Guild Wars 2

Idk… but December 3rd is nearly over and we got no news…

sephiroth.4217:

I’m after a chat with a [uA] Norn male mesmer if anyone can help me out please

Looking for a love connection?

nekretaal.6485:

We are desperate because we have been stocking up stacks of t7 mats in anticipation of ascended armor which anet promised would be here in 2013.

Some of us have even been delaying ascended weapon crafting because ascended armor crafting is hugely expensive and more important.

The sooner ascended armor crafting comes, the sooner I get back 20+ inventory slots.

Just an FYI, but you might want to at least get a weapon craft up to 450. This way you can get rid of most of your T7 stuff by crafting them into what you will eventually need anyways. For instance, it will be very important to craft Bloodstone Bricks, Empyreal Star and Dragonite Ingot. You need 5 of each of these in order to craft the Vision Crystal and every Ascended Weapon needs at least 1 Vision Crystal. It would be a logical assumption that the Ascended Armor would be the same.

With that in mind, you’d be looking at needing at least 30 of each of those mats. With each one having a time gate of 1 day before you can craft your next, that’s 30 days of crafting as well, at the least.

TLDR;
Stop Saving your Dragonite Ore, Empyreal Fragments and Bloodstone Dust. You will need those crafted to the next mat ASAP.

Personally, I can wait a month or so more to get Ascended Armor. Gives me more time to collect the mats that are needed as well as work on more Ascended Weapons for my toons.

I am interested in the new healing skills to be added as well as what other new skills will be heading our way in the future. The sPvP post yesterday was interesting. The Gem Store one almost felt like a slap in the face though.. It kinda felt like begging for money IMO…

drew.9754:

I’d like to see a few things in LS in general, but I think these are good goals for season two:
1. Elimination of Scarlet. If she’s not killed at the end of season one, she should be inexplicably thrown off a cliff as the opening act of season two. It would make about as much sense as how she was introduced in my opinion. She represents a system of storytelling which I don’t feel has worked.
2. Wrapping up at least one other Elder Dragon. This should include seeing the world change as an ED is defeated. If I’ve killed Zhaitan, why are there still Risen? Shouldn’t the corruption at least be on the downslide as the story suggests instead of being the same as when the game launched over a year ago? I would like to see actual impacts – humans moving into Arah as the Risen die out, Norn/Kodan reclaiming their land as Jormag is defeated, Asura and Dwarves fighting the dredge and seeking out Primordus to reclaim some of the underground and rebuilding the central transport chamber and asura gates to other locations, the Charr trying to repair their land after the damage Kralkatorrik has wrought.
3. The makings of being able to go to Cantha/Elona.

To me, the dragons aren’t really a great plot device – they provide a plethora of enemies, but there’s a lot more to explore than them and we pretty well know what their deal is and generally how to defeat them. For me what’s far more interesting is what happens when they’re gone. I think not having a single gloom and doom enemy (or set of enemies) makes for a far more interesting story. Having a villain we can introduce, see for a season or two, and defeat with impact is rich and rewarding for me as opposed to a static, stale threat. I’d also like to see why I joined an Order and what benefits I’m going to get out of it. Will the Order of Whispers transport me to Elona (since they clearly have a back-and-forth means of traveling)? Will the Durmand Priory teach me sweet forgotten skills?

Personally, I’m only casually interested in the lore, but am far more interested in being able to explore a living, breathing world where there are consequences when a battle is won or lost and arbitrary Deus Ex Machina isn’t used to keep us from lands we should have rightful access to. I recognize that it’s a lot of work to create new content, but I’d rather see that effort going into the Ring of Fire (Fire Islands) than changing existing Kryta with toxin from the Krait.

Aside from seeing the dragons be noted and seeing real change as they (or other enemies after them) are defeated I guess the other thing I’d be most excited for is sub-classes. I’d like each class to have three unique and viable ways to play the class (maybe a thief which is more like an assassin and doesn’t use steal? How about trait lines that are equally balanced so that a fire ele can be as viable as a fresh air build – or even allow else to focus on conjuring, direct damage, or DoTs as three different viable paths?).

