Guild Wars 2

can i get a source to the big news announcement

I’m not saying it’s going to be a long term relationship….i love this game and I know I’m in it for the long haul.

I’m just trying to wonder how all these story lines will be able to be told in this game.

I would assume if they ever made GW3 that it would contain new stuff, but 15 years is a LONG time for a video game.

I wouldn’t want to see Zhaitan, Morde, and Jormag killed in this game, then GW3 comes out and we kill the other 3.

So, we are heading into about 2 1/2 years of the game being released and we haven’t killed another Elder Dragon yet and we have 5 to go.

Then we have 2 continents that are being ravaged by lore that has already been established and widely assumed we would go back and help out with.

Then we have, hopefully, new continents to explore for the first time ever.

How is GW2 going to last long enough to cover all these topics when the second dragon will finally be defeated ~3 years in?

if it stayed on the same course, it would take 12 more years to finally defeat all the Elder Dragons (assuming we have to slay each one individually), so 15 years total to defeat the elder dragons, which would be 2027!

i know you could say S1 was technically the “Scarlet Saga”, but she was still part of the overall Mordremoth plan

I guess they could also lump Kralkk and the Elona thing together, as well as Bubbles and Cantha

yup scam…

4 things

1)No Anet GM icon

2)all gw2 websites replace the www part of guildwars2.com such as account.guildwars2.com or forums.guildwars2.com….so www.accountguildwars2.com is not a guildwars2.com website

3) The warning at the bottom of the mail

4) The kitten poor english

I’m pretty sure, not 100%, but pretty sure that we will be going there soon to find a magical artifact to kill the elder dragons with.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Didn’t buy gems with real money for 9 months. Still alive.

don’t worry, i spent about 300 bucks on gems in dec so def spent more than enough for you and I together

finally a suggestion thread rather than “this is bad, fix it because you didn’t keep your promises”

btw, I like your suggestions

Anyandrell.6238:

I agree with OP,, The idea isn’t about choosing what to play or damage being more effective. It’s the illogical way it’s done, that is why berserker is “king”.
I.e., for fire elementalists, zerker SHOULDN’T be more efficient than carrion, for example. Why? Because their damage is a condition – burn. It’s not about what force they throw the fire with (power) or how accurate (precision) or how much critical (ferocity) but how much burning . So for an elementalist, carrion gear should work the best. It doesn’t. IF it were a gear with TWO main attributes and one secondary (i.e. condition+ferocity primary, power secondary) that would be the ideal for an elementalist. Also, it should be so that certain traits should be complementing certain stats on gear depending on the class and type of weapon used, and they don’t.

The thing is that the gear attributes should be actually applicable to the class’s strength, not just one-size-fits-all-even-if-it-doesn’t-make-sense-because-it’s-easier-on-devs. THEN you will see real skill and real customization of characters, not cookie cutter.

As much as they went away from the cookie-cutter with the elimination of the “trinity”, they went back to it due to the poor implementation of gear statuses coordinating to class traits.

there is one that just got introduced called Sinister

+Condi main
+ Power sec
+ Precision sec

other stats can’t be as effective as berserker

the reason beserker is so good is because you sacrifice all defensive stats for pure power because you are good at dodge rolling

Sinister is pretty much the effective “zerker” form for condi damage, but you still have to realize that condi dmg is bleeding them out rather than big hits.

If you have the skill to dodge roll, you are doing yourself a dis-service by using soldier’s gear.

Soldier’s and Knight’s are for people who need a little more Vitality and Toughness because sometimes they make mistakes when dodge rolling, or their skill build is lacking condi removal and evasion skills.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Jordo.5913:

You have to go out of your way for some rewards that you want. Just like in GW1.

Why did I not have to go out of my way to get the reward yesterday, but have to tomorrow? GJ on missing the point, deliberately or not.

I didn’t miss the point.

I had to go out of my way to get those points. I hate doing fractals and I usually had to go to fractals. I DO NOT gather as I’m roaming around the world. I find that measly copper to not be worth it. I hardly ever salvage, I usually just sell to the TP or to the merchant, even rares because I don’t want RNG to bite me in the kitten and I get zero ectos.

