Guild Wars 2

Xae Isareth.1364:

This is really why I think Anet should sometimes stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Raids have been instanced for the last 10 years in MMOs, and this is why.

People said that about Teq, now it is a drop-in because so many people have run it successfully. ANET adding more spawns on the highest level world events and easier ways to get in the same instance and it is not a problem even for the next event that they release.

It is now on a megaserver. For teq the only difference is that you see different languages spouting ‘we are going to fail’ instead of one language. Wurm is going to be tough to organize, but after that is settled it should go back to being a 90% kill rate for the groups that do it daily. Hopefully with a much better schedule and more ways to get to the group you want to get to it will be a fast transition.

Pawstruck.9708:

Elementalists are notoriously annoying to level. I barely got mine to 90 without giving up.

Anyway, I have to say I disagree. Difficulty does not equal poor design. If you want to mow over mobs like a demi-god for 40 hours, play World of Warcraft. I, for one, find that to make the leveling experience boring and unbearable.

I gave up at 80, gj on getting all the way to 90.

anzenketh.3759:

The drop rate of the keys used to be a lot better before they added the black lion tickets. They needed to do that to keep the tickets rare. However people can key farm them though the level 10 storyline so …. most people don’t care.

The question is do you want to pay real money for random chance or do you want to spend 30 minutes for random chance of something.

People keep saying that keys dropped like rain the first month I really don’t believe it. I have not to this day gotten a key as a drop and I started with the headstart.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Black-Lion-Trader-Armorsmith/first#post3930797

Spend several hours getting as detailed as you want and look at the back of the characters head from then on. Also can’t see fine details of other characters unless you are standing still and very close. A lot of effort for not a huge amount of gain.

The only thing I can say is that every map with contestable wp is going to show up as contested when you are outside of that map. You cannot use it anymore to see if you can do an event. They may very well do all of them as defend or attack but since it is Easter Sunday the chances are fairly low it will be today or tomorrow.

GW2community.com

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/forum

EDIT: it is Sunday on the Easter holiday weekend, I am not sure what you expect from posting this several times.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Megaserver-Rollout-Update/first#post3911271

I worked with tourists for several years and the chance of finding a German who spoke English was fairly small, this was also true of Spanish groups that I had contact with. The younger (late teens/early twenties) ages had a higher chance with both German and Spanish and older than 70 German speakers also had working English. Outside those groups and you where stuck with pantomime. That said I am really glad I did not need to learn English later in life because frankly it is not easy.

It is for me it seems.

Treebeard The Swift.9620:

As someone pointed out in another thread – these new times are perfectly matched to china, the new market, new money. We’re the old market they frankly don’t care.

That is pulling a lot out of thin air.

This was discussed long ago, turned into a shouting match and deleted by mods. I personally see a lot of problems with implementation even though I wish I could flag posters that if they fill a thread I know there is no point in reading it.

I had 5 done so it now says 4/4 but did not receive notice/chest that I had completed it.

I stumbled into GW2community trying to find a group that does wurm regularly. Without this mixture of guilds and individuals I would never have gotten the event done, so I am very grateful to them. I also agree with what the leaders have written.

As has been pointed out the majority of the things in this update have been asked for repeatedly on these forums. Hissy fits are really fun from the number of people who throw them on a regular basis, I just don’t see the attraction myself.

From what I have read the GW1 with jumping people are still posting what they posted from day one.

The only thing I don’t like is the schedule. Everything else ranges from it will take time to sink in all the changes (traits) to YIPPEE (dye, wardrobe).

The schedule is a very bad idea. You go from being able to do the minor bosses at pretty much any time to well not being able to do them at all if your schedule conflicts. You go from being able in theory to do teq and wurm 12 times through the day to 3 times. I just do not get it at all. The price for guilds to research the unlocks is ridiculous so that little tiny bone you threw is not worth it.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

So has this been addressed or are we all gonna go farm Twilights and Sunrises for the free skins?

Free is such a relative term isn’kitten

They do not bring down the game for patches. Just close the game and download the patch when it is released.

I am confused, this was moved to linksville but the mmorpg link thread was not?

