Guild Wars 2

Yeah and if its 10 minutes after the hour the overflows at that time will not include the invasion.

Zayd Akira.1942:

PeterThomas.7243:

When I was at work today, I thought to myself, I would LOVE to go home and relax and play some Guild Wars 2 and finally finish that cool gauntlet that I haven’t had time to do all week. I’m gonna get that Liadri mini for sure today!

So I log on.

Oh, there’s a patch. New content… Right. Okay, no big deal. The gauntlet’s still there. Nothing to worry about. Right?

Hm, a new cutscene and some battles, with a new giggly villain who’s after the queen. Okay, sure, kinda neat. But, back to business… I can still get down to the gauntlet, can’t I?

Nope. Turns out the giggly villain sue is hatching evil schemes down there. Fine. So what do I have to do to get back down to the gauntlet?

Hmmmm. Close five portals. Doesn’t sound too bad. The living story blurb says Scarlet’s minions are attacking Frostgorge. Let’s go there…

Hm, nope. I’m in overflow. What the hell is going on? Fine, I’ll try later.

Later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking Blazeridge Steppes now. Okay! Waypointing there… Nope, overflow again. Fine, I’ll try again LATER. Jeeeeeeez.

Even later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking sparkfly fen. Guess what? OVERFLOW. AAAAAARGH.

I finally dig through the forums and find – buried – a single post from Anet reminding people that you have to get in within the first 10 minutes of every hour. UGH. That would have been nice information to have known inside the game somewhere. But fine.

I pop into the event at the top of the hour… What the…

I have to finish five of these? AND THEY’RE AN HOUR LONG EACH? And they’re mindless grinding with monsters that are not fun to fight??

That’s a minimum of five hours of grinding just so I can get back to playing the content that I want to play. And apparently the “Portal Closer” achievement is just a prerequisite for MORE stuff that I may or may not want to do. With my schedule the way it is, looks like I may not get my liadri mini after all.

I’ve been a critic of the living story for a lot of reasons, but I was actually beginning to enjoy the Queen’s Jubilee. Now we have living story content that directly impedes the completion of other living story content.

All I wanted to do today was fight in the bloody gauntlet.

But no.

Thanks alot.

(EDIT: Yes, I am aware that you can get someone to portal you down. I waited around DR for about half an hour trying to find someone who would take me to no avail.)

I think you can get in by jumping off the eagles head too

I think you will find that Scarlet has locked the whole thing up tight…If you look down into the hole its closed up with metal type plating that looks like a shutter on a camera lens.

Chrispy.5641:

I used it five times…..

• I faceplanted in place Twice…
• Got transported to the top of a house in Lornar’s pass
• Got Transported to the very begining of the Harathi Hinterlands
• Then got knocked down again….

My suggestion is to wait for The Price to go down.

The Other reason I Replied was because of this:::

Exotic Drop

• Play Clockwork Chaos content for a chance at the exotic Twisted Watchwork Portal Device Recipe.
• The recipe requires a level 400 artificer. The ingredients are 50 Watchwork Sprockets, 50 Bowls of Salsa, 1 Unidentified Dye, and 1 Glob of Dark Matter.
• Etc…….

I know the recipe is totally different in the game, and requires candy corn, zhaitaffy, and snowflakes, etc, but what’s with the Dark Matter? That definitely isn’t in the game, is it?

So when you face planted in place, was you on a toon with 100% map completion? This sounds like it wanted to try and take you to a place you have not visited yet, so it just smashed your face down to show that it could not take you there. Which might conclude that the device has a preset locations list that it Rng’s to see which one you get instead of totally Rng to anywhere in the game.

Actually I think Anet has an opportunity to make a very fun thing happen here with a charr and capes. Let me link a video that shows a scene from the original Wizard of Oz and the Cowardly Lion. If you don’t want to watch the whole clip skip to about 2:35 to get to the part that displays what I am talking about.

You will notice that it appears to frustrate the Lion a bit, but a slit in the back of the outfit made a perfect slot for a tail. This is how capes could be done.

When the event first started a lot of people are talking about not making it into the zone or a overflow in time to help with the invasion.

