Guild Wars 2

skullmount.1758:

I just downloaded and logged back in, yet:

•Hid blank world-event UI for Temple of the Silent Storm Week

didn’t do anything. I still have the the star thing and it still doesn’t say anything.

Nemui.6753:

one that caught my eye:

“Adjusted Orr Undead loot drops”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-January-28-2013/first#post1326255

I saw that too. Of course they didn’t specify how much/what they actually changed. Most likey it was nerfed in someway, yet they probably don’t want to say that.

yeah, mines still there as well.

I am digging the new auto-play on the launcher.

I am downloading the patch now.

It was about 50mb.

I just want to say thank you Arenanet. I encountered that lava bug this morning and it had my whole party raging. I’m really glad you fixed it so quick. Really beyond expectations. Keep it up!

Edit: I also do not think I downloaded a patch. It kicked me out of wvw a few minutes ago but I didn’t see it download. Just kinda assumed it was a small one that happened too quick before I could catch it.

They need to stop focusing on new content and just dedicate one month to strictly class balancing and bug fixing.

I completely agree. These are kinds of quality life improvements we need.

Pretty sure no developer actually reads this thread.

ChillyChinaman.6057:

Still no fractal love since pets don’t have agony resistance yet.

Have they even acknowledged this is an issue yet? Seems downright negligent to the ranger profession as a whole. Our pets(stated by them) are supposed to do a portion of our damage yet we don’t even have agony resistance for them.

I went naked one day and I do not recall seeing rings on my characters fingers. Is it the same with the new ascended rings and amulets? If so, what is the point of having multiple different names and icon graphics for identical stat items?

FacesOfMu.3561:

I agree with the OP. If I ever become a dev, I think I’ll learn to avoid general forums other than the bugs forum after a new patch.
The problems people see seem to blind them from the strengths the game has.

That’s why you need to put on your kevlar gear bro and tough it out. Community feedback is good for the game, even if it’s negative and not really constructive.

klesk.1790:

Ever since Fractals and Ascended Gear came out, everything is becoming a complete mess.

Its sad how the game is becoming more complicated. Som people were right…fotm-ascended gear should of never made it to GW2 period. End of story

I really have to agree with this.

lots of little things. Some boss encounters have been modified, etc.

So I’ve completed 4/5 of my daily achievements and all that is left is the daily gatherer. It says I need to collect 20 gatherings to complete it. Does this mean I have to find 20 resource nodes through the world? Anyone have any tips for completing this?

Thanks!

Agadar.4931:

Changing something like this should take five minutes at most.

They really do only have two people taking care of stuff like this.

My thoughts exactly.

I think everyone has a different build. You just have go for what works with your play-style. For me:

I run 6/6 rune of earth for survivabilty plus a nice shield that deflects all projectiles when I’m low health.

I run 30/25/10/0/5

I have eagle eye, steady focus, SoBM, pets prowress, quick draw, and wilderness knowledge.

I run LB/GS. GS is def a must for me because of the number 3 swoop ability. Great for evading or catching up to enemies running away.

I use healing spring, QZ, SOW, SOS, and RAO. I also use bear(condition removal), polarbear(chill). I will explore using drake because they were just buffed today.

The most important aspect of any build is synergy. Make sure you have it.

For exotic gear I would go power, precision, critical damage. I have power precision toughness right now but am thinking of switching to the former.

Chopps.5047:

I don’t want to be mean or anything but you’re wrong.

Just checked in-game. Says 10 percent.

Ursan.7846:

Well, the speed boost is 25%. I guess they just forgot to fix the tooltip.

This would be an understandable explanation but it’s been like this for a month now. It was one of the first threads from the last update(the one where velocity of arrows increased+pet stickiness). It’s been repeated in the stickied bug thread god knows how many times. Do they even look at that thread?

It seems like no resources when into balancing/bug fixing for the ranger this update. How hard could it be to change something so simple as this?

Gorwe.9672:

No.

But VG gives you a reson to grind(don’t forget they are the makers of EQ!). GW 2 doesn’t. Besides, VG is almost fully f2p now-all PvE and RPG fans owe it to themselves to at least try it.

Simple as that.

Edit: TSW sounds awesome. Will buy that shortly with my two books(Warhammer High Elves!!!!! <3 <3).

