Guild Wars 2

drunkenpilot.9837:

So don’t do the jumping puzzle daily. Do a different daily achievement instead. There are lots. Problem solved.

I enjoyed the World Boss daily.

I don’t do the jumping puzzle daily. I do most of the rest, if not all, of the dailys…. on a daily basis.

please, it would be nice and helpful ( i really hope that no one wants to restrict use of the guild bank for gem purchases…)

I would prefer, and this is my own preference, to have a World Boss daily over a jumping puzzle daily.

I would prefer to have a choice of anything besides a jumping puzzle.

I have tried them, just not my cup of tea. Some of them were fun the first time or so, but having to repeat them is not something that I would choose.

Thank you for your time.

after three years there are fewer maps\

5 people is too small for a pvp match

hello.

spvp has had only a very limited amount of maps. few maps fewer players.

the following is only my personal opinion: 3 points for conquest? totally boring

you want a MMMORPG to not be massive? you want only 5 players to stand on 3 areas to win a game? it is just so wierd.

why do you have people in pvp go stand on something- 3 somethings.

it’s just not good or best or anything. go play a different type of game if you only want 5 players on 3 points.

it is just not fun to have only 5 people on your team in a massive mmorpg all trying to get tiny 3 objectives

for three years it gets old

sorry, but unless you give more specifics on the event, at this time I would say you surely could overcome the challenge you faced solo with more practice

Gaile Gray.6029:

Congratz. In all my hours I’ve had zero luck with pre’s, so I’m just a tad green with envy right now.

I’m with Vephar — a lottery ticket may be in order.

do any of you wonder if the Korean gambling kitten has made 100,000 players quit the game?

Silvatar.5379:

Yeah, I realize that there are better runes for this role, I was just trying to think of where runes of mercy might be most useful since the OP is interested in options concerning these runes specifically.

ya this is for purely fun and theory crafting about builds. I was just speculating on what the bust build would be for runes of mercy. My main Guardian I recently crafted ascended gear and stuff for and I try to play meta-ish (as much as I can take .

UnitedChaos.8364:

What….?
How often are you changing characters, anyway, that this actually becomes a legitimate issue?

as often as they want?

do you want people to change character as much as you do? do you want to change characters as many times as they do? do you want people to do what they want to do?

hey all, I am trying to determine what build to use with 6 Superior runes of Mercy on my Guardian (or maybe warrior?) http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Mercy

If anyone wants to help with ideas or theory crafting, I would really appreciate it!

Now this is just for fun, I have many toons and 4 level 80 Guardians and this would only be for the Guardian that I like to play just to run around and help people and revive them etc.

^-^

The price of the tools is too high and everyone knows it- everyone. That’s right, every single person on the planet currently and everyone that has ever lived and everyone that will ever live knows that Anet is charging too much for the infinite gathering tools.

I bought two sets the first day they were available years ago so maybe it is my fault that they are priced the way they are.

It is a fantastic idea to make the infinite gathering tools like the glider and able to be used via the wardrobe like others in this thread have suggested. It’s just a great idea and better to the way it is now.

We just got the shared inventory slots(which are too expensive, in my opionion- but I love that Anet gave us this option). The ideas others have made in this thread are simply better and… less… tedious.

I bought the first infinite gathering tools right when the very first ones were released. I have never bought any since then. If there was a wardrobe type function as suggested in this thread, I would probably buy most, if not all of the other ones and happily changed and swapped them among my thirty characters that I have(altaholic mmorpg player for several decades here o.0).

Anet would have made more money off me and probably others…maybe more money in total with more happy players buying other stuff too. 1,000 gems for the infinite gathering tools implemented currently has probably cost them a lot of sales from people who would have bought them (or more of them) if they were priced reasonably.

Currently you can purchase HoT and the core game for about the same price as three infinite gathering tools… I know this because I just bought HoT for my friend.

added: Tearthy flame is right! +1 for Unlimited Gathering Tool Wardrobe.

I want to buy the expansion for a good friend of mine who plays GW2 when he can and we usually group together when we both have a day off of work.

1) what are the best ways to do this? I was thinking I could buy it online with my credit card and then give him the HoT key so he could download it.