I’d say my order of what I think they should be working on is as follows:
Fix bugs (or don’t introduce new ones) > further the existing story lines > add new areas to explore > add new weapons, skills, traits, and subclasses > change the existing areas for the purposes of story lines > add classes and races as appropriate

great post. the entire thing has great ideas. i hope the devs take some notes from that.

Qawsada.4251:

lordkrall.7241:

And once again people completely disregards fact in order to keep up their unnatural hatred of a character.

We KNOW Scarlet worked with the Inquest.
We KNOW she was kicked out due to something.
We KNOW that the Reactor is an Inquest Installation.
Thus it is quite easy to connect the dots and see that Scarlet being there makes absolute sense.

Except this is shoehorning a character when Anet should have just expanded on other inquest. Scarlet have shown her ugly face for months, destroying lore left and right, and players are freaken tired about it. This is middle finger to the fractal runners and those that wanted Asura to Asura action when these players vote for Kiel.

Or.. it’s about incorporating her into all phases of the game. She’s popped up in LS, open world, Dungeons, WvW, and now Fractals. I guess the last place for her to show her face would be sPvP.

Aedelric.1287:

I do not think either of us will be able to sway one anothers opinions in the slightest, we will just have to agree to disagree.

Agreed and no hard feelings.

On topic as well, I really hope they bring back Wintersday to be nearly exact to how it was last year. This was the one event I missed last year with the holidays and family and such. This year is looking better and I know I’ll be playing more. I hope that floating toy ship comes back!

Sarrs.4831:

TheGreatA.4192:

I don’t think you’re supposed to like the villain. Atleast it will be somewhat satisfying when you get to beat Scarlet down and never see her again.

Did you like Darth Vader?

Not until episode 1.

Aedelric.1287:

Delvoire.8930:

I’m not expecting anyone to do anything.

First, it’s a video game. Let’s not be too serious, ok.

Second, it is her back story. If people don’t want to take the time to educate themselves on that story, no matter how it is implemented, then that is their own fault. The simple fact is, the story is there to paint the picture and connect the dots. It doesn’t vindicate her as a character, it fleshes her out.

Funny, I don’t see people complaining about Rox and how her back story was on this website. I don’t see anyone upset that her entire War Band was killed “off camera”. I don’t see anyone mad that Braham lost his father or that Elen Kiel was rescued at sea after her family was killed.

There’s been quiet a few back stories that have helped to flesh out characters in the Living Story. The only complaint is about Scarlet and it just seems like a pretty lame complaint IMO.

At the end of the day, this is all just my opinion though. I play this game and enjoy it. I hope all others do as well. If you’re wasting your time and playing a game you don’t enjoy, it’s time for some self evaluation then.

You do not, but Arena Net apparently does, which is why the text is on the website and not in game.

We all know it is a video game, telling me not to be serious before you make your own `serious´ and passionate reply hardly gives you a morale high ground, but fine continue.

The people are to blame for not reading content outside of a game? Believe it or not but most people play the game and rarely come to the forums or read up on the website. it is not the player base failing but Arena Net failing to inform its players, if they truly want people to read any story then they should add a tab in the hero panel containing these texts.

Rox was a good character, her back story can be put together without having to read a story outside the game through interactions, cut scenes and okay-ish in game story telling. Scarlet on the other hand requires it, without that story you essentially have nothing. Constant “HAHAHAHAHA! Later taters! -teleport-” is not clever, detailed or deep and meaningful writing.

Saying something is lame is fine, but it hardly is a convincing argument, please point out why other players displeasure with Scarlet is wrong and why you are right. I have read countless posts explaining why the whole Scarlet fiasco is bad yet the people that defend her rarely ever give reasons as to why she is good beyond saying read the website story. Saying `you are wrong.. because!´ simply does not cut it.

