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Lol I am sorry this current linking system is so lame. I am on Dark Haven. For one…Ferguson’s Crossing… no offense, they don’t even know how to wvw for the most part. yet here they are added to us. They don’t contribute, and now as a result we have 4 other worlds against us and a server that doesn’t feel like it is contributing much. Now, my guild, which is a smaller guild, cannot even do a guild mission because we have far too many enemies and far too few allies in the field.
First off.. I love alpine.. or did, its too small for 6 servers to fight over, and desert bls should be one map like the EB map.
Dude… sorry but I only started playing the HoT maps again because the hero chests made it worth it to do them. Now I am stopping again because without those chest its not worth my time. If they want to make them once per day then I will do the meta on them once per day and not do it any more than that. The only reason the hero chest is worth anything to me is that it gives me keys to grind out the boxes. The boxes are worthless when you can’t get enough keys. And no offense but the fricken grind for airship parts was insane… its more doable with these. But it is still annoying. I like the boxes for DS.
I just did the octovine, and we suceeded, I looted my Grand exalted chests…and no Auric Basin: Hero’s Choice Chest.
Yes…they charge us money for the gliders so it is a source of income, that’s great. But we did get charged for those 16 legendary weapons as well. Maybe they should cut down on the number of cash shop glider skins that are released every few weeks, and still be able to give us what we already paid for?
As it has been stated, we want our legendary weapons that were promised and were paid for with HoT. I refuse to buy your next expansion, as the legendary devs are being pulled to work on LS instead of some of the devs from your next expansion. Please by all means, pull devs off what you promised, so you can make more empty promises for a new expansion. I feel LIED to.
I just feel that its odd he ignored the quote from their own team stating we were going to get 16 legendaries added as part of the expansion. Lets be honest… they shipped what he calls a full expansion, and now they are cutting some of that out. So they didn’t ship half an expansion… they are just cutting it down to one. He says he promises to entertain us with what they DO ship, not what they promised to ship…So why would we take his promise as any less empty than the previous promise.
I was personally not happy with many things when the expansion came out, such as the fact they lied to us about needing the core game in order to push their money-grab sales. Which then they later made the game free to play with no requirement to buy the core game. You buy HoT and you get the core as part of it. So yeah. This company leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I for one will no longer trust them. They have misled us far too much.
A company is only as good as its image…and Anet is getting rather dirty.
So I will not be buying the next expansion. They are showing us just how much we can trust them to put out what they promise it will have in it.
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We all know they just did this because when they went free to play they never had the sense to consider people would make free2play key farm accounts. They need to put our key farms back and just not let free2play accounts get keys.
Not really. I mean I am a long time player, and with the new changes they are making, aside from over charging for the expansion, and making those that have supported them for years pay more than those just now coming into the game, and going free2play which is fine, but then punishing those of us that bought characters to farm keys so that people don’t just make free2play key farm accounts…. ya know I personally bought the expansion and am about to quit before its even been released because Anet doesn’t care about it’s long time players.
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Well it may be true that Key farming was not originally an intended function, but they did make it an accepted practice when they made changes to key farming and stated themselves that the intention was not to ruin key farming.
I personally bought character slots simply to farm keys. I would really like a refund for those 5 slots that are useless to me now.
Oh and yeah in the time I have played from the start of the game I have gotten like 2 key drops. Anet really wants us to all quit playing. And new players, make sure you don’t level more than one character per week in personal story or you are screwing yourself.
Take a deep breath. Their are many many ways to profit from extra character slots if you are not using them.
I already submitted the ticket for a refund. I full well expect them to refuse, but their system changed, and they have made refunds in the past based on changes they made to their system. At this point they are wasting my $50.
After you had to level to lvl 10 it was more efficient for me and my friends to level 5 and then do 5 runs together, rather than be tied down to leveling them as we went and waiting for each other to be ready.
Well it may be true that Key farming was not originally an intended function, but they did make it an accepted practice when they made changes to key farming and stated themselves that the intention was not to ruin key farming.
