Guild Wars 2

My Guild is less than 5 semi active ppl, with 1-3 contributors at any one time. We have 2 scribes and are level 40 and we aren’t full time, hardcore players.

So it is possible, but it requires a long term level of effort and time to commit to.

Yes in places it is tough going, but I’m afraid as far as I’ve ever been able to ascertain, larger guilds are the norm, not a small scale sub section, so plenty seem to benefit from the current system, not just GLs and GOs. Anet stated back during Guild Missions that larger guilds were always going to be the focus, although they have made concessions to that at times.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Out of curiosity, what major MMOs have “remastered” without releasing a new sequel of the game? I’m not sure how I would even research the question, so I’m relying on other posters anecdotes.

My guess is that this is something that no game company has ever done.

See my above post

I’m still expecting us to return to the Ring of Fire, although the Shiverpeaks seems to be the other logical course. It depends if they are keeping to the 2 White Mantle, 2 Primordus, 2 Jormag episode many theorise.

The Crystal Desert feels a bit left field and random based on where we are, but I guess it is possible.

Hopefully never. Sometimes things need to remain a mystery and this is absolutely one of them. Its mystery is what makes it so interesting. Open it up and you kill that. Fantasy Worlds need areas like this.

Nothing Anet can do after 10 years of mystery can live up to the hype and imagination players have invested into this area anyway.

I’ve always assumed its existence is a homage to the Dying Earth stories and in particular Rhialto the Marvellous

Amaimon.7823:

zoomborg.9462:

Would be refreshing…unfortunately Anet would need to make sure that it runs on every single pc of the respectable customers. Otherwise it would make the game inaccessible to a lot of people. Only way to do that could possibly be with next expansion by announcing new requirements half a year before release.

I don’t remember which one, but there was a game that could be downloaded with 2 different graphical engines, but still play online together. Maybe something like that would work. A “current” model, and a “Full HD” model.

On another aspect, Core NPC’s are quite outdated. When you look closely at the NPCs in towns and capitals, their faces are quite low-res, compared to the faces of players and Post LS2 NPCs

Anarchy Online has the two graphics engines. I would not use that as a comparison model though considering it never really worked very well.

morrolan.9608:

There was a guy that spent $150 and didn’t get it. Just a recipe for ill feeling.

If there are players out there genuinely doing this and spending crazy money on keys, then Anet will feel validated through their sales metrics and have no incentive to change tactic, regardless of feedback.

Whilst I generally agree this rng lockbox stuff is getting silly, unless players stop throwing cash at the gem store to buy keys, items locked behind rng lock boxes will continue.

As others have stated, he only recently woke up and got into a near fatal fight with Destiny’s Edge shortly after waking. I believe he flew off south/SE ish and current whereabouts are unknown (to us anyway).

It’s a deliberate design mechanic and has been since Trib mode was added a few years back.

Danikat.8537:

The same thing has been happening to me, but not every time and I’ve only had to put the password in twice. I just assumed I was getting it wrong (which could well be the case).

I don’t think so, considering there are a few reporting it. I just went to login, typing in slowly to be sure and it still took 3 attempts.

Must be a launcher issue atm

It’s happened to me once in last few days. I assumed until I saw this thread I had put my password in wrong 3 times.

EU

edit: happened again just now. took 3 attempts to get in

Ohhhh so I didn’t mess up 3 times the other night. Interesting new bug!

How would they refund it though? It’s not a gem store item, so not something they can refund back to you. (they don’t refund in game gold)

penelopehannibal.8947:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Given you can change your account name by contacting support for free. That seems like a total scam to get people to buy gems that don’t know any better.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-1-2017/

We have added a Gem Store item that will allow you to change your account name for the low, low price of 2,000 gems. There is no limit on the number of purchases.

I’m having a hard time believing you of all people on these forums are falling for that one!

I’m having a hard time believing you of all people on these forums are falling for that one!

A better poll would be to see what festival ppl think should get new updates if they could only choose one.

EKAN.4051:

Account name? That’s the email? 0,o ? Not the display name? confused…

Read the notes. All of them

Then read the date

JackDaniels.1697:

Randulf.7614:

Choice 1 belongs in choice 3 otherwise it doubles up since it is temp festival content. It is no more or less its own entity than Halloween is

No mmo should sacrifice regular pve updates for festival content. That is just madness.

