Guild Wars 2

Tiefsee.3647:

Amaimon.7823:

Tiefsee.3647:

Since team play will (hopefully) still be there, will there be 2vs2 maps?

Either deathmatches or normal matches without mid (only far and close)?

Or does A-Net got a new map, designed for 2vs2?

I mean A-Net can’t be serious about removibg the 3+ teams without beeing prepared, right?

they can, and if the vote passes, they will.

For a big chunk of players, the pvp league has a barrier that says ‘only teams from here on’ preventing them from getting over the third tier or so. Only pro players who carry teams can soloQ beyond that.

Some people just don’t have the people for premade teams. And they’re feeling left out, and now anet wants to change that to give them a fair chance as well.

Everyone can form a team, season one and two showed that, there teams had a big advantage and therefore teams everywhere.

And i hope you are wrong, why do people demand and vote for obvious wrong things that destroy more as they could fix?

Democracy, only god can save us now.

But seriously though, pug teams can NEVER weigh up to premade teams. thats just the bad part. this whole vote is because premade teams dominate pvp, thats pugs and solo’rs don’t even stand a chance

MissCee.1295:

A few thoughts & concerns regarding this proposal. (haven’t been able to vote on the poll because it is not working for me)

• Ranked season is not the time or place to be testing things. Anything to be tested should be done in Unranked & preferably during off-season
  >Ranked season is not the time or place to be testing things. very true. But thats not the point for this poll

• Eradicating teams from Ranked play (even if it turns out only to be one season) is madness. The entire concept of Conquest is based on 5-man teams.
  >But it’s also a barrier for people without teams. They can’t play at all unless they’re so good they can compensate for a premade team.

• How does Anet propose to encourage team progression to ESL if teams are unable to compete in Ranked?
  >That is a good point. Maybe now a pug-team can make it to ESL

• I can see no reason why there can’t be solo/duo queue AND team queue. Have it as a settings preference similiar to Conquest and Stronghold.
  >This is what a lot of people are suggesting now. And something I fully endorse!

Hydrixi.2340:

Amaimon.7823:

Hydrixi.2340:

This is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.

Make one league for un-teamed Queue.

Make one league for team-Queue.

(Similar to unranked vs. ranked so they don’t queue in to eachother.)

or do you not have the workforce to make this happen? and are settling for not as good of solution and a half-finished result.

In my mind, like one other guy said, the polls are attracting only a vocal population, it’s biased. It’s like how ArenaNet changes things because someone complains, failing to apply the feedback of all parties and make out with a more sensible solution. Every thing someone has complained about has been changed, instead of constructing the game well because of what both parties have said.

Taking in one side of this would be a massive failure of implementing communities’ feelings about issues. Appeal to both sides this time, Arena Net, and realize the constructivity of it. Thank you.

everything someone has complained about has been changed? oh.. if only that were true. Ever been on the bug forum? ever been on QOL forum? trust me, not even 1% of the ‘daily problems’ have been adressed in the past 4 years

As for the vocal minority:
there’s something called the “80 20 5” rule in game development. basically, it states that out of the entire population of a given game, 80% of players will never engage beyond the game itself. this means that 80% of players will only play the game and will never so much as look at a forum for it, read articles, etc. 20% (of all players) will bother to look at forums/subreddit/articles, but most will never actually contribute by posting replies, or create content. lastly, out of all players, 5% will not only engage beyond the game, but will actually contribute content themselves, by posting in forums, being active in the subbreddit, and create videos and other content.
voiced by https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/54038c/estimating_gw2s_population_size/

That’s my point. So do we want to trust THAT 5% to make this “corrective” change? What if they’re not in the sector of the game that is being changed? What if they are in general PvE players who only play on the weekends and only do PvP for dailies and then quit? Is the math we get in this the chance that we WANT?

Because we can’t guarentee these 5% of players are in the population we WANT to poll for the best constructivity, we can make the better system and advance our game in a positive way we can take corrective feedback off of.

The 5% rule applies to active players mostly. 20% of the playerbase is on the forum, but that 20% is also mostly only on their field. I think only 0.5% looks beyond their field of expertise. so that 5% who actively contributes is 4.9% pvp’ing people.

Tiefsee.3647:

Since team play will (hopefully) still be there, will there be 2vs2 maps?

Either deathmatches or normal matches without mid (only far and close)?

Or does A-Net got a new map, designed for 2vs2?

