Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t be opposed to venoms having a passive effect, but it would have to be much less than what you’ve listed. Something like every 10th attack, or 20% chance with a 5 second cooldown would be fair.

RoyalPredator.9163:

I would really like to see cheaters banned in the moment while in sPVP or WWW…

I only saw someone get Dhuumed in-game (as opposed to on YouTube) once. I was in Heroes’ Ascent with a PuG and our party leader was a warrior. In our first match, he charged in, and right before he reached the enemy team Dhuum appeared and cut him down. It was both hilarious and slightly depressing because it caused us to lose the match and have to reform the team.

Two days ago I started my 30th stack of Badges of Honor (yes, I’ve been spending them, just not fast enough). They’re now taking up an entire bank tab. Between BoH and dungeon tokens, I’ll be getting almost two hole bank tabs back with the introduction of the wallet. Thanks devs!

Macros are clearly against the EULA. Don’t do it and don’t get your account banned. Also don’t do all of thirst slayer at once so you don’t cramp up.

Vahkris.6847:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Can’t really spoil anything but August has no jumping puzzle and we definitely wanted to steer away from instanced mini-games.

So…non-instanced minigame? :P

Not another Belcher’s Bluff. It’s fun for a little bit, but people only play it for the achievements.

Mark Katzbach:

Fixed an issue with too many barrels spawning in Keg Brawl and re-enabled this activity.

Seriously? It’s still full of bugs and exploits…

Tasslehoff.5738:

yea and please refund our points

Okay, here are your 0 points for not playing keg brawl.

lordkrall.7241:

superbeast.9873:

BobbyStein.2315:

The stories are connected. You’ll find out more later this year.

Bob, when are you guys going to STOP bluffing? Remember the karka event that you guys sorely overhyped as “an epic, world-changing event”? So what happened? How’s the world changed? It’s obvious you and the rest of Arena Net are full of crap when you toss us these hollow “hints”.

Hm?
I am rather sure that a giant freaking island appearing and a partly destroyed city is a change in the world.

Oh and please don’t talk for the “majority of your most loyal fans” since you have no idea what most of us think nor have we asked you to speak for us.

This. +1. Superbeast does NOT speak for the rest of us.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The Royal Terrace will be a thing, but it’s not the thing you think it is.

A terrace fit for a particular Mursaat emperor perhaps?

There, I fixed it for you.

The next living story update will introduce a cycling schedule of mini-games (it’s in both candidates promises, so we know it’s coming). That means these minigames aren’t going to be thrown away, but rather introduced into a permanent, repeating cycle.

The Wintersday and Dragon Bash minigames will reoccur annually, while Crab Toss, Sanctum Sprint, Southsun Survival, and Aspect Arena will be the start of the new cycling minigames.

Players wanted the living story content to be more permanent, so Anet is creating a way to make any living story minigames that get added permanent content, without getting too stale. They need a variety of minigames to start that off, so we’ve gotten a lot of minigames for the last few living story chapters. I agree that it’s been an overload of minigames recently, but I expect it to balance out soon.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Anet is in total control of who wins and what the outcome will be. The “Election” is part of a story that can easily be guided to allow for a corrupt outcome that leads to further conflicts in the story. The possibility exists that the actual vote casting will have absolutely NO bearing on the actual outcome.

Those players that realize this see all this discussion, analysis and quibbling over what rewards are better as quite amusing. Just farm the Achievement points and see what Anet has up their sleeve (so far they have been quite successful at distracting the majority of players from the fact that their BLC key sales must be going thru the roof….quite a brilliant plan).

Actually, BLC key sales are down because players don’t want to buy them now in case they do go on sale in a few weeks.

And enough with the conspiracies already, not only are they blatantly false, but they’re also against the forum CoC. It would be nice if you wouldn’t talk down to the rest of the player-base too.

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

BlazeQ.1095:

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

Hey that is me!!!! I noticed that I went through the gate and immediately left because I didn’t want to take the tower that way. I also logged the bug and we will be investigating that as a high priority issue.

Hugh, Quit Glitching or NO MORE BEER FOR YOU!!!!
FYI Beer will be flowing in our BL Friday night, Come get some!

