Fractals: Just create your own group and don’t join farm runs.
So i am locked out of joining farm groups in fractals. Unless i make my own, but this wont be such fast farm groups, since its not 3ele+chrono+warr setup, right?
And Raid groups?
Whom they will take – Ranger or Elementalist in Raid group? I.e. i am locked out of this content as well.
Dude, there’s always going to be a best setup for each fractal level, and for each one it requires a different composition to speedily complete, for this specific farm, that is what they want to use and if you don’t meet the criteria you should look for a different group.
Create your own squad/party/group?
Good luck.
exactly this, if you’re hosting for fractals, it’ll fill up pretty quickly, those are speedrun groups, people who have found [what they consider to be] optimal classes to run specific levels with… and especially for lv 40 farm chronomancer is invaluable.
I play only female toons. No male ones and i’m male.
It really has to do with how secure you are with yourself. Why does it even bother you? You need to really think about it.
As for me. If i’m going to be looking at something for hours on end I’d rather it be a females rear then a mans lol
yep, I even used a makeover kit to change my main’s sex to female after a couple years. I have like, one male charr and 8 females of all the other races.
You want an intel CPU, game can utilize intel cpu’s way better than amd.
Dulfy had some leaked piccies with backpieces that came very close to being capes, so you might be in luck.
why not post the source if you post something like this?
What is STRESS test? I don’t get it! It’s not “How the game can be stressful for players” I think? And so, we will have access to Elites, Mount AND Pve at same time? Some changes about mount sickness to expect?
btw, add a swap weapons button for engineer: I want to toggle between my rifle and my hammer!
need to test server capacity, having all the events and what not happen, otherwise you have what happens when woW launches a new expansion, without fail, the game is like unplayable for like a week.
Minor Reminder: This is a topic asking for the addition of Skimpy Male Armors to go along with the Skimpy Female armor..
This is not asking to remove any of the existing Skimpy Female armor.
it’s still silly and unnecessary, women typically wear skimpy clothes out in public, but you never see a dude with his shirt off at the store for example.
probably if it represents any modern firearm/weapon…
I can’t help but laugh at how there are two almost equally loud groups, one decrying the comparative lack of skimpy female armor, and another turned off by the apparent absurdity of female skimpy armor and/or the unfairness of it compared to male armor.
Just goes to show that there’s no pleasing everyone.
What I find equally absurd is how just having the option to cloth a female character in skimpy armor is labeled as sexualizing them and yet, what do a large portion of women wear casually, at work or at school? Most aren’t trying to wear loose jeans and a regular-lengthed short sleeve shirt.
Absolutely true, don’t really see women covering up in public, while men do.
I’ve read through a bunch of posts on this, and I think there are a handful of concerns with the system.
1. The Walls – behind a heart and “map currency” to ID – for many, this will slow them down when it comes to identifying day-by-day and will add unnecessary frustration
2. The Cost – gold sink discussion – the additional cost to ID and then salvage is substantial and will create ripples through a lot of markets (core currency well)
3. The Loot Impact – additive or replacement – this is likely my biggest concern, and I think it is for many others. As long as drop rates for rares/exotics are unchanged from core/HoT, the option to “convert” a green into a rare/exotic is part of the gamble. Drop rates for greens/blues should be lower anyway, which would lead to the perceived benefit of stacking these items as unidentified gear
4. Exclusivity – anything locked behind unidentified gear – are their skins/weapons/gear/trinkets/rewards locked behind the gear? This would make it feel necessary to invest the time and money, rather than keeping it additional/optional – as an extension, we can mention anything not locked, but with a much higher drop rate from unidentified gear versus open world
5. Mat market disruption – salvaged material rates – it seems like the unidentified gear provides more mats when salvaged directly, which will boost supply and drop prices for several items. Paired with any gold valuation and a potential currency sink, the TP market is likely to go through some rather significant shifts
I’m no expert, and I’m likely missing some factors here. In the big picture, I’m not sure what adding this feature brings to the game. If it’s the only way to get certain items, it will upset some people. If it replaces some portion of the previous drop system, it will upset some people. If the intent is to disrupt markets and currencies, it will upset some people. When the dust settles, the game state may be pretty good, possibly better, but what pains will be encountered to accomplish that (both acute and chronic)… we’ll have to wait for PoF and find out.
3. replacement for event rewards, and loot drops in the zone iirc (but heart quests are easily doable anyways… if you just want the gold, salvage it and u never need to do HQ to identify.)
