Guild Wars 2

They had the Great Collapse to play with, and they didn’t do anything interesting with it.

I’m sure if you need them for the next version, anet will allow us to get them.

I have 60 odd stacks of dragonite ore in my bank. Perhaps this is where we all learn that we should have lots of everything in order to get what we want when it shows up?

So, to sum: no matter what incredibly selfish move Evon makes, it’s invariably the correct move. Whatever Ellen Kiel does is invariably the wrong move. This thread is inane.

I think Mistlock instabilities, rather than being locked to a level, should be globally applied to levels 30-50, and change daily at reset. That way you can’t skip a level, and thus never see an instability.

Maybe. Never count on it, tho.

2 weeks, for sure.

The next patch is March 4th. I believe the pvp patch will be the 18th.

I think that, as long as you have already bought the gift and have all the blade shards, you should have no problem making it up until the day the game is closed down forever.

Yeah, and making elitist content that only a few people will ever complete will totally keep people playing the game.

If it’s not released before season 2, it’s not getting released till may.

Marionette should. Scarlet’s secret lair will probably stick around. There’s no reason that has to get removed, plus they tend to allow people to spend the stacks of stuff they have left before removing it.

Eleir.9325:

Where did Arena Net ever say Lion’s Arch would not be returning? They have said however that the services of Lion’s Arch would be TEMPORARILY moved to the vigil keep. I believe that we will not be losing Lion’s Arch. There probably will be some changes to it, but not the destruction of an entire city. I think people kinda heard invasion and assumed total destruction.

I’m not really expecting total destruction. I am expecting it to look different when it comes back.

I’m going on a screenshot run later tonight with any guildies that want to come along (likely none). I’m thinking the dungeon merchants, canach, the mystic forge, the bank, the lighthouse, the fountain. Any thing else? (also, anyone know of a relatively empty LA?)

I don’t think making elitist content that very few people will ever finish is a good use of resources.

SuperBlunt.7105:

Nike.2631:

Ascended gear in 20 minutes and repeatable? Never. Going. To . Happen.

People gearing up to BiS nearly as fast as the manifesto suggested and then leaving the game is not something they’re going back to. It’s just not.

BUT.

What might be possible is a hard mode – a brutally hard hardmode – that gives Ascended gear ONCE upon completion. But even that is still a lot of design work hours for very little player retention. It’d have to be the team-play equivalent of Liadri, only harder, and probably something not far off of a specific location of armor from each of the dungeons + 2 weapons to round out the pool of 8. Custom color or other small visible flourish to make it wildly clear that just displaying the piece is its own reward and bragging rights, and a new title equivalent to “super Dungeon Master” to show that you’ve cleared all 8 hardmodes.

Maybe.

It was suppose to take weeks if not months to learn these paths and be able to clear them in that 20mins. So if a group is willing to go through this work to learn the dungeon then they should be rewarded with the best rewarded in the game, which is ascended gear atm. Your suggestion works also, they dont have to revamp existing dungeons, they can add knew ones and make them much harder and reward ascended gear.

If it took weeks, if not months to be able to clear an explore path dungeon, those dungeons would only be run by people who like that crap. They would be dead content, much like Tequatl on most servers. And you wouldn’t be able to TTS the dungeons by throwing tons of people at it until you finished.

Here’s what I think: We’ll kill Scarlet, but we’ll either kill her before she could stop whatever bad thing she’s been trying to prevent, or we’ll kill her after she’s completed whatever bad thing she’s been trying to accomplish. Basically making our efforts through the entire living story futile.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Ventari dying underneath the pale tree has nothing to do with it.

We have MET a Sylvari from ANOTHER tree – and he is not evil.
The Sylvari are not dragon minions – they are immune to corruption.

They are immune to Zaithan’s corruption. Why? Have you seen any risen sons of svanir? And, no, WE didn’t meet another sylvari. A SMALL number of people who did the sylvari personal story have. That doesn’t mean it has anything to do with the living world. They didn’t mention the infinity ball when talking about the steam creatures, for instance.

