Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet, any chance for an “encore sale” for the last day?

What about new accounts? A friend wants to buy the game but I don’t want to encourage him to buy it only to find out that he will have to pay more to “unlock chapters” trust me Anet you do not want to be associated with F2P cellphone games.

Shenlong, we have to collect all dragon balls in oder to… wait, wrong forum.

John Corpening.9847:

Great start guys! There are a lot of good ideas already.

• Add score for kills

John

Hi, I know this is for more hardcore WvWers but like to add my voice as a casual.

PKing scoring points troubles me. WvW is scary enough for new and casual players. I think that scoring for PK could bring even more disbalance by making all the newbies/ casuals feel like a burden in WvW..

Hear me out, right now when I jump into WvW and play for a couple of hours I feel like I’m at least helping out maybe its just a small thing, but I can feel that I’m making a difference and if I die, well then re spawn and get back in there and help my server…. Now every time I die (and for casuals thats very common) I’m going to be a burden to my server… I’m not helping anymore…. I’ve actually become a problem =S

I can understand this not being a problem in servers where most WvWers are hardcore, but on servers where WvW population is mixed, where WvW guilds go to PvE and try to recruit “militia” for an objective this will have a big impact on WvW and its enjoyment.

There are other stuff that set red flags about Pking for points such as servers camping outside of spawn points (which again will not affect hardcore WvWers but will make the newbies/casual go away) but the main issue for me would be felling like a burden instead of helping out.

I think these “Raids” will be the new “Guild Puzzles”. Instanced contents for guilds with a bunch of objectives and an end boss, hopefully they’ll add “levels” like fractals so that difficulty and rewards scale overtime.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Gotta ask why this matters when Dye changes cost nothing…?

It looks like he/she is a new player.

OP you can buy more dyes form the TP for a few silver (common) to several gold (rare). Open BLTP (press “o”) and search for “dye” and you can have your pick of colors.

To change colors open the Hero panel and look for an options that says “dye” then you can pick the color of your armor, you get a few free colors and can buy the rest with ingame money.

What do you guys mean? There is already a scavenger hunt for precursor:

For ZAP
You need 500 charged cored (get them in CoE dungeons)
250 skill points (XP)
250 crystalline dust (salvage ecto)
100 deldrimor ingots (crafting + gathering)
100 Spiritwood Planks (crafting+ gathering)
Zojja’s Berserker inscription (crafting + dailies for laurels)
250 ecto (salvage rares and exotics from world bosses )

Ready?

Convert all charged core to lodestones and sell them.
Sell all the rest.
Get about 1700g use this to buy Zap (extra 300g is for inflation for the 100 days timegate)

In all seriousness If/when the scavenger hunts arrives you can expect something like this: a very long time gate + a very high cost.

I can understand the wish for a fixed price but say that instead of selling the list you actually trade it for Zap… what do you think will happen to the mats in the list… they will go up and you will end up paying a lot of gold to acquire your precursor.

Afya.5842:

Maliel.8362:

Have you tried using gold? you can buy the skins in the TP

I am aware of gold to TP, or gold to gem to key. But gold doesn’t connect to the BL content that directly. It also subject to the market price more. Some of my guildies like key farming more than completing dungeon everyday. It’s more option, and also you feel like working towards the reward everyday.

I wouldn’t mind getting key by more quest either. But of course the quest or w/e to get key should be easier than getting scraps.

1. Buy gems
2. Convert Gems to gold (open BLTP, on the first tab).
3. Use gold to buy weapons.

Right now skins are about 11-13 bucks

The thing is, this skins are probably a big profit for Ncsoft…

First, gamblers will buy Keys with gems (money for Ncsoft)
Second Keys bought with gold, takes gold out of the economy (good for Anet) and makes converting gems to gold more attractive (money for Ncsoft)
Which lead us to third, people with money will buy gems convert to gold and buy the skins directly fro the TP (money for Ncsoft)
What about people that play the TP and buy them with gold? (gold is destroyed which is good for Anet)
And finally what about Key farmers!? well they provide the skins for people on the third point to buy gems for.

