Guild Wars 2

JonPeters.5630:

timidobserver.7925:

I have a couple of serious questions.
1. Did the person that came up with the math for this graduate from high school.
2. To prove it, please upload a copy of your high school diploma.

How about just a copy of their resume. I don’t see his high school experience on there. Hopefully the other stuff can count as relevant experience for your assessment.

http://www.glicko.net/cv.html

This is one of the greatest posts I have ever read, these forums or otherwise.

Edit: I should post something relevant. Thank you for the new system! I got tired of seeing the same two servers every week.

Zaxares.5419:

I would like GW2 to follow GW1’s lead and give us a birthday present that awards you a token you can use to redeem for a weapon/backpack skin from the previous year of your choice. Missed out on that Fused/Sclerite/Jetpack/Braham/Rox skin you wanted? Grab the token and pick the item of your choice from a vendor. (Note that the skins obtained in this manner are immediately account bound and can’t be resold.)

I had an idea when I came here, but I got so excited from this I forgot. I don’t expect this, but what a nice gesture this would be!

Pustulio.8207:

Conncept.7638:

We just had a flashy dagger added, the Molten Alliance daggers. Unfortunately instead of making amends and finally putting effort in to any weapon besides greatswords, ANet decided to deliver a big ‘screw-you’ to its fans and hide them behind one of the most greedy and asinine RNG drops ever to grace a non-F2P MMO.

I’m gonna HALF agree with you. I DO think the method of getting one of those skins was terrible. On the other hand, I’m GLAD they made it difficult for people to get. It ensures that the people who DO get it, appreciate it more.

Okay sure they are difficult to get in the sense you have to go through RNG, but they take 0 skill, just like all the new skins they are adding. Just roll the heavily weighted dice until you get it.

This doesn’t give you prestige – it gives you deep pockets. Everytime I see a molten weapon or eyeball blinking at me, I don’t think “wow that person worked hard”. I think “must be nice to be able to spend all that $$ for a chance at an item”. And I’m certainly not alone on that sentiment.

And yes I see you don’t like how they are implemented, but the “appreciating” receiving has nothing to do with the effort put ingame. That’s just silly.

Baseleader.4128:

How does the ascended one look? Its 30g to upgrade so gotta be worth it

I didn’t upgrade it. Will be reselling the flowers depending on where the prices go over the next few weeks. If the prices continually drop I’ll upgrade it.

I did not haha. I’m leaving flowers open as an investment opportunity. Though I imagine it is just the same skin with ascended stats.

Ascended backpiece using the new exotic backpiece:

Noerknhar.3826:

Anyone knows the upgrade recipe? Tried a lot, nothings working :/

Air.3154:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

rizzo.1079:

Ah crap well I’m never going to get 25/25 achievements:(

Just keep at it, I’m sure you can. There are more than 25 total achievements, so you have options on what you plan on doing. Every achievement counts towards it, so go do a few of them and you’ll be there before you know it.

So i can actually skip crabtacular?

Definitely. I’m sure dulfy (www.dulfy.net) will have a guide up on how to get 25 achievements the fastest way. She already has a guide up for all the sample locations. She’s awesome.

You can! You get the flower for getting 10 samples, and the tentacles for 25/25 achievements.

hahaha Yea it certainly does look like things in “some Japanese movies”.

So..yea. haha. It’s awesome, but in a terrifying way.

Nonflyinghero.6381:

Very angry it was only up for so short a time! Time’s weren’t clear enough for ending and wasn’t up long enough for anyone with too much of a life outside of GW!

Was up for almost two weeks. Was posted very clearly in this announcement here

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-flame-frost-retribution/

“Too much of a life outside GW”? Really? 1 Hour out of 12 days you can’t spare to play? That’s not arenanet’s fault. You are just too busy to be playing MMOs.

Dub.1273:

Pretty sure AC Path 1 is the fastest dungeon path in the game. Easily 7 Minutes as duo, easily 5 minutes as 5 men group.
From loading screen until reward.

Well someone struggles with AC p1 and is not happy about it…lol

But as others have said, SE p1 is nearly as fast as CoF p1, and I dont think people have tried to “maximize” their efficiency there nearly as well as CoF either. I imagine once CoF gets nerfed, we’ll just all switch to to there.

in b4 “it’s not a warrior”

Awesome. Thanks, Colin!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Some fun ideas in here, we’re also actively discussing ways on how we’d best like to alleviate having to make players choose between having better stats, or using magic find. It’s not a choice that’s great for game play and there isn’t really anything that fun about it, even more so when group composition is taken into account. Ideally we’d also like to keep the ability to slowly build your magic find over time, but doing this at the cost of using better stats isn’t the right way to do that.

