Guild Wars 2

the FAQ is out

There is no reason for this change to the town clothes, it unnecessarily restricts the use of both outfits and the clothes that will become tonics. You won’t have the option to mix & match, I have Devil horns, the pirate outfit and the witches broom equipped on my main I will no longer be able to do that.

Just make them all skins with no armor restrictions since the current town clothes can be used by everyone and are largely gem store only.

Just a few things.

1: Dyes – Please make them account bound:
this was a change late in beta info when it happened there was indeed a large thread with anet responses. info on reddit the blog detailing the account wide stuff is cached here

2: Combat UI improvements

The response was illogical, the suggestion was for the features of the mod to be incorporated in to the game.

3: According to this post

“The large number of suggestions in different sub-forums is impacting discussion in those different sub-forums. As such, we’ve decided to open up the Suggestions sub-forum.

Please note that you should not expect a personalized, individual response to your suggestions, due to the massive volume of posts that the Suggestions sub-forum will generate.

Please also note that the Suggestions sub-forum will not be open permanently. This is a temporary solution until we roll out a better, more organized way to provide suggestions to the development team than using the forums.
Thank you for your understanding."

but after 7 months you would think they would create a more organised system (see here)

and could you please edit you post to include the links

The community has been concerned about spying and cheating in WvW. Using proxy characters to hit siege caps, things like that. Is that something you’re looking into, or is it a perception issue?

Mike Ferguson: We don’t have anything set in stone right now with how we’re going to deal with it, but it is an issue that we are aware of. We know that some people will go onto servers and just start dropping siege rams in the middle of nowhere. I think in the terms of service that if the customer service folks can go out and see that sort of stuff, we will ban those people, but it is definitely an issue that we need to address.

So it’s more of a customer service issue than a game design problem?

Mike Ferguson: We don’t want to put that burden on them as it would hobble progress on our end, but at the moment if you see [cheating] happening, report it and let our customer service folks deal with it.

Guild Wars 2 World vs. World interview: World Ranks, server balance, cheating and more – PCgamer

I also imagined something like this when Orr was announced, Anet should look into this.

A few suggestions for the forum.

1 Better Search
A advanced search option. Has things like: Title only, select the Forum(s)/subforum(s) , Date options (in the last… etc).

2 Better Sorting
sort by upvotes, number of posts, number of views, a view to post ratio maybe.

3 Organising the forums

The suggestions forums is in desperate need of some kind of organisation.

• Tagging so you could say search for/group all suggestion of a topic. (useful for the rest of the forum to)
• filter for tags, both for searching and browsing
• Sub-forums for UI, Cosmetic, DE & Hearts, Class, Weapons, Dungeons, sPvP, WvW, Crafting etc.

see: Organizing The Suggestions Forum

• Server Forums

Your post in general didn’t last long, so I decided to bump this

I have been asking for a better town clothes/skin system since BWE1.

I wish that anet would at least add more town clothes (like NPC clothes not the store’s modern stuff). They could let us craft them or buy them (ingame or gem store :/), but it seems the only town clothes we get are going to be only though the store., I have bought some of the outfits but I would prefer that they add non-store ways to get TC as well (I would buy NPC like clothes if they added them but I need storage first)

I have been collecting links to these kinds of suggestions (see sig), there are many different idea’s on how to improve the TC & skins, and while I would prefer something like LoTRo system (which is just a better version of the TC i.e. wearable in combat and any clothes can be put in and buy-able additional wardrobe (TC) slots), though the DCUo system has it’s perks .Really anything would be an improvement.

as an aside Organizing The Suggestions Forum

TwoBit.5903:

People have been asking for this since launch.

