Guild Wars 2

For me, Toxic krait, wooden chest and most of the twisted watchwork minis.

They listen to “us” they don’t listen to “you” every company must do this or go insane.

2014 looks very similar to 2016. You got an increase in 2015 with HoT then back again.

choon.6308:

Personally, HoT was very lackluster for me and the price is too high. Never bothered with it. I was gonna give it a shot if they had made a sale for $25 but that never happened.

They also killed dungeons. So, the game effectively died for me in late 2015.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-is-50-off/

Yeah more caps is great. I have the one but you are bald, another or several where you are not bald would be wonderful.

Gift of exploration can be used by scribes to make a huge globe of the whisperers. Other than that there is no use except legendaries.

Linken.6345:

Yargesh.4965:

SW corner of Lions Arch there is a NPC that gives a summary of season 1.

Maybe read the whole post watched the recap video

The recap showed what had happened, compressing a year into a couple of minutes is pretty much impossible to be anything but a quick summary. Youtube has other video if you really, really need to dig deep.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Heh remember when we told ANet this was going to be a problem all those years ago, and Colin tried selling us that snake oil temp content vision,

I remember people saying that, but I wasn’t one of them. I actually liked the idea and wish they had continued it. I want a true living world. I want players to realize that we don’t get to see everything or participate in everything. That’s how 20th century cRPGs worked. I was hoping GW2 could break that pattern.

I’m okay with ANet dropping the idea (I think they weren’t really prepared to deliver it, so it’s just as well). All the same, not everyone wanted repeatable content, especially since it seems to have also meant that it takes them longer to deliver it.

Agree with Illconceived, I personally much preferred the there and gone approach. The stress put on staff must have been huge and I am sure they do not miss it, still a selfish part of me wants it. That it is no longer here is ok but I really dislike the first maps (dry top and silverwastes) that they gave in its place. The HoT maps are much better but still contrived to offer a form of replay-ability, which is a needed thing to survive as a game.

SW corner of Lions Arch there is a NPC that gives a summary of season 1.

Not sure if this is a bug but should the glow show through the back of your head?

I waited a few days for the bugs to be worked out and finished it in a day. Visible minis are too small and gone too soon but if you are on any of the maps that can spawn one of the beasts at phase change your odds are about 100%. A couple of misses with people not knowing if a spawn happened or not but since it will be in game from now on and it is 3 days from actually being released not a huge rush.

Look at the gif that is part of the Dulfy walk through. Stand and aim exactly as in the looping gif. I just put a new account through this and it worked after I got frustrated enough to re-look for the guide.

They know there are problems and have said (I think by John Smith) that they are trying to develop a system that works better than it does now. Since it has not been implemented it is not ready to use yet.

The only way is to try it and see. Nothing else is possible no matter what advice pro or con comes out of this thread. Since you have so little experience in game you will have a huge amount to do but there is no “must catch up” in this game since exotics will get you through 99% of content and they can be gotten with in game karma by the time you reach that need.
Run around, look at things, explore and before you know it you will be leveled and geared.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Well does this “some” involve guild trecks, bounties etc? Because I had these unlocked before HoT dropped.

Those are unlocked for everyone. You can see them in the guild tab even without a hall. You need some of the points to be able to claim a hall as well.
Three different missions are available right away, I think it is ten in total at guild level 40 I could be wrong. You can also choose if you want pve PvP wvw or a mixture.

Things will carry over but you still need to do everything basically from scratch. I have 2 private guild halls and it is not too bad. My least favourite is shovels and celestial/charged quartz. I really, really hate silverwastes so one of my guilds is sitting where I need shovels for mine expansion. But really less expensive than a legendary.

You post on their forums it is their property to do or not do as they wish.

Axe works, sceptor works, personally don’t like staff but it also works. The only time you need to concern yourself about specific builds is if you are doing specific (player mostly required) things like fractals (high level) and raids. Dungeons they used to get in a snit about for speed running but that sort of faded.

They did not have different currencies in the core Tyria and people constantly asked for specific currencies. They wanted Teq weapons, they wanted wurm ascended and so on. So frankly it was players who kept demanding various currencies that led to them implementing (I agree too many different ones) currencies to everything now.

