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I was annoyed by the Winterfest slingshot skin attacking sound. I was very glad to get rid of it.
Is there any chance you can upload a video or sound file of the super scepter? I wanted to get one, but don’t want to pay and then be annoyed to hell if it has a sound I can’t stand.
@Fyrebrand. THANK YOU. You “got” what I was trying to say.
Defrost: “ANY NEWLY CREATED CHARACTER HAS TO WAIT 24 HOURS, before accessing the SAB.”
I’m for this idea, even if it’s a slippery slope.
I’m not sure how this could end up a slippery slope.
However, creating a character you never intended to keep just so you can delete it as soon as you finish this one activity kind of crosses the line into scummy, unsporting “meta-game” manipulation.
E~X~A~C~T~L~Y
…but I do think ArenaNet should make an effort to discourage nonsense like that…
…but behaviours that play the system rather than play the game…
Exactly. Currently they are promoting abnormal behaviour, with the potential for botting. A 24 hour wait period to access the SAB, for newly created characters is an easy, elegant solution.
And to address the ability to delete character farm Black Lion Keys…
1) Yes, I know that Anet has specifically come out and said that doing this is not an exploit.
2) But Anet were complete short-sighted “geniuses” to make that a reward for completing your level 10 Personal Story.
3) It should be immediately be moved to AT LEAST a level 20 P.Story reward, to slow down those people who do farm them. At least make it take longer than the current 45-60 minutes it takes to get a BL Key. If it were moved to a level 20 P.Story reward, the player would have to level their character higher than level 5-6 AND would have to travel across a larger portion of the map to get the key.
I dont think you should be able to do this but there is no impact on others that some one does this.
Exactly. It is not working as intended, but apart from looking shinier (a bit faster) than other players, there are no advantages to it.
1) Even if it’s only 1/50 chance for a skin to drop from a chest, you can STILL make money on the TP selling the skins.
As a ROUGH comparison…
2a) It takes 2,100 karma for 1 Shard. I have no idea how long that takes in Orr.
b) It take 3 days to get an 3 Obsidian Shards, via laurels. Let’s say, 1 day for 1 Shard.
c) It takes 15 Fractal Relics to get 1 Shard. Let’s say 3 Fractals @ level 10 = 45 minutes for 1 Shard. OR say, 60 minutes for 4 Shards, if you do the Jade Maw + Daily Chest.
d) It takes about 11 minutes, from character creation to the 2nd boss chest to get FOUR Shards.
e) There are similar comparisons for Crystals & Philosopher’s Stones.
There can be an impact on the economy, even if only a small one, if people are getting “lucky” with skins dropping from chests. And for Obsidian Shards, Crystals and Philosopher’s Stones, it’s not “a bit faster”… it’s A LOT faster to get them with delete character farming.
Please share this knowledge (…) How do you get 28 bauble bubbles on just two characters in one hour?
http://dulfy.net/2013/04/04/gw2-super-adventure-box-bauble-digging-locations/
OP likes to sell his skins for a much higher price..
as in now, everyone can get the skins they want by themself without any gating..
so it only make sense to make gates for those skin prices to go up..
otherwise it will only plunge further..
a) So far out of 30 chests, I’ve not had any weapon skins drop from the chests. So nice try with that trolling.
b) What are you even talking about? I’m not talking about gating ANYTHING that you experience in a NORMAL WAY. Making a character, killing 2 bosses, and then deleting the character is NOT a normal way to play a game.
c) If Anet DOES add 24 hour wait time for NEWLY CREATED characters to access the SAB, all your current characters can STILL get all the baubles they want, to trade with Moto to get any skin (or other item they want).
d) You do realize there are bound and NON-bound skins?
Esplen: No. The current reward system is fine. It doesn’t need to be changed. Only the delete farming needs to be addressed.
And how, pray tell, do you suggest it should be addressed?
Please do not respond with a: “I’m just giving a suggestion, it’s up to Arenanet to figure it out.” because that’s like me saying: “The government is corrupt. It’s up to the government to uncorrupt itself.”
