Guild Wars 2

I was in Divinities reach.

Can you not do the daily key maker achievement in a town?

Same for me………………I was in divinity reach.

I combined the 5 pieces into a key and the daily didn’t update.

Also, Caer Pauldrons can’t be salvaged….why is that? I crafted them. Everything else I’ve crafted can be salvaged.

There have been varied suggestions about how to poll and whether you should have polls or just forum discussion.

I think you should have both. As a few questions ingame in the poll to reach the maximum interested people and direct people to a thread at the forums if they want to give more input or explanation.

I think forum discussions as you have described implementing should occur also.

Aion every once in a while would give a trivial little gift with a poll. Not every poll but every once in a while. I think that is a good idea because it creates a pleasant experience with a poll appearing.

I liked the idea about having a role play/npc type way to answer polls. I’m not sure but what that might take more time and resources than you want but it would be cool if some polls were handled that way. They could be at an obvious place such as an entrance and be associated with the event. I like the suggestion about the skritt npc. I also liked the bar rpg suggestion. I also liked the “talk to the skritt npc” for the daily every once in a while.

Thanks for opening the dialog.

marnick.4305:

mexay.3902:

Members of the community have already expressed their distaste for the way this character was written and presented. She is fine on her own, but don’t make me see her every time I want to do fractals. Keep her in the living story and let her go no further.

Members of the community have already expressed liking the way this character was written and presented. It’s harder to find anyone liking Trahearne.

I like Trahearne.

I looked the the hairstyles because I was wearing a hair obscuring helmet on my norn due to the hair clipping the shield on her back. I found a nice style that doesn’t clip her armor or shield. However, I think it was one of the old styles, not one of the new ones.

I liked it also.

I posted back when we had to use the gw2lfg site for a group for one of the dungeons that I wanted to complete for some reason (don’t remember why now). I said that it was for inexperienced people who wanted to work together. Most of the others were at the level the dungeon is listed at and it was painful, but we managed it and had fun and a good attitude about it. I haven’t tried out the ingame lfg tool, hopefully it let’s you be descriptive in your post. If not, I think being able to explain the type of group would help.

Xcom.1926:

Chris, I appreciate the post. However, I would appreciate it even more if you guys could do something like a State of the Game. And what we should expect moving forward. A lot of players don’t know where GW2 is going and they don’t know what to expect. It seems like a game without direction at the moment, and to me that is the key issue. There seems to be some sort of indecisiveness within GW2 (real or perceived).

You don’t have to do something like that, but players would like to see something like that. People are not being negative for no reason (most of the time). There are some underlying issues why it seems like people are upset. And yes I agree, being a troll or angry is not the best way to go about it.

I am afraid without tackling the root issue, nothing will change.

I think that frequent state of the game posts would help out. One thing for all of us to keep in mind is that being negative and insulting drives people away. You can be critical without insulting people.

BlueZone.4236:

Other than trying to diffuse the angry posts in the forums, I’m guessing the main point of this topic is about getting people to discuss about implementing the direction of the “living world” (I notice it’s no longer living “story”).
One take away is there is probably no traditional expansion, full stop. The “living world” is them putting their foot on the ground.

Having said that, it sounds like they’re wanting to push towards a more player driven content style of content (that’s really the only way to make a world “living”), and have no an idea on how to do this (hence “collaborative development”).
I have no real input other than I don’t think they have the tools or resource to do this in a timely fashion, nor do I think their engine is capable to do so (at this point of time). (Negative nancy, I know)

I guess they could put something similar to WvW points system/capture system, except in the open world that helps debuffs world bosses to make it easier for casuals to take down eg. Tequalt (probably considered grindy, though, and expect complaints from hardcore players saying the game is too easy again).

That clarified things for me. To be honest, I don’t know if they have a firm plan and are just working towards it without letting us know exactly what it is or if they just have a vague idea and are trying this, that, and the other to see what sticks.

Regardless, I’m looking forward to the Mad King stuff.

Some things are alt friendly, some not. However, they have moved some things that weren’t alt friendly step by step to being alt friendly. As an example, Karma. First they added the jugs of karma for the dailys so that you could use it on any of your alts. Then they made the karma account wide, which is very alt friendly.

