Guild Wars 2

Colin Johanson at PAX 2013:

The best place we could ever get at is where the people who wanna farm go do a dungeon and play it really well and defeat it, go out in the open world and join up with a big group of players and beat as many events as they can and rapidly beat events; it’s to play a lot of different content, and play events here and then go play this event chain and then go play this event chain…

Every event in the game, you can only do it once pre day, or every champion in the game, you can only kill it once; that’s terrible for players, and it’s not fair to everybody else to do that just to encourage the farmers to spread…

This update:

• Bosses on limited availability: big bosses 3 times a day, boss of medium type every 2-4 hours, minor boss every 2 hours.
• All bosses are predetermined.
• All bosses are on timers: no more free-to-start event chains.
• Other champ rewards nerfed.
• Other event rewards nerfed.

And it’s only been half a year.

Astralporing.1957:

AcidicVision.5498:

Megaserver consolidation should happen in areas that have consistently seen 20 players or less during peak hours. And it should be virtually transparent.

That… actually is a really good idea.

Also known as an underflow and suggested many times previously.

emikochan.8504:

I don’t think anyone wants to eat toxic meat :p Ascended food… meh why not :p

Hm…

Aidan Savage.2078:

Lishtenbird.2814:

Pretty sure people already posted it, but…

How the heck will a TTS or PSDH or any other world boss guild member be able to get to an empty enough map to accomodate the other 100+ people for the event at any time, even when triggered as a mission? If maps are always being kept relatively filled, it means that, unlike previously when you could mass-guest to a low-pop server, there’ll always be an unremovable dead weight in the map doing anything but what the raid members want.

Same way they do now- get enough people into the map(s) that the system has no choice but to create an empty one to have room.

But you had to do it about once to fill your own server and you could never fill other empty servers, as an extra overflow would be created/connected once yours is full; with the new system, however, you will be filling several (5? 7? 10+?) other servers where the system will be putting you “so that you’re not alone” until you actually hit the limit and trigger a new empty overflow (which will at once start to be filled with new people so that you’re not alone for too long).

Rezz.8019:

No, that is not correct. That +225% number means that overall average population on the maps will increase. There were so many empty maps that had like 1-2 people. Now they might have 40-50. But those that had like 80 will have 50 (just random numbers but you get the point). So on average you will have more people doing world events than on Ehmry Bay, but you will have less than on Blackgate.
Map max population is not increased.

What makes you think they will get drained? Your interpretation actually means splitting the original server community, which is not what ANet intended to do; as they stated, “if you had enough people on maps on your server you will likely not see any changes”. What they intended was to make desolate low-level zones filled with more people (by virtually merging them by creating “underflows”); and with world bosses put on timer, this will make the morning Frozen Maw grow from an easy 5-people fight into a 17+ people zerg, and an evening one to 50+ as there’re no other bosses to do and the maps got merged.

GuzziHero.2467:

Yeah, pretty much. Actually if I could toggle bind viewpoint to the mouse, and left click to reveal cursor (release to select), that would be pretty much ideal.

Hm… I’m afraid I don’t get it. Could you list what each binding in your scenario does and how it works step by step?

Pretty sure people already posted it, but…

How the heck will a TTS or PSDH or any other world boss guild member be able to get to an empty enough map to accomodate the other 100+ people for the event at any time, even when triggered as a mission? If maps are always being kept relatively filled, it means that, unlike previously when you could mass-guest to a low-pop server, there’ll always be an unremovable dead weight in the map doing anything but what the raid members want.

It will be nerfed by 10% for full zerk on April 15th.

That’s it, nothing else changed in terms of gear priority.

Naqaj.6219:

(also works better with 3D and VR. You know, future proofing etc )

Ehem… But let’s start with DX11 and SLI support, please. And probably loading the multi-core CPU to the full 100% before dropping FpS, and making it use GPU resources through CUDA.

Added 146. Ability to vertically rescale Bank/Collection, Merchant etc. windows (playing on high resolution but having to scroll-scroll-scroll small windows is no fun).

