Guild Wars 2

Fyrebrand.4859:

So, there’s already way too much out there for this to be an April Fool’s thing, but can you imagine if they built all this up — screenshots, weapons, fake maps and information leaks — just so we all excitedly jump into the “Super Adventure Box” and immediately fall into a pit of spikes and die?

I would be sad, but it would also be the greatest prank ever.

i doubt they would have their artist make models for the super weapons (which are already implemented in the spvp locker) if it was just a prank. seems like way too much wasted effort.

skullmount.1758:

Hmm, thats disappointing that the box isn’t going to be permanent . I really hope they reconsider and leave it there permanently.

i agree.

roachsrealm.9284:

Moto = Creator of Mario, Link, etc…

This is going to be awesome.

why can’t there be a super hammer? yet again, hammer warriors (or guardians) are out of luck :/

the bird perched on the super staff looks cool, and even has its own animations! pecking at the ground and flapping its wings… guess it’s time to level an ele.

on my german server there are guilds with the acronyms BDSM (even though their eniter name is not inappropriate) and BOOB (Eir’s Awesome Boobage). not sure about the latter, but BDSM is still around, even though i always report them whenever i see one of their guild members. i’ve also seen (and reported) way worse names than just containing “hell”. looks like you can pretty much use any kind of inappropriate name you want as long as you’re playing on a german server and use english names.

Not sure if this is a bug or just an oversight, but there is no “leave instance”-button in the new living story instances. Pretty annoying.

mursie.3681:

clearly condi’s were somehow linked to the quickness formula. The tampering of quickness in 1/2 turned the application in dots to 1/2 time as well =)

that’d be hilarious.

At 8:37 Jonathan Sharp talks about “looking for party”, apparently because Colin Johanson has spilled the beans already. Does anyone know where i can find the interview in question?

BobbyStein.2315:

azureai.9764:

Honestly, if this was a teaser, it should have been rolled out quietly. No announcement. Then the players would be going nuts trying to figure out what it all means before getting hit with the real content.

Agreed.

i feel sorry for you guys. seems like it’s impossible to strike a good balance.. if you don’t announce anything, people will complain and if you do announce stuff, people will still complain.

makes me wonder why it was introduced to PvE in the first place.

i don’t know anything about economics.. but i imagine if there was no or a smaller tax, playing the tp or simply trading a lot would become almost mandatory. simply because of how much more efficient it would be compared to any other method of making money.

Geotherma.2395:

Fiontar.4695:

ASB.4295:

Nemui.6753:

Jeff Grubb or Ree Soesbee

Add the lead game designer(?) Eric Flannum to that list.

Yeah, there are a number of key developers we haven’t seen hide nor hair of in some time and I figured they were working on an expansion. If not, where the heck are they?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/The-teams-that-work-on-PvP-WvW-Balance/first

About which members do what etc.

Jon Peters, Jonathan Sharp and Isaiah Cartwright are the only ones on that list that we heard from years before launch. Doesn’t change the fact that we haven’t heard from other key developers in a long time now.

SchuMidas.4782:

is that the living story patch at the end of march ?
thats 3 more weeks

oh wow, that’s annoying.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Ioflux.4369:

What people dont realize is that “overflow” is not really a seperate server, but rather one of the other servers that are not currently full. Overflow is just a title that you got moved, not an actual “extra” server as many would like to believe.

This information is actually totally wrong. Overflow are separate from the worlds.

i believe Ioflux was referring to the actual piece hardware that worlds are hosted on, while you’re basically saying overflow are seperate from worlds software-wise, correct? can we have clarification on this?

ASB.4295:

Fernling.1729:

That’s kind of what I was thinking. Didn’t they say that they have a live team and a team that solely works on expansion content?