Here’s what I think the plot is:

The sylvari were supposed to be the jungle dragon’s minions. But something went wrong. Probably Ventari dying underneath the pale tree. So the syvari were born good, rather than evil. Well, most of them. I think the nightmare court is just indicative of their true nature. So, when Scarlet stepped into the box, the jungle dragon was FINALLY able to take control of her, so he did. And now he’s trying to get Scarlet to kill/corrupt the pale tree so that he can take control of all of the Sylvari (except the important ones, of course). I think Caithe knows all this, and that’s her secret.

I wish their had been a story reason for teq getting strong, just like I wish there had been a story reason for the Ruins appearing in WvW. Anet could’ve easily said that some of the magic from the dying Zaithan was sent to teq, to power him up. Yeah, yeah, spoilers. MEH.

As for what’s scarlet’s after? She wants to become a god, like Abbadon, or Kormir. Remember the Abbadon fractal we might’ve gotten? Think about it.

Yargesh.4965:

mercury ranique.2170:

Yargesh.4965:

search pricerunner there are companies that sell it for less.

be carefull though with not authorized retailers though. Two recent examples that popped up on the account forum.

1: player bought the game months ago, asked for a refund, bought the game through an unauthorized retailer and attached it to the old (closed) account. Support directed him to the retailer to get a refund and retailer refused.

2: Player bought the game through an unauthorized retailer and he/she sold him a used productkey.

Bottom line, cheap unauthorized retailers are cheap, but not always trustworthy.

All of the ones posted by these search motors are reputable companies. They filter out ones that don’t live up to their claims. It is also up to every individual to check refund policies of anything you buy.

Yeah, no. They don’t filter out companies. Buy from a reputable company.

Iris Ng.9845:

Pip.2094:

mtpelion.4562:

It is fine. Different materials drop from different kinds of content.

If you need Dragonite Ore, you will have to do the things that drop Dragonite Ore.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragonite_ore

In other words: make yourself 4-5 lvl 80s making sure to unlock WPs at: Orrian Temples, Shatterer, Golem Mark II, Claw of Jormag etc, grind them whenever they spawn wasting like 10 hours x day, in a week you’ll get enough Dragonite for 1 weapon…

Yes, this method is very rewarding… :\

I don’t grind world events for 10 hours a day, and I have more dragonite ore than I can ever use. I laugh at people in map chat that complain about how rare it is, and then I link the 17 stacks I carry on my main. That doesn’t include the 750 in the bank, the 170 ingots I crafted, the probably 30 stacks in my bank, and all the stacks on my alts. (my Mesmer alt has 7 stacks of 250, and 1 stack of 154). If we could sell it on the trading post, it’d be the new silk scraps: worth absolutely nothing.

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

Becka Williams.4978:

SOOOOO many people complaining about anet removing the rank 30 to get a gift of battle. SOOOOOO few people complaining about how easy it is to get a commander tag. I would’ve thought you guys would far prefer a rank time gate for a commander tag than a stupid gift of battle.

PvE players will then complain about how they can’t get the blue tag for their PvE maps and it will get changed.

I literally don’t care about pvemanders. I think there’s far to many of them, and all the commander tag shows now is that you have 100 gold, and 500 badges (and I think you need to be level 80) Meanwhile, you WvWers claim as your god given right the ability to force people to get to level 30 (or even higher) to get a legendary. I think there’s a huge contradiction here. “You have to master ALL aspects of the game to get a legendary. Oh, but being a commander? Yeah, don’t need to master WvW for that.”

If you know you can get it later, what’s the point of doing the content now? Anet releases the living story to keep people engaged, and spending money. If someone can log off for a year, then come back and get all the living story rewards, what’s the benefit to anet?

SOOOOO many people complaining about anet removing the rank 30 to get a gift of battle. SOOOOOO few people complaining about how easy it is to get a commander tag. I would’ve thought you guys would far prefer a rank time gate for a commander tag than a stupid gift of battle.

