Guild Wars 2

Achievements are a good source of ideas for things to do. Living story is available at 80.

Everything starts at 80.

Levelling is a tutorial for mechanics.

Join a guild that is active on these servers and rep when you map in. The megastar we algorithms should help put you in a map with your farming guild mates.

Why are you projecting an insult of “kids” upon anyone who is counter to your argument, when you use “Urself” slang, which is something that I have never seen used by adults?

Anyhow, as a multiple legendary crafter who buys precursors.. Who cares..

The collection achievements are a good indication, from my perspective, that precursor crafting, if it ever comes, will be a truckload of effort

Join TTS. It has an extensive oceanic group.

Bonetti’s rapier is the closest I can think of.

Arah defence is a great example of how ArenaNET has adjusted rewards to benefits success over failure. They nerfed the one spawn pre event during assault and buffed up the mob spawns during the defence.

On top of that, the priest sometimes spawns during the defence event, so trait hunters can still get their needs fulfilled.

Finally, regardless of defence fail or success, the assault still comes when its unpublished timer completes.

This is a methodology that I feel works fabulously and would love to see more of it.

Any time failing is better than succeeding, I cannot possibly imagine it was intended.

I thought I would sell eternity if I ever put my twilight and sunrise together.

Then, I finally made it..and realized that having Eternity was worth more than a stack of gold!

Today, I made Kudzu. Love it!

That said, I have made an sold numerous legendaries, which has helped me tostay out of poor house after my first two!

Dreamer
Kudzu
Bifrost
Twilight
Sunrise
Eternity

How many do we need for the achievement? Maybe I’ll do the spear next…

Siege use permissions option in the guild panel (where ranks are made)? I know there is potential for an individual to have their own guild and place using that… Maybe there are ways to deal with it, if all siege is tagged by the placing guild.

Also, turning away from the target will at least stop ranged fire (ex: arrows)

Hi all and thanks for the efforts to provide us with a new and improved trading post!

I have multiple accounts for Guild Wars 2, and noticed something about the new trading post…

When I log out of one account and into another, my “Recently viewed” history from the first account is visible on the new account (main page of the trading post).

The sell history is correct, so it doesn’t appear to be a critical issue. That said, I haven’t done an exhaustive check.

Perhaps a solution to this is ensuring that you clear any session variables/cookies at logout?

Fergus.4208:

• Build/Place a Siege Golem
• Place 10 feasts (food) in WvW
• Unlock a feast recipee
• Use the Mystic Forge in a keep
• Complete a WvW Jumping Puzzle
• Upgrade a location (camp/tower/…)
• Use a siege disabler to disable enemy siege
• Kill an enemy player by knocking it out of the map (EotM) or through fall dmg
• Use a finisher on all 8 combo fields (while in WvW)
• Upgrade a siege blueprint in the Mystic Forge
• Kill an enemy player in Obsidian Sanctum
• Get killed by an enemy player in Obsidian Sanctum
• Die while intoxicated in a WvW map
• Activate a npc commander
• Rally from an enemy player

How about 25 achievements, like this, except you receive credit by:

1) doing any 5 from the total of 25, each week.
2) do not receive credit for any beyond the first 5 you complete
3) those 5 are crossed of from the total list and are not available in the next week

If not 25 from a list, at how about 25 unique events. IE: no credits beyond the first for a dolyak escort (maybe granular such as a specific escort, if this is trackable).

Rewards? Perhaps a la dynamic events, instead of “gift or no gift,” or even worse, “I live on a crappy server.”

25 unique events – gold
20 unique events – silver
15 unique event – bronze

Good luck to all, this season. Regardless of rewards, my server’s queues are evil!

This is more of a “how to have a guild that doesn’t take people out of the open world” than “How can a guild hall be used as a platform to introduce QoL features for guild management.”

So, for Guild Halls… I suggest then:

Guild Waypoint

- placed anywhere within the PvE open world
- shows up on the map (new colour/label?) or in the Guild Pane by the daily message
- only visible when representing the guild which placed it
- one per guild, may buy a new one to move guild location
- you have to be able to get to the area in the map (ie: no new character exploit opportunity) before you can use it
- upgrades to guild are placeable objects (like a banner) within maybe 900-1200 units of the waypoint and also only visible/usable by representing members. Expire like guild boosts?

