Guild Wars 2

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Shiren.9532:

Anen.1742:

Charged crystals in gifts => people complain. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/wintersday2013/Charged-Quartz-in-Presents-Disappointed
Crystals in gifts => people complain (this thread).

What is going wrong with you people?

It’s almost as if different people have different opinions. Mind blowing!

Well when someone prefaces it with “unacceptable change” rather than simply “undesirable change for some people” it’s hard to tell whether posters realize that folks have different opinions…. Just saying.

I’d give y’all all of my charged quartz if I could. I have no interest in it.

Then make exotics with them to sell or decon for ectos and darkmatter. I have no use for kitten to do with PvP, yet I have to still tolerate getting PvP kitten in my achieve chests. I don’t PvP, I demand all PvP kitten be removed from achieve chests

Doggie.3184:

Atrophied.8725:

It was called “Fractured – Fractal Fortnight” and lasted 2 weeks. What’s the surprise here?

The Average American has never seen or used that word, actually.

And the average story update length is 2 weeks, so how is is disappearing after 2 weeks, regardless of if you were abused with a new word, a surprise?

all you are seeing is the old stuff posted as the price dropped and the undercuts being sold off. So the old price posts are now next on sale. Considering how always empty SS is, not like there are people farming it for new shells.

sorudo.9054:

Sleel.8365:

Zaoda.1653:

The choice of attire for medium class is basically do you want your basic trench coat, a trench coat with buckles, a trench coat with frayed edges, or let me see we have another trench coat here in the back that’s leafy. Granted there are a few as in 1-3 that aren’t trench coats.

I lol’ed in real life! The sad part is that it is true and trench coats ARE our only options. Currently, anyway…

And phew, I thought it was just me. Good to know others are having the same thoughts on this issue!

Not true. We have ONE armour option for our medium wearers that isn’t a coat.

Duelist, and all the named clones of it.

two actually, human T3 is really made in the assassin style…….just a pity we don’t have an assassin to fill the gap, but i digress.

i don’t know why Anet is taking so long to think about new armors because a whole wiki is full of designs they can use, it’s even a wiki officially from them:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Armor
(right side is a small menu, click on any of the profs to see the gallery)

One. Since only humans can wear the assassin set. For now. Till they decide to swath it in flames and sell it in the gem store.

paragon.6543:

I honestly do dislike the amount of revealing skin on both genders. And I hate how they seem to define the clothes to be so gender specific. Why aren’t there pants for the women? Or shirtless male (mm <3) armors? Yeah, I hope they try to consider the gender equality thing a bit more.

Hate to break it to you. But there are, of both. But just like you gotta sort thru piles of trench coats to find the two that aren’t for medium, you gotta find them. They have better ratios tho. Cause there are more then just the 2 non coat options that medium wearers have.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Gem store armors don’t come with stats like the T3 you bought.

Irrelevant. Once someone is at 80, AND has the money to buy t3 cultural, they sure as hell aren’t buying them for lvl 80 rare stats. They are buying them for the skin and transmuting them onto the exotics they bought/crafted ages before they got the cultural skins. And glorified skins is all they are. There was no need to stat them at all.

Thobek.1730:

Lord Kuru.3685:

A totally wild guess, but: I think Scarlet may be behind this.

I think that’s a pretty good guess.

And when we get to the “final battle” with her in the next installment of dross. We will get another cut scene of her making inane commentary and walking away, while we, of course, make no attempt to actually stop her. Cause…. reasons.

Trixie.7614:

Welcome to the “Arena net destroyed our cultural armor” club. I wonder who will be next. Charr, norn or maybe asura?

Human. Since they made it so any kitten can wear “cultural” armour now. May as well just remove the concept of cultural armour.

KorKor.9452:

OMNIBUS.2913:

You have my vote. down with kiel :] and bring me abbadon awesomeness.
in b4 scarlet would be in abbadon fractal. If she was it would be the end of gw2. Cause it would confirm to the community that anet is kittened!

