Guild Wars 2

This is the 5th event they have added in the RNG box gamble, if they read the forums they know people hate it and the only conclusion is greed > care.

WHY! Why do you people keep spending money on these RNG boxes?
It was like this with Halloween, Christmas, Flame and Frost, South Sun, and now Dragon Bash. EVERYONE of them with the same ol’ omg rng ripoff threads…

It will not stop until you stop tossing money at them, because of people continuing to support this method it will never cease to exist you all have no one to blame (not even ANET/NCSOFT) but yourselves.

I did one invasion and walked away… Haven’t even logged in since patch day and I usually play everyday, that is starting to change.. I just cannot think about this living story without disgust.

“Dedicated players are left wanting more depth and polish.”

+1

Crossplay.2067:

I still wonder why they are doing more socializing on other sites than their own. I don’t frequent Facebook or Reddit and even though I’m on these forums at least 5 days out of the week, I have yet to hear of any news here first.

Quoted for truth.

1 and F and lots of it

Allure.1249:

I spent 50$ USD on 50 boxes. No tickets were in said boxes, and I simply had a giant empty space in my bank where money once was. And for what, 500 taffy, some random food buffs?

If you are reading this, please, I beg you to spare me the lecture of “its a gamble”. No, its not a gamble, this was faith. My faith in Anet to reward me for supporting the game (which btw, ive already dumped over 750$ into the gemstore). And what have I got to show for it, moreso, what do we ALL have to show for it? No really, stop typing for two minutes and think about the implications of what these practices have earned us. For all our sacrifice, we still have nothing promised from launch onward.

We still have no Polymock, we still have no barbrawl. We are promised dungeons with challenging content which can be 2 manned (Null comes to mind.) We still have a distinctly broken economy where those who exploited have 6 legendaries, while the honest are broke. And worst off, a game, which not only has become a bigger grind than AION, but one that has no diverse reason to grind.
Where is the litany of unique and themed skinned armors ready to be implemented into the game? Is that going to be put into a future gamble box as well ? I mean have any of you even looked at what took place over the last 3 months?
We have Forged ticket, South sun Karka ticket, and the Dragon skin ticket. All back to back, in a uniformed Ncsoft fashion.
Am I supposed to just smile like some letch and mindlessly enter my card information in, in some hope that I get JUST ONE of the skins I want? Despite having 3 characters, who all would enjoy displaying these beautiful weapons?
I… I just feel, like I have a deficit of negative adjectives I could use to describe the current, money grabbing situation we are facing, MONTH AFTER MONTH.

I know nobody from Anet is reading this, and I know furthermore, that none of them really care about my little drop of money that I spent in the grand scheme. But if this is the state of the game, where me wanting to support the game, is met with a giant and swift punch in the gut. It is obvious to anyone with even remote intelligence, that I certainly will not be supporting this game from here on out.

And for the first time since I started playing. I honestly feel a sense of Shame, out of having 45/50 Hall of monuments. Knowing that my effort, has led to a game supporting a practice, aimed at rewarding only those who have the deepest pockets.

I have said my peace, I will type no more, and I will read no more.
Please google logical fallacies and learn from the list of incorrect arguments, if you insist on trying to have a unbiased response to my feelings. Otherwise you will simply be ignored.

^ This +1

The lesson you learned is what many have already learned from all the way back to Halloween and it has still been a failure so far to try to educate others on the practices at hand.

Blude.6812:

Remove AP cap and retire the leaderboards. That would be the best way to handle it.

+1 Clean and simple.

Renny.6571:

Place your bets on the next alliance!

Sons of Svanir + Stone Summit = the Frost alliance.

: /

It would also be nice if like in GW1 and most other MMOs if we could at least see the hostile foes on the mini map as red dots, that way when we do have a target tabbed it highlights which one on the mini map.

Oh and also 360 tab targeting not just in front might be helpful at least let it be an option.

Arcade Fire.4895:

Because I sure do. I don’t know about you guys but this game has turned into CoF Wars 2 and it is boring the kitten out of me. There are no other viable options that come even remotely close to Cof.

