Guild Wars 2

With what happened with scarlet & the crazy engineer out in dry top, I can’t say i envy ANY sylvari getting near maguuma.

SoPP.7034:

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Brutal Arts.6307:

0 content for a month. Got it.

I prefer no content for a month a something huge after, than stupid content every 2 weeks…

+1 to that.

Btw did anyone else read it originally as 1 June?

-.-

Yeah,…… i did. I was super excited, then looked at it again and felt stupid :|

could be that (considering) mordremoth has just awoken, its planty/earth powers cause the fines to go into overgrowth mode and spread out ? (essentially its version of corruption ? judging by the purple spooky glow and all)

Korval.3751:

I’m going out on a limb to say Anet should do what they did in Guild Wars, Factions, Nightfall, Eye of the North, and the launch of GW2 itself: SHOW the antagonist early so we know who we are up against. Nothing is more frustrating than going month after month at a snail’s pace not knowing what the story is about or where it’s heading, or worse who the villain is.

Here are some well-known examples of villains who are introduced right from the beginning.

- Darth Vader within the first 10 minutes of Star Wars.
- Sauron within the first 10 minutes of Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. (You spend 3 movies watching the outcome unfold)
- Smaug within the first 15 minutes of The Hobbit.
- Jaws within the first 5 minutes of Jaws.
- The Joker within the first 15 minutes of The Dark Knight.
- Bane within the first 10 minutes of The Dark Knight Rises.
- V’Ger within the first 10 minutes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Shinzon’s co-conspirator wiping-out the Romulan Senate within the first 5 minutes of Star Trek: Nemesis.
- The Stargate film opens with Ra abducting his future host and slaves.
- A Clockwork Orange opens with a close-up of a smiling Alex, planning a night of ultra-violence.
- Iron Man 2 opens with Ivan Vanko watching his father die and then preparing for his revenge against Tony Stark.
- Captain America: The First Avenger begins with Red Skull finding and stealing the Tesseract.
and so forth…

What makes the living world story most frustrating for me is that it does not follow what Anet had done in every Guild Wars game they produced. They used the villain opening scene plot device. They even used this to introduce Zhaitan in GW2. But they did not do this with Scarlet Briar in season one of the Living World story. Instead we had to wait FOR MONTHS as the story lingered not having a clue where it was going or how it would end.

I want Anet to start LWS S2 with a bang showing us THE VILLAIN doing something villainous so that wets out appetite to say, “Wow I can’t wait to take them down!” Like we said with Zhaitan.

Silly person, you have to fight all the mooks before you see the big bad :P
We saw Zhaitin pretty early on, heck in the intro really, then we (beam spammed) killed em. WhenScarlet died, we saw Mordremoth awaken,(for that matter all of Tyria heard it, so thats something!) so now we’re going to go kill him. Pretty direct really. Also, Mordremoth DID do something (or maybe its unknown as of yet champion) its what broke scarlet and made her go all saturday morning villain on us, and id say all the crap she did over the past year counts as “doing something” Perhaps you haven’t been to Lions Arch recently ?

Cormac.3871:

The questions as I see them are:

1) How many maps?
2) What level of map?
3) What style of map? (How big, are there hearts etc.)
4) What new resources?
5) What features?

So here is what I expect and what I hope

1) I expect one new map / I hope for more.
2) Level 80 / I hope for a range of levels
3) Southsun style map, no hearts small number of dynamic events mostly for groups, don’t go in alone / traditional map with some standard content and some tricky group events. Hearts appear after living world moves from that map. Some heart vendors sell armour with a new skin.
4) One new ingredient, and my long shot bet is occasional azurite drops from ore nodes / two new ingredients. Maybe the azurite drops would be nice too.
5) A new world boss / two new world bosses, one for organised groups, one Jormag level of difficulty (ie, not hard, but there’s a good chance you’ll get downed) and a new dungeon.

Though no time soon, i can’t help but think we’ll be getting a new dragon Champion to fight along the way…

Almoryk Kane.6085:

With only one image to clue us in on what is ahead for the beginning of season 2 living story I would like to start a thread that focuses only on the first part. Not the entire next story but just the first patch to come in July.

Lost of people are saying a new map. The image certainly hints to that. Though what do we want in a new map. I’m hoping that we have some new hearts. While the south sun content was alright it felt as though the event karma train was not worth running in the beginning. Only with the introduction of the Karka Queen dose South Sun get any kind of attention. Hearts not only provide opportunity to new players but having new armor skins to go with the karma rewards would be great.

A new meta event would be nice though. Can’t say I would not like the opportunity to add more chest rewards considering the new timers limit how much you get done.

