Guild Wars 2

This is one of the funnier bugs I’ve seen.

I don’t know. I liked the previous shorts. This one feels… a little random.

Halloween(GW’s most popular event) starts next week! Come share the experience with us. I know I can’t wait to take another crack at the clocktower.

Nonbeing.5234:

It does. It goes from player to player (randomly, as far as I know), but it’s definitely there.

Slick shoots you with it.

I think it is more likely to be Inquest shenanigans. Maybe, if we are lucky, there will be some hints of Mursaat because their lore would fit in perfectly. MAYBE.

Whatever happens. Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos. I mean Evon.

#Evon4life

PopeUrban.2578:

I honestly don’t understand why we still make that distinction. It’s a boolean flip at best, filling a few variables with asset names at worst.

Aside from the stats entry there is no real difference between the two.

Why not just sell it as an armor skin since people seem to want that? Looks enough like light armor, and light “armor” is just clothing for the most part anyway.

Because then it would need to be designed as 6 pieces, which would result in it looking completely different. Look at the picture, how would you chop that up in a way that makes sense? You can’t. It would start to look very similar to existing armor sets.

One thing they could do(theoretically), which was done in GW1, is to make a costume slot for you character that you could wear over your regular armor. This would mean programming new functionality and we know how rarely we get that. >__>

Bind a button to the ‘draw weapon command’ and keep it drawn, even when not in combat.

Not what you were looking for but better than nothing. :\

92 hours and counting on YB still.

Portions of the crew can be defeated before engaging the foreman (aka getting Spur to turn hostile and attack), but you must avoid killing a complete row.

OK that is basically what all we needed. Thanks for the detailed response.

However, I also had a run with another group and we had many, many wipes. It took about 3 hours, I believe, and that was on mumble as well.

If one person dies ten seconds into a fight, then another dies ten seconds later, it can be really hard for 3 people to rez and get back into it.

Individual skill really matters.

I think your suggestion about the oozes is pretty good. Another thing they can do is make it so the holopirates at the end boss don’t leash back to their spawn point so quickly.

We just did it, including the epilogue events, in about one hour and ten minutes with one wipe. I think without a wipe it can be done in a little less than an hour. This is with pauses for me to explain each encounter to guildies over mumble.

Voice comms really help.

Raziel.4216:

If you’re done with the game content you move on.

I’m sure you can do better

OK, but that is not the point. Yes, if you get bored, you should move on. That is something I personally recommend to burned out guildies. But that does not mean you have to like watching a franchise fail.

There is no expansion in the works. No sequel is being worked on either.

Right now, the living story is all the Guild Wars franchise has, creatively. It is all Anet has, financially. If the LS does not succeed, then both the IP and the company are in trouble.

Fans of the series want to see Guild Wars succeed and continue to grow. If the living story is not up to par, then that will not happen because, once again, there is nothing else on the horizon from this company.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Just wait, within the next 3 months – give or take – the playerbase will begin dropping…

GL ArenaNet, getting them back.

I truly hope that they don’t make GW2 flop with this “Living World” story.

Excuse my cynicism. But the LS is proving to be a larger and larger disappointment, only providing grind to a game where we were promised no grind.

Raziel.4216:

Jenny needs money to survive, this is not optional
Players dont need to play, it’s optional
False analogy.

Players are conditioned into enjoying rewards. (A good explanation of what I mean)
ArenaNet added rewards to achievement points.
Living Story retains players not by story or content, but by all the many new achievement points (it is the easiest way to get more AP).

Oh man. 5 years ago, I never thought I would one day see a Konig post like this.

RoyHarmon.5398:

Wait, wait…

Have we tested this on Magic Find foods as well? Do they actually make you get less cool loot?

I have always been skeptical of magic find -.-

Server Yaksbend. Currently the Lyssa event will not progress. The NPCs will not start repairs on the cannon.

Cowrex.9564:

Well I was thinking that placing in very vague titles would capture attention.

Maybe, but it’s still annoying.

It’s like opening a wrapped gift and then there is coal in it. -.-

Also for the love of Grenth have more descriptive thread titles.

Cowrex.9564:

So…. do you guys think that Cantha will be release through the living world updates?

That is way out of their production capability.

http://youtu.be/zqe7r5MQdiI?t=25s

Seems ok from the trailer but haven’t checked in game yet. They did just resize the model of a larger boss so there might be complications from that.

Got a screen?

One would hope that Anet will look at the numbers for these events and decide on more scalable content in the future.

It has been a couple weeks since the OP. Is this even still happening now that the ascended hype has died down?

Astral Projections.7320:

Since ANet said they expected people to fail this for days to weeks before the first success, then surely they were also expecting this event to be eventually abandoned except by certain guilds on certain servers, just like the karka queen is mostly abandoned. They had only to look at that event to predict the future of this one.

I am under the impression that they are just treading water right now and are without focus. There is no way they willingly made this event this way so that it could have this outcome.

They need leadership to step up and provide concrete direction because it feels like the living world teams are just flailing around randomly.

Sometimes people leave out of frustration, but what is worse is that it has become somewhat popular to troll groups like this. -.-

Use Daggerstorm as a backup for when Shadowstep is on cooldown

So far we’ve gotten about 15 people through the new dungeon. Join us for future runs.

Mastruq.2463:

I see no problem with Teq not being done. The encounter is clearly defined, people know how to beat him and have beaten him. Most importantly, people are beating him (done it twice since patch).

The problem is that TQ is not the only event that is not being done. There are many parts of the game that are desolate.

If a majority of the population condenses in a select few areas, that is not good for the game. People burn out, leave and the wealth of content that has been produced over 5 years goes unnoticed.

