So this is basically a VERY rough outline of the story for my main character I’ve been working on for about the last year on and off between gaming, work and life stuffs. My main goal was to get the rough outline done before HoT launches and I did it! Barely. I’m also no professional writer, heck you could even call my stuff grade 6 level stuff most of the time or even worse. It probably didn’t help that at first I intended this to only be about a few paragraphs but then it got a little long and I had to randomly stick in chapter breaks in there so don’t pay attention to those.
Oh and I guess I should give fair warning, wordpress reports it as being about 60 000 words >.<
Moving forward I plan on cleaning it up a lot and adding in much more detail to it as well as a proper title. I also plan on coming up with more stories and side stories to write whenever I can find the time and cleaning up the site itself. Thanks, enjoy HoT everyone!
Ok this may not bother a lot of people but it bothers me. Since release we’ve seen 18 new colors for hair and 15 new colors for eyes but not a single one for hair accessories. Why haven’t we gotten any more colors for accessories? It’s a shame that in a game that is mostly visuals for end game we lack the so much of the color pallet available for armors on the character. May I suggest next time you release new colors you also release colors that match existing hair and eye colors for accessories as well.
Anything that doesn’t have a weight designation is supposed to unlock for all weights. Meaning all skins with out this designation should unlock for all weights. Pretty sure this is the way they intended it other wise there wouldn’t also be medium and light armor weighted versions.
Basically meaning if you’re dealing with 2 people and you’re wanting to focus one of them but have to dodge heavy attacks from the other twice before leaping iLeap is useless.
I demand Illusionary leap’s Clone be promoted to a higher HP due to how badly we just got kittened by arenanet :/
I second this. IMO, since we rely on Illusions for a vast majority of damage, I propose they raise the health significantly (Maybe 3/5 of the player’s for most and double that for Phantasmal Defender)
But that won’t work because they would constantly get the “Mesmers are too OP” threads from those who are inexperienced fighting a mesmer. If you learn how to pick a mesmer out from their clones they can become quite easy to deal with. Sadly I think the only way to truly fix this class is to just cut out its dependence on AI based skills(clones/illusions).
I’m really wanting to try and understand your bug fixing logic and you saying “The iWarden bug is not that simple to fix” is not a valid reason, it is a game breaking bug where as iLeap was not a game breaking bug.
That’s it, non-game breaking bugs are easier to fix than real game breaking bugs… :S stares back at a Illusionary Warden staring at him :P
Hmm so this non-game breaking bug took them since the launch of gw2 to fix? I don’t buy it being easy to fix if it takes them that long to fix it.
I want an answer directly from a dev as to why this bug was more important than ANY of the others listed here? Bug after bug and patch after patch all we seem to get are seemingly useless updates. There’s no point in having working tool tips when the skills hardly work in the first place right?(yes I know tool tips are most likely handles by a different department but it’s a wasted effort on broken skills) Please tell me as to why this bug was more important to fix then let’s say the iWarden bug that is literally game breaking(I haven’t used focus since that bug appeared since it is unreliable). I’m really wanting to try and understand your bug fixing logic and you saying “The iWarden bug is not that simple to fix” is not a valid reason, it is a game breaking bug where as iLeap was not a game breaking bug.
Well looks like threads opposing this change are starting to disappear. To all the mesmers out there it was fun it really was sadly this might be the final nail in the coffin for the class unless Anet can quickly shrink that bug list for mesmers in half.
Maybe they invited one of those “Mesmer op! I was playing warrior and pressing 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 and then came mesmer and he had many clones and I did my best but he have to many clones so I died. Nerf mesmer!!!he is to op!!!” to dev team. It would explain alot…
Oh right anet needs to fix that incoming to revised patch nots:
Fixed a bug that caused a mesmer to have three clones this has been reduced to 1 clone per mesmer.
