Guild Wars 2

Fixed for me too, thank you Anet

Bugged on Jade Quarry as well.

Yeah I had no issues until I entered the Grove, then lost all ability to use any channel except emote.

If that were the case that unlock is just for people who have mad king but not complete edition. That sucks.

Same here.

/15chars

I would be much more likely to buy finishers with this feature.

Hint hint Anet.

meep.2601:

with a quick glance at the forums, all these threads with developer responses actually make it look like they are engaged with their community.

then you look closer and realize they are as terrible and non responsive as always.

And 6-12 months old.

While the free transfers didn’t help, WvW has been doomed since day one due the dumb way winners are decided. Free transfers aren’t the root of the problem here.

For the first one you have to credit for a defending an objective event. This can be done on any map, but requires you to defend an objective for at least three minutes, and to get credit you have to either repair something inside of it or kill an enemy player within the event radius.

For the second you have to get credit for taking a keep. Either stand in the circle while it flips or get credit for killing a guard during the keep take.

Tygr.9402:

Do you expect the enemies in PvE to just lay down and give you stuff?

This is exactly how the living story ended. So, ya know, its easy to see where they get the idea from. xD

Nothings been said, unless I missed it, but I always watch for this as its one of my pet peeves in the game.

Will equipped PvP items be added to the wardrobe, or do we need to put them into the PvP locker to make sure they get added?

What happens to people who have more than 10k or 5k daily or monthly achieves? Do they lose them or just can’t earn any more?

BobbyStein.2315:

What are your top three requests?

It’s hard to pick just three. But I’m gonna go with.

Don’t Do Another Living Story, Make a Living World Smallish updates, things progressing, all good. But spending an entire year on one story arc that most peope disliked was a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge mistake. Things like dredge getting more aggressive and having higher level mobs in certain areas for a month, followed by harpy mating season the next month etc are fun little diversions. Mobs of a type not found in a certain area migrating there for a certain update, etc. Particularly bad storms that debuff you in certain zones, etc. None of these are great examples but I’d love to see more stuff like that than the entire focus on an NPC for a year. Not knowing what is coming next is fun, dreading the next update about a character I don’t care at all about is not. Especially if there’s nothing I can do about it…which leads me to.

Get Us Off the Railroad The entire LS was scripted from start to finish and there was nothing any of us could do about it. Failure wasn’t a possibility and neither was success, except when it was scripted. It didn’t matter how many toxic hybrids we killed, or if we didn’t kill any at all, the tower was going down on schedule and not before or after. Instead of a time gate why not require player action. This tower goes down when 1,000 hybrids are killed on this world, not before or after. Maybe this is never if nobody likes the content. Maybe its the first day if they do. Having what the player does actually mean something would motivate people to be involved more than running it once for achievements and then forgetting about it. And finally…

Use the Lore you Have!!!! There are many, many, many, ways an awesome alliance of incompatible parts could have been justified from the Lore currently. Throwing in a god-mode GMNPC and saying ‘cuz magic’ was the worst possible. The living story hurt the lore, it should have utilized it. Use the characters, factions, and conflicts you have already existing in the game before you make up a new one.

Oh, and yeah, if you’re going to do writing, please have someone who knows how to write do it. Please, please, please. If you can’t manage this then don’t bother with story, I’d rather have bug fixes and features than bad writing.

Superb post Shriketalon. You condensed many of the complaints that have been thrown at the LS into an easy to understand format and made it amusing too, bravo. Let’s hope Anet cares half as much as you do and actually listens.

Hmm. Sad. Guess I’ll be requesting a number of refunds too. Ah well, maybe I’ll spend the gems on armor pieces now that I can use them over and over again.

RIP town clothes pimpstress.

If it can’t be reverted, give us refunds for those of us who brought town clothes to mix and match them.

Xenesis.6389:

Starting to think they really only have 1 developer for the entire wvw section.

I’m not sure why you’re so optimistic.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

I’m so surprised it’s not implemented yet.

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No I’m not.

I think part of why people are annoyed is that they are touting this second wvw season like it means something, which absolutely nobody who really likes wvw asked for, instead of the one feature we’ve been asking for since wvw xp went into the game.

Anet’s disconnect from their player base is really mind boggling sometimes.

Xillllix.3485:

The short answer is yes,.

Ah yup. They haven’t fixed any of the problems with WvW. Do that first, then try to have a season.

Nick.6972:

What happened to Fractal Leader boards?

