Guild Wars 2

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an aura always on without having to do some weapon swap trick?

What I would like to see happen in the long run is if you have a legendary equipped why not give every legendary weapon a unique aura that shows all the time no matter if you are on land or water.

Give the weapon the ability to hide the effect it the player wants to similar to changing the stats. I am not sure on the logistics of frame rates but perhaps limit the number of aura’s that can be displayed at one time.

I think it would be more gratifying to have a legendary if something special like a unique aura was around you even while using a different weapon. Footsteps just does not do it for me. None of the skins or effects yet has made me go for a legendary but I feel this would put me in the hunt for one.

What do they say, good things come to those who wait? Just kidding I think it would have been a great idea if they would have released all the races armor at the same time. I personally wish armor was usable for every one light, medium, heavy, or cultural. Just make sure the right Armor attribute is on the item for the class.

Asia Skyly.7198:

The reward should have been 1g/10 levels with silver increments in between. 1g/level 10, 2g/lvl20… 4.5g for level 45… 5g/level 50.

You read my mind.

I see a ton of knee jerk reactions going on around this patch. Since we know very little about it other than what’s posted why not wait and see. The reward system has obviously been changed so who’s to say that the new 30 is the old 48?

I play the game to play it not because of what number that comes to the screen as I walk through that portal. All is not lost if you really think about it. You had the skill to get to 48 once you will get there again.

As for people complaining about the old fractal weapons and having to use transmutation stones to switch the skin. I wish I had your luck/problem. Its all about perspective such as life.

I think the common question here is what is going to happen to the AR that we have on the item while trying to upgrade to the next level. Are we going to lose it, get it back, or will there be a way to upgrade the one inside a item? Or better yet can we easily remove them so we can use them for the upgrade then re apply them back to the item?

The video did not have what I was wanting to see (the new ones) so showing me what I’ve saw a million times before, not so great. I will give them credit on the animation portion but the content was lacking.

I am happy with the changes. Looking forward to this update! Only one drawback and it does not really apply to me so I can not speak on behalf of the people going backwards. I’m just happy there are going to be some new fractals and some new things going on in general in them.

Well that seems to be only one part of the song : /

I’ve a tale filled with horror and gore
of a tyrant from days of yore
so lend me your ear
and I’ll fill it with fear
as I sing of the Mad King Thorn
Be afraid of the Mad King Thorn

He’s a rotten man to the core
throwing feasts while starving the poor
twas a terror in life
to subjects and wifes
beware of the Mad King Thorn
Be afraid of the Mad King Thorn

There’s an evil beginning to form
like the clouds of a gathering storm
after so many years
he’s finally appeared
Be afraid of the Mad King Thorn
Be afraid of the Mad King Thorn

Find this Minstrel in Lions Arch and he will sing this song to you as long as you follow him to all three places he travels. He starts by the crafting bridge, then heads to the front of the bank, then over by ramp heading up the the Trading posts.

It would be nice if someone could put a video of this togetheir so we can enjoy it all year round. I would but I don’t have the software!

I want Tixx to not return but if he has to make it something different.

I want to have multiple songs to play at the Bell Choir

I want the event content to have some substance to it and not be another AP quest farm.

Music was great everyone here sounds like a bunch of old timers yelling get off my lawn! Reminded me of Duke Nukem a little.

Coming from a person who’s been thinking about it for the past month.

Boredom.

I have 4 max characters and the 5th at lvl 50. I only like to play one of them. I have 250 laurels, Almost 2,000 hours on my main character, and over 700 skill points to use along with 250 knowledge scrolls in my bank . Why did I list that you ask? Because there is nothing out there that interests me enough to use any of that.

What anet needs to do in my opinion is start making changes that impact their veteran player base. Living world is just not cutting it. Mostly because the lack of story keeps everyone disinterested. I only do the achievements then I’m done with that content. Nobody wants to stand around and listen to idle talk to get part of the story.

There needs to be more incentive to the living story rather than get “x” amount of achievements and get an item. The voting system during the Cutthroat Politics update is the type of updates we need. It kept people engaged. No we do not need to vote every month but there are other ways to let the community as a whole decide what they want in future updates. We need to feel like we are doing something for a reason not just because its there to do.

