Guild Wars 2

BobbyStein.2315:

BuddhaKeks.4857:

What do you guys think about the incredible negative feedback you got for Trahearne?

Narrative Designer Scott McGough and I talked about this very topic some time ago. In short, Trahearne was intended to fill a very specific role that, in terms of both gameplay and story, the PC could not fill—an order-neutral character with extensive knowledge about Orr and the magic of undeath who could coordinate a global war effort and make the necessary plans, thus leaving the actual gameplay up to the player. Further, Trahearne’s character design was intentional in that he would be a reluctant hero who, through interacting with the player, evolved into someone who could step up to lead the Pact.

This didn’t resonate well with some players for a variety of reasons. We’re comparing external feedback with our own, since we have plans for Trahearne and other existing characters in future live updates and expansion content. We won’t spoil what we’re discussing, other than to say we’re looking at many different options for his current implementation and beyond.

BuddhaKeks.4857:

Do you use the feedback you got to try improving the writing for future storylines and their characters?

Of course. We want to improve our storytelling and characterization so that it complements the great gameplay that our designers work hard to create.

I’m actually more annoyed by the fact that you guys killed off every single interesting character. And for the sake of what? Some silly emotional surprise? I can stand seeing trehearne as long you bring my Sieran back.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Edge.4180:

OR, you could give us an in-game interface that satisfies the same functions as GW2LFG, so we don’t have to rely on an external website to help match players and groups together.

You know, like your competition offers. Seriously, why promote an external website when this kind of functionality should really be included standard in modern MMOs? Why hasn’t it happened yet?

We’re working on it.

Being honest here Hrouda, i really doubt anything you guys can make up, will ever be better than that lfg site. They pretty much already have everything nailed, and i don’t think Anet will put some of the stuff that they did, like icons for experienced runs only and comments section for your party.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I just did an entire CoE run and didn’t even get ONE precursor. Clearly anet flagged my account for bad drops and permanent DR.

I did the same coe run and got 1 charged core. Which is worth around 1.3 gold. Together with the money from the dungeon, the tokens reward and the money from monster’s drops, i made around 2.5 g in 20 minutes or so. I would be luckly if i ever made more than 1 gold doing fractals. And even when i get lucky for an exotic, they are account bound.

When this dungeon was released i just couldn’t believe the amount of effort and quality. Anet listened to many of the feedback and made bosses more than damage sponges., puzzles more than just kill a group of enemies. And more importantly, a place where they could explore any kind of possibility from the lore.

BUT, is there nothing more planned? Fractals certainly need a bit of more polishing in higher levels, or new maps. Like getting rid of the infinite waves of monsters in the dredge fractals mid boss. Or the 2 champions with an absurd amount of health in the Asura fractal. We start seeing very cool features as we advance like the harpies in asura getting new attacks and Mossman transforming animal spirits near death, but that’s it…anything beyond is just more trash and more higher stats. You guys need to explore it further! Add new challenges, add new monsters types or puzzles, something that actually make people to advance levels and discover content.

I saw Colin and the phase 2 post mentioning revamping dungeons like AC completely but no fractals was mentioned anywhere. So is there anything else to it?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Nope! RNG is RNG. No special character flags for loot. Nothing loot related was changed with maintenance, but that never stops people from making these posts after every single maintenance about it.

I know that rng is rng but…i have been doing level 42 fractals and didn’t see any difference from lower levels. I mean, the 40’s bracket is one of the toughest available, usually runs take over 2.5 hours specially when you get dredge and Asura with parts that take 20 minutes to clear. Then at jade maw chest, i looted nothing but blues. Previous runs gave me rares which were 1 glacial core worth a total of 10 s or so. Does the better odds for loot on higher fractals only affect the daily rewards like rings and fractal weapons? Or does affect the quality of loot of monsters and chests too?

