Guild Wars 2

Can John Smith be recruited to the story team again some time? I loved that story, checking the forums every day looking to see what people had come up with, what people thought it might be, was a lot of fun!

As nice as the eventual expansion and all that holds sounds, it is just that, eventual. We do not have a date, we have a teaser and nothing else. So I ask, when will we see some new content? Or you know, old content brought back to hold us over till something new is released. Even something like Gailes “I’m not saying Q1, but definitely before Q3” would be nice at this point.

Last time they tried getting players to go do things that aren’t done regularly it was the trait system, and that just turned out great didn’kitten

In hotjoins when Foefire comes up people seem to be randomly transported to the other teams starting area, as in we are able to attack them and I’m standing behind the gate with them. Only happens on Foefire and only in hotjoins. The map hasn’t come up enough for me to say if there is some sort of pattern to it, but it has happened to more than just myself.

Leah thank you for working on this, are you in charge of the other broken events as well? Would love to see Ogre Wars get some support along with this one.

I’m not talking about precursors, as much as I would love for them to magically appear in my inventory, just an exotic once in a while would be nice. I still stand by my original statement that MF doesn’t effect many of the places we get loot in game, this has been stated in other threads and not talked about or refuted by devs who were in those threads. I’m hoping this will get a conversation started.

Right now Magic Find affects only loot dropped form monsters. Which means, champ bags, dungeon chests, world boss chests, JP chests, and I’m sure a few others, remain unaffected. I understood why you changed it from character based back in the day, groups basically had to carry people with MF armor. In changing it though it seems like you’ve basically made it pointless to use MF food, bonfires, have luck, etc. Is there any talk of changing MF to actually have a purpose, or rather, an effect again? If not, can there be?

Just did AC P2, got to the final room where the Ghost Eater spawns and couldn’t get the NPC to trigger the event, it had been a perfect run up until I had to spend 30 min running around, waypointing, and killing the NPC, but nothing worked and we ended up giving up. Dungeons are kind of key content to this game right? Should be something Anet would want to keep working.

I’m not questioning the part about lagging out, it happens to the best of us, I’m talking about jumping into a level 38 fractal when you’re level 27, (just in case this isn’t clear I’m not talking about their fractal level I’m talking about their character level).

Really AP? You are willing to say that you would join a fractal group, have a good enough connection to enter the fractal, go to an orb and pick it up and then have the connection time out? Key part here being doing that on a lvl 27. Now you’re just grasping at strings.

Yes sometimes there may be a language barrier, I find that a bit harder to believe when they are in an English named guild. Yes, sometimes people might have chat turned off, I find it hard to believe that they didn’t see my chat when I’m jumping up in down in front of them and using say chat (as well at whispers) and have tried to invite them to party to see if they’d respond to that—-group events—-.
You say they may be new, great then they should be excited to get help no? You say that they might not like getting told what to do, if what they are doing is going to break the event they are on would they not take a minute to consider an alternative —foulbear--
I can go on and on. As I’m sure all of you could as well, for any reason I come up with I’m sure all of you could come up with an excuse, but I mostly did this because trolls just screwed me and I was kittened. Working on moving on, but they are a never ending problem as I’m sure most people have experienced.

Roll a fractal, put up lfg, fill up and have people ready to go. One of them whom I assume just hadn’t switched yet is a lvl 27 necro, said necro jumps into fractals, runs to an orb, grabs said orb and then just kinda stands there. This wasn’t a level 1 fractal, this was a 38. Tell me how else should I take that?

The people who don’t respond, the people kittenpond with refusing to listen/change what they are doing, the people who acknowledge what they are doing and make it clear they are only doing it for the purpose of kittening others off. How’s that for a starter?

Can we have a way to report trolls in game? People whose sole purpose is to ruin the experience for other players, screw up events, etc. At this time we have no recourse when they appear and make our lives miserable.

Can we please have one? We used to before April Feature pack, and now that we have to be in the mists to queue I can’t drop the massive piles of…loot…into it while I wait. If we can’t can you explain why not?

Ok, I’d be willing to place gold on a Feature pack coming out in February or, more likely, March—Gaile commented in another thread that we would see a major update in the first quarter. Which, given what Anet has done previously, means we will get something like Dragonbash for March/April and then LS S3 or whatever they replace it with come April/May. Lets hope you guys are right and they give us something to gnaw on later this month at Pax South…

Feature patch March 2015 can’t wait to see what the devs cooked up this time.

Looks like the enchanted treasure chest, its in the rare collections tab. Don’t worry Novuake, you’re not missing much from it.
When you spend as much time putting your outfit together as you do putting your build together. Gotta look amazing when you kill someone

I had the lucky account bug back during Queens Gauntlet, got dusk and frostfang in a week of each other, now I’m pretty sure I’m paying for it, last six times I threw exotics in the toilet I got 76s/75s back, and all the junk I threw in was 80.

