Guild Wars 2

What I am asking for is the ability to see what points anyone on my account has uncovered. Since zone completion is per-account rather than per-character solely knowing what one character has completed is not a big help to figuring out what needs to be completed.

I would have put ‘suggestion:’ at the start of the title but had to remove it for length restrictions.

My charr ranger will let go of her ascended long bow when it gets pried out of her dead paws.

Seeing ones a single character has missed is needed for world completion but it does not help zone completion which is from all characters. The map is useless for that when there are a bunch of things that have been done and are showing as todos on your own map. Please let us know what non-completed things on a map have actually been completed according to the game.

mercury ranique.2170:

Donari.5237:

It is a US federal holiday today, Memorial Day. However, private businesses almost all continue business as normal today (and retailers have huge sales so you know they’re working!).

You are absolutly right! I actually checked wikipedia and saw memorial day in May, but never realised that it happened to be on the same day as Pentecost this year, nor looked at the date.

And ye. What you say bout private businesses is what I mean bout less strict labor laws. Atleast in my country (and in most european country’s), a company that stays open has to pay the people who are working as if it is a sunday. This often means double loancosts that day.

anyways…. Someone at Arenanet merged this threat to the one IC linked, so someone is at work at HQ :P!

It is also geek pride day today.

Yes, US labor laws are completely different from EU and are generally worse. While states differ on the exact laws you typically have 2 major categories of employees: hourly and salaried. If you are hourly then you get paid for extra time (usually time and a half) but if you are salaried that does not apply: your employer can say you need to work the weekend and your only option is to quit, it rarely means extra pay.

Morfedel.4165:

Menadena.7482:

I registered several times and never got a confirmation from anet. I do receive emails from them occasionally but no idea if they are the newsletter they are talking about or just because they have my email address. If the confirmation email did not get to me and I was picked for the beta I wonder how I would know it did not also get nerfed.

Playing a human? Ugh. I do not see the attraction of playing a human in a fantasy game.

They didnt give confirmation emails for signing up to the newsletter. There was a discussion about that somewhere, where they said “Maybe we should have done that.”

Simply put, do an email search for Guild Wars 2. It should show everything you got. You probably are getting the emails and didn’t get selected, sadly.

Thanks, what made it confusing was they said ‘even if you did not get the confirmation emails you are on the list if you get our newsletters’. Which implied there was a confirmation email. People also do not know if they are just getting standard marketing emails (since they had to give their address to register) and the newsletter.

Yes, if they never sent a confirmation email that was a huge ‘oops’.

Donari.5237:

my clients frequently got testy when I wouldn’t promise we were going to win the trial, but a lawyer knows better than to say anything is 100%

OT, but it is not just lawyers. I am a programmer and people HATE it when I will not give a 100% guarantee about anything. I will say ‘to the best of my knowledge’ if backed into a corner but I refuse to commit to an absolute like that.

When did they tone it down? I have always ran into way too many undead there to do anything useful in Orr.

I registered several times and never got a confirmation from anet. I do receive emails from them occasionally but no idea if they are the newsletter they are talking about or just because they have my email address. If the confirmation email did not get to me and I was picked for the beta I wonder how I would know it did not also get nerfed.

Playing a human? Ugh. I do not see the attraction of playing a human in a fantasy game.

Even MORE steps between having lost claw island and getting fort trinity? Way to go anet, you have managed to degrade my experience even more. Remove some of the steps so you do not make it even longer for us who have not reached there yet.

Look at it from the point of view of those of us who started our characters right after the downfall of LA. Sure, there are pictures from before but it is like something in the theoretical past, we have never known a LA that was not a ramshackle thing where they can not even fix the bridges. The longer it stays like that the more people there are that never saw the former iteration.

Even though for logistical reasons I usually park my characters in LA before logging out I do not feel that strong an emotional connection to all of Tyria except for having other characters in some other races.

People from before had a symbol to unite them. Tyria needs that again so all the races can pull together. That may be a reason they are getting it to us before it HOT.

If I uncover a chest and it has something good how was I scammed?

lordkrall.7241:

Did you really think that they would order people into the office during the weekend just so that you could beta test for them?

Umm, yes? (although the question was not to me)

Beta testers are essentially volunteer workers. You also want GOOD testers, not people there to get a content preview. To do that you need to make it as attractive to those good testers as possible.

