Guild Wars 2

ColinJohanson.2394:

For me the original invasion of Southsun Cove was the best example of this, it had a lot of “story” style content that made sense to happen and then go away, and also left a lot of permanent experiences as a result of that storyline.

Another food for thought: Back when we invaded Southsun, we did a lot of “one time” events with the story content. Folks complained that one time wasn’t fair because they would miss it, so we extended the “story” style content so you now have 2-4 weeks to experience it. Does having it around this long take away from the sense of story progression, and make it feel like it should be permanent when it’s taken away? Or would simply having (using the TV analogy) something like TiVo that allows you to see the story you missed balance out this issue?

In my opinion the Southsun Invasion was the wrong way to do Living Story. The whole event chain could have remained and repeat on a timer like The Shatterer or Jormag, it did not justify being temporary in my opinion, it had no impact and there were no consequences from the event (blowing up a lighhouse does not count!). Also the zone remaind more or less empty afterwards.

On the other hand I do think you got things right with Secrets of Southsun, the area changed visibly and there’s actually more content to do in the area now, and even the Karka queen is back. I think you pretty much fixed what went wrong the first time so kudos for that. Though I don’t think removing the instance there was necessary, just leaving it there so players can (re)play it would not have a negative impact on anything in my opinion.

Our take on phasing, and why we never did it to begin with is: the world isn’t progressing, it’s just fake progressing for you and the person next to you isn’t seeing it progress simultaneously. One of the biggest things we wanted to accomplish with Gw2 is that the things that happen do matter, they happen for everyone, and everyone experiences them together. This is really putting the social aspect of the game and immersion, above the personal aspect.

I think for this to hold true, the world needs to actually progress and evolve. Event is finished so it’s gone now is not progression, while Event is finished so here’s how things look now would be.

We blew up the molten facility so it’s gone, but there’s no sign of it ever being there to begin with so it’s a net loss. If it had been replaced with a new instance where players go through the ruins, or a jumping puzzle the above would hold true.

Still not fixed, I hoped changes to ground targeting would address this long standing bug.

That’s your mistake so Anet won’t do anything about it just like if you accidentally delete or salvage the wrong item. It would be nice of the receiver to return the items in case of errors like this but they are not required to and it’s not against the rules to keep them so a report wouldn’t accomplish anything.

Good job on the patch, great fixes overall, kudos for listening to feedback folks.

Edit: Josh, just read your blog post. Boo on anet for giving you crap about actually being open and communicating with the playerbase the way all devs should. You should be giving communication classes to them!

It’s alright to make mistakes if one is willing to own up to them and work on a resolution as you guys did, I’m sure you’ve all learned from this experience and the next SAB release will be only better for it. Just keep up the good work and don’t get discouraged.

Hotjoin is the only PvP I’d consider using. If I can’t get into a match and play for a bit immediately with one or two clicks I won’t bother at all, don’t remove it.

Josh, what about the promise not to make dodge jumping required? I remember a post saying all jumps are designed so they can be done without it since it’s so buggy and can’t be pulled of consistently, yet in W1Z2 Tribulation mode you have to do a mandatory dodge jump from a jumping rock shortly after the first checkpoint.

Also like to say that even if I don’t agree with the design decisions for this iteration of SAB, I do appreciate and respect you for posting here and discussing feedback openly.

Only had time to get as far as the water part in the first zone with the geysers. It was very frustrating mostly because if you fall into the water you’ll keep getting knocked around at random, often having to take up to three hits to get back onto a rock. The geysers also like to disappear just as you jump on them sometimes you get knocked down for no apparent reason even if they are up. The camera in that part didn’t help things either.

I even ended up dying on infantile mode due to the flowers at the end boss tossing you into the pit if you touch them from the wrong angle, which can happen easily as there’s only a small area to stand on.

Really disappointed with the new SAB as world 1 was so great, this just frustrates me like tribulation mode was supposed to. Feels like the game is telling me to buy the cash shop coin really, morose since restarting after a game over now only gives you one life rather than 5 as before.

Chrispy.5641:

Shinzan.2908

If it’s like those linked games then it should be doable with a guide. If there’s a pattern to learn then it’s not unfair, just difficult as it should be. To me unfair is something based on luck or random chance.

There is nothing difficult about trial and error. The hardest thing about that type of game is setting aside the time to do it.

The simplest example I can give is a path where you can go left and right, if the left path has an instant dead trap then you just learn to avoid it and take the right one next.

Having the trap appear on a random path each time would be BS and in that case complains about unfairness and fake difficulty would be valid imo.

If it’s like those linked games then it should be doable with a guide. If there’s a pattern to learn then it’s not unfair, just difficult as it should be. To me unfair is something based on luck or random chance.

