Guild Wars 2

Shifu.4321:

TL;DR we all have different tastes

Also, I find that people are generally pretty bad when it comes to dyeing their armor, which is IMO like 50% of the looks of armor.

I think that’s why Ascended armor initially got a bad reception was due to the really poor dye choices that some sites used presenting it. I love mine to bits now, the detail is amazing down to the pearlized buttons on the gauntlets, the medalions and buckles, the fur/feather tuft-y like shoulderguards and get many compliments and questions about my dye choices.

The Festival of the Four Winds patch coming Tuesday will bring ways for players to start helping with the rebuilding process.

http://dulfy.net/2014/05/13/gw2-announces-festival-of-the-four-winds/

Balthazar has an obsidian shard put aside for me, for me, for meeeeeeeeeeee!

Little high, little low.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Account-Security-What-you-need-to-know/

It depends on the elementalist build. S/D can do it with some practice, staff ele not so much.

Of course the S/D ele is doing it at the cost of burning all their cooldowns before the encounter begins. That’s generally why you only get 10 stacks.

Palador.2170:

It pleases me that these are coming back. I loved both of these events, and I’m thrilled to see them again.

However, I am slightly amused that the first update China gets will be recycled events.

Actually they are recurring events, not recycled. Recycled would be like the MMO that releases new bosses that are copies of old bosses. Recurring is content that periodically comes into the game such as festivals or holiday events.

I’m pleased to see that they aren’t just putting the same exact event back in, from the video it appears they’ve added lots of art assets to the Labyrinthine Cliffs and the comment from Ree Soesbee stating that there are hints and secrets for LS2 incorporated into the event makes it very exciting!

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Inb4 Gauntlet rewards Monocles, Jetpacks, and Scarlet’s Kiss as drops.

Maybe not. A player attended the China beta festival in Bejing and posted this on reddit:

• Rare drops from past LS events, eg. Monocle and Molten Backpack will not be available for NA/EU but might be for China.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/25iqrv/i_attended_the_gw2_china_beta_festival_heres_some/

Asmodeus.5782:

You think it’ll have the exact same set of achievs? Excluding those, who have already completed them?

Sincerely doubt it, they gave us different achievements on both of the only recurring contents we’ve had since launch: Halloween and SAB.

Invictus.1503:

The Festival of the Four Winds arrives on May 20th for North American and European players, who will “get the opportunity to help rebuild the beloved city of Lion’s Arch that was destroyed by Scarlet [Briar] in Season 1.”

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/05/13/rebuild-lions-arch-in-guild-wars-2s-festival-of-the-four-winds/

It isn’t much, just a small notation really from an interview. Seems like they are being tight lipped at the moment. Wonder how it will be incorporated. Last time we had Zephyrite involvement we had a vote. Would love something similar, a vote to decide what the new LA is going to look like!

That said, can’t see it happening. After all, they have to make it look like the China LA which is already in existence

Fyi, China’s LA currently looks just like ours and the stories, content, patches will be synched going forward.

Last year when we had the Bazaar of the Four Winds, in addition to all the other content in the patch, we were casting votes for the new councilmember – to the tune of 8.6 million votes cast!

So with this year’s Festival of the Four Winds, since the focus is on rebuilding Lion’s Arch will we have a vote for how we want to see the city rebuilt?

With the Megaserver technology the only thing your home world matters for is WvW. Some EU worlds have language designations and here’s the leaderboards for WvW that might help you make a decision.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/wvw

http://mos.millenium.org/

Rebuild Lion’s Arch – can’t wait!

The Festival of the Four Winds arrives on May 20th for North American and European players, who will “get the opportunity to help rebuild the beloved city of Lion’s Arch that was destroyed by Scarlet [Briar] in Season 1.”

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/05/13/rebuild-lions-arch-in-guild-wars-2s-festival-of-the-four-winds/

Prepare for the Festival of the Four Winds!

As part of the celebration of our launch in China, we’re holding an in-game festival that brings back some of the best-loved Living World content! The Zephyrites have returned to the Labyrinthine Cliffs to do business and trade their goods, and Queen Jennah has reopened the Crown Pavilion. Experience the joy of movement as you harness the power of the Zephyrites’ aspect crystals, or put your battle skills to the test in the Crown Pavilion and Queen’s Gauntlet.

