Guild Wars 2

fireflyry.7023:

(search is your friend)

The search function has always been broken on this forum.
It doesn’t work at all.

Shadowmoon.7986:

for skill balancing, it is almost 100% pvp related. And they are horrible at that.

Because they refuse to seperate pvp and pve balancing, like they did in gw1. As long as pvp and pve balance isn’t seperated, we will never even get close to balance.

That’s why there are 3 bankers, if one of them is unavailable go to one of the other two.

nightwulf.1986:

So, absence of evidence is the evidence of absence?

Rikkiti: “Yes.. no.. what?”

Test.8734:

for ArenaNet PvP is more important than PvE

Evidently not as most of the new content and focus always goes to PvE.

Release armor sets already, if you can’t mix and match your outfit it’s worthless.

saventis.1485:

the polymock arena has existed since beta, but only now with HoT are they releasing it.

Is this confirmed? I have not heard anything about Polymock being included in HoT.

Palador.2170:

Carlin Sanders.3587:

A charr in a balthazar outfit.

Something doesn’t seem right here…

You wear what you kill.

In that case it still doesn’t make sense

lordkrall.7241:

Khisanth.2948:

Reset will be in about 55 minutes.

Seems like they might be removing WvW from world completion in HoT.

People have been claiming this quite much recently. Where is the quote that actually even mentions the possibility?

I’d like to know this as well.

That’s just like, you know, your opinion man.

• Which character/profession would you rather be?
  Balthazar

• Which game mechanic would you rather not have to contend with?
  Death

• What currently unimplemented game mechanic would you wish was implemented?
  Destructible environments

• Which NPC would you be most likely to seek out and romance?
  My guardian

• Which zone would you choose to call home?
  The remnants of the black cita… no wait, Orr.

I really don’t like it when developers put seemingly lore significant elements in a video game, then do absolutely nothing with it.

According to this the problem is not on my end. just checked the link and it worked again, then refreshed and it was down again..

That website only seems to work when it decides it wants to.

Aomine.5012:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Aomine.5012:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Maria Murtor.7253:

Charr ftw!

Racism, ehh? I remember a NPC conversation in the old Lion’s Arch (GW 2). He or she (it was a Asura, I think) said, the most advanced and intelligent races are:
1.) Asura (top)
2.) Sylvari
3.) Charr
4.) Human
5.) Norn (bottom)

At that time and as mainly human characters player I was really kittened.

Until that particular npc shows some hard evidence it is just her opinion nothing more

Personally I would put it at:
Asura
Charr
Human
Sylvari
Norn

Asura ranks Sylvari 2nd because they’re such fast learners. They can communicate information very quickly through dreams. They don’t need to experience “childhood”, yet can quickly grasp the full capability of a human adult’s knowledge in very short period of time.

Remember, Sylvari is the only race which the PCs start the story as just being born. Other races start by your character being at least 18 or something, and experienced all kind of things already before you become a hero, whereas Sylvari is a newly born baby who quickly grasp all the info and becomes a hero.

True they gain lots of information on birth yes, but still, that still leaves them inexperienced and sometimes even naïve. Knowledge on it own does not bring wisdom or experience.

Because the definition of intelligence is different throughout people.

I think to Asura, intelligence means quickly grasp the knowledge and becomes your own, which many asuras do so to expand their creation. This is exactly what Sylvari does best, thus, asura gives them a higher ranking in intelligence among other 4 races.

Hmm interesting, makes sense. I personally rate the intelligence of a race by their technological advancement.

I must say I’m rather disappointed with the subject of this blog. We already knew about the defiance changes.

I would have liked to see a blog about something we did not yet know.

Edit: And kitten this is the second time today a link from tentonhammer goes death mere seconds after I post it. Does this site run on a potato?

Andred.1087:

Immersion is a joke. It can’t be broken because it never existed, and anybody who tries to play this game imagining that any of it’s not fake is looney anyway.

It does exist, just not in this particular game.

Converting gems to gold isn’t P2W. Getting the best good stats is easy is this game.
The things that cost a lot of money are skins, which are purely cosmetic and don’t make you ‘win’ anything.

Basically you can’t afford to spend money on this game so you want to prevent other people from spending money on it as well.

