Guild Wars 2

Straegen.2938:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

the JPs in WvW are fine, and they give WvW specific loots, so its all good, but yeah, no more mobs that can actually affect WvW gameplay.

Not a hot button issue for me, but those can go as well. They server little to no purpose being in WvW.

They serve no purpose but they also don’t hinder WvW gameplay, so I’m fine with them. Anyone have any cosmetic suggestions for future living world stuff?

I’d suggest giving npcs armor and weapons that relate to the living story.

This isn’t sarcasm, thanks Anet for listening to us. I really love what you did with the wintersday patch with WvW. Changing the siege animation? Brilliant! I know a lot of people hated the Toxic Alliance being in WvW, but that was because it literally hampered game play. But this patch (and the Halloween candy corn nodes) enhanced play in WvW, and tied it to the living story even if it was in some small way.

I hope you consider this during other living story patches; if the living story changes don’t have a serious impact on WvW gameplay, I think that most WvWers will enjoy it. WvW community, let me know if you agree or disagree with me.

Looks like NSP woke up.

Either that or our prime time isn’t matching up with CD and IoJs. I’m sure the ppt will look very different come 4am.

Andrew.4506:

Protoavis.9107:

you’re better off just buying the skins/mini’s (if you want them) outright from the trading post.

I would if I could, unfortunately anet in their infinite wisdom decided to make a mini rare to get, account bound, and the farm to obtain it is insane.

Actually they changed that. You can sell it now

1. Get an alt to the top of the tower.
2. On your main buy the key pieces from Majory’s helper
3. Put the keys in the bank
4. Log into that alt
5. Send your alt to your home BL
6. Take keys out of bank
7. Get to the character select screen, then log back in on the same alt
8. Unlock chest
9. Repeat steps 1-8 at reset until you get the mini or the achievement, whatever you are shooting for.

Yes, I have a ton of skins in my bank. Some that I kinda like, but I’m not sure that I want to use, and I’m sure I don’t want to lose them.

It would be cool if they were like the achievement chest skins, in a separate bank, reusable and not soulbound. If I want two toons to have the gas mask I’m out of luck. :/

Alaric.7628:

King Amadaeus.8619:

Does NSP care about PPT?

I am thinking of moving to a server where people enjoy fighting more than kittening and moaning about PPT.

Also what about queues….I hate them, are they bad on NSP?

Are you serious about 5 hr queues? That blows my mind, would rather fight outmanned than not at all

I second this

Pretty Pixie.8603:

David.6491:

Kronyx.2570:

Need moar PVF here

DB’s NA time is terribad. And Oceanic crew, having supply problems in YBBL?

NSP gave up Saturday morning. Even your roaming groups are MIA.

Discuss.

There goes my respect for Loot, didn’t know you guys have this kind of guild leader. Members should join ONE guild. They know what they are doing and still humble about it.

Hey David, Kronyx was taking a tongue in cheek jab at the normal drama going on in match up threads like these. As a commander, he’s one of our most levelheaded and down to earth guys.

Hope that cleared it up for you. Have fun!

It was nice meeting you tonight Pix

Luthan.5236:

Yeah thanks. I read that in another thread already. With skill points it seems fine. Having a tons of them if you already bought all the other stuff and play your char 80+ still getting points.

Did 2 new POI get added? I am at 723/725 but haven’t been in Kessex Hills. Only doing WvW atm and going to do the story tomorrow. Are they in Kessex Hills?

Yes. 2 new POI in Kessex

BlackDevil.9268:

Thing that would be worth playing is expansions. New maps, new game types like polymock, new skills, new dungeons, events with minigames that can actually be competitive like in gw1, better looking skins, new races, new professions, etcetc.
And that’s only for the pve part.
Instead what anet did for the past year:
Add stupid story events every month that’s only got 30mins max of fun and the rest of the month its farming in blobs of 50+ man. I miss the old gw1 team

There are problems with expansions though. Guild Wars 1 you had a party instance for every map. GW2 that is not the case. If they add an expansion, then that will spread out the population. Everyone will flock to the expansion map and new players will not be able to do the starting maps.