The best way to get into the zone, is if you have other guild members or friends doing the same thing, don’t team up when zoning into the area. If one of you make its into the zone everyone will team up with that person, then you can click on that persons portrait to travel to their instance of the zone.

Ask if anyone in your guild is doing the invasion, if so ask to join that persons party. I have actually gotten into the area at the last possible minute and tagged Scarlet and got credit for the kill. I am not sure however if that counted as part of the achievements or not, so if anyone has gotten chevios credit for late arrival you can confirm below.

I want to know does the device take you anywhere or is it a set few places that have already been placed into its mechanism? Also does it take you to places you have already been or if you have never been there before it will not go there, even if its a place set by the mechanism?

Here is what I suggest you do. Start your own Guild, since you can be in 5 guilds at a time this should not be to much of a problem. You could name it Father and Son Unite{FSU}. Anyway with this guild get enough influence to do research architecture leveled up and get the Guild Stash. Once you have that you can represent and deposit the majority of your gold into the stash and leave a smaller amount on your toons wallet.
Yeah it will cost in some gold or laurels to get the influence but in the long run this is the option that anet left for you.
On the other hand by allowing your son to play your game in a way you are breaking the Eula. If he is that interested you might go ahead and consider getting him his own copy…one thing in particular is playing together, always a nice way for Dad and Son to have some fun, which is the other method of separating whats yours and his.

I think you are asking the wrong way …It seems to me that if you say “capes” anet is like no. But maybe if you ask for a backpack that looks like a sheet that just happens to have your guilds logo on it they may just stand and take notice to that suggestion.

would like to see some additional ideas or discussion?

Mounts.

Fishing, more crafting professions
More Town Clothing that you can earn though meta’s.
Template system that has ability to switch weapons, armor, and traits, including switching to different trait lines.
Guild only commander tag that guildmates see and the ability to form very large groups for open world and WvW play.
More ability to narrow the searches in the TP
Ability to switch the prefix on armor, like going from Berserker’s to Rabid
Weeklies, being able to do multiple dailies during the week when you have time to play, so if you work today maybe you can skip logging in every day.
Switch the skill bar to a utility bar for consumables and mini’s and toys.
Switch the skill bar to a /emote bar with clickable emote pics very much like the new dance emote from the Box-O-Fun’s.
Dynamic Level Adjustment Dungeons so you could go with a larger party than 5 or a smaller party.

Yonder.8390:

We don’t need mounts.
Other mmo’s make mounts because it’s like a money trap and makes your character look cool. We don’t need it.

Are you for real? Do you even play gw2, the king of making your character look cool with money traps.
There is a ton of stuff in game that “We don’t need it” but it there and it serves no useful purpose other than making you look cool.

yeah I wanted the Mystic Forge to help get those items as well ….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/MF-salvages-Why-not-the-Mystic-Forge/first#post2607313

ok recently Colin Johanson posted this https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

in which he says:
Salvaging Fine and Masterwork Items

“Otherwise known as blues and greens, we want to give more reason to care about these item types when they drop. When the account magic find system is implemented, there will be a chance you can acquire account magic find consumables from salvaging both fine and masterwork items.”

I want Colin to understand that I do already care about these drops, as I have spent many hours setting in front of the Mystic Forge placing these items into it. I have spent many more sorting these items into my own category’s for there final usage, while in the field.
I find that if this is implemented the way it is read now, I will however change over to I can’t place these items into the forge no more, as the account magic find consumables will be more attractive to the community as well as my self. Prices of mats will plummet while prices of blues and greens will soar. Which I don’t know how my suggestion would change any of this, except for that the mats will not be gotten with my option.

What I would like to suggest is that, you can continue to place these items into the forge and you could possibly get one of the account magic find consumables that you will be able to get though salvages. I don’t know if using a higher quality salvage kit insures more possibility of acquiring the account magic find consumables, but if its not a requirement then I would hope that my suggestion would receive the same percentage as the salvageable one.

Well guys what do you think? Add idea’s to help mold the idea. If you like the idea as proposed give support to help move the idea forward.

