Guild Wars 2

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

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This has nothing to do with email. This is in-game mail only. Anet can’t control what scammers include in their emails.

Astral Projections.7320:

Maybe the message from Seth Chadwick was from his gaming/playing account. The warning about coming from official ANet employees may be only from official accounts. Gaming/playing accounts might not count for that.

That’s my guess too, but this will probably cause confusion for any future Adopt-A-Dev or similar events.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

I see the point then regarding the weapons, but I would still like some more armor selections to spend money on; otherwise these novelty items like minis and gathering tools don’t give me any desire to pull out my credit card.

These are all non-random armor pieces or sets that are currently available in the gem store. If you ask me, I’d actually like to see more earned skins added rather than gem store skins added.

Full Set (heavy)

• Aetherblade
• Flamewrath
• Primeval
• Rampart
• Phalanx
• Braham’s
• Zodiac

Full Set (medium)

• Aetherblade
• Flamewalker
• Krytan
• Strider’s
• Viper’s
• Magitech
• Zodiac

Full Set (light)

• Aetherblade
• Flamekissed
• Profane
• Incarnate
• Trickster’s
• Phoenix
• Zodiac

Head (any weight)

• Aviator Cap
• Fuzzy Bear Hat
• Fuzzy Panda Hat
• Fuzzy Quaggan Hat
• Fuzzy Quaggan Hat with Bow
• Glowing Crimson Mask
• Inventor’s Sunglasses
• Lawless Helmet
• Mask of the Crown
• Mask of the Jubilee
• Mask of the Queen
• Mask of the Silent
• Mask of the Wanderer
• Magnus’s Eye Patch (both left and right)
• Reading Glasses
• Ringmaster’kitten
• Sailor’s Beanie
• Top Hat
• Wreath of Cooperation

Shoulders (any weight)

• Lawless Shoulders

Gloves (any weight)

• Lawless Gloves

Boots (any weight)

• Lawless Boots

Back (any weight)

• Covert Charr Backpack
• Plush Charr Backpack
• Plush Quaggan Backpack
• Warrior Quaggan Backpack

1. Queen’s Pavilion wasn’t even farmable last time it was active.
2. The people champ farming in Frostgorge already aren’t doing so in the optimal location, because EotM is much better for that.
3. Anet (supposedly) fixed the Coil events’ failure timer yesterday, in order to deter farmers from messing up other players, so this problem shouldn’t even exist anymore.

Asmodeus.5782:

Regional event dailies are back?!

AWWWW YISSSS!

They never left, they’re just much rarer now.

This warning was just added to all in-game mail that was not sent by the game, gem store, or GW2 team:

Warning: This message was sent by another player. It was not sent by the Guild Wars 2 Team.

Two concerns about this new warning:

1. This warning seems overly alarming, and may unintentionally scare players (especially new players) who haven’t seen it before. I suggest removing "Warning: " from the beginning of the text (but keep the little yellow triangle).
2. The messages I received from Seth Chadwick also have this warning, despite that he is a part of the GW2 team. If this message had originally accompanied the “Adopt-A-Dev” messages he sent me, I might have thought it was someone trying to trick me.

Oh, this change was referring to the little red indicator at the bottom of the skill, not the tooltip. Thanks, Echo. This thread can be closed then.

Today’s patch notes say:

Warrior

• “Shake It Off!”
  • Removed unnecessary range indicator.

But “Shake It Off!” affects nearby allies as well as the user, so the range indicator on this skill was not unnecessary. Why was it removed?

Arcadio.6875:

-A button on the guild tab that says “Go to Guild Hall” when you are out in the world and “Leave Guild Hall” when you are in it. Works well for WvW and PvP.

That’s exactly how it worked in GW1, and it was great. I agree that that would be the optimal implementation for GW2.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

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I disagree with making guilds occupy parts of the same district. That would cause so many problems of guilds arguing over who gets what space. Larger guilds would argue that they deserve the best spots. Smaller guilds would argue that all guilds should have equal rights. Almost every guild would probably want the same spot, and only one could have it, leaving almost everyone in the game to be disappointed. There would be a limited amount of space, yet theoretically unlimited guilds. It would just be a huge mess.

Each guild should be able to have their own little place that they can customize and manage however they like, without other guilds being able to ruin that for them.

It would be nice to be able to hop in and out of guild halls to use merchants, banks, crafting, trading post, etc. I currently use my home borderland in WvW for that, but there are the obvious problems of occasional queues, having no guild bank sometimes, and having downtime during reset.

Having some sort of way for dedicated guild members to leave their mark in the guild hall would be cool too.