You need to go read that one thread where the new head story writer talks about reworking GW lore for GW2 in mass.

Sounds like how we got sparkling vampires. A writer that knows nothing about ages of vampire lore, wants to write about vampires, so pulls sparkles out of her rectum.

Cynz.9437:

Celestina.2894:

Cynz.9437:

light armor is awesome actually
medium and heavy is i really really bad

I feel you missed the point.

no, i understand where ppl are comming from, about gold cost, remake of t3s etc.

i am just saying i actually like the light armor skin the way it is made, but i play thief and i find medium skin hella ugly

Nothing new there. Every medium skin looks like kitten, except duelist on female and trooper on male. Least I like trooper on my norn thief.

Zaoda.1653:

The choice of attire for medium class is basically do you want your basic trench coat, a trench coat with buckles, a trench coat with frayed edges, or let me see we have another trench coat here in the back that’s leafy. Granted there are a few as in 1-3 that aren’t trench coats.

I lol’ed in real life! The sad part is that it is true and trench coats ARE our only options. Currently, anyway…

And phew, I thought it was just me. Good to know others are having the same thoughts on this issue!

Not true. We have ONE armour option for our medium wearers that isn’t a coat.

Duelist, and all the named clones of it.

CountC.5248:

For those wondering what’s next: Arah armor with particle effects! For gems of course.

Flame, of course. Cause everyone/thing has to be a walking fireball…….

Spiky.8403:

“Hoard” of materials indeed. Don’t they feel stupid for such a statement? Because I would.

No kidding. Dunno when it was that “a few” was redefined into “a hoard”.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Danikat.8537:

So people who voted for Kiel based on the Fractals offered got exactly what they expected and voted for.

What’s the problem with that?

The fact that we all have to now suffer the permanent loss of the Abaddon Fractal.

Except we all aren’t suffering. Those of us who voted for Kiel didn’t give a flying kitten at a rolling donut about Abbaddon, or whoever. And some of us gave as many flying kittens about fractals in general.

Saulius.8430:

normyp.8671:

…I think we’d all like a PERMANENT explorable area added to the game…

you say players want permanent areas, fact that Southsun Cove is empty determined it was a lie

i still get shivers when guild gets missions rolled there

Because SS is nothing more then fluff LS left around permanently. It’s meaningless crap. They just flooded it with mobs so you can’t move around to get resources you can get elsewhere easier. Plus the mobs they flooded it with are ones that give worthless comps. Just who is making Apothecary sets of anything? No one, that’s who.

LS content left around isn’t anywhere near the same as expansion content that persists. All it is is the rice cake people leave on the table cause no one wants it.

What I wonder is if it will stay around if a server stops caring and no longer bothers to inject. Gone thru it once. Dunno if I will force myself to do it some more. Haven’t noticed any real progression on the meter in a while.

Bout it’s only use is to give you a way, if you have so much money/matts you don’t know what to do with them, to kitten away money or matts and be able to say you didn’t just delete them.

Could go for this. Don’t believe for a second we’re going to get anything but more LS shoved up our rectums tho.

Nothing that includes time gating, times the obscene amount of mats some of the stuff needs equates with alt friendliness. All made account bound rather then at least character bound on top of that.

It stands for the lie that this game is about a war against elder dragons. A concept abandoned since LS was introduced.

Yeah. make gold account bound. Yeah. so then it has no purpose and has no point. facilitating sweet kitten all. As brain damaged an idea as I’ve ever seen.

Can bloody well make it an option which animation to use

Yeah. As soon as I saw the recipe after scribing it, I knew I was never gonna use it. Not wasting bloodstones on a tonic.

skullmount.1758:

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

You(The players) asked for harder content.

You(The players) will now deal with what you get.

