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What do you expect for tomorrow?

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Looking forward to having pre-orders go live so I can pre-order the Ultimate again.
Still loving the game!!! Been playing since beta and still playing almost every day.

Future of Guild Wars 2

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If LS3 is the future for this game I’m probably gone. It takes someone with a 4 year degree in college to play this now.

No it does not.

My wife got her a 2 yr degree in 1986 and that’s all the of the ‘degrees’ that she has. Her job title before she resigned 4 months ago was “Commissioning Engineer for Automatically Guided Vehicles”. And her previous job is calling and texting trying to still have her work both without getting paid and also trying to get her to come back into a job, any job, including doing IT. She keeps getting phone calls from head hunters to work at various other companies doing that job. And all this is with just an a 2 yr degree from 1986. What has set her apart from all those with Bachelors and Masters degrees around her is her willingness to learn – software, electrical, mechanical – whatever is needed to do whatever is asked of her on a job.

you need to stop anet...

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Grinding? what grinding? I have played since Beta almost every day and have had to do no grinding. I enjoy the game quite a bit and play it a lot. Liked it when it came out and I still like it.

This is just your personal opinion, that is all it is. Just as this is my personal opinion. No one can speak for anyone else but themselves.

Why no official alert on new masteries?

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What are you guys talking about? I see no new masteries on my character.

There are at least 9 new places to get mastery points in core Tyria. I was able to get all 9 within about 20 to 30 mins.

Why no official alert on new masteries?

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There is such a thing as “Easter Eggs” in games. Special things they add without telling anyone. Every game has done it since “Adventure” from Atari.

Concerns about Expansion 2

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I am enjoying the game quite a bit. I am waiting only to hear what the prices will be and waiting for when I can pre-order for the Ultimate version again. $80 for 3 years of playing then $100 for another 2 years of playing … very good deal in my opinion. So even if it’s another $100 for the ultimate I will pay it.

A response to the Game Director's Message

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Holiday events are also to allow the devs and the rest of the people in the office time to take time off to be with THEIR families during the holidays too which why they don’t change much in any MMO that I have played over the last 20 some add years.

Will HoT be included with 2nd xpac?

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No HoT will not be for the F2P players. The next expansion will have Core Tyria, HoT, and the new expansion. So far that is really all we can say for sure as they have not released any information yet on the expansion and will not release any until August 1st.

As for the time any information is released on August 1st? No one knows except for ANet. No one knows, except for ANet, what is in the expansion so everything you read and see until August 1st is just people guessing. Don’t fall for all the guessing, just wait until you actually see on August 1st what is in there.

To Play or Not To Play?

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You already own the game so why not play?

the new download

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I wonder how many other MMOs the OP has played? Most others I know of go down for hours at update time and then allow you to log onto maybe download. Sometimes the game goes down more than a day while they put the update on the servers before you can download and then play. And usually you are also paying a monthly fee to not play for hours at a time while they apply the update to the servers.
With ANet you get to play the game until the update goes live and then download and then play. Very little down time. I can count on one hand how many times the ANet servers have gone down for any length of time in 10 years. Pretty good in my book.

Expansion Announcement August 1st

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Here’s the pre-announcement: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/expansion/

Can’t wait!

Too bad they couldn’t announce the price!!!!!!!!!!!
Day one buyers/gem store buyers of the original GW2 prepare for another disappointment. Gouge forecasted. Will wait for the dust to settle, reviews are in and it is on sale. Its’ well worth the wait for the price to drop.

What gouge? I paid $100 for the Ultimate and am quite happy with what I paid. No gouging here for me. My wife and both sons also paid for the Ultimate and were quite happy with what was delivered both when it came out and all the LS episodes that go with it.
I like the game so I play it and when the expansions come out I will pay for them as well. If I didn’t like it I would just not play it anymore.

Are the new weapon skins seriously 2 tickets?

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Over the last 5 years I have seen some skins go for 3 tickets, some for 2 and some for 1. Not false at all.

Why 2 tickets for Abaddon's weapon set?

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It is also being discussed here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Are-the-new-weapon-skins-seriously-2-tickets/first#post6654783

I have seen them cost 3 tickets, 2 tickets and very rarely 1 ticket. They are just skins. They are not needed to play the game at all. You have a choice to buy them or not.

Are the new weapon skins seriously 2 tickets?

