Guild Wars 2

You mean the mini-pet in the front?

Tachenon.5270:

Onshidesigns.1069:

GW2 is not a medieval fantasy game. GW2 is a world based in fantasy, post renaissance, mechanical, steampunk, industrial, magic.

Swords don’t make it medieval fantasy. Because they clearly use some type of magic.

GW2 incorporates elements of medieval fantasy as much as it incorporates elements of those other things, but it’s not any one of those things alone. So. What about jousting?

Jousting is for the weak. Real warriors walk up to their foe, slap him in the face and say “Bring it.”

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

More clarification:

• It’s an artificer recipe
• You can trade the output of the recipe between classes
• The recipe makes a one-time use item, it does not unlock a new skill
• This is not going to replace a mesmer in your party

So if my mesmer is an artificer (level 400) is there a chance I can cause a rift in the space/time continuum that… oh crap… now we know what happened to the Thaumanova Reactor… it’s not something that happened in the past but something that will happen in the future that affects the past!

Manuhell.2759:

SynfulChaot.3169:

Manuhell.2759:

More like, people whining cause they can’t farm CoF anymore.

I don’t see whining.

I do, however, see many people trying to figure out if dungeons got rewards nerfed enough that they are no longer viable for repeated farming.

I would say that’s kinda the point of the whole update – nerfing the rewards you get for doing the same path repeatedly, especially if they’re considered easy (thus CoF 1 will have, like, the minimal reward). And giving better rewards to dungeons that aren’t being used much cause they aren’t easy and farmable as CoF 1.

I see it this way as well. You want to farm dungeons? Farm them in a cycle instead of a single one over and over.

LotuS.4378:

Yes, but AN decided to put update every 2 weeks, so right now we will have new siege mastery every 2 week? Till 2020? This is getting bad. Where are Orbs? They told that find a soluction for it. Same for new MAP, still nothing, 0 info, not even a single post from AN. Check General/spvp or living story topics, and how AN is responding.

They said the orb replacement would be in by the end of the year, not the end of your patience. Let’s let them make sure it’s solid and ready, eh?

I wouldn’t mind seeing the wxp Points being account bound and having the ability to reset them once per week (to prevent abuse) personally. I like to play many alts in WvW depending on what the guild needs so my points are smeared all over the place. But, that being said, I don’t mind the current system either.

I got my first Champion Loot Bag yesterday. When I opened it a champion spider crawled out and killed me. I didn’t see that coming.

If Jenna had nuts she’d be king too. I just don’t see mounts fitting in this game aside from the cosmetic variety. Something like a joust could be a PvP style instance perhaps, but there’s really no need for mounts in the PvE world. The only way it would kind of a little bit almost appear to consider making sense would be for mounts to not provide a speed boost compared to normal running, maybe instead hold a couple extra storage bags like a mini-mobile bank you can ride.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

An what about currencies stored in bank?
There is said that upon first login of every character on the account all the currencies that character wield will be stored into wallet – so I’m asking when – if – will be stored currencies form the bank?
do I need to take all the tokens on the one of character from the bank before the update?

It’s already been answered that all currencies stored in the bank (tokens, etc.) will automatically be transferred to the wallet with the update, so you’ll basically log in and have all that space available and a fat, happy wallet singing show tunes.

Bah. Rating meat is for the timid.

Wolfheart.1938:

Tyria has a moon?

Indeed it does. It even dresses up for Halloween.

Araziel.7201:

We just had a significant breakthrough with our rocket boots. Give us a little more time.

Unfortunately the test pilot wasn’t wearing any form of self contained breathing apparatus and we failed to consider the reduction in available atmosphere with increase in altitude. Or the dramatic reduction in temperature. Or the amount of “impact” he’d have in the field immediately following descent.

By the way, we have an opening for a new rocket-boot test pilot.

Nerf? Three gold bonus for dancing with Loopy is hardly a nerf.

How do you know we haven’t?

Yza.2437:

VOLKON.1290:

Jscull.2514:

Lol supply mastery???? Are you kidding me… Anet get your head out of your rear. Give us PLAYER VS PLAYER bonuses.

Don’t be ridiculous. That would actually provide the kind of power creep ANet is avoiding.