But because it has a potential for a rich story and it is vastly different than anything GW2 has, is why I think it deserves it’s own line

Pifil.5193:

Poll is notably missing a Living Story Season 4 option.

It would fall under the 4th choice.

Halloween has a rich story. Richer than SAB and its unfinished.

Ls4 has a rich story as well and is vastly diff to fractals. Surely that should get its own line. Sab is tiny whilst, ls, fractals, raids, bosses, open world is a massive, massive workload. They cant be lumped in together and compared with SAB and keep the poll fair.

GW1 wasnt constantly expanding. They wrote a campaign, it was done.

GW2, needs a whol.e back catalogue of voice dialogue and then a commitment to each new update and the time and resources to record it into the game. From what I have picked up, that is a huge undertaking.

At this juncture, I would be surprised to see new voices for PCs in this game, ever.

Choice 1 belongs in choice 3 otherwise it doubles up since it is temp festival content. It is no more or less its own entity than Halloween is

No mmo should sacrifice regular pve updates for festival content. That is just madness.

Strange poll imo

We don’t know when a HoT sale will be anyway unless an authorised 3rd party is putting it on sale. There is no guarantee it will half price over Easter or for next LS chapter.

You could always buy the glider and then get HoT later or wait til the expac when HoT will be free with it.

Unless it wont let you buy w/o owning HoT at all, in which case tough call

To kill the toad, just hide at the sides on the little ledge whilst he does his tongue thing. Then head to the middle when he moves his head side to side. You can grab a gem to throw at any point in between, but it should mean you will almost never take any damage in the fight.

edit: If anyone needs the toad killed, I can get them through it (EU)

Can you get still obtain the orange ones in some manner?

edit: Ah yes, the course load achievement is still there

NOW!

Go go go go go!

Just preview the BL chests every major patch to see if the Chaos ones are added. I’m after the trident, but I’m not in a position to pay 140g atm for it, so will be watching for hopefully a price drop after they reappear again.

I got it after 2. I feel unusually lucky now!

Time for a Lotto ticket!!!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Opeth The Great.9251:

Opened 21 boxes, and no Elemental Sword was discovered.
Bug? It must be! /s

It’s a rare drop. Even if the drop rate was 5%, there’s less than a 2/3 chance that you’d get one from opening 21 boxes. (i.e. 1 in 3 people opening that many chests wouldn’t get one)

I’m sorry you didn’t have better luck.

It’s an uncommon drop when previewed on the BL chest screen?

Looks like you hit an old bug. Try Ayrilanas link and see if that fix still works, if not, a support ticket is likely the next step.

Can you post a screenshot that shows the Invocation trait wheel (ie the one with the wheel you purchase the skills direct from) rather than the allocation?

Like the elemental sword which has been a popular returning item? Or the even more popular chaos gloves?

I understand wanting new and interesting stuff, that’s all fine and good, but there is enough demand for re-released skins from the older franchise for those to exist as well.

We know Anet plays WvW regularly, as does the WvW forum, given the number of threads about seeing Anet employees in amongst the crowds. And the number of times devs have posted about their experiences.

Multiple devs have come out and said they play pvp and the classes and builds they use.

So sure, some people might say they don’t play these modes, but they are flat out wrong on that specific issue.

I don’t play these modes, so I can’t say what problems need fixing – that’s for more qualified players to feed back on. Crowdfunding is not the answer and I’m not entirely sure is something that a company like Anet + NCSOFT by extension would be legally allowed to do.

I need this sword. My ele uses it as a sceptre skin in GW1 and now his ancestor needs to own it…even if he can’t use it!

I agree with it being too short

I own neither Legendary and although I understand why the whining Unicorn is annoying to some, as an owner of other Legendaries, I’d be rather protective of any changes made.

The change to Moot a couple of years back for example, was something against what I wanted and actually diminished it for me for quite some time. Many of us aim for these weapons knowing what we get. A change to that, can feel a blow to all the hard work put in in the first place.

However, it is great to see a proposal being discussed with the community rather than just going ahead with it and is an great example of the sort of communication we have been crying out for a long time. It’s also an interesting proposal.