/sarcasm
Seriously anet this is one of the worse decisions you’ve made to this game so far it really makes me question if you actually care for any of your player base at all. You should’ve first fixed a bug that is blatantly breaking for mesmer(ie warden not working properly) instead of fixing a supposed bug that will nerf mesmer. Maybe this bug fix wouldn’t be so bad if you actually fixed the iLeap in the first place so it would actually reach its target 99% of the time.
Illusionary Leap: Fixed a bug that allowed players to swap places with their clone after it was destroyed.
Wait this was a bug? really? Now not only does it not work half the time now I can’t even swap to it just after it dies… great thanks anet.
I found it as a feature, really, was kind of neat mesmer “confusing” thingy, but no more. (spawn clone, enemy kills it while he runs for you, and swap when he is about to hit..)
Atleast warden got fixed… (Oh wait, it didn’t)
I know how you and every other avid mesmer feels even some people I know who despise mesmer said that this kinda sucks for the class. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if clones didn’t die instantly to like 2 aoe.
Anet has kinda went way off into the deep end with the drop rate on this especially since this is temporary content, if it was permanent and we had endless chances at getting it then sure I wouldn’t have a problem. Since it’s temporary content (yes I know it’ll be back in a year) I see the drop rate as kinda ridiculous. Atm it’s 2500g which is basically straight up buying legendary territory yet the other back items are no where near this rate. I could live with it being rare enough to be a few hundred gold which I still don’t have but at least then it would be as least a bit more obtainable.
yea it’s getting pretty annoying even limiting characters doesn’t help and I still crash. This never happened before the mega servers even on very populated servers.
Ok, but 2k g? the drop rate of this thing is silly. What’s the point to add a back item almost no one will get? And yes I’m kittened beacause I like the skin, want to craft it but can’t drop, even less buy, the recipe. They said GW2 will be a fair game without farming. And now here we are.
I’m basically in the same boat as you. It’s the only back piece I see myself showing on a consistent basis because it goes well with many of my looks. I’m no where near being able to afford one of the recipes, I could understand if the gauntlet was a permanent addition but afaik it’s temporary.
if $50 is too expensive, there is this new concept of “saving your money” that can drastically aid in the buying of products.
$25 from 2 paychecks
$20 from 3 paychecks
$10 from 5 paychecks
$50 is not that expensive.
This works great until you run into an issue where your in thousands of dollars of medical debt and already take too much money from your paycheck to begin with.
It’s rather rude to assume no one has financial troubles.
No offense, but if someone is in such a state of financial debt that taking $10 out of a few paychecks is not possible they’ve probably got more things to worry about than buying games(there are plenty of free ones out there, I know I’ve been in that situation and it really kitten).
As for the topic it is possible in the future that they may make some sort of unlimited free trial but I wouldn’t hold your breath gw2 is still going fairly strong and I don’t see them doing an unlimited trial unless the game starts to really lose its population. Best thing you can bet on is that they bring back the ftp weekends at some point. Also if you’re just wondering if gw2 would even run I recommend you check out http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri they can check if your system meets gw2(and just about any other game) requirements(at least you know it would run)
It’s a skintight top, how the everloving kitten would it cause graphical bugs?
I think it has something to do with mixing town clothes and armor together. That seems to be what Curtis is implying. I doesn’t look like clothes on their own have many issues to deal with. I’ve found all of one bug…
There is a way to test to see how a given town clothes will react. Use utility/elite skills or use a bundle (including conjures). They are usable with town clothes as long as you don’t get hit or hit something. That should reveal if there is any graphical issues with a given town clothes setup. (You may want to hotkey the “Look Behind” command.)
I just tried this and sure there’s some clipping but nothing worse than the current clipping on actual armor. I still don’t see why they can’t simply(I use this term loosely because yes I do programming) remove the out of combat only restriction on town clothes or go with one of the other ideas posted in this thread.
Edit: Also you say mixing town clothes and armor together and so far we’ve been told only head items will show through but town clothes will hide everything else. So there really isn’t a whole lot of mixing going on between armor and costumes.
