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Pips for win, no pips for loss

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This and removing the class stacking is the way to go, something has to be done, can’t be worse than what already is in ranked. Make better rewards to unranked, don’t know, something, the lack of action by the dev’s it’s unbeliavable.

Not sure if it has been mentioned somewhere, but I do have the strong impression that the devs did something to reduce the class stacking in season 7. A vast majority of my ranked matches have been exact mirror match-ups class wise since then. No way this is cooincidence.

This is true. My team comps almost always mirror each other, maybe with 1 class different to set them apart, but I think this system creates a different problem in the way it combines players in teams in a reasonably short amount of time. It often feels it takes players of a certain class to make the teams more even but ignoring their personal rating, which can put one of the teams at a huge disadvantage with the skill gaps among its players. This is what it looks like when met with the 500-100 or under faceroll matches.

15 days playtime.... 4 times?!

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It can be done. I started last season, got through to Part III of Ascension with only a handful of matches and 1 day to go when it ended. Now I’m on the last stretch and will surely finish before the end of it in October. The daily participation achievement carries over, so if you finish days before your matches (45 as was my case in Part III) your daily contribution will go to Part IV even if still stuck on matches or achievements. Try to commit to at least your daily 3 matches like I have and you should be done within 2 seasons.

Spellbreaker feedback pve only

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Not exactly PvE, but you can try the classes against npcs in EotM for what it’s worth. I took a reactor and killed a few aetherblades there. Given the gear, I managed to stay alive and deal ok damage.

It feels designed with burst builds in mind, so it synergizes well with the core Arms traits. I could see power builds with optional PS, greatsword and d/d on swap being viable for PvE.

Manifestation of self-doubt

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Approach the ghosts that appear and press F to interact, you will get a skill to use on your assigned special key. Mine was M3. It makes the whole fight a breeze afterwards, but I needed help to figure out what I was supposed to do here too. Good luck!

Dirtclaw Cleft Trek Target

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Dirtclaw Cleft target for Trek/Guild Missions is blocked by what appears to be a (new!?) invisible wall.

It’s in a cave and an invisible wall is blocking access to it. I suspect invisible walls have been placed to stop players from gliding on the ruins above, but this almost prevented us from finishing the guild mission today, until a mesmer’s magical skills got through the wall. This should not be the way to get it. Either wall needs to go from cave or the trek circle to activate needs to be moved closer to cave entrance where it could be interacted with by anyone.

Recipe for The Ravenswood Branch

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Go back to Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs, he will sell you the Chest of Natural protection again that includes the recipe and essence to craft it. Costs some karma.

Megeserver megabugged ?

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Tbh I’m missing the old overflow system. At least that one had the main map and put all new joiners into a single overflow once main map filled, then another once that filled. All megaservers seems to do is have multiple instances and try to spread out the playerbase among them, instead of simply generating the necessary 1-2 maps and filling them. This is why people taxi, cause you can’t finish meta on 3 different MS with 30 players each, but you can finish meta in 1 MS with all 90 players together.

HoT not suited for high exp characters!

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Only exp gained with max level characters will go towards your masteries. Any activity in old maps (events, hearts, exploration, gathering, etc) will go towards a selected track in the Central Tyria masteries. Everything you do in the 4 new maps (and raid, I think) will fill the xp bar towards your Maguuma Jungle masteries.

Mastery points you acquire from locating and communing with them on the new maps, locating strongboxes you can open daily but only reward a mastery once with their associated achievement, completing achievements tied to story or the new maps. I don’t know for sure how Tyrian mastery points are designed, but they seem to be with an achievement tied-in system considering the number of retroactive masteries I had readily available at HoT launch.

It takes a while to get your masteries up but it’s a matter of pacing yourself and just enjoying the game. I’m at 109 and I haven’t really worked on it in any way, just played the game and exp came with normal gameplay between getting elite spec unlocks for alts, playing story, doing events, getting a full exploration and the ocassional world boss, gathering or fractal in Tyria.

