Guild Wars 2

I’m positive it will be 250.

HoT release HP amounts caused rage, and if they release PoF with a HP requirement higher than the current, there will also be rage.

ANet have stated that HoT and PoF are independent, there are no HoT mastery requirements (or even HoT mastery bonus content, to my knowledge) in any PoF content.

You will be down in mastery point level (ie, the number shown above your head) but in practical mastery point usage, PoF masteries are totally different to HoT masteries (you can not, for instance, farm HoT mastery points and then spend them on PoF content).

In terms of elite specs, no you will not be at a disadvantage. You can only equip one elite spec at a time, so you can not access greatsword as a weapon or the reaper spec line if you are a scourge and vice-versa, so the only disadvantage you would have in pvp is not having access to reaper as a build yourself

Would be nice to be able to test the other mounts rather than just the raptor, but I’m looking forward to a few more hours of scourging, anyway

No. Devs have said they are aware people want build templates, but they are not a priority and will not be a part of PoF release

negativity is always more readily expressed than positivity

There is no other way, as the NA and EU megaservers are separate data centres. you either need two accounts, or to pay to transfer

Not that I am aware of. in game in the glider preview, dyable gliders have “This glider can be dyed” at the top of the mouseover description

over the top cosmetics are what bring in money in an F2P business model. GW2 has shifted from game sales to gem store sales being their focus. for them to honour their “cosmetic and convenience” only gem store approach, the items in the gem store have to be flashy, visually appealing and make people stand out from non-spenders. this is what gets people to open their wallets in an F2P game where buying your way to the top of WvW/PvP isn’t really an option

Arden.7480:

I read Hamsters… I need some rest. Kappa

Please add hamsters to the game, then buff them, ANet

The developers periodically add new hairstyles to the game over time, not just for big patches or content releases

Almost everyone when they talk about PvE survivability are talking about berserker stats.

A lot of people forget about the fact that berserker is only one of many ways to build and play, and not the be all and end all of PvE content

I expect any mount not part of the core mastery ones to be skins for the core ones, unless we get more as part of LS4 or can at some point use Aurene as a mount

Is the game fully downloaded, or are you trying to launch while only at “playable” download levels?

If you are launching before the game is fully downloaded, you will have to wait for all assets needed in that particular instance to be downloaded before the game will finish loading

I had this issue myself (buying multiple copies of PoF to give away)

Wait a few hours and try purchasing again, that did the trick for me

melee players are not punished, but melee players have to be a lot more active in their role to be effective. this is the trade off over range. ranged weapons allow you to sit back and mindlessly button spam for relatively lower dps. melee requires a lot more attention be paid to stay alive, but results in far higher overall dps if you are doing everything as you should be.

I don;t see what the issue is, unless you are treating melee with the same brain-turned-off approach as you can do ranged

yes, they are exclusive to PoF

You can lightly tap the key, rather than hold the key for much shorter jumps, including a “normal” jump

I believe someo0ne at ANet explained that they have never used capes/cloaks as a backpiece item because of the severe amount of clipping that was involved in development stages that they simply had no way to fix.

I would love it if they could, but from what I remember, there are genuine engine-related reasons why they don’t have capes and cloaks

I believe the content would have to be remade entirely from the ground up. I remember some ANet developers saying that S1 content was designed completely with it’s temporary status in mind, so to recreate anything from season 1 would mean completely rebuilding it all.

It seems like it would be a nice idea, especially for those people who never got to experience season 1 firsthand, but at the same time I doubt Anet will put the resources needed in to re-developing old content

Having exactly the same issue here

there have been a good amount of “simple but elegant” designs in the gem store/black lion ticket traders. Simple fact is I doubt these bring in anywhere near as many gem sales as “flashy particle” skins.

If the visual noise of other players bothers you that much, set your player render counter to the lowest level possible so you don’t see the horrible flashy things that offend your eyes.

Fine by me. Almost every single company I can think of that offers a service offers new customers a far better deal than existing customers.

It should also be noted that new players will have to spend to get access to LS2 and 3, whereas most veteran players I expect to have all of those unlocked purely by virtue of logging on when those episodes were active.

This same argument was thrown around non stop when the game went F2P (wah, wah, what about the people who spent money on the base game!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111111111111111oneone)

GW2’s progression and exploration system utilises scaling, meaning every zone (bar the very low level ones) pose valid and decent challenge to most players regardless of level.

I for one absolutely love that you can’t just decimate low level things on a maxed out character and that no matter how strong you get every map is still a valid place to explore and do events in

OP is likely in the extreme minority. I have every bank tab unlocked and never come close to using all of the space

considering everything you get, on top of the $50 worth of gems, yes, the ultimate edition is by far the best value of the entire lot

PoF is independent of HoT in that neither expanson requires the other, so I highly doubt that there will be any HoT exclusive mastery content in PoF, unless it’s to access easter egg content hidden on maps somewhere

The Path Finder.3197:

I’d like a Guild where friendships form and people level together, do dungeons together and develop into wvw, fractal, raiders and pvpers and keep together. That is all. But if you are in other guilds you will make friendships there to regardless of quality of the guilds. Thus you will spend time criss crossing, and focus split. Some people like that, but even as a player before I even made a Guild I hated that in Guilds in GW2. I am used to other MMOs but I love the other Elements of GW2.

