Guild Wars 2

Pockets.3201:

They are really desperate for people to play fractals more.

definitely part of it…same reason 99.9% of all bonus weekend buffs are for sPvP so they can push their sPvP esport garbage hardly anyone cares about. MMO’s in general are not a good genre to push esports… square peg, round hole.

I like both – you realize we get more of everything if they make complicated things outfits, right? Or we could erase Charr and just make everything armor – that could work :p

It is not common, but I’ve had this happen to me 2 or 3 times since launch… and why I would not trust using the TP as a bank to hide gold like some people like to do.

I don’t understand what the big fuss is all about…other than the World Completion star and professions, what exactly isn’t account bound if you just reroll the race you want? Leveling in this game is stupid fast… and the vast majority of anything relevant is account bound.

Shademehr.1397:

Map completion is what got me hooked on WvW.

Legendaries just became less legendary.

That happened years ago when we found out they could be traded for gold…and gold could be had for $$$

Snow.2048:

Glad PVE gets what it wanted, and no longer needs to touch wvw more than a minimalist amount to craft a legendary.

Can those of us who fall asleep during the chasing after loot pinatas that is pve and thus only pvp/wvw also get a way to earn them with minimalist pve effort as well? Would be fair

The dungeon tokens and mats are there in pvp, so only having to complete nearly the entire vanilla open world pve experience is in the way. That is way worse than 4 pvp enabled maps imo (almost everyone hates getting ganked or zerged)… But as I’m a primarily pvp/wvw player, I am in the minority I guess

You already get the best rewards in the game (reward tracks) through afk’ing sPvP if you want to…do you really need more?

Bristingr.5034:

Why Anet? What’s the point of it being called WORLD completion, if they don’t even have to explore the entire world of the game anymore?

“The Mists is the oldest thing in existence, the proto-reality that exists between the worlds, constituting the fabric of time and space that connects the multiverse together. Within the Mists are worlds (of which Tyria is just one), each with their own realities and histories, floating as islands in the ether. "

“World versus World (also known as WvW) is a Player versus Player game mode where players from three different servers, or worlds, battle in the Mists.”

We are not fighing IN TYRIA when we are in WvW…so WvW should not be part of World (as in Tyria, where we live) Completion. Makes total sense…it didn’t before.

One thing to remember about account restrictions is that “I mailed a few items worth 150g on a new account without issue” really means they sent about 3-10s in items – it looks at VENDOR value not how much an item trades for on the TP. Items like candy corn, that have ZERO vendor value, can be freely moved around by the stack-load on a brand new, 5 min old account because the game considers it valueless.

RoseofGilead.8907:

It’s because Anet would rather pretend they don’t exist, it seems. I don’t know how true that actually is, but yeah. I’d love to see a Daily Sorrow’s Embrace Path instead of a Daily Fractal + Daily 1-10/11-20/whatever Fractal.

dungeons/fractals should have a separate category – get fractals out of the PvE daily and make the dungeon slaves happy

I’ve been on this step on my warrior on my main account for over 2 years…not joking.

No idea who this is…

kinda makes you wonder if they upped the drop rates…or if people are trying to pump rare/T5 mat prices on the the TP trying to convince people to waste gold in the forge…

finding and id’ing dyes used to be the FUN way of getting them…now, it’s better to sell them to the gamblers / bitfrost crafters and buy the colors you want – sad, really.

BarnabeJonez.6023:

Guild housing is coming. You can have a one person guild. Housing is coming!

Sort of…if this game had housing as good as Wildstar or Rift and either added the PvP reward tracks for PvE and / or made dungeons scale from 1-5 players, I’d quit every other MMO I play and play this game exclusively.

I’m sure Anet will make it so it is very difficult (or impossible) to have a guild hall as a one person guild – pretty much guaranteed.

The answer most likely is yes, it will be – it might be used on occasion for a recipe as it has in the past, but if you think you will ever be able to directly sell or vendor luck…no way. You paid your way to cap (and / or took advantage of luck during an event) – enjoy your 300% MF and just start destroying the excess.

The GW2 community at large feels that P2W does not encompass cosmetic items as this game is all about in game accomplishments that can not just be bought with real money, such as completing a legendary weapon…oh wait, nm. If this bothers you that much OP you are playing the wrong game – Anet, the masters of marketing, have found a way to create a game that skirts the issue because clearly P2W only has a clearly defined meaning – if it doesn’t let me beat you in a dual, it is not P2W.

