Guild Wars 2

Ingame I hear more and more people screaming for refunds on items they once bought but are now obsolete because of new ones. Many people bought these gem items for IRL money and feel a kitteneated, having their expensive gemstore items just sitting on their bank clogging bankspace.

Suggestion:
Wouldn’t it be great if we could exchange the old gemstore items for a reduced amount of gems? People would be able to get rid of their duplicate items without feeling ripped off or cheated and even get a small icentive to buy something new. You see this in real life grocery stores as well where they give you a coupon for your next visit.
That being said I thought of a system to return your items to a reduced amount of gems or gold through the BLTC. It can be made that you have to buy some sort of transformation item using a small dose of gems (for example 15 – 25 gems per transformation item) in order to be able to change the double item back in to gems (or gold).
As giving back the same amount of gems as the purchase might be a bit unfair as you have used it a long time I would think of something like about 50 – 65% of the origal gem cost as a return after using the item?

Alternatively they could also make it an extra pane in the BLTC where you can easily turn in gem store items you have no use for any more. But that part I’d leave to the creative mind of the Arenanet developpers.

I think once a beast or creature has opposable thumbs you get to speak of “hands”, so ya the asura have hands not paws

I agree with this, the current limit of decorations in a localised area broke my dream of making a beautifull maze in my guild hall

Hello,

Little word before:
with the recent update on BLTC and the automatic adjustement of rewards if you have a double item I got thinking.
Before the introduction of the shared inventory slots I had allot of gemstore items I bought in double or triple for several of my characters. With the introduction of the shared slot system the doubles have often become unneccessary and thus just stay on my bank clogging bankspace.

Suggestion:
As I am sure I’m not the only one in this mather I thought of a system to return your items to a reduced amount of gems or gold through the BLTC. It can be made that you have to buy some sort of transformation item using a small dose of gems (for example 15 – 25 gems per transformation item) in order to be able to change the double item back in to gems (or gold).
As giving back the same amount of gems as the purchase might be a bit unfair as you have used it a long time I would think of something like about 60 – 65% of the origal gem cost as a return after using the item?
This way people can get rid of their doubles without feeling cheated and arenanet can still earn something out of it.

Let me know what you guys think or if you want more details.

The story in HoT was good in its core, but felt too rushed.
Things happen too fast and frankly not enough happens…
With zhaitan we had to go through great lengths to get to the end point, in HoT the pact gets shot out of the sky we walk in stroll in to mordies territory kill him like he’s a simple pest we squash with our shoe and walk away.
It felt like mordie was a total pushover and the story was something the narrators wanted to end asap.

My biggest fear is that they will do this in all their expansions.
My biggest hope however is that they do the opposite and make a longer more detailed and frankly storywise more depthfull story. (guild wars 1 was absolutely godlike in this, they should take a look at that past success story if they need inspiration)

I completely agree, guild management needs some serious tweaking to make it more manageable and functional.

In addition as a guild leader I also hate the decoration limit, I find it far too few deco’s in one place. I would like the number of max decorations to be heightened so that leaders can make more beautifull pieces of art out of their guild hall. Now we are too limited to even change small aspects of the standard theme.

Killer.1076:

I don’t know if this helps but the merchant only shows up the Super Clouds if the character you are speaking to him has furniture coins in his backpack !

Ya I know, that wasn’kitten I had 110 Coins in my inventory when this occured.
Today however they are back in the list so I guess the problem is solved.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

For an individualized response, you can contact the CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Request’ for assistance.

Good luck.

Thnx ^^

For some reason the special decorations merchant no longer lists super clouds in my guild hall…

Anyone else experience this problem?
This effectively makes me unable to trade in my furniture coins atm.
Bug? Will it be fixed soon?

Friends, I ask this not litely…
I need help raiding.
I am new to it and just want to unlock the raid masteries for this time.
No-one seems to want to take a newbie zerker tempest with them on their raid, i’ve been searching for over a month now…
So now I turn to you fine gentlemen and ladies in hopes that I may have better luck here;
Are there any people willing to take me with them so that I may unlock these masteries?

I wear full ascended, zeker gear and use food.
Teamspeak is installed tho my mic is broken.

If anyone is willing to help you may always PM me.

Thnx for all your troubles.

Server: Far shiverpeaks

Title says it all, in the final bas-story step ‘Victory or Death’ the chopper is bugged.
After you killed the first set of giants hurling the green stuff at you normally a chopper will pick you up. However the chopper is stuck and doesn’t arrive to pick you up and as such preventing us from completing the mission.

