Guild Wars 2

Yeah. I just hope this doesn’t get merged with the other threads. It’d help calm everyone down once they’ve read it.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It seems fairly likely that one of the new legendary weapons will be a staff since now almost every class in the game can use one. 2 elite specs are getting staff, i’d say there is an 70% chance the first new legendary is a staff…

They’re replacing the ones like moot, dreamer, and quip first.

On another note, prices for other things have risen while others have fallen since June.

(Top is from last night; the bottom is from June 16th.)

Berelious.3290:

Despite an article saying otherwise, people are under the mistaken impression that ALL precursors and legendaries will become account bound when HoT launches, hence the spike in price. The reality is that only the second generation precursors and legendaries will be account bound.

That’s not what’s causing the spike.

Morfedel.4165:

Ayrilana.1396:

Morfedel.4165:

My only concern is all the breaking events. LOTS of those broke. I have every confidence it will be ready, but still, it’s on my list.

Technically only two events broke. The south meta chain had an escort event stall and the north meta chain stalled when more than one person puts the larva in the basket or something. All of the other events worked perfectly.

Well, technically yes, but when that happened, it stalled the entire chain following too.

Yea but those events after what stalled weren’t broken. I’m not saying you’re wrong about events breaking during the last BWE. Just the part about lots.

Morfedel.4165:

My only concern is all the breaking events. LOTS of those broke. I have every confidence it will be ready, but still, it’s on my list.

Technically only two events broke. The south meta chain had an escort event stall and the north meta chain stalled when more than one person puts the larva in the basket or something. All of the other events worked perfectly.

DevilLordLaser.8619:

What happens when none of them use it the next time around in three more years?

How long does a thing have to be completely useless before people are allowed to be tweaked off that the thing is completely useless?

If every other weapon type has been used, then I’d be wondering.

GussJr.1643:

They just posted it on facebook.

Well they had to beat IGN to it.

Rifle hasn’t been abandoned. None of the new elite specializations are using it this time around.

jackthestreamer.3097:

Im still confused here, please help, if i buy the standard Heart of Thorns expansion will I have TWO copies of the game, can i have one with HoT and one without?

If you buy HoT and apply it to your existing account, you’ll have your existing core game with access to HoT on Oct 23rd.

If you buy HoT but apply it to a new account rather than your existing, you’ll have your existing core game (without HoT access) plus another core game that has HoT access included in it.

To put it simpler, you’re purchasing HoT. If you apply it towards a new account, only then will you get a free core game.

Contact support. They’re refunding the difference (125 gems) according to someone on reddit.

What’s the issue? They are selling it cheaper because it used to be 2,000 gems. The discount doesn’t need to be proportionate to the discount of the keys.

Well then it’s something specific to me only as I cannot relog without being bumped to a WP. I had repaired the files recently but I’ll try it again.

Edit: These are other people having the same issue. I guess I’ll go back to thinking it’s a bug since it’s not affecting you. The OP can ignore my posts since it may not apply to them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/33iuel/anyone_else_teleporting_randomly_after_logout/

RoseofGilead.8907:

Ayrilana.1396:

Be careful about how quickly you re-log back into a character if you camp JP’s. Anet has put code into the game to prevent this type of playing and you’ll get ported to a specific WP on the map upon logging back in with that character.

What? I’ve never had that happen, and I tend to log in and out of certain characters fairly often.

Consider yourself lucky then. I used to relog my character quickly on a map to hop instances and I always get ported to a specific WP on the map. For Teq, it’s always the one in the NE corner. For Mount Maelstrom, it’s always the one at the top center. For Rata Sum, it’s the WP by the laurel vendor.

I used to think it was a bug, but with how consistent and replicable it is, I’ve started to believe that it was intentional.

Be careful about how quickly you re-log back into a character if you camp JP’s. Anet has put code into the game to prevent this type of playing and you’ll get ported to a specific WP on the map upon logging back in with that character.

JustinFarfan.6840:

my guardian (one of the characters I firstly made) is 1,086 years old. how long exactly do I need to wait for my 3rd bday gift? wasn’t I already suppose to get it?

There’s 365 days in a typical year. You want the gift on your 3rd birthday. So 365 times 3 equals 1,095 days.

You claiming that there would be raids wasn’t a big revelation or stretch since we all knew they were hiring at least one person specifically for that last year.

