Guild Wars 2

Instead of counting the number of kills, let it be objectives ranging from simple tasks such as killing dolyaks to bigger things like taking over stonemist allowing it to be completed no matter whether you run with a big zerg or you do guerilla tactics solo.

Well as for the sylvari, remember the tree dragon in the dream when in the sylvaris intro? I would be greatly suprised if there wasnt a dragon connected to them somehow. I wish trahearn was a dragon so I could kill him but thats another story.

I still see alot of lfg for low level fractals in lions arch. They did propose a different system however, with difficulty tiers. 1-9, 10-19 etc where you can run any level within your tier. Dont remember where I read that post but its around somewhere.

Making it accountbased would do a great deal as well.

They have said that they want to implement a way to do story parts again. I really hope they will, especially if they fix certain bugs and plot holes etc.

Its probably the very same bug that has been there since release.. Im suprised it isnt fixed yet. It mostly happens when there are alot of things going on, like a wvw zerg for example.. or in lions arch/lost shores during the karka event/halloween.

Setting neutral mobs as lowest priority for both tab targeting and autotargeting would do wonders. At least its a start. Never seen it target items though (like nodes etc).

I’d prefer if they had something like “Do 5 dungeon runs or 7 fractals” as monthly instead of fractals, or make both count. Or as someone said, have several ways to earn the monthly, and only require you to do 3-4 of them to complete it… the salvage/monthly xp survivor dont ever need to come back however.

I count myself lucky if I find even one dye drop during a day.

Gwartham Haldane.8459:

Why when I come here I don’t feel like I am playing the same game as you all are?

You do realize the 50 kills in WvW doesn’t mean 50 solo kills right? RIGHT?

It takes at most 20 minutes in one run to get the achieve if that’s all your there for. Hell just run in the zerg and AOE spam is all you have to do.

Can you say the same thing as far as fractals?

Looks I honestly could care less, remove WvW and fractals from the monthly, just dont compare the 2 achievements as equal please, your argument falls apart at that point.

50 kills in 20 minutes? Sure, if you are of the right profession at the right time on the right place on the right server with little lag. If you dont have the right profession. If the stars dont align it can take hours. Especially for those of us that dont do much wvw.

That being said, I dont mind that the monthly has both fractals and wvw kills, I’ll do both anyway.

Some people say that skipping the oozes can bug him, so make sure to kill them just in case.

It does seem to unbug temporarily for some people in some zones. At one point I was getting good drops in the personal story and timberline falls.. that lasted until the server reset. That was a good while ago though. Since then its just been crap again.

Fotm seems to be the only place thats working correctly lootwise at the moment. Open world? Not so much…

There is no point to achievement points, achievment points do not matter. So if he has 15k achievement points, does it matter? Why care how much anyone has.

Oh there are healers and tanks, but they are not the type of healers and tanks other mmo’s have. Someone trying to facetank something will most likely end up dead and any “healer” will not be able to keep up with the damage. Optimally, everyone will adding in on the healing and tanking in whatever way they can.

Not only did that thread consist of 5 people (4 if not counting the moderator), but half the posts were for fotm, which is exactly what this issue isnt about.

I do group with people sometimes in the open world when they ask for help. Sometimes I help, but do not group with the people that ask for help. And rarely I group with people for doing hearts and skillpoints etc but it mostly ends up with them running off to somewhere else. Now if I join a group that says “lets do this” and then they do something completely different and run off in random directions.. thats annoying. Thats another reason I dont group for open world aside from the whole “In my own time/pace/whatever”.

There is a thread reporting increased droprates? Anyway, this is beyond bad luck. This is a bug (or intended, but I hope anet arent that dumb).

He is boring and uninspirational. I dont understand why anyone would follow him. Suprised half the pact doesnt fall asleep during his speeches.

Indeed, and its certainly not just a perceived issue but an actual one, which I seriously doubt is intended. Something must have gone terribly wrong with the change to loot in the lost shores patch.

Loot from non-fractal dungeon chests also seem to be the same or worse than before, something which also was ment to have been improved in the lost shores patch giving people even less incentive to run the old dungeons.

This bug needs a fix asap.

They dont need to add yellow snowballs, I can dye them myself thankyouverymuch!

What Im personally concerned about is when we get offensive infusions and how they will work.

As Ari said, the intentions might be good but after playing wow for a long time and seeing addons like recount and gearscore being developed and used in an elitist manner (not seldom by people who werent really up to par).

In order to get maximum enjoyment out of “vertical progression”, a player must be able to see the numerical increase in their effectiveness.

People have been enjoying themselves just fine, and did in other games as well even without any measure of dps. The problem with meters in guild wars 2 is that there is no holy trinity. There are so many other things to do to help the group rather than just blindly dpsing and healing aint that super. I doubt most people would need meters for maximum enjoyment. Maximum enjoyment =/= maximum dps.

You’d think that it was cheaper to port from orr to sothsun cove since its closer.

Lets hope recount and inspection or gearscore will never come to pass..

Im starting to get kind of pissed due to the fact that they havent said anything about it yet, apart from that little tidbit at the AMA. You’d think that they would prioritize something as important as this..

