Guild Wars 2

Keith S.2704:

I herd it is now available to pre order Heart of thrones is this correct and where at give me the link asap – will this also include extra character slots ?

i’m pretty sure you heard wrong, dont believe anything unless its announced by arenanet themselves.

Dont really understand the hate on outfits, they have their purpose and they’re pretty cool to get some looks on your chartacters you might not otherwise be able to get due to armor restrictions. Not to mention the free-of-transmutation swapping between outfits is great for leveling alts.

I love mix-matching armor, all my characters have a mixed set that i took time to find the right combo with, but that doesnt mean outfits shouldnt be ingame , just because you can’t use them to mix and match, i think armor being now ingame reward only will be a very nice change, no more need to save for gems to get that armor piece to perfect the right look

Obviously they’ll push out outfits more often than armors and i ahve zero problems with that at all. I do hope that as time goes by they do put out a bit more armors than they did during the last living world seasons, but they wont match the output of outfits. And i’m perfectly fine with that

So far this change is rly awesome for me.

Well to be fair, the world of tyria right now is bit frozen in time, as in, hot will follow directly upon the ending of season 2, so until then the news of the pact being completely destroyed by mordremoth hasnt reached anyone yet.

My guess is that the rebuilding of LA is happening somewhere alongside season 2, the city ahving been frozen in time for awhile now catching up while the sw and living story is frozen now.

Also, LA was a warzone, mordremoth hasnt put any real focus on LA aside from a waypoint being destroyed. LA is still an important city so even during a war , in moments where the destruction has passed and its relatively calmed down (in that area) its a good idea to build defenses and bolster the city for possible future attacks.

Black Box.9312:

Solori.6025:

But the cheese is still there.

It’s just not a cheese factory.

People for some reason saw beta test and thought " Oh look we get to preview the entire expansion for a day"

No one even gave a hint as to the duration, just the test.
If you farmed for hours to get into the beta, congrats.
You decided to spend 40+ hours of your life to help test something for free.

It’s no one else’s fault but yours you decided to waste that time, and its also your fault you assumed testing durations and dates.

Instead of trying to mask the thread as a " It’s your fault I farmed for a 6 hour test"
Why not instead place the blame on the person that’s ACTUALLY responsible?

Lastly,
Some people farmed for days, and didn’t get a portal
Some people wont be able to make the test at all and
Some people didn’t luck out and get the email either.

Why not be thankful you get to actually have a small window to see what others are denied because of your heaven sent good luck?

dsslive.8473:

But the cheese wasn’t taken away. Somewhere along the way the mouse thought there would be a whole platter of cheese instead of the small block, the same size block (well actually a little bit bigger) that was there the previous times the mouse ran through the maze.

I’m sure a bigger beta would have been awesome, but you can’t fault someone for your own assumptions. It’s not the people who put the mouse in the maze their fault that somewhere along the road that little mouse expected a platter instead of the small block of cheese it will get.

Both of you missed the point entirely. It’s not about the cheese, it’s about the fact that when you make a habit of something that people become accustomed to, and then suddenly break that habit, everything comes to a screeching halt and people are left wondering why they weren’t given fair warning that change was coming.

The previous event was referred to as a “stress test”. This one was referred to as a “beta”. The last time we had a “beta” was pre-release, and those lasted for entire weekends. Yes, people chose to farm for portals, but they have every right to be upset that they dedicated their time to a lost cause because they were purposefully left in the dark.

actually thats not true. the only thing that ahs been reffered to as a stress test was the wvw one, the previous closed beta (stress test) was referred to as a closed beta

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-heart-of-thorns-closed-beta-tests/

So yes, it was reffered to as a beta, same as this event.

Black Box.9312:

Solori.6025:

This is volunteer work, and all you have to do is log on and go through the zone.
No one is forcing you to test, and no one forced anyone to farm.

You farmed because you wanted to

If you train a mouse to navigate a maze for the cheese at the end, and then take away the cheese, the mouse will still run the maze under the assumption that the reward is there. Technically, the mouse is choosing to participate, but it’s going to be very disappointed when it finds out that there is no cheese at the end.