This wasn’t a HUGE problem in GW1 because you had meatshields, er…henchmen and later on heros. But since each map in GW2 is an instance and you sometimes need a lot of people to complete an event it is a much bigger problem having everyone flock to say…Cantha or Elona. New players would find the current content very difficult.

That being said I hope that they do some day provide an expansion, but right now they could provide a new map. I wouldn’t mind them doing it through the living world either, just slowly expanding outwards.

For the people who think this is too easy: There are casual gamers out there who do not necessarily know the ins and outs of the games like you. But there are a few people who seem to be unsympathetic to those players saying “Play better”. Not everyone has the time to learn the game like you. There is no reason to be rude about it. This content may not have been designed for you it might have been designed for more casual players.

For those who think it is too hard: There are real hard core gamers out there who find high difficulty levels thrilling. They want to have to work really hard to beat things, it gives them a sense of accomplishment. This content may not have been designed for you it might have been designed for more hard core players.

Anet needs to find a balance between really difficult stuff and really easy stuff. They did pretty well with the difference between Super Adventure Box and Super Adventure Box tribulation mode. I think they need to do that more to keep both casual and hardcore gamers interested and happy.

This has been implemented before with past events. “Blood and Madness” required dailies to complete the meta, as did several other patches. It would be nice if they had included that in the details of the meta reward though. I remember that a lot of people were really confused the first time they did this.

MatthewMedina.5419:

This change has actually been needed since launch. As noted, we’ve already been using these difficulty mobs in content, though in a more limited way. That was due primarily to the fact that both species ended up being named “Veteran”, but one was solo-friendly, the other was not, and all it did was cause confusion. There will be more updates in the future to bring the rest of the species at this difficulty level in line with this change.

As a person who has run up to a Vet and gotten pounded, thank you.

I really like KH, and thought it was a beautiful region. I also felt like it made a nice contrast to Orr. It really showed how corrupt Orr is.

I understand that they can’t really go back, but I wish that they would add a nice pretty region again to make up for the one that was destroyed. Maybe the area between Kessex and La?

I honestly don’t think it adds anything to my experience, it just takes mobs longer to kill. Most of the time I don’t like it when people claim that the reason is Anet wants to sell stuff in the gem store, but I really do think that this is the reason why the finishers are now available in PvE.

I honestly don’t think it adds anything to my experience, it just takes mobs longer to kill. Most of the time I don’t like it when people claim that the reason is Anet wants to sell stuff in the gem store, but I really do think that this is the reason why the finishers are now available in PvE.

24/24. I didn’t have a problem with it. Not saying there isn’t a bug, just that if there is it isn’t impacting everyone.

No Q on NSP. But I think that has more to do with the fact that we are completely out manned by SBI than the new patch.

aarias.4016:

First off, I am a supporter of waypoints in WvW. That said, I don’t think they should be used the way they currently can be; as of now, when contested, a waypoint will open up (briefly) between the expiry of one “contest” and start of a new one. Is this working as intended?

In my opinion, allowing this functionality to persist simply encourages WvW’ers to roam the map in huge zergs, knowing that they can waypoint to their keep and defend (within 3 mins) even while contested. I realize that the attacking side can (and should) plan for a quick take, and have the keep taken in less than 3 minutes, but a lot of things have to go right in order for this to happen.

I think that by making waypoints remain contested for the entirety of a keep siege would reduce the amount of “blobbing” we see on the map since forces would have to be spread more evenly across a map in order to defend what they have already taken (also makes it progressively harder to hold things as you acquire more and more real estate on a map). This would hopefully encourage more small group play and reduce server skill lag since battles (on average) should be smaller and less taxing on the servers.

Thoughts?

The problem I see with this is if they don’t uncontest a thief (or small group including a thief/mes) could just hang out at a keep and spam attacking it and spam invisibility so they are really hard to find. That would make the waypoints completely worthless.

