Guild Wars 2

People need to understand that some issues aren’t really that easy to solve.

No matter how good servers you have there is always a risk of issues for someone.

Sure they can limit the amount of players on each map even more, but will that really solve anything? It will just make people stop bothering with WvW since they don’t want to spend hours in queues.
We have quite a few times each week where there are queues on our maps, and yet we don’t have “unplayable lag” so clearly the issue might not actually be the servers, bur rather the players machines or the playing style of the higher tier servers.

Nightingale.9714:

Mmmm… like I said, Cautiously Optimistic. I REALLY hope youre right. On another note, you said that it’s possible. Now i’d like to ask if you personally think it will happen that way, and if youre looking forward to it : )

Yes, I think it will happen that way and I am indeed looking forward to it.
I personally prefer new additions to a game that actually makes sense in the game-world, not just suddenly discovering a whole new continent just like that with an expansion pack.

They will most likely not add a whole continent in one release, but it is fully possible to release one part at a time.

The only reason expansions can do that is because they takes a long time before they are released, what ArenaNet is doing is simply cutting it into pieces and giving us some of them here and there instead of a big chunk once a year.

Quite impressive that the other server manage to have people covering every single entrance to the safe zone, don’t you think?

So, you didn’t actually read the article that announced the “no expansion” thing then?

They made it quite clear in that very article that they will add new areas and stuff found in expansions via the Living story (they already added an area this way, back in November, Southsun Cove).

I would personally say that this is a BETTER way to get all those epic stuff out, since an expansion will always be somewhat limited, but releases every 2 weeks can add quite a bit of side-tracks or whatever without people having to wait a year or so.

Elwer.7654:

Hi, I can’t find a date for when this event ends, please tell me so i can coordinate my time , thanks!

Most likely until the end of the month at least (we know that the next update (coming on the 23rd) will take place on the Zephyr Sanctum), but not actual date have been confirmed for the removal of the Bazaar.

No.
It means you can put a Utility Infusion in that slot

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion#Utility_infusions

You need to target (and hit?) with the targeted abilities.

cesmode.4257:

Or try this one for size…

Dont spam abilities .. \o/

You have to think “Is it a good time to use X or Y ability? Is the BAM going to drop the hammer on me, should I dodge first or do I have time to get off another ability?”

Still not really “true combat” though.

cesmode.4257:

Tera..no dodging? Clearly you did not try Tera.

That game has TRUE combat.

Yeah.. getting locked in place when using skills is very much true combat.
Oh wait…

Aneirin Cadwall.9126:

Oh, and good and evil are not socially defined. They are instinctual. Evil is taking away (things, lives, truth). Good is giving back.

Not really.

Killing someone in order to rescue the world would be a good thing in most peoples eyes, yet it means “taking away” something which, in with your logic, would be evil?

Good and evil lies in the eye of the beholder.

pullnointer.1476:

… instead of time played? not like they’re hard, but fotm gives nothing, arah gives nothing, no automated spvp tourneys with enormous prizes for winners…

Funnily enough they had achievement like these in the Aeatherblade dungeon. And people raged like mad on these forums about it being “impossible”.

I would say that the stacking limit is due to technical reasons (stuff with database values and such)

Ronah.2869:

Finally politics and voting gets into the game. Hopefully we will see this thing happening for all 5 racial regions not only Lion’;s Arch

That wouldn’t really work though. Since the racial regions have different kinds of government. As far as I know only Lions Arch actually have a “democratic” leadership.

Fjandi.2516:

Awesome then. I don’t really see the problem there. Zerging is for baddies anyway isn’t it? Are you a zerg lover?

I am in a prominent WvW Guild on our server. We tend to have guild events in WvW quite often, which often means running around as a guild and doing stuff.
With the proposed changes we would suddenly be punished for playing as a guild, and I don’t really see how that is a good thing, in any way or form.

RoRo.8270:

Illusion of choice we all know the human will win this by a landslide

How can you know?

Deniara Devious.3948:

I think this is rather extreme.

Already in pve when several players hit the same normal (non-boss/veteran) monster usually only one of them gets loot. So are you implying that pve is full of such cries as well? as not everybody gets loot from the same monster when several people are blasting it.

Incorrect.
Everyone in PvE have a chance for loot (individually) when several people kill the same mob.

Bread.7516:

And sex change makes more sense?
it exists in-game already if you didn’t know.

I am quite certain I can do a sex-change and become a female if I wish.
I am however extremely unlikely to be able to become a panda.

Deniara Devious.3948:

1. When several players participate in killing an NPC and enemy invader, only one of them gets loot.

So basically remove one of the main selling points of the game?

Nick.6972:

Yes! Can’t wait! Another festival!? Hopefully all content is temporar!
Oh, and I just can’t wait to buy those new shinies from the gem store!
And dont forget to add another easy JP Arena Net!

Festival?
Where?

bhagwad.4281:

But zergs also kill more people so it would even out no?

Not necessarily.

bhagwad.4281:

But I’m not pushing it on others. If my suggestion is implemented, then all playstyles will be equally valid and not just zerging. In fact, it seems that the status quo is pushing people into following a particular playstyle since zerging is the only way to get lots of loot in WvW.

No, if this is implemented zerging would NOT be “valid” since it would mean less loot and therefore people that zerged (quite usual for guilds to build smaller zergs and run around taking keeps, should we not be allowed to do so without being punished?) would be getting less stuff for the same “work”

Emapudapus.1307:

Yeah thats the suggestion, that anet makes fixed cost of gems bought with gold and also fixed cost of gold bought by gems. And that they remove player factor by directly trading always with anet and not between players.

So basically removing the whole trading part of it and instead creating gold and make the inflation extreme in the game?

