Guild Wars 2

Gotta love people’s reading comprehension…
OP is saying that, IN ADDITION to the armor PIECES, you should ALSO, as in, PLUS, get an outfit of the set you made. So you get your armor PIECES but can ALSO wear your LEGENDARY armor that you have CRAFTED as an OUTFIT if you want. That is what he is suggesting.

It is not a bad suggestion.

Erocy.3869:

Critwrench.8432:

All chars are made the same RELATIVE size. Charrs are still huge, and due to their posture and movement animations (loping on all fours) it is actually harder to do any JP on a Charr.

JPs being harder on Charr is true for normal JPs, but in SAB every char gets downscaled to asura size.

Which changes nothing about their standing and moving animations. But you’re too stuck on your idea that it’s “not harder because the sizes are the same” to care, aren’t you?

Also here’s a fun fact for you: The model size is the only thing that changes in SAB. Outside of SAB, all races and genders have the same exact hitbox size, for balance reasons. This includes collision with things like platforms and roofs, which is why sometimes Charr and Norn heads go through ceilings, and sometimes Asura can’t fit through holes they’re smaller than. Charr do not have it harder due to mechanics, it’s all the ability to see accurately where your character is going to land, which Charr ANIMATIONS make harder IN ADDITION to their size.

Erocy.3869:

So? All chars have the same size in SAB. Being a charr or a norn doesnt make it harder.

If you’re so bad at SAB you could have just bought the infusion. Tons of ppl are selling tribulation runs on LFG.

All chars are made the same RELATIVE size. Charrs are still huge, and due to their posture and movement animations (loping on all fours) it is actually harder to do any JP on a Charr. It is not so hard as to be significantly more difficult, but it is worth noting. His point was that even though he had something of a disadvantage, he didn’t “just buy it”, as you suggest.

Personally, I agree with the OP’s point; I worked hard for these, not working hard for these is a BUG that they are going to FIX, and I think it should be a little more noticeable. Even on not-Charr, half the time the particles barely show up past the character model. More+bigger particles.

Agsded.8760:

Following today’s update, I appear not to be receiving the speed boost from Leader of the Pact III (Advanced Logistics mastery). The effect’s icon still appears with my other active effects, and I still loot enemies without needing to press F. Moreover, the visual swiftness effect is still applied, but I move only at the base movement speed. After applying swiftness or placing a movement speed signet on my skill bar, I move discernibly faster, which should not be the case were Leader of the Pact III giving its 33% movement speed increase. This problem impacts all of my characters and persists in all major cities.

Can confirm I’m also getting this bug as of 12/15.

+1, this is the best bug I’ve seen in a long time. Don’t change a thing!

On top of all the other problems with the expansion, I think one thing people seem to miss or forget is that it does not, by default, include a character slot for your Revenant character.

By default, Guild Wars 2 comes with FIVE character slots. This is already an inadequate number, forcing you to pay 30 dollars extra if you want to play all of the base classes. This means that you are already hard-up for character slots from the get-go. HEART OF THORNS, meanwhile, introduces exactly one class, the Revenant, and this one class is marketed as a feature of the expansion.

In order to use this class (expansion feature), you must pay a minimum of 10 extra dollars. This is not taking into account the people who have enough character slots already, as, guess what, they already spent the 10 dollars. Alternatively, if you want your PURCHASE to include a character slot, you can pay TWENTY-FIVE extra dollars for Heart of Thorns instead, getting what should’ve been in the base price along with a bunch of useless extras.

This is unacceptable when every single class-adding addon since the franchise’s inception has AT LEAST had the decency to throw in a slot for the new class(es) available.

I propose that Arenanet should at the very least give a character slot to every veteran who buys heart of thorns, though I think it would be fair to give a slot to every account that has it, new or old. If you’re going to sell us a class as a feature of an expansion that we pay for, ensure that we can at least ROLL ONE.

Zaklex.6308:

Do you really give a rats butt what the name is?

After they showed us a teaser image prominently featuring Paragon-styled wings, and most people spent the last three days excited for Paragon, yes. There’s also a great many people who played Paragon in GW1 that now play Guardian in GW2. Adding to this, Guardian already has a great many elements of Paragon stuff in them (One of their PVP titles is even ‘Champion Paragon’), so when you show off the paragon wings in your teaser image, what are most people going to be looking forward to?

