Guild Wars 2

Exterminans.9723:

10,000 gems is $125. Thats close to the ANNUAL fee for most MMORPGs. And it looks like they are going to charge that for every event from now on.

Thats not adequate, even if only a small part of the community will waste the money.

if you want a complete set of everything then yes this will be an expensive game, it would not take 10000 gems fyi, so pfft whatever

there are some people that have payed nothing since buying the game and enjoy themselves just fine fyi…. to pay is your choice. Not a big fan of the “gotta have everything” crowd tbh

I currently have 5300 jems and so far have only bought 20 dollars worth a month or so ago … if you play the game it wont cost much real money, if you want to log in and have everything handed to you then yest it will cost.

lisamee.2408:

The mystery boxes no longer spawn skritt…but a much harder mob. Why? I am level 80, fully geared with exotics and i cannot dodge these things! Every shot with my bow gives me damage.

Why did Anet change the spawn???

i have done them on a 40 rouge and an 80 engineer, they are challenging but not that hard tbh, once there is one other body there it becomes quite easy, not sure what the big deal is.

Exterminans.9723:

It’s even better:

There is a total of 9(!) new minis.

3 of them come only from chests from the gemstore, with a chance of somewhere between 5-15%.

5 could be constructed by players, but you have to choose 2, the other 3 can only be bought straight from the gemstore for 350 gems each.

But the last one tops it all: You have to throw 3 of the minis from the chest into the mystic forge to get it. That means you need actually 6 pets from the chests if you want to have a complete collection.

Every of the chest minis costs about 1600 gems (80 gems per chest, 5% chance) alone….

So if you wanted all of them (assuming 5% chance now) for your collection, you would need to spend 3x 350 gems + 6 / 5% x 80 gems = 10650 gems on average, plus participation in all 5 event days.

are you guys all daft? there is no monthly fee, so you are going to have to buy jems to get keys to open chests if you want all the shineys, it is their buisiness model, you think they do this for free?

Chaotic Storm.2815:

i’m never had to much issue with them, been downed once or twice but always got back up. if anything I find there just right. not impossible but not weak enough I wonder why they are even there.

me too, they are tough but nowhere near as hard as people are saying, once i had one other person with me it was easy….

personally I think it should be 2 day/5 day matches

fri night to sun night and then sun night to fri night

some of us work for a living

so your question is “when do I get to gank people that dont pvp”

your answer is… never

So I don’t understand the bandwagoner theory, HOD was #1 so that is where the bandwagoners would go right? Or are people implying that on Friday of this week there was a major influx?

My guild was on anvil rock, and that server blew due to nobody playing at night. We sent members to a few servers and decided to come to JQ a couple of weeks ago. We went there because they were #3 in the first tier and that means we could make a difference.

Bandwagoners would go to #1 so maybe I misunderstand what people are talking about.

FYI sunday and JQ is wtfpwning the race, it is almost as bad as loosing soundly. We were looking for challenging pvp (we figured the #3 server in tier one was going to be a huge challenge)

We are not moving again, I feel that JQ will keep its nightime crew and our main priority is to play on a server that is active around the clock. I wouldnt mind someone else taking the groups that wont get into voice and wont listen in chat though.

how do the top half all win? the top three play against each other so only 1 in 3 wins…

this argument confuses me…

“Agress on Jade Quarry. The end.”

QFT

nice list i like it

true of the flamethrower as well, and it kinda sucks, i am no running any packs anymore anyway, full elixir here and it is far superior. Once and a while someone asks me to go elixir pack and i do in dungeons (if asked)

Mubarizun.6435:

Problem #1: Overseas guilds carrying servers to victory by nightcapping and player vs wall.

Suggestion: Limit Europeans to European servers. Americans to Americans etc. 98% of people playing have lives outside of the game and like to sleep at night. Waking up to, or coming back from work to find that the server with the most foreigners has taken the whole map and all orbs is single-handedly ruining WvW. Sure people can stay up, but the vast majority wont and they will be in the minority and not make as much of an impact.

“Oh but you should use strategy and recruit overseas too!”

I’m a casual. I don’t have a guild and the vast majority of players are NOT going to bekittento suddenly go hopping around the internet trying to recruit people just so the game mode can actually be FUN in the first place. This is a game. Not a war simulation. The primary aim is to have fun and the current state of things are NOT working.

Or you know if you’re on any server BUT HoD or Vizunah try getting matched with them for 2 weeks or so and see how much you like the game mode then.

24 or 48 hour games, 168 hour games are too long

a reset button every now and then gives lesser servers some hope

Whispers.5249:

vrgadin.1943:

i like lettuce

“The only practical application of playing after losing badly after day 1 would be to get the bonuses for your realm, and then go back to PVEing.”

or maybe play for fun….take a keep and hold it as long as possible?

get a group of 10 and blitzkrieg supply camps?

plenty to do, people just get mad bro! and give up too easy, part of the gimme generation

I’m with you on this one. Yeah they could change the buff a little, but then it would become abused in some manner and that’s not good either. Besides, nothing wrong with lettuce!

Sometimes the best thing to do is small teams in gorilla warfare, hit them all over the place, keep them mobile while you build up. Zerg only works against zerg….and the unfortunate few who get run over as the drive by. If you hit them on multiple fronts with multiple small teams you force them to either break the zerg or accept the loss of something until they can get to it. And that, is where winning comes from. You have to start someplace.

Giving up and leaving just contributes to the problem in the first place. Grow a pair, take charge, get a team or two rolling, and get out there and try something. You might just be surprised what works.

while you “build up”? am I building a clone army? or am I supposed to have a guildie spamming map chat trying to get people to pvp? I want to pvp, not try to convince people to pvp.

mcl.9240:

vrgadin.1943:

i like lettuce

“The only practical application of playing after losing badly after day 1 would be to get the bonuses for your realm, and then go back to PVEing.”

or maybe play for fun….take a keep and hold it as long as possible?

The problem with that is that a lot of people define “fun” as “winning”, and will tell you that being on the losing team isn’t fun.

It is not necessarily winning, it is being competitive. I would be just as unhappy if we owned all four maps and the other servers left. In the end one week is too long, the 24 hour was fun, and if you got pwned you would try like hell to do better, right now i have DAYS of zone in, the dominating team is harassing at near the zone in point, they “retreat” to get us to come out and then slaughter us. If we get to the first objective there are so many built defenses it is not possible to take because most of my server gave up for the week.

The pve in this game will not keep me here. I will go to sPvP for a while but that gets old too, small map, same techniques over and over.