As a player obviously I hate this but I can understand why they won’t change this system and made peace with it.

Just wanted to chime in that the precursor scavenger hunt was highly hinted at being for new legendaries, so if you want Bolt you should save up for Zap.

To others if your goal is just to have a legendary instead of a specific one, I highly recommend trying for a cheaper one I was going for Kudzu until one day I said “kitten it” and liquidated my bank and bought the precursors for the axe and the horn (about 9 months ago got them both for 500g). I already finished Frostfang and I’m only missing 50% T6 mats to finish howler.

locoman.1974:

I’d personally base a new soldier class around the dervish.

Dervish in GW1 were a light armor class (IIRC), the use of heavy armor can be explained because of the increase of conflict after Palawa Joko took over Elona, which made them start to use extra protection.

One of the big problems about bringing a dervish class into GW2 is their dependence on human gods in GW1 (imagine a Charr becoming the Avatar of Melandru, for example). This could be explained adding some extra lore that after the gods went silent, they learnt to go straight to the source, so instead of becoming the avatar of melandru, for example, they become the avatar of nature.

The dervish’s signature weapon is the scythe, which could mean a new weapon class, but considering that there are already at least two staff skins that look like scythes, maybe it could also work if they wield staves as melee weapons, with a magical blade appearing over them when they wield them, kinda like the one necromancers get but light instead of dark. To preserve the theme they could also use other magical weapons as melee ones, like for example using a scepter like a sickle.

Just some ideas thrown in to the mix.

I love the Dervish though I would consider them a light class, no? But yeah My Derv/Rit was my favorite class combo in GW1. So many good memories.

Retro.6831:

kitten.9065:

Retro.6831:

“Samurai” doesn’t work for the same reason; adding Japanese swords to the game means the other Solider professions are likely to get them and can fill that role much easier. Likewise with Barbarian / Berserker: the Warrior already possesses a lot of that archetype’s trademarks

Just wanted to add that dismissing a “class” because the weapon can be used by another class fails to understand how GW skill system works.

1. a “japanese sword” is a 2 handed sword which already exist in game, so yeah, warriors would use them (and guardians and rangers and mesmers) since they already do…

2. The weapon itself means nothing as the skills are what the determine the play style. Warrior GS vs Mesmer GS are two completely different weapons (melee vs ranged) they basically just share a skin.

You misunderstand; a “Samurai” class is basically a “Warrior with Japanese flavor”; even if there is a unique mechanic present, the two are incredibly similar. You make a point of referencing how different Warrior and Mesmer versions of Greatsword function, but that’s because the Warrior (heavily armored non-magical melee-centric class) and Mesmer (lightly armored magical ranged-centric class) are different as well. Samurai is just too similar to Warrior, and I haven’t seen any posts in this thread that suggest how they could be made different (and at that point, is it even worth calling it “Samurai” anymore?).

Fine then we can use Warrior and Guardian as an example they still have different uses and play style even thought hey both use GS and Heavy armor.

And for your other question the proposal for a Canthan based heavy class was to extract it directly from lore that already exists. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ministry_of_Purity

The suggestion made was that for flavor the class would uses fighting styles to change the weapons skills (think Ele). It would a more difficult class of heavy as one would have to chain attacks while switching fighting styles so rotations would be a lot more complex depending on what combos are you going for.

I don’t dislike your idea, just thought that your reason for dismissing the other ideas is flawed.

Retro.6831:

“Samurai” doesn’t work for the same reason; adding Japanese swords to the game means the other Solider professions are likely to get them and can fill that role much easier. Likewise with Barbarian / Berserker: the Warrior already possesses a lot of that archetype’s trademarks

Just wanted to add that dismissing a “class” because the weapon can be used by another class fails to understand how GW skill system works.

1. a “japanese sword” is a 2 handed sword which already exist in game, so yeah, warriors would use them (and guardians and rangers and mesmers) since they already do…

2. The weapon itself means nothing as the skills are what the determine the play style. Warrior GS vs Mesmer GS are two completely different weapons (melee vs ranged) they basically just share a skin.