A new city would be cool. We are approaching territory of a possible existence of a second Pale Tree. If we are investigating the “sound” when scarlet died it would make sense to head either North or East of Brisband Wildlands.

Well that’s all I got. Your thoughts?

Well, if you’re a sylvari and pick story spoiler...Where life goes, so too should you, you know for a fact there are other trees, also in gw1 it directly says the cave rhonen(sp) got the pale trees seed from, was *FULL* of seeds..

Well, Belinda said there was a mounting expedition do deal with black market kittens in “northern tarnished coast” aka brisban wildlands So that’s pretty clear we’re heading in that direction, added to it that we know Mordermoth...is awake now. We’ll likely have some event/meta=event series of attacking the fort, entering *maybe) a smaller dungeon version of part of the new zone, clearing a path as it were, then later we’ll gain actual access and start a eventual campaign towards the bugger and likely stumble across some other lovely surprises. Maybe some white mantle cells to boot as well !

Baoz.4735:

The easter egg is a lie, just to get you in here. BUT STAY and read the kitty dogy post.

In Brisban WIldlands, all the way to the west, there is a Fort Vandal poi, the fort is locked, but all around, there are about 10 champion bandit poisoner standing guard.

My question is, is this part of this map’s meta event?

Sorry man, they’ve been there since launch. Just like the bandits “working” on the broken bridge leading to another portal. I do agree we’re likely dealing with them considering the events in the Dead End after scarlets defeat.

We’ll find out tomorrow, for better or for worse.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I recognize that portal, it’s one of the ones in Brisbain Wildlands I believe. NEW ZONE CONFIRMED.

Well, neither unused brisban portal is leafy though, ones barren (the one at the broken bridge) the other has doors like the queensdale-kessex gate. Though that could be placeholder art i suppose. Almost certainly maguum in some capacity, given the seraph deployment to deal with (likely) fort vandal.

Well, they’ve already said there will be smaller month long arcs instead of the big
multi-month ones in season one. So that should keep things interesting, enough time to be able to do it all (in theory) but often enough changes to keep us nice and hungry.

Kain Francois.4328:

Hey guys. We’re going to temporarily stop selling old-soda that everyone buys. We’re going to replace it with NEW-soda, which will intentionally be inferior to the old-soda. After that, we will reintroduce the old-soda again with a hip, new, RETRO marketing campaign. Business will be booming as everyone flocks back to the old-soda! (We also get PR for looking like we “listen” to fans too!)

That’s my metaphor. But I don’t know how much it applies to GW2.

Not related really, but the above is to the letter what coca cola did back in the late 80s/ early 90s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

- Doors will not open until all mobs in the preceding area have been cleared. This is to prevent skipping, obviously. This should be a thing anyhow. I can’t count the times I’ve been booted for wanting to run the dungeon properly, there are people out there that are 100% convinced the devs make content that is supposed to be skipped. I weep for the lfg T_T

oh my goooooood when is this bullkitten crying going to end Seriously people. So we have a lesbian couple (a cutesy one no less) Big. Freaking. Deal. It’s fairly low key, if you want something shoved in your face, go play mass effect with a same sex love interest.. shep is such a ho -_-… ANYKITTENWAY. Its a game, please get off your social justice high horse, and go cry in a blog or such where you can find other bigots to agree with your inanity.

MokkoriChance.5170:

Phalanx Heavy-Armor Skin from Gem Store, still loving it.

I LOVE the phalanx armor.. but not how it looks on females, its a re-texture of the medium Vipers set. Makes me pretty sad.

Sigdis Ebonwood, Dragonbrand

CHIPS.6018:

I think it is fair to say that engineering has absolutely nothing to do with biology.

There is so very much wrong with this statement ( the rest had a point, just this bit in particular is false.) They are different disciplines to be sure, but living things are organic machines, heck there’s a bug that has gears notched into its rear legs :P There’s far more to biology than chemicals and such, anything you see fro a simple seed pod to an entire ecosystem, theres’s still mechanical engineering underneath it (even if the mechanisms involved are organic in nature~)

id wager it’s more her insatiable interest in the atheric nature of the mesmers powers. She wants to change reality.. what better way than with magic that by its very nature warps and shatters reality itself ?

Defiantly scarlet related. Defs. Possibly dragon related ? almost certainly. Technically anything large-scale magic related could be indirectly dragon related. What I want to know, is this; we know scarlet thought she saw the eternal alchemy laid bare, but then the pale tree says "scarlet didnt see what she thought she saw" So what the kitten did she actually see. I’m going to go ahead and call this (not the first likely) lil miss scarlet was duped by “something” that broke her little brain like a stale bread stick. She’s a pawn herself, I can’t help but get this feeling when she goes on one of her rants.