I consider myself a solo player and I take part in just about all group events because not doing so is very, very limiting to my game play. If you don’t want to see anyone else around then gathering and jumping puzzles and story instances are pretty much it.

If getting to level 10 is a huge issue I really don’t know what to say. The only way I can think if to not get to level 10 in a very short period of time is to not move around and only kill mobs that spawn right beside you. Exploration gives huge exp, killing mobs that have not been killed in a while gives huge exp, doing event chains gives a lot. Posting on forums does not give in game exp.

Care to explain what crap you are grinding and frankly why are you grinding? Leveling is still 20ish hours the long way around (no crafting or tomes of knowledge). Freedom is a fairly random word when applied to a game as well.

Michella Long Legs.4579:

Hello All,

I looked at Mastery Tracks and Points. I gained experience for first tier mastery

If I started with 18 that means I would have NINE left?

I did not. I earned all the rest I needed so far.

Regards,
Michella

Read what people have written already. If you did the story you unlocked the point, even if you did it before HoT. Not complicated.

Have not heard of this much time going past before. Dumb question but are you sure it is the WvW spoon and not fractal or whatever? If so contact support.

Pifil.5193:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

MarkoNS.3261:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

MarkoNS.3261:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

There’s only so many dev hours in a day. There’s only so much money in the budget, Everything we ask devs to do costs them in time and money. Everything they work on is time taken away from working on something else. (Even just adding sharks somewhere takes someone to do it). If people ask devs to add or remove something then they need more argument than it would be cool. Lots of things would be cool but the costs means that they can’t be put in.

So, what is your argument to convince the devs to spend the time and money to add sharks? (Besides cool). Remember, they’re busy making an expansion and the next part of the Living Story so it has to be good enough to pull a dev from his already full plate of work to what you’re asking for.

you do realize this is only your opinion and not everyone agrees with you , the devs should do things becasue it would be "cool"from time to time , adding a few sharks maybe an champ kill event like a megalodong in guild halls wouldt be to hard and would be cool.

Yah?

Well good luck then getting a dev to quit what they’re doing to add sharks, without any compelling argument as to why they should do so.

i would call you something but i dont want to get banned again on forums if you want to talk about this further do you want to join me on discord serv ?

Naw.

If you are unable to continue a civil discussion because I told you that extremely busy people need a good reason to add more work to their pile, but instead want to go somewhere to say things that forum rules forbid, why should I want to listen to that?

But good luck in getting your sharks.

It sounded like he was trying to “call you out” for a fight really. Which is both ridiculous and sad.

Or probably like the poster said take it to a different forum where the black knight would not report them for being off topic?

The anti posts are a little harsh. There is no indication that it is not salt water, there is a black lion shipwreck so there is access to the outside world. Developer time is something for developers to decide.
Personally I would love to have more animals and water creatures in the guild halls.

BlackOcean.6903:

Hmm?

Message Body length must at least be 15.

The OP wanted ANET to ask for permission to make any and all changes since they felt the game was “complete” just after release.

Why would they not change anything at all in 4 years? Single player one release games sure, a MMORPG that had a selling point of change (living breathing world ring any bells?), not going to happen.

Every year the same type of post, every year the same type of answer. Circle of life I guess.

nickhimself.2739:

Yargesh.4965:

They have set it so that gems to gold is always less than gold to gems. It is a fixed percentage. If for some reason you have objections to in game conversions take it up with support. They have no need nor desire I am sure to go through an audit of a automated system.

My post was entirely inquisitive and not aggressive or condemning of their system. I don’t know how you came about believing that I may have a problem with what anet’s doing, but I assure you that I do not.

I am unsure because you are asking for an audit (which corporations and companies need under law to do) for an in game system run by the company involved. They legally need to have a yearly audit since they are an incorporated company any income or expenditures need to be checked and the basics released publicly. An internal audit of systems to make sure they are running the way they should be would be a standard practice. No where would these data be released so even if they do, do it regularly neither you nor I would have a clue. So to sum up it is a strange question.

They have set it so that gems to gold is always less than gold to gems. It is a fixed percentage. If for some reason you have objections to in game conversions take it up with support. They have no need nor desire I am sure to go through an audit of a automated system.

