Guild Wars 2

Mal.1670:

Anet, for over a year now you guys have been having a serious issue making achievement items clog up inventories for absolutely no reason. As far as I know, some legendary collection items STILL make you type their name out to delete them which is absolutely ridiculous, and they serve no other purpose. Single-acquisition collection items (not like the spoons bought for karma) should all be like the exotic accessories for the specialization collections; each one has SOME sell value to merchants to easily (and rewardingly) get rid of useless crap that serves no other purpose.

I have yet to figure out what they use to determine if you should keep something or not that way. For example, you need to type out ‘Orphan Laine’s Letter’ every year in order to delete it (and on every character if I remember right) and it serves no purpose after you have read it.

Restius.5816:

Why didn’t you say you disabled ALL LS3 nodes? Not only Jade Shards but also Blood Rubbies, Petrified Wood and Winterberries from gathering?

Best not to give them ideas. It is why I am wondering if there is something else going on that is particular to this zone because the items are not disabled and I often farm those areas on different characters twice a day (some people do MANY more characters).

Of course, it could just be they are ‘old’ content so want to give people a reason to stay there but it is still odd they would do this now since all zones do this. As was pointed out AB ML was allowed to continue a long time but this was squashed right away. So I am guessing more was going on than people just farming it more than expected, like they found a way to get multiple shards per strike.

My feelings on the home instance nodes as well. It was not worth it as much at first since there was only one zone but now that there are four I do not have enough time to spend in all of them. Having guaranteed daily UM items balances out when I do not get to that zone (rarely for Bloodstone Fen now). If I need more iron or something I can just buy it if I do not have time to go mine it but that is not an option with account bound resources. Which is why I have yet to buy the basic nodes from the gem store.

So THAT is what they are doing. I keep gathering a lot of food, feeding a seraph, then having none for the next one so fill the bar killing WM.

As long as it gives me the shards ….
First thing in new zone: buy the scroll
Second thing in new zone: buy the node
Third thing in new zone: go to my DR home instance so I would not forget to mine it before reset

If I do nothing else at least I have a guaranteed 3 shards/day (assuming I do my home instance) now. So without even going to the new zone I can get almost 6 backpacks in a year (assuming enough UM from the other zones).

You can still get shards but VERY slowly as for the most part you will need to do hearts. I just hope that when they bring it back it will not be one character/day as that will break with precedent. Limiting mined shards per character to stop instance hopping, fine, but we can do other LS3 items with multiple characters in the same day if we are willing to put in the time and effort.

It did? My home instance node was there last night. It has the wrong icon and has a number for the name, but it has been doing that since day 1.

Amaimon.7823:

Felahr.9830:

what was the exploit? i dont recall getting anything weird from the jade frags. so confused now

I think a combination of instance hopping and multicharring

Which makes it seems like that is not all of the story. In every other zone (including S3) you can farm the resources in a zone with a character, come back with another character, and have new nodes (same places or not). About the only exceptions are the home instance and your guild hall (and rich-whatever nodes I think).

I try not to tell other programmers what is the best solution as I have not seen the code (and we do not have confirmed what was the issue). Given your other characters can farm the zone UM item in previous S3 episodes though I am not sure why they decided it was even a problem if the previous guess was accurate. Hopefully that was not it, like people found out a way to get a shard on each strike or something. The major problem is they did not communicate when something was partially disabled. I am sure many people are still mining those nodes (and sometimes getting downed in the process) thinking they have some really bad RNG this weekend.

Agreed about little reason to go to LD until this is fixed. I was not there at all today. Yesterday because of this nerf it took me nearly 2 hours just to gather around 20 shards because I was unlucky with hitting good events (so not only did I not get many daily achieves but the hearts took forever with nothing going on around them).

Hopefully there is a way to turn the jade nodes in the zone off completely until the fix. I doubt many people are intentionally mining them for just dust and UM. That is like saying people are doing Teq for spoons.

Some of us are actually gasp working towards items/skins the various S3 vendors are selling. If the nodes do not work in this ep it is more efficient to spend my limited game time in either of the past 2 zones. All we are asking for is a MOTD or such to tell us about these things (rather than chalking it up to bad RNG or diminishing returns for a few days), why is that such a problem to you?

