Guild Wars 2

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Draygo.9473:

Metrics are more reliable than player feedback.

Only if those metrics are interpreted correctly.

^Give this man a cookie.

Metrics are almost always interpreted incorrectly.

So is player feedback.

Metrics are more reliable than player feedback.

Cactus.2710:

Draygo.9473:

SoulSin.5682:

A suggestion:

Remove the whole server vs server crap that obviously never worked in 20 years of MMo history and transform it in a big Red Vs Green Vs Blue battlefield.

Um, it hasn’t been TRIED in 20 years of MMO history. If you want to make an argument to change something you can start your post with something better than a half-truth.

If you want to accuse someone of playing loose with the truth you’d better be certain you know what you’re talking about. You don’t. The 3-faction open world PvP portion of Rift called Conquest was exactly a Red-vs-Green-vs-Blue format, with players able to choose which team they wanted to play on when they queued. There were some HORRIBLE flaws with Conquest, but the lack of server alignment was not one of them.

Please understand what I wrote about, and that the op has since edited his post.

Server vs Server vs Server has never been tried before in any Triple A MMO.

Kaineng ran a wintersday event where there was gift exchanging, running around as reindeer/moose/dolyaks in wvw. I’m sure the other servers saw our weird zerg which was half transformed. We died a lot but had a good time listening to seasonal music.

There will be screenshots!

Personally I wont be playing much till after the holiday – really busy time of year.

This is the thread where we can do the talking about the matchup thing!

SoulSin.5682:

A suggestion:

Remove the whole server vs server crap that obviously never worked in 20 years of MMo history and transform it in a big Red Vs Green Vs Blue battlefield.

Um, it hasn’t been TRIED in 20 years of MMO history. If you want to make an argument to change something you can start your post with something better than a half-truth.

Which is still worse than farming CoF 1 before they limited the rewards from that.

Bunnehboo.6025:

I dont see a reason for them to bring back town clothes.

People on the sidelines can still just take off all their armor and there ppl who care know not to attack them and ppl who come and attack anyone anyway can and will still do so.

You can still costume brawl with tonics. Though i have a sceenshots of ppl doing that in spawn area…

If you take your cloths off and someone attacks you, you will probably die.

If you took your town cloths off and switched to town cloths, if someone attacked you your armor would automatically be put on.

It would be much better if anet would just fix the exploitive skills, for the axe leap just root the player for a second before the player leaps just like the cat tonic leap. There, fixed.

Please respect your scouts/dolyak escorts/keep campers want to have a little fun while they do the boring mundane tasks of watching over objectives while you wxp train somewhere else.

Tricare.2946:

Excalibur.9748:

because why would you bother reviving if the stomp always wins out?

I would agree, if only 1 person could revive at a time. However, 5 people can revive 1 person pretty kitten fast.

Also, every class has an interrupt while downed.

5 have interrupts, 3 have repositions. For example you can still finish your stomp with a blink skill if you blink where the thief teleported to.

And you can stab stomp the interrupt skills for those 5 classes.

As far as I can tell its intended. If you don’t have any down penalty before you go down you are pretty easy to revive. Damage, interrupts and things may stop people from reviving you. If you have more than 1 down penalty the stomp beats the revive without interrupting the stomper.

What I would like to see:

Exotics brought up to Ascended power level OR Ascended nerfed to exotic power level
Ascended gear allows you to change your stats on the fly, similar to a system legendries use. Ascended also keeps all infusion slots. Ascended trinkets lose some stats but allow you to slot jewels again to allow players more customization.

I think it would be a fair trade, make ascended gear desirable as a method to save inventory space.

I would like to see ascended gear tradable as well, so I throw my support behind that notion.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Deified.7520:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Felbryn.5462:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

The two main areas for discussion will be Horizontal and Vertical progression, however please understand that the commentary and ideation we are really looking for regarding vertical is around its accessibility in game.

I’m not sure I understand this bit; could you clarify?

Basically:

• How easy it is to attain the Ascended gear?
• Is the balance of acquisition of Ascended out of whack between different game-modes (i.e. Easier in PvE than WvW, easier in the open world than it’s intended game mode [Fractals])?

Couldn’t have said it better myself DaiBish. Thanks.

