Guild Wars 2

kolompi.1287:

Another “we need an expansion” thread. Thanks, what the forums need is another one of these.

No, what the game needs is one of these

jokke.6239:

I think it should be equally rewarding.

There. Enough said.

perilisk.1874:

I remember that someone had a theory that E was Glint’s baby…

So you mean, sorta like Sheldon in Garfield…

As for the Mysterious Figure, I’m with Konig on this, it seems like a placeholder name for every NPkittenil ANet are ready to disclose more information about the identity, and I doubt any Mysterious Figure NPC we’ve seen so far has been the real E. But I do believe, E is somehow present and keeping track of our progress.

Kasmeer dubbing “him” Mister E might be another trick (not by her, but by the writers) to conceal E’s identity. Or are we sure it’s a male?

Could it be Evennia – maybe far-fetched but seeing as we keep seeing White Mantle symbols crop up in connection with the bandits – although it’s becoming secondary to the dragon threat of Mordremoth – her disappearance in Old Ascalon treating with King Adelbern and never reappearing as part of GW:Beyond, maybe she’s included in the plans to feature in GW2?

Of course, she’d be special to live that long… but seeing as we’ve got similar rumours about Livia, why not Evennia too?

That is, if E represents the first letter of the character’s name at all.

I’ll eagerly await the format of S3, I mean that ought to be XPac 1 seeing as both format of S1 and S2 don’t live up to standards of the players.

I agree about less stuff in S2, plus the break nearly killed me, and if only Echoes of the Past was the big one because they those months to prepare and now we’re back to subpar stuff released on a fortnightly basis, there’s issues with Anet’s chosen delivery format.

I seriously hope we’re in for a good old expansion in 2015, after S2. S3 of a living world can come later when all the quirks have been figured out and removed.

Ayrilana.1396:

Also, all accounts are equal. One account is no luckier than another.

I would believe that if the RNG was pure random, but such is not the case with the RNG mechanism in GW2. Anet needs to look into their RNG algorithm because too often you find always the same accounts having luck with RNG over and over, while other outlier accounts never get anything.

Some account-specific factor/seed must be swaying the RNG in some players’ favour, to this end I’m not leaving anything to RNG in this game.

2+ years down the line, I’m only now done hoarding every kitten thing for my legendary and purchased the precursor off the TP and soon going to craft my 1st (and probably last) legendary.

Well, there’s always been the online manual (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/manual/) but of course, it’s not like the manuals for Prophecies or EotN.

It’s replayable even though LS progresses to the next episodes, you can always go back and complete at will whenever you want and have time to do that challenge.

Sounds like you’ve been replaying the story instances and not going to them to “play for elite achievements” as the prompt in-game suggests. Could that be the case?

neilug hyuga.5634:

I don’t think it can be Glint because two facts :

1. She is dead.

BUT we know she was a powerful Dragon, and she almost become an ancestral one. So in other words, it could be her spirits.

I beg to differ on your interpretation of facts here. What we know is that the Zephyrites were passed the task as protectors of Glint’s Heritage from the Dwarven Brotherhood. This happened all the way back in 1078 AE when the Dwarves transformed to stone. Glint is not killed by Kralkatorrik until 1320 AE, so at any time between 1078 and 1320, the Master of Peace might have been granted an audience with Glint and given the egg to protect it. Wild guess on my part would be that this perhaps takes place closer to now as Glint sees the upcoming confrontation with Kralkatorrik and knows she will mostly likely not survive that fight – so she seeks out the Master of Peace to take care of her last child.

I believe it must be Glint’s voice, but we hear it twarted (as media sometimes does to protect a person’s voice to preserve anonymity) so it could still be a female behind the voice even though it’s booming and sounding more like a male.

“You must promise to protect it with your life. Will you?”

Most likely the words of a concerned parent wanting her offspring to live; if however, we deem Glint dead at the stage where this encounter takes place – I’m a) still likely to believe it’s part of Glint persisting in the “walls” of her lair. Just as the facets now rose from the lair to protect itself in the story instance, they could have communicated with the leader of the Zephyrites because he was deemed important to the survival of the last of its(Glint’s) kin.

Astralporing.1957:

Dondarrion.2748:

They added Caithe’s Blossom to the bandit crest vendors now, so if the final boss is too difficult, you can always farm The Silverwastes map and get your rewards anyhow.

The accessory appears on vendor there (as well as on laurel vendor), only after you have unlocked it through achievements. You can’t just grind for it.

