Guild Wars 2

Kobal.5234:

Use a first and last name instead of a single name. The chances that a combination is used is far smaller then a single name.

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Ice of Dragons.1637:

On a site nothe ther are a few questions on the forum that are not officially awsered that are no spoiler nature. Like if the new content will be 80 only. What will happen to world completion if there will be new maps. Where will the update go online and other non spoiler stuff. Plus there are some people that are asking about things that we are shure wont happen int this pathc like new races.

All those questions are already answered.

1. Log in during the time of season 2, unlock entry in journal, play when you hit 80. (Yes, log in as in your character must be inside the game).
2. Same as what happened to world completion when they added new waypoints back when, if you have completed world already, you aren’t affected, if you havent , your goal got longer.
3. No one in an mmo gives an exact date or time when a patch will go live. There can always be delays. But I can tell you what’s going to happen when it does go live. Everyfew hours the servers will go down for a small patch to fix something, because the internal testers don’t put as much strain on the servers as public.

4. As for the other questions, bobby answered that. They are busy trying to make the patch right, so not much time to spend on forum posts. Probably next week, if lucky, we’ll have more active devs.

Good luck to op, I’m still trying to figure out why mine crashes randomly.

Okay, don’t click away yet, but hear me out.

We have basically joined the new Destiny’s Edge, and Rox is calling it a guild. So, maybe down the road in the living story, our new guild buddies decide to get our own guild hall? Thus, our housing idea, where we can fill with trophies, crafting stations, etc.

Even more so, our own non-living story guilds can create their own guild halls too. There, it ties into the living story to make more sense instead of just inserting it.

Did the op miss the whole thread and discussion on templates and best ways to implement, features they would have, etc?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Suggestion-Favorite-builds-button/first#post4094307

Liandri was born into a rich noble family of Divinity’s Reach. Her father was a tradesman, selling fine silks to the other nobles. Her mother was one to constantly have company over, whether it be business partners, or friends, or other nobles visiting from far away.

Unfortunately, while this family looked happy and cheerful during the day, at night, when everyone was home and only the family and servants were in, a new father and mother would come out. Gone was the cheerful and friendly businessman, replaced by an angry, scornful man who belittled and complained about every person he had to deal with that day.

As for the wife, gone was the woman who laughed at even the smallest jokes from her friends, and in her place came a woman who ranted about every small mistake made during that day, and jealousy towards her ‘friends’.

Liandri didn’t understand why. And soon she learned to bother her parents during this time was a mistake. They forced her up to her room for just ask silly questions, or wanting to play. There would be no supper, and no light to comfort her.

Soon, the night versions of her parents began to emerge during the day whenever she was around. They would shoo her, tell her to go somewhere else. And when she dare rebelled, they took the last thing they could from her, her friends.

Eventually, she learned the art of Illusions and became a Mesmer. If anything, her training was a good means to get away from her parents. But hard times soon fell upon the family, and the blame landed on Liandri for the cost of her training. She was locked in her dark room, the only comfort she was given was conjuring her own illusions to hold her.

Once old enough, she left her family, cutting all ties, and became a wandering adventurer. She soon became known as Liandri the Dark, for how she seemed incased in darkness, the same with her illusions. She was a deadly force, able to win battles without ever taking a scratch. And those that do seem to break the darkness are met by a woman so fierce, so vicious, that they become blinded by her light and beauty, and are stuck down in one blow.

Maliel.8362:

What hype, i havent seen hype of any kind in this forums.

I think he means the players hype. Anet really isn’t hyping this at all. Sure, a few screen shots, the journal, and saying ’we’re excited too!’ (Which duh, a company isn’t going to trash talk their own stuff). But everything else about the patch we know NOTHING of, which is only leading to the fear of ‘nothing new coming’, as people are hungry for something different (not just story wise).

So if people accuse a net of hyping this, its false. They are going to let the patch speak for itself. Players are the ones hyping it.

Phadde.7362:

Wow, ok…

1: Asking for dueling in GW2 isn’t because people want GW2 to be “other mmos”, however, in many cases it most certainly is as a result of people enjoying dueling in other mmos and want it for our game as well. (In which it probably would work very well)

2: If we have a few, small dueling arenas (a circle on the ground would suffice) spread across Tyria, inside of which dueling would be allowed (but nowhere else), these issues would disappear.

3: As I’ve said once before, finding a custom arena server where you can actually duel people is really, really rare. It’s simply not worth sitting in the browser for an hour when it mostly results in nothing.
Whenever I do find them, however, I’m easily having more fun than I’ve ever had in GW2 – It’s an absolute blast and I’m sure a lot of others would say the same.