I don’t drink alcohol so that may be an issue. Now if you have water or apple juice then you are talking my language.

Also I wanted to thank everyone for your feedback and concerns about this specific issue and we are working towards a solution. Thank you for your patience and continued support, we at the WvW Team really appreciate it.

See you on the battlefield! >=)

How will you ever complete the Thirst Slayer achievement?

I think making Protection affect condition damage and/or life stealing could be a step in the right direction, but it would mostly just help guardians and elementalists. If Protection was also made more available to warriors, thieves, and engineers, we might have a viable solution without having to nerf necromancers.

Another thought: Fear shouldn’t disable non-weapon skills that can be used while moving.

Wow Izzy, those are fighting words.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

I hear Kiel is responsible for all nerfs

Uh oh, we’d better vote for Evon or “Kiel” might nerf all of our boons to be useless and have 90 second recharges.

Use the in-game bug report tool, it’ll let you take a screenshot of the NPC to make it really easy for them to fix. I found a bunch of NPCs with the wrong voices in beta and they were all fixed shortly after I reported them.

Quick Mouse.7635:

Gw1 had a really nice feature where when you pressed tab it would select the enemy that you were “looking at.” Basically you could aim your camera at a target and when you pressed tab it would select the enemy closest to the middle of your screen. The tab targeting in gw2 seems to have no rhyme or reason to what is selected next, going from someone off to your right to someone behind you to someone on the other side of the map u.u

Try the C button, it works similarly.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Compact doesn’t work on special bags of any type, a feature I like because I can ensure that items remain where I placed them — makes it easier to find a consumable if it’s always located in the far right corner of the bag.

It can be helpful for invisible bags, but I wish equipment and junk bags would compact.

Account.9832:

Heh, I decide to check GW2 again 5 months later, and guess what, the bugged loot table that all players were saying was bugged (despite developers insisting it wasn’t) really was bugged (and could have been fixed much sooner if they had actually checked, instead of assuming the players were wrong). What a surprise. I guess this sets the bar for future “developer confirmation”.

I wonder what other things that were (supposedly, but not really) “working as intended” also got silently fixed…

Actually, the loot table was fine, there was a bug that was permanently blocking the Shadow Behemoth event chain.

Players were being so obsessive about loot that they took focus from the real problem and put it on the loot tables. Anet checked the loot table, saw that it was fine, and moved on, while those of us saying that Shadow Behemoth was bugged got ignored.

Gasoline.2570:

Evan Lesh.3295:

This will be fixed in our next regular release.

Yeah it’s pretty detrimental to the games interface and youre gonna wait for 2 weeks to fix it?

??? you kidding me

Elbegast.6970:

BobbyStein.2315:

The stories are connected. You’ll find out more later this year.

If you string out the plot lines for too long, players will lose interest.

What I’ve gotten from the ‘Living Story’ so far:

Some power hungry Charr teamed up with some underground mole people (seriously? mole people?!?! O.o) in order to wreck Kryta for some reason. A walking Cabbage (Canach- who is ‘Canach’ anyway? And why should I care?) went to some random resort island (seriously?!?! a resort island?!?! what happened to fantasy?) and got some crabs angry for some reason. Pirates showed up and killed someone for some reason. Then some random merchants came on a flying boat and sold us stuff for some reason.

I have no idea what is happening in this game. I could talk for hours about the lore and story of GW1 but this new GW2 ‘story’ is just page 6 tabloid filler.

I honestly don’t see how you are planning to tie the story together in any sort of coherent and meaningful fashion. It’s so utterly fragmented as to be nonexistent.

People who clearly haven’t paid any attention to the story shouldn’t complain about it.

Karizee.8076:

Same, Keg Brawl takes me to Skyhammer map.

Playing actual Keg Brawl on Skyhammer would be amazing.

I have characters of all 8 classes, but I only play Thief and Necro in sPvP. I play Thief because it’s fun and it’s the class I decided I wanted to practice in sPvP. I play Necro because it’s the most overpowered class in sPvP and sometimes I just want easy-mode kills.

So you guys are complaining that you want even more buffs so that Necros can be the best at every aspect of sPvP rather than just most of them?