Chris

In terms of collection in WvW and PvE I think its in a pretty good position. However, obtaining in different routes does take a bit longer I felt. I also understand why. This game is very easy in most parts of it. If you increased the drop rate the item would lose its significance because it would be too easy to get. So I feel like you need to increase the difficulty in more ascended gaining areas while also increasing the drop rate. I don’t want to have to do a really hard event 100 times to get one ascended piece.

Yep this is a good point.

Chris

Collection is not in a good position, its is far too hard to get the requisite amount of dragonite for ascended crafting through wvw. While I would agree that wvw doesn’t have to be the ideal place for dragonite material, it should at least be reasonable.

Capping over 100-175 keeps is unreasonable for a single weapon. I’m lucky to cap 20 keeps in a week. Often wvw players that want ascended gear are spending a very little amount of time hitting one of the temple events to get the dragonite they need. I feel they shouldn’t feel the need to do this if dragonite was available in wvw at a reasonable rate.

I get more dragonite per hour from the wintersday boxes from players I kill than I do capping keeps in wvw.

I would like to see some of the youtube content providers give google a nice lawsuit for damages.

“20. You may not use any third-party program (such as a “bot”) in order to automate gameplay functions, including playing, chatting, interacting, or gathering gold or items within Guild Wars 2. You may not assist, relay, or store gold or items for other players who are using these processes.”

This is clarified as 1 click = 1 action by forum posts here.

1 click = opening 20 items is automating a gameplay function by repeating it in a loop.

The problem is mainly on googles policy, right now people can copyright troll youtube videos and submit false copyright claims via content ID without having to prove the request is a reasonable one – as seen when a bunch of blizzard games got flagged.

What I would like to see is anet take some steps to provide some fairness when considering wvw progression and pve progression in terms of gear.

Currently you have to capture more than 25 keeps to get the same dragonite as the pve player that does a single temple DE chain.

I understand that sometimes capping keeps is an easy task, and you can do it more than once a day, but the time requirement to get over 500 dragonite through wvw is simply far greater than the time requirement to get 500 dragonite through pve.

There is plenty of supply of bloodstone dust and emp shards are almost common enough (though could use a slight increase). The biggest roadblock to ascended armor for wvw players is the difficulty of obtaining dragonite.

I would suggest that anet look at a few numbers to fix it:
Average keep capture rate per person in wvw that solely attacks keeps (karma/wxp trains)
Average dragonite rate for players event hopping from dragonite granting event to another.
Additional sources of dragonite, as like a loot role on a player kill while defending an objective.

In certain situations guardians can fall faster than warriors, such as fighting inside a treb poison field. Keep in mind that guardians have lower base health so conditions will drop them faster than a warrior.

The Arcane Council is lead by Flax:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/High_Councillor_Flax

Menzies hasn’t achieved god status, seems to be seeking to kill his brother for it though. If he succeeded we would have another dead male god but w/e.

skullmount.1758:

Draygo.9473:

The proof that the evon vs ellen wasn’t rigged was the fact that they put in art assets into the game coinciding with one or the other winning.

If it was truly rigged then there was no reason to create the evon hologram.

Wheres the proof there are assets for Evon winning? They never showed them ingame. Due to the fact they put out the Ellen assets that fast, kinda seems they already new/wanted Ellen as the winner.

Its called data mining. The assets for Ellen winning and Evon winning were in the .dat file you downloaded. That is why Ellen appeared ‘so fast’ because you already had the files on your computer when she won. If Evon won, he would have appeared just as fast because again, you already had those files on your computer.

^ you only need the serial code for the automated password reset process. Support can use other information to verify you for the password reset. Just send them an email, preferably from the email account that matches your guild wars 2 account.

1) Loop macros are forbidden by the Terms of Service
2) I doubt anyone is going to lift a finger to stop you as long as you use it while at your computer and only to save yourself from killing your left finger while opening things
3) You can use a legal alternative, such as rebinding the mouse wheel up action to left click, you can use scroll lock as a toggle.

Remember 1 click = 1 action

Your loop function lets you open 20 chests with 1-2 clicks. That is 20 actions. Which breaks the rule.

You can click the link for my last years guide, essentially if you got past the first wave without losing a dolyak you would finish with the achievement.

Vexander.9850:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I’m surprised they didn’t also explore the problem with her being a typical female villain stereotype.