Anything bought on the TP should just become acount bound so it can’t be resold. Would shut down all these market exploits and allow legit buyers who’ll actually use the stuff they are trading for.

The targeting circle for spells does not increase correctly when using the elementalist blasting staff trait (expect for when used in the mists).

See below image, first row shows a traited lava font be cast in the mists (working correctly), the second is the same being done in lions arch (showing the bug).

Since this does display in one area, I’d think making it function the same in the rest of them should be a relatively simple fix.

This was a nice gesture, appreciate it. Cheers Anet.

Hope we’ll get some actual content in Southsun right away rather than 2 months of “teasers” like with Flame & Frost.

Anet’s release schedule is too slow to pull something like this off. The new dungeon is fun (the rewards need to be less random but that’s another issue entirely), but it took 3 months of boring filler content to get to it and now the only real content they added will be gone in 2 weeks…

The molten facility should be left in the game until anet has something new ready, and it should be content with actual substance and not another 3 months of hammering signs before we get the bits that are actually fun to do.

Even better would be if rather than removing content it was expanded upon, for example by leaving the molten facility in but with unlocked explorable paths to show the aftermath of the living story.

Spells which have their area boosted by traits (like lava font + blasting staff on ele) still don’t show a larger circle when casting them in PvE, though it does work correctly in the PvP loby for some reason. Been like that since launch, is this ever going to be fixed? Would think that since it works in one area making it apply everywhere shouldn’t be too difficult.

Magic find should be displayed on the hero screen with the other stats, there’s even an empty spot next to agony resistance where the display could go.

GW2 still needs a lot of work and fixes, it makes sense they’d want to finish developing the main game before announcing expansions.

What did you get, did any precursors drop?

I hope they’ll drop, I could buy more and market manipulators would get burned, double win.

Welp, this makes the suggestion for small guilds to team up for these pointless seeing just one of them will get rewards and people without a guild are doubly screwed. Would it be so hard to reward everyone who participates? GW2 was advertised as casual friendly, having a guild should not be a requirement.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

If you participated in the event to take the bounty down, you will immediately receive your personal reward for guild bounties for that week and your guild will receive completion credit for that target.

This makes it sound like any player participating will get 50 silver, the rare drops and a personal guild commendation, but only the guild that kicked the event off will receive a guild merit, correct?

I don’t play subscription games on principle, if I buy a game it should be mine to play whenever.

And that’s even though I spend more money on free games than what a sub would cost, for me it’s about choice and not having to pay even if I don’t feel like playing for a month.

Jason King.2647:

MokahTGS.7850:

This is actually not a bug, it is working as intended. It is not optimal, but to save the names of all of your pets (read: all of everyone’s pets) would require another large name database that ANet did not create. Currently the pet name feature saves the name in the slot, not the pet, so changing out the pet type resets the slot name.

Perhaps someday they will change this, but it is not a bug.

This is pretty much exactly what’s going on.

Tl;dr: we may change this some day, but it’s not going to happen in the near future, and it’s not a bug.

I understand the reasoning behind not keeping a name database for each pet but why reset the slot we do have? If I name my pet in the first slot something then pick a different one the name should remain, not reset.

Just make it so the next event on a path can’t start until the previous is finished, easy as that. Annoyed by groups insisting to just skip certain parts of dungeons then getting angry when you actually try and play through them normally.

Res rushing was stupid and had to go so I’m glad they removed it, on the other hand Anet failed to address the issues causing that approach to begin with. Dungeons should have been made easier so groups didn’t have to resort to that “tactic” to begin with.

A solution would be to make laurels a resource that depletes per character… so if you earn one laurel for the daily, each of your characters can spend one, including any future ones you make.

GW1 elite areas sucked, most of us never got to finish them or even get a group going to start with. Casual players shouldn’t be restricted from experiencing all content the game has to offer.

I just wish waypoints were free so getting to an event doesn’t cost more than the reward for doing it.

This months monthly won’t give laurels yet so feel free to finish it anytime.

I wouldn’t mind raids if I could PUG them and they didn’t introduce gating/gear grind.

If I transmute a legendary skin onto an exotic weapon, will the resulting weapon keep it’s legendary status? More importantly, since legendary weapons will get a boost in stats when ascended weapons get released, would this stat boost apply to transmuted legendary weapons?

Get just about one a day. Though the new achievement system should let you buy them if the preview picture is to be believed so that might address the shortage.

The guy talking about this mentioned players building for aoe over single target damage, that made no sense to me since there’s no such thing, you are given set skills so it’s not a choice, you’ll have aoe skills whether you want them or not unless you just want to ignore certain weapons entirely… Nerfing them would suck for classes like ele and make a lot of weapon sets for other classes useless too. I’m sure anet doesn’t want everyone to roll a rife war.

