Guild Wars 2

BarronTV.4632:

Here’s a cool theory that I was thinking about for fun. The Tengu are coming out in the feature patch. They haven’t put them in the game files yet because they don’t want them to be data minded.

Didn’t ANET put the conclusion of the living story in the game file a couple of weeks before it actually ended ? Unfortunately, I doubt they’d be that careful with that.

And knowing how they love to overhype things, something like the Tengu becoming a playable race (which for some reason quite a lot of players around here want) won’t be stealthy release.
The day they decide to do so, you are probably going to get a few hints 6 months before, followed by 2 months of hyping it.

I have a broom and the drill thing. I find them fun. But I don’t want any mounts in this game.

This isn’t to ruin someone’s “fun”, it’s because it’d be completely out of place. From a lore point of view, and because there’s hardly anything the fattest norn and the tiniest asura can get on without being ridicule.

At best, it would be like weapons where mounts would be scaled and asura players would complain that their mounts is too small. At worse it would be “one size fit all” and above the clipping problems, we’ll have players complaining how their norn is twice as big as their mount.

hazenvirus.8154:

Humor me and pretend legendaries are only the skin for a moment. Do you agree it is at least as bad as your dye example in that case?

Of course if it was just the skin it would be bad. You know, like how a lot of players bought the same gem store item for their character and aren’t getting any compensation.
Or some who crafted multiple Infinite Light/Mjolnir/Immobulus.
Once the update hits, crafting/buying those item more than once is a waste of money.

But duplicate legendaries won’t ever be such a waste. It’s an account wide BiS with switchable stats weapon.

Zepidel.5349:

you are losing 2500 gold that could of been spent on another legendary?

No biggie I guess I make that much gold in a week

You aren’t losing any gold. You wanna know what’s losing gold ? Having bought 8 Pyre dyes in January at nearly 200g. After the patch, those people are getting 7 unidentified dyes which will probably be a common dye.

I might have chosen an extreme example, but given the playerbase, I’m pretty sure some players are going to lose an excessive amount of gold because of duplicate flame & frost/toxic/gem store exclusive dyes.

If you are a zergling, Supply capability is kind of useless. If you play in small groups, it’s far from useless.

Mercenary’s bane is probably the most useless, closely followed by siege bunker.

DeadlySynz.3471:

PPT shouldn’t be locked at night, but people should be forced to play on servers closest to their time zone..

For example: Nobody in the EU region should be playing on the NA servers and vice versa. If they implemented some sort of system that forced people to play to the closest servers, the issues should work themselves out. Que’s would probably be greater during prime time yes, but that’s just the nature of the beast. No need to close off PPT at night.

So let’s eliminate people who travel from one country to the other (even if we can’t be neglected). Let’s also forget aussies/NZ and basically every player from Asia/Oceania.

What’s your plan for people working night shifts/dead hours and who get to play when most players are asleep ? Or when the rest of the players are working during the day ?

Not only do you have legendary stats, but they are now account bound. You aren’t losing anything.

I’d be more understanding to someone who bought multiple 100g+ dyes for multiple characters. Or 8 of the same T3.

Erin.7496:

Just fyi: you will still be counted among the ranks of your “home” server (pre-transfer) if you transfer during a tourney. Aka: you get the reward that your original server gets. Don’t make your choice just based on this tournament!

You didn’t read the blog post.

“Your world association will be based on your participation throughout the tournament. If you play on multiple worlds during the tournament, the world you represented the most will be the one with which you are associated. We are adding a new Battle Historian NPC to all the WvW maps who will tell you which world you are associated with.”

Tengu share pretty much the same body type as Charr. And it will end like Charr. Players want to play a Tengu, they’ll see how terrible their armor doesn’t fit it (even the culturals) and players will be back to their old races.

From the blog post
“Single items, such as the Fuzzy Hats and Scarlet’s Spaulders, will be unlocked for your entire account and usable with any armor weight.”
I’m pretty sure it’s the same case for Fused Gauntlets.

