Guild Wars 2

Probably half the stream will be a corporate PR talk bundled with the name reveal and start of preorders. After that we should get short recap of season 3, list of main selling points like mounts and new specs and that’s probably it for today’s stream. Probably no release date yet tho they might say something like Q1 or Q2 2018.

Vayne.8563:

Einlanzer.1627:

I did not say it was a “fact”, however, common sense will tell you that any attempt at unnecessarily controlling players’ time or fantasy is ill-conceived, which both LW1 and the ranger pet thing represent.

It’s also a fact that not having LW1 in the game creates a big hole in the story that should be a priority for them to address.

And yet many people are saying Season 1 was the best living story season and they wish that would happen again. So it’s not a fact that it was a bad decision. It’s only a fact that you didn’t like it.

Well there are people who defend Warner Bros. and their decisions regarding Shadow of War.

Tongku.5326:

Harper.4173:

Kidel.2057:

I’m pretty sure he said you need 2 players keeping cc on the boss while the others glide away. Am I wrong?
However with similar gimmicks coming into place I can definitely see a change in the full zerker meta.

So I can’t cc as full zerker now? My hammer CCs on warrior require me to wear PVT armor?

Not necessarily, you can still do it, but someone else will have to keep you up and provide prot, regen, stability, group cleansing, aegis, etc. as it was stated earlier in today’s feed on twitch.

All that can be done with any gear.

Djinn.9245:

Randulf.7614:

One of the big feedbacks from the. community was for raids to avoid significant story continuations in raids. Casual players or non raiders did not want to be forced i to raiding to find out whst happens next. Any story in the first three raids was recapped by any npc in bloodstone fen, which worked well

Was it? I didn’t play GW1 and I don’t remember it being explained to me what was going on. They have this huge story about Lazarus – who is Lazarus and why do we care?

I have since learned the story from videos, but I had no idea at the time I was playing it.

They did not explain anything in raids. I raid every week and I have no clue why Lazarus is important and who that Saul D’Alessio is and why we even went to that prison.
Making story mode will just create more questions since story makes sense only if you played gw1 or watched lore videos.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Vinceman.4572:

As always:

Organize

your

own

group!

Nothing easier than that, but stop complaining about pugs not even able to handle boss mechanics when you are on your way back to this forum afterwards .

How?

See screenshot.
Here is a nice guide too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jra3jV_ckYg

A bit old but still relevant.

This crafting system is used in korean grind/rng MMOs. And it is not very well received there. It is pretty good way to completely kill crafting system.

Rip build diversity, rip revenant, rip everything but mirror comp. Noice.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeated
“During the beta stages this status was referred as “death” in several descriptions. This change reflects the fact in lore that resurrections are no longer as easy since the Human Gods pulled back their avatars and ceased direct interaction with Tyria. Because of this, defeated players are never considered to be dead in lore."

Kinda meh but it is official lore.

/deaths command is there because game runs on gw1 engine.

STIHL.2489:

egotistical elitist entitled jerks

Could you please make a list of things they are entitled to? It would be very useful.

Dimitris.3195:

Neox.3497:

Ohoni.6057:

It is a good thing that Raids exist in this game, it adds to the variety and now that fractals are getting certain attention and dungeons have improved as well as a game feature it is one of the best time for PvE players.

You mean instanced content players. For players that enjoy open world content the only new things added over the past six months have been the Leyline events, Bandit bounties, and Legendary moneypits, most of that over the last couple months.

Also the amount of story in the 3 wings are like 3 of the 16 HoT story missions and the 3 wing maps together are like 1/3 of a single HoT map. So the 3 wings are basically only ~15% of the HoT open world maps in terms of content.

And it’s also better than the whole of the HoT story! That is the point, not that its’ quantity is big but that its’ quality is superb and not everyone can experience it.

Ask someone to open you a finished instance. Done. You are experiencing raid story like all raiders. Or even better watch a youtube video from gw2 lore nerds and get a detailed recap of the story complete with explanations, theories and other stuff. Literally the only thing you will miss is a bit of gold and some loot from the raid bosses.

Looks at the outfit and at the name

“Wedding outfit”

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Nemesis add me as a friend in GW 2 please! I will play with you how I want and you want Zerker free!

Prepare to be treated like a kitten then. Nemesis is even worse elitist than any 20k+ ap pug out there.

mtpelion.4562:

So there are 3 mounts in the game already, which you almost never see anyone using.

