Guild Wars 2

Yes, there will be a discount!

In three years when the next expansion is due to come out, you can will get HoT for free. See you then.

Thanks Pat. I appreciate the response.

Certificate issues are still not fixed.

It looks like the graphics are being blocked by HTTPS Everywhere.
Here is what it says about the following URL for the front page HoT Logo.

http://hot.staticwars.com/assets/images/logos/guild-wars.png

“The identity of this website has not been verified. The server’s certificate does not match the URL.”

The new HoT website is the first website I’ve ever had an issue with using this plugin.

I didn’t have a problem with the previous HoT site and do not have an issue with the pages loading on any other GW2 or ANet sites, so I’m just asking that ANet look into it.

I’m using Chrome with HTTPS Everywhere extension.

The HoT website does not load properly with this extension enabled. Please fix, thanks.

I did expect them to do more with modeling the animations after the 5 stances in boujutsu.
Oh well, I still love it and what they did do with the Physical and Dodge animations is amazing.

I have an 80 of every profession. So far, I haven’t seen one specialization where I’m like “OMG I gotta play that.” Maybe at first glace I felt that way, but not after playing them in beta. I think I’ll end up sticking with with current specs for most of my toons and maybe dabble with elites from time to time. There is still plenty of time to change my mind.

I’ve never played my 80 thief because I don’t care for the thief play style, so I’m hoping the Daredevil wins me over. It looks promising IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%8D

I wish ANet would start locking more of these stupid threads that serve no purpose.

Anet already said your beta bank and toons will persist thru all the BWEs. At this time, there is not going to be a reset. That may change between now and the next BWE, but as of right now, there is no reset. I seriously doubt they will change it now since the way BWEs operate has already been officially announced. I planned ahead of time and had everything ready to go in the bank. Maybe people should have paid attention to what ANet told them and done some planning and preparation.

Wildkitten.3872:

Dinks.2478:

Heteronormative? It IS by definition normal to be hetero. As Hetero and people who are hetero are the vast majority. So yes, I am glad Anet doesn’t waste design resources making content to appease the literal 2%.

Well it wouldn’t even be 2%. Not everyone who is bisexual or homosexual is a crossdresser.

I have a lot of homosexual friends male and female. Many are married now and not a one of them is a cross dresser.

Talking about appeasing a tiny minority within a minority.

Moreover, an even smaller percentage are militant, push their agenda on everyone types, so I think that 2% is a very high percentage.

Anyways, not worth the resources to appease them.

If you played since Nov 2012, you know how these character birthdays work yet you come here to complain. Really? It has been the same way year after year, so you have no excuses. You made a choice, by deleted your toons, not to have any birthdays. In no way should ANet start accommodating people’s bad decisions.

I certainly cannot think of another game where I spent $50 and got over 5K hours of enjoyment out of it. Skyrim comes in at not even a close second for value with around 400 hours.
I spent an estimated $600 on WoW fees/expansions for 3 years and didn’t even get nearly 5K hours played (3K if I remember correctly).

No.

You can’t just “recompile” to make it DX12.

They would have to build around an entirely new engine and that is not going to happen anytime soon if ever.

“Smash Brawler” even with no ICD, you are only Berzerking for 15 seconds. In reality, I think you will still be hard pressed to get off more than 4 primal bursts in that 15 secs. That aside, since when doesn’t ANet stick ICDs on everything. Im guessing there will be something like a 5 sec ICD on this.

“Dead or Alive” only works during that 15 sec Berzerk mode. Obviously, you aren’t going to be immune to death, so course there is an ICD. It is likely, you will only get this once per zerker state.

“Eternal Champion” only gives 1 stack of 3 sec stab every 3 seconds for 15 secs. The most you will ever have at any one time from this is 1 stack which in WvW is ripped off of you faster than it is applied. Breaking a stun only gives one stack of stab. Doesn’t really seem OP for a GM trait.

Maybe someone should come out with a game called “Marxism Online” it will be first of a new series of “Massive Marxist Online” games.

The game’s motto will be “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”.

