Guild Wars 2

Ah, I see… tyvm for the tip!

Didn’t see this posted, search didn’t get me anywhere, so maybe I’m just glitching.

But last year, everyone got to ‘trick or treat’ one time on a door until it disappeared. Now it seems, one knock per door and it just stands open until disappearing, with no indicator of it’s state on the map.

Is this everyone’s experience?

Zaxares.5419:

Welcome to the crowd of 2012, where us veteran GW2 players learned that it was better to just buy the weapon skins outright than gamble on the chests.

Absolutely! Veteran players can recall these boards being filled with complaints about what a lousy drop rate those things gave you. It’s a sucker bet, and like all sucker bets, some people can’t resist them.

Agreed. It’s a dreadful drop rate.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

khani.4786:

They have said that the gear MF stat is going away some time ago and that they’ve got a plan (but haven’t said exactly what plan) to compensate those who currently have MF gear.

If they say ahead of time that MF gear wearers will all get “X” bonus or whatever what is stopping NON-MF users from buying up all of the MF gear just to get extra rewards?

If they go ahead with their plan and we find out in detail how MF gets changed the day of, then the regular users of MF get their boost/compensation and the gear left in the TP is changed accordingly.

We know the gear is changing. personally, I think that’s all we need to know right now.

That is vastly simplifying it.

What about people who have listed those MF items? are they screwed? will their items be the same value afterwords? will existing MF gear be convertible? Will the MF runes and sigils be changed to something else or converted into account MF? Will existing gear be converted into skins, will it be needed to be salvaged, will it be converted into another gear set? Will multiple sets of MF gear provide multiple bonuses and compensation or are we limited to one bonus per account?

The only way we have enough information right now is if you put your fingers in your ears and yell LALALALLALA and hope for the best…

Agreed. Anet created this whole MF mess by having gear that uses it. Now, they want to eliminate MF. Fine, but if for one week some ppl ‘abuse’ it, that’s tough… the vast majority who have this stuff want to know so they can lessen the impact.

AND… if they want to stop ppl from exploiting the TP for MF gear, then just return all MF gear to the seller and make MF gear ineligible for the TP.

Ok, I understand the need for eliminating MF gear. Upon today’s announcement of the change coming in a week, why couldn’t they explain in detail what will happen?

Also, it was kinda crazy that the craftable Celestial gear that was just released recently had MF stats on it, don’t you think? Obviously, even people at Anet don’t know what’s going on!

Yeah, this is nuts. Might as well just forget naming altogether.

You allow naming, but wipe it every time you swap a pet? Hey, store the names locally in a text file that can be read. Shouldn’t be hard at all to implement.

Yeah, I’m stuck at 82/83, ‘needing’ the PvP finisher. I’ve done it in sPvP, WvW, and the training area.

Why doesn’t Anet just make this an ‘automatic’ achievement a certain time after your account is created? (or… y’know… FIX THIS!)

You mean real fireworks shows tell you the time? Gee… doesn’t that ruin all the anticipation? NOT!

So recently changed providers and I have google authenticator for my phone. For my Google account, I had to notify them of the new number. That’s done.

Do I have to do anything for the GW2 authentication, or since I changed my Google info, that will carry thru?

It was only a week or two ago that my WvW bonuses started showing up. Now, with the Wintersday patch, they are gone again. For such a promising start of a game, not fixing basics correctly is really a downer.

Ah, European standards for a refund, I see. Maybe Europe also refunds in a different manner than how it was purchased, but in the U.S. it’s a moot point.

If you were posting to get sympathy for you not getting a refund for something you used for 3 months, I doubt you’ll get many takers.

Every MMO that claims to eliminate ‘the grind’ has failed. Every one… think about that the next time someone claims they have no grind.

That said, you can just play the story mode of dungeons to see them once, so that might be an option.

The fractals are just a shuffling of the same XX ‘cards’. It’s a grind, and a gear grind at that. Another thing that was promised to be avoided.

Yeah, I would never trust Anet time in the first place. You left it kinda late.

Hmmmm… how about knocking off the ‘fractals’ requirement? Some of us hate them. The first month you introduced them, ok, but now it’s gonna be every month? Yuck.

Paypal’s refund policy is the problem, and no, that’s not Anet’s… you chose the method of payment.

I too am disappointed by the turn to gear grinding, but if you’ve played the game for 3 months, you at least got some value there.

Pretty unheard of for a company to give refunds on video games in this day & age anyway.

My problems with this game came with the lost shores event. I’m getting random DC’s and it’s getting old really fast. They need to look at their code!

DR is a horrible idea. It only leads to more grinding, and it’s a cop out mechanic to stop bots and farmers. Let people just play. Oh, and can they please fix the Champion drops? It’s always a long fight for next to nothing, IF something drops at all.

Archmortal.1027:

You didn’t misinterpret it. It is exactly what they meant at the time. Some time between launch and now something changed and that is exactly why they raised the vertical bar. Whatever the change was, they are not being straightforward about it and instead are trying to re-define their own manifesto. In doing so they appear dishonest at worst and misleading at best.

