Guild Wars 2

It depends on the price.

Sadly, GW2 has one of the most ridiculously high priced cash shop on the market, so I would probably not buy them because of that.

My feeling is that the next LS season will be like the previous one. It will only serves as a sales pitch for their next expansion.

You can probably expect the next LS to appear late this spring, or more likely early this fall, followed by some months of beta weekends for the expansion’s pre-purchasers to finally culminate with the expansion’s release.

In the meantime, to keep players busy, they will give us their recurring special events like Dragonbash, Halloween, Queen’s Gauntlet, quarterly game updates, PVP tournaments, etc….

from : https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/winter-quarterly-update-preview-on-guild-chat-a-summary/

Gliding isn’t available in Player vs. Player or World vs. World right now,

So, is the “right now” implying it will be implemented one day, sooner or later, and that they are working on it?

Tommyknocker.6089:

As you are not on the design team you don’t know if they have worked out a way for it to work.

I would prefer to see them work on something more important like fixing bugs, finishing raid paths, legendary weapon acquisition, fixing WvW problems, adding new fractals, ect…..

Brag some more.

I would not be surprised if they were to abandon the concept of regular release of living story to concentrate on regular release of expansions packs instead.

Creating LS requires a lot of work for very little return economically, while an expansion pack require a little bit more work, but is much more profitable moneywise.

If one class has something gated behind a hard to complete event, then to be fair to every players, each class should also have something gated behind that same event.

If they ever add a new race, you can forget anything that is not humanoid.

If they were to add centaur or quaggan, for example, they would need to redo a new version of each and every armor piece that exists in the game. The current models don’t fit a non-humanoid template.

This would be way too much work for very little gain. Never going to happen.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Mordrem Invasion Update:

• Those who earned rewards and did not receive them will be given their rewards. This could take several days, so please allow time this to happen.

I hope the NPC that exchanges the blooms will still be there after those “several days”

Go Play Warrior

Useless as usual

Bwha! Ha! Ha! (reaction of every other classes when facing a chrono)

Nerf please. Period.

And while you guys are happy to have the nerf bat hit heavily on the Chrono, the Tempest get another boost on almost everything, and not by small numbers…..

•Cyclone – Increased damage by 20%.
•Sand Squall – Now a blast finisher.
•Lightning Orb – Increased damage by 36%.
•Wildfire – Increased damage by 32%.
•Overload Air – Increased damage by 30% and increased the radius of effect from 240 to 360.
•Overload Earth – Increased damage by 50% and increased the immobilize upon end from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
•Overload Fire – Increased the damage by 20% and increased the duration of burning applied per pulse from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
•Overload Water – Increased the amount that healing power affects pulsed healing by 400%. Increased the final heal value by 50%.

Enjoy your nerfs, for me the Mesmer is now an even more useless class than it was before.

Good work Mr. Gee. What will be next nerf on us? I wish Irenio CalmonHuang would be put in charge of mesmers….

Nerfs, nerfs and more mesmers nerfs.

And at the same time, you boost almost everything on the revenant and the reaper.

Good job.

You’ve been using that nerf bat on the mesmers for 3 years now, making us an almost useless class. How about leaving the mesmer alone and use that nerf bat on some other class for a few years?

They are probably too busy finding other ways to nerf the mesmer class than to fix this major bug.

Not even ONE critical hit on Shatterer with longbow or shortbow.

Another disguised ranger nerf I guess?

TY Anet, we needed that…..

Josh Davis.6015:

If it feels really weak after this we’ll come back to it and look at it again.

To nerft it even more?

Anyways, as Peters said, we’re keeping a really close eye on everything right now

Everything except the Ele as I can see…..

Why don’t you save yourself a lot of trouble and go delete the mesmer class instead of nerfing us everytime you have the chance?

The max number of players a guild can have is 500.

Can all 500 will be able to enter the guild hall at the same time?

If not, how much is the max?

If there is a max, what happens when the max is reached? You enter another instance of the hall? You enter a queue?

How many players will be able to take part in the assault to take control of a guild hall? If not all members can take part in it, will it be replayable for those unable to enter the instance because of the players’ limit?

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

In marketing, what you say is irrelevant.

What matters is what potential customers perceive from what you said.

And clearly, people perceive that they are buying the core game a second time when they buy HoT. You have 3000+ messages posted in the last 24 hours or so in this thread that proves it.

You may say the contrary as much as you want. Your message is not going to pass through.

If you ( meaning Anet) don’t modify your positions, it may hurt you (meaning Anet) a lot in the long term.

62$ Canadian for an extension?

I skip

If that’s the case, then they can as well delete those skills entirely from the list.

They were already not much used, if they are static no one will bother to use them.

That mean they would be useful at a few specific times, when the fight are static and last more than a few seconds.

In PvE that would be against some bosses, champions and some dynamic events. Most players will not bother and will equip skills that are useful everywhere instead.

Why does Anet hates Rangers so much?

Dante.1763:

Well, if they follow anything like they did with GW1 guild halls, there will be more than one to pick.

Myself think we will only have one choice in HoT, and that additionnal Guild Hall themes will be sold in the cash shop.

