Guild Wars 2

Dinosaurs.8674:

danielrjones.8759:

I don’t really care either way if they give an easy mode or not. If they did, I doubt I would ever play it. No reason to. What I don’t understand is those against it, I mean if you have no intention of running easy mode then what difference does it make to you if someone else does? Listening to people complaining about something they have no intention of doing sounds childish. imo the bottom line is there are those who don’t want easy mode for a reason, they want to be viewed separately from the casuals.
If the value a person places on themselves is how others perceive them in a make believe world, you’ve got bigger problems than not wanting easy mode.

I don’t care whether an easy mode exists or not, but I don’t want one to be added in for two reasons:

1.) Easy mode inherently has no replay value. It exists to be beaten and then ignored, like SAB infantile mode of dungeon story modes. Which wouldn’t be a problem except…
2.) Designing an programming an easy mode raid would take a significant amount of time away from the raid team designing more substantial content. It isn’t as simple as just changing a few numbers and slapping a new sticker on it. Easy mode raids would take a lot of time up front to create (especially if you want them to be balanced and not just press-1-to-win), and would significantly increase the time needed to be spent on maintenance for the encounters.

Besides, easy raid content already exists in the game. Play the first “boss” of stronghold of the faithful. Play the bandit trio. On an individual level they’re easier than several dungeon paths (though overall they are probably harder due to requiring coordination among 10 players). Even people with no raid experience can have those done in a few hours tops if they read up on the fights.

Gorseval is more challenging for a first timer but if everyone practices their DPS rotation and reads up on his mechanics/watches videos then it’s actually a very easy fight compared to the other raid bosses.

I understand not wanting to spend weeks learning to kill a boss, but if you aren’t willing to spend even a few hours learning the fight then raids just aren’t for you. Preparation, practice, and failure are implicit properties of raids, and honestly even with an “easy mode” or whatever those things won’t go away unless it is press-1-to-win status (which is also awful for obvious reasons). A well designed “easy mode” on slothasor or VG would probably still be harder than bandit trio or the first encounter of stronghold of the faithful.

If you don’t care about the easy mode and don’t intend to play it then why the kitten does it matter whether you think whether it has replay value or not? the rest of 99% of payer base will find plenty of replay value there including me.
And if you wanna talk about wasting resources how about wasting numerous resources and devs on content only 1% of the playerbase plays. If you ask me that IS an actual waste of resources besides it wouldn’t take “significant amount of time” away from the dev team the core mechanics and content has already been developed they just need to rebalance it around smaller squad size. And even if it does takes time i would say that’s an worthwhile endeavour considering that 99% playerbase benefit from it.
In essence all i hear form you elitists is “you can’t have this piece of cake cuz i’m on a diet”. Dont worry you we aren’t asking you special little snowflakes to come down to our lowly level you can stay in your special little corner. All we ask is for an easy mode where the other 99% of players can get in and enjoy without waiting for hours staring at the lfg.

SarahWitter.2317:

I’d like to reply to those who are saying that making this set account-bound is “a money grab.” Please keep in mind that we make the same amount of revenue for each BLC weapon skin that enters the game through MTX regardless of whether or not that weapon skin is later resold on the trading post.

The currency exchange is a player driven market and as the gem-to-gold exchange rate has increased, the trading post value of BLC weapon skins hasn’t kept pace. That leads to the common complaint that it feels bad to buy Black Lion chests for gems, because it seems as if they’re full of things that you could have bought more cheaply by converting your gems to gold instead. It’s not our goal to make you feel like a chump for buying chests. After all, by buying chests, you’re supporting the creation of the content that everyone plays. So it’s nice for there to be account-bound things in the chests in addition to the other tradeable items. With a lot of the chest contents, it’s not possible for them to be account-bound, because for a lot of things you’d be screwed if you got dupes and couldn’t off-load them to friends or onto the Trading Post. By putting the skins on the Black Lion Weapon Specialists we support those who have stored tickets and still have a combination of account-bound and non-account-bound items in the chest, as we did before today’s release.

