Guild Wars 2

Ok my question was answered many times so lets close this topic up now.

By permanently you mean until Scarlett is brought to justice or killed?

AH ok! Yes he’s a fresh nooblet.

Topic is as the title states!

So I sent my guild mate 183 gold to aid him in getting the Golden Achievement which I sent with no problem but as soon as he got it and tried to send it back it would not let him. First he was able to send only 50 then an hour or so later he could only send 25 and now many hours later he can’t send any. Is this a bug or working as intended because I would like to have my gold returned…..

Here are some of my toons but not all of them

1). Human Guardian based of a Warrior Priest of Sigmar. He wears 2 pieces of Cultural armor, HotW shoulders and leggings, and then some low level boots.
2). Norn Guardian with a mix of the Cultural tier 1 and 2 sets. I rarely make female toons :P
3). Human warrior with 2 sets of armor. His first set is a mixture of the Order armors. His second set is based off an Empire Greatsword is a complete mix up of various low and high level gear.
4). Sylvari Thief wears a mixture of Order armors.
5). Charr Mesmer wears a mixture mid and high level gear.
6). Human Elementalist with 2 sets of armor is based off an Imperial Bright Wizard. His first set is a mixture of Order armors. His second set wear a mixture of Dungeon armors and Whispers leggings.

Last pic is my Human Guardian looking awesome at the peak of Mount Maelstrom :P If you can’t tell I’m a Warhammer fan. I’m also working on a Norn Chaos Knight!

So I left in February and I’m coming back slowly and I’ve noticed that Dragonbrand the server I’ve been on since the betas and since head-start day one seems kinda dead/unsociable. So i was wondering whats a more populated/sociable server? Would Tarnished Coast probably be the best bet?

The wallet function is pretty nifty wish it was there in the beginning. Anet still hates farmers, so farming for lodestones is still bad right? Really wanted Mjlonir but with these Champ drops I’d rather farm those instead now. Precursor and Legendary stuff is still FUBAR as well it seems?

JustTrogdor.7892:

Vodac.9742:

I know EVERYONE is going to look forward to the under water dungeon.

Not EVERYONE. I hate underwater areas. I avoid them as much as possible. That being said I don’t care if they add one. I have plenty of other things to do.

I do believe he forgot his /sarcasm tag.

Nuka Cola.8520:

DandySlayer.7019:

ITS THE FRACTAL HAMMER! I’ve wanted it since I first laid eyes upon it in November!

I have 4, no characters to use it on, would’ve given you one for free if this game wasn’t called Account Bound Wars 2.

Of course not the precursors or the legendaries! Sell those to your hearts content!

TriggerSad.2597:

Nuka Cola.8520:

DandySlayer.7019:

ITS THE FRACTAL HAMMER! I’ve wanted it since I first laid eyes upon it in November!

I have 4, no characters to use it on, would’ve given you one for free if this game wasn’t called Account Bound Wars 2.

Wrong Hammer. Entropy uses the skin the Arch Diviner’s hammer uses in the Colossal Fractal. You can even see the icon in the screen shot.

That’s what I meant lol. Its been awhile since I’ve played and forgot about the actual Fractal weapons set.

But they have a Gold one called Genesis and I want that so bad!

ITS THE FRACTAL HAMMER! I’ve wanted it since I first laid eyes upon it in November!

An underwater Zone would probably saved for an expansion for our battle against Bubbles. I think after they decide Zhaitan is dead we’ll shift to the North and face Jormag next. I wonder what will happen to Orr with its lack of the unliving hordes?

Deadcell.9052:

A ton of DE’s go unnoticed, there were so many patches where in the notes there would be a single line saying "we added “x” amount of DE’s to the game", no mention of where they are, what zone no additional info of any kind. So of course in the eyes of Anet its going to show lack of interest, no one knows where or when to go somewhere.

That’s because they want you to explore and happen upon them so you might get slightly surprised…. well hopefully.

Seezungenschleuder.8319:

Nothing personal, nothing indidividual.