Honestly, in the amount of time that takes to run higher fractals, i would rather do normal dungeons which gives me a fixed reward, chance for chest and guaranteed 2 rares from the vendor to salvage. Maybe having fractals with a fixed money reward at end like dungeons, would be a good idea.

ManCaptain.3154:

Nebilim.5127:

I have that trait that fears whoever cc me, so it is hilarious watching both of us getting feared at same time.

His fear is longer though.

yeah but i think his fear is just 1 sec longer. But that doesn’t matter since there is a large distance put between us for being feared in opposite directions.

I have that trait that fears whoever cc me, so it is hilarious watching both of us getting feared at same time.

Jason King.2647:

Hey everyone, I’m here to help clear up some of the confusion on this issue!

First, our apologies for the inaccurate response: your system clock does not affect your loot drops (sorry, conspiracy theorists). We’ve corrected this information for future responses.

If you’re not receiving loot from a champ/vet, it’s most likely because you’re not getting kill credit. We’re currently working on some improvements to this so that it will be easier to get rewards when you kill a creature.

Thank you for bringing this up!

I’m sorry Jason but this isn’t it. I have soloed many champions and did not get any loot. My most recent case was that champion separatist that escapes from a prison in ebonhawke. Killing veterans with no loot also happens all the time.

Ahhh…aside from the lack of skill buttons i fail to see what’s new about this. Can we see our conditions now?

The legendary weapon The Juggernaut loses its chromatic effect if you stealth or teleport using mesmer portals/portal guns.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

RoyalPredator.9163:

No Asian IP should access EU or NA registrated accounts. Autoblock.

That might be a bit much, and bordering on racism, but it gave me an idea…

Why not offer players an option to region-lock our accounts so that they can’t be accessed from other countries? Then if we decide to move or travel, we could turn it off temporarily, and re-lock it once we’re settled again. It could save a lot of accounts from being stolen.

Gold sellers use proxies

Ursan.7846:

Nebilim.5127:

This would be true if gold sellers couldn’t produce precursors. Do you know how much exotics do we need to trow in the forge to get a precursor? I remember some guilds making experiments, and you need about 80~200 exotics. So we have now a company capable of farming/botting thousands of T6~T5 mats, ectos and the rest of the crafting recipes to make an exotic greatsword, and all they need to do is just throw them out in the forge and make an item that cost 600 gold, is very desirable and high in demand and thrice the valor what they would probably spend buying the necessary items.

So what if they can just produce precursors? Are you saying that causes inflation? Did you actually read my post? I feel like I pretty clearly outlined why inflations happen in an MMO.

Are you saying someone who have a machine who prints money cannot affect the inflation of the market?

You have no idea how much in game money gold sellers have, they have so much to sell for real money, they can buy throw away accounts to spam people on the official forums.

Ursan.7846:

John Smith.4610:

Fiontar.4695:

John Smith.4610:

As soon as you begin referring to luxury goods as an inflationary issue I start skimming instead of reading. Within the last hour I’ve specifically said that you’re mistaking inflation for what is not inflation. Precursor prices aren’t changing due to inflation.

They are providing the mechanism for exponential earning of wealth via the TP, which, yes, indeed is driving inflation.

I’m a bit busy for the moment, can someone step in and explain why this isn’t true please?

Certainly John.

In a MMO, you have gold taps and gold sinks. Gold taps are what introduces gold to the economy, and gold sinks are what removes gold from the economy.

Examples of gold taps are gold drops from mobs, selling items to vendors, etc. You’re creating gold out of nothing essentially, and adding it to the game’s economy.

Examples of gold sinks are waypoints, repair costs, and TP listing fees. They remove the gold out of the economy.

You have inflation is gold taps outweight the gold sinks. Players are creating more money than destroying it. Hence there is more gold around in the in-game economy, gold becomes more worthless, and prices in general of EVERYTHING goes up. That is inflation.