4: Everyone will not find dueling fun. A lot of people will though. My first MMO was WoW, like a lot of others. The combat system wasn’t really as well suited for dueling, but nonetheless there where always about half of the amount of people outside the gate dueling as there where in the busy city center (Where the bank and AH/TP was).

And how is dueling not a valid form of PvP practice? It’s the purest way to practice 1v1, arguably a much more effective way when compared to the means we have today.
I find it a lot easier to learn countering another profession/build by dueling them in Courtyard (Again though, it’s a huge struggle finding a server for that)

And it is a lot of fun, and a great way to pass the time. I’m sure almost everyone have spent an awful lot of time waiting in LA/VK for a group (of guildies) to assemble. How great would it be to be able to duel in comfortable distance of the FotM portal?

5: Again, dueling areas would completely solve this (if it would ever be an issue in the first place.)

Frankly, I don’t see why people gets so passionately against dueling? It adds a lot for the vast amount of players that will enjoy it. And it will draw a lot of players to sPvP. The few negatives is nothing against the positives, especially with dueling areas. I’m sure most people that want dueling will accept dueling areas – As long as they can enjoy dueling other people. We could even have them hidden away for those that doesn’t want to take part of dueling – Put them in the sewers of LA, in caves or on cliffs, as long as we get dueling.

1. Yes it is.
2. Eventually we will hear ‘why can’t we duel here while waiting for x event?’.
3. Good news! Custom arenas now cost gold! Create a dueling only guild, pool your money together, and you can create your OWN dueling arena!
4. Everyone > a lot. WoW =/= GW2

Fun is a matter of perspective. Your fun is not the same as others fun, as should be apparent by people not wanting duels. You also say you don’t understand why people are against it, yet the same question can be asked why people are for it, since this topic is so beaten you can’t tell its even a horse anymore.

And what is ‘a lot’? Is it half the player base? 3/4? You can keep saying a lot, but that could mean just 100 people. And since anet has shown no movement toward duels (other than gold for customer arenas), then ‘a lot’ =/= ‘enough’.

You cannot claim, in anyway shape or form, that it will draw people to spvp. There is no proof or evidence of it.

And again for dueling areas, people will NOT accept them. Why? Because the option is already there in point 3, and you said yourself those are rare. If dueling is already rare, then it is not as popular as you think, or people do not accept being confined.

BobbyStein.2315:

There are a lot of interesting theories being posted. I don’t want to get in the way of that. Also, the LW team is crazy busy right now so we’ve gone mostly silent on the forums (not officially—it’s more of a lack of free time than anything else). I’ll be really curious to see what people think of episode 1 the day it releases, where they think the season is headed, and how they like the story journal and our scripts, VO, gameplay, etc.

Thanks for expressing your interest in the Living World. Not much longer to wait.

Ahh…..closure….^^ :p

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

It’s not necessarily a bad thing that they are using social media. It increases their exposure, which is good.

However, anything “official” should always be posted via their site as well as through all their social media outlets. Thus producing the greatest absorbency of the information across their audience – as person A make look in place A, person B may use options B and D, person C may use only option C, etc etc..

Fan made stuff that they feature, I can see that being limited to whichever outlet they choose to feature it on.

What others have said and I agree with is, the social media outlets should redirect people TO the gw2 website, not gw2 website directs to social media. Make the announcement of the teaser on social media, or post the pic there, but make sure that pic is on the main website too. I know the post leading to the website was intended to help, but to me and others, it did feel like a slap in the face (I understand the intentions were good though).

Perhaps if Bobby had responded first, AND THEN the link to the pics, it would be a different story, since his response was what this thread was originally intended for. Even a simple “wow guys, great thread. Gives me something to read in the morn with coffee and bagels” would’ve been nice and fun to see. It gives the community closure in that you are still there (and yes, need to make time, ls2, China, etc).

No new profession.

No new weapons.

I was hoping for something really exciting in the blogs about ls2, but all we got was the journal, trailer, and screenshots.

But, I said it before, kitten ed if they announce something cause then considered overhyping, and kitten ed if they announce nothing.

Kyrel.8942:

Who ever blew it up wanted whatever the Zephyrites were hiding… maybe.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/audio-omens-and-portents/

Exactly, Kail is after glint’s offspring that were hidden aboard the zephyrites ship. Its why she secretly propped up Trahearn as a weak leader of the pact to kill the elder dragons. Once the elder dragon’s are out of the way, she will have the pact cave in on itself, then raise and use Glint’s children to take over Tyria.

#Thinkofthechildren

CC Danicia.1394:

You never know where you might find cool things. http://guildwars2.tumblr.com/

Sigh….