No ETA on any changes here, just want to point out we agree there is an issue here that goes against what we want Gw2 to be, and is something we want to address.

Thanks for the answer Colin! It’s nice to know it’s on your guys’ minds. However, I feel a lot of the Anet responses are in this same category, where the topic is something to address in the future. So what is being addressed in the present? Will there be a blog post coming soon about the next big things in GW2, now that Flame and Frost has concluded (almost).

Moved onto Trek. One of the symbols did not spawn – shattered loft. Good day for missions.

More broken kitten. Neat.

Rfreak.6591:

@Diy.5296

Do people read what others write? SCREENSHOT OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN

Please post a screenshot of the preview item with the location it is found, you can’t rely on wikis and forums which obviously have confusing information.

Does typing in all capitols to someone, demanding action, usually work for you? Or does it fall flat like it does for everyone else?

To OP: No, tribal armor is not in game for PvE, as far anyone can find.

Josh Foreman.8250:

It’s a design aesthetic. A lot people want prestige items which means limiting them. You can limit items by making the amount of time/resources required to get them very large, or you can limit them having them in for a limited time only. We could make every item easy to attain and permanently available, but then we lose the prestige factor. If you don’t value the prestige factor, then no arguments are going to make you understand. It would be like arguing someone into liking heavy metal or kimchi. Personally, I don’t particularly value the prestige factor, but I understand that it is a HUGE motivating force that drives the engine of the economy.

I get wanting prestigious skins, but aren’t there kind of a lot of skins that show prestige?

1) Legendaries
2) Skins requiring legendary components but aren’t legendary ( Guardian, Ele summon weapon skins, anomaly, Volcanus, could keep going..)
3) Skins requiring a shocking amount of lodestones (I’m looking at you Infinite Light, Mjolnir).
4) Previous events (The three harder to get halloween skins).
5) All the unique skins that come from the mystic forge which require 30-100 mystic coins.
-Destroyer, Corrupted weapons, Mesmer weapon skins
-Random uniques

My point is that if someone wants prestigious weapons, they have a HUGE selection. I honestly can’t think of any skins that have been added to the game since launch that don’t either require a ton of work or require you to be very very lucky with RNG (black lion chest skins) or fortunate enough to have real life money to spend on (black lion chest skins again).

Can we just stop this trend of new skins —> prestigious, at least once? That’s what was so nice about GW1. There were those top of the line skins everyone went for (Crystalline, Voltaic, Obby Edge, etc), but there was also a ton of the middle of the road skins that were actually real well designed. It seems this really nice idea was completely ditched in the game. You either have the skins you level up with, or you have to spend a very large amount of gold (relative to the average player) to just get 1 skin. I just do not get it. Dungeon skins being the 1 exception.

Well no one responded so this thread doesn’t have much point, but yes this just occurred to me. All the way up to Simin we had pretty much no trouble. DPS was fine. Simin bugged out though. Nothing could be done. Was reset, still did this. It’s really really frustrating losing all this time in here.

Especially since this has been a bug for a while now. And I don’t even see devs responding to it. It’s embarrassing that this bug has been around for as long as it has.

Noviere.7309:

I’d rather they just make it a skin instead of rare armor. At least then we wouldn’t have to waste transmutation crystals on it :P

I really like Anet, but this bugs me because I believe this was intentional. I’d like this game a lot better without gemstore. But I digress.

The price is meant to offer some sort of prestige, and its the only prestigious armor (except maybe Arah since a lot seem to struggle with it). There should be at least 1 set of expensive armor. I’m just glad its not obsecenely expensive like half the “endgame” skins in the game.

bcd.4352:

Israel.7056:

Qori.9671:

it’s a unique item in the items description.

Yes but I had no idea what that meant until today.

You had no idea what the word “unique” meant? Dictionaries are usually awesome tools for understanding words.

Oxford Dictionary for unique:

“being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else”

By this logic, you should only be able to buy 1, skipping the whole issue of not being able to equip 2. I’m tired of people saying “the meaning is in the word!”.

No it’s not. You don’t know the definition of unique. You just know its context within MMOs.

Josh I disconnected right as frog got done (saw heart and chest, but wasn’t able to get). Ill get over, but I’d like the heart piece. Any idea if ill be able to get it tomorrow? (Or trying again tonight).

Edit: was able to get both heart piece and bubbles redoing on that character. Good stuff

All resets are set to a UTC time, which is unaffected by daylight savings (it doesn’t do daylight savings).

So yes, the guild mission reset has shifted to 8PM EST.

What was on the April patch site before it got taken down? I was unable to see it.