But trading on the TP is NOT creating gold. In fact, with the listing fees, it’s doing the exact opposite. Every time a precursor is sold, a chunk of that gold is removed from the game. Yes, people are getting wealthier, but on the flip side someone just lost all that gold. The net gain in the game’s economy is negative, since gold was destroyed.

TL;DR: Trading over the TP is a gold sink, not a gold tap, cannot cause inflation.

This would be true if gold sellers couldn’t produce precursors. Do you know how much exotics do we need to trow in the forge to get a precursor? I remember some guilds making experiments, and you need about 80~200 exotics. So we have now a company capable of farming/botting thousands of T6~T5 mats, ectos and the rest of the crafting recipes to make an exotic greatsword, and all they need to do is just throw them out in the forge and make an item that cost 600 gold, is very desirable and high in demand and thrice the valor what they would probably spend buying the necessary items.

Yes precursor prices are being drived to insane prices because gold sellers does not care what the price is currently in. They have thousands of gold, and they only want to trade them for real money. Selling legendaries, precursors and their mats in general seems much easier and safer for clients.

I have seen everywhere about tons of schemes to avoid being detected and banned. One of them involved selling a obscure item to another client for a really high price. Sure the gold company will lose 15% gold, but it isn’t like they lack money.

They even have programs that automatize the TP requests and automatically undercut/overcut anyone. One guy in reddit even admitted he got thousand of gold this way, but ironically, he got banned for another reason, the snowflakes exploit.

As long there is people willing to buy gold, they will be there ruining the economy. I hope anet punish the buyers as much they punish the sellers, which doesn’t seem to be happening. There is a forum that i browse with tons of people that admitted buying gold since the release’s month, and nothing ever happened.

Iruwen.3164:

As long as somebody buys those goods, their price will rise. Otherwise they’ll be taken off and put again at a lower price after a while. Sounds just fine. The problem isn’t the TP; it’s the precursor drop RNG factor.

And those people involve gold companies and gold buyers. Normal players cannot compete with someone who can buy 100 gold with 23 dollars, or the gold seller who can produce any amount they want. It take me weeks to just get 100 gold, i play 24/7. Now someone who worked irl for 3 days can buy a precursor, setting new base prices for it.

John im pretty sure he already used his item and cannot sell in game. He wants an option to transfer his used commander title to another character

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Woot, I think I got it. I found a very tiny window where Brogun could die to a condition in between events, which blocked progress. He’s now immune between events, and it appears to be working again. (I was able to break it reliably, but I can’t now.)

This might be a fix to many stuck events in dungeons and overworld. That’s awesome news!

Grinding? what grinding? If you level up and 100% all high level maps, you will have enough money to buy, not 1 but 2 full sets of exotic gear and weapons. I’m not even counting all the karma that you can get by simply doing dailies.

Are you talking about legendaries? Because if you are, i’m going to laugh at you. Or is it some specific weapons from the mystic forge? Those items are there to appeal to the hardcore players and people that play a lot. In their game’s announcement, they clearly mentioned they would appeal to both casual and hardcore players, people that like MMO and that don’t like MMO.

This game grinding is non existent, even less than some single player games i played.

Well Mike, for starter i think we need more stat spread for world versus world gear. Currently, the amount of armor and weapons are extremely limited, and we only have Soldier available. For some stat spreads/builds, we are forced to do dungeons in PvE., etc

I already got the same ring 5 times. I don’t have enough alts for them. It feels like a complete waste if i throw them away. So please, make it possible for us to trade in our rings for fractal relics or pristine relics. Or at least salvage them or throw in the mystic forge for a chance of something else.

The weapon is soulbound on acquire. You cannot sell it. In fact, people might have gotten the staff but never said anything.

I’m not distrusting you Jeffrey but according what Lynsey’s pm, it was mentioned a LARGE boss chest, not a monster loot drop.

