Guild Wars 2

You are halfway to the max as far as actual percentage points go.

You are 11.5% of the way to the max, as far as the luck-points that you must accumulate to earn those percentage points are concerned.

Make of that what you will

Seeing ast they can’t even seem to make the game work right on modern PCs (see DX11/12 threads and how no amount of hardware can currently solve the game’s performance issues), asking for a console release is rather wishful thinking.

I agree with the OP—it’s extremely disappointing to see them renege on the design and resort back to the generic class setup instead of actually fixing the mechanic so that it was on par with Elementalist and Engineer. I was really hoping this would be the heavy armor class for me, but I guess not.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

MattyP.6954:

If it’s just going to be window dressing, I’d rather them put that effort into actual content.

Based on comments made by Colin when he was discussing by they went with a new class over a new race, window dressing is exactly what new races are going to be. That’s essentially all they want them to be.

Which, as it so happens, is also why they aren’t a priority.

Urejt.5648:

Weirwynn.2390:

Urejt.5648:

Currently 1 spirit shard is worth around 1g (3g if very rich), but requires a lot of trading post. Will Heart of thorns bring faster way consume my 1 0 0 0 spirit shard bank? I dont feel like speding 100h for spirit shard convertion into gold.

You do realize that the time investment as much of the value, if not more, than the spirit shard investment, right? The easier it is, the less profit you will see.

Fully aware of the time consuming process. This is why i wrote those words and asked if HoT will bring faster way?

Did you understand my post? I admit, I accidentally left a word out of the first sentence (“The time investment is as much, of the value as the shard investment”), but I thought it was pretty clear. What you’re saying, though, is that you’d rather spend one hour and get 10G out of your 1,000 spirit shards than 100 hours to get 1,000G out of the same 1,000 spirit shards, which doesn’t really make a ton of sense.

Anyway, it’s highly unlikely that ANet will make currency conversion easier.

Urejt.5648:

Currently 1 spirit shard is worth around 1g (3g if very rich), but requires a lot of trading post. Will Heart of thorns bring faster way consume my 1 0 0 0 spirit shard bank? I dont feel like speding 100h for spirit shard convertion into gold.

You do realize that the time investment as much of the value, if not more, than the spirit shard investment, right? The easier it is, the less profit you will see.

Bought The Legend on the trading post for something like 900-1000g, which all came out of Silverwastes.

You must be really bored if skill points from leveling after 80 factor into whether or not you play a particular alt…

lordkrall.7241:

We can’t start disregarding information just because we don’t care about it.
Heck, I am not really all that interested in the Specializations, but I don’t go around claiming we have gotten no information after weeks when they have talked about them.

Um—?

The playerbase is a collection of individuals, so yes, they kind of need to release enough information to keep those individual people interested regardless of their preferences, or they’ll go somewhere else.

RoseofGilead.8907:

2. The loot from the chest doesn’t change based on the tier of the labyrinth.

It’s funny how many people think it does, though.

L Step.8659:

Although I hate these threads where people act like SW is a lot of work and effort, you literally just afk until certain events and get lucky with RNG.

If that’s how you’re playing SW… you’re wasting your time, honestly. If anyone spent their week idling for mediocre rewards, then I wouldn’t be surprised if they never got a portal.

Keeper Of Traken.6829:

Although most posts here make clear that a “Legendary Chest” would be way too high a price to pay, it seems as though everyone agrees “something” would be appropriate, and most probably that “nothing”, or very little, would not.

I really have no idea where you got that idea. I guess we all hear what we want to hear.

You want ‘extreme rewards’ that most of the people who actually got into the beta would rather be given than the beta that they actually got to play?

Good luck with that.

The worst part is when someone brings their banana into the captain’s airship. Half of the reason why the ship is so awesome to have access to is the complete freedom from repetitive NPC lines.

People actually have a problem getting around in the sandstorm? I mean, what? You have visibility out as far as you ever need for combat. How in the world does that “affect how you approach enemies”?

I mean, darker nights would be cool, and that very concept of it only being in the distance could be applied to them like it is in FFXIV , but still, don’t claim it’s something it’s not.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

No zone completion in the new Skill/Trait implementation. It is all based on Hero Points (formerly known as Skill Points).

Good luck.

How disrespectful! Didn’t you hear him say he’s been trying to avoid hearing any actual information about the system?

Elias.3204:

steve.2945:

Ralanost.8913:

Ele fire staff should have zero problems with world bosses. I have no clue how you are getting constantly downed.

sounds like he just mostly stands there.

Wow. You folks sure know how to make someone feel special. :P

I run a full zerker (rares, working towards exotics) staff elementalist on boss runs.

Claw of Jormag has a tendency to surprise me with those blasts of ice walls he throws down. The three final champions in the Silverwastes can get me down on occasion. So on and so forth.

I dodge when I see a warning area on the ground, but that and a 1200 range is not always enough. If I run out of endurance for dodging or just happen to get tripped up, all it takes is one good shot and I’m downed. I’m just looking too see if there’s something better out there.