They were used as an excuse to reset fractal levels and never implemented.

Yeah.

Non-PU Mesmer. Free lunch.

I see sub 80 groups all the time. AC especially people care more if you’re experienced than 80 for speed runs since it makes so little difference. If nobody has one up, make your own. Simple.

But also don’t complain if the lfg says 80s only and you join on a non-80.

Rikimaru.7890:

Who wrote this plot? I had seen people act more logically in Disney films.
What I am talking about is how easily Scarlet managed to destroy Lion’s Arch.
Seriously what’s it going to take for LA to see a real threat when warned about it?
I mean just 2 years prior to it LA suffered 2 major attacks! First from Zhaitan and then from the Karka. They really need only 2 years to become carefree again?
I am not saying that Scarlet should have lost the battle instantly. But there should be at least some real resistance preventing her from landing in LA and starting her digging operation just like that.
Question: WHERE IS THE PACT AND THE AIRSHIPS THEY USED TO FIGHT ZHAITAN?

Ha. I just did the watch the dead eye mission and heard Trehearne talk about how the airships are the best combination of Charr and Asura technology and will establish air superiority.

Cut to LS where a few airships = totally unpreventable attack.

Yeah, the plot was awful and not one bit of it made the slightest sense. Like one of those movies you want to turn off because its so insulting to the viewer. Just pray they don’t do another living story and focus on actually implementing content and features.

It’s also pretty much meaningless other than the lightning effects and a few NPCs/events mostly in the starter zones.

Rangersix.1754:

Relax guys, they’re busy making boring living story content that’ll only last 2 weeks.

Yeah, I mean c’mon, who would possibly want to trade months of Scarlet for guild halls…or player housing…or dynamic weather…or class balance…or new spvp game modes…or account bound wvw xp…or a commander pin with useful features…or tengu…or a guild UI that actually helps organize guilds…or new legendaries…or Cantha…or Elona…or a revamped Zhaitan fight…or Orr being cleansed in the non-instanced zones….nah, can’t wait to find out what Scarlet’s neighbors thought of her as a kid in the next update!

Jimmy JimBob.2801:

My understanding is the LS and PS are running at pretty similar time periods? Hence LA changing during the PS quests.

No, all the LS stuff occurs after the PS.

So after we heroically struggled to defend and retake lion’s arch and tracked down the guy who did it and killed him in his home some dumb GMNPC just shows up and wrecks it all anyway.

This is a great example of the sort of thing that I would rather have than the living story.

Master Yi.6129:

As for a “cleansed Orr”, it will never happen. Zhaitan isn’t dead (he clearly faked his death; he died too easy in that scene), teq’s rising proves that the risen are regaining its strength (or something), and Orr will never change. Why? 5 answers: Balthazar, Dwayna, Melandru, Lyssa, and Grenth. These are meta events that the most loyal of players visit daily.

This is actually the perfect band aid. Make an LS update with “oh hey we found Zhaitan, he’s still sorta hanging on there, let’s go finish him off.” And then Orr gets all pretty. As for the events, just make them attacks being led by remnants of Zhaitan’s forces. Or like…quaggans or pirates or quaggan pirates or something. Doesn’t really matter what the enemies look like players just want the loot.

morrolan.9608:

almost like the discussion is a distraction

Yeah, there’s a lot more interest in saying they’re working with the community than actually doing it. CDIs haven’t actually led to anything and probably never will. Most of them are about topics that Anet could get the information they wanted from reading these very forums already.

Epsilon Atreides.3816:

Should it be added to the list of known wvw bugs?

Ducks aren’t bugs, geez.

webtoehobbit.4201:

there was very little direction to the story to begin with and that at the end you tried to patch it all together and it just didn’t really work.

Pretty good summary of the entire living story. Hopefully they don’t try to do another one.

Jski.6180:

Hylek
Praise the sun.

Hylek all day every day.

Also dredge.

I don’t know why anyone was expecting any actual dialogue about fractals. People have been telling them exactly what is broken / not fun / badly designed about them for over a year now and they haven’t paid attention to any of it so far.

Braham shutting her up was the best part of it. I was all prepared to go afk while she prattled on for half an hour about how she was totally the smartest and prettiest at everything and was really the good guy all along. Thank god someone shut that up. Barahm is my buddy now, soon as we do something about his hair.

Came about six months too late. She should have been eaten by krait when she tried to make them form an alliance with anything ages ago. Hearing two NPC krait talk about how that dumb plant didn’t taste good would have been very satisfying.

