Guild Wars 2

I found a Hidden tree..

Sorry for the Necro XD

Is it just me or is this a huge learn to play issue lol is this like your first game or something?

Man after reading all of this I only have 1 question to Ohoni

What exactly do you want anet to do? like specifically… make everything soul bound or something? shut down the trading post? please don’t say “Make everything balanced”

Zaoda.1653:

Let’s make a list of things we’d like to see change in the HoT maps. I’ll start off a few:

- Increase the amount of noxious pods in Dragon’s Stand – without having to have a successful meta in order to get to a decent amount of them. Right now I still have over 36 unused machetes – what’s the point of having an abundance of machete’s, with very few pods to use them on?

there are alot of these actually if you look hard enough and just reset the map every once a while personally I use 100+ machete’s each day hoping to get the mordrem Saber without having to finish the boring meta

Zaoda.1653:

- Make night-time areas in Verdant Brink more accessible during the day time. Perhaps add a few more updrafts that can take you up to those really high, hard to reach places. The only benefits to night-time VB are the unique bosses and events, which is nice, and I get that, but for those trying to get map completion and have to wait till night-time to remember which areas they suddenly have to go to and get out of the way before day time hits, isn’t fun at all.

it is possible to go up into the canopy at day but you’ll need Advanced Gliding to do so
i’ve done it multiple times I can show you how.

Zaoda.1653:

- Make adventures available 24/7. No one likes to wait for these to become available after certain events have been completed. To make sure events aren’t deserted though, perhaps add some sort of incentive in doing them – be it unique rewards, better xp, more currency from completing them (airship parts/lumps of aurillium/ley line crystals), karma… whatever it takes to make people want to do them.

I believe the reason for this is because they want you do to the events first and not let the adventure slow down the meta ( like what the raid is doing now for verdant brink)

I find it funny that the game has been going on for well over 3 years with a sizeable player base ( not huge but enough )

then suddenly this newbie comes out of nowhere and says “the game is gonna die unless you give me this and this and do this”

Wanze.8410:

Wiella.8567:

4. Mats are the downside at the moment only if you buy them off TP. I bought mine off TP because I’m saving the ones I’ve crafted for the new legendaries and also wanted to see the difference – it cost me 1.3k gold, dusk was 1.2k gold at the time. Not a big difference since didn’t use buy orders which would give me ~10% discount and total price of 1.15~1.2k gold which is already cheaper the the TP pre price. I just didn’t want to wait.

5. I’ve also calculated the price if you are going to do it by crafting mats – it would be around 0.8~0.85k gold which is a significant discount from even 1.15~1.2k gold. Generally you save up around 300-400 gold for doing collection there. Is it good? Yes, it is. For just four or five hours of new awesome experience you are getting by doing all those small tasks.

So to summ up:
- Collection tasks are awesome with some small exceptions (some bugged stuff which is getting fixed though or already got a fix), so I really recommend doing those
- Collections do save you gold if you don’t buy mats off TP, but craft them – yes, that takes time but this is exactly one of the reasons why the prices are higher on the TP

Just fyi, here are the prices and material lists for crafting dusk:

Craft ascended mats yourself, mats bought with buy order: 680g
Craft ascended mats yourself , mats bought directly: 755g
Buy all mats, also ascended mats, directly: 1168g

As you mentioned, there is a huge spread between buying deldrimor ingots directly or crafting it yourself.

Some other notes:
Anet actually did consider the average value of the different precursors before hot in their crafting recipes. Venom only costs around 30g to craft.

thehipone made a good remark why crafting your own precursor will mostly never be significantly cheaper than buying it off the tp.

out of topic can I just ask what program / website you’re using in your pictures?

wow so many talented programmers here! you guys should get together and make a game i’d totally play it!

You can only do precursor crafting once per account

the funny thing is im sure if they did something like all the mats needed you cant buy from the tp but is still “gated” as you guys say it is but you have to farm it for like 7 months people would still complain and say it’s too long bla bla people just want their precursors handed to them

precursor crafting was never meant to be a way to get the precursor cheaper than the tp it is just a way to get a precursor out of RNG something you can work towards rather than hoping it would randomly drop.

get it through your thick skulls devs never ever mentioned it to be cheap or free it was stated multiple times it will retain the cost of the precursor in the market.

