Rose Solane.1027

Hi, we probably met each other, maybe killed each other 😀 I do mostly play in the morning on Piken Square, so that does influence my perspective of the matches.

It seems you were right not to be impressed: You failed in keeping ahead of Elona Reach and Piken Square 🙂

I could talk with Zojja after replaying the first two parts of chapter 8 (Into the Obscure) after I finished chapter 16 (Eventide's March). After talking to her in Mabon's room and leaving the instance Zojja was in the room with the Convergence portal. The portal was closed for public instances at the time, don't know if that makes a difference.

I think you are correct, but that was not what the post said my post was a reaction too. So I am not sure why you react to my post with this reaction. And why mention "newer players"? I am ancient🙂, started playing GW2 before the official release and have never stopped.

According to their own website (https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/wvw) Desolation is ranked 15th so they should not be in tier 1. Gandara and Piken Square (linked together) are ranked 5th and 4rd and are in tier 4. So if your statement is true Anet has no idea what they are doing.

Are you sure Anet knows? 😁

Yep

double post

If you want to be pedantic: Neathra hasn't said anything about "there was no way to do it". Neathra asked for a way to access the content already paid for without engaging with the game's other monetization features. I think that is a valid request. OP asked for access for alts to an open world PVE map, mentioned the option of Teleport to Friend and hoped that is not the way forward for AreneNet. I do hope we keep access to open world PvE maps for alts without having to do the story, Teleport to Friend is not a valid alternative for me.

Great, so I only have to worry about my main character for this part of the expansion. The other five characters will not have access. Because I am NOT going to do the story five more times. And I say that before having done the story (this part of the expansion) on my main. It doesn't matter how good the story is I am not going to do it multiple times.

Maybe they didn't. I was surprised to see that the Weeklies weren't reset and I was still on 3 out of 6. I expected I had to do 6 weeklies in the next 5 days. Now I only have to 3 more. Yes, it cost me 30 acclaim (or 80 in your case). But is that really a problem? It is a very low amount compared to the amount of acclaim you get for a whole season.

Solved on September 13th

The water in Snowden Drift is invisible for me. Tested it on two different characters, restarted the game.

The developers recognize our frustrations and are coming with a few upgrades. Rubi posted this: I am happy to see that something is done. Maybe not as much as we like, but the developers react on what is happening and on what we players are saying.

I like this idea, but I think it is too practical for ArenaNet (or the powers to be at ArenaNet). Anyone with even a little understanding of how these kind of events work knows that not giving players a choice is a bad idea. Particularly if that player had a choice in the previous iteration of system. That is not QoL, that is decreasing the level of convenience of your content. Now I think that many developers working at GW 2 know and understand that removing choice is a bad idea. And not checking for bugged content in the new dailies is a bad idea. But it still happened, probably because someone higher up decided that it was a good idea. I think that a lot of developers are proud on the content they created for the expansion part of SotO, but not so proud about the changes to core components in the expansion.

Terrible game design (having to complete all the daily objectives and not 3 out of X) and the unwillingness (or lack of ability) to solve bugs. I bet we will not get a response from Rubi on this one. This just made me stop wanting to play the game for today. SotO made me like the game LESS, not because of the expansion part, but because of the stupid changes they made to core systems. Wizard's Vault could be more rewarding if you (could) do every daily and weekly, but they made the system less fun (read: very annoying).

I hope you read the rest of the posts in this thread too. As much as I appreciate the math it is representing the optimum result of the new system. sos did mention some negatives of the new system, as did several other posts. It seems like some improvements are needed to make the new system a real upgrade to the old system for most players. It is hard to say after only a few days, but it looks like the new system will be more rewarding for me, but not necessarily more enjoyable. That said I see the benefits of the new system for me, I hope that with a few improvements the new system will also be more beneficial for most of my fellow guild members.

I had seen it, tried it, but it didn't work for me. Looking at the other posts here I think unlocking this set of achievements is really buggy. For some workarounds work, for others they don't. I have to wait until I get lucky or the developers found a solution. As this achievement is rather useless (it doesn't give AP and it isn't a pre-requisite for any other achievement afaik) I don't think it should have a high priority, I just hope the developers find a solution.

This is not resolved. When I first logged on with my main character after the expansion was live the achievement Legendary Weapon: Kudzo completed, but the one for Howler didn't. I have them both equipped on this character, I assume Kudzo was the active weapon when I logged on. Another character has Eternity equipped and the achievement (and the ones for Sunrise and Twilight) didn't complete.

I think you make some valid points and some I find less valid. But it is constructive criticism. My short thoughts on your points: New expansion old assets: It does seem this way. Could be a case of clever reusing of the enormous amount of assets already available, could be a sign of lack of funds to make new assets. We will have to see in a week how it turns out. New gear screwing up old gear: Main issue so far for this expansion. From what I understand now relics will not take away much from me, but the original information about relics was very confusing. I don't have legendary runes but I understand the anger from the players who have these. A "solution" somewhere in 2024 is absolutely unacceptable and the "solution" seems like an afterthought. Doesn't give me confidence in the developers/AreanNet. New system screwing up with old system: Less of an issue for me. I think the new system could be fun, you still get a reward for login and you can choice that reward instead of getting absolutely useless items (I look at you repair canister). Maybe you get a smaller reward for login, a small price to pay for me. The right idea behind a bad decision: Yes and no. The daily reward system and the new system both tried to let you play certain content for an extra reward even if it isn't great. That doesn't change. Some content is bad since the start of the game, is never repaired but is still played just for the extra reward. ArenaNet should have repaired that content years ago. But that is not something new for this expansion.

It is in Iron Marches. There is a waypoint called Old Piken Ruins. Go to [&BOQBAAA=]

You missed my point. I play GW2 when I have time to play. So I don't log off when other servers gather people, I log off when I am out of time to play. I just want to have fun when I have time to play.

I don't get it. I play GW2 (PvE and some WvW) when I have time to play. That means either early in the morning or late in the afternoon/early in the evening. I don't play GW2 during the day when I am at work and I almost never play GW2 in the evening (probably what you mean with prime time). When I play I want to have fun and that is what I have on Piken at these times. Should I stop playing because it isn't convenient for you?

I agree that derailing the thread isn't good. A shame the actual responses and the original blog are very vague. So what is actually pretty great?

If I would start this thread again I would change two things: Change the title to Secrets of the Obscure and/or Guild Wars 3? End my post not with a choice between SotO an GW 3, but with the hope that GW 3 would not be to far away in the future My issue was some musings over what was announced about Secrets of the Obscure in relation to what we got for GW 2 in the last few years. I could have made that clearer. I agree with your comment. And I am happy some people think I am not crazy🙂