I’m fine with some Living world stuff in WvW (like the candy corn nodes) because people who care about it can interact with it and be happy. But when the living world stuff is two huge flower things, one in dredge one in ogers which makes it harder to claim those two areas it does impact WvW play. So…what I’m suggesting is, if it is easily ignored by the WvW community who aren’t interested in PvE, I think it is safe to put in. If it actually impacts WvW game play please don’t put it in.

I already completed this patches living world content (excluding dailies), so I have no interest in it being in WvW.

Miss Firesss.3704:

Varconi.1804:

Miss Firesss.3704:

Ohhhh, looks like someone is doing the exact same thing they are complaining about.

Well that is me in your ss and since I haven’t posted kitten on this thread I am not sure what you are kittening about I will assume its because of a 2v1? Except if I remember that fight correctly it was a 2v2 with some random ranger who came by and you ran like a kitten while the other person stayed at sentry to cap.

Yeah, they left me. I didn’t run, I am the dead one who stayed to fight. I am not “kittening”, have you read the whole thread?

I always hate it when people on my team do that. Wait, come back we will have an even match it will be fun!

Daddar.5971:

Belenwyn.8674:

It is weekend. If you are on a server with very high WvW population this queue will be normal for several more weekends. maybe yuo should switch to a server with lower population in WvW.

Maybe A-Net should provide the server capacity necessary to actually run the game, regardless of server. It’s certainly not the player’s fault that the game doesn’t work as advertised… especially since the Arena-net’s business plan seems to rely on making the game unplayable on some servers and then charging the player extra to move to a server where it is marginally less unplayable. I sat in queue for hours yesterday, and when I finally got in the borderlands were quite empty, with only a fraction of the players they used to hold. Is A-net trying to run the game with less hardware capacity because some of their servers are down/broken? A-net sets the cap on server population, and A-net has a responsibility to deliver the game to all servers.

I only have so many hours of free time, since I work 50 hours a week. Spending those hours in an endless queue is not acceptable. All I can say is the situation had better improve dramatically before ESO is released…

You claim that the game should work as it was advertised, but Devon Carver said in a post way before league started: “I’d just like to make a note of one thing that I think people aren’t considering when they transfer to stacked worlds. You will not, repeat will not, be able to receive the reward based on overall world place in the league, unless you achieve the meta achievement for the season. If you aren’t able to get into WvW much, you won’t get the rewards. So it is absolutely taking a risk to transfer to a world that has a large WvW population.”

People who are originally from the high population servers were well aware of this problem because of the Tequatl overflow issues. They also knew that people would bandwagon and make their wait times longer, this is not mentioning the PvEers on the server who want to get the achievements. They had the choice to transfer before the season started, they chose not to.

If you are a crazy serious WvW player and still want a lot of action, at this point you will probably get more battles that are just as epic in a server a few tiers lower than you. This is one of the few problems in WvW that players could solve for themselves if they chose to.

To SBI posters in the forum, thank you for the politeness and positivity you have shown in this forum towards NSP. Even though you are grinding our faces into the mud, you aren’t rubbing it in here and you are being sympathetic to our situation.

Also thanks to GH for apologizing and reporting that player.

Good form all around! <3

Erukk.1408:

I don’t remember them ever hinting that the Zephyrites were the protectors of Glint’s baby in the BotFW LS. That was probably all fan speculation off the forums. They were set up as the spiritual successors of the dwarven Brotherhood of the Dragon. The only thing they were protectors of, as it was set up in the short story, was Glint’s corpse, since they didn’t want it to be used for nefarious purposes.

This came from in game stuff and fan speculation. In game in GW1 you had to defend Glints baby, so we know it exists.

Out of game there were stories posted on the official website about the Zephrites and their relationship to Glint (they defended her dead body from being used by bad guys and used her powers to create the crystals we were using for jump boost and speed buffs).

Check out Wooden Potatoes video on youtube about it.