Food

Oil

Sharpening stones

Tower buffs

WvW buffs

Exotic/asc gear

Stacks of power/condition and vitality from killing guards

easy 25 stacks of power/prec etc

I got news for you..there is already a power creep. Stop kidding your self.

Anet ruined the wvw stat balance since they needed to make money off of mats.

It’s not power creep if everyone has access to it out of the gate. They’re proposing individual increases in power above and beyond what is available to everyone when you first step foot in WvW, and power that directly makes it easier to kill someone simply because you were there longer. That’s the line that must never be crossed.

Everything on your list is available to everyone their first day in WvW. Nothing there is exclusive power gained over time.

darkace.8925:

I wouldn’t call it shallow. Homogenized? Sure. But not shallow.

I was thinking more pasteurized. All the crap has been removed leaving only the good stuff.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Even if it doesn’t (and it might), I’ll willingly drag stuff to my char to throw into the wallet just to get it out my hair! Gosh, I’m so happy about that! If its actually a wallet, and doesnt have the 250 stack limit…I may die of happiness.

It will not have the 250 stack limit. Currencies in the wallet will act the same as karma and gold do currently.

Great news, thanks Mark!

When this goes live, what about currencies currently in the bank tabs? Will they be automatically moved or will it be a manual thing? (Either is fine by me to be honest.) Also… any pictures you can share of the wallet?

Thanks again.

Strange… I’m using a good 20 different abilities on my mesmer.

khani.4786:

I’m hoping it will be somewhere in our hero pane where we can see how much we have of which currencies. Kinda-sorta like RIFT does (but you know cleaner & better)

Something like that would be nice indeed! Maybe we can beg really really hard and convince ANet to show us a screen shot?

Xirin.8593:

Yaro.3251:

VOLKON.1290:

(You of course know what happens when two positive charges get too close…)

No, what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion

I was thinking more along the lines that they repel each other. Think of the fun you could have with that… “Hey buddy… aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh……” (Imagine the two flying away from each other at notable speeds…)

Although it’s a bad idea in general, I think a fun April Fool’s joke would be to add a buff when entering WvW (one day only) -

Positive Reinforcement. – The portal to the Mists is malfunctioning and has given you a strong positive charge. Be careful getting too close to someone else with this charge. (You of course know what happens when two positive charges get too close…)

LilMcGinley.3890:

I just moved off T1 because a group of 30 might as well be 3… I’ve been to T1 on 3 different servers. Not everyone wants to sit on ACs all day and map zerg around, some people enjoy skillful fights, of even numbers.

Lol. I can’t take out AC behind the door without running 3 monitors or using trebs/cata therefore I’m a bad player? Get off your high horse man…

You have the tools available and choose not to use them. You can’t wish or complain them away. If people won’t bring the fight to you, you bring the fight to them. It’s that simple.

LilMcGinley.3890:

We tried to “rip down a door” but where met by 6 instantly built arrow carts that we can’t destroy…

waiting to fight? or will they just run to inner and DO THE EXACT SAME THING.

I’ve honestly never seen people so afraid to die in any video game I’ve ever played.

There are no arrow carts you can’t destroy, but you’re unwilling to learn to counter so that’s irrelevant apparently. You want fights? Come to the T1/T2 neck of the woods and learn what the expression “be careful what you wish for” actually means. If you’re making the conscious choices to remain on low population WvW servers and to not learn to counter siege then you’ve forfeited the right to complain and be taken seriously.

PoweredByRice.3517:

DB….. why so many TROLL? I guess if you can’t win, might as well troll in the forum.
I miss the TC/FA/TC thread from last week.

You claiming there was a 2v1?

LilMcGinley.3890:

VOLKON.1290:

LilMcGinley.3890:

VOLKON.1290:

Jscull.2514:

You’re right. Why would we want an end game that requires more than spamming a couple keys, key turns, and fighting npcs that you can get defense against? Lol you guys realize you play the easiest mmo joke of a version of “player vs player” in mmo history right? Mario cart is more challenging that sitting on an arrow cart for an hour just to press 2 buttons.

