Guild Wars 2

To: Arenanet

Has any thought been given to crafting with regards to the release of Ascended gear? Currently, only the rings are in competition vis a vis crafted Exotic jewellery, and the rings require a fairly significant time investment in FOTM to obtain, hence there is still some demand left for Exotic rings.

But with amulets coming up, and others to come, I worry that crafting will simply become useless. In particular, it appears that rings will come next. By this stage, the entire jewellery crafting skill will be useless, since Ascended > Exotics. Is anything being done to rectify this? Or is it intended for all crafting skills to eventually become obsolete due to Ascended gear?

IF there ARE plans to make Ascended gear craftable, why hasn’t it been added for the current Ascended jewellery available? The impact of Ascended gear on crafting skills isn’t fair if this is the case.

Any thoughts on any modifications/new builds now that AH has taken a sizeable nerf? Would a meditation-based Monk’s Focus build be better now? Or perhaps this makes Empowering Might crucial to maintain AH healing?

Quick question, according to patch notes, “Non-infused Ascended Rings will no longer drop after scale 24”

Just seeking clarification here, does this mean scale24 itself will still drop non-infused rings? (ie. only scale >= 26 will stop dropping non-infused rings)

The authentication email is being MASSIVELY delayed, please look into this.

I am unable to log into the game because I specified for authentication for every log-in attempt.

However, it appears that forum authentication emails are working, albeit still slower than usual.

EDIT: I have bypassed this by using the forum log-in authentication email to “remember” my network, and then logging into the game, but the fact still stands that I have not received any authentication email from the past 3 log-in attempts. And they are not in my junk mail either.

We have already seen that it has gotten increasingly harder to find groups for Story Mode dungeons, and the recently released FOTM dungeon (with its levels) is only going to exacerbate the problem. It is insufficient to rely on “new” players coming into the game to fill the gap of lower tiers of dungeons, and hence I propose these suggestions:

1) Remove Story Mode requirements for doing Explorables. (To some extent you can already skip this just by having 1 person who has unlocked Exp, but this forces you to be reliant on others having done it.)

2) Incentivise Story Mode: Make Story Mode give double the current Exp rewards for the very first time you run it, and make it give the same rewards as Exp for the first time you run it in a day/week.

3) Relax the FOTM level system. Allow a group to start a Fractal on the highest level of any player in the group, but each player still advances at his own individual level. eg. Level1 joining a Level10 Fractal, completes 3 rounds, and advances to Level2, not Level11.

1) Will we get mailed the fractal tokens we were supposed to get?

2) There should be a public announcement to INFORM everyone that the token rewards are MISTAKENLY being subjected to RNG.