I’m at least willing to give the class a try, but EVERY player hunts the dragons, the pact hunts the dragons, the biconics hunt the dragons. Paragon is at least a unique name, Dragonhunter is hopelessly generic in this setting.

I don’t think there’s anyone out there that is “hyped” for this specialization after that yawn-inducing trailer and this extremely-generic name. What does this spec have for its’ unique spec stuff?

SPEAR of Justice
WINGS of Resolve
SHIELD of Courage

I mean, if you’re going to slap us in the face with the worst-sounding new skills for Guardian (Traps? Seriously?), at least give Guardians the name most of us were hoping for. You were clearly teasing it by showing us THE WINGS before anything else.

My hype level has gone from Maximum Overdrive to I Don’t Even Want To Log In.

TLDR: Name it PARAGON, please!

Shivan.9438:

I did, but the fact remains is that Anet needs to think about this kind of thing before putting it into the game. A simple question of – “Can this be used by immature players to annoy the ever living kitten out of everyone around them until they’re banned?” And if the is yes, then don’t put it in the game.

An invention or feature should not be blamed for its’ potential for misuse. Car crashes are one of, if not THE leading cause of death, especially when you combine them with alcohol. Should we get rid of all cars and/or all alcohol then?

There will always be players who like to troll. Always. Removing an item that has provided a source of fun for a significant chunk of people is not the way to deal with it, removing or educating the trolling player is.

I do think they could handle something like this better; a rightclick option to “Mute [Player]’s instruments” would work wonders in situations like this, as players could make a personal decision to mute someone. But knee-jerking and making the item people have paid gems (and potentially real money) for worse is a bad idea, and the thought of removing it entirely is much worse.

Shivan.9438:

Because that particular player follows people around spamming that bell and people who play the game as intended shouldn’t have to make way for a troll.

And I’m not going to turn down a master volume and push out other people who play the lute or harp as the dev’s intented. People need to stop giving trolls and other rude players the right of way in this game.

If he’s following you around and spamming his bell, you can report him for trolling/harrassment.

Khristophoros.7194:

or for a more MMOish example, Warframe. Warframe is really cool because you never really feel like you’ve reached the endgame.

As a player who has all the prime frames: I disagree with this part of your post. You will feel like you have reached the top for a looooong time, it is just that you never reach the end of the grind where you have/have leveled everything.

That said, I agree with the rest of your post, but I think it is telling that it took Arenanet an entire year to figure out that people don’t like temporary content, and in the span of TWO YEARS they have not added a single dungeon (fractals don’t count as a dungeon) or other piece of permanent, repeatable content besides world bosses and fractals. And even then they mostly codified world bosses, the only real ‘additions’ were Tequatl (just a change to an existing boss) and Triple Trouble.

I swear they would have such a better rate of retention if they made adding a dungeon every other month a goal.

I say bravo that you’re trying to get your child involved in your hobbies, and especially bravo that it’s worked out so well. I’m sure you’ve had at least a couple panic moments, especially about the kind of language that tends to fly around in places like map chat, so I’m amazed at the dedication it must’ve took for this to go so well.

10/10 parents, and thanks for posting an honest bit of feedback about how absolutely insipid these new changes are.

China, where these changes were originally for.

The speculation is that we got the changes not because they’re better for us (though in some minute ways they are), but because this way it’s easier for them to unify the code base between east and west, so it’s cheaper/easier to maintain both versions.

Yenn.9185:

Critwrench.8432:

Glory.1493:

its unfair to others who likes the feature patch.u made it seems game gonna die tomorrow while majority have no problem with this patch.it is just unhappy guys speak more.u can just delete the game and leave if u dont like it,but whats the point to post it here.nothing changed on every map. ppl still enjoy this game.could u just leave it alone and play someting else if it bothered u so much.

“while majority have no problem with this patch”

Which is why there’s dozens of threads beaming about how good the changes are.

Oh wait.

You think all the forum post in the last few days combined accounts for 51% or more of a ALL ACTIVE gw2 players? I mean I dunno the numbers, but it should be way more.

I think the fact that every single discussion space for GW2—both in and out of the game— is lit up with posts and comments about how bad the changes are is proof enough that the majority does not like the changes. If you want, feel free to prove that it’s just a vocal minority that dislikes the changes; but I really, really, REALLY doubt it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You might try reading the Dev tracker.

You mean the dev tracker with zero posts on the leveling changes?