The slayer suggestion sort of reminded me of The Witcher, which is a great thing really, though Geralt uses medium armor, not heavy. Very interesting nonetheless.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

@kitten – They would NEVER implement a weapon type only for a single class. Not only is that highly inefficient, it’s also something people would get very upset over…

Rifle & longbow are really close though.

I would add the Samurai from the Ministry of Purity which look like they had heavy armor http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ministry_of_Purity#List_of_hostile_NPCs

For flavor they would not have a weapon swap, only use “blade type weapons”, maybe add a “short sword” instead of daggers taht only this class can use (so great sword, or sword+short sword), and their “thing” would be “fighting styles” You switch to a different battle style and your weapons have different attacks 1 more defensive, 1 more offensive, etc.

Lorewise as I said they would come from Cantha and yes also bring back Cantha.

Win/win.

Edit: also if you leave your off-hand empty you still get attacks (kicks, etc)

Zets.4832:

Did it go down a little like this?

This is the entirety of say chat and the whispers:
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/n4ytsw7cg2zj0fy/gw365.jpg?dl=0
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/vr0ndw073q9y6f3/gw367.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bm4rc36v2s8fwm8/gw368.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5hnt04froixdxa/gw369.jpg?dl=0

This is just the whispers;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xv0svxpvonecl9s/gw359.jpg?dl=0

Incase you don’t want to click all the links, basically my guildies and I started clearing and finishing the event, then people noticed us and started yelling at us in say, I didn’t notice at first (I also didn’t know people actually farmed here tbh) so then the whispers started. People decided to threaten to report me for botting and proceeded to verbally harass my guildies and I.

We finished the event and proceeded to kitten off all the farmers, I reported these individuals who whispered me for verbal harassment and will be sending these screen shots to anet.

If anyone ever needs help with this event I have no problem going and derailing these farmers, please hit me up. If i’m not involved with my guild I will be more than happy to assist you.

Basically yeah, not threats about botting though, but I would not be surprised if did get reported.

I did get called out on “using their buffs” which were kinda hard to avoid since they were in the middle of the event and I kept pressing F to loot.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

kitten.9065:

HI Anet! I just wrote yesterday because I returned to the game for LS S02. Guess what, I can’t finish LS because every time I go to the Frostgorge to help defeat the Svanir, farmers harass me for trying to complete the event and even if I ignore them, they make the Yak event fail, that’s on top of having to finish the previous event while being called and “idiot, troll, scumbag, kitten” and to GTFO.

So, wow thanks guys it was a nice 5 days back, well at least you got me for 600 gems to buy the chapters that I can’t complete.

Mission accomplished?

Anyone who calls you an idiot or a scumbag for trying to play the game as it was intended should be reported for verbal harassment.

Two days ago, I logged into a character I had left in Frostgorge after killing the Claw of Jormag, and saw someone ask for help with the living story events there. Another random person and I both offered to help, so the three of us formed a party and started completing the events. I turned on my commander tag, and we soon had about 10 people helping this one player with the living story.

It sucks that your experience was so much worse. I suggest trying again, and asking politely for help in map chat from the beginning. Make sure your timing doesn’t conflict with the Claw of Jormag events, though.

Definitely will try this Saturday in the morning and yeah at least 1 player tried to help me out, even whispered to not let farmers get away with it, so I know its not everyone.

I was just kinda kittened since I wasted my “gaming time” with a bad experience when I could have played something else.

Mastermavrick.2439:

If you have screenshots of said people doing this, email it to Anet, they might do something about said harassment this that is the toxic environment they do not want in game.

I did take Screenshots, I’ll try that… and sure I can work around it… guessing early on Saturday probably, just feels really dumb to have to work around to play something I already paid for.

Thanks.

HI Anet! I just wrote yesterday because I returned to the game for LS S02. Guess what, I can’t finish LS because every time I go to the Frostgorge to help defeat the Svanir, farmers harass me for trying to complete the event and even if I ignore them, they make the Yak event fail, that’s on top of having to finish the previous event while being called and “idiot, troll, scumbag, kitten” and to GTFO.

