Guild Wars 2

There isn’t a merchant that sells fractals skins as far as I can tell, even though Anet’s blog post said there will be one. Also, several of my fractal skins aren’t registering for the achievement.

Ganathar.4956:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Why did they change it so e-specs are something you had to work for only after HoT went live? Good question. How are they going to handle future elite specs when the entirety of map completion only buys 1.5 of them? Another good question. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that, in a year after HoT we get another expansion pack where the new map awards 100 hero points per achievement, and the new elite spec costs 4000.

Anet didn’t want everyone getting their entire elite spec track unlocked at day 1. The final cosmetics, sigils and runes are supposed to be goals to look forward to. If you have prepared by getting all of the central Tyrian hero points it is likely that the entire spec will be unlockable instantly, though you may still need a few hero points for some healing/utility/elite skills.

I also doubt that the next expansion will have 100 point challenges. Elite specs are more expensive than core specs because they are additional progression to that of the core profession. They also add new mechanics and have more than just the trait line to unlock. It wouldn’t make sense to make the second generation of elites more expensive, because only 1 elite can be equipped at a time. Anet will likely want to give new players a choice for which elite to get first on each character, instead of making a linear progression for specs that can’t be even used together. In addition, 100 pt challenges would make the acquisition of the first gen elite specs way too trivial.

The only thing that concerns me with this system is that central Tyrian exploration is massively devalued for new characters, because it is much more efficient to go straight into Maguuma when you get to level 80. It is likely that many of the hero challenges will require masteries, but making them give 10 hero points is too much in my opinion. 3-5 hero points for each challenge would have probably been fine.

They already confirmed, with world completion you will need to do approximately 20 hero points in the Maguuma areas.

Embolism.8106:

Why does the forum even need a censor anyway? Especially one as draconian as this?

It’s like an overly sensitive SJW.

Who defines overly sensitive?

The boss was only alive for six seconds, Foulbear was not buffed like the other world bosses during the updates earlier this year. It is hard to receive credit on this boss.

Kulvar.1239:

New Mystic Forge recipe

250 Exotic Luck Essence
1 Philosopher Stone
1 Mystic Coin
1 Black Lion Chest

into

1 Black Lion Key

Great idea, or one ticket scrap.

Tim.6450:

The hero pts are not obsolete. They are hero points that do not require masteries. Of course there will be hero points like that in the jungle but enough to reach your character to 300~400 HP? I doubt it.

Colin confirmed there would be but doing the HP in Central Tyria will allow you to unlock your elite spec sooner.

Rezzet.3614:

and yes they ve solely focused on this expansion , they even stated there wont be new content for the core game for a while as they ll keep focused on making living story content for the expansion .

Making living story content for the expansion, does not mean living story won’t revisit Central Tyria. A lot of central tyria relates to the expansion, Pale Tree, Queen Jennah, etc.

Decrypter.1785:

The place where im buying HOT has changed its release date to 25th ? anyone heard anything ?

Buy it from: buy.guildwars2.com.

Chris Cleary.8017:

Yup, his account was compromised by RMT quickly after, used to spam, and our support has helped him recover it. That being said, ArenaNet will NEVER contact you via in-game mail for issues with your account security.

Could the warning message be moved to the top, under the subject line? I feel, it will have more visibility there than at the bottom of the message. However, that may annoy people more. If other players want to respond to this suggestion, feel free. Is an annoyance like this ok?

Edited: Thinking about it, players may subconsciously learn to skip over the warning message regardless of placement.

Swagger.1459:

I provided a crafty answer to the question

I know the difference between gear and traits thanks!

You just never know what’s going to end up on the bltc someday… Besides, we are not here to talk about gear my helpful friend,

You’re welcome.

Swagger.1459:

its already an option to level up and get the best gear with gold so you’re kinda late to the party with that comment

Someone asked you earlier how do you level up with gold and you didn’t answer. Gear isn’t hero points or related to traits. So there is no need to add another feature with gold. Anet has also decided to make new legendaries account bound so people won’t be able to buy them off the trading post either. They’re starting to put less high end items obtainable with gold. Another example is legendary armor, you have to do raids.

