Guild Wars 2

The skins aren’t new. They’re already in the database, and they use the rare skins for heavy/medium/light, so the skin is basically worthless. See them all here. This stat combination is also very limited in its use, so don’t expect any of this to be very valuable.

Oh jeez, it’s that zone? I always thought when I was going through that area that my graphics card was just freaking out, but I hadn’t even considered that it might be the zone specifically.

I bought these items for the convenience of never having to think about gathering tools again. They specifically say on the item that is soulbound to your character that they “Mine/Harvest all metals/plants.” The word “all” is used. They will always be able to mine everything. If they don’t, I would feel strongly misled.

It depends so very much on the format.

Warrior, as an example, is really easy to use well in PvE, pretty medium-difficulty in WvW particularly in zerg fights, and very difficult in PvP due to the amount of team support to make you worth your salt and the timing of your bursts.

Kitedyou.1720:

Wooohooo!! Why wait to release it though!!? We have been suffering long enough, release the fix!!

It has to be QA’d. Only hotfixes that absolutely must be out ASAP go through like you are suggesting (such as the broken Greater Marks / Staff Mastery from last patch).

I play with a few colorblind people, and while the color isn’t any better, they told me that the animation ANet added to the new circles really helps make them more visible.

DevonCarver.5370:

We’ve identified the problem with retaliation and are getting a fix in so that it will function as intended on all the maps. When it is fixed it will be mentioned in the release notes for that build.

Thanks for this, Devon. I’m glad to hear correspondence on the matter.

A person on the internet that posts reviews of some stuff said something! It must be true!

That said, obviously the “Last Online” needs to be implemented for GW2. They’ve said somewhere that they want to implement it, but I have no idea the time frame or if they are actively developing it now.

I hate to be that guy, but I love seeing a player with ~4 legendaries and something like ~5000g in chump change who brags about making 100g a day cry about something like this. It’s very satisfying.

That said, honestly, I hope ANet keeps nerfing farming to force players like you to spread out and do assorted content rather than repeat the same content over and over. It would do wonders to motivate people to populate assorted locations.

They hotfixed this last night.

Rennoko.5731:

However, as glad as I am for a fix, damage control is an inefficient and insulting way to deal with bugs. A much more professional way to deal with this would be to have a list of bugs they are aware of, and a priority assigment to them, acknowledge by the development team.

They already have this… internally. It’s called a bug tracker, and lots of the devs have spoken about it before (specifically from the live response team). It’s used in basically all software development companies. That said, it’s not available to the public. Why? So we can’t debate what “should” or “shouldn’t” be higher/lower priority, and so we can’t constantly report bugs that are duplicates, and so forth.

It’s too bad none of the points I raised as actual feedback are touched in that thread, and too bad that that thread is more about complaining than providing actual feedback.

This bothered me a lot about Canach’s dungeon, more so than anything else.

First, let me say the following: I think announcing a boss’s skills is a good thing.

It’s good for the game, good for communication, and helps a lot when particle effects and small bosses make it very difficult to actually know what he is doing. That said, I think this implementation is shoddy, and there need to be a lot of improvements for it to actually be meaningful and valuable.

• It needs to be displayed as a screen message, not a chat message

You know the messages that display when you’ve been idle for a long time? They show at the top-middle of your screen. That’s where it needs to be located, not in the chat box.

• Keeping it in the chat box is okay, but make sure the players can filter for it

You know how you filter for “Combat” and “Guild chat” and things? There should be a filter for “Skill Announcements” which allows players to see this if they want in a channel or hide it if they want. The user would always be able to see the announcement in the top-middle of your screen, because that’s an important part of the boss fight, but it shouldn’t forcibly clutter a chat box. It was nearly impossible to follow what some of my teammates were saying in the NULL boss fight (or heaven forbid guild chat, which is similarly colored) due to the bloat from the announcements.

