Guild Wars 2

Well when u say “we” it’s like you are certain you are not the only one. How is that? Did u check?

Do u get kicked completely out of the game or to the character selection screen?
Are u on wired or wireless connection?

Without giving some relevant details how can u expect ppl / devs to help you out lol.

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I tried today to check out a Total Makeover Kit just for laughs when i noticed something very irritating. The color scheme is the same (female/male)..but if u look at the pants, the female has yellow stripes on it while the male model doesn’t. In fact i tried several times to make the stripes on the male “yellow” but each time resulted in too much yellow.

Female color balance is correct. Male color balance is not. On female you can color all metal STRIPES on the armor in the same color, while on male, you have problems with the pants as shown in the images.

It’s one of those “cannot be unseen” problems

Caith, personal thoughts:

She understood the gravity of what Wyne told her and inside knew Wyne was also right about Faolin. She also anticipated what would happen to her race if the dragon would wake up (including the stigmatization as shown in the last trailer).

I think she took the egg to somehow use it in order to protect atleast part of the sylvari from the corruption of the dragon BEFORE it’s too late. That’s why she didn’t have time to explain, considering the dragon is like “99.99% awoken”.

The WAY of her actions is kinda “approved” to us by Divity’s Reach 1.0 which tell us in multiple dialogues “that’s just who she is” in essence….so despite her strange actions, she was always well intended.

@Windu Because some dude from ncsoft who from what i understand left the company said there would be cultural problems, just before the release of the game.

Where the queen pavilion is in Divinity’s Reach, in year 1 of the game there was a huge hole in the ground. Guess what was previously there…before that hole. It was a whole district asian-themed …cantha themed. That’s the drastic solution they took just before the release.

That’s the explanation. Is it one of the dumbest decisions made because of some blind nationalistic asian dude who worked for ncsoft? In my eyes yes and it disguises me even to this day. Not to mention it has literally no logic. They could have very well redesigned it a bit so it’s still asian-themed but not have problems with other cultures from their zone…+ the extra basicly free marketing Asia got out of this.

But hey atleast there’s hope considering (again from articles i read a long time ago) it seems that dude is gone.

That’s also a possibility i agree.

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

But if this is hinting about an expansion, part 8 will be the cliffhanger….

AND we’ll get a while doing nothing, As it would be dumb to make a big patch for balancing JUST before a expansion would be launched, then again, we’ll probably have

LS part 8 with huge cliffhanger
Dragon Bash
balancing patch
return of SAB
……
until july/august and we’ll get a x-patch (really, REALLY hope it will be sooner, say a few days after PAX or when it is announced @ PAX….)

You are forgetting about a possible WvW season that could pop after this LS. A WvW season takes 1 month and usually does not “run” in parallel with other events.

And guess what happens when the hype train fails like it did countless times in the past? An even worst image then the previous is made….people start QQing everywhere LITERALLY. People who were previously interested in buying the game will only see QQ….and that in turn decreases the amount of $$ Anet gets.

It’s a pretty easy chain of events.

As a seasoned GW2 player i have come to the conclusion that having expectations from anet is detrimental to my own mental health so i always expect the worst case possible then double it “just in case”.

I will watch with both intrigue and amusement what will come. If it indeed is an expansion it’s “ok”, this stagnant game needs it. If not it’s still “ok” because i didn’t have expectations to begin with.

@lordkrall it’s a situation they created with their own hands. The communication is abysmal and that’s the best possible compliment i could ever give it. Undeserved or not, if it proves false, they fully “deserve the undeserved” flame that will come.

Specially now when even major gaming news sites like IGN (which i am sure do their research before posting news on their site, to keep up credibility) came into play. That combined with what ANet said about PAX “living story is just the begining” all the steps they took seem like they WANT to point towards an expansion. If not, it would be the worst series of failed “hidden communication” any company could possibly make, when fully knowing what most ppl expect from an mmo.

However u look at it, if they don’t deliver it WILL be a major marketing blow for them.

I edited my previous post with some other thoughts i had.

Even IGN posted an article about it. Word got out about this being a possible expansion…they are kinda obligated now to deliver it. If not..i don’t even want to know how big of a blow it will be to their image..both to new players & especially to oldschool players who have asked for this for years now.

It would be one of the biggest backfires any mmo would have received in recent years…..quite literally if u try to think about it.

Hype after hype after hype were proven to be much less then the community expected, almost each time. If they fail with this news it would be a fkfest of biblical proportions because a lot players would see it as the very last straw they could take.

I can’t wait to see how this will turn out. Specially after making that PAX statement that “Living story is just the begining” or something like that.

Here’s the article just posted on mmorpg:
www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/view/news/read/33520/Guild-Wars-2-Heart-of-Thorns-Trademark-Filed-New-Expansion-Logo-Found.html

It’s stagnant….

