Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I don’t believe it was Colin that announced that the Precursors would be delayed, and I don’t remember any apology in that post.

Regardless, is there a time limit on when the Devs can decide to scrap an idea? Perhaps the quarterly State of the Games will help keep the community informed on what’s coming; not so sure about what might be scrapped, though.

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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

And he apologized on stage at each PAX event for HoT. He’s been very straightforward about acknowledging it was a mistake. What they choose to do with that experience going forward is key. The state of the game, while nice would be a bad move to make as a one-off thing.

Yes, there’s always twitch (Guild Chat), but this comes with other problems that always boils down to communication. You can say you’ve seen awesome, but what can we as players see outside of more empty words ? Even the slightest tease or concept art goes a long way.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

We can hope the community would react favorably to announcements of such delays, though it didn’t go over too well when the announcement of Precursor crafting/scavenger hunt would be delayed/started over from scratch was released. Players still seem to bring that up often.

Not really a comparable situation.

This “feature” was supposed to go in Pack 2. Then we had silence. The topic was burred and we never got word of it up until way later when Colin had to apologize for it. Then people were upset by the fact that a feature long in development was stuffed into the expansion pack. When its something that should have just been part of the core game experience. There was no dialogue to be had about it until after the fact.

See the difference ?

People actually want to feel vested in something that they are passionate about, long periods of silence because you feel you can do better isn’t helpful for either side of the community and some blunt and honest communication goes a long way.

You’re getting gliders.

Now we really have no need for mounts.

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I’m just tired of the delay, the wait and the when it’s ready philosophy that seems to only be applied when its convenient.

It also does not help when you have dev’s commenting that things are okay when there’s a vocal outcry for change. See pretty much everyone’s disdain for the current state of dungeons and the economy. While yes these need a shift, they did not need such a shock as to actively remove people from the game which is the result they have actually had.

Then there’s the whole i’ve seen this awesome thing, that you are going to have to wait 4-6 months to even get a preview of. A sheer dev blog would do wonders, show us some of the production cycle even if it shifts so everyone can be hype and not just shareholders and developers. Because as is, all players see are empty words.

About the only thing i agree with is priority marking for upgrades and the absurd over use of timegated materials.

Everything else meh….

If its of any concern the guild i have is level 51. So there may be some bias.

It’s doable.

However there’s a not so nice bug with said event, where you wont get the item if your inventory is full at the time the event completes.

I do not know what level of participation you need, the 2nd time i did it i got gold and was afk for the last 1:45 of the event.

That’s long been fixed.

I’ve completed the race numerous times under another guilds “banner” while not repping them and got credit.

Fractal Relics
SW chest farm
Guild Trader
Ley-Energy Matter Converter
Karma

You can use pretty much any currency sans dungeon tokens right now for them.

TexZero.7910:

Matthew Pennebaker.7921:

• Magnification Lens: Defending the “Gates of Arah” will also grant this collectible

I just completed this event, today. Post fix being deployed and did not get the collectible.

This could be for one of two reasons, either it was due to my inventory being full at the time of completion or that the fix was not successful. Will try again once its back up to see if its the former.

It’s a bug that occurs if your inventory is full. It will not go direct to inventory or appear as a lootable object in the world.

Matthew Pennebaker.7921:

• Magnification Lens: Defending the “Gates of Arah” will also grant this collectible

I just completed this event, today. Post fix being deployed and did not get the collectible.

This could be for one of two reasons, either it was due to my inventory being full at the time of completion or that the fix was not successful. Will try again once its back up to see if its the former.

Don’t want, don’t need. Doesn’t add anything meaningful or significant (forcing legendary backpiece to be hidden behind it does not count).

And if this is really the delay for finishing Ad Infinitum they can go stick their leaderboard back in the recycle bin.

Thaddeus.4891:

Condi Warrior have Pin Down, Condi Engineer have Glue Shot, D/X Tempest have Magnetic Grasp, Staff Tempest have Shock Wave, Druids have entangle.

All of those are part of meta build so I don’t see it.

Compare that to the number of ranged chill/cripple/slow application. The numbers by comparison are limited.

That is all the OP was saying. Stop over thinking it.

