Guild Wars 2

Nike is on to something… every armor piece needs to be possible to show/hide visibility; not just head/shoulder/hands/feet. Charr usually run around in harnesses or bare-chested even, now you have to sacrifice not wearing chest armor to achieve that while really it should just be a case of toggle visibility.

So what if you get a bunch of weirdos running around semi-naked – after all you still have your “bikini” parts – that novelty effect of being naked though armored wears off after a week or two.

Maybe Teq’s disappearance and the missing boss week daily today are linked with some screw up on the LS patch this time.

Anet – statement please and at least extend it to last the entire Tuesday 1st October.

Thanks for invite+accept, but I will have to leave again. Didn’t realise you were US guild – at least everyone else in . Good luck in your battles!

Same boat here… 8/9.
Been away for 2 weeks on summer holiday, got back on Saturday and was glad I could still make it with a world boss kill every day until patch time later today.
Just logged in and got completely deflated seeing there is no Boss Week Daily achievement today

Come on Anet, add the daily we need for today. Technically it’s not even a week from Tuesday 24th Sept 9pm PST (+/- some hours to get it right for when the last patch landed) to whatever time you decided to end it now… it should run to Tuesday 1st Oct 9pm PST.

I’d like an invite, please. Back from 2 week holiday and ready to send something back into the water.

edit: thanks for invite+accept, but I will have to leave. Didn’t realise you were US guild. Good luck in your battles!

Please please please, let the Wizard’s Tower be the site for a freaking, crazy playhouse of a jumping puzzle

To the higher-ups in Anet: let the man speak, his interaction with the players is EXACTLY what your game needs to thrive and build a player community that is as invested in your game as you are.

To the fellow colleagues of Josh; read this thread and see how he communicates with the fans – don’t be afraid to do the same with your own area of responsibility, more of you should take the Community Posting 101 class and tear up those papers and then go talk with Josh Foreman on what he does. That’s how you REALLY communicate; you tell people about your design choices, your concerns, and you listen. Not to the rage and trolling hyperbole, but to the thought through player feedback, those that really care about what you have done but are struggling maybe due to some design decision that didn’t work as well as first intended.

But most of all, Josh, keep posting and stay involved, you are awesome!

ilr.9675:

Dondarrion.2748:

phtotrope.3761:

3. Griffonrook Run (End Chest with bomb doesn’t award Empyreal Fragments)

That’s a bonus chest – after dropping bomb on that, run back up the stairs to that high pillar in the center of the valley and there’s a chest there. That one has your Empyreal Fragments.

It’s really a bit of a philosophical / skill-balance debate here … some players, or just some classes in general will have a much easier time completing that bomb run while others will have the absolute most frustrating time simply because dodging doesn’t always prevent the griffons from destroying the bomb.

It’s a subject best left out of the bug thread.

That’s probably why the normal JP “splendid chest” doesn’t require you to carry the bomb all the way. Incidently that is also the chest that rewards the Empyreal Fragment, while the bonus chest that requires the bomb only gives you some greens and blues.
To clarify there’s no bug on Griffonrook Run, I made a video of it

The poster is great – looks like those classic posters for monster movies.

Probably not much use starting a discussion here as mods will classify this a ‘good bye, i quit’ thread and it will end up locked pretty soon.

I’m wondering about some of your viewpoints though; esp. 3 & 5 -

Pt. 5 is a really quick one; news of ascended gear came in November 2012, I doubt you had 9 level 80s in all exotic already back then – a little planning ahead for things to come could’ve helped.

Regarding pt. 3 and the ascended crafting… you loved GW1, I take it. Obsidian Armor, Destroyer Weapons, Vabbian Armor… was it for everyone? Ascended gear (now weapons, later armor) has been here like, a week today actually, and you write

Last update shows that the most, you made crafting so consuming that going from 400 to 500 costs nearly 200g and it is only for the chosen ones, cause I don’t have that money and general player base don’t have it either.

Yes, if by chosen ones you mean those hardcore players who have been farming incessantly for a week to maybe already have produced one… for the majority though, is it really that bad for the game to include a highest tier of gear that actually takes an effort to create. It seems rather a problem with your attitude of expecting to have everything handed to you with or without effort… with 9 level 80s, I don’t put you in the casual category though, so I expect you’ve put in some effort. Do you have a legendary yet?

