Guild Wars 2

Just a story I wanted to share:
I was in Malchor’s Leap making my way to Wren WP after a gathering run, when I see an Asuran Guardian having some trouble with survivability. I didn’t say anything, but they clearly had an agenda taking on the Statue of Balthazar skill point at level 68.
So I just tagged along as long as time would allow. For me, it was a nice change from a self-subscribed grind and a way to pay it forward for others that have had my back when I attempted the same leveling strategy on occasion.

If you happen to read this, my courageous friend, best of luck to you!

As much as I would love to have one I don’t think it would make much sense when there are no penguins in GW2 at the moment. For all we know there are no penguins in Tyria at all, although we haven’t seen the south pole yet.

Hey everyone! This is a little tribute video that I made. My son has been crazy about dominoes for a few months now and he has made some amazing creations with them. I was inspired so I made a Guild Wars 2 domino tribute video. I hope you like it!

I thought the collections got triggered upon acquisition not salvage. At least, the ones I’ve gotten so far seem to be that way. Or maybe in the case of things that can be traded it’s upon binding (account or soul)?

As promised update:
I send a support ticket under game play as suggested.
Without any hassle they send me the correct ring to me in my mail
and asked me to destroy the second copy

So it all worked out better than expected

Thank you all

if they just want to revamp bosses there wouldnt be a CDI for guild raids soon.

Good knowledge of game mechanics be it AI behavior, hard counter, positioning, and ennemy skill effects and cooldowns ( for both pve and pvp). Then come practise and reflexes, but i’d say knowledge is more important.

Xillllix.3485:

We haven’t seen a new WvW or PvP map either. We got a tiny bit of a PvE explorable region (it is beautiful, agreed) and then they are taking a break again. …While throwing us at another WvW tournaments with unbalanced matchups, because WvW server population still account for PvE servers population, and Megaservers are just really a seemless guesting system.

Edge of the Mists is a World versus World map. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Edge_of_the_Mists

The Edge of the Mists is the release launched on February 4, 2014. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Edge_of_the_Mists_

Soo.. what again?

There was a VERY brief mention by a developer during the CDI a few weeks of “guild raids.” Hopefully this is in support of that concept.

Even if its just someone working on world boss encounters though, it’s a positive thing.

I get that people dislike Living Story.
But can’t you at least be truthful when you complain about it?

There have been multiple maps added in sPvP, they have also revamped the whole reward system and added the reward tracks.

WvW have gotten a completely new map with new systems, a completely new progression system which is still added to. Changes to the borderlands maps also happened.

Dungeons: New dungeon was added, and have since been updated with both new rewards, new instances and new systems. They have also added a new path to one the old dungeons and completely revamped another one of them.

Sure, you can dislike the current direction of the game, but completely ignoring stuff just because it doesn’t fit in your argument won’t really help your case.

Essence Snow.3194:

Vayne.8563:

No difference in hosting, major difference in bandwidth. It’s not as simple as what he was talking about. Not to mention, a lot of stuff is a lot more expensive today then back then. A staff of 350 in a bigger office is a lot more to maintain than a staff of 50.

But there’s a lot more complexity in getting 150 people playing together on a the same screen at the same time with better graphics. It’s just a different product. It can’t be compared.

There’s not a chance in heck that they have 350 ppl working for Anet on gw2 atm. That might have been the case during development or prior to the china release (although I think KZ took much of that burden), but atm, there’s simply no way.

I was also under the impression that Anet was fond of sub-contractors…….ie many of those that used to work on the game were only there when needed. Thus now since they are not needed, they are not there. This explains why we have minimal reflection from what once was a much larger group.

I’d wager that there’s maybe 35 employees tops at Anet actively working on the game itself atm.

From February 2014: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

“As for dwindling investment, it appears to be a myth: ArenaNet had a whopping 300 people when Guild Wars 2 launched, and now… now there are 350 and counting – ArenaNet is hiring.”

1/19/2013 size of live teams
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/19/gw2-colin-johanson-mmorpg-livestream-transcript-jan-18/
“In GW1 we had a really small live team because the game wasn’t big enough to generate a consistent revenue. The gems/micro-transaction based model allow us to have a much larger live team in GW2, allowing players to see much more content on a monthly basis.
Our live team in GW2 is 15-20 times larger than the live team in GW1.”

people care a lot less about the standings now, since the ticket rewards are being distributed week-by-week. really the standings are only useful for predicting matchups (and determining which servers are going to get the tournament finisher after week 4).

-ken

Curtis Johnson

Hey guys,

The no face-to-face trade is a real decision and it’s primarily a question of trust (as many of you have noted). But it’s also a decision to protect players from scamming and protect the economy from black-markets. Let’s run through some quick examples.

1) Give something to my friend. – As several of you noted, target your friend, right click the item and select ‘mail-to…’. Done, this works in contact list, guild list, or in world anywhere without having to ‘meet’ them or ‘catch’ them.

2) Get a fair price for an item (anti-scam). – Because ALL trading goes through the trading post we can guarantee that highest bidder meets lowest seller and we can give every player the benefit of current market information.

3) Barter item-for-item. This is the grey area and also the most risky kind of trade because even with UI many items look alike in icon and many social engineering scams take place in this kind of system. It’s a risky trade environment which is why when you support it you have to have these multi-stage UI’s where everyone double-checks everything, and then eventually get’s lazy and stops double-checking and gets scammed anyways.

In the end we decided with super easy access to mail for trusted trades and trading post for untrusted trades that such a system wasn’t worth the risk, complication, and fragmenting the player market off of the trading post..

In testing we’ve found that mail is easier 90% of the time we’d want trade and the other 10% trading post is far safer and avoids drama and thing like random trade windows being thrown at you and lots of other unsavory hawking in game.

Hope that all makes sense.

… was the response in beta.

As a necro, you want to know why my dps in boss fights is so poor? Because I spend half the fight reviving downed zerker warriors.

Hi,

This is to thank whoever is responsible for the new hair, especially the sylvari. You did a great job with them!

Takes like 20-30 min to set up and about another 15 min to complete. Seems pretty good to me. This is one of only two world boss events that require some form of coordination. This requires a little more than Teq and should not be nerfed because people want to auto attack afk like the other world bosses.

Yep only EotM.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Free-Trial-Changes/first#post4438813

John Corpening.9847:

You guys beat me to it. After last week’s positive discussion on siege trolls I wanted to bring up the topic of population imbalance and ideas that you have on it.
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Thanks,
John

Thank you for endorsing this with your redness, John. It shows that you are reacting to the concerns of many posters (i.e. you read the thread names) and means a lot to us (i.e. makes us believe there’s a chance of an improvement in the future).

retsuya.4708:

Add some new wvw reward tracks for unique skins to get some new blood.

Taking this idea and going a bit further, why not have server population factor into progression?
For example let’s say WvWvW has a “server pride” track.
You play and accomplish certain things, the track progresses.
After a while certain rewards pop up.
The progression, however, can be slowed due to your server reaching a high population level for WvWvW.

Overall you still get the track, you still get the rewards eventually.
The trick here is those who want to game the system would transfer to lower populated WvWvW server in order to complete track faster.

Those who don’t care about that stuff will still stay home.
It would at least provide a player some incentive to see how other servers are without adding some hard population cap.

No idea but…since you’ll only ever need one and can’t sell them, why would you ever keep more than one of each?