Thaddeus.4891:

softblackcarbon.1537:

(in this case meaning anything but immob)

Why anything but immob? Are you saying you can’t immob the Soul Spirits? Or you talking about a specific profession that don’t have immob.? Because you can totally immob a Soul Spirit.

They mean the access to ranged immob options, given meta builds/comps is limited.

They’ll nerf adaptive armor and rapid regen because PvP balance demands it.
They’ll likely also touch gear shield and hammer 4’s cooldown.

If they want to change the reliance on AA they had best first fix the unreliable nature of skills and walls that plague it.

Unrelenting Assault – dying off when near a wall…just no.
Vengeful Hammers – again see above.

Kinda curious to see what direction this will take.

It’s likely due to the fact that several tornado’s have hit the Dallas area quite hard recently.

L3’s infrastructure in that area may have taken a hit.

Do some personal research on the VIP status.

It’s a common thing for eastern audiences that works, for them.
It’s absolute garbage for a western market, and a vast majority of players do not want such as system as it actively detracts and pulls core gameplay out and locks it behind a pay wall.

Jaxom.7310:

TexZero.7910:

Nocta.5274:

I’m yet to read a competent argument as to why dueling is a toxic / bad feature.

I’ve yet to read a competent argument as to why we need more options for dueling when 3 currently exist.

That said see the lovely response from Jaxiom. When someone doesn’t want to duel them imagine that. Now imagine it from a 12 year old whose verbose vocabulary extends to only 4 letter words and feeling like necrophilia is a good thing.

Pretty much explains why dueling in PvE is bad, dueling itself in player controlled environments is fine.

u act as if i’m being a bad guy here, i’ve given real answers to why it’d be a useful feature. only one of us has referred to a group of players as “a 12 year old whose verbose vocabulary extends to only 4 letter words and feeling like necrophilia is a good thing.” and a group that would “turn a PvE environment hostile, volatile and full of petulant attacks.”

if u really need reasons, recall only 1 reason should matter, its fun for a lot of people. another, it gives players something to do while they sit around waiting for bosses, events, etc to spawn. it lets people have a pvp option in a more varied setting. there are little arena style locations around tyria that would be fun places for setting up dueling tourneys.

reasons why current solutions aren’t that, pvp custom arenas use pvp amulets not ur normal gear, they remove you from the world and whatever u were waiting on doing (see events/bosses/etc spawn), guild hall arena has the same prob it removes u from the world and whatever you wanted to do.

Reason why i’ve called you out specifically….

Go back and read on who was casting stones at the community when they didn’t get approval (read Their way).

Tell me in every game you’ve played before this what sorta “community” this actually fosters. From my personal experience it’s basically no different than the CoD 12 year old mentality and community that thrives.

Now then lets get onto why your reasons are bunk.

You can chose 3 separate ways to duel people.

Guild Arena – Your reason why this “isn’t feasible” comes down to nothing more than sheer laziness. As already pointed out to you there are smaller guilds out there that have already unlocked Arena 2.

Custom Arena’s – Well okay you don’t get you pick of the litter for stats here. Might be because PvP is actually a controlled environment that has been statistically modified to balanced (disregarding the current state of conquest balance as its irrelevant in 1v1 dueling)

WvW/EoTM/Obsidian Sanctum – Here you have a playground that follows the PvE ruleset with the sole exception being AI damage. The entire WvW community (read GvG) has been able to work just fine with this, yes it took more play emphasis to get things going but hey that’s what you need to do if you’re going to neglect your other viable alternatives.

So pick one. and just go do it. There’s 0 necessity for even adding it to PvE as the ruleset that is defined for “PvE” is already accessible from your Guild Arena.

Probably because the idea of Elementalist vending machines/Squires wasn’t as cool in action as it was on paper.

Nocta.5274:

I’m yet to read a competent argument as to why dueling is a toxic / bad feature.

I’ve yet to read a competent argument as to why we need more options for dueling when 3 currently exist.

That said see the lovely response from Jaxiom. When someone doesn’t want to duel them imagine that. Now imagine it from a 12 year old whose verbose vocabulary extends to only 4 letter words and feeling like necrophilia is a good thing.

Pretty much explains why dueling in PvE is bad, dueling itself in player controlled environments is fine.