Talmor.9048:

skullmount.1758:

Talmor.9048:

Complaining about the season BEFORE it happens will doom it to failure. Just go in and have fun!

Sorry, but whats the point in playing in something you know you won’t (can’t) win?

Do not go for the win. Go for the glory. Go to represent your server. Go for the fights. Go for the fun.

Since when is losing fun?

The grand theft auto games? Elder scrolls?

You want a pure sandbox game, get a single player one.

If we take the current story arc at it’s word, Scarlet doesn’t give a darn about any of the alliances. She only set up the alliances to get what she wanted, the probes, the poison, the airships. The people in the alliances are meaningless to her, so why are they still working for her?

Well, the other thing is that most people didn’t like Trahaerne, so why bring him back?

So, you don’t want unplayable crashes, lagfests, and skill lags, but you also don’t want overflows. You want some magical third option that doesn’t exist. Prepare to be disappointed then.

To be fair, Trahearne’s wyld hunt was to cleanse Orr. He did that, after studying it for 25 years. He deserves a bit of a break, yeah?

Kalavier.1097:

Ruin.1927:

They’re also more powerful now than they ever were. They’re part of an army that has far greater capability than they ever had as their own individual factions. They can’t ignore that fact.

And if Scarlet is really that bat kitten crazy, would you be the one to raise your hand and say, “I don’t think I want to play anymore.”

considering how the Aetherblades literally have been shown to say “We are more scared of her then we are of you. She’ll slaughter us for messing up.”…

Yes, but we’re slaughtering them for following her.

I do think that anet has learned a LOT from their previous game play patches. They haven’t done anything as awful as the ancient karka fight since, and have given people time to do stuff. See the Marionette fight, versus the ancient karka fight. I think the “invasion” will be instanced story, then you’ll fight in overflows for the combat parts, much like how they did the tower of nightmares.

Ben K.6238:

Becka Williams.4978:

Aren’t there mystic forges in the WvW citadels?

Not quite. They’re in all the borderland garrisons and Stonemist.

Ah yeah. Well, another reason to keep your garrison tho it would be harder with a bunch of afkers sitting around the forge.

It can take 3-4 times as long if someone trolls it….and they do.

Aren’t there mystic forges in the WvW citadels?

Ruin.1927:

They’re also more powerful now than they ever were. They’re part of an army that has far greater capability than they ever had as their own individual factions. They can’t ignore that fact.

And if Scarlet is really that bat kitten crazy, would you be the one to raise your hand and say, “I don’t think I want to play anymore.”

Um, isn’t that what WE’VE been saying the entire time?

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Kurodius.7463:

Flirting has little to do with my issues with this relationship. Flirting only really shows sexual attraction, but it doesn’t present the basis of their relationship. These two characters have very little to bond over, they don’t play off each other’s personality in any way.

Yes, yes they do play off each other. Kasmeer is light and a little silly when relaxed, Marjory tends to be serious at least most of the time.

(Obligatory meme: They fight crime.)

Majory’s the no-nonsense tough as nails detective that doesn’t always play by the rules. Kasmeer’s the playful, friendly Mesmer that always gets results. If you have a problem, and no one else can help, and if you have the gold, then maybe you can hire: Jory and Kas: Private Investigators

The first time Majory showed up, Kasmeer was in that story instance. They’ve been a matched pair since then. I admit I didn’t notice it, but I hate romance, and tend to gloss over it (tho once I read about Majory saying she was okay with Kasmeer being naked under the illusion dress, it was obvious SHE at least was interested) It’s not out of nowhere. This game is very light on story, and hasn’t really delt with the sidekick characters. Rox and Braham got a lot of play because they got a living story that kind of revolved around them. Majory and Kasmeer have been side players with about 10 minutes of content before Tower of Nightmares.

Handin.4032:

Becka Williams.4978:

More of that complaining about PvE that WvWers never do!

