Guild Wars 2

I’m really wondering about this.

I’m asking this because for example some Fruits like Lemons and other things must be buyed from NPCs because they aren’t gathered in normal PVE.

So, why not update the Trees or Create some new “fruit trees” in GW2 for be possible to gather fruits, instead of buy them from NPCs?

The, it would be possible add more variety of items to gather in PVE and make the game more imersive.

Because players would chop them down gathering logs!

They could be treated like normal gathering nodes but possibly with the chance to spawn hostile spiders, bandits, etc. Maybe once in a while a limb falls and dazes your character.

bubotwo.8193:

They could be treated like normal gathering nodes but possibly with the chance to spawn hostile spiders, bandits, etc. Maybe once in a while a limb falls and dazes your character.

Or have a random chance for an apple to fall on your head and you get a experience bonus for discovering gravity.

Because GW2 crafting is not developed to be meaningful, profitable, or just plain fun. Gw2 crafting is for XP, and to make your legendary (in a very directed way). Could be why there are no beautiful trees to harvest?

Maybe there should be ONLY Fruit Trees, some short of big trees, the ones to give Lemons, Oranges, that short of things. Where we would use the Herb tool to get them with a different effect.

I don’t like to buy them, there would have much more sense in gather them like all other things.

Is this really a problem, though? When was the last time you said to yourself, “Oh crap! I’m out of lemons/apples/cherries/etc and I don’t know how I’m going to get more!”? It just seems like an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist.

darkace.8925:

Is this really a problem, though? When was the last time you said to yourself, “Oh crap! I’m out of lemons/apples/cherries/etc and I don’t know how I’m going to get more!”? It just seems like an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist.

It’s not that it’s a problem per se, but it’s depth of gameplay.

What is more fun, harvesting oranges and bananas from trees on tropical coastlines or buying them from karma vendors?

Halanna.3927:

darkace.8925:

Is this really a problem, though? When was the last time you said to yourself, “Oh crap! I’m out of lemons/apples/cherries/etc and I don’t know how I’m going to get more!”? It just seems like an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist.

It’s not that it’s a problem per se, but it’s depth of gameplay.

What is more fun, harvesting oranges and bananas from trees on tropical coastlines or buying them from karma vendors?

It’s true, I want Trees to harvest thoose fruits, it would be more fun and imersive to the gameplay itself.

It makes not really sense to buy thoose from NPCs.

lisamee.2408:

Because GW2 crafting is not developed to be meaningful, profitable, or just plain fun. Gw2 crafting is for XP, and to make your legendary (in a very directed way). Could be why there are no beautiful trees to harvest?

Not profitable? You’re not doing it right!
Certainly now as mindless as TBC and WotLK WoW where if you where a jeweler you only had to buy ores in AH, get jewels, craft and then profit.
The market is global which means you have a lot more potential customers but a lot more competitors. You have to be a lot smarter about how and what you craft. Find a few niches, explore them while they are profitable, keep your eyes open for the next opportunity.

there is an apple orchid in queensdale, but yeah i guess gathering fruit would be ok why not

Well, as long as we’re asking innocuous questions:

• Why do we get walnuts from pine trees?
• If Sylvari are “born” in the roots of trees, why are there male and female Sylvari?
• Do female Sylvari breasts produce tree sap?
• Do Sylvari need to be periodically watered and fertilized?
• Why do ogres have a British accent? Are all Brits ogres or are all orgres British?
• When the Risen say “It begins!” what is beginning?
• Why does my Ranger like to jump off of cliffs when he uses his sword?
• Why does my Elementalist like to burn little baby rabbits indiscriminately?
• Why are salt water sharks and barracuda in fresh water lakes?

etc.

Doesn’t make sense to me either. It’s just another one of those extreme measures they took to try to overcompensate for an economic design that can be so easily exploited.

It’s weird that they would try to prevent people from getting the things they need to level crafting however people are allowed to make rare items in other crafts to salvage them for ectos.

It’s also amazing to me just how many peppercorns and walnuts there are but 0 fruit off anything.

tigirius.9014:

It’s weird that they would try to prevent people from getting the things they need to level crafting…

I always saw it as a means by which they could encourage players to actually leave town and explore some of the world they’ve so meticulously crafted. /shrug

tigirius.9014:

It’s also amazing to me just how many peppercorns and walnuts there are but 0 fruit off anything.

The NPC from which you must purchase the fruit already beat you to the trees; hence they have them and the tress do not.

I think this is a wonderful idea; I’ve love to see various fruit and nut tress that were harvestable. Right now, as far as I know, they only ones in game are apples in Queensdale.

I think this is a good question and suggestion. I mean to have a “living world” you need a lot of the things we have in our world right? Fruit trees are a good example of what we should have. Btw there are some fruit trees, Edea’s Apple trees for example but we can’t use those apples in crafting nor can we gather the apples unless that event is ongoing. :s

Now I have a add on question – we have “rich” ore nodes why no such thing for trees?
Sure a “rich” tree would sound silly so name it a “large” tree or something. I don’t know about you guys but for myself I’m always finding I have a bank filled with more ores than logs due to this fact.