Everyone can just sit around in the game being lazy with no incentive to do anything and they will just get everything for free from the GMs. Everyone will look alike and have exactly the same things. It will be a perfect utopia!

I’m definitately going to stick with my staff ele. I doubt I’ll be playing all the elites. Maybe just a couple from what I’ve seen so far. This could change easily based on upcoming changes and BWE testing.

Playing from Japan on a 50/50 hikari fiber connection, I was having bad issues with lag. I subscribed to a VPN service and improved my ping depending on which server I connected to. Basically rerouting my internet traffic to a more optimal path thru the internet. Ping went from about 250+ down to about 180.

Orpheal.8263:

Had yesterday a little talk with one of the Programmers that is responsible for WvW about the WvW Achievements and that they are for 3 years already unreachable placeholders, if there are any plans on fixing the WvW Achievements, once HoT has been released.

This was basically his answer in short lines of what I can remember what he said exactly:

• WvW Achievements will get fixed somewhen in the future, but he wasn’t naturally able to tell exactly when, because WvW achievements are currently a big problem for them.
• They are such a big problem, that he basically described the situation, that they are at the moment at a point, where they are “pointless” of how to solve the situation, because fixing all the other Achievements for WvW isn’t by far so easy, like changing those 2 other WvW Achievements, that have been cut down by required numbers.

• The reason for this is, so have I understood it is, its hard to make a decision to set up those new thresholds, because whatever new threshold they choose, there will be always people, which have then already much more points in certain achievements, and that would cause for the system a big problem, because then you would have for all these accounts, that are suddenly way higher than the new point threshold for the Achievements “false/wrong datas” in the system, that would cause Bugs and in the worst scenario could cause the data to be LOST

Thats a high risk naturally, if there exists the possibility, that by fixing the WvW Achievements everyone higher than the new threshold might lose their progression due to suddenly lost data in the process of changign the WvW Achievements

As I understood it, its a 100% pure technical programming problem caused by changing the data, that if peopel are suddenly way over the new maximum generates problems.
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When this is all true, and changing the WvW Achievements means such a great risk for losing the data of progression and all…

Don’t you all think then not too, that it wouldn’t be the best solution then to simply delete for everyone the current WvW Achievements inclusive all gained points, letting everyone, who has reached already before of that change an AP milestone that ends on 000 or 500 for a chest don’t get a chest the next time they reach again that milestone.

And by doing this then implement say for exampel with the next Feature patch a complete new and oveworked system for the WvW Achievements to let practically everyone start from new there.

I mena, if everyone gets their old Achievements and progress removed for a complete new restart of WvW achievements, I think theres nothign frong with that, because nobody will profit from that, but also nobody will lose anything compared to other players, cause everyone will lose some AP.

Lets say everyone has currently in all Achievements Rank 2-3, k, we are generous, say all achievements rank 3.
Then this would be in total for the average WvW Player 219 AP that everyone would lose, some might lose a bit more, some might lose a bit less than this.

So chances that someone will fall under a current AP milestoen are pretty big for alot of players with that amount of reduced AP, which everyone will receive then later back with the new imprved and reworked WvW Achievements.

Sure, is absolutely no perfect solution, there are never perfect solutions, but I think its at least one, that will work out in a way, that it creates a working foundation onto which can be build up a new WvW Achievement System.

My takeaway from this is that they do not want to do it so they are making excuses as to why it cannot be done.

As a software developer myself, I can easily thing of ways to handle these issues. It is just going to take someone sitting down and actually coding the fix.
I’ve inherited some truely messed up code, systems, databases/queries that I’ve had to fix in the past. Mostly systems developed by supposed PHds but that is another story. I’ve always been able to fix them except for one instance where the data just simply was not available, in which case I had to developed heuristics for the system so it could make decisions about how to handle situations like this. Point is, don’t make excuses as to why it cannot be done. Sometimes I wish I could have told my boss that but I valued my job. We are at 3 years, fix it already.

I stopped reading as soon as I realized his premise is flawed thus invalidating whatever argument he ismaking.

Start trading in commodities instead of gold. I would take payment in Bolts of Damask.