This id one reason i love the seraph armor (human t3 heavy) as far as my eyes say its as kitten dear identical as you can get. I’m one of countless saddened by the phoenix heavy skin… i saw a male norn waltzing about in it and happily tried it on my (female) human guardian and i was sad =/ An option for which one would be nice like how we pick pve pr pvp for a skin yeah ? Normal/skimpy. That’d be nice.

I looked and couldn’t find this so here it is! a fractal depicting the fall of Orr! Maybe we’d be part of the charr attacking (well it would make more sense to be aiding ole khilbron somehow, but i digress). Realistically we could have hundreds of fractals. I hope that’s the case one day!

well a friend of mine was in party with me and she saw nothing, i logged and it was gone.
And yeah, it was just stationary, like if you had a 3d model rigged. I had my hopes up that it was part of some kitten living story concluding event. /cry

Somehow you’ve confused buying skins.. for winning ? I…can’t even begin to comprehend how you arrived at that conclusion. Unless these skins have some hidden “I win” button that lets you win at everything you do. If “winning” for you is how your character looks, maybe go play some ragnarok online or maple story.

Am I seriously the only person seeing this ?

If there’s one thing, *one thing I love about this community, its the kittening. Months of it for having tokens no longer take up bank space, hell more or less a years worth. We get it, exactly as asked for, then complaining about it being off the bat. Not just this but everything really.

“we want more content, more often”

new content every 2 weeks.

“WAH WAH ANET FORCES US TO DO CONTENT NOT FAIR”

“we want a wallet with all of our tokens in it”

new wallet feature that easily stores all currencies so there’s no running to the bank to grab tokens, or gold. (karma has always been in the wallet, its just an account pool of it now is all).

" (lets just pretend all the crying is here as i don’t have the patience to type it out)"

Honestly. Be happy Anet takes the time to listen and respond, you don’t get that type of interaction in mmos very often, or many genres at all. If musts needs be, then you can make a lil note on your desktop about if that individual character can only spend what they earn, takes a couple of seconds to do. Surely if you have each character compartmentalized to that degree, surely they keep their own financial records no ?

Man.. we don’t need a card based mini game, it’d go straight to the cash shop, and then people would kitten on about it not being “fair” endlessly so lets just not go there. Also, single player games can’t honestly be compared to multiplayer ones, different dynamics. I would love to see some more varied minigames though!

adagiophoto.4512:

I really like the temporary content. It gives a sense of urgency and it provides experiences that are special, because you can’t just do it whenever.

I understand the argument against it. This weekend I broke my hand and I will be unable to complete a lot of this patches content, but all in all I’m ok with that. Hell, it’ll even give me more drive to do the next Living Story content.

See, this is a nice thing to see.

theenigma.3597:

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

As Colin mentions in this post and this post, based upon community feedback, we are adjusting our strategy to include a larger mix of permanent updates in the future.

The are also posts talking about introducing a achievement rewards ladder, not only does limited time content prevent some players from ever experiencing content and having certain in game benefits and achievements, now there will be an achievement ladder on top of this and some achievements will become out right impossible to obtain.

I don’t understand how closing more and more doors on a player base is a smart design choice.

I remember before release Guild Wars 2 was being touted as the “casual mans” MMO where you did not have to live in game for 8 hours a day to experience the full game and enjoy it, now I come in at a later date and find my self being punished for not playing from the very start and spending countless hours playing. I cant even take a month off from the game as I would be missing 2 rounds of content, I am forced to play by the schedule the game sets and what it wants me to do or I am loosing out.

You’re about as forced to play as you are to pay a monthly fee. Which, you’re not, in either case. Posts like this are past sickening me, “boo hoo i kitten missed kitten content that happened before I even played gw2, that’s not fair to me.” Most content in the game is up for give or take a month, if within a month you don’t have time to do a given set of content, that’s not anets fault. If you don’t have time to play the game to your satisfaction, then stop playing it and stop sounding like a kitten entitled child whinging on about what they “deserve”. I hope sincerely you’re able to find the time to enjoy any content you choose to participate in, but please, stop blaming anet for something that they don’t control, IE your free time.

As far as the new achievement system goes, once again, you’re not forced to do things for it, you can play as you have since they day you started, some people, people other thank you, like having a way to measure/show how much they’ve accomplished, it’s not hurting you in any way, shape or form, so please get over yourself.

abomally.2694:

Download, install and update the free version of Malwarebytes’ Antimalware:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

Then run a FULL scan.

Be patient that site is loading VERY slowly for me at the moment.

