Guild Wars 2

Yes, it might have been fun the first 5 minutes.. Guess what.. I got over it.. So I’ll just find something else to play until this is over. I don’t mind a prank, but for me this ruins the gameplay. So.. Enjoy your “planes” peeps..

adormtil.1605:

^Why is GW2 forum so low in population?

Might be because those who isn’s sattisfied with the game come here to complain, while the rest is having fun in the game.. :P

I don’t do either Fractals or WwW, but I’d rather do a bit of WwW than going into the Fractals again..

Azure Prower.8701:

LtTiger.4568:

Until Anet give me a good explonation to the MF-gear screw up, I’m gonna spend my time in another game..

MF gear sucked. Those who wore it were leechers in dungeons. Thus it was made obsolete and changed for the better.

There’s your “explonation” for you there.
As for my objectives. Keep doing dailies.

Whenever I was in a dungeon I never used the MF-gear. I had back-up gear for that, cause I wanted to do as much dmg as possible. Only used MF-gear while grinding in open world.. I don’t mind that they removed it from the game, my problem with them is that they first said ALL MF-gear would become account-bound, and then all of a sudden that was never meant to happen.. They say one thing, and do something completely different. Players who had multiple gear-sets saw an opportunity to give better gear to an alt.. So did I.. And the only feed-back on it is that this was the intention all along, even though they first stated something else. And to top it, they seecretly changed the patch-notes..

Essence Snow.3194:

Dwayna event must have a visual bug as it flashes orange, purple and green that encompasses full screen. I feel bad for anyone sensitive to it. Several of my guildies turned off monitor to not have to see it.

Just what I said when we did it yesterday.. Glad I’m not sensitive to that kind of disco, though it was pretty annoying..

Until Anet give me a good explonation to the MF-gear screw up, I’m gonna spend my time in another game..

I learned my lession after trying to get the Flame(fused?)-weapon skins (never got one, and I lost count of how many chest I opened).. Never gonna use gems/gold on rng-based stuff like that again!

Would at least be nice to get a reasonable explonation to why they first lead everyone to believe that the mf-gear (ALL mf-gear) would become account bound, to later say that the soulbound mf-gear never were meant to be account bound (it was after all there, in the patch-notes, before they seecretly changed it after the patch) ..

And they should come with an appology for the missleading information they’ve given about this prior to the patch. I don’t think this is two much to ask for after the BIG fail in information given.

Though I have a feeling we’re being ignored on this whole mf-gear subject..

Happyfool.8951:

DaveyC.4398:

On the Merged Magic find Thread, someone from Anet said they would compensate people with MF. That has not happened, people with MF got the same as everyone else.

i believe the compensation was the ability to choose a new stat combination from your previous mf gear.

Yes, and that the gear would become account-bound.. They didn’t say anything about that the mf-gear that were allready souldbound would remain soulbound.. Something that they in secret added into the patch-notes after people started complaining about it..

Well.. I’ve said it before, but I’d really like to know where in all this “as little disruption as possible” comes in.. Cause I can’t find it..

So this is how they do things.. Changes the patch-notes in silence, without even giving the players as much as an apology (cause most of us allready knew what were in the patch-note prior to the change of it).. Very unprofessional!

And on a side-note, I still don’t see how this whole mess is “as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them” as they’ve also stated at one point before the changes.. What good is it to me to have an armorset I can’t use for anything, and I can’t get back what I paid for it.. Sure I can salvage it, and if I’m lucky I will have a glob or two of ecto, but that doesn’t come near to the price of the item to begin with. Nor is it a little disruption.. It’s a huge one..

If you’re in the stats-race, then it should be a bit of a challenge.. Can’t expect to do every achievement-point in 5 minutes.. They’ve chosen to go for the stats-race, then live with the consequenses..

RNKot.3956:

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey folks,

Just a bit of clarification here – Items that were soulbound prior to the change are still soulbound.

I hope this clears things up.

