Guild Wars 2

The issue is that they posted ‘glory will be removed/replaced’ and a portion of players assumed that also meant the merch, and a portion of players assumed they’d still have access to what they had earned thus far.

Anet clarified this by making a statement in a video, and maybe a comment in a thread?

That clarity/detail is a pretty big one and you can’t expect the entire community to pour over every comment/tweet/facebook post/reddit thread to figure it out.

Darnis.4056:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/player-vs-player-rewards-roadmap/

Once this new system is in place, glory will be retired as a currency, and gold will be the standard currency across the game.

Glory Gain has been disabled for a while now. There’s hint number two.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-reward-tracks-and-gear-unification/

Here’s hint number 3, everything else relating to glory/pvp crafting is being removed. why would you think that your glory would stay?

Did you have any reason to think that it was staying?

WE ALL KNEW GLORY WAS BEING REPLACED. That’s not the debate. The issue is that they did not clarify that we would be unable to access our earned/stored glory post patch. They did not state our amassed glory would be wiped out along with the merchant.

Apparently, they did say this once in a video, maybe also in a comment somewhere on the forums, but that’s an unaccaptable way to make a clarification.

Come join us for EotM raiding tonight!

Darnis.4056:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Rezz.8019:

They have been telling us to spend glory for like 2 months already. Don’t blame Anet for this one.

I dare you to find that post. There have been posts, but never did they clarify we’d lose saved glory and the merchant.

….Twitch casts, dulfy reveals, the devs have been pretty emphatic about Glory going Away completely. “Spend your glory now, it’s going away”

I just got back from a 6 month break, and even I knew glory was going the way of the dodo.

If I have to hunt down everything post/video just to get clarity, something is wrong. So you say they clarified it one time, with one statement inside an hour long video. Not accceptable. And having a fan transcribe that video is no excuse.

There should have been a blog post with the clarity, an email, an in game letter. Something direct.

Rezz.8019:

They have been telling us to spend glory for like 2 months already. Don’t blame Anet for this one.

I dare you to find that post. There have been posts, but never did they clarify we’d lose saved glory and the merchant.

They only said that glory was being removed/replaced with another unlock mechanic.

They never said we’d lose all saved glory and merch/ability to spend what we had left. Re adding the merch/our glory for a set time is something they should absotutely do.

I’ve read a lot and tried to keep us as much as possible.

they announced glory would be replaced with a new unlock system and that glory would be removed and to use up your pvp mats.

they NEVER mentioned you’d lose all of your stored glory and the glory merch would be removed.

UPDATE:

When I lost type, all of my guilds current queued builds, even those in queue, were auto completed. We had several with 2-8 days left.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Apparently if you enter the grove, it breaks and cant be fixed as far as i’m aware.

For the town clothes, go talk to the black lion armorer.

I haven’t gone to the grove though.

CHAT BROKEN

For me too. Not sure why, I see everyone else talking, but my type doesn’t go through. I try to PM ppl and it tells me they are offline, although there status shows them online and I see them talking in g chat

I’m mad too, I saved up glory for post patch on purpose to spend at the glory merch.

MrFlump.8725:

They said to spend your glory like over a month ago. Its gone now and you cant get it back.

They said craft everything you can bc pvp mats would leave. I never saw ‘spend your glory’ though.

I know that glory was being removed from the game and the new unlock system was being added today.

I typically read the forums often to stay up to date.

However, not once did I read that the glory I had already earned and the glory vendor would not be accessible after the patch. Did I miss that specific clarification or was it just assumed?

I had quite a bit of glory I was saving until post patch. I hadn’t decided if I wanted to spend it on PvE level tomes or skins for the wardrobe. I wanted to see the wardrobe before finalizing.

No where did I read ‘spend all your glory before the patch’. Am I the only one in this situation?

Guild Event Schedule:

Sunday – G missions
Monday – Dungeon Speed Training
Wednesday – WvW

All events at 6:15 server time, come out and join us!

Glad to have Crag, Nazarius and Pumpkinspiced in the ranks!

Iconik.8712:

Hm. I’m very interested!

For the toast!

WOOT, welcome to the guild

Monstoar.9016:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Hey Monstoar!

