Guild Wars 2

https://twitter.com/mkerstein/status/268043782774218755

And before you all get a heart attack or an aneurysm – there will be a blog post later today about the whole thing.
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Here’s hoping it’s good news and not an actual gear grind.

Thanks a lot Anet, so all the karma, gold i spent already is now going to be rendered useless and i’ll need to get these new items. I’ve basically spent the last month doing nothing but getting the looks i want and putting them on the exotics i want as it was said this game WOULDN’T be a stats gear grind and only a cosmetics grind.

Not happy about this at all, not happy at all.

Bubasparks.7829:

Lets say i want to drop heal with it, not to blind foes, any suggestions how i should do that during mass fight in www? And blocking 3 attacks with cd of 45 sec its bs, i block more with shelter and cd is only 30 sec. Sorry but i havent seen any Guardian using focus in www.

You can’t as that’s not how the attack is designed (remember it’s an attack NOT a heal, it just happens to have a heal aspect incase not enough foes are around), it targets the nearest people around your main target and if they are foes they get damaged/blinded, if they are allies they get regen/cured. So if the nearest 3 people are all foes then it hits all foes, if the nearest are all allies it hits all allies and if the nearest are 1 foe and 2 allies then it hits those 3.

As for shelter, that’s a heal skill and can be used with the focus (give you even more blocks). Plus the focus version lasts twice as long, is a blast finisher and if you don’t block enough attacks in the timeframe it explodes and does damage.

Bubasparks.7829:

I think focus is total crap. Long cds, not so great effects and Ray of Judgment… How the fock i should target my allies in a huge battle, when everything is so messy, there is no button “target nearest allies”.

You target foes and the ray passes over them and allies, foes are damaged/blinded and allies get regen/cure conditions, you don’t need to target an ally to make it work on allies.

How anyone can say the focus is crap is beyond me, it’s a fantastic defence weapon.
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What i would like of staff is simple, shorten the damage arc but increase it’s range to 1200 – that would make it a decent ranged weapon.

I don’t really have an issue with the orb, i seem to use it just fine.

Just 1 thing i wanna see, a simple fix to the capping system in WvWvW and sPvP (as explained here). Doing that alone would fix the supposed “bunker” issue and make the pvp a lot better.

All that is really needed in cross city chat (i’m shocked it shipped without it), with that no matter what city your in you can find groups and chat etc.

As for other things, i do hope at some point they decide to make certain events in other citys just for some variety.

Don’t wait 24 hours to open the ticket, do it now.

If you wait 24 hours and it doesn’t arrive you then have to wait another xyz amount of hours to get a response, your basically wasting 24 hours of time that could have gotten you a reponse within that time. Also your possibly not letting Anet know about an issue they have that could then affect others during that same timeframe.

Basically the sooner you let them know, the sooner they can fix it for you AND the sooner that can make it so it doesn’t happen to anyone else.
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If it arrives before the ticket is answered then just close it.

This is my fear, on the 15th Anet will nerf guardians into the ground regarding bunkers and possibly do this change aswell (Anet seems to always go from 1 extreme to the other in nerfs). People keep saying “nerf bunkers” (like a few posts up – nerf protection to 25/20%) yet with this simple change in the capture system (that nearly all conquest games modes have i might add) it would fix a lot of the issue without nerfing bunkers at all.

I agree though, this is one of those things that is so obvious that it makes no sense at all why it’s this way now.

Right now you could (just being hypothetical) make a player deal zero damage and take zero damage (again not possible, just making a hypothetical point) and they could hold a point on there own despite an entire team of 8 enemy players standing right beside them on the point – it just makes no sense at all to have it like this.

Simply put, bunkers are fine as is (IMO) and it’s the capture system that needs a nerf (buff?).

Today in around 1 hour at least 10 gold – did the grenth rune a couple of times (failed/failed/success) and got lucky with a drop or 2 (black dye/rares – converted to ectos). Without lucky drops like that i usally make around 2g an hour easy – i don’t farm a lot and just stick to a single plinx/grenth run a day and that’s it – any silver/gold after that from usual playing, WvWvW, roaming around to complete zones is just a bonus.

I used to think getting gold was hard, but with a group and a decent run from start to finish on those 2 chains and well, it’s easy money.

Finally done on my 1st entire setup (just have to pickup the focus to complete my weapons).

Knights setup (all armor/weapons/accessories) with soilder runes and emerald jewels – with the assassin backpack and a ruby emerald (tansmuted to the mad king book).

AH/Shouts setup 0/15/30/20/5 – 47% crit chance (52% with tough to prec trait) with 34% extra crit damage.

“30 points in Zeal with a greatsword is totaly worth it”.

