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Guild Wars 2 |OT2| Funding An MMO Entirely On Quaggan Backpacks
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Picked up the Chop-It-All axe without thinking twice. The sickle has already made my life in-game so much easier. I hope they bring back the mining pick or introduce a new one at some point, because I wasn't playing when it was available.
Speaking of which, the most recent sale on bank/bag slots I could find mentioned of happened in the first part of the year. Does anyone know how often those happen?
Speaking of which, the most recent sale on bank/bag slots I could find mentioned of happened in the first part of the year. Does anyone know how often those happen?
Kos Luftar
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Those Bazaar screens I posted above are exactly what I would think the slums of Kaineng City might look like if we ever get to see them.
Kos Luftar
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Lol, I'm slightly ashamed to say but I didn't want to spend all my ectos to buy it...so I put 20$ on gems so I can use 800 on the axe and keep 800 for the future.
I got to stop myself before I turn into the AshOhDin.
I'm not going to suspect Tengu until I am staring them in the face. I don't get my hopes up like that.
This statement actually means a lot more to me than just excitement over new guaranteed releases every two week. It's the culmination of a design philosophy that the devs were talking to us as far back as February or even earlier about wanting to reach. It required a certain threshold of success, arbitrary or not, for ArenaNet to be able to commit to, and I'm thrilled for them. Wishing them many years of acclaim.
Love this rattling off of "don't worry, we got you" areas of the game they plan to touch with Living World:
That really does put things in perspective, doesn't it?Seda Khold said:
This statement actually means a lot more to me than just excitement over new guaranteed releases every two week. It's the culmination of a design philosophy that the devs were talking to us as far back as February or even earlier about wanting to reach. It required a certain threshold of success, arbitrary or not, for ArenaNet to be able to commit to, and I'm thrilled for them. Wishing them many years of acclaim.
Love this rattling off of "don't worry, we got you" areas of the game they plan to touch with Living World:
Wonder if those weapon skins are permanent. They sound like they are, but it's hard to be sure considering their history.
Tied to the new achievement system maybe?
Hopefully we see some tengu in there. This ship sounds like something they would do.
I really hope that new map reference includes WvW. I'd love it if they did a living story release focused on WvW introducing new borderlands maps and a PvPvE dungeon like Darkness Falls.
Tied to the new achievement system maybe?
Hopefully we see some tengu in there. This ship sounds like something they would do.
Hawkian said:
I really hope that new map reference includes WvW. I'd love it if they did a living story release focused on WvW introducing new borderlands maps and a PvPvE dungeon like Darkness Falls.
Kos Luftar
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More on this "Floating City" from Chris Whiteside by the way of Massively (http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/0...-world-is-fair-game-chris-whiteside-on-guild/) interesting read.
Looks like it might move city to city like it did with the Wintersday event.
Looks like it might move city to city like it did with the Wintersday event.
Well that sounds fucking awesome.
Um, so a new permanent minigame, a floating city, a PvP minigame with new movement skills, a scavenger hunt, new materials/recipes from quartz for doing the meta, a new weapon set, at least 9 new armor pieces, a new PvP map, two new WvW trait lines, a new UI and rewards for achievements, and a whole ton of very Canthan-inspired aesthetic elements seen for the first time...
A week from today.
Halp.
They look like Dreamcatchers, so... yes.
Jest Chillin
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I'll have to wait and see but the Lightening one sounds like it may be complementary to me future Bolt, whenever I get that thing done.
Is it permanent? I got the impression that the Bazaar is temporary.
The mini game is in for good, and sounds like it has some sort of PvP element to it. Kinda like the costume brawl, I'd assume.
While everything looks really exciting in this update, I'll be really honest: They kind of need to prove themselves with this update after Dragon bash.
Dragon Bash made me feel like all of the updates are just going to be big grindfests that serve only to push people to buy things off the gem store, which is probably true in some small way.
It's hard to say what the nagging feeling in the back of my head is when it comes to living story updates, but sometimes I question whether they always wanted to make this content or were forced to after they realized existing content wasn't compelling on a long term basis. Don't get me wrong, this isn't me saying, "GW2 PLAYERBASE DOWN, ANET REACTS!" The fact that they've increased the server caps dispels that rumor, to an extent.
I think the feeling is that I'm not quite sure what this game is anymore, and I'm not sure Anet knows either. And this isn't exactly a bad thing. I can't sit here and complain about updates when we get awesome new instances every once in awhile like Aetherblade Retreat and the Molten Weapons Facility. But at the same time, I'm not really sure how new content meshes with content that was there since launch, or how new players even progress or view the world.
Part of the issue is that I've never played an MMO before, so I have no idea how they work in terms of having people play them for a long time. I don't have a clear idea of what "endgame" content even is in other games for me to compare here. There's no doubt that people constantly have complaints about this games on message boards and article comments, and in some ways I agree and disagree.