No I want to be able to choose to put it on the toon of my choice and leave it there as that toons toy since the item I am talking about are toys anyway.

We already got Lotteries in place…..Mystic Toilet for example makes some people incredibly rich while it makes others the opposite. Then the new weapons that champs drop, again some win it, some don’t.
There are a lot of guilds that do hold lotteries, maybe that would be a better place to have them held when Guild Halls come…..oh wait did I say WHEN I meant IF.

Player Character.9467:

Gummy.4278:

Player Character.9467:

Why would you want them limited to ONLY your town clothes? Currently you can use them on town clothes, armor, and a bunch of other things! Bad suggestion >:(

see that is where you come in and say yes make them toys but let them keep there current functionality as an account wide item and can use the kite with my such and such tonic. Then I win, you win, we all win….but no, just shoot it down, lets not even try to improve any idea.

Toys are a town clothing slot, putting it there adds 0 functionality and limits how it can be used.

YOU STILL DON’T GET IT! I am trying to add even more functionality to it, I don’t want to make it “ONLY” used as a toy! I want to be able to choose to use it as a toy in the toy slot or as they currently are used as an account bound item that can be double clicked to activate after using my Everlasting Plush Griffon Tonic. Since its obvious they are toys to begin with.

Player Character.9467:

Why would you want them limited to ONLY your town clothes? Currently you can use them on town clothes, armor, and a bunch of other things! Bad suggestion >:(

see that is where you come in and say yes make them toys but let them keep there current functionality as an account wide item and can use the kite with my such and such tonic. Then I win, you win, we all win….but no, just shoot it down, lets not even try to improve any idea.

yes yes taking ads out of chat and putting them on banners. You put a contact name on them and you got a ad to join your guild, that stays up for awhile and gives the player a buff all the while.

actually its a terrible idea

Originally in GW1 you could acquire items that you could apply to an item to change its prefix functionality.

A NPC to change the prefix stats for armor could be an option, with a small fee for each piece.
Or let the crafting professions make items that allow a one time use to switch to a particular stat…for example you have a berserker’s but want to try rabid.
or maybe a Mystic Forge Recipe that allows the item and the three stats you want to have representative mat’s for each prefix type, say Ruby’s for Berserker’s .

I don’t know how to apply specifics, but I assume some would say that then you could do away with prefix’s on armor bought from dungeon tokens. Making the choice clear and cut, you want the armor look you can get the stats you want and change your mind anytime you see fit.

These new items should be “ToY’s”. They should be labeled as such and be able to be brought out automatically when switching to your Town Clothing. Which also allows for them to be stored on your toon without taking up a slot in your bags to do so.

How about on one of these living stories instead of a mini or a item that is not even a ToY that goes into the ToY slot( another topic all in its self).

How about just try this on for size. The meta chevios awards some cool Pajamas….Town Clothing. Yeah something that everyone can get without dipping into the gems store to do.

Also goes without saying, but I am gonna say it anyway…..We need one kitten of a Pajama Party before summer ends to go along with getting pajamas to wear to the party.

Growling no I didn’t hear that but while out and about in Queensdale killing Champions I did notice camera shake every so often…
So by deduction and reasoning if it ties into the growling noise then to quote something in the game….“By all Six Gods, what is that thing? It’s huge!”…..

That does not count! Since its already decided!

So with all the miscommunication on closure of the polls, a lot of people missed the opportunity to get their votes in.
Is it possible to open the polls up tomorrow after the patch and let everyone who missed voting to drop the tokens in and get a tally on that to see how much difference it could have made or not made.

Or maybe some mystic forge recipe to get rid of uncast tokens.

Whats really funny is that the last time we were with Charr in GW1 they were all saying there is no Gods for the Charr.

Skyeyes.4935:

Wow, all this craziness over a fictional election. Some people must have real problms when it comes to actual voting in real life huh?

Or, more likely, the outcome of an in-game election must actually impact their lives MORE than real world things. /sigh.

I just ended up with a ton of these Support Tokens and plonked some in each box, with a bias on the Kiel side because I preferred her straight-up ‘not-a-crook’ character.

Do I care who won? Not so much. Will I enjoy whatever new content comes out of it. Yessir.

