Guild Wars 2

Elrey.5472:

Meglobob.8620:

I virtually never died

John Smith.4610:

You’ve died 895 times.

Meglobob.8620:

But I die a lot less now…

Don’t try to fix it, that was a burn on the face hahaha.

I was not expecting my deaths to be quoted back to me, correct.

That’s why John Smith is Legendary

Even when he makes me poor and takes gold from my poor 8×80th lvl characters mouths…

Your armour will still be damaged and you will after get it repaired but at no cost, now.

To offset it all those dynamic events you do, plus champion bags will reward you with less silver…

John Smith.4610:

Meglobob.8620:

Cheers John!

I virtually never died, so with nerf to champion loot/events I will be considerably worse off gold wise.

Cheers again John, thanks very much!

You’ve died 895 times.

But I die a lot less now…not bad considering I mainly do WvW.

I will be worse off gold wise but I was just being (or trying) to be funny.

I am not bothered by the change, champion bags are boring and the loot in them is boring…

Cheers John!

I virtually never died, so with nerf to champion loot/events I will be considerably worse off gold wise.

Cheers again John, thanks very much!

Ha ha I have loads of arcane converters and loads of consumable but no dust…

So if you get those I want dust…

Style.1092:

This is so sad to read these all whining comments of no rewards at the moment. You have announced tournament with great prizes and you still don’t have motivation to train before the tournament ?

99% of spvp players would not stand a chance in a tournament.

Sure, I could organise a team, we could all get on team speak but then we would be destroyed 500-0 several times before being awarded the wooden spoon for coming last…

I want to compete against other players who are on roughly the same level as me for reasonable rewards, what’s the problem with that?

I have literally opened 10,000’s of champion bags and am completely bored by whats in them anyway…so I don’t care…

If they nerf them too much, lets just all go to how it was before and avoid champions completely…

Overall, I think its…GREAT, they will shake GW2 up, roll on 15.4.14 when I can start playing GW2 again…not been playing since completed achievements in Battle of LA, that was 3 weeks ago, nothing to do…

I am probably a overall loser from this particular set of changes, I tend to never die on my characters, so armour repairs were tiny from my point of view. Which means with less loot in champion bags, I will be worse off. Still I am okay with it, already opened 10,000’s of champion bags and they are just utterly boring to me now, so whatever…

Removing repair costs will only save money for those who die a lot, everyone else will earn less gold, not just in Queensdale, but WvW, living story events, everywhere there’s a champion.

I hope all those players who stack bags open them up before the 15.4.14, you have no excuse, having over 2 weeks notice.

Hope the mystic toilet is changed back into the mystic forge by the changes, whatever those are…

Loving it…soooo happy they are making GW2 less grindy…also it gives loads more options to those of us like me who have 8 lvl 80’s.

Happy days!

RedSpectrum.1975:

Allie Murdock.8152:

Not only did I not say no, I said this “I’m not saying it’s a bad idea,”

So it’s a yes ?

Allie probably can’t make that decision, her pay grade isn’t high enough yet, she can bring it to the attention of the WvW dev team, 3rd cubby hole on the left, 1 stressed out guy with no hair left!

Kindof dangerous to have nothing for 10days

I have not been doing nothing, been literally having a blast in D3 Reaper of Souls!

Compliment each another really well those 2 games, GW2 is my MMO and whenever there is any downtime/bored of GW2, fire up D3 RoS and collect AMAZING LOOT.

GW2 gives me massive multiplier experience, a bit more depth, slightly more social aspect, WvW & PvP.

D3 RoS gives me far better skills/abilities, more amazing/flashy skills, far faster combat, difficulty tailored to me, considerably more amazing loot.

In GW2 I feel like a below average joe…

In D3 RoS, I am not a hero, I am not a superhero, I AM A GOD OF DESTRUCTION, FEAR ME!

Some of the traits are good and interesting…

However, some are in the wrong place/line and your never going to pick it because of another ‘must have’ trait.

Some should not be Grandmaster traits at all but Master and 1 or 2 Adept. There’s even 1 Grandmaster trait that should have been a bug fix…

So yeah, failing to involve the players as resulted in a lot of useless Grandmaster traits.

Justin ODell.9517:

We removed glory and match reward chests early to prevent a flood of PvE players from coming into PvP just to fill their wardrobe. While the our team would LOVE everyone playing PvP, some super smart economist peopleguys said it would have negative repercussions on the in-game economy or something.