Gold is way easier now than it was 2 years ago I quit 2 years ago as well and came back about a month ago in that short month i made the incinerator from scratch and now about to finish my bifrost. here’s a tip use www.gw2efficiency.com and check your materials storage and bank for items to sell some people don’t see the value in their items you could have missed about 100g+ in your material storage

I know how you feel I made twilight 2 years ago cause I used to play warrior but now i came back to my main which is elementalist and the twilight is just there… not being used for over a month now

Amen seems like enough complaining and they’ll change anything

can we please start complaining on how hard it is to craft precursors so they’ll cut the required mats in half thanks

Isarii.2804:

Between calling TERA “the only other MMO with action cam” and the insistence that you can only keybind like 6 abilities (Jesus Christ OP, have you played an older MMO like WoW?), this has to be a troll post. Please tell me this is a troll post.

what’s heartbreaking is to think he’s been playing since august 2012… he’s been using his mouse to attunement swap for 3 years… poor guy

wait wait wait you use mouse for your attunements?

from what i read you mean to say your attunements are not hot keyed to F1-F4?
I play an elementalist too and everything is reachable with my left hand without sacrificing mobility

It’s the same exp karma and coin for me no matter how many times i do it

jesus christ does no one explore or even use the Wiki anymore.. he is in lion’s Arch

here’s a picture…

really? i’ve been earning more gold than ever didn’t even notice any of the things you put up

pretty sure you can craft it anytime you want provided you have all the mats you need which most can only be taken from halloween

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

yes, San Fran is Pacific time

omg that means i get to play it tmrw XD i thought i had to wait another day

Is this correct?

http://everytimezone.com/#2015-10-22,1155,cn3

San Francisco timezone is what we’ll follow?

Check this, it’s not really a build but i think this is how you want to play this goes 6 in fire

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Grim Jr.8946:

Nope, because Legendary.

maybe consume transmutation for every stat change would be okay but unlocked once is no.

I think runes and sigil’s shouldn’t be changeable via this method as it will diminish the Rune/Sigil market,

no, because

legendary = ugly skin, nothing else
changeable gear stats = everyone can have it

i think they should be changeable via this method as it will greatly help the rune sigils market. the prices will soar up.

look at how the prices of dyes went up.

yeah for now, but when implementation happens it will drop like a fly because when people get the runes and sigils they want then supply will increase and demand will drop

doesn’t matter if legendary skins suck,
“changeable gear stats = everyone can have it” how? oh that’s right! by building a legendary!

thiagoperne.7340:

You right, I should have savaged a Legendary Weapon to know what it gives me before ask. I am sorry.

Good job being sarcastic but that is not the point, any person that has been playing long enough and can actually use their brain would know salvaging doesn’t give you much no matter what the rarity of the item is.

is this your first game or something?

Nope, because Legendary.

maybe consume transmutation for every stat change would be okay but unlocked once is no.

I think runes and sigil’s shouldn’t be changeable via this method as it will diminish the Rune/Sigil market,

thiagoperne.7340:

Why not? It doesn’t cost me anything then a couple minutes And if you want to someone to stop trying this happen you shouldn’t be posting here to bumps it. Also it does give me some answers like I didn’t know savaging them doesn’t give me anything worthy.

im not trying to stop you or anything im just saying it won’t happen, as you already have a legendary you should have been in the game long enough to know almost everything. like how salvaging works, but i guess that’s not the case

StinVec.3621:

Grim Jr.8946:

No, this would be just like that other horrible MMO which I will not name, where you can have a pet and it gives stats, making it a requirement to get best in slots, if ever they do this It should only be cosmetic and Cash shop

Consumables (food, oils/stone/crystal) give stats and many feel they are required for maximizing stats. Should those not even be in the game due to many even kicking players from dungeon parties if they don’t have them? You cannot talk about additional items being required for maximum stats without pointing fingers at other things already in the game like those items.

yes, but they have been in the game since day 1. adding these pets that give the suggested stuff will just add more vertical progression which anet doesn’t want. and food aren’t really required as they are temporary but having these pets aren’t. if you think your party kicked you because you have no food it’s either you’re terrible or your party are kittens

If you are worried about waypoint costs then I have no sympathy for you, i mean it would take at least 100k waypoints to even cut half of my gold. and I barely log in anymore, it’s not the waypoint cost that is bad it’s your lazy kitten

No, this would be just like that other horrible MMO which I will not name, where you can have a pet and it gives stats, making it a requirement to get best in slots, if ever they do this It should only be cosmetic and Cash shop

thiagoperne.7340:

If that’s not happening is anyway to take anything back from an Legendary Weapon that you are not using anymore and can’t use on any other character of yours after april feature pack?

What happens if I savage it? Do I get the precursor back or something?