But the cheese wasn’t taken away. Somewhere along the way the mouse thought there would be a whole platter of cheese instead of the small block, the same size block (well actually a little bit bigger) that was there the previous times the mouse ran through the maze.

I’m sure a bigger beta would have been awesome, but you can’t fault someone for your own assumptions. It’s not the people who put the mouse in the maze their fault that somewhere along the road that little mouse expected a platter instead of the small block of cheese it will get.

Dark Saviour.9410:

Nike.2631:

States.6387:

What Anet pulled was very shady.

I love how people work themselves up with a complete fantasy of their own creation and when others don’t live up to those delusions its “shady”.

How long have the beta tests been up to this point? A couple of hours for the stress tests and 24 hours for the sPvP map. In that light do you see ANYTHING inconsistent about this next window and past practices?

How many of those have incentivized you into them by trying to get you to earn an item for entry?
When you do it that way, you basically set the beta up as a more of a preview/reward than a standard test, yet what they’re providing doesn’t really feel like a reward anymore.

Isnt this kinda exactly what Nike is saying though? you assumed something would be one way using your own interpretation instead of looking at past events and the information actually given by Anet. Only to now be angry at Anet because they didnt follow what you assumed would happen, but continued with their trend of closed beta’s.

It’s really just save to never assume more than what you know from past events unless you’re explicitly told it will be different. Aka, when they announce closed beta and a way to acces them, assume they will be the same as the closed beta’s in the past, instead of free previews of the new content.

This portal event was just another way to get participants in a more active way that would give people something to do ingame if they really wished a ticket. The RnG is still the same as it would be if it were by signing up to the newsletter just a more active way.

That information was datamined, not officially released yet, so there is no telling when it will be announced and when those beta events will take place. So no need to jump the gun.

If you want to assume anything, do so based on officially anounced information, and that is that those who received a portal will be invited for a closed beta event.

Well, not all sylvari are evil or affected by mordremoth.

You also have to remember that tyria is somewhat stuck in time, as the expansion will follow directly upon the ending of season 2, meaning the whole “sylvari are dragonminions” revelation hasnt yet become general knowledge.

Here are all my ladies

Ayrilana.1396:

dsslive.8473:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Apolo.5942:

Honestly, even if they did, why would you bother?, easier to do 4 fractals 3 days, than grind the kittened amounts of materials the accessories/rings etc will need.

-Particle effects
-Stat combinations
-Legendary trinkets
-Don’t like fractals

Those are the 4 most obvious reasons, but I’m sure there are more.

- trinkets dont give off particle effects, being able to craft ascended ones will not change that.

Check again.

okay, so a couple give particle effects, but i doubt that it will be those very few that will be the ones you can craft. Thsoe seem more like the kind that are rare and special drops. and no i didnt know about those, next time jsut gimme a link so i can actually check, tyvm.

Cloudz.6890:

dsslive.8473:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Apolo.5942:

Honestly, even if they did, why would you bother?, easier to do 4 fractals 3 days, than grind the kittened amounts of materials the accessories/rings etc will need.

-Particle effects
-Stat combinations
-Legendary trinkets
-Don’t like fractals

Those are the 4 most obvious reasons, but I’m sure there are more.

- trinkets dont give off particle effects, being able to craft ascended ones will not change that.
- you can buy most stat combinations either from the fotm merchant, laural vendor, or from the ones added from the ls, by playing/buying from sw vendor
- nothing has been said on legendary trinkets afaik (could be wrong) and making it possible to craft ascended rings wont change that.
- you can use laurels or badges and ectos (iirc) from wvw laurel vendor (not sure i dont rly wvw)

That said, another way of getting ascended trinkets is always welcome

I guess if you want to argue over a technicality then sure, trinkets don’t. The jewels inside them do though. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Preserved_Queen_Bee

Crafting Trinkets would allow players to get beyond the time gate of waiting on Laurels and would function like armor and weaponcrafting time wise. Trinkets being the only non-craftable ascended gear is just odd, let alone the fact that you cant salvage the ones you get currently.

