Guild Wars 2

OriOri.8724:

after the meta is over would be the perfect time to go about map completion, since there aren’t any events to do, yet you only have a very limited amount of time and most people want to spend it looting pods

I tend to do one one lane then get all the other WP’s at the end. Second run I can then WP round getting the HPs and Poi’s and then map complete. I bet you could do it all in one run if you put your mind to it, I always get distracted by something or forget where that one last annoying to get poi / vista is hence normally just doing it in two runs to avoid going into stressy panic mode at the very end.

Every time you make over 1k gold, the game could just take it all off you.
That would keep the cost of any single item under 1k gold, increase gem sales and I dunno.. have some other effects on the market that I’m going to claim are beneficial.

It must be terrible to have so much money that you’re worried about the inflation of the whole game. I strongly suggest in-game giveaways of your money until you reach the average amount that normal players have because I don’t worry about inflation at all.

The general gist seems to be you want to farm the berries without all those mobs slowing and killing you?
My answer to that is simple, just kill the mobs then harvest the berries.
Also stop soloing everything if you can’t solo, run with other people on the map or with a guild or something.
tl;dr – dead mobs can’t annoy you.

“Also please fix it for me so that I can just play the game, make loads of money and convert it to gems at a really good rate because I refuse to spend real money in this game.”

Not sure why we’re all arguing over whether afk botting is worth it.
It shouldn’t be going on regardless of how much or little profit there is in it.
Report them directly to anet, not on the forums and go do something else if it’s bothering you.

You could have a look at metabattle.com for a whole variety of options and advice on rotations and food/utilities.

You didn’t offer a different perspective, you just said “there’s a way to make money that I’m not going to tell you about”. That isn’t an alternative strategy.

I’ve got one of each 80, 2 spare slots and over a stack of tomes.
I just don’t use them to level alts and I don’t need spirit shards.
As for writs, just hand them it at Miyani whenever they get in your way.

Einlanzer.1627:

Argh! Why don’t you guys understand that you already have “pre-defined roles”!?

I do? What is it?

conanq.6249:

To be clear, this is not about skins.

snip long post about skins

conanq.6249:

skins are the only thing that matters (cause that’s what I’m always told)

Skins aren’t the only thing that matters. Basing your whole argument around this is therefore flawed. For legendary armour the utility is what matters. If the skins are/were ugly you’d just transmute them and keep the utility.

As for “when anet fixes the rune issue” – is there any indication they will? If not, assume they won’t fix it and you don’t have an argument there either.

Couldn’t you just have put mats or money into a shared area like a guild bank?
There may also be restrictions around that, I’m not sure.
Seems like for mats it would be ideal tho.

Solo Mastery
For the person who wants to be most specialest snowflake.
Tier 1 does nothing
Tier 2 doesn’t seem to make much of a difference
Tier 3 no chat appears for you
Tier 4 only the 10 people closest to you are shown
Tier 5 You are the only person on your map apart from NPCs. No sign of any players. Now you can truly feel like you’re soloing the game.

Carry Me Bro Mastery
Mainly aimed at instance content like dungeons.
Tier 1 you pick up your team mate and carry them round. You put them down when in combat. Movement speed decreased to 5% but is affected by speed boosts.
Tier 2 You can put them down and pick them up outside of combat.
Tier 3 Movement speed whilst carrying is now only decreased to 50%
Tier 4 You can now carry two people at once, ideal for getting past those red circles on the floor that are so hard to see.
Tier 5 You can now wield the person you are carrying as a melee weapon. They take falling damage from any hits.

MicroManagement Mastery
For the OCD leader in all of us
Tier 1 you can put people in your group into sub groups even if you don’t have the commander mastery
Tier 2 you can now move those groups prior to combat to set up an encounter
Tier 3 everything you say is echoe’d in local, map, party and squad chats
Tier 4 you can move groups whilst in combat
Tier 5 when you empty your pockets, so does everyone else. Applies whenever there is a vendor present.

