Guild Wars 2

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We’re looking into the connection error, everyone. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! ~RB2

Just go play any other MMORPG and you’ll come running back, arms outstretched, begging for forgiveness like a bad boyfriend that dissed his best girl.

All the people having problems finding a group in this thread should group together!

(yes, you can run dungeons cross-server)

Problem solved

Sylv.5324:

glasses skins as regular armor skins!

!!!!
Do want.
<3

Total Makeover Kit
A single character may modify their appearance settings for height, physique, skin color, markings, face, hair, even gender. Race and profession will remain the same. The kit is consumed on accepting a new appearance.
350 gems, 5/1400 gems

Self-Style Hair Kit
A single character may modify their appearance settings for hair style, hair color, horns, and facial hair. The kit is consumed on accepting a new appearance.
250 gems, 5/1000 gems

Creslin.1758:

Just wanted to let you know that for every player on the forum that screams “Betrayers!” and dramatizes about every little thing you guys do, then are probably 10 that really enjoy the game, appreciate the fact that you can admit mistakes, and are grateful for all the content you guys are adding.

Hear, hear!
Well said.

tkalamba.2541:

jinroh.9217:

tkalamba.2541:

Ditton.3149:

jinroh.9217:

1)
why dont you use your own channels to communicate with your own gamers?
do i need an account at facebook, twitter, reddit etc. to stay up to date?
make that optional, but not mandatory.
2)
why do you close/ merge / delete all threads with constructive feedback?
the op cant do anything bout flame, offtopic, etc.
dont infract him, infract the ones who fale or go offtopic, but dont close or delet threads.
3)
do more communicate with your costumers.
" thanks for your question" is like politics.
4)
dont use the “Moderator”-account anymore.
tell us who posted and why.
5)
Answer:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13lio6/prepare_for_the_chris_whiteside_ama_here/
If you just would answer these questions,
alot of ppl would know if they will stay or leave.
greatings

he has answered 6 of them..and they have used reddit since beta to communciate with fans and others who might be interested

Reddit is viewed by far more people than the ingame forums. Using reddit allows for higher reach.

why schould reddit get more ppl than this board?
reddit is viewed by far more people, right.
but do they all play or care bout GW2?

The subreddit (which is a Guildwars 2 specific section) has roughly 79,000 subscribers, which is likely a higher active user count than these forums. Also, comscore (online metrics tool) tells me that that reddit not only has a much higher reach, but much higher rate of unique visitors, and a much higher time spent metric.

I’m willing to be Anet knows this. Also, reddit is much more influencial than a game’s official forum. Things on reddit will, and do get picked up much quicker than forum posts. It’s a simple matter of reddit simply having more klout, and being generally more informative as a community.

Also, a vocal minority cannot overtake Reddit, they would get downvoted to oblivion.
Valid concerns of the majority of players will naturally rise to the top.

Hi Chris, my question is about the major cities. Are there any plans in the works for attracting people there? Since you decided to make LA the main city, we feel the other major cities are being left out: Divinitys Reach, Black Citadel, Rata Sum, The Grove and Hoelbrak. If you were to give each city an unique activity, do you honestly think that will fix the problem of ghost-capitals?

In GW1 there were several poles of main cities, for several reasons, and that worked astounding! Lions arch, Ascalon city (where the new guys, lowlevels gathered) Great Temple of Balthazar, Hall of heroes, Temple of Ages, Domain of Anguish, Eye of the North, Kaineng City, Kamadan (the main commerce city).

Perhaps moving the krytan dungeons to a waypoint in Divinitys reach and the ascalonian to Black Citadel, and so on? Having populated cities is always a strong factor in strenghtning bonds between people, and raising communities. Thank you for your time

We have been discussion this topic for a while. There are lots of things we have brainstormed but are not firmed up on a direction yet. However here are some ideas to wet your appetite or not:

Events and activities related to town clothes Cities as dungeons! Player created events and activities. Non confrontational material gathering for crafting.

These are just a few of the top of head.

Exciting stuff!

