There it is… Season 1 and 2 was a set up to Heart of Thorns. Meaning no more Living Story and the current story is being wrapped up in Heart of Thorns.
Except for the fact that doesn’t mean they won’t start on a new storyline, which they have said they will probably do to lead up to new expansions in other interviews. You know there’s four other dragons, right?
What other interview? and yes I am sure. thanks for personally stalking my posts all over those interwebs though.
Certainly doesn’t help that you are constantly opening new threads with similar topics. There’s been interviews posted already that living story will likely continue after the expansion.
I was right. In a PCgamer interview they say that HoT is supposed to wrap up the current storyline with Mordremoth. What else could HoT be for in the lore sense?
Sure you will get into the Mursaat but the Mursaat may be the key to killing Mordremoth during the storyline in the expansion in which you use that key to kill the dragon in the end.
Are you sure you’re not reading it wrong, like you did with the other interview?
Why would it not? There’s nothing stopping an achievement counting for more than one collection?
Because them people could just receive every single precursor the instant they unlock the mastery. Which is yeah, quite stupid. They already have a system for it that doesn’t seem to involve achievements tied into it anyway, so this entire thread is hypothetical.
People seem to keep forgetting that tieing achievements into it doesn’t work with the system, because it would make it that you can not complete them all, which according to Colin, you can. And if the achievements just apply retroactively, that would make all the precursors obtainable automatically. As it has already been stated, they are taking inspiration from the luminescent armor collections and Mawdrey.
So much cool stuff in the gem store on sale. Belindas greatsword is now also up in the gem store on discount, plus all the destinies edge 2.0 weapons, as well as a few minis and a dye set!
People are actually sad about this? This is great.
Only the greedy kittens who got the prices to this ridiculous level in the first place. I hope they get stuck with their legendary/precursors now, since anyone with some savvy will not even consider buying these until the Xpac drops. Let the vultures go hungry.
Pretty much this. Though, the precursors are still slowly dropping further in price.
In fairness to the people who want to pay in gold, Anet gets just as much real $. It just comes from people buying gems and turning it into gold instead of spending it themselves (or buying more than normal and selling surplus)
Um, no, ArenaNet does not get as much real $. If the gold they spent they farmed ingame, ArenaNet gets nothing. Heh.
Your right they actually get more real money when someone converts gold to gems(because of the conversion fee). You see when you buy gems with gold they are buying gems that someone else bought with real money and converted to gold if the person buying gem with gold wasn’t there then the person buying gems to convert to wouldn’t be able to sell his gems and wouldn’t have bought them in the first place.
All gems(except for the relative few that come from achievements) are representative of real world currency so it doesn’t matter if the person exchanged in game gold for them or not they are representative of real world profit for Anet.
Those gems could have been gems that were already in the system though, which makes quarterly profit reports much harder to do, as they can not be sure if those profits were actually made in that time frame. There is a lot of people that hoard gems to sell later at a higher price.
I’m not able to get in-game right now, but I do have some tips of how I did the Meeting the Asura ones. When you are Caithe, not many of your traits work, so it’s a pretty good idea to put all your trait points into vitality and toughness. I personally did unforgiving infiltration and aggressive infiltration at the same time with a condition build, though it can require a bit of patience, it’s more safe that attacking the big golems with power damage. For invisible infiltration, when you’re at the room with the 2 mini-golems and the big one in the center, if you take out all the asura you can go from one side directly to the other to use the door panels.
So, what exactly is the point of more levels if they do nothing? There is no point. They’ve already made their decision on it, the topic has been beaten to death, so yeah, you can stop now.
OP is indicating actual achievements tied in though. Which wouldn’t actually work in the system being put in, as apparently you’re going to be able to finish them all if you really want to.
There was a red post in the traits thread fairly recently that they will be removing the current trait system and reworking it to be better, so perhaps it will become more bearable soon.
Now that the HOT is out of the bag, we’re able to update this thread with more details. With the introduction of the new account based mastery system for end-game progression and growth in PvE, we’ll also be re-evaluating our other systems of character progression to ensure they match our over-all pillars and goals for Gw2.