People have been asking for this since before launch. Before the BWE’s even. In the press beta a number of of the press asked for it (or assumed it would be added) as did those watching their videos. So that was over a year ago

Only a WvW player will stay up past midnight to help alleviate the coverage gap
Only a WvW player will have to pve/farm just to break even
Only a WvW player cares about WvW (or so it seems)

Couple of things, 1) test whether or not you can hit there, build an AC in the same place in Bay when you own it. The AC unlike other siege (and most AoE) doesn’t need to have Line of Sight. 2) Camera Tool exploit this has been discussed before 3) regarding exploits: posting exploits on the forum is not permitted as the forum moderation team does not investigate those issues. That’s why exploits have to be sent to the following address: exploits@arena.net or to our Customer Support Team as explained above. Reports of exploits sent by either of these two methods reach the correct people who can then investigate.. Include screenshots from you test and the incident.

This should be a sticky again

Chalky.8540:

It’s gone down hill for maguuma because we get night capped so badly – we earnt our position in this tier without nightcapping, but now we’re stuck with a bunch of people who climbed the ranks by doing just that.

First up Night Capping and YOU tl;dr 24/7 WORLD WIDE GAME get over it.

Second FA (can’t speak for DB) only just got oceanic’s from IoJ (like me) they did not climb the ranks with them.

Re WvW loot bags: in the early beta’s it was the pve system of loot, which was then replaced by bags than by bags at feet.

Why the loot chest is worse, the chest are harder to find than bodies for one thing (especially with lots of particle effects/bloom). For another it fix a non-existent problem. I get the whole you know when there is nicer loot but from playing today I got a few greens and bags (wth) from them, from an immersion standpoint why would you know before hand that you are getting decent loot?

Press beta and BW1 we had Achievement Chest, they would spawn at our feet and there were a lot a complaints both from the press and from players that they were easy to miss. They were removed them due to those complaints and achievement rewards are now accessed via the popup chest near the map.

Not to mention WvW loot bags which also have had many complaints about them.

Now to Uncommon Loot Chests, why have we gone backwards?

ingame, check Auto-targeting in the general option menu.

read this thread for more info on IoJ

With the recent bout of Mounts posts I just wanted to bump this.

The suggestions Forums is in desperate need of some kind of organisation. At the bear minimum there should be sub-forums for UI, Cosmetic, DE & Hearts, Class, Weapons, Dungeons, sPvP, WvW, Crafting etc. Tagging would be next on me list, so you could say search for/group all suggestion of a topic. Better search and the better sorting and options for example sort by upvotes, number of posts, number of views, a view to post ratio maybe.

Or use something like this:
idea informer
idea scale
suggestionbox
meta.community-tracker

edit:

and a nice added benefit of organising the forum is threads won’t disapear so quickly

I left IoJ with my guild [uA]. Here is my take on reddit addressing a similar post there. I included quotes from the IoJ forums both the public and private sections from Blrrgh, Junglizm and Waking to help better show what happened.

You also have to remember that also lost guilds in Nov and have been slowly bleeding out. [HIRE] & [BP] both had large recruitment drives (both in individual and Guild merges) before the left, this left a terrible taste in the mouths of many and they took a lot of people. Since then the effort to get causal WvW and PvE into WvW on a more regular basis had doubled, my guild [uA] began running intro nights and the remnants of [HIRE] became [JaTs] and was doing well at this (from what I heard). But it was not enough we as a community were getting frustrated and tired with the lack of people in WvW, this came to a head when the deadline for free server transfers was announced. Unfortunately we as a community did not handle this well, there was a call for a server meting but some guilds (I don’t know who went first) it seem could not or would not wait and this created a domino effect and in the end most of the WvW guilds have left.

I would just like to thank Mike Ferguson, Habib Loew & Matt Witter for answering questions and really communicating with us. I would like this to be the norm for Anet’s interactions with the community, and I hope that Anet communication in general improves.

Is there an ETA on the Blog detailing the WvWvW updates in the coming patches?

happened to me too.

background: I have been playing the event with my sister.

The Dungeon is practically the same every time.

