Guild Wars 2

I deleted the gw2 cache file, I have ran as administrator, closed down GW2, rebooted… all to no avail. Would be nice to get some feedback from Anet on this. I actually would like to buy something but unable too.

Yea I tried that exact solution earlier. Thanks but I think this might be on Anets side. I never had a problem with it before.

Yep having the same problem

Gem store won’t load for me. Works for some but not others. Looks like this was an issue back in September. Everything else in the black lion trading company works.

Every part of the black lion trading company works for me except the Gem Store. It just spins and spins and spins. I click every tab in the gem store and its all blank. I logged in an hour ago at 5 PM est and have closed my client, rebooted. Nothing seems to work.

You talk about not doing whack a mole with nerfs but this feels like one with the hammer… 20%? Seems a bit high. Why not start with 10% and see how it plays out first.

Also if you are going to nerf hammer, why don’t you fix the fact that earthshaker misses any time the target is on a slope of some sort.

My last comment is why aren’t the default traits in the tactics tree being changed or buffed? Determined Revival, Fast healer and Reviver’s might are too situational compared to other traits. In a given night, I make use of those traits maybe 1% of the time.

Whatever the ideas are, the tactics line needs some help. It clearly has the worst set of traits yet for WvW you have to trait into it.

Obscure One.4357:

Your ignoring the problem as much as the Devs, maybe you should apply to work there as it appears to be a sought after quality in their PvP/WvW department.

Commensurate reward structure is the issue. I could easily achieve vastly more if I did the mindnumbing living story content in vastly less time than in my preferred and actually entertaining game mode of WvW. As a matter of fact the whole content model is designed so that I can earn most if not all of the achievements in a relatively short period of time. What compounded this issue is the new achievement reward system that now gives out unique rewards for tiers of accumulated achievement points…points that I won’t get all of in WvW for about another 5 years of dedicated play…and it’s a staggeringly low amount of points anyhow. It’s literally less time consuming to get literally every Legendary weapon currently in the game than it is to complete every WvW achievement.

This… this is exactly how most of us feel. 75% of my time has been spent in WvW in this game and I have maybe 200 achievements points to show for it. The other 5k of achievement points I have comes from pve content or tPvP. I didn’t care until 4 weeks ago when the achievement reward system was revealed and just like everything else WvW… it gets zero attention.

I do like the Agent of Entropy idea for achievements and feel this would be the right way to do it.

I have honestly given up all hope of seeing Anet actually do anything to help out WvW. I think 99% of their team is devoted to everything else. The 1% actually working on WvW material is made up of interns. They have had 11 months to address the WvW achievements… months ago they said they were aware of how stupid and impossible they are and here we are with nothing done about it. This is a fine example of a lack of resources and attention devoted to WvW.

Even the state of the game and future message released a couple of weeks ago barely scratched on WvW and pointed to a nebulous message by Devon that never gave any real concrete information on what to expect in the future for WvW. Its sad when my guild talks about waiting for the next great game to come out instead of being excited about the next great thing coming for GW2.

Has the idea ever come around to introduce a single player dungeon crawl in gw2? The reason I ask is because oftentimes dungeon crawls have that epic lonely desperate feel to them and give so much satisfaction when completed. The personnel quests in this game make you feel like a side kick and only last like 10-25 minutes at most… some of us want to feel like the main focus where some epic catastrophic anomaly is occurring and only the player can stop it.

I love being deep in a labyrinth of some sort that took hours to get to where I am the only one around exploring. In some previous mmos, I would go to old dungeons no one was in and try and see how far into them I could go without a party. It was exciting knowing no one was around to save my butt and that I was in the fight of my life. Darkness falls in Daoc was one of those.

And no I don’t want to go play diablo or other similar games.. I’m bored with those… all though I still play dark souls.

Here are my thoughts and ideas.

1. Introduce a 10-20 hour dungeon crawl where players can leave or enter at any time and they are put back to the spot they left when reentering.