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04/15/pax-east-2014-guild-wars-2-on-the-feature-pack-and-beyond/

Borghal.1635:

Eh, since it’s an intercontinental game anyway, why don’t they just patch at some reasonable time like 00:00 UTC. I mean, that’s one of the reasons why time standards exist in the first place, right? :P Also the Wiki uses UTC… makes for much less confusion when comparing time. What do I know what PST or ECT stands for in regards to my GMT+1 ? :P

This way everyone would just remember their +/-X to UTC and life would be easier :P

But then you remember, UTC does not observe DST… bleh, reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

Because for some reason they may like to sleep.

I want a pentanity. Just because.

BigfootArisen.6509:

Its quite possible at this point that anyone that still has one unopened doesn’t even play anymore.

Could be or they have no idea they have one. Frankly I think all of them have been account bound and people just keep upping the price for kicks.

Guhracie.3419:

Yargesh.4965:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Yargesh.4965:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

I saw this https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/log-in-tomorrow-for-free-transmutation-charges/ when I logged on today.

It says ’ to everyone who logs in between the launch of the Feature Pack and 11:59 p.m. PT Wednesday, April 16 ’.

Edit: I forgot to say… So I guess the update should come around 12.00 p.m. PT Today.

They are giving until midnight the next day to log in.

Yea I know but for example, two updates ago some parts of europe got our update when we where sound asleep So it would be unfair if this happened again since that would mean that we don’t get ~24h to log in to get our stuff :P So what I mean is that they probably is planing to release the patch around 12.00 p.m. PT Today so that there will be as near 24h as possible. That’s only a theory but I beleave it

Ok, but why would they want to release anything at midnight their time?

Just a note, but 12:00 PM is noon, not midnight.

yes but 11:59 PM is one minute to midnight, I was just pointing out that they where basing their time calculations on midnight not noon.

snoeckie.9230:

Yes what?
That wasnt a yes or no answer.

Yes they are sometimes up several hours before, sometimes several hours after, sometimes just before, sometimes just after. So yes.

snoeckie.9230:

Will the patch notes be up before or after the update?

yes

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Yargesh.4965:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

I saw this https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/log-in-tomorrow-for-free-transmutation-charges/ when I logged on today.

It says ’ to everyone who logs in between the launch of the Feature Pack and 11:59 p.m. PT Wednesday, April 16 ’.

Edit: I forgot to say… So I guess the update should come around 12.00 p.m. PT Today.

They are giving until midnight the next day to log in.

Yea I know but for example, two updates ago some parts of europe got our update when we where sound asleep So it would be unfair if this happened again since that would mean that we don’t get ~24h to log in to get our stuff :P So what I mean is that they probably is planing to release the patch around 12.00 p.m. PT Today so that there will be as near 24h as possible. That’s only a theory but I beleave it

Ok, but why would they want to release anything at midnight their time?

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

I saw this https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/log-in-tomorrow-for-free-transmutation-charges/ when I logged on today.

It says ’ to everyone who logs in between the launch of the Feature Pack and 11:59 p.m. PT Wednesday, April 16 ’.

Edit: I forgot to say… So I guess the update should come around 12.00 p.m. PT Today.

They are giving until midnight the next day to log in.

Server time is 0:35 just now, I really doubt they will be up and doing anything until a least 9 hours from now. Since it is a big patch I would guess they will do last minute checks and such so could easily be 12+ hours from now before anything happens.

sirflamesword.3896:

Brother Grimm.5176:

• Use a LVL 20 scroll right after starter quest.
• Level each craft to 400 (20 + 7*8 = 76) (materials will cost you roughly 20g)
• Run Champ train in Frostgorge for a few hours and you will be 80.

You are welcome for me ruining IMO the best part of GW2 for you.

FTFY, some of us hate the leveling aspect because it means we can’t do what we like aka dungeons/wvw.

Why can’t you WvW?

go to the pvp sub-forum and read the answers

Mesmer, necro or ele would fit your wants. Mesmer pets are made to die so no problem with them. Necro I do not use any minions just conditions with scepter/focus and axe/dagger. I did not have huge issues with survivability with any of them though some have issues with ele.