Now could all the Kiel-haters ask yourselves just HOW much the result of the election has truly runied your whole life… then take a deep breath, turn off the computer and go for a walk.

You just don’t know….I basically lost my best friend over the last presidential election. What happened? Well his wife posted on Facebook that Everyone should go Vote and if you do not go Vote then You Don’t have a Right to say Anything after the Fact!

I replied “that is not how it works, I have the right to vote, but also the right to choose not to vote and I don’t loose my right to freedom of speech based on if I voted or not”
she said that if I did not vote, I did not in fact have no such rights.
I tried to explain that her son who was not old enough to vote during that election but shortly after which he would be, according to her could not go march or rally or post on FB anything in opposition, say if a law was passed that made bow hunting illegal, one of his things to do, since he had not actually participated in the election.

Well she had a &^$* fit and could not see that was the truth of the matter and well my friend and ton of her friends decides that they are gonna jump on me call me names and all kind of crap. These are all adults btw.

lordkrall.7241:

Tips page?
No it was written quite clearly in the patch notes.

They also posted about it on these forums, on facebook and on twitter earlier today.

Yeah don’t see that on FB, I don’t twitter so I miss that as well.

yeah the problem was I didn’t see the time here https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-23-2013/ So I thought that I had til the end of the day.

I just had logged into the game and was switching toons gathering all my support tokens into one spot so I could drop them in all at once and I got the email before I could finish.

Make http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kimmes_the_Historian the NPC since he already is that NPC……You could have him collect a fee to store them or a fee to retrieve them since Kimmes is already a merchant type setup.

Just add a new Collected Tab for all the skins to be added to. Also make Legendary Weapons into Skins, instead of what they have proposed to do with them. That way your account has the ability to show your hard work even on lowbies.

Olba.5376:

Honestly, I don’t want this.

I don’t like partying with randoms. And I don’t like getting spammed with party invites either.

I would agree with you if it were dungeons. In the open world though its a little more lax. Spam for groups won’t be as bad as you think because of the more relaxed atmosphere in the open world. I really don’t see how anyone could hate on getting a few more percent mf, coin find, and karma once they take away mf from gear a lot more people will be wanting a buff like this. And whats wrong with rewarding people for playin the game the way it was meant to.

Olba.5376:

Such items already exist in the game in various places.

Ulgoth’s Tail
Breath of Kralkatorrik
Jormag’s Breath

Yes those are there in World boss chest those are also level 80 weapons. The Champions don’t have names or special weapons like they did in GW1. If you played gw1 you would remember them.

Esplen.3940:

What’s the point?

So that we do Group Up.

I imagine that if done correctly you would see people asking for parties in map chat to go after champions or forming parties to do certain events chains to get a champion to spawn. Which I think would be cool to see us interacting more with each other in the open world. Instead of always you are your own man, always alone, even when inside a huge crowd.
Sure we are working towards some of the same goals. I guess the zerg mentality is just getting old for me.

Esplen.3940:

Centaurs will drop a Centaur bag.
Bandits will drop a Bandit bag.

Each one of these will have their own unique weapons, such as one of the new Fellblades, or the Aetherblade Sword (Rapier, to be precise).

Do you know if every champ in the game is gonna drop the loot bags?
Are those unique weapons or skins? ….Are those gonna be the level of the champ if it is a weapon and able to sale on the TP?

My real suggestion is mainly for Naming the Champions that are gonna have the loot bags.

yeah since they are doing away from magic find on gear and they are trying to push us back into the open world by adding special loot to the champs.

Then I suggest that they give us a small % buff if we form up parties in the open world areas of the game. I propose that the buff to include magic find, karma, and gold find. I am not sure what % is the best for each of these stats maybe 2% each. Discuss.

With the new system coming up having champs drop better loot.

I wish they would go back to the way they had named boss in gw1 and they would sometime drop their named weapon.

Like for instance
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sskai%27s_Sword
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Wing%27s_Axe
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Trickster

What I am suggesting is to have the champs that are gonna be tied to the new loot system to be named, so they stand out. They don’t have to have an aura like they did in gw1. I would love for the champ’s to drop a level appropriate weapon that also has their name on the weapon.