Jaxom.7310:

TexZero.7910:

Jaxom.7310:

TexZero.7910:

Jaxom.7310:

Basaltface.2786:

sephiroth.4217:

I’d love a dueling option, but a massive no thank you to gear checks. (PvP and WvW are not viable options due to build restrictions and server issues)

Dueling would have to be handled carefully as not to offend people, like something similar to GTA online, where you have the option to flag yourself as “combat ready” so players who weren’t interested could carry on with normal activities and not be effected by it.

and if you are not flagged as ready cause you maybe dont care about that feature you are the “coward”, the “noob” or “scared”….had it all, just throwing that in, whatever, carry on with the topic…

trolls are going to find a way to troll, its what they do. that doesn’t mean every1 who would enjoy a feature will also troll.

i’d think w/ the friendly, best mmo community out there would be supportive of more ways to play and enjoy the game, not restrict it

Duel in your guild hall or the Custom arena.

There’s 0 reason to turn a PvE environment hostile, volatile and full of petulant attacks.

i have a small guild, so i don’t get an arena in a guild hall. custom arena doesnt’ use pve stats, only spvp amulets and it removes you from the events you were waiting to spawn or whatever u were doing in game

there are a number of reasons to want to duel in pve environment, but theres only 1 reason that should matter, its fun for a lot of people. when did having fun become not a valid reason?

only 1 of us sounds hostile to me.

Sounds like you made a choice. Sucks, but life is filled with choices. Your “small guild” could easily meet the bare minimum to use the arena or ask any “friends” to duel in their hall.

Seems the only one being restrictive here is you

i think the game is best when it opens up as many ways to do as many things as it can. small group, large group, solo group whatever.

more ways to play = more fun for more people. why is that wrong? thanks for your helpful and supportive voice. the best from the best community.

Remember when throwing rocks at the community, you are a part of it. So passive aggressive comments and sarcasm don’t come off well.

Again, the only one limiting themselves here is you. You have options now for every game mode when it comes to dueling. Pick and use one.

Jaxom.7310:

TexZero.7910:

Jaxom.7310:

Basaltface.2786:

sephiroth.4217:

I’d love a dueling option, but a massive no thank you to gear checks. (PvP and WvW are not viable options due to build restrictions and server issues)

Dueling would have to be handled carefully as not to offend people, like something similar to GTA online, where you have the option to flag yourself as “combat ready” so players who weren’t interested could carry on with normal activities and not be effected by it.

and if you are not flagged as ready cause you maybe dont care about that feature you are the “coward”, the “noob” or “scared”….had it all, just throwing that in, whatever, carry on with the topic…

trolls are going to find a way to troll, its what they do. that doesn’t mean every1 who would enjoy a feature will also troll.

i’d think w/ the friendly, best mmo community out there would be supportive of more ways to play and enjoy the game, not restrict it

Duel in your guild hall or the Custom arena.

There’s 0 reason to turn a PvE environment hostile, volatile and full of petulant attacks.

i have a small guild, so i don’t get an arena in a guild hall. custom arena doesnt’ use pve stats, only spvp amulets and it removes you from the events you were waiting to spawn or whatever u were doing in game

there are a number of reasons to want to duel in pve environment, but theres only 1 reason that should matter, its fun for a lot of people. when did having fun become not a valid reason?

only 1 of us sounds hostile to me.

Sounds like you made a choice. Sucks, but life is filled with choices. Your “small guild” could easily meet the bare minimum to use the arena or ask any “friends” to duel in their hall.

Seems the only one being restrictive here is you

Jaxom.7310:

Basaltface.2786:

sephiroth.4217:

I’d love a dueling option, but a massive no thank you to gear checks. (PvP and WvW are not viable options due to build restrictions and server issues)

Dueling would have to be handled carefully as not to offend people, like something similar to GTA online, where you have the option to flag yourself as “combat ready” so players who weren’t interested could carry on with normal activities and not be effected by it.

and if you are not flagged as ready cause you maybe dont care about that feature you are the “coward”, the “noob” or “scared”….had it all, just throwing that in, whatever, carry on with the topic…

trolls are going to find a way to troll, its what they do. that doesn’t mean every1 who would enjoy a feature will also troll.

i’d think w/ the friendly, best mmo community out there would be supportive of more ways to play and enjoy the game, not restrict it

Duel in your guild hall or the Custom arena.