2. Dungeon is single player… I know this is an mmo.. but it doesn’t hurt to have single player activities in them

3. The dungeon crawl can be increased in difficulty similar to fractals.

4. New set of equipment, skins and achievements tied to it.

5. Make it feel epic and grand while also making the player feel lonely and desperate.

6. A unique storyline tied directly to the player.

Just an idea.

Evion.6298:

I doubt WVW can easily be changed the maps are designed to be able to host a large number of players roaming around and taking objectives, the detail level is kept to minimum, I’d love to see a huge asuran or charr tech filled area in WVW but at the same time i dont want it to be a horrible experience for the most players, and what is the point in asking for a time line that’s business decision not player decision, would you stay if you knew your wish list is coming true six months after any siege mastery?

perhaps you didn’t read that updates will be coming every two weeks, that’s quick for software very quick, thats a huge improvement, in delivery, even for a small change, windows get minor updates every week and major updates every 2-3 years.

Yes every 2 weeks for pve content… WvW we have been waiting almost a year for substantial content like what we see in pve. I take it you haven’t been doing WvW for that long. And this isn’t hardware… its software. I am a software developer myself and my clients would drop me quickly if I only released something every 2-3 years.

silvermember.8941:

Beachead.4127:

Well my “dumb” questions are answered with the statement of “Soon”… something they have been saying for months and months. I think they owe us a bit more than soon.

take your “dumb” comments elsewhere.

Ok, if you knew all of that what made you think they will answer your questions with a very specific timeline?

They have given us more specific timelines before on certain upcoming content. Soon can mean next week or next year… in regards to WvW it seems to mean next year or never.

Back in January they said the March patch would be the start of a multiple stage release of WvW content. That March patch was the only patch with any substantial content in it for WvW. Since then its been content I would term in my company as “intern work”

Well my “dumb” questions are answered with the statement of “Soon”… something they have been saying for months and months. I think they owe us a bit more than soon.

take your “dumb” comments elsewhere.

How soon can we expect to see some real WvW content? The dribbling out out of new WvW abilities is not really content that most of us get excited about and it seems very miniscule in size compared to the content being released in the other aspects of the game.

Devon you keep saying be patient but we have been waiting for a long time now. Today’s peak at the next patch was depressing in regards to WvW as it mentioned one enhancement to an already existing ability. Many hardcore guilds are losing players because of lost interest in the game.

When can we expect…

1. New borderlands instead of the same recycled borderlands
2. A change to the achievements for WvW… they are stupid impossible
3. Replacement for the long lost Orbs.
4. Anything substantial in release for WvW
5. WvW abilities to be excited about

I am happy with the new changes made with this patch but feel we still need more help in other areas.

Right now the tactics trait line needs some additional love.

Our default traits in that line all revolve around reviving someone which is too situational. During a 4 hour WvW session, I might revive 10-20 people which is a very small time compared to the rest of my pvp session. So warriors are only taking advantage of those traits maybe 5% of the time at most. Compare that to other default traits in other trees where the traits get used a lot.

I have seen a lot of great ideas on these forums for replacement traits in the tactics line and would love to see some of those implemented.

I think restorative strength should be moved out of the strength line to replace one of the default traits in the tacticsline for example. It has better synergy.

So when will WvW get a taste of the living story a la new content. We are still playing the same maps we were 10 months ago. PvE gets new content and zones, tPvP gets new maps… yet WvW is still the same. And please don’t say our rank abilities are our new content because that took a developer all of one day to build and test. Please tell me that Anet has something in the works for new content in WvW..

I agree with the OP. Especially the tactics tree changes. It needs some help with the traits as I don’t understand why it focuses on reviving people when maybe 5% of our time in a fight is ever spent doing that.

I like Fierce Commander… it maybe a little on the OP side though. I think an extra 50% healing maybe more in line.

I also like Blind Rage but I think a nerf to blindness should come first before was have a new trait focused on negating blindness.

Kronyx.2570:

Laurel
1 per day

Pristine relics

First get you character to level 10 fractal. Will take at least a day.
Then get 1 pristine relic a day
Getting more characters to level 10. Few more days
Getting those characters to level 20. A week
Then spending 8-10 hours a day to get 3-6 pristine relics a day

Conclusion

Getting a laurel takes 5 mins of work.
Getting pristine relics take weeks of preparation.