You will get more people there for the content than to find bugs but that allows for a good load test at the same time. What you NEED though are those few good testers that will diligently look for bugs the entire time.

Solori.6025:

Menadena.7482:

You can say ‘oh, there are plenty of other people there for the test’ We are not talking about the same thing: it is a BUG TEST, not a preview or even a load test.

It’s a stability test……

Says so in the blog post…..

Which is between a bug test and a load test.

Anet seems to have lost a lot of the hype from when they first announced it. I know it is true for me and I keep reading the same thing over and over again. It almost feels like after people had been begging for an expansion for years they just said ‘fine’ and said one was coming …. sometime …. with details to follow.

What I would have rather seen was them doing small things like the LA rebuilding and such and not saying anything about the x-pack. Do the first betas under NDAs. The first official announcement would include gobs of details and a release date a couple months in the future all at once. There would have been a marginal decrease in hype because everyone would be constantly getting one day closer to a concrete date.

edit: There are still things I am looking forward to. Most prominently guardians FINALLY getting a good ranged weapon and hopefully something good with guild halls.

lordkrall.7241:

So you find it odd that they do not wish to order their employees into the office during a holiday where many of them would like to spend time with their families

On Friday afternoon I was asked about my availability to work this weekend (although I managed to barter it down to having my phone on me all the time and promising to monitor work emails). I have worked late right before a holiday AND came back during the holiday once I got some sleep.

Believe it or not, working when people want to be home with their families is pretty common. HOT is a Pretty Big Deal for anet as they have invested a lot into it. If this was for a preview, fine, do it when it is convenient to your staff. If you are doing it to get volunteer workers then you make it as convenient for them as possible (to maximize their input). Just tell your own staff they have to show up some weekend afternoon (or actually, just log in from home most probably).

You can say ‘oh, there are plenty of other people there for the test’ We are not talking about the same thing: it is a BUG TEST, not a preview or even a load test. As a programmer, I would take one good bug finder over 1000 people there to say they were there any day. I do not want someone to say ‘looks good to me’ …. I want them to say ‘you misspelled a word on that sign’. By reducing the ability of people to be there you increase your odds of not getting the good testers.

Look at it from who you will get too. By doing it during business hours who will most of the people be? Gamers who think nothing of taking a day off. You will not get as many IT pros who know what testing means because most of us will all be busy at work. There are some exceptions, but by the odds you want to do it on a weekend rather than a weekday.

Devildoc.6721:

Before people farm for hours and hours on end for portals, you should have told people the test was going to be a grand total of 6 hours, split into 2 hour blocks.

What I found odd is that the beta is on a Tuesday rather than anywhere on the weekend (actually, a 3-day weekend in the US). Time zones make it even more fun. Whether you are doing it as a test or preview what is the point if most of the team can not be there?

Scritt rule!!!!

The first time I participated in it I wound up getting about half the achievements and a title out of it. Even though I was not there at the end, I had died and could not get back in time.

I have yet to see it succeed yet but more often than not it is not well organized. Even yesterday: a Saturday in a long weekend with Bloodtide as a completion and TT not long after the clock rolled over.

Forgotten Legend.9281:

well, in GW1 we called it FotM (Flavor of the Month), but ANet changed that acronym to mean Fractals of the Mists…. probably as a metajoke (yeah i know, i should have called it “inside joke”, but i couldn’t resist using the word “meta” :P ) so now everyone calls it the meta, because we’re geeks. not necessarily in that order. /endbadjoke

In second life you can change your walk and any other animation. These are called an Animation Override, or AO for short.

When the game gods there reorganized the rating system to allow for adult content they started calling said content AO rather than the obvious AC, using game ratings for that (and only that) content rating abbreviation.

This caused no end of confusion when they were talking to their users.

Odjin.8530:

The word is entirely overused, like SWAG

I am wondering what you call all that free random stuff you come away with from a dealer’s room at a convention?

new build coming up …. maybe a fix?

There, got all of my characters out of dodge. Ironic this should happen just as LA is being rebuilt.

Now watch a daily today involve the mystic forge, events, or fractals.

I was able to log in 2 of my characters and got them to another zone asap. Now to get at the one I was trying to use in the first place who is parked in LA right now.

Same problem. All of my characters are in LA and I keep crashing when logging in.