Esplen… I already addressed the solution in my OP, clear as day. Please re-read it :-)
—> “Any newly created character has to wait 24 hours, before accessing the SAB.”
Simple. Elegant. Solution.
Azure Prower: People should not have to level an alt to play :-)
Giles Marchand: 1) I’m aware that there are 420 baubles in Zone 2 from digging. But I think it would still take longer to get all (or most of those 420 baubles), to get 1,000 than to farm the bosses.
2) Yes you CAN earn the weapon skins via bauble bubbles, but you can’t SELL those ones. You CAN SELL the ones you find in a chest. Considering the skins are selling in the 3-4g, 7g, 20g range, that’s nothing to sneeze at.
Mad Queen Malafide: It’s not that hard to get the weapon skins with bauble bubbles. If you had 4 alts, and you ONLY did the 1st two bosses (about 10-15 mins a day per character, including zoning), on 15/30 of the possible days… that would be 4*4*15= 240 bauble bubbles. Almost enough to get 5 weapons skins. Not a grind either.
Xavori: 1) The post is about “DELETE CHARACTER” farming. My post is not about people with a lot of alts.
2) If you have 20 alts, then you should be able to do the SAB on each of your characters.
Giles Marchand: Assuming you get 2+2+2+1=7 bauble bubbles per chara, that would be 14. That would mean you’re getting at least 3,500 baubles to get the other 14 bauble bubbles. If you can do that in “a little less than an hour”, good job.
Esplen: No. The current reward system is fine. It doesn’t need to be changed. Only the delete farming needs to be addressed.
People are farming the SAB by: doing Zones 1 + 2 (to get 2+2 bauble bubbles), then deleting the character, making a new one, and doing Zones 1 + 2 (to get 2+2 more bauble bubbles). Over… and… over.
This is really breaking the spirit, and trivializing, the SAB. This is the SECOND instance of GW being turned into “Delete Wars”. Is deleting characters over and over REALLY how Anet wants people to play GW?
Bob: “Hey what did you do in GW yesterday?”
Doug: “I made and deleted my character 40 times!!! I’m so LEET!!!”
This can be fixed with a very simple addition.
ANY NEWLY CREATED CHARACTER HAS TO WAIT 24 HOURS, before accessing the SAB.
Problem solved.
EDIT CLARIFICATION:
1) People are farming the boss CHESTS in Zones 1 + 2.
2) This is giving them an unfair advantage to get the weapons skins that you can SELL on the Trading Post. Considering that the skins are selling in the 3-4g, 7g, 20g range, that’s nothing to sneeze at.
3) This is giving them an unfair advantage to get bauble bubbles. Which are NOT ONLY FOR weapon skins. They can also be used to get: Obsidian Shards, Crystals, Philosopher’s Stones. If you don’t know what those are, or why it’s unfair to easily get them this way… wiki it.
4) Adding a level requirement, limiting on the amount of chests you can open per day, limiting the amount of baubles you can get in a day, OR ANYTHING ELSE… are all BAD IDEAS. Why are some people making it more complicated than having a 24 hour wait time, from when you create a new character? It would ONLY affect the people who are doing “Delete Character Farming”.
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- They DID give us a new, free, bank tab for rare materials.
- They DID add Laurels as a new currency, without using Tokens.
- Do we have stacks of gold or karma? Do we have stacks of weapon mastery points (2,670/5,000 kills with an axe)? Nope.
- Tokens are a non-trade-able, account-wide currency, equivalent to Karma/Laurels. Plain and simple.
- The question (for Tokens) shouldn’t be about how big of a stack size vs required amount of computer storage space. The question should be, “Why do we have stacks for THIS type of non-trade-able currency?”
- All that is needed is a new tab for the Hero Panel, showing a list of Tokens & amounts.
PLEASE don’t make Tokens a “Deposit-able Collectible”, that we are all seeing hinted at, when we right-click a Token. PLEASE just make a Tokens tab in the Hero Panel… showing all the various amounts we have.
You have two other names that are offensive; one of them is probably the REname that you did today.
