Guild Wars 2

Xenesis.6389:

Mike O Brien.4613:

Now we integrate the episode content with the other updates that ship in this release, and with localized text and voice-over, and we do final testing of all that.

To give a sense of the scope of this process, this update has about 1,500 distinct lines of new voice dialog, each of which must be recorded, integrated, and tested in each supported language. For the player character’s voice, we separately record each race/sex combination in each language, so that means 40 actors for each line.

Of course, we’ll give this release a name, not “July Quarterly Update”.

And we may be able to increase the pace, ramping from four bundled releases per year towards six, so we’ll move away from calling these “quarterly”.

Pay careful attention to what he says so you don’t over hype yourselves up. They still need to do the voice overs and translations. They won’t call it july cause it may not come out by july, they will move from quarterly as they try for 6 releases per year.

If anything I’m expecting it out by say hmm… “mid to end of August”, because something of something something is coming out then. Which would also look good lining up august queens pavilion, october halloween, and december wintersday, but again I wouldn’t put too much stock in that.

No he doesnt say they have to do the voice overs, he simply gives us an insight in what they have done, and now have to be tested.

• How do you feel overall about reward tracks?
  - I love them, this is exactly what WvW needed.

• What are your thoughts on the rate at which you gain participation?
  - I think that the rate could be slowed down but increase the total participation per tick that you can gain. Something like 750 at highest would be better. It feels a little slow.

• How do you feel about the rate you earn reward track points?
  - As I said in the former questions I think that the total parcitipation points could be increased to something like 750, cause as it is right now, it feels a little slow.

• Overall, what are your impressions about the types of reward tracks we have?
  - Pretty much copy paste from PvP reward tracks. However the Armor one is really good (hopefully we could get more of those). But what else do I think it needs?
  - Badges of Honor
  - Proofs of Heroic
  - Boosters
  - Blueprints/traps
  - A way to craft Hero’s weapons maybe? And then let us upgrade them to Mistforged only with WvW Tournamet tickets.

There has to be exclusive rewards that you could only get in WvW, thats all I can say. Now its your time to come up with those rewards

• Are there any other reward tracks you would really like to see?
  - Pretty much covered those in the question above. But I think a reward track/tracks that would make it possible to get ascended crafting materials/laurels/exclusive stuff would be appriciated.

I think adding new Armors and Weapons exclusive to WvW would be a great addition. Without it, how could you show you are a WvW player outside of WvW? Also you should add more achievements, maybe tied to rewardtracks?
Maybe unlocking new reward tracks depending on which rank you are?

And do something for all of those of us that has +1000 rank points we cant do anything with. Make them a currency you can spend or something.

MauricioCezar.2673:

narwhalsbend.7059:

The game hates you. That’s all.

No, the game hates me . I spend 4 hours of day playing this game (Dungeon, dry top, world bosses, pvp and fractals, aaand sometimes wxw), and still 0 map scraps.

You only get the maps from opening hidden chests around the world.

Hi,

I dont post much here on the forums but I have a real problem ingame at the moment that I think Anet needs to fix.

For the last two days I’ve opened all diffrent kinds of chests out in the world to get all of the 4 map scraps, but I cant seem to get the 3/4, ever.
I’ve opened all I could find that was available on the wikipage, ALL of them, but I just seem to get 1/4, 2/4 and 4/4.

Please Anet, create a system for these kinds of things, so that the games knows I already have one kind of scrap so I have a higher chance to get the ones I need!

PS : I attached a picture to show how many of each I got…..

Daily bump…..

Looking for a guild that enjoy the game as a whole? Then you’ve come to the right place!

Time To Resupply [SM] is now recruiting new members to enjoy the game with.

What do we offer?

• WvW Events
• sPvP Arena Team
• Living Story Team
• Dungeon Team
• Fractals (lvl +30)
• Guild Bounty (all the other missions in the future)

• Teamspeak 3 channel on the official Far Shiverpeaks server, and our own server if needed!
• Payed Enjin Guildsite – http://www.ttrsm.enjin.com

And the best of all, we offer ourselfs. We are at the moment 24 active, open minded and fun people that would like to expand and have more people to enjoy the game with. As you can see, we do play all of the game.