I agree that there should be some way for WvW players to pick the ring they want w/o doing fractals. But laurels are exactly where they should be. Apart from the rings. WvW players get their amulets faster then PvErs. Guild missions is for everyone. Tough luck if you don’t do it.

Time sensitive in that I have to wait 24 hours for the next laurel. Where as I can dump a ton of time into fractals with out worry of a timer.

Kronyx.2570:

Beachead.4127:

VOLKON.1290:

Beachead.4127:

I can’t explain it any more clearly. Others have too. Take out the fact that other systems are in place.. This is not a pure WvW way to get ascended gear. You have pure pve ways that do not require a time sensitive currency. But to obtain this gear in WvW solely, you have laurels.

Here’s the part that you can’t seem to grasp that is making your attempts at an explanation fail:

Laurels are not PvE only.

Laurels are obtained through dailies. Dailies can be accomplished both in PvE and WvW. Laurels are as WvW as they are PvE. It’s really that simply. On any given day, if I didn’t complete my daily in WvW (and I often did) then I completed it after leaving WvW briefly doing something that suppliments WvW, such as the gathering (for superior siege) or crafting (food, siege in the Forge, etc.).

Sigh, again laurels are time sensitive. I can only obtain 38-41 laurels a month. Why don’t fractal vendors require laurels?

Because the pristine relics themselves are time sensitive.

This thread is divided into people who took advantage of all the content and its rewards and those that didn’t. Simple as that.

Guild missions is PvE? Seriously? WvW/PvP guilds do it all the time for merits to buy banners and other upgrades FOR WvW.

Time sensitive in that I have to wait 24 hours for the next laurel. Where as I can dump a ton of time into fractals with out worry of a timer.

Don’t get the two confused. Now go back to your worship of Anet.

VOLKON.1290:

Beachead.4127:

I can’t explain it any more clearly. Others have too. Take out the fact that other systems are in place.. This is not a pure WvW way to get ascended gear. You have pure pve ways that do not require a time sensitive currency. But to obtain this gear in WvW solely, you have laurels.

Here’s the part that you can’t seem to grasp that is making your attempts at an explanation fail:

Laurels are not PvE only.

Laurels are obtained through dailies. Dailies can be accomplished both in PvE and WvW. Laurels are as WvW as they are PvE. It’s really that simply. On any given day, if I didn’t complete my daily in WvW (and I often did) then I completed it after leaving WvW briefly doing something that suppliments WvW, such as the gathering (for superior siege) or crafting (food, siege in the Forge, etc.).

Sigh, again laurels are time sensitive. I can only obtain 38-41 laurels a month. Why don’t fractal vendors require laurels?

I can’t explain it any more clearly. Others have too. Take out the fact that other systems are in place.. This is not a pure WvW way to get ascended gear. You have pure pve ways that do not require a time sensitive currency. But to obtain this gear in WvW solely, you have laurels.

VOLKON.1290:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

VOLKON.1290:

Removing the laurels removes the time requirement for the items.

Sounds good to me. Make it so #1.

Then you have the problem we had before which resulted in ascended gear being introduced… there was nothing to “do” progression-wise in some people’s mind once they had exotics because legendary felt so out of reach.

Except that we have been waiting six months. Why does it have to roll out slowly for us when every pver already has all their ascended gear.

lordkrall.7241:

Beachead.4127:

Except I have to wait 25 days. Make it so players buying ascended gear with fractals also require laurels and I might call it even.

You do?
What happened to all the Laurels you have gotten before the patch?

Pretend I am a new player… If I do fractals, I can get all ascended gear in 30 days. If I WvW I have to wait 150 days or more. If I go on vacation or miss a daily, I have to wait longer.

The point I am making is that pve players don’t have to wait on dailies. Why do WvW players have to wait on dailies? Why can’t badges be the same as fractals? Why can’t the laurel system stay as it is, fractal gear requires fractal tokens and WvW gear requires badges. Why do we get stuck with currency that requires waiting for the next day?

lordkrall.7241:

Beachead.4127:

Oooooh you don’t want to WvW to get your gear… I see. Makes perfect sense. So why do I have to pve to get mine?