Added 147. Bring focus onto TP window when clicking “sell/buy more on TP” from inventory/bank/collection/crafting window.

Astral Projections.7320:

Events like the Maw often have way too many people. Shatterer and Jormag often have too few. Consolidating maps and then making additional instances as needed may solve both of these problems.

On the contrary. It will join maps to create instances with +225% population density and turn every single world boss on a timer into a megablob.

Why create a separate thread? We already have this one and this one, it will get merged at best.

For PvP?

• CONDITION DAMAGE
• Toughness
• Vitality

• CONDITION DAMAGE
• Condition Duration
• toughness
• vitality

…and let the forum roar.

For PvE?

No sense to add anything until you fix condition damage in PvE, as Berseker’s/Soldier’s will be better than any new ones since a) healing power scales horribly and b) the rework of sigils/runes rendered precision-oriented builds far less viable.

Naqaj.6219:

Personally I wouldn’t even need 3 and 4, but yeah, it’s kinda already in the game, we’d only need Arenanet to actually wrap it into a neat Settings option. Low-hanging fruit.

Since people can do the first 2 but still ask for 3 and 4 and even go as far as writing AHK scripts for it to work, I believe they need it:) Well, tastes differ.

ArtemusHunter.9521:

I think number 48 is already in the game.. that aoe loot everything button they added. I have mine set to “C” and “F” is the original one, so I don’t have an issue looting with that.

No, I’m talking about automatic on-kill looting instead of press-to-loot.

Naqaj.6219:

That is already 90% implemented. The game “soft-targets” anything in the middle of the screen. There’s actually a (unbound) keybind to lock the soft target.
An option like “Always use soft targeting for skills that require a target if no target is locked” would essentially give you the Combat Mode targeting functionality.

So it makes it even easier to implement:

1. make a “Usual/Combat mode” dropdown option,
2. tie a set of targeting options to Combat mode,
3. make cursor reset to center for AoE casting,
4. draw a crosshair.

I just remembered another feature and forgot it again… hm.

OtakuDFifty.2965:

The Guild Wars 2 Neon Genesis Evangelion?

^ my first thought.

4) Being able to use all waypoints in all maps, and let’s forget about contested waypoints at all.

Simply have a bunch of mobs camping the waypoint if it’s that important, so that you have to fight your way out if you get there. And that’s it. Even dying isn’t punishing anymore because there’s no repair fee.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• There’s lots of ways to go about this, but the current thinking is that it would be more convenient to plan for specific daily times rather than have a “sliding” rotation. We felt this was particularly necessary for larger events like the Triple Wurm and Tequatl.

But it’s not the players who plan now; it’s developers who planned which bosses a player will play after he comes home from his full-time job. That is not convenient.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• Although non-scheduled events are more dynamic, you have a low chance of encountering events with long cooldown periods. Although it was originally thought that big events would be happenstance and rare opportunities that players would stumble on and become immersed in, we found that many players enjoy this type of content as a mainstay of their GW2 experience. When they can’t access that content regularly, we have a problem.
  -snip-
  At some point, we would also like to introduce a messaging system in-game so that it’s always clear what world event content you participate in without having to utilize a resource outside of the game. I have no guarantee or ETA of when we might actually see this though.

What I (and some other people) wanted to see was an “event fairy”, an “asuran news stone” or a similar mechanic that could be used instead of gw2stuff. Playing the world train was fun – you felt like a bunch of heroes who’re helping the poor Tyrian folks in their mishaps on a daily basis, and the more you could help the better. It felt dynamic, it felt real and entertaining – and the only bad thing about it was that it wasn’t in the game itself…

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• consistently provide access to large scale content for players who want to play it

Players who have a certain limited time window won’t. Solution? Make 2-3 medium world bosses spawn on their timers, and 3-4 easy world bosses on theirs. People will still be able to plan, but they’ll also be able to choose what to play instead of having to plan: “I’m doing Jungle Wurm, and then a fast AC p3 where I’ll kick all noobs or I miss Shadow Behe… And if I fight Svanir Shaman and Shatterer, I’ll be sleepy tomorrow all day, nah…”.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• deliver that content in such a way that players can plan and organize to prepare for it

