Guild Wars 2

Episode 8 – Pact Assaulted – Blocked on “Pact Soldiers Rescued: 2/3”.

Please let my account get stuck in Super Adventure Box! I’ll pre-purchase SAB stand alone for $150!

Hey guys,

Recently we played Ranked match and during first minutes our Lord was killed by a thief with closed doors. I believe there’s a bug that allows them to use short bow blink to get inside the fortress. Anyone else saw this?

Wanderer.3248:

Why not just buy a nintendo? That would be permanent.

Because consoles don’t have this exclusive jumping mechanic.

I’d even pay for SAB (as well as Southsun Survival) server like Custom Arenas or
I’d waste 2.500.000 Influence, 250 Merits and 1 year build time if it’ll be avaliable for Guild. Why not let us enjoy this content if we really want so? It’s not cool to wait for it so long, especially when there’s absolutely no information when it’ll be the next time…

It has to be permanent. What’s the point to keep it closed for years, when the content already exists in the game? I believe guided by this logic ArenaNet came up with the Living Journal, then why not to apply it for Super Adventure Box? After all, everyone is playing the parts of this game that they like. Personally, I hate dungeons and fractals, I did all of them once and will never go back there, but I’ll definitely be living in SAB, especially if there’ll be some random challenge rotation, like time related jump arenas (kinda mix of Clock Tower and SAB), but even without it I’ll live there, inviting more people to this game. Right now, I don’t see the point to recommend it to most people, because the most amazing thing is keeping closed. I keep saying my friends that I’ll tell them when SAB will be released and when they should buy it. That just isn’t right.

Dear developers,

Would you be so kind tell us if SAB will be replayable at any time?! It’s not a festival and it has its own story.

Wanted to say that after this update Southsun Cove portal works wrong. When you use it from the island you end up nearby the wrong portal (you cannot use it to get back, have to run on another city’s corner).

Crystal Reid.2481:

It is not retroactive. You will have to defeat her again to unlock the title.

Why there’s no title for those of us who defeated her with 8 orbs?! You (developers) said last time that you forgot about adding title for ‘Light Up the Darkness’ and now you did it again… but also missed. Also you promised new bosses and new achievements for them… I just logged in and all of the achievement are already done (except this wrong one with undeserved title).

I’d like to report that while we were doing our guild missions, Guild Rush especially, we received the same Rush as the other guild. Timer was around 6 minutes. Somebody from our guild finished this Rush within 6 minutes and clicked ACCEPT REWARD FOR GUILD that makes all the problems. Only Guild Leader and his/her assistants should be able to click this, not everyone.
Because of that, after another guild finished this Rush, I started ours… and it actually started, but disappeared from our Active Missions list and nobody got reward. Great.

Junkpile.7439:

Wohoo never been there. Bad graphics inside.

Okay.

ZilentNight.5089:

“Six Minutes to Knightfall” is still bugged, in case the devs did not notice….

And only 1 week left. Great.

SoLeciTO.3490:

WE WANT SAB NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!

Always and forever!

Dear developers,

I know that you’re going to take a break after current living story, but could you at least tell us if we’re going to get Super Adventure Box on April 1st? We have been waiting for half a year two times already. I know that SAB Team are working separately from you and there’re only 3 people, so maybe we can get it? It’s not quite living story for sure, but you cannot believe how much it means to us.

Best regards,
SAB Fans

This is my last achievement since the first living story release (Halloween 2012) and I simply cannot get it, WTF?

I’m making all of them 100%, but this one….. People who got it with their first attempt after just one knight are so lucky, while I’m here for like 25 attempts, killed them under 6 min once and still nothing.

Hey guys. I guess I’ve found the right tactic for Six Minutes to Knightfall achievement. We almost did it (lost in about 20s), but we were without some people, +10% Swiftness Banner and Vigil Buff. Proof is attached.