“Wanna see new pics? Head to tumblr!”
“Want some different news or sales? Head to facebook!”
“Wanna see our new vids? Go to youtube!”
“Don’t forget to Like, subscribe, fav, retweet, hashtag…SOCIAL MEDIAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”

You have a webpage…you can post everything in one spot to help your players. Please, don’t make me jump around everywhere on the internet (Or i’ll just go to dulfy since it’ll be done for me there >:P)

CureForLiving.5360:

darkace.8925:

lordkrall.7241:

You mean there were no victories, just like in the real world?

I don’t know what “real world” you’re referring to, but in the actual real world people win and lose all the time.

Insert cynical comment about the unconquerable nature of time and the inevitability of death (maybe a Thor vs Elli reference?)

I do get where you’re coming from, we won some and we lost some. Inevitably we mostly played a defensive game, minimizing Scarlet’s damage by beating back her various machinations. However in the Personal Story we basically won ever single time, so maybe ANet tried to do it differently in S1. Hopefully in S2 we get more meaningful victories.

I think what Anet was trying to do with Scarlet is just say she was too smart for us (ya know, graduating colleges, yada yada). Though we really didnt find out till the end, the second this war started, we lost, no matter what we did. They had it that she planned everything out all the way back to the reactor going off, (chances are, if the god scenerio won, she probably wouldve been in some ancient library or something to find the leylines).

Basically, she knew every move we were going to make before we made it (toxic tower, we just gave her a stronger syrum really by injecting our antidote). The marionette was a test to find the weaknesses in her bot to make better, smaller versions. And it was all planned out that even IF she died, she would win. Seven Movie SpoilerJust like at the end of the movie Se7en, the villian wins, despite dying.

Really, Scarlet was the perfect villian, no flaws, nothing, just perfect, which I reallllly hate when making a character. Flaws are what define a character better, but seeing how Scarlet was perfect, made her unlikeable. But once we got into her base, and saw the dragon, I believe that was Anet’s way of trying to say “yeah, scarlet is bad, but the worse is yet to come.” But we focused more on the scarlet than the one in the shadows.

And lets face it, scarlet and the dragon have chosen the best time TO attack. Our forces and supply lines are stretched and cleaning up in Orr. LA being reconstructed, Captain’s council a bunch of idiots, Mia free, and we are already trying to recover from throwing everything we had at Scarlet just to try and stop her.

Heck, while this dragon was attacking and sending its forces at us, if I were the flame legion, I’d be trying to resurrect the titans or heading down to the Ring of Fire and maybe find a new ‘god’ to awaken….

They had a close up of an asian looking Zypher.

Thus, Cantha confirmed.

Also, there were three young (small) devourer things there. Thus, Half-Life 3 confirmed

Lions arch being destroyed didn’t impact me really.

But seeing the sanctum hit? I really feel hurt. I always loved the atmosphere (no pun intended) there.

The whole event scale feature is the problem. It discourages players from participating, or causes players to exclude other players (no more to boss x or it up scales and we fail).

So maybe having the dead not count towards scaling would be a start, but this is more of a mechanic issue than just someone dead.

If they promote it as they are now, then its ‘hype’ and ‘over promotion’.
If they say nothing, then its ‘a failure’, ‘wash’, ‘waste of resources’.

Oh rock and hard place, you always have a purpose in an mmo.

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We really know nothing of the next LS.

People got tired of a net hyping stuff, so now it seems they are just going to keep us in the dark till the patch comes.

Enaretos.8079:

I love to see how random dungeon sub-forum readers are actually trashing an [rT] officer doing a bit of trolling :>

Oh crap, someone from [rt]! Quick! Everyone reconcile!

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I guess that guild is so popular that no one on forums knows them

Eh, this is a step in the right direction, but now what should’ve been posted about first.

We want to hear about new areas, new weapons, races, professions, anything in that range first. This should’ve been middle or near end announcement.

Fenrina.2954:

Serophous.9085:

Well, we are still taking damage despite if any magic there is protecting us. Even so, the magic would have to be concentrated more in the largely open areas to make sure you don’t get skewered. Imagine the defense of the armor improving even moreso by the magic overall if not concentrated in one area.

We also still take damage despite any metal there to protect us. It’s more likely that the magic is always spread out and the metal is reinforcing it somehow.

Also, despite everything said, Kasmeer implied she went through the Tower of Nightmares without any clothing at all (wearing nothing but illusions). It’s questionable how much they actually need any form of armor for defense.

Edit: Added the screenshot. Sadly, I don’t have a better one.

