Guild Wars 2

I too was disappointed in the leather farm. Also I was surprised when the president of ANet announced that there would be a leather farm considering all the anti-farming philosophy and things like “diminishing returns” that are designed to make farming unsuccessful.

I did not like the map and the mob behavior; I was lucky to even be able to get the POI there to finish map completion on Lake Doric. Not something I will be doing in the future as I get plenty of T5 leather over all the other maps. As far as I can tell the Champ bags from the centaurs only have more leather in them and the salvage rates are 10:1; 10 T5 leather per 1 T6 leather which is no different than any other maps.

HoT was a poor expansion to me and I find that the way that the mastery point system was implemented has created a lot of probs, especially for me. I absolutely hate that they put 30 points into seriously crappy “adventures” and that blocks my progress in completing a few of the mastery lines. I almost quit the game over it. I won’t be buying a new expansion until I see how they add more to this system because it is seriously flawed. Many people are still trying to get the Central Tyria points; as others have mentioned. I have given up on it since any complaint is met with the usual counter-arguments of “you are acting entitled” or “get good”. Adding some more points is a move in the right direction to me and having extras seems unimportant to me.

For years in the game, people got a spirit shard when their experience bar rolled over; now Anet has made it so only the ’"special snowflakes" get it; seems like a lousy design to me. OP should be happy he is one of them.

Seems to me like the Mastery Point system is set up only for the raiders and elite hard-core players and less for casual players. Would like to believe that is not true, time will tell.

Haha, I love how Anet will turn fun into grind or a gold sink. I saw this and I did a little math: 10000/250=40 STACKS of wintersday gifts if you wanna get them and IF they ALL dropped a drink; WOW, I mean WOW; no gring here; drinksor gifts are 10sp on the TP so no gold sink here; for the wintersday drinks that are needed to progress this. LOL maybe this is an early April Fool’s day joke.

Hello and I am also posting this here; in the bug forum; I am missing 10 mastery points and I am currently hoping that the ANet folks are looking into this. I took 2-3 weeks for the forum mods to combine all the posts about this and then another 2 weeks for the first ANet person to post that they “might” be aware of it. I have and will continue to submit weekly bug reports; I would do it daily but that might seem offensive. I guess that the high volume of errors created by the release of HoT has put this one as a low priority. Central Tyria is the forgotten country now; and the 60+pages of problems in the shiny new areas and events are to be considered more important than this. I agree w/the above poster that it is a good idea for me to play less since I am very unimpressed w/the “expansion” and such. I could go on and on w/my feedback but it is mostly negative and I know that negative feedback is not welcomed by ANet. Sad that this is the new reality of the world.

Well I hope this thread is not closed b/c of some minor disagreements when a person from ANet finally responded. I posted here a month ago and am restating the same issue. I will also post in the thread on the Bug forum after this. While I am very mad about the situation, I am trying to be polite in hopes that Anet might take this seriously and not as a “whiner”

I went through my Hero panel and counted all the achievements that I have; just topped 20,000. Based on the completed achievements on the various tabs of the hero page my account should have 42 central tyria mastery points. However, the mastery page shows 27 spent points and 5 saved, ready to spend. So when I do the math, 42-32= 10. So I am missing TEN MASTERY POINTS. Hope that is clear.

So I keep reading these threads and finally an Anet person has noticed; very happy. They say “submit a bug report” – I have submitted 4-5 bug reports and one more today. Many ppl including me have noticed that there is something to do w/the personal stories; I completed all of them pre-launch; I do not know of any Catch-up that has been done, and if there was a Catch-up it did not work for me.

So knidly Anet person, look at my account and the bug reports I have submitted and that may be one place to start. Maybe these other nice ppl posting here have the same problem; I would think that is why they took the time to post here.

Maybe keep us updated as to the progress in fixing this would be nice. Hope that you see that this is an issue for many folks and will be able to fix it soon.

Hi there, am having the same problem also. Any news of a fix or helps at the next patch on Tuesday?

