Guild Wars 2

-Elrey gives cofee to zmodd.

For most of you, i just travelled in time. I’m in the year 2015! Crazy, i know. I guess I will sit here and wait for you all to get to my time! Come fast!

Greetings from Europe

I hope you don’t get dissapointed. The Story of Arah is probably the worst boss fight of all the times. So boring that I almost quit the game after that. Thank’s god the tower of nightmares happened that same month and it hooked me until now.

For those that can’t have a good christmas. Those that won’t be happy. Those like me that are sad tonight, or can’t just smile like everyone else. I want to tell you that it’s ok to be sad. The life is going to give you these moments, and sometimes it may look that it’s too much, but it’s never too much. I want you to be strong, take a deep breathe, and hold on for whatever stupid reason that you can find. The reason doesn’t matter at all. The life eventually gets better, you just need to be there when it happens.

You are not alone.

i dislike the way they try to force us to try PvP or WvsW. Please re-consider to add more dailies for us to choose.

As a sidenote: I’ve been thinking for months now that GW2 would be better without PvP, but they are focusing lot of people into that and even doing tournaments. The big problem is the way they can’t add major skills changes for PvE that would be nice just because it would unbalance PvP. It’s a big facepalm…

Please Anet, if we dont like it, don’t force us to play that.

Well, the topic says is itself.
Does it affect EotM?

If yes…
If you kill someone, your server gets 1 point?
If everyone in your group contribuited to kill that someone, they get 1 point for each of those servers even if we just killed only 1 guy?

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

El Pesadilla Roja (Spanish for The Red Nightmare).

Sorry to break your bubble, but you had got it wrong all the time. The red nightmare in spanish would be “La pesadilla roja”. The nightmares are considered females in our country, for any reason that i don’t even know O,o.

Reading “El pesadilla roja” is as bad as “They lion guard”. Please fix it ^^

GM Talon.8726:

The Quality Assura nce team is aware of the issue and they are working on a fix.

Of course, because only Asura’s can fix that (couldn’t resist xD)

fishball.7204:

Kinda unrelated maybe but the other night I did Arah p4 at simin somebody casted an ember by accident (you know the one used during teq/3h wurm) and 3 sparks aggro’d onto it lol. The fight totally got bugged and somehow simin respawned at 50% and never healed up after that :/

Now that you say that, there was a mesmer clone nearby (fighting simin) involved when i had the aggro on 3 lights.

i did got the bladders on red and indigo at the first 5 tries. Right now for amber i got 6 CONSECUTIVE fangs… it’s really discouraging.

Godzilla precursor is epic hahaha, my favourite so far.

I got a ranger friend that name his pets after some guildies. His bear is named “Aens the pooh” because my main character is named Aens. He also got a drake often called “Toothless” from How to train your dragon.

PeterFries.1057:

Let us know how we did, when you get there.

As a proffesional writer myself (at least in Spain), I don’t like how you’re doing so far (i mean Anet with the LW story-telling, not you, Peter).

The story is messed up with so many secondary stories that it’s ok for a while, but paccing them after so many weeks it makes the player to forget the earlier stories. Think about it, do you think now people remember everything that scarlet said? I can guarantee that only a small percentage of the players will do, yet we don’t have the answers that we needed related to season 1 and you already started 2-3 different new stories with more questions and little answers. By the time that you deliver the answers that we needed in season 1 it will be already pointless, unnecessary or too late, because we already lost interest on it.

As example: It’s the same as when you look for the name of a song that you like a lot, then you stop liking it 3 months later and then someone tell you the name of the song 1 week later. Ok nice, you know the name… but you don’t like it anymore.

In my opinnion, a good story must be leaded by a main thread and the other sub-stories should be started and closed before the player lose track of the main thread. Which is not happening in GW2 and that’s why the community feel so lost.

Edit: I did like season 1 more, the marionette, lion’s arch battle and the tower of nightmare because of it’s mechanics, not the story related. Funny uh?

