I want to add for 5) It would be nice if the green texture of the court was replace with red or blue colors to symbolized what side the team is on. I know this map probably takes place in the Maguma Jungle but that wouldn’t stop the Charr or Asuran from spray painting the grass in team colors xD.
7) If we could go back to queue as a team for activities (like in 2012), that would be great. This is a sPvP activity so team matching rules should be similar to sPvP. Example, let us make guild teams or pre-made party teams and fight against other pre-mades.
It is Wolf looking over the young pack below.
Raven is high above the clouds soaring, high above and seeing all.
Leopard is hiding; far too sneaky for us to ever see them lest they let us.
And Bear is hibernating.
At least this is what I like to think.
I like this.
I did think maybe the Raven spirit was just too high up, but I really like the idea that the Leopard spirit is there but too well hidden for players to see.
It’s been there for a long time. The rings are part of the heart. The are supposed to have a pack of wolves inside but sometimes … often times it is buggy so you get floating rings without a wolf pack as well.
There is a giant spirit of wolf by Outcast’s Waypoint in Wayfarer’s Foothills. Was it always there? We also spotted two blue floating rings in front of it but they disappeared when we tried to glide through them. Screenshot attached
I mean the respawn time of the commanders during the tower event is really short, why can’t it be extended for a while? So it won’t immediately come back right after even one pod is back.
Adds to the challenge, people need to work together to beat the bosses. There was harsh player criticism that most fights in GW2 were a zerg fest (before HoT) with little penalties.
Yesterday I got 200 gold in my wallet. But I was not awarded the “golden” title for some reason. The title track is stuck at 97%. Previously you needed to store 200 gold in the bank. But you cannot do that anymore, so I expected it to trigger automatically. Am I mistaken?
A friend restarted their game or logged into another character and then they got the title, this year.
I started getting these crashes today after the latest patch:
Model ‘0×080b24’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Debug token ‘0×00000000000266FA’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Texture missing mip chain: 0×011f2e
Texture missing mip chain: 0×011f30
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1224116553985885332’
Model ‘0×08223a’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082239’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×080b24’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Yeah, this gets said a lot, but it needs to be constantly repeated to ANet.
Their answer has remained the same for years. People like to earn armor pieces in the game. Players did not like how the gemstore was releasing armor only. So, Anet decided outfits would be for the gemstore and have a drawback. Not being able to have individual pieces of armor. Yes, you can say they made armor pieces in the past but that was before they made that announcement of the gemstore being for outfits.
Since you can’t sell them or use for something another just destroy them.
You can vendor them — 16 copper each.
(My alt account, without HoT, sells whenever it gets a stack.)
That makes me feel just as kitteneeing people sell ascended rings because we weren’t able to salvage them. I hope some solution comes with the crystals, so we’re not force to destroy them or sell them for 16 copper each.
Ascended sounds like it should be valuable; I can understand why people are annoyed that the rings are only worth 5 silver.
Crystals, on the other hand, drop for zero effort; they are a bonus drop, just the same as dandelions drop when you gather veggies and herbs. 16 copper seems almost generous for someone like me that doesn’t want to pay the other costs required to get the guild skins.
That makes sense, why Anet saw it reasonable to sell them for 16 copper each. If they’re considering them junk items and how often they drop. Some type of Guild Hall Crystal Feeder would be very welcomed
For me, the problem with the mission is to 2-3 “click to exit to map” pop ups. Why do we need all of those in the final mission? No other HoT mission has so many exit to map pop ups. It’s like, not only am I fighting Modremoth…I’m fighting the game interface asking me to exit the mission.
Thematically, you could say that you’re giving them to Esa to go trade for mats out in the world. Would give people in guilds of all sizes, and at all levels of weath that warm fuzzy feling that they’re contributing to those guild upgrades without explicitly requiring them to donate their own mats, though directly donating would still be the fastest and most reliable way.
That is an alternative, allow players to give the crystals to Esa in exchange for a guild hall’s mats. Would make them more valuable, overall.
Since you can’t sell them or use for something another just destroy them.
You can vendor them — 16 copper each.
(My alt account, without HoT, sells whenever it gets a stack.)
That makes me feel just as kitteneeing people sell ascended rings because we weren’t able to salvage them. I hope some solution comes with the crystals, so we’re not force to destroy them or sell them for 16 copper each.
According to Dulfy, this question was asked and responded to by Anet:
Any remaining undiscovered recipes for the old Forge, or have we finally tapped it out?
A. We can always add more. What kinds of things are you still hoping to find?
Here to share this piece of “artwork” with the community. The hall was conquered, upgraded and decorated solely by one man and his amazing girlfriend. Took a lot of gold of course, but why spend it on useful stuff when you can build huge walls from it?
