Guild Wars 2

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Rox helped and brought a chunk of Teq’s tail to prove it.

Yep, I thought that was the tie-in, although weak, still a tie-in

Finally, one patch with no meta achievements.

Everything flowed really well with the current story, no extra fluff/grind achievements.

The story alone was reward enough for me. Thank you!

Mr.E is Scarlet’s “good” side

What I really liked before, was that when a patch came out, the image of the next patch would come out.

Checking that image name, we would get two letters in it, which we could use to speculate about the upcoming content.

That, was one of my favorite part of the new patch day, speculating about the next patch, and the week after, the page would go up, previewing that content, and we could see how far from it we were, and speculate on more factual stuff.

Now they just release the name and video, which kills all that community speculation

:(

BobbyStein.2315:

Jaken.6801:

That is very reasuring.
I hope you are able to realize what “old school” rpgs were doing. Looking back at all the Pen&Paper inspired games, where your “party” had personalities, fears and hopes. Things you had to earn, instead of getting them delivered to you.

Right now the “story” is pretty much a line. You get certain informations at certain points, regardless of what you have done.

If you manage to change that. Make your “choices” along the way count. Then i will be really happy.

(that you hinted of the involvement of the PC speaking again is also a good thing)

Agreed. While there are certainly some constraints and challenges in doing heavy “party RP” systems in our game, we’re looking at ways to evolve our tech and also our writing of character development such that you get to know these NPCs better and that your choices have a noticeable effect. We’re not where I’d like to be just yet, but we’re planning to try some new things over time.

I know it’s out of context to the thread topic, but do you have plans to use the personality system already in game? It’s already used on a couple of occasions, but having it used a bit more would be awesome.

It’s Josh Foreman’s signature coin.

There’s on in LA too iirc

Hi Puz,
what server are you on?

HI Bzerqer,
I’m Edgar Doiron, leader of Forgeman Destroyers [FORD], we’re a small guild on Sorrow’s Furnace, which loves doing PVE, dungeons, fractals, WvW. We have a guild website where you can see our event schedule, and which I keep updated fairly regularly. Most of us play from 9pm EST till midnight.

We use mumble as our voice comm, and joining us on it, is probably the best way to feel at home in the guild.

We’re also allied with a bigger guild, which we run a couple of events with them every week. WvW and Guild Missions in particular.

If you’re interested, I’m running an exploration event tonight, which you can find more information about on this reddit post
Tonight is a starting zone (Norn), so if you’re still low level, it would be a nice event to try out. There’s going to be plenty of us to answer questions and teach you the ropes of the game.

Hope to see you in game tonight!

Mewling Kittens.7965:

I’m looking for a guild on Sorrow’s Furnace. I’ve been playing for about 4 months now. I have one Norn warrior character to level 80 with about 50% map completion. I still consider myself relatively new to the game and want to learn more of the finer points. I also want to do characters of other races/professions.

I’m interested in map exploration, running dungeons, getting into PvE (just begun to dabble in it) and WvW (haven’t tried that yet). I’m on evenings several times during the week and weekend. Don’t mind using Skype, Mumbler, Teamspeak, Ventrillo or anything similar.

Looking for other active players with similar interests and goals as mine. Thanks.

HI Kittens,

I’m Edgar Doiron, leader of Forgeman Destroyers [FORD], we’re a small guild on Sorrow’s Furnace, which loves doing PVE, dungeons, fractals, WvW. We have a guild website where you can see our event schedule, and which I keep updated fairly regularly. Most of us play from 9pm EST till midnight.

We use mumble as our voice comm, and joining us on it, is probably the best way to feel at home in the guild.

We’re also allied with a bigger guild, which we run a couple of events with them every week. WvW and Guild Missions in particular.

If you’re interested, I’m running an exploration event tonight, which you can find more information about on this reddit post

Hope to see you in game tonight!

Go do the story instance in LA in-between fights.
Go interact with thumpers.

Seems like nowadays people are only playing for Achievements and rewards.

This patch and the one before it added A LOT of story to the game. I’m glad some of us enjoy the story more than the rewards.

did you do the instance in LA?

We’re currently recruiting on Sorrow’s Furnace.

We’re a small guild, but those of us active are like a family. Always doing stuff together, willing to help new members and old members when help is needed.

If you like the GW2 lore/mysteries/stories, you’ll feel at home in our guild. We love talking about it.

