Guild Wars 2

No, I would say it simply have to do with the fact that it would be silly for people to run around in town half-naked, which would be the case if they had access to town-cloth swimming gear.

We already have swim-suites technically anyway. Just use one of the Diving Goggles around the world and you will get into your swimming gear.

Oh, so you already know exactly how the fractals will be then?
That is quite impressive since they have not even starting to build them yet.

And yet if they take the time and resources to change this, the same people will still make the same mistakes and post the same kind of thread.

The game is for teens+, one should be able to assume that people like that are able to actually read and understand what they are pressing on.

I have yet to follow a single guide or guild and I have every single achievement from the Living Stories completed.

They DO happen naturally, if you play all the content has to offer.

^ Ah yes indeed.
They were nonetheless sent/used by Abaddon however which could make a Charr interested in his story.

Well, we also know that the Titans, which were considered Gods by the Charr back in GW1 were constructs of Abaddon, so it is fully possible that he would want to learn a bit more about him because of that.

Player Character.9467:

As in the champions OF the dragons. Read the list of what counts as a dragon champion. Eyes/mouths of zhaitan? Nornbear? Herboza?

And yet several of them ARE dragons.

Yep, the stream today confirmed that the Election ends on the 5th and the Bazaar leaves on the 6th.

Yep, election ends on the 5th and the bazaar leaves on the 6th.

I would assume you would need to actually give reason as to why they should be fixed.

So, people were actually only getting the Celestial gear for the Magic Find? Seriously?

Lets wait until we know what they are planning to do with the replacement shall we?
Keep in mind that for all we know the removal of MF on gear won’t happen until December, so there is plenty of time.

Tathar Lossehelin.5761:

Surely, SURELY, the sensible thing with the achievements would be to only have to support one candidate to get them all.

Having to support both of them just to tick off some boxes (and get associated rewards) will break the ‘story’ for lots of people and kind of ruins the idea of supporting one or the other…

And surely you don’t actually NEED to get all 12 achievements if you feel that it would hurt the story?

People that actually cares about the story are most likely not that bothered with the achievements anyway.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Maybe the Mad Queen is misremembering because GW EotN Dungeons could be done with a greater variety of builds and tactics than “stack in melee and DPS, while popping Inv frames.” >.>

Not at top efficiency , just as you can do every dungeon in GW2 with a great variety of builds but need specific builds to get the top efficiency.

Vena.8436:

Judging by the design, I assume this is also why the range was not changed but the blast radius was (a work-around of sorts)? They seem to work on similar mechanics, on a bar charge mechanic which is largely unique to siege (and perhaps a bit of a relic of older design that now needs to be re-vamped).

I would say the reason the range was not changed was because of what happened last time the changed range of certain siege.

Nemesis.2019:

lordkrall.7241:

And why would your day be more valuable than another players day?
Not everyone lives in the same timezone. There is always night somewhere.

And this is where Anet messed up, when they allowed players from any time zone to join any server, this is what ruined WvW from the get go….

So they should basically have 3 servers for every single time zone in the world then?

And why would your day be more valuable than another players day?
Not everyone lives in the same timezone. There is always night somewhere.

Out of all living story things, only one have completely taken place outside the open world, Super Adventure Box.

For all we know the area for the Bazaar will stay even after the Airship flies away.

The main issue with this is that most of it actually takes place in the open world. And since the game is not instanced it would be rather hard and/or weird to have people running around doing stuff in the open world that is not actually there anymore.

Andrew.6487:

Maybe put a detecting system on host server? it really hard to report someone in a 50 people group.

And if someone where in a 50 people group, they wouldn’t be using a speed hack now, would they?
Unless all those 50 were, otherwise the one who did would be running ahead of those that didn’t, correct?

Of course it is not allowed, hacking is not allowed.

They can’t however spend time monitoring every single map on every single server at every single moment, so they need people to report the hackers and supply actual proof.

^ If you do, please inform the rest of us where you are meeting up, so we can crakitten.
Don’t take up slots and give away points in WvW

Spicyhash.7605:

Bad. Catapults aren’t used much, and not many people will put points into this line if there isnt an ability point reset.

Hm?
Catapults are used very much, since they are create at sneaky take a keep or tower without having to worry about the ACs at the gates.

Player Character.9467:

Champions aren’t dragons, they’re constructs.

They are still just as much Dragons as the Elder ones.

But then again for all we know the Elder Dragons are not actually Dragons either.

Urukami.4796:

No No i’m meaning at least us PVPers are at least able to gain access to a small amount of money so overtime we can buy those weapon and armor skins that can be converted to pvp in the TP.

Even a small amount of money would be quite devastating since you do not actually pay a single gold for anything in sPvP.

maddoctor.2738:

The patch notes will probably arrive later today when Anet devs go to the office… just like they do every time without a thread asking for them.

The patch notes have never been up a day before the release of a patch, and the patch is coming tomorrow, not today, so it is highly unlikely we will see any patch notes today.

Thobek.1730:

You misunderstand me. I don’t mind a bit of politics IF they did it like the game of thrones (warring factions on a huge scale, murder, ancient force threatening the world, mystery, betrayal) Not only that but the game of thrones characters are developed and interesting. If that’s what they are trying to do they are failing.

Lets check the GW2 story then shall we?

There is a somewhat large-scale war against Separatists, Flame Legion and other splinter factions of the races, the whole reason for the election is murder, the Elder Dragons is definetly classified as an “ancient force threatening the world”, there are also quite a bit of mystery and betrayal.

I would say all those things you mentioned about Song of Ice and Fire is currently in GW2, although not as well written (which is understandable since one is a book and the other is a MMO.)

