Guild Wars 2

Its really not clear if what we saw today was the “core” of the expansion or the entirety of it.

Official clarification on this would be appreciated.

More than 10 guild ranks would be awesome.

shrek.1046:

I disagree with OP they are relevant in spvp only and were an eyesore in wvw.

10 Charrs agree.

Crovax.7854:

SarahWitter.2317:

Reading this thread, we understand your questions and want to share a little information: This set is designed to be a special, exclusive set and therefore it’s a little different than most. There are a couple of other interesting factors that you’ll want to know: The set is available for one ticket. It will remain priced at one ticket into the future, so someone who wants it now doesn’t need to be concerned about it becoming unavailable or about it rising in price in the future. Other sets currently available are not account bound, such as the Cavalier Weapon Set which was recently released at a price of 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket and remains at that price now. In addition, we do intend to continue to offer tradeable sets in the future. If you’d like a preview of the new set, go to your bank wardrobe and filter for “Privateer.” We hope this answers your questions, and thanks for sharing your thoughts.

-Sarah

Why is the set special? Why would we think it’s anything but you testing the waters on how much you can screw over customer before there’s backlash?

Valid question is valid.

I’ve been playing since launch and just from observation it seems like less people every few months. On the bright side by 2018 we should have a very tight community of 1200 regulars.

Or have 2 guilds.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Alpine Borderlands will be rotated back in with the next release (not hotfix.)

Bombs dropped.

Aytheist.9476:

Solo players cannot advance in the new content, and any decent publisher would disclose such a fundamental change prior to taking your money.

They did. This is an MMORPG and is marketed as such. Not just multiplayer, but MASSIVELY Multiplayer.

http://internet-games.yoexpert.com/mmorpgs/what-s-the-difference-between-an-mmorpg-and-mmo-1636.html

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Omne.4603:

When will we be able to use more than 10 ranks in a guild? Also will we ever be able to have subranks, rank descriptions etc?

It doesn’t seem likely to me: the launch of HoT would have been when we would have seen hints of this and they basically retained the same, slightly frustrating system. (Mind you: I’d prefer to see a few more ranks, rank inheritance for ‘subranks’, and a better interface for assigning rank permissions; I just don’t see it as a priority.)

I’d love more than that myself, but I see your point. I suppose it will be regarded as working no matter how basic it is. Just seems like community tools should have a higher priority since many players are held to mmos by people and not shallow content that you quickly blow through.

When will we be able to use more than 10 ranks in a guild? Also will we ever be able to have subranks, rank descriptions etc?

DaShi.1368:

Your feelings and experiences are not the same as others. Criticizing them because they are not the same is wrong.

What I said is wrong, but saying that an entire feature is a failure because your group couldn’t do it is right? Roger.

I would, mainly because $50 isn’t much to spend for what we get, but i’m not impressed by this expansion.

I do love the basic idea that guild halls are and as you say it would be great to have it be much more robust, but I doubt we will see any significant changes to it before 2017.

Guilds are incredibly cheap to level. If you disagree then you simply don’t know how to make/manage money, have a very small group that doesn’t qualify as a guild or are with people that aren’t willing to sacrifice for the groups greater good. My guild has maxed 2 guild halls so far. No drama, no massive gem purchases, no lack of sleep or martial law and with less than 100 people we had fun doing it.

WTB server merges.

Rip gw2. 15 chars

Silverstone.4539:

Maybe it was needed back in the day, when there was high population in WvW servers. But now, I think I see more people in EoTM than I do in WvW maps.

If Anet are true to their word and want to see WvW good again (i know, a little hard to believe right now), they must consider this.

EoTM is sucking WvW population. More so for the lower tier servers maybe. As you can go there to find more people from more servers. If there is a queue on all WvW maps, then and only then should EoTM be open, and for a shorter time, maybe 2 hours or an hour. If there is no queue for WvW. EoTM should be locked out. We are spreading what little WvW players we still have too thin.