Charak.9761:

Redenaz.8631:

Crafting precusors will definitely have an effect on certain markets, which is one reason I could imagine for why it’s taken so long to implement, so as to figure out a way to reduce instability. Considering the disequilibrium caused by ascended crafting and the magic find revamp,, I wouldn’t be surprised if they wait to see how the market handles ascended weapons.

It’s gotten way out of hand of the free-market, it should not have been 800g for a precursor. You could get them for 10-50g in the early months.

In the early months, how long would it take for you to get 10-50g? I can easily get between 5 to 10g a day now. Should I be able to buy a precursor on the TP for 5 to 10 days work? Definitely not. There are more rewards in the game (champ bags, WvW chests ect.) and they have flooded the market with gold causing massive inflation.

There was one day during the Scarlet invasion champ farm that I managed to earn 100g which I was putting towards spark. Imagine my dismay when I discovered the price of spark had increased 100g that same day. We wanted more/ better rewards. This is their effect.

They moved the POI and the Vista in the lake so that they were still accessible. I don’t know anything about the heart though. If I remember correctly that heart also allowed you to collect crab meat in the area, so that’s what I’d do. Kill the krait, kill a few crabs while the krait respawn.

Rouven.7409:

If you like videos try

http://www.youtube.com/user/WoodenPotatoes

This. He claims he is not an expert, but he knows way more than the average player. Also he is an excellent story teller and comes up with ideas that I would never have.

The three main aspects of the game are pve (including living story and personal story), wvw and pvp.

I haven’t done pvp so I cannot make any recommendations there, just let you know that it exists.

If you are enjoying WvW but need to find a group to hang with while playing (especially since you are underleveled) you should try to find a WvW based guild on your server. If the guild is big enough you could run with them every time you play.

I believe that this is why they made the jumping puzzles achievements. So that people who had no hope of completing castles or keeps would be able to still complete the meta achievement.

AlienatedHumour.7542:

SBI and EBay, how could you let us be winning for even the smallest amount of time?

http://i.imgur.com/ShpPJq6.jpg

Heh, I’m in that screen shot.

I crashed. Thanks to the people who posted the list. I like to do almost all of them, so it would be annoying not being able to.

Auggy.1738:

lol what’s your que times?

Normally we only have Ques during the first night. They can be 20-40 min long. But since we called NSP for help we ended up with a que right before we took SM

Wanted to say that was an amazing fight for SM. Good work all three servers! Most fun I’ve had in WvW in a while.

But jeeze that lag….. >.<

azerte.4365:

insanemaniac.2456:

anyone see devon yet?
just wonderin

oh oh i know, 3g bounty for a screenshot proof that hes on nsp
but i kinda doubt he would be on his anet account =/

We saw an anet dev on NSP in EB yesterday, not sure if it was devon though

It wasn’t. It was Wubba (cant remember the toons spelling) the only other Anet dev I have seen on NSP besides Devon.

I was taking a WvW break when ascended gear came out. There are temple zergs and champ farms on my server so I got the bloodstone and dragonite almost immediately. Then when I got close to crafting my first ascended weapon I realized I had almost no emp shards. The only way to get them in pve is to do jumping puzzles and I am really bad at those.

I liked the balance between the emp shards and dragonite orr, I got some of my friends who were pvers into wvw for emp shards, and some of my wvw friends to experience and enjoy temple runs. Neither group would have done this if it wasn’t for the ascended gear. Just my two coppers.

There was a point where we were trying to get an enemy keep. To quote my guildies on raid call:

“I think this is us vs. them vs. the lag.”
“Yeah, I think the lag won.”

That was the only time that there was major lag that I experienced. It also only lasted 5 or 10 min.

(Posted this on another thread about the same topic.)

There was a point where we were trying to get an enemy keep. To quote my guildies on raid call:

“I think this is us vs. them vs. the lag.”
“Yeah, I think the lag won.”

That was the only time that there was major lag that I experienced. It also only lasted 5 or 10 min.

