Guild Wars 2

Nike.2631:

Maybe they’re going to allow heals to crit…

That would be wonderful

FrozenChinchilla.5249:

Should give each race something cool/special they can do that doesn’t actually make them stronger combat wise.

That’s more or less how it is now, really.

Does anyone know if this is in the game yet as of reset?
If not, what time tomorrow does it get put in?

Scoobaniec.9561:

And like i mentioned previously in different post i prefer to learn that stuff ingame…just like any RP player that has even a bit of self respect instead…..

What does self-respect have to do with a roleplayer’s preference if info dispensing?
I’m a roleplayer. The hylek article is exactly the kind of info I want. I guess that means I have no self respect? Lol.

Xillllix.3485:

I think the problem is that Anet didn’t develop enough Stronghold maps to have it on it’s own map voting queue. We will have to see when they reveal how many Stronghold maps the expansion will have.

Yeah, I think this is the sticking point. I like the idea of Conquest, Deathmatch and Stronghold having their own queues (it’s beyond ideal), but with Deathmatch and Stronghold seemingly only having one map each… I don’t see it happening.

But maybe there will be more maps on launch. We’ll see!

Same, I don’t know how many matches I played but I really loved it. The amount of roles that seem to develop from the game is what I enjoyed most. It has a balance of PVE and PVP as well that I particularly enjoy.

I do think it needs its own queue, however. It’s such a separate game from Conquest mode.

I thought it was an interesting read ^^
Then again, this is coming from a roleplayer, hehe. So lore is always one of the things I look forward to most! I keep forgetting how large the hylek are, that mentioning at the end of the 14’ tall Nuhoch put it in perspective pretty well :P

My current main’s a sylvari, and I have two others in the wings. I probly won’t roll another, I have enough as it is xD

I’ll read up on any story changes though. Should be interesting.

witcher.3197:

lordkrall.7241:

witcher.3197:

It is. But I’d say people are starting to get desperate a bit. Meaningful blogposts stopped in February. People want to hear something, anything at this point.

April 4:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/gameplay-features-making-the-most-of-maguuma/

March 26:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/

March 17:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/essential-elements-of-the-new-borderlands/

Those three were all later than February (in fact, all of them were within a month from now).

There were also a bunch of other posts, but since people don’t seem to count those I didn’t add them to the list. The three posts here however have all included plenty of new and meaningful information.

Other sites posted all the WvW info weeks before Anet did I believe (around the end of february). So march 17 is a delayed repost with no new info.

April 4 is a summary of what we already knew by February.

The only “real” blogpost is the march 26 one.

This.

And even then, I don’t honestly know how much I care about how to make the new precursors without knowing what the new legendary designs are. Though it really was an interesting read.

lordkrall.7241:

^ And what would happen if they give us all information now, and then the expansion itself will not be ready for release before November?

It is better to spread out the information than to drop it all and then be completely quiet for months.

I don’t think anyone’s advocating for all of the information now. It does certainly need to be dispersed throughout the coming months, I think we’re all just frustrated with how little we’ve gotten recently. I’d honestly rather radio silence than the weeks where they post, “Did you miss last week? Here it all is again!”

Tuesday’s always been their day for small stuff like this.
And it’s 24 hours, the vast majority of people should have some time to play that day. It sucks to be an outlier, but them’s the breaks.

Black Virius.3274:

Now, I don’t have anything against your idea of global hate

I understand English isn’t your first language, but there are a lot of very inflammatory accusations in your post. Maybe it wasn’t intentional, but wow. Not the best way to ask for a change.

Also, with the post you’ve given us, I’m having a very hard time believing you can’t understand the game dialogue (unless you punched this into a translator).

TBH I feel like they should have held off on announcing the expansion until they had more info to give. I can accept the excuse that a lot of content just isn’t ready to show off yet, but all that leaves myself and many others in the community with is a huge sense of burnout.