For example:
We are getting all these Pristine Toxic Spores right now. Why not have two different characters that have different ideas on what to do with the samples. If you give samples to person “A” then you will approach the next event in this manner along with some game changing stuff like ascended armor be available via laurels and materials but if you give it to person “B” you will approach the next event in a different manner and have ascended armor be only craft able via materials only.

This would drive people to keep doing things in game to help aid what they want to do in the game and keep people immersed in the game.

Right now I fight with myself to even log on because I keep thinking eventually it will get better. If they are going to keep doing this 2 week update thing they will need to double the size of all 3 teams to make the content have some real substance.

I didn’t mind the charge really. But I am not a new player. Like most have said it is not worth it anyhow.

I like the idea of this type of progression past 80 though. They just need to make it worth everyone’s time.

I think this would inspire more people to res. Just to show it off

I have 4 level 80’s but only play one so in other words I do not.

shhhhhh the alliance of the alliances are currently forming… I guess there is only so much you can do with things like this but it would be nice to jump around a little.

The Master.2893:

…they won’t do it if what they said at the Seattle PAX event how wonderful the current timeline for release is even remote to being accurate.

Why is it so?

The World May Never Know…

I do not have the source it was in either one of the yearly status updates or a twitch post. They said the reason they are releasing every two weeks was because they noticed when they patched the game people typically played for two weeks after the patch then the player base tampered off till the next patch. They said having a patch every two weeks would keep people at their desks playing all the time pretty much.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/release-notes-for-tower-of-nightmares/

complaining about this before we have tried it out is pointless.
Not sure why people are thinking it will clean up all conditions its pretty obvious its only poison, torment, confusion, and toxin. And we wonder why they don’t tell us what’s going on early. We need a head start for all the moaning and groaning…

What a great story that could have been used in the game as part of the living story! This is the type of stuff needed for the living story, an actual story. I personally would like to see an update every 3 weeks to a month than rushing out what seems like unfinished/rushed content.

In all honesty that was more telling than anything that happened in the story thus far. Granted I didn’t take the time last night to kill the prince but I can go out on a limb here and say it will fall short on telling what’s going on.

What I would have liked to experience

1) Find scrolls talking about Edrics reliquary. This leads you on a quest to find more information.

2)You trace the scrolls origin to some family who talks about relatives in the past and talks about the story of what happened on that day. How the Mad King burned the village of Pelchalice and killed over 600 people. That there was an uprising against the King to remove him from his thrown. But still no questions answered on why the Mad King would put his own son in a tomb. You still are looking for more answers and the family talks of people who escaped that day from the castle.

3)You are able to trace the family that has kept the secret all these years about a sons plot to overthrow the King. How it was the prince who did all the bad things to the village of Pelchalice. How the sons last meal was candy corn and how he was locked in the box and the records purged so he would not be known. Then the family drops a hint thinking the tomb was near the Black Citadel.

4)Here is where we start the story as it was given to us by finding the tomb and meeting the prince for the first time.

All of that would have been great in my opinion and it would have actually made since. Other than me playing a guessing game and throwing garbage at him until I picked up a piece of candy corn and tossed it at him. The first question that popped in my head was why candy corn…

Last year It was harder to finish. I only did it one time and trust me I tried for probably to long. This year I have been able to finish it over 10 times. I don’t care what I look like during the puzzle I just care if it is doable or not.

I am glad you can not get last years achievements there should be some reward for being a veteran player. With that being said it seems the quality of the content is at question here.

They removed being able to get the back item and replaced it with a short instance where all you basically do is throw candy corn. Other than that not much has changed except for a few new “champs” in the labyrinth. They nerfed the amount of candy corn nods on world maps and really made carving pumpkins meaningless except for the days that the daily includes carving 5 pumpkins.

I understand these festivals are to give the devs time to get caught up but this is ridiculous. They had to know about the expectations people had for this event and really swung and missed big time on an opportunity to get players back. A few weapons skins, a short instance, and a few new champs do not really do it for the majority of the player base. People who did not get the chance to do this even will be entertained momentarily but come this time next year they will feel the way most of us vets feel now.

bored.

