Guild Wars 2

Permanent Captain’s Airship Pass Suggestion.

I want to thank you for at last providing a quality permanent item that everyone should buy ASAP. 1000 Gems is well worth this Service.

A couple things to suggest.

1: Make the Airship instance based (like home district) If need be tie it to the home district map of your character so its not infested with others when you go there. I was hoping it would be this way but was disappointed to find it was crowded and will likely become very hard to move around in. (addendum: If not home district how about the hall of monuments instance itself? it would give it more purpose at least and solve the next point.)

2: The exit should work more like the Hall of Monuments token and return you to your original location. Dropping a lev 8 into Gendarran Fields upon using the account item that gets us to the airship is a bit disconcerting at best…

3: is mostly just a concern for Gendarran Fields in general. being your treating it like Lions Arch which was always laggy to be in for me, now you made an adventure area kinda unusable. Would it not be a better idea to make the revamped Vigil area thats replacing LA a separate mapped area? Just saying… I mean I know this is a living world event and all and its likely not a permanent thing to be in there like that, but it was just a thought…

Thanks for listening…
=HT=Ingram
HAZTEAM Guild Since first beta of Prophecies.

PS: to answer a couple questions: Its is 1 item and you have to move it to which ever character your on to use it. I normally put it in my bank when I’m done for the day and log out near a bank so I can grab it next time on whichever character I login with.

When you log out on board you are expelled just outside the Vigil keep.
There is a market access vendor on board. all the crafters are on board, there is a guild bank on board and a regular bank. Indeed just about all the services that were in LA are right there at a click of an item (as long as you rmeber to bring it)… I didnt see the world travel options they claimed, but if you exit the Vigil has all of those right below you at least for now… Hope that clears things up a bit.

At the very least its a fast free travel method to all resources.

This nightmare to be addressed properly at some point. After almost 5 months being one from this game I am seeing ZERO reason to return atm. Indeed tis gotten worse with this ludicrous thing being forced on us that didnt want it. Its all well and good for those that did, but they should have made it optional instead of forcing all of us that wanted this basic functionality into single player guilds.

YES YES I know I can convert Gold into gems… and as to trade post I dont have any desire to EVER use the trade post for ANYTHING. I use NPCs as much as possible to deal with acquiring goods for whatever. I know the bully community is always our opinion is the only one that matters, I’m nothing, go kitten off and die looser, what I may want is of no concern to anyone attitude. The point is WHY was this needlessly done to users. There was no problem the way it was, and there is no reason it should not be returned when we already have the ability with guilds to do the very function I am asking about. The only reason I can see is to make it easier to find some way to get the game to waste account gold reserves instead of allowing players to save it for future investments. I dont trust this game publisher at all. Arenanet was once very trust worthy but NCSoft has NEVER been. And I smell their corruption and greed behind this. As a way to social engineer their customers into not saving game currency for any reason. Personally the only option can see atm that is FEASIBLE is to leave my guild and make a new one for myself, and then use that for legitimate bank storage of currency. Is that really what they want? thousands of single player guilds? Why not just return the fundamental functionality of account banks and give us an option to BANK our currency to be protected from being to easily wasted.

We can still deposit into guild banks so that rediculous. So basically they are telling all of us to just make new guilds with 1 player in it just to bank our gold? thats insane.

Example, When I make a new character, I give it an allowance of currency to waste on lowbe garbage just to get going. I dont want to over spend on a low level toon, but its helpful to get the ball rolling on adventuring and looking half way good. Also getting started on crafting for that character. but once that allowance is done I’m done with him till its time to earn some from them. If I find they are not earning much at all as with mesmers, well then I call it a loss and stop playing it so as to move on. This new account wide bit is just annoying that I can not store my gold so I dont spend it. litterally the only reason I can see that you did this is to eliminate gold and make us waste it thorugh basic crap that you overcharge for on high level characters like Map travel for one. Or armor repairs… all wasted money that now WE as players have no protection or significant warning that we are overspending while playing.

IDK why the wallet came about, I really dont care too much for it, but would not mind it IF Our bank still allowed me to BANK my gold. The reason I bank gold is specifically to avoid spending it without a warning that_ it is being pulled from the bank. Which is all to easy to do in this game if I get carried away exploring or crafting or just about anything I eat up hundreds in gold in map travel alone. (its too easy to waste if its always on my character)

The wallet concept is well and good account wide and all, but please allow us this feature that is a much desired. even if that means I have to pay for it with gems so be it, I have all the account wide options bought already for my bank, this simple and basic feature would just be one more. PLEASE return to us the ability to DEPOSIT our gold into our banks. Its still there in the guild bank so IDK what the problem was with us having this basic feature, unless its to force us to have our accounts drained of game gold.