Ahh, that explains it… felt kind of cheated they had ninja’d it in otherwise

I did it with my guardian traited to an odd Sc/FC + GS build (6-6-0-0-0) where I even had 2 trait points left, then popped Aegis explicitly and let Summoned Facet hit me so it disappeared… then i could debuff the Vortex Crystal easy.

Took signet utilities that didn’t buff me either, and traited for inc damage + signet improval.

Worked like a charm, got the Redux achievement on first try.

Hmm… maybe we should have an Alfred Bester look-a-like contest in GW2.

Technomages though… hmm, we need the chronomancer in GW2 first before that contest.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Dondarrion.2748:

So… in another nod to your heritage, we get to travel to the Underworld to save Rytlock?
Terrorweb dryders, dream riders, reapers (why else would we suddenly have the Avatar of Death finisher :P) galore as we revisit one of our favourite dungeons of old GW1, now updated to see us come to Rytlock’s aid uniting the Ghosts of Ascalon who are trapped there and free them of the Foefire curse once and for all, both in the Underworld and above ground…

Thanks for getting my hopes up!

This theory was a stretch, I must admit, but having seen Anet go the lengths with their revisit to Glint’s Lair in Ep. 5, I have faith they can do it.

Who knows, I certainly hope there’s a little rescue action in the Mists of Rytlock for this next chapter and that we get to see some cool locations we’re all nostalgic about from GW1

They added Caithe’s Blossom to the bandit crest vendors now, so if the final boss is too difficult, you can always farm The Silverwastes map and get your rewards anyhow.

Kinda like that; more ways of getting the rewards (“play how you like”) but leave “difficult” challenges in to cater those who enjoy that. And 11111111111111 your way thru SW if a little challenge isn’t for you.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Just look at the quarterly reports corresponding to the release of each of the major titles over the past 2 years and you will see a dip in profit for GW2 that never recovers.

In particular look for:

WoW expansions
Wildstar
ESO
Archage
FF some large number

Now correlate that with the ‘I just recently returned to GW2’ threads on Reddit / GW2 forum that occur 2-3 months after those other MMO launches…

Speaks volumes of the quality of GW2 over its peers in the MMO market – GW2 has a great platform and Anet should see the golden opportunity they have to further strengthen their position with a great xpac annoucement to reel in other players who left.

Important part of my argument, that I somehow managed to miss out, is that WP does a great job of communicating GW2 out to the masses and creating sparks of enthusiasm and interest for lore.
The individual lore aficinado however will of course like to research all lore sources themselves and then WP might be taking a few too many liberties to remain 100% straight on facts.

And Konig; I saw Gaile reply to you as KDT the other day, so you’re halfway into the loremaster position at Anet now

Until you start a YouTube series, Konig, and become like the ShoddyCast to Elder Scrolls franchise for GW2, WoodenPotatoes remain in the driver’s seat for exciting YouTube series on Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, ever since the Let’s Play GW1 and now up until date with musings on lore, speculative thoughts and tidbits – both to be taken as introduction to lore as well as some given artistic freedom to embellish, but he also offers theories based on his own research of all the available lore plus other people’s interpretations of it.

Lore is interesting, but it’s not going to win you a lot of attention spread across a bunch of articles, composed into an exciting story and presented in a dynamic video format however will. But of course, you should treat it as that, it’s not all facts.

You’re late with this thread, it should’ve come with the release of Dry Top and the diving challenge :P

Belenwyn.8674:

There will be a big press conference next week on Tuesday where NCSoft will present their future plans and strategies mainly around mobile games. But they mentioned they will talk about other games too. There is a very tiny chance that we will get some informations about GW2. But there is no promise at all that this will happen. I personally think next week is to early

Next week way too early going by this…

" The game is now two years old. And therefore in the not too far future we do think that we will have an opportunity to show our plans about expansion packs for this game"

Just some musings on players who have left who will only return if something substantial comes on the table; one thing I’ve noticed in many games that have come out lately (WS/ESO/ArcheAge) that everyone is always talking about GW2 for comparison in global chat in-game. Loving this and that, but it’s always comparison to stuff they also found better in GW2 – just that they were missing some really substantial update to GW2.

So, while other games might not successfully get people back to their game with an expansion pack, my guess is that GW2 might enjoy huge success with one.

kitten , as a B5 fan, Mesmer Collective reads too me very much like the Psi Corps… I’m naturally very sceptic, even though I have a mesmer alt who wants to be part of this

It looked like the datamined teragriff “boss”; Lord stabbyArm…

Render: http://imgur.com/4x6UjxS
Original post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2lz2j8/datamining_tangled_path_enemy_render/

Gaile Gray.6029:

Can’t wait for you guys to see Episode 6.

