Guild Wars 2

EcoRI.9273:

No more UI wars

http://massivelyop.com/2015/08/31/pax-prime-2015-guild-wars-2-is-never-getting-a-raid-finder/

If i may, it’s only for each encounter. You’ll still be swapping traits/weapons/foods during the raid, only that the rooms for each encounter won’t have any OOC spot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3j550f/anet_clarification_on_the_in_combat_the_whole/

‘SMS’, did i say PC authenticator ?

Also, with 2 accounts, you simply receive a SMS for each time you try to log in, same as if you had only one. Simple as that.

GuzziHero.2467:

eisberg.2379:

Why don’t you want to use the SMS? Extra security is actually a good thing.

Because it is buggy as all hell.

I installed the PC version, worked fine till I restarted the computer, then locked me out of the game.

I wont install malware.

The SMS authenticator doesn’t make you install anything…

hildegain.2106:

eisberg.2379:

Why don’t you want to use the SMS? Extra security is actually a good thing.

I don’t like giving companies my phone number. I tend to get spam calls all the time when I do. Companies will sell your number.

I can assure you ArenaNet didn’t sell mine. Oh, yeah, and sold none of the ones they got actually.

bladezero.9470:

Algreg.3629:

bladezero.9470:

Random.4691:

Wow, considering you can cap every craft within 4 hours I would say crafting is perfect in GW2. It’s fast and painless, that is one part of the game they definitely got right.

I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in how “easy” it is. I don’t want to do it at all. From what I can see in guides there are even daily timers on crafting the ascended mats (which is disgusting).

well, isn´t that cool? So you only have to do it for about 10 seconds a day then.

Why shouldn’t ascended level gear (full sets) be obtainable from looting and just playing the game? Sure, there is a very small chance to loot the gear in Fractals, but nobody here would seriously argue that it is a viable alternative to gearing in full ascended.

Those of you who are in a position to loot a lot of ascended gear most definitely crafted your way to that point. Which is the problem…imo.

Would it help you guys if lootable ascended gear was really ugly so that everyone could see all of your hard work over the years as a crafter?

Exept that it’s actually more than half of my account that has his stuff from ascended boxes.

So yes, it’s a viable alternative.

P.S: i’m not a hardcore player with infinite time to play, having two jobs and a social life, before you ask

We’re in a thread about challenging content, no problem

Jerus.4350:

Element Two.7316:

Rym.1469:

I wouldn’t mind needing healers.

Anyone with a water field or a blast is a healer.

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kitten you and your staff guard !

So much pain in this post

I know it’s frustrating, i’ve been there myself, but when people are new, it’s better to act to form them to use the LFG properly. Trolls are another matter.

Let’s not lie to ourselves, even with a better LFG tool, you’ll still be in this kind of situations, or probably waiting even longer to get what you want (l80 guard).

ktmmax.3214:

phys.7689:

ktmmax.3214:

Yes it only requires you to be level 30, and obviously none of them have any idea what ‘p3 Meta guard’ or anything similar which results in all these new players with barely any experience and at level 30 trying to join every time you advertise. Fair enough to them; they want to try and experience dungeons and are excited for it, who wouldn’t be? but for us veterans it can be very frustrating having to repost your group every few seconds because new players are constantly trying to join as they have just unlocked their ‘dungeons feature’

not really fair to them because anet is setting up a situation they are likey to be rejected. The lfg has been problematic since its inception, but they never wanted to solve these issues because they werent too concerned with dungeons at all. If they want a less toxic raid culture, they are going to have to alter lfg systems.

But then what are us veterans expected to do who quickly want to finish our daily dungeons and find 1 more player? Wait and keep kicking and advertising for 30 minutes till we finally get a level 80 player? AC is definitely going to be the worst for this.

You are a bit over exagerating. If it takes you that long, either you’re playing @ 3 a.m in your server time zone, or you are doing it wrong.

Excuse me, but the user experience of the LFG is actually tied to people mostly using it wrong, aka, “DIDN’T READ LOL HURR DURR”, and not the tool in itself. Working on features to prevent things that can be prevented with a bit of common sense isn’t good. For the very simple reason that doesn’t help people to improve their very basics social skills.

Yes in some case the tool allow griefing (instance stealing for example), and that should be worked on. But not the “not reading” part.