The Monsters are Too Easy Mastery
For all those complaining on the forums
Tier 1 Every mob now has a chance of a debuff
Tier 2 Every mob now has a chance to crit
Tier 3 Every mob now has a buff
Tier 4 Every mob can now summon another mob as a pet
Tier 5 Every mob can now appear at any level on any map and will attack only you or anyone partied with you who attacks the mob. Leashing is removed from mobs and they can follow you across maps and wait for you to log back in if you log off.
Tier 6 Every mob can now do any attack of any other mob. As the animation department is overworked and understaffed, in some cases attacks will not be signaled by any animation and in others animations from other mobs/attacks may be used as placeholders.

Seera.5916:

I would say that since he didn’t explicitly state that he would want skin only inspections, that it includes stats.

No idea why you would say that. It was clear to me that the OP had seen some armour or weapon and just wanted to know what it was. I see this happen quite a lot in local chat whilst waiting for a WB, someone will say “I love your shield, what is it?” and the response would be the name of whatever skin. The stats of the shield are totally irrelevant and I can transmute any shield of my own with any stats to that skin.

Can’t say I feel strongly about an inspect option, I play with my graphics turned down so outside of a few shiny bits of gear I can’t see what people are wearing/using and I don’t care either. Rest of it – duel = no, vehicles = dead horse please.

Some people have started charging to use multi-map lobby which should help fix the economy.

Ashen.2907:

The worst part, in my opinion, is that it would have been easier, potentially, to add optional loadable archetypes, perhaps drawn from popular effective builds, in game for those not interested in theory crafting for themselves, than to implement all of the simplification changes.

Agree, people have asked for build templates and gear loadouts for a while. I’d go further and have making your own build an opt-out of the template. That would let me just swap to the builds screen and pick “pve berserker” whilst the unticked box at the bottom would say “click here to build your own if you know the risks involved in doing that” and we’d both be happy.

It could be offered as variations on the boost to 80. Buy a token that sets your level 80 up as a berserker, marauder, assassin etc. Not sure what you’d charge for it, probably gems, but I can see me doing that to save figuring out what minor trait or sigil/runes to get.

Aldath.1275:

Well, just remember that you have to rely on the activities of a server in order to unlock ONE pet (Smokescale)…

And about the argument of “being behind for playing later”, well, I don’t remember any MMO as of now that punished me for getting into the game later than other players, as usually the world content is instanced, and not based on a whole map that is also sharing story progression…

But again you already knew this was how GW2 was, it is open world maps and events not instances outside of personal stories, fractals, raids and dungeons.

Aldath.1275:

Hello guys. I got HoT on pre release, but didn’t start playing until recently with my new Daredevil.

Seems a bit unfair to blame anet for you not playing in the zones earlier.

Aldath.1275:

I decided to take the personal story into Maguuma, and I knew thanks to the forums and user comments that the area was designed for event completion and it had a higher difficulty level.

And yet now you’re complaining about finding it hard? You already knew it was going to be harder but you still went in trying to solo it. This is also not anet’s fault.

Aldath.1275:

I got geared up and ready to go, only to find the same issue that goes on with map completion on the first part of Orr: at least now the whole maps seem dead and most of them are extremely dependant on one event being completed in order for you to access to certain parts.

Also things you already knew.

Aldath.1275:

Not only that

Again this is all about you, when a map is quiet, go do something else. It’s true that for AB and DS the timers are all important. Start a group if you need an event or join the groups that do the events you need. You are not going to get AB in one go but you can easily do Eastwatch in one go, wait for the next map reset and do Northwatch this time. Don’t do it solo, run with the groups or start groups.

Aldath.1275:

Second one, and related to that, is that random group events like to pop on some places where the story should be happening, slaying the NPCs I need to talk to and at least as a Daredevil, it’s hard to take on 20+ Mordrem at once and not because of “get gud”…

What NPCs are mobs killing that you need to progress your story? My answer to this would be start a group or change instance.

Aldath.1275:

this area is helluva harder to solo and not only that, but in order to make most of the Meta Events and level up, I have to grind, yet again, my already hard to acquire masteries in order to access areas.

Ok stop soloing. You knew it was harder. And have done nothing to make your own life easier. Stop soloing. It’s also not a grind unless you make it one. If this is your only 80 then break up your playtime. If you have more than one 80 try getting the XP and stuff on a better toon. It’s account wide.