4. Yes, there are special skins and items locked behind UnID gear, Sunspear set of weapons, for example. it gives incentive to ID, just like weapon skins in fractal chests gives incentive for those.
5. you will mostly receive only 2 of the item when salvaged, yes, you CAN receive 25, but it is rare.
As I said in my original post/feedback regarding this: while I get where anet was going with this, if they insist on keeping this system in the game, they need to lower the cost of ID to no more than 50cp. This way they have a small coin investment that won’t break the bank, especially for new players who are going to 80 bump themselves into the game AND they get to keep their space saving/gamble thing in the game.
They need to remove the cost to ID and get rid of the requirement to go anywhere to do it. We didn’t need to identify before and I don’t see any reason to bring back that crappy GW1 system.
I barely ever have issues with bag space and since you also have to unlock a heart vendor (effectively bringing one of the worst misfeatures of WoW into GW2: mandatory dailies) this ends up being worse than it was before as far as I’m concerned: more busywork, more clicking and at a higher cost.
I don’t think there’s a problem with the cost, afaik, these bounty missions are infinitely repeatable, not having to stop and daily wait, and what not, ya? with that many items coming into the economy by what you know will be people doing bounty champ trains, you need to make a sacrifice like this, 1/10 runs you may find yourself salvaging all them to get the money to id them later on if you wanna gamble.
supply & demand. also, i don’t go up by coppers, if i am buying a big ticket item i go up by g’s often 100+g or similar on an item like that, it stops you from being uppercut. also that person probably bought up all the supply to that number, then tried buying out the rest so they could make money later on. happens often with dyes
I got a key about a year ago and it is still in my bank. but that is it for past 2.5 years.
I noticed something interesting about RNG which makes me believe it is not Random at all and should be called PNG (preassigned number generator).
I get 7 [Black Lion Salvage Kit] in a row this year between February and March and another 8 last year at the same time. Also I got 3 [Mystic Forge Stone] during April and another 5 about same time last year (April-May).
This happens on JP chest loots too. I had same loot for long period of time on same character and same chest which is different from other toon on same chest but it is similar for same toon, which makes me believe that SEED used for RNG is a combination of Player account name (Id?), Character name(id?) and partial date may be tried to be smart and put an MD5 or SHA1 hash on it too. Although this makes it unique to not be seen in big sample data size, but in an isolated sample size it is visible enough. e.g. looting 8 green heavy chest armor of same type and same stat within same month specially when the toon looting, is using light armor.
What I’m trying to say is you might not even see a single key for rest of your play time. make another toon, and loot chests with that. Maybe you get lucky this time.
rng is rng… often times when i roll with random.org i get the same roll sometimes even 10+ times in a row with insanely low odds. also speaking of rng, got my 2nd precursor across 1701 days today.
Legendaries are for end game, HoT content is end game, fits together perfectly. you should be doing legendaries last, and they should require epic journeys of epic proportions, no issues with requiring 100+ mastery points
With the introduction of the bounty system, there can’t be too many waypoints, because you grab bounty, tp over to bounty location and cheese the system, and no, having a system where if you have a bounty active you can’t tp wouldn’t work either because people would just keep tping around as other people call out bounties for example. it has to be done this way, for mounts and for bounties.
yeah now i see the thread here but the official wiki was wrong then and no timer that i remember appearing in game for the item…
can gw2 support be contacted for a price adjustment?
Wikis have always been contributed to by the community, mistakes are made very often.
PoF is digital only, there’s no collector’s edition.
there’s still not even random mini, if they do random glider, we need random mini too![on zone swap, for instance?]
Check your connection, use a traceroute to make sure you don’t have packet loss between your computer and the instance/map address reported by typing the /ip command into the chat box in the game.
Even a single lost packet can result in a disconnect. It is usually a sign of a bad connection (WIFI), bad router (very common) or bad ISP (remote areas, congestion, playing at bad times of day like when everyone is getting off work).
ArenaNet really needs to add the ability to resume from disconnects in story.
they really do. it’s one of the things FFXIV got right, disconnecting during a long story instance kills all my motivation to keep going thru that story instance since i dunno when my net’s gonna act up and mess up again. they do the open world content flawlessly (aside from well… losing meta&event progress if you dc… there should be a grace period for that too…)
This question has been asked and answered multiple times already. Anet has already directly stated that they will not be adding any more base classes. There are no “thoughts” to be had about it.
I was not aware, can you cite this statement?