Agreed, it’s the same with oils aswell, unlike food these get wiped when you zone change just like buffs which is just as annoying as they cost money.

Platinum Transmutation Stone.
Double-click to consume.
Double- click to combine the appearance of one item with the attributes of another, creates a soulbound skin of the attributes items appearance. Items must be of the same type. Usable on all item levels. Consumable.

Account Bound.

Set of 5 would cost 325 gems.
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Basically it’s an item to make it so you don’t loose the look of the item your using for stats. For me the issue is if you spend a lot of gold/karma on that sweet looking armor and then fancy a new look you either have to buy a whole new set of stats armor and copy your new look armor onto it (wasting gold/karma on the extra stats armor) – or transmute over your current armor with the new look armor (wasting gold/karma on the old looks armor).

Right now i have my main stats/looks armor (my cultural/exotic set) and a basic stats/looks armor (my gem armor/rare set) and that’s it. When leveling i had noticed loads of sets i wanted to have for looks at 80, but buying full exotic sets to transmute them all was just to much gold to waste.
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What would be nice would be a system that makes your old look into a soullbound skin when you transmute it (platinum transmutation stone), that way when you apply a new look you can keep the old look as a skin incase you want to revert back. Now this wouldn’t be a skin like the halloween items, but basically a blank stats armor item because – reverting back would then inturn require another platinum stone (window 1 takes the skin/blank armor item, window 2 takes the normal armor) which would then create another skin etc (so you always get the old looking armor back).

What would happen is, you click the trans stone and it opens the same window we get now, you put in your items and when you click “good” you get 2 items – your new armor and a skin of the old armor. (that is soulbound).

Free from drops = very good and basically a free 12 silver.
From the store = one of the most useless things on it as it costs more than half as much to repair via a vendor even when including travel costs.

Loads are posting about this ingame (chat is spammed with the “invalid password” error issue), just happened to me aswell.

Something has gone a bit wrong with the update.

mulch.2586:

I don’t understand. There’s the same instanced dungeons with story mode as there ever was. You have the same opportunities.

More people leveling at release, more people doing the personal story and more people trying out all the dungeons for the 1st time: this means at that time there were more people doing the story mode dungeons over the explorable ones.

He/she isn’t saying there are less story mode dungeons, he/she is saying there is less people doing story mode dungeons.

Currently Sky, White Gold and Ash/Cobalt. Sometimes i put in a half sky and half blood (sky on the trousers/shirt etc and blood on the armor highlights).

Current look (sorry, he is a bit of a poser )

I use Sky as my blue, it’s very close to the guardian blue IMO (i used my mini pet for reference).

All colors i use on my Tier 2 Cultural: Sky for highlights, White Gold for trim & Ash for main armor color (sometimes Cobalt). As you can see from my pics i’m trying to match the mini.

Pics.

Noticed this today and asked in local and no one could access it, there is no way to talk to her etc and as such we can’t access her to pickup items/money.

I am unsure if this is server related or game related (as i’ve only tested on desolation).

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Well, I will just leave this thread since you obviously are very familiar with GW2 file structure and update policies.

Erm what?, i said “drop rates surely aren’t client side and as such should not require big updates”.

It was a question statement not a statement of fact.

Yeah but as stated already, drop rates surely aren’t client side and as such should not require big updates (if any at all infact).

Yeah i was kinda pickled when i read the notes and noticed at how much the update downloaded. I wonder what they actully changed with the update as it seems like it wasn’t just a drop rate fix.

You can do that already, look in the keybindings for the option to show/hide the UI.

The default setup to show/hide it is Ctrl, Shift & H.

@Kita – I shouldn’t have to trait my elites in order for them to be good.

I never said that, i said at it’s base level (no traits) it’s already good, it’s just that triats take it from just good to awesome (some traits) and then onto borderlined overpowered (all traits).

At its base level renewed focus gives you a free burn, a free (AOE) heal and a free block with 3 seconds of invincibility, then at the end of this you get the choice of having another burn, another heal and another 2 blocks (the 1st block on the virute reactiving its passive and the 2nd on your activation of it).

That is one heck of a battle changer if you time it right.

Renewed focus makes us invincible for 3 seconds and gives us 1 free actication of every virtue – that is easily elite quality. At it’s base level (no traits) it’s pretty sweet, with 5 points in Vitues it’s pretty awesome and with more traits it’s borderline overpowered (it just isn’t because it requires so many points to get it like that).

Renewed focus (standard): a 5 second burn, a heal, a block and 3 seconds of being invincible (on the move) and then all your virtues reset.

Renewed focus (basic trait version): a 5 second burn with might, a heal with regeneration, a block with protection and 3 seconds of being invincible (on the move).

