Guild Wars 2

So I saw a few people mentioning they were playing other MMOs that they found enjoyable, if so would you mind mentioning them because GW2 is becoming extremely lackluster with it’s re-used content.

I personally hate living story because it does not feel challenging and all it has to it is chasing a “carrot” around to complete a meta and basically being forced to do so within the first few days of the LS release to even hope completing it. The entire tower of nightmares deal felt like garbage, Scarlet is just an annoyance that was interesting at first but annoying as hell now, I mean how the F did she get involved with Fractals? (So stupid) Personal story was complete trash and none of the content even focuses on the actual issues at hand, such as Cantha still being guarded off by a dragon, does none of Tyria feel a need to assist their neighboring continents anymore? WTF happened with that?

Now we have Wintersday, which is exactly the SAME AS LAST YEAR!!! How bloody lazy can you get ANet?! You didn’t even bother releasing new Wintersday skins! Just left the OLD ones up for 5 claim tickets, though I have no doubt that this was in some attempt to make more money by trying to get people to buy gems and HOPE to get 5 claim tickets, which I am sure would take well over 5000 gems to even HOPE for.

On top of that look at the skins for the ascended armor. I mean come the hell on! Complete laziness, and yet again, an obvious attempt at getting people to buy gems to purchase transmutation stones from the gem store to reskin it with a skin they have had for over a year anyways!

Along with all of that RNG is completely broken in this game and terribly so. 1% of the population has the best RNG ever and get precursor drops weekly, even when their Magic Find is significantly lower than everyone else, while the remainder is forced to sit in Lion’s Arch trying to flip items on the TP or going out and farming materials for 8 hours a day to hopefully some day get enough gold to purchase a precursor, which both, in my opinion, are not playing a video game but instead are making the game a JOB and something not enjoyable.

Oh well. Won’t be getting anymore of my money that’s for sure. Makes no sense to me why I can walk into Gamestop or purchase ONLINE at Amazon.com and not be taxed for it, yet trying to do it directly charges me a tax. Good Game, ANet.

I was really hoping that they wouldn’t pull the lazy card and would create new Wintersday weapons and do away with last year’s or something. But truly I think ANet saw a way to scoop up more money by forcing people to blow money on gems for black lion keys in hopes of getting up to 5 claim tickets, which we all know is a ridiculous goal to set, but all they have is dollar signs in their eyes, so of course, no new skins.

VERY disappointing Wintersday.

bri.2359:

Behellagh.1468:

Considering how volatile the rate has been, I would say we are closing on the point where selling gems for gold is attracting more participants.

Selling 100 gems will get you 6g right now.
So yes, this is beginning to look more attractive.

You all must be joking me by finding it “attractive” that 100 gems gets you only 6g.
Have you not noticed the influx in gold sellers and how they are beginning to whisper people that utilize map chat more now? You happen to wonder why this is? Because the price for gems has become so ridiculous that people are spending their money on gold seller websites more than they are Gem Store. It’s getting to the point that gems aren’t going to truly be very affordable for people who want to use gold to gems anymore, 1gold gets you roughly 11gems, which for most things they decide to put in the store that people actually wanna spend gems on, the cost is 800 gems.

It’s becoming a problem because gold sellers are running crazy, and obviously they aren’t getting banned fast enough, but it’s only occurring because they are getting more customers. Not saying that I condone gold sellers or purchasing from them, I’d not do that as it takes the joy out of the game, but I can’t speak for 2 million+ other people.

rhapsody.3615:

Behellagh.1468:

Electro.4173:

Behellagh.1468:

Agreed, you are buying a good. If I went to the Target and bought a Gem Card it’s taxed. Forget about the EU where the tax is already built into the price.

I buy Gem Cards all the time and they’re never taxed. The purchase is always exactly $25.

And what state do you live in and what brick and mortar store do you buy them at.

I work in a store that sells a variety of those game cards, for gw2, wow, facebook, Xbox, Nintendo, ps, and many others. Those cards are never taxed.

Agreed. When I walk into Gamestop or EB games to purchase a Gem Card or purchase one from Amazon.com, it is NEVER taxed, I assume it’s because it is virtual currency, yet the Gem Store itself wants certain states to pay tax now? Continuing to lose faith in NCsoft and ANet’s ethics anymore.