Like i said, i have nothing against them being craftable, the more ways to get them the better, i was jsut pointing out something about those “obvious reasons” thats all. I dont really care whether they add it or not, but its always great for another way to get stuff.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Apolo.5942:

Honestly, even if they did, why would you bother?, easier to do 4 fractals 3 days, than grind the kittened amounts of materials the accessories/rings etc will need.

-Particle effects
-Stat combinations
-Legendary trinkets
-Don’t like fractals

Those are the 4 most obvious reasons, but I’m sure there are more.

- trinkets dont give off particle effects, being able to craft ascended ones will not change that.
- you can buy most stat combinations either from the fotm merchant, laural vendor, or from the ones added from the ls, by playing/buying from sw vendor
- nothing has been said on legendary trinkets afaik (could be wrong) and making it possible to craft ascended rings wont change that.
- you can use laurels or badges and ectos (iirc) from wvw laurel vendor (not sure i dont rly wvw)

That said, another way of getting ascended trinkets is always welcome

1. There are already armors ingmae that are themed more towards certin profession, like the dry bones armor being more necro themed. No different with the revenant.

2. You’ll start out with the same armor all newly created heavy armor users start out with. The reason why that guy started in that armor was because it was a demo and they were immediately up’d to lvl 80 to show of the new area. The armor will be available throuhgh some way just as all other armors are, be it through crafting, karma or loot.

to get acces to the new profession, you’ll have to buy the expansion

Pagan Highlander.5948:

So, if I remember correctly, Arenanet said we would never have to pay for an exspansion for GW2. We would get the exspansions periodically for free.

Just want to comment on this perticular part. They never stated they wouldn’t do paid expansions, simply that at the time they weren’t looking into it but focusing on the living story.
This is simply one of the many examples of anet saying one thing and the readers making it into something different.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

how many area or maps going to be open? no one seems to ask this?

Actually, if you go through the section for HoT you’ll see that there are plenty threads about the number/size/etc.

As @warbignime said, quality > quantity. The number of maps shouldnt be the most important part.

From the video that showed the new region, it looked anything but small.

And on the sivlerwastes/drytop maps, thats subkective, i very much liked them.

ye so lame that we get free content to keep us going in between expansions instead of waiting ~2 years without getting anything.

/sarcasm

Knighthonor.4061:

psizone.8437:

dsslive.8473:

I can’t really be bothered to look it up, but i’m fairly sure some interview out there states that that isnt a spear, but a staff.

So dont get your hopes up.

I was just trying to find that same interview but couldn’t find it.

Colin says something like “We thought this would be an issue and we warned the art team that it could be taken the wrong way but they went ahead with it anyway, but no, no land spear weapons”

You have link to this?

Sadly no, i dont tend to store links for “future reference” so you can choose to believe it or not i dont really care , maybe Psizone will have some luck finding it.

Guess we’ll have to wait and see. We’ve seen some new weapon looks (mesmer shield, spear-looking staff skin for rytlock) and new armor (rytlocks), but the truth is, no one knows and no one will know till Anet either finds it important enough to put it in a blogpost or till the beta/game goes live.

Atleast wait till the actual blogpost detailing the revenant comes out before jumping to conclussions.

It makes things much much simpler.

I can’t really be bothered to look it up, but i’m fairly sure some interview out there states that that isnt a spear, but a staff.

So dont get your hopes up.

Beast Sos.1457:

dsslive.8473:

The blogpost should start somewhere in february if i remember correctly.

Did they mention that somewhere?

Thanks for the info!

In another thread Gaile made a comment about it, you can check it here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Are-Masteries-limited-to-just-the-jungles/first#post4725906

Gaile Gray.6029:

Donari.5237:

Gaile, are you able to say when some answers will be forthcoming? Like, “this week we’ll start answering your questions,” as opposed to “in the time before the expansion, we’ll answer all your questions.” After all, we could be a year away from HoT.