Dayra.7405:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Have you considered my earlier suggestion of 2v2v2 matchups? Each server would be paired with another for each match. The highest ranked server could be paired with the lowest ranked server, etc. This system would automatically protect the lower ranked servers from falling into a state of hopelessness, and thereby reduce the urge for people to abandon low ranked servers.

Why stop at 2vs2vs2? If I got john right he proposed
MvsNvsO
where the
Total-pop(M) ~ Total-pop(N) ~ Total-pop(O)

Of course M,N and O could be all 2, but that’s only a special case.

If you just glob bunches of players (or alliances) together randomly each week, there’s no server identity left to fight for. Pairing servers gives each one a counterbalance that can change organically, depending on how WvW populations move between servers.

John Corpening.9847:

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Merging servers or redistributing population would only be a short term fix. Alliances could help keep people playing together, but losing server identity would definitely hurt the WvW community. It’s not just about fighting alongside your friends, it’s about fighting for your server.

Have you considered my earlier suggestion of 2v2v2 matchups? Each server would be paired with another for each match. The highest ranked server could be paired with the lowest ranked server, etc. This system would automatically protect the lower ranked servers from falling into a state of hopelessness, and thereby reduce the urge for people to abandon low ranked servers.

This would result in half as many matchups though, so we would either need to raise map capacities or add additional WvW maps. I think that adding a fifth map on a weekly rotation would be the best solution to this, as it would also address players concerns about WvW becoming too repetitive. This would be a single map from a pool of balanced maps for each matchup, either randomly chosen or on a cycle. This would also allow for the addition of new maps into the cycle without having to worry about rebalancing player distribution among maps or getting rid of existing ones.

John, I would love you hear your opinions on these suggestions.

(On a related note, EU currently has 27 servers, which would not work for this system, so they would either need to gain 3 or lose 3, as the number needs to be divisible by 6.)

Great job making this list! I hope these problems get addressed soon.

They were removed from the game (because they were bugged) and haven’t been added back yet.

draxynnic.3719:

Apparently, this thread has been moved to game bugs…

Seems a bit disingenuous, since the problem is not actually related to any flaw in the code. The code is doing what it’s supposed to do. The problem is a design failure – ArenaNet has created a situation where the interests of some players are mutually incompatible with the interests of others.

It’s not a bug, it’s a design flaw. And since it’s progress blocking, it needs to be fixed PRONTO. If you can’t find a better way of doing it, bring the event back to where it was before the S2E3 update, so that the champion farm zerg no longer has any interest in it and it’s soloable by a good player.

It may be a bug that the recent update that was supposed to fix it didn’t do its job.

A sort of 2v2v2 could be interesting among servers. That way you wouldn’t only get different opponents, but different allies. The system could then pair complementary rank servers together, which should reduce the urge for people to abandon low ranked servers.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

oh i hate those dye packs, not the exclusive colors but the fact that people will buy them and may not even get an exclusive color. tempted on the molten tools though

Ya, it would be nice if each pack guaranteed an exclusive color.

They released some infographics for the first match of the WvW Fall 2014 tournament, here.

It’s not the same, but it’s something.

Why in the world is the OP’s account name censored?

Mem no Fushia.7604:

Hi, some ideas
Brisban Wildans: Pact have secret service agents called Whispers, I would like to see some of them spectating walls of fort in Vandal Claim, of in stealth mode (but as allies we can see them)(due to fact that we deal with inq, court, bandits – inteligents forms of life, very suspicious and careful). When we try to talk with them they only say: Shhh… Their next sigins we will in Vandal Claim too, they will talking with triforge tacticians, when we close to them they start to behave like: I did nothing, I just walk there, and by coincidence I talk with triforge tactician.
Humans will have their minds for this case: so show some of them in Divinity Reach, call this group Central Muuguma Mind Service or sth like, place them somewhere with books etc.. and add 2-3 books enable to read: about maguuma, maguuma centaurs, behemoth, maguuma wind riders etc..
Norns some of them will start talking killing plants in jungle can be rewarding as dealing with sons or even more, it can be in Hoelbark.
We have some weapoints taken away, put some Arcane eye messing around and saying all day all night: Go away! etc..
Charrs, hmm, it is other type of terrrain, and we will need to export some sources, but bulls and dolyaks can’t deal with so what about charrs that training devouvers, plated behemoths (it is other race than gw1 behemoth, it is like armodillo+siamoth), siamoth as pack animals, and supicious trader that wanna them (ofc Whispers). Eh, flamethrowers < if u can up with something i would like to see this ing.
Sylvari, idk, really idk.

