Guild Wars 2

You’re confusing the NPCs. You can ask one of the ghosts at the Siren training place in Siren’s Landing about anthems of Kormir. They’re confused because and have never heard of her because they died years before she ascended to godhood.

I’ve not done any fractals since fractured came out but I think I can explain the uncategorized fracrtal here though. It’s part of the skritt research lab you do in the guild challenge. It was a consortium project to evaluate the use of skritt as labour and the test subjects got loose. This is where the cat golems are from, as well as the reason for all the security measures. The fate of the other researchers is unknown, but the Raving Asura has cut himself off in the “control room”, if you will, hence his quote about us not being real/there as there is simply no way that he knows of to reach this part of the lab anymore.

He could be Dessa’s boyfriend and she might be one of the researchers who escaped, but that’s a whole other can of worms I know very little about.

This seems to be a good time and place to bring this up. Since being “dimmed” Balthy has chugged one supersized bloodstone with all the sides worth of magic – remember, it was full up after we disposed of Zhaitan and Mordremoth. He then followed it up with an amount equal to or greater than what Jormag and Primordus put together have consumed since awakening. When you consider what they are and how consuming magic is about their only hobby it starts to look like a lot of magic.

Yet Balthazar isn’t that bright even after all that. So does this imply that a god at full power would literally have one Tyria worth of magic or thereabouts? Since we know Abaddon was the big kitten in the having of magic department (he was supposed to be able to take on 3 of the others, iirc?) just how much kitten magic is in these guys? Who’d they nick it from, because I doubt they found it on the side of the road and just forgot to hand it over to the proper authorities.

Fifth.8169:

A persons WVW rank should not be used for pip acquisition. The rewarding of pips should be fair and equally rewarding to all participants.

+1 Bronze WvW Rank (150-619)
+2 Silver WvW Rank (620-1394)
+3 Gold WvW Rank (1395-2544)
+4 Platinum WvW Rank (2545-4094)
+5 Mithril WvW Rank (4095-6444)
+6 Diamond WvW Rank (6445-9999)
+7 Max WvW Rank (10000)

This is extremely wrong and the most unfair component in the reward system in all of GW2. If this is the case I should be recieving more pips in pvp based on my rank and more gold and rares in pve based on my AP. Extremely discriminating this is . Please make it an avg amount of pips given to all players all remove this entirely. It is immoral and discriminates against new players. Whoever did this needs to give me an explanation. A very good one of why your choosing to discriminate other players.

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saerni.2584:

The main issue isn’t that higher ranks earn rewards faster. The issue is that, at the lower end, the total time to complete the reward track for an average player is too much even for extensive playtimes. Getting high rank should be a marginal increase in speed. In contrast right now higher rank is significantly involved in whether a player has to play 10, 20, or 40 hours in a week.

Looking at my pip gain in silver—between 33% and 50% of my total pips are due to my rank. If I was in gold I would be earning over 50% of my pips from my rank. I also play a fair bit on outnumbered maps because I solo and group roam more often than not to support my team. The largest pip gains are outnumbered (largest share of pips earned) followed by slightly less pips from rank.

The problem is multiplicative. I get 2 pips per tick at silver. In the time a bronze player earns 60, I earn 120. Gold earns 180. Platinum earns 240.

The reward track assumes players will earn “enough” pips at a certain playtime per day.

3 pips per tick is 40.27 hours
5 pips per tick is 24.16 hours
7 pips per tick is 16.9 hours
9 pips per tick is 13.42 hours

Roughly 10 hours of WvW per week to max out rewards seems reasonable. Maybe even up to 15. So in the 8-10 pips per tick range. Say you average 2 for skirmish position, 1 for loyalty, 2 for rank and 2 on average for being outnumbered sometimes. If even a middle ranked player can’t max out the rewards in a reasonable period of time there is a problem.

Not all players should max out the reward track each week. But low rank players need to see middle rank players maxing out rewards within a reasonable time as a incentive to rank up. It is hardly good motivation to tell a new player “if you just get 2000 ranks you can maybe max out the rewards in a week if you play 8 hours.”

I also think it is poor manners to tell other players how they need to suck it up when the higher ranked players can get full rewards merely playing 8 hours and everyone else has to play two to three times as long. There is a legitimate problem here.

