Guild Wars 2

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

So I’ve noticed and correct me if I’m wrong but in bigger scaled Events where you have a lot of mobs attacking a Camp, if you go Soldier’s or anything else you’d get a lot less drops then if you wore Berserker’s? Is this correct?

I think if the Tagging System isn’t adjusted a bit, nothing other then Berserker’s will ever be viable in PvE, because basically we’re forced to do highest DPS to fill the criteria for our drops, or the other 20 Berserker’s will take our spot in the “DPS ladder” and we end up empty handed.

I don’t think Berserker’s is the problem, as the not-being-able-to-wear-anything-else if you want drops.

If you are fighting in small groups, this is not an issue. PvT would be better because of survivability.

But when you are fighting in a zerg, berserker gear will end up pushing you past the loot threshold to get credit.

But the above point doesn’t really become a factor anyway, considering there are other factors that influence your ability to get loot, such as party/grouping and DR.

I personally run zerker gear not only to ensure I do superior damage to get loot credit, but to kill mobs faster enough to spawn more waves, resulting in more loot.

/disagree

This will not make any noticeable difference for new players, considering that effectiveness for new players is largely hindered by their lack of proper gearing rather than traiting.

Do you honestly think missing out on +10 points in one trait line is going to outweigh a lvl 30 war running around in lvl 20 clerics gear?

These changes are great and exactly what people wanted when they asked for horizontal progression.

I remember in Aion, there were highly desirable skill signets that were a rare drop in the world. I wouldn’t mind having some really nice skills that have a low drop chance and worth 400g on the TP.

but that’s just me.

Avead.5760:

Wait a sec..it cant be just that !Am i reading it wrong?
Guardian new gm ,which is pretty boring anyway, is free 300 stat points in vitality.
And ele new trait is barely 270-300 stat points in spvp ONLY if you go full healing power and ONLY to others?
Hmm it cant be just increase in healing power..it has to be direct heal increase as well.Thats barely a few hundreds more health for your healing spells

Relax buddy, each class has 5 grandmasters to choose from.

With the new feature pack, we will be getting grandmasters.

One example out of 5 is the following:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/traits-unleashed-forty-new-traits-and-more/

Guardian: Force of Will
With the current traits available to the guardian, their Honor line has multiple support traits that heavily assist allies but have less individual benefit for the guardian. With this patch, guardians will have the option to unlock Force of Will, a trait that grants three hundred extra vitality when slotted (which amounts to three thousand health at level 80 from this trait alone). The result is a guardian that is much more durable when facing conditions and physical attacks.

Anyone wish to speculate what kind of grandmasters you’d like to see from the other trait lines?

Those grandmaster traits, geezus bookah

And those aren’t even all of them! Imagine the choices!!!

We could be getting news on dyepacks on March 24

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/feature-packs/

Electro.4173:

SAB would be a lame april fools considering its exactly what they did last year. Don’t get me wrong, I adore SAB, but just repeating the exact same “prank but not really a prank at all” content would be kind of boring.

That really wasn’t a prank anyway. I don’t see why releasing SAB would be a bad thing. They will obviously have the next world in there.

You do know that it’s proper marketing to end on a high note?

Why release all the better items at the start of the month and end up with the terrible ones at the end? No one remembers the start – only the finish.

The better alternative is to spread out all the hot demand items throughout the month, or gradually end up releasing better items as the month ends.

We got 11 days left.

They dropped because everyone who hoarded and speculated are impatient and dumping them.

Mainly, noob speculators

I hate all Sylvari now. I kick them from my dungeon groups.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

We want to let you know that the ability to build your precursor will not be in our upcoming Feature Pack. The way progression and rewards work in Guild Wars 2 have changed quite a bit since we initially talked about that feature, and our main horizontal progression systems are about to get some additional updates in the upcoming feature pack. Because of that, we are looking into several ways to integrate building your precursor into our new updated reward and progression systems we’re working on, which is requiring additional development time and iteration. As always, we’ll share details on this system once it’s far enough along in production we’re ready to discuss it.

Anyway you can comment if this is going to impact the new legendaries that were discussed in June 2013?

This is why all the cries for “Living Story stinks” don’t make any sense.

You want an expansion? OK, sure, lets give you 3 classes, half a dozen maps, new weapons and skills and all.

Give your hardcore player a month, your casual player 6 months – and they’re bored. Anything and everything worth exploring and playing out loses its luster.

Living Story content is small, I agree. But when you have new stuff coming every few weeks, it keeps the excitement going.

Having a huge content drop and then nothing for 1-2 years is boring and unsustainable in the current MMO climate.

The only issue would be that these are crafting items, not currencies.

Of course, as a way to act as a gold sink, you may be able to exchange these items for a fee to turn them into currency.