None of the masteries are a must (unless you really wanna craft a gen2 lege tomorrow), just a convenience, and a good portion of the maps can be explored without the need for masteries. I ran all the way to Tangled Depths on foot on launch day and unlocked my glider usage with the exploration exp I got. For starters just get 1 point in each Maguuma mastery, it will help with story. Follow the story and that will lead you across all 4 maps to the very end.

{suggestion} rich plant tree nodes

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There are no rich plant nodes but there are small gardens or farms where around 10 nodes of the same kind are put next to each others. There’s one for potatoes in Ashford, the lettuce one outside the gates of Beetletun, the pirate vineyard for grapes in Lornar’s Pass or a cauliflower patch guarded by a hylek in Sparkfly, among others. I’m sure one of the pages dedicated to gathering has all locations available if you’re interested.

I don’t know if rich tree nodes can be made either, but I imagine they could find a placement for sapling ‘forests’, an area like the one in Malchor by the statue where there are 6 trees very close to each other.

legendary precursor revolve around Deldrimor

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Heck, I wish mine needed just 60. Only t1 and t2 of Bolt are a whoopin’ 75 deldris combined, and lord knows what awaits in t3. I recommend crafting your own and playing for fun. I do rich nodes runs once a day and they supply the ore to ingots to do my daily crafting. And if you’re blessed with good friends like I am, see if any would be willing to craft you their daily deldrimor if you send them mats.

From Guild Leader to Guild Beggar in HoT flat

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Yeah the guild requirements are atrocious. I’ve only checked Ectos, and according to wiki http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glob_of_Ectoplasm a fully upgraded guild uses up 2735 ectos. And we need hordes of other stuff too. Awesome mat and gold sink if there ever was one.

I’m not a guild leader, just one of the officers, but stuck in that place where I both want to help build up the guild I’m a part of yet hate the process they developed just as much because it bites into resources I’ve long worked to acquire or need to spend copious amounts of also hard-earned gold to progress it any further. Already burned through stacks of mats and know we’re not nearly halfway done with it. Also getting a bit jaded having to remind the other members everyone needs to contribute a little something. Took some serious convincing to get about 2 others out of dozens to do some PVP just because of the 6 potions a day limit and everyone would like arena unlocked.

I get where the OP is coming from. It feels more like a system designed to drive a wedge between guild members, because there’s always some who want things done right away, some that don’t want to contribute because their gaming was fine before halls got introduced, some that feel they put in more than the others, making many displeased with some aspect of the system. In the old one we just worked together as a unit better and everyone was happy.

Spark 1st Tier: Not listed in Artificer

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Agreed recipe is misleading. The only thing it unlocks for all weapon crafts is the Legendary Inscription, but you need the appropriate crafting profession to craft the 2 halves/components.

Legendary Prec bugs [Merged]

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Since support hasn’t been helpful. There’s an issue with Frostfang I. If you accidentally destroy a jar with a dragon essence inside before having it distilled in the recommended spot, you can make a new jar but can’t recapture the essence.

Happened to me, stuck on distilling essence of Primordus in Kessex, and have been unable to grab essence from Megadestroyer with my Destroyer Jar, even if I get gold medal event participation it says ‘You need to help slay Megadestroyer to use this item’.

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Axemaster Gwyllion

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This boss needs some tuning for range. I only ran through to glide off and get a mastery, and this boss managed to do that one-shot thorny vines attack while I was pretty far off, mid-air, gliding.

Bolt Vol I can't complete.

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Might be a thing to try to get it right after a patch, when maps get reset too. At least I’m going to try that and pray it works.

MadKing achievements completed but no Chest

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I don’t recall it popping up as a reward chest, I just got the meta achievement tick and the reward Candy Corn Cob in my inventory. Check your bag or storage, you might have deposited it.

Precursor Crafting

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I enjoy parts of it. It’s nice to venture out and find that one odd thing required. Like for instance, if it weren’t for The Minstrel t1 collection I might’ve never seen the cute dancing moas Kappa has, since I’d never done the escort before and stuck around long enough to see that part. And I’ve played this game for over 2 years.