One man’s junk another NPC’s treasure.

Only problem i personally see with the dailies is the fact that it’s common for all….and the most annoying is the one where it tells u to go to map X and do events. It’s just stupid to overflood just 1 map in an mmo.

Not only does it make it extremely frustrating finding events and even finishing them because of the upscale but it also indirectly alienates other maps….because out of all the maps, all players will go to the daily-map as a priority.

Wouldn’t be a problem if u can reasign the keys.

@Mordalus more then that i would love to not get the salvage “yes/no” message box when i try to salvage an yellow item with a “yellow” salvage kit or silver robot thing. I am tired of that useless message.

That message would be useful when by accident you try to salvage a yellow item with a green/normal salvage kit. In that case the warning is valid because it prevents you from using a kit that gives u less “stuff” from the item.

Plus yellow items are not worth keeping anyway…they are a guaranteed salvage in most cases, for ectos.

Half-life 3 Confirmed

…did i do it right?

I agree they shouldn’t be tied just to PvP..specially because as Electro said, PvP players have almost no use for them..and if it’s indeed a case of ANet trying to get players into PvP it’s extremely pathetic.

Even so, underwater combat is in most cases evaded because it’s not that pleasant so not having an exotic breather is not that much of an inconvenience apart from the desire to have 100% full exotic gear.

I don’t care that much for exotic breathers..but i also don’t like how ANet are handling them.

Most definitely he will not. He will be part of Season 3 100%. Season 2 was an introduction to him.

90% sure it’s a cliffhanger. Don’t expect anything related to Season 3 to start till AFTER Pax…so that means in february.

January might be something related to how we will start our long cliffhanger journey to the forest maps. Till then we will have 2 LS stories to introduce us to the new season OR even just 1 LS story left, followed by a bigger break till the new S3.

I also think we will finish the luminescent set before Season 3.

That’s my opinion at least.

Or it might be a convention about new minis & weapon skins added to the gemstore. Wouldn’t surprise me.

I agree the stacking method can be improved…altho i don’t see it as a major priority. There are other more important things to improve.

The sorting system we have now is decent. One thing that will greatly improve your bagspace when it comes down the the trademarked anet rewards (trash in it’s purest form) i suggest u buy one of dem’ copper salvage robot thingies. It will make your life 90% easier.

“Seeing how cliffhangers were a major success and undeniably something that no other has done to this lenght, we are happy to announce the start of Cliffhanger Story Season 1.

We will find out about the beautiful and very interesting tale of Moas. This small arc will only last till the end of the year so be sure to log in.

BUT WAIT…there’s more! We will be putting moa hats and dresses in the gemstore, and for the more ruthless players that want to show off in WvW we will be adding moa weapon skins.

BUT WAIT … there’s even more! We will also give each player that buys a black lion key 100% chance to get Moa Boosters which increase the exp you get by killing moas. We all know how important exp is in this game (who said we don’t listen to you guys..pfft) so be sure to grab those black lion keys!

As usual we do our best to listen to the players and offer them the best content we possibly can!

Tune in our twitch channel tonight for a comprehensive preview of stuff u most likely already know about and are sick off, for the lulz <3. We will have our hole board of devs and designers talk about how awesome & revolutionary the game is and have jokes about the things that you think you want…but we all agree that in reality we know better u silly sheep :>"

Looks like another cliffhanger

Interesting phrasing.

Best part about putting together “wishful thinking” and “anet” is the utter disappointment u will feel after as proven almost each time related to stuff the community really wants. This whole discussion is about the lack of CONSISTENT content..that’s why ppl want expansions…because expansions mean mass-content dumped at once…content that is lengthy enough to get u passed several months + a few months of waiting left for the next major content. (mass content = several maps, new classes, new skills, new and many quest chains, new races in some cases, new dungeons (NOT NEW PATHS)…stuff the the community wants (in this case new legendaries, crating legendaries, housing, gvg, etc etc.)

I look forward to the rivers of tears and soon to be opened #2016 expansion threads.

…or u actually expect ANet to give u information about an expansion……a company that has proven to have one of the most draconic communication policies in it’s industry…an industry that relies on communication primarily (mmo).

It’s like they are funded by North Korea….but i guess that’s what happens when they know for a fact, as a company, they can’t deliver things at the level of expectation they created themselves.

Anyway, we should necro this thread in 2016 for the lulz…..BUT DO NOT WORRY! 2015 will be a BOUNTIFUL year regarding gemstore items!

Very well made post, +1

Can’t wait for the new cliffhanger.

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Isn’t pretty much everything they done with the game since its release against the Manifesto?

