Guild Wars 2

Grind was not in their design philosophy, as they liked to remind us.

So i think Ncsoft or Nexon pushed them to do this so more people can buy from cash shop (aka gems/gold) to spend on ingame items. That’s how I see it

One thing also frustrates me.

You find a berry bush for example. And you harvest….ONE berry. From a friggin bush.

Why can’t we harvest 10-20 from one? It makes no sense you pick up just 1 tiny berry from a big berry bush. Same goes for harvesting other things like onions or herbs

I don’t agree with people who said others were abusing crafting for exp gain-

You can buy exp gain from cash shop! If that is so important to you.

I don’t agree with grinding for such materials that are in so many recipes.

Example: i tried that today, grinded bandits from events and no events. Got only 15 bags. 8 butter total. See how frustrating it is? I got tons of jute scraps and other mats but none for the cooking i needed.

Sometimes when you jump from a small height your character will scream as if she or he died. This can be very annoying, and I believe this is a bug

So I’m reporting it here.

DayoftheGreek.6938:

I think this fix makes a ton of sense. Previously cooking took about 1 hour, 1gold, and 1 thousand karma to level from 1-400. Considering they said over and over again that cooking was supposed to be the hardest, most time consuming, and most expensive profession something was REALLY not working as intended. Instead, it was by far the easiest of all the professions that a trip to a handful of vendors would give you 100% of the time.

This thread is so full of overreaction it makes my head hurt. Yeah, it sucks we can easy-mode our way to 400, and some of these items may be returned to the vendor if it is deemed too grindy, but calling the game swtor and being in tears because you can’t make a few digital cookies in 5 seconds? Take a step back from the keyboard, take a deep breath, and say to yourself, “life will go on.”

It’s not the fact they made it harder. It’s the fact that they force us to GRIND.

“We just don’t want our players to grind in GW2” – quote from Manifesto trailer

Quicksilver.1578:

I also have eggs and oranges I could sell but can’t as they are stupidly soulbound.

What is soulbound exactly? Items you got via vendor or mobs?

Bumping this because I want devs to see this!

Has anyone else noticed that the Rytlock model ingame is different from the one in cinematics/character creation introduction?

His teeth are clipping inside his jaw, and his eyes look completely different. They are yellow in cinematics and blue ingame. He doesn’t look menacing anymore, just tired and old.

The miniature is also bugged.

Also, he doesn’t have a lip sync in Ascalon dungeon intro.

Don’t know if this is bug or intended. I certainly wouldn’t want it to be a bug because he looked much better before. The same face is used in CC option and it looks like old, fierce Rytlock.

I would provide screenshots but I’m writing from my laptop so maybe later.

You said " we dont want our players to grind in our game" – in Manifesto trailer.

If you were afraid that ppl were exploiting crafting for easy exp gain, think again.

1) You can buy exp boost from gem store, so what was the point?

2) Instead of making it grindy and expect us to kill mobs over and over again in order to obtain basic crafting materials, you could have just nerfed the experience gain from crafting.

Please reverse it. I enjoyed crafting, and I HATED crafting in most mmos! Now you made it just as grindy and annoying.

Also, what is the point in making basic consumables like loaf of bread soulbound?
Considering that you made crafting harder now, why would it be a crime to sell them on the Auction House?

Also I wanted to trade them between my characters. I don’t want to level cooking on every character in order to get some sweet buffs.

Where are our promises about a non-grindy game?

Are you sure you cant buy them in bags for karma?

It would be a good idea if wiki/database was updated with gathering spots. Like in Aion. There at least you can look up on the map for a specifict material you needed so i didn’t have to run across a map randomly in search for more ingredients.

And anet, please make more of those gathering locations. Or make them drop more. 1-3 per scarce source is NOT enough..

I would like to see more advanced environment effects. Rain, hail, snow… make them random. Or wind blowing through leaves…

Problem with mixup with serial codes. Still no response. I feel IGNORED. I can’t play…play a game I paid 250$! Every time they post “we’re prioritizing hacked account and other login issues” i just roll my eyes because obviously no1 isn’t listening to me and my emails and tickets!

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I agree its bothersome. Crafting for basic consumables should NOT be grindy. All materials shoould be available for purchase until you level considerably.

Also…why are gathering spots so scarce? I had to travel across 1 whole map just to get like, 5 carrots. That is absurd, even Aion had better gathering locations! AION!

Also why in the world are my consumables soul bound? Why can’t I trade them with my other characters? What sense does it make to limit 50 basic cons like loaf of bread just to 1 character?

I just hate crafting the way it is now

Thanks for the advice, Vincente. But I’m certainly not going to buy another copy.

As I said I pre-purchased this CE copy via online store back in April and had to pay twice as much as other players who bought their CE. Been saving for GW2 since last year.

No response yet, btw. It confuses me because what I ask is quite simple :/

I guess they’re just overloaded with e-mails and tickets atm. But it’s quite frustrating because I can’t really play on my account now. Feel kinda ignored.

Hello.

I’m writing this on the official forum in hopes that one of the developers will read this and possibly could help me. Apologies in advance if my english isn’t perfect

I submitted a ticket 4 days ago regarding my account. You see, I ordered the Collector’s Edition and it arrived just last week. I also had a pre-purchase account. The problem is, when my CE box arrived, I was not aware that the another, new serial code provided in the box was needed to fully activate my account once the period prior to launch expires.

To my own stupidity I handed this second serial code to my friend, thinking it was a second account. And it worked for few days – he linked his Guild Wars 1 account with this new serial code.

So when 4 days ago I was asked to update my serial code on my official account it shocked me because I didn’t realize I was going to need that code to continue playing. So I am now basically stuck without my official account and I can only play on that “fake one”.

This is important to me because I linked my old GW1 account with this on which I worked very hard for my HoM rewards. Because my friend did not, I lost all my HoM rewards, and ALSO, the bonus CE items, including Rytlocke miniature, chalice of glory and others.

I’m writing my issue here because I got a bit angry yesterday at the support since all I got was an automated response via e-mail which resolved absolutely nothing, as it was taken from FAQ I read anyways. I updated my ticket asking for real help.

I mean all they need to do is disable this new account and retrieve my old CE one. And if they cant at least you can link my GW1 account to it and enable my CE rewards. I belive it’s not that hard.

I even provided all the serial numbers in the ticket.

Somebody please aid me here – I paid 250$ total for my CE because of extra taxes, and that is insane amount of money for me, so I would hate to lose my account and my hard earned rewards because of a trivial mistake.

If anybody has similar experience please let me know.

Have a nice day