EvilStepQueen.1293:

I can’t believe how snarky people are being about the devs trying to fix an exploitable problem. If they tell you the exact reason they’re fixing something, this could clue nefarious evildoers in on how to exploit other farmable items in the future. So it’s best to be vague and fix the issue. It’s not like karma is hard to come by, and some players who’ve been here since the beginning have millions of karma to spend. It’s not like they’ve disabled it and they’re not trying to fix it. Give them a break, they’re doing their jobs to the best of their ability and fixes take time.

They could have done a MOTD or something about it. They chose not to do that.

They could have disabled the nodes entirely. They chose not to do that (sorry, bloodstone dust is just junk so there is no real reason for the nodes other than UM …. and you get that in plenty of ways).

The assumed ‘problem’ breaks with precedent. Yes, you can only mine your home and guild nodes once a day but you can run other S3 zones with multiple characters. The only issue I see is instance hopping. Given that many nodes are often protected by WM it is not like they are all free loot either.

As it is now the new ep item (shards) can best be gotten at a heart (3 for each heart a day and character). If there is not an event at them that counts towards the goal (usually killing WM) they take a long time.

Believe it or not 5,000 karma is nothing to sneeze at. Especially when you buy several tools a day to cover your other gathering as well. My karma supply has steadily been going down since the season began.

danielrjones.8759:

well so much for my theory I have the unluckiest account in GW. I just considered not getting them normal for me.

I could not figure out what was going on either. Every time I was mining I was getting 0 shards. Given how much time it takes to complete this map it looks like I will stick to Bitterfrost Frontier and Ember Bay to get ascended stuff for now.

Maybe we could have got an announcement? Until this I was spending karma on picks so I could get bloodstone (there are plenty of other ways to get UM).

One character has done the story past getting in. The gate from Divinity’s Reach is blocked for all my other characters. Talking to Lt. Fores does not help either. In Bitterfrost once one character entered all my others could use the portal so I assume LD should be the same? I have the scroll (or can just WP the characters that have been there before) but is this intended?

Yes, saw that yesterday but figured plenty of people had already reported it.

PyrateSilly.4710:

Why should you access any place that is part of the LS without having that part unlocked? You should not be able to access the events to go with the LS part that you don’t have.

Drytop and Silverwastes to the forums please.

Not only do you have to OWN the episodes but you need to have played at least the first instance.

I have been complaining about them being story locked (and behind a fight yet) for awhile now. At least it is no longer like the first 2 episodes, where there was no portal to get to the new zone so they felt extremely disconnected.

Endless Soul.5178:

MoZing.1594:

if you want RP go to FFXIV or even ESO.

No.

@OP – I’m completely with you. However, my asura do get a form of satisfaction when they can sit in a seat, and everyone else around them fails.

Just more proof Asura are the superior race.

killermanjaro.5670:

A good idea! Let’s show them some appreciation and support for all the hard work and effort they are putting in!

Now watch them get flooded with things like people sending them pizzas and stuff.

I do not do ML but certainly did not mind another daily being opening 6 envelopes!

2/7/17 …. we remember the fallen Quaggan at Bowling Green

It depends, check the item description. Some stuff is per character (soulbound) and some stuff is per account (account bound).

It was in the 60s here today so I was not TOO upset. The Simpsons getting pre-empted Sunday was MUCH worse as TV cartoons is #1 on the list on a usual Sunday night.

forum bug post.

Thanks. Working in IT I am used to having to break the news to people that things get delayed due to one thing or another. Being one day late is what I call on time, especially since you so often hit your targets and the prior ep was even a day early.

One more day of easy PVE dailies!

I ran various numbers and it is between the ember bay one and the bitterfrost one when it comes to number of days, what you do, how many items you gather, how many characters, how much time/day, etc. The zone UM item you get the least of per day is in Bloodstone Fen but you need as many (200) from there as you do in ember bay. I would recommend getting one from each zone so you have the skins though. I am getting them from Bitterfrost and Ember then getting 3 rubies/day from my home instance to eventually turn in for a bloodstone backpack.

Now I am glad I did not make plans to go home early today to oggle the new stuff.

Currently I am sitting on over 60 or 70 of them. Early in the game you learn to treat them as a rare resource though and it is hard to break that habit. Say I went wild and decided to change the look of the armor on all of my characters … I would only get through 2/3 of them before running out of charges. So it is not like I can change what skins I am wearing every day, at the moment weapons and ‘what was I even thinking’ stuff gets priority.

Another thing it would solve is what singular name to use for each HP. Yes, I know we can look on the wiki but there is not always time for that. When I first got on the HOT maps some people would be calling out some names for HPs and other people others. For most HPs you can work out what is meant but not for all.

