Guild Wars 2

Ho Ho Ho and a very Merry Wintersday to all!

Welcome to my Wintersday Wonderland Mini Village http://imgur.com/a/Yjcnz xoxo

‘Twas the night before Wintersday, when all through the hall,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a princess doll;
The stockings were hung on the mantel with care,
In hopes that Toymaker Tixx soon would be there"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5jyu14/welcome_to_my_mini_village_wintersday_wonderland/

pikkunana.7495:

Please make Jar of Harpy Pheromones back in WvW. Some ~~some Harpy Love <3

I’m very happy that some toys got back in WvW
Bouquet of Roses Thank you for that~!

What fun items you are missing in WvW/ like to have back in WvW?

I would Love Hearts. I’ts my favorite: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jar_of_Harpy_Pheromones

The Blood Ruby Items have 21 out of 32 possible.

Missing 11 stats:

Assassin’s
Carrion
Crusader
Dire
Magi’s
Marauder’s
Sentinel’s
Settler’s
Shaman’s
Valkyrie
Zealot’s

EDIT: YAY PATCHED Added stat combinations that were missing as options on the Blood Ruby equipment from Bloodstone Fen.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-July-26-2016-1/first#post6263848

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/hot-new-legendary-weapons/

“With our timeframe to the launch of the expansion, and the sheer size of this project—in which we would build precursor crafting for the core twenty legendary weapons in addition to setting up the new system for crafting a legendary weapon—we needed to have really solid preproduction and work as efficiently as possible. By the time we were able to start implementing, we were all really pleased with what we had laid out. From brainstorming to testing and bug fixing, building everything for a new legendary weapon reasonably takes about a month, not including the art for the weapon. That’s about a week per themed collection and a week for the economics, recipes and other random tasks. When you do the math for twenty existing precursors and three brand new weapons, plus development time at the front end for the base system…let’s just say that we had to get clever to get everything done to the high quality bar we were setting.”

Mike O Brien.4613:

Obviously I go into this knowing that some players will be very upset. That’s why it’s such a tough decision.

Ankdarkwolf, Darkmikau, Ballads, Spira, Caerbannog, Cysgod, you each posted a variant of an accusation I’ve seen many times over the past few months on the forums, something along the lines of, “AN shipped half an expansion with HoT.” I take issue with that. We shipped a new region full of content, a new mastery system, gliding, guild halls, a new profession, nine new elite specializations for existing professions, and more. Then we shipped precursor journeys for existing legendaries, and said, “We’ve been working hard on new legendary weapons, the first handful of which will be introduced in Heart of Thorns, with more to come in subsequent updates.” While I fully get that you’re disappointed today, this is not about us shipping half an expansion pack.

Mo

Selling ideas . They are often very intangible and take a certain style of selling.
HoT = ‘How to sell thin air’…

What specifically are you selling?
1. New Legendary Weapons that never existed….all along intangible.
2. Fractal Ad Infini Back still doesn’t exist. Intangible
3. Legendary Armor still doesn’t exist. Intangible
4. WvW overhaul. Never existed.
etc.

You false advertised/bait and switched a product that was incomplete filled with intangible enticements to lure the consumer in.

Yet 2 months ago -

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/40n8gp/state_of_the_game_2016_post/cyvo6mx

Colin: We’ve said it before – but i’ll reinforce we’re working on more legendary weapons: YES.

and…

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://dulfy.net/2016/01/08/gw2-jan-8-guild-chat-livestream-notes/

Colin: “I have seen some of the new legendaries, they are amazing”

I have made all the mats pre made and ready too and it saddens me that I wasted all my time and energy and some gold. Is there going to be a way to break down the items to get back the mats since now they are account bound items and useless.
Gift of Magumma Mastery 724 gold
Mystic Tribute 593 gold
Crystalline Ingots

Bait & Switch Advertising

Bait and switch advertising is when a company offers consumers an appealing deal and then changes the deal when consumers make direct inquiries. HoT used deceptive advertising to get the consumer believing that he/she is going to find the deal of the year. HoT was advertised to offer new Legendary weapons , the attraction of bait and switch advertising is strong. HoT is incomplete and was grossly overpriced considering the market and all brand new games out are much less.

