Guild Wars 2

I’ve stop playing completely due to the living grind cycle.

I started playing GW2 to get away from having to game on a schedule. No need to log in 2-4 times a week to raid or pvp. Was great until the addition of the living grind cycle. I played nearly everyday not because I had too but because I wanted too.

I enjoyed it at first, it seemed like each zone was going to be used for the living story and would be a permanent addition to the game. Of course that didn’t happen but the cycle was long enough that you didn’t need to game on a schedule you could skip a week or two and still stay current.
With the new 2 week cycle forget it , real life be kitten ed miss a week and oops you had stuff to take care of in the real world? sorry we removed that…. Better luck next time!

How do you even sell your friends on the idea hey come play GW2 come play this aweso… never mind they removed that, start playing next wee.. never mind they removed that too…

I truly enjoyed the game but the living story is taking the game in the wrong direction. I want content with substance something I can revisit 2 years from now and go kitten this was awesome back in the day.

Fermi.2409:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Fermi.2409

You can get EVE for like $5 during Steam sales. That’s barely B2P.

Eve is P2P.

That was in reference to the fact that you can buy play time in EVE using in game currency, making B2P/F2P a definite possibility. You do need to buy the game, though. You can’t get the play time on a trial account (our at least that appeared to be the census above).

Actually no you don’t, you can upgrade a trail account with plex.

So if you are dedicated eve online can be 100% free to play…

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Omega.4950:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

If someone can’t afford $60 to play a game then they have no business playing. If you are a grownup, you should know that $60 is petty cash. If you are a teen , $60 is still petty cash if you have a minimum wage job.

Buy once, play everything in it forever. That is the best deal for any game. Those who cannot agree with that are surprisingly stupid IMO.

$60 is petty cash for people with little responsibility and no budget. Don’t make blind assumptions. Quite a few F2P MMOs have similar deals for similar amounts of money that is kept forever also. They’re usually called “packs” or something other “edition”. When a MMO goes F2P, players who bought the box are called “preferred” and get to keep everything they bought that was a part of the box plus privileges that they previously enjoyed.

GW2 in essence is a F2P MMO since most privileges are low from the beginning and requires monetary investment to build up, like storage for example. Not to mention, no monthly fee.

Except extra storage is bought with Gems , and gems can be bought with in-game gold…………………… So GW2 is B2P , has no essence of a F2P model.

Tell me another game where you can exchange in-game gold for cash shop currency.

Eve online – can use in game currency to by cash shop currency, in game currency to items used to pay for the subscriptions fee.

Something new for this month

The original rewards in the HoM were enough to begin with titles, minis, achievement points, ranger pet skins, armor skins, weapon skins etc.

Talk about entitled gamers these days. I guess in GW3 you will want rewards from gw1 and 2 right?

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Yep yup. It has a 1 second pause before you can activate the pull.

The nerf was intentionally done so that opponents would have a chance to react instead of being insta-pulled. You have to be a bit more tricky with it now; summon, wait for their predictable dodge and THEN activate the pull.

Lets be real here, it was to help the lesser skilled players nothing more.
If Anet wants to stick with to give ppl a chance to react then about half the skills in the game need this treatment.

Creeper.9360:

Arkham Creed.7358:

Creeper.9360:

WoW sure is an ugly looking game.

Nah; just old. Like a faded photograph or tarnished penny. Back when it was new it was down right beautiful, but standards change and technology progresses. Doesn’t make it ugly; just….old.

eh maybe, I always thought it looked ugly, like really repulsive

Keep in mind that was not a video to showcase wow’s graphics. While outdated they also use a different art style than gw2, but for 7 year old game when cranked up the graphics are not bad.

http://youtu.be/mBivL7haCoM

Kichwas.7152:

pricer.5091:

If you can only gather about 1-2 gold in the game in a day (say two hours playtime)and there are items that are available that cost between 500 and 900 gold to craft (any of the more desirable exotics like Volcanus and legendaries) that would take you somewhere between three and five YEARS to achieve.

I believe that it taking years is the intended design goal.

