Yup, conserning Guild Wars, not GW 2…
sry but posting here, cause the only support available that Guild Wars 1 “help” function leads me to is a “page not found”. So I just hope some employee sees this.
So, in Guild Wars “1” : The Wintersday Token (or “Hat”) quest npcs in both Kamadan and Lions Arch, Brrnadette and Krunch if I remember right, have disappeared allready, they are still to be found in Korean district only and gave one of my accounts a reward, but when went in with another account who had not the quest in log allready, they would not give the quest to start it.
Same thing for folks in Kamadan chat I asked about this.
Dispite GW2 being your huge priority, I rly hope something could be done to compensate, like the good old days of GW1 when hats where bugged one Wintersday event, and the event got a reroll of more days
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GW 1 is after all the source of it all and would be great to see u heed to us who still play that, or check the hiccups in that game
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Around the time GW2 launched both player homes and guild halls were said to be coming sometime in the future. I still hope this will happen, & in the nearest possible future .
For me a customizable personal player home would be more important than guild halls: I love my guild, but the things that I love my guild for are allready there and plenty, and though a guild hall would be fun, a player home would make me extatic instead!
A home that we could show trophies in, (maybe even armor, weapons and minis like gw 1 HoM!), decorate, or even build from ground up with stuff found in the world.
Im the type of GW2 player that would get a huge boost to my sense of “belonging” inTyria, “reason to fight”, from a home, much more than from the personal story, main or living story quests for instance.
My chars are not really selfless brave “commandeers” keen on saving the world all the time
.. They are a greedy bunch of adventures after new goodies and exploration, and they desperately long for a place to hang their hat on, and bask in their shinies between adventures.
I dont think it would draw players away from cities either, more likely if some home deco could be crafted, it might draw new people to the crafting stations.
Any customizable home system would make me very happy, but a system resembling the personal “dimensions” in Rift would be wonderfull = choose from different spaces where you can build allmost anything from stuff found in pve, from events , crafting, or gem store.
I think it would be a great marketing move for the gem store too, having some gem store only items and houses or areas, and fair as long as its also possible to accomplish a nice home without buying gems.
Also it would be a great way to widen festival items variety/rewards, and getting a “less glorious” or more common home deco item from a fest bag would be more fun than getting a, say candy cane hammer skin 20 times -instead get 20 placeable home deco candy canes and you can decorate the tree you bought for 100 ugly sweaters.
Cheers, hope we`ll hear about homes some day soon!
PS. edit: and of course home trophy/deco items only found on some quests, bosses, dungeons or achievements, yes, seeing the amount of such grow in my home would really give a sense of “personal story” for me
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Hard to put the 1st 3 in order, but…
Best:
1. Halloween: loved the look/atmosphere of the festival , loved the Hide and seek game, loved Labyrinth and Mad Kings dungeon, digging candy corn veins, the guest .. Love the gemshop witch outfit. Weapon Skins were cool but I did not get lucky to get one.
2. Wintersday: Again loved the look/sound/atmosphere so much, really got me on a holiday mood. Loved the bellchoir most of all, fun non violent activity, ty! Loved my mini plush griffon and griffon tonic.. .Love the gemshop winteroutfit! Dungeon was fun. The skins from world drops I did not like much.
3. Bazaar of the four Winds: really loved the event a lot, the atmosphere, look, music and things I had time to do, but had hardly any time to play cause of summer “real life” stuff- otherwise might put it even higher. Loved the cliffs and sanctum sprint especially, glad the sprint is here to stay as an activity, hope the bazaar returns again. The back item skins from bazaar are wonderfull and good to have a collector method to get skins instead of just rare drop or bl chest!
4. achievement rewards: glad there`s use for the achievement points now.