Not only that, but they said they split their staff 50/50, which is a substantial number. Did the expansion team get laid off, consolidated into the live team, or are they enjoying a year paid vacation?

i was about to post something similar, i’m surprised it’s already been brought up. but yeah, i agree. i believe Anet would be lying if they outright stated “we are currently not working on an expansion.” if they include all of Anet, not just the live team.

if i remember correctly, they said a long time ago, way before launch, that they would split the live team and the other half of the company would start working on the expansion as soon as the game was launched. we haven’t heard anything from Jeff Grubb or Ree Soesbee in a very long time, and i’m positive they’re busy with building the expansion.

i can understand that they can’t talk about it though, because people just wouldn’t understand and blow everything out of proportion.

guza.6170:

3. Do we actually have servers in EU or are they all located in USA, and if so why not just join NA and EU sPvP. (im judging this from the pinging and latency…)

The EU datacenter is located in Frakfurt, Germany.

randomfightfan.4091:

what country is it dan? but yea I put music on there and didn’t even think that would be a problem :s

it’s blocked for me as well, with the same error message. i’m in germany.

you can always try proxtube though…

i don’t know a lot about GW2 lore, and even less about GW1 lore, but do the facets of the human gods anything to do with this?

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Facet

i guess the question would be whether the facets imitate actual (not elder) dragons that may have existed at some point, or whether they are the source/pattern that any kind of dragon is shaped after.

sorry if this is off-topic, i figured it may be kind of related. also, would the forgotten be related to dragons?

Writing story in an MMO environment resembles building a giant puzzle. We want to avoid temporal paradoxes, for example. From a player perspective, the Personal Story is unfolding simultaneously with the Living Story, but how can characters be in both places at the same time? Furthermore, do we all presume that So-and-So is dead, because he died at level 80, or do we assume the opposite? There’s a minefield of possible paradoxes that we have to carefully move through when writing the Living Story, and we’ve had to shift our thinking a bit to accommodate that. This has taken a lot of thought and forethought.

[…]

Aside from the Living Story main characters, we’ll also be surprising you with interesting villains, one of whom will become your personal nemesis. Again, no spoilers allowed, so I can’t tell you more than that, but you’ll recognize this sassy character when you see…um, him/her/it. <grin>

from: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/living-story-evolution/

my personal guess after reading this article is this: whatever the living story brings, it will be inconsequential in the long run and insignificant as far as the overall lore/story of tyria is concerned. how interesting it might be from a personal story standpoint, i couldn’t tell. also, i’m suspecting our new nemesis might be (partially) responsible for whatever the dredge and flame legion are planning.

Zaxares.5419:

[…]but the Grawl have refused any aid given to them by the Consortium. As the chieftain put it, “Their smiles do not touch their eyes. We do not eat food that they have touched.”[…]

i found it so funny that out of all people, the grawl are the only ones clever enough not to trust the consortium.

MikeFerguson.8921:

Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.

That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!

is that the reason culling appears more often in PvE ever since the 2/26 patch?

what the hell happened? i’ve been using gw2lfg ever since it was created and rarely ever did i get incompetent pugs with it. but for a few weeks now i’ve been having more and more trouble in pugs from gw2lfg. both of those statements pertain to fractals. is it because Anet made any level accessible to anyone? this is really annoying me, looks like it’s at least 2 guradiands/mesmers from now on

Radio Isotope.3045:

If you don’t agree with the cost post once in this poll
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-mission-cost-is-crud-poll/first#post1523270
If you do agree with the cost post once in this poll
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-mission-cost-is-awesome-poll/first#post1523225

afaik polls are not allowed on these forums.

so it was bugged after all? this is pretty lame :/

AlietteFaye.7316:

How is that not leeching? You’re solely in that Guild for your own benefit. It’s not to help grow or better that Guild, it’s so that you can get your gear and get out. That’s indefinitely leeching.

the “leecher” helps the guild get their merit. it’s not leeching.

gwawer.9805:

Conversation overheard meeting between Anet and NCSoft at corporate headquarters

NC: Quarterry profits are up. We want to focusu on Geeild Warsu Two as ourr beeggest furanchise

Anet: For this month we will be focusing on updating mostly SPVP changes. Many players are threatening to quit and the SPVP dev team really needs resources.

NC: We wanting to rerease new pinku quaggan backupacku so you can sell.

Anet: Ok we can easily do that. But first here are my proposed plans for SPVP revamping.

NC: Prreeaese move your programmers to fixing the bugs on the Fractals dungeon and wee want you to rereeease another tier of armor on the gem storu.

Anet: SPVP needs…

NC: esupvp (SPVP…) we can talk about later. Right now we wanting add more items to gem store.

they’re korean, not japanese.

dimentox.6019:

We just got it available to us in spvp…

BUT it has a bug…
Gargyole staff doesn’t present skills to the player in pvp.