I have to ask what are 250 employees doing at anet really… Cause its not Developing anything that makes GW2 a draw to play anymore…
Guild Halls, Forget about it its never happening punk.
Expansions, Ah who cares we give you enough in our events that no one wants to play.
New classes or abilities, maybe someday but they are not needed, it will cause decent in the community if some new class comes out and prevents people from grinding.

So all they do is keep the same and dress it up with new skins of LAMENESS. This interview is PROOF that NCSoft has abandoned western markets and ANET is stuck in a downward spiral of ignoring consumer request and dwindling population.
Generally Gamers do not want to be in grind in perpetuity to get an item that is no better then a general drop from an average creature.

We Want new areas to explore, new creatures to destroy, and new dungeons to vanquish and loot. We are willing to pay for these DLC expansions but short of THAT, there is little to no reason to continue playing Guild Wars 2 where its neither a war or has guild halls to gather our friends within for internal commerce. GW2 days are as numbers as was Paragon Studios when they were trying to say Oh no we got lots of plans on the table in the works but nothing is happening right now… all along they knew they were closing cause NCSoft demanded it to be so. The same is true of Anet at this point unfortunately.

Can anyone say Return REBIRTH!?! Or teleport corpse or something USEFUL. Hell even the USELESS resurrection orb we spend real money to attain only reses you with 1HP! Thats a res and INSTANT Death in ANY situation that it would have been practical to use it for. Talk about a waste of money. I tend to agree Pugs are a waste of time for any type of dungeon. For that matter dungeons themselves are a complete and total waste as far as I am concerned. the rewards vs time having to be put into them / and the expense of doing them at all, is just not worth it to me for some superficial goodies that make you feel like your something your not for grinding garbage to get some ultra nothing item. It would be one thing if they were even enjoyable like the dungeons in GW EOTN were, but these just are not. they are nothing but an endless parade of wiping running back through ENDLESSLY respawning mobs, and repeat. At least in the original you could pull an idiot away from a danger spot to resurrect them if they went off leroying the world. But there is no safe spots really in a dungeon in GW2 as everything behind you is endlessly respawned and your basically back to square one after every wipe. Personally I’m done with them outside of an occasional Guildy request for a story mode run. As far as this nerf goes I feel many more will do the same. I encourage you to protest their actions by NOT spending any money on gems and NOT running any dungeons at all till they start actually FIXING things that are broken, and stop breaking things that were NOT. Remember this is NCSoft not ArenaNet that we all knew from the glory days of Guild Wars. NCSoft cares not for anyone, especially western cultures, EXCEPT FOR YOUR MONEY! So stop giving it to them. Only then is ArenaNet allowed to do as they know is right and start making content that is WORTH investing in again. AS in Expansions / Campaigns.

Oh and one more thing. how about the endlessly recourring bug that keeps you in combat mode when YOUR not attacking anything and your pet is standing right beside you in passive mode!~? Not taking any damage not moving nothing, and yet your stuck in combat mode.. Yea Brilliant move this little nerf… all it really does is wipe the whole team when 1 dies instead of just the 1 idiot that prob caused it in the first place by trying to RUN for it instead of fighting their way through as 1 group.

I would love to see new lands opened up in the next paid for expansion (DLC) exclusive from the gem store. Specifically the Day of the Tengu. We already have a door for access to the region in Caledon Forest (Titan’s Staircase Waypoint) that would open the eastern side up to a new territory. I think this would serve as a wonderful addition and proof of concept to push further more expansive PvE content as DLCs through the gem store. The only other major problem Our guild is having is team size. Please make a paid for way for increasing team size to 8 players. the original Game was 8 player based save for the very early areas of the game and having a high level evolved character limited to only 5 players severely limits builds (given that we do not have enough skills to provide true individual build uniqueness as we had in the original) this would be the LEAST Anet could do to address the lack of balanced team builds. Right now Dungeons are overrun with Guardians and Warriors alone with very few reasons to bring anything else cause they just dont survive & end up being a waste of time to have on a team. If that team had an option of being 8 players however and making the dungeons properly scaled with added difficulty for doing that, then the team balance would be better preserved. Please consider this as I know Both of these DLC options would sell in a heartbeat on the Gem store as opposed to the useless and unpopular Town costumes you tend to release now.

The Market being an external webpage is ludicrously inefficient IMHO. the darn thing is so undependable to be able to be used. Seems every single patch breaks it again so that IF it manages to come up and be searchable, ( and thats a big IF) I still am unable to click the BUY button on items I want to purchase despite availability and price being met. Every single patch I have to go through a do a -repair verify on my GW2.dat file and even then its iffy that the market will work. its lead me to avoid it at almost all costs which is unfortunate as other titles that have markets work quite well… IDK what NCSofts problem is that they do not just integrate it into the game client where it belongs and rid us of this webplugin nonsense thats constantly making the darn thing unusable.