Can’t you guys throw us a bone or something? Since it is a gaygorle staff, i assume it comes from one of those risen knights. But i don’t remember if there is a champion version of them

Magiofdeath.2745:

They need to align the drop rate of Charged and Onyx lodestones with the others. If I can get 3 of one type of lodestone in 1 hr and no charged lodestones in 2 hrs, there’s something wrong. I think bolt looks neat, but I am not spending over 300g (3g per lodestone) just on charged lodestones (need 100 for bolt) since the TP is truly the most viable way to get charged lodestones due to their terrible droprate.

The drop rate of those are aligned with the others. The problem is that the demand is much higher because of two legendaries that everyone wants. Some people have enough money to pay whatever price it is, raising the threshold price of these lodes higher than the others.

I really like to see the people that QA that part to actually beat it the way it was intended and without pulling.

Some stuff that came to my head

Jotun boss in path 1 aggroing pets
Bjorl(ice boss) in coe path 1 aggroing clones and pets and not charging at pillars near players
Alphard, Serpent of the Waves in path 2 of arah. Her special move keep bouncing in misplaced pets, clones killing everyone at once.

Kristen Perry.5260:

Oy, eh! What about us ‘ere upstandin’ members uf the honourable Generators’ Representative Union of New Tyria?! We GRUNTs ‘ave been werkin’ DAY and NIGHT for that flighty Asuran madman! Buildin’ ‘is workshop! Creatin’ ‘is toys! Preparin’ ‘is machines! Makin’ it SNOW in a tropical port town!

‘Is demands were unreasonable, ah tell you!! Unreasonable! ’E wanted an ENTIRE minni-a-ture world of FIVE cities all up inside ’is blimp (which ay don’t ‘ave to tell you the sheer size uf which may be compensatin’ fer somethin’, if’n you know what ay mean). Not only did we at the Union build ‘im somethin’ that can support that weight, but made it so it could FLY! An’ den do you know what ‘e up and does? ’E, against our esteemed advisement, takes off wif it to all the cities! It was everything we could do to make sure ’e didn’t steer it into a mountain!

If it weren’t fer our esteemed efforts, there could’ve been major ree-percussions for all the citizens of Tyria, Yer Honour! If it weren’t fer whut we did, there’d be more than just presents scattered like shrapnel all ov’er Tyria…

Yer Honour, we GRUNTs would be honoured if you would hear our humble grievances… It’s Wintersday!

Which one of you did this?

There is no benefit.

Anet do not have time to check who got their cogs or not, so instead, they are giving to everyone to make sure that every afflicted by the bug on Divinity’s reach stop gets their toy.

That’s it.

Alexandra Triplett.1280:

@Arimik, Generally aesthetic as far as I know. Like texture maps applying themselves in places they shouldn’t be, on armors you’re not previewing. As well as lots of clipping of course. I liked being able to see them too, but I can understand why that decision was made. If you have ideas or features you’d like to see I’d say post em on the suggestion forum. I can’t promise it would be implemented, but the more people who say they want something the better!

Have you guys ever played with an asura or charr? Mostly everything clips badly on them. And to a further extend, mostly other weapons clips horribly on every other races, special mentions to shields and focus.

I could totally understand if this was meant to cultural armor or gender specific, something that truly would look out of place in a character, but this isn’t the case here.

This “fix” not being mentioned anywhere in any patches seems to imply you guys knew how mad people would be. But it was done anyway, for a random excuse and pure spite of the community.

Here is a good way of getting both titles

Grab a thie-er.. a scout and when the countdown reaches 1 use the 5th skill to get a boost on speed. Drop yourself near the castle pillar and rush towards the speed booster. You will most likely be the first one to get near the gift. Use the 5th skill again grab and run.

For the gift stopper just camp near the enemy base. Hide behind the hills on the corners, and when an enemy pops up with it, rush use the 5th skill and charge with the 4th one. You will probably kill them or reduce to 90% their HP which you can promptly finish off with the 3rd skill.

