Guild Wars 2

dancingmonkey.4902:

Free accounts are capped at level 15, what level do you need to get into WvW proper?

There is no level cap for free accounts. They can level till 80 like everyone else.

ZhouFusion.1826:

The Lazy Way.
1-20 In PvE because they made the leveling on those levels pretty fast.
Then Only login for Daily Reward.
You get 16 Tomes a Month so in 3month you have your lvl 68.
I say 3 months because day 27(gives 4 Tomes)&28 (gives 6tomes if you choose that option). And your also will have get laurels wich you could use to get those Crafting starter kits. to level yourself by crafting aswell.

Free accounts have no login rewards.

That is nothing really new. They even state that on the website
“The Mastery system is a new approach to endgame progression. It represents a new way to grow your characters once they’ve hit level 80, and it does away with the traditional gear and level grind that leaves a content wasteland and widens the gap between new and veteran players. The Mastery system establishes exciting goals to achieve that increase your abilities and powers after level 80, allowing you to overcome greater challenges and creating truly meaningful endgame progression.”

Regarding forcing players to buy HoT none of the HoT specific masteries like gliding for example have any benefit outside of the new maps.

No. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/HOT-purchased-in-game-with-gems/first#post4867488

Belorn.2659:

Instead of limiting what free accounts can do, maybe they should start fixing the issues in WvW which allows players to troll.

Put a cap on how much supply a single player can take from a objective so a single player can’t waste it all.

Put a debuff on players who die in a golem which prevent them from entering new ones.

Fix the bugs which has sit on their bug tracker for years which allow people to glitch into places. Put in safeguards to detect people who speed hacks, wall hacks, or some other form of hacks.

Would still do nothing against spies. The change to supplies would also hurt players who have no malicious intentions.

+1 to restrict free accounts to EOTM.

sebrown.1963:

What about the new secondary professions? Will they work?

Yes, those can be used everywhere.

2 Gliding won’t be possible in the old maps.

Except for the HoT exclusive content tell me what is inaccessible for a f2p player?
I wouldn’t call it a trial when I can do anything.

If I remember the last thread about this topic correctly there aren’t any really good.
Some are waiting for the upcoming Camelot Unchained.

What do you mean by verified?

Zachary Stiers.1879:

The change I mentioned previously is multi-part. The change that makes all arrow carts use line-of-sight did indeed go out today, but the second part about the arrow cart line-of-sight checks being too forgiving was not part of today’s build. The changes to the way arrow cart line-of-sight is calculated is set for an upcoming patch.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Fix-the-AC-Exploit-now/page/3#post5403462

“Flooding them with free accounts and queuing for WvW simultaneously”
is a bit exaggerated with the level 60 requirement I would say.

Still +1 to let f2p players only play Eotm.

PariahX.6970:

level 60 before WvW is somewhat of a limitation. Hopefully they will change how the daily log in rewards work so leveling scrolls aren’t just wait three months before that spare free account can be used for naughty business in WvW.

Free acounts have no login rewards.

Not really

“As part of rewards for raids, we’re introducing legendary armor. Conquering raid content will earn you the pieces to build legendary precursor armors, which can be forged into legendary heavy, medium, and light armor sets. Like legendary weapons, these pieces will have the same stats as ascended armor; you’ll be able to change the armor stats out of combat and dazzle your friends with your sense of style, but you won’t have a statistical edge. Endless tiers of gear grind to stay raid relevant have no place in Guild Wars 2.”

http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/raids

fluffdragon.1523:

My major concern here is that, sure Staff cannot self-combo (Dust Strike doesn’t cause a Smoke field, unlike Black Powder), but is a 2s Knockdown really so much more devastating than Sneak Attack?

Sneak Attack:

• Damage (5x): 405 damage
• Bleeding (x5)(4s): 440 damage
• Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
• Range: 900

Using these numbers, we’re comparing Hook Strike’s damage plus 2s of knockdown to Sneak Attack’s 2,465 theoretical damage with its multiple projectiles (“real” damage will be significantly higher). AND the fact that Pistol/Dagger builds can do this again approximately 5 seconds later or so thanks to Black Powder + Heartseeker.

While I understand that Staff isn’t supposed to be “reliant” on stealth and offer us an alternative via evasion and dodges, it seems a bit silly not to let it be able to — even if simply to synergize with Shadow Arts builds for an ultra-evasive build (say, Acrobatics + Shadow Arts + Daredevil).

Request: add a linear Smoke Combo Field to Staff #4 to bring it in line with Black Powder and permit greater synergy with other specializations. Being as it would not be a radial field, this would require clever usage to enter (and maintain) stealth.

