Guild Wars 2

The thing with those two is that there isn’t collection items tied to them.

Alot of good ideas … but why a new currency and a new vendor … just use the current currency and the current vendor ..
Just Expand what they sell.

Also … IMO … when you happen to get a Fractal weapon skin to drop …
Have it check to see if its unlocked already my 6 fractal shields and 4 fractal spearguns do not need company

I have yet to see the GS/Sword/Hammer/Trident/Spear.
If it was a perfect world … it would give you another fractal skin that you didn’t already have or in an imperfect world it could just roll again (and you could get nothing/ring/armor or weapon chest /or a fractal weapon skin)

Agreed …. I dislike outfits as well because it removes the option of utilizing the good parts while leaving out the terrible parts. for example some races look absolutely terrible with part X of whatever outfit. but the rest looks great.

That being said outfits do have one use … while leveling you can look ok vs the mismashed conglomeration of whatever you happen to be wearing.

good question …. new content … full O bugs … GG

Post was moved – to discussion … but the Bug originally was various bugged Megaserver instances that just stay alive forever.

So Anet

… Adds creates MEGA … whatever (was all about them saving money on their server hosting bills) but they Bill it as a HUGE improvement for us …

… adds Collections … super .. However I don’t ever remember asking for anything remotely like this.

Also I love how almost worthless items b4 collections SAM, Arah Pendant, ect ect ect suddenly Skyrocketed to 500g BEFORE this was released … sounds like some employees shared the info or took advantage of this and cornered the market prior to becoming general knowledge.

However the real problem I would like to discuss is that if we want to work on these collections … we need to go do these event chains .. No problem I enjoy them and that being said … It is hugely annoying to try and do Commissar and/or Ogre Wars and find them constantly bugged (why are these still bugging?) … I check the IP and/or try and guest to another world to try and find an IP that is currently working but to no avail.

How bout YOU implement some sort of option to down-vote a broken IP so after so many votes it immediately creates a new Mega and then the migration begins
into the new Mega … New people entering the zone can’t get the broken and all the people in the current broken Mega get prompt that the current IP is slated for closure.

Or even better an OPTION to see Other active Megas (IP’s) of the same zone and then join them (sorta like districts in GW1) and if there are none .. have the option to wait in que for creation of a new mega instance and if there are say 10-25 people in said que .. or 30% of the zone pop a new mega is created

Just some thoughts .. … and also .. please fix the search feature on these forums please I honestly can’t believe that there isn’t a single post in any of it with the word Dredge or Broke or Ogre and dozens of other basic gw2 terms … but alas .. the constant No results found is AWESOME.

I have been a long time player of gw1/2 and I do understand that Anet is a business and making money and staying alive is a core concern for any business.
But in my opinion there has been a massive failure somewhere within your company and with the management of gw2.

You have abandoned so many popular and amazing things from gw1 to gw2.
Simple example Design-a-Weapon contest. you get items to sell on the gem store
That your customers ACTUALLY want and the players do all the work.

Don’t misunderstand I love your product & love your employees (99% of the time) however as a longtime player I feel that you have really stopped listening to your player base and huge % of what is a high priority for you as a company and consequently your staff .. has nothing to do with what a large % of your player base is concerned about. Keep it up and people will get bored with your game and go elsewhere … already I regularly hear references to “Wait Wars” and other derogatory terms as applied to your product (also the dozens if not hundreds of people that I’ ve witnessed get bored and leave for a competitors product.)

Just some thoughts

Hope its helpful

Sorry to hear that you are lacking Bladeshards … I have stacks of em and Im still waiting for a way to spend em. That being said its the cost of missing the various living story chapters. I have similar but not exactly the same pain with regards to other Living story chapters so I honestly feel bad for ya. At least you are not completely blocked from acquiring the blade shards … there is absolutely no way for me to get the item I want.

What I find to be funny is that they want to expand into gear other than Zerk.
Then they time gate us on the ability to make suits that wont bind on to a character.

That being said .. Zerk heavy was first then Celestial cloth, Sentinels Heavy was my third but only because I want to pvp on my warrior and my guard.
The next two will be Zerk Leather and Zerk cloth but it kinda makes me sad because I was hoping to experiment with some Dire/rabid/Zealots cloth and leather but its rapidly moving to the end of the list of things to spend my laurels on.