This is a big disappointment, as is the rest of the HoT

This is not a bug. When Anet introduced the wardrobe many ppl had 2 of the same Legendary. Then Anet created this achievement to compensate them; b/c the skin and the weapons are now account bound.

I also submited a bug report; I gues the rest of the expac is borked enough that this is a low priority since other ppl do not seem to have this prob like we do.

It’s good to see this post b/c I was trying to figure this out for the past few days and I finally did the same as you and when I counted up the Mastery Points that are shown as achieved on the Hero panel vs the total shown on the Mastery panel there is 9 points missing, most are for the various stories that I have already completed. This is a real PIA b/c the experence bar is moving and when I am ready to spend points they won’t be available. If I had rushed like many, then the bar would be full and no points to spend.
I filed a bug report but there has been no Dev response on this yet so at some point we all will probably be stuck…

Sad to say that I expected this nerf. I can report that in 8 hours of playing on various PvE maps, I had a Spirit Shard drop from a wolf in the Gendarren Fields. So it is what I expected. So I got 3 from the PvE daily also. Under the old system, I would have gotten 8 Skill points by having the experience bar roll over (heaven forbid I say that I leveled up, that would draw fire from the ppl that are selected to help make threads like this go away…). If ppl are not seeing them as regularly from champ bags, then it’s even more nerf.

So where do you think the newbs that wanna make the new legendary weapons will get their Spirit Shards? That’s right; 3 per day from the daily show; only a 67 days to get a Bloodstone Shard. Mystic Clover? that’s only 154 Spirit Shards; a mere 52 days of daily joy to get your Spirits Shards to make them.

Erm, sorry working as intended

What I thought I saw in the vid was Josh unlocking one of the five trait trees for 80 hero pts; then 35 more for some of the skills; the skills like auto attack/button 1 on the bottom bar. So the math for me is different; 400 for the trait lines and more for the various weapons skills we normally use. I also hope they do not take away what is already unlocked. If they grandfather us in then we won’t need the other, on map skill/hero challenges, but the way they are talking leaves room for doubt.

Hello and I hope many of the questions will be answered esp about what happens to skill points since I have a lot of them. How will the “materials” or “currency” be handled; and the costs of further materials like Auger stones be handled.

I would like to know if all skills and/or traits that are currently unlocked will stay unlocked even if they are changed, also what is to be changed; esp if the Grandmaster traits that have been bought w/skill points/gold OR earned will still be unlocked.

Also the acquisition of the new “Hero” points; will this be the same as it is now; e.g. I walk up to a skill point and commune and get a skill point or is it Instanced, harder and more difficult, and/or can I repeat daily for hero points, is there a cooldown, is it once per New map completion, etc.

What will happen to the skill point scrolls I have saved.

Will this apply to Vanilla GW2, I may not buy HoT right away but is this to happen even if I do not get HoT.

How will I unlock more trait lines, esp what the costs to do this are, esp since I already have almost all traits now, in all trait lines.

I have a lot of concerns over the changes but am still hopeful for a positive outcome.

Thanks for reading, hope I see some good stuff in the livestream tomorrow

Well written post. I was at about the same point in AP; was not really doing the dailies for the AP, the rewards are not that much. But the change is not welcome by me and for the same reasons, I did not do the Frac’s and I have not yet played LS S2. I did go to WvW and finish them to see if it would work, was surprised it did. The rewards are only 35 laurels for a month of logging in, so is less.

I played more doing the old dailies; now I am here writing when I would be doing them; it’s a win-win, more reward, play less. I think that Anet really wanted ppl like me to play even less, who am I to disagree.

Yeah, I do not like the new dailies but Anet does not care and they won’t reply. The rewards for the month of work are fewer Laurels and Mystic coins. They offer other things like the Tomes and such but not sure if I really want them. Just something I gotta live w/or maybe play less.

Well I am glad it works for ya’ll. I used to like my dailies more than I like the new ones. I did get them done though. Not sure why anyone had a Magumma on their dailies. My PVE were run a fractal 11-20 or Silverwastes events; have never done any LS season 2 so that one was out and the fractals. But I went into WvW and got two there; so I am happy that they wer mix and match otherwise I would not have gotten the daily at all.

