Guild Wars 2

Minos.5168:

Maybe they’ll now get around to nerfing content like the first part of the Dredge Fractal, that everyone seems to try to skip. (I’ve seen terrain glitches, mesmer portal glitches, etc.)

It doesn’t need a nerf. The exploit needs to be fixed.

Don’t worry, ANet and Dungeon Masters told players that Simin could be beat, but that was nerfed. It wil not be long until AC is nerfed.

Is there a video of the new dances?

Also, I agree. Dances should be available to purchase directly.

Off the top of my head (Im sure it could be refined):

Make the Mists a central PvP hub for both WvW and sPvP. WvW follows the rules and balance changes applicable to sPvP. Thus, gear is free and equal. WvW players can use the armor and weapon skins obtained through sPvP. These armor and weapon skins would also be available though the upcoming WvW progression system.

WvW map completion would no longer be applicable to PvE due to this change. Badges of Honor would no longer be required to create a PvE legendary.

Platinum Chests would be added, which have a chance of containing a PvP precursor weapon.

PvP legendaries can be forged by combining:
PvP Precursor
Gift of Battle (750 Badges of Honor + Gift of Glory)
- Gift of Glory (Rank 50 Vendor for X Glory)
Gift of the Arcane (250 of each Arcane material)
Gift of Leadership (earn through the upcoming WvW progression system)

GOD? lol

You’re a moron.

The “Golden” title represents such a player’s skill well enough.

I like the “Possible mount confirmation?” thing in chat. lol

Make the first dungeon in the game harder.
Make the last dungeon in the game easier.

Makes sense.
(It doesn’t.)

Are you talking about trees that you can cut down for lumber?

Melandru statues in Orr are sometimes surrounded by them.

What. The. Hell. lol

looks at topic name = you had my curiosity
reads post body = but now you have my attention

It is an alliance between Flame Legion and Dredge.

Go look at the new Ascended accessories. The “Molten Ore” one has flavor text regarding this.

Edit: What I want to know is; why should we care? We already crippled their forces and killed their leaders in Citadel of Flame and Sorrow’s Embrace. We assisted in the death of an Elder Dragon. What threat could they possibly be?

It happens in every MMO. Flavorful consumables get nerfed as the game matures and becomes more balanced. Developers really need to be careful with these items before they release their game. >_>

Same happened with Demonic Runes / Dark Runes in Warcraft.

Good:
AC is somewhat more interesting.
New sPvP map.

Bad:
Can’t start Guild Bounties for three days.
Living Story is still boring. Tasks are very menial and repetitive.
Event Chests limited to once a day.

The entire game seems to be shifting to a Daily/Weekly thing, which is boring.
Overall DR on farming Loot.
Daily fractal chests for Pristine Relics.
Daily achievements for Laurels.
Daily event chests for chance at Precursors.
Weekly guild missions for Commendations.
Monthly achievements for Laurels.

As a PvE player, it is becoming a waste of time to stay logged in after my daily checklist is finished.

Add all Ascended stuff to Fractal vendors for Pristine Relics.
Add all Ascended stuff to WvW vendors for Badges of Honor.

???

Not like we can do Guild Missions now anyways. Guild Bounty Unlock requires 3 days. I figured an “Unlock” would be instant so we could enjoy new stuff on patch day. Fun denied.

Enter TA.
Trigger a poison plant.
Dodge through to get 5+ evades.
Repeat.

Old video, good for patch days:

What % decrease did you apply to Simin’s heal?

Hopefully nothing more than a 10%~ nerf.

Oglaf.1074:

Leamas.5803:

I would have liked to see more buffs to weaker/caster professions

Yeah, me too. Instead they buffed the overpowered trio; Mesmers, Thieves and Elementalists! Ahahaha….