Got both titles in less than 2 hours.

When they make the kits to scale with us, who is ready for another 50% nerf?

So in the end, it is 1 step forward and 6 jumps back.

Arenanet, not every sigil is a offensive one. You effectively killed grenades now.

Hahaha…patch released…no fractals DC fix. How long are we going to suffer with this?

I have been unable to play fractals for 2 weeks now. I will only do it for the monthly but that’s it.

While on the subject, why the Orrian armor have no runes at all?

I believe the one in a lifetime rollback was put to prevent some stuff

Let’s say a guy that hacked/stolen/exploited hundreds of gold/another person’s account. He will send that gold to someone, then he will contact support and claim to be hacked. Effectively doubling his income. Anet said that sometimes hackers have enough proof to offer that they are the original account owner.

I’m seeing gold sellers offering 5000 gold, i can’t imagine how bad this would be to the economy if anet made rollbacks to everyone like candy.

Give us more items to exchange like lodestones. For instance, CoE would reward charged lodestones,. Make them cost 60 tokens.

And for the love of all god and might scale all the rewards for dungeons. No one want to do AC to win low tier dust or level 35 items. I understand that this does not apply to overworld to give people chance to farm for lower tier crafting materials, but this isn’t the case for dungeons for higher level people.

Add a hard mode for dungeons. Make changes to bosses. Example:

Kholer wouldn’t have the wind up animation, and he would drop several ghostly aoe chill when he does the spin. Add a wall portal thing like in fractals to lock people inside his arena to avoid leashing him. This way people would be forced to fight his minions.
The ghost eater would be immune to conditions and have the cone scream from the other path bosses, etc.

In compensation, raise the rewards.

Aw man, sometimes i wish i was a designer

Also Robert, thanks man, truly. You are one of the few people on this site to actively give people answers, talk, comfort and share the frustrations.

Does his autoattack don’t hit on melee range on phase 2? You didn’t seem to have dodged it at all.

Our pets are “permanent” and the AI isn’t resetted all the time? I mean, rangers also have a huge issue with dumb pets doing crazy stuff.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

Holy crap Jon, you just made me a very happy person. Kits are going to be awesome now.

But and about turrets and other summons in general? Do you plan to make them scale in power with us as well?

Only way of finding those runes are:

1-Certain exotic drops(As you know, exotic drop rate are abysmal on its own)
2-Mystic toilet(Again with so many other runes/armor, rate is abysmal)
3-Map completion. Only solid way of getting, but with the syndrome of empty maps and people leaving this game, things are not looking pretty.

So yeah….the prices are kinda reasonable.

I always have been wondering this. Most other MMO offer PTR tests to accurately find and kill bugs, buy this one doesn’t? It is clearly that the people responsible for bug testing are under heavy pressure since very obvious bugs like the cliffside fractal boss and transformation bug goes through unnoticed.

Fetching a whole map of people to focus on doing something particular like SPVP, dungeons or zerg some event, will be much more effective of what we currently have.

I would also appreciate if someone of the bug team posted how the work is done and clarified things a little.

Sabyne.6329:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

runeblade.7514:

Why not both?

I like new content, it makes the game really fresh and exciting.

Because we can’t get both at once.

I’m not sure the people working on fixing bugs/balance and the ones working on designing and coding new content are the same you know.

Bringing new buggy content will overload the already big list of the bug team. It keeps piling and piling and piling…and the only thing we hear is “We are working on it”

Something that i always wondered, why do we not have PTR’s tests? Fetching a whole map of people to properly test things will be infinitely better than we have now. Since very obvious things like the fractals dc/cliffside boss and the transformation debuff goes through unnoticed. And the people that play the game figure it out in 5 min of playing it.

To the people saying they have different teams when working on bugs and new content is, well, when the content team introduces more bugged content, the bug team will have more stuff to fix and get overloaded.

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Robert Hrouda.1327:

It’s not ready yet. We’re still working on the fix for this issue.