This is the same guy begging for more power to beat people with and expects to be taken seriously. I’m getting the impression he doesn’t actually play this game anymore if he thinks the fields are littered with rows of arrow carts or something. Either that or he got taken out by an AC and rather than develop a counter has been hiding in the forums ever since.

We bashed on Bay door for 1 minute (2 reg rams and 25 people) and were met by 6 insta-built arrow carts… I wanna know where the heck you play that this doesn’t happen…

What’s the counter to AC? Treb for 2 hours? Screw that. I want to fight people, not siege/walls.

Give me one treb and five minutes tops and you won’t have an AC in sight to worry about.

Now… your scenario… you had a Bay gate without scouts and didn’t build a field AC or two to keep the walls clear while you rammed? Only used regular rams too? Yes… obviously arrow carts are the problem.

None of the defender ACs were on the walls…

I can play for ~2 hours a night, I don’t want to spend half of that getting supply and building siege just to knock down more siege which will just be rebuilt because they have 1700 supply in a keep.. I want to kill PEOPLE.

We attacked to pull people out into the open, tired of this siege warfare kitten

Then you’re playing the wrong game. Siege is and always will be a major part of WvW by design. You want to fight them? Rip down a wall or door and go inside. They’ll be waiting to fight.

LilMcGinley.3890:

VOLKON.1290:

Jscull.2514:

You’re right. Why would we want an end game that requires more than spamming a couple keys, key turns, and fighting npcs that you can get defense against? Lol you guys realize you play the easiest mmo joke of a version of “player vs player” in mmo history right? Mario cart is more challenging that sitting on an arrow cart for an hour just to press 2 buttons.

This is the same guy begging for more power to beat people with and expects to be taken seriously. I’m getting the impression he doesn’t actually play this game anymore if he thinks the fields are littered with rows of arrow carts or something. Either that or he got taken out by an AC and rather than develop a counter has been hiding in the forums ever since.

We bashed on Bay door for 1 minute (2 reg rams and 25 people) and were met by 6 insta-built arrow carts… I wanna know where the heck you play that this doesn’t happen…

What’s the counter to AC? Treb for 2 hours? Screw that. I want to fight people, not siege/walls.

Give me one treb and five minutes tops and you won’t have an AC in sight to worry about.

Now… your scenario… you had a Bay gate without scouts and didn’t build a field AC or two to keep the walls clear while you rammed? Only used regular rams too? Yes… obviously arrow carts are the problem.

Jscull.2514:

You’re right. Why would we want an end game that requires more than spamming a couple keys, key turns, and fighting npcs that you can get defense against? Lol you guys realize you play the easiest mmo joke of a version of “player vs player” in mmo history right? Mario cart is more challenging that sitting on an arrow cart for an hour just to press 2 buttons.

This is the same guy begging for more power to beat people with and expects to be taken seriously. I’m getting the impression he doesn’t actually play this game anymore if he thinks the fields are littered with rows of arrow carts or something. Either that or he got taken out by an AC and rather than develop a counter has been hiding in the forums ever since.

Imagine halberds… then imagine “You are too close to your target” messages.

Jscull.2514:

VOLKON.1290:

Couldn’t agree more. Like I said, anyone who crys about making the game harder just wants ez mode and is afraid of getting their kitten handed to them.

And yet you’re here crying about making the game easier for people who’ve been here longer instead of “harder” or leaving the real power effect in the hands of a players skill. I find irony in this.

If designed right, you would have the same opportunity as I do. How is that unfair? [/quote]

Obviously for people either on fresh 80 alts or newer players trying WvW out for the first time or three it becomes unfair. You’re crying for an advantage over these players instead of relying on your own ability and knowledge of your profession to beat them fairly. If I get beat by someone with “Private” or the like by their nameplate I’m simply going to respawn and have at it again. I’m not going to go to the forums demanding more power to counter someone that beat me fairly.

Jscull.2514:

Xsorus.2507:

deracs.1762:

Jscull.2514:

Zinthros.6589:

Jscull.2514:

You guys are funny. Guess what there should be a learning curve, and players who have learned not to keyboard turn, spam 2 buttons instead of viewing the scenario and knowing what key is best for that situation, should be rewarded for playing smarter. I didn’t play wow cuz that was carebear as well just not as bad as this. Literally for hardcore players other than kills, there is ZERO reward. The end game is purely what skilled players kill…. We should be able to rank up and make our characters more efficient in player vs player skill…. NONE of us use seige. I will till the day I quit spam AC’s down on Zerg seige. Stop relying on seige to kill… Use your characters abilities….

