I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave all world bosses specific times and removed main servers, having only overflows. All feature pack changes so far have been based on long term complaints and lack of players has been a common complaint for quite a while.
Other than that, maybe they finally fixed dungeon ownership, made combo fields less griefable and changed how contribution works to make it less exploitable.
If they made it so transmuting a skin equips it to a special slot, rather than overwriting the item’s appearance, that would fix this problem as well as allow you to keep an appearance regardless of what you equip. They have the tech to do this, considering they have override slots in PvP as well as the outfit slot.
Adding a cooldown to the ability to revive others would only add restrictions to good players, not bad. Bad players are still going to get killed and not care. It would also be a great annoyance when doing the revive daily or playing with a lot of people.
What they need is something similar to the incremental downed mechanic, where the more you’re downed, the less downed health you have until you’re straight into defeated. This needs to be applied to the defeated state. For example, getting defeated 3 times within 5 minutes (of active play) would put you into a new state, beyond defeated. In this state, other players are not able to revive you, forcing you to waypoint.
Personally, I think the defeated state should not be revivable to begin with.
This is an example of what a Korean game would look like, on easy mode.
These dyes were purchased with REAL MONEY and used up only BECAUSE THEY WERE SOUL-BOUND. Now, I’m out all of that investment
Dyes from the dye packs are soulbound? Don’t you mean the pack was account bound and although you could have sold the dyes, you chose not to? How is using a dye on a character considered an investment? It’s not like you can resell it later, unless you meant you planned on selling your account.
It’s not like they’re taking anything away from you. Stuff like this also happens in real life, where an extra feature you once paid for is now included for free. The joys of living on the bleeding edge.
Farm SPvP chests. I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up having the highest precursor drop rate.
I wouldn’t expect them to let this go live. Maybe they’ll make Eternity account bound on acquire.
If they do however, not many people will be able to afford buying both legendaries and for the ones that can, there won’t be enough supply.
Are these api’s allowed, just curious.
Use of the TP API has been officially, indirectly allowed. Obtaining the needed session key is technically against the rules, but they okayed it by acknowledging and allowing GW2Spidy. They’ve never actually directly said it was allowed however, as it’s against their policy.
To access the more advanced features however, such as the API between the TP’s interface and the game client, you need to go a little further. Doing this is technically against the rules for the same reason obtaining the session key is (intercepting data).
By combining both of these APIs, you can make a fully functionally app, though not 100% user friendly.
You can make it user friendly enough. Zicore created such an app:
I was referring to something a little more complex, but surely you knew what I was talking about.
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They never said Zerker damage reduction was 10%, they said critical damage would be reduced by 10%.
“At level 80, it will take 15 points of ferocity to gain 1% bonus critical damage, which means that there will about a 10% decrease in overall damage for a full “berserker” build.”
I’m assuming you’re referring to Tequatl and/or the Wurm? Because every other world event can be completed within the time limit with only a few people (1-5).
Only armor and outfits can be dyed. Everything else is hidden when accessing the dye panel.
They removed the rewards from PvP so there wouldn’t be an influx of people farming skins after the wardrobe announcement.
So, yes?
We removed glory and match reward chests early to prevent a flood of PvE players from coming into PvP just to fill their wardrobe. While the our team would LOVE everyone playing PvP, some super smart economist peopleguys said it would have negative repercussions on the in-game economy or something.
Personally, I haven’t repaired since launch. I don’t even know what it costs. I repair about once a month, completely funded by repair canisters from the daily.
In general, the change is good.
The one problem I see is those bad players that lay dead until revived. Now they won’t have to pay any fees, whereas everyone else is going to waypoint. Dead people shouldn’t be revivable imo.
I think it will have the most negative impact in WvW.
In WvW, there is no waypoint fees. Only repair cost.
It keeps psychological warfare which is routing. If they think that the zerg they are in will fail, they’ll flee. If there is only losses if they keep staying, then there is no point in fighting further. It keeps the mentally of “I don’t want to die.”
People will still run away because they don’t want to die. It’s only the people that were running away because they didn’t want to risk a fee that will now change their attitude.
Removing the repair fee is a positive for WvW. Having to pay to get zerged was a complaint I saw often. Now more people will be willing to run against the zerg and play kamikaze style.
All the changes made so far have originated from long standing complaints. The biggest mystic forge complaints have involved bad RNG and putting in hundreds of gold only to result in nothing gained. Perhaps they’re implementing some kind of token or jackpot system, where the more you fail, the higher your chances of winning become. The forge is basically a slot machine.
This can actually already be done, but it requires leaving your client logged in to act as the server. The only thing you can’t do is pickup items, since it’s not actually part of the TP.
In the future, when they release v2 of their API and hopefully officially release the TP API, I would expect a TP app to be possible without using a workaround. I don’t expect them to build one though, since they’re all about getting the community to build stuff while they provide the tools.