I personally bought character slots simply to farm keys. I would really like a refund for those 5 slots that are useless to me now.
Oh and yeah in the time I have played from the start of the game I have gotten like 2 key drops. Anet really wants us to all quit playing. And new players, make sure you don’t level more than one character per week in personal story or you are screwing yourself.
HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Zhou.3605
Uhh thats because Wow has never been dumb enough to give everything away for free. I mean seriously. I paid money for this game at release, and I never regretted doing that till today. I did think the free core game with pre-order was a little irritating, but whatever. I don’t care about the F2P. What I care about is that I have to pay the same $50 to get the upgrades for HoT that someone else pays when they never bought the game to start. Yeah WoW has battle chests, but guess what. They pay for the game. I think none of us would have an issue with it if either we paid an upgrade fee, or if the new players were paying some core price, even 20 bucks. But to have a situation where I have to pay $120 for GW2+HoT simply because I have supported GW2 from day one is Bs. And they walk in, never having given a cent to Anet and they get the same thing for $50. If they add in the LS content they pay about $75. I still paid out $120 for the base game and the expansion. I, for the first time, regret doing that.
Okay, I paid $120 for my GW2 with HoT and they will pay $75 for their HoT if they want the LS. I still paid way more for the same product.
And in all honesty, they have decided that their existing customers are not worth consideration and respect. I have played many games with expansions. This is the first time I have ever heard of someone being so short sighted as to alienate their existing players by giving the core game for free. GW2 is older, so it should be cheaper. Never argued with that, but this is like my buying a bow and arrow, when the arrows had to be made later. And paying for the bow, then the arrows, and you just bought the arrows and they gave you the bow for free.
What I see this as is Anet is obviously making an expansion that’s not worth the $50 they are charging for it, so in order to keep people willing to buy it they have made the core game free.
First off it wasn’t $50. Secondly, yes there is the living story, which can be bought for chump change. And yes its more valuable when its new. GW2 is not new, and that is fine, HoT is new, and costs less than GW2 did. You cannot use HoT without GW2, which is F2P now with restrictions. I don’t care about that, I think its probably a bad idea, but no big deal. What I care about is that to get what I have they pay significantly less, and over time, I will always pay a massive amount more for the same thing. My time spent playing the game is mine, its not got anything to do with the value of the game. My work and efforts on my characters is not something that can be compared to them not having spent that time. I was not rewarded for that by Anet, I was rewarded for that by myself.
I have played games for decades, I have no issue with paying for an expansion. I do have an issue with paying for something that someone then pays less for while I pay more. If they want to do it this way I could care less. There should be an upgrade fee for existing players, not a fee to get the same item for double the price. If they want to do it the way they are I still wouldn’t care. But the new players should have the same F2P restrictions that those that don’t buy HoT get. Heck they could charge them $20 to upgrade to the full version and I wouldn’t care. My issue is in no way that it is free. its that I am paying more than twice what they pay for the very same game.
I don’t care that they get a cut down version for free. I care that rather than being treated as a valued customer for supporting the game at the start, I pay another $50 on top of my original purchase to get the same thing that someone now gets for $50. In other words, as a valued customer that has supported this game for 3 years, and used the cash shop, I get to pay about $120 for what they get for about $50. And when the next expansion comes out I will have to pay $50 for that, and the HoT purchasers will have to pay another 50, and the new expansion people will get it all for $50. So I will end up paying about $170, HoT buyers will pay about $100, and the next expansion purchasers will pay $50.
In other words, I am valued because instead of getting what I bought for a fair price, I get to pay more to keep getting what new players will get for less.
Meh I honestly don’t care much in regards to the free to play, I mean they are getting screwged. What I do care about is this BS where since I was a supporter three years ago, I get to pay about $120 bucks for what they get as non-supporters for $50. I mean my issue is simple. The longer we support GW2 the more we have to pay to have what others have for less. I mean it will only get worse the longer this goes. The HoT purchasers will have to pay another $50 when they come out with Eyes of Stone, which will bring them to $100 for their patronage, and those of us that bought the core, then HoT, will end up having spent about $170 when we buy EoS. Which of course is a bs title. My point is very simple. This makes me sad. Long time support costs you more than jumping on at the end.
