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I finally reached the point in gw2 that I wanted to seriously work on my legendary.
Here and there I would toss shortbows into the forge for shiggles, very rarely getting an exotic back. One day a guildie suggested I save up 100 gold and drop it all on bows for the forge in one sitting to, hopefully, better my chances. So I did. While I got several exotics back..still no precursor. At this point though, I’m roughly 600 bows down the toilet, almost 200 gold deep and no precursor.
“Just save the gold and buy it off the tp” is what I hear constantly as a solution to my rng problem.
Why should I spend hours and hours to farm up 600 gold to give to someone who just got luckier than me and got the precursor in their first attempt, maybe their 10th, hell..even their 75th. I never agreed with the fact that precursors & legendaries could be bought off the tp, therefore – I refuse to farm the gold to buy it.
I realize anet doesnt want the legendary to be skill based, but yet..how much patience and farm time you can put in…but seriously – it’s getting old with no end in sight.
So here’s my idea..For every combine in the forge you get a weapon specific token. You put in a gs combine and do not obtain a precursor, you get a gs token. You put in a longbow combine and do not get a precursor, you get a longbow token. Say at..2000 tokens (or whatever number of attempts) youre able to purchase the precursor that your tokens are for. At least you have some sense of you’re getting closer..anet is still happy youre dumping your gold into their toilet..it seems to be a win win for everyone.
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No commendations. Probably token Karma and Silver (currency) rewards. In other words, it’s irrelevant right now if you can join in with other Guild Missions or not.
I also don’t think it’s reasonable for me to have to wait several weeks to even begin working on Ascended trinkets. Not reasonable in the slightest.
“2 Commendations are awarded to each individual who completes a guild event and can be traded for items from the new vendor in Lions Arch.” I will admit the article was vague on if you had to be IN the guild whose mission it was, or if it’s EVERYONE who participated in the guild event, even if you’re not in said guild. How is it irrelevant if you can join in with other guilds missions? You also said you don’t think it’s reasonable to have to wait several weeks to begin working towards the new ascended trinkets. I presume you are speaking about buying them with commendations. May I suggest going to the laurel vendor? 40 laurels and 50 globs of ecto will get you one of the new ascended accessories.
I completely disagree. Why would a small guild, wanting to do the missions, want to help the larger guilds with their commendations. Yes, maybe they will earn influence, and things along that line, but in the long run it help YOU! Anet stated a while back that these missions weren’t going to be catered to large guilds, and by what you just said – you proved them wrong! Of course these missions are catered to larger guilds. Also, why should you be in a large guild to get good rewards. Just because my guild is 35, doesn’t mean we are in any way worse than your guild. Sure, you may have more members – but we go for quality not quantity (fyi I am not saying that your guild is incompetent in any way). And I think being punished for that is wrong on ANET’s part. They should really stick to what they said, and include all players for these type of content updates, not just high and mighty’s. Some guilds don’t even care to do things like WvW, and these stipulations are going to FORCE these guilds into doing things they just aren’t comfortable with. ANET made this game, saying they were catering to the individual player, and now look where we are at. I am dissapointed, to say the least. Dissapointed, and afraid that the small/medium guilds are now going to be left in the shadows of the large guilds. By the time my guild is even ABLE to do just ONE guild mission, I’m afraid it will be too late.
Also I would like to add that this is in no way about getting the rewards. Its about being included! Sure small guilds can join the larger guilds in THEIR missions. But, that is earning commendations for you! Which then you can use your newly earned commendations to earn more rewards for you! Where does that leave the rest of us, but with influence. Sure, maybe it will be a little helpful in earning influence, but that still doesn’t help with overall moral for the guild they are in imo.
I think I addressed some of your argument in my statement above. Why would smaller guilds want to help larger guilds? why not? Let’s say commendations are only handed out to individuals who are in the guild who activated the mission..honestly, what do you want so badly from the commendation vendor? The new ascended gear you can buy off the laurel vendor. The banners are meh and most can be activated with influence, guild backpacks you can buy off the guild armorer, the new ones have a few more points in stats. Class specific gear boxes can also be bought from laurel vendors (and you get 2 instead of the 1 you get with commendations) and the rest of it is just cosmetic fluff for the most part. All this being said, what exactly can a larger guild member acquire through guild missions/commendation vendor that a member of a smaller guild cannot?