Aldath.1275:

I think Anet doesn’t looks beyond, or I would say, they don’t look back at what’s happening to the first areas of Orr, getting lonely and making harder for players who explore the map to attain 100% because of areas or points gated beehind events no one does anymore.

Bit rich.. it seems you haven’t looked back at what happened.. Ab is run as a multi-map all the time. I always see multiple instances of DS being run at the same time. TD I see many LFGs when Gerent is up. VB always seems active when I’m on but you might be in an timezone when it isn’t.

Aldath.1275:

One day when new content comes out and little reason remains to do the Maguuma events, people will move out, no more events will be done, and advancing would become possible only for the moost skilled… I wanna see a map with 10 players taking on Octovine for example.

However all this is kinda your fault for waiting until now to play it. Except I’m not seeing your problem, the zones are still active. What will actually happen is that more hero points will be added in the new zones so you don’t need to keep going back to older areas.

Why would they have to offer refunds?

There is already a post about the game being full and one about issues logging in.
Seems to be a problem with a login server, hopefully resolved soon.

literally the first post is all about problems logging in.
Did you need to start another one?

JemL.3501:

i have gift sitting in my bank and alts with 0% map

You should probably play those alts.

It’s an attitude thing. Where you see frustration and snark, I see clever design and opportunity to explore.

“i can’t figure out how to get there from here”
YouTube it. Dulfy it. The resources are there if you want to use them.

Rauderi.8706:

meatwall-HP mobs designed for 5+ players isn’t the way to go. Either have suitable complexity (which, let’s face it, for ANet just means stun/KD on every mob’s autoattack…) or scale appropriately for any party size, including one player.

Not sure what you’re referring to here. Looking at dulfy and the description of the VB Hero Points, she says:-

There are 11 Hero points in Verdant Brink.
Seven hero points are soloable
Five hero points require 2 players or more.

1. is listed twice but is soloable.

Soloable and two player mobs aren’t “meatwall HP mobs designed for 5+ players”

And open world can’t scale “appropriately” so for some encounters it’s a case of it is what it is. If you can’t solo it, get someone to help or improve your build/playstyle. Sometimes it’s just a case of popping some food/utility item and a summonable pet.

stale.9785:

(For whatever reason, it’s impossible to glide during the Mordremoth fight. Was on release, and still is, as of 20 minutes ago when I tried again.)

You’re doing it wrong if you are trying to glide like you do normally.
For the Mordy fight you just walk into an updraft, it flings you up and you press glide.
Everywhere else you would run/jump and hit jump again.
Not here.
No idea why but that might be your issue, you’re doing it wrong because the mechanic is different for this fight.

If there’s nothing in LFG, post your own party. Start your own group in map chat. People play very passively and will follow someone who actively recruits. I often see someone ask
“is anyone doing x HP?”
and then people suddenly respond
“invite me”
Gotta be a bit more proactive imho.

Plus you also have to accept that right now the new map dropped. People are there, not doing your missing HP. May have to wait a few days.
In the meantime you could always join a guild and ask for help, more likely to get my attention if you’re a guildie that wants something rather than some random asking badly in map chat.

Behellagh.1468:

Histrionic – overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style

Nobody suggested the OP is suffering a disorder.

I was probably being histrionic.

I do the pve dailies, I might do a wvw big spender instead if one was irksome.
I then hit a daily pvp room and get those in 5 minutes.
Might stay for a few rounds to work on a track.
Then off to Bloodstone Fen for the dailies there.
Then guild hall for gathering/dropping stuff off/getting a boost
Gather iron and flax at the farms, rotate toons through them if time
Any worldbosses that are up esp Teq / Karka
If stiill more time, a run round Cursed Shore for ori/ancient wood/karma

If Friday do guild missions.
If the weekend then throw in as much DS and AB as possible.

longer term goals include making dusk (most of the way through now) and finishing off a collection – almost done with machined weapons and then will move on to something else.

wrathmagik.3518:

Anet turned around and stabbed the entire playerbase in the back

Offering a trial version so more people could play has been a positive experience for me. I’ve played with tons of f2p’ers, many of whom have gone on to buy the box. Not sure where your weird aggression is coming from.

And you go on to say you’ll be picking the expansion up when it’s a freebie so in other words you’re as bad as those f2p’ers who anet stabbed us in the back for. I’m pretty confused by your post.