Aomine.5012:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Maria Murtor.7253:

Charr ftw!

Racism, ehh? I remember a NPC conversation in the old Lion’s Arch (GW 2). He or she (it was a Asura, I think) said, the most advanced and intelligent races are:
1.) Asura (top)
2.) Sylvari
3.) Charr
4.) Human
5.) Norn (bottom)

At that time and as mainly human characters player I was really kittened.

Until that particular npc shows some hard evidence it is just her opinion nothing more

Personally I would put it at:
Asura
Charr
Human
Sylvari
Norn

Asura ranks Sylvari 2nd because they’re such fast learners. They can communicate information very quickly through dreams. They don’t need to experience “childhood”, yet can quickly grasp the full capability of a human adult’s knowledge in very short period of time.

Remember, Sylvari is the only race which the PCs start the story as just being born. Other races start by your character being at least 18 or something, and experienced all kind of things already before you become a hero, whereas Sylvari is a newly born baby who quickly grasp all the info and becomes a hero.

True they gain lots of information on birth yes, but still, that still leaves them inexperienced and sometimes even naïve. Knowledge on it own does not bring wisdom or experience.

Bought it when it was 100g, have it for all my alts, barely use it

Maria Murtor.7253:

Charr ftw!

Racism, ehh? I remember a NPC conversation in the old Lion’s Arch (GW 2). He or she (it was a Asura, I think) said, the most advanced and intelligent races are:
1.) Asura (top)
2.) Sylvari
3.) Charr
4.) Human
5.) Norn (bottom)

At that time and as mainly human characters player I was really kittened.

Until that particular npc shows some hard evidence it is just her opinion nothing more

Personally I would put it at:
Asura
Charr
Human
Sylvari
Norn

It’s free if you are there when it is released. If not then you have to pay 200 gems.
You snooze you lose.

Yea that often happens in that particular part of the Black Citadel, no idea why, it doesn’t happen anywhere else, just that particular spot.

Lytalm.5673:

lordkrall.7241:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The Tentonhammer link died for some reason.

They probably figured out that breaking the embargo because another site broke the embargo is not a good idea ^^

I was lucky to read it before they deleted it. It’s more flesh out than EuroGamer article. Really nice feature coming up!

Same here, though my guild wasn’t so lucky when I tried to link it to them ^^

The Tentonhammer link died for some reason.

Harper.4173:

I’ll keep this short and to the point :

-More about the fractal specialization – what does it do. Will we see new fractals and more progression levels with the exp?

-Will we see more instanced content ( 5 man or 8 man) in the form of future dungeons or raids in the future?

-Will we see more skilled/challenging content designed around the concept of groups fighting in an instance or will it all be open world from now on?

-Will we see improvements to current classes including bug fixes and balancing?

-Will we finally have split balance between pvp and pve?

Edit : love your show and reviews – they’re awesome to watch!

The interview is over already.

The bank space is adequate because you have the account wallet, collectibles tab and wardrobe. What are you even filling your bank with?

Thanks Joe

lordkrall.7241:

I would rather they decrease (or preferably completely remove) the amount of revealing female armors than adding even more revealing stuff.

You can’t be serious..
So you want to take armors away from players? Armors they like and worked for. Simply because you don’t like them?

Why do people have to make such a huge problem out of revealing armors for females in video games… It’s just a video game. If male characters had revealing armor I really wouldn’t care. Hell I hope Anet will give them revealing armor so people can stop drawing the Inequality card over a video game..

I still remember one person making a thread here in the early days about revealing female armor. Going as far as calling it dehumanizing, misogynistic and even institutionalised sexism. How people can be so incredibely overzealous and blow this so out of proportion is inconcievable. Now I’m not saying that you are one of those people, but they are among us.

The reason I like revealing armors for my female characters is simply because I like how it looks. that is it. I don’t see woman as a piece of meat, nor do I hate woman in any way. I have no ill will of any kind when it comes to using revealing armor, I just like how it looks nothing more nothing less.

Xiya.2804:

Please tell me it’s not going to be easy to get, so that not every single person in the game will have one and ruin it. I am hoping its really hard to get and makes you work for it. Please ANET don’t ruin them. T__T
What do you think (or know) is going to happen with them.

