Guild Wars 2

Some people thing raids are still too easy and some think they’re still too hard.

Add an Infantile Mode and a Tribulation Mode with reduced and increased rewards, but achievements still earnable.

Unlock elite specialization.

Go nearly full Berserker.

Use lifesteal to stay alive.

I veto this idea. Migraine is just the right difficult, especially now that more bugs have been fixed.

leftyboy.9358:

My first thought is that if ANET is going the way of rl merch they much be hard up for cash and oh no, but ill try not to go there.

…hmm was trying to think of something rl id buy but coming up short.

idk plush dolls would probably get you some good money.

or whatever team responsible for goods (maybe some marketing division?) realized that gw2 merch doesn’t sell as well as other games, because there isn’t enough of it yet, or stuff worth buying!

Gaile Gray.6029:

This survey will close today, but I think you have a few more minutes to vote, if you care to do so.

Thanks so much to the thousands of people who took part. Your input is very much appreciated!

oh gods I didn’t notice the survey in the OP so I posted in the thread; I think I got my response in though!

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Maybe the OP is thinking of that champ wind rider at the end of the Southsun skipping stones jp?

I’ve killed that champion about 10 times but the wind riders in the rest of the world must all die as well

Anything with a Slayer achievement should have its own slayer potion

just change it so it’s more effective if used based on your positioning relative to enemies

This a good question to ask. I own over 1000 games and Guild Wars 2 is my favourite, yet the merchandise hasn’t been worthwhile yet.

FWIW I’m male and live in Ontario, Canada.

Things I would buy:
- Figures of major characters, bosses and monsters, quaggans, or golems. Large ones and small toy-sized ones.
- Plushies of quaggans and golems, as long as the golems are the wide golems and not the tiny Hero-Tron sized relay golems
- The awesome HoT logo on black t-shirts (and other clothing) that Arenanet employees and co wore during the Heart of Thorns announcement / and launch celebrations
- Hoodies. I wear a hoodie 365 days of the year and I need more of them. I usually wear it zipped up, so I wouldn’t be able to see a t-shirt design anyway. Make more hoodies.
- Jackets
- Small electronics like USB sticks or neat combinations like the Zojja-Golem USB hub
- Anything that comes with a physical “Collector’s Edition” of the next expansion, which Heart of Thorns did not have.
- Guild Wars 2 toaster, if it didn’t toast only the Gw2 logo on to the bread
- Headgear like caps and beanies, or stuff based off helmet armor from the game
- Socks!
- mugs that don’t suck
- anything not showing the charr, kodan, tengu, and other visually displeasing races

Things I would not buy:
- charr stuff
- artbook or soundtrack, despite both being amazing
- posters; I’ve already got a lot
- watches, wristbands
- umbrellas, backpacks, bags. including charr and quaggan backpacks or hoods, no thanks.
- mousepads
- stuff with digital unlocks; okay for some games but not gw2 thanks
- undergarments, lingerie
- books, unless they’re available locally
- Guild Wars 1 merchandise
- Notepads, stickers with map iconography e.g. commander tags, personal story stars

Merchandise depicting people or creatures should look pretty accurate, otherwise it’s a no-buy from first glance. It’s gotta be cute, sexy, or tough/fierce. Don’t make a quaggan look too uncanny and weird, a statue of Zojja making her look like an old man, or a dragon that looks like it would befriend you.

I’m much more likely to buy all Guild Wars 2 merchandise if it were available locally or if the shipping were cheap or waived if I made a large enough purchase online. I would have to see what products are available first.

These would be really useful; the recipes could drop from wind riders. Thanks.

Definitely sticking with 32-bit; 64-bit still chops your framerate by a factor of 3. Thanks for the launch option, dx11 when

StrangerDanger.3496:

Cronos.6532:

nevermind my $3000 pc doesn’t support dx12 rofl

just make it dx11

Windows 10 is free, I would upgrade if I were you.

The thing is, DX9 was a success since most developers utilized it…however, I hear it was a total PITA to code using it, and that dx10 and 11 were even less dev friendly. DX12 is suppose to be better on code monkies, at least from what ive heard.

Also the advantages of the jump from 9 to 12 is huge, dx10 gets you…?? and 11 tessalation…which is ok but you know…

DX12 is going to be the new standard, so the sooner they get on board the better….

But yeah I don’t see it happening…its a huge undertaking that wont yield new players really…maybe a few would check it out just to see how it all works if they get it done before it becomes standard issue…which wont happen.

We will have to wait for GW3 for that….and to be honest…they should do the WoW thing, just keep making the game you have that people like better rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. So maybe if they see fit to not make a 3rd game and just keep gw2 going forever, then dx12 would make sense.

I was always on Windows 10. DirectX 12 only works on very new cards, whether they’re running Windows 10 or not.

So in summary, if your pet is the only one doing the killing and your mastery is doing the looting, the GMs will not investigate you for AFK macroing, because that applies to actions your character makes.