Please fix it asap as i have seen the same problem with the mission multiple times before periodically appearing and disappearing over the past 3 years.

Kind regards
Thomas

I know mech thats why i’m suggesting the community being able to create it for themselves. If we can do that for dutch we can do it for almost any language

I’d also be happy to provide allot of the translations for no charge what so ever.

I know it is a very limited public and perhaps arenanet itself should not be spending time and/or resources on it. Yet I have some friends (native dutch speakers) who have little knowledge of other languages. It would be cool if there was some way I could create a dutch gw2 story-experience for them. Perhaps a way we can translate it ourselves for these people and make it available through a plugin of some sort reviewed and approved by arenanet?

Let me know your thoughts.
PS. Only constructive comments nothing like ‘ooh let them learn another language’ because thats not why they are here!

this is getting seriously out of hand, as someone with marketing experience I hope they adress the problems soon because these articles together with the outrage in de veteran part of the community has all the potential of a disaster.

Cambeleg.7632:

Gah, I was only going to remake the post, but I deleted it accidentally… lol

However, Draconius, if Arenanet finally gives a successful resolution for this conflict, and it affects you positively, I really hope you get this benefit too. After all, we ask for fair deals.

Thank you I won’t lose any sleep over it if I don’t however.
I bought it under these (unfair) circumstances and if must be I will suffer the consequences ^^
I will remember this move however, so I really hope they don’t make these kind of blunders allot because even I have my limits after all

Cambeleg.7632:

Draconius.9076:

As a veteran who started playing GW2 since the original bèta and former GW1 veteran I understand veteran’s concerns about the offered packages. I myself have already bought the expansion (so I probably got ripped off but hey at least i’ll get the content even if they don’t listen to their community)

That being said there were some pretty dirty practises implemented with this announcement. Such as the sudden change of the FAQS-page which did enrage allot of players.

Also it is true that it’s very stupid to not include a new character slot when introducing a new profession. As someone who has allot of experience in markteing I have to say I do find that quite a blunder.

If I were Arenanet I would read the voiced concerns, dicuss them with the people who reponsible inside the company and find some way to stop the storm from growing in intensity. Already sites are picking up the story so this is potencially a very VERY bad move incomewise. Allot of potential new players probably will get second thought when they read reviews about the current afairs after all everyone wants to be able to trust the producers of the MMORPG they play. That trust has been broken for allot of people, it’s up to Arenanet to fix the damage done.

I have my ideas on how they can fix it but quite possibly the damage has already been done so now its just a matter of damage control and trying to keep as many vets as possible from saying “kitten this kitten I’m never buying from arenanet again”.

I did buy the expansion, I’m happy I bought it. But I don’t judge the people who don’t and feel enraged because frankly they have very valid points. I do not see them as saying they are ‘entitled’, I see them as standing up for their rights as a customer in what is an unfair sales-practise no mather how you turn or flip it.
In some countries certain actions that were taken are even illegal so I’m afraid Arenanet is not really as innocent as one would believe. I hope they see the community’s concerns and give some sort of compensation or adjustement to their packages to soothe the community.

If I miss out on those adjustements its alright, my faulth because I already bought it but I feel it would be the most honest thing to do for those veterans who haven’t already bought it and feel cheated.

Mister, let me give tell this: THANKS for understand the point.

You are most welcome, I honestly hope they introduce a character slot in all packages for you guys or find another way of compensation.

As a veteran who started playing GW2 since the original bèta and former GW1 veteran I understand veteran’s concerns about the offered packages. I myself have already bought the expansion (so I probably got ripped off but hey at least i’ll get the content even if they don’t listen to their community)

That being said there were some pretty dirty practises implemented with this announcement. Such as the sudden change of the FAQS-page which did enrage allot of players.

Also it is true that it’s very stupid to not include a new character slot when introducing a new profession. As someone who has allot of experience in markteing I have to say I do find that quite a blunder.

If I were Arenanet I would read the voiced concerns, dicuss them with the people who reponsible inside the company and find some way to stop the storm from growing in intensity. Already sites are picking up the story so this is potencially a very VERY bad move incomewise. Allot of potential new players probably will get second thought when they read reviews about the current afairs after all everyone wants to be able to trust the producers of the MMORPG they play. That trust has been broken for allot of people, it’s up to Arenanet to fix the damage done.

