Guild Wars 2

They said they will keep up the “collection” for the shoulders ie *drink 10k drinks to get that part – they did not say they would keep up the Wintersday achievements though, they were always stated that they finished when wintersday finished. That was how I understood it anyway.

…WvW – New Globe Launch Queue – New Globe launches once enough players (ANet to determine number) have paid gems in advance & selected a matching Time Zone.

Im not paying gems to play wvw EVER. Sorry, I didnt read past that (on the basis thats a hard limit and so nothing said after would change my mind).

While you have some good ideas, a good idea for one is often a bad idea for another.

Personally I choose to play in off hours and if the “globes” came into play, then I would no doubt choose one to continue to be.

I would like to think many of the ideas have already been thrown around in the anet meetings (but, Ive had hope before and been left sad and disappointed – hello BLs)

Good luck with your thread though Diku.

The number of players who can rally off a single kill has been reduced from five to one. <I like this one

Players will also no longer be able to revive defeated players while in combat. < I would want the one above to be implemented first for a month to see what effect it had on fights before introducing this. when considering treb cow fire can keep people in combat then this could be a little too much..

Oh and yes, I bought this because of GW1 and the MMO design and feel. If I had EVER wanted to do a platformer I would have bought a console years ago and likely never have been here ( I hated Jet Set Willy for all the old UK spectrum fans)!

Kerin.9125:

I don’t like Fractals, so please don’t gate stuff like Ascended gear behind them.

See, there’s a million things in this game gated behind content some people don’t like doing, or can’t and not just due to some physical impairment as the OP is referring to .. where do you draw the line?

I assume you mean the back piece as there are plenty of other alternatives to get ascended gear. The difference is, you can work on the back piece in your own time doing the content at your pace. There is no requirement of a timed JP that doesn’t allow for lag/internet/disability issues that there is no way around and only available for a couple of weeks or so and then its gone.

This is a festival, a celebration of (yes I’m going there – Christmas in a poor disguise). It is about enjoyment and socializing, this is NOT the time to be talking about “exclusive content”.

I think placing a buy order to stop “gold burning kitten in your pocket” is a very good idea and a good discipline too. Gambling is exactly that and losing it all might make you sour on the game a lil.
I personally throw the dungeon exotics I get from the pvp reward tracks from unlocking the collections (as they are account bound and I don’t need them for chars, therefore no cost to me) and that’s enough gambling for me with the toilet.

I wish you good look with your legendary

They wont run out as theres a constant flow of them into the game from the login rewards. It will balance out with people paying to make the skin/people waiting to collect their own coins and people willing to sell their login reward to make some gold.

Matthew Pennebaker.7921:

Hey all. Just wanted pop in give some insight on this change. First off, sorry for the undocumented change. It is always our goal to get everything in the release notes, in spite of what the last few updates may have led you to believe
Now, this reduction in refinement is one of a few different options we were looking at to bring the cost of wood back in line, but it wasn’t actually intended to ship yet. Since it is out there now, enjoy! But we will be keeping an eye on the economy of this and other common materials. If in the future things crash or explode (that’s economy talk for “crash” or “explode”) the refinement recipes are one area we can adjust to keep things stable.
Merry Wintersday!

Yes but you do realize you always go about this like a bull in a china shop! reducing it from 4 to 3 and then seeing how it was for a month and then to 2 if needed is a MUCH more responsible way to handle this. also for all those that have had to buy and or make using 4, this is a realkittenfrom anet, especially as you are giving free cash to the fractal guys.

Thank you Matt for the honest and pretty useful post. I for one am glad to see your priorities and the fact that ANY feedback like this is useful to us that play the game.

Just KNOWING that things like the “fail event chains” are at least being looked at as reasonably high priority is welcoming to me… to me, any feedback is better than NO feedback, even if many will complain because it doesn’t fit with what they want

I wish you well with your role and look forward to working on the new legendaries in the months ahead.

Enough pro/con talk threads! This is less productive that all the other threads that actually talk about aspects within the game.