The elite specializations being built around raid content is just speculation which you haven’t provided any evidence to support

Your answer is here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-second-beta-weekend-event-begins-september-4/

Ragnarox.9601:

Behellagh.1468:

Sicarius.4639:

I don’t understand why so many people are surprised, ANET have come out and said it themselves, they’ve shown they want NEW players. I’m guessing the cash shop is making them more money in the long run than box sales. The fact end game is dressing up, putting skins in the store is a great money maker.

I’d figure the current market of active players is saturated, maybe numbers aren’t buying like they used to, why push to a crowd who’ve purchased everything already when you could get NEW players in to buy new stuff AND all the old stuff?! It’s perfect business sense, bad for those who’ve played the game? Possibly, but this is business.

Yes and no. The reason is to make HoT attractive to new people. Have the core content for free lets those players to play more than enough to decide if they would like to buy HoT. Because as nice as ANet bundling the core game in for free, new people are still unwilling to pull the trigger on a fifty dollar purchase without know what the game is really like, not just the first 15 levels of a trial.

Well NPE is bad for that accounts… Leveling is not fun these days.

That’s your opinion based on someone that has experienced the other systems and played the game. This may or may not be the same case for new players.

It won’t be billions of XP. Based off BWE1, it’s 16,621,000 XP to max a single HoT mastery. It’s also 5,334,000 to max the fractal one and 12,700,000 to max the legendary one.

They’ll be region specific. You will also have many maps to train your masteries in.

MashMash.1645:

Brimstar.9036:

pHIS IS a good thing.

In your opinion. Many will hate this. They played GW2 to get away from raiding and all the associated BS.

They don’t have to do it as progression isn’t tied to it.

MCBGamer.9214:

“We just told them that Heart of Thorns costs 50 USD because it includes the base game, then we made the game free!”

HAHAHAHAHA

The base game is free when applied to new accounts. The whole “base game included with the cost of the expansion” notion was created entirely by players.

The most you’d get is the cost of the expansion.

From a datamine during season 2. Scroll down to the end about trial accounts.

http://thatshaman.blogspot.com/2014/07/upcoming-features-from-entanglement.html?m=1

Things could have likely changed since then but this may give a general idea of what they may do.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Wasn’t it IGN that also stated a number of things that Colin has flat-out said were wrong? I wouldn’t be trusting them, honestly.

Yeah. The amount of XP needed to train mastery tracks.

No. You can log in anytime after to get it

I just switched to primarily reading Reddit. I remember someone once stated that people post there to discuss the game and post here to get attention. I don’t completely agree with it but at times…

Maybe instanced guild raids.

Dinks.2478:

Ayrilana.1396:

The problem is mix and matching which creates clipping issues.

Yeah, cause this game has no clipping issues. /s

There are tons of clipping issues in the game already and anet doesn’t care. This is a weak excuse.

And imagine how much more we would have. Nothing is flawless and you can’t simply dismiss something because it has flaws. And like Donari said, it’s not the only reason.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Questions-Town-clothes-Costumes-Combat/page/14#post3817507

Donari.5237:

Oh cool, I didn’t realize we could hop to VB to open them. Clever. Do they stack six of them or do you need to go back and forth?

It’s more idle curiosity for me as I still have over 70 charges left on my beta account, more if anything gets re-copied over. Though that mastery xp boost, yum. Except ANet wants feedback on how it feels to progress mastery tracks and if I cheese it to do it fast I can’t give them a good response.

The most I attempted was three but you can probably do more. If you’re using them to progress masteries, don’t forget about Chantry of Secrets. I did it last beta because the two meta event chains kept getting stalled. Based on what I saw though, when events did work, they seemed to progress reasonably.

Treetoptrickster.4205:

Ayrilana.1396:

Treetoptrickster.4205:

Ayrilana.1396:

Isn’t the point of the beta to test the new specializations and content rather than aesthetics?

Yeah, but for the purposes of filming for youtube and personal enjoyment it’s just nice to be able to make your characters look cool too.

True. I’d just re-roll characters and collect the map completion chest from the cities which are already completed.

But… time. I have one weekend, and I’d rather be spending it testing out my stylish character in the high points of the game than going around getting map completion.

All you have to do is zone into each city. The map completion chest will automatically pop up. With six cities, you’ll have enough to change your armor pieces. You’ll have to do it one more time if you want to change the back item’s appearance.

You can also open those chests in HoT and have the experience go towards your mastery tracks. Before others think this is an issue, we won’t be able to infinitely re-roll instant level 80 characters with the city maps completed when HoT goes live.

Treetoptrickster.4205:

Ayrilana.1396:

Isn’t the point of the beta to test the new specializations and content rather than aesthetics?

