Guild Wars 2

Interesting. I too am very curious to know if the points gained will stay with you when the real deal comes out. It seems odd to have an achievement category with rewards like that if not, but on the other hand beta stuff tends to not stick.

Maybe we’ll luck out and get a clarification from someone in the know.

Been having similar issues with items not stacking. Cedo’s workaround worked for me, but it’s still a bug, so chiming in to make this visible. Hopefully more people see the workaround that way and maybe even get the bug noticed and fixed.

I waited the entire month of march, checking back every sale day, to see if bank slots would go on sale. They never did, and I finally gave in and bought at full price. Then almost immediately after they go on sale.

Thank you for putting stuff on sale. It really is appreciated. But boy does it hurt when bad luck catches you like this, and with the gold to gem rate at an all time low(again) too.

Don’t worry. They just need to rub some of his krait oil on the body. There’s no ailment that can’t be cured by some of his krait oil after all. >.>

kokiman.2364:

The biggest problem right now is, that there are way to many “unique snowflakes” around that keep shouting “I PLAY HOW I WANT AND YOU PLAY HOW YOU WANT” which is something that just doesn’t work in a genre that is all about playing together.

Oh wow. It’s so clear to me now. Why didn’t I see it before? The problem is individuality and fun! If only we were all mindless cookie cutter automatons who were identically equipped and reacted exactly the same, then we wouldn’t have all these problems!

All that time spent learning the classes, leveling up characters, acquiring gear, developing skills and a playstyle… How foolish I was to waste all that time trying to create something that was my own in this world, when what I was actually supposed to be doing was determining what the greatest number of people believed to be the most statistically successful style of play and then patterning my entire existence around that!

Truly, sir. Your words have moved me. They have opened my eyes! No more shall I foul these events with my “Uniqueness” or my “Individuality!” No sir. It’s unthinking obedience to the popularly accepted conception of perfection from now on!

As far as I can tell, Scarlet turned out to basically be The Illusive Man from Mass Effect.

Both of them were paragons of their species, easily mastering a wide and diverse range of skills and abilities. Both of them operated very much outside the norm, ignoring conventional wisdom and following their own path. Both had a moment in their past where they came into contact with something ancient and powerful which changed them forever. Both created powerful organizations that answered only to them through which they used others to achieve their goals. Both tried first to fight against, and then to control that thing they had previously encountered, before ultimately being subverted by it and used to achieve it’s ultimate goals. And both were ultimately put down by the hero after what they believed to be their greatest triumph, which was in fact their greatest betrayal of their people.

The similarities are kind of striking.

Basically everything Proxy just said. I might have not said it quite the same way but… yeah. Pretty much that.

Short Version: This post kinda got away from me. I hate Mai Trinn, and strongly desire a way to avoid any encounters with her in the fractals of the mists. But in writing about it, I realized there are no doubt other people who feel the same way whether about Mai or other potential fractal encounters. Thus I’m asking about/requesting an ability to remove fractals we might not want from the potential rotation.

Long version:

So I read over the preview stuff for the new fractal improvements, and it pretty much all looks like cool fun stuff except for one thing. One terrible horrible thing: Mai Trinn is coming back.

The frustration started the moment she appeared and I had to hold the idiot ball repeatedly and stupidly not realize she was behind the dragon bash problems even though it was super obvious. And not just once! I had to let her finish off Leo Ashford with her “help” the first time, then I had to let her go even after she got pegged by the magic detector the second time.

Then came her dungeon boss fight, where she was spectacularly overpowered and utilized powers that had no explanation and made no story sense at all. She apparently has a shield that makes her functionally immortal unless hit with a very specific attack from her own first mate. Why then is Mai anywhere near Horrik? If they had any brains at all they would be on opposite sides of the continent so she could be completely unstoppable. In fact speaking of that why didn’t Mai just turn on the shield when she got busted in Lions Arch and proceed to wipe out everyone in the area she didn’t like? It’s not like Horrik was around then to mess up her godshield. It made no sense at all, and yet there she was, somehow suddenly more powerful than Zhaitan himself slicing through legions of heroes like they were nothing.