Agree 100%, and it is truly disappointing that they abandoned things so quickly. No gear grind was something that was thrown around a LOT, and yet here we have it. Worse, the fractals are splitting the community, rather than bringing it together. It feels like WoW dungeon grouping with the group spam in LA. They might as well go the whole way and have a dungeon finder as well.

Jarin Arenos.2736:

NA west coast, can’t log in. Says my firewall is at fault. I’m connected straight to my modem with no intervening hardware, and it was working fine just a little while ago.

It really doesn’t diagnose your problem to be your firewall. It’s just a boiler plate statement that is saying it MUST be YOU, ‘cause it CAN’T be US! Typical of most companies nowadays, blame the customer.

Likewise in US, West Coast. GW2 has been acting generally flakey since that Lost Shores event. Gotten kicked more often now than all the times leading up to it.

Gear stat increases are just bad, even if small. When you give a slight edge via gear, it doesn’t negate the skill factor, but it give that edge constantly and will come into play over time. In effect, it is no longer an ‘even’ match, based on skill alone.

Yep, fractals did it. I can’t get ppl from my guild to do anything else, and even that is fragmented because of the fractal level system. It’s what happens when you abandon your principles and cave in to the gear grind crowd.

This was gonna be THE game for me. Now I’m having serious doubts and thinking it’s time to look elsewhere.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Im hoping:

There was a bug with the new loot drops, this has now been fixed and loot should be better across the board again. Champions, veterans and chests should yield alot better loot as promised in the lost shores patch notes. Champions now always drop stuff.

Y’know what they say… hope in one hand, **** in the other, see which you get!

Seriously tho, I agree with all you said, it’s a no brainer and I can’t believe they haven’t patched it yet.

Yeah, my son quit a month ago, I’m still playing, but not as much. It’s just not the same game they promised or gave us at launch. I understand the need to adapt, but such a radical departure only a few months after launch? They must have a lot of people leaving the game to do so.

This new direction only fragments the community further.

plasmacutter.2709:

Natural.7013:

With all the vocal minority inundating the forums, it was no surprise that Whiteside coined the Fotm, event and new content a success. These forums were slammed with the same few thousand people complaining about the new gear and dungeon. Yet, the proof will be in the pudding in the end. MMO companies use metrics to help determine direction and a great many things about how they will move forward in their game.

Sure, they listen to feedback, but they also put alot of stock into the actions of players. If they see a good turnout in the dungeons on a daily basis, keep concurrency consistent and people wearing the new items by the hundreds of thousands, then it is definitely a success.

People that claim the forum spam is the majority could in fact really be in the minority by a large margin. We will never really know since MMO companies usually don’t reveal the metrics/data they keep.

Personally, I think they saw a huge population in exotic gear at 80 with little to do and average concurrency going south. The game is ultra simplistic and caters to casuals more than most MMOs. Your not in your GW1 Tyria anymore either. If this is to be a true mmorpg, then they are likely watching their metrics on a weekly basis and holding meetings to debrief the data…that data must show people were in need of Ascended gear and dungeons worth doing and reasons to log in.

This is a boatload of crap and you know it.

Let’s move the Ascended gear to all the known sources for exotics and see if FotM has more than a tiny fraction of the playerbase.

When FOTM ceases to be the ONLY source for the best gear in the game, THEN we can start to get true metrics on it.

As it stands now, all FOTM is doing is killing the rest of the game and encouraging incredibly bad behavior as it fragments the community.

Exactly. While it’s a shame they abandoned the ‘no gear grind’ statement, what’s worse is the fragmentation FOTM causes. The idea of fractals isn’t bad, but the grouping requirement is horrible. Even people in your own guild don’t want to play at a level lower than they are (understandable), and with so many levels, it’s a pain to get a group.

Yeah, it was weak for all the hype, but that seems to be the trend. Hopefully they will improve as time goes on.

I’m ok with regular mobs not dropping things, but champs should always drop something (maybe even vets too). For the play time consumed on a champion, you could get multiple drops off regular mobs.

I’d like to see a little better ‘highlight’ of the drop as well. And/or a group loot, it’s easy to miss a drop in a large group/battle.

@Vain… welcome, hope you enjoy the game. I wasn’t attacking you, it’s just your post just wasn’t helpful. It’s really not about speaking common sense, because as I referred, it is a canned answer anyone online has gotten. And it almost always turns out to be a false effort. We aren’t doing anything different, have the same system (for me, since launch), and yet we get DC more often today than in the past. That’s a problem for Anet (Arenanet, the maker of GW2 – Guild Wars 2) to fix on their end.

Oh, and when I get the DC, when I restart, I get that hokey ‘check game data’ message. I’ve tried letting it check, I’ve tried not letting it. Makes no diff.

It’s the typical “it must be you, it can’t be Anet” type of response, made famous by many big companies, not just them. Anet is probably having server/connection issues. Nothing has changed on my computer. I’m seeing these dc’s mostly when I change zones. Again, hopefully a patch/server fix is coming.

