The intent of the Renown Heart system was originally to help players find event content. They also provide a decent method for us to give the player some context and awareness of what’s going on in the area. There are probably a few issues in that design which we could discuss. We could also let it suffice to say that hearts do not make the best repeatable content the game has to offer.
On the topic of keeping players engaged with open world content, I think this goal may be for more approachable from a different angle. Consider Dry Top, which has no hearts. Players on that map are participating in events all the time, largely on the premise that each event contributes to both map-level and personal-level goals. This gives me the notion that with a little help at the system level, events can and should be the bulk of repeatable open world content in Tyria.
I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts on that.
Yes, but the problem with Drytop is that they are the same events over and over. There is only so many times you can do the same events until you get fedup of doing them.
The other problem with Drytop is that is small, I know it’s going to be a lot bigger when it’s done, but at the moment you can see all it has to offer in a few hours, and with the map goals, I’ve noticed there are “proffered” events, it might just be the maps I’m in but some events are totally ignored.
What I would like to see, I have no idea if this is possible, but at max level or on a sliding scale, I would like to see all DE’s give the same rewards depending on level no matter where you are in the world. So if you are out and about helping a friend level,
Mapping or just like a map for its look or feel, it’s worth your while doing them. Or even give a few mats for that level area. Like with map completion. That way if I wanted to get mats to help me level a crafting I would have a more viable way of doing it than doing dungons for gold to buy mats of the TP. And it keeps people in the open world.
There are many maps I’ve not been back to since mapping them 2 years ago, fire heart rise for instance, there would be many more if the living story had not taken me into maps I’d not been back to in ages. Being a guild wars 1 player I tend to stick to the areas I liked in Guild wars, maybe it’s me being sentimental, but I spend most of my time in Ascalon and Queens Dale. I sometimes go to Orr if I want some Obby shards, or want to do a temple, but they are not often. And with alts it’s just a case of being I. The map long enough to do the PS because all the rewards are in the high level maps.
I really enjoy the game. But if you want reward you have to go to the high level areas or world boss train. I feel that Drytop will end up
Like Southsun. Abandond once the LW leaves there and the prophet you can make from the area drys up. I think if it wasn’t for the back item people would probably not be there now, but the. It might be the best place at the moment to farm karma.
Predictions for Feature Patch 3 in 2015:
- Added Nomad stats to Mawdrey
- Fixed hammer bug in Cliffside Fractal
- Removed loot
There fixed that for you.
I still dont understand what’s the problem.
I don’t under stand what people are talking about? Has GW2 got a built in twitter or something that I didn’t know about?
While I agree with what your saying, what we have to remember is that you can buy gems with ingame gold. So people could get these for “free” and ANet sees no money from this. The way it is now there is a chance ANet may see money come in from one of the two items. And I think that’s the resin it is set up this way.
The way I look at it is this; I pre-ordered the Digital Delux version of the game. If I where to have bought it now, I would have got what I have now, (minus the pre-order ring,) and a Suit of Legacy Armor, Mithril Box, 10 Experience Boosters for the same price, or cheaper if I got it on sale.(in truth I can’t remember how much it was at launch) But I don’t exspect ANet to give me those Items. It would be nice don’t get me wrong, who dosnt like free stuff, but to exspect them to add those things even though I bought the same thing from there own store is a little much. The same as saying that people who use gold to buy gems should get the same be benefits from items that people used cash to buy is a little off for me. It probably balances out, there will always be people who spend what most people consider crazy amounts of money on ingame percheses(I play an App game on my phone and know a guy who in the 2 years the games been out has spend enough money on it to buy a top end Bugatti moter bike. Crazy I know. At one point he even gave me $500 dollers worth of ingame items) but where do you draw the line on what ou can get for “free” and not upset your cash paying customers.
I think they’ll probably be up for sale around Christmas. Also at the end of the LW2 as well. I’m in the same boat as you. I really want to buy the harvesting sickle, Brams shield and mace and Rox’s quiver. I could use some of my savings, but then the wife will kill me. As we are going on holiday the weekend lol.
Does anyone know if these skins are accessible on the CN version of the game? And if so why are they not available on the NA/EU version?