It’s a pretty nice area to take screenshots

Ishmel.1308:

Each time that vid gets posted the cost of T5 fine crafting mats go up and stay there for a week or two, and then crashes back to “normal” costs. I find it interesting that there seem to be a cost relation between mithril, elder wood and T5 fine crafting mats; When one go down in price one of the others rise. It’s like people are focusing on one of them instead of all three. If i had unlimited storage i could follow the trend and only buy when one of them are at a low point.

Buy a 2nd account and use it as storage through the TP’s pick-up tab.

Minato.5294:

Obviously this is a clever ploy by a dye collector trying to get people to empty their inventory of high-end dyes and lower their price so he can control that market.

I’VE BEEN SPOTTED

You can thank Wanze for providing me with the capital to control the dye market

Assuming that the reconstruction of LA is guaranteed, and assuming that it would take a considerable amount of time…

Wouldn’t it be awesome if Anet allowed us to vote for how the future of LA would look like?

It would be just like Cutthroat politics again, with architect guilds/companies from all of Tyria competing for a chance to rebuild LA.
There two ways to go about this:
1.) Concept art of locations
Anet can release internal map concept art that shows different locations of important services, such as the bank, TP, and crafting stations. We would vote on the map layout which appeals the most to us

2.) Concept art of buildings
What kind of buildings should be constructed in LA? Should we stick with pirate ships and wood, or how about salvaging the remains from the breachmaker and turn it into something like Black Citadel? Or how about both?

notebene.3190:

What does that mean for the 250 I need for my legendary?

I’ve been slowly collecting dyes as drops or from harvesting plants. I’m up to about 198 of the 250 I will need.

Now, I’ll either need to craft them myself, buy them on the TP or pay real money for them?

Will I at least be able to get them with laurels still?

Replaces 250 unid dyes with 250 putrid essence

/HOPE

Terrible zone. For one, you have people doing the trains, so you’ll hit overflow very quickly.

Second, noobs would get destroyed.

NuclearBuddha.8641:

The question is, would you accept paying gems for it, like in China.

That’s the question I brought up in the BLTC section. We don’t know the exact details of how it works, and depending on the system, it can be very popular or very controversial.

That being said, would you pay 40 gems to have Dye X available across all characters? That seems to be how it works in China.

Because then they’d have to introduce restrictions to the free trial, such as limited everyone to the starter zones, disabling WvW access, and limiting chat options.

Think about it from a gold seller perspective. They loooove free trials because they are free accounts for advertising.

I’m sure we will have a free trial soon to coincide with any other major MMO releases + the feature patch in April.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Lostwingman.5034:

“Dye unlocks in the CN version are account unlock instead of character unlocks.”

BRING THAT HERE!

THIS!

Anet even promised Guild Wars 2 would have all dyes account bound a long while ago (before release) I guess they forgot to mention “only if you live in China”…

If you read the link, you’d realize that Anet is going to bring it to NA/EU

So, all you watchwork defenders who pointed out that the pick isn’t OP because of the ‘cheap’ sprockets..

Price of sprockets has jumped 100% overnight.

I guess it’s not OP now to have sprockets sell at +1.2s now?

Fugu.7842:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

But yeah I think that’s the only new supply ATM. Although I did get some from the Aetherblade fractal yesterday.

that and people with a Watchwork Mining Pick

Remember when people defended the watchwork pick by saying they were only a measley 30c or so?

Good times. Now they’re at 1.20s.

Introducing the feature patch at any point during the WvW tourney would make Devon Carver rage.

Even if the feature patch omitted any sort of balance changes, having all this new content during the tourney would keep people from playing WvW for several weeks.

Fluffball.8307:

Kudos to whoever voiced the woman at the western memorial. I saw some people in map chat saying they teared up a bit. That was a really cool speech (cool for lack of a better word… touching?)

Too bad she’s racist (but understandable)

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Because I have determined a good way to actually have sort of account bound dyes (only need to buy a dye 3 times maximum), I guess I’m sort of indifferent. I would be a little upset if we lost our current dye choices, but given how much of a kittenstorm would happen if they got rid of our current dyes, I doubt they’d do that.

Anyway, given the uses of unidentified dyes in at least one high end item, I find it odd that they would consider taking it away. So I don’t know. Very interesting.

If it is just account bound dye unlocks from the gem store, and not a mandatory thing, I would support than entirely. I’ve bought 2 Pyres and really would rather not have to buy my third.

Maybe this is how it works, but since the translation is unclear and we don’t have enough information, we have to speculate…

Ideally you would be able to buy the Dye Identifier from the gem store, for say, 500 gems.

Then you come with your Pyre dye, the identifier + 2 other components which will end up giving you an account Pyre dye.

Shiren.9532:

So the epilogue is here. What do you guys think? I don’t think any of these questions were answered.

Unanswered questions off the top of my head:
-Who is E?
-Where is Mai Trin?
-What happened to the enemy alliance?