DoctorOverlord.8620:

I suppose I’m most worried about the term ‘low power curve’ and how that curve will look 3-4 years down the line.

In the ever changing world of Tyria, I think it’s a tad unrealistic to expect to know what it will look like in 3 to 4 years.

Would you really want a game so static, so carved in stone, that it would have no room for new ideas or technology that far into the future?

I think mounts would be pretty awful in the open world and here is why I think that.

Right now, GW2 has THE best gaming community par none. This can be attributed to the core game design. We share nodes (people often call out on map chat alerting others to valuable nodes), we get rewarded commesurate to our contribution in killing monsters (no mob tagging) and we support each other with rezzing downed players.

Now imagine if mounts were introduced. A player is in a down state, arm outstretched, desperately trying to heal himself while fending off a mob. Currently, if you are running by that area you stop to help heal the player and help him kill the mob. If you were on a mount however, you would have to dismount, heal the player and help kill the mob, then remount to go on your way. People would be less likely to do it, it would introduce a “convenience over cooperation” element that would be detrimental to the culture of the game.

Look, I came from a game that had mounts and I had a period of adjustment when I first started playing. Then I started to understand the brilliance of this concept and now I fully embrace it.

No mounts, please.

GraynX.8947:

At the top of his lungs, he yelled “GET DOWN HERE DAD! WHERE GOING AFTER THE NEXT ONE!”.

I looked back at my screen and saw the zerg filtering down the hill at full bore. And who did I see at the front of this hundred man crab-meat grinder? There was my boy with Hammer overhead leading the charge straight into the gaping maul of another champion.

Keep up, Dad!

Haha, great story

The only ascended item that can be seen is the backpack. Rings don’t show.

Here’s another site with a more complete list of armor looks.
http://gw2armorgallery.com/index.html

varonecl.4265:

Karizee, you cant do the jumping puzzles when you are being bombarded by griefers specifically camping the place….

Dead.7385:

Perseus Ithikus.5483:

So no more gear grind but we can’t say there won’t be more gear grind just in case we change our mind

Also known as: Were looking at FoTM data and seeing how many people go for shinies – If it is enough we will slowly roll out the full set to delay the inevitable. Once players are full ascended we will look at drop rate – We will decided then if we need to add another Tier.

They probably will as well. People that quit on exotics I doubt will stay for Ascended….unless we get Ascended T2

Chris stated:

1: I would prefer that we never say never but our intention is that in terms of ‘Named Tier (Rarity) of Loot’ Ascended will be with us for a long time and we will not introduce a higher tier of loot for the foreseeable future. There will be loot with different stats and new infusions within the current tier that will be spread over long periods of time (for example Ascended gear will be deployed over the whole of next year). 2: Ascended gear will be obtainable throughout the whole of the game aside from sPvP and in retrospect it would have been better to have rolled different acquisition methods out at the smae time os the FotM.

Blythepiper.6874:

Unlike subscription games, you can rely on Anet to do everything within their power to control botting and gold sellers. These people/organizations are in direct competition with them. It will probably never disappear altogether, but not from a lack of effort on Anet’s part.

I agree, they have no vested interest in keeping a bot “subscribed” either for a monthly fee or to inflate their subscription numbers.

They’ve done a great job in getting rid of the bots and with what Chris just said on Reddit:

I totally get what you are saying and we are working very hard on not only addressing the bugs in the game, but building on new areas and trying to ensure that new content is as bug free as possible. This is very big ticket item for all of us, so in the same way as the work we did on bots you can expect to see big improvements soon.

I am looking forward to spectacular things from this game

From the Reddit AMA:

Hey Chris, thanks for coming. My question is about home instances and personal story. From your promo material prior to release I was led to believe these would be key features in pve. As of release, it seems like these, specifically home instances, have been largely ignored.
The pitch on how awesome home instaces would be: pve progression via characters and things added to your personal world, was the reason I bought this game. Are there plans to bring these features in line with the marketing material or is your game focus going to be primarily dungeons and pvp (both things I don’t care for).