Pistol/Dagger has neither Heartseeker nor Black Powder. That is D/P.
X/D relies on Cloak and Dagger for stealth.

Silverkey.2078:

So let’s compare

• mantras of distraction: 2 cast by default, 3 if traited; distracting daggers: 3 by default
• mantra of distraction: 5s CD between uses, distracting dagger didn’t seem to have any
• mantra of distractions: 2 3/4s loading, distracting dagger: 1s loading
• distracting dagger: power block without trait

the only benefit of ours is the 5s shorter CD, but almost 2s of those are spent casting anyway. And the daze is shorter, but I have already said I would have liked shorter daze for the mantra. I see it as an interrupt tool, not a way to disable someone for a long time.

This is called balance

You forgot 1200 range with instant cast versus 900 range projectile.
And up to 5 targets versus 1 target.

You know that were was a refund option for those who bought the core game after the HoT announcement?

Block them. Problem solved.

Conditions which inflict damage over time (bleeding, burning, torment and poison) deal damage each full second and a fractional damage either at the beginning or end of their duration. Thus, if a skill that inflicts poison with a duration of 6 seconds has its duration increased to 6.9 seconds through traits, it will show 7s in its tooltips, but will actually only deal full damage 6 times, the remaining duration will deal a fractional damage.

I’m very surprised that they didn’t wait till tomorrow with this announcement.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Didn’t we have to provide a phone number when registering the game, in the first place? I don’t remember anyone commenting on that before the whole SMS thing. If not, I wonder where they got that information in ‘My Account’.

Nope. I don’t have a phone number there.

Damage multipliers are combined multiplicatively. For example the Superior Sigil of Force (5%), Superior Sigil of the Night (10%), a 10% trait, a 20% trait and the (6) bonus of the Superior Rune of the Scholar (10%) combine to roughly 68% more damage (1.05 * 1.1 * 1.1 * 1.2 * 1.1 = 1.677), not only 55% (the summation).

Force + Eagle : 1.05*1.06 = 1,113
Force + Eagle + Night : 1.05*1.06*1.1 = 1,2243

fixit.7189:

So does this means they might put in a ‘premium’ account feature. Thus, if you DO not pay this money per month you will get .oo1% exp, loot, rewards, etc of a prem account and possibly even more limitations on top of that. Is this why they put in that new clause in the ToS to usher this in? If so, consider me gone. If I am going to pay a sub, I would play wow instead.

That ‘new’ clause existed since the beginning.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/License-Agreement/first#post1706206

Free accounts can only access Eotm would probably be the best in my opinion.

Yes
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/check-out-the-daredevil-on-points-of-interest/

Regarding 2

Gaile Gray

Oh say, that’s been in there since before Guild Wars launched, back in 2005. I guess I’d call it “standard verbiage” and I know that I’ve asked about it, and it’s a corporate thing, but should not be seen as any sort of mechanism to start monthly fees. The entire company is behind the “There is no monthly fee” concept for GW and GW2, and that is not going to change.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/License-Agreement/first#post1706206

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, sorry about this bug. The team has disabled the self style hair kits and permanent hair style contracts until a fix can be pushed to the live game. Additionally, sales of the hair kits on the gem store have been disabled until the fix is in.

Rest assured, the kit functionality will be returned to normal once the fix for this bug is live.

LilMcGinley.3890:

KnattyDreads.1856:

Can someone smarter then I explain why a simple system of 1st goes up 3rd goes down wouldn’t work? I’m really getting a sense of over complication here…

Every week will have a T1 server playing a T2 and T3 server, no matter what.. this pattern continues all the way down the ladder. IE T2 server will be playing a T3 and T4 server..

No one in T3 will want to win because they’ll get smashed by whatever monster from T1 loses and no one in T2 will want to win because they’ll get thrown in with 2 T1 monsters.

Staffordshire.1752:

i thought druid and staff was confirmed? so this pretty much means ranger for sure wont be getting staff?

Staff druid was shown in the trailer.
Afaik it was purely assumption from the players that the weapons would be unique.

Are you talking about the shadow skelks?
I have never seen them going instantly invisible after one attack.
There are always a few seconds in which they are visible.
They also don’t move out of aoe afaik. They are always in meele range.
The only thing they might do is porting behind you.

If you mean season 2 of the living story it is not part of HoT as far as I know.
New players would need to buy all chapters.

Can confirm it.

was datamined.

Blood Reckoning : This heal works on your condition damage as well
http://dulfy.net/2015/08/21/gw2-berserker-warrior-elite-specialization-livestream-notes/

Ronah Lynda.2496:

All banned accounts are no longer in service but this is not stopping the “bad players” to buy a new GW2 account and start their own thing again..

And your solution would prevent this how?

