Guild Wars 2

Yeah water needs a fix (it needs a splash), half the time you don’t even know if it’s actully worked because on certain builds so many health numbers pop up.

Question, are we invincible for the duration of the ride? (honestly, i’ve never looked) – if so it’s not to much of an issue but still needs a fix at some point, if not then it needs hotfixed ASAP as it’s a pretty major issue.

The max duration on certain ones is 24 hours, for example the Aegis you get from a Guardian Virtues passive is 24 hours.

1 – No longbow/shortbow.

2 – All our spirit weapons can be equipped apart from the bow. It annoys me as i loved the idea of having a spirit GS and spirt bow skin on my main weapons aswell as having both out as spirit weapons.

3 – SImply make it so the Guardian can use either longbows or shortbows and i’d be a happy Guardian.

I’m playing a lot less than i did, at the moment i pretty much log in to do a quick daily run for the karma jug and that’s it. I hit Metrica for the different kills and mining in 1 chain (about 10 minutes) and then go strait to Cursed Shore for a single Plinx run for the 5 events and 60 kills (about 15/20 minutes).

I just don’t see the point right now due to the openworld loot nerf/bug, i don’t like dungeons so i don’t want to do FOTM just to get decent drops. Basically i don’t like the idea of playing for hours on end doing DEs etc and barely getting anything for it.

Soon as they un-nerf/fix openworld loot, i’ll be back full time.

Sauzo.6821:

Actually i want 1 precursor for each alt i got since they all had chances at the chest too!! J/k, i couldn’t resist

That’s an interesting point you have – back then they did say it was fair game to do the event again on an alt (aftewards) and a lot of people did – but a lot of people didn’t because of fear or exploiting/time/coulnd’t get invited to server and or got a DC during the extra runs.

As such, shouldn’t that mean they should send the fix (be it a chest/loot whatever) to certain peoples alts who may have already looted the chest at the end on other characters?.

@ ASB.4295

I’d actully say it would have more of a chance of being done in the hope to get more people into FOTM, right now it’s the best place for loot in the entire game and has the highest tier of loot aswell.

This is, if it was done on purpose – i have no idea if it was.

What i recon it will be is simple, a chest in the mail that has the same loot setup as the big chest at the end of the event with the same RNG etc.

That’s the fairest they could possibly do – as long as they made sure only people who actully did part of the event got it.

If they give people on average 15 to 30 gold worth of items, then dam i wish i had disconnected (2 exotics worth 50 silver each and 2 rares worth around 20 silver together – and i was level 80). If your including the box (as it’s worth quite a bit) then no probs with the 15 gold bit.

I actully think they should just give the minimum amount people got – the box, the ring, 2 basic exotics and 2 basic rares.

The thing that gets me is.

During the mad king event there was a loot bug that ment people could loot chests every 30 minutes and get exotics/rares in large numbers – this loot/chest issue was fixed within 6 hours (and nerfed into the ground to be pointless to even do).

Now we have a loot issue on the other end of the scale, champions/bosses aren’t dropping much at all which was ment to be changed in the last patch (i’ve had 1 blue drop 4 levels lower than me, and that’s it in a week), an entire zone has terrible loot drops (karka really don’t like giving out loot), and across the board loot seems to be dropping less than ever – over a week later still nothing has been done.

So 6 hours to fix an issue that gave to much loot, and over a week to not fix an issue that gives out to little loot.
—-
MMOs are largely about loot drops (it’s true, loot drops are a very large aspect of MMOs), so an issue with loots drops (on either end of the scale) is a MAJOR issue and should be high priority to be fixed ASAP.

I love the Asura Tier 2 cultural heavy armor, IMO it looks better than the vastly more expensive Tier 3 (and surprisingly i’ve only seen 1 other Asura in it).

Another is the mace in pic 3, that’s the Tier 3 Asura cultural one (i love it, possibly my favourite mace skin) – when i got it i had no idea it had light spikes as the preview doesn’t show them (i’ve yet to see another player with this on my server or in WvWvW).

Honestly – no, i didn’t even give out any of my free weekend codes.

