Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if i’m that dark?

Thanks Anet for taking back your gems, wont lie I was tempted to spend it :P but i only enjoy stuff that i have earned

So i log in today and i see that i have 1001gems on my account, i don’t know why i was given these, just thought its a bit weird, was i refunded for something that i didn’t know of or was it a mistake?

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Reiko.8249:

The concern over cloning a legendary or any 1h-skin into your other hand needs to stop being argued with ‘where does the compensation end? What about t3 sets? etc etc….’ These are not comparable, and here is why. Armor sets and two-handed weapons, as well as 1h’ers going in the same slot, are different items for the sake of stats. You did not have two halves to your t3, of which people now only need 1 half to create the full appearance. The issue with cloning is exactly that – taking an item you have one of and SHOWING two. I don’t care frankly if you have one bolt and you have countless copies with different stats – but when you start taking that backup bolt and throwing it in the left-hand free of any charge besides transmutation, I have a problem. Please, recognize that these are separate. This qualifies for expensive skins like infinite light – it shouldn’t matter if you have multiple copies for different situations, but when that copy is equipable without equal effort, I find issue.

TL;DR – the ‘where does compensation end’ conversation is simple – when players’ past efforts are nullified with CLONING that misrepresents your efforts, not just when someone happened to have 2 of something.

It just… so doesn’t affect you at all what other people look like. That’s what I can’t, and won’t ever understand. Good luck though.

I agree, the only problem i have is the Eternity trick people are saying they want to do (which to be honest nobody knows if it can be done) IMO if you don’t have a legendary you shouldn’t have the skins for it that being if you made Eternity you should lose Twilight and Sunrise skins, then when you equip it you gain them back again.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Leo Paul.1659:

You can’t seem to accept the idea of using “money to save time.”

Skillful playing by understanding game mechanics also saves time. But I digress. This issue at hand is Pay to Win. You quoted the following:

Leo Paul.1659:

“Basically, whenever a game offers significant advantages for paying money, it becomes pay-to-win. No, you don’t actually pay to win, but you do stack the odds significantly in your favour.”

So when I say:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Gem exchange allows non-paying customers to access the same content as paying customers.

Level playing field. So GW2 is not P2W.

It doesn’t matter how you look at it. Unless paying customers have that “advantage” over non-paying customers, it’s not P2W. Mike O’Brien was smart to offer the Gem Exchange, because the same “paid content” is free available to the non-paying customers. I know of a player who has thousands upon thousands of Gems, and paid not a single penny beyond the box price of this game.

I think you’re wasting your time trying to teach those that don’t know what P2W is.

Even if i was to say that Anet would offer us a weapon that does 2,000 flat dmg and then steals 2g from the player that you kill, but you must spend $50.00 worth of gems to get one. You would say well thats P2W cause you can’t just find that weapon in the game and you must spend real life money to get it. Lets say you can instead trade in gold for gem to get that same weapon, people would still scream out “OMG P2W Anet is Evil and wants all my money!!”

Good thing Anet doesn’t do that but instead gives us armor skins and gathering tools that saves us time going out and buying 20+ of them to sit in our bags, or doing dungeons for the cool set of armor. You could say “Well saving time is still P2W!” Ok but if you work x amount of time throughout the week and you dont have enough time or effort to farm for the gold to get those times well its not really P2W more of helping those that cant get what others can in the same time period.

My point is don’t waste your time Smooth Penguin on them :P

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Sana, I am an altoholic. I would literally break the bank if I tried to outfit each of my chars with full legendaries. That would be nuts.

But hey, that’s dedication!

I have an eye for Candy, if it looks cool and is worth getting, it becomes a must have on my list.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Well… Legendary weapons (each one) requires 2 crafting disciplines to be brought to 400. So is that really less work?

Well i got all my crafting to 400 near the start of the game. Making a legendary takes a lot longer then getting your crafting to 500 and making a weapon / armor from it but like i said, I’m lazy and rather the skins from legendaries anyway

Legendary cause i’m lazy to get my crafting to 500 :P, but asceneded is

Id like to join your guild. On a US server. I know a few dungeons but would like to know them all!!

1. Necromancer (lack of builds, no blood magic love and minions need better AI)
2. Ranger (Isn’t fun to play at all and the pet can be a curse instead of a blessing)
3. Engineer (Needs fixes on the turrets)

These are my three that i would love to play but with all the issues they are having ruins my fun. I know that there’s more that’s needed to be said but i think a lot of people have said enough for you to understand whats killing off these professions.