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Then do not get them. They are only skins. They are not needed to play the game at all.

Are the new weapon skins seriously 2 tickets?

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Most are 2 tickets, some are 3 tickets and very few are 1 ticket. It’s up to ANet what to charge and it’s up to the player what they are willing to pay.

Trailer for Expansion?

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Wait till the episode comes out, play it and then you will know. Until then it is all just speculation from those that are just guessing.

Or you can wait till those that rush thru content finish the episode and post about it.

ep 6 release hour!

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Seems from this that they are expecting the normal 9am Pacific Time release:

Streams for the Week of July 24
Tuesday, July 25
Bog Otter Plays the Living World Season 3 Finale (by Bog Otter) (English)
9:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)
Watch Bog Otter play the Living World Season 3 finale.
Episode 6 Peachy Party! (by Aurora Peachy) (English)
11:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)
Speculation, lore discussion, and general hype with Aurora Peachy’s friendly community! Let’s explore the finale of Living World Season 3.

[Suggestion] Home Instance Gatherer NPC

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Why gather at all if it’s not worth it to you? Just don’t go into your home instance then at all. Why add this if it’s just not worth it to gather at all?

SO EXCITED for tomorrow's episode!

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I haven’t been on top of the LW episodes releases until now. What time of day do they release it?

Usually at 9am Seattle aka Pacific time. Here are 2 websites to help with figuring out the times in the different time zones:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
https://www.timeanddate.com/
Find the time zone for Pacific Time Zone — it’s the one with California in it — and it should tell you what time it is there now (5:45am) and then just figure out how much longer until 9am.

ep 6 release hour!

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Usually at 9am Seattle aka Pacific time. Here are 2 websites to help with figuring out the times in the different time zones:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
https://www.timeanddate.com/
Find the time zone for Pacific Time Zone — it’s the one with California in it — and it should tell you what time it is there now (5:45am) and then just figure out how much longer until 9am.

There's NOTHING TO DO

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Been playing almost every day since beta ….. I still have not run out of things to do ….. Not sure how some can run out of things to do on a game that adds new things every so often. Like this Tuesday adding another chapter to the Living Story ….. and then an expansion after that ….. nope still not understanding how anyone can run out of things to do in this game.

People need to read more than just the title. He said

Can we have something to do other than just combat?

Did I even remotely say all I do is combat? All I said was I have not run out of things to do —- things is a plural word meaning multiple —- so on that note I do lots of things other than combat and have been doing multiple things since beta.
The only breaks I have taken are when I did not have a connection, the longest was when I took 6 weeks to voyage over to the UK and wonder around there for 4 weeks and then voyage back. I also just finished a 6 week trip cross country and back in the US in the RV that I live in full time, sometimes the connection wasn’t there. This is a game and while I may play it almost every day it does not and will not take over my life and I will still do things outside the game. Partly because I don’t want to burn out on it, I like to play it too much, lol.

There's NOTHING TO DO

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Been playing almost every day since beta ….. I still have not run out of things to do ….. Not sure how some can run out of things to do on a game that adds new things every so often. Like this Tuesday adding another chapter to the Living Story ….. and then an expansion after that ….. nope still not understanding how anyone can run out of things to do in this game.

Suppressing Excessive Messaging

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Why not just put the extra dyes in the guild bank and let those that need or want them to just take them from the guild bank? You can do that with extra recipes or what ever instead of trying to mail them also.

Black Lion Hunters Board [Merged]

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I bought it and so did my wife and we couldn’t be happier with it. This is our opinion and ours alone and that is your opinion and yours alone.

Black Lion Hunters Board [Merged]

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I immediately bought it and don’t regret it all. I am enjoying the ability to change what I get depending on what I need at the time for whatever. If you don’t want it then don’t buy it, simple as that. I find it worth the 1200 gems for me.
It also makes sense that you have to log in to get the materials as you have to log in to get all the other materials in your home instance. The only people I let into my home instance any more are family anyway and they also bought this and are happy they did.

So ANet still gives awful trailers.

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I rather liked the trailer as I have liked all their trailers. Not to busy in my opinion and not garbled words in talking.

THANK YOU!

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The problem with “hype” is most people start reading what other players are posting and getting caught up in what others are talking about without reading what the Devs posted. And in then they start getting conflicting or wrong information that they take to be true. And then they get upset that it’s not like what other players said or what they imagined what was said in between the lines of what the Devs said.