What is this horror supposed to represent?

Only “fix” I found for this bug :

Disconnect manually and go to your char select screen as soon as you have looted everything. Connect back with your char and you should still have your loot / daily credit.

I was in that massive disconnect at Shatterer as well.

May I suggest you do some testing before you release a patch? There are so many bugs that were included with this patch it is ridiculous.

When I go to the “Sell item” panel, and when I sort the items in my inventory by price, the order is messed.

Instead of sorting item by increasing or decreasing value, they are sorted by the value of the first number in the price.

For example this is the prices order for items in my inventory when sorted by prices from lowest to highest:

1 s 23c
20 c
2s 25c
27s 75c
3s 89c
6c
8s 30c
9c
91c

Nothing game breaking, but a little annoyance.

Same. It’s on their side, not yours, so don’t worry.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The game makes shards as needed to handle the population on a map.

There is a limit on the number of megaserver the total servers can accommodate.

Their current test server can certainly not accept all those who would flood it if they were to make an open beta.

Thaia.5146:

You realise that many people won’t buy the expansion if they don’t get in the beta right?

You realise there were no open beta for GW2, and that did not prevented the game to sell a couple of million copies.

Kaz.5430:

You realise, that once we get closer to the release of HoT, there will ‘most probably’ be a fully open beta?

You realise it’s very unlikely they will do a full open beta. It’s doubtful they will put online enough servers only for that. And even if they do an open beta, it will be only on a few servers with ridiculously long queues.

And it’s even more unlikely they will do an open beta on the regular servers. Too much risk to have something go wrong that would compromise the live game.

heartless.6803:

I’m just saying a lot of people aren’t entirely sure what Magic Find even does. There is a lot inaccuracies in statistics that doesn’t measure out about loot drops in the high end tier of items.

Trouble is people did not really looked at what MF does with a low drop rate to begin with.

For example, an item with a droprate of 0.001% drop without MF = 0.005% with 500% MF.

The increase in droprate is so small it’s almost not noticeable.

They say this on the FAQ ( https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/91220997?_ga=1.78069648.58123725.1379413748 ) : (read the part in bold)

If I didn’t get into this beta, can I still get in to later ones?

Yes! We’ll be expanding the size of the pool of beta testers for future tests. We selected a small number of testers for the first round from our newsletter subscribers. Our next test will use this method as well as the “Portal to the Heart of Maguuma,” an in-game item which has a chance to drop from enemies in Dry Top and the Silverwastes. Players who find this item and are signed up for our mailing list are guaranteed a spot in the next closed beta test!. So, if you want a chance to be in the next group of testers, you can sign up for the newsletter here. Make sure you sign up using the same e-mail address that you use for your game account.

So, apparently you need to drop a portal AND be a subscriber to their newsletter to have a guaranteed access to the next beta. If you have not done so yet, I strongly suggest you do it now if you got a portal.

MarkBecks.6453:

all I’m saying is it should work like WvW, no activity, warnings and a kick from the map to allow active players to keep the RNG numbers rolling, that would give you more chance.

I understand your point and it make sense. I always wondered myself why this was not implemented for PvE maps as well. It would help reduce unnecessary overflow/megaservers maps.

Sorin.4310:

I don’t have the CE, but frankly I don’t care how people get into a closed beta if an open beta is also scheduled.

I doubt there will be an open beta for an expansion.

They would need to set up way too many test servers to accommodate all those who would want to enter it.

They were able to make public beta tests for GW2 because they had the infrastructure available for it. Most of the test servers were likely turned to official servers when the game went live. They don’t have all those test servers available anymore now.

And I doubt they would make an open beta on the actual game servers. if something goes wrong with the beta , they would be in deep trouble and need to do a rollback. And no one wants a rollback.

sTiLz.9712:

It’s very possible that Anet are using metrics to decide who has a higher chance to get drops based upon groups and subsets of groups that fall within certain criteria they wish to test for the beta.

For example :- A: 1000 players age 15-21, B: 1000 players age 22-30, C: 500 players age 31-40, 200 players age 41+

And how can they know their players’ ages?

MarkBecks.6453:

the drops should be higher for people doing the event from start to finish

Players who do an event from start to finish kills more mobs, and thus have more opportunities to drop something than those who do less.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Taking the beta portal as example, it should drop guaranteed once a player kills 3,500 mobs(could be adjusted) that spawn in the Maaguma wastes. That way players who get it luckily get to relax, and the others can eventually have a reward for their hard work.

And they end up with way too many players with portals, so they need to make a draw between all of them, and thus raising even more QQing than presently.

Another trouble with your suggestion is that it will reward the nolife who can play 24 hours a day to the detriment of those who have obligations oustide the game.

If it was not intended a sa reward then the question that comes to mind is : why are they not upgrading to Heroic edition all the old accounts that many players still have?

DaShi.1368:

How do you know that it is truly random?

The results so far appears to be consistent with what the drops should be for an item with a low drop rate.

DaShi.1368:

A truly random system would be fair. That’s why it is usually preferred.

Then GW2 loot system is fair, since it is truly random.

