Guild Wars 2

well now when we can dismantle the ascended stuff crafting rings would be a money sink so dont see a problem with being able to craft em.

And depedning how much exp needed for mastery bar maybe food that buff mastery exp gain can be done aswell above 400

Algreg.3629:

MadOtaku.8532:

Everyone else had the intelligence to not rush luck to 300% as it would be boring and leave us loads of useless luck, you dug your own grave bro.

think again about early max luck, maybe you come to a different conlusion, even regarding distribution of intelligence and manners in general. Though maybe the latter are fitting for a self-proclaimed “weirdo shunned man-child” (yes, I happen to have adult Japanese friends).

Yea and still you dont know what otaku is man, its a nerd mate not a man-child.

And they said 300 would be max so what did people expect to gain when maxed out? Some say dont make it drop at max level then just destroy it the same thing just takes afew more clicks.

reminds me of “the last stand dawn of war 2”

CorrynnStarr.7942:

Linken.6345:

CorrynnStarr.7942:

Linken.6345:

CorrynnStarr.7942:

There are alot of ways to get to lvl 80 fast. honestly you can do it in a few days if you are dedicated. dailys in pvp give tomes, crafting gives you levels, some times bags give you tomes, monthly rewards give you tomes… there is no need to power boost anything here… except anets ability to get HoT finished maybe?

To clarify abit there are no montlys anymore.

But you do get tomes from both daily login’s and some of the daily tasks.

no, I have it right, i specifically mentioned daily pvp and monthly rewards. all throughout the month as you log in, you get rewards. those rewards consist of tomes as well as a multitude of other items culminating at one large monthly chest at the end of your choice. you only get that choice, for logging in a full months worth of time, ergo monthly reward.

Yea but they arent called monthlies anymore its daily logins since I can start it in januari and end it in march without having to redo the days I did previous months they arent tied to months at all.

you still must play 28 days to get the final reward, which is 1 month. call it what you want, you dont get it unless you play a months worth of time. so it is a monthly type reward.

Your right its a monthly 3 years out of 4 during 1 month febuary all the other months its a daily login reward since you can start a second run at it before month ends

well OP its 1 for your elementalist another 1 for your warrior and same for all the 8 base classes + the expansion class to a total of 9 elite specs.
so in a sence we are getting more then 1 just not for the same class.

SirPookins.9851:

Or i wont buy it. So make lots of dungeons!

Im said I wont see you in hot bud

and how many more rings do you have now?

3 chars unplayable or?

they start at max level you dont need to level them up

CorrynnStarr.7942:

Linken.6345:

CorrynnStarr.7942:

There are alot of ways to get to lvl 80 fast. honestly you can do it in a few days if you are dedicated. dailys in pvp give tomes, crafting gives you levels, some times bags give you tomes, monthly rewards give you tomes… there is no need to power boost anything here… except anets ability to get HoT finished maybe?

To clarify abit there are no montlys anymore.

But you do get tomes from both daily login’s and some of the daily tasks.

no, I have it right, i specifically mentioned daily pvp and monthly rewards. all throughout the month as you log in, you get rewards. those rewards consist of tomes as well as a multitude of other items culminating at one large monthly chest at the end of your choice. you only get that choice, for logging in a full months worth of time, ergo monthly reward.

Yea but they arent called monthlies anymore its daily logins since I can start it in januari and end it in march without having to redo the days I did previous months they arent tied to months at all.

roachsrealm.9284:

you aren’t supposed to be to begin with.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_Shard

when HoT hits, every time you gain a level past 80 it will be granting mastery points. as of right now I’m having a hard time finding exactly what happens to your exp now.

You get exp in the mastery line you got equiped you wont get mastery points those are for doing certain things like completing story steps grabing mastery nodes on map like the hero challenges I guess,

CorrynnStarr.7942:

There are alot of ways to get to lvl 80 fast. honestly you can do it in a few days if you are dedicated. dailys in pvp give tomes, crafting gives you levels, some times bags give you tomes, monthly rewards give you tomes… there is no need to power boost anything here… except anets ability to get HoT finished maybe?