Ah, another one of the infamous “I can only enjoy content if 5% of the community has access to it” people. Just for this thread, I hope it is easy to get. Wanting to deny a backpack to most of the community just so you can look unique is deplorable.

lordkrall.7241:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

What event/guests? If you are referring to Pax east or EGX Rezzed wasn’t that in March?

They have invited quite a bit of press people both in the US and EU to give some new details and allow playing of HoT.

I believe I heard something about an embargo on information until Tuesday, but it does seem like we will get something rather big by then.

Ah I see. I guess that means no article today then

Blaeys.3102:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I’m actually hoping for another article/deep dive concerning HoT today. The previous wednesdays in the past weeks all had one.

Not really expecting anything today – for two reasons. The first is they want to let media attending the event in on the fun of showing us new stuff – and second is they are probably really busy with their guests today.

What event/guests? If you are referring to Pax east or EGX Rezzed wasn’t that in March?

I’m actually hoping for another article/deep dive concerning HoT today. The previous wednesdays in the past weeks all had one.

Rhaegar.1203:

Only Destiny’s Edge is above, having taken down more than one Dragon Champion in their prime.

Considering all we have done. All the dragon champions/luitenants we have killed, the thousands of bandits/inquest/dragon minions/nightmare court/SoS/Toxic Alliance/Molten Alliance/Aetherblades/Pirates/animals/ettins/Ghosts/Centaurs/Flame Legion and other enemies we have slaugthered (both in groups and on our own) I’d say we are far beyond Destiny’s Edge. Hell we even took down a dragon entirely on our own, even Destiny’s Edge never pulled that off. And when I say thousands, I literally mean thousands, as you can see by the Slayer and Weaponmaster achievements.

The only one above us is Asgeir Dragonrender. As he was somehow able to smash a tooth the size of a truck out of Jormag’s mouth, a dragon who is probably the size of a skyscraper considering the size of his teeth.

It’s over 9000

If it only shows dyes and skins then fine. But not stats.

Orpheal.8263:

Sorry, if it sounded offensive, maybe unmature was in context just the wrong word here…

Exchange it maybe with words like irrationale, superficial or simply “wrong”.

No hard feelings

Orpheal.8263:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I don’t want any off-hand weapon as a new weapon for any of the specializations. Since that’s only two new skills.

Saying something like this is just so plain unmature, because we all know, that Specializations WILL CHANGE the Gameplay Mechanics of a Class.

Only because a Specialization receives an Offhand Weapon and thus on first sight might receive a few new Weapon Skills lesser, than for example a Specialization, that received as new already existing Weapon a 2handed weapon with 5 Weapon Skills…

this has to mean absolutely NOTHING.
because you don’t know the other aspects that come together with the gameplay Mechanics from the changed Mechanics that are used via the F-Buttons.

One class, that might get via Off Hand Weapon “only” two new Weapon Skills on first sight receives in real maybe due to the changed Class Mechanics alot more new Weapon Skillls, than you may believe.

Take the Chronomancer as example …
Mesmers will receive with that just only the Shield as Offhand Weapon, which will be only 2 Skills on the first sight.
But Chronomancers won’t have the Shatter Mechanism anymore, but instead of that, and I’m nearly 100% sure about it, because it is just by logic the most fitting thing to give them instead of Shattering the ability of Time Mastery via the F-Buttons, being able to control that way via F1-F4 the Past, the Present, the Future and the Chaos, which defines Destiny as the ruler over all three Time Aspects.

Regarding to which Time Aspect the Chronomancer is synchronized to, it could change the Skills of the Chronomancers Weapon Skills, similar to how Elementalists functionize.
Just with the twist, that unlike an Elementalist, a Chronomancer doesn’t freely change its gameplay on will. A Chronomancer has to keep the “Balance”, because if he doesn’t stay in Balance, then Chaos will occur.

