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Oh Wow… Ask and you shall receive. After the news today, crossing off number 3 & 4. Members are gonna be so happy!
Lets tally up some more HomeRuns:
1) Account bound Legendaries & Ascended items. = Home Run
2) No More Repair Fees = Home Run
3) World XP is Account Wide = Home Run.
4) Free Trait resets from anywhere = Home Run.
I hope i’m not dreaming all this —> Pinch Self <-- —>OUCH <-- Its real. Sweet!
Keep these awesome changes coming!
- Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
12 years of Fun, Laughter & Teamwork
http://www.kismetbp.com
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ANet is certainly doing a lot of things right
I think a major source of frustration is that, we know there are awesome updates coming and we can’t wait for them to be released.
I would have to agree somewhat that it would be nice to have it right now, but it takes time. I rather have it working right then rush it.
Now I have a new goal, collect all the skins in the game.
- Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
12 years of Fun, Laughter & Teamwork
http://www.kismetbp.com
I agree with most of your points Kismet.
But! As far as class balance goes, this game is not ready yet for real E-Sports. Doesn’t matter how much of a fanboy you are, you can’t deny this.
First off normally when someone refers to me as a “Fanboy” of anything, i’m quick to say no. Though the GW2 team has been winning me over. I’m not afraid to say i’ve grown to be a huge fan of their work & game. Not because I follow people blindly, but through their consistent actions and game improvements. The yard stick I use is: Are members having fun in game? The Answer = Yes.
I’ll have to differ to the experts on balance/E-Sports issue, its for sure not me. Its a touchy and nearly impossible task, from all the games i’ve played over the years. Would it be fun to watch WvW from other peoples perspective, like Epic Highlights of massive battles? Sign me up.
- Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
12 years of Fun, Laughter & Teamwork
http://www.kismetbp.com
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Hey all,
Just hit 10k Achievement with my team and made a video of my final few points, just for fun. Enjoy!
And to ArenaNet, keep up the awesome work! We Love GuildWars 2!
- Kismet
If your interested in having fun with the Ring of Destiny team, check out our website http://www.kismetbp.com for join info.
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Hi all,
Was checking out the guild commendation rewards and was like.. Hmm.. might try this guild banner tonic, but checked it on the net first to see what it was. Apparently I turn into the guild banner and just stand in one spot, can’t move. :P Wha? Lame?
Next maybe a tonic of transform to rock? or Plant? maybe transform to brick wall?
Now what would be cool, transform to guild banner & give buffs or have members pick me up as banner & add buff to group.. now thats cool. Like the warrior banners. Have a skill where members throw me at the enemy and i explode.. even more fun. That would be funny at least.
So in review, Transform to non-movable banner = Lame, Transform into banner that members can pickup and swing me around & and plant on kills = a little cooler.
Enjoy,
- Kismet
Such an amazing oversight, I’m still stunned from it.
Gate is too high with nothing for people to do right away.
People don’t like to be teased, in fact it really ticks them off (not me, i’m perty chill, more disappointed then anything else). This content is clearly for the top 10-25% of players.. leaving a massive group with still very little to do.
Arenanet: “Hey we have some cool stuff coming out… oh wait.. you can’t do it for 5, 10 to 20+ weeks from now… but we added it.”
People have very little to do now & have 4-5 chars at max while waiting for new content and then you all gated it too high! Now its just a Gold/Daily event grind until guilds can gather 60 gold+ or 30k/50k more influence. Thats no fun.
This could of been a home run if you put some things for all guilds to do at lower tiers levels as well as higher. Even minor things that helped guilds earn influence to reach higher levels.
Love your game, but not including a huge bulk of your player base was unwise & a huge let down. This was gonna be a call to my members to return to GW2, but now its a stall point again.
You all can still fix it though and I hope you all do, quickly.
- Lord Kismet*
Kismet, Ring of Destiny
http://gw2.kismetbp.com
11 years of fun & teamwork together
First off, having a great time in GW2! You all are doing tons of things so right!
But, Whoa! on guild achievements! Nooooooooooooooooo!
http://gw2.kismetbp.com/gw2news/images/gw024.jpg
Logging in today I was so excited to have something fun to do with my team. Was getting them pumped up all week to log in and play. Stunned at the requirements.
We can’t do anything yet and we’ve opened the tiers on all the way to level 5 on most areas.
We had about 50 members start with us on GW2 (Brought them over from SWTOR). Unlocked a ton of tiers. Over time though people ran out of things to do, went off to do other things, waiting for something fun to do together in GW2.
Was gonna do a video on the new guild achievements to bring some members back. But there is nothing to do, because it is gated so high.
You should put something fun to do in, RIGHT NOW! At all tiers. Not 30-60-100k influence from now! Thats weeks/months from now before we can do the content!! I can only imagine smaller guilds utter disappointment at the gate levels.
Don’t get me wrong I love the idea of high end achievements and GW2 is fun game, but sometimes smart people do terribly wrong things and this is one of those times.
Also I know you all are also great listeners, another reason I don’t mind dropping some real cash in the store to contribute to the game & keep it rolling.