Glory.1493:

its unfair to others who likes the feature patch.u made it seems game gonna die tomorrow while majority have no problem with this patch.it is just unhappy guys speak more.u can just delete the game and leave if u dont like it,but whats the point to post it here.nothing changed on every map. ppl still enjoy this game.could u just leave it alone and play someting else if it bothered u so much.

“while majority have no problem with this patch”

Which is why there’s dozens of threads beaming about how good the changes are.

Oh wait.

OMNIBUS.2913:

I have enough tomes of knowledge to instantly get to 80 If you have only been playing a few months the complaints make more sense tho.

You know you’ve created something terrible when the only justification for it players have is using an item to skip it entirely.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

The only nerf was the removal of the 4 centaur champs that respawned instantly… nothing else was changed.

And since you didn’t even mention that in your OP i’m going to guess you are just trolling…

Because Anet documents every change to drop rates.

Oh. Wait.

They don’t.

No Walking.6349:

It’s like the Jedi Consular male from SWTOR, and the human male in GW2 are the same voice actor. Made me very happy

Nolan North is a lot more people in this game than you’d think.

I agree, the fact that people who really want to CAN grind for these now is a huge step in the right direction. Bravo. This also stops people from opening a potentially infinite amount of boxes without a single skin.

Danikat.8537:

(In case you’re wondering yes that is a summary of all the permanent content from the Wiki’s Releases page in rough reverse chronological order. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Releases )

I was about to reply with the fact that they added all that already, then I saw this. 10/10 post.

DarksunG.9537:

Substance E.4852:

DarksunG.9537:

Dedlaw.9130:

The heavy male armor made me laugh. The gear on the shoulder makes it look like you are a part of a life-size key-chain

Seriously… I don’t know how someone looked at that & said:

“yeah, that looks good. we’ll stick with that!”

like.. seriously? It’s ridiculous. why would they put that there?

Because it’s steampunk (seriously team, what is it suddenly 2006 again?). The whole idea is you take something vaguely Victorian in design and glue a kittenload of gears and cogs on it. They don’t need to be functional or practical, they just need to be there.

Too bad that doesn’t explain the idiotic size of this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/darksungames/Clipboard01_zps2c04b368.jpg

You’re a male Norn. Your entire body is a mixture of idiotic sizes.

It’s lies or misinformation. The fireworks are over.

As you may well know, the Dragon’s Jade Avenger has a very cool tassel on the end of the handle.

It even kind of flaps in the breeze when you run. Very cool, very nice touch. The problem?

One side of the tassel does not draw.

This makes the very impressive cloth tassel invisible 50% of the time, as one side of the cloth does not actually render. So when you’re running left, it looks perfect— and when you’re running right, you can’t see it at all. Please fix this! I love my Jade Avenger.

Because they have to keep you spending gems somehow, right? It’s not like they lock half of the new skins behind the gem store or RNG boxes from the gem store, and a lot of PVP features that should be free.

…Oh wait.

She also conveniently failed to save the Charr rep.

Probably by killing him.

Asudementio.8526:

Tell me what you expected in GW1

Did you not play GW1?

The only monetization in that game was storage space and cosmetics, and I’m not talking weapon or armor skins, I’m talking full-on costumes like the Mad King outfit, the stuff that is ‘town clothes’ now. Whenever they had an event, if it had new skins, guess what? All of those weapons or armors were EARNED in-game. You never had to buy them off of the cash shop (Re: Braham and Rox’s weapon skins), nor did you ever have to “earn” them through a bullkitten RNG.

A good example of this would be the Candy Cane Weapons: The shards would randomly drop in the world (kind of like the Dragon Coffers do for this event), but rather than say, a 0.05% chance of getting the weapon you wanted, you just had to collect 9-12 shards and turn them in at the vendor of your choice. It was simple, it was effective, and everyone liked it.

Compare to now, where you are forced to endure two RNGs (One for the boxes to drop, one for the ticket in the box) if you don’t want to fork over cash for the boxes, and even if you do, you’re still faced with a far from guaranteed chance of getting a weapon skin.

All the players want is the ability to EARN the skins, rather than having to endure this RNG bullskritt. There are people who have opened 7000 Dragon Coffers— that’s over 175 gold if they were bought on the TP, mind— and still not received a single weapon ticket. There are also players who have opened 45 and received three tickets.

If you still think the way things are now is better, you need to take off your blinders.

Thanks for the clarification, Will.