Edit2: Threads opened at this time:

• What happened with all the scarlet armies after she dies? Did they came back to home? Do they team up together for something? That massive amount of enemies won’t just dissapear without making some noise.
• Why Scarlet woke up mordremoth? (This thread seems on “pause”, but it doesn’t feel so badly, we’re waiting for it because it started a second main thread)
• Where is rytlock? (Open thread, not closed)
• What about the queens medallion that always shows the real queen? (small sidestory that was never closed)
• The past of caithe (open thread, could be closed easily with another update BUT you put 6 weeks of waiting in between, people will forget about episode 7 details when the episode 8 kicks in. Some others already forgot what Scarlet says to Caithe in Aetherpath).
• The zephirites and the egg (open thread, i consider this the Main thread at the moment, opened when Scarlet woke up Mordremoth. And well, we probably will know the answers for this in season 2 or 3 or i’ll be highly dissapointed).

I probably lost track of other little side-stories that were introduced but never closed. Marjory, braham, taimi, rox, caithe, canach, ellen kiel and so many. many characters should make clear what they are doing. Otherwise, unveiling only a small part of each of them will eventually leads to a confussion of “who did what?” or “when did that happen?” because nobody will remember it.

Agh, i can’t properly explain in english my thoughs, but I think you got the point.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Thanks for these notes. We’ve filed on this before and the ad was pulled. But it seems to have reappeared. If you could kindly post a direct link to the ad — not to where the ad leads but to the ad itself — we can investigate.

Relevant: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2m7e21/so_more_games_plagiarizing_guild_wars_2_assets/

I didn’t think in those scenarios… and I guess you are right. This suggestion was entirely focused on PvE. I will never really like the PvP of GW2 no matter how they make it and i guess i can dream with changes that would be awesome in PvE… until i notice that it would cause issues to PvP.

I’m wondering if Anet could make different rules for skills in PvP and PvE.

If any combo fire field could cure chilled (slow movement due to freezing), it would just makes sense and would also be a nice way to slightly improve combat.

I’ve just done Arah p4 with some guildies. I was doing the lights at Simin and due to the fact that I missed to place some, i ended up with 3 at the same time. Those 3 were following me and didn’t reset.

I didn’t test it more, but i believe it “might” be fixed.

link?

/15waystoshutupawarningontheforum

Now that it’s almost full, i can give some feedback about SilverWastes, and there’s a problem. There’s so much things to do that people have issues to complete the meta events.

The issue
It happened twice already that even with the maps capped at maximum population, the events couldn’t be done because of people not doing them. Why? Because they are doing something else.

• It happened once on the first update. The defending castles + bandit chests mechanics were added to the same map, so people farming chests didn’t care about the defense of the castles. That was fixed but it wasn’t cool.
• It happened again now when the jumping puzzle is added. Most players don’t do the defense of the castles anymore because they’re busy in the caves beneath.

So… what?
Well, the map is great, the mechanics are great, the events are nice and I love everything about Silverwastes! But it’s all on the same place. As long as you need most of the map population to complete the meta-events, i’d suggest to Anet to not add a system that can break down the players interest with another system on the same map. They are nice, but they deserved a map for themselves or another kind of fix.
The labyrinth was great because you can’t do defense of castles while the labyrinth is up, and you can’t do the labyrinth while defense is up. Those 2 don’t break down the other system because they don’t happen at same time.

TL;DR
Please don’t add systems that can break down another system or divide the population’s focus on the same map.

As much as I like this program, i’m horrofied about the fact that most of the known players that would apply to it are in my opinnion toxic players that will encourage berserker gear to do things “fast and efficiently” instead of encourage players to find it themselves.

edit wrong thread, ignore post.

Well, i might just ask, anyone got all 30 badges? i got 28/30.

Main post updated. Thank you for the info. Is there anything else new?

Some tips for newbies, now that I finished it 3 times already.

• If you die, a skritt will rez you, so you are ok.
• Follow the Elixirs, they tell you where to go next.
• The puzzle is so big that it takes the entire map. You will get to the surface and then back down to the caves a few times, don’t worry, as long as you follow the elixirs you are ok.
• You got a buff that tracks milestones.
• If you disconnect or move to another overflow, the milestones don’t dissapear.
• If you fall down or find an skritt tunnel before the cauldron, that means you failed. Pay money to the skritt nearby to port you up to your last milestone. That way you don’t need to start the entire puzzle (1gold = last milestone. 1silver = previous one. 1copper = the one before previous one). The buff lasts 60 minutes so you can safely kill yourself 400 times without losing progress.
• There’s coins everywhere in the puzzle, I already got 28 so look around.
• If you are stuck at the 8/9 part where there’s a golden chest… well, you went wrong. Go down a bit, go up again and try to find the 3 tunnels togethers (i spent 40minutes the first time trying to find that).
• If you are at the beggining waypoint but you got milestones, just go to the boat and jump down before entering it, there’s a pool of water to land safely. Downthere find the nearest skritt tunnel, pay for your taxi and get up to your milestone.

snakevenom.9324:

So zerg-wise I don’t need to be pink? I’ll do fine being orange? Then why to have pink?

