Guild Wars 2

This playerbase is a wild one.

Colin Johanson alone can smile into the camera and holy hell people will speculate about anything and everything.

Yea you do know that they stack up to 250 of the same kind right?

Honestly people complaining that they get to much loot….

if you got items instead of a chest you would have to stop every 12 mins to salvage or find a merchant to sell

I can’t seem to find anything in the article about a “big announcement”. Also i find it strange that on the main GW2 page there is a headline announcing another $50,000 Competetive tourney at PAX east in Boston during March, yet nothing about PAX south, which comes in January.

In fact the article pretty much describes 2014 PAX:

The Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington is coming up soon!
If you’re going to be at PAX, stop by “The Future of Online Games” panel on Friday, August 29, at 6:00 p.m. in the Sphinx Theatre, to hear Game Director Colin Johanson and other MMORPG industry veterans discuss where online games are headed and answer questions from fans.

tigirius.9014:

timmyf.1490:

Register for an account on Reddit. Post there. Problem solved.

Also my thinking considering that these forums have all but been ignored for years now and the suggestions folder was thrown in the trash. Making things more public like posting to reddit, facebook, youtube, twitch would certainly get more attention and go viral much more quickly in mediums that can’t easily be snuffed out.

The Suggestion folder wasn’t thrown in the trash. It was trash, somewhat, in that it was one big hodgepodge that was impossible to keep up with and sort out if one wanted to do anything else with one’s day. So they very clearly said to please put suggestions in the appropriate subforum because devs tend to look at the forums germane to their area, not all the forums.

The more recent forum reorganization does baffle me, as I thought things were nicely sorted out as they were. But the Suggestions change was not a “snuffing out,” it was the opposite, it was intended to give suggestions a chance to be seen.

See, I feel your paragraph up there might be an example to the OP of what not to write. It’s not reportable or infractionable imo, and certainly reflects a jaded opinion that you have every right to air. Yet it’s accusatory and borders on conspiracy theory, ascribing vile motives and assuming lack of response is the same as flat out ignoring of what’s said. It certainly won’t motivate the devs to jump in and engage you in conversation.

Metragnome.4290:

The sheer number of chests in this game is overwhelming. From leveling, rank ups (WvW and PvP), dailies, logging in, etc. They all appear at the bottom shaking and glittering and driving me mad!

And then I’ll open a chest which gives me a chest which I open to reveal bags that possibly give me more bags that I have to open to get gear I now have to salvage.

I know the intent is to provide that Christmas feeling of “ZOMG! Presents!” but it’s just pure tedium.

Please streamline this. Or at least make them less intrusive. For example:

- Only make them shake and shine for 5 seconds or so.
- If the player doesn’t open them within that 5 seconds, just stack them up so I can open them when I want to.
- If the player opens a chest with other containers in it, just open those containers automatically.

I completely disagree. Receiving stacking “containers” in your inventory is MUCH better than getting all kinds of different stuff that would fill up my inventory. Yes its more clicking but I definitely prefer the current method.

The only improvement I would suggest is being able to open a “stack” from your inventory. So you separate your “containers” into a stack of 10 (for instance) because you know you have enough room for the contents of 10 containers. Then you right-click and choose “Open All”. That would save some clicking.

This is what will happen:

1. Usual suspects will speculate on things that they want to see in this game (expansions, mounts, etc),
2. Other people will note the speculation and throw even more speculation into the mix,
3. At some point, the original speculation will turn into statements of fact by forum members and even promises despite no official word on anything,
4. Anet may or may not make an announcement at PAX,
5. Regardless, the people who made their wild speculations will berate Anet for failing to keep their promises (which were never made) or announcing that expansion which was never on the table and those forum members with overactive imaginations and an inability to discern the difference between speculation and rumour (that they themselves invented) and quantifiable information will flood the forums calling out Anet as liars, indulge in conspiracy theories and claim the game is “dying”.
6. Anybody who calls the fantasists out will be labelled “White Knights” – the new buzzphrase around these parts.
7. Rinse and repeat for next gaming event or “announcement”.

It wasn’t removed: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/first#post1532762

The forum was restructured.

