Guild Wars 2

The cap is needed because of several issues:
1) exploits which allowed you to gain additional daily achievement points
2) making permanent/one time achievements more meaningful again
3) making leaderboard more competive again and not just time spent per day (~6h for all dailies)

Would be great if daily activity npc would be added to it

In the livestream all glory vendors where gone, at least I didnt see any.

I doubt they are permanently retirering them

Its fine as it is if they add more tiers some day (maybe elder dragon or something?)

I have two questions:
1. Will the fix for pvp title tracks be included in the feature patch, so all rank points count?
2. Will the amount of rank points required adjusted? 15m rank points / 2x dragon for highest title is too much.

That is terrible. I dont want to run those story modes again. They take forever and terrible rewards.

Contact the customer support and explain your mistake, its your best chance

I love this change, less daily grind

New tiers after dragon are required.

I have many stacks pvp mats but nothing to do with them. Cant you make them tradeable to merchants for 1s each? I think that would be fair considering the time it took to aquire all these stacks.

I have a question: Will the pvp rank point title tracks be adjusted, too? 15m rank points for the highest title seems absurd.

So Dragon will be worthless? Currently already tons of people are 50+. I sure hope this means there will be new ranks after dragon…

Rezz.8019:

I’m #19 at the moment and I miss dailies quite often. I only have 8484 daily points at the moment so this will bump me up in ranks a bit. That’s quite cool.

Can tell you are on NA servers. I got 8938 from dailies and only rank 22, would be 8 if move to NA.
Monthly I got 1675.

Rank #5 EU has 9247 daily and 1700 monthly, asked him just now.

Best update ever, I am almost at 9k daily AP, so I can finnaly spend more time on things I enjoy in the game without feeling of missing out.

Best changes in this blog: Cap for daily AP and monthly AP. I am at almost 9k daily, so its a step forward to less daily grind for me.

I would keep everything and laugh at the person who made the mistake.

I hope Anet will think of this. It would really degrade the value of Sunrise, Twilight and Eternity.

I would pay 600 gems for it

I dont know how you can compare borderlands/EB train to PvE train. Its an effective way to increase your servers points per tick even if you are outmanned.

Mainly from karma trains in WvW since I dont do champ trains or dungeons when they arent daily achievement

Wanze.8410:

Malediktus.9250:

I dont like these changes at all. I died 11343 times on my main character and I dont give a crap about the repair costs. I guess its close to 20k on whole account.

I wonder how this change affects you negatively…

Isnt it obvious? I will save a little bit on repair costs but loose out a lot more on champion bags.

I dont like these changes at all. I died 11343 times on my main character and I dont give a crap about the repair costs. I guess its close to 20k on whole account.

bottom line
a completly useless patch to me so far, wardrobe costs gems and the rest is just bugfixes and minor QoL changes

Stormcrow.7513:

You guys obviously haven’t played with SweetFX enough to get it looking correct. I can’t play without it now. FXAA is blurry garbage.

This is a screen from the other day. I know there are others that have it set up better than I do as well.
http://i.imgur.com/tOSAp9P.png

sorry that looks like garbage to me compared to native graphic settings.

Tasty Pudding.3764:

Just wait. “Removing restrictions” means NA <-> EU server guesting.

did you even read the blogpost, removing restrictions —> no repair costs, no trait change cost, less silver in champion boxes

the new feature patch looks more like a maintance patch so far, totally overhyped

Stormcrow.7513:

Just toss in SweetFX and you are on your way. I haven’t used FXAA in over a year. The game looks very very nice with SweetFX tuned right and supersampling.
I do wish that they would put dx11 in as well as better multicore support but we all know that will never happen.

I cant stand SweetFX, it makes the game more ugly imho and not prettier. It cant replace proper anti aliasing.