So for instance the http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kill_the_Harathi_overlord would get a name and on high rare chance drop a level 25 unique named weapon that would be of rare quality.

thefantasticg.3984:

I’d really like single player versions of the current/future dungeons and fractals. Sometimes I don’t want to pug and don’t have enough guildies/friends up for a dungeon.

Gummy.4278:

I hoping that the new implementation of the dungeon rewards in the upcoming Queen’s Jubilee patch, that the 50 silver reward will be enough to bring back vets to get stories done.

50s enough? No tokens or other worthy loot?

LuLz.

No.

lol I am sorry my /sarcasm didn’t bleed though enough…

I wonder if its like my idea back during the Aetherblade living story….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Personal-InterdimensionalTranslocationSphere/first#post2347391

This is kinda what I thought they should have done with the Story Mode for each Dungeon. Being able to do them solo would make them easier to get done as a lot of people do not want to go back and do them again to help you get them done.

I hoping that the new implementation of the dungeon rewards in the upcoming Queen’s Jubilee patch, that the 50 silver reward will be enough to bring back vets to get stories done.

sooner than you think. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/august-06-2013/ look at New Features.

Also check this discussion for Red Posts for even more clarification. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Token-Wallet-Thank-you-a-net

The more I play into pvp the more I notice that what weapon I bring to the table says a lot about what kind of traits and build I am bringing too. Although my thought process is to make it function more as a thing to do when you hit level 80 in pve.

I think that each weapon that your profession is able to use, should be able to have Weapon Master where you go out and find the Npc Master of the weapon that will show you where one of the holy trinities for that particular weapon. What that means applied to Guild Wars 2 there is a trinity of Damage, Control, and Support. Knowing that each weapon should have skills relating to the trinity in that once you have found the Master you can learn to master that weapon as well learning new skills for that mastery and thus removing the ability for people to kinda guess what you might be doing with a scepter and focus.

I would love for this to be the part where Signet of Capture’s are re-introduced back into the game. Maybe the Master of Daggers would tell you the champion’s location from whom each skill was to be attained so that you could learn the skills that applied Support role for daggers as well as Damage and Control. This would depend on what is already available for your profession. If you are a Thief then you would already be skilled in using the dagger in the main hand as Damage. You could set out to find and learn skills from the Champion using daggers for Support and the Champion using daggers for Control and likewise for the Champions that use a dagger in the offhand position. All of which would only be accessible after reaching level 80.

In the field once a champion was located you could fight him and once downed you would use the Signet of Capture to acquire the new skill set. After which you return to the Npc Master of Daggers to learn the new skills by unlocking them with practical use in special trials setup to help learn the skill use more practically with skill one being unlocked after talking to the npc.

Bane.9317:

with your option it would give us the option to get just that little more bang for our buck which WOULD also increase their revenue.

They do give a little bang already by marking down some items. I am just thinking if you are a steady customer that gets something every month then they should reward that with a small bump…That is not to say, that they have rewarded a lot of players that bought something, by giving away new items for their support.

Give the option for us to setup a subscription to the game. WITH options.

Some of those options could be setup like this:
Each month there are new items that come to the Trading Post though the Gem Store.
What you can do is make those new items a Sub Pack, which you give those people 60 hours to decide if they want the items or do they want a bundle of gems based on the sub price that is paid.
You could send the bundle in the mail and the player with a sub could preview the items from the mail panel, if they opt out they would just hit the return to sender button to get the gems instead.
Allowing the Sub’s 60 hours ahead of the rest of the game to show off the newest items can drive more interest into these new items as always when someone sees you using something they do not know where you got it from they will ask.

Allow us to decide the level of the sub, maybe three options of $6 or 500gems, $10 or 900gems, & $15 or 1400gems(yes a discount for setting up a sub) and your team can decide what these sub packs get put into them. Like for instance tier 1 would be $6 for a consumable pack (new items will always get placed inside the packs) if there was no new item this month then you would get maybe BL Keys or Mystic Forge Stones or combinations that would add up to the sub price. This could very well be smaller amounts of items like 4 mf stones, 1 bl key and 8 kite fortunes, but would be the equivalent of the gem prices based on the sub’s. Tier 2 would maybe add whatever new mini and a consumable pack, Tier 3 would get the newest style, mini and a consumable pack.