“LFM [Insert PvE Content Here] – Warriors Preferred”

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Sorry for the confusion guys. Here’s the way it works:

• When your guild activates a bounty mission, it will be displayed in the new missions tab with a list of targets to kill in a 15 minute window (2 – 7 depending on tier).
• The targets are NPCs who already spawned on the maps. There is a clue as to what map they’ll be on for each target. They can be ANYWHERE on the map. Some of them are easier to find than others.
• Only guilds with the mission active can start a fight with a bounty. Everyone else will see them as a non-combatant.
• When the bounty is killed, it is respawned somewhere else for immediate re-use.
• 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.
• Once your guild completes all the targets (within the time limit) merits will be awarded to the guild.
• Merits are used to unlock new upgrades and other types of missions, so it pays to successfully complete your bounty hunts.

Is the reward of Commendations, Rares/Exos, Precursor Chance, and 50s available to everyone who helps complete a mission, or just the guild members of the guild that triggered it?

I actually don’t like Quaggans.

Give me a drunk bard singing in a pub full of adventurers any day over that.

Savoy has a point.

It is the day of the patch, and we still don’t have a detailed blog post explaining all the finer points of the Guild Mission feature. We don’t even have patch notes. The lack of a PTR has shown to be ineffective as well. Good communication is standard for MMOs, as people are willing to devote large portions of their free time to them.

I hate to say it, but visit MMOC’s front page and see the massive conversations developers have about upcoming feature and balance changes. ANet can improve.

Who would spend 40 laurels + ectos on an accessory when you can also obtain them from a week’s worth of Guild Commendations (12) + 5g?

Chickenshoes.6250:

Aesthetics ARE the endgame, so that’s an endgame item, ‘course it’s expensive.

Since people hate vertical progression, this is what we have.

To me the cosmetic endgame is about weapons and armor. If I get to the point where I have finished progression and need to choose between logging off and standing in LA as a cat…well, you get the idea.

“Endgame” and “cat tonic” don’t belong in the same sentence.

Keep in mind that the laurels+ecto method seems to be the alternte way of acquiring these items. You can also obtain them by cashing in 12 Guild Commendations + 5g.

HiddenNick.7206:

Sitael.4680:

This amount of needed influence is killing many many smaller guilds but do not bother big guilds in any way. An extremly bad choice of design just make more player frustrated, as they have not a whiff of a chance in a smaller guild.
A full new meaning of “Guild Wars”!

Guild Missions are for 15 players+. I think that 15 players are able to acquire this amount of influence pretty easily in a week.

The first Bounty mission requires only two champion-level bosses to be killed in 15 minutes. Unless those champions have a very large amount of health, a guild of 4-6 could easily do it.

WTB patch notes to prevent misinformation. It is patch day...give us something to read.

Mudfin.4637:

Ireniicus.2167:

I recall ANet promising an expansions worth of content in Q1 2013. We got almost nothing in January as it was ‘setting the scene’. That is cool.

So with just today and March update to come and then recall what Moria gave to LOTRO or Burning Crusade to WoW we can anticipate a huge amount of new content, features and mechanics.

Then I woke up.

Of course it depends on when Anets Q1 starts. Is it calendar? Is it Business? And, if it is Business when does their Fiscal year start? Could be January-March or February-April or March-May. Hell some companies Fiscal year starts in April. And is it their Fiscal year or NC Soft’s?

Just sayin’. They have a few outs…

Except that the “expansion worth of content in Q1” message was directed towards consumers. When you speak to a consumer, you use calendar. Fiscal is reserved for the business.

The big question here:

Is the reward of Commendations, Rares/Exos, Precursor Chance, and 50s available to everyone who helps complete a mission, or just the guild members of the guild that triggered it?

“Unsoulbinder” sounds so clumsy.

Let’s go with “Soulbreaker”.

Soulbind vs Soulbreak

I honestly don’t “get” tonics. They can’t be used in combat…so…people stand around transformed? Someone would devote three months~ of their dailies to this?

I expect a meaningful addition to the Living Story. It will be half over after this patch, so it better start getting good.

I expect the Guild Missions to be okay, but not great. I can’t see the personal rewards being unique.

Changes to AC will be cool I’m sure, but an update like this is geared towards future players or players who need something from it.

I am interested in the sPvP map. CTF is my favorite!

I’m more interested in what they haven’t told us. Balance changes, surprise additions, etc.

They are dragons. They just aren’t Elder Dragons.