Now you imply I do not enjoy Guild Wars 2, I am a bit offended by that as I love the game. I am a veteran player I have played since Guild Wars 1 beta played the Guild Wars 2 beta. I own every addon bought Guild Wars 1 store items Guild Wars 2 store items, clocked up thousands of hours between games and have no intention of stopping now even with Scarlet ruining the living story. I dislike Scarlet and her story as evident with my posts, unless you are trying to tell me she is the entirety of Guild Wars 2 and without her their is nothing then I am hardly going to stop playing, am I?

Self evaluation you say. I am a die hard Guild Wars fan (I even own a mouse pad and the books) distraught over yet another badly written character pushed into every bit of content regardless of logic. People posting on forums about things they dislike is how developers learn if the content they made went down well. I would say I am behaving perfectly normally for someone that loves the franchise. Now I ask you, evaluate yourself, ask why you care about another persons hatred with Scarlet and why do you feel so compelled to argue with him yet do nothing to try and convince or sway him to your view point.

The problem is, no one really has a good basis to either hate or like Scarlet. It’s just opinion and how that individual feels about the storyline or character.

My point is basic. I personally don’t understand why people get upset about a fact like this in the game. I understand bug issues. I understand poor game development or implementation. But for people to have a hatred for a story element and character element is just strange.

You still enjoy this game and I commend you for that. My statements were more of a broad stroke then a direct statement to you. While I did respond to your post, my real concern is the people who aren’t constructively critiquing the Scarlet situation, but instead just claim they hate her and are about to quit playing the game because of her. That’s were I find confusion.

I agree that not everyone uses the forums and not everyone wants to read the stories on the website. I agree as well that the stories should be implemented into the game itself somehow.

This game is called… Guild Wars……..

yes, they want people to join guilds.

Aedelric.1287:

Delvoire.8930:

If you read Scarlet’s back story…

Expecting players to read a website story that takes place outside of the game is unacceptable, even the developers admitted that it was not a good way to convey the story behind her.

I know I am not alone in the “If it did not happen ingame, it did not happen at all” crowd.

Funny how the handful of Scarlet fans always fall back to that one story as if it vindicates the character in some way.

I’m not expecting anyone to do anything.

First, it’s a video game. Let’s not be too serious, ok.

Second, it is her back story. If people don’t want to take the time to educate themselves on that story, no matter how it is implemented, then that is their own fault. The simple fact is, the story is there to paint the picture and connect the dots. It doesn’t vindicate her as a character, it fleshes her out.

Funny, I don’t see people complaining about Rox and how her back story was on this website. I don’t see anyone upset that her entire War Band was killed “off camera”. I don’t see anyone mad that Braham lost his father or that Elen Kiel was rescued at sea after her family was killed.

There’s been quiet a few back stories that have helped to flesh out characters in the Living Story. The only complaint is about Scarlet and it just seems like a pretty lame complaint IMO.

At the end of the day, this is all just my opinion though. I play this game and enjoy it. I hope all others do as well. If you’re wasting your time and playing a game you don’t enjoy, it’s time for some self evaluation then.

I like Scarlet just fine.

I really wish that people wouldn’t force their opinion upon the entire player base. Just because some or even half of the player population doesn’t like Scarlet, there are equal or more that like her.

lordkrall.7241:

As for her being part of the Fractal.
It makes sense. She did work with the Inquest.
Something happened so that she was thrown out.
This Fractal clearly shows something happening with an Inquest installation.

This exactly.

If you read Scarlet’s back story at all and paid attention to the plot points of her story line, this shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. I seriously think that people just want to hate on Scarlet and do nothing to look into the story behind the character at all.

Thobek.1730:

When the forcefield appeared over the lake in Kessex Hills I thought what a great way to introduce the next LS chapter, then I found out it was scarlet. So yeah I’m not getting too excited about this one or any other hints in the future until Scarlet is finished with.

Technically.. that’s been the basis for every living story update aside from Tequatl and Fractals…lulz

Keep Calm and a remember….

There will be 2 or 3 hotfixes/patches immediately after the release today.

Wait.. the Meta Achievement will be giving us Ascended Crafting mats?

that cannot be true.

