Guild Wars 2

btw, not to be pushy, but will we be getting an update on this? One way or the other, i wanna be able to plan my raid team :p

Gaile Gray.6029:

I’ll be happy to pass along your suggestions and requests, but the decision on the end time is naturally dependent on a lot of factors.

We really appreciative of your enthusiasm!

Have a great time testing out the raid system. Pretty sweet, eh?

Thx for trying, my raid starts 1 hour before the end time right now (many people in our guild can’t make it before that), would love to have a bit more time.

All of Europe will be forever in your debt :p

Chris Cleary.8017:

We are going to extend the beta until Noon PST on Monday – Raiding will be available the entire time (pending non disasters)! GOGO!

Please can you extend it a few more hours, you are shutting it down right in the middle of European prime time now(9pm european time). 3 pm PST would be so much better.

Us Europeans haven’t had a raid oppertunity in prime time yet, this would mean so much to me and my guild.

Kevan.8912:

another question before: what is really stopping me from doing fractals? a huge, steamy heap of money and crafting ingredients to stack AR.
what will stop me from raids? with pretty good probability, still not having ascendeds + capped masteries.

you only need agony at lvl 10, from then on you already have a ring, so put 5 in that and you are safe till 20, and from 10 and beyond you get more rings, and a drop chance of ascended gear

Ohoni.6057:

Ok, what about the many people already having ascended gear?

They get to keep it?

And this is why you aren’t in charge. I can’t even begin to imagine the backlash.
Anyway i just wanted to expose your argument, no desire in another discussion like you did in raids topic.

Ohoni.6057:

There’s an easy solution to this, just make Ascended gear way cheaper, so that players can reasonably gear many alts.

Ok, what about the many people already having ascended gear?

Ashen.2907:

Obtena.7952:

Ashen.2907:

OnizukaBR.8537:

TL/DR: Ascended is not grind gear, only legendaries are.

I have been actively hunting ascended gear for going on three years now. I (not counting trinkets) have three pieces at this point.

Killing the same mobs day in and out for three years to get three pieces of equipment. I had BiS before ascended was released. Three sets of armor and at least one of every weapon for my main. At this rate I can expect it to take in excess of 20 years to get back to where I was shortly after launch.

Not a grind ?

You are mistaken.

It’s a grind because you are using the LEAST optimal method to obtain it, not because of any game mechanic preventing you from getting it faster.

Leveling crafting is even more of a grind to me because there is zero play involved.

this is… rediculous, it takes 10 minutes at most to get from 0-500, if you follow a guide. I like crafting so i crafted mine up normally, but jeez common, be real, you don’t want to lvl it because you don’t have the money because you spend it all the time, wich is probally also the reason you don’t have legendary armor.

Ashen.2907:

Thobek.1730:

You do realise you can buy them of the Trading Post, or simply craft the items yourself.

Glad I could help.

My apologies.

I did not realize that ascended weapons and armor were no longer account bound. Do you by any chance remember when this change was implemented ?

Thank you for your assistance.

Edit: Apparently ascended weapons and armor are still account bound and cannot be traded on the TP. I shall assume that you are merely mistaken rather than engaging in dishonesty via the spread of misinformation. Perhaps you are merely new to the game or don’t understand what you are reading when looking at item descriptions, wiki entries, or forum posts.

All you need: 500 crafting discipline
the recipe for the piece: 5 laurels and some gold.
Combination of the ascended materials refinement, 500 of each material for the chest, 300 for all the other pieces.
The rest you can buy of the TP. So yes basicly you can buy ascended gear of the tp. Since the 2 other ingredients you get by playing the game.

