Guild Wars 2

Jokes on them… you have to complete like 40 events in southsun for 2 of the achievements… In fact most of the living story revolves around the new DE’s… what was everyone doing if they were ignoring the events?

It is purposeful to get you to kill the stupid shark. If you want him to shut up then kill the shark

Judging by the massive growth of the new mutant plants introduced in this patch It is probably related to the second half of the event and the achievements that correspond to it.

Tsaerid.5084:

Not quite as impressive as your score but still pretty kitten good i think.

Protip: most people don’t seem to have realised yet that you can hold the sprint button down to sprint further, can cross nearly the whole arena with it if you want.

GAHH so that’s what i’ve been doing wrong…

You don’t have to do it. There are 11 samples, you only need 10 for the story.

the molten mining pick encouraged people to farm mats which was a factor, and the new dungeon hakittenhril veins in it that could be farmed daily which everyone and their mother was doing, so I think that was a major contribution. I suspect it will start to rise again now that the dungeon is over. Might take a week or two to burn off the supply though.

they added more notes… of most importance:

Optimizations

We’re rolling out our first set of optimizations. This is the first in many steps involved in helping resolve issues with “skill lag.” Some players will experience a slight improvement in skill lag issues with large groups of players, while some players may also experience a slight raise in their FPS.

New RNG boxes incoming!

Patch not up yet… looks exciting though. I hope the story content has some meat in it and is more then fixing signs.

Crab toss game looks fun, will have to give that a try.

Not many major fixes, but that is expected since it has only been 2 weeks since the last patch.

-Added temporary content
-removed other temporary content
-buffed warriors
-nerfed theives
-nerfed mesmers
-made nonsensical changes to engineer and ranger
-fixed some bugs
-added themed items to gem store

There is every patch since release, you are welcome.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

The information that Martin provided after the last quarterly earnings call about this topic hasn’t changed.

Our primary focus as a company is making the core game experience as amazing as possible, through new features, content, and the exciting changes and additions to the world through our Living World releases.

You might want to tell your bosses that because they seem to think you have already started developing an expansion.

Just keep playing the game. I have earned about 400 SP’s since finishing map completion from leveling.

Sounds good to me. People adapted pretty quick to the arrow cart change, Those who couldn’t adapt, died. This should help any problem that still exists.

For those of you experiencing these loot issues. Can you please record an hour of your typical grind session for other players to review. If you want something to be done you need to provide some sort of proof.

Jason.6719:

Just noticed something when using the new Molten pick, I no longer get any gems or anything else besides ore. Is this normal or is there something wrong with this?

Because spending 10 dollars on this and it acts differently than the other picks, then Im going to do a charge back on my credit card, because its not worth 10 dollars.

you are just unlucky.

Also doing a charge back is a very bad idea. If you received the item you paid for and Anet can prove it then they will ban your account and delete all your characters.

Leo G.4501:

NevirSayDie.6235:

I’ve never tested what would happen if both foods were used at once on the same 4 second bleed, but I believe it would be 5.6 – (5.6 × .4) = 3.36 seconds. In other words, if both food types are used, they would not cancel each other out; lemongrass would win by a huge margin.

You can try to do some math with it. But to see just how large a margin the two effects have, you can pit each other to the maximum. Maximum Condition Duration is always + 100% and max duration decrease is always – 100%.

If you have 100% condition duration, a 6sec bleed would last 12sec.
If you have -100% condition duration, a 6sec bleed would last 3sec.
If you have both those max in place, the – condition duration is calculated last so should be -100% of a 12sec bleed which should put it back at 6sec. This is all just theoretical though…I could be totally wrong.

But -duration will always be favored because removing a fraction of a second diminishes a condition by a full tic.

tl;dr—if anyone understood how good lemongrass is, they’d stop dying to my condition builds in WvW.

And I’d be richer since more people would be buying my food! I wish I farmed more snowflakes as I wasted so many of them making my own Giver’s weapons that didn’t work for the longest

That might be true if math was broken, but math works so all that is wrong

-100% of anything is 0.
+100% is double

if you have a 6 second bleed and +100% you get a 12 second bleed. If you then have -100% you have a 0 second bleed.

Lemongrass will always win, end of story.

Yes, by the time you get to the point where you need 30+ AR you will have more shards then you know what to do with. The drop rate is tied in to far you have progressed. Very low from 0-20 because you don’t need them. As you go above 20 they are something you need and they start dropping more frequently.

Edit: Should also add, 0-10 = only mist, 10-20 = mist + globs, 20+ mist+ glob + shard

Working on an expansion means that they are working on an expansion. Unless you have some magical crystal ball that I don’t have access too They have not announced that they are launching it any time soon. It could still be well over a year away from launching.

Expansions take a long time. They probably started working on it as soon as the game launched. Look at some other popular MMO’s. WoW announced its first expansion like 6 months after launch, yet it didn’t go live until ~2 years after launch.

Swtor announced it’s expansion 9 months after launch and didn’t go live with it until a year and 4 months after launch.

Anet hasn’t even announced an expansion yet, so we still have A LOT of time left before an expansion actually launches.