At first, megaserver will only be activated for 1-15 zones. So after the 14th, you can still enjoy being alone in Timberline.

And I’m pretty sure that even after it is activated, you’ll still be able to enjoy it virtually alone. It’s Timberline Falls, probably the zone with nothing “worth” doing there. Kind of like Snowden.

I’m pretty sure nearly everyone agrees that you should be able to choose which weapon you get.

And I’d also like to be able to show spears/tridents while on land.

I like to see how far I can backtrack. However, it’d be nice if after a certain time limit, people wouldn’t be allowed from joining in. When you finish first and you have to wait 5 minutes because some unlucky players got in during the last minutes is annoying.

Rym.1469:

Remember that only players could be dual-spec in GW1, none of NPCs as far as I remember could’ve been dual at the same time. So N/Me as far as it was quite popular matchup for GW1 players wasn’t accessible for NPCs (apart from Heroes, but Livia was not one of them).

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Norn_Fighting_Tournament

Aomine.5012:

Berk.8561:

Phoenixlin.8624:

If you don’t have enough mastery, don’t use respective siege weapon. Simple as breathing.

With the exception of rams, if you ran supplies and built it

Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
Just because you throw the ram doesn’t mean you deserve to use it. Yes you can still use it even without any upgrade., but I’ll call this action SELFISH.

Plus, if you’re following a commander, the action of throwing one siege yourself is called TROLLING because you do not care about the supply count of your group. All you care is manning one siege yourself correct?

Did you just miss the first words ?

I have over 7139 permanent points (11 939 total). If I had reached the limits, I’d have 22k. The current leader has 22 205 points. If I have more permanent points than the number one, it kind of shows you what’s wrong with the AP leaderboard.

(Although I’m more than certain that the monthly cap has not been reached, some people might be close to the daily cap, if not a little over it).

I think people are putting a lot of things together when they shouldn’t be.

Most of us understood we wouldn’t get a new zone or something along the lines. Most of had guessed that we would get fixes to things we have been asking for quite a while, and most of us had realistic expectations.

And finally, most of us are especially talking about the “Removing Restrictions” blog post. We already knew the free refund traits wherever we want, but fine that’s removing a restriction.

Armor repairs ? Yeah every time I set out to explore that’s what is really restricting me. Those measly 11 silvers every 6 time I die are really what’s holding me off from exploring a zone I already explored with 5 characters. Oh how many times did I think “oh no, if I go out and die 6 times I’d have to pay 11 silvers and I really can’t afford that anymore !”

But hey ! Now I really want to play with the mystic forge. And instead of getting 5 times in a row the same exotic dagger, maybe I’ll get one I can sell for 1g20 instead of 1g10 (But without sarcasm, I’m kind of interested at those “new changes” the forge will get through out the year (so maybe in 6 months) but at the same time, I had hoped this terrible excuse for acquiring unique skins would have been erased).

I’m not making speculations for tomorrow. Because I know it’s probably a play on words, and because aside from better tutorials (which has been asked) I can’t see what this could mean. But whatever it is, I won’t find that to be hyped.

With all those loading screens, you’d have enough time to kill something right after using your WP and get a blue/green or harvest a nearby node.

phys.7689:

I think anet does a good job, but i think they forgot that eventually, no matter what you got to give people new content. While fixing old stuff is cool, its honestly not going to compare to having new things to do for most players.

I know LS was supposed to kind of be the solution for this, but many of the releases jsut didnt give you that feeling. And since the vast majority was temporary, returning players feel like nothing has changed.

Every time I do Arah p3 (which is quite often), I see that WP that has no business being there. And every time I wonder why is that still not fixed.

And then I wander around, find an event and what would you know : it’s bugged. So at least for me (and some friends) new things aren’t a priority for us. Fixing old stuff is.