This is not a creation by me but didn’t see anywhere else to post this funny video interview with Anet.
Dan Howell created an app that ask people questions that they have to answer in 7 seconds. The questions they get ask are related to Guild Wars 2. For example, what is the next raid boss? Rubi (of Anet), “a block of cheese or Cheese Boss”! Or even design an infomercial for Lord Faren’s Southsun Speedo!
Anything that gets used only in crafting should go into bank crafting slots.
Anything only needed for vendors should go in the wallet.
A few items are more complicated (e.g. ecto) and used for more than one purpose, but they can maybe go in the crafting vault, too.
Thank you, just hope someone at ArenaNet sees this post before we run into the same issue we had with Geodes, Bandit Crests, blade shards, and ascended rings over the years. Right now, I have 3-4 stacks and I’ve been using the mining nodes for less than 6 months.
Have done it twice now, and unless there’s an invisible cup of water I should be aiming for a la Bugs Bunny, the achievement is bugged ‘cause I still don’t have it.
follow the floating purple circles all the way down, eventually a portal will open; Go through the portal to get the achievement.
7/26 Update Added:
Added new right-click options on salvage kits to quickly salvage all items of the following qualities:
Rare quality
Masterwork and lower quality
Fine and lower quality
This is a great step in the right direction, thank you Anet!
No. Just sell your extras to the merchant. True, you won’t get much, but it is for free. Just because you have too much should not be a reason to make it hard for the others.
Yeah, I was undecided about saying reduce the number of drops. You have point, with bloodstone dust Anet created a feeder item. If the crystals had an item like that, it would be nice and helpful. Also, wouldn’t interfere with anyone getting the items.
I would prefer if A-net made them more desired instead of another slot in storage. Its similar to blade shards atm. They should make a high end guild weapon/armor set before giving them a material storage slot.
Or reduce the number of drops per node. Any of the previous mentioned choices would be good, in my opinion. Ty for replying.
TLDR: The crystals have become the new bloodstone dust. Can these crystals be allowed to go into the material storage of the bank? Thank you.
For those that mine guild hall mining nodes, you have a chance of getting shimmering or tenebrous crystals. These crystals are used to make guild armor and weapons from HoT. These materials (the crystals) do not fit into the “material storage” pane of the bank. There are many players that do not want to make these guild items or lack the other materials (ancient wood, ectos, etc.) to make every item in this set. Long story short, I have multiple stacks of these crystals in my bank and running out room. The crystals have become the new bloodstone dust. Can these crystals be allowed to go into the material storage of the bank? Thank you.
Quick question. In this, from the voice it seems that E is certainly a male. I can also assume not a Charr as their arm and hand would be instantly identifiable as that race. Was this poetic license or have those details been verified?
Either way I love it, just wondering on those points is all.
Sorry, I thought I answered this question. The specific details about E have not been verified. Thank you for asking and we’re glad you enjoyed the visualization.
Hi there, guys. I’d like to express my concern about ANet reputation throughout the years when it comes to consistency on delivery. This is not a hate thread, it’s a legit concern.b
Second, they came up with Story Journal and season 2, and declared LS updates to be biweekly. The new framework allowed for replayability, but nobody replays just for the sake of replaying a story chapter, there wasn’t (isn’t) incentive for such. The schedule seemed to be settling down, but then they gave up on that aswell. Again, they hadn’t foreseen this could happen.
About the replaying of the story chapter and nobody would want to do it, I would have to say you’re completely wrong about that. Many story based games, allow people to replay a story chapter for lore and for the player to see how much better they’ve become. Some people, just replay to see what would have if they made difference choices during the mission. Some just replay for achievements, others replay to show a friend how they got through a mission. Others replay, to make tutorial or guides for players that are struggling with the mission. There are many, many, reasons to replay a mission that players enjoy. It’s why so many games (including non mmorpgs), allow players to replay the previous missions.
TLDR:
Replayable missions are good and a ton of players like the option to replay missions.
Thanks for the continued discussion. I really think it’s valuable for the team to see your comments and to know how you feel about the subject — in general and on a specific level. Clearly, the team is open to your input, so do share your thoughts.
I have a suggestion for auras for the dev team. Could you just use the auras or attunement outlines that were used for the Breachmaker battle? That way, you won’t have to create new assets but reuse older ones. The Breachmaker battle with Scarlet change the glow affect affect or outline of players.
There are also hylek potions in the game that changes a players color, a similar effect could be used. So, instead of a fire egg shell aura the effect will turn the player red which is a lot simpler and more effective than the egg shell auras.