- This is likely where the disconnect occurs. They put stuff in at launch that was not intended to be seen in game for another 3 years. Some few managed to get it in under a month (those first few mostly from exploits / hacking), and suddenly a mass of people were aware of it and thought they had to have it NAO!!!

They however, still seem to see this as content for somewhere down the road of years.

That said – if you look back to GW1, this is not different from there. To get the top armors can cost thousands of ectos. If you play “normally” it could take 5+ years to get the mats for them. Some like myself have never had the mats for even one armor piece despite playing for over 7 years. Others have them within a week of buying the game – exploits for some, others legit trading maximization and farming.

GW2’s loot system is not all that different from GW1’s.
- You do not NEED a legendary. Its a stat boost of about 1-2%, for a cost boost of about 50-thousand percent. Why? Because it is really meant to be ‘legendary’.

How many people in WoW own ‘Thunderfury, Blessed blade of the Windseeker’?
- Maybe 1 or 2 per server, tops. If even that.

That is where these items were intended to fall.

Not many in WoW complain that they don’t yet have the Windseeker. So I am always baffled at the people complaining about it here.

(and yes I know that some newer legendaries over in WoW are actually semi-common. WoW has changed its model over time. GW1&2 though – have partially stuck to their guns on the idea that it is supposed to be legendary. Partially only in that they did not make it -MORE- expensive after players started proving they could get to it before the third anniversary of the game.)

Do not even try to compare wow legendarys to gw2 unique weapons skins tagged as legendarys.

Sure wow legednarys are more common these days, still less common than gw2 legendarys but they all come from group play, are the best weapon in their class, higher base stats, higher base weapon dmg, special proc effects and of course a unique look.

Gw2 legendarys are a disgrace to the word legendary.

there is a /facepalm is wow

Is this what the community has come down too? Just nerf it?

Lemongrass is fine @ 40%

T3 Light + Weapons

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

There is a reason why a lot of games are becoming free to play with micropayments, it’s more profitable.

Just look up the new articles where kids have ended up spending thousands of pounds on their parent’s credit cards from this.

I am surprised that Blizzard have not made WoW free to play yet as it would bring them more revenue really.

Micro transactions are more profitable when the game has a short lifespan which most f2p games have.

Wows sub fee supports way to much(sc2, d2, d3, battlenet, wow it self and the company) for them to base it all on micro transactions. Micro transactions are not guaranteed money, sub fee x # of subscribers is. And wow has a cash shop for pets and mounts.

Wow will be free to play when they have another cash cow generating the funds wow currently does.

Thanks FC&ET for a fun two weeks, HoD enjoy your stay in Tier 8.

selan.8354:

SpelignErrir.4263:

Entropy.4732:

Awful. Just awful. By nerfing confusion they destroyed the only real counter to the Zerg balls ruining WvW and weakened our class by a ton. Not to mention wasted my time. After all that grinding to get carrion armor and rabid trinkets… That’s like 80g down the drain. Now I gotta respec entirely. And ZERO changes to the traits? So glam traits are basically useless? Great. Very disappointing.

80g O_o geez, you got some really bad deals.

nope actually before we finally got the rabid gear to wvw we had to buy the khilborn stuff (precision/toughness/cond) and they are very expensive and yes u get some of these through temples but yup expensive stuff right there.

Or you could have just ran TA/CM/Hotw or Arah for a week and a half and had rabid head to toe, weapons and made enough gold running it to buy or craft the jewels needed.

Don’t blame Anet for you spending 80g on armor that you could have gotten for 0g because you choose to use gold, instead of farm tokens.

Am I in the right place?

Anet needs to enable free transfers from overpopulated servers to under populated servers.

Seems people in the upper tiers are crying over queue times while those of us in the lower tiers need more people.

split.3659:

Nuvo.5014:

The only thing I have seen from Fear is the zoom hack with the arrow cart

FEAR does not use hacks or any other type of cheating in order to gain any advantage. We only utilize constantly-changing tactics in order to counter, overcome, and defeat our adversaries in WvW. Our policy is strictly straight forward. We do tolerate, permit, or promote cheating in any way. If you ever see someone in Feelings Aren’t Required [FEAR] hacking or cheating, please take a screenshot and report it to one of our leaders.