Renewed focus (better trait version): a 5 second burn with might, blind, vunerablility and retaliation, a heal with regeneration and retaliation, a block with protection and retaliation (and a heal or more retaliation) and 3 seconds of being invincible (on the move).

Sounds pretty elite to me, infact i’d say considering it only gets better the more you trait into your virtues i’d say it’s one of the best elites in the game.

Is it just me or is it a bit weird that in 9 days and 10 pages we’ve not had a reponse to any feedback in the official feedback thread?.

Any chance of an update Anet?, will there be a chance of a slider/option to have the old/new fov or an even greater fov?, will there be a chance of a slider to adjust the vertical character postion? and after the MK bug for greater zoom level will there be a chance for a bigger zoom level aswell?.

Thanks.

Please add this.

I know it’s not exactly a major issue but i love going to my home city rather than Lion’s arch, however due to the fact that most people seem to use Lion’s arch (we all know why) it makes most other cities empty (no one in chat).

As such can we please have cross city chat, this would make it so no matter what city your in you all use the same city chat – this way if im in Rata Sum (for example) i can see people posting for groups etc if they are in Lion’s Arch etc.

pullnointer.1476:

conquest. does. not. work.

I disagree, i think it’s more of a case of the current form of GW2 conquest doesn’t work.

An easy 6/10.

Some parts were great and really proffesional, but others just made it look amature at best. I was more than happy with each event in itself (apart from act 4, it was a real letdown) in terms of design and looks, but my god at some of the things that happened (the event exploit for hours, BL chests for skins, the MK chest being even worse that BL chests that were supposed to make up for them, making CT a group event etc).

I just think the way in which the conquest is setup is a big factor in what’s holding it back. There is nothing wrong with the mode for this sort of game/class setup – it’s just that the mode is badly designed at the moment

1st there is to few points (should be 5 minimum IMO) for the player count, then there is the fact the points don’t tick down if you have more team mates on that point vs the other team (that in itself makes no sense at all).

If these 2 things alone got changed it would be a big help and chage the dynamics of the s/tPvP, sure it wouldn’t be everything needed to save it as an esport – but these 2 things are what should have been very basic aspects from day 1.

How so?, it’s for people who own all the items already and simply want to make them into 1 item. It’s not something to create and sell etc, it’s simply to take things you already have and combine them into 1 item to save space.

Edit.
After checking what the LOTRO boxes are, i think you may have missunderstood what i was suggesting.

Item suggestion.
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Jewellery Box.
Add 5 Jewellery slot items into this box to create a single slot item with the combined stats of all items – can only contain 2 Rings, 2 Accessories and 1 Amulet item.

This is a permanent change.
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As i’m sure some will know in sPvP these sort of items already exist, single slot items which have combined stats. What i’m suggesting is a transmutation style item to create a similar item for PvE and WvWvW to save space if you are happy with the items you have for those slots.

As i’ve started to build sets of armor/items i’ve begun to save space and thought this would be a pretty handy item to have. It would be used to turn 5 items into 1 item which would save a lot of space. Once the single item equipped into the amulet slot no other items would be able to be slotted (bar the back item).

Now this would only really be for people who are happy with the 5 items they use as it would be a permanent change (for selling reasons), but another gem store item could be sold like “Jewellery box Key” which could be used to open the box and seperate all the items again.
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Jewellery Box Key.
Opens a Jewellery Box to seperate all items within the box.

This is a permanent change.
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Suggested price – 300 gems for each.

Question.
I made a purchase of some gems today and want a refund on them (not used), i’ve filed the refund request as stated here

As such is there any sort of time frame on how long refund requests take, is it days/weeks etc? – just wondering.

Incident: 121102-003070

Thanks.

Yeah it’s really weird, taking it down should not cause such a big drop in such a short period of time. And if it does then the system should be changed to stopped it from happening.

Basically i had to wait for the downtime to be over to get my gems added to convert them, but now due to the downtime i will get a lot less than i would have if the downtime hadn’t happened – it’s not right.
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Just checked support, fortunatly there is refunds on gem purchases if they haven’t been used, i recon i’ll be doing that (if it doesn’t go back up in the next few hours).

Now incase anyone says “well the gem to gold market does go up and down”, i have no issue with that when the gem market is up and running, but it certainly shouldn’t go down by that much when the gem market is closed to buying/converting gems.

Kinda shocked really, before the downtime it was nearly 75 silver for 100 gems and now it’s dropped to 55 silver for 100 gems.

Was it not locked in place or something before the downtime?, it’s a 20 silver drop in that 4 hours. I mean it was almost 75 right before the downtime and now 55 right after it.

I don’t mind the price at all, it’s a set your ment to work for and as such i can simply deposit 1g a day (about 30 minutes work at 80) and in 3 months i can have the full set (or 2g a day so a month and a half).