All of them don’t intefere imo. And all the small things that drive all. Drive background of ls2.

If you spect what happens in this topic, say if you’re going to do sth like that, or you have your own thoughts. Looking forward devs reply.

It seems like you might have some good ideas, but it’s hard to tell, because this is really hard to read. If you want a dev response, you may need to edit your post to make it more readable.

Mine stopped reverting. I think this was silently fixed.

This has been resolved and this topic can be closed.

Obsidia.5127:

It has already been said that it has nothing to do with queue times but with the quality of players entering SoloQ & TeamQ. I barely even recognize anyone anymore, it’s kittening horrible.

I can’t even imagine what NA is like.

NA is fine, at least in the range I’m being matched up with.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

When I click on the little down arrow, the price goes down. If that is the arrow you are referring to. Sometimes, you have to click it more than once, but on the other hand, you can also just hold it down and it will scroll the price down (or up, if using the up arrow, of course).

If you are referring to a different down arrow, there is, at least, this option while you wait for a ‘fix’.

Good luck.

I’m referring to the down key on the keyboard.

Heartseeker has been doing this same thing since launch. I wonder if it’s related.

Hamfast.8719:

This was fixed briefly, and is now back again.

Sounds like someone made a mistake while merging branches…

This is a known bug, all of the trainers outside of the cities are doing this.

I’ve been having this same problem. I did this event with my engineer for about 10 consecutive days, and the chest only appeared once, on day six or seven.

This applies to both the UI chest and the big chest to the left.

In the new trading post UI, while selling an item, if you click in the copper section where you set the value and hit the down key, it ticks the value down by 1 copper. This also worked before the change in UI.

The problem now occurs when the copper value is 0. Previously, pressing the down key would always subtract 1 copper, but now it no longer works.

Example:
1g 05s 00c
pressing down key with the cursor in the copper digits should change it to
1g 04s 99c
but currently does nothing.

Reborn.2934:

troll problems exist because the system allow them to be.

if i am building a siege , this siege should have my name upper of its name ,,like

Reborn’s
Arrcowcart

all will know that this is my arrorcart and they can thank me for my efforts (the full anonymity in wvw is the biggest wvw problem and most wvw players left the game because of this ) or report me ( btw , add first a proper report option for this issue ) to come a gm and investigate . this system can applied to all sieges.

now on illegal usage issue. when i am building a siege i want to have the option to make it private or public or only for my guild .

this will prevent illegal usage of any siege

i don’t think the siege trolling is a difficult problem . there are more solutions on this problem like involving more the guilds in claim system

This would not solve any of the existing siege troll problems, and it would actual create two new ones.

I can just imagine the first type now, who spends all of the supply in a keep building cheap siege everywhere so they can display their name all over the place.

The real trolls would set up well-placed defensive siege in strategic spots, so that others think that they’re defended, but when the attackers come, the troll sets them all to personal use only.

Seiishizo.7162:

People who only play PvP kinda hate the tracks.

Speak for yourself. You’re the first person I’ve seen express this opinion, and I’ve seen many express the opposite.

This just looks like a troll thread. I can enter solo queue at any time of day (or night) and almost never have to wait more than 5 minutes for a match.

Zaxares.5419:

How about if those skins from the Region Reward Tracks actually get upgraded to be actual Exotics rather than just skins?

This would be great. I recently finished the Maguuma Jungle track and already had all of the skins from the end reward unlocked, so I still have the box sitting around with no use for it.

At the very least, let us throw any four PvP Reward Track end reward weapon skin boxes into the mystic forge to get a random level 80 exotic weapon.

Berelious.3290:

You would have to submit a ticket to support.

Ok, thanks, I’ll do that.

Mine started doing this too with the very latest patch.

Haha, this is the most random bug.

Zaxares.5419:

I do all 12 Dailies every day, but I’m only doing so to reach the 10k Daily cap sooner rather than later. (I’m currently up to 7.3k, I believe.) As soon as I hit that cap, I’ll be scaling back my Daily hunting to just 5 for the Laurel.

In short, don’t stress about it. There’s a limit to how much the AP hunters can gain from Dailies, and if you’re here for the long term, you’ll likely catch up to us sooner or later.

Same here. I’m at 8.3k from dailies, so I’d like to finish off that 10k and not have to worry about it anymore.

Brother Grimm, I’ve been climbing the AP leaderboards, and doing the dailies is required to stay ahead. Once you reach the cap, you can manage your play time around your own time more easily. I’ll admit it doesn’t make perfect sense, but it’s more of a mentality thing.