ITs got to have been said someplace but the ability to choose what you want for skill 10. if you dont want an elite here and instead want another lower level skill we should be able to pick that lower utility skill for that final slot. I’m finding more and more as I end up having to solo 60% of the game that my elite skills are really not all that useful when adventuring alone. but a 5th utility skill would be of tremendous use for say map exploration as an example for running skills.

Also Global chat channels (IRC style) so we can invite whom we wish for alliances to there for common chat interactions. IMHO thats better then the old Alliance chat as it could cross servers and guilds easily and would not have the limitations that Alliance had with only 10 guilds.

I have gotten a lot of dropouts the last several days. I was thinking at first it was my ISP but other games are not doing it at all… so IDK. I took a short break from GW2 for a while in hopes it will be patched soon…

Why would one buy such things on the market at all? I honestly dont get that. I prefer earning it as a drop or making it myself to just outright buying the item from a market. whats that say about me at all? that I can farm the hell out of the game? IDK I never understood the appeal to get items you didnt earn from others… I can understand a high demand skin that one can transmute with or whatever. looks are always desirable. but for me I care about stats of items more so then looks… And you can mix and match all kinds of things to get better stats… IDK. I’ll admit they would I’m sure be a nice thrill to find such a drop but I cant in my head find a reason EVER to sell it to anyone. I may use it as a prize for a guild award or something if I dont want it or whatever. I look at the trade post as a source for common crafting goods, not really a source for rares or ultra rares… Just my opinion, it doesnt make a hill of beans in the end.

Honestly, its totally silly, but I was so giddy as a school kid when I found Fawcetts Bounty in Harathi Hinterlands. I walk through the cave and come upon a pirate ship inside a larger cave and immediately say GOONIES!!!! I kept expecting to hear HEY YOU GUYS from one of the npcs someplace. lol Total One Eye Willie Fawcett be…

Oh and one more thing. I dont remeber exactly where it was but an asuran talking about buttons someplace… Whats this one do, IDK whats that one do, couldnt tell you, then something like Well how about the blue one then? UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO TOUCH THE BLUE BUTTON!!! Someone else will know it, The line was hilarious I wish I remembered where it was. The Asruans are born comedians.

I’m really kinda torn… I hope they cycle mad king time a little so I can still do it on the original GW and still be able to play whatever on GW2 a well. (meaning the arrivals not be on the same hours in both games at same time…)

I hope we get a Halloween mask but somehow I’m doubting we will.. lol its like a HUGE maybe right now… I miss my flaming pumpkin head lol

I have to admit I DO miss the Dye mixing ability… feels like so many options to unlock for Dyes and then you realize if you could just mix a few you could get the look you want and it be a LITTLE more unique. BUT its not too hard to just keep collecting em, just frustrating when you know you have a color unlocked on 1 toon and cant transfer a skin get dyed the way you want it from another toon. you got to wait till you find just the right dye again on that other character… Its just frustrating is all I’m saying. I get it, just really wishing it were account locked and not character locked.

I did that trick and used a resurrection orb to run around down there. nothing of interest really… Same trick can be used for an achievement too in the goonies ship Jumping puzzle.. whats it called…. Fawcett’s Revenge I think…

I kinda avoided Orr entirely. I just kept seeing everythign BAD about the game coming out of that region so I looped up north instead. Now I know I didnt finsh the game yet and I will one day, but I decided to hold off messing around in there till the population either thins out or anet gives the region a serious tweak towards fixing all teh things that people claim is broken in there. in time I’m sure it will be all fixed so its worth it to me to treat the area as if it does not exist at all and wait for that. ;( I know it will be worth it later, for now I’ll keep making new characters and playing in other areas.

Quite true, Sorry for speaking like that about commanders. I do know guilds had pooled a great deal of donations from their members to get theirs… I was mostly speaking to the rather incompetent ones that dont appear to have a guild at all that had been running around at that time. Sorry for the insinuation.

when I got keys for free I got them for map completion. nothing else. Feel lucky we have a way to get them at all for free. other games milk such keys exclusively for cash alone with no other way to attain them, and yet drop boxes SO much they are almost a nuisance drop. This game has a comfortable balance I think thus far. if your wanting more keys you may have to grind a few new characters in the lowbe areas lev 20 – 40 maps to get a few keys for free. I did notice that the drop ratio of MORE keys inside the chests does seem to have dropped a bit. I was previously able to get a key and open around 3 maybe 4 chests, because inside was another key for a few more openings… Thats seems to happen less now… 1 key now seems to only be worth 1 chest. if you get an extra key back your on a lucky streak IMHO.