5. Guild missions and rewards: = more guild wars
general thing about festival events: I like carve pumkins/bash pinata etc type things, hope they stay, cause they give more reason to run around decorated towns. And festival mats and recipies I like.
worst:
1. Homelesness=lack of player housing release. I hope it comes soon… A home to personalize with furniture, trophies, armor stands etc would give me a sense of base. More continuity/reason for “what are we fighting for” than what my greedy exploring adventurers get from say, heroicly doing the main quest…
2. One time Southsun massacre: (though very funny also…) Huge lag at LA event. On my overflow the Island event was a huge death fest for hours, then many people missed reward chest due to dc or running from wp. It was well handled however to send rewards for those players afterwards, ty
3. Flame and frost world events: I did not hate them nor like them. Did the achievements but was not exited about it.
4. Princess Miyas wigs- everywhere :P! And removing the non SAB related rewards from SAB, I did not do SAB more than a bit on the 1st day of Back to School cause of that.
5. Queens jubilee as an anniversary event: I actually liked/like Scarlet map invasions, but did not care for the story much, also the “festival has been ruined by the evil xxxx -heroes needed” theme had allready just been there, I might have liked some more lighthearted anniversary stuff better.
And Overall it`s been agreat and fun year for me, thankyou!
Have not bought a hairstyle kit yet (just spent the last of my gems on the char slot sale and trans stones sale 
) but I saw the new styles on wiki and they look beautifull!
Especially loving the longest norn female hair and longest female sylvari hair.
Will definetely buy a kit later, thanks very much for these !
-If we get player housing soon, I`d be happy to pay for some furnishing/housefluff items to show my support !
-original GW dances
-would love a costume keeper NPC and costumes retrievable like GW, allready bought couple of costumes during festivals but not going to buy many of more if I have to also buy storage just for them
-there can never be enough armor skins, keep them coming -also armor skins once bought to be unlocked for whole account would be wonderfull.
I think Colin said at Pax that guild halls and player housing is something they’re actively working on, and that it’s somewhat at the top of the priority list.
I´m so glad to hear that !
Been looking forward to the player housing all year, I´d really really love to see it come to be soon -and guild halls too.
I loved last year!
I`d like to see the return of the PvE mad kings realm/labyrinth (or what was it called) and the PvP labyrinth where you played as villager or Mad Kings minion. Mad Kings Dungeon was fun too, but I hope the Lion statue won´t be destroyed this year and Mad King has new schemes to enter Tyria!
Halloween skins of course, new chance at last years weapon skins and Mad kings memoires -and would love to see new armor/back item skins.
And I hope most items will have a chance to drop or be available from halloween collectors, not just BL chests or shop.
If not the obby shards and crystals, I think it would be good to add at least something “from outside the box” to Motos shop. Myself I like SAB, but not enough to do it much now cause I don´t want any of the new skins or minis – not that rewards should be everything but still .
Hi!
Last 2-3 days or so I`ve had many many crashes that lead to GW client asking to repair game data, after a long repair a new crash may still happen in minutes:now I only just noticed it seems to come when I open the map and zoom out on the map. Also happened few times after someone pinged WP & I clicked it to see, not sure if I zoomed then.
Not sure if this is the only way it happens, but avoiding zooming on map just kept me many hours in game, then did it once and instant crash .
I let the client send couple of reports to Anet, but tought I´d mention it here too
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The Flame and Frost living story seems exiting to me, also a way to bring more people back to those areas, waiting to see the story unfold and events to come!
Just standing in front of the laurel merchant for 1st time ,pondering whether to grab some goodies now or start saving for the future : I really like this allready and look forward to more ways to get laurels as well !(=turn old achivements points to laurels maybe?)
I think the minipets, and o.o everlasting mystery cat so far may snatch my priority even over the ascended gear ;D ! Maybe in the future we may also see cosmetic armor/weapon skins or tow clothes at the laurel vendor!
My load times/lag in WvW also seem a lot better after update, thanks!
Exited about this, and loving GW2! Keep up the good work!
Signed, so very very cute ^.^! ty Anet! I`ve the materials but have not crafted him/her yet, want to savor the moment for my main wintersday present!
Been having such a good time these first days, my big thanks and Winterdays cheers for a beautifull and fun event to Anet and the fun community to enjoy it with!
I think the winterdays deco/graphics are so very lovely (like Halloween was too),theres much alternate and fun stuff to do, and in this event I`ve not had much technical problems like lag/dcs! I think it`s good the event has not had any game crashing “mass-meetings” but a less hurried feel to attending daily new stuff (= Tixx dungeon) !
