Guild Wars 2

Buy some cheap greens and blues from the trading post. You can buy cultural items if you like their aesthetic.

48k Karma. Check the renown heart vendors in Bloodtide Coast or Harathi Hinterlands. They may have some upgrades for your profession.

Azrael.4960:

Anet would have to introduce something suitably challenging to be worthy of its own set of armour.

In GW1, there were the Fissure of Woe armour and Obsidian sets for people who tackled the high end dungeons and even then it took some doing. Arah is the nearest thing to that level of dungeon (which is being generous since FoW and the Underworld were substantially harder).

Rewards should come with rewarding content

This…100 times this!

The only way I see PvE getting an exclusive armor set that wouldn’t exist on any of the PvP loot tables or reward tracks is if some dangerous new dungeon or elite area is released in the future.

Oh man…this has a good setup for a game.

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Fill in your own words. GO!

LoopySnoopy.7923:

I’m hoping I don’t have to contact support to get all 17 tags minus 1 tag as that’ll be a long process, I am hoping we can speak to an npc with said commander tag and get a refund.. At the moment not much details, here’s hoping we don’t get kittened by ANET as support always likes to delay refunds.

It’s probably an automatic mail.

Given they have to condense a character record into an account record to even make this possible, they have all the metrics available. I imagine players will just receive a mail from the Anet team with X amount of gold attached.

She doesn’t talk even though no marker is present?

And “reach Anise?” She should be standing next to you and Kasmeer for the arrest of Estelle.

If you’re stuck with a pet seedling, my advice would be to go ahead and use this time to get the other materials in the process AFTER the Mysterious Vine. Don’t repeat any stuff from Part 1.

You can use Dulfy’s guide or the wiki to see what you need, including the steps that start from the Cultivated Seed.

I’m sure Anet will find a way for you guys to receive another Cultivated Seed.

If you’re stuck with a pet seedling, my advice would be to go ahead and use this time to get the other materials in the process AFTER the Mysterious Vine. Don’t repeat any stuff from Part 1.

You can use Dulfy’s guide or the wiki to see what you need, including the steps that start from the Cultivated Seed.

I’m sure Anet will find a way for you guys to receive another Cultivated Seed.

They’ll probably be in the Twitch VODs on both the Twitch.tv channel and the GuildWars 2 channel.

Speaking of esports…all stars tournament in 10 minutes!

http://www.twitch.tv/twitch

Europe vs. China

It worked in GW 1 where the gametypes were more isolated.

Every recent change to SPvP (like reward tracks and wardrobe) is to integrate each area of the game.

Separate PvP characters would not work well with the design of Guild Wars 2.

Rickster.8752:

Unbelievable decision to not include it in solo q. It is like they hate their player base and intend to intentionally give us half baked features. There is no reason to deny players in solo q this fix. I am baffled by this decision. Surely it is a typo?

Or they didn’t know the response that would occur from excluding it in solo queue.

Remember gang, these changes are still 3 weeks away, and as such, are still subject to change.

If we provide constructive criticism and reason that the standard models should be an option for solo queue as well, I’m sure Anet will make that available to us.

Who said he was stuck?

Every time he’s in that spot, he opens up with a breath attack. The hero is just using the position in an advantageous way.

Then it must be one of the two you listed.

These “new bosses” in Dry Top must be very rare. I haven’t seen mention of them yet, even on Reddit. Not sure if they only spawn during tier 6 or if their appearance is just super rare in the zone.

I haven’t checked…is a mini Monkey King present in the collectibles area of the bank?

darkace.8925:

Mordremoth isn’t even a big enough threat to stir the tengu into action, so why should the rest of the world care?

Heh, to be honest, we don’t know that. The Tengu could be fighting a devastating battle for their homeland beyond the wall, but we don’t know that.