To clarify abit there are no montlys anymore.

But you do get tomes from both daily login’s and some of the daily tasks.

blackoil.2673:

MiniEquine.6014:

If you have an issue with the price as a whole, that’s a different issue, but they are not handing out free core games.

Wrong!
From Regina Buenaobra:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

My point is really valid. Although I know it’s a mistake from their part, because it leads to misinterpretation.

Now don’t go to “the free bonus is only for new players”. They say they include the core game as a free bonus, and I really don’t care the reason. They just do

Yes and your free to start fresh as a new player on your new account that give you the main game and expansion in 1 serial code. Just let your old account collect dust and daily logins.

preorder dont give you any of the goodies tho

Crica.1503:

Jazerix.7842:

Crica.1503:

Jazerix.7842:

I agree, Tome of Knowledge should suffice. I imagine a new player would want to level a character from the beginning, to get the whole story. Apart from that, leveling in Guild Wars, really doesn’t have to take as long as in, for example, World of Warcraft.
I started a mesmer about two weeks ago, and was able to level her up instantaneously to level 20, with the birthday gift (can’t recall the name of it). With only playing less than two hours a day, I’m now level 50, and can get her to 80 when she hits level 65 with tomes of knowledge.

and during all that time spent playing alone in content that your friends and family have already completed, they will have completed alot of expansion content without you – the point of a character boost is so friends and family can play together in content that none have done yet, and I think it would attract alot of new players to the game.

Actually, through all that time, I’ve done my personal story, exploration with my girl friend, lots of pvp and dungeons with guildies and friends. It’s actually been quite a social experience. Only thing I’ve done alone is my personal story and leveling my two professions.

ok, so you have friends and family that have not completed all the content and come and play with you – not all new players will have the same situation as you do, alot will have friends and family that have done everything already and are just awaiting expansion content.

If your friends and family are nice they will play the revenant up with you in normal content and not boost themselfs shouldent be a problem if they want to play with you.

And few mmos aint it only 1 big one

Edit
And if your going to buy hot you may aswell do it now and get started leveling you will have the writs/tomes to level another char to 80 by the time hot launches that way anyway

Do you also run around with a sticker on your hand with your name written so you can see it?
If not then why is it important to see your name in game dont you know what you named it?

Dinks.2478:

Linken.6345:

Danikat.8537:

MetalGirl.2370:

Absolutely NOT ! I have 9,3k hours played! I, just as people like me, DESERVE to have something which will show how long we,ve been playing ! There are very few items that show since when are we in the game … that’s also why I’m against Bunny Ears being added back to gemstore.
Only achievements showing that is not enough, people don’t see them unless they party with you or add you to friends.

Except they don’t show that at all. I have just over 2,000 hours in the game and I’ve got them. People with less than 100 hours could have them.

The only thing they prove is that back in August 2013 you completed 8 achievements. That’s it. You may associate them with other activities from before or after, but they don’t prove you did that to anyone but you.

Yea I played 3k hours but dident get them since my computer was in for repair july to early september =(

Your computer was in for repair for 3 months? I find that unlikely and am going to call bullkitten.

5½ weeks actualy dident say when in july and early sept

thats the point teamwork meaning you and another guy not you alone

Serious Thought.5394:

Will we be able to unlock this in game? Or will EVERYTHING be gated behind kitten price tag?

Basically: Will it hit the gem store in any manner (even if is overpriced pieces)?

The new specializations bring lots more to the table than the basic vanillas. That’s why I’m asking in worry. And Revenant looks like (shiro anyway) a super buffed thief.

No you have to buy the expansion with real life cash not with gems you could get with ingame coin.

What you can buy for gems are the upgrade from normal to deluxe to get 1 mini, 1 glider skin, 1 decoration for guild hall and a finisher.