I guess the nerf to Laurels; yes NERF, is totally fine too; 35 laurels a month; down from 40 and 12 mystic coins total is also a nerf, so enjoy that too. I got a little karma, but is probably going to be way less than before…

I won’t know about the crafting bag rewards but I gather a lot so that won’t matter.

As an aside there were no Empryal frags or Dragonite ore in the chests in EotM; a stealth nerf I think. Even more fun from the wonderful ppl at Arena Net.

So I give the changes a thumbs down; but that’s just me.

This change will not be for the better, for me, in my opinion. I have logged in daily and usually do many of the dailies and get my reward for it and the same for the monthlies. So I am glad there will be a “reward” for this in the future; but I think this change will reward less in the long run.
Especially not looking forward to having to do a specific World boss; or a specific JP for a daily. First there is the getting there and then there are many bugged events; mass quantities of people there for the event, disconnects, wasted time, JP’s I can’t do; etc
I expect the new daily achievements to look a lot like the “more fun” (not) revamped Trait system with all it’s flaws. Does Anet track/have metrics for how many or how few have completed the new traits?
tl/dr this will be a nerf to rewards I now get from Dailies/Monthlies. The folks who are in the know are already buying up mystic coins….

Really nice post and I would esp love to see any targeting changes implemented; man it sucks to have my Ranger start to shoot random, nearby trash and stop hitting the main mob; I sometimes think that Anet leaves this in to kill ppl and goldsink via WP costs and in the past repair costs…

I miss being able to do more Dailies and I do them for the AP. However I am not one of the ppl that is at the top of the leaderboards, only have 12400. I fail to understand why they capped them; why put in a Leaderboard even? Anet always seems to have two different philosophies running at the same time. Play it your way vs do what we tell you; We don’t make grindy games vs you need 250 t6 mats for something. Here’s some loot from a champ vs no farming. Seriously ya’ll need meds.

I agree w/you but in a short time this post will be closed or added to the or posts about the Mega server.

As an aside, where does Anet get the ppl like the second poster that are such fan boys that any disagreement is met w/stuff like what they wrote? OP did not say they were on the can for 45min, lol; they walked away from the comp and boom they were d/c’d and that happens to me a lot. Have had way more crashing since the Mega server arrived. A realist, yeah right

Show him the price of a Legendary weapon→ only $600 USD; and tell him Evon loves him.

Yeah, I do not like this at all either. I have not done many dungeons and I do events all over various maps, I like getting champ bags for the cash in them. It may not be much or the best but now it’s being nerfed. I do not agree w/the logic either. But many want these nerfs and they are getting their way. Go to the TP forum and it’s all high-fives and bro hugs w/the economist. Anet really thinks this is a good idea and I do not think that my or anyone else’s opinion will be considered in this matter. The rewards in the game have been Meh for a long time and now more of the same.

Hey, too bad dungeon folks if they nerf your bags too, get over it. Hey WvW folks that keep lord’s bag has no gold, sorry. It’s win-win; you did not really need the coin; there’s mats in the bag, sell them. You wanted cash for mats, er too bad, sell the blues & greens and that’s yr money and sell the other mats too, more money. But why do ya need money? They will tell you on the TP forum that there is NO INFLATION, none, it’s not there. Just try to open a thread on Inflation, you will be flamed into the Mists.

I do not know why this thread is even open.

This was actually a good scene to me. In many years of TV/films, the mirror has happened a lot: the villain has the hero captured and is about to kill them and then delivers a long monologue about their reasons for everything; meanwhile the hero uses the time to escape. What a dumb villain. Cue Scarlett; hurt in trouble and she is trying to buy time, and BAM – “no, we do not care and here’s your death”. So was satisfying; she was a loony.