With the current amount of unfixed class/skill bugs (a very major issue after 3 months – i’m ok with some skill bugs, but the sheer amount in this game is shocking), the state of the sPvP, how certain things are setup (FOTM in LA and the level system in it for example), how the previous event went and many other things – i just don’t think i could bring myself to get a friend to pay money for it right now.

Now the catch is, i do actully enjoy the game (a lot) and play it every day, it’s just i could never recommend a game with so many bugs and issues no matter how much i enjoy it. Once a lot more bugs are fixed and when certain things are adjusted (as statedi n the AMA) and if the next event goes well – then yes i would.

tkalamba.2541:

Can you not see his posting history without an account? Sorry, i legitimately do not know, as my account is constantly logged in.

You can, but you have to open each answer to see each question (context), and you have to filter out any random posts (posts that have nothing to do with questions).

I just thought a nice simple question with answers thread would help people (and Anet) out, it was nice easy way to see the querstions and answers without having to do any work at all and without leaving the official forum.

Anyways, it’s been done and that’s it i guess – hopefully Anet or a mod will do the same thing after the AMA is over.

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

Hmm I can’t seem to find the forum post outside this one that had the AMA questions and answers (that have already been answered). Can someone please link that here again? I thought it may have been folded into this one but I was wrong.

I think you mean my thread, yeah it was merged into this one – the questions/answered are now spread around page 1 and 2. As such i don’t see the point in doing it now as it’s all over the place.

tkalamba.2541:

MajorMelchett.6042:

Ahh well, i was doing a deditcated thread for all the questions that have been answered for easy viewing, it’s now been merged and is all over the place.

Just redirect people to http://www.reddit.com/user/ArenaNetTeam

although not here in the forum, should serve the same purpose

I was doing it for the people who don’t like to use reddit (like me), all that was posted was the questions that had answers and nothing more – all in 1 go. After the merge the posts aren’t in line anymore (there are random posts inbetween) and it even made it look like i was spamming (as it randomly appeared i was posting “reserved” and “updated”).

This is the problem with blanket mergers, it can ruin actully useful threads just for having the same sort of name.

Ahh well, i was doing a deditcated thread for all the questions that have been answered for easy viewing, it’s now been merged and is all over the place.

wildcode.5403:

If I read correctly, the intention (eventually) is to have ascended gear available all over the world, and looking back they should of done that in the 1st place.

I just wonder how long it will take to happen now. If they think they should have had it like this from the day they put it in, then surely it shouldn’t be to long.

13: As an MMO, you are trying to please a huge player base. Some play a few hours a month while others stop playing to sleep for a few hours every day. Reward rates seem to be balanced for those who play constantly. This disparagy causes casual players to play a very different game from the hardcore. What are some ideas to keep the player base from fracturing?

13: This is an extremely interesting question and as you know the path down the road for a solution is highly complex. In fact myself and Mo were discussing this this morning. So please forgive me if my answer is somewhat lite or comes across as deflective but i would prefer the surroundings of a pub or meeting room to really get into this one.

However:

I think online worlds are amazing in that they house different societies or player types if you like. I think it is only natural for players to gravitate to those who they feel are like minded, and i think it is also only natural and in some ways quite healthy to have a macro society or community that doesn’t always agree with one another. I think that diversity is exciting but it can also fragment so a method in which different groups of players work with others in synergy each enjoying their own diverse game play that is rewarding because of the game play is certainly a step in the right direction. Reading this statement you will no doubt be thinking that the FotM doesn’t utilize this philosophy and you would be correct. Moving forward progression and rewards will be inter woven appropriately into the core systems and social aspects of the game, allowing the diverse societies or player types to work together by playing the content that they love.

So in short something that is universally enjoyable as a progression system or a reward should be as accessible as possible and cater to the different ways our players consume the game but in a manner in which the Community of the world as a whole is contributing to each others overall experience.

If you would like to talk further then pm me and we can discuss in game.
-
14: Hey Chris, thanks for coming. My question is about home instances and personal story. From your promo material prior to release I was led to believe these would be key features in pve. As of release, it seems like these, specifically home instances, have been largely ignored.