Yes. I too have a bank full off stuff that has overflown onto a character i don’t really play anymore lol…sigh…

Hello Gaile, I know my ticket isn’t super important and the team has other issues to deal with, but anyway its been more than three days, would be nice if i got a reply or something, thank you.

249348 Ticket number.

Using my brother’s account to post cause its been 3 days and no response. Having login issues.

My ticket number is 216628

Haven’t played in a while and when i came back to play again my password wasn’t working. Can’t reset my password because i lost my serial and support just stopped responding. Please help!

Darek.1836:

Im in T8 now but can you guys please post the screenshots of the biggest zergs you’ve found? I haven’t seen any screenshots a quarter of the size that I’ve seen from sorrow’s, and I’ve never seen any a quarter the size in person (probably due to culling). Thanks.

There you go…that AR blur :p

Same here, I was doing a story quest then poof lost connection.

I think you have looked too deep into this, when it comes to armor it’s all based on opinion. Some armor I think looks cool on one race and others on other races and yes it sometimes does feel as if they designed it round the human figure and slightly changed it for other races.

The Charr areas are meant to be messy imo it shows there animal like nature, while human might have a more classy area (although that’s also based off how much wealth is in the area and such) I wouldn’t mind some of the armor to look better overall but we will have to wait and see.

The first game really never had anything compared to the different races you can play in this, so I find it silly for you to think that they are more Bias towards human.

The Asura are smart and very advance in the technology field, but having them use that intelligence in a combat scenario is hard to do without taking away all the skills they can learn form professions which again imo will be the better choice. To further elaborate on that, they wouldn’t fight at all, more on the line of making weapons and letting them do all the work while they sit back and check if there is any discrepancies within the system, and I find that hardly fun at all.

Like I said before the armor does need better fitting which I do agree on but everything else doesn’t seem to make me think that human is the better choice. Anyway are they bias, No, do they need better design in armor for all races and make them feel like it works with that race…maybe…I mean its really hard to say when people would disagree with you on what they would find the better look for their race.

Deathjester.9841:

Lorana.2468:

i was under the impression people dont want them easy, they just want a 100% surefire way of obtaining one.

you could throw 4 items into the forge and get your precursor
you could also throw in 5 million and not get it.
this isnt a good system at all, i’d rather kill 10,000 of X enemy because atleast then i know after every kill i progress towards it and not just praying for luck to go my way.

There is a surefire way of obtaining one. It is called the auction house.

You can kill 10,000 cursed shore mobs and get one, or you can take a chance at getting it for less then the auction house on the mystic forge. No one is forcing you to use the mystic forge.

Or you could do events/instances and farm everything else you need (the other mats cost more then the ahouse precursor). By the time you have everything else? You may get one to drop. If not? You are over half done.

For the people who say “the auction house precursor is too expensive”? You have no idea how much the legendary costs and how much time is required AFTER you get the precursor. You aren’t getting a legendary anytime soon unless you are a HARDCORE player. That is why it is LEGENDARY.

Do you have this kind of time and dedication? No? Then you can buy it off the ahouse. Can’t afford it? Then skip it all together. Legendaries aren’t meant to be seen on every character. They are supposed to be something you see rarely.

As I said before. Most of the people crying would never farm all the other mats anyways. They stick their whole gold supply in the mystic forge (probably under 50 gold), and then go ballistic when they get nothing back. When you gamble, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but the house mostly wins.

If and when I finish my legendary rifle, there is no way I am getting the legendary greatsword (either of them). 1) they are too expensive/require too much time for me to do the grind twice. 2) I don’t like the way they look, and think they are over the top. Funny thing? Everyone else loves them. Then again those are probably anime fans, and I don’t like anime. Does that mean I am supposed to rage over people having 2 legendaries? If they are willing to devote that kind of time/money to multiple legendaries? More power to them. Doesn’t hurt my gameplay one bit.

The thing is some are complaining because they have all the gifts to make the legendary. I’ve spent most of my time trying to get the precursor, I spent well over 200 gold and yet nothing, i gave up went for the gifts needed and now i have everything besides the weapon…yes your right people can save up and buy it but that’s just a waste of gold in my opinion so i stick to the forge…which is also a waste of gold. Getting the gifts wasn’t the problem for me…the weapon is. At the moment it doesn’t feel very legendary just a waste of time. No matter what you or others say it should have a more SOLID way of getting one like the gifts needed and i don’t see that being a problem. I’ve put my time into it i should get what i wanted end of story. This isn’t me crying over not getting a silly skin this is me saying I’ve spent as much if not more time than others and yet still waiting on a weapon that i consider not as important than everything else to drop, which i find very very sad. (This does have a Tera Feel to it, even they had to change up the RNG slightly when the game came out just so it wasn’t a full waste of time)

Edit: And by the way how does liking a sword make you a Anime fan…..i really don’t get the logic in that i would love to understand what you meant by that.