Now I did the instance on a Engy and read the 3 control panels; and what it suggested to me was that Scarlett was, in her own loony way; trying to help. The dragon was feeding off the energy and she stopped that. But b/c she’s a whack-job she did not realize that the interruption of the Dragon’s food; aka-magic from the Ley Lines would wake it up. Maybe she did and would have told us that; no one knows yet. But it’s also possible that the reduced food may help, the Dragon wakes and is weaker and easier to fight, not sure but guess there will be another installment of As Tryia Turns in a month or so.

I do not expect a rebuild of Lion’s Arch anytime soon, since a POI was added at the Breachmaker. When have they ever removed a POI? I think LA is the revamp of Orr and it’s close and there will continue to be champs/train/farming of the Scarlett hoard. Maybe they will join up w/the new Dragon. But I will miss the hub and do not care much for the new gold sinks that are added to support the lack of LA.

Great thread but I am not sure why you feel that you are entitled to win in a PvP game. At least the posters that complain about the lousy loot drops want changes for all of us. I have been playing all the rotation of games for months only for AP, I do not really like them but I try. I learned something here, in Keg Brawl the ppl that just attacked me all game were trying to win; lol I had a grand time just going for them after they tried that. And the thing you hate in Crap Toss; yeah I always try to get the crap carrier, and some times a few random folks for laughs, I still do not really know how to play it…

I am not so bothered by the LS any more b/c I have changed. I was first thinking that it would be more connected but I got over that. I used to be very compulsive in hunting AP but I got over that. What I see is that there will be more LS coming; if I miss some, not a big deal b/c there will be more. I am much more discouraged by the bugs and other issues that are constant, like the targeting and such. I would prefer that Anet focus on that sort of thing. But LS is free, mediocre content that is entertaining for the time it’s here and that is okay w/me. Maybe Anet will do an expansion…

a very long thread and I can’t read all of it. my two cents: I had an epiphany on LW and I get more of why/how it’s the way it is. I was thinking that it was a “story”. And was called “living story” at first. So it’s really “New Stuff” is happening in the world of Tyria; and this week it’s —-. Well for me it’s not been too bad but I have not got the time for most of the content in 2 wks. One of my probs is that if I do not get one the event on release day then there is not always chance that the entire thing will be to do-able. So I am all for a longer period of the event; four weeks to run would suit me but a new one every two is fine also. I do not have any other feedback since I realized that many of the LW releases are not going to be immediately tied together like an installment serial. I am fine if Scarlett returns in a few months, or whatever. I am not much of a fan of the story in the Scarlett arc, would rather have something more focused in the GW lore. So in a month maybe the Centaurs and the Hylek will be starting the poison-unicorn alliance and the Gendarran fields will be aflame w/refugees; and a couple of weeks later an Asura box will be found in Mount Maelstrom that opens a portal to ? haha tune in for moar LW, it’s fine as it is.

I read the forums a lot but I don’t post much b/c I am worried that my anger/sarcasm will get me infracted; but here goes. I too have not done this. I think that this points to a serious prob w/LS, if anyone who wanted this had done it on the first or second day of the release, we would have seen a bunch of ppl doing it. But now, why would anyone bother. Also there is a hard to get vista and a Krait Obelisk on the structure that is nec if ya want the krait historian cheev, lol. Ihave not even been able to do the witch in Kessex, even w/ppl there b/c the zerg kills her fast while I am getting there. oh well…

From what I have seen in the game, all the cosmetic/skins/bling is very expensive in time or gold. 15,000 candy corn @ a penny (.01) copper if you buy it is 150 gold and no one would even see my Halloween Bucket; er not for me. A 20 slot bag rune is only 10 gold and that would be the best way to get one. You would only need 4 inventory slots; the corn trader will give you a super-cob for a 1000 Candy-corn.

I saw all these threads about the high price and I never thought there was a typo. I, too think that the high numbers are there for the hardcore grinders and the folks that are making bank on the TP so that they have something to do. Even 10k is not for me as a casual. I am surprised that Anet did not notice this or discuss it sooner because of the new spirit of communication that is being rolled out.

Indoles.1467:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Expected to be letdown. Expectations were easily met.