I hope that more and more things move towards being alt friendly.

coronaas.4362:

The post started to give me a headache but I think he either said to stop being a jerk on the forums or if you don’t like the game to just leave

anyone care to clarify?

I think both were said in a very nice way and with more words.

It would be a great idea to concentrate people leveling together. I’m not sure how you would decide which server or how you would get the word out to people, especially new people.

It would be good to have the ability to select categories also …. ruins holding group, camp flippers, yak guarding groups…etc.

I would love this. I miss Nick and Yakkington.

Some great suggestions in this thread. To me the best change would be to be able to see chat from all guilds AND for influence to go to all guilds. If that would happen I would join one of the larger active guilds. Right now I won’t because my own small friends and family guild needs the influence.

DarcShriek.5829:

Tequatl rising is part of the living story, whether you consider it to be or not. Why do you try to deny facts? It seems kind of silly to me.

What was the story? Is all added content living story? Or is some of it just an update?

Great ideas………………

To ANET:

Just so that you interpret your numbers correctly: I got burnt out on living story and just am not participating now. It has nothing to do with how good or how bad it has been for the last couple of months. It could be the best thing ever to happen in game and I wouldn’t do it at this point. So don’t blame it on the current living story releases in error. I’d hate for particular groups to think their content was bad when it is really the overall burnt-outedness of some players. Obviously, I don’t know if numbers have decreased but if they have I wanted to put this out there.

(I’m taking a break and waiting on mad king activities.)

The lack of people at Tequatl on my server has me concerned. The last several times I’ve gone there, I saw less than a half dozen people there. Although I think they made the fight interesting, it is being bypassed now.

A lot of the named former magic find stat items aren’t showing up on searches at the trading post. Someone posted the names of a couple of scepters that were not showing up and they got fixed and now show up. I bet this still exists and just is bugged.

Well, opinions vary a lot, that is evident.

During the beta, Anet had surveys that we answered in game about the content. That means the mechanism is there to poll us in game.

You can’t rely on some spreadsheet. My husband’s boss got promoted. His new boss was “Mr. the spreadsheet is the answer to everything”. Suddenly my husband started getting told he wasn’t performing up to what they wanted. He went to his old boss and said, what is going on? His old boss looked at the information and said…oh, I see the problem. He is measuring calls per minute as performance. You are coming in early and working into lunch to cover extra calls to help out. That is decreasing your calls per minute as not as many calls come in before hours and during lunch. Just log in to the phone system exactly at the start of your time and exactly at the end of the time.

He did that, and it solved the “problem”. He helped less people, worked less, and made the spreadsheet boss happy.

Point is, numbers on a spreadsheet are just numbers on a spreadsheet. Interpretation of those numbers may lead to false impressions and conclusions.

Why don’t they do in game surveys again?

In general, people do not like content removal.
People do like content addition.

I agree.

I see no reason why SAB couldn’t be permanently available. It fits with the Asuran way of doing things. It’s repeatable. It could be expanded with some in game lead-in to the creator of the box, perhaps add a heart quest about him. It can be updated over time, adding new levels, more rewards with new levels, updates to tweak old levels.

You can solo it. You don’t need a big concentration of players around to play it.

It is the perfect candidate for adding something that is always available to do.

Einlanzer.1627:

It seems the majority of players are either ambivalent about it or outright dislike it. There are many good reasons why, too, the biggest ones being:

a.) continuously being thrown on time-gated achievement cycles starts feeling like a chore very quickly and both the achievements and the rewards become very trite.

b.) It’s a gimmick that very obviously revolves around the gem shop and results in very little world-building.

c.) temporary content is a waste of development time and hurts the game more and more the longer it remains the primary focus

d.) the overarching narrative is totally broken by the ‘flavor-of-the-month’ style of the LS and results in a world and gameplay experience that feels very shallow and fragmented.

Excellent summary of the bad part of the living story concept. I agree fully with what you said except for part of (b). I don’t think it necessarily revolves around the gem shop but it does result in very little world building. I’m thinking about that now though…the rng chests with skins related to living story content, the permanent harvesting tools, special minipets, hmmmm….. after thinking about it a while I might start agreeing on this point too.

I do like some of the activities and festivals added that are either permanent or should reoccur. It is hard for me to separate the living story from things that are just game updates.

