I agree with 4 only. But they ARE buffing the longbow on Dec. 14th, not sure if you know that or not. According to JP they will be increasing projectile speed.
Mine does this pretty much every time I open the launcher. Just assumed it was checking it had the necessary files to run. I think PlanetSide 2 does something similar. Although I could be wrong and these could be incremental updates, IDK.
Don’t worry too much about where you allocate you trait points. It’s pretty cheap to re-spec so feel free to try out any combination that you think suits your play-style. Stats are exactly what they sound like: power-how much damage you do, vitality-health, toughness-how much damage you can take, etc. Condition damage I think is how effective your condition skills are. I could be wrong though. Also, be sure to check out the long bow and signet of the hunt because on Dec. 14th it has been confirmed we will be getting buffs on at least those things. You will better be able to appreciate any changes AN makes.
This may be a bit off topic but does anyone have an idea how future expansions are going to work? I can understand them adding a new profession, because they did so in the previous Guild Wars 1 expansions and it wouldn’t detract from those who choose not to buy said expansion. An additional personal story campaign is an obvious element that they will undoubtedly include. But what about new wvw maps? New pvp maps? New game modes. More weapons, more skill-sets,better armor, more utilities, etc. Wouldn’t that detract from those who choose not to buy the expansions? Wouldn’t it fracture the community a bit? Possibly give an advantage to those who buy?Thoughts?
I actually like the use of the word “kitten.” It gives the forums and game character in my opinion. When I first started using these forums I thought users were typing the word out themselves, in relation to an aspect of the game. I like kittens and I don’t mind if AN substitutes our curse words with it.
US servers are very full, Arenanet needs to add some
And please, stop repeating disinformation:
“Full” means currently logged in players for that world, not accounts registered or anything else.
Source? Because judging by the dev post linked above, I think server populations are reported by the number of accounts currently residing there, regardless of whether they are logged in or not.
Are the server populations reported by number of accounts or by people actually playing? If it’s the latter then I don’t see why any server cleaning would need to be done. If it’s the former, well then that just doesn’t make sense.
go to the trinity fort in ORR, then u go to trahearnes headquaters.. Its the same place u went when u finished the story.. So over the submarine hatch thing and turn left to go to the closed doot, u should get an option to go to an instrance. then you talk to the qautermaster.
Completed story a few days ago, just realized I have a victory pact token in my inventory that someone said you can trade in for a “unique skin” or something? Thing is, I went to Fort Trinity and asked in map chat how I trade it in, and someone responded saying “I have to make another character” because the only way to trade it in is during the celebration instance. I already finished that and moved on. Is there anyway I can trade it in or am I out of luck? If so, I find it unfair because I never got a letter saying what to do. How was I supposed to know?
Wait, you’re telling me slow-motion when aggro’ed is a BUG and not normal? what! So rangers are the only classes that get slowed while trying to run through fields of mobs?? I honestly thought this was a game mechanic…
PlanetSide 2 actually has this exact same problem. You only render a certain number of players in your vicinity and anyone over that limit you just can’t see. The devs over there have acknowledged it and are working on it, granted it’s not 3 months after release for them, but ArenaNet is working on it and I’m confident they will have a solution, hopefully soon.
The only gripe I have about the bonuses is that the people who get them do not benefit from them.
The people who have to constantly WvW spend time and money in WvW and do not PvE often. Those that do PvE never help WvW.
To gain higher points so that the benefits get better, people have to sacrifice time to WvW. On Servers like FoW where there is a enormous population that do only PvE and reap the benefits of WvW folks efforts is quite sickening.
Absolutely ridiculous way they have designed the bonuses. Do WvW and get no rewards to get bonuses for people who do not help you….. yeah that sounds about right.
So wvw bonuses only affect pve? They don’t affect anyone playing wvw?
“Once we get a little closer to February we’ll have more that we can talk about publicly, so that’s going to inform our timeline as well”
To me, this sounds like hes saying.. In February we will announce our plans for a wvw change, but nothing will be ready or available IN February.
He probably doesn’t know yet man. I think there goal is to release in February but it’s not set in stone, because well anything could happen between now and then.
For now I’m perfectly fine using the external LFG website. Let ArenaNet take as much time as they want to implement their dungeon finder. But when it does release, I fully expect it to have a plethora of features such as sorting by server, dungeon, path, story, character descriptions, etc.