Indeed it’s clear now.
We lost MF. Get nearly no refunds.
Just stuck with three MF sets (armor, trinket, weapons on three characters) that are unusable by characters-owners. Sets that are not account bound. Runes / sigils that are useless.
Armor & weapons can be salvaged for Glob of Ectoplasm (if I want Globs I shall go for Globs, not salvaging my gear…).
What about Ascended trinkets? Bought with laurels? Sell for 4-6silver? Nice refund, nice safe side for customers…

Yes.. This is how “Our goal will be to have as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them”. Players asuming from the patch-notes that the mf-gear they have will be account-bound so they at least can give it to another char.. “In your face players”..

Tbh, I fail to see how this is making up for removing the mf gear, especially for all those who had the mf-gear as a second gear-set..

I wasn’t to happy about the fact that they would remove the mf-gear.. What was I suppose to do with it then? I allready had another gear-set without mf.. Then I read this: “Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.” I thought, cool – then I can give gear to other chars that might need it. Oh boy, was I wrong.. I loged in with one of my chars with mf gear, and in my bag I saw that the item was soulbound.. Now, that to me was a bit wierd, cause they had stated that it would become account-bound.. Oh well, maybe if I set the stats to it, then it will become account-bound.. Guess what.. You’re right, it didn’t..

I went in here on the forum, and looked around to see if anyone else had that problem to. Cause according to the patch-notes, it was to become account-bound.. And when I then read in this thread that it wasn’t the case.. I mean.. Do those who write the patch-notes even read it over before they post it? Didn’t anyone see how this most likely would be interpreted by the player-crowd? It’s there.. Black on white: Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound. Ehm.. Yeah.. Right..

Martin Kerstein.3071:

As has been pointed out by other posters: The recipes for inscriptions are not impacted by this, you have to rediscover the weapon and then get XP from it. Example:

I can currently craft a Berserker’s Pearl Reaver. After the build, I will still know how to make the Inscription (which is the recipe), but i will need to put one of the Berserker’s Orichalcum Imbued Inscriptions, one Orichalcum Axe Blade and one Small Ancient Haft into the Discovery window and make it to be able to craft the axe again.

What “re-descover”? All of the exotics I’d discovered before are still in my list, so I can’t re-disover any of them..

They should just remove culling in pve all over. Oh, and culling has nothing to do with your graphic-settings..

Well.. Tbh, you shouldn’t have been able to choose both of them.. Have you chosen one, you can’t do anything for the other.. And for the record, I only voted for one of them..

Tnx for the help

Does anyone have any idea how to get the Broken Equipment achievement done?

One of my Guardians.. :P

So this is a bug that only effects some people then? Cause my leggings and boots still have 3 options for color that work fine..

Seem to work fine for me.. Have had this armor several months and never had any dye problems with it..

rfdarko.4639:

Seems to be an issue with particle effect filters interacting with the glove’s particle effects. It happens when I enter spectral walk as well.

Same for me.. And I have Asura..

Envy.1679:

Yesterday i received my zenith weapon skin meaning i opened the 2000 point reward. today i logged in and it did not give me the 2500 chest it gave me the 1500 chest

Sure you didn’t open your 1000 point reward yesterday? Got skins for that to you know..

I’ve played a bit of WvW, but when you see that you are greatly outnumbered it’s limited how much you feel like dying to the same zerg over and over again.. You never know what you get when you jump into WvW. You might be lucky and have your server outnumbering the others, or that the servers are about the same amount of players, but I don’t feel like jumping around to the different WvW maps, looking for my server to be atleast equaly to the other servers..

Why do you even have alts then, when you don’t wanna be in the “trouble” of exploring the maps again? What did you expect? A free ride cause you’ve done it once? It’s not like it’s hard to get to the dungeons around in Tyria, with any proffesion.. And you don’t have to be at the enttrance of the dungeon either. Just have to be on the map where the dungeon si. Now, how hard can it be?

