Guild Wars 2

I liked the idea of having 2 weeks of playground type content — but the 2 weeks ended and nothing really took its place. I mean, c’mon — finish dynamic events in the candidate’s home world? Do a dungeon? Complete a fractal? All great activities, but calling it new content because we have to remember to double click a button first doesn’t really fly.

This is by far the weakest living story content we’ve seen. No, wait, there was the heroically epic sign repair at the beginning of Flame and Frost… That’s a whole lot like clicking an I Like Evon button before doing a dungeon.

I have my account name and password saved on my log-in screen but I don’t remember what the password is. I have a second account that I know all of the information for, but I don’t want to plug that information into the log-in screen because I would lose my saved information and wouldn’t be able to log back into the game with the main account. I know that I can contact support to change the password, but I’d prefer to retrieve the password on my own if it’s possible (and I’ve read in other places on the forum that it is). I use Google Chrome.

If anyone can tell me how to do this it would be very much appreciated.

Having content last one month with new content coming in the middle of that seems perfect to me. While it might not fit every person’s schedule for the whole year, it will fit the vast majority of people for most of the time. If you miss one segment don’t sweat it, there will be many more coming down the line.

+1 absolutely to having past achivement rewards as redeemable skins. However, I don’t believe that having cultural armor as redeemable would be fitting.

The one year anniversary is coming up quickly and as a birthday present I’d like to throw out the suggestion of a new storage sheet with the opportunity to buy 8 MORE tabs of storage. It’s taken me a year to fill up this “sheet” of storage, and A-Net has gotten $50 from my hoarding. My proposal would enable both my hoarding tendencies and my ability to toss some extra money A-Net’s way. 8 MORE BANK TAB OPENINGS on a separately tabbed sheet.

As a 50/50 player I have to say no to this/these suggestions. We knew what we were getting, and we got that. That’s enough.

A ticket system would be awesome.

With all of the new emphasis on E-Sport, shoutcasting and custom arenas is there any chance of bringing back some semblance of the Xunlai Tournament House? When the Xunlai house was active I was all about keeping up with the PvP players — had to know how everyone was trending so I’d know how to place my predictions.

I’d love to see a comeback.

Amadan.9451:

yeah so now every single achievement point is a must have not for the leader boards anymore (only few people cared about) but for the prize… how hard core is that?

Just exactly however hard core you, and every other player, makes it. No more, no less.

I’m looking forward to cashing in the points that I’ve already made, but I doubt if I’ll be going out of my way to earn more. I know that some people will, and that’s fine with me — everyone should be free to keep score however they most enjoy keeping score.

I would love to see them do more to make me want to go to my home instance. Gathering node probably isn’t going to do it for me, but more story elements sure would.

No mention of the social aspects of the game, guild tools, alliances, the ability to play with people who are housed in different regions.

What is there sounds good. I’m excited about new content every two weeks; but to me what isn’t there is glaring, and it’s the most important part of the game to me.

The Alliance chat channel. Man, I sure miss my allies.

Please fix this — guildies should not be locked outside.

If the weapons were available through either direct purchase from the gem store or via trade the way the wings are available via trade I would be even happier than I am with this update. I’d really love to be able to get one of the Jade weapons, but I won’t spend gems on a chance at one — my luck just isn’t that good and the tickets are rare enough in the regular coffers that I sure don’t expect to come up with one that way.

Allowing the players who get lucky to choose between keeping the weapon or trading the weapon would at least give the unlucky among us a way to get the goods.

Gifts are given at the option of the giver. This was a very nice thank you from the developers to people who have chosen to support them with CASH. They are also giving a gift to people who choose to visit the gem store even if they don’t spend money (it’s a doll, and it’s completely free in the gem store) and they are giving a gift to people who choose to play the game (it’s a dragon helm and you can get it just by being in LA during specified times).

They also sent some real life dragon pinatas to some of the fan sites — but they didn’t send me one, and I really, really want one. I don’t have a fansite, but I’ve talked this game up every day since way before launch; I’ve written about it and made videos and created a website for my guild. Shouldn’t I get a pinata too?

At the very least give us a way to “resign” an active guild mission and let us move on with our lives instead of dealing with the frustration involved in this rush if we are unlucky enough to draw it.

Now they just need to make the weapons tradeable — soulbound on use instead of bound on acquire.

Seeing Dragon Coffers fall makes me happy. I open about 3/4, sell about 1/4 and it’s good. It keeps gold moving between players, and it acts as a gold sink for the game overall. This is way better than the Southsun Crates.

