Guild Wars 2

Obsidian.1328:

The big dev shuffle was after Nightfall I believe, but don’t quote me on that. :-/

Well, Heres the writers who wrote Nightfall: From http://gw1101.gtm.guildwars.com/products/nightfall/features/nightfallcredits.php
Brian Campbell
Sean Ferguson
Cory Herndon
Caitlin Kittredge
Will McDermott
Bobby Stein

And heres the writers who wrote Prophecies: From the Wiki http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_credits#Writers
Stacie Magelssen
Brian Campbell
Sean Ferguson
Cory Herndon
Caitlin Kittredge
Will McDermott
Bobby Stein

Theres only a one person absence in between the two games.

And heres the credits for Eye of the North, again for the writers.

Brian Campbell
Sean Ferguson
Caitlin Kittredge
Stacie Magelssen
Will McDermott
Bobby Stein

And heres the credit list for GW2: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Writers
Angel Leigh McCoy
Bobby Stein
David Wilson
John Ryan
Matt Forbeck
Peter Fries
Scott McGough

The biggest change in staff was between EoTn and when GW2 was published, at least for the writing team ^^

ColinJohanson.2394:

This is for weapon and armor currently – weapons use the same recipe as armor to stat change except they use inscriptions to allow you to change instead of insignias.

Alas yes it does destroy the runes and sigils in the item, the mystic forge doesn’t currently have a way to allow us to do this kind of stat changing without it working that way.

Holy cow than you so much for this, really!!!!! Time to reforge my two greatswords and my longbow!!!

Doggie.3184:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Thanks for screwing altaholics anet, thanks a lot.

Just make 3 sets, light/med/heavy and trade them back and forth between charz. That’s what I do.

See mine and the persons above post please This issue is nonexistant now!

mulzi.8273:

Ascended armor stats are not changing AND this tues. update will have a new system to change stats on ascended armor. Directly from Colin:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Gear-Anet-please-fix-this

Was about to post that myself, thank you!

Spiky.8403:

Obtaining skills? Sorry I can’t follow all news coming out, could you explain, please?

Think he meant skins

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

That new system is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Omg thank you!!! <3

EDIT: Does this apply to weapons too?!

Raven.3957:

There are no Magi trinkets either. Aside the two rings you get from 100% the collection from Twilight Arbor and Honor of the Waves. Thats the only two Magi trinkets in the GAME and you can only get them once each per account. So only one character can have half magi ascended trinkets. (Magi = Healingpower/Vitality/Precision)

Quite wrong. You can buy them for 40 laurels and 3 gold, and they arent rings either

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_Master_Collector_Rednax_Youngblood

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Once-again-Communication-issues-guys/first#post5173272

Its this.

I havent made a post either way, but yes this is true! Already got my ultimate anyways because i will be buying HOT regardless as a purely PVE player. But still i agree with this!

Sure! Would give me a reason to go back and do them again since i have them all done!

Gray.9041:

from what I’ve heard, the american equivalent of VAT – sales tax – is paid by the buyer. so an american might buy the ultimate edition and end up paying $105.45.

This is true. It also varies by state. Some do not have one, while some have an excessive one.

I paid 108.78$ for mine here in Washington State.

Yea its fireheart rise itself. i have no problems on any other map, on any of my characters(Except once on sparkfly fen, but logging out did fix that) Logging out and restarting did not fix the fireheart rise map.

Tyrion.8632:

ok here is the maths… ure in 5 guilds and they are 10 members active at all times… thats 50 members… and there is a scenario where u have a SINGLE guild that is 5 times the size and u have 50 active members… they have the same interest as u do. What would be ure choice?

Id pick those smaller guilds. As ive stated multiple times, i will not ever join a guild that is large, ever again. Nor would i ever let them know anything about me as i have done with these smaller guilds. But you clearly do not wish to understand why not everyone likes being part of a big guild like you do. And that is fine. But this change is a good thing, a really good thing, and that is my opinion, just as yours is yours.

Tyrion.8632:

Well dante… ure considerd inactive if u dont play the game for 2 months its a rule that even a newcommer can ablige to its a no brainer… if ure not in the game for 2 months… the community and the snowball moves on

Its not a rule obviously. Considering i have 5 guilds that are there for me when i get back from being gone for sixth months.

As i said, i prefer smaller more tight knit guilds. They all know my gaming pattern, so they dont do anything about me being gone. They know me. My two big guilds never knew me as well as these 5 much smaller guilds do. They know things about me that nobody IRL besides my family knows. Thats how much i trust them and how awesome they are as a community.