I think there ugly. But that’s just me. I think 90% of back items ugly.
I can agree with this. Balance isn’t a consideration since there’s no level restriction, so why soulbind this?
Key farmers?
They already have a survey system. Or at least they did have during the BETA. Each time you completed a story or event it would pop up and ask you to rate it and then answer a few questions like “where the characters memorable”. Ah those were good times!
You also had the choice to simply ignore them. I would like to see this system put back into the game and will randomly activate for players every now and then after completing certain events.
For filling out the survey they should be rewarded with something too, even if it’s just a swiftness boost for 5-minutes.
Yeah I liked those, but I don’t think they counted for anything. At least not for the first year of the game.
So they fix the problem with the blaster, but still leave what I believe is the majority of players with a useless non stacking with older up to level 20 scrolls.
How is it useless? Create a new character.. instant level 20. Brilliant. Non-stacking? oh no, another slot taken. Delete it if you want.
I’d think something like the ability to finish Personal Story would be a higher priority.
So your answer is to spend more money to buy a character slot to have another one sitting at 20 that I won’t play? Brilliant idea. Do you work for ANet? As for deleting things, I don’t do that as they may be useful at some point. But thank you for telling me what I should do with my life and money.
I’ll hazard a guess of “it on the table”
So they fix the problem with the blaster, but still leave what I believe is the majority of players with a useless non stacking with older up to level 20 scrolls.
It’s my birthday and I’ll cry if I want to.
The skillpoint scrolls are soulbound, can’t use them on a new character, existing characters have more skillpoints than I can get around to turning into money.
The level 20 scroll is… just like last years, except it doesn’t stack. And what would I want with it? I already have them. Why you no make “+10 levels, to a maximum of 60”? Destroyed to save inventory space.
They birthday booster is… also just like last years, except it doesn’t stack. And it’s missing the one thing I really want in a booster, WvW XP gain for use in the EOTM train. So much for buying a character slot to make a thief. An underwhelming gift, but the least bad thing here.
The cake gun… destroyed to save inventory space. Not my sort of humour, I’m afraid, though I’m sure it will appeal to somebody.
Birthday boosters do stack. And they stack with first year ones too.
Still can’t believe no on from ANet has addressed this. I didn’t mind getting the level 20
Scroll in the first year birthday. I had a few toons I had not levelled as I was busy playing my main and another alt. So it was nice to get a leg up, but now it’s just silly. Even if it we a scroll that went from 20-30, that would have been cool. Not any good for me really, but I would have been ok with it.
Level 20 scroll and, wow, a five SP scroll, as if you can’t get 5 scrolls of knowledge at the drop of a hat. Pretty disappointed with the birthday gift, except the blaster, which is turbo radical, and I will use it all the time.
Except, it’s the game’s birthday and it’s giving you the present. What did you get the devs for their 2 year anniversary for releasing this game?
The money I spend buying gems to keep them in a job as do many other people.
“Martin Kerstein and Kate Welch " Woooott they are gone?
As of today’s news.
Where did you see this?
lol so much sarcasm since the “we can’t talk about it” ..
Well it’s not like they’ll say anything about it, or say ok sorry guys, we thought with the resent toon slot sale this would be nice for the “loyal” players to be able to boost them to 20 right away. Or, oh ok you guys don’t want them. Give us a few days and we’ll see if we can do something g with them. Like they did the mad king chests during the first Halloween.
I just chuckle. Anet is telling me I need to be as much of an alt-o-holic in GW2 as I was in GW1 (44 characters then vs my 25 currently). All in due time Anet, I had more time then. XD
I had one I every class in guild wars plus 5 extra warriors. I really liked leveling a warrior.
I had one of each class, per my 4 accounts. Then I had a couple of pvp slots and a couple of mule slots mixed in. I guess I was a glutton for punishment, because I was just awful at certain classes, but I built them anyway.
Yeah I know what you mean. I didn’t like the dervish, rit, paragon, Mesmer all that much.
I just chuckle. Anet is telling me I need to be as much of an alt-o-holic in GW2 as I was in GW1 (44 characters then vs my 25 currently). All in due time Anet, I had more time then. XD
I had one I every class in guild wars plus 5 extra warriors. I really liked leveling a warrior.