Bonefield has a pretty good understanding here of why some mix and match is not easy at all. Some armor and clothing combinations are fundamentally not mixable, (for more than just clipping reasons)
I still do not see why you can’t keep the town clothes slots then just count those slots as a single “outfit”? They wouldn’t be mixing with anything else other than town clothes then so where would the problem be if you did this? Is the game really that badly designed where this is not possible?
Well I see there’s still no official response with a clear cut answer as to why they are doing this. I also don’t see why they can’t have the individual items as an outfit instead of a tonic I mean you’re going to be giving them default bottoms/tops in tonic form anyways why not just make them an outfit instead of a tonic? Also why can’t you keep town clothes slots and just have them count as an “outfit” when we want to wear them? I really hope you reconsider what you are doing to town clothes Anet especially since you stated that your current(old) system is too destructive then you go and do this to town clothes for your new system it makes it feel like you’re taking a step forward but also taking a step back. Please give us some answers soon.
So as a ranger I have to stick to my long coats and forget of ever seeing my pants, because they are covered all the time by any chest piece I’m wearing. Great.
Also refunds wont make me happy. I don’t need gems. I wont be more happy after patch arrives because I’ll get 2000-3000 gems for my refunded tonics. I want to be able to mix and match them. Also my Dragon Shirt. That was a serial key. Who’s going re refund me that?
If they dont want to make town clothes as armor skins because they dont want to ruin class identity(all heavy/light/medium look the same with town clothes) then what about outfits? Every class looks the same in an outfit. Why can’t we look the same with our shirts and pants too?
If they are using “don’t want to ruin class identity” as a reason for the tonics then they shouldn’t have touched town clothes at all since everyone will be able to wear the mad king outfit, witch outfit, wintersday outfit(with no mix and match on any of them ofc) in combat as they have said. Which means they’ve already ruined class identity.
This will be very difficult particularly for people on Piken Square and Tarnished Coast RP servers, for those who RP in certain clothing styles, particular those who RP as a noble in the Wintersday outfit combined with the Top Hat.
Well good thing is the Wintersday outfit will not be a tonic, bad thing is you will never be able to mix it with the top hat with the way anet says they have town clothes implemented.
I am totally in the same boat as you. So disappointed in their change to town clothes. I don’t see why they can’t keep the current system and just allowing it in combat while removing the “toy” weapons and making them consumable like they are already going to do. I really want a dev’s answer as to why they can’t do this.
^ Now that suggestion I could get behind. I doubt it will go ahead since it would mean less $$$ for ANet, but it would be nice.
I don’t see how it would be less $$$ for Anet I mean I would be more inclined to buy more town clothes if they had mix and match. As the way they are proposing how town clothes work in their patch they might as well just kill off town clothes make all current ones tonics and never make any others, then only release armor available for all classes in the future if they really cared about money(trans uses).
…How is it that something can just tear away all happiness I had.
The traits already were way too unpleasant but I though, at least I’ll have my fluff.
Nope.
According to the faq on the support site I won’t get a refund for my halloween (all four) and wintersday costumes. I also doubt about my town clothes items since I gifted these to mysef during the december gifting sale.
For one I’m really against what is happening to town clothes. I no longer see me buying any other town clothes in the future because there’s no diversity I can’t mix and match boots, pants and hats etc. Also I’m very very disappointed in that things like the ornate ruched kitten and khaki shorts are becoming tonics that can’t stack. I mean seriously? Why can’t you convert it to a an armor skin for the chest or legs? It wouldn’t make much difference if it was town clothes(tonic) or armor since everyone could wear it anyways. What I was hoping when I first heard of town clothes in combat was the current town clothes system but just allowable in combat and turning only the weapons into consumables instead of toys. Personally this has put a bitter taste in my mouth and has really put me off playing the game since this was a lot of my fun mixing and matching various town clothes. I really hope you reconsider how town clothes have been implemented in your feature patch.
