Guild Wars 2

CaelestiaEmpyrea.2617:

This rollback has cost a lot of players a lot of progress. So, take an moment to tell ANet what you lost to the rollback.

I lost over 600 gold worth of drops and sales on the TP, about 100 AP worth of progress on achievements, and nearly full stacks of platinum and hard wood that I harvested. I also lost 2 1/2 hours of gameplay and a full afternoon and evening of denied gameplay that I can NEVER get back. This had to happen on one of my very rare vacation days, turning what should have been a fun day into a severe disappointment.

can only say BS to the above.

NO and then NO NO NO

A way that mounts could work is by making them like gliders in the sense that we can unlock them through the mastery system. In the mastery we’d learn how to charm an animal to let us ride them and we’d also acquire the ability to run 25% faster like if we were using one of those profession signet that gives us speed. Don’t need anything special for them like a holding stable or anything like that because that is what the wardrobe is for. Once the mastery is complete we’d get a basic mount just like we got for gliders. If people want a fancy mount they’d have to buy them in the gem store. They would only work on land and not in combat.

uknortherner.2670:

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

Keep that on the NA servers then, the rest of us don’t give a _ _ _ _.

How do you know the rest of us don’t give a toss? Did you personally ask every single player on the EU server? You certainly didn’t ask me, so don’t presume to speak on my behalf.

UK don’t count as EU anymore your on your way out.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

With elections happening all over the world this year, wouldn’t it be appropriate for Anet to have Ellel Kiel have to run for re-election for her Captain’s Council seat? It would make for a very interesting Living World season to have Kiel battle Gnashblade in a rematch of player voting.

We could have Gem Store tie-in campaigns, themed campaign flag backpieces, and the good ole Gems for Votes option to buy your candidate to victory! It’s a great opportunity to drive microtransaction sales if you could spend real money to decide the fate of a storyline. I’m sure it would be pirate approved.

#TeamGnashblade
#YesWeCan

Keep that on the NA servers then, the rest of us don’t give a _ _ _ _.

Osu.6307:

ironfrodo.7625:

7) Don’t enter as anything but Necromancer or Revenant or Ranger
8) Use appropriate, non-magic find Food and oils/stones/crystals

Fixed for you

think you got mixed up there a bit, Fixed for you.

Duke Nukem.6783:

it would be nice if anet would let us buy our way around these events even if it was super unreasonably expensive

NO, then we start the never ending spiral of PAY TO WIN.

MadRabbit.3179:

To be honest, as a commander, if I had some way to just kick you off the map, I would just do that rather than call you out.

Why the hell should everyone listen to Commanders just because they paid 300 G for a tag?
Until Commander tag’s are earned not bought, Stick that tag where the sun don’t shine.

Search is your friend, don’t be afraid too use it.

Master Cats Man.9037:

I’m talking about the collections for the base legendaries of the game. What purpose do they serve?
- They certainly aren’t enjoyable, unless repeating content you’ve already done often many times is your thing there’s nothing new for you to do. And the content they require you to repeat for completion can be extremely finnicky, you often have to wait hours for a specific event to pop just so you can get that single part of the collection.
- They are horrendously expensive to grind out, often costing far more gold than just buying one from the TP.
- They’ve added next to nothing to the lore of these weapons, not a shred of story about them has been added in any meaningful way.

In my person experience making Dawn, nothing about building the precursor through the collection system has given me an emotional connection to my weapon.
Nothing about it has made me feel compelled or intrigued or even curious about the next step, mostly due to the next step always consisting of repeated content or dumping gold.
And most importantly, nothing about this system has made me feel proud of, satisfied, or rewarded with what I’ve accomplished. It has only made me hate the weapon and myself for wasting a collosal amount of my gold and time on it.

So what purpose does it serve?
Why would someone want to grind old content and dump mountains of gold when they could farm the gold to just buy one for much less time and cost?
You can repeat old content any time you like, why would you willingly waste your time doing so when you can do recent/more enjoyable content for better rewards and thus the same result?

