Guild Wars 2

I consider myself a casual player. This is the first MMO I ever played, and honestly it is the only video game I play (my husband got me into it). I definitely don’t have a problem with them making hard content, and I agree with many “serious” players that it is important to have content for everyone. What I hate as a casual player though is the mentality that comes along with the speed of release for new content. I take the time to play every day, but some days I don’t have time to do more than get my dailies. Because the new content is released so often and goes away quickly, I think people get an aggressive mentality that you need to fall in line with their play style or get out.

That said, this isn’t a new problem. I don’t participate in dungeons because I have had several players get mean when I didn’t know what was going on without bothering to explain what I should do. I am great at listening to experienced players, and many casual players would welcome instruction that is given nicely. The problem is that some players get very angry and many won’t even bother to help casual players. That is why I don’t like having all of this very hard content in PvE. PvE is where casual players are, and it is frustrating when people are angry with you all the time just because you didn’t spend hours learning content that won’t even be around very long and they won’t give a simple instruction that would empower you to participate.

For Tequatl, just a simple, “Stack over there, and please let someone experienced man the turrets” would make me happy.

How hard is it to issue an apology?

I agree that quitting the game altogether seems extreme, but it is so frustrating. I have stopped playing my main over the last week because it bothers me when I see her old MF set sitting in my inventory. I keep (stupidly) hoping ANet will apologize properly, which would really be all I need at this point; if they admit their mistake and issue a sincere apology, I will at least feel like they heard our concerns and care about them. I also have spent many hours playing the same, and I love it too much to quit, but I will be thinking twice before buying gems in the future.

While I appreciate people offering ideas of what to do with this gear if it remains soulbound, I still am hoping they will make it account-bound. I think people are really focusing on those who bought gear anticipating the change and feel cheated rather than those who had a second (or third, fourth) set and now are stuck with a set they don’t need and don’t want to salvage. Salvaging is not really a comfort to me considering I used 30 ectos, 30 vicious claws, and a lot of hardened leather squares and gossamer to craft my exotic magic find set, ad I am going to get almost none of that back. I am not a farmer, so this took me a lot of play time and a lot of laurels (buying T6 crafting materials). Luckily, I don’t have ascended items, but those players are being insulted, too.

I think this deserves a fix, but if that is not possible, I would at least appreciate the courtesy of ArenaNet apologizing and explaining their side of the story. I am a loyal customer; I have spent quite a bit of real money at the gem store, so I am not someone who only paid the initial fee which some posters feel strips away my right to complain (a whole other issue I don’t want to go into here). I also have convinced 3 people to purchase the game and even purchased it for my brother-in-law myself. I would love a more detailed, more appropriate response from ArenaNet regarding this issue.

I think we should try to keep this thread focused on the issue if at all possible. Not everyone is being rude or threatening to quit the game, and I personally think it is really understandable to be upset when you were told one thing would happen, it doesn’t, and your legitimate complaint is met with a frosty customer service response.

I would really love it if ArenaNet could actually make those second armot sets account-bound as they claimed they would. I don’t really care for a refund, because I crafted mine and how would they determine the prices of all the ectos and T6 crafting materials that went into it? Would they use old TP prices? New ones? Some laurels? To me, the right thing to do would be to just make those sets account-bound. Until I hear something else, I am just going to sit on them in my inventory and hope they can be repurposed for an alt as was promised.

If anyone is curious, an Anet employee actually responded to this issue in this forum thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/MF-items-NOT-account-bound-but-soulbound/first#post2764227

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/MF-items-NOT-account-bound-but-soulbound/first#post2764227

This forum post addresses the problem of current soul-bound MF items not becoming account bound.

I also thought that all my magic find gear would become account-bound. I really thought that that was the solution to appease those of us who used alot of T6 crafting materials and/or spent a lot of money to buy an exotic magic find set to wear. Now I have 2 exotic armor sets for the same character when I already had the one with the stats I wanted.

I love Guild Wars, and I think it is great that the developers are always trying to improve the game. In general, I really appreciate the changes in this patch. However, I agree with some others that the language used to hype this patch made it sound like we could use that magic find gear for a different character with new stats. I would love to see a different resolution to this issue if it is at all possible.

But if gear is already soul-bound (say you crafted a second exotic set), should it become account bound so you can at least use it on a different character and not now be stuck with a second useless set?

I don’t know if I am the only one who thought this, but I was under the impression that ALL exotic armor with magic find stats would become account bound. I had crafted an exotic explorer’s armor set for my level 80 ranger to use when doing event chains, group events, etc. Most of the time I wore my temple exotic set, though, and would never have wanted 2 exotic sets if it weren’t for the increased magic find I got with my second set. Looking back through all the notes, they never specifically said that soulbound sets would become account bound, but I assumed it would and that I could use that set on another medium armor character once I leveled it up to 80. Now I just feel upset and ripped off; I wasted a ton of T6 crafting materials making that exotic set that feels worthless to me now. Does anyone know if there is any chance this could be changed so players don’t feel that they wasted a lot of crafting materials making second armor sets they don’t need anymore?

This is extremely frustrating. The first event happens during working hours, so I miss it, then I plan my weekend around this event only to have it not happen. It is 3:41, and there is no sign of it kicking off. I have plans at 4, so I guess I will miss this one, too. Thanks for nothing, ArenaNet.

P.S. The trebuchet workers are taking their 4th beer break. What a joke. Maybe I will start playing WoW.

Redora.3504,

It is bugged for everyone. I play a ranger, and it doesn’t work for me, either. So frustrating! I have started 2 new characters, but my ranger is my favorite, and she is the one whose story I most enjoy. I started out patient with this (my fiance is a software developer, so I am familiar with fixed bugs getting caught in QA), but almost a month later I am pretty disillusioned and frustrated.