Danikat.8537:

MetalGirl.2370:

Absolutely NOT ! I have 9,3k hours played! I, just as people like me, DESERVE to have something which will show how long we,ve been playing ! There are very few items that show since when are we in the game … that’s also why I’m against Bunny Ears being added back to gemstore.
Only achievements showing that is not enough, people don’t see them unless they party with you or add you to friends.

Except they don’t show that at all. I have just over 2,000 hours in the game and I’ve got them. People with less than 100 hours could have them.

The only thing they prove is that back in August 2013 you completed 8 achievements. That’s it. You may associate them with other activities from before or after, but they don’t prove you did that to anyone but you.

Yea I played 3k hours but dident get them since my computer was in for repair july to early september =(

Sylent.3165:

lil devils x.6071:

Sylent.3165:

They should not rerelease old items in my opinion.

It is a symbol of how long someone has been playing and that they were able to get it.

Now if you lost them my mistake then yes you should be able to get more

Not re-releasing items only decreases the games longevity. You are putting an expiration date on games that are not new player friendly. Why would players want to come into a game only to find they have missed 5, 10, 15 years worth of stuff they will never be able to have? They would be right to think they already missed the boat and should either play a game that does not do that or a game that just started so they have a chance to enjoy all of the content everyone else enjoys as well. The benefits do not outweigh the harm done to the game long term of having items in the game that new players will never be able to obtain. I would rather have new players joining keeping the game fresh instead of having the game die. People should not forget that players do not HAVE to play your game, you want to give them reasons to CHOOSE your game over others, otherwise your game dies while they are playing games that gave them more reasons to play them.

ALSO, Birthday rewards are great vet rewards, new players will get them eventually, but may never actually catch up to vets getting them first. Vets will ALWAYS have more birthday rewards due to them having more birthdays.

I wouldn’t see a real gamer not play a game because they can’t get a cosmetic only back piece that has no effect on the game

But this is fashion wars 2 dident you know that?

but you will be able to precursor craft it when expansion hits so why buy it now?

You pay nothing to win with hot.

You pay to access new areas, get new ways to play existing professions and a brand new one.
You pay to access new skills to travel talk to new frog people and other masteries.

Donari.5237:

We have planks, shovels, landmines, rocks … all sorts of environmental weapons.

I could see HoT including mushrooms you can grab and use, raptor eggs, hanging vines, etc.

and are any of them cool + can you collect them?

can you play season 2 on your alt?
if answer is yes and it should be then you will be able to play hot story line to.

Then send them an email and state that you take no claims to any content that may come of your ideas then pray something make it into the live game.

maybe this will help OP

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1jm1a5/achievement_guide_finishing_up_the/

lil devils x.6071:

Sylent.3165:

They should not rerelease old items in my opinion.

It is a symbol of how long someone has been playing and that they were able to get it.

Now if you lost them my mistake then yes you should be able to get more

Not re-releasing items only decreases the games longevity. You are putting an expiration date on games that are not new player friendly. Why would players want to come into a game only to find they have missed 5, 10, 15 years worth of stuff they will never be able to have? They would be right to think they already missed the boat and should either play a game that does not do that or a game that just started so they have a chance to enjoy all of the content everyone else enjoys as well. The benefits do not outweigh the harm done to the game long term of having items in the game that new players will never be able to obtain. I would rather have new players joining keeping the game fresh instead of having the game die. People should not forget that players do not HAVE to play your game, you want to give them reasons to CHOOSE your game over others, otherwise your game dies while they are playing games that gave them more reasons to play them.

ALSO, Birthday rewards are great vet rewards, new players will get them eventually, but may never actually catch up to vets getting them first. Vets will ALWAYS have more birthday rewards due to them having more birthdays.

Yea we totaly love our lvl 20 boost scrolls that dont stack with previous years

Vova.2640:

so from what I understand we will be getting new legendary weaps in HoT which will be account bound.
now, will we still be able to get (from drops) pres for old legendary weaps tho?