The pitch on how awesome home instaces would be: pve progression via characters and things added to your personal world, was the reason I bought this game. Are there plans to bring these features in line with the marketing material or is your game focus going to be primarily dungeons and pvp (both things I don’t care for).

14: Thanks for taking the time to post your question. Both personal story and home instances are ares that i wish we had spent more time on already in terms of content since release. However we will be building on them as we move forward and would love to hear more of your thoughts in regard to the direction you would like to see them move in. In short you can expect to see big things.

7: Is there a patch in the works addressing the numerous bugs and broken events riddled throughout the game (in addition to much-needed class buffs/balances)? I am thoroughly enjoying myself with Guild Wars 2, I just hate to see so much hard work and potential wasted due to neglected bugs.

7: I totally get what you are saying and we are working very hard on not only addressing the bugs in the game, but building on new areas and trying to ensure that new content is as bug free as possible. This is very big ticket item for all of us, so in the same way as the work we did on bots you can expect to see big improvements soon.
-
8: Where’s the love for WvW? Since the game has launched there’s been tons of PvE changes/upgrades and same for sPvP. The only known changes/upgrades to WvW is the recent patch’s change to loot drop rate (for the better, thankfully). Why is this? What can we expect as WvWvW dedicated players.

8: We have a lot planned for WvW both in terms of current systems and new content and you can expect to hear a lot of new exciting details very soon. In short we have a lot of love for WvW and will continue to evolve it as we move forward.
-
9: With regard to minimal Grind, how is going from 5 Ectos to 50 Ectos for a piece of gear minimal? 5 T6 items to 250 T6 items, minimal?

9: Good point Nacho. We are currently discussing these particular items and it is fair to say that we don’t want have such big hikes in requirements moving forward.

10: Thanks Chris, although I don’t agree with your answer it’s nice of you to have addressed it. Saying that you design everything you do with minimal grind is obviously very subjective. 1800+ FoTM tokens or 250 T6 materials/50 Globs of Ectoplasm for 1 piece of equipment is a huge grind (in my humble opinion, of course).

10: Progression through tokens and mats is something we are having a good look at currently. Please keep the feedback coming as we move forward.
-
11: I really enjoy the idea of one-time events to reveal new content… but when it’s major stuff like a new map, I would prefer to see those events drawn out over quite a few days, so I have some hope of participating. This presents its own kinds of challenges, of course. What’s the team’s thoughts on how to go forward with introducing new map areas?

One thing I find missing in GW2 these days is the non-combat items. Clothing & other ornaments are a perfect example. New areas could bring along with them the opportunity for not just new types of loot, food & resources to gather, but also vendors that cater to the local style. Do you see much chance for this, going forward?

I could go on and on about bosses and AI/difficulty/etc, but that’s probably for a different post.

11: Thanks for your question. We are very aware over the concerns raised over the timing and one time nature of the Karka event. Moving forward we will be paying special attention to how we design these events to be as inclusive as possible.
-
12: What games do you like to play besides Guild Wars 2?

12: I like to play all kinds of games. My favorites are Online Worlds and RTS games and I am currently playing (sparingly as i don’t get much time) Forza Horizon, X- Com, Halo 4 and a lot of Guild Wars 2.

My favorite game of all time is Mario 64.

All questions that have been answered – i’ll update this as and when more are added.

All answers are in bold.
—-
1: I was one of the people who participated in the one time Karka event and ended up missing the end chest. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed. I know your team has mentioned plans to reward users who ran into these issues but I haven’t heard anything for a while on this. Do you have any update you could share?

1: We are still working on getting the Karka event reward out to those players who participated but missed out.
-
2: Will ascended by the last new gear level we see? Your statement on the forum said you aren’t interested in adding a new gear tier every three months, but a lot of people were unsatisfied with that answer.

2: I would prefer that we never say never but our intention is that in terms of ‘Named Tier (Rarity) of Loot’ Ascended will be with us for a long time and we will not introduce a higher tier of loot for the foreseeable future. There will be loot with different stats and new infusions within the current tier that will be spread over long periods of time (for example Ascended gear will be deployed over the whole of next year).
-
3: Will it become easier to obtain ascended gear in the future? Many people are unwilling to grind FoTM to obtain gear that they consider necessary to keep up with other aspects of PvE, especially considering what many now are considering the advent of gear grouping in GW2 (ie, people are only accepting players into parties if they meet a required level/gear level/etc, something that didn’t really exist before).