PREPARE:
1) Zerker food;
2) Powerful Potion of Slaying Scarlet’s Armies;
3) Fire Elemental Powder;
4) Ogre Pet Whistle;
5) +15 Gathering and 10% Swiftness Banner or Heroes Banner;
6) Speed, strength, armor boosters.

RULES:
1) Only ZERKER builds. NO CONDI (!);
2) Take COLORED buffs – ALL OF THEM;
2) Don’t waste time on loot checking, you can get these 5 boxes from 5 random champions;
3) Evade pulling AoE when the knight is about to finish its jump OR when AoE disappears.
4) If you dead, use WAYPOINT and get back. Don’t scale up the event and don’t waste potential DPS.
5) Create Ice Bows if you can. Pick them up, use 4 on the knight and drop.
6) Stack on commander in 1 big zerg and run with him between colored spots.
7) Stack Might before start and during the fight!
8) Time Warps!

TACTIC:
1 step: Everyone rally on Mystic Plaza. Succeed in the event to spawn Vigil Buff NPC and buy it.
2 step: Rally on Lion’s Court (Blue Knight) with the ENTIRE zerg.
3 step: When the event starts, kill the knight and swim (!) to the green one.
4 step: Kill the green one and use Bloodcoast Ward Waypoint, take 5 min swiftness from NPC (if you don’t have it at all) and RUN TO THE RED.
5 step: Kill the red and get the achievement.

Guess where center should be, Anet.

Tom.8029:

I used the one-time pass. I saw a Crab Toss guy up there. I think that’s an activity.

This activity NPC is in new closed location for the same price as we bought, but our location doesn’t have activity NPC.

So? Are we going to get an answer or something?

Also, I think you guys should rewrite portal dialog, which leads to Vigil Keep now, while it’s still called Lions Arch gate.

Up! We have to get this NPC, because it’s not fair.

+1. We asked a lot of times to add Daily activity NPC in Royal Terrace, and now, while Lion’s Arch is gone, I have to teleport to Vigil Keep and run far away till I reach Daily activity NPC… Before this patch it was tolerably, because it was close enough after teleport.

WTF people who can buy new pass within 7 DAYS (!) FOR THE SAME PRICE have access, while we, who bought pass within 1 DAY don’t have it and have to run God knows where?!

Dear ArenaNet, please add Activity NPC in Royal Terrace.
Now it’s more actual than ever. There’s still need to TP in Lions Arch and wait eternity for loading. Royal Terrace is the solution, but this NPC will make it just perfect place.

Josh Davis.6015:

I’ll start responding to posts in a few minutes.

Could you please tell us more information about unlocking halloween stuff?

With the upcoming PvP changes maybe it’s time for Salvage-o-Matic be for both worlds PvE and PvP?

Everyone can imagine how many chests people will buy because of glory deletion in the near future. Please, make this unlimited salvage tool work in PvP ASAP!

I’d like to know because my cultural set costs a decent amount of gold and pvp version costs half of it. The question is transfer between pve and pvp will be more than 60 gold or not?

Hey there,

I just saw the livestream and developers said that we can buy PvP Cultural and Dungeon armor for glory and gold. Also I know from blogpost that in a month or so there’ll be a system, which will allow us to transfer skins from PvE to PvP and vice versa. Should I buy these armors if I already have them in PvE?

Thanks so much in advance.

I have a few great suggestions for commander system in Guild Wars 2.

First of all, squad needs to be shown on the map and should be extended for at least 50 people. Everyone in the squad should have special squad symbol above their heads. Commander should be able to invite people in squad and kick from it. That’s what you promised 1 year ago on official wiki before deleting it, btw.

Secondly, I suggest you to create a system, which will show for how long certain commander has his tag. It’d prevent server from losing all towers/castles with inexperienced commander and will help commanders to get ‘respect’ from players if he has his tag for 1, 3 or 5 years, for example. It’s a serious problem today with community reaction on commanders whom they don’t know. I have several friends who just bought commander for themselves and they simply don’t want to tag up even when map is without commander, because people disrespect them. Newbie color for 1-3 months commander will smooth this situation, while Veteran color for 1-5 years will sow the seed of confidence in people. We all know how hard it was to obtain commander at release and only devoted to WvW people’ve bought it and have an incredible experience for now.