Getting the crafting to 500 is the most expensive part, but can of course be done in stages. It will cost about 100 gold for most proffesions. Crafting the ascended materials refinements costs basicly nothing.
From there on, you can literly buy the ingredients needed for the recipe, costing you about 60-80 gold per armor piece if you don’t want to use the time gated cheaper ways to craft these ingredients

Seriously, people, learn the difference between beta testing on live servers and QA testing inhouse. One deals with integration of content into live servers.(something no other mmo does before launch, resulting in terrible launches) One deals with testing the content internally to make sure everything works as intended. You are not a better QA tester then the QA testers, believe me. You are there in this beta purely to get feedback on the general first map (wich can be used to adjust and tweak other maps) and to stress test the map in general.

Beta’s are still in beta, i know weird right. You get to participate in the beta, because you prepurchased, however that does not entitle you to anything other then that.
As someone who did QA for some small games before, you have no clue when you say this game hasn’t been tested properly.

This was a messy Beta weekend due to things responding badly to the live environment, not due to inproper testing of the content (even the difficulty was not as intended and bugged). Now you can choose, have this now, or have this at launch like every other mmo.
(GW2 launch, if i may remind you, went perfectly fine even if the later maps did not see any live testing, most people still call it the smoothest mmo launch up to date)

In short: You guys are not QA testers, stop pretending that you are.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Any update? hoping to get at least one raid test in before this ends.

Same here, team rdy to go, waiting for raids to open up somewhere in the next 2 days, if not, plz considder extending the beta

still having this problem, i can’t unlock jump shrooms because i decided to lvl updraft first and it’s pretty annoying…

still not working guys, i know you are probally working kitten it, but plz realise it’s not fixed…

I agree, difficulty in BWE2 was much better

I’m still having problems with mastery points, some don’t show, others you can channel but don’t recieve points for. Right now i’m getting warning i have enough xp to skill up my mastery every 2 seconds… but i already got gliding and updraft, so i have no points left.

still the old UI with me

Still having the old UI atm, doesn’t work

I cannot find any mastery points that work atm, some aren’t there, some i can channel but don’t get a point from. Would like to see this solved cause you kind of need updraft and shrooms for the canopy things.

Mate i agree with you, but do you have to make a kittening dramatic title like that, that just makes it way less likely the devs will take you seriously.

Be constructive, you have good points but they disappear under the kitten drama of that title.

Any updates on this?

Ehm they said this weekend the canopy would be available, how exactly? Haven’t seen any way to go up…

Obtena.7952:

I don’t really get it … how will an almost insignificant boost in stats from exotic to ascended really help you in raids. I don’t buy the ‘required’ nonsense. Of course, Anet could introduce super strong infusions but that sort of doesn’t make sense to me. How would they make those infusions NOT OP’ed in other aspects of the game if that’s their approach to make ascended gear stats matter over exotic ones in raids?

I think allot of people are taking what the dev said plain wrong, should be ascended means they are balancing around ascended, and saying raids will be super challenging for ascended.

Doesn’t mean the 5% means that much, but as any raider knows from other games, slight difference in stats can be the difference between 1 more spell to kill the boss, 1 more crit, one bit more damage, instead of wiping at 1 and 2% (where most raids bosses are the hardest when first doing them, since this is where you probally already lost some people, look at any world first encounters from other games and you’ll notice they all are really really close on the first kill)

Ascended is, and has been confirmed to forever be, the highest stat, so it’s only logical the hardest content is balanced around actually being really hard to do with that stat, and nearly impossible in anything lower then that, at least until people know the perfect tactics. When the raids get to be more “on farm” damage will be higher anyway because people will actually increase their time dpsing en decrease the time evading stuff or dieing.

Personal loot was already confirmed, and it’s never been different in GW2 anyway.

They already confirmed that raids would be side stories and that mordremoth is not in them.

SnubdubLuskon.1795:

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

AzureSky.3175:

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

Then let’s just open up every skin in the game to everyone who wants them… FILL THE WARDROBES I SAY!!!! BC I’m entitled to everything! Even if I wasn’t there or am too lazy to grind the gold to get it! My entitlement gives me that right!