Thanks for taking the time to post your question. Both personal story and home instances are ares that i wish we had spent more time on already in terms of content since release. However we will be building on them as we move forward and would love to hear more of your thoughts in regard to the direction you would like to see them move in. In short you can expect to see big things.

Does this sound like guild housing?

Someone who focuses on WvW might ask why they would need to do PvE for a legendary.

It’s a legendary! You must be legendary in all aspects of the game to get it

(btw, the badges for Gift of Battle are ridiculously easy to get from the jumping puzzle chests. Hint: They do not bind to character)

Azjenco.9425:

arabeth.2361:

Serious question: why do mainstream companies like Anet use Reddit to answer questions like this, when Reddit is most famous for being a site that people use to post creepy pictures of underage girls? Also: it’s a horrible site for organizing any kind of information. It seems like the sketchy nature and poor structure of the site would be a terrible match.

My thoughts exactly. Using reddit is a seriously stupid move on ANet’s part.

They have always used reddit for their AMA’s. Since before the game launched.

Gauradan.8361:

arrownin.3128:

Take a break from the forums every once in awhile. You will find that the game becomes fun again.

If you’re into korean style grinding, then yes, the game has been, is and will be fun.

I haven’t grinded anything. This game practically throws loot at you with no lockouts I might add.

I’m having tons of fun and so are my friends. It’s a great game

teviko.6049:

Have gem prices ever come down? EVER??

Yes, the rate of gold —→ gems fluctuates many times over the course of a single day.

http://www.guildwarstrade.com/gems

It has been trending upwards, most significantly since Halloween. More players have more gold are buying more gems with that gold. Players are not selling their gems, they are saving them since the price is trending upwards. Wintersday is coming! I expect the conversion rate to continue trending up until then, just like it did in GW1.

I have so far used in game gold to purchase:
*4 bank slots
*2 bag slots
*Witch’s costume
*Boxing gloves
*Aviator shades
*Mystic Forge stones
*Fine transmutation stones
*Karma boosters (thx for the discount ANet!)
*Miniature Spooky Trio
*Spooky Skeleton Tonic (had so much fun with this during the Mad King event, a bunch of us got tonics and we were synch dancing skeletons waiting for the Mad King’s arrival-haha)

xiv.7136:

There are multiple full servers.

Even the smallest servers are on high.

There used to be medium servers, not a single one left.

Simply put, the game is already VERY successful and has a large playerbase.

You gotta realise, there are other people apart from you. And they are all playing GW2.

Anyone who played the finale event for the Lost Shores patch knows the game is exploding in popularity. So many people everywhere!!

asobinin.5467:

Just get rid of Ascended gears. Simple as that. If they want to add infusion, do it so that the exotic pieces could be infused, just like they did in GW1. FOTM should just have a cool skin, and that’s it. Just like GW1. People were happy with how that worked in GW1, and they’ve played that for so many years.

Why change that all of a sudden? Change what have worked, and all I’m hearing is complaints. The new decision surely isn’t popular.

Not happening. Game is exploding in popularity with the new gear.

Kain Francois.4328:

Will we see the “Colossus” ever again? (I’m referring to the chained giant in FoTM…)

Love that guy <3

Will we see Largos as a playable race in the future?

Esrever.8613:

Karizee.8076:

Here it is Sunday 11:55pm, Lion’s Arch is in overflow, there’s a queue for WvW and my guild has 40+ people online

Game is busting at the seams popular.

go anywhere else but LA. 200 people on a server isn’t much. Thats all it takes to make LA go overflow.

Just started leveling a Norn. Can’t go 2 steps without running into people.

I hit up a couple dragon events everyday and they are SWAMPED with people!

Was wrapping up some map completion in Harathi today and was amazed at how many people were doing the meta event in the NE. Don’t know the name of it, the big glowing dogs with the ginormous chest at the end.

Here it is Sunday 11:55pm, Lion’s Arch is in overflow, there’s a queue for WvW and my guild has 40+ people online

Game is busting at the seams popular.