Back during beta, QA somewhat answered this (was their opinion) by stating that Warrior was the most complete and treated as the pillar class that everyone else balanced around.
But that was back during beta.
Apparently it’s a widespread glitch which has people briefly seeing other people’s screens.
You’re not actually seeing someone else’s screen. It’s just a placeholder for testing, same with the sell tab showing 1234g 56s 78c. You don’t actually have access to the items shown nor do they actually exist.
ArenaNet went with a different concept for endgame content. In every other MMO, the endgame has always been max leveled instanced content. In GW2 however, endgame starts at level 1. What they meant by that is the concept of a living world. Rather than being like everyone else and focusing on dungeon grinding, they tried to create a world you could live in. Everything from ambient chatter and dynamic events to the concept of the living story is all to create an illusion of a living, changing world. Take a moment and try to live in it, rather than playing through content.
GW2 will never focus on having a traditional endgame.
“Double-clicking an item will convert it, and the charge will be added to your currency wallet”
Pretty sure the old transmutation system will be fully removed in favor of the wardrobe.
Gem store skins will be made account wide. As long as you have at least one piece of a set, the entire set will be unlocked.
Information on refunds is currently unknown. They will not be handled until after the patch.
You will still get duplicate skins after the patch. Why would they give you a free reroll?
When everyone was complaining about legendaries the day the wardrobe was announced, my first thought was, who cares about legendaries, think about all the long gone skins that are now useful.
can you give me the link to where they said that?
We want to let you know that the ability to build your precursor will not be in our upcoming Feature Pack. The way progression and rewards work in Guild Wars 2 have changed quite a bit since we initially talked about that feature, and our main horizontal progression systems are about to get some additional updates in the upcoming feature pack. Because of that, we are looking into several ways to integrate building your precursor into our new updated reward and progression systems we’re working on, which is requiring additional development time and iteration. As always, we’ll share details on this system once it’s far enough along in production we’re ready to discuss it.
They’ll bring it back and when attempting to enter the portal, you’ll be teleported next to Moto, but in the air and you’ll fall to your death. Moto will make a joke about technical difficulties.
… or tribulation mode has been enabled in the lobby.
You’d rather have another bag slot instead of the ability to use a skin an infinite amount of times?
Over the years, companies have learned to not freely talk about stuff because people simply complain about broken “promises” when something doesn’t happen. Look at precursor crafting for example. They first revealed it when they were still drawing up the concept.
When the SAB came out, Josh confirmed that they track participation, which probably also includes attempts/failures.
Years ago, they did a technical demo which revealed some of their backend. Some of the information they showed included tracking of client performance to determine what areas of the game were running poorly.
So with the new wardrobe changes does this mean I can now use say Norn cultural armor on a human?
Of course not. It’ll simply be in the locker and read not useable by your race. Cultural armor isn’t actually fitted to other races, which is why previewing them on other races makes you naked… until they fixed that.
If you’ve transmuted an item to a point that a transmutation splitter can no longer get back the skin, then no, you’ve lost that skin. To account for this scenario, ArenaNet would have to go through everyone’s account and specifically unlock any previously purchased skins. The post didn’t say if they will do that.
The button does say “Buy More” right next to it. It’ll probably be exactly the same as transmutation crystals. 1 crystal = 1 charge, hence the conversion.
“Skins can be unlocked by using consumables, equipping items, salvaging equipment, or right-clicking on equipment and account-binding it.”
To unlock a skin, you must use it.
In Wow I gear a character in fully tiered current raid gear in less then half the time it would take me to craft one ascended set. Wow as it stands right now is the most casual friendly game on the market.
I haven’t played WoW in several years, but when comparing gear, everyone seems to compare ascended to casual LFR gear in WoW, when that’s comparable to exotics. Ascended is comparable to 25 man heroic raid gear in WoW, something casual players used to never be able to obtain.
When factoring all the gearing up and preparation required to even do 25 man heroics for the first time, and the fact that in 3-6 months a new one comes out, WoW has a much more active gear grind than Gw2. Gearing up alts is easier in WoW however, since you can just get carried through.
Needs a confirmation dialog.
Both increasing the level cap and adding a new tier of gear were things they wanted to keep limited to expansions. Considering they haven’t even fully rolled out the ascended tier yet, a new tier is definitely not coming any time soon. I wouldn’t expect either of these for another 1-2 years at least.
In regards to gear, the April changes you need to keep in mind are the changes to sigil and runes, the new traits (and future trait progression) and the critical damage change.
1. There is no limit on redeeming gem cards.
2. There is no limit on exchanging gems for gold. *
* The gem exchange works by trading players’ gold for gems. Except for the initial seeding of gold by ArenaNet at launch, all gold you exchange comes from other players. This means there is an actual limit, however it will most likely never be reached.