I mean A-Net can’t be serious about removibg the 3+ teams without beeing prepared, right?

they can, and if the vote passes, they will.

For a big chunk of players, the pvp league has a barrier that says ‘only teams from here on’ preventing them from getting over the third tier or so. Only pro players who carry teams can soloQ beyond that.

Some people just don’t have the people for premade teams. And they’re feeling left out, and now anet wants to change that to give them a fair chance as well.

Hydrixi.2340:

This is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.

Make one league for un-teamed Queue.

Make one league for team-Queue.

(Similar to unranked vs. ranked so they don’t queue in to eachother.)

or do you not have the workforce to make this happen? and are settling for not as good of solution and a half-finished result.

In my mind, like one other guy said, the polls are attracting only a vocal population, it’s biased. It’s like how ArenaNet changes things because someone complains, failing to apply the feedback of all parties and make out with a more sensible solution. Every thing someone has complained about has been changed, instead of constructing the game well because of what both parties have said.

Taking in one side of this would be a massive failure of implementing communities’ feelings about issues. Appeal to both sides this time, Arena Net, and realize the constructivity of it. Thank you.

everything someone has complained about has been changed? oh.. if only that were true. Ever been on the bug forum? ever been on QOL forum? trust me, not even 1% of the ‘daily problems’ have been adressed in the past 4 years

As for the vocal minority:
there’s something called the “80 20 5” rule in game development. basically, it states that out of the entire population of a given game, 80% of players will never engage beyond the game itself. this means that 80% of players will only play the game and will never so much as look at a forum for it, read articles, etc. 20% (of all players) will bother to look at forums/subreddit/articles, but most will never actually contribute by posting replies, or create content. lastly, out of all players, 5% will not only engage beyond the game, but will actually contribute content themselves, by posting in forums, being active in the subbreddit, and create videos and other content.
voiced by https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/54038c/estimating_gw2s_population_size/

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ghostly_Infusion_
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Poly-luminescent_Undulating_Refractor_
Either of these look familiar?

When it comes to Matthias, i was asked to specifically NOT reaper, so I would have the normal shroud skills and could pull people who downed in pools/toxic-clouds out

This is a troublesome post.
For me, I don’t have many friends/reliable teams I can join, so whenever I’m out of the first tier, I’m guaranteed to lose any chance at progress because all I’ll be fighitng are premade teams. So I voted to soloQ only.

But I can also understand the other side. If I did have enough pvp’ing friends or knew a good team to fight with, I would want to be able to Q with them as such.

In the end I voted soloQ because I want to be able to progress a little next season without having to break through a barrier of ‘premade teams only from here on’

But a good alternative would be soloQ AND TeamQ.
SoloQ: you cannot queue if you’re in a party. You’re randomly put against 5 others with 4 random allies.
TeamQ: you must queue with 5 people. You will be put against another team of also 5 people.

OriOri.8724:

@Ardid – You just summed up part of what it means to be a chaotic good character though. That’s the whole point, if she did things the same way you would and you expect her to, with no surprises and whatnot, then she wouldn’t even be chaotic good, she would be lawful or neutral good.

Whether you agree with her methods or not, her intentions are clear and that is good enough for me and others. I don’t understand why so many people in this community seem to have such a huge problem grasping that though.

no, NO, stop that. I’ve read through this topic and some people try to push chaotic good on her. Thats not her. She’s chaotic neutral. She’s sacrificing everything for a means to the end.
E.g. there’s a war. You can send a messenger who stops at nothing to convince people to stop fighting: chaotic good
E.g. there’s a war. You can send caithe, which is technically throwing a nuke on the warzone effectively ending the war by ruining it for everyone. This is not chaotic good.

I don’t think the executioner outfit was directly related to halloween. I might be wrong, but I remember it being in the gem store for a much longer period. it was one of the first outfits iirc

why not reduce everything to whackamole, everyone gets same stats, same skills, same armor, same ranges, no more discussions of overpowered and weak classes, no more tweaking with stats

Hesacon.8735:

Amaimon.7823:

Destiny’s Edge, and now the Dragon’s Watch is a non-profit organization. Only costs made in the war against the elder dragons can be deducted. Personal costs and quality of life costs are at the cost of the commander of the Dragon’s Watch.

