May 24th Update has arrived

I'm sorry to hear about the PvP rewards point issue...


but as I'm not much of a PvPer, this update ROCKS!

And? You can go make a PvE character and grind... or you can play your PvP character and have fun. Oh noes! Have fun playing GW? But what if my e-peen isn't enlarged?

This is a really nice update all around I think. It was one that was definitly needed. GJ Anet!

I think this update is awesome in almost every aspect...The pvp rewards are perfect, having to recreate the perfect skin I think is fair enough since in reality it is pretty trivial anyways. As for the Urgoz nerf, again perfect, that run was far too easy which made it very "bot-able", and THANK YOU for finally fixing my old FoW sets of armor!!!!!!

PS~The Urgoz nerf also just made the Req 9 Zodiac sword energy+5 that I bought today worth a whole lot more

Nice update if they can get it right.My acct 1 my Warrior doesn't have 15K Gladiator Radiant armour as well as my Monks esthetics's tats.Then there is my Ranger who does not have full Druids armour only the 15K except the boots aren't Radiant.
Acct2 It seems everything is fine except my other Monks tats are the same are my main on acct1.I have submitted a support ticket hopefully they better fix it.

The wiki integration is FANTASTIC. Now when a newer player asks a question, he can be directed to look it up from the wiki directly in the interface. I LOVE IT.

The PvP tournament rewards are cool. Dress up doll ftw.

A pretty good update totally marred by the lack of a fix for soul reaping. I hate to be disappointed with such a nice update, but I am.

W00t! Now time to start thinking about some "new" Tyrian armor. At least the Knights 15k helm.

Thanks. It's been a while in the making -- glad to hear your votes of support.

That wasn't a "farm" and that wasn't a "run." That was pretty much an exploit, and yes, it's been closed. You can get the full update notes here. (We have asked the Web Team to post up the missing line, because we have no intention of engaging in any "stealth updates" but that one was added later and didn't make the list. We hope to have it in place as soon as we can reach someone.)

Relayed to QA, and thank you.

Great update, Anet! Now I can continue to buy armor based solely on looks, and have the functionality, as well!


Now seriously, trade improvements... I'm not joking.

I like how gaile didnt even acknowledge the fact that reward skins arent "unlocked" as many people thought but "created" this reduces their value for me from great to none. This makes me think this was not a mistake but by design.

Hero Battles are also PvE grind, just a different kind. Not one that will pan out unfortunately.

Personally, I just wanted a sword that doesn't look like a crappy dagger on my pvp chars. The way its been done though, only the elite can afford to throw away reward points like this, which basically does make it an e-peen thing.

at first i thought not unlocking pvp skins was a bad idea...but the more i think about it...the more it evens the playing field between pvp and pve...atleast as far as epreen goes....just because i buy 15k armor on a pve warrior it doesn't unlock it for the rest of my accounts.....so i think its good that it doesn't unlock it. And once i customize a weapon for a pve player i can't reroll and create a new one for a different character....if we as pvp players want that ability its still there....the original pvp weapons and such...if you want the "looks" then there are some draw backs....so in other words i see alot of QQ going on and i think its sorta funny.

I say: yay, update! Also, yay for a new set of monk armor! Well, not "yay" for the infusion run, but I love the new stuff none the less.

A bit of a screw up with the update...

Hopping Vampires and Thought Stealers are the only things that drop Vampiric Fangs.

Vampiric Fangs are the items collected by Juan Stumi in HzH.

Hopping Vamps and thought stealers no longer drop ANYTHING.

So we have a useless collector in HzH. Good game, A-Net. Way to think things through once again. SO much for getting cheap collector items instead of "vanity" items.

You are missing the main point that pvp characters were meant to be a quick way to get a lvl 20 character without having to lvl it throughout pve. This directly works against it making it basically a pve looking character who cant pve.

if only the good armor sigs weren't so overpriced right now...

Does anyone know what a "Golden Flame of Balthazar" does? I have 25 reward points and I'm kinda uneasy about blowing them all at once. One costs 15.

They are still quick to get to level 20...you can still create as many different types of weapons/amor/shields you want. The only difference is you can't necessarily have the LOOK you want...without some sort of sacrifice....welcome to how pve player feel..and for the record i have 2 slots for pvp and 3 for pve...and 1 mule...so i am not just speaking as a pvp or pve player but as both...i personally don't care what my pvp characters look like...at the root ....its about functionality....not looks...where as pve is more about the looks...and functionality is secondary :P

The two bolded statements dont fit together. Please read other posts and understand how the reward system actually works before defending it please.