Guild Wars 2

Justin ODell.9517:

Admiral Zombie.8624:

A lot of people are misunderstanding what is happening. People who have earned their rank emotes and finishers will get to keep them as they are.

If I understand what people are saying, and I may be wrong, many people are treating ranks as more of a lifetime achievement. That is certainly something to consider in regards to the future reward system replacing them.

It’s a lifetime achievement for me, yes. I see myself steadily earning rank over the next few years (if I’m still playing). It feels good to have a goal in sPvP. The only thing that is off-putting is how back-loaded the 70-80 grind is.

I would be very disappointed if rank were to disapear.

Justin ODell.9517:

Admiral Zombie.8624:

A lot of people are misunderstanding what is happening. People who have earned their rank emotes and finishers will get to keep them as they are.

If I understand what people are saying, and I may be wrong, many people are treating ranks as more of a lifetime achievement. That is certainly something to consider in regards to the future reward system replacing them.

YES! its a lifetime achievement. Getting rid of ranks really really bad idea.

Justin ODell.9517:

cymerdown.4103:

They could keep the changes to the reward system, but just not remove ranks and their finishers. Just have it as this little side progression thing, but not have it display anywhere except on your PvP menu and maybe keep the progress bar on the bottom. This way, you still get the cool new rewards, and yes glory is now gone, but rank points and the rank finishers will remain.

The finishers are not going away. You will likely have until the first ladder season to earn them. After that they can’t be earned, but you will continue to have them. If all you want is additional finishers to work toward, be sure to mention that in the rewards discussion.

Could you please reply specifically to our concerns about ranks themselves being removed? What is the point of removing them altogether when they currently (with the exception of SHF ranks) give a decent indicator of a player’s experience in PvP? Being able to show off your rank is a lot better than not.

Also, I understand that finishers are not being removed yet, but what about people like myself who are only rank 30 after a year because we don’t have a lot of time to play, but have PvP’d a lot since launch? I only have one level 80 and several level 2 PvP only characters because all I do is PvP, but I haven’t had the time to hit 50+.

Nobody has ever suggested that you will be able to achieve everything in a reasonable amount of time. I used to be like you, with the mentality that if i dont obtain everything I’m missing something. This is just not a completion-ist game like games of previous generations. Rewards will only continue to expand and you will spend more time doing things you rather not be doing.

There is already a meta its called the daily chest. And like every other meta in the game you can earn AP beyond what is required of it. Making daily AP a flat rate only serves to lower AP hunters competitive edge and give newcomers less means to pass people up that don’t farm all the dailies after the chest.

Sorry, but you not wanting to have to grind out dailies is not reason to take away incentive and reward for the people that do so you don’t feel compelled to do them. You are just going to have to get over missing a few points and maybe falling behind.

I am not high on the leaderboard but I would like to be able to grind out a few extra points a day to unlock chests since I can not be there everyday to complete the daily. People feeling like they don’t want to be compelled to get those extra points is not a good enough reason to take them away from players like me.

You being burned out on getting them is you playing how you want to, nothing FORCES you to get every AP point. Thats you “playing how you want” to be high on the leaderboards and putting in the effort for it. If you are burned out to the point you don’t want to do that anymore you should stop and do things you enjoy. That is what playing how you want to play means, it does not involve changing the game to make it easier on your completion-ist style. You can’t have your cake and eat it to… that is what people asking for caps expect.

There should be something as laurels => gems.
We should also be able to earn gold through PvP…

Will not only benefit the PvPers but also the PvEers

Don’t all sylvari have limited control over plant life inherently? Combined with her engineering ability with that plant control mastered to a greater degree? Just speculation.

RedCobra.7693:

there wont be another alliance,

molten alliance = red
aetherblades = blue
Toxic alliance = green

all amount to the tricolours, im guessing she used these factions as building blocks to build the ultimate machine, whatever that is i dont know, maybe some sort of doomsday device

She’s planning on forming WvWvW teams with them!
Of course it all makes sense now!

They should implant an approximate timer when you join the queue for WvW.