The last boss in the last dungeon is more difficult and / or challenging than the rest? That’s the way games are supposed to end.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XqlC00lYbY4/TcKnFWuwjBI/AAAAAAAAFIg/ViKKR4d8wSY/s640/erick.jpg

Your post contradicts itself.

In the first half, you claim that casuals would prefer 1 weekly compared to 7 dailies.

In the second half, you claim that casuals would prefer if the 1 monthly were split into X partial completions.

Dailies are partial completions of a weekly.

Rule of thumb:

If you’re the type of person that would get offended by something going on sale just after you purchase it, wait for it to go on sale.

@rgrwng Second word in the original post is “cosmetic”. lol

I read it as “move as gently as a t-rex in a jewellery store”, similar to the “bull in a china shop” saying. In other words, if you were a t-rex in a jewellery store, you would not be moving gently at all; you would be clumsy and break everything.

Bacon.2360:

Eliyahu.1467:

CoE is a clinic in proper dodge skill. If you are dying to Alpha, you need to learn to dodge better — this means timing and conserving dodges.

When you do this path with players that have a good grasp on the dodge mechanic and endurance management, it’s pathetically easy.

I agree, the only thing really wrong with this dungeon is that 3 in 1 crap with mesmers and theives porting through doors. That is what really ruins my experience.

I agree. I have the DM title, but didn’t feel like a master when I entered a group that decided to do “3-in-1” and stay in melee againt Alpha while against a wall. I play much better doing things legit and staying mobile during a boss. I’m not opposed to skipping mobs, but I am opposed to glitches / cheesy gameplay.

In my opinion there is just one community. Being low level is a temporary state until a player reaches max level. As long as a levelling system exists, low level content will always be regarded as a means to an end.

Additions to low level content are worthless if a player dislikes making alts (I only ever make one character), whereas high level content will be seen by all players eventually.

Even in GW2 where content is called “dynamic”, it actually isn’t. I can’t go to Queensdale and farm mobs for Heavy Moldy Bags / T6 mats. I still need to go to Orr and Frostgorge.

It would be nice if we could get the patch notes tonight to read over before tomorrow. They must be ready by now.

I would pay $10.00 per armor skin for:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/5/5f/Elementalist_Deldrimor_armor_m.jpg

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/1/18/Elementalist_Asuran_armor_m.jpg

As a human-only player, I really want to know why my race left their home planet. It’s very Stargate: SG1. Did we destroy our own planet through war? Did our planet’s version of the Elder Dragons (if they existed on it) force use to relocate? Did an interplanetary race force us to relocate? Why did the Human Gods bring us to Tyria, specifically?

Does the lore team of ANet know the answers to these questions, or are they “winging it”?

I would pay real money for an ingame violin.

There needs to be a reduced spell effect option since the game uses visuals cues to show an upcoming ability needs to be dodged. It gets stupid sometimes.

Uncle Salty.6342:

Customizable dodge animation. That’s a bloody good idea. heh. +1 to you up there.

Yah, I mean can you imagine a Matrix-dodge mod? Instead of rolling, your character does Neo’s bullet-time dodges/evades. I’d pay for it. lol

The jewellery was recently added, so it was probably designed with a more current developer view of soulbound vs account bound. It is possible that the old armor sets could be updated in the future to reflect this.

Unrelated, I read the topic as “Karka Armor”. It would be so cool if there were Karka-themed armor sets using their Chitin.

Cosmetic Only? Here are some things I would pay real money for if they were in the Gem Store.

Emote Packs: this should already be in the store
Dance Packs: this should already be in the store
Dodge Animation Packs: I want this really bad. Devil May Cry style flips.
Mix and Match Armor Types: cosmetic only

Race+Profession Voice Packs: My human male sounds pre-pubescent sometimes, and many of the battle shouts are cheesy. Anger Rising!…so bad.

Not all of us look to forums for strategies. How do you think the strategies are made in the first place? Many players tackle gaming the old fashioned way:

1. Attempt
2. Fail
3. Analyze mistakes
4. Repeat steps 1-3 as needed
5. Kill