Even just a POI talking about the names and concepts behind the specializations would be BEYOND amazing right now. No specifics on mechanics, just the thought process behind the ideas for the specializations. You could even break it down into three POIs or something, picking three specializations for each one of them. Put a week or two between each of these goldmines, do whatever you need to, but we need SOMETHING.

It was amazing of them to give us the info they have about Revenant. That was great. The Stronghold and new borderland stuff was interesting too, but they keep rehashing the same info every week it feels like. When we have to wait an entire week between updates only to find a crappy recap of what’s already been covered, it’s beyond frustrating. You’re tying dynamite to the rails of the hype train.

It’s faster to WP than to wait for people to rez you.
If you’re too lazy to run back, then I’m too lazy to help you. If you die in a JP or outside of an event I’ll probly rez. But in a super chaotic event where I will probably die if I try to rez you, or be forced to keep coming back and spend two minutes rezzing you in small bursts, it’s not worth it.

They’re spreading information pips out too far, imo. The hype for me is quickly losing steam, I honestly kind of wish they would’ve waited to even announce the xpac at this point.

Nutjob.9021:

First you stuff them with things like rice, meat, guacamole, cheese, diced tomatoes, etc. Make a paper burrito out of the scrolls and a tome-taco out of the tomes of knowledge. I like mine toasted first.

…This made me want to eat paper.
WIZARD D :<

I really miss the tournaments. :c
That and I want more mists weapon skins xD

Iason Evan.3806:

Argon.1563:

At the PAX South announcement for Heart of Thorns, Mike O’Brien promised us that the maximum level cap will never increase, and there will never be another gear tier added.

Saying there will never be another gear tier prevents the crafting from going up any higher, because there needs to be a new tier to craft if they want to put it up. So no, I think our wallets are safe.

My poor wallet…Its still damaged after 500 crafting, forget 600.

They could actually add “Legendary Armor Crafting” and raise it to 600. With them including rare and exotic food in this last patch, I can see them raising jeweler and cooking to 500 at least as well. 600 for jeweler if they decide to make Legendary jewelry craft-able.

Legendary jewelry would be pointless, as Legendaries are only there for cosmetic effect as a trophy of achievement. Legendary stats aren’t better than Ascended, they just match it.
What would be the point of Legendary jewelry if you can’t see it and it only matches existing Ascended jewelry?

Devildoc.6721:

#1. The map only supports 5v5. That’s not big enough for a gvg, should at least be 8v8, if not more.

Their plan wasn’t GvG :/

Devildoc.6721:

#2. The mode is not on a separate queue.

This is a valid point I think.
Stronghold sounds ENTIRELY different from Conquest. I really do agree that it should be in a separate queue. That’s like going into HotM and queuing for an sPVP match, and then you get thrown into Edge of the Mists. Yes, it’s PVP but it’s very different.

I don’t think we have enough info to get upset over.

iKeostuKen.2738:

Might not even make one till i see what it is exactly.

My top priorites:
Sword Ele (Just so much yes if this is a thing)
Rifle Mesmer (Heheh…Utility sniper so much fun)
Hammer Engie (Loving the explosiveness and the drones…o yes the drones)
Shield Necromancer (Might see some Defensive capabilities as well as more Torment)

Not to burst any bubbles, but they already confirmed Necro’s specialization weapon is Greatsword, hehe. Mesmer is Shield.

Soooo looking forward to the Engi Specialization though, hammer time!

I would have loved to see more specializations and Revenant gameplay as much as the next guy, but that’s not what they stated it would be about. We did get the Warrior F2 thing on the previous PoI as well as the Revenant symbol, but I don’t think either was really intentional.

The last twitch showed a Revenant on the dev’s player select that was level 1, so the first thing’s a no-go. I wouldn’t honestly want it anyway, leveling is so fast in this game.

I’m indifferent on the second one.