Whichever you find most visually pleasing.
You have 5 slots and sPVP to find out what they are like at 80.

Regina Buenaobra

North American Community Team Lead

There is currently a bug affecting the Chalice of Glory. This item is found as a part of the Digital Deluxe Edition and the Digital Deluxe Upgrade. The issue is that this item is incorrectly granting 5000 Glory Points instead of 5000 Rank Points. We have temporarily disabled the use of the Chalice of Glory while we work to correct this bug.

Once this bug is resolved, the existing Chalice of Glory item will be updated to grant 5000 Rank Points. Players who have not used the item yet will be able to use it and gain 5000 Rank Points.

Our Customer Support team will be sending a replacement Chalice of Glory that will correctly grant 5000 Rank Points to players who have already used this item and were incorrectly given Glory Points.

Players who purchase the Digital Deluxe Edition and Digital Deluxe Upgrade will get the correct item, but will have to wait for the fix before it can be activated.

Thanks for your understanding while we correct this issue, and we apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

‘slow’ leveling is 2 weeks to 80, story/maps/harvesting/crafting from your own harvested mats/events. ‘fast’ leveling can be a couple of seconds if you have enough tomes of knowledge.

Lothirieth.3408:

Randulf.7614:

Out of curiosity, I understand your feedback, but what are you hoping for? The Megaserver isn’t going to not be implemented. Too much time and money has been invested in it.

I think the most important thing they could change is the spawn times, or actually not change them. Every two hours as they are currently works best for the population as a whole regardless of timezones.

Then we’d have to cross our fingers and hope people could still manage to gather together on the same instance of the map.

This I agree with.

I also would not buy the manual. Everything is changing.

Chris.8206:

Wow! I never anticipated that my original post would garner so many responses – thank you to each and every one who contributed. Looking through what many of you wrote, I realize that I should have better articulated what it is that is frustrating me with Orr…..

It isn’t so much the difficulty of it as it is the long slog back to where I want to fight after dying due to the contested waypoints. Yes, if I was more highly skilled as some of you obviously are, I could solo this area and dying wouldn’t be an issue, hence contested waypoints (and the dearth of people playing in Orr) would be a moot point. Because I’m not as good as many of you are, I die. When I die, I have to respawn at a waypoint far away. I appreciate the fact that it is meant to be difficult, as do I appreciate the fact that this is an MMO and ideally one can rely on help for the group events. But because the waypoints are contested, and because the vast majority of high level players seem to be hanging out in other areas, it just gets to be a chore trying to complete this area. I know the obvious answer is “you suck – get better and stop complaining”, and I am getting better with time and the beautiful thing about this game (and being an ele in particular) is the incredible depth and breadth of how one can approach playing it.

Reading the responses here is going to make me redouble my efforts to get better, solicit help from my guild mates, experiment with different builds, and be more patient with my approach. Thank you once again for the responses – much appreciated!

There are about 3 non-contestable wp’s in each map. If you just run to each of these and then do your filling in you are very close to any place you want to be on each map. Dying becomes less of a slog.

EDIT: also remember that a wp just inside the next zone can be used to get to running distance of the zone you are trying to complete exploration of.

If you have the meta reward in your home instance it sometimes drops them. Otherwise the not so secret chest gives them, and I believe very rarely the aetherblades as well.

Firstly you have 5 character slots and can experiment with races, classes at low level and high level (characters are max leveled in sPvP environments). Second realize that this is not the game you have played for so long and cannot be that game. Don’t rush to level 80 because end-game is very much different than what you are used to. Lastly set your own goals because the game won’t do it for you.

Algreg.3629:

Evalia.7103:

But wasn’t the talk that Norn’s are Mythical Giants, and were scaled down for in-game purposes? ;-)

Are you possibly confusing this with good ol´ Lupi? Cause that is the only time I have read anything like this.

The Jotun beside the tooth of Jormag talks about how the Jotun and Norn where part of the giants. They where present before the humans arrived.

