Guild Wars 2

Also lawton, wouldnt the requestheader call-

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		//request.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Bearer&lt;<snipped because OP probably doesnt want it shared>&gt;");
		request.send();
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be slightly redundant, as that’s in effect what you’re doing when you append the apikey to the end of the url?

Ardid.7203:

WoW maps made me suffer hours of horrible monotony. Please don’t make GW2 maps be anything like that.

What they could have done, was made each POI or Vista an instanced zone so that you could learn more about that area. Sadly, that’d have been a looooooot of dev time to do, given the number of POIs and Vistas there are.

Typing “exotic” into the search bar also works, though it doesnt get things that are exotic level but DONT have exotic in the “name”

Will.9785:

Yup. Just spent another 15 minutes. I tried to take a camp but 1 of the enemies was invulnerable/bugged. Still haven’t seen anyone.

Check their buff bar. If they have something called righteous indignation, it means they’re immune to damage and can wallop players insanely hard until it wears off after 3-5 minutes.

Cedo, the old experience boosters were the reward category, not combat.

Dreamslayer.7659:

Anet really does need to let us skin our tools. I’ve completely outfitted 9 characters with perm tools and now I get a bit sad when I see new ones released because I would buy them if I could reskin my existing tools and yes, I realize that whether I can reskin them or not, I’ll end up with extra tools so an even better solution would be to sell the tool skins apart from the actual tools. Maybe this is a first step?

You wouldnt get the functionality.

Moyayuki.3619:

Aidan Savage.2078:

What you need to remember is that the zone maps are condensed in scale compared to what it would be in “reality.” If you expand the maps to a realistic size, going from say, DR to LA would take days or weeks to get there, not 20 minutes or so.

I wasn’t suggesting they make the environments “to scale”, just that there be more variety of environments (like a sandy desert or a dense forest).

The condensed nature of the zones make it harder to do so. Additionally, the climate of the game world makes some things impossible as well. Further, the need for players to actually navigate and PLAY the game in such environments also limit it. For example, the early areas of Caledon Forest are the “dense forest” you want. Pretty sure Drytop and Silverwastes also qualify as a sandy desert too.

Not entirely right, or true, tolunart. Ectos are a RARE salvage result of rares and exotics, not the only result. You’re going to still get basic salvage results no matter what.

Duskflow.4523:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Duskflow.4523:

And what special case with german or french? Maybe first we should understand differences in size of gaming markets and russian market not so small like “all other languages”. By the way, funny they translate Heart of the Thorn upgrade description, it’s like “give us your money, but we treat you like subhuman”

How many more players will purchase GW2 (and spend money to buy gems) if the game was localized to Russian? How much will it cost ANet to add support for Cyrillic and translate the current and future stories, skills+traits, mechanics, skin names, etc? How much additional ongoing QA and Customer Services costs will there be?

So far, I’ve yet to see anyone offer even back-of-the-envelope estimates that suggest that benefits would even match the costs, let alone exceed them (as it would need to do to be a good business investment).

So yes, it would be good to understand the different markets before claiming that anyone is being treated as “subhuman” because their native tongue isn’t localized

With 1.4 billion revenue and 11 place of all countries in 2016 i don’t see the problem to put at least subtitles, just like do most modern games. So yes, it would be better for all understand the different markets and profit from them.

Still irrelevant. The revenue of a country matters about as much as the country’s ethnic statistics. What matters are statistics about online gaming.

Zhaitan’s ded. There’s really no reason to bring it back just to make it a meta fight. Better off making the suggestion of altering the Tequatl fight.

What you need to remember is that the zone maps are condensed in scale compared to what it would be in “reality.” If you expand the maps to a realistic size, going from say, DR to LA would take days or weeks to get there, not 20 minutes or so.

Jaymee.1560:

Still a bit confused on how a container will “tell” you it’s affected,

It literally tells you in it’s description.