I stopped farming it 1-2 weeks after the November 15th loot nerf, It was really really fun doing Plinx and Grenth chains and getting anywhere from 1-20 rare drops EACH time (yes 1-20 lol I’ve gotten 20 rares from the Grenth event if not more multiple times)
Sadly thats all gone it was blatantly obvious the loot was nerfed around the time DR was introduced, and now the awesome launch time loot is gone, Plinx is on a much longer timer, and all the mobs got buffed. I feel bad for those that never saw the true glory days of Orr farming.

Other than the 3 500 things you need which are time gated..
I already have all the other stuff x20 in my bank from normal game play.

The culprit is the time gated stuff the other mats are fine.

The amount of people thinking that skill lag is client side is astonishing. o_O

“It’s only just begun”
XD

Be nice if it was just like the Zenith weapons and you just got the skin whenever you wanted for your account. (after creating it ofc..)

Would much rather have these kind of things in 2 week patches than blotchy 45 second cinematics and tool tip tweaks.

Started up GW1 again for the Festival permanent summing stone.

After playing GW2 for so long I forgot how important aggression order was (picking a target to spike/control, such as monks or heavy hitters once they’re dead go onto the 2nd,3rd ect.) like on my Warrior in GW1 I go for the healer and nuke it, if there is no healer I nuke the hardest hitter in the pull to keep overall party damage received to a low.

In GW2 I’m just mashing 1 and the occasional 3 (whrilwind) to tag mobs over and over.

See the problem? GW1 had some strategy while GW2 is all about tagging…
In GW1 tagging didn’t matter one bit loot was divided amongst the party regardless.
This trip I’ve just taken down memory lane has given me insight on why I’m left so bitter with what Tyria has become.

Shifu.4321:

I think at the very core, many people are against Ascended because it just adds more things to do without actually adding anything. Whenever a new item tier went up in WoW, it came with actual content like raids or maybe a new battlegrounds or a new dungeon. Combine this with the fact that we’ve seen little changes to the world and the game over these past few months (unless you consider things like champ bags substantial content), and the little we do get to see is temporary- well, you kinda understand the disappointment.

If they’d done something like open the Crystal Desert, make ascended mats drop from enemies there and the raw materials mine-able from nodes, then you’d see a lot less complaints, as getting the ascended would also be part of the exploration of these new parts of the game.

Sooo very much this!

“What we are planning to do going forward is that we are going to shorten the span for the next launch of the expansion pack.”

Red flag.
The initial launch of GW2 and HoT (which took half a year to spit shine) were rushed, don’t be surprised by this pattern.

But hey for once WoW won’t be able to steal potential customers with a strategic release since their XPack is due to come out very soon. Which really makes me wonder what the rush will accomplish unless there is some sleeper MMO I don’t know about.

I’d like to think many people prefer quality over quantity but that’s just a wild generalization right?

SandruDaniel.4386:

Hi. I’m a little bored of the fact the a lvl 5 flame legion shaman champ can kill a lvl 80 war in like 2 hits….What’s the points of being lvl 80,except the fact that you can play all content,if a stupid lvl 5 champ,lvl 15 champs can still kill you very easy? I don’t get the sense of getting lower leveled to 6 in a 5 zone for example,you worked all the way to 80 to get mopped on the floor by some super low lvl mobs? Is just something that I think many people want to get rid of, the capacity of some no lvl mobs for a level 80 player to get mopped in some seconds? Make these mobs less powerful….I can handle a “group event” champ like the one in snowdren drifts,the sun of svanir with his pack, and I can’t handle a lvl 5 or lvl 15 champ ? WTH? Make the effort to get to 80 in the normal way(not from crafting or other power level) worthy the effort! I would like to see a lvl 80 kicked by a 60-70 at least but not a 5 or 15. I hope this thread will be heard. I don’t want to make other 80’s(this is my second one)because I will be nothing for some mobs anyway…why to have to use long range all time and dodging on a lvl 5 or the 15 icebrood champ ? OMG. I just try to say how the things are,no whining and stuff,please do something with that downscaling or what is called.