I run weekly server wide exploration event every Wednesday, you guys probably saw some of my post on the GW2 subreddit .

We have a weekly scheduled night for WvW, which with do with an allied guild each week. Same for guild events, we run them with the allied guild once a week, and I run recaps if people missed it. Our members do PVE, WvW, and PVP (a bit).

We use mumble as our voice comm. and having it would be recommended, if you want to feel “at home” quicker.

Our active time is around 9pm (EST), since most of us have families to take care of before that.

Edgar Doiron
Forgeman Destroyers

Where is suppose to be the ruins of Port Stalwart, the town destroyed in Sea of Sorrows?

Could we see The Great Destroyer again (new one). The news of maybe seeing primordus got me searching on the Wiki for more information. I dug up this little part

Supposedly, the true name of the Great Destroyer would be revealed when the two clashed once more. If the true name of the Great Destroyer was ever read, then the Great Destroyer would rise again and end the known world.

wookiee.4631:

Why is it called “Many Questions so Dev” if the project itself is called “Dolyak Express”? I guess it’s a joke, but I don’t get it. Also, where do you guys get your questions? I thought there would be a thread for people to ask them. Are they instead just gathered from around the forums at large?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge

What server are you on?

Malchior.5042:

First, my opinion is going to differ greatly from any of the previous voices concerns/suggestions.

• To be honest, Colin, I can’t believe I’m saying this…but it seems as if everything has been made TOO rewarding. That, or the fact of acquisition anywhere or ability to buy just about anything on the TP has removed a lot of the value of diversifying the content one plays at any given time.

I will totally agree with you here. There’s WAY TOO MUCH focus on rewards. Everything you do, you get a reward. What’s more, for those of us that have been playing for a long time, and already with exotic gear or more. Rewards either get sold/salvage or if they’re skins, they’ll get used up (I like skins, would like the to be re-usable). Instead of more rewards, give us more rewarding stories.
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Malchior.5042:

• If the path of least resistance is going to be what the player desires, I say give that path more branches, so players are encouraged to branch out, try something new, and explore if they want to maximize profit gain/time spent. Only then, will new systems gain their maximum value potential.

• I’m gonna get some serious hate, but introduce Diminishing Returns on champion loot on a per-zone basis. If a person farms Queensdale for more than an hour, no more champion bags from Queensdale for that day. If said person loves champion farming, they’ll have to go to another zone. This first step will show how repetitive play is punished. It’s still possible, but players have to explore new zones, form new champ farms, etc…

I think offering more ways or branching on current ways to make money, for those who only do that (champ runs) would be nice, but don’t kill champ runs for those who like doing it… I mean, if they enjoy boring champ runs, let them do boring champ runs.

Adding gold rewards to PVP is a nice step in this direction.

Malchior.5042:

• With that in place, add improved incentive for playing a variety of content. Players like maximizing time, and just about every human on earth likes to “get a good deal” or save time/money. Along with daily achievements, add hourly bonuses (not necessarily achievements) that can be messaged by the event panel/LW panel area. Only one bonus would be active at a time on all servers, and would rotate either every hour or every few hours. It might pigeonhole players, but honestly, if people are farming Queensdale, what’s the difference in just moving them around?

• Something like… “50% bonus xp for completing events in Fireheart Rise.” – 60 min
• “50% bonus Karma from events in Mount Maelstrom.” – 60 min
• The Call to War! “50% bonus WvW experience!” – 60 min

I had an idea for this, tie events to those boost. So like at the end of a big meta/chain event, an NPC thanks you, and gives that boost to you, for the zone. Also the system we had in GW1 dungeons, where the more kills we got, the better the reward the buff would give. That could be another idea.

Morrigan.2809:

So from my own personal perspective I want my character to reflect the journey I have had in the game – remind me of epic things I did etc.
All the things I am referring to here is purely from a horizontal perspective btw.
I have no interest in bigger numbers or being more powerful.

I think more of the stuff we do/did should be reflected in our home instances.
like yeah, the nodes from the living story is neat, but i’m talking NPCs we could talk to and such. NPCs you’ve crossed path with during your journey

ColinJohanson.2394:

How would you modify this system to work in the open world? (I see a lot of easy ways – skill point challenges are very similar to this, but it’s fun to ask you!)

