Guild Wars 2

stale.9785:

People are welcome to chat about whatever imaginary friend they wish. Once they start proselytizing they’ve crossed a line. At that point, it’s report/block. Otherwise, they’re harmless, like any other nutter.

The few times I’ve run across them, I tend to interject Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! After all, one imaginary deity is as valid as any other.

I accept all imaginary dieties as valid except Kormir

CzarZ.3405:

Also, I think it’s probably a push by NCSoft to restrict people from converting gold to gems, especially if they farm gold on multiple accounts and want to send it to a central account. They’d rather put restrictions like this to force people to buy gems, then convert to gold (anyone else remember the 400gem minimum fiasco that happened earlier on? They didn’t learn their lesson).

It should be noted here that when people convert gold to gems, Anet are still making money from it, as the gems/gold are traded with other players and not with Anet, so that would reduce their profits.

caveman.5840:

wouldn’t a tengu be a charrs favorite snack ?

ooh, a war between the tengu and charr would be fun, where can I donate my spare equipment to the tengu

Forget tengu, just give us the centaurs from the Silverwastes to play as

Vayne.8563:

HtFde.3856:

Vayne.8563:

What you’re really saying is 10 achievement points isn’t worth switching characters for. Okay, that’s your choice.

That’s an over-simplification.

Me, I’m kinda torn between a love-hate relationship towards the new system but I can understand the problem the poster has whose post you quoted. If you only have a limited amount of playtime (say about an hour) and do mainly PvE you could – with the old system – play/level a low level character and you could complete the dailies with that char. You had to get out of your way a few times to complete them (rezzing people, killing white creatures, etc.) but most dailies could be achieved while just playing the game where and how you wanted (and what with).

The new system requires you to use specific chars to complete the dailies (as the tasks you get might be on a map not yet discovered by your low level alt or the map in question might be with too high a level requirement). So you spend some time playing with a char you didn’t intend to play … even on a good day this can take 20 minutes to half an hour if you’re not using the WvW or PvP dailies to “speed things up”.

After that you can switch to your alt and do what you intended to do in the first place but you’ll be playing that char less 30 – 40 minutes instead of an hour and you’ll lose XP because the XP scrolls from the dailies do not compensate for XP lost while actually doing the dailies.

So, it’s not as simple as having to switch characters to get 10 achievement points – you lose a bit more with the new dailies – time for playing the game as you want. And if this often repeated wording strikes you as strange … those were the words ANet used in marketing their game. Seems they’ve changed direction …

I mainly do PvE..but I will do WvW or SPvP for a couple of quick achievement points. It’s called adapting. All games require you to adapt.

That said, I don’t say this system is ideal. There are issues with it. But generally speaking it takes me less than 10 minutes to get my achievements pretty much every single day. That’s ten minutes way from my game time after which I can do anything I want.

That’s an achievement point a minute.

No, 10 achievement points isnt worth switching characters for, as I stated earlier, I’ve never used dailies for achievement points, it’s always been the main way to increase lower level players.
If you want to comment and quote me, you should at least make sure to actually read and understand what I’m saying

PookieDaWombat.6209:

After some time:

On other days I honestly feel like I’m being forced to do things I’d rather not do just to get the daily.

This is exactly the point I was trying to make previously – this is no longer my story

Vayne.8563:

Nyama.6931:

The major problem I’ve found with these new dailies is the events part – got to <map> and complete 4 events – with the megaservers, this means you have max players on the map looking for events, and as soon as they start, they’re over in a few seconds, so just doing this can take a long time, especially on unexplored maps, and sometimes just impossible – my level 30 ranger was told to go do events in Frostgorge Sound

Your level 30 ranger wasn’t told to do events in Frostgorge Sound. That’s now how dailies work. Your account was told to do stuff in Frostgorge.

If 30 was the highest level character you had, then you wouldn’t get that daily but since dailies are account bound, it’s your account that’s given a daily, not your character. All achievements are account bound.

That’s the point, my level 30 ranger is the only character I have that hasn’t done everything there is to do, and this is the one I now have to level up in order to complete the story, forcing me to change to another character to do the dailies makes it completely counter productive. Anet’s main point about Guild Wars 2 was ‘We wont tell you how to play it your way’ seems to of been completely abandoned now.

Also, a friend of mine who has only 1 character on the account was given a daily to do events in Frostgorge Sound at level 50, so these dailies are given to people who are not at the level requirements

The major problem I’ve found with these new dailies is the events part – got to <map> and complete 4 events – with the megaservers, this means you have max players on the map looking for events, and as soon as they start, they’re over in a few seconds, so just doing this can take a long time, especially on unexplored maps, and sometimes just impossible – my level 30 ranger was told to go do events in Frostgorge Sound

So far what I’ve looked at I’ve liked except for the town clothes. I was able to buy the parts I liked and mix them to suit my own individual style. Now I find that these are tonics and look ridiculous, except for the ones that are not tonics. but now they’re full costumes. e.g. previously, I would wear my leather hoodie with my original town skirt around town, or if I was up in the mountains or during Wintersday, I would wear my winter coat with my original town skirt. The town clothing system was not broken until this update, it needs to be put back to the way it was, oh, and also I need more skirts please

you can’t trade with trial members and therefore, any gold found on a trial account is stuck on said trail account