Guild Wars 2

Great, thank you very much!

Hi all, I’ve been out of the game for a while and hold some copper doubloons. Would anyone be able to explain the reason for their increase to ~6s? I notice they had a much bigger increase to 12-15s in late august but alas I was out of the country. I assume that they or a derivative played some role in a new item?

Thanks.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1h77ly/why_call_them_toons/carkhp6

This is the furthest I’ve seen someone go back & provide evidence of usage of the term in online games.

TL;DR an early (1991) online game called “Imagination Network”, although the term itself was first used in the real world thanks to either the board game “Toon” or the film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in the 80’s.

Just add intermediate titles for champ brawler @ 500/1000/2500/5000/7500. Would be a bit more “clean” than doing one for each class at x thousand wins or whatever. Perhaps add in a title for collecting the class champ titles at 2/4/6/8 too. Those two alone would be good enough imo for longer term general progression.

It seems like this was only half fixed.

The account medal on the character select screen now seems to be based on your rank points.

The achievement however seems to still be based on the old system of points gained in the match (captures, kills, etc).

e.g. my account medal shows 55x,xxx which matches with my rank exactly, whilst the achievement is at something like 36x,xxx still.

Josh Davis.6015:

As John mentioned previously, we don’t plan on retroactively awarding rank points for previous wins. We will, however, be rebalancing rank tiers to make them more attainable.

Will you be talking about your current ideas for rebalancing the rank tiers on the next live stream, or is it too early to do so?

Silk (seems) to have been sorted with ascended gear and other tweaks. Meanwhile, the stack of dead cows on the TP keeps piling higher. T6 looks like it’ll be back down to vendor +1, while T5 has been stuck at 8c for an eternity, with a couple of mil taken out recently. What should they do? Leather trench coats for everyone? :P

OP, you need to track down a man named Ian Boyd. Even though he has never played GW, he is a master strategist who’ll give you MLG strats to become rank 1 and get your girl back. Good luck.

1. Improved commander system.
2. Rewards.
3. Balance.

1. Ascended items (heavily dial down the grind or remove it completely).
2. Alts. Incentives & improvements.
3. Trading Post improvements (more data, snappier UI, etc).

1. Balance (in particular, frequency of changes).
2. Rewards & cross-format incentives to draw new and old players in.
3. New game modes.

Gandarel.5091:

Erwin.5603:

Not sure about rank 50 in 2 weeks statement

10k glory / hour. Calculate.

wtf 10k/hr?!? That just takes a huge steamy kitten on the whole system. I hope ANet can track where people have been earning rank and remove this kitten. Rank/glory may mean nothing right now (or even -0 thanks to this), but when the reward update comes these guys better not get a leg up thanks to all this abused glory.

Yaso.8510:

I got a set for my Ele, if they are a slightly weaker version of divinity with a speedboost they may be worth it for WvW.
Divinity is at 13g+ atm.

Looks like it will be a pretty sweet set for guardians (boon duration, 5% MS) and necros (5% MS, Cond dmg). Could see it going even higher because of that.

nearlight.3064:

Just realized they would be account bound on tuesday and in a panic listed them for 5.5 gold hoping they’ll sell and let me break even..

Oh god that was idiotic of me. Once again I’m never lucky enough to make gold by event speculation flipping.

Really? The blog post says weapons/armor/trinkets, no mention of runes going acc bound unless im being stupid.

if they dont come back this time around, prices will go insane in the hours following the patch. If they do, I think prices will end up settling in the 5-10g for the popular ones (sword, gs, staff, shield). Pricing of the new ones (if there are any) will depend on what happens to the old and how good they are.

Someone says they also got one from using mini risen knights too in the reddit post. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1kvf63/mini_yellow_moa/

Please look into this anet.

Update keeps getting better! Thanks guys.

I played GW1, so back when it was first announced in 2007. In fact, just did a little bit of googling and this thread is sorta like a weird time machine http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/pc-gamer-may-2007-information-t10133090.html

Guild Wars 1 Rank =/= Guild Wars 2 Rank

Guild Wars 1 Balthazar faction = Guild Wars 2 Rank

Don’t let the pets fool you.

