Guild Wars 2

CureForLiving.5360:

On the one hand sure (although I haven’t read any of them… probably should see if they’re even available around here). Although I’d caution against what Blizzard did, you know where most of the story progression happened in novels and not in the game leaving a lot of player confused and uncertain.

if they carry on how they were doing the books previously that wont be an issue (filling in events that happened prior to the game)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_story

Septemptus.7164:

nacario.9417:

Im usually silent on these forums but I noticed quite a stirr the last mount where some claimed misfortune due to lack of “veteran content” in this feature pack, that most catered to new players.
While many of the changes benefits the veteran players as well, I saw to or three threads where devs actually responded stating that this “veteran content” would be highlighted in later blog posts (that it would “appease the masses”), possibly last or this week? Have these blogs been posted, is this type of content/additions revealed?

Well if this feature pack was mostly for the new players and probably because a lot of people were working on China releases.
The changes for the vets were in week 3 and they weren’t strong. No one can argue with that.

I think that next feature back will be more for Veterans since they need to balance need and stuff they work on.

i disagree, the trading post 2.0 and the the new collection system seem like very strong positive veteran additions to me.

i think it is much to late to be giving comments on what it should be and too early to be giving feedback as we havent seen it in action yet.

wp on youtube has apparently played the latest patch and is excited for it so that and the blog posts is enough for me to be excited as well

i believe it will be like skins, if you put them in the wardrobe they are bound and you wont be able to forge them. the special ones if we go by how it is now they want you to buy 2 sets of the normals, 1 to forge for the special one and the other set to have, i see no reason this would change.

Yes my only complaint is that I think I should be able to get them first time through, I think the reason is they want us to focus on the story the first time but I feel like that choice should be mine.

pretty sure they said they will announce when soon after the feature pack rolls out, my best guess would be november but like i said its a guess.

Change is of course necessary but that doesn’t mean it should always be negative.

For example whats going on in orr with trahearnes purification

my fave was southsun kasmeer but changed to tequatl once i got that, its just a much cooler mini

yes please, i have bought read and loved all the books put out for gw2 so far. i cant get enough of the guild wars universe and would definitely be into more books, especially if they were written by ree soesbee (sea of sorrow was my favorite)

well birthday blaster wise i dont know how this would work but for all other food they could just make it a chef or mystic forge recipe to combine the primer and a food item.

I think with searching and filtering being a lot easier to do people may find their secret markets drying up

rojak.1894:

kittening giant eyes went up like a rocket.

that’ll be at least in part due to a post on guildwars2tradingpost website

Sampo.9678:

I believe in John Smith, i’m sure he thought this through.

if not though they could just tweak drop rates to balance it out and not tell anyone they are doing it

i like the living story i just think there needs to be a better balance between the gem store and other methods of acquiring new skins

year is good enough for me

i dont want interplayer trading. defend it all you like but the fact of the matter is that in gw1 being able to trade player to player lead to way too much chat spam, thats almost all i ever saw.

perhaps a better alternative might be to lower the tp fee if you are filling a buy order

fishing would be cool

the raccoon achievement is the last one i need, i was wondering if anyone had any tips with finding the burglar.

also say it has 5 spawn points in a zone is there always going to be a chest at least at one of them or do i have that going against me as well?

cheers

oxtred.7658:

Blude.6812:

Wah!!! WTG buyer! No sympathy what so ever!!1

Seriously though ANet needs to make it a bannable offence for for both sellers and buyers.

Please tell me what’s wrong with soloing a path, I’m listening.

soloing a path is fine but to me the whole idea of buying and selling dungeon runs is cheap and discourages people from actually trying to do it

Vol.7601:

The mini collector buyers continue to be the one group I simply do not understand.

~gotta catch em all pokemon (mini pets) ~

i hope it gets rebuilt but different as well, in the same way they used the boats to make the buildings previously they can use scarlets debris this time round

heres how i would want it to go down

*mordremoth gets a hold of whatever item the zephyrite leader has, gets more powerful and spreads its vines all throughout the depths of tyria

*primordus is forced to retreat

*fort trinity gets expanded and becomes a city

*large areas of zhaitans corruption are cleared up, and there are much smaller pockets of risen

• all of a sudden large amounts of destroyer mobs move in and we find out that primordus has moved to the ring of fire

AngelDiscarnate.5489:

If they’re your most played characters, wouldn’t they be closest to the left anyway? O_o¿

Unless you do a lot of bouncing from alt to alt, they should be right where you need them to be? o_O¿

if you have several mules you would be bouncing from alt to alt

nexxe.7081:

They seem to be abandoning underwater content. They recently removed the SPvP map that had underwater combat. It’s sad, because GW2 has some of the best underwater combat and exploration in the genre.

well i dont think underwater combat is balanced very well for pvp, certain professions would currently have major advantages which would force pvpers to restrict themselves to those specific professions when the situation came up

kult.3465:

You are mad.

What has contaminated gw2 is a sense of entitlement.

Gem store is there to provide convenience to players, and income for devs.