Its that kick feature thats one of the big turn offs from any big guild. That and other things. I take 6 month breaks at a time, Constantly. I play for sixth months, leave for sixth months, and go play WOT. I dont log in to GW2 at all during that time. With my current guilds i can leave and come back and they will be here. Hell the people who usually play are always here when i come back too, and they are more than happy to see me! I wouldnt get that with your guild. In 3 months id be gone. When i got back, i wouldnt even bother asking to rejoin the guild, because of how i play this game. And my one roleplay guild, does guild missions, every saturday, they run WVW in the evenings, before most people start roleplaying(Im not on TC so i cant join them), PVP too. Puzzles get done every saturday right after missions.

Tyrion.8632:

But again if u had a guild that did all of thoes things what would u do then

My roleplay guild does all of those things(BUT: Not all the time, as they might be busy Roleplaying), and my family would not be with them to talk to(As my family doesnt roleplay.) The dungeon guild is there so if i want to do higher level fractals, and the harder dungeons(as my Roleplay group does not do those). I will not ever join a big guild again, after the two experiences i have had with them, both bad, and neither made me want to stay around or join a new big guild. I went guildless for 1 year because of their actions. So as i said, this feature is awesome for my small…all but one less than 100 member guilds.

EDIT: Crimson Cloud said it rather nicely. I do see the benefit, but i will not ever be part of said guild again. I much more enjoy being part of five guilds, each with a different focus.

I have 4 guilds that i split my time between. 2 Roleplay guilds, a family guild and a dungeon guild. Big boon for me!

Big boon for me. AS i can talk to my family, Dungeon and roleplay guilds all at the same time, without having to stop repping. If anything im going to have even more fun! All of them are solid guilds too, most have been around for 2+ years. i enjoy being a part of all three of them, great closed and open communities too.

108.72$ for the HOT ultimate edition where i live in the US.

IIvIIozzie.9250:

People broke down the math month’s ago on reddit, it always floated around 8%

I remember something similiar to this too when i started looking at ascended armor.

honestly i just dont care. Im slowly crafting ascended anyways, so this isnt a big deal to me. I have 12 characters that will eventually have ascended armor. When i dont know, but they will 13 if you count Revenenant.

Maaaggiiicccc?

Or….

All joking aside, he was in the mists, and the mists is a unpredictable place. Maybe when Mordremoth awoke fully shockwaves of his energy went into the mists and Rytlock was attacked by Sylvari there?

Miskar.6723:

Then how come the standard version costs the same in euros and dollars? I bought GW1 trilogy with a friend years ago. I paid 20EUR and she paid 25USD, was pretty much the same.

http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=fxcalculate&action=convert&amount=20&from=EUR&to=USD&btn=Convert

Because of exchange rates.

1 Euro = 1.1$ by current rates.

so 100USD = 112 EUR.

Plus tax(No clue if ya pay tax on that or not, i know i will, so ill be paying 109 USD)

Ill be buying ultimate as soon as i get payed to be honest. This game has given me almost 4000 hours of play time. The only game ive played more than that? GW1, with WoT sitting close behind GW2 for play time. So yes ill be buying this!

CureForLiving.5360:

The forums are never happy.

Shoulda seen map chat out in Fireheart rise. My. God. The. Salt.

Banono.4597:

Aerlen.5326:

Surprised they don’t have some ‘anon’ site for GW2 roleplayers where they bash and harass anyone they don’t like ‘for the lols’

You mean this? http://gw2secrets.tumblr.com/

I regret clicking on that link, i really do.

Wibring.7458:

Would very much love to hear how it’s going!
Got characters who’d love some skins ^^

See above.

Infenso.6329:

Linnael.1069:

inb4 the people with no reasoning spam this with “but da griefers” “but da pvp” “but checking off autoignore is too hard”

o wait looks like they beat me here.

I like how so many seem to be opposed to this, but give no reason at all as to why. Just a flat out no and nothing more.

Because weve gotten tired of these threads popping up every couple weeks and dont feel the need to state our reasons anymore probably is why. for three years these threads have popped up and every time there are more nos than yes, by a large margin too, and the forums are only a small part of the community. But yes, weve all gotten tired of these threads, Mount threads, and What was the other….oh yes, nerfing the zerker threads. And yes there have been many of them.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dueling-where-is-it/page/2#post4796216

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Player-dueling-suggestion/first#post5040071

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Why-not-add-Duel

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Duel-at-PvE-World

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dueling-Option-Forgotten-1/page/4#post4313441

Those are from the first page of google, over the past two years, i could post more, but still, more people are against than for.

However a great many agree that Dueling Arenas wouldnt be a problem and many would use them.

Julischka Bean.7491:

Hi Phys.

Weaker meaning I will not be able to survive the wilds of the jungle????

I guess nobody knows the answer to that yet.

You will be able to do just fine in the jungle. The stat difference is still honestly not that big. it used to only be a 1-2% damage difference, and now it will be a 2-4% damage difference. Woooo!!!!!!

