Guild Wars 2

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Hey Angry Joe, love your show, glad to see you coming back. I hope you can do a peek at what has happened since you departed, but I know you probably have a lot of other games to draw your attention and time.

Good luck with the event, and if you want a couple questions:

- Will there be a way for new/returning players to experience the story of Living World Season 1?

- Is there going to be a Season 3 before the release of Heart of Thorns? If so, will it be focused on leading up to the content or more focused on world-wide reactions to what happened?

- Will someone please unshackle Josh Foreman and let him work on SAB World 3? Or at least a cyclical availability schedule for the Box so it’s still special/limited but not offline all the time?

Your question 2 has already been answered by the devs and its a no cause the expac starts right where we left off in season 2.

ooohh this getting close its EVE and GW2 come guys lets do this!

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Is there any chance you would start offering the soundtrack for sale on amazon or iTunes as a digital download? I love the music, and could listen to it all day, but can’t seem to get the soundtrack anywhere!

Gonna have to ask Jeremy Soule that since hes got exclusive rights to sell it and any songs he composes are usually made only available on Directsong which he owns its been this way since GW1.

Then go to the other cities if you don’t want to buy the air pass

People do realize there are other cities in the game that have crafting stations and laurel vendors right?

zMajc.4659:

Greeting,

Do do you have any plans to make changes to Dredge fractal to bring it more in line with other fractals? If so, can you give us a rough estimate?

Can’t be bothered to read the bolded topic? Characters and relationships in Tyria.

Blade and Soul already has this same system in China and I’m pretty sure a bunch of other games there have it too. Blade and Soul Korea doesn’t even have VIP. This is just Chinese thing cause as far as I know China is the only territory that’s currently testing GW2.

Peetee.9406:

Just my opinion,

Players are frustrated that the money they’ve already put in to this game has not been put to good use. A large portion of money has gone to the development of another NCSoft title. The few scraps that ANet has been given is being used on temp content, jumping puzzles and mini-games that most are not interested in.

Coming up with a new payment plan is not a solution. Weekly sales is not a solution. Asking for more money is not a solution.

Until the players see real content updates most of us are not going to pitch in another dime regardless of the pay model.

Where is the precursor scavenger hunt?
Where is Cantha?
Where are the new weapons, classes and skills?
Where are the alternate sPvP game modes?
Where are the account wide WvW ranks?
Where is Edge of the Mists?

Until we start to see some of these updates, there will be no more financial growth for GW2.

Stop with the bull that ArenaNet doesn’t get much money and of course some of GW2 money is helping NCsoft develop games and you know what’s gonna happen when Wildstar is released its money is gonna used to develop other games. How do think GW2 got the money to be developed?

• The Precursor crafting is coming its still in development
• Cantha I don’t care.
• They maybe working on new weapons, if your looking for new classes your gonna be disappointed ArenaNet already said the current classes already cover most of the archetypes and if they ever do add one it would be a heavy armor class. They just gave 8 new healing skills.
• sPvP modes are in developement.
• Account wide ranks also in testing and will likely be introduced in the feature only patch after the end of the LS.
• Edge of the Mists is being tested.

You know all those things you listed NEED TIME TO BE MADE money isn’t gonna make them come out faster.

Erick Alastor.3917:

quote:
“If you didn’t know, the Guild Wars 2 economy is shared globally across the entire games community, with every US and EU server accessing the exact same Trading Post as you. Which pretty much means that we are competing against the entire playerbase. "

What about China? Does anyone know something about it? What will happen?

They already confirmed awhile back China will have no interaction with NA/EU cause well its China they don’t allow for NA/EU it interact with one another in online games.

Blade and Soul has the same system also called VIP with levels so I already assumed this was for China

plus the whole Kessex Hills thing with Krait, invisible barrier, deforestation, and wiping out a ruined village cool stuff

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

oooo cool I’ll be tuning in

Charak.9761:

But the question is, will his loot table be updated, because since he only has a chest, he’s a waste of time in the current state.