First off, which server are you on? Not a deal breaker, but it would be most beneficial to find a guild on your server.

I run a guild on Tarnished Coast, it’s a growing PvX guild. We have a lot of vets and new players as well, so you’d fit real well. We excel at teaching the basics all the way up to high end content.

Check us out and send me whisper

(website link in my sig below)

i’m in the DragonBrand server. Would being in a different server keep me from joining guilds? o.o

On the 15th the game is getting a large update and the upcoming changes will make it way easier to be in a guild from another server. The only downfall is that you can not play wvw with people from another server. So you’d be good for PvE and PvP stuff, but never WvW.

Maplegate.5978:

Thank you everyone for replying to my post, I really appreciate it. I’m considering 4 guilds so far.

- ESP
- Aerie
- DEA
- Ember Solace

If the offers still stand, it’ll be great if we could chat in-game sometimes. Sorry that it might appear as if I’m being indecisive, it’s just that I want to make sure I’ll make the right decision. Thanks for understanding, see you guys around!

These are all great guilds. Of course, I’m bias to DEA, but in all honesty you can’t go wrong here. TC is a big family in it’s own and these are all great options, you’ll enjoy anyone you choose

Glad to have you aboard Homitu!!!!

Welcome back to gw2, and welcome to the Dragon Empire, ikillomega

Hi Driehl!

Our guild sounds like it would be a good fit for you, however we are located on Tarnished Coast. If you ever feel like transferring we’d love to have you aboard!

Hi Firrae

We have a casually competitive PvX guild and have recently brought on many newer players that we are touring through the game. I typically do the daily tpvp several days a week, along with dungeons/wvw/guild missions. We are based on Tarnished Coast. Check out our website and send me a whisper if you’d like a trial invite to check us out!

(website in my sig below)

Hi Maplegate!

Your post was refreshing to read and I think our guild would be a great fit.

We are a casually competitive PvX guild, meaning we do a lot of everything. We maintain a family friendly atmosphere, most of us go by first names and the core group has been playing together for years. We have recently been getting many new players so you’d fit right in and have people to adventure with. We are great at teaching folks the basics all the way up to high end content. We are currently a smaller guild of 25 and looking to grow to about 100. We are looking for committed and long term players that are looking to be apart of the fam.

Check out our website (in my signature below) and send me or Nyn a whisper in game!

Hey Monstoar!

First off, which server are you on? Not a deal breaker, but it would be most beneficial to find a guild on your server.

I run a guild on Tarnished Coast, it’s a growing PvX guild. We have a lot of vets and new players as well, so you’d fit real well. We excel at teaching the basics all the way up to high end content.

Check us out and send me whisper

(website link in my sig below)

Welcome to the guild Magorvavitch!

Warrior and Mesmer! But I’m bias, those are my two favorites professions to play and they cover a wide range of styles, are fun and useful in all end game content. Warrior is easy to level up with, but Mesmer is difficult. It’s hard to kill things quickly as a young mesmer, but with a war by your side things will die fast.

Glad to have mistyrocks aboard as well. Welcome to GW2

Flytrap.8075:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

The megaserver concept seems to have been inspired by unsaid MMO about to launch. That MMO also has only 3 wvw teams(alliances). Not saying it’s good or bad. Just stating observations.

Thank you Captain Obvious.

Hrm. I think I’ll make that my new IGN.

The megaserver concept seems to have been inspired by unsaid MMO about to launch. That MMO also has only 3 wvw teams(alliances). Not saying it’s good or bad. Just stating observations.

@ King Amadaeus.8619

I agree and I think we are thinking the same thing. Server identity is huge and should remain. I’m hinting at the weekly match up changing to an alliance match up, as you would call it. So when you hop into wvw it’s your servers instance, unless that instance is full, in that case the mega tech would start putting ppl from your server on an under populated instance etc.

And maybe twice a year this could pause for the normal tournys.

Flytrap.8075:

Do not want.

I’m not asking if it’s wanted. Im stating a simple prediction off of the current changes. If the megaserver fixes under populated pve maps, It’s reasonable to draw the conclusion that anet would use the same tech to help under/over populated wvw servers while unifying the overall community.

The next two blog posts may shed some light.