Miellyn.6847:

yeah the way it works could be improved, but there is actually a tutorial how to use it after you open the mastery tab the first time on a beta character

Bah, tutorial! Whoever pays attention to pesky things like instructions?

Oh yeah, I did and had no problems with the system.

Another thought. If a zerg takes an objective of an outmanned team, they should receive no karma or experience. If there is no outmanned, then the reward should scale up based on the PPT value of the objective based on my above proposed changes. So you receive very little karma and experience for taking a completely un-upgraded objective and full reward for a capping a completely upgraded objective.

Also, I think Anet needs to permanently implement PPK. However, PPK should only apply to kills made on players that DO NOT have the outnumbered buff.

Conceivably, you could have one team with a massive karma train running rampant on its outnumbered opponent, but due to the PPT changes I proposed above, a few outnumbered roamers could be out there picking off people and back-capping thus greatly reducing the bleed of points in the off hours.

I had an idea about how to incentivize people to defend and not just karma train.

Make the initial take of a tower, keep, camp worth 0 for the first tick. Then for subsequent ticks have it worth some minimum value, say 1 point for a camp, 3 points for a tower, 5 points for a keep, etc. So you have to hold for at least one full tick to start getting anything added to your score.

The way to increase your tick is to complete upgrades, a fully upgraded site will begin ticking at full value.

If you want your full PPT, then you have to upgrade and defend.

Karma training might rob the other side of PPT but it isn’t going to do much of anything for your PPT either.

It seems that this new population balance scheme Anet is implementing is only going to further drive populations off the lower tier servers into higher tiers since there will be more openings for transfers.

Anyone that wants to transfer to lower tier servers can already do so fairly easily, these changes do nothing for them.

While this might provide some balance for higher tiers servers, it is going to leave the lower tiers even more empty than they are now. Although, I guess you could consider 0v0v0 fights balanced.

I’m confused, Is your Beta Bank empty like it says in your title or does it have everything but the equipment you wanted to wear as you imply in the post?

I’ve never been downed/rallied so many times in the past three years as I was today in VB. These new mobs and mechanics are great and make you think about how you’re going to proceed rather than leaping in and mashing all your buttons. This expansion content is going to take a lot of teamwork to get thru. A lot of players are in for a wakeup call as they are not going to be able to solo sleepwalk thru this content like they did 1-80.

To all the people that are complaining that it is too hard, go find another game to play. Maybe Hello Kitty Online is right for you. Don’t go trying to ruin the challenge and fun for the rest of us.

Until server population drastically changes shifts, it is going to be SBI v Mag until ANet turns off the servers for good.

No problem completing story on Rev, Tempest, DH. Not sure how people are having problems with this. I don’t get it.

I had no problems with the story mobs.

I was under the impression that just leveling unlocking everything in a one mastery would take about the equivalent time as leveling a new character from 1-80.

In my mind, this would make sense. I have 8 level 80s, one of each class, and I would expect unlocking and completing all masteries in the expansion would take an equivalent amount of time leveling.

I’ve been hoarding all my Birthday and Celebration boosters for grinding out the experience portion of the masteries. I’m sure guides for obtaining all the mastery points will be on Dulfy soon after release.

It could be any number of reasons. It is very possible, the problem isn’t the game, but something else. It is impossible for us to say for sure what is causing the issue, so it is going to take some troubleshooting on your part.

Start with performing a Microsoft System File Check. This is the first thing you should always do when starting to troubleshoot computer issues in Windows. It will scan your system for OS corruption and try to repair it. Open an Administrative Command Prompt and type the command ‘sfc /scannow’. One of three things will result from this scan: 1. It will find nothing wrong. 2. It will find corruption that it was able to repair. 3. It found corruption that it was unable to repair.

If the OS had repairable corruption you will want to know why so run virus and malware scans. Make sure you are using something like ESET v8, MalwareBytes, ADWCleaner, Roguekiller64. You may also want to perform diagnostics on the hard drive using something like Parted Magic. If corruption is found and cannot be repaired, sorry but you are going to be reloading your OS.