I’ve looked it up to see if anyone had suggested it already and cant find anything so I will say it. Why hasnt the magic find % been put into the Attributes, its part of the main stats and yes to those that will complain that they dont even want the magic find in the game its already here why not add it to the Hero menu so i can tell what % of magic find i have on my gear while farming stuff. This isnt a must have its just something i think should have been added in already and yes i know how much magic find i have i just would like the game to tell me if my gear has 0% mf or 200% mf in with the other attributes.

Thank you.

Ok, so let me start by saying that this isn’t me crying over split milk no, I was Banned for 2 days for being falsely accused of ‘Botting,’ I couldn’t type on the forums because my account was locked out also, which is another issue I’d like to talk about – my brother, sister and friend posted on the forums for me. I missed the whole Sunday one time event and lost out on any loot that I could have obtained after the event.

This so called “evidence” that the system program, people or both pointed towards me, the player, to being a bot or have been botting; which is completely false – the only program used to play Guild Wars 2 is the Guild Wars 2 Client. For example, the way i see it is by killing trolls in Frostgorge Sound (or being in Frostgorge which seems to have happened to a few players), for lets say over the period of over 3 weeks; you get a flag on your account saying that you have been or you are Botting. Which wasn’t the case for me, I played in Frostgorge killing trolls for their blood drops for more than 1hr after doing the new instance with fellow players that were all in my party when I was banned. This activity on my account should have been accounted for before the consideration for a perma-ban, but was that activity even checked? Then you have your account gets terminated, until you open up a ticket, which in the end happened to me. The problem with that is there isn’t a back up system i.e. a way of fully investigation the difference between a Bot and a player by checking other activity on the account.

So one would suggest what is needed to make your current ‘Bot Banning’ system better to handle and more effective than what you have now. Currently it is just ‘Guilty until proven innocent’ – Bot, Ban, Bot, Ban, Bot, then people complain – “I’m not a bot here’s my ticket”, THEN you investigate it and end up restoring their account. Time AND money on both sides was well wasted, so here are my points on stuff that you could add in future to prevent your name from looking bad:

1: A warning email or in-game notification of some sort stating that your account or game-play has been showing signs of Botting, this could lets say for those that are guilty of Botting stop them in their tracks (even though they should be Banned anyway)

2: You need to tell the player(s) what ‘Evidence’ you have for Botting, I’m not sure if you can or can’t for reasons and what not but this is something that i think is a must.

3: An email stating that your account was Banned for “bot-like” behaviors and to appeal the ban state that the player needs to contact XYZ and show proof of you are not Botting etc etc.

4: The system needs a overall change – other activities needs to be check on the account before an account is considered for a ban. I’m not sure if it takes into account that a hour before I went troll farming that I was in a party doing the new instance or the fact that I was talking to the other players in my group about random things while killing the trolls.

5: In-game GM is a must, though I’m not sure you can do it with funds or whatever you have seeing as this isn’t a Subscription based MMO. Having a In-game GM that takes in tickets allows us to talk to you more often. We can share what we think In-game about areas that should be flagged or player(s) behaviors. Yes, I would like a GM to look over things EVEN IF the tickets take over 5 days or whatever helps to have it, I mean you have the support team there anyway and they get tickets everyday, why not make it in-game.

6: I feel like the fact that my game account was locked AND my forum access was locked also was adding salt to the wound. What I’m trying to say is that the game account and forum account shouldn’t be linked. Guys really, I was annoyed for getting banned and I cant talk to others about it; seriously?

As the saying goes Better to Prevent than Cure, instead of wasting your support teams time and the players time, fix the issue before it starts to get out of hand. My fun for this game has been ruined, and not only for myself but also for family and friends that play with me. Your system at the moment works hands-down but at the same time hurts you, with the system you have right now your killing off the players that haven’t done anything wrong and I want this game to be fun to play without the FEAR of being Banned for killing trolls. I’m not asking for you to give us the golden egg to your game (although you left me out of the BIG ONE TIME EVENT because you thought I was Botting…) but this does need fixing and shouldn’t be sugar-coated.