Will not work. It’s a technical impossibility.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ShinyDay.5349:

All good and great, but I’m kinda new player, and still waiting for Living World Season 1 to get back, so I can do that before LWs3.

You may have a very, very long wait, as the Devs are not currently working on bringing back LW Season One, nor have they changed their stance on the possibility whenever asked over the years.

They’ve said before they WANT to. That’s a pretty clear indication of a possibility it’ll happen at some point.

LimitBreaker.4165:

LOL at all the people saying bs on the op playing for 12 years, I’m pretty sure he meant guild wars-guild wars 2 which would be 12 years total since the first game was released.

OP says this game, if you’d actually pay attention to what people are posting.

It makes me wonder if I should buy a few stacks of gossamer to bank away in case things change to make it go up. I honestly wish I had done that with t6 leather. If I had bought 20 stacks back then….. I’d have well over 3k gold if I sold today.

Jaymee.1560:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

From the Wiki:

The exceptions are:

Containers received from structured PvP reward tracks.
Divine Lucky Envelopes during Lunar New Year
Heart of Thorns meta event participation containers.

Good luck.

Am I reading this correctly, that HoT event loot IS affected by MF? Cause all I know is, during the Tarir event, especially, I deck myself out with any and all MF sources I have. Now from your reply here, it sounds like… my attempts here are not in vain?

ONLY the containers that specifically state they are, such as the Wyvern Cache iirc. The chests you need exalted keys to open? Those are NOT affected by magic find.

Isha Xalana.1362:

I have played this game for 9 years and the loot drops have been good. Lately loot drops have been horrible. I have bought 30 black lion chest and have got nothing of value. My interest in this game is dwindling along with my family.

Bring back the fun of getting something of value or interest.

Gonna call bullkitten on the time you’ve been playing the game. I’m also pretty sure you dont know exactly what you want either. First of all, BL chests are RNG boxes. You’re going to get stuff no matter what, you just dont have a choice. Or are you talking about random loot when killing kitten? Rares and exotics ARE valuable. Do you mean gold worth? That’s a glass house. If things become more common, they arent going to stay “valuable” for long. So…. I’m just gonna say what other people are probably going to think- you should probably find another game.

Vettexl.9726:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Why not just collapse bags as you finish with one?

Then I’d have to open them back up again and that’s even more clicking

And? It’s the best solution available to the problem created by your preferences. Honestly though, that’s why I hide bags and keep my inventory large enough I dont need to deal with scroll bars.

If it doesnt show up in the chat log, then it means those characters are not supported. Whether or not you can type it is not involved.

Japanese isnt a supported language. That’s probably why it doesnt work.

Taimi didnt “halt” anything on Scruffy. Remember, in the HoT story, she sacrificed scruffy in order to progress further into Novus.

Why not just collapse bags as you finish with one?

To summarize who can do what in LS3:

• F2P can unlock content, but cannot access it
• Non-expac players can unlock content, but cannot access it
• Expac players can unlock and access it

Bear in mind behel, that MO made his announcement YESTERDAY, and it has remained on the front page since then. OP still made this thread. A day later.

Areoh.7495:

Thanks for the info guys. Anet… I will not be buying the expansion.

While this will seem harsh, if that’s your outlook of the game, I’d shelve GW2 indefinitely and find a game to replace it. Without the expansion, you will no longer have access to any new content (recurrent festivals are not “new”) that is gated behind the expansion.

There’s no reason to bump a dead thread. There’s a reason they say to MAKE A NEW THREAD. Also, a “greataxe” isnt really any different than a hammer.

Ayrilana.1396:

Ashen.2907:

Linken.6345:

Were did they say that ls3 were a hot feature?

Where did I claim that they did?

What I do believe is that if Anet says that I have to pay X dollars to have access to LS3, then they are saying that LS3 is paid content. I don’t care for the idea of gating paid content in this manner…

…but again, it isn’t really a big deal because a 2-3 month window of opportunity is pretty forgiving.