I meant significantly reduce it in relation to what it COULD be if it is turned on. I imagine if it’s implemented, trolls/or anyone really can easily whisper to the opposing team whatever the commander is relaying at a whim. I think this possible game breaking mechanic is not worth the features.
That goes both ways though, anything said over it can as well be false information.
This just blew my argument out of the water. I want this feature in now.
I believe we have a way to talk to our “Enemies” and that way is… wait for it……..
Forums. If we are open to talking to enemies in W3, You will have a lot of Nonsense in chat. You would have chat spam. And believe it or not, you will have people shouting out positions/strategies/Insults/and maybe random “GG’s” or “Nice fight” Imo it is fine the way it it. Id rather see the random /bow /wave even /laugh.
This would depend on how ArenaNet implements it. If it is a battle-ground wide chat mode that everyone sees, then yes, I would agree with you. If they implement a /yell chat like I’ve explained above^ then you would only be able to communicate with enemies in your surrounding vicinity. There would be much less spam that way.
Trash talking is a healthy aspect of any online game. It promotes server loyalty, bolsters relationships, memorable moments, etc. I was deeply saddened when I found out you couldn’t talk to enemies in WvWvW. Look at PlanetSide 2, the devs said they actually want to promote trash talking. You can use /yell chat to talk to anyone in the surrounding areas, regardless of faction. They’ve implemented it extremely well and I don’t know anyone that is not in favor of it. ArenaNet needs to implement this if they want to see WvWvW flourish.
I’ve recently started to play WvWvW more now that I’m level 80 and every time I am in a huge zerg for more than 15 minutes or so, I start to hear this really weird alarm type noise. The game noise shuts off at this point so all I am hearing is the alarm. The alarm sounds constantly every 2 or 3 seconds. The last case of this happening caused the alarm to sound much more rapidly-like every half second and then right after my game proceeded to crash. Has anyone else had this happen to them? I’m pretty sure it’s not my hardware as although my i7920 is overclocked to 4ghz but judging from tests I’ve run- it is stable plus temps never go past 60 Celsius. Also, the game crashes, not my computer. I can still alt-cont-delete to get to my desktop. Any idea what this is?
I’ve literally noticed no difference between 0 and 30 traits points in beastmastery. My pets seem to die just as often which has led me to put those 30 points into wilderness survival. Are pets even viable in this game? Is it worth it to put any trait points into them?
Impressive. You survived that whole time cause you kept the guy concentrating on moving for 30 seconds.
People stop and do that in all forms of pvp right?
Balance in a vacuum weeee
Concentrated on moving? How much focus does it take to hold down a button? Everyone moves in WvW. How often do you see someone standing still? Only when they’re afk.
I could see it potentially coming out on the next generation of consoles: ps4/xbox 720, simply for the fact that current consoles just wouldn’t be able to handle the massive scope/graphics of this game. This is assuming ArenaNet fixes the the majority of bugs/issues currently plaguing the game
They’re mainly focusing on new expansions now. I wouldn’t expect any major bug patches in the future. The time for that was beta and early release. They got their sales numbers in, there’s no need for them to fix any bugs/classes.
I’ve noticed that most back items: spine guard, etc. aren’t visible on my character. The only one that is noticeable is the mad king memories book from the Halloween event. Why is this? Why should I equip a back item if my character isn’t even going to actually wear it? Is this a bug? Or normal?
“Guild leaders are able to demote other players of the same rank.”
Why is this in the patch notes?
So now if I’m the sole guild leader and I want to upgrade my best man to my same rank, there’s a chance he may turn and demote me, effectively stealing my guild from under me? I don’t understand why they changed this.
Personally, to try and offset the innate weaknesses of pets, I’ve pumped 30 trait points into beast mastery. I’ve done the same with marksmanship as well. So 30 in beast-mastery, 30 in marksmanship and I don’t know what to do with the other 10 yet. How about you?
I don’t understand why people purposefully want to nerf themselves by not using a pet.
Second, pets are the Ranger class mechanic. It’s not like the game or any of the written material at any point leads you astray or suggests otherwise, so if you willfully chose the Ranger class knowing that you don’t like playing a pet class… I’m not really sure what say.
