Guild Wars 2

Reset night tends to always have queues, this is not something new, it has been like that for most servers since release.

Use AoE-loot and bind it to another key than F (personally I use Shift+F).

You get it when you rank up.
One per rank (so if you won you would get one extra chest for 3 rank-ups).

It is quite funny that people claim that ArenaNet doesn’t have a clue, while they themselves clearly don’t understand what a League is…

Fair draws?
Isn’t the whole point of the League that everyone is supposed to meet everyone?

They didn’t answer all the lore-related questions either, but I don’t see anyone shouting about that.

True, it was not specified that it was lore-only questions, but one could quite easily assume that it would be the case when it was a lore-based live-stream, with people mainly working with story and such.

It was also rather clear that they were given the questions by people off-camera, and thus as far as they knew there WERE no other questions (the long silence close to the end would suggest that they were waiting for more questions) so you can’t really blame them for saying that there weren’t any more questions.

No matter how much you buff the health of a mob it would be fully possible to solo it, as long as there isn’t a timer (world-bosses doesn’t reset if no on hits them as far as I know), since you can just run back forever and keep hitting it.

The timers are not low. They are quite perfect for the events. Since it means you actually have to do stuff other than standing there waiting until the boss is at 10% HP and then rush in and tag it. With the 15 minute timers everyone present need to actually take part of the fight if they want to succeed.

They were added simply because being able to solo a world boss just because you have enough time is silly.

There should always be a way to fail events, and before the timers it was impossible to fail most of them.

Hm?

I am quite sure that the mail said nothing about if Zhaitan was defeated.
It talks about the Offensive in Orr, but that could take place both before and after Zhaitans death.

Why would it be off the table?
He even says in the post that they will send out more invites the coming weeks.

If you did not receive an invitation, do not despair – we will be adding many more guilds in the coming weeks.

Astralporing.1957:

Ah yes, “and that’s basically all the questions we got concerning halloween from the forums”. They pretended that questions about the grind did not even exist.

Good job. Good job indeed.

My trust in the project of improving dev-players communication just went up a notch[/sarcasm]

Maybe, just maybe, they didn’t answer those question existed simply because the stream was more about lore than mechanics? And technically they didn’t have much to do with Halloween as such, but rather about grind, which isn’t really specific to Halloween.

Kaleban.9834:

Is anyone else a bit nervous about this new universal healing skill?

Does ANet not remember the power creep and imbalance that EoTN and PvE skills introduced to GW1? Like Ursan DoA runs?

Seems a bit early in the game’s life cycle to already be introducing new skills that marginalize or trivialize old skills, especially when multiple skills across all professions are still either imbalanced or not working properly.

Why assume it will marginalize or trivialize old skills?
We have more or less NO information about this new skin, so why assume it will not be balanced?

People have been asking for new skills since the game was released more or less, and this is the first one.

Mif.3471:

IMO they wouldn’t of gone to the development effort of adding a new Toxin cleansing skill if existing healing skills would suffice.

That does of course depend on what it does.
Maybe it makes you hit for less?
Maybe it makes you take more damage?

It would still be a good idea to remove it, but you will still be able to fight without removing it if you want.

Mif.3471:

Having mandatory skills to participate in content is a bad idea.
(This skill appears to be the only way to cleanse the new Toxin condition)

A core element of my Engineer build needs medkit as my heal skill, and having to run a mandatory healing skill would require me to re-trait and re-gear every time I do this content.

What makes you think that you NEED to cleanse Toxin though?
For all we know it will be fully possible to outheal it (if it does damage).

Cancer.9065:

Do you guys plan on something similar for the home instances nodes? Couhg New reward can upgrade quartz but I dont have quartz availabe Cough

There is plenty of Quartz at the TP.

Hm?
Isn’t the vast majority of the content in the game completely solo-able?

Conner.4702:

No they don’t. WvW is won by coverage and only a few servers has the coverage to keep the maps filled. Stop living in a dream world and smell reality. As it is the server system is a huge fail where WvW is concerned due to seperating NA and EU servers. Had they not been seperated WvW would have been a bigger success, because you’d have an actual 24/7 battlefield as advertised.

As it is now Anet is stacking the rewards and gameplay changes more and more in favor of T1 servers.

As I said, every single server have the ABILITY to do it, but not every server will do it.
That does not mean they don’t have the ability.
If there were no limits on the maps I would have agreed, but since there is a limit it is fully possible for everyone to get as much coverage.

EFWinters.5421:

If, in the NHL, certain teams could field 12 players while others could only field 6, I’m pretty sure that nobody would watch it because there’s no competition in the first place.

Coincidentally that’s exactly what is happening with WvW leagues at the moment.

Every single server in the game have the ability to field the same amount of player (I doubt there is a server that have too few people on it to fill up a map fully.

The fact that they don’t is another matter, they still COULD however.

You don’t need to transfer, you can simply Guest, which is free.

Well, what would be the point of a competition if there were no rewards for winning?

Should they remove the price for winning NHL as well, since not all teams are equal?

Lucius.2140:

They exist lol.
For example: Necro can do that like crazy and mesmer also have some tools for that.

I am almost 100% sure that the user you quoted was using sarcasm.