What we had before, which was people just bouncing from one meta to another, was also not good.

So the question is whether Anet can even create an exciting and active world. If TQ was supposed to be a test, it does not bode well. Without any expansions or sequels in the works, that goes double. -.-

Mastruq.2463:

Not what you want to hear but you left one option out: Decide if you would rather have access to more content, which leads to moving to a different server where your playtime falls into the servers prime time.

Whether you prefer to play with your existing friends and skip some content or have more content while having to make more friends on a new server is your choice.

This is very, very antithesis to what Anet has said is their philosophy. They have said many times that they want people to be able to play with their friends.

I guarantee you that the state of the listed events is not as Anet wants them. There is, however, a problem in execution and in their development cycle.

Map chat in noob zones is embarrassing. It’s not good for the game for new players experience this villainy.

Dee Jay.2460:

Yeah, just like with everything in this game (be it events or mobs), everything resets too quickly.

I mean where is the sense of “changing the world” if everything just resets 10 minutes later?

Farming champions is fine…but the fact that they respawn so quickly is dumb. A 30 minute respawn time would be more than justified. It would also give you a moment you relish your victory before the champion respawns on your head.

I fully agree. Maybe it would encourage people to go after champs on other maps too.

What is the current recommended Pvt build for Warriors?

Welp, all the more reason to use Skale venom.

Haha this reminds me of a GW1 inscription that had no effect and was not discovered for like 5 years(can’t remember which).

Use Skale venom.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skale_Venom_

Very good. We can now confirm that there is a solid way to test potions. I had not known of a method prior to this.

Thank you.

I enjoy the Golem changes. People actually die now.

Fire Ele is ok, but it is kind of a bummer that there is no good job for melee now. Maybe add more/stronger flying elementals?

Everything else could use a buff to damage and maybe new attack skills.

NOT more health!

ps – Nerf Claw’s health.

One player can do the first 4 buttons and the final kiting part. The other 4 just need to get to a platform, which is easier by then because one row permanently shuts off. You just need one altruistic team mate / guildie.

Clark Skinner.4902:

I just tested on Aetherblades in the JP. I used ele scepter air 1 skill. The last 4 attacks do the same damage 4 times in a row. So I switched to Outlaw potions halfway through the attack, so the last 2 hits should have been 8% more damage.

36 damage
36 damage
36 damage <—- Potion in effect starting here
36 damage

Tried again switching to dredge potion halfway through

39 damage
39 damage
39 damage <—- outlaw potion replaced
39 damage

So at least in the JP, Aetherblades don’t count as outlaws for potion purposes.

Can’t test in the dungeon though since a group would be needed.

Clark can you verify that this testing method works against something more concrete, like Flame Legion?

Would be hard to test without steady weapons in pve. Would be nice to have a damage api.

LuRkEr.9462:

I don’t think you guys are doing this right. I have done this 3 times in groups now and the way I did it worked each time.

Yeah software doesn’t work like that. Just because you got it, doesn’t mean there is no bug. Sometimes the situation can look the same, but things in the background are so complex that one small difference can lead to different outcomes. It may not even be something that players could possibly observe or replicate. It could be a completely server side bug, for example. It probably is.

Shpongle.6025:

There there are 21 bugged accounts. Because I’ve tried it again today, using the 2pipe method, and didn’t get it after finishing off his crew….

All I am trying to say is that you might get resolution faster if you make a support ticket. You have nothing to lose and it takes literally 2 minutes.

I like it :x

You should probably fill out a support ticket because it could be a bug related to your accounts.

We actually just got this by accident. We aggroed Spur too early and managed to break aggro from ~5 mobs, but not him. So we killed him, then reaggroed the mobs and got the achievement.

This is really wierd, but it would not be the first time some could get the achievement and others not. We had a similar problem with the SAB achievement.

How are you going to get past the 5 man puzzle?

Edit – nvm lol

PS – Don’t you wish you had me before you went in there? xD

Don’t worry. Those of us who have been around the whole time are just as confused.

Aedil.1296:

Jeff Grubb still working for Anet or just left it as all the others?

He has been employed at NCsoft since 2007 as well as for Arenanet(2006). I am not sure if he is working on GW2 on a day to day basis now.

His bibliography says that he released a few books for other IPs since then: (Magic 2009), (Warcraft 2010) & (Starwars 2012). That probably explains why we don’t hear from him much and perhaps why a lot of the loose ends from those years never got tied up.

The Guild Wars story was not just by Jeff though, who only came in around Factions, but by a lot of people…many(most?) of whom no longer work there.

I realize that new people bring in new ideas which they would want to try out, but that doesn’t excuse leaving long time fans hanging with no resolution to heavily foreshadowed stories. Resolution that they have been waiting on for 6 years now.

It must be possible to go over the old notes and tie up those loose ends, no?

We know she’s fascinated with power. And you know what power does.

They totally foreshadowed a tragic story with Livia and the scepter in the final credits of EoTN.

I was kind of hoping for a dungeon with her as the boss. I bet something like that was planned too, but never followed up on.

That is what is really sad about this. It is clear that they had a lot of cool stuff planned, but it seems that the restructuring of the company, and the loss of many vets, has thrown everything in the air.

Now they seem to be floundering in trying to find their way.

Thanks for the heads up. We won’t try this until it is fixed/clarified.

Thanks for the update Leif! Now that I know what is causing the teleportation, I think I can avoid it a little better.

By one year after GW1’s release they had added Factions, Sorrow’s Furnace, all of the holiday events and a multitude of functionality and quality of life features.

Think about it.

Oh and Bahltek. What the kitten was going on with Bahltek!?

I have also played all of Anet’s releases since 2005.