DxN.8701:

i can’t imagine how much time people have to spend for 4-5 lootings worth of bags and stuff lol…

About the same amount as for 1 looting. Salvage all greens and lower, deposit mats, compact. Sell runes/sigils at vendor, compact. Open all bags, purses, chests, pods etc. Repeat until no more greens left.

Press O and sell rares if they are worth more than ecto, right click salvage all remaining rares. Sell sigils and runes.

Not actually all that much extra overhead from having more gear given the salvage-all option.

darkwombat.3695:

I have not played Guild Wars 2 since the first week that Heart of Thorns was released.

So why have you come back to post now?
There have been improvements to HoT to make the experience more fun for more people but if you’re put off by flying and vertical zones then those things haven’t changed and aren’t showing any signs of changing. I will say that you can get better at things whilst not necessarily starting to love them. Things that are chores become simpler as you progress masteries and learn the maps. You could also make a conscious decision to only play when the maps are full / the meta is on to improve your experience if you’re finding it sucks to solo/duo. And nobody is stopping you playing Core Tyria of course, stopping playing GW2 because of HoT doesn’t make a lot of sense when there’s all those other maps that are still pretty active during the times I play at least.

onevstheworld.2419:

Despite the OP’s histrionics

Not sure you’re using that word correctly.
“Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention-seeking emotions, usually beginning in early adulthood, including inappropriately seductive behavior and an excessive need for approval.”

Is that what you’re accusing the OP of?

As for spawning things on vista’s etc, it’s clearly deliberate. Not sure why people are going out of their way to defend such behaviour. An obvious fix would be an exclusion area around clickable objects in which you couldn’t spawn or place player items. That’s what I’ve seen done in other games.

MithranArkanere.8957:

at the expense of the fun of other players. This needs to stop.

So your fun is worth more than their fun? Not sure I’m understanding that properly. Also not sure why you’re telling us it needs to stop, we can’t do anything about it.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Players harassing other players, forcing them to fail and falsely reporting them for playing the game as intended

Isn’t that what you are doing?

MithranArkanere.8957:

This also includes giving any reason to fail events or benefit from failing, such as collections that can only be completed by doing events that happen after a failed event.

Haven’t these all been fixed now?

Tsumiju.3071:

if the commander had said

The commander in this case has already said. They said run a meta-build. You need to get over this, you are not being singled out but are instead making yourself stand out. “I refuse to conform” just means you aren’t going to get in a raid.
And the thing is, that is probably a good thing. Because when the commander says “right, you need to get on teamspeak”, are you going to refuse and insist everyone uses mumble?
And when the commander says “take out the big boss against the wall” are you going to refuse and start arguing about it being better to take out the small guy in the far corner first?
There’s a reason for the builds, they’re not made up. It’s from experience of what works. The second you start going “well I’ve got this other build..” you’re inconveniencing a bunch of other people who have the right build to get the job done. As has been said, make your own group and see how that goes. I suspect not well because this isn’t something you get carried on and people will just quit your group when you can’t get through the content.

It has also been said that you could join a training/raid guild. If you joined mine we’d still insist you had a metabattle build. And if we had enough PS warriors and you were another a PS warrior, you wouldn’t get in. Raids are about builds and team composition so I’d recommend having a few characters you can raid on if you are serious about raiding.

If you don’t look at the gold cost of it and instead look at it as something to do, it’s absolutely worthwhile. There’s a lot of time-gated mats so on a daily level there may be gathering and crafting. It’s really straightforward, you’re not suddenly going to find you need a random drop from a critter or some RNG mystic forge item or to travel to a temple that nobody does on your server. Yes I know.. multi-server.. I’m just making the point it’s really straightforward.

Plus if you get a lucky drop from fractals or Teq or whatever, that saves you making a piece, just convert to your preferred stat. And use the monthly choice to get ascended mats, that helps speed up the crafting.

Ascended trinkets are a good use of your laurels if you have some and don’t know what to do with them. There are other ways to get them, so pick your way.

But still.. it can be a nice goal if you’re short of things to do.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

General Health.9678:

I would suggest that the reason some people have the kind of money needed to buy my lucky drop / rare item is because they have sunk a lot of real life cash into the game. Which I guess is why things are rare, to hopefully promote gem sales.

