Guild Wars 2

When they did the WvW map reveal they talked about changes to upgrades and “other” things they weren’t ready to mention. This is just that additional information they wouldn’t talk about before. It’s not a big reveal and not special…unless they’re holding more back for the Ready Up tomorrow.

So big and special means a small piece of information about something already talked about…?

I’m going back to bed.

Sorry, Anet doesn’t have any mechanism to allow you to do this. You’ll need to find another company or create your own fictional artwork.

If it’s for personal use and you’re not selling it then A net won’t have a problem. If this remains a class exercise and doesn’t turn into a business venture then you’ll be fine.

A complaint post about complaints seems petty to me.

I’m guessing Guild Halls will be next. It’s the last specific topic they haven’t gone into yet. While they might give us some more clues into challenging group content, I think that will wait until they open up a beta test for larger parts of the map.

Talking cat-people = Charr
Dragons = Elder Dragons, Tequatl, Claw, Shatterer, etc

You’ve consistently shown that you can’t grasp the nature of a fantasy game and keep trying to prove it wrong with real world examples. GW2 is not the real world.
You 0, Anet 2.

There’s one or two other groups trying to do a table top game as well. We have not given out any materials about our game yet so you must have read someone else’s document.

We aren’t ready to release many details but I can say interrupts and reactions are a core part of our combat mechanics and encounter/daily powers don’t exist. This is not a DnD game with a GW2 reskin.

…why are you looking at people’s underwear?

rapthorne.7345:

Why are topics with valid, constructive critique getting locked without so much as a moderator response?

Is it taboo for players to suggest how things can be done better, or point out flaws in the way ANet does things? Only bad companies attempt to suppress and silence criticism, rather than act on it.

Players post here to vent frustrations because we have no one from ANet to reliably communicate to about issues (even though we supposedly have a dedicated forum communications team, HA!). By blatantly locking all potentially critical threads and posts, all it does it end up looking bad on ANet as a company, implying they simply don’t want to hear what they could be doing better and that their customer’s opinions do not matter.

Take the good with the bad, don’t cherry pick what you want to listen to, ANet

Venting and ranting rarely involve anything close to constructive criticism. A vast majority of complaint threads have nothing constructive about them and quickly veer off into a kitten-fest of trash talking Anet and/or other posters. Those threads that do talk about things constructively and don’t go off topic tend to not get locked.

It’s pretty simple. Be constructive, be factual and be respectful.

They said in the POI last week that Chronomancer skins will be a part of the Chronomancer Specialization track. Given the spoiler art they released it seems likely the Guardian specialization will get the same treatment.

This was talked about in the Guild Halls CDI, but that wasn’t the focus of the CDI really and was more of a side topic briefly.

A month or so later in the WvW forums there was discussion around the WvW population imbalances and there was some dev involvement in that thread. Alliances bubbled up to the top of his list for how he might try to help the population issue.

However, both discussions were months ago and the subject has either been discarded by the devs or is somewhere in development. My guess is if they do implement it, then it will be done with the expansion; so keep your eyes open for more WvW announcements over the next few months.

Yes, what this game needs is more grape smugglers.

They never even implied a “full week of reveals” they only said each specialization would get it’s own week. That starts this week and given their previous schedule that means,

Wed: an interview they won’t tell us about.
Thurs: a blog post telling us the same thing that was in the interview
Fri: a POI/Ready Up about the blog post.

Ask people on the Lore forums to email their questions and answers to you directly?

simplesimon.2084:

It’ll be the new trait role out

In the Read Up episode friday they specifically stated not all the traits were finished and the Engineer traits weren’t even coded into the game yet. They also stated there would be a follow up episode for how traits changed in development before they release it.

So don’t expect the new traits for a couple months.

they were vague on anything regarding condi/boon changes but based on what they said, boon duration will be handled in one of two ways.

