Guild Wars 2

Considering how terrible the drop rates were before they increased the chests to contain a rare, you got it hchadw – probably all you’ll see on your alts is green/blue with a very occasional rare. I’d like to know the answer to this question as well from a Dev though.

MrInfinit.1864:

Siyuri.1879:

I never guested before to loot boss chests myself, and if that’s what was truly causing the problem then I wish they’d fix that, not disallow me to do bosses done on my home server with multiple characters

No one can say for sure that guesting was the problem. It just didn’t help the issue, and was the easiest thing to blame for most people. And thus guesting hate was born.

Yeah, this was sorta what I figured. The main problem I’ve got with the change is that in this game I feel constantly forced into really boring, endless grind if I want to earn gold. I’ve already done everything in the game a TON. I don’t play the TP. I loved being able to pick a couple bosses I enjoy and get the on multiple characters for some extra ecto so I could outfit my characters and set up for a legendary. I never guested or felt like I was abusing the system, and as a player I feel constantly hindered by anet. If it wasn’t for the loot nerf that happened around Nov 15 in cursed shore (everyone noticed it, seriously… I don’t care if they say it didn’t happen) I’d be able to get twice the amount of rares out there in the same amount of time doing that. But now, I don’t enjoy those events. I’ve overplayed them. Already, I have to pick and chose which character gets what when I complete my dailies for laurels. It’d be years before I could get each their ascended amulet + inscription. So the change to the boss chest feels more like a slap on the wrist, “DON’T MAKE ALTS!!!”
Though I do understand that the overflows were a huge problem, they seem to have tamed significantly now that the initial frenzy of acquiring boss chests has started to recede. It’s been a few days since I got thrown into an overflow other than at Jormag. My home server is Sanctum of Rall. I wouldn’t know how it is on other servers because I’m not a guester.

I never guested before to loot boss chests myself, and if that’s what was truly causing the problem then I wish they’d fix that, not disallow me to do bosses done on my home server with multiple characters

Disagree with the changes, but understand why they’re doing it. I think that included with the changes they should give people who have more time, and more alts, something worthwhile to do. I can’t think of a game that punished players who have alts so severely other than this one. And, if someone enjoys playing multiple characters and wants to gear them, they should be able to earn enough to support that. With the chests in their current state I am able to earn enough ecto to where I felt like I was making progress towards my legendary weapon without endless repetitive and boring dungeons or cursed shore events. And, don’t even get me started on the laurels.

My guild and I managed to reset this bug last night just by leaving combat and re-entering after about 10minutes of an AFK break. We did the fight with 4 people, Elementalist, Guardian, Mesmer, Necromancer. We had to make sure time warp was up and beat down a lot when she hit that 50% mark and it triggered the fight to what I think was normal, but this was our first time in there so all we had to go on was videos from other people.

If everything becomes limited to “per account” like laurels & dragon chests, then how will people be able to gear up their alts? If I gear my alts in exotics, I have to work 7 times harder, so shouldn’t I be able to do dragon chests 7 times for 7 times the chance to get ectos for the gear? I really do understand where people are coming from when they say that this should be limited, but I strongly disagree with the opinion. I love to have multiple characters, but with the way laurels are set up it’s going to be a looooong time to gear them all. The dragon chests are a perk for people who have multiples, and for me, I will make more money/ecto if I run cursed shore events but I’m so sick of that. The dragon chests are just breaking up the monotony of having to sit there on one character bored stiff.

Why should someone with alts not be able to loot the chests with each of their characters? Other players have the ability to make alts, too. I hate to break it to ya, but people who have more time will always earn more reward in any mmorpg. This is not a new thing, and it’s not unfair. I am personally really glad for this as it allows me to earn rewards in other ways rather than just sitting around cursed shore on one character doing the same thing during my play time. Now, I can break things up, play each of my characters when I feel like it and have a reason to participate in the events even though I would probably make more in game gold if I just sat around cursed shore on one. At least I’m not bored to death.

Hi, I currently have 1 of each class. Ranger, Mesmer, Thief, Necromancer and Guardian are 80 and geared in exotic. The rest are around 20-30 currently.

1. Which class do you consider to be the “most overpowered”? PvE: Warrior, because it allows for such high damage capability without the loss of survivability. WvW: Honestly, this really depends on the player and how you chose to play in WvW environment. I do not see the problem with thieves. Yes, I have one, but I play Necromancer WvW and do not get destroyed by thieves. I would consider Necromancer one of the strongest WvW classes.

2. Which class do you consider to be the “most underpowered”? Rangers, definitely. I just think they haven’t had the TLC regarding class balance that they need to excel with various builds and weapons. Their melee damage isn’t high enough to be worth the risk, compared with other classes in melee. Damage to minions and pets is too high. Pets are a risk in dungeons like Arah. Necromancer using a pet build (I don’t) may need help here too.

3. Which aspect of the game do you think needs the most work done? (sPvP, PvE dungeons, PvE open world, WvW) Overall, I think progress is being made at a rate to be expected with a B2P game.

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being good and 1 being bad, how would you rate the in game economy? 2, but the new chests with patch may help fix the economy some.

5. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being a lot and 1 being very few, how would you rate the amount of bugs/glitches in the current build of the game? 5, neither better nor worse than other mmorpg of the same caliber that I’ve played.

6. Which aspect of the game do you want to do more, but have no reason to currently do so? (sPvP, PvE dungeons, PvE open world, WvW) sPvP. I find it boring, repetitive, and takes way to long to earn rewards.

7. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being great and 1 being the worst, how would you rate the community interaction between players? (things such as parties, dungeons, etc) 7. Better than most communities I’ve been a part of.

I have 5 level 80s, and a 6th along the way. I don’t have a problem with the way the game handles alts. I actually prefer it to a lot of previous games I’ve played. I focus gear one or two favorites in ascended. Gear is relatively easy, and compared to some other games, even ascended gear and legendary weapons are quick to achieve. I really used to feel a little stressed by the ascended gear, so I get where the OP is coming from, but this game is not a gear treadmill in my opinion simply because compared to most of the games I’ve played (almost all of which were Korean mmorpg) gw2 just feels easy to attain gear. I just don’t see the month wait to get an ascended neck that big of a deal (per character). I don’t plan on quitting the game in the next few months, so these dailies are just an added thing that I’ll get for all characters eventually

I do not support the holy trinity in Guild Wars 2. I’d like to see improvements to PvE, but never the trinity.

Same thing here is happening to me over the last couple of days. I can add that it is account based, because the mithril disappears from all characters on the account when the bug occurs. The mithril does not respawn for several hours (6++) and I have no idea what triggers the respawn. It seems to be fairly widespread. My mining route includes cursed shore and malchor’s leap. All mithril nodes disappear from cursed shore and about half of malchor’s leap when I encounter the bug in cursed shore. The same nodes are gone from all my characters. I have tried relogging, no solution.
I can verify this hasn’t anything to do with guild gathering buff, because I didn’t have gathering buff active the few times this has happened to me. It only seems to affect mithril nodes. I have never noticed the trees, plants, or orichalcum disappear because of this even though I gather all in my path during my route.

This has happened to a couple of people I know, and then myself yesterday.
It’s too easy to purchase the wrong item from Dungeon/Karma vendors. No refunds by Anet are offered to players who make a mistake, “double click” or lag out and buy.

-Add a confirmation box to the selection that requires an additional click.
-Don’t allow players to buy items their character can’t equip.
-Allow players the chance to sell the item back to the original vendor for the same price within 15 minutes of purchase.

Lost 1000 here, from 2800 to 1800.