I don’t know what you’re doing wrong but a lvl 5 or 15 champ has never once even downed my warrior 1v1. Your lvl 80 gear stats make it a steamroll, I just killed the Dredge Commissar (a lvl 50ish champ) solo with my war not even 30 minutes ago for my daily rare since no one else was around.

Its the same for practically every server you should take a look at the 35-45 human zone Harathi Hinterlands and laugh at the massive culling zerg there too.

Its kinda sad that this game consists of 3 main areas for the general zombie populace, Queensdale Harathi lvl up there doing the same 10 events until 80 then farm CoF until you die of old age.

(I don’t play this way but I see many many others who do, and yes I know of the coming changes but I still see CoF being ran at least for daily 1g runs)

Ursan.7846:

hharry.1967:

So this is ridiculous, stand for 1 or 2 mins at any ore vein at timberline falls and random people appears and dissapears to mine it, not just 1, i have counted prolly more than 20 in the last few hours of leveling in this area, and i cant report them, seriously whats wrong with ANet? People hacks like this and no one cares…

You remember a few months ago? When you had the ranger/bear bot trains? People were shouting and yelling, “ANet why are you not banning the bots?” Lo and behold, after a mass ban later, people simply stopped talking about them.

They are working on it. They care, and they are working on it. They are fully aware of the problem already. Threads like this do not contribute in anyway to their effort to combat bots.

I’m not sure how it is on your server but on JQ the bots trains are still alive and kicking mainly in Orr, Southsun, and all the lvl 1-30 zones.

They just found better hiding places for their pathing, such as the teleport hack.
For example in hiding places if you go into the deep seas of Southsun you will see dozens and dozens of teleporting farmer bots mercing fish 24/7 with no one the wiser.

They got smart it seems since the dumb guy/guys that were running the ranger bots in plain sight got caught these ones will probably be around awhile.

Erasculio.2914:

Majosea.2487:

On top of this they started nerfing the players ability to make gold in the game. I am not ignorant mind you, I know that some of the nerfing was to deal with the bot problem but a lot of it, in my opinion, was devised in a plot hatched by the corporate accountants to force the sell of gems.

This is a very bad argument.

Today, for someone to buy Mjolnir using gems, it would cost more or less one thousand dollars. How much more do you think that item would sell if it cost 20 dollars?

The reason why farming has been nerfed – as it should be – is in my signature. Farmers and grinders are complaining that grinding is unrewarding, but GW2 was from the beggining meant to not be a grindy game. If you bought GW2 to grind, you have the wrong game.

Sorry, but i have one thing to say about your signature

FotM.

Death Reincarnated.3570:

Well, I think the only way to end this madness is to stop using the TP.

I know people CBF and use it to even get crafting material, but, like ANet suggested, they want us to explore the whole world of tyria. So why not do this. Everyone just farm across the zones and not bother using the TP.

Watch how quickly they will adjust the prices to try and get the “customers” back.

P.S. Maybe then we will get a respone from ANet…

I agree, it seems the only way to get their attention is a boycott.
I see in the near future if this dosnt get acknowledged there will be a viral firestorm dragging them through the mud.

And all they can do is realize they brought it upon themselves :/

I was thinking this was about the Flood from Halo XD.

The sea creature part sounds exactly like what happens during Rift’s water invasions however.

Most people hate underwater combat, be it the skills,the lack of an exotic breather, the invulnerable mob glitch ,(rare these days but still happens) ect. I’m okay with underwater combat but if it was forced we would see a kittenstorm of QQ from everywhere.

I don’t see why we cant just have the WvW achievements lowered and repeatable, kinda like the Agent of Entropy achievement. :/

Gummy.4278:

Growling no I didn’t hear that but while out and about in Queensdale killing Champions I did notice camera shake every so often…
So by deduction and reasoning if it ties into the growling noise then to quote something in the game….“By all Six Gods, what is that thing? It’s huge!”…..

Haha I can hear it now, (hylek voice) “Somethings in the lava!! Aaaahh!”