QFT

Karizee.8076:

Absolutely – it’s one of the best MMOs on the market for a reason

It just shows the deplorable state the mmo market is in.

I just play the game from time to time now…as a “5-10 minute time waster” nothing more. For new players that never played it, yea it offers content worth a few months..like 2-3 months played casually. If u are a vet (day 1 player)…really nothing consistent changed…with no foreseeable heavy changes in the future or know plans.

Anet is one of the most nontransparent companies in the mmo field.

That question is being asked as if the future is known, and we should be hyped about something we definitely know is coming in the future. ANet has one of the most nontransparent systems of any mmo on the planet for some reason. Maybe they actually think “it’s better this way”…adorable. Ofc it’s better this way when u either don’t want to or have no clue how to deliver content that ppl want, because u are overwhelmed by the product you yourself made.

…there is no such thing. Each time ppl hoped for something, anet was careful to shut it down somehow.

It’s more like ANet is overwhelmed by their own creation. They don’t have either the numbers or the funding (thx ncsoft, hope our gems go towards aion expansions) to properly develop this mmo.

I don’t remember NOT having a ton of fun in a major expansion for an mmo…and “enough” fun to last me atleast a few months before the next expansion….because of the quantity of stuff they add. I also don’t remember feeling the repetitiveness of grinding as i feel it in gw2. They were repetitive, but they were done in such a way they were actually fun…either because of the people/community or the events themselves, mechanics and so on…completely new items, new skills..new classes, new worlds/stories to explore.

i am comparing “grinding” with “grinding” here..and the gw2 grinding is not only dull & stupid but also “short” as in things u can grind or nature of grinding.

Serophous.9085:

WEXXES.2378:

The biggest difference with GW2’s repetitiveness is that it repeats every like… 30, 40 minutes?

The fact that people try to dodge a lot of content just to get the reward in the new map is proof enough that the design is flawed.

Or….that people will always always always take the easiest route to get a reward.

Heck, this also made me realize;
Player1: “GW2 has no content!”
Player2: “well, stop skipping it just for the rewards then!”

There will always be players who want to be “the first” in something, but i am sorry to tell u this, the GW2 players in general (a large majority of the ppl i’ve seen play) do that. That only means it’s because of the actual content.

It’s either too bad OR too small. The ONLY thing that makes players put in more gametime are the cinematics. If u remove them or give players an option, content would fly in less then 30-45 minutes. That’s the actual content gameplay they put in. 30-45minutes, if u are a terrible & slow players about 2h let’s say max. SO we get roughly 4h of content each month, with huge breaks in the past, cliffhangers in story that makes u want to puke (they had more cliffhangers in this season then bleach&naruto in their animes)…and when it comes down to content, how can you enjoy content that makes u feel “been there done that” over and over again.

Oh..and lately their idea of making u play is to enforce heavy grinding over cosmetic items. Thumbs up.

Grinding is essential to an mmo….but not infinite IDENTICAL grinding like this….Each 2 weeks we had to grind the same events, same map, same order, same everything over and over again for crests. It was a good idea for the first part but now it’s TOO MUCH and with no “break in grinding” between episodes.

Anyway, i learned my lesson with ANet and i just play 2/3 times each month just to be on track with everything. The rest of the month it’s a dead game. After the daily update i will heavily play 1 minute just to get the reward and quickly change games.

LS should be a buffer between expansions (that offer MASSIVE content from all POVs). If they don’t quit lying to themselves that LS is great, this game will never progress how it should. We entered year 3 with no sign of real content in exchange receiving repetitive grinding 2-3h content each 2 weeks with big cliffhangers and huge breaks once every X episodes.

I fully understand why ppl are frustrated enough with what they give us to literally not care anymore about it, and just rush it.

I am not going to lie..that armor looks Fing amazing. I would buy that from the gemshop.

I still remember when someone asked in mapchat if there will be a final LS this month, and i told him “most probably not, it will be just the winter event”. 3 “white knights” of guild wars jumped on me so aggressive..quite literally, telling me i don’t know ANet, they will make both LS + winter…because they have 2 separate teams for LS and for events like winter..bla bla bla.

Such funny, much irony…wow. The aggressiveness of people defending an imaginary “profile” they made about ANet is adorable….the tears that always and undeniably come after, each time guaranteed, are priceless.

So…this NPC is required both for the beer collection (even if u can buy from the TP) and for treasurehunter collection. Yet this NPC has been bugged literally since the beta stage of the game. Either golems had problems, or now he has problems as in the event NEVER APPEARS.

Now an honest question. When can we expect a “since beta” bug to get fixed in order for us to progress with some of the game’s things?