If you take only one bit of advice from a someone’s who’s founded and been running a guild for 11 years, add stuff at all levels, not just at the top gate.
Please, on behalf of my members and myself fix this ASAP.
Thanks,
- Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
http://gw2.kismetbp.com
11 Years of fun & Teamwork together
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Our Top suggestions (Part 2):
6) Mounts
- Yes I know we have waypoints and they are such a boon to the enjoyment of the game (though they do need to be reduced in cost, high burden). But there is one simple fact in every game, people love to have mounts. I personally like mounts/companions that level & grow in power as you do. A mount is more like friend that goes on a journey with you.
7) Fixing some animations
Like hasted bow looks like your holding it from your hip. Asura just stands and twitches on thief with short bow.
8) Count down on Monthly:
- such as “You have 36 hours left” on your monthly before it resets. Put this in the monthly tab. This is a source of confusion as in the US you reset actually the day before the start of a new month.
Think i’ll wrap it up on those points with one final note:
1) Content addition & story arcs.
- When you add content such as the Living Story, Events, Etc to game, make sure its starts on the day you patch it. Why? Because people are running around looking for the new content only to be disappointed it won’t be around until the next day. Gives negative response from members (-1000 Happy Player points)
- Give better direction as to where to go to start event. Add quest that shows on Map & leads you to the starting point. No one likes to wonder around for an hour & then end up googling/asking on Global about it.
- Event/Story Arc must build momentum for the player. Such as our members ran out did the living story achievement 75 acts of assistance.. first day.. Now what? I keep looking each day.. nothing. (another -1000 Happy Player points)
- New Content excitement will diminish the longer between “something to do”
What would be better?
- Content is available on Patch day as thats why people log in and are ready to go “Check out the new stuff”
- Quest pops up from email, much like Dungeons with location(s) of start of event.
- Story arcs that build day after day that could even be tied into daily achievements or even “Story Achievements Quest”.
- When adding things to game, like waypoints, Items, etc. A letter/ in-game news of where to explore/look to find new stuff.
Again, thanks for your excellent work on this game & here’s hoping for more home runs in the future.
Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
11 Years of teamwork & fun together
http://gw2.kismetbp.com
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Hiya all,
As always i’d like to start with how much my team & I enjoy this game. You are doing so many things right on so many levels. Thank you so much for your hard work.
My members and I would like to put forth a few more potential home runs.
Our Top suggestions (Part 1):
1) Preview the look of items in AH:
- At max level I find most members are more concerned with what they look like then stats. This would be a massive boon to game enjoyment. I hear this from members nearly every day. They can go into AH & go “I want those Pants”, “I like the look at that shield” ..etc..
2) End game:
- Fractals, WvW, Dungeons & killing dragons are fun, but members are stalling out, game momentum is slowing. They need something unique to do at high levels.
a) Raid level end game with unique reasons to do these.
- Large scale battles like WvW but with big groups lead by commanders. Should be able to have as many people in group as we can bring. 8/12/16/24/etc.. Create an Auto Scale for Mobs, based on number of people you bring aka a “enemies response”. So if we bring say 9 people (yes i chose odd number on purpose) it scales. This has been done in other games, this way we are not excluding that 9th person from having fun with the guild. It sucks to be the “odd man out” who has to wait for “next time” to join.
—-> Create a unique system that allows for inclusion of odd numbers of players like you do in WvW, but on raid or even server scale. Such as recovering a zone of the world/castle/ each week for a bonus. Can even weave it into the living story.
b) Given a Quest to gain achievements:
- As we finish the guild achievements it unlocks unique more items in the Guild Upgrades. I know we are doing this through influence, but look at some upgrades like “Research politics lev 5”, there is no point in it as their is nothing to get after. I suggest to take a good look at that one.
d) Guild quests & Homes/halls!
(yeah i know you mentioned this but, More Votes this way)
- Our entire guild wants more things to do together
- Have us collect wood & get stone & get silk to make our Guild Castle & the banner that flys over it. Have our crafters work together to build our Guild Hall & the items that go in the Hall. Shared achievement is what guilds are about.
- Such as the ability to change the color of guild themed items, like shields, weps etc..
e) Server achievement:
- Make end game server wide, Work together toward a common goal. Much like WvW, but in a PVE/game enjoyment sense. aka Server Achievements. Like won 10 Rounds of WvW, 1000 Boss’s Killed, 1000 Fractals run, you get the idea.
- On battle field/achievement for people could get a “Ehmry Bay” tabard to show server pride kinda thing.
(side note:) Fix drops for Veterans & Champs. We kill these and such a let down, when they drop nothing or 2 bits of vendor trash.
3) Larger selection of items in Store:
- Cosmetic/ etc to add to ones uniqueness. I’m not sure why a massive amount of items have not been added to the Cometic end of the store. We really enjoy this game and don’t mind dropping some $ to support it & to create a unique style of char. Maybe have a in game Armor set design contest? Also their are many NPC outfits that people wish they could have. Good place to start there.