Well, it’s not just you. I’m not getting as frequent a dc as you, but way often than normal today. Probably 4 times in 3 hours. And yes, it’s a pain. Let’s hope Anet looks into this soon!

1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁷
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁶
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – ³
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – ⁶
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – ²
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – ¹
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ¹ (too long)
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ¹ (too long)
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – ⁵

lisamee.2408:

Too bad i can’t enjoy this new zone solo, can barely kill a karka…..and if i do there is no loot to collect. Its such a beautiful place, i was hoping for a zone that was not as hard and ulgly as ORR for my 80 to play in and collect level 80’s loot.

Not every player wants constant challenge and group play when they reach 80!

Yeah, I find Orr kinda ‘meh’ as well, compared to much of the rest of the world. But if you’re properly equipped, you can solo this area, it’s just very difficult. Added to that, there doesn’t seem like there’s much to do but farm. And even then, the drop rate seems lower. I’ve taken to playing my 80 in Frostgorge, maybe that’s an option?

I would agree with all your points. Here’s hoping Anet will as well.

Not a big fan of precursor drops, would rather see some sort of quest chain as leaving it to chance will disappoint many more than it satisfies.

Now I might change my mind if I get lucky…

I agree the event was laggy and drawn out, but with the way Anet has been tight on drop rates, there’s no way 50% of any group got precursors.

I saw ONE guy show the precursor he got in the group I was in and there were lots of people posting. Personally, I got the shell/box like everyone plus a couple rares and exotics.

I don’t get kicked that often, but have been kicked about a half dozen times in a few hours. It’s their code, not your connection.

But it is frustrating, and thus, I’m posting here vs. playing. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

They really should fix what they have b4 adding content. They have a lot of bugs before this event, and now they have a ton more.

I wonder what the impression of the ‘free weekend invitees’ are. I personally like the game (but wish they would fix it). To a newcomer, I can see them being totally turned off.

Cassius.8945:

I wonder how much it will cost me to buy NZ a new undersea cable, because there is nothing I can do to make my internet any better.

It’s not your connection, it’s Anet’s servers and buggy code.

Ever since the event launched, I’ve been getting DC’ed randomly. Happening even away from LA, sometimes on log outs, sometimes just ‘bam’ when walking around.

Let the launcher verify files & whatever, still happens. Certainly a poorly thought out and tested event.

Y’know, they could divide the player base by city (i.e., at event time, you can only enter your home city), and stage the event at each one of those.

Having an event at LA is a disaster.

skullmount.1758:

So what do you do with the commendations? (if you’re supposed to give them to the lady in teh center of LA, what do you get for it?)

Short answer is… not much at all. Methinks this is just a not-so-clever gold sink.

The Karkas attack is over (until Sunday, I assume), and thank goodness for that. It was a boring, lagfest of an ‘event’, with only the cutscenes the cool part. But, y’know, since I got kicked at the start of the cutscenes, they ended up not being so cool.

Yeah, I think they forgot about the ‘fun’ part. Listening to a lot of cryers about how content isn’t tough enough, they went for punishing. Not engaging, unique, strategy based… just punishing. But I’m sure someone will complain that isn’t tough enough either.

While I’m all for new events and content, they would be better served fixing all the bugs that I’m sure have been reported numerous times by now.

Producing a laggy, bug ridden ‘event’ is not the way to make things better.

Raine.1394:

I was there for the event. Read the reviews. Honestly, I think your time spent at work/school was probably the wiser choice for a fun time, so cheer up.

Totally agree. If the idea of a ‘fun’ event was constant respawns until you beat down some NPC’s, well then, you missed a really ‘fun’ event. Seriously, no cool mechanics or anything unique. Just a beat down, and a long tiresome one at that.

Maybe if you got 2 chests for 1 piece of grass… but just ‘maybe’.

That said, I’m sure Anet is making a ton of money on these things. Until they don’t, these will be around.

Agreed on the public test server. Anet thinks it’s great to not have spoilers, but isn’t the fact that things are super laggy and bugged a huge disappointment? And isn’t disappointment far worse than spoilers? Just saying…

Don’t we all wish we could do something useful with those stupid chests.

Ferguson.2157:

As a soldier now less than 3 weeks from retiring I can say this, be prepared to miss out on lots of things that were important to you as a civilian and as an individual (Friends weddings, Funerals, weekends off, vacations, holidays, movies, etc).

Over the course of my almost 20 years I’d find myself stuck for months/years in odd parts of the world. While in CONUS at home station details, guard mounts, alert status, field training at huge blocks of time. Overseas deployments and tours are even more demanding. For most tours I was only able to take the most minimal of leave, on block leave too (i.e. not when I wanted it).

I have from time to time been able to play computer games, but those times were rare.

As an 11B3PH/38A3PH that was my experience. Some occupational specialties may be a bit easier for having gaming as a hobby.

It’s an interesting, challenging, and rewarding career, don’t get me wrong, but I think you will find your focus will shift to career related activities fairly quickly once you reach your first duty station.

Just wanted to say thanks for your service, along with all the others who serve. I did 2 years of it and found that issues such as you address above were something I didn’t want in my life. Hope you guys get some much needed playtime!