I am someone who has spent over $1000 in the gem shop and have been a strong supporter of gw2 since head start, however if there are no new dungeons released in this expansion i will not be supporting this company any further. I will not buy the expansion or purchase anything from the gem store again.
I’m also pretty sure this is my first post i’ve made and i know of a lot of other people with the same mindset of myself who don’t bother to post in these forums.GLHF pressing 11111 with your boring living story zombie key mashers
Wow. I mean really. slow claps We thank you, ohh great game supporter. You have been SUCH a strong member of this community. This being your first post when they have had dev threads asking what, WE, the community wants.
Do you think you are the only person that has spent $1k on this game? Or more. Do you think you, as a whiner and a complainer, and not a contributor matter more than a person that paid even $10 in the sale to buy this game? You do not. Because no matter how much money you throw around, or claim to throw around in the background, you are not a member of this community. I would rather that Anet pay attention to that player that just bought the game for ten bucks and actually voices a concern than some guy claiming he spent this much as a reason they should change something.
Go play WoW, they be all about dem bucks.
Okay, so I think this is a server related issue after reading some of the posts I have seen. I am on DarkHaven and am having the same issue, but I selected to guest to Emry Bay and then clicked to create a character and it works fine. I think the important factor is to guest to a server not having the issue, then clicking to create. Emry Bay seems fine. Try doing that.
Update: Maybe not, worked for one account, not for the other.
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Same, no error code, North America, Charter internet. Multiple computers… however; works fine on a different account.
Different account is a recently purchased account during the discount at HoT announcement.
Sorry my bad there, I was thinking of whirl. See the two skills are constantly used together, so yeah 20 on rush 10 on whirl, it doesn’t work imo.
So you guys are proud to whirl, rush, whirl, rush and that’s how you want to survive?
Lol if nothing less, they need to have about a 20 second use not a 10.
Warriors need their 5th skill on great sword fixed. This skill states that you “Charge and strike your foe”. It does not say use this skill to run every 10 seconds to escape combat. That is however how this skill is most often used. This skill needs to require a target to work. Plain. Simple. The skill says “Charge and strike your foe”. With no foe, it should not work.
Warriors constantly use this skill and spin when they are dying to escape that fight. Spin at least requires ground targeting but the rush should be fixed because it is not being used as intended. This skill is obviously supposed to serve the purpose of closing in on an enemy, perhaps a fleeing enemy, and bringing the fight to your foe. It is instead being used to flee from combat and avoid death. This is the opposite of its purpose.
I am working on the assumption that this is a bug, because the explanation of the change to bloodlust clearly stated that you would lose the stacks if you removed the weapon in an effort to use another weapon. It clearly states that bloodlust will not be stripped by a weapon swap. So PLEASE stop stealing my bloodlust stack when I am forced to enter water. This is ridiculous and appalling. This is a weapon swap, forced by the game, to a weapon that is not replacing my current weapon. There is absolutely no reason that entering the water for two seconds should cause me to have to re-obtain my stack. This has been going on for some time. And it needs to be fixed.
No I did not, and it does not state it needs to be on. thank you I will try that. They need to update it so that we know this.
No one has a suggestion on how to sort this out? I mean I even sent a trouble ticket to anet, and they just told me to report it as a bug, I feel like my money is being wasted, as this arena was bought pre-gold change. I spent a lot of gems on this and it is worthless atm.
I can agree to a degree. I mean a report option would be great for afking…but then so would a report option for harassment for those people that chase you around in a small group ringing bells, and claiming that them harassing you means nothing. Sure you can turn the sound off… but what about the fact I actually like to hear it when someone is putting in effort. I should be able to report for harassment, not have to miss out on things the game offers.