I agree fully on the opportunities at hand with achievements/titles though – toss many more into the game for people to choose from a wide repertoire of titles to identify with. Did you save LA from invasion, you get to be Defender of Lion’s Arch, did you kill Zhaitan, well then you can be Conqueror of Zhaitan, Vigil Warmaster, Durmand Magister, Whispers Agent, etc. etc. Numerous opportunities, both upcoming I bet but also a lot that can be made retroactive that would give a lot.
I’ve got my favourite from GW1 HoM, but it’s a shame that there’s so few in the current (GW2) game to choose between.

phtotrope.3761:

3. Griffonrook Run (End Chest with bomb doesn’t award Empyreal Fragments)

That’s a bonus chest – after dropping bomb on that, run back up the stairs to that high pillar in the center of the valley and there’s a chest there. That one has your Empyreal Fragments.

Items: ALL TIERS of the NORN Cultural HEAVY Armor
Issue: Incorrect Item Icons
Description:
All the HEAVY armor tiers of NORN Cultural Armor have white/stock/generic icons which in these times of salvaging for Essences of Luck makes it very tedious to ensure you don’t salvage the wrong item.

Refer to GW2 wiki to see the icons currently in use:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Norn_cultural_armor

All tiers of NORN Cultural HEAVY Armor now only have stock/white images for their armor pieces.

This makes it dangerous to keep in your inventory, because especially now that everyone’s salvaging for Essences of Luck, you might accidentally mistake your expensive Cultural Armor for basic white/stock armor.

Would be good to get the icons back – they used to have proper icons.

Ah, cool, gonna re-post them there!

Thanks!

Suddenly (or a little while ago) the Norn Cultural (T1-T2-T3) heavy gear lost their icons… problem is they now look like ordinary white gear in the inventory, meaning it’s a higher chance of for example trying to salvage it since it looks like just a normal white armor.

anzenketh.3759:

If you are talking about that quote about ascended being planned all along. I request that you quote it. Because I have never seen the post in it’s full quote. Only people quoting people who quoted people.

Not possible, because I don’t think that quote exists. If you read the November blog post by Linsey Murdock and have watched and read subsequent interviews with Anet devs, you’ll see that Ascended were not planned all along but were a necessary step to introduce asap when they saw that the Exotic tier that was supposed to have satisfied those same requirements didn’t cut it. Everyone had exotics much earlier than Anet had predicted (so, if anything blame those predictions or we might have seen Ascended gear come out at game launch), and then hit that “Legendary wall”.

I seem to remember a livestream at some point with either Colin or Mike or something where they said Ascended should have gone in at the start – because typically they’d only otherwise do such introductions to coincide with expansions (re: blog post). But I’ve not gone back to re-check all those livestreams from mid-november to december/january.

Regardless whether Ascended tier was planned from start or as part of an expansion – but then got rushed in asap in November due to what they found with the Exotics – I’m happy the tier is in there.

MikaHR.1978:

And someone honestly think that there would be some kind of massive exodus if they didnt implement ascended weapons? Hell, just few days ago noone even knew about ascended weapons and game was going good.

They didn’t?
They were announced November 2012…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

MikaHR.1978:

Dondarrion.2748:

“We’ve seen a lot of questions in regards to this after the release of ascended gear: What will the core reward system be for Guild Wars 2 in the future after ascended gear has all been released? We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.”
source

Or this new interview from PAX, check from 1:40 linked directly here

Speaking of posts without anything said; I could say the same for your semi-trolling 4-sentence rebuff… :/

Ive “checked” it. They “hope” there wont be new tier. Hope? rofl

You get new gear “to work for” every few months.

Please, stop trolling

Stop trolling?! LOL – ok, you stick to your current belief and moan whatever you like. Maybe actually go away and play another game seeing as this is so game-breaking for you and you being hell-bent on insisting another tier of gear that isn’t announced is incoming, in particular since Anet have gone out of their way in several channels lately to say, no we’d rather do something else to not do that again.

They know Ascended gear wasn’t appreciated when introduced in November, but they did say back then it would be trinkets, weapons and armor, to fill the gap because exotics became a much too easily acquirable tier of gear. Ascended gear isn’t… you do the maths on crafting it now; they got the tier that I think they originally intended Exotics to be, with only the Legendary being more time-consuming. People raged back then; it’s just really silly to see the same rage when the rest of the ascended gear now does get released over half a year later… didn’t you critics kitten enough about it back in November – in fact, didn’t half of you quit and swear to never come back…

I’m fine with the change as it stands now; I’ll be really surprised if the do add more levels but if they were to, I’d be very interested to see the justification. But I remain firm in my belief Anet stay true to their words now.