Also this game has relatively few problems compared to most MMO’s a year after launch. We are in infinitely better shape then TERA or STO or SWTOR were within a year of launch.

Counters are not a valid argument to if an ability is OP or not. If this ability heals as much as people are saying then it should be nerfed 50% minimum.

You can’t give out only dyes that people haven’t unlocked because it is easily exploitable. I would just unlock every dye except the 2 most expensive and then buy a ton of packs and make myself rich.

Don’t forget to check out the new dialog, the rebuilding of cragstead and the hatchery and the beginning of the next story line by talking to the consortium.

Also the fused gauntlets were the reward for the storyline, this was just a bonus as a party celebration.

The NCSoft conference call over the weekend announced that they are indeed working on an expansion and will launch it when they need to maximize profit. I suspect we will see the start of the next dragon storyline then.

Because logging off for 3 minutes is hard… Maybe they should use the patching system of every other MMO every created… “we will be taking the servers down for maintenance for the next 2 hours”

….8 hours later…. We have almost finished maintenance, just a few more hours!

Man people in this thrad have managed to get some magical information out of that small quote… so far we have:

1. The game is failing and they will only release the expansion as a cashcow before the shut down the servers
2. The game is doing so well that they are taking their time on the expansion and will release it when sales start to finally dip.
3. The expansion is just in a concept phase and is at least 3 years for launch
4. The expansion is completely done and they are just sitting on it for the right time to launch.
5. They aren’t actually working on an expansion because of living story
6. They will release the expansion and tie it into living story

It is really amazing how people manage to get so much information out of one quote even if people get completely different and contradictory information.

If you couldn’t log on for 1 hour each month for the past 4 months then I don’t think you can reasonably blame Anet for that. You have 3 days to log on for the finale. It takes 10 seconds to get the achievement, and about 20 minutes to go around and do all the possible dialog. Again, if you can’t spare 20 minutes over 3 days then the problem is not with Anet.

I’m sorry but if you couldn’t be bothered to do the refugee signs for 10 minutes over the last 4 months then having them add any extra 1 day isn’t going to help you because you still won’t do it.

Well you can attempt farming them, spiders for powerful venom and dust, risen for ancient bones, southsun for powerful bloods, anything high level for fangs and claws.

You will earn about 2g worth of mats an hour that way and it will take you 3-4 months to do if you can farm for about 4 hours a day.

Or you can run CoF for 8g/hr and be done in a few weeks.

You’ll never have hard large scale content in the game that isn’t horribly tedious, because you can never wipe with the current downed state and rez mechanics. 5 people can rez someone from completely dead in about 5 seconds an unlimited number of times. unless the boss does an AOE that kills every player every 10 seconds it will never be hard and that isn’t hard it is just tedious. You’ll never see a typical MMO style raid unless they remove rezzing in its current form because you will always be able to faceroll content with rezzing in groups of 10+.

Did he break into the guild bank through hacking? No? Did he use an exploit to gain access? No?

Sounds like you gave him permission and he did exactly what you told him he could do and now you are complaining about it.

I would suggest increasing your screening process, and not giving access to the bank for members <2 months in the guild. Time to take some responsibility for your actions.

I invested over 100g in buying myself some of the dyes and buying the same ones for future investment opportunities. I think we will see these have a much higher price platau then most of the limited skins for a couple reasons.

1. They are unlimited. Dyes can be applied forever once you unlock them.
2. They can be applied to any armor. They aren’t limited to certain classes or looks, they can be applied to anything.
3. VERY limited. Even the rarest skins have 100+ on the trading post. Most of these dyes only have 1 or 2 dozen on the TP currently, they were hard to get and cost a crap ton of gems to even attempt to get them.

For these reasons alone I think these dyes continually rise in price. The limit will be how much people like them on different armor sets. I expect them to at least double or triple in price, but they may rise more. Sell price doesn’t mean much other then people are stocking up, it is much more important to watch the buy order prices to get an idea of what is going to happen.

Sometimes those things don’t work out in testing so they scrap them. The order of the boss events change, and the dialog changes a bit here and there so it does in fact offer a different experience every time, even if it is rather limited. Hopefully they continue to develop the technology needed to make more interesting and significant changes in the future.

I agree, adding in more land mass and connecting it to the other zones would really help with a couple of things:

1. more accessible means more people which the zone really needs
2. more content means more people which the zone really needs
3. helps with continuity between the world which is one of the huge positive things in this game.

Strejda Tom.6108:

Correct me if I am wrong but I don’t remember any MMO that had expansion (I don’t mean content updates, I mean a big expansion) sooner than 1 year after release. It has been 9 months since release and people from Anet have said (somewhere) that there will be no expansion this year, so why do you expect expansion so soon?

You are correct, most MMO’s don’t LAUNCH an expansion until 18 months – 2 years after release. However most announce the expansion with a teaser within the first year. Anet on the other hand has said they haven’t even begun thinking about expansions yet.