Because I like to dabble in the TP, I meet others who are power traders, moguls, and dabblers. I don’t know a single one of them who got rich from spending RL cash. There are just too many ways to make money in the game.

A bit devils advocate here as I’ve not made millions on the market but I’ve had 5k gold until I finished up a legendary and converted a bunch of gold to gems for sale items and I’ll probably have that kind of spare money again. I don’t lack for stuff. Yet you look at all the posts saying that drops are bad, the thread about pre’s never dropping for 99% of people. And then there was that one post from a guy who was going to spend $250 on buying a legendary. Want to get all the cool stuff? Buy your way in for sure.

And are there really that many ways for the average normal person to make money? I can name a few and AB meta is an obvious one. But for your average player? Drops are bad, farming makes my skin crawl, gold to gem ratio is awful, etc.

When the game first came out and there are all those youtube videos of people making the tri-pendant thing (this is what I was thinking of.. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Triforge_Pendant) or the first legendaries.. they can’t have made enough money in that time to be able to do that from playing. They dropped rl money.
There’s no way to prove or disprove any of that but that’s my feeling, rl money spent to play the market would be how I see the situation right now. Great for anet. Feels a bit mercenary towards the bread-and-butter players.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

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Besides that, people seem to enjoy the chance of getting rare stuff — it’s part of what makes things seem shiny to people, it’s part of what makes it seem worth spending time in certain zones/farms etc. Without the chance for rare drops, people wouldn’t enjoy the game as much.

Oh sure, I do agree. But if we talk about something with a 0.0000001% chance of dropping that isn’t obtainable by working through a collection then how many people enjoy getting that? On the way to getting that, I might get 100 other things that are suddenly less cool because they’re not that other thing I’m trying to get. If that other thing was less rare I’d have more of a chance at getting it and I’d be a happier player. Personally I’d like more epic collections and less rare as crap drops. I’m sure that would make more people happy than that one time, that one guy got those one shoes or whatever.

Not going to solve anything obviously, the point still remains the thing the OP wants is too pricey because it’s pointlessly rare.

Izithel.6853:

General Health.9678:

Because how else do you know something is rare?

Simply searching the marketplace will show you how many of them are on the market for sale giving you a decent idea.

Sorry, that not what I meant. Before an item even appears in-game people seem to know it’s going to be rare. I mean if there’s none for sale because nobody has discovered the first one but we know it’s going to drop – like wooden scythe, paper hat then it’s a going-to-be-rare-drop regardless of how many are for sale. Might be conflating games but I’m sure I’ve seen bids on the market for things that haven’t actually appeared in-game yet.

Besides I was looking at exotic daggers yesterday, filtered cheapest first and the first one was a named dagger with not that many for sale (not at home, can’t double check). So a lack of something for sale doesn’t equate to a high price.

Those to me are two different things.
I’m not driven by profit or the need to be wealthy. I’d much rather have more things available to people who want it than have someone who can afford to flip legendaries for instance. But that might just be me.

That has nothing to do with what makes an item covetous tho.
I imagine data mining reveals rarity and that makes it desirable. Because how else do you know something is rare?
Remove that layer of rarity and it’s no longer saleable at the levels we’re talking about.

I would suggest that the reason some people have the kind of money needed to buy my lucky drop / rare item is because they have sunk a lot of real life cash into the game. Which I guess is why things are rare, to hopefully promote gem sales.

Rarity can’t exist to make poor players richer as only richer still players can do that.

Izithel.6853:

The only other loot that’s exciting in this game (outside of Precursors) is the kind that’s a rare skin, specifically one that’s very nice looking and not the kind that’s ugly or on an underused weapon class.

Sorry if you think I meant yellow rare items but I didn’t. We are talking about the same thing here, rare skin from a rare drop. Or similar.

And I don’t see that there’s really any reason for an item to have a lucky_rare_ low_ drop_rate. If you want something to be rare, make it expensive on the gem store. You got invisible shoes from a treasure mushroom? Big woop. Some weird bee goop translucent glowy aura? Yay? There’s things that are so rare that I’ll never a) get one or b) see anyone else with one. That just seems weird to me.