• No fluff in the announcement, just tell us what he’s doing

This really bothered me. Some of NULL’s announcements include things like “Get to safety!” or other such fluff. This doesn’t help the players, it just adds more text, and adds more clutter. Keep these messages terse and to the point so the player knows what is happening but doesn’t have to read 200 characters to do so. NULL’s messages should be “Subdirector NULL is exploding mines!” or “Subdirector NULL is rearming mines!” or “Subdirector NULL has spawned shocking charges!”. That kind of terseness is perfect for an announcement like this.

Thanks, and hopefully my feedback reaches the people who can make a difference.

I’d recommend transferring to SoS. They could use the NA population, and most of them are good folk. They also have a good and coordinated guild-structured WvW effort already, so I think you’d fit in fine.

I think the Yak should just be invulnerable as long as its guards are alive. Only once its guards die can it be killed. That’d make it feel like an actually useful upgrade. As it stands, those guards are only good against the random PvE mobs that charge yaks along their paths.

penatbater.4710:

It’s not that we don’t like this on account of bad people. It’s just that the presence of a /inspect would FOSTER people to be critical of other people, whether or not they perceive them to be good builds or bad.

I disagree. It doesn’t encourage you to do anything, it just gives you more information. If people would use inspect as a means to prejudice against other players, then they are going to prejudice against players regardless. If people offer you build advice or whatever based on your being inspected, you can, like always, take the advice or tell them that you’re happy with what you have. If they are critical of other people, they would be critical of those people anyway without this feature.

I wish I could inspect my guildies so I could help them with their builds more easily. Without one, whenever they ask for build help, they have to ping a dozen items and write a veritable couple paragraphs to communicate their traits and things.

Having an inspect feature in PvE would no more foster elitism than what we already have. Mean people require you to ping your stuff or you’re kicked, don’t play with them. Limiting players from being able to inspect just on account of the bad people that will be there anyway is terrible.

They should absolutely carry the inspect from PvP over to PvE.

Can we get a picture of the change for those of us not at our game computers?

Liquid.9672:

Meh. It’s not like gold has much use anyways other than buying frivolous tchotchkes in the gem store without having to whip out the credit card. I’d rather play content I enjoy than sit in one spot and mindlessly farm the game’s AI for an endless mining pick.

I don’t disagree with you, but wouldn’t it be great to do all those things you enjoy and actually feel rewarded for it so you could also get those lovely tchotchkes? PvE players do that all the time, and I think we should be able to as well.

I’m surprised you actually want fewer players in WvW. I know I can speak for my server, at least, in that we’d love it if PvE players came into WvW to give it a try and run with us for awhile. We’d love to have them, and we’d love to teach them. That sort of active server participation would help us a lot. Furthermore, if it became a problem for large servers that queue every map, it’d encourage players to spread to lower-tier servers, which is also good for WvW. It’s win-win in my book.

Snowreap.5174:

Making loot easier to get in PvE is a good thing, because it helps ensure that the people taking up spots in WvW are the people who are really interested in WvW.

It also ensures that if good WvW players want to earn gold or get cool items, they will, instead of playing WvW, go to PvE to actually feel rewarded for their time. The argument you’re making is circular and really doesn’t say anything at all.

Players should feel equally rewarded for their skills no matter what they choose to spend their time on.

Thanks for the posts, Azi.

Keeping this toward the top to inform the rest of the world that we will have Guild Rushes this week! We’ll be having these the same day we have Guild Treks, which is Thursday. If you’re interested in the guild either for the missions or for the community, don’t hesitate to let me know!

VOLKON.1290:

If you consider the number of chest per person and the number of people (especially those getting 2 chests at a time now), that’s a crapload of ectos being squirted into the system in short order. I can see why they’re doing it this way.

On the flipside, consider the number of people doing world events for daily reward chests of 1-3 rare+ items per event. Rares guaranteed for each WvW rank reward chest would be a drop in the water by comparison.

TinkTinkPOOF.9201:

And being that you get WXP from more things and even more total XP from things, leveling up will be easier than ever, I could do 2-3 ranks in a night easy, now it’s looking like 6+ a night will be doable.

Anyone can do 6+ world events for anywhere from 6-18 rares in around an hour. Greens for these WvW rank chests are terrible.

Yes, you missed it.