Except not all of us players asked for harder content.
Everything up till the Cutthroat Politics (namely the candidate trials, or whatever the defend gold piles thing was, when they ‘fixed’ it) was fine (at least for me). From there it went downhill. Now its get in the zergs in the beginning and crank out those achievements or don’t get to do much (or be EXTREMELY frustrated) of the new content.

Yeah, the smug self righteous crowd this one is part of can’t seem to grasp that we all didn’t ask for this. Hell, didn’t ask for LS at kittening all. DID buy a game that was about fighting a war against the Elder Dragons, a concept that has been ignored for the better part of a year, and completely with this so-called ‘story’.

Scrambles.2604:

Sleel.8365:

Scrambles.2604:

they are adding open world dueling at some point. It’s mentioned in a interview and i will dig it up if anyone likes…i try to post it everytime a duel thread gets made…which is like once a week.

As for inspect, i’m all for it, but blablabla elitism blablabla this argument never goes well. It boggles my mind how ‘end game’ in GW2 is collecting various exotic gears but no one can look at them beyond seeing your character avatar, and then people argue to keep it that way.

Not wanting inspect has nothing to do with elitism. It has to do with it’s none of your kittening business. Anymore then it’s your right to walk into my house and look through my closet. You wanna know, you can ask or kitten off.

GW2 is a MMO that focuses on group effort and cooperation, so i do have a vested interest in at least being aware of what type of gear you have. And looking at your gear in a teamwork oriented game is not even close to going into your house and looking in your closet. If your that bothered by other players “intruding” on you then you might be more comfortable in a single player game.

I hear the argument “you want to know, just ask!” all the time and while that is a great work around, it doesn’t take into account afk players or people that cant be bothered to share their gear.

/inspecting someone’s gear doesn’t effect the other player in any way, as opposed to asking them about their gear, which not only disrupts the player, but it requires two individual player actions to accomplish what could be done unobtrusively with /inspect.

It does take into account players that just can’t be bothered to answer. Ignoring the ask is a default sod off. Unless a person wants to share info on their toons/builds, it’s none of your kitten business.

Galen Grey.4709:

Sleel.8365:

Galen Grey.4709:

Its a story…. whats the alternative…. Scarlet wins, Krait and Nightmare court turn out to be unbeatable, nightmare tower here to stay cause players cant do anything about it?

The alternative? Oh, I don’t know. How bout continuing with the kitten premise of the game and pursuing the elder dragon war? You know, the entire kitten premise of the game? The reason we are here?
You know, picky little alternatives like that. Just the CORE of the whole kittening game!? \o/

Sure nothing against any of that but I dont see how the whole tower staying there or not makes any difference for what you’re saying!

Doesn’t. You’re comment was more of a vehicle to aim a comment at ANet. Not that I expect them to hear it, hear or anywhere else. I’ve long since abandoned any hope of seeing a continuation of the dragon war. I was hopeful that Flame and Frost was gonna intro Jormag or Primordious, so the whole direction of LS has been nothing but a disappointment for me. Story wise. Enjoyed MF Dungeon, and the Jubilee stuff, the arena, not the ‘story’. And Rox and Brahm are fun enough. (Ohhhh, we’re so dead!) Their banter wherever I see em is entertaining. But overall……. I came here for the Dragon War, and it’s an arc that’s pretty much been abandoned, as far as I can see.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Think about it… why would they spend thousands of hours develping new zones, new races, new combat, new gear, new skills, etc… All for a measly $50…

when people are more than happy to spend $200+ gambling on a weapon skin that takes a maximum of 20 minutes to make…

Or a gathering tool that took maybe 10 minutes to make and costs $15…

They would be losing money at a horrific rate if they devoted people to making an expansion over cheap reskins of things we already have.

Yeah. Almost as if they are nuts to have spent thousands of hours making a game for 60 bux. Would be so horrifically dumb of them to use the existing base to expand on, while still doing the gem shop stuff. Almost as if they development teams and the fluff teams were separate divisions. Oh wait…. they are

VOLKON.1290:

Sleel.8365:

VOLKON.1290:

Did you ever go to play another game and stare at the screen in disbelief that your character is dead because you couldn’t dodge-roll?