I’m American and will be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday. I also am off work from Thursday til Monday and plan on getting in a lot of GW2 time. Thank you for the easy top spots on the leader boards

The live stream is going on right now.. btw.

The new Edge of the Mists will help with this. You’ll be busy fighting for new PPT that does not apply to the overall WvW game and you’ll not miss the que that way.

Can everyone stay out of EB tonight so I can try and flip SM 3 times and complete my Season 1 Achieve’s?

Kthnxbye

Man.. i’m really slacking in the personal story. It may be my next focus. 5 lvl 80 toons and none have gotten to Zaihtan yet. Crap.. my highest story lvl is like 75.

Farzo.8410:

Vick.6805:

Delvoire.8930:

clint.5681:

I didn’t like how we all just stood there and watched her walk away. Why did we do that?

Was that her? All 3 times i did that instance last night, it didn’t look anything like her. It looks more like Mai Trin or some other Aetherblade.

Perhaps Scarlet is evolving, too. Maybe that’s why she’s suddenly wearing a hood.

She wore a hood the very first time we saw her which was in the Queen’s Pavilion. But she was called ‘’Mysterious Figure’’ or something in those lines back then.

The hood looked like black hair to me…. /fail

Yeah.. i’ve been gettin lots of green key drops. I have like 5 of them and 0 of the other two.

khani.4786:

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s just 5 silver…

It’s just 5 silver, plus waypoint cost, plus repair fees. And if you’re unlucky enough to try again and meet the same result then multiply that times however many times you have to try to get through. It adds up and for those of us that don’t have hundreds of gold lying around it does make a dent in your wallet.

This is a very poor excuse. I entered the Tower with only 30 silver on me. I did fine and left with 1g35s.

clint.5681:

I didn’t like how we all just stood there and watched her walk away. Why did we do that?

Was that her? All 3 times i did that instance last night, it didn’t look anything like her. It looks more like Mai Trin or some other Aetherblade.

The tower is a lot of fun.

The instances along the way are enjoyable, they change, and you get a decent reward chest. By decent, I mean basically what you get for world bosses.

You get to the top, and the tri-key chest really isn’t that bad with rewards as well. Again, basically a world boss chest. Then you do the fairly easy end instance, and again get rewarded decently, especially the first time.

I got quiet a few champ bags in my run through the tower. I played for about an hour getting to the top and along the way got lots of mats and gained about 1g. I know that’s not an exceedingly amount of gold, but it’s still pretty decent for just playing some content.

I understand the people who want to do this solo, but it really comes across as a group dungeon. I mean, each floor has a couple events that if you get stuck in, need to clear to move forward. The Champs for instance. If you happen upon these solo, you’ll never make it through. If you take your time though, group up with people as you move, heal, cleanse, dodge, and fight with the people around you, you’ll accomplish a lot.

Also, to the person who was mad about the mine spores. You can avoid them. You can also dodge out of the aoe ring and avoid the hit if timed right.

Xae Isareth.1364:

She gets info about updates directly from Anet often I think.

Ye;ah. I would even venture to say she’s in the testing servers or just gets early access. How else would you explain full, thorough, walkthroughs on the day of release and only a matter of minutes upon release. I’ve even seen some up before the patch launched.

Blackmoon.6837:

Just another example of how the “rewards” mindset is destroying this game.

They really need to work on gameplay that centers on deep, complex & fun combat as well as a more powerful story which improves on our immersion within the game.

Leave the gear and achievements for other grinding MMOs.

To be honest, the rewards for this content aren’t that great. Nothing like Ascended drops from Tequatl..

Seeing as many people are talking about how hard this content is, perhaps the players should start working on their strategy and mechanics in order to survive longer. If people grouped, stayed together, dodged and fought together, I have a funny feeling the tower would be slightly easier for them as opposed to solo runners and the edge of the zerg.

Sometimes, just sometimes, we need to look at the community and not the developers.

It just says that this content wont be available. Unlike the past updates, this one has a large impression on the map of Kessex Hills. I do remember a post somewhere from a developer that this will be a change that will last some time. If we do take the tower down in two weeks time, I don’t think it will just vanish. There will be more to the story.