As humans, we tend to rationalize things by what general knowledge we have. Since really, there are no articles or books or ways to explain how gw2 magic works, I would have to rely on my DND idea (which shouldn’t be too far off since mmo RPGs are based on the DND system) and say her illusion spell provides a massive bonus to deflection AC.

Course then, I am applying a different rules and game mechanics to a different game and world where we don’t know exactly how such mechanics work. Course, I do this because as a person, its how I rationalize and try to understand something that is different and unknown.

So, in a way, I am wrong to say that a skimpy armor piece doesn’t provide protection, as I do not know the full understanding of how magic works in tyria. But the other way is, I am right since using what I know and common sense, skimpy armor should barely provide any protection at all.

Celestina.2894:

Jahroots.6791:

The first point he makes is valid though. We can’t pick and choose which aspects of the game we want to be ‘realistic’ while ignoring others.

Which is why I believe the designers simply used the prevailing standards of fantasy armour as a guide: Heavy armours generally covering more skin than light.

It is, it just annoys me when people play this “woman=/=war” card.

Also funny how it was the female charr army that helped overthrow the shaman caste :p

notebene.3190:

Serophous.9085:

notebene.3190:

Serophous.9085:

Thankfully I’m not the only one who realizes skimpy armor makes no sense. Who runs into battle with sharp weapons with their stomach exposed?

Also, did anyone post that vid of the female warrior complaining bout the skimpy armor while the males got fully covered?

Yes. It doesn’t make any sense.

The fact that I sheathe my staff and it floats 6 inches from my back makes no sense.

I can magically make myself appear any where in the world by using a magic map (did I get that from Dora?).

There is a giant candy corn in my home zone that I can mine.

It said I grew up in a family of privilege, where is my home?

Why can’t it just be about making available as many choices and options for people to dress their characters how they see fit so they can enjoy themselves? Does the solution have to involve intolerance?

1. Programming issue. Not even related to topic.
2. Magic
3. Magic
4. You can be in a family of privilege and still not be given a home.

People can dress however they want, I’m just saying its impractical on the field of battle.

By that logic, who is to say that magic isn’t what provides extra protection?

But yes, at it’s core, in real life, it would be impractical to wear many of the things we get to wear, regardless as to how they’d be categorized based on the theme of the thread.

I also agree that people should be able to wear whatever they want.

Well, we are still taking damage despite if any magic there is protecting us. Even so, the magic would have to be concentrated more in the largely open areas to make sure you don’t get skewered. Imagine the defense of the armor improving even moreso by the magic overall if not concentrated in one area.

Thus, the skimpy armor is still impractical.

notebene.3190:

Serophous.9085:

Thankfully I’m not the only one who realizes skimpy armor makes no sense. Who runs into battle with sharp weapons with their stomach exposed?

Also, did anyone post that vid of the female warrior complaining bout the skimpy armor while the males got fully covered?

Yes. It doesn’t make any sense.

The fact that I sheathe my staff and it floats 6 inches from my back makes no sense.

I can magically make myself appear any where in the world by using a magic map (did I get that from Dora?).

There is a giant candy corn in my home zone that I can mine.

It said I grew up in a family of privilege, where is my home?

Why can’t it just be about making available as many choices and options for people to dress their characters how they see fit so they can enjoy themselves? Does the solution have to involve intolerance?

1. Programming issue. Not even related to topic.
2. Magic
3. Magic
4. You can be in a family of privilege and still not be given a home.

People can dress however they want, I’m just saying its impractical on the field of battle.

Thankfully I’m not the only one who realizes skimpy armor makes no sense. Who runs into battle with sharp weapons with their stomach exposed?

Also, did anyone post that vid of the female warrior complaining bout the skimpy armor while the males got fully covered?

EgonVenkman.1907:

I wouldn’t put too much faith in them. At this point, I will be pleasantly surprised if it is better than Season 1, but I expect much more of the same. I’ll just fall back on the library of steam games I’ve picked up, but never got around to playing.

And then summer comes and that library grows….

The report part made me chuckle a bit. WoW tried to be an esport, and was removed. And it made sense as you saw the same team comp over and over at the top. It was stale and boring. Gw2, though a bit more balanced as with more stat restrictions at least (though not perfect), will still fail as well as again, same classes, same specs. Where as MOBAs like LoL have MANY champs now to fill each roll, it gives a different play style each game. There would have to be a major class rework for that to even work in gw2, something you know won’t happen.

So please, give up on gw2 report, it’ll save you from the pain later.

Don’t forget how the choices you made never had an impact, as the second option was always completed successfully.

Also, trahearne pulling spells out his kitten for ‘just such occassions’ and becoming some uber NPC that makes you wonder ‘why am I hear again?’

