Guild Wars 2

I agree. Spoilers The story instance within Scarlet’s old room was one of the most interesting story instances I’ve personally experienced yet.

As long as the Ogden’s Hammer guy is safe, the others don’t matter!

Whatever happens in the next update, it will be about what is inside that hole the drill is working on.

It has plagued us since GW2’s release, I am talking about those random disconnects you get near the end of Tequatl, or as you suddenly find that enemy zerg in WvW, or as Peneloopee intimidates you with “Coo!”. As I am sure many others like myself are becoming rather irritated by these disconnects, I would like to propose an option or two on how Anet could resolve the issue.

Solution #1: The most common that many have suggested here on the forums; allow a 1-minute grace period for players that disconnect. Effectively, this will reserve the disconnected players’ spot on the map for one minute after their moment of disconnect. After that duration is up, the spot is then open to anyone else trying to get into the map.

This solution would be very effective, as these random disconnects are usually a sudden kick from the server which you can immediately log back in to within a short space of time. Therefore, if a 1-minute grace period was in place, the player will experience the sudden horror of a disconnect, but then quickly reboot the game and log back in and safely enter back onto the same map, feeling pleased.

Solution #2: Now this one is far more complex to implement, but the main mechanics are already in place. What I propose is a queue system nearly identical to what we currently have for WvW borderlands, but for regular maps.

So taking an alternative look from solution #1, here the player would disconnect and log back in as fast as they could. Upon logging in, they would then click the ‘Join in X’ from a party member’s portrait, and if the map is full they would be put into a queue for that map.

I am terrible with words, so I have attached two graphics which explains this the best I could visually (of course, no bonus points for pointing out my terrible image editing skills).

The first graphic details the current issue I am raising, and the second is the solution #2 I am giving here.

Thank you all for reading, and hopefully we won’t have to experience the frustration of the random disconnects ever again!

Tl;dr – Take a look at the graphics.

Then everyone will run around with the title that gives the best buff.

Like most other things in this game, it should stay purely cosmetic.

Did not see why they needed to change it, but the old version definitely has to return – I want to be able to convert custom amounts, not fixed amounts.

1) You can turn it off in your Options. Otherwise, I really don’t understand how it has impacted your “steering”? Simply removing it would make a lot of players angry, especially as it is already an optional component.

2) See the latest patch notes:

Notes

“Altered arrow cart line-of-sight checks to be more restrictive.” – Source

“Victor of RNG”
“Most Valuable Account To Hack”
“San Frantyrian Gambler”
“Pixel Devourer”
“Purple Appreciator”
“I Could Have Bought Fifty Precursors”
“Gambling > Giving To The Lion’s Arch Homeless” (Probably have the “>” the wrong way)
“I Challenge You To A Game Of Risk”
“I Like Big Globs And I Cannot Lie”

Okay, so I got a little carried away.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the Maguuma achievement this morning, but I honestly think it was just an oversight on the developer’s part, and the achievements were not updated.

It would be nice if they could be updated at some time, as I am quite convinced we will be seeing more of Maguuma in the future.

Well said.

Tigaseye.2047:

No, it’s not better.

Or, it’s not better than the game I played before.

It looks better, it’s more female-friendly than the other game’s current xpac (visually speaking) and levelling is more fun, but it’s not fundamentally better.

In fact, it’s definitely worse.

All of which are subjective statements, and that is perfectly fine, but personally I have found it difficult to return to other MMO’s after experiencing this one, for all the reasons the OP stated.

I find it likely it will be there forever (of course, until the servers are closed in 10/20/30 years or whatever).

Everything else about the new wallet is fine in my opinion, but I have to agree that the lost quality of life with the hover-over wallet information will be just that – reduced quality of life. As nitpicky as it can be, it would be nice if ever possible to have that small functionality back. Other than that, looking forward to the update and drunken LA parties.

Derigar.7810:

They thought for months on end about the specialisations and the theme / feel they should give. Druid fits in the Jungle theme. Chronomancer fits in the Jungle theme. Dragonhunter FITS IN THE JUNGLE THEME.

I fail to see how ‘Chronomancer’ fits in this ‘Jungle Theme’.

(Edit: As the thread was merged, thought I’d add a quote to which post I was commenting about)

Those who had purchased the game before January 2015 are given a free character slot, on top of any other character slots that are offered from the Deluxe and Ultimate editions.