But you don’t. You can get laurels in WvW without much trouble.

Except I have to wait 25 days. Make it so players buying ascended gear with fractals also require laurels and I might call it even.

So how about we make it so that the purchase of fractal ascended gear also requires laurels. That will make it even except for the fact that pve players still get back pieces and have had ascended gear available to them for six months.

How about you make it so that ascended items purchased with fractal tokens also require badges of honor? Makes sense right? Or items bought from guild missions should also require badges of honor.

Oooooh you don’t want to WvW to get your gear… I see. Makes perfect sense. So why do I have to pve to get mine?

Here is my take.

SoR has a huge NA population. They don’t need anymore help.
BG is a full server who could use NA help but good luck getting in.
JQ is also a full server who could use some NA help but again good luck getting in.
DB has had a ton of guild transfer to it. Good guilds. Not sure they need the help
TC is full.
FA is a pvp server who needs another organized large guild to come in and help keep them in competative in T2.

I would goto FA out of all of those. FA also has a great community which I miss.

KingClash.3186:

Beachead.4127:

Sureshot.6725:

Beachead.4127:

You don’t get it.. your answer is quit whining. I will keep whining because of broken promises and poor execution until ESO comes out. The reason I am whining is because I still have hope that Anet will deliver something that will make it where I won’t even care that ESO is coming out. Again its a hope. People whine in hopes that they will be listened too.

If you don’t like the whining then stop responding.

No ….most of us do get it.

We don’t want a whiney vocal minority of the community to ruin the game we love.

We bought ANets vision and not the vision of a few wanna-be developers that think they know what is best for the overall health and long-term success of the game.

If your whining gets listened to then expect me and others to whine about them having listened to you instead of staying true to their vision which is what I bought when I decided purchase the game.

Minority? We have pages of people who find the new WvW enhancements lame and are angered by the laurels factored into the cost of ascended gear. You have as much evidence as I do on being in the minority. The evidence I do have is that just about everyone in my guild feels these changes are lame and not enough to keep interest in GW2 for the long term. We are a hardcore WvW guild in T1 and have held out for a while in hopes that Anet would do the right thing. Most find this round of enhancements to be insulting or not enough and are looking forward to ESO.

I am a software developer. In fact I am the lead architect on our main application which is used by hundreds of hospitals across the United States. If I didn’t listen to my clients and take in their feedback then I wouldn’t be nearly as successful as I am today. I have found that the vocal minority is in fact representative of a major portion of the population. While I do control the vision of the application, I do make changes according to market and feedback.

Again you don’t get it.

Your signature says Fort Aspenwood… FA isn’t T1 if im not mistaken they are the bottom of T2 >.>

I just can’t believe no one has pointed this out.

Yep and we transferred to a T1 server to get more open field fights. I haven’t updated my sig yet.

You were right.. I remember replying hoping you were wrong.

Sureshot.6725:

Beachead.4127:

You don’t get it.. your answer is quit whining. I will keep whining because of broken promises and poor execution until ESO comes out. The reason I am whining is because I still have hope that Anet will deliver something that will make it where I won’t even care that ESO is coming out. Again its a hope. People whine in hopes that they will be listened too.

If you don’t like the whining then stop responding.

No ….most of us do get it.

We don’t want a whiney vocal minority of the community to ruin the game we love.

We bought ANets vision and not the vision of a few wanna-be developers that think they know what is best for the overall health and long-term success of the game.

If your whining gets listened to then expect me and others to whine about them having listened to you instead of staying true to their vision which is what I bought when I decided purchase the game.

Minority? We have pages of people who find the new WvW enhancements lame and are angered by the laurels factored into the cost of ascended gear. You have as much evidence as I do on being in the minority. The evidence I do have is that just about everyone in my guild feels these changes are lame and not enough to keep interest in GW2 for the long term. We are a hardcore WvW guild in T1 and have held out for a while in hopes that Anet would do the right thing. Most find this round of enhancements to be insulting or not enough and are looking forward to ESO.