I also think an AFK kick is a bad idea as it would just create the same situation we have in pve where if someone dislikes someone and is with friends, they boot them and cost them their reward. To much of an abuse option. Report for afk would be good, and just give them a flat out incrimenting ban. No banned from pvp for three days, 24 hour ban, 48 hour ban, 72 hour ban, and then just ban them and be done with them. Tell them to go buy a new account.
Job done.
I have seen some very effective mesmers… in the past atleast. I am talking mesmers that move their teams like an efficient machine from one point to another. I have seen a mesmer both fire the treb and manage to keep the treb up almost instantly by using their port to get the repair done in no time. They have a pretty effective use if the player is effective.
Okay to clarify, why am I not getting rank points from an arena that is set up properly so far as I can tell. No rank points, and no track progression either.
Nope, the round starts as soon as one person enters, and it was me and a guild mate in the game. We ran the full 15 minutes and there was no reward in rank points or track progress, only 5 rank points for each top stat gained. Which in and of itself has me confused. As why would I not get rank points or progression of track for a win, but I would still get rank points for top stats?
Okay, so I have just set up my custom arena, I did so ensuring that no x’s appeared in settings, and then after I got no track progression and no rank points, I even checked the wiki settings. I did have teams set to two. This gave no x, but the wiki states the minimum is 3 so I changed that, and still I cannot get rank points or track progression. And I am aware of the two tier limit. There has been no increase in either of these.
Here are my settings. please let me know what I am doing wrong:
Team size: 3
Score limit: 500
Time limit: 10
Respawn timer: 5
Starting players: 1
Reserve slots: 2
Respawn is set to individual, and no options on the right are selected.
I have it set to Skyhammer as the only map in the rotation.
And I have the reserve 2 slots set for my guild.
Any idea why we are not able to get any form of rank or track progression.
Am I overlooking something?
Thank you for looking.
Seriously…. cry me a river. If they are downed, stake them, if you can’t then maybe go play something else. A stake takes what, about 5 seconds? People like you just need to go play WoW or some backward thinking game that fits your tactics.
The update on the news page states: This type of sigil will have more strict rules applied on them, so that a player will no longer be able to gain 25 stacks and then un-equip the sigil.
Here is my question, because for me this may well be a huge game breaking move, as it well may be for others. I have a thief, and I have a superior bloodlust in my dagger, and force in my sword, when I swap to my bow for ranged attacks, is this now going to kill/clear my stack of bloodlust?
I am hoping you are referring to unequiping a weapon to swap to a different one all together, not to swapping weapon sets which are currently equipped, but some clarity would make me feel alot better.
Thank you.
Fizban,
Lets put it this way, I will assume you are a girl. For simplicity. Lets say that a fancy pair of mens pants, such as say Tripp pants, are suddenly made available to girls, where before they were not. But they are flashier and the men all whine and so Tripp pulls them, and gives you a promise that they will make a nice skirt for you instead. You would be kind of upset I would assume. Now lets assume that the men all say hey, give me those pants that you took off the backside of that girl that paid her hard earned money for them. but let me have it for free, so they can see me wearing them, at no cost. Sound fair?Bit off topic, but firstly – they did make Tripp pants for women lol, and also many women wore Tripp pants made for men. I know this because of highschool.
Lol I know this…. I was just trying to reference and insane idea that went along with what this person is trying to request. Firstly no store would gank something they sold like the flamekissed armor… not without some form of legal sanction. OR a huge outcry. I know what you say is true, I was presenting a fictitious example.
Fizban,
Lets put it this way, I will assume you are a girl. For simplicity. Lets say that a fancy pair of mens pants, such as say Tripp pants, are suddenly made available to girls, where before they were not. But they are flashier and the men all whine and so Tripp pulls them, and gives you a promise that they will make a nice skirt for you instead. You would be kind of upset I would assume. Now lets assume that the men all say hey, give me those pants that you took off the backside of that girl that paid her hard earned money for them. but let me have it for free, so they can see me wearing them, at no cost. Sound fair?
It would be horribly rude to the people that bought this skin, if they were to make human T3 armor to look like Flamekissed armor, not to mention an insult to every other race….