Can you cite where a WvW player said that no one in the WvW community ever complains about PvE? I’m not sure why you’re so negative on this thread, when in the end WvW people are just asking for the exact same thing PvE people are.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Becka Williams.4978:

Handin.4032:

Becka Williams.4978:

Handin.4032:

WvW people complain for a year about how getting a legendary is IMPOSSIBLE to do with only WvW and having to do lots of PvE to get it, and we get nothing to help us. PvE people complain for 1 week about having actually do a TINY bit of ACTUAL WvW (not just running around waiting for completion asking people to take stuff for them), and it gets temporarily removed to “re-evaluate”.

If PvE’ers can get great shinies without having to really do WvW, can WvW people FINALLY get some real shinies that they can get only doing WvW? I mean, give a rest on the “new” masteries. Give us some WvW shinies (note: those “new” skins they gave us earlier this year weren’t even new…weren’t great…not really worth it for level 80 WvW players). Maybe if anet actually listened to their WvW people, instead of constantly pandering to the PvE masses, they’d get more money from us (heck, Im sure that quaggan finisher got them quite a bit!)

Maybe if WvWers didn’t circle around every possibility of PvEers being forced into world v world like sharks around a pile of chum, they might be more willing to do it. As it is, you guys look at PvEers as a cheap source of bags, and grief the hell out of them for the giggles. Why would they want to be forced into it, simply so they can be tormented?

Just saying, as someone who doesn’t wear full zerker gear, or do speed run stuff, I’ve been kicked from fractal and PvE dungeon groups plenty of times with people calling me a noob because I didn’t know the short cuts for speed runs, or went in as a condi mesmer instead of buying zerker gear. It goes both ways. The only difference is when WvW people “grief” (mostly just kill or camp a JP in a PvP area) the forums become ablaze with how horrible we WvW people are

Oh, I totally see your point. I see TONS of people in the dungeon forums saying “I can’t wait to kick some WvWer for not having zerker gear from my dungeon party. Gonna be so much fun! And then, and then, I’m going to call him a noob! BURN!” Meanwhile, I read a post on the forums about a WvWer that knocked a pveer off the last part for obisidian sanctum, jumped down, and started eating zaftaffy simply so they could vomit on the corpse. There’s a bit of a difference here, isn’t there?

It’s because PvEers consistently and constantly whine about the WvW requirements whenever they are actually required to set foot in WvW (before badges were given out in achieve chests and after this rank 30 change, EB JP during the LS, EoTM).

That whining is the direct cause of the negative reaction in the WvW community.

On the other hand, you never hear WvW players whining about PvE requirements for the Legendaries — they only even mention it as counters to PvE whining about WvW.

(btw, vomiting on corpses sounds awesome — I gotta try it!)

I’m sure you’ll say that’s just one person, and that he qualified in in the second part, but there you are. Done and done.

Flytrap.8075:

Who would have ever thought that the PvE cry-babies would get their way?

It just blows my mind that WvW players have been getting shafted for so long, and as soon as PvE players have one tiny thing that they have to WvW for, ANet instantly reverts their decision.

Sirendor.1394:

VOLKON.1290:

Gift of Battle. (Battle not required.)

Sounds like a punch-line waiting to happen.

Sounds like Anet managing and favouring PvE, agaaaain.

Flytrap.8075:

J Eberle.9312:

Yes. lets see what the WvW community has to say about a decision that will affect people who play all/other aspects of the game.. Gee I wonder what inciteful and informative input they will have..

10 mins later

’*make it harder!**

PUNISH THEM!!! MAKE THEM WVW LIKE WE DO!!!

It’s not faiR UnLesS EVEryoNe SuFfErS ThE SaME!!!

Ah excellent, excellent. Carry on.

WvW players are forced to PvE a lot more than PvE players are forced to WvW. The rewards received between one and the other aren’t even comparable; PvE is the clear cut winner.

Any complaints about this have been met with floods of “WELL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DO IT THEN NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO”.

It’s simply hypocritical at this point. You really want that Legendary? Then man up and get Rank 30 instead of complaining endlessly about lack of transparency or a proper notice.