Smaller guilds are included, you may not be able to start your own guild missions but you are more than welcome to come join mine! You have access to the same rewards I do, aside from cosmetic fluff. Therefore, I don’t think small guilds have a leg to stand on as far as rewards and commendations. Yes, it may take you awhile to stockpile enough influence to open guild missions for your guild and I’m sure that’s quite frustrating, but honestly, do you really want them right this moment so your guild can be burned out on them in a month? Imo, half the fun is getting there..
On a side note, if anet wants to reduce the influence cost overall that’s one thing but scaling due to member size is complete kitten. Just like small guilds say they are being punished for being small why should larger guilds have to pay more because they have more members? Because we can afford it? kitten!
I see where smaller guilds are coming from but I can’t agree that Anet should reduce the influence costs by how many members a guild has so these smaller guilds are able to afford top tier rewards NOW. Being in a larger guild has its perks, one of them being they gain influence faster than a smaller guild and thus are able to unlock top tier perks (guild missions obviously being one of them). Someone please correct me if im wrong, but once a guild activates a guild mission in the world, other players are able to help this guild accomplish said active mission, correct? If you’re in a small 10 person guild band together and help a larger guild accomplish their mission. You’ll be gaining more influence because your guild mates are completing activities together, you’ll have some experience with the guild missions for when your guild is able to unlock them and kitten! you may even meet some awesome people you want to continue to play with. The guild whose mission you joined may even continue to invite your small guild out to help complete their missions. I don’t think smaller guilds are being ruled out, I think a lot of smaller guilds aren’t looking at the whole picture and just focusing on the fact they can’t have top tier rewards this instant.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I have wished the same thing. I don’t mind paying to respec, I just wish I had the option to have the build already saved vs. going through and putting all the trait points back in.
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Around 50 gold on one character, close to 100 spread across all characters.
Is the temple ever uncontested ? on any server ? For me no one bothers with it and it’s contested for weeks now…Need my stoopid shards…again.
Yes, on Blackgate it’s uncontested quite often. If it’s not you can always find people willing to help you with the event whether they need shards too or it’s a 70+ trying to gain some levels.
I would definitely agree with the biggest problem being that pugs dont run back. If you rez the downed players you can keep the event running smoothly but fully dead players should use the waypoint and run back. I’ve seen a LOT of pugs lay on the ground fully dead asking/waiting for a rez. The run back just isn’t that far….
That being said, the fight itself is easy. Keep the acolytes dead and range the priest.
Am I reading this right?
You want the event nerfed because it takes too many people and is hard?
The event scales to how many people are participating. So, if you have a larger group..it’s going to be harder but the rewards are supposedly better. If you have a smaller number of people participating the event will get easier but you’re drops won’t be that great.
That being said, I run this event every few weeks so I am able to buy my obsidian shards for my legendary. Honestly, I feel it’s one of the easier temple events considering it opens up a vendor for a crucial part of your legendary.
If you’re having trouble gathering people for it, try popping in to LA and shouting. I can almost promise you you’ll find a horde of people willing to help with the event. You can also post of GW2LFG.com, a great resource for finding groups/people for events.
If you’re harvesting while being attacked you have a % chance of failing your gathering and getting a ruined log, ore etc even if you have the correct tool equipped to harvest.
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gw2lfg.com is a great resource to find groups. Posting on there would surely get you the numbers you need to clear the event no problem.
I don’t necessarily agree with being able to change it two or three times without paying an influence or gold fee or even having an item in the gem shop I could purchase and only use once every set number of days.
I do wish you could change guild names though. I inherited a guild after the original leader quit and the name isn’t exactly what I would have picked…but I’m stuck with it.
Instead of a “last logged in” feature…how about a “last represented” feature. I don’t really care about the last time you logged in to the game. I care about the last time you represented. Members can log in and play for hours and not represent your guild.
At this point, I don’t really care to see how much influence a member has earned my guild. I think in the long run seeing this will prove more problem. I have a bunch of members who are on every day, almost all day, then I have members who log in once or twice a week. Obviously, the members who log on every day are going to be earning the guild more influence then the person who logs on once every few days. While this doesn’t bother me, I can see a lot of guild leaders trying to set influence quotas which I think is a terrible idea. Like dream said, some numbers are best left a little vague.
I’m not sure what server you’re on..but we cleared this temple fine yesterday with ~30 people.
True, there arent many people in zones..but ask your guildies, have someone run and shout in LA. I can almost guarantee you’ll get a horde of people there to help you clear it. After all, you need it to buy obsidian shards for legendaries.
Someone did mention that they downscale the event depending on group size, I can neither confirm or deny this.