Robert, will this fix allow us to come back to the dungeon? Or will it just “fix” the crashes and dc?

Some of us have unstable connection or GW2 is moody with our PC and randomly crashes(like mine when changing maps, or during a zerg ). Can you answer, so i can just give up of the place prematurely and stop having hope?

Patch today still haven’t fixed the issue of not getting back…please kill me now. I guess that would be 2 more weeks of wait.

And i bet it will be just a bandage. There will still be no way to come back…Hrouda, pls, tell us that the fix will let us come back to the dungeon… If you are that worried with people that will abuse this, just make them come back to the same instance the party is. Or make them come back dead, or add a timer to kick them out like in GW1.

John Smith.4610:

You vastly underestimate the currency exchange and GW2 market.

Granted he couldn’t possibly do this with rares and ectos due to its abundance overworld and means of aqquiring.

He could very easily likely crash the lodestones market, or even doubloons. There are only like 400 300 of them. If he would buy every single one of them and then destroy it, it would completely block a lot of people’s legendary/rare exotics and make the lodestone market drive to insane prices due to its high demand to lower supply.

The market would stabilize after a while, but until there, i can see them costing around 10 gold each.

YES i almost forgot it…how could i:

The whole spark thing on dwayna is extremely bugged. Even if the cage is empty and you lure them to there, nothing happens.

For example, first time is normal, you can lure the 5 sparks to their respective cages. But after that, some of the cages remain active, and some of the activated sparks goes invisible leaving the cages empty. Then you have to start luring them around each cage until it works.

Also confirming the petrifying thing not working when a tear is thrown.
And sometimes, you get petrified two times in a row. You are petrified with a dead eye stare and gets immediately petrified again when you get out.
Sometimes, you can still move while petrified but not attack.

The ones that i encountered.

You cannot see the last boss of path 4. I cannot see in my screen the bloodstone shard. Happened with other friends too. I can still hit him.

Fairly often, a few monsters from the golem part on path 2 will ignore the inquest “attract turret” at end and pursue you to kill. Would also appreciate if you could move the waypoint just a bit to the left because the monsters have a huge aoe instantly killing anyone that spawn on that waypoint if they stay there too long.

Several stuck events leading to open arah. The NPC simply do not start them.

Bugs that i heard from friends

Last door of path 1 do not open if the npc dies
Lupicus door not open on path 2 if the npc dies beforehand
Lupicus not entering aggro mode if the npc dies before entering the room
The whisky skills replaces permanently the skills of the person on path 1 even if he drops it(it also hit allies, bug or intended?)

I know this is for arah but there are other bugs that i haven’t seen a fix or mentioned here. After killing the last boss of Honor of the waves path 3, you can clip through a wall and fight the boss of path 2 for an extra quick 60 tokens.

Black Regent.5897:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

It’s not a matter of putting the blurb together, but for the team to investigate what can be done and how it will be done. That said, I came back to my desk to find an email with information on what is being done about the situation.

We have confirmed that we can provide everyone who did not have the opportunity to loot the chest with a reward for their participation. All affected players will receive a reward regardless of whether or not they have contacted Support. We’re working very hard on this, and you should have a reward in your in-game mail early next week.

I hope this alleviates your concerns.

What about the problems themselves? What’s being done to make it sure it doesn’t happen in future events?

There is a very simple easy fix for this. They just need to limit the number of people on maps. Cut to 40% or so. And then just make tons of overflown servers to supply the demand of people.

Having the whole map on a single area will cause problems no matter what they do or how strong your pc is.

The money and token rewards are completely perfect now.

They just need to scale the loot of dungeons to your level. I don’t want to get level 60 rares or medium bags on sorrow embrace.

Robert if possible, can you tell us when the next patch is coming? This week? Next?

I have just one question

Why is the AMA being conducted outside the official forums where the most playerbase is concentrated?