WvW was filled with broken promises. No1 priority last year turned then later this year, then an overhaul, to all being scrapped. Population balance and skill balances are basic fundamentals of any game not to be presented as an expansion or an update.

New Legendaries , 3 of which were already made 2013 and just polished for HoT. Now the rest are scrapped. What was really being worked on all this time. Nothing

You lied to the community , your long time vet players and any new player is mislead.

Here’s a great blog comparing both guild halls with some info on the airship;)

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3pdxcg/guild_halls_a_comparison_to_help_you_choose/

Here’s the data mined hero points estimated amount needed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3iz5oo/data_mining_hero_points_and_specialization_tracks/

Hope this helps

“TL;DR: You need 170 hero points to unlock all traits/skills. 250 to unlock everything. There are 214 hero points available from skill challanges in the game right now.”

Here’s the data mined hero points estimated amount needed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3iz5oo/data_mining_hero_points_and_specialization_tracks/

Hope this helps

“TL;DR: You need 170 hero points to unlock all traits/skills. 250 to unlock everything. There are 214 hero points available from skill challanges in the game right now.”

Hi camo

There are several ascended backpieces that give a choice of stat (one of which is soldier) some with a predetermined soldier stat. Here’s a list of the different ascended backpieces available to chose from.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Back_item

Some are fairly easy to make

We used to be able to mix match outfit armor with different headpieces. I’ve bought many items because of this. ANet later changed it so we couldn’t any longer which was sad. I don’t know why they restricted us but it seems silly considering that this game is largely part Fashion Wars.

I’ve had a problem with this too. Why is it the examplar outfit female human can be mimic’d for asura female but not the noble count outfit:(

Both have similar tops yet the noble outfit isn’t female at all instead we get the male human version. This is poorly done and sad. Would much rather have the dress.

This is exciting news!!!

WvW population matters -

- Servers have vastly varying populations

- Quantity, quality, and coverage are the three major factors in what makes a good matchup

- “a good fight” is roughly balanced forces, where “balance” mixes quality and quantity

- off-hours flips affect prime time play

- Please listen to us- dedicated WvW player base and finally do something about WvW population imbalance

- Sheep leave if they are just being fed to wolves, wolves leave if there are no sheep!

Great thread very well said

WvW population matters -

- Servers have vastly varying populations

- Quantity, quality, and coverage are the three major factors in what makes a good matchup

- “a good fight” is roughly balanced forces, where “balance” mixes quality and quantity

- off-hours flips affect prime time play

- Please listen to us-  dedicated WvW player base and finally do something about WvW population imbalance 

- Sheep leave if they are just being fed to wolves, wolves leave if there are no sheep?

WvW population matters

- Servers have vastly varying populations

- Quantity, quality, and coverage are the three major factors in what makes a good matchup
- “a good fight” is roughly balanced forces, where “balance” mixes quality and quantity

- off-hours flips affect prime time play

- Please listen to us – dedicated WvW player base and finally do something about WvW population imbalance

- Sheep leave if they are just being fed to wolves, wolves leave if there are no sheep

I like the idea sentrys award points and bloodlust

Oooooh:)

The other day i was taking pics in my favorite place the Grove. I came across this instance and the tablet which is done so beautifully was there by pale tree.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Omphalos_Chamber

They are adorable!

I love getting quaggan mail hehe

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aviator_Quaggan_Mail_Carrier

Quaggan tonics are a must hehe. My personal fav is pink teehee

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quaggan_Tonic_

Glad to see more would like cat ears too hehe

I posted the anime cat ears to show the option to color dye. In GW1 the ferocious kitty ears were not dyeable. I was looking for simple cute ears 2tone without a headband attached.

Bunny ears was a hit and many want them to return. Although I wish I had gotten them back then and missed out and had gotten other things instead, I feel that there should be some items kept nostalgic. It always brings a smile to my face when I see the bunny ears, the baseball cap etc. good memories.

