Guild Wars 2

They are talking about it but nothing is in development yet. They first mentioned it way back in November when the Lost Shores event came out and have said a couple things about it after. I doubt it will even be done until 2014 at the earliest. It’s obvious they don’t see it as a high priority.

You can’t really claim you are the first in the world to do it but congrats anyways.

Curo.2483:

DJSushi.5406:

While I agree that the prestige factor is a huge force in the game economy, I do not see the logic in permanently removing the current SAB skins.

If i see a shiny prestige item that I like, only to learn there is 100% no way to get it, I will have no inclination to do anything as an economic actor. There has to actually be a chance, no matter how slim, that I can get a prestige item for it to motivate me to spend money or time and otherwise participate in the economy.

Legendaries are a good example. I will probably never get one, but since it is technically possible, I assign worth to all the items/tokens/recipes/farming methods that go into making one. This creates value, and value creates an economy.

Hello, there are tradeable versions of the skins that drop from chests, and they will always be in the economy. Even the most limited items from GW1 are still in the economy.

But they WILL still be limited. If you wanted the GS skin be ready to shell out 60-120g based on how many are available.

Curo.2483:

Turkashi.4502:

no, maybe next year

Hopefully sooner, says Josh.

Once the SAB is re-released, you can get the title again. Each world will have its own title.

Pretty much this. I asked and he said that when SAB is back you can get all the achievements based on each specific world. We just don’t know when it will be back.

I’m assuming by “dungs” you mean dungeons? How would adding gem store items to different dungeons make them money?

Josh Foreman.8250:

Chorel.1720:

when the SAB comes back can players still get the Distinction of Appleid Jumping title or is that only for this release?

Each World will have a new class of titles, based around degrees, like bachelors, Doctorate, etc. It’s basically Moto’s way of recognizing your level of education according to his program.

So based on each world having its own titles and achievements it will be possible to get the old achievements and titles? So when world 2 comes out you can do all the achievements for world 1 and obtain the title? Just to clarify.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Zivhayr.3658:

To clarify, when you say the skins will be gone is that entirely or just the ones you buy from Moto?

And will World 1 be availible at all in the next incarnation of Adventure Box?

1. I don’t know. I’m not the person who determines rewards and how they are distributed. I THINK they will be gone completely. I have no idea if they will ever be re-released. That’s all meta-game stuff. Imagine a typical 8 person NES development team making an action/adventure game in 1988. They were concerned with making a balanced, rewarding experience within their game… and that’s all. If Nintendo corporate wanted to offer prizes to players who sent in photographs of certain end screens or what-have-you, that would be a meta-game, and the corporate office would be the ones handling that whole area.

We (as in the SAB team) come up with what we think would be cool rewards, but ultimately that is not our domain. We have departments that have the whole GW2 experience in mind. (of which we are a teeny-tiny part) They are the ones that have to determine the design aesthetic, consider how the economy needs to stay in balance, keep the long, long term effects of rewards in mind, etc. Me and my little team are not equipped to make those kinds of decisions.

2. Yes, World 1 will return when World 2 comes out. By the time we release World 4, the entire game will be complete and playable from start to finish, along with hard mode, and hopefully some other modes we have in mind.

Not sure if you’ll answer or can provide an answer at the moment but when the SAB comes back can players still get the Distinction of Appleid Jumping title or is that only for this release?

That’s not the way the world works. If I bought something 7 months ago I shouldn’t expect to get something for free because of a promotion. A promotions sole purpose is to get new people to buy it. It’s just a bunch of useless items anyways.

Nuka Cola.8520:

danbuter.2314:

Nuka Cola.8520:

why would you buy it with any kind of money?

Real life cash may be easier to come by than in-game gold for some.

Not only an infinite mining pick is useless because the normal ones are cheap but spending 10$ for pixels and pixels that aren’t even useful is kinda funny imo. Like not because its new YOU have to buy something as worthless…

People value their money differently. Just because YOU don’t feel it’s worth it doesn’t me I feel the same way. I personally bought two picks for my two most played characters. People spend more on junk food or take out that’s just as worthless to your body.

