Guild Wars 2

Agares.6073:

Yargesh.4965:

Never have seen an empty map.

that is so much bs lol
there is a big reddit thread about this too and other sites had this complain too but ok

I, me, this person typing have never seen an empty map. Badly organized absolutely, never empty.

Never have seen an empty map.

Has crashed once for me in three days. It is not a widespread problem.
There is a thread in support forums for this which will be better for getting the best results.

Aytheist.9476:

JayAction.9056:

This is an mmo. Of course some things are going to be “unplayable” solo.

Doh OK. I guess before HoT it wasn’t an mmo?

How many group events in lvl 80 zones do you do solo?

JayAction.9056:

This is an mmo. Of course some things are going to be “unplayable” solo.

Pretty much this.

Different opinion here. Solo has been a blast for me. The major complaint for group events is people giving up. One of the wyvers in the canopy as an example. You need to damage it then when it builds a wall glide over it dropping eggs. I did not know it when I started but it is easy to figure out. People just left instead. Was at 5% when timer ran out. Would have been an easy kill.
There are annoying things but frankly no matter how it was arranged there would be annoying things.

Loana needed for bolt I pre crafting does not give an option to buy anything. Event was completed and she was in the tomb.

You have the option to choose a method to not get a notification. That option is not taken by you. Hmmm.

I would like stat change as well but for now not in the works. The salvage will come in handy for the mats you get to make legendary armour.

Nothing is connected in a hard way, do whatever is released in whatever order you want.

Psientist.6437:

Yamialexa.5103, Yargesh.4965 thank you for looking up the info. If the Pact Commandeer Mastery doesn’t require any xp earned, should be an easy one to level.

I doubt it will not require exp. This is a wiki, all it means is a player has not found the info yet, and won’t until release on Friday.

Pact mastery will auto loot after down/dead as long as you tag.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Tyria_mastery_track#Pact_Commander_Mastery

Menadena.7482:

Yargesh.4965:

Menadena.7482:

Morfedel.4165:

I am trying to recall a single MMORPG where an expansion handed out everything you expected to get with it up front, rather than making you earn it. I can’t think of a single one, and this sense of entitlement just truly baffles me.

Entitlement?

We were told what to expect. People planned for that and did the work asked of them. Whether you liked it or not we knew the upper boundary.

Then they changed it. Not us.

What? They did not change anything since they have not until now given a number.

They stated world completion was the max. Until the datamine of 170 most people were assuming 100 HPs would be a good number to guess at. When we saw the 170 (which again many did not believe) and the progression for a typical profession I realized I could not get everything right away but about 120 would give me a good starting build.

No they stated no such thing. Data mined is worthless until it is in the game. They have said this many, many times.

Frankly they just need to say “Hi, we really hope you like the expansion Friday.”
Forums filled with how horrible they are to wish us anything when etc etc etc.

Menadena.7482:

Morfedel.4165:

I am trying to recall a single MMORPG where an expansion handed out everything you expected to get with it up front, rather than making you earn it. I can’t think of a single one, and this sense of entitlement just truly baffles me.

Entitlement?

We were told what to expect. People planned for that and did the work asked of them. Whether you liked it or not we knew the upper boundary.

Then they changed it. Not us.

What? They did not change anything since they have not until now given a number.

Another storm in a teacup event. Wonder what the next end of the world will be?

I am stepping in to say I do not agree with the OP. I have 11 soon to be 12 characters and 3 world completes, with no real need to get more on other characters. I am not upset in the least with how we get world complete now.

np

Bouncy daily chest is once per day per account. That said you can get the big chest by using different characters on your account.

Since the company does not want to spoil everything with what bosses are going to be up until actual release we won’t know until Friday. Then they either use the Silverwastes method for all bosses in the new zones or they add them to the timer. A wait and see approach is all we can do.

From posts it seems you need 3 people minimum doing an event that the guild has active in order to get them complete.

Neva Eilhart.5347:

Tapioca.9062:

By the time I’ve fully explored the HoT content I might even have enough hero points to unlock the new specialisation. I hope the next expansion comes out soon so I might get the chance to use it during in-game content.

This, so much this.
Proves how illogical this decision is.

Proves you like drama and over the top statements, not a lot else.

BlazeQ.1095:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Unlocking your elite spec is a training line in your training panel that costs hero points. You do need to have trained all the existing training lines before you’re allowed to put hero points into your elite spec.

If you’ve got all the hero points in the existing game you’ll have enough to train about half the elite specialization training line on launch day. The rest you’ll need to earn in the jungle or via the new system Tyler outlined yesterday from WvW. The number of points to fully train your elite spec is higher than other training lines – but hero challenges in the jungle are worth 10 points each, so it’s not actually as big as it appears.

Revenant hype just took a complete nose dive… There went half my weekend grinding hero points…

Why? At 80 you have all unlocked, then go to jungle to get 10x points

You can type into the chat bar but otherwise the virtual keyboard does nothing.

