Guild Wars 2

As you know, Halloween is coming to Tyria! We’re doing all sort of things to celebrate this most wonderful time of the year, including the Shadow of the Mad King event, dev visits, and a Community Showcase Live show on October 28 featuring seasonal fan art of all kinds.

If you’re the creative type, please consider sharing your Halloween or fall art on this sub-forum or on our Tumbler page. (If submitting on Tumblr, please use “GW2 Fan Submission” so we have permission to feature your work on the show.)

The CSL show will air at Noon on October 28, but most featured art must be selected before October 23. Please show us your best stuff, and in turn, we’ll show the best of the best on CSL!

Amelia Brigita.3940:

Over on the GW2 Fashion subreddit (/r/GuildWarsDyeJob/) we are hosting a costume contest and we would sure love to see as many spooky and creative entries as possible…come see ;p It’s not an in-game event, exactly, but I KNOW many of us will be showing off our creations in Lions Arch.

The Mad King’s Masquerade:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWarsDyeJob/comments/3ngzed/the_mad_kings_masquerade_costume_contest/

That sounds like a ton of fun, Amelia Brigita — we love seeing all those creative outfits!

Blaeys.3102:

Awesome.

My guild is planning our annual Halloween party and in game costume contest on the night of Monday the 26th, but I will talk to them during missions next week and see if they want to move it to the 30th.

It’ll be up to them though. I suspect many will have real world plans on a Friday night just before Halloween.

If you’re planning, I probably should mention that we’ll have some team members active during EU daytime hours, and the studio will have some reps active during daytime NA hours, with the primary hours being 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Friday, October 30.

Mightybird.6034:

Thanks Gaile, I agree some of this negativity is completely uncalled for.

Confused though, is this post saying that the decorations and such are going up today/soon? As I thought we already knew Halloween was coming (was I assuming that?)

Oh sorry for any confusion! No, the decorations and such do not go up today. I’m simply playing Herald. Well, not really — I’m playing Ranger, but you know what I mean.

The blog comes next week, and it’ll have dates and details. This post was just to get the word out that we’ll try to participate in some player-hosted in-game events, in addition to doing some of our own. In other words, to invite guilds and groups and individuals to let us know what they have planned so we can try to stop by.

Hidori.3472:

Oh boy… HoT and Halloween at the same time.
ANet, you’re killing me!

Glad I have a 3 weeks vacation to nolife the kitten out of it XD

You are a wise person, Hidori.

Ayrilana.1396:

Any plans to do a blog in the very near future so we know what to expect for the Haloween release?

Yes. There will be a blog and an event page soon. You’ll have a whole bunch of details then.

Firelysm.4967:

I hope you guys will join EU as well, and not leave us out like every year :S Come visit us!

BrotherBelial.3094:

See you ANet guys in LA, if you come to the EU servers. I’ll be the guy throwing eggs and TPing(I have 2 stacks of each from last Halloween ^^)

That’s definitely the plan! I mean coming to LA on the EU servers — not getting pelted with eggs.

Hey all,

Just heard from the team and wanted to give you an update:

At this time, we expect there will be no changes to the guild mission reset time before launch of Heart of Thorns. We’re investigating the connection between guild mission reset times and raids reset times, and we will know more in the upcoming weeks.

For now, count on the guild reset to take place as normal on Saturday evening Pacific time. We apologize for any inconvenience that our previous message may have caused.

Back at you when we have any further info on this in the future.

Update for clarity: You do not need to post your submissions on Tumblr. I’ve given the tag in case you wish to do so there, but you are free to post here. Posting in our forum gives us the permission we need to be able to feature you on a future Community Showcase Live show. So please, artists and creators, use whichever medium is best for you. Or both!

We love fan art! Whether it’s a drawing or a piece of sculpture, home décor or jewelry, a plushy, piece of fan fiction, creative screenshot, or full-out cosplay costume, we want to see it here!

Our Community Creations forum is designed to showcase your talents! And, this forum is also a way for us to review your work for possible inclusion in our new livestream program: Community Showcase Live. Community Showcase Live debuted at TwitchCon in September 2015. In each monthly episode, we’ll be highlighting as many community creations as possible.

So please share your work here! It’s best to create a new thread for each piece, so that forum members can comment on your work.

We look forward to seeing – and highlighting — what you’ve created!

You guys are cracking us up with these! More! More!!

Irenio mentioned that he’s looking for current (October 5, 2015) feedback on Druid bugs in this thread.

Thank you, everyone, for participating in BWE #3. We appreciate your participation very much. Please give your feedback here in the forums — the devs look forward to reading it!

Thank you for taking part in BWE #3. The test is now ended, and the devs will be reviewing your feedback!

Halvorn.9831:

Well ok, then here’s a bug report. Went to Mists on my beta chars, placed loot in my regular account bank, logged to a non-beta char, retrieved items, soldd on TP.