And then, then when we finally finally managed to beat her she pulls an “I surrender, suckers!” robbing you of any actual victory and then doesn’t even have the decency to tell you anything as she sits smugly in her cell in Lions Arch where she has stayed mocking us to this day.

I wouldn’t normally bring this up, or dredge up the negative feelings of the past like this except that now she’s apparently coming back “more dangerous than ever” from the sound of the fractured preview page, and it kinda turns my stomach to think that any time I go in for fractal stuff there is apparently a good chance she’ll appear and really seriously ruin my time in the game.

I can’t be the only one who feels like this. And I’m sure Mai Trinn is not the only encounter that inspires this feeling in people. Fractals are not exactly easy, nor are they low risk/low investment, but as it is they’re very much a roll of the dice on if you’ll get something fun or not. I understand that there is supposed to be an element of randomness in fractals, but would it be too out of line to include -some- way of narrowing down the potential scenarios we end up in? Maybe make it so if the player has completed a fractal enough times they can “stabilize” it and remove it from the rotation if they wish?

I’d really like to be able to feel like I’m not gambling time and energy on the hope that I don’t get blasted with a Mai instance every time I step into a fractal.

Camaro Charr.2805:

310 Zhaitaffy
4 to 8 of other various types of Candy
15 Fireworks

It is time we stop this. I thought maybe south sun would have been a turning point. I will be on the phone with NCSoft tomorrow after work.

khani.4786:

I won’t be buying a single rich coffer. I really wanted a Scelerite weapon ticket and spent probably around $100 trying.

Never ever again. As much as I love dragons and would love that staff, I’m done with RNG lottery boxes. 100% done.

And if this continues I’ll likely go back to Minecraft and my console games. My drop luck is so abysmally low already that I will never again play that lottery for my hard earned money.

kishter.9578:

jaka.9635:

this is riddiculous…
i just dropped 4000 gems for these crates and not one skin.

The chances for a skin should not be that low.

That is 50€ for some candy…
Screw this!

Thanks for supporting Aion next expansion.

Zedd.8239:

I bought 30 of these crates and only managed to get useless candy and a single mini. If that had been real money, that would have been $35. For consumables. I love you, ANet, but this is complete BS.

jaka.9635:

I think arenanet are not behind this. A lot of people say that it is NCsoft. I don’t know for sure, but from my experience with arenanet, i don’t think they would come up with this kind of cheap sale offers…

Frankly, I don’t believe for a second that ArenaNet is behind the ridiculous “Grind out 10,000” pinata’s for a backpiece mentality, or the insulting “Pay us money over and over and over again for a slim chance of getting what you want” store mechanics that we’re seeing more and more of. This is classic NCSoft “Screw the Players, they’re too stupid to know any better” meddling, and it’s damaging the game more and more.

Over and over again, we’re seeing fun and interesting content released by the ANet Dev Team, only to have it ruined by miserable “do the same few things till your eyes bleed” grind mechanics and store setups that effectively boil down to “Keep pouring money into the slot machines and pray for luck.” And it’s getting progressively worse as time goes on.

I am in full agreement that this needs to stop for the good of the game. Unfortunately, I think at this point it’s going to require getting a different publisher for the game. NCSoft has demonstrated repeatedly and emphatically that they have zero respect for their developers or their playerbases, and that they are extremely comfortable lying to and exploiting them until they are no longer useful, at which point they are discarded like yesterdays trash. As long as they’re involved, I don’t see this grind and gamble trend going away until they inevitably kill the game, just as they’ve done to so many others.

Like the thread title says, is there any chance this event will re-occur in the future? The FAQ indicates it’s available for all of April, but says nothing about after that. Will Moto be returning sometime in the future for more super adventure boxing, or is this a one and done sort of thing where if we like it we better get all we ever want in in the one month it’s available?

Any replies appreciated, and looking forward to trying the box!