You don’t have to organise and prepare for Svanir Shaman, Jungle Wurm and Ulgoth. If anything, it will be a waiting game – go to boss, park, go watch youtube or eat a sandwich. Auto-attack with zerg, repeat.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• help ensure that there are always enough participants in the content

On the contrary, I see this as a major problem in the future. With the upcoming merge of servers, there will never be 5-player fights with Maw and Inquest Golem; there’ll always be a merged zerg from multiple 5-player maps created to “ensure that there are always enough participants in the content” and “make the game comfortable”, which will in turn lead to horrible upscaling which currently makes me go harvest something for third of the Golem fight. Will you be tuning scaling to ensure that the game remains a pleasant experience? I hope so. But even if you do, it makes bosses less of a challenge because spamming ranged 1 in a zerg makes more sense than going melee and trying to dodge the discharges completely hidden by bodies and AoEs.

anzenketh.3759:

That is how sometimes people were able to get in more bosses then with the schedule system. When in average it will likely be about the same.

Just ran over the schedule… I can tell that my usual boss runs will get halved, to 3-4 down from 7-8. Plus, I will have to stick dungeon runs in between and make sure I run “80 only exp speedrun” or I risk missing worldbosses. Not even speaking about occasional farming of Arah, Grenth and Melandru when they’re up – it’s either camping now, or… stop-reporting-minion-masters-in-Orr-as-T6-will-skyrocket-otherwise.

TL;DR: living by a timer is not as fun as it may seem.

I would really prefer to have several standard/small bosses spawn at once, instead of a single one at a time. There’re bosses I like, there’re bosses I don’t, there’re bosses I’ve done already in a different timeslot.

Furthermore, if we have a single boss at a time, we’ll always have to fight with the full zerg, and I think I don’t have to tell developers that killing Frozen Maw or Inquest Golem with 5 people is a lot faster and more fun than a 10-minute auto-attack on a gigantic HP bag upscaled by a large zerg who had no other bosses to do anyway. This is a design decision which will make the game less comfortable with the new system.

lakdav.3694:

Ability to hide engineer kit backpacks.

Not sure if it can be done for PvP and WvW, but should be ok for PvE. Added as 143.

lakdav.3694:

Ability to hide damage indicators. (Even if i could see through the particle effects, i cant see through the stacks of damage numbers.)

Dalanor.5387:

Force damage indicators to the middle of the screen.

It’s weird when you hit a big hit box / high target and your numbers appear somewhere in the ionosphere or behind you, as can happen with Shadow Behemoth.

Combined into 144. And 145.

CureForLiving.5360:

I really don’t see one of the community reps looking at a list of 125 points and say: “Jip I’m so going to summarise this and give it to the dev team”.

If you believe that all the work should be done for them by players, than I believe that players should get their salary instead.

There’s nothing difficult in categorising 125 items for people used to working with data, especially since most of them have already been categorised within the list itself. And if it is… then well, fast food chains always have vacancies for burger flippers.

Dragonic Elemental.2674:

40. It only requires one extra press of the “F” key, and most people, at least me, are used to this.

But it still is not nice when you get your recipe list reset because of it and have to search for it once again.

GuzziHero.2467:

Nope. I lose the cursor (the arrow) constantly during combat. When I then need to move, it is sometimes tucked up the corner or something, costing me valuable time while I re-find it to move.

Ah, I see now – I also lose cursor every now and then because I’m running a very high resolution. Hm… I think it can be achieved in the following way:

• Option “Reset mouse cursor to screen center after not using it for a certain time: [Never/Long/Normal/Short]”

Paired with option to display a highly visible cursor, does it look like a viable solution?

MithranArkanere.8957:

Theres quite some good options in there but it’s hard to discuss over so many separate things.

It’ll be nice if you could categorize them or something.

