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Zommoros told me a secret

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Posted by: Tanith.5264

Tanith.5264

Guys, you are so mean! You should be locked along with Mad King’s son.

Let’s throw four complainers into the Mystic Toilet and see what happens.

Tanith Fencewalker, Tanni Mindbender, Thyra Wrathbringer, Lovecraft Thrall
Guardians of the Vault [GotV] and Guíld of Dívíne Soldíers [GoDS]
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Immortal Bunny Overlord

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Posted by: Olvendred.3027

Olvendred.3027

This must be a teaser to the flying bunnies that Gaile Gray promised would definitely be in the next update.

Excited for Halloween!

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Posted by: Khan Ur Drakavic.9052

Khan Ur Drakavic.9052

Oh my I cannot wait for Halloween, Best times in Gw1 and Gw2 so excited.

Anet, Thank you for making me hate WvW.

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Posted by: timmyf.1490

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Sariel, thanks to Glicko randomization, that’s not strictly true. There will certainly be periods of weeks at a time that the server doesn’t change colors, but patience and persistence will pay off, even on the last-ranked server.

Edit: if you want to see this for last-place NA, Anvil Rock: http://mos.millenium.org/servers/history/47

I’ll post their color week-by-week starting now and going backward…

Red, Blue, Blue, Blue, Red, Green, Green, Blue, Blue, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Green, Red…

There’s a substantial amount of bounce there, so it’s really just a matter of keeping your eyes on the map and allowing yourself a month or two in order to get everything.

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Skill descriptions

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Posted by: Gimp.9460

Gimp.9460

lol stop clicking? never seen someone complain about this.

Particle effect slider would be ‘too confusing’

WvW players is mean?

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Posted by: DeWolfe.2174

DeWolfe.2174

@OP, if it helps your friend, let him know the person whispered because if he tried saying that in regular map chat he’d more than likely get put in his place for it. Individuals that this person whom whispered your friend is why WvW as a game mode continues to spiral downward.

There’s plenty of beneficial things a player can do in WvW on an up level. Though as mentioned, you friend could possibly enjoy EotM more and level faster too.

[AwM] of Jade Quarry.

customize mail dove

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Posted by: Jaken.6801

Jaken.6801

I am actually opting for one idea out of Scarlet`s reportoir… shocking I know, but what about… just listen… think about it… Dolyak with Jetpacks wooooshhhhh

Efficiency Obsession in the Community?

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

I don’t mind people watching cutscenes, but I can understand why veteran players might find it a waste of time. To get around it, I’d just specify up-front in your LFG that you will be watching cutscenes.

How long will Halloween sales stay "on"?

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Posted by: xvalkyrie.6742

xvalkyrie.6742

I don’t know how long the sales will be, but I have a possible solution.

With the ability to gift gem store items, you could always set it up with a friend who plays to gift you things and you can gift them things in return or the gold equivalent. That way you don’t miss out. When traveling if you can still get online, dulfy is pretty good about putting up screenshots and videos of new gw2 stuff so you’ll know if you want it. Then it’s just a quick email to the friend to ask them to buy it and gift it. :-)

Valkyrie – [RMPG] Blackgate
Altaholic, can never have just one!

[Suggestion] Sentry Post Upgrades

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Posted by: NonToxic.9185

NonToxic.9185

The sentry is a hint at where enemy players are moving. Since the average zerger can’t resist capping that circle, watching where the flags fade on the map can give a defender an idea as to where the enemy group might be headed (before the white swords of doom pop). They aren’t supposed to be tough to take objectives, they can kill yaks in combination with the krait/ascalonian/etc mob spawns, and right now they serve their purpose as a sentry: revealing where enemy players are.

Guild Ranking , is it a good idea ?

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Posted by: Dreadforce.6980

Dreadforce.6980

This is what I think would happen.

1. unless it had a reward it would be ignored
2. guilds members would become hostile towards other guilds and pugs
3. large guilds would try to cannibalize smaller guilds and attempt to claim entire servers.
4. After awhile it would always be the same guilds at the top each week.

So all in all I’m not a fan of the idea.

Fall Damage Nightmares

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Posted by: Lhos.1643

Lhos.1643

Tripped, faceplanted, and broke your neck.

Working as intended.

Halloween 2014: A Trick or a Treat?

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Posted by: LanfearShadowflame.3189

LanfearShadowflame.3189

Just because the mood strikes me….

Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.

So How Long To Kill ALL The Dragons?

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Posted by: Cuddy.6247

Cuddy.6247

I will happily kill my last dragon when I am a ripe old age and in a nursing home. Then I’ll ask my grandkids to remind me why I’m so excited.

5 years from now Items

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

Guild Wars is not a game about chasing the gear treadmill, no. There’s actually a lot of us who bought this game PRECISELY because of that reason. Keep in mind that originally, Exotic was meant to be the highest stat tier; we were already quite upset by the introduction of Ascended gear, which was likely put in as a compromise to players like you who do like chasing higher stats.

TWO characters with a forced name change

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Posted by: Michael Henninger.7451

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Here are the policies:

We don’t monitor names.
When reported; we review a name manually and as a team.
If it violates policy we change it. We don’t care about how often it’s reported – that has no weight in our decision.
If it is offensive in ANY territory our game is supported – we change it.
Example: Pallet is offensive in a European country but is fine here in the states. (Though why you’d want to be a pile of wood is beyond me.)

You have the right to appeal our decision and explain your viewpoint via submitting a support ticket. We will not weigh in on the forums.

If you repeatedly use offensive names your account will be suspended.

GM Delicious Intent
Twitter: @ANetCSLead
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Gonna buy new PC

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Posted by: GM Talon.8726

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GM Talon.8726

Lead Game Master

I see that your ticket was filed through our support system at 7:24 PM PDT yesterday and this forum thread was created 9 minutes later at 7:33 PM PDT. An agent replied to your ticket at 8:12 PM PDT. Please allow agents adequate time to respond to your ticket before posting on the forums. Tickets are answered in the order in which they were received.

where is the wing?

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

The wings were likely removed because we have backpieces in GW2, and they would cause clipping with worn backpieces (and stuff like Engineer Kits).

Don’t get me wrong; I miss the wings too, but I can understand why it was done.

But it would be really, REALLY nice if the Halloween 2014 special meta-skin was a pair of black wings backpiece. Hint hint, ANet!

No Halloween event?

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-events-in-guildwars2/

“Later in October, we’ll be bringing back our famous Halloween festivities! Blood and Madness will be returning to Guild Wars 2 on October 21 and remain active until the return of Season 2.”

Helloween/Mad King Event

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Posted by: Turamarth.3248

Turamarth.3248

“Later in October, we’ll be bringing back our famous Halloween festivities! Blood and Madness will be returning to Guild Wars 2 on October 21 and remain active until the return of Season 2.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-events-in-guildwars2/

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Leaderboard/rating????

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Posted by: Justin ODell.9517

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The leaderboards are currently ranked by your Glicko2 matchmaking rating (MMR) which is hidden.

How much your ranking changes depends on a few things.

  • Your current MMR deviation. Glicko2 tries to factor in how well it knows you. If it doesn’t know you, it will adjust your MMR more to try and find the best placement for you.
  • The MMR of the team you last fought against. A win against a higher MMR team will raise you faster, while a loss against a lower MMR team will lower you faster.
  • Decay. The leaderboard itself has a decay mechanism that will lower your ranking after periods of inactivity. However, since we don’t want to destroy your MMR because its valuable for matchmaking, this decay is only on the leaderboard itself, so when someone plays a match after a long-ish period of inactivity they will jump around faster.
  • How much the other players around you are moving. The people near you are probably very close to you in MMR, so any small changes can mean a relatively big jump.

How does matchmaking work?
Right now the algorithm is incredibly simple. (Read: not intelligent)

  • For solo arena we find 10 players near the same MMR and then shuffle those players into teams to make the teams as even as possible (MMR-wise).
  • For team arena we find 5 players near the same MMR, no shuffling. We then find another team near the same MMR and put them together.
  • The range of players you get paired with grows over time as you’re waiting to increase chances of finding a match. Which can lead to playing with people outside your skill range (usually lower).
  • It doesn’t factor in PvP rank, profession, leaderboard rank, or anything else. It’s all about the MMR.
Server Programmer (sPvP)
Isle of Janthir: Flux, Latch, Aegir

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Mindless Zerg Destroyer

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Posted by: Reverence.6915

Reverence.6915

You’re assuming zergs are mindless. This is a pretty bad asumption to make.

Expac sucks for WvW players. Asura master race
Beastgate | Faerie Law
Currently residing on SBI

why they implemented nomad?