Can someone confirm? If this is the case, that’s good.

it’s not that bad that you can get 2 from TD or more than one per day per map, it’s better that way. don’tfix

there’s probably going to be an expansion where we kill two of them, like primordus and kralk in the same release

ooh, nottsgman.8206 is right. it awards if you run around her

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redid 5 times didn’t get

The game would also feel if it had more content if goals will actually be achievable; this is more than the fixes that will be coming in the Spring patch and this problem will not be solved. Gold needs to be devalued.

So I made a poll, and it seems that most of the populace likes this decision of shifting to Living World content, they just don’t like the lack of promises being kept or the rushed content releases.

http://strawpoll.me/7187079/r

Mike O Brien.4613:

“AN shipped half an expansion with HoT.” I take issue with that. etc etc

i think the counterargument to this is that the writing team made this sound like it wouldn’t be half-akittened content

Which would you rather see? Visit the link to the poll below and vote. It’s one or the other. No other options, this is just for that team. No bias, don’t care.

http://strawpoll.me/7187079

Thanks for your input.

Mike O Brien.4613:

We have a team of six developers working on that, who could work on it for years to come.

sounds like you need a new team of people who can work fast and efficiently, or stop imposing deadlines like with the team who made mouth of mordremoth

wait i thought it was two weapons, I reread it and it is literally a shortbow called Chuka and Champawat. kitten that is disappointing

oh yeah companies also seem to be really scared of putting things to a vote. Jagex also hates money, but at least they let players decide what is to be released. Anet is guessing what people want, and guessing wrongly

politicians keep promises better than arenanet; I can’t buy the expansion when upcoming MMOs and Blizzard games actually somehow offer more content. anet’s marketing and content teams have failed, what’s left?

also new legendaries are content, and great content. sure they don’t offer any real storyline or new environments, but it’s hundreds of hours of surprisingly non-grindy gameplay.

at least make it so amalgamated gemstones accept sigils, runes, leather, spikes, and player tears

sounds like we won’t be getting rid of all the elder dragons (recent blog post implied one expansion will have multiple killed) and we’ll just skip to guild wars 3

This is not okay, especially considering people don’t want LS3 in the same format. Gw2 has no new content and the content team should go in its original direction.

The only good news is that they released staff and pistol in the first group; staff is used by almost every profession and I use staff and p/p on my Daredevil. Warriors are basically the only ones missing out.

On the side of the marketing team, they’re doing terrible. Most of the content on the gem store It is very good that they aren’t moneygrubbing, but they’re trying so hard to avoid that that none of the items on the gem store released in the past year are worth buying. Nothing good for convenience or utility. If there is any, it’s nerfed so hard that it is not worth the purchase price and that I would rather spend my real money on another video game’s MTX.

I have also suggested Guild Wars 2 to about 50 friends, because it is the best MMORPG on the market. Thirty bought the game, ten dropped it, and ten said they won’t buy it unless it’s on Steam. Who cares if Valve takes 30% smh tbh fam; you’re losing sales and your marketing is bad. Now that Guild Wars 2 is free-to-play, it is even easier to put Gw2 on Steam because you can make it free. That way people who already own the game can still use the Steam version, unlike the original Guild Wars. Free, and then you upgrade your account and link it with Steam. Valve and ArenaNet were like best buds, man. Free-to-play games are wildly more successful on Steam, and you don’t want EVE Online to have more subscribers than Gw2 just because it’s on Steam! Foreigners and all kinds of poor people install every free-to-play game on Steam, and that’s what earns Gw2 ez players. I can’t move to seattle to make this happen pls why do you hate money

tl;dr The marketing and content teams. We’ve had issues with these teams at previous events. Some Arenanet people lobbied to bring them back for 2016, feeling that they deserved another chance. That was a mistake. These teams are stupid, and we won’t be working with him again.

Even though Guild Wars 2 is currently the best MMO, I will not be buying the next expansion unless there is enough content that I go from 16k AP to 19k AP by the time MapleStory 2 comes out in North America. Both technically ncsoft, so the money all goes to the same place k e k

Assic.2746:

• After a Sky hammer cannon’s attack the whole map (besides sky hammer cannon’s platform) should shake and it would cause a short knockdown effect for everyone without stability.

this is okay in a PvE environment but that’s insane

Sykper.6583:

Make Skyhammer a special channel like Temple, where you can only access the platform while it is active at say 13 minutes, 8 minutes, and 3 minutes.

If you complete the channel, it will fire a shot on all three points that deals the normal damage / knockdown to enemies if it hits and neutralizes the point if the enemy has it, or flips it to your team if it were neutral before.

…That’s my idea for Skyhammer anyways, I rather it not be like a treb on that map.

sounds fun but I think it shouldn’t capture neutral points

I like the map in its current state, but I am okay with the suggestion of changing the cannon platform so it’s harder to die versus people with Knockback, Launch, or Fear. Skyhammer should deal slightly less damage and not Knockdown players. The audio indicator by the scientist that sounds like Trahearne should stay.

