Guild Wars 2

Thank you Tyler for answering in such a clear way.

But I think it’s in Anet’s best interest not to waste time, money and energy in something a lot of players (and especially those who used to go to WvW and don’t do anymore) have allready say they don’t want.

Lord Kuru.3685:

1. They’ll put all the HoT failed mechanics into it.
2. Everyone will hate that.
3. People who do come back will quickly leave because of this.
4. Apologists will say “See, people will whine no matter what Anet does.” Everyone else will groan.

This. So much.

As far as I understood, Mike’s post has nothing to do with a preview of April’s Update, but is here for warnings :

• if you are working on Casual Fractal Hero and Core Fractal Hero, hurry up, they will be taken away with the update, meaning you just have a few weeks to finish them
• if you are planning to level up your scribing, you’d better wait for the update, as the costs will be significantly reduced

Besides, he implicitely asks the WvWers to be patient regarding the come back of the Alpine Borderlands, as it won’t happen with the update but later.

I’m more than upset with the legendary mess, but I’m happy Anet took the time to give us these warnings enough days in advance, and not at the last minute.

Lord of Rings.5371:

" It actually takes quite a bit of time to dust off old content and bring it up to the current game state

I hope they read the “poll” carefully, and noticed a lot of people were not happy with the new mechanisms that came with HoT.

If they bring back the old BL, it should be with the old WvW stuff or it won’t work.

FogLeg.9354:

The old Alpine maps were also bad maps, just we did not have anything to compare them against.

We had EotM. Which is the alpine version of DBL. And which I don’t like either.

I personally do not know anyone who quit WvW because of the new maps

Well, it seems you just don’t know everybody. WvW was my main game mode, I completely quit with this new map and its gimmicks.

I’m on Jade Sea, a french server. It seems there are ennemies to fight on the other sides, so emply maps are not my problem. I’m not part of a guild, so I don’t have to grind for upgrades. And I couldn’t care less about rewards.

Maps are not main reason nobody wants to play WvW anymore. And so, demanding to restore old maps is also waste of time and money and will gain nothing to bring players back to WvW since they never left because of the maps.

Maps are THE reason why I don’t play WvW anymore. I won’t come back unless they are reverted.

You have a perfect right to like the new map, or to think other things should be solved first. But please, stop talking for “everybody”, pretending you know better than the people who left what they think.

“We are set to live beta-test changes starting after we publish the April update .In a Live Beta, the beta feature is available on the live game servers, but we are able to quickly disable the feature in the event that it’s negatively impacting gameplay, or any other serious issues arise. Depending on the feature the length of a live beta can be highly variable, it may be a few hours, a weekend, or much longer. It’s an opportunity for us to gather feedback on the feature, from the entire playerbase, and update the feature before shipping it ‘for real’. The live beta will be available to everyone.”

Source : http://dulfy.net/2016/03/05/gw2-reddit-developer-ama-summary/#WvW

Before you make your decision, here is my top 5 :

1. Revert to old BL. I dislike DBL to the point of almost not playing WvW at all. Without this point, I don’t think I’ll come back
2. Upgrades should be revert as they were : launched manually, one at a time (and not by packages). WP must be a T3 upgrade
3. Get rid of all the gimmicks : monuments, tactics, oasis etc
4. Dev communication. There have been recent efforts of this but it is still immensely needed
5. Revert stability

Even the so called “organized” map may or may not succeed. It’s not enough to have someone with a tag telling people what to do. If people are not interested in doing the right things, it will fail.

And my experience is that a lot of people are not interested.

I was lucky enough to get the meta achievement, I won’t go back to the map until Anet makes some changes.

Just to tell, I had a lot of fun doing the Mawdrey quest, so I would advise you to give it a look.

That’s good news John. Thank you for sharing.

Zomaarwat.3912:

Just let me sort Achievements in such a way that already completed ones are at the bottom and I’ll be happy.

This, a thousand times.

Step by step, we are going in the right direction. Thank you for the Show All Usable Objects check box, my hand really appreciates it. As well as the Consume all for the essences of luck.