Plus, we are helping HIM cleanse Orr. The pact was formed to help HIM restore it. We didn’t unite the orders, he apparently did to assist HIM in HIS wild hunt.

I tell new people to enjoy the personal till after claw island. When they ask why, I tell them ’you’ll see’.

SirQuester.5476:

Everyone seems to be missing the underlying reason behind this post and other well thought out complaint posts.

People don’t want to quit playing GW2.

They post in hopes of changing the games direction/adding what would make the game have more value for their time.

Now, at the end of the day, it’s still just a game – but is what you’re doing in GW2 today, worth you coming back tomorrow to play again?

I ‘quit’ Rift a few months after its first release. Now I’m playing it again since its free. So while someone can say they ‘quit’ gw2, unless I see a video of them deleting all their characters, then they plan on coming back at some point. Until then, its not quitting, its ‘taking a break’.

Taygus.4571:

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Maybe it’s just me, but the particle is overwhelming. All I see is a giant mess of mashed polygons that make it indecipherable to tell what is actually going in there. It is like we’re all attacking one big giant ball of scramble light spectrum’s. Just my 2 cents worth.

I’m using “best performance” settings. And I must say..no particle effects…..
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anet should’ve learned from the knights. if you dont FORCE people to split, they won’t.

They need to do the same thing, colour buffs (or something) that allows you to fight said boss, and limit the number of people who can get that buff.

Another thing, ALOT of people have mapchat off, and it can be crucial to events like this, anet needs to force that on if people are in the vicinity of these events.

I agree. Marionette did it right with having to divide the zerg to defend five lanes, and the debuff. But the mini ones and now the boss marathon don’t force you, its optional, which doesn’t work, everyone zergs to ones boss.

And I don’t know what’s worse, the guy who thought of the idea to charge money to start an event, or the leader who approved it. Anet, take a page from Jon stewart, and hire a guy to sit at the table to raise his hand and say ‘that sounds like a bad idea’.

Anyone understand this?

Look, what people are really asking for with dps meters and inspect is “can we have gear score? We are trying to rate people on achievement points, but that way isnt working too well.”

I throw the seeds during the boss event in the pavalion, and sudden my system crashes.

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  0775F8F4 03b8f3a1 32fcb30c 000000d0 00000000 …….2……..
  0775F904 0000004e 00000000 03b8f3a1 7ffe0008 N……………
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  0775F924 00000000 a9c4d71c 0775f964 009be2f9 ……..d.u…..
  0775F934 a9c4d754 00000001 03b8f3a1 05fcbcc0 T……………
  0775F944 00000000 80000003 0775f934 0775ed10 ……..4.u…u.
  0775F954 0775f9ac 007b68e0 afe2e2e8 00000000 ..u..h{………
  0775F964 0775f984 009bca3f 060b9a00 05fcbcc0 ..u.?………..
  0775F974 0052700e 00000000 05fcbcc0 00000000 .pR………….
  0775F984 0775f9bc 007b6758 060b9a00 a9c4d78c ..u.Xg{………
  0775F994 00000000 05fcbcc0 05fcbcc0 05fcbcc0 …………….
  0775F9A4 0775f990 007baa43 0775fa08 007b68e0 ..u.C.{…u..h{.
  0775F9B4 afe29660 00000000 0775f9c8 007b6880 `………u..h{.
  0775F9C4 00000000 0775f9d4 75a586e3 05fcbcc0 ……u….u….
  0775F9D4 0775fa18 77dfbf39 05fcbcc0 df7a77b9 ..u.9..w…..wz.
  0775F9E4 00000000 00000000 05fcbcc0 738d2737 …………7’.s
  0775F9F4 fffff801 00000000 00000000 0775f9e0 …………..u.
  0775FA04 00000000 0775fa28 77da5191 afd16a89 ….(.u..Q.w.j..
  0775FA14 00000000 0775fa30 77dfbf0c 007b6804 ….0.u….w.h{.
  0775FA24 05fcbcc0 ffffffff 77e71df7 00000000 ………..w….
  0775FA34 00000000 007b6804 05fcbcc0 00000000 …..h{………
  0775FA44 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FA54 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FA64 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FA74 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FA84 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FA94 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FAA4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
  0775FAB4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
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  0775FAE4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
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I don’t know why I keep crashing, even before the festival patch. No idea why. So i copied the crash report.