Usually what causes servers to fail is people zerging and not saving civilians and don’t say this isn’t true because it is. If anet really wanted to prevent afkers they should really implement some sort of participation detection. Also no, don’t ban people for afking because innocent players get caught in the cross-fire most that I could see acceptable is a kick to character screen but still that would affect innocents.
They should have had it where for each tier(maybe not the first because it’s so short at 100) you have to res or encourage a single civilian which shouldn’t be too hard to do.
Here’s the logic behind a lot of afkers: “Why should I afk in Divinity’s Reach(or whatever other normal map) when I can go afk in LA and get something out of it?”
If anet just made it so afkers didn’t get rewards(kinda like they did when they changed the scarlet invasions) people wouldn’t afk in LA.
We haven’t 100% nailed down our final plans for ranks, considering we were just persuaded to keep them in. We’ll be able to talk about it a bit more once we’ve had some additional time to discuss it internally. I’m assuming we’ll change them somehow – the amount of time a player would need to invest to hit 80 just isn’t reasonable.
So as I understand it now, the current ranks/finishers are staying in permanently? And the only thing that is changing is the way/speed of gaining rank? If this is true its definitely put me back in the mood of sPvP since I can work towards my goal again.
If you play pvp to rank up you are doing it wrong.
Please pray tell how you are supposed to sPvP. If you say play to have “fun” you ever think some people find gaining ranks fun? Kinda like how some people find champ zerging fun. As for the OP I’m in the same boat idk if I should keep playing towards my goal or not because the ranks/finishers is what really got me into sPvP in the first place.
Builds will rise and fall, but celestial gear will always be equally as bad no matter what your build. So the safest bet is to build a whole set of ascended celestial gear. Then no matter what happens to your build your gear will still be just as effective.
You’re being serious? Celestial gear is some of the best in the game for everything you can’t berserker-cheese and is extremely useful for a ton of specs. All around stat builds are nothing to sneeze at.
Yeah, because if you sneeze at them they’ll fall apart
I’m pretty sure they only suck when you don’t have an all round build. So if you have a warrior that’s all blunt force and has no conditions to apply then yea they do fall apart because you’re wasting a stat but if you get something like a a hybrid anything(mesmer in my case) they can be very diverse and very effective vs many other classes, build and stats. Of course player skill comes into it as well.
A lot of people are misunderstanding what is happening. People who have earned their rank emotes and finishers will get to keep them as they are.
If I understand what people are saying, and I may be wrong, many people are treating ranks as more of a lifetime achievement. That is certainly something to consider in regards to the future reward system replacing them.
I don’t see how you couldn’t see ranks as a lifetime achievement. So to reach Dragon rank/finisher you need 8971500 total rank points. Let’s say you only play Team Queue and win every game you play that would mean you need approx 17943 games to reach dragon rank. Let’s say I’m a fairly active sPvPer and I play about 30 games a day that means I would need 598 days to get to get to dragon rank at 30 games a day every day(the game isn’t even that old yet).
That’s a lot of games and a lot of time there’s a reason why no one has dragon rank yet. I was hoping to get phoenix rank someday and I can only play 4-5 hot joins a night because soloQ always seems broken and it’s extremely hard for me (work/life schedule) to get a reliable team for team Q. It’s gonna take a long time to get to that rank and removing the ability to get the finisher/rank outright feels like you’re stealing something away from me(yes maybe a little much but that’s what it feels like). As soon as I heard about ranks/finishers not being earnable anymore really put me off sPvP because all I can think of is “Why bother I’m not gonna make it to my goal before they take it away anyways” then I just go afk in pve and do something else instead of playing gw2(already considering other games sadly). Changing the rewards system sure but removing the ability to gain the ranks/finishers please don’t do it. Not to mention a lot of people I know decided to start playing sPvP because the finishers actually meant something now that they are usable in pve and wvw.
As for the rank/glory farmers they should be punished. As I’ve heard it’s only doable in the skyhammer map, so then why is that map still in game if it’s not fixed? Anyways, I’ve made my point, change the way the ranks/finishers are earned but don’t remove them especially when no one has even reached the dragon rank yet.
