Guild Wars 2

^ Title. – Raid wing, not glider wing plz.

And also, will legendary armor be avaiable at same time the last wing release?

As Illconceived Was Na stated, its simple as puting as he stated.

- “This achievment can only be completed during wintersday”
- “This achievment can only be completed during season 1”

Boom. 30 seconds of development.

Kerin.9125:

MauricioCezar.2673:

The same happened with wintersday title/achievment > Sweet tooth. I farmed and stocked ~1,5k of candy’s to use then, and then I couldn’t log on the day before patch. Patch hit, achievment/Title Gone for good, and I am sitting at 1,5k of useless candys.

For the life of me I can’t think of a good reason, or any reason at all TBH, why you’d not consume those things as you got them rather than hoarding till the 11th hour allowing you no time to deal with unexpected problems, which sadly you encountered.

It’s the same everywhere, people leave things till the very last minute and then complain when something happens that prevents them doing what they could have done days, or sometimes weeks, before.

For the simple reason I was stocking and farming mine ones to see how many I would need to buy.

@Just a flesh wound : Thanks, and gaile is always nice, sadly, one cant just keep up with every possible dev post here and I missed it. A more logical adn correct way to solve this is to just add a line of text to said achievments in-game, saying : This achievment will be removed at dd//mm//yy.

Dear anet, I love this game. I am a sad and deep achievment hunter also.

But it hurts me that some achievments are completely removed without ever being specified that they were temporary.

I just noticed into pvp that the title “Primordial legend” got removed, and its gone for good. I was halfway on diamond at season 1 and stopped because I wanted to finish and focus my HoT Achievments, and get this title/achievment on next seasons. Now its completely gone.

The same happened with wintersday title/achievment > Sweet tooth. I farmed and stocked ~1,5k of candy’s to use then, and then I couldn’t log on the day before patch. Patch hit, achievment/Title Gone for good, and I am sitting at 1,5k of useless candys.

So please, I am asking as softly as I can, because I love this game and this gets me highly frustrated : Properly advertise when something is temporary. Please, I ain’t asking too much.

RedBaron.6058:

Fluffball.8307:

Also GTA turns everyone into murdering thieves. C’mon, this topic is full of 90’s style mom outrage. We’ve moved on.

Never use others wrongdoings to justify yours.

Add this philosophy to yourself too. And for serious, your topic is indeedly full of kittens. (No, it was not the filter, I don’t like kittens, and thus I think his topic is full of kittens).

Lysander Freeman.4186:

Seems to be poor achievement/reward design if this is the case, which it seems to be. I got my initial Leystone pieces in a decent amount of time, not right away but I did put the time in for them and that’s fine. Then I do a long series of runs totalling 10,000,000 + XP done on the DS map with quite a few meta completions and get nothing.

If they require alts running through for this and/or other achievements, just make “Completing Story Line on X-number of Alts” an achievement by itself… and make X = 9 or 10 characters so you have to use the gem store

But I digress. Drop rates need adjusted.

Its not how it is designed to be made. Its just a les painful and more easy way to acquire it. Or you can keep shoting at luck, that is how it is designed to be. At the very least, this particular one have a guaranteed way to be made, so I thought would be nice to suggest it here.

the best option is speedrun trough the HoT story on alts, if you have then. It takes around of ~1:30 hours to 2:00 hours. Free chooseable piece of leystone armor at end, plus all the rewards you get trough the chapters.

Confirmed by others than me:

When yo complete this achievment, all crystallized caches get opened and you can’t loot then anymore. Neither by changing map, or in another round.

:(

Also, The raven staff Collection 1 is bugged and don’t awards the item for disabling the blighted tree in Dragon stand.

Nothing against it, and should be in-game IMHO.

If you want to be part of a hardcore challenge group, you in the very least need to be equally geared and skilled as the other people in your team, otherwise you are just being carried.

On other hand, you are not locked out of it, since you can jsut creat your own “Non-elitist” group, and run happily on it. No one block you to do that, and the game actually is very helpfull to let you try out it.