John Corpening.9847:

I was about to toss out the exhaustion idea altogether because of the legitimate concerns of small groups that a good number of you have brought up but this post gave me another perspective on it. I’m going to merge some of the ideas you guys have put forth into a new iteration on the design you and I have been working out.

Here is the new proposal based on your ideas:

• Siege Dismantling
  • You DO NOT get exhaustion from placing siege
  • If you own a piece of siege:
    • There is a skill on the skill bar called “Dismantle” that will drop the timer down to one minute
  • If you do not own a piece of siege:
    • There is a skill on the skill bar called “Vote Dismantle”
    • If a piece of siege gets 5 votes:
      • The timer on the siege drops to 5 minutes
      • The player who placed the siege gets a stack of exhaustion
        • In this proposal this is the only way to get exhaustion
  • When a siege timer is reduced to 0 it is dismantled
    • All siege that is dismantled drops 25% of the supply it took to construct
• Exhaustion
  • A player who has 5 stacks of exhaustion can no longer place siege until they have 0 stacks of exhaustion
  • A stack of exhaustion is removed:
    • After 5 minutes
      • For commanders this time is reduced by 2 minutes for each member of your squad for up to 20 minutes
    • For each enemy player defeated
    • For each objective taken

This proposal has these properties:

• Play is not affected at all for anyone unless they repeatedly place siege that is repeatedly voted down
• Players are encouraged to clean up their siege to get a refund and to prevent their siege being voted down
• Players can police themselves by voting down bad siege
• Players who get exhaustion incorrectly can easily remove it by playing WvW normally
• The more siege that gets placed that is left unattended the easier it will be to lose the privilege of placing siege.
• Commanders who actually have people following them can bypass the bulk of the penalty and should easily remove the rest through normal play

For other topics, there seems to be general agreement that some sort of labeling or filtering will help with siege that is dropped onto the area you are trying to build in. Also, I agree that build sites could have a smaller footprint.

Again there were a lot of really good suggestions! I am reading every single post in this thread (and you guys are keeping me busy ) so I really appreciate those of you who have stayed constructive, on topic and within the guidelines that were set down. It is really helping us think out possible ways together of how we could address this problem in a way that would work for everyone.

So now…

ROUND THREE … DISCUSS!

In this scenario, exhaustion wouldn’t accomplish anything. For supply wasting, if that troll has any sense, they will dismantle their own siege before someone else can come and give them exhaustion. In an offensive group, the troll will still be standing in capture points and tagging downed enemies to get credit and burn their exhaustion stacks. Offensive siege trolls don’t need to place a lot of siege, though, so they likely won’t even care.

I do like the concept of dismantling siege to help avoid the limit, but I would be conservative about the number needed to dismantle someone else’s siege. Also, it would need to be made clear to players that rams have their own limit.

I just bought Magnus’s Eye Patch from the gem store within the last three hours, and it’s now on sale. Is it possible to get the difference in gems back?

Sariel V.7024:

Those Priory Charr in the Black Citadel have been digging an awful long time without finding anything.

The priory was digging for almost two years in the middle of LA and didn’t find anything. Then Scarlet came along, and blasted through and found something very important…and the priory moved their dig site to a random spot on the beach and kept digging, ignoring the whole breached ley line situation going on right next to them. I feel like their response could have been much better.

Also, what happened to the Grawl that we abandoned in LA when we moved the other Shiverpeaks refugees to Southsun Cove? They sat there for a few months and then disappeared, but we haven’t found out where they went.

Michael Henninger.7451:

ArenaNet agrees that communication is key. We’re diving into the forums a lot more than in the past with more freedom to candidly discuss our thought process. I can say that, for me, I’ve already had something brought to my attention today that I hadn’t realized was an issue.

Thanks to everyone that is constructively involved!

I’ve noticed that you guys are all over the forums since the feature patch hit. That plus the Adopt-A-Dev event is creating a great level of communication.

Permadeath.

Enough said.

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

I tried buying some beers from the heart merchant in Edwin Monastery but he does not sell them anymore…

That was the second thing I did when I logged in on 9/9, because I had gotten my Thirst Slayer achievement up to 98%, but was waiting to see if there was an alcohol collection. It was so disheartening (no pun intended) when I saw that the ales were gone.

Jeweler doesn’t have a lot of advantages since it hasn’t been given a grandmaster tier yet, and ascended trinkets are available by other means. I recommend having all 8 among 4 characters though, to keep your options open.

kitten.9065:

HI Anet! I just wrote yesterday because I returned to the game for LS S02. Guess what, I can’t finish LS because every time I go to the Frostgorge to help defeat the Svanir, farmers harass me for trying to complete the event and even if I ignore them, they make the Yak event fail, that’s on top of having to finish the previous event while being called and “idiot, troll, scumbag, kitten” and to GTFO.

