I thought it wasn’t “no major updates” but “no changes”, and then we got living story crap added mid-season.
“Your World Ability Points have been refunded to you in advance of the inaugural WvW Season” They couldn’t even be bothered to write a new letter to send out to us…
Feature only patch, and account bound wxp apparently isn’t one of those features. Thanks, Anet. Some time before next year would be nice.
Edit: also, the ability point reset letter you sent us says it’s in preparation for the inaugural WvW season, talk about lazy, couldn’t even write us a new message.
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I agree, quaggans should have more importance.
Therefore, ascended cooking should include quaggan recipes.Omnomberry-filled roasted quaggan. Yum.
It’s not true, but I like to believe that the quaggan backpack skins are actual quaggan skins. Not a fan of quaggans.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Executioner_Axe_Toy
That has a skill on the bar that gives you faster than normal movement, iirc. I think a couple others might have given you advantages, but the axe was the primary reason they got disabled.
One time an uplevel tried to 1v1 me (brave little guy), so I just stood there and let him hit me to try to show him that he was doing no damage. He was running around in circles, and accidentally hit a boar, then another one. He died to the boars.
New weapons are rares and exos, apparently.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-wvw-spring-tournament-2014/
I would guess that the bow is a hero’s weapon, and the staff is a mistforged hero’s weapon, because I don’t recognize the skins, and the staff seems to have some sort of mist effect. Though that’s just speculation. I doubt they’re ascended, they would never give us ascended weapons that easily.
I have a feeling the blade shards will get their binding removed once the Living Story content is complete.
Note: Aetherblade enemies across Tyria now have an added chance to drop Blade Shards. This addition to their drop list is permanent.
From the update notes.
step 1: play warrior. step 2: get melandru runes, -condi duration food, and dogged march, step 3: laugh as immob. doesn’t even slow you down.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pipe_Organ
Worked fine for me the last time I tried it.
From what I saw making mine, it’s account bound until you equip it, but when you upgrade it you can pick new stats and it becomes account bound again.
Yeah, it really sounds like you got hit by the legendary defenders, there’s just no way for a player to hit you that hard…
Also you’re more likely to buy more gems to buy more chests trying to get a ticket this way. A pretty cynical viewpoint, but I’m convinced that it’s at least part of the reason.
Reminds me of this, from the Commando class:
Vehicles — Vehicle skills act as the commando’s utility skills. A commando can opt for an armored personnel carrier (APC) or a tank for land travel, a helicopter for air travel, or a submarine for undersea travel. Each vehicle gives the commando three utility skills, ranging from depth charges on the submarine to flamethrowers on the APC. The APC, tank, and helicopter can also carry allied passengers to maximize your firepower. Passengers acquire new skills based on their profession and their position in the vehicle. For example, an elementalist manning the tank’s main gun can fire flaming shells, while a necromancer riding shotgun in an APC can use the Corrupted Headlights ability to poison and blind foes caught in the beams.
That’s assuming no one ever takes any of the camps, no one besides you ever kills a yak, and no one gets fed up with you killing their yaks and throws a stealth trap. I’m fairly certain that no human is dedicated enough to something so pointless, and that no one is ever going to kill 1m yaks in this game.
Badges go to your currency wallet now, have you checked that?
That….makes a lot of sense and makes me wonder why it’s not that way already.
1. Push players to do things that they would otherwise not do? Like dungeons for skins and money, PvE for legendary and Ascended stuff… fractals, and months worth of PvE farming?? We got 2 things… since release that pushed people to WvW… PvE players have had months and months of having the WvW players get pushed to PvE.
I don’t get what you are trying to say here… “Pushing players from one gamemode into a different gamemode is bad, therefore pushing players from one gamemode into a different one is good”? That doesn’t even make sense.
The point is that you shouldn’t complain about being forced into WvW to get certain rewards, when WvW players have been forced into PvE to get the rewards for most of the living story rewards, and all the other PvE exclusive stuff…
I solo roam a lot too, and I agree that you’ll run into a lot of groups, and not a lot of people that will be willing to 1v1 you. Best to keep some mobility handy, in case you need to run from a 1v1 or 1v2 turning into 1v5, especially in EB.
It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. As a solo roamer on a lower-mid tier server, it could easily provide more entertainment to me, and might pull me away from the normal maps. From the sounds of it, numbers won’t be as big an issue in EotM as they can be in normal matchups for smaller servers, so I could see it pulling a lot of people away.
The mesmer fall trait affected PvE, there’s your answer on why that got fixed quickly and this won’t.
Hey all,
There will be a fix for this coming in the February 4th release next Tuesday. In the meantime, I would avoid using Signet of Vampirism in the manner outlined in this thread.
Thanks for the reports!
Would suggest that they might do something, but as usual we don’t get any concrete statements.
While I’m glad it’s getting fixed, it makes me really sad that something as major as this doesn’t get a hot fix, while some relatively minor PvE things have…
Back before they nerfed pet damage, I actually had my pet solo people, it was pretty funny. RaO + quickening zephyr + 100% crits from stealth + regen BM build, good times.
It’s going to be amazing to see the champ train meet the hammer train, lmao.