JonPeters.5630:

Among other benefits the stealth on hunters also let’s you cast the beginning of barrage without detection.

As a WvW commander, this just means I’m going to have to use the phrase “it’s just a ranger, not an ac” even more often.

I’d rather experience the story as it plays out, with hints at each next chapter than know what’s going to happen for the next four chapters. The story is much more exciting when experienced in game rather than summarized in a developer blog.

Thobek.1730:

“Well this chapter we have these two characters we’re helping out to get elected to fill an empty spot on a trading company”

They’re being elected to the Lion’s Arch Captain’s Council, to fill the seat of the recently assassinated Councillor Ashford…

ET, I have to congratulate you guys. After I lead charges that took every one of your capture points in EB two days in a row, then took Stonemist from you (and AR in the same morning) two days after that, I joined last night expecting the same thing. To say you guys were ready for us would be an understatement. I’ve never seen so much siege in one tower, and you defended your keep beautifully (unfortunately for us). Watch out though, we’ll be back with better communication and even more pies.

- The Charrdian
(aka the big, green, spiky charr commander who keeps dropping trays of peach pies)

Insane Pancakez.9182:

Yea, we left ehmry bay, didn’t like how they acted anymore. It’s not my position to say who, but one of their best guilds is also leaving soon.

We’re happy to have you. I’ve enjoyed running around with you in the borderlands so far.

DevonCarver.5370:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

DevonCarver.5370:

Changes to turn speed sound great, but we are unable to do them with the system as currently set up. That’s why you won’t see any changes of that sort for the foreseeable future.

Then I highly recommend reworking that system to be extensible. Fixing inextensible systems earlier in development can save a lot of effort and prevent bugs down the line.

Plus, +100% turn speed would be a worthwhile trait on catapults, mortars, and trebuchets.

I agree on all counts, but I hope you’ll concede we are no longer early in development. Making those changes nigh impossible to make at this juncture. If you happen to have a time machine handy…

I’ll have to see if Corporal Bane will let us borrow the time machine.

Of course GW2 is no longer in early development. Earlier in development is still preferable to later in development, but, unless we do have a time machine, the earliest time available is the present.

DevonCarver.5370:

Changes to turn speed sound great, but we are unable to do them with the system as currently set up. That’s why you won’t see any changes of that sort for the foreseeable future.

Then I highly recommend reworking that system to be extensible. Fixing inextensible systems earlier in development can save a lot of effort and prevent bugs down the line.

Plus, +100% turn speed would be a worthwhile trait on catapults, mortars, and trebuchets.

‘Right-click to interact’ is possibly the worst option to default ‘on’ in the game. I thought my character randomly interacting with things was some horrible bug for weeks after it was added. It made using siege in WvW extremely frustrating because my character would stop using it every time I moved the camera. In the future, if options are added that default to ‘on’, please say so in the patch notes rather than letting us suffer until we figure out what’s going on ourselves.

Gibson.4036:

Sad that so many people can’t enjoy something unless they know other people don’t have it.

Anyone can earn 15g, your argument is invalid.

Shouldn’t the LFG tool address this issue?

Why experience the imprisonment of a god, or a massive experiment gone wrong, when you can experience the rebirth of Elona at the hands of a true hero? Vote for someone with centuries of experience and proven leadership abilities!

#VotePalawaJoko

SynfulChaot.3169:

I understand making only one due to time-constraints.

Actually they’re only making one because players keep saying that we want our own decisions to actually impact the game rather than giving us the illusion of impacting the game.

Gaile Gray.6028:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Gaile Gray.6028:

This is a common issue and we’re working on a better solution. In the meantime, we appreciate our forum members who let players know about this, even if it may get a little old to sing the “Clean Your Mailbox and Your Goodies Will Arrive” song several times a day.

I might have a solution to help you sing that song less often: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Archive-Mail/first#post2402533

(Sorry its a long post, but I wanted to be detailed)

I am already actively proposing detailed solutions that could address this issue, so I don’t think I will take the time to read your suggestions now, although it’s great that you posted them (and in the proper forum, too). The process of making game changes is seldom quick, but I feel sure we’ll address this in the future.

That’s fair, I just ask that you please read it at some point before deciding on which proposal to implement.