It’s like ordering a cheeseburger then complaining that you like everything except the cheese, but you definitely don’t want a hamburger. You want a cheeseburger.
It’s like ordering a cheeseburger only to find out the cheese is moldy and tastes like kitten. Is it wrong to ask for a better piece of cheese? NO!
When you’re in a lower level area most everyone get’s down-leveled to a certain level. Is there any way to see someone’s true level? Also, in towns, I noticed some names are purple. What does that mean?
There’s a ton of blurred regions on my map that I just can’t seem to find access to. Particularly the level 70-80 region directly south of Far Shiverpeeks. I’ve been traveling west to east directly below it trying to find a path into it but to no avail. Why is it so difficult to enter certain blurred regions of the map?
Pretty sure this issue is called “culling”. It’s very rampant in WvWvW as well as Lion’s Arch. The developers have said they are working on a fix/improvement though.
My longbow range is 1500 and it seems when I am at the very end of this range I have to spam number 1 in order to keep attacking. When I move closer the auto attack kicks in. This is very annoying and it seems to mostly happen when I am far away, yet still within range. It also happens at other seemingly random times. I have noticed it happens with the short bow as well. Has anyone else noticed this?
And also while I am creating a thread I may as well ask about another issue I have. When I equip any dagger, the first 3 skills are completely grayed out rendering the weapon useless. I can see skills 4 and 5 but they are darkened and I am unable to use them. Does anyone know why this is?
Honestly, if they just fixed all the bugs, balanced all the classes, stopped doing one time events, I wouldn’t really mind a gear treadmill. It would just give me more things to do and work towards. But as it stands now, the game is just not fun to play with all these issues.
They why did J.Peters specifically say significant ranger improvements would be in the November 15th patch, only to come here that exact same day and say he actually hasn’t been working on everything he said he was, and has no idea when it will be implemented, if at all?
Fourteen days ago these forums where largely positive and yes, you had interesting little threads about Quaggans and Skritt and Screenshots, because people where happy and wanted to share.
Fast forward to today- the reason why all these threads are being created is because it is the only thing on every player’s mind, it affects the whole community the game-world, map chat and the future of a game lots of people love and don’t want to see fail.
So yes, it is understandable that it is what everyone want’s to talk about.
Once we have clarity- then it will be time to make quite little threads about Quaggans.
Until then not so much.
Ahhhh the glory days. Seems like such a long time ago.
The only thing this game has going for it is the shiny graphics. ArenaNet really needs to take advice from PlanetSide 2 developers. They frequently make videos talking about current/future plans, post on the official forums+reddit, and actually make changes based on player feed back. In fact, I was just watching a developer interview and one of them specifically said they are NOT going to focus on pumping out new stupid holiday content but instead work on squaring away as many bugs as they can to please their player base. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGUhSuhiJa0&feature=youtu.be (around 16 min)
I guess you haven’t seen the media or community sections or the forums or anything like that.
To say ANET is not showing you whats ahead or giving you updates or anything of that matter is absurd. This MMO has updated players more then any MMO to date AND has put out more fixes faster then any MMO. Go look at the wiki and see how many times they have patched and patched. Unlike that other MMO that leaves things broken for months and years, ANET has done a great job with keeping up with fixes AND keeping us informed.
And sorry, player feedback is NOT always right. Any game maker that does that is going to have a short existence.
That “other MMO” hasn’t even launched yet…
Although I do see you’re point on how developers can’t implement player feedback carelessly without thought. It’s just that when the MAJORITY of the forum’s users are all complaining about specific things in the game, that at the VERY LEAST deserves an intelligent response from the dev. team explaining their stance on the issue, none of which I have seen here in regards to the weekend fiasco+ascended+balancing issues.
- No monthly subscription
- I didn’t spontaneously combust when I played this game
- Play of this game has not lead to arthritis
- FotM made me kitten such a brick that I think it cured my spastic kitten
- Since buying this game I no longer need to spend money renting bad movies
- Convenient patching process
- No Day of Lavos
How is a convenient patch process one that give you TWO minutes notice and boots you out of game regardless of what you were doing or how important it was.
Because that’s when I went to cure my spastic kitten. How did ANet even know I had to go?
Because they’re such an awesome development team who actually listens to player feed-back and adjusts accordingly, not to mention sticks to their manifesto?