I also expected prices to be a bit steep too, I knew some actual component of crafting would be required that cost a bit, at t3, but I was kind of expecting something akin to exotics like the Foefire set needing Gift of Light or Volcanus. Maybe with new mat combinations for all new gifts too.

What we have is some obnoxiously expensive first tier precursors that look very bad. All of the experimental skins are just awful. I expected first tier to be reasonably cheap, 100g-ish and increase with t2 and t3 the final pre. But from reddit posts of those that were crazy enough to rush this, it looks like first tier crafting is also the most expensive step, and it doesn’t make sense. Only way I can explain this is if they’d try to discourage people from getting AP for t1 or t2, but that seems like a stretch.

Missing Revenant from Daily Chest

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Also missing from trading post dropdown if you try to sort gear by class.

Crystal Arbiter pack confusion

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Also bought. Can confirm you get all the items in the description:
outfit
glider skin
immortal weapon box (can select a single weapon skin from it)
1 total kit
5 flame dye kits (with a CHANCE at rare dyes, but they can also give low value common dyes – RNG)

I’m happy with my purchase and pray they continue to put weapon skins in such smartboxes rather than the BL tickets and scraps system.

Issue Reports: Heart of Thorns [Merged]

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Did Megadestroyer for daily, got Gold medal for event and chest, but could not use Jar to capture Essence of Primordus inside, it said ‘You need to help slay the Megadestroyer in order to use this’.

To be fair, it is my 2nd jar, I’ve already captured essence yesterday but trashed it before I realized I needed to take it to Kessex Hills. Since jars can be crafted infintely the essence collecting should be too.

[Suggestion] Mentor Tag

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I haven’t seen a single person use it to ‘mentor’. Most were just showing off their shiny apple at world events, not answering questions or offering any sort of guidance. The way they explained it on stream and how I envisioned it was primarily for lower level zones and any newcomers that might pass through there needing help. Right now it’s used as nothing but a glorified commander tag.

Favour for Guild Halls

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We did not have Guild Levels before HoT. I’ve had upgrades and researches and got a whoopin’ Lv2 guild after expansion launched. Everything’s gone but the few banners left unused and the 250 slots in bank, but no prior upgrade nor research seems to give any sort of xp or progression in this system.

There is no ‘passive’ contribution from members playing the game, like the old influence system.
Only way to increase level in guild missions.
Only way to earn favor is guild missions.
Guild missions are now locked behind Guild level requirements, min 10.
How does one get to 10 in this scenario?
Not with PvE missions I guess.

Favour for Guild Halls

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I regret opting for PvE and do not recommend switching your preference to PvE either. All PvE quests are locked by Guild Level, 10 minimum.

Legendary collection : Rodgort I

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[s] This might seem stupid, but what did you kill for Flame Effigy heart? I tried the 3 vets event across bridge from CoF and CoF P1 endboss and no dice. I read on wiki there’s an Effigy champ in Ashford but I hung out there for a while and none spawned.

So which Effigy dropped it for you? I don’t mind farming but I was beginning to think this one was bugged, with the others dropping easy within 3-10 kills [/s]

Scratch that, it finally dropped off a Champion Effigy during CoF bridge defense event.

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Halloween Event Info

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This is really disappointing to hear as the content has been pretty much abandoned. 4 people in labyrinth total to do events on the 2nd day of launch, also weekend, is really unprecedented for a festival.

My HoT is.. gone..

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A friend of mine who played through last beta had issues with his account showing he was missing HoT on launch yesterday. Take it to support, we really can’t help you here, just offer any evidence you have of your purchase like evidence of receipt, name of retailer (if applicable) so they can sort out the key you got, screenshots that you had access to HoT and now you don’t, the likes.