But you do get more gold and rares in PVE for having more AP – it’s called account gold and magic find.

I like to think of the wvw bonus as the bonus xp weekend, except it applies to a lot more than XP.

JTGuevara.9018:

Ashen.2907:

I would think that a dragon with the ability to corrupt life directly would be more dangerous than one that has to use an intermediary medium such as water. Sure we all need water to live but we need to be alive to drink water. I’d put Zhaitan above the DSD.

Water is life. Our bodies are composed of water. Zhaitan can only corrupt dead bodies. Sea Dragon can potentially corrupt the entire ecosystem that life depends on.

Just putting it in perspective. :P

By that logic Primordus is the most dangerous. He corrupts cold lifeless stone into all sorts of kittened off magma creatures. He doesn’t even NEED an ecosystem so you can bet his endgame doesn’t involve anything surviving.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Symptomatic to Anet; only 4 maps, not one new dungeon and after 9 months one new tiny fractal which is made of assets of old fractals. I just wonder what the hell they do all day long.

Continuously redesign stuff. Fractals are on rework number 3? or so (4? if you count lolaccoutboundloot) while things that get the devs tons of mileage for time invested (bazaar, queen’s gauntlet, dragon bash, tower of nightmares) are kept out of the game most of the time. Adding new mobs/bosses to gauntlet would take all of a few weeks, while reworking wvw (which took the HoT development cycle and then another bunch of time just to revert only to now partially un-revert) takes much longer. Some time designing the precursor crafting system, only to stop just past half way in actually using it by putting the second set of legendaries on hold indefinitely.

The LS episode unlocking system coming out after season 1 I’ll just put down as an unfortunate fact of life as it’s not cost any dev time, but fixing it would take dev time. In other words, instead of taking up time it probably just won’t be done.

Then you have things like dungeons being reworked a billion times (nerfing speed clears with once a day loot, re-adding rewards, adding gold to rewards, nerfing it again to push fractals then somewhat un-nerfing it again) without anything that actually adds content to the system besides aetherpath actually staying.

And then there are things that have taken up dev time already simply haven’t fully matured yet (masteries, LS episodes replay feature, the way elite specs work) or are quickly getting there (reward tracks, even more so now that they’re in wvw too, wvw rank skills). Stuff that’s basically already done but will see more return for the time put in as the game goes on.

Yes, a lot of this stuff involves different departments and presumably the art team are hammering away at the game’s need for assets throughout all the redesigns, but you also have to consider a lot of this stuff spends considerable time on the drawing board or even in coded prototype form and potentially never even sees the light of day.

Without actual inside knowledge of what’s in the works or how long this stuff has taken most of these examples are speculative at best but probably still account for a good chunk of dev time.

That being said, I’m not a fan of fractals and think we need a blonde-headed asura representative of the consortium to make dungeons great again. By building new ones. Hundreds of them. With sustainability being the word going around recently, maybe adventures and dungeons can meet half way and turn into some kind of 3 man minidungeon thing like they had on WoW, so long as a small team can churn out a new one every few patches.

What the majority of people defending the decision fail to understand (or choose not to) is that when the expansion was announced there were promises made, one of which included a full set of legendaries on release. This was later changed to a few on release and a steady stream after the game came out. This would still have been fine, it’s understandable that priorities shift and what have you but as long as content used to advertise the game does get delivered that’d be fine. But now the feature is indefinitely cancelled. I’m pretty sure my HoT purchase wasn’t partially indefinitely refunded until the marketed parts are released.

Personally I’m not even that interested in the new legendaries, or the old one for that matter. The problem is however that Anet have pulled the whopping 6 people working on content we’ve already paid for while the happy bunch of 70 (or whatever the last quoted number is, I’ve pretty much stopped following the game) are actually working on the next cash grab expansion. What this tells me is Anet are fine with overcharging for an expansion that turns out light on content to begin with, putting the features that aren’t convenient on indefinite hold while CHOOSING to prioritise a new expansion over finishing the one people (including the ones defending the decision) paid for.