TBH, it’s unlikely anyway, given Mordremoth feeds on exposed magic. As far as we know the Asura haven’t been in Tengu homeland for a long time, so the waypoint network probably hasn’t been established yet. (the WPs is what hinted Mord where to attack in part 1)

It’s actually just like Rouven describes. It threatens the entire world or way of life of the existing 5 playable races. Asuras could lose the WP network. That would affect all races. Charr would lose supply lines to fight the ghosts. Hoelbrak would get attacked from two fronts, as would DR, and the Grove would be completely engulfed.

It’s important to isolate player knowledge from character knowledge when interpreting the story.

Cynz.9437:

well i am stuck with ascended pet seedling w/o completing the exotic one… i also can’t make exotic one as i don’t have the necessary items (seedling etc. ) and the centaururs guy that suppose to sell it doesn’t offer anything for sale… what now :/

Just enjoy the rest of the content. Anet will come up with a solution.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

My Sweet Lily.1952:

Same problem, no more Cultivated Seed, only Pet Seed after making Germinated Foxfire Cluster and Pile Of Crackling Ley Line Dust. So apparently interacting with either one triggers the swap? I had the Cultivated Seed in my inventory while working on the new backpiece.

Hmm. I didn’t geminate the foxfire before checking, but I might have done the Crackling Ley Line Dust.

Maybe that’s what is causing the bug? But for me, the seed was in my bank.

The bug is widespread, affecting people at all stages of creation. The one constant is people had completed Mysterious Vine BEFORE the patch hit.

Something bugged in the patch itself, sadly. Best of luck to Anet on discovering the issue and determining a fix.

It’s the only “world” that most Tyrians on the main continent are aware of or even care about anymore.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Krag.6210:

What is the pet seed for exactly?

Aparently, its the 1st step towards the 3rd backpiece (Ascended one). Sadly, don’t seens like we can make ascended one without have previously made 2nd exotic.

I thought the Cultivated Seed was for the Ascended backpiece (Mawdrey), while the Pet Seed will be made for the bloodstone dust eating plant (Mawdrey II).

Cultivated Seed is used to create the Cultivated Vine – the exotic backpiece.

Pet Seed (which turns into Pet Seedling) is used to make both Mawdrey and Mawdrey II.

Maclaine, Leif, and the entire music/audio team were right on the money with the theme they captured with each composition and its relevance to that moment in the story.

What impressed me the most were the musical transitions. Go listen right before you confront Estelle, or right before Taimi bolts with the device…they dynamically change the music, even in the middle of dialogue lines!

I could feel the new urgency…before the action even occurred, which leads me to feel more engaged when I rush after Taimi to try and stop her.

Overall, I think I heard 3 or 4 new tracks.

Completely awesome!

What did you craft specifically? Can you get a screenshot?

asaypaige.6873:

I also had my seed switched out, I made the Mysterious Vine a few days before Part 2 and it was in my character’s inventory. Of the new steps so far I’ve only amplified each item from completing each story instance; Resonating Chaos Orb, Pile of Crackling Ley Line Dust, and Germinated Foxfire Cluster.

http://dulfy.net/2014/08/13/gw2-cultivated-vine-backpiece-guide/

You’re on track, asaypaige. Unfortunately, with the seeds swapped, you’re stuck on a phase of the process (where you use the Resonating Chaos Orb to create a Chaos Infused Pot and plant the Cultivated Seed in the pot).

The Pile of Dust and the Cluster are used for the Mystic Forge recipes to interact with other base items that are currently bugged by the seed swaps (seedling, sprout, and shoot).

If you wanted to use the orb, dust, and cluster, you would have to acquired another Cultivated Seed by doing Part 1 of Dragon’s Reach on an alt and doing that part of the process again (totally not recommended).

Just know, you’re on track.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

EvanTeicheira.3962:

Hey Sevei! Thank you for the report! I have a few quick questions for you which could help us substantially in trying to identify the root of the problem (pun intended):

• Did you create the first tier of the back-piece (the Exotic-level item) before today’s patch?
• Was the seed in your bank or in your character’s inventory?
• Have you progressed through any of the construction steps introduced in Episode 4? If so, which steps have you completed?