I’ve also not seen something like this. although each elite spec truly and almost completely makes the classes play entirely differently, future expansions open tons of possibility to maybe tengu race, more classes, etc.
this game is cpu bound, not gpu, u can reach maximum settings with a much lower gpu.
bugged? no, you’re just unlucky. and you trashed the item multiple times when you could’ve kept it… always /wiki items you’re unsure about
I think this policy needs an update. When I use my credit card to purchase the game, then PoF, and regularly purchase gems with that credit card, always from the same network, logged in with 2-factor authentification, and then buy a second account using the same means, probably with the same email-address…well, then I should be able to use all features the service I payed for provides, from day 1.
They even get my mobile phone number, which I use for both accounts, so they could actually get a confirmation that I really intended to make that purchase.
In the case where a hacker gets all these information and physical access to your devices at home, there’s a good chance he can wait 4 days to proceed with his scam anyway.
For new players, I don’t think it’s a big deal. When I started, I didn’t use the TP anyway, I had nothing of value to trade. I just played the story and explored. But there should be a way to remove the restrictions from people who pay their bills for years and buy another account.
you bought a new account, you’re a new player, period. it could be another person in the house using it, even if you go through all the work to prove it’s you using it, your week timer for newbie still will be over
I legit dont remember player housing being a promised feature ever, and ive lurked on these forums since beta, i do however remember them saying they would think about it. But frankly and this is just my opinion, id rather have more stuff added to our home instances, or more maps to explore. Not saying that it wouldnt be neat of course.
same. this is the first I heard of it too. I’d love for housing akin to FFXIV, but that’s a sub mmo and has a hell of a lot more capital to make those full housing instances with the insanely customizable houses
So I heard there are going to be mounts in the game, but not flying ones. Why aren’t people raging about that? There HAVE to be WoW refugees here, right??!
Flying is unique to Heart of thorns. If you want to fly/glide, you have to have Heart of Thorns expansion. The entirety of PoF will be completable without any HoT perks, but the HoT perks are still 100% separate from PoF
yeeep, nothing else is effected, and this is still going on… hopefully it can get remedied
minstrel is just musician, any other thing you associate it with is unrelated.
it is quite unfortunate. i’d love if royal terrace pass ported back, I’d use it a heck of a lot more.
I was there when LS1 happend, but I think it is a good idea that new players can get old items that are otherwise unobtainable.
Maybe other high-priced/old items should also be made available.
But I do not like the random-gambling-boxes they are included in. This is just a cheap way for A-Net to make much more money with them and this devalues the items.
it’d devalue them a hell of a lot more if the alternate method was a consistent 100% way to get said item, it needs to be gamble boxes so they can keep their value in the long run.
I like the underwater combat, never bat an eyelash when aquatic fractal comes up… I don’t see why people hate on it so much.
Contact support if you got a dupe. According to a developer post I read today, it’s not supposed to happen for skins that insta-bind. They apparently overlooked the possibility of getting two of the same from the same box.
can you provide a source? both of the boxes (0 gem purchase) I had a duplicate mini (and would we still need those dupes in the inventory? deleted them immediately)
Provide a source for? If you have a concern about an item in the gem shop, it’s policy for Customer Service to help you resolve it, whether it was a gift or you don’t have the items anymore. Sometimes they can help; sometimes they can’t.
My paraphrase of the developer comment is really germane to whether support will be able to assist or not. It speaks to their intended goals, which was the topic of one of the posts above.
tl;dr contact support; see what they say first.
A source for “According to a developer post I read today, it’s not supposed to happen for skins that insta-bind.”, that’s a bold claim, and if true can help a lot of people
Contact support if you got a dupe. According to a developer post I read today, it’s not supposed to happen for skins that insta-bind. They apparently overlooked the possibility of getting two of the same from the same box.
can you provide a source? both of the boxes (0 gem purchase) I had a duplicate mini (and would we still need those dupes in the inventory? deleted them immediately)
no… just keep letting them release content in living world seasons, we spport them with gem and expansion purchases, I’ve put atleast a couple hundred into the game, I’m sure on average the hardcore playerbase with legendaries all sink quite a bit of money into it, enough to keep going with free updates.
I see no issue, I’ll always have the story behind my items like dragon wings, how the day before the event ended while fighting a tamini in the foothills , seeing that exotic chest, opening it up and getting the holo dragon wings, it gives us and the other players a chance to get items we/they missed during these events, even if u participated surely u didn’t get EVERY item.
yeah, I get keys. think like maybe 4% or less drop rate tier.