If you’re interested you can either comment on this post, send me a private message or whisper me ingame on : WhatLiesBeneath.9018

See you around!

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Hi,

You’re more then welcome to try your luck in Time To Resupply [SM] over at Far Shiverpeaks. We’re a semi-hardcore WvW guild.

We offer TS3, 4-5 Events/week, missions and bounty, and all the awesome people that are a part of our guild.
You can contact me on WhatLiesBeneath.9018 ingame for more information or visit our webpage : http://ttrsm.enjin.com

Have a continue nice night!
//Tarja Silver

Vahkris.6847:

The release on September 3rd is from a different team than the one for Queen’s Jubilee and The Queen’s Speech, and each team has 3 months, not two weeks, to develop their content.

Also, there’s always more in the release than what’s put on the preview page.

Actually each team have 4 months to develop their living story update.

DevonCarver.5370:

The WXP boost is to basically everything and should significantly increase the rate at which characters gain ranks.

That is great! Its quite fast as it is anyway, but this is awesome!
Anyway, I was wondering about you could implement some sort of reward for just being there? I mean, sometimes you don’t get anything from being inside www. Not even WXP, due to this ridiculous matchups :P
I’m on Far Shiverpeaks and Elona always have 90% of all the maps, and we’re sitting there with owning maybe a few camps. Would be cool with some sort of buff or giving us 1WXP per min spent in www. I don’t know, just something!

Since the update isn’t called ‘’1th Anniversary of Guild Wars 2’’ or something I doubt this is it. There will be something big, I’m sure of it!

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Oh, also:

“Don’t miss history in the making as Queen Jennah wraps up her gala Jubilee with a momentous speech to her loyal subjects and visitors.”

Does that mean that the Queen’s Jubilee and the Queen’s Gauntlet meta events will go away when the Queen’s Speech starts? (I know the gauntlet will return eventually) I guess I just got used to each LS team have a month long event, and then 2 weeks later add a bit to it, not do two separate two week patches.

They have confirmed that everything will stay till September 3rd

‘’The update is the last before the game’s one-year anniversary’’ according to http://www.guildwars2guru.com/

That being said, maybe the anniversary update will be on september 3rd or we will get an update on august 28th?

Even tho I’m really happy about the www improvement and removing of culling in PVE, I’m very disappointed about this update. Colin said there would be something big for their first anniversary update. I hope and think there will be alot more. I really hope so, if not…I’m very disappointed at them.

‘’Ten Days of Black Lion Sales: Each day for 10 consecutive days – starting Friday, Aug. 23, at 12:01 a.m. (PT) – players will be able to purchase items and weapon skins that had limited sales during the game’s first year from the Black Lion Trading Company.’’
And
‘’Infinite Watchknight Tonic: Players who complete the Queen’s Speech meta achievement will receive a tonic that allows them to transform into a Watchknight at any time.’’
From http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/view/news/page/1/read/28323/Guild-Wars-2-The-Queens-Speech-Detailed.html
So thats a little improvement too

I’m sure that all the content available from tomorrow will last the whole month, but they will add stuff in within 2 weeks.

Each living story team have 4 months to make their own story arc which will be released as 2 patches each month.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I really wonder how they organize the teams in order to give each release the best possible cutscenes & story development. Do they have 4 teams responsible for that, each in a team. I like the current style gameplaywise, I see how content is getting better and better. Dungeons improve like a charm and the jumping puzzles (Southsun Cove, Not so secret…) are awesome (except that you can directly Mesmer-port to the end). What hasn’t improved for me personally is the story delivery / quantity & quality. My favourite was the Halloween scavenger hunt. The hunt itself was heavy on lore which I haven’t seen in a later release. You had to think also. The new scavenger hunt is shown on the map with those golden stars…

Imho Anet should take a look at the Halloween lore/story delivery and let this influence future releases. Molten Factory had a few dialogues coming with the scavenger hunt too, but it didn’t feel that important. We helped characters which were never seen after the event and rewards were very bland too. The backback book at halloween (2 versions for casual and hardcore) was awesome also.