More of that complaining about PvE that WvWers never do!

thaooo.5320:

No. Mounts are an eyesore. Mounts are LAME. Mounts are uninstall worthy.

Stop being a rallybot, equip yourself properly, stop dying.

Yes, everyone. All you have to do to win is NEVER die. I’m sure Thaoo here has never died once in game, an impressive feat. If he has, well, then his advice would be worthless, wouldn’kitten

timidobserver.7925:

Allie Murdock.8152:

We will be removing all rank requirements for the Gift of Battle in the February 18th build and further evaluate what those requirements will be. We do not currently have an ETA for when rank requirements will be reinstated.

Nice, can you remove the PVE requirements from stuff for WvW players?

No complaints from WvWers about PvE requirements, huh guys? (please, spare me your “but PvEers complain far more than we do.” You claimed none. Claim refuted>)

Elementalists play differently from other classes. So yes, you have to carry around a pair of daggers if you want to switch.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Becka Williams.4978:

Handin.4032:

Becka Williams.4978:

Handin.4032:

WvW people complain for a year about how getting a legendary is IMPOSSIBLE to do with only WvW and having to do lots of PvE to get it, and we get nothing to help us. PvE people complain for 1 week about having actually do a TINY bit of ACTUAL WvW (not just running around waiting for completion asking people to take stuff for them), and it gets temporarily removed to “re-evaluate”.

If PvE’ers can get great shinies without having to really do WvW, can WvW people FINALLY get some real shinies that they can get only doing WvW? I mean, give a rest on the “new” masteries. Give us some WvW shinies (note: those “new” skins they gave us earlier this year weren’t even new…weren’t great…not really worth it for level 80 WvW players). Maybe if anet actually listened to their WvW people, instead of constantly pandering to the PvE masses, they’d get more money from us (heck, Im sure that quaggan finisher got them quite a bit!)

Maybe if WvWers didn’t circle around every possibility of PvEers being forced into world v world like sharks around a pile of chum, they might be more willing to do it. As it is, you guys look at PvEers as a cheap source of bags, and grief the hell out of them for the giggles. Why would they want to be forced into it, simply so they can be tormented?

Just saying, as someone who doesn’t wear full zerker gear, or do speed run stuff, I’ve been kicked from fractal and PvE dungeon groups plenty of times with people calling me a noob because I didn’t know the short cuts for speed runs, or went in as a condi mesmer instead of buying zerker gear. It goes both ways. The only difference is when WvW people “grief” (mostly just kill or camp a JP in a PvP area) the forums become ablaze with how horrible we WvW people are

Oh, I totally see your point. I see TONS of people in the dungeon forums saying “I can’t wait to kick some WvWer for not having zerker gear from my dungeon party. Gonna be so much fun! And then, and then, I’m going to call him a noob! BURN!” Meanwhile, I read a post on the forums about a WvWer that knocked a pveer off the last part for obisidian sanctum, jumped down, and started eating zaftaffy simply so they could vomit on the corpse. There’s a bit of a difference here, isn’t there?

It’s because PvEers consistently and constantly whine about the WvW requirements whenever they are actually required to set foot in WvW (before badges were given out in achieve chests and after this rank 30 change, EB JP during the LS, EoTM).

That whining is the direct cause of the negative reaction in the WvW community.

On the other hand, you never hear WvW players whining about PvE requirements for the Legendaries — they only even mention it as counters to PvE whining about WvW.

(btw, vomiting on corpses sounds awesome — I gotta try it!)

And yet, you somehow think that pveers are the ones who are wrong. Plus, I hear WvWers whine ALL THE TIME about how they can’t get stuff just by doing WvW. At least in pve, you don’t have people saying stuff like “Vomiting on corpses sounds awesome! I gotta try it!”

Darfod.9375:

I don’t have any legendaries.
I am not working towards any legendaries.
I can live with the fact that a legendary requires some degree of mastery of all aspects of the game (I don’t like it, but I accept it in terms of these being endgame items)

DevonCarver.5370:

The removal is to address the manner in which it is communicated in game. There will be a requirement to reach a rank in WvW prior to purchasing the Gift when we are able to provide adequate messaging to let players know why they can’t purchase it and what they need to do in order to be able to purchase it.