I’m sure some systems are still under development (guild halls had a lot of line art in the trailer) and final answers cannot be provided, but it would be oh so nice to know when we can start learning more.

I believe you will start to learn more in early February.

The blogpost should start somewhere in february if i remember correctly.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Iason Evan.3806:

More so when you consider that they are getting rid of the new, poorly received trait system.

Wait wait wait, where was this information. I didn’t hear anything about changing this.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Traits/page/78#post4733414

Feirlista Xv.1425:

As far as I could tell from the information given the new area is going to be one large zone with 3 levels, the roots the lowest level, the jungle floor the middle level, and the jungle canopy the upper level. This looks to me that there will be only one map, the largest in the game with these 3 levels. I could be wrong but this is the way I inturprited it from what was said at PAX, so we will have to wait to see.

Ye we now ahve confirmation that there are multiple zones.

“We were able to confirm that the Heart of Maguuma is a region that will consist of multiple maps.”

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35650&storypage=2

In my opinion this is all way too early to judge, and all you’re really accomplishing is working yourself up over what may or may not be something.

Wait for the blogposts to start rolling out (i beleive they’ll start next month) and judge them as they come. It’s not like you’re alrdy being asked to pay for it. Relax, take break and keep an eye on the info that will come out soon. No need to worry your pretty little head just yet

So far the living story has been a way to set up the story of the expansion pack, so if they keep with this, then the new living story won’t necessarily play part in the new areas. It may be that when they pick the living story back up and use it to set up the next expansion, they set it in the already existing maps leading up to the place where the next expansion will take place. (ex. If we’re going after jormag, they’ll have lots of stuff for the shiverpeaks and maybe some new zones simlar to drytop and sw)

But really, we can only wait and see how they will handle this.

Thaia.5146:

I love how people here say that everything is “optional”. Well buying the game was “optional” too… yet I am an active community member since 2007. Please stop with this “it’s optional” thing – I can see it all over the forums.

The remark “its optional” means that you dont need said option to play the game.

Now let’s look at how “optional” buying the game is for playing the game shall we?
Can you play the game without buying it? No. There you ahve it, buying the game is not optional to play the game.

Do you have to choose a certain specialization to play the game and its content? no. Thus, choosing a specialization is optional.

I think that’s the gist of it, correct me if i’m wrong, i dont really use that argument so maybe it means something else.

INF.8496:

“ppl crying about the fact that they have to pay”
i bought it once, dont see a reason to be forced to buy it again.

But you’re not buying it again, you still have and will always have the game you payed for, namely Guild wars 2. You can play everything in it, without any extra payment, it even got free updates.

What you would be buying is something new, that adds to the exisiting game but is in no way required to play said exisiting game.

so i dont get where you are getting the whole “buying it again” thing

Thaia.5146:

dsslive.8473:

Thaia.5146:

BrunoBRS.5178:

all things point towards specializations being an alternative to the base class, not an upgrade. you can still remain an elementalist, or you can specialize into whatever comes for eles, earn some new tricks, and lose some old ones.

I don’t mind “loosing some tricks” but I do mind which one I’ll loose. That’s why I’m a little worried when I hear that initially we will be given only one specialisation.

ye but if you dont like the loosing the ones you lose, you just switch back to an elementalist, since you can swap out of combat when you choose too

Okay I agree but where is my horizontal progression then?

The masteries? From what i understood that is what they aligned with horizontal progression, not specializations, but i may be wrong.

Thaia.5146:

BrunoBRS.5178:

all things point towards specializations being an alternative to the base class, not an upgrade. you can still remain an elementalist, or you can specialize into whatever comes for eles, earn some new tricks, and lose some old ones.

I don’t mind “loosing some tricks” but I do mind which one I’ll loose. That’s why I’m a little worried when I hear that initially we will be given only one specialisation.

ye but if you dont like the loosing the ones you lose, you just switch back to an elementalist, since you can swap out of combat when you choose too

INF.8496:

Rebound.3409:

Besides it hasn’t been state it will be payed…how cheep can u get seriously. By the time the expo comes out this game will be 3 years old. If u played it since beta u practically payed 50$ for a game that has lasted u for 3 years. Is it that much to pay 30-40$ more when the expansion comes out IF it’s payed?