So, wow thanks guys it was a nice 5 days back, well at least you got me for 600 gems to buy the chapters that I can’t complete.

Mission accomplished?

Anyone who calls you an idiot or a scumbag for trying to play the game as it was intended should be reported for verbal harassment.

Two days ago, I logged into a character I had left in Frostgorge after killing the Claw of Jormag, and saw someone ask for help with the living story events there. Another random person and I both offered to help, so the three of us formed a party and started completing the events. I turned on my commander tag, and we soon had about 10 people helping this one player with the living story.

It sucks that your experience was so much worse. I suggest trying again, and asking politely for help in map chat from the beginning. Make sure your timing doesn’t conflict with the Claw of Jormag events, though.

The past two days of PvP and WvW have been laggy for me, but not really in spikes. (I’m on Sorrow’s Furnace)

John Corpening.9847:

There were a number of suggestions around labelling dropped siege to allow players decide which siege to build. I like the idea of filtering dropped siege. Maybe you could have some of the following settings:

• Show my Commander’s siege
• Show my Squad’s siege
• Show my Guild’s siege
• Show my Party’s siege

If siege dropped doesn’t meet one of the settings you pick, you won’t get an interact for them.

This idea sounds like it has potential, but I think a simple option of “Interact with trusted siege only” would be simpler and more convenient. This would also include information to tell the player that siege is “trusted” if it is created by someone on your friends list, someone in your guild, one of your party members, or the commander of your squad if you are in one. Burning oil, cannons, mortars, and siege golems would always be trusted, but not siege golem build sites if build sites are included in this restriction.

John Corpening.9847:

The exhaustion idea that I kicked out there has had some mixed responses. There were some amazingly good ideas to make it work a whole lot better. For example, I really liked the suggestions that the cool down time is reduced for each member of your squad. I am really concerned though about the affects that you guys brought up on small havok groups and defenders. There were some suggestions that I think would make it work. For example, a couple of suggestions were along the lines of if you are actively playing it will clear your exhaustion. So if you down an enemy, break down a gate, destroy enemy siege etc. your exhaustion would be cleared.

If we tweaked Exhaustion to this would it work? :

1. When a player places a piece of siege they receive a stack of “Exhaustion”
2. A stack of “Exhaustion” expires after three minutes
3. If a player has five stacks of “Exhaustion” they can no longer place siege
4. If a player downs an enemy, destroys siege, breaks down a wall or gate their exhaustion is cleared
5. A commander’s exhaustion is reduced by 30 seconds for each member of his squad

We aren’t tied to this idea at all. I’m just collecting and shaping some of your suggestions on this idea in large part because a lot of people seemed to like it. I’m wondering if there is a version that would work for everyone.

I do not like this idea at all. There are often situations where I have to place a lot of siege in a short time during defensive situations. Times when I have to throw down 10 arrow cart blueprints in three minutes to defend a keep aren’t common, but they do happen. I also occasionally set up 4-5 balistas and a few arrow carts to help defend supply camps near our spawn points when holding them is critical.

John Corpening.9847:

Some sort of community policing also came up a bunch in this discussion. I think there were some great and promising ideas there. But, generally the concern with that comes down to a few things. How many people would be needed to get a person banned? What if not that many people are on? At what lower number will we have to start worrying about groups kicking members of another group because of petty arguments?

Finally, regarding swinging ye olde banhammer, that’s an option but if we can make some reasonable adjustments that greatly reduces the need for that option it will really be the better way to go. I would very much like to steer clear of falling back to that option in this discussion.

I don’t think players being able to ban other players is ever a good idea. The existing report system would work well for this if a clear “anti-competitive PvP behavior” (don’t actually call it that) option existed for players who try to sabotage their own team in WvW or PvP.

Once living story season 2 is over, Anet should remove the WvW maps from map completion and Southsun Cove, Dry Top, and whatever the next map they’re adding is. Then WvW map exploration can be given it’s own achievement in the WvW section, unrelated to PvE map completion (and maybe even give one Gift of Exploration, so WvW players don’t have to explore the entire PvE map to craft a legendary weapon).

bri.2359:

AFK ‘ing is not a reportable offense, All you can do is try switching to a map where there are fewer AFK’ers.

You can report them for botting though. Any time an account is “playing” the game without human interaction (like using a pet to get credit for events while you’re afk), it’s a EULA violation. They aren’t technically botting, but it flags that account’s behavior to be looked at by Anet. When Anet sees a EULA violation, they can decide how to handle it.