However, spoken in numbers this would then simply mean 2*4 = 8 different Chronomancer Skills from a Weapon, that on first sight would add just only 2 …

I hope, this opens your eyes so you may not forget, that there is alot more about Class and Gameplay Design, than just adding only new Weapons…

Plus – it means absolutely nothing, if certain Classes may receive just some more Skills, than others…

the Elementalist is since game Release by its Design the Class, which has the most Skills from all playable Classes, because everything they get will always automatically get multiplied by 4, because of the four elements that the Elementalists represent and embody with their playstyle and gameplay design

Did this ever disturb anyone here at all ? NO
Did ever cry anyone about it, that all other Classes need to receive as a counter more Weapon or Utility Skills, due to Elementalists having mathematicallyl the mostt Skills from all playable Classes, because otherwise it would be “unfair”? NO

Anet will add to all Classes just that weapon, that will fit to the Specilization’s Gameplay Design the most, totally irrelvant, if that Weapon gives the player now just only 2, 3 or 5 new Weapon Skills to play with.
Accept this simple, but just true fact, and you will see, that there lies absolutely no problem with it, that each Classes Specialization will add different amounts of new skills per Classe, because the simple truth is, the game already started exactly like that from begin on – and Anet never did anythign at all until today to change this simple, but true fact by making all Classes equal on their amount of Weapon Skills.

You make a good argument, I take back what I said. but the condescending remark about immaturity was unecessary.

Knighthonor.4061:

Don’t want

Warrior: off hand pistol
Guardian: rifle
Revenant: unknown
Engineer: focus
Ranger: rifle
Thief: rifle
Elementalist: rifle
Necromancer: rifle
Mesmer: undecided

Why do you hate rifles so much?

I don’t want any off-hand weapon as a new weapon for any of the specializations. Since that’s only two new skills.

forum page bug

I like to know how Revenants came to be (lorewise).
Either they just magically appeared out of nowhere or Rytlock somehow found the time to personally teach every revenant in Tyria in just a few days.

silvermember.8941:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Jokubas.4265:

Does knowing that Christmas falls on December 25th every year kill the hype for it? If anything, a release date gives you a target to be hyped about instead of burning yourself out wondering and then forgetting about it.

Well said.

Christmas day might not be a secret but THE PRESENTS PEOPLE give tend to be a secret so you two made a bad comparison.

So you are saying it would be better if we had absolutely no clue as to what Heart of Thorns contains? Besides it doesn’t even make sense, even if I knew what the presents were I would still be hyped if they contained something I really want (which HoT does).

lordkrall.7241:

Photonman.6241:

I feel like the drop rates are from when things from chests were trade-able and the drop rates were really low. They’re not anymore and should be adjusted.

Huh?

What was in the chest before that was tradable that no longer is?

I think he is referring to those permanent things (perma hairstyle kit, perma bank access etc).

Jokubas.4265:

Does knowing that Christmas falls on December 25th every year kill the hype for it? If anything, a release date gives you a target to be hyped about instead of burning yourself out wondering and then forgetting about it.

Well said.

Vayne.8563:

We don’t need a date.

I never said that.

It doesn’t affect the hype in any way (at least for me) wether it will be released in a few weeks or in a year the content will be the same. All not revealing the release date does is kitten me off. They could at least give us a rough estimate. Are we talking weeks or months, or next year?

Hamfast.8719:

Mirta.5029:

the problem is, you’re not corruptible, you’re born as a dragon minion. Fully born, easy to influence and if you’re born close enough you’re immediately corrupted.

You don’t know that any more than we knew you weren’t already born pre-corrupted, simply awaiting Zhaitan’s activation command.

I have nothing against Sylvari but I have to point out you are wrong on that part.

First, we do know they are dragon minions. It was clearly stated by Wynne. Merely being susceptible to corruption isn’t such a big deal, the Pale Tree wouldn’t keep that a secret as all races are susceptible to it.

Secondly, several of the Fauna races weren’t even around during the previous rise of the ED’s. Hell, humans aren’t even from this planet. They can’t possibly be born dragon minions.

Doggie.3184:

What should happen is once a 3/5 vote is passed a trained security guard on duty, hired to handle party conflicts, should teleport to the players and investigate the situation and figure out if the player should be removed from the party and possibly arrested and placed in jain in Divinity’s Reach.

Or just have Dhuum appear out of nowhere and decapitate the player on the spot.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I apologize for the delay. I’ve sent an e-mail to ask about this and if there’s information to share at this time, I’ll do so as soon as I hear back.

Thanks, I’d really like to know why this change was ninja removed so soon after it was implemented.

I will refer to my signature on this one.