Guild Wars 2

insanemaniac.2456:

thanks for poking into the prof subred—forums josh

yall dont post here like ever and i got no proof of anything whatsoever (nor do i care to) but after seeing the “finalized” engi changes im pretty sure anet had eyes in here and its pretty satisfying at least to me.

except st®eamlined kits. thats gonna be a sore spot for… until next time. even if the awesomer name sticks and you leave out the r forever.

Stay tuned for details on Streamlined kits tomorrow.

Gern.2978:

I want to know how much the #1 attack hits for. That is the deciding factor of whether this is a good kit or not. If the #1 attack hits like a wet noodle, then this kit will be next to useless for a power build.

According to napkin math, mortar #1 hits about 47% harder than rifle 1. The rest of the mortar skills do less damage but have more utility.

osuracnaes.4930:

Are the personal story fixes not part of next week’s update? I didn’t see any mention of them in the patch notes.

The full patch notes haven’t been published yet.

Tamasan.6457:

Does this work for stacks over 250 if you have collection expanders?

Yes, it handles that just fine.

Hey everyone

We’ve reviewed this bug and I passed off a fix just yesterday. Unfortunately I am no idea on timelines or what update it might be included in, but a fix is coming!

Endless Soul.5178:

I love this city.

…when will it be destroyed?

Is that a request?

I should be a bit more clear: Please don’t take a comment like “we’re reading your thoughts” lightly. That’s truly not a dismissive comment, but one that is intended to let you know that feedback from our forum members and players will be shared with the team as a whole.

In fact, I’ll edit my previous post to make that a bit more visible.

DarkWasp.7291:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I should be a bit more clear: Please don’t take a comment like “we’re reading your thoughts” lightly. That’s truly not a dismissive comment, but one that is intended to let you know that feedback from our forum members and players will be shared with the team as a whole.

In fact, I’ll edit my previous post to make that a bit more visible.

Yay! I think just knowing that we’ve been considered, whether it results in anything or not, helps put our minds at ease about the whole ordeal.

Also when you say that you’re “reading our thoughts” are you SURE you weren’t suggesting telepathy?

Oh gad! You’re right. That really should simply be “reading and sharing your input.” I hesitate to go back and edit that post, especially since it was quoted a time or two. But I hope you’ll forgive the poor wording by looking at the good intentions it symbolizes.

InfinitytheSoulWarden.5963:

if you look at the world through the cold cynical eyes of economics

You rang?

There is no boxed Ultimate Edition version of the game and no other editions of the game being offered beyond what you see on buy.guildwars2.com.

We have an FAQ that covers this and other questions you may have: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/94582027-Heart-of-Thorns-Pre-Purchase-FAQ

I’m sure this is understood, but it seems like a good idea to formally say this: The update notes shared in this thread (and distributed to our fansites) were presented in unedited form. (You probably figured that out. ) As always, all game updates are subject to change while being finalized. The final notes that are presented here on the forums as the formal Update Notes will be edited before they go live. This will allow us to tidy up typos, make sure each stat is accurate, and also verify the inclusion of all elements (and the removal of any that are not going to be included).

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

A couple notes on Dragonhunter. We went with this name because we felt it was evocative of the medieval witch hunters. Guardians consider themselves protectors of the innocent. Followers of their faith be it in honor, valor, etc. The origin of the dragonhunter is a more subtle nuanced version of this. Guardians fight for justice and the dragonhunter faction believes justice is the eradication of dragons and their minions. I understand this is a lot more high concept than Mesmer but at the end of the day we felt like we wanted to try and push a more mature theme here. I hope this helps explain our thinking. We had other generic names in mind but felt like it was important to have a mix of spec names that are generic fantasy, more Tyrian fantasy, and more high concept. This one falls more in the third category.

Thanks,

Jon

I’ve flagged this for the competitive team. Thanks for the report and thanks for participating in the Stronghold beta!

If you only gain a point for winning and lose a point for losing, everyone will be sorted by their win percentage. This means anyone with <50% win rate would never advance. (Unless I misunderstood you)

This is one reason we have the odds-of-winning based point matrix to ensure even matches help you climb, and you don’t fall for uneven matches.

NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT

• Moved the Player vs. Player guide up into Level 3 Rewards.

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• Fixed a bug that delayed damage from falling.
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera position to snap when it was used with a horizontal or vertical offset.
• Fixed an issue that decreased the size of the loading-screen art.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the field of view from resetting to the specified value when loading a map.
• Fixed bug in which text appeared green in chat bubbles created by player chat.
• Fixed a bug that could result in characters permanently keeping stealth on death.

Items

• Rings of the Sun-God sold by Qoetl in Sparkfly Fen are now rings.
• Plant Dog Transformations now correctly change characters into plant dogs.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the first tier of spear, harpoon gun, and trident recipes from being discoverable.
• Runes of the Adventurer now use the correct icon in PvP.