In doing so: we’re going to be removing the current trait unlocking system currently on live and replacing it with a more simplified system that supports where skills-traits-specializations are going in the future. We’ll go into more details between now and the release of HOT on how skills, traits, and specializations will work in the new Gw2 world.
Thank you for all your passionate feedback on this topic – it not only helped our dev team lead to this decision, but has played a large role in helping us define how to build our exciting new account based mastery system for end-game progression in PvE as well.
Remember that many new maps in traditional expansions are for leveling, and as such get completely abandoned after people are at the level cap, so those maps don’t count.
Think for a second just how many of those zones in traditional expansions are completely ignored afterwards.
I guess I am the only one who didn’t want an expansion. I thought Living World was great and whatever features that came in was just bonus. I supported Anet through real money gem purchases….. Obviously buying virtual items on a gem shop doesn’t make profit for some reason.
You are definitely in the minority. A lot of people have been wanting a paid expansion for a long time.
You already got far more worth than what you paid for, what are you complaining about?
$60-70 AAA game usually has around 60-100 hours, sometimes even less.
You can’t compare Dragon Age: Inquisition to Guild Wars 2 let alone any MMO, different beasts.
In terms of money spent to time played you can. Many people have at least 1000 hours, which is far more than the cost of the game.
No, you really can’t. MMOs are ever changing, ever expanding worlds. Also how many of those hours are spent by people just standing around in town socializing with their friends. Many people use MMOs as a social network, that’s not game “content” provided. They’re completely different beasts.
Technically it is game content provided, as it is inside the game. Try to argue as much as you like, people got far more value out of the game than what they paid for.
You already got far more worth than what you paid for, what are you complaining about?
$60-70 AAA game usually has around 60-100 hours, sometimes even less.
You can’t compare Dragon Age: Inquisition to Guild Wars 2 let alone any MMO, different beasts.
In terms of money spent to time played you can. Many people have at least 1000 hours, which is far more than the cost of the game.
You already got far more worth than what you paid for, what are you complaining about?
$60-70 AAA game usually has around 60-100 hours, sometimes even less.
I would be suprised if it takes less than 100 hours per precursor. After all its one quarter of a legendary. If you believe this will be a matter of a handful hours per precursor you are probably in for a nasty surprise.
I never claimed they will take a handful of hours. After all, iv’e completed the luminescent collections, mawdrey, and every ambrite weapon.
They definitely will not be so hard that they require achievements, as you will be able to complete every collection. Judging by what has been said in interviews, the precursor collections are inspired from the luminescent armor collections and mawdrey scavenger hunt. The collections would likely take you to many places throughout all of Tyria.
Nope, just wait until off hours, I always see blackgate free open spaces at that time. The current theory isn’t entirely truthful. For example, when a server has a blackout time so people can transfer in, the server goes below full. So, the full status is indeed tied to how many people are online in the server. So, lets put the false theory to rest, yes?
Bump, this still isn’t fixed. I can’t even replay the Hidden Arcana instance because of it, so much for replayable content. Bug makes it so you can’t even get to Glints Lair.
Well the Living Story Season 2 came to and end. I bought Jurah’s thingy and it unlocked fine on the laurel vendor. BUT STILL NO RING? I made the luminescent armor, still no Ring…
And I love the ascneded sinister offensive amulet, but I’m still looking for the utility version..
Could Verata’s Seared Ring be added to the laurel vendor? Or should I write a support ticket?
And when I’m at it ccould there be another check if zealot’s ascended trinkets could be added, PLEASE?
OP is indicating actual achievements tied in though. Which wouldn’t actually work in the system being put in, as apparently you’re going to be able to finish them all if you really want to.
Well, if it goes by how ArenaNet has treated betas in the past, the first beta may be only for press. After that, it may be a closed beta with a controlled selection of people, and then public stress tests that is open to anyone that pre-ordered.
Zerker gear should be nerfed heavly. Till zerk gear exist there will be no balance in this game.
And then assassins stat set becomes the new meta. Will you then nerf that? And then Valkyrie becomes the new meta, will you nerf that after also? Nerfing stats does nothing, please actually use logic here.
Yeah, this happens with the other titles you are given during the personal story. It would be nice when you’re playing as a Sylvari to be able to use the title “Valiant”, or if you are playing Asura “Savant”. Possibly making those titles race exclusive?