My original intent was to categorise them, but it made keeping them clearly numbered in 5001 character forum posts not that simple. So I went with a medium solution of some categorising in “my” 125 suggestion and consecutive numbering for the new ones. If anyone cares enough to rework everything into a better googledocs file – gl, hf

Meanwhile, added 142. Fix to “no reward chest if disconnected during but before event end” issue as I think it deserves a separate mention.

Direksone.3867:

I know, but all those ranters on the forums apparently don’t <3.

I thought that might sarcasm after I re-read it a couple of times, but meh, you never know :P

GuzziHero.2467:

Add: persistent cursor so we don’t lose it mid combat and end up dying because we can’t mouse turn to evade/run away.

I believe you’re talking about #8 and #9.

Direksone.3867:

But OP. That’s not content and I don’t want it so it shouldn’t be included in the patch. Or ever. No. I don’t want it.

April 15 is not a content patch. It’s a feature patch.

Mungrul.9358:

Pretty much.
Here’s a video of “Combat Mode” in action, although this is an old video, so it has probably changed significantly.

A video is worth a thousand words Listed as 141.

Added 132. Option to toggle displaying of other players’ titles in options and/or as a bindable key (useful in zergs where you would like to see player allocation but titles make it a mess). I actually remembered I wanted to include this one myself.

Walking without falling: may be useful for roleplaying, but I can see it abused in combat a lot (EoTM) and possibly during exploration. I do not see a workaround here – even OoC only limit is not unexploitable.

Added 133. Option to choose between press-key-to-toggle-walking-mode or hold-key-to-walk.

Added 134. “Nourishment slots”: stacks of food from this slot are automatically consumed when expired (not likely as conflicts with Metabolic Primer from gemstore). “Minipet slots”: mini from this slot always follows you around the world without needing to click it from inventory (can be simply replaced by minis persisting through zones and restarts).

Added 135. Undockable chat panels to have different relocatable chat panels with chosen info.

Mungrul.9358:

Dang, one more:
Sort out the scaling of text when switching to compact UI mode!
This is particularly noticeable when opening the BLTC window, where text looks like it is defaulting to badly scaled bitmap fonts instead of smoothly scaling Truetype/Opentype typefaces.

Not sure if it is a game issue and not an OS issue. BLTC is, as far as I know, a stylized in-game pseudo-browser called Awesomium, so it may inerit some system settings.

vladracul.6798:

There is a lot of great things there that really should be implemented ASAP, but you know, if you weren’t a mouse-kind-of player you would have at least 1/3 less of the headache caused by these 125 issues.

The thing is… I’m a key-kind-of player. I use WASD for walking and have almost everything I can bound onto keys (and not the default ones). Even for work, I use another set of 18 custom keyboard keys – thanks Logitech! – for frequent commands. Still, that doesn’t stop me from thinking about people who prefer to play with a mouse while lying on a sofa with a notebook.

Nilix.2170:

I didn’t see this one if it’s there but
:Allowing characters to swap an armor piece with another even if the inventory is full

That’s actually a part of a wider problem. The game isn’t able to “swap” items – it takes 2 steps: 1) put item A in inventory, 2) equip item B from inventory. That also happens when trying to forge, craft, salvage with full inventory.

Added 136. Making the game handle “swap” actions when inventory is full (e.g. swapping gear; current behaviour takes 2 steps – 1. put new item, 2. remove old item – and it leads to problems with equipping, salvaging, crafting etc.).

pdavis.8031:

Love it!! However one that was missed was being able to view you mat collection WITHOUT having to go to a crafting station. You don’t need to be able to have access, but being able to view it would be awesome.

Not sure if ANet wants us to be able to do it, but it still is a feature that I’d be happy to see. Added as 137.

Some more suggestions from me:

138. Being able to see in chat log when mutual friends advertise in LFG. Can be accompanied by an untickable “Broadcast my LFG advertisements to mutual friends” option in settings.

139. Option to retain character rotation when waypointing.

Stand The Wall.6987:

Ability to favorite certain items on the TP for quick viewing.