Zahld.4956:

Allow each new topic poster to moderate their own thread and remove any replies as needed. This may help the OP better achieve the purpose of their thread. Less frequent thread derailing may also result as an effect. This would also reduce the burden of forum moderators of having to frequently moderate every thread constantly because posters would be able to effectively moderate it themselves. A sub-forum of each forum could be used for self moderating forums.

Forum thread drift is practically a tradition on the net. It happens MUCH less here than elsewhere. Consider the following thread summary from another BB:

server-side change is coming
how this will affect the client-side program
client-side gui
fonts used in the gui
fonts in general
old-style printing presses
lithography
a movie about lithography
[at this point the forum moderator came in and was completely confused as to what happened … and we continued the thread drift]

The drift I have seen here can not hold a candle to that one.

Rauderi.8706:

Vinewrath? Not quite as sure. Might depend on which skritt tunnels are active.

I hate dying in that one. If no tunnels are active you have to run all the way across the SW to get back. Of course some monster will try and attack, delaying you.

The good thing is if you did enough damage first it does not matter as much. Even if the fighting ended right after you died the path to the chest will stay open a good long time.

Should we start a pool on when it will be done?

On my first day in the game I ran into 2. I died due to something stupid and when I went to the map to WP I got the message ‘a noble soul is healing you’ across it … coming from a war game that was … wow. The other was lovely calming music playing while I did the low-level sylvari heart with the pups. No matter how many boss battles and special events I am never going to forget those two.

Dante.1763:

Menadena.7482:

Dante.1763:

Aerathnor.8305:

Tree Kitten would be a great char ranger name.

Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!

Im so sorry…i had to see if it was taken…and it wasnt…so i went ahead and did it…

You realize my non-gaming spouse now thinks I am crazy because I just explained the thread and that character, right?

Ahahahha!!!! Tell him or her this gal is sorry! Im nonsensical quite often! Sorry!!

Thanks, she is used to my doing stuff like that though. Trying to explain stuff that I find hilarious. I suppose it does not help that the clock flips over about the time she gets home (I get home first) so it looks like I have been frantically playing all afternoon.

Dante.1763:

Aerathnor.8305:

Tree Kitten would be a great char ranger name.

Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!

Im so sorry…i had to see if it was taken…and it wasnt…so i went ahead and did it…

You realize my non-gaming spouse now thinks I am crazy because I just explained the thread and that character, right?

You can get to 80 eventually by just logging in every day. Once a week you will get some tomes of knowledge to gain levels. Assuming you are not saving stuff for ascended weapons at this point you will get 16 a month (1 in week 1, 2 in week 2, 3 in week 3, 4 in week 4, 6 at the end of the month). In 5 months you will have an 80 doing nothing but log in. Most people want to do some more so say you only do the dailies and a few hearts …. you will shoot up the levels in no time.

Generally most people find a level is anywhere from an hour to 2 of gaming depending on how much effort they want to put in.

I have 4 characters on my main account. I do not consider any of them alts, however they do have a specialization. Each takes an area of the map and/or boss. Not that the others can not do it, just that I like to be able to swap to throwing healing around when fighting teq or letting pets take the lava damage with the megadestroyer.

I do have an alt account. That is for exploring other character options, having a personal guild, and so on.

Jaymee.1560:

I am worried, honestly, and I’ll tell you why. This discussion, for the new players, and/if they include a memorial for the 3 Order members who sacrifice themselves at Claw Island, I can see why Anet would NOT do this.

Why?

New players to the game? It would be a hideous spoiler for them

I doubt there can be a way that Anet could get around that

You mean there are not already tremendous spoilers in the game? Even if you manage to avoid the wiki, the forums, and lots of game content?

Fractals need to just go away. Some people love them but others, like me, hate them. A set of dailies with two fractals means only 2 pve options are valid.

Why develop new content for the opening at all? For example ..

Have game gods scattered around the map with commander tags. At a certain time they start walking to LA. Many other people will join in as they go, some will play instruments, basically like the usual waiting for a boss battle. When they all get to LA they become part of an impromptu parade around the new city. Anet could use the pictures in their advertising to show how living and vibrant the world can be.

Zietlogik.6208:

They are trying to distract you from the imminent Karka attack!

https://imgur.com/a/3pe7C

I am wondering if they might be karka that are there to help (if not exactly invited). Consider how many races are allies in some areas of the world but evil in others.