I am active in 3 guilds, I have friends in all of them. do regular events with all of them and am proud to be a part of all of them.

Make your guild welcoming, pleasant to be in and enjoyable to chat to, and friendships will form, content can be done together and your guild will grow with members loyal to it. You don’t need to be the only guild someone is a part of to be a hub for their friendships and interpersonal development, you just need to run a good guild.

If you want to run a guild that is 100% rep, boot anyone not repping, which can easily be seen in the members list.

Refusing people access to other communities just to try and inflate your kitten seems absurd to me. If you want people to be loyal to your guild, put the effort in to making your guild worth repping all the time, instead of removing people’s choices.

I for one would never join a guild with that sort of mindset

Danikat.8537:

rapthorne.7345:

Would keep everything about the game as it is, but overhaul the engine for better performance all round. The current game engine is very poorly optimised and it’s performance will only get worse as time goes on.

Other than that, I’d maybe make all gem store items tradable. Would give people more reason to buy gems, stimulate the economy, boost GW2’s revenue and allow free players who are unable to buy gems themselves purchase gem store items from other players

I thought free players could buy gems. They can’t convert gold to gems and can’t buy certain gem store items (like gliders) but they can buy gems with real money.

I mean in terms of people who are unable to afford gem purchases, rather than being restricted from making use of gems.

Having been an unemployed gamer in the past, I know how much it sucks to have so much epicness locked behind a paywall you can’t get around if you enjoy having food and shelter to last you.

Because I love GW2 and will preorder any expansion they release to support the developers of the game I love.

The gems and extra exclusive content also helps. I know I will buy the expansion sooner or later, so why not sooner and get a load of gems and exclusive content along with it?

But honestly mainly because I want to continue with the story, explore the new parts of the world, dash around on mounts and see what other innovations PoF allows Anet to bring to the table.

Only thing I want changed about the current UI is combat UI gauge hover text should auto update without having to manually unhover and hover again.

I deeply enjoy the minimalist aesthetic the UI has, many of your ideas would involve adding a kittenload of eyesore to the UI

Would keep everything about the game as it is, but overhaul the engine for better performance all round. The current game engine is very poorly optimised and it’s performance will only get worse as time goes on.

Other than that, I’d maybe make all gem store items tradable. Would give people more reason to buy gems, stimulate the economy, boost GW2’s revenue and allow free players who are unable to buy gems themselves purchase gem store items from other players

GreyWolf.8670:

May I ask what’s in DX11/12 that’s not in DX9 that you think would make a difference?

Far better GPU utilization and multi core support, mainly. When the vast majority of people who game have at minimum a dual core processor with hyperthreading, and pretty much every GPU that’s been manufactured since 2010, integrated or dedicated, has built in support for directx11+, it seems like a very poor decision not to develop these technologies when there’s almost no instances where the end user will not benefit, and a huge amount where the end user will.

I run a modern system (Ryzen 6 core 12 thread, GTX 1070, 16GB ram) and my system’s resources are barely dented by GW2, yet I see terrible frame rates and scene skipping due to how the engine is forced to render objects.

I can play other MMORPGs at much higher latencies than I play GW2 at, and run at 100+ fps maxed out entirely with thousands of objects and millions of particles on display without issue, yet a WvW zerg can have GW2 running at 30fps or lower.

Even if not a DirectX support integration, at the very least there are a vast amount of areas where the game should be optimised for performance where it is clearly lacking.

I love GW2, but bugger me the terrible optimisation and use of resources are jarring

The devs said they added so much to the engine for the new elites, but will we ever see DX11/12 support?

I suppose this will be a long term balance issue, but from what we know so far, what do you guys think? Does the scourge have enough utility and usefulness overall to make it worth sacrificing shroud?

I for one am really happy to see a spec for necro that gives us some support utility, but I’m not sure I’m convinced it’s worth losing shroud. I may play PoF through as a reaper.

Great and fast growing youtube channel that covers many MMOs give their opinion on GW2

I think the most popular class is probably either ranger or warrior, both are very strong classes that are incredibly simple to play.

On the least popular side, probably Engineer or Mesmer, as they both require a high level of skill to play well

Try changing from full screen to borderless windowed mode

A commander prefix in maps would be helpful, too. mentors get one when their tag requires 0 effort to actually get, and commanders have to dump a significant amount of gold for their dorito (which still needs black and white flavours, by the way).