MikaHR.1978:

Dondarrion.2748:

MikaHR.1978:

Mada.5319:

Is it really that hard? I mean, I log on and do my daily however I want and I get ascended gear out of it. I don’t call that a grind. It’s time gated yeah, but its not like it’s such a major stat buff that I can’t get groups or I’ll die without it….

Then why is it ingame at all? Eh? As you say yourself, its most pointless tier in history of MMOs.

Because we need a lot of AR for the day of judgment when a tsunami wave will wash over the face of Tyria and delete all chars that don’t have minimum +50 AR…

Isn’t the thread title exaggerating a bit, “endless treadmill”…? Really? They’ve added the Ascended gear that they said they would back in November – armor is to come next – and beyond that there’s several interviews and even a blog post stating they don’t want to add more tiers, but rather new mechanics (skills/traits/etc.) to further progression.

Stop sounding so dramatic like we’re gonna have a new tier of gear every year. Look at GW1; now that GW2 has ascended, my guess (which is as good as your yours that they’ll go back on thaeir word) is they will not add more tiers.

Lots of words, but nothing said.

bravo!

They even say they gonna send you on endless treadmill rofl

vertical…progression…in GW2….aint….stopping

No, they didn’t, stop talking bs and read latest blog posts and listen to interviews with Colin.

“We’ve seen a lot of questions in regards to this after the release of ascended gear: What will the core reward system be for Guild Wars 2 in the future after ascended gear has all been released? We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.”
source

Or this new interview from PAX, check from 1:40 linked directly here

Speaking of posts without anything said; I could say the same for your semi-trolling 4-sentence rebuff… :/

Ameepa.6793:

You don’t have to salvage items to get 300% luck. You get 50 from each daily and 500 from monthly so it’s 2000 each month. It will take you only about 166 years to get to 300%. It’s a long term goal.

Do the same calculation of how quickly you’ll get ascended weapons/armour, precursor (when it can be crafted) or even legendary with just doing dailies/monthlies… yes, minimum effort will make it a very long term goal. Putting in a lot more will probably reduce that to a few months.

Haven’t you already got a lot of benefits from that infusion to make it worth the while – plus they gave you an option to still make it useful post-patch. You haven’t been robbed. The infusion still works, doesn’t it, so it’s just your trinket that needs rebranding to one of the now valid stat combos.

Please, stop the incessant whining over this patch… MF going account-wide was a necessary change.

Someone posted a figure somewhere of needing around 4,000,000 luck to reach 300% mf. This is like some of the long stretches you had for HoM titles in GW1… you’re not supposed to ding 300% in a week on this, embrace the fact that there are in fact some long-term goals in GW2.

showtime.9175:

There was no guide when we did it. We triggered about every trap to find the right way, so the death count is probably in the thousands.

Please modify your thread title then… death count in the thousands and ‘it was too easy’ sounds very silly!

But gratz on beating the difficult content, good job!! But difficulty level is still there, as you can tell from all the other threads, and if you don’t fix your thread title, I’ll take it as you meaning to troll everyone with a little “nyeah nyeah, i did it and you can’t”
(don’t look at me btw, haven’t started yet xD)

MikaHR.1978:

Mada.5319:

Is it really that hard? I mean, I log on and do my daily however I want and I get ascended gear out of it. I don’t call that a grind. It’s time gated yeah, but its not like it’s such a major stat buff that I can’t get groups or I’ll die without it….

Then why is it ingame at all? Eh? As you say yourself, its most pointless tier in history of MMOs.

Because we need a lot of AR for the day of judgment when a tsunami wave will wash over the face of Tyria and delete all chars that don’t have minimum +50 AR…

Isn’t the thread title exaggerating a bit, “endless treadmill”…? Really? They’ve added the Ascended gear that they said they would back in November – armor is to come next – and beyond that there’s several interviews and even a blog post stating they don’t want to add more tiers, but rather new mechanics (skills/traits/etc.) to further progression.

Stop sounding so dramatic like we’re gonna have a new tier of gear every year. Look at GW1; now that GW2 has ascended, my guess (which is as good as your yours that they’ll go back on thaeir word) is they will not add more tiers.

Again with TSW/Skyrim/TESO as examples, they have these features available from your character sheet where you can access all your collected Lore items. Imagine getting all of ‘The Founding’ in one sitting once you have done the accomplishment to read all 20 books in Ebonhawke.
Imagine getting all the short stories posted on guildwars2.com (THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, BUT IN-GAME!) under a lore section, etc.
Lots of opportunities with a lore catalogue coupled under your Personal Story screen or as a separate feature under your character/hero screen.