I have my ideas on how they can fix it but quite possibly the damage has already been done so now its just a matter of damage control and trying to keep as many vets as possible from saying “kitten this kitten I’m never buying from arenanet again”.

I did buy the expansion, I’m happy I bought it. But I don’t judge the people who don’t and feel enraged because frankly they have very valid points. I do not see them as saying they are ‘entitled’, I see them as standing up for their rights as a customer in what is an unfair sales-practise no mather how you turn or flip it.
In some countries certain actions that were taken are even illegal so I’m afraid Arenanet is not really as innocent as one would believe. I hope they see the community’s concerns and give some sort of compensation or adjustement to their packages to soothe the community.

If I miss out on those adjustements its alright, my faulth because I already bought it but I feel it would be the most honest thing to do for those veterans who haven’t already bought it and feel cheated.

Ok thnx in that case this can be locked

you sure? cause that does not seem to be what it says on their buy-page…

Reading the different versions I saw the following for the ultimate version:
The Ultimate edition of the game includes all of the above in addition to 4,000 gems.
The Ultimate edition will not be available as an upgrade and must be purchased as a full game package.

So I recon using my exiting account I cannot buy the ultimate version as it requires creating a new account? I can’t just add the ultimate version to my existing account?

I find this a bit disturbing as it would drop costs bij 30 EUR, the ultimate version gives you 4000gems worth 50 EUR so if i subtract that from the 100 EUR pricetag i get a result of 50 EUR for all the bonus stuff and upgrade (which seems reasonable).

However if I can’t use the ultimate version and have to buy the Deluxe version I get the same thing without the gems for 75 EUR. So 75 EUR minus 50 EUR means I would have to pay 50% more for the same thing just because I am a veteran player.
I can’t see how thats fair…

Answers please

ya thnx it was a little experiment of mine to see wether that could be the problem and it was xD

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Sometimes the MF won’t take things put in with one sequence but will another. Try putting in Gift of Mastery first.

Thnx mate already tried that tho that didn’t help either
Anyways problem is solved thnx a million ^^

Ok i found the solution.
Maybe you guys know of the bug that sometimes items of the same kind won’t stack and you need both stacks in your invent and change map before they stack again.

Same thing with kudzu items. I freshly created the mastery gift in lions arch and the rest were crafted days before. I had to have the 4 items in my inventory and change maps before they combined in mystic forge.

It took me ages but i finally got me the required list for creating kudzu:
- Gift of Kudzu
- Leaf of Kudzu
- Gift of Fortune
- Gift of Mastery

However i cannot combine the 4 of them in mystic forge….
The first 3 go in without a problem, but then my gift of mastery is all greyed out and unusable…
What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug?

Help is greatly appreciated.
Thnx!

First let me tell you how honored I felt to have been part of the Heart of Thorns stress test.

I really enjoyed it and am very grateful to have been able to take part in it.
That being said it’s time for my graded opinion.

First lets discuss the story.
I really liked the little story that was woven into the beta and the option to choose wether I’d side with Laranthir or the disgruntled soldiers.
The cutscenes were very well made and gave a feeling of being let loose in a very dangerous place.
I give the story an excellent 9,5/10.

Second the content.
There was allot of things to be seen and certain things were absolutely new and refreshing compared to the original Guild Wars 2. Lots of events were also being played which made it very dynamic.
The lack of lasting progression and relatively small beta map tho were ofcourse a little disappointing.
I can relate however on the progression part. However contentwise I was all played out within half an hour. So with the pro’s and cons all added up I gave it a 7/10.

The new profession: The Revenant.
It was a big adjustement learning to use the skills in a good way but once you get the hang of it it’s a very fun class to play with. The ability to switch between the demon and king jalis skills also gave it an extra dimension. The revenant in my personal gradebook is worth about an 8/10.

So if we add all 3 grades up to an average for the beta we can conclude me giving an 24,5/30 or approx.. 8/10.
A VERY fine score indeed.

I look forward to the launch and would like to thank Arenanet one more time for letting me be part of the beta stress test.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Update: Please PLEASE look for the message at the bottom of any in-game mails. If it says “This message was sent by another player. It was not sent by the Guild Wars 2 Team” then you know it’s not from us.

• Report it. (Click the ! within the in-game mail)
• Delete it.
• Do not click links.
• Do not respond.
• Do not allow yourself to get concerned.