Svetli.4276:

so paying money and going to the zoo is not real to you ?
what is real ?
define real !
if buy real you mean what you can see, touch, hear then real is just impulses going to your brain

They don’t tax you to go to the zoo where I live. Hahaha.

Either way it makes no sense to me that they are taxing for artificial goods. When I purchase on Amazon.com I do not get taxed, though I do know you are “suppose” to count it on your year end taxes. To me, this is all a sham, they weren’t previously taxing us, and no other game I have played with an in-game store taxes, because it is virtual goods, not physical goods, there is no law that says to tax for virtual goods as far as I know.

So.. I know that this only pertains to a few states but the new billing system charges taxes on gem purchases, which imo is complete BS because it’s an artificial currency that game be created out of thin air, I know that several states change to taxing online purchases through sites like Amazon.com or Newegg, but that is for actually PHYSICAL goods, not something that can be mass produced by coding, this seems very ludicrous to me. I have a feeling this may only support the gold sellers in their cause and also cause many people to just say the hell with buying gems altogether.

Opinions? Please ones that don’t thinking I’m whining and looking down their nose at me, because I’m not, but this does seem like a legitimate issue in my eyes.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Keysha.2815:

Nowhere does it say it is limited to collections IN YOUR BANK, until you buy it.
Anet, either fix the info or fix the collection expander, please.

Aren’t your collections located IN YOUR BANK?

What he means by this is that it only stacks to 500 in the collectibles tab, which maxing out stuff in your collectibles tab is not efficient due to the need for depositing while out going stuff in the game, getting collectibles. And when you retrieve that stack of 500 from the collectibles tab it splits it into two stacks of 250. Not really efficient enough to blow 800 gems on imo.

No, they don’t care about performance patches, they are too busy blaming it on the USERs instead of realizing it’s issues in the game. High Five ANet, thanks for being complete kitten to your customers, reminds me of the issues at launch when EVERYONE was disconnecting from the game and they were blaming OUR routers and connections.

Just had another crash tonight, all settings set on “Medium” and “Low” when auto-detect does set everything on “High,” which kept me from completing my Tequatl “Sunbringer” title as I needed “Power Play” Highly irritated right now. I’m on the verge of giving up on this game altogether, the frustration from trying to get a coordinated fight for Teq going and then crashing is too much. I should not have to have my anxiety levels go through the roof because ANet cannot fix a problem with the game.

Stormcrow.7513:

I have had the same client crash as well, it is very frustrating.
I have the feeling that it could very well be the new driver from Nvidia but that is speculation.
I ~repaired my client but it still happens.
I might(later on) try to revert to an older driver and see how that goes.

I actually have had this issue on 3 separate drivers so I don’t feel that it’s a driver issue. I have been told that for many they believe it is the lack of GW2 utilizing/recognizing more than 8GB of RAM, but I do not know.

I am getting so sick of constantly getting game crashes during world events, I normally have had it only occur while I was in the midst of a zerg at world boss events or the scarlet invasions. Now I am getting the issue when I am gunning the turret at the Tequatl fight so I am nowhere near the constant spell spamming. Under my graphics “auto-detect” places everything on “High” for me. I have even lowered all of the settings down to “Medium” and “Low” and I am having the same issue. I have checked all of my drivers and they are up-to-date, I have also performed System Diagnostics to verify my hardware IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!! I am GROWING TIRED OF THIS and whatever it is is an issue with the game and it’s utilization of the proper components. I have included my System Information as provided by my NVIDIA Control Panel. but to let you know my hardware as well I will state it as follows:

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-Bit)
Version: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 4001 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB (1866mhz DDR3) Corsair Dominator
Dedicated Graphics Memory: GeForce GTX 660 Ti (3072MB GDDR5)
Graphics Driver Version: 327.23

I need a fix to this immediately because I have had this happen to me twice when my server was on the brink of defeating Tequatl!! If I miss this win because of a GW2 crash I may just uninstall the game and say the hell with wasting my money on this game and it’s Gem Store any further. Full rage mode.

I am so SICK of everyone complaining about thieves, we have been nerfed countless times when classes like the warrior have yet to even be touched! Everyone cries and cries simply because they themselves do not understand how to defend against the class, this is the main reason I have quit playing GW2, I was really hoping to log in to the forums and see somewhat less QQ then when I left a few weeks ago but that seems to be asking too much. Too many of you WoW cry babies decided to come to the Guild Wars universe I believe.

