Guild Wars 2

I am trying to craft the precursor, The Hunter. I made the 250 Basic Mithril Rifles, which the Huntsman NPC accepted. I then made the various rifle barrels as required, which the NPC accepted.
I next tried improving my rifle stock making, but the NPC said make various SMALL HAFTS in various quantities. This threw me, so i checked and rechecked the NPC’s request, and yes, sure enough my eyes were’nt decieving me. I spammed mapchat in LA to see if anyone else was making The Hunter, but being late at night nobody answered. I checked the web to see if someone else had noticed this, nothing.
So I followed the NPCs instructions and made the Small Hafts, now he is not accepting them.
I think the Huntsman NPC’s instructions are wrong, if anything, to improve my Rifle Stock crafting, it should read RIFLE STOCKS, not small hafts.
Has anyone else encountered this error ?
And yes, i did put in a support ticket, along with a screenshot of the NPC quest window and inventory open, showing i had the requested items.

Guild Wars may have started as a few disillusioned WoW devs attempting to create an alternative, but it is not any more. Nowadays it’s BIG business and as such it’s objective is to make the most money possible for the owners, at the smallest cost possible.

Originally GW2 cost me AU$68, 778 days ago. With Aussie to USA conversion, it will cost me approximately the same for the Heart of Thorns expansion (for the base version). But I cannot see it as being of value. After all, it’s only 3 maps and 3 raid dungeons.

I’m already bored with the game, I have 8 toons, one of each class. Each has full set of ascended armour/weapons/trinkets. Each has Copper-salvo, enless gather pick/sickle/ax. I bought all the bank slots, maxed material collection to the 1500 limit, even bought 9th slot for Revenant (before they announced free slot). Yet there are a lot of people I have chatted with that haven’t spent any money in-game since starting before I did.

I played WoW form Vanilla to Cataclysm and finally gave up when Blizzard allowed power leveling of newbies. That put me in high level dungeons with new players who didn’t know what taunting was, how to kite a lethal mob or even interrupt a mob. I have noticed the same things creeping into GW2 over the last 4 odd months or so. Time for a change.

I have noticed during my playing of GW2 that this happens a lot, peeps starting then taking a 1-2year absence, while playing other games.

It appears as tho expansion release time is the crunch point for any MMO, and given the underlying dissatisfaction being voiced by veteran players, I think GW2’s player base will suffer.

On a brighter note, I’m following a couple of Open Source MMO’s that are coming along nicely. That’s where the future lies, where anyone can create content and put it out there.

When I first looked into GW2 (almost 2 years ago), in particular if there were Australian based servers, I came across an interesting quote from a Dev. They said the purchase price of the game ($60 for me) was only sufficient to cover the cost of 3 years of Server/Bandwidth for an individual acct to play the game.
The only other income that ANet would be getting is from direct cash-for-gem sales.

Now I have bought 3 extra slots (so I could have a toon of each class, ie 8.) I also bought the Mats tab extension to 1500 stack size. I bought the bank expansion to 10 tabs. To kit out all 8 toons, i bought: 8 Picks, 8 Sickles, 8 Axes and 8 Copper-fed-salvomatics. I also bought 1 extra bag slot on my main. These are all that I refer to as Functional Purchases.I have bought 2 skin sets tho (Flamekissed and Krytan Bone)and a few BLKeys, and maybe a BLSalvKit.

Getting to the point, I believe my particular RND is inversely proportional to the amount of gems I have bought with real dollars. That is the more Gems I have bought, the lower my RNG is. I am the type of person ANet wants playing their game, ie someone who gives them money. Iv’e had a couple of discussions in Guild and Mapchat about this, and from peoples answers, most people who have a precursor drop/s, are those who have never spent a dollar on the game, other than the initial purchase. I have never had a pre drop, and I refuse to buy one off the TP. With the gold I have saved NOT buying a pre, I have 6 out of 8 toons fully ascended geared (excluding U/Water weapons, only applicable to a fractal and a HotW).
To my way of thinking, legendarys are only good for stat swapping ability, and in reality once you have a build that works for you, you don’t swap stats anyway. Ascended has the same level stats as it is. Maybe you noticed the price rise of pre’s/legendarys when their skins became account wide, that to me means people value the skin way higher than the stat swapping ability.

Regarding Beta, places should be awarded on position in the world (ping variation) and the machine played on (hardware variation), not based on whether you subscribe to a newsletter or play more than someone else. A beta should be formulated on testing, not pandering to your subscribing or spending habits, else it’s just marketing, which is what I suspect is what we have here.

Enough ranting, back to Lost Bandit Chest train for me, accruing mats for ascended gear for Revenant, when it comes out (and new Ascended weapons for new class weapons).

P.S. I hope HoT doesn’t break existing builds, sooo much time invested in gearing up existing toons, else that yet to be installed copy of Wildstar is gunna get a caning