Guild Wars 2

Non of this would have ever happened if “we” as a community spent more money on gems.The game is almost 4 years old and a large portion of the player base knows how to farm gold with ease in no time.Anet wants more ROI for their weapon skins and judging by the prices of them for the past 18 months, i’d say they were constantly losing value. From both a consumer and producer standpoint.

It’s not just our fault though. Taking the easy route to produce and sell skins compounded by the fact that they are initially acquired via gambling boxes can only get the interest of a small group of players. Personally, I have yet to spend cash on a skin that I know is easily obtained resulting in me looking like a clone.To me, anything that comes from the gambling boxes have no good value when it comes to hard earned cash. Anet feels the same way I believe because you don’t see outfits,armor skins or back items inside RNGesus boxes.

Without going into details I know for a fact that long-term this is better for the economy.

How about merch that gives digital codes for ingame pets, achievements and armor sets. Not outfits.Armor sets or even pieces.

I hate jumping puzzles. That is all.

Buying 800 gems is 226 gold atm 0__O…

Redenaz.8631:

Onisuo.8607:

If they want to let people afk farm or grind or whatever, fine. But imagine how I am going to feel when here in about three maybe four months when those eight to twelve afkers turn into fourty or even a hundred.

Pets, etc., have been around since the start of the game. Why do you think the game is going to be overrun with them in the next few months, and what do you think has prevented that from happening over the past few years?

Serious question. AFK farmers are irritating, but it’s not like it’s a new problem, so I assume diminishing rewards, disconnects, etc. manage to keep it in check.

The autoloot mastery is what is making this possible without some form of macroing.

If they want to let people afk farm or grind or whatever, fine. But imagine how I am going to feel when here in about three maybe four months when those eight to twelve afkers turn into fourty or even a hundred.

I know it’s their game and their policy, but it’s my experience.Experience they want to sell to me. I don’t know how they can continue to sell me anything in a world soon to be filled afkers autocasting heal with AI killing things for them.

Just thought I let you know that wandering around different maps and seeing the same player in the same spot doing the same action for more that two weeks makes the game feel cheap. That is something I frequently see in the other games from countries outside the US.

I can not find it anywhere on the web but when and why did Sigil of Air change to not crit anymore?Along with Sigil of fire.

Has anyone on the team acknowledged this bug yet? I ask because we have since received four patches and non of them have resolved the issue.Also I can confirm the free camera is set to default and unchangeable once spvp maps have been loaded.

Team colors are on by default and can not be turned off via the in-game options. Occurs when joining spvp and carry over to WvW/EoTM.Restarting the client will fix it for WvW/EoTM but as soon as you join spvp it’s “red vs blue”.

insanemaniac.2456:

Onisuo.8607:

Pvp participation is at an all time low,

back up your statement with hard numbers or dont say it

Just my observation as a frequent Spvper since December 2012.Don’t have to take my word for it, everything you read on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt.

Does not matter what comes next after this patch. Either way Elementalist will go back to being burst fodder with their measly 11-13k health pools with no sustainability and extremely long defensive cool downs.

Without bunker meta or better core defenses for all classes you are basically going to be playing Call of Duty. First jumper gets the kill. Time to kill will be a global or two and class/builds that can do the most burst will be top of the food-chain.

Pvp participation is at an all time low, and any new player wanting to give structured pvp a run may not like getting insta-gib over and over again, finishing a map with no kills, no fun and a bag with a market value of 1.5 silver.

I very much enjoy the ESL Proleague games but I don’t know why between ESL and Arenanet with those resources, the streaming quality,both visual and audio, are very very poor.

Last week the audio was too low and the stream had hiccups throughout the stream. The machine hosting the stream early on seemed it could not handle the near 5000 bitrate, so after the 1st bracket the bitrate went down to about 3500.Heavy pixelation and grainy video irritates me and as for the audio, the shout casters are great but the audio is really low and the map intros are sky high in volume.

After watching these pvp streams since late last year, I think we need to improve the quality, with the Proleague and all.

Just wanted to leave some feedback.

Confirmed this happened right after today’s patch.

Doc has been carrying this game on his back for almost a year and I dare support any other streamer who rides hype trains esp for a game they went on record to say they didn’t like and got a full refund for back at launch.

With all the anti-stealth things being added to the game and the nerfs to stealth in general doesn’t work for my play style.But if it’s for “the good of the game” then so be it.I’m sure I’ll find another way to spend my spare time somewhere else.

What satisfaction do you get from showing off pixels in a video game? And nothing in the game is unobtainable,we could all be clones if we wanted to.

Same for US on any server.

Not paying $49.99 to “expand” a game I payed $25 for. Not with all the other valuable options out there.

Ranger has only one pet slot. Ranger without pet is 60%?* of the class.

Cush.4063:

I haven’t read the the whole thread so I hope I’m not repeating this but these people make it easier for YOU to get those skins from the trading post. If they weren’t doing this those skins would be worth thousands of gold because the cost to get a full ticket by buying black lion keys outweighs the cost of just buying gold from gems by thousands. You should be thankful to say the least.

I like your point of view but what happens when/if the tradeable items from the chests become so low in value that they become just commodities?

I’ve seen maybe 34369685 posts requesting they bring it back but I don’t see whats so special about it. I wore it for maybe a week or two then put it in the bank. Not enough freedom to dye it imo.

As one poster mentioned the general populous of this game is bad. Majority of the players stand in stuff, don’t dodge don’t try to survive downed state, bad gear choices , bad build, bad computers, bad internet, three button mice, no field awareness and so on.