@notsoperky : Actually, I did a somewhat DropRate, by givin the minimum possible achieved, and the maximum possible achieved. But well, for straight numbers, my average of ores is : 20 ores per each 30 pods, so around of 2 ores every 3.

Now about the “Let people die” and run selfish, now THATS something I can agree on. Since it is already a timed rush, I would like to suggest to have lesser mobs around the pod spawns. I for myself never die tbh, since I swap to a full defensive running build, and everytime I see someone downing, as long I can help I always do it.

Also, Since I do have a cmder tag, I always offer myself to a “Pod Train” after the meta is done, and this usually make the run to be a easy group run, just like in SW chest run.

So far, ZERO people like it.

Interesting, please consider it anet.

Your drop rate is completely unrealistic, and far from the actual droprate.

Either you are lying, or you got extremely unlucky. A full pod run results (If you are the least experienced enough) to a minimun of 30 pods. Yeah, I am not exagerating, my pod runs always goes from 30 to 35 pods.

From the 30 pods, trough all my pod runs, the worst result I had was 18 crystalline ore, out from a straight 30 pods. My best rate was 25 crystalline ore out of 32 pods.

So, going straight, playing maybe 1 DS map every another day, or 2 per day on weekends, plus running 2 Hot Story (80 ores), I got myself up to 260 ores already.

Too hard you said? Hell, I play very few per day (Since I work AND study), and got the ammount needed for a new legendary in basically 3,5 weeks after the expansion launch.

Whine as much you want, but don’t call it impossible/unreacheable/“stupidgamedesign”.

As a asura ele, I REALLY use racial skills quite often.

- Tecnhobubble is a strong daze, and with breakbars it became very very useful.
- Radiant Field is a poision aoe pulsing field pretty strong.
- Both elite golens are quite useful, mainly the defensive one that gives a nice aoe bobble reflect shield.

@Alexander : Revenants don’t have acess to racial skills.

Or at the very least, put a option to mut this particular effect.

Its very, very awful.

I actually noticed, that even the owners of the horsebow dislike it, and also turn off the sound.

No, its not (Maybe the story is, but thats another case).

The HoT expansion is worth the name, and if you think otherwise, you never played any other mmos before.

PS: Gw1 only had 1 expansion, that was similarly sized with HoT. Other ones were complete new Campaigns, wich is a completely different story.

A couple months ago, someone had the aweomse idea to turn the dreamer even more awful in than it already was (With rainbows flying everywhere in gigantic horse projectiles), making the projectiles makes a horse noise every single shot. And it is awfully loud and contantly repetitive, because arrows have a 1~2s delay between one another.

Now, everytime I need to turn off completely the effect audio, becuse the freaking horses drives me mad while on headphone. We need to either have this thing completely removed, or please give us a option to mute legendary sound effect.

Thanks.

1 – Playing 6 Hours a day is far from being “Casual”. I play 1 hour per day and I am a hardcore who have no problems at all with any gold or difficulty in the game.

2 – Prices will settle down, gotta wait a few. I agree, its quite expensive atm, but if you are sincerely a “Casual” player, why go to such a expensive Ascended stats ? Just go for the exotic set, the ascended is only a recquirement for fractals at super high level atm.

Anet, I completed VB, AB, and yesterday DS, none of these maps gave rewards (Mainly looking for the gifts) on my elementalist that has 100% map completion pre-hot.

I am very worried that this might not have a bug fix before the new legendarys get released, and since I’ve been working hard on these solo purpose, can we get any confirmation if there is any fix for this coming before the legendarys are released?

Or should I just go on a alt and do all these maps completed again?

Nike.2631:

MauricioCezar.2673:

It will not.

I just scrolled through that page. Is there someone official on there that doesn’t have a proper ANet tag? Because we’ve seen them get pretty non-plussed with blatant abuse of rapid spawn rates in the past…

Nevermind. Found the reference.

Care to place bets on if it’s still possible in a week?

Funny enough, it is rolling for almost a week now.

They actually give. But the ammount is so low that is frustrating.

Nike.2631:

Wow.

