Guild Wars 2

Jaken.6801:

• A Revenant suprise (a NPC reveannt, who channels Koss)

I would absolutely adore that.
I imagine the NPC being annoyed to the point of a nervous breakdown because he can’t invoke the legend without hearing the voice of Koss in his head constantly going on and on and on about how awesome he and his adventures were.
But he can’t afford not to use it because it’s so strong.

I was actually thinking of switching to my warrior for this, condi dps with longbow seems like it would wreck face here. Most melee builds just suffer too much from the constant blinds to get enough hits in.

Thanks for the tip, but I don’t have bandwidth issues if that’s what you mean. And all other services, websites and games work perfectly at the same time.

Of course it could be a routing problem, gw2 has been struggling with those since launch – especially in certain European regions – but I’m unlikely to affect that by talking to my ISP.

Everyone I play with (all from Germany, Austria and Switzerland) has the same problem during patches so I always assumed it was normal. Admittedly a small sample size but I’ve had the issues through a move, 4 different ISPs and varying network as well as pc hardware, so it’s unlikely something I can change.

It’s not a big problem, just always found it weird and slightly annoying, just thought it’s interesting within the context of the current problems.

I always assumed the forums are on the same server as the login and update services? Because every time a patch comes out I can’t access the forum for ages.

Always struck me as insane that I can’t read patch notes while loading a patch…or for hours after. :x

Sarevok.2638:

If you cannot see them try this

Set your volume sliders EXCEPT music to high, ensure that Mute GW2 when in background is unchecked.

Goto a very quiet area without much ambient noise, many of the open ascalon fields are good for this (Don’t go into the corrupted area as thunderclaps tend to happen around there)

Here switch windows and amuse yourself with web pages or something that won’t cause too much noise. When you hear a buzzing sound, switch back and QUICKLY look around you, you will have extremely little time, the Anolomy should be there, touch it.

You must have completed the Ley-line Anolomy event in previous CEs to get this to happen.

This worked really well for me, thank you so much, been searching my kitten off!
Stood in the Hall of Monuments as per earlier suggestions, so there was zero sound interference from others, heard the buzz after a few minutes, got my achiev, thanks be to the almighty forum. <3

Oh god sorry, I meant Favor, not Influence. :x

Edited for better understanding, thanks for pointing it out.

Had a discussion with our other alliance guild leaders yesterday.

Question: Does Favor have a use after maxing out the guild hall? Otherwise wouldn’t it be a good idea to make Scribing blueprints more expensive to build, but able to queue them infinitely after building them once, only with an added Favor cost?

That way we still see use for Favor after building all the upgrades, keep the Scribing level difficulty up and make Guild Consumables viable for smaller guilds, especially for WvW, but still keeping them gated so you have to seriously consider how and when to use them.

Also removes PvE farming for those many many WvW-players who would just like to play their preferred content type. I get wanting to get people to try your different game types, but grinding wood is not how you get WvW/PvP people to enjoy your PvE content. :P

We also used to have the problem in WvW, where wealth meant more spammable blueprints and Keep upgrades, which ArenaNet tried to remove by making the objectives upgrade free and automagically. But now those old costs were more or less rolled into the WvW Guild Consumables, so I feel the Favor cost instead of building a new scribing blueprint everytime would be a solution for that.

It could bring its own problems, like bigger WvW guilds creating smaller proxy guilds to get access to more Favor, but that is probably preferable because they can’t buy Favor with raw wealth, they would still have to invest time into all the guild missions, which seems perfectly acceptable to me.

Also: Pigments were introduced to collect tears from scribes. When I reached 75 I partied so hard thinking I could now use red pigments instead of brown pigments. ZONK!
You need red ones on TOP of the brown ones. Back to the potato fields it is!

This isn’t about the costs for upgrades, which are high, but even my small-to-mid-sized guild can manage them and everybody can have ALL THE THINGS eventually.

This is about the feasability of Scribing recipes.

Now I have no problem with it being expensive to level, it’s not supposed to be a one-man crafting profession, but when Guild Banners cost more than you get from using them, something is clearly wrong.