Sincerely,
Disappointed player waiting to be proven wrong.
Because of the WvW jump puzzle achievements I would like to remind some of your players that /wave in a jump puzzle is seen as a friendly gesture that that the party wishes to just complete said jump puzzle. However, many do believe that all of WvW is free reign and no courtesy should be given. So to those people I will say, I will not attack first but if I am attacked I will make doing the jumping puzzle a living hell especially if it’s the jumping puzzle in my own borderlands. As for those caught in the cross fire, I apologize.
Your sometimes not very friendly mesmer,
Crimson Fatality[NIO]
I don’t want it to spam I just want it because some nights after work my typing is horribly slow. It would also help me from putting a typo in the /wave @ or other emotes keeping me from trying to type it over and over. Not everyone in the world is the best at typing.
So basically I own a G110 keyboard and has 12 macro keys on the left side with 36 total programmable macros. Now I know it’s against the ToS to use macros to gain any sort of advantage. I also keep hearing different things as to what is acceptable. Sometimes I hear that macros are ok so long as they do 1 keystroke. Other times I hear that it’s ok so long as they do one action in game.
So, basically what I want to do is make a macro to do emotes in game so that it saves me from typing them out during roleplaying. So the macro would do these keystrokes:
Enter -> / -> w -> a -> v -> e -> (space) -> @ -> Enter
I would like to macro all in game emotes and some more common ones that don’t have animations but I don’t want to get banned for it.
So I would either like to get a link to a definitive answer from a dev stating macros are ok or not ok to use for emotes, or I would like to get a dev answer if possible. Thanks!
I was actually just talking to some friends of mine about this very same idea. Our server by the looks of it simply can’t kill teq because too many people die in the dps zerg because of the poison or because bone walls pop up. Having only 6 people basically control the outcome of the whole event is kinda stupid in open world content(in raid instanced content sure makes sense) but open world is very bad because you’re relying on randoms, unless you have some very dedicated people who will camp the turrets which I see is very inconvenient.
idk about everyone else but I change my left Alt to aoe loot and it’s great. When I alt tab out I collect all the loot around me in case I get caught up in something out of game I know I’ve collected most of the loot.
So back when the Phoenix armor fist came out it clipped horribly with quite a few body types and I was one of the people to bring this up and how it shouldn’t be like this for gem store gear. Well at some point Anet fixed it for at least some body types (not sure if for all) so I would like to say a thank you to the person(s) who fixed this and I am now a much happier customer.
Yea no issues that I know of with the 8350 and 7970 you would probably be around the same performance(maybe about 5fps higher) of my current pc if you kept the 8350 and 7970 at stock speeds. However watch out for the latest beta drivers for the 7970 I hear they don’t play nice with GW2 atm so just get the regular drivers.
I’m guessing you have the 1055T if you wanted to you could overclock it(if your motherboard can overclock) and you could probably get around 3.8ghz depending on on the cpu and mainly the motherboard for the 1055T. What settings are you using? there are some settings you can pretty much turn right off and gain a few fps here and there without a huge hit on how the game looks.
I have a Phenom II 1090T @ 4.1ghz and a 7950 @ 950MHz core and 1350MHz mem and I get about 25-30fps during normal game play and in LA with max settings(including supersample because it does make a difference in small details)
Anet it’s great that you’re working on new content every 2 weeks or so but please can we get a little more quality control? I mean this is armor that is being paid for with gems(either bought with gold or real money). The new Phoenix armor for females clips with 5/10 of the body types available while standing still. While I understand that this bug is visual and not game breaking it really almost put me off buying it(yes I still bought it in hopes anet can fix its issues soon). Please anet explain why this kind of stuff still slips through and gets out to release? There’s still many other armors that have been around since launch with visual issues. Would be nice to know that this stuff is being at least looked at since I always see it stated that the “grind” in GW2 is for looks and not stats.