I’m not sure how I feel about it. There are buy orders if you have a maximum of N gold to spare on a certain item. Looks a bit more like a flipping feature (but well, the undercut feature is by a margin a speculation feature too). But I do see some reason for it – like tracking and selling of daily crafted T7 materials.

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

-snip-

Valid points.

Trait templates: I personally think that the best way is per-character-account-wide. That means: basic 2 slots per character; each trait slot you unlock with gems gives you an account-wide +1 to template slots (plus 1 per character). This can however work in the similar manner to bag unlocks (unlock per character only), but in that case the price of trait slots should be respectively affected.

NPCs near supplies: I believe this should be addressed globally, as no matter how many NPCs you move, there always will be more NPCs to move (say hello to people shuffling around Mystic Forge and crafting station for a place that doesn’t trigger NPCs). A list to cycle through Interacts can solve it more or less, though an option to assign talking to NPCs to lowest priority could be nice too.

Commander abilities: nice links! A commander channel looks like an average solution as yes, it filters out trolls but only with a 100g censorship. Generals – I think there should be a balance in additional features so that it gives each commander more personal value rather than a “comeon give mea general why can’t you!!1” from random people; yet I still see sense in it for large guild raids, especially when I see people saying “I do not have a tag on this character”. Edit: added as 140.

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

To the ArenaNet apologists, this list would not take years to implement if they simply put the will behind it to make it happen. Quit defending poor decision making, inefficient resource allocation, and half-finished implementation. The argument that the “code is so complex, OhMerGawd there’s too many levels of dependency, blah, blah, blah” doesn’t wash.

Any programmer worth their salt knows their code and develops and documents in such a way that they’re aware of the interdependencies such that they shouldn’t be breaking anything whenever they introduce something new or make an edit here or an edit there (or thoroughly test it in advance of release in case they did break something). Anything less than that and all I can do is shake my head and bite my tongue at the risk of being infracted for calling out the state of the game’s code.

There’s stuff I programmed 10 years ago that I can see in my mind’s eye right now without even having to open the file where I can tell you that if a change was made to X portion of the code, then that would cause a conflict in Y portion of the code, and we’d have to do Z to correct it. I don’t expect programmers to do more than that, but I also don’t expect anything less, either. If I can do it, they should be able to, as well; that’s part of what they’re being paid to do.

I like to see someone who shares the same view of coding requirments. Again, it’s a company doing business and not a students’ summer project. Either do your job good and get cash, or make excuses and don’t be surprised at gold-to-gem conversions.

Mungrul.9358:

You forgot duels and mounts.

And GvG, guild halls and player housing :p

Mungrul.9358:

May I suggest the addition of a crosshair/reticle for your suggested freelook toggle?
Third-party mods that risk tagging the user as a hacker are already doing this, so it would be wise to accommodate this in-game.

How exactly is it supposed to work? Just a crosshair in the center of the screen which automaticaly aims anything under it or aims nothing if there’s nothing? That’s basically a very narrow auto-aiming cone I think. Or a more visible constantly floating crosshair?

Yes, there’s a bindable about face key in controls. Never found a use for it though so I can’t really comment on how well it works.

Overflow + Underflow = MegaServer.

Sounds good on paper, but automated systems rarely give a comfortable result. Still, we’ll have to see how it works (I’ll be glad if I don’t get dumped into German/French overflows anyway), and at least wait for the new blog posts about world boss timers (somehow I enjoy meeting the same people at events even without friending them).

Kain Francois.4328:

Of course, who could forget the Scarlet Holo boss fight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1xopc4TXs

One my most favourite ones so far. That was actually the first soundtrack that made me turn music on for the entire LS and not just a couple of first days. The atmosphere was perfect and it matched the different stages so good that it gave me the shivers every fight.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Erskine.5206:

Evan Lesh.3295:

… store far less data inside templates when those happen.

THIS excites me Are we going to be able to store templates? That would really be a big big step!

No ETA on templates. However, the new build tech brings us muuuuch closer than before.

Added 130, 131.