There’ll be another blogpost on the same day, called “Account-Bound”… Let’s hope they remove the soulbound nonsense and make everything accountbound that was originally soulbound…
… and then in the next major update, they bring back “customized” items from GW1.
Besides buying a second account, as a workaround, if you leave your computer on 24/7, you can stay logged in to the character select screen. By guesting to a server, your location in guild will be that of the server you’re guesting to, unless they also guest to that server. Friends list stalkers will still catch you however.
Even if it was all completely invisible, stalkers would still catch you by checking your last logged in date/time on the achievements leaderboard.
It will probably be about PvE and PvP gear no longer being separated.
If they sold it individually, the chest would cost around 500 gems and buying the entire set individually would cost 2-3x it does now.
Purple SAB skins are more legendary than legendaries in their current state.
ArenaNet does not intervene in player made agreements. Choosing to play outside the trading post is fully at your own risk. Although they may look into the player, they will not refund you.
Watch the event’s icon on the minimap. When it’s at the other end, run to the skill point and use it. You can use earth focus #5, arcane shield and mist form to ninja it. Earth elemental also works.
If you want to solo the champion, it’s a matter of moving in and out of melee range and dodging when it swoops.
Colin JohansonInteresting statistic for you: every condition in the game costs server bandwidth. ‘Cause we have to track how often the condition is running, what the duration of that condition is and what the stack is. So the more stacks we allow them more expensive it gets because we’re tracking every additional stack on there. And so we could, say, you can have infinite stacks. Number one: that becomes really unbalanced. But number two: it’s actually extremely expensive for us, on a performance basis. That’s one of those weird, kind of back-end server issues that can help make game designer decisions regardless of what you want to do with it.
We have a number of solutions that we are talking about and when we are able to figure out which one will have the least impact on balance, performance, and testing we will put that solution in place as soon as possible.
It is true that letting each player have a stack is unlikely to be the solution, however we do intend to solve this problem.
… back in the day.
Since they are changing not only Beserkers gear but traits to encourage support, they might give an option to switch stats. It’s what they did with the magic find gear when they changed that in the game.
Magic find gear was given the option because the stat was removed and there was no direct replacement.
The critical damage change is simply a name change. With how varying critical damage is currently weighted in the game, I’m surprised they didn’t call the nerf a bug fix. It really makes no sense that 1% critical damage is weighted as 7 points on one piece of gear and 16 on another.
They plan on adding even more traits as the new form of progression. They’re not going to give you a gear swap every time something better comes out. The most you can hope for is stat swapping added to ascended instead of legendary or the removal of fixed stats altogether.
The drop rate of something should be server side. Depending on how their backend works, an update to the client may not even be necessary. Every time they increase the server version however, they also have to update the client version to match, which requires redownloading the core binaries.
Stuff like this isn’t hard coded into the client. It would be something like a percentage in a database.
I find it funny that they hotfixed the item out of the chests, yet left glory boosters in until the last minute with the reasoning that they could still be used.
Assuming the same refund policy, they should refund you if you purchased them directly from the gem store (not through chests), which was discontinued back in January.
Why allow people to run around in easy mode, with it not being any kind of challenge at all
Sounds like the problem is downscaling.
You’re given rewards because in theory, downscaling is meant to make you equal, but in it’s current state, it’s not even close. Champion boxes could be changed however to guarantee materials from that level range. At least that way, you’ll know where to go to farm specifics.
Crit damage on celestial was neither a major or minor stat. It was special. Crit damage doesn’t naturally come as a major stat, but it if did, you would see 7% on a chest piece instead of 5%.
Currently, an exotic celestial chest piece is 6x 45 stats and 1x 6%, compared to a normal piece which is 1x 101 and 2x 72 (or 72 + 5%). From berserker pieces, you can determine that 1% is valued anywhere from 12 to 16 attribute points, while celestial was an abnormal 7.5. For comparison, if the berserker exotic chest used that 7.5 value, it would have 10% crit damage. The 6% on that celestial piece was worth 86.4 attribute points, while the other stats are only 45. With the ferocity change, instead of making ferocity higher than the other stats, they are making them equal, which would have meant a 41.4 stat point loss. With the 6% increase to celestial stats, that loss will be cut in half to 22.5 (or 18.4, depending on rounding).
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Stat combinations come in the format 1x major, 2x minor. Celestial was unique, coming in the format 6x small, 1x minor. With the crit damage change, celestial was changed to 7x small, making it an obvious nerf, hence why they’re increasing the value.
Buffing cavalier’s would only create another inconsistency. Stat combinations aren’t balanced around having compatible stats. When choosing a combination that has crit damage and no precision, you do so because you know you can get precision from another source.