There is if that same person complains he doesn’t have enough space for the stuff he’s farming….sounds like a self-control issue to be honest. It’s very simple: DONT USE YOUR KEYS ALL AT ONCE! Keys take up one slot, chests take up one slot. If you open every god-kitten chest and then complain you have no room then you are a bloody moron. You run out of harvesting tools? Ok, use a couple of keys. But for heaven’s sake don’t use every key, fill your bank, and then continue to use your keys and complain you have no room. OP needs to learn management IMO. Use the keys as you need to, not when you want to. Sure the temptation to get goodies can be overwhelming, but that’s where the self-control comes in…
Also the argument: I’m not gonna throw away money by deleting items is the same argument hoarders make for why they won’t throw out old tupperware or clothing they never wear or infomercial items they’ve never used. “It’s a waste! I may use it some time later!” they think. Yea…..it’s a waste also if you never use it, which most of the time they never ever do. Now it’s a waste and takes up valuable space.
Ok what about limited time items? Like the Fused weapon tickets that were only available from Black lion chests? If you wanted one or more of those skins you’re forced to open BL chests until you get a weapon ticket drop. It can’t be helped and this may very well be what happened to the OP since getting a ticket from from the chests was all dependent on RNG and he could have got a ticket on the first try or might have had to open 50+ chests. Thankfully anet seems to have stopped putting weapon skin tickets in the BL chests and started putting them in their own chests. However I still want to be able to buy more than the max 8 bank tabs. For just my main character a mesmer I have several weapon and armor sets for pve/wvw as well as many soulbound items and consumables and it all does add up. It would just be nice to have the option to be able to purchase more bank tabs it’s not gonna stop people from being able to use alt mules.
40 character slots? Is this legit? Has anyone actually tried it? Lol.
Make every race, sex, and class combination… TWICE.
The GW2 wiki actually says there is no limit to the amount of character slots you can have. However, I personally never meet anyone with more than about 40.
I play every day and since early release and I’ve gotten maybe 4% of what you apparently have coming out of your ears.
Like really, how is it possible? Here’s a suggestion: STOP BUYING BL KEYS AND OPENING CHESTS! You have enough of everything, just stop already! Wait until your supply is low then maybe open some more.
Umm maybe he farmed BL keys(yes you can farm them and it’s legit) and wanted to get something that only drops from the BL chests like lets say permanent contracts and such. Also there’s nothing wrong with people spending gems on keys it supports the game.
Anet please please please allow us to buy more bank tabs at least. I would much rather drop 800 gems on another bank tab rather than having to sift through alts to try and find the item I’m looking for. I don’t see why there is even a limit on bank tabs especially since we can have up to 40ish character slots.
Just wondering if there’s any more inquest lore out there other than what’s available on the wiki. Specifically how long have they been established in the world of Tyria? Also any other info would be great like their achievements and what not in science and also I assume they are all asuran.
So basically the new quaggan backpack skin is out on the gem store and what I’m wondering is if I use the skin on my Book of Secrets ascended gear will I still be able to upgrade my backpack to the infused version later? or will I be stuck with the non infused version?
Either Anet has to get these one time events running nearly perfectly or at least(actually even better) have them run for 24hours to cover all time zones and so that everyone can have an equal go at it. I do not like the fact that some people were able to do this one time event 2-8 times or more while others(either due to lag or another time zone) had no chance or just simply had bad luck trying to get the chest at the end.
So main changes I would like to see in the future for these types of events:
-Have them run 24hrs to cover all time zones and give all players better chances to attend the event(I’m est so don’t say I’m biased)
-Work on the culling and make enemies first priority
-Have diminishing rewards for accounts that have already opened the chest so that people can not farm the event with alt characters to make prizes more fair(people will argue against this but oh well)
-Lastly optimization of the servers to handle such an event, many people were suffering lag while not even attending the main event
I doubt it will go ahead since it would mean less $$$ for ANet, but it would be nice.