VOLKON.1290:

I don’t think you’re right on that at all. No where in the blog does it mention removing restrictions at all, plus we know there are more coming next week with more info on what’s coming.

Oh, and we also know they’re working on removing the profession restrictions on weapons such that we’ll ultimately have access to every weapon for every profession… just saying…

I’m not sure if you are trying to troll, or if you are too hopeful, but we’re pretty sure this was the “remove restrictions” blog.

http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/featurepackfeatured.jpg
Count them up and they add up to the right number.

And we don’t know what they are doing. They are also supposedly working on new legendaries, bar brawl and precursor hunt. Heard anything about that recently ?

Well a few hours ago I was thinking something quite similar. All those changes are how things should have been from the start.

But you know what ? It’s better late than never and I’m quite happy. When they are released we’ll finally have a lot of the things we had been asking from the start.

However, hype is something Anet is fond of. The chose some titles to confuse people and make them think of something completely unrelated.
Like “removing restrictions”. Some people did imagine over the top things, but removing armor repair fees and free trait points (which we already knew)…I hoped at least the removal of some time-gates or restoring dungeon tokens bonus reward to soul bound, but nope.

Torady.3907:

people arent transfering just for wvw, they’re also transfering for pve

its rather frustrating for players when you cant do world bosses since no one is there to do it with

so yeah my guild transferred to HoD for pve and some wvw

I understand a random dude transferring for PvE to find a nice PvE home. But a guild ? You need 5 person to do a train, even assuming no one joins in.
Hell, even one dude is enough to launch things. Players have gw2stuff, waiting for an event to be near completion. And you don’t need a zerg to do that.

Then Skysap and Qaju will both have access to Glacial and Algae dye.

If Qaju and Skysap also had Black dye, then when you log in after April 15, all your account will have Black dye + you’ll get an unidentified dye.

You might be forgetting one important thing : right now, even if you had 9 000 T-stones, you couldn’t transmute level 80 items.
Soon you’ll be able to transmute 3 000 items.

And the unlocks are account-wide, so if you have 2 human light armor, you don’t need to fork up the cash for 2 T3 + crystals.

So it’s a nice change. When I saw the transmutation charges, I got scared. But then I saw the mention of 3 to 1 conversion of T-stones, and was glad I had hundred of them in my bank. And more waiting for me by doing map completion.

If I didn’t have to go in class as soon as that blog post came out, I would have rushed in to buy dyes.

Then I figured out, that across my 8 characters, I had so many common dyes on each of them, it didn’t bother me that much. And I thought that in the end, Anet might have a bad surprise coming our way.

First : understand that this is a game and also that not everyone is a judgmental players waiting on your first mistake to humiliate you.

So try not to get personally offended by any kind of comments. Just ignore it and move on. If the player won’t stop, telling him off nicely (adding a " ^^ " can do wonders) might be needed.
Also acknowledge your mistakes.

And don’t be that type of commander who thinks that because he bought a tag for 100g he’s the king and everyone should kiss the ground he walks on. Don’t be disrespectful to anyone, no matter how stupidly they act. Don’t treat your zerg like kitten, a commander can only go as far as his zerg will let him go.

And don’t keep bashing your head on the same tower/keep over and over again without changing tactics.

SirMorgenStar.6721:

Unlikely. Think of what playing a new character would be like.

Treaherne: Welcome to Orr.. A land of undeath and suffering..
Player: Uhmm.. Treaherne.. Zhaitan’s been dead for over a year.. It’s over..
Treaherne: /sobs What am I supposed to do now..?

I can give you something even better :
Order : We must alert everyone and get to Claw Island ! Zhaitan is going to destroy LA !
Player : Scarlet already completely destroyed it

Imbune.5497:

I think they should do the pve equivalent-dungeon speed clear trials. The team with the fastest dungeon clear during the trials gets a guaranteed legendary. Might as well push the segregation and elitist mentality to the max.