People that say thieves spam 1 or 2 button clearly need to play the class themselves and if they say they are playing a thief and spamming 1 or 2 buttons, they either aren’t actually getting kills or have not played a thief whatsoever, the nerf to heartseeker and pistol whip took care of that, which I completely disagreed with the pistol whip nerf as it should have been a quickness nerf instead but wtfever. Izzy is too busy enjoying his 25-30k charge → stun → hundred blades to even do anything about warriors.

And another thing, no thief can stealth that often, there is a debuff that prevents it, so quit blowing up the forums with lies just because you don’t know how to PvP against a thief, or better yet, you are probably crying because they can just shadowstep to you and prevent your wussy kitten from running around kiting the whole battle.

I am so SICK of everyone complaining about thieves, we have been nerfed countless times when classes like the warrior have yet to even be touched! Everyone cries and cries simply because they themselves do not understand how to defend against the class, this is the main reason I have quit playing GW2, I was really hoping to log in to the forums and see somewhat less QQ then when I left a few weeks ago but that seems to be asking too much. Too many of you WoW cry babies decided to come to the Guild Wars universe I believe.

Blacksarevok.8104:

Devildoc.6721:

Dayrian.8973:

Bitapetrone.7423:

I feel like you are completely disregarding PVE here.

I love Pistol Whip in PVE. I use S/P when I’m running around alone fighting groups of mobs (that I can bunch together of course). I don’t feel that the 15% damage nerf has harmed my PVE effectiveness to any sort of significant degree.

You must lack playing time in cursed shore with S/P. Before the patch, it’s still quite ok to run along alone, facing 1 veteran or 2. But now? out of the window (as compared to greatsword, which can take up to like 3/4 vets)

And although, I sometimes run S/P. Even, then, I was like, “ahh, kitten, sword ONLY HAVE ONE ATTACK aside from auto-attack”. It’s probably my opening move, and that’s that. With pistol whip costing as high as 5intiviatives, and I don’t run the extra 3 initiative traits, I could hardly use it more than once. In a way, whether you like it or not, it is quite a major nerf for a weapon set, that truly can attack once (utility aside) and not to forget to account for other classes ability that can easily ‘interrupt/ break’ it….

Yeah now I guess I’m going to just spam black powder and autoattack things to death while i stand in the field.

It’s going to kill as fast as pistol whip does now and will be safer when it comes to defenses as well.

Pre nerf I’d use pistol whip to blow up 1-3 mobs in about 2-3 10k pistol whips, now I’m getting like 6k pistol whips (the 15% damage nerf is amplified in difference by crits when you have 250% crit damage it’s extremely noticable), I run out of initiative and am autoattacking anyway.

It was just a heavy handed nerf that just makes me kill things in double the time I used to.

Meanwhile warriors run around killing 1-3 mobs in 1 100 blades.

Izzy needs to find himself unemployed.

Yup, same boat here.

Sucks too because I was in the process of saving for my last few pieces of T3, now it looks like I’ll have to blow money on a new set of weapons. Thanks, Arenanet.

I completely agree with everyone that is stating this nerf sucks. I don’t know about everyone but I know that for several people currently, it isn’t exactly easy to become loaded up with gold in the game, I myself just spent a large portion of my coin on Exotics for.. you guess it, my S/P PvE Build. This is a prime example as why “nerfing” should NEVER be done in a game, I have now LOST money that I spent a great deal of time attempting to acquire, that Exotic Sword and Pistol might as well go in a closet to be forgotten now, I am very dissatisfied with ANet for doing this, it only reminds me more of WoW.

I do not believe that nerfing should ever occur in a game unless something is drastically overpowered in some way, what SHOULD be done is the scaling up of other abilities for other classes, or as many have mentioned, adjusting the quickness buff that made S/P so good in PvP.

My S/P build is now useless in PvE aside from an interrupt every now and then, and for all of those complaining that it was OP in sPvP, maybe you need to learn to start spamming that dodge button whenever a thief first hits you with Pistol Whip, you can get away from it after all.

Now I have to grind through farming some more rares for ectos and trolls for powerful bloods just to try to get exotics for my switch to a Cloak and Dagger/Backstab build.

I love how everyone also goes on about thieves being OP in sPvP all the time.. Have they not played against a mesmer? Those things are bloody ridiculous! Then you have the case here where (and I may be wrong in this, but) Warrior has YET to receive any form of a nerf yet.