Navzar.2938:

Abaddon is already from the mists, so mixing him with the mists is just mixing water with water, nothing unexpected will happen.
The hint at unexpected things happened was because your mixing two different things.

Hm?
I am quite sure that the Gods are NOT from the Mist.

Why do people keep assuming that the Fractals will actually change anything at all? There is nothing at all that points towards the fractal being able to influence the real world.

The main issue with being able to directly convert glory to gold is the fact that you spend NO GOLD in sPvP, which would mean it would be an income but no costs, which would make the inflation quite bad.

Fade.7658:

Why anyone spends real life money for gems, I’ll never know. You may be supporting Anet, which in turn, allows them to put out more content, but more often than not, it’s content many people don’t want, poorly implemented (the amount of bugs is astonishing) and Anet still doesn’t seem to listen to it’s customers (the last patch was a step in the right direction, but still too little, too late).

You do know that if we DIDN’T spend real life money on gems you wouldn’t be able to buy gems for ingame gold, right?

Oroibahazopi.9074:

no im quitting with all the other people who realize wvw is trakitten the moment

Good riddance.
It would seem like the majority of players prefer the current system though, especially since the amount of WvW:ers have increased the past months.

darkace.8925:

There’s no way Anet won’t give us that Fractal regardless of the election’s outcome. It’s too good an idea to waste and they’ve shown plenty of times they can break under public pressure. You’ll get that Fractal either way…vote for other reasons.

Actually at this time everything points towards them NOT releasing the losing Fractal at all., so don’t go around assuming we will.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

work in progress, despite the game being our nearly a year and all the BETA, yeah work in a VERY slow progress. This “buff” is a complete joke, Magic Find!? we are out numbered and you think Magic Find will help us…

The only decent part is the no damage to gear on death and seeing as you are out numbered you are likely to die.

It needs to increase ALL stats at say 3 Levels based on how much you are out numbered

Oh, and make people abuse and attack their server mates because they joined WvW and removed the buff?
Don’t really think that is a good solution.

Orpheal.8263:

You don’t skip the game, it just levels characters, you don#t skip the game’s story or anything like that, A character which has used such a scroll must still do his/her personal story ect.

True, but at the same time you can, because of it, skip the low-level maps and go directly to the higher level ones.

Personally I would say that the current scroll is bad enough.
People shouldn’t be able to skip half the game (and we all know that if people got these, they would use them to get to level 80 and then spam the forums about there being nothing to do in the game).

Isn’t that the holo-projector used during Dragon Bash?

Gmr Leon.1846:

That’s passive entertainment though. This is a game, interactive entertainment. There’s a desire for the culmination of both in a decent way. Clearly the OP doesn’t see the blending done well in this case, and that’s okay. He/she can ignore it until it passes.

Not like bleckish moments in your personal story at any rate…

True, but the OP seems to assume that fantasy can’t involve politics, and I simply corrected him and gave an recent example.

A fantasy story consisting only of magic and dragons and mythical beast would most likely be quite boring after all.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Depends entirely on the way the Margonites are portrayed. But regardless, we might get Forgotten and the Gods themselves. I’m all for more content from GW1.

By the time of his Fall the Margonites were (as far as we know) regular humans, so portraying the any other way wouldn’t really make much sense.

I would guess you have never heard of a series called A Song of Ice and Fire (more commonly known as the basis for the tv-series Game of Thrones).

That is probably one of the biggest fantasy series at the moment and it have extremely much to do with politics and stuff like that.

From sPvP?
Most likely not.

From WvW?
Highly likely since that usually drop event specific items.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

For me this is really just a matter of content. The Fall of Abaddon would mean that content would need to be created for things from GW1. We may see the Gods and/or their avatars, and we may see Forgotten or Margonites. And if such content was to be created, we may see more of it in other areas of the game. And I really want to see a lot of these things from GW1 again. It’s like a giant nostalgia trip.

There are already quite a bit of humans around though, so Margonites wouldn’t really be anything new.

Player Character.9467:

That would kill a plot line on one of the dragons… there’s only 6 of them…

And earlier we knew that there were only 4
Nothing confirms that there are not more than those 6.

Onshidesigns.1069:

If players pick the Thaumanova Reactor. That affects both Space and TIME. Then their would be a possibility the Fall of Abaddon would still come into being.

It also MAY allow the gods to come through some rip it time, to reappear it GW2

You are however forgetting that both the Fractals are stuff that have ALREADY HAPPENED, so any effects would have already happened.

The main issue here is that it is more or less impossible to actually prove that it is a bot.
There are after all people that spend most of their days sitting around watching the TP, and wouldn’t you also look like a bot if you updated your price as soon as the “bot” updated their price?

Sure, if you start doing it in sPvP instead of taking up slots and giving away points in WvW.

I would say that Hell does exist in Tyria, but here it is called Realm of Torment.

And looking at the helmet at least it does look like something that would come out of there.

I would personally say that both Fractals would be just as interesting and effect the world as much. Otherwise they would not put them against each other.

Cradorell.3941:

Very good on UW bl, plenty of blob kills. And its poor performance all round from UW. WSR havent fought you guys yet, as RiOT tend to focus on the server that blobs up and will contine to kitten up UW bl. GG

Poor performance?
From what I saw during the fights today in our border I would say that if anyone showed “poor performance” it would be RiOT (sadly, I liked fighting you guys last match-up. No idea what happened).

Aredeth.9612:

not if some floating text appeared on your screen ‘monster has gained xxxx to maximum health due to allies entering the fight’

Which would look extremely silly.