Guild Wars 2

Without a full history, would it be possible to include the war score of the previous skirmish (including kill/death breakdowns)? That way we don’t have to try and catch it just before it switches over to the next one.

For the most part I like it, I’m not a fan of the population based multiplier potential system though.

The proposed changes without that should lessen the run-away effect, but honestly if you don’t have the population to compete you really should end up losing the match anyway. With the new system you have a better chance to compensate in other time periods, but weighting is just going to skew results, keep mismatches together for longer, and potentially create hostile environments where people are being told to get off the map.

I’m also not a fan of “Last Stand”. Why should one day be more important than any other? Similar things have been tried in certain sports such as formula one, and it failed there too.

You do want to encourage people to play week-long but don’t do this through score, do it through rewards. You win a skirmish (2 hour time window), you get a reward.

Put back Desert until this is fixed!

Most endpoints have a 5 minute cache on anets side, so there’s not much point in querying any more often than that.

One exception is /v2/wvw/matches or the v1 equivalent which seem to be more or less real time.

Didn’t get a chest at all. My highest team was #273, so should have a copper.

The same could be accomplished with a “successful_yaks” field. For towers/keeps/castles this would be the number that arrived, and for camps it would be the number that reached their destination.

Another night, mission failed … due to the queue.

Despite what some people think here on the forum, the lord rush stronghold meta is dead. It rarely works any more, and matches become extremely prolonged. I’ve seen 15 minute matches that only managed to knock 1 door down … that’s not 1 door for each team, just one door.

Add to that the reduced queue time favor from yesterdays patch and you have 15 minute matches + 6 or more minute queues (NA prime time) plus a couple minutes waiting to start, and so on to win two games in 40 minutes.

The math doesn’t work out.

We started the mission right before the first match, which we won. Hoped for a short queue, didn’t get it. 10 minutes left when we go in. Only chance is to take a gamble and go all-out offense. It didn’t work, and we did lose the game eventually but it was close and we probably would have won it if we’d started the match out properly … but not in anywhere near enough time to complete the mission.

EDIT: Also the 18 channel mission is ridiculous and I will not participate in it. Not because it’s difficult, but because it promotes not trying to win the match.

You posted on the forums but the wrong section! This section is for developers of 3rd party apps/websites.

Your best bet is probably the PvP section.

Some other pvp stuff I’d like to see …

• In /pvp/games include information on if it was with a guild team, and which one (guild id + team name).
• Statistics on guild teams as shown in the guild panel (likely would require guild leader + guilds permission)
• Unauthenticated endpoint listing top 1,000 in guild challenger league.

Good enough, thanks!

A lot of my members have the join date as null. I’m guessing that’s because this was only tracked after a certain date and those people joined before that date.

What is that date?

The statistics are available at the end of the match, and you now have more than 2 seconds to look at them. They’re not available once you leave, but you could screenshot if you really want to keep them.

Replays would be awesome though.

I actually came here to post about this mission … it’s a bad mission.

Not because it’s difficult … difficult is fine … it’s because it encourages doing something other than winning.

18 channels means you have to spend about 3 games (or more if you miss a few) doing nothing but channeling. If you have an opportunity to win the match before all the channels are up … don’t take it, wait for the channels.

And if you do get them all, thanks to the timer on the mission (another bad idea for PvP missions, should remove the timer and make it within a certain number of matches) you want the match to end as quickly as possible so you can get into the next one. What’s the fastest way to do that? AFK at spawn and let the other team kill your lord for free.

DBZVelena.5186:

I think i know where that comes from.
Once up on a time, loooong ago. Ascended trinkets had double stats. One set was the base stats like any item. and the other set was the stats of the gem on it. only because ascended items were (at the time) not intended to be salvagable. the double stats caused confusion in players.
So then A-net changed it so it added up the stats and showed it as just one set of stats.
However, i would not be surpriced that on back end, its still treated as two sets of stats.