It will go live 1 hour 14 minutes after zeep zops.

beatthedown.2651:

Sorry to ruin the mood, but I want to say something about the dailies. Logging in and doing the same thing over and over nearly ruined the game for me. If you play gw2 for the dailies only, play mobile game instead. I just can’t stand this mentality to force yourself login and doing the same thing over and over, especially if you don’t have a certain goal in mind. The game will get boring quickly. I was at this point and I stopped playing for 1,5 years.

Thankfully a friend brought me back, and learned how to pvp. We played a lot of games and eventually became decent.
Before HoT came out I set myself the goal to craft all HOT legendaries(even if I did not own a single legendary before). I farmed quite a lot, learned how to invest and also made a lot of precursors in the MF when it was profitable. Also crafting and selling old legendaries brought me a lot of gold(who buys these?). Now I’m waiting for number 7 to come out and join my collection.

What I want to say is that this game could become so much better if you have healthy goals. If you aim for ascended gear, think about how you want to use it.Fractals? WvW? Or even raids?

Please don’t be the sort of player who(as an example) logs in, kills the warg in WvW, flips a camp, runs away from enemies and log out. Don’t be that guy. If this sounds like you, don’t play gw2, don’t game at all. You should spend your free time for better things

While they are boring they are a routine that varies. For the past couple of months my evening login has all been about dailies – Ember Bay, Bitterfrost Frontier (going for ascended trinkets/rings/backpacks/breathers on 15 characters), and PVE ….. plus gathering in my home and guild hall. While some of it is monotonous some of it is not (what boss do I have to kill today). I try to do a login for more UM stuff in the afternoon but that does not always work out. Basically, no matter WHAT you do in the game there are a finite number of options so why should dailies be your ‘leave the game’ point?

Dawnbreaker.6215:

Bruno.3812:

Another thread by someone who has confused the dislike of buttcapes and trench coats with a desire for women to run around half naked.

it’s a wish for more diversity in design instead of armor after armor with buttcapes or coats. it’s a wish for pants for women instead of dress&pants or dress&leggings. Just plain simple pants.It’s a wish for some armors with clean silhouettes. Not armor with so much extra cloth hanging down In addition, it’s a wish that armor sets weren’t so different between the sexes so that women have exposed skin on the belly, legs, or chest but the same armor on men, all that’s showing is the face. It’s not the wish for more skin showing for women.

Do you not have a million games out there with butt tight silhouette armor? Why can GW2 not be an exception to the rule?

Looking at it after other games it is like fingernails on a blackboard. All those other games are doing at the fundamental level is hiding the skin directly under the clothing and using the skeleton. I know, I know, a bit more complex than that, but that is a simple way to explain how to solve the issue: a customized alpha layer between the clothes and the skin. Once you do that your options are wide open.

Tiscan.8345:

Btw. there are some Living World episodes that actually try to teach people game-mechanics. Like the “Hidden Arcana”-mission (where you have to get certain buffs to destroy the fragments, etc.) or recently in “Precocious Aurene” when they tell you about Aurene’s special attack. I wish they would do something like this in the early personal story steps to explain the basic game-mechanics.

Someone was clearly thinking about it because the starter zones each have something to show you how to dodge. There was pretty much nothing else to teach mechanics until we got the cc oysters in Ember Bay.

There are not rules for RP (like pve and such) so each group doing RP tends to do it differently. For example, your party may walk (no waypointing or running) in-character across tyria on some sort of quest and fight in whatever dynamic events they stumbled on.

Whether doing RP or not I find I like at least a light version of RP. By that I mean having a backstory for my character and things like deciding what music they like.

coso.9173:

well there’s some dried lake in the video, no?
i just hope we’ll get a new map… and not just story, but we’ll have to see

I am hoping we do not have to do some of the story yet again to get into that map. I just want to explore and do the story later when I have the time.

So the question basically comes down to if a HOT cycle REPLACES what is in the GW2 cycle or ADDS to it? Simple solution. Look at the days a HOT zone does not come up to see if they are in sync or not. Admittedly I have not looked closely (except on mystic forge days, which is the same on both accounts) but my two accounts (HOT and non-HOT) are on the same screen at the same time at reset and when I notice a difference it has always been because it was a HOT zone daily.

Vyrulisse.1246:

More daily variety would be welcome. The “cycle” is boring as heck right now.