Gauntlet Arena. in the open world :P
A bit like you have in Gendarran fields (Vollym’s Battle Pit )

ColinJohanson.2394:

So an open question: If you don’t announce it, how do players who want to progress their character down these new paths of exciting character progression know what to do it, or how to progress? We’ve seen if the path of progression isn’t relatively clear, most our every-day casual players won’t bother doing it, which isn’t a system that buys us much game play over-all.

I know you’re saying this as a way of putting something at the end that gives us a feeling of progression.

But isn’t that the point of your event system. so the world is dynamic? I mean, I’m usually the one teaching the game to new members of our guild, and I still come across events I had never seen, or hear some idle chatter I never heard. Not knowing it’s there is part of the charm.

If you don’t want it to be a random event that people waits for it, you could do it like the unlocking of Forsaken Fortune but maybe a bit more complex. Like a system you used in the Nightmare’s End, with the puzzles we had to solve.

ColinJohanson.2394:

What other systems would excite you that don’t fall into the “sitting in front of your keyboard” pressing buttons options? Keep in mind they need to be easy to learn so we can teach them to new players, accessible, and not overly complex/tedious, and hopefully not something with a path of least resistance that leads to degenerate game play.

How about a system like you guys just used in the Nightmare End LS. With the different objects we could interact with, where we had to use our brain instead of our brawn to figure the puzzle out.

You could make them tie in to the lore/story of a zone. Where answers are available by talking to NPCs or noticing stuff in the zone.

For one, Robert isn’t there anymore

Funny how some people doesn’t seem to think that Devs are people too. And everyone(almost) is off during the holidays.

Yay for starting 2 weeks tonight!

Does that mean we will be getting a lot more ambient chatter and more characters to talk to, now that the story team can play around with the dialog tools?

I love scarlet. Still lots of mysteries surrounding her.

I hope the last 4 updates are grand!

Oh I totally forgot about that puzzle inside the tower.
WE NEED MORE OF THIS! PLEASE!

And will agree with your #2. I think they need to better manage their Achievements.

Like you either solve it with the puzzle (which i did) or brute force. Another place this bothered me a lot was during the Cutthroat politics, when they had two branches of achievements. It should’ve been, you pick one or the other. Not do both.

For the Kasmeer naked thing, it’s idle chatter at the camp. I’d recommend staying around for like 15 minutes. lots of stuff going on over there.

I hope this is a sign of what they can do for future release.

In terms of content/Story for it, we got the end of the tower with a super cinematic.

All the NPCs at Thunder ridge camp got new dialog.
There’s also tons of added “idle” chatter.
Braham and Rox meeting with Marjory and Kasmeer. The two Quaggans in love. Kasmeer being naked.

On top of that most Quaggans you’ll find on the map are now homeless, and their text points to that too.

Black Haven (PoI) got a consortium npc, saying that we better watch out for when they take over the BLTC, there’s also a guard there to take care of the refugees, and that Quaggan looking for a way out of Kessex hill.

The DO NOT TOUCH towers have been renamed mysterious probes. So yeah, this is the kind of update I want. Tons of stories, tying what just happened, and what might happen next. This is how these Living story updates should work, make us want more, make us want to know what’s coming next. Give us stuff to speculate about.

Thanks Anet, for a great update!

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Zyphent.2967:

Also, Titles are a cosmetic progression reward that is severely underutilized. What about Title tracks that I could progress through?
Example: As it currently stands each world of Super Adventure Box has its own title, and I don’t need all the achieves in World 1 to get the title for World 2. But what if doing all the achievements in one world just Progressed my Super Adventure Box title track up one level? Then I could have a form of progression with titles! Note: Some work like this already in a way, like the Hall of Monuments titles. Why dont more?

Hi Zyphent,

Regarding gear that your can evolve aesthetically: I really like this to and this is something I will be chatting more about with the folks at work.

Chris

I think he brings up a good point with the title progression, and there was a missed opportunity this year for wintersday.

For those of us that were here for Wintersday 2012
we got the “Apprentice Toymaker” Title.

This year for Wintersday 2013, the available title is
“Journeyman Toymaker”

It’s good for those of us who were there during 2012, because we’re upgrading from Apprentice to Journeyman, but for those who missed 2012, this year they should get Apprentice, and not Journeyman.

Then we can show off that we’ve been here for x amount of wintersday to others.