First upgrade the back piece to ascended, then use the skin. If you use the skin first, then when you upgrade to ascended it will destroy the skin.

Thorz.1068:

Ah exactly what I wanted to know, thanks.

Just to clarify, I can remain the leader of my personal guild while representing another then?

Absolutely! I do it all the time.

Better yet go to GW2state.com and choose the Temples tab. It will show you the state of every temple on every server as well as the state of CoF and CoE. It is a very nice resource.

Don’t stand down from your personal guild. You can join another guild and go back and forth representing them as you please. You need to remain the leader in your private guild though — if you are the only member and you leave it will disband.

The alliance chat system. I loved having allied guilds in GW1.

Human town clothes ARE the best in the game. Which is really sad since I completely agree with the OP. I had gone so far as to buy the pirate outfit for the sake of the pants, but since the outfit can’t be split between pants and shirt I returned it and A-Net was kind enough to refund the gems.

This kills the ability of guilds to show the personality and interaction of the members. It also has made it difficult for anyone to post positive feedback on a guild’s recruitment page. Yes, there were post bumps made in this fashion, but at least they were interesting bumps that provided good information to the people looking for a guild.

As it stands now the moderators have not given any indication of who can post recruitment threads, how many times they can be posted, whether more than one person can make posts about the same guild — there are no guidelines whatsoever. It’s not a good change.

However, I do like that they’ve split guild recruitment and looking for guild posts into separate sub forums.

I’ve been crying for alliances since Beta. I’d love to see something like this happen.

The very best option is to do that in the mists, although the trinkets are a problem there so it isn’t exact for PvE, but it is easier to deal with than the websites and you can play with all of the weapons, test damage, etc.

Got lucky last night and pulled both Ander and Crab Scuttle with Southsun active. Had guildies loading in to different overflows and spent a good part of the bounty time just getting everyone to the right overflow. Conversely, as soon as we asked in map if anyone had seen Ander we had responses pinpointing his location and he was already outside the Karka. We activated the bounty and the zerg took him down in record time.

I hate Crab Scuttle. All of the other rushes are incredibly fun and that one is simply an exercise in frustration. I would like to have the ability to cancel a rush so that I could start another — I would never put my guild through that again. To make it even better another guild had the rush already going when we arrived, so we had to switch overflows a second time so that we could start our own rush.

I thought I would pass along what I’ve learned about Yanonka’s bug for those of you that might run into him sometime in the near future.

Yanonka is found by interacting with Suspicious Rats in the Fields of Ruin and choosing the Shoo option from the interaction menu. Once someone in the guild locates him if everyone stops interacting with rats immediately all is good. However, if after someone locates him another guild member Shoos a rat in another location Yanonka will teleport to that new location, and reset his health bar completely in the process.

Make sure that your guildies understand to stop interacting with the rats once you’ve located Yanonka or you could teleport him all over the map without ever making progress toward completing the bounty.

I’ve drawn Yanonka in 3 separate bounties and I believe at this point that I can say there is a definite and reproducible bug associated with this boss.

When Yanonka is found if all guild members immediately stop what they are doing and proceed to the battle everything is good. However, if a guild member at another location shoos another rat somewhere else in the map Yanonka immediately leaves the battle he is involved with and teleports to the location of the latest shooer. During the course of one bounty we had Yanonka at 4 different spots after engaging him, actually being able to bring him to a place near a waypoint so it would be handier to kill him after understanding the bug.

Before understanding the bug this was an incredible frustration.

I believe that the boss’s health completely resets when he teleports, but I’m not positive about that.

Thanks for the fix on this. I like the little fountain at the end of the animation, and I like that it isn’t horribly overstated. It’s nice.

Danomeon.3201:

… it seems like they’re trying to cater to as many people as they possibly can, which is not good.

I love it that they are trying to cater to as many people as possible, and I’m very glad they put in an option an instance for people who enjoy solo play. My complaint is that when they implemented it they “forced” people who don’t enjoy solo play to play it, too — I can’t get to the group content unless I play the solo content. If both types of play exist (and they do) why not simply offer separate rewards (and they have) and not make either be a requirement or gate to the other. Really, it’s okay for them to make both groups happy, and to make people who enjoy both types of content even happier.

I have a couple of problems with the content:

First and foremost, having the group explorable content locked behind solo content isn’t good. I’m fine to ignore content that I don’t want to play and go with the idea that A-Net is providing something for everyone, and I won’t enjoy all of it. But! Having the content that I DO want to play be inaccessible to me until I play in a manner that I don’t want to play — that makes me very unhappy. If solo instances are going to be placed in the game they should never be a road-block to other manners of play.