They have discussed this with the team, and it’s definitely something they want to see in the game at some point.
I loled. Thanks for that. Made this second birthday not so bad.
Thanks for the info all. I would have just tryed it myself. But I’ve not had a chance to play since I jumped this morning to see what we where getting.
I’m surprised that ANet have………. No wait. I’m not.
I like the blaster, but yeah, these experience scrolls are worthless to almost anyone with a 2 year old account. I’m sure some people will find them useful, but I’d much rather be able to at least MF a few of them into a level 60 or 50 scroll.
Yeah this would be great.
Anyone know if these two work together? If so the primer might be of some use.
I’ve opened the gift on my main. I’ll leave them on my others. It’s not like I’ll use the five level 20 scrolls I have.
Sorry this is something ANet can not talk about.
what could really cause problems is if you train a mob from level 80 areas to a level 65 area lol
classic EQ, the giants.. my god, when one of those got pulled 2 far..it was chaos
I remember a friend of mine telling me a story from WoW when they dragged a dragon that spawned in a grove in Dark Shire to the gates of storm wind. I heared it was carnage.
If Anet released an expansion to GW1 called “The Founding of Ebonhawke” would you buy it?
Basically, it would bridge the story between GW 1.5 and GW2, at least as far as the loss of Ascalon and the creation and siege of Ebonhawke. That area of the GW1 map is all unexplored. It could include more War In Kryta content, possibly including founding Divinity’s Reach. Point is, money in the bank for Anet. It would generate sales for the previous GW1 games with all of those who are playing GW2 but never played GW1.
Depends on the price. But the. There is a lot left unanswered in guild wars that I would like answered, but I know it never will be now we have guild was 2.
More disappointment from ANet who knew?
Level 80 scrolls would be amazing, but I’ll take what I can get, even if that may be anothre level 20 scroll.
You got your wish from the sounds of it. More level to 20 scrolls.
Should have seen this coming with the slot sale. I still have scrolls left over from last year. What happened to the level 60 scroll people where talking about? Now that I could have used. I’ll just leave mine wrapped just incase they change it to something people who don’t have a sub level 20, or don’t already have level 20 scrolls.
I think they wanted to ensure that the best equipment in the game was gotten through actually playing (or at least crafting) not cash > gems > gold > gear.
Why legendaries can be traded is beyond me. I assume it was an oversight and by the time it became apparent they were worried about angering people who made them to sell.
but cash>gems>gold is how ANet want you to play, you can buy 90% of what you need for acended gear with real money, same as a legendries, granted a lot of money, but if you have it….
what gifts do you expect to get, apart from 5 queen jennas
Yeah ANet please don’t give us another account-bound minipet that cannot be thrown in the forge. I have 5-mini Jenna’s that I would like to put 4 of them into the forge… but nope, I can either keep 5 of them or delete 4 of them… Bit annoying.
well at least all 5 of your characters can run around with jenna without the dreaded..deposit collectible…switch character….go to bank and grab it.
do people use mini’s? ive never seen anyone with them out. Apart from me at launch with my Rydlock, and HoM mini’s.
I don’t see how an open world dungeon would work. You could just walk into it with a zurg, melt the boss in seconds. Also people would just use the quickest rout to the boss, and all other areas of the dungon would be abandond. There are open world dungons already they are called mini dungeons. The only one I know I’ve done, is the one I. Gandara fields. West of Vigil keep.
I quote:
“I don’t see how an open world dungeon would work. You could just walk into it with a zurg, melt the boss in seconds. Also people would just use the quickest rout to the boss, and all other areas of the dungon would be abandond. "You seem to be under the impression that dungeons work differently in their current implementation in the game. Yes, sometimes you do get a PUG run that actually wants to do the whole dungeon content, but the large majority just want to skip everything that isn’t blocking progress and get right to the end.
Oh, and they melt the boss in seconds anyway. The only way to get a real challenge out of dungeons right now is to do it with less than five people.
That said, I’m in favor of more instanced content, not less. The open world has just become too much of a lagfest for many players and things like world bosses really need to be moved into 10-25 man instances. They should require enough players to play how you want (less toxicity) but not too many to create lag.