I guess some people can only think in black and white…

I hate to break it to you buuuuuut EVERY other MMO has limited edition items… ie. things that never come back… What makes you believe GW2 would be any different?

Who says it has to be?

It doesn’t, i would personally like it if they did a collection of the more recent haloween items, and if you collected them all, you could get an account bound skin of the old ones (wichever you choose).
And i’m not saying this because i want it myself, i have the ghastly grinning shield, no interest in others except maybe the greatsword, but then again i have eternity so i’d probally never use it.

I just would like to have the grenth hood back if possible

Can we plz stop responding to the quite obvious troll now? The reason his arguments aren’t making sense is because he’s intentionally trying to get people to respond now. Don’t give him the attention and let this reward discussion die plz. It’s over, our side has won, raids are getting exclusives 100% certainly.

As this is the general topic about raiding, let’s discuss the kitten raids, what do you guys think, will healing be needed, are we getting boss mechanics resembling other raid formats or will GW2 raids be unique? All excited for the next beta weekend raid test? What will your team setup be to tackle the first boss?

You may call me crazy, but i see a shout warrior with healing shouts, cleric’s gear and trooper runes to be a really good spec to keep your front line healthy. You are almost impossible to kill since your healing signet is so strong, combined with having the toughness to take hits, and your shouts not only heal, but also remove conditions, next to their usual use, I still considder “For great justice!” to be one of the best skills in the game, fear me has immense use in trying to rez someone when you have adds, or to controll adds in general, shake it off is good for adding another condi cleanse, making the skill clear 2 condi’s and stunbreak, and even on my mark has use on bosses with burn phases to instantly get it to big vuln stacks so dps is optimal. Of course battle standard elite seems only logical in raids.

Add to this mace/warhorn/shield/torch + hammer for utility they provide, depending on what is needed, and you’ll have a big tanky front line healer/tank.
(seriously try out the heal shouts in normal gear without heal power, they are even powerfull without putting stats into them.)

Ash Onix.1356:

Sorry I forgot, only positive feedback. You are all right, I must have not been in my right mind. Troll sickness or something. Thank you all for showing me the errors of my way. I’ll go shut up in the corner now like a good little consumer.

How in the hell can Arenanet even know your wife’s shedule? Do they have to read her mind? You are basicly saying: OMG why doesn’t anyone know what we never told them.

Explain your wife’s situation, without insulting the devs, and they perhaps would even be inclined to help you, however the way you brought up the point makes me wonder why you have a wife at all. You are saying there are human beings behind the keyboards, yet you aren’t acting like a normal human being at all. Grow up.

McViolin.8547:

To rude to even quote…

They are devs, of Guildwars 2, if you don’t like the devs or the game you don’t have to stay here. Noone is forcing you to support this company, and not paying for their game does not give you the right to insult and belittle them. Grow up.

Wwefan.4982:

Fox.3469:

Btw is Arenanet tv going to be used in the future or was it just for twitchcon?

Maybe for other cons but the new stream is called for Guild Chat.

I know but it seems so weird to have this logo and stuff, and i also heard a rumor of Arenanet tv being the hosting of big GW2 twitchers? We’ll have to see.

Btw is Arenanet tv going to be used in the future or was it just for twitchcon?

Just had a party of obviously totally new people AC path 2, but i’m patient so i explained everything, we had to do the even with the chains and traps like 4 times before we got it, so not going smooth but these people were willing to learn so i stuck with them.

When the ghost boy at the end showed up, i said: “If you want him to loose his ghost aura and make him vunerable you got to go close to him and dance with him.” Obviously a joke, but suddenly our lvl 45 charr warrior runs in, dances and dies. I said i was sorry andexplained i was joking, we still killed the boss, but this cracked me up so hard i could hardly play after :p

Veteran Have a character reach 730 days of age. Use /age to check the age of the character. So it is a character bound one, and you have 147 days on that character to go.