Swagger.1459:

It’s doesn’t defeat anything, it merely provides an option. Options are great and content is still available to play

Not all options are good though. That option is saying, rich people get content faster than non rich people.

Tongku.5326:

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Colin has cleared up what it will cost to unlock the Elite Spec. .

Yea ….

So according to this Collin guy and this system it will take me around 2 YEARS to unlock these specs.

It won’t take 2 years lol, he said one hero point is equal to 10 points in the maguuma. So do 40 hero challenges and you’re done. Only way it will take 2 years if you do something like 2 hero points per month.

Sir Black.7423:

ColinJohanson.2394:

You only need 60 hero points to begin using your elite spec, the points you spend after that continue to unlock more skills, traits, skins, etc.
Again, hero challenges are worth 10 points each in the jungle. So no you don’t need to go do 200-400 jungle challenges.

I feel like this deserves either a full news article laying out all the information, or it just should have been left quiet until launch when we’ll be able to see it in game.

I agree a blog post would be nice.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

ColinJohanson.2394:

PlatinumMember.5274:

Unless I am mistaken just to unlock half of the training line, we need 212 hero points?

Again, hero challenges are worth 10 points each in the jungle. So no you don’t need to go do 200-400 jungle challenges.

But there aren’t any challenges in the first zone, so where will all these challenges be?

The beta did not show us everything in the zone.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

reapex.8546:

Hi Roy,

Three questions:
1) If a Ranger pet attacks another ranger pet. With them being both minions, do they get the 95% damage reduction? Or are they counted as part of the player and get the full damage?
2) Will runes such as, Rune of the Ogre that summons a rock dog be consider a minion?
3) Elemental glphys weren’t mentioned as minions in your responses. Are glyph summons consider minions?

1) Nothing different happens, this is for creatures attacks against player minions in all areas of the game as mentioned in the original post.
2) Yes.
3) Yes.

Literally anything you summon/control as a player is a player minion. Turrets, spirit weapons, ranger spirits, ranger pets, gyros, phantasms/clones, necro minions, etc.

Thank you Roy

Guhracie.3419:

reapex.8546:

The shooting gallery and more activities were schedule to be released with HoT over 6 months ago. We’ll get to see if they’re in the game on HoT released date.

Were they really? I don’t remember any notes about that.

It was on the forums several months ago, Spring 2015.

The shooting gallery and more activities were schedule to be released with HoT over 6 months ago. We’ll get to see if they’re in the game on HoT released date.

PopeUrban.2578:

It’s flavor text really.
If it were some sort of instance door found inside the guild map I could see it working though, just a tunnel you need to fight to the end of and kill a boss, kind of like a miniature version of the original fight to claim.

Or a particular section of the guild hall, like the entrance that needs to be protected before the Mordrem do a complete invasion. Would be neat, maybe the npcs will shut down their merchandise and/or hide. Similar to that marketplace with the crafting stations in Caledon and Sparkfly Fen.

Morveyn.9431:

On behalf of turret engineers everywhere, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

…this -does- affect turrets too, right?

Yes

KittyCat.2059:

Here’s the data mined hero points estimated amount needed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3iz5oo/data_mining_hero_points_and_specialization_tracks/

Hope this helps

“TL;DR: You need 170 hero points to unlock all traits/skills. 250 to unlock everything. There are 214 hero points available from skill challanges in the game right now.”

Hopefully the reddit post is incorrect and Anet would change it to something lower, like 100 – 150. If it stays as high as it is, I’m going to pass on some elite specializations I had mixed feelings about. I would rather save my Hero Points for the expansion, than spend nearly all of them on a class that I’m undecided about.

Bitoku Kishi.8346:

reapex.8546:

Selling paths is not a bannable offense. On the LFG Policy thread, it was stated that selling paths is ok.

What I’m wondering is about this. Why on earth would they say that this is ok? Not that I’m doubting you saying it, I’m just literally wondering what they’re thinking in allowing it… it seems like something that can only be destructive to the game in general.