So, wow thanks guys it was a nice 5 days back, well at least you got me for 600 gems to buy the chapters that I can’t complete.

Mission accomplished?

StinVec.3621:

As the majority of season 1 was open world content and completely different in design than season 2 has been, they have stated that they are working on making a version of season 1 that is more instanced like season 2. I imagine this could take quite a long time to accomplish, but they do plan to release season 1 into the story journal in the future.

Hey, as long as its on the works then great. Just hope they deliver =)

Hi!, I’m a returning player lured by all the talk of “the new player experience” and the “Second season os LS”.

So I came back to the game and, well I’m greeted with a pay wall for the 2nd season of LS… well ok fine I´ll pay… I mean that is why I came back after all.

So I started playing, and whoah, Who is Taimi? Jory and Kas are a couple? What happened in LA???. Brahm was hurt?

I missed most of season 1 so it’s my fault, I get it but just like a TV show I think we should have the option to return and “re watch” season 1 even if its behind a pay wall (make it free for the people that already played it, guessing you can easily check for that with the achievements for each chapter).

As it stands now I have zero investment in the characthers you so lovingly created, I mean the sister died and I didn’t even care for the scene…

Sure I could “go read about it”… but I can tell you there is better literature to read than a summary of LS S01. The point of a video game is to interact with it.

Any plans to implement a system to replay Season 1? It would pretty great for new players as well, finish personal Story, then move onto S01 and then to S02.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

Additional ways to earn Ascended Gear at accelerated for Alts.

Chris

I made a suggestions for ALTS. So I’d like to expand on the idea.

The basic idea is to make “unlocking” ascended armor difficult /time consuming for the first set (as it is now), but reduce the requirements for the next pieces of ascended armor to make it a small percentage more costly than crafting exotics.

Same for time gating, the more pieces we craft, the less time it should take to make the next one.

Hi!

I have a suggestion. I understand that Ascended armor is a fact and will not change, but you guys must consider something else. ALTS and possible revenue lost.

Why? because GW was (and hopefully will remain) a “go for the cool looks” game. You guys make money form selling us skins and fine stones, weapons skins, etc.

Why would I buy a skin and put it on an alt with useless* exotic armor? (*some exaggeration may have been used here )

So here is my suggestion. Add “proficiency” to the crafting, keep the crafting as hard and as timed gated as it is now for the first set BUT the next time I go to craft a piece (no matter which stats) the requirements are easier! (in terms of t1 – t6 mats & gold at least, don’t mind the grind for dragonite, bloodstone and fragments or some time gating) The idea is that they become as accessible or “just 5% more” expensive as exotic armor in terms of gold needed to craft. This will help us gear our alts and/or make secondary sets for other builds without taking away the “vertical progression” needed to craft the first set.

What we, the customers, gain? We have “hope” that we can gear our alts. Understand that many of us despair not because we have to craft 1 set… its because we are looking at crafting at least 8 sets (and level 3 crafting prof to 500…) and some of us even more (wvw set vs pve set). Make us work hard to unlock the first set, but then rewards us with the same level of accessibility that we had with exotics for the rest.

What, Anet gains? Money!. People with alts are people that spend money on them. If I quit my Alts I would not spend money to buy weapon skins, armor skins, bag slots, etc. As soon as my main has the look I want it stops. I can grind the new armor tier and the looks will most likely remain the same. Kasmeer’s staff? too bad my main is a warrior, now if I only I had a mesmer/ele alt geared….

The only thing I really believe anet made “ugly” on purpose are the pearl weapons. Everything else are just skins to get. The best armors in the game are not sets. Mix and Match is where the “cool” stuff is IMO.

The only Q4 cash grab I see is the “buy 4000 gems get a free mini sparkles” and I like they went this route. Pretty smart and does not impact the game.

justjon.3189:

Something I’ve learned in GW2 is that in order to find interesting things I am to explore or follow through with characters. I did just that and followed the Dolyak into Divinity’s Reach and first of all was a bit shocked the robot wasn’t even there. Then I followed the Dolyak and he went a bit into the city turned around and went back to the portal.