Finally, promoting squad officers who can invite/kick people to/from the squad would be great.

I hope that you’ll listen my suggestions and we’ll see them in the game soon.

I fell in love in Guild Wars 2 at first CBT because everyone here helps each other, they’re on the same side, here’s no player killing in PvE locations. Everything is made for a peace gaming. Like a retirement for hardcore players. And this month you just awake rage in people when they’re playing in your game.

I just cannot understand why you, Anet, didn’t do simple things for Tequatl in time when you do it too tactic demanding.

I’ve spent my time on preparing messages for chat and after 6 messages I got a ban chat for the entire fight. HOW DO I SUPPOSE TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO?

You didn’t do it as Guild Dungeon (some kind of guild mission) as I requested earlier, you didn’t even put NPC who tells everyone strategy and tactic on their own languages! Remember at least Claw of Jormag, where NPC keep telling about “Break the barrier!”, “Protect the golems!”, "Strike now, while it’s stunned!”, etc. Overflow is everywhere now and people there speak on different languages. NPC allows people understand tactic on their own language. WHY I DON’ SEE IT?

Furthermore, I can predict that you’ll answer me “Use commander’s squad chat, there’s no excessive messaging”. I remember when I’ve bought commander tag at release. Page on wiki said that I’ll be available to invite people in my squad, see special icons over their heads and etc. Then you, instead of creating it, just cut it off from the wiki. A few months ago you said that you’ll improve commander and its features. Only what you did is /supplyinfo and /squadinfo. Seriously?

I hate what’s going on in your company in these latter days. What you did with Josh Foreman, when he was the only one who do his job as he supposed to do. And speaking with the community and listening them are part of a good job too! You punish him for that and no one did his job on the forum and people were wasting their hundreds of hours on bugged achievements while you remained silent. I suppose that this time you’ll do the same and nobody reply on argumented suggestions.

You just force me to apply for a manager position in your company, because I haven’t seen such a irresponsibility in MMORPGs for the entire time. And believe me, I’ve spent almost 9 years in NCSoft’s games. You, as their subsidiary, should be ashamed. And I don’t understand why this is happening while you’ve created a truly great game.

Hastur.6231:

GLaDOS speaks the truth. All hail the artificial intelligence.

Here, you deserved one piece.

It can be like an additional guild mission once a week, but it’d be really fascinating.

MrPhazon.1370:

give people some time to learn the boss?

I remember when Jormag was slightly changed to force people kill ice pillars (as it was conceived) and randoms keep staying on the old spot with charrzookas for over a month!!! With absolutely NO DMG! I don’t want it again in even worse way.

Please, make this kind of bosses that required high-lvl coordination and tactic like Tequatl in guild dungeons, because it’s impossible to cooperate with people who cannot use food and waypoints! And even worse, they don’t allow knowledgeable people get together at one server to defeat this boss.

Let it be the same, oriented on minimum 80 players or so, but it’d bring more exclusivity to this exclusive ascended weapons and won’t annoy guys who have to be dependable on random people.

It can be like an additional guild mission once a week, but it’d be really fascinating.

I know one pro tip WITH Moto’s Finger.

1) Enter World 2 Zone 1
2) Kill with Moto’s Finger the turtle right before the first checkpoint
3) Profit!

Easy way to skip almost all zone. It’s important to not step on this checkpoint before killing or it’ll be bugged.

Welcome back, Josh!

We’re glad that you’re again with us and once you’re back here, we already found out about today’s fix for Master of Baubles, World 2. I wish you could be able to write on the forum a bit earlier. Thanks so much.

P.S. I hope that you’re again that Josh as you were before, despite the prohibitions, or maybe they even were canceled? =)

Even three years old girls can play on normal, and you’re still reducing difficulty?..