So… in another nod to your heritage, we get to travel to the Underworld to save Rytlock?
Terrorweb dryders, dream riders, reapers (why else would we suddenly have the Avatar of Death finisher :P) galore as we revisit one of our favourite dungeons of old GW1, now updated to see us come to Rytlock’s aid uniting the Ghosts of Ascalon who are trapped there and free them of the Foefire curse once and for all, both in the Underworld and above ground…

Hmm, I live in the hope, but I’m sure Anet has something great planned too if it’s not this

Here’s my guardian ready for another day in the desert, only today she’s sporting her new luminescent shoulders having completed all achievements of Ep. 5

The mechanics of Glint’s Lair are brilliant, taught first in a build up as you progress through each facet until you meet the end boss and utilise all three mechanics to defeat it. Brilliant piece of game content, Anet, you should feel proud!

It’s not all high DPS / zerg-mind content either, you need to think through your strategy. I had a fun time taking on Exposed Weakness: Redux achievement since I main a guardian since launch and have made myself complete all ‘hard’ achievements on that character (like 8-orbs Liadri too). Transfering only the ‘fragile’ “boon” to the vortex crystal as a guardian who is by nature a buff monster… lol, I had to retrait myself to a stupid build and pay close attention to my passive aegis so I never debuffed the vortex crystal when that came up.

I’m nearly as happy managing that achievement yesterday as killing Liadri with 8 orbs; challenging content that gives you a good buzz!

More like this, Anet, and I will be giving you more standing ovations.

And please please please, no nerfing! It’s time people are required to improve and hone their skills a bit, there’s already enough 1-spamming zerg content.

Gnat.9405:

As a long time devotee of GW1, this has been one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in a video game.

Thank you.

I admit, since the September feature pack, I’ve had a serious dive in my GW2 activity/interest and was playing another new AAA MMO which shall forever remain unnamed/uninstalled, and at one point I felt I was slipping away from GW2.

Then this patch came along, motivation is renewed tenfold or more, loving it all both in terms of GW2 and as a former GW1 player in particular. Just so much to enjoy and well, yeah, speechless in the end. So I’ll summarise it briefly…

Thank you!

Armor class restrictions being removed confirmed! Rytlock wears light armor!
New profession coming confirmed! Rytlock has become a ritualist!
New expansion coming confirmed! Rytlock has become blind!

Yea, well…

Although, I do have a sneaky suspicion about 2015 but that’s entirely unrelated to this LS teaser image. There’s just something about ANet/GW2 and 2015…

Hybrid.7059:

They will not lose money. The metrics have told them that these changes are highly desired. Working as intended.

I hope they have 3.5 million metrics playing the game and spending money in the gem store then…

No understanding whatsoever how and why Anet wanted these changes implemented. Just another example how out of touch you are with your veteran player base, oh, by that I mean the 3.5+ million who purchased and played this game over the past 2 years.

kitten.

This feature patch just made me lose nearly all interest in this franchise…

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Dondarrion.2748:

I’m probably addicted but I have no problem with stopping playing any given moment. Which I’ve done before and will do again, for the time being though this is a nice way to relax in the evenings for me.

Spoken like a true addict “I can stop anytime I want really”, “It’s all under control really” :P

Exactly xD
First stage is recognising you are one, I’d say the addiction is most dangerous when you’re unaware and letting it get in the way of the rest of your life..
There’s times I’ve been really enveloped in the game and been thinking about it too much, but I can also put it on the shelf if something else needs attention – whether for a short time or permanently

But yea, I agree, the statement “I’m addicted but got in under control” is contradictory

I’m probably addicted but I have no problem with stopping playing any given moment. Which I’ve done before and will do again, for the time being though this is a nice way to relax in the evenings for me.

I propose a solution:

Coats for all!

Except the charr because they’re hunched!

Boneheart.3561:

CeruleanRevolver.6085:

… precursor crafting trial.

I’d rather this be a small scale compared to what Legendary crafting could be. After all, the prestige is meant to come from the unique skin and not the crafting material. But yes, precursor crafting could be just as costly as the precursor itself.

Then again – the current crafting of Mawdrey doesn’t need to be costly if you just play the content. I haven’t bought a single of those expensive mats yet, just farming foxfire clusters and crafting the time-gated materials as I go using materials I already collect(ed) as I play the rest of the game. And the recipes, etc. are mostly expensive in terms of geodes, but you get those a-plenty from just running Dry Top events.