What? Who do they need to audit it for?

General Health.9678:

you are not forced to do either all adventures or to get gold in any particular adventure. There are more than enough mastery points that you can skip some adventures altogether.

This, especially now with the added points in the new map and achievements. I only have gold in a few adventures and am maxed in everything but the raids, missing 3 and not missing getting shards since I can get them in central and have more than I use now anyway.

I really like it so just goes to show. Terrain is perfect for what you need to do. Lag is not an issue for me so I can’t comment. Do I do it all the time, no, but when I do I enjoy it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Hmm…I’ve never crashed in the last chapter of the HoT story. Actually, I’ve never crashed in any of the chapters or episodes. And I play on a toaster…lol.

Maybe there’s some advantage to having a rather weak computer. =P

The internet of things has really advanced since I last looked. My toaster just makes toast.

BrotherBelial.3094:

The only mobs I’ve found problematic are the rift mobs. Cant remember what mobs where there but fire imps, and a mob that was knocking me down alot, I burned to death quite quickly lol.

you need to pick up the dropped pieces and throw them at the mob. The break-bar is broken and they die quickly after that.

Ulion.5476:

Its a goal to get the legendary you want or get all of the legendaries for you main or craft that guild hall globe. Its interesting exploration the first 2 times, then it becomes tedious. Do this to get the heart so on. Even with gliding I do not want to do map completion again.

If you where able to buy it in any way (suggestions are numerous) chances are about 100% you would not get the gift of exploration needed anyway.

No idea and chances of getting a dev responce are close to zero. Same thing happens with WvW but not sPvP so probably a call made by the company for its own reasons.

Roundabout.1752:

Zackie.8923:

I am doing it for the 3rd time and i am dying. it’s truely a torture. let people who completed it before buy it with some currency or something.

Just wondering, if you dislike it so much, why do it? You already know the maps, just run through get the WPs and get back to playing what you enjoy.

Pretty much this. I am always confused by people who don’t want to do something and can play any aspect of the game without it, want to have it anyway.

Astralporing.1957:

On the other hand, bringing Kensho down would remove the only place in LP where you can access bank and guild treasury at the same time. It’s already annoying as it is now, so i’d rather not see it become worse.

An option might be to expand the interaction distance for the crafting station. It would need to be really big though and would well overlap the upper NPC.

A work around is to log out on that character every time. They are then always on the far left.

I have done this about 6 times now and not once has anyone been launched in the air. Many whinges about stopping at 15% (no idea who picked this number) but even if damage is stopped no possible way of launching into the air is given.

Neural.1824:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Stuff….

You’re really bored aren’t you. Run out of socially divisive topics did we?

RNG is fine where it is. At best it needs to be taken down several notches to give players more feeling of progression. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t take an average amount of time to get a given item, just means that there shouldn’t be a chance it would take an obscene amount of time to get an item.

I vote for this being the answer to the question.

Interesting perspective.
You will hit the end of what you find enjoyable soon I think though. You leveled 1-80 in two days, I found that about 20 hours is the leveling time plus or minus an hour so 10 hours per day of focus is a lot. Not that there are not several who do this it is just that mostly people like to take time to do things.

Meters are something that does not help, raid is clear great, raid is not clear you believe you are doing your job, find another raid group. Not difficult. You have holdover issues from WoW does not mean that is the only way of doing things.

tomorrow should be mentioned as well.

shalywen.9548:

the best option to avoid this is join a squad if a commander is already there

This, then at the reset of map look at the squad commander usually (not always which is annoying) sets themselves in section 2. Click and join on that.

the general discussion forum has a currently closed thread with an employee response that target a reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4tlvj8/heart_of_thorns_50_off_official/

Many posts clarifying you can get a refund. Look around.

They are independent side stories. Season one was set up to be there and gone like a living world thus the name. A lot disliked this so season 2 is permanent in all aspects. The seasons are also designed to keep people playing and are free if you log in during the window they are released in. They have said that even if you do not have HoT you will still bank the episodes when you log in and be able to play if at some future date you buy the current version of the game.

Chronomancer, Druid and Reaper are in demand in those areas. And as above pick something you enjoy.