When I first heard about the change, I had thought the purpose of adding these collections was to make precursors more obtainable.
They are more obtainable, yes, but only because the TP price has dropped due to people being dumb enough to do the collections in the first place. If they wanted to achieve that result they could’ve just increased the droprates. If they wanted to add content to the game which made acquiring a precursor a more personal and compelling experience, then they have failed miserably by adding no new content or story to these weapons, merely a structure by which you repeat old content.

tldr; precursor collections for base game legendaries add no new content to the game and cost more to complete than buying from the trading post.
So why would any player be it casual, hardcore, veteran, or newbie want grind one out?

Why play a game at all? Any new content will be old once you have done it.
I rather do “old” content with a goal (a precursor) than do “old” content hoping for a drop that is very rare (all precursors on TP are drops).

My shark called Mouthy

Swagger.1459:

The rng concept is wearing thin. There is only so much time and devotion to obtain certain things players will face under rng circumstances. Also, looking at the tp for the lucky lotto winner selling the item for 7k-10k gold at 2x and 3x the value of legendaries is really over the top, so here is my suggestion for this item…

50 Chak eggs + 5000 Ley line crystals + 100 gold… Make it account bound.

I think that is more than fair and reasonable.

It is supposed to be this rare, so NO don’t make it crafteble. Games needs this kind of items, it gives players something to strive for.
What they could do was sell one like it in the gem store that had the glittering text effect “cheap knock off” trailing behind the player.

Vayne.8563:

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

Vayne.8563:

OP, this type of response is EXACTLY the reason why Anet is reluctant to share stuff with us. Instead of saying you don’t feel that you go enough you have to use words like misled as if it was something done deliberately to you.

All this type of post is going to accomplish is for Anet to tell us less in the future. It’s not helpful or constructive.

They don’t tell us squat here on the official forum anyway, you have to go to an outside forum like Reddit to get any info from the dev’s.

Or you know, their youtube channel and their home page. Just about everything that’s appeared there gets discussed here and then you can go watch it.

Let me ask you this? Are you saying the changes we’re talking about where not discussed on this forum? Because I saw the discussions.

Please show the post made by any dev on this forum regarding the changes.

NO, not right now perhaps if the open Cantha again

Vayne.8563:

OP, this type of response is EXACTLY the reason why Anet is reluctant to share stuff with us. Instead of saying you don’t feel that you go enough you have to use words like misled as if it was something done deliberately to you.

All this type of post is going to accomplish is for Anet to tell us less in the future. It’s not helpful or constructive.

They don’t tell us squat here on the official forum anyway, you have to go to an outside forum like Reddit to get any info from the dev’s.

Harny.6012:

Pandaman.4758:

At the end of the day, ANet’s a business. If the eSports investment really is doing that badly, then they’ll cut it; that they haven’t yet either means they’re seeing growth that justifies continued investment or it’s doing much better than you think it is.

That might not be true.
It looks like someone at Anet is trying to push it even though it just doesn’t work well.
It often looks like they realize how the scene looks, but try to push it more and more, coming out with new things…
I mean, look at some esports games and at the whole scene. There’s tons of money and there will be much much more in the future. Why wouldn’t you try anything you can to support your game in this field?
Oh wait, we know why.

They did the same with GW1, $100.000 tournament (think it was the one where some found out I_ _ _e’s “buddies” had been give early access to the new skill set before the tournament, I have screenshot’s of the conversation on GW guru)

No one here can help you, send in ticket to support.

Just tried it and found the whirlpool on the first try.

Gibson.4036:

Linken.6345:

How is it not clear, english aint my first language so might missunderstand.
But it states if you have expansion you will be able to get it by just log in to game to get free access

Because the “if you own HoT” may just be the provision that you can’t play it until you get HoT, not that your log in won’t count toward unlock.

It’s probably the case that we’ll have to have HoT to even do the unlock, I’m hoping that it’s not the case, however, and I haven’t seen an authoritative answer.

I bet you won’t even get to the place on the map for unlocking unless you have HoT.
If you could it would be a bad business move by ANET, and they don’t do many of those (Gem store staff excluded because they screw up all the time).

Winry.5897:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Winry.5897:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

For the players to kick or the game to kick? Your post wasn’t clear on that.

Maybe. or maybe an automatic kick for people with more than 10 min afk or something like that. Or a voting to kick people from the map if afk.

Winry.5897 gets up to take a break, drink some water, stretch his legs. Comes back. Character select screen!!! Too bad. You snooze, you lose. Some people saw you standing in a corner and voted to kick you off the map.