I believe they are getting updated reward just like the Karka Queen got it in this last update I don’t see why not.

http://gamingphanatic.com/2013/09/10/guild-wars-2-screenshots-to-support-the-announcement-of-the-tequatl-rising-update-live-in-game-spet-17/

Shows other screenshots of the 3 bosses mentioned in the update post.

The whole event will be livestreamed the schedule of events is on this page also copy and pasted here. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/events/pax-2013/

Come celebrate with ArenaNet on Saturday, August 31st as we take over the Madison Ballroom in downtown Seattle’s Renaissance Hotel (just blocks away from PAX) for a half-day fan event. From a preview-filled Living World panel, an exclusive sneak peek at upcoming content, to the finals of our invitational PvP tournament to a party with ArenaNet devs, this event will have it all!

If you can’t attend the event in person, don’t worry! We’ll livestream the Anniversary Bash so you can experience all the activities from the comfort of your home.
Livestream will be available August 31 1PM PDT

Location

Renaissance Hotel
Madison Ballroom
515 Madison Street
Seattle, WA 98104

Schedule of Events

Please note that this event will have limited capacity, so arrive early!
August 31, 2013

Welcome Address 1:00-1:30PM PDT
ArenaNet kicks off the Anniversary Bash with an address by ArenaNet
president Mike O’Brien.

Sneak Peek Play Session 1:30-3:00PM PDT
Check out exclusive new content in Guild Wars 2 with an onscreen demo and a number of playable stations to get hands on with the some of the ArenaNet development team.

Panel: “The Living World of Guild Wars 2? 3:30-4:30PM PDT
Learn more about developing the live game and our plans for the future in this
informative panel, where ArenaNet devs will also take questions from the audience.
Speakers include ArenaNet devs Colin Johanson, Chris Whiteside, and more!

PvP Invitational Tournament 5:00-7:00PM PDT
This is it: the final match between the winners of the North American and European regional qualifying tournaments. Watch the best PvP teams from each region battle it out in a best three out of five match with $10,000 in prize money on the line!

Watch the match on our Livestream!

Anniversary Party 8:00-11:00PM PDT
Join ArenaNet staff and fellow players for an anniversary party full of music, prizes, and surprises! Mingle with Guild Wars 2 devs, play GW2 on our demo stations, and score free loot as we celebrate an epic first year in the world of Tyria!

*Schedule and times are subject to change

Teams

North American Team SYNC
Caed
Zombify
Davinci
Twerp
Vyndetta

European Team Car Crash
Ixl Super Ixl
Posi
Lady Nag Nag Pvp
Lord Nag Nag Nag
The Mogwow

Shoutcasters

To bring you all of the Invitational Tournament action, we’ll have a few of our favorite shoutcasters onsite and offsite providing play-by-play commentary on the action!

English [onsite]:
Shoutcasters: Grouch, Jonathan “Chaplan” Sharp
Stream link: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

French:
Shoutcasters: Prophete, Waffle
Stream link: http://www.twitch.tv/prophetewaffle

German:
Shoutcasters: ChroNickGamer, SteppenWolf
Stream link: http://www.twitch.tv/jianji

Spanish:
Shoutcasters: Necca, Worvast
Stream link: http://www.twitch.tv/gw2spain

Taiwanese:
Shoutcasters: Crispeke, Ishanah
Stream link: http://www.twitch.tv/gw2cbc

-WvW culling fixed
-WvW ranks added
-WvW only ablities added
-WvW traps added
-WvW ascended items added
-WvW breakout events added
-Champion loot also extends to WvW
-WvW NA/EU reset times separated
-New mastery skills constantly being added
-WvW UI overhauled
-Random matchups
-WvW and Obsidian Sanctum separated
-WvW rewards chests
-WvW Leaderboard

A new map is coming as Devon teased about a while ago plus changes to the current maps and the orb mechanic coming back so saying WvW is neglected is completely false and that they are not doing anything is wrong.