3: Ascended gear will be obtainable throughout the whole of the game aside from sPvP and in retrospect it would have been better to have rolled different acquisition methods out at the smae time os the FotM.
-
4: You stated there was a gap between Legendary and Exotic progression. There was no stat gap, so I can only assume you meant a time gap. But there was a filler — unique Exotics that were harder to get than the normal, base ones. Please clarify what you meant by that gap.

4: Ascended Gear is designed to fill the ‘Time’ gap in regard to the distance between exotic and Legendary in terms of progression and in retrospect would have been better to have been rolled out pre launch.

I would also like add that we have never said there would be no vertical progression. We do intent to focus on horizontal but we will have vertical progression moving forward with the focus on zero grind and a very low power curve.

Please understand that we see the community as a ‘whole’ and therefore are not intending to design again for one specific type of player over another. This is a misconception and one that is not promoted by the team. We will continue to develop the game for the community as a whole offering game play that caters to lots of different types of players in a unified approach that will evolve over time based on feedback and the direction the team as a whole wants to take.
-
5: What is your intention with Southsun Cove moving forward in terms of content and it counting towards map completion. also when is that fix for fractals coming?

5: Thanks for taking the time to get in touch. We will be evolving and building on all or our content in the game and do plan to build on Southsun Cove in the near future. In regard to the fractal fix, we are working on a fix right now and i would like to take this opportunity to apologies for the issue.
-
6: The recent patch highlighted a split in two significant communities within GW2 – I won’t claim which side represents what % of the total player base – just that each seems significant. One wants more vertical progression and ways the hardestcore can show off their accomplishments, and the other wants more horizontal progression and less hierarchy.

Does Anet really think they can satisfy both? I know the main philosophy of the Devs is to find a balance that makes the most happy, but I don’t see this is possible when you have groups whose expectations are in such opposition.

6:Really interesting question. Our intention is to deploy ascended components and gear across the whole of the game rather than focus it in one particular location. This was a a mistake and one that we will not be making moving forward. We do hope to find a balance and ensure that the world of Guild Wars 2 is as accessible and populated as possible and moving forward you will be able to see how we intend to execute on this goal.

I think with the support of the community we can continue building a world that does satisfy lots of different types of players in a fashion where everyone feels part of the same community and whose activities impact and interplay with those of differing player types.

It’s 2 threads down.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/VID-25k-burst-combo-in-2-seconds-w-cc

The person who did it explains the build and order of skills.

This should have been hotfixed within a day or so off it happening (it’s a pretty major issue and was being talked about since the 2nd stage of lost shore – remember clearing that island and getting zero loot!), and yet it’s been a week now and we don’t even know if it’s being looked into (let alone being fixed).

In an MMO, having the loot system being so bad is one heck of a massive problem.

Even discounted would be OK, like 500 gems or something. Free would be better BUT i really don’t think they would ever do that – not when they don’t have to.

Fun stuff though, a free £20 upgrade (that’s how much that costs in the UK).

I don’t think any of the sale is value unless your just paying real cash for gems (and even then it’s a poor deal as i don’t think you get enough gems for the cash). The gold to gem ratio has jumped a lot due to the sale, so it was actully cheaper to buy fine trans stones before the sale than it is now during the sale because of this (they’re 40% off but the conversion is more than 40% higher than it was).

I mean it’s around 2 gold for 125 gems right now!, i recon i’ll wait until the sales over as it’s cheaper to get them that way.

blackgoat.5172:

EA when attuned to water does nothing I’ve waited for awhile to say anything until I was absolutely sure but after several days testing this I’m certain that there’s no spell at all on a dodge when in water

It works, it just has no animation effect at all to show it worked. At 1st i thought it wasn’t working aswell, but after a bit of testing it does indeed cast a heal on the dodge like a cleansing wave.

It really needs to be fixed to show a splash like the standad CW (every other EA dodge has an animation effect), as in the heat of battle you really need to know if it worked or not.