GW1 vets will notice this is just like being “coded” and “non coded”
But in GW1 if you were coded from over farming ectos in UW for a week straight stopping for a month would reset it (i commonly went on hiatus and would notice my loot improve 10 fold)

But here that dosnt seem to be the case as many have quit for a month+ and came back to see if it has changed and it hasnt…

My guess is its working as intended, BUT its not resetting the “coded” status (DR is pretty much the same thing different name i suppose, but coded was area/time based and not number of kills/number of events based) probably do to a bug or some such nonsense.

Wooden Potatoes actually got me somewhat hyped about this, simply because I want his prediction to come true – that would be amazing it is set up so well if this does turn out to be it.
Give it a watch it’s pretty fascinating.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Nerf-Deadeye-It-s-Boring-now/first#post2622495

Omg you cannot be serious you are the guy that was begging for it to be nerfed, practically crying because you wanted to stop. And here you are…

No one give this troll advice for the love of sanity.

/thread

They could do what most MMOs do with pet class’ and reduce AoE damage to pets (only AoE damage) by 70% or more.

It could even work as a trait if not a standard QoL change.

Sokina.8041:

I have a magic find set. I use it a lot, when I’m in cursed shore event farming. I notice drastically good drops when I’m running with a party, while I have my magic find stuff together. I got 6 rares from one event, and in an event like Plinx, I average 3. I use a lot of magic find, over 200 with boosts.

My question is, for people who complain about it being a waste of a stat. If I wasn’t using magic find, I’d be using toughness. What does toughness do? Makes me harder to kill.

That’s nice and all, except that I’m using a ranged weapon, with 4 party members, and 15 other people. I could be totally naked, jump into an enemy mob, and STILL never die, because constant rallying. It’s good for farming, but I never use it in dungeons, fractals, World vs World, or anything else other than strictly farming for money. Why do I use it when I farm? Because I don’t need any kitten toughness when I have 30 people around and the enemies pose not a single threat.

That being said, I don’t think magic find has any place in dungeons and stuff, unless everyone agrees that it’s okay for that person to use it.

Lucky you. those sound like my drop rates pre Nov. 15th patch
Must be nice not having the perma DR bug..

People saying that everyone should give up their time to teach newbies should think about how frustrating that can become when you have to teach people the same basic stuff thats on videos/wikis/guides continuously.

If that is your only true argument against a more tuned LFG system then you yourself have clearly never been in a situation where you have to show people over and over and over what to do.

I’m all for helping people and I’m more patient than most but there is a threshold; almost a year ago I was running CoF path 2 constantly to get my 1st exotic armor set (this is all before DR on tokens, and even DR on drops) each run giving 25-30 tokens.

I used to see people saying “LFXM must ping a piece of this dungeons gear!” And I was totally against that kind of exclusion. As time went on and after dozens of dozens of horrible runs that needed thorough explanation every. single. time. And thats if people would bother to read the chat I was nice enough to type before each encounter. (You would not believe the amount of fail that used to happen on the bring bombs to Magg part, let alone the end boss mechanic..) I started to see myself doing the “Ping Gear for proof of experience” thing.

TL;DR – People like smooth fluid dungeon groups because of time restraints or to avoid the stress; teaching people is fine but it gets to a point… Well lets just say walkthroughs and guides exist for a reason.

Converting gold to gems.

Better question, is it possible for these weeds to stop sprouting up and trying to cause unnecessary drama for no reason?

Imo it would be 100x better with a transparency slider so you could see through cliffs/low ceilings/trees/ect. and if with this added the camera would never auto zoom when moved.

Ofc this is coming from someone who’s main is a max height Norn, its like they test everything with Asurans lol.

I wonder what most of these “OMG!?” types would do if they saw a screenshot of 10,000g? Other than call it “photo shopped” ofc lol.

It’s called playing the TP and the more you have the more you make, you can log in once a week and make tons of cash, OP isn’t necessarily a no-lifer I can see his post as a veiled joke to exaggerate the requirements that people are freaking out about for some reason.