In the mean time i have the full Tier 2 to get my cultural on (i’d actully say this set doesn’t cost enough).

Now before some people say “but it shouldn’t take xyz amount of days etc”, it’s an MMO that is ment to last YEARS!, so it taking 3 months (of very casual saving) is perfectly fine IMO.

Do i think the cultural armor costs to much?, nope, i think the earlier sets cost to little (same with the order armor).
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@Godmoney – it is actully perfectly possible, if you stick with greens (or very cheap yellows) and sell everything you pickup (and get some decent drops) you can make that easily by 59 (if i didn’t blow all my money on my 1st character i would have had over 15g by 40).

Very nice of you, i may take you up on it at some point.

If i don’t though, i’ll say a big thank you anyways .

Daays, that is a pretty good post and was something i was really surprised to see the 1st time i entered sPvP.

I mean it’s so simple (and it should infact be a very simple change), if more players from your team are on a point and you don’t own that point, it should start the capping it.

Allied Asuran Allegiance – [AAA]
Unified Asuran League – [UAL]
United Asuran Alliance – [UAA]

I think you can see where i got those, as such i’d say the 1st one as we are about the same size as sea otters .

Any of those 3 would be great and i’d love to see a large Asuran only guild on Desolation.

Yeah it’s one of the most simple things yet for some reason it’s missing.

A proper LFG system would be great, but a nice simple LFG chat channel would be a major help for people looking for groups and people fed up with the standard channel being spammed with LF etc.

It’s like the city wide chat not being in the game, it makes no sence.

Gaile Gray.6028:

Moderators can see ALL posts, even those that appear removed to members. So I don’t think they were unaware of the full content of the thread.

I can’t address forum issues, but you can write forums@arena.net and discuss the matter with the moderation team. But do be aware it’s unlikely that your account has any actual infraction on it, it’s more likely that you were given a warning, which does not have any lasting consequences.

That’s the thing i have contacted the forum team via that email address days ago and have had no response to it.

Also the PM i got clearly stated i had been infracted for the post which i why i contacted them to appeal it as i didn’t agree with it.

So, how do i get help with this if i don’t get a response to the emails?.

Hi i have a question regarding an infraction i recently got (my 1st), i didn’t agree with the infraction and as such appealed it. The reason for the infraction is below.

“Please refrain from making posts that do not provide any meaningful contribution to the topic at hand.”

The thing was it was meaningful to the thread at hand when i posted it as a few posts before mine had insults in them (directed at me and others) and my post was a nice polite simple request to not insult people because they had a different opinions and that i would really like to keep insults out of my thread (it was a thread i had actully started).

The problem is a moderator removed the posts which had the insults in them and then my post made no sense (it would have looked pretty random), and as such would appear to have no meaningful contribution – i’m guessing this is the reason for the infraction.
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As such i followed the system to appeal it, however it states you may not always get a response. So my question is, how do i know if the infraction was removed or not?.

I know some may say “it’s not that big an issue”, but for me it is.

Couple of updated pics with the new FoV of what the game could look like with a minor vertical shift in camera.

The 1st and 3rd pics are standard, the 2nd and 4th are adjusted. This is what it could look like with a 1 inch adjustment only.

Here’s hoping for a bit less guardian nerfs (or no nerfs at all ), but it’s certainly interesting about a possible new game island/area.

Made new images showing the change better, the old images had a big line across each skybox which made it look kinda weird.

The new images have the sky box area stretched instead so it looks a lot nicer, and it’s easier to see the difference in the viewing area.

I made a tread showing how it could look (the pics are kinda rough, but you get the point). I was kina expecting more players (mainly asurans) to want this feature, i recon not though as any thread requesting a vertical slider gets very few (if any) responses.

Anyways, my thread with some pics showing how it could look.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Add-a-vertical-slider-to-adjust-character-position/first#post567093

The main thing i’m disapointed about loot wise is the book (shock – not the weapons!), why?. Because i can’t have it set to be seen due to the fact it clips so badly with any 2hd weapon on your back (how was this not noticed?).

Now if they made a system that it would auto show it when you enter combat it would be great. Think out it this way, how cool would it be to enter combat and unsheave your weapon, then a ghostly book fades in to existence on your back! – then when you sheave your weapon it fades away (in spooky smoke).

I like the mad king setup more (it’s a lot more epic) BUT, i like the headless horseman loot a lot better.

When i got the realm 1st (aww yeah!) on the helmet i was in hogs heaven – i think i had that helmet on for like a year. I even had its laugh set into my warriors charge attack so i would burst out laughing as i charged in – Muhahahahahahahaaa BAM!!!! .

No, it was just an epic cutscene and nothing more.

I’ll say thank you to the design team, looks wise some parts are just AWESOME.