Lightyears.8624:

Only read the first dozen or so until I realized you just want the game to use the mouse and keyboard correctly for you.

You should probably read the whole book before you decide that the rest 90% of it is the same.

Malchior.5042:

Would you like to develop these features?

If ANet hired me? Yeah, sure, ’cause working-on-a-game is more fun than working-and-then-game.

Nage.1520:

Most people would rather get to fight the next dragon in a brand new outfit from wardrobe.

FTFY

Probably I’m just sick and tired of many companies releasing raw products and than making random marketing-based changes which make me groan under them (I’m looking at you, Microsoft with Windows, Google with Android and hundreds of modern apps and sites).

Yes, they’re fixing stuff. Like the 30 mesmer bugs – though it doesn’t negate the fact that a trait which didn’t work at all for more than half a year should’ve been fixed at release. But some people understand that once the new dragon slayer achievement points are received, they’re stuck with the same nuisances as before.

Probably some of these things will even see light in the upcoming patch, but some of official previews were met as random, repetitive or irrelevant… While some changes – like a change to Portal usability for mesmers – were never mentioned even though that’s a feature considered cool by mesmers. So probably, maybe that’s again a problem of communication, where developers cater to mostly casual players?

cmud.5689:

-> abillity to open multiple bags / consume items rather than 1 click only.
-> abillity to chose the size of the stack size and amount of stacks when seperating a stack of items rather than cutting it in half all the time. (I am looking at you janky runes and sigils getting thrown into the MF, etc.)

1) Already in list.
2) I think it’s an overkill. The MF part for treating stacks as separate items is already in the list.

Nage.1520:

There are a lot of things that should be done in an ideal world but they weren’t done and we have a situation at this time were implementing this list in its entirely would likely take more than a couple of years, assuming everything else wasn’t being worked on.

You can say that it’s all fast stuff, but you don’t really know that, and frankly, neither do I. But I’ve seen how long other updates have taken and I’m not convinced that this team can work faster without producing more bugs than we currently have to deal with.

Edit: It’s a great list. But even if it was all an priority it will never all happen in one update. Not even most of it.

I’m not saying it’s all fast stuff. Things like reworking rewards or choosable overflows or fixing pathing issues are slow stuff – and that’s why they’re in the very end of the list. But many things are relatively easy to fix (like, again, “use all” on stacks), and I’d be ultimately more happy if fast things came first because I can enjoy them now and wait for content-like features, as otherwise I may get fed up with small nuisances and leave before they even start rolling out the heavy stuff.

GW2 is not an indie game, and it even reminds me more of Windows 8 – “Let’s change what our freshly graduated marketing guys showed in their cool PowerPoint presentation, let’s never fix what buyers ask for and cover the rest with advertising” – not to Microsoft’s extent of course, but the direction looks similar. As a serious business, ANet should understand that at some point glad veterans become more important than 1-time buyers who wouldn’t even understand that half of my list is worth working on – which the failure of Windows 8 has proved. But “new players” are more or less finite, new games (unlike OSs) are coming out, so now may be the right time to think about their own “solid foundation”.

Nage.1520:

A list of everything about the game that can be improved is useful. But I don’t believe everything listed is “needed” though some would be nice. Moving stuff directly from a guild bank to the bank for example would be nice…but I’m not sure I need that feature. I actually prefer some of the features that are coming up in the patch. Better PvP rewards, for example, will make it so that I actually PvP, because I hate spending time in PvP, as it felt wasted. That’s a game changer for me.

Some things are needed to you (as a PvP player). Some thing are needed to other players. So to an extent, all these things are needed to different kinds of players. You may see a new reward system as a game changer, while I see daily QoL as my game changer which makes me feel that developers care and thus support them with real money. My latest purchase, however, was a gold-to-gem conversion due to specific news regarding the patch.

Nage.1520:

A large portion of these suggestions would be greatly welcome in the game. Implementing all of them would probably take a couple of years with the devs doing nothing but that.

I’m a developer in my own field and I see many if not most of these features as “things which should’ve been there from the start” and “things which require tiny amount of time but are not as PRable so they have ultimately low priority”.