If you could also provide a screenshot which highlights the issue, it would help us greatly!

Thanks, and see you online!

Didn’t realize this was an issue. Anyways:

• I created it Monday, the day before the patch.
• Both seed and backpakc was in my bank.
• I did, but before I did I saw it was a Pet Seed. I had thought that the item change was intentional, or I was mistaken on what the name was, so didn’t think much of it.

If I’m understanding the bug correctly, it looks like the second gen seed (Cultivated Seed) got turned into the third gen seed (Pet Seed) with the E4 patch. Resulting in all us folks unable to do the second stage of the backpacks, and having to work on the third stage.

Which going by the item names, means we cannot get the Ascended Backpack (Mawdrey), and instead go straight to the Bloodstone-consuming plant (Mawdrey II)?

You may not even be able to go for Mawdrey II, Konig.

I had some people in my guild try it, and they could not complete it. The game must have some invisible check on charging the items for each stage of the process (Mysterious, Cultivated, Mawdrey, MawdreyII). So if you haven’t completed Mawdrey, you won’t be able to charge the item necessary to create Mawdrey II.

Note: It is possible for a person to redo the process to acquire the Mysterious Vine, which will spawn a new Cultivated Seed. From there, the entire process to both Mawdrey and Mawdrey II can be completed as normal, but this is costly and not recommended.

Evan says their top guys and gals are working on it, so it might be best to just enjoy the rest of the content until a fix is implemented.

Raire.7983:

It’s a good idea. IMO, there should certainly be alternatives for things like this. I hadn’t gotten round to making the first stage of the back-piece, and now I don’t think I’ll bother! Fractals are not for me.

I must say I’m really disappointed in ANet for going back to that nasty habit of trying to force players into content they simply do not wish to play. Can we not be a diverse player-base?

It’s not a force on purpose. They just hadn’t considered alternatives like using badges to acquire the stone from another area of the Mists.

Katreyn.4218:

It’s definitely not an activity I enjoy to do.

And that is precisely why this idea makes perfect sense. It doesn’t matter that five scale 1 fractals for five days is easy. Some people simply don’t enjoy that type of content. There could be other options available to obtain rewards that follow a specific process such as this.

To be honest, this is a great idea!

WvW occurs in the Mists as well, so it would make sense for a Mists stone to be attainable there as well.

The only hurdle I can see in this idea is the way the item is currently designed. When you double-click the item, it points you to the Fractals. I suppose it could point to two areas, Fractals and the WvW Portals, but that might be confusing to people who wouldn’t be aware that this step of the backpiece is a choice of content – not a specific requirement.

Having the stone just on the vendor with no direction would have minimal impact, as the stone is only beneficial to players who are working on the backpiece. Any other WvW players who don’t care for the backpiece would have no need for the stone, and might even spend their badges on a useless item.

If the stone has some future purpose in crafting or forge recipes in later releases of the game, then I could see a Badge Vendor for the stone being valuable.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

No, they aren’t GMs. But, they are employees.

Btw…isn’t Snowcrash Chris? Or was that some other Snow-something?

Indeed. That’s Chris Whiteside himself.

He must have been afk handling stuff in the office.

Hi Chris.

zeromius.1604:

The almost 100% AOE was actually 100% AOE. The only way to avoid getting hit was to time your dodge at the right moment.

Or jump…

Zardul.3952:

It’s a terrible episode.
They touched on Rytlock and removing the curse.
But again nothing followed through in that front.

I’m gonna call it now Rytlock will somehow come back with some information that will save the day and kills mordemoth.

The episodes need to be more challenging and have more plot twists

Wayyyy too boring

Each episode can’t have a plot twist or cliffhanger, or they would lose impact and shock factor on the player.