This.

haha, me too; unfortunately.

I got the titles, the Mad Memories back, etc last year and I had fun. However this yr all I see is grind and buggy content. I have not completed the last two living story AP fests and I may not get this one either. In my opinion the grind is there for all the ppl that have 5+hours/day to play; not for casuals that only play a few hours. So that they stay in the game. I continue to lower my expectations for the content of this game and as the game continues I am sure I won’t care soon.

“That’s right kids, tune in next, er in two weeks for the next episode of As Tyria Revolves, titled “Scary Ghosts’. Featuring that crazy human King Thorn and his family of miscreants!”

My optimistic side is hoping that LS will turn out to be many stories like in the movie Pulp Fiction, combined w/an installment delivery system like the serials that ran in the movie theaters in the 1940’s.

My pessimistic side sees that they put in mini-game/festival filler to pad the lack of real content like cohesive story-telling, w/real plots and characters that the masses care about.

Only time will tell.

@ OP I agree w/you based on my personal experience. I usually log on daily and have time for my dailies but I am not doing much of the LS b/c it’s not that interesting, not “fun” for me. Sometimes I do the LS because it is easy AP’s and the Teq LS was one of them. I did not find it “fun” to be in overflow, to die a lot, etc. So all I did was visit the area daily and live most of the time and got the goody, I think some wings. I have one achievement there, by accident I sat in a cannon and fired it bdfore the massive krait spawn killed me. I did not have fun at all.

This is one of the semantics issues. There was a big one over “casual”. I am logged on and active in the game a lot, looks “hardcore” not “casual”. But I do not much care that I do not get all that I want (hardcore); rewards come as the come (casual). So am I “casual” or “hardcore”? Haha

So by the measure of “log-on” I must LOVE the game, but am I having fun at LS? How could ANet measure that? Well the log-on must be right. right?

I am neutral about the Living Story. I log on and do whatever parts I can do in my play time. At one point I was trying to keep up but I can’t. Had to go thru the disappointment of that and change my expectations. One thing the game has done is help me to lower my expectations. Lots of high hopes; like decent rewards vs effort, and no-grind, that I had to deal with. The forum seems to me to be full of folks that are still trying to get ANet to change… But I am happier working on me. The game will do whatever it wants to do.

Mathias.9657:

2 greens and a blue

(taken from the FB post)

Either that or brad pitts girlfriends head

QFT It’s all RNG and the sooner we all get used to this the better. In b4 the groupies tell us how wonderful the rewards are

If a precursor drops for me, I might work on it but I am in the same boat as Galtrix; but I have had Exotics drop, 1-2x/month. The Exo’s are mostly weapons that do not fit the build I am playing. I am working very casually on Ascended weapons since they are gated by time and availability of mats; a terrible investment to me.

Ambrecombe.4398:

They nerfed Karma from daily because of this
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tactician_Deathstrider

By decreasing our daily Karma it decrease the potential Obsidian Shards we can spend our karma on every day, slowing down the Ascended crafting process even further and keeping us longer on the game.

This makes the most sense of any reason that I have been able to come up w/since anyone who does not have any Karma will need to complete 6 or so events to get the rewards to buy a Shard. Before the change my alts were saving up for Karma armor so I could try WvW. Now am spending it on shards, eh; whatever. Am glad the Karma is in a wallet so I only have to spend from one toon, not run all of them there to buy shards, haha.

The same thing w/the salvages happened to me when the Teq patch hit; 10 salvages in a row w/a Mystic kit and no Ecto. I never bothered to post b/c of the standard reply’s in this thread-“it’s RNG, all normal, etc”. I just sell my rares and get less money but it’s definitely money, not losing 25 silver on a gamble of getting an Ecto. Maybe if we all do this the price of Ecto’s will rise but I do not need Ecto’s for all that much. Crafting is a waste of money.

I am one of the folks that only log on to these games to get a daily achievement. I do not like any of the games and pts are the only reason I am there. There are good suggestions here but since they give points I will continue to play. I think that the best way for improvement is to get rid of achievements for them; then only those that like them will play them.

