Guild Wars 2

I’m about 3/4 of the way there. I leveled one to 80, and the rest I’ve been rotating every 10 but I’ve been careful to rotate so that I don’t do the same maps or stories back to back so I don’t get burned out. It’s been quite fun

Yeah lol Collin said if we made a big deal about we might just get both, so I’m making a big deal. I am serious though. I’d like Kiel driving the living story for the years to come but abaddon fractal would be absolutely amazing

Was height affecting projectile range and damage. Can we please please please get this back, I miss the tactical advantage I got from taking the time to sneak up a hill before beginning the attack

@Aeolus. That’d actually make it much less living and player affected. If they went with your suggestion that’d mean all future content would have to be designed twice once for servers with gnash blade, once for servers with Kiel. What this would mean in reality would be that content would have to be 99% the same with minor dialogue variations for each candidate. If its an overall choice, then we could have the next content tale is somewhere entirely different depending on who was chosen. But that’s getting off topic so lets not go there, k?

The CP sun forum should be open now thakittens been announced, as per bazaar. Could someone set it up please?

So I’ve seen a lot of negative feedback regarding the living world and it occurred to me that it must be at least a little disheartening if you’re the person at Anet reading it all. So I just wanted to take a moment to say that I have really really REALLY enjoyed the living world. I think the two week update schedule is great, especially with more permanent content. I think it’s wonderful that you are Shifting towards more lasting consequences. I like that the upcoming election will give players a real chance to affect the world, even if our candidate doesn’t win. I’ve enjoyed every update so far and have loved watching the small things that were wrong disappear in favor of better things. Anyways. That’s my happy opinion. I hope it brightens someone’s day over there in Bellevue.
PS you guys have an awesome office, I visited about a month ago and it was just sweet

I don’t remember my source but your number 5 is totally 100% false. One of the lead designers just said they were 100% fine with releasing new professions and races through living story. So yeah, don’t spread that lie

When it does, I think a good way to do it would be to make it so that you receive a reverse skin. Yknow how we have skin consumables that can be applied to my weapon stats? Make a stat consumable that can be applied to any existing skin. I think it would work really well and be a good way to preserve the skins we enjoy and have worked hard for

Don’t know why this is posted in the Living World section, but way way back before launch they said that if they added a blood effect it would kick the game up to M. Hence why instead we get the lovely “red hit effect”

Hi would it be possible that the categories for living story chapters be opened when they are announced instead of when they release? Otherwise it turns living world discussion into next chapter discussion instead of actual discussion on how people feel about living world and what not

When will it be removed? And will parts be gone before other? This holiday typically corresponds to 4th of July so it seems really early to be doing all the finale and what not. Also if some of the achievements are related to Moa Racing will they still be available post dragon bash?

LHound.8964:

Dra Keln.2015:

Contrary to popular belief, loot manipulation doesn’t benefit anet. All it does is change the rarity of an item, and since anet doesn’t sell items directly the price comes from a the amount of . TP barons do not ruin the economy. People farming T6 mats do not ruin te economy. None of these add gold to the pool. People who farm Gold, be it via CoF or any other method are the sole source of inflation. Just wanted to put that out there

Inflation isn’t the result of CoF farming! Inflation is a natural process that occurs upon players getting more wealth. That is a natural process that keeps happening trough the game’s age. CoF gave players a faster way of getting gold, and because of that it has increased the velocity of the inflation process, but it’s not the sole responsible for that!

I agree that the game needs to tone down a bit CoF reward/time spent ratio, as long as they increase the rewards in different places. Creating a mechanism that will influence the market negatively as reducing CoF rewards, will deflate the market very fast. Steady paces (up or down) is the way to go!

However this belongs on another topic, as the current one, needs to be closed due to obvious reasons!

I was merely commenting on the fact that the gem store in no way gives anet a reason to market manipulate. And I wasn’t explicitly calling out CoF farming, it was just one of the easier examples. Just trying to inform people that when things are super expensive and they can’t afford them it’s not because of TP manipulators. It’s cause of excess gold. Which doesn’t come from Anet, hence the invalidity of this topic.