I collect a second paycheck from being commander of the Pact and a third for my role in the ongoing Mists War. Between these three sources I think I can afford a modest home on the upper west side of Lion’s Arch overlooking the bay.

you’re not commander of the pact anymore, remember. You’re unemployed, working nonprofit for DW

no, nonononononono, I can finally use condis since they have been buffed. I was tired of running zerker only builds and can no properly use eles and necros. Don’t you dare take away my condis again.

Destiny’s Edge, and now the Dragon’s Watch is a non-profit organization. Only costs made in the war against the elder dragons can be deducted. Personal costs and quality of life costs are at the cost of the commander of the Dragon’s Watch.

I dont care much for finishers or mail carriers. I doubt anything can ever top de 4th anniversary mail carrier anyway. And I used to love finishers during LS1, when the Toxic Courtiers required finishing off. I am truly sad they didn’t continue that. It would add a whole new level to combat, especially now with ‘stronger dragon minions’.

As for story, yes, I agree wholeheartedly. They had this epic story that unveiled the Bloody Princess (yes, no man should be capable of such drama). Either way, they’ve been bickering in the labyrinth ever since and if thats all they’re ever gonna do.. well.. what was the point? You started a story, now finish it!

So, as for the big festivals we have Halloween and Wintersday. But in GW1 we also had Lunar Newyear, which we have a cheap simplified version of, now, and the gambling minigames like that 4×4 board that had russianroulette style positioning (I miss the rolling beetles).

But I always hoped for a racial festival. Humans have the grenth vs Dwayna festival. Charr have Meatober wich is completely neglected. Asura and Sylvari, I dunno, but Norn oughta have a festival for their spirits, too, right?

They removed the dungeon team, and instead focus all their resources on raids and fractals, with as result 1 new fractal where they promised several

JaddynnStarr.5201:

cyn.2157:

Edit: seriously? The contraction for do not + comma + its = censored? That’s an overly aggressive regex /filter if ever I saw one.

of course it is…. cuz contained within that contraction and the beginning of the second one is a slang term for female breasts example isn’T IT lovely?

any form of 7 + its (7 = T) results in 7its, regardless of the use of punctuation in the middle

Hang on to them. I bought a bank tab full a few weeks back, so if there’s any collections I can rush through them all. And then I can sell the leftovers back when i’m done with them (or give them to guildies, I dunno)

I’ve always upheld a simple opinion. If you enter WvW, you gotta be prepared to be killed by the other worlds. Its a war, not a college hall. No one’s gonna respect your ‘right to 1v1’ in the middle of a warzone

draxynnic.3719:

Like I said, it’s a common trope for a prophetic character to have to allow a disaster to happen because the alternative is a worse disaster. Aurene’s mother may be a prime example – if she foresaw the Searing she might have been able to prevent it, but she might also have foreseen that preventing it would have resulted in a worse outcome.

Personally, I don’t think she’s a threat to Aurene, at least not more than any sylvari, including a sylvari PC, if another dragon picks up Mordremoth’s ability to influence sylvari (noting that, while Caithe was confused, her priority was protecting the egg… she just didn’t know who her friends were, but she didn’t mistake any enemies as friends). Considering that the Exalted are already defending Aurene from overt threats and it’s been a plot point in the past that Caithe can’t hold a lane against multiple opponents, too, Caithe’s role is probably to be the proverbial thief set to catch a thief.

I don’t think Glint believed in intervention. She wrote the Flameseeker Prophecies, but it turnt out that the people responding to the prophecy actually caused it to fulfill. maybe if Glint didn’t write the Flameseeker and kept it to herself, the mursaat would’ve handled things way differently. meaning her telling, or interfering with a prophecy, is actually part of the prophecy

story was great. My only problem is writing;
Why didn’t marjory or the commander react when Caithe got in the egg chamber. I mean, I get she’s trying to redeem herself, but hasn’t so far. In eyes of the PC, she’s still the renegade who endangered the egg. I wouldn’t trust her in Tarir.. not yet at least. Why leave the Scion to her, instead of to the exalted, who were made for the sole purpose of taking care of it?

Primordus is showing up a hub of increased activity

A bit too much to read in one sitting, but you might wanna look into RTI:
Raid Training Initiative; RTI.enjin.com where both professionals and newcomers come
and have fun together in raids. No competition, just training, fun and/or kill-oriented runs.

Edenfer.9816:

Amaimon.7823:

No, they said we would get Abaddon OR Thaumanova fractal. a vote I sincerely reget, as a GW1 lover, but alas, they propably never will do Abaddon.

