like the only thing that got fixed is the un-named NPCs follow me now. the story character, Crusader Afanen, won’t follow and stays where the cave group was. still can’t get out from the southern exit, which is where the quest tells me to go.

EDIT: just saw this got fixed in the update!

in the part of the quest where i had to get the 2nd team out of the cave, after i killed EVERY Risen mob, i couldn’t get any of the team to follow me to the exit. even when i got to the exit, which was blocked and un-attackable, nothing happened, and it didn’t look like i could trigger anything. i ended up having to die to get out of it.
if it’s not a bug, any help is appreciated. if it is, please fix it ArenaNet.

Drintar.1246:

Your mailbox is full just an fyi

did you try sending me something in-game?

Phy.2913:

North end of frostgorge, There’s a few large lakes so there’s probably one around both Kodan ship/glacier things.

that is where they were. what made me laugh was about a second after i saw the 2nd one, some mob 2-hit me from behind lol

Phy.2913:

There’s a champion risen megalodon in the very southern tip of Orr, south of the pirate ship. They also keep kittening about one near fort Trinity. And there’s a humpback or 2 in Frostgorge.

thank you! i think i’m satisfied with one Risen Megalodon lol but i’ll definitely look for the whale(s) once i level some more. do you know what part of the map they’re in? i’ve never even been to Frostgorge fyi

here’s the humpback whale i found near the Risen(i think) ship

this is really for anyone who’s interested. i went lookin for the Megalodon someone told me about in Sparkfly Fen (south of Bloodtide Coast). i found another humpback whale, which i’ll also post a shot if, in the process. finally though, i found a lvl 56 Champion Risen Megalodon!

Leiloni.7951:

I had that issue as well and had to study a few maps online before I figured it out. There’s a waypoint in the south eastern corner of the map. You’ll find a road to the next map there.

thank you very much

one day while i was exploring, i decided to expand my map south of Bloodtide Coast, to what i now know is Sparkfly Fen. i noticed the clearest path was through water, but when i got to the southern edge of the Bloodtide Coast map, i was stopped, as if there was no map content beyond.
i haven’t seen any other way to get into the area; can someone please help me?

Vladia, thank you so much!

ArenaNet said they’d spread late-game content, like large-scale bosses, throughout the game. i’m level 61, and aside from my beginning-of-story boss, the only large-scale bosses i’ve seen outside of instances are the Shadow Behemoth (level 11 i think?) and the Shatterer (level 50).
somebody, please tell me i’m wrong and where i can find others.

prenavo.3926:

Look at the place in Lions Arch with all of the non functioning Asura Gates and talk to some of the NPC’s in that area. That to me gives a clue as to how much content they plan for. There are tons of those gates in there.

wait, which part of Lion’s Arch has so many non-functioning Asura gates?

Finaldeath.1059:

The places you mention might be part of the free content updates they have talked about.

haven’t heard about that! post a link?

this is the Veteran

also, for anyone who wants to know, this is the map of southeastern Kessex Hills. as you can see, there are 2 options for which Waypoint to use. if you go with the one i used, there are ogres most of the way ‘til the water, and in the section of water you land in, there’s a Veteran Sea Scorpion (i think that’s the right name), so be either quick or strong.

here’s looking at the floating castle

Greenbuddhas.4507:

any pictures of these locations?

i can do that

Fiennes.9568:

DymondHed,

The area is called Wizard’s Fief. The town is called Garenhoff.

ahh, then yes. does an NPC mention the town’s name?

Syphenion, i don’t know where you got that from, but no.

LiveSpartan.8206:

Theres also Fort Vadal in the Brisban wildlands that has lvl 80 Champions on it guarding a zone portal and theres another portal across a broken bridge.

are both portals in Brisban? i’m always down for discovering new things like this