Guild Wars 2

I wonder if the economist/s that work for ANet (do they have any?) thought the price of Candy Corn would drop drastically. Well it would have if they made sure it was everywhere again and now not smarter to hoard like crazy. I mean seriously if you have the bank space KEEP ALL OF IT. It’s the smartest thing you can do. They’d need the Candy Corn node to put out 25 pieces a day with a higher chance of a Cob for the price to come down.

I had a 250 stack from last year and about 100 in my Bank, having sold (and crafted) a lot of it away over the last year. Even though I knew Candy Corn would likely be back I never thought it would require crazy amounts to get stuff.

I have about 1300 at the moment, have done very little farming though.

Mathematically I actually see very clearly why the new items require so much of the stuff. There was A LOT of it in the world from last year. Unfortunately I think a lot of the CC will still be hoarded now that it looks like the price can only go up with the enforced scarcity and high unit requirement for items. They basically said, there is (X) number of players with (Y) number of Candy Corn in there bank. To flush the excess simply require higher amounts be used in all event acquisitions. However since there is now even more intrinsic value in the Candy Corn we all sit on the stuff as long as we have the space for it. So scarcity plus higher than average unit per person desire makes the prices crazy. It will also have a knock on effect in the already Nucking Futs inflation. (I think its like 500+% in a year??)

I love that princess wand for the Mesmer.

For the costume items to have a better ‘use’, we probably need instanced events. Like a Ball, a Brawl arena, a Personal Instance Fete etc. Somewhere you can go that benefits from all that whacky stuff we get BUT ALSO allows you to earn more in a fair and fun way.

Don’t get me wrong, going out into the world to do Holiday Events is awesome I just think that for some things we can get it needs to be a defined set of objectives we can actually complete. There is very little balance from ANet with this stuff, its either really easy, almost unattainable in the games lifetime OR gated by RNG shenanigans.

Certainly not ideal.

Pretty annoying, I was using an Alt and thought I would go over and do the Reliquary with her and come back with my main later… nope. Golem thing is soulbound and my Main now can’t get his own. I liked having event items on my main and there was no indication I couldn’t do that.

yep, no watchknight in my bank too. Glad its being looked into.

I am pretty annoyed its closed off too, I attempted to do the dungeon a couple of times but people kept abandoning the group after the first chest (not sure what that was about? – not liking noob groups maybe?) and now I see its closed for good and I will never get the achievement. Really disappointing. I am sure its fine for the people who can cruise through this content and keep at it, but for the rest of us we actually have to set aside time to do it.

I have done about 65-70 chests so far, 0 skins.

I would also like to say I have never gotten skins on any of these events no matter how many runs I have done (into the 300s on a couple of events). I actually seriously think there is some “Account based Loot Find” or something that gets randomly bestowed on creation? That’s how paranoid I am getting about never finding anything…. ever (including Black Lion Chests etc).

Makes it even worse when I watch a vid of a walkthrough and the commenter brushes off a skin loot as, meh, like it happens so frequently for them it’s just thrown on the pile.

sigh RNG, very sigh.

ANet made a mistake when they simply didn’t allow for minis to be found or earned in the game. I actually like the Wintersday thing where some of them could be earned with components for the mystic forge, it’s a step in the right direction at the same time as absolutely shooting themselves in the foot for making them account bound and non-tradeable. I am just baffled to the point where it is either total and obvious exploitation for money OR maybe there is actually a recipe or future update that will make it make sense?

Will we get another shot next Wintersday? They don’t say. Many of us have 200 mystic cogs left… which unless you use for other stuff in 50s is utterly useless, its like a tease.

Can we actually get the RNG minis through the forge through some combo we just didn’t see yet?? Kinda harsh they haven’t hinted by now, and those I call the ‘Mystic Mavens’ tend to find this stuff fairly fast (and I thank them for the service).

What is the purpose of Account Binding a RNG collectable if NOT for exploiting the players for money?? This is the thing that sours me most, it feels like exploiting the completionists and compulsives. It makes me treat them like a Casino… and I loathe Casino mentality.

I have never really looked at GW2 as needing an “end game”. To me in this context ‘No Endgame’ has become a catch all excuse used to describe boredom when there is no perceived “stuff to keep me motivated to play”. In a subscription model you have every right to whine about it. Why pay subs when you completed the content and there is nothing left to do? GW2 has zero consequences for stopping for a while and/or just playing very casually.

GW2 as it is, seems to be using a content spigot approach to keep people interested. Play it until you used up the content or get bored… now stop…. Then come back when there is something new to see and experience. Are people so ingrained in the old mentality of WoW they can’t imagine ever actually taking a break from a game till it has something new for them to do?

I have noticed a distinct up-tick in newbie characters on SoS, whether this is merely regular players taking advantage of the break to mess about with alts, or actual new players, is not easily determined. I know a lot of people are asking questions in chat so my feeling (right or wrong) is that there are a good number of new people.

I would also echo what, critickitten has said and further remind people we are in a different era of gaming now. Most of us are dabbling in several games OR moving on quickly as new things are released. The mere fact that GW2 is still drawing many people back on a daily basis, in high numbers or not, is pretty cool. If ANet expected to keep more than a modest concurrency, they didn’t understand the market.

I have held out hope we will get some love in the future. I do get the feeling ANet may not know what to do with the class?

We are like the sciencey gadget people of the world so I kind of envisioned being able to have mechanical pets beyond just throwing down turrets, or having more additive mods for our equipped weapons. Admittedly they seem to have tried to do mods, but the effect is either broken or it has a very limited affect??

I would like to know if what we have now is it, or if their are actually some plans either to extend our function or at least bolster the imbalance… hell if it is just fine and we are all just missing something I will take an official play guide on how to be better with what we have???

I just don’t understand ANets goals for Minis? They are technically only for making money, that’s fine, but now it’s also about exploiting collectors by creating a completely artificial scarcity?

Making them non-tradable is a really underhanded move to score some extra cash. Taking them out of reach astounds me. I mean even the Rytlock Mini is a sure thing if you upgrade to CE.

Yeah, no major issues until recently. I thought initially it must be because of Holidays and the event, but it is happening at times I know the net would not be congested.

At the moment I can guarantee a DC by opening a Present in Queensdale. It will lag up, jutter a few commands then just kick me.

Human Engy, no buffs.

I took just under 2 hours but I was always moving forward and only seemed to mess up with rookie errors and trying to rush. Now I can do it first try.

Because I am a very calm person I had no trouble with the rinse repeat, plus many of the people I was with made it interesting. Only a few bad eggs who left fairly quickly.

I’d say from the people I have played with, that 5% estimate is probably right. It was the first time I did something and felt really bad for the people I was instanced with. When I said Good Luck and left, I really meant it so much. Some people have been trying for so long they have taken shifts.

I never had a problem with other characters big or small, I did have an issue with some of the attitudes, but hey, its the net. It’s been way more good then bad though. Some bonding over the challenge.

Always made me laugh when someone would pop in try maybe 5 times and give up in a hissy like it should have only taken 5 minutes and it was “obviously broken”.