What I don’t like is requiring five people to avoid failing a dungeon or fractal. It absolutely sucks when progress becomes blocked and you have to abort.
You and I clearly play with diffent people. When I do a dungon(with Friends), we kill everything in our way. but then I’m use to doing places Like FoW/UW/DoA where you can get things of value from the mobs. If anything Anet needs to add Dungon tokens to the loot of mobs in dungons. That would make them more fun, and people would play them as they where intended to be played, rather than speed clear to farm the gold, and tokens.
Two words, gold sink.
I don’t see how an open world dungeon would work. You could just walk into it with a zurg, melt the boss in seconds. Also people would just use the quickest rout to the boss, and all other areas of the dungon would be abandond. There are open world dungons already they are called mini dungeons. The only one I know I’ve done, is the one I. Gandara fields. West of Vigil keep.
Kool I appreciate it but will we be seeing these types of threads turned into stickies on essential topics like?:
#Condition damage stacking issues in open world
#Rewards system revamp and the removal of systems like DR/RNG
#Diversity in PVE (which includes weapon choices, locations/types of traits)
+1 to this. I would like to see an end to DR. And a better way of getting “wanted” weapons like precursors or named weapons. In GW1 if you wanted a ice dragons breath sword. You would go to the one map where it dropped. I know you have that with regional skins. But it would be nice if named weapons dropped in diffrent zones. That way if you wanted a weapon you would know where to go to get it/or have the best chance of getting it drop. Just an idea. And it would I get players in to the “quiet” maps. Sure you can buy it from the TP, but if you knew you had a good chance to get it in an area, I know I’d go looking for it.
I like this. At lest well know what might be coming instead of not knowing at all. I don’t mind when things come and/or if that changes. What bothers me is the unknown of what’s going on. I’m looking forward to see what comes up.
Hi All,
The CDI is starting up again. How would you like the topic/s to be chosen for this round.
Here are you options for now:
1: Anet chooses.
2: You list your number 1 topic and the one with the must number of votes wins.Note: This isn’t a call for topics just asking how to pick them(-:
Chris
You guys pick. Maybe then there will be more chance of it appearing in game.
Will we get them server time or local time?
A single dungeon with the depth and the difficulty of underworld/ fow or doa from GW1 would be enough to keep many players busy for months. But instead of we get some living story that you finish in one hour, and thats it.
The combat-system of GW2 is the best i ever played, and i dont understand why they waste it with their living story instead of giving us a challenging dungeon.A dungeon along the lines of the Aetherblade path that is not done by people because you can do several other dungeons in the same length of time it takes to run this one path?
The best rewards came from the UW/FoW/DoA. If ANet did something that made it worth peoples while. Then they’ll do it. Clearly what ever you get from there is not worth the time/effort.
Please take the time to read this post ive thought an enormous amount about this, please don’t remove it either im not trying to be cynical, just realistic to the playerbase who commits to this game for specific reasons.
After all of gamescon and recent interviews, what we’ve pretty much obtained from the devs is “if you like wvw, spvp, fractals/dungeons, then too bad because we’re working too much on the living story to do any content/features for that.”
What we learned from gamescon interviews.
- No new dungeons planned for a while, too much effort, fractals easier. Fractals have only ever had 1 update which shows how little committment they had. They specifically said “there are so many parts of the game to commit to thats its hard to do this as well”.
- WvW updates comes extremely infrequently as well. And when they do, we get what happened with this feature pack. A handful of changes that take a week.
- sPvP has taken 2 years to develop to a state thats almost esport-ish. We still have like 3 new maps and 1 gamemode after 2 years. This is not even remotely close to enough development to support an esports type of scene.All of these things were big things at launch, implemented in the game. Bigger than the LS that didn’t exist then. For some reason this has changed. Anet still has their eye set on the living story.
At least with the first living stoyr we saw a diveristy in content, which was yes a complaint which is why they separate living story from feature patch now. But there are so many things that are considered content that don’t fit in the living story or features patches. Let me give a list
Fractals
WvW maps
sPvP maps/modes
New dungeons or revamped dungeons
Guild missions(also completely abadoned)At first I had some hope that “hey well the devs technically can find a place to fit this in during the living story, they just need to give a lore reason behidn it so it fits in the story.” Thats exactly what they did in the first season. Except this tiem around they show no interest in doing anything but open world content and living story instances. They sound like they actually can’t do more than that because its too much.