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Posted by: Belzebu.3912

Belzebu.3912

Because WvW is part of the game too, there zerker isn’t that good and nomad have its use.

Charter Vanguard [CV] – HoD
Bardy Belzebuson – Ranger Sir Belzebu – Herald
(and the other 8 elite specs maxed too)

Disconnecting to a diffrent layer

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Posted by: Angel.6085

Angel.6085

Is this related to inactivity? I only seem to have actual connectivity issues rarely – perhaps 3-4 times over the course of me playing GW2.

The only times that I get “you have lost connection” is when I’m standing around, not moving and not casting skills. Typing doesn’t count as activity.

IF you are doing these things – or rather doing nothing – then I think it’s completely justifiable that you lose your spot, as the game is realizing you are not contributing to the map.

If, however, you are moving and having disconnect issues that are happening frequently enough for this to be an ongoing issue for you, you should send a ticket into anet and start investigating packet loss.

YB>DB>BG>SOR>TC>BG>FA>DB>SOS>BP Guardian
Formerly [rB], [OPED], [Choo]
Guild Leader [DN] Digital Nemesis

Sad truth of playing the ingame instruments

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Posted by: Gaile Gray

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I see your point about bach. I just hope new people who pick up an instrument from the gemstore don’t just think it is alright to macro any song since I’m sure it is the same thing as using a bot.

Honestly, I’m not sure, but I’m going to ask Customer Support about it. The fact is, we have a policy against automating gameplay through the use of macros or bots. But music? I just don’t know if the rules about third-party programs extend to non-game-related situations.

Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet

Map Completion isn't worth it...

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Posted by: kolompi.1287

kolompi.1287

There isn’t a high enough reward that would stop people from asking for more rewards. Ever.

The community cries out for more elaborate encounters, we get them, the community does not really do them because it’s not rewarding. But nobody can actually describe what “more rewarding” would be. More gold? TA aetherpath exclusive skins that drop more often? If they drop more often, they become less exclusive, their prices will plummet, suddenly the path won’t be rewarding anymore.

The beautiful thing about map completion is, you can choose to do it or not. You don’t feel forced to do it and like you pointed out, apart from legendaries there is no need for it.

GW2 site ToG News

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Posted by: Flumek.9043

Flumek.9043

The “Tournament of Glory” event in the top right can actually be clicked and takes you to the stream. I’ll do a better job of making that more clear the next time I get a batch of these implemented. All in all, I think it was a great start and a great test for the system.

The “yellow text” system alert is not something we want to use for these events, as those are broadcasted across the entire game, regardless of if you’re in a dungeon, doing living world, or whatnot. We want it to be as noninvasive as possible. Someone mentioned having an NPC in the Heart of the Mists that shouts upcoming events, and I think it’s an interesting idea. I’ll bring it up with the team.

Thanks for the feedback, I’m definitely listening.

Grouch, great job so far and hope they listen to you to improve pvp even further.

Now, a suggestion.

  • A mail.

Thats it simple , its ingame and already well used.
Im a pvper and i didnt know what icon took you directly to stream if u clicked it ingame. So the mail could be a notifier a day before, that just circles the icon – like scouts in PVE show u where to go.
I think that wouldnt be invasive to anyone and while making it easier to find the stream for those interested. A pvp tournament finals are once every 3 months , while a pvp only player may get PVE living story mail every 2 weeks just saying

PvP guild [YUM] -apply- (EU) http://muffinspvp.shivtr.com/

GW2 site ToG News

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Posted by: Josh Davis.6015

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The “Tournament of Glory” event in the top right can actually be clicked and takes you to the stream. I’ll do a better job of making that more clear the next time I get a batch of these implemented. All in all, I think it was a great start and a great test for the system.

The “yellow text” system alert is not something we want to use for these events, as those are broadcasted across the entire game, regardless of if you’re in a dungeon, doing living world, or whatnot. We want it to be as noninvasive as possible. Someone mentioned having an NPC in the Heart of the Mists that shouts upcoming events, and I think it’s an interesting idea. I’ll bring it up with the team.

Thanks for the feedback, I’m definitely listening.

We need expansion news before 11/13

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Posted by: Yargesh.4965

Yargesh.4965

Bit late to give us any such news before November last year.

(Yes, I know…couldn’t help myself)

Was going to do the same.
Seriously OP the expansion of WOW is targeted at WOW players no one else.