Keeping this in mind, why would I, as a customer, buy the next expansion? Anet have already stated each expansion will include the core game and previous expansions in the purchase. Why would I pay for expac 2 only to have quite possibly the same thing happen again to, for example, rifles for thieves this time around. Instead I can just wait until expac 7 comes out, pay the same 35 British wizard moneys I’d pay for expac 2 and get all the partially finished 5 expansions that came out since without having to be kittened off about cut features. Right now in between how the manifesto video turned out on game release and how the expansion stacks up versus the initial hype announcement I can’t POSSIBLY trust anet to deliver on what they promise to get my 35 foreign currencies. And the funny thing about trust is it’s kinda like a sheet of paper. You can crumple it up and then straighten it back out, but it will never be quite the same as before.

tl;dr keeping my money till thieves get rifles, because that’s literally the last thing this game can offer at this point that I care about (other than being ripped off by cut features I already paid for, even if I probably wouldn’t use them).

Obtena.7952:

Yes, I’m one of those kind of people: The “not ignorant”. The saddest part about threads like this is that you don’t even realize the benefit that Anet cancelling this failed development track has to our community. This isn’t about making money; it’s about business decisions that keep this game going and bring us more value for the money we give them.

If you cared to educate yourself a little bit with the topics we gave you, you would be better off for it.

Ah, I see, the not ignorant are happy with not getting what they actually paid for when they bought the expansion. I’ll be counted among the ignorant gladly then.

Shovel Face.4512:

But on a lighter note, atleast I’ll still play your game, you’re just never going to get my money ever again

about sums up how I feel

Vayne.8563:

Crimsonstar.3120:

If there’s a few months between Living World season 3 episodes, they have to give a LOT of rewards and content to do. A new zone or two with a lot of events (Basically a larger new version of Silverwastes) for people to be content for a while, as well as a longer amount of engaging story content.

And what MMO do you know that provides that much content every 2-3 months? I don’t think people have realistic expectations.

I’m fuzzy on the details, but my housemate plays the Star Wars MMO. They get content drops every 2-3 few months with HOURS of storyline that is unique for EVERY class. So no, not unrealistic expectations, not even low ones. Not to mention that NOTHING I’ve seen in gw2 can hold a candle to the quality of their cinematics/storytelling/actually having choices which impact the story such as killing NPCs square in the face at your discretion.

HoT is absolutely not worth the money, better off buying the next expac (which presumably will also not be worth the asking price) and getting HoT for free.

Mitch.4781:

The way they talk about “limited resources”, you’d think they had a skelton staff of 7 people or something. Aren’t they like a team of over 300? Wtf are they all doing?

This. I know this is a reality of game design, but seemingly this is the only place where it keeps being brought up as an excuse for this or that literally all of the time.

Looks like the hype train isn’t just staying at home, it’s been sold for scrap.

I almost never do my dailies, as the AP from them is capped. Why do it today when
a) I’ll reach the cap sooner or later, making going out of my way to do dailies pointless
b) not like I’ll reach 40k (or whatever it is) AP for the radiant back skin even if I do cap out my daily AP

Hell, the AP rewards are so crappy (looking STRAIGHT at the potato weapon skins that I’ve literally NEVER seen anyone using) that I’ve pretty much completely given up on actually getting more AP.

Sylent.3165:

What is your biggest fears that may come with the next expansion?

For me it’s gotta be the fear of then trying to fix underwater combat and making the next elite specizalations underwater based. Just the thought scares me half to death and I’d end up leaving till the next expansion.

What about you

My main fear is that it’ll be even more P2W than HoT, offer even less content and still cost full price.

Miellyn.6847:

New legendary weapons need:
- model
- effects
- footfalls
- aura
- thematic collections for the precursor and one of the gifts for the Gift of [weapon name]
- optional background story (Chuka and Champawat)

Black Lion Skins need:
- model
- optional effects

Gliders need:
- model
- optional effects

The effort for new legendary weapons is much higher than just weapon skins or gliders.

You’ll be hard pressed to convince me that cancelling content people paid for ALREADY in favour of churning out more cash shop content is due to some supposed discrepancy in effort required.

Ragnarox.9601:

when game go to f2p this happens.

