Guild Wars 2

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Good luck.

We ask a lot the full year from the anet team. maybe we can give something back ?

some creative ideas for Christmas gift it dont need be made with money a pretty screenshot or a nice message here is already something.

Big guilds could do a event ?

i dont know It just feels right and Im curious for the community creativity !

Happy Wintersday!

Make sure that the game (Audio settings), and your OS or device audio (Playback devices) set-up match your speaker configuration. Mismatch often causes audio anomalies.

Good luck.

There’s a number of ways to get Blade Shards:

1. Kill Aetherblade mobs. You can find them in the Not So Secret JP in Gendarran Fields, in the Aetherpath route of the Twilight Arbor dungeon, in some Fractals, and in the central zone of Edge of the Mists. (Note that the Aetherblades in EotM are a much tougher breed to their PvE counterparts, and can be hard to solo.)

2. Purchase the Watchwork Sprocket Generator from the Laurel Vendor (under the Living Story Season 1 tab) and harvest it everyday for the chance for a couple of Blade Shards.

3. Use the Mystic Forge to create more Blade Shards. You will need:

- 1 Pile of Glittering Dust
- 1 Pile of Shimmering Dust
- 1 Blade Shard
- 50 Watchwork Sprocket

This will create 10 – 15 Blade Shards (and apparently with a small chance of 50). This is the quickest way, but also the most expensive; Watchwork Sprockets aren’t that cheap.

4. Park a character at the end of the Not So Secret JP and open the chest everyday for a chance to get some Blade Shards.

Bunny ears for Easter (I guess that’s why Gaile mentioned Spring?). Cat ears for Halloween. Antlers for Wintersday. (Actually, I always wanted the single “antler” that the Grinch made for his dog Max!)

DPS meters and inspection lead to degenerate gameplay. 90% of players don’t actually follow the zerk meta and like to stay mr bad cleric guardian tank/healer that doesn’t exist except in their minds. Regardless of my opinion of this, they are a majority. Anet will want to make the game fun for the majority. Being kicked for low DPS or gear is not fun as essentially the community then decides what build you run rather than you.

Even if it was only personal DPS. Right now some groups ask to ping gear, they will find a way to get you to ping DPS too.

Either way, it doesn’t really matter for anyone but puggers. If you are in a dedicated PvE guild all of the people in your party are likeminded people whom you trust. No need for inspection or DPS check them. If the fight takes longer than normal its easily identifiable who’s fault it is with only 5 players. Same can be said for pugs. If you see a party member’s guardian engage a boss with a shield equipped and you are getting healed for alot more than normal and said guardian is hitting like a wet noodle you can quite easily determine he is not running meta and still kick him.

Those who say ‘it would be nice to find the perfect build’. There is no need, guilds like rT and DnT have already done these calculations for you. Don’t think that they somehow missed something and that you are gonna find the next big thing cuz of your DPS meter. The meta as it is now will stay like this forever bar some extremely significant changes.

Honestly, I prefer that there’s no living story update during Wintersday. It gives us time to do Wintersday events at our leisure without feeling pressured to do living story events at the same time.

Aside from that though, I do hope there will be new stuff to do and new items to acquire this Wintersday to make up for the gap. I am excited that it will take place in DR this time (I think Halloween should have been there as well, because it would have looked epic), so maybe that means it will feel fresh this year.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Yes, definitely, Wintersday should be released concurrently with Episode 8. That would both make sense (4 episodes, break, 4 episodes) and would provide more content for the Winter vacation time that all companies have around this time of year (4 week break). This would also be consistent with pretty much every holiday/LS release combination of the past.

While I understand company limitations, staff limitations due to holidays, and so forth, I very much feel that this should’ve been planned for well in advance and that releasing them concurrently would’ve been the best.

May I ask why you feel that way? Why have two conflicting or competing things going on in a time period when many people have a lot going on in their lives — family obligations, travel, parties, events — which leaves them with less time to log in to their favorite game? Why not have each release get the spotlight and the player attention that each so richly deserves? And why roll out content (some are suggesting just days before a holiday break) that would be difficult if not impossible to maintain with holiday travel, developer unavailability, etc.? We pride ourselves on addressing issues as promptly as possible, but if an issue arises over a holiday break, it can be very challenging to take care of a problem. (I know this from personal experience: I worked with a server programmer through a full New Year’s Day to address an issue years ago. He was able to get things back to normal, but it was asking a lot to do that.)

Saying “This is what I want” is fine. But is what you want really logical? In my opinion the decision of the two release dates makes sense on several levels.

And that dear Gaile, is exactly where you are right..people on fora tend to write first and not think about it
Now, you and your colleagues enjoy your well earned holidays

I will post this for the hundredth time.

From an article on the Living Story on Zam’s website. “Therefore he (Meelad Sadat, Head of PR at Anet) didn’t want to say how many episodes are going to be left in the season, but did say that starting with the Halloween episode they are back on their two-week cadence up through Wintersday on December 16th before going on holiday break. As to what is going to happen after that, Meelad said that they will keep players informed of when there will or won’t be a patch, like how they announced the Halloween and start of each half of Season 2 well in advance.”

To be fair, this is from a website that I didn’t learn about until a month or so ago but if you came across it and read the article, you would have known the schedule. For some people knowing this info ahead of time matters and for some it doesn’t, but the point is, the break wasn’t a surprise and they let some people know well in advance.

Edit: And we still don’t know when the actual end of the season is. All they’ve said is that it will start up again on the 13th.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I’ll be around next year, pending the good fortune of continued survival. So, once again, Happy Holidays to staff, management and fans alike.