Still recruiting

Well then it’s your job to make sure your wife doesn’t have anything to do but the beta when she’s not working right? I mean people don’t sleep 12 hours a day. Get to housekeeping!

In all seriousness, what do you expect, if they hold beta’s on weekdays more people won’t make it, it’s the best option but some people miss out, that’s just how it goes.

Hey all,

I would just like to thank the devs for this amazing 2 day livestream experience they set up for us at twitchcon. I toroughly enjoyed every minute of it, from the musical performances (can we have those more often for like 1 song on guildchat or smth?) to the information about heart of thornes, to the goofy segments to break up everything.
You guys made so much effort into entertaining us, and i appreciate it!

I also wanna say, i fully support the direction this game is taking, and i liked everything anounced at this conference (well maybe except the buffing staying at 5 for raids, but that’s minor), i can’t wait to play the expansion, or to get my kitten kicked next week when we try out the raids (plz make it kick my kitten plz :p).

I’ve supported you guys since GW1 and i’ve not been let down ever since, keep up the awesome work!

PopeUrban.2578:

It is not a subjective definition. It is completely objective.

10% more of a stat is more

It doesn’t matter if you want to use it, need to use it, or if you care. It is actually more.

You’re arguing that having a choice between a red shirt and a blue shirt is the same as having a choice between a red shirt and a blue bulletproof vest.

You don’t have the get shot for the bulletproof vest to be better at stopping bullets

It’s a mechanical difference. Those differences are where GW2 draws the line and says “everyone should have equal access to this” because those differences are actually what have the potential to prevent you from running builds, running content, or playing at a handicap in WvW.

Skins are cosmetic and have no mechanical value.

They are locked in acquisition behind content, and locked from use behind class, gender, the gem store, character race, and a host of other factors for this exact reason

No one is disputing that skins are desirable. That’s the whole point. Skins are designed to be harder to acquire than stats on purpose, because they’re the primary reward model of the game. There is no objective definition of cosmetic “advantage” as the very word first necessitates an objective system to measure value.

Preferring one skin to another is not a matter of advantage it is a matter of preference

Preferring to have less stats to wear an item you think looks better is not a matter of advantage, it is a matter of preference.

You can’t treat “enjoyment” or “happiness” as an objective measuring stick and assign skins a numerical value that competes with stats because “happiness” is not objective.

You’re grasping at straws here.

We all know what you want. We know. You have explained it. You don’t need to go out on a limb to prove it is somehow objectively logical because it is not. it is a matter, like what skins or dyes someone likes, of preference.

You’d prefer all skins could be obtained by doing whatever you want. There is not an objective case for this any more than there is an objective case for the way the game already works, and will continue to work.

Stop treating your opinion as a scientific fact. You have made your point, yet you keep responding as if there’s some greater truth we’re all not getting, or that you’re saying 2+2 = 4 and we’re all like “no man, it’s seven”

We get it. We don’t agree with you, but we get it.

There is not going to be some epiphany or come to melandru moment here. We simply do not agree with your opinion.

PopeUrban (so you don’t get confused again Ohoni) just gave the best solid argument as to why stats are totally different then skins, i couldn’t have done it better myself. Of course Ohoni couldn’t counter any of his arguments so he started trowing mud in the general direction and missed completely, only helping to enpower PopeUrban’s statement.

Well done PopeUrban

Btw Ohoni you are gloating over my answer to a question that was loaded, and unlike anything GW2 will ever be, grow up will you.
I’m starting to think WP is right, you are a 13 year old… At least in discussing this.

Ohoni.6057:

If you tell me, “I could give you one of two things. I could give you a sword with stats that are 5% better than Ascended stats (but it looks like a normal ascended sword), OR I could give you a sword that has Exotic stats, but includes the Sunrise skin,” then I would take the Sunrise sword every single time, no hesitation. I assume you would take the higher stats sword, and that’s fine too, that’s your choice, just don’t assume that it’s an objective choice to make.