Just to answer a bit of your question. All the teams have several persons in each of the elements. So they have capacity to do whatever they want.

I didn’t play the halloween event due to personal reasons. So I can’t speak about whats better or not.
But I do get the feeling that these events gets better and better – so far they have only releases experiments. I think we can look forward to some extreme and wonderfull things!

Lexy.3912:

WhatLiesBeneath.9018:

I don’t think this can be a permanent zone, its a flying city.

The Zephyr Sanctum is moveable but what about the Labyrinthine Cliffs?

Thats true, but then they should say ‘’Explore the Labyrinthine Cliffs in this (PERMANENT) scavenger hunt’’
I don’t know, I’m all for permanent additions but usually they put the permanent word in there when it is supposed to be.

Edit : When reading into this I think that ‘’Labyrinthine Cliffs’’ is an area of the city. So I think that the new scavangerhunt will take place around the flying city :P

I don’t think this can be a permanent zone, its a flying city.

Actually they have exactly 4 diffrent living story teams, each team have 4 months to complete their own story arc which will be released as 2 patches each month.

And of course not every story arc will please all.

A dev have said in several interviews already that there are four teams, each team have 4 months development time before releasing their arc.
He also said that the team that made Dragon Bash already is in the work for what is to come in october!

Razor.9872:

I saw a preview. It’s somewhat near to Rata Sum (East-ish I think).

Where did you see this preview you speak off?

Onshidesigns.1069:

Zephyr Sanctum Model
Upon completing the Lessons from the Sky achievement, you’ll be awarded a miniature model of the Zephyr Sanctum which will allow you to view the ship at any time, even after it’s flown away.

This gives the impression that this is permanent content. That will repeat maybe in different locations.

Its possible that we will be able to go there with this item, but I think its more likely we will be able to watch the city like a vista, due to the choose of words. ’’View’’ insteed of ’’Visit’’

If you go to the release page and watch the reward part you notice that the ‘’Zephyr Sanctum Model’’ actually is a city at the lower part, then there are alot of sky ships holding it up in the air. I think the city will be exactly like that.

Kinda depends on what class and spec you are using, but yeah those bonuses are quite nice, nothing that makes you any more powerfull then the other players. Like it, simple and easy stuff to understand!

I don’t know, just…some place where we wouldn’t need to click and change pages as it is at the moment. It totally sucks doing while playing.

Would be much appriciated if we could have a better way of watching where we are on the WXP? Maybe over the original XP bar? Or under the Flame of Frost thingy?

I am getting tired of clicking B then go to Rank & Ablities!

I really hope they update this weekly and do not drag this out to April. I loved the content and the little missons we got, they were truly awesome, loved it!
But, it really needs more to be a BIG patch as they’ve talked about. It needs more missons and stuff to do out in the world. I’m really suprised about what has comed with this patch, but a little bit disapointed that it just took a few hours to complete it :/

Daily Update…..

Hi and thanks for viewing my thread!

What Light Draws is a newly formed guild by two friends who now see that we’re falling back due to guild missions etc.
We’re mostly focusing on WvW and open world PvE but we’re just playing for fun so we’re up for most things.

We currently doesn’t have a webpage but are surely thinking about it for the future if we get enough attention and members.

Other then that I would just like to say that we are very open and friendly, due to school my buddy doesn’t play to often, but I do daily. And if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to write me an e-mail, ingame message or here on the forum!

Home World : Far Shiverpeaks

Guild Name : What Light Draws [WLD]

In-Game Contact : WhatLiesBeneath.9018
Outside Game Contact : Rasmus.Fahlander@live.se

Voice Platform : We’re going to use mostly the guild chat, but also Skype if people like to talk while playing. (We may change to some program as teamspeak or so in the future).

Looking for :

• Players who like to play for fun!

Thanks,
Rasmus