Benefits

- Open world Guild Hall!
- No need to make a bunch of new Guild Hall instance maps (a la GW1)
- No hiding in a Guild Instance
- Non-guild members can still happen upon the halls
- Entering via WP helps put guild members in the same megaserver open world map instance
- Finding a cool place to act as your guild hall in the open world!

On that note, for

GvG

- guild purchasable item like a pvp custom arena, which enables you to invite another guild when you first click it. Then it is open for 24 hours for the two guilds to battle.

pdavis.8031:

A little research can reveal places where you can easily get at least 10 T6 an hour, with barely trying, and not a huge amount of MF.

Since heavy loot bag drop rates aren’t affected by magic find, it has barely any impact since that’s how most of them drop.

Mckeone.9804:

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

So much this. It’s a wonder that Mr. Smith even bothers to look a these messages. It would drive me crazy.

Actually, it does already, and it’s not even my job!

Farming items limits inflation. If you are able to understand WHY this is true, you might just know what inflation is.

I got an ascended chest at Tequatl with a level FOUR character. Plenty of disgruntled witnesses to it… I had no level 80 characters on the account, so I of course leveled just so I could make use of the weapon.

Blackgate hasn’t been green since June 21st, and we play the same two teams every week.

I have two characters waiting for world completion.

Grumble.

Going by the limited stats on the Wiki page, the trend seems to point to kit rarity being irrelevant to the output of ecto salvaging:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glob_of_Ectoplasm/salvage_research

Save your mystic forge stones and use a copper fed.

1) Happy to see Buy and Sell orders without having to do the “place custom order” dance before selling.

2) Happy to see fees broken out specifically. At launch, there was NO notification of fees..and here I thought I was making great money flipping, my gold was going down. LOL oh the good old days!

Dusty Moon.4382:

New players pay the bills – that is important for ANY game. If you think not, then why is WoW touting one month free (even though this is the norm for a sub game) of play before their new patch comes live.

Game companies NEED new players.

I agree that games, especially MMOs, need a constant influx of new players. These players don’t join because of the new features, they join because they hear about how good the game is – from people who play it all the time.

I don’t know the metrics, but from my own player-of-one records, my real dollar spending in the game is far in excess of the original box cost, and on a monthly basis. So, essentially, keeping me playing is like signing me up as a new customer every month.

sazberryftw.3809:

Wait, I don’t get what your point was? Are we referring to spoon collecting here? Or was that just a poor choice of words?

I wasn’t specifically referring to the spoons. Perhaps it was an accidentally apt choice of words? I don’t mind spoon hunting, as long as it isn’t spoon fed.

It’s simple.

The veterans, with thousands of hours on their accounts, are your good will ambassadors. If we are happy with the game, we will spread joy to the new players, and we’ll continue to stick around in game.

You know what else we do?

We help the new players learn the game in a way that is much more rewarding than a more spoon fed leveling process.

Challenge is an important part of the reward process.

Meeting people is what an MMO is all about.

I am absolutely certain that the time I spend sharing tips and tricks, in a friendly and supportive way, is golden for retention.

Now, that said, I do like hunting for traits, it makes the process more interesting and doesn’t align with “spoon feeding”

Still love the game… thanks for all the efforts you are putting in. I know you mean well.

Mobs dropping loot for farmers curbs inflation. Loot on the trading post sinks gold, it doesn’t create it. When you earn money from loot, you’re not creating gold, it has already been created elsewhere.

Farmers are good for the economy, kitten farmers are bad for the community.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

But in specific regard to this thread, your question asks the possibility: could we keep maps fresh by adding tons and tons of events? In my experience, a large complexity factor in event implementation is other events. Any time an event is placed near another, we have to at least consider how they will interact. There’s one interaction between two events, two between three, five between four, nine between five, and so on. Returns definitely diminish. Over time we’ve come up with some effective techniques and patterns to mitigate this, but the cost is greater than zero.

The Harathi Hinterlands chain to is epic. Is it possible to have chains like this which occur within a time period, then are dormant for a block of time while another large chain happens? In other words, to avoid the overlap of events/chains, have batches of them which never overlap.

My concern would be the idea of “x events always happens at 1pm,” every day. To this, I think the solution is to time the event cycle so it shifts forward by an hour (or half hour) every day, to the point where someone showing up every Tuesday at the same time would eventually get through all of the .. groups of chains… after a number of weeks equal to the number of chains.

