Guild Wars 2

Third option then. Right now anyone who only plays PvE gets screwed out of potential rewards.

Achievement Chests are great! I love that I now get rewarded for achievement points instead of just having bragging rights…however, (you knew that was coming), I don’t do PvP or WvW. I tried it with a friend, it’s not for me. And yet, I keep getting rewarded with PvP rewards. I finish my personal story (all PvE), but I get PvP rewards; all of my achievement points are from PvE, but I get PvP rewards. Please stop – I would really like to get rewarded with something I’ll use.

I understand wanting to reward PvP players as well, so give us a choice. At the end of several personal story missions we were able to choose a reward that best suited us, do that with the achievement chests as well. Let us choose if we want the box with the PvP rewards in them, or if we’d like a chest with just PvE rewards.

What ever you do, please stop forcing PvP stuff on PvE players; we’re getting shafted with these rewards. Where a PvP player will find everything useful and shiny (because they also PvE), a PvE player will see garbage. What am I going to do with blueprints? I can’t sell them or trade them to a WvWer. Oh look, I got PvP specific armor…I’ll just hop over to the mists and deposit this in my PvP locker, never to be seen again…

I’m begging you, please, give me things I will use. Your entire player base doesn’t PvP, please stop thinking that it does.

Thanks!

Some of the questions made here about Canach’s change in appearance are assuming that Sylvari physiology changes in similar ways to a human’s when faced with extreme amounts of stress. Remember, the Sylvari aren’t human, for all we know a drastic and severe change in their emotional state makes their physical appearance change just as severely. Maybe stress makes them loose leaves and grow thorns, whereas human hair turns grey. Instead of increased blood preasure when angry, maybe they have reduced chorophyll flow that dulls their naturl pigment. Maybe longterm exposure to the tropical Southsun heat changed his pigment (it would certainly change mine…;). Do Sylvari scar? Perhaps they just grow new leaves that are slightly different than the orginals, or maybe it barks over where a leaf used to be. Any number of things could be different about Sylvari physiology that would explain Canach’s change in appearance.

And yeah, I’m liking the guy so far, I really hope I don’t have to kill him…lol.

Myramar.8657:

- no temporary content please.

I concur. I’m not a fan of removing content at all. I certainly understand removing content for special events like holiday events (or special items like the bonfire), but for everything else, why not keep it so new players can catch up on the story?

So the refugee NPC’s moved to Southsun, big deal, take their lost belongings to them their, that way new players can still get the Lost & Found achievement. Instead of leaving bonfires in the major cities where the refugees were, put a memorial bonfire in Southsun (minus the bonuses), so that people can still get that achievement…etc…

Granted, the way some of the content was written and presented, it doesn’t make sense to keep it in this instance (and would make for very busy zones in the distant future), but there are ways to make additional content permanent so that new players can experience it.

This!! I love the added living story intro!! It reminds me of Asheron’s Call’s monthly patches…and since I started my MMO journey on Asheron’s Call it will always hold a special place in my heart (not mention that it was one of the greatest MMO’s of all time…;). To see this was nostalgic and an absolute dream come true. I never thought I would see another MMO tell a ‘living story’ ever again. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was already a loyal fan of GW2, but if you keep doing this, I may never go away.

For those that haven’t read it yet/don’t know what I’m talking about:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-paradise/?utm_source=client

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nekitten234:

+1

Having to use other forums as server forums is OK, but it will be much better having the official ones.

Also, as it will be a lot of WWW related stuff there, can we get a “lock” per forum based on the home server (or at least www part of it) — it will also prevent a lot of cross-server flaming.

Indeed – we use the same account here that we do in game, it should be possible to query what server we play on and prevent us from looking into other server forums.

Are there unofficial server forums? <starts searching the web>

I’d like to see a section in the forums for server conversations; a place where server communities can plan map runs for new players, (Orr anyone?), organize RP events, rally players for WvW, or find out what zone the most people are in just to have players to run around with in PvE.

For example, being in a small guild, it’s impossible for us to clear the temples on Orr. It would be nice to have a place we can go to be able to put a shout out to the other players on the server, requesting assistance and/or planning a day where a large number of players on the server would go to Orr and sweep it clean. It would make it easier for new players to complete those zones for map completion as well.

Just a thought, perhaps there is already a site or section for this, please let me know if so.