Some of the most memorable moments of GW2 are moments like the kids pretending to be Destinys Edge during a quest. I realize this isn’t needed or anything but I figure we have an orphanage in town could we have it end with the kids getting gifts or at least a child having some kind okittennowledgement that a Dolyak full of gifts just passed through town.

But isn’t the dude that takes the donation a sort of conman?

TBH it makes no sense. It was a good laugh and all that, but it would make more sense for her to be wearing regular clothing and then making the dress an illusion to “look pretty”. I mean if she is naked then she must not mind mud, sand, poison, blood etc getting… everywhere.

notebene.3190:

All the sudden, killing toys that come out of the big packages in the world aren’t counting towards my count for Toy Quality Control.

Edit: And then it started working again? Are some of the things that come out of the box ‘not’ toys? Like when the skritt appear, those don’t count?

Nope, skritt are not toys. They are skritt.

Thanks for all the replies, I know that “fixing” wvw is something very complicated as there are too many variables including the hardest of all " human behavior". So I don’t delude myself thinking that “this” topic is the answer.

I guess my real objective here is to move away from the discussion of how to “stop the night crew” since I feel that Anet will never do anything about it (and with good reason, I might add) and try to find solutions that can help make WvW more competitive without impacting the players that can game on “off hours”.

Jaxs.5830:
NA prime is really the least important period of the day in the current system.

Yes, this is why I feel the “point per tick” is flawed it time gates points. There can’t be a comeback if the point distance is too great, which demoralizes and kills competition. WvW becomes an excersise in flipping paper towers to get loot and wxp “because the match is lost”.. on a monday.

My idea (in what ever form it comes to be) is to make it so that a coordinated effort and strategy during peak hours lets a server catch up/surpass a leader. Even the best strategist can not make a comeback if it needs 18 hours of “ticks” to catch up. By making it a system where points are awarded for feats (captures, bounties, etc) a small wvw population can still pose a threat (in points) to a large, stacked server.

Even if the stacked server still has the advantage and wins, it would at least have been a somewhat close race, making it more enjoyable for everyone (even the stacked server).

sminkiottone.6972:

Cancer.9065:

Natronix.9827:

People should read this. Very nice ideas, I gotta admit i was discouraged by the wall of text

Yeah , I know I really wanted to make it shorter but I’m just not that good at writing.

I think that the problem isn’t that people want to “win” so much as most of us don’t want to lose so “bad” that it becomes a joke.

I really like your ideas man, they could work great for seasons.

May I suggest you to edit your post to make it more easy to read ?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/faq/

use * and # for the main points, and maybe a little bit more of tabulation/line breaks

Thanks for the advice and link! Ill try to clear some of it up

NevirSayDie.6235:

I like these ideas but you’d have to be very careful.

—It would be pretty easy for second accounts on an opposing server to trigger defense events for their main server no matter how you set it up. That would be a lot worse than wasting supply.
—Attacking anything might be a bad strategy unless your side has the enemy badly outmanned. Sure, it’s possible to push into a defended keep, but how many points is the enemy going to get from defense events before you succeed?
—Re-taking your own borderland or objectives close to your waypoint could do more harm than good.

IMO the most important thing Anet can do for WvW players is to protect them from themselves. The current system favors coverage, but at least it does a decent job of restraining direct cheating and encouraging fighting, and it can become even better at those things. Changing the system even to something arguably better—but more easily exploitable—would be a fatal error.

Yeah, finding ways to stop abusing any system is probably the hardest thing to come by.

All great ideas and all of you have given me much to consider.

Natronix.9827:

People should read this. Very nice ideas, I gotta admit i was discouraged by the wall of text

Yeah , I know I really wanted to make it shorter but I’m just not that good at writing.

I think that the problem isn’t that people want to “win” so much as most of us don’t want to lose so “bad” that it becomes a joke.