Romo.3709:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi,

To clarify I am looking forward to hearing the communities thoughts on speed of acquisition such as how long crafting time takes? or drop rates in fractals and other areas of the game etc.

I hope this adds some clarity.

Chris

Chris, at the moment fractals with the given reward/time ratio is rather quite low. Getting 1-1.4g per 4 levels of fractals, which frankly some equal the amount of time needed for medium-longer dungeons is incredibly low given the time needed to complete these. At the same time Fractals such as dredge level tend to sometimes take an hour to two hours to complete, depending on a group. Regardless of promises to get that particular level shortened. Drop rate for ascended materials is just not worth the time.
The only time consuming ascended material that so many people constantly complain is Dragonite ore, since it’s incredibly difficult to obtain if you do not spend all day WvW-ing or standing around and waiting for Metas to come up, which give you anything from 1-5 for smaller and up to 25 for bigger ones that take on average 15 minutes.
If fractals were to give all the ascended materials, maybe it would increase the interest. But I hardly doubt anyone will bother going through an hour worth of dredge to get 10 dragonite ore.

Fractals gives you a lot more chest (4) than regular dungeons though. So i think the 1g+ is fine

Draygo.9473:

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.

Or they could add them to the rank up chest? doesn’t need to be much, but still there.

IF it’s running on the PVP servers, couldn’t you make them run through the team queue code branch?

Where are they? I find they added so much to the current story, and we haven’t seen them since The Bloody Prince backstory.

the CDI took place last month, and we will only see the stuff that came out of it four months away from it.

Everything in between was already underway.

Actually Halloween has a ongoing story tied to it, with the Mad King.

Every year, that story will move forward.

But I’m not sure if the same can be said for Wintersday, there’s not really an ongoing story tied to it, is it?

Hi Dark Night.

I’m Edgar, leader of the Forgeman Destroyers[FORD] .We’re a small guild of about 20 members, with around 10 that are the core and active daily.

We use voice chat(mumble), which I think is a big plus to get a sense of community and camaraderie.

The guild is on Sorrow’s Furnace, I haven’t seen from which server you’re from, but i’m sure we can figure something out.

We’re allied with a bigger guild on our server, which we run organized WvW events on friday night, and guild missions on Saturday night. We do run dungeons and fractals, and being part of the alliance just gives us a bigger pool of player to play with, while still being our independent smaller community.

Most of us are on the EST time zone, and play from around 9 till midnight

P.S. I update our website every couple of days

I’ve brought this up on reddit earlier this week. But with the 15% cut the BLTC is taking from every player transaction, they must be rich by now!

My question is this, is this being tracked by the devs? Will the BLTC use that money for something? I mean, Evon Gnashblade was sending us money with voting tokens during Cutthroat politics, so I guess he was basically giving us “our” money :P

Why haven’t you release a wallpaper for this update?

I’ve been hosting Map completion every Wednesday at 9PM EST on Sorrow’s Furnace (NA).

I will do all the POI, Waypoints, Vista, Skill points. I will be skipping Hearts, it adds too much to the lenght it takes to clear the map. We usually do events near Hearts though, to give you a boost for their completion.

Meeting location: Lion’s Arch – Gate Hub Plaza Waypoint [&BBEEAAA=]
Meeting Time: 8:55pm (EST), 5:55pm (Server time)
Event Start: 9pm(EST), 6pm(server time)

Look for Edgar Doiron, i’ll have my commander tag up.

SEcond update without a wallpaper…

ANET, you’re getting lazy!

These wallpapers are ususally the background of the guild website, and my work computer… You’re missing out on free advertisement

It’s Ho Ho Tron

Hi Knight,
My name is Edgar, I’m leader of Forgeman Destroyers [FORD]. We’re playing on Sorrows Furnace. We’re a small friendly and mature guild who loves helping others out.

We’re a guild of around 20 members, with about half active (semi)daily. I’m usually on every night around 9pm EST. We’re also allied with a bigger guild, where we team up to do weekly WvW (friday Nights) and Guild Missions(Saturday nights). Out of the WvW nights, we mostly focus on PVE.

If you’re interested, you can visit our website
I’ll try to contact you in game tonight, if you haven’t made your choice

Idlemind.9650:

Hello..