The cinematic system had style, but it was also awkward and lacked appropriate atmosphere and weight to the dialogue. The new method is much better, ofc with the downside of being unskippable.

Adding new modes to content not already designed with it in mind is likely a non-trivial task, one that would certainly raise all sorts of bugs which would need ironing out.

Is it viable? Not in open world. I can’t see the game supporting split populations and being sustainable. In instances? Yes it is viable. We’ve already seen that Challenge modes in Fractals have proven popular and work rather well. I believe future fractals will have this as well.
I doubt we will see challenge modes on older fractals without a resdeign of said fractal. Eg, they want to re-design Jade Maw, but they don’t have time to do it atm, but a challenge mode could be incorporated during the redesign process.

As for dungeons, well they’d need redesigning too. I doubt Anet would want to just slap on a hard mode skin as it is – it would be a half hearted effort and they’d want to do it right. But, there appears to be no sign of dungeons ever being modified/revamped.

In short – it’s a lot of work to add to existing content just to add one new mode. I;d rather they balanced things to the one way, based on feedback and metrics they deem appropriate and maybe add a challenge mode where appropriate. Anything else is just needlessly complicated and people will never be satisfied anyway.

EU or NA?

It’s related to the Current Events which tie into Season 3 and the fallout from HoT

Johnsen.6253:

I expected more elitist braggers calling me a noob and telling everyone how easy it was and that they never died. Seriously its impossible to even dodge Caudecus or the Jade Armor in his small circle room. You have to eat it and the squishy classes just cant do that. Thx for the links, I will take a look at it.

It is a common complaint, altjough trust me, it was much worse prior to the nerf. One of the issues is that the room was designed prior to gw2 launching and it seems they have been so desp to use that room, they didnt quite factor in size vs mechanics.

It is possible I believe to ensure the jade doesnt spawn and that makes a world of difference, since you can use the mastery to counter Caudecus. So far ive only used heavies, with my ele next to go in. Could be interesting…

TexZero.7910:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Weelll, “chances are very slim” to “throw away 6 to 8 Developers for 4 to 6 months” isn’t zero, but…I would not hold my breath.

So you’re saying there’s a chance.

There is a tiny chance that one year we will see it. It will not be this year since they would have mentioned it in the blog and we know resources are spread thin between more important projects. Knowing a desire exists for it, they would def have mentioned it for this season.

kitten …
SAB or Zelda…
SAB or Zelda…

Wait..I have no work from Wednesday onwards. Problem solved

Shauma.5470:

Moonyeti.3296:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Isn’t it easier just to ask for help in /map? I can’t tell you how many people I’ve ported or guided to a vista or PoI over the years. Lots of people are standing by, practically waiting for your call for assistance.

I’d actually suggest that you absolutely, positively can pay for the vista: offer gold for a port, if you can’t get one otherwise. Somebody might be unwilling to switch characters for free, but I’ll bet that it is less than $20 worth of gold to convince them to do so.

Heck yes, anyone needing a vista portal and willing to pay 20$ for it can pm me in game anytime. I’ll hop on my mesmer and portal you to any vista in the game for some easy money!

But to the original points, just ask. I have been helped out by mesmers casting portals for free plenty of times. They usually take a donation if you feel generous but usually willing to do it just to help.

I didn’t know such a thing was possible, I’m pretty noob-ish. I’ve played casually, mostly on my Elementalist.

By in large, mesmers tend to be helpful towards anyone in need of a portal, whether it be for acheivements, collections, jumping puzzles etc. Most tend to volunteer their services anyway where notorious challenges exist, but I’m quite sure many will reply and assist should they be available/free on the map.

Blaeys.3102:

The devs have danced around the issue and tried to justify this in many ways.

The reality is it remains a VERY poor decision and one that has hurt them in the eyes of many players.

My biggest worry is what happens now. If they continue down this path, the GW2 story will be even more fragmented in years to come – with raiders always getting access to interesting and darker stories that others do not.

The result will be a very fractured experience with a very haves/have nots mentality.

I’m not sure I agree with this. It did not fracture the experience in GW1, with interesting stories in their elite instances, which were their equivalent to raids. It also didn’t in other MMO’s I played where lore is even more fundamental to the structure of the game than it is in GW2 like Lotro and TSW.