I attached a pic of maybe some options with patterns and plain

I’d like to have reward tracks and rank finishers. I have dragon rank from pvp but I would like for wvw to have a seperate set of finishers as well.

My Princessa Guard hehe

oooh very nice!

2 things i would love to see:

1. Backgrounds based on race. Such a Beautiful game!

GW2 Backgrounds Starter Areas – Album on Imgur
http://imgur.com/a/3048c

or New Lions Arch

2. AP’s – I’m an achievement freak hehe (i.e. 15,125 numbers being visual)

Muahs!!!!! Thank you all who support this

This is Fashion Wars! A lady has got to look cute hehe

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Furrocious_Ears

hehehe GW1

Would love to have some super cute Cat/Kitten Ears please hehe

collect pvp potions for new pvp tracks to come

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Potion_of_PvP_Reward

This gorgeous dress for female humans/norns is a boys tux for female asuras/charrs. This was very dissapointing. Not the least bit femine nor different from male versions

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Noble_Count_Outfit

Considering it’s a gem outfit, anet shoud’ve put a little effort into this.

Here’s pics of both maps.

One of which is the starter area where the story begins and the several events which lead to Wyrven

The other map pic is where Wyrven takes place.

A slot for a breathing apparatus and one slot for an aquatic weapon

I LOVED IT! I had a blast. Thanks so much Anet it was really a lot of fun. I like the class revenant very much i felt a guard/necro vibe to it. I do like the F1 keys to chg who you channel. The spells themselves for each weapon was a lot of fun. Spell 3 for hammer did throw me off a bit leaping and returning kiting. i did find this to be something that works good in a more standstill situation not so much prolly for pvp (as a kiter).

Hangliding was great. I do see it being an issue at first not have many updrafts around to help you get higher up and regain so i hope they add some in the starter area especially since we are just learning it and i felt a lot of us fell Splat a lot.

I did crash quite a lot during Wyrven. I didnt during all other aspects. I’ve attached SS of what popup i received each time I crashed.

I also found during Wyrven only that several of us were cloaked in this white blanket armor. Did this happen for anyone else?

I want to thank Anet for being wonderful an giving me this opportunity to try it out xoxo

so as of today, changing the order requed ones that were stuck or stopped. however, i had architecture 4 qued first and altho it showed progress it no longer appears and the time has past that it should’ve completed but does not show complete and its no longer in the que. it took the 10k influence for it an its grayed out the add button. the 2 bounties i had in que afterwards were completed tho. now this architecture is stuck in limbo. ;(

I themed my necro with ambrite weapons and made gs for it. So I’m ready Hehe

EotM isn’t WvW. Killing EotM players is like killing the ambient chickens and pigs that hang around the supply camps in the borderlands.
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*^Lolols this made me laugh. Well said! *

This video of yours Tricare is a joke. You’re full guard stacks , buffed foods and all vs a bunch of uplevels who dont even have skills or weapon swapping etc unlocked. The fact u blindsided them on top of it and they had no idea what hit them is even more proof of a joke. Go GVG vs another real wvw guild and then talk.

Im at FPS 4-6 now, i play on macair. i find myself jumping across screen too. ill just pressforward an wont see myself move then end up a distance away in a flash. ive had lag an things before but not quite like this:(

i have this same issue since update yesterday my ques were all halted and i tried to resume or move order and nothng worked. today, i chg que order and it resumed one but wont allow 2 to build simultaneously like before.

I noticed this too, i tried both the pve vendors an the pvp ones, Both only show what u have already unlocked.

One of the issues is the trading wins bit. Defeats the purpose of having a Tier 1 to begin with. There can be some competition if two smaller servers join forces to even the odds against a dominate server. However, there’s no real counter play to the strategy when two top tier WvW servers join forces to take down another server which is the issue. . The awesome Commander Siegecrusher NPC a server gets when you fall behind can only help so much. The only way at the moment is to figure out a strategy to fight an overwhelming 2v1.

This also doesn’t help the servers just below either. Since pushing a T1 server to go T2 will end up decimating the 5th and 6th placed servers (as far as I can see), it doesn’t give them a chance to get 4th place.