This set of purely cosmetic skins still can ultimately be acquired either by purchasing them or by earning gold in the game and trading it for gems. If you like getting skins from the chests that can’t be obtained more cheaply through the trading post, use your claim tickets on these weapons. Or if you prefer tradeable skins, use your claim tickets for the other weapon sets, or acquire those weapon sets by trading for them with other players who bought them with claim tickets.

We on the dev team want to thank you again for taking the time to share your views with us.

Oh please if you wanted to make the people who buy BL chest feel rewarded all you had to do was remove all the consumables and boosters and add useful items like minis and weapon skins to them. I’ve seen hundreds of threads complaining about boosters and other worthless crap that is in the bl chests and ways to improve them. Instead you made the only thing that is worth a kitten from these chests untradable . Which means you are screwed if you don’t like the skin. This is one of the most ludicrous claims I’ve heard in a while. After ignoring player feedback about how worthless the loot from bl chest are you made it worse and claim it was done on behalf of players which is insulting. And for your information I’ve never heard anyone complain about bl skins being tradable or how they are too “cheap”. As i recall making bl skins tradable was a change welcomed by the community after the fused skins fiasco. Also how much a bl skin goes on the TP is decided on how much the players like that item so if the players don’t like a particular skin ofc it’s gonna be cheap! What you should learn from that is to look at the skins that go for a lot of money and design more skins like them instead of ugly skins nobody wants. The best example for this is fused skins which go for thousands of gold either bring them back or release a cool set like that. Now that ACTUALLY WILL increase the value of bl chests.

SarahWitter.2317:

Reading this thread, we understand your questions and want to share a little information: This set is designed to be a special, exclusive set and therefore it’s a little different than most. There are a couple of other interesting factors that you’ll want to know: The set is available for one ticket. It will remain priced at one ticket into the future, so someone who wants it now doesn’t need to be concerned about it becoming unavailable or about it rising in price in the future. Other sets currently available are not account bound, such as the Cavalier Weapon Set which was recently released at a price of 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket and remains at that price now. In addition, we do intend to continue to offer tradeable sets in the future. If you’d like a preview of the new set, go to your bank wardrobe and filter for “Privateer.” We hope this answers your questions, and thanks for sharing your thoughts.

-Sarah

Reading this the words i don’t see are “We will not release any account bound bl skins in the future” and “This weapon set will no longer be accountbound” . Also what i don’t see is the reason why this set has to accountbound. So all i see are useless assurances and empty promises to cover the greedy cash grab that this clearly is.
I have no problem paying for things i like but sticking skins behind rng and removing every other method of obtaining them imo is a giant middle finger from Anet to it’s faithfull playerbase. I played and supported this game for over 2 years is because this game is one of the fairest mmorpgs out there. They never tried to nickle and dime their players in the past so i was glad spending money in the gemstore. Sadly since the release of HoT the dev’s priorities seems to have changed the constant gemstore pumping leading to artificial gem price hikes, unfinished and buggy content, adding exclusive content that divided the playerbase into a toxic cesspool and the list keeps going… It seems like Anet no longer cares about the ideals they had when they were first creating gw2.

Is there even a point to this thread??? I mean it’s been what? 3 months since they opened this idea section? and people have suggested tons of good glider ideas and one’s actually very easy to implement like spinal blades glider cuz it uses a lot of already available material and what do we get? They just keep releasing these boring reskins and that’s just it. What’s the point of an suggestions section if you are ignoring everything suggested in it?

Gem prices are hiking at the moment because Anet has been releasing stuff on the gem-store constantly and i don’t think it has anything to do with daily gold or the improved dungeon rewards. It’s just that people has new stuff to buy on the gem-store and they are converting their gold to buy them. I’ve been following the gem prices closely for about a week because i wanted to buy some stuff but Anet seems to be releasing some new thing just as the gem price goes down to about 90g per 400 gems lol. Anyway i would advice waiting till the sales and new item stops coming and the the prices stabilize a bit.

can someone tell me how large this patch is? i have like 100kbps download speed after countless tries and its at 8% 66mb can i expect to play today or should i just go back to sleep?

world summit still not fixed i got all the other achievements. this is driving me nuts can you please fix this