If suggested before then please disregard.

I don’t think coverage is the problem. Well it is, but I don’t think it can be solved (nighttime defense mobs etc are just not the answer) What we need to do is take a look at this problem from a different angle.

The point per tick mechanic.

This mechanic is ok for regular match ups but for Seasons (which evoke more of a “championship” feel) it needs to be changed.

I propose that we go to a system of points per capture. So if a server with lots of coverage flips everything in map their points “spread” stops there. They would have to wait for something to be flipped before they can get more points.

Some quick ideas:

1. Structures deep in enemy territory are worth more points than structures close to WP/ your own borderland.
2. Flipping back structures in your own territory are worth less points (to discourage flipping back and forth in “safe” areas)
3. Successful defend events awards points. This encourages people to defend attacks since even if they lose the structure in the end the server still gets points for at least holding it for a while . Also would add some strategy as commanders have to make the decision to continue pushing for an structure that may end up giving more points to defending servers that they would make by capping it. (there may be a problem with some defend events popping up when 2 or 3 players graze doors as a distractions so this needs polish… maybe the defend events pops up when a door/wall is 70% down)
4. Similar to players “WxP gain” structures that are flipped back and forth (between the same 2 servers) in a short timeframe stop awarding points for capping to discourage servers from “playing the system” to get away/catch up from the 3rd server.
5. Supply camps/sentry/yaks and structures not owned by anyone (AKA reset day structures)awards no points. This are too easy and most successful attack always starts with a camp flip anyway.
6. Finally in order to make things more exciting random events should popup were for instance the server is awarded bonus points for taking a specific structure (like a bounty) within an specified time or holding all 3 mercenary camps in EB, etc. This is known to all 3 servers which will result in massive fights as server 1 tries to defend, server 2 tries to cap and server 3 either decides to help deter server 2 from capping (thus negating server 2 bonus points) or goes for other structures while “everyone else is busy”. This would add some strategy layers as servers have to decide what is in their best interest (yes some math will come into play!, Can I take enough structures to negate server 2 bonus points?). This could also act as a balancing tool giving the last place server easier targets like a tower while the winning servers gets a bounty for a keep or Stonemist. Yeah we all hate the blue shell but you have to admit it makes Mario kart more exciting. Last this special events would be tie breakers it would let servers to pull away from the others (remember there is a soft upper limit as capping can only give you a set amount of points until structures are flipped"

What I think we would gain:

• Underdogs will have a fighting chance as points have a soft upper limit for stacked servers and capturing structures / defending / bonus missions will help them get back into the fight faster (no more time gating points!)
• Matchups would be more close instead of “its over 9000” leads that were common in season 1.
• No more coverage issues. Nigh crew can still cap everything but when the day crew comes back the points can be taken back and even small night crews can help the server as they need only to cap stuff not hold it or defend structures to get points.
• The zerg will need to at least break into 2 an offensive and a defensive zerg. Right now the most common sentence from commanders is “don’t worry we will cap it back before the tick”. In case of special events for instance a “take 3 structures in x time” will force zergs to break into at least 3 to try and complete the bounty before the time is up.

So what do you think? I know as this is discussed many issues will come up, but the the main idea is to move away from the “point per tick” (at least for seasons). I do not think these are the only solutions and I will probably won’t defend the topic much as I do not want to be a forum warrior, if you want to add something make it constructive, for every “this won’t work” tell us at least 2 solutions!.

Latinkuro.9420:

Phy.2913:

Or we could have side capes.

interesting, but I would call that a half measure.
I rather they take their time and do it right, rather than implement some half measure like side capes , not to mention all the negativity they would get if side capes were implemented.

*only for Charr, the rest get the regular capes.

Rimax.9054:

I’ve been dying too know what the rewards are i was actually expecting some decent stuff cause my goodness this Meta took me forever ..anyone have a link too the rewards i can’t find them Anywheres

From waht I have read in other threads, forums, etc. 1st place seem to have a guaranteed exotic and 250 uses finisher. The rest are greens, 1-5 tomes of knowledge, 1-10 scroll of knowledge, 100 dragonite, bloodstone, empyreal, some extra wxp (maybe enough for 1 rank) The dolyak mini and 500 luck.

