Guild Wars 2

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Clearly old news by now but this instance is STILL bugged as of 15/8/15
Its even more annoying for me because I was trying to do the No Tricks achievement which makes the whole instance take waaay longer. I was having fun going back through the older chapters finishing off the achievements I didn’t get previously but this seriously put a damper on that

well thanks for the replies everyone, I tried a bunch of the stuff mentioned and what ended up doing the trick for me is doing the entrance in 2 jumps (landing on a little rock on the left side and then finishing the jump).

Is there a trick to entering this place because it honestly seems like surviving the entrance is random and it infuriates me.

love the new city and think that the new jp and karka hunt were both fun and amazing at getting me to explore it. hope you guys do more stuff like that in the future.

also another little note, that system you have for the karka hunt where you can actually see which ones you are missing could be really beneficial with the other similar map wide hunts.

seems like a decision has been made somewhere to trick people into playing southsun survival by syncing it with the activity daily. apart from one for sanctum sprint it seems it is always synced with southsun survival q_q

I’m expecting we will find out the exalted are mursaat. The idea that it could be margonites is an interesting one but I don’t think it fits with the definition for the word exalted although it seems spot on if you apply it to the mursaat.

Stop being intolerant OP, I don’t see how this affects you negatively at all, nor does it harm the GW2 experience to have a bit of LGBT representation.

i think there may have been stuff intended for him in the gw beyond stuff but when that project was cancelled any of those left over ideas were left unfinished. i think if thats the case then perhaps he had descendants and the rest of that story could be told through them in gw2

on the one hand the short stories were cool but on the other i hate that people have to go to a billion different places to get all the lore for the game, it would be much much much (etc) better if they could find a way to put it all in game.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

BlueOcean.5380:

From what I can see, many changes (such as mega server, NPE) are revenue risks due to mega server being hardship to some player community, NPE dismantling immersion.

Community and immersion were original GW2 visions. I believe those great visions should be kept up, rather than eroded.

One suggestion: Instead of mega server, NPE, GW2 may do better to develop a new race or 3 that will meet Chinese folklore themes. Such as 1) Chinese mythology, 2) middle age Chinese history, 3) Chinese martial arts and/or swordsman fantasy figures. New professions can be more kungfu/Chinese swordsman based.

Make those beautiful swordsmen. Lean and mean kungfu boxers, even (Japanese) ninja/assassin. No WoW kungfu panda. :P Oh ok cute panda race if you want. :P WoW panda toons look dumb though to me. Your mileage may vary!

(Did you have a stroke while typing that last paragraph?)

Honestly, there isn’t any need for this. If they really wanted to cater to the Chinese audience so hard, they could just give us Cantha in a future expansion. Or, you know, send Canthan ambassadors with new oriental ARMORS (NOT OUTFITS) and weapon types because the main obstacle preventing trade between Tyria and Cantha was Zhaitan, and we kind of eliminated that roadblock. One would expect a delay in communication, but if it goes on for too long, this could get downright immersion breaking.

that was the barrier preventing tyria from communicating with cantha but from the sounds of it cantha is a xenophobe nation now and doesnt want to communicate with anywhere else.

tyria has other interests at the moment (mordremoth) and they could also probably explain lack of attempts to communicate with cantha via the deep sea dragon.

i dont think rytlock was the first revenant storywise, same way there are probably still lore monks there could just as easily be lore revenants that existed prior to the player being able to create a character that was a revenant.

if it happened would not be opposed to it but it doesnt seem like a good fit

they could just change it so that the distance the fall scream triggers at now is taken from the floor upwards and so long as you have more than that much space between you and the ground or your hang glider is open the scream will not happen. they could also work in an exception for the case you are unable to use your glider (because you already exhausted stamina for it or you havent unlocked it yet) and voila problem solved

where the heck is this revenant = undead bs coming from? i dont think its true at all.

the way they have worded it i am not even convinced they are summoning the dead

wont those players have terrible rating and therefore if you are any good you dont really have anything to worry about?

op you should pay attention to whats going on in terms of gw2 news, if you did that then you would have had an idea this might happen.

an expansion has been announced and one of the things the expansion will give us is a guaranteed way to get precursors. the best you can hope for as a seller is that the resulting precursors and legendary weapons will not be sellable to the trading post; the supply will not go up but the demand may still go down if people have a guaranteed way to work towards them on their own. if on the otherhand the precursors and legendaries created via this guaranteed method are tradable then the supply will go up as well as the demand going down. either way this leads to the price likely dropping a fair bit.

as a seller you will want to get the most money possible and this means selling before the expansion. unless you had inside information then the earliest you could have known this was at the same time everyone else found out so you have to assume that people who have been holding on to legendaries and precursors are going to put them on the market during that window as well.

long story short, this was not random so you could have seen it coming IF you paid attention.