That’s gonna earn some bans.

It will not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3qa295/what_you_need_to_know_about_cof_farm_before/

I just used it in my mesmer (That has no map completion, and I didn’t want to run to the jungle with it), and it completed a Hero point in auric basin, Yay!. But no hero points were awarded to my Hero Panel

I am guessing I need to travel all the way to auric basin in order to be awarded with the points, but this kinda removes the purpose of the item.

More likely very depressive/sad atm.

I like to run with my guild in events and roams, and I was eager to experience this whole event to claim the guild hall. Heck it, it is a one time thing.

Then, we gathered up to claim gilded hollow, joined up at the entrance, and right when we started, i got a DC, was unable to re-enter the instance, the game puts me into a completely random place out of the map, and there is simply no way to get in the fight to claim the guild hall with my friends.

Just be left out, while hoping that one day, maybe I will have the oportunity to experience it by any way.

Why doesn’t it just had a pop-up global message, allowing any member of the guild join the instance? Why it makes guildies that don’t are in the said maps be completely locked out of this important part of the guild history?

I love the game and all the hard work you have put into this, but this has just made me close the game on filled with sadness and head to my bed sleep. For the moment, i don’t feel up to play the game, of course I will be playing tomorrow, but this little piece of fail has been the great let down of the day for me.

3,445 mb ( Aka 3,5GB)

You can only use the elite specs on the 3rd line of specs.

I don’t understand why people are saying BS to you Op. You point is completely valid.

If I don’t want to “Specialize” into DH, i really have ZERO changes to my profession, since EVERYTHING is locked/tied into the specialization.

In order to be able to use any of the new skills, or the new weapon, I am completely forced to kill one specialization and equip the elite specialization. This completely kills the purpose of build variation that expansions are supposed to bring.

I rather agree, my Elementalist is also not getting anything, because i really can’t sacrifice any of my actual specs only to use the shouts or the warhorn for example.

Extreme.8350:

Not gonna happen the AI in Tera is just sooo much far ahead of this game true story.
Yea there is a tank that does most of the work but don’t underestimate how much you actually have to cooperate and react to attacks to win regardless.
In Tera you don’t have a melee boss which use 3 seconds windup to land an attack
There you really gotta be on you’re toes or its game over.

Power creep Mobs =/= Better AI.

Gliding = top reason to buy HoT.

No kidding here.

For me, a legendary armor would be Profession tied, so I could have a armor that changes as I swap elements on my elementalist

Or a armor tht gives me a spectral trail while on necromancer.

The revamped fractal of the mists will allow us to buy a crate of fractal skin for pristine relics, but what about the loads of repeated fractal skins we get?

Can we have a way to exchange these skins for pristine relics, please? <3

Exciton.8942:

MauricioCezar.2673:

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Since when is Ele squishy? Try earth and water my friend.

Since Launch, my friend. Slowest HP Pool, losing only for thief maybe.

So you need always keep rotation trough dps/self heal, what makes you sacrifice some combat time, and makes you need always fast fingers.

Ele requiring fast fingers is the most false information. I got scared away a bit at the start because people say this class requires high apm etc. Then after I tried this class(in everything PvP PvE WvW), I realized it really doesn’t require any faster fingers compared to other classes at all. Although you do need to get familiar with more skills at your disposal and practise skill rotation a bit.

So yeah, basically this is a class I thought at first is not for me because the false info of high apm requirement. But now it end up being my second most played profession.

You got used , that’s all

If you are doing good rotations, start to look at your own fingers while playing x)

Most rotations are composed to 8~12 skill chains in order to achiev the sucesfull wanted goal. The main example of actual Staff rotation:

Basic ~8Seconds dps rotation:
F4(EarthAt) => 2-2(Eruption)[Start timer of 3s => F3(AirAt) => 9(GliphOfStorm) =>F1(FireAt) =>2-2(Lava Font) End Timer of 3s] = > 0 (Elite fire elemental) => 5-5 (Channel Meteor shower) => F2(WaterAt) => 2-2 (Ice Spike) => 4 (Frozen Ground) => 8(DropIceBow) => 5(Deep Freeze) => 4-4(IceStorm).