I was not disappointed in HoT. I read what the Devs said. I understood what they wrote PLUS I also understood that things may change anyway since “nothing survives first contact”

Hate hero points farming

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I am not sure what game you thought you were playing with Guild Wars but there was/is grinding in that game.

Guild Wars 2 in 2017: Pros & Cons

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My opinion on the pros and cons of the game …..

Cons —- no cons for me. I still like the game quite a bit hence why I am still playing. If I didn’t like it anymore I would just find something else to play without making a fuss since it is just a game.

Easy to Implement Idea for Character Naming

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ANet has been doing it this way for 10 years thru Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, why change it? I have no difficulty coming up with new names but then I don’t put restrictions on me about how each race has to be named.

Mounts [merged]

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People complain about the lag now …. wow just wait if any mounts are added. Which by the way ANet has NOT said they are adding mounts. It’s all speculation. No one knows yet what will be in the expansion. All we know for sure is that one is being worked and it should be coming soon. How soon? Again NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING YET!!!!!!! And the ones that DO know are NOT talking.

A developer has confirmed on reddit that the next expansion will arrive 3 + months after the next living world episode. It was stated it would take a bit longer than the break between normal episodes.

If nothing major happens we should see the new expansion this year somewhere in autumn.

Again I say we still don’t know exactly when. We have a time frame but no date. ANet says soon and that’s all they will say. They may need to extend a month but since we still don’t have a concrete date we don’t know if they are extending or not. They have not given us any concrete information. Everyone is just speculating at the moment on the exact date and what is in there.

Mounts [merged]

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People complain about the lag now …. wow just wait if any mounts are added. Which by the way ANet has NOT said they are adding mounts. It’s all speculation. No one knows yet what will be in the expansion. All we know for sure is that one is being worked and it should be coming soon. How soon? Again NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING YET!!!!!!! And the ones that DO know are NOT talking.

Arenanet has broken its promise

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Played thru GW, started GW2 during beta and been playing almost every day since. I have never seen or read anything that could be construed as lies from ANET.
I am still having fun with the game and I don’t see that ending any time soon.
It’s a game that takes time from real life to relax from the problems of said real life. In no way has this game ever felt like it’s been a job, I would not play it if it was.
There was never been any required grinding nor have I felt like I have to do anything like grinding nor would I ever do any grinding.

Worst Guild Wars 2 Map?

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Trying to think of any map that would be the worst and honestly cannot think of any. They are good in their own way. I love that they are not cookie cutter maps like in most MMOs that are out there. Not a one is just like another. That is part of what I like about the game. They don’t cookie cutter the maps and each one you need to figure out the best way or ways to get around.

watchwork sprockets

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You get the sprockets and blade shards from the home instance node. I get so many from that that I don’t worry about the mining thing. I keep selling them when I get over 1,500.

Will the next expansion be discounted?

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I don’t care if it’s discounted or not I will still buy it. I don’t even care if it came with another free char slot. I have been playing since Beta over 4 years ago and am still having a blast. The price per minute for me is so minuscule. I would be happy to pay another $100 for the deluxe version. I have gotten more play time out of this game than most games on the PS or XBox that we have and I have usually paid just as much for them so for me this game is worth every penny.

Is game still fairly busy

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If you get it now then you will have the months to play now to get things in HoT BEFORE the other expansion comes out.

Disabling mob aggresivity for node farming

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Give me trash mobs any day. I have had ascended stuff fall from them and a precursor (Zap) fall from them, actually in the first 3 months of the game I had another precursor fall from a trash mob but I gave it away to someone in my guild. I try to kill everything anyway since you never know what might fall from them!

Why are there so many useless items in game?

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It’s all personal opinion of whether it is junk or not. Personally I can sell quite a bit on the TP for way more than I can to a merchant and get lots of gold that way. If they don’t sell for much (or nothing) on the TP then I will either throw them into the mystic toilet or salvage, all depends on where I am and my mood. Haven’t got a precursor from the MT yet but I have gotten some exotics that were very expensive, lol. Thou I have had a precursor drop from a generic monster.

Again it is all personal opinion as to what it junk, I don’t find any of it junk because I use it in some way.

Any old timers still do random events?

