Guild Wars 2

Rollbacks are bad, mkay, but thanks Anet for being on top of this quickly and sorting out the issue.
Anyone playing cannot claim to have lost a lot of progress simply due to a few hours (out of an up-to 4 years of playing this game).

And I for one cannot remember any other serious incidents like this, so kudos to the Anet team for quickly resolving this!

(I’m still scarred from the time Age of Conan was down for 2 weeks…)

Hear hear, it’s been up many times before, particularly how much more in theme Charr would be if you could play bare chested/legged and still have armor. Let’s face it, even if hidden everyone in PvP/WvW knows you wear armor even though it doesn’t show and don’t require that visual cue.

So… is it a question of “decency” that Anet prevent it then?

Anyone else find it funny they’re called the White Mantle but there are currently no cloaks in Tyria?

So basically they should just be called the White…

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Let’s stay on topic here.

He live streamed July 1st and during that sounds like he’s focusing on playing HoT for some collections because there’s not a lot of content to cover with his usual videos.

Bit early to rage about something we’ve had no official word on isnt it?

Special?

Looks like any other Black Lion weapon to me…

And unless there will be a guaranteed way for every player to get hold of one, I doubt it’s special in the sense that it will be intrinsic to future story/lore – i.e. get hold of Privateer weapon that will be part of a longer journey to build a better weapon… e.g. semi-precursor hunt. That wouldn’t work since even at 1 BLT there will be a huge part of the player base not getting one.

Legendary Defenders of Tyria

Just sayin’…. plus it would have that nice respectful nod towards the old LDoA title/achievement.

Follow an NPC, get to a location and deploy collector.
Kill all spawning mobs
Pick up personalized ley-energy balls and put in collector
Kill all spawning mobs

Rinse and repeat; there is nothing confusing or difficult about this event. Yes maybe if you try to solo it but so far all groups I’ve done it with never had an issue.

I have done 7 events, and so far I have managed to get 2 ley-line energy balls….

This contention for “resources” belongs in an open-world PvP game with mob/kill stealing and node/resource battles; not introduced in GW2 like this.

Please patch and make the ball pump out a dozen more ley-line energy balls so everyone can get this achievement.

I need a total of 60 of these for both achievements… you planning on keeping this event running until LS3 is launched after summer? It sure will take that amount of time to get it done at least…

If by “Books” you mean more GW2 novels, oh god yes! The lore of the GW universe has always excited me and I hope some lore nut at ArenaNet is working on a 4th book

I have nothing valuable to contribute other than thank Scott for replying with all those answers. Love the interaction!

Aerick Blackmoore.8167:

Avian mini 3 pack to be returned in the Gem Store? Pretty Please?

Yes, I missed out on the Raven and would really like that!

No more wings please!

Instead, can’t you focus on making cloaks – they can also function doubly as gliders – I don’t mind being Superman

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Dinks.2478:

lol no… if I need to run afk I am not going to just leave the map I am in. And if my minions decide to kill kitten while I am off doing whatever I had to do that isn’t my fault.

If your minions are killing stuff while you’re afk then it IS your fault. You chose to stay where mobs spawn and you chose to have minions out (you can always toggle Flesh of the Master to kill all your minions) FULLY KNOWING how your minions behave.

Well put. And the objection that you just had to rush off AFK and didn’t have time… bs to that, it takes you 1 sec to press P and click ‘Enter PvP lobby’ from which you’ll get back to the exact same place when you return from AFK. Similarly, press G then ‘Guild Hall’ which should take you about the same second.

If not, don’t complain when you get warnings and/or bans.

Ebon Vanguard armor pls

Hoping future story brings these characters into focus.

Canach – the outsider who really should be our PC’s right-hand man
Malyck – as mentioned above, needs little explanation why
Izu Steelshrike (or one of his brethren) – I’d like a prominent Tengu to link up because the Tengu will play a bigger role in the future, just not certain how near
Livia – Scepter of Orr, where now, time to show up, we’re running out of Elder Dragons
Razah – a wild(card) revenant re-appears

No sympathy for afk farmers whether (ab)using the mechanics of your class (necro/ranger).

Anet previously said wrt. multi boxing etc that you must actively play on your computer and I think you are in violation of that if you deem it ok to afk while letting something occur in game that passively plays for you.