Arheundel.6451:

JonathanSharp.7094:

dillius.2531:

Bought this game on release, came back only recently. Already quitting again due to the terrible state of sPvP, primarily due to this function and solo queue being missing.

This game has done more good for MOBA’s than anything the MOBA developers have ever done. One of if not the most popular MMO outside of WoW has treated its PvP with such insane disregard that it absolutely boggles the mind. I do not think I have ever so quickly decided to go back to DOTA/LoL from “taking a break to play another game” in the many years I have been a gamer.

Err…if you want Solo Q…you should…um…how do I say this….“check back” ….. “soon”.

You like to tease people heh? ^^
Anyway, I can assume a soloq leaderboard will come along with soloq mode…can’t I?

They already confirmed this it was in the Looking Ahead blog post Colin did Soloq and soloq leaderboard are coming

This was posted on the GW2 reddit it shows the Great Collapse under a giant tent/tarp.
Possibly having to do with the next living story update.

Ancient Ranger.3276:

“Salt Stone: This trait has been merged with Stone Splinters.
Stone Splinters: This trait has been moved to the Adept tier. It now deals 5% bonus damage to bleeding opponents and increases outgoing bleeding duration by 20%”
Quote from patch notes.
It says Salt Stone was merged into Stone Splitters, and Stone Splitters was moved to adept.
In trait Stone Splitters Tool tip says “Deal 10% more damage when you are within 600 range of your target.” and Serrated Stone says “Bleeds you apply last 20% longer and deal 5% more damage to bleeding foes.”
My question is did you get these two trait mixed up?
I also Tested the 10% damage in Stone Splitters
What I found was I hit 243-257 with a single dagger base stats(no amulet no traits no runes) in sPvP on a Heavy Golem and then added 10 points in earth for Stone Splitters, and I hit 255-270 which is only a 5% increase.
So another question I have is:
Is the tool tip wrong? Or is the game mechanics not increasing to what it is suppose to be?

Edit: Where will this stream be?

On the official ArenaNet/Guild Wars 2 twitch channel
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

http://www.twitch.tv/gamebreakertv

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/GW2-expansion-1Q-Ncsoft-Conference-Call-merged/page/3#post2024859

Official answer

Do it Karl we know you were you saw what happened do it.

He was freaking awesome for his first cast kept me entertained.

http://gwleague.com/

http://www.twitch.tv/gamebreakertv/new

Yes please I love this login screen it was amazing!

Maxou.8930:

“We’ll fix the queue issue during the upcoming days”. That would have been a useful annoucement.
Not a huge page for “huumm won”t be February but March instead for you to have nice items in WvW"…

You’re loosing players and support of the community here Colin. Maybe it’s time to realise that …

They are not losing players but if that’s what you want to believe go ahead losing the communities support lol this post was to inform the community about changes in patch so you wouldn’t surprised.

Near the might and main he doesnt doing anything just tells you whats going on.

Blacklight.2871:

SemmlerTh.2685:

thats a good question. And shouldn’t there be herolds somewhere?

I believe the heralds are in all the major cities. Haven’t seen one yet myself though.

Theres a herald in the Hoelbrak.

The orange star is not part of the events its something for Spvp that got there by mistake.

Seren.6850:

Is the next content patch on the 28th when guesting arrives?

Yes

Notes from a Reddit poster Rytlock

*Guild Wars 2 has sold way past their expectations. They reached their core user base around a month back, and the population has been steadily growing each week.

*Crowns are renamed to laurels because crowns in certain languages mean bad things. Anyone have any idea what languages he’s possibly talking about?

*Different dailies coming in the future. Chauncey is coming in the January patch (I think?). The patchnotes will contain a story about Chauncey von Snuffles the Third.

