Guild Wars 2

Stooperdale.3560:

It’s unpopular to say it but the OP is right. Path buying is about maximizing rewards for time spent. Path buying is not about fighting through the challenge of a dungeon for the sheer fun of it. We do supposedly play these games for the fun of it and not just for virtual rewards that eventually become worthless when we quit the game. If people want to get dungeons done just for achievements and fanfares they could just play Farmland instead.

So if people want to buy, does selling cause a problem? Well the buying/selling does reduce the size of community that runs the paths for fun. In a massive community this is fine but in GW2 the fun runners are a small community anyway and for some paths they are almost wiped out. This can create a viscous circle where new players can’t get full runs, so they buy the paths, and this means even less new players making groups for full runs.

Intervention to stop players from selling runs looks impossible, in practical terms. It isn’t worth any effort by anyone. However I think dungeon sellers/buyers should realize that although their service improves the time/reward ratios for individuals there is an impact on the wider dungeon community.

The key point that you are missing is that “fun” is subjective and one persons playstyle does not get to dictate what is “fun” for another person. You might think it’s “fun” to kill everything in a dungeon, obviously not everyone enjoys that. Some people find it fun to push the limits and see just how fast they can get through something. Others find it fun to solo a dungeon, and as a small reward to themselves profit off their labor. This is a non-issue except that certain people want to enforce their ideals of “fun” on others.

DinoSir.6193:

Michael Henninger.7451:

Please understand that you are allowed to trade outside of the BLTP – but you will not receive replacements for lost items or gold. The same goes for selling dungeon runs. CS will not suspend or terminate you for selling runs. We will, however, take action if you take payment and not fulfill your end of the bargain.

Hello Michael, thanks for starting this thread.

If we are allowed to trade items outside of the BLTP, effectively bypassing Evon’s tax, why do we still (after two years) not have a way to securely trade items, as seen in most other MMOs, a popup window where you can see and double check any items up for trade (including gold). The trade only actually happens once both players confirmed and accepted. There should also be an option to deny incoming trade invites right away, to prevent being harassed.

They don’t WANT you to bypass the 15% fee (for economic reasons) and have no intention of making it easier for player to do so. I have yet to understand why those that continually request a player to player trade feature can’t grasp this concept.

BLTP gets you access to EVERYTHING you could get via player to player trade and is an invaluable gold sink for the entire game. These leaves you with 2 reasons to want a player 2 player trade:

1. To Scam an unwitting player for a lower than market value price.
2. To bypass the NEEDED 15% fee (gold sink).

If you want a discount trade with someone you trust, the mail trade is there….use at your own risk (the actual subject of this thread).

Lord Kuru.3685:

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Care to explain why you’re going in the opposite direction with PvE (specifically, collections)?

PvE is not competitive. And it is not time-gated.

With a tournament theres no time to lose. Every slot used by someone who is more interested in getting AP than having their team win may be a wasted slot.

In PvE that problem simply doesn’t happen. Even more so now that living story is becoming more permanent. You just get to it when you can.

McCoy’s Angles.

Nuff said.

Uh considering Karl is on the balance team and probably made a lot of the changes he’s talking about himself, he knows what he’s talking about.

You on the other hand sound like you don’t know what you are talking about.

What a kittin this guy, thinking he can get away by faking a ban!.

Why was the decision made to allow legendary weapons to be tradable, but make ascended items account-bound?

Market conditions change all the time. It was rare before and now can drop from bosses. There’s been no change in supply on the market, just speculators getting out ASAP while potential buyers are lowering their asking price.

As for those who bought it when it as a rare chest drop, it’s tough to be on the bleeding edge. When CD/DVD/Blu-ray players first came out they cost hundreds of dollars. Now Blu-ray are like $70 and connect to Netflix and Hulu now over wireless.

Going the Diablo III method and nuking the TP while simultaneously super-buffing drops? It seemed to work in that game.

Might be more fun to remove weapons and armor from the TP and turn it into a commodity exchange for crafting materials and the like. Minis, skins, consumables and other stuff can probably stay too. I like to be able to find my own stuff, as long as the chance is reasonable to find it.

I guess if ANet did the same for precursors by making them easier to obtain and cheaper then they shouldn’t call them ‘Legendary’.

I’m sure ANet knows they’ll lose a lot of revenue from making the contracts easy to obtain and what not. That’s the point. You play this game to try to get these cosmetics and items for your account.