I am a software developer. In fact I am the lead architect on our main application which is used by hundreds of hospitals across the United States. If I didn’t listen to my clients and take in their feedback then I wouldn’t be nearly as successful as I am today. I have found that the vocal minority is in fact representative of a major portion of the population. While I do control the vision of the application, I do make changes according to market and feedback.

Again you don’t get it.

If fractals are so fast SUCK IT UP and do them. I have done them, and I gotta say I’m not a fan. I haven’t even gotten a single ascended piece from them. I probably know much more about them than you. Try guild mission, those are fast too. Why don’t you get this through your thick skull: WvW players don’t need ascended gear while fractal players do. It makes much more sense for them to have easy access than you.
Quit whining.

You don’t get it.. your answer is quit whining. I will keep whining because of broken promises and poor execution until ESO comes out. The reason I am whining is because I still have hope that Anet will deliver something that will make it where I won’t even care that ESO is coming out. Again its a hope. People whine in hopes that they will be listened too.

If you don’t like the whining then stop responding.

thiagoperne.7340:

Beachead.4127:

thiagoperne.7340:

Beachead.4127:

thiagoperne.7340:

Jesus Christ never seen a Dev been insulted so much because he’s trying to help so much. This is their game and they are doing everything possible to help, and let’s not forget without charging you a peny for that. You stil don’t like? Why are you stil doing here? Get the hell out and go find another game that’s better for you. Simple like that.

Help out is the wrong term… More like implement their vision of WvW and ignore the community.

Their vision of WvW couldn’t be better.

You think they ignore the community, but you just making a confusion. Anet doesn’t implement what the community wants, they take feedbacks and ideas from them and put it in discussion to decide what’s better for the game.

Please do tell me what this vision is because the only enhancement to WvW that I have seen so far that was executed really well was culling. Everything else has been subpar band aids and minor things that either did nothing for WvW or had a negative impact like arrow carts.

I don’t think Anet has a vision on WvW. If they do then its nothing close to the vision laid out for pve or tpvp.

Ohh.. you’re an AC hater, you just sold yourself what kinda player you are, it’s pointless try to explain you anything. Our conversation ends here.

Thanks for admitting that you have no idea what Anet’s WvW vision is.

As far as what kind of player I am? Well I am a hardcore WvWer who enjoys open field fights and has no desire to play the ppt game. You must be one of those guys who sits in a tower with an AC waiting for someone to come along. Must be exciting.

thiagoperne.7340:

Beachead.4127:

thiagoperne.7340:

Jesus Christ never seen a Dev been insulted so much because he’s trying to help so much. This is their game and they are doing everything possible to help, and let’s not forget without charging you a peny for that. You stil don’t like? Why are you stil doing here? Get the hell out and go find another game that’s better for you. Simple like that.

Help out is the wrong term… More like implement their vision of WvW and ignore the community.

Their vision of WvW couldn’t be better.

You think they ignore the community, but you just making a confusion. Anet doesn’t implement what the community wants, they take feedbacks and ideas from them and put it in discussion to decide what’s better for the game.

Please do tell me what this vision is because the only enhancement to WvW that I have seen so far that was executed really well was culling. Everything else has been subpar band aids and minor things that either did nothing for WvW or had a negative impact like arrow carts.

I don’t think Anet has a vision on WvW. If they do then its nothing close to the vision laid out for pve or tpvp.

Gravy.7589:

ANET can not win with most WvWers when it comes to ascended gear, as they dropped the ball horribly, early on when ascended gear was implemented for those who pve. The lack of insight or understanding the possible backlash from those in WvW is well ….. startling. Its seems that those that only WvW can’t and won’t let this go, which is justified.