If your not actully getting the heal then i’m not sure what’s up, as i get the heal just fine – just with no splash effect.
—-
Regarding Mist form, it’s fixed in sPvP with Cantrip Mastery – but it’s still broken in anything else (man this one is annoying).

And i’m still shocked the churned earth cooldown hasn’t been fixed when interupted, it still goes on a full cooldown and not the 3 second one.

Regarding Mist form and the Cantrip Mastery trait, for some strange reason it’s fixed in sPvP but still broken in anything else. So in sPvP it will reduce the cooldown correctly to 60 seconds, yet in anything else when activated it will default to 75 seconds cooldown.

Are you aware of this Anet?, it’s pretty strange that the fix only worked in 1 aspect of the game.

So any word at all on this being fixed properly yet? (i’m guessing not), i finally started leveling my Elemental again and just hit 70 and noticed this when i selected mist form.

As others have said, the tooltip does state 60 seconds when the 20% reduction trait is selected, but as soon as you active mist form the cooldown goes strait to 75 seconds (and if you hover over any cantrap they all reset to default cooldowns for the duration of mist form).

It’s had a big effect mainly due to the fact certain items can only be collected via FOTM (Ascended items etc), basically if you want certain items (regardless of stats etc) you have to do the FOTM and nothing else (as they aren’t anywhere else). Because of this a lot of people seem to have moved from zone PvE into Dungen PvE.

I hope they hurry up and make them available via other methods, right now it simply isn’t right (or fair) to have certain items (and ones that are infact stat increases) locked into one aspect of the game.

I want to earn an Ascended ring and back piece and i don’t like dungeons, so please give me a way Anet. I know this will happen at some point but frankly, they should never have been locked to 1 aspect of the game for even an hour, let alone however long it takes to put them in later.

I just think there is something wrong with the recent loot part of the update, since it went in loot just seems to be even more random with more of a chance to get below level items. – and well the “you will get loot” from champions etc is hardly working at all (i’ve killed loads and the only thing i have gotten is 1 level 76 blue).

For this event despite being 80 i got 2 level 79 exotics and 2 even lower rares, but also for loads of drops since the recent update i’ve been geting things from 70 to 80 a lot. Before the update i hardly ever got below 80 items and yet now after the update i seem to get them easily 50% of the time (this is in level 80 zones).

My gear.
All Knights armor with soilder runes, all Knights trinkets with ruby jewels, Knights weapon and an Assassins back piece with ruby jewel.

With a 0/15/30/20/5 build this gives: 49% crit chance with VI on Valor and 44% crit chance with IX on Valor when using a shield.

I recently changed mine, i saw the below pic on the Lost Shores page and liked it.

From some trial and error i went with: Sky (main armor color), White gold (edging) and Mithril (fabric/highlight parts).

mulch.2586:

It works fine in dungeons and small groups.
-
This current setting post nerf was not a good solution, but I can see they needed to do something.

That’s the catch, it works fine only with certain setups and with other setups if you are lucky, this is due to the lack of smart healing which means anything and everything can take a heal/buff – from NPCs/spirit weapons/minions/pets etc aswell as players (and with players, high health players over low health players). Due to this the 5 max limit is terrible and needs to be changed (and fast).
-
I agree it needed changing, unlimited healing/buffing was pretty crazy (more so in WvWvW zergs) – it’s just that they went way over the top with the nerf and took it from amazingly overpowered to shockingly underpowered (and borderline broken).

Thrumdi.9216:

The quickest way would be to bump up the cap to 15.

Yeah, basically enough to cover any amount of pets/summons a group might have with them in a worse case setup.

For example (off the top of my head), a 5 man group could have:

Guardian – 2 spirit weapons.
Mesmer – 3 clones.
Ranger – 1 pet.
Necro – 1 minion.
Guardian/Elemental – main support.

That’s a total of 12 that would have chance to recieve heals/buffs and 7 of those aren’t the players. And the above is a small setup, with certain builds that would go even higher.

I’m guessing a lot of guardians aren’t noticing this issue, after all it is pretty hard to spot – i mean who really hovers over a buff icon to check the duration?.