It’s really unfortunate that we had to do this, but we explored other ways of handling it and nothing was really feasible except holding wardrobe back until the next feature pack (which also meant holding back lots of other PvP changes) or removing some of the PvP rewards for a month.

Edit: Tune in this Friday for news about the next phase of the new reward system.

Really Justin? Really?

So you could not have increased the rank points considerably and increased the silver/gold reward per match?

Really?

I play all aspects of the game, PvE, WvW and sPvP. You could easily have made spvp as rewarding as running dungeons in terms of gold until the new rewards system was put in place. That would not of affected the economy, just given players a choice between run a dungeon, play a spvp match.

Also, well I congratulate Anet on employing a economist to avoid hyper inflation and items becoming worthless. I would balance your economists views vs player retention.

Since glory was removed I have played 0 games of spvp because there is no rewards, no point me playing. I will NOT be stepping foot into spvp until a proper reward system is in place with stuff that I desire, I need a goal to work towards, atm I have no goal, nothing to incentivise me to play spvp.

Hope the new sPvP rewards are good.

Not played a single game of spvp since you got rid of glory…getting on for 2 weeks now…no intention of playing till new rewards come out because there’s no point.

The current rewards in rank up chests have 0 interest for me and I consider them trash.

Anet did not manipulate the market, all they did was change the dye system to be in many ways better, ie…a quality of life improvement.

Its was economically illiterate players that panic buy, plus some shrewd/greedy players that overall caused a massive boom bubble, followed by a slight crash…

It was sheer panic buying that drove the prices up in a crazy fashion.

The majority of people don’t really understand supply/demand or how a economy works.

So when faced with something they don’t understand, they ‘panic’ and seek a ‘safety’ net for themselves. Mix into that some players seeing a opportunity to make massive amounts of gold, ie greed, resulted in what happened to the unidentified dye price and price of dyes as a whole.

In the long term however, as understanding grows all prices will return to around about where they should be.

In the long run, the majority should go down in value because:-

Its account bound so you only need to collect each dye once vs in the past where lots of players needed 5-8+.

Loads of new unidentified dyes are going to flood the market, some players will be getting 1,000’s of unidentified dyes! I think I am going to get 100’s from the 9 characters I have.

The massive spike in the dye market was a combination of panic buying mixed in with a lot of greed.

If this had been a proper real world stock exchange, unidentified dyes would have plummeted in value, well the dirt cheap dyes would have risen massively and then dropped rapidly. The rarer dyes would have remained stable, dropped in price a little.

Never under estimate peoples general lack of how supply/demand actually works and how humans react by panic buying anything if threatened with the unknown, something they do not understand…

2 × 1h weapons have had a kind of stealth nerf, because 2h weapons have a higher base damage. So if you like the skills on a 2h pretty much the same as the skills on 2x 1h then you will be always be better off picking the 2h.

Also, it may even be a bigger nerf to 1h weapons, because they had a balance pass over all the sigils as well, so some sigils may have had there effects nerfed slightly. With 2h its win win because an extra sigil is always going to better than 1 sigil, but 2x 1h users have got nothing, because they already used 2 sigils.

P, P, Pick up a Penguin

They should make trait unlocking account bound not soul bound, thus once you have unlocked them on 1 character, even if you delete and create a new character you still have access to all unlocked traits.

You could separate it out so it is account bound in sPvP and soulbound in PvE & WvW. So you don’t lose the ‘explore the world of Tyria’ part in PvE.

Are you all sure its PvP only?

Watched ready up and I never noticed them saying its pvp only, admittedly I did fast forward through a lot of boring bits…

Oh yep your right, just checked Dulfys notes:-

•Runes in PvP are now a single item (i.e. you can only use one rune now). One rune will have all six bonuses (basically no more mix-match)

Ok, my bad then…

Mesmers are pretty good in WvW, at least mine is, only thing they lack is AoE really.

You would be a fool to delete your Mesmer, Anet have actually given them some interesting Grandmaster traits in the features patch.

I like that event, have not done it for ages, but you can solo it…

Its pretty easy with just 2-3 players and if you give a shout out in map chat, you usually get at least that number turning up, especially if you link wp.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Under the new rune system players will only need buy 1 rune to get all 6 bonus effects.