Sounds like the Personal Story in this game…

Yea the home instances are wasted efforts for now…

After watching the sPvP State of the Game when the Anet guys brought up the fact that making new armor skins is an expensive process, I figured that meant we weren’t going to get any new armor skins in the game anytime soon. So now that that’s a little more clear now its understandable to why we haven’t seen any new skins other than shoulders.

But a big complaint among people I play the game with is the lack or armor skins. So in compensation for that how about making a new transmutation stone that would allow us to use any armor type with it? This would open up new options to the entire player-base and truly allow creative people to flourish within the game.

I know there are plenty of people who are totally for this (Me) and there are plenty of people against it as well. SO lets have a little discussion about this!
Please keep it civil and keep on topic.

Don’t forget our emotes!

For Player Housing honestly all they need to is rework the home instance a bit and BOOM there it is. And yes it’d be nice to have Guild Halls.

You don’t get a reward for something you didn’t work for simple as that. I have my own guild and I have a dedicated dungeon running group but for the most part I’m a soloist and do a majority of the PvE content solo as intended. But I don’t believe you should be rewarded for doing something you didn’t do at all.

Darth Llama.9217:

In my opinion, this is the best middle ground, most people that play GW2 agree that one thing this game badly needs is more armor skins.

And if they don’t add more armor skins then they should add a new transmutation stone that would allow us to use any armor class type. And since they said its quite expensive to make new skins I would think that would be the next logical thing to do…. :/

IndigoSundown.5419:

Apparently, the AoE adjustment is also coming. Since AoE is a potential counter to stealth, the nature of those adjustments will also matter.

No. They are still CAREFULLY watching and examining AoE’s before the implement any kind of change/nerf because they know it’ll change the way the game is played for many people.

All my questions pertain to the PvE side of the game.

1-: Will weapons ever be dye-able like in the original Guild Wars?

2-: Will we ever be able to cosmetically mix and match the different armor skin classes to create even more unique looks in compensation for the lack of armor skins currently in-game and allow for even more customization of heroes.

3-: Will there ever be profession specific armors that could not be transmuted to use with another profession?

4-: Will capes ever be implemented?

5-: Will there be more town clothes?

6-: Will the Cities be made to feel more “alive” then they do now? As in will there be more unique vendors, mini games, and/or in city events?

7-: Will the home instances be more customizable to make it feel more like player housing like other MMORPGS? Examples would be like unique trophies you could gain from dungeons, world events, and/or accomplishing certain achievements so you have some thing to show for your hard work journeying and adventuring through Tyria.

8-: Will more weapon types be added to the game? Examples being like Battle Axes, Fist Weapons, Spears for land use, and/or Whips?

It’s a chore going through the “Personal” story once but you want to do it again!?!?!? Glutton for punishment eh? lol.

The only way I’d EVER do the story is if they remade it entirely and made it an actual personal experience with choices that I can make that actually change my playthrough and give me a unique experience just about every time I created a new character! Oh and just to nitpick give us different voice options as well so I can make characters sound different somewhat..

synch.2980:

You can do this if you have another character on your account who’s joined the other order, but it’s a bit fiddly.

1) Have your character in the other order buy the armor you want
2) transmute it to a “white” quality item – this will make it account-bound
3) put the item in your bank
4) remove it on your first character, and re-transmute it onto the armor of your choice.

Not as convenient as just having access to them all, but better than nothing.

Exactly what I did

You can’t WvW on a guested server.

Meeooww.3742:

materials would be so much cheaper if nothing was regulated. right now the only thing keeping prices up so high is the cost to get them. Before Diminishing returns was there, prices were very low. Now that DR is in place to keep players in check the only thing we can amass is gold. Also DR was never meant for bots, it was just an excuse. I see no bots, only players grinding at the timed events.

The only reason you don’t see the bots is because the are all under the map now but more recently I’ve seen bot trains reappearing. This just goes to show that DR has utterly failed in the open world and hurts only the real players and does nothing to the bots. DR in the open world needs to go! It works in dungeons but is an utter failure otherwise. I just hope Anet realizes this before its to late.