Unless Anet has something new planed to fix the WvW/server population. This would be one way to start.

Legit concern is legit. 90% of worlds are hurt by the overflow.

EremiteAngel.9765:

When is it happening?

Soon hopefully.

I feel like guilds need more flexibility with this. Anet can certainly recommend an item count, but should not restrict us.

Wtb more changes as you level. Currently in a max level hall and it looks basically the same.

The general visual changes seem to be few and far between.

+1 to any additional upgrades.

The initial cap isn’t the hard part so I wouldn’t feel too badly about accepting help with it.

15 Charrs like your account name.

No upgrade requires that currently.

What was the cause for this? My guild is experiencing it right now.

Haleydawn.3764:

I’ll agree that scribing and the way we make decorations needs a serious look at. The cost of simple decorations is laughable for a personal craft. If Scribing was guild-bound and had a system separate to donate to craft things it would be better.

On the topic of scaling the cost of the hall itself, the requirements are constant whether you are 5 in guild or 50. Input X to get Y. Realistically, if you look at each upgrade they are all doable if you’re a small guild, the only difference between a small guild and a large guild is time.

15 Charrs agree.

Stars.2179:

Assuming in a big guild of 500 people, about 50 of them are major contributors to build the hall. If you have 5 people in your guild and they are all major contributors, it would take about 10 times the gold and time to build the hall. The hall cost is constant among all guilds, which is fair. Small guild should not have “discounted” cost over large guild. Recruit more of you want to lower the shared cost. It’s the way it is.

Many guild have reached max level by now (2 months since the xpac launched). If your guild is 1/10 of the size and if you plan to keep it that way, it would take 20 months, i.e, a year and 8 more months to reach the maximum size. Or about 1/3 that time, give or take 6-7 months to reach the half way mark. This is normal.

No guild has reached max level as 40 is not the cap, nor will they for another 60 days.

Antra.8435:

Hello,

My guild and I, a relatively small (four players) and casual bunch, who love to roleplay have recently just hit the wall with HoT’s Guild Halls. We all happily pre-ordered HoT’s after hearing about them, the large open spaces, being able to place furniture, decorations, trophies and the like. It just sounded SO great on paper.

But then came the reality. After trying to acquire the actual guild hall (Lost Precipice), and nearly completing it, but failing at the end, we finally had the hall, and we were happy to have it, we’d succeeded! Then, we saw the list of items just to get the tavern. We laughed, this must be something of a ‘hurdle’ to get to the good stuff, we all thought. So we pushed on… still, no scribe, no furniture.

After two months? We’ve finally have our workshop… only to discover, more prerequisites to get decorations. It’s cost us so much time, so much gold, so much pain.

I understand, it’s suppose to be a guild effort, but couldn’t they give us a chair? A table? A vase? Could they not scale some of this for smaller groups?

Our scribe can now make books tonight, but you know what? Those aren’t even decorations, but rather prerequisites FOR decorations, that we can’t get to till we pay more gold, more mats, for another building. You can’t even RP in the buildings, the scribes building has a HUGE boulder in it… why?

It just seems so sad. I sit and look at my wyvern trophy decor, the one decor I got to place because I bought the Deluxe Edition, with a few deluxe vine walls (I don’t know if there is a basic vine wall?) and I have to wonder: Was my guild duped into this marketing? Most likely. My fellow guild mates are looking around this vast canyon complex, and we’re just disheartened.

I hope some one from ArenaNet reads this, because we do love your game, my guild gave up World of Warcraft for it. Though, I feel as though, you’ve lost something with HoT’s. It maybe challenging, hardcore, and E-Sports-centric now, but… is it fun? My guild no longer thinks so…

Not to worry, soon Party Halls will be released which will be balanced around 4 people.

Andred.1087:

I don’t really think it’s “fair” but let’s be honest, if you’re even remotely serious about this game, you have / are planning to get HoT. Like come on, it’s $50. You could pay that much for a game that you play for 25 hours and never pick up again. It’s really not that much to ask, and frankly, if you’re going into an MMO not expecting to buy the expansions, idk what you’re thinking.