What if, instead of making it so only the cannon can break the disappearing platforms, they broke after being on it too long? This would mean that if you just passed over it, then walked backward over it, you wouldn’t fall. Either that or, as soon as it breaks, it comes back.

People don’t seem to like the idea of the opening staying there for awhile before it regenerates. However, I think that it players should still be rewarded for stunning or immobilizing a player that is on a disappearing platform.

The way it currently works is:

1. Player walks over platform
2. Platform flickers as a warning
3. Platform fades and players on the platform fall to their death
4. Platform is still a threatening empty space

How it could work:

1. Player is standing on platform for an extended period of time (2? 3? 4? seconds) for any reasons: standing still, Immobilized, Knockdown, moving slowly (walking or Chilled)
2. Platform flickers in the same way just before it breaks
3. Platform breaks
4. Platform regenerates within a second

If this would be too confusing to players, perhaps there could be a modification to the flickering behaviour or a different indicator. Obviously, the larger platforms are harder to get off of, unlike the tiny ones near the control points. This would make the tiny ones people complain about balanced while not making them a useless terrible feature.

Aside from the performance issues, it seems players are 50/50 about the Oasis event due to its nature to either help a world snowball or get a comeback, while also being fun as-is with great visuals and audio, which is why I like it. I’m glad it’s supposedly only temporarily disabled.

Thanks for the followup, Dara!

Dara Potocska.8196:

Thanks MyPinkBunny! We’ve been looking into the other issues that are similar and definitely have them on our radar. If you have more information on them, folks have been writing things up for us in this thread: Guild Mission Problems Any additional information is always appreciated. <3

Concerning the Guild Challenge Mission for the Oasis:
I spoke today with folks involved with WvW and I’ve been told that we’ve removed the Oasis Event from WvW as of today’s release. Along with this, the WvW team has removed the WvW Guild Challenge Mission with the Oasis Event and caused the guild missions to reset.

Once members of the guild have picked up the new build, the guild missions should not include the Guild Challenge Mission for the Oasis. If the mission is still there after everyone has grabbed our most recent build (patch/release), please let us know and I’ll talk to the team again to see if something has gone astray.

Thank you, guys and gals!

lame

should have just removed the mission, not the event, then fixing up the event later. please say it’s coming back in a similar form

now I have less reason to play desert borderlands

dye channels on deluxe edition glow (the rest is supposed to look like the HoT logo)

he literally just recorded it from the stream

it’s Malchor’s Leap lmao

NOW THAT’S HOW YOU SELL MORE EXPANSIONS

expect a new surge of players in Heart of Thorns maps

> Dive in various locations in tyria (seriously anet? this? a kittening mastery point??)

This takes about ten minutes and was made easier with Heart of Thorns.

> Kill the SW legendary bosses (Rng based boss spawn chance)

Easy.

- Complete my remaining season 2 story’s wich are locked for me and require a 100g or 800 gem investment

Why didn’t you play when they were free? 100g is virtually nothing anyway.

It also sounds like you already have quite a lot of mastery points; everything besides what you listed means you’re only missing 1-5. Big deal.

jessyager.2749:

Fair enough, that all makes sense. So for those of you who are good with all the numbers and mechanics what would the lowest feasible level be to get credit for the achievement? Someone said 74 would that be the lowest or is there a reasonable chance at like 60 or something?

if you glance all your attacks you probably won’t get credit for the kill

If you are below level 74, all of your attacks will deal minimal damage

most graphics cards don’t support dx12, but dx11 would be great. or don’t be stupid and just go full openGL

kuritsutian.2987:

Hopefully in January?

january 2017

actual opinion on this though, shouldn’t be bannable. poll it or something

ham.8209:

Cronos.6532:

I know I can’t get banned for posting Tybalt/Sieran/Forgal or Wynne in map chat, but can I get banned for Eir/Faolain/Trahearne?

now if you can get banned for them and you can not get banned for apes . that is too funny

apes?

wait how is that a double standards thing

I know I can’t get banned for posting Tybalt/Sieran/Forgal or Wynne in map chat, but can I get banned for Eir/Faolain/Trahearne?

Yikes, 14 months?!

Typo there: Chris Cleary not Clearly

We also need Lady Kasmeer’s bikini.

Hm, not so sure about Lost Precipice having ease of access, I can barely tell where anything else compared to based Gilded Hollow.

Not bannable according to Chris Cleary.

https://twitter.com/Shazbawt/status/658092329962573824

Does Arenanet consider this an exploit as long as it lasts? I want to know whether or not I am allowed to take advantage of it.

The potions from PvP dailies that give 250pts of reward track progress, are there measures in place to prevent fast unlocks like with the WvW drinks exploding?

GW2 asset kit hasn’t been updated in years, we gonna get some official resources to download Heart of Thorns assets? Also wallpapers with the painterly art seen on account.arena.net, etc