I had to go out of my way before for the 12 AP a day and I have to go out of my way now for 10 AP.

Just because YOU and some other people posting in this forum didn’t feel like they were before, doesn’t mean EVERYONE felt that way

Carighan.6758:

“Play how you want” is not equivalent to “Do whatever you want and still get all the rewards”.
This is equivalent to when people “call out” ANet for it not being PHYW when their random spec is terrible. Because “Play how you want” != “Be effective independent of what you do”.

so much this

You can play how you want, to level up, and to get the best statistical gear you want. Exactly like you could in GW1.

If you want to get certain skins, then you are going to have to go out of your way to a point.

For instance, if you wanted Twilight. You are going to be farming Ascalonian Catacombs quite a bit. If you wanted an Orrian weapon skin, you’re going to be farming Gates of Arah quite a bit.

You have to go out of your way for some rewards that you want. Just like in GW1.

There are other options however, you can go out and play whatever you kitten feel like, earn gold, and buy it off the TP.

If you want Zenith, Pinnacle, Hellfire, and Valiant skins, and all those chest rewards that come with it through AP. You’re going to have to go out of your way to get the better reward.

how has no one told this guy the solution yet?

the way around the bug is you DO NOT run down the candy cane stick….keep jumping so that the “fall” keeps resetting and the bug can’t get you

sorry you finally learn how to skip the bug after you completed it…

but for future use maybe >.> lol

I LOVE using death blossom…and hate power d/d

i dont like pushing, 5, 1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 2 for my rotation

u dont even have to use utilities or ur elite to do max dps

that being said, i dont want to spam 3,3,3 wait, 3, 3, 3….id still like to be a stealthy backstabber too

so is there a good build?

someone asked in map chat the other day “What is the best stat for Warrior?”

i said “Zerker for power, Sinister for condition”

then had hoards of people griping about zerker gear again..which then started mouthing anyone who uses the stat

if u know how to dodge and dodge well like a skilled player, why not?

but i agree there has been a decrease in the rude ppl encounters

plz take my money arenanet! sooner rather than later!

gem store please!

I hope this helps some people understand!

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Danikat.8537:

Importantly though, if I’ve understood the announcement correctly, the daily reward is only 10 achievement points.

Laurels and mystic coins are now rewarded simply for logging in and after that each daily achievement had it’s own individual reward.

So unless you want 10AP you don’t need to complete 3 dailies. And for AP hunters it must be an improvement to only have to do 3 achievements, even in different areas, over having to do 10 every day.

Now, I get 5 or 6 AP per day from doing the daily. With this new system, I’ll get 0. Not much of an improvement, I’d say…

The coins and laurels, I don’t care about, but the daily is about the only way I can get AP these days (since the new achievements are not soloable by me).

how are you only going to get 0? you not going to take the same amount of time to do them?

Cuchullain.3104:

Excellent analysis and summation of the problem. Anet doesn’t seem to realize that this game is already too grindy and we really don’t need any more busy work; we need fun and meaningful content to make the game worth playing!

lol it’s not more busy work….it’s the same exact kitten dailies, it just has to be in A CERTAIN ZONE and you have to do LESS OF THEM and it’s no even for the same kitten REWARDS…it’s for AP and some special rewards for going out of your way to the certain zone

you kitteners are just trolling now

well you’re only missing out on AP…and they virtually do nothing but give account bound rewards that you can’t get otherwise, so if you miss a few it’s just going to take you a little bit longer

I guess I would have liked to been able to farm lightbringer points in Prophecies instead of Nightfall for the Hall of Monuments.

God forbid I have to go out of my way to get something I want.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Jordo.5913:

I have to go out of my way to get my legendary crafting materials, and precursor….

Anet…just let me kill 1000 monsters anywhere in the game world to let me get my legendary please!

If you want AP, do what it requires to get it, just like you would have to if you wanted to craft a legendary.

If you want the old daily rewards, just log in.

Talk about exaggerating.

I am doing the things currently required to get AP. Not all of them, but slow and steady. I am simply opposed to increase in requirement, which is equal to an AP nerf.