If i’m not mistaken, F2P players can not use the lfg.

Either way, having them to know how to read the LFG’s properly is good for everyone.

Did you whisp him to ask to stop ? And told him (gently) to read the LFG before joining ?

Rym.1469:

I wouldn’t mind needing healers.

Ele drops water field. Rest of group blast instant. There is your healer.

Healers as a required hard role won’t happen. Never ever.

Meanwhile, another one has failed to notice the bait/poster. This will be TRIGGERing some nice things

Nice fail post

You mean, 15 shade of bugs ?

Btw, dlonie, your troll baits in main section of this forum… Well, sad that it works

ForeverAway.5948:

we have dungeon and fractals alredy and there too hard and create the zerkermeta

pls no more it will ruin the game for me. More zerkmeta wont be beter

Zergburger OP report’n’nerf pl0x

I particularly dislike the new sound >< The old one was way better, more soft, and not annoying at all.

“It feels like my characters are trying to blow the horn and getting their tongue stuck in it or something.”

Exactly this !

Thoses reddit comments… dunno if i cringed or laughed first.

EDIT: GJ Weth, was fun to watch :P

perry.9645:

best part about any record the fails

Requesting MOAR !

Very fun to watch ^^

Lukez.9716:

Unlocking HoM stuff in GW1 is super fun. I orignally was just planning to unlock the sword but quickly got addicted and got 30 points :P

GW1 is just an awesome game

Woah 14 secs less than the previous one… nice job !

fracture.9754:

Kordash.2197:

fracture.9754:

Kordash.2197:

You know you can give constructive feedback without being a kitten ? Just sayin’ !

If a person wants to learn, at least give him proper guide. If a person dedicates his free time to LEARNING instead of actually just playing, then at the very least what he can get in return is proper, correct way of playing.

Teaching people who spend their time learning instead of playing through means of misinformation is not respectful to people’s time.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. There is different ways to explain things, and yours is actually agressive, and that’s wrong.

Even if the guides are not good, there is an human, open to feedback and looking to improve, behind it. So don’t be a jerk, and give it in a decent manner.

Perhaps I came out as a jerk, but as I wrote, I like the format he chose to go with, so I would like to see his future work better. After all, he posted here exactly FOR criticism. I know my communicating skills aren’t the best, however.

Wethospu.6437:

Lendruil.9061:

I am not even sure if this is a bug, just see it that way that the projectile attack has two components. The first component are the (reflectable) projectiles, the second component is unreflectable (but dodgable/blockable) and hits immediately when he does his animation. And i am pretty sure that only the targeted player gets hit by it.

i am pretty sure

What did we just talk about this?

gasp being snarky about this, you, of all people! You show consistency that is unmatched by most guides out there. I don’t think I’ve ever seen words like “about, I think, I’m not sure, but…” on gw2dungeons.net.

Fair enough.

fracture.9754:

Kordash.2197:

You know you can give constructive feedback without being a kitten ? Just sayin’ !

If a person wants to learn, at least give him proper guide. If a person dedicates his free time to LEARNING instead of actually just playing, then at the very least what he can get in return is proper, correct way of playing.

Teaching people who spend their time learning instead of playing through means of misinformation is not respectful to people’s time.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. There is different ways to explain things, and yours is actually agressive, and that’s wrong.

Even if the guides are not good, there is an human, open to feedback and looking to improve, behind it. So don’t be a jerk, and give it in a decent manner.

Zenith.7301:

Kordash.2197:

You guys are so pessimistics, it looks like deSade took over your brains !

If you wanted to main a ranger you’d be like deSade too!

All my HoM points with excitement waiting for my black moa and white raven….

Ooops, your class is garbage and so are those HoM pets.

A black moa ? And… and antoher withey bird ? Why not a chocobo ! Dude, serisouly, look at that bear ! So much better !

You know you can give constructive feedback without being a kitten ? Just sayin’ !

Rednik.3809:

Kordash.2197:

Gibbe monies pl0x !

Btw, what do you buy with real world money that make it easier ?

Same as in all mmo games – something from other players. Platinum/mats/boosting services. Not like it’s hard to find someone for that.

Yeah, assuming you don’t get the ban hammer :P

Jerus.4350:

Kordash.2197:

Rednik.3809:

Kordash.2197:

More over, it’s 400-500h when you know the game perfectly well and focus only on it, and with discordway and/or sabway. Average time to get it is nowhere close to this.