The boss timer system seems to have the forced event chain start times in place.

Shakkara.2641:

Let’s never fail gates of Arah either, cause that is clearly an exploit, eh?

Have you not been playing since April? If you’re still trying to fail Arah defence you are missing out.

I want one, but I want a precedent of truly time exclusive items to be maintained as a sign of thanks for players who started with the game and continue to play. If some have made a lot of gold with it, good for them!

To get the level 20 scrolls on the same day I read that ArenaNET employees also play the game…

I ask, seriously, if you are an ArenaNET employee who has found a use in these level 20 scrolls in your second birthday, and your 1st birthday scrolls are all used up, please raise your hand.

Birthday Blaster is.. interesting… thanks for trying something different there.

Because ArenaNET learned last year that players raged over getting multiple Jenna minis, this year we don’t deserve anything useful.

The booster is the same as the last year’s from what I see, and they do work properly, don’t they? I still have a few and one active at the moment.

I’m hearing that in LA… my characters ticked BACK to 729 from 730 (account wide still says 730!?) at about 9:15.. no presents on any of them yet lol

But yes, what … the… H E double hockeysticks??

Maybe a “plus 20 levels” scroll.. but another stack of these bloody things after that_shaman teased us with the new ones.

5 skill points. Awesome, not like I don’t have 1200 sitting in the bank already

Happy.. birthday…

730 days ticked over.. no present.. hmmm?

Sure, but at this point we’re speculating. I’m hoping for a real answer.

Hi Astral. Yes, that’s was our talk about the time…

I was more curious if there is a time stamp of “21:01:55” UTC-8 that the ArenaNET team consider the official launch of live…

That said, now I wonder if live was running for a period of time in advance to the public opening, with staffers racing around the maps, making sure the game was running properly. But that, I think, is something we may never know

Hello to all of the ArenaNET team, and thanks for all your efforts to make Guild Wars 2.

Today, as far as I am aware, is the “real” birthday of the live Tyria. Happy Birthday!

With respect to that, I have one question:

What time did the first Guild Wars 2 server go live to pre-launch customers? (login and/or game).

Thanks Andred.

1) I am aware of the need coming “Down the road” and
2) sure, there’s an omni infusion, but I still need the infusion slot to put it in, no?

Hi Colin,

Thanks for reaching out. I’m happy with Guild Wars 2 (Happy Birthday!) and was happy playing Guild Wars 1 before it.

My idea to build upon your sticky question:

“Frequently Dispelled Myths” stickies.

Example:
Myth: The economy is broken by farmers causing runaway inflation.

Answer:
The process of farming is counter inflationary, because only 10% (made up number) of the loot they earn is in gold. Items that are sold on the trading post a) are a 15% gold sink on the seller and b) are paid for by gold earned by the buyer, so no gold is generated in the process.

Have a great day!

Hi all!

From what I’ve read in the Wiki, upgrading my ascended gear to add agony infusion will wipe out the previous upgrades I already had in my gear.

Well, I have a couple of sets of armor and more than 2 sets of trinkets, all filled with WvW infusions.

The thought of throwing away the laurels I invested in them is the single thing that holds me back from diving into fractal dungeon running.

Is this something that you’ve done? Do you think that making agony infusion an additive process will encourage more people to take the plunge?

Gold costs aren’t a problem for me, I’ll pay gold…

Am I perhaps just missing something?

Thanks!

I thought that the game started at 9pm pacfic, not eastern. I was in Pre-Searing ascalon on one machine, spammering away at the login button for GW2 on my other one.

Only a few more hours until we know what’s in them!

5 days? no.
4 days? no.
3 days. My second birthday is on Sunday August 24th (NA west coast)

Trust.

From what I’ve read, this appears to be the core concern. Before the game launched, I was overwhelmed by trust issues – that one of my favourite aspects of the old game – trading was being replaced by the trading post. I was afraid! I was upset!

But alas, in retrospect, it was definitely the way to go.. even the fees make sense.

How do we apply that to now?

An idea to establish trust:

Use the means you already love.

Josh Foreman (and I believe also Colin) mentioned that you love game metrics.

1) select some of the forum hot topics
2) find historical metrics to support the course of action ArenaNET took
3) make more beautiful infographics that give unambiguous support of those actions.