Exactly. They already tested “cosmetic mounts” in the past and people did not care about them.

mostrol.6975:

Just…. no.

Why?

Reward system is terrible on purpose. Like RedDeadFred said you are supposed to salvage all trash you getting and then buy yourself a reward from the market or convert gold to gems and buy some skins from gem store.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Gliding
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Hidden_Descent

Never went for new legendaries so I have no idea if there is non merchant way of getting it.

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

What in the actual kitten?
It always seemed like a rip off with the 2 to 1 exchange, but this is just plain kitten. When did this even happen?

Few minutes ago with gemstore update. Could be a bug. Hard to tell with this game.

Simple minimize option would work too.

Havok.6073:

And we Italians love pizza. I want a pizza glider! (I really don’t.)

Too late. Gemstore division already saw your message.

Evapor.6849:

Id like someone to draw me the infamous table, it must be a big table or would it be like a really small stool? When colin talks about the table my mind is boggled, what the kitten is actually on the table. Perhaps goku could draw us a picture.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/185736/1373683132446.gif

Character model limit/quality can tank your fps really hard. Try setting them to normal.

I thought someone necroposted :o.

Skipping is a thing even in singleplayer games so there is no point in trying to fight it.
No idea about stacking. I thought it died like 1.5 years ago.

All this red posts and hype…

Oh come on! I can understand qq about dual fractals. They can be painful in a bad party and not everyone likes pugging, but qq about daily activity? Really?

Base game that comes with it.

Devs already said that in HoT you will get armor as a rewards for doing stuff and outfits from the gem store.

mauried.5608:

It wont be simply because its an extremely risky thing to do, and extremely time consuming, and thats mainly because Anet has no idea what kind of PCs people are using to play it, or what type of Internet connection they have or what speed they get.

They can find that out in a few weeks by creating an anonymous hardware survey and asking everyone to generate one on game startup. Frontier has one in the Elite Dangerous launcher and they found out that less than 0.01% play in 32bit mode and that around 2% of playerbase used dx10 or older.
They already dropped 32bit support completely and soon will scrap dx10 to speed up development and reduce amount of bugs.

LOLinator.1340:

Problem with this logic is that someone bought the 50 dollar key already and got a -20$ profit. So just because they ‘think’ I didn’t pay for it won’t cut it. They got their money already, just because it wasn’t from me doesn’t mean the key isn’t legal.

That’s if guy you bought it from got the key legit way.

“Fun and entertainment” is not enough to keep people playing the same content in the same game for years.

Silmar Alech.4305:

In case you are interested in an update that includes 2016 and the spring update, here it is.

Wow that’s sad. Forums don’t care about sab and updates anymore?

The only game related problem I see is that he was allowed to use a boost when he had no level 80 character yet. Why would anet allow that?

Coulter.2315:

But then they aren’t “healing” they are just a buff bot which kinda defeats the purpose because you aren’t giving people who enjoy healing a job (because they aren’t healing – they are just seeing green numbers instead of red). Healers like feeling like they saved someone or are critical to keeping the group up, your method of making it viable is based around them not needing to heal but just giving buffs.

Bad news for everyone enjoying healing role. They are playing wrong game.

voidvector.2780:

does not benefit the community as a whole.

Neither does kitten posting and not reading op post or even the name of the thread.

thisisit.6954:

Better still, why don’t you learn to program, then you take a “couple of hours” and do it for them?

If only MMO devs could go full Bethesda…

There is no agony in raids. It is fractal only thing.

Swagger.1459:

I have yet to see many of you who oppose say that easier mode would be a great tool to help introduce raids and teach players… or that having a support mode, normal mode and hard mode is a great progression tool for their friends and guildies who don’t want to try…

Check this out.

Ohoni.6057:

How many people are actually flat out against easy mode or difficulty settings in general? Looks like you are confusing people who are against your “ohoni mode” and people who are against “easy mode”.

Most people who make that argument tend to be “fine with an easy mode. . . so long as it’s a complete waste of everyone’s time.”

This thread is not about easy mode anymore. This thread is about ohoni begging for legendary armor. All this “teaching” and “players getting familiar with mechanics” and “progression” is a waste of time for this people. They just want the armor.

This is not botting. Just a “clever use of game mechanics”.

In fractal blogpost you heard about fractal backpiece.

Aetrion.8295:

Nobody is asking for trinity, people just want other things than maximum damage to have a place in the game too.