Like, I really wanna get The Bifrost but Im only like half through farming gold for The Legend…
I need to know if I can still take it easy on gold farming or need to start spending 20h a day in SW

thanks

Why buy the legend now when you will be able to craft the pre when hot launches?

Edit
And to answer question the old pre weapons will still be coming from drop/mystic forge just as they do now

sephiroth.4217:

Me and a friend were helping each other out build legendaries, I was raising funds by selling skins, I sold a skin to someone I met through the game for 200g….

My 200g was stripped from me due to the other person dealing with RMTs… What ever it is you’re doing, screen shot everything that’s involved with it. Also try not to get involved with people you do not know 100%, it could have indirect effects on your account like it did to mine.

The only positive that came from my experience, is that a friend gave me Sunrise for dirt cheap price, I only paid him 400g out of 1000g but we both agreed that if I were to continue paying him back then Anet would most likely take the gold off him.
Huzzuh for 400g legendary!

One question did you sell skin through mail or trading post?

I like the idea but I dont see how this would boost peoples willingness to help newbies it seem to more exlude them and get a tightknitt group that know their kittens together.

have you taken the one inside instance in deadend cave? ( only asking since its not possible to see outside of said instance )

Other then that you have to check what maps your missing pois on

Counter question what cool environmental weapons do we have atm?

If you talking about elementalist conjoure weapons maybe one of the specilizations will cover that

Alex.2908:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Alex.2908:

I dont have to explain anything to anyone, just answer the question if you can, if you can NOT than dont waste MY time and your time with all this blabbering.

Clearly Anet stated that by buying HoT you will also buy GW2 but how can i buy GW2 if i dont get the GW2 features. That is a plain simple logic, i hope it helps you.

Your rudeness towards the other player in the first paragraph is starting to show your true colours. That person replied to try and help you understand our perspective – in that, why is it so important for you to know about infractions, if you don’t plan on breaking any rules in the ToS? If you don’t want people to ask you this, then perhaps you shouldn’t be asking your question in a public forum.

Secondly, having no infraction points on an account is not a feature of Guild Wars 2! Fraction points are ‘awarded’ for bad behaviour. Having zero infraction points is for good behaviour, not simply for buying the game.

The free GW2 part of the HoT expansion is for new players, so they don’t have to buy two separate packages, so it’ll have no bearing on your account if you choose to add the HoT part to an existing account.

When i have been rude? i have just asked him to realize what he said. You could just say that he was rude to himself, HE WAS, not ME. His copy/paste post from the rule of conduct was totally useless because everybody has a duty to read it and, so, it is known and was not answering my question. As i have already said, if you are going to be off the topic than better dont write anything.

I dont care as much about infraction point as i care about why Anet said that i will have to pay more because i will buy GW2 all over again. I know that i wont get anything for those bucks, the only thing i didnt knew was the infraction points, now i know, just a marketing message, you will only get the expansion and nothing more.

I think the expansion bring a lot of essential features but their marketing message was confusing. So if there will ever be another expansion than i will have to pay the whole amount of money 3x because if i dont i wont get the living story for which i have already pay on the first purchase. On the cover of GW2 disk is written that i will get a “Living story” but wait, i wont, it will have to be purchased separately, which is not really what i have signed for. Is that true? Anyway, just copy/paste a random text from the code of conduct, you dont really have to give me a real answer to my question.

if you played the game ls1 and 2 were free of charge, since you said you had to pay for it then you dident play those weeks.

Do you go to the store aswell and complain that you dont get that two for one deal they had a month ago today?

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Well you could always do what ever you like and buy the spot from people who 4 man the fractals with the coins you earned.

Alex.2908:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If you are not planning on breaking any rules, why ask if you will get your account terminated the day after purchasing HoT?

I guess I don’t understand why you would make a thread about termination, if there was no intention of doing something to cause said termination.