Heck, if anything, the closest thing to Guild Wars is actually Animal Crossing. Constant changes throughout the year, daily "grinding" in order to get better cosmetic items. But this isn't really a negative point. But it's certainly weird from an MMO standpoint or trying to understand what this game wants us to do.
EDIT: Well, that sure was a confusing ramble of a post.
Dragon Bash made me feel like all of the updates are just going to be big grindfests that serve only to push people to buy things off the gem store, which is probably true in some small way.
It's hard to say what the nagging feeling in the back of my head is when it comes to living story updates, but sometimes I question whether they always wanted to make this content or were forced to after they realized existing content wasn't compelling on a long term basis. Don't get me wrong, this isn't me saying, "GW2 PLAYERBASE DOWN, ANET REACTS!" The fact that they've increased the server caps dispels that rumor, to an extent.
I think the feeling is that I'm not quite sure what this game is anymore, and I'm not sure Anet knows either. And this isn't exactly a bad thing. I can't sit here and complain about updates when we get awesome new instances every once in awhile like Aetherblade Retreat and the Molten Weapons Facility. But at the same time, I'm not really sure how new content meshes with content that was there since launch, or how new players even progress or view the world.
Part of the issue is that I've never played an MMO before, so I have no idea how they work in terms of having people play them for a long time. I don't have a clear idea of what "endgame" content even is in other games for me to compare here. There's no doubt that people constantly have complaints about this games on message boards and article comments, and in some ways I agree and disagree.
Heck, if anything, the closest thing to Guild Wars is actually Animal Crossing. Constant changes throughout the year, daily "grinding" in order to get better cosmetic items. But this isn't really a negative point. But it's certainly weird from an MMO standpoint or trying to understand what this game wants us to do.
EDIT: Well, that sure was a confusing ramble of a post.
Ah... I thought he was talking about the Mariokart-esque footrace.
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louis0nfire
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The amount of content they roll out in this game is absurd. I think I'll install it again.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/living-world-in-guild-wars-2/
Blog post coming in late July that will outline the rest of the year like the post at the start of the year.
Blog post coming in late July that will outline the rest of the year like the post at the start of the year.
Kos Luftar
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I know most of you guys think the story in GW2 is really meh but I want these updates to mostly be about moving the main story forward. Love all the new dungeons, story instances and new areas. Could care less about the "activities" such as Crab Toss, SAB or Dragon Ball.
I like the normal GW2 gameplay but don't really like when all my skills change just to come up with some new activity.
More storiesand exploration, less activities please ANET!
I like the normal GW2 gameplay but don't really like when all my skills change just to come up with some new activity.
More storiesand exploration, less activities please ANET!
Bad news for you cause they said the 2nd half of 2013 was going to have a lot of new minigames.
??? I didn't hear anything about Super Adventure Box.
Kos Luftar
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Too bad for them I unsubbed earlier and they can no longer enjoy my $15 dollars a month.
This game should not become a mini game collection. Ugh I dislikes it so hard!
Guild Warrio Ware 2. So ugly.
So, just as a heads up to everyone; we're at 19000 posts, which means we're only 1k away from having to create an OT3. I messaged Aeana a few months back and asked their advice, so we don't have a repeat of what happened with this thread. His/her advice was to make a post about this point to "work out who will do it".
I've mentioned several times that I'm planning to do it, but I wanted to just sort of make it official now that we're getting close. Planning to keep it short and simple, nothing huge. Just being able to edit the OT with guild information will be a big help, something we weren't able to do with the OT2 for obvious reasons.
I've mentioned several times that I'm planning to do it, but I wanted to just sort of make it official now that we're getting close. Planning to keep it short and simple, nothing huge. Just being able to edit the OT with guild information will be a big help, something we weren't able to do with the OT2 for obvious reasons.
Kos Luftar
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You have my blessing! Go forth ociffer!
But Retro, you've barely said two words on Guild Wars 2. Someone like you can't possibly write a really long and detailed explaination of the game, along with tips, tricks, and outlines of the developer's goals.
We need someone with a really optimistic outlook on the game, and I'm just not sure that's you, Retro.
We need someone with a really optimistic outlook on the game, and I'm just not sure that's you, Retro.
We should totally let Hawkian make it, with his 1000+ post lead on anyone else.
Seriously, how do you make so many posts Hawk?
Yeah you really need to step back and look at what this game has become before you can work on the OT, Retro.
Posting from work is easy and luxurious for him
My only input is that the OT should just have a lot of concept art, at least as thumbnails as not to make the post overly lengthy. Or incorporate it into the headers. Who knows! It's such a huge part of this game's charm and quality.
I trust whoever makes it, though. Free us from this oppressive thread title! Events never? More like meta events EVERY TWO WEEKS!
OT titles should be something like:
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Representing GAF for 1 year and counting.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Exploring the Living World
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Buy Once, Events Better, Living World Forever!
or
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Hawkian talks a lot and we sometimes listen.
I trust whoever makes it, though. Free us from this oppressive thread title! Events never? More like meta events EVERY TWO WEEKS!