Wouldn’t Season 2 be considered paid content since you needed to have purchased the game to access it?

Technically, it’s inclusion in the game came looooooooooooong after release, so it’s not paid content per se. It’s paid content in the context that people who didnt play then need to pay in order to make it available. On the other side of the coin, it’s not paid content for the opposite context.

How do I unlock the episodes?
Just as in Season 2, you can unlock each episode for free by logging in to Guild Wars 2 any time between the episode’s initial release and the release of the next episode. If you don’t own Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, you can still log in to unlock the episode for free—it’ll be there waiting for you once you purchase the expansion!

Taken from the latest blog post, bolding my own.

edit: point still stands that you only paid for access to content, not the content itself. Otherwise players that dont own HoT wouldnt even be able to unlock it.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Wow. Some of these comments are really ugly. Seeing a reason why they rarely say anything now.

Agreed, the all the sour grapes is sad. And you can’t make lemonade from it either, only wine.

But there are still plenty of us who strive to look towards the positive, too.

~EW

More like vinegar with how rancid some threads get. Granted, it’ll go great on fish n chips with all the salt on the forums too.

That being said, I’m pretty sure you have until the next episode actually releases to earn that “credit.” But it’s been a while since LS2, so I cant remember if that’s how it was then as well.

There’s nothing to keep up with. If you want it, you simply have to log into the game. That’s it. Outside of downloading updates, it takes maybe 30 seconds to do, 45 if your logging into LA. Also, you didnt pay for much besides access to content. The fact they added a window of opportunity to get that content for free…. well, no one’s fault but your own if you cant take even 5 minutes out of 2 weeks, 3 weeks, however long it is, to log in and get it. But I get it, you dont want to have to keep up with a game you no longer play despite seemingly being a consistent visitor to it’s forums. You know, where a lot of information is being given?

Siobhan.5273:

Sariel V.7024:

By logging in after July 26, whether you own the expansion or not, you can ‘bank’ the episode, letting you access it if you decide to spring for the expansion at a later date.

It’s not necessarily official, but it is an answer.

So, we still have to keep track of, and log in during the episodes, even if we already own the expansion, to “unlock” them for later play? If we don’t, do we lose access to them or are we forced to pay to play them?

Yes. It is absolutely no different to how it was for LS2. Didnt log in during those two weeks? You’re forking out money for that episode.

Zef, the “free” character slots werent originally included because it’s pretty cheap to simply buy an additional one. Moreso with an upper limit of 60-something character slots.

Assuming each line’s an average of 15 words, that’s 1500 lines, 40 repetitions, for a total of just under a million words. Assuming a modest conversational speed of 1wps, that’s still 250 hours of recording to be done. Even at a pace of 4 hours a day of perfect takes, that’s over 2 months of voice recording if done as a single session per day. In order for them to finish in a week (5 days), it’s going to take 13 recording sessions per day for them to finish the voice recording alone. Text stuff would likely take 1/5th as much effort, so add one more day. Integration and testing will likely take AT LEAST as long as that, so we’re looking at the end of July in a best case “a wizard did it” scenario. Mid-August is probably more reasonable.

What is there to be clarified and/or misunderstood (besides willful ignorance getting involved)? He clearly said it’s the FIRST EPISODE[/b][/i] of Living Story 3. Unless you didnt play during LS1&2, or did play but lived under a rock so deep even the dredge didnt find you, you’d know that they were episodic as well. Hardly any different now than it was then.

leviathan.2148:

robertjan.2197:

Thanks for the info on the next big update. But does this mean we won’t get it this month????

He called it “July quarterly update”. Anything not clear?

Reread his post.

Why? Why should large guilds be restricted? Because smaller guilds cant accumulate the manpower capable of producing donations?

Generally, the collections themselves dont take much time, it’s WHAT the collections and crafting the iterations need.

https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/legendaries will tell you which precursors are cheaper to craft vs selling the materials you would have used in the collection and buy it.