Do you consider what kind of nightmare that would be? First off yes, there are stat differences, and guess what… that has a factor with the look. If a Mesmer in WvW is suddenly running around looking like a warrior, what would that do to the way that character was treated by the enemy? Classes have class specific clothing for a reason. The only thing I agree on here is the dye factor for medium armor. So many colors look washed out and boring on medium armors. I mean midnight fire looks like a brown on most medium armor.
Letting Mesmers look like a warrior, or a warrior look like an ele is not only a bad idea, it’s a game breaker. Ele walks into a group, group ignores them for the most part as being an easy kill, suddenly a tanky class is in the center of a group hacking away and no one knows the better.
Uhh, they are cash shop costumes, these should not be made into gear for use. This post was clearly not thought out well. Cash shop costumes are there because they are unique. If they made these into armors… they would have to give a lot of refunds.
I am not completely sure what the best method of implementation would be for this, maybe simply adding it as a option on the specific weapon skills. It occurred to me recently that certain skills, such as Cluster Bomb on the Thief bow should really be able to tap this skill. By this I mean, when a skill has bleed stacks, at 10 stacks it should give a stack of Torment. I feel this makes sense, as 10 stacks of bleed are a lot to amass, and would in my mind cause additional stress and damage.
Just my thoughts, any other opinions?
I wish that to go with the candy corn node, we had gotten a dragon pinata in the player house zone for a zhaitaffy spawn.
1. Dungeon rewards. – makes no sense to run on alts.
2. Weapon color option.
3. Reasons to have alts.
Uh here is an idea, stop whining about getting something for nothing. I have been playing since almost the very beginning, if I want those items, I have to spend real life money, or gold to buy 500 gems. Grow up. The rest of us did not get these items for free, let alone for buying the game at a reduced rate. We paid full price, and got no bonuses.
Also, the last time I checked, the boosters are in no way cosmetic. And an 18 slot mithril box would cost you about 2.5 gold if you bought it in game. That is really nice for a newb to have. I had to slave at the start just to get a 10 slot copper box. You are getting more than you deserve in all honesty. As a long time committed player, I feel that its a touch unfair, but what makes it worse? You complain about your hand out.
For one, I disagree with your comment about the underwater fractals. We need more underwater content. Lets be honest, underwater combat is far superior on GW2 than any other game, and is far to unappreciated. We need more underwater content, less whining about an innovative system, and more reason to have the underwater legendaries.
Here are my thoughts:
One Anet did not release Celestial gear with MF planning to remove the stat and just putting it out there as a temporary bonus as someone suggested early, stating the stat weight was purposely over. Seriously, anyone would believe this? No, left brain failed to tell right brain, so mid-brain sent it through and now there are issues.
I have a sword with superior luck in it, and I bet anything I will be disappointed with the new “functionality” they stick me with. Something like stacks giving an additional .6% to my ability to pick my nose up to 25 stacks.
Also what about things like Ohhh I dunno, Immobulous. People spent tons of time and money on this item… and it has guess what…. MF on it. How do you compensate someone for that, and suddenly anyone that is currently selling something like Immobulous is going to lose tons of money and time, because guess what… account bound on the third…
Also if we listed an item that is MF, will we get our money back for listing it if it has not sold, considering we are having the item returned unsold?
I agree, I have a MF sword, with a luck sigil, which is bugged to start with, as it is titled as a sword of accuracy, which is a different rune. How will this work. I mean I paid…. a lot for that rune. You all say MF is cheap, I think that rune alone cost me like 7g. To me, 7g is quite a bit for a rune, but I thought it worth it. Now its going to just be what… a hunk of worthless stone?
Also, all my ascended gear on my main character is the lowered MF items. How will those be effected?
So with this change, removing the MF from our equipment, what will happen to our runes? I spent a great deal of in game money to build magic find suits, and have several that give well over 100% MF. How will this be balanced?
Thank you for your time in answering this question, which I am sure many will be wondering about.