I wasn’t even aware that this was not intended. I just thought TP was disabled on beta chars so they could not buy things from gem store that would be lost when they are purged.

Thanks for this bug report, Halvorn. I’ve forwarded it to the devs.

Can anyone else confirm that they were able to sell items in the manner described above? Thank you.

We’ve gotten a lot of valuable information from the testing this weekend, including your first dip into Raid content. Thanks for participating in BWE #3. We will be switching off the extended beta test at Noon, and will look forward to continued input as you wrap up your sessions.

Thanks again!

In preparation for the launch of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, our Game Operations Team will be conducting maintenance on both our European and North American servers. The maintenance is unlikely to cause any gameplay issues, but a small number of players may be required to log back into the game at the conclusion of the update.

The maintenance is scheduled as follows:

• European Servers: 7:00 PM PDT on October 7 / 4:00 AM CET on October 8
• North American Servers: 11:59 PM PDT on October 7 / 8:59 AM CET on October 8

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?

Sharkey.9805:

There were reset issues that were addressed in Tuesday’s patch, right? Maybe this has something to do with it?

I believe that was a different kind of reset, but I could be mistaken.

Clerigo — you make a really good suggestion. I think broadening the audience of our request is a good idea. I’ll post about our future plans and our hopes for even more cool fan-created art over in GW2 Discussion.

AegisRunestone — at this time, hosting fan fiction isn’t something we will be doing unless it was extremely brief, like a short poem or a short short story. But sure, Lizzie and I can discuss fan fiction as a possibility down the road. Thanks for asking.

It was lovely to see you, Diego. Hope to meet up again in the future!

Thanks for the reports, and I’m checking into this. It was my understanding there would be no reset yesterday (Saturday, 3 October) but my guildies and you folks are stating that a reset did take place.

Sending an e-mail on this now. Thanks again for letting us know. (Obviously I don’t have any information on this matter at this time; will fill you in when I get some details.)

ABRAVECABBAGE.7618:

Back in! Thanks Anet:)

Robotmoxie.4025:

Whoa, speak of the devil- my patience paid off. I’m finally back in!

Best of luck to all of you. Waiting’s no fun. Just try to stay positive, okay? See you ingame.

Glad to hear that. Thanks for reporting it — it gives hope to others who also are waiting.

I think I should point something out: The game is not down. We’re not having a game outage here. It’s true that some players are not able to join, but the game is still accessible — I’m in it now. It is, for some players, not available, that’s true. And we regret that very much.

Anyway, while I appreciate people pointing out we’ve had very little down time in our history, and that’s very true, this isn’t down time, in the true definition of the word. Just had to say.

Manny.9368:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey Barsity — the beta is for everyone. We’re sorry that there’s an issue and that it may be impacting your evening, but the team is working hard to get this fixed, and after all, that’s why we’re having beta tests. I guess we just need to ask the patience of all players — beta and otherwise — to get this just right.

Many thanks to Chris for posting to update you guys!

I agree, thanks to Chris for keeping us updated.

But in terms of beta, applying a patch update on the most important time for many players (WvW Reset) is not the best idea to go with. With any beta you can expect errors, especially errors with people not being able to play. So it would probably be best to save the beta test for earlier in the day on fridays.

Thanks for the feedback, but the beta began at mid-day studio time. We didn’t just kick it off after dinner.

Hey Barsity — the beta is for everyone. We’re sorry that there’s an issue and that it may be impacting your evening, but the team is working hard to get this fixed, and after all, that’s why we’re having beta tests. I guess we just need to ask the patience of all players — beta and otherwise — to get this just right.

Many thanks to Chris for posting to update you guys!

Pithus.7598:

It worked. I closed the game entirely, and waited 10 mins, came back in the game and wasnt stuck in a raid again

Thanks for sharing that tip, Pithus — very helpful.

There are some issues. More info here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Raids-Temporarily-Off-line/5559923

I think this may apply: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Raids-Temporarily-Off-line/5559923

We are experiencing issues with the enhanced Squad UI that is having an impact on other areas of the game. Due to this issue, we are temporarily disabling the UI. This will subsequently impact the ability for players to enter raids.

We will be working to address this issue as quickly as possible and will reinstate the UI and raid functionality as soon as we can do so.

Ok, soooo… ~looks around with stern countenance~

You guys were just trying to jump the gun a wee bit, eh? Maybe were at the log-in screen and hopped? But now, all is well? You can make a beta character, hmmmmm?

Glad to hear it. I’ll have to make this up somehow to the half a gazillion people I was pinging about this.

I’m glad you’re in now. Have fun!

Guys — I’m pinging eleven hundred devs so help me out:

Can you create a new Beta Character now?

Thanks!

Edit: Ok, not eleven hundred devs. I just had a bout of Hyperbolic Flu there.