Having crafted 3 full ascended suits already .. Thats not how it works.
You have to spend laurels for the second suit but you are correct I can purchase all the insignia recipes with Karma.
Just cant make the armor with just an insignia.
2 heavy one zerk one sentinel and a celestial cloth suit.
couple pieces for other suits as well …. so Astral you should check again.

Astral Projections.7320:

Sligh.2789:

Strike.1340:

The problem as I see it is the cost in Laurels to craft said Items.

Ummm, no laurels are required to craft Ascended armor or weapons.

You have to buy the recipes from the NPC for the ascended weapons and armor. Each one is 5 laurels each. Armorsmith, Tailor, and Leatherworker: 30 laurels each for a full suit. So 90 laurels if you want to outfit one of each weight class.

In addition, if I want to craft every weapon for all my 8 level 80s, just for Weaponsmith it will cost me 40 laurels. Then there is Articifer, 20 laurels. Huntsman, 35 laurels. That’s 95 laurels for all weapons.

That’s the bare minimum for ONE stat allocation … Rabid for instance.
now multiply that times the 20 various stat allocations currently in game.
so 185 laurels for all armors / weapons x 20 … so 3700 laurels even a tenth of this at 370 laurels is way to much to ask from each and every person not to mention all the other costs … (silk / linen / wool anyone?) … lol

Now that Ascended armors / weapons are account bound … AMAZING btw.
The problem as I see it is the cost in Laurels to craft said Items.

First of all I was under the understanding that they wanted us to craft and use different gear sets (stats- wise) however that being said each and every set of ascended armor / weapon it requires a hefty investment for a particular stat type.
30 laurels for a full suit of stat type X (zerker/cleric/rampager/celestial)
& 5 for each weapon and for each stat combination (if memory is correct on weapons)

So .. at best I can craft any one of the stat combinations for each of the 3 armor types .They don’t want us all in zerker but if I can craft only one … its gonna be zerker heavy / cloth/ medium and then a few weapons …

If they truly want us to be able to swap into other stats .. they should put the laurel price on the insignia/inscription and then remove the laurel price on the various parts of the suit or the weapon

Or best idea of all just remove the laurel cost all together for the various ascended stats.

Just my opinion

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Congratulations-ANET/3927214

this post in my original thread by “Ok I did it” states it all

What I find ultra funny is that Wow went and introduced some sort of overflow system which is stealing from Anet (if i read it right it was long time ago gw2launchish)

And then Anet when and stole the terrible from Wow …. Megaserver

Terrible for populated servers at least .. the ghostown servers all love it … but they will probably flitter off and do something else soon those servers are ghostowns for a reason…

It isnt ONLY hunting the bosses … its the whole kit and kaboodle for the world events. I am happy for you and others on lower pop servers that most of what mega servers are has been positive for those servers with a smaller player base.

However Large pop servers have more people and well if it affects them negatively it will cost Anet more.

I completely understand the server infrastructure changes … that being said they still can expand the schedule. Its like a person eating 3 meals a day is now required to survive on one bowl of oatmeal for the month. Sorry but that is the best illustration of what this boss schedule has done for my enjoyment of the game.

Also not attacking anyone else’s servers here but I’ve been on BG since day one and other than a short period when a few specific trolls were controlling general/map chat the helpfulness of the players and the community is by far one of the best I’ve ever played with in a mmo.

And up until recently .. never touched wvw so if anyone has wvw baggage regarding BG ….. please find the appropriate thread. This is not it.

Max Lexandre.6279:

We can’t rage this much against ANet, we need to yes, insist with them till they melt so this game’s community voice is finally heard.

There are problems that are actually minor things (but with great impacts on players) with some of their new systems that they need to first admit and then discuss with the community the paths to take from there.

Not that the changes are bad by themselves, the ideas are nice, some specific implementations work awfully, specially hurting PvE Players.

Couldn’t Agree more and I find it funny how people from the low pop servers (that were probably guesting to a High pop server) all like the mega server which is an excellent Idea I agree … but they dont EVER mention the real complaint I had which is the world event schedule.