Once the rank requirement is reinstated (at whatever level), can you confirm whether existing legendaries will become unequippable until the player reaches the required rank?

Did they with this patch? Why would they do something as dumb as that. Did you see the rage about tier 3 Flame kissed? Multiply that by about a million and you get some idea of how people will treat not being about to use their legendaries till they’re rank 30 in WvW.

Handin.4032:

Becka Williams.4978:

Handin.4032:

WvW people complain for a year about how getting a legendary is IMPOSSIBLE to do with only WvW and having to do lots of PvE to get it, and we get nothing to help us. PvE people complain for 1 week about having actually do a TINY bit of ACTUAL WvW (not just running around waiting for completion asking people to take stuff for them), and it gets temporarily removed to “re-evaluate”.

If PvE’ers can get great shinies without having to really do WvW, can WvW people FINALLY get some real shinies that they can get only doing WvW? I mean, give a rest on the “new” masteries. Give us some WvW shinies (note: those “new” skins they gave us earlier this year weren’t even new…weren’t great…not really worth it for level 80 WvW players). Maybe if anet actually listened to their WvW people, instead of constantly pandering to the PvE masses, they’d get more money from us (heck, Im sure that quaggan finisher got them quite a bit!)

Maybe if WvWers didn’t circle around every possibility of PvEers being forced into world v world like sharks around a pile of chum, they might be more willing to do it. As it is, you guys look at PvEers as a cheap source of bags, and grief the hell out of them for the giggles. Why would they want to be forced into it, simply so they can be tormented?

Just saying, as someone who doesn’t wear full zerker gear, or do speed run stuff, I’ve been kicked from fractal and PvE dungeon groups plenty of times with people calling me a noob because I didn’t know the short cuts for speed runs, or went in as a condi mesmer instead of buying zerker gear. It goes both ways. The only difference is when WvW people “grief” (mostly just kill or camp a JP in a PvP area) the forums become ablaze with how horrible we WvW people are

Oh, I totally see your point. I see TONS of people in the dungeon forums saying “I can’t wait to kick some WvWer for not having zerker gear from my dungeon party. Gonna be so much fun! And then, and then, I’m going to call him a noob! BURN!” Meanwhile, I read a post on the forums about a WvWer that knocked a pveer off the last part for obisidian sanctum, jumped down, and started eating zaftaffy simply so they could vomit on the corpse. There’s a bit of a difference here, isn’t there?

Handin.4032:

WvW people complain for a year about how getting a legendary is IMPOSSIBLE to do with only WvW and having to do lots of PvE to get it, and we get nothing to help us. PvE people complain for 1 week about having actually do a TINY bit of ACTUAL WvW (not just running around waiting for completion asking people to take stuff for them), and it gets temporarily removed to “re-evaluate”.

If PvE’ers can get great shinies without having to really do WvW, can WvW people FINALLY get some real shinies that they can get only doing WvW? I mean, give a rest on the “new” masteries. Give us some WvW shinies (note: those “new” skins they gave us earlier this year weren’t even new…weren’t great…not really worth it for level 80 WvW players). Maybe if anet actually listened to their WvW people, instead of constantly pandering to the PvE masses, they’d get more money from us (heck, Im sure that quaggan finisher got them quite a bit!)

Maybe if WvWers didn’t circle around every possibility of PvEers being forced into world v world like sharks around a pile of chum, they might be more willing to do it. As it is, you guys look at PvEers as a cheap source of bags, and grief the hell out of them for the giggles. Why would they want to be forced into it, simply so they can be tormented?

Scarlet’s going to die at the end of the Living story, just like everyone wants. However, we’re going to find out either that she was trying to prevent an even greater evil from spawning, and we stopped her, or she’ll succeed at spawning a greater evil, and we kill her just after she accomplishes it. And thus, Scarlet has more of an impact on the in game world than we have, despite us killing Zaithan.