That’s the official elections statement but I after the voice count, I remember that Colin or someone else at Anet said that because the votes were so close, they’ll probably add the other fractal in the future.
I might be mistaken though.

Tried to google it, but to no avail, sadly. If he ever said it, it was verbally, or the post was removed

Look for RTI on google.
Its the biggest guilds where nonproffesional and proffesional raiders gather. They have
-tutoring runs, where they teach you builds and mechanics
-practice runs, which sometimes result in a kill
-kill runs, for people with plenty of experience

Pros:
No LI’s required (just a few if you want to do the kill runs)
Scheduled, and sign-up based events. So no wait times for organized runs
Lots and Lots of practice.

Cons:
.. wait.. there are cons?

http://rti.enjin.com/

Vova.2640:

I dont understand this suggestion at all…

Buy a copper salvageomatic… right click it select “salvage all masterwork or lower” problem solved.
Dot want a salvageomatic? carry a few salvage kits…

The problem is that every blue and green you salvage is replaced with a rune/sigil, meaning you don’t clear inventory space by salvaging

Runes wanna be a crafting material? fine, then I want them to disapear when I select ‘deposit all crafting materials’.
As long as that doesn’t work, I don’t want to see the word ‘crafting material’ in runes and sigils’ description

What.. noo.. cat ears should be more than plenty to live out your weeb korean lifestyles. if you want to play a cat so badly, why don’t you play a charr?

Leather might get the Mystic Coin treatment. Supply drops while demand increases until the market can no longer keep up

Vukorep.3081:

(POSSIBLE SPOILER BASED ON RUMOURS FOR NEXT EXPANSION)
more dragon die, and we harnest their power to become more powerful at our profession…

What? who told you that? Jake? was it Jake who told you that?
YO JAKE, WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT SPREADING LIES!

No, but seriously though. The elite specializations aren’t the results of dying dragons. All magic released from a dead dragon is consumed by others. When Zhaitan died, a big junk went to Tequatl. What remained was devoured by Mordremoth and Primordus. Same with the death of Mordremoth, it got devoured by Primordus and somewhat Aurene.

What you’re confused with, are the elite specializations.
They’re just spawned after hints ingame. Braham is a guardian, he picks up Eir’s longbow, hence the Dragonhunter.
Marjory finds the longsword of her sister Belinda Jane, and decides to carry it, hence the Reaper.

Now, the fact that Marjory went with Lazarus because he was piqueing her necromancer senses might be the new foretelling of an elite spec

OriOri.8724:

Lord Trejgon.2809:

very early in her life caithe has been forced to make tought calls
she made those calls
she’s not goody-to-shoes [like some other character we’ve seen in living world updates….] but her “orientation” in general scheme seems right

even when her ways are questionable

Yup, Caithe is simply Chaotic Good, an orientation that few to no other characters in GW2 have imo.

Some people hate her to the extreme, and honestly its a bit offputting how much they hate her. Its almost an unhealthy amount of hate towards a character in a videogame. Its just a shame that people can’t see that she is truly a chaotic good character, one whose intentions are in the right place, but her methods are not. Yet people on these forums act as if she is literally kitten

Does chaotic good run away with an egg that the commander knows can save the world? As far as I’m concerned, she’s just a sylvari who ran away with a gamechanging ticket and didn’t once stop to try to talk. She said she didn’t trust us, so why would we trust her? thats just chaotic neutral at best

“read all about it here”
proceeds to link to a post that tells us nothing but a date. What I wanna know is
will the bloody princess finally make a move after 3 years or she just gonna stand there whining again like the last few years.

But its a sad announcement. Looks unlikely we’ll see new content this year. Maybe some new items to gring for

Its not horrible, ut what worries me is people actually wanting this

A small tip, swing your weapons. Try to see how big the swing is, so that during combat you can keep moving. The key to mastering a warrior is mobility. Always try to keep your enemies in your swing, while staying out of theirs

Warrior, it has an easy learning curve to master the first 75% of its power, but the latter 25% of its power is hidden behind practice, lots and lots of practice.

1) It as an easy rotation on the greatsword, but you can also learn to use swords, axes and maces for a more interactive fight.
2) It can solo very well, but it also is a very good teamplayer using shouts and the Phalanx traits.
3) Arguable, I use my warrior in PvP and have won (even had top player) several times. But some would argue it’s a but vulnerable. i think it all comes down to teamplay and mobility. Don’t go running off solo into mesmers or rangers
4) You can, if you want, set the utilitykeys to signets, which have a passive effect, or shouts, which have a strong during effect so you don’t have to constantly keep an eye on them.