Ya’ll would be broke…yeah for volume control.

I was up there on my mesmer the other day getting some other pve’s up and its funny after I dropped the portal and got some people up. They would just stand there and /dance and thank me in chat, doing other emotes, wasting time. And I am like “HURRY get it while you can you don’t know when you will get attacked”. No sooner than I hit enter button some uncloaked and knocked half the lot off the edge.
Then I get the whispers from mad people who fell off, that should have went straight to the kite when they had the chance. Ty’s should be done after the reason for saying it had been accomplished and getting kitten ed at me for your failure to move was not my fault.

Tonight while my guild was doing Bounty we had a small group of 5 run over to Sparkfly Fen to scout for Big Mayana while the rest of us went to kill Bookworm. After Bookworm was complete we all zoned to try and help the smaller group take on Mayana battle already in progress. The problem is, when they went to Sparkfly, Tequatal was up and it put them into a Overflow. Later when Bookworm was killed and we all zoned it put us into the reg map.

The only way we could get to the other 5 guildy’s was to disband all parties and have them start inviting individuals until enough was there to get the job done.

We need some way to prevent this in the future. Either give leaders and officers the ability to have a different color commander icon that only guild mates can see that you can interactively join there party (something we need anyway for WvW)or at least the ability to join into one large party to take on these events. Or did I miss something in game that could have made getting all in the same server together possible?

Might add, that coming up with a new idea of a stat is acceptable for discussion.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/MF-replacement-stat-VOTE/first#post2448401

I posted this in the suggestions, but thought that many of the people who would like to discuss this might not see it, so I brought the link for here.

Basically if the vote for Kiel or Evon will determine what rewards we get. I thought that setting it up so we as players help decide what stats could be put in to replace MF. I am also hoping for stats that are usually not on gear, like my suggestion for Condition Duration. Let me know what you guys think if they did put it up to vote which two stats would you like to fill that spot on those pieces of gear.

Account Magic Find

"""We want to remove the choice players are currently being forced to make on their gear: “Do I go with better stats, or better loot?” This isn’t in the spirit of cooperation that Guild Wars 2 is all about. As such, we’ll be removing magic find entirely as an item stat and turning it into account stat that improved the odds of rare drops for all your characters.

You can improve your account magic find through the account achievement reward system and from consumable items found in game. As your magic find increases, it will require more consumables to keep raising it higher. In the near future, we’ll detail the system we’ll use to replace the existing magic find items. Our goal will be to have as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them."""

Since this info came out, it got me wondering what will happen to the stat that is currently imbedded on tons of gear. What will replace MF on those items?

Since you have this vote coming up on the New Living story….Cutthroat Politics.
Where we will be giving our support, to get certain unlocks for the game. Like the new Fractal we get later on, all hangs on who gets the spot on the council.

I propose that the the winner of the vote, will give us a pick between two stats that are not abundantly available on gear items now. Which is to say I don’t know what those two stats should be, but I was kinda wanting Condition Duration as a gear stat. I would love to hear everyone tell us what stats could be the two stats that are currently not readily available on items now, that could take the spot of MF when its is removed.

Rock the vote!

are you kidding me? I never would agree to have them add another item to my already full bags…

They had a great respec system in Gw1, problem is this is not Gw1. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Template
There might have to be some differences to make it work under this system.

If they are gonna let you respec on the fly then they can either limit you to a couple of already pre-made choices or unlimited( I am hoping for unlimited)that you can hopefully flip and have everything you need fall in place like armor and weapons while out of combat.
Here is a reason in my minds eye that I think maybe they don’t want this is. Speed runs, special designed builds like running to get to a spot in the dungeon and then flip to a more tanky build to solo a boss or something like that.

Here’s whats gonna happen though… the people are still gonna skip over it and you will end up being the odd man out asking to do the Non-essential content that just happens to be outta the way.