For agony resistance, which is a PvE thing.

Let’s use this thread to cover up all the changes that weren’t included in the patch notes.

New features

• Redesigned the UI buttons to accept or deny a group invitation.
• New items will highlight in your bags with a white flash around them.
• Non salvaged items appear as Red.
• If you tab out during map loading GW2 will flash orange in the taskbar when map is loaded.
• New design when you press on F12, [Log out, character select, cancel]
  Dungeons
• The flowers that used to spawn in TA UP would not spawn any more at the boss.

Also New Bugs

• The LFG auto-update so often that it’s annoying and sometimes you can’t read texts.
• Targets being shown by every player in PvP lobby. Leading to and endless spam of player targeting.
• Random water animations at your feets on places where there’s no water.
• Some guild banks and permissions are disabled.

Anything else?

Baldrick.8967:

If you want lots of jumping puzzles, go play a jumping game- there are thousands of them already out there.

I was hoping for a continuation of the first part…

So you want twice the fun for your desired content, but none for the lovers of other kind of content? That’s a bit selfish. The way i see it, you already had what you like in the first part. Second part is for players that enjoy a different thing than just killing stuff.

That said, the loot is a tonic to become the legendary thief skritt! I love it XD

I just finished it after 2 hours. Without guides, without friends, without help. The hard way! and I never had more fun in a game for a loong time. I love silverwastes caves

Nice job Anet!
Keep the good work! +1

I get it, my bad for not thinking enough on the topic.

I don’t know if you can modify stuff this way, but maybe (maybe, as in just a suggestion):

• 1: You could change the code enough to send the mail as last step of level 20 instead of waiting for level 30. This change would automatically fix the problem for characters that didn’t complete The Ringmaster already so it’s fixed forever.
• 2: And then create some code that would also send the mail for the players that already did complete The Ringmaster and hence the automatic mail wouldn’t show up:

Made Up Code

if character.story.step.TheRingmaster == True and character.level < 30:
SendMailNow(whatevercodenamegotthatspecificmail)

No need to go through localization, and no idea if this could work, but well, it’s just a suggestion, i’m bored and that 2 steps should cover both the players that didn’t get to that step yet and also the ones that already did.

This very same problem was showing up in the spanish forums a few days ago. We figured out that it was a leveling issue and the players with problems could complete the story after they were 30 without issues.

Maybe just editting the mail text could be an easier fix, Jeffrey, something like “This step will be unlocked after levels 30”

pdavis.8031:

Justin ODell.9517:

001 031 300 201 111 000
105 310 010 302 000 010
520 022 101 100 100 110
000 110 305 200 220 000
021 011 021 100 100 102
111 210 510 301 111 111
205 130 010 211 103 051
030 102 205 130 011 201
300 100 100 102 251 515

Am I doing this right?

I am trying to figure out which “language” this is…the format looks familiar, but I can’t place it.

Looks like Decimal but it isn’t. I’m trying with http://cryptii.com/decimal/text

Season 2 indeed has good points. I just hope they stop doing so many focused solo-player instances. If the mordremoth fight it’s inside one of those, it’ll be as dissapointing as Zhaitan’s fight and will discourage most of the playerbase to keep playing. It must be something as big and huge as marionette or lion’s arch holograms fight, or even permanent like Tequatl.

Please Anet, you got enough time to not screw that one up :P (constructive criticism)

There’s lot of missing translations in the spanish forum.
As example: http://prntscr.com/5anlm2
That happens if you try to edit a topic but the name is too long. Missing translation

Please fix it.