Macros are allowed, As long as 1 button press = 1 action. If one button press = two keys or more than 1 action, then it’s not allowed!
Definitely seems like an AT&T issue. What’s weird is that it’s only to some of ANet’s servers; others don’t spike at all.
I did an ipconfig /flushdns and it seemed to have cleared up my issues. Need to play a little more first, though.
i will say that I’m also on at&t… hope it gets resolved soon, spiking to 300 every combat is no fun.
I am having constant ping spikes while playing, to 300 and it’s really making positioning/etc hard, nothing else is affected
And further to this, people have asked for a while that the one that’s only available to the player with the contract should only be visible to the player with the contract.
Or that the merchant at least make some sarcastic reply when you interact with him instead of just staring blankly.
“I don’t barter with shmucks. You look like a shmuck.”
Something like that.
ehh, mmo’s end games are showing off your loot/gear/etc, not being able to see permanent merchant/tp would go against those ideals XD
I will say lvling in gw2 is faster than other MMOs by far. It just takes lot of thought and work. U won’t realize how easy it is till after your done with your first character. Then you get a better strategy to do it. But since it’s your first. It will take a while. But while it takes a while. Enjoy your time.
I have 3 lv 80 characters
then collect tomes, tomes is def the fastest way to level
Ain’t got it yet but planning to pre-purchase before the date comes, simply because it’s another expansion to the greatest mmo out there.
It’s not required to enjoy the game, I used to just have a bind on my mouse to loot everything, and now that I worked for auto loot, I can fight without restriction.
we can see the damage meters cause
That’s why no one can show any?
are you kidding? they cause people to kick people from their team who aren’t doing a certain amount of damage, they cause elitism which is incredibly damaging to a game.
If a game’s price was ever temporarily discounted to a given price ($10) then even if it goes back up I honestly believe that it’s value then becomes the lowest price ever officially posted.
I don’t reveal gold gaining tips to anyone and that is part of the reason I will not get HoT, you can figure out what I mean if you think about it.
fyi, you can’t buy HoT expansion with gems. so your “gold gaining tips” which may as well just be mass buying low priced dyes/bags and salvaging then selling pigments/contents of bags (which currently is the most stable profitable thing to do in the game atm) have no weight on getting your alts HoT
i turned it off almost immediately, don’t really like it.
challenge is moved towards expansion content and beyond, the core game is casual and able to be fully enjoyed by people who aren’t at a high skill level, I think it’s perfectly fine the way it is, if you want to be challenged, go to verdant brink and beyond!
you don’t buy accounts, you buy the heroic edition which’ll run you $15-$30, honestly, it’s better to just buy the HoT expansion since it includes core game free and only runs you $5 more.
buying an account is breach of ToS, will not be tolerated, and if found you’ll have your account banned.
and the core game isn’t worth more than $10? where do you get that ridiculous conception? It has the value of the full core game which is $50, you unlock all account restrictions and can play the full game.
OP, I think you need to reread the definition of Insider Trading. Your accusation has nothing to do with the company manipulating RL stocks and securities using insider knowledge.
As much as players might want them to be, weapon/armor skins aren’t stocks.
While you’re rereading Insider Trading, I strongly urge you look up the term Libel.
~EW
Yeah…see, thats where things get to the point of ‘it just doesn’t matter’. Because it is a game, or form of entertainment, the same ethics and laws that govern a real world economy don’t apply. Thats what you are saying. And most likely, John, nor Anet, will do anything about this. So, it obligation or question of economic “fairness” resides with the community.
I’m saying that since real money is being used in THIS economy, it does matter. It matters alot. Since your basic player is being manipulated by a corporate entity.
Take it as you will.
you are never required to spend real money on the game, people who do know the risks if you’re trading for items, your item can be devalued a day later for some unadequately explored reason, I remember I got commander tag and endless halloween tonic when they were about $50 each, now endless halloween tonic is 1g at best and at some point ctags dropped to about $10 before the 300g patch iirc.
I have to ask… What’s with all these “new” items in the TP that have been there for many many months now… some even a couple years… I truly don’t understand why you are calling them NEW when they definitely are not.
guessing you mean gem store? New means it’kittenting the storefront again. Refer to this definition of New, which is official: already existing but seen, experienced, or acquired recently or now for the first time.
this qualifies returning items to be new, since atleast I personally have not gotten those items yet, therefore they’re new to me.