I don’t think anyone could complain about this game having, “Typical female villain stereotypes,” all that much. It barely has -any- female villains. The majority of villains are male, and the majority of heros are female. It’s been that way since Guild Wars, and continued into Guild Wars 2. I mean, let’s keep count for a moment…

Of the Six human Gods, Four are Female.
The Last known Human Royal is a Queen, who has a male Minister as her political arch nemesis at this point.
Destiny’s Edge is composed of 3 females, 2 males, with a woman being their leader (Eir Stegalkin), and another female being the Catalyst to bring them together (Caithe).
A massive part of the Charr conflict with the Flame Legion is their treatment of female Charr.
The Pale Tree, a deity-like being, is portrayed as Female.
The Sons of Svanir is an entirely -Male- antagonist group.

I mean really, Scarlet may be a lot of things, but its almost -refreshing- to have a female antagonist for a change. I really, personally do not consider gender inequality to be a huge issue in this game or story. There’s a fair mix of male and female characters, and all characters are, for the most part, portrayed well.

I just think its silly to pull the gender card into this. I’ve had arguments with people who thought Guild Wars 2 was a Misogynist game before for one reason or another. I really just don’t think gender has that big of a role in Tyria when it comes to characters like Scarlet. Being male or female wouldn’t really change her in my opinion.

1) There are Eight gods, 2 are dead or disempowered, the 2 dead/disempowered ones are male. (Dhuum, Abbadon) so there are 4 male and 4 female gods.
2) There are 6 members of Destiny’s Edge, 3 male, 3 female, one male is dead.
3) The leaders of Rata Sum, Black Citadel, and Hoelbrak are male.

Not trying to poke holes in your argument as I agree with your points, but cant be too sloppy. To me Anet is intentionally striking a balance. Roughly half the cast is male, the other half is female.

The proof that the evon vs ellen wasn’t rigged was the fact that they put in art assets into the game coinciding with one or the other winning.

If it was truly rigged then there was no reason to create the evon hologram.

Thanks for the comments guys.

I think the number of extra presents you get every other round after defeating toxx is the same as the amount of currently alive dolyaks you have.

I prefer the regular quartz, at least I can sell that.

hoegarden.4287:

I agree is some ways. If the connection is lost i can understand that you don’t want to get banned for it. You can’t really predict when your internet will be down or when your PSU explode. If we knew all that days ahead, our life would be much simpler isn’kitten

Then about the family part. You know getting involved in ranked matches takes time. If you just have a few hours where you can be alone, then don’t do it. Better go to the park with the kids or do something else
So in Draygo’s view, only players who pay 200€ each month to get fiber optic internet who never fail can play ranked pvp… not very fair i guess.

That is not my view, I suggest you don’t put words in other peoples mouths.

To get dishonorable you must leave more than one match, you have to leave multiple matches. At that point you are providing a negative gameplay experience to several other people. Ranked matches do not take a long period of time, especially compared to League of Legends which has a similar system called leavebuster which can lead to automatic bans from the entire game.

If you leave the occasional match because your internet cuts out a couple times a month, you wont be getting dishonorable. If your internet is cutting out every single match you need to get your ISP to fix it.

Thanks for the comments. Usually though you don’t want to be fighting the toys at all, just keep moving around smashing and building.

If there is a SPF check line in your header field check that first.

I think its about right.

Even if you have legit reasons, you are ruining the game for 9 other people when you quit playing. If you are doing it too often then you shouldn’t be playing ranked while these life issues can happen.

Should anet just remove dishonorable just because people ask? What if they make up reasons and are just trolling so they can troll some more games?

Shattered formation works well against tightly packed warrior groups. Kite their blob, pile damage and conditions on them and at some point they break up and start dying a few at a time.

Just so you know the recipe is pretty common, I do expect these things will drop down to <10 silver. So if you are buying them up hoping the price will spike you will be disappointed.

Its on the TP, I sold one yesterday for a bit of silver.

I just wonder if its not showing up in the search properly.

I think if you stop the patcher and move over your current dat file into the testing folder it might patch the difference.

Don’t know if it will work but if it does it should save a lot of time.

A year ago I wrote a little guide to teach people how to effectively beat toypocalypse linked below:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/wintersday/Guide-to-beating-Toypocalypse-very-easily/first#post1086728

A few things have changed from last year, you only need to get 1 dolyak through so without further ado, the updated guide:

Step 1, grab candy cane (good for destroying things)
Step 2, smash everything
Step 3, build anything that drops right next to where you pick it up
Step 4, build only snowmen and catapult, litter the map with them. Walls and ballista are pretty much worthless.
Step 5, dont upgrade siege till wave 3, even then only upgrade to repair your siege. Mega siege cannot be upgraded and cannot be repaired.

