Guild Wars 2

I would like to see something similar to roller beetle racing. I miss that from GW1.

Awesome – thanks

Hi guys,

Can anyone confirm if anet will defo be showing HoT at Egx rezzed next month? I want to buy tickets but I am only going for the sneaky peak of the expansion.

Ta

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Edit: Remember, any password that has been used here, or (in many cases) elsewhere is on the blacklist, and will engender an error. Do try to choose a password that is unique.

Good luck.

You my friend, are a genius! that’s totally fixed it. Thank you very much

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I assume this is for a second (or more) account. You will have to wait for assistance from the CS Team. If you have not received the (almost immediate) automated ‘Thanks for submitting a request…’ response, you might peruse the Sticky, ‘Not Getting our Emails’. If you have received the automated response, you need only wait for the personal response.

If more than 72 – 96 hours pass with no further response, you can post your ticket number in the Sticky, ‘Tickets for Review 3 Days and Older’.

Good luck.

Thanks, I have found in the past they have a very quick turn around time for these things. I am quite inpatient though.

This is my original account.

Hello, Does anyone know if there is an issue with account registration at the moment? I have just brought a digital key for the heroic addition and I am having problems creating the account.

The registration page allows me to enter my product code but when I get onto the next page to enter my details such as name, email, password, dob and account name.

It does not create the account, instead the password is removed and the rest of the fields stay completed.

I have tried entering loads of password combinations for over 8 characters but nothing seems to work.

I have also raised a support ticket but so far I haven’t had anything back from them.

Any assistance would be great

Thanks

Based on what we have seen with the creation of the Guardian and the amalgamation of previous gw1 professions , its entirely possible for the dervish to have evolved in 250 years.

If you take the Necro for example: In GW1 minions could not be raised until a corpse was available, in GW2 minions can be raised as required.

The Dervish in GW2 could be amended to become viable for all races by dropping the references to the gods and making it more generic like wind magic, earth tomes and so on.

Re introducing the Dervish as a profession would be the perfect opportunity to bring back the scythe as an additional weapon of choice, I am sure it would be possible to allow other professions to use it such as necro and potentially Guardian.

I was a big fan of the Dervish in GW1 and would love to see it make a return in one form or another.

I have been in a similar situation myself. I noticed that I had the hunter skin unlocked and assumed I had done the same thing. I found support to be extremely helpful. They checked my account and confirmed that I had unlocked it as a pvp reward prior to the patch.

Best of luck getting it returned.

I am really enjoying Halloween this year. Even though the content is the same as last year, the rewards make all the difference.

A chance to get the rare skins, the Halloween vendor in LA and the drops from the labyrinth are awesome.

shame its not on for longer

Iason Evan.3806:

DaveyC.4398:

Just take away their waffles and give them back once the job is done?

Those waffles have already exited the building if you catch my meaning.

Well we are down to the last hour before tomorrow (UK time) it does appear that the waffles have been eaten and food poisoning might have set in.

Just take away their waffles and give them back once the job is done?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Those who post “it’s live” in advance of the build will be banished to an ant hill in the Maguuma Wastes, with live ants.

Gaile, Can you please give us a rough eta? I need to go to sleep soon.

Thanks

Its not like its going to be ground breaking though is it? Last years content re released. it would have been nice to see it released in a timely manner considering we have had nothing new for over a month.

Concidering how long it took for the game to be developed, I think an expansion is a quite some time away. Unless they have been working on it already for a couple of years.

If the person being employed for raids is going to be contributing to an expansion, and or new content, they will have to spend time getting upto speed before any Dev work is undertaken.

It’s really good to see that end game is the next thing on the agenda but don’t expect quality work to appear over night.

As raids would be a significant change to the existing content, they are going to want to get it right from day one.

Crovax.7854:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Thanks for this feedback, it’s very informative!

What rubs me the wrong way is that this looks like a confirmation by an Anet official that this is exactly the kind of player they want to appeal to…

I’d just love a clarification if this is the route this game will take from now on (/since a few patches ago) or if we can expect some changes and additions that aren’t targetted at people who are overwhelmed by bank space (what?!).

