Guild Wars 2

Wow, so it’s about a 0.1% drop rate. No wonder they’re so rare. O.o

I’d love to see more short stories, personally. They offer something that you can’t really get in-game, a real sense of immersion. (Frankly, that’s just about impossible to do in an MMO.)

I’m fine with cosmetic skins being locked behind skill, BUT I’m also fine with those same skilled players wanting to sell those skins if they don’t like it.

I earned Mini Liadri back in the first year and yeah, I’m proud of myself for having gotten it the hard way, but I’m not a mini collector, so if ANet had given me the opportunity to sell it for, I dunno, 200g or whatever mini collectors were willing to pay for it, I’d have sold it in a heartbeat.

Gaile, I don’t suppose you could confirm whether or not some loved favourites like Reaper’s Rumble or Ascent to Madness will be coming back this year? We would also love a way to reacquire stuff like the Mad Memoires backpiece; I have the burning version, but I dumped the basic version way back before the Wardrobe was introduced as I didn’t have the bank space to keep it at the time. I was really surprised that the higher version didn’t auto-unlock the basic version in the Wardrobe.

I personally wouldn’t mind if the 2012 Halloween skins came back either, although there’s none that I’m particularly interested in.

For me, I only ever intend on crafting ONE Ascended gear set, so my aim is to make it as generically useful as possible. This means I’m crafting a mixed armor set of various different stats, although I’ll be using Berserker for the chest piece and Sentinel for the leggings, so it leans a bit more towards offense. I’m still keeping several other armor sets for niche builds like conditions or healing, but I’ll just be using Exotic for those.

One idea I had was turning the Marionette into a new Guild Challenge mission, the same way how large guilds can start Tequatl/Karka Queen/Triple Wurm at any time when their spawn window isn’t up.

Well, the latest blog post suggests it’s an identical rehash of last year’s content:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/tyrias-point-of-no-return/

So we likely won’t see Reaper’s Rumble, Ascent to Madness, the Mad Memoires or old Halloween skins come back. (-sigh-)

We do know from the Ready Up video and leaked screenshots from China that the following things are new:

- New Halloween PvP reward track (unknown if this is permanent or temporary)
- New Halloween Collection (new icons in the screenshot suggest there are new Halloween utility consumables, and a new final reward)

Reportable. If I was the PUG in your group, you can bet I’d be reporting you for abuse of the LFG tool.

The only way you could cover yourself in this situation is if you posted straight up in your LFG: “Looking for 5th to stack kill Spider Queen. Please leave afterwards or you will be kicked.”

And if somebody still joined your group after that, well, they deserve what they get for not reading properly.

EDIT: Also, if your guildie is too weak/unskilled to stack kill the Queen, why not just fight her in the open? It takes, what, an extra 20 – 30 seconds to kill her that way? Unless you’re trying to break a speed clear record, I highly doubt that short an amount of time matters to you and your friends.

Olvendred.3027:

When I run a story mode (usually just for the daily), I’m always surprised when people who says it’s their first time don’t watch the cutscenes.

You’d be surprised how many players skip any and all cutscenes in ALL games. It’s not just for RPGs; shooters and other genres are notorious for this. This has sometimes resulted in some humorous situations where players who skipped the cutscene get stuck at certain points in the game because they skipped the part where an NPC informed them what they needed to do, or gave context for the situation.

Ohhh, now I get it. It must be one of those “unique bosses” that spawns during the Sandstorm, like the Champ Drake Broodmother. I’ve never faced the Champ version, so I guess I’ll withhold my judgment on it then.

It’s basic MMO player mentality. (Or basic human mentality, really.) People will always gravitate to the easiest, most profitable way of doing something. If that way happens to be deliberately failing an event that produces a large amount of Champions so the event respawns quickly, then that’s exactly what they will do.

I don’t feel like getting into a huge debate about it now, so I’ll just end this post with the following:

1. If you want to complete the event, go ahead and complete it. ANet will never, ever ban you for completing game content the way it was intended to be played.

2. Don’t be a troll. Completing the event once for the experience is fine. Even completing it multiple times if you’re in the area is fine. Completing it multiple times while mocking and insulting the players who want to farm the Champions is not fine. If you’re completing the events purely to spite the farmers, you’ve gone too far. Likewise, if you’re a farmer and you’re deliberately not completing the event when a player needs to complete it for a trait/Personal Story, you’ve also gone too far.

I don’t have the Karmic Converter yet, but from what I’ve heard, this is how it works:

1. Every day it offers 3 random things you can convert your karma too. Possible options included Ascended mats (Dragonite/Empyreal etc.), Cores and Lodestones, and T6 mats.