Has anyone used this to do anything more than log into the game?
If so how do you move? I can click on anything and attack but not move anywhere since I don’t have WSAD input nor mouse 1&2 to move.

Yes I agree with the OP. I too am not bashing their ability to create anything, in fact I am amazed all the time. That said putting creative people out to be the face of the company is not always the best way to go.

Derenek.8931:

lol, maybe the devs actually do read the posts. I just looked up this old post and the new pvp and raid designs are awfully similar to what I wrote. :-)

Right….
They stole your idea and implemented them in about a week.
Way cool.

The grass is always greener.

tuck.2719:

The thing that confused me was, why is this release all about Europe? Doesn’t NA get some love too?

You would need a horse with no name, then the mounts crowd would go insane.
It could be “Welcome to the Jungle” on release day though. America would have to give up their royalties, no desert anyway.

download has been happening for months now. They will flip it to live, prob no download or a minor one.

You will find out next week and the weeks after.

Some of it was started soon after the release of the game (a point of interest talking about the new maps stated this). Other bits later.

Kraggy.4169:

hoewhoew.4619:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/its-the-final-countdown/

One comment is there now worries me that HoT isn’t for me:

battling to level 100 in fractals

I hope that doesn’t imply fractals are the ONLY way to reach 100 because I never have done fractals and never will. :|

I bought HoT but didn’t want to spoil myself so haven’t actually logged in.

People really, really worry me sometimes.

actually it is per the TP not Dulfy. She just re-posted the info.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

So…. basically what this thread is telling me is that if I want to finish my Dungeon Master title, I need to do so over the next few days (on both accounts) because after HoT, dungeons are pretty much going to be dead. Lovely.

I doubt this very very much. Drama does love drama but get serious, people will still be doing dungeons.

Old legendaries are built as usual with a new way to get precursors, new ones have a new set of gifts.

Lux Dominatoris.3941:

Yargesh.4965:

Generally people going around saying they know what is best, don’t. If you have a beef with people jumping up and down without anything to base it on, fine. You will not get anything accomplished the way you are doing things now.

Not with them personally, I’d say more with what they are promoting. I went on the following premise: If I debate them with calm, nothing will happen, same arguments being repeated over and over. If I do it aggressively nothing good comes out of it. The only possibility is a heavy ignore.

Then why this tread? You broke your own premise.

alicatrawz.9567:

idk what NPE is, and at this point, im too afraid to ask.

After the game was released the company found that many people where not using all of the options available and/or leaving before progressing far in the game. They did focus groups and such and changed the lower levels and the way players where introduced to weapon skills and slightly changed the level that the 7-10 abilities where introduced. They called it the NPE or New Player Experience. People went absolutely insane, claiming things that where patently false, extrapolating along tangents and similar, basically they where forum goers.

Generally people going around saying they know what is best, don’t. If you have a beef with people jumping up and down without anything to base it on, fine. You will not get anything accomplished the way you are doing things now.

Great information to know.
Also no, damage meters would not be in any way helpful to the game as a whole.

For me teq is the only “gotta have it” mostly due to gold (2) and Karma (lots) for the first character on your account the one gold and still lots of karma for all the others if you want. The chance of a ascended weapon is not high (have 2 from many hundreds of runs) but they look good.

The above is what I got out of the information as well. It does not however say how the favour will be distributed if for example you have 2 or more guilds doing a puzzle together or other events where small guilds would benefit from joining up.

I agree with this.

Runiir.6425:

Random.4691:

Diovid.9506:

Shoe.5821:

Same goes for PvP guilds also.

stronghold.

Everybody gets access to stronghold, not just those with HoT.

This is correct, the same goes for the new WvW map.

Not quite correct, people with the expansion have to unlock it first going by how they worded it. So if your whole guild doesn’t buy it…you are SOL.

Stronghold is sPvP

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

I’m assuming the guild that started it get’s the credit for guilds (favor) but you can still earn your individual reward (the chest thing from the twitch show >_<) for completing it with them. Not 100% but that seems the way it was described on the guild chat show.

Yeah, could be but seemed a little ambiguous. For example they talked about guilds working together, but if only one guild got favour then there is not a lot of point in working together.

If you are doing a guild event with a different guild do you earn favour for your own guild or does the guild that started the event only get favour?

Actually in one of the guild chat episodes they said as long as the hall is open everyone can enter it. You cannot claim it if you don’t have the expansion and some things are not accessible inside but otherwise you can get into one.

I just got a 64Gb flash drive on USB3 and it is a huge difference on map load, especially onto busy maps.

The whole end product of raids is legendary armour, so they are making it possible to not have any extra sets in your inventory.
As a side note from the little I played the raid it looks like if you take more than 3 or 4 pure zerk players you will be limiting how effective the raid runs.

Read the dev blogs and the summaries of the various points of interest now called guild chat. I think every single question you ask has been answered there.
Only people with the new game can access the new game.
Exceptions are fractals, Guild halls claimed by people with the expansion, WvW and sPvP where you can access but not use 100% of the new release.