Anyways, can we get a response on this to let us kow you are aware of the issue please.

Oghier.7419:

What was the exploit? If you ran the event twice with the same character, you only got to pop the chest once. The second time, it was already open and non-interactable.

You could do it multiple times on different toons, you couldn’t loot the chest a 2nd time on the same character BUT you could quickly make a new one and do it again to loot it again.

Basically if you wanted multiple 20 slot bags/exotic loot etc you could simply create a level 1 toons really quick, get an invite to an active event and loot the chest – then afterwards do it again, and again etc.

What i’m hoping is that the Portal being built in the new area (south east waypoint) is going to be the new fractals portal.

If it isn’t, then they need to move FOTM ASAP, going to LA is terrible now – nothing buy LFG ftom spam asnd constant overflow. This was not a good idea (to pout a major dungeon hub point in the biggest city).

Add to the fact now LA is just a “LFG/M/I Fractals” chat. I mean it was pretty bad before the FOTM was put in but now it’s loads worse – but i guess that’s what happens when you put a dungeon hub in the main city zone.

Yes a LFG tool is sorely needed now more than ever.

Same for me, it’s been down for me about an hour now – i asked in chat and some said it was working and others reported the same issue i have (that it just shows an error banner).

Malediktus.9250:

Why not give everyone a (untradeable) precursor of choice instead of this stupid RNG?

Now that would have been a good idea.

Well the reward at the end was better than expected, just a bit iffy that some got all the account bound things (20 slot box etc) and upwards of 200+ gold (precursor weapons) and others got all the account bound things (20 slot box) and not more than 2 gold (basic named weapons).

No offence to the people who got the great weapons, but perhaps they should have limited it to just standard exotics and not the precursors.

The event will begin in Southsun Cove–watch your in-game mail for specifics! ~RB2

Twitter post.

Less than 15 minutes until this BIG multi hour event starts, and we have no real idea where we are ment to be.

I’d just like to know where we are ment to be for the start of it – but yes knowing if we will earn anything would indeed be nice to.

I’m actully shocked more people aren’t posting on this, it’s a pretty big issue that needs looking at ASAP (even reveresed until a better heal/buff system can be made).

In certain situations it’s actully game/group breaking.
-
Also note, this isn’t just something that needs to be fixed/changed in groups – it applies to anything when other players are around (DE, WvWvW, PvP – basically every aspect of the game).

Anthile.8493:

Too bad it’s going to be 50-80 gold per piece. Kinda harsh for non-cosmetic gear.

In a way i’m glad, it costs 5 gold for the rare guild backpiece, so it will be a bit more for the Exotic backpiece (when we can buy them) and a lot more for an Ascended backpiece.

They did say the Ascended gear was to go between the Exotic and Legendary in terms of how hard/much it costs to get them.

Malediktus.9250:

Did anyone find a mini outside of the consortium chests yet? Post here if you find out where to get them outside of the chests.
I dont want to use MF gambling either.

I found one in the new zone, it was an exotic one (sold it).

It dropped off a reef shark.

Was about to ask the same question, after the confusion yesterday it would indeed be nice to know where we are supposed to be for the start of Phase 3.

It would also be nice to know if this part will have drops/rewards (considering it’s ment to be a long phase).

You don’t need VOIP, but they really should put it in anyways – make it only work in sPvP and Dungeons and within 5 man groups (PvE/WvWvW).

It would make the game so much better, and frankly there is no reason not to – it’s one of those “ease of use” things that should have been in from release.

Vendris.4201:

Thanks, Arenanet, for ensuring that Mesmers, Minion Necros, and Rangers never get invited to a dungeon again as soon as more people figure this out.

Imagine if you got a group with a couple of them – 3 clones, a pet and a minion – they could take every single heal/buff and the main party could get nothing.

It should have been in Rata Sum at worst – it just seems to fit. But honestly it should have been in the new area and NOT a city (let alone the most active city).

Putting it in LA was just a terrible idea, it’s already the most crowded place due to how the main portal hub is setup and it being the only free waypoint – no way should a dungen hub (which is likely to be the most popular) have been setup in there.