Good luck.

I’m in a very play-intensive period myself now, clocking pretty much all available free time (which as a man with a full-time job and a family isn’t that much) into the game. Currently working on several different goals:

Catching up on the Story Journal Achievements
→ Working on the Luminescent parts at the same time

Collecting sprockets for watchwork mechanism to finally finish the ascended spinal blades.

Leveling my Elementalist and the last two crafting disciplines (tailoring and artificer).

Collecting charged quartz to prepare a celestial set for said Elementalist.

Getting the last 6 WvW ranks towards bronze (and beyond).

Collecting Foxfire to advance towards Mawdrey.

And when I finish those or get bored with them:

Work on my Dungeon Master Title and open the dungeon reward tracks for all dungeons by replaying the story instances. For Arah I will need to finish the personal story for one of my alts so I can kill two birds with one stone on that.

Finish the Tequatl and Wurm achievement masteries.

Reach 10k achievement points (doesn’t really need anything else than to just do the stuff above).

Finish forging the remaining Ascended weapons (missing mace, shield, staff, focus and scepter – not going to craft underwater ascended before we get bubbles) and perhaps
finish my main warrior’s ascended armor set (missing gloves and shoulders). Also will probably craft some duplicates once the weapon set is complete and perhaps ascended chest/leggings for my alts.

Collect enough laurels to purchase ascended celestial trinket set.

And obviously doing daily every day, trying to hit as many there as I can, but at least the minimum 3 to get the achi points. At the moment of course there’s also the Wintersdaily for the laurel.

So no, I’m not going to run short of stuff to do anytime soon…

Yup, log on pretty much every day for 5 to 6 hours, depending on the day.
Saturday and Sunday, typically about 10-12 hours, depending on RL issues.
Working on several items, the least of which is map completion.
Just had a Dusk drop, so gearing up for that adventure.
I play with a pretty active pve guild, dabble a bit in pvp and wvw.
The first year after release, I got behind the eight ball in the game because I traveled for work for 8 months. About 6 months ago, got into a good guild and have experienced a lot of the game.
And yet, I have not experienced it all, so yeah, I have a lot to do.

Why would Anet do that?
People would just use the Trading Post as free storage, if listing fees are refunded.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Delete-inactive-character-names-please/first#post4266507

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Character-Name-Wipes/first

All arguments already made.

And dev position here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Requesting-a-Taken-Name/first#post4248872

Have you smelt a Norn after he’s been fighting in full armor for eight hours? And covered in blood, and enemy guts, burning oil, and putrid cow that someone fired from a trebuchet?

Or hung around a necromancer? Some of those minions get a little ripe out in the sun.

And rangers. Three words: wet dog smell.

the color system hasn’t actually changed.

the reason servers get different colors is due to the matchup randomization, which applies a random plus or minus amount to each server’s rating. the primary reason for the randomization is to allow matchups outside your normal tier to happen (this helps prevent matchup stagnation and improves rating accuracy), but as a side effect it can also cause color assignments to change.

due to the way the math works out, it’s still possible to end up with matchup stagnation (see NA tier 1), but the ratings in tier 1 are still close enough that color randomizatoin can still occur. I think the #1 server would need a rating 200 points above the #2 server to make it impossible to get any color besides green.

-ken

Well OP, now you’ve done the complaining part I expect you to follow up with the rage-quit, we won’t take you seriously unless you do…

I wish you all a better and healthy new year , full of happiness , tolerance (especially forum ppl) and love!
Anet,thank you for the awesome game you created,i wish you inspiration,creativity and success in the new year!
Thank you everyone for being a part of this amazing game,a part of my life!

Happy New Year!

As somebody who, for a long time now, has been dissatisfied with the lack of new content/features, I must say I’m greatly looking forward to PAX South.

It’s even in my own city, but unfortunately sold out. I usually avoid downtown like the plague, but for this, I think I would have gone. But oh well, I guess I’ll check the interwebs like most everyone else.

I make no assumptions about what will be revealed other than apparently Anet considers it a big enough deal to take an hour and a half at a major conference to tell us about it. I’m sure it won’t be everything I’ve ever hoped for (but hopefully at least some though?). Whatever it is, it’s at least something new, and of much greater significance than your average LS patch.