AncientYs.8613:

TheReaperTheFourthHorsemen.7894:

AncientYs.8613:

im afraid of how much it will cost =/ i hope not alot because i cant afford to buy gems with euros so im using my gold.

either 300 or 500 going on what back skins are already in the gemstore

the replica tron backpack is 800 gems though if i remember correctly

I wouldn’t buy them at 800 – 600 would be pushing it and only if they were limited time, otherwise I’d wait for a sale. <=500 would be instant buy though

grifflyman.8102:

Wetpaw.3487:

It would be nice if Anet added checkboxes for all parts of the outfit to show the armor beneath.

Ohh that’s a good idea!!!

that would be a good solution…or they could just take popular outfits and convert them to armor sets people can purchase separately.

I would like some MF recipes to convert the ascended mats to one another.

So, something like 300 Bloodstone Dust + 1 Empyreal Fragment + 1 Thermo-whatever agent + 3 crystals = 50-100 Fragments

Llethlin Dowr.3416:

why would I lie?

Maybe you are sitting on piles of dust you want to unload…

haha that is pretty awesome…I like it.

If this change was actually a “loss” for you then you are probably well on your way to the Daily (account lifetime) AP hard cap…you really don’t lose much in the long run it just allows those who didn’t have time to do all the dailies/monthlies a chance to catch up.

Armor Skin Sale! Oh wait, none that I want… WTB sale on Viper/Phalanx/Profane/Krytan! Oh well, maybe for Christmas

nicknamenick.2437:

azzy.6485:

Where are all the medium and heavy skirts that are not cash shop items? We need MORE not less skirts…

your playing a different game?

Look in the wardrobe and like 90% from all the heavy pants are skirts or indeed butt-capes..

Those heavy WVW pants looks nice.. make some more of that.

yep, you are definitely playing a different game then me – 90% of all non-gem store medium/heavy armor are pants or pants underneath medium to long skirts, not (above knee) skirts. maybe I should call them mini skirts, better?

Why would it not? Part of the point of it’s scarcity + maize balm was so that ToT bags were available year round to try for the pet(s)

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Everyone that thinks “Since they are no longer available, I should sell them now” are selling them and driving the price down.

yep, hold off. in a few months or so they will be worth more than they were during the event – the two main items people want from them (the pets) are still there…shiny foil wrappers were just a little bonus.

Where are all the medium and heavy skirts that are not cash shop items? We need MORE not less skirts…

Curse Drew.8679:

The cooldown is stopping me from sinking tons of candy corn. I’d love to click through 20 stacks, but it’s just too boring.

That and the most common buff is fairly useless…

phoenix.3465:

Oh yay, more armors that magically transform into dresses that just barely cover up my nipples as soon as a female wears them! All the princesses in the game are sure to be very excited about this!

Cloth top (female,) medium boots are the only pieces that look interesting and worth the time. Really happy they are finally adding more armor sets to obtain IN GAME, despite most of it being not my taste.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Even of You gave 500candy wrappers to the skrit, doesn’t ment you are going to win.
The guy who gave 1 candy wrapper can still beats the guy that gave 250 candy wrappers.

How funny would it be if the system didn’t take the actual number of wrappers into account…what if the system just looked for a check to see if the account turned in at least 1 wrapper and was now entered into the contest…

Shadey Dancer.2907:

There is growing controversy over the hiding spot in the South East of the map, on a cliff there.

If a Dev would care to give a definitive opinion as to if this is a legitimate tactic, I am sure a lot of people would be very grateful, and hopefully put this in its grave, either way at last.

Thank you in advance.

Not a hiding spot – it is an exploit, plain and simple. “In video games, an exploit (colloquially sploit) is the use of a bug or glitches, game system, rates, hit boxes, or speed, etc. by a player to their advantage in a manner not intended by the game’s designers.” This is a design BUG that has not been fixed, being exploited by those who know about it.

lordkrall.7241:

The laurel is daily bound, so if you have done the regular daily you will not get another Laurel from the Halloween one.

ah ok – hadn’t noticed I guess – ty for clarification!