How about no.

Only trash MMOs reward experienced players with innate power. You shouldn’t need World Rank bonus stats to kill new / casual players. You’re supposed to improve your skill level with time, giving the advantage of being a more experienced player.

Yea Daoc was trash and had a 250k+ population for over 6-7 years…. All paying 15 bucks
A month and the BEST end game of all time for player vs player…. You’re right buddy. Think this game will have 250k players for 6-7 years? Not a kittening chance. Guess what? Zero end game, oh wait, I can hop on a mindless ac and spam 2 buttons for an hour of my RL time…. Lol and carry and pick up more supply…. Useless dude.

There is zero end game ranking system in this game.

Maybe go back and look at some of the facts from that era, First, there were no “free to play” options when DAOC was out so every game charged 15 bucks a month, so that is no argument. Credit DAOC with one thing, they were the only company honest enough to post populations, and after the first year they had no where close to 250k subscribers but without being mythic employee, there is no way to confirm

The best argument I love from “skilled players” is that they need to be rewarded more, so they can increase the skill gap and therefore need less skill to win. You want to prove how skilled and uber you are, you should have decrease as you go up in rank, show us how skilled you really are

This games WvW is more about participation then it is about stroking the ego of the 80+ hour a week skilled players. I think they have done a good job with world xp allowing the ego of rank titles without giving abilities that basically stop any new player from joining in

Ehh, DAOC gave Rank, and Rank gave you more abilities/stats ect ect.

Most fights came more down to class and setup then anything, but even then, if you were really skilled you could stomp over high rank players, and that was something to be proud of.

People who talk about Ranks should not reward players are scared of losing, and they’re usually the first ones to blame Rank and other things when they do lose.

Couldn’t agree more. Like I said, anyone who crys about making the game harder just wants ez mode and is afraid of getting their kitten handed to them.

And yet you’re here crying about making the game easier for people who’ve been here longer instead of “harder” or leaving the real power effect in the hands of a players skill. I find irony in this.

That’s ok… it’s a toucan.

No, the overall dungeon buffing is coming next week.

Not bad, not bad at all. However I’d give a couple options for shots… one that is intended to do more damage to structures (solid balls o’ death) and one intended to do damage to smaller (think siege and people) things (such as grapeshot). I like the 1 supply to load, then a choice of what you fire. (Grapeshot could have an AoE type of impact zone where the solid shot is direct on target or tiny AoE for example.)

Tower Guard.5263:

I sure hope that watchwork tech isn’t going to go berserk…. probably will :/

I hope it does (a bit at least)… I love the blurring of the lines between what some consider steam punk and others fantasy. Add a little Asuran Sci-fi (albeit via magitechnical means) and I’m rather giddy.

Calvin.5380:

Blackelk.3784:

Rinoa.8915:

Our thread got to page 3 while remaining moderately civilized and good-hearted. I got my hopes up for this week’s potential camaraderie. What on earth happened! >.<

I was hoping to have a nice repeat of last weeks forums with FA and TC was nice not reading through 20 posts of forum sniping.

Overall good fights this week, sorry there is such large coverage gaps if not I could see this being much closer match, oh well can’t force people to play where they don’t want to (just ask JQs EU guilds….).

Is EMP considering a transfer to DB? We don’t house their ex-esteemed leader anymore, but I see some genuine love here.

I’m pretty sure those of EMP that were Noodle-followers are long gone by now. Those that I see remaining are pure Quarrians.

If you’re talking about Raw Noodles, he left DB for BG.

LotuS.4378:

VOLKON.1290:

This is actually a really nice update for WvW when you look at it. Badges of Honor no longer taking up space? Thank you ANet! (Looks like they’ll all be across the entire account too.) Cleaning up the visuals in WvW? Thanks again! That will help nicely. Give them some credit, these little quality of life changes are nice.