And we’re getting Shining Blade War Supplies container drops too

Dem feels over GW1 nod of the head

How are we here discussing this in offseason after league 2 when people were already so vocal and not getting anything during last break,that you (Anet) can put us through 2 ranked seasons, AFTER two test ladder seasons, and not doing anything to prepare for this break? Season 2 just lasted 10 weeks or whatever and you knew all ranked players hated the last break, but here we are again…

The break is destructive and gives your pvpers nothing else to do, and you see that because most your ranked pvp players on stream etc start to play other games. No, i will not set foot in unranked in offseason (as the only rated arena you get complete newbies stumbling around like headless chickens).

bananaman.1685:

I’ll concede the “everyone” thing. It’s a good point well made, although you have continued the bad habit!

My problem with SAB is that is a jokey mini-game that is in danger of outgrowing its remit. We’ve got calls for more levels, permanent access, more gem shop items. We’ve got people who want to spend all of their time playing it instead of the main game – the game they bought. SAB is not GW2. It started as a joke but it’s in danger of pulling dev resources away from the real game. and we know how short of resources they are. If you step back and strip away the hype, SAB is shallow and quite rubbish. This is, of course, just my opinion. Maybe everyone else but me feels differently, in which case I’m in the wrong game.

Sorry, point of my post wasn’t that relying on ‘everybody’ loving it, because I know everyone doesn’t, but more to do with asking why this content could not already be left in.

They made World 1 and 2 back in its first year and even made an Infinite Continue Coin for when they would release World 3 + 4, then it just got taken out and no longer got prioritized. It was already made, and yes, while they would require developers to make world 3+4, the fact remains that world 1+2 already are in place.

The argument that not leaving it in is because they would need resources to make sure it works with every future patch… but honestly, you’d think it would require less effort if you continously ensured it worked with new patches being put out than leaving it derelict until such time some dev stumbles over it and they want to bring it back – at which point so much work might be required they just can the idea and then it’s gone forever.

Leaving it in, with only World 1 and 2 for now, lets people play it at their own leisure to finish the achievements they haven’t got sorted yet and get hold of skins they’d like to get. I’m not saying the devs should focus content for SAB over LS3 + raid, etc. But they are still far from getting those done and at least SAB contributes with a little something people can play for diversity. As opposed to the same ol’ grind in the open world, non-overhauled WvW… plus another month or so with PvP off-season coming up in little over 2 weeks (April 23rd, isn’t that the next patch day)…

Don’t worry, they’re working on a fix and it’ll come out April 19th. :P

Dear Anet,

SAB is content that GW2 players has been deprived of for 3 years, and is there one thing GW2 has been deprived of the past 6 months since HoT, it’s fresh content, and before that it went another 9+ months without content updates between end of LS2 and HoT launch.

What is the harm of leaving SAB in as permanent content for everyone to enjoy at their leisure?

You have yourself also acknowledged a lack of content lately and are moving teams around and neglecting development of certain aspects of the game to favour new content (raids + LS3), but isn’t another quick remedy to keep SAB in.

Everybody loves it, and it’s not particularly Easter/April Fools-bound to be categorized as a festival like Halloween, Wintersday, etc. that are counterparts with distinct seasonal application. SAB is just a crowd pleaser, people can enjoy world 1&2 and the tribulation modes, and right now with ongoing PvP leagues, people can’t focus both and have to neglect stuff in game.

Your previous arguments about not adding too many new zones or too much new content in fear of spreading your player base too thin is no longer valid; the spreading players thin now is due to players leaving the game out of lack of content. As such, leaving SAB in as permanent content only has positives.

So, sincere question to you, Anet, why is it that SAB only returns for a short while only to be enjoyed by a handful?

AND it cannot be justified it’s about skin exclusivity/achievements, because for all other previous exclusive skins you have released new NPC vendors with one-off events to acquire those again. So why should SAB skins be in a different category…

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

philheat.3956:

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

What are some suggestions for Legendary Titles?

Dunno If it’s possible, but it would be really cool at the end of s4, having an achievement + title like “Ascension Legend” unlocked only If you reached in every season the legendary division (so you already have all primordial , exalted etc. Titles).