Simon.3794:

Sieg.8439:

Marthkus.4615:

As far as I can tell the class only has problems on the forums, and not even on all of the forums. Just this one, where a few posters actively QQ on every thread.

In game and according to all the real people I talk with, Warriors are great.

This.

you literally agreed to one of the most casual celestial shoutheal PvE players.
i would run with only a sword and settler and called it great if im that casual.

Okay?
I agree that Warriors don’t have poor damage and have decent surviveability. They were nerfed, yes, but they’ve been the ideal for EVERY group for a very long time. When was the last time a group finder wanted loads of Necros? Rangers?
Never.
There’s a reason for that, and it’s because Warrior was strong and still is. Quit whining, it’s a game love. Take a breath.

Ark.9586:

warriors have literally garbage DPS lol

…What? xD

Marthkus.4615:

As far as I can tell the class only has problems on the forums, and not even on all of the forums. Just this one, where a few posters actively QQ on every thread.

In game and according to all the real people I talk with, Warriors are great.

This.

Damage is strong on practically every Warrior weapon. They have viable cleansing available, and are one of the more durable professions.

I can’t understand how any Warrior would feel like they’re not doing damage, when they’re one of the highest damaging professions in the game, hands down.

Arewn.2368:

Oh, oh! and while we’re at it, I want to be able to equip my boot as an off-hand weapon.
Abilities could be boot-smack and boot-a-rang.

And it makes sense as a weapon, because getting hit by a boot hurts.

This, lol.

I don’t see shield as a main hand weapon. I just don’t see it as a weapon in general, every time I see a game character with two shields it looks completely ridiculous to me.

Getting hit with a shield hurts, sure, but getting hit with literally anything else hurts more. It doesn’t make sense.

Absolutely!
I’m not bananas over getting to play the Revenant profession (though I AM bananas that it’s being added :P), but I’m psychotically hyped about the specializations. It’s something I’ve hoped for, for a verrrry long time. Staunch profession diversity, yespls.

Zhaitan.
Unless I’m near a mountain. I dun wanna have to cling to it helplessly while people murder me.

embarbarada.2096:

What worries me is not the fact that we are here speculating how many maps we will get……….
It is the fact that Anet is reading this and they are not saying anything about this…………………….
Why the silence? Maybe we are right?

They’re saying nothing because this childish, entitled tantrum isn’t worth a response, lol.

You all act like we know everything there is to know about this expansion. Take a breath, dry your eyes and calm down. It’s going to be okay. I promise.

psizone.8437:

Dr II Evil.9326:

Christmas is a good bet on release. They said a beta is coming out for the expansion but no time for when it will start. I’m sure we will get filler content between now and the release of HoT.

Sorry, but it’ll release much sooner than that, end of April to sometime in May is a more realistic release date.

The reason for this is that since HoT is supposed to carry on from living story season 2, season 3 won’t start until after HoT is released. The longest living story gap was around 4 months, if they wait any longer than that they risk the player base losing interest in the game due to the lack of content in what is their biggest selling point, the living story.

My thoughts exactly.

I’ve been having this issue with practically every patch lately. It’s incredibly infuriating.

My wife’s pretty frustrated over the female asura getting the male skin. It’s true, honestly, the male skins are pretty lackluster in comparison to the female skins. If it’s gender equality that’s supposed to be expressed for asura, why is it always the male skin that’s the default and not the female? I think asura and charr should either have female skins for females and male skins for males, or they should be able to pick which one they want.

Something may be wrong with your internet connection, I’m not sure why it would take 5 hours :c
I think mine took thirty minutes or so.

inb4 logan runs away

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

Why don’t we just skip adding Squirrels and go straight to separate Redwall MMO? Any takers?

Omg, I would play the hell out of that. xD

Counterpoints:

1) We hear Zhaitan speak through his minions, thus is self-aware/sentient.

2) He makes calculated attacks, thus is intelligent.

