Guild Wars 2

Let’s be honest here, almost nobody gets something good out of mobs. Of course there is exceptions and some people get precursors, but in the most part Magic find is a waste because the loot is not affected by magic find.

That’s what most people thinks nowadays, and even if that is not true (because obviously magic find indeed help us to get a little better loot), that’s what we think. We only cap magic find as it was another achievement, not because we know in our hearts that we will get something better. We will still get crap out of most of our loot.

But what if we problem that we face is not statistical, but it’s psichological? Leave behind the statistics for a seconds and what happens is a simple fact of discouraging due to the fact that magic find doesn’t affect Chests or Bags.
Most people farming aren’t just killing enemies, their focus is entirely on getting bags, getting chests or something simillar. I understand that how it works now it’s by design to make everyone have the same chances, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a good design.

So here’s my suggestion: Update magic find to affect chests and bags.

Cons

• Probably you need to tweak a lot of code.
• Might sound unfair to fresh new players.
  • (But it’s actually now unfair to veterans in most of the cases. Watching a new player getting a really good weapon while you might be 100 days getting kitten just because your chances are same as low doesn’t really keep you encouraged to keep playing).

Pros

• By making magic find useful, people that wants better chances can actively work towards it by increasing their magic find. And people that doesn’t want can just ignore it, the player can choose.
• The new players as well will get better items while they are increasing their magic find, that’s true progression and would feel fine instead of feel discouraged when they realize that chests aren’t affected by it.

Any feedback is welcome, and i might add more cons or pros in the future depending on the posts of this thread.

I know our guild can`t be the only one who misses it`s home , it was our focal point, our home away from the irritation of masses of other players at outposts, the place we grouped up for missions, just hung out and chatted , transformed into random creatures and chased each other around , held guild events like giveaways with our allied guilds.

The loss of guild halls and the fact that members are spread over several servers have been the biggest 2 contributors to the loss of that collective family feeling we had in GW1 , the introduction of the repping/non repping feature and being in 2 or 3 guilds at the same time as some people are has added to that.

Yes i know we could select a specific outpost and say this is our guild meeting spot, but it`s not the same, and if your char hasn`t mapped that location, they can`t access it via wp.

Give us our spiritual homes back, make them accessible to characters upon creation , give us the option to buy the upgrades just the way we did in GW1 , bring back that feeling we had of being something special.

I’m not sure if this has been posted before, but I’d rather just post it and not check.

If Anet ever gets around to updating commander tags, one thing they should include is a guild commander tag. A guild tag would be assigned by the guild, (Say you buy it in architecture and then anyone from [insert rank here] can use it). When they are done, they put it back. What makes this special is that only the guild can see it, so it can be less of a personal expense. There have been times when my guild wants to do a fun run or so through wvw, and commander tags are so nice for that sort of thing, but if we are having fun and not being serious, people who just see tags and follow them get confused, and we end up getting backlash. Also, when doing guild events, if you are a small guild trying to get started, it’s great to have another option rather than 100g.

Just a thought. Pick it apart and see if it can be helpful.

I was thinking it might be very beneficial to input a guild leader tag, that functions very similiar to the commander tag. It could be used to manage big guild events much easier, whether the guild is going through temples, running a guild group in WvW, or doing guild bounties. This would help guilds being able to run easier in WvW without affecting the other commanders with an extra commander tag. This would also help a ton in guild bounties, letting guild leaders have the ability to see where your whole guild is, in order to run guild bounties much more efficiently.

Or let us increase Shortbow range with the Eagle Eye trait. =) I wouldn’t mind that! =D

I change the OP in favour of the conclusionary post which reflects the consensus of the players and which I accept:

The common suggestion for the increase of shortbow range from 900 back to 1200 to be achievable via traits is a sensible one. This may be by adding it to “Eagle Eye” or by the introduction of a specific shortbow trait – but in any case it would allow people to choose whether to invest in shortbow range or not.

Those investigating alternative builds and weapon combinations can continue to do so. Those who have invested effort in aquiring The Dreamer will at least have an opportunity to benefit properly from their investment.

I would ask the community to unite behind this suggestion as the best way of having a chance of influencing the developers. All heated debate about the virtues of bows vs other weapons, what is meant by “Ranger” and how the real-life capabilites of shortbows compare with longbows would thankfully be rendered null & void.

Arenanet just need to work out the details.

So sad that i worked my kitten off to get the dreamer. What a kitten waste.