1. Server population imbalances.
2. Rewards for defense/yak walking ect.
3. Revamp outmanned/bloodlust buff.
4. Allow us to whisper/mail/kick offline people from the party when right clicking on their names, not just reporting them
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Expanding just a tiny bit. For number 1, I find this video suggestion very interesting. Might not be a perfect fix, but it is a start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcO6Xo8eJ8&feature=youtu.be

For number 3 I feel like other than the armor repairs outmanned isn’t very helpful, and I think bloodlust was implemented to help smaller servers, but it seems like the larger servers just have 3 stacks of bloodlust.

I think part of the problem is that everything isn’t new. Also last year they rolled it out slowly, where this year most people have finished the content a few days into the patch.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

No, leave it on the website. I can access the site from work, but not the game. When I’m bored out of my mind, I like having these short stories to read.

There is no reason why they can’t post them on the website and in the game.

If they release these short stories in game, it would be good for them all to be in one location (maybe the Durmand Priory HQ) and to receive a mail letting us know that the Durmand Priory has discovered a new text!

I don’t even need it to make much sense that there is a story there, as long as they are in a central location that everyone can access (LA would probably be better than the Priory now that I think about it), and we are informed that they exist.

I really enjoyed the dialogue. It took me much longer than I am willing to admit to realize that they were actually standing there giants in the labyrinthine. I actually think that little bit of dialogue is my favorite part of this patch (everything is new to me cause I didn’t have GW last halloween).

Zylonite.5913:

So basically if you don’t play GW2 from the release date, you can never catch up in contents and achievement points?

How do you expect new players reacting to this?

Personally I am sad not to recommend this game to anyone due to this temp contents and stuff that are gone forever.

For the record, I didn’t buy this game till Mid November last yer, so I do not have any Halloween related Achievements.

But the current holder of the top of the leaderboard is my friend. When the achievement system was rolled out (back in GW1) he worked his butt of trying to get everything he could. With each patch he plays all the achievements. He does all of the dailies, all of the monthlies, everything. Sometimes I feel bad that I have about half the amount of achievements he has, but he has been putting a lot more work in (since day one basically) to get where he is. I think it is Anet’s way of thanking their long term devoted players.

As for replaying content, I agree with you in part. I think that the living story stuff that impacts the story should be available to new players. However I don’t think that the rewards should be available to them. I think that the living story has two purposes: one promotions in the gem store (which is how GW2 stays profitable) and two to keep players constantly into the game. The second goal might be hurt if the achievements are made available post patch because people will not push to get them done in time. I understand holidays are special because they reoccur, but technically this is supposed to be a changing world, so the rewards should also change. Just my two coppers.

I hope it isn’t next patch because I want the suspense to build, things to add to it slowly. I think that makes for a better story.

Second, no one here has mentioned the sound. When you are in that area you can hear the krait chopping the trees down.

Very smart changing an area we already know and not telling us and waiting for us to discover it. Makes me want to go map exploring again to see if I have missed more changes. Also kudos to OP for finding this so fast.

You asked me to find some holes, so that is what I am attempting to do.

Let’s say server A is B and C are in a ‘team’ and A is the highest C is the lowest. Because of this some people from server A transfer to server C. But then in the next round sever C is not allied with server A. There could be a conflict of interests if people from server A then have to fight their old server.

Honestly I like you idea. I was just digging for holes.

As a PvEer I was very upset when I discovered I had to go to WvW to do 100% of the map. However as I was grinding away trying to get 100% of the map I learned how much fun WvW can be. Now when I’m bored with leveling alts, living story, or dungeons go do WvW a few hours. Considering that what color you are changes it isn’t too difficult to get 100% of the map in WvW. I have done it on an alt and she is at level 2 for wxp.

I hope they do not change it because without map compeletion I would have never tried WvW. If you have tried it and don’t like it and still want 100% then just wait till your server is the color you need.