I would also pick sunrise probally, well if i didn’t have it already. However, that doesn’t mean i’m so ignorant to claim that it would give me an advantage, or that this even is a real linked possibility in the game. Skins are flavor, just like tonics and outfits and titles are. They have no impact gameplay wise.

Don’t get me wrong, i like skins, in fact i love skins, so much that i have to buy transmutation stones from the gemstore from time to time to keep up how much i like swapping stuff around and trying new looks. However certain skins not being available to me, mostly the grindy ones, or the achievement point ones, since i hate doing the daily, does not in any way affect my gameplay.

Ohoni.6057:

Skins are not better then other skins, some players may think of certain skins better then others, but that doesn’t make it so, they are subjective to opinion. They do not give one player advantage over another.

But again, that is subjective. If one player wants a given skin, and another player has it, then that player does have an advantage over the first.

You don’t seem to be understanding what having an advantage means…
If one player wants a given skin, and another player has it, then that player is in the first player’s eyes better looking then him, but that doesn’t give him any advantage in playing the game, being better looking itself is not an advantage, at least not in a game. Having ascended gear over exotic, no matter how small the numbers, does give you the ability to kill mobs just that bit faster then someone who doesn’t have it (if that someone is equal to your skill lvl). That is having an advantage in the game.

The way your gear looks is irrelevant when it comes to having an advantage over others in this game. Numbers are not subjective, even if you don’t care about it, i still have an advantage over you if i’m fully ascended geared and you are not.

I absolutely do not agree with the op, weapons are fine, and should stay as they are.

Lopez.7369:

No, it doesn’t. Anyone who makes this claim doesn’t understand basic concepts and design for Guild Wars 2.

I get that feeling aswell. Suggesting this clearly shows a total lack of understanding of the GW2 combat system imo.

Ohoni.6057:

Skins absolutely fit that criteria specifically because skins do not have a use at all as purely cosmetic, non-mechanical rewards.

Again, that is not true. Their use is subjective. If a player says “I have use for that skin, it would look nice on me,” then he is absolutely right, and you cannot argue against him on it. All you can do is argue that he does not have the right to receive what he wants, not that he needs it any less than any other player.

If there was a specific stat combo you could only pick up by raiding? That’s not cool, and not how GW2 works.

Agreed, but nobody needs a specific stat combo any more than they need a specific skin, it’s all subjective. They might want that specific stat combo, and to you the stat combo might be more important than the skin, but you cannot project your desires onto other people.

Point I’m making here is that people need to sit down and realize that Not having skins is not a mechanical disadvantage

And the point that I’m making here is that people need to sit down and realize that mechanical disadvantage is only more important than cosmetic availability if you choose to see it that way. It is not a universal fact. Nothing in a game is a need, everything in a game is a want. You want to have the best stats, you don’t need to have the best stats, and from your comments you seem to want to have the best stats more than you want to have your favorite skins, but this balance of desires is not true for all players, so dismissals of “well, you can’t have what you want, but you can have the things I want, so your concerns are not valid,” is not a constructive response.

There is a big difference between stats and skins.
Different stats objectively make 2 players of the exact same skill level have different damage output. The one with the higher stat, will do more damage. It makes one player better then the other, by pure numbers. Hence that one player has an advantage over others.
Skins are not better then other skins, some players may think of certain skins better then others, but that doesn’t make it so, they are subjective to opinion. They do not give one player advantage over another.

Mechanical advantage directly impacts the gameplay, since bosses die faster, content get easier and players aren’t treated equally. Different stat combo’s also have a direct impact on your gameplay.
Skins have 0 effect on the gameplay.

This guy is bringing up very valid points and gets attacked again for not a single good reason, without a single even close to valid argument. PopeUrban, don’t pay attention to Ohoni, your opinion is spot on.