This would be why. Ascended trinkets have two stat prefixes, often the two are the same, but not always (for example there is no Valkyrie/Valkyrie, only Valkyrie/Berserker).

Originally the stats for each prefix were shown separately, but later they combined it in the display to simplify the display.

We had two PvP missions this week, 8,000 rank points in 30 minutes and 2 wins in 40 minutes.

We form a team, queue up, and I wait until the queue pops before activating the mission (but before we go in to the match of course).

First match is stronghold against another guild team. We win, but it goes the full 15 minute timer. With 5 members we’re still a few hundred rank points short of the goals.

We decide to take stronghold out of the mix, it can be very fast, but it can also be very slow. In queue again for a few more minutes, and we’re facing another guild team on Khylo. We lost this one, but it shouldn’t matter, we only needed a few hundred rank points … except too late. This match went on for nearly 13 minutes. That plus the queue time (and the wasted three minutes waiting for people to ready up) cost us the mission.

We did eventually get both missions done, but we could/should have had it done earlier.

So here’s my idea … get rid of the timer completely or make it so long you practically have (i.e. 24 hours). Instead make it within a certain number of matches. For example the two missions we had this week would become …

• Earn 8,000 rank points within 2 matches.
• Earn 2 wins within 3 matches.

Another thought … maybe delay the deactivation for a while … maybe a week, maybe a variable amount depending on level. That way you don’t lose stuff right away.

It could also be that there just isn’t a way to reasonably scale the costs, but a lot of people do seem to be looking for that, so just exploring how it could be done.

Lucky Shot.8740:

That would create a serious disincentive for people to grow their guilds. Imagine the guild at 49 people who wants to invite a friend in but doesn’t want to pay the enormous fees to make their previous investment work again?

Yes, that is a disadvantage. Hopefully the costs could scale easily enough that it’s not a huge leap between each tier (perhaps more tiers would help?) and some of the cheaper upgrades might have very little scaling at all.

I don’t think there’s a way to avoid this with any kind of scaling and also avoid the kind of exploitation I mentioned above.

Also why I included the bit about continuing to contribute towards the next tier for upgrades you have purchased.

An earlier thought was that you’d pay the difference all at once to increase your cap, but that would get very expensive when you have a lot of upgrades, so thought it better this way so that guilds could increase right away and then prioritize what to activate.

Some thoughts I had on how scaling guild hall costs could be achieved.

I think the biggest hurdle is avoiding exploitation … for example a large guild sends all its members to a side guild leaving it’s main guild very small, gets cheap upgrades, then invites all its members back.

So, here’s my idea to avoid that and also not invalidate work already done …

First, define some size options. Let’s say …

• Small guild – 50 person cap
• Medium guild – 150 person cap
• Large guild – 300 person cap
• Very Large guild – 500 person cap

A guild could change their size at will up or down, assuming they do not have more members than the cap. Guilds at lower sizes have appropriately reduced costs for upgrades. The game will remember the cost that you have paid for each upgrade.

When you increase the size of your guild, any upgrades that have not met the new cost are temporarily disabled until the difference is deposited. Perhaps you could continue to deposit towards already bought upgrades so that you could immediately have them available after a size increase.

Oh, and unrelated … could we get the ability to shift-click items in the treasury to link them? This would be handy for both discussing the next upgrade to be pursued or just checking the wiki.

Kylindra.1794:

Any chance you could let us know what the week boundary for rewards will be? Between Sunday and Monday like guild missions or on Tuesdays like holidays or on Saturdays like WvW?

I’d really like to know for planning purposes, thank you!

When they changed the mission reset time, they said they did it so that it would align with the raid reset. So, between Sunday and Monday it is.

Elfo Bianco.3786:

Nabrok.9023:

Note that there’s also collections for those, so if a collections endpoint was just about ready to go …

I don’t know if ArenaNet considers the minipets as the official wiki page do expecially for the “group”, “set”, “family”, call it as you want. Anyway most of them are not part of a collection; I think you are talking about the achievement collections.