- Also on this note more Theme based sets, such as “Royal” My main char is the leader & often the Royal. I’d prefer more embellished looks, when not in my armor more dressed up appearance for meetings & events with the group. Think Weddings, Royal, Pirate, Chancellor, Cloaked/Mystery figure, showgun armor …etc. Also a way to stand apart like for commanders have option for “Commander Armor Set” etc… Unique looks through achievement.
4) Armor/ Trait Set swapping:
- Create sets for armor such as “healing Set”, “Tank Set”, “Ranged set”. For quick swapping between gear. You just go to your bank, and it swaps the gear.
There was an add-on for this in a game that shall not be named. At high levels people are building sets for different reasons. Same thing with Traits. Add a function to “Save Armor set” & Save Trait set. I can’t tell you how much I loved that function in the “other” game.
5) Dueling
- This gives members the ability to practice builds & practice for PvP & WvW. Make sure their is an option to “ignore Dueling requests” for those who don’t want to.
- To make this even more fun make it an Guild achievement, the guild battlegrounds or even a server achievement, everyone pitch in to build a training area to practice.
More on Part 2 —--
Thanks for those who could empathize.
And to those who thought it was a last minute thing, not procrastination, just organizing some fun on a Friday night with my team. If i had known I would of organized it earlier or realized I didn’t have enough time and abandoned it.
Sadly don’t have as much time as I would like to play, wife, kids, job and all of that, this is what put me so late in the month on this.
I really do like the idea about putting a time on the Daily & Monthly reset. In how many hours you have left to finish it like a count down. Big props to Lysico.4906 & others to thinking of an improvement.
i.e. “you have 5 hours before monthly reset”
I find it best to take break when frustrated so thats what i did. Now i’ll go back to my other goals in game & ignore monthly achievements.
Also to Amos.8760 thanks for the laugh. “Guys, the solution is easy. Just keep flying west through time zones until you reach yesterday. Then log in real quick and finish your daily.”
Best wishes to all on a safe and happy holidays.
- Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
Hi all,
Was having a good time, having lots of fun in game. Thought for once i’d get my monthly done. Been working on it on/off all month. Grinding WvW kills, fractals.. etc.. hours & hours of grinding.
Thought i’d get it done today, Friday 11/30. Was getting a group together to finish a few more cave runs. Checked my monthly earlier today, just needed 2 more.
Got back on tonight to run some cave runs with my team, got group together and checked my Monthly… reset..
Why would you reset the monthly on the 30th? It would make more sense to reset it on the 1st.
To say the least i’m so beyond ticked off to waste all that time grinding and now it just makes me want to log off and not play.
Please reconsider NOT resetting on the last day of the month, instead the first day of the next month!
Anyone else have this have this happen to them?
Taking rest of night off, thats just such a disappointment.
- Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
Hi All,
Thanks for putting up this forum for suggestions, always a great way to connect to the community.
First, top rate game. Now my favorite game of the hundreds of game i’ve played across 30 years. Everything so well done & your communication with the community is what really sets you apart. Great work!
I founded our guild 10 years ago with hundreds of members across multiple games. The team is loving GW2.
But, (there always is) members are starting to get a bit irritated by botting & have some other ideas. As the Leader this concerns me, so i’ve collected some suggestions for you all to make the game better.
Move to highest priority
——> 1) Botting – Raises the toughness of event’s and everything around the area, frustrating members. Since bots are not helping with events, you have to solo a much tougher area.
Suggestions on botting:
a) Give us some method for area bot report (reporting one by one takes a ton of players time)
b) If you find 3 rangers within close range and naked with broken gear & doing the same thing = bots
c) Look at char’s who have all their armor broken & multi char in same area & track them for say 10 minutes to see if they repair or path through same zone.
d) Bots are normally under same user account, how can one user name have multi-char of same account, logged in? So search for if same person, of same account is logged in = Botting. Same with chars in PVE zone with no armor track em.
e) Maybe a challenge response for broken armor after so many minutes. Like “type the following”.
f) Get bots removed quicker. If a members sees the same group of bots a week later after they took the time to report them, they get the feeling its not being taken care of. I know you guys are slammed, but just passing on how they feel.
> 2) Black Lion Trading Company / More Town clothes
a) Preview Items/weps/armor on Trading Company (this is rated as no 1 wanted addition)
b) Sort by Armor type – Light/Medium/Heavy – create drop down for Armor
c) One stop shop for getting cosmetic items with more of them.
d) Offer outfits of NPC’s for guild events, like Ball dresses & armor cosmetics…etc…
e) Cosmetic item drops after lev 80, increases interest. After 80, we area are more interested in what something looks like, then its stats.
f) Sort/search by Stats bonus
g) More variety in Med Armor (mostly cowboy or pirate now)
> 3) Karma/item Rewards bump/smarter rewards
a) Smarter rewards – when you complete a map the items should be class specific. Often you get light when you need heavy & heavy when you need light.
b) More rewards for opening up an area via Karma or recipes.
Thanks again for all your hard work, it is much appreciated by myself & my team!
bows with much respect
Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
http://gw2.kismetbp.com
10 years of teamwork!
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