Almost none of these sound like achievement material, but they would make fun end-of-match descriptors, like those given after multiplayer matches in Super Smash Bros Melee.

Gaile Gray.6028:

This is a common issue and we’re working on a better solution. In the meantime, we appreciate our forum members who let players know about this, even if it may get a little old to sing the “Clean Your Mailbox and Your Goodies Will Arrive” song several times a day.

I might have a solution to help you sing that song less often: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Archive-Mail/first#post2402533

(Sorry its a long post, but I wanted to be detailed)

Skyhammer is very fun, but a map where CC is everything doesn’t belong in tournaments.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Dommmmmmmmmm.6984:

Lyssa runes also don’t work underwater at all, no condition removal, no boons.

Make sure you have a rune in your rebreather. When you’re underwater, it will replace your helmet with the rebreather, so if it’s only in your helm, you won’t get the 6 rune bonus.

Speaking of this, can we please put a rune on there by default in sPvP? And fix the display of which rune bonuses we get when we put a rune on both the breather and the helm?

Good idea, as long as we don’t bring “red resign”.

PS I actually tried using /resign in a PvE instance the other day and was bummed that it didn’t work. It would be great to see it in PvE instances as well as PvP.

Antonin.3926:

My only problem with 2 week updates is the content feels a little unpolished and buggy. And if you want to keep up with your guild as far as achievements and rewards, then you really need to make an effort to get the meta achievement done before the content is gone.

Arena Net said they didn’t want this carrot on a stick feel with their end game but are choosing to go this direction with the living story. Just seems a little odd.

The content shouldn’t decrease in quality with the new schedule. They hired new developers and have 5 living story teams now instead of just two. That means that each living story team now has 10 weeks to complete each content iteration rather than the previous 2 months (8-9 weeks). We’re also nearly done with the first year, which means the repeating content (such as Wintersday) doesn’t need to be created this time around.

No, it’s invisibility, adding invincibility to invisibility would be the most broken thing they could do.

PS This is coming from someone who plays Thief in sPvP.

I’ve seen many players have the same problem since launch, and players are still encountering this every day. They post on the forums asking for help, and have been answered countless times by other players and Arenanet employees. So let’s fix this problem.

“I didn’t receive my gem store purchase”

“My friend sent me something but I never got it”

The answer is always that the player has reached the 10 letter maximum in their mailbox and just needs to delete something. Here’s a typical case from yesterday:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Not-receiving-purchases-from-the-Gem-Store/first

Arenanet limits us to 10 letters (either from players or the gem store) so we don’t hog their server space. That’s fine, but players want to be able to store more letters. So let’s solve all of these problems at once. Without a ton of development effort.

Let’s add an option to archive mail. This option would simply be a button at the bottom of the mailbox window. Archived mail would be stored locally on the user’s computer and would not count towards the 10 letter maximum. Letters holding items cannot be archived, and archived letters can neither be reported nor unarchived. These limitations are because players would be able to modify archived letters, as they are stored locally on the player’s computer.

This gives players the ability to store as much mail as they want, and it saves Arenanet server space. But this alone won’t solve the first problem I described. If players don’t know their mail limitations, they still won’t get new mail when their mailbox fills up.

That’s why this change should be accompanied by a new setting in the options menu, defaulted to “on”, that automatically archives mail with no attached items 24 hours after it is read. This will prevent most players from ever running out of room for new mail.

This change would require very minimal UI changes (one standard button on the mail screen, one checkbox option in the options menu, and a small new icon to show that a piece of mail is archived), a new hint to describe archiving mail, and a simple local storage system that can be implemented similarly to templates in GW1.

Players get “unlimited” mailbox space, Arenanet doesn’t have to store as much user data, forum users don’t have to keep telling people to delete old mail to make room for new mail, and the developers don’t even have to break a sweat.

“Lul” is a Dutch term for a certain male body part. I wish they would adjust the restrictions on it though so that it can be used in names if it is not a standalone word. Blocking names like “Lullaby” and “Lulu” doesn’t make much sense.

Those chests at the top show the next five chests. Since the first six chests are at 100, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, and 2500, seeing up to the 2500 chest implies that you already accepted the 100 point chest.

