Guild Wars 2

hibari.9836:

I know there’s plans to address the costs for scribe and guild hall decorations, but I don’t know if this change is on the table. Please though, anet, for the love of god, reduce the number of flax seed required to make one vial of linseed oil.

20 piles of flax seed for one vial is just too much. 10 or even 15 would be much more reasonable.

Our (small, 5 person) guild recently managed to get a guild hall and we know that being small the upgrades are going to take us a long time, but we’ve been managing to chip away.

Now though, we’re having to park all our alts at the flax node farms and spend all our time running around farming flax for linseed oil, and it’s still going at a snail’s pace, even with all of us pooling our resources. And looking ahead it doesn’t seem like matters are going to improve.

We’re just trying to build a workshop now, but then what? Vials of linseed oil are upwards of 80 silver each on the trading post and a basic finishing kit for scribe takes 6 of them. That’s just totally out of line. We shouldn’t be feeling discouraged with a whole crafting discipline before even unlocking it.

Linseed is expensive as its only found on HoT maps and such is priced higher..
Upgrades take a long time, but guild halls are a grind fest with little rewards in between, telling you now, unless you have something like the market and the decoration trader, you have a loooooong way to go when it comes to scribing my friend.

Cryshal.4036:

I’m receiving a monthly charge. I don’t remember there being a monthly charge. Is it standard?

There is no monthly charge, if your getting one, its from 3rd party or another game

Calydro.7268:

Players were promised raids and legendary armor with HoT. None of these came with HoT. It was a blatant lie. A single wing was released, but as far as I know, the 50$ spent didn’t say “50$ season pass for all content we’ll be releasing over the period of a year”.
A single new arena was released. There were 45 pvp maps in the first Guild Wars.
Two new armor sets were introduced.

No it isn’t worth $50, you’re not mistaken. The standards are just low.

Welcome to MMO’s where every expansion is the equivalent to a Seasons Pass.

UltraRaptor.4876:

I’m too casual of a player to get a legendary but this new addition for a precursor are so much of a grind fest I might as well grind for gold and buy one off the market.

It was already a grind for a precursor pre-HoT, you had to hope you got lucky with a drop or throw tons of exotics into the forge in a 1/100th chance to get a precursor, HoT gave a way for players to get a precursor without having to pray too much to RNG and sacrifice a newborn just to try and lower the chance to 1 out of 99

UltraRaptor.4876:

The maps are ok, VB being the best, and TD being the absolute worst to play in. The mastery system is horrible because after completing the expansion with two characters and grinding towards map completions with multiple characters I’m nowhere near to maxing out my mastery for HoT alone (note I’m a casual player) and yet no longer have the interest in replaying these maps after doing it so many times.

I agree with one thing here, TD is the worst, Mastery maxing is set to take alot of time, its the point, to its core GW2 is a grindfest, just like every other MMO out on the market.

UltraRaptor.4876:

The core game is still more fun to play than HoT to me, I’ve still done fractals for a while but haven’t seen a single ascended drop besides rings, honestly ascended rates from all areas of the game should be a lot higher due to the costs of materials rising,
the amount of gold you are likely using to help out your guild with, who unfortunately are dying due to realizing the new guild updates are killing small guilds altogether.

Prices for materials change rapidly like a real market.
Drop rates will stay the same or else the prices would rise even more, as more people would need said mats.
Small guilds live and die all the time in MMO’s from something as simple as people not playing, to costs being too high as they try to do too many things.
Stuff like the additions to guild halls? are meant to take alot of time, which some small guilds it takes long enough for them to disband.

UltraRaptor.4876:

This game has been nothing fun like and previous Guild Wars content I’m used to, I was with GW1 core game when Factions and Nightfall came out and it was always a fun new experience to play, yes it was a new game but the fun content was what mattered. I just am not liking this HoT content and I want to know who else agrees or disagrees.

GW2 is a completely different beast to GW1, always has, always will be, maybe you were on your ‘honeymoon’ period with GW2 for long enough, or didn’t really notice, but GW2 has always been a Grind Fest, the focus of ‘Fun Content’ in the market of MMO’s now adays is said Grind Fest for items/rewards,

I like some of what HoT brings, i dislike some of the HoT stuff, but more importantly, i look forward to what they can improve on, and make better for the community at large, that is, if they don’t go under by then.

Pride.1734:

Its the same as any other mmo, with a twist. Its all optional. Nothing past ascended gear actually boosts you character. So its a grindfest but you don’t need to do it. Just do the funstuff. No funstuff left to do? Come back anytime, no sub.

Look i aint trying to be the devils advocate here. There has certainly been a shift towards baiting people with almost impossible rewards or gating many things they add to the game with a heavy goldgate. And the cashshop is where most of the content actually enters. Getting 2 and 1/3 armorsets for the expansion compared to the mass of outfits and glider skins and other kitten thats been getting stuffed in the cashshop just paints a bad picture.

It’s called they see profit with the gemstore, with all them free players wanting a cool outfit and what not.

I don’t really see why your complaining.
Compared to some MMO’s the downtime is short.
You lose ONE meta, which is not that big of a deal.

It’s been this way for years and I don’t see it changing anytime soon, places like gw2timer are great for their notification systems anyway, you ain’t gonna get the ingame notification unless you look for taxi’s for it in LFG

Thief

Name: [Place name here]

Weapon: Rifle

Description: A thief with a rifle, akin to that of a long distance sniper, same range as a long range ranger, this thief gives the loveless rifle new life (it is only currently used by 2 classes) This elite spec would be focused on long range ‘pinning’ and harassment,

gates of madness has a bad habit of using expolits and hacks at the moment, be careful of your orbs.

are they cooking materials?

2 days? is that all? and its just a skin >.> i understand the default skin is plain and bad, but faction weapons were meant to stay faction weapons, yes they screwed up, but 48 hrs? i spent a week getting yellow grades just to have them vanish in the forge, thats bad,

Geez all people do is whine whine whine, when the game is been barely out a month, they are still working on things and if you chose a different faction then stick with that factions weapon skins after all they are meant to be faction locked, its like saying you didnt want to join the whispers, but wanted the weapons, and if you complain about the money spent, file a ticket

It seems to be a major bug >_< a-net please fix? and can we get payback for lost items?