Lord Kreegan.8123:

Well, as long as we’re asking innocuous questions:

• Why do we get walnuts from pine trees?
• If Sylvari are “born” in the roots of trees, why are there male and female Sylvari?
• Do female Sylvari breasts produce tree sap?
• Do Sylvari need to be periodically watered and fertilized?
• Why do ogres have a British accent? Are all Brits ogres or are all orgres British?
• When the Risen say “It begins!” what is beginning?
• Why does my Ranger like to jump off of cliffs when he uses his sword?
• Why does my Elementalist like to burn little baby rabbits indiscriminately?
• Why are salt water sharks and barracuda in fresh water lakes?

etc.

I’ll try and answer your questions here just for the heck of it lol:

1 – Because fruit trees have not been added to the game yet or where ever they really come from, sorry I am no tree or fruit expert. :P

2 – Why not? The Mother tree is a smart tree indeed in creating diversity.

3 – TBH I’m not sure I have noticed breasts on them. But then again I am a player who doesn’t even notice my own char’s butt and so I’m confused when I see people on forums saying things like “if I’m gonna be staring at my butt all day I may as well make a female char”. Really? I keep my eyes on the road ahead, the scenary. If you wanna gawk at butts all day especially female ones you have the internet – there are better sites for that! O.O

4 – Watered, like humans yes, fertilized no, they are already grown….

5 – Not noticed this thanks for pointing it out. But I will counter this with this – Why are dredge based on Russia. Are Russions blind or generally just a pain in the butt? Not sure commrade but I think I’m missing something….

6 – The fight of course, unless you are running away which then of course it means it “does not begin”.

7 – I think this is a personal question best answered in your dreams or by a “special friend” (shrink).

8 – Because it’s fun, just like stomping on rats is in one of those heart quests. Yes, yes now I need to see a shrink I know, I know…..

9 – Are we sure that the water on Tyria is the same as on our Earth? Not sure tbh but I have a counter question, true story too – how can a normal jellyfish not only survive against a “champion” shark but actually beat it in a fight? As I said, True Story I seen this happen in the lost shores map. If you find the champon shark there maybe you too can see this happen. Btw I am talking about a NPC jellyfish and not a player’s pet.

There we go that’s that, now we can all move on.

Lord Kreegan.8123:

Well, as long as we’re asking innocuous questions:

• Why do we get walnuts from pine trees?
• If Sylvari are “born” in the roots of trees, why are there male and female Sylvari?
• Do female Sylvari breasts produce tree sap?
• Do Sylvari need to be periodically watered and fertilized?
• Why do ogres have a British accent? Are all Brits ogres or are all orgres British?
• When the Risen say “It begins!” what is beginning?
• Why does my Ranger like to jump off of cliffs when he uses his sword?
• Why does my Elementalist like to burn little baby rabbits indiscriminately?
• Why are salt water sharks and barracuda in fresh water lakes?

etc.

walnut ivy, they grow on areas where there is significant amounts of magic, eg, leaking from players as they harvest logs
they’re patterned after humans and the tree saw there was a difference
their blood is sap and sylvari’s breasts are non-functional, they are purely aesthetic
no, they drink the blood of their enemies, and the corpses of undead rotting into the soil makes an excellent mulch
yes, but we’re very classy ogres
combat
depression at fighting hordes of undead with no end in sight
sociopathy and pyromania
magical crossbreed between freshwater fish and saltwater, the hideous mutants survived, an insane time travelling asura took pity on them and genetically modified them into quaggan

any more questions? :P

because, annoying economy must be supported by rarity.

sorry but as cold as that sounds, it’s the truth.

tigirius.9014:

It’s also amazing to me just how many peppercorns and walnuts there are but 0 fruit off anything.

Ah this is so true. I have something like 386 peppercorns. And carrots. And onions.

But I can’t harvest cherries, apples, bananas, mangos, oranges, limes, lemons – nothing, no fruit trees.

I think the reason that some foods are available from karma vendors only and cannot be bought and sold on the TP is because cooking is supposed to be this “elite” crafting skill. My experience, however, has been that chef is the easiest, cheapest, and fastest craft to level of them all. I just don’t see anything “elite” about it. lol

Celtic Lady.3729:

I think the reason that some foods are available from karma vendors only and cannot be bought and sold on the TP is because cooking is supposed to be this “elite” crafting skill. My experience, however, has been that chef is the easiest, cheapest, and fastest craft to level of them all. I just don’t see anything “elite” about it. lol

If they wanted it to be that way, they could have sold karma expensive fruit tree only harvesters. Then, we have to spend the karma, but still have the fun of harvesting our own fruits.

I’m still leveling cooking. After all these months, I think I’m only at 228 or something. Because I can sit there for an hour just putting random stuff in to see if I can make a dish.

Maybe easy to power level, but if you do it strictly through discovery, it’s pretty slow, but fun

What do you mean by power level?

Sylvari breast do indeed secreet tree sap and it makes excellent syrup for pancakes!

darkace.8925:

tigirius.9014:

It’s weird that they would try to prevent people from getting the things they need to level crafting…

I always saw it as a means by which they could encourage players to actually leave town and explore some of the world they’ve so meticulously crafted. /shrug

tigirius.9014:

It’s also amazing to me just how many peppercorns and walnuts there are but 0 fruit off anything.