This isn’t an April Fools joke. This is the new huge Jumping puzzle they’ve been hinting at for a while. Look at the achievement you get from it “Distinction in applied Jumping”. And it requires you to complete other JPs to get in it (get the coins that give you lives, obtained at other JPs).

So excited. I wonder when it opens. They are such a tease.

Taking the coin (only have 1) to the box still doesn’t do anything. I will gather more and see if anything changes, but guessing no.

I just do not understand these posts.

“We didn’t adequately prepare for this optional content, so the optional content wasn’t fun.” Okay…well..

The only merit in this post is the point about another guild already being on the bounty. That does seem unfair for you have to search again. It should count if your own guild is able to join in.

Nathiest.5413:

Such a needless restriction. awe-well.

Both you and gemmethegepgun are right.

He’s right on the fact that you can just use your bank, and you are right that it just seems such an odd restriction to not mail yourself. I’m really curious as to why it is not allowed. But I wouldn’t expect a response from an Anet employee. At least not one that truly explains why.

Just tested with Guardian’s smite condition, on AA, while not in combat. It casted on CD. So this works, at least with some skills.

zencow.3651:

In AUS the daily reset occurs 10am if you are in a state without daylight saving or 11am with daylight saving (reverts to 10am when daylight saving ends).

The daily bonus is not account wide but character wide so you CAN repeat the same path during the same day. The base reward is 20 and the daily bonus grants an extra 40 = the 60 you can expect. Repeating the same path with the same character in one day will give you only the 20 base tokens but the silver and karma rewards are unaffected.

However, diminishing returns can occur if you complete the path again too quickly (time unknown since the DR alleviation patch) and this kicks in regardless of daily bonus and halves your rewards – silver and karma included – for each tier of DR hence you receive the 30.

Look at the silver/karma and you should be able to distinguish whether you were hit by DR.

And yet this doesn’t explain why sometimes when I run with guildies, when none of us have done a dungeon in over 24 hours, will all get 60 the first run, all switch to alts, then some get 30 and some get 60, and then the next round all get 60 again.

If it’s DR, then DR isn’t working properly (shocking, I know).

Lexandro.1456:

Its not 30 tokens, its 20. The other “10” are no doubt coming from your boss reward bags, as the game often gives extra tokens this way.

I’m so tired of seeing this. It is completely wrong, and is helping to shove this issue under the carpet. On some runs on an alt, the final rewards are 30, NOT 20/60 (the two other numbers being thrown around as what should be expected), and then after going another alt it can go back up to 60 tokens. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Edit: I’ll screenshot it the next time this happens and post it here, but my guild and I have not been able to reliably figure out why this happens, so I don’t know the next time I’ll be able to get a screen.

Roman Legionary.6715:

u want a guarenteed 60? wait 2 hrs after u just ran the path.

I was under the impression switching characters did guarantee it. Is that not the case?

Myself and four guildmates did some CoF p1 runs tonight. None of us had done any CoF for over 24 hours.

On the first run, it took about 12 minutes and we all got 60 tokens. Everyone but 1 person switches characters.

On the second run, it also took about 12 minutes, and 2 of us got 60 tokens, 2 got 30 tokens, and the person who didn’t switch got 20. The same four switch characters again.

On the third run, takes about 15 minutes, and everyone gets 60 tokens except of course the one who switched. We repeat this one more time with the same result.

Is there something I’m not understanding with DR? What happened the second the run? The two people reported it, but I’m curious as to whether others are experiencing it. This is not the first time we’ve noticed this token difference, and as far as we can tell it seems to be random.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Snipping this cuz it was longer than I first realized and I don’t want to only quote half to take stuff out of context.

This all just sounds like numbers to me. I’ve never played any MMO where I thought a pet was useful. The control is cumbersome (in so much as choosing the direction they go is pretty linear. Either forward to attack or backwards to retreat). I don’t the fix for pets will ever be tweaking numbers, which at least it seems you realize. The pet mechanic in GW2 is pretty much the pet mechanic in every other game.

Have ideas like the mesmers F1-F4 been considered? Where perhaps each Func skill gets a pet bound to it, and using it triggers the pet to emerge to use a unique skill (maybe it buffs or heals the party, applies conditions to the enemy, or w/e), and then either stays until it is defeated or only last a certain amount of seconds. Other things like prematurely using a new Func key would kill the previous bought out pet. A cool elite skill would be something like “allowing multiple pets out at once through the function keys”. Just some ideas.

This idea is incredibly short worded and would need so much more work into it, but I think it brings a huge range of functionality into pets and diversity into the ranger class. Depending on what pets you bring could drastically change the ranger’s role, which I dont see that now. And I think it should be that way. As the way the traditional pet role stands, they are near worthless. A real new way for mechanics is what is needed.