@OP
I feel your pain and I found crafting difficult at first also. I do recommend that you try some of the suggestions in the thread. esp to go to other maps and farm. T2 mats are harder to get in my opinion. I also want to tell you, that is noted above is – DR: diminishing returns. This means that you will probably get less of what you are looking for by staying on the same map for 6 hours trying to farm bloods, etc.
I would go to Snowden Drifts for an hour to farm Svanir for small totems once/day when I needed them and then leave b/c of what Tigirius pointed out. This was a big issue for me; I spent days in Timberline Falls on the grawl there for T4 totems too. There are mobs that have a few different drops; the Arcdotus in Frostgorge drop bloods and claws, fyi. Good luck

Well I went out and killed 50 random mobs and I got no blues and no greens to drop but a lot of crafting mats so I think there is something wrong, all I have is 25% MF which was my acct bonus and a few salvages of some stuff I had. We all need some better drops, amen.

So I have not gotten to play much yet but is Scarlett “my” personal nemesis? Is the Red Queen look-a-like the ONE? Spoil it for me

Deified.7520:

Also the WP theory talked about the alternate universe and alternate versions of ourselves. We have to look at characters in game that could have opposite versions. Versions that would be evil, so the current version in our universe would probably be good.

So at the reveal of scarlet it will either been the alternate Kiel or the alternate Jennah, most likely Kiel since she wont have a huge impact on the open world.

I watched the vid and WP makes some good points about how the “Mysterious Stranger” in the Personal Story is the player, so the one we have in the LS could very well be Jennah from that universe, who wants to kill our Queen. Maybe an alt of Ellen Kiel but not sure why an alt-Kiel would want to kill Jennah, unless it furthered the plot to take over this world. And I still wonder how this person is the personal nemesis of the Player/Us. Unless the “Mysterious Stranger” is Us/the Player in disguise…

I have not really liked all the festivals and mini-games, JP’s etc but the content of the Living World has been “okay”. This seems like a year of trial runs for a lot of everything. They have said that in many ways. I think that next yr there will be 4-6 main festival times in the world. Also my take on “As Tyria Revolves”, aka the Living World is like a serialized movie-soap opera; like in the 1940’s, You go to the movies every week to see what’s happening and such.

“next week Queen Jennah will give a speech” Oh Noes! What will happen. That Scarlett gal hates her and maybe she’ll get kidnapped and tied to the railroad track and our Hero will have to dash off to the rescue. She’ll be saved of course, but next week; there’ll be some thing new for the Hero to do. Who knows what will happen next? But stay tuned for the previews

haha, there are others like me that feel the same way but posting here only gets a few standard responses. One was just put in; the equivalent of “LTP noob”; the other is “why don’t you just quit”; and then there is the, “it’s just fine the ways it is” one. I used to care that I could not get the POI’s etc but now I do not care. The psychology at work is to learn to lower expectations from the game and the players. A legendary or even a medal on the log-in screen is not worth the stress. Good luck, and I hope you are able to do what you’d like to do.

Haha, I missed the fine print on the deadline to vote and logged off w/about 230 of them and I have 74 chests from Southsun Survival to open. I was bummed I could not vote and then they made them worth something and I was luckily able to find more today so I may have 500 or so, lol.

This is a classic-Prirates from an AIR-ship spawning underground. Glad Ellen Kiel is on the job to look into the Thaumanova incident because of the high level of chaos-effects that are at work here.

I feel your pain. But log in next month for the Fall Festival, and then in October for Halloween, and November will be the one yr anniversary of the Karka invasion; so that means a Karka Bash; and then Wintersday; gosh I can’t wait. So many more games, like Angry Karka’s and Karka-farmville. Mmmmm, good

Well this is better than the poor Mom and “Brat” at the Labyrinthine Cliffs, who was near the Southsun Survival entrance; LOL I see that all the time in real life…“Mom, I want TWO !” That was really awful

haha, I totally agree w/ya and in before someone tells you that you are wrong