—> Crash <—
Assertion: ¼8’##
File: (1950361424)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 5656
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 001A0000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 34104
When: 2014-05-22T16:38:46Z 2014-05-22T09:38:46-07:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:33:36
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Processors: 6 [AuthenticAMD:15:1:2]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 4616MB/ 8140MB 56%
Paged: 7520MB/11724MB 64%
Virtual: 1959MB/ 4095MB 47%
Load: 43%
CommitTotal: 4203MB
CommitLimit: 11724MB
CommitPeak: 5713MB
SystemCache: 4858MB
HandleCount: 28250
ProcessCount: 62
ThreadCount: 922

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1729MB
WorkingSet: 1672MB
PeakWorkingSet: 1953MB
PageFaults: 11025711

—> Game Context <—
MapId: 929
Flags: 0×241
ElapsedTime: 00:32:51

—> World State <—
<WorldState BufferCapacity=“67108480” BufferUsed=“45403778” DrawCalls=“2561” Fps=“16” EffectLights=“0” Lights=“56” Materials=“910” Particles=“9484” Submodels=“2561” TextureLoadsPending=“85” TextureMemory=“432687328” Triangles=“1590934” VerticesSoftwareTransformed=“0” VideoMemoryTotal=“202379696” CameraPos=“2588.94, -5498.41, -806.11” CameraFwd=“-0.530714, 0.644207, 0.550764” MapName=“wZY+N.F5ht7” MapNamespace=“WRBom” MapSector=“IJwR+.bL3IC” MapType=“PublicMini” MapFloor=“38” MapId=“929” MapTimeOfDay=“1.000000” PlayerFacing=“-0.530714, 0.644206, 0.550764” PlayerPos=“2261.7, -5151.01, -390.11” PlayerVelocity=“-233.356, 283.252, -0.427246” />

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.2.9200.16384 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0xd40 <—

—> Trace <—
Pc:0058aab5 Fr:0775f740 Rt:00592dea Arg:46bfe2b4 36e3c750 00879aef ffffffff
Pc:00592dea Fr:0775f770 Rt:00591608 Arg:36e3c750 00879aef ffffffff 00000000
Pc:00591608 Fr:0775f790 Rt:005c7199 Arg:00879aef ffffffff 00000000 ffffffff
Pc:005c7199 Fr:0775f7c8 Rt:0057f62a Arg:7a7f85e8 2c66d964 00000000 7a7f85e8
Pc:0057f62a Fr:0775f7ec Rt:009ca981 Arg:2c66d964 00000000 06074510 0000004e
Pc:009ca981 Fr:0775f830 Rt:009c61ab Arg:001c94a4 06074500 00000008 06074500
Pc:009c61ab Fr:0775f864 Rt:001c5001 Arg:060750b4 29058240 0775f8c0 3d90b8a4
Pc:001c5001 Fr:0775f884 Rt:001c708e Arg:3d90b8a4 009c0a46 06075070 060753c0
Pc:001c708e Fr:0775f8cc Rt:009bd199 Arg:06075070 0000000c 29058250 00000008
Pc:009bd199 Fr:0775f92c Rt:009be2f9 Arg:a9c4d754 00000001 03b8f3a1 05fcbcc0
Pc:009be2f9 Fr:0775f964 Rt:009bca3f Arg:060b9a00 05fcbcc0 0052700e 00000000
Pc:009bca3f Fr:0775f984 Rt:007b6758 Arg:060b9a00 a9c4d78c 00000000 05fcbcc0
Pc:007b6758 Fr:0775f9bc Rt:007b6880 Arg:00000000 0775f9d4 75a586e3 05fcbcc0
Pc:007b6880 Fr:0775f9c8 Rt:75a586e3 Arg:05fcbcc0 0775fa18 77dfbf39 05fcbcc0
Pc:75a586e3 Fr:0775f9d4 Rt:77dfbf39 Arg:05fcbcc0 df7a77b9 00000000 00000000
Pc:77dfbf39 Fr:0775fa18 Rt:77dfbf0c Arg:007b6804 05fcbcc0 ffffffff 77e71df7
Pc:77dfbf0c Fr:0775fa30 Rt:00000000 Arg:007b6804 05fcbcc0 00000000 00000000

—> Thread registers <—
eax=0775f2e0 ebx=371c3350 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=75a554f2 edi=00000000
eip=0058aab5 esp=0775f704 ebp=0775f740
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00200246