Yeah, but for the purposes of filming for youtube and personal enjoyment it’s just nice to be able to make your characters look cool too.

True. I’d just re-roll characters and collect the map completion chest from the cities which are already completed.

Isn’t the point of the beta to test the new specializations and content rather than aesthetics?

phys.7689:

Ayrilana.1396:

phys.7689:

Ayrilana.1396:

Cartune.6143:

Take a look at it. Mesmer, Necromancer, Guardian, Elementalist and Revenant (and now …..Thief) can use Staff….then why not give it to everybody now, Warriors probably also need it…So many classes can use it and only…ONLY, Warrior and Engineer can use the Rifle, it would have been WAY more interesting to give the Rifle to the Thief and have some variations between the weapons used in the game.

Thieves really needed a way to do AoE damage.

thief had short bow, and sword for aoe dmg.
in fact staff utility is pretty similar to sword/pistol.

I like the staff weapon, but its basically similar in use to sword pistol. whichever one end up being better at that playstyle will destroy the other. I think they are going to have to boost sword sustainable damage, and increase staff in combat mobility, or maybe give it like slightly more range

Sword had a max of like 3 targets and underwhelming compared to what other classes could do.

staff is also 3 targets

I thought I had seen 5 in those datamined images but I guess not. The new spec offers a different playstyle. Giving them a rifle just felt like a waste.

phys.7689:

Ayrilana.1396:

Cartune.6143:

Take a look at it. Mesmer, Necromancer, Guardian, Elementalist and Revenant (and now …..Thief) can use Staff….then why not give it to everybody now, Warriors probably also need it…So many classes can use it and only…ONLY, Warrior and Engineer can use the Rifle, it would have been WAY more interesting to give the Rifle to the Thief and have some variations between the weapons used in the game.

Thieves really needed a way to do AoE damage.

thief had short bow, and sword for aoe dmg.
in fact staff utility is pretty similar to sword/pistol.

I like the staff weapon, but its basically similar in use to sword pistol. whichever one end up being better at that playstyle will destroy the other. I think they are going to have to boost sword sustainable damage, and increase staff in combat mobility, or maybe give it like slightly more range

Sword had a max of like 3 targets and underwhelming compared to what other classes could do.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Ayrilana.1396:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Ayrilana.1396:

Dwayna forbid Anet for trying to do something different and come up with their own names.

Yeah because Daredevil and Dragonhunter are so unique and original.

Where else are they used in RPG’s?

As far as the daredevil naming, read the blog post and you’ll see it’s fitting.

The term/title Dragonhunter is widely used in movies, games and books.

As for daredevil…

If you keep referring to the comic then you have absolutely no idea about what daredevil means. They are not replicating super heroes in GW2.

As far as dragon hunter, I don’t remember seeing it widely used as a name. Media with dragons use it as a description of an occupation where someone hunts dragons. That’s not the focal point of the specialization.

Cartune.6143:

Take a look at it. Mesmer, Necromancer, Guardian, Elementalist and Revenant (and now …..Thief) can use Staff….then why not give it to everybody now, Warriors probably also need it…So many classes can use it and only…ONLY, Warrior and Engineer can use the Rifle, it would have been WAY more interesting to give the Rifle to the Thief and have some variations between the weapons used in the game.

Thieves really needed a way to do AoE damage.

The problem is mix and matching which creates clipping issues.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Ayrilana.1396:

Dwayna forbid Anet for trying to do something different and come up with their own names.

Yeah because Daredevil and Dragonhunter are so unique and original.

Where else are they used in RPG’s?

As far as the daredevil naming, read the blog post and you’ll see it’s fitting.

winterlove.6834:

time is 3:50am central time, are there any servers that have Balthazar temple open I need to get some obsidian shards

My advice is to do SW chest runs. You’ll get plenty of obsidian shards as well as other things to fund your goal at getting a legendary.

If your set in wanting to go to an open Balth temple, put in a LFG around reset time. Someone that is in the map should ferry you over.

Substance E.4852:

Ayrilana.1396:

Dwayna forbid Anet for trying to do something different and come up with their own names.

lulwut?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_%28Marvel_Comics%29

As stated already, Marvel did not create the phrase “Daredevil”.

Dwayna forbid Anet for trying to do something different and come up with their own names.