Day 1:
1. Destroy Tar Elementals and return their ooze to the machines

2. Teleport to the platforms above the gift-giving apparatus and stop the mischievous skritt (Kill 12 Skritt Intruders)

3. Collect plant food near buildings for the Ventari toys (Collect 15 Plant Food)

4. Destroy the malfunctioning turrets (Destroy 18 turrets)

5. Stop Toxx from rampaging through the airship

Vs

Day 5

1. Collect presents for the toy princesses – 15 (day 2 same as plant food)

2. Color unpainted princess dolls with the plasma paint cannon – 40 (day 2)

3. Retake the plush griffon’s aerie from the princesses (day 4)

4. Defend the toy Ventari from the princess dolls – 5 (day 2)

5. Destroy malfunctioning mortars before they cause too much damage – 25 (same as turrets)

6. Drive off malfunctioning toy soldiers attacking the assembly line – 8 waves (day 3)

7. Destroy plush griffon nests, and drive plush griffons away from the helm (day 4)

8. Destroy the oversized haywire golem building turrets above the gift-giving apparatus (new)

9. Use unstable toy golems to stop Toxx’s rampage through the airship (Toxx)

I can see no reason for this, it makes over half the dungeon a repeat of the day before. Neither of us found it fun and we haven’t completed the 5th one.

Also the “Color unpainted princess dolls with the plasma paint cannon – 40” plasma gun often bugged out not allowing us to paint dolls or skritt.

Other problems we had were the inability to get in same match for Snowball Mayhem, and the fact that neither of use are good at timed JP.

They should just use UTC (GMT) and have a link to a count down from timeanddate.com or wolframalpha. I didn’t even know what CET was til yesterday, I converted the PST (UTC -8) to my timezone AEST (UTC+10) of course I forgot what the timezone offset for PST was and had to look it up.

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

Offski, could you provide some info about the mentioned addon? Like name and function so we can forward the issue to the team and see if they can deal with it.

Also, as stated always, whenever you feel someone is making use of bots or hacks, please report them so we can identify them and investigate.

Thanks in advance

The mod is called GW2 Camera Tool it was created by the same person (-M-) who made gZoom (fly, teleport, no-clip, etc (and the features of the GW2 Camera Tool)) the camera tool was made to allow non-exploiters to increase their FoV. gZoom needs to be addressed more than the Camera Tool.

Features:
Increase FoV
1st person mode
Increased Zoom out distance

The problem being discussed is that (especially in regards to arrow carts as there is no LoS issue) with the mod you can zoom out more and as such aim better. You are still restricted by range etc.

I would actually like Anet to add more camera options in (and fix the camera collision detection), but whatever I also wanted an option for a CM like feature.

Why is this no longer stickyed

Mathemagician.1836:

When I started WvW, someone claimed /map chat was shared between servers.

This was a bug back in the BWE’s that was fixed before launch.

Emotes do work though.

Thanks largely to HIRE & ND

Thank you Ain.7082 & Le Rooster.8715 for recommending IoJ despite being on SoS.

As many others have said IoJ & BG need more NA players.

http://skimreddit.com/http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13tuac/im_the_studio_design_director_on_guild_wars_2_ama/

Q&A, easy to follow

“Yes. I’ll be taking the Google Docs, and appending all provided answers to them at the end of the day. I’ll post it here and on the official forums for people to reference.” – LoreChief.8391/samuraikitten86

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13tuac/im_the_studio_design_director_on_guild_wars_2_ama/c774jrh

wildcode.5403:

So far he’s only answered 2 questions and both to do with the new content

It’s only been 25mins

http://www.redditenhancementsuite.com/

use that, one of it’s many options is Highlighting the OP.

Naoko.7096:

I don’t agree that WvWvW should be out from world completion. It should be challenging so that it’ll differentiate between people who have the star and not. Players now have so little reason to WvWvW. Why would they take away more reasons?

I do feel for lower population servers who gets dominated by another server most of the time. I feel it’s better to find solution for that problem instead of reducing the reason to go WvWvW.

This does not give players a reason to actually participle in WvW. They either explore each map when the team is winning or transfer to a winning one get it done and transfer back. Why would you want people who don’t want to be there, they will not help at best and will get in the way at worst. There needs to be REAL incentives to WvW but the fact is no matter how hard you try not every on will like it. It is a different playstyle.

I also want it removed. It is bad for both WvW players and PvE ones.