And you can’t say “it’s a fine place to start given we have no other sources”, that doesn’t validate it being a fine place. WvW is a game-mode that probably on some servers attracts the kind of person who is likely to have a legendary or, equally likely, more than one. Plus other rare stuff. You can’t extrapolate that out to anything.

type “berserker” in..
or in the three stats boxes put power precision ferocity and ignore any assassins gear that it throws up
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_level_80_exotic_armor

always make me smile when a casino says “you’re counting cards” well OBVIOUSLY.. what do you expect me to do, just keep pushing these chips in and hoping I get 21 each time?

gw2efficiency – the site used by raiders to gear check.
Not a great place to start figuring out how many people have a legendary.
Same with WvWvW. These aren’t good metrics.
Also not sure what we’re trying to prove here. The OP has a point, nothing anyone here can do about it short of giving them the money to buy it. Rarity sometimes seems to exist just to make the richest players richer.

Cristalyan.5728:

if a product/material is abundant on the market or is as rare as the martian tobaco, this is because ANet wants this.

You really shouldn’t anthropomorphise a games company.
The rest is just a rant based on a false premise and your denial that the TP is and is meant to be the place to buy things from.

Think of it this way. That’s food, rent, going out with friends, donating to charity, buying the monday donuts for the office.
A game is something you are meant to play with one of the goals of that time being the crafting of your legendary or legendaries.
You’re talking about spending $250 on one item for, realistically, one toon.
And then you’ll either want another or get bored of the game.
Make it a goal, make it fun, work on it.

Apart from that if you want to buy the mats and craft it (ignoring those things you can’t buy as you have to earn them from playing) then you’d need to max a craft or crafts and you haven’t said if you’ve already done that or not.

You’ve got it the wrong way round, some of the precursors are being sold off cheaper than they cost to craft. If you bought them all then the crafting method would not be more expensive. The price of mats goes up and down, if they drop then crafting will become cheaper. If both things happened – mat prices fell, the cost of precursors went up, there would be threads asking why it was cheaper to craft than buy.

there are build sites out there, you should have a look and try some out.
such as metabattle.com

Seera.5916:

And you’ve completely missed the point in the 10+ gold complaint.

There isn’t one. Take your pve build and log in to wvw. I do. I don’t change gear (all zerker) or traits. I beat up some dolyaks, take some camps, see if anyone else joins to take keeps..

There is no 10 gold entry point.
What would you even get for 10 gold anyway? An exotic weapon and a half decent sigil?

sephiroth.4217:

It’s guild wars 2, its a fashion war. If you remove peoples ability to flaunt it here, then there’s another game they can go flaunt it on so to speak.

It is guild wars 2!
It isn’t a fashion war!
I already have my graphics turned down, I already can’t see your stuff.
A slider would let me bring the environment back.

How do you even have a fashion war? Makes no sense. How do you fight a particle effect? With a dye channel? So confused.

Djinn.9245:

Yes, every GW2 raider once had never played a GW2 raid. However it is my opinion that most raid groups are formed of guildies.

So join a guild?

Djinn.9245:

how would a non-raider find such a group willing to replace one of their regular members with a new raider?

Guild chat?

I was about to log yesterday so couldn’t join but my guild had 5 empty spots in a group and said they’d take anyone, even someone if it was their first time. Suspect the group leader was just running a fun group having already done the hardcore stuff as this wasn’t a timetabled guild event.

Djinn.9245:

General Health.9678:

Pretty sure that if you max the tyria mastery lines you get spirit shards in core tyria when you level. So it’s also gated in core, not sure why we’re fixated on HoT.

Cause a lot of people aren’t leveling in core Tyria anymore?

Well where are all the people then? I thought nobody played HoT anymore from all the threads complaining about empty HoT maps and events. Surely you’re not claiming everyone is in Bloodstone Fen?

You level in core when you do events like world bosses, daily events, bloodstone crazed events. When you gather mats (esp for ascended / legendaries right..). It’s all XP so people are definitely still levelling in core after 80.

If you need reminding to eat, sleep etc.. then you’re doing life wrong.
I’m just glad nobody has realised they could troll us by reminding us to stock up on gems, to make a legendary, to practice pvp for the upcoming season etc