There are no other kinds of collections (what was previously called collectibles are now called materials).

The only thing that really matters is which collection the mini falls into, and if it doesn’t fall into one an app could just call it “other”.

We used our guild portal for missions for the first time today. We used it for race first, unfortunately it did not take the entire guild to the same instance.

On the topic of race, this is so confusing at the moment with multiple guilds starting their races and the race timer versus the mission timer and so on. Could we not have race instanced like challenge?

For Trek we organized into 3 groups, group 1 doing 1-10, group 2 doing 11-20, group 3 doing 21-30. Great … except all the numbers on the targets (1 of 30, and so on) disappeared as soon as I clicked “Launch Mission”.

Could we also get something in the “quest” area of the screen (where the dailies are and so on) that shows the active guild mission and its state?

I don’t mind so much when I use it myself (though it would be better if it didn’t root). It’s bad when it goes off on auto though. I want to like it, have tried it in both PvP and WvW but ultimately had to give it up because the root is so bad.

Especially if you’re fighting a necro or anything that has unblockable skills.

Could this skill be adjusted so that it doesn’t root, or at least change Soothing Bastion trait so that it does something else?

Unwilling root is not good.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

queicherius.2563:

- Mini with id “208” has a broken name (“((46388))”)

The item to unlock that mini is … gift of sprockets?

queicherius.2563:

- Item ids set that are missing in the item endpoints 49285, 67845, 70112, 74532, 71258, 70703, 74762, 70234, 71848, 74055, 73476, 76663, 74444, 70684, 70191, 70888, 73378, 73749, 71835, 76594, 76745, 74595

Gonna go through these probably early next week and figure out which of those are just broken and remove the ones that are from the list.

Thanks for the report <3

Elfo Bianco.3786:

Thank you for these useful endpoints, but I have already a question.
Why there isn’t a property like “mini_set” or “mini_group” that let us know in which set/group a given mini belongs to, expecially for the 3 known mini sets, but also for the halloween minis, the wintersday minis, etc…?

Ah, I didn’t even think about that. I’ll see if I can dig up where that data is stored and expose it.

Note that there’s also collections for those, so if a collections endpoint was just about ready to go …

Is there even a reasonable way to get to 50 without decorations? We don’t have the vendor yet, and everything in the list is grey or green except the decoration upgrades (I’m at 47).

Also, I can’t see how to make schematics … I guess I’m just not high enough to make them yet … when is the first one?

The amount of sand is ridiculous. I feel like I have to go play in Dry Top, when I’d much rather be doing other stuff. It doesn’t make any sense why they would require so much of a material that basically just comes from one zone.

At the very least they could increase the drop rate … instead of 1 whenever you don’t get anything else, make it drop 1-3 and have it drop on every opening in addition to the regular drop (geode, crest, etc).

DiogoSilva.7089:

Here’s some comments from Roy’s twitter:

• Underwater skills not saving properly is getting fixed;

Does that mean different legends for underwater?

smiley.1438:

Nabrok.9023:

smiley.1438:

The event timers are static now. The /v1/events.json API has been disabled back when the megaservers were introduced.

We can type /ip to get our instance of a map, would be nice if we could feed that to the events API and get something like the old one.

smiley.1438:

The event timers are static now.

This means there is no need at all for an endpoint. The event timers have been published in a blog post and are available on the wiki. Hardcode all the things!

Perhaps you don’t remember, but the old events API listed all events on a map, not just world events.

smiley.1438:

The event timers are static now. The /v1/events.json API has been disabled back when the megaservers were introduced.

We can type /ip to get our instance of a map, would be nice if we could feed that to the events API and get something like the old one.

Also, if we ever get an API that returns a characters location it could include that as well so that it would automatically show the correct instance of the map.

The core game is now free. Your friend can play it at any time.