Paulytnz.7619:

Hey atleast it’s not a random chance for it from a chest……

For conveniance I think this is a good idea and it also of course encourages people who otherwise may not ever spend real life cash to possibly think about doing so. I think this could be a step in the right direction.

Now all we need is for them to bring on the other 2 tool types.

Should I curse us all and say something like bring on all the “Anet hates altaholics because this is soulbound and punishes them!” Posts…..?

Sorry but you just know if it hasn’t happened yet it will.

They already proved they hated alts with ascended gear being soulbound on use instead of staying account bound. Especially the laurel ascended gear.

Fox Soul.4809:

1 day anet will Over buff COF p1, p2 and nobody will do it. All “handless” zerker warriors will start to cry bcoz they cant do anything in other dungeons/zones.
But then, we see a lot of ppl creating oceans of tears bcoz they cant make gold.
Will be funny.
Just wait.

They felt the need to buff/change AC so a CoF buff is definitely coming in the near future.

You can get the chest at the end of each zone once a day. You can run it on multiple characters though.

You probably did.. It only took me 7.5 crafts to max my guardian out. Are you sure you got to 400 in every one?

bcd.4352:

Worth 100 laurels? I thought not.
Will I be getting a tonic that let’s me turn into a tiger who asks for a belly rub? kitten YES!

Might be worth it once you have all your ascended stuff and nothing else to really buy. I thought this tonic was going to be a lot better than what the video showed. I was expecting small cats and not lions and the like. I know there is smaller ones shown as well.

Panda Shepard.1248:

Since it lasts all month long and people are playing the heck out of this thing, my guess is they’ll go down by a lot before the month is over.

Well yeah. The greatsword skin was 45g yesterday and now it’s 19g as of this post.

AliceKaye.1903:

Murderin.8269:

Its a religious holiday. Keep that crap out of the game.

Listen, I am all for keeping the religious aspects of any holiday out of MMO’s. However, these days things like Christmas (Yule) and Easter can also be construed as non-religious holidays as well.

I’m anti-religious and still celebrate Yule, personally, and if I had children they would probably get things from the Easter bunny, however, we’d do it scavenger hunt style, haha.

Regardless, the bunny portion of Easter, to my knowledge, has no religious backing and has only been around since the mid 1600’s. Why a rabbit delivers eggs, is really beyond me.

Probably the same reason why an overweight old guy with a massive beard breaks into your house to leave “presents” under your tree all the while eating your milk and cookies.

I’m not sure if you’ll see this in time but I’m up for it. Online right now.

Someone about NA servers data not being shared with EU servers data. They would have to make all servers data available on both. At least that’s the official explanation.

Why ascended items aren’t account bound I have no idea. It’s obvious they hate people having alts. In order to gear up and alt with ascended it will take nearly a YEAR to do so. I would imagine they would add in more ways to obtain the gear.

Sharpkiller.8516:

I don’t get where this idea that tier 1 guild bounties can’t be completed with a small guild is coming from. From experience it requires 6 people to have a high chance for success with a tier 1 bounty. My guild will be able to do guild treks today, and I would assume they can be completed with a small group as well. So, I think the training mission is a great way for smaller guilds to amass influence to unlock the guild missions.

Guild Treks are very easy. They give you a picture and you have to find it. Big gold circle where you need to stand to activate it. Can easily be done with 6 people. At tier 3 they give you 20 locations and 20 minutes to find them all.

Quality programming they have. Was in a fractal and got kicked off and can’t rejoin it.

Prova.6130:

I asked to people in arch lion they told about crafting new fused weapons…I think it’s fake but let’s see if someone has some news.

Fused weapons can only be obtained through RNG in the BL chests. Unless Anet suddenly starts caring about the player that will be the only way to obtain them. They look bad anyways. Generic fire theme based.