What you’re saying, though, is like ANet saying “now you need 2 gifts of exploration for a legendary and 777 clovers, but hey, we’ll give you 1 extra copper for each map and 1 clover every time you do a ‘kill X in Y at NN:NN’ daily!”

AP nerf?

You have to do 3 of 12 EASY achievements just in a specific zone for 10 AP instead of doing ALL 10 for 10 AP.

Forage 20 times in ANY ascalon zone
Visit ONE vista in maguuma wastes
Do 5 events in Malchor’s Leap
Kill ONE Fire Elemental

or any of the other 8 from sPvP and WvW

it’s the same kitten daily, just in a specific zone

Lishtenbird.2814:

maddoctor.2738:

How exactly are you losing APs with the new system? 3 slightly more complex dailies over the FORCED WvW/PvP ones for the same amount of AP (10)????

Here’s my concern.

• Currently, I can get about 5-6 dailies just by playing the game naturally – which is what an average playing player would get, I assume. That would mean around 55 AP in 10 days.
• With the new system, while playing the game naturally I will hit the 3 dailies around 1 or 2 times in 10 days – which is 10-20 AP in 10 days.

Yes, I understand that it’s easier to get more AP.

But the problem is that to get any amount of AP at all, I have to go out of my way. It’s all or nothing, and my daily guild Teq, guild Fractals and dungeons and some new LS map will most of the time mean 0 AP.

I have to go out of my way to get my legendary crafting materials, and precursor….

Anet…just let me kill 1000 monsters anywhere in the game world to let me get my legendary please!

If you want AP, do what it requires to get it, just like you would have to if you wanted to craft a legendary.

If you want the old daily rewards, just log in.

This post will reference to this blog post often:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-new-daily-achievement-system/

CURRENT DAILY SYSTEM

Do 5/12 non specific dailies to get a daily chest consisting of a mystic coin, karma, luck, laurel, gold, and exp and 5 AP. 12 AP if you do all 12 daily achievements.

NEW LOGIN SYSTEM

Log in to receive an “old daily” reward

In the 2nd picture of the blog post, you can see day 1 is a mystic coin bag, day 2 is a laurel bag, day 3 is a luck bag, day 4 is a karma bag, day 5 is a new reward bag(looks to be crafting, booster related), day 6 is an experience bag, day 7 is a laurel bag that looks to be special

Again, you are getting the OLD daily rewards simply for logging in, that’s it

If you miss a day, FEAR NOT young adventurer, your progress toward the day 28 special bag will not be reset. The elder dragons know you need to take some days off for IRL stuffz.

NEW DAILY SYSTEM

3 Categories, 4 Dailies each = 12 dailies

Do a specific content driven daily to receive a bonus chest that correlates to what you are doing, if you’re not doing anything goal driven, go visit places you haven’t lately and reap the rewards!

Fractal PvE Daily will give you bonus chest containing fractal items
WvW Capture Point daily will give you a bonus chest containing WvW exp and badges

If you do ANY 3 of the 12 achievements, you get 10 AP on top of your 3 bonus chests for those specific achievements.

If you do beyond 3, you still get the bonus rewards, but you do not get more AP.

DAY 28
Upon logging in on log in day 28, you will receive a special chest, that will give you:

a 1% increase in gold find

and your choice of 4 options:

ascended crafting materials
legendary crafting materials
“plentiful” laurels
tomes of knowledge

after day 28, it all starts over again

vectorfox.6894:

Well i guess it would be kind of nice they wrote a wall of text for people more interested i mean i look at other games and for example league of legends, for each champion and each change they write a paragraph dedicated to explaining why they went with the change, so asking for a much more in depth introduction to the new feature should come as a given when it seems like the gw2 players write ideas more in depth and longer than those blog posts.

the blog post was 7-10 paragraphs of why they were changing to it

what more do you want?

maddoctor.2738:

Lishtenbird.2814:

snip

Slight problem with the entire post.

You will get what you already got from the old dailies, laurels / coins /karma etc just by logging in. You don’t even NEED to do anything to get them anymore.