2. You can pick only ONE of the 3 random things each day.

So every day, if you have excess karma, just open the Converter and see if there’s anything good on offer that day. If not, save your karma and wait another day.

The Wurmslayer helm/gloves are their own unique skin. You need to unlock the base Illustrious skins for light, medium and heavy.

Ahh, right. Well, while I don’t believe in reducing or removing the completion rewards for dungeons, I would not be averse to loot from mobs in dungeons being improved. Encouraging more full clears means more money at the expense of time, so why not?

You are not meant to use the forums as a direct advertising board to try and buy and sell items.

However, it is fine for people to discuss or point out emerging price trends or potential trading shifts that people might want to take advantage of.

For example, some screenshots from China suggest that there is a Halloween Collection coming with this week’s patch, involving consuming various Halloween foods and items. Prices for those, as well as their base ingredients, can be expected to jump when the patch hits as a result. (It doesn’t affect me as I have all the recipes for the foods anyway and I’ll just be crafting what I need from my own stockpiles.)

I think the first idea would be too problematic to implement (at what line do we draw the “tax brackets”?), and it might very well drive sellers of very expensive items like Precursors to avoid the TP altogether, thus reducing supply and increasing grey market trading. For those reasons, I can’t support this idea.

The second idea is a bit more feasible, in that it would prevent stockpiles building up at price points that will never be met. (For example, sellers offering white salvage items at 15g apiece.) At the same time though, I don’t think the benefit it offers is worth redoing the TP scripting and dealing with potential new bugs or lost items that might occur.

grubnick.7849:

Undead chicken mail delivery. Will pay gems for this.

Do the chickens self-destruct after relaying their message? XD

This thread is so full of win. XD

I don’t mind people watching cutscenes, but I can understand why veteran players might find it a waste of time. To get around it, I’d just specify up-front in your LFG that you will be watching cutscenes.

I think people are taking this too seriously.

If I come across two people fighting in the open field, I will immediately jump in and help my server mate UNLESS it’s obvious that it’s a duel (e.g. it’s in one of the well-known duel areas, I saw the /bow emotes, there’s other people standing around watching).

If I was wrong and my server mate then tells me to back off because it’s a duel, then I stop attacking and move on. Seriously, it’s that simple.

It’s kind of the opposite problem in T1. BG/JQ/TC are fairly well matched (although BG has far bigger numbers when it counts), but it’s a bit stale fighting the same old servers week after week after week. But on the other hand, T1 numbers are just SO massive that the lower ranked servers just can’t compete with us when they get matched up with us. (During TC’s match with FA and Mag, it was like a sea of blue 24/7!)

Hmm… Is it possible that recent changes to Tequatl meant that it’s now event wide scaling? It might have been true once that it checked in local areas, but it’s different now?

I see unbalanced teams fairly often in Hotjoin, but that’s the nature of the beast there. I do my part by automatically hitting volunteer for Autobalance if the option pops up and then just yolo’ing it from there. (I think a lot of people who quit after being autobalanced don’t realise that they get the winner’s reward even if they didn’t volunteer. You’re guaranteed a win no matter what, so why not just stay and do your best?)

You can still get through that gate by partying up with someone who has the mission. Once you complete it, you’ll be past the obstruction and can then unlock the waypoint at the centaur camp to travel there in the future.

Officially, Ebonhawke does recognise Queen Jennah as their sovereign, but there are a lot of Ascalonian humans who do not feel that way. (They regard Jennah as a foreigner and not their true Queen.) As a result, while Ebonhawke is technically part of Kryta on paper, they are a largely autonomous region that Jennah rules with a very light hand. (The fact that Ebonhawke has its own separate delegation at the Peace Summit is ample proof of this.)

Wade Samuelsson is the “Duke” of Ebonhawke (although I’m unsure if that’s an official title), and I imagine that he probably has the freedom to levy taxes and make all military and legislative calls within Ebonhawke as he sees fit, although all the in-game lore suggests that he supports the peace initiative and greater integration with Kryta and he thus aligns his policies fairly closely with Kryta’s anyway.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adelbern%27s_Burden

Sooo, does anyone have any idea what this item is supposed to be? All of the other Ascended dungeon accessories are pretty self-explanatory, but I have no idea what this one is supposed to be. My first thought was that maybe it’s Adelbern’s crown (the crown is often said to be a burden to rulers), but the icon doesn’t look very much like the crown Adelbern is depicted as wearing.

