Guild Wars 2

While I appreciate the free gear bot and the random xmute shard…what we really got cheated out of was the LI, which for most is the main focus for raiding, as this bug set people back a week.

So why were Legendary Insights not included in this? Would gladly trade in the chest for my LI I would have gotten instead.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Sol.6213:

Thanks for the development attention to WvW.

Two things;

If someone transferred today, when would they be eligible to start earning rewards when the new system goes live?

I have no idea what you are talking about with tiers of armor. Can someone explain (even take a guess) about the details of what that’s about?

You would not be eligible to earn pips until the 9th if you transferred today.

The Armor Tiers are:
Tier 1 – Triumphant armor
Tier 2 – Triumphant Hero’s armor
Tier 3 – Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s armor

Weapons:
Tier 1: Hero’s weapons
Tier 2: Mistforged Hero’s weapons

How are these going to handled? A lot of players have unlocked all the T1 skins and salvaged them to save on inventory space. Will there be a collection added for this (or tracking of skins unlocked), or will we be forced to re-complete 18 reward tracks?

Will we be able to use the revive orbs from our bank if we don’t have them in our inventory/shared inventory?

Please somebody explain why you chose RESET to implement the reset change? Why not close WvW an hour ahead of time or even 30 minutes? What was the point of getting everyone hyped for a friday reset if it’s going to be disabled at reset time?

A lot of stuff could be changed, but I do agree with the stab being reverted.

An idea for the BLs that is not my own, but what to add to this discussion is to work on getting the alpine BLs back first, and use that time while they’re active to work on fixing Desert and working on making them into a weekly rotation. This gives you PLENTY of time to openly test your changes with DBL with the community and gain points with the community by communicating and listening to feedback.

Also don’t put reset time so late, that’s usually dinner time for us PST people, or bedtime for the EST people, that’s just awful. Keep it NA prime, an hour after daily reset.

Thank you once again Anet for punishing and discouraging small guilds, keep up the good work.

Meanwhile yak walking still broken, can we get that removed to? Also WvW Rank is broken for many people too, when can see that removed?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Macros

Guild Wars 2 players are permitted to use macros as long as the macros are programmed with a 1 key for 1 function protocol.

1. This means that if you program a macro, it must require one keystroke per action. You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions.
2. For example, if you Press A and it results in the casting of a single skill, you’re ok. If you Press A and it casts multiple spells, you’re not ok.
3. You cannot program a macro to perform the same or multiple actions on more than one account at a time.
4. You cannot program an “auto-clicker” macro that, for instance, opens chests while you play elsewhere.
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I would also like clarification on this, as in my opinion this was worded and structured poorly. Are you simply talking about an “autoclicker” to open bags while you sit still doing else or a programed macro to be used while you perform other activities?

If the first, why is using a keystroke for a macro alright, but a mouse click is not for opening bags? How do you differentiate an autoclick program from say Logitech Gaming Software, where you can program your mouse buttons to perform any task you want? If by definition that use the program for that purpose the entire program is considered an illegal 3rd party app and you’ll be forced to deal punishment to thousands or more users. Especially since with enough knowledge you can create a powershell script to achieve an autoclicker, or are you about to say that Windows/Microsoft is now considered an illegal 3rd party app?

NikeEU.7690:

oshilator.4681:

NikeEU.7690:

Dhan Rahl.8493:

And then the prices skyrocketed.

You didn’t have 24 maguuma lilies saved up already just for this occasion? Casual.

You don’t already have all your insignias/inscriptions made? Casual.

I just didn’t have any faith they would ever fix this bug.

I was gearing up other toons to raid and a legendary

And then the prices skyrocketed.

Cannot transmute Ascended gear/weapons into Trailblazer via Mystic Forge.

So…those of us who have been effected by the map completion reward bug aren’t getting compensation and are instead being told to just “wait til a possible fix comes out”, again? I feel like I’ve heard this before.

Which means those of us whose progress is blocked for collection items are still out of luck and have to wait maybe another week for an update, or a fix at all.

Artaz.3819:

Dear ANet, you do realize that Gold Sellers will now pick a highly liquid asset that represents approximate gold value (i.e. Globs of Ectoplasm) and use that instead, right? Of course, they’ll continue to use +500g immediate sales as well.

I’ve seen similar measures done by other MMOs and guess what happens? Alternate items are used instead and it’s a very vicious cycle.

Limiting gold transfer rates does not work. Monitoring and then quickly freezing/holding suspicious activity like a credit card company does work (quick release logic, is the send on the receivers friend list/in his or her guild/did they actually send a reply or to message, were they recently in a party, etc.). The KEY to gold sellers is quick delivery. If the gold sellers can’t guarantee a 48-hour or less turnaround, they go out of business as word gets around.

This is bad bad bad. Stop before you reinvent the economy for players. At best you killed a portion of the Gold Sellers gold assets (which they stole) from the 15% gold lost from Trading Post fees. BUT that all that doesn’t stop the hacking and only effectively increases the outside sale price of gold by 15%. At worst, you just upended the trading post economy and lots more legit playing and core players will lose out on the new screwed up economy.

