Guild Wars 2

Just northwest of Barricade Camp Waypoint in the Hirathi Hinterlands, I had some level 42 coyotes kick my level 60 butt. After my wtf? moment, I realized I’m being downleveled to 37!

I understand the idea of keeping lower level areas challenging, but five levels under area mobs is a bit much.

Why in the world can’t they last for 24 hours?

Spread the population out over a day, and make sure everyone gets a reasonable chance to participate.

Everyone wins.

I was so excited that they were implementing level scaling for the weekend, so we could participate if we don’t have level 80 characters yet.

Looks like that only applies to the events, which run in the middle of the day, US time.

Yippee. Another event I’ll miss because I’m not a student, and don’t have max level characters yet.

Oh well, hopefully my personal story is fixed at least, so I can get back to it and finish up leveling. Hopefully that means I’ll have a level 80 for the next event.

When they say the greatest concurrency is at Noon, Pacific Time, I wonder just what percentage of the players are actually getting to enjoy these things.

To be fair to the OP, the Black Citadel is by far the most painful city to try and cap. The level screen that is present in other cities would be a great help.

But yeah, a quick google will turn up info on how to reach it.

I was playing with the PvP locker and was interested to find that all of the light armor includes the “buttcape” on the leg portion of the armor, while the medium armor includes it on the coat. Since you can preview gear you can’t actually wear, I was able to create some nice looks combining medium pants with light coats.

It’d be nice if we could actually do this with armor that one character can wear.

My mind is absolutely boggled that some people chose Kvothe as an example of a character with depth. It had been a long time since I had read something so full of stereotypes, shallow characters, and teenage boy wish fulfillment when I read Rothfuss’ two books on someone’s recommendation.

That aside, it’ll be a great day when an MMORPG can offer us truly deep stories. Single player can manage it, but it’s hard to imagine MMOs doing so in their current state.

ANet, please make sure Ascended level gear will also be craftable in the near future.

Thanks.

Doggie.3184:

“Humans are ugly.”

Well, they certainly aren’t that attractive. There’s something so bland about the options we have.

The Sylvari look a whole lot better.

DUAxWolff.2759:

• “I watch all the cut-scenes for all the vistas”

Um… I do.

At least the first time I do each one.

Nice, thanks.

Didn’t realize these details had been released.

ANet, I’m glad you are implementing the sidekicking system for this weekend event so that those of us who haven’t reached level cap can get to experience it. I have some questions.

1) Will sidekicking work for the new dungeon, or just the open world stuff in the new zone?

2) Do we need to be in a party with a level 80 friend, or will the level increase happen automatically when we enter the zone like in WvW?

3) How long will this be in effect? From server reset Thursday until reset on Sunday? Or a different time frame?

Thanks again!

Answer: “Try again later.”

It’s too early to tell, and you’re not going to get a serious discussion while everyone is up in arms about Ascended gear, which we only have sketchy details on.

Wait another six months to a year. When the game has matured and settled in, then we have a chance at a real discussion over whether they lived up to the manifesto or not.

IonicBlaze.7948:

Crafting is worthless now, because u cant craft the best things in the game anymore….why would anyone start crafting now? Uh, I see, just to blow up time and gold….

To level Alts from 1 to 80 while standing next to a crafting station.

I don’t like waypoint costs either.

But it does keep people out in the world. Enough of us are frugal so that we think twice about using waypoints, and hence are crossing territory we’d otherwise be skipping. On the way, we see events and participate that we otherwise would not.

So, aside from whether or not it is a good goldsink, it’s a good idea for the population of zones to encourage physically crossing them.

Or they could run the event chain for, say, 24 hours. There will still be people who can’t make it for whatever RL reason, but that should cover the vast majority of the player base.

The idea of special two hour only event chains seems self-indulgent at best. Like someone’s idea of protecting the story they want to tell, instead of maximizing fun for the most possible people.

ANet, have you applied your touchstone to this?

“Is it fun?”

For some. But, if designed differently, it could be fun for more.

ANet, please tell me that Ascended level gear will also be craftable and obtainable through WvW.

I like the idea of a power plateau, but I also understand that there is a huge segment of MMORPG players who need a steady power creep in order to continue returning to the game.

Just please, stick to your principle that max power gear should be attainable in a variety of ways. Don’t return us to the same-old MMO standard that the best gear is always in dungeons.

I get the same problem. I’m using Chrome, if it matters. I go directly to the log in page via bookmark, and get that error message for the first login. When I re-enter my log in information it works fine.

Is there any way to disable the quest as an option?

I took this quest today and am now stuck on my personal story. There’s no way I’m going to check the wiki and forums before I do every single story quest.