Don’t forget that fire staff elementalist has an awesome extra dodge on 4. Also, the elementalist has a bunch of great survivability utilities (Arcane Shield FTW) and the usual fire staff builds have no use for what they normally slot when a world boss shows up.

If that’s not doing it for you, though, I guess that’s your choice. Personally, I wouldn’t bother changing equipment for world bosses, though. It’s really not necessary and they’re not worth it (Barring, like, if you do daily Triple Trouble with a guild). I’d sooner change characters than carry around multiple sets of armor.

World Boss train giving one ascended drop per day when it can take a week of time-gated crafting to produce a single item?

…yeah, that’s not going to happen. None of this is going to happen—it would bring back champion farming and destroy the economy.

I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but detaching the camera from the player like you’re talking about (as opposed to how it happens in the revenant hammer attack) is never going to happen in an MMO.

Finer control of the camera we have would be nice, but I’m not hopeful.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

Would you then finally consider the game a grind?
Would you then finally consider the game pay2win?

No? If that were the case, then the number would quickly become zero, and there would be nothing to grind for. Dead recipes are dead recipes, no matter how good they are.

We know.

15chars.

I agree. Recipes learned from items are not a significant part of character progression and this would be a good QoL improvement for the times that it comes up. I mean, honestly, crafting cooldowns for recipes are shared across an entire account, so it’s only fair that the recipes themselves be.

Doombringer BG.3740:

I’d recommend the insertion of the password to be through a virtual keyboard. You know, the one you click with the mouse on the screen.

That would help against key loggers.

It really wouldn’t. It would only help against hardware keyloggers that have been placed between the keyboard and the computer. With software (or hardware interception on the mouse, for that matter), it’s just as easy to watch for and record mouse position and clicks as it is to watch for keyboard keys.

Virtual keyboard “safety” is a lie.

They have specifically stated that having your character speak is one of the things that they couldn’t do before in the living story due to tech limitations, but really wanted to and have now been able to bring it back for HoT and onwards, so yes, you should expect to hear more of it.

Vavume.8065:

I would understand if we are dieng now because the other map has not been implemented, but if we die like this when it is implemented in the expansion, I will not be impressed at all.

I highly doubt that falling will take you to the map below. That would be far more jarring and frustrating than death. Just imagine the complaints—"I fell, and when I tried to get back to what I was doing, the map was full!"

Going digital-only would be suicide. They need the attention and new players that a physical release will bring. A digital sale will only sell to people who are already playing.

MrWubzy.3587:

You’d be better suited, in my opinion, creating Mawdrey and the Ethereal Star (that is the item that eats Emps, right?) and getting some other things from them if they’re taking up that much space.

If only the Star of Gratitude was, you know, actually attainable right now.

Not that that I’m bitter or anything.

Curunen.8729:

I’m a main only kind of player (only mess around with alts in pvp), so no I don’t really need tomes of knowledge.

I’ve wasted too many on levelling alts in the past, only to eventually delete those characters, so I think I’ll be better off with the MF currency rather than hoarding the tomes.

If you say so. I suppose you’ll just get more tomes after the change anyway, if you need them. The value of a single skill point is just so low, though, that spending tomes for them baffles me. I’m a pretty casual player and I have a good thousand skill points in my bank and another five hundred on my elementalist. Sure, I could spend them converting materials in the forge, but time, rather than the skill points themselves, are the main bottleneck in that.

It seems foolish to me to assume that one would never need the tomes of experience, especially when skill point scrolls are so commonplace, but hey, whatever you feel is important, I guess…

Kasteros.9847:

Still it is only 2h to test a lot of content

If you think there’s going to be “a lot of content” in the beta, you’re probably going to be very disappointed. It’s a 2-6 hour beta, expect an hour or so of content.

I’m going to give Revenant a shot, not just because it’s new, but as an Engineer/Elementalist player, I see the Revenant as the heavy-armor equivalent that could round out my collection of mains.

On the one hand, I don’t agree that just anyone should be able to buy the set with gems, but on the other, the achievement point system is horribly, ridiculously broken, so meh.

Swatcats.8435:

Their is now 9 classes and we only have 5 slots, this is not enough in my opinion.

It was one slot per race, not one slot per class, so I doubt it will change.

Wow, what a ridiculous thread. The only specific thing we know about the new precursor acquisition system is that one of the things you need to do for The Moot is to dance in front of Queen Jennah. General references were also made to doing research and performing heroic feats. Basically, everything that has been said indicates that it’s an achievement/questing system, likely very similar to creating Mawdrey. Is it likely that some steps might include crafting? Sure. Is that the heart of the system? All signs point to “No.”

Asura Engineer (80), my original main with over a thousand hours on it. Abandoned because there’s no point in buying anything for it (Ie. Armor, weapons, backpacks, all pointless)

Human Elementalist (80), my current main.

Sylvari Mesmer (80), AKA the puzzle fairy, because I enjoy jumping puzzles and most of my guildmates do not. Portals FTW.