I dont think Im incorrect but maybe an expert can confirm or correct me but making a set of armour is multiple degrees harder than making an outfit in game.
For each piece of armour, it has to tested to avoid work and not cause graphic issues with every other piece currently in game which makes it a longer and longer process. An outfit doesn’t have those issues.
I think that’s why the outfits are the profit center for anet in the gemstore and not armour. Whether thats a good or bad thing I dont know as Im too lazy to bother playing with armour looks

It was made quite clear that the new legendaries would be account bound. If you want to help your friend then give them mats that they will need but they will have to do much of it themselves.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Some things about guild missions are better:

• Individual rewards for Treks and bounties are easier to achieve. Tick

• You can trigger and retrigger missions as often as you like, without spending any guild currency. Partial tick – only if the guild allows their people to do it. some wont due to anet not separating the weekly change type of mission for the guild and the launch mission button responsibilities.

• Tiny guilds have more opportunities than before. – Partial tick – Not until they have spent a lot on upgrades in a G Hall.

• Challenges (when they work) are in self-contained instances, preventing conflicts with other guilds. – I see that as a partial negative, small guilds used to be able to piggy bank with larger ones to get challenges done.

Things that are worse:

• Challenges are mostly bugged.

• A few other bugs need to be addressed.

I prefer the new system by far (even though my personal guild bank has stopped earning currency that I used to convert into gold).

I also wish that the wvw acheives such as camp capture didnt require three guild members, if you are with a group of randoms doing this then you should get personal credit.

So all those saying that there was no BF because they were saving the deals for Cyber Monday… hope you enjoyed your discounted treat! (s) if you include the stone that was supposed to be the day before…
Its nice to know they cant have any sales because they need to put all this cash into esports.

Yes, lets not make what is a GUILD event a priority in GUILD Wars, especially when it was working perfectly up until them breaking it.

Better still, why don’t you learn to program, then you take a “couple of hours” and do it for them?

Falanu.4289:

Although I feel for Tife’s niece, the proposed mechanisms lead to too many problems for the vast majority of people. It might be better to simply create a new account and restrict the niece’s social interaction to desired people.

They shouldn’t have to buy a new account and start from scratch though. If the mechanics are unsuitable to avoid someone, then support should be able to, for valid cases, issue an new account name and possibly character name changes so that they cannot be followed but are not penalized by losing all their progress.

Shikigami.4013:

Honest question about this “following” thing:

Quite easily if you are doing pvp or wvw.

Theres plenty in Eotm/WvW and some from JP chests – maybe park the chars you dont use much at an easy JP chest to farm it each day.

I have also had issues with stalkers in game following me around everywhere because as you say, even when you block them, it only appears to block messaging.
I think its perfectly reasonable that when you block an account, then that person sees you permanently offline unless you unblock them.
The other option is that when support have a reasonable report of a stalker/abuser, then there should be an option to change the account name of the account holder and possibly character names too to help the victim avoid any confrontations/repercussions.

I think you came on here when you would have been better served searching for answers. If you had googled gw2 crafting you would have found something that halved the cost you are quoting without ever having to farm anything. Ofc farming, salvaging and using buy orders makes that amount smaller too.
I admit, now is possibly the worst time to be starting crafting due to the increased demand spikes on several materials from G Halls etc but it really isnt that bad until you get to 450ish.
As far as making gold from crafting, the problem is that if you could make gold then everyone would be doing it which kills the market, hence you will (almost) never be able to do it to make money. Crafting to 400 usually takes me under 30 mins with preparation (Ive done it on a few accts) – past 400 usually a little longer as I like to plan to minimize the costs.

I read this thread and just laughed. The amount of people who dont understand how demand and supply works is mind boggling.

I think the worst was the people expecting to be able to convert gems to gold and then back again and expect to get the same amount of gems at the end.
Can you imagine the amount of player manipulation there would be with gem/gold rates if there was no “tax” because I can!
I was exchanging all my gold into gems at the start of the fame to open bank slots/char slots etc as were quite a few other people I know. I knew the initial exchange rates were untenable and it was obvious that in being able to convert gold into a gems meant that the exchange rate would fall and continue to drop.
While anet introduce things into the gem store, then people will always be converting gold into gems. The only way this flow could be reversed would be if anet released exclusive items that could only be bought for high values of gold.

Pandaman.4758:

Don’t worry, folks, ANet’s probably just a little delayed getting the Black Friday Bundle ready.