Anyway im giving up on this game because Anet really has pushed me and many other parts of the community away for only one part of the game. Interviews gave this away and if you all want to be honest with yourself, then you should do the same.
I don’t hate the living story by any means, but if its all Anet can do, then they’ve failed. If they have no other big projects in the background then they will dissappoint the community even more because what they are doing right now is not working at all.
I’m quite happy with the game. I spend 90% of my game time out side of WvW PvP and dungeons/fractles. I’ve played since beta, but I’ve probably played a quarter of your total play time. I’ve only totalled 1000 hours. And even though I’ve mapped the world on my main when I play my alts or go to an area that I’ve not been in for awhile I find things I missed hell I was in queens Dale doing dailies and I found a cave full of wolves. Never seen it before. And I’ve levelled 4 toons through there. In an MMO you make your own fun. And I’m quite good at doing that.
I remember my guild being in an alliance. And it was a guild of 1. It had started life as a guild of around 10, 9 of which where real life friends. They stopped playing, then I fell in with another guild while I was doing FoW. They asked if I wanted to join there guild. I explained politely that I was the head of an inactive guild, but I have a full guild hall and didn’t want to abandon my “baby” so I was invited to join there alliance. I remember one Luxson bonus week end I has more faction than there whole guild lol.
I think that was suppose to be clues to legendary weapons. Probably an idea that got scrapped. Maybe if we ever get precursor crafting this will be the first step.
Ah…The days of the necromancer in the original Guild Wars. Good memories. :p
Kill a few things, then “oh look I have an army.”
Yeah that would be nice.
4 days. Not 5.
Have ANet hinted at what we might be getting? Most of my toons turn two in 4 days. So not long to wait, but I think I’ll probably not get anything till the games officel launch day(I’m sure that’s what happened last year might be wrong though. It was during the QJ).
I know people say to take datamined stuff with a grain of salt, but the higher level experience scrolls and skill point scrolls that was recently datamined could imply either a level cap increase or the infinite level scheme they once mentioned a long, long time ago.
My bet is on increase on level cap. And BIS will be much, much slower to obtain (and grindier).
Or could be second year birthday gifts? My too. Turns 2 in 5 days.
That’s possible. I was basing this more on the higher level scrolls, as I don’t think they want to new characters hit the cap that quickly with a level scroll.
I could be wrong, of course.
I think it’s to help people who don’t play all that much level alts. After 2 years I only have 2 level 80’s. My other 6 range from level 21-50. And they are mostly low dew to how the LW use to work. It’s spend the time I had doing the meta for them. Now I can choose when to do the LW most of my alts have gone up 5-10 levels in. The last 2 months.
As long as it’s not more than 130 gold for the set I’m in. I’d love to see more GW1 weapons and armor in the game. I still use my HoM skins. There are not many skins in GW2 I like that are not gem store items.
I agree with the OP that there should be more ways to gain XP. I’m currently leveling an alt and I find it extremely tedious to try and level, for starters. Add to that, that I can complete an entire map and still be 5 levels short of moving on to the next level map, which is just wrong, IMO. I shouldn’t have to craft (and bore myself to tears) or pull out some tomes of knowledge to level up. BTW, I use killstreak boosters, XP boosters, and food that gives extra XP, and I’m still 5 levels short at map completion. This seems broken.
Or your doing something wrong. I was leveling an alt the other day and earned 5 levels in about an hour using a +10% exp booster +10% food and a +10% utility booster and I think I have about +6% account XP. Don’t forget to till anything that has a yellow name. Most people ignor them as they are not hostile. So you normally get bonus exp from them. I was scrapping the outer wall of DR and killed around 5-10 cliff bats that gave me 750 bonus exp per kill. They where yellow names too. Failing that you should be able to take on monsters 5 levels over you. As long as you know how to play the class and the game. Other wise key farmers wouldn’t be able to farm a key in 20 mins.
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