Make it so, Anet!

If they do add costumes(town clothes), please make them as in GW1 that could be worn as skins above your real armor!

I see these still being crafted – will you plug the hole asap, Anet?

Vol.5241:

You bought those skins without ever considering that they were going to be sold.

Exactly – and the skin said “Account Bound” when you made that purchase… so why so angry now?

With the removal of magic find, it’s still possible to craft the Quivver and Tome in the Mystic Forge that originally had Wayfarer’s prefix. The result is you get a stat-customisable ascended backpiece where Celestial is one of the options, so basically you’ve got a backdoor opened to crafting ascended backpieces that probably wasn’t intentional.

Please disable the MF recipe for Quiver of a Thousand Arrows and There With Yakkington now until you have a fix.

Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1lr5nq/there_with_yakkington_a_travelers_tale_ascended/

Exosferatu.2961:

I agree with the OP. Guild Wars 2 is too lighthearted.

Arena Net needs to tweak the story a bit serious and melodramatic like Kotaki’s artwork for Guild Wars 2.

The worst part is that those are most of the loading screens, and then when you’re running around the tone is quite the contrary

No one else experiencing this – or are the event timers working again? (I haven’t been able to check since last night)

Evans.6347:

You have a legendary, your point is thus moot!

Hah

Clap clap!
OP’s argumentation is off the rails though; why should it really be 450? Because it would’ve been more convenient for you?

Ascended crafting is supposed to be endgame and time-consuming, if you had maxed out on the first day of the patch AND crafted your legendary, you’d basically have reached your goal less than 24 hours in…

Maybe get a hold of realism and cut back on your self-entitlement a bit before you complain like this???

I think OP is getting at the ascended Quiver/Tome and the corresponding Fractal Capacitor that had the Wayfarer prefix became possible to double-click and change stats for after the patch, so now you could switch to an all-stat backpiece if you had one.

They were all crafted in the MF, except the Fractal Capacitor that you bought in FotM – BUT you had to stick that one in MF too if you wanted to upgrade it from exotic to ascended.

Normally I’d have suggested Knight’s or Valkyrie’s – it’s odd you cannot choose Knight’s because it’s possible to acquire from certain dungeons so I thought dungeon armor then would be eligible for that stat. Before choosing stats, I’d check with Anet if it’s maybe a bug the stat combo is missing?

Nretep.2564:

“When you enter the SAB a red popup appears saying like “attention, you’ll lose all your current buffs”.

Yea, failure to read warnings cannot be compensated with reimbursement.

I got this warning yesterday prior to trying to enter that my buffs would be removed, so this is already clear enough as it is.

Everything is removed from you inside the SAB – yes, it’s sad you lost your boost but like you say, you already got a duplicate gift so be thankful for that… whether you already spent that one or got it in bank ready for use later.

And no, they won’t fix it so you can retain your boosts in SAB – the point is you get stripped of them all in there; boosts, gear, etc. You work within the constraints of the SAB and the 7 upgrades you can acquire from playing there.

That sounds like a bug if completing the monthly doesn’t award your usual 10 laurels… don’t think I ever saw that advertised as an incoming change and definitely don’t see why that would happen either.

Is there some discrepancy between the actual world events and the information in the API?

Sites like gw2stuff.com and the overlay application they have have always been invaluable to see what’s currently going on in your particular world/server – but ever since the invasions those were all messed up.
So I had hoped they would normalise again with yesterday’s patch, but all the timers are off, so I just want to check with Anet if things are getting back to normal or if there’s a bug here giving misleading info to these 3rd party applications?

Grimno.6172:

Doesn’t help that I play Charr so my point of standing is GOD KNOWS WHAT!

Why does ArenaNet discourage… Charr?!

Your answer is the Infinite Watchknight Tonic Hm… although it probably doesn’t work in SAB.

Lord Kuru.3685:

I play despite the Living Story. Honestly, the Living Story is a good idea. It’s implementation, however, leaves a lot to be desired.

^^
I don’t need to type anything, just quote you

But, that’s what you need to do… the new 300 gem Transmutation Splitter is what you need to get back to your Legendary so you can set its stats. Whether it’s screwing or not is another matter.

Scourge.4317:

I also had a problem with how my Charr theif looked. It was my very first character and i ended up rerolling human after pleading with customer support for some kind of race change ( i was that desperate ). I went back and played some original Guild Wars and was reminded that there are Charr that stand tall like a human with huge manes and then there are the ones we have now.