But yes, a way to describing exactly what I’m using my tag for on a map that someone could see at a glance would actually be a great help

I for one would like to see a “new” elona embraced. too many people have hang ups and want throwbacks to GW1 when we have so much of the world steeped in GW1 lore already (and even a class dedicated in it’s entirety to GW1 references).

Elona has been split off from Tyria for 250 years, why not embrace whatever the “new” elona has become, and base the new classes on Elona’s current events, whatever those happen to be.

Don’t get me wrong, I love GW1, but this game is stuffed full of GW1 lore and references as it is. It’s time for something new

this is an issue that can happen sometimes after a windows update. the quickest and easiest way to fix this problem is by following the “reinstall windows apps” option at this link, using powershell http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/has-your-windows-10-start-menu-stopped-working-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532

just follow the instructions regarding copying and pasting a command in to powershell (about half way down the page), and leave it to do it’s thing for a few minutes – after the process completes, the start menu should be fully working

I currently use a Corsair Void gaming headset, it’s a single jack headset which comes with an optional USB adaptor for digital sound quality and dolby surround. great set without 100 different buttons – just a simple mic mute and volume controls on the left earcup and optional equaliser software you can install on your system

Amazing quality for the price (Brand new £54.99) and has lasted me a year so far without any problems. Also really comfortable to wear with glasses, too.

WP has patreon for people who want to support him directly, and I think that’s a great idea – putting the power (and the money) directly in the hands of the creators. given that gem purchases are done via the in-game clint, and most people that buy gems will do so regardless of whether they watch a content creator or not, I don’t see a good reason to implement this.

having affiliate codes for the expansion is useful for the content creators as don’t forget the base game is now free, so free players might see a WP video/AP stream, and think “kitten yeah, HoT looks kittenloads of fun thanks to this content creator, let’s buy that kitten using this dude’s link”

when you say it won’t start, can you open the launcher, and not the main game application, or will not even the launcher open?

If you can open the launcher but not the game, and have recently updated to the creators windows 10 update, there is a current issue with overlay programs, particularly MSI afterburner, many overlay programs are not letting GW2 run, so you can either update them and see if that fixes it, or disable them for GW2

You can obtain level 80 exotic gear from WvW Badge of Honor turn ins, a myriad of PvP/WvW reward tracks, as general drops, purchased from others on the TP, various mastery vendors in HoT if you own the expansion, and the Orr temples after completing the meta event to bring them under pact control.

Crafting is by far the most tedious and likely one of the more expensive ways to obtain exotic equipment

Prime Shock.9386:

Here is a hypothetical for you and it’s one that may need to be cleared up with a dev on whether or not it’s allowed.

Arenanet allows for macro’s on the basis of one click one action, therefore you could have a mouse button that would macro to your dodge key. Additionally you are able to set keybinds ingame, if you were to set your secondary jump key to the same mouse button, would that go against terms of service. Specifically, this scenario fulfills requirement 1 of a macro,

“This means that if you program a macro, it must require one keystroke per action. You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions.”

As the macro is only programmed to do one action. But it could still be argued that it’s against the ToS as one key press is doing two actions. The wording needs to be a little more clear on Arenanets side.

smartarsery aside, if one key performs multiple fuctions, it’s not allowed, the only exception to this is musical instrument song macroing.

Playing with technicalities is an easy way to get yourself banhammered.

Best rule of thumb: if you have to theorycraft whether it “might” be against the rules, it probably is and just avoid it, for the sake of keeping your account in good standing

An SSD will have no impact on FPS what so ever unless you are having severe item pop-in issues that lower frame rate, an SSD will improve load times between zones and likely stop any “pop in” objects if you experience them. FPS increases will only be achieved with better hardware, or killing off background processes to free up system resources while you play

GW2 is a very CPU heavy game (relies on CPU for most calculations, rather than efficiently handing off to GPU, this is a major drawback of DX9 engines) and your processor is both very low clock and a low end CPU opverall (only having 2 physical cores with hyperthreading)

The only way you will get any reasonable performance increase is by replacing your laptop. I strongly advise making use of a desktop for gaming purposes as it’s better value for money (you get way more performance from a £500 desktop than you would a £500 laptop). Laptop gaming on low-end laptops tends to lead to severe overheating and can shorten the lifespan of the laptop in general.

Unless you need a laptop for mobility purposes (business on the go, etc), invest in a desktop. Even a low end budget desktop will blast most laptop performance out of the water

Can confirm that GW2 was not loading past the launcher post-creator update, and rivatuner was the cause. updating rivatuner to the beta 7.0 version fixed the issue.

Rivatuner Statistics Server = on screen overlay of system performance specs used by MSI Afterburner

Would much rather have slower, but higher quality releases, than a bunch of rushed messes. Keep doing what you do, Anet!

Great storyline and good episode overall, until the final fight. I have never experienced a more tedious and frustrating fight in all of GW2. The final fight is a massive clusterkitten that just isn’t enjoyable in any way.