I had a similar experiencie as Orion Templar. I joined a new overflow and checked the map, was at 99% before the breach. I was near amber tower and I though i would go to help, but when I did get there I found the npc dead, no players around and the timer on 70 seconds. I just used my elite signet to get there quickly (as warrior) so I had 60seconds cooldown before i could equip the Elite banner to rez the NPC. I would do that just because it was challenging, all the doors and walls had enemies and making my way through them was a good idea
So… at 15 seconds before the timer runs out I was already running towards the fortress, dodged first enemy attacks, a teragryph, skill cooldown is off so I equip banner before I get into combat, find the npc, throw an immobilize to the teragriff aiming at me and throw the Rez banner…… The NPC got rezzed in the very last second and I check the right side timer… 2 seconds. Yeah the freaking npc died at 2 seconds to complete the breach and everybody left that castle because they wiped. But no worries ladies and gentlemens, here there was a ramdom player that was new in the map to save the day lol. You can’t imagine how epic I felt after defending that castle.

After that, I tried to solo the Troll champion… it was a bad idea xD

The real laberynth in gw2 is the guild mission proxemic lab

We should be able to join the laberynth from activities, have lot of achievements inside same as sprint sanctum (as example). That way we wouldn’t burn it out so quickly and will be able to be done in 4-5 months from now. Otherwise when nobody defend the fortresses anymore, most of the players will miss out the laberynth because it will rarely appear.

For future updates with similar mechanics, consider this suggestion.

Gaile Gray.6029:

It’s going to get difficult if we have disparate issues posted in the same thread. I wonder, first: Have you reported in the game? In case that’s not a clear process, here’s a handy image. (Go to the upper left first (notice my discrete red arrow ) and then type out the report on the pop-up.)

I always find it easier typing /bug in the chat than trying to remember in which menu it’s. (Alternative suggestion :P)

Kenshii.6274:

i guess my friends were right, this game is fun untill 80, then it just flattens out so hard.

That’s a funny statement, everyone that i know and plays gw2 thinks the opposite, the game is terrible boring until you are lvl 80.

We don’t play to get gear (that would feel like a job :\), we play because IT’S FUN. Of course some player’s goal is to get X reward, either legendary items or such, but most of us just play because we like to play it. We like to smash enemies in WvsW, or we like to kill dragons like Tequatl in an organized teamspeak with 50 more friends, or we like to go to the new maps and defend the castles against mordrems like if was an Age of Empires game for 1 hour.

I hope you understand my point. Most MMOs makes you “work” to get your desired items, GW2 instead let’s you get them easier so you can enjoy playing. This game offers a lot of activities, I made a post in the spanish forum a few days ago listing all what you can do at level 80… the list is really long. If you think that you have nothing to do just because you have your gear, then please go back to WoW or other MMOs that force you to “have this equipment or gtfo”. This is GW2, this is different!

eekzie.5640:

Personally not really feeling that it’s important for SW, but it seems like a nice way to go about actually rebuilding LA and not just waiting around to see if it changes.

It’s mostly useless in SW, because each time you waste your bandit crests for it, it’s only for that specific overflow. Most of the time we’re jumping between overflows often enough to not give it the proper use. It also sucks when you pay for something, then you dc’ed and when you come back you are in an overflow where what you payed for is gone…

Yeah, think about it.

1.000.000 gold from players to build just the bank building.
500.000 gold to rebuild the lion statue.
150.000 gold to remove the broken pieces of the breachmaker near the lighthouse.
etc

I would really like it, but this thread seems to not get any attention so i’m not sure if everyone else would like it.

Ok let’s face it, this is a living world, but it’s the Anet developers the ones moving it, why don’t you make the players move the world instead?

This suggestion will use 2 systems already in the game so it’s easy for you to understand.

• 1: Remember where we had to vote Ellen Kiel or Evon Gnashblade? That system did convert all our items (the votes) into some numbers that Anet could use. It was tracked globally no matter what server we were on (I guess).
• 2: In the new SilverWastes map, there’s an npc at Camp Resolve that will build a bank, TP^, laurel vendor, etc… if you pay him with bandit crests.

Ok, why not to combine them? Make the npc ask for (obviously more than just for 1 map) 1 million bandit crests, as example, but make that shares across all servers (or more accurately, for each megaserver) but once reached, the built feature will be built forever on every overflow.