I can’t find the info saying that there will have LS content in the EotM.
I’m pretty sure that if they add LS content in the EotM/WvW you will be able to do the same thing in the open PvE, like the toxic alliance/pristine stuff, you could do that in WvW but not exclusively there.
Seems like information about the coming update have started to turn up. And the main thing seems to be Edge of the Mists (which will be invaded by Aetherblades).
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coming-soon-the-edge-of-the-mists/
http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/28/journey-to-the-edge-of-the-mists-in-guild-wars-2s-next-content/
http://guildmag.com/aetherblades-invading-edge-of-the-mists/Much earlier than I though, but very nice nonetheless.
(from a thread in the WvW forum)
It’ll be even worse for the PvE people if we do get acct. bound wxp, just that many more people with applied fortitude and strength. I sure do hope we get it this patch, though.
I feel like separate PvE and WvW version are the only way Anet can win on this one. If it’s juts PvE stuff in a WvW zone, it’s inevitable that people are going to farm bags from the PvE’rs, and if they make it PvE only for the first couple weeks they start a kitten storm with the WvW crowd.
That´s a LS part i won´t take part in then. Unless they´ll add some REALLY big rewards for the meta achievement.
Well, it’s related to WvW, so I wouldn’t expect anything good in terms of rewards…
Oh man, I can see some of the guilds that like to turtle in towers with a ton of siege having some real fun camping PvE objectives, that’s gonna be great.
Look at it this way, Victory, at least for two weeks we get to take it out on the poor PvE players who are just there for the living story
It looks pretty…
Is this map like skyhammer where you can knockback/fear other players off cliffs to there certain doom?
It IS new content though, just because I don’t particularly like or play PvE, doesn’t make the LS updates any less new.
Do these living story elements inside WvW actually get new people interested in WvW though? I’ve never seen anyone doing them outside of protecting yaks, and I imagine people that never come to WvW don’t even know they exist.
edit: if this thread is about living story stuff inside edge of the mists, I’m not a big fan of it, but at least it’s outside of the normal WvW maps.
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How would this help small groups? If you’re careful about it, you can already build all the siege you want without popping swords. If there are people around to see you building it, they’re sure as kitten going to see you rolling your siege towards them at .5 mph…
WvW specific changes this patch:
World vs. World
The Guard Leech boon has been renamed to Applied Strength.
Glad they sorted that out, that was the most pressing issue we had with WvW…
Fractals are still a thing. As long as the level of the fractal is above your personal fractal level, it will increase your level. Yes, there is an LFG tool. As for future plans, there are a few things they’re planning, I think, but I’m too lazy to look them up.
We can’t really say for sure until we see what exactly they do with regards to balancing sigils, what’s good now might be less good than something else after they change.
It’s not supposed to show you their account info from party invites, but sometimes it will change from x server y rank to their name. If you’re reasonably quick to decline the invite, often times it wont’ happen.
Why not insert dueling arenas in pve, that is, specifically designated areas for dueling between players? In fact, just put one dueling arena in Lion’s Arch to begin with and see how popular it is. If it works shove more arenas around the open world.
That’s been suggested many times before, and rejected by the duelists.
They want to duel right on top of other players, anywhere and everywhere they want.
It’s more a matter of showing off. If they can’t duel so everyone else can see how leet they are, they don’t want to duel at all.
It’s better than nothing, but a lot of people want to be able to duel wherever, as a way to kill time while you wait for someone or something, without having to leave the zone or dungeon.
There’s a bit of a difference between an open pvp server and the ability to duel people, and by a bit I mean massive.
I agree, that would be super corny. But it would be nice if we could get another personal story mission to take place after the story dungeon, that focuses on the player and DE fighting Zhaitan on the ground. It would give them a chance to make the story more personal, and give us a more satisfying final fight.
So…is the fear that people are going to duel each other, then follow you around the map fighting? Do people follow you around now using skills just to annoy you? There are some things in PvE that I find to be a little obnoxious (constume brawl), but I’m perfectly find with them being in the game, and with people doing them while they wait around for stuff. I really don’t understand what the problem is.
Spend 1/2 hour in any game that has open world dueling.
I’ve played Rift, and to a lesser extent WoW, what’s your point? I was never harassed or had any problems because of dueling.
I have never thought of them as tree elves- but rather sentient plants modeled loosely on human form because of the Pale Tree’s interaction with humans.
Also I like to think that when she birthed the Sylvari she wanted humans to feel a kinship with them.
This made me wonder what the game would be like if they were modeled after Ventari, rather than humans. Plant-centaurs would’ve been more fun, IMO.
I wish I didn’t need 250,000 kills to get “Ultimate Dominator”. Man, it’s gonna take me years to get that title.
IIRC, Yakslapper and the SM defense title literally take years worth of gameplay, at least Ultimate Dominator is feasible…
I’d rather play the game the way I want to play it.
/colin
I’d rather be able to get a legendary entirely from playing WvW, but it just doesn’t work that way.
I imagine it’s doable, a full glass thief hitting another full glass character, full might on the thief and full vuln. on th target. You can do some great stuff with damage modifiers from traits and runes, too.