If you are worried, submit a support ticket so CS can review it with you.

I must admit I am having to practise some restrain from replying on the mail saying they’re pathetic and they’ve been reported for hacking/scamming.
I won’t reply back tho as I know its pointless because they probably hacked the account they did it with to?

Got message today as well, I was a bit startled when I read it but since i did not break any rules or had any abnormal logins (only loging in from different pcs in my home network which isn’t forbidden) or transactions that they speak of I was a bit susîcious about the whole thing.

I wanted to post a thread here reporting the person who send me the mail but then I saw this post. I shall be reporting the wannabee-hacker ingame and I have attached proof of his attempt (the mail he send me) in attachment.

Arenanet please shut down these ****** from ruining the game for us legit players.
I was smart enough not to fall for their trap but many other (maybe younger/more naive) players might fall for it and lose their account or stuff to some ****** who takes pleasure in ruining other people’s fun and hard work…

ok thnx mate just pm’ed a dev to for some feedback straight out of anet’s mounth

ok super I didn’t so I’ll probably be fine but the scamming me out of my 4G is that reportable? Because I usually report such things under scamming but not sure wether thats correct?

I got kicked out of dungeon as well today weirdly enough the scammer reported me for what he called “lfg abuse” very strange kitten.
So now I’m 4G less in my pocket and got reported for something I didn’t do -_-

Devs give me some clarification is it against the rules to buy a dungeon path?
It’s not the way its meant to be used we all know that but is it against the rules?
And this dungeon scamming how can this be put to a halt or what can we do to stop it?

so ny.1629:

Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately, I can’t access the new account either. it wont let me register -=(

But I contacted support. Fingers crossed

Yes that’s probably because you want to use your emailadres, which you already used for your 1st account. Accounts are linked to your email and each emailadres can only be used ONCE to register. I would not register it if you seek a refund tho.

See what arenanet tells you then look on from there.

Free bump for a beautiful idea

If it isn’t a expansion well …
Well I hold my judgement untill I see what it is, maybe what they introduce is equally good or maybe not.
If it’s equally good no problem! If it’s not I’ll probably have to start thinking about taking a little break because all the dynamic aspects seem to have slowly drained out of the game Living story is the only dynamic part we still have and lets be honest those updates were half an hour of content tops. (well if you have a job like me you can maybe spread it across 2 days but still not much). Love the game been with it since launch never quit not even once, not planning to really but it does get kind of boring after 3 years if nothing substancial happens by now.

I would love to see somewhat retaurations in Lion’s Arch. Not a complete "hey look the city is all fresh and new like nothing ever happened’ feeling but still some bridges that slowly repair a new merchant or function popping up here and there. Something making it feel dynamic again.

I’m sorry but I’m not that into raising the level cap. many people including myself have spend tons of time getting that expensive good armor for our maxed out characters. Now you wanna make that effort obsolete by saying hey to kitten with your hard work start from zero buck we’re raising the level cap. No sorry idea just doesn’t suit me.

I have but one word for this “Woooowww”
I love your work it looks absolutely stunning!
Just love what you did with the guild panel, you transformed a pretty useless lacking gizmo from the game into something wonderfull.
I’m a leader in my guild and I would more than welcome your guildpanel! Better than that even I crave for it they have to implement it or something similar.
If an outsider like you can create something that much better it shows they have some work to do. I would love to see them hiring a talented hard working worker like yourself so that maybe one day we can see your ideas come to life in the game itself.

I’m rooting for you.
Support +1

bingo got it, had to have the tapestry mounted in the characterbound hall as well Thnx guys ^^

i brought the moa with me and the necessary skills however on that character i do not have the tapestry on fellowship, on my account however i do.

Could i be that the character’s personal Hall also has to have the tapestry placed?

Just charmed black moa in GW1. Went to hall of monuments but I can’t add statue of the black moa?

How come I can’t add the statue? (He’s lvl 20 however)

still having the same problem, autodetect wasn’t turned on with me tho.
I get the logon screen but it just freezes and i can’t type in any logon data.
Yesterday I got a half logon screen that freezed.

For me this is the start of day 2 of the problem….

Hey I know it has probably been asked a million times, so before I get flamed from every side I just want to put it out there that if the answer has already been given I missed it. In such a case I am content with solely a link to the answer.