Dedlaw.9130:

Clark Skinner.4902:

With the significant size of the player base who dislike or hate jumping puzzles,

Source?

Because quite honestly it’s the first time I’ve seen an overflow server since launch.

Ehm.. Don’t need to go fruther back than Southsun to have overflow on the servers..

Okay.. So.. I don’t know if I can call it hotspots, but have seen the same bots running around for weeks in Frostgorge Sound (Ring of Fire) between Frostwalk Thundra and Earthshake Basin. It’s a necromancer.. And yes, he’s been reported.. By many people.. Still running there though..

Also there’s a ranger running in the same circles down in Cursed Shore, between Jofast and Meddler. He’s been running around there for weeks as well, even though he’s been reported in-game loads of times.

As long as people keep using real money to get stuff that you have a 1 to 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance of getting by gambeling on opening a box.. Well.. They’ll just keep doing it like it.. I’ve given up on trying to get weapon-tickets.. They are to rare for me to even bother. I’m glad I haven’t spent real money on this..

Why is it that there’s ALWAYS someone who has to point out typing-errors, grammar errors and so on??? If you want to understand what the person means, you do. If you don’t then go do something else!

Now, back to topic: I see what the thread-starter means. I’ve got a few chars myself (all at lvl 80), and they all got exotics.. Don’t even have a legendary yets, but farming in this game isn’t even fun anymore since they always ruin the good farm-spots to get rid of bots (and to get what you want you have to farm! Don’t give me the crap about not needing to, cause you will not get you’re gears if you don’t farm a bit. That’s just how it is, unless you want to take out you’re VISA-card afcource). Oh well.. Guess they can’t please everyone..

Noone is forcing you to run around and burn those statues..

Note to self: Do not buy things that says it has a rare chance to get something. You’ll have to have a lucky account to get it..

Behellagh.1468:

LtTiger.4568:

Bet there are loads that buys keys and open chests without knowing they can’t get the skins anymore.. Not everyone is on the website or forums everyday. Easy to miss out on stuff like that..

Except Frost and Flame is over for a while now. Those skins were tied to that living story. We have a new living story now with it’s own skins and means to get them. It’s only logical to assume F&F skins are no longer in BL chests.

Oh well.. Never get any of those skins anyways, so doesn’t matter for me.. All I’m saying is that they should give people a heads up (even though it tied to an event).. As I said, it’s easy to miss out on stuff like that..

Bet there are loads that buys keys and open chests without knowing they can’t get the skins anymore.. Not everyone is on the website or forums everyday. Easy to miss out on stuff like that..

Vayne.8563:

phabby.8945:

Why should I have to roll a new toon and do story modes to get a key that should be a dropped item. if the chest drop from all mobs then so should the keys at the same rate .

I wvw alot, so I shouldn’t have to go creating toons just to get a key to open a chest that I get as a drop in wvw .That is in its own right is a stupid set up for any game.

The dropping the keys to a more affordable price dosn’t sit well either, why should you have to pay for something to use on something you get as a drop?

But you haven’t said WHY they key should be a dropped item. I don’t think it should be.

In a lot of games, you have to buy character classes, or races or content in the cash shop. Or you can buy traits and skill points and stuff like that. Here, we have a pretty large game with a lot of content, that doesn’t charge a monthly fee. They’re not putting p2w stuff in the shop, but they do have to make money to make more content.

Saying something should be just a drop is all very nice and easy, when you’re not looking at a company’s balance sheet. Stuff like black lion keys and cosmetic skins are fair game for the cash shop.

The only thing I dislike is them putting new skins in the chests for RNG.

The keys are a dropped item.. I’ve gotten several by doing pve around the world (not map compleet, but regular mob-drop).. But I agree with you on the skins.. It’s not fair that they’ve put them in the chests.. I’ve heard people open over 500 chests without getting any ticket to skins.. Bad way to do things on, but as long as there are people using monney and gold to buy keys, Anet get what they’re after..