I understand bugs. They take time to fix. It’d be nice, though, if there was some way to steer people clear of the story quests that will completely stop your progress until they are fixed.

Haven’t read the entire thread, but just in case it was missed, this timing isn’t just bad for players from other continents. It’s also at probably the worst time in a weekend for people who attend religious services or spend Sunday afternoons as traditional family time in the US.

I realize that we are an increasingly small minority, but there is another segment of the population who will only get to watch it on YouTube.

The “spoilt” reasoning makes little sense. The event could be scheduled to run four to six times across the day, and anyone wanting to experience it fresh could avoid looking up spoiler videos.

Either way, those of us who can’t make Noon PDT are going to be watching it on YouTube. It’d be nice if ANet would let us experience it as well.

ANet, please take this into consideration for future events. I’m a huge fan of this game, and would love to enjoy your holiday events as much as I do the regular content.

Thanks!

Is there an official statement that we’ll be able to do the Mad King history quests next year?

I was disappointed when I got 11 of the twelve books, then found there wasn’t a reasonable way for me to get to the last one.

Even with an escort, it was too difficult to stay alive with random mob aggro, and I wasn’t going to make my escort resurrect me repeatedly across the zone, not to mention pay the repair costs (guess I could have stripped down for it).

I was disappointed that this is out of reach for lower level characters as well. A note at the beginning that later acts would take us into higher level areas would have been nice.

I’m not being antisocial, either. A higher level character offered to help, and I tried following him through Bloodtide Coast. In the southern portion, however, the groups of risen would kill me very quickly. I didn’t want to put my guide through the hassle of having to rez me every time we aggroed some mobs.

Perhaps there’s a better route through the area, or a way to keep aggro off of me, but I haven’t been through this area, so I wouldn’t know.

I suppose if I could find a large group, it might be possible to hide within as we cross a zone fifteen levels above mine, but I haven’t found the spot where the zerg train leaves to cross Bloodtide Coast.

If there had been some kind of indication that his would go into high level zones, I would have just shrugged it off and done other things rather than wasting my time on the first 11 books.

Not trolling. Not angry. Just a little disappointed. I love the game, but this Halloween event has been pretty “meh” for me. I have gotten a decent quantity of silver in my purse for selling off candy corn and plastic teeth, at least.

OP, are we playing the same game?

I only have level 40-something toons and I steamroll lower level content even with downscaling.

It’s two months old.

Variety will come as the game matures.

Agreed. I will never spend money in the cash shop for the chance to get something. If I’m going to spend real money, I want to know exactly what I’m getting for it.

The more items in the CS that involve RNG, the less likely I am to give ANet more of my money.

It will never cease to make me smile when people state that they have “worked hard” in a video game.

Dear ANet,

I love the game. I consider the box price money well spent.

I will not, however, buy A) character bound, B) consumable, or C) random chance items from your Cash Shop. I don’t want to put down real money that I A) will lose if I delete a character to make another, B) will enjoy for only thirty minutes, or C) only have a chance of getting something worthwhile.

The more A) account bound, B) permanent or renewable at NPC, and C) get what you pay for items you add to the Cash Shop, the more likely you are to receive additional revenue from me.

Signed,

A loyal customer

Town Clothes

• Please add an option we can toggle so that our character always appears in town clothes while in cities.
• Make it so that falling damage no longer switches us from town clothes to armor.

I like the concept of town clothes, but at the moment I find myself constantly having to change back whenever I go over a slightly too large drop.

I’m really enjoying the White Stag quest line. I loved the character of Gavin. At the end of Black Night, White Stag, after the duel, he has a poignant death scene, saying something about how he will now return to the dream.

The pathos of the moment was kind of undermined, however, when one of the nameless NPCs who watched the duel blurted out something like, “Glad that’s over!” in the middle of his last words.

Might want to turn off the random NPC chatter during that moment.

Thanks for the detailed write-up.

While the FoV doesn’t make me nauseous, I do feel like I can’t see enough of the world most of the time. Your point about aspect ratio made me resize my window in windowed mode, creating a significant letterbox, and that helped a great deal. The problem, of course, is that it shrinks everything to the point where I can barely read the text.

A wider FoV would be greatly appreciated, especially given how beautiful this game is. Funny that in recent times media is tending more and more toward a panoramic aspect ratio, but ANet has given us such a restrictive view of the awesome world they created.

Increasing the pan out distance on the camera, as you pointed out, is a bandaid that doesn’t really adress the problem, and it adds the problem that I can see even less detail on my toon, which is disappointing given the well designed armors and animations. I would love to get in a lot closer to my toon if I could see the world around him better.