Where to begin? UW/FoW, Sorrow’s Furnace, Crystal Desert, and Ring of Fire Islands would be the top of my list. Loved all of these places and would very much like to see what the current devs would do with them. Bonus points if UW/FoW/Sorrow’s are dungeons, and you know they could do that.

So with season 2 ending next week, and so many questions left unanswered, I’m really hoping we don’t have to wait three months for the next season to start. Thoughts? Promises of quick release from Anet? Two months of no content then one month of season one content like this last time?

Havoc.3865:

I would appreciate a link , I can’t find the talents feedback thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Traits/first
71 pages of people bemoaning how awful the April update was, enjoy.

Thank Anet! What a great idea having a daily be Fields of Ruin event completer, nothing says lets try and break this fragile event like throwing the entire population of the game into it! Yes, bug report submitted, and I did provide details about where in the chain it was stuck. Can’t wait for Dredgehaunt Cliffs event completer when we get to break Commissar on multiple maps as well!

Can we please get a mystic forge in the mists like back before wardrobe update? My bags are full, if there was a forge in the mists I could queue for another match and start tossing things in while I wait vs having to go to LA where I’m unable to queue. Is there any specific reason we can’t have one in the mists?

That’s great that you read them daily and are fixing wintersday bugs, but as Khani says, what about the events that have been broken forever? Needless to say there are quite a few and I’ve submitted quite a few bug reports for many of them.

With returning meta events like: “In pursuit of Knowledge” and “Ogre Wars”! I play this game multiple times a day, its always exciting waypoint into a map /ip and wonder what my chances are.
Oh, and devs? I have used the bug report tool, every day, every broken IP, so if you say that it is going to help in some way, prove it.

Hunter’s Gorge, Fields of Ruin
Ogre Wars, Charr and Vanguard forces are assaulting Foulbear Kraal and its leaders
Maybri Shadowstalker is just chilling in the middle of the ogre camp, which means she isn’t moving back to her position in the charr camp as to reset the event.
I wasn’t here when Maybri bugged so its one of two places in the event: either she bugged during the event between kill the beastmaster and destroy the ogre housing; or after killing the Ogre Chieftian and she decided she didn’t want to walk all the way back to camp. I’m submitting this same report with screenshot in game hoping that you can reset this IP or do something about this.

TheFallenAngel.1320:

d. What use is there for MF??? Make game wide or just get rid of it and do something that will make more sence… ( keep in mind how much is invested by ppl to increase it already)

That about covers what I was going for, that it only effects a very small percentage of drops as it is and it seems to be missing its purpose. I wanted to see if John would comment about this, even if its just the simple “no its totally not true, but anet policy says I can’t say anything” Thank you both for your descriptions though, its something that I can direct other players to.

Kasteros, let me make sure I understand you, being able to go from a common material lets just say jute to another tier lets say wool would ruin the market? Making damask and ascended armor not worth the grind or seem as rare? The only other way I can interpret your statement is that you already know about being able to go from kitten etc, but you think that some of the mats are so widely available that everything would become common if you could convert backwards. Either way, I don’t think it would effect it so dramatically as you and Ulion seem to think.
Cafard, you’re referencing the legendary armor that will require 10k Gossamer to make right? /sarcasm.
Now if only I could get someone from Anet to acknowledge this as quickly as all of you…

John, I don’t know if it specifically falls under your department, but many people including myself wonder exactly how magic find effects drop rate/RNG. Anet has not given us any specifics about it, to the best of my knowledge. You commented closer to the beginning of this thread that it helps immensely, but provide no more details about it.

Thats great, if gossamer sold for much of anything. sell price bolt of Gossamer: 98c, buy price silk scrap: 2.35s. In case you didn’t catch that, I went with the highest price for gossamer and the lowest price for silk. So for a full stack of Gossamer…I’d get about 100 silk scraps which turns into 33 bolts of silk.

And…? Anet has done things in the past that have “greatly effected the entire market”. So its clearly within their wheelhouse to do it again. I don’t think its that extreme of a request to want to exchange mats that I’m not going to use for mats of the same type that I will use.

So with silk prices still high and gossamer prices being close to the lowest they’ve ever been can we have a way to revert gossamer back to silk? Like you can do with Mist Essence? I have 250 bolts of gossamer and scraps of gossamer and don’t really want to sell them because its so worthless and there isn’t really anything else I can do with it except waste T6 mats and craft armor which doesn’t sell well either.