I’ll admit I keep those BL Chests and just pool them up if I happen to receive a key, OR if keys go on sale or something one day. but I highly doubt people will open them all ever… I doubt they were REALLY meant to be such an item that every one was to be opened one day. I’m sure they would LOVE it if you did, but in reality that would cost anyone a small fortune.

I have to say yes, I’ve gotten many hundred hours out of it but like all games after a time it goes on a shelf till I feel the need to play again. I basically log in on occasion and craft a little and catch up with the guildmates but for the most part I may only play an hour or two a week now till something new comes out to buy for it or whatever… the $60 investment at preorder and the additional $40 for strat guide and prob another $40 for account storage upgrades was well worth it so that I can play casually now at my pace anytime I wish. Well at least until NCSoft feels they milked it for all its worth and attempts to shut this game down too that is… Hopefully Anet will keep that from happening, but I doubt it. I find it very hard to trust a publishing company that shuts down games on their whims when they are still making profit and growing fan base. ArenaNet will do well to be rid of them if they want to ensure long term money commitments to future upgrades and expansions from the gaming community. If not at this point I feel I got my moneys worth, I just dont know if I will trust that I could make that commitment again with any NCSoft product.

Considering how expensive Commander books are I would be quite shocked if those that have it right now are not gold farmers and marketers… And if not I question where thy got the funds to get said commander book. Gold sellers probably…

That being said I wish the commander book was more useful in PvE. IE larger team building… If you only want them to be given to those that earn the right for them, so be it, take them off the venders for currency and have them redeemable for merit in WvW alone, then lock their function to WvW only. and Give something better suited for PvE in place for PvE guilds to use.

I would imagine most of those that passed you by may not be players at all but script kiddies… That being said, I dont use map chat hardly at all anymore. If its not in guild or friend listings I dont know about it. You can try sending a tell or useing /say and that will at times get my attention, but 90% of the time I am using voice chat with guild mates on TS and dont even look at chat windows. I would imagine that to be true for many people. If I am around you obviously sure no problem, but with map travel costs even on the same map being so outrageous your asking someone else to pay the fee for you dieing so they can Teleport (TP) to you and res you instead of you paying for that yourself. If someone is in the area sure great but if not and their is nothing but script kiddies your not going to be seeing any help from those bots… I am not looking forwards to ANYTHING in Orr at this point cause I know its completely and totally overrun according to everyone that has gone there so far. I just cant stomach that so I am taking my time and getting 100% on everything prior that I can to avoid it as long as I can.

I would assume such an exploit is client side only, But still. understandable if it is. Sounds funny though lol I guess people have their kicks any way they can get em….

Precisely, which is why you put into place a balance now at the beginning to keep that inflation from being artificially manipulated and exploited. Thus years down the line prices are higher yes but not skyrocketing…

The key point to my post was that expiring bids and sales eventually will clear the artificial demand curve we currently have due to the market bug where supply can not meet the demanded bid cause of the price floor on posting items. thus the minimum bid can not ever be supplied. I’m all for the price floor at merchant values. cause people should sell tot he merchant if the price is not appropriate. this keeps supply in check. Conversely Demand is in check with expiration because if a price is too high that the market is unwilling to waste money on that item its not there forever. its expires and the seller is given an opportunity to lower their price to meet the demand curve. Of course they could repost at their same inflated price, but they pay a price for that inflation in their listing fee. So eventually they are ENCOURAGED to want to sell their item. Not just have it sit on the market being warehoused there, hoping for a sucker.

The In game currency for Gems reward system was an example of a good gold sink.

Basically trading in game surpluses of gold for GEMS allows you to attain things like Additional character slots, or Storage upgrades for banks or additional bag slots for characters. all things that traditionally we had to pay real money to attain, & still can if we so choose. BUT the added benefit of allowing a player accumulate such rewards from playing is even more rewarding. Just my opinion. Thats a great big THANK YOU to ArenaNet as well…

These are where gold resellers are transacting their transfers anymore… This is how they get around detection in other games as well and also where they store their surplus money above currency caps. It was a well know tactic they used in other NCSoft titles and they are trying to get away with it here. Personally I hope its nipped int eh bud by Arenanet soon. but if not then the market manipulators are going to have a Field day and we will go back to ignoring the market again for basic goods…

Bid and sale expiration would resolve this issue to some extent but bully tactics are worse. I just been using Karma anymore and ignoring currency except for map travel. I’m all the better for it thus far… prob will be for the entirety of this games life cycle at this point cause I dont see the cheaters going away anytime soon, they just keep hacking more accounts every day. And more and more keep getting banned. Who pays for their crimes? we do.

Sticky downwards means they stay as close to base price based on supply. if no one is crafting then the demand drops, if no one is salvaging mining then supply drops.