2) anything that I don’t know about that could cause problems? I don’t want to spend the money and do something wrong so he couldn’t add HoT to his own current GW2 account…

3) I hear people say you can find authorized retailers that sell HoT for less than $49. Haven’t found any when I looked today. Would be great to get it for $35

If you don’t like HoT maps, here is what you do, and you will be happy.

Get one of your characters who is fast or stealthy or has a lot of toughness (OR one of your characters you need Hero Points on to get the Elite spec) and just run around exploring the map- avoid fighting if you don’t like fighting on the HoT maps, just explore and try to find waypoints.

Once you know your way around the map and have the waypoints, you just pay attention to map chat and you will often see people asking for help or offering help to get Hero point challenges. Just go join them. Ask them if you can join a party with them and tell them it’s your first time and they will help you out! If you are really lucky, you will get someone doing all the hero points and a large group of people will be in the group all trying to get Hero points, chests and everything else on the map. Everyone helps everyone and it is a great time.

Going it alone is pretty tough at first.

Going with a group is extremely fun and extremely rewarding! Just takes a little time and you will find other people on HoT maps to group with- learn the maps at your pace and you will understand them and have more fun on them. Once you get what you want from the HoT maps you don’t have to go back to them, do whatever you want.

Good luck, have fun, be smart and use the help that is there waiting for you. It’s fun helping others too, in my humble opinion.

Behellagh.1468:

Poison slows down revival rate because it’s POISONING YOU. It’s not an issue about speeding up or slowing down time it’s slowing down healing.

for the sake of argument, Burning should slow down revival rate because it’s BURNING YOU.

and so on and so forth.

Actually I am less after making a point and more after discussing this topic.

I think we can all agree that Anet made the changes to reviving for balance and hopefully a better game, not following logic or realism.

kitten didn’t notice the typo for my email o.0

logged in and played for a while today but got booted off and cannot get back in

i reset password a few hours ago and submitted a ticket but have not heard back from Anet. Anyone know if there is anything I should do?

Name: Necronornicon
Gender: Male
Race: Norn

From the book Necronomicon, adapted for a Norn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon

Seera, Let me apologize for not making it clear, what I intended to refer to was someone putting up five hundred bids for level 30 level leather pants (or things like low level weapons and equipment, not materials…). check the TP and see the low level items- put a bid of one up and within minutes you will most likely be over bid by one copper with someone asking for hundreds of that item… (if you’re familiar with the Turing test, here is a great opportunity to spot algorithms at work and see if it is human or bot- play around for one week and you will see…)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading

The TP without the 15% tax being necessary or preventing inflation is speculation on your part…the 15% tax is there to increase credit card purchases to the cash shop. (which I did not say is a bad thing~ the middleman gouging by players to the extant it has bcome…not condemning the player’s self interest, there’s just an easy fix).

The amount of 3rd party programs used to garnish gold from the Trading Post is deplorable.

One needs only to look at items that are level 40 and below and you will see numerous bids for hundreds on these low level items.

This is a barrier to new players who have recently purchased the game.

There is no reason, other than blatant profit, for someone to bid on 500+ level 30 items.

Fix it please, Anet. No need for anyone on the forums to bad mouth me for posting this. Anet can answer for themselves.

You should hire a full time economist and they will explain to you exactly why this is happening.

Gouging low level players and new players in this fashion is wring

kitten you and kitten your almighty 15% gold sink. When you have enough players playing your game you can reinstate it. Until then, stop driving new players off.

stronghold is a great improvement.

5vs5 is very boring

at least give us 20 vs 20

maybe even guild vs guild with more per team?

other than the awful spvp that is 5v5, great game Anet thanks! more maps would be great when you get the time!

missing one character slot.

When i purchased HoT Ultimate addition before the 23rd, I was told I would receive two character slots. I went ahead and purchased one additional character slot at the same time.

So far, I have received two character slots out of three. I did receive the 4,000 gems and have had fun so far with the new expansion but I would like to receive the one character slot that I should have.

thanks!

Vayne.8563:

Yep. As long as you apply the code before launch.

you get 2 character slots?