eax-32 0775F2C0 77e01982 75a554f2 00000000 0775f338
eax-16 0775F2D0 75790f52 0775f338 75790f22 0775f2e0
eax 0 0775F2E0 80000003 00000000 00000000 75790f22
eax16 0775F2F0 00000002 00000002 150b8b20 0058dd34
eax+32 0775F300 00000000 01604a9c 00000004 00000008
eax+48 0775F310 01df01e8 01dfe314 01dfe310 00000018
ebx-32 371C3330 00000000 00000000 00000040 ffffffff
ebx-16 371C3340 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff
ebx 0 371C3350 01272ef4 00000001 00001044 00000009
ebx16 371C3360 371c3360 371c3361 00000000 00000000
ebx+32 371C3370 66726d65 00000000 36e3c750 200b03b2
ebx+48 371C3380 74402750 00000001 00000001 00000000
esi-32 75A554D0 8b55ff8b 25ff5dec 75ab07dc cccccccc
esi-16 75A554E0 55ff8bcc ff5dec8b ab0b2425 cccccc75
esi 0 75A554F0 ff8bcccc 5dec8b55 02d025ff cccc75ab
esi16 75A55500 8bcccccc ec8b55ff b825ff5d cc75ab06
esi+32 75A55510 cccccccc 8b55ff8b 25ff5dec 75ab0924
esi+48 75A55520 cccccccc 55ff8bcc ff5dec8b ab092825

Which vendor is it? I looked at the ones at the ship, and only saw the flower, dragon horns, etc. Is it a random drop from the boxes?

Randulf.7614:

They are highly secretive on developments. for two reasons;

1) They simply do not want to spoil upcoming content
2) The moment they say what they are working on, people take it as absolute 100% gospel that can’t be deviated on. Should the devs make changes or scrap an idea, many in the community accuse them of failing in their promises.

Whilst many (myself included) feel like yourself, these are the reasons stated in various threads over the last year from devs as to why they don’t reveal much until it is ready for release.

oh and as Stormcrow mentions below; The China release is understandably taking up most of their time in May.

Qft

I would enjoy and play more with DW if it didn’t feel so weird watching one arm swing constantly while the other hangs limp the whole time

If you look at the weapons the chart make, or what the Pact has, wvw is very low tech except for the golems. They get massive cannons and tanks, and even subs, we get trebs and station catas….

Sartharina.3542:

People want mounts simply to make overland travel faster.

Frankly, I’d prefer tanks, so guilds and parties can travel in style. Tanks definitely need to be added to WvW, with Charr architecture and bases to churn them out and help with tearing down fortresses. Looking at WvW maps, I’m asking “What century is this?! Trebuchets, catapults, and castles? Get your tails in gear, Iron Legion!”

Maybe Charrpers (Charr choppers/motorcycles). With forward-mounted guns. And maybe a chain to whack people in melee. ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

God such a good point. The only advanced thing in wvw are the golems. You go to the chart city and they have massive turrets, motorcycle tanks, etc. But allllll that goes to the pact and traehearne.

And the wvw people get the leftovers of low tech.

That annoys you? Run through snow, look at your paw prints.

THEY BACKWARDS.

Running forward makes the paw prints left behind backs, and going backwards makes the forwards!

I like joining these groups with my 11k ap, then calling then scrubs for not even being near me.

Its horrible judgment as time goes on, ap will continue to add up, causing higher qualifications. Not to mention probably half of everyone’s ap is from salvaging.

Branden Gee.2150:

Elrey.5472:

Call me crazy, but I do believe some info about the next update, even if it’s just “hey, we’ll give you a potato in 4 weeks” would calm down the people impatience… such is the gw2 community hunger.

While we’d love to give you a time and date of when we’re sending out the potato, remember that during the development process we may discover that a baked potato would be even better. So instead of getting the potato of your dreams you end up with something completely unexpected.

It often happens that a mashed potato with gravy is even better still, unfortunately gravy requires more dev time. So we end up shipping a mashed potato without gravy to meet our promise of ship time or we push back the time and date of when we are shipping again and again. You get your mashed potato with gravy but it is delivered much later than it was expected.

Worst of all that is when we realize that potatoes are way too mainstream and that yams are where it’s at now. And I think we all know how reactions seem to go when we ship yams instead of potatoes.

So in a lot of cases the best we can do is tell you that we are still in the kitchen cooking things up, we’re reading your feedback, and that we’re excited to get the meal out to you soon™.

What about the players who don’t like mashed potatoes with gravy? What about the ones that like buttered potatoes with salt, pepper, and dressing? What about those that like parcely potatoes? And are we talking regular potatoes or red potatoes? What about purple potatoes?

THIS IS THE INFO WE NEED!

I don’t get it either. Rift has housing, and I never touched it.

I guess people are tired of seeing armor, weapon, and quaggan back pack skins in the trading post and want to see stuff quaggan statues instead.

[quote012635;Dark Catalyst.1028:]As I said before: two very different games. GW2 is the ultra casual player’s dream. Nothing too challenging or deep to it, so you can just jump in and have fun. Blob play is rewarded and all you have to do is spam 1. There are only a few viable builds per class and one viable gear set, so nothing to really think too much about there.