The source is unconfirmed, but I highly doubt someone would write a wall of text just for lulz.

Here is the related link
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/20smr4/mike_obrien_interview_on_the_chinese_version_of/

There’s a bunch of other goodies there, but the tldr on dyes is as follows:
They want to make the same dye system in China as in NA/EU, where dyes are accountbound. This involves having the dyes only coming from crafting and and the gem store.

There is no word on what would happen to unid dyes, and whether they would play a part in crafting.

My opinion for this is as follows:
-If these changes become an existing alternative (meaning we still have the current dye system + account bound dye unlocks from the gem store), then it’s a great move. Having alternative choices is always a good thing
-If these changes revamp the dye system and replace it with these account bound, gem store dyes, then I’m afraid this would be extremely controversial and disastrous for some.

Since the dye system is already available for beta, one could expect this to come from the feature patch.

At this time, I don’t know my speculative position on unids.

Doggie.3184:

Well it’s not like hair in reality is a chunk of solid wall. Could just pretend it’s flowing around it.

Do you know how difficult it would be to design that?

OP hasn’t posted here a month. Do you even browse these forums frequently?

I thought you were a better & smarter than that Caramon. Maybe if you actually spent some time in the forum rather than once, twice a week you’d know that Anet listens and communicates here.

Meglobob.8620:

A R W E N.6895:

I went back to diablo and saw that dev’s actually did listen to player request! And seriously the game is way better than it was.

Me and some friend went back to it. Gw2 is on rest for the moment.

Me too D3 Reaper of Souls is sooooo rewarding and the drops change your characters builds…Blizzard are slow but you do get quality and they LISTEN to there playerbase.

Anyway, back on topic, it will be on a Tuesday, hope that helps…lol.

It took them what, 2 years to remove the RMAH and change the game?

Yeah, D3 is the shining example of listening to the playerbase…when it’s too late.

They told us several weeks ago that they would go away.

Where were you?

silvermember.8941:

Vol.7601:

Norn female ones are pretty darn good.

It’s a shame though that I find Norn females too..chunky.

I was excited about norns until i saw them run, so I promptly erase it. Theoretically, they could be more interesting if we could control their proportion.

Even the males are bottom heavy. It’s like they’re a giant tree.

So unappealing.

Azgarn.2145:

I know this thread probably won’t get a reply from a dev, but imagine a world where people felt like they were cared about. Wouldn’t that be a great place? A world where people could play a MMO and not have to debate if anyone is listening to their imput anymore. A world where the game loved us and much as we love the game. A world where I can continue to pretend I’m a hero with a magical greatsword that’s a window into space. A world that we want to save.

(yeah, trying to make a jab to the feels there)

Give us hope. Give us an answer to if anything better is coming soon.

Soooo pretty much a world where everyone has the exact same personality, expectations, needs and wants?

Yeah, keep on dreaming.

The first time I think the community is near unanimous in their opinion about the skins.

They indeed, look great.

I hate this change simply because they nerfed it. What was it, rank 30 before? Rank 14 is easy, rank 30 is still easy. They should have made it an even higher rank + badges.

Just remember to not get too greedy! Predicting the maximum price they will sell is pointless and you’d end up holding forever. Pick a nice % return and dump.

Cassocaster.4576:

What blows me away is the cores have gone up 300% in about 12 hours. Synergistics were just over 1 yesterday, just checked and offer price is 3.7….crazy, haven’t found shards vendor yet but I have 4000 of them hogging space in my bank.

Sad to hear that, I sold all of mine this morning at 1-3G each ;[

Oh well, stuff happens

Dante.8456:

the thing that annoys me the most with Anet’s whole system is not the massive delays to content but rather the fact that we get no ETA’s. If they could just give an indication as to their target month for releasing certain features I wouldn’t care how far away it was. At least i’d know. Just a heads up for X feature being aimed to be added to the game in X month. I mean come on its not asking much

And then when problems arise, and they can’t release it at X date – I presume you wouldn’t come on the forums and rage?

I’m not in game yet but – have the NPC’s discussed anything about Mordremoth? Like, are they aware that they awakened him, or are they just talking about the leylines.

It’ll be interesting to see the transition from bandits at the start of season 2 to hopefully the dragon at the end.

You are setting yourself up for disappointment expecting an expansion in 2 weeks.

juno.1840:

I thought the said the “feature” patch is march. Honestly I thought it was today, but it’s nowhere in sight.

You heard other people say that they “said” the feature patch is in March.

Anet themselves never said the feature patch would be in March.

They removed them. They told everyone that they would be gone several weeks ago.

Norn female ones are pretty darn good.

It’s a shame though that I find Norn females too..chunky.

Remember when we could trade in commendations for BL keys?

Those were the days…

Today’s patch was never intended to be rich in features.

Anet is sorry that they cannot work on content around your timetable.