Yeah, I just don’t bother with soloq anymore. I’d rather play hotjoin at this point and not deal with all the premades, leavers etc. If they want to do a temp fix until they have a proper soloq in place, then they should permanently bump rank points & glory from winners chests and try a +50% rank points/glory in tournaments week for their next update. Maybe also add in a chance to get their latest cash shop skins in the Winners Chests too (and let them be applied to PvE stuff to try and lure some of the PvE-only guys). Stuff like that ALWAYS filled arenas when they had a weekend event in GW1. Maybe then you could hook some more people in for the next month or so, giving them time to get a proper soloq out. Then they can sort out better rewards and reward structure.

Have you done all 8 champs in PvP too? if not, get to work. Should put you a good way towards Marauder too due to the number of games you’ll be looking at.

Its clear that they don’t view it as a competitive leaderboard, just a “here’s our most dedicated players” list, so I don’t see the problem in just handing out 500 points for a 50/50 hall.

The boxes also drop the skins according to some of the other previews, so that’s probably what will drive most of the box opening.

Lead by example. I wanna see a video of you nuking 50,000+ of these from orbit.

deviller.9135:

CoF has nothing to do, but imagine, if there is no daily, no reward for daily, what will you do ?

People will not even log-in to game, doing same thing over and over (CoF is one of example as you can “grind” there). Now with AP reward and reward for daily, Anet tries to bring more people to keep playing their game daily and play all of their content.

Again how to finish your daily is up to you, you want to do hardest one: Soloing group event, or you want to do easy one.

Outside of people going for/maintaining a spot on the leaderboard, I am fairly certain most people doing dailies are doing it for the karma/money/mystic coin instead of the (currently worthless) AP’s. Attaching rewards to achievements such as WvW kills, jumping puzzles, completing stages of the storyline of different races etc doesn’t take away from the daily. It just provides an alternate goal to chase after when they log on. People aren’t going to log on and do the same thing over and over, because achievements are tied to pretty much all the content in the game already and can only be done once. They just have no reward to make them worth doing.

Obtena.7952:

Again, I don’t get your point … People already do content beyond the dailies for rewards. In fact, if Anet continues the trend, there will be new content once every 2 weeks where people can be getting achievements beyond the daily. What you are asking for already exists.

The point about CoF is that if rewards are removed from existing content, people will just move to the content that is most rewarding. We already have hordes of people that don’t want to do dungeons except for CoF. Do we want hordes of people not doing other content too?

People are doing the living story achievements because it has rewards attached to it. Wings, mini’s etc. Why shouldn’t this idea be applied to all the other achievements in the game?

And as I mentioned in my reply to deviller, almost all of these achievements can be done only once and are tied to pretty much all content in the game. You can’t endlessly farm all JP’s for achievement rewards for example, because once you’ve done them, that’s it.

Obtena.7952:

Jono M.8519:

The current problem with achievements is that dailies/monthlies are the best rewarded achievements in the game (karma, money, mystic coins, glory boosts), and everything has has basically 0 reward (points are often equalled just by doing dailies, minimal titles or other stuff). If the update doesn’t provide incentive to do achievements other than dailies, then the current status quo will remain and the update might as well just be an increase in daily rewards.

So the problem is that the status quo will remain the same? Is that really a problem? I don’t see this problem … do we not want people out doing their dailies or would you just like to see everyone farming CoF p1?

People would still do dailies, because they’re quick, easy and have a reward attached to them. The point would be to encourage people to do achievements beyond the daily by adding rewards to them. This doesn’t minimise people out in the world at all. And I don’t see what CoF has to do with anything.

The current problem with achievements is that dailies/monthlies are the best rewarded achievements in the game (karma, money, mystic coins, glory boosts), and everything has has basically 0 reward (points are often equalled just by doing dailies, minimal titles or other stuff). If the update doesn’t provide incentive to do achievements other than dailies, then the current status quo will remain and the update might as well just be an increase in daily rewards.

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http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2guru/c/2027893

RIP in peace Gandaran WvW. It was a good 7 months. Time to transfer to SFR.

Of all the things that happened today, this happened the most.

MM is just ridiculously hit and miss right now. You’ll get a 2 or 3 good matches and then a long period of facing premades, leavers, etc etc. Just isn’t fun to be soloqing atm.

Sort of related, but nobody has bothered to put up the bear finisher on youtube. Easy views for the taking there for anyone who is 50+.