Account Wallet for Currency
Keep all of your currencies in one easy-to-find location! This Wallet holds dungeon tokens, coins, karma, laurels, Guild Commendations, Fractal Relics, Badges of Honor, gems, and glory and makes them accessible to any character on your account. Upon logging in with each unique character for the first time after the Wallet has gone live, that character will have all of their currencies deposited into the account-wide collection.

Improved Effects Level of Detail System
Effects like fireballs, streaks that trail behind a sword, players’ footsteps, and even the fiery breath of dragons are all part of the beauty of Guild Wars 2. In situations where all of that beauty can start to take away from the visual clarity of the battlefield, this new system will slowly start reducing the detail of each effect in order to increase combat visibility when many effect types are overlapping. When action gets intense in dungeons, PvP, the open world, and WvW, this system will let you see more of the action.

Permanent Finishers
We’re adding support for permanent Finishers! With this release, you’ll be able to sort through your available Finishers and choose the one you’d like to use as a default. Change your mind and change your Finisher! Rank up for rank Finishers, or keep an eye on the Gem Store for a new selection of Finishers. Finishers can be used in both PvP and WvW!

1. After all those months, to be honest no1 care anymore about this.
2. Less FPS.
3. Also, for roaming parties, duels 1v1.

People with thousands and thousands of badges care. People that play alts, go to buy supply traps or the like and realize those badges are on other characters care. I care. (But that’s because I’m a caring person all around.)

2 & 3 agree, nice little quality of life thingies.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

The gemstore item could be for your bank items specifically (lot of us collect stacks of mats for crafting).

Just caught the ‘karma’ part of that wallet description. If they actually roll all of my char karma into one pool which I can build/withdraw from on any character… Oh gods what an improvement. Gimme!

Really, it’s a major quality of life improvement change and greatly appreciated. One of those “Fly out to Seattle, knock on the door and start hugging people until you get arrested” changes. Very nice indeed.

Jscull.2514:

Power creep? Good players should be rewarded.. Supply mastery rewards casual idiots who want to build siege more. ZERO progress made towards a player vs player atmosphere.

Rewarded by imbalancing players against other players? Sorry… WoW is that way. —-—>

One of the basic premises behind the game is not having that form of required power creep and it’ll be a dark day if they ever cater to the crowd that want it.

This is actually a really nice update for WvW when you look at it. Badges of Honor no longer taking up space? Thank you ANet! (Looks like they’ll all be across the entire account too.) Cleaning up the visuals in WvW? Thanks again! That will help nicely. Give them some credit, these little quality of life changes are nice.

Account Wallet for Currency
Keep all of your currencies in one easy-to-find location! This Wallet holds dungeon tokens, coins, karma, laurels, Guild Commendations, Fractal Relics, Badges of Honor, gems, and glory and makes them accessible to any character on your account. Upon logging in with each unique character for the first time after the Wallet has gone live, that character will have all of their currencies deposited into the account-wide collection.

Improved Effects Level of Detail System
Effects like fireballs, streaks that trail behind a sword, players’ footsteps, and even the fiery breath of dragons are all part of the beauty of Guild Wars 2. In situations where all of that beauty can start to take away from the visual clarity of the battlefield, this new system will slowly start reducing the detail of each effect in order to increase combat visibility when many effect types are overlapping. When action gets intense in dungeons, PvP, the open world, and WvW, this system will let you see more of the action.

Permanent Finishers
We’re adding support for permanent Finishers! With this release, you’ll be able to sort through your available Finishers and choose the one you’d like to use as a default. Change your mind and change your Finisher! Rank up for rank Finishers, or keep an eye on the Gem Store for a new selection of Finishers. Finishers can be used in both PvP and WvW!

Jscull.2514:

Lol supply mastery???? Are you kidding me… Anet get your head out of your rear. Give us PLAYER VS PLAYER bonuses.

Don’t be ridiculous. That would actually provide the kind of power creep ANet is avoiding.

Homonavn.6348:

cesmode.4257:

If you are looking for difficult PVE endgame..fractals bud. As you go higher in the fractal levels(which are endless) it gets more difficult. And some of the mechanics and fractals contain some of the most unique mechanics ive seen. And yes Ive raided in wow for years.