Yes please! Something, anything. It’s very frustrating leveling alts and not being able to follow an entire DE chain because there just isn’t enough people to take down the champion at the end. Either an underflow, or adjust the DE’s to scale down more. They scale up, why not scale down? I’m not saying don’t make it challenging, just don’t make it so it takes 15 – 20 people (unless they’re present).

Not for me. I don’t like PvP, I never have, I’m not inclined to start liking it for a skin. I think it’s short sighted for a game developer to introduce a reward into a game that forces you to participate in PvP (unless of course that game centers around PvP). Since this game was marketed as being designed for everyone in mind, I feel that the PvEers are being punished by not having a way to obtain a legendary.

Unless they separate the rewards for PvP and PvE, give one or the other of them their own legendaries, I’ll never have one. I wouldn’t mind grinding in PvE for whatever it is I need for a kewl looking skin, hell, make it so I have to grind more, I don’t play GW2 for the PvP though. I feel slighted as a paying customer; if I put the same amount of time into the game as a PvPer, I won’t get the same, or at least equal rewards.

Great videos, I’m not done yet, but thank you!! I just hit 40 on my mesmer, learning the hard way, and decided to check out some community information finally. Just the first video gave me some things to think about.

I did want to mention that your overview of the scepter and off-hand sword didn’t mention that the blocks, when successful, create clones. Scepter/off-hand sword is a great way to get clones up fast for a shatter/confusion build.

Keep ’em coming!

Staff skill – Chaos Armor : The animation isn’t always visible. Not a mechanical bug, but I wind up taking my eyes off of combat to see if it actually kicked on.

Has there been any discussion on how to prevent the creation of bot accounts? I understand that talking about them in the forums could prove counter-productive, you don’t want the bot accounts to know your plans, but letting us know that their are plans in the works would be great.

It seems to me that most of the bots have account names like, “asdfjgas.” If it was possible to introduce code that required legible account names that could help (this could be very difficult with the creativity of gamers and coming up with unique account names; i.e. it would limit real players options for a unique account name).

Another suggestion would be to add a CAPTCHA box for account creation. It’s been a while since I created my account, so I don’t remember if that was there or not. A CAPTCHA box would at least rule out the automation of creating bot accounts.

I’m sure you’re already thinking of even better ways to prevent bots, my observations just spawned ideas and I felt like sharing. I REALLY like the idea of the bot banhammer being a public spectacle…;) Even a weekly/bi-weekly update to let us know the number of banned bot accounts would be great.

Keep up the great work Anet! As long as I know the banhammer is swinging, I’ll keep reporting and keep playing.

Tanaquil.9314:

You don’t get paid till it sells.

Thank you Tanaquil.

I think that in this case what really needs to be pointed out to some of the TP bankers is that they aren’t making ANY money from listing junk on the TP, they are in fact losing money.

The listing fee is taken out of your wallet as soon as you post the item. If it never sells, you just lost that money. You could just as easily right-click destroy the item to clear up pack space and not lose any money. At least when you vendor the junk you get a little cash out of it, and if you really need the pack space, I would suggest salvage/depositing it – I think the demand for crafting materials will be around for a while yet.

I don’t think this hurts the economy at all though, they’re just hurting themselves in the long run. The things I see listed for 1c over vendor prices are usually listed in groups of 5k-10k. The fact that there are so many of them is why the price is low. But when I see something that there is only 5 of, they’re selling for 2-3x the vendor price (which is still low for a rare item like that imo, but it’s much better than 1c over vendor).

It will be interesting to see the economy in a few months.

Absolutely! I would love to be able to filter for specific classes of armor (light, medium, heavy). By slot as well would be divine!! Then I could filter level, class, and slot – no more wading through pages and pages of heavy armor! Anet – please!? =)

I’m seeing two different expectations on gettng paid here, and I’m hoping someone can clear this up for me, and perhaps it will help others as well.

I was under the impression that if you put something in the TP, you didn’t get paid until it was sold. If this is true, then you’re losing A LOT of money by not just vendoring the junk, as it could be a long time before those items sell (if ever).

The people that are arguing for using the TP as a junk bank, selling at only 1c over vendor prices, make it sound like they get paid right away. Granted, you have to go pick up your money from a trader, but if the TP pays you regardless as to whether or not people buy it, this sounds like a broken mechanic.

Which is it? Do you not get paid until it sells? Or do you get paid the list price regardless (minus fees)?