Mike and Colin, thank you for planning to visit SATX, though I won’t get to see you. This jaded old fan is eager to be impressed and once again feel like I have something to be excited about. You guys just come kick some kitten at the show and I’ll try to keep the unfounded expectations to a minimum while I wait. Would it be unreasonable to hope we start hearing more from you folks going forward?

Guys, you’re not seeing the big picture here. They’re not sending the president of the company, along with Colin Johanson, and renting the main theater for the morning for the usual stuff. This is going to be something different.

Whatever this ends up being, it’s what the majority of ANet has been working on for more than two years most likely. Or at least a significant portion of it. At the very least it’s going to define our GW2 experience for 2015.

Whether it blows us away or is a huge disappointment, it’s going to be huge one way or another.

Title says it all
If its possible to make one I would buy it
If their is a similar mini let me know please

If I understand celestial correctly, the only way to get it to work equally well on all classes would be to homogenize the classes so that they are equal in all their strengths and weaknesses. In that case, why have different classes with different strengths and weaknesses? Just have one class, right?

It really doesn’t make sense to revamp, merge and switch around traits just to accommodate this one build (trashing all the other builds which capitalize on a classes strengths). No, bad idea.

Hello !

Yep, I would like a LW season 3. I had quite fun with the season 2, allowing me to progress at my own pace. I also enjoyed the season 1 because we had a lot of fun in various adventures :-).

As a note, I also really hope to see more of the maguuma jungle and a new race. As I created one character per race per profession, in the current situation , I cannot play necro or ranger or mesmer, so I really hope new races soon, to be able to play these professions.

In fact, I just want more new adventures :-).

Best regards.

Bahan

Sakri.7234:

Season 3 would be ok with much more regular updates and content. If it’s like the current one, this game will die from lack of content.

The current one brought 2 new maps, new types of enemies, 2 new armor sets, 2 types of currencies, the Skritt holes to move around the map, and other stuff. Free. How is this lack of content???? Just stop.

Olvendred.3027:

Adding new rewards for playing a completely different game is probably not a priority at Anet.

This. Much better to add skins to this game.

Adding new rewards for playing a completely different game is probably not a priority at Anet.

Why are people so confused about the point of the HoM rewards?
Wasn’t it basically released at the same time as EotN EXACTLY what the rewards would be? Which was also at the same time as they even announced the HoM in the first place.

There were never anything that even suggested that you would be able to directly transfer stuff between the two games, quite the opposite in-fact.

Huh, blackgate is red right now…

They run a tight, zero-tolerance ship.

Knowing that harassment, insulting demeaning language and genrally being unexcellent to each other will be responded to swiftly and decisively (when people report it- be proactive about doing so!) is a large part of why I play GW2 over every other MMO, and why I continue to reccommend it to players of all diversities.

There’s still some social bugs to work out, and there’s always bad apples showing up to try and make life unpleasant, but on the whole, ArenaNet provides a safe, welcoming environment.

Is this going to turn into a mount thread?

Zephyra.4709:

Let me tell you a story…

Once upon a time players could not reset their Trait points.. The only way to do so was to purchase a book/manual of sorts that allowed them to reset all Traits back to scratch. Yet one glorious day, ANet decided to implement a most generous feature for the player base that allowed them to add and remove Traits points at will, not necessarily back to scratch but it improved that particular feature vastly. Everyone lived happily ever after.

… If only ANet would be so kind as to implement a similar feature in regards to WvW ‘traits’; e.g – plus and minus buttons next to each respective option.. Arrow Cart Mastery etc.

I hope others grasp this concept idea or have similar like-minded thoughts/suggestions.

Hm – that’s two different things in my opinion. Doing a dungeon – setting up this way, doing a world boss – setting up another way – doing champ train farming … yet another way.

I’d really hate to have people to be able to insta-switch their WXP skills on demand. Oh … we’re trebbing, lemme reset and go to treb – now we’re going inside … everyone retrait to guard killer … now the enemy is attacking … everyone retrait to arrow carts …

Nope!