No one is forcing you to use it.

the concern is that when it comes to new cosmetic items and such the scales skew heavily in favor of the gem store.

in regards to the game yeah i am happy with it and eagerly await content updates
in regards to the upcoming feature pack its not a matter of not being happy with it as the changes mostly seem positive its a matter of not being excited for it. when something is hyped up it should be exciting.

edit
also just saw the post above mine once mine was posted but seriously /facepalm guy i really dont understand how people haven’t gotten the message yet, anet does not really talk about things that are not close to being put into the game. SAB will not be back in the near future is not the same as saying it will not be back ever.

we KNOW there is an elder dragon in the water (referred to as the deep sea dragon or bubbles) and a mysterious race the largos whom we will definitely be learning more about at some point. i figure when we do move in that direction all things underwater related will be revamped but until anet are ready to put that much time and effort into it they shouldnt bother with small changes that don’t really do a lot

what i got from that vision was mursaat city, glints baby and mordremoths champion, the rest i put down to style and attribute no plot significance.

it would make sense for there to be a mursaat city (probably abandoned) as we head more towards the isle of janthir which was supposedly their area, could find something there to help fight mordremoth

was wondering myself, had no idea americans celebrated labor day on the wrong day (its actually the 4th monday of october, at least if you are in nz lol)

well then perhaps they should do that, might make the item worthwhile, would provide a sink for silver ore and it would work with the idea of it being called a silver fed salvager

i know its greedy but i think it would be very beneficial if they could manage both the living story and an expansion, there is no way the living story is going to be able to create enough hype to draw in new people, not like an expansion would. Then once they are here they could see for themselves what it is like.

More full on zones like the ones we have already (including dry top but NOT southsun)

and yeah thats pretty much all i want, to be able to revisit the crystal desert and the ring of fire, get the opportunity to travel up to the isle of janthir, see the homelands of the other 2 charr legions. Cantha and Elona would obviously be awesome to see as well.

Behellagh.1468:

Goatjugsoup.8637:

isnt the trading post the same for eu and us, probably also the same for china which is a whole mess more of people playing the game and possibly buying or farming keys and needing chests.

plus there could be a lot of speculation going on.

Drop wise I can say it doesnt seem like anything has been changed, got several yesterday so that can only mean something to do with the demand.

No, China is on their own TP. Only NA and EU are shared.

huh why is that?

not going to do the maths but out of curiosity if anyone is willing to, would this work better if it was fed with silver ore instead of silver the currency?

For me this issue would be resolved simply by not forcing you to complete the content before you can even attempt the achievements, if the concern is spoilers than lock the descriptions but if people luck into the achievements or end up reading a guide then so be it.

Also if the concern is wanting people to see the story that is something which is interesting and worthwhile to me but if it wasn’t then forcing the story on me would not make me pay attention it would just be annoying.

I noticed on the first page of this topic some complaint about the watchwork sprockets not being available any other way than the pick, dont know if it has been addressed since then but you can in fact buy the sprocket node for your home instance from the laurel vendor. It is in the season 1 rewards tab and costs 25 laurels and 15g.

isnt the trading post the same for eu and us, probably also the same for china which is a whole mess more of people playing the game and possibly buying or farming keys and needing chests.

plus there could be a lot of speculation going on.

Drop wise I can say it doesnt seem like anything has been changed, got several yesterday so that can only mean something to do with the demand.

Just watched a WoodenPotatoes video about some of the things that existed in older versions of the game and to me the idea of in game books is a really good idea. I know there are still a handful of readable books in game but I get the impression it could have been much more previously.

Was it a fear of being too expository or locking lore down where you could not go back and change it to fit new ideas?

I’m not sure how it would be done exactly but I think it would be cool to see that banishment mechanic from the shiro tagachi fight at the end of factions in GW2, if it can’t be made to fit with this boss than with another. Something like that could help break up the monotony of a world boss where you are just standing there with the rest of the zerg firing attacks at it without making it too difficult.

would be good but thats the dev tracker section is for isnt it?

i dont like the idea of adding a new currency all the time, a better idea would be to have unique rewards that can only be obtained by doing that content.
they could have the classic lot where you have a really low chance to get and also some stuff which would be more accessible (perhaps you get 3 items that have an average chance of dropping from new content and combine it with a mystic forge recipe bought with an existing currency like gold or karma)

I’m much more interested in the lore books that were taken out of the game, I would have loved reading all of them (please bring them back anet)

No i think thats a terrible idea, support is NOT the only way to contribute to a group, also having a signet build does not necessarily indicate a bad player.

the easiest solution i think would be to have this effect come to an end once a player reaches level 80. this way it would provide all the benefits as a player is leveling but then once they are on level 80 they have equal chances at all loot as all the other professions.

i was mapping frostgorge last night and had to turn map chat off, it was every bit as toxic as has been suggested. i would definitely welcome anything that would resolve this

Most of what I want I think would be more classified as content than features but I do have one off the top of my head

F12 > C to go to character select

cool thanks for that

there are many places in game you can easily get transmutation charges WITHOUT paying real world money so I don’t see what the problem is

those things are attainable on your own if you dont like the price, either do that or bite the bullet and pay the tps price