It’s being re skinned will be up in the gem store at a later date. no eta.

Gnat.9405:

Is the kit advertised on the BLTC as basic quality? This sounds like something that would have been noted, as it would certainly lead to massive sales.

Yeah description still says basic afaik, just the rarity has been changed from white to yellow… which I think changed the behavior from basic kit (white) to Master (yellow kit)… Sigh the more I repeat it the more I think its unintended.

Anet Anet Anet please put me out of my misery here. If intended, instabuy, if not mystic kits for me.

Gnat.9405:

I am getting tons of sigils from my kit now, so confirmed for me as well. Will begin salvaging rares tonight and post results ;p

Yeah, its pretty much confirmed that is happening, what worries me is buying it tomorrow then the next day Anet “fixes” it.

So if Any Anet dev is reading… Yay or Nay? promise I wont complain if it isnt, lol, just want to make an informed purchase here. Thanks!

I, too would like to know if the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic has been upgraded to a better kit than basic. It also seems that the rarity went from white to yellow with the last patch.

Please could some Dev confirm if intended or a just a bug before the sale!

Belorn.2659:

In what way would it effect the current game?

(note: $500 today will give you a maxed leveled character, with a legendary and full exotic armor set).

Well in WvW it already is.

1. Before a season starts, pay to move to the “favorite to win” server.
2. Win.

Caffynated.5713:

There should be a server wide pot based on where your server finished. The pot would be divided up among however many people finished the achievement.

So Badgegate would get 100k gold divided among 10k people.
Magswag would get 85k gold divided among 300 people.

Wow… this would be the biggest trolling in fantasy mmo history…

Do it Anet! do it!

The forums will burn, servers will quit but, God, oh God the epicness will live on for years. Write your place in History Anet. Don’t think, just do it!

tonph.4513:

O.O so you really need to start with 0/15 to get ? Sad

You get rewards from the server that you started the season with. Should have defected your server before the season started.

I don’t think the mechanic is broken just the potential for abuse. I don’t mind stealth but when a thief hits me and I survive via dodges, abilities, blinds, etc and turn back to fight and the thief runs., the thief should not be able to come back to attack me in the next few seconds like nothing happened.

Right now the state of thief is:

attack – kill? – no – hide a few secs – attack again -kill? – no – hide a few secs – attack again – kill? – no – hide a few secs – attack again – kill? – no -hide a few secs – attack again – kill? – yes

When others classes have to “run” they actually have to go away not just stand 3 feet away waiting for the CD.

So I definitely think that thieves should keep the stealth to attack and to run away, just find a way to make so that if things go wrong coming back isn’t that easy/fast.

TLDR – Don’t mind if a thief kills me because of stealth. Don’t mind if I can’t kill a thief because of stealth. I do mind if a thief gets “unlimited tries”.

Some precursor are not that expensive, so try buying one of the “lesser” one and start working on your legendary.

I had a similar mindset… hoarding everything hoping for a precursor drop to start getting the legendary specific mats… then one day, on a whim, I just liquidated my entire bank and had enough to buy Howl and Tooth of Frostfang (it was a whim… in retrospect 1 would have been enough lol).

Well the Krait alliance seems a bit fragile We just killed the great "prophet" that scarlet is using to manipulate them so they may not be around for long if the tower is destoyed.

Flameseeker prophecies max buy offer: 1750g (minus 15% in fees)
Brifrost min sell offer: 2250G

So either you’ll have to grind out about 800g or use the money to buy precursor and other mats and gather the rest.

Hi! Read this suggestions elsewhere and the person that gave it did not want to come to officials forums.

2 main ideas clash here:

1. Skins should have a PvE “locker” once we acquire a skin we should not have to work so hard or buy full price to get the same look again.

2. Anet needs to make money and Trans crystal are probably generating a lot of income for them as cosmetics is basically GW endgame.