Tell me how much did the last “50$ game” last you before u quit and forgot about it?

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If u love your T-shirt and still wearing it 5 years, you also go to china and pay the kid who made it extra 10 dolars?
Sorry, but for me its not extra, its what i except, and the reason why i bought it.
But i understand your (different) attitude
Besides, there is plenty ways to support developers another way (and more voluntarily, for those who really want to)
Btw, please dont see someone who dont want to “extra pay” as a bad guy or something.

actually a better analogy would be , you bought a t-shirt and you love it, still wearing it 5 years later, then they make another t-shirt and decide to sell that too. instead of ,“here we made this too, have it for free”

Though really the t-shirt analogy is really a good one. The people who amde the tshirt didnt add anything to it, they didnt create anything new for there to be a reason you’d need to pay another extra 10 dollars

Anyhow, they never said that everything added would be free. They stated there would be free updates (which we got with living story, feature patches etc) and the possibility that in the future there could be an expansion, but they never said the expansion would be free.

I think i’ll either go with a sylvari and human or a sylvari and norn. But definately a sylvari.

In six weeks there isn’t really a beta yet, its simply a playable demo.

Cenosia.8539:

Why does I have to pay to have a feature that was promised for the release of the game? (guild hall) You know, the thing that should have come nearly after the release.

When did they promise guildhalls exactly? i’d love to see a source for that.

yes, i’ll pre-order the minute it becomes available still love the game, even though i’ve played a bit less lately i’m looking forward to heading into the jungle on launchday.

That was a backpack to carry the egg, not a change in how the egg looks. It’s still glint’s egg .

It doesn’t seem to work yet, tried to convert gold into gems and like you said, it jsut keeps hanging sadly.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Honestly, I expect any new race would be locked out of the PS as it exists today. I don’t know whether to expect something unique for them, a PS Season 2, or just having the PS completely replaced with something new (or going the way of personality…), but I fully expect an overhaul in conjunction with a new race.

i dont think they’d have to be completely locked out of the personal story. Take the largos or the tengu as an example.

We know that at a point in the living story a tengu is show to work with what will be the pact (i think he as a smith) so it could be possible that, incase of the tengu they make a different PS where it collides with the other races PS at that point. Could be about convincing your race to aid in the fight or something similar.

With the largos, at fort trinity we see sayeh (maight ahve the name wrong) talk with trahearne and if i remember correctly, she says something along the lines that she will tell her people about the fight against the dragons (again,its been awhile might be wrong :p ), for the largos, their story could start colliding with the main PS at that point and we’ll have the largos come in numbers to the aid of the pact.

I actually think the lackof knowledge about the largos is one of the reasons why it’s much more likely. Their entire story is unknow to us so Anet doesn’t ahve to wiggle within existing lore to try and make a reason why they join or what their homes and customs are.
The underwater part would indeed be an issue though, but they might be able to get around that by, if they release largos as a playable race, they make some changes to underwater content.

The kodan, regardless of how awesome it wouldbe, imo, would be a no-no, because it would involve changing what we know of the kodan to make it so they dont lack in customization (unless they go with different shade sof white ) which i’d rather not happen.

The tengu were said to be oriinally planned to be a playable race, they have a starter area all nicely lined out and are pretty darn awesome, plus the pact already has atleast one tengu in it so no reason why the others wouldnt be bale to be convinced.

Charr: I love their design, but i just can’t feel it. I prefer more humanoid races.
Norn: specifically the males, they are jsut too bulky for my taste. Female norn are somewhat better but they still aren’t high on my list.
Asura: I love asura, their animations, their looks, etc. There is just one thing that keeps me from playing one; i can never find a decent armor for them.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Just so you know, I wasn’t referring to AP’s… I was referring to the rewards that come with completion of the 4 PvE dailies that aren’t AP’s. I missed out on an extra chest of rewards because fractals aren’t my thing. Whose fault is that? Mine because I don’t like the content? Or is it because of the lack of choice (swinging back to the topic)?