We really need a blog post or dev reaction to confirm how this will work.
And we need it now, so if there are many hero points needed, people can prepare.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Both of you get a free account. Yours on her server. Hers on yours. Then you play together either on EU or NA. Or both get 2 new accounts, one on each data group. This is a lot easier and faster than ANet creating another server with no WvW access.

Or just let EU players to guest on NA servers, and vice versa. You could move between, US, EU and Inta with ease in GW1. I don’t see how GW2 is that different. Its a moded engine of GW1 after all.

GW1 was not an mmo. The only hubs were the cities, outside of that you just played with a few people. The only things close to this is sPvp. Pve content in GW1 was all instanced, like dungeons, you can not compare that to an open world game and think the same rules apply.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I don’t understand why you think you need Elite Specializations to play in Heart of Thorns areas. I am pretty sure some players aren’t enamored with the Elite Specialization coming for their main profession of choice. Are you saying they won’t be able to play HoT, whether they have the Hero Points to unlock it, or not?

If your guildies want to play Heart of Thorns, they can go there right at release day. Just like everyone else (that purchased). If they want Elites unlocked the 5 minutes beforehand, I guess they can make a choice to pick up a few HPs each day while waiting for release…or not…just like everyone else. No one is forced to wait until ‘new content’ has come out to pick up Hero Points.

Whichever, it’s still a choice.

Oh, and as to your edit about ‘new players’: Those new players have to get to L80 before stepping foot in HoT. ‘New players’ should not have access to a pile of scrolls to insta-80, so they would need to level up in maps, anyway. Why should they ignore all the previous PvE maps they have never played to go play the ‘new’ PvE map? It’s all PvE, no?

you are making stupid assumptions,

1 that everyone reads the forums, and knows how this will work (allot of people will be disappointed when they find out to late)

2 that the way this will work is even clear already

3 that you have somehow earned the right to have these at day one while others don’t, even when some of them may have played more hours then you in a different gametype

4 that i am claiming elite specs are needed, they are flavor tough, and many people will want to play them, even at the cost of missing the new content, but it will cause frustration.

5 That having to do 1 type of content to get a skills and traits is somehow ok

Coulter.2315:

psst you still have a month to get the points.

There is no new content atm, just get them now.. “I don’t want to” can be used against EVERYTHING and has no worth.

I know this, you know this, at least 80% of the community has no clue about this, this is why they need to release a blogpost informing how this will work.
This is not a matter of me not wanting to do it, as it currently stands i have enough skillpoints on most of my main characters. I would like some progress to however, and not to be given everything at launch. But the same progress for me as for my brand new GW2 playing friend, i do not want to be ahead of them just because i have world completion characters and he doesn’t.

People arguing that this is ok imo all already have these skillpoints and are unwilling to even for one second put themselves in the shoes of more recent players. It’s selfish and it disgusts me. I would like the elite specs to contain some form of progress, for me and for my friends, starting all from 0 with HoT

Astralporing.1957:

Devata.6589:

What I except is for raid to be about the same difficulty as what you see in most MMOs.

In other MMO’s most of the difficulty comes from needing to fulfill gear requirements, so i’m sure this won’t be the case here.

You are wrong. Gear may have more meaning in other mmo’s but the true catalist is understanding the fight.

Coulter.2315:

So just to check “people who play more shouldn’t have an advantage” is your position? How on earth can you structure a game like that except putting caps on progress you can make in a day?

Its a fact of gaming and life that doing more gets you more. Obviously some people will fall a bit behind but they still can progress at their own rate.

No it’s not, my position is that people should be able to do what they want to do->the new content, without having to grind hero points in the old content first, HoT needs to have it’s own way of getting heropoints and right now the new map hasn’t shown that yet, only mastery points. This needs to be uncoupled from world exploration in some way.