- We will be monitoring this, and if you use anything offensive, you will serve a two-week suspension and the agent will rename your characters for you.
Choose wisely.
Gaile… You just made my day. Thanks. :-)
The boundlessness of human stupidity has long since ceased to amaze me, BUT every time I see someone get name suspended, and then make another offensive name, a wry smile crosses my lips.
I have never heard of someone getting a two-week suspension, although many have deserved one. It warms the kittenles of my heart (which are deep inside my body) to know that such a possibility exists.
“Choose wisely”… almost made me do a spit-take. Good one.
PS. “kittenles” shouldn’t be “kitten-ed”.
The question was whether the commendations and care package would still be available, not if Lyns would accept them!
Indeed, Anthony Ordon did not lie. But like a used car saleman, he didn’t bother to tell the whole truth. He “neglected” to mention that Lionguard Lyns would be PROMPTLY REMOVED at the beginning of Wintersday.
Reannah.7360’s intent was clear. We all wanted to know if we should continue making and using the CCC’s, or if we should spend them. BASED ON this post, I assumed I had time to use them… Instead of just having them sit in my bank this whole time.
The second I saw this new currency during the Lost Shores, I (AND others) posted on the forum, asking how long the currency would be around. Anet didn’t deign to provide an answer to the peons until WEEKS AFTER the event had ended. I don’t care if the BLKeys have been removed… But I await, with eager anticipation, to see if Anet screws us over by changing the previous ratios or other items.
Dear Anet,
For future videos, where someone is talking, please reduce the background music level by 25-50% of the music in the “2013 Preview Video”. I love the music from GW2, but when the primary reason for a video is to relay info, the volume level of background music needs to be considered… especially during crescendos.
Thanks.
Does anyone know if these are a permanent currency OR if they are just here for this weekend event?
*add show/hide name button to the game
*remove red color from enemies armor
No. Period.
It ~ will ~ never ~ happen.
People will be tracked/hunted/griefed by name or armour dye set up. Which is EXACTLY what Anet does not want.
Why do you care how the enemy views you? Come on, say the truth :-) … YOU want to see people’s name/armour colour, for griefing. That’s the ONLY reason anyone would ever care about how the enemy see’s them.
Thanks Zaken… I didn’t even notice that it was “bow” vs “blow”… that’s how psychologically effective the name is. Now that I see what the person’s name actually is… No, I am not expecting the name filter to pick up on this kind of instance, since “bowjobz” is not offensive. Since I ‘read’ the name as “blow”, I thought it was bypassing the filter because of the umlauts. The player’s language is a different issue…
Expecting the name filter to pick up bad words that use non-English punctuation marks is not unreasonable. My original assertion is that if kitten is not allowed… then neither should ähole.
LoLz… Well after previewing this post… I can see that, at least on the forum, the language filter needs work. There should be TWO “kitten” replacements in my post.
CLARIFICATION TO THE MODERATORS: I did not intend to bypass the filter, it was unintentional. I just picked a word I didn’t think would be filtered, that I could use an umlaut in, as an example. I am leaving my previewed post as is, to address the problem.
(edited by Moderator)
In this screenshot of Jon Peters talking about the upcoming patch notes, there is a lovely named person, who said a lovely thing.
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9245/gw2languagefilter.jpg
I wont question the mental stability of someone like this commenting when Jon Peters is in the chat channel, but I am questioning why Anet’s language filter doesn’t take into account non-English punctuation marks?
FOV (Field of View) Changes Beta Test - Feedback Thread
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Posted by: Defrost.1679
Perfect. TY.
1) The game doesn’t feel claustrophobic any more.
2) When I die and I’m waiting to be rez’ed, the DAM camera spins (which I friggan H~A~T~E). With the crappy FOV, the spinning camera would make me feeI queasy. I had to constantly keep moving the mouse to stop the STUPID camera from spinning (I’m dead Anet… I don’t need you to make me feel “helpless”). With the new FOV, the spinning camera doesn’t make me feel queasy any more (but the spinning camera still sucks monkey kittens).