The new dailies are slightly more “challenging” because according to the post they will give new rewards…

“Rather than having a generic reward for all achievements, each one will give players something that is thematically tied to the content they’re playing. Completing a fractal daily achievement will get you an extra pristine fractal relic, some additional agony resistance , and a tome of knowledge; taking a tower in WvW for an achievement will grant you World vs. World experience and additional badges of honor; or capturing a point in PvP will give you additional reward track progress. "

Old system:

Do boring generic staff, get coin, laurel, karma (the way you want)

New System:

Do more specific staff, earn extra rewards
Just log-in: get coin, laurel and karma

The new DAILIES will give EXTRA rewards based on the daily you do. I guess you completely missed (or ignored on purpose) that very important part. How exactly is that bad? Do fractal daily, get extra relic. Capture keeps in WvW, get extra badges, kill 5 people in PVP, get extra rank points. In other words you are REWARDED for completing those dailies… that’s why their requirements are more specific.

The way to keep everyone happy I guess is to add 4 new dailies WITHOUT ANY REWARDS for those are too bored to care, and keep the other 4 for those who care about the new rewards.

+1 this guy is saying what i want to say, just better

Elden Arnaas.4870:

Thank you Listenbird, for writing such a clear, well thought-out, and non-ragey post. I would suggest that you please consider changing the subject to be something less inflammatory sounding. I think that the post will be taken more seriously, and get more views and replies if the subject was changed to more reflect the actual tone of the post itself.
Before, with the less specific dailies you could generally play how and where you want, and get dailies just by playing. Without having to go out of your way or deviate form whatever you had planned. the new, mopre specific dailies will force players down an Anet chosen path.
I’ll agree though, that “Ascalon” and Maguuma" do leave some freedom of choice. "Malchor’s Leap " and “Shatterer” do not. They would also exclude new players.
And if these examples are from beta test(or whatever) and do not reflect the choices that we will actually have in the released dailies, then they were poor examples to use, right?
As I’ve said before, we want more freedom of choice, not less.

but you have choice

do the achievement if it aligns with your goals…you don’t HAVE to do 3 of the 4 unless you are really wanting those AP’s

do you want AP’s?
do 3 of the 4 that takes out out to specific parts of the world that you haven’t visited lately

are you working toward something within fractals?
oh look at that, there is a daily fractal that will give you BONUS fractal rewards

are you just farming a world boss train?
oh look, you just got a BONUS rare(hopefully this is the reward, i could be wrong)

also, your talking about new players wanting to do this….think back to when you were a fresh player….what was on your mind then?

i know sure as hell i wasn’t thinking about AP

i was thinking about my personal story, my gear while leveling up, wanting to kill Zhaitan spoilerfor killing Tybalt and wanting to hit 80 asap

wait wait wait wait…..

i think the new dailies are meant to get level 80 characters to get the back out into the world, instead of just farming up a storm in a certain area, or to help people get a little boost toward something

like the daily fractal will give you a chest with extra fractal awards

“Completing a fractal daily achievement will get you an extra pristine fractal relic, some additional agony resistance , and a tome of knowledge; taking a tower in WvW for an achievement will grant you World vs. World experience and additional badges of honor; or capturing a point in PvP will give you additional reward track progress.”

the dailies are not meant for non-level 80’s…of course that doesn’t mean you cant do them if you feel like going to the zone and doing it…you’re not really missing out on anything if you don’t do it

“But Jordo, ur missing out on 10 AP”

If you really care about 10 AP that badly, you won’t care about going to a zone you don’t want to explore yet for a measly 10 AP

the log in rewards are for the newer players and non-level 80’s and veterans alike

the experience bag will contain tomes of knowledge which are account bound

Zypher.7609:

Seems like the story telling did exactly what it is supposed to do. It keeps you wondering what will happen next, glad to see you are looking forward to the January release to answer all of those cliffhanger questions.

actually i’m not looking forward to it

you cant have a cliffhanger try to be answered with a side story flashback and then have that end with a cliffhanger too and then hit ur audience with a 6 week break

usually before breaks in a TV show, there are big reveals before a break

if this game keeps going the whole “cliffhangers to answer cliffhangers” route, its gonna end up like the TV show Lost where the audience just got fatigued with never getting answers and always being frustrated at the end of an episode and ultimately just left

more than likely with the next season after this I’m just gonna take a large break(if anet can do it, why not me), im gonna log in for 2 seconds on every episode release and then im gonna spam run it once they are all out so i can avoid this kitten

Nov 18th – We are left with a cliffhanger of Caithe stealing the egg, for an unknown reason and to an unknown location.

