Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I’m posting to let all of you know what’s coming up from ESL this week.

On Tuesday, December 6, there’s the Weekly 2on2 Cup.

Following that, on Thursday, December 8, the Weekly 1on1 Cup will be held.

Both Cups will be shoutcasted on Twitch by Jebro.

Join and compete to earn yourself some sweets gems by following the link right below:
https://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/news/268647

Yes Gaile.

Please keep such AMAs happening every once in a while. They are healthy.

We value your interaction a lot because we care both about the effort every single dev puts into this game and the actual end result.

No matter your policies, and I know how hard it is to change or ignore those, all of us would love to be informed about the current state of development and your foreseeable plans.

Just exactly like you did this time.

Hello,

I wanted to report a minor bug I came across in Windows 10. When in Windowed Fullscreen mode you can’t minimize the game by clicking on its icon on a secondary taskbar when using multiple monitors. This was possible in Windows 7 but after upgrading to the newest version of Microsoft’s OS I realized that this wasn’t the case anymore.

I am aware that this isn’t top priority at the moment, seeing as HoT’s release is just a week and a half away. Just wanted it to be out there so that you guys know.

Thanks for everything you do for this game,
Tilion

Hello all.

I have to say that I really liked what was announced about Guild Halls these days.
Well done dev team!

Seeing how all these improvements to guilds are coming with the expansion I’d like to suggest one more that I’m pretty sure has come up in discussions already quite some times.

Is it possible to display the Guild Message of the day in the chat upon login/representation? My guild uses this feature mostly for announcements so it would be nice if every member noticed about them when coming online.

I have no idea how difficult this is to implement, although I’d assume that it is. It’s something that would be nice to have though.

Thanks a lot for everything and most of all thanks a lot for listening.

,Tilion

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Thank you so much for all this stuff Colin!

Off to change the post on Dragon Season

I like the names but as I said above they need to add more achievements in those categories first if they look into expanding them further and I kinda doubt they’ll do so anytime soon. For example, each boss only has one related achievement at the moment .

I like your structure Orpheal although it looks more towards the future. That is in case they introduce some of they newly added stuff that you present here.

Also, I can’t see them hiding Dailies, Monthlies and Collections deeper in the tree.

Overall though your list is pretty neat.

cobalt.1846:

The word General is used too often.. One idea is for to change the first area to

Hero
-Personal Glory <-this might get confused with pvp
-Tradesman
-Slayer
-Weapons Master
-Community
-Hall of Monuments

Explorer
-Adventures
-Dry Top
-Jumping Puzzles

Bosses
-Big Bads
-Tequatl
-Triple Trouble

Indeed, hence I mentioned so in the brackets next to it.

Does everybody like Cobalt’s suggestions? Shall we go with these? Does anybody else have any names to suggest for these sub-categories?

I don’t like “Big Bads” that much to be honest, but I’m quite fond of the rest.

Any corrections or amendments that could make the panel more sleek?

Hello there,

The 9/9 patch aimed, among other things, to restructure the achievement panel so that the various categories are better presented. Without knowing if the post-patch structure was in purpose, having future content releases in mind, I’d like to take a moment to propose an easier to be perceived model. Feel free to discuss below or give any ideas on how we could achieve some clarity in the achievement panel. Please, keep it civilized and constructive.

Let’s start with the Story Journal category. Taking in mind the certain future expansion of this category due to its nature I’d say that we definitely are in need of some sub-categories here.

• Story Journal
  • Season 1
  • Season 2
    • Gates of Maguuma
    • Entanglement
    • The Dragon’s Reach, Part 1
    • The Dragon’s Reach, Part 2
  • Season 3

The General category is basically a dump at the moment. Things definitely need to be cleared out here. Basically it includes Dungeon stuff, Explorer stuff, Bosses and some other more generic achievements. My proposal is to split this into the 4 aforementioned categories. While we are at it, “Fashion” achievements should now be part of a collection so that this bug can also be fixed at the same time, as well as the achievements for minis. Mini collections should showcase which minis are part of each set and collections in general should provide you with a right click to “Buy on the TP” option for those items that are available through the TP.

• General
  • Hero
  • Tradesman
  • Slayer
  • Weapon Master
  • Community
  • Hall of Monuments

• Explorer
  • General (The previous “Explorer” category is now a sub-category and needs a more generic name)
  • Dry Top
  • Jumping Puzzles

• Bosses
  • General (The previous “Bosses” category is now a sub-category and needs a more generic name)
  • Triple Trouble
  • Tequatl

The Dungeon category really needs a way to let new players know which paths they’ve already completed on their account. I had proposed a system a couple of months ago that would take this burden away from the achievement panel and intergrate it on the map. In any other case an achievement panel implementation would come in handy.