You can also grind FotM till you go mindless and hope RNG will be kind to you! I’m still trying to get more Vial’s of Condensed Mists Essence….. And it seems RNG hates my account really bad…..

I think he should just have the junk he has taken out and have his laurels refunded and BAM! Everything is fine and dandy.

Its dumb that there is no buyback system in place for laurels, karma, and dungeon tokens when mistakes and accidents can happen.

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Good thing DR is in place to prevent this and continue to screw real players! Oh wait….
You can see this for yourself in Lornars Pass on Dragonbrand where I’m just chilling and watching them! So come join me and help report them!

But seriously why is DR still implemented in the Open World? In Dungeons it fine an dandy and all but its not necessary anymore for the open world.

We’ve been able to do this since day one…..

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I ’d save Anet from Crystin Cox……

OH storywise……. I’d save those cute bunnies I always seem to incinerate!

Revolution.6301:

I’ve heard SWTOR has a fantastic story. This story is just pitiful at times, okay at best. Gw1 might have followed some cliches but it didn’t let the cliches ruin it. Rurik wasn’t annoying, rather he was quite a strong character.

The Story is amazing in SWTOR! It completely spoiled me as now when I play an MMORPG the story needs to be on par or better than SWTOR. GW2 is far below par unfortunately in the story department especially the “personal” aspect of it…. And the Living Story is just terrible as well….

Yea I don’t buy them for the stats, I buy them for the skin. You don’t have to have them so the price is ok and its easy to make that money in a month or so.

Chadramar.8156:

I don’t think there’s anything that can realistically be done about the “personal story”, because it is neither personal nor a story, so it’d have to be completely reworked. Who’s going to pay for all the writing, scripting and voice acting? So, yeah, they irrevocably dropped the ball on this from the very beginning.

In order to have a story, we’d need continuity — connections between the individual arcs, people recognizing our characters and remembering their actions, something changing in the world (even if it’s just an instanced area like the “home” which is currently as worthless as the story overall). In order to make it personal, we’d need the ability to actually roleplay, and most of all the game would have to start treating our characters as characters instead of featureless blobs with no past, no species, and no individuality.

As I have said many times, the early species-dependent chapters are decent and fun enough, but it all goes downstream without a paddle afterwards because every PC acts and talks and thinks and is treated EXACTLY THE SAME and even your own mother doesn’t recognize you, nevermind the people you helped before.

What I’d wish for is a story that diverges based on species, character creation choices and decisions made during the game. The puerile kitten contest between the Orders has to go, just make the mid-game about helping to bring everyone together — including calling squabbling morons out hard and fast if they put petty personal nonsense before saving the world. Something like an extended version of the charr/human peace talks for every species, organization and conflict. Settling past grudges, leadership disputes, infiltration and sabotage problems. All with a strong species-based influence: the Wyld Hunt and dreaming for sylvari, the warband for charr, and so on.

In short, who we are and what we do needs to matter.

Totally +1 for this.

If I could I’d hop in the Delorean and tell Anet to take a page from Bioware. That would be my advice as I enjoy their ability to make games that allow you to develop your characters personality to your choosing. (with the exceptions of DA2 and the last 15 minutes of ME3)

OH and make sure dyes stay accountbound and not soulbound!

All my toons are blank drones with prerecorded “personalites.”

Healix.5819:

Since they do allow you to sell legendaries, which are composed of soulbound and account bound items, they should also allow you to sell those items individually.

Why not allow someone to, for example, sell their gifts of exploration directly. Doing so would probably get more people spread out throughout the zones, as long as the incentive (value of them) was big enough and further reward those that just continuously replay the game because they like to.

I have 8 of those waiting to be sold if they did do that!!! Soon it will be 12!