BrokenGlass.9356:

Ayrilana.1396:

BrokenGlass.9356:

The sheer amount of posts in every thread on this issue, of which there are many attests to the seriousness of the issue. I sincerely hope the developers silence on the matter is due to a HoT mass balance patch, that they are waiting to release because a large part of the community would be upset by it.

Clearly 5 zerkers, with mad skill and timing is the fastest at clearing content. The issue is noob fans of the players with mad skill on youtube. Just like bass players that slap just cause they listen to Marcus Miller. Its the follower mentality… what we need is a meta so nuanced that the noob followers can’t tie thier understanding to one simple concept. We need people to be forced to learn about spec building not spec copying.

For the moment the only fix is to create “all welcome” and not “anti meta” lfgs.

“Anti meta” sentiment makes the noob followers feel like you stepped on thier ego, because they cant figure out any other way on their own, and not knowing things in our society is bad. So we have to put on kid gloves that we shouldn’t need. But we live in a world where “hurt feelings” is treated as a valid argument.

The mounts thread has a lot of requests for mounts. Does that mean Anet should serious consider it?

The thing about those complaining about zerker/meta/whatever is that they seem to not realize that they can form their own group. If they want to kill everything and its mother in a dungeon, they can create a group specific to that. If they want to play without equipment at all, they can create a group for that.

There is no issue like people in this thread, and the countless others, are claiming. Just take the initiative and create your own group.

You missed the line in my post, where I said “For the moment the only fix is to create “all welcome” and not “anti meta” lfgs."

We are clearly stating a real problem, that a large portion of the player base is having.

Yes a large portion of the player base wants mounts too. Should they be listened to? Probably. Would listening to them break WvW by massively expanding the response speed of zergs? Yes. Is there a fix that makes people happy, and doesn’t break the game? Probably.

Claiming there is no problem, in a thread full of those people who are both experiencing it, and creating it… puts you firmly on one side of the argument.

It’s not a problem which is why it doesn’t need a fix or solution. You may dislike something in the game but that does not mean it’s an actual problem in the game.

BrokenGlass.9356:

The sheer amount of posts in every thread on this issue, of which there are many attests to the seriousness of the issue. I sincerely hope the developers silence on the matter is due to a HoT mass balance patch, that they are waiting to release because a large part of the community would be upset by it.

Clearly 5 zerkers, with mad skill and timing is the fastest at clearing content. The issue is noob fans of the players with mad skill on youtube. Just like bass players that slap just cause they listen to Marcus Miller. Its the follower mentality… what we need is a meta so nuanced that the noob followers can’t tie thier understanding to one simple concept. We need people to be forced to learn about spec building not spec copying.

For the moment the only fix is to create “all welcome” and not “anti meta” lfgs.

“Anti meta” sentiment makes the noob followers feel like you stepped on thier ego, because they cant figure out any other way on their own, and not knowing things in our society is bad. So we have to put on kid gloves that we shouldn’t need. But we live in a world where “hurt feelings” is treated as a valid argument.

The mounts thread has a lot of requests for mounts. Does that mean Anet should serious consider it?

The thing about those complaining about zerker/meta/whatever is that they seem to not realize that they can form their own group. If they want to kill everything and its mother in a dungeon, they can create a group specific to that. If they want to play without equipment at all, they can create a group for that.

There is no issue like people in this thread, and the countless others, are claiming. Just take the initiative and create your own group.

This the same kind of movement issue that appears as if your keyboard/mouse intermittently loses connection? I’ve had issues when I’m running and just abruptly stop despite having the forward key still pressed down. The mouse also gets sluggish (when trying to rotate my view) occasionally as well.

What does reward track progression have to do with leagues?

And here I thought he was a Risen…

kuben.9826:

Because there is massive wall of text here (which i can’t go through) can You guys tell me:
When pre-purchased do i get char slot on launch or immiedetaly after redeeming the code?

Within a week since they do it in batches. If you buy a version that comes with one regardless as to your status, you get it immediately.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Ayrilana.1396:

Is there any evidence, whatsoever, that these achievements will be applied to your existing account rather than only the beta account despite Anet having stated several times that progression on beta characters will not be saved?

The AP’s appear in the main game, and award AP’s which have 0 purpose for beta characters. I suppose the devs could just be wasting their time, but that’s all they would be doing.

And the elite specializations appeared the same way to although it was limited to the notification at the top of the screen. Maybe they’re, you know, testing how achievements are progressed in HoT as they haven’t had a pristine track record with them from previous living stories.

They could also be testing the new extended task list for achievements such as what I just attached. Or it’s up there as a checklist so we experience all of the events in the BWE2.