Veteran Players have millions of it. However new players are not getting nowhere near the same amount of karma when we first started. Karma all around has been significantly reduced. They took away the boosters to gain karma from consumables as well. It may take a while but if you use your karma a lot you will soon see the effects of it in the long term.

My hope is that there is enough new stuff to keep me entertained. The old stuff is old. To be honest I wish everything would be revamped each seasonal holiday. Can’t wait till year 5 of the same content with one minor story update!

I’m still waiting for the living story to actually give us a story. Random fetch quests and achievement quests are really not doing it for me any more. Home instance is lacking and aside from what will be 2 nodes you can mine each day what is the point to having it?

With all that said I hope they prove me wrong and have this update actually be something that has some substance.

You would think people would just get things but I guess you have to break it down…

1) For the quest line to be available to that particular character hey need the gold star next to their name. This will prevent people from doing it on multiple characters without exploring the whole world

2)Dungeons may not be all to difficult but finishing all the paths would help with your legendary status hence deserving of a legendary item.

3)You don’t need to be a master crafter to make a legendary just of a few particular ones pending on what item you are going for. But being a master of all trades would also help with your legendary status hence deserving of a legendary item.

4)This is to restrict people from just farming the first two and having them actually go out and play the game and accomplish tasks like achievements helping with your legendary status hence deserving of a legendary item.

5)2000 badges of honor because you need some sort of monetary cost to get the item and what better than showing your skill in the fields of wvw. Earning 2000 badges would help your legendary status hence deserving of a legendary item.

After achieving all of those things you would be able to activate a quest line that at the end of that quest line you would be rewarded with your precursor only truly costing you 2000 badges of honor along with what it took you to become a master crafter.

The list that makes “no sense” has to deal with your character becoming a legend. Not anet gifting precursors to people because they feel they deserve them. Just a heads up I don’t even meet all the criteria on this list but I think it seems fair.

I think it should be a quest line that requires a few criteria to initiate.

1)100% world Completion – on that character
2)Dungeon Master
3)Master Crafter
4)Over 5,000 Achievement Points
5)2000 Badges of Honor

This would make people just play the game and every aspect of it. You could only do the quest line once per character that has 100% world completion. All weapons received this method would be instantly account bound and once the legendary was made it would be made account bound on craft so people could not make money off of them. This way there would still be a decent market for the RNG dropped precursors.

So a total of 12 people defending the turrets and 3 using them for each set so a total of 30 people just for that operation.

What’s the current max population a server can house before throwing people into overflow?

One question I have is what is a good number to have protecting each set of Turrets?

I was wishing that they were going to take the character with the most magic find and just change that into account wide. I knew it was a long shot but a man can dream right.

How about some love from all the events we have completed already. I have finished almost 4500 events it would have been nice to get a ball of luck equivalent to the amount of events we have finished up to this point.

What people can take away from this is do your monthly as fast as you can. I learned that a while back. Why be up in arms about this I could just as easily say I don’t want to have to do my monthly again but whats the point. Sure I get an extra 10 laurels big whoop. I am sitting on over 215 of them they are not serving me any good.

Just learn from it. That is what I did. Last time I didn’t get the 10 extra this time I did. Don’t be lazy it would only take a hour or so to find and complete 12 jumping puzzles. I’m not really trying to be mean here I was just as up in arms as you were when it happened to me. Just try to be more on top of it next time.

I actually finished up all my monthly except for the WvW kills so what does this mean to me. I can not log in game to see.

Gizmo.9178:

The inventory shuffle is awesome

+1 to you good sir!

Ill just hold on to my MF set until ascended armor comes out then I’ll select those stats! Works for me. They said nothing on same quality of gear haha! Maybe they did but I didn’t see it.

I was thinking the other day I know that the legendary weapons will get the upgrade to ascended. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an easy way to make the weapons that cost a lot easier to upgrade to ascended. I am not saying we should have an automatic upgrade but something that wouldn’t require players to completely start from scratch.

On that note are we going to be able to transmute the new ascended weapons?

There is no reason why we shouldn’t have more information on this. I have some ascended MF rings and such and it would be nice to know what is going to happen to everyone’s gear once the patch goes live. I really feel sorry for the people who have maxed out their MF gear just to get it washed away… I was close.