I have to stand next to these players in lieu of those who want to win, who want difficult content and not expect reward.

The day we took back LA back patch I became a bad players myself because I resurrected the same player 9 times(yes 9) because they could not dodge or heal themselves.

I do agree with the OP here but there are so many reasons why the LA LS became afkworld. The main issue was you had to spend so many hours in there to complete the meta and to obtain 250 heirlooms. The day it launched I ran LA at least 13 times and maybe 6 times the day after. The third day I didn’t go in there at all because it was the same thing.

The event wasn’t dynamic in a sense that perhaps each day the content would be slightly different. Also didn’t help that the whole thing only had 15 minutes of downtime. After taking a day off I went back at it but it no longer for fun but to work. Work to get the rest of the 250 heirlooms and achievements. It was no surprise that it became afkworld the second week because everyone was burnt out. So it just became a matter of show up and collect.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

OP, what’s your take on Champ Trains?

I really don’t have an issue with the champ train because overall it adds more to the game than it takes from it. The earnings are so low that it comes down to luck of the draw anyway. The BLK however is like a shortcut. Imagine if you had a chance to get those 800 gem skins in a chest.

Farming gold via dungeons or champs suffers from diminishing returns and the factor of conversion rates(gold>gem). Aquiring keys that do not suffer from value loss(keys are the same price of gems everyday with the exception of sales) certainly will impact the economy somehow. Especially since the motivation behind this is chance of a token worth upwards of a few hundred gold depending on how you invest.

Yet if Anet does not have a problem with it then there is nothing to talk about here.

Burnham.2613:

How is it a “new” low when people have been doing it pretty much since release?

Maybe fewer players were doing it in the past but as of recent, there’s droves of players doing such. Guildmates and friends are all in a craze but I did not know Anet gave the “pass” for this cheesy activity. It’s not a complaint though it just reminds me of one of the cons of free to play games. Supporters carry the load while moochers come up with new ways to eat for free.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

This was discussed plenty of time and ANet doesn’t have an issue with farming BLK, so your try to deminish that farm won’t work.

Darn. I guess I better try harder then. I must stop all in-game farming.

Does not affect me at all(maybe I should have mentioned that in my post) but I would imagine it affects Anet’s bottom line. If more players use this method I’m sure some adjustments will be made. If not, somewhere down the line it will affect me because Anet will make less money. That’s not something I want to happen.

So yeah, this is not a complaint or anything but this community has reached a new low by making low level characters and speed running the first personal story to completion to get black lion keys. Delete character and rinse repeat.

Either these players are extremely bored or they are so poor that they can’t spend a few bucks to buy the gems from the cash shop.

Last thing we need is more 4/1 ratio conversion. How about actually using the boosters as a crafting component if you are already maxed.

Only to realize that being built for condition damage I would be ineffective against the Champion for the hourly event.

An MMORPG without the grind is a single player game. You know, the ones you play once through and forget about.

Having a blast in LA. No other MMO has created such chaos in an isolated environment and make it enjoyable for the masses. I found myself playing way longer than I usually play(which is a lot) meeting new players, chatting it up and kickin’ some kitten.

They still need to fix a ton of bugs and maybe redo that Zodiac armor, but overall this is a solid patch.

I have ten characters and all have some sort of “theme” to their appearance and that back piece does not complement any of them.

I like the light armor BUT, the blue in it needs to go. I much prefer I have the freedom to add colors to armor myself.

Tell the art team to do something with the blue.

How does this affect your gameplay?

The people who waited in ques or begged guildmates to party/raid with for hours because they only wanted to play the damage role flocked to GW2 and are praising it for the lack of trinity.

I love trinity and I always will because its the core of roleplaying games, where people select a role and face challenges, not ping-pong dps omg zerker some dumb npc with one-shot abilities.

Only players who care about the stuff are the ones playing guardians and warriors. Take a look at the crafting stations and see there may be 5 players crafting tailor, 2/3 crafting leatherwork an a good 10 crafting armorsmith.

I’m scepter/dagger and arcane wave was in my loadout for almost a year but the ground targeting for it no longer works me so I replaced it with a signet.

Not a great loss because it doesn’t hit very hard but it brought that added burst needed while doing solo content.

I would have attempted maybe if I wasn’t told I had to do dungeons to complete the story. And it’s not that I don’t like dungeons, I just don’t like doing them without the roles of healer tank in place and refuse to dodge<→die<→resurrect to the end of the run.

I thought they made it clear(Anet), they could give a rat’s rear end how charr and all other non-human races look in armor. I complained for months about Norn having over-sized weapons and weapons clipping in the arms during idle animations.

Then they put up a big sticky saying there’s not much they “can” do about clipping.

You heal people when they get downed. Does healing+ affect how quickly you heal downed players is what I would like to know.

Hide weapons out of combat.
Solo dungeons.
Dungeon tokens.
Non level adjusting zones.
Personal damage meter.

The game300+ players in the same area with lots of detail and spells flashing. Lower your settings or spend money on more horsepower.

There’s tons of games sitting on developer’s shelves right now because the average joe doesn’t want to invest into a gaming machine and is content with gaming on laptops and walmart web surfers. is fine. Of course you are going to get lag when your machine has to process

Can we get a feature in the near future to toggle hide weapons out of combat. My OCD issues are forcing me to play only one race because of the weapons clipping and glitching on Norn and Charr.