As to Rare drops those will ALWAYS be sticky upwards.. why because of the soulbound system. that item once used is not going to be resold. Thus the supply is always made intentionally low. Unless someone comes up with a hack that removes soulbound flag on items, (which is what happened in WOW on Epic weapon duping)

Inflation markets are bad because eventually. Years down the line prices get out of control. People coming into a game in such economies are discouraged from participating in it unless they go to illegal gold sellers to get enough funds to buy otherwise basic wares. indeed these illegal gold sellers are profiteers of inflation markets. they create artificial supply limits on high value items. If anyone underbids them they keep them off the market and relist. But if there is expiration they can not do this in perpetuity. Nor can anyone else using the same tactic. The same effect can be imposed with a limited number of slots for selling as well. say you have 50 items lists and none of them are sold. well at 51 you have no more slots available to list it so you have to wait for something to sell or delist something yourself. Either way is a good option. It limits manipulators from exploiting the market too much. Some sure, if its selling… if not them there is a problem and it needs to be reduced in price or removed for lack of demand.

Another option would be discounting items instead. but then that ends up causing more of the under market base problems. Discounting means that if somethign does not sell in a given time period the market discounts the item by say 10% to clear the item. if in another month its not sold still its discounted another 10%, and so on…

Just dont be an inflator and keep things reasonable on markets… Sure 20 slot bags are suppose to be expensive. look at the runes to make them for crying out loud. plus the materials and the time it took to get to that level of crafting. So I would EXPECT it to be a higher price. But materials to build it 100 to 500 times base value? Sorry I been in games with that mentality and they SUCK when you have to deal with the market to get basic goods. Rare items yes should have a higher value but not base goods. As more rare items become available and unwanted privately more will become listed on markets and more prices will rise as demand develops. there is nothing wrong with that. But if you just keep putting stuff on the market that NEVER sells there is something wrong with your logic in listing that item. either the price is Far too high or there is no demand for it. in either case it is a benefit to YOU to have it returned to you and used or liquidated for Base merchant price. And a benefit to the market that inflation is not able to work in perpetuity. Cause eventually that inflation will discourage new participants from entering the game, or turning to illegal resources, and thats not what anyone wants.

The bank storage upgrades 600 Gems each are account wide. But the Character bag slots 400 Gems each are locked to that character and can not be reclaimed if you delete it.

I’f you invested in additional bag slot I would rethink a total deletion of that character till a later date. I only invested such slots on a character I knew I would never delete. But I was more freely willing to upgrade Bank tabs for more storage options…

Sorry there is not a way to reclaim such purchased upgrades to be used elsewhere, but at this time there is not a way to do so.

indeed I DOUBT we will ever see a free map travel upgrade option. They purge any topic that demands it very quickly on all their game forums they run.

Something else I would buy that I doubt will will ever see is weapon unlocks. New weapons for like Rangers… Something like Crossbows or even other class weapons… Indeed we know we can use them cause we can pick them up and use them till we drop them or zone or they break… but why not allow people to buy weapons they want to use on their character? Or offer new weapon packs for GEMS? Again I doubt that will ever happen but its a good idea.

The bully market of (This is the price and there is no way for you to check that, you just got to take my word for it) Ideology of the original GW is why I never bought a single thing from ANYONE EVER in that game. at least in THIS market its something people can track. Yes, it CAN be manipulated upwards too if one is so inclined. as happens in other games. people buy up all the thousands of the items for the amount Below their price just so the availability is only that of their higher price. Thus cornering the market. they then resell those previously bought cheaper items for a insane profit. Thus playing the marketing game. The sticky downwards trend right now will be a dream soon once certain exploiters get their resources accumulated enough they can inflate the markets through the stratosphere. The good part is demand will never get THAT high because we can get all the items in the game ourselves too. Lest say Iron ore was cornered and all the sudden every iron ore was listed at 50 silver. (never gonna happen) well all that would do is encourage everyone to mine Iron ore and try to sell for a cheaper price… and THAT is the balance to the system.

That being said the Bug on custom bids NEEDS to be fixed somehow. They cant be able to make bids for something that sellers are unable to list the item for that price because its under base value and the market will not let it do so. if we cant list it for that price they cant be able to BID for it below that price. it totally screwes up the market tracking system. so that just has to be fixed is all… then things will run as its suppose too.

Indeed seller Sale expirations say a week at the shortest or a month at the longest would help a good bit on the market… Conversely the same on Bids if your bid is not met your currency is returned to you in the claim bin.

