Guild Wars 2

Lop-sided fights.
Cheap ‘tactics’ like having a spy on enemy servers and sabotaging them by wasting supply or other such things.
Crap-tastic attitudes by both enemies and allies alike when things don’t go their way.
Hackers and cheaters ruining the whole experience…

On top of, like you said, doing the same thing over and over again.

Don’t get me wrong. For large scale battles, WvW is the best thing out there (my personal opinion, of course…) but, even the best of things can get old after a while.

Hopefully, the new maps with new mechanics and all that which are coming soon will help alleviate some of that and breath some fresh air into WvW.

This isn’t a bug, it’s the next living story update . Random guards are mutinying against the servers. Next update there will be NPC zergs going around the map taking towers and keeps and all the servers will be force to form a truce to stop them. The final boss will probably be a legendary defender.

SAB, along with the Crown Pavilion, should be a permanent feature IMO.

I would prefer a cap on the number of currencies.

The closer to “one” the better.

Take no heed of the grumps! It’s such a grand feeling to get that last thing needed for your gold star. I’ve only done it twice, and swore Never Again. If WvW does get removed I might unswear.

Congratulations, it’s not an easy achievement.

This happened to me too. I logged in this afternoon (with all the Halloween content) just fine, but when I tried to log-in again tonight, my password didn’t work anymore. Rather than use the ‘recover account’ option, I just used the ‘forgot password’ option and could log-in again.

Same thing happened to me once before after a patch.

Stop buying gold and other services and you won’t get hacked.

Want to play safe? Play legit.

You didn’t happen to have your Account Vault open at the same time, did you?

Zylonite.5913:

It could be just me but I am again enjoying the game as when I started GW2, rather than logging in everyday to get the Living story achievement and complete the grind; then log off and go vomit….Somehow the game is enjoyable again…

You were never forced to participate in the Living Story, you could have easily made the choice to ignore a patch, as I have a number of times. If anything you are just excited over the Feature Pack because they are making a lot of really good mechanic adjustments, which is something the Living Story was not very heavy with.

Probably the thing I dislike the most is the loot system…never really anything GOOD or useful, the most you can hope for are a few crafting materials that you need 1000 of to do anything useful, or something you can salvage to MAKE those crafting materials.

Anet has never really changed their holidays up

CMF.5461:

interesting, was able to recreate it too and I get the added bonus of being stuck in a whirling wrath animation while I walk around…. :p Good catch!

on a side note, oh thank god a dev looked at the guardian forums!

ah nice! the infi-spin bug returns… now my preferred method of travel around lions arch until it gets fixed

Asura were a mistake, so were Charr, and for that matter so were the salads.

Given my concern for screen clutter, and since the display of my titles is not optionally viewable by others, I choose to never to display a title. It seems like the responsible thing to do.

30 kale leaves isn’t very much, it wilts down to like 1/16th its size, and with regards to the garlic, its clear you never dated an Italian.

The people who can truly afford it will brush of the price as insignificant, while people who just play the game in a natural manner, with out seeking out opportunities to farm gold at the highest rate possible will find this fun piece of content far too expensive to justify.

I think that the problem with this game when ever situations like this pop up. The developers continue to provide specific rewards for those who get wealthy by subverting the core game design, looking for “near-exploits” that provide opportunities for higher than intended wealth generation, while the rest of the players start to feel more and more disillusioned.

It becomes a sad cycle. Developers reward those who find ways to generate higher than intended wealth, which ensures they will continue to do so, rather than getting bored with their subversion of the game. More money than intended flows into the economy due to the top wealth “generators/exploiters”, so the developers further tighten the earning rate of people who just play the game naturally. The snow ball of resentment and frustration grows and some people do leave the game over it.

I’ve logged around 1600 hours between accounts. I have never bought anything extravagant and I’m frugal with all my spending. You’d think after that much play time I’d maybe be able to look at 15 gold for a guild emblem on the kite as an affordable extravagance. Though I have the coin, it would cost me far too high a portion of the money I’ve accumulated playing in the PvE game world over the past ten months to ever be “worth it”.

This is where the game economy fails and why so many people see things like this as a slap in the face.The ability to accumulate wealth by “just playing the game”, with out a focus of just doing content that produces much higher than average return is extremely tightly controlled, but then pricing of many items is tuned for the top x% who have made finding ways to earn much higher than intended rates of return their focus. If someone who has logged the hours I have finds the pricing ridiculous, I can imagine it’s exponentially more so for casual gamers who play the game.

I guess it keeps those at the extreme end of the wealth bell curve more engaged, but at what cost when it comes to the rest of the game population?

i regret voting all my support tokens.

250 tokens is abount 2.5 gold.

Hadn’t thought about it this way, but I realize my rule of thumb is that if I cannot answer a random stranger’s question in one short line, I don’t respond. Chances are the person might not have the patience for a long explanation, or that I will screw up a long explanation by making assumptions about what they know, or that my growing up in an age before texting means that my typing-while-playing skills will make my response time for a long answer glacial.

Anyway, OP, I hope venting your frustration worked.

Well, everyone who bought at least one rich coffer before today’s update will receive a recipe in a couple of days time. Hopefully they are tradeable, and that there are LOTS of them.

I would be willing to bet they will still be really expensive to make.

For me, overall, it was a great patch. Of my 8 level 80s:

My necro got a huge buff and access to burning.

My elementalist got buffed. And there are some promising new traits.

My thief is better. I can actually use a signet as a stun break now!

My guardian is unchanged.

My engineer is unchanged. But there are some tempting new traits.

My mesmer is different; not being forced to spend 5 points opens up other build options.

My ranger’s shortbow range is reduced, but I tend to dart around anyway so I hardly notice it. That said, I do carry a longbow now if I need longer range.

My warrior got completely resetted.

They didn’t update the boon notification tooltip. It gives the correct amount.