I’m not sure, maybe its too hard to police. It was also allowed in GW1, so I guess they felt it was ok to continue. People have the option of posting paths that don’t need to be bought. Thinking about it more, the LFG tool is based on people looking for groups to do something. I guess, looking for players to buy a path…is in the same spirit of what the tool was designed for.

Jordo.5913:

so in this action camera….is left click bound to auto attack?

Yes, hold left mouse button to continuously fire auto attack skill.

zxstanyxz.8769:

Avador.8934:

Maybe it’ll be a new guild mission to defend your guild hall.

this would be awesome! and something i could see being one of the new pve missions (when they release more pve missions)

I hope it is and it comes sooner rather than later, good idea.

Hi Roy,

Three questions:
1) If a Ranger pet attacks another ranger pet. With them being both minions, do they get the 95% damage reduction? Or are they counted as part of the player and get the full damage?
2) Will runes such as, Rune of the Ogre that summons a rock dog be consider a minion?
3) Elemental glphys weren’t mentioned as minions in your responses. Are glyph summons consider minions?

Gav.1425:

Will FoTM mastery be fully released? Will FoTM 51-100?

51-100 comes out on HoT release date.

NikolaiLev.8492:

But the thing is, whenever I try to play WvW I can rarely ever find others on. It seems impossible to figure out if your server is doing anything without cycling through all five WvW maps (EBG, BLs and EotM).

I want to play WvW more; I love the concept and if I had it my way, it’d be the only content I’d play. But I just don’t know how to figure out when activity is occuring.

Try this “map reading” guide our guild made:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw8ZFZHnPUE56Fg3Xn5tiUcJN0RhP0EMB

Palador.2170:

As I understand it, the “defending the Guild Halls” part is to explain why there’s going to be NPC guards in your hall. They keep it secure while you’re gone.

Needing those NPC guards is part of the reason why guilds can’t just go out and claim the ruins without paying the Guild Authority.

That kind of makes sense, if that is what they were going for, thanks.

Build templates started being worked on in 2014 but Anet said it would not be in HoT release.

Substance E.4852:

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume that was meant as a flavor text, lore thing.

Except they mention defending Guild Halls, like 3 times this year.

Sir Pizza.8342:

An idea could be that modrems do small raids at random times, and you could have an situation where the entire guild is asleep except one person and he uses defensive mechanisms to fight the entire thing of himself, and of course be the hero of the day!

But if they would loose, then reclaiming it should only be killing the monsters, not paying gold or anything.

That sounds like a very fun idea.

On June 18th this message was posted by ArenaNet:
" Tyrian world governments have agreed to cede ownership of the ruins to successful guilds so long as they maintain a presence in those places and defend them from recapture by the dragons."
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-halls-taken-from-the-enemy/

Since then we haven’t heard or been given any information on how to defend the guild hall or when these attacks will occur. Has the idea of defending your guildhall been scrapped?

jackson.4256:

I already owned the core game, how can I combine HOT and the core game after i receive the HOT serial code?

When you enter the serial code in the gemstore, you’ll be able to play the core game and HoT.

Josh Davis.6015:

Hmmm, new amulets. Aside from zealots, anything else you folks think would be interesting?

YES, Captain and settlers ascended stats! Like Picard says, “Make it so!” xD

Uploaded a video of the action camera here, if anyone would like to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn19s9UGEIo&feature=youtu.be

Avit.3165:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Gatharin.2674:

It seems clear at this point that moving reset to Saturday is non-negotiable for the time being. While this may upset many people, I think this is one of those times where we need to cut Anet some slack.

Thanks for these insights. I believe you’re looking at things logically, and I appreciate that.

Jayne.9251:

Someone please send Gaile a big bottle of wine? This doesn’t appear to be a one glass day.

I’m ok, Jayne. But thanks for thinking of that — very thoughtful!

…cut Anet some slack.

We cut Anet some slack for 3 years.
How much more?
Is this ever going to end, we cuting some slack, Anet never?