The F2P guys don’t get to play any of the HoT content, so that’s no excuse. No, the only two times game content has ever been rewarding were
1) when fractals initially came out, lasted a couple of weeks before half the loot disappeared and the other half started to bind to account.
2) For all of 3 days when champion bags exotic skins came out, where you’d get an exotic every 50 boxes tops, until they had to “fix a server crash” and exotics in champion bags reverted to the same “once per year” drop rate of everything else remotely interesting.

No, after the skinner box stopped working (because they nerfed it, of course) they just opted to put the skinner boxes inside of a skinner box of skinner boxes, which you get from clicking your bouncy skinner box above the minimap. And, spoiler alert, those bags are all full of garbage.

No, not happy about outfits at all. Anything I can’t mix and match with the stuff I already do have is 100% pointless to me. It’s not like clipping issues are getting fixed, and it’s not as if outfits don’t have clipping issues either, so outfits are a complete waste of time. There’s really nice pieces on some outfits, and I’d probably shell out just to get stuff like the shadow assassin boots/gloves and such, but in their present form they may as well not even exist.

For a video claiming to not offer constructive criticism, there’s entirely too much constructive criticism in it. Hopefully some of the developers actually watch this.

I’m interested, I play on NA and have partial (minus the armor) ascended zerk set.

Anything short of 1200 range rifle on next elite spec means I’ll re purpose my thief to a fancy-lookin mule toon.

Words literally cannot describe how meh this spec is going to be. That’s okay, having a 1200 range weapon is for losers anyway.

I’d channel the legend of Meerak the Shouter before I’d touch anything to do with Scarlet.

The new acquisition method is complete crap, I used to be able to get 30 skill points a day without even trying that hard. Yet another reason I progressively care less and less about the game.

If thief doesn’t get rifle nothing short of a complete gw1 remake with gw2 graphics could possibly compel me to buy HoT, just my 2 cents.

Even though money is tight, I was willing to buy HoT. But then it turned out there won’t be any dungeons and thief spec won’t be rifle, so I’ve pretty much gone from waiting for a half price sale to not caring at all.

Azure.8670:

It’s most likely because thief elite spec is getting rifle. The spec will probably revolve around rifle and pistols, Assassin style

Oh do I have some news for you…

Hey, while we’re at it lets reset everyone to lvl 80 green crafted gear and lock all their skills again. That’s bound to keep people busy for months, specially those pesky veterans.

The lack of dungeons (and ridiculous pricing) is exactly why I won’t be getting HoT, probably not even when it goes on sale for half price.

Wow, they fixed the hell out of that server crash, huh?

Armageddon Lord or The Black Beast of Arrgh – gotta have some titans

Jadoth – because he oneshot an entire Forgotten armada, that’s why

Turai Ossa/Lord Victo/Master Togo/Lady Glaive/Khilbron/Varesh Ossa/Shiro – some of these are bound to fill the requisite human legend slot
Bonus human round: Archemorus/Saint Viktor/Argo

Kathandrax Steelsoul/KILROOOOOOOOY STOOOOONEKIIIIN/Duncan the Black – King Jalis ain’t all that, plenty of other legend-worthy dwarves

Maw the Mountain Heart/Rotscale/The Leviathan/Frostmaw the Kinslayer – some of Tyria’s rather exceptionally ornery inhabitants

Kanaxai/Urgoz/Kuunavang/Glint the above, but more sentient

Svanir/Jora/Magni the Bison/Asgeir Dragonrender – assorted Norn kittenes from history

Optimus Caliph because Mursaat, that’s why

And last, but definitely not least, Prince Bokka the Magnificent using his powers of having a lot of gold to smite his enemies.

There’s no shortage of notable historical figures, but hopefully some of these will make it.

1. Thieves not getting rifles.
2. No new dungeons.
3. Thieves not getting rifles.

Voting in this poll must be the fabled “stuff” the dev team is working on, perhaps? I went with EvE, because even though playing internet spreadsheets isn’t really fun, at least the devs talk to their playerbase.

Rule 24: Pics or it didn’t happen.

Scruffy doesn’t believe in this company until there are pictures, blog posts, gameplay videos, PTR footage and otherwise anything else imaginable that indicates we’re not going to be left with nothing to do for two and a half months while some features get ported from GW2:China.

