Guild Wars 2

Yeah . . . I don’t even bother with it now.

Here’s to hoping some of these issues will be fixed tonight.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Yah. I don’t think they said how often they will switch though. It’s possible it may be months or a year, since the old map was there for 3 years.

Oh okay. I’m fine with that. As long as they’re not gone for good.

Angus.5961:

Forget the WvW stuff , its already down.

So much for the maintenance not affecting gameplay.

Just found that out myself. Ah well.

Edit:

Temporarily. They’ll be on a rotation.

Oh thanks.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Dayra.7405:

If you like achievement points: get the 3 JPs on the WvW-Borderlands done, before they are gone.

Wait. They’re going away? First I’m hearing about this. Can someone confirm please?

The new WvW map they are putting in, the desert themed one. It might have those jps, but probably not.

So the old WvW maps are going away? Huh. Thanks.

Dayra.7405:

If you like achievement points: get the 3 JPs on the WvW-Borderlands done, before they are gone.

Wait. They’re going away? First I’m hearing about this. Can someone confirm please?

Just tested it. The flat heal definitely works on the pet. That was amazing. It’s a burst on the pet, but the circle stays in its ‘neutral’ state if you’re not damaged. But it does heal the pet regardless.

Not 100% sure about players.

Edit: It definitely does not burst heal players. Tested this repeatedly in PvP, and the only heal they got was the regeneration.

I stacked healing, and I can definitely see the burst on my pet. Other players got nothing at all, even when they were stacked in healing as well. I, however, did get the healing burst. Other players had no visible effect other than regeneration.

Have to give it up to the OP: You’re right. It’s the reason a lot of us have stuck around.

synk.6907:

hahaha
For real?

Archive this one and launch one that can be updated with working features.

Yeah, it’s also why the ‘search’ function doesn’t work. So, if anyone is going to get a new sub-forum, it’ll require a new forum altogether it seems.

Strange days.

Test.8734:

The community doesn’t trust ArenaNet anymore. Why would it? ArenaNet has given us plenty of reasons to not believe in them.

QFT. +1

Test.8734:

See, OP? It’s not possible to defend ArenaNet using the truth. Unless you rely on excuses and half-truths, you cannot really defend what they have been doing.

The thing is, ArenaNet hoped this forum would be their PR. That a potential player would come here, see only people praising the game, and then decide to buy GW2.

When faced with angry players asking ArenaNet to account for their many mistakes, the studio is incredibly happy to see players willing to defend them, even if those players are disruptive and basically twist facts in order to try to make a point.

Under this permissive disruption, it’s no surprise the community is as bad as it is. Some players want ArenaNet to answer for their mistakes, while a few act as if the devs were helpless kids in distress and hurry to their rescue, regardless of how answering the players’ demands isn’t their place or within their hability.

Man, you’re on a roll. Again, +1.

Definitely a no. For God’s sake, you can get the entire bundle of the three games for peanuts these days.

I wouldn’t go this route. Despite my current dislike for the price, I’d rather pay that with a guaranteed product than a loss for something not guaranteed from a third party that’s iffy at best.

Buyer beware.

Morfedel.4165:

They aren’t? That’s weird. Most of the zones I go to are always well populated. Must be me.

Yes, because the world is so populated and full, they’ve decided to offer the game for free in an attempt to tempt more people, and sales, into the game because giving it away makes oh so much sense with a robust community.

I thought I was losing my mind, but apparently not. Yes, the text is/was a touch smaller.

After today’s announcements, and given the amount of bugs still present with the class after the class updates, I’m more than inclined to think it’s all a wash. Time will tell eventually, but I’m not expecting miracles either.

Definitely not after today.

Most of the people ‘boycotting’ aren’t playing the game anyway and aren’t entertaining the notion of an ‘expansion’ with four maps total. There’s a reason the core game went free-to-play, and it’s not because people are boycotting.

It’s because they aren’t playing. Period. Don’t get that twisted.

Very legit. It didn’t even occur to me that could be a possibility, but now I wonder.

I honestly don’t care if it’s free-to-play at this point. Marvel Heroes has done an excellent job with the format. But I do understand the overall concerns about it. Still, this moves screams, “Desperate,” in my opinion.