We haven’t been cutting Anet slack.
Players, “want more pvp maps, want more WvW maps, want more story.”
Anet, Ok we made new pvp maps, made Eotm, and Living Story Season 1
Players, “we want tournaments, want other upgrades to WvW, want replayable story!”
Anet, Ok we have several tournaments now, added traps and siege disabler grenades, and LS S2
Players, “We want more!”

If anything, we haven’t been cutting Anet slack the past 3 years lol.

Daddar.5971:

…and this gating applies per account or per character? If it is per character, I’m quitting, because I’m NOT doing it 19 times over.

It’s per account, not per character people are spreading false info lol.

WingLegacy.7159:

Too many Nostradamus in this game.

I agree lol

Maaason.5843:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Maaason.5843:

i believe that if we see someones items it will persuade us into getting better gear

Or, you could just ask them. Like people do with my sword and hammer.

because its not about judging, its about improving, if someone is not up to par, you can help them reach it

Who decides whether they’re up to par? Also, help them “reach it” what if they’re satisfy where they are? I feel we already have a system for this. People ping or link their gear when they want, they don’t need to be spied (inspected) on. Players should have some form of privacy between each other. If you really want to inspect someone’s gear go to custom browser. You can view everyone’s build, stats, and gear at anytime.

Shadowstep.6049:

I just report every person i see in LFG selling pathes.

Selling paths is not a bannable offense. On the LFG Policy thread, it was stated that selling paths is ok.

Iris Ng.9845:

Casmurro.9046:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEAUIiD4DHw

This! It speaks louder than any of us. Re-quoted

Great video

I agree, that Monday is a good time since less people are playing then in NA and EU. Also, Monday goes along with the Guild Missions reset time. It would be less confusing to people if WvW and Guild Missions both reset on Monday.

Also, when WvW rating resets on the Saturday after HoT. Will that mean the WvW leaderboards will also reset?

Amineo.8951:

Etybagig.6012:

Everyone that has done fractals for a while knows that if you die during Mai Trin you can relog and Ellen Kiel will res you and you can walk to a certain spot to get back into the fight. It’s a bug that has been a part of this fractal since I can remember and it NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

I got kicked from a party just now for NOT RELOGGING FAST ENOUGH.

Just PLEASE fix it. It sucks so much to get to the final fight in a full set of fractals and get kicked before getting the final loot.

No offense but, without this glitch, most people wouldn’t bother doing fractals lvl 50 because Mai Trin is a terrible fight (the cannon phase that is), it’s either this or having a thief with stealth or get out…

If those people are at scale 50 and haven’t learned to evade aoes, then they probably shouldn’t be doing scale 50 imo.

Evapor.6849:

Mai trin needs a rework as well it’s such a terrible, boring fight.

Mai Trinn, is a very engaging boss fight in my opinion. Much butter than the Jade Maw in terms of action and dynamics.

reapex.8546:

TurtleDragon.3108:

Here’s another problem I have with dungeons instead of fractals:
I’m limited to low level ones and also don’t know what fractals im getting other than swamp. I could bring him into a high level one and 4 man it, but that obviously wouldn’t be very fun for either of us.

Time to learn new content, I guess.

Your post sounded like your friend wasn’t used to fractals. I was hinting at, that you could teach your friend the swamp fractal just like it was a normal dungeon. You could help them scale up to reach your level and both of you could learn fractals overtime. Fractals low level scales are perfect for beginners and have more forgiving learning curve just like dungeons.

DragonflyDusk.6582:

reapex.8546:

DragonflyDusk.6582:

And I’m on the opposite end and never get any of them. I wish you could trade them so I could just buy a raven & owl off of someone.

Raven is on the trading post to buy.

The mini? I must confirm this!

Edit: Uh no. That is the mail carrier.

Oh, my mistake, I just read your edited post added mini and not mail carrier.

DragonflyDusk.6582:

And I’m on the opposite end and never get any of them. I wish you could trade them so I could just buy a raven & owl off of someone.

Raven is on the trading post to buy.