This is part 1. Some of the design of the open-world events could be improved, but the story is definitely intriguing. None of us predicted we’d revisit the story of Ascalon. Who knows what will happen to Rytlock in the Mists?

I’m waiting for part 2 to see if any of these questions will get answered.

lordkrall.7241:

TYHE.6435:

Oh, and it was just impossible to predict that many people may press TALK to key NPC. right?

Not really.
But it is one thing to predict that people will do something and another entirely to know exactly how many and what will happen.

They don’t build stuff to break after all.

Precisely.

Even if the event/NPC got load-tested, that can’t match what players across X number of megaservers can produce on a single script.

This is just an instance of a script breaking from stress/overuse/unseen behavior.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2c299b/psa_a_full_bltc_queue_will_prevent_episode_3_from/

Cutscene sound in GW 2 runs on the “Environment Volume” slider in your Audio Options inside the game.

So if you’re like me and hate listening to crackling fires, wind whooshes, and other things that detract from the music of the game, you may have turned the Environment Volume to 0 or very low. Thus, the cutscenes will appear soundless to you.

hehk.8705:

Why is blu not just being flown out?

He has done more work than anyone else in the community and deserves it more than anyone. At the same time he is not a top tier player like the others on the list and should not be playing in an “All Stars” competition, he is a caster not a player and we do not want the casting mess that was pax.

Definitely agree with Blu being flown out separate of the current competitors, as a commentator, not a caster.

Blu and Josh have commentated before several times, so they could be at the desk together during the competition.

Hey Josh,

How are teams getting formed amongst the 15 chosen? Is this a sort of region vs. region deal, where it’s NA vs. EU vs. CN, or will teams be mixed across all of the chosen participants?

Eadwulf.2967:

. The only thing that I can think of is that I was on my ranger for all of these successes, and perhaps my pet is once again causing problems for no discernible reason.

Interesting assessment.

Was the original poster a Ranger as well? I’d find it odd if the pet was tracked for the achievement along with the Ranger, but we saw it happen before with the Scarlet Hologram, so it’s a good place to start.

Heh, AP counts don’t matter if bi-weekly releases are returning.

OP has some valid concerns and they’re well founded.

The content and delivery was solid for the opening of S2, compared to the opening of S1. We got a ton more exposition, while still leaving open ends for us to speculate and guess upon.

If you took the current S2 story and used S1’s pacing, we wouldn’t find out Aerin’s name or even his race and what kind of character he is for another 2-3 months. Instead, they reveal it all now, but they leave out the one key element – the motif.

They purposefully left out “Why.” I’m sure that portion can be explained through several chapters.

This episode isn’t about a “cliffhanger” where we have all the details and wait on the juicy conclusion. It’s about missing the one key detail so we can form our own conclusions.

I’ve heard replies from people who thoroughly enjoyed the ending, because in that one instance, they saw more of Scarlet/Ceara’s character revealed than in the entire of Season One.

Maybe we’ll have a big opening to the next episode? Something sudden happens that adds new depth to the tame ending? It feels like a Law and Order or NCIS.

Obvious fake to me.

The quality of the video and of the map itself does not match the quality of any trailer before. Also, absolutely no view of characters (whether it be NPCs or the Biconics). With a supposed map release next week, content would have to be much more polished than the blank landscapes showcased by this fake.

skullmount.1758:

Hmm, so if LS is going to be using the green star like the PS, what happens to those of us who haven’t completed the PS? Do we just select that in the story panel and it basically hides the PS one/step?

Going from what Colin described, that seems to be the case.

Colin Johanson

To go along with this change, we’re modifying the story Journal in your character’s Hero Panel so it will track all of your character’s story steps. From that panel, characters who are level 80 will be able to select between playing their personal story and the Living World story. For the Living World story, you’ll be able to select which unlocked episode you’d like to play. Characters under level 80 will be able to see the available episodes, but will not be able to play them until they reach level 80. Think of the Living World story as the constantly expanding continuation of your character’s storyline once they reach level 80.