Normal is better than worse than normal of course, but I hope they fix so that it works as intended as in the lost shores patch notes. Lets hope they issue a fix for this asap. A hotfix wouldnt be uncalled for.. I mean they did that for the dye droprates (although the dye droprates probably were hurting their gemstore sales of dyes).

One last question from me if you have the time to ask it:

Is the loot bug, as seen in this thread intentional, are you aware of it and when can we see a fix? You fixed the droprate for dyes pretty quick but this has been a problem since after lost shores.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

Exploiting a bug to get an unfair advantage is a bannable offense.

Yep. Its still doable but incredibly annoying and should be fixed!

To keep it short: I like to do what I want, when I want it, in any way I want to, in my own pace.

The original question was “What can we see/has been confirmed for update notes tomorrow?”

Now read my answer to the question again. What I wrote was what I hope will be in the next set of patch notes. Not whats currently fixed.

I havent done this one personally on either of my two asura, but found a video of it, which might help, I dunno.

Oh yes. Dye droprates were decent earlier, then came the bug that made them drop really often.. so they hotfixed it.. to a point where they drop less than before the bug.

Champions are supposed to drop something every time since the lost shores patch. Something is however very messed up with that part atm and affecting drops across the board to be worse than before… you’ll be lucky to get a drop from a champion half the time.

Ive tried and tried and never once caught one, so on the other characters that have done this heart quest.. I’ve not bothered. The egg event seems to spawn pretty often, most of the time Ive filled up the heart with that.

Im pretty happy with the looks on all my 8 characters, however if they released new hairstyles, beards etc..

I dont mind that every enemy doesnt drop loot. And never at any point (except for the karka event in lost shores) have I killed enemies for 5 minutes without any loot at all.

As for instanced loot, Im seeing the same or worse drops as before they announced that it would be improved. Open world loot, most likely bugged.

Please make other places just as useful as LA with mystic forge and connected chat or better lfg!

He actually did show a tiny bit of emotion in a certain part of my mesmers storyline.. but that was not the real trahearne, just an illusion created by some mesmer servant of zhaitan.

Im hoping:

There was a bug with the new loot drops, this has now been fixed and loot should be better across the board again. Champions, veterans and chests should yield alot better loot as promised in the lost shores patch notes. Champions now always drop stuff.

Havent seen a black lion chest since during the lost shores event now that I think of it. And the thing about timerbline falls drops being better.. well, there were good drops there, well, that lasted until daily reset..

Oh and also, remember before the lost shores event, people were posting rares and exotic drops in the map chat alot when they had opened a dragon chest? Well, now you’ll be lucky to see even one person doing so.. wonder why hrm?

Dunno, Ive been playing since pre-release and Ive still lots of things to do! But I wouldnt mind giving more incentives for people to go out in the world instead of spamming LA chat like sheep for FoTM apart from possible a dragon quickie that doesnt give anything good most of the time (loot buff? HAH, might be a bug though.)

At least in timberline falls, it feels like drops have improved. 3 rares in under an hour.

Im hoping for non-gem town clothes to be earnable in some way (well, apart from event town clothes like the free witch hat etc).

I found the whole part about the two asura lovers that turned into golems particularly funny, and weird and kind of cute. Im hoping I’ll see them again in some part of an expanded storyline.

Agree on everything tybalt related, also the drugging the gladiator part in the order part of the sylvari storyline. Hilarious.

Do they really need to upgrade for new gears? My ranger is doing fine, even though she doesnt even have full lvl 80 gear yet or any exotics. Perhaps in a solo fight vs a full exotic she wont do as well, but in a team its perfectly fine.

Also, they did say that they would add more ascended gear and more ways of getting it. Im betting you’ll be able to get some ascended gear in wvw in the future as well.

At least its something. Something is better than nothing at all.

Now for the questions:

Will there be new hairs, beards etc added soon, and will there be a non gem-based way of changing a basic things like hairstyle?

How soon will you implement a way to re-customize your character?

Will there be any changes to the UI anytime soon. Like being able to resize/move windows that cannot be resized/moved at the moment. The bank/crafting UI is something that needs to be able to be resized, possibly decrease the size of the grid/icons.

Will there be a way to separate chat tabs into different windows?

Nomadic Reverie.2863:

I felt really bad after reading this post, because I felt so guilty. because when I first objected to the vertical progression it was maybe moslty because I was afraid of getting left behind. I had a hard time already in GW1 in many areas, so I guess most players want to have it to get lesser skillfull players out of the game. I didn’t wanted to ruin your game, and now I obviously have spent a lot of time wrecking your forum as well. Sorry.

Im thinking you ment to post this in an entirely different thread?

Not neccesarily. All thats really needed is for the client (depending how its built) to say to the server “Hey, I killed this, whatup?” and the server might respond “Ok, here is how much xp you get, and the thingie dropped loot”. “Ok, what loot?” the client asks. “This and that and some other thingamajig” the server responds.

Well, thats very silly and basic in how I belive it works, but you get the point. However, the server might need a restart before some changes start being active.

There will always be people running low difficulty fractals, despite what people say. There just wont be as many as before. Personally I will most likely only run fractals on my guardian and deposit any loot my alts can use, in my bank. (that might be due to my two other lvl 80s not having very good gear yet).