According to the Pareto principle, 80% of the effects come from 20% of time invested, and vice versa. I see the wardrobe as a 80% time consumer with 20% effect, but highly PRable to hype-prone buyers. Will I need the wardrobe once I’m done with my look? Not really, at max I’ll have several free slots in bank previously occupied by skins (in exchange for charges though). At the same time, I see most of the changes in the list take 20% of time but give 80% of effect to every day every hour every minute play. Is it as hypable as “no repair costs”? Nope…

The “couple of years” to add “use all” on stacks of luck? To add an “adjust particle effect intensity” slider? To untick “soulbound” on dungeon runes similar to sigils? To let mystic forge eat exotic sigils similar to exotic weapons? To add a “cast AoE at max distance”? To add a pinable bag? To add a tick “always skip cutscenes”? To add a collapse icon to UI elements and allow them to be dragged? Oh, come on…

Dalanor.5387:

Option for auto deposit upon loot only.

Hm… Could you make it more clear please?

Figgy.3856:

126: Option to use “preferred” reviving:

1. Downed players
2. Dead players
3. Npcs

:)

Nice, will add later. Doesn’t it work like it now?

152. “Bags shown (slim mode)” in inventory which shows bags as a table but keeps their names in slot-sized placeholders (will help to save space by eliminating half-empty rows in “Bags shown” mode). May be a replacement of feature 29.

153. Option to display world map at 90% opacity (useful for many cases when you get attacked by a random mob who walked/spawned next to you, and you have to close the map, kill the mob and then search for the waypoint again).

154. Warning when buying a 2nd identical accessory/ring on a character who has the same unique trinket equipped, so that the player sees he will not be able to use it (case reported too often in the game and forums). Additionally: an in-game explanation of what “unique” is. Alternatively: removal of “unique” mechanic.

155. “Type in item name” confirmation box on deletion/salvaging/mysticforging/vendoring of all precursors and expensive named exotics.

156. “Unsalvageable” in description of karma/vendor gear.

157. Option to turn off contour highlighting and target ring highlighting in no-UI mode (ruins screenshots if a mob/NPC is in the center of the screen and gets highlighted, and makes it difficult to make screenshots with a mini as it often relocates and receives an outline).

158. On death on any WvW map, the map view is brought up with no way to exit it other than to return to a spawn point (to counter corpse spying).

159. Adding a right-click function to inventory items/item links to search for it on Wiki (similar to /wiki chat command).

160. Mining/harvesting always as a single long channel depending on the amount of digs/chops available (custom animations may need to be tweaked though).

161. A /world or /server chat channel to let WvW people from a single world communicate in mixed-world PvE maps without sharing information with opponents (also useful for guild advertising).

162. Ability to use the same weapon as mainhand in the 1st weapon set and as offhand in the 2nd weapon set.

163. “Close all” function for event reward medal alerts (probably as right-click to dismiss all).

164. Option to block whispers and mail from anyone except your friends, guild members and current party (addresses gold selling spam and harassing).

165. Automatically remove messages of blocked users from chat (same).

166. Automatically add luck when salvaging, or consume on “deposit collectible” (may be an option, however I do not think that first levels’ artificer refinement is worth all the clicking for all other players).

167. Free waypointing to the home city of your race (adds some lore spice, helps redistribute players, encourages “racial” communities especially if cities are removed from the megaserver system).

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

I have runes I want to retrieve, and not re-buy. My Priory armor and my Vigil armor cannot be salvaged or used in the forge. What am I doing wrong?

Why don’t you transmute items onto the desired ones while keeping only the runes chosen for transmutation then?

Offtopic: this thread needs the 4th polearm skill as a mascot :P

Is it April the 1st somewhere already?

shadowpass.4236:

what is an LS skin?

A non-tradable time-gated skin rewarded on Living Story meta event completion (like Shattered Wings or Gas Mask or Scarlet’s Veil).