So the new Healing skill doesn’t help at all in staying alive in the tower?

szygum.2607:

Read patch notes again. Time restriction is reffered to Tower of Nightmares not Nightmares Within update.

Nope. The section of the patch notes that Indicate the “Tower of Nightmares” is not referring to the update 2 weeks ago. It’s describing the Tower in general..

The Tower of Nightmares

The interior of the Tower of Nightmares has been revealed, and it is as deadly as its name suggests. The Tower of Nightmares is an open-world map designed to challenge even the hardiest of groups. Fighting side by side, players will need to rely on each other to survive.
Players will participate in a number of new open-world events throughout the structure and encounter the deadly hallucinations and lethal champions of the Toxic Alliance.
Within the Tower of Nightmares, a mysterious chest was found at the top of the tower. The chest’s lock is an intricate mechanism that seems to require a three-pronged key. The pieces of the key for this Tri-key Chest can be found on creatures within the Tower of Nightmares, or they can be acquired through trade with Marjory’s Helper Dee back at the Thunder Ridge Camp in Kessex Hills. Players will also receive one complete set of keys in the initial mail from Kasmeer. Combine the keys to create a Tricolor Key.
The Tower of Nightmares content will be available until the tower’s heart is destroyed. Watch the progress as more antitoxin is injected!

Hey now. For all we know, it will take 2 years to effectively kill the heart of the tower.

That is not accurate at all about them only having a limited time to work on the ascended gear. If you have been reading their updates and comments, the Ascended gear was officially supposed to be with the game upon launch. They wanted to tweak things though so held it off until they new better with which they were implementing the gear.

Limited time? Nah.

As for this Tri-Key chest…. upon reading the patch notes, this chest is basically useless.. I mean, unless you want a chance at the gas mask (which you can get if you do the meta), a mini (which I care none for personally, they are just sitting in my collection), and a Toxic Spore back skin.

The last one is the only one that kinda appeals to me. Although I have way too many back skins now, this one would look cool on my Sylvari, although she already rocks the flower from the Southsun Cove events…

It would be pretty amazing if they started putting out armor skins in drops instead of having to RNG for ticket scraps or purchase off the Gem Store.

This all, of course, is just my opinion. Take it how you like.

For those complaints about hackers or what not during the epic battle of IOJ’s keep and Veloka yesterday, I was there for the last hour or so…and It was a lot of thinking and strategy that finally achieved the accomplishment of taking both these points.

With our Trebs hitting the keep from the South, we were able to get the wall open and then proceed up the ramp inside. This is where it got tricky seeing as it seemed like you guys had about 8,000 ACs facing that ramp. One of the great Guilds I was running with, sorry I forget who, decided to build a Treb on that ramp and then take out as much seige as possible. That treb guy had amazing accuracy. We finally cleared enough to go up the ramp and that’s when we build a few golems and had them storm the gates. Once the keep fell and we built a few more trebs to take down the trebs at Veloka, we were able to storm that tower as well.

It was strategy, it was patience, and it was great leadership that drove us to that victory (and numbers as well I guess..)

i didn’t personally see any hacking, read about it on the map or team chat and did not hear it being spoken of in the community TS either.

esme.6391:

no one roams alone anymore. so sad.

I roam alone..daily Sad is the story of a man in a guild that isn’t strong in WvW presence.

Is there still groups for this going on? If so, how may I join?

Yaro.3251:

You need to check your facts regarding majority/minority estimate
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2013.html (scroll to the bottom for summary)

or be more specific regarding those terms.

Well I’m speaking from a gaming perspective and not the world perspective.

GW2 isn’t even playable without broadband connection, so 3rd world countries are pretty much ruled out.

Yaro.3251:

Do you realize that not every country actually has daylight savings time shifts?

Correct.

So if you are in the majority and your country/state/province does acknowledge daylight savings and adjusted back an hour, all of your resets are now an hour earlier.

If you are in the minority and your country/state/province does not acknowledge daylight savings and your clocks were not adjusted, all of your resets are the same time as always.