Just waiting for my GW2 client to download, only 210,320 files to go O.o

Anyways I’ve played a lot of MMO’s and have an extensive steam library.. at 34 I’m a bit embarrassed about it, but some Forty Creek and it’s all money well spent.

My MMO play style has always been to solo as much as possible – I am looking to change that! I want the full nerd rage inducing experience of being committed to a guild. Will I turn into one of those guys that talks about his guildies at social events and at the clerk at EB Games? I hope not but that is a risk I am willing to take.

Looking for a mature guild with a good sense of humour and laid back schedule, preferable where most communication is done via headset.

My non-gaming times are friday night and most of saturday, other than that it’s flex.

I’m a bit of a carebear so PVP is NOT my main focus.

If you think I would be a good fit for your guild or can recommend a guild that would be a good fit for me, I’d appreciate hearing from you.

Regards..

Hi Idlemind,
My name is Edgar, I’m leader of Forgeman Destroyers [FORD]. We’re playing on Sorrows Furnace. We’re a small friendly guild, of mostly Canadian players. We’re a mature guild who loves helping others out.

We’re a guild of around 20 members, with about half active (semi)daily. I’m usually on every night around 9pm EST. We’re also allied with a bigger guild, where we team up to do weekly WvW (friday Nights) and Guild Missions(Saturday nights). Out of the WvW nights, we mostly focus on PVE.

If you’re interested, you can visit our website
I’ll try to contact you in game tonight, if you haven’t made your choice

BobbyStein.2315:

Arewn.2368:

In the case of slow paced story release, I feel it would help considerably if we were able to revisit past story(living story instances) at will.
I can always catch an episodes of a show I missed or want to re-watch at a later date, why can’t this be the case for the LS instances?
Same can be said for personal story missions.

We’ve heard this request a lot over the past year and are evaluating our options. We’ll share more details when we’re able.

Hey Bobby,
I recently (yesterday) went back to GW1, to do the Guild Wars Beyond content that I kind of missed in the last years of GW1. And after going over the websites of the 3 arcs, I noticed that War in Kryta had a scribe, “blogging” about the daily stuff happening. Couldn’t this concept be used more with the Living story?

In GW1, I could replay the story arcs, with a different character, but even if I couldn’t, reading that War in Kryta page would get me up to speed on the stuff I missed.

Also, Guild Wars Beyond was kind of GW1’s Living story, wasn’kitten WiK lasted 4 months!

I think the bazaar will make another appearance when the economy needs balancing.

If you guys remember, we could trade in different amount of different ressources for Bazaar stuff. This made materials that were at all time low prices and high quantity go up in prices and lower their huge quantities on the TP.

So I guess, The Bazaar will come back when the material economy needs balancing.

Hi Araevin,
I’m Edgar, leader of Forgeman Destroyers [FORD], a guild based on Sorrow’s furnace.

We have a lot of Eastern Canadian on board, including myself. We use mumble for our VOIP, and we’re part of a bigger alliance of guild to run WvW and guild missions.

You can take a look at our website it might interest you!

Hope to see you in game.

Hi there,
I’m Edgar, leader of Forgeman Destroyers [FORD], we’re a small, but social guild based on Sorrow’s Furnace. Most of us have family and kids, and log on after the kids are in bed.

I’m usually on around 9pm EST, you can send me a message in game (Edgar Doiron).

You can also take a look at our guild website

Hope to see you in game.

Two things.
First, we haven’t had a short story post in a while, which makes me sad.

Second, I decided to go play some GW1 with my guild this week. I missed part of the Guild Wars Beyond content and wanted to do it.

I guess this was kind of GW1’s version of living story. The first story arc, War in Kryta, lasted 4 months. A neat thing about this is, the content is still available now. Secondly, a scribe documented everything during that event .Which is a nice way to get a recap, without playing the content.

Is there a reason why we couldn’t have something similar to this? A scribe documenting all these living story events?

khani.4786:

Edgar Doiron.2804:

khani.4786:

This is the max size they offer, I’ll let you resize to fit your screen….hope you like one of these. >.>

Mind doing that first one (Falling) without the Fractured on top, but the GW2 icon still there?

Don’t mind at all!

thanks!

http://ford.shivtr.com/

khani.4786:

This is the max size they offer, I’ll let you resize to fit your screen….hope you like one of these. >.>

Mind doing that first one (Falling) without the Fractured on top, but the GW2 icon still there?