Currently players after buy 6 of each rune.

So in theory rune prices should plummet because of less demand.

Sigils should rise in price because you now can equip 2 in a 2h, so demand should nearly double, resulting in higher prices.

To make money in GW2 you after be constantly on the lookout for gold making opportunitys. So when do such things occur?

Very simple, whenever Anet introduce a new patch, there is usually several ways of making loads of gold. For example the upcoming features patch, anyone with half a brain should be able to make 100’s of gold easy out of that if you think about it. Also, loads of easy money to be made out of the 9 week WvW tournament.

In the next couple of months you could turn that 40 gold into a 1,000 gold if you use your brain and think about it!

Rubik.7192:

If they do I’ll use a decap engi and show them everything that is wrong with the game.

We can run 3 decap engineers on all 3 points and say go on then, try to move us…the other 2 can be speedy thieves to help out were needed, almost certain to leave the devs scratching there head on how to beat it!

Tune in on 27.3.14, Wxp account bound will be announced then as part of the features patch on 15.4.14.

Either that or dyes are becoming account bound, possibly both, plus other stuff may be made account bound instead of soulbound.

We are going to see the interrupting (put your enemy skills on 10 sec cooldown) Mesmer of DOOM, surely, oh yeah, who also gets +1,000 healing for interrupting enemies too…nice!

Paffus Piffus.9430:

Where are you even getting this information? I thought they released Trait info and that was it for now? Is the another announcement that isn’t posted here yet?
If not, stop worrying about something you don’t know will happen maybe?

It was confirmed in yesterdays ready up, why u thinking we are talking about it?

Perhaps this was mean’t to be a April fools joke but got bugged, hence we are seeing it early?

That would be so typically Anet…lol…bugs and all.

The real effect is everything will just take that bit longer to kill…boring…

This is really done because of the new china release. Anet did not like the way in NA/EU players blasted through there content in a few weeks to a couple of months. They brought the 50% quickness nerf in a year back to slow us down/reduce damage and after looking at things deceided that was not enough. So brought in crit dam % nerf before GW2 gets released in China…

The majority did get it because of the crit dam % which has been seriously, badly nerfed more than anything else even zerker gear.

So I think a one off stat change option would be fair…a lot with celestial may want to full zerker now because that has way more crit dam %/ferocity.

A lot of players, don’t like toughness, vitality and healing because in GW2 you either dodge/blind/evade/use invulnerability skill or die, especially vs big bosses. It makes toughness, vitality and healing totally pointless stats…

Its very funny now how pvp’ers get the ‘joy’ of 5 or so greens…god I have probably had 20,000,000+ (no kidding there btw, I am completely serious) greens drop, I literally hate the sight of them…

Personally, I am just not playing sPvP until we have decent rewards again.

The way things stand atm its a good time to have a break until the new rewards go live.

Look no one has a clue what the meta is going to be like after the 15.4.14 because there are going to be so many changes.

You have 40 new grandmaster traits.
All runes have changed.
Sigils have had a balance pass, plus you can now equip 2 in a 2h.
No one as seen the details of the individual class nerfs/buffs.

So unless your ‘mystic meg with a crystal ball’, its all just idle speculation.

It will be 2-4 weeks after a lot of experimenting that the new meta begins to take shape and we can all start argueing over winners and losers.

I only wish I was good enough at sPvP to enter…oh well nevermind…back to hotjoin for my 200’ish rank points…

Is there 4 totally awesome sPvP’ers out there who can ‘carry me’ to the final and win it, so I can get a legendary?

Here is the link btw…

http://imgur.com/a/t4bQb

I noticed this looking at the matchup scores this afternoon, I had to do a double take just to check my eyes were still working!

Didn’t know it was 1.5 yrs thou…good going and well done!

Hope you all get a ascended drop out of the 6 victory chests you get to open now!

On decap engis…just thinking about that new grand master turret trait which reflects projectiles. Would it be possible for a Asura Engineer to fit under that bubble? Because if they can removing a decap engineer from a point is going to even harder than it is now…

Its 100% that dyes will become account bound and only obtainable via crafting or gem store.

Anet are sync’ing together NA/EU & China. All the changes needed to NA/EU are being made via the 15.4.14 features patch.