I believe people who bought the core game prior to a certain date get an extra character slot.

/v1/wvw/matches without any id passed in gives me the world ids of the worlds involved in the match, whereas /v2/wvw/matches just gives the ids.

Should I just continue to use v1 to find the match that my world is in, or will that also be added to v2?

How about replacing two of the tomes of knowledge instead of the transmutation charges?

Wrong forum. Try tech support.

Pat Cavit.9234:

Working for me currently, still broken for you?

It was down for a few minutes, then came back up.

I’m still getting those errors though. It’s not a huge deal as I just query again and it works, just a little odd.

/v2/account now seems to be down completely.

I’m occasionally getting some strange endpoint requires authentication errors on /v2/account even though valid API keys are provided.

I have manually checked the keys after getting the error, and they have worked.

If I get this error I set my app to retry it after 1 second up to 5 times. It has always succeeded on the second attempt.

I also got one “requires account scope” error, which is odd as I don’t think you can create a key that doesn’t have account scope. Again, this key worked on a second attempt.

smiley.1438:

Nabrok.9023:

Most recently played character name

/v2/characters does actually return the character names ordered by last log in, the same way as in the character selection screen.

I thought this too at first, but it really doesn’t. I tried it to determine the character being played, and it does usually come back in that order, but not always. It’s not reliable.

I had to abandon that idea and just give users a drop down to select which character they are on (it does default to the list order though, so most of the time they don’t need to change anything).

Also, the 5 minute TTL is too long for this purpose.

At the moment, my wish list is short …

Status – Most recently played character name (the current character if online now), possibly also with class/level though we could just query characters for that. The online status (online/away/offline). Current map if online. Amount of wvw supply carried. Short TTL (1 minute maybe).

If I called /v2/characters/[name] with a key that doesn’t have the builds permission and then immediately called it again with a key that does, would the second request just return the cached data from the first request or would it also include the specializations?

Patches.7584:

Does the game keep track “Top X” awards internally? eg: Top Condition Damage Received.

I’m curious if this will ever be available in the API.

It’d be neat to get it via pvp/games, but a counter in pvp/stats would be cool as well.

That stuff really should be available in game for at least the last match you were in. As it is you have about 5 seconds to look at it before it’s gone forever.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

smiley.1438:

The only way to get a player’s current position is the Mumble Link API.

Pretty much this.

Due to our architecture, the client’s state (currently only available via Mumble link) is the only way to get high-precision positional data. We might at some point expose low-precision data through the API, but a 10-second resolution is the best that we can do over the network.

10 seconds should be more than enough I should think.

Also consider cavalier. That’s toughness, power, ferocity. So, similar to valkyrie but you get toughness instead of vitality and toughness is the primary.

I used cavalier armor with celestial trinkets for large group/support with glint/ventari, and then same armor with berserker trinkets for small group/roaming with glint/shiro.

Terra.8571:

I think I know what the OP is getting at. Hammer AA with it’s 1s cast feel’s ‘slow’. But that’s probably because he’s use to fast attacking weapons like me e.g. daggers and swords. I actually think the utility of the hammer is fine and if they tried to make the hammer quicker they’d end up nerfing damage. Personally, I think the OP needs to either accept hammer’s are a slow weapon for Rev’s or do what I did and use faster weapons.

I had lots of fun in PvE with S/S + S/Sh (Glint + Jalis/Shiro) and in sPvP M/Sh + St (Mallyx + Glint). I think the hammer is too good to give up for WvW though, but I didn;t test it that much.

Close …. slow and hard hitting would be fine, but as it is it’s just slow and meh. I literally lose more than half of my dps switching from sword to hammer. It’s supposed to feel slow and heavy. It just feels slow.

And yes, I do use sword and staff as well … and having weapon swap mitigates the problem somewhat as I can switch to faster weapons when needed.

Killyox.3950:

Hammer feels perfect imo through and through.