I recommend you skim through this blog, which details most of those additions.

Similarly, the expansion would have cost $50 regardless of whether the core game was included or not – the core game is a free edition to help new players into the franchise, and it is how all of ANets expansions will work in the future for Guild Wars 2.

Wipe that smile off of your face Miya!

You can transfer it into gold (or maybe, 2 silver) by clicking the bottom right icon “Custom Exchange/Amount” when on the gold to gem transfer page of the gem store.

As it is not available at this moment, part of me thinks it will never be available. Of course though, it could eventually appear (possible it might after the expansion drops and sales die down a little) – no one really knows for certain at this moment, except ANet of course.

Duration of play does not alter the credibility of someone’s suggestion.

You will find just as many “narrow-minded” (as you say) suggestions from those who have played a profession for 1,000+ hours, as from those who have played it for 3 hours.

As for invitational CDI’s, those would not be fair; everyone should be free to have their own input to how they feel a profession should be changed. It seems elitist itself to prevent someone from suggesting if they have only a few hours of play time.

JUN YANG.4328:

first: outfit replace armor skin.
second: no main updated. for 8 month (not included new skin system)
third: pricing for HOT
forth: those new weapon for class. ( war horn for ele, torch for war, staff for Thief)

1) Armor skins still exist, as do Outfits.

2) There have been several updates, such as the Lunar event 6 months ago, the rebuilding of Lion’s Arch in June, as well as the massive Specialization change the same day. Although I must agree there has been a lack of content updates.

3) That complaint was rectified.

4) Those complaints were all subjective opinions, not something that Anet did wrong; some of the community for whichever profession received warhorn/torch would have been frustrated regardless. I am sure there are some that are annoyed at Necromancer’s receiving the Greatsword. Subjective opinions are that – subjective.

If it was another player that told you that, then they were just trolling you by the sound of it.

I have never heard of anyone else being “blacklisted”, the only thing that can happen is an account ban. Or maybe they just put you on their block list, which won’t affect you at all.

You are not being forced to use the new Elite Specialization – they are not superior, simply new.

And yes, you are correct that you will only be able to equip 3 Specialization lines at any time (at least until Anet change something). Although I doubt any change will come to that any time soon, at least until we have a larger selection of Specializations to choose from.

It will likely work the same as the current unidentified dyes; you will have a chance at finding a dye that you already have unlocked.

I can’t say this for fact though, as I can’t log in to test at the moment.

That is not an exploit.

They were still there. After that fight, you could find them northward a little and they would have a conversation.

Nevertheless, they are still a little fishy.

skullmount.1758:

Warhorn is useless (unless they somehow made it main hand instead).

We can’t make claims like that until we have seen the blog and the livestream at the end of the week. So if, after the blog and livestream, the skills are mediocre, then yes we can call it useless.

It just makes me frown a little whenever I see people making assumptions about things they haven’t seen the details for yet.

WhiteOwl.9310:

Is there, in the future, going to be a HoT expansion only version released? (Even if it’s not available for pre-purchase, will there potentially be one released at a later date?)

I’m asking because I, like many people, have had this game for a while (I’ve had it for about 2 years or so). At the time, I paid pretty much the exact same price as the standard pre-purchase edition is costing now. It was expensive. I love GW2, but I think the expansion just isn’t reasonably priced if you already own it. I know there’s the bonus perk of an extra character slot if you own it already…but I feel like that doesn’t quite balance out having to pay for the game again, essentially.

I understand that it’s to make it easy for new-comers to get in, which is awesome, I totally support having the core edition and the expansion sold as one for those people. It’s a fair price if you don’t own the game at all. But for everyone else who already owns the game, and has done for a while now, I feel there should be an “expansion only” version.

You aren’t paying for the core game again, the expansion would have been $50 base with or without the core game added in – that was solely there to bridge the purchase gap for newer players arriving.

This discussion has been taking place en masse since June.

Great post OP, and I cannot agree with you more. And to anyone that hasn’t already, do read the link provided by the OP, the examples are quite touching.

I am certainly happy to purchase the expansion, I am just holding off to see if I can get a physical box from a retailer once those are available after June 23rd, otherwise a digital copy is fine – after 2,500 hours of entertainment for ~£40, I won’t hesitate to give them more for some thousands of more hours.