Here is why.
1: some EXPLOITERS hide money in markets. making them harder to find and track.
2: the bug where we can not sell something cause of custom bids being too low the market will not allow us to sell for that price cause its under what the base value is.
3: more activity on the market discourages overpricing something that will never be reached, This goes back to issue 1.
4: more supply being available in that prices will be sticky downwards to base values not inflation markets as happens in other games.
5: Crafters will offer more crafted goods like Bags if existing sales actually SELL as opposed to sitting on a stagnate market. If they do not sell and are returned they know either their price was too high or their item was not in demand. either way that encourages them to try something else with that item. (Mystic fountain, merch or salvage for something else, instead of perpetually sitting on a market thats never going to sell the item.) Again back to issue 1. this is how exploiters hide Game currency in other games.

The one factor that needs to be addressed the most is the custom bid bug. They can not be able to set a custom bid for under the base value of a item and have it listed, because Sellers are unable to list any items on the market under the base value of the item. thus those High demand items cant sell for the request price, Not because of unwillingness to do so, but because we are unable to offer it at that price. this bug alone is reason enough to add expiration of both bids and selling items. to clear it of these bugged transactions that are below the base values. It just needs to be done.. one way or another.

Its also worth noting that many large guilds do not craft bags for markets. we invest in larger bags and put them in the guild treasure trove when they are ASKED for by guild mates. asking mostly that the guildmate provide the rune of holding for that item. and in return we will make the bags for them. This is a good practice of Internal Guild Resource Pooling. The Donation options in teh guild make such things easy and convenient for everyone. I only wish we had a Guld Hall (Soon?) that would make this easier for us in that we could have our own guild Merchant with a supply of such inventory for our guildmates. this would be a fantastic use of Guild Halls if we ever get em.

Hell I’ve said a million times in other threads if its a matter of milking us for money then say so and put a free map travel upgrade in the Gem store and I’ll buy the kittenhing. I wouldnt care if it were another $50 to get this BASIC function back. its costing TOO DAM MUCH to just be able to play causally in the game. That was NEVER the way ArenaNet treated its players in the past. NEVER. I smell NCSofts filth behind this. And if something is not done they will get their wish cause western markets will not want anything to do with them. Just as they do not want to have anything to do with us.

There is so many way to correct this.
Paying for the upgrade; fine Gems to solve the problem.
Finish a map to 100% and it doesnt cost to get there anymore; FINE
Having a Guild Perk that we have to earn to get this; FINE its SOMETHING at least!
fixed map travel costs based on distance not the level of the character; not as good but acceptable cause then traveling back to town is always the same cost not some crazy amount of money that takes everything you just earned from playing in the last few hours.

But the way it is right now where we are punished for leveling up in the game so you cant afford to travel to town anymore or go help your friends that’s ridiculous. Standardize SOMETHING for crying out loud… give us some options that does not entail CHEATING just to be able to play for a little while in the evenings with your friends! As it is I find it very hard to justify doing ANYTHING in this game anymore with anyone. I just solo it and hope I find strangers to help along the way. What kind of game is that? What kind of teamplay is that? We got nothing that is an EARNED reward that encourages us to keep playing. its just cost to do this cost to do that cost to breath. if I wanted that garbage would just do things in real life and not online.

The thing that really pisses me off is that the common player is punished for playing. do a dungeon you get a drop but its hardly worth the cost of doing the dungeon at all. Travel around to do things with your friends your punished for doing so, and even worse when your going to try to do map completion and traveling… And finally Map travel… Totally a WASTE of money to travel. I’m at a point where people ask for help with stuff I tell them to go to hell its not worth it to have to treavel back to where they are then pay for all the repairs to help them and then pay again top travel back.

Hell now that I’m getting up there in level the cost to just cross the SAME MAP! is more then it used to cost to go from one end of the world to the other! Even if you use the PvP trick to travel its still expensive. I get you want to keep everyone poor so they dont sell to resellers… How about removing the ability to trade money at all instead and turn back on free map travel in exchange. If it meant I could never again buy anything in the game for currency and only transact everything in karma alone so that I could have Map travel as we had in the original game I would do it in a heart beat and NEVER EVER miss currency in the game at all. everything can be 100% karma based and cut those worthless pieces of garbage gold sellers out of the game forever. Seems that is what YOU want after all so why punish players with the added expense of playing. its at a point no one can afford anything even from merchants anymore cause of the CONSTANT damage repairs and OVERCHARGED expense of map travel. I’m lucky if I can manage to keep 1 gold on me at all anymore. Let alone being able to get a trait book or being able to buy better armors and weapons… I just settle for whatever trash drops in the game. And salvage the rest. Sure one can play the market a little get some uber drop that you cant use and try to sell it there, but even still that is short lived cause of the constant costs of playing. its almost like the only winning move is NOT TO PLAY AT ALL! I CAN NOT believe anet wants that attitude in their gameplay. Even when I was WvW the rewards awere hardly worth the effort when the cost in repairs was so high. YET THERE we dont have cost to map travel? if its the case in towns and in WvW then it should be the same in PvE. I am beginning very quickitteno hate everything about the game unless I go off on my own and just do hearts and exploration. anytime I do a dungeon I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE this game to all hell! I’m done with them from now on I want nothing from them and never ever to do them again. there is no benefit to them when it cost MORE to finikitten then you can ever pull out of it in reward. Map travel costs need to be removed or have some way in the game to remove them, or else there is zero reason to play at all with others anymore. the punishment you impose on players that DARE to get to a high level in the game is ridiculous. Were better off never advancing beyond level 30 and having cheaper map travel then finishing the game. Taking so much money makes it impossible for a player to SAVE for anything in the game especially high cost things they NEED to advance their characters like master trait books. I am just getting sick of this, no matter what I do no matter if I play for 30 hours straight or just 3 or 4 hours a day its all the same I’M F..KING BROKE! because of map travel and equipment repairs just for F..king Playing the game. I dont buy from these kitten, I dont sell to them, But I am being punished for their actions. STOP ALLOWING CURRENCY TO BE TRADED IN THE GAME AND THEY ARE GONE FOREVER! YOU should not be punishing your player base for the action of those worthless pieces of flesh cheaters.