Thank you,
~Cort

I am confused…

Matt Witter.6982:

Any changes we make will undergo a lot of testing, both internal and by our trusted alpha team.

sigh…. Public Test Server

Invest in one, your "trusted’ alpha team has missed how many bugs and glitches already? Time to let the players who found those bugs and glitches your alpha team “missed” test changes.

Public Test Server.

Server transfer costs gems with a 1 month cd

Limiting population in the map is not the answer. They need to change the way the maps work.

My Mesmer!

I thought we dealt with being slow by dropping portal>press f to use portal land in front of the enemy> do sword 2>f1 they all die we wait around for them to run back to us.

Maybe I am running an old build of the game(will run repair) but I swear that is what everyone QQs about.

Vail.1065:

Hello, I just purchased this game and right now I am trying to figure out how to keybind my spells to the buttons on my mouse. I’ve got the WoW Cataclysm Gaming mouse and I was told it should be able to work in Gw2
I know how to get into the keybinding but when I try to keybind to a button on the mouse nothing happens. Oddly enough two of the buttons on the mouse do work. All I have to do is click them into the box and it comes up as ‘Mouse 4’ or ‘Mouse 5’

If anyone has any suggestions I’d really appreciate it.

You can do it the way other have suggested which can lead to problems with other games of course..

I also have a cata mouse and the best way to bind them and keep the software install for use with other games is as follows.

Use the standard binds build into the SteelSeries software for wow.

Open Map, Open Bags, action bar 1, target self etc….

These are the keys the built in binds are actually emulating.
Target self = f1
Target party member 1 = f2
Target party member 2 = f3
Target party member 3 = f4

Action button 1 = 1
Action button 2 = 2
Action button 3 = 3
Action button 4 = 4
Action button 5 = 5
Action button 6 = 6
Action button 7 = 7
Action button 8 = 8
Action button 9 = 9
Action button 10 = 0

For any other binds open notepad and pick binds in the mouse software press the button and you will see what button the mouse software is emulating. For example if u bind open map to mouse button 10 hit apply then press mouse ten while in notepad you will get an ‘m’ or if you bind say open bags u should get a b.

Now there will be times when gw2 may crash or a new build is out and the game restarts. This normally borks the mouse software and the mouse binds will stop working. One way to fix this is by restarting your pc but of course who has the time 8D.

Open task manager find WoWMHID2.exe, right click and end task. Now browse to the stellseries folder(usually C:\Program Files (x86)\SteelSeries\World of Warcraft Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse) and double click the WoWMHID2.exe. That should fix the the mouse binds in gw2 without needing to restart your pc.

Enjoy still using the mouse software, profiles, colors etc for other games and gw2!!!!

gw2armor – Google it can view most if not all lvl 80 armor on any race.

nofo.8469:

Something off about the system, as there are a few servers who are borderline ghost towns and are still marked as full.

My guess is they tuned it to stop people transferring off servers to the more popular ones.

Besides, how can a server be more “full” than another one?

Its off because at any given time Anet can change what those meaningless indicators of low, medium, high and full represent. If they wanted full could mean 10 players.

I’m sure as the population decreases in the game they adjust the values for each level of population to give the impression there are a lot of people playing.

And why wouldn’t they? New player buys the game logs on to pick a world and 2/3 are low and the rest full. Not a great sign for a 2 month old game. Now if they “adjust” the indicators then that same new player see a different picture.

What is funny is 3 weeks ago I saw more people activily playing through the world, in towns, in wvw when the server had a medium pop than I do now that my server is full.

Anet must have borrowed some phasing tech from blizzard and I am on a different phase of the server than the rest of them.

They also can fiddle with them to keep people from transferring to specific servers just by setting a server to full 24/7.

It will handle it just fine

my asus g74s – i7 2670 – 12g ram – gtx560m gets 50-60+ just about everywhere on medium settings.. In some places 100+

In WvW I’ve had 50+ ppl on the screen going at it with no issues. The only time I notice a drop in fps is when there is a bunch of smoke bomb things going off and I’m standing in or right next to them.