So at first it was 800hp and now it is suddenly 1000hp? What will it be next post? 2000? Full HP?

If your team of 5 above average players can’t deal more than 1000hp per second you are not really above average players.

Thobek.1730:

if by saying “obsessed” you really mean “disappointed” – then yes.

No, I am saying obsessed because people apparently feel the need to spam about her in every single thread, even if the thing talked about might have nothing at all to do with her.
Just look at the pre-Blood and Madness release threads, Scarlet is spammed about in more or less every single one of them.

So people are basically spamming every LS thread with hate about Scarlet, even if said living story have nothing at all to do with Scarlet?

Sounds like you people are quite obsessed about her.

And yet another thread from a player that thinks everything will get solved by simply “getting new servers”.
The issue is clearly a bit bigger than just throwing more money on servers.

a t s e.9614:

I want the PvP to be focused on Skill instead of stats. That’s why alot of baddies stack
as much armor and vitality as they can to not die+ heals

It is based on Skill.
You simply ignore the fact that it is not based around 1v1.

Why are people asking questions that doesn’t actually have anything at all to do with the actual live-stream?
This is about LORE, nothing else.

Questions: What were the seals needed to unleash the Mad King? The first was Queen Salma becoming Queen, but what were the rest?

Yes, it seems like you only get rewarded when hitting it with siege.

You have a major flaw in your post however.

It supposed to work like this in 1v1 situation:
Engage, force the heal and burst .

The game is not supposed to be balanced around 1v1, thus saying that something should be a certain way in 1v1 is quite silly.
The game is balanced around 5v5, thus this “issue” isn’t really an issue since 5 (or heck even 2) people can easily out-damage stuff like this.

Hm?
First it was apparently data-mined (which was never supplied) and now it is suddenly Anet saying it?

It doesn’t really matter which “proof” people use unless they actually give links that PROVES what they are saying.

And yet there is still not a single post that actually proves that Scarlet have anything at all to do with it, so can we please stop posting that as a fact until we actually KNOW?

Avatar Yirachi.7162:

Something weird happend today on Underworld.. I still can’t really understand it :S

We have had queues quite frequently the last few days.

Do we even know what year it happens?
Do we even know that Scarlet is “born”?
Do we even know that Sylvari exists at all?

So basically making minion based classes completely useless? Sure it might lessen the lag, but it would also create other issues with balance and such.

It is quite likely that we will get the three new fractals in November, and they might indeed revamp some other stuff in Fractals while they are at it.
Time will tell.

So, why are they not doing something that would earn them more money in the long run?
They have a economist in their staff, I am quite sure that they have just as good if not better knowledge about these stuff as you do.

Of course you can.
You can technically get them with a Basic Salvage Kit as well.
There is however 25% higher chance to get them with BL one compared to Mystic one.

I am still waiting for that supposed data-mined proof that Scarlet is behind this.

Hm?
I have never been able to buy Globs of Dark Matter on the TP tbh.

BL kit does however have a slightly better chance to get rare materials from items, so people would still use them when salvaging for ectos and dark matter.

So, where have they confirmed that Scarlet is behind it?
I would love to see that post, because based on what we currently know there is NOTHING that confirms Scarlet being involved.

And please don’t speak for others than yourself.

People do know that there is a new skill coming on Tuesday, right?
So technically that part can be considered fulfilled as well.

Based on data-mined information there is an item like that coming to the gem-store some time in the future, I’ll see if I can find the link.

EDIT:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1oihoa/data_mining_upcoming_features_from_blood_and/

CHIPS.6018:

Lore will be killed. Would Germany in 1939 ally with “inferior” Jews? That’s the story that they would have to sell to the players.

Well Germany did “ally” with the “inferior communists”…

CHIPS.6018:

You are trying to apply human logic to the Kraits. The kraits see ALL other races as food and sacrifices. Nothing more.

So just because they are Krait they must be stupid?

I doubt they would kill everything they saw if they managed to figure out another way to use them in order to help with their bringing back the Prophet.

Why would it be a “poisonous plot twist” when it is something that is quite logical to do?
Krait are not stupid, and they would do anything to make their Prophet return, and I don’t doubt they would use Nightmare Court in order to achieve that if necessary.

But on the other hand, have ANYTHING that was talked about in the “Coming 6 months”-post and now added been temporary?

Sure, we can assume that it will be temporary, I just don’t see any reason to do so.

Complete the Tower of Nightmares meta achievement to receive a Krait Obelisk Shard for your home instances, which can serve as a place of power for earning a skill point or charging Quartz Crystals!

It states directly that the meta achievement will reward a Krait Obelisk Shard, whilst nothing is said about rewarding the skill for it as well, thus it is safe to assume that the skill is NOT tied to the meta and thus most likely not temporary.

Exosferatu.2961:

It is impossible lol. Don’t believe that editorial. The krait will never ally themselves with another race. Nightmare Court is not even mentioned on the official release page.

It is however mentioned on several other sites that reported the review, and usually those sites get more information than the preview page at first.

It is fully possible that they would ally themselves if force to it or see the possibility of returning their Prophet or something like that.

But the skill is not given for the meta. The node is given for the meta. And even if the meta is time-limited quite a bit of the content needed for it is permanent. Such as Tequalt, TA new path and so on.