In a truly random system for something hard to obtain, many will get nothing, some will get once and a few will get more than once. Which is exactly what we see so far.

If you have proofs it is not truly random, please post them here.

It’s not a new game, it’s only an expansion.

I guess that if you were able to play the living story chapters on Mac, HoT will be playable on it too.

Leo G.4501:

Wouldn’t it be better to, at the very least, flag an account if they already have a portal

Meaning they must add code, test it to make sure it does not affect other drops for those accounts. That’s a lot of work for only a beta test allocation. Much easier to add something to a drop table that is proven to work since 2 and a half year.

if for no other reason than to make it look like your loot tables aren’t completely out of your control?

They are working perfectly well. What would make me doubt about their loot table would be if no one dropped portals more than once on an account.

Around here we have a lottery. You have something like 1 chance on 14.000.000 to win the jackpot. The same guy won it twice. Quite frankly, someone dropping 5 portals is not even surprising me…

DaShi.1368:

The issue is discussed in numerous other threads. I suggest you take it there.

Case dismissed. You spoke through your hat when you pretended there was a reason to suspect randomness is not truly random in this game.

There is none in fact and you don’t want to admit it.

DaShi.1368:

See all the threads on it. I’ve stated my opinion on the topic.

Why are you so reluctant to answer?

I’m not going to search all over the forum for your answer. If you cannot answer here, it’s because you have none to provide.

Once again : what reason makes you suspect that randomness in this game might not be truly random?

DaShi.1368:

Sorel.4870:

DaShi.1368:

Randomness is supposed to be fair. However, there is reason to suspect that things might not be truly random.

Yeah? What reason? You didn’t get one? That’s not a compelling argument.

I’m just making a point. I haven’t even attempted to get the portal stone. It has no interest to me other than the extra rewards beta players might get. Frankly, I find your accusations against me insulting. I suggest you get your facts right before your start attacking someone or just stop being so hostile in general.

You are not answering the question : what reason makes you suspect randomness is not really random in the game?

DaShi.1368:

100% agree with this. It was a bad move on their part and a slap in the face to the rest of us.

Speak for yourself, I don’t feel slapped at all.

timmyf.1490:

I think the portals should have dropped from a wider variety of game locations/modes.

That could have been made, but then they would have to reduce the drop rate somewhat : more players having a chance to drop it, but not more beta spot available.

timmyf.1490:

GrandHaven.1052:

I know, lets give everyone beta access!

/sarcasm

Literally nobody is saying this.

Well, everyone who complains here on the forums say they should have a portal because of this or that….

John.8507:

Its not all fair because it seems that theres a higher percentage chance that it drops for some people and not others, there might not be or it could just be “luck”, or it could be down to a MF mistake?

Of course it’s not fair. Randomness is never fair, because it’s randomness. The only fair way to do it would have been to give one portal to every account in the game, but it was not possible for a CLOSED beta.

Black Box.9312:

Yes it is. The intention and the contents are both irrelevant. Players who were invited to participate in the beta received a bonus item that players who were not picked for the beta did not receive, and that’s poor practice.

Ok, read careful and try to understand…

1 – There are/were various types of editions for this game. At one time there was one type of edition called “Digital Edition”. That edition is now discontinued and no new account can be made for it (keep this in mind, it’s important for later.)

2 – When you are chosen for a beta, you game edition is changed to a beta edition (or whatever name they give it). This game edition add an additional beta character slot to the account.

3 – To make sure those players who took part in the first beta cannot enter the next one (it would be unfair for them to take the spots of those who farmed for so long to get a portal, right?), they must make sure to remove their beta character slot. The best way to do it is to downgrade the beta testers’ game edition to their previous ones.

4 – So, players with Heroic Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition and Collectors Edition have theirs returned to their previous state. Now remember what I told you at point 1 : the Digital Edition is discontinued and no new accounts can be made for it. What happens to the players who had this game edition previous to it being promoted to Beta edition? It cannot be brought back to Digital Edition, since no new account can be made for it (and yes, changing a game edition is the same as creating a new account for the game database)

5 – They had two choices : bring back the Digital Edition (very complicated), or promote those who had Digital Edition to the next one available in line : Heroic edition (easy to do).

6 – They then choose this way of doing things. One side effect of promoting those accounts was that they received the benefit of upgrading an account to the next best one : they got the Suit of Legacy Armor, one Mithril Box and 10 Experience Boosters. (and quite frankly, beside the suit or armor, it’s nothing really valuable)

7- If they did their things right, no one who already had the Heroic, Digital Deluxe or Collector edition should have received the box (since they already got those when they bought their games). I’m not certain about this, so if someone who was in the beta and had one of those game edition can confirm they did not received it?

So, no, it was not a reward. If it was, all those who took part in the beta test would have received the same reward, which is apparently not the case.

(and if you want to know, I too have the digital edition, I have not taken part in the beta event and I did not received that heroic chest and I don’t much care if a few players got it because of what happened. It’s not as if they received a legendary weapon or a full set of ascended armor…)

Black Box.9312:

It’s still just rewarding people that were in the randomly sampled beta test.

It’s NOT a reward…