That may be my own jaded point-of-view. But whenever I see a previously pay-to-play game go free, not counting subscription-based games, it tells the community something about the true amount of players involved.

And let’s not kid ourselves. Over the recent months, Guild Wars 2 has lost a lot of players due to some . . . unwise decisions.

SkiTz.4590:

Levetty.1279:

Massive slap in the face to Ranger and Engineer there.

My friend, they have been slapped in the face for years (especially rangers). WE are used it.

Word.

Guaranteed it will be free when the next ‘expansion’ comes out . . . if there’s even a community left after this newest fiasco. But, first, there will be many ‘discount’ sales beforehand.

History tells us this.

Called it. Glorified Living World updates you’re paying for. Hope those who screamed for an expansion are happy now. And the cherry on top? Free-to-play.

Wonderful.

I’m not going to even humor that three levels means more ‘maps’ nonsense. That’s just white knight stretching.

I stopped watching the moment he asked the vets to welcome the ‘new’ players and the applause was . . . telling.

Test.8734:

It was incredibly underwhelming, you didn’t miss anything.

I’m laughing at how few people clapped when the trailer ended.

Oh boy.

God. Time to avoid the forums before everything detonates. I’ll come back after the flames simmer down or get extinguished.

A rehash of last year’s, and the year before that, is my guess. But thrown together like last Wintersday in DR’s pavilion. If it happens in Lion’s Arch, I’ll be shocked.

Test.8734:

Isn’t it amazing how low key this topic is? Being that it’s basically the forum topic about the HoT release date, one would expect it to be by hundreds of posts by now. Instead… Nothing.

As if people didn’t care AT ALL about the release date of HoT.

I think that’s testament to how apathetic the community is about the expansion period. Kind of hard to get excited about something we know so little about overall. But, yes, it is very telling. . . .

What Scribe the Mad said and said well.

Yes, there will be a better deal . . . about a year or two down the road when they’re about to issue a new expansion or similar product. As far as in the near future?

What Rainbow said. Can you imagine if they offered a discount so soon after taking money from the pre-orders?

If you think the community is negative now, then watch what would happen if ANet gave a discount after the fact. It would make the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look like campfire marshmallow roast.

MokahTGS.7850:

Why ANet refuses to use its own forums for official announcements is beyond me. It really is not that hard…really its marketing 101:

You want to announce something: Use all of your marketing vehicles. Facebook, Twitter, Forums and the live stream.

Anet has never done marketing or communication very well. This is another announcement that was done half way.

In the past, there’s been some . . . disastrous . . . hell, pretty much career-ending . . . situations on the forums that were followed up by blog posting.

Honestly, it’s more healthy for one’s career to say nothing at all. The community tends to use your words against you if promises are not followed through. And, as odd as it is, I think there’s some kind of approval committee before you’re allowed to post anything on these forums if you work for ANet.

No, I’m not making that up.

The Super Adventure Box disaster with World Two made silence the norm.

Given the recent events with the ‘you must purchase Guild Wars 2’ in order to enjoy the expansion fiasco, I’m inclined to agree. This isn’t ancient history, but something that occurred a handful of months ago.

If this free-to-play rumor is true . . . well . . . the pieces all seem to fit now, don’t they?

In all likelihood, it’ll be a rehash with some new items for sale with candy corn. Also, the event will take place in the Pavillion instead of Lion’s Arch a la Wintersday.

Pure speculation on my part.

Oh hell. Thanks Kidel.

I love my ranger and he’s my only character. But I’d be kidding myself if I said the class got any amount of love like the other classes. Have you seen our current bug list? Besides, every time rangers get anything worth while, opposing players cry like they got coal in their stockings.

For example, rangers are kings of PvP underwater combat. Guess what happened to all the underwater content in PvP?

Gone.

Not coincidence in my book. But, as far as the question, I can solo things better than your average squishy class in PvE. A pet does make a world of difference. Despite everything, I’d still play my ranger if I had to do it all over again.

Take that for what it’s worth.