I think we should speculate on what this bundle would contain.

You know I have seen so much whining about things taking x days or 2 months to complete or whatever – they always say “its not about the time” yet its always the time that is used in their comment which kind of kills the argument.

Maybe anet should have introduced a legendary daily where you have to go and complete an event or obtain something each day to click off the list until collection is complete. Although then it would still be “omg” time gated making me wait posts….

Im fine about it being time gated – if you don’t have the patience while playing the game then maybe you don’t deserve to be wielding the weapon – its not like its stopping you PLAYING THE GAME is it…

Lanaeris.3845:

What economist on the face of the planet would decide NOT to have a sale on Black Friday (the busiest shopping holiday of the year)?

The anet one, coz he haz skillz

shadowshark.7056:

I ended up running him 11 times before actually getting to that medium point of damage.

Thats why its an epic adventure ;o)

that economist is really making money for anet isnt he……/s

DoctorDing.5890:

Complaining about free stuff. Nice.

Useless stuff is still useless even if free

Tao.1234:

It’s something that happens very rarely.

No point wasting resources on such very low priority feature.

It happens a lot more than you think, not just in that area.

Neural.1824:

The new guild missions set up is the perfect example of “if it’s not broken, fix it ’til it is.”

Thats funny, its exactly what I said in GM yesterday

I see no problem with this time gate. People didn’t plan ahead so they have to wait a lil while, big deal, we all cant have what we want today unless someone is willing to drop off that ferrari at my door….

This is the 2nd week of few or no rewards on GMs (and I run a LOT usually each weekend), This weekend, after failing to get anything from 3 puzzles on 2 alts, I am just giving it a miss.
If this is supposed to be about guilds, then you are doing a good job of crushing this with spoiling the one thing that most guilds came together to do each week.

Just finished the wolf rush, about 40 people finished and it was showing 15/15 some 6+ minutes before the end. the banner pop up came up we succeeded but the mission log said we failed and no one got a reward, guild nor players. we also had the bug of going through the last flag when some people reverted to human and some didn’t but had to go back and forth through the last flag many times for it to register.

Anthrage.2519:

How did this bug not get caught in testing? I noticed it in the first session…

Because the testing was for “invited” people only, not the people who would actually check that the BLs worked….

I go in and do the daily of a sentry or to kill a yak and that’s about it on the new BL (and I’m on both t1 and lower servers). New maps that are larger, take longer to get around to attack or defend and with (it seems) less to do on them – I think thats the main reason for the lack of people currently . I really am struggling to see any positives shrugs

Ive just requested a refund from HoT. The BL maps are appalling – they didnt have an open beta with those before release did they?

Laraley.7695:

My point is its kittening ridiculous to hand it out for free this year.

If thats your point, then its invalid as it is not for free. People have to farm or buy 100,000 corn in order to get it. I know you are annoyed because rng was against you, we’ve all been there when someone who has played 2 weeks gets a precursor drop but its rng (which I hate) and all you can do is move on.

No thanks. /15 chars

I think if I read this right, is that if you are on IP 170 (say instance 170) that if you moved instance to join a friend, say IP 169, that the nodes would be in the same place.

The nodes can still spawn in different places, just that they are consistent if you are on 170 and your guildie is on 169. It would mean nodes wouldnt move except when theres an update.

Thats how I read the OP. So, with that said, while I understand what you are saying, I disagree with you.
The nodes are mostly variable because farming is not meant to be totally consistent. If it were, you would find farming bots quickly appearing (port to WP xxx, walk 15 secs SE, 5 secs $ then mine etc). Farming maps are meant as a guide, farming and the profit from takes the effort of finding where the nodes are within an area.

“Daily WvW achievements now reward 20-minute general experience boosters rather than 250 liquid WXP consumables. These experience boosters are consumed immediately and grant boosts in all game modes, boosting experience, world experience, and Player vs. Player rewards.”

The immediate use is pretty short sighted by anet I think. What if you are a scout that is defending an objective and get the daily from it. Now you cant use the reward because you are scouting/defending.
Yet again, anet is penalizing strategic play and the players who get no reward from doing the "dirty jobs* (jobs few want to do) for their server.

