Guild Wars 2

I’m also seeing blocked progress with the Sign Cutting story mission. I can get a few trail markers in but eventually the quest breaks and I can’t progress further. Whatever changes that were supposed to be in yesterday’s patch didn’t fix the issue.

Yujin.1785:

Well said. If stringing us along for 2 years over other means of gaining a precursor isn’t “stringing us along” then I don’t know what is.

I hate to say this but you’re right; talk is cheap, even if it’s from the current CEO of anet.

The flip side is that the situation with precursors is probably the reason they no longer talk about long term plans that haven’t been finalized yet. It sounds to me like Mike was saying that talk about future stuff that is not yet set in stone could create similar problems, bad both for the community and the dev team.

Whenever they finally do revamp precursor acquisition, I sure as hell hope they explain the iterations they went through and why it took so long.

The problem with the latest release was that the in game UI told you an exact waypoint to go to for both the marionette and the jungle worm, but when you arrived there, if the event was not in progress it would seem like you were at the wrong place. No NPCs explaining the situation, no timer, nothing. After a few days this is less of an issue because people can help out in map chat, but on patch day, I read up on everything but was still confused about where to go and if I was in the right place.

Konig, what are you doing? Just stop. You have more than made your point.

I would argue that he does much more to help than hurt people’s understanding of the lore Konig. However that being said, I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you’re saying. But let’s not derail the thread.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

He doesn’t really present anything new. He takes theories and speculation that’s spreading through the community and simply represents it.

I don’t see how you could possibly do a video like these with out speculating in some way. There are a lot of little facts and conversations and things that appear throughout the game(s) that combine together to make a narrative. All that stuff is weaved together in your own head though. So when talking about the history of the game of course it’s the history as he sees it. That is the entire point.

I personally love the lore of the Guild Wars universe, but I don’t have the time to go back and play through Guild Wars 1 and I don’t have the ability to replay the Living Story. So it’s nice to at least be able to get someone else’s interpretation of events that I missed or don’t have time to play through.

If you don’t think his interpretation is spot on you should make lore videos yourself! That’s the sort of content some people cant get enough of.

I really hope they start tying storylines more tightly together but I think they would need to make past content more accessible. Adding past dungeons to Fractals I don’t think is enough.

A lot of people feel like we are in the middle of a golden age of television and I think this is partially because of DVRs. Time shifting. TV networks can create long intricate story arcs that span an entire season because they know that people will be able to watch every single episode whenever the time fits into their schedule.

I would really love long intricate narrative arcs with the Living Story as well but I am not sure that the current approach to temporary content makes that very easy. Right now it is important for people to be able to jump into the middle of the story because some people will miss “episodes”. I think that limits the types of stories that can be told.

Not trying to complain I love the content. But I think longer story arcs will be harder with how things work right now.

It’s bugged on Sorrow’s Furnace as well.

Well this was meant to be a reply to this post by Martin Kerstein “Head of Global Community” but the thread is locked so I guess I will just post here…

Any information on other guild related bugs? The default “Leader” permissions for my guild have been incorrect since creating it. I filed a ticket a week ago and just got a response today saying my ticket had been forwarded to “the appropriate department” but that an ETA could not be given.

I have also seen other guild issues reported in the “guild bugs thread” such as problems with influence during server restarts and basic social functionality. These two are not things I have experienced so I can not provide further details and maybe they were fixed in the last day or two, but my point is these are some of the major guild bugs people are experiencing.

So additional information about plans to deal with server transfers and guild-per-account caps is very welcome. But it’s a bit frustrating to get a post on guild issues that does not address any of the outstanding bugs people are experiencing.

Six days ago (Sept. 14) I filed ticket 120915-000563 and have gotten nothing but the automatic response. I know it’s not a priority issue but some sort of feedback would be nice…

You are mistaken caasig, this thread was started by ArenaNet and they have replied several times. Although I admit I am getting frustrated as well.

With Battle of Claw Island what worked for me was choosing my battles. It’s a big map for a story mission and there is a lot of chaos going on all over the place. In the first half of the mission you have very specific goals, none of which include killing monsters. Just don’t get distracted and try to kill every Risen in your path.

Same here, I have had a ticket open since the 14th (120915-000563) but no response yet.

Created guild and then as guild leader did not have permissions to do anything but invite and change rank names.

Server: Sorrow’s Furnace
Guild: Forging Mettle [FM]