Weapons have specific skills, and there’s no way to alter that loadout because there ISNT a way to balance it. Your customization will only come from what weapons you use, and what utility skills you use.

That’s probably likely, given the pattern of getting MPs from the personal story, ls2 chapters, and HoT chapters.

Roundabout.1752:

Aidan Savage.2078:

With LS3, Anet’s said that regardless of where LS3+ goes, if you dont have HoT, you cant participate. My guess is it’s going to require masteries.

We might need Masteries but it would be much easier to tie LS3 to a place then a set of skills. I image we’ll need to talk to someone in 1 of the new maps.

I mean that without HoT, you wont be able to participate at all. IE no joining a friend in their instances.

Tekoneiric.6817:

For me it’s good enough to know that suggestions and concerns are being read. The only way the poster can know this is if they respond or tag them in a way that becomes apparent to the poster. As someone that does computer support for a living I know fully well that canned responses are needed as a time saver and understand if they had to use them. I have had to use them in a number of jobs. They are much better than silence.

We’ve been assured by Gaile that they DO get read. On the other side of the coin, Gaile’s said, that outside of extreme cases, we (players) hear nothing until it’s either about to come out in a patch or is going to be such a difficult thing to do that they need to wait until other system implementations occur. I believe she also said that a lot of the… “unconfirmed” suggestions do in fact get tested, but really dont work out, so nothing’s said in whatever thread(s) mentioning it.

Tekoneiric.6817:

Aidan Savage.2078:

It only “makes sense” for people who arent seeing more details of the picture.

Console and mobile portability was not considered, should not be considered, and will never be considered for GW2. The biggest factors are the update oversights (ie vetting processes each time) by the console “parents” that delays updates longer than what we get them now; game-breaking bugs existing longer than hours or days because of update oversight; server rollbacks as a result of update oversight issues; strictly isolated console servers due to inability to retain synchronous versioning across all platforms. These are the hurdles anet pretty much said “kitten no” to.

And here I was thinking it was more about how ANet didn’t want to give Sony a share of the profits if it were on the PS3/4…. How ignorant of me.

Feasibility before profit. The environment needs to be sustainable, and stable, enough that players WANT to be there.

2 words: Moa Genocide.

It’s a sad day when people assume that because nothing is said, it’s being “ignored.” Gotta be kittening kidding me with that amount of cranial density. I’d love to go link Gaile’s post about this sort of thing, yet highly….. ignorant (really no other word describes it tbh) threads such as this one appear with some frequency.

Tekoneiric.6817:

Khadez.4958:

Not gonna happen, Linux market share is like 2% while Windows is about 85%. Putting in that much effort to please the 2% makes no economic sense.

That’s 2% of the desktop market. Linux is a back in for way more than 2% of computing devices out there. As I stated previously; part of the reason why a Linux client makes sense is portability to other platforms like a native Mac client, PS3/4, etc.

It only “makes sense” for people who arent seeing more details of the picture.

Console and mobile portability was not considered, should not be considered, and will never be considered for GW2. The biggest factors are the update oversights (ie vetting processes each time) by the console “parents” that delays updates longer than what we get them now; game-breaking bugs existing longer than hours or days because of update oversight; server rollbacks as a result of update oversight issues; strictly isolated console servers due to inability to retain synchronous versioning across all platforms. These are the hurdles anet pretty much said “kitten no” to.

Report em for spamming, and if it turns out they’re using the exact same message every time, might as well toss in a botting report as well for good measure.

Galtrix, that often comes from trying to follow the needs of 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 different groups of people. As for world bosses, if successes are limited to a handful of large guilds with organization and tactics greater than the norm, odds are such events need to be tinkered with anyways.

With LS3, Anet’s said that regardless of where LS3+ goes, if you dont have HoT, you cant participate. My guess is it’s going to require masteries.