Guild Wars 2

LOL @Ravezaar, well I guess you will be leaving WvW then possibly the game because they have already said that this map is going to replace the current borderlands map regardless of whether you buy the expansion or not. I know laughing at you is rude but I cant help it since making assertions about something you know nothing about is just too funny.

@JustTrogdor, what if Im already playing the game? Do I need to log out and log back in? Will said new character be lvl 80 automatically? If I go to the heart of the mist and pvp, will stronghold be an option in my list of maps when Im done queing?

I guess, Ive just never seen the Create Beta Character button. Im guessing it will be somewhere on the character select screen.

@Zelanard I read that thread. Sadly there are no details about how to actually access the HoT updates. Not a single detail other than what the email already told us. Just a bunch of qq and debates about what a loyal player is (this was clearly a random selection by the way). So I started this thread which will hopefully contain details about how to be a beta tester.

To the peeps doing the stress test on Tuesday: Does anyone know how its going to go down. Will a waypoint in the Verdant brink map just pop up? Will we need to log out then log back in to see said waypoint? The email I got didnt really have any details other than to show up between 5pm to 7pm pacific time. Also do I need an empty character slot to roll my revy?

Context: any serever that is not in T1/T2. One more thought, maybe even a fact. The blobs servers are very opportunistic. I say this because when my server is the higher rated one we tend to turn when faced with resistance and go look for an easier target. The mindset is that we could assault this tower but it would be a lot of work and take lots of siege for little pay off. So lets just go over here where the enemy isnt.

Make the lower population server more difficult to get to and attack and you will see less of a ppt imbalance.

Now of course the ppt means nothing guys are about to show up and blast this but if you think about it, if the people who do like ppt have their base defended then they will be able to go out and mount an offisive against that higher pop server on that open field of theirs, thus giving everyone who like those open field fights (Im one of those) their fill.

@styx Well from the video it looks like it will be easy to knock attackers off eotm style, I know thats cheesy but when your outnumbered I say you gotta do what ya gotta do.

Or you could stick the under populated server in a more defensible postition, like I dunno, atop a mountain.

Did the devs just solve the server population imbalance with the new map. That would be so awesome. I see all this qq over open field fights but what I think everyone is missing is that while you may get 20% less open field fighting, there may finally be a way for small servers to have a chance to compete evenly against the blob servers.

How does a map with less open field fighting accomplish this the short sighted people ask? By providing way more choke points and a stronger defensible position for the poor under populated servers high atop a mountain, while the high pop servers sit at the bottom in their more easily assaulted keeps.

Of course, the devs will have to always have the lowest rated server spawn in the mountain keep and never let the top ranked spawn there.

tl;dr Less open field fighting in exchange for more balanced matches? Freakin duh, yes please

Sorry have to agree with the original poster. It would be great if Rubi despite her nice personality would talk less

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Thanks Gaile. It probably wont get me any gold stars but I will also be picking up both the dragon and the lion mask later when I get home from work

I just picked up another copy of the game for my self, but the email did not contain a Serial Number. I wanted to enter a ticket with support but It wont let me enter a ticket without a serial number. What recourse do I have here?

So whats with all the eights. Is that a number the chinese consider lucky?
edit: So google is my friend. It is consider a number to be associated with prosperity or luck. So there I and anyone else whos interested have it. The chinese like the number 8

hmmm, this sounds sweet. Ok. So we get some new skins, new outfit, new achivments, and a lottery system that is actually affected by our account magic find. Ill grant that its a content light update but it seems like a nice little distraction to fill the time between here and the next update which will probably be super adventure box around april 1st. Now if they would just give us a way to get that lion mask that_shamen found in the dat file

Are the Valuable trophies from the envelopes actually valuable or are they just vendor trash. That anet loves to be ironic. Its such a shame you cant just take the name of the item at face value and trust it.

Wow, theyre actually going to dust off the fractal repo and take a look at the code. I bet they havnt seen that code in over a year. This fix is going to be a while since the devs who coded it dont even work their anymore its been so long. They all died of old age.

Thanks Wanze, awesome info. So it sounds like I may want to farm some old clothing. how many charges does the pick come with? Can you use it 100 times before you have to open a new one?

So are these the new rewards? Do I have this straight?

new choir bell – Not my thing
Endless gift Box Tonic and other furniture tonics – Not my thing
Aqua Breather – Not my thing

Home instance tree – Sounds Cool
Empyrial Fragment Eater aka (star of gratitude) – Sounds Cool

Do those bottom two rewards take lots of grind and or rng to obtain or can I get them in about 10 hours of game play and get back too my giant list of other things (not being sarcastic here, I literally have a ton of stuff I want to get done over the break)

I hope there not like the halloween rewards that required opening tons of trick bags to get the rewards that I found entertaining.