I was just talking to a guild mate about this. They have good ideas that they don`t think through. Having a toggle for titles is something that they should have thought about.

6 months to 5 years is my estimate.

I have 47 at the moment but I bought an ascended amulet the moment I could.

Kane Fire Blade.7482:

Vayne.8563:

You can play with them, as long as you create a character in the European servers (assuming they’re using European servers).

When you get your software, just make sure that whatever server park they’re in, you create a character on the same one, or better still, on the same server, which will let you WvW together as well.

Basically, anyone can create a character on a European or a US server, no matter where they are in the world. However, you can’t guest to a different server park, so you wouldn’t be able to play with them if you didn’t create your character correctly.

Also keep in mind in Guild Wars 2, all your characters are on the same server. So you want to make sure you get the information from them, before you create your first character.

This post is more confusing then helpful lol

NA can only play with NA. EU can only play with EU. You can message and group with them but not actually play with them.

Vinny.6924:

How is SE placing banners any different then BURN spamming its recruiting statement on every map on Darkhaven every 15 mins?

This guild actually had a rotation method for spamming and gets slammed by low levels for it. Maybe SE is attempting to teach this guild a lesson.

You don’t wanna see the banners? Darkhaven doesn’t want to see the spam. The end.

It always cracks me up when TWO people post the exact same message within seconds of each other. If you start spamming your invite every 20 minutes people will learn to hate your guild. Not a very good way to earn a reputation.

If guild wars 2 had a monthly fee the game would not be how it is now. It’s great for a $60 purchase but there is not enough content to justify $15 a month.

I wish they would add a filter to remove the icons from your map. That would probably be the best thing to do. 90% of the commanders you see only bought it to make their kitten bigger.

achensherd.2735:

I like this idea, but I think lag and disconnections would prevent this from being as awesome as it probably could be. There have been one too many times when I’ve gotten killed as a result of the game being unresponsive or misinterpreting my actions.

For instance, I was on a dungeon run about a month ago that had us taking turns to sneak by a mob. When it got to my turn, I did what everyone else did, only to find myself dead in a matter of seconds for no apparent reason. Upon asking “WTF?!?”, a party member remarked that from his perspective, I had run smack-dab into the middle of the mob, versus safely along the side like I did and saw from my perspective.

Getting killed as a result of gameplay is one thing, but getting killed by what can be categorized as a game malfunction is another entirely, one that would probably result in a lot of support tickets. That said, the idea itself is sound, and without any connection issues it’d be great for the experience.

I think because GW2 IS a MMO having a hardcore mode could only work if instead of a death meaning death they instead had it give you a massive debuff. Like maybe no switching weapons, half health, no dodging, no healing, 2 utilities, no elite skill. It won’t ever happen though I would think.

Behellagh.1468:

I was just reminded in another thread of one. Accidentally triggering dodge on a jumping puzzle because I’m cautiously moving myself close to a ledge.

Tap – move forward
Tap – move forward
Tap – oops timing to close dodge forward

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Splot!

This is exactly the reason I have double tap to evade toggled off.

Back on topic! When I leveled up my thief I did d/d and it has one attack that vaults you over your target and causes bleeds I think. I had the great idea to use this attack on top of a mountain while fighting an enemy.. let’s just say I was laughing after I hit the ground dead.

I wouldn’t mind guesting on TC. I’ve heard a lot of good things about that server but I’ll guest to whatever.

loneknight.8425:

CobaltSixty.1542:

The only PvE thing you get out of the JP is 2 green/rare items. The rest is PvP related.

Last weekend a lucky folk from our server got Dusk dropped from JP chest in borderland, so yea, people who want legendary so much will want, & must be willing, to risk being grieved just get that precursor.

I wouldn’t trust people linking in game because it seems like it is ALWAYS Dusk getting dropped and nothing else.