There’s 0 reason to turn a PvE environment hostile, volatile and full of petulant attacks.

Normally i’d make a stupid comment….

Then i got my 3rd mini green guardian.

100% support some change.

That achievement only grants credit if you reflect a rocket at the golem.

In case anyone else wants to know how to get credit.

Wont ever happen.

This isn’t the WoW clone you are looking for.

Im fine with the old one being stupidly expensive. As the basis for their design was to keep equal and not undervalue existing precursors.

So tell me what value the new set of Legendaries has, when the only way they can be obtained is through a collection. This is an issue i hope gets looked into. It probably won’t and the reasoning will be that because its new we had to value against an existing counterpart, while completely dismissing that the previous counterparts still have other means of acquisition.

Buy the marauder recipe and play HoT ?

I’ve never really understood why admins/owners don’t have a reserve slot above that of the “room size”.

This was pretty much par for the course for many online shooters. If the server size was 24 there was actually 26 slots 2 reserved for admins.

Seems like a simple fix.

shaythan.1398:

i sent a ticket to Anet explaining the situation and referring them to this thread (and another one about the same issue)
so far they told me to send a report created by a diagnostic software of theirs and i am still waiting for a follow up..
i’ll update here if anything usefull comes out of it..

Don’t worry all that will happen is they will notice something odd and ask you to run something else. Then if that doesnt work they’ll ask you to open command prompt and use netsh winsock reset. Which will do nothing.

At this point either you’re a much nicer person than me or you will give up with their support as its just a joke.

But don’t worry they’ll get unbanned.

Meanwhile a fellow guild mate of mine pretty much got told by support to suck it up and there’s no chance of reversing his actions (accused of botting for multi-boxing).

Yep good stuff.

Read / Watch guides.

Go raid / Find a guild that raids

Unique rewards for raiding should stay unique. If you want to be “casual” or in this case “don’t want to get over the fear of failure” then you don’t deserve the legendary gear associated with it.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Wolfey.3407:

Great Job
Now only if we can get some hammers swinging on the toxic chat in PvP :P
((death threats have been rather high lately from salty players))

Seriously you want chat banning… Block. The PvP forum specialist should also know that belongs in the PvP forums.

I think wishing for more than dishonor on someones cow is cause for alarm…..

PvP shouldn’t be taken to a point of wishing harm on anyone physically and if you cannot see that, you need help.

Also yes off topic and wrong forum.

Rising Dusk.2408:

If you looted one of them every time, the sellable items would quickly lose any value they have, the non-sellable ones would quickly become vendor/salvage trash, and players would complain anyway. Look at what happened to ascended rings with Fractals. The entire point of RNG loot is that when you do get something shiny you get excited. If you got something shiny every time it wouldn’t be exciting.. or shiny.

Because magnetite shards are not intended to be used like that. They’re a backup means to get items outside the intended RNG. It would be nonsensical to let people opt out of the RNG to just build more of the currency; it goes against the very premise of the reward scheme.

I get that having shiney loot every time is bad, however so is having an exotic and and a rare and oh yeah here’s champ bags full of garbage.

Raids are designed from the ground up as being harder content, the rewards should reflect that. It should allow those people who put in the time to feel like they are still being rewarded decently. I don’t need champ bags filled with bloodstone dust. I would much rather just see a random ascended material (spiritwood/deldrimor steel / Elonian Leather/Damask) instead of 6 bags of junk and 48 bags of recycle for luck.

This allows raiders to work toward building other sets for alts or other play styles. A much more reasonable approach.

Additionally, if magnetite shards are as you say… not meant to be supplemental reward to help those with less than desirable RNG then even in their current state they are not doing that. Granted wing 1 of many, but even for a wing 1 the shards are on the low side and do not give people who have garbage RNG any hope for getting those rewards in any meaningful time.

Doesn’t look like more ways are needed.

It just looks like you need to play more ways. Stop excluding yourself from activities and content.