Did all you guys miss the part where you buy waypoints with badges when you advance the meta to a certain point and they get built

Man it stinks that ambient creatures only spawn in the story instance and not anywhere else in the world. Also its such a shame that there isn’t a recipe for the maize balm that is made from the ingrediants that drop from the tot bags that would allow you to do this ambient thing all year even after the story is gone. Oh wait there is

Anybody have any idea on where the patch notes are for the halloween update. Mr John Smith said he regretted how much they made the halloween stuff cost last year and I want to see if it was fixed.

@Azure The Heartless no apology necessary. I guess my original hope when I posted was that a dev would read it and respond. There are several threads about them communicating more and they have even been posting in some of those threads so they appear to be trying. But in my mind, this is why people started complaining in the first place. Because of the lack of news before stuff gets rolled out.

Is there any way I can say this or something like it without sounding rude or entitled. I really dont want to derail the conversation into a thread about how all players like me are a bunch of whiny babies.

I know I dont come here to post until its way past time for them to have put something up. I wouldnt say Im raging but I do believe this puts bullet point on what were asking for when it comes to more communication.

@sorudo what I meant by the lions arch comment was, I dont count it as different if they put the event in lions arch with the torn up buildings if its the same events, same content. So just because lions arch looks different this year, dont try to tell me its a different event if its the same content with different background building textures. Those rebuilding LA discussions (though I dont care about them, i get that others do. Personally I find it great that there are crafting stations all over the map) are perfectly valid discussions.

@Azure The Heartless did you focus so much on the negative part of my statement that you missed the good. Ill quote myself: “why not copy and paste the good Halloween from 2012”. That particular piece of content in its entirity was good from start to finish. Lets bring it back instead.

So is the blood and madness event going to be an exact copy and paste of last years Halloween minus the features. Cause we already got the features. If so, why not copy and paste the good Halloween from 2012 and not the crappy halloween from 2013? And dont bring up lions arch. No body cares about lions arch.

@life, Guild commander tags have been mentioned. I myself brought it up during the CDI. While I dont have the quote for you I did read somewhere that it is still something they want to do but dont have ready for this patch. But they are working on it.

@jheryn Man youre kinda straw manning my argument. Your putting words in my mouth making my argument easier to attack. I said only two weeks. No more, maybe less if a resolution can be reached faster. And Im not talking about everything just the things that are blatantly wrong. How do you determine the things that are blatantly wrong. Well it seems pretty clear to me. The things the entire community cries out for like this tag thing, like the perplexity rune thing. Dont hit every single change. We obviously dont need to discuss the tool tip changes. Again, its going to take a little common sense and it will not be perfect but it would be better than what they did this time. I told you they already did it the right way the last time they rolled out a feature patch. They just need to do it they way they did it back in april. Thats the hilariousness of it all. Im just telling them to do what they did last time because what they did last time more or less worked. It wasnt perfect. They had some megaserver issues and they still do but atleast the community had a chance to talk with them and get them to roll back some things. They are rolling some things back here too and its great, but I am still concerned about the announcements that are still to come. I am concerned because we will have less time to talk with them about it.

Also “Learn to english” is a meme. Its lol cat speak. heres an example:
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Its funny when youre not in rage mode. Carry on.

Also how does this come off as scolding “If you didnt release the patch 4 days after you were done with announcing all the changes, you wouldnt have to work all weekend to fix your features the way the community wants them. We would have more time to discuss them with you and you could have more time to make the changes. In the future, layout all the features for us then give us a two week time to debate and discuss them with us then, after two weeks, roll the patch out.” Isnt that just logic? Is there a fallacy in my statement? Is it not true that they would have more time if they gave themselves more time?

@jheryn also you keep saying that its what I want. Its not what I want. Its what the experts “the player base” wants. Im not the only one asking for it. You yourself said you would like it to be how it is now. I havnt read any of you post on the matter except for the discussion between me and you. And from that I gathered that you asked nicely for it and that I, it seems, according to you that I asked rudely for it.

@jheryn.8390 I actually wasnt calling you a white knight man nor was I implying it. I do get how you could think that but I dont consider you to be one. The people who I am referring to are much worse than you. You seem to be able to put together coherent albeit wrong arguments. You say I need to stop justifying my position but all the evidence points to me being right. How do we benefit from less time to talk with the devs? Im seriously asking you a question here. You say they need to stop talking with us and just launch it already. I say we need some padding because of mistakes like these. Show me an example of you being right and Ill shut up.