GUILD HALLS, unobtainable

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There was no mention of Guild Treks being removed from the pool of PvE guild missions so they should be in the rotation, albeit it’s possible it might be a bit til we see it. That’s what I am hoping on at least, t1 and t2 trek is easily doable solo or with a friend. Also bounties, if you call on map people help, especially now with events counting towards bonus map rewards. Just a matter of tracking target within the alloted time and getting lucky at the target rolls too. I’d like to claim the hall that got the short end of the stick in the selection polls of my main guild, just so I have access to and can explore both, just know it might be a bit.

Guild PvE Missions

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There’s a small cogwheel icon in the missions menu, click it and it’ll bring a dropdown menu where you can select PvE for guild missions. It will appear as (Pending) for a few days, as the change will go into effect at the usual weekly reset time.

May we have permanent activities? PLEASE?

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I miss having them as permanent activites too. I loved running Sanctum Sprint, often by myself, just to pass time. I also miss the times Costume Brawl was a thing…

Your favorite "hide away" place?

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This large-ish hidden cave in Bloodtide Coast near the trolls village. I think it’s a Guild Trek location but not 100% sure.

And the cave in Metrica with the asura and his bunnies.

Victory or Death Reward

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Unlikely those rewards would change. Victory or Death does not lead into start of HoT, there’s the LS S2 that fills that gap between Zaithan’s demise and the upcoming HoT.

What might be possible is for that story step, or completing LS S1 in its entirety, could potentially be one of the things that will retroactively grant some Mastery Points once HoT launches, since it has an achievement tied to first time completion and it has been confirmed LS S2 chapters will grant a point each.

All new skins for Halloween from

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If they are minis or skins inside ToT bags expect them to be a rare drop, like one in 500k bags. ANet does love dangling that carrot way up high.

They might be tradeable though and I imagine the prices will be cheap a week in. Zuzu mini from last Halloween still goes for 7-8g a year later.

Preparing for Halloween

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Well I’d recommend you go in labyrinth with a character that can tag multiple mobs in a single hit for maximum efficiency farming bags. Either a staff guardian or axe ranger should do the trick.

If you have alts to level, the labyrinth is also a great place for that. Make sure you use one of the Candy Corn food buffs, like Candy Corn Cake or Almond Brittle, as they give an extra 15% xp for kills. Stacks with other xp boosts, like BL chests boosters.

Pack some Merchant Expresses with you if you have any, they help greatly if you run out of bag space. Other players on map will appreciate it too, just spawn them near a waypoint and call it in map.

That’s all I can suggest off the top of my head, but I’ll be back to edit if I recall anything I might have missed.

Additional Character Slots for Standard

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The 4 slots with the green beta in corner will go away. You will however get a free character slot with your purchase, though it might be delayed by a few days. I’d expect it to show up Friday after WvW reset. I have no way to explain why that is, but that’s when the character slots showed up for me and my friend, and we bought the copies 2 days apart.

Guild Halls for Free Players?

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You can get into the Guild Hall map if you do not have Heart of Thorns and hang out with people, but most of the HoT guild features in there will be disabled for you. For example you will not be able to enter the Arena. I’m not going to go into detail on which specific things will be accessible and which are not because I’ll probably get it wrong

Seth I do have a couple more questions if you’d be so kind to answer them if you can.

Could core players fully navigate a guild hall map? I’m asking because Lost Precipice seemed to rely a lot on gliding in the stream. Or do they get all waypoints unlocked inside without having to get in proximity of them?

Also wondering if they can use the guild materials storage/deposit for upgrades.

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Candy Corn vendors have new items on offer, Trick-or-Treat bags have a chance to drop new weapons, a mini, or a karka hatchling helm

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/october-23-2015/

It might also be a case of ToT OR vendors, as I recall you could get the minis last year from bags (rng) or outright buying them for candy cobs.

Guild Mission/Favor problem for 1-2 p guilds

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Will I still be able to solo these missions after HoT? Or will I have to try and give the absentees a prompt to be active again?

You should still be able to solo SOME guild missions. They are moving puzzles and challenges (possibly rushes too, not sure) to instances, so I don’t think they are possible to complete solo. Currently in open world you can tag for credit if another guild is doing it.