See the thing is I have been playing this game since the beta and have invested close to 2000 hours in game.

I more than anyone would like to see changes that would affect end game users.

I have no problems with new players joining a game as ultimately, that’s how a community grows.

I also work for a software company and have been involved with blended learning for over 8 years. As a result I understand that the core founding’s of an application need to be in order before significant changes can be made that will impact experienced users, after all if you are experienced, you already know the basics…

You are not a new player and cannot appreciate the view of a new user. This patch was not tailored to veterans, it was aimed at improvements to people who are new.

This does not mean that improvements for veterans will not come, its just that improvements come from the ground up.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Lobo Dela Noche.5127:

Casmurro.9046:

I dont think the example that the OP is bringing up is very relevant. He basically had to drag his girlfriend into playing gw2, he even had to buy the game for her. I bet that after 20 hours of playing the game she will get bored and stop playing, and no matter what changes you recommend that wont make her hold more attention to the game.

The game should catter to people that are interested in playing it, if you buy a game you should do a little research about what you are buying before spending money on it, and not expect to be hand-holded all the way through the game.

So, basically she doesnt know how mmos work, didnt even bother in buying a copy herself and after only a few hours she felt overwhelmed by everything the game has to offer so lets dumb down the game even more so more and more people that dont give a kitten about the game can complain less until they reach lvl 80 and get bored anyway.

QFT

Catering to those that aren’t going to hang around anyways makes me think they don’t want the kind of players that will end up staying for the long haul. I could understand making the starter zones in to proper tutorials to explain some of the things like dodging and combo fields that are completely different than other MMOs. The changes they did do though show a total disconnect from the playerbase.

Agree with all of the above. MMORPGs have a target audience. When you bring randoms off the street and watch them play the game, of course they’re going to be confused.

ANET’s problem is they don’t know what this game is on a fundamental level. If it was meant to be a farmville game, catered to as broad a swathe of the public as possible, the marketing and advertising departments failed heavily years ago at launch. I bought this game because I like the MMORPG genre, I have a fundamental understanding of what comes along with that genre, and I am the type of player who would have stuck around for a long time.

It’s like ANET made “Game of Thrones” and realized that it doesn’t cater to the “Teletubbies” crowd. Well, duh?

End game and new player experience are worlds apart. A new player experience can be informative without it restricting the level of end game.

I feel that the core reason most players are upset about the change is because the end game has been neglected.

Sure there are living world updates every couple of weeks but they hardly present a challenge to an experienced player.

I would love to see the underworld and FoW make a return, that would at least give some elitist content back into the game whilst sticking to the original lore.

Casmurro.9046:

I dont think the example that the OP is bringing up is very relevant. He basically had to drag his girlfriend into playing gw2, he even had to buy the game for her. I bet that after 20 hours of playing the game she will get bored and stop playing, and no matter what changes you recommend that wont make her hold more attention to the game.

The game should catter to people that are interested in playing it, if you buy a game you should do a little research about what you are buying before spending money on it, and not expect to be hand-holded all the way through the game.

So, basically she doesnt know how mmos work, didnt even bother in buying a copy herself and after only a few hours she felt overwhelmed by everything the game has to offer so lets dumb down the game even more so more and more people that dont give a kitten about the game can complain less until they reach lvl 80 and get bored anyway.

I am going to take from this that in your opinion, someone new to MMOs should not be playing GW2.

I live with my girlfriend so buying her a computer game as I have done many times for console games has nothing to do with whether she is ‘Interested’ enough to play GW2 or not. She wanted to play because she saw how much I enjoyed it and thought she might too.

So the other comparison I have is a friend I recommended the game to who was also new to MMOs. He got the game a year ago and did not get past level 10 as he found the NPE to be overwhelming.

Vayne.8563:

Obviously it’s not better for me. I know the kitten ed game already.

I am refraining from commenting on how this affects seasoned players due to the announcement of unforeseen bugs on patch day.

People forget what it is like to be new to an online world as large as GW2.