Pros:

• You can rebuild lion’s arch that way, building by building, giving us players to choose what do we want to rebuild first.
• This system could be used to make players take choices on other events or game features.
  Some examples can be: (Build another megalaser at tequatl or improve turrets damage – Use the Tequatl spoons for this so only players that complete the event can vote up) (Get a new weaponset or a new armorset – I guess you can use gold to vote this.) (Add a new fort at WvsW or Improve catapults movility? – Use badges of honor to vote this) (A new guild mission: The marionette or raiding the nightmares tower? – Obviously guild commendations are needed to vote this one)
• As stated above, it’s a sink for all those items that we no longer use. Badges of honor, Tequatl spoons, commendations. It gives it some use and won’t feel useless anymore.

Cons:

• Lot of Developers work.
• Not everyone will be happy, but again this is a massive multiplayer game, same as happens in reality, you need to accept when you don’t win a race.

Final thoughs
Make a big thing of this. Make us feel like we’re actively working in a living world. This won’t happen if you just add 2-3 things to vote up in the game. You need to add 50-100 different things so players don’t burn out and farm that event in 2-3 days. It’s a lot of work but it’s a way to involve players into living world.

Michael Henninger.7451:

We (ANet) recently caused some confusion about the exploites@arena.net address but it is indeed the place you’ll want to send the info.

Fixed this for you: exploits@arena.net

Delete this post once fixed

Thaddeus.4891:

My point is, there is place for 25 stack, why make it so that 1 person can almost use all that place by itself.

Exactly my thoughs. That’s why I suggested something that wouldn’t make most of the players useless (if they go condition builds)

I like the direction the game it’s taking, but it has a major issue. There is a lot of dev resources to the Single Player features of the living story (even if you tell me that 5 players can join those instances, it still sounds as an excuse). I think that it’s isolating more and more the players and they’re slowly turning gw2 into a single player experience.

I’d like to see more Multiplayer content focused instead of just a little piece of the map (This time it’s the labyrynth) for each update. Something replayable that it’s epic or fun it’s what i’m asking for.

• The Marionette was the perfect example of replayable content. Probably the best raid GW2 ever had, yet it was removed from the game .
• The Tower of Nightmares was ok and fun for an update, and kept people going there (even guilds raided the tower as an improved guild mission) because it wasn’t instanced only for 1 player (or a group of 5).
• The SilverWastes was a good map itself but the lack of proper rewards balancing made everyone left the fortresses or kill the 5 champions of the breach.
• The labyrinth update has been dissapointing because we don’t get almost content but dev resources spent them in 30minutes of story that almost nobody wants to repeat. That flying teragriff in the open field would had been fun to kill + chance of achievements there, and it would have been replayable just because you were walking nearby the enemy and you feel like you could join the fight for a while.

Have you ever had that much fun since you were little and played that old pacman?

This way you can just unlock them doing the maze in the new map, which opens after the breach and it’s FUN (we had lot of fun laughing about the pacmans in the teamspeak)

No need to defeat the bosses, we killed just 4/5.

Seems like the map works this way.

• Defend the 4 fortress so the breach will open.
• 5 minutes of breach open.
• Some champs appear in open map, you can ignore them.
• 20 minutes of maze open (tier 3 is maximum inside).

It’s a pacman! to not die inside that, use dodges, invulnerabilities or skills that mitigate all damage, such as Endure Pain from warriors. You can outrun them as well with celerity.

none of you didn’t seem to understand my example, please scroll up and read the numbers again: the duration was NOT increased, the DAMAGE was increased. That way works same as mesmer Greatsword autoattack :P.

The longer you can keep making bleeds, not duration but damage would be increased, to a point where you can do even 50k damage bleeds each second (if you manage to keep a bleed that long while attacking with more bleed skills to upscale the damage).

That way the condition builds would be forced to keep spamming bleeds to the time never goes to 0, and each time they spam a bleed the damage increases (but not time, the time should be always between 3-4 seconds). The only problem that i see is that punishes lagging players.

As I just said in the cons section, for that to work the Anet team should change most (or even all of them) of the skills of our characters.

It has been stated in the past that condition cap shouldn’t be raised because it put a lot of stress in the servers. However, is that happening because of the calculations that it would take to the servers if more than 25 stacks of each condition needs to do? If that’s the case, I suggest to adapt the way conditions stack.