Anet. Thanks for never adding mounts. I know you will never add them as they are not needed. Mounts are an ugly visual blight & unnecessary with a WP system.
> More times than I can count, I have meant to only go a short distance… then I get side-tracked and before I know it, I’m half-way across the map. This is not WoW, where getting from place to place is annoying and arduous.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but when you open a map for a zone, it has a list of what is needed for completion, along with how many you have/how many are in zone.
Only for the zone you’re in (…)
@daemonlama.5413 – If there were no WP costs, then it would just be annoying to find zones that are not 100% completed. But as it stands now, if you have not kept track of your 100%‘s, it’s annoying AND very costly.
> To state the obvious, until they add the icons, everyone should record their 100%’s, to save themselves a lot of grief.
When I reported one of this person’s characters for afk botting, I noticed the account name was:
DrPoonSlammer.3547 = sexual reference.
Overflow message CLICK THROUGH
Thanks for adding the option to leave the queue if you want to just stay in Overflow. Can you do something about the following?
When you are put in Overflow… there is a message that you HAVE to acknowledge before you can do anything. Please make it possible to click on WP’s, even when this message appears.
I don’t mind being in overflow. I can’t believe other games make you wait, watching a countdown until you can play. I just hate my screen being blocked, when I know that I am going to be zoning right away. Thanks
Here are some reference links of how it works in GW1.
GW1 Makeover Pack
Contains five Makeover Credits. Each credit allows you to change the hair style, hair color, face, skin color, and/or body height of a single character
GW1 Extreme Makeover Credit
Using an Extreme Makeover Credit will allow you to change gender as well as the other appearance options.
- There is no spoiler here.
- The reddit title is, “Mystic Forge recipes and research (it makes exotics)”.
- For anyone who wants to discover the recipes themselves, all they have to do is not read the reddit.
- NO ONE is “ruining the fun of discovering the recipes” for ANYONE.
- This isn’t Clockwork Orange and no one is running around with retractors, forcing people’s eyelids open & shoving their face in front a monitor.
- You are hating a non-existent thing… PS the Tooth Fairy is also not real.
PS. TY Mawzen.8325, I did miss that reddit.
PPS. As the reddit OP stated, “…a lot of people have figured out Mystic Forge recipes, but are just hording the information to make profit, so I’m trying to share what I know…”
> I LOVE this kind of info sharing… to try and stop a few people from controlling the exotics market.
No Alt+TAb prob here, BUT I have the same G700 profile issue.
> Here is a work around for the profile switching/dead keyboard issue. Since I want the full functionality of my mouse, I have to change “Profile Switching” from auto/manual EVERY time I start/stop playing gw2.
This assumes that you already have a gw2 SetPoint profile.
1) Open your SetPoint software > Profile Manager.
2) Choose “Switch profiles myself using mouse buttons” > Click the “Onboard Memory” button.
3) If it’s not already added > SAVE the gw2 profile to your mouse. To Save/Remove a mouse profile, select the profile, then click either Save/Remove.
4) Make sure the gw2 profile is in the FIRST position. It’s possible for the software to reset and when that happens, it defaults to the first position. Click the gw2 profile > “Move Up” button.
5) Click the “OK” button.
6) On the left hand side, select your gw2 profile > Buttons > Assign “Switch Profile” to the G11 button.
7) On the left hand side, select the General profile > Assign “Switch Profile” to the G11 button. If you have a third profile on the mouse, select it > Assign “Switch Profile” to the G11 button.
8) Click the “Apply” button.
WARNING: While gw2 is running… If you plug/unplug the mouse OR if you change the battery, TURN OFF the mouse first.
And finally… I have the same issue with gw1 and I always thought it was the fault of the SetPoint software… But that’s NOT the case. This problem started sometime AFTER Build 14,445. The problem did not happen IN Build 14,445 or any of the prior builds.
> I hadn’t played gw1 in awhile and had forgotten all about this annoyance. Then when the keyboard started dying after Build 14,445 I thought, “Oh crap… not THIS again!? Wait… it WAS WORKING FINE last night… Why isn’t it working NOW??”