I most definitely don’t expect forecasting values and information that will give you a competitive disadvantage in the market. You know, more than anyone, the volume of historical metrics you are able to safely draw from.

Of course, there will always be those who call you a liar or demand more, but they aren’t the customers you want.

When rational community members see empirical evidence which support the conclusion that ArenaNET is making rational decisions, there may be more trust that the same methodology is being used in your current development plans.

Once you have a process in place for this, offer it on a regularly recurring basis, maybe even another Twitch show… “The Province of Metrics”

Whatever the case, I’m not going anywhere. I love Guild Wars 2.

Plus one please.

PS: Anecdotal evidence … is not evidence.

Nerelith.7360:

I think this is the OP seeking and finding numbers to back his personal desire. That he is Playing a popular game.

This sounds to me, a lot like you are projecting what “you think” is my motivation, in order to fulfill your need to be right in your debate with Vayne.

Unfortunately, you are wrong on both counts.

One of my respected colleagues in the industry posted the original article on LinkedIn, without specific reference to any of the games on either the Raptr or Overwolf lists.

I am a fan of Guild Wars 2, and as Vayne astutely observes, quite sick of wading through streams of anecdotal insults which have become “fact” about the game, by repetition and not by truth.

He is also correct in his assumption that I posted this, not to justify my own interest in the game, but to spread some positive “fact” about the game.

The forum falls to the lowest common denominator because of the bullies who keep repeating their BS drive the pragmatic contributors to give up and come back only to read patch notes.

This is why it has been stated repeatedly by developers, in this forum, that the apparent public consensus in the forums on any particular topic does in no way guarantee representation by the broader audience. There is a clear bias.

There is a clear bias in the"Overwolf" poll: it does not reflect games which do not lend themselves to a need for conference-call communication tools.

As for the other various attempts to discredit the information I offered up… i’m rolling my eyes.

DJRiful.3749:

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Overwolf’s user base is listed at 8 million and their metrics are based on active application sessions (ie: the EXE is loaded into memory).

8 million as much near as Steam active 7.5 million (6mil average peak time)… I find that hard to believe.

Unless if you give a source.

Quote:
“Overwolf has 8 million customers of its in-game software, and thus generates data about monthly players.”

Source:
http://www.alistdaily.com/news/the-top-20-pc-games-for-july-2014

Overwolf’s doesn’t measure hours. Raptr measures by hours.

I don’t see how playing a game more doesn’t reflect on the quality of the game, though.

Overwolf’s user base is listed at 8 million and their metrics are based on active application sessions (ie: the EXE is loaded into memory).

For those of you who express your expertise in the field of hyperbole by proclaiming Guild Wars 2 as a dead game, with people leaving in droves..

Congrats to a continued good showing against some tough contenders!

http://www.newzoo.com/free/rankings/top-20-core-pc-games/

cheshirefox.7026:

sigh,
if you cheap out and use self acquired forge stones you are wasting 90c per salvage
if you’re a salvage junkie who purchases stones in the gem store
you are saving 11.40s per salvage

it’s possible my math is wrong
but if it’s not, you’re welcome

Yes please show your work.

You only need 3 sets of ascended, one per armour class

I want one of these, but I also agree that they are very lacking in craftsmanship. Alas, ticket stays in my pocket. The ley line weapons are exquisite, but not my style.

I don’t think using the shader from the achievement armor skins takes anywhere near the effort of almost any of the previous ticket weapons… And this is a field which I have teaching experience in.

Stinvec, those are some nice skin designs.

Though I didn’t pay any attention to the Monkey King when it was black lion only, seeing the note in today’s patch notes made me think.. OUCH! I had no idea it was even selling on the trading post… I can only hope that players didn’t spend a lot of real dollars on keys to get one,

I have no idea how this could even be compensated for. The flame kissed armor was at least something that could be changed or refunded and had no RNG associated with it. This is really a bad deal for people involved with the item.

6 of the 8 t5 materials are still usually profitable to promote to t6.

Anyone farming mobs for t6 materials is going to acquire a large supply of t5.

I didn’t think about the crafting rares! Is that less expensive than just buying them at offer price?

Luky.. totally agree.. I have 1250 skill points in my bank, though I have started to spend them lately on larger items.