Opened 100 regular coffers, got 3 minis and 1 ticket.

Wait, it’s soulbound?

Kitten that, then. I was considering getting one.

I’ve had the same issue.

AMAZING. I love this kitten thing.

Never leave me again, SAB.

RACE: Norn (F)
CLASS: Engineer (Medium)
ARMOR: T2 Norn Medium (“Predatory” set)
ISSUE: The armor has many clipping issues surrounding the skirt, the worst of which is in the back, near the rear, and is very visible from behind. Also has minor clipping issues to either side of the skirt, particularly when standing still (idle).

It replaces the skin entirely.

I cannot get updates for the jumping puzzles monthly. When I try to do a JP I’ve done some time in the past on my main (L80 Guardian), I do not pick up a point towards the monthly (Tested with Branded Mine and Under New Management). When I do a JP I’ve never completed before, (Tested with Fawcett’s Bounty), I get a point.

Other guildies are reporting that they can get points towards the monthly from puzzles they finished before. Am I bugged?

Thanks to the slew of tips I’ve received here, I tried running some dungeons instead of farming! On my first run of the fractals in a long time (L4), I got… a charged lodestone. And 4g as a result.

Yeeeeeeesh.

For an hour in a single fractal run, I made more gold than I had in ~4-5 hours of farming. So I’m going to be sticking to dungeons from now on for my gold needs. Thanks guys!

Thanks to all the advice, I farmed for about three hours and got… 80s. With full magic find. Ah well. I’ll try again today and see what comes up.

Yeah well it’s working, they’re up to 70/80c a piece.

cpg.7140:

I’d suggest farming Orr/Frostgorge, but it’d take a bit to get to them without wasting money on the waypoints.

Southsun Cove is where you might want to go; you can take the ship from lion’s arch there for free. Are karka shells still selling well? Even if they’re not, you can get some orichalcum ore there (especially if you can sneak to the rich node) plus mithril, ancient wood, cypress.

This only works if you can afford the gathering tools though.

On the note of Orr/Frostgorge: Farm what? Most of the materials I seem to get either sell for vendor price, or drop infrequently and sell for less than 1s. (IE Potent blood)

As the title of this post states, I am effectively bankrupt within the game. For reasons that are mostly due to my own fault, I have not a single gold to my name; my main has only 17 silver. I have modest stores of most common materials, but no rares. My main (A L80 guardian) has a set of magic-find gear, and a set that is not.

With this preamble laid out on the table, I would like to know: What are some ways I could make a sizable chunk of money? The most I have ever had on me at once is about 16g. Never more. I am not a lazy jerk that’s asking for a get-rich-quick scheme. I’m wondering, besides flipping the trading post, what a player with a lot of free time like myself could do to make money.

I’m not a fresh 80, mind; I know the usual ideas like ‘gather everything’ and ‘sell/salvage everything’. I’ve just sort of hit rock bottom, and I’d like some advice as to what I can do to make sure I don’t end up here again, as well as crawl my way out.

Attended/Received

Was pleasantly surprised, expected to get a big box of nothing.

xiv.7136:

All abilities have a cast time corresponding to their animation

You can’t spam your auto-attack 20 times a second just because you can press the button that fast

The exception to this is shouts, the Elementalist’s lightning strike attack (Scepter 2), etc.

Thanks a lot, Anet. I never got to finish the event, was finally close to doing so, and POOF! Gone.

Wasn’t that hard for me, but then again I’ve been playing platformers for 18 years. >____>

Did it on both my guardian and my ele(pictured), and got the A2 book on both (The ele is 16)

Also get rid of the vague patch notes. “Fixed bugs/exploits” could be any of a million things. If you’re say, nerfing drop rates in the labyrinth chests, tell us that. Don’t hide it like it’s something you’re ashamed of, or we’ll think it’s something that you SHOULD be ashamed of.

True fact: Originally there were no Heart quests. Anywhere. They added them because playtesters were too used to another MMO that starts with W and couldn’t figure out what to do for EXP. At launch people were STILL having problems figuring it out until the community bashed it into their heads.

A very good post, Senoph. A+. Too many people forget that we only get angry about things when we’re INVESTED in them to begin with; there wouldn’t be so much anger on the forums if we were all merely “entitled”.

Cyric, try equipping the book.

People are reporting that they’re getting skins from chests… so yes, the droprate just sucks this badly.

Not going to buy keys after this, that’s for sure.