What happens is the toys ‘aggro’ the snowmen and catapults and the catapults and snowmen kill them really quickly, when toxx spawns she will run between all your placed siege and ignore the dolyaks. Keep in mind that toxx has a few aoe attacks this year that will wipe out your siege, which is why building your catapults and snowmen everywhere is the best idea. If you pack it in tight little balls toxx may ruin it.

Few other tips: Use hay to heal your hurt dolyaks, its not too uncommon with the above method to make it all the way through with 5 full health dolyaks to show for it.
You can heal yourself by standing next to the middle pillar with the dolyaks.

There were orange swords on the map, and only 5 of us. So you do the math.

hrm looks like AR got on and took our BL first

Rank 570ish
No ascended
3 total exotics
2 superior siege

:(

I have consulted the Profit of Zommorros.

He says that if the previous chance of getting a precursor from exotics was 0.00003% the new chance is now 0.000030000001%.

Please note that the chance is derived from extended RNG testing, results are accurate plus or minus 0.000000000002%

Happy Wintersday.

There will probably be a reset when wxp becomes account bound.

Also anet has not committed to a reset at the start of season 2. I challenge you to quote your source if you believe otherwise.

The meta isn’t imbalanced because everyone is capable of doing the exact same things.

Which is the definition of balanced.

What you are talking about is level of fun. Is the meta fun?

3 PM on the west coast is not “prime time”.

That’s kinda the point I think.

If you prepare a defensive position properly you can hold off and significantly delay large numbers of people. Its called a prepared position.

You can always build a treb and blow their treb up. Putting a little more effort into attacking than pressing 1 on a gate.

Cactus.2710:

Nike.2631:

Josh Davis.6015:

Citizens,

We have invited 1000 additional guilds to the public testing of Edge of the Mists. Please have your guild leaders check their email inboxes! If your guild didn’t make it in this round, don’t lose hope! We’ll be adding more guilds in the coming weeks.

For those of you already invited, we’ll be running two tests today:

9AM-11AM PST
5PM-9PM PST

Thanks again everyone! We look forward to seeing you in Edge of the Mists.

So… Exactly what mechanic exists in the Edge of the Mists that you’re ignoring solo, unaffiliated WvW players in your testing?

I mean, if its not built with players like me in mind, I’d be happy to know in advance to never go there.

LOL. Not only did they ignore you for invites, they ignored your query.

Starting a guild is like 10 silver right? Start a 1 man guild, apply for EoTM testing, get invite. They are doing it on the guild level to reduce management time.

That’s pretty funny on a few levels.

How does that Mesmer get out between the doors anyway.

I support this thread.

I just think the AC (and targeting in general) should be restricted to a 16:9 ratio. So no shrinking your game window in windowed mode is going to give you a larger targeting area. Problem is that requires tech that probably isn’t in the engine yet.

Many dolyaks have died to bring you supplies this season, give them the respect they deserve.

No, anet gets quite a bit of it. How do you think they are paying their development team? With pizza and beer?

I think the real answer is anything. Anet uses metrics to measure player activity in each area, by playing WvW and buying gems they know you are playing wvw and buying gems.

You didn’t seem to get enough feedback on this list of questions yet, so answers in bold:

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

A lot of awesome ideas here.

Here are some questions I’ve been wondering about.

How often do people actually join squads and use the features that are there? (4 different way point markers, /supplyinfo). What would make you join squads more?

People rarely join squads on kaineng, its also a bit prohibiative if you need to tag down for a bit then tag back up, such as you die during a fight and someone takes over by tagging up and you tag down. People then need to rejoin your squad when you tag back up, or cant see the other guys tag unless you tag down.

How much is spies a problem with commander system?

It currently isn’t as far as I’m aware on kaineng, maybe we are too poor to be spied on.

Should the commander icon be shown above the commanders head to the commander?

it should be at the same height as the tallest charr/norn currently. Yes it would float way above an asuran commanders head but it needs to be ‘above’ the fray to perform its function.

Should we allow a WvW upgrade to see enemy commanders (not on the map just on screen) ?

not a good idea, as this adds a direct penalty to tagging up, which means people will simply tag down OR have a bunch of people tag up which kinda defeats the purpose I would think