I’m pretty sure that Champs only start spawning at 10+ people. If there’s Champs spawning prior to that, there must be other players nearby that are contributing to the mob generator, such as players resurrecting at the WP and then running back.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

rolling a dice is quite the contrary I think Anet wants to achieve… cooperative play, not being angry on your party-members (e.g. for getting something you did not get).

We occasionally see choice-rewards (choose 1 of these 3 items) which I would prefer. They could also add a random chance in there. Choose loot x1,y1,z1 or x2,y2,z2 or x3,y3,z3. (choose 3 in a line out of 9)

Having everyone in the party have access to the same loot would minimise anger towards other people, or the feeling to always be the unlucky one.

I agree. Let’s stay away from rolling for loot. The last thing we need is player animosity that another player “stole” the item you wanted. The game’s already been developing more of a toxic atmosphere over the last year; let’s not throw any more fuel on that fire.

I still say that the devs should return to the SAB loot system as a fair compromise for everybody. You have the chance to get rare loot from the end chests, but you can also accumulate tokens to buy those same items if you’re dedicated enough. The key difference here is that the ones purchased with tokens are account bound, so this doesn’t flood the market with them. Rather, it simply means that those players who really, really want a particular item are guaranteed to get it for their own use if they devote enough time to it, but they won’t be able to resell it.

The rewards for tokens should also be diverse enough that people who don’t necessarily want the skins from a particular game mode can also gain something of value from participating in it. For example, while the main offering of SAB were the various skins, you could also trade Baubles for Obsidian Shards. This could perhaps be expanded to things like Experience Tomes (to keep in with the theme of “edutainment”) or crafting materials.

It’s good news that the Charr tail is returning. I’m not sure if it was a bug or a deliberate design decision, but yes, in future, please do take into account stuff like this when designing outfits and armor sets! Our tails are an integral part of our identity!

While it’s technically not “food”, I do very much like this idea and would support the introduction of Chefs being able to craft fruit juices.

On a personal note, after a good day during the week when I acquired 4 Foxfire from just 24 Elder Wood Logs, I’ve now gone through 72 logs without a single Foxfire. RNG is RNG.

Hey Sroced, would it be possible to include a search functionality on the pages like “Maximum Profit”? Currently it just lists the top X items, but that doesn’t really help since a lot of items are very niche products that could take a long time to sell.

-shrug- When I get blues, I just salvage them for the Luck and mats.

Did the OP remove their post? The first post doesn’t make any sense in the context of the thread.

While I do think that the mobs not even attacking you if you just range the carrier from 1200 range is a bit of a cheese method and should be adjusted, I see no problem with having the ledge there. The way I see it, the devs probably intended to allow a spot for ranged characters to attack the carrier (otherwise why even have that ramp leading up to the top level?) in relative safety, but the dredge need a way of being able to still attack characters attacking from range.

Uhh, that light-golem is just a Veteran, not a Champion. Unless he scales up to a Champion when enough people are around?

In any case, from the times I’ve fought him I find him extremely easy to deal with. His really damaging attack is the fire field; just keep on moving and you should be fine. His Sun Beam attack also does more damage the closer you are to him, so a ranged weapon is ideal. If he throws that black hole at you, dodge forward and run the other direction so you’re not caught within the pull field. (The one time the light golem did manage to down me was when I happened to get caught in his pull field while still trapped within the fire field.) You can ignore his Sun Dash attack; it looks scary, but it’s basically just a gap closer that doesn’t deal any damage.

EDIT: I just realised there is another light-golem boss in the Inquest lab to the west. Is that what you’re talking about?

Oooh, thanks for that tidbit, doombreaker. Looks like we’ll be getting new consumables (crystals, oils, stones) that are Halloween specific, along with possible new tonics. The rest of the stuff are old Halloween foods, most of which are craftable, so supply shouldn’t be an issue.

@panzer: That’s a good point, although I still wouldn’t rule out the old Halloween weapons not returning. It could go either way, but with ANet now, I’ve learned to “never say never”!

CureForLiving.5360:

I kinda liked the insults actually…

Oh, don’t get me wrong. The dialogue was hilarious, but it felt… insufficient? The Bloody Prince is supposed to be a violent psychopath who even the Mad King felt was out of control, but he just… yells threats at his father once he’s actually out? I felt there should have been more, like the Labyrinth periodically turns into a zone-wide PvP thing where players choose sides between the Mad King or the Bloody Prince, and then try to launch attacks on each other. It eventually culminates in one side or the other storming the other’s stronghold and allowing the King/Prince to fight it out with player assistance. Whoever wins temporarily takes over the Labyrinth, with the loser disappearing for 30 mins and vowing vengeance.