Sylvari Warrior (63), my armorsmith/weaponsmith who I was leveling just to have a heavy armor/greatsword profession for skins, likely to be replaced by Revenant, which I see as the heavy armor peer of Engineer/Elementalist.

Human Thief (30), for a humanoid medium armor class. I’m fond of thieves in most games, but this one fails to hold my attention much.

Empty Slot (0), purchased when they were on sale, Revenant goes here.

Leo G.4501:

Why would you need the Attunded Grow Lamp to forge Mawdrey? Is the wiki wrong? It says you need the Powerful Grow Lamp to forge Mawdrey. The attunded Grow Lamp is to forge Cultivated Vine.

PS: I made the mistake of forging the Attunded Grow Lamp and the wrong plant foods while getting the stuff for Mawdrey (I farmed all the materials myself!). Not making that mistake again, and this time I’m just gonna buy the junk.

You need the Mysterious Vine to make the Cultivated Vine, and you need the Cultivated Vine to make Mawdrey. Everything required in the entire process is considered to be “making Mawdrey.”

Trinnitty.8256:

thelukaa.9802:

Trinnitty.8256:

I personally don’t like being in combat that slows the speed.

1. Then don’t get into combat, the AI in this game is so bad you can often just avoid getting hit in the first place
2. If you get into combat and are using zerker meta build you should be able to kill the mob very fast or just run away to ooc

PvE is not an issue at all, why on earth would it be.

Its more of a WvW thing where one thief or warrior or ranger will hit you with one shot and all there buddies who are not in combat will catch you and jump on you like an animal in heat during mating season

So, working as intended?

Aktium.9506:

They’re mostly armor sets of the same stats. Only different runes and skins. But being able to switch runes quickly in WvW roaming is a great help before some fights.

I also already spend 20 transmutation charges or so per week across my characters. I would have to buy close to 300 transmutation charges a day to satisfy my need to look good if I were to only have one set of armor.

Well, that’s an interesting way you have chosen to use your available inventory space, but it doesn’t represent a necessity for the game to have an increased capacity.

It baffles me when people disregard copper or silver costs. They add up. You know what also gets you copper and silver? Fine mats. Do you have any idea how much gold you can rack up through selling T5 fine mats from sources that give a lot of them? Money is money, and as a Bifrost-owning, light-ascended and Light of Dwayna wearing elementalist, please, yes, give me as many masterwork and rare upgrades as possible, I want them all.

Farzo.8410:

I hope the something special is a rename of the Dragonhunter specialization.

You heard it here first, folks. The new Guardian specialization will be named the “Something Special.”

hmmz.4186:

you mean post a pic with least clothing

Psh, least clothing? Most expensive clothing is obviously better.

It’s a great song used to great effect during the personal story campaign… it really doesn’t need to be reused everywhere. Hope for something new and equally evocative.

I couldn’t care less about dungeons. They never worked well, and ANet seems perfectly willing to forget about them, which is fine with me.

You always get 50 silky sand from the vinewrath. One silky sand is also an item you can get from any bonus chest in the silverwastes. There is no mystery, here.

Acinonyx Rex.8609:

All you need is a recipe to craft ascended essence of luck with 250 exotic essence of luck. Ascended essence of luck gives 50000 luck point and saves billions mouses.

You realize that legendary essences of luck exist, and are only 500 luck, right?

I very much agree with the OP. It’s a convenience item, it should be convenient.

It takes more work and requires more Q&A to test a removal of the chance to get the drop. Obsessing over it is ridiculous.

Hearte.6852:

segman.3560:

Hearte.6852:

Weirwynn.2390:

Hearte.6852:

I’m a paying customer. I paid for the Digital Deluxe version of the game. If Digital Deluxe/Heroic is now pinned with the Heroic Chest, it should absolutely be awarded retroactively. That’s called good customer service. Yes, I am feeling entitled; I continue to pay for this product.

You do realize that the whole point of the heroic edition is to offer an incentive to new players who need to play catch-up with the existing player-base, right?

Also, as there is no subscription, you do not “continue to pay for this product.” You continue to pay for new products which ANet offers, at your own discretion.

So the gem store purchases within the game are not part of the product? What other game am I paying for?

Gems are a product within the game. You pay for additional currency with real money and after this you choose in-game currency (gems) to buy other services. So at first you bought a game but every gem purchase is a new transaction for new product.

Semantics. Some people are seriously bored today…

It’s not semantics. You make it sound like you’re continually paying just to play the game, and that you deserve some sort of extra reward for doing so. You don’t. I don’t either. If you choose to pay for gems, you are charged a specific amount and receive a specific product in return, no more, no less.

This is probably one of the saddest threads I’ve seen on this forum. It’s an enemy. It’s job is literally to be an obstacle for you to overcome. What’s that? It’s not difficult to overcome? Good for you! Oh, it has something that affects you in a detrimental way? Well gee, I wonder why that could possibly be?

Working.

As.

Intended.