I think, it’s not actually the server/ wvw population, which make ppl crazy and what some ppl here don’t understand. Yeah Sure T1 servers have more ppl wanting to play WvW and sure, we have to wait longer… And that’s fine for me, even though I play longer on my server than the server-hopper.
But what gets on my nerves is this broken queue. Sry but when I’m in a supermarket standing in the line, than I can pay earlier than the guy who joined the line 5 mins later, no matter what I’m or he is buying.
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About the server transfer issue… I’m sure, everyone, who suggests to transfer to an other server, would be willing to leave his community, his guild, his friends behind, if something like this would happen to his/ her servers. end of irony you guys always just think of the T1 population as achievement hunters/ winning-team-joiner, sry to disappoint you, but these types of players actually came from your servers!
And what about the ppl sometimes playing wvw at night? I hear it from friends on other servers (T2 and lower) – their night-wvw is pretty… poor.

Rainshine.5493:

Korossive.7085:

I never use the mini’s that get auto-cleared into the bank and always need to manually be told to spawn.

Just an FYI, invisible bags and lockboxes will “hide” your minis from the “deposit all collectibles” function. I have one on every toon I use a mini on for that reason alone.

Completely off topic, but when are we going to get a minis slot added to hero panel?
Once that happens, I imagine many people (myself included) would be much more interested in using minis.

It’s obvious what that is: the Krait are simply constructing their own version of the Mad King’s clock tower. It’s almost Halloween, after all. ;-)

There really needs to be a system so friends can play together in these activities. I’m willing to play in a scrimmage mode with no rewards at all just so my guild can play together in clock tower, keg brawl, sanctum sprint, etc. I can provide the rewards, we just want to play against each other.

Clock Tower is also unique in that there’s no real way to "game’ the system like you could in other activities, if that’s a concern. If you don’t race to the end, you’re not going to make it period.

It’s possibly the one thing that frustrates me about this game at all.

My preparation:

Go Into WvW
Roam

Thats it, no food, no Guard Lich or anything either (mostly as i dont have them)

VIVorcha.7853:

Trahearne is a character whose voice actor is qualified by the merit of being able to speak in a total monotone and mispronounce words in funny ways. You may know him from such productions as “The Battle of Clawr Island”.

This can be attributed to the fact that Trahearne is voiced and acted in a terribly accurate British way. You will hear that ‘r’ from “Clawr Island” in a lot of other word combinations when spoken in an official tone. Also his entire character is built around a standard “British General” model so his dialogue always seems monotone (this is actually how they talk in higher circles/information in the army).
Hopefully they will address all the discontinuity in the personal story with major living world events (as they stared doing with Logan in the previous patch).
And I have to admit that the nicknames for poor Trahearne made me laugh way to hard.

Harathi is full of great champs to fight not to mention the Ulgoth Meta event chain that has a total of 5 champions including the mega boss himself.

I’m devising an order of attack feel free to discuss.

Note: The Meta is every 15-30 minutes.

Gargantula> Confinement Camp Champ> Overwatch Camp Champ Ulgoth Chain> KOL >Ulgoth (if using kol path to catch up and merge zergs)> Sharky the Destroyer> repeat.

People usually leave after they do the meta once because of the boss chest (one per character per day) and one time 100% rare or better bonus chest that is once per day per account per Mega Boss. Since he is a champ and not an epic…(like SB, wurm , etc) you get that extra steel chest always on his death and that is almost a guaranteed exotic champ bag.

On my server, running champions in Queensdale provides much enjoyment for a large number of people. New and experienced players alike band together running between the various champions.

Yes, there are occasional squabbles when someone starts a champion out of rotation. This is usually a simple misunderstanding: for example, a newbie sees the troll stone and picks it up, and others who were standing around fight the troll since it’s trying to kill them. Other times cross-communication in map chat causes two things to be engaged at once; these issues get sorted out quickly enough, since normal people want to maximize their rewards if they’re going to be spending any real time in the zone, and join the larger group.

When I see real arguments in map chat, it’s always between a large group of players who are enjoying the camaraderie of working together, and a single person who is aware of the group, starts several champion fights out of the “rotation”, and then makes it clear through his responses in chat when others express dismay that he’s a sociopath and doing it because he enjoys being a jerk in a situation where repercussions are impossible.

If you’re level 80, you’re a tourist in the zone like everyone else, and unless you just happen to smack down a single champion because you run past it on your way to some other task (e.g., you kill the spider on the way to the Demongrub Pits, or the Oak when you’ve teleported in for the Shadow Behemoth), there’s no reason to repeatedly frustrate the others who are chain-killing the champions other than pure spite, because you’re gimping your own rewards (along with everyone else’s) by doing this.