Galen Grey.4709:

IonicBlaze.7948:

Sodapop.3715:

Face.7032:

Population dropped severely after the last event was over, that’s to be expected but I personally am going to take a break (after WvWing incessantly) until they alter how Ascendant gear is obtained.

when u say population dropped severely, how do you know?

http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2

Wow so based on that data Gw2 got about 6m players now?

I mean what that show us is Gw2 has 4k players player 17k hours per day. we dont know how many players Gw2 has but we know how many players WoW has

according to that: http://beta.xfire.com/games/wow
WoW has 6k players playing 29k hours.

That makes Gw2 having 60% less then WoW, WoW has 10m players so gw2 must have 6 million players… amazing! wonder why they never announced reaching the 6m mark.

/sarcasm

Can we please stop with the meaningless xfire data ?

When GW2 goes to China, WoW will die.

Years from now when people are debating on forums whether it was pandas or GW2 that killed WoW, you will know you were part of gaming history.

The demand for gems has quadrupled in the last month alone:

http://www.guildwarstrade.com/gems

It can be attributed to the game’s success and soaring popularity.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10ilke/how_sigils_work/

http://www.gw2armor.com/

Does not include crafted sets or sets you find while leveling.

ANet did a great job with getting rid of the bots. Really proud of these guys

ProphetSword.5427:

What I used to do in GW2:
- Enjoy the content
- Explore the world
- Make friends
- Participate in dynamic events
- Level my characters

What I do now in GW2:
- Enjoy the content
- Explore the world
- Make friends
- Participate in dynamic events
- Level my characters

Hmmm….seems like nothing has changed for me.

My typical day in GW2:

Check my sales on the Trading Post.
Kill a dragon or two (these events are VERY popular, always tons of people).
Clear a few jump puzzles for chests.
See if the Zho’Qafa Catacombs event is up in Straits of Devastation for a chance at the Final Rest staff. If so, collect a group to run it.
Do Balthazar while I’m there.
Take some newbie into the murderpit in WvW (mwahaha). Lol, not really – but I do give tours of the jump puzzle in Eternal Battlegrounds. Always love how blown away new players are when they see the scope of that map.
Answer a call to arms if our borderlands needs help.
Run a mini dungeon or two (I really like Vexa’s Lab in Fireheart Rise)
Run a fractal if I feel like it or if my friends need help.
Run an xArah (still collecting tokens)
Organize a human synch dance party – yeah!

Nothing has changed for me either except the game is fair EXPLODING in popularity, there are people everywhere!

Saskay.6409:

Thanks Karizee, so do people just play on that then if they are boosted?

You can choose to play sPVP or tPVP there, but it’s a great place to check out other proffessions and gear/trait choices before you make them in game.

Another cool thing to try out:

If you want to see how the profession plays at 80, you can go to The Heart of the Mists where you will be boosted to 80. There you can try any combination of gear, sigils, amulets, traits and skills and practice on the target dummies.

You can access that from the crossed swords icon. There’s a brief tutorial when you first enter, but you can skip it. Vendors are on the right after the tutorial.

binidj.5734:

The solution is simple, if a bit drastic. All log into W3 and just sit in your keep … maybe have a party … just make sure you lose. Stay in this position until the bandwagonners have flocked off to a plump-looking new server.

Stormbluff probably likes this idea

Depends, prices fluctuate on both mats and gear.

You can see the mats required for what you want to craft here:
http://www.gw2db.com

and then just look on the TP to see which would be cheaper.

gw2lfg.com if you need a tool to help form groups.

Aaron Stone.5918:

Hey guys, I haven’t played for about a month now (but played constantly through beta’s, headstart etc.)

I’ve been reading up that this games state is in bad shape right now (based on player feedback). Is it really true that people are just grinding for gear now? I loved this game for people being out in the world, and traveling around doing things. Not grinding for gear.

IS THERE HOPE!? lol

The game is in great shape, it’s the hottest MMO on the market, the servers are busting at the seams with overflows on every server.

Some people are concerned that since they added a new dungeon (which is crazy good btw) that no one wants to run the old dungeons.

Some people are just game bashing.