You didn’t want to invalidate the ways pve players received their ascended pieces, when it took 6 months for ANET to get this far with ascended gear for wvw? That sentence alone is just …… kittenbull. Basically he is saying in GW2 pve >wvw and this is just what we should expect. IF you took the time to understand the WvW community you would get why fewer laurels and more badges would have been the better option. Badges are not, as some have stated so readily available for those who don’t wvw on the regular. Therefore if you wanted to validate our experience as those who just WvW and and farmed our badges for so many hours vs being SOOO worried about invalidating those who pve for ascended gear, you might have gotten this right.

this is summed up very well in what we are trying to say.

thiagoperne.7340:

Jesus Christ never seen a Dev been insulted so much because he’s trying to help so much. This is their game and they are doing everything possible to help, and let’s not forget without charging you a peny for that. You stil don’t like? Why are you stil doing here? Get the hell out and go find another game that’s better for you. Simple like that.

Help out is the wrong term… More like implement their vision of WvW and ignore the community.

Ynot.8397:

Beachead.4127:

Ynot.8397:

Maladon.5760:

I don’t understand why WvW players don’t have laurels. WvW is pretty much all I do and I had all my ascended gear except for one accessory which I just bought today from the WvW laurel vendor. The daily laurel quest has always been easy and is even more easy now. If you have made the choice in the past not to gear up by doing this ridiculously easy quest everyday during the course of playing WvW then you need to live with that choice now and stop complaining. You messed up by not taking advantage of the opportunities available, shut up and live with the consequences.

God I wish this was a wvw loading screen comment. Right in the middle there so all these whiners would just kitten already and deal with it.

We have been doing the dailies… We also have tons of badges eating bank space with nothing real to spend it on… Everyone has enough badges… It’s the fact that we have to wait on laurels to spend the badges.

I don’t have nearly as many badges as even the worst T1 player because I am in T8. Can I get a fix for that? Buy siege and give it away to other people. Go do some pve content. Getting level 10 in fractals takes no time at all. You can get that ascended back piece at random starting at level 1 in fractals. You can get the rings at level 10. You can make decent money in fractals. You can get 20 slot bags from fractals.

People need to stop complaining. There are methods people can use to get these better gear pieces. If you guys are mad that pve players can get better gear and you can’t I don’t understand. Pve players are competing against the content, not other players. PVE PLAYERS GAIN NO ADVANTAGE OVER YOU, ONLY THE CONTENT THEY CHOOSE TO PLAY.

Stop whining…

So your solution to Anet’s broken promises is to go play other elements of the game I hate… Yea lets all be apathetic and not voice our opinion and call everyone else a whiner because they have been keeping up on all the promises that have been called out and are sick and tired of Anet’s lack of attention and poor execution on WvW since launch. Such whiners….

VOLKON.1290:

Beachead.4127:

Mooodster.3470:

VOLKON.1290:

Beachead.4127:

Answer this.. What am I supposed to do with all the badges I have right now? I have 8 laurels, some ascended items, stacks of superior rams, arrow arts etc.. I am sitting on over 4000 badges rotting in my bank that I was hoping to finally spend. What do I use them for Devon?

Traps. Supply traps are proving to be quite useful used properly.

might add gear for alt or siege prints to this here list

Can’t.. I need laurels so I have to wait days to do my daily… In the meantime I amass more badges. I average about 100 badges a day on the days I feel like logging in.

Don’t even get me started on traps…

Sorry, meant exotics. You can buy full sets of exotics with badges for alts or your main if you want to try a different build.

My alts already are in full exotics with a few ascended pieces.

Ynot.8397:

Maladon.5760:

I don’t understand why WvW players don’t have laurels. WvW is pretty much all I do and I had all my ascended gear except for one accessory which I just bought today from the WvW laurel vendor. The daily laurel quest has always been easy and is even more easy now. If you have made the choice in the past not to gear up by doing this ridiculously easy quest everyday during the course of playing WvW then you need to live with that choice now and stop complaining. You messed up by not taking advantage of the opportunities available, shut up and live with the consequences.

God I wish this was a wvw loading screen comment. Right in the middle there so all these whiners would just kitten already and deal with it.

We have been doing the dailies… We also have tons of badges eating bank space with nothing real to spend it on… Everyone has enough badges… It’s the fact that we have to wait on laurels to spend the badges.

Mooodster.3470:

VOLKON.1290:

Beachead.4127:

Answer this.. What am I supposed to do with all the badges I have right now? I have 8 laurels, some ascended items, stacks of superior rams, arrow arts etc.. I am sitting on over 4000 badges rotting in my bank that I was hoping to finally spend. What do I use them for Devon?