So more than likely yes its never been found.. MIght start dropping now though

this seems very fishy, imho.

Vol.5241:

Detailed transcription here:
http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/210/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson.aspx

Is there any possibility that the UI will help track other people [in guild missions]?

Colin: That’s the type of stuff we’re not building yet but I think that will be included in the list of stuff we’ll be looking into with other guild upgrades. We need to get to the point where we just sit down and start getting people working on it. We’re always leveraged by how many engineers we have, that’s our biggest issue at any given time. It is “how many programmers do we have that can actually code anything?”. The feedback, all this time, is “why don’t you build XYZ when you’re building this instead?” and there’s a bunch of stuff we build that takes designers and artists to do and we have tons of designers and artists and there are certains things that take programmers to do and we only have so many of them. So it’s always [about] managing what they’re doing – their list is just huge – versus content, which is easy for us to do. But, yeah, I think it’d be great for us to go after that at some point as well.

Months ago I was wondering if it would make sense for Anet to hire more programmers, because apparently their current team is way overburdened. The game has been bug-ridden since launch and it’s only slowly getting better.

Geikamir.6329:

Plus, you guys already do this with the karma vendor at the pirate one in LA and everyone seems to be completely fine with that.

that is true. maybe it would be an option to add something similar to this to a new JP and then having a DE chain in the immediate area. the DE chain would, upon completion, make the JP-specific karma vendor come down and stand in front of the JP entrance for a while.
that way, there people who don’t want to do JP’s can just complete the DE chain and then access the karma vendor, if they really want those JP-themed rewards.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Also I have proposed adding this kind of boost to events, but I don’t think it’s a high priority at this time.

Too bad, i think with the right fine-tuning, it could make a great addition. Regardless, thank you for responding, that’s much appreciated!

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Of course, now I’ve ruined that one as well. But there’s a lot of yellow creatures out there that never get killed. Go kill them all.

haha, i definitely will do so next time i wanna level up. btw, does this bonus experience go up further than 200% when even more time passes? and have you considered extending this bonus to loot/MF or even events (that haven’t been played in a while) and their respective rewards (exp+karma+coin)? i believe this could aid you in trying to repopulate many abandoned open-world areas.

FateZero.8536:

Anyway, back to the topic. Level cap raising still a possibility. Would love to see more weapon options/skills for each profession too.

this is most likely coming with an actual expansion. “expansions worht of content” doesn’t mean it will be the same kind of content you’d expect in an expansion.

also, i suspect GW2 won’t be adding new professions with expansions. just new weapons/skills. which basically are new professions in this case.

Lokheit.7943:

Attack is the sum of Power and Weapon Damage, but that’s never used for damage calculation, as the damage formula uses the product of Power and Weapon Damage (and Skill specific coeficient) instead of the sum.

if this is true, i don’t see any reason why “Attack” even exists. maybe they don’t want to display the product (which would be actually useful) so it’s more difficult to theorycraft? i honestly don’t see the purpose of this made up, false stat. possibly not removed yet because of an oversight.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Norn sized extra challenge accepted!

Well. I won’t give too much away. But let’s just say that in this JP… size matters not.

haha, nice! can’t wait.
i don’t repeat many jumping puzzles, but i’ve played all of them so far (didn’t get the achievement for scavengers yet, though) and i really liked the timed ones like the clock tower and winter wonderland.

is GW2 actually popular/successful in Korea? or will it be in China?
personally, i never played GW1 (only learned about its lore from WoodenPotatoes because i was interested in GW2 years before it launched), so i wouldn’t necessarily prefer Cantha over another region, possibly even an entirely new one.

i guess most of us westerners might not take this situation of “chinese didn’t like their architechture mixed with korean and vice-versa” seriously, but you have to respect different cultures.
imo, norn with black skin don’t make sense, lore-wise. and i believe the main reason they’re in game is so no american can play the racist card. looking at it from a different culture (i’m not american), that seems like a very petty thing to me, personally.

so over all, you just have to accept other cultures and what might seem silly from your own point of view. in this case especially because NCSoft (who are Korean) is the publisher, the one who funded this game.

i just hope GW2 will be a success and Korea and China, so that we didn’t/won’t lose Cantha for no reason at all. because if it’s gonna fail over there, it’s just one big waste.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

