Guild Wars 2

Orlandu.3781:

Well, this thread is one of the most self-righteous smug-a-thons I’ve seen in a while. I am impressed, cryers of “lp2”. Your experiences and collective creativity and insight are surely representative of the vast majority of players, who have never experienced anything like these dungeons, having been raised playing soft mmos and been given no indication by the pve in this very game of what was to come inside AC. The place where my friendly mailbox sent me a letter, instructing me to travel there with some friends to check it out! Therein lies the biggest problem with the instances in GW2. The difficulty is good overall, but there isn’t much consideration in-game for the transition, and the community’s consideration is writ large in this thread, if you felt compelled to post merely to insult others.

Consider the plight of the average player. They have played WoW, perhaps even raided. Maybe some SWTOR. Games palatable to the masses, very soft. And now they are playing GW2. Things are different. Your quests are regional, and somewhat amorphous, they are merely one avenue of progression and not the whole city. The more exciting part are the group dynamic events. You get in with other players and do tough stuff! You are taught that in order to be rewarded, you must do as much damage as possible. If you don’t do enough damage, you get little or nothing. This is the strongest PvE message the game sends. You’re finally getting the hang of your class, and just got your elite skill! You get a letter in the mail, come to Ascalon Catacombs, I’ll even show you where it is on the map! And what players find is a solid brick wall. It isn’t hard to see why people get discouraged. At first, I’m certain it does feel insurmountable.

I think more should be done to help players adjust to the demands of dungeons. Ascalon Catacombs story mode is the real weak link in the chain. As a trial-and-error learning session, it is excessively punishing and frustrating. The beginning of the learning curve needs to be more gentle. After that, it’s pretty much fine, except that the rewards are unimpressive.

tl;dr – AC story mode should be more forgiving, rewards should be either larger or flashier, people should be more understanding.

Sooo… basically in you believe the game should be dumbed down to appeal to the masses.

How about… no?

Xenith.2581:

The OP is correct. The “Story Mode” difficulty level of the 30 dungeon (AC) iskitten The degree of difficulty is on the level of endgame content and worst part about dungeons in this game, you get no great looking gear/weapons. If you’re going to make a dungeon this difficult, regardless of story mode or challenge mode, you need to have the NPC’s dropping lvl 30 armor sets that are kitten. Horrible dungeon design and I hope NCSoft take this thread and the relevant posts into consideration.

No he’s not.

Seriously, I agree with quite a number of other people in this thread, learn to play. Make strategies, figure out what works and what doesn’t, and don’t just expect to be able to roflmao stop your way through a dungeon in 30 minutes getting fat epic loots in return.

Except all this does is make everyone farm the shortest and fastest mode possible, thereby making all other dungeons totally devoid of use.

No thanks.

It’s like two weeks into the game. No one really know how to play the game yet, that type of stuff doesn’t get figured out for possibly years. It’ll take some time before folks figure out what skills and weapon combo is the best (or really, exactly what role a profession sits); complaining about being under/overpowered this early is kinda silly.

My Account → Security

Should have a list of IPs, though afaik you can’t revoke access to anything.

Best you can do is fill out one of these http://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/ask/session/L3RpbWUvMTM0NzA0OTM1OC9zaWQvSFhCQW9HNWw%3D and then wait.

Dragonlord.6748:

I think the ban for the Karma exploit was overdone.
They made a mistake and set the wrong value for the items, how the hell are the players supposed to know that the value is wrong?

And instead of fixing this issue, and perhaps do a a rollback, they proceed to ban thousands of players for doing something they had no way of knowing was an exploit.

After reading a large number of posts on the account forums here alone, I’m really starting to question Anets policy.

I keep getting the impression that players are banned for no reason at all and they get no informations as to what they did to get the ban, but instead tell players to read the TOS as if that will explain to players what they did to get the ban in the first place.

For me it has come to a point where I am actually expecting to have gotten a ban or suspension every time I log in, and find myself surprised when I can in fact log in and play.

There’s a very large difference between buying a weapon once while it was low karma for your own use and buying a boatload for pure exploitative purposes.

I dunno, it seems to me like a lot of these can be solved by sheer common sense, or thinking about what you’re writing before you do. Just because in previous games one hasn’t gotten banned for language doesn’t justify its use everywhere. It’s rather easy to think to oneself hey, you know that bad word/racial slur/can be viewed as offensive term thing that I’m about to type in? Yeah, let me not use that!

And that solves ALL the problems. No usage, no reporting, no ban.

Eochaidh.4106:

Odds are that your accounts have been breached and banned either for your own safety or for gold seller propaganda in-game. Unfortunately there isn’t much to do other than waiting for a response. Support normally does prioritize such situations, so I don’t know why it’s taking you so long.

My guess is it’s from the sheer volume of tickets that flow in upon the launch of a game.

And yes, account compromising sounds like the most likely reason the OP was banned, don’t think I’ve heard of a case of someone getting permabanned because of language.

Or you could just choose to not use vulgar and inappropriate character names and/or language. Quite rather simpler.

You might want to check your computer for keyloggers and the like. Seems like someone is get access to your passwords rather easily.