Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Those who post “it’s live” in advance of the build will be banished to an ant hill in the Maguuma Wastes, with a large batch of complimentary live fire ants.

New zone confirmed for November 4th!!!!!

;)

I would suggest doing a (google) search on the subject. The number of existing threads on mounts is staggering on the general discussion forum.

Opinion is very divided and whilst constructive discussion will be welcomed, another thread on the subject is…….unwise

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Safest bet is to craft your own rares of the specific weapon type you’re aiming for. That way you’ll narrow down the loot options the forge can reward per recipe. If you buy the weapons from the TP it can get costly, so making them should be cheaper, especially if you farm all your own materials.

It’s more that I get quite a lot of rares from teq/jormag runs and to be honest I don’t really need anymore ectos. I know it is more economically more sound to sell the ectos/mats, but I thought I’d give the MF a whirl for fun if there was a chance armour contributed towards getting a pre.

Thanks to everyone for their input, was very useful

a couple of quick questions,

If you throw yellows in to aim for a precursor, do the rares need to be all weapons or can you use armour? Also, if you do use weapons, do they have yo be the same weapon type?

Thanks!

both need to be legendary. An ascended incinerator doesn’t count towards it, since that is just re-using the old skin

Some sort of cataclysmic event clearly being set which could be really exciting to speculate about.

The link you posted doesn’t work though – I get a sad quaggan

Also…the link doesnt work anymore!

I dont remember any real changes in GW though im sure it was the same year in year out for a while when it was active…or has memory failed me?

I admit to the latter being possible….

Never played an mmo without a halloween and xmas, but anet still advertise theirs far more. I also never understood complaints about recycling old content – thats part of the course with most mmo festivals.

Living story is def something to hype more about though in my opinion. And i cant find how you got to the “interfering” conclusion either im afraid

This is a good example of the sort of communicating being talked about in the main thread. Hope to see more of this in the coming months.

Looking forward especially learning more about Tyrias dark past now!

Where do u get the info by the way? Saw nothing on the homepage

Dragician.3854:

but where is prospect town? i got a part of dry top explored tough

In the first bit of Dry Top, it is just across the sand river. There is a waypoint nearby

Dragician.3854:

Meet Tayni in the Ley Line Hub, people say it is on dry top…how the hell i reach that poit of the quest…=S

See my post above yours and that will show you.

If however, you haven’t opened Dry Top – go to the portal in the SW of Brisban Wildlands

I presume you haven’t been to the early part of season 2 story as that would have shown you the route through.

Go to Prospect Town and look for the house with an open door. You will see the route through in there.

I haven’t come across any lag issues myself, but have you checked in with technical forum? Any lag issues are best reported there since that is where the tech guys read up on any reported issues.

I am in no way dismissing your idea, but this thread is capturing such things right now. WOuld be useful to add your suggestion to there instead for ease for the devs

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-player-camera-improvements/page/3#post4493194

The naming policy is clear when the terms and conditions were signed. If anyone doesn’t agree, then they are simply free not to sign the agreement.

Censorship of names takes into account sensitivities across a range of cultures/countries the game is sold in. Religious names are absolutely a no no according to the naming policy.

AFter a tiring day, it’s a fun way to spend some downtime for me. Just go/do whatever I want and not be confined to one tiny area in the map like in other MMO’s.

That’s the appeal for me

The problem is no longer the level or amount of communication now Gaile. You are correct in saying that improvements have been made and any right minded individual can see that from you and your team.

It just boils down to the roadmap again. Where are we going? We simply have no real inkling and it really is quite a unique situation for an MMO to be in. I read Mike’s post – it didn’t really address this particular problem, even if visible and definite improvements have been made elsewhere.