Secondly, using red and green to mark the mines is not a good design choice. There needs to be some other clue besides color. There are far too many players in Tyria who aren’t able to visually differentiate between red and green and the developers need to understand this and not continue to use this in design. Using color in a solo instance, where a player can’t even get a team member to help out… Well, designers should think about these things.

Are there no daltonians in QA? If there are not A-Net needs to consider hiring at least one and getting them to sign off on new content, the same way that bug testers sign off.

Iehova.9518:

TheDaiBish.9735:

We’re against /inspect because, while our build may be effective and our gear adequate (Exotic gear isn’t a ‘must’ for regular dungeons), you’ll get the elitists barring people from groups because builds don’t tie in with what they believe is the ‘right’ spec.

Then don’t roll with the “elitists” and get your own groups. Merciful Kormir, this isn’t rocket science.

Back atcha! If you want to check out other people’s gear so badly get your own groups that show you what you want to see beforehand, and don’t run with scrubs! Merciful Kormir, this isn’t rocket science!

Thankfully, Kormir has chosen to side with those who prefer /inspect not be in the game. Balthazar is another story.

Aeonblade.8709:

Out of all the game breaking bugs in this game. I highly doubt more than one or two people care about a pick or sickle animation on an item designed to rip you off 10 bucks. I maybe wrong, who knows

I care very much what it looks like. I care even more about the time wasted spent using it, and the vulnerability of not being able to break the animation to dodge away from attacks. It’s a bad product when compared to the pick-axe, and A-Net needs to either fix it or offer refunds to those who have purchased it.

Selling lock boxes without telling the purchasers the odds of “winning” is unethical.
Buying lock boxes without knowing the odds of “winning” is stupidity in action.

One statement does not negate the other.

Parisalchuk.9230:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

skullmount.1758:

Is this instance temporary? (Like Molten Facility)

yup.Temporary until the end of the Southsun story arc.

Booooo

Lvl 80s who have done most of what this game had to offer need more things to do besides the 1 day worth of new content to finish achievements every 2 weeks. Old dungeons are old, we need new permanent things.

I know, I know… mix of permanent and temporary content… still waiting for the permanent stuff.

I dunno — I was one of the people complaining about MWF being temporary, too, but right on it’s heels came Southsun and there really isn’t time to regret MWF being gone. If something else comes on the heels of Southsun and something else after that… well, the content is always new new and exciting and there is plenty of stuff to do. Stuff that I haven’t already done. Those other dungeons are part of the static personal story — they remain. These are part of the dynamic living story — we affect the world around us, some things stay, some things go. That is incredibly cool in an MMO.

I hate the RNG boxes for temporary content, but I don’t hate temporary availability. I wouldn’t want weapons to be available forever simply because it’s nice to have some rare items in the game.

But, having the only method of availability be the RNG boxes really sucks for people who have a strong desire for a particular item. During Wintersday I really wanted a festive golem. I spent my allotted money and did not get it. I got all of the others, I got Festivoo, but there was absolutely no way for me to get the one that I wanted most without spending more than my budgeted amount. I resent that; it’s tainted further dealings with the gem store.

I sometimes buy Black Lion Keys, but I don’t plan to ever buy again them while there are “special” items in them, and I don’t expect to purchase any RNG boxes for events.

I think the OP’s real complaint is that you can no longer press ctrl and have your drops light up, which makes them more difficult to find, especially in WvW or Orr where the events move on quickly.

Also, getting stomped in WvW isn’t something one person can really change. There are match-ups going now where the same three teams have been pitted against each other for week after week after week and the last place team has been badly beaten in each of those matches. At that point the sense of helplessness and lack of morale steal the enjoyment of WvW away very quickly.

There are valid complaints in the OP.

Crovax.7854:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You’re right, luck is a big part of this. It’s just meant to be a fun achievement though, in a game that’s only been around for a few hours.

Perhaps if it’s truly an issue we’ll change it to something else.

that would be great. as people said, that tactic would only work on braindead zombies. maybe change it to “hold the succulent crab when the match ends”.
that’s what some thought it was, and it would be much more “fun”.

edit: it’s fine if you don’t want to change the achievement, but in this case i’m going to assemble a group through the forums to go in the game and get it
for everyone in a coordinated way. (which obviously wasn’t the intended design)

Since match fixing is against ToS/CoC you might want to consider both the things you do and the things you say in the forums.