However, the story part of it is not where it should be. I’m not sure what the story is. Maybe it is a bunch of short stories. I don’t know what they are either. Everything seems disjointed and incomplete.

I have hopes that the updates promised “by the end of the year” will repair some of this.

I do like how they concentrate players into participating in content though. It gives you a critical mass to get things completed. I hope they can manage to do that without using the here today, gone forever in two weeks model in the future.

Best:

1. Reoccurring activities and festivals: The mini-game rotations (activities, please add more of these to the rotation), Super adventure box, Mad King, Wintersday, Queens Jubilee (hopefully is reoccurring?), Bazaar + Dragonbash (hopefully is reoccurring?). To be specific – I like the activity parts of the listed events but not parts where you click on x number of items or kill x number of things that aren’t part of an overall activity. By that I mean, killing 100 pirates was fine in the Queen’s pavilion when I was running with a group and completed it by doing something else. Clicking on objects to spawn 5 or 6 mobs that I may have to solo and then go to another clickable object to spawn the next ones…that I don’t like.

2. Permanent additions that increased my enjoyment of the game: Fractals (the dungeons, not the requirement for ascended gear with agony resistance), improvements to bosses and champion chests, achievement points and rewards, dailys and monthlys, WvW ranks (please make account wide though), moving many things to the wallet such as karma and dungeon tokens, adding more bank slots, LFG feature, permanent harvesting tools, cool rewards such as kites, balloons, appearance backpieces, the film noir scene that can be replayed,

3. Southsun cove. New area, two new minigames. Good, yes yes! Needs more stuff added to it though. Also, we need skritt as a playable race.

4. Molten Weapons Facilities Dungeon. I want it back.

5. Interesting characters with stories and personalities: Rox, Braham, Canach, Majory, Faren, others that are developing personalities.

Worst:

1. Living story speed temporary go go go bug ridden content. I finally got burnt out and started ignoring even the things I like that are rotating or timed. I love SAB but had reached the “meh don’t want to do anything anymore that is on a time schedule” and did very little in it. I’m laying off trying to complete living story anymore so that next time SAB comes around I will want to do it. Congrats Anet, you cured me of being a completionist. Something no other game has been able to do. It’s actually probably good for me to not care about completing everything anymore. Too be honest, I liked some of the stories, activities, rewards, and areas….I didn’t like bugs, temporary anything, and feeling stressed/pressured to do it NOW!!! It ended up burning me out to the point I actively avoid a lot of it now. When something is not going to be reoccurring or permanent I now make this face -_- and just do the other part of the game.

2. Random Number Chests. Hate gambling. Seems a cheap trick to me to put the weapon and armor skins in there.

3. Grindy boring activities. Kill 50 or 100 or more of this. Click on 100 of those. Boringgggg. It’s ok as an achievement that happens naturally (like kill 1000 grawl), its ewwwwwww when it is something that you don’t do in normal gameplay and furthermore is on a time limit.

4. Lack of things that make me want to stay in a game – I like to do things (that part is mostly ok, there are things I like to do in the game), I like to progress and have visible evidence of progression such as – a house with my collected rewards in it, a wardrobe and different appearances of weapons that I can easily switch between to give variety, titles – mostly fluffy stuff, but I like fluffy stuff.

5. I understand the reasoning behind adding the ascended gear …… but I don’t like gear creep.

TL/DR: Just read the bolded words for the short version.

I wish they had more classes. I’ve thought about just making different race/class combinations and specializing them for a role. That is, making them “functionally” different classes. However, the gearing of them and the WvW points, etc. make me wonder if I really want to.

I haven’t quit playing but I’m ignoring ascended stuff. If I get it as a drop ok, otherwise, meh. Not getting on that hamster wheel.

Thanks to the JQ who helped my SoS low level alt get the skill point behind south camp. Was classy how you attacked the spiders so I could “commune” the skill point. Even when I accidentally hit you instead of the spider once you still helped.

and …pfffttttt to the group of JQ who took me down right at the Vista I was after.

:)

Is this a known issue or do I need to put in a support ticket? In PvE this is ok because when you log back in you are in the same spot most of the time. In WvW it is a pain because you may have to run a long ways and miss out on something big when you disconnect.

