Guild Wars 2?

triggercut · 2015-01-28T17:25:16.000Z

Bank venting.

Derbain · 2015-01-28T17:30:45.000Z

There are banks in every major city. You can access your bank from any crafting station. I’m not quite sure why you were unable to find one.

triggercut · 2015-01-28T17:46:06.000Z

Finally got to one. Whew. That was a…chore.

triggercut · 2015-01-28T18:24:27.000Z

Oh, and thank you for allowing me to vent!

magnet · 2015-01-28T18:39:31.000Z

Now allow me to vent: When there is big update, the download speed for the update is near zero. Overloaded servers at Arenanet’s end? Nope, because all I have to do is turn on my VPN (which only routes me a few hundred miles away) and downloads are back to normal.

Is Verizon throttling me for no good reason, or is there a decent explanation for what is going on?

tomchick · 2015-01-28T18:39:36.000Z

Andy Bates:

So let me get this straight: Guild Wars 2 gives you daily bonuses just for logging in with your character, with those bonuses increasing in value over the course of 28 days; they provide daily quests that give an incentive for people to spend time questing in lower-level areas and do group quests; the daily quests also provide their own rewards which magnify the effects of whatever you’re doing (so for example, you get extra XP from completing events, or extra mining supplies for completing the mining daily); and there is a separate reward for completing all of the daily quests each day.

Does that about cover it? Because to the untrained eye, it sounds like they’re just increasing the chances you’ll play with others, and encouraging you to discover things you might not have seen before. Oh, and they’re throwing items and money and XP at you for doing it. So what’s the catch?

Well, they have to give you some value for the monthly subscription fee you’re paying. Oh, wait…

By the way, I was fretting about the daily log-ins thinking that I had to log in on consecutive days or it would reset me to the beginning. Turns out that is not that case. It would have been nice if one of you guys had told me that!

-Tom

magnet · 2015-01-28T18:41:10.000Z

Andy Bates:

Oh, and they’re throwing items and money and XP at you for doing it. So what’s the catch?

The catch, of course, is that you have to show up.

Mike_Cathcart · 2015-01-28T19:46:35.000Z

Tom Chick:

By the way, I was fretting about the daily log-ins thinking that I had to log in on consecutive days or it would reset me to the beginning. Turns out that is not that case. It would have been nice if one of you guys had told me that!

Like, ten minutes after they announced it.

Telefrog · 2015-01-29T07:27:16.000Z

Heart of Thorns will not raise the level-cap or add a new tier of gear, and thus, he had backed up his fighting talk with action. But that fighting talk made me wonder about the future, and whether Guild Wars 2 would ever cave in and conform? When I get game director Colin Johanson on the phone a couple of days after the reveal, I press him about it. And then he makes another statement worth remembering.

“Correct,” he answers. “We will never add more levels to the game, we will never add more tiers of gear to the game. The tiers and levels we have today will be the tiers and levels we have for the rest of the life of Guild Wars 2.”

The expansion will be demoed at game shows in March, and the open beta begins “shortly after” that, Johanson tells me. That could mean April, or it could mean spring, or it could mean summer. But it’s an open beta and it’s not miles away.

Eurogamer.net

Guild Wars 2 will never raise level-cap or add higher-tiered gear

Update: There's been a bit of confusion about the Heart of Thorns beta and my interpretation of what Colin Johanson said. Here's what he said t…

Also, no more Living World updates until the expansion drops.

Mike_Cathcart · 2015-01-29T07:43:27.000Z

What a dude.

triggercut · 2015-01-30T08:51:08.000Z

Weekend coming up. Anyone up for Friday night or Saturday afternoon n00b dungeoning, guild events, or just getting together to have some fun in WvW?

Andy_Bates · 2015-01-30T08:54:05.000Z

The wife is out of town tonight, so I should be free once the kids are in bed. How about 10:00 pm PST?

triggercut · 2015-01-30T08:55:24.000Z

Andy Bates:

The wife is out of town tonight, so I should be free once the kids are in bed. How about 10:00 pm PST?

That time works fine for me, but I’m flexible too.

Andy_Bates · 2015-01-30T08:57:42.000Z

I’d love to run through story mode on one of the early dungeons. I only braved the first one, but they fascinate me.

malkav11 · 2015-01-30T08:59:39.000Z

If I am home, which I can’t guarantee quite yet, then I would be.

triggercut · 2015-01-30T08:59:50.000Z

Andy Bates:

I’d love to run through story mode on one of the early dungeons. I only braved the first one, but they fascinate me.

Is story mode where the dungeons get silly hard from the regular mode?

Derbain · 2015-01-30T09:01:11.000Z

I think I actually revived Triggercut in WvW last night! I wasn’t representing Qt3 at the time though.

triggercut · 2015-01-30T09:08:27.000Z

Derbain:

I think I actually revived Triggercut in WvW last night! I wasn’t representing Qt3 at the time though.

Hahahaha! THANKS!

I was doing my level best to give everyone in the zerg an equal opportunity chance to revive me at some point, I think.

Fishbreath · 2015-01-30T09:15:35.000Z

triggercut:

Is story mode where the dungeons get silly hard from the regular mode?

Story mode is the ‘normal’ one. Explorable is the harder one.

triggercut · 2015-01-30T09:18:31.000Z

Fishbreath:

Story mode is the ‘normal’ one. Explorable is the harder one.

Ah, ok.

In Story mode, I think I’ve done the dungeons in the Charr and human lowbie areas and oddly enough also in the 70-80 area.