Season 2 can be purchased with gems, which can be purchased with in-game gold without having to spend a real life dime. It is completely optional for you to spend more on the game than the base cost, and that can be said for many things currently available – 250 gems per episode is not difficult to reach with converting gold to gems (about 40 gold per episode after the anniversary inflation dies down).

Further, if you really want to experience it without buying it, you can simply party up with someone that has access to it and run all 8 episodes with them (of course though, you won’t get any loot or achievements, merely experience the story).

Skimming through the Heart of Thorns sub-forum, it must be tough for developers to consolidate all of the feedback on the numerous areas they wanted us to test for BWE1. So I would just like to quickly mention a very simple approach that can be taken with the next beta weekend event to help consolidate the players’ responses/opinions/feedback.

Simply, have several main forum threads/topics within the Heart of Thorns sub-forum dedicated to the feedback of each aspect they want us to test.

Have one that asks for feedback and responses to the Day/night cycle, have another discussing masteries and whether or not the progression is balanced. Have one on the Revenant, and one for elite specializations, and so on.

With that, everyone can post their opinions to a specific thread that a developer can then read through, pick out the common points, and address them (perhaps even updating the first post to detail common opinions of players and their comments on how to address them). This would not only help developers, but it would help players in communicating feedback through the forums.

Players will still be able to create their own threads detailing their BWE experience if they wish.

The players that do that are likely the players that don’t read the forums, so if it is truly annoying you, type something in say chat when it occurs or whisper the player(s).

They can’t be banned for it, but if you explain to them exactly why pulling the mobs into the field is useful, then they will likely learn something and not do it as often.

Well… one can wish.

Soap.6385:

I would recommend:

1. Test on a wekend, Sat-Sun, or Fri-Sat

As far as I can assume, most Anet employees don’t work on the weekend, and so it would not be wise to have a beta event on a day when there are fewer people to moderate it and fix any issues that arise as a result of it.

Tuesday has also been the long-term “patch day” for Guild Wars 2 for some time now, and makes sense as the most likely contender for a beta event as we can expect to have a larger patch this coming Tuesday where Anet can add a large amount of files they want us to test for the Stronghold map.

The event is 24 hours, most people should be free for at least 30 minutes to have a go at it if they so desire.

Yashuoa.9527:

I bought the game (preordered HoT) and I cant enter WvW at any lvl. It says I need to become lvl 31 first to unlock it.

So the WvW part that you describe is not correct.

That is correct to some degree. They hid the fact that new players can’t WvW until level 31, but if a new player were to head to Lion’s Arch and enter one of the WvW portals, they will be able to enter WvW instantly, at whichever level they arrive there as.

It is just hidden to try and not confuse new players by showing them everything they can do instantly.

It is a gold sink. And one of the main ones at that which helps keep the economy balanced.

Well, green names indicate allies, and blue names indicate party members.

If everyone on a particular server was suddenly given a certain coloured name tag, that would cause more confusion than it is worth.

If you bought the game through the official site, then you should have received the serial key via the e-mail that you used for your account. So do check faaaaaaaaar back in your inbox (unless you regularly delete e-mails) in case it is there.

Otherwise, like Pax said, write a support ticket and give as much information as you can.

You are in the beta.

Those beta slots on your character select are the characters you can create which you can then play in the new zone with. It is only through those beta slots that you can experience the beta currently. So if you wish to have a go at the beta, create a new character using one of those beta slots, the Revenant should be available there also.

The option is coming with Heart of Thorns. The addition of Guild Halls will bring with it an arena which will allow for guilds to battle it out against each other, in large or small groups.

Have a read here:

“Next, Josh, Jessica, and Jon went over some of the changes guild halls are bringing to Player vs. Player. Players will be able to build a guild arena in their hall and customize it to their liking by placing decorations—some of them more lethal than others. Obstacles that can be added to the arena include turrets, line-of-sight-blocking pillars, and lava pits. You can even set the rules to determine whether or not players can be knocked off the side of the arena to their deaths.

While the final number of players allowed in the arena hasn’t been nailed down, it’s currently possible to have forces as large as twenty or thirty doing battle at one time."

I don’t think Season 2 is necessary if you want to play Heart of Thorns.