I would love to see something that could justify getting one, especially for pve. I have plenty of badges of honor so it would just be the ~30$ for the gold.

I did not consider it a waste and I did not get one. Sure, I would have loved to get one as an added bonus but I would have been in the SW anyway. It was great that it was constantly busy for once.

If my entire goal was the portal I would have done what ppl were saying and hung out at DT where the chances are better. Instead I went where I could enjoy things more.

The options are limited so you download is a finite size. As an example of the opposite look at second life: user content that needs to be downloaded every time it comes in range.

Even with the limitations users can help make things different. For example, my elementalist has an outfit that looks good on her. I also use it for my engineer but with a color scheme that is more evocative of leather armor.

Maybe an incentive not to be a clone would help? Achievements for dying things (that are then worn for at least a day) maybe?

I thought it was just me! Just as I finished the shatterer and was looking over my loot … BAM! … back in LA, bye-bye loot, still the daily to go, goodnight moon.

I decided I just wanted my daily completed rather than do the shatterer today so I went event hunting in DT. More disconnects that threw me to LA but I finally got 4 done there.

Random disconnects is one thing but this seems more widespread. How did it get through QA? Will we have to wait for the next tuesday update to get this fixed?

They have already said that ppl should organize their own celebrations of some sort (and maybe the game gods will join in) and that is great. I would LOVE to see a more structured approach other than something you can do whenever though and not a clone of wintersday’s kick-the-skritt-and-get-a-prezzie either. I would love it to run over several days and be something you can get a title for as a momento of the event (‘I was at LA before it was cool’?).

Filled out. I do have to compliment you on what seems to be knowing some of the game. I have been part of online gaming communities that get constant student assignment polls, all with the same questions that make it obvious they know nothing about the topic so are getting us to write their papers for them. One suggestion I would have is to list at the top of the survey in-game contact info (not an email) for any questions to key ppl to that and repeat it at the bottom.

Neat … I was wandering around this afternoon looking around. I mean I know bigger changes are coming to LA but this was like rediscovering it. Oh, was it just my imagination or were there some minor changes a few days ago?

Is it my imagination or are there slight differences in Lion’s Arch now?

That could be the case though. I have been jetlagged by 3 hours all week for DrupalCon.

When I first started this game I swore I would not use them because of the cost. Now I do all the time if what I am WPing to will most likely yield more of a gain in mats/items than the WPing itself.

What I would like to see is more WPs or a way people could construct temporary ones. I am specifically thinking of the SW, where if you die fighting the champs at the western end of the map you have to run back from the eastern end (and hope no low-level monster decides to slow you down).

I have never heard them called rats. I have heard salad and so on used for the other races but the worst I have heard for asura are tiny and short. I can not name a single NPC that has even commented on their MASSIVE ego.

Bookah was mentioned. That is an imaginary creature invented by the asura as an antagonist. Of COURSE they would use racial slurs if real.

Lil Puppy.5216:

20-30, anything more and I’m not paying for it

To borrow a phrase from elsewhere whenever someone threatened to rage-quit: can I have your stuff?

Seriously, I am not all that concerned over the price (and, no, I am not made of money). Anet knows economics 101 … the higher they charge the less people buying it. I do expect we will see tiers of it though, just like with the main game. A basic pack and a more expensive pack that is the same exact same thing but with a few items tossed in that do not really affect game play (minis, skins, etc). That way there is an incentive to spend more without having a higher barrier to entry.

My main question is ‘when can we buy it’.

lordkrall.7241:

So… how should they give access to beta?

Simple. Do it daily with a fixed chance every day. The more days you log in in a week the higher your chances.

You could do whatever you want during that day: wvw, general pve, dt/sw, pvp, events , crafting, whatever. It would be fair to everyone. Also not bias the sample towards die-hard gamers while ensuring people that put in a minimum of effort (so would most likely use the beta, other than an email selection system) got a chance.

Coming from Second Life I always have the same reaction when my character is moving around. Particularly the really bad animations when they are moving slow after being hit. I NEED A GOOD ANIMATION OVERRIDE!!!

Mostly it is newbies in second life using the default animations.

briggah.7910:

PVP is the most toxic out of all of them..

I never could understand pvp as it seems the anathema of what anet wanted to do. In pve and wvw other players on your server are all potential allies. Not so in pvp. Huh? I get the impression they included it because they felt they needed to.