Nabrok.9023:

Misguided.5139:

Nabrok.9023:

even something like a tower or keep lord can be dead by the time I get there.

This has nothing to do with hammer attack speed.

Of course it does. If a champion (as keep lords are) is already dead by the time I press 1 and the attack actually hits, that’s a problem.

Just tagging in general with the hammer is very difficult … tab … “nope dead” … tab …. “nope dead” … tab …. “ah, got a hit!” tab …. “nope, dead” … and so on …

So a champ dies in 1 second? Problem is champ, not the skill.

They can go down pretty quick in wvw sometimes. I wouldn’t say 1 second, but certainly seconds, and I may not always start attacking at the same moment that every body else does. I have certainly missed tagging a keep or tower lord because hammer was too slow, and while that doesn’t prevent credit for the capture of the structure it does cost me a champion bag.

That said, I’d live with it if hammer actually felt that it hit heavy but it just doesn’t. Every attack in the sword auto-attack chain except the middle one hits heavier, and it’s much faster. Yes, melee should do more damage than ranged, but there’s a lot of room in there to improve hammer auto damage and still average less than sword. Even if they doubled hammer auto damage (which I am not suggesting), it would still be less than the sword auto chain.

Misguided.5139:

Nabrok.9023:

even something like a tower or keep lord can be dead by the time I get there.

This has nothing to do with hammer attack speed.

Of course it does. If a champion (as keep lords are) is already dead by the time I press 1 and the attack actually hits, that’s a problem.

Just tagging in general with the hammer is very difficult … tab … “nope dead” … tab …. “nope dead” … tab …. “ah, got a hit!” tab …. “nope, dead” … and so on …

I get that your vision for hammer is that it’s a slow “heavy” attack, but it still just doesn’t feel that heavy.

For example I’m playing sword/sword and hammer, and when I switch to hammer I’m still seeing the same kind of numbers I got with sword, but a lot slower.

I get that ranged attacks should be less damaging than melee on average, but with hammer being so slow I think it really needs a bit more of a bump.

Either that or make it just a bit faster … which I would really prefer, the biggest problem I have with it is just tagging stuff because by the time it swings whatever it was is already dead … even something like a tower or keep lord can be dead by the time I get there. It doesn’t matter how much you hit for if you can never get a hit.

Other than that, I was very happy with how revenant is turning out.

No official way as of yet.

You can look at the achievements leaderboard and filter by guild.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Nabrok.9023:

Lawton Campbell.8517:

I’m not sure what bye/desertion mean TBH.

“Bye” is when somebody on opposing team disconnects and you win. “Desertion” is when somebody on your team disconnects and you lose.

So, when you lose even though there’s a disconnect on the other team (or vice versa), it’s not logged? (yes, it has happened to me…)

If you win as the “4”, or lose as the “5”, then I think it’s just counted as a win or loss.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

I’m not sure what bye/desertion mean TBH.

“Bye” is when somebody on opposing team disconnects and you win. “Desertion” is when somebody on your team disconnects and you lose.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

For Heart of Thorns, we are rebalancing the WvW Lifetime achievement requirements to much more reasonable numbers. At the same time we’ll also be updating many of their associated titles.

• We are not changing the Realm Avenger (“Ultimate Dominator”) achievement requirements or title, as some players have actually obtained it and it’s a bit of a status symbol.
• The “Yakslapper” title will remain, but the requirement is being reduced to 2500 yaks.
• As an example title change: “Ultimate Liberator” will become “Kingmaker”

Please remember that some people like to look at these achievements as “lifetime stats”.

You can lower the numbers and still accomplish this by adding in repeatable achievements, similar to the salvage one.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

Nabrok.9023:

Will the build permission unlock equipment on /v2/characters? i.e. equipment would be shown if the key has “build” or “inventories”?

It does! There’s a bug that prevents /v2/characters/:id/equipment from working but the equipment section will be included in the main character blobs if either “builds” or “inventories” permissions are granted.

Thanks!