Wrong. 80 is the highest level, its capped at 80 even in fractals.

Hush. He’s talking Fractal level, not character levels.

Just a little bump to remind everyone that the Quarry is still and always looking for people from all lands and times to join us in some serious WvW fun, because fun is serious business. So contact one of our various reps and get a taste of WvW on the rocks!

SykkoB.9465:

lets be honest tho dude, he started most of the drama with JQ and DB. He actively tried and, did recruit from JQ, He also ran his mouth how he was gonna take JQ down, and yet he bailed on DB

I have gained soo much respect for the JQ community, to survive all that they have. Most servers would have fallen apart

I’m not disagreeing that that happened, but the world didn’t revolve around Noodles either. I didn’t leave JQ (for a bit) to follow Noodles, I left to follow FIRE (eventually) because, even though it was my opinion they were idiots for leaving JQ, they were my idiots. It was ultimately my personal frustration with the WvW there compared to how I prefer to play that sent me back home to JQ. Besides, home is where the heart is, and mine was chiseled in the Quarry.

Me.

Fine, fine… I’m actually content to wait and see how things play out at this point. There’s a lot added, a lot more coming, so yeah, I plan to be there experiencing the journey as it unfolds.

SykkoB.9465:

VOLKON.1290:

Fuzzion.2504:

yesfourme.8906:

FA is not even trying. And when they try, I feel they team with JQ to beat on DB

Because theres history between db and jq . doh. ANyway, had many good fights and duels today. Gn and cya all tomorrow

Yep… had a bunch go to DB from JQ, even had a few come back. What’s even more strange than that however is the fact that this is my first post in this thread. I am ashamed.

your history with DB is now on BG(rawnoodles).

Bah, that’s only one noodle in the soup.

Primernova.5791:

VOLKON.1290:

Primernova.5791:

Yeesh! I give them credit for showing all gameplay footage, but my god that resolution and graphics settings.

China will snap it up and make Anet and NCsoft a lot of money, but it will do the same thing there as it did here. Quick adoption, fast leveling/gearing and then a tail off.

Tail off? Servers are starting to hit Full again after they bumped up the cap. Growth != Tailing off.

The growth here is players hemorrhaging from WoW and being forced to upgrade their computers. They will tail off as well, with a massive well of QQ for cheaper/easier gear.

MMOs need real depth. None have it at the moment. The EU/US market has no taste for it and neither does the Asian.

Smart gamers, are the MMO playerbase. Pandering to the plebian masses only sucks them in for a month or so and then they kitten off to the next FOTM game, or take up a different hobby.

So we’re growing… WoW dying… you’re calling GW2 the WoW-killer now? Even I’m not that bold!

I came into this thread expecting to find something to vehemently disagree with. I find myself pleasantly disappointed.

Probably the only disagreement would be that, with their size, they can (and likely are) do both. Better comm tools, yeah, those would be nice. Being able to choose your pin color (from a few, at least) would also be nice. Imagine being able to tell one group to follow the blue pin, the other the green pin? Lovely bit of convenience that would bring.

TheAmpca.1753:

hex.3218:

TheAmpca.1753:

I personally am an FA NA member who plays on EB I can only describe Jade Bags and Dragonbags one way. Those two servers are like a baby’s butt; they are always getting wiped.

Come play with the big boys and girls on a borderland during NA Prime. Measuring a server’s performance by roaming in EB is like describing a band’s sound y looking at their album cover.

How about this. Stop by JQBL tonight at 7 pm EST and we’ll revisit this topic after.

Lol i’m sorry is EB not “l33t” enough for you because you don’t know how to play that map. I should have expected this from JQ, just running from a problem instead of trying to get better. Well the more loot for me.

OK… who is this guy and who’s the mesmer that cast “Illusion of Relevance” on him?

Fuzzion.2504:

yesfourme.8906:

FA is not even trying. And when they try, I feel they team with JQ to beat on DB

Because theres history between db and jq . doh. ANyway, had many good fights and duels today. Gn and cya all tomorrow

Yep… had a bunch go to DB from JQ, even had a few come back. What’s even more strange than that however is the fact that this is my first post in this thread. I am ashamed.