I hope you won’t forget the other suggestions, some would be really nice.

Spurnshadow.3678:

I don’t understand this at all.

I never read Redit. I hate the site. The format is terrible. IMO, this is the official site; if it isn’t posted here, or on the home page, then it isn’t official. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, and I depend on others to share information.

Why don’t you just make a policy prohibiting devs from posting anywhere else? For the life of me, I can’t understand why this isn’t the case.

I totally agree.

Odokuro.5049:

They are, Proofs for THAT character being heroic

No, they are just proof for THAT character earning the last wexp of the bar.

And sometimes, that can be pretty silly : imagine you are working on elites for a character you do play. You’re almost at the end of the wexp bar, but didn’t notice it. You reroll with an alt you never play and go to your keep to fetch something at your personnal bank. Suddenly, the keep is attacked, you participate in defending it, and poof ! get the last wexp of the bar, and thus proofs on this alt you never play, instead of the one who gained 99% of the bar and needs the proofs.

Silly isn’kitten
Unfortunately, it keeps on happening to me.

Anet shouldn’t use an account-bound system (WExp) to give character-bound rewards (proofs of heroism).

@Dragonfeu : read more carefully :

Objectives upgrades will no longer be automatic based on time. They will upgrade based on dolyaks that reach them.

doesn’t mean upgrades will have to be launched manually.

HoT is on sale on Amazon (official retailer, which means no risk) for 20€ :
http://www.amazon.fr/Guild-Wars-2-heart-thorns/dp/B0140RS8RK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450381348&sr=8-1&keywords=heart+of+thorns

so why bother buying elsewhere ?

A message from the World vs World Team:

I’m very happy to read this, as we desperately needed to hear from them.

• Objectives upgrades will need dolyaks
  Great.
  They’d also need to be triggered by a human, if Anet want to counter imbalance, especially at night.

• Supply cost for all catapults are being reduced by ten supply.
  Great

• Points per kill will be turned on and kept on.
  Why not. In order to prevent giving a too big advantage to blobbing, PPK should need stomp.

• The number of players who can rally off a single kill has been reduced from five to one.
  Good.

• Players will also no longer be able to revive defeated players while in combat. You still will be able to revive downed players while in combat.
  Not sure about this one. We need to experience it to see the drawbacks.

Please let us know what you think of these changes. We’re going to hold off on picking a release date until we have a chance to review your feedback, but we’d like to target early 2016. So please add your feedback about these proposals to this thread.

Not only are the changes going in the right direction, but the method of presenting them in advance with an indication of the launching date is imo the best way of doing it.

Thanks for this Christmas Gift.

You know there won’t be any answer on this forum. The only answer we will have is in the gem store : either they will introduce each item separately (implicitly recognising their mistake), or next sale will be another bundle.

Could this be in line with :

“Salvaging Changes

Despite keeping a heavy sink of materials in the new endgame weapon journeys, the changes were nowhere close to balancing the current numbers . To help get us closer to where we want to be, we’ll simultaneously roll out changes to the salvaging of some materials. Some of these changes will reduce output to help us maintain scarcity, and some will rebalance heavily input materials with more rare materials to help even out some of the variation of scarcity we currently have."
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-economy/

Free accounts can whisper people on the same map, or everywhere if they are mutual friends.

I’m a 32 bit user, and I have crashes 15-20 times a day, whatever the tyrian or WvW map. 90% of the time, it occurs when I try to change map or character.

One of my toons was at the end of a jumping puzzle In Lion’s Arch, and went to Eternal Battlegrounds, using the WvW UI. I was dced there, and when I came back, I was in the middle of LA.
It happened to a friend of mine today, same circumstances, and the JP was in Caledon forest.

Is it a known bug ?

Thanks OP, very useful thread.

I had thought I would keep playing, though not buying HoT, But I’m not sure anymore.

On my main account, I wanted to finish 2 legendaries, map exploration on several characters, reach the cap for daily achievements, and most of all play in WvW. Besides, I thought I would continue having fun with my f2p account and try WvW on a international server (my main is on a french one).