Just one example:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Gathering_Boost_Banner_Schematic
^ Hint: click “Show base ingredients” to show the real costs, it doesn’t look daunting at first glance.

Now this isn’t the ‘most’ expensive thing to build, but for most guilds it will probably not recuperate the cost, especially since you’ve got to farm for soft wood specifically (or you buy it for outrageous prices, which, yes, will probably go down eventually) and most people farm alone and don’t run around in group chopping wood.

Maybe this is intended just for really big guilds who do organized group farm runs, and if that’s the case then that’s OK, I’ll just use it to skill my scribe and never touch it again. At least we have tavern boosts.
It’s just a shame because it USED to be feasible for small guilds when we could get them through influence.

^ Basically the same goes for practically all the WvW recipes I’ve seen so far, especially the influence bit. They’re cheaper than banners but you would use them way more often, if you could afford to.

Decorations are HELLA expensive as well, especially considering you get ONE chair for materials that by all rights should give you a throne that makes you coffee while it kills a world boss for you. And my scribe is only skill 130.
I have no idea how our guild is supposed to populate our huge hall with some ambient decorations with costs like these. Especially the flax and sand amounts for one table or some such. Should’ve bought more pumpkins. :x

Like I said, I get that scribe is supposed to take a while and lots of materials to level, but couldn’t that just mean that indiviual items give less exp and cost fewer materials? That’d make the time to level it about the same, but we could get more things for our guild out of them and make others at least usable. I’m not sure how hard that would hit material prices though, so not 100% sure about this. But a suggestion at least. A little bit but often would definitely give a better sense of progression and keep us more motivated.

But what I saw today almost made me a bit angry. Our Guild Trader (level 2) offered to give me Bloodstone Dust…for a Guild Commendation. This came to mind: http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/imagecache/Node_Page/images/1287666826226.png

The new Guild Trader stuff has never been particularly enticing, but to me this just seems to bait players into making bad choices, especially considering the good things you could and can get with commendations.

All in all I LOVE the new guild system, it has pulled our guild together to build something great. We love our hall, especially the characterful NPCs.

But some things could use some tuning (not a lot mind, but some) and others are just plain insulting. Bloodstone Dust, really? :\

EDIT: My fellow guild leader just reminded me of something else: Guild Portal to PvP Lobby? Really?
I don’t really care but it is a tad pointless. ^^
Guild Hall Instances are a bit small as well, I get that you need to save server space, but 10-man would be nice? :\

I heartily agree, I actually looked for a feedback sub-forum for several minutes and was confused I couldn’t find one.

Would also make it easier for players to use the seach function to see if what they want to report has already been said enough times.

I was just literally thinking the same thing. I loved the holidays in GW1 and would love some more festivities in its successor.

Plus there’s already Dragon Bash, Festival of the Four Winds and stuff you could easily bring back after some tweaking.

Race-specific holidays/festivities/events (for example in the case of the Asura maybe contests or some other thing that allows them to show off their egoeeeeh I mean inventions) would be nice too, something we already got a taste of at the Queen’s Jubilee. Would show some solidarity, spread the respective culture and give our roleplayers excellent fodder.

I personally don’t really need a calendar, but it would definitely be a nice touch.

@Zimba: Thank you.
I’ve been there already though and it’s 11 months old. The game wasn’t even released then.
Some confirmation would be nice.

Recently some discussions have popped up about how WvW queues and per server player limits work.
Some people claim that there is no such thing as a per server limit and that one server can fill up one map almost by itself, barring the opposition from getting in.

You’ve stated many times that these limits do in fact exist, but I didn’t really find any information on how exactly it works right now. Most of the things I found were vague or outdated (I do believe the numbers changed at least once if I remember correctly).

So what I’d really love is a clear dev post on how the player map/server limits and the queuing system currently work (how many per map, per server, whole WvW limit, etc) both as a definite information source to point at to stop frankly annoying discussions and to satisfy my own curiosity.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I know you guys are all very busy at the moment, fixing things, improving systems, creating content and reading aggressively worded feedback. So thank you for your hard work and I hope you do try and get some rest in the coming holiday season. <3 (so you can go back to slaving over the game for us afterwards :P)