I don’t care how or whatever a fix is inbound but PLEASE, STOP LOADING MY INVENTORY WITH RUNES, THEY’RE WORTH LESS THEN MOA EXCREMENTS!

BlackDragon.3752:

The problem is that new fractals don’t change your daily reward. They should increase the amount of daily fractals as well (like having 4 fractal T4 dailies per day).

They should a specific daily Tier 3 and Tier 4, that way we may see some more people in the T3 LFG. Also I hope the T2 specific dailies will every be higher than 35. They always seem to be the stuck on the lowest options, and I still need a few 40-50 fractals for the adept achievement.

Ashen.2907:

Lord Trejgon.2809:

irony of this thread is…
that while on one side community seems to be crying for “darker” storywriting

on the other hand they throw so much hate on character which is written in the way they actually demand

very early in her life caithe has been forced to make tought calls
she made those calls
she’s not goody-to-shoes [like some other character we’ve seen in living world updates….] but her “orientation” in general scheme seems right

even when her ways are questionable

welp if you throw so much hate on such character you sould not be surprised for not getting more of “darker” storywriting……

Caithe isnt being written as darker. The exact opposite in fact.

Exactly, she did things by any standard unforgivable, and the commander is all like ‘ye, lets be friends again. Here’s a dragon whelp that can decide the future of this world. Have fun you two’.
It doesn’t really get much more mylittlepony than that.

I miss the courtyard. The only map thats just PvP. Any map with objectives or capture-zones is basically just a N+1vsN to win.

Calm down, Konig Des Todes,
by right of constitution it’s illegal to own people like that

Curunen.8729:

Now I’m worried about having to go through the wasteland of T3 in order to get to T4… :S

I’ll be starting to pug T3 today – hopefully it’ll be painless until I can unlock T4.

Edit – nope, T3 is as horrible as you guys make it out to be… quality of players is definitely way lower than T2. Seems to be a constant res fest. Can’t wait till making it out of here till T4 though at this rate it might take some time. :/

you seem rather unlucky. I usually have little trouble with fractals. Most of the time, I can tell from the first boss or ‘big encounter’ whether or not I think a party can finish the fractal. Then I just go find a new party. But you’ll notice that as you get higher in the tiers, the more you’ll have to rely on what actually works instead of ‘weeeh, I wanna play how I want’

No, they said we would get Abaddon OR Thaumanova fractal. a vote I sincerely reget, as a GW1 lover, but alas, they propably never will do Abaddon. They made a chaotic chaos fractal which is just a rummage of the older fractals before abaddon, so I guess they just don’t wanna.

She’s well beyond an anti-hero, she’s a loose cannon and if she could kill sisters, and villages and everything for a whimsical belief, then how long until she sacrifices us, or Aurene for something stupid? I want her locked up. She’s beyond a loose cannon, she’s a torch in a gunpowder factory

Time to use iDeal like the rest of the wold

katniss.6735:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Alin.2468:

When will Halloween start this year, and how long will it be active? Any ideas?

In 2015 Halloween event started on October 23 and it was held for 2 weeks.

In 2014 Halloween event started on October 21 and it was held for 2 weeks.

In 2013 Halloween event started on October 15 and it was held for 4 weeks.

In 2012 Halloween event started on October 22 and it was held for 1 week.

Lol. Thanks for that research. Basically noting is set in stone. Gotcha.

The testemant of Ventari is set in stone *hurrdurr

I seriously think -snake- Krait Oil is a wink at the old bauble-merchant who sold ‘manmade lemonade’ as medicine

I am all for bonus weekends in general.
1) dungeon weekend
2) fractal weekend
3) pvp weekend
4) raid weekend
5) activity weekend

Razor.9872:

Amaimon.7823:

This post was horrible to read. Please rewrite with proper spelling, grammar and punctuation. Otherwise no ones gonna bother seriously discussing this.

I couldn’t get past the first…“sentence”? I had to skim it and read the comments to get a vague idea of what (s)he meant.

Yea, the OP also doesn’t wanna discuss his problems, so I’m not sure why he made this post in the first place. I guess this is all just steam, and a dev will delete this in a day or two

Jhoul.6923:

I would hope tomorrow, but I think it will be next week.

unlikely, since they haven’t ‘teased’ it yet, which is something they usually do first