Got a gem card for early xmas present and bought my little ele the winter outfit wich is extremely cute, big thanks for that! Earmuffs look cute too ^.^!
Oh and my Thanks to Anet also for just before Wintersday getting mailed the the Karka chest I missed in the previous events tech difficulties, saving it for a later Big Wintersday present without worrying if the loot is gonna be "super good " or not, in this case just the tought of sending those rly counted !
Then minor gripes, true like some have posted on forums that some of the pop up mobs from presents are quite OP, (but still love hunting presents a lot though)plus some presents are bugged to higher levels than area..The snowball fight achievement in my opinion also might have been tought out differently like others have posted= not per presents brought/stopped but fights won to encourage team play…
The Tixx instances Ive liked, had much fun and also l Iike that theres some other than fighting stuff in between! Whole Making your own Mini idea =vry cool! Though I like doing these and want to make my minis, still maybe would have been great for those non dungeon/grouping liking players to have acces to the mystical cogs, or players who like doing the dungeons but dont care for the mini to sell cogs?
My favorite activity: really hooked on the Bellchoir, even though not musical at all/can`t get top scores and never played any keyboard intruments, using 3 fingers and mouse but having a blast learning, hope you make more this types of “non violent” activities and musical stuff in future ! Great spirit between palyers there too!
My huspand is a keyboard musician it was hilarious to watch him learn it 99% faster than me ;P
& One of my favorite wintersday moments was seeing a guy in LA play (very well too) xmas songs in the street with his own bell, he got a lot of happy audience, rly hope we get more of instruments for this kind of thing in the future, lol even if I can`t play well myself! Very Merry Wintersday all!
PS. Dear Tixx: only thing more I wish for Winters day-(besides Festivoo the Merry and an Everlasting hairdresser, ehhem, ^.^) is a real wardrobe to put my townclothes in, I dont want to burn any but my small chest space may run out if the spring bunny brings me more clothes… (oh and the house to put my wardrobe in Cheers!)
Also check out crafted armours, they add more variety to level10-80 journey. If you dont like crafting yourself, you can get them pretty cheaply sold by players leveling their crafts from the trading post.
I personally lovet the looks of some of the light and heavy crafted sets for females
some “girly questions”
-Are we going to see the player homes and guild halls come soon?
-What about more town clothes, like what the npcs wear, for in game gold/karma?
-Any wardrobe system for at least town clothes being planned?
- Shall there be a an option to change your hairdo or even other looks in near future, and will it be for ingame gold or gems?
thankyou!
No, not based on this event =what I answered in survey!
Also answered, to “why did u not refer”, that I`d feared( before the whole thing, based on the bit of issues I had during Halloween,)the one time events in LA etc just might be massive lag/chaos/dcs etc and give a bad first impression..
Still in future I might refer a friend who loves to play another MMO , if it was not a 1 time event, or 1 time events worked better by then
It has nothing to do with envy, if you work 3h for an event and get loot worth of 2g and someone comes in last minute, hits boss twice and gets 2 precursors (YES; actually happened)
It just isnt fair to give few players loot worth of at least 1 month farming and teh other dont ….NijAAlba
Agree on that one technically could have arrived in the last, shortest phase to hit the boss couple of times for the win =&that was one of the hugest mistakes made in the event design/structure !
So,(not commenting on nature of loot here yet) I think another important question should have been: did you think the structure and reward “distribution” system of the multi hours fight worked, did everyone get fairly rewarded for the amount they participated? Especially as many many players got nothing at all for their 3 hours, exept the fun to be there. Another question, how long do you think a player should have participated to have been rewarded something for their effort in defeating the ancient menace?
Any rewards there, big or small were not for the “massively multi hours” long participation, they were only for participating in the last few “one time” minutes without dying in a bad spot or crashing just before or during those minutes.. They were not even “only for those who endured it all” making it alive and no dc untill the final step if that was Anet`s original idea, because it was possible to only arrive during that final step and be rewarded.. Even just to log on right by the dying boss by chance and hit it few times would have done!
So, the design was obviously hastily tought out, rly hope this was a lesson for the future.