I think it’s a good time to sell them now?

dislike, its nice to have rare items people can work for and eventually earn, not everything should be easy to get its nice to struggle for things you want it makes them worth having

Ayrilana.1396:

You’re close.

Think of the gem/gold exchange like this:

There are two boxes. One has gold in it, the other has gems in it. If you want to take some gold out of the box, you have to put gems in the other box. If you want to take out gems, you have to put gold in the other box.

You can’t put something in without taking something out, and you can’t take something out without putting something in. How much of each depends on how full the boxes are. Right now there’s a lot of gold in one box, but only a few gems in the other box. So in order to take out one gem you have to put in a lot of gold. But on the other hand, if you put just one gem into the box you can take out a lot of gold.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

It’s funny seeing you people put this article down, because I read it and found myself nodding my head to a lot of it.

Putting it down because the perspective of a hardcore, experienced MMO player would NOT be to QQ about how hard it is to get a legendary … and QUIT over it since it’s mostly just aesthetic. Sounds more like the credentials of a hardcore RPer.

Consider there are games a decade ago that most hardcore MMO players would have played where they literally had to raid for hundreds of hours to get a BiS bit of gear; a legendary pails in comparison to what any real hardcore, experienced player would have experienced.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

This game was marketed as a no-grind game (because Anet doesn’t make grindy games), with horizontal progression for cosmetic rewards as end game. I bought into that hype and I’m not at all happy with the direction this game has taken since then. Everything, absolutely everything has gotten more grind as time goes by, and we’re still stuck with either RNG your mats away to obtain a precursor, pull out your credit card, or grind your face off.

But, legendaries are largely cosmetic. Admittedly, that has become slightly less true now that they are account bound, but you can get the same level item with way less grinding. Legendaries have always been there for people who like the grind which is why you can get everything except the cosmetics elsewhere.

I’m sure it’ll be a cash shop item, much like the royal terrace pass. You see that sectioned off area after the feature patch? Yeahhhhh

Or at least let Personal Golem Bankers be a recurring reward in all PvP Reward track lines.

put a bank in the mist, and remove the portal =]

Sins.4782:

Evilek.5690:

Sins.4782:

Evilek.5690:

Free teleport on bank and back ? No thanks

It’s almost like you can already do that using wvw maps and their crafting stations and guild npc’s.

wvwvw=queue, sPvP=without queue

How many servers do you know of that regularly have queues for all 4 wvw maps? Or ever, for that matter?

There are a few. And wouldnt this queue-less thing be a nice advantage for lower pop servers? All the more reason for people to roll on a lower pop server i say.

Bank and TP aren’t in the HotM not because people don’t want them to be there, but because too many people would like them to be there!
If bank and TP were in the HotM then there would be no cost of traveling to LA to gain access to banck and TP.
Moreover, Bank Access Express, TP Express, golem bankers etc. would lose all their value, meaning even less money to Anet.

Given the fact that traveling to the mist is free, just place your character in LA and then queue up from there. Or just stay in HotM and then take the portal to LA.

Wethospu.6437:

Simple test to verify critical chance scaling:

1) Go to starter area (~ level 5) with about 10 critical chance. Attack level 1 white critters. Notice how most of your hits are not criticals.

2) Go to high level area (level > 40) with about 10 critical chance. Attack level 1 white critters. Notice how most of your hits are criticals.

When Wethospu switches from Lupicus slaying to rabbit slaying that’s when you know the game is in sharp decline

Millions of players have played for over a year and no one has yet reported a double crit.

So I would say it’s pretty rare.

I reach the Concordia mission and everyone’s all fine and cheery about their shiny new fort… Which is mangled and destroyed by vines…

Is there a way perhaps the living story could not change the maps within the story missions? The Living Story is awesome, as is how it affects the world, but it’s a bit weird when the new events are affecting instances that are supposed to be in the past (IE Mordremoth influence in the time when Zhaitan still lived).

There is nothing to fix as It’s not “broken” as is evidenced by many players that actually have them.

Now if you want to request that they change the method (or add another), that is a valid discussion.

TBH, if casual “poor” players (which includes me) could get a Legendary easily, they would not be very “Legendary”.

Losing people who can only “play” Queensdale train and consider a week’s worth of dungeons “hard” to get full exotics for tokens, is definitely a good thing for this game.