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A precursor can drop from anything for anyone. At least drop from anything that drops stuff. So to say there’s no value in doing a random event is not true.
To say there’s likely not a lot of benefit from doing some random event is true.
I’ll still stop and do them anyway, more often than not. Squirrel!

I had the precursor Zap drop from a random monster in a map. I kill and do everything just in case another drops. I get Ascended Accessory’s as drops also at times from random monsters. Again I kill and do as much as I can going thru all maps.

Expansions

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That seems more than likely to cause people to just leave the game for a few expacs then come back and buy say 3 – 4 for the price of one.

It could make it so that they rely on whales to keep them going between each expac more and more but just one possibility at any rate.

Most MMO’s are going the same route. All expansions in with the new one and at only one price. Why the players in this game but not the others think it’s bad I have no idea. When they announce the expansion I already know that I and my wife will buy the ultimate version. We play GW2 and we will continue to play GW2. We even sometimes play GW1 just because. When they come out with each expansions I buy each one. The only time I won’t is if (and that’s a huge if) we find a different game to play. Nothing out has tempted us away from GW2. Too many things we like about GW2 to stop playing.

Expansions

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Most MMO’s are going that route actually. But the new expansion and get the rest with it. Makes it easier for new players coming in.

Where is everybody

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Really? I see lots in WvW every day. Not sure where and when you are playing but no matter the time of day I go in there are quite a few there in every map.

Dungeon Master achievement ( TAKE A LOOK )

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No matter what “rewards” they offer in about 6 months time (or less) it will be right back to where it is now. You complaining that the rewards are not enough. Happens all the time in every game. Shortly after rewards are changed everyone has the new stuff and wants other new stuff.

QOL: Gathering tool exchange program.

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As soon as they made them account bound I asked to return mine for the gems I used. Since it was right away they allowed me to do that. I forgot one extra and now it is too late to trade that one back. My other half waited and waited and now it’s too late for her to trade them back. But then she’s fine with not trading back cause she just trades them between multiple chars anyway and thinking about getting more tools to match the rest of her chars.
They actually made me destroy them and then refunded those that I destroyed, BUT I did it with them telling me when to do that. Again it is now to late for the extra one I forgot I had, oh well.
I ended up getting a set of tools for one of my sons, lol, and gifting them to him.

Gathering tools shared slots

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Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.

But you can’t use them from there, so it isn’t a convenient “solution” at all.

I find putting my only set of infinite gathering tools into a shared slot enormously more convenient than either:

  1. Clogging each character’s inventory with up to 11 slots worth of gathering tools.
  2. Purchasing multiple infinite tools.

Right, but I think the topic’s point is that it would be undeniably more convenient to have account-wide shared slots for gathering tools; i.e., put an unbreakable tool in the mining slot, and everyone has immediate, permanent access to it as if it was in their normal mining slot on their Hero page.

Then the problem you will run into is those that buy multiple different sets on purpose just so they can match the set with the char. Are you then going to have separate tool slots for those that want multiple different ones and those that want just one set to share?

Do we only get 4 birthdays?

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GW1 offered a new reward for each birthday until the game was updated to run on autopilot (i.e. no new rewards or coding). Presumably, the same thing will happen with GW2.

Instead of “new” minis what you get for a birthday present now is a token to go and get a mini from what ever year you want. So if you are missing a few you can try for those.

Waste to have too many character slots?

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I have at least one of each profession. I think I have 2 of Warrior, I like to “hack N slash”
Only one is at 100% map completion and PS completion. Slowly working all the others thru map completion at the pace I feel like, not rushing anything as I only play because it’s fun for me.
I have none that have finished LW2, HoT, LW3. Not rushing that either.
I play almost every day but still have loads of things to do because I don’t rush thru anything at all. At times my chars have SOS (shiny object syndrome) so I just move thru the game how I feel like.

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Does anyone just have fun anymore?

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I play to have fun. My other half plays to have fun. The youngest (30 yrs old) plays to have fun. The granddaughter (10 yrs old) plays to have fun.
The oldest son …… he plays to have fun BUT his fun is min-maxing his stuff. That’s his fun. Years and years of me telling him to let me play my way (not min-max) and he’s finally learned to stop telling me and everyone else in the family how to play. He does still get frustrated at times thou, lol.

after purchase $79.99 game, what should i do

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LS2 = Living Story 2
LS3 = Living Story 3
HoT = Heart of Thorns