I sorted all my problems out! well.. i still load a bit slow (took the ssd back) but not so much that i cant play~

Spoilers! /closes blue notebook No but really, the ties arent clear because we can’t see the big picture just yet. If it was obvious form the start, that wouldn’t be much of a story would it ?

I think we’ll see this is the story progress towards its current conclusion, the defeat of zhaitan was just the start of the proverbial snowball rolling down the hill

Goloith.6349:

First I want to say that I’m glad that you are thinking about the people that want jumping puzzles and I appreciate that, but I think ANET needs to start thinking about the people that absolutely hate them with a passion.

Now I’ll be the first to say that I hate them. It’s almost a game breaker and I know most people in almost every single guild I’ve ever been in feel the same way. Does it mean that we want to be given a “free lunch”? Of course not. So ANET please give us something as an alternative to the jumping puzzles. I would rather spend 20-50% more time doing something that I can actually accomplish and enjoy it. Most people that hate jumping puzzles hate them so much they would rather grind.

So with that thanks,
Golo

I hate to break your world view, but jumping puzzles are 100% optional, I’m not really sure how any person could consider them mandatory to do. And you do have alternatives, wvw, spvp, dungeons, group events, guild missions, each of those is optional too btw.

edit: dont forge the minigames as well!

Dying Infinity.4805:

I don’t see why we cannot keep living story content for everyone to access whenever they want on their own watch. In GW1, we could go back and check out the first few missions in a campaign your character didn’t start in – I can’t remember what it said exactly, but it went something along the lines of “You are about to witness an event that happened in the past…”. The current living story content can remain an open world event, and any past events could be instanced.

As Argel has explained, I too feel the pressure to continue playing GW2, and the new content along with its related achievements makes me feel insanely pressed for time and takes away from my enjoyment of the game. It is true nobody is forcing me to play and come back to check out new content however, as a completionist I find it incredibly annoying when I am too busy with other commitments to play through temporary content.

Anet has stated the old living story dungeons will come back as fractals, so you’ll be able to run those to your hearts content!

Argel.8274:

Not to mention the items in the gem store only available for a short time. And the cool looking skins that are part of the temporary content. A lot to miss out on if you are new to the game or take a break from it. And with a 2 week release schedule, taking a two week vacation means you just missed out on something….

Perhaps I’m being cynical, but I think a lot of this is geared towards encouraging players to buy gems. Either for gem store items or to convert to gold to buy items going for insane amounts of gold (such as the monocle that occasionally dropped in the AR dungeon). Same reason dyes are account bound…..

maybe you’re unaware of how retail works, anyone selling something promotes it so people will impulse buy it, grocery stores do the same thing, and anyone that sells something has been doing it since the first thing was ever sold to another person. Nothing sold in the store gives you some easy win button advantage (yes i know of the permanent axe/pick/scythe) but those are dirt cheap to buy stacks of, so that’s really irrelevant. 99% of the gem store is fluff, you wont miss content by not buying any of it, you wont play worse or better buy not buying any of it.

Without a subscription fee, the devs have to be paid by something in order to keep maintaining the game, so if you don’t want to buy gems, then don’t, pretty simple.

And once again, new content every 2 weeks is NOT the same as it only lasting 2 weeks. And even if it was, if you chose to go on that vacation, then you would’ve chose it over any content, which was your choice, not anets.

Argel.8274

the gem store.

As things stand, the 2 week release schedule alone is driving me away, and I figure if I do take a break from the game then why would I ever want to return, knowing that I will have missed out on a ton of content and items that were added and then taken away.

If you really want to continue down this LW path, then at least work on a way for return and casual players to have a chance to catch up on the changes (again, do something like story mode).

I am so very disappointed in the direction GW2 is goung in right now. You had so many great things implemented, but the LW is destroying the fun factor.

I just picked a bunch of games up in the Steam sales (including Skyrim). Tell me, why should I continue to play GW2 instead of playing Skyrim over the next few months? Or reading more fantasy novels (reading the Malazan books right now)? Or getting back into watching Anime more often? Or return to console gaming on the PS3. Or play Skyrim until the PS4 launches? The pressure to play GW2 so that I do not miss out is sucking the fun out of the game for me.

What you’re forgetting, is that you can happily pvp/rp/dungeon run all the same, without ever touching a bit of it. Also, the new content every 2 weeks does NOT mean the content lasts for only 2 weeks, merely that something new will be added. As an example, dragonbash overlapped with the tail end of the southsun story, then the start of the aetherblade story, but was around for about a month.

You’re not forced into the living story, so please stop talking like you can’t play gw2 if you can’t (or don’t want to) do the content. The content that was in at launch, is still 100% there, the living story hasn’t removed a single bit of it.