Season 2 offers story instances, new gear and items, and achievements. The new maps that were introduced with Season 2 don’t require Season 2 to be purchased in order for you to play in them – so I would expect you will still be able to access Maguuma without purchasing Season 2, since you can run through those maps.

However, the story will be rather disconnected if you don’t play through Season 2 before the expansion, as it covered quite a lot about Mordremoth and what is leading up to the expansion storyline.

Jana.6831:

Already described it: have to turn your mouse more to get the same effect – rotation speed only helps that much and I have to adjust it with every (sometimes unnanounced) change made for first person view – which is annoying.

Hmm, I’ve never experienced my rotation speed randomly resetting or changing after an update, even throughout the first person view release. So I’m quite confident in saying that it isn’t the first person view that is creating those issues.

Well, with Heart of Thorns you will be able to see the chat of all of your Guilds you have joined at once (and I believe be able to filter which ones you want to see – correct me if I am wrong). So in a way, that can become an Alliance chat.

Edit: Here is the blog quote on that:

Blog

As of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, this will no longer be a problem; we’ll be introducing cross-guild chat. From your main guild panel, you’ll be able to assign which guilds you can chat to with new channels, /g1 through /g5. You can then decide which channels will be visible in your chat tabs. The existing guild chat channel, /g, will continue to chat to your currently represented guild. – Source

Arreyanne.2683:

Access to chats, guild banks, character slots i already paid for got 9 80’s would be really irritaed if they cut me back to 5 like the thing showed

Don’t worry – you won’t lose anything. Out of curiosity, where did you read that you would lose slots?

Edit: Ah I see from the comparison chart. I highly doubt they would suddenly limit core accounts to only 5 slots, and I believe that is in reference to the starting number of slots a core account is given (whereas a HoT account could potentially have 5 or 6, which is why it is given the “5 or more”).

Hope that clears it up – I am not too great at explaining things.

I was going to make a thread, but saw this on the exact same topic:

Thank you ANet for the entertainment from Twitch these past days; from the Quaggan Thoughts, to that one specific and fabulous Norn, I haven’t laughed so hard since Braham’s monotonous dialogue in the Epilogue of Season 1.

Hoping for more of this randomly spectacular entertainment in the future.

(Also, toaster lottery please!)

xDOLPHIN.9167:

Thanks for the quick answers, but when I mentioned a BETA slot on my character select screen, that was from a few weeks ago where the beta wasn’t accessible. Now that it’s accessible the slot is no longer there

Check all of your characters to make sure that some of them didn’t take up the beta slot somehow, or that any past beta characters aren’t still taking up a slot. Otherwise, if you can’t see 4 open beta slots on character select, and you definitely pre-purchased, then I would contact support.

Edit: Also check what Kyban mentioned and that the slots aren’t hiding off to the side of your screen.

See a recent thread that asked for similar things about Guilds:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/There-s-still-time-Feature-Pack-Sep-9/first#post4349384

I’ll quote my answer from there:

“Well, the next CDI starting up soon was announced to be about Guilds – and it specifically mentioned Guild vs Guild.

Half-way down page 21:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/21#post4340658

Here is the quote:

Hi All,
We will starting a CDI soon on…….Guilds.
It will be broken down into time boxed discussion sections such as Guild vs. Guild, Guild Activities, Managing Guilds, Guild Content etc.
I will update when I have more details on when we start. I am very much looking forward to it.
Chris"

The CDI is a discussion about a topic, in this case, Guilds. So it is likely we will see improvements to guilds at some point in the future, but that is just my calculation and opinion. I could well be wrong.

The leader was removed because it was even more unfair for a group to get through to the end of a dungeon and have the leader disconnect (ultimately closing the dungeon) or leaving, or anything similar before the others had a chance to get their loot. Now, as long as one member of the party are in the dungeon, it will not close, regardless of anyone that leaves the group, thus getting rid of that nuisance.

There were many posts asking for changes to the party leader system.

It is unfortunate that that happened to you, but it isn’t really the fault of the system, just the fault of the players. The only thing you can do is block them for your own pleasure, or only join groups you know aren’t acting like low idiots.

My concern with the healing though, is how would a Druid get credit for an event/kills/loot if they are solely focused on healing others?

This is especially crucial for WvW fights as an example – those on the Druid would receive significantly less credit for doing more work.