-Back slot item that “grows” every 10 ranks, similar to the Fractal Capacitor. As an example, at rabbit its just a single skull hanging on a piece of string. Then it becomes a couple of skulls on a chain at deer. Then one large yak skull and few smaller ones at dolyak rank. Then they are covered in blood at wolf. Then they are flaming or ghostly at tiger. Pretty much something thats always visible, really distinguishable and when someone sees you they instantly know “ kitten , that guy is tiger/bear/shark rank”. I think by the high ranks players have more than earned something like it, since PvE players would have a legendary with similar time played.

-Endless Finisher tokens.

-Unique tonics (e.g. svanir/chieftan)

-Unique Minipets

-Unique weapon/armor skins.

-Purchaseable armor instead of tying it to rank brackets, as suggested above.

-Zaishen Chest as suggested above.

I can already hear the meltdowns from PvE players in the distance.

It would be pretty funny though it they decided to sell them for a few hundred k glory or something. I guess its something to actually use the stuff on.

Yeah, I’ve noticed this a lot recently too. Funnily enough, 9/10 it seems to be people who are fresh out of LA and under r10 with little grasp of what they’re doing, running their mouths at others, insulting, gloating after being carried the entire match etc etc. Don’t know what caused the sudden influx of idiots, but its filling up my ignore list fast..

People can farm kills all day in hotjoin already, its what its there for. I don’t wanna see the devs waste resources on making a “proper” DM mode, when they have more important stuff to be working on.

Evan Lesh.3295:

You are not allowed to use /rank anywhere the stomp consumables can be used. This is to prevent confusion between the emote and actually killing someone.

Couldn’t this be avoided by having the /rank ghost animal appear in gold as it does now and the finisher animal appear in a red colour instead? That way it would be clear which is a /rank and which is a finisher, as one would be gold ghost and the other would be a red ghost.

I also agree with the others that the finisher should be permanent and toggle-able. If not then at least sell an endless finisher token for say 50k-100k glory at the appropriate animal’s vendor.

Fewer people playing, monthly can’t be completed yet etc. They’ll drop back down over Wintersday as people log on again and new people receive the game as gift for xmas.

Its based on the price of the “Superior Rune of the Traveler”, which is currently at ~1g40.

Perhaps it had something to do with our terrible butter crisis yesterday. (lol)

SET.3275:

If you look carefully at gw2spidy for the butter last month, you can see it is at equilibrium. The supply is constantly at around 1000k, which means the drop is equal to the consumption. Now few players with lot of bags space bought from the market ~800k sticks of butter (i calculated rough, it is for ~900-1000g).
There is nothing with former or future patch notes, just a simple speculation with popular product – there is no chef who can level up without butter and it is basic ingredient in many more high level recipes. I believe they will succeed with this bump, unless Anet make changes to its drop or crafting demands. There is no reason the newly dropped butter to be sell cheaper. Consumption will remain the same, the drop will remain the same, only the price will be several times higher.

Actually, if you look at the sell numbers theres 1.5mil at the start of november that decreased steadily to ~800k yesterday, before the mass buyout began. It definitely wasn’t at equilibrium.

I’d really like a name change feature. Need to change my mains name.

Lots of guru readers?

Hey guys, I’ve been using the TP a fair bit the past month/month and a half, and there’s a few things that really bug me about it that could really improve the user experience if changed. They mainly relate the the “My Transactions” page.

1. The drop down menu on “My Transactions” is just annoying. Could it be possible to change it to a tabbed setup, or just a “Items I’m Selling/buying/sold/bought” buttons at the top instead? Much more convenient to just click whichever you want to view, instead of having to use a drop down menu every time. There’s the space there to do it too I’m sure.

2. When on the “My Transactions” page and I click an item, lets say an axe, I’m taken a list similar to regular TP searching but it is only occupied by that axe. And then I have to click the axe to actually get onto its page. Couldn’t it just go straight to the item in question, instead of going to a list solely occupied by the item first?

3. Running directly on from #2, After reaching the item page after coming from the “My Transactions” page you cannot get directly back to the “My Transactions” page. Clicking “return to search results” only takes you as far back as the list that was occupied solely by the axe. Instead you have to head to another TP tab, e.g. “Sell On Trading Post” and then click on the “My Transactions Page” again. Could this be changed? As in, either allow us to press back util we return to “My Transactions” or just add an extra button to return to “My Transactions” after using it to view an item.

4. This is a minor one – could we get a little jingle when collecting gold from the TP?

Thanks for reading and I welcome any feedback.