Get ready: the Festival of the Four Winds begins on May 20!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/prepare-for-the-festival-of-the-four-winds/

I haven’t seen much change in the drop rate, they’ve always been pretty rare. Mostly get them from map completion and there is the level 10 personal story that gives a key.

Some players do key farming by creating new characters and speed running the level 10 mission – takes about 15 mins. Lots of youtube vids on how to do it if you’re interested.

All servers in all zones are extremely busy now with megaserver technology. The only thing server matters for these days is WvW.

Scrambles.2604:

Gearbox.2748:

“great”——— 50min drum talk……

Here is an idea… stop kittening making the annoying instruments! and get pack to fixing the game.-

“Dear Anet Audio department, Please refocus your efforts towards game balance. Put those music composition degrees to good use!”

I guess that means they’d have to pull Mr. Diemer out of composing and recording music and send him back to school to learn how to use a computer

Echoing the others – awesome if same stat quality as ascended with stat changing abilities, rune unlocks would be great and I would like to add I’d like to see it built upon our current ascended, similar to the Spinal Blade backpieces.

LOVE that drum

Check out near the end when Maclaine Diemer makes an appearance and speaks briefly about the music he’s created for Season 2 Living World. He mentioned a 30 minute orchestral piece and that he was flying out “to far away lands to record exotic music”.

Since sound is generally the last thing they do, it must be getting close!

Took me about a week and a half to get the meta without focusing on it. Plenty of time.

Impressive! gratz

Shifu.4321:

Funny how the most unpopular weapon skin suddenly becomes a hot item that everyone doesn’t want to see gone when they announce that they’ll be removing it.

Where were you when I was selling my sclerite skins?

Ain’t it the truth. I’ve seen maybe 2 people using those skins since that content was released a year ago. Anet probably looked at it and said, "Well, since only one sclerite skin was purchased in the last 3 months, we should remove it since players obviously don’t want these skins’.

And now the game is doooooomed since they are taking it out lol.

I like the Nightmare Court. With their interrupts, knockbacks and stuns they have some of the smartest AI in the game.

Also enjoy the Toxic Alliance, how some mobs can heal each other and you can stomp the downed ones. Adds more pvp-ish elements to the AI.

Jamin.6528:

Karizee.8076:

Probably a good thing they are being removed, they never were very popular.

They’ve been out for a year and still only cost 3 tickets, most weapons go to 5 or 7 tickets within a couple months. Never see anyone using them.

Still seems like a silly reason to remove them. Anet has been criticized numerous times for all the temporary content that they have put out, and now they’re removing skin items too?

The items are not being removed, if you have them you can still use them. If you want them you can still buy them with gold on the trading post (where the same skins have been rotting for a year).

Probably a good thing they are being removed, they never were very popular.

They’ve been out for a year and still only cost 3 tickets, most weapons go to 5 or 7 tickets within a couple months. Never see anyone using them.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Account-Security-What-you-need-to-know/

One epic night on SoR…

Welcome to the party

I’ve been playing since the 2nd beta weekend and knew within the first couple hours this game was going to be something special.

Azhure.1857:

Believe the OP was saying that a Legendary World Boss shouldn’t be melting like butter and die so quickly that if you’re not fast on your feet you may not make it.

It could probably scale better but there’s a fine line between too much health and not enough.

I remember when this event first launched, some people swore that the KQ event would never be done, that the pre-events required too much coordination, that the boss had too much health, etc. My how our playerbase has grown

At a Karka Queen event yesterday I saw a player complain that he could not get back to the spawn in time (he was trying to get through Steampipe Steading which was overrun with karka). For now it’s better to go around or wp to come up from the SW.

I remember we had the same kind of thing at Shadow Behemoth with the pre-events for a long time and I was glad to see ArenaNet add a new portal that spawns after the pre’s are done that takes you back to the spawn point.

Huh. Would have been nice to know it was considered an exploit, never would have put spendy runes and sigils in WvW badge gear nor encouraged others to get the WvW badge gear if I had known.

I know Spicy Pumpkin Cookies turn you into a Mummy.

I want to see some kind of Rune & Sigil unlock system, something like what they have in sPvP.

The 6% you are seeing is the amount of files you’ve downloaded. It queues the largest files first and gets much faster as it goes on. If you stop and start the DL again it will pick up where it left off but it will still show starting at 1% again.

Slow speed on the download could be a firewall setting on your end. Shouldn’t take more than a couple hours.

phys.7689:

Hmm, actually thats one of the issues, they could have modelers and animators working on new enemies, new skills, and new rewards for new content.