Here’s the real bits and pieces!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-story-journal/

As for large open world changes…I think we could still see them. Think about it…bits of the Tower of Nightmares is “permanent.” We’ve seen a permanent change to Kessex Hills.

I can see zones (both old and new) having a period where they are filled with stuff for the active release, but then maybe they go into a “normal” or “less-active” state once the 2-week period is over.

Only the 2-week period might have the massive boss fight, akin to Marionette. Of course…if we can have a permanent Marionette, then I’ll squee like a schoolgirl.

Xenon.4537:

They read the forums, they just don’t respond to the sea of cynicism and cryhards. They read it and take it all with a truck-sized grain of salt.

As they should.

Xenon.4537:

They read the forums, they just don’t respond to the sea of cynicism and cryhards. They read it and take it all with a truck-sized grain of salt.

As they should.

lordkrall.7241:

adubb.2453:

ETA on when this issue will be resolved? This seems like something that should be really easy to correct. Check to see if the WvW season 2 meta flag was flipped. If Yes, give reward.

While Dragonbrand didn’t do all that well, I still want my tokens!

To be fair that is most likely already the case, and yet it doesn’t work, so the issue is most likely deeper down.

That actually isn’t the case. It’s something else, because you’re awarded an achievement for the particular PLACE you earned.

Something with the places must not be reaching the proper flags to recognize and distribute the tickets.

Hopefully they can resolve the issue soon.

Evan Lesh.3295:

In a vote system, do you think people would vote for the already most-picked map to not ‘throw away’ their vote?

Yes, but this would likely happen anyway. Less experienced or more casual PvPers will pick maps regardless of actual design or balance, which is to be expected and is not a bad thing.

If they are the type of person who avoids conflict and conforms to others’ desires (not player, because it’s just a personality trait in general that allows one to be submissive or non-combative), then they will use their vote to increase the vote count on the most popular map at the time. They may also save their vote until last to ensure their vote has as minimal an impact as possible. Again, this is a personality trait, which no area of game design could seek to circumvent or improve. There is an established difference between a player trait and a personality trait. Sure, they frequently share relationships, but they are influenced by different elements – the difference between design vs. genetics.

If Arenanet designs a vote system in the future, I feel it’s important to isolate the difference of factor that affect this system. Style of play, build optimization by map, and secondary mechanics are much different than dominating or submissive personalities which influence a person’s play and their choices.

A fan from the China release event got several lore questions about the Mists answered by the Devs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/25iqrv/i_attended_the_gw2_china_beta_festival_heres_some/

The answers were actually really enlightening, especially the part that each server is an alternate dimension, an alternate version of the world of Tyria within the Mists.

What’s everyone’s thoughts? Also, the few questions about the Sylvari, let’s discuss them in another thread please, so we can stay focused on one topic.

Ideally Branden,

The skill itself would not be expected to scale, because it’s the hitboxes that should remain static and equal in size across all races to preserve the equality of racial choice in combat.

If anything, the animations should just be a static size that seems reasonable for each race.

Not sure what work that would entail, but thank you sir for your recognition of the issue.

Karl,

While number 4 sounds really awesome for Mind Stab, I wanted to point out something really quick.

This pretty much cements Greatsword as the Go-To weapon for any Mesmer, even Condi mesmers can get good useage out of Mirror Blade and Mind Stab.

If Mind Stab is getting a little buff, we really need to look at Scepter as well. Scepter as a whole feels completely lackluster and is not strong for Power or Condi builds. Not to mention that it just feels slow with its auto-attack, compared to a Mesmer’s other weapons.

Hopefully we can find a happy medium between all the weapons. Thank you, sir.

Malchior

sMihaly.1492:

“Ready Up” – anything about upcoming patches?

Probably not this week. This week’s about last week’s ToL and this week’s ToL.

Helseth couldn’t make it?

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