Difference is that to achieve the best dungeon times, in a lot of cases, people use little bugs/exploits.

Vol.7601:

Replaces 250 unid dyes with 250 putrid essence

/HOPE

How I would love that xD. But it’d be quite weird to craft a gift of color, with putrid essences xD.

Some people are confusing some things when talking about they supposedly won’t do during S2.

During WvW S2, they supposedly won’t release something that affects WvW. For example :
-account bound WXP
-a new map (there’s no known plan for that, but it’s an example)
-new WvW mechanics (yeah, like that will happen)
-and maybe an important balance update

The rest of the possible features, won’t directly affect WvW. So all the QQ yesterday wasn’t about the feature patch not coming for months, it was because once S2 begins, we are pretty sure we aren’t getting account WXP until it ends…

Rym.1469:

Let’s see if we can forsee next chapter…
Delaqua’s sister moving to Brisban, she disapa/get kidnapped in the jungle, we proceed to the jungle.

Even better : Jory will get word that her sister’s team disappeared. We’ll have to help her investigate and we’ll see bodies and probably a scared survivor. That survivor (or a hint) will tell us that some of the guards fled deep in the forest.
Of course, being curious, we’re going to head into unexplored territory (well not really because we already been there in GW1, but this being GW2 it’ll be more than beyond recognition). Finally we’ll catch up with Belinda and we’ll all be happy.

But oh no ! Something is wrong with her ! She’s corrupted ! (maybe they are going to take 4 weeks so we can really see that some things don’t sit right with her to finally “surprise” us with her corruption).

So in a tear-filled fight with tear-filled dialogues (and hiccups, because hey, that’s totally relevant and adds a “nice” touch) we’ll help Jory kill her own sister (like we helped Jora kill Svanir after he had been corrupted).

And so, Jory will swear to get revenge on the dragon and the whole DE 2.0 will follow her. And, because people complained about the lack of the Pact help, we’ll have to assist the Pact in investigating the dragon and finding a way to kill it.

Tanith.5264:

Have they always been level 80? Seem like that would have raised eyebrows if it were the case before the LS was even introduced.

Of course I’ll have to go investigate myself, now.

Yes they have always been there, yes they have always been level 80 and yes it has already been theorized nearly 2 years ago that we’ll one day have to investigate this fort.

I hope their major feature patch (that’s not due for quite a while) will finally address guild issues.

Because after 2 years, I find it extremely annoying that you can’t get any “last logged on” information. I thought this was a standard in game that have guilds >.>

I don’t think anything was answered. All we got was that Brisban will be our next destination.

I don’t pity Scarlet.

But when Marjory asked me how I felt, I planned on delivering the most sober answer. Unfortunately ANet didn’t seem to think our character had some kind of respect for the dead and gave us 3 cheesy choices.

And what is worse with this ending, is that it’s not an ending. Yeah sure, we killed Scarlet. So what ? Lion’s Arch is completely destroyed, hundreds are dead/missing, we have no information on what her armies will become and most importantly she achieved her goal of waking up a dragon.

In the end, everything we did for a year resulted in us failing to stop her from killing an entire city and waking up yet another dragon.
Yeah, I wasn’t really into a celebratory mood.

Gibson.4036:

They can’t delay Season 2 due to account-bound WXP not being ready. It’s timed to start right before another game launches with three-faction siege warfare.

It’s not like they told us since November an exact date for S2. All they told us was “after EotM”. They could have easily waited for things to be ready, but they didn’t.

Straegen.2938:

Ok… pitchforks on the left and torches on the right.

What about those with flaming pitchforks ?

Arkard.3970:

You know, I honestly can’t tell in this case. On one hand, the EOTM release showed what a massive kitten fest occurs every time they touch something related to WvW, so in theory they could still be having problems with it. On the other hand, I can also see them saving it as an “ace in the hole” to ease the anger from the next blunder you know is incoming, probably after immense dissatisfaction after Season 2 the Spring Tournament. Then they’ll rebrand it once again and hope we won’t notice.