This is a critical bug that needs a hotfix. These traits are used by a ludicrous number of Necromancers in unison, and missing out on one or the other due to a bug like this being introduced is an immense hit on the usability of the staff as a weapon.

SniffyCube.6107:

good fights for the last few hours had a fun first time commanding in CD on EB – can’t wait for more of us to get over!

I was going to congratulate you on getting your tag, but then realized that you’re from the transfer guild and are just new to the tier, haha. Glad to have you to fight.

All I want is a birthday event with the legendary GW1 birthday cupcakes back, and no, I’m not talking about these terrible things, I’m talking about these.

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you have multiple opponents, does each opponent have his own clock to calculate ticks from your damage or are the ticks calculated from a single clock (your clock)?

As far as my personal testing has revealed, each opponent has their own internal clock for condition ticks. Those clocks also don’t start the first time you apply a condition that ticks onto them, they start when anyone applies a condition that ticks onto them.

I swear to God they best not give me minis like in GW1. They should just give everyone 800 gems on their birthday and let them spend it how they want.

He’s just yanking your chain. It’s not guaranteed, and if it was, the prices would’ve crashed ages ago.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Make it karma based. Moving along!

We’re not allowed to get anything useful out of our Karma. Didn’t you get the memo?

I wouldn’t respond to you if you whispered me to join your guild just because I am not representing one at the moment. What you are doing is rude, and I want nothing to do with it or you.

They’re not used a lot because they’re expensive and impractical for 95% of encounters. If they were a lot cheaper, or cost karma only, I think more people would be inclined to use them (not that we want that).

It’s cool that you guys (SoS / CD) are getting guild transfers. I hope you guys enjoy it. We haven’t gotten anything, and probably never will, but we’ll try our hardest regardless! I really like not having any major guilds on the server, because we’re all pretty much equal with each other, and every guild around pretty much fields the 3-5 that we can at any given hour to keep things together.

Anyway, looking forward to more weeks as red given the incoming population to the tier!

Gravy.7589:

Forget about it being Siege Wars 2, its now Recruiting Wars 2. Bannok I think its time for Doommidget to put all the gold he has to use by getting us some transfers.

GL getting Doom to spend a dime on that! Haha.

I certainly enjoy it more than our T1 days, when everything was queued, and if you weren’t in a big guild you were basically dragging the group down. I played a lot back then, but I never stood up or really tried to be actively helping everyone because it didn’t matter. I did, however, take the opportunity to learn what I could from everyone there. It was only after all of those guilds left that I started really enjoying WvW, and when I started really contributing during my (admittedly limited) online time.

I enjoy our current match-up a lot, even if we have no hope of beating SoS, and even if we lose our points basically every night to PvD and lose all of our upgrades. It can be a bit demotivating towards the end of the week when upgrading means less and a lot of players have to work, but overall it’s a good experience, and one I enjoy thoroughly.

Reikou.7068:

“Reputation of a server.”

Is this a joke post?

No. Believe it or not, it is a thing, and believe it or not, most server-goers like to avoid trolling and griefing others and just want to play WvW and enjoy the game. It’d be nice to keep it off the forums if you insist on persisting.

Hey there, Hellsgate!

It’s nice seeing people on Stormbluff Isle, and I figure you seem like the type of person who would enjoy the guild I’m a part of, and the people therein. VZ is a medium-sized, casual + PvX guild on your server, SBI, and even though we’re casual (no forum requirements, play when you want, do what you want when you’re on), we make sure that when we play content together such as dungeons, we play at the top possible level so the runs go as smoothly as possible. We have several different nationalities in the guild, some Canadian, some American, some from Asian countries, and so forth. I’m unaware of any other Brazillians, but there’s a first time for everything, eh? We use Teamspeak (we use the SBI TS more often than not), and we play all content in the game, including TPvP, PvE, and WvW (I’m a commander, myself, and lead periodically). Lastly, we’re all mature players with careers more or less or who are in college, so we’re very mature.

If that sounds at all interesting, feel free to either post in the thread linked in my signature, mail me in-game, PM me here, or whatever. I’d be happy to talk to you further. Either way, I hope you find what you’re looking for in a guild; it really helps the enjoyment of the game.