Edit: Palador raises a valid point. Release or it didn’t happen.

nightwulf.1986:

SpeedFiend.4521:

At a glance all I’m seeing is the same old, same old. Maybes won’t cut it. Let’s wait and see? I waited, and I haven’t seen yet. Until there’s a lot more clarity on what exactly is going on, I don’t see any reason to hang around. Waiting. Waiting might work as a game mechanic for browser-based games – for an MMO however, not so much.

Seriously, what’s your cut off? If you guys don’t want to continue waiting, when you are going to say enough is enough? What is the absolute deadline for Anet to get back to us? Or are deadlines only applicable to Anet?

Oh, don’t misunderstand, my cut off is long past. I haven’t actively played since the WvW “tournament”, and don’t have any intention to do more than the once-over LS episode playthrough anytime soon. I have no intention of grinding 10^16 bandit crests or whatever, I’m not interested in another quick n dirty “let’s give Buygate their win back” WvW tourney and I certainly don’t see anything interesting on the horizon given that dungeon content is apparently one of those no-no words to the devs.

At a glance all I’m seeing is the same old, same old. Maybes won’t cut it. Let’s wait and see? I waited, and I haven’t seen yet. Until there’s a lot more clarity on what exactly is going on, I don’t see any reason to hang around. Waiting. Waiting might work as a game mechanic for browser-based games – for an MMO however, not so much.

BammBamm.6719:

as a non speedrun, non solorun, non lvl50 fraktal player i have to say, you must be really braindead to experience this content as hard.

I’m in the same boat. Maybe a Hand Holder golem could find its way into the gem store to keep everyone happy?

I can’t help but wonder if there are all these people who are supposedly being confused by basic stuff like levelling and converting gems to gold and back how long it’ll be before dungeons are redesigned as straight corridors with parts you run through while holding 1 or V with a helpful prompt on-screen to remind you which one you need.

Considering the only way the game gets new armor or weapon skins is the gem shop, I think I’ll extend my couple weeks off into however long it takes for this to go away.

Not noticeable at all, dohoho. I’m certainly not wasting time playing until this gets removed.

Recount would be pretty great. For one, without it I have no incentive to actually try in dungeons. Everything is just meh, whatever, we’ll get to the end eventually.

Only if anyone not tagged up gets a debuff that sets their max hp to 1.

Yes, we definitely need another half year of no updates while the game is ported to run just barely at minimum settings on consoles.

If anything my loot has gotten better the more kittened off I’ve become with the developers’ actions, thus going to show you that RNG gonna RGN.

Tachenon.5270:

Look at the bigger picture, eh? The bigger picture looks (disclaimer: to my eyes) like a series of desperate moves made in (drum roll) desperation.

• Megaserver to hide the empty servers.
• Trait System Revamp, in hopes people will confuse/equate it with elite skill hunting. Or maybe there really is something in the water. Who knows.
• NPE – so many old guys are leaving, let’s try to hang on to new guys!

Your mileage may vary.

Actually the megaserver thing was done to skimp on running costs by combining 20 maps with 3 dudes into one map with 60. Wildstar needs them boxes!

Anyone else miss the old format when features and LS was bundled together and there weren’t 4 releases of LS from March until November?

If anything, Abaddon gifted the races with the uber overkill magic of infinite destruction to deal with the dragons. Sure, the majority of the intelligent races would die out in the power struggle leading up to the EDs awakening, but the survivors would have an incredibly easy life (refer to the accounts of life in Orr where commoners accomplish impossible tasks through magic).

Consider how the Bloodstones diluting magic made Abaddon angry enough to attack the other gods. You really think he’d be okay with dragons who not only consume magikittenil there’s just about nothing left, but also do so by corrupting it?

Edit: Apparently you can’t say until right after magic, dohohoho.

MikaHR.1978:

Im pretty sure that particualr thing is leveling only.

They’ve specifically said it affects 80s too, as inane as that may be.

Healix.5819:

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

It’s become increasingly difficult because of the megaserver situation to find a map with less players so your DPS actually counts towards getting loot from the boss, and not just from the big chest at the end.

Protip: It doesn’t matter how much damage you do, it only matters when you do it. All it takes is a single hit to be eligible for loot, but not everyone will be eligible.

This. You can hit a champion a single time with a cleric guard’s staff 2 and you’ll get loot every single time if you hit him before everyone else has had a chance to.