Thanks for the Glob of Ectoplasm rise … doh ><

This right here. I feel that putting a cap on something like this will result into what GW1 trading devolved into: selling items with a fixed ecto or amulet rate simply to bypass this system, which will flood map chat and more importantly the LFG system which is also what happened in GW1…was hard to find parties simply due to the 50+ trade parties.

Instead why not try a CoD (Cash on Delivery) system for mail that exceeds a certain amount of gold, or something that requires both parties to confirm before excepting large amounts of gold like the trading of precusors or legendaries. As somebody else mentioned in this thread already, this will kill guild raffles in a heartbeat, as a lot of large communities survive on the donations, and the easiest way to recieve donations is to hold raffle when the incentive is to win possibly 500g or more. If anything it will force them to again barter with items from the TP which is a huge lose of gold for something so expensive.

Another idea is to just add in a system that’s only purpose is to verify the transfer of gold between accounts, and when a transfer exceeds an amount (say 500g), it raises a flag for one of the GMs or Junior GMs to verify before the transfer is completed.

Another idea again is to gift gems to people to use as a medium for gold so it doesn’t default to the GW1 bartering style, since they either have to be bought with gold, or actual currency.

I just don’t think a limit should be put on this, especially when servers help transfer guilds over, which is about 250g~ per person.

Yes trinket’s are not THAT difficult to get so I may start working on them soon, as well as a legit armour set to start putting real runes on, although I haven’t decided Valk armour + Zerker trinkets or the other way around.

So far it’s been alright, just wish I had an easier way to swapping between builds between fights hah.

I went with the Badge zerker armour and the cheapest rune set for a Wells build (Rage) because I had 2 pieces from dungeons that I had gotten for skins to try out. And so far it’s working out well. I think I’ve decided to work on an ascended Rabid set just because that’s what a majority of my time in WvW and PvE wil be spent on. Although honestly I’ve been pampered by dire stats so a Valkyrie set might be something I’ll use instead of Zerker (I can’t stand being paper, even though I still have my Dire/Rabid trinkets), but that’s beside the point.

I’ve had some success with using a wells backline build but don’t see myself using it unless it’s a large scale engagement of at least 20+, as 50% of the time it’s a pain in the kitten to hit 5 people because nobody stays together (or maybe they are just bad who knows). I do need to alternate with a “quicker wells” build though because I feel like a one trick pony every engagement as most are decided within 1 or 2, but hardly ever enough for more than 1 well combo.

But in the very least it’s opened a new kind of playstyle for me in WvW by being in backline for once instead of being apart of the forward charge (at least until I forgot I’m not actually tanky and charge in like an idiot). And it still makes me cry how expensive these runes/sigils are to get the full effectiveness out of each of these builds (somewhere near 70g for original build, 80g~ for wells set).

Thank you for the feedback, and will keep coming back if anyone else wishes to add their input until this thread dies =]

To start, I probably should have put this in the “Player helping Players” forum, but I didn’t know how many of the dedicated WvW players browse that, and you guys are the ones I wanted to receive feedback from.

So I am torn between splitting my time with PvE, WvW, and SWTOR Raids (Yeah some people still play that), and EotM when I’m bored with everything else. This means that I don’t really have a lot of time to dedicate to gearing myself as a Necromancer to fit all 3 modes of play, so I’ve tried to find one build that I can enjoy playing for everything all at once (which has proven difficult, but the challenge makes it worthwhile) and that build is one I found while researching popular necro builds so that I may get a feel for what I want to be doing. Turns out what I enjoy best was that of a Condition Roamer. Now obviously I’ve had to adapt to each type of play as much as possible as per usual, but lately I’ve started having more and more interest in WvW when I’m not doing PvE raids in either game.

That brings me to the actual question itself. Should I try to adapt the play style I’ve come to enjoy and learn so that I can begin the crafting of Ascended armour (which in this case is Rabid flavoured)? Or should I conform to the WvW Meta of my class and go for a Wells Backline, or even a Zerker that would work for both PvE and WvW? I’m torn between playing something I know I don’t enjoy (Zerker, which is the philosopher’s stone of PvE, PvP, and WvW), or that I will simply will be bored with (a wells bot), and providing the most assistance I can to my server by being apart of WvW even if I’m just 1 meatbag in a blob of meatbags.

I’m not the best at making currency in most games, nor am I one for taking hours out of the day to farm materials and such, so an ascended set of armour would be a very long term project to undertake (not to mention runes and sigils), and I really don’t want to put my time and money into something that I personally enjoy and find out that it doesn’t contribue to anything outside of roaming. Maybe it’s a kittened question of just another WvW scrub, but any input (well the positive kind would be smashing) would be appreciated and encouraged while I ponder between gearing myself versus going broke on my toon’s wardrobe.