The fact is strong with this one.

Congrats guys. Great to see a post about guild halls that is positive.

Id like to see more visual additions that are not decorations such as upgrades or just changes that come with existing upgrades. Leveling needs to be significantly more visual than it is right now.

Its not the expansion we need, but the one we deserve.

There was a time when people understood that everything wasn’t going to be easy.

I don’t see the issue. Just farm 125 gold and buy what you need.

15 Charrs like atmosphere. WTB more aesthetic upgrades.

More upgrades=more better.

It would be a fantastic section if a dev posted in it even once per week.

Shirk.6421:

Sorry, but I don’t understand why so many people say HoT is so “hard” and “challenging”.

Is dodging right so hard? Is getting tankier gear if you can’t so hard? Is playing with others if you can’t do that so hard? There are always people there.

Im pretty much disappointed about the mob’s AI. Stand on an elevation and Bristlebacks don’t hit, stand on an elevation or dodge from a wall and stoneheads will stun themselfes. Mordrem snipers obvious attacks are just the easiest to dodge attacks in the entire game, same for the hammer guys. Pocket raptors… AoE and they die instantly. Just run out of the smokescales AoE.

I got VB and AB to 100% w/o getting real help from others, just some meta events, solo’ed almost every Champ on those 2 maps (This vampire thingy sucked, tho pun intended)

Overall HoT just doesn’t feel fast paced, well harder than the normal open world but not the challenge everyone cries about.

Other opinions from people that think it really isn’t that hard?

15 Charrs agree that HOT is not challenging.

WTB moar upgrades.

15 Charrs like golems.

With all the seemingly missing features i’m not sure why this hasnt been addressed.

Cyninja.2954:

Inda.1850:

When the upgrade cost is big when developing the guild hall, the cost for the item then needs to be lower. There needs to be a feeling of working together in the guild is rewarding, and not just a way to separate small and medium guilds from big ones.

So that people can join a big guild, craft all the weapons/armor, then leave again?

I will not comment on how arenanet handled guild rewards and the entire guild upgrade system post HoT, that is a different topic.

But the notion that after spending tons of ressources on upgrading your guild, then making the rewards very cheap (and accessable to everyone who gets invited into the guild) is strange to me.

Making the guild armor/weapons cheap will effectively reduce their scarcity which in turn will reduce their value. So you end up with spending a ton of ressources upgrading your guild for basically valueless skins. Doesn’t seem to me like a prudent solution.

15 Charrs agree.

Agree with 1, 2, 3.

yanoch.7051:

Was the guild hall bug upgrade fixed? Did you guys lose any progress?

Nope. 15 charrs.

DeWolfe.2174:

Omne.4603:

The “difficulty” with leveling a guild hall is greatly exaggerated.

Sure, it’s not “difficult”, we’re only pushing a button on a keyboard. That doesn’t mean the cost of upgrading a Guild Hall isn’t prohibitive. Nor, does it mean the cost of a Guild Hall and the Scribing that goes with it, isn’t sucking all joy out of ownership. If you were a PvE player and most of your time in game was spent circling a map gathering, then the Guild Hall probably doesn’t suck for you. If you are a TP flipper and had a good amount of wealth, then the cost isn’t too much for you either. Now if you were a WvW or PvP player, the cost of a Guild Hall is obnoxious. Completely sucking the life out of playing the game.

The cost of Guild Hall upgrading is imbalanced across the game modes. The per person cost of Guild Halls is imbalanced too. There should have been a sliding scale.

My guild is a WvW guild. People being willing to part with their wealth to build a community asset helps quite a bit. All WvW players aren’t broke.

The “difficulty” with leveling a guild hall is greatly exaggerated.

Dash.8027:

If [Os] was a PvE guild, this would have had a dev response by now.

15 Charrs can confirm.

15 Charrs hope that Guild Halls don’t wait months and years for updates.