You may also want to try the following:
Using msconfig to disable all startup programs.
Updating all your drivers.
Making sure Windows is up to date.
Clean and repair the Windows registry with CCleaner.

Start with these steps and see what it turns up and get back to us.

I’m just stockpiling everything I can get my hands on and put a hold on all crafting until the expansion is release with the exception of things like Bolts of Damask (Over 100 now) and the other ascended mats. I started farming and stockpiling the day the expansion was announced. If I were to sell my entire stockpile of mats right now I could probably pull together about 5K.

The number one thing rangers could do to reduce hate is to realize that LB4 is not part of any rotation. I can really tell the good rangers from the bad rangers just by this one simple thing. And from observation, the majority haven’t realized this yet.

There are other things they could do, but this would be a good start.

It just started happening for me after the latest patch. Still isn’t fixed.

Well, if they do increase the supply of silk, I hope we get a heads up so I can dump all my damask really quick.

I’ve crafted 7 full sets of ascended armor and weapons and haven’t purchased a single mat. I had so much extra damask laying around that I used it to purchase a precursor.
The price seems fine. Never shelled out any money for gear.

If you want the gear now, you have to pay for it. If you make it all yourself, you don’t.

The prices seem fine.

These forums would explode for the next 3 months and a lot of people would leave the game if a reward was given. They still haven’t stopped posting hate about vets having to pay $50 for HoT.

OP & Dash. What you wrote were exactly my thoughts as I watched the stream today.

Because ANet called it a stress test instead of a beta.

I can see why ANet limited this stress test in size; on the other hand, I can see how many could feel that they are a victim of a “bait and switch”.

Confirming OP’s issue. Mine is broken also after today’s patch.

Anet hasn’t said anything about a new crafting system for Legendary Weapons. The only thing they have said is that we are getting a new way to get precursors. The mystic forge recipes are going to remain the same and require all the same mats as before.

If you purchased Guild Wars after January 23rd, 2015 from ArenaNet, then you will receive a refund of that purchase when you buy Heart of Thorns, so you are are effectively getting HoT for $40 instead of $50.

Players that purchased the game before that time get a Free character slot, value ~$10.
New players do not get a free character slot, but everyone gets something.

Update:
Why would ANet refund the game to players before that time? Many have played the game for 3 years and enjoyed all the free content updates, exclusive events, and items that new players will never get. It makes no sense on any level. They are a business, not a charity.

Zephyrite Mage
Three new Elite Trait Lines that add attunements: Sun, Wind, Lightning.
New weapon skills across the board for all weapons.
New Weapon: Sword
Since you can only select one elite at a time, it would add the selected elite attunement under F5.

ANet gave all Vet players a free character slot. New players don’t get that.

Vet players got LS Season 1, LS Season 2, Tons of Events, Exclusive items, etc.
This is content that new comers will never have the chance to experience.

You paid at $50 for 3 years worth of free content. What other game has given you close to the same value?

Wish you people would stop the QQ. Also, why are you created a thread about this when it has been hashed out for months already on these forums.

If you don’t think you received $50 worth of value in the past 3 years and don’t think the $50 for the expansion will give you another 3 years of value, then don’t buy the expansion and move onto another game. Just quit clogging up the forums with the same stupid topic.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Tempest doesn’t have a single trait or skill that grants stability, WHAT? In a spec all about channeling long casts? Seriously?

Did you look at the traits?

Lucid Singularity.

All indications, or rather no indication to the contrary, that you will be able to use to to level to 80.

You will still need to do an unconfirmed number of hero points in order to unlock the elite specialization.

Finally, you are going to have your hands full leveling all the Masteries. From what I saw during the Portal Beta, it is going to take a lot of experience and work to level up and unlock all the Masteries. Just maxing out one of the Masteries may be the equivalent of leveling a new toon from 1 to 80. I have a load of Birthday Boosters just for leveling up Masteries.

Has ANet said what they are going to do about Hero Points for people that only do WvW or SPvP? Are you going to be forced into a PvE game mode in order to do WvW or SPvP with Elite Specs?