Dec 2nd – We are left with a cliffhanger looking at a cave with runes on it, and nowhere close to answering the cliffhanger from Nov 18th.

Now we have to wait 6 weeks until January 13th before the episode that answers those cliffhangers? Hell, I guess we can’t assume that it will even answer the cliffhangers, we’ll prob have 3 open cliffhangers after the next episode.

You guys definitely should have provided some concrete conclusions before going on a holiday break that you KNOW is coming.

blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

major disappointment

timmyf.1490:

It’s hard to know exactly how many people are working on what for how long, but my best guess is that about 20 people were pulled off LW to work on something else around February. That’s slightly before the current LW team would have started working on Season 2.

Meaning: if those folks have been working on content and at roughly the same place as the existing LW team, they should currently have a content drop the size of the entirety of Season 2 ready right now.

LOTS of assumptions in that, though, so get your hopes up at your own risk.

there are only 20 people on the LS team at any given time, so they couldn’t pull 20 people off the team to do something else

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Enough-of-your-GMPC-please/page/3#post4193277

edited the main post with

After some more thinking, if they only have 20 devs on the LS team at one time.

After the games initial release, we had Season one for almost a year.

Then we had a feature pack #1 which was actually quite a bit of stuff.

Then we had 2 months of season 2.

Then we had feature pack #2 which was mostly a copy/paste of the China changes.

Now we have 2 months of season 2.

So besides Feature Pack 1, the non LS team has had a LOT of time to be working on something.

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

Jordo.5913:

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

SAB is not part of the Living Story.

false…its considered a “special event” in the living world, just like the holiday stuff

True, it is NOT part of the Living Story – It is a special event. Living Story content is under the Living Story tab – there is no SAB listed there.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

sure is listed there….along with the Tequatl re-vamp being listed as a special event, but has been stated as being part of the living story

gotta go down and expand season 1

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

SAB is not part of the Living Story.

false…its considered a “special event” in the living world, just like the holiday stuff

Belenwyn.8674:

Maybe 80-100 people are working on the second half of episodes of season 3 right now….

There are only 20 devs working on Living Story content at one time, Season 3 would count as Living Story content…

“may not be employed by ArenaNet within 12 months of acting as a Guild Wars 2 Forum Specialist”

GREAT SCOTT!

This leaves me out, as one day I would hope to be employed by such a respectable company!

I was thinking. What if having Zhaitan alive kept Mordremoth from being able to spread his tentacle vines all over Tyria?

Zhaitan basically wiped all the lush greenery away from Orr by residing there.

Could this be part of the push/pull they are referring too?

Mordremoth pushes back Zhatain’s “death”, but Zhaitan keeps Mordremoth’s “life” in check.

We kill Zhaitan and now there is no one to keep Morde in check, thus the current events of the living story occur.

I do love to dream

I’m hopeful for this in an expansion:

- 4-7 new zones in the Maguuma Jungle(the actual jungle, not this wasteland stuff)
- 2 new dungeons, one of which containing the Mordremoth Elder Dragon fight
- entirely new weapons, and current classes getting access to current weapons
- new slot skills
- possible new race/class

Firelysm.4967:

I believe you guys have a choice, give us something to drink or this milking cow will go dry, and search for water else where.

well no wonder you’re peeved…a cow doesn’t give water….you were searching in the wrong place the entire time!

I am going to assume in 2 weeks we will receive more living story since anet hasnt said no more releases, but i believe the finale is coming with some big news!

We were told we would collect a new armor throughout season 2, done.

We have also now received 3 of the 4 stats we were told to be getting.

So it would be a safe bet to assume the next patch we will get the last stat combo and will be the finale which happens to be before a big holiday break for Anet.