Huehuehuehuehuehuehue

Many ppl stay for 30/40min afk just to take exp.

Not really your business what people do in a map, even if they look AFK to you, perhaps they are posting on a forum about this horrible player, Winry.5897, and trying to find out how to get him/her kicked out off the map.

Start minding your own business and concentrate on the game.

Try lfg and put Tequatle gloom Map in heading. Must be a lot of people looking for same

Winry.5897:

Hi all.

It will be possible to consider the way to kick leechers from the map? Because I see many people afking just when the event starts until the end to take EXP without doing nothing.

Thanks for your attention

And who is supposed to determine who is AFK?
Would open up the game to abuse kicking so a “buddy” can get in to a otherwise full map.
BIG NO.

Cerby.1069:

Kattenpootjes.4291:

It’s not going on sale yet cause core tyria gliding is coming soon and they want the new potential player pay full price obviously

Enough people actually care about this? I couldn’t care less, I fail to see why anyone who isn’t a PVE purist would. Why would being able to fly around zones I’ve already completed be anything more than a gimmick prize?

New players have not completed any zones :-), perhaps it matters to them.

SrebX.6498:

Raids are top class content, they aren’t even meant to pugged, it’s obvious you won’t have a high win ratio without coordination.
I advise you to find a proper guild and do it like it was meant to be done, please don’t whine about not being able to succeed with pugs.

“they aren’t even meant to pugged,”

Could you please link to an official statement from ANET that specifically states that Raids are not meant to be pugged.
If you can’t, please kitten and keep your personal opinion to your self.

Seera.5916:

Vayne.8563:

If the expansion failed, it would be on sale. Obviously someone must be buying it, because it makes no sense to keep a failed game at full price for any company.

Yea, games that don’t sell too well at launch do tend to go on sale pretty quickly.

For example:

Sims 4 released September 2, 2014. Black Friday 2014, almost 2 months later it was on sale 50%. It did not sell well at launch due to horrible PR disasters that had happened for MONTHS leading up to the launch. EA, greedy EA, put a game on sale 2 months after it launched.

Black Friady was not EA putting the game on sale, Black Friday is when RETAILERS discount their inventory, not the manufacturers. Retailers use Black Friday to make room for new items and empty valuable warehouse space taken up by “old” merchandise.

Rhyav.4812:

Sorry about that. It was taking AGES to post the thread and it was giving me errors, so I kept trying. I guess they DID go through Lol

Impatient, perhaps that’s why you keep getting the mesg. in game.

Your message has been suppressed due to excessive messaging

Orpheal.8263:

until this thread i didnt even know, that this thing EXISTS xD

Just look at the nice running animation that lets your character practicalyl look more special/magical7powrerful, paired together with its rareness, this allone explains why it costs so much ..

however, if someone seriously is to INSANE to expect, that ever someone will buy such a item for 9999 gold..
Its alone just insane enough that someone is so incredibly STUPID just to waste 1000 gold permanently locked away, just to be able to list that item for 10000 gold in the TP to show off to thers practicalyl their kittens.

Such “fake” listings, which are absolutely unlikely that ever someone in the game will buy them should be in my opinion instantly deleted out of the TP after some time.
Such listings aren’t made in the hope to make some profit, such klistings are just made to show off and that is for me personally a kind of abuse of the TP system by not using is for what it is intended for.
But thats just my opinion on that.

Fake listing? One just sold for 10.000 G in the last 24 hours.

Delete your GW2.dat And GW2.tmp, then run a GW2 with -image and download it fresh.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Someone thought it worth 10.000 G, it’s gone.

http://dulfy.net/2015/10/25/gw2-verdant-brinks-hero-points-guide/

http://dulfy.net/2015/10/26/gw2-auric-basin-hero-points-guide/

Swagger.1459:

Sitting here looking at the WvW laurel vendor prices for ascended amulets, accessories and rings…

Ascended amulet is 20 laurels. Has the highest stats compared to others and only a slot for 1, but it is the cheapest.

Ascended accessories are 40 laurels each. There are slots for two and have lower stats than amulets, but are twice the cost.