Right now a single player can make 25 bleeds on an enemy just by himself. That shouldn’t be the case. A player should be only able to put 1 bleed on the enemy, but the damage of that own bleed should be adapted to the skills he/she uses for it.

Example:

• Player uses BleedA attack: deals 100 damage per second, duration 3 seconds.
• Player uses BleedB attack: deals 240 damage per second, it last 4 seconds.
• Result of both at same time: Bleed damage on the enemy is 340 for 4 seconds.

Previously you would have 2 different stacks of bleeds on the enemy, but now you only use 1 stack and the enemy is still getting damage from your bleeds. The condition builds would be fun again while they try to keep the bleed active. Keeping the bleed open would result in the damage upscaling with each bleed until you can’t keep it up or the boss cure that condition, which would allow players to choose when exactly use a bleed skill or another one.

Pros:
1: The cap could still be at 25 like it’s right now, but that would mean that 25 players can use bleeds on the enemies instead of just 1 player doing 25 stacks.
2: It would also allow to condition builds to be useful since their damage would be incremental for each bleed.
3: No problems at all in dungeons/fractals or places where you need less than 25 players.

Cons:
1: All bleed skills in the game should be adjusted for this. Skills that put 6 stacks should have just longer timing or improved damage or even less cooldown to compensate.
2: Replacing a bleed stack if 26 players put bleeds on enemy or ignore the player number 26th?

That said, it’s not a perfect solution (but it’s a solution for 95% of the game) because a level 10 player (or a non-condition build player) could still bleed the enemy and take 1 of those 25 for his own useless damage. However, it would be only 1 and it’s unlikely that you will find 25 of those in a big fight. The game is evolving slowly and we’re not required to gather 100 players on an enemy anymore. Tequatl can die with less than 50 and the 3 headed wurm split the groups, so it’s highly complicated to get to the 25 bleed caps anymore with the new conditions system that I suggest.

TL;DR. 1 stack per player per condition.

Gunsnroll.2657:

warduke.1780:

Gunsnroll.2657:

Rangers are great, but people who play ranger suck.
Most of the time you’ll get ranger without spotter or FS, and they will camp LB.
So yeah most of rangers will be kicked for that, the thing is, people don’t know ranger can be good, so they won’t bother checking if the ranger has a sword and the required utilities.

“The required utilities” – required? Who requires it? Last I checked, people can play their class any way they like. Don’t try to be an elitist in a casual game, kthx.

A ranger without spotter or FS is the same as a warrior without banner, a guard without a wall, and a mesmer without feedback and TW.
It’s not about being elitist, it’s about being useful to the team.
A ranger can play nomad, same as thief, but they will be useless.
Don’t try to be special, kthx.

A warrior without banners can trait Phalanx and give everyone 25 might just with 1 skill of his greatsword (either whirlwind or 100blades). It takes 1-2 seconds and can be done at every single pull of enemies ane every 8 seconds, making fire-blasting or other might-stacking skills useless. Other players can just focus on different skills or utilities because they won’t ever need to build up might, the warrior alone would give 25 stacks and maintain it for everyone while the fight lasts.

What is wrong is the fact that some people choose for you what team skills you should use instead of the ones that you think it will be better for the group (as example you just said warriors without banners are useless, even if i just proved how wrong that statement is). In my opinnion Phalanx > Banners 90% of the times. You won’t have maximum warrior DPS but you will make everyone else have a lot more damage than you could ever do alone with different traits.

What is even greater about this build is that phalanx won’t show anywhere. You can’t know if the warrior next to you is traited for that because you don’t see a signet/buff/weapon/anything. Kicking a warrior because you don’t know what his traits are would be incredibly stupid (I hope to not offend anyone). Now change all that I said about warriors for any other proffesion and you will probably find a new game.

By the way, same a guardian wall can block all projectiles, a necromancer with his darkness whell can block all melee hits. I never dare to go to fractal lvl 50 without a good necro in my team. Even level 43 or 33 would be harder without one necromancer.

TL;DR You should never judge anyone just because of the skills they choose to bring to a battle.

That feel when marionette died for the first time… I freaking miss it

That was one of the best moments I ever had on GW2 or any other MMO.