Reason why auras are so important:
The current egg shell auras are extremely hard to see. It’s really bad in PvP, when you have an aura share Tempest that puts a lightning aura on allies. In the heat of the battle, players will often stun themselves because they can’t see the aura egg shells. Or kill themselves with projectiles due to a magnetic shield or earth aura. On my Elementalist, sometimes I don’t notice when I do an aura combo due to the aura barely being visible.
It can be done, but it’s much harder now. With the first push and zerg moving to new pastures, some events will be impossible solo. This, sadly, will include some hero points and the like because of timers.
Unfortunately, ArenaNet went the way of Silverwastes with events that required a zerg to complete in coordination. Again, now that the rush is dead, so are any attempts to do certain content without said zerg. Dragon Stand is the prime example because even mapping will need zergs to complete because content is locked behind quests. In order to gain access to more of the map, those quests must be successful . . . unless you’re clever with some climbing over the environment.
Personally, I expect an overhaul of this situation in the future. But for now? You’re not going to solo certain content.
Sorry.
People keep saying it’s much harder, and yet people do it every single day. People in my guild are working on it now.
Saying it’s hard doesn’t make it hard. What makes it hard is people insisting on playing one way and never changing what they do no matter the situation.
I’m not making much progress, getting to my current mastery 12 has been painfully slow. With it at that state I can’t even progress in the storyline.
I’m not on allot and play solo so I usually miss the experience trains. Even when I do make them, it becomes hours of play at a time.
Running an part ascended part orange beserker geared s/a reaper with scholar and ascended accessories. It can take on a few normal mobs and a veteran at best.
The experience is like walking through wet concrete and im not getting anywhere… I get on, kill a few mobs, hope that I run into an event and then get off.
I’m not a hard core PvEer nor do I have time to pretend to be one so am slightly at a loss on what to do.
Thoughts?
In terms to your gear, you can solo HoT but right now you’re glass cannon. You’ll need a lot of combat experience to survive with your current gear. What you can do is swap out some of your pure dps accessories for gear that has toughness. Or change your traits to include death magic to make you more tanky. Right now, I’m running around HoT solo in Viper’s gear. But I do have one rabid ring, that has toughness to help some.
Dragon Stand is the worst because even mapping will require zergs to complete because they’re locked behind quests. In order to gain access to more of the map, those quests must be successful . . . unless you’re clever with some climbing in the environment.
Agreed, if you’re patient with mobs and clever you can map DS or just the LFG tool and go with the zerg.
I think night time, is currently dark enough for my monitor. I don’t want to have to mess with the game graphics, whenever night time occurs to see better xD.
And how is that working out for you?
If you want to create an excuse then that’s up to you. I guarantee you could, in the timeslot you have, be doing DS if you use the tools provided. Timer and LFG, job done.
It don’t work very well with me, timer or LFG, i am not living in NA or EU time zone, when i am up for gaming, most players in america are sleeping. When these map are alive, i am at my office desk.
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Odd, when NA isn’t active EU is active. I would recommend using the HoT timer on Dulfy’s site. Then check the auric basin map 20-30 mins before the event spawn for a LFG ad. You’ll see ads in the squad and party section. If you don’t see one, advertise yourself. Someone may invite you, if not. Stay on a map that it looks like people are doing events on. Don’t transfer maps, go back to doing work. Check back on the map when you have free time at work before the event starts (you can see the event timers on Dulfy’s site). Check LFG then too, you’ll probably find an ad or you’ll be on a map where people are preparing already. The checking time should take about 3 mins approximately. 1 min, if you’re using the timer on dulfy.net’s site.
I am with you on this, especially point 2 and 4, whenever i hop into a dragon stand it is 20 or 30 mins waiting, totally dead map. 2 hours meta event + 30 mins waiting, i wonder how a normal adult with a job and a family able to spare so much time to play.
Is this also how you watch TV? Sit in front of it for 20 or 30 minutes waiting for your favourite program to come on then sit in front of it with the “channel off air” message for two hours?
No? Well you’re doing DS wrong. Use the LFG tool and look at a timersite to find out when is the best time to be on this map if you want to do the meta. I randomly checked LFG when I toon hopped last night, ran mid for the first time, got a bunch of mastery points, poi’s and vistas and we successfully finished off the dragon in under an hour.
A game is entertainment, for people to enjoy during their free time…
Do you all think the developers have learned from all our feedback?
For me…..
2. Timed maps. Dragons stand I think was the worse design I personally ever saw any game developer come up with. 2 hour meta event? Any adult does not have time for things like that after getting home from work yet alone getting into a map.
1) Dragon Stand is awesome, imo.
2) Use LFG Tool to get a map.
3) “Any adult does not have time for things like that” I don’t know what adults you know of but your sampling base must be incredibly small.
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