Also no other maps in the Mists are needed.

Agreed. At the moment I am running the game with out Post Processing because I hate how much bloom there is.

FOV and camera zoom aren’t exactly the same EPISODE 29 FOV in Games part1 if you are only now (as of the 15th) having problems with the fov fix please try the shortcut I mentioned. Otherwise that is likely due to GW2 FOV being 75 (the prefix for widescreens was bugged to be 65) and may not be high enough for you.

Xar.6185:

Excellent suggestion OP.

I can say for sure that I know of at least a dozen people that would buy way more skins from the cash shop if:
1) They had a separate place to store them.
2) They were account bound.
3) Multiple characters could wear the skin without removing it, placing it in the bank, swapping characters, getting item from the bank etc.

P.S.
These same dozen people would also buy more dyes if the packs weren’t grab bag style and were usable for the whole account as well. As it stands now it’s just too exspensive to really go for it in the cosmetic department for people who have more than 1 or 2 alts.

You can count me as well on both skins/town clothes and dye packs.

I agree completely. Posting both here and on the reddit post since this is one of the few times it has be brought up there.

Related links:

Suggestions:
Give me a reason to chase aesthetics
Petition to make Cosmetic Slots
Wardrobe Slots
New System to Wardrobe Armor
Cosmetic Gear Slots Rather Than Transmutation Stones
Awful transmutation
Get rid of “Town Clothing” & a few other niggles!
Allow us to wear previously equipped styles
Town Clothing Ideas
Costume System
Allow us to fight in town clothes
Allow town clothes to be displayed on top of armor
Town clothes – cosmetic armor and more pages
Improvements for Collectors
Skins / Transmutation Stones More options?

BLTC:
Why I am not enticed to buy costumes in GW2, but had all of them in GW1

Reddit:
Want Transmutation Stones without buying gems? Complete one of the cities.
Mine

Less RNG more straight up buy what you what. I have only bought 5 keys but I have bought: 1 Witch’s outfit, 1 Halloween mini pack, 1 Pirate outfit , 1 phantom hood, 1 bank expansion. I plan on buying more bank slots and Character slots (another point I would like a LoTRO/Rift style system for Town clothes, I would buy more appearance items then, and a better system for Mini’s.).

1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁹ like the look of the Karka and the new map
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁸ Some sound bugs due to lag
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – ⁵ I couldn’t follow the story ingame (Quest bugs mostly) but after reading the wiki I found it alright
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – ⁶ I was on my lvl65 main so the loot was scaled down but I happy with it, and I mined ori in the new map
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – Phase 1 (lag, Quest line was bugged) ⁴ Phase 2 (Quest line NOT extended/fixed, no cutscene/karka attack) ⁴ Phase 3 (Severe lag -Skills and rubberbanding etc- Culling of Karka and Players, spawning on top of us.) ²
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – ² no D/C (yay) but severe lag for Phase 3
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ⁴ Reinforcements x2 GRRRH
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ⁴ it seamed somewhat padded
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – ³ see above

I enjoyed Phase 2 and the end phase 3 the most. I love the concept of actually seeing the new map open (not just be there after an update) but the execution was flawed in many ways.

Aphix.9846:

Good event, no lag no delay etc, nice reward.

Anyone saying otherwise is just a kid who cant be pleased.

I lagged more than I did in phase 1, infact more then I have ever. I was rubberbanding, dieing cause of lag, couldn’t do any thing for 10mins. The event itself was annoying: 2 waves of reinforcements gah. And the lionguard blew us up. 3hrs on this…

congrats from a fellow aussie and an opponent (IoJ).

notebene.3190:

Please give us a switch to turn OFF the FoV changes you forced on us 11/15.

The first camera notch out from completely zoomed in is too far away from my character. I’d like it back the way it was, and apparently some people don’t want it, but there’s not reason it isn’t an ‘option’, just like it was an ‘option’ when you added the switch for people to test.

It’s just unenjoyable and unplayable for me now.

right click on your shortcut

under target: add " -useOldFov"

eg “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -useOldFov

I would just like to point out that this was a bug fix in the fov calculation (for Widescreen) not a forced increase on fov but rather to fix it to have it where Anet wanted it. I still want a slider/option if any one cares.