But I really hate the new WvW map and the new mechanisms, plus the fact they destroyed all the guild WvW bonuses for those not buying HoT.

I guess I will see in a few weeks if I decide to stay or not.

Ynvir.4079:

I log-in, and the next second I spawn with a character the game crashes…doesn’t matter on which character I do that…I was able to play normally and just fine up until last day. Sent several reports by now…

Same for me, though sometimes I can play for a few minutes with the character (in Centra Tyria) before the crash.

And 4 of the 5 people don’t even need to be part of the guild to free the hall.

Revive Orbs are pretty useful in fractals and might have a serious use in raids so would be careful there.

Except they will be disabled in raids
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Res-orbs-in-raids/5455413

Chest farming in Silverwastes is your best option for the mats you need to craft Vision Crystal. If you dez what you drop, you will also get a good amount of T5 ore and wood. If that’s not enough for the time-gated refinement, another good spot is Orr, especially around Pagga’s Waypoint.

Regarding T2-T4 ore and wood, I usually go to :
- Blazeridge Steppes, Terra Carorunda Waypoint for Iron (need 90 a day) and Tukawa (30 a day)
- Bloodtide Coast, exit of Lion’s Arch, for Iron, Platinum (60 a day), Tukawa and Pine (60 a day)
- Timberline Falls,Thistlereed Waypoint for Platinum and Pine
- Gendarran Fields, Snowblind Waypoint for Gummo (120 a day) but not sure if there isn’t a better place somewhere else

My guess is that you won’t get enough T2 wood, but if you gather everything you see, and dez everything you loot in Silverwastes, you will have enough money to buy the remaining wood you need.

Yes, I miss those events too, and I wonder why they didn’t implement more.

Evans.6347:

You should actually calculate the amount of ascended materials you will need, and consider that you can only craft one of each a day yourself. So unless you’re going to buy the mats, I think they will be the bigger time gate in your plans.

This.
Assuming you would have one character of each class (and I saw you have more), you would need a total of 230 Bolt of Damask, each requiring a Spool of Silk Weaving Thread, which you can craft only once a day.

So unless you plan to buy some Bolt of Damask (around 15g each atm), or already have some, gathering them will let you plenty of time to get those spirit shards.

Your goal is a long-term one

Since monday, I got 22 shards, including 15 from dailies. So, 7 came out of playing, let’s say 2 hours a day, without any farming.

That’s not so bad.

Besides, you can still get spirit shards by using a Tome of Knowledge with a level 80.

I would advise you not to focus on one mat at a time, but rather on one character. It may be much quicker.

And what if they would remove badges ? After all, they will remove the cost of the upgrades, and thus they’ll need another gold sink.

Why has the blog post https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/ been taken away from the list of news ?

As no further details have been given, though promised, on refunds or additional character slot, and nothing has been changed in the buy website, nor in the Trading Post, it is rather surprising to see this post deleted from the list of news.

Could we have any information about it ?

Prophet.1584:

since hero points will be made account wide

Where has it been said ?

wux.7314:

We even saw piken and vizu players /wave at each other as they passed, you can’t lie about it because we were there, we saw it!

We actually /bow more than we /wave, as Piken as earned respect for several reasons :

- they are themselves respectful

- whatever happens, they never complain, even if they are double focused as in week 5, or look for excuses

- they were the only ones in the gold league who fought VS and SFR 3 times (twice together, and twice separately)

- they are great plain fighter (generally better than VS I would say)

Thanks for the hints. These were the missing areas.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to get the Shiverpeaks explorer, as uncovering Tribulation caves means being able to first finish the vista in the tribulation rift, which just seems impossible for me.

Thank you all for this topic, it was very helpfull when I tried to complete the Explorer achievements.

In addition to what is already mentionned, I was missing Dierdre’s Steps in Mount Maelstrom (Maguuma Explorer). This is the area of a jumping puzzle.

The problem I now have is that everybody is mentionning 172 areas in Shiverpeaks and the achievement needs 174.

I doublechecked with the wiki and Bluestone’s very well done list and have all areas they both mentionned. Any clue ?