So you are complaining about pvp in a pvp zone bascially? It’s always happened and it always will happen.

proxy.7963:

I wonder if whichever Dev said they would / confirmed they were working on the Scavenger Hunt on the forums is regretting it yet?

Well they originally mentioned it in a newspost in November I believe. I think it was Colin that said it wasn’t currently in development, just talking phase.

It won’t be out for 6 months at the minimum. They haven’t even really mentioned it lately.

Well it seems we have our 5. We should decide which server we want to do the leveling on. I`m on Yak`s Bend. I`ll probably be using my Charr Ele. I think he`s level 3 or 4 right now.

I usually get on around 6 pm est or so.

I`d be interested in this. I`ve been wanting to level up an alt for a while now but soloing is boring the second time around. I`d much rather have a group willing to work together to level up. Would be a lot quicker.

DeadlySynz.3471:

It’d be nice if this thing even spawns. Doesn’t seem to follow the timer at all. I camped in the area and watched for it for over 4 hours (2 timers worth) and nothing.

I’m pretty sure that the wurm needs to be player initiated. It’s not like Maw or FE that spawns automatically.

I second the race specific emotes. It seems like a major oversight to have everybody do the same exact emote minus the dance.

Yourself.6870:

In a way you can already do this. Make a new character and use your main characters funds to level all crafting professions on him (you get 10 levels per full profession). This is quite expensive though (around 60-90g in total) but much quicker than normal leveling.

Keep in mind though that part of the leveling process is getting to know your class, which you skip if you skip the leveling.

Half map completion and half crafting would be better in that case. You get to learn to play your class and you skip 50% of the leveling. So craft to 15 first then do 10 levels then craft and so on.

Keep in mind that we have 24 servers. Overflows are the leftovers from ALL of those servers. If an event spawns at the same time on a few servers it will cause more overflows to form once they fill up.

I would love to do this but I play on the NA servers as well. I guess NA people could join up and make their own 5 man party. Just started up an ele as well.

I`d personally rather guild halls first then personal housing.

Don’t worry.. they’ll have some 400 gem town clothes on the gem store like valentines day.

It’s very possible it doesn’t stack or it’s bugged. It’s unlikely a dev will respond though.

Edge.4180:

critickitten.1498:

No, you don’t find it fun. There are people out there who find it fun to play an event primarily for its rewards.

No, what you’re finding “fun” there is the reward, not the event. We could replace these boss events with me standing around handing a rare out to anyone that comes by and whispers me a joke, and you’d call that “fun” because you’re only there for the reward handout, not the experience. That’s the problem.

critickitten.1498:

What you are proposing is nothing less than the death of most open-world events, because instead of rewarding players for trying to run content (as any good game does), you are punishing them for not doing it. That doesn’t encourage people to play, it encourages them to find a new game.

Holy over-exaggeration. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but 99% of the events in this game do not offer you a chest reward at the end and are continually participated in regardless. And yet the world keeps on spinning..! Where is your “death of most open-world events”?

Most of those small events you refer to take a couple minutes to complete. Dragons and other big boss events take 10-30 minutes to beat. Why do something harder if you don’t get rewarded for it? If they spawned most people wouldn’t do them because they can get better exp/karma/money doing another event. You would have some doing the events but not the massive amount of people doing it now.

People like being rewarded. Who would have thought?

If you live in an area with daylight savings I would imagine it would go back to 8 est. I’m actually looking forward to that.

Not impossible. Go early in the morning if you can. It accumulates through multiple fights though.

The best is being put into overflow 30 minutes before the spawn window. That’s always fun.

I think to create masterwork items you need to be 50 in a craft (minus cooking). It’s not hard to get to. It’s not like they are forcing you to do it. It’s till optional to do after all.

I would imagine that they will add a choose your own monthly later on down the road though. Just using the dailies as a bench mark as to what the players liked and didn’t like. Having a bunch of options gives them the freedom to add in others like keg brawl or jumping puzzles or putting wvw kills back in. Options are always nice to have,