Vayne.8563:

Mahaedros.7085:

Vayne.8563:

People will still use spirit shards to upgrade siege and mats for WvW and PvE respectively, I don’t need to find quotes, you can google it. There’s plenty written about it. Frankly I’d upgrade siege to start. Look and see what it’s selling for on the TP.

why are they worth much more as spirit shards?

You need to read what the OP was complaining about. He was complaining he didn’t spend his skill point scrolls to unlock skills, which would have been worth nothing at all.

Do you disagree that spending them on upgrades, instead of saying unlocking all your skills last week is a downgrade?

You really do need to read the OP.

no man sorry for the misunderstanding i just wanted to know how the spirit shards are worth more than the previous skill points. Just for my own edification.

i guess i watched some videos about getting some hard(maybe a bit harder) weapons that you could get with recipes using skill points in the mystic forge. I wonder if spirit shards still work with those recipes? not sure

Vayne.8563:

People will still use spirit shards to upgrade siege and mats for WvW and PvE respectively, I don’t need to find quotes, you can google it. There’s plenty written about it. Frankly I’d upgrade siege to start. Look and see what it’s selling for on the TP.

why are they worth much more as spirit shards?

Basandra Skye.4031:

Mahaedros.7085:

Vayne.8563:

Gratz on not using them. They’re worth much more as spirit shards.

would you please elaborate on this and provide quotes? I am super interested in this topic.

Thanks in advance!

They’re not worth more or worth less now than they were before the update because it was a 1:1 conversion. Basically with the trait system, repeatable SP were no longer useful, and were changed into a currency dedicated to purchasing the items Miyami sells at the forge.

Vayne said they are worth much more now as spirit shards. I just would like to know.

thank you

Vayne.8563:

Gratz on not using them. They’re worth much more as spirit shards.

would you please elaborate on this and provide quotes? I am super interested in this topic.

Thanks in advance!

I prefer discovering things in my own way and figuring things out for myself preferable to the system that GW2 has recently implemented.

go steal shinies! shinies! shinies!

hope this helps:

Guide: Explorer Achievements and 100% Map
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Guide-Explorer-Achievements-and-100-Map/first#post3156632

Great time! Lots and lots and lots of times we came really close so this was really gratifying and worth all the attempts.

So many players in Attuned put in a lot of hard work and put in hours testing to see what would work, so thanks to all.

Really exciting when it gets down to a few seconds between getting the kill and having to wait two hours to try it again

give us a separate wallet for Living World stuff or will become a bad word.

putting either or both in the gem store is probably the most likely way it would happen lol

serious business here wow o___O

I agree with you.

I didn’t really want to make a thread about blobbing… just wanted to share an idea that I thought would be fun.

For all the current problems with large group content, right now, GW2 is doing a great job compared to other MMO’s. I enjoy WvW and have been looking for a game with something like this for years.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Yes!! This game absolutely needs more things to encourage blobbing!

you like when there is an objective for every player and people don’t cooperate and run off anywhere?

I don’t like Commanders having to repeat themselves over and over it is annoying to hear and must be frustrating for them.

When you play on your own or with a small group of like-minded friends do what ever it is you want. When you are in a large group situation, respect the group.

If you have suggestions, that would be nice to hear.

This actually is the what I would like to see most in this game:

one Map, one Castle- two guilds fighting over the castle
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/one-Map-one-Castle-two-guilds-fighting-over-the-castle/first#post1690934

I’m really unsure how it’s all going to work with account bound Wxp. My characters are all ranked up in various levels/ranks with not one of them significantly way out ahead of the others. I like to play whichever profession I feel like playing that day.

So I think account Wxp is going to be a great thing but I would like to prepare for it…

Should i play the highest ranked toons until this comes in ? or rank up the lowest?

I still have those WvW rank boosters saved and haven’t spent one of the yet…

adding new territory to explore in open world and more options for pvp and WvWvW (I’m hoping Edge of Mysts will be as good as it looks like it’s going to be).

I agree with what you said above about the skill system but I don’t know what would be the best way to implement this.. I hate how the builds are very limited to a few choices making the professions one trick ponies.

A year and a half into the game and they still talk about option shock while numerous players are screaming about the simplicity and lack of challenge and diversity.

I guess the players who screamed about lack of progression so that ascended gear was added are more important than the rest.