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I understand for some servers its harder to get the WvW achievements than it is on others. That being said I DO NOT think WvW maps should be removed from world complete. WvW just isnt that bad..
If you’re having a hard time getting a keep or tower to get the poi inside, maybe run with a WvW guild for a few days and help them take it. I bet you’ll even get your monthly done!
If your server is low pop and you never see anyone in WvW, perhaps you should consider moving servers for the week.
Players who spend the majority of their time in WvW or sPvP dont ask that all PvE zones should be taken out of their world complete because they don’t like it, or have a hard time doing it or rah rah rah.
Agree with OP, I would like to see a larger group size even if it’s just in PvE. My guild does several PvE events where this would come in handy. Like OP said, being able to keep track of your “flock”. Even if they just doubled the group size and let me add 5 extra people into my group. Having two and three groups trying to communicate on vent/in game and all keep up with each other in orr, for example, is frustrating.
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Absolutely agree that guild cohesion is the number 1 problem. There is nothing to accomplish with a guild and no group feeling as a result.
They make massive events but
- they have no guild halls
- no guild wars
- no fortresses to own for an extended time
- no epic bosses to do as a guild
- no guild overview
- no guild capes
- no guild icon if you don’t wear 1 specific armor and no guild ranking.
- no alliance chat
Quite right. I think someone else said it right earlier, guilds are nothing but a glorified LFG channel.
I’ve despised the multi guild system from the beginning. What I have been beginning to notice lately is members will not represent us all week until it comes to Friday, the day our magic find perk is active. Then they represent us for that magic find boost. Come Monday when it’s over, they are no longer representing. Sure, they’re giving me their influence for the weekend but that’s not what I want my guild to be about..influence farmers. Truth be told, at this stage, I have more influence then I even know what to do with. I digress. Please anet, give me more tools to properly manage my guild! Aside from the obvious ones needed, inactivity log, last time represented, sending guild messages, etc I’d love to be able to denote which ranks are eligible to take advantage of perks when they become activated Thus, that guy who represents on Friday and leaves on Monday but won’t sign up on the site, wont join us in vent, wont respond to my whispers to please represent or asking to come join us for WvW, dungeons etc..His rank wont be eligible to receive perks when they become active. I find people have no desire to immerse themselves in a guild, join the guilds website, talk in /guild or hop in vent because they can do nothing and still have access to all the guilds perks activated. There’s no desire to move up in rank or even talk in /guild unless you’re looking for something to do or you know the people in the guild from previous games etc (generally those people are in vent together). As a guild leader, it’s infuriating. Give us better management tools and things to actually do as a guild
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It’s not bugged, I got a token yesterday. What the heck I do with it I have no idea..
As a guild leader, like others, I find the management tools for guilds severely lacking. Why wasn’t some of this stuff included on release? I mean no inactivity log…really? Please anet..give us better tools to manage our guilds!
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As a guild leader I agree with most all of the options here. Definitely a “last logged in” option is needed. I’d also like to see more control over guild permissions. I find a lot of members join to “leech” on guild perks and aren’t actually active until it comes to magic find weekend and such. I feel I should be able to require members to earn the right to have access to the guild perks I choose.
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That’s obviously the option we’re at now. Luckily, our pvp officer is related to the guild master..but what about the guilds who don’t have this option? I’m also not complaining about the price – I think the price is fair considering what it entails. My qualm is that if it takes a guild to save for the compendium why isn’t the compendium bound to the guild? I realize an individual COULD save for this book, but why would they honestly?
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I’m a member of a rather large guild that actively participates in WvW. As we begin to grow in ranks our guild has begun to eye the commanders compendium for the structure and ease of running groups. We face one large problem- who gets this book?!
It is a guild effort to save 100 gold, so why is this book only limited to one person? You’d have to grace someone you really trusted, knew was loyal to the guild and was going to use the title and abilities well..after all, we all know 100 gold isn’t easy to come by short of using a gold seller or trading in gems, even then it’s a hefty price.
I’d like to see Arenanet change this and make the book enable a research option for the guild. In a perfect world, the guild master would buy this book and the book would enable you to “research” the commander rank. At the end of the research period you have a commander rank within the guild where you can thus promote/demote one person to assume the responsibilities. This, I feel, is a way better option then buying the book for a person within the guild and then down the road have them leaving the guild, quitting the game, generally doing a bad job etc..there goes the guilds 100 gold. At least with a rank your guild will always have it.