1. The same as any other stat; ie. bigger numbers on gear.
2. The same as class specific mechanics. Half of the percentage boost will be made baseline for classes that have boon duration options in traits and the other half will be added if you choose that line as a core specialisation.

Dances are racial.

First, use punctuation.
Second, post in the tickets for review thread.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-Tickets-for-Review-7-days-older/page/52#post4988456

Nobody on the forums can help him, your only recourse is customer support.

As linken said, there is no class element to the PS so there is no conflict there. The PS will keep on going the same as it has been.

Incongruities between the LW and the rest of the world will be handled the same way incongruities around Zhaitans death were handled. They’ll be ignored. You don’t play MMOs for consistencies in the time line.

No, I’m not an artist, just another player.

Putting in a CS ticket is all you can do for those scraps. CS is usually fairly nice with mistakes like this as long as your account doesn’t show a pattern of similar requests. These two links may be helpful.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Delayed-or-No-Ticket-Reply-Read-This/first#post4533589
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-Tickets-for-Review-7-days-older/first#post3666204

You can email customer support about it but there is no remedy for you. Anet won’t step in to enforce an agreement between two players however if there are chat logs that show he intentionally scammed you, he may get a suspension for it.

Also, you should remove his name. Naming and shaming like this is against forum rules and can result in you getting an infraction.

I’m sorry you had a bad customer. I think most people here are more honest than that.

Galk the Bloody.4629:

The only reason I can think of people not wanting finishers used on some human form mobs in PvE would be people saying “MY IMMERSION!” in map chat.

I can think of several others besides immersion. My favorite reason is that I didn’t particularly enjoy the mechanic so I’d rather they not include it everywhere. It was ok the first dozen times or so, but then it got old and annoying. I’d much rather kill them and not have to worry about stomping them.

If it stays an optional side feature that I can ignore, then I have no problem with it being in the game. I just don’t want it to spread everywhere.

PowerDrilz.6571:

I think I speak for every person on Guild War 2

No, you don’t.

Honestly I think you’re trying too hard OP. You’ve made a well though out concept that could work but I have to ask what is the point? This almost feels like a solution looking for a problem to fix.

If you want mats, you can already get them by just killing the fish and food items are so easily acquired through the TP that this seems like a needlessly elaborate way of getting them. From what I’ve observed, the people that use food keep stacks of it on hand and the amount of time someone might run out unexpectedly is small.

I think a better way to approach fishing is through a cosmetic change and/or toys. Think of all the costume brawl toys you can get that give you different skills to use. Instead of being a brawl weapon it would be a fishing tool. Instead of long term buffs that food gives you, it could grant a few seconds of a “silly” buff similar to candy corn. This uses already established mechanics and doesn’t involve massive dev work for a new UI, new objects, new mechanics, etc.

Perhaps when they release unobtanium as a farmable mat.

Orpheal.8263:

A reset to zero shouldn’t do that and if its a bug, it should be fixable, taking the bug as unfixable for granted is just in my opinion unexcuseable.

It sounds like most of the PS is hard coded a certain way, which is fine if what you’re doing is going to have some fixed way of doing things. The PS was very linear and gave them that fixed way of doing things so they hard coded it in the belief that some value would never change.

Changing the PS to being replayable involves introducing a lot of variables where there weren’t any AND catching all the hard coded elements and changing them to the new variables. This can be a nearly impossible task and definitely will introduce an insane amount of game stopping bugs.

In such a situation it’s almost never worthwhile to attempt such a thing and by far better to remake it from scratch. When S2 was released it was mentioned that the devs wanted to make S1 replayable; given that would require a similar rewrite to the PS I would imagine they’d do both at the same time.

I wouldn’t expect any such rewrite to happen any time soon though. Possibly another year or two out, if it happens at all.

In any kind of personal struggle willpower is always a factor. For now it’s a temporary excuse for why not all Sylvari are affected and given that the story hasn’t advanced yet, it is a sufficient one. I can live with it until HOT.