220g since launch 900+ hours.
Would be more if i didnt waste approx. 150g in mats trying to get a precursor in the mystic toilet :/ (which i no longer try to do)

Thing I miss the most?
The team that worked on Guild Wars.. (not just the head guys)

Anet wanted far fewer skills in GW2 than there is in Guild Wars to make it easier to “balance”; it seems the issue was simply websites like PvXwiki and Metabattle allowing people to just copy and paste the same thing as the next guy which then gets over used to the point that it is now meta/cheese and it causes them to over tune things (nerfs/buffs). Then X gets replaced by Y and the cycle continues.

Yeah i had to manually set C for “target closest” weird how its not the default since it was the default in GW1, even still my target randomly drops for no reason even when my hands are off the keyboard/mouse just auto attacking a champ that is standing still.

leprekan.7248:

If people are looking for someone to blame they need to blame Anet. They sell gold and that is gold that STAYS in the economy.

I proposed a fix for precursor prices … they buried it in “suggestions”. I suggested an NPC selling precursors for 100/200 based on one hand or two handed. Leaving drop and Mystic JOKE rates how they are. A gold sink that removes REAL amounts of gold from the system. Considering most gold that is bought is purchased for the precursors this is something they seriously need to do. Not to mention it would be EASY for them to implement.

The DR isn’t there to keep us from grinding. It is there to push people to the Gem store. If you honestly can’t see this then you need to stop drinking the koolaid. Selling gold and seriously limiting the ability of your customer to farm it by DR is so sleazy I am embarrassed I pushed friends to buy this game and I have been supporting them since they became a company.

I have been finished with all parts for my legendary and needing my precursor for 2 weeks now. Dusk is 500 gold and will rise before I get to 500 gold. I have several friends in the same boat. You know what? Working for something you will never catch up to because of DR isn’t fun in any way shape or form.

Thats actually a really good idea that i wish they would put into the game.
It would take down the filthy rich that currently control the pre market (The ones that bought up all the cheap ones durring the Lost Shores event and then sky rocketed them back up for even more profit; and the ones that got lucky and didnt get a ban from the karma glitch at launch.)

I agree that the camera is horrible but its still possible to do it on a max sized norn, some of the in-door-like jumping puzzles in the game is a different story.. XD

Each thread like this i see the same things…

The OP makes legit points and the blind fanboys just dog him because of hours played.

Same ol’ same ol’.

I’m also glad they let us use in game currency for skins with no RNG tied to it.
On the other hand they are ugly skins compared to the RNG ones…

(Tin foil hat time YAY -_-)

Since these skins are not very appealing they might not get enough praise for not making them RNG (for once) they just might have done this on purpose so they could use some kind of excuse and say something like “it didn’t get much attention” (so in their eyes it would seem justifiable to bring back RNG since it makes them more money anyway) kinda like what they said about the added events around Halloween and that they didn’t get much feedback (most people don’t know they exist because little info was given) ; while the real reason for people not expressing their interest is that the skins are just not very attractive.

(Tin foil hat off YAY)

Please prove me wrong Anet because you’re going in the right direction.

WP’s theory might just cause a few to be disappointed with what actually happens, I don’t mean to say what Anet does will suck or anything – I’m just saying that if it does we all know how much better it could have been.

Funky.4861:

Zerging is a player problem and has nothing to do with ANET. Players will find the path of least resistance and use it to the max; this happens all the time in every situation. We, the players have created this problem ourselves (content locusts).

Yeah, core design flaws are caused by the players.

Sampo.9678:

oh god no.. why would you even want first person for jumping puzzles. The camera is fine and when you do the jp a few times you know where to jump anyways.

Max sized norns and charr would like to think otherwise.

These threads where rampant last year. Surprisingly this is the only one I’ve seen for this years Halloween event, looks like everyone learned their lesson XD. (Well most everybody.)

At least they give scraps now instead of only the weapons, some people spent several hundred dollars on keys and didn’t get a weapon last time I guess this is a little better.

@ OP Rift is FTP now, you’re welcome.
You must not have seen the outrage that happened with GW2 in November or you would not wish for VP :P.