Suggestions have been made ofc;

- email forthcoming events and updates
- regular GD blogs
- return of the preview trailers/info (no preview of next season 2 or Halloween yet, despite eager clamourings)
- Something more substantial than a vague zone portal in the homepage for a teaser

I’m not saying these are the answers, but they seem valid suggestions from across this thread. Many just want something to get excited about going forward about this great game. It’s not really a big demand from the community in my view

McWolfy.5924:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Ok cool let’s start it of then Donari:

Note these are my personal top three priorities:

1: The ability for guild members to be able to show of their prowess and achievements through Guild Halls and their own avatar customization.
2: The ability for players to work together in a fun way to build something different and exciting.
3: The ability for smaller guilds to enjoy guild halls.

Chris

And we want to do things! GvG, other new game modes as tower deffense, survive the vawes of monsters etc…

I pretty much sit on the fence regarding the need for GHs, but if I was pushed for priorities, I’d say I’d gel with what Chris listed. In any other game, I think the extra game modes would be interesting, but outside of dungeons, SAB and the mini games, I prefer the whole “keep it in the open world” system the game has. It’s not unique, but GW2 does a very good job of getting it right as far as I’m concerned.

(GVG an obvious exception ofc. I don’t pvp or care about GVG, but this would work best using a similar system to GW1.)

Brother Grimm.5176:

I’m going to get some popcorn…..

Might I add that a simple comment from John (or any Dev) that states emphatically that there is NO secret LUCK factor tied to any player / account / character anywhere in the code (or ever has been), might help to squash some of the crazyiness I envision showing up in this thread. Just a suggestion.

He quashed that emphatically in the other thread this span off from

Zayeban.2806:

Strange, i didn’t know that. Was there any ingame mail notification that i missed?

In game, no. But there was a fair bit of communication about across patch notes/forums/main homepage if my memory serves me. It was last year so I can’t remember more specifics.

You can convert them to account bound at the appropriate NPC as has been the case since the account bound tools were introduced. I forget which NPC

I agree. This is a great champion fight – I hope we see a lot more with mechanics going forward.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I’m confused. What is the bug you are reporting here?

Buried under the main rant is the complaint that many DE’s tied to collections are bugged. Such as Foulbear which is still intermittent. A legitimate complaint there.

I don’t share the complaint about megaservers (which are an excellent addition to the game imo) or the collections as a concept (something that was suggested on these forums a long time ago).

I think they should drop from the boss personally – that would make sense thematically and give an extra boost to the rewards for him.

Or add a new set of Tequatl collections and tie the wings into a reward for completion.

Does Anet email out news to its playerbase? I get plenty of emails about things going on in different mmo’s – from weekend events, to in store offers, to roadmaps ahead. Some of them work on me and entice me back. I have never been emailed by Anet (yes Ive checked my spam folder)

Now I’m not a player needing “enticing back”, but looking at what has been happening in GW2 recently and upcoming, how many casually minded players aren’t aware of;

- the recent pvp tourament and chance to win a precursor from watching the twitch stream
- Halloween and the start date
- WHen S2 re-starts.

Sure it’s on the homepage, but is it being more widely advertised? I know it’s a bit away from the transaprency being asked for, but it might be useful to those who wouldn’t think to visit the main site.

saye.9304:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

saye.9304:

in 2013 they said precursor crafting is one of their major plan for the game but nothing happened not even word about it, whether they canceled it or still working on it, that is the kind of confusion and lack of communication i hate, the major plans for the game that change the game play must be at least discussed with the community /players for feed back and all.
other games have pts or play test server before they go live with major updates, while this game developers are silent about it for no reason in my opinion just making players confused about the future of the game.

Actually, you can read what the Devs said about it on the previous page in this very thread. /smh

As stated before, even though the statement has been quoted in countless threads, players seem to ignore what the Devs announce. Thus, they may be reluctant to announce anything , as what good does it do? I’m neither for or against the practice, but there surely is evidence for their stated reasoning.

what they said in this thread and others was they announce it once it is ready to go live , what i said is they must be crystal clear as what their plans for major updates are like pre crafting. like other games announcing major feature and content, for example rift announced new souls months before or swtor announced housing mini expansion month before or wow announced expansion months before, this thread is about transparency, read it again if you did not get what is it all about.