I’ve often wondered about and noticed exactly the same results.

Yay… at least we can influence each other maybe anet will address these issues as well.

Also a few posters above took what I stated about world events and translated it to Zerg events in their heads… world events also include things like Taditha/Modinir/Ogre Wars not just the zerg fests like Jormag and Karka queen I used to level from 40-50 ish on quite a few of my toons Doing the Modinir event chain. 99% of the time it was me and maybe a dozen others IF that …

You should see the screencap I have of modiniir now .. i swear it had at least 200 people there (although i thought the server cap was 160) it was absolutely horrible.

Also Apologies for formatting issues… first time poster here and well not at all familar with “proper” formatting with these tools.

Alot of the things you mentioned are tied together from a design prospective.
for example megaserver & the world event schedule the main reason they did that was so they wouldnt get charged for as many single servers from amazon.

The server concept .. is here to stay as long as wvw is server based. However i do agree it really is terrible on alot of the servers out there.

Angel what server are you on? a lower pop one?
I already have a wonderful Community … the server of Blackgate.
We did all that that you mention in your post the problem is I just dont spend all that much time just wandering around random zone X. I like the concepts of mega servers .. what I dont like is the Schedule for various world events .. maybe you are not 80 yet and have yet to reach any content other than wandering around an empty zone. If so Im sorry for you.

Lol ya probably my first and last thread here … tis a shame they chose to break the game this way.

edit used the word post when I meant thread*.

You have taken a wonderful game and turned it into the reasons I don’t play other games.

Overcrowding, Lack of activities and other just general annoyances ALL tied you the NEW and WONDERFUL …. MEGACRAP otherwise known as Megaservers and the the new World Event Boss schedule.
Personally the second item … the new boss schedule is the bigger problem. I could deal with a large number of of people, (I play on Blackgate so…) I am used to alot of people at events but even with our large population and even more people guesting to BG to catch these events its nothing even close to the Overfull megaservers.

I realize the reasons why you went to mega servers and the fail boss schedule … its COST … I have an IT background and I know how your old system was being run on the amazon cloud (or whatever its called …) and how all the servers you were being billed for was cutting into your bottom line.

That being said … since I’ve yet to see a post from an ANET staffer addressing peoples concerns and problems with the Megaserver/Boss Schedule

I will be voting with my dollars as well.

Complete boycott of any more cash purchases.

Since the mega server rollout the ONLY thing I can do is stand around in town / tpvp / WvW / dungeons and fractals (Your improved loot in fractals is a joke right?)

I do love those parts of your game I would guesstimate i spent close to 75% of my time in game doing open world pve events and the mega / schedule Nuked that.

I WAS your almost ideal type of player however this boss schedule is rapidly making me actively look for another option because when i get in game the only thing I do is fondly remember how good your game WAS.

Now to the kudos … wardrobe is awesome/ new traits seem wonderful too bad I cant use them fighting anything. IMO they really kill the leveling experience but at 80 they seem very nice.

I strongly suggest a much more extensive schedule so what might have taken 3 hours before this new boss schedule doesn’t take the 8 hours it does now.

I would appreciate a real response as well either here or in pm … or is the forums just another name for the round file?

Glad i read your post .. hadn’t even thought about ascended rings being unique equipped.
If nothing else you gave someone else a heads up to learn via your misfortune. To bad you have two of the same rings bound to the same character condolences.

Ok so .. was working of Fotm lvl 12 did a couple then cliffside came up .. ok fine i can do it annoying but ok whatever.

We get all the way to the top and eventually get put in a cage… The cage is targetable attackable .. but it takes Zero damage. From the outside or the inside .. AWESOME.

Restart again… after the whole team is in a cage.
We go again … first fractal fine .. the second … ZOMG heres Cliffside AGAIN… so try it .. same bug so .. our pug was actually awesome cruising thru these fractals well but as one of the members stated .. beating the fractals no problem but beating ANET … wasnt gonna happen … total fractals completed 5 and 2 cliffsides atttempted and bugged to oblivion. for a grand total of 5 fractals with 2 with zero rewards and no daily bonus. grrrrr.