@LanfearShadowflame.3189 Most of the things you see me complain about on these forums that the designers get wrong are common sense. Perplexity runes in Spvp was a blatantly bad idea as was 300 gold per color tag. So, even though I am a rational and logical person, I can in no way rationalize how they ever thought their implementation of the systems that I complain about (not all their systems, 80% of the game is good) is adequate. When Im right and I know Im right I use direct very direct language to communicate how wrong the other person is. And Im glad we have other informed people on these forums who do the same because without them we would probably be paying 300 gold per color. Maybe I should work on delivering my messages in a more friendly manner but its hard when they give you so little time to provide them with feed back and when the mistake they are making is so blatantly obvious. Again, my request is for more time, and more collaboration. Give us these things and the number of “pricks” on this forum will go down.

So now the only problem is they plan on only giving us four days to go over there balance changes to necro and guardian and only One week at best to go over their changes to the way we collect and trade items. What if they made a big mistake on those? I think they should delay the patch 2 weeks.

@jheryn no but you told me this yesterday.

“Please… “Everybody tell us what you think and we will get it all handled 10 minutes before release so everybody can have everything they want!””

while debating me on the benefits of having time to collaborate with the devs before the patch drops. Again, Im glad we have impassioned players who come at them with hard words instead of a bunch of white knights who defend the decisions they make.

@jheryn you dont know that they didnt change their mind due to all the complaints. They have changed things in the past based on player feedback as I have pointed out to you before. Its the benefit of having players collaborate with the devs before the patch comes out. Anet is fortunate to have such impassioned players that still help them shape their game. We better hope we like all the ideas they come out with in the last week before the patch since we wont have time to discuss any of them before the patch hits.

@jheryn maybe I am getting too excited over this stuff. Ive been reading some straw polls lately and it looks like Im one of the few people who puts in more than 20 dollars a month to this game and Ive been here since beta. Ill be real and admit that I havnt done it every month but with the upfront cost of the game plus buying it for one of my friends who quit playing I bet Ive spent more than 400 on this game. When youve invested what you consider to be a lot of time and money into something its difficult to just walk away from it and not get excited when they do things that empirically seem stupid.

I agree the collaboration has to end at some point, I want new stuff too. I really do. I want more raid content like marionette, more pvp game modes, more maps for wvw, more reasons to defend towers in wvw, precursor crafting, and above all else the ability to salvage ascended gear.

I remember people who hated how long it took for the feature patch to drop because they previewed the changes to the runes a long time back and it seemed like it took forever to get the changes and people were mad because it seemed like game modes like pvp went forever without an update. Maybe they gave us too much time last time. But I think we could benefit from a 2 week padding to discuss the products they are giving to us. I guarantee you that if commander tags come out and they cost 300 gold per color, that two years from now they will not. They will eventually listen to the players and change it because they are not unreasonable. But, but it will take a CDI and months before it happens and the coder who wrote it up will have to go back and look at his notes on how he did it and remember how to change it and it will have to go through testing and all this extra stuff that they could save time on now if they would just add a little padding and listen to the community now before rolling out the changes.

Who knows maybe everything else they announce will be great and maybe it will be the coolest feature patch ever. And this will be the only little bugaboo people dislike. But I still think we could benefit with a little more discussion.

I never said they were obligated. Its obvious that no company is obligated to make what its customers want. I just so happens to be in the companies best interest to put out products that are well accepted by the masses. I didnt argue either for or against perplexity runes in spvp. People with way more play experience in that game mode came up with that one. So Im not the one speaking for all players. Do you think the president of the U.S. makes his decisions unilaterally without consulting his advisors who are specialist in their particular field. Again what idiot argues against more collaboration time with the devs.

@jheryn.8390 for one they were going to put perplexity runes in spvp which the players pointed out would be pretty stupid. Theres one example of something that was pretty dump that would have ruined the game for a great many that the players caught because they had time to discuss the changes with the devs before the patch dropped. And news flash that had nothing to do with a CDI.

Im not gonna dig the rest up for you, you can go do the work but rest assured there were plenty more. And anyway what idiot argues against having more collaboration with the devs. They should release the patch after the players have had time to critique their plans, LIKE THEY DID WITH THE LAST ONE, end of story.

@jheryn The last feature pack also came out a month after they had announced all the details on it giving the players time to correct the mistakes they had initially made. Hence why it was ‘ok’. This one is not. Its coming out 4 days after they announce the balance changes to the final two classes. Now were going to be stuck with commander tags that cost 300 gold for every color because they didnt listen to the precious CDI you keep throwing around. Had they listened it would be “buy a tag for 300 gold and change the color of the tag to any color in our list of options on the fly whenever you want”.