And I, with any luck, will get enough free time to do more than haunt the forums and play mobile games due to being too darn busy to devote even an hour free time.

. . . oh, reminds me, thank you so much for the Journal method so i don’t have to ration sleep to make sure I can get enough of the episodes . . .

It’s good to know that the folks at Anet are able to take the time over the holidays to be with the friends and family. I will also. Happy holidays to all Anet employees.

Wolfey.3407:

The only thing that really annoys me with this note….
Veteran players are stuck for a few weeks with nothing to do but re-re-play wintersday content with the added bonus of most likely not being able to unlock anything from season one, unless it’s stuck behind another lottery. And the possible chance of some super adorable mini being locked behind wintersday gifts at a drop rate equivalent to precursors with the added insult of not being able to be sold or traded to other players.

Whereas veteran players in World of Warcraft waited a year while paying a subscription with no new content and just repeating stuff.

And I know people who’ve already beaten the new WoW and returned to Guild Wars 2. There’s no game alive that can keep people in content as much as they want.

OP is off his rocker. GW2 is the AAA mmo and even if it wasn’t the team still deserves to have time off for the holidays.

So devs, go chill and enjoy good cheer with the people important to you. There will be plenty of us impatient players here chomping at the bits for all the good stuff you come out with when ya get back!

This is not meant at all to discount the OP opinions regarding GW1 and GW2. That said, I played GW1 for a bit….never really got to like it..and quit to play other games. I came to GW2 under the assumption that it was a completely separate…and different game. So far (having played since first beta weekend)…I have to say I like this a whole lot more than I did GW1. But, as is obvious, this is a subjective issue. I know lots of people prefer GW1 and some prefer GW2. Just my nickel’s worth.

I predict the removal of white swords will weed out all the wvw players who do not care about ppt or helping their server become better.

personally I like to scout, and my server uses voice-chat. I already call out where the enemy is and what structures are under attack. the removal of white swords will only force me to be more quick and intelligent about where to scout. map awareness is key, you dont need white swords to predict where the enemy will strike.

scouting will become more useful, those who say scouting isnt rewarding are just longing for the wrong types of rewards. the greatest reward is helping your server and climbing to the top. if you called out an inc, disabled siege until help arrived and ultimately saved the structure, the ppt and praise from your server is your reward.

I think the only “problem” from players’ perspective is waiting for the final pieces of armor. So many of the players in GW2 are completionists, and it is killing them that they have to wait a few extra weeks to complete the set.

Personally, I’ll be happy to just have time to enjoy Wintersday and grind out thousands more geodes and bandit crests The break will also give me time to put my two alts through the LS. Thank you.

Arnath.2319:

I do not understand why ArenaNet are deliberately trying to kill this game!
Almost ZERO content has been added since release, and any content that is added is either finished within an hour or removed.

I do not understand why you feel the need to deliberately post false statements!

Rome.3192:

Ostricheggs.3742:

I’ve never seen someone wear a scarf so well IRL, it was something to behold.

Hah, had to add the IRL part just to make sure everyone was on the same page.

You don’t understand how crazy it was. We all called each other in game names and hung out with each other like we were all best friends. We kittening bought each other random stuff, ate off the same plates, shared random food with each other, awkwardly played through technical difficulties…

The only words I kept telling people during the entire thing was “This is too real/surreal/esports/alive/crazy to me”, “this is too much… for me”.

To say it was a life changing experience for me is an understatement. I’m going to the next WTS in Boston and I am going to win. There isn’t anyone stopping me, I’m going esports

NaotsuguLH.8915:

I was reading a thread and it provoked a thought.

Who knows more about GW2? Devs, who created the game, and update the game, players, who actually play the game, or the people who “quit” but still hang around the forums?

I’m of the opinion that players no more. I see a lot of people here, who say “I no longer play” yet still post like they know everything. Given, I’m not saying they don’t know certain things, but with the state of the game changing, I don’t think they know as much as they want to know.

Devs, develop the game. But do they play? Do they spend anytime in game and see what’s going right, what’s going wrong, or even, what’s going on? I don’t think so. So many people express they want a change, yet… the staff don’t seem to provide any feedback, leaving me to think that they haven’t even experienced what they themselves are creating.

The devs do play the game like all other players. Devs have a much bigger plan and know more about the game. Game forums are full of “armchair” devs that call easy what is hard to implement and request features without thinking of the consequences. Usually people with no knowledge of design or programming.

Best Pet Name Ever

Devs certainly know more than your standard player. Yes, they develop the game but many of them play it both in a professional and personal capacity. They usually have multiple accounts, some for private enjoyment of the game and others for their work as in-game GMs.
The only people i’d say who could contest the knowledge of the Devs might be truly hardcore players but even then its hard to top the knowledge of those that built the game

They are being considered:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/CDI-Guilds-Guild-Halls/first

SaintSnow.6593:

This wts was honestly just a classic case of egomania becoming too much. EU has been going years of firmly believing they are vastly superior to NA and tcg just didn’t practice nor care as much bc they believed that NA would be such a easy pushover. They came into the not nearly prepared as the Abjured was, who have been practicing endlessly scrimming with Absurd and other teams.
Tcg is composed of great players but they just let their egos get the best of them and it cost them. Hopefully now, we will see a different attitude towards the NA side of things.

Did we watch the same tournament? The games were great, and often very close (that come back in the first one!). Sizer did a fantastic job, as did Rom, so I bet they practiced just fine. There were just two top teams with close enough lvl of play to offer great entertainment. I think your chauvinism has altered your experience of the tournament, maybe you should watch it again.