Now try The Might stack rotation, and the lightning hammer rotation heh

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Since when is Ele squishy? Try earth and water my friend.

Since Launch, my friend. Slowest HP Pool, losing only for thief maybe.

So you need always keep rotation trough dps/self heal, what makes you sacrifice some combat time, and makes you need always fast fingers.

No one is blocking passage for you to try the raid. You can simply go in there and play/experiment it.

If you can’t beat it, get better and try again. This is the concept of it, just don’t think it will be : Welcome – Kill this guy pressing 1.

There no need to anyone convice you to buy. If you like the game already, and trust on the work of the devs, its just go and buy.

Its what I made, and I don’t regret.

From gw2 wiki about sixth tier of centaur runes:

+20% Movement speed increased by 33%; stacks duration. Swiftness duration; when you use a heal skill , you and all nearby allies gain Movement speed increased by 33%; stacks duration. Swiftness for 10 seconds.

So, where there is stated that it gave the effect from tonic transformations? If it does not state it, but still does it – then it is a bug. If it is a bug, and you use it for your own purposes, then you are abusing it. If you are abusing a bug to have benefits out of it, you should be grateful for not being banned or punished for violating the rules of conduct, and not whining about the fix for the bug.

So, you were propositally glitching the game, and now that it is fixed you come to forums to whine about it? I cant say if you are being serious or just making fun out of us all.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

I hope we human get a new dragon when Elona or Cantha gets remade and we only hear what it says. Even Norn only hearing Jormag and everyone else hearing Growls.

I think you miss the point that sylvari are born from the dragon, so they are techically the same.

Do you really think that humans, norns, or whatever else are made out, or born from a dragon?

They are meant to be heavy armored front line support, channelers of great legends of the past. They use the “Mists” as font of their power, not necessarly magic, but similar to it.

I personally like to see it as those spiritual hard trained monks, that have great spiritual connection, alongside with heavy phisical preparation.

1+2 – are on the same week, they’ve said it was planned, not its was confirmed. Also, they can do that after xpac, not a core reveal.
3 – Might appear in the following 4 weeks, or in this wekeend at twitchcon.
4 – Is happening today and tomorrow.
5 – There was never mentioned, nor planned a Bwe4. Just as core game, it was always predicted to have 3 BWE. Probably next week.
6 + 7 + 8 – all topics regarding the same thing. “If” it is going to happen (What I doubt, since its spoiler-ish), would happen on same week (Just like the guild halls week.
9 – as you said, happening tomorrow.

Not “A lot of info” Tbh. We basically have had all the possible reveals already. Expansion is ready.

Star up for the Incridibles reference.

Still, I really don’t see a problem simply because it fits into narrative. It was exaclty the same when only engineers had further acess to scarlet machine operational message on the breacher, ot the exclusive race specific dialogues between PC and iconics (I’ll never forget zojja calling me a “Special cog in her life” ) or even the race specific missions that actually have impact on the main story, rather than only the race lore (Asura missions have acess to the theory about dragon eating magic before anyone else does).

So for real, after all what has been discussed, where is the problem? Where is tha so said “Bad design”? The game is set and sold as that. No one is having heavy loss or impact due to small things such as those.

Mirta.5029:

Ashen.2907:

So, should all of the order and race story elements have been shoehorned into my human Whispers character play through?

nah, I just believe that if you’re giving one race an exclusive quirk, others should get their own. Else only one race has a unique experience making it only worth it to play as that race and that race alone, as it’s extra lines and not changed story in general. Meaning currently sylvari is the only race with the full personal story experience. Which is wrong.

Every post you do contradicts yourself. Weren’t you saying this a few posts ago:

if I have to race switch in order to live trough the game’s full story and fully understand it then yes, it’s bad design. Your player should be treated equal no matter he is an altoholic or not.

So how you now say that it should be fair to every race have its own story specific content (What would make you obligated to roll all 5 races in order to live trough the game’s full story and fully understand it) ?