Well holy cow! Let me look into this!

The third and final Beta Weekend Event is now live.

See ya in the game!

Hey all,

Thanks for your constructive feedback on this subject. A few things I wanted to share:

• I know of at least one designer who was awake and reading your thoughts until 2:00 AM this morning. As promised, you are being heard…err… read.
• We need to do a moderator pass (not me, but a moderator or two) on this thread to take off a few of the nastier comments. There’s “salt” and there’s “really nasty” and I think all of us know the diff. We do not censor negative commentary. You’re welcome to say what you feel as long as it’s presented in a helpful and non-aggressive, non-insulting manner. But there seem to be a few comments that need to be removed, as they appear to cross the line. (Their removal will not change the content or the value of this thread in any way whatsoever.) Please know that the mods have been given strict instructions to only remove things that are truly a breach of the Forum CoC.
• One of our Forum Specialists, Wolfey, kindly put together a report last night, and we thank him for taking the time to do that. The devs are reading directly, but the report can help, too, so we’re glad to have that in hand.

You are welcome to continue to share your input and thank you for doing so in a helpful way.

And this is a fantastic thread. Constructive, detailed, thoughtful, well expressed.

Thank you all.

panda the chop chop.4712:

Alright well let’s discuss, a full explanation in complete detail in why these changes were made, why was ranger boons were discussed on Twitter rather than the ranger community to begin with, why was the inherent issues of “boon duration” discussed via Twitter only to have two side changes made on top of those durations made without announcement ANYWHERE?
I hope you understand how disrespected and shocked many of of us are, hundreds? Thousands of us. I hope you realize that some of them don’t want to stand up but that’s why those of us who will fight for those who can’t are right here to stand up against this unjust treatment. We diserve better than a Twitter feed.
IGN: Itspanda

All this has already been asked and answered. Closed. NOT because we’re trying to stop discussion, but because we’re trying to make the most of everyone’s time and efforts in sharing their thoughts.

kevvy.5081:

Mcrocha.3891:

Look at all the red posts. Let this night go down in history as The Ranger Riots of 1328 AE.

And rightly so.

Nothing will turn eyes away faster than a riot. Don’t even go there! (Even if you were kidding, which I hope you were. )

Let’s provide actual, gameplay-based feedback and look for changes in the future. But let’s not post to be rude, comment to add nothing, or repeat endlessly the same reactions. Give details, give solid input, that’s what we should do. And yes, “we” includes… me!

Curious: I’m still at work. Have you guys played with WHaO yet since the change? I’ll be trotting out my Ranger tonight, but I wondered if you’re basing your thoughts on statistics — which I can respect — or on playtime — which also is valuable.

We have forums for a reason. While Twitter is great for a lot of things, for something of this depth, you can’t have a meaningful discussion at 140 characters.

If you have feedback, place it here. Don’t ping devs on Twitter or other places — just share your thoughts here!

Just verifying that this thread is being read by the developers. I know it’s long, and there’s a lot of detail here, but thank you for participating!

Proto — if you’re in the other thread, would you mind if I close this one, to focus the conversation?

Yay — the thread is revived! Thanks for understanding, everyone!

Kitty.1502:

Gail why do the devs dislike ranger? Is there a way we can get a dev to have more interaction with the community so that we can get this class fixed?

Kitty — you can’t believe that! If there’s a dev who provably “hates” Rangers, I’ll hunt him down and TP his desk! I’ll put Honey Nut Cheerios in his burrito! I’ll wreak havoc every way from Sunday!

I have talked to Irenio a lot, and I’ll continue to talk to him. And I’ll talk to, wave my hands in the air, and natter with any other dev who wants to get the feedback of a not-very-good-but-absolutely-passionate Ranger.

Thank you for remaking, Shadelang. (And again, I’m sorry for the mis-merging!)

xarallei.4279:

I really wish they’d talk to us. On here and not on twitter. Communication is something desperately needed.

Yes, talking here is much more valuable, and I believe this is where the meaningful discussion will take place.

oshilator.4681:

What guarantee do we have that they’ll read any of this?

Because one of the key designers stood at my desk 20 minutes ago and told me. I trust him. I hope you trust me enough to know I wouldn’t say this if it wasn’t true: This thread will be read.

But again, constructive is the key, and I’m hoping that people won’t continue to flare, but will give good, substantive feedback.

Edit to add: Many of the comments are constructive and valuable. Didn’t mean to suggest otherwise.

Shadelang.3012:

…Id like to dispute my thread being merged into this one. As it was on the subject of the other shout utilities and NOT on heal as one. Is there a way for me to request that it be re-seperated?

Yes! I apologize — I didn’t realize that. Could you please point out your initial post? Or could you simply post a new thread with a title such as “Shout Utility Discussion” so that I don’t make that mistake again.

I’m very sorry for my error.