But even with added choices , let’s say they added daily reviver and daily condition applier with their own small reward chest, you’d still not get the fractal daily reward chest because it is tied to that specific daily.

So even with more choice, you still wouldn’t get the reward that is tied to the content you dislike.

Not sure if i misunderstood what you meant so sorry if i did.

Adrift.8596:

I mean there was a post in which a guy complained about how a door window is viewable from one side and not from the other and Dev came and said yea we look into it…

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You do know that was a joke thread as well as a joke response right?

Amen. Let my dude show off his stuff +1

Cryolyptic.2738:

dsslive.8473:

Cryolyptic.2738:

RoseofGilead.8907:

But otherwise, nope. Just find ways around your issue that won’t penalize other players.

If they’re inactive for over 2 years, they are no longer considered a "player’.
Since they aren’t “playing” the game.

People who have other obligations in life can find a way to log in to keep their accounts active. If not, then it’s their loss. There’s no reason Anet should keep inactive account names dormant simply because someone “might” come back.

Actually, the fact they “might” come back is exactly why. People who come back after an extended period of inactivity, come back to play their characters, the ones they created. Getting forced to change your name can definately make that person just stop right there and not come back at all.

After all, Anet would want those players to come back instead of giving them one more push to ensure they wont even bother anymore at all. And they did talk about being able to return without loosing anything, that includes their character’s name.

Also, it’s not that hard to come up with a new name, i make new characters regularly and at the worst i’m down to my fourth-fifth choice.

So, if someone comes back to play new content. They will uninstall instantly if their name has been reset?

Even though you yourself just wrote “Its not that hard to come up with a new name”. And for what? because you can’t come up with a single name?

You contradict yourself, which is why your argument doesn’t work

I didn’t contradict myself at all. It isn’t the difficulty of coming up with a name that would drive away those that return after an extended amount of time. It’s the fact that they loose part of their character, that they are punished for not playing for a time when the game was very much advertised as “take a break, come back and you won’t have lost anything”

Being forced to change your character is jsut pushing players who come back away.

Cryolyptic.2738:

RoseofGilead.8907:

But otherwise, nope. Just find ways around your issue that won’t penalize other players.

If they’re inactive for over 2 years, they are no longer considered a "player’.
Since they aren’t “playing” the game.

People who have other obligations in life can find a way to log in to keep their accounts active. If not, then it’s their loss. There’s no reason Anet should keep inactive account names dormant simply because someone “might” come back.

Actually, the fact they “might” come back is exactly why. People who come back after an extended period of inactivity, come back to play their characters, the ones they created. Getting forced to change your name can definately make that person just stop right there and not come back at all.

After all, Anet would want those players to come back instead of giving them one more push to ensure they wont even bother anymore at all. And they did talk about being able to return without loosing anything, that includes their character’s name.

Also, it’s not that hard to come up with a new name, i make new characters regularly and at the worst i’m down to my fourth-fifth choice.

And what would happen if one of these long-time inactive accounts goes active again?
Do they get forced to rename their character?

I’d prefer that the individual pieces were changed to armor parts, such as the headpieces have been changed to armor pieces.

The tonic for the townsclothing would be awesome to have as an outfit though.

Astral Projections.7320:

/shrug. I like outfits. I’ve bought several so far.

1) free transmutation
2) available to all races and levels, can put on your low level for a nice appearance while leveling.
3) can switch looks in an instant

Armor fills one niche and outfits another. I don’t expect outfits to do the exact same thing as armor does. Each as its strengths and weaknesses.

^this. I like being able to change my looks on characters i’m leveling without wasting transmutation charges.

You don’t have to do an endless grind to get to the fun stuff. With the fun stuff being the actual content of the game. You can play dungeons, fractals, wvw , pvp , world bosses, whichever content you desire or find fun without having to grind because exotic armor is so easily gained.

That’s what the game was advertised at, it had nothing to do with some silly tonic that was a random gift.