Minion of Vey.4398:

Imagine trying to fill some specialized request like “LF3M fractals 38” after running of fractals dies down a bit.

I imagine the difficulty of running fractals at that level is not for pugs. More of a guild endeavor imo.

Raine.1394:

Yes, one of the negative effects of introducing a massive gear grind is the effect on those of us with alts. I have 11 characters. It is a daunting task to do the grind for one character let alone 11. It pretty much takes the fun out of play. I just think about all the work involved if I want to keep up. You’re not alone in your concern.

So you’re worried that you won’t be able to level and gear 11 characters in the same amount of time that someone else can do 1 character?

That seems a tad unrealistic, imo.

I know a guy that has a goal of 40 80’s – yup, one of each profession for each of the 5 races. I imagine it’s going to take him some time.

It is auto loot.

It’s dynamic. You can see servers fluctuate between Full and High depending on the time of day.

Try very late at night/early am to transfer to a Full server.

tigirius.9014:

Magnetron.5823:

Hmm i like to roam around in LA in my own server, but i only get in the overflow. So i log out very fast cause its boring. Wish you could put the dungeon in some other town ( so that ppl come there too ) cause i enjoyed the chit chat in LA, but now.. thats gone too.

The only concern i have about this is that it takes four forevers to load. I can understand this being the case at the launch of the game where there’s bound to be bugs, but i do not have a wimpy computer nor do i have a wimpy router or a bad connection to the net and it STILL takes forever to load in LA. If the mystic forge wasn’t there I would never log there (as I am not a dungeoneer style player so fractals mean nothing to me.)

Load screen time is determined by your hard drive, you can get practically instant load screens with a SSD.

Is your HD getting full or have you defragged it lately?

Yes, you cannot enter WvW from an overflow server but as it’s been stated they move pretty quickly.

If you’re planning on getting in WvW on reset, you might want to go to LA a bit early to try to beat the WvW queue.

Darth Danny.4032:

jeez…. I wish they would move those vistas so you could get all points during one week as long as your team was winning. Barring someone from completion for a minimum of 2 weeks isnt fun.

I don’t see it as barring you for two weeks since you can enter WvW from lvl 2 on.
Unless you think you would level to 80 under 2 weeks?

In many cases, avoiding damage is more important that dealing it. Learn to love your dodge key.

You gain XP for leveling from just about everything, grab the copper gathering tools as soon as you can.

Think of the Renown Hearts like breadcrumb quests, they lead you into an area but the dynamic events that unfold afterwards is where the real meat of the game is. Listen to the NPCs calling for help, wanting to speak with you, etc.

Definitely do the world boss events!

Exploration is amazing, look behind waterfalls and bushes, find underwater caves and a whole new world unfolds

And welcome!

GADefence.5634:

If you’re tired of the overflow maps, try any map other then LA. They’re all pretty much dead.

Hell, ANet could pretty much remove every map but LA from the game and still maintain 70-90% of it’s non-bot playerbase.

Lol, lies – there are people everywhere.

They had to limit it to one week to keep things fair for WvW since it’s week long matches.

Tommyknocker.6089:

Sometimes I wonder if some players stay awake at night trying to think up even more complains to throw at ANet. If your actually serious and not just trolling (I think the Latter myself) then just wait for 5 minutes till your offered to move to your home server, I’m sure if you like to just hang around and listen to the chit chat then your not in a huge hurry.

^^ this

The queue is quick – yes, there are thousands of people moving through Lion’s Arch at any given time, but queues form quickly and people go to the dungeon or they are just passing through via Asura portal to another zone.

angan.6572:

I’m a new player too and today is the first day i checked out this forum and is really overwhelming. Constant hate posts that game + Anet sucks. I remember all the hype from promoting the video and friends that played on launch were like “omg best game ever” and now this.

I play it for 1 week but so far i’m satisfied with it. Does this game have future ?

Of course it does

Millions of happy players in the game. Forums are getting hate bombed by people with an agenda for another game.

It’s the same handful of players making threads and putting up posts on each and every thread. What is more telling is they keep dropping little “commercials” for another well known game