These people in my guild don’t want special treatment, they want to be able to play the elite spec after unlocking it, but they do not want to spend time in the normal zones while everyone is playing heart of thornes. If you want elite specs to have progress, sure, make it last until halfway the expansion till you unlock everything, but that progress ABSOLUTELY has to be able to be made playing heart of thornes.
There is not a single positive thing about forcing players to do old content while new content has just come out.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Why not? By doing Hero Points is playing the content of the game, if Anet where to give everything to everyone just from going from point A to point B there would be no point with hero points. I am sorry to tell you this but there is a reason for hero points and those are for atleast PvE players to play the PvE content.

I myself “only” plays around 1-2h a day, some days can be more. I have played for 3 years and I still enjoy the game, I still have a lot to do, I still have time to do things in the game, I don’t think Anet will shut of the servers anytime soon so there is time and who am I racing against? Why would I care if someone has the “edge” over me? I can understand that some people finds it booring to do it again and again and again with millions of alt characters but still, they wont go away.

(I am ofcourse speaking of only PvE as I have said I agree with the WvW problem but I would want a different solution for that)

You also mistake my point. It’s not, oh but i want everything to be directly available. My point is that you should not be forced to do old content when an expansion just released, just to get enough points to get your elite spec. Make it a grind, sure, but start the grind, when HoT releases, and start with all people at the same starting point.
The way it looks right now punishes new players, doesn’t give people with 5 times map exploration anything to progress towards on the other hand, and even makes is so new players have to get all the hero points all over the world, NOT PLAYING HoT. This cannot be the goal, since most of these new players right now have been drawn in for specificly HoT.

In short: sure have it be a grind, but have it be the same grind for someone who plays from day one, and a new F2P account that just bought HoT, and start it when hot releases.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Fox.3469:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Yes, give us everything from start!!! Why do we need to level from level 1-80? Play how you want ‘pshht’ rubbish! I want all my 12 characters maxed out becouse it is tedious to do it again and again and again becouse the game is all about maxed out characters and when I have maxed out characters I will start whining that there is only 1h content for this game!!!

Seriously though in my opinion I don’t mind havng Elite specs being behind a little wall of HP, it gives us something to aim for, a reason to go back and play on the old maps. I have 12 characters and most of them have over 80-90% map compleation. I play this game becouse I enjoy it and I enjoy every content of is (Accept southsun survival) so I play all the maps again as long as I enjoy it. It does not take a year to get your hero points and if you actually don’t try to finnish everything in a week you can maby enjoy the old content again. When I play old maps again I usually find people from my guild to play with or some new friends, it realy makes the experience better. Also it one more month before release of the game, instead of being AFK in LA and whining on the forums or whatever you do, go out and earn yourself some HP.

I got alot of HP, I want a reason to use them.

I understand your point, but the simple fact is, that you can’t earn HP by any form beyond 80 but doing the hero challenges, and i think it’s kittened up to expect a WvW player or someone who likes running dungeons allot more, to go and do all these hero challenges. Think beyond yourself for just one second and plz realise that to some people this will be a grind, while others unlock it with their natural gameplay. This is not good.

To be a fair system you need to be able to progress at the same rate, nobody is asking for instant acces. Altough you will probally have it, while some poor WvW player will have to grind PvE for it. If you want to lock it behind something make it so we can only start that progress at HoT, so everyone gets a clean start.

I can understand that but what we… Or alteast I don’t know is how much HP it will cost and how much HP there will be in the new WvW maps.

I didn’t want to Explore WvW maps to get 100% map compleaton and ofcourse WvW players shouldn’t have to do 100% PvE to get Elite Spec I agree. But what I am worried about over all this whining is that it may lead to that there is nothing to aim for, Elite spec will be unlocked the instant you enter Maguuma.

But then it also feels like that Anet never meant WvW to be something to be on the side like PvP, it feels like they ment WvW to be PvE… Becouse I would want WvW to be just like PvP, another game mode where everyone is level 80 and have everything from start, just like PvP but it is not. The point with HP and Specializations is that when we get more spec’s we have to unlock them with HP and in the end all the HP in WvW will not be enough and WvW players will probably need to go to PvE to farm HP anyway. If not… the whole HP thing is just rubbish.