Really “legendary”

Interesting. . .

Alright let’s say that you need to include “Legend” in the title. What titles would you suggest?

Legendary Champion

Oh wait….

Perhaps

Eternal Legend
Enduring Legend
Raging Legend
Legendary Conqueror
Legendary Protector
Legendary Vanquisher
Legendary Destroyer
Legendary Scholar/Adventurer/Soldier (for the 3 armor-type professions)

Give the PvP season names, e.g. Flame, Ice, Storm, and you can have Flame Legend, Icy Legend, Storm Legend

Sad to see how things have turned from bad to so so much worse in the past few weeks.

Went on a break with BDO launch but now I’m just sad to see GW2 is in such a state I’m not sure how to return… hopefully LS3 comes soon and reignites that spark.

Lunar Sunset.8742:

Don’t give up on Anet yet! I’m currently playing the GW2 Cantha expansion and other than being a little bit grindy, it’s great! They finally brought back Assassins and Ritualists, although I’m not too thrilled with the renaming of ritualist to summoner. Can’t have everything I guess!

I call that utter BnS

Or, i hope they just add January’s item to the brewery NPC so that we can get it during February too.. seeing as it was only available 6 days.

Didn’t want to start a new thread, but this ley-line energy and the windstorm that arises immediately following Mordremoth’s death, in the cinematic you see it coursing out in 4 directions from Mordremoth’s “lair”. Is this purely artistic, or could there be something about the remaining presence of four Elder Dragons that means the released energy flows out in direction of those 4 beings that have such a pull on the energy due to their consumption of it?

And then, as one ley-line energy stream runs east, it gets derailed and absorbed by the dragon egg?

While the one coursing north through the Forsaken Thicket touches on the Bloodstone and the Chosen’s spirits, as it proceeds north in direction Jormag’s direction?

The remaining two flows of ley-line energy get eventually reach Primordius and the Deep Sea Dragon…

I’m guessing it’s just artistically that we see the ley-line energy explode outwards in four streams; and there was never anything in the Zhaitan death cinematic of similar sort, so we can’t tell if there 5 streams of ley-line energy at that time.

Care to give a clue about one of the ingredients?

spartan.9421:

Too bad they won’t ever do this for Forgal and Sieran. :/

+1 or +1000

Tybalt is a stupid character, never wanted him to return in the first place.

Ehecatl.9172:

Honestly, I am hoping that Kraalkatorrik and Jormag, upon seeing how we’ve managed to defeat Zhaitan and Modremoth, finally realize how big of a threat we are as a united front and launch a two pronged invasion from the Crystal Desert in the south and Shiverpeaks in the north.

This is similar to my hope; that the story won’t go on one dragon campaign after the other until all are dead, but also allow for the EDs that remain to realise what fate has met two of their “brethren”/adversaries, and despite hungering for magic/power, we will see either

a) two Elder Dragons assaulting Tyria on two fronts at the same time, OR….

b) a storyline where two Elder Dragons assault each other. We saw how the egg absorbed the energy after Mordremoth’s death, but if an ED kills another ED they might be present to absorb it to become even greater. And in between the fight of two EDs, the heroes come in and get thrown left and right more as bystanders who can sway a fight but ultimately not avoid that one ED consumes another. And so we’d have a twist to a story that didn’t just have us going tête-á-tête with yet another dragon and live to see another day.

I got caught on the bit in the first paragraph going

while the heroes of the great invasion into the jungle investigate a strange disturbance to the north.

I posted this in the State of the Game post too but the reply from one guy there suggests it’s only “north in the jungle” as in focus on the raid releases… I’m not so sure though; could it be LS3 will have us investigate a disturbance in the north as in going to Shiverpeaks to check out Jormag finally surfacing?

I come from Age of Conan, thank you very much…

Nike.2631:

Dondarrion.2748:

Colin wrote in the State of the Game blog post – in the spoiler bit following HoT under the “Looking Longer Term” paragraph;

COLIN

… while the heroes of the great invasion into the jungle investigate a strange disturbance to the north.

I was scratching my head why no one else has been picking up on this, or maybe I’m just reading it wrongly. Of course, it could be Primordius too, but ‘disturbance to the north’ that needs investigating sure as hell won’t be Kralkatorrik

The raid map is on the north side of the Tangled Depth. The ongoing raid releases are the “strange disturbance to the north”, that’s all.