This morning we are still have dc problems in WvW on SoS. I asked in chat and several people said they were having the disconnects. We were on SoS borderlands at the time this morning around 7 am CST if that info helps.

I’m dc’ing in WVW constantly since it came back online. (SoS server)

hints.8036:

Here are some ideas that should take very little developer’s time but could have big impact to WvW.

• /o outmanned map chat. If two servers are both outmanned by one server, they can use this “temporary” map chat channel to coordinate a 2v1.

They could start adding things to wvw and then removing it every 2 weeks like in pve. So for 2 weeks (or maybe a month) have this chat available and see how it works.

• Remove Orb effects in EB JP. This should allow GvG folks to go there.

I’m ok with orb effects not working in EB.

• Make the JP into a giant death match where the center chest is a capture point.

I think there should be a wvw lobby and the JP are entered from the lobby.

• Revert EB JP change so that they share the same map again. The JPs right now (BL’s included) are mostly a ghost town (might conflict with #2).

see above

• Yellow message in PvE when your home borderline garrison has orange sword. Similar to how we get PvE announcements in WvW, we should get WvW messages in PvE too.

Cool idea. Might bring more people to WvW out of curiosity.

• You can only enter WvW if you own at least one level 30 character (not necessarily the one you use to enter WvW). This should solve the problem of spies with 2 accounts and keep transferring to a different server on each matchup.

Good idea.

Feel free to post yours. The only requirement is that it should take very little work on ANet’s part to do so it doesn’t distract them from their current roadmap.

Abilities have been added since the last rank point reset. I’d like people to post their suggestions on allocation of rank points.

Does your class affect which abilities you concentrate on?
Which are best for defenders?
Zergs?
Solo, small groups?

Are some just all around better no matter your class or role?

Discuss.

Yes, I’m having the same problem

I would love to wear the pirate town clothes as armor.

Astralporing.1957:

Drakkon.4782:

Make them collectibles so we can stick them in the bank without using actually valuable slots.

Or better, make them unlockables, like the Achievement skins.

Yeah, make them unlockable. I am just storing them in my bank slots cause I can’t be bothered with deciding who will wear them.

“Stop the Risen attackers from reaching Brigid’s Overlook” event has an NPC that will give you seed mortars to help set up the line of defense. When placing one of the seed mortars it put me below the land (which caused my surroundings to look like water). I could not get above the surface and had to waypoint.

Josh Davis.6015:

Thanks for the reports!

In future releases we’re going to make sure to keep the Living Story tracker active even if the achievements have been completed.

As a workaround, there are a few websites out there that use our API to track Tequatl and other world boss spawn times. They’re pretty spiffy! Could be worth a look.

Perhaps the LS could be a clickie notice like the daily and monthly. Then people could unclick it if they don’t want it at all, leave it showing, or turn it off after completing.

Since the daily and monthly work this way, perhaps it would be easy to implement.

Dragons should be difficult to kill.

That was totally fun! Great job. So much more fun than it was before.

I wish they would just make the legendary weapons account bound when equipped. They would appeal to me more if they worked that way.

This is a good work around though.

Honestly I think they are doing it more to socialize than to actually farm for profit.

IceBlink.4317:

I just wanted the Pirate runes to actually make you say “Yarr” as it said in the rune description bonus:

• 5% chance to shout Yarr and grant Might to nearby allies when hit. (cooldown: 10s)

Instead, character just shouts “For great justice”.

Post that in the bug section! It must be fixed.

I agree that map completion of a level 80 zone should give the fine transmutation crystals. After all there are very few level 80 zones so it would be only a few crystals.

I’d like some black lion chest keys also in the game more. I very rarely get this and have many unopened chests in my bank.

I like both these ideas.

Oddly there are many people who want company while they play and want to find leveling buddies. And yet the problem remains. Its one of the great mysteries of mmos. Why do these people never find each other?

I stack them up and open when I have a key. I wish key drops were a bit more common in the game. I have less than 250 because I haven’t had to start a second stack of them.

I don’t think I will ever have one but I do like looking at them. I hope they have the “fun” and “serious” version of each type.

Next time it rolls around, the developer who loves working on this will have taken care of the problems and all will be well.

Except, people will find something somewhere somehow for which to be critical. It is inevitable grasshopper.