The guild currently has 50 merits – do these (and any earned in the next 3 weeks) need to be spent before HoT or will they have a use?

Spent them now, you can carry over unused consumables, such as banners. Merits are going away when the expansion comes according to livestream http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/gw2-guild-week-day-two-livestream-notes/

Guild Mission/Favor problem for 1-2 p guilds

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You should be able to do t1 bounties (2 targets per 15min). Track, call on map, people normally jump in to help. Also trek should be super easy to solo for t1 & t2, t3 if you have a friend to help along. All you need is world exploration and Dulfy’s guide to Trek. That’s my plan at least.

Patch Today: Key Farming Impacted

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I figure it’s one of two things.

1. They didn’t meet their key sales numbers when Keys were on sale during the anniversary sale and they’re blaming Key farming.

2. The F2P people figured out you can farm Black Lion keys and Anet is putting the pinch on lower level keys to prevent it cause it’s a decent source of income with the skins (decent, not the best).

Either scenario not happy. This was pretty much the only way I bothered with keys. In every scenario its’ better to buy what you want out of the chest by buying gems, selling gold, then buying the item because of how crappy the drop rates are of useless garbage in the chests. No one wants an armor booster Anet. When we get Booster, Booster, Repair Cannister it’s a kick in the balls.

They didn’t have good deals on keys to boost sales. Heck they had the 5 keys deal a week ago, limited to 1 purchase. I bought that. All I wanted out of it were some scraps to add to my existing 4 and got a total of 0 out of those 5 keys. Not exactly enticing me to buy more, and the fact I was only limited to 1 purchase at what I would consider a reasonable price for them makes it their loss more so than mine.

I’m fairly certain this is not a way to encourage sales. Players that weren’t buying them a week ago aren’t feeling any more tempted to purchase just because of this. To boost sales they’d need to adjust the content tables of chests or lower their price.

I care for no single item in chests other than the ocassional BL skin and they’d make far more money from me if they removed this annoying RNG acquisition of 10 scraps from chests entirely and sold them separately. I posted this in another thread recently, but a smartbox system would bring them more revenue if they sold to 70% of playerbase than relying on the 10% with nothing better to do than buy keys and gamble. Hell if the skins were nice I’d shell out for a full set and maybe finish a collection, if they were guaranteed and at a reasonable, fixed price.

Fix Black Lion Chests / BL Tickets

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I’ve long said what they need to do is smartboxes. Only GW2 puts such a tedious grind into acquiring skins. RNG for scrap, then RNG times 10 to buy anything. It’s not right. What they should do is redesign the chests and remove the rng factor to skins.

Put skins in a smartbox, they already have a functioning smartbox system with ascended boxes and the BLTC dyes. Buy the account-bound box for 800gems, which is already above the price margin of what they normally sell individual weapon skins in store, which are 600, click the box and get the BLTC window that is on npc that lets you preview and claim the desired weapon skin. They’d be accesible to a lot more folks, guaranteed to have more players buy them with rng removed as well as completionists willing to buy several boxes to complete collections.

BLTC chests would need other ‘jackpot’ items to replace the tickets and scraps, perhaps increased odds of the pemanent contracts, more home instance nodes, permanent tools or such to continue to be a desirable item.

Stuck in the map or seeing map art issues?

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Different bug but I was returned to char select screen at the final phase during the cutscene of Zaithan’s arrival. Wasted an hour getting there. Fix your kitten game.

Anyone else bought a char slot with gold?

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I’d rather invest that gold into a black lion skin on TP. The slot should be a given, I should not have to pay extra, be it 10 euro or 150g to get to play a basic feature of the expansion. But to each their own.

Ascended Gear - Anet please fix this.

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I don’t mind the cost of 1 trans. charge so long as forging doesn’t erase the already unlocked skin from wardrobe. Thanks for clearing that up.

Ascended Gear - Anet please fix this.