Nice video, btw =)

Upcoming Halloween is a year since the first temporary release, so I think it would be really great to award people, who’ve completely finished absolutely all of temporary achievements. It may be at least a title or something even bigger. What do you guys think?

Did it too. Thank you guys for tips.

-5 hours of life.

! WHILE I WROTE THIS MESSAGE ******* PILLAR KNOCKED ME DOWN FROM CHECKPOINT AND BECAUSE WINDOW WAS MINIMAZED I DIDN’T NOTICE THAT MY LIVES ENDED AND I DIDN’T CLICK ON CONTINUE COIN……………….

How did you guys got 2 at Moto’s Finger??? kittening cloud blocks me and door doesn’t open with 332331. And clouds disappear faster! I certantly opened it in normal mode, because I have this elite.

I’ve just checked World 2 Zone 2 after new patch and haven’t found serious bugs except one with the new checkpoint. It’s not that scary about dying on spikes as people say, btw.

But the cloud after pillars doesn’t work and after dying you’re again on this spiky checkpoint.

Also, I don’t know why, but pillars regen your endurance.

BUT NOW IT’S GONE!

You have reduced not only difficulty of SAB, but also a party fun inside with friends! It was a great time to see and laugh together how each other fell down and can’t accurately aim on spin flowers…

Why nobody nerfed Liadri with 8 orbs? It was super challenging adventure too. But now you reduce difficulty in SAB, which is a way easier than “Light Up the Darkness”. Also, there’re a few ways to complete difficult SAB moments, but now people don’t need to even explore them…

I suppose that most of this changes affect on TM, such as Spin flowers, Rapid Water, Getting frozen, Geysers, Piranhas, The vertical rock tunnel, Difficult jumps in World 2-2, Dart traps and An additional platform, which is really sad.

I just read today’s patch note and it hurts my true SAB feelings!

Josh, you said a lot of times that new SAB only for people who are into that thing only and now you reduce difficulty because of moaners??? WHY?

Why it has to be easy now, after 4 days?

Things that makes me so sad:
Spin flowers have been changed so that they will only launch players to a pre-determined location.
Damaged inflicted by Rapid Water has been removed and the knockback distance has been greatly reduced.
Getting frozen by a Banana or sucked into an Orange Frog will no longer tick health away. It takes one less struggle to break free.
Geysers will always remain up and will never go back down.
Geysers were removed from Piranha Bend in World 2-1 and been replaced with more piranha for overall difficulty reduction.
Three dart traps have been removed from the Gong Temple in World 2-2. Two dart traps have been relocated to the opposite side of the wall they were originally located.
Three additional checkpoints have been added to World 2-2. One checkpoint has been moved.
Two Tribulation mode checkpoints have been added to World 2-1.
One additional checkpoint has been added to World 2-3.
The vertical rock tunnel in World 2-3 has been made easier to climb up.
Difficult jumps in World 2-2 have been simplified.
An additional platform has been added to the vertical falling logs in World 2-1. Piranhas have been reduced.

Please, at least promise us that you never simplify Tribulation mode! And I hope that this changes didn’t do it as well.

Tough Customer in World 1 is fixed too. Confirmed.

JayMack.8295:

Forbidden Honey is now possible. I don’t think it was before.

The wooden panel on the maze floor is now solid, so you can carry on further through the maze (not all of them are solid, though this is intentional, I believe).

Tough Customer in World 1 is now fixed, too.

I haven’t attempted any of the World 2 Trib achievements, so I can’t comment on them, but here’s a screenie.

Thanks. It is fixed. I just checked. That’s strange that they didn’t put it in the patchnote.

Hakkero.7120:

I have Forbidden Honey done for all of World 1. I’m still at 10/11 for Tough Customer, World 1 though.

Share your experience about 3rd zone with the community please. Also, we’d appreciate screenshot =) I’m currently checking Tough Customer fix and can help u with it.