The NPC from which you must purchase the fruit already beat you to the trees; hence they have them and the tress do not.

Doesn’t adequately explain why there’s not a single fruit tree in sight one could gather from. well maybe an apple, but we’re supposed to believe that all these people grow are herbs and lettuce to eat in the farms that support the entire human kingdoms of both ebonhawk and Divinity’s Reach. Just a little weird imo.

Guess everyone’s a healthnut eating nothing but lemon/pepper salad and drinking honey milk.

Halanna.3927:

tigirius.9014:

It’s also amazing to me just how many peppercorns and walnuts there are but 0 fruit off anything.

Ah this is so true. I have something like 386 peppercorns. And carrots. And onions.

But I can’t harvest cherries, apples, bananas, mangos, oranges, limes, lemons – nothing, no fruit trees.

Totally forgot about the onions, I was like onions are a weed or something they are everywhere!

Celtic Lady.3729:

What do you mean by power level?

Just you can get a guide online, buy the cheap ingredients, follow the guild like make 25x of this and 25x of that, next level, make 30x of this etc. and level cooking to 400 pretty quickly if that is what you wanted.

I’m taking the slow route. I’m a glutton for punishment. I think powerleveling really takes all the fun out of the craft, especially the discovery. Some of the recipes you’d never discover from a “power level guide” and that’s kind of the fun part.

I’m a cook and baker (home) in real life, so this craft is just so me. I can log in and for an hour just run around and collect coriander and vanilla beans and, search for rosemary, collect green onions and hunt for chili peppers. I’m easy to please

Ah, okay. I see. No, I leveled mine exclusively through discovery. I agree completely that discovery is the most enjoyable way to go. So much fun!

tigirius.9014:

darkace.8925:

tigirius.9014:

It’s weird that they would try to prevent people from getting the things they need to level crafting…

I always saw it as a means by which they could encourage players to actually leave town and explore some of the world they’ve so meticulously crafted. /shrug

tigirius.9014:

It’s also amazing to me just how many peppercorns and walnuts there are but 0 fruit off anything.

The NPC from which you must purchase the fruit already beat you to the trees; hence they have them and the tress do not.

Doesn’t adequately explain why there’s not a single fruit tree in sight one could gather from. well maybe an apple, but we’re supposed to believe that all these people grow are herbs and lettuce to eat in the farms that support the entire human kingdoms of both ebonhawk and Divinity’s Reach. Just a little weird imo.

Guess everyone’s a healthnut eating nothing but lemon/pepper salad and drinking honey milk.

It would be more fun but still an issue is that most of the recipes became useless because they haven’t good buffs, I am wondering if cooking can be expanded to more than thoose stats boosters that we can use only 1 at a time?

darkace.8925:

Is this really a problem, though? When was the last time you said to yourself, “Oh crap! I’m out of lemons/apples/cherries/etc and I don’t know how I’m going to get more!”? It just seems like an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist.

Every time I need to make a pie. Or when I want to craft some dye. Those all need lemons.

If an item is needed for a crafting recipie then it needs to be able to be found in a node.

DarcShriek.5829:

Sylvari breast do indeed secreet tree sap and it makes excellent syrup for pancakes!

You just ruined syrup for me.

I hope you’re happy because I’m not.

spikeroot fruit tree – chance to give you badges of honor when you harvest

Lord Kreegan.8123:

• Why do we get walnuts from pine trees?

Because that’s where squirrels hide them.

Lord Kreegan.8123:

• If Sylvari are “born” in the roots of trees, why are there male and female Sylvari?

Because they were modelled to look like humans.

Lord Kreegan.8123:

• Do female Sylvari breasts produce tree sap?

I’ll check. If I don’t come back, assume the answer is “yes, extra-sticky”.

Ellisande.5218:

darkace.8925:

Is this really a problem, though? When was the last time you said to yourself, “Oh crap! I’m out of lemons/apples/cherries/etc and I don’t know how I’m going to get more!”? It just seems like an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist.

Every time I need to make a pie. Or when I want to craft some dye. Those all need lemons.

If an item is needed for a crafting recipie then it needs to be able to be found in a node.

That is madness, it’s something simple get thoose for we gather and have fun. Fruit Trees and use the same toll as herbs. No idea why they did choose sell them in a NPC

Grapes are fruit. Just sayin’

Something that has always bugged me about Cooking is that so many things cost Karma… and yet if you go and check every single Karma vendor in the game 90% of them all sell the exact same handful of useless ingredients unless they are a heart vendor. I vaguely remember there being more ingredients available from at least some of these vendors in Headstart and that they were being exploited, but that doesn’t exaplin why we need so many of these useless vendors standing around in odd places.

lisamee.2408:

Because GW2 crafting is not developed to be meaningful, profitable, or just plain fun. Gw2 crafting is for XP, and to make your legendary (in a very directed way). Could be why there are no beautiful trees to harvest?

Whoa hold on Captain Bitterness who peed in your cereal this morning?