As for dungeon players… Well c’mon, what am I then? Chat player? For the most I do is chat in Guild chat. We need to have hero points too for chatting! Dungeon is PvE thats all I say.

So anyway. Instead of insisting that you get everything for free, ask for Anet to make WvW seperate from PvE, no more Farming EotM to level to 80, no more worries that you wont afford a specialization, no more forced to farm ascended gear outside of WvW and more.

No, you need a system that works for everyone, no offense but giving people who do world completing an edge to people who don’t is not acceptable. I know people who have 1-2 hours a day max, and they are very worried that they will have to spend it doing world completion. Also they need to anounce how it will work, so people have time to prepare, right now this is still a rumor, we need to know.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Yes, give us everything from start!!! Why do we need to level from level 1-80? Play how you want ‘pshht’ rubbish! I want all my 12 characters maxed out becouse it is tedious to do it again and again and again becouse the game is all about maxed out characters and when I have maxed out characters I will start whining that there is only 1h content for this game!!!

Seriously though in my opinion I don’t mind havng Elite specs being behind a little wall of HP, it gives us something to aim for, a reason to go back and play on the old maps. I have 12 characters and most of them have over 80-90% map compleation. I play this game becouse I enjoy it and I enjoy every content of is (Accept southsun survival) so I play all the maps again as long as I enjoy it. It does not take a year to get your hero points and if you actually don’t try to finnish everything in a week you can maby enjoy the old content again. When I play old maps again I usually find people from my guild to play with or some new friends, it realy makes the experience better. Also it one more month before release of the game, instead of being AFK in LA and whining on the forums or whatever you do, go out and earn yourself some HP.

I got alot of HP, I want a reason to use them.

I understand your point, but the simple fact is, that you can’t earn HP by any form beyond 80 but doing the hero challenges, and i think it’s kittened up to expect a WvW player or someone who likes running dungeons allot more, to go and do all these hero challenges. Think beyond yourself for just one second and plz realise that to some people this will be a grind, while others unlock it with their natural gameplay. This is not good.

To be a fair system you need to be able to progress at the same rate, nobody is asking for instant acces. Altough you will probally have it, while some poor WvW player will have to grind PvE for it. If you want to lock it behind something make it so we can only start that progress at HoT, so everyone gets a clean start.

Chris McSwag.4683:

Grenth has typically been around for the winter season. They are clearing the gemstore this week to make place for winter stuff, so the hood might be back next week

That would be awesome, let’s hope for it.

Other races will have their special moments in their expansion, this makes it fun to replay the story at least once as a sylvari.

Also screaming bad design isn’t positive feedback if you can’t bring up 1 point why it is.
This only adds value and replayablility. And the non-sylvari characters get a more nearly racist toward sylvari narrative, as seen in the first mission, wich is just as interesting to me as Mordremoth speaking to me.

I don’t agree at all that waiting for HoT is the best course of action, right now is the perfect time to craft ascended gear. The main reason being the forge swap system. You do not have to worry about picking the wrong gear combo’s cause forge swapping your stats is easy and cheap.

However, ascended crafting materials will go up when hot comes out, from either players swapping mains or getting their revenants geared up and from players making new sets all together for raiding, if they haven’t made em yet. I’m personally busy crafting my revenant’s ascended gear atm because i really believe hot will inflate the mats in a very serious way. And don’t forget many accounts that have been inactive but with allot of gold on them (veterans who got burned out for a while) will come back and the trading post will have a tough time handling it.

Also, certain materials for ascended armor are TIME-gated, wich is something many people overlook. Crafting these mats every day will save you tons of gold in the long run. And don’t forget, if you want celestial for example, that is timegated in itself for the insignia. People tend to have the “wait and see” approach when crafting gear, but ascended gear is one of the items you DON’T want to do this with. Get to it.