The issue with the dragon chests should only effect people who park characters at dragons and don’t play them anywhere else. Is this what you are doing?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

So long as you play the events you should be fine to park characters in a given area.

i don’t understand. personally, i don’t play (nor camp) the meta events, but i’m not sure how to interpret the two quotes above.

assuming i’d leave one of my characters at the location of the shatter event, and would only log in with that character to do the shatterer event, and then log out again, would that hit DR after a while? if i repeat this over and over, of course.

what exactly do you mean by “play the events”? play the events of the meta-event chain? play other events in that area? play events in general? it sounds like exclusively playing the same dragon event (the shatterer one, in this example) over and over, and not doing anything else with that character would lead to DR.

for the record, i’m aware that you’re probably not allowed to answer most of these questions and i can understand that. it’s just something i’m wondering about.
but still, thanks for the previous responses, Robert!

20s per event? some events can be finished in under 20 seconds. others have timers so they always last 6 minutes. dungeon runs usually take way longer than that.

also, a system like this would discourage people from playing together, which is something Anet wants to avoid at any cost.

your post made me think of the bonus experience you get for killing mobs have been alive for a long time, though. they could apply a similarly stacking bonus to gold/loot/karma from mobs and events.

meaning that if this one event has been active for 2 hours, and nobody has done it, you’ll get 3 times the regular reward and 150% MF for all mobs you kill in this event
6 times reward and 300% MF for events/mobs that are 4 hours old, and so on.. numbers would have to be adjusted, of course.
maybe that could work. just like the bonus experience that is already in game, this would be a benefit to every participating player though, nothing shared or lessened because someone else played along with you.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Wait, people in France play this game? I thought it was only North America and Europe?

But as for your post, Anet doesn’t control the prices, we players do.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

My bad my bad, I was thinking United Kingdom, with Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England.

haha, thanks for the laugh. people from all over the world play this game, not just NA and EU.

John Smith.4610:

Not even close: 9 and 11

hm, i’m assuming there’s no way of telling whether those were all unique/different ones?

not sure if there’s anything new in here, but it might be worth a look.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sylvari#Physiology

according to rumors, the main reason for caithe (and faolain, by proxy) being female, is simply because she is a self-insert of one of the lore designers of Anet.

Halcyon Havoc.7305:

They don’t reproduce, and I doubt they can have actual sex.

They can.

Their “gender” is selected by the Pale Tree prior to emergence and is distinguished by the same features as human genders; while sylvari can and do have sex, it is not for reproduction as sylvari can only be born from the Pale Tree.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sylvari#Physiology

azureai.9764:

I’m gonna say it’s the steam creatures causing this. We really haven’t seen a lot from them, and that’s a story thread just itching to be picked up.

Boneheart.3561:

Why does everyone instantly jump to dragons as if they’re the only major villains in this universe. How do you know Menzies’ Shadow Army isn’t possessing Steam Creatures, or a team of crazed Margonites is performing a ritual to reincarnate Shiro Tagachi.

hang on, i thought the steam creatures were confirmed to be the result of (one of) the Asura personal story lines?

i’m almost exclusively playing -mostly fractals- in (new) PuGs i find on gw2lfg.com every day, and have been doing so, ever since the fractals came out. i can count the amount of slow/failing groups i’ve been in during the last two months on one hand.

guess i’m just extremely lucky, then. oh, i’m on EU and i mostly play during the night.. no idea if that matters.

Kodan already had a blog-post about them and it was not a “racial week”, like the other playable races had. Imo, that means they won’t ever be playable, because any races that have a single blog post, so far, are not (and most likely will never be) playable.

Tengu and Largos did not appear on the blog so far.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Dominion of Winds is their City not a starting zone.

just because it’s walled in doesn’t mean it’s a only city. i still think it’s gonna be a zone. or are there any sources that already state it’s only a city?

always makes me laugh how people are apparently too manly and/or serious to be able to bear the presence of this bow.

i got the dodge part of the daily done with literally 2 dodges.
just go to orr, find yourself some of these guys: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Risen_Plaguebearer
and dodge roll into their aggro range.
i guess i was lucky and accidently dodged into a group of them, which is why i got so much dodge (or rather: evade) credit. but even with just one you should get it done very quickly.
just gotta dodge their “chain chomping attack” that sounds like a pig greedily devouring something.