Commanders are always yelling “STACK” and “FOLLOW” and other common commands that a frustrating amount of people do not heed.

Introduce a Bugler pet or mini for the Commander(or give the Commander an actual Bugle to sound different commands…which i guess would require less work).

Players might get a minor buff or some minor reward if they heed the call of the bugle and follow orders.

Everyone would be happier if players who wanted to follow a Commander and be victorious without frustrated commanders having to yell repeatedly for basic instructions to be followed instead of ignored by some.

Gem store sales bump too O__O

p.s. I love the sound of the Marriner’s Horn ! fun stuff like this is more funner

edit 1/31/2014 post wurm

I should have changed the title because it would obviously need some tweaks by the team at A-net to become perfect :P but hopefully will spark some ideas for improvement over what we are getting now- which I like but could be even better.

Ronah.2869:

The bad design is to structure a game into servers and split the PvE community for the sake of WvW home server pride and then have them all guesting on one server to be able to do it, queuing for days. This is a contradiction they don’t even dare to explain

I assume you mean Anet.

You should make a thread expressing your concerns. Let this thread be one that celebrates the achievement of all who were involved and persevered despite the obstacles you mentioned.

Vayne, maybe this isn’t the game for you.

I feel bad for saying that and don’t really believe that but it is repeated so often on these forums by people who seek to dismiss every single person who has criticism for anything Anet does.

I think these forums are a great place to give feedback and hopefully Anet addresses your concerns.

I wish they would make this boss fight permanent. I’d like to see a few tweaks though that take into consideration the problems you’ve experienced.

Ronah.2869:

it is more appropriate to say NA servers win not only Blackgate
You cannot take the credit for everyone’s work as long as guesting is available

You don’t understand how much time and effort some key people put into getting this kill. Certainly everyone who was involved deserves credit. But you have to listen on TeamSpeak sometime for a few days to really get a handle on how much planning, training, testing, re-testing etc etc etc went on by Blackgate’s commanders and the key people who were on for hours and hours each day since the patch came out (oh man you could really hear how exhausted some people were when talking on TS- but still very focused on the goal).

Every single step of this encounter was planned by the people running the attempts on Blackgate (I imagine it must have been similar on Deso…it was great to see the information sharing going on). Strategies were tested until the best ones were proven after days and days of attempts. There was not one step in the process that wasn’t carefully considered and analyzed. If you think I’m exaggerating I don’t know what to say to you except put ten plus hours a day into getting the kill like some of these players did lol.

So yes everyone who guested deserves credit for the kill and there were definitely some guests who were key players and made a difference. But everyone who guested as well as the players from Blackgate know who deserves extra thanks and extra credit for the kill. The were devoted to getting the kill and they got it despite so many uncontrollable (often technical) obstacles.

oh and your claim that people were just there for achievements, many many people will get a good laugh from that

So congrats to Blackgate and guests and thanks to the people who spent so much time and effort teaching, training and testing to get this win.

ha! that would be cool

I think there are only so many options and combinations so this would not be a really difficult thing to implement and it would be a way for many people to get some immersion with their character and what she/he has gone through.

congratz!

i like the video, looked like fun

for some reason i appreciate fun mmo videos more than most people :P

I think Anet should have awards for people that make videos like this that are fun and show what they’ve achieved.

try this link on gw2 forums here:
Guide: Explorer Achievements and 100% Map
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Guide-Explorer-Achievements-and-100-Map/first#post3156632

it really helped me out

you can still harvest them in Kessix hills but the recipe vendor Dee is gone and the tricolor chest is gone

i wonder if we’ll get them in our home instance some day

the price is going up up up

it’s working as intended and I’m happy for you but sad that this game still has something which is so ridiculously broken (i.e., this game’s asinine RNG)

I would like to see the dignity/charm/ferocity personality traits expanded http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Personality

during character creation:
“The second question determines the character’s initial personality, which affects how NPCs react to the character (typically as differences among dialogue choices).’

what a wasted opportunity that could still be utilized if they tried.

what is going to happen after tomorrow with the Pristine Toxic Spore Samples?

will they still be available? I tried searching for answers but could not find anything.

And what about the recipes you can purchase in kessix hills?