Guild Wars 2

My friend was pretty active a few months ago, he bought both the Rox’s bow and quiver. He never picked them up from his mail which means they got deleted. I was wondering if there’s a way for you guys to restore those items to his account. He has filed 2 support tickets with no response. I’m not sure if I can post stuff like his account ID on here but if I got a private message it would be much appreciated.

Is it only bugged on my server? (Northern Shiverpeaks). The Arah dungeon is uncontested completely but the gates that lead to the dungeon remain closed. It’s hard enough to find a group willing to do this as it is, but even if I manage to get one together we can’t even get in. Would like to hear some feedback from people who are actually trying to do Arah.

Botting will never go away permanently. There has been a huge reduction in bots. I am really happy running around seeing real people again. Very refreshing.

Fine, throw RNG into it. But make a different way to obtain the item as well. Even if it is harder than grinding dungeons hoping to the RNG gods that your morning sacrifice worked. That way you please both sides. The people who need that static goal, plus the people who are really into RNG. That’s the only way I can see this working.

How would any reward that is commonly given out, while not exactly what you want, but still valuable, be worth trying to obtain? I just don’t see how anything becomes valuable without being either a frustratingly low drop rate, or a really long process of collecting materials/quest. The really low drop rate is what makes the item desirable. You want people to know that you were that guy who got that skin. If it is commonly found through a high RNG chance the skin becomes less desirable and defeats the whole point of the post. This is all my opinion of course.

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Mutou.1407:

I would try to stay away from RNG in general for this game. For one, I don’t like it; and two, it only seems to bring problems. Example the 3 biggest factors of RNG in GW2: Clovers, Precursors, and the event BLC skins. All of these have been complained about to death, why? RNG. There are a few people who love the carrot on the stick RNG stuff but it’s already in-game. Legendaries. What? You don’t like the skin or it’s too tough? Then sell the lenendaries and be set for life. As for the difficulty, that’s pretty much all RNG is adding is a useless time sink.

All the negative things you’ve listed are problems with the scarcity of random drops and a poor drop rate. Part of the problem with the BLC skins in particular was that they were tied to real money AND had a crazy low drop rate on top of it. A lot of people wasted their money on BLC keys thinking that if they spent some reasonable amount of cash, they’d have a reasonable shot at the skins, but that clearly wasn’t the case.

Very few people would be complaining about RNG with a reasonable drop rate.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that legendary precursors should just have their drop rates increased. I’m all for having some items being really rare and having a low drop rate. But it is a problem when the only items tied to a RNG system in this game worth anything are both very scarce in number, and have such low drop rates that most people don’t really have a decent shot at finding anything to get excited about.

If you’ve never had experience with games that had rewarding RNG systems, like Guildwars, and you’ve only experienced terribly unrewarding things like the current GW2 RNG system or Diablo 3 when it was released, or even WoW’s random drops, then it’s understandable that you would mistake RNG for some evil system that doesn’t reward anyone. But that is not the case. The fact that games use bad RNG systems doesn’t mean RNG as a system bad, any more than the fact that there are bad games means all games bad.

RNG only brings problems with a poorly tuned drop rate. RNG IS as rewarding as any other system if it is done correctly, as it was in the original Guildwars. It can be tuned so that on average, it is exactly as rewarding as any token system in fact; this is indisputable. It is not any more of a timesink than a token system. And in terms of fun that will usually be more rewarding for plenty of us because of the constant excitement rather than the guaranteed useless number of runs.

I think I understand what you are trying to say. You want more RNG drops with a decent drop rate so you can make cash right? Well 2 problems that I can see, both very probable. 1, If the drop rate is high, everyone is going to farm it themselves and not pay you. Counterproductive. 2, Again if you want the drop chance to be decent then they are going to be worth crap. The rare stuff is expensive, doesn’t matter what it is. Then lower the drop rate? You might counter. Well then we get back to the fact that a lot of people hate RNG drops with a really crappy rate. There isn’t a big middle ground. Either it can be gotten solo, usually. Or is worth a stupid amount of gold because it is so kitten frustratingly rare.

I would try to stay away from RNG in general for this game. For one, I don’t like it; and two, it only seems to bring problems. Example the 3 biggest factors of RNG in GW2: Clovers, Precursors, and the event BLC skins. All of these have been complained about to death, why? RNG. There are a few people who love the carrot on the stick RNG stuff but it’s already in-game. Legendaries. What? You don’t like the skin or it’s too tough? Then sell the lenendaries and be set for life. As for the difficulty, that’s pretty much all RNG is adding is a useless time sink.

2 days? Seriously give them some time. They just hired a new bot hunting team too.

Even though I thought the one time event was going to be more than just a cutscene, it was an awesome one. I also don’t feel about blowing off football for that custscene.

Not just pistols, but maces, hammers, and axes as well. Which is disappointing since I run around with a hammer and axe/mace combo. :P

1. Will you or will you not be buying black lion trading company or random number generation materials again?

No

2. Did you buy them in the past?

Yes

3. If you would not buy trading post material/gamble, would you support direct to buy weapon skins and what general price do you find acceptable from a business standpoint both as a customer and realizing that they must make money as a business?

Yes

4. Do you believe that future events will also be handled with random number generation to make profit based on limited time item acquisition?

Yes

5. If you believe that the future events will be handled in the same manner, does this realization negatively effect your trust of Arena Net in regard to handling micro transactions for permanent content?

No

6. Did you obtain a skin or whatever it is you were looking to get from the black lion trading chests? From the Mad King Chests?

I did get a skin, no the one I wanted. No skins from the Mad King Chest.

7. Have you bought any of the direct purchase, set priced halloween items. If so, will you be buying more?

Yes