That said, given the level of storytelling we’ve seen so far I expect one of three things to happen.
1: No explanation. It was just pure willpower that stopped it.
2: The pale tree protected them for reasons and magic babble stuffy things.
3: There will be no reason for it for 2 years because they may not know and then release an explanation in the future story that ends up being a partial retcon to what happened.

What I don’t expect is an in depth story driven discovery of what’s going on right now. It’s going to feel hollow and weak for a while but eventually we’ll get used to “willpower” and shrug it off like all the rest of the loosely covered plot devices.

Maybe I’m a little cynical when it comes to MMO storytelling.

Josh posted saying he’ll be talking about the wvw maps on ready up this week. That implies we won’t get anything new this week.

According to Gaile, the reason why guilds with offensive names are shut down is because there is no way to edit guild names. It’s not that they won’t, they can’t. By extension that would mean no guild name change contracts.

10 packs, 0 shadow dyes….you stole all my luck you kitten.

Harvest.2506:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-improvements-to-pvp-and-the-ladder-test-season/

Ladder Formula Test Season

To test all the exciting improvements to the leaderboards and reinforce the competitive aspect of Ranked Arena, we’ll hold a test season starting on Tuesday, December 16, that will be running until Tuesday, January 13.

Where’s the confusion? They told you when it would end. That you didn’t read it or forgot or didn’t follow any of the blogs/posts isn’t the fault of Josh or Anet. That you turned off the news section of the UI is also not the fault of Josh or Anet.

Own up to your mistake and move on.

Yes, smooth presentations can help sell an item to people relatively unfamiliar with what your product is. In a panel like that it really doesn’t matter; what does matter is what they said, not how they said it. And as the players have proven repeatedly, we want to hear from developers, not PR people.

All you’re doing is trying to shame the presenters by pointing out that they were nervous and trying to hide it behind “advice for anet”. Don’t do this, it’s just rude and insulting to everyone. Calling people out on not being a professional public speaker is just going to make them more nervous next time and less likely to even want to do it again. Not to mention it’ll make Anet even more cagey about releasing information.

If you aren’t looking to play World Vs World with your friend then your server doesn’t matter. If you party up you’ll usually get placed in the same map when you enter, and if you don’t you can always join the other’s map. If you do want to play WvW with your friend then you can always buy a transfer later.

As to how population is calculated, there’s been little to no dev discussion on it. Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest it’s based on accounts created on that server.

Invictus.1503:

lordkrall.7241:

Still no confirmation if there will be a build saver or not as far as I am aware.

One could of course point out that we have clearly survived for almost 2,5 year without one, so it is probably not that high on the priority list.

In an interview during Pax East Colin specifically said they weren’t working on a build saver right now. He thinks it is cool, but currently they aren’t diverting any resources to it.

It was in the interview with Angry Joe.

Your guardian will continue to receive birthday gifts even if you never play him again and those gifts are account bound so I don’t really see a problem there.

I don’t see how having put time into your Guardian is a bad thing. You’re switching chars doesn’t invalidate or ruin your time on your Guardian and you don’t lose anything by switching. I can’t really see what the problem is for you.

The devs stated in some interviews at Pax East that each specialization will get it’s own week of talk. Add in Guild Halls, Guild updates, and WvW and you’re looking at 12 weeks easily and doesn’t include any other filler weeks like we had last week. End of june is the earliest I’d expect it and August for the anniversary seems plausible.

Mr Seevs.5129:

Pretty much everyone wants capes in GW2. GW1 had capes that tie into your guild, which is what I think they should do here. Hopefully, when they decide to talk more about their new guild systems they’ll introduce a new guild ‘cape’ back piece that comes with your guilds emblem printed on it. Since they’ve already told us we were getting capes at some point, the expansion would serve as a great way to introduce capes into the game.