That’s a terrible plan:
-people are getting mad because they don’t have that
-Season 2 will exacerbate problems in WvW (like in S1, except we will hear a bit less complaining about queues)

By the time they release account WXP, players won’t even feel happy to have it because they had to endure all those other things. But if they release it next week or barely a few weeks into the season, those players will forget for awhile how bad things can be and will be too busy playing on their alts.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Of course, it’s still in line with writing before. See: Markis’ betrayal, and Saidra’s sacrifice.

It’s exactly in line with the epilogues from all four GW1 storylines, where the wrap-up was full of that sort of thing.

You’re going to have to explain the link between Saidra’s sacrifice and Scarlet’s lack of motivation.

And the epilogues being full of jokes is a rather big exaggeration. You just had the old Cynn/Mhenlo jokes, the rest being filled with “thank you”s and what everyone will now be up to.

But comparing GW1’s epilogues with this is unfair. It’s not the same thing, not only due to the size of it, but because we don’t feel things are right. Sure Scarlet is dead but what about her huge armies ? what about LA ? or the dragons ?

DarcShriek.5829:

Does it really matter why? Would knowing why change anything? She did it, because she wanted to.

Because the story of a mastermind doing this because she wanted to doesn’t make sense. Especially considering all her history.
But who cares, I don’t mean to offend them, but the writers of this game seem to be writing for teenagers now so they try to keep it simple, with a joke every two lines (like the epilogue we just got…)

It’s not the only time we did something like that in GW1 :
After defeating the lich we went after the Titans
After defeating Abaddon we went after Mallyx

But in GW2, Scarlet’s armies are so dumb that when you kill her, they go back to their little life, without causing a ruckus. Also, especially compared to GW1, her armies are inifite…I didn’t know there was so much Charr who turned to the flame legion or aetherblades…

They won’t say anything.

If they say something and things go wrong, we kitten like there’s no tomorrow (While I do it sometime, some people take it to extremes…). If they admit things aren’t going according to plan, we’ll kitten again.

They aren’t not releasing account WXP or WvW bugs out of spite against us (or so I hope).
But what I don’t understand is that knowing that, they still decided to launch a tournament…

Asami.3572:

I like how fixing a dolyaks path to hills from the SE camp took priority…

Well I like when they take the time to fix small inconsequential bug (there’s no sarcasm). It probably was something easy and quick to do and the guy in charge of that did it in his free time.

Vol.7601:

I hate this change simply because they nerfed it. What was it, rank 30 before? Rank 14 is easy, rank 30 is still easy. They should have made it an even higher rank + badges.

I agree with that. I still hope that if they ever release new legendaries, they are going to ask for a special gift of battle requiring more than those measly 14 rank (or the old easily attainable 30…)

Mirta.5029:

Wait, you can buy rank ups with laurels? O_O That’s kind of messed up.

Yes you can. 2 laurels + 50 badges for 1 rank.

Egon, I had exactly the same feeling.

I went with the “Braham whatever” answer after searching a minute for another answer…

I was wondering why I was there. It was kind of eerie : they weren’t just celebrating the end of Scarlet’s attacks (and it was wrong too, because we have bigger problems now), they were celebrating her death.

However, if Braham gets killed, I won’t care too much for the details. It gets annoying how Anet uses him to say “kitten you, we aren’t giving you details”.

Sigh

Stop saying it disadvantages new players. Getting to rank 14 is incredibly easy, especially compared to getting all the other materials to craft your Legendary.

And rank 14 is a month of Daily Laurels, so you don’t even have to participate if you hate it so much.

Deadplanet.3810:

This is really disappointing. It was the right time for account bound wxp before season 2 starts. Now what we’re going to expect is that we won’t have any WvW patch ’til season 2 is over. sigh

Who knows, only Anet can give you an answer on that.

I checked, I’m not seeing something unusual.