Yes, they stated that elite specs are suposed to be so changing to your profession, that it would even change your profession icon. As people noted, it was possible to see the icon for scrapper on last poi for example:

http://i.imgur.com/hUbSC58.jpg

But if you ask to me if it is necessary (Since elite specs are far from “Completely changing” your profession playstyle) well, I don’t think it is.

TamTiTam.9574:

Good Design is not 100% subjective. But it depents on what you are aiming to archieve.

If they plan to use Mordremoths Voice to introduce important parts of the Story to the Players – this might be bad design. But that is obvously not the Case.
Its more likely supposed to add some Flavor, to emphasize the influence the Dragon has on Silvary, etc.
It will feel more special, threatening and immersive if only Silvary can hear him.

I am glad someone understand the difference between bad or good design, against opinions and thoughts. And I completely agree with your statement sir.

As I said Mirta, you are free to say if it fits your taste or not, if you find it good or not, and mainly, expose your critique to anet. Feedback is always welcome.

Just don’t put is as fact, even more when it is not.

“design, like art, is subjective. It’s not a science. If you went to university for game design you were told that.”

Make a analisis of your own statments and see if it fits your own sentence.

Mirta.5029:

I am finishing game design this year and it is most definitely bad design in my eyes. You’re making select players lose on the narrative for not leveling a class that’s supposed to be for cosmetic purposes only. Effectively you’re excluding 4/5ths of your audience from the narrative that you designed.

With just how much of season 2 of the LS was sylvari centric and with sylvari getting exclusive narrative lines now I am just sure that Anet favour sylvari over anything else.

Also you saying that people can’t criticize design if they don’t have a degree is the same as saying “you can’t criticize cooking if you’re not the cook!”. Your customers are always free to critique you.

Crtiticize is a thing. Evaluate, or define it as a fact is a completely different thing.

I find it completely aceptable that you don’t like it being this way, and feel free to say it to anet. But as define it as bad design jsut because you dislike it, is completely wrong, even more when it is not fit to be considered bad design.

Gw2 is pretty explicit about “Personal Story” since the very start, you can check it out by each character initial story steps, or living story personal specific dialogues that pop’up depending on wich race, profession, or order you represent. That’s exactly what makes your story in game unique and “Personal”, and the game is advertised and sold as such.

Now taking the actual example, nobody is losing any narrative by not having acess to “Mordremoth call”, that is the only thing we have seen so far (If Anet is taking the course to say importante narrative steps whithin this mechanic, we have not yet seen, so its not even possible to criticize it), so your argument that 80% of their audience (Playerbase is exactly 20% of each race? hmm, interesting) are being “Excluded” is at minimun laugheable, and I can’t even take it serious, even more after this particular sentence of yours:

" I am just sure that Anet favour sylvari over anything else".

Other than maps, story and raids, what else the players have not experimented yet in betas?

First of all my friend, study design, game design, or narative design before yelling “This is bad design!!”.

Only because you heard this expression somwhere, don’t means you have what it takes to evaluate something as bad design or not.

As I see (In my 9 years of carreer as game designer), this is a a interesting narrative aspect, that brings much more in-depth to the world game lore in game itself, and not outside of it (Wiki/books/etcetera).

Another point to note, is that this is indeedly the only way to make it works. maybe we even hear him in the end of the story when we face mordremoth itself, but if the lore is fair enoguh in game, we as other races should not understand the dragon words, by the simply fact that its a non-translated language, so should not ever be understandable by any other race.

What you are asking, is basically the same as ask that the walls and graes in tyria written in new krytan to be rewritten in english for example. This game has a big way to immerse us in tyria world and lore, and I assure you my friend : This is good design.

PoI is one type of show, this don’t meanst that another can’t cover it if it becomes to a end.

Don’t you guys remember old’good Ready up?

Tbh, in means of leaderboards competition, whats the importance out of the top 1k? =P

I fighted my way over a lot to reach on the “Leaderboards” 1k NA, never cared for my position past 1k, cause being in the position 15468 rd just really don’t matter imho.