Profession Skills
Guardian

• Flashing Blade: This ability is no longer able to be used in midair.
• Elite Focus: Updated the facts of this trait to indicate the correct stability duration and interval of application.

Necromancer

• Vampiric Rituals: This trait no longer triggers on siege doors.
• Foot in the Grave: This trait will now allow the necromancer to break stuns when entering death shroud.

Structured Player vs. Player

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Silverwastes Reward Track from being set as the active reward track.
• Fixed a bug in which using /join on a player queued for PvP with a party would remove the party from the queue.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

• The Aviator Quaggan Mail Carrier is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
• The Mad Scientist’s Harvesting Tool is now available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 1000 gems.

Improvements
Black Lion Chests have received the following updates:

• The drop rate of Black Lion Claim Ticket Scraps has been increased.
• The drop rate of Teleport to Friend items has been increased.
• Toxic Dye Kits, Deathly Dye Kits, Metallurgic Dye Kits, and Taimi’s Dye Kits have been removed.
• The Mini Super Monkey, Mini Super Spider, Mini Super Bee Dog, Mini Super Yeti, Mini Super Raccoon, and Mini Super Banana have been added as rare drops.
• Glint’s Winter Dye Kits, Shadow Dye Kits and Crimson Lion Dye Kits have been added as rare drops.

500G may seem like an entirely arbitrary number, but I guarantee it is not. I took a look at our mail data (believe me, you guys really like mail and there is a lot of data) and set the value based on that. At 500G, it is not only functionally effective, but also it will only impact 0.175% of our players during an entire month’s worth of mails (if an account would hit the restriction once per month/30 days).

Looking more directly at those transactions, a large majority (98.228%) of those mails are being sent by RMT or compromised accounts (after selling off everything of value on an account).

Yes, there are going to be some edge cases that this is going to bump into, and as we look more into the impact that this change will have, we might change the restriction. However, we feel that this change is going to significantly impact RMT in our game along with help remove a very large reason to compromise accounts.

This is just the first step in our plan to help users keep their accounts secure. More will come as we progress through the year (and forevers!).

Xdmatt — this is great, what a fine community spirit you’re showi… wait a minute, I see what you did there!

Iason — I am not sure about the answer to this. As pdavis and mtpelion point out, the wallet is account bound and does not have a limit. So I’m curious why you feel a second storage option is needed.

steve and others — I will ask about the functionality of a “sent items” system. However, off the top of my head I suspect that implementing such functionality would not be a trivial or easy process, and I can see it would involve several teams (programming, UI, art, etc.). As Ic points out, it may be seen as more a QoL factor than an essential system change. But again, I’ll see what I can find out or a dev may post here to answer this question.

suffish — I have not heard that there’s a motivation factor involving preventing player-to-player trading. As the statement says, this is about curbing fraud, RMT, and the oft-related account thefts.

Rising Dusk — another question I’ll need to ask. But when accounts are proven to have been hacked, the account is restored (rolled back) so would that not accomplish the same thing that you’re proposing? And wouldn’t doing what you propose make restorations a moot factor?

hrasna — you’ve hit a very important point here: This change will impact very, very few players. In fact, in previous statistical reviews, the percentage of players who would be impacted would be in the low single digits.

We are introducing a change to gold transfers as part of an effort to address fraud and account theft. Beginning on March 31, 2015, there will be a limit on how much gold a single player can receive through in-game mail and/or the Guild Vault each week. This limit, which is based on historical data, should not affect the normal transfer of gold between players. It is designed to prevent rapid and abusive transfers of gold that may be part of account takeovers, fraud, and RMT (gold selling).

Full details about the system:

1. Each account will have a limit on how much gold can be moved from its mail in-box and Guild Vault into its wallet each week.
2. If you receive more gold through in-game mail than you can accept in a week, the gold will remain attached to the mail in your in-box and can be retrieved up to the limit the following week or in subsequent weeks.
3. For the purposes of this limit, a week begins at 12:01 AM UTC each Sunday (5:01 PM PDT/4:01 PM PST Saturday).
4. Gold received from the Trading Post is not subject to this limit.
5. The maximum amount of gold that can be sent via a single in-game mail will be 500 gold.
6. The maximum total amount of gold that an individual player account can accept in a week will be 500 gold.
7. We will monitor this system and may make changes to the limits if we find that changes are necessary.

Nike.2631:

JonPeters.5630:

…we have said for a while now, we know that the current stack cap creates problems for condition players who want to work together. What you saw today was the first test in solving some of these problems. Keep in mind, it is not necessarily final and absolutely not the entire plan.

A question:

Do you anticipate whatever solution AreanNets settles on to be delivered prior to HoT’s release like the current stability changes or to be held to coincide with the expansion?

We don’t know yet, but the goal is to have this BY HoT at the very latest. I don’t think we would hold it if we felt it was the right solution, tested it well and felt it was balanced.