Here is the interview where it was mentioned: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/05/no-guild-wars-2-expansions-currently-planned

I would love to have them surprise me and announce and expansion at the one year mark, to be released in 6 months to a year after that, but it doesn’t seem like that is the route they are taking. I figure if I ever want to see another elder dragon I need to start pushing for the story to be established in the living content.

They have said that they have no plans for an expansion at this time. It takes 2+ years to fully develop an expansion so if they haven’t even planned on one yet then we aren’t going to see one at least for two more years.

I don’t know why they are doing this. IMO it seems like the worst decision in the history of MMO’s, more content + more money seems like a win for everyone. I naturally assumed that if they weren’t doing an expansion it was because they couldn’t fund one since there is literally no other good reason not to do it. Before launch they said their primary source of revenue was going to be box sales and expansions as it was with GW1.

If we want to see a dragon I think it is going to have to be through living story content.

Link or it didn’t happen.

It’s been almost a year since the first dragon storyline. I think it is past time to start tying these stories into the next dragon. Bubbles is the obvious choice since we are moving to southsun, but Jormag would be possible as well.

The entire game story was built around the growing threat of the elder dragons yet we have heard nothing about any of the others since launch. Originally I expected the dragons to come with expansions, but since it doesn’t seem like GW2 has achieved the required funding for an expansion yet we have to make due with living story so I think it is time to progress those stories with what we have.

I hope we get a southsun themed dungeon, it was the best part of F&F. I’m also hoping we start moving back to the dragon story lines.

I hope so, the dungeon was the best part of the content. The more dungeons this game can get the better.

This is an MMO, I mean all three letters involve playing with other people.

-your character is anything other then a warrior

I can’t imagine this would be allowed in any AAA MMO. Can you imagine competitive PvP where you could have someone with 3 toons all attack you in perfect sync, no one would ever stand a chance. No game could ever have any sort of PvP without removing this.

Dyes are officially going away in 5 days. If you want them buy them now or prepare for the price to have a 0 added on the end by next week. I bought 2 of every color, one for myself and one to sell to people for 10x the price later.

Are grenth and balth even physically possible since the patch? I tried both a couple times and Jonez was 1-shot instantly in the final phase of the event both times. Balth was similar, the entire team was one shot by super charged vets.

lol this has got to be a joke thread. Thief has been nerfed in every patch since beta. Every single one. Warrior on the other hand, which was already the strongest profession in the game has been continually buffed in every patch. They are like the demi-gods of the gw universe now.

This thread is great:

Even though bleeds last longer, have less counters and do more dmg it is ok because I can die while still attacking! Confusion made me stop attacking for 6 seconds to live and that is OP, I would much rather die from bleeding!

lol, but alas, that is how Anet balances things so it is what it is I guess.

What server and times were you playing? Off peak hours on lower pop servers have pretty dead mid level zones. On servers like JQ and TC most zones are quite populated especially during NA prime time.

Olba.5376:

The thing is, Confusion is nothing like Bleeding.

The counters for confusion are condition removal and not doing anything. The former is also a counter for bleeds. However, eventually you’ll run out of condition removers and be stuck with a choice of either dying or not doing anything. And the latter pretty much leads to the former.

Also, you people talking about the damage need to get your eyes checked:

• Bleeding starts at 42.5 and gets 5 more for every 100 condition damage
• Confusion starts at 130 and gets 15 more for every 100 condition damage

So not only does Confusion start at nearly 3x the base, but it also scales at a 3x rate.

Those are pre-nerf numbers. Reduce those by 50% for post nerf numbers. Not sure how scaling was effected, but at ~1100 condition damage I get ~160 dmg per confusion stack now.

If you run out of conditional removals with a bleed stack your choice is dying or dying. Bleeds are much much worse because you have NO choice, you just die, end of story.

Conncept.7638:

Doggie.3184:

Use a condition remover.

You take damage when you use a condition remover.

So you either: A) remove confusion when you only have a few stacks, taking very little damage, but risking that the mesmer has more stacks available or B ) remove confusion when you’re sure the memser has expended all stacks and pray it doesn’t kill you.

Except that this isn’t true. Confusion applies after the effect of the ability, so heals that remove conditions and condition removals don’t take damage from confusion.

Can you imagine the nightmare the economy would be without a listing fee? The fact that people would use the TP as a glorified bank alone would totally destroy it.

Also JS has told us that ~10 Dusks sold a day, I think the precursor market moves faster then you think. You might only have to wait a week or two, so don’t give up all hope.

Poison is not a high damage ability. Though I really don’t understand how they nerfed confusion but not bleeding and burning.

Bleeding does about 120 dmg/stack/tick. It can last ~12 seconds and is easily applied in stacks of 15-20. You can not avoid the damage

Confusion after the nerf does 150 dmg/stack/tick it is capped at 10 seconds, but usually only lasts 4-5, it is very difficult to stack more then 5 stacks on a person for more then a split second. You can easily avoid all damage from it by not attacking.

Bleeding does 2-3x more damage on average now then confusion, it needs to have a 66% nerf imo.

I don’t get it… you do know that GW2 isn’t a charity right? They need to pay their bills. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing you want in the gem store. What you don’t want are ascended weapons and armor or 500% PvP damage boosts.