I’ve played both WoW and GW2, and there are some things I like better in WoW, but not that much that I’ll go back to WoW. I like GW2 better, but if others like WoW better, well then that’s their choice

There’s no problem doing dailies within an hour..

Mirta.5029:

LtTiger.4568:

I want the “necro-effect” to stay on the staff. I don’t mind it at all You don’t like it, have another staff, or don’t have a necromancer..

so you want your birdie to get impaled by blackness?

I have the staff on my necromancer, and I don’t see the problem with it having the blacknes through the birds body. I think it looks cool

I want the “necro-effect” to stay on the staff. I don’t mind it at all You don’t like it, have another staff, or don’t have a necromancer..

Hylox.9746:

since release, all my drops have been nothing but crap. i have only gotten 1 exotic drop and maybe 40 rares… i’m lucky if i get 1 rare for a whole day of farming. my dad gets way better drops than me and we both have full magic find gear. am i doing something wrong or is the drop quality lowered on my account? and over the past 2 days i’ve purchased 41 black lion keys and i keep getting crap like heavy bags of coins and mystery tonics. i did get 1 makeover pack but i didn’t need it, cuz ive been trying to get 3 fused weapon tickets but i haven’t gotten 1 yet but my dad has gotten 3 already. I understand that it’s totally random, but i always get low-end drops. could you look into it for me? i would really like to know if it’s just my account or my horrendous bad luck. I wish the fused weapon tickets were tradeable so i could just buy them off of the trading post, it would definitely be easier for some people to get the fused weapon tickets. i would pay 1000~1500 gems or 10 ~15 gold for one of those tickets

Welcome to my world..

As long as people are buying keys, using money and so on, they’ll keep it as it is..

So, I finally got my 330 “Flame Legion Charr Carvings” for my CoF brestplate the other day. Went off to the vendor an bought it, and used a (fine)Transmutation-stone so I wouldn’t have to use loads of gold on a new rune. I tripple-checked that I had chosen the right looks, and then “Transmute”.

But when I had transmuted it, it still had the looks of my current chest-plate. The CoF-chestplate was gone and the 330(!) Flame Legion Charr Carvings were gone. So now what? I’ve been in touch with costumer support, only to get the answer that they “Support Team is unable to restore any individual characters, items, or currency. We’d be unable to restore the items used in the transmutation or reverse the process, as we simply do not have the tools to provide this service at this time.”

So now I need to farm up another 330 Carvings for my chest-piece, just because the transmutation didn’t work as it was supposed to, and they can’t help me reverse it.
They really need to make an effort to help players that experience things like this. I doubt I’m the only one..

Gelltor.3015:

The guild weapons are rather nice actually….more tasteful than the I’M ON FIRE LOL weapons….plus you don’t have to waste so much gold on them!

Ehm.. Most of the low-level weapons that drops random, looks more nice than this new guild-weapons..

Well.. With my luck in this game, I won’t even bother buying chest-keys and try. I woun’t get any that rare anyways.. So tnx for nothing I guess.. :P

I’ll have Asura over Human any day! Human is to ordinary..

The “best” thing about the invulnerable mobs are when they attack and do dmg to you, but you keep getting the message: Invulnerable.. Gotta love it :P

The culling should absolutely be taken away in PvE as well.. It’s hopless doing events and such when there are high number of players involved. All of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of a group with mobs, face down in the dirt and you don’t even know what hit you until they start falling dead around you.. It’s hopless! Take the culling away!

A class I find fun and easy to play, can be a pain in the a** for you.. So you really have to try the classes and figure out what is for you..

To level up a char is a part of the game.. If he need to turn to botting just to make it to lvl 80, he should probably find himself another game..

Btw, don’t think he gets any warning before the account is closed.. Then he gets a message why he was kicked out.. When it comes to what they do to investigate “bot-accounts”, it would be interesting to know what they are looking for. A friend got banned for botting withouth ever having been close to doing so..

Think you did the right thing by reporting it. I’d done the same..