Contrary to popular belief, loot manipulation doesn’t benefit anet. All it does is change the rarity of an item, and since anet doesn’t sell items directly the price comes from a the amount of . TP barons do not ruin the economy. People farming T6 mats do not ruin te economy. None of these add gold to the pool. People who farm Gold, be it via CoF or any other method are the sole source of inflation. Just wanted to put that out there

Guys. Give him some credit. He’s onto something here. In fact I say we take it a step further. Why not just make it so that we don’t even have to do the slave driver fight? Or the acolytes. Frankly even the gate controller is boring when you’ve done it enough times. And we all the effigy is just a roadblock between us and the chest. Just cut them all

Credibility lost at salvage rate “bug” conspiracy. They refunded any and all blsks used during the period. And fixed the bug, it feels to me like the salvage rates have been boosted but I won’t take my anecdotal evidence as proof

A lot of people have complained about the mine conversion being super bugged, often not converting the mines. The only time I noticed this issue was when he was rearming his mines. And based on my observation it’s not a bug. His rearming takes a few seconds, and they are rearmed at both the start and the end of this period, so if you convert it during this period he retakes it a second later. The trick is to wait for the light to switch from orange back to red. Paying attention to this I had zero issues with bugs in this fight.

Theoretically, what could happen is that the last server save occurred right in the middle of him transferring items from his bag to his bank, Incredibly unlikely, but possible, given the large sample size. However, what is far far more likely is that he either accidentally deleted the items, or has misplaced them, perhaps in a minimized bank tab. I highly recommend he carefully go through each and every one of his inventory slots, across all characters, one by one, even ones that “could not possibly have them” its far far more likely that hes misplaced them than an incredibly small chance bug has happened to him not once, but twice, especially if all that’s missing is the fine crafting mats.

I’m just gonna leave this here:
http://xkcd.com/293/

Alright so here’s my thoughts on living story

So far I’ve enjoyed it very much, it’s been a blast and I like that it had time to build up.

Highlights: The Gathering Storm update. This one has been my favorite so far, because the gradual release of the scavenger hunt, and expansion of the refugee camp made me keep coming back to the zones and participating. The Razing in comparison, brought me to Wayfarer and Diessa for one weekend. I’m detached from the story now, it’s happening, but it’s static and I’m not part of it. It would’ve been good I think to release things slowly over a couple of weeks, giving us time to think about Braham’s initial announcement of lineage before we see Eir confirm it 4 loading screens later, or wonder just what we would find at Cragstead. Which brings me to:
The instances. I love them, they hearken back to the missions of Guild Wars 1. Compared to the personal story, the missions felt like we were there to fight, and the combat drove the story, whereas in the personal story it often feels more like we are there to continue the story, and the combat is merely an obstacle to the next cut scene. They were also a lot of fun to do with friends, I love group play, such as
The Dungeon. From what I’ve heard, the dungeon sounds amazing, with a changing location, and interesting boss mechanics, it sounds like something I would love to do again and again.
Qualms: I understand that many things such as low initial content, and long build up are a result of this being the first go at this. I won’t complain because I like what Anet has promised the direction of the LS. However, I do have once major qualm, which has come up as a result of Halloween, Wintersday, and what I’ve heard will happen in June at the end of Flame and Frost. There’s no permanence. The events are great for creating memories, but what really does wonders and makes a game great is having some reminder of your success. The statue in LA being destroyed at Halloween seemed like a good example of this, but it has since been rebuilt, with no consequences of this. Winterday melted away, and it appears that all the Flame and Frost content will follow suit. I don’t want it all to stay forever, but something like the dungeon could stick around, as a reminder of what we accomplished. Ironically, Lost Shores lacks everything I praised about flame and frost, but has this. My girlfriend, like many others views it as a disaster, but everytime we find ourselves in Southsun, she reminds me how she was there to help build the road and clear the forest. That’s pride, and something that should be encouraged. Our actions so far are all removable. We fixed signs that will be taken away, we closed portals that disappear. Sure we saved Cragstead, but its locked away in an instance, never to be seen again for most. Flame and Frost needs some testament to our efforts, and if you stay true to your lore, that this is the greatest threat to Tyria, then we deserve at least a small monument.

Not living story, put this in the bug section

How do you react to being shown a new exploit?
Do you make it your own to use everywhere?
Do you acknowledge it and use it when someone else suggests it only?
Do you refuse to use it, even if it means leaving a group?
Do you report it?