Ascended armor, fractal reset. More examples of how well Anet listens

Wow, here was the point of the post . and heres the last two commenters —-—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————> way off. Theres no time to discuss the balance changes and no time to discuss any of the feature changes. Reading comprehension is a powerful thing =)

Well it was just confirmed during the na vs china tourney that the feature pack will be coming out on september 9th. Looks like arean net wont be taking player feed back on the changes they are proposing since the last 2 classes to hit the balance preview will be taking place a measly 4 days prior. GG Anet, way to listen to your player base.

In before Anet comes back and says we do listen we implement features based on what they ask for. Except we totally drop the ball and do stupid crap like charge 300 gold per color for new commander tags, and only implement standard character models for TeamQ and custom areanas.

It might with the next feature patch which I speculate to be early october. It sure wont come before that as part of a content patch.

@Lucyfer.9517

Whats a gathering quest? Are you talking about an event where you have to get eggs and bring them to someone before the timer runs out? And if mega servers make that event happen faster then whats wrong with that

Boss events are being done more than ever. What boss event is taking you 6 hours?

How are you having trouble with guild missions? There are guides on dulfy and there have been for a long while. Its super easy to get into a map with your guild mates. just click on the join in map box, type in their name and hit join. Right click on their portrait and hit join in map and your there.

My guild was there before the mega servers and were still playing just as strong as ever. So community, not gone.

Oh, and I am not on a dead server. I play on Storm Bluff Isle. We killed Teq Every day before the Mega Server and we still kill him every day. Only thing we dont do well is kill the Worm, and get T5 in dry top.

To Coopziana.1802. First off, +1 for mega server. It sounds to me like your issue is that you want to recruit people from your server only into your guild. That is a reasonable request but the suggestions you have listed are in my opinion short sighted.

I believe a chat filter that would let you message people on your server only would be a better idea. Also interface changes to the guild interface would be a welcome addition. Changes that would allow the leader to see more info on their members.

I remember way back when people heard of the mega server they complained that they would never be able to run cof and arah because they would never be able to find a map that had the dungeon open. I laughed so hard at those people when the opposite actually came true. The one or two instances of fire heart rise that are running are always so full that the defend event never fails.

I tell you this story because this facet of the game carries over to the other maps. Its just down right easier to find a map where the event will end in a success with the mega servers in place. Teq is completed more succesfully now than ever before and its because of the mega servers. Ive had cases where Ive gone to sparkfly without my guild to do Teq and we actually won because guess what, there were people there.

Now I am going to sound like a hypocrit cause I just joined TTS. But I did that to kill the worm. That event is so tough even the megaservers cant beat it. It actually takes an organized guild to take it down. I tell you guys this cause I hear some of you saying its hard for guilds large guilds. In my experience, you guys are actually wrong. The megaservers make it possible for TTS to spin up two maps of the worm fight where before they would of only gotten enough people together for one map.

So, in summary I cant say enough good things about the mega servers. The two downsides I find are that I cant recruit people from only my server to my guild and that now when we do bounty hunt (which is only one guild mission, the rest are still as easy as they always were) we have to be a little more on our toes so that when we find the bounty, we get there in time to tag the bounty before it dies. Its really no big deal though if you have done it before.

So a chat filter. Theres your answer. Not kill the megaservers

Why do I keep hearing on reddit that they are going to nerf Fiery Great Sword? Did a dev say that somewhere or is it just player speculation?

I think this because they killed lions arch and never put back in the festival candy vendor. I have no place to spend my candy corn or my zhaitaffy. So since they are notorious for these ignorant oversights and even more notorious for not correcting their screw ups Im worried we may be about to lose our place to spend geods.

So wait. Are you Anet about to destroy the only place we can spend geods? The new trailer makes it look that way. You really should let us know if your going to remove stuff like this since you said things were going to be permanent. Some of us havnt been farming this stuff because of that.

Thanks for all the answers guys and sorry for the late reply. It sounds like the ranger is only 20% less effective at farming the events than the guard so it may be worth it to gear one up and park him in whatever zone is the farm zone de jour. Keeps me from changing up my fractal guard build and running him all over the place.

Sounds like I need an axe/longbow build that traits into damage, piercing, and traps. Is there such a thing?

I know, Im weird, cause ill put in the work to level a character but I dont want to change up a build and waypoint on a character I already have. But leveling characters is fun for me and I like playing fashion wars 2 as well.