So yes, precursor crafting can/should be just as costly as the precursor if you want to take short cuts and buy the ingredients of the TP, but if you just hoard what you already get as you play the various aspects of the game, it’s not and comes automatically by itself.

Faux.1937:

Will not be backing it, made the others, but not this is, Im on full boycott of it.

Needs way to much material for a crappy back. I personally dont agree with the amount of work/items it takes.

It just feels like more gold sinks every update. Oh and the +5 agony is Account bound Im guess that was because we need them for this back and they wanted to drive the prices up for more gold sinks.

I care about this game, other wise I wouldnt have over 6k hours into it. Im saying this out of love not hate.

What if the ascended backpiece were the precursor you coveted?

Try to see what they’re trying to accomplish with this crafting adventure, it sure seems like Anet are experimenting with this as an early version of a precursor scavenger hunt.

Still feel it would be too much of a gold/time sink if you got your precursor at the end?

Great story – and crafting Mawdrey/Mawdrey II seems like a good prototype for precursor scavenger hunt, so go ahead and follow this format, Anet

Both in terms of requiring components from fresh content to tie in with current story, but also leading you on a merry go-round the old block to revisit all those old places to complete events, mini dungeons, etc.

It really works. Of course, the time gated crafting is annoying me because I have to portion this out across 21 days just because Anet say so, not because of the exhaustive task. But still, it “teaches” patience and works so that die-hards don’t farm themselves 24/7 to death and complete their precursor in 3 days.

Korossive.7085:

Plus I feel 90% of manifesto was a lie.

Ever heard of marketing?
They delivered on a lot of aspects though!

Bye Conkeyta Wurst, my guildie’s keyfarming alt with carefully designed looks to match

Very happy to see keyfarming nerfed to oblivion!
If Anet have been saying all along they won’t make too many new zones, etc. etc. to avoid players being spread out too thin, then having large groups of players work solo or in twos/threes locked away in the same, instanced story quests over and over must be detrimental to this situation in the same manner and should be removed as an option.

1. New PvP mode
2. New race+starter area (ex. Tengu and Dominion of Winds with 2 zones lvl 1-15 and 15-25, etc.)
3. Guild TLC (housing, GvG)

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I think they should add bonus rewards for lv.80 players to each map.

• get 100% map completion first for that specific map.
• 1-2 random heart vendors have a job for you – a small quest. Guides are useless.
• complete this quest for a special reward (unique skin for each map)
• you can reset that challenge by doing 10 unique events in that zone.
• now 1-2 other heart vendors have a job for you.

Yea, I was a little sad to complete (unless there’s more to be added to the zone later) the Dry Top map on my character and not get that map completion reward. Those were good rewards (2-3 rares/exotics).

I actually miss hearts in those lvl 80 zones, while I believe the events that are taking place are the best way to handle repeatable content, the hearts could be one-time quests and ways of conveying story that only needs to happen once and doesn’t need to repeat after that like events in the same area. Completing the heart however would give you a vendor offering unique skins or consumables, etc. that could co-exist with those merchants offering you tiered stuff currently as part of the Favor of the Zephyrites “chain”.

Example hearts in Dry Top

• I.e. help the Zephyrite collect certain stuff so they can continue to build their settlement or rebuild their airship => exotic amulets with Nomad prefix for 42K karma as reward?
• …or the oasis where you have an event to defend against attackers, but you could have a heart over by the centaur gardener NPC who might need you to run around watering stuff, uprooting Mordrem roots/min-tendrils or something like that => bulk of nopale, cactus, prickly pears for 1500 karma, or something like that…
• …or a heart in Restoration Refuge to help the centaur tribe and learn some more lore about them in the process, maybe remove the threats of their territory like the devourers, etc. and again having a heart vendor offering items for karma..

Just some ideas of the top of my head

ColinJohanson.2394:

ipan.4356:

We don’t want you to “stay within company policies” – we want you to change the policy and communicate the direction you’re going in more.

Yup as I said, I’ll pass that feedback up the chain!

As for your company policy saying such, how about then with NCSoft, your own holding company, and investors issuing investment briefs that tend to bring up alleged expansions and create wild player expectations, this last time an investor just putting out there that NCSoft is indeed preparing an xpac for GW2 for 2015…

I’m holding my breath that’s why we don’t see the “fruits” yet of the entire ANet team (per your own words), that indeed you have about 100+ people dedicated to the first xpac which will actually be announced at some point during this autumn (or fall, as you call it)

lordkrall.7241:

Or maybe it was supposed to be permanent, but people simply didn’t care about it enough to warrant continued development?