No, you don’t. you can get 1 – 2 pcs ori ore though…

seriously though stop trying to make this happen, It won’t

I can’t believe this has to be asked… obviously it will stay cultural, all parts of the armors have a Race requirement

laokoko.7403:

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Until you realize that you still need to do the time gated stuff to level up your crafting skills high enough to actually make the ascended equipment in the first place. Whether or not you can purchase the time gated mats off of the trading post you still have to get a crafting skill to a high enough level to actually make the ascended gear. And since the Ascended Gear is bound to you, you can’t simply have someone else craft it for you.

I’m pretty sure I can get to 500 crafting in a few hours if I have money. And if I dont’ it’ll take alot more than a few hours.

You still need to do “something” yourself, but with money it is much easier right?

so it’s not pay to win it’s pay for convenience big difference :P

laokoko.7403:

Grim Jr.8946:

wow some people here really want to make gw2 look like it’s pay to win.

If you don’t know what pay to win looks like clearly you haven’t played/seen Diablo 3.. where you can literally use your credit card to become the most powerful being in the game while in gw2 even if you buy all your armor all your legendary weapons all your +30 AR whatever I will probably still be better than you with 10 AR just saying~

That’s the thing, you dont’ care about beauty contest. And apparently many people do.

There really isn’t much difference between GW2 and “the other pay2win” game except you buy power in other game, and in this game you buy cosmetic.

Most of those p2w games, you dont’ have to pay to win too. You just need to play the game like a full time job. Since most of them have a cash to gem conversion system like in GW2. So anything from gem store can be bought with in game cash.

I care alot about beauty but like the other people have been saying being mr/ms Tyria won’t make you better than anyone else out there hence it is not pay to win, like the other guy said it’s pay to dress up but the sad truth is people say they (anet) are being greedy about those hence they call it pay to win.

so what im saying is even if you have the best cosmetics you (not you in particular but anyone who believes cosmetics are what defines good ) still suck. so even if you have spent 10000000000$ you still won’t be better than anyone hence the game is not pay to win

Protoavis.9107:

Shockwave.1230:

If you really wanted to make the game pay to win, you could pay someone to play the game for you!

Game over

Well, I can buy gems to get gold to get legendaries, to get the dungeon master title via path sellers, to get carried through fractals, to get wvw commanders to carry me to all the poi in wvw for map completion, etc….just saying.

Do it then.. lol noone will stop you… and at the end of the day I will be there laughing at you after you spent all that money and I’ve done the same thing without spending a dime

wow some people here really want to make gw2 look like it’s pay to win.

If you don’t know what pay to win looks like clearly you haven’t played/seen Diablo 3.. where you can literally use your credit card to become the most powerful being in the game while in gw2 even if you buy all your armor all your legendary weapons all your +30 AR whatever I will probably still be better than you with 10 AR just saying~

Lord Kuru.3685:

One of the biggest issues with the whole Scarlet debacle is that her storyline has been approved from the bottom all the way to the top of Anet. That means Anet not only does not have the ability to write good stories, but that they don’t have the ability to tell when a story is bad.

This does not bode well for whatever succeeds the Scarlet storyline.

probably because the story isn’t finished? do you read a few chapters of a book then stop then say it sucks?

But she does have a backstory a very interesting one at that!

Distaste.4801:

If people want to continue to allow killshot to do it’s damage because it’s dodge-able then we need to balance the rest of the game in that same manner. All 1s skills will do half that damage, so if it’s 15k killshots then 7.5k for normal 1s attacks. Obviously channeled attacks like necro’s ghastly claws will do the full 15k over the 2s (better dodge!). It’s all dodgeable though so it’s not a problem right? Just gotta pan your camera better…

The argument for this type of damage is absurd. If warriors rifle is so bad outside killshot then it needs reworked, it should not justify the damage on killshot. A 2s animation also shouldn’t justify that damage because I can think of dozen more ways that you’re either not going to be able to dodge it or you’re not going to see it coming. In a 1v1 or even a 2v2 it’s balanced but very quickly it becomes unbalanced.

The bottomline of all of this is that there should be no insta-kill or near insta-kill abilities in this game. Those types of attacks completely kill tactics and strategy of combat. It isn’t just killshot that crosses that line and this isn’t just a nerf warriors thing. ANY class that has abilities or combos that can crit well above say 7k on a medium armor build need to be brought back down to size.

So… Nerf all classes right? cause you can well do that much damage with any class in a span of 2 seconds. reduce all damage by 50%

complaining about an easy to dodge skill.. with a 2 second cast time

My ele could do 20k damage in that 2 seconds. It’s probably OP for newbies

Deli.1302:

Harvest.2506:

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

And you should be grateful!

They Should be grateful we don’t leave the game in Droves (just wvw). Back to PVE profit and shinny land, one hour of a champ farm train gets me more stuff than that past 7 weeks.