But this is under the Living World Season 3 paragraph, and I really doubt that they will combine raid content with LS3 story content seeing as the story will be far more tailored towards casuals… so I doubt it’s raid releases as you say.

Randulf.7614:

Dondarrion.2748:

And it looks like we’re geading north to Jormag for the next elder dragon campaign!

Curious to know where that info came from. I can’t see anything in the blog alluding to Jormag?

Colin wrote in the State of the Game blog post – in the spoiler bit following HoT under the “Looking Longer Term” paragraph;

COLIN

… while the heroes of the great invasion into the jungle investigate a strange disturbance to the north.

I was scratching my head why no one else has been picking up on this, or maybe I’m just reading it wrongly. Of course, it could be Primordius too, but ‘disturbance to the north’ that needs investigating sure as hell won’t be Kralkatorrik

Power-level wise, incidently players fought djinns left and right back in original Guild Wars; of all elements and some influenced in name by gemstones (ruby, sapphire, diamond, etc.). They were moderately powerful mobs, apart from certain bosses that of course were significantly boosted to be more dangerous; Kormab, Burning Heart, being one of the notables.

But as Aaron and Konig both state about the nature of djinns; they are nothing like the dragons and would perish going alone against them as much as a single human character would.

As for whereabouts of the Gods; since vanishing about 250 years ago, no one knows the definite answer do they? As much as question for Aaron and Konig too, and whether this battle with the Elder Dragons will ultimately end in their (the Gods) return, or some other cataclysmic event with all the “uncontained” magic?

Are the Gods currently prevented from returning to Tyria due to the Elder Dragons – whether it’s imprisonment of sort or being a spectator on the outside with the magic of the EDs blocking the Gods from intervening? Other than being revered by the humans and invoked as skills to take on the form of their avatars?

Who or what is Suck at Love, and why the heck should I care when this post seems to be about a cheating player… they got caught and they’ve been banned, and good riddance.

Oh, how I love the salty tears of banned botters. And good work Charrbeque on screenshotting and staying one step ahead of the botters reporting them to Anet

I don’t think it failed.

Wouldn’t a problem here be if Rytlock is the first Revenant to appear and he does so now in present day 1328 AE, it’s difficult for your PC to be one from an earlier point.

So, all other revenants discover their abilities following that through some episode – or rather, just you seeing as there’s story-wise only you and Rytlock as revenants because all other player characters are the same “individual” in the world, or is that not correct?

So – each revenant PC needs some life-changing event occurring following Rytlock making his return… near-death experience or possibly – having been in a coma and only awoken now after X years like the Thaumanova incident as cited by Headcase over here for instance…

At least, that’s how I’ll be playing out my revenant – seeing as he’s a character in a fanfic currently in development.

Ah, thanks for the reply!

Hi,

what with leagues and victories vs defeats becoming more important, I check my match history to see the progress to, and on two occasions I’ve seen a match not listed as “victory” or “defeat”, but simply “Bye”.

I have NEVER left a match until it was finished and scoresheet brought up, so what is this? Is it a forfeit due to some team mate having dc’ed? Other team had a dc?

Not sure if others are experiencing the same, but this is the first time I’ve noticed, but interacting with the Tendril Torchers adventure flagpost in VB causes my 64-bit GW2 client to crash. I’ve recreated the situation and relogged and simply done this one action and it still crashes.

Of course, something else might be buggy causing this spurious result, but at least this is reproduceable for me.

They could’ve avoided this, we don’t see Attuned making fools of themselves with yesterday’s raids being released.

We all knew Attuned and Death and Taxes had been selected for raid testing; THAT was the real recognition of their guild.

Of course, any guild given early access to raids in testing are invalidated in any claim to official world first at release, it’s a given. That they post about it is disrespectful of the community of competitive guilds that do have world firsts as ambitions.

DnT could’ve enjoyed this recognition as one of the hardcore guilds that were selected for testing and creating the challenging raids for the rest of us, instead they squandered that opportunity and their boast has only got them kicked from the programme and now they’re ridiculed.