Yea I noticed it was the vet Acolytes that was causing the problem. But any time I tried to aggro it, my screenshot was the result.

When It’s Ready.

This is intentional. I don’t know where the post is from an Anet employee, but it was found in testing that there were easily exploitable situations when people did not come back dead.

“Betcha can’t find us” Read: we glitched through another door.

But good luck to anyone that tries.

I recently did Forewarned is Forearmed and though the cutscene triggered and I got credit for killing the orrian scout (was a checkmark), I did not recieve credit for finding the lionguard bodies. I reported this.

On repeating the story, I realized that Forgal’s dialogue triggered at certain areas where before I had just rushed past them without Forgal.

For example, this line triggered when I moved with Forgal, but not when I left him behind:

Warmaster Forgal Kernsson: The grate below is broken. We should check through there.

Hope this helps with this bug! Also, I wasn’t sure what the best way to report this, since it would be two reports and not sure if it would be easy to connect the two? So hopefully this is fine

Edit: During my first attempt, returning to the locations where the dialogue should trigger did not cause them to trigger, presumably because Forgal disappeared after the cutscene.

On top of what Stephane has said, it may seem obvious to some, but check your year also. I checked it the first time and was like “yea January 29th right day it’s a Tuesday right time” without realizing it was set to the year 2059

(which also caused me to not be able to view websites because my certificate would be expired in 2059, and started when I crashed out of GW2. So who knows?)

Loosifah.4739:

Oh, windows time settings. I thought you meant in game….

They’re all correct except my time zone was set to pacific.

I know this sounds silly, but did you check the year? I was also having this issue (and I couldn’t view any website) and then realized my year was set to 2059.

Fixing my year also fixed viewing any website issue. I think it’s also worth noting that this issue happened after one of my crashes out of GW2. I’m not saying they are all connected, but after finding out the dailies are reading my computer time and it sounds like the game is crashing on daily rewarding..

yea…

I don’t have all the dyes unlocked, so there may be something better. But I think the starter dye “dijon” looks pretty similar. Peanut butter is also kinda close.

I’ve attached a Screenshot with dijon on vigil leggings to show the comparison. The boots and gloves have peanutbutter on them. Hope this helps.

The PvP locker has several armor and weapon skin errors (last I checked). Do you want those as well?

Nickname meaning character name and not account name, right? Then no. There have been a couple threads this past week or two popping up asking if or when this will be implemented. Gaile, among other Anet employees, has stated that though it will be in the game at some point, there is no timeframe for it at this current point.

Hopefully soon though! My newly female (used to be male) elementalist does not enjoy her very male name haha.

I’m a little confused by the changes to dungeon rezzing. It sounded like he said we wouldn’t be able to rez people during encounters. Did he mean they just can’t Waypoint back during a boss fight, or that we won’t be able to get up defeated players during a boss fight? I’d imagine it’s the former, but it sounded more like the latter.

Terras.

I know they are a big reason the game stopped being played originally intended, and also one of the biggest reasons balance was a nightmare. But it’s honestly some of the most fun I’ve ever had in any game.

It’s hard to believe this is the expectation. One of the biggest points of the ascended gear was to “bridge the gap between exotics and legendaries”, and yet exotics like mjolnir and infinite light cost as much, if not more, than some legendaries.

I love this game, but it needs some serious rework on the rare crafting materials. The prices are just incredulous for some of the exotics.

From the drops of FotM, especially the higher levels, it looks like this was supposed to help the price of lodestones. But it hasn’t. Two reasons probably: one, they don’t drop enough still, and two, it requires higher FotM level to consistently see lodestone drops, and with the current level system coupled with the no LFG system, people aren’t progressing in FotM very fast (of course I mean in the average sense. I know there are people on FotM 40+).

I wouldn’t expect a response from Anet on this though. Just how gaming companies work.

It’s just what Guild Wars 2 is, and what pretty much every other MMO is. To get the best item in slot in every slot is just really expensive and time consuming. Most players don’t get there fully. There’s a couple reasons it seems more frustrating in this game.

1) It’s still new. Look at the first months of GW1 and getting some runes and their prices. Or gathering 60 platinum for the 15k armor. This certainly got easier as time went on (though even this isn’t really true because of the 1 or 1.5k armor. Runes still hold though).

2) We were expecting to continue to get to max stats in the same time we were doing it as we left Guild Wars 1. You could put hardly any effort, at all, into being as strong as anyone (Superior Vigor rune may or may not be included, depending on your view of money in Guild Wars 1, but 9 less health is certainly not comparative to the stat difference from exotic to ascended.)