Traps. Supply traps are proving to be quite useful used properly.

might add gear for alt or siege prints to this here list

Can’t.. I need laurels so I have to wait days to do my daily… In the meantime I amass more badges. I average about 100 badges a day on the days I feel like logging in.

Don’t even get me started on traps…

DevonCarver.5370:

We included the laurel cost to prevent the economy from suddenly being blown out and to not invalidate the ways PvE players can get ascended items already. This system means that it is faster to get them in WvW, especially for players who already have badges, without being so much faster that everyone only gets them in this manner. As for the difficulty of acquiring laurels in WvW, we have taken steps to address that, including the fact that there will always be 3 daily achievements that are WvW specific. Speaking personally, I’ve been able to achieve my dailies in WvW even without that change, but this should make it even easier.

Answer this.. What am I supposed to do with all the badges I have right now? I have 8 laurels, some ascended items, stacks of superior rams, arrow arts etc.. I am sitting on over 4000 badges rotting in my bank that I was hoping to finally spend. What do I use them for Devon?

You claim you don’t want to blow up the economy yet you neglect the WvW community for months and release a lame patch that does nothing new for us. At least let us trade badges for laurels and for kittens sake please give us a non fractal way to get an ascended back piece. Listen to the community. We have been screaming for months. The only reason you don’t see a mass exodus is because the next great game isn’t here yet.

The crying is because some of us have thousands of badges with nothing to spend them on. Todays patch may cause me to spend 300 badges in total.. I still have over 5k badges… saved from when Anet said they would release Ascended items in WvW.

Many of us come from other pvp mmos… Anet has done some things well in regards to it but the reward functionality has had a poor execution by them.

Hooray I get to spend my badges on +1% damage to guards…..

Really? Really….

still going to have 5k badges taking up bank space. And still no back piece that we can get without having to pve. Fail again Anet.

Nice balance patch. Amazing execution on the WvW changes also….

/sarcasm off.

This is a lame patch.

Well I had waited until this patch to see if Anet could keep me interested in WvW and GW2. This pretty much killed it for me. Anet you still aren’t listening to the players.

Looking forward to ESO.

lordkrall.7241:

Beachead.4127:

So once again I have nothing to spend my badges on. Why do we have to use laurels and ectos for accessories and when will we ever be able to get a non fractal ascended back piece?

How about you let us trade badges for laurels, ectos and fractal tokens. You might not see a mass exodus.

Actually based on his post there seem to be Ascended items that will cost badges.

Most Everyone has amulets and rings already. I’m talking accessories and back pieces.

ColinJohanson.2394:

lordkrall.7241:

Is the combination cost for both items and infusions or just infusions?

Ascended items and infusions both will cost a less than normal amount of laurels, and a badge cost as well. (Ascended accessories will remain laurels + ecto, but with new WvW rank reward chests you’re going to be getting a lot more Ecto!)

So once again I have nothing to spend my badges on. Why do we have to use laurels and ectos for accessories and when will we ever be able to get a non fractal ascended back piece?

How about you let us trade badges for laurels, ectos and fractal tokens. You might not see a mass exodus.

Cottage Pie.6215:

Beachead.4127:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

You may want to read the entire thread before posting this. Anet has already said they will introduce Ascended gear into WvW and that we won’t see a new currency.

Oh I know what anet have said – I don’t believe them – and have absolutely no reason to :P

Sadly I agree with you. I’ve lost a lot of faith in them that they actually listen to the community.

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

You may want to read the entire thread before posting this. Anet has already said they will introduce Ascended gear into WvW and that we won’t see a new currency.

Patch out… Still no ascended times that can be purchased with badges. Six patches Anet…six. You promised us this back in November and its coming out ASAP? How long does it actually take to code a vendor with ascended gear? And why are you giving us enhancements that no one has asked for yet ignore what the community has been pleading for? Why does PvE get a truck load of content yet we get poorly executed enhancements that are minuscule. You got on A on culling… You are failing everything else with WvW.