What you said is that there was no word from the devs. The guys above pointed out that there was word and it was pretty conclusive – they are working out how it will fit in the new rewards scheme. That’s a reasonable update on the situation.

Crystal clarity isn’t actually what a lot of people are asking for in this thread. There is an understanding why that cannot be the case and in fact few publishers can ever be that clear. What is being asked for is just something to grab onto, even if it is next year.

I have a spider phobia. I take great pleasure in killing every eight legged hideous monstrosity I can find.

Which can be hard with your eyes closed mind you….

You don’t have to play everyday. Just play and as and when you want. Halloween is after this week then it’s living story.

That’s the beauty of a no sub game. You don’t have to justify a sub’s worth of time

Besides, you are married to The Doctor….just time travel to when Elona and Cantha are released

A week Tuesday for Halloween. Some of the stuff is already in the store

Gaile Gray.6029:

Some of you pointed to the Season 2 image and said it wasn’t enough to excite you about the season. Some said we should use “teasers.” But isn’t that image precisely that? A teaser?

Ok, let’s talk about this on a personal level. Share your thoughts or desires, not what you gauge to be the thoughts or wishes of the whole community.

I’ll start:

I love books. But I never read the slipcover or the back of the book. Why? Because usually it says too bloomin’ much! I don’t want to read something like, “Ingrid takes a vacation in Crete and meets a mysterious stranger who isn’t all he seems to be, which she discovers when checking the lining of his suitcase and finding four passports in four different names all containing (insert imagined gasp here) her new lover’s photograph! What will Ingrid do? What will she do?”

Well, I’d have to read 100 pages to catch up with the whole “phony passport” thing, but during those 100 pages, I’m thinking, “So when is she finding out that Pierre is a scoundrel?” And everything is colored by what I know, and the whole story-telling experience is diminished.

Oh, and I don’t even want to go into the whole “I saw a trailer at a movie, and every good joke and/or pivotal scene in the movie was telegraphed in the trailer.” That’s not good teaser-ing — that’s giving away the store!

A teaser has to be carefully devised — for a book, a movie, a game. I find the portal and the date to be enticing. Others here do as well. It’s ok — your mileage may vary. But I don’t think we (as devs) want to go the way of TMI for upcoming content because that takes away the joy of discovery and the sense of wonder that everyone will experience as they play the new episode.

Again, just a personal opinion, but as you can see, something I have thought about quite a bit!

Taking your book analogy, I ran bookstores for the better part of 15 years. The behaviour you describe simply isn’t common nature amongst the general populace. Blurbs are extremely important passive sales techniques (and actually most rarely spoil anything or even relate to what actually the story tends to be about anyway..). Of course TMI is a careful balance, but I would be very surprised if what was put up on the front page could ever be described as TMI. Even saying exactly where we would be going would still be just about undercutting it, whilst still generating enough info to garner excitement amongst the players and also amongst the wider community of players who are on hiatus right now.

For example; in TSW, I know FC are bringing two more areas of Tokyo to the game. That’s common knowledge to the playerbase. They know what the 2 zones are. We don’t know anything about playable content (probably a massive grindfest but hey ho), but we know the direction. Same with Lotro – in Spring they stated a roadmap of where players would be headed over the next year. Exact details left to the imagination, but we had a map.

In GW2…I haven’t got a clue. I could make an educated guess…but that is it. Personally, I’m with you, I don’t want spoilers. But, I want something to get excited about. I’m a loyal player who is likely to stick with the game for life, but I have nothing to look forward to. Which is a little saddening to me really.

You have an amazing game, with an amazing future. Shout about it!!

I jumped in to do 5 events then jumped out. I can’t say it encouraged me to do wvw.

I think they went too far this time – previous seasons have run WVW alongside other content making the achievements too time intensive. This time they removed extra content and dumbed down the achievements. I see what they were experimenting with, but it went too far imo. It is however, a difficult balance to get right for them.