Happened to me in TF2 of all places. GW2 combat has spoiled me.

Yes. I’ve been playing more and more other games as the grind pushes me more and more away. I have such a hard time not being able to dodge. I keep hitting it and nothing happens. x]

The grind will only push you away if you let it. I’m working on an ascended greatsword for my mesmer, but I’m also completely taking my time doing it. There’s no rush… the boost in stats is marginal enough that it’s not a necessity for me. So steady as she goes and when I finally do get weaponsmith to 500 that’ll be a nice thing, but nothing I’m going to stress or sweat over. There’s plenty of good WvW lovin’ to be had regardless.

Oh…burned out on WvW long time ago. Long before they started mixing up matchups and guilds bailed on GoM. Used to be in there more then anything else. Then I didn’t look at it for months, now, I might manage goin in a couple nights a week. Sometimes I miss a matchup completely.
This turning WvW into an achieve farm isn’t helping. Even in my limited play time I’ve seen lotta achieve farming at the expense of effective WvW play going on. Disincentivizes defense and makes it about flipping. Assuming you aren’t matched up against 2 servers, each way over your pop, so you can’t get anything done, as it is this week. I’m trying to get into it again. Used to be my favorite thing.

And with a toon of each profession, I don’t think for a second each of them will get a weapon, not with the comp req’s they require, which equates to piles of time, either gathering comps or farming gold to buy em.

VOLKON.1290:

Did you ever go to play another game and stare at the screen in disbelief that your character is dead because you couldn’t dodge-roll?

Happened to me in TF2 of all places. GW2 combat has spoiled me.

Yes. I’ve been playing more and more other games as the grind pushes me more and more away. I have such a hard time not being able to dodge. I keep hitting it and nothing happens. x]

Cloudwalkernz.1328:

LOL unlike the OP, I actually looking forward to a sub based MMO. Why? you may asked. It is because like a lot of people I am sick of all the so called free to play MMO. I always end up spending more money than I am on a sub based MMO. Also I am sick of the RNG and P2W rubbish.

As far as GW2 goes, it is fairly good value for money. Sadly, maybe because it has no sub, Anet don’t seem to be able to afford to make an expansion like a sub based MMO lile WoW which has just announce yet another expansion. Something that no doubt will help them to bring back a lot of old players and new alike.

As far as B2P, I think only Ever Quest Next is following that model. Every other new MMOs are either sub or f2p.

Uh huh. So which is it? Are you paying more for gems then you would for a sub, or are they not making enough without subs. Those are mutually exclusive positions you know. And guess what, you wont be the only person giving them more via the gem shop then by a sub. Kinda why lotta games shifting towards that….. I know I spent more in the shop then I did in a year on a 15/month sub.
Before I got fed up with RNG boxes, time gated grind and other grinds, that is. All while ignoring the war on dragons we were here for. So now they getting nothing. If they ever get back to the Elder Dragon war and release a real expansion, then they can have more of my money.
Ain’t holding my breath tho. I no longer believe we will ever see another elder dragon.

No reason they should make stuff that doesn’t clip, float, or otherwise look stupid on a charr. Always have, I’d be more surprised by the reverse.

Dr Ritter.1327:

Mesket.5728:

the story is as lame as expected… but the content is amazing. That tower is so much fun.

I beat it in under an hour and don’t even want to go back and grind the achievements for the combine helm. Another boring zergfest with no challenge in my opinion.

Having a hard time even forcing myself to do it once. Just don’t give a kitten for yet another lame kitten finish, for yet another stupid skin. Just threw out the Mad Kings masks from this year, 3 of them, and finally got round to tossing out the Dragon Bash helm box, unopened too.

Galen Grey.4709:

Its a story…. whats the alternative…. Scarlet wins, Krait and Nightmare court turn out to be unbeatable, nightmare tower here to stay cause players cant do anything about it?