CureForLiving.5360:

Yeah, ANet seems to be balancing difficulty towards the hardcore of the player spectrum. Undoubtedly there was a lot of players to whom 10,000 candy corns were barely a challenge to farm. However for us more casuals it was kinda unreasonable… In fact a lot of content (particularly RNG) seems balanced towards the insane hardcore farmer players…

Even the hardcore farmers thought that 10k Candy Corn was a ridiculous ask. The only way a player could actually obtain that many Candy Corn within the Halloween period was to buy extra supply from the TP. In fairness to ANet, I can see what they were trying to do; they wanted to provide a massive sink for candy corn that would take it all out of the economy, but to the players, they saw the situation (and it certainly felt like it) as a “these items are only for the rich TP barons who can buy whatever they need. If you’re casual, tough luck!” snub.

wwwes.1398:

In fairness, game economist said the candy corn thing was a miscalculation. There was a lot of candy corn in people’s banks, but he got the distribution wrong, meaning he thought there was more available than there actually was.

Not exactly. His exact words were “we made the sinks too hard to interact with”. Meaning that they’re not backing down on wanting something to take out the millions of Candy Corn in the game (and again, from a game developer perspective this is the right thing to do), but the extremely high amounts needed meant that each individual player felt discouraged from even trying.

One possible way they could have gone about it is instead have small sinks that consumed, say, 25 Candy Corn in exchange for a Trick or Treat bag (or a special version of it for 100 Candy Corn). That bag, in turn, has a loot table that can range from small amounts of Candy Corn (10) to more expensive goodies (Cobs, Halloween recipes) to stuff that’s really valuable, like the 2012 Halloween skins. I’m willing to bet my Ascended mat stockpile that players would consume Candy Corn by the tens of thousands to gamble for stuff like the Greatsaw again.

I don’t mind the general idea, but I REALLY don’t want yet more currency tokens to fill my bank with. >.>

WoW is the success story it is because it’s perfected many of the sneaky addictive mechanisms to hook players in and keep them playing. Notice how Blizzard has never announced plans for a WoW 2? That’s because they don’t want two games competing for their own massive player base. They even canceled their mysterious Project Titan MMO for likely the same reason. And the players themselves have invested so much time and energy into WoW that the thought of dropping it all and leaving is frankly terrifying to them.

Games like Guild Wars are catering to a different audience, the ones who don’t want the game to be about gear treadmills and running raids over and over and over for a 0.02% chance to get that new gear you want. (Although arguably, GW2 is heading down that path now.)

GW1’s massive skill options was fun, yes, but there was also a downside. It made balancing a real headache, and to be honest, outside of a small selection of top tier skills, the vast majority of skills were never, ever used. Orison of Healing was the baseline heal skill to which all other healing skills were compared, but no Monk worth his salt EVER carried it on his bar. (If he did, it was a dead giveaway that you were dealing with a newbie.)

Scaling summons would be a VERY welcome change.

The dagger AA chain is VERY fast and if it gained life force on the first two attacks, I think it might be too powerful. I wouldn’t mind a corrupt boon ability on the final strike, but perhaps it should be tied to the Dagger buff trait so some investment in it is necessary.

Fixing the forum bug.

TC is actually winning this week (I know, I’m shocked too!). I can only imagine that BG and JQ are having a “rest week” since the tournament is now over.

Guild Wars is not a game about chasing the gear treadmill, no. There’s actually a lot of us who bought this game PRECISELY because of that reason. Keep in mind that originally, Exotic was meant to be the highest stat tier; we were already quite upset by the introduction of Ascended gear, which was likely put in as a compromise to players like you who do like chasing higher stats.

Most likely, yes. If Tequatl and the Triple Wurm are anything to go by, any raid content in the future will just give out achievements and rare skins (possibly new Ascended weapon sets like the Sunless set).

There is a bug where Master Tailors no longer sell Runes of Holding, I believe. You can still buy them from Leatherworkers/Armorsmith NPCs though.

Yep, it’s the Ranger’s downed skill #3, Lick Wounds, that’s causing it. It’s actually very, very powerful in situations where the enemy can’t stomp you; Rangers are the kings of underwater combat as a result.

The only surefire way I’ve found to ensure my minions will attack correctly in combat is to make sure that they have come to a complete stop before initiating the attack. (Melee minions, that is. Ranged minions have no problem whatsoever.)

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. We need (more?) hidden GMs in the game who we can silently call to the area to verify when someone is being a griefer so they can be suspended/banned on the spot. Bonus points if it’s accompanied by a flashy “You have been Dhuumed!” animation. I bet a lot more people would play nice if they can’t be sure if Big Brother is watching or not.