was just thinking it would be nice if we could at a glance see how many skins we have unlocked total and how many left to unlock, perhaps with a filter to include or exclude gem store skins. once you get the 1000 skin achievement the only way as far as i know is to go through and add it all up yourself

at the very least they need to make a stronger effort to keep these event chains from being bugged, the CoF event chain was bugged a couple weeks back on at least 1 server

well not just because it was the most expensive item, but if it was something i wanted then yeah probably. i cant be stuffed most of the time with investing gold and its really not too difficult to get back up to a workable sum reasonably quick

dietzero.3514:

pdavis.8031:

Yamsandjams.3267:

Wanze.8410:

Rauderi.8706:

I’m sure others like Wanze will rip your statement wide open

I stopped reading when he wrote that Anet is retracting items from the economy.

Yes, that confused me as well. I’m not sure what proof the OP has of such things, as I have observed the opposite to be true (i.e. Silverwastes and Dry Top chests, PvP reward tracks, ascended material recyclers, &c.).

And not to mention a wider range of exotics and an increased chance for precursors from the forge. It’s now easier than ever to get items, even rare ones.

I believe he meant their nerfs to farming.

the way i see it their nerfs to farming help to discourage playing repetitively (i.e. running around repeating the same content over and over (events or enemies))
not convinced they have the balance right just yet but its way better than it was at launch

to a point you can consistently buy bag space with gold (up to getting decked out with 20 slot bags), also saying inb4 does not invalidate what you say afterwards, even though it is less consistent you can buy extra bag slots and bank space with gold via currency conversion to gems

well fractals can show alternate timelines, if channeling a legend actually requires channeling someone dead they could always go to that idea (jalis died in an alternate time)

i dont see the point of branching personal stories when they converge upon the same ending regardless. I also dont see how its really a viable choice for them not to have everyone on the same page at the end of the personal story

Rytlock is the first npc that we know became a revenant, that doesn’t mean he was the first revenant.

if someone else does all the work involved to make a vr headset setup viable this kind of product would make a good combination

well at the worst it may put you slightly behind the curve (assuming unlocking the mastery tracks to the max will require all mastery points) but to be honest that seems fair enough to me.

When you think about it though, if there are whole portions of content you don’t like doing there’s a possibility that perhaps there are mastery tracks for that content so you could either ignore those tracks, or unlock them first to make getting the mastery points from that content a little easier.

Linken.6345:

Luck hardly drop at all stop salvaging mate only rare festivals that drop luck.

That presumes luck is the only reason you would salvage blues and greens, and that salvaging blues and greens is the only way you get luck. at a minimum you will get it as a daily login reward multiple times in a month and if you ever salvage ecto for crystalline dust you will get large amounts of it as well.

If you need clarifying on what the issue is – there is currently very little use for luck essence after you reach the account bound luck cap. It is a valid issue and it is not helpful at all to downplay it just because it is not affecting you personally right now.

coglin.1867:

What do I do with all my extra gold?

I have thousands of gold I have no immediate need for. You demand they invest development time into creating an NPC especially for you. I demand they take a developer away from insignificant ventures such as a luck vendor, and add a specific one for my needs that has rare items that are exclusive to those with excess gold.

Those are nowhere near the same thing. Gold is the main currency in the game, there are tonnes of sinks for it and in fact that isn’t a whole lot that can’t be obtained via Gold. There are also plenty of things that Karma can be used for as well as an item to help eat up excess karma (karmic converter).

On the otherhand luck drops like crazy and has very few uses, especially in comparison to the other currencies you mentioned. It is a real problem that will become more and more prevalent as more people start reaching the luck cap.

Simple solution imo would be for them to make an item that eats luck like they have for bloodstone dust and empyreal fragments (and seem likely to do for dragonite ore eventually).

Other solutions they could make a unique weapon/armor set that requires large amounts of luck to create or make it part of an alternate recipe to try and make clovers

Games copy or take inspiration from other games all the time (could substitute with other types of media too). It is not inherently bad as you are implying.

Also, seems to me like they are picking and choosing the elements of a typical moba game that they think works best in a guild wars 2 setting rather than just copy >>>> paste and that really is the best way to do it.

I know its still a couple weeks away but if you guys know (or know when you will know) can you release that info? The sooner you do, the sooner I can do a time conversion to NZ time and start getting my body ready for it

I knew that already because I paid attention previously but still…… SCYTHES!!!!!!!(times infinity)

Is what you’re saying TC that because it is so accessible to casuals that you get your a handed to you all the time and for that reason you wish it to be less accessible? Because thats what it sounds like. If you were such a pro it wouldnt matter what they did balance wise, you would figure an attack plan and a counter plan and keep on keeping on

Roxx.8713:

Specialization= New Masterie system ??
If it is so, isnt it just a pve thing

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/reimagining-progression-the-mastery-system/ ??