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I skimmed through the 5 pages but found no mention of what happens to the skin. I’ve crafted a few for the skin/color combination (don’t judge me) and would like to know if this forging only affects stat or skin as well to the color-coordinated stat change. I’m a bit reluctant to throw mine down the forge atm.

The Silence is Deafening

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That and them trying to be nice to people who otherwise had not even set foot into GW2 apparently backfired. Them favoring players that had not made it very far into, or at all into the game is not a new behavior. The NPE and 10 dollar sales attest to this.

And this is where it all falls apart. Their number #1 priority should be keeping their current playerbase and then attracting new customers. We grumbled for a while but we put up with the trait changes, as bad as those were for altoholics to repeat, the gating of skills on the bar and the broken compass to ‘facilitate’ gameplay. But I don’t think grumbling and acceptance it’s what’s happening this time. I’ve already seen people out the door. Hell if it wasn’t for friends who are in the ’we’ll just play all we have before, we don’t need HoT to enjoy it’ boat, I’d be out the door by now too. Plus word of mouth from current players gets them more publicity than they realize. Everyone has friends and families they wanna play with, but few would even consider recommending it now. All the rep they get atm is a very bad one , that’s also bound to hinder a lot of the potential newcomers they were banking on selling these bundles to.

HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]

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I mean just look at the decline in the new page likes on GW2’s Facebook. Over what, a day…since this all started. So tell me where are these new players going to come from?
Edit: the grey line is last weeks new page likes, and the blue is this weeks.

Not that surprising and it’s probably representative of all social media than just FB. The steady stream they had a week ago was the current playerbase, which is in large numbers currently ticked off. And it’s justifiably taking a plunge now when players either leave, hold off on future purchases (be it HoT or gems) or berate them here for their actions. Whatever fresh blood/new players they can draw with the offer will not make up for the losses of the current players. And ‘Lose a lot, gain some’ – is not going to keep them in the game for long either.

Expansion price $ vs € vs £

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I think if you’re in EU you’ll get charged in euros. It’s always been this way, and not just here. I don’t know if they hand out codes to activate the expansion, then you might be able to get someone in NA to buy and give you the code, but it’s a pretty long shot. As I recall base GW2 had unique activation click/link in mail on the e-mail address used to purchase, not a code you could paste in your account details.

"Veteran Player" Entitlement.

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OP you are missing the point to why most of us are disgruntled. It’s not about us being cheapskates, since a majority of those I’ve talked to, and myself just know we are being baited into paying more than it’s worth and getting the short end of the stick for being here for years.

If new players get the base free then I’d like 5 free character slots added to my account or a code to make an alt account, the ‘bonus’ might pay itself in the long run with the login rewards or I could gift it. As it stands they made it pretty clear if we want to attach it to existing accounts we get zilch. I am not giving up an account with over 12k AP, 16 characters and over 800€ worth of cosmetics and collectibles put in gemstore purchases just to ‘start fresh’. Nor should I take a loss for the package and forfeit the bonus, or be forced to shell out another 10€ on top of the content I’d already be losing out on, just to play Revenant.

I honestly can’t believe you dont see the discrepancy between vet – 60€ vs newbie 50€ for base packaging, and 0 vs 5 slots issue most of us are trying to address here.

Should I pre-order HoT or Fallout 4?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: FrozenStarRo.7240

FrozenStarRo.7240

Get Fallout. I’m getting Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Anything is a better investment than this sham.

HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]

in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

Posted by: FrozenStarRo.7240

FrozenStarRo.7240

Well going by the reddit post of that unfortunate GW2 buyer and his CS response, and Gaile’s reply there won’t be any other editions, I guess they’re really not budging. I’m not either. Purchased GW2 in aug. 2013 for 40€ and after running my bank statements last night, 895€ more in gem purchases since. But I’m taking a stand, I will not be taken advantage of just for being loyal and supportive all these years. No HoT, no more gems. I’ll stay in Tyria with the other 90% playerbase, enjoying the 8 classes that served us well so far.