Visirale.6097:

So can we set up a real fight club for 8 pm server time tomorrow night? I’d say FA bl (easy access to the other two servers and we should still have wp’s) but 2 fight clubs there have been zerged down so far. Any ideas? Support/dissent? Leave your zergs and see how you do against one person, it’s a nice change of pace and can makes you realize how much you still don’t know about your class.

Move the Fight Club to a less likely spot to get zerged.. Jumping Puzzle or something.

Joey.2769:

Does NSP WvW? I see a lot of PvF but almost none in WvW.

Serious question. I did two full laps around NSPBL last night and got into 2 small fights. Don’t be afraid of this lowly solo roaming Thief. I’m not even that good…

Nice. If only I had a double Monitor This would still look sick on my Laptop.

Brooke Bowmaster.6095:

From what I can tell, the Timberline witch is still bugged on many servers.

Let’s create a thread with info on which servers it is or is not spawning …

It is not spawning on FA.

It was spawning on FA last night. I did it with about 6 or 7 other random world travelers.

You may have to do the “Defend Chief Eztlitl” first before the Witch Event starts.

There is a Class balancing patch coming on December 10th, btw.

I’m not sure why these things NEED to be in the game by years end. Those who have said that if they are not, they are done with the game, well that’s rather harsh to say. If you’re that disappointed with the game, move on then.

To say that you need 11 things fixed and done by years end or else you’re leaving because that’s just unacceptable honestly angers me. These are real people working daily on issues. Things such as life events and other complications can mess up any perfectly planned schedule. Just because the developers have an agenda and a date they hope to accomplish that agenda by, does not promise that it will be done by then.

Yeah.. after getting a bunch of Aetherkeys (that still drop… ) I was very disappointed upon opening up the Aether Chests in TA.

Ha, glad I’m not the only one. Last night I was playing and heard it and asked my son if there was a cat outside haha. After the 3rd one I realized it was in game. I wasn’t sure if it was a hallucination, someone using the Cat Tonic, or someone with a kitty cat mini…

On FA since league began, longest Que I’ve had has been about 20 minutes. I normally que for all maps so it never takes long to get into at least one.

Jaken.6801:

It might be because i am playing the new batman right now, however…
What if Kashmeer dies at the hand of Scarlet (Bobby mentioned the possibility of failure) and Majory vows to pledge her life to become a force to hunt her down and bring her to justice…
She allready is an detective as far as i am concerned.

Nah, just some random thoughts haha

In this Scenario… does Marjory then start dressing up like a bat?

Sytherek.7689:

mjhungness.8059:

One of my two capped toons is an Engineer and I love playing him. But that’s beside the point. I’m levelling my thief and have problems if I’m caught alone with conditions on me. And that’s the only realy issue I see with conditions and lower level toons – they won’t have the skill base that a capped toon has and maybe hasn’t selected any condition removal yet. That’s a wake-up call on having the tools to do the job.

Thank you for a friendly, insightful response. Yes, it appears to be a condition-removal problem. And I don’t have 25 skill points for the new healing skill at level 30ish. So I just need to be more cautious. I think I’ve been playing my level fully decked-out 80s too long.

Engineer has a couple decent Condition cleanse utilities. Elixir R is one I believe. Best to equip at least one while running about Kessex. It will help with everything aside from the new Toxic boon..

There should be plenty of people out there now with the new Healing Skill. I’m surprised I don’t see more out there using it as it helps tremendously while fighting the offshoots.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Lordryux.9785:

Isslair.4908:

Sytherek.7689:

Engineer

That’s your problem there.

whats so wrong with engi .

Everything.

Play one and you’ll understand.

I have one. It’s one of my favorite toons to play as and was fun to level. The versatility and the options of build types makes the Engineer a lot of fun.

They’ve said already that there will be a break between seasons and that the servers will pair off like they did before the seasons. I believe this takes place for a few weeks/months to settle the servers again and then a Season 2 starts… That of course depends on if they continue to do this tournament type style or not.