MooCowlian posted:

I've heard tell they're given out on Fridays, but that's anecdotal reddit evidence.

Sprite141 posted:

Wait, what? Where did you read that?

Roy Cronacher posted:

Hey all,

As some of you may have seen in raids during the last BWE, we were trying out something new with player minions. Basically, in that final BWE, player minions did not take damage from boss attacks. We thought that made minion-based professions feel so much better in combat, but that change did expose some problems such as minions being able to withstand a damaging attack indefinitely.

We wanted minions to not die left and right, but we did want them to have some attrition instead of being completely immune to attacks. This problem is mainly prevalent in PvE as we have huge attacks all over the place that are meant to be dodged by players but unfortunately for minions, they can’t dodge.

After reviewing BWE results, we wanted to create a better system to accomplish this as a global change for minions. To do that, we made it so that unless a minion is specifically targeted by a creature, they will be dealt drastically reduced damage and condition duration from attacks. Currently, this is set to 95% reduction as we feel like it’s a good starting place, but we’ll continue to monitor and adjust it. This means if your minion gains agro from a creature it will still take full damage, but if there is area effect damage hitting your minion, instead of usually killing it instantly, it will slowly attrition it down.

We felt like minions were in a good place for PvP so we didn’t want to change them there for now. Thus, the interaction between players and minions in PvP combat will remain the same.

The change is for all player minions, this includes things like engineer turrets and ranger spirits as well. This will be in for HoT Launch in a few days.

SlothBear posted:

Yeah Anet's servers are getting hammered. Wiki down etc.

CLAM DOWN posted:

ShadowMar posted:

oh my god i seriously love that outfit. you did really good job.

edit: my mouse broke and i can't get a replacement for about a week. has anyone come up with a janky controller set up for action cam yet or am i gonna have to suffer with my drawing tablet?

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We’re going to update the elite specialization unlock to find a better middle ground by reducing the cost of unlocking every possible ability for an elite specialization from 400 hero points to 250 hero points total.
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If you’ve already put more than 250 points into your elite specialization, surplus hero points will be refunded to your character for future use.

treizebee posted:

Foo!

Or is that a sneak peak of a yet to be posted article?

MacBook Air Gamer posted:

Still unable to log-in. Anytime I try to boot up a character the zone loading screen goes on then eventually brings up the Network Error popup and boots me back to the launcher. What the gently caress.

CLAM DOWN posted:

e: also someone mentioned in guild chat earlier that Anet's internet testers are on Windows XP and I thought they were trolling..

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3r3rul/can_we_please_get_a_dev_to_acknowledge_that_this/cwkqal5

Dreggon posted:

64 bit client beta launching today

Amante posted:

They did absorb a bunch of WildStar people a while back. Seems to have encouraged a subtle shift towards needlessly grindy or untuned things so far.

Visidan posted:

I have ~insider~ info that everything is on the back burner until raids are finished. Raids are considered the flagship of the expansion at ANET, it sounds insane but there you go.

Pseudoscorpion posted:

For sure. He mentioned he wants this to be a semi-regular thing and I really hope we keep doing it!

(Also hi Tivac I'm the new tools idiot that sits right behind you o/)

MooCowlian posted:

I kind of assumed Tivac and anyone else working on the game had long given up on reading this thread out of despair.

shrach posted:

I thought they said "Extended Experience" was abandoned because it was too hard. One day they might expose an API and the community can do it for free.

CLAM DOWN posted:

Oh yeah, do we have any details on this yet?

Visidan posted:

One of the devs leaked some notes from a wvw dev meeting, they look pretty good. It's already created a silly amount of hype in the community, bunch of players/guilds have come back already.

JohnnyCanuck posted:

Tivac I voted

Serenade posted:

I'm returning to Guild Wars 2 after putting it down for three years, and I have two questions I can't find a solid answer on.

I have a friend playing on Euro servers, is there a way for me to guest and show off my dolly dress up in person yet?

Unid dyes don't drop any more. Is crafting the only way to get new dyes?

E: oh yeah also it seems like the value of gold has crashed

Bieeardo posted:

Fields of Ruin is apparently crashing whenever anyone interacts with an NPC or crafting table. First time it got me, I ended up back in Harathi. Second time, I decided to do something else for the rest of the night.

hurtmeplz posted:

MO is the equivalent to Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys. You can't be a owner/executive/gm all at the same time. It just doesn't loving work. GW1 had NCSoft backing them the entire time so the money was plentiful with the F2P model because the publisher was still financing things.

As soon as NCSoft backed off on GW2 and left Anet to it's own devices it just went to poo poo. While it did allow Anet the freedom to fix a lot of things they wanted to from the start they had already lost half its collective hive that created it. It's the nature of the gaming industry to go where the pay/opportunities are better. They used the GW1 engine in order to save resources/time..but then they threw all this new tech into it and it never really jelled.

So now they are just trying to keep things from going total poo poo. It's not about progressing the game anymore in terms of content/QoL fixes and more about maximizing profit. F2P works...there are a lot of games that have proven that but Anet just doesn't seem to know how to balance the "oh hey here are some new armor skins/wep skins that are a reward track vs ..welcome to the gem store."

The gaming industry is cutthroat in terms of revenue generated vs investments much like most business models. ..all i'm saying is GODDAMMIT I GOT GOLD ON MY LAST 2 races to max out HoT mastery points...now I have to do them over....#firstworldproblems #neverdocheevosonpatchday

Lonk posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4zbl4k/feeding_cats_there_is_more_than_we_think_we_need/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1RLreX4R8

Eltoasto posted:

4th anniversary stream is going on now, but intro video didn't have a single Tivac in it boooo

ijyt posted:

I read the OP every time I come back to the game because I swear there used to be a link to some sort of "what you missed since whenever" website.

Adhesive Gamin posted:

Super Fast Downstate [SFD].

Illuyankas posted:

Apparently the floppy fish mini swims normally if you go underwater with it, definitely would like to get it now

lucifirius posted:

Do we get dank leaks from the anet goons?