Emmet.2943:

Except it suffered from the classic bioware syndrome your choices feel like they matter in the moment but in reality they never actually did it was just their so a choice could be made and the player felt like their was an advancement. It also tried to make it personal when your were in an mmo environment which doesn’t work at all in my book. If it was kotor 3 it would of been a lot better but it was an mmo and the story felt like a singleplayer experience. It was well voiced and had some good writing but you can’t really have something to personal unless you make 1000s of ways for a story to branch when it comes to mmos.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. The only Bioware game that was like that was ME3 as every other Bioware game your choices matter all the way through. Its why people like me raged so hard about the ending in ME3 as it was a total 180 from just about every game they made up until ME3.

And making the story personal in SWTOR was the only reason I stuck around and it was amazing in fact I think I’ll go log some hours in SWTOR today. Oh and the fact that you or your party member’s had a say in group dialogue was pretty awesome. The choices you make in SWTOR truly change your game one step at a time up until the end like a classic Bioware game.

The only problem with SWTOR is that unlike GW2 you have to do the story quests to move foward BUT it was fun to do so! I’m so glad that story stuff is optional within GW2 as its terrible anyways and had it been mandatory it would have been change a few day later with a patch that would have fixed that and broke other things :/

And yes I agree SWTOR should have been KOTOR3.

Its not very Legendary if I can buy it. They should change the Legendary tag to Expensive so they can make true Legendaries that are truly legendary and unique to acquire not this store bought garbage, something worthy of the tag Legendary.

Arimahn.3568:

The stories here are still better than some of the oh-so-amazing stories in SWTOR.

You think some of the stuff here is dry? Go play a Consular, I dare you. Go ahead, it’s free anyway.

What? Even the lamest story in SWTOR was vastly better than the best story you got here in GW2…. The stories there are actually personal as you actually build your characters personality to your liking where in GW2 your character already has a personality you just make some dumb choices that have nothing to do with your personality. Points in the story where you could have made a real difference and been a true hero are just left off to the side to rot.. I had so much hope for this story.

But yes please play SWTOR to see what a good personal story looks like.

lLobo.7960:

Zeanix.8624:

but thats really not epic, the best weapon in the game should be bind to account when you craft it.

Why?

If someone buys their weapon skin with gold does it make yours less epic?

If I make myself a Ferrari in my garage I’ll still think its epic, even if my rich neighbor bought 2 or 3 by getting rich on all the crazy wall-street stuff.

Dude if you made your own fully functional Ferrari and it was a perfect replica I would give you insane respect over your richy kitteny neighbor who just bought his… I wouldn’t have that much of a problem with the lame legendaries in this game if it was like that but its not.

bigtime.7410:

That would be a good idea for a new weapon. Cant buy the mats for it, cant sell the mats for it, cant buy it on TP, theres no way to get it other than playing the game.

I love that idea! But it doesn’t make ANet money so that idea would be shot down.

The Legendaries are a bloody joke in this game…… Those TP barons have so much gold they could make them like nothing and make massive profits. All legendaries are are sign of how much you gold you farmed/bought nothing more. Now if they don’t want to change Legendaries to soulbound and unsellable they should at least have the “Crafted by blah blah” tag on it so I know you didn’t craft it at least :/

CorruptedSave.2570:

I’d love to see more actual story to these, but with how the personal story was done, I don’t hold my breath.

You and me both.

Gothdir.8953:

The basic idea of having a changing world is good but the way it is presented is just terribly boring.

I know its to late for saying this but a normal quest line (like in other mmos, you know ! above head) could have presented the changes way better.

There are 1 or 2 NPCs telling me 2 sentences about whats going on and then i stand at a fix point and grind my av…this event makes again painfully clear that gw 2 is more grind then most other mmos.

That’s exactly how I feel about this!

I would have preferred new dungeons or heck make 10 man dungeons! Just anything other than this open world raid…..

Heck I would prefer if at random times within the current dungeons that the NPC guild Modus Sceleris would pop up and challenge you within the dungeon as long as your party was a full guild party and give special rewards for defeating them within a certain time frame or stopping them from reaching an important area. Something that would change up the dungeon run but the encounter would have to be completely random so you’d never know if you would run in to them during this run or the next. They need to do something with Modus Sceleris because after Halloween they’ve been pretty much forgotten about…

Kaiyanwan.8521:

But a meh story is just not really enough for a game that was built (promoted) around a personal story. This is my story! Ah kitten, let’s go back to grind mode.