I certainly am not complaining about the rewards though

I’m uncertain why it matters though. Jormag never fails, so I’m not sure how the solution suggested would benefit the event. In fact the ranged dps on the right hand side usually helps reduce the number of burn phases as it zaps enough of his health to be worth it.

Right now, there are enough people to do golem protections/ ranged dps and ice shards.

However, I’m not against a reworking of Jormag to make it more challenging or at least more dynamic. ALthough I wouldn’t be surprised if we get another Claw if we go north one day and the mechanics are improved.

Hmm…

tough choice but a toss up between;

Buying up the exotic minis I lack
or
Putting it towards collections and/or armour I lack for cultural/fashion sets

Never seen this happen….but i’d be up for trying it out if there was such a T-Shirt…..

It is never too late since it will always be there awaiting an unlock.

If you have enough gems then maybe the store is experiencing a glitch at the moment

Try SPooky Ghost…saw that today…that was enormous for a mini. Spooky skeleton looks big too in the mini preview window

That’s pretty much what I did in the end. I loved my ele, but my warrior took over completely. Then I realised months later I still loved my ele, so now they get equal play time.

I discarded the notion of a main in this game a long time ago. Play who you want to at any given time

GW1 was notorious at the time for having the same complaint – especially in fact for elementalists. I had so many issues finding decent looks for my toons in GW1. I have only ever been spoilt for choice in GW2

GW2 has gone a long way at addressing thie issues of the predecessor and the variety is astonishing for an MMO in my opinion. The creativity I have seen in open world and in threads is greater than most other MMo’s I’ve played.

Having said that, there are still issues;

1 – Acquisition. More need to be in game to balance out the gem store. I have no issue with gem store releases, but the balance is skewed too far

2 – Whilst sheer volume and combo and dyes are available, not every taste is catered for. That’s a nigh on impossible job to do granted, but medium armour needs some love and I take the asymmetry point in the OP’s statement as well.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

"E"von Gnashblade says hello.

Ki"E"l says hello

If ppl like orpheal are going to put this much effort into threads like this, we need a cdi subforum. This thread is 20 days old and its the first time since ive seen it due to the amount of duplicate and junk threads in general discussion burying important ones like this.

Good work orpheal

Funcom allow different passwords for game and forum. I have no idea why it is as it is here, but this is the wrong subforum to ask. You are better off asking in support/account subforum.

Do you mean “E”?

There has to be an acceptance that not all achievements are going to be doable or at least doable without significant time investment. I would love to get many of them, but Im not prepared to put time into grinding gold for black lion weapons. That’s fine – those achievements aren’t aimed at me in which case – there needs to be ones catering for all types of players, including those who like grind (yes there are plenty of players who do)

There is nothing which you “need” to grind for here and achievements shouldn’t just be handed on a plate anyway (wvw 2014 went too far imo, but they said that was just a trial so I expect that to change next time).

There are problems with many of the achievements, esp collectables, but grind I wouldn’t say is necs a big one

My nobly dressed ele taming the Shai-Hulud. And my guardian shaman

edit: added my ele in full plus my futuristic looking thief

Whilst i am no fan of the paying for story system which punishes returning players, there is the option of buying the story for gold too. I think the current transfer rate is something like 25g for 200gems right now.

There is or was a big technical discussion recently on the forums with dev interaction. Im afraid i cant pinpoint it to link it, but it didnt appear to be as easy as ppl assume, nor was it a laziness issue.

Might be worth having a look for it

Great news Gail thanks. I add my voice to keeping it permanent. No reason why keg brawl for eg should be and sab not so.

The key thing for me and ive picked out a few repeats of this in proposals across some posts is the relevance to small guilds. Guild missions were a kick in the teeth to small guilds and yet they were such an excellent idea. Not unique…but perhaps the best ive seen at linking guilds to thriving open world. Small guilds like mine felt left out due to manpowet needed.

Guild halls must be obtainable for all guilds and in a way that is fair to all. Lotro did it well with timescales being linked to upgrades. That way, guilds could develop equally.

I love the axe personally