*First step towards culling in January patch (source: Thanks LiveSpartan235)

*Progression in WvW is coming. You’ll be able to earn unique skills the more you WvW. Additionally, you’ll be recognized for your efforts in WvW (ex. the different skills you can earn, etc)

*Charr is the least played race. :‘( All the classes are relatively equally spread out. (I’m surprised by the class statement. I don’t see many engineers at all)

*Initial dailies will take you throughout the world. When they introduce dailies you can choose to complete later down the line (ie. 4 out of 6), they’ll introduce other dailies like Keg Brawl matches or Jumping Puzzles. They also want to add whole new content in different areas for dailies so when you go there, it won’t be totally the same.

*Guesting coming, paid server transfers, yadda yadda. Cost will vary based on server population. Very full = a lot more expensive. Lower servers will be relatively cheap.

*Guesting has been near done for a while now, but they always ran into last minute bugs before each major release, which is why it took so long to implement.

*They are looking to fix loot across the world so that going through the world is much more worthwhile. They want to keep low level drops too though, so it’s something they’re going to figure out.

THEY ARE THINNING OUT THE RISEN DENSITY IN ORR!!!!!!!! (In January) Adding new rewards in Orr, as well as new WAYPOINTS that are always active. They are also tweaking temple bosses so they are funner in large groups.
Player Question Liveupdating (I will update this as questions get asked) (The stream ended as of 6:59 PM PST)

1) Player Housing?: They will look into it in the future, but guild halls will be guaranteed. No date though.

2) Any plans to tweak precursors?: What they’d like to do in the long-run is a scavenger hunt. They want to make it right, and they are in the midst of designing it right now, and will start working on it when the design is where they want it. They want it to feel epic. They will also be adding new ways to get precursors before they do the scavenger hunt to ease the wait.

3) LFG tool?: Shoutout to GW2LFG from Colin! Even he uses it all the time. A team is actually working on this right now, but they are NOT working on a dungeon finder tool. Not something you’ll see for a few months, but it is coming.

4) Additional cosmetic features?: Yes, down the road.

5) New races?: On the list of things they could do, but it’s something they want to do with an expansion. Also, no guarantees.

Etien.4601:

orr density changes confirmed

Praise Dwayna!

Did you read the blog post from yesterday about the next few months?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

Miku Lawrence.6329:

alcopaul.2156:

If an Asian can play on an NA server as home server just fine, why can’t a Euro play on an NA server as home server?

Last time I checked Euro and NA just have the Atlantic Ocean between them.

Because Asians are sent to the NA dataserver. Europeans are sent to the Eu dataserver.

Btw, NA dataserver =/= EU dataserver.

What this guy said.

Thanks Colin keep up with the communication you guys are doing great!

Tried no luck even disabled the speakers still nothing and i got turtle beach X12 btw

I having a problem with my headset when playing GW 2 the in game sounds will not come through the headset only through the speakers and I have changed the in game sound settings so the audio device is set to headphones but when I do that no sounds comes out and I’ve restarted the game and computer but with no luck and every other game I play the sounds come through the headset. Anyone got a solution?

My technique PRESS ALL THE KEYS!

You do know that there are 3 differents path that the puzzle randomly selects in order to avoid what happened at Halloween.

Go vote for GW 2 as GOTY and Most Innovative and don’t ask me why Pirate101 is second place for GOTY and Third place for Most Innovative cause I don’t know.

http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/6954/page/1

http://www.g4tv.com/vgdm/best-game-2012/battleresult/560/guildwars2-vs-thewalkingdead/4B96575933954ace908B51D860D59E47/

Go and vote.

I don’t think its allowed to say anything good about Anet anymore on these forums

In the Black Citadel there’s an area called the Bane basically an Arena that the Charr use to hone there skills and just spar among each other and while I was walking around it I thought this would be a perfect area to allow players to duel in and it would also help bring players to the Black citadel does else think this should happen?

I got Venom trident precursor

I had the best time of my mmo life during this event I never get to do these things i other mmos also that reward at the end awesome got a Precursor

Best dungeon I have ever played its so much fun!

Oh yes pre searing ascalon i was like omg!! YES

Dat dungeon is so amazing loved the dredge fractal final boss fight