Actually there is a use for low level good at high level crafting… 2 stacks 250 of low level goods along with 1 mystic coin and 1 ecto can result in some very nice results from the mystic Fountain… So dont discount low level crafting materials too quickly before trying everything out you can do with them… :’)

I really like how the HoM equipment auto transmutes a skin over the armor your using ATM. I would love tailor options like this to allow for some unique mixes in clothing and armor using this technique over time… Allowing someone to buy a style to be used and available (if necessary from the HoM itself or a tailor in towns) then just apply that style over whatever armor you are wearing to customize it to your taste.

I am assuming eventually these kinds of things are planned already for Gem store costume purchases, but if not thats the idea that would work well for this game I think… Either in game or in Gemstore.

ONE question however… Why did the HoM heritage armors stop allowing preview from the vendor? that was extremely useful in choosing what we wanted to pick for our character…

one thing that bothers me is that as a digital deluxe preorder member I have no original game to verify my ownership IF in some way I did get hacked How do you get it back without that proof of ownership? I like this encryption key idea for this kind of situation. Something that you arrange between Anet and yourself derived from a combination of email, CC and password, and maybe home address as well.. all hashed together to give a unique encryption key. This then serves as your proof of purchase if the worst ever happens…

during beta we were able to see all teammates no matter where they were in the server. But if they were in Overflow they didnt show up in the world map zoomed out… I am assuming this was the in there and it either stopped working or there is still too many overflow situations that you can not see the teammates location in relation to you on the world map.

After some study of Overflow meathods used in GW2 its not what we think it is… indeed the added overflows seem to cross sample servers and put people from many different servers in an temporary zone. Try asking people what server they are on when in an overflow and see what response you get. Like Lions Arch you get at least 3 different servers typically all merged together to handle the overloaded servers in that zone. So its not District style as it was in GW (which is why we dont just say LA district 3 everyone meet there) Its a overflow of many servers being queued together to handle the population demands. The loin teammate function IS now working as designed and as such you can join teammates with a right click on their icon when in the same zone and be put together in the same overflow… Bla bla bla Too much talky talky But needless to say I think there is a shared world map overview in there for all team mates to make it easy to know where to zone to to met up with them.

I like this, and also that Icon could then serve as your 1 click (free?) tp to that zone. This allows for the map completion TP reward a described in previous suggestions.

Thing is this only works if they restrict your access to lower levels thus completly limiting your access to the game.. Why? because from that point forward someone like yourself as a lev 80 can come into a beginner zone and sweep the entire area of everything thus cutting all the enjoyment out of the game for everyone thats new that comes after you. This form of Grief denial makes things bad for everyone cause not only are you getting 0exp 0 loot and 0 achievements but your also denying others this privilege as well. by leveling out all players in the zones everyone gets something, everyone is working towards a reward and the experience of playing never suffers from a Griefer GOD coming in and 1 touch killing everything in sight. At least right now everyone gets something for their efforts, may nto be what you want but its something… AND that being said I have been playing in higher level areas with a low level toon i a specific healer type mode as long as I am with a group and participating I can be there. the trick is to know when to heal when to buff and when to RUN. Such activity ensures even as a low level character I can get rewards from my actions I take with a team, wither as a pickup or as a member of a guild or even just running in teh wild and finding a group to help out… This added challenge is by far one of my favorite things to do. I’m like lev 25 or 30 fighting off lev 50 or 60s with my friends. And even then the rewards for ME are balanced to my level so I get to use them most of the time. The result some awesome skins early in the game from random drops… Still, once all that is too much I can zone away and go back where I belong and have a little something something from the region to distinguish myself a little… Now imagine if your a lev 80 and you want some item skin from a lev 20 zone. if there is no malefactor system in place your out of luck you get nothing, and cause your there grief wiping the zone neither will anyone else… So I ask you which method is more justified for all players?