The alternative? Oh, I don’t know. How bout continuing with the kitten premise of the game and pursuing the elder dragon war? You know, the entire kitten premise of the game? The reason we are here?
You know, picky little alternatives like that. Just the CORE of the whole kittening game!? \o/

lordkrall.7241:

Sleel.8365:

Not really. Any server not labeled as a specific language, is the default international language. Which, despite all the knickers that get in a knot from various nations, IS English. You wanna chat up in anything else, you can whisper, chat in your group, or in the growing number of nationality guilds.

We had this conversation back in the old thread, and yes, while English is AN international language it is not THE international language.
There are more.

Tell that to the business world and not thread dwellers with their nationalistic knickers in a twist.

Guhracie.3419:

I don’t know about since launch (I’m a latecomer), but the bloodtide coast kidnapping event has been bugged since I started last winter.

That said, it still doesn’t change the fact that different people are working on living story than would even be qualified to do general fixes like this.

Oh. Don’t expect that to change. Been playing for a bit over a year. Only seen that event not bugged once. Always on “1 merchant left”. Did do it the one time I saw it not bugged. Hasn’t worked since.

That’s what you get when you turn WvW into a PvE achieve farmfest.

Not even remotely equal numbers. We were queued up on GoM for reset. Looked at seas of red, from both enemy servers. Outnumbered buff. Our largest group wasn’t even half of one of theirs. And both servers were throwing crazy numbers. Hell, both were fielding 2-1 zergs at us, and worse. Yet we had queue, for multiple maps. They are NOT balancing entry.

I too. I’d like to get the Profane boots, pants and gloves. No need or want for the top, that fugly sholder crap, or mask. No. At these exchange rates? No kittening way I’m kitten ing away 800 gems, at something like 60 g, to toss out half the set. Instead of getting the prices of half a set, they get 0.

Have 2 more light wearers I’d like to put in em. Wont be. Not at the usurious rates gems are going for.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

GW2 isn’t supposed to be about grinding or farming, so this change is a positive step to help move away from that.

If it isn’t supposed to be about grind and farm, then they shouldn’t have put in time gated crafting, nor recipes that require a hundred or more of A item to craft ONE item of, never mind a kittening set. Times how ever many alts you have the temerity to roll.

THEY created the grind. THEY created the REQUIREMENT to farm to feed it. THEM. WE don’t have access to the code.

Beldin.5498:

Qaelyn.7612:

Why should something that is simple, fast and has no risk provide top-notch rewards?

Because a game should be fun and not actually work ?

I know that concept is hard to get for some.

Brain bendingly difficult.

Huck.1405:

John Smith.4610:

Hello all, I looked into this because we intended to have a release note for the changes to the champion loot.
We did modify the gold and bloodstone dust coming from champion bags, and a release note will be added shortly.
What I can tell you is that we made a mistake, this one fell through the cracks and I’m truly sorry. I’ve promised before that we won’t make stealthy economic changes without notes and I mean to stick to that promise.
Thank you all for pointing out the error, we will be more vigilant in the future.
Good luck in your adventures.

Can we quote you on this after the next stealthy economic change?

Only if you screenshot it for later. Otherwise, well, you know they like deleting posts they don’t like. Like the videos of the AP abuse that went on in WvW in ruins and kitten.

haviz.1340:

Bright.9160:

If it takes 0 skill, why don’t you do it?

Also, oh the irony… A champ train farmer complaining that dungeon running takes 0 skill. It’s almost painfully ironic…

You realize you have been showered with gold for 0 skill for months now, right?

I still don’t get why they are still playing. Pressing 1 gets boring eventually, at least for me.

Playing the same kitten DE for a silver gets boring…… and doesn’t take much more then 1 either.