3) Risen appear in the starting zones for sylvari, and in several other zones before joining the orders. Sure, not the other races’ starting zones zones, but that’s because Zhaitan is arguably more prevalent in the story of the sylvari. Norn have Jormag, charr (to some degree) have Kralky. The other races don’t have minions that I recall straight away, but the zones that do are easily accessible from the get-go for anyone.

4) No interaction with Deathwing? I didn’t play WoW much, but I can’t count the amount of times he would swoop over and kill me.

I do agree that the EDs don’t make the perfect antagonists, but ANet supplements with other villains along the way. I’m still not a big fan of Scarlet (and to be fair, her end goal is to awaken Mordy, so still dragon related), but she was the main antagonist of the story for quite some time.

Kurrilino.2706:

A new race would be introduced without any efford to offer a even deeper product.

Errm…

EotM in my opinion is there for PVEers to work on the WvW achievements with less PVP. It’s also a really solid way to level alts.
-Shrug-
I enjoy it.

RKyrk.4761:

This is a good way for the servers in these lists to get rid of skin-hunters and role-players, good for them.

And they will, (if they still have achievements to do) fill the ques of the servers not on this list.

You do realize that the two primary RP servers, Tarnished Coast and Piken Square, aren’t even on these lists, right?
Your post is kind of lulzy if you’re being serious.
I mean really, TC is tied for 2nd place in Gold right now.

Find a zerg and follow it. I had 3 80s from the time of launch until EotM came out. Since then I’ve gotten nearly 2 more 80s. It’s easily farmed for levels if you run with decent commanders.

No.
And even if it was, how would you stop players from doing it? o___O;

Khisanth.2948:

+% damage stuff only applies to direct damage

Ah, that stinks :c
Thanks!

Does the final bonus from Superior Runes of the Engineer boost direct damage only while holding kits/environmental weapons, or does it boost condition damage while holding stuff too?

For reference:
1): +25 Toughness.png Toughness
(2): +35 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(3): +50 Toughness.png Toughness
(4): +65 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(5): +100 Toughness.png Toughness
(6): +7% damage while holding a bundle.

Where does “E” come from again? What are we speculating about?

It felt like it was being pretty strongly hinted at the time, but I don’t think I remember anything saying specifically ‘dragon’ but just something big and nasty. In Tyria there are admittedly a lot of things that fit that bill xD;

My guess is that it was part of the build up for Tequatl’s evolution, but that’s more my own speculation than super well founded on anything. I’d like to think that Bubbles is showing up soon, but I kinda doubt it.

Hobbitz.5831:

Mitch.4781:

For some reason I keep getting a bug preventing me from asking anything more than a few words long, but:

Is scarlett the most hated game Character ever?

I see NOTHING but scorn for her in game, out of game, forums..whatever…Seriously..I cannot think of a single character that is so hated by the gaming community.

The dog from ‘Duck Hunt’

Hate that jerk…..

Lmao! I still remember my 6 year old ragequits over that kitten. xD
Good memories…

I do hate Scarlet, but not because of some hatefad or something. I thought I was pretty alone in hating her until I paid more attention to LA map chat and logged back into the forums after a hiatus. I just really don’t like the ridiculous amount of crazy achievements that would take most people their entire lives to accomplish in the very short period she’s been kickin’.

Either way, she’ll be gone soon. I think if she dies in a very humanizing way (i.e., getting ganked by some amazing new villain that most people actually /do/ like) I think people will look back on her more favorably.
But she’ll probably just get locked away somewhere by the Lionguard to be busted out later.

I have no idea how to even respond to this…
What…? Tactics are childish? You have no concept whatsoever about what WvW is meant to be. At all.
Being clever isn’t being childish. Sounds like you just want to whine about Thieves. But Thieves don’t do any of the things you’ve listed.
Want some cheese with that whine?

This seems like the wrong area, if I understand the question correctly…

Which living story mini game are you talking about?