Sounds like great fun Regina, thanks!

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

a 1hour buff is the reward for doing all those achievements? O_o

A one hour buff, for every character on the account, for as many times as you want to click the bonfire. Twenty percent exp buff for leveling an alt is a great reward. The MF and gold bonuses for a leveled character that is playing in Orr or in dungeons is good stuff. It looks like this is going to be around for several days — you should use it instead of berating it.

Decrypter.1785:

Hmm so we cannot get LOST and FOUND and Secret CONTACT done now ? wow no fused item for me GG , did all the rest planned on doing these before it ended and now i find out it cant be done lol , Mega blunder Anet

I don’t really think it was A-Net’s mega blunder. A little personal responsibility goes a long way.

PearlGore.7419:

Very sad to hear, but Your fault.

No. It is never, ever, the victim’s fault. The fault lies with the player who took unfair advantage of the guild’s offering. The OP runs his guild bank to have things easily available to new members and people leveling alts, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. To have one person take everything isn’t reasonable, and it IS griefing.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I would love to WvW with a skirt on my giant male Norn Guardian with his Princess Wand.. But alas, we can’t have it all.

Why not? Why can’t we have it all?!?

Please. Please give us pants. Just plain, regular, everyday pants. Shorts. Jeans.

Or, provide two models — one masculine and one feminine and let us choose which ones we want for our character. Clothes should look the same no matter what gender you put them on. If I buy cargo shorts they should remain cargo shorts forever, not switch to buttdrapes when they are put onto a female character. I absolutely loathe most of the clothing for females in this game.

Human female NPCs in LA have jeans. I want some too.

Aeonblade.8709:

Kaizer.7135:

nachtnebel.9168:

Kasama.8941:

I find it funny that so many people complain about a system that doesn’t exist. No one is saying that a duel system has to be based around invites. It could be exactly the same system as Costume Brawl. I.e. you set up a (free) “duel box”, and other players can then accept your duel by using the same box.

Which would duels still allow to happen in places where I don’t want them. Keep those anoying effects and sounds out of my field of view, allow them only in certain areas and you can have it, otherwise I am and will always be a no.

Yet people already have costume brawls everywhere, there’s always a box of fun in a city which creates a lot of sound and effects. There’s always people spamming their skills to show off the animations of their weapons, there’s always people using portals and portal guns and even more people using them.

The reasons you guys don’t want dueling are some of the most absurd ones I’ve ever heard.

I mean seriously, of all the things to whine and complain and stamp your feet about it’s combat animations?

" Well I don’t want someone using an ability when I feel they shouldn’t so forget what they want even though it doesn’t even affect me since I can turn duel requests off.
Since I don’t want it no one should have it ever!" /crying tears etc etc

This is basically how this reads.

This. This asinine crap right here is why I don’t want duels to exist in the game. If someone says they don’t want duel this is oftentimes what happens next — they are ridiculed, accused of “crying tears”, told how they think the game is srs bsns… Put someone on ignore and they’ll move to /say or /map. It’s constant, it’s annoying, and I don’t want OPEN WORLD dueling to ever exist in the game.

I don’t care what is done in the mists.

Having the mention of traps without any explanation of how they actually work is troublesome.

I buy a trap that removes supply from enemy players.
I see the enemy zerg hitting a supply camp.
I trap the road out of the supply camp with my handy-dandy anti-supply trap.
The zerg supplies itself and empties the camp, then heads out to hit Hills.
I laugh maniacally as the supply disappears from… 5 players? 10? Everyone?

Stealth trap doesn’t seem like nearly as big a deal as this, although I can say that it would encourage the zerg to take different paths.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Krakah.3582:

You forgot to add how screwed PvP players are for Guild events. Most PvP players do not have the way points to participate.

It would actually be really sweet if there were WvW Guild Missions. Something like “Take a certain point!” would be awesome, or, well, I have no idea what they could do, but it’d be cool if they did it.

This sounds great; especially if there were both capture and defend missions. If the RNG Gods smiled, and the stars perfectly aligned it, might even end up being GvG. I’d love to have some WvW oriented guild missions.

Behellagh.1468:

How about alternative street clothes. T-shirts with guild logos. Something that’s desirable, won’t unbalance the game, and is an attractive alternative to mindlessly posting even more silk scraps to the TP.

I would buy a t-shirt with a guild logo in a second, whether it used silk scraps or not.