BobbyStein.2315:

• Expect subtle changes at first. Maybe you’ll encounter some familiar characters. Perhaps you’ll be introduced to some new ones. You might see a new structure where there wasn’t one before.

is this new? because i don’t think i’ve seen it before.

Nezrilus.8910:

I see an expansion being announced sometime in 2013 (maybe E3) and releasing sometime in the second half of 2014. I wouldn’t be surprised if the expansion added a nice chunk of land to the current map, but I don’t see any new professions in the first expansion (would be cool though). A new race maybe? I just hope they keep the level cap at 80.

Anet never visits E3, and they likely never will as long as it stays disconnected from the actual fans/gamers, they’ve said that much before.

They also said quite a while back (before launch) that they will likely raise the level-cap. Most likely with expansions, I imagine.

New races could be Tengu and/or Largos. Any minor races you can choose to have racial sympathy with in your personal story and the Kodan are very unlikely.

Sky.7610:

First, the game director already confirm that they are NOT actively working on the expansion, they dont have a dedicated team on it, they are using all their resource to push on new content monthly. They already have the first 6 month planned out in new content, and more to come in the future, suffice to say that they will focus on the original game for at least 1 year.

What you said only applies to their Live Team. A year or so before launch they stated in interviews that after launch, roughly have of their total employees (currently around 300, if i’m not mistaken) will make up the Live Team and work on the live game. The other half started working on the expansion as soon as the game was launched. Why do you think we didn’t hear anything from Eric Flannum, Jeff Grubb and Ree Soesbee in quite a while? Back before launch one of these three was in every other interview or so.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

darkace.8925:

If, if, they introduce new races (I wouldn’t mind Tengu), I hope to God they get their own city, their own zones running from level 1 to at least 40 with Dynamic Events Renown Hearts on the level of those in other zones, and voice work on par with the five established races.

The only issue with that is I seem to recall them saying that they didn’t want to have to create more low level zones after the games release. The Tengu definitely make sense in that regard though, their starting zone would most probably be Caledon Forest, solving the issue of creating an entirely new starting zone. The issue with that is that Caledon Forest is FULL of Risen. Tengu would be coming it at a time after Zhaitans defeat, so it would make no sense for their starting zone to be full of enemies that chronologically shouldn’t exist.

Caledon Forest? Are you aware of the Dominion of Winds? I think it’s pretty obvious that that would be the perfect Tengu starting zone if they’re introduced as a playable race. Also, if i recall correctly, the “we don’t want to add more starting zones/tutorials” quote was only referring to the confusion the different campaigns caused for new players of GW1. Obviously they would want to avoid that, and i believe that’s one of the reasons they said they wouldn’t go with that expansion model again.

bremy.1390:

i really can’t understand some achiev. daily…
yesterday i had Veteran slayer, i would kill 5 veterans but i killed all veterans at Orr, alone, with members.. but nothing…
today i’ve this ‘’Daily Laurel Vendor’’ wich tells: ‘’ you sought out a laurel vendor in any of the major city’’ i went to all cities to vendors.. but tell me, should i sell my only daily laurel point for receive a new daily point???? O_o … and if i would save my laurels? DX
sorry but i appreciate if you fix it or at least, will explain better what we should do ^^’’

sounds like your system time might be not set correctly and the game is already displaying tomorrow’s dailies for you, even though you can’t complete them yet.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Daily-not-working/first#post1327351

Icarus Pherae.4680:

GW1 only had one expansion (eye of the north) the others were campaigns, entirely stand alone. Anet has already said we will not be seeing that style of content delivery in GW2

that’s exactly what i remember, as well. we won’t get campaigns, just “traditional” expansions. personally, i’m okay with that.

also, if i remember correctly, Anet mentioned that after launch, half of them would work on the live team, and the other half would start working on an expansion. we haven’t heard from certain people on their team for a while now, i think. people who have been interviewed quite frequently before launch. apart from that, they’re only announcing their plans for the first half of 2013 so far. i’m thinking we might see the first expansion a year after launch.

oh, and since new weapon types (and those would obviously have new skills) have been hinted at, i think it’s fair to assume that we won’t be seeing any new professions. at least not for the first expansion.

Also for male asura:
- I feel six feet tall!! (Vigor, I think)

that’s might, iirc.