Everything about this LS makes the gameplay frustration be almost unbearable….like literally. I honestly never felt this level of frustration in any mmo i’ve played. Not only are u forced to play something u detest, but if u want to finish the challange achievement for the wannabecool “horse people” be ready to face the most literally retrded mechanics and gimmics ever invented…cripple…50 sand storms whatever, laggy skills, and on top of that INVULNERABLE stage of the mob over and over again.

I have no clue who in the history of gamers that turned dev ever literally EVER thought throwing random invulnerabilities FOR NO kittenG REASON would make the game more “competitive”. It literally makes a horrible frustrating experience literally nobody would ever repeat.

Be sure if a guildie comes for my help i will politely tell him to GTFO.

Worst LS by far, a record just when u thought there are no more records to beat.

Because if u don’t enjoy the cutscenes u must be forced to enjoy them. It’s been an ANet philosophy with all their content. U don’t like it? we force it down your throat

Short…bad….gimmicky….dependent on a bad system (specially the last update where it forces u to play bugged instances with a melee character. Even the pull skill is bugged for her..doesn’t pull sht)

Not to mention over half this season u can literally call “fillers”. However much effort and time they put into these LS things…if they don’t feel consistent enough…that means it fails. Too bad for the hours they put in.

One thing i’ve learned is never put the “high hopes” tag close to anything GW2 related.

Zaxares.5419:

The way I look at it, the most obvious conclusion is that “they” refers to Rytlock, who is a prisoner of Mordremoth. (Somehow. It’s unclear how he got out of the Mists in the first place, unless that scene is from a place in the Mists which shows a potential alternate timeline where Mordremoth has been successful in beating back the Pact.)

I will just take this as a complete troll post….or extremely good weed and would want to know the exact source.

Hmmm…yea i was thinking of him also….but why would he appear all of a sudden in the maguuma jungle… if it’s indeed Rytlock they should have a good explanation for him being there.

Lots of copies similar to that one on FB adverts. It’s not the only one.

I think it’s just about random mobs (we never faced before) that are located in the Maguuma jungle instead of the desert northern part. Remember they also added that new adventurer skin or whatever it was called implying we would go to the jungle next.

At least that’s my opinion.

They just added this to FB:
http://i.imgur.com/GOPhWze.jpg

That dude in the shadow looks a bit like a charr.

“The Nightmare Court was founded by the Secondborn Cadeyrn after a number of events”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cadeyrn

Maybe it’s him in the trailer: http://i.imgur.com/bedqW90.jpg

Just because he happens to be in your guild, means he’s trustworthy? ….lol…can i be in your guild please?)

It’s your own fault for trusting a random dude on the internet that happens to have the same tag as u.

The only person i ever gave a loan too and it was for 100g is someone who i have actively played with and have been friends with since the freekin BETA. As for the rest i was more then happy to give tips on how to make more gold..but nothing more.

Sry but this is 90% your fault.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Rebound.3409:

GscGunner.2419:

@Rebound i think if you your speculation to be taken seriously you might want to stop using cabbages? the first 2 times its funny, after that it just becomes an annoyance to read.

Further whats up with them first talking to Centaurs and the second after they slaughter them? They look like peaceful maguuma peacekeepers to me, the ones you can also find in Dry Top.

That’s your own opinion on the mater ^.^. I can’t take seriously the story as long as it constantly revolves around 1 race. In fact the whole story is beginning to be an annoyance to me. I honestly can’t wait for the Rytlock sidestory to start just so i don’t get to see and experience the melodrama which the Sylvari represent as a race and has been diligently spoonfed to us since the start of the game.

If u don’t want to take my posts seriously because of 1-2 words, then don’t. It’s your right :P that won’t change my thoughts on the matter….they have, are..and will always be over-glorified melodramatic cabbages because of the way ANet has presented them to us both in quality and in quantity…over..and..over…and over…and over…and over…and over…and over….again.

I know, GW1 sucked because it was all about Humans… stupid one race stories…

And even so many find it better then most of the GW2 story…..ironic.

Grinding new content is better then grinding release-day content.

What does changing a game from an old DX to a new DX mean?..i imagine almost taking it from scratch. If that’s the case i can’t imagine GW having DX12 till they release GW3 (if they ever will)

..but yes i’ve also read a lot of positive stuff about DX12 and i am actually hyped about it…but don’t see anet making cool stuff like changing to DX12….it’s easier to just invent a few gemstore items instead.

One of the few mmos i know of that actually massively improved their graphics by changing DX (i think, because the changes were to big honestly) was, u will laugh, AION. It was like a first year patch which made everything look so much better…even tho it turned out to be a “not so great” mmo, thumbs up to them for doing such a big overhaul.

Would have been a huge mistake if it did. Imagine putting “on hold” atleast 70% of their player base for that “10%” who play PvP..the other 20% being WvW.