That being said my question is: “What are Arenanet’s plans for the destroyed Lion’s Arch?”
It once again has functionality with banks and trading posts etc but I was wondering wether they were going to slowly rebuild it or let it remain a ruin for all times to come.
And if they choose to slowly rebuild it, how will they do it?
Will we see small changes happening in Lion’s Arch over the period of multiple updates or will they impliment it in another way?

I kindly ask all of you to redirect me to the answer or to give me the answer yourselves if you already know.

I thank you all and wish you the best of luck in all your endeavors.

Perfect song for the Living story!!!!
Living Story Song!!!! 16+

Hahaha just kidding nah I actually liked the LS. But I can’t really put a song on it everything seems to fall short…

DJRiful.3749:

What was your BSOD Code 0×00 ?

I haven’t checked If I get it again I’ll post it mostly I don’t get a blue screen but the whole thing just freezes. Only couple of times it resulted in a blue screen.

Got a pretty decent pc with Radeon HD7950 video card and plenty of cooling elements.
Approx 2 years old now.

Whenever I launch Guild wars 2 nowadays and play in Dry top my pc freezes (I figured it’s something with my graphics card maybe….)

Even had a ‘blue screen of death’ a couple of times always when playing Dry top…
I have cleaned the dust out of my pc its spotless now, I checked wether all fans are working properly and they do. PC is at least a meter from the wall now so cooling should not be a problem.

After a blue screen however the fan just starts blowing really fast almost like its gonna lift off. I was thinking its some sort of cooling issue that occurs when playing Guild Wars 2’s Dry Top.

Anyone any other ideas or any clue how to fix the problem without replacing half my pc?

My computer type is an HP Pavilion h9-1219eb
http://www.computerstore.be/product/210191/hp-pavilion-h9-1219eb-phoenix-azerty.html

I’d love to see Malyck again he was the first cool sylvari I ever saw.

no there will not be a new race. Could be wrong but I give it about a 95% chance of a no and only a 5% chance of a yes sorry

I knew it! Kiel is a dragon minion! xD hahaha just kidding course.

NO in all fairness there is this shady character moving between the merchants in the bazaar of the four winds.
He keeps acting suspicious and paranoid always saying “stop following me”.
I’m betting he has something to do with it as his behavious is shady at best.

Kurrilino.2706:

lordkrall.7241:

Lets not speak for everyone shall we?
Sure there are issues with the Living World, but there are issues with expansion based content as well.
Personally I prefer getting content more often in smaller chunks than having to wait half a year to get content that will be completed within a week or two.

Claiming that the Living World brings no real permanent content to the table is also a blatant lie (why have we gotten loads of these posts saying more or less the exact same thing and being proven wrong lately? Did the savior ESO fail and thus those people came back here to complain a bit more?).

Claiming that the Living World brings no real permanent content to the table is also a blatant lie ??????

Excuse me,

I belong to a minor group of people who plays GW since GW1 and we have always been playing for exiting adventures and quests to be a hero.
For People like us nothing changed since GW2 was released.

I simply and plain don’t care about a new dungeon or a new armor piece or some new pets in gem store.
I enjoy GW for nice story’s paired with huge beautiful zones to roam.
GW2 lacks in all these matters.
GW2 has nicer graphics and more features like the trade post.
But if it comes to fighting mechanics, story telling and story meaning GW2 is
not even on one level with GW1.
GW2 is incredible dummed down to reach a larger target group and that won’t be changed with a new dungeon or a new piece of something in the gem story.

I am used that people who play like us are mostly ignored or yelled at here in the forum.
But calling us liar is little bit more rude than our usual treatment

Don’t despair mate, propheties was pretty easy to however each expansion became harder and harder so the expansions may be harder to play

Astral Projections.7320:

Draconius.9076:

bobby their tombstones are located on the ebonhawke graveyard (not a joke it’s real just read the tombstones there and you’ll see)

He has a living descendent who is mentioned by a child NPC in Fireheart Rise

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Villager_
Dialogue
Over here. Don’t let the grawl see you.
What’s going on?
My friend Nick said if I brought him some grawl necklaces, he’d trade me for a gift. He said these kinds of scavenger hunts are an old family tradition for him.
How many have you got so far?
None. I’m not even sure they have grawl necklaces here. But I’m not giving up until I get at least five, no matter how long it takes.

So the background is already set up for him if they ever wanted to put this back in the game.

I didn’t know that nice!!! ^^