I would like to give perhaps a different perspective to the NPE. So to give a little background to this, I am not a new player. My first MMO was GW1 and have played others in between the two games.

MMOs in general have core concepts such as armour, weapons, upgrades, crafting, loot drops and countless other things that most players who are GW2 veterans or gamers who have played other MMOs will take their understanding of for granted.

So my Girlfriend decided that after a few years of moaning at me for playing GW2 all the time she would give it a try during the free trial. I ultimately brought her an account as it was in the sale.

My Girlfriend has no experience of an MMO, her typical computer games are things like Sim City and the odd PS4 or Xbox One game like Kinect Sport.
At first when she created a character and did her first starting levels, she was getting really into it. I followed her around in the low level areas trying to explain the basics like navigating, killing mobs etc.

At the end of her first few hours she seemed quite into the game. Yesterday she went back onto it and continued doing hearts until she hit level 10. At this point she had what can be described as a mini melt down as to how confusing the requirements are. She got very frustrated at not knowing what the armour types are for, what to do with loot, why we have bank storage, what to do with crafting materials, why we needed crafting materials, what the purpose of food buffs are and all of the things that a seasoned MMO player would know instinctively.

She felt that the game did not do a good job of explaining these elements during the initial game play.

Based on my girlfriends experience so far, I believe that the changes to the NPE are most definitely a good idea as having everything available from the get go would have been even more overwhelming.

I also believe that the NPE should introduce some of the points mentioned above at an earlier stage so her confusion could have been minimised.
She hasn’t rage quit yet but we will see how her next few days go.

I think the point I am trying to make with this post is that most people who are moaning about the changes are not new to MMOs or GW2 and should think about what it would be like to start this game with no understanding of the mechanics or MMOs in general.

I believe further changes could be made in order to help new players learn these concepts within the game, perhaps tutorials that could be accessed within the game rather than having to access the wiki.

Hi Guys,

Does anyone else think it would be awesome if we got an expansion to Elona or Cantha but at the same time still had the living world updates in tyria?

That way we could still take a shot at the dragons and see a new world also. As much as I like killing dragons, 6 in a row will probably get a bit boring..

Who still thinks a dragon is coming?

SiNoS.2147:

DaveyC.4398:

On the Merged Magic find Thread, someone from Anet said they would compensate people with MF. That has not happened, people with MF got the same as everyone else.

Can you link the post please? I personally think your misunderstanding the meaning. I dont think they ment they would give you extra mf just because you already had mf gear. I think it was the fact they were making mf gear able to become other types of gear thus not making the old mf gear useless.

I will have a look for it tomorrow, I cannot be bothered atm.

On the Merged Magic find Thread, someone from Anet said they would compensate people with MF. That has not happened, people with MF got the same as everyone else.

no one said 300% other than that being the account max… I certainly did not expect 300%.

Healix.5819:

Giving you a free 20% and allowing you to select a new stat combo is taking care of it. Furthermore, if you had no use for the set after the change, you can salvage it for dark matter, which is used to create ascended gear.

Chickenshoes.6250:

You know what would have solved all this crap?

A magic-find percentage on party nameplates.

Mind = blown

People complaining about the magic find guy in the group wasn’t the sole reason why it was removed. People felt forced into wearing it.

tbh MF is a stupid mechanic altogether.

Change is not the problem, its being led to believe one thing then getting another. I never expected to get 300% account bound. But they where the ones who said they would take care of people who have invested in MF but that has not happened. Every one got the same regardless of MF investment.

They have purposely misled people by saying people with magic find would be compensated. I wouldn’t be so mad if they had just gave us all the rods to start off with.

I think I am done with this game. I am really mad with myself for even buying Gems to support them after this.

I have to say I am seriously disappointed with the changes made to MF within the game. I fail to see how 20% account magic find to every user in the game makes up for all the players who brought magic find armor and trinkets.

You guys said you would give players extra MF for the loss of the items. All I got was a crappy 20%!

Complete waste of time spending hours running around crafting sets for two of my characters.

and before people start moaning about MF taking away from other stats blah blah blah I have two sets of exotics for both my main chars.