I think the finale is going to end with us finding the golden city from the vision along with Glints egg, and the egg possibly hatching before the screen going black and announcing an expansion for GW2….finally.

I don’t see fighting Mordremoth as being something that can happen through the Living Story. The LS team has roughly 20 devs on it, and I don’t see them able to design an elder dragon and a dungeon for him to reside in, so it only makes sense that an expansion will introduce that. Also, why would only 20 devs be working on something as important as the next Elder dragon fight?

That stuff does seem big enough to maybe be the big plans Anet has been working on “behind the scenes” though.

Here’s to hoping!

EDIT:
After some more thinking, if they only have 20 devs on the LS team at one time.

After the games initial release, we had Season one for almost a year.

Then we had a feature pack #1 which was actually quite a bit of stuff.

Then we had 2 months of season 2.

Then we had feature pack #2 which was mostly a copy/paste of the China changes.

Now we have 2 months of season 2.

So besides Feature Pack 1, the non LS team has had a LOT of time to be working on something.

EDIT 2:

Confirmation of LS team only consisting of 20 people at any given time:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Enough-of-your-GMPC-please/page/3#post4193277

Confirmation of there being over 300 employees at Arenanet, though not entirely sure how many are devs that make game content:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/What-to-buy-with-800-gems/first#post1218058

Wintersday started on Dec 10th last year, so I could see it coming out next week to keep it seperate from the next living story update

Sylvari were actually an elvish race that were “hobbit sized” before they underwent a massive re-design.

http://i.imgur.com/4h274.png

I too am tired of seeing LA in shambles. We are closing in on a year of LA being 98% the same as the patch after we destroyed Scarlet.

They have had a few tweaks, but it is still the exact same.

I’m not saying restore it to how it was before, but fix the kitten thing so it’s not in re-build mode constantly.

it doesn’t really spoil/answer anything…it just tells us what we are going to be doing…the guy who played doesn’t even know…saying something may be hinting at something

if you watched the preview trailer…you already know everything he had to say

there is a listing fee, and there is a sales tax

Blackmoon.6837:

I just hope there’s more concern for serious and adult storytelling. Her Disney background is leaving me rather skeptical.

Have you ever actually watched the Hunchback of Notre Dame?

It is one of Disney’s darker stories along with the Black Cauldron.

“For starters, the film is filled with religious imagery. Ideas of kitten ation and salvation run throughout the film, with the majority of the story taking place inside a church. Normally, in a kids movie, religion is a topic not discussed. However, this film faces it head on. The music is centered on God, with songs God Help the Outcasts and Hellfire, and throughout all are ideas of being saved, or sent through help. Frollo is always concerned for his soul, and well as condemning everyone else’s to hell, on his mission from god. Now, in a film made for adults, this wouldn’t be out of place, but the fact that its in a Disney movie, gives it an added level of maturity. They took a risk putting these types of themes into one of their films, but it paid off making it an enjoyable feature for kids and adults.

Along with this, the film is filled with instances of unusual darkness. For example, when Phoebus first shows up at the Palace of Justice, we see Frollo over watching the whipping of the last captain. We hear the whip crack, and the screams of the victim, as Frollo watches, smiling. The film is filled with moments like these, moments of darkness, and sadness. Moments when Quasimodo, the character we’ve learnt to love is put on a pedestal in the middle of the town square and publicly tortured as Frollo watches, allowing this to happen. This makes the film all the more emotional, and real, for mature audiences and allows it to stand the test of time as a well rounded, real, story."

they have better stats, and have infusion slots

but the upgrade is miniscule, and everything in the game is tuned to be beaten in exotics

ascended is giving u maybe a 5% increase in dps

personally, I see no point in ascended, but it is there for the people who need the vertical gear grind

Novuake.2691:

Jordo.5913:

lol i know videos are for the weak, but we don’t have time to ready articles, since he wants to dive right in

Glad that you are helping someone new to get exited about the game. :P

:D

i’m trying my hardest!

it’s a little rough though with someone new coming to the game not having played GW1 and not knowing the lore very much, but i’m trying to explain the best i can

lol i know videos are for the weak, but we don’t have time to ready articles, since he wants to dive right in

bumpity bump bump