No, nobody owns the champions. But I don’t think there’s any real problem to be solved, at least on my server.

Simple solution: Reward 1 champion bag for day.

This way, if people want to farm champs, they can form a “train” and farm ALL the champs in the game instead of farming the same 5 champs over and over.

There is enough champs all across the world and 99% are never touched so this will be not a nerf but a solutions to the original problem and a fix to the newest.

Sarie.1630:

GW1’s Vizier Khilbron was an amazing villain. You knew he had a very defined goal, even though it wasn’t disclosed, and I enjoyed the fact that he didn’t disclose himself as a villain to the player until very late in the story…even though we all had his cards marked as evil by the end of Sanctum Cay.

The presentation of Vizier bored me, as soon as I heard him speak one thought popped in my mind: “Okay when am I going to be betrayed?”
Every mission he was in “I’ll be betrayed soon.”
Then when it happened my character looked so shocked, all I could do was the Nicholas Cage “You don’t say?!” face.

They could have done better with him.

Now Joko, even though he’s a King Thorn with no entertaining puns, was presentable and I’ll admit I do miss him. Even though you knew he was evil right off the bat, there was still entertainment with him.

I think that’s why I don’t mind Scarlet. At the moment she’s a mad dog killer type who needs to be put down. There’s nothing particularly tragic about her, she doesn’t need multiple facets, and she doesn’t need to be a complex character.

To quote a favorite character from a TV Show: “…I can’t recall the last time I was in a fight like that. No moral ambiguity, no … hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. They were the bad guys, as you say, we were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor.”

I wish we could at least get the 42k karma one in SM till that happens. – whomever holds sm, gets the karma merchant.

What a mystery they are. I hope ANET ( in time) brings them into GW2 somehow. I really would like to know more about them, and where they came from. Mursaat? Not too interested in them.

The Seers however seem to be so otherworldly lore and appearance wise. Like they did not originate on tyria. My theory is that both the Mursaat and the Seers also came to Tyria long ago… Hmm who knows.

Anywho just thought Id share my thoughts <3 Oh, there is information that is “hard to come by” in GW2 about to the Seers… The interview below confirms that.

Ree Soesbee: There have been a lot of questions about the Seers and their ancient war with the mursaat. Sadly, these aren’t questions we can answer at great length without giving away some very deep secrets of the Guild Wars world. I can say that they are one of the oldest races of Tyria, dating back long before the Gods brought the humans to the world; to the time of the writing of the Tome of Rubicon. In those ancient days, the Seers fought against the mursaat, but they were in turn defeated by their enemies, and their civilization lost to the ravages of time.

Some remnants of that civilization, and that ancient time, still remain in modern-day Tyria (both in GW and GW2), but often, those who discover such things do not realize what they have found. There are opportunities in Guild Wars 2 to uncover some of the most ancient lore, including previously untold tidbits about the Seers and their story, but such information will be very difficult to come by.

Here is the link to the entire interview: http://www.guildmag.com/guildmag-issue-1-qa-with-ree-soesbee

He is using Jormag’s name as a curse. He is not invoking his name actually asking for Jormag’s help.

Depends on what the quote means. Does he hate both the Oozes so much, he would send them to Jormag so they can bother him? Or is he asking help from Jormag, to defeat these Oozes?

Fancy way of saying that he wishes ill will towards the oozes.

Talindra.4958:

:( yes.
can we purchase it to be permenant in our personal instance? my little one has been asking about it!

DO IT FOR TEH LITTLE ONE, ANET!

It’s a frustrating thing when there’s too many oozes.

Can it be done? Obviously.

Could it be more balanced and a bit more user friendly? Obviously.

You know when I heard about the new TA path, the diminished token returns seems to suddenly make sense.

Holy kitten! I thought. They are going to just add new paths to the existing dungeons, hell this won’t be so bad after all! We will have more paths and therefore more opportunity to get full rewards for tokens. Even if we never get new permanent dungeons we could always get more paths for current ones. This seems like a decent middle ground to be on. But boy was I wrong, they answered alright.

LOL Nope! — Sincerely Anet