• Dungeons
  • General (The previous “Tyria” category is now a sub-category. I don’t like the current name as it gives false hopes that one day we’ll see Cantha in game)
  • Fractals of the Mists
  • Twilight Arbor Aetherpath

• Collections
  • Basic Collections
  • Rare Collections
    • Fashion
    • Miniatures
  • Black Lion Collections

The Competitive category consists of achievements related to the activities, some that are related to sPvP and those that tie to WvW. We need 3 sub-categories here and while we are at it a fix for those Spring WvW Tournament achievements that show multiple times in the WvW achievement category.

• Competitive
  • Activities
    • Keg Brawl
    • Sanctum Sprint
    • Southsun Survival
    • Crab Toss
    • Belcher’s Bluff
  • World vs World
    • General (The previous “World vs World” category is now a sub-category and needs a more generic name)
    • Edge of the Mists
    • WvW Fall Tournament 2014 (Or any other currently ongoing Tourmament)
  • Structured PvP
    • PvP Conqueror

The Historical category remains as it is. It’s purpose is clear and inevitable

• Historical

So, what do you guys think?

Hello there,

I bought some of the Cultural Armors using gold and glory through PvP, back in the days that I could do so, and they didn’t count towards the respective achievements. Now, I want to buy those that I’m missing, in order to progress towards the Emperor title, but I’m afraid that I’ll forget which I already had in case I’m asked to buy them again.

Perhaps, now that the Wardrobe is part of the game there’s a way for the devs to see which of those armors the players have already unlocked and reward them with the achievements?

Is there any possibility we could see such a fix to this issue with the upcoming Feature Pack?

Thanks a lot for all of your effort
,Tilion (DragonSeason.com)

Just change the color of the HP bar in the party window like the OP showcased Evan.

That would suffice.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

ghost.3208:

I think they did this before with the Tequatl Rising update, my guess is that they don’t want to spoil it and wants us to experience it first in-game.

Correct.

And that is a well thought decision I should say.

Willow branches! Please make it happen!

It could be designed to look like dreadlocks.

Anthony, we don’t disagree with the challenging part. Just be sure that all worst case scenarios are calculated.

In my opinion pre-scouting ruins the whole bounty experience. As for Sottz the way he is working now, even a random person could brake his barrel by accident, while an entire guild may be on the lookout for him.

Thank you for listening to us. We truly appreciate it.

Question: Do barrels respawn at any given time? Because there are no barrels at all on my server. :/

@Khisanth I was holding control while looking at every bit of the map.

So Sottz is bugged on Aurora Glade right? Was looking for him for about 3 hours without even spotting a single barrel…

Kat, why don’t you guys make it work like that?

Maybe put a tick box on the corner of the tracker, so that you can choose on yourself if you want to pin it open or not.

Also, those dailies that get completed should dissapear from it. It was working like that before, why did you have to change it?

Short answer: Yes.

Totally digging the idea. The pop up on chat Guild Message feature of the first Guild Wars game should come back.

Welcome aboard mate.

Thank you for clearing this up Blueshield.

To the CCs that monitor this part of the forums: I’ve got my answer, you can now proceed with closing this thread.

First of all thank you Blueshield for your quick reply.

So, basically the 20+ participants won’t have access to the RNG of fractal weapons and infused rings while doing a 10-19 Fractal chain. Is this statement correct?

Hello everyone.

I’ve got a question for you cause I’m a bit confused. Being able to participate in any Fractals level made the rewards system of the dungeon rather complex, so I would like to clear up some things in my mind.

Let’s say we’ve got a group that goes like this: 2, 3, 10, 22, 34. (as of Fractals levels)

The group decides to enter a level 10 Fractal chain. This one is going to feature the bonus Fractal in the end. Who of the party participants is going to get a daily chest? If all of them acquire one is it going to count as a 1-9 daily or as a 10+ one? (a.k.a. provide a pristine relic). What goes for the participants whose reward level is 22 and 34 accordingly? Does their reward scale down to that of level 10?

Thanks in advance to all of those who are going to reply. Our community rocks!

,Tilion

Hello everyone,

I don’t know if this is the right corner of the forums to do it, but i would like to invite all of you today (Saturday (24/11/12) at 7pm GMT) at Dragon Season’s very first Costume Brawl Tournament.

All participants will get their own in game Guild Wars 2 T-Shirt.

The event applies to the European servers only.

More info at: DragonSeason.com

See you there.

,Tilion