OT titles should be something like:
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Representing GAF for 1 year and counting.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Exploring the Living World
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Buy Once, Events Better, Living World Forever!
or
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Hawkian talks a lot and we sometimes listen.
Well it's all terribly mysterious. https://twitter.com/Lord_Vanquish/status/344187954924773376
Yeah I don't know, I disagree and there is lots of wrong in you, etc. I loved SAB outrageously, am crazy good at dominating Crab Toss and Dragon Ball is so fun I wish it were permanent as well.
It's silly to think of the game being anywhere close to becoming a minigame collection. At launch there was... 1. And Costume Brawl is so haphazard as to barely count, it's almost a collection of competitive emotes rather than a game. The main combat mechanics will always be what takes precedence as can be seen by the massive rebalance in the most recent patch.
Posting is easy
Look I just did it again
I was actually going to use this as the header, and keep it very simple with just a Current Events section (for our guild schedule as well as whatever is happening in-game), answer the usual questions (Is there a GAF guild, how do I get in, etc.). Then a large section for guides; Hawkian has a ton, and a few people have written some as well. Then a section for screenshots (mostly from guild events).
Concept art would fit into the Current Events thing, maybe? I wanted to keep it utilitarian, going info-heavy rather than introducing players to the game. A link to Jira's original OT can always handle that.
Before anyone gets upset, these are not serious suggestions
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Hawkian has more posts than you
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Beards not welcome
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| We fill bars every 2 weeks
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Necros no longer uncool
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Rangers perpetually uncool
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Just roll a Guardian already
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Now with more dress-up. Still no raids.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Or mounts.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Impersonating GAF mods since 2012
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Now with more "do x of y"
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| The Jormag fight takes too damn long
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Ecto welfare at 8 eastern, daily.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| We don't give a Polla
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Remember when Orr was cool?
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Everything happens in Lions Arch
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Hawkian has more posts than you
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Beards not welcome
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| We fill bars every 2 weeks
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Necros no longer uncool
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Rangers perpetually uncool
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Just roll a Guardian already
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Now with more dress-up. Still no raids.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Or mounts.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Impersonating GAF mods since 2012
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Now with more "do x of y"
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| The Jormag fight takes too damn long
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Ecto welfare at 8 eastern, daily.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| We don't give a Polla
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Remember when Orr was cool?
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Everything happens in Lions Arch
Unless it's seasonal stuff based on whatever is going on with the world/whatever they're feeling at the time, I figure it'll be like HoM stuff and not change. But it's not like we know what it'll be yet.
People already complain about being forced to do stuff in WvW from the Obsidian Sanctum cache but then again it's the vocal minority. It is true that there're people that refuse to step foot in WvW/PvP because it's not their cup of tea but then there are the ones that discover it and have a whole new world opened up to them.
Duh Layvine.
I'd be playing more often myself (and posting here) but I'm knee-deep in working on my puzzle game, so there's that. Which is half the reason why I'm not online usually to help with guild missions and such. Weekends are my personal time with my fiancee, so we end up doing not much Guild Wars 2.
Weekdays are gaming + gym + game dev.
Weekdays are gaming + gym + game dev.
/shrug
I think throwing a bone to people who play WvW with a nice living story to kick off new borderlands maps and some type of PvPvE dungeon is the decent thing to do. PvE has had a metric shit-ton up updates, people who only do PvE can complain all they want. I'll take their complaints about as seriously as complaints people make about getting killed by other players in the PvP jumping puzzle.
I'm sure they can come up with some PvE related events to tie into such a LS update anyway.
I hate to say it but I'm going to be highly limited in playtime for the next ~week too, have a friend in town. I will try my best to keep the events schedule though, and at least announce in advance if I can't. I know I won't be able to do anything this Thursday, for example. We may want to just cancel anything official for that evening, actually, as everyone knows it's a national holiday
Hawkian's birthday
They should tie the hinted WvW "mutators" to the "now playing" LS release!
I hate to say it but I'm going to be highly limited in playtime for the next ~week too, have a friend in town. I will try my best to keep the events schedule though, and at least announce in advance if I can't. I know I won't be able to do anything this Thursday, for example. We may want to just cancel anything official for that evening, actually, as everyone knows it's a national holidayHawkian's birthday
They should tie the hinted WvW "mutators" to the "now playing" LS release!
Wait, your birthday is on July 4?
They should tie the hinted WvW "mutators" to the "now playing" LS release!
I'm drawing a blank. What was this about?
thoseAREmySHOES
Member
So the continuation of the two week release schedule is cool, I just hope not all of the additions are going to phase out after a while... kinda sucks that they won't just leave some of the stuff in permanently!
Colin has said that ANet has heard the feedback about the lack of permanent content additions and that it is being addressed. The musings so far include re-rolling MF, AR, etc into fractals and tying living story content into permanent dungeon changes for the regular dungeons (instead of randomly tweaking like in AC). We haven't seen the results of that effort yet, though. Eh. I guess the new jumping puzzle is permanent? A start.
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