Ascended rings are 25 laurels each…

For a complete set purchased with laurels, it will cost a whopping 150 laurels (180 if you want infusions)… Those numbers ARE excessive considering we are gated to a MAX 55 laurels per month… You are asking players to wait an entire 3 months (and 16 days if you want infusions)… The wait is an entire QUARTER year and season for enough laurels for a complete set… This IS too much waiting and gating and cost, so here are my suggestions…

First suggestion, as I have mentioned before, give us the ability to earn laurels besides the daily waiting and allow us to trade some type(s) of currency for laurels.

If the above suggestion is not a consideration for whatever reason, I would recommend drastically lowering laurel prices for these items to like 7 laurels for each ascended piece (plus wherever currency/material) and 4 laurels each for infusions so a complete set can be had monthly. OR, at very least, 10 laurels each (plus currency/material) for these ascended pieces…

I don’t care how all the “maths” work out really, but I do believe it IS more than reasonable to allow players a set of these ascended items on a monthly basis.

Edit- For the community. I’m not interested in knowing how many laurels you personally have or how long you have played or being told to do fractals or guild stuff… Players should be able to play the content they want and have equal access to these items in various game modes. I’m also sure that prices for these things could be reevaluated across these activities too, but I’m not looking into the vendor prices anywhere else. The points of this thread are laurel prices for ascended and laurel acquisition.

Ascended gear is only necessary in Fractals, so if you don’t do Fractals what’s the rush?

Menzies The Heretic.3415:

Ask whether the PvP community agrees in the PVP section, just for fun.

Those spoiled brats want a personal dev, like they had in GW1 with IZZY

lorddavito.2395:

In the patch notes it states that it’s a bag slot item, which means for most people reading it, YES! Acc wide bag slots! (atleast 5)

In-game you state, in the last line, it’s only 1 slot. 700 gems for 1 slot.

2800 gems for 5 ITEMS, NON-BAG- items.

Don’t be fooled and scammed people, you won’t get your gems back because it DOES state, in a very scammy way, that it’s only 1 slot.

“New Items and Promotions

Shared Inventory Slots are now available starting at 700 gems each in the Upgrade category of the Gem Store. These slots will allow an item placed in them to be accessible by any character on the account. These slots will appear at the top of your inventory once purchased. Each account can have up to 5 Shared Inventory Slots at this time."

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2016-01-12

“New Items and Promotions
Shared Inventory Slots are now available starting at 700 gems each in the Upgrade category of the Gem Store. These slots will allow an item placed in them to be accessible by any character on the account. These slots will appear at the top of your inventory once purchased. Each account can have up to 5 Shared Inventory Slots at this time.”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-January-12-2016

Seams like a straight forward description of what you get.

No need, the devs already have Reddit for that.

Underking.2694:

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

Never had a problem since the 64-Bit was released, don’t think it’s on Anets side,
run a -Diag and see where the bottleneck is located.

Like it was said earlier, this attitude is why ANET doesn’t put bugs like this on the top of their ‘to fix’ list.

Members of my guild, who also run also 64 bit, report crashing in DS, AB, and even places like Karka Queen. It’s a far reaching issue that effects players of different computer builds and speed, and it seriously saps the fun out of going into these zones. Dreading a D/C around every corner during events is NO way to play a game.

I just hope more people will report and post so ANET can stop ignoring the issue.

Run a -Diag, it will tell you where the problem is, Anet’s end or your’s, it might even be somewhere in between. I had problems about 8 months ago, after running -Diag I found out it was a problem with a server in Germany that my connection went through.

serialkicker.5274:

but they didn’t, because they want you to buy xpac.

Of course they do, they, Anet, is a business and are making Games like GW2 to make money, it’s not a charity.

Never had a problem since the 64-Bit was released, don’t think it’s on Anets side,
run a -Diag and see where the bottleneck is located.

Sarika.3756:

Why can’t all guildies access the guild buffs? I don’t see what’s special about a karma or xp boost that should require HOT…

It’s part of the expansion. Don’t see why some should be able to cherry pick some content and not the rest.

SpandexPudding.6372:

Well, I’ve been apart of the game for quiet some time now, I just got my “faithful” title and I’ve been talking about how amazing the game is and how its now free for people to join! I had gotten a good friend of mine to join the game, and so far so good.

The thing is, the F2P mode is lacking so much content..if you’re gonna make the game free for new players why take out basic things that pretty much all F2P games have?