I really like that you guys keep adding new masteries, and I enjoy some of them tremendously. That said, I think the one I am looking forward to the most is Trebuchet Mastery, which I hope is something ANet has/is considered/considering.

I was thinking it’d look something like the following:

Ranks:
1 — Trebuchets deal 5% more damage.
2 — Trebuchets gain the “Incendiary Ammo” skill. (Basically, shots inflict burning, and do like 2/3 normal damage to walls, with fire fields that linger and keep burning foes in the area)
3 — Trebuchet blast radius increased by 25%.
4 — Trebuchet range increased by 1000.
5 — Trebuchets deal 10% more damage.

I imagine a catapult mastery line would also be pretty sweet.

I enjoyed these threads much more before you guys kept trying to one-up each other. Seriously, can you guys PM each other if all you’re going to do is go back-and-forth like this?

Probably better suited to your CD community forums, but whatever. I guess we’ll be red for awhile longer after all.

I agree with whoever said it the opposite way of the OP. Nothing in this game supported large guilds prior to guild missions. Small guilds could do everything, and there was no reward for being a part of and helping to maintain a large guild. This extra content is specifically for that purpose; it’s to give those guilds the feeling that their guild size actually means something, and to give them something to coordinate on on a large scale.

I say all of this as the leader of a fairly small guild. No, my guild shouldn’t have guild puzzles at the get-go. Yes, those puzzles are something I really want, but I understand that my guild isn’t big enough to get them right away, or even within the next several months.

They’re all really easy, but they are definitely the “hardest” they’ve ever been. The only real reason for this is that the Hunter respawns if it is killed before the Crusher, as the Crusher revives nearby dead Risen. Furthermore, if you accidentally pull the Crushed to an earlier pat of mobs, he can revive them as well.

LilMcGinley.3890:

5G, 10G I don’t care.. Laurels have no place in WvW, even with the new “wvw only daily”.

Please, no more gold sinks. I already can’t gear out my blasted alts with badges because of the gold cost associated with it, where that gold will inexorably be sunk elsewhere in WvW into upgrades or siege whenever I run out of badges.

Lol, Mistfire Wolf.

ColinJohanson.2394:

We agree, a proper mix of everything is what we’d like to be doing as well. =)

That means we get to do Fractals 50+ sometime soon, right? RIGHT?

repair man.7925:

sorry, i forgot about the game-mode that only a dozen people enjoy

Not sure if you’re really that dense or trolling.

Simple, really. Because an official and appropriately detailed leaderboard is something that should be supported by a company that encourages competition in its formats. Besides, I don’t think the team developing the API are the same guys that develop the leaderboards, so working on one using the developments of the other shouldn’t impede any of the API enhancements that they plan on doing.

What it is probably saying is that we’ll get 1-2 rares per rank chest, which when salvaged will translate to a greater supply of ectos for WvW players, which if sold will increase ecto supply for everyone.

Will we be able to get all ascended items with this update in WvW? That means back items, rings, accessories, and amulets? Furthermore, will we be getting any new pieces of ascended gear with this? Weapons? Armor?

Lastly, can you guys please be awesome and put in exotic waterbreathers at the WvW vendors? I hate using an ugly green level 80 item for underwater combat, as if underwater combat wasn’t painful enough.

Oh man, this is super exciting. This is one of those things that when a company comes out with it, it’s like candy. There is so much opportunity here, and I want to personally thank you all for your contributions, ANet. You guys deserve every bit of praise you get.

That said, I really want to see one thing. Take a look at this website, and then take a look at your guys’ WvW leaderboards. They’ve already updated to take into account your new API, and look at how much useful information there is! I’d love nothing more than to see you guys implement a similar interface displaying in real time the current situation on any given WvW map for any given WvW match-up. I think this should be a priority for the Leaderboard programming crew, because I really don’t like the idea of having to use an external website to the GW2 website for this sort of information, and right now the current way the WvW leaderboards are set u kitten everely lacking in meaningful information.

Either way, great job, and I look forward to what your plans are for the API.