Nope. No thanks. Nada. Do not want. Wouldnt mind arenas that are off in secluded places of maps, but otherwise no.

Shadow.1345:

On the inverse the events are triggered so often that it would be all they are doing. Just last week my guild was doing an RP event in Caledon that also incorporated PvE and searching for something. We barely even got through regrouping after an event with a Hylek attack and it triggered again.

And on the other side of the world my group was parked around where the “Iron Barracuda” sits and you have to defend. That event triggered 4 times while we where there. we did it the first two times, then gave up because of just how badly it unscaled and was taking, we couldnt get anything done. Oh but did we walk out of there with loot!

Donari.5237:

This change is an unsubstantiated claim by a third party site. I suggest waiting for ANet to confirm it before bringing out the torches and pitchforks.

I do agree that it would be a crappy move on their part even though I don’t care about min-maxing. I do care about their philosophy of not having gear make a serious enough difference to fret over maxing it. However, I remain skeptical that this is actually happening. Don’t let a hoaxer troll you guys. After all, if it’s really happening, it’s happening soon enough that no one needs to change their game actions based on it in the interim.

It seems the hoaxer has already trolled some people. Is there any place that Anet has even stated how much they are adding to each of the armor sets, and by that i mean how much per level. White, blue, green, yellow, exotic, ascended? I havent seen anything yet, but it makes more sense for them to just add stat points to each armor and keep it lined up with what they already have than it would be to just throw stat points out there.

coso.9173:

that is awesome, I’ve tried to make a charr, love the concept, but I can’t make one that doesn’t look like a bloodthirsty crazy one. I want to make one cute as Tybalt. </3

One of my friends made a female charr for looks and RPs it as a male, a very fluffy male, and yes we give him crap about it!

I keep hoping for the same though, all the male faces are ugly I just want one that looks nice, that has a full head of teeth, you know, a younger male.

Im going to put my post here too, my friend and i both where going to make Howler for our rangers, till we found out it was broken. I went with the dreamer and she hasnt found another legendary she wants to make.

Forum Bug i choose you!

coso.9173:

Wow, I have been playing just a few months but my impression has been vastly different from others have posted in here.

That was my experience too, before i started RPing. I just followed a small group of players around and listened to their Story and adventure for few weeks before i was asked to join by one of their small time companions. Most RPrs call it lamping(when you watch and dont say anything) And they really dont mind, i did say most.

The blackcitadel is usually a bed of Charr rprs, alot of them. My warband cant go into the Citadel at the moment because of something that happened in our story, but when we can again expect to see at least 10, and as many as 48 players come marching through, and they are always looking for more Charr players!

Basandra Skye.4031:

Zudet used trivial numbers dante, not accurate numbers. Ramp up time aside, it’s a hard fact that maxing out those conditions WILL inflict that much damage. On a singular level, sure a power build might still be better, but that becomes questionable when it’s a far larger group able to come close to sustaining an insane amount of conditions.

The point is still similar. Unless they changed that each player can still only max out at 25 stacks?(Didnt see anything stated either way about that, if it is so, correct me, but it was my understanding that each player had a 25 condition cap still.)

Plus! If they feel its broken and overpowered they will nerf it! But time will tell i guess?!

Basandra Skye.4031:

If anything, it could potentially rival power builds. If a given group of players in a level 80 zone at max condi damage can cap bleeding, burning, and confusion, you’re looking at roughly 1.5m/sec condition damage. -200k/sec without the confusion. It’d be very interesting to see if the same number of players using power builds could match that.

Someone already did the math

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Conditions-Intensified/first#post5146243

Still slightly weaker than a power build, as it should be, as there was no reason for power to only be able to do all the damage. Now people can choose if they want to go conditions or power. Power will still be better, but conditions are very viable now. My Condition necro and ele are going to be a bit more fun to play now

Weindrasi.3805:

That’s a little inaccurate, don’t you think? It’s like saying all dogs are terrible, because I got bit by one once.
Bad first impressions can be killer, but there’s thousands of RP people out there. Don’t let a few bad eggs ruin your experience.

This, so much this, and honestly…every group has its bad eggs. RP, PVE, Dungeons, Fractals, PVP, WVW. They are all the same when it comes to that.

Or, they can leave it as is, because it isnt broken. Thank god Conditions are actually going to be something that players can build for now without having to have their damage ruined by other condition builds..

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

Dante.1763:

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

I love this idea. I would also, like a few other posters, love to be able to turn off the job-o-tron backpack sounds.

Which one do you like more though? Number one or number two?

Definitely number two. I’m all for more customization and not shoehorning one set of players to benefit another.

Sweet sweet, lemme edit that post for something, but thanks!

sharkswithlazers.7632:

I’ve seen a couple, but you’re right. It’s a very under-represented Legendary. That’s a bummer too because as far as weapons go, the Focus is a generally popular one.