Why weren’t we given both body types? To me it seems like a lot of the armor would look so much better on this body type since they stand upright like a human.

That’s one thing, the other in this screenshot is the barechested Charr… I’d like my Charr to display his fur just like Rragar Maneater in GW1 (the white charr you posted)… sadly, to get that I need to run without chest armor at the moment… that makes things a bit more challenging though :/

You can already hide head/shoulder/hand armor, so if Anet could also make it so that if you’re a Charr you are also given the opportunity to hide chest/leggings/feet armor, that would be really nice.

No change to Liadri – she remains so the challenge remains. It should be a real achievement to beat her. I agree that Anet might make the AoE circles more apparent to those with vision “impairment”, but that’d be it in terms of changes to this fight.

Keep it up Anet – more challenges like this!

Re: 2. Drama queen!
You’ve know about ascended gear incoming since November ‘12 – you’ve had time to prepare.

Astraea.6075:

This idea has great potential.

If they are able to deliver the content via a browser (while retaining the look of a printed page), it would be a perfect platform to deliver a lot of the lore behind.the story.

TSW (The Secret World) has its own in-built browser because many missions require you to search for clues online. But Anet could do the same but set it up with restrictions so you only saw a dedicated Tyrian Chronicle minisite. That way they could move all the short stories over there plus other pointers to show where current events are taking place, etc.

Oh, and great idea OP!

Keep them for next year’s return of the Gauntlet.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• If you play at the same time every day, you will see all 13 maps by the end of the Clockwork Chaos release.

I simply cannot believe this – I have been on the past week and a half, between 19-24 in the evening on EU server SFR and the rotation has ALWAYS looked the same. I’m stuck at 12/13 Invasion Canceler because no other zone than Frostgorge Sound, Fireheart Rise, Sparkfly Fen, Lornar’s Pass, Mount Maelstrom, Timberline Falls, Harathi Hinterlands, Gendarran Fields, Bloodtide Coast, Blazeridge Steppes, Iron Marches and Fields of Ruin have popped… where has Dredgehaunt Cliffs been in all this?!

Not that I care alot, but I just haven’t seen all maps like you say I should have.

I seem to remember Colin Johanson stating – with the post-ascended gear rage over treadmill yadda yadda – there wouldn’t be a gear treadmill beyond that. Of course, anyone can go back on their words, but at least they’re not planning to go that way…

“We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.”
Source: Blog post

Edge of Destiny was dreadful and only good to serve a little background on how that party came to be when you later play & meet them in Guild Wars 2. The writing style was so simple, it felt like reading a children’s story compared to fantasy works by notables like GRRM, Ray Feist, etc.

I agree with the OP wholeheartedly – they have a large audience, and I think most are more or less mature and should be eligible to be treated with respect and able to appreciate a darker story. There’s just too much slapstick seaping through and permeating the entire personal story and lots of the early characters you meet. It’s like 70-80% of all NPCs you meet might as well turn up at some bar in LA on stand-up comedy night.

This – in a fantasy world threatened by elder dragons, their minions and war. Yes, in the hubs removed from war you’re sure to see a lighter tone, but even out there everywhere you roam there’s just so much forced comedy it just gets the exact opposite effect – I just cannot take it seriously. I’d appreciate a little gallows humour – but that’s not the line Anet has taken, it’s just downright slapstick served with a lot of puns, and when you groan over and over, in the end you don’t care about the story being told anymore.

I’ll grant them that the current LS with Kiel investigating the Aetherblades, their retreat, the jubilee and the chaos that ensued has been somewhat more serious, and the memorable cut-scene from the Dead End bar was just wow… classy, film noir – that shows that Anet CAN do this.

So basically, my plea is that Anet cut back on tossing in too much comedy; this isn’t Monkey Island… and Monkey Island was subtle and managed it but GW2 has just gone over the top…

Zaxares.5419:

/fistbump @ Danikat

I know the feeling. I did manage to beat Liadri

Exactly, /fistbump to the OP!

Up until late last night I was prepared to make a post like this, but suddenly I got on a roll and got her lower and lower with each try until one of my last tries when I had her under control. Was literally shaking and tried to type on map chat and whisper with friends afterwards but all letters were scrambled.
But I was prepared for her return with QG next year; she’ll be around and you’ve become a better player from going head to head with her and you’ll get her next time!

Love the challenge this brought, Anet, more like it please! Roll on next year’s Queen’s Gauntlet!

Buying the rare boxes of gear for 30 sprockets + 30 silver is a good return of value if you get one nice rare, or even better if you get an exotic or 2 rares.