Nage.1520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nage.1520:

Morrigan.2809:

Nage.1520:

What you’re asking for OP, is not reasonable. The idea of a megaserver is to control the population. Giving a people a choice to not be a part of a solution to several problems in the game is not really an option.

Some changes are made for the good of the game whether individual players like those changes or not. Allowing them to opt out of something that’s good for the game isn’t really an option.

The amount of servers that Anet now spawns and maintains to maintain the entire population takes server processor power. The more servers, the more the whole system has to handle. By using something like the megaserver system, less servers over all will be spawned.

That means that the system will run more smoothly (in theory anyway).

But people who say they don’t like the new system have never tried the new system in the first place. My prediction is is that most people will adjust to it and enjoy it.

Bottom line is, it’s not reasonable for Anet to make changes to the game on this level and still maintain the old system, because it would defeat at least part of the purpose for the change.

And yet the system we have now has been put in place by them and sustained for almost 2 years.

Don’t tell me it is good for the game.

The mega server is not something I have ever seen people asking for.
Underflows yes (and like overflows you can still be in your map server)

It is not reasonable fostering server identities for 2 years and then taking that away for the sake of what?
Even the name megaserver makes me shudder.

I’m telling you it is good for the game. If it wasn’t good for the game Anet wouldnt’ be doing it.

You’ve tried it? You have evidence it’s not good for the game?

As for people not asking for it, well, a lot of people HAVE asked for this. There’ve been suggestions about this sort of thing for over a year now.

Sorry that you don’t personally like it, but that doesn’t mean that many or most people don’t.

you haven’t tried it either

people have been asking for a solution to empty maps ( i.e underflows)
they did not ask for their servers to be destroyed.

Are you going to pretend to me that come tomorrow it will not be meaningless that I rolled on GH in beta?

That I will not now be lumped together with whatever the mega server decides is good for me- without being able to choose myself?

That whatever criteria the server system uses would be like my own?

no?
thought not.

How is this good for the game exactly?

I tell you now- if it is half as bad as I suspect I cannot see myself playing much if at all, and I love this game make no mistake.
I will not sit by and watch my world being taken over by Wallmart, or whatever generic bulk is better philosophy spawned this idea.

I’m telling you that I’m on TC and during the Marionette I couldn’t get on my home server for days on end and it made me feel like crap. And you know, there may very well have been just as many TC guys in my overflow, but it had the word overflow on it and guess what. People complained. This is one of the complaints that this sort of change will fix.

I haven’t tried the new system (and if I had I couldn’t tell you…but I haven’t). But logically, from a programming point of view it has to be better for the servers. There’s no way I can think that it would be worse for the servers.

It MAY be bad for a small percentage of players that OMG love their server. However, I played Guild Wars 1 for a long long time and never had a server.

We built a global community instead.

That’s what should have been here from the beginning.

People are very fixed on being part of a group. It does not matter that it is an artificial group of complete strangers, since you are one of them they are better than other artificially created groups. One of the more manipulated aspect of human nature.

I had a blocked person in my party and did not see what they typed, do not see them in map chat or say chat. Not really sure what you mean.

teq is done about 12 hours per day on Deso and has become a drop in type thing and if you follow a commander it is straight forward, as far as I know it has not failed in a very long time. Wurm needs absolutely much more co-ordination, you must be on ts or similar or it will just not get done.

The update on tuesday is going to be big probably several gig, regular usage I don’t know sorry.

Lil Puppy.5216:

I was going to post a wall of text explaining why none of your passwords for sites even matter but I’m going to say this simply: Hackers don’t care about a users password, they’re not trying to get YOUR account (except for games), they’re trying to get the database on the servers so they can get ALL OF THE ACCOUNTS, not so they can take your account, but so they can take your personal info and MAKE accounts elsewhere with them to get ALL YOUR MONEY!

Anyway, any “easy account security” is already hackable, that’s why that image and technique got posted. It was created by someone that already has the algorithm in place to use it…

Use a password manager or write them down, whichever makes you FEEL more secure – feel because nothing is going to make your account secure in the slightest.

Most things are secure with passwords due to diminishing returns. If it is easy to get 10 people who thing the word password is clever then the person who uses any even slightly better is not as much at risk.