No

https://www.guildwars2.com/de/news/a-new-way-to-protect-your-account/

Donari.5237:

Killyox.3950:

Donari.5237:

My question is how hard/easy it is to maintain the Berserker state. I haven’t been playing my Warriors so much but I do know it seems like every moment you’re not actively hitting things your adrenaline is draining away. Can you only access Berserker mode for a few seconds at a time?

Has 8 seconds CD and activation of 1/4s. Also gives 33% attack speed afaik. Requires full adrenaline to activate.

Exactly. You have to build up adrenaline to enter the beserk state. Do you then have to do high maintenance to stay there? Reaper works well because you keep Life Force forever until you use it, so you have a lot of flexibility on using Reaper Shroud. If Berserker only gives you all the shiny goodies after a fight’s gone on for a while, and then kicks you back to base state if you go three seconds without hitting something, that could be annoying.

“It’s a skill with a duration and a cooldown that cannot be activated unless you have full adrenaline. Once activated it cannot be cancelled and the player will continue going berserk for its duration. "

According to this it is not even possible to leave berserk state voluntarily before it expires.
I don’t think you need to worry about maintaining it.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Good to see Wild Blow come back, and definitely an interesting take on it. I wonder if the enemy player counts as a projectile finisher? Wouldn’t that be fun!

Nope. From the interview

We wanted to know more about the rage skills including Wild Blow that was revealed to us. We asked if the skill’s description of turning an enemy’s body into a projectile meant that it could count as a physical projectile finisher and got a laugh out of Robert.

If that was the case then we’d need to reflect the player when they hit a Wall of Reflection! To answer the question, though, we don’t have the capability to make players count as projectile finishers, so this isn’t part of what the skill does.

It would be the same price without the core game.
You can find more info here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/HoT-Price-Feedback-Base-game-included-merged

Veteran players get an extra character slot.

https://account.arena.net/content/download/gw2/osx

Probably Warrior or Engineer since their elite specs were already datamined.

No, there is only one key.
Either upgrade an existing account or create a new one.

warownslife.6849:

Incantus.8960:

To the people saying that this isnt an important issue…

What are you even thinking? For new players coming into this game, not being able to do the final mission of the game is a huge turn-off, and GW2 needs new players to retain its playerbase.

I loved my personal story, every bit of it, and when I realized I’m finally there, time to take on zhaitan, and…. The mission is bugged, I was devastated, and when I hit the forums to notice this bug has been around for at least 2 weeks, it left a really sour taste in my mouth.

I have the living story season 2 unlocked, but I’m not touching that untill this mission is fixed, I like to do things in order, this is directly preventing me from doing so.

This isn’t even the biggest problem, i did not see ONE single arenanet employee say “sorry, it will be fixed eventually”

I want to say thank you for fixing your mistake but god kitten guys, we would have accepted to a “sorry, it will be fixed eventually” How the kitten are you gonna have a game breaking bug for TWO WEEKS and not have a single mention of it?

A. its major to new players, which seems like what you want.
B. its major to olden players that remember the mission and enjoy nostalgia.
C. its god kitten neccasary for your HoT and living season 1-2. Thus, turning your entire updates moot.

Next time, talk to us. Say something. Put up a blog post somewhere, stop being distant. This is your biggest mistake. This is an unforgivable mistake. You can’t ignore people like this, fix the problem and everyone be “yay” were going to remain a little kitteny and definitely not trust you guys.

What if HoT breaks? What if i can’t do my first personal story mission? What if my character is unplayable? Do you think I, or, a new player is going to look at this thread at some point and be like “kitten , kitten these guys, 2 weeks to fix this problem?”

Because this thread isn’t going away, if this EVER breaks again, it will encite the same rage even stronger because NO ONE will expect you to fix it fast. You messed up.

Talk next time. That all said, thank you for fixing the bug. We KNOW it takes time and a lot of work. None of us are angry at the hard workers, we appreciate all of you. However, you reap what you sow.

They did talk about it. Just not in this thread.

BobbyStein.2315:

An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/page/8#post5350146

BobbyStein.2315:

An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/page/8#post5350146

That is currently at least partially already implemented.
They changed the world population so that it only depends on the active wvw population/activity.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/World-Population-Changes-Are-Coming

Inverse.2967:

Wow fast insult without even looking at the saved past recordings contents !
There is just some uncommented player view stuff, pretty much not worth watching.
And to twitch recordings still appplies that you can’t see anything above “all screen funny color blocks only” on low end internet.

This should be it http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/10124128

The blogpost says so.
“In order to help keep league play fun for all players and reduce the number of people who quit, go AFK, or get up to other shenanigans, we’ll be updating and reinstating the dishonor system. "