I’ll just brush this incident off as charity work and accept their hummble gifts. while I get back to playing the game for the rewards I want.

Good riddance! We don’t want achievement hunters in wvw, ever.

But Achievement hunters are free loot bags!! don’t go please!!

So im sure some people want a race change feature in the game, but it is not possible due to story, racial armor, and other race specific things but.. What about Racial Tonics? when im playing with my Charr Warrior and I get bored of the same animations I use a the potion that turns you into a human ghost thus having human animations maybe if we can’t race change permanently how about temporarily with the use of Racial Tonics we become this random looking character of what ever race you pick, they did it in FOTM with Charr and Asura as well as the Potion of Ascalonian Mages so I think this is completely possible..

what do you guys think?

oh and combat is enabled ofcourse

firstly why are you comparing League of Legends to Guild Wars 2 it’s 2 very very different games and you can’t use the same business model, and the day I can spend my 900k IP on skins happen that’d be great. (no relation to gold to gems, just sayin)

you still need proof and by proof I mean computations, expectations, annual income and stuff you don’t create a business plan and just say put this and that. didn’t they teach this?? god.

Phy.2913:

chemiclord.3978:

Hermes.7014:

Give out a service while making money is sure their goal, but an unhappy customer base may result in a much less desiderable outcome.

And how many unhappy customers do you think it will create when you make their multiple purchases worthless and demand refunds (thus costing you money)?

Keep it as it is. It doesn’t need changing, and will only cause headaches if they do.

And leaving it how it is doesn’t cause headaches and lost revenue, how? This thread proves there are unhappy potential customers right now.

it also doesn’t prove they have lost revenue or are losing money nor does it prove they will gain money.. people be like “You will gain more money!” uhh.. No. it’s not how business works, pretty sure they should’ve taught this in school

I mean you know how good an idea this is?

without any evidence, research, or computing you managed to come up with a business model that would certainly make millions without any fail! you should go to every forum and post this marvelous idea just in case that devs all around the world have never heard of the popular DC Universe Online

Look at all the accountants and businessmen here you guys must make millions if your’re that smart, oh my god I wonder why Anet didn’t think about this!

Truman.8294:

So I was talking with some Blackgaters and they got all mad and had to have to ask their whole guild to send in bans because they cannot handle some criticism.

oh so you were that guy lololol

This is how the conversation went:
First thing he said in map chat
Ruhtra Autern: “Blackgate sucks”
Some random blackgate people : “Why are you here then?”
Ruhtra Autern: “To tell you”

Then the bashing begun

Im not sure there is one, but better safe than sorry you should ask a dev over here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account

Svarty.8019:

No. 1st place should get nothing. The honour of coming top is reward enough.

The best rewards should go to the bottom teams, to boost them!

Also:
Reward-hungry people would transfer to low servers who need people, leaving the top ranking servers and freeing up the queue.

This is the most stupid suggestion I have seen thus far…

If they do this then you can expect no one will WvW anymore because they will get rewarded for not doing anything at all

Soulmyr.8094:

Sabyne.6329:

Facepunch.5710:

Aerlen.5326:

I know of five people completely kittened because they bought exotic armor, earned the gold to buy human T3 light, transmuted it for the skin and then transmuted it to flamekissed yesterday… and now Anet won’t fix that.

Source that ANet won’t fix that? Don’t you think they are smart enough to know how much of a mess they’ve made? If it were you in charge, wouldn’t you address these issues on a case-by-case basis? I would.

I’d avoid making these kinds of incendiary claims until we know how ANet is going to handle these situations.

Some people sent tickets to the customer support we’re supposed to deal with to be compensated. You can look the answer a few pages back in this very thread but it was telling that only gem would be refund if people asked for it after not liking the new model and that the previous skin would not be refunded.

Because they will start giving compensation AFTER the new version is out. Please read their responses correctly.

Nanoko.1850:

customer support got back to me, they will not be offering a way to get back an old T3 skin, if you want it back after the change, you will have to rebuy the skin. the only thing that will be offered is the refund of 800 gems and an automatic reskin when the new one is put in.

Thank you crusaders and anet, you just screwed people out of even more gold.

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Nanoko.1850:

customer support got back to me, they will not be offering a way to get back an old T3 skin, if you want it back after the change, you will have to rebuy the skin. the only thing that will be offered is the refund of 800 gems and an automatic reskin when the new one is put in.

Thank you crusaders and anet, you just screwed people out of even more gold.

ohhh shheeeet some people just got screwed over! I just wasted 100g but oh well