Is the laurel from the Halloween daily a random reward or are some accounts bugged? I have two accounts – both received a laurel the first day and none since until today on the second account. Initially I thought it was a mistake that was quietly fixed in one of the patches, but after getting one today I have a feeling (as usual) I’m having bad luck.

Just curious to make sure things are not bugged…

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I agree 100%! Enough with the outfits…overpriced and kitten unuseful. Bleh! More armor. LOTS MOAR ARMOR.

I like the outfits – great for low level alts for NO TRANSMUTE COST. Also, remember that “outfits” used to be the absolutely useless “town clothes”…so there is that.

More armor sets would be nice… EARN-ABLE IN GAME NOT THROUGH GOLD/GEMS THOUGH! How about some NEW KARMA SETS? Or WORLD BOSS SETS? LIVING STORY SETS?

I conducted an experiment today to see if bots really do exist. I actually was not intending to do this, but I was trying to purchase something for an alt with no luck against what was most likely an actual person buying to sell for profit vs me who just wanted one to use. Anyways, I found an alternative item…and things got interesting.

This (low volume) item had a buy price of ~90s and a sell price of ~ 4.25g – quite the spread I would say. So I placed a bid for a few silver over the current high bid. Instantly outbid by one copper. So I did another bid a few silver higher – instantly outbid by one copper. At his point I began to be suspicious as the likelyhood of a single person watching this item like a hawk was possible, but very unlikely. So I bid about 40s higher – instantly outbid by one copper. I bid 50 additional silver higher – instantly outbid. Another 50s higher – instantly outbid. The bid now currently sat at ~ 2.5g, so I decided to stop. So at this point, we have the lowest sell price still at 4.25g, the highest bid at 2.5g and the next highest bid at 90s. I figured ok, I’ll wait 15-30 minutes. If this was an actual person, the chances of them lowering the bid back to one copper over the next highest 90s bid was fairly likely. Except after 30 min, the bid had not changed – still ~ 2.5g. Here it is now ~ 4 hours later, and it is still 2.5g. So the ultimate test – I put a bid in for a silver over the 2.5g bid…and it is instantly outbid by one copper. Is this 100% proof of a bot? No. Is it highly likely a bot? Yes.

Jia Shen.4217:

I see no problem with the 1c incrementing. I actually get annoyed when people making sell listings undercut by far more than 1c. For example lets say I made a sell listing for 10s and then somone comes in and tosses up one for 5s and then right after than a bunch more add to that not caring to pay attention that the person way undercut (possibly not even people but bots adding to the huge undercut listing). Heck even way over bidding buy offers when they might as well just buy a sell listing if they don’t care how much they spend. For example lets say I put in a buy offer for 10s and the lowest sell listing is 25s and someone comes in and makes a buy offer for 20s and gets a bunch more people (or bots) adding to that now highest buy offer. These two cases drive me nuts. As those people can achieve the same end result simply by going 1c over or under or a slightly larger amount but not going by huge 30-50% up or down.

Maybe not quite that extreme, but if i’m trying to buy something I do it in chunks. In fact I have spent hours sometimes screwing with bids after I continually got outbid by one copper for a few minutes- so then I started doing bids in super random quantities, sometimes leaving my old bid up, sometimes not. It was fun and I’d like to think I kittened off the 1 copper person assuming it wasn’t a bot. My philosophy is if you are going to continually outbid me by 1 copper, then you will pay (a lot) more in the end. Of course I never go above what I’m willing to pay…

Two options:

1) Use good, but not ideal cheaper sigils/runes in karma/wvw gear
2) Avoid buying karma/wvw gear if you care about using decent sigils/runes
Stop being cheap and buy the crafted version of the gear you are after if you want to use good sigils/runes. I mean, if you want to use 10g rune/sigils, why can’t you buy 5-6g exotics to put them in?

Karma/WvW tokens are largely worthless, it’s been that way since day 1 and little has changed. At least you can get a different variety of gear stats now, it used to be total junk except for some soldier gear.

reapex.8546:

Ohoni.6057:

They are worth a few silver, if you vendor them.

Then problem solved! What was all the hand wringing about?

Its about how Ascended Items should be able to be salvage into materials for 475 crafting for level 500 jewelry so we can prepare for that day.