So here is the suggestion Anet. Gives us the PVE locker with the following mechanics:

-If we “deposit” an armor it becomes a “skin” no stats or sigils are stored.

-If we want to use a skin we need to use a Trans Crystal/stone to take a copy of skin out and apply it on an item (stones for items below lvl 80 or crystal for items at lvl 80 or forget about stones and just use crystals but gives another way to get rid of the stones)

-If you need to further monetize this then gives a few “panes” free and charge extra to get more slots opened.

-Make the PVE locker be in our home instance! it would make sense for our “wardrobe” to be in our homes.

The point here is that you, Anet Devs, will still sell Trans Crystal (may I argue that maybe even more than before as our “selection” of armor suddenly crosses territory into impulse buy) and we, the players, get a place to store our “looks” for eternity.

PS. I’m sure there are a kinks to work out in the system this is a players perspective.

PS 2: Yes, Legendaries are excluded, kinda obvious really.

My two cents.

Add flavor text to loading screens (I believe there was in beta iirc) On LS maps and on regular maps explaining why should we care a bout that area.

For example when loading Bloodtide coast: “Zhaitan’s luitenant Teqatl continues to terrorize the bloodtide coast a Hylek, Quaggan and Silvary resistance have gathered in hopes of stopping the rampaging beast”

Harati Hintherlands: " The Centaur’s main army gather under the rule of the Ulgoth Modir, the Seraph with the help of a few brave Norn are pushing to stop their advancement."

And of course the LS maps should change their text to reflect the changes going on: Kessex Hills: The new alliance between the xenophobic Krait and the deceitful nightmare court have wreck havoc in the land with looming tower and unheard toxins, (insert names of the two girls) are investigating to counter their nefarious plans"

Anyway every map has 3 or 4 chain quest and 1 major theme so flavor text should explain the motivations for each chain or the importance of the map as a whole (randomized).

Think the Star Wars movie beginnings.

PS. Sorry for name spelling can’t remember the correct ones.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Aza.2105:

Hey Colin,

I would like to see Anet address the insane particle effects.

I can never anticipate when to dodge the statue of dwayna attacks because of this. You can barely make out the enemy model. Particle effects are nice and all, but in gw2 they are overly done. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this issue in any mmorpg I’ve played.

Yeah we’ve done a number of steps already this year to improve it, but we have a long ways to go to get it cleaned up to the point we’re happy with. It’s something we’re continuing to work on for sure, but we’re focusing way more on game performance currently before we turn back to the FX side.

Could there be an option to only see my particle effects and disable other players effects? Same way that I can turn off other peoples armors by choosing “best performance”

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Astralporing.1957:

Doggie.3184:

Even if used for ascended they probably wouldn’t change the drop rate from salvage so doesn’t matter.

It will likely be 50 bolts of silk to create a spool of silk woven thread (which would be used to make a bolt of damask). You will likely use 5-10 bolts of damask per one tailoring piece (depending on how much insignias will use), and 1-5 per medium and heavy one (plus leather/metal). There are 6 pieces for a set of armor.
That’s potentially up to 12 stacks of refined silk for a set of light armor. Which is 36 full stacks of silk scraps.
The drop rate is nowhere that good.

36 full stacks of silk is 9000 scraps. That is 7g, hardly a “grind” It will literally be more of a grind to buy that many stacks then it will be to get the gold.

I get 1-2 stacks a day just running around doing random things.

36 stacks! I bought 30 stacks to have my “ascended stock” + hoping a price increase for leftovers. Guess there wont be leftovers = /

And 7G may not be much for many but not everyone is good at making gold (or consider the ways to get it fun) and that is if the price doesn’t go up =S

Forums have asked for BLTC armor to use the Zenith model since the game launched, sadly Anet’s response to this are the splitter stones. Guess Anet figured they would sell more gems by making you buy 6 splitter stones + 6 transmutation crystals.

It may change someday if the splitter stones do not prove to be so popular (right now It seems most use them to transfer legendaries between characters) Only option atm is to not buy the armor and wait for Anet to change their mind.