I loved math in school, specifically geometry and proofs. When I see a post like the Megaserver System my mind auto starts processing/predicting future progress/pros/cons/effectiveness etc. And I have a few predictions as to the progression of this thought process.

1. Servers for PvE and PvP will basically no longer exist.
2. Therefore servers will mostly be tied to the wvw community only.
3. Currently there is a HUGE gap in the wvw skill lvl of servers, causing good ones to get over populated and vice versa.
4. Solution: merge the entire wvw community into 3, more balanced equal sides…
5. …similarly to how edge of the mist is…

My prediction is that the wvw battle will simple be blue/green/red with a lot of instances, and the megaserver tech will pick one for you, the same as it would for pve. No more queue, ever. I think server rankings will determine which color a server is on. So people won’t need to hop servers for wvw because each server will be fighting with the help of 1/3 of the servers.

So, am I a genius or just crazy?

TL;DR WvW matchups will be like EotM.

Welcome aboard Kerr!

I’m not an RPer, but when I read the blog, my first thought was how this would affect the RP community

I’m on TC and we have a good RP community, while I don’t RP I do enjoy seeing them around and eves dropping

In all honesty I’m sure anet is concerned too, but no one, not even anet, will know the the extent of the ramifications, if any, this change will bring. We just have to try it to find out. It sounds like they’ve worked hard to develope a system that is intuitive, so I say let’s try it out. Who knows, you may end up with even more RPers than before!

I think they should lower the dragon rank requirement from ~9 million rank points down to ~1 million rank points. And maybe add a death match map.

1. Anet is a large company, it takes time for the bosses to formulate an official response.
2. Formulating a response could depend on many factors from many departments on how to proceed.
3. They most likely won’t respond/change their minds until AFTER they at least release the patch.
4. GW1 let you wear clothes over armor, but they clothes were all or nothing, full body (minus helm).
5. Even if anet wants to make clothes inner changeable over top armor, that will require TONS of work. So don’t expect anything soon.

Xzaander.4123:

When I saw the title of this I first thought that it was about the bobbleheads being unrealistic. So I laughed hard at the thought that someone would really point that out.

Just needed to say that.

On-topic: Fully agree.

/sinister laugh

And for those that say it does break immersion, just blame it on Queen Jenna and her jedi mesmer mind tricks!

To think that any update, much less an april fools day one, would satisfy 100% of the community. In fact, if that did happen, I would question the sanity of our community

I personally have enjoyed the sillyness and look forward to this day every year. But I realize it’s not for everyone, and those players have valid opinions. So I’d like to remind everyone to keep things in perspective. For those of you that haven’t enjoyed it, I’m sorry, this patch just wasn’t for you. For those of us that have enjoyed it, don’t beat others up for not having your same taste in humor!

~ You stay classy San Diego!

Tonight is dungeon tour night: 10 dungeons in ~2 hours > 20 gold and 650 tokens. Looking for more pro (and friendly) runners to join us!

I’d love to have bag slot unlocked account wide.

The wallet is account wide and so are additional bank tabs and material slot increases.

I’d actually buy bag slots if they were account wide.

…AND Damian! Glad to have you both.

BluePheonix.8972:

That reference makes me want to cry xD. Plan to PM next time I manage to get online

Welcome to the guild Blue

They still need gold sinks.

Armor repair mostly affected new players, and they don’t have much gold to start with.

WP fees mostly affect veteran players, as we have unlocked the map, and we have gold enough to afford it.

Haha, do it!!!

And welcome SolomonLight Glad to have you on board.

And Eclipse! Love your armor and looking forward running dungeon tours and wvw with you later this week

Welcome to the guild, Juste!

This was my first thought as well as soon as the traits stuff came out. If it’s not in the pipelines already, it should be.

1. I’m constantly swapping builds depending on what I’m playing (wvw, dungeons, eotm, pve, JPs)
2. Players are always asking what build they should run for certain content. A template would make to so much easier to show them.
3. Players come up with builds and ask for feedback. This would help a ton with that.

Doerges, just reviewed your application and sent you a guild invite. Looking forward to chatting soon, welcome to XPRS!

Welcome Sophie Gifu to the guild!

New website ^ now recruiting speed runners!