Yea, imagine the atlas made as an in-game feature. Like a collectible feature in your home instance where you could go to get a summary of events leading up to S1 finale; maybe it could even have been interactive so you could put up pins as you explored the world and came across locations you wanted to remember, that then got stored in your home atlas.

Probably a lot of other uses too, a world of possibilities as they say… instead it became an out-of-game fad like the side stories they put up on the website for background lore; stuff that really would’ve complemented the game if they had but existed in-game.

Zuldar.5093:

Recipe for UW and FoW scrolls.

Lol, imagine that. And when you double-click the scroll your GW2 character gets taken to GW1’s UW/FoW dungeon…

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

Did the title of this thread remind anyone of this? I can assure you it’s better than shouting at the sky.

It was actually the primary reason for going through this thread (and its name-sake on Reddit), all the while humming Hall & Oates

Yes, just another proof showing Anet is out of touch with the wishes of their player base. Sell as skin and anyone can choose to wear in full or just as pieces in mix and match – both crowds pleased.

Instead they anger the majority who want skins and just lose out of sales…

Don’t be ridiculous – you bought it when World 1 and 2 were the only ones out, with no promises made about future release of next worlds. SAB isn’t boxed (sic) yet, they’re just saying it’s not fitting in with Living World.

But after S2 there’ll surely be a break before S3, which could be a likely spot for SAB to return, don’t you think? If not then, then later.

Any chance this topic (even though it’s ages old!) could get some love by ANet?

Right now I’m forced to play my Charr without chest armor just because I want him to look like the GW1 Charrs.

If this change comes to effect, it will completely collapse the whole point of the CDI initiative.

Yes, the community wanted coloured commander tags, heck I even wanted different icons (ribbons) to reflect your WvW rank so you could further differentiate 2 blue doritos.. oh hey, this commander is an invader, whilst this other dude is a Silver General – I think I’ll join the general’s squad…

But seriously, slamming a gold sink on acquisition of this…. seriously, Anet?

Seriously?

…

Had to time to reconsider? Still…. seriously???

No.

You just took the 14-page WvW: Commander System CDI and slapped us in the face…

So, if only the Avatar died, can’t the Pale Tree just grow a new sprout avatar once it’s safe to resurface?

Rouven.7409:

It’s the end of the world (as we know it).

And I feel fine.

Then, back to the OP, the world (as we know it) has to come together. Cantha and Elona are cut off from our world, there’s no news of any trouble there only ofc there was the xenophobic emperor in Cantha and there’s Palawa Joko in Elona, but the dragons are threatening Tyria the continent and seeing as that’s all we know about, this world has to come together.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Dondarrion.2748:

My guildies predicted then we’d see the elder dragons rise in this order:

Zhaitan (dead)
Mordremoth (awake)
Deep Sea Dragon (unknow; probably awake)
Jormag (awake)
Primordius (awake)
Kralkatorrik (was awake; now sleeping again?)

FIxed that for you.

Not really, but thanks though… I’d argue we can’t say either when we don’t know about DSD,Jormag,Primordius and Kralkatorrik. Yes, we see traces and consequences of their corruption, but I don’t believe these dragons are awake just yet.
Mordremoth corrupted Scarlet and only awoke when she finally struck home with the drill on the ley lines, so there was a time you only saw his power spreading while it was not yet awake.
Anyhow – point was my order of appearance too; I’m guessing Zhaitan, Mordremoth and DSD will all be rash and attack prematurely sealing their own fates, while perhaps the last three will have been lurking and building long enough to become even more substantial threats.

Back in my old guild, we theorised the order the EDs would awaken, and that it would be in order that matched the ED’s strength. Thus Mordremoth, awake already is stronger than Zhaitan but not close to the others we’ve seen before.

My guildies predicted then we’d see the elder dragons rise in this order:

Zhaitan (dead)
Mordremoth (now awake)
Deep Sea Dragon
Jormag
Primordius
Kralkatorrik

Will come back and link this post if I’m right (in about 6-7 years time)

Get real, Anet aren’t hurting for an influx of cash… haven’t you been paying attention to massive sales/launch in China and also see how well NA/EU are still doing.

I like the new chaos weapons, does justice to the old Chaos Axe.