If anyone else has access to your account they might have already accepted it for you. It’s also possible that you accepted it thinking it was something else, since it looks just like a daily/monthly or world boss UI chest.

I just want to say that I really enjoyed smacking down droves of enemies with log, spike, and flame traps yesterday to protect my friends while they finished the jump puzzle. And special thanks to the players sitting below the log traps, killing the people I knocked down.

Why was a No Trespassing zone added anyway?

That concept art was released in 2011. EotN was released in 2007 and Utopia was cancelled long before that. You can see the same “painted” style that most pieces of GW2 concept art have. The stature of tengu in GW2 was changed to be slimmer and more hunched over in later development.

The golem pull did make this fight a real pain a few times. The time when my team finally succeeded, we got to the third laser wall phase and my stability was still on recharge. I got pulled as soon as the golems became enemies. Golem A pulled me off of crates and into Golem B’s spinning attack, which knocked me back into the crates and continued doing so. As soon as B stopped smashing me into the crates with it’s spinning attack, it pulled me into A’s spinning attack which had just started, and A smashed me into the crates several times. I had no control of my character for at least 10 seconds, and died when both laser walls hit me at the end of A’s spin attack.

Dying because you didn’t jump on the crates or didn’t avoid the laser wall is one thing, but watching as your character is tossed around helplessly for a relatively long time and then killed instantly is extremely disappointing.

The difficulty of the “Not So Secret” jumping puzzle was great, but I would strongly recommend doing two things differently in the future:

1. Make it more forgiving. Obsidian Sanctum is great because it is split into sections, and falling in any of those sections won’t kill you (that’s what enemy players are for) and you don’t have to go all the way back to the start. Goemm’s Lab is great because it provides checkpoints in a way that makes sense (buggy implementation, but it has the right idea). The problem with “Not So Secret” is that it is extremely unforgiving. There are no checkpoints, essentially any fall will kill you, and there is no waypoint nearby. This is enough to frustrate most players, but it’s enough to make solo players feel like the situation is hopeless.

A waypoint below the airship would be nice, checkpoints would be great, friendly NPCs that could res players who fall to their deaths would work well too. In its current state, the optimum way to complete this puzzle, even for those of us who want to do it ourselves, is to hope that there is a mesmer to portal you to the end. That should not be the case.

2. Less repetitive fighting. After I’ve died for the tenth time, having to fight the same enemies for the tenth time is just a pain. It’s even worse when I try running past them and they hit me in the air, putting me “in combat” and making me fall to my death. Killing a boss or a group of enemies to move on to the next section is fine, just don’t make us fight them again and again.

Fewer enemies would be nice, easier-to-avoid enemies would be better, but an interaction to avoid enemies would be best. If we’re in a field, let us hit a nearby bee hive with a rock and have the bees chase away the enemies. If we’re in an inquest lab, let us trip an alarm that sends the enemies rushing into a different room. If we’re sneaking down a dark corridor, let us pick up a cudgel that can stun enemies that we hit from behind. Just don’t drop enemies in a puzzle with no purpose but to annoy players who want nothing more than to get back to jumping or solving the puzzle.

locoman.1974:

This set is available in sPvP but not in PvE so far:

http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=1&race=2&color=10&sex=0&armorSet=voodooi

Also some pieces of the guild armors aren’t availabe in PvE either.

Thanks, that set looks sweet. It would look great on my male human necromancer.

Crovax.7854:

I personally don’t know any mature players who like this style of gear.

I know plenty of mature players who like fiery gear. On the other hand, I don’t know any mature players who criticize other players’ taste in armor style.

Zoid.2568:

I want a blood and bone armour set + weapon. It would look really cool and different.

You should check out the Godskull weapons. They’re bone themed, look cool, and not a lot of players use them.

Blitzburger.1576:

All I want is for PvE versions of the armors that are currently only available for PvP.

Such as? I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but I’d love to check them out.

It’s not GW1 concept art, it’s early GW2 concept art. Tengu are expected (but not confirmed) to be the first new playable race, with their home city being the Dominion of Winds.

Also, this forum thread should be moved to somewhere that makes sense.