TurtleDragon.3108:

Here’s another problem I have with dungeons instead of fractals:

Yesterday I was teaching a RL friend who came back into the game some instanced content. I can easily take him into any dungeon and know exactly what path I’m doing, as well as having no AR or gear requirements. Can’t say the same for fractals as I’m limited to low level ones and also don’t know what fractals im getting other than swamp. I could bring him into a high level one and 4 man it, but that obviously wouldn’t be very fun for either of us.

Time to learn new content, I guess.

Fluffball.8307:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

With the changes coming in HoT, there will only be one fractal shard per difficulty, so you can pick which ones you like to run and which ones not. For the most part, at least.

Oh nice. Do you have a link to that? I missed wherever that was posted. So you just do 1 fractal per run? And reroll till you get the one you want, or can you actually pick it?

There is no rolling with the new system was in an Anet article released last month I believe.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

reapex.8546:

Cookiezz.5261:

Leodon.1564:

Blaeys.3102:

As many are noting, we have years of anecdotal evidence from other games showing that, while some would use them to improve the game, the vocal majority would just use them as a tool to incite drama, encourage exclusionary behavior, and put people down. I realize some of that happens already, but it isnt something Anet should support in any way.

As useful as the information might be, the positives simply do not outweigh the negatives.

I’d agree with this also.

While I would want to have it mainly so I can tweak my own performance and build. I would also use it to see how others are performing and would form negative opinions about under performing individuals. Its human nature and thus serves as a divisive tool. Currently, if a group under performs you shrug it off since you can’t really pinpoint who the weak links are and in the end you benefit from it by having less stress.

GW2 is a game made for casuals so that any random group of people can join together and beat content. Content is made with this in mind and doesn’t require people to be running only the most optimal builds to beat it and I prefer it stay that way. Having a DPS meter encourages elitism and I’m guilty of this myself when I played WoW.

Of course raid leaders could request that you share that information, but then it is YOUR choice to share it.

My Opinion
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Problem with this is already evident in the current game.
Lfg: Ping gear on join.
Player: I don’t want to.
Group: kicks player.

Then someone says, well you should read. Eventually 90% of the ad postings say ping gear or run meta build. So now, the player has only one choice if they want to do the content. Ping their gear or can’t do the content because there are barely any ads that don’t ask for them to ping their gear. Also, profession limitations as well:

LFG: No necro or ranger.
Player: But they’re my main character!
Group: kicks player.

In both of your lcases, you joined a party that wants to enforce their rules and you ignored them, joining regardless and then complaining about a justified kick, instead of making your own group or joining one which happily accepts you.

People starting “have at least x dps”-groups would probably just as horrible as “metazerk only 10k+ AP”-groups, not because they’re meta build-users, but most of those blindly copy them without looking at synergies between traits, why those traits were picked, other viable traits/weapons/utilities you might swap in for specific encounters…

I’d love a proper DPS meter so it could help me understand where I’m doing mistakes, what works especially well against a specific boss etc.
Being afraid of “DPS meter abuse” is quite silly imo, considering there are tons of people out there not caring in the slightest about minmaxing, which is their choice. If you don’t, that’s cool, there’s lots of people who share your mindset and which probably like to play with you. If there’s a group which wants to be efficient and minmaxes their class (at least to a certain extend) and you don’t want to do this, why try to squeeze in regardless?

You’re saying, you as if I personally did this lol. Being afraid to play a profession or use a particular build is silly imo. With your view is better to advertise and “wait around to have fun” because a player does not want to cave into zerker meta 10k+AP DPS _ group. It’s better for the player to stick with the minority and wait because of players hopping on the meta ap dps meter bandwagon. Again, I feel that is fine for raids but not for other areas in the game. That was my opinion.

Coulter.2315:

The Exalted are the Mursaat and we’re being tricked again. “Exalted” is the new “Unseen Ones” how easy it must have been to trick the Zephyrites after Glint’s death.

“Bring us the baby dragon we’re at our Golden City in the jungle, we’ll look after it, we’re super friends with Glint. Trust us.”

Epic plot twist