I get it, it used to be that you had to pay for the game to play it, and its got a LOT of content. But come on, map chat, trading in the market, messaging players items/gold. Seriously?

His own quote, “Feeling bullied into buying the expansion.” basically says it all. Its like in order to fully enjoy the game you have to ultimately buy it anyways.

This needs to change, I was extremely upset to hear him say that he might just drop the game because of this. Perhaps he’ll want to buy the game if the game showed more…content? He’s limited in certain aspects, and its completely unfair to new players. You want people to buy the expansion, don’t go and limit them to what they can do!

I dunno if I’m the only one with this opinion, but I am very disapointed.

Of course it’s lacking, that’s the whole point with a trial account like F2P.
Did you think Anet gave away these accounts for free because they they are so generous?

And this have what relevance to HoT?
Should be in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2.

Reverence.6915:

Mounts won’t save this game. A complete 180 redirection from PvE development towards sPvP and WvW development will save this game.

No, only thing that will save this game is completely drop all PvP aspects and put 100% effort on PvE, after all the majority plays PvE (and the majority pays for the rest, try to get a company to finance a game on PvP only, LMAO)

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic. Every civilization has used them and yet Tyria can’t figure out how to tame a few? How dumb are these inhabitants? I’m sure humans will have a chance against the centaurs if they had mounts. The tactical advantage is obvious and yet the humans don’t have a cavalry?

Suggestion: Release a Black Lion mount in a similar timing as the Black Lion Weapon Skins. Each new release will have 1 new mount. Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

NO, we have way-point’s and Asura Gates.

Behellagh.1468:

Stopped at Walmart yesterday and it was $49.96 and was in the right spot.

Walmart probably bought around 1 mil copy’s (11 000 stores and 10 copies per store) and got a huge volume discount, could sell it for $30 and still make a profit.

Daddicus.6128:

Malediktus.9250:

And it is other peoples right to be angry about people who waste slots which are needed for their activity.

Perhaps those people should direct their anger at the people responsible: ANet. They made map-wide coordination required, while simultaneously forcing people to grind out XP doing nothing useful, just so they can reach the point where they can do the map-wide events.

Map wide coordination is not required for Meta events.

Daddicus.6128:

REPEATABLE hero point? What is that?

All HP that involves fighting, you can do them for XP and loot.

sarasvatri.6871:

I’d love it just for the spice it would add to map chat.

Nothing stops YOU from divulging in map chat how much you spent in the gem store.

Esquilax.3491:

If there was a “Money Spent” icon on peoples characters, similar to the mastery points next to name?

Do you think people would look at the person with $3000 next to their name and be like:

“Wow man, nice legendary weapons and armor!, you look incredible and I’m jealous!”

or maybe “Holy crap I wish I had that much money to spend on a video game!, nice stuff”

Or perhaps a simple negative reaction of “W T F” ? (etc.)

What would your reaction be?

Why not put a persons RL income beside the name, right along with the SS# and bank account.
Be real, Anet would face major legal actions if they were to divulge a persons purchases in a the game.

Please take your kinky stuff to an adult site.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Malediktus.9250:

Swagger.1459:

RubberDougie.2750:

It distracts from meta events. Please make it so you can’t redo hero points for daily rewards unless the map has successfully completed the meta event in full.

Well, sorry, that’s just not how it works… You can’t restrict or dictate someone else’s purpose or interest on any map…

If someone’s purpose is to get hero points or gather or masteries or stand there doing nothing, then that’s their right…

And it is other peoples right to be angry about people who waste slots which are needed for their activity.

Perhaps that ire should be directed instead at the developer who decided to put objectives in a zone that seemingly conflict. Or perhaps players should determine whether they in fact need everyone in the zone active on the meta to succeed. If that is the case, that is also on the developer. If it is not true, which I suspect, then it’s on the players who think it is. MMO zones ought to have room for different players who want different things. If that is not the case, that’s a design issue.

It’s a misconception that everyone in the map needs to do the Meta, as stated earlier in the thread and many other threatds, the event scales, I get the feeling a few with Com Tag’s want to feel important by having the whole map follow their commands even if that means the event it self get’s harder.

RubberDougie.2750:

It distracts from meta events. Please make it so you can’t redo hero points for daily rewards unless the map has successfully completed the meta event in full.

Or why not make it so you can’t do the meta until all the hero points are done.