Zaklex.6308:

For those of you wanting the put the ability to store your gold in your personal bank, I have some news for you, and you’re not going to like it. You have problems if you can’t keep yourself from spending the gold in your account, it’s called impulse shopping, and if you do it in GW2, then you do it in RL too and really need professional help

If you bother to read the Gold Sellers notices, they all start at 1000 gold for $XX.XX, by limiting the amount they can transfer to 500g a week, you’ve effectively, at the minimum just doubled their cost of doing business. More likely you’re looking at a 66 – 75% increase in cost of doing business. Think about that for a while.

Don’t know how they work in gw2 but in other games gold sellers use materials or rare items to transfer gold. Nothing will change for them. This only hurts legit players.

Ohoni.6057:

Additionally please explain why having Raids, a mode which requires adequate teamwork and time investment is unhealthy for the game. I fail to see it mostly due to the fact that its the only content piece that has this which makes it a good fit, especially for people who are good at socializing and are good team players.

Because it’s out of place with the rest of the content, a square hole in a game full of round holes, and yet offers superior rewards than other modes

https://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/raids/

Oh look! A link that explains why raids are “a square hole in a game full of round holes”!

Ohoni.6057:

But fail some of the mechanics and the timer can be an issue, and working as hard as possible to keep up with the timer makes failing mechanics more likely, so the timer is not a non-issue as well.

Which means that if you spend ~20 minutes looking up the mechanics and guides and then get some practice (or just join one of the guilds where people teach this stuff) then timers are nonissue again.

Xbon.9086:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

vesica tempestas.1563:

we can see the damage meters cause

That’s why no one can show any?

are you kidding? they cause people to kick people from their team who aren’t doing a certain amount of damage, they cause elitism which is incredibly damaging to a game.

Achievement points, mini pets, skins, mastery points, trash items, currency, and even forum posts cause elitism. “Elitists” can kick without dps meter.

You say like there is some special secret to this bug. Any new player, altoholic, keyrunner, grandma can do this without even knowing what is hom points or ap.
Do a barrel roll rollback while it is not too late. Or in 1-2 days we will have a whole bunch of gods running amongst mere mortals.

mazut.4296:

After I entered the 1st story instance and got whacked, i just changed my build and gear for a little bit tankier version and never looked back.

This is pretty advanced stuff for an average player. When you learn your class and traits you are already half way to the “elitist” status.

Not sure if they gonna buff the mobs to make it more difficult and engaging. Few years ago they dumbed down starting maps to the point where you need to dance for cows instead of take hay and feed them, and level locked half the game because “it was confusing for the new players”.

When Angry Joe asked Colin about 5-10 man instanced content or raids Colin started bombarding him with words. Somewhere in the middle of that gibberish mess he said “Challenging group content”. That’s all what we know at the moment.

Astralporing.1957:

At this moment it almost looks like Anet not only tried to mislead at least a part of the prepurchasers (ironically, the more trusting and less suspicious ones), but also decided to rub their noses in it.

It is not Anet’s problem. It is problem of education system. People can’t read. In game chat, ingame mail, LFG, dungeons, HoT description, HoT FAQ and even this thread.

STIHL.2489:

Aww that’s not irony, as was 100% technically correct about what loot dropped, because I looked it up.

One time use achievement chest is not a loot or a drop though. Looks like you are still wrong.

STIHL.2489:

here we are, 19 pages later, and over 20 pages on another topic

Original topic – Raid difficulty settings.
18 pages later – Raid difficulty settings + raid reward allocation.
19th page – You arguing with a dev comment about fractal rewards.

Astralporing.1957:

Some of those threads were started by raiders, actually.

All those threads asked for a smooth difficulty curve and not a grindy 8 months long timegate for a legendary armor.

opiomorph.7983:

some of us do not want to be forced into Ascended crafting.

with stats being removed from traits and put more into gear, will the gap between Exotic and Ascended increase, because I hope it does not?

I hope it will. Finally ascended armor will justify its cost.

Harper.4173:

Manu.6078:

Khisanth.2948:

It would just make some fights longer but what benefit does this have on the game?

More challenging content. Less professions left outside of the meta. More diversity of builds. More easy to ballance.
25 stacks represent too much % from damage output.

With less might and less dps parties will be stricter with the meta because guess what – while before the 25 might meant you could get decent clear times with most classes nerfing it means you must enforce classes in a stricter way.

People miss same exact thing when they cry for trinity lol.