I want a wardrobe system as well. I have been following these kinds of threads since BW1, I’ve noticed that over Halloween there were much more threads about it so hopefully more people are seeing that it is an issue.

Edit…

Related threads

Suggestions:
Improvements for Collectors
Petition to make Cosmetic Slots
Wardrobe Slots
New System to Wardrobe Armor
Cosmetic Gear Slots Rather Than Transmutation Stones
Awful transmutation
Get rid of “Town Clothing” & a few other niggles!
Allow us to wear previously equipped styles
Town Clothing Ideas
Costume System
Allow us to fight in town clothes
Allow town clothes to be displayed on top of armor
Town clothes – cosmetic armor and more pages
Skins / Transmutation Stones More options?

BLTC:
Why I am not enticed to buy costumes in GW2, but had all of them in GW1

Reddit:
Want Transmutation Stones without buying gems? Complete one of the cities.
My post

wow this thread just goes around in circles. I have been following it for a while (read, I think half the thread to date).

Yinn.6507:

I don’t know about this. It would be rather cool but it makes no sense in combat … A guardian wearing a singlet and some khaki shorts will not fare well in combat against the risen.

I don’t know that Anet added a singlet and some khaki shorts as Town clothes, is this a Gem store thing :P

sykotrip.2390:

It would be nice to see something like the LOTRO Outfit tab system.

That is my preferred option. I’m collecting links to threads on similar suggestions comment if you find more

like LoTRo, I also want this. I’m collecting links to threads on similar suggestions comment if you find more

Godomir.7159:

Yes, I knew there were several threads. My intention was only maybe to mix all then in one “official” petition with all us that think the same.

There are tons and tons of good ideas!! But the basics of each one are basically the same

Thanks for the links, compelting perfectly the info, and thanks for the support thealienamongus

Standards :P

Yeah, I’ve been linking all the threads I come across so that they see A) they aren’t alone and what others have said.

signed

Related (only linked to threads I have read and have comments):
Allow us to wear previously equipped styles

Town Clothing Ideas

Get rid of “Town Clothing” & a few other niggles!

Awful transmutation idea for improvement

Cosmetic Gear Slots Rather Than Transmutation Stones

Reddit:
some discussion in here

my thread

1. Will you or will you not be buying black lion trading company or random number generation materials again?

I will not. I hate the idea of paying real cash for a chance at something good

2. Did you buy them in the past?

I bought Halloween minis, the Witch and pirate costumes and 5 keys today. I had gathered 5 chests wanted to unlock them but I didn’t expect anything halloweeny from them (nor did I get any).

3. If you would not buy trading post material/gamble, would you support direct to buy weapon skins and what general price do you find acceptable from a business standpoint both as a customer and realizing that they must make money as a business?

Yes, I would buy them if they were direct purchases. Just as I preferred to buy the costumes then to buy lots and lots of keys/chests.

4. Do you believe that future events will also be handled with random number generation to make profit based on limited time item acquisition?

After this backlash I doubt it.

5. If you believe that the future events will be handled in the same manner, does this realization negatively effect your trust of Arena Net in regard to handling micro transactions for permanent content?

If they do continue, then yes.

6. Did you obtain a skin or whatever it is you were looking to get from the black lion trading chests? From the Mad King Chests?

I received nothing Halloween related from the 5 blc I opened.

while not automatic, there is now a keybind to toggle town clothes (scroll down to the bottom of keybindings to bind it)

Arsenal.2601:

coglin.1496:

Man I wish this game had a cosmetic tab like DCUO did. That game was the best I ever played, when it comes to character gear customization.

Cosmetic tabs are nice. They are also at odds with transmutation stones, which I imagine make revenue for the company.

The thing is Cosmetic tab system can be monetized as well, like say you start with on tab but you can buy others plus you still have the costumes that are sold via the store which now are more attractive to some people now that they can wear them in combat. This is similar how LoTRo does it.