Azure Prower.8701:

John Smith.4610:

Hello all, I looked into this because we intended to have a release note for the changes to the champion loot.
We did modify the gold and bloodstone dust coming from champion bags, and a release note will be added shortly.
What I can tell you is that we made a mistake, this one fell through the cracks and I’m truly sorry. I’ve promised before that we won’t make stealthy economic changes without notes and I mean to stick to that promise.
Thank you all for pointing out the error, we will be more vigilant in the future.
Good luck in your adventures.

Whilst very noble of you to come out and apologize. It’s stuff like this that hampers player trust in your company to keep their word and fulfill promises. Thus we as players expect it’s going to happen again and ‘conspiracy theories’ with finger pointing will run wild in result.

Noble? It’s about as noble as yet another apology from a politician for the umpteenth repeat of the same offense. This “sorry, oops we forgot” has been going on for a year. So it’s either ‘their style’ or their incompetence. Pick one, but noble, it ain’t.

Dramen Maidria.1034:

While it is unfortunate some people have lost something they enjoyed doing, the easiest thing to do in the game should not be the most profitable. It’s bad game design and truthfully should have been nerfed much sooner.
There is also the issue with Frostgorge Sound specifically when they redo Claw of Jormag the same way as Tequatl. If you can’t even get into the map due to a champ train how are you going to get enough people to do the revamped event?

Don’t worry. You’ll have no more problem getting into Frostgorge to do the “imporved” Claw, then you do now getting into Sparkfly Fen. IE: Ignored after they kitten that event up too.

GoldenTruth.2853:

Malediktus.9250:

Good change, champion loot is still more than generous for the effort it takes to do them.

2nd this.

They should have posted the changes, but for how mindless and non-risky champ farming is they were right to lower the rewards.

As opposed to those risk filled trash mobs running solo.

rizzo.1079:

Zerole.7306:

Champions died regularly long before the champ bags were introduced.

Not really…

No. No there weren’t. That’s why they increased the rewards for them. That’s why all the waypoints they close were NEVER open. Hell, Nageling may as well not even have one. Tho that is a pop issue now more then loot. Well, it was. Now it wont be worth the bother even if the numbers are in map.

Again.

aliksyian.7642:

I never did champ trains because they seem boring, and I try not to spend hours doing boring kitten so I can get some external reward. I’m okay with them nerfing champ trains.

If nerfing champion rewards means people who only play to farm leave, and people who want actual content stay, maybe the game will be better off.

Except we’re right back at the original champ problem. Not worth the kittening time to kill. So they wont be. Which is why they were buffed in the first kittening place. So people would bother with them.

Azure.8670:

good nerf. champ farming is corny but effective. looks like world events might actually get done now

Why would they? They were nerfed already, hence the champ trains.

Softwood and iron. Ascended crafting takes kittenloads of both. And softwood sells for 3 or 4 times what elder wood does. And it ain’t hard to tell a bot. Just gotta watch how they behave. Hell, used to catch em in Gendarran all the time in the water. Let’s just say that I can’t “waypoint” from mob cluster to mob cluster like they could. Nor do I disappear, pop to a harvest node, tap it, disappear, and reappear to tap it again cause it got a bonus gather, just to disappear and appear at the next node.

Nilkemia.8507:

-That little spot between the Grove and Rata Sum filled in. (The Tarnished Coast)

-The Maguuma Wastes, what with a possible second “Pale Tree” out there.

-The Dominion of Winds and the Tengu.

-The Crystal Desert.

-The other elder dragons actually doing something.

I’m sure there’s more I’m missing, but that’s what comes to mind.

Yup. Pretty much all that. Especially the Elder Dragons being added. The war against the Elder Dragon was this games whole kitten point. LS has been everything with absolutely nothing to DO with the war. Personally, don’t give a tinkers kitten about Scarlett, or any of the LS since SS. Jubilee was fun, but didn’t care about the story. Have had twiggings in my mind that LS is setting up the Humans for extinction, (in next game, if one) since they have mostly been about everything attacking them since Molten Alliance. You can only fight on so many fronts before you get wiped out.