I don’t raid for various reasons, but I don’t feel it is causing any significant or long term damage to the game by having these stories included in the raids.

As an owner of a few, I am absolutely against such an idea. Legendaries are bling, with a bit of convenience on the stat swap. I’m OK on the idea of swappable sigils, but they should have no addition gameplay mechanics, no matter how minor.

I think adding an adrenal mushroom is an excellent idea

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Perhaps, you have a corrupted file; you might consider a -repair of the client (instructions found in the Knowledge Base accessed via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Search – Repair’).

(I’ve not encountered this ‘bird sound’.)

Good luck.

No, it the seagull cry is real. It’s just ambient and barely noticeable as background sound until you turn the music off then you can hear it easily.

Of course now someone has pointed it out…I can hear it a lot lol

Ohh..you ahve the music off I am guessing? Cause that seagull is drowned out with music on

DavyMcB.1603:

Randulf.7614:

What bird?

Its sort of like a seagull… thing.. with very distinctive chirping noise.

Can’t say I’ve ever encountered it. Logging in now to see if I can pick it up

What bird?

zealex.9410:

Randulf.7614:

There are other issues with Mega too;

Megadestroyer is also dead before this season takes place since the snapshot of Mt Maelstrom is prior even to killing Zhaitan. Shatterer is replaced each time and Tequatl is a bit anomalous because (sort of) he gets defeated, falls into the water, absorbs some of Zhaitans magic and returns more powerful before we kill/defeat him, so whilst he is stuck in a time loop, it’s one that makes sense.
He is also not unique as we see in Sorrows Embrace (although that one appeared slightly smaller?).

Whatever Lt(s) serve Primordus now, have yet to reveal themselves – I’m hoping we see something with the next episode if we got back to the RoF, if not I’m really hoping the expac will bring one in along with Drakkar for Jormag.

I just hope these aren’t in the top of the ranks in primordus’ army because if that the case i cant imagine how much of a joke primordus would be. And thats sad because he was the first to awake and he holds a special spot for many ppl

To be fair, I think my group killed The Great Destroyer in about 10 seconds with pain inverter, so I wouldn’t factor mechanics into the equation too much, esp given Mega gets beaten up by about 50 odd hardened Tyrian Heroes

zealex.9410:

Amaimon.7823:

Right now Primordus is still lacking a proper luitenant. There are some that will say the Megadestroyer is his luitenant, again some will completely deny this as the megadestroyer is nothing more than another random but bigger destroyer.

Now that we’ve moved into the living story, to a point where Primordus is securing his spot at the top of the food chain, isn’t it about time we get a proper world boss for the king of destruction?

TBF, since the megadestroyer isn’t in a level 80 zone, I doesn’t feel it’s right to overhaul him to this position. I was thinking to have his champion on the Fiery Island Chain, although that might be a little too close to home. The problem with updating the Megadestroyer to this role is the same problem with the Shatterer, because it’s not in a lv80 zone, you can’t use the full potential to make a proper boss. and level 80 people will steamroll over it. A disgrace not befitting the champion of the king of the food chain.

Sneakily points to dis and hopes anet didn’t make it just to have something cool for the episode. Also why didnt mordy in hot had any dragon luitenant like he did in lw 2? (A plea for more actual dragon luitenants)

I guess it could be argued that either the Blighting Trees or those big legendary champions they spawn could be Lieutenants. Even if they don’t, the Shadow of the Dragon was killed relatively recent to HoT beginning and HoT only spanned a short period (weeks?). Perhaps too soon for another powerful entity to rise.

There are other issues with Mega too;

Megadestroyer is also dead before this season takes place since the snapshot of Mt Maelstrom is prior even to killing Zhaitan. Shatterer is replaced each time and Tequatl is a bit anomalous because (sort of) he gets defeated, falls into the water, absorbs some of Zhaitans magic and returns more powerful before we kill/defeat him, so whilst he is stuck in a time loop, it’s one that makes sense.
He is also not unique as we see in Sorrows Embrace (although that one appeared slightly smaller?).

Whatever Lt(s) serve Primordus now, have yet to reveal themselves – I’m hoping we see something with the next episode if we got back to the RoF, if not I’m really hoping the expac will bring one in along with Drakkar for Jormag.