Im glad to hear Anet working on a compensation for at least some of us “who Participated and did not get the chest”, but I hope they can figure out and tell us soon what does that participation mean- will it still mean u had to hit the boss in it`s very final stage before u dc`d , fell into lava or whatnot ? And if not, where will/can you draw the line in the mess? Personally would like to know, does dying count or only dc-if so, those who dc`d might have died if they`d been on?
And rly, this is not meant to be a “hate” mail for Anet, Im sry for all the pain figuring all this out afterwards must be causing you, you wanted to give a fun event of course!
Then, about the what was in the loot, ay, question about that should have been asked the community!
Personally I think, if you want to give out luck based 1 time chances of amazing and expensive loot sometimes- maybe it might be fine, :BUT if you do so the event/dungeon should not be 1 time in"real time" , it should be lootable once per character or account, wich ever you see best, but NOT the event only happening once/ only last few minutes of it counting for reward, so many people cant make it there or cant make far enough to comlete.
One time events happening in real time should have great cosmetic or “fun item” etc. rewards plus regular loot according to the difficulty of event. Here we also missed any regular loot from most of the tough mobs fought along the way, was surprised at my karka kill count compared to the few crabby crab meats and vry few whites/blues I got Sry the wall of text, Ty for reading!
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1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – 9
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – 8
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – 7
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – 2
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – 5
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – 2
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – 10
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – 5
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – 6
Phase 1&2 starts in LA = chaotic, big lag, dcs, enemies invisible at times. Questchain phase 1: fun once unbugged, reward good, and great when did with multiple alts.
The island: beautifull!! Events there fun. Love my new pet drake =best part & reward for me!
Phase 3 , guild chats bugged saying “not member of a guild” . Happy to get in same overflow with my huspand and nice bunch of great people! Phase 3 eventchain…Massdeaths, lag and huge length made it hilarious in our overflow but maybe not the way intended
Biggest gripe
: such many hour eventchains need different reward system, like tokens at end of each part, please! Many lost end chest to dc, me to dying on the swarmed ramp to end fight ,rez at WP, poof boss dead &no chest when back, aftr all that work -was not there only after a reward, but still . Also, maybe the final bossfight was too short compared to other parts , if it could be too short to get back to.
The overflow kept being full, people could not get in and not enough people trying to redo event ,:I gave up logged out ,so dont try join my party anymore- but I wish ya all luck finding the event, maybe post if u have agood Flow and inv people
Ty very very much Hobbes! &sry i got “unable to connect etc”twice before getting in!
looks like no/not enough people dioing this though…a
nd arrrrgh Ive lost all the island WPs I had before Gonna lie here awhile munched by karkas , so anyone wanna try get in , /join me(Mora Moorcat) then leave party for maybe more peeps o get in…
Event is now in part protect demolition squad, (revive them ;P) seems a bit hopeless
Ty DinoWash made me feel better
This could be my story too exatly, same place=the ramp and hatchling stampede where I got defeated beyond rez, went to wp but no time to run back for last fight/get chest..
And I was even"stupid" enough to go help a friend get back who had a further WP.
And yet in my overflow too people had been so vry very great and persistant rezzing and helping each other!
But that swarm plus the mission to chase the Boss made it pretty impossible for folks to try save those falling
- thus also in “event design” the chase/swarm being the worst part I experienced..
Allready posted about this in another thread, that people who made it so far and contributed to the whole thing, aftr hours of work, it would have been fair to give us a chance of some reward as well.. We got back, searched for anything and Lol finding a karma merchant selling tonics to make u a young karka, indeed, a karka, it was….Insanely funny yet sad!
Yes please shut him up asap and please dont make such NPCs in the future, especially near an event and/ dungeon entrance where he spams and lags the whole chat(plus folks ears) in 30 seconds! Made the area feel so chaotic… And send a team member out there to listen to him for 4 minutes to rly remember not to do it again
While at it , some older NPCs, who`ve "seen creatures of metal and steel " or are otherwise traumatized and stuck on a moment – maybe tone down the frequency of their repeated speech too …I guess the idea is that even a player who breezes through areas can hear all dia/monologues, but I think it might be fun for even such players to hear something new next time they breeze through, and many of the many many players who stand around a bit in town chattin/crafting etc would rly appreciate less repetition ! Cheers!