As an NSPer I would like to say that we are NOT tanking for bronze. There are certain groups (who will remain unnamed) within NSP who are actively sabotaging us (destroying golems by jumping them off SM, wiping out supplies, building tons of useless trebs in our keep to reach seige cap ect.) This has had the effect of seriously harming morale. Some members are transferring to other servers, and others are just not playing WvW. I’m apart of the minority who are trying really hard to win and get into silver.

A couple of things.

Before the champ farm happened, there still were people in Queensdale. Every couple of minutes someone would ask “Any events?” because they were farming the gold/xp/karma/dailies. It drove me nuts. Now most people will just ask where the zerg is and leave it at that, and some people don’t even ask; they will just show up at one of the waypoints and wait for the zerg to arrive to them. This means less people are spamming map chat.

When ‘Matt Visual’ (a youtuber) went to PAX and interviewed one of Anets employees (I’m sorry I can’t remember his name) he said something that really stuck with me. Matt asked if they would nerf the champ farm, and the Anet employee responded that people will always flock to the fastest farm. If they nerf one thing, everyone will go to the next best thing. By fixing this ‘problem’ they may cause an even worse problem.

As far as people grinding, look at the price of precursors. Yes, the game isn’t supposed to be a grind but with such high prices in the game they have to give their players the opportunity to make that much cash. If they nerf all the strong farms they will probably lose many of their customers as well as their gem store profits.

Gray Fox, you make some excellent arguments as to why the champ farm goes against the idea of guild wars, however not everyone does the champ farm. The entire game isn’t a grind just some parts of the end game. If you do not like it then don’t participate in it. For instance I hate PvP. So I don’t play it. Also you will never hear me complain about PvP, and how it needs to be changed because it doesn’t impact me personally.

As others have stated before me, the only real problem with champ farming is when people yell at each other for going out of order, or purposefully lose events because they earn more rewards. However I don’t think that new players can single handedly kill boar & his friends, so the likelyhood of that happening is small.

Just my two cents.

I have no interest in mounts being added. I think that Anet should focus their limited resources on other areas of the game.

The problem is legendaries (and ascended gear) are what control the economy. If they make them more common then the prices will crash and the economy will get seriously messed up. They already do have an increased probability of dropping with higher magic find, and they may introduce a way to craft precursors.

Legendaries are supposed to be the most difficult items to obtain in the game. I believe Anet didn’t intend to have a large proportion of the population earning them. By making precursors so rare they are giving the grinders something to grind to. There isn’t much end game in this game (excluding the living world stuff).

Finally when I was making my incinerator there was one day where I logged on and all of the sparks were sold out. Within 6 hours there were 8 new sparks on the market. If you watch carefully they actually are posted quite frequently, around 4 or 5 precursors are added to the list a day. No that isn’t a lot compared to the population of the game, but this is supposed to be one of the rarest items in the game.

Keep in mind, I have thrown about 100g (low estimate, I didn’t keep track) down the mystic forge, I have never gotten a precursor drop, and I am currently grinding to save for my second legendary. I understand how difficult these items are to get, and how frustrating it can be saving money to obtain them. That being said if you make it easier and easier to get them it will cheapen all the hard work that people who already have legendaries have done. If everyone can easily afford a legendary then there will be nothing for the hard core players to ‘show off’ and distinguish themselves.

I do like Cattivo’s idea of the rare item increase drop, especially since he suggested that it reset after you get a rare item, but I’d change the cap (especially if this increase in probability includes precursors) to more like a 5 or 10% increased chance at those items.

When I read the first post I thought it was a terrible idea. But then the further down I went the more I reconsidered. With the ‘living world’ you can redo events, I don’t see why we can’t redo hearts. I am working on my third character with 100% map completion, and I’m sure if I re-did hearts I would use my molten pick, southsun sickle and atherblade axe in all the areas to get the nodes. Right now I don’t really have a reason to go back to the older areas.

It seems really that Queensdale is the only place that people go back and re-do quests. I think this idea would help new players have older players on the same map so their events are more enjoyable.