Not just boring but frustrating. Go to an easy vista. Gather some mats. Then try to get to 4 events before they end. What does that teach you? How to use the ‘f’ key and punch your monitor because an event ended seconds after it was announced? Note that this is PVE, the other modes are pretty much the same for people that have played them before.

I am all for dailies that actually mean something. Especially if they are not tied to a specific zone so people can just incorporate them into their normal play.

I prefer to have other players as potential allies, not as enemies.

Before GW2 I got talked into a wargame. I was constantly having to rush to my computer at inconvenient times (like when going to sleep) because people would track down when you were most likely to be inactive and launch an attack to hit then. When I left the game I promised myself NEVER to do that again. I play games for fun. Not for stress.

Pifil.5193:

Well, the actual Lunar New Year in our own boring old planet earth was on Saturday 2 days ago, so… yeah… maybe.

I hope it’s another week, I like free gold and quick dailies.

Yes, when gathering is actually one of the longer dailies on the path to get 2 gold …

It has been nice doing all of my daily stuff (dailies, ember bay, bitterfrost frontier, home instance, guildhall) in an hour.

Crab Fear.1624:

The post title was crafted to lure in at least two types of people:
1. The people who are looking for a post with armor in the title that may have content they agree or disagree with.
2. The type of people who live to correct others (otherwise the people may have felt too smart and already knew the result of the post and would not bother to give it the time of day)….at the very least their eyes glanced my content.

Correction, three types. You forgot language geeks.

Ameepa.6793:

I really do enjoy the kitten filter

It does help to keep the forum nice to read. It even changes the posts that would otherwise be full of kitten and kittens into readable versions that sound way less idiotic.

You actually find random insertions of the string “kitten” to make things more readable and less idiotic? Remember that it is not just swears, it is when two words in a row produce a swear word with a space in between. There are legit words that come up here (like the shatterer when abbreviated) that get munged.

cephiroth.6182:

One of my personal favorites: funny, isn’kitten

I always liked how you can not use the common abbreviation for the dragon in ascalon.

We were fighting kitten the other day …

It does get frustrating when something is kittenized because certain letters happen to be next to each other. Then people have to work out what the original was. Hard enough for english speakers sometimes so I can only imagine how it is if you use another language!

Meanwhile, if someone swears and does a non-expected typo it goes right through.

Endless Soul.5178:

We have airships, why can’t we look over that wall and see what’s going on in the Dominion of Winds? Is it too windy or something?

Maybe they have this new technology known as a roof?

Ashandar.2570:

I expect nothing. So far all we have is their word on the fact that they are working on a new expansion, and frankly, for me, their word is currently worth less than dirt.
If they release a new expansion, I’ll take a look at what it contains after a few weeks when they have had time to nerf everything in it.

Yes, after HOT that is probably what they will see a lot of. People were looking forward to the first expansion and, well, you only get one chance to make a first impression. I am still looking forward to the next expansion but now consider it vaporware until non-anet people have bought it and started to review it.

Slothrop.6871:

Hopefully—HOPEFULLY—the next expansion will have a new playable race. It definitely would be a lot of work, but based on the wiki the Tengu are already partially on the way to being a playable race: their skeleton is based on/identical to the Charr’s and they have various models and animations, even ones that didn’t get used.

The main draw for me for a new playable race would just be more lvl1-79 zones. I actually really enjoyed leveling through the game the first time through, and if they made the lower-level zones just a bit harder (not smash-your-face difficulty, just slightly more dangerous), I would be EXTREMELY excited to play every bit of GW2 again. Even without a new race I’d love new zones from lvl1-79, though at least as the game currently stands a new race is the most obvious reason for those getting added. Revive the rest of the game, ANet! It’s so beautiful.

Yeah, new sub-80 zones drool. A puppy dies every time they add another level 80 thing to the game.

Seriously though, I loved encountering the zones the first time. I am still finding new stuff: npcs I never noticed and such, but it is just fleshing out places I already know. In fact, if I had the choice between a new race, a new profession, and new sub-80 zones (not new zones and a new race) I would probably pick the new zones.

I am seeing a lot of what I feared when I saw the thread. The moment someone says what people wants it becomes a squabble over specifics. I would suggest being a bit more vague. Like delivering what was promised or how content delays should be handled.

You really had to go back a year to necro a tengu thread? Someone starts one practically every week (which usually then gets merged).

Careful what you ask for. They look great now but as soon as you stop rolling characters (if nothing else, when you reach the maximum number of alts we can buy) you will be looking for something to do with them other than deletion.