So you want ascended rings to be salvageable just like you can salvage ascended weapons and armor? OH WAIT, you can’t salvage those either!

Get over it and vendor them for silver already, there is a reason they are not salvageable. And all the people in this thread and others complaining about having 100’s of ascended rings in their stash and wanting to be able to salvage them to be ready for 500 jewelry…for what? To make a couple of necks? I guarantee pretty much any fractal runner has already had several necks for a year or more from laurels…

SpudBob.9036:

My work gives recognition rewards in the form of gift-cards, and I used to always use them on amazon to buy gem-cards.

However, my last order on amazon.com last month said that they were out of stock, and they still haven’t received any.

Since this is the only way I justify buying gems and I wanted to get some before the next living story content comes out, can someone please look into why amazon.com no longer has the gem-cards available?

Yeah, they were out of stock for a while, but they had them in stock a few days ago. However, they sold out extremely quickly ( I think it said 14 left in stock when I happened to be looking on Amazon.) I have gotten gem cards from Amazon too with gift cards / point redemption.

Magic carpet is neat – I have no use for one but for those that do, looks cool. The gathering tools are cool…but I’m in it for the speed, not staring at myself picking – that logging animation looks like it would have the same issues as the frost wasps. Glowing green mask is great for a necro – too bad it is extremely overpriced – I’ll stick with the “free” color already in game. Thanks for posting the new items – all cool, but eh.

Well, they mentioned “Blood and Madness” returning…so if it is just a name, maybe we get a treat. If they mean it in the literal sense with the Mad King’s lame son making a return…trick.

I would be in favor of removing or further reducing champ bag rewards…and reducing world boss rewards – if they are replaced with the ability to do the sPvP reward tracks doing open world PvE activities. It would be infinitely better than the current open world rewards.

evocv.6892:

Dungeon Tokens show that you have spent time in Dungeons, just as Badges Show that you have spent time in WvW or more likely on most Servers the EotM Train

Not any more they don’t – not since sPvP reward tracks were introduced. Anet should just remove 90% of the rewards from world bosses /events (which are 95% junk) and add in the reward tracks instead, getting points for participating in events. The game would feel a lot more rewarding (and fun,) that is for sure.

Hannelore.8153:

So basically you want the dungeon rewards for free, while everyone who doesn’t get an endless stream of badges from EOTM farm has to work for it …

sPvP reward tracks would like to have a word with you… those reward tracks should be in ALL facets of the game, not just to bribe people into doing sPvP.

Wanze.8410:

No Walking.6349:

Sounds event breaking, not game breaking….

You need to learn what game breaking means.

I would say that if you cant complete the personal story, its game breaking.

Wait until AFTER Claw of Jormag is up at primetime THEN go to the map – you will get an overflow map with few farmers…then go click on the totem. I had zero issues on 2 accounts…

Ayrilana.1396:

Just make it that upon failure of any of the events in the chain, it takes 15 min for it to start over.

100% this – was just going to suggest this after the new surge of Coil complaints.

All the complainers need to take a step back and undo the twist…

MikaHR.1978:

If anything i vote for scalable content. 1, 2,3…5….10…..it should all be good.

+1

Scale-able dungeons would be awesome, 1-5 players… if they want to do more than 5, that’s fine too.

There are some benefits to having mulitple accounts, but I think the heyday’s are over. Having multiple accounts back when champ bags were first released + scarlet invasions was…awesome.

Labjax.2465:

It might bother some people in terms of “making sense for professions,” but they could just adjust the number of each component needed, so that there isn’t such a huge disparity in number of Damask needed for Light compared to the others.

Huge disparity? Meh, not really – you are making cloth because it’s light armor, so… anyways, they should change the insignia to 1 of each type (damask, deldrimor, elonian) instead of 3 damask. That would significantly reduce the demand for damask and lower the overall cost. Would it be equal? No. Would it be closer? Yes. They could also reduce the number of damask needed in chest/legs to 3 from 4 – but that really isn’t necessary.

Could Anet please consider adding the Mists Stone as a potential reward on the Battle Historian for WvW Tournament tickets…say 50-100 tickets? Participating in the tournament has about as much relevance to the living story as being forced to do 5 fractals in order to complete the LS backpiece.

Please consider adding it as a reward