There are many thing that you dont understand and i agree, this is one of them, i was just curious about how the “system” works and what are the advantages of buying the whole game (at full price) for the 2nd time. First time i bought it i had no inf. points and several characters slots, if i buy it the 2nd time, along with the HoT content, i wont get anything that i didnt already pay for so if i pay again for it i should get some, right? Like no inf. points and some char slots, for the beginning.

And, BTW, do you realize what you ask O.o? Why would i plan to get my account terminated the day after i have spend money on the expansion?)) OMG))

But your not buying the game again your buying the expansion going forward.
If yuou want all that the new people get then start fresh and leave the old account to login and grab daily chests.

Not likely since they went out of their way to state that you had to use ascended salvage kit

assasin oates.3018:

Tuomir.1830:

username.4932:

Bottom line is that anyone should be able to have access to best gear without being forced to do something you don’t like (if i can buy it at TP, even expensive it is fine).

This here we call entitlement. The same argument could be used for anything – “I don’t like doing x content, but I want the reward for x content. This is not fair!”.

no.no it’s not. It’s called Guild Wars 1. Where armor value didn’t matter at max level but your skill level and build did. The problem is, is that we don’t want grinding and we don’t want to or have the need to grind for max stat armor

And you dont have to as you play you will get weapon and armor boxes that you can turn into what ever you like.

maybe its time to stop salvaging blue/green and sell them to people who havent maxed out their luck

And giving new ways to play the professions so going deeper into defence aint what they are going for

Cakemeister.5792:

I’d like to see charges be purchasable and stackable on a single item. I would buy 50 sickle charges at a time but I could buy 500 charges and have them on a single sickle, instead of buying 10 stacks of 50 charges.

and thats what the infinite gem tools are for mate

rhapsody.3615:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

rhapsody.3615:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

• The new precursors will not drop and can only be obtained via collections. They will be account bound upon acquire. The legendaries they make will be account bound on acquire.

Can you link the source of this information? Not trying to argue, but I don’t read reddit, twitter, and other areas where sometimes info is released. And I haven’t seen anything from Anet saying that the new precursors will not drop or come out of the forge.

Here you go:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/

Good luck.

Thanks, but I still don’t see an area where it states that new precursors won’t come out of the forge or as drops. I see more evidence that they will:

“…So, should you get lucky and find a precursor out in the world, you won’t miss out on the skins.”

“This crafting system is an account-based activity, which means you’ll only be able to craft each precursor this way once. However, all of the currently existing precursor acquisition methods will remain intact in addition to this new acquisition method. That means that if you want a particular precursor more than once, you’ll have to fall back to the original methods of acquisition.”

I wish someone from Anet would just come out and clarify. I’ve been trying to get this info since they announced precursor crafting.

its good that you can read but maybe go all the way down to the bottom next time

New Legendary Weapons

I know you’re all dying for more information on new legendary weapons, but we’d like to delve into them more with a dedicated blog post in the future. For now, I’ll say that we’ve been working kitten new legendary weapons, the first handful of which will be introduced in Heart of Thorns, with more to come in subsequent updates. The methods by which you’ll craft these legendary weapons are similar to the existing system, but we’ve refined it into more of a journey, similar to precursor crafting. We also want to better preserve the prestige associated with crafting a legendary weapon, so the new legendary weapons, and their precursors, will not be tradable. Keep an eye out—we can’t wait to start showing them off when they’re ready!

Astralporing.1957:

Shaogin.2679:

Astralporing.1957:

Shaogin.2679:

This is like complaining that you are excluded from dungeon armor skins because you only feel like playing WvW.

Nope. There are two independent reliable sources of those. For ascended weapons and armour there is only crafting (RNGesus makes depending on drops highly unreliable).

It still doesn’t change the fact that a player that decides that he doesn’t want to pvp or run dungeons will never get dungeon skins. It’s the same exact argument. There is no meaningful difference.