Still cannot see, how this update combined with next month will be “the conent worth an expansion”… For now, it has to be the worst story expansion ever since the invention of asia grinders…

You want a game built around a Personal Story? Go check out SWTOR the story is pretty kitten good and puts GW2’s story to utter shame and SWTOR wasnt even billed as a “personal” story.. I can’t even make my character talk the way I want him to talk as he already has a personality regardless of what I choose….

And yes this Living Story is quite lame so far and is nowhere near epic which is sad…. Good thing I like the cosmetic customization and combat or I would have left after the Lost Shores update.

Warruz.8096:

DandySlayer.7019:

Name Changes yes.
Race Change no as your choice in race is tied to your kitten Personal Story.

I imagine it could still work it just would take a little more to do.

Can have 3 options
A) It just applies the equivalent choices you made(as its really only the first parts that truely differ)

B) Allows you to make those choices and completes them very much similar how Mass effect 2 allows you to make decisions as if you played the 1st one

C) It just restarts the story if its not completed and you pick your choices as if you made a new character.

All of that would require quite some work and at this point in time I wouldn’t even have race changes on my mind if I were at Anet. So if they decided to allow us to change races it wouldn’t be coming for well over a year or so. So just choose wisely before making a toon or buy more slots to make more toons like I did!

Guild Missions
Can’t comment on it as its not released yet.
Condition Damage/Class Balance
Yes I can agree that conditions feel pretty weak along with toughness. Why does my beefy warrior go down just as fast as the glass cannon warrior?
Pre-Cursors/Mystic Clovers/Legendary
The only “legendary” weapon in this game is Final Rest and thats only because it’ll be sold for a legendary price. The other “legendaries” are cool but not for the amount of grind need…. and even then the only one with any lore and coolness is Flameseeker Prophecies.
Dungeons/Fractals
YEA dungeons need a lot of reworking to be done! Look how long they took to fix CoF p2! Its fun now but other dungeons need to reworked/fixed asap.
DR/TP
Thats a simple one they want you to go to the BLTC and purchase gems to convert to gold! In dungeons its perfectly fine as is but in the open world its got to go. For a no grind game it makes no sense to have DR around since all its doing is forcing people to grind twice as hard….. All I want is Mjolnir and that seems impossible with the utter kitten drop rate charged cores/lodestones drop AND with DR in place…..

Blakey.5670:

One could argue that the only real reason to change races would be for the better racial skills ( unless you’re cosmetically obsessed) . And that’s a balance issues right there.

That I’m guilty of……
I have 3 level 80 warriors and 2 level 80 Guardians…

Name Changes yes.
Race Change no as your choice in race is tied to your kitten Personal Story.

Dog.1472:

So, instead of handling it like an adult and discussing your intentions, you just kicked him at the very end of a dungeon.

Wait your telling my guildie to act like an adult and discuss this with this fellow? Watch the Video again and watch as he discusses what we should do in the coming boss fight…… OH WAIT he charged into the room hopped in a hole in the wall and then proceeded to get himself killed! No my guildie and I had discussed kicking him in our Vent channel due to him bad mouthing and giving our necro (who had ran HotW only once beforehand) attitude and then he went all Leeroy Jenkins on us and that was the final straw so we kicked him and 4 manned the fight.

By the way The United Runners of Dungeons is recruiting! Looking for fun mature people to run mostly PvE content and sometimes WvW! We do have an active vent server and we’d like you to join us!!! We are on Dragonbrand but we will accept anybody from any server!!! Hope to see you soon!

Path 2 is now super fun!!!! I love it!!! I don’t know how people are having a hard time at all!

Just did path 2 in CoF and I LOVED IT!!!!! It was actually fun!!!!!!