Xbon.9086:

Randulf.7614:

Useful thread. Still a shame the official forums are no longer relevant, but thanks for posting these links/quotes.

the forums here are definitely relevant… that aside, don’t forget, f2p players can’t use these forums, so the only mediums they have are reddit and fan-made forums, so it’s good dev’s communicate on more than one channel.

They can use them, they cant post.

There’s a very stark difference between the two. Also, when the topic is developer responses i hardly feel responding is something the average f2p player is worried about as they are already the least invested in party in the game.

Is this a thread were we can ask why the forums are still in such bad shape and there’s 0 interest in fixing your own home ?

I mean it’s sad that the forums don’t even have a proper search function but that’s no reason to use another site. Instead you would think making your own home domain functional would take higher priority.

While doing so you can even add the upvote/downvote system that you all love about reddit…it’s like a win-win.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Attacking Mossman from the pillar is a blatant exploit and will be addressed. When it gets addressed, I would be surprised if they announced it in patch notes; they never call out exploits like that.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-October-23-2015/first#post5638259

Never you say ?

Granted a vast majority of that went untouched….but pretty sure we have different uses of the word never.

Rising Dusk.2408:

What people forget is that Magnetite Shards are not designed to be the way you acquire all items. The intent is for you to get awarded them via RNG, but the currency is there to prevent people with terrible luck from never getting the items. It’s not intended to be profitable (weekly timegate); you do raids for the exclusive rewards and the challenge.

I don’t believe anyone forgot this aside from the developers themselves. Why are the unique rewards so ungodly rare when there’s several of them to go around ?

Don’t get me started on unobtainable rewards that are only RNG based….Trinkets.

I still do not see why we need bags that contain blues and greens to begin with when we could just as easily replace said reward with an optional select the champ garbage or the bonus currency. Thus allowing people to opt out of even more RNG and let them reasonably work toward obtaining the unique shiny.

Sassy.1697:

TexZero.7910:

I’m almost positive it’s on their end.

I got tired of dealing with the customer support because frankly it’s robotic and script driven as if reading the charts provided is impossible.

Here is what im seeing in ping plotter.

The frequency of this occurring in the anet domain is pretty strong. Yes my ISP has a minor fault and i’ve complained to them too. Yet the only service suffering for me is GW2.

It’s not showing any errors…?

The 100% PL hop is just the NSA watching you.

You get that for example at continental hops. (eg: reaching google US from EU and vice versa)

And your marked server has an average ping of 42 – so not really unplayable now is it?

That’s basically my GW2 plot when everything is working fine. o.O

Check the spike points of upwards of 300 ….all inside the Anet domain.

Zohane.7208:

If you want more detail from Arenanet, I suggest that you do what I did back then; open a ticket and talk directly with support. That way you can get an actual response from them.

They must have fired whoever you spoke with. All i get is the sterotypical reading off a prompt help that goes nowhere and gives me even less faith in humanity when their support is incapable of reading.

because unless you like doing the meta with you and 2 others, you may want to get into a map where people are actively trying to complete the meta.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Faction_Provisioner

It shouldn’t take 50 days.

There’s 12 vendors you can visit per day.

SlyDevil.3952:

VG is the cousin of the thaumanova anomaly, therefore the next wing will have mai trin’s eldest cousin twice removed as the end boss.

But Sabetha is already mai’s mother. I'm totally lying

Clearly the next wing is going to be an aloof tale of the journeys of Horrik’s cannons and how he’s really not a bad guy. Eventually he will lead us to the wall and we will blow it open with him and recruit him as a hero.

I’m looking at that graph and seeing that post HoT people are less inclined to visit the forums.

This means either, They are in game or they don’t see the point in posting on the forums.

Would be interesting if you could compare these numbers to say….the Guild Wars 2 Reddit and see how much more posting is going on there in the same periods of time to see if one community has grown over the other due to say, neglect.

World bosses are nothing more than a glorified loot pinata. It’s intentional with the sole exception being TT.

The skin complexion is off by a fair bit. Too dark.

All the zones are easy to navigate

disclaimer I can read maps, so your version of easy may vary.

Probably do just fine considering burn warrior, while doing jack all in PvP is one of if not the top DPS builds atm for raids.