Actually, a player that only wants to pvp will get those skins more easily that one that runs dungeons. And reward tracks were introduced specifically because pvp players did not want to PvE. If that was a sound argument then, i don’t see why other people cannot argue alongside similar lines now.

Then why cant I pve and get glorious armors aswell

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

butch.8136:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

butch.8136:

Hylgeriak.8250:

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Most interesting to me:
“From there, they will land in Verdant Brink, the first map of the expansion, where about 25 percent of the total playable space of that first map will be available to play.”

First map? Is that a hint finally that Verdant Brink isn’t the only map being added with HoT?

Was thinking the same first. But then it could also mean “This is our first map that will be implemented with HoT, we will continue to add further maps such as DT & SW with forthcoming updates”. Which I wouldn’t mind, cuz VB is as large as 3 regular maps with all those different layers etc…but the outer view would be pretty meh if game magazines would report “just one map with the start of the new GW2 addon HoT”. So still hoping for more maps from the beginning.

More than one map is confirmed since HoT’s announcement.

They never specifically stated there would be more than one map. It’s just assumed as that’s usually the case with MMO expansions. All they said was that the Heart of Maguuma, the upcoming region, would have multiple layers (the Core, the Roots and the Canopy).

I’m glad we have a confirmation now though, sort of.

But there’s a couple of cases where they talk about mapS…..

Source?
Also, was this at the announcement? or later on?

later on
Feb 4
In the deep jungles of Maguuma, you’ll run into similar stories of an even larger scale that occur in secondary phases. For example, the first map you’ll enter in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will tell the story of some of the survivors of the catastrophic Pact Fleet expedition into the jungle.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/journey-into-the-heart-of-maguuma-in-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns/

Feb5
With the launch of Heart of Thorns, there will be two Mastery regions: the Heart of Maguuma, encompassing all PvE zones that are part of the Heart of Thorns expansion

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/reimagining-progression-the-mastery-system/

April3
From the towering heights above the jungle canopy down to the root-riddled depths below the surface, each map in the Heart of Maguuma focuses on vertical as well as horizontal exploration.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/gameplay-features-making-the-most-of-maguuma/

I cant be bothered to look through another 10 pages of news to find more sources for you bud, I took the oldest ones so start from page 10 of the news if you wanna find more.

Khenzo.2465:

DresdenAllblack.1249:

I hope the challenging content does not take its lead from the triple worm. Too much communication and strategy are needed to even have a chance. No one even bothers with this silly boss anymore, if they ever did. I can only imagine what direction Anet is heading in.

Yeah I agree, I really don’t see what the big deal is about things like TT, it’s such a massive logistical issue. The boss it’s self mechanically isn’t anything to sing and dance about really, same with Teq. Sure anything gets easier with experience but If I want a challenge I, as a player want to be challenged, I want my knowledge of my class to be pushed and so on. I don’t want my ‘challenge’ to be going on TS and managing 80 people or what ever on where to stand and when to attack, when to do this or that.

These sort of events just drown out the indivdual, and quite often the larger it gets the more dumbed down it becomes.

There is reasons why mmos have pretty much abandoned 40 man raiding as a whole and prefer 25 or less.

considering only 3 games i know of even have 40 man raids cant say its a industry standard ( wow wildstar and the secret world )

I wonder when they add the leader board will they reset progress again or can I continue up from 43 to 50?

No its not going to add mastery tracks tho

Tyrannical.9348:

new zones, new creatures, new pets… it’s entirely possible

when they added Southsun Cove they also added a new drake pet, I believe. So there’s no reason why not.

and then they added drytop and silverwaste with no pets so there is just as much reason they might not do it either

it was to confusing for new players hence it was changed

I find it odd that you leveled up all classes to 80 and still dont know what there is to do in the game, Still got engi left to level up myself

map complete, collect skins, do all the jump puzzels, achievement, dungeon collections.