Really I wonder why anet decided to go with servers at all. They should have stuck with a single “server” and overflows generated as needed, seeing that’s how they did it in GW1 it’s puzzling they would go back to an outdated system like this again.

flyingcats.6194:

Shinzan.2908:

I can transfer servers from EU to US now and it takes about a minute, so the technology is there. Since guesting isn’t what we were promised and they said server transfers would remain free until they get it working they should just keep transfers free instead and remove the time limit.

The technology for permanent switching is there. The technology for temporary switching isn’t. It’s really not as simple as just moving something and then moving it back afterwards.

I would be fine with server transfers as they are minus the cost and time restriction. Could meet up with someone on US servers then just transfer back to EU manually.

I can transfer servers from EU to US now and it takes about a minute, so the technology is there. Since guesting isn’t what we were promised and they said server transfers would remain free until they get it working they should just keep transfers free instead and remove the time limit.

With guesting, your characters can play on any world where you have friends—with certain restrictions. For instance, you will not be able to participate in WvW while guesting.

Clearly states you’ll be able to play on any world you have friends on. The restrictions refer to certain features being unavailable (WvW), not that the worlds you can guest on will be restricted.

Rising Dusk.2408:

You still have 12 days to move to an NA server (or have your friends move to an EU server) to prevent any issues.

Again, do you want everyone to play in one region? Because if one person gets their friends to transfer, they would have to get their friends to transfer and so on so none would be left.

There is an acceptable solution, that is keep transfers free and remove the time limit, the technology is already there so there’s no reason not to, could just hop onto your friend’s server no matter where they play.

I could already meet up with people in my region by joining their overflow, but couldn’t do that with my American friends. Since anet promised guesting would let you play with your friends anywhere I assumed that was the aspect they were working on for all this time.

Coordinating to play on the same region just isn’t feasible because if my American friends moved to Euro they couldn’t play with their friends and vice versa. Or do you suggest everyone move to one region leaving the other completely empty?

I like not having to group or being forced into certain roles and enjoy the underlining mechanics of GW2, aside of some needed fixes and balance changes I think the game play is fine so I’m happy with what’s coming.

Because (different from a world transfer) we are not moving your character between data centers, you may only guest on worlds in the same region as your home world. Players on North American home worlds cannot guest on European worlds or vice versa.

This is not what we have been promised! I got friends on American servers I won’t be able to play with at all, that’s just crap and makes this “feature” to me entirely useless. Is this seriously what you have been working on for months and still can’t get it right?

Natural Vigor
Adrenal Implant

Just struck me as yet another imbalance that a ranger minor trait is the same as one that engi needs a full investment of trait points to get. Adrenal Implant should be boosted to 100% or get another benefit to compensate.

The two traits are exactly the same, both give 50% endurance regeneration, so why is the ranger’s one a minor adept trait (5 point) while the engineer’s a major grandmaster trait (30 points)?

Thereon.3495:

…My fear is that with this mini-game the whole notion of a single epic event that has an impact on the world will disappear and be replaced with a readily repeatable quest or game which takes away any kind of ’epic’ness’ from the event…

The karka one time event had no impact on the world and there was no reason to make it one time at all. Letting the ancient karka event chain loop every 4 hours or putting it into it’s own instance wouldn’t have changed anything about it.

Got anything like that for PvE? PvP doesn’t interest me at all to be honest.

If a class is hard to play then mastering it should let you do things others can’t or give a slight edge so all the effort pays off. The issue is that the easy to play face roll classes still outperform you as an engi whereas an engineer that is played perfectly and the person knows what they are doing still only manages to do alright and not even close to as good as a warrior spamming hundred blades/kill shots.

Simple idea, instead of making the effects of elixirs random make them conditional. Taking elixir H for an example, instead of giving either regeneration, protection of swiftness, change it so it gives swiftness at 80%, protection at 50% and regen at 25% health. This would preserve the feel of the engineer but instead of luck knowing when to use the elixir would become part of a well executed strategy.

Just did the personal story step where you go up against the mesmer near fort trinity… did Trahearne really have to go on about how he is the real target and the only reason the player character got attacked was to get at him? This would have been a good opportunity to show that even though Trahearne is the marshal your character is the driving force behind the pact, instead he makes it all about himself.

I have been thinking about this and came to the conclusion that making Trahearne be the marshal isn’t an issue, it’s how he’s portraited that bugs me. Take the mass effect series in comparison, commander Shepard gets to take orders from Anderson and Hackett who both outrank him, yet the game still feels like Shepards story and makes clear how important he is. (let’s ignore the awful ending since that’s not a debate I want to start here)

Just make the deluxe edition free for everyone and give those who bought it already free gems, it’s not fair that loyal customers are getting ripped off like this.