Ardid.7203:

Rauderi.8706:

Ging.6485:

*Guardian = Hawk-Eye

Either way, no one would like the guardian. :P
(Like srsly, who likes Hawkeye?)

Have you read the Matt Fraction & David Aja version?
Hawkguy is the best “superhero” of Marvel comics. Ever. SRSLY.

http://io9.com/6-reasons-why-matt-fractions-hawkeye-is-one-of-marvels-1719279859
http://www.amazon.com/Hawkeye-Matt-Fraction-David-Omnibus/dp/0785192190

I’ll even dare to say “Civil War” and “Age of Ultron” are DragonHunters compared to “My Life as a Weapon”…

Woot! Thanks! Something to read in the future.

To be fair, I’ve seen ANet release Living World episodes at the same time as holiday or special events. Not an expansion, granted. But I promise you some players will plow through all the content in less than week and then start farming the Halloween content.

And then follow-up with complaints about the lack of content here.

Sure. Rangers are Hawkeyes. Warriors are Wolverines. And mages are Scarlet Witches.

. . .

I’m shocked no one has made the connection between engineers and Forge yet.

Edit: Hah! My bad. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/If-Theif-Daredevil-and-Engineer-Forge

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

it bothers me that they seem to be forcing HoT out… they’ve had one wvw test. They haven’t even shown two elites and haven’t playtested raid content… this xpac is in no way ready to be released in 2 months…

This in a nutshell. But, like I said before, ANet’s call. Let the consequences fall where they may.

There’s a famous saying from Benjamin Franklin about criticism some of you folks need to look up.

NetherDiver.6079:

You wouldn’t be able to play whatever the current expansion is 2 years from now.

Whoosh.

Stark.1350:

No one has any idea what F2P even means. But let’s make assumptions and useless posts on the forums about it.

Actually quite the opposite, but that discussion is not for this thread.

Behellagh.1468:

I’m guessing he hit the forum bug.

Sure enough.

You know, this explains that whole ‘core game included for free’ with the expansion nonsense now. Wait two more years and you’ll get the expansion for free too if history is any indication.

Stark.1350:

What are you even talking about?

He means he feels like an idiot shelling out money for a game that is about to be free-to-play. Not saying I agree or disagree. Just giving the synopsis in one sentence.

Dulfy’s saying it’s something call a ‘promote only’ tweet for certain people.

Someone’s a humorless buzzkill.

So . . . 25% of one map from an unknown number of maps before release? Yikes. Well their call. But, I’ll admit, I’m more tempted to pre-order now to get ahead of the curve.

Guess we’ll see how it pans out. But you know that old Star Wars saying? “I have a bad feeling about this” pretty much covers it.

So . . . one more test for druid and one more test for everyone and everything overall?

And are all the maps and content going to be tested before this release date? It’s my understanding that the last tests only included around 25% of one map. Heck, ranger alone has a ton of bugs still not addressed or fixed since the last big update.

I know people are bored and unhappy with little to do, but I’d still rather wait for a finished and polished product than an unfinished and buggy one. Hope this doesn’t go The Sims 4 route of releasing the rest of the product later.

That wasn’t pretty. And if that’s the case, ANet better hire a lot more moderators and fire extinguishers for these forums.

Rauderi.8706:

SuinegTsol.1729:

don’t know why, but this name reminds me on a vacuum…
And strangely the staff somwhow fits into this picture…

You’re thinking Dirtdevil. :P

LOL

ZaxanRazor.6235:

Can a moderator confirm this information?

The tweet is very odd for several reasons:

It doesn’t show up on the @guildwars2 timeline, and it says it was posted at 8am, which it wasn’t, as it appeared less than an hour ago.

I’m suspicious for other reasons. For example, we haven’t even tested druid or gotten any info on that class, or the number of maps, or . . . well, you get the idea. Let’s not even talk about the amount of content again or what this hints.

Regardless, hope it’s not a buggy mess, but yes. Please confirm if possible.

Hah!

Jesus. For real? I lost that bet if this is true. They still haven’t even told us how many maps there are. Hope this isn’t some misguided rush to appease the disenchanted masses . . . if it’s real.