Feel free to do a google search for GW2 capes and see what the forum links say about it. “Pretty much everyone” is actually closer to some minority percentage.

We sympathize with you. The NPE is probably the most disliked change to the game in the past year but Anet seems to have no intention of changing it.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ok you guys, settle down. You know better than to start The Rumour Game™!

:D

Now if The Rumour Game was anywhere near as good at The Imitation Game I’d be starting that over and over again.

Zefar.4278:

So I recently bought it due to sales but I’m no stranger to MMORPGs.

I played to level 8 and realized I’m not exactly allowed to explore because if there are no quest there I have no reason to kill anything in that area.

Completely false. You can go anywhere at any point in time at any level. You can walk into a level 80 zone if you want, but you’ll die quickly. You kill things for loot, xp and crafting materials. You have reasons to kill everything even without quests.

Zefar.4278:

Why would you do it this way? You got a gigantic world but the moment you run out of quest you have no reason to stay in the area. It’s bad gameplay design and puts you in a linear path through the entire world.

As I said above, you have other reasons to be in an area aside from events. Events usually repeat every 10-20 minutes too. You can also explore the map for Vistas and POIs or general map completion; all of which provide you with experience. Map completion is actually one of the easier and quicker ways of leveling. GW2 has plenty of bad design decisions, this isn’t one of them.

Zefar.4278:

MMORPG are not supposed to be linear.

The personal story is the only linear part of this game and you don’t even have access to that yet.

Zefar.4278:

Also can I even spec into new and unique combat skills? So far I haven’t gotten any stat points or skill points. Gears are the boring progressive type which most MMORPG use.

You’ll unlock new options for builds as you level. You won’t start getting traits until 30 and skill points start around 10-11 or so. Gear caps out at Lv 80 ascended, after that it’s all horizontal progression.

The devs know we wanted saved builds at launch. The devs know we wanted saved builds even more at the trait revamp a year ago. The devs know we still want it and according to Colin, they still haven’t worked on in it but would like to do it eventually.

Build templates are the new hobosack.

Serophous.9085:

Michael Henninger.7451:

If only I could roleplay a treasure Skritt with an enormous amount of HP. Catch me if you can!

omg….best wvw event i could see happening…

All three massive zergs of the zone trying to chase and kill one skritt….

Oh please do this for april fools day. That would just be epic.

Gaile Gray.6029:

MokahTGS.7850:

In case people don’t know, the golden pig on the Gem Store is an obvious nod to the Pike Place Market Piggy Bank in Seattle where ANet is based. I personally would have preferred a gem store mini doughnut machine that is located right next to the pig, but oh well.

Mini doughnut machine, eh? What better way to build strength, endurance, and a sugar high for encounters with world boses!

~quietly flags post for review of gem store team~

Ok, ok, I jest!

Seriously Gaile, this would be awesome. Stop jesting and do it! :p

BlakThornArrow.2389:

on the ground it should use its wings to slam players off the platform or maybe use a tail swipe. hmm what else… bites?

I saw noticeable tail and wing attacks and what looked like bite attacks. It also had a wing buffet that knocked people back and at least 3 different fire attacks. There’s only 2 things that are lacking, movement and speed of attacks. It’s attack rate may be deceptively low on the video though (ie, just looks low and is actually quite fast).

So, just to be clear, you’re complaining that a new boss that isn’t in the game yet and whom you haven’t fought yet is too easy? All you have to go on is a single video with players of a largely unknown skill level.

Going by that logic all these PVP tournaments are the easiest thing in the game.

Actually, yes. I expect Anet to do that. I also expect Tomes to do absolutely nothing for masteries and only have use for anyone under 80.

Do I want it? No. Do I expect it, yes.

This question has been asked a couple times already. Anet has refused to answer it so far.

As the camera changes showed, there is more to HOT that they’ll talk about than was in the initial release. They also have yet to talk about WvW or Guildhalls. There’s plenty besides specializations.