Not sure, the new ones you wont be able to buy from the TP anyway, as far as the old ones. then I think you will just have to wait like the rest of us to find out when HoT comes out. I am pretty certain though that it wont be something that you can do in a couple of weekends.

Mo Mo.1947:

Hey so I have a one person guild for storage that my 5 (yeah 5… >.<) accounts are all a member of.

I remember reading that some guild unlockables are going away in HoT, like the dolyak transport. I was thinking of getting some of this unlocked just for fun, but summoning a yak costs one merit point.

Are there any ways a one person guild (possibly logging into multiple accounts (two at once max)) could get merit? Can I get merit by somehow piggy-backing on other guilds missions? Can I get merit for that?

Firstly, you will only get merits for missions that your guild starts, you dont get them by helping another guilds missions.

I think you could – although you would have to have some guild missions unlocked to get the merits for your own guild and have some missions built to be able to use. IF you had those, then maybe you could be lucky and find another guild doing the same mission with you that would allow you to start it so your guild got the credits but realistically, with only a week or so to go before HoT when merits go away. I think the effort wouldn’t be worth it.

I would just concentrate on opening everything you could with influence in the next week.

acapela.8215:

Not relevant to the issue of a guild, but… I have 2 accounts, and always felt… foolish and isolated. Knowing that there is someone with 5 accounts out there makes me feel somewhat less so :-).

There’s people with more…. ;ox

bokkieskitten.8023:

I was excited about the staff… ravens, sweet! It’ll match my reaper…

Until…

I saw it being held and there was that blue light…

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Why not the colour scheme from the reaper’s shroud?

All I want is a dark, brutally metal staff with awesome effects for my necro. That’s all I want for Wintersday, Anet. ;_;

See, I was thinking that it should be able to be dyed and the aura being matched to the dye colour.

Coulter.2315:

Do you not remember Plat being worthless and everything being traded in Ecto and then later you would trade DoA weapon tokens. The economy went out of control – I don’t think people understand how important a good economy is for fun. Again I will say; they know what’s coming. <- reading something and saying “oh noes everything will be broken” when THEY know the new reward structure coming with HoT and you don’t is just ignorant doomsaying.

That was mainly because you could only trade 100 plat max in one trade. You therefore had to use some other “tradeable commodity” for a value over 100 plat. It just ended up being ectos and late also zkeys and armbraces .

nekretaal.6485:

I hope John Smith has plans for Linen (other than a temp injection at Wintersday).

Linen is impossible to farm outside of a very narrow range and I imagine that the karma forge/salvagers and level 51 champ bag openers contribute a very significant % of the overall linen in the game.

I suppose that the t4 leather could be included in the discussion with linen now too.

Not true, just make an alt to around lvl 55 and open all the masterwork bags from SW on that char.. linen/plat or iron/rugged leather. Yes, its not an ideal way. but it is a decent source should you choose to do it.

BaconofPigs.1683:

thisisit.6954:

Great. missed out because I trusted what I was told.

No, you didn’t miss out anything. That was an oversight. Anyone and any guild who did and going to do guild mission between Saturday reset to Monday can be considered abusing an exploit.

How is it an exploit when anet said they would be reset on Monday instead but then failed to do it, meaning that all the guilds that do the missions on the weekends that reacted to the incorrect information missed out on a weeks worth of commendations?

you are saying that the people who dont read the forums and played “normally” were exploiting – I think you need to be very careful in how you use that word.

Eirdyne.9843:

a whole crafting system based around improving your pole.

I believe I get quite a few spam emails about this already…..

Great. missed out because I trusted what I was told.

Can you answer please Gaile, is this the new reset time for all weekly events?

Specifically the lvl 10 1st key reset?

To all the people that are complaining of the time change until Monday – This will affect a maximum of THREE weeks – once HoT comes out you can do GM over and over whenever is the best for your guild to get all members through them.

I personally don’t like the Monday, I would have preferred the Friday wvw reset time so the weekend could be used to “get them done and out of the way” rather than the last minute thing.

I am guessing Anet have chosen this time in order to try and take a little pressure off the servers at weekends once HoT is live when the raids will be busy? Not sure what other reasons there could be.. I didn’t see any open discussion for thoughts on a day change from anet?