Guild Wars 2

Keenan Sieg.1493:

Yes, Hannelore! The Twisted Marionette songs will return in the future.

That is great news. They’re much better tracks than anything the game shipped with imo (then again, wasn’t a fan of Oblivion’s music, or Skyrim’s). Feel the same about the bazaar of the four winds track. Good stuff.

My faith in the future of Guild Wars 2 had been waning in the wake of what I considered a string of disappointing updates. This latest patch, however, is excellent. A new area (albeit a non-permanent one) that is visually captivating and genuinely fun to explore, the fitting music, Sanctum Sprint, the new achievement reward system, Skyhammer — fantastic work all around.

This Living Story concept sure has come a long way from pounding a bunch of signs back in January. I’m eager to see what else ArenaNet has in store for us in future releases

Yes, well done ANet. Very fun fight. Reminds me a bit of Ornstein and Smough from Dark Souls (although much, much easier while still providing a decent challenge).

Love how active you have to be during this fight; dodging red circles, jumping over kb waves — so much fun.

I also like the boss intro cutscene at the beginning, and these new cutscenes in general. It’s funny, usually for dungeons I skip the face-to-face dialogue sequences as soon as they start (even if I haven’t seen them before), but here I found myself watching the cutscenes even though I’d seen them already. Definitely the way to go forward in terms of cutscenes I’d say.

My character is a Female Charr Warrior. Submitted this in a bug report but I don’t believe that was the correct avenue so I’m posting it here now.

My issue is with the tier 2 heavy charr helmet. Not sure what you did with this latest patch (March 26), but it looks awful now. I’m happy it no longer looks like my charr’s got a nasty sunburn on her face when wearing this helm — so thanks for that — but I really wish you hadn’t messed around with it as much as you did.

Not only does the helm clip worse now than ever before, but there’s also a weird texture issue when my charr moves her head around. It’s difficult to capture in a screenshot — it would be best to look at it in-game to see what I mean — but see the weird line in the pic attached? That’s what I’m talking about. It looks totally borked in-game. Hard to describe.

I also really hate how you lengthened the back of this helm; it sticks up now and really doesn’t mesh with the chest piece. Like I said, love that you made the red face fix, but the other changes are for the worst in my opinion. Please fix the texture issue (a definite bug) and at least take another look at the helm.

I am miffed about this as well. ANet, you’ve decided to make AR absolutely necessary to progress in Fractals — the only thing that keeps me (and I’m sure many others) coming back to the game — by rendering the Jade Maw’s agony unavoidable when you need more than the current max of 30 AR to survive on higher levels. So to progress in Fractals — again, the only thing keeping me playing — I have to drop 30 laurels on an amulet that will essentially gimp my build?

I know Ascended gear is a work-in-progress, but I certainly hope you have plans to support a wider range builds. The amulet preview on the content page states that "With 5 new Utility Infusions and 30 Ascended Amulets to choose from, there’s something for every style of player,” which leads me to believe you consider what’s currently on offer to be sufficient.

Can we at least get some manner of an official response on this?

AGREED! The preview for the amulets on the content page states “With 5 new Utility Infusions and 30 Ascended Amulets to choose from, there’s something for every style of player.”

FALSE. Where’s the P/T/HP amulet? A lot of people say healing power is a waste but the fact remains that some builds do use it. I really don’t want to spend 30 laurels on something that’s only going to gimp my build so I can progress in Fractals now that you’ve made AR an absolute necessity.