Aidan Savage.2078:

Go into options, scroll down to where it says Autoloot, PUT IN a bind key. I have mine bound to R with autorun disabled. The reason F is autoloot is because you need to be on top of a dead mob to get the interact option, which would be autoloot. If you set a bind key for autoloot, pressing that key instead does the looting. That removes the need to pick up someone who didnt know how to dodge because they’re lying on your loot.

However I’m using AoE auto-loot at the moment. I’ll check if I can actually separate interact key and loot key later today.

MithranArkanere.8957:

I recommend setting it to Shift+F. That way you don’t have to get used to some other key far from WADS, just to use the middle finger to press Shift for autoloot, and the little finger should be around there anyways while the hand is on WADS, so you don’t have to move the hand around.

Same for lefthanded with the right shift.

`, Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Ctrl, Win, Alt are already occupied :P

AFAIK lair cyphers have been stealth-added back some time ago already.

Something similar happened to me several times during player-heavy LS events. First the audio stops or goes on an eternal 1-second loop, possibly giving a crash alert, then it continues to work but after some time and some actions it crashes completely.

These are things I would’ve liked to see in the Feature Patch before some free repair costs or account-bound dyes.

DeWolfe.2174:

Thieves and necros can use a signet for OOC move speed, but it’s not as good as the passive +25% which is also on in combat. I don’t know ele, ranger or guardian very well so I’m not sure where they stand on this issue.

I just checked the 4 signets and several traits and I see no mentioning (“note, trivia, anomaly, bug”) of them getting a speed increase for OoC only.

FYI: devs said at some point that (only) town clothes which become tonics will be eligible for a refund (only) after April 15.

However, town clothes which are not 1 item but a set (6 items) will most likely become outfits. And as a side note, we actually have a big thread here about outfits and this thread will most likely get merged into it.

30. Focus Master.

• Phantasmal Warden’s kills do not count towards the Focus Master Achievement, thus leaving Mesmers without the ability to obtain it.
• Corresponds with Phantasmal Disenchanter not counting towards Daily Condition Removal.
• Contradicts with illusions counting against In Tune achievement during Holo fight.

31. Illusionary Persona.

• Confusing Cry with IP will not grant Retaliation if illusions are not summoned.
• Distortion, however, will properly give its effect (also called Distortion) without illusions.
• Shattered conditions do not work.

Yay, we’ve hit 30! And I’m running out of charrs in the 3rd post.

Anyone to confirm underwater mimic?

shadow.6174:

Burnfall.9573:

Mesmers clones, phants. can not attack gates in wvw? ex: Edge of the Mists

Not only on WvW, it seems there is a bug that clones won’t attack obstacles (walls, mortars, gates, etc…). Talking about that, last night I just experienced this issue. I was close of a “Dredge Tunnel”, that’s an breakable obstacle, and then I spawned Phantasmal Warden while that object was targeted and guess what happened? The warden ran and attacked a mob nearby, that wasn’t even aggro (yellow mob) and that then started to attack me. >.<

Attacked and not attacked structures like Union Waypoint barricades. Seems to me the same randomly unreliable state as previously. Illusions switching to a nearby mob right after spawn or later are reliably random as usual.

Warden.8927:

You’ve been waiting longer than me but it really sucks Now I got to wait to December to finish my look?
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At least you won’t need to travel back in time to get an LS skin you craved for.

draxynnic.3719:

Lishtenbird.2814:

Or rather 2.4%.

To compensate for this, we got +6 +2 to all other stats. Same story as with time-gated celestial, but with 70g-grind-gated rune instead.

To be fair, part of the motive could be because they think the price shows that it’s just too popular and in fact needs a few taps with the nerfbat to even it out.

If people think that expensive = popular, they’re not entirely right; it doesn’t drop as loot, but enough people need it – and here’s the price. Major sigils of bloodlust drop as loot – and look at their prices, they’re cheap as hell though the difference with Superior is not that big. And the exact reason why enough people need it is that some classes are broken enough not to have access to passive speed and are limited in active speed as well, so other mostly useless stats could even be next to zero and the price wouldn’t drop much anyway.