This? Meh, if its the end of Scarlet I’m not going to complain but to call it satisfying is a major stretch. It’s like finally finishing the cleanup after a sanitation accident. It’s nice that it’s over but hardly a satisfying experience.

No, because everyone just runs away from you.

It’s the rank you get in your league (gold/silver/bronze) not overall server ranking.

Just go your guildhall and the item you need to make your wxp account bound is right there. Or the tengu starter area.

Fractal takes only one fractal, not all four. Just put up an lfg for “doing one level 1 fractal for daily” if you really want that 1 ap.

With the new less random RNG settings it will be awhile before its likely, but its certainly possible if the top four end up with close glicko scores that RNG could matchup BG with some t2 servers down the road. TC is doing just fine in tier 1, will have to see if the initial morale boost for SoS holds out or not, if so I can definitely see the t1 matchup being a random selection of BG/JQ/SoS/TC.

In 2-3 years account bound WvW xp will be right around the corner!

Chris.3290:

For those that are preaching gloom and doom, remember that the few who remain are veterans of high tier combat and even the PvX folks there should have a high skill cap for their PuGs.

This sort of thing always makes me laugh. “High Tier Combat” in gw2 is two huge blobs with matching zerg-friendly setups smashing into each other and hoping their abilities work. The fights in the less populated servers actually depend a lot more on individual skill and build diversity. Being a veteran of “high tier combat” is actually an impediment in this game. You see it all the time in “high tiers” with players who can accomplish nothing without a blob at their back.

Also a lot of people seem to be ignoring that the tier system is based 100% on ppt and nothing else. A server can have an absolutely dominant force when their players are awake in one time zone but if they don’t have anything else they’ll lose to a mediocre server with round the clock coverage. It doesn’t reflect who wins fights or who has numbers at any particular time.

Reverence.6915:

Reason is that EBG offers no decent terrain upon which to fight. Anywhere you go, it’s close to a tower, keep or castle for your opponents to run into to hide behind 5 ACs.

This is different from the Borderlands how exactly?

Deli.1302:

What about when they held down SoRBL by themselves (with militia ofc) against queued zergs of BG and JQ…. at the same time?
It came to the point that SF and ICoa wouldn’t even step foot into SoRbl.

This is why SoR bl was the best for small fights. As long as you stepped slightly to the left when the SoR map blob ran by there were always tons of small groups running around looking for stuff. JQ was constantly outmanned there before leagues, despite having the overall numbers advantage server wise. Also you got to feel like a pro ganking all the SoR zerglings trying to catch up with their silly blob. Sometimes they would turn out to actually know how to fight which was usually fun. And then the BG that hung out there tended to be the better small scale peeps too. Ah, good times. Good times.

People went to SoR looking for mega blob easy mode. Can’t really fault the logic, in mid-2013 SoR was either the most organized or most blobby server depending on what spin you want to put on it. Anyways, they didn’t find the log-on-and-win success they were looking for because other servers had adapted to the PPT game and SoR didn’t (whether intentionally or because they’re terrible, or it was just lack of morale from selling out and trying to buddy up with BG during league and still not managing to place I’ll leave to the various trolls to debate). So all the transfers left and the ppt plummeted. Some were holding out expecting easy mode in t2. Turns out most tier 2 servers are overall better in open field fights with similar numbers than tier 1 servers, as anyone who played during league knows. SoR got crushed a lot. The people who thought tier 2 would bring easy mode left. Server continues to fall.

The glicko system made it look like a sudden thing, but really it wasn’t. It just took weeks and weeks for SoR to actually lose the points to drop to tier 2. Their decline was more gradual and has been going on awhile ppt wise at least. Once they actually got to t2 the glicko scores accelerated and now they are going to find their natural place a lot sooner.

I think the real SoR people never had much of a problem being lower tier and I don’t think this drop is going to bother them at all really, especially since from the sound of things that people that made that community toxic are all some other server’s problem now. The blobbers will continue to blob and whine elsewhere, the loyal SoR players will keep fighting for SoR no matter where it is. So WvW goes.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

I’m so surprised it’s not implemented yet.

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No I’m not.

They could be well written.

blud.8174:

Yeah, I thought the point of the devs confirming that her lair would still be there was that you could still use your cyphers.

Me too. What other reason would anyone care about it?

You’d think they would fix this bug before adding another slaying potion. Oh Anet.