No soe did not develop everquest 1. They developed everquest 2 which absolutely did not live up to it’s predecessor, as well as myriad blunders: swg, the ruining of PS1 post development, the mess that is PS2. I will never play a game developed by soe. (exception would be ps1 when it goes f2p because that game is amazing and is balanced now, though noone plays it currently.

Agadar.4931:

BroScientist.9875:

Well, here’s to another month of anticipation waiting for those “significant ranger improvements” we were promised oh so many months ago..

He never said ‘significant improvements’. He said ‘significant changes’.

Pet’s abilities no longer being reset upon swapping it is one of the first changes.

Prepare for many more like it.

JonPeters.5630:

There are some bugs being fixed and quality of life improvements coming in the next patch, as well as some other significant ranger improvements. I would Literally tell you but I think it would be considered a bit of a spoiler so you will have to be patient.

Jon

Agadar.4931:

BroScientist.9875:

Well, here’s to another month of anticipation waiting for those “significant ranger improvements” we were promised oh so many months ago..

He never said ‘significant improvements’. He said ‘significant changes’.

Pet’s abilities no longer being reset upon swapping it is one of the first changes.

Prepare for many more like it.

Um, no he said “significant improvements”. Don’t know what you’re talking about.

Gorwe.9672:

Well, I reckon that I got my $60 worth of gametime.

For all of you wondering how the Real MMO looks and plays like-do yourself a favour and go play Vanguard(if you are into PvE). If you are into PvP-EvE.

This Game’s quickly becoming a f2p Korean grinder…

Heard Vanguard was terrible and is on it’s last legs(if it’s not dead already), but it’s made by soe so what do you expect?

But anyway, I wouldn’t mind the grind half as much if there were daily/monthly achievements to get back and visit old zones again. This just seems way way too grindy and has left a bad taste in my mouth.

Though I have heard some say the daily achievements will be different from day to day, so here’s to hoping we will still be incentivized to visit old zones.

Really, really sad they didn’t give any incentives to visit old zones again. I was really looking forward to that.

I’ve noticed this as well, but doubt it will ever be fixed.

Well, here’s to another month of anticipation waiting for those “significant ranger improvements” we were promised oh so many months ago..

Yeah, this is ridiculous. It was the same deal for the seasonal story lines. I want it gone.

I agree, there should definitely be a public test server. To not have one in this day and age, especially with as many copies GW2 has sold it absolutely ridiculous.

How many slots does ascended gear have? I recall it just being one. So if it’s one then that means every time we want to run a fractal we have to replace our infusion that doesn’t have AR with one that does?

I see a lot of people saying you don’t really need to craft and you can instead “refine” to complete it. What does this mean? How do I go about refining things???

Well, being that a server transfer would only be needed for wvw I think it’s a fair price. If you don’t want to pay you can always use the new guesting feature.

Chessrook.8643:

For those complaining about the daily… you DO realize that dailies are going to change now, right? Don’t like this daily? Skip it and do tomorrow’s.

Is this true? This is great news because I despise crafting and will avoid it at all costs.

I’ve never crafted in any game in my life. Can someone please explain how I can go about completing the daily crafting achievement in the simplest way possible?(pretend I’m new to GW2 and make sure it’s the easiest way path to complete the achievement).

Thanks!

Parisalchuk.9230:

Here is what I dont understand. From GW1’s twitter:

Guild Wars ?@GuildWars
A reminder that the Canthan New Year starts Thursday at noon Pacific (GMT -8) and ends on Thursday, February 7 at noon Pacific (GMT -8) ^SL

That was posted 10 minutes ago. Look at that everyone, specific times with conversion to GMT. Why is it so hard to do for GW2? I dont think we are being unreasonable at all in wanting to know when an update is going to go live.

Because it’s GW1 and those updates have probably been repeating for years now. This update is new and unexpected things can happen between now and release so it’s best for them to not give a time, otherwise there will be a kitten storm if there is a delay.

I will use guesting extensively so your prediction is wrong.

For dungeons I always go full 30 markanship(particularly for SOS 6 sec infuln so it affects me as well), 30 in wilderness survival and the rest in nature magic.

Toughness is paramount for dungeons in my opinion. You do not want to get glass cannon-save that for wvw. Also, I like to have QZ equipped for quick reviving.

Benkei.6293:

BroScientist.9875:

Benkei.6293:

that statement is completely unreasonable, your patch releases contain hundreds of bugs and errors which you still have to be fixed later on, so releasing the information does not affect in any different way as the bugs and errors you are already including, if you dont want to release the information right now, then atleast come up with better excuses.