And why do you respond as such?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_video_games

just had to put that out there. It is a game people, theres no harm in allowing something to be replayed

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I think that’s where the Sieran one is (a Risen Captain, iirc). It’s probably just changing based on what your personal order is – heck, even the dialogue and event title may change per character for a single event.

There is another personal story triggered event. A bunch of Ministry Guard try to kill you for ‘kidnapping’ Demmi Beetlestone.

Source

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeat_the_attacking_Ministry_Guards

There’s a priory equivalent in dredge haunt where the sons of svanir attack you for killing steag frostbeard

Hey if Martin is still here watching I have a question. Would it be possible to sync the dragon events across ALL the servers? That way you don’t get guests hopping servers to complete them on their alts. Which seems to be the main problem right now

Mat supply in gw1 was not infinite. It frequently ran dry when nicks item of te week was a rare crafting material. John smith has stated that the supply of gems is finite and limited by players

Did you register te vanilla card with a zip code? That’s always been the trick for me, and I’ve bought gems that way several times

Getting lots of good data?

I’d like to takes moment to congratulate Beast on his excellent taste. I assume kaylee was to be an engineer?

Someone in your party must have had it as their story step. There’s an odd glitch where someone’s story step can flash across the screen during a dungeon. The most common one is Kill Zhaitan. For reference, travel to Ireko is the human level 22 step

Yaks bend has a pretty active leveling and Orr population as well btw

It’s a client side glitch. No one can see your email but you

Edit: sorry should’ve finished reading your post. An anet comment has stated that its merely a glitch but I don’t think it’s a particularly high priority one since its client side and of minimal impact

I’m not entirely sure Syeria, but I think it’s some kind of hybrid of logged on, active accounts (played within last x time) and server bound accounts with 2 and 1 being weighed the highest and 3 being minuscule

I made a suggestion about this that was pretty detailed. You should check it out. Ill edit in the link later

Send a message to support. From what I understand they’re helpful for new players with this issue. No deleting all won’t let you repick. It’s on you though cause there’s a big warning message when you pick servers.

@kuldred

While there are definitely inherent flaws to surveys they are useful for establishing hypothesis in a relatively cheap manner. Large representative sample sizes help. Obviously this isn’t representative, it’s only looking at people that browse the official forums, but it’s good to go through the motions anyway, especially in a class enviornment

Will you post the results?

Great survey! Happy to help!

I’m gonna go ahead and guess that some aspect of the games data recording mechanism was changed from registering 1 as 0 base 2 to 1 base 2. Or something along those lines. While this presents minor suckage to everyone it probably fixed a major crash bug and for that I’m grateful. I do hope anet is willing to go the simple route here and simply lower the required counts by 1 for all affected achievements. Ideally adding in some separate joke achievement relate to players efforts to correct this.

Gold===>Gem
15char

You guys should delete most of the old data slowly as you get more of it. Eventually you’ll have data that’s all from post server lock.

Starting to see the threads again. Reviving this.

FateOmega.9601:

The monthly could be reduced to kill 1 rabbit and i bet there will still be people complainting.

Well why should I have to look for a rabbit!? That’s not part of my play style /s

Totally read LA lol

One hint.

Sewers

Remember all the gems you get with gold were purchased by someone. Essentially what you’re doing is giving somebody else in game gold in order to buy your expansion for you. By taking gems out of the economy like mad it’s actually in anets best interest to make it purchased through gems. The only downside is that if they did they’d see a huge outcry of “Gems are too expensive!!!!” Threads. Not saying I agree with those people I think it’s actually impossible for end to be too expensive, if anything they are far too cheap right now.

Making expansions purchasable with gems would be bad for players that buy gems with gold. It’d instantly create a huge demand for them. On the flip side it’d be hugely good for anets profit

I’m gonna go ahead and assume this was a quick replacement for the combo kills achievement removed yesterday

The preview thing was in notes

Yeah direct song is bad. Unfortunately the decision to sell it there is not up Arenanet. It’s Jeremy Soules decision. He’s in over his head with this one and should release to amazon or iTunes. Direct song is a good way for him to make money but its really too small for this game.