I consider myself a veteran player, 6 level 80s, 10k ap, 3 over 1 year old, and as much as I love blaming anerf for everything that goes wrong in game, I felt it necessary to try a modified dev challenge,
“Dev Trait Challenge
They can’t buy the traits
They must unlock all of the traits per character
They must use all five character slots and finish out each one on a different profession
They must do it on a non-dev account
They cannot ask their co-workers to fix bugged events, they have to do the bug report system, just like the rest of us.
They have to remain ‘unknown’ so they get just as much help as an average player for group events/dungeons. This INCLUDES not being in a guild to start, and not letting anyone know who they are, so they deal with the same stuff we all do.
They have to play exclusively to unlock traits, and get all of the traits unlocked.”
or at least as much of it as applies to me, so I made a new character, powerleveled them to 80, thank you tomes of knowledge, end game geared them, and worked on unlocking every trait. I did this on one profession, already at level 80, but I did not ask for help from my guild at all and I did absolutely nothing on this character except get the traits. It took me 33 hours and 21 min to unlock all skills except: map completion, personal story, obsidian sanctum, overgrown grub, Scholar Fryxx, and branded devourer queen. Reasoning I didn’t do these: its my sixth kitten character, I’m not doing map completion or personal story, I’ll quit the game first. Devourer queen is bugged and even though I submitted a bug report I have little faith that any action will be taken, because I’ve submitted reports before and gotten no action on broken events. I did Obsidian once before, it was particularly unpleasant that time, I know its hard I know it would take a lot of time especially without a mes or two to help, what makes this one funny though is that its trait is fall damage and its one of the hardest JP in the game. Scholar Fryxx is so hard since they blocked the short cut, if you’re going to make it needed for trait unlock can we have the short cut option back? Pretty please? and lastly and definitely least, Overgrown Grub: hahahahaha you expected new players to be able to do this? ohh man whoever came up with this idea is a sadist. Need it be said, I soloed both the other WvW events, and died countless times in ETOM trying to get those. Definitely the best way to introduce new players to WvW and ETOM.
So, since Gaile asked for what we would want to see changed first: get rid of all WvW/ETOM trait unlocks, MC and personal story is fine for new players but vets need something else, and Scholar Fryxx should all be changed with the utmost speed. Kol Skullsmasher, Aquabase commander, fire shaman should all be changed at some point as well, a key reason I was able to finish these was because I tagged up and told the map to come if they wanted a trait unlock. Finally, fix Branded Devourer Queen, Foulbear Kral, and Dredge Commissar, having a broken event listed as something you need to do to unlock a key part of the game? Thats just mean to both vets and new players alike. I was lucky enough to catch a map that Foulbear and Commissar were working on when I went to unlock them, but I have gone to them countless times and found them broken, yes I submitted bug reports. Also, should it really take over 33 hours to get trait unlocks? Disregard time spent leveling, this seems insane to me.

There is no easy method to complete this dive, the climb up is a pain, the jump itself is hard. I jumped from the little pipe off the side so I could see where I was jumping to and that worked for me. The best option you have is to keep trying, as hard as that is to hear, and I know how hard it is to hear, I lost count of how many times I tried. Best of luck

Same points everyone else has been making, Anet said grind is bad, this is grind, I’m only a couple rounds short of getting my third box, etc. etc. I’m so tired of SW now that I don’t know if I can possibly do the events again for 7&8, let alone 4k crests. Gaile, I place good money you’re reading this thread, please take it to the next meeting that they need to add the armor back to the story, this is mind-numbingly boring, it stopped being fun several hours of grind ago.

In my opinion this is the greatest change to the game Anet has released, quite possibly ever. One question, can we get a mystic forge back in the heart of the mists? Its one of the few reasons I leave regularly is to throw junk into it. Can’t wait for this update, thank you devs!

I’m sure if I went through every area I could make a long list of events that don’t work anymore, but there are two that I used to enjoy doing pre-megaserver, but it got too hard to get people to do them till their loot suddenly became worth while of trying to get.
Ogre Wars and In Pursuit of Knowledge are both broken and have been broken for Zommoros knows how long. Any chance there are devs looking at these events?
Also while talking about broken events I was excited to see that Help U.N.I.T. find and destroy the Inquest was fixed, now its actually possible to get giant kills! Thank you for fixing that. I stand corrected this event is broken again, are any of these three being looked into?

There’s no Asuran labs in LA, however there is an Inquest lab in Sparkfly, not quite due South from center of LA, OR there is order of whispers almost directly below LA

I think the thievery attempt was upon a Skritt. They are very protective of their items, often looked at as if it were junk by others, they have piles of junk/trash all over the place, every place I’ve seen a Skritt city I’ve seen tons of guards and merchants selling junk. Still working on the part about a bay.

Welcome back king and queen of Tyria! 252 Tevoro

Hello all,
I have been working to get the dive master achievement and like many people I am stuck at 37/38. Yes, I know where the last pair is, I have tried the jump, at the time of this writing, seven times. I can’t seem to complete the jump in the Not So Secret JP without dying. I emailed Anet, and, after pressing them a second time, it was suggested that I post in the defunct ‘suggestions’ forum. I guess I was hoping someone could give me some advice or, even better, Anet to make the dive more possible. Yes, I have watched the videos, more times than I care to count.
Anet, I polled every (active) member of my guild, one person has done the jump successfully, after 30 tries. Does that sound at all enjoyable to you?