I was playing my thief out in fireheart rise and came across a guy who was playing his Guardian and was watching him as he just face tanked everything all the way up to COF with ease. The next day I created my Norn Male Guardian.

Why Norn? Well in my mind I see a guardian being something larger than life while a warrior I feel should be more agile that is why my warrior is a human. I do not like playing classes that do not resemble humans.

Can’t please us all. I’ve never cared for SAB. I will run through the new stuff one time call it a night and finally get to other things I’ve been wanting to do. You all have fun.

Have the champs only drop champ loot tickets that can only be retrieved from that events session after scarlet has been slain. Problem solved. But it wont happen.

I am not upset about the items handed out at least its something. You would think on the other hand that you would want to really reward veterans for playing your game. At this given moment it seems like most people are discouraged. That would be something for anet to think about.

Blast from the past here but when I played Ultima Online / UO back in the day every year you played the game they gave you a ton of options of what you could possibly select. The catch was that you only get to select one item from the list and the rewards got better each year your account progressed. It was nice because you could turn around and sell these items to other players so there was a way to collect everything if you set your mind to it.

I think this could all be solved if none of the content was temporary. Sure make the festivals temporary and SAB but living story should be always able to be done. They could even make people do them in order to catch up. Lets say once you get the achievement chest for the event you can move to the next. People could still do everything but wouldn’t get the achievements for it unless the prerequisites were done.

I only play a few hours at night before I go to bed. I work I coach I have a life but the op was correct in saying you feel like you are missing out if you don’t complete the content. With such little time to do it you cant really do anything else but the content since its only available in a short window of time.

I never really paid any attention to the commanders in PVE zones. I just never thought they would be of any use. Until the last two updates and then I was able to see how they can directly impact the way the event is going to be played out.

I have always wanted the tag but I thought it would be pointless to have in pve. I may change my mind on that.

To keep in line with the topic I was doing and invasion last night 5 commanders traveled with each other from place to place. Everyone knows the outcome of that….

Rammie.2843:

The Liadri mini shows nothing but a preference to self inflicted pain since the fighting platform was the complete opposite of good design.

What do the other minis show? You have gold?

Landri just because it took some luck and skill to get.

I see both sides of the coin and I still think items should have been sold via the TP from the start. I don’t care how many people have “said” skin. I just know what I want and I would like a clear cut way to get it that isn’t random.

Never cared for the path myself never failed at it either but there is a reason it is called F.U.

Glad you all like the update … I am on the opposite end of the spectrum on this.

Not saying that the ones you give us are crazy hard but could we make them a tad easier to obtain and not so time consuming. I would like to do other things inside the game other than try to catch up in the living story.

I only have a few hours at night to play and I have completed all the content to this point but I’m starting to notice thakittens taking away from other things I would like to do in the game. Yes I know I have the right to go do something else but I also don’t want to miss out on the AP. So go do a dungeon for gear or get AP. Go do a set a fractals or go get AP.

I would think that it would be hard for anyone new to concentrate on leveling
because of the constant feeling like you are missing out on something and trying to speed level so you can do the content with everyone else.

Example you have us completing 13 invasions this go around that equating to 13 hours of game play roughly. That is a bit long for people like me who would like to get the achievement and do other things in the game.

So could you please take in consideration that the length of time it takes to get an achievement does not actually make it an achievement and just knowing someone went there and experienced the content and did less reps is just as efficient. Sorta reminds me of how having a foe with High HP equates as hard when all it does is take more time to kill him. It never makes them harder.

TLDR
Make achievements the same but don’t make them take so much time to obtain. Example instead of having 13 invasions make it 5. You achieve the same goal but take less time doing it leaving you able to do other things with your time.

are you guys talking about the “living random content updates”?

Evans.6347:

Good thing there’s aspirine in the topic.

heeeeey oooohhhhhh!

They will be remembered however you will have to make up your own story because they didn’t provide a decent one for us. I hate being negative on the living story i just wish it actually had a story. The way it has been presented makes you feel like your going crazy because while you sit there and try to figure out how it all ties together you realize they don’kittens

nice having 4 teams and constant content updates. I just they were all working on a story line that went along with each other and made sense.