Yea! i was generally surprised by how few there are compared to how much they get used.

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

I love this idea. I would also, like a few other posters, love to be able to turn off the job-o-tron backpack sounds.

Which one do you like more though? Number one or number two?

sharkswithlazers.7632:

That actually sounds great, Dante. Hopefully, they will address this eventually. I realize they’ve got their hands full with HoT and the new legendaries will be coming out soon. I’m just walking around in LA with just The Minstrel and no other weapon and it’s a bit disappointing when I can’t see the visual effects that well. I have the game on a high graphics setting but alas lol.

A lot of other Legendaries got visual updates that made huge improvements to their (already cool) designs. Hope some of that love comes to the Minstrel.

That is true they did, but some of those changes werent popular, and some of those changes removed things from legendaries that made them unique(See howler). Hopefully The Minstrel gets some love at some point. It really seems to be the least used of the Legendaries even more so after the shield. I think ive seen one other Minstrel in my three years of playing :O

But hopefully they do something!

sharkswithlazers.7632:

I would hate for my proposed improvements to negatively affect your experience with Minstrel, but I would still like to see some change. I personally love the idea of playing the GW2 theme simplified on a harp. But other than that, I would probably be happy if my projectile looked like lines of music. If you could add something, Dante, what would you like? (I realize I’m a lot less minimalistic in my tastes)

I wouldnt mind having Footsteps in the shape of music notes, i actually at the time thought it had them. I wouldnt do an Aura. Maybe make the music notes a bit more noticeable(As it is, on my Charr, its hard to see them because the way they hold that focus puts it inside the pants im using) Have the Harp play a random selection of 3-5 songs that are deemed the best(And as the game goes on, maybe add more to it) when drawn(On the harp of course.) Would be incredibly amazing to, and not over the top! (IMO).

Actually…this is the only legendary i have…and i crafted it because it didnt have footfalls or look..i dont know..over the top. Sound effects on skill activation would be nice for sure! But please dont change things appearance or make it have over the top effects!

I know im not involved in this at all…but it just seems i dont know..wrong to allow exploits in speed runs with a restricted rule set..period..no matter what they are.. Outsider perspective for ya, do with it what you will.

I ran into this bug a long time ago before they introduced the changed personal story rewards. This is indeed an annoying bug, and it seems to randomly fix itself. I woke up one morning and had 18 of 18 unlocked. Was stuck on 17 out of 18 on my charr cultural armor(BEFORE the wardrobe was a thing.) Had bought every single piece of cultural armor as well.

Would a mini sound slider be such a bad option though? I see two different ways to do it too.

1.) affects all mini sounds, the further you slide it to the right the louder they get, the further left they get quieter till nothing.

2.) Does a few different things, from left to right of course. The furthest left option plays no mini sound. The middle option only plays your mini sounds. The furthest right plays all mini sounds.

Would either of those work?

EDIT: tell me if you like either of these, and why! Please!

Kalavier.1097:

I’m actually going to put this question out, hopefully you can support it Dante.

“What have the current charr government/leadership (and/or RECENT leadership, as in the people directly before Smodur and his fellows), done that warrents such intense, fierce hate? What has the current charr nation (Iron, Blood, Ash) done that is SO HORRIBLE?”

Well I had a huge responses typed out for this, but when i clicked submit, it decided i needed to log in again and didnt save what id typed. Long and short answer time.

Iron and Ash are working together to get a peace treaty signed with Kryta and Ebonhawk. Both of their Imperators realize that its more important for them to work with the humans than it is to continue a pointless siege on Ebonhawk. Blood is going along with it because they cant face Iron and Ash, so they are kept in check regardless of what they want. Flame legion is basically nothing. Hell after the Charr took Ascalon back they stopped advancing, settled down, and turned around to deal with their internal issues, see flame legion. The Charr of today are much worldly than the Charr of 250 years ago, IMO. They Recognize that their race has done horrible things in the past, but they also recognize that they need to move on from those things.

Rednik.3809:

Last time when I read it, Orr was annihilated by humans, remains of Ascalon was wiped out by their own king and Kryta was barely touched by invasion. Oh, I forgot, Kryta suffered very heavy losses in that war, entire Lions Arch was sunk… by Orr humans.
So much for evil Charr.

To be fair to obsidian, Orr was sunk by humans(by the Vizier, being controlled by Abaddon, the same god who helped the charr) When the Charr showed up on their doorstep and laid siege to their city. That is when Orr was sunk. The rest though is so true. But those Orrian Humans where dead and being controlled by Zhaitan when LA was sunk. Which brings me back to one of my points: We have bigger things to worry about than a race that has changed. We have dragons to stop, dragons that dont care who they attack.