So, basically getting punished for playing on an active server?

It is not really a flawed design. It is a rather good design, since it adds (rather than remove that you seems to think) tactics to combat.
If they remove rally the fights will simply be: “Down the enemy asap and don’t bother with your own people until the fight is over”.

Gandarel.5091:

Glint was originally known as Gaust, who existed completely independent from the Elder Dragons, until Kralkatorrik corrupted her, that’s the point where she got the crystal-form and her new name.

Then the forgotten managed to once again free Glint in mind, but could not save her body.

Hm?
Where does this information come from?
As far as I know there is NO information at all about Glint’s life before being a champion of Kralk.

Traveller.7496:

Well, it’s obvious they want Kiel to win (WP costs vs. BL key discount? Come on!) but that would make it even funnier if the playerbase would rally behind Evon and make ANet change their plans.

I did get a chuckle out of “loved and cherished” living story though.

And yet based on the datamined information Kiel might lose based on the Fractal that will be released (one of them have Aeatherblade Retreat (Kiel I believe) and the other have Molten Alliance Facility).

I actually think they want to leave it all up to the players and they actually have both outcomes planned.

Have fun.

Oh and lock incoming

Khisanth.2948:

I don’t really see more dealings with the ED outside of an expansion …
Would have to be something the size of Eye of the North. The personal story bits will be shorter since we already have the whole ‘learning about the orders and forming the pact’ thing out of the way.

You mean those expansions that we are not going to get?

I am rather sure it looks EXACTLY the same in the preview as when you buy it.
It does put it on your characters head after all.

Indeed, really nice reset from our side for once.
Hoping to be able to hold the high quality of fighting the rest of the week as well.

Hylgeriak.8250:

it’s permanent…no need to rant.

Indeed, but what the OP is asking is how long you can OBTAIN the permanent node, not how long the permanent node will exist.

blenheim.6489:

800-1600 Gem range, convert all cultural armor, no restrictions, no crap.

Story doesn’t matter.

Let people pay for a service that’s been tried and tested in other games and proven to be (mildly) popular. There’s absolutely no reason not to offer this service considering its just swapping data values and would make ANet piles of cash in the long run.

Ah yes. “just swapping data values”.

The whole story of the game is based around your race.

Lily Miranda.5407:

It should be changed so that it isn’t just luck.

It isnt.

LHound.8964:

Mind you explaining how is bypassing the game restriction by using the game’s own mechanics?

Skipping half the a dungeon path was also “using the game’s own mechanics” and yet it was banable.

Terrorsquad.2349:

People with regular work don’t play at night when they have to work at late night/morning/midday.
If you do, then that just implents you do everything to do PvD’ing, simple.

That would of course depend on the amount of sleep needed to manage your work.

I usually don’t need more than 3-4 hours sleep per night, which means that when I have work, I can easily spend most of the night playing, while working most of the day.

Should I be punished because I work? Why is your PvD during the day any better than our “PvD” (which meets quite a bit of resistance) during the night?

I don’t really see the issue.
You can select everything in time, so why would it matter if you selected the “wrong” item now?

Esplen.3940:

It’s not a glitch. It’s a known, acknowledged and accepted method of moving skins. It’s even ANet endorsed!

Hm?
I am rather sure I have never seen ArenaNet say that it is okay to bypass the games restrictions, so feel free to post the quote.

Terrorsquad.2349:

Yes, we PvD when normal people are awake and came back from work.
If your server didn’t PvD at nights, maybe they would’ve been awake at mornings/middays? Just very maybe this is logic?

Cheers

PS: don’t give me the crap about different timezones because FSP and UW are both international servers (Europe).

PSII: Just read you said FSp blobbed? yes, I do admit we blobbed sometimes.. But that was only needed when UW had twice our blob at times..

Stop being so ignorant.

Funnily enough I have seen you PvD more or less constantly during the days (being unemployed I can play during daytime, when most people are working). Yesterday you guys retook most of the map while the vast majority of our server were at work. How is that any different than use taking the map while your server is sleeping (which quite clearly isn’t really the case, since you had a rather big zerg in our borderland in the middle of the night between yesterday and today).

People with regular work DON’T play at mornings/middays, since they are working.

The main issue is that there are no specific Russian servers, and this could be a rather major issue with people using Cyrillic letters on European servers.

I would say it is borderline “legal”, since you are more or less using a glitch to get it to work.

So just because it involves luck (so does all of them for that matter) it is not possible?
Just keep trying until you beat him. Simple as that.

It is fully possible to complete it without food buffs.

Yocchan.8902:

Those posts were written long before this latest patch. Yet we right now have an explorable area going away in just a few weeks…

And these updates were well underway back when Colin wrote those posts.
Updates like theses takes more time than just a week or two.

So much whine in these threads nowadays.
Can’t people just play and have fun?

Funset.7893:

But the JP achievement is PvE, in PvP environment.

No, that JP achievement is PvP, in a PvP environment.

Why do they punish WvW players by “forcing” us to do PvE?

And personal story was Sylvari sylvari sylvari

Their time will come.

I like the whole: “Not yet” part of that comment.
That would imply that we WILL get more information about it sometime in the future, right?

Elbegast.6970:

And what happens, in a few years, when the last player attuned to mining quartz leaves the game?

Gating crafting materials behind a limited duration attunement window is a disaster waiting to happen. I have completely stopped playing the game due to these poor ‘Living Story’ design choices.

Yeah, all those millions of halloween and winterday things is almost gone, right?

Most people will probably not be interested at all in actually crafting the item, so the supply of the material on the TP will most likely be quite massive.
We also have no idea if the material will be gone forever after this event.