Quite simply the botters and exploiters and gold resellers have ruined it for all of us. Just a they did in GW and as they have for every other MMO they get a foothold in.

Unfortunately NCSoft has this thing with farming of anything… Not so much ArenaNet but NCSoft.. why? cause they want to force you to use $ to get good things via microtransactions… Anet is fighting for the players and keeps trying to keep things in balance to some extent, but there is filth in the background out of Asia thats to blame for these nerfs, Not the playerbase or Anet. those exploitations of easy resources and items from specific mobs result in fast nerf bats for everyone. so only the exploiters end up getting the goodies… Thats truly a shame in the end. I have resorted to just doing for myself with Karma rewards or something else cause the crafting at high levels is going to be a LONG LONG time before I ever want to touch it now, AND the other rewards are just going to be a nice surprise if I manage to get one 1:1,000,000 drops… Otherwise Salvage Merch or trash… I fear this is going to have to be the norm now. Karma vendors and restrictive account bound loot.

All that being said, if your just playing casually a few hours a day and typically doing different things all the time, you see no nerf what so ever… So the common playerbase is secure that they will receive something for their efforts, just not that ultimate item quite as easily…

ArenaNet staff does everything in their power to stay on track independently of the bad management out of Korea whom have no love of western markets. Their not allowed to say it but we all know where the bad policies end up coming from, and its not from anyone with an @Arena.net address…

Agreed it has been happening rather constantly of late from many people I know of. Those IP address blocks out of the Chinese gold reseller sweat shops need to be blocked from access to the game at all.

There is a taxing system in the guild build options… BUT I dont see why any guild would do that to their members. I would leave I think if a % of my coin was going into guild storage without my consent… I already give plenty to guild and others are free to take or add to it… Just saying… I predict if anyone ever really starts using that guild tax upgrade they going to see people leaving…

You know what they may have taken it out.. I cant find it now and come to think of it when we discussed it during Beta I think it was almost universally disliked so they may have either just disabled the option or removed it.

I think thats a bit harsh Mithran I dont want to fault anyone to play how they want too, its just the question of Why? If Mounts are just for faster travel so you can run everywhere and nothing can catch you, well we already do that with quickness boosts so… IDK but if its for aesthetics and prestige alone No added benefit I dont see the problem for those people that would want it (like town clothes). But the main reason we were given for no mounts in the original was because they were not necessary cause we had free map travel… So that was why I expressed that in my response. Either way I kinda doubt we will see it but I dont want to disparage the lad for asking either…

So their issuing take downs on DMCA if a review video is receiving adsense? If thats true then they can guarantee all reviewers will stop reviewing it at all… Bye bye good reviews and free advertising for Anet… I smell NCSofts dirty hands behind this, not ArenaNet If it turns out to be true that is…

I’m ok with that if its somethign you want, but I would say that I and I think many many others would just like to see Map travel become cheaper or free as it was in the Original Guild Wars (in some way) Either as an upgrade or a perk or just cutting the fee entirely. Getting to where your friends are is the key reason for map travel in Guild Wars. We should not be drastically penalized for it.

I can see 4 ways to make this possible.

1: cut the fee entirely as in towns.
2: earn the right to free travel with deeds or karma.
3: Achieve free travel by completing the map thus from that point on it does not cost anything to go there. Or in other words 100% map completion = free travel like in towns.
and 4: Make it a cash cow for Gem store and allow an account upgrade for gems to remove cost of map travel. (game upgrade)

One of these options should be amicable to Anet to allow this fundamental function for playing with friends.

Purchasable tonic tab for storage vault. That would resolve a lot of storage issues for many of the players I know at least. given that most would want to hold onto such things for event days, but even with all the account storage expansions and tier 4 guild trove people are finding it hard to keep stacks stored for crafting. especially when so much high level materials have no slot in storage tabs. Since they dont seem to want to add those, how about tonics is all I’m saying. then when we spend some gems & open those BLCs and get a bunch of tonics they are kept for later and not just trashed.

as long as it does not end up being that we have to buy arrows lol But that being said if they added one like the back brace option for as Aesthetics that may be interesting. i just cant imagine how frustrated people will get as rangers if all the sudden in the middle of a dungeon they run out of arrows and their basically done from that point on. that would be the end of bow wielders.

You have one already. look near the bottom on your email window on that email for a ! icon… select that and choose spamming and that will report the email.

I would like to add the report option specifically for gold resellers as an option but I guess spamming or scamming is appropriate.