If you don’t like how Arenanet operates then play a different game. Simple as that.

operates the game? do you even read what you type, is not about how they operate the game, is about how they handle the information, like the 40 megabyte patch they did a couple of days ago in which they never revealed what it contained.

beside some members of the community that lack of common sense or knowledge about topics that are being talked about, (like you) the game is pritty much fine

Please tell me where I said “operates the game?” Obviously I was talking about how Arenanet operates in relation to releasing patch/notes and that would be clear to anyone who entered this thread.

Like I said, if you don’t like how they operate then move on to a different game. They can’t release the notes right this second because things may change last minute. They can’t give specific times because if they’re late by just one hour then people will have a kitten storm.

Benkei.6293:

that statement is completely unreasonable, your patch releases contain hundreds of bugs and errors which you still have to be fixed later on, so releasing the information does not affect in any different way as the bugs and errors you are already including, if you dont want to release the information right now, then atleast come up with better excuses.

If you don’t like how Arenanet operates then play a different game. Simple as that.

All these threads/posts are to me, essentially “BLAH BLAH BLAH I’m an entitled gamer and I expect the patch release to align with MY timezone and MY schedule.”

My god people, they said the 28th so it will release on the 28th. They can’t give specific times because if they’re off by just one hour people will have a kitten storm.

You guys are ridiculous. You want to know up to the minute/hour information on the update. Well they don’t know! It could release in 8 hours from now. Or maybe 6 hours. When it’s done it will be released. If they came on here and said “oh expect it at 12pm est” and if it’s just one hour late there will be a kitten storm.

And to whoever said they only update their information on twitter and not the forums, that is just a downright lie. They update everything on the forums. Thetr is an announcement page on the right side of the screen for everything.

By the nature of the word unofficial I would think that would have to be decided by the community. Similar to how TC is the unofficial RP server.

Dingle.2743:

This is just speculation, but:

Given the nature of the changes to Daily achievements, I’m going to assume that ANet are aiming to release the update at midnight GMT, when the Daily achievements get reset.

There haven’t been any announcements along the lines of “the update will be released in an hour” or anything like that, so I’m doubting it’ll be half an hour from now, i.e. the next daily achievement reset, so probably it’ll be 24 and a half hours from now. If you’re in GMT or any further east, that may as well be the 29th, but it’d be around 4PM PST, and as has been noted, ANet function in PST, so they’d still be meeting their announcement of an update on the 28th.

…Kinda hoping I’m wrong and it releases earlier, because my logic has just told me to stop looking forward to an update tonight. We’ll see.

I would think they would want to get the update out a bit earlier so everyone has a chance to download plus it would give everyone fair time to get the daily achievement upon reset. Also allow for leeway in case of delays etc. Even then I still have a feeling it will most likely be 24 hours from now.

Still have GW1 installed. I play it now and again for nostalgia purposes.

jkctmc.8754:

I almost want to reroll my Ranger, and Guardian, and make them Asuran for Pain Inverter.

An ability on such a short cooldown that can do over 6000 damage, or at worst stop someone from attacking you for 5 seconds is huge.

Wow, just did some research on PI and seems really useful. Wish I had it on my human ranger now

Essentially our class is gimped because we have pets.

Wow! Way to get my hopes up

Yeah, it’ll probably go live sometime tomorrow night.

Crossfire works amazingly well with me. I am running two 4890’s and I get almost double the performance with it enabled. Just the other day I forgot to enable CF before playing and I immediately noticed the difference. GW2 is the only game that I get noticeably better performance with it enabled. All other games it is a stuttery mess.

I will cry if we get nerfs.

Unspecified.9142:

Karizee.8076:

Patch notes are always posted directly after the patch goes live. You can find them here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news

It’s actually up to an hour after the patch goes live so if they aren’t there immediately just be patient. The notes always go up in the section of the forums linked by Karizee shortly after the patch.

Patch is coming tonight or the 28th I thought?

I agree about open-world pvp. It’s fun and adds an interesting mechanic to leveling/exploring but I cannot possibly see how they could have implemented it with the lore/story because there are no factions.

The only way I could see them implementing it is to force all zones outside of major cities into overflows that way other server players would turn into enemies and be able to kill you at any time. Though this would completely detract from the whole community feel though, such as helping others and joining in on quests to take down a veteran or champion.

Just don’t really see how they could implement it in a logical working manner to be honest.