Why do they have to make a blogposts about this? Another “feature” which is just a quality of life change that would just appear at the end of the patchnotes in other MMOs.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I’m not sure if you realize that dungeon skins aren’t the only thing people farm dungeons for.

farming them for the gold reward at the end feels so rewarding…

Chase.8415:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

All I want is real anti-aliasing. FXAA is stupid and blurs textures.

They already have true anti aliasing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling

It has supersampling, but you cannot choose how much supersampling, currently it is doing very low supersampling. In GW1 I had better anti aliasing than in GW2 with Supersampling + 25% downsampling.

64bit would be good, it would prevent out of memory errors which crash the game frequently.

I already told you before that you shouldnt hold your breath for new legendaries, and when they are coming they will most likely require completly new recipes, such as the new ascended materials anet introduced.

So the upcoming wardrobe will use transmutation charges, which is a huge downside. I really cant have fun with that feature if I have to look at my transmutation charges and the “buy more” button all the time.
So I suggest an infinite transmutation license in the gemshop, which when consumed permanently removes the need for transmutation charges and the buy more button from your account.
Suggested prices between 4,000 and 8,000 gems.
As it is now I see no reason to collect more skins (and skins from gemshop) than before and something like this could fix it.

I dont see a problem with Pistol Whip, its like the smallest problem there is in sPvP.

JustTrogdor.7892:

You still have to pay to wash them though, unless you are gross.

Fair enough, but if you are some kind of guy who likes to switch clothes every hour you can equip them several times before washing them. Also Anet doesnt have to wash your clothes, the transmutation charges cost represent the bits and bytes to store your stuff in no way. I bet it costs them less than 5 cent per year to store your whole account.

Since it costs transmutation charges to use a new set of looks from your wardrobe its essentially a rental system and not a wardrobe.
I dont know about you, but if I use a real life wardrobe I can change as much as I like without paying for each change.

mtpelion.4562:

Malediktus.9250:

I wont spent a dime on transmutation charges. Stupid system is stupid.

Did you ever spend a dime on transmutation crystals?

I cant remember that I did, I think I only used the few ones I got for free during gameplay. But in my 5500hours I only had like 10 free lvl 80 transmutation stones, so I always kept my outfits permanently after finishing a look.

Same I transmuted a T3 set with phalanx, would be nice if it would be unlocked anyway since its tracked by achievements…

felivear.1536:

Malediktus.9250:

They better make transmutation charges (one per win) a reward for winning tPvP matches if this is as I expect it to be.

So, I think this would be nice, but it seems like a pipe dream. If you add all of the past changes up, they have been DYING to monetize the floundering SPVP population, but have failed, (example being paid tournaments, custom arenas, etc).

I believe (pure speculation) that we’ll have opportunities to unlock more gear, but to wear it we’ll need to use these transmutation items, which I again speculate will be bought with gems.

It looks great on paper, just like paid tournaments and custom arena did, but I believe they are in for a rude awakening.

I wont spend money on a game where I feel like a cash cow, so their system wont work for me. I didnt buy any gems for real cash for some months now and have no plans to ever buy gems with real money again unless anet changes their cash grab attitude.

Black Lion Claim Ticket weapons are tradeable so probably no refund for them.
But contact costumer support for the other one.

Backpieces are included.

But since this needs transmutation charges its just another money grab.

They better make transmutation charges (one per win) a reward for winning tPvP matches if this is as I expect it to be.

Charging pvp players to change skins which was previously free = last nail in coffin

I will never ever buy something like a transmutation stone/charge from this gemshop. Something that should be free in a game about looks.

It should have been a once off 2500 luck instead of daily 25. Even 250 luck a day is not worth coming if I can just salvage like 5-10 greens from a champion train for it.

Just send in a refund request to customer support.

Suddenly we all got kicked out of the game and forced to load the patch. When I came back the match was 2v4. Thanks Anet for the bugged extended warning (it said 20min until it will restart)

King Amadaeus.8619:

I think it will get somewhat better around 4/4…

I see what you did there…

25 luck is hardly worth travelling to her

GW2 is just a casual grindy game with no proper endgame or challanges.