No mastery is further character progression, a continuation of progression after traits. I do think it will be limited to pve since they already have something of its like for wvw and it would unlevel the playing field for pvp.

Specialisations are about variety and are being compared to the secondary profession you could have in gw1.

Personally I think if they find it being too unbalanced they could always disable specialisations in pvp while they sort it out

i didnt see any mention of buying defense units or upgrades so if one team is focusing 100% on defense then they will stay at the same level of effectiveness. On the otherhand the attack team could run supply for building units and do the channel to get heroes increasing their level of effectiveness meaning they would likely win in the end. Add to that the fact that once a defense unit dies its done with no replacement coming then even a failed attack could chip away at the defenses side.

Unless there are some bits of info missing I don’t see full focus on defense being a viable option for victory.

On the one hand yes I want this but on the other you have to be careful to set conditions for it or else people are going to use it for trolling and win trading

I came to the forums to make this request as well, I am quite meh about the current pvp mode (conquest) but on the otherhand love MOBA gameplay and the fact that ANET has taken inspiration from that and seemingly done it quite well has me very excited.

I am very keen to play stronghold in pvp but would rather not have to deal with conquest at the same time, also I am very doubtful custom arenas will be a valid workaround if more than a few people share the same mindset because all the spots will fill too quickly.

Please (times infinity) make it a separate queue so that people who want to play stronghold can play stronghold and people who want to play conquest can play conquest. I suspect these may not be the same crowds of people in any case outside of a bit of overlap.

aww thats not fair if thats medium armor, apparently shes a warrior, i was hoping i would be able to equip that getup on my guardian

Hi just met this character (link below) in game and thought the armor looked nice, does anyone know if its obtainable by the player and if so what it is called?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agent_Ifwyn

well theres a couple of undead chicken minis

LucosTheDutch.4819:

Malediktus.3740:

I heared WvW will be removed from map exploration

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2v20dl/less_to_explore_in_hot/

Cool. When will PvE be removed from map exploration? I mean I loathe PvE so it would be super sweet if Anet would also cater to me – a WvW/PvP player – for a change.

Exploration is a mainly PVE thing, it doesnt make sense for it to include WvW since that is a competitive mode and if you are exploring there rather than competing you are dragging down your team.

:O you don’t like jps…… pop

Lore masterys first most definitely (although i will at least start the hang gliding one so i can give that a go. the sooner i can get to the point where i unlock those collections, the sooner i can start working on them. next one to master after that will be precursor crafting, same reason

BilboBaggins.5620:

I will first master the willpower to ignore this expansion. All I see is content gating and gear score in the guise of “mastery”. I’m not telling you what to do, but I’ll be steering clear of this.

what do you expect, its a paid expansion of course its going to be gated. if i were you i wouldnt go making sweeping statements about how you’re going to steer clear whether you are trolling or not because i suspect if you like this game at all you will end up getting it and have to eat your words.

screw pr guys anet should hire people in the community to talk about their game, i just watched wooden potatoes vid which took the same footage from the point of interest vid and made it sound quite exciting. from only watching that vid i didnt walk away with any of the complaints ive seen in this topic

well i would be surprised if the new wvw map was locked

ok first thing, i did NOT buy the keys because I didnt have enough gems because they are not priced according to the way you can acquire gems (a hot dog and bun situation).

kindly please take your rng gripes to a separate topic

Tom Gore.4035:

How is that 300 extra gems “useless”?

Also, you could buy a 2000 gem card and purchase the remaining 100 gems with gold (approximately 15 gold).

its useless because in this case (wanting to buy keys) it would require buying more gems to get the best value, same scenario for your second point (buying them with gold). bundles are supposed to be for convenience as well and I’m just posting to say from my pov level of convenience here = not very.

Just came to say I think it is incredibly rude for the bundle of black lion keys to cost 2100 gems. If you buy by prepaid card as I do then you end up with either 2000 gems (not enough) or 2*1200=2400 (with a useless 300 gems).

Please keep in mind what people would be buying gems in when setting pricing because now if I want to buy the 25 bundle I would first have to get another 100 gems

Its selfish of me but I am happy for this, if people who dont buy the expansion get everything anyway whats the point of buying it (other than hopefully an awesome revenant rytlock statue)

Zero Day.2594:

psizone.8437:

Well I’m sure there’ll be some free feature packs eventually and the living story should continue, too.
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Actually kind of curious how the living story will continue without touching the expansion for the expansion-less people.

That might just be a case of too bad for you if you dont have HoT, that stuff happened and the story will move on regardless. Its not exactly the same thing but that is the situation with season 1 of the living story.

facepalm
It took me right up until reading the first post of this topic to disconnect in my mind the idea that the rifle was a shotgun. I saw previously people saying something thief specialisation could be sniper and I was thinking how the heck can you be a sniper with a shotgun. Of course that was never even the question though x_x