I think they are past the modeling stage, yesterday I saw one of the writers cracking jokes on twitter about one of the names he came up with for a monster that he had to delete because of the way it pronounced.

Max Lexandre.6279:

In some days, 1 Month After the last update and Devs are still nowhere to be found. O_o

They posted yesterday in this thread Max, calm down lol. It’s on the previous page.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

The developers are heads-down working on the future content releases. We are also in the middle of launching the game in China. Launching a game in a new country is kind of a big deal. Because of the team’s focus on game development, they are not able to dedicate as much time out of their workday to posting on the forums. While they might have time to read the forums, they don’t necessarily have time to engage in discussion.

I know it’s hard to be patient in this down time between Living World seasons, but please bear with us. As much as you’re craving new content to play, the team is dying for you to play it.

Unfortunately, I can’t give you any information about future content, whether it’s plot spoilers or timeline. I can say that, as a player, I am very excited about the next season, and I cannot wait to see what you all think about it.

Please know that your feedback continues to be important, our devs are still reading (though they may not have time to respond), and we sincerely appreciate your support and you sharing all your thoughts with us (critical or otherwise).

Jski.6180:

Your asking them to hand hold you though every day in effect. Your asking to be told something new is coming by some one every day of the game over and over even if its the same things. Heck the community over all cant stand to not have a post from a dev. with in the first 1hr of there post. There is something vastly wrong with the mind set on these forums.

Funniest comments on reddit regarding this topic:

“We’re like an insecure boyfriend, having to be reminded every week that our girlfriends still love us even if she can’t talk to us 24/7 because she’s busy at work.”

“Baby, we’re still good, right? Yeah? Then WHO’S THIS CHINA GUY I HEARD ABOUT??!! Am I not good enough for you anymore?!”

Thank you for the heads up, Regina. We miss you all dearly and hope everything in China is going well

I’ve been getting lucky with Ascended boxes in WvW and EotM. Fractals have always been good to me, built most of my legendary in there.

Silent Shino.7239:

I really want to know what the server’s are called :P

They are named after WvW objectives.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/24e319/gw2_china_presales_passed_the_500000_milestone/

Kal Spiro.9745:

Max Lexandre.6279:

I think ArenaNet is under development meltdown as they try to fix the core systems of the game to ready the game itself for new content, likely one expansion.

What i know is, one expansion with the game systems like this without new major improvements on it, would be a move risking failure.

One thing ASAP comes to mind when we speak about things that need to be done right, is the STORY MODE, on a new future expansion, they simply can’t do the same, GW2 story was a sad story itself.
It’s things like that they need to fix and get done right before anything DAT BIG.

You get that we’re probably not getting an expansion, right? That’s what the Living Story is supposed to fulfill. Expansion level content over an extended period of time, instead of one lump of content all at once with nothing in between.

I mean they’ve said no expansion enough times, you’d think people would actually catch on.

That’s not true.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

“The thing that we haven’t decided yet,” he went on, "is what form that type of content will take. Is it right for Guild Wars 2 for that kind of boxed expansion? Is it right for that to be something we add, live, through storylines in the game? Is that something we want to sell through our in-game store? There are a lot of different options available to us.

“… but we absolutely are going to do sweeping new features that you would traditionally only get in expansions – large regions, content and progression additions to your characters in the form of growth and professions and races. Those are all things that you will see in the lifespan of Guild Wars 2.”

Sold 7 that I made in the Mystic Forge, bought 1 to make my legendary.

Yes, something big is coming. It’s an Elder Dragon and his name is Mordremoth.

Super Adventure Box is in Rata Sum. The question you should be asking is Where is Lord Vanquish?

https://twitter.com/Lord_Vanquish

Since you need Gift of Exploration to make legendary weapons I don’t think they would change this.

It downloads the largest files first, if you stop the download and come back later it picks up where you left off.

The game totals 18 GB and the speed to download it depends on your internet connection.

Well deserved, the game just keeps getting better and better. In fact, Polygon gaming went back and updated their review to increase GW2’s rating from their initial score of 8.5 to 9.0.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/24/3728326/guild-wars-2-review-second-coming

If you didn’t get it before the Feature Pack there’s currently no way to get it. They did say they would possibly bring it back in a future PvP Reward Track.

500k was the limit they set on how many they would sell for the prelaunch beta. Basically they sold out!