Or just spend some $$$ and make it much-much easier. So much for effort, kek.

Gibbe monies pl0x !

Btw, what do you buy with real world money that make it easier ?

The keys to someones GW account that has it unlocked

Oh… that makes me sad

Rednik.3809:

Kordash.2197:

More over, it’s 400-500h when you know the game perfectly well and focus only on it, and with discordway and/or sabway. Average time to get it is nowhere close to this.

Or just spend some $$$ and make it much-much easier. So much for effort, kek.

Gibbe monies pl0x !

Btw, what do you buy with real world money that make it easier ?

You guys are so pessimistics, it looks like deSade took over your brains !

and KILL THAT FORUM BUG

Rising Dusk.2408:

I guess I just see skill as it’s used in a video game as something that takes time to acquire. I’ve taught some pretty abysmal video game players how to beat some pretty tough stuff in games, all with varying amounts of time, but it always just came down to time.

Yup ! Even games like “I wanna be the guy”, or “Meat Boy”, or even “Dark Souls”, that have the reputation to be super hard, are just a matter of time investement for any normal human being.

That’s exactly this.

Actions mean reviving, pick up/throw up things…

Element Two.7316:

Skady.5916:

Oh pls. I started working on GWAMM after they broke HOM and finished before they fixed it. Took about 400-500 hr

Yea, and what in GW2 takes anywhere close to that time?

More over, it’s 400-500h when you know the game perfectly well and focus only on it, and with discordway and/or sabway. Average time to get it is nowhere close to this.

“optimal” => mean best way to do something.

Whatever you are doing in life, there is only ONE best way to do it.
The good part in this game, is that you can do everything with everything. So yes, you can play your condi mesmer in dungeons.

Though with a condi mesmer : You are going for speed, you’re not optimal. You are going for your fun, then you are optimal. Make your own group or join similar minded people.

I know that you won’t be quitting, i just like silly jokes :P

Many changes where unexpected to me, like the recent PvP anouncement that i found very good and promising. The trick is not to expect something in particular, there is many ways to get some “challenging content”. But coming from a team that got me entertained for more than 5500 hours during the past 9 years, even if it doesn’t meet my expectation i think it will at least be fun to do for a little while. Let’s wait and see

If you quit after the announcement, canihazyourstuffpl0x ?

On a more serious note i’m really curious of what they’ll come with.

Stop telling you’re out and kittening do it if you’re that tired of the game.

Besides, it’s not like 90% of the issues rised in your OP where adressed in the last blog post.

Psychol.5783:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Not that has been announced recently.

There have been some in the distant past, but, again, nothing recent.

What pets were given out? because I can’t find on wiki or google.

It was a mini golem, Zojja’s golem. But it caused an uproar, and this one became avalaible in the gem store later on.

If troll 10/10.

If not, each time you log in, you’ll get a chest to click on on the right of your screen. Though, it doesn’t start right away, you’ll have to wait 3 days after you’ve activated your account (if my memories serves me right).

In short, just play, it will come along.

I have very little time actually, but for other that may have some, are you EU or NA ?

And also this may help :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Mentors-Noob-v2-0/first#post5251624

May i point out this is the first post ever of the OP on the forum ? That’s a bait.

Misread your first post seems. End of the week is hard, sorry for that ><

Ayrilana.1396:

Kordash.2197:

Ayrilana.1396:

Xbon.9086:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zok.4956:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

it’s not likely to be as “fun” if they entirely remove RNG from the reward system.

For the “unlucky accounts” it would be much more fun without RNG.

Except that there aren’t any “unlucky” accounts; all accounts have the same chances. Play enough, you’ll get good drops and bad ones. If you don’t play often, then it hardly matters.

Luck does play a part. There is a chance of course, that one player could never have an equipment drop, or exotic, It wouldn’t matter how much you play, what you’re saying right now is gambler’s fallacy, there ARE unlucky accounts, and people do quit because of it.

One account is not inherently different than another. The chance of one account getting 10 precursor drops is the same as any other account getting the same. There’s no internal variable or flag that makes a particular account “luckier” than another.