OverlordOutpost.5961:

You have two weapons, a Greatsword and a Staff.
You have Sigil of Bloodlust on your Greatsword.
You gain 25 stacks of Bloodlust using it and swap to your Staff.
You STILL have 25 stacks of bloodlust.

Now if you -completely unequip your Greatsword- for another Greatsword. You lose those 25 stacks because the sigil is no longer equipped anywhere on you.

This is how it should always have been.

^^^This is how it will work.

Anet are just ending a bug/exploit which loads of players, particularly in WvW have been using for 18 months. Essentially using 3 weapon sigils, you get the +25 stack then swap in another sigil but still keep stack, thus effectively having 3 sigils.

I suppose for those exploiters its a nerf just using 2 sigils now instead of 3…lol

Oh I have just realised you will be able to do this if you want and Anet don’t after do anything other than what they are doing now.

Just start a new character, use scroll of knowledge (a dozen gathering dust in my stash) takes you to lvl 20.
Use 60 tomes of knowledge (everyone has 100’s of those).

Bingo you 80 with no traits unlocked, go forth into the world of Tyria and enjoy…

I will have a guess at todays:-

Mar 21Critical!
Ferocity, nerf to crit dam %. Not much of a surprise there but the details will be interesting, especially if they compensate celestial stat users, as it hits them the hardest.

Mar 21The Art of Combat
Uncertain with this one, could be all kinds of things really. Possibly the different rune sets, 2 sigils in 2h weapons?

No thanks…

I have 8×80′s, 1 of each class and am so happy I won’t after bother unlocking any of the traits I have already got.

It will probably take a while to unlock the 40 new Grandmaster traits via the open world. Also, if they set each 1 at 10 gold, that’s 400 gold if you want to take a short cut and avoid the open world.

I am just hoping for a good Dulfy guide and running around the open world/doing dungeons/fractals/3 headed wurm/Tequatl/jumping puzzles is a fairly painless process to unlock them.

Lets not moan at a patch coming out during a 9 week long tournament…new patches are good whenever they come out…

I think it will be good to shake things up, a joker if you will a third the way in…

I hated the fact that they originally said no changes during a WvW tournament that was just a excuse to not bother developing anything for WvW.

So lets not moan about this…

root.9415:

Would just like to point out that I wouldn’t hold to much stock in Anet’s promises of not making any major changes while the WvW season 2 is running as they also said that about season 1 yet we got a slew of PvE content thrown into the borderlands, among other things

Yeah…season 1 WvW tournament we had PvE content that made doing one of the achievements frustrating to impossible to do.

Honestly, I don’t mind them making changes during a WvW tournament, bring it on…the more curve balls the better I say, I want a challenge…

Healix.5819:

Morrigan.2809:

this is not a “features patch”

…

What’s mentioned isn’t the feature patch, it’s the changes made to the Chinese client specifically for the Chinese release.

Also, references to the PvE locker, aka the Wardrobe, have already been added to the game files.

Yes, I only referenced this because it gives us a good clue when the features patch is being released. Its going to contain a lot of additional stuff, like the runes revamp, 2 sigils in 2-h weapons, new spvp rewards etc…

lordkrall.7241:

So it was basically people overreacting and shouting about how ArenaNet is destroying the game and how much the Chinese version will suck, as usual?

Yep.

Restating how there would never be pay to win stuff in the gem shop, only vanity and utility items reminded me why I like Anet so much…

Compared to some of the other MMO’s in China, I suspect GW2 may be very, very popular once they get the hang of it and that won’t take long. Very clever the Chinese…

torukmakto.3412:

While reading the post on Reddit (good find by the OP btw, cheers) it mention the Feature patch will release after CBT3 and before China launch. Whens CBT3? only date I saw the when China could Pre-Order Gw2. which was the 2nd of April, not when it would launch . just wonder where the OP got the date 4/15/2014.

edit note: Nvm, saw a response from someone in that reddit page….

“CBT3 is going on for 2 weeks it started on the 11th so on the 25th.”

weather that’s true or not I cant confirm.

Like I said all, ‘clues’ from the devs (its like a scavenger hunt getting anything out of Anet), point to 15th April.

They want it to be in China version of GW2, as well as EU/NA version and 15th is in there release sequence.

Anet are probably very busy with the China release and fitting it in with EU/NA release times atm…once its all settled down we will probably see a upsurge in bi weekly releases again, hopefully.