No damage meters, no duels, no addons, no instancing, etc. so players don’t have to worry about being evaluated, scrutinized, or have their feelings hurt because they chose to “play how they want”. Really, I don’t even consider it an MMO at this point.

[/quote]

By addons if you mean the ones that change the layout, collect Ah data, then OK.

But if your are talking about addons like DBM, or dot timers, or buff timers, then no. You can go ahead and ask for harder content all you want, but you have a program telling you how to play the whole time. When to press a button, shouting a warning at you before e a boss does his major mechanic, those addons dumb the game down and itself. You have a hand guiding you through the encounters.

Algreg.3629:

Serophous.9085:

Algreg.3629:

Serophous.9085:

Wildstar has a horrible tutorial area for both factions. They are boring. What does gw2 do? Through you into the middle of a battle, shoves a weapon into your hand and says ‘see those bad guys? Kill em!’.

Wildstar I’m filling out a questionnaire asking how much i drink then shoving a prop item into my hand, telling me to interrogate some people then press a button.

Yeah, that’s dominion, and exile is the same with the whole ‘help me find my wife!’ walk five feet we’ve found her! Press a button!

Throw me into the middle of a fight any day.

great, you apparently took the time to play it for 3 minutes. Guess we can call that an educated review.

Sorry I touched a nerve here and hurt you. I could go on with the tutorial area, being forced into lore quests, press more buttons, burn down hologram trees….that stuff.

But let’s go into starter zone areas. Oh there’s a mob near a resource! I’ll just kill it….and someone took it while I was fighting. No matter, questing I need to kill those lizards and free captives….in which someone is freeing the captive while I kill the guy….

Boy how I missed this in MMOs!

at how is that exactly different from GW2 save the missing exclamation and question marks? Help farmer X is usually nothing more than a differently worded kill 15 spiders or collect 10 apples. And it kinda supports my original perception that you did not realize there is a kill sharing mechanic just like in GW2.

Nothing in my post complained about kill stealing, or mob tagging. I understand they go by a system that xp and you earn from killing a mob based on percentage of damage you did to said mob fills up your quest meter like the hearts in gw2.

Algreg.3629:

Serophous.9085:

Wildstar has a horrible tutorial area for both factions. They are boring. What does gw2 do? Through you into the middle of a battle, shoves a weapon into your hand and says ‘see those bad guys? Kill em!’.

Wildstar I’m filling out a questionnaire asking how much i drink then shoving a prop item into my hand, telling me to interrogate some people then press a button.

Yeah, that’s dominion, and exile is the same with the whole ‘help me find my wife!’ walk five feet we’ve found her! Press a button!

Throw me into the middle of a fight any day.

great, you apparently took the time to play it for 3 minutes. Guess we can call that an educated review.

Sorry I touched a nerve here and hurt you. I could go on with the tutorial area, being forced into lore quests, press more buttons, burn down hologram trees….that stuff.

But let’s go into starter zone areas. Oh there’s a mob near a resource! I’ll just kill it….and someone took it while I was fighting. No matter, questing I need to kill those lizards and free captives….in which someone is freeing the captive while I kill the guy….

Boy how I missed this in MMOs!

Wetpaw.3487:

Someone who has beta tested for sometime,

Pros

Firefly western scifi theme

Dueling (great for some community created events)

Challenging instances, not just because they are new, they’re hard but rewarding.

PvP servers (great for some community building events)

Sub model (p2p) or pay through ingame currency (b2p)

Customizable mounts, game built w/the idea of flying mounts in the future

Addons

No gem store, rewards earned not bought.

Living world- Gravity change on moon cycle, water current, nodes that can attack you, etc..

Camera distance

Skins- No limitations on visual appearances ie: Heavy armor wearer can use the appearance of light armor.

No Living story

Double jump, sprint, dodge, & trinity

Real purpose to guilds.

Cons

Lots of AOE in combat, can feel messy at times largscale

Level 1-15 very tedious and lame (greatly improves later)

Housing- Useless currency sink, place for rested XP, could have been better implemented. Should have been out in the world like AA.

Not enough classes, Datamined early stages of the game show the class Techshaman/Dark sorcerer class, probably saved for later xpacs.

Race class limitations due to time, later plans to open all race class combos.

Optimization- Ongoing process of course, and the issue of beta client (information gathering) making things sluggish atm.

more to come as I think it over.

Remember, addons are a double edge sword. That challenging content will eventually not be challenging, both because people will learn the starts, as well as a flashing noise telling them to be ready for an attack (run away Lil girl, run away…).

Also, apparently already you need an ad on to sell junk…unless it was very well hidden.