Nash.2681:

Dondarrion.2748:

Pre: 9 – Everything was nice, achievements and progression took real effort
Post: 0 – A big fat zero! If you take out this progression decision, it’d still be at 9.

It’s been kittening 5 days and the whining, entitled casual player base has kittened their way to get everything unlocked in a whiff.

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Funny you see it that way. My impression is that it’s the casual players that don’t really care about the grind since they don’t dig in too deep into the game anyway, so something “to do” aka grind for while running around in the open world doesn’t bother them too much.
The dedicated not-so-casual players in return don’t want to waste time to get their Elite-Specs and farm endlessly for Masteries, but want to access the new features they payed for by buying the expansion and make the best use of them they can- preferably by using them in new challenging and rewarding content.
And the latter is the part where the game fails miserably since HoT launched imho.

But somehow they accepted not being fully trained and leveled at the launch of GW2… it’s like their attitude with HoT in terms of character progression has changed from, “Oh, it’s ok to grow more powerful as I level up… yes I’ll be sub-par until lvl 80 with everything unlocked” and now they just sound like a child wanting all the candy immediately without putting in any effort.

Pre: 9 – Everything was nice, achievements and progression took real effort
Post: 0 – A big fat zero! If you take out this progression decision, it’d still be at 9.

It’s been kittening 5 days and the whining, entitled casual player base has kittened their way to get everything unlocked in a whiff.

I’m just saying now, this was the release of an expansion, it’s probably going to be many months before we see new updates so don’t come complaining on the forums when there’s nothing new to work towards in terms of character progression.

ArenaNet, you caved on this iterative decision – complete bs…

Don’t get me wrong, the expansion itself is great, just you shouldn’t cave to a vocal minority about making progression goals so easily achieveable… where’s your long-term perspective???

Nike.2631:

hurrado.2346:

Praise the lord they are looking into a solution, thanks Colin!

Um, that’s NOT AT ALL what he just said.

Always the same problem, people hear what they want to hear and then come back to complain when those expectations weren’t met…

OP, you’re not speaking for me. Either I count for many solo players or the situation you’re describing is exaggerated and just down to whining about not managing a challenge… and that doesn’t really reflect well.

The last few times I’ve been to Maguuma I’ve come to outposts and places where events are ongoing and I’ve solo’d them since the WPs have been contested. After completing them alone, then other players have WP’d there because I see them arrive immediately. And it’s been the same many places I’ve been.

Nice trolling attempt, OP! xD

Previous karma, snowflake exploit incidents and now this warning from Cleary should serve as all the warning exploiters deserve to get. Anyone caught deserve a hard, permaban straight away to deter such behaviour further and set examples.

That being said, I hope HoT launch goes smooth for you guys and that there’s few exploitable bugs in there!

Serious.7083:

Fnix.5608:

Please, don’t bring back the 2012 BLC skins. Please, let there be some prestige old-time items in this game. The veterans who where there had their chance.
And why should new players access the skins while they weren’t around the first time?
Why should everybody have everything? When that day comes in GW2, it will be a really sad day.
So Anet, when end-game is about fasion, please don’t disappoint your older player base.

I played right through from release date -3 days, before that I played GW1, so I am an old player base person. I counter why not bring these back? You have had plenty of time to enjoy them so why not others getting the same chance? To be honest your words sound just a bit selfish.

There are those who have been playing equally long as you but for whatever reason didn’t get them, why shouldn’t they be given a second chance?

Prestige… in a casual MMO where there’s no distinction grinding for the best power items, skins/fashion is what sets players apart. If you were there and got the items, it shows you’ve been around, you’re a vet who has been loyal player of the game for 3+ years, but for every special skin they bring back, everything gets dilluted and there’s nothing to set you apart from anyone else.

They should keep adding special skins every year and make every year memorable for current players, but stop with bringing back all these special skins they did before. OR – if they won’t do that, at least cut the crap and bring back EVERYTHING, yea I’m talking molten jetpacks, molten berserker minis, etc. etc.

They can’t on one hand go ‘nah, no items will be special’ but at the same time not bring back some skins thus making them even more special. Seeing as I don’t see them dumping all removed skins back into the game, I’m not for returning 1st year Halloween skins either due to my primary reason above.