There is no need to have a “flag” on an account to be “luckier” or “unluckier”. RNG being what it is, there is (very few) edge cases where the account almost get nothing. So in theory yup, the chances are the same (and you can count on the devs to try to make it the closest possible). In practice, you’ll have an edge case “10 pre drops” and and edge case “nothing drop”, and a lot of case in between.

The argument was about some accounts being inherently luckier than others which is untrue. Your qualitative observations of one account being luckier than another (in the sense that I believe you’re using it) is based on what’s observered in the short run rather than long run where things tend to average out. You may still have a few outliers due to chance of probability. The chance of any account being one of those outliers is the same as another.

Once again, mathematically speaking, you’re right. Read again, and read the OP of this thread, it’s clearly stated that edge cases (though very rare) DOES happen (on the long run).

That doesn’t mean the accounts doesn’t have the same chances at getting precursors. That just mean they falls in the edge case of the RNG.

In short :
- All accounts have the same chance at getting precursors
- In practice (confirmed by devs), edge cases with very lucky ones and very unlucky ones happen (they still have the same chance at getting precursors, but in practice some gets more)

Ayrilana.1396:

Xbon.9086:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zok.4956:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

it’s not likely to be as “fun” if they entirely remove RNG from the reward system.

For the “unlucky accounts” it would be much more fun without RNG.

Except that there aren’t any “unlucky” accounts; all accounts have the same chances. Play enough, you’ll get good drops and bad ones. If you don’t play often, then it hardly matters.

Luck does play a part. There is a chance of course, that one player could never have an equipment drop, or exotic, It wouldn’t matter how much you play, what you’re saying right now is gambler’s fallacy, there ARE unlucky accounts, and people do quit because of it.

One account is not inherently different than another. The chance of one account getting 10 precursor drops is the same as any other account getting the same. There’s no internal variable or flag that makes a particular account “luckier” than another.

There is no need to have a “flag” on an account to be “luckier” or “unluckier”. RNG being what it is, there is (very few) edge cases where the account almost get nothing. So in theory yup, the chances are the same (and you can count on the devs to try to make it the closest possible). In practice, you’ll have an edge case “10 pre drops” and and edge case “nothing drop”, and a lot of case in between.

Zurchin.8479:

no I don’t use facebook or win10 and you can turn off googles search recording history.

Do you really think that ‘turning off googles search recording history’ prevents them from collecting data ?

You guys still answer this ?

This is pointless, Aetrion doesn’t understand the game design used for this game, and want to put something that goes against the said game design.

Plus, he have absolutely no clue on how this work, since he doesn’t want to recognise the fact that you can complete any content in this game with any comp/gear. And he doesn’t understand the difference between optimal/viable, wich is something you can not go against in any case.

Zurchin.8479:

Yeah im sorry but I am not going to start dishing out my phone numbers to game companies, I don’t care how secure they say they are or what they say they will use them for I just don’t trust anyone anymore when it comes to personal information and the internet, which is why I give minimal information and use only paypal, definatly no phone numbers.

If you have a Facebook, or are using Google, this is actually pointless.

Aetrion.8295:

The whole point of busting up the trinity should be to allow people to play how they want. That’s not what you get with GW2 though. It’s more restrictive than ever. Pre-determined builds, everyone in the same gear, every character is just a blank slate for the meta. Flowing neatly into any mold isn’t freedom. Being allowed to have whatever shape you like is.

Tell me, what prevents you from completing ANY content, with whatever build and gear setup in this game ?

Carighan.6758:

Robert Gee.9246:

I’m also fixing bugs on live for ALL professions this week and next which has kept me pretty busy.

I know this is totally not your decision to make, but shouldn’t bugfixing only need the game designers in an advisory/consulting role? In case something is best fixed by changing it entirely, so the designers have to come up with a new vision for the skill / item / whatever?

Usually you have the programmers (the ones who do the coding for the tools and the in-between coding for special cases) + the dedicated bugfix team do the bugfixing, while the deisgners work on the next batch of things to bugfix, no?

Game Designer include a large pannel of activity. They are programmers aswell, and generally speaking having someone doing only bug fixes leads the said person to madness and insanity pretty quickly, leading them to leave the company in the blink of an eye. As a developper myself, i can rely on this u_u

In theory, that would be better, but in practice it’s impossible. Because only doing bug fixes doesn’t improves your skills, and it’s boring. So, the best thing to do, is having a balance between creating new stuff, and bug fixing.