Starting not even 2 or 3 months in, players howled about the lack of new content, the lack of regular content updates, here we are almost a year later, with bi-monthly content updates, (more frequent than any paid mmo, I’d like to point out) and your first thought is to complain ? There’s nothing wrong with not playing gw2 so you can play other games, but which games you choose to play is your choice, any mmo will continue to happen whether or not you’re logged in, and in this case changes will happen, some temporary, other permanent. With your post ill take it you haven’t seen the interview with Collin stating there would be more permanent content being added with the living story updates (such as Belcher’s Bluff from the bazaar of the four winds update) as well as previous living story dungeons coming back via the fractals.

I can well understand the lack of time to get to see all the content in any game (mmo or otherwise), but don’t make it out like it’s Anets fault you don’t have the time to see the content.

edit: i trimmed as much of the whining out of your post as i could while still leaving it intact.

Also, you can’t threaten a non subscription based game with your quitting really as you’ve paid for the game as is (that and if you wanted to really quit, you would quit instead of moaning about it). Furthermore, whinging on that mmos change and you can’t handle that so you’ll show them by playing single player games that in no way compete with them, really is utterly invalid to the argument. If you have a better way of adding content, try being helpful and detailing it out in the suggestions forum

Partly default mmo choice for me for the past 13 years, other.. a mix of loving the human areas/architecture & the cultural armors.

well that and windows >_>; it’s not that odd really, people buy $300.00 video cards to have better looking grass, $400.00 tablets to check mail & play angry birds, and $50,000.00+ vehicles so they can have heated seats & lower mileage :P

Also, thanks to both of ya for the help Will update as soon as the new ssd gets here.

ok first attempt, 48 seconds (cry) Figured since it was the firrst login after the reinstall, id try again. 18 seconds this time! I’m (hoping) to take the ssd back tomorrow and find a better deal, maybe i can get under 15 or so, that’d be lovely.

well I’ve reinstalled it on the hdd, going to test and see how it goes!

Well currently i found out that my ssd .. was a bit of a ripoff at about $1 per gb, so that baby is goin back to bestbuy, and ill shop around a bit more. (also, the registry nuke has adware with it.. and has hidden itself. joy.)

Ok so it finished and is correcting the errors. This still made me less than happy, and makes me question the previous results

well it fixed part of it.. wanted the full version for the rest, so i tossed and skimmed cnet for a full free one, it’s currently scanning. may or may not help, looked up my order history, my hdd is 7200rpm, all the SATA ports on the board i have are sata III 6gb, so it shouldn’t be that making a difference ( i know 7200 isnt top notch, but still)

I’ve currently uninstalled the game from both drives and decided a registry scan might be in order, this is the results of said scan. :|

So it’s taking 60+ seconds to load to a map, ANY map. HDD was defraggmented, nada. Turned the settings down all the way, nada. Bought an SSD, installed gw2 (clean install), same dang speed.

my pc is as follows

System Information
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Time of this report: 6/10/2013, 14:10:02
Machine name:
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Model: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/29/12 11:20:07 Ver: 04.06.04
Processor: AMD FX™-8150 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32748MB RAM
Page File: 3881MB used, 61611MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode

DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 480
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06C0&SUBSYS_14803842&REV_A3
Display Memory: 4048 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1488 MB
Shared Memory: 2559 MB
Current Mode: 1920 × 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: VS248
Monitor Id: ACI2498
Native Mode: 1920 × 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: HDMI

PS/2 Devices
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Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives
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Drive: C:
Free Space: 1431.6 GB
Total Space: 2097.1 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: ST3000DM001-1CH166 ATA Device

Drive: E:
Free Space: 0.1 GB
Total Space: 0.1 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: ST3000DM001-1CH166 ATA Device

Drive: Z:
Free Space: 98.0 GB
Total Space: 114.5 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: INTEL SSDSC2CW120A3 ATA Device

Drive:
Model: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS29 ATA Device
Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 6.01.7601.17514 (English), 11/20/2010 23:23:47, 147456 bytes

It’s still fairly new ( a year old in sept) Previously (read: before january) I loaded fairly fast, 15ish seconds or so. And now, BAM, time to go walk around the house and back.

edit: I have also deleted the local.dat file, nada.

edit: updated all drivers.
launched gw2 from ssd, 18 seconds to load into brisban
launched gw2 from hdd, 38 seconds to load into brisban

While I do enjoy wvw & spvp, I prefer pve and would love to find an active NA guild for that very reason, before the 28th. Please feel free to message me in game or here if you have suggestions or offers!