Nokaru.7831:

KittyCat.2059:

BG sent over guilds to JQ and now they swap winnings weekly and 2 v1 vs TC all of the time daily.

The only guild that did this was [TW]; they went from Blackgate to Jade Quarry. Are you saying guilds aren’t allowed to move to the servers that best suit them? They found more enemies to fight while being on JQ. This might come as a surprise to you, but other guilds aren’t there to please you – especially enemy ones.

They don’t fight each other much at all. Conveniently end up at the same time at TC Keeps, at TC Garri and at TC camps etc. constantly helping push each other for their win. swapping wins weekly. even teams of 5 roamers are made up of a mix of jq/bg. there are some that play they way they should and fight competitively for their server but more do not. TW and TWL fight side by side and do not touch each other.

Wvw is meant to be organized and fun and have different ojectives to capture and be competitive which is why they have the ppt not just one big zerg fight another. However, T1 has been ruined by BG and JQ because they are so desperate to have first BG sent over guilds to JQ and now they swap winnings weekly and 2 v1 vs TC all of the time daily.

They claim they want competitive fights and balance but by BG sending guilds to a supposedly competitive server JQ to save JQ from falling out of T1 does not make it so . It’s plainly obvious they have deals and alliances now which made the whole reason of T1 existing become a big Joke.

They claim they are good and fight competitive and want GVG blah blah, they belong on a lower tier and should go in obsidian sanctum.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

So Anet has in front of them a binary decision: Yes or No.

IMO, only one of those answers is a sound business decision, and frankly there isn’t much room for debate when looked at objectively.

If the answer is No new slot with xpac, what Anet is basically telling their player base is that after having us wait as long as we have for an xpac and no doubt using up the available slots for alts that we’ve most likely gotten up to level 80, outfitted with armor and weapons for their levels and probably dropped some serious gold on them, that if we wanted to play this new class they are hyping so hard that we will also have to dish out for a new slot or delete a toon.

If Anet thought people raged at the commander tag issue, then they REALLY don’t want to see what kind of chilling affect they will have by not supplying a slot with the xpac.

If the answer is yes however, you will probably see a greater willingness and even drive for people to want to get into the xpac and it will honestly cost Anet nothing to offer that feature. In fact it will only earn them more money in the long run because it ensures people making more of an effort to get their foot in that door. It will literally have the complete opposite affect of not giving a new slot.

So, the bigger question I have for Anet is, why haven’t you guys made this decision yet? It clearly doesn’t behoove you not to supply a new slot with the xpac and can only help its adoption. It costs you nothing as alt-aholics may still continue buying slots and hesitant players won’t feel like they have to delete a toon just to play new content. its honestly a no brainer that will win you tons more brownie points with your player base.

well said, i completely agree with this .

YAY ANGRY JOE IS BACK!!!!!!

love ur video review… brought in a lot of friends of mine just from that alone . hehe

I dont like the idea of staff for a ranger. It’s a medium class and should use pistols or rifles. I love pets. I think having one class with pets is fun and stands out from other classes. I would like to see an overhaul on pets and their skills Cuz as it stands now most players use the same active pets.

Please no jumping puzzle type things no crystals like first part of dry top. I have avoided that first section like the plague after doing it the required one time. There are many people who avoid dry top just Cuz of those ridiculous crystals Jp type things. Any Jp type thing should be kept within a Jp not part of story or activity or adventure

Wiki revenant says weapons are

Main hand /Sword
Off hand /dagger
2H / staff

I would hope it would come with one expansion slot, especially since most of us have been playing for a very long time and all of our slots are taken. I know we have an option to purhcase an additional slot but that shouldnt be expected of us to do on top of purhcasing the expansion.

Will the expansion come with a slot ? or do we have to buy an expansion slot ?

I would like to see a new version of LA being beautiful with elements of old LA’s so we dont forget the past. I would enjoy something like a city of all races, different elements of each. I think the gateways could stand out more especially for newer players adding elements around them. i.e. snow around norn gateway , tree branches around sylvarri, etc.

having different events throughout would be fun.