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Tequatl Feedback [Merged]

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I’d actually be for exchanging a set number of spoons for Tequatl’s Hoard – say, 250 spoons or one stack?

The new Training and no 'reset' ability

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“Play how you want.”

Unless it’s not how we want you to play.

I have the feeling that ANet are really, really sorry now that they ever came up with the slogan “Play how you want”. These days, it’s basically a club that dissatisfied players use to beat the company over the head with every time they do something that said players don’t like.

Guns in fantasy mmos

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The interesting thing about technological development in GW2 is how split-personality it can be. For example, in Sparkfly Fen, you have an event at one end of the map where you have to use basically medieval technology (trebuchets) to sink a Risen ship, and at the other end of the map, as we all know, the Vigil have a huge laser emplaced to defend against Tequatl.

GSCH/TTS and Tequatl

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I just want to note that my guild and its partners in the Jade Quarry Tequatl alliance (MAGI, VG, TWIT) have been able to kill Teq every night since the HP buff. Tonight, with Symbolic Avenger disabled, we completed the event at the 6:57 mark. I think one factor that we can attribute our success to, aside, of course, from meleeing/stacking at the correct spot, is that we’ve also formed a dedicated defense team of elementalists armed with Swirling Winds to help protect the zerg.

Guardian update

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True that. My map killed Teq in only about 3 minutes (on the clock, less battery times) tonight, which is really much too OP even for me. I was leading one of the defense teams and we barely had time to deal with the first mob that spawned at the 14-minute mark.

Tequatl Feedback [Merged]

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Chris Cleary said pretty definitively (at least I think so) in another thread that guardians will not be actioned simply because they’re using the symbol bug to kill Tequatl more quickly:

The current skill state (or balance) is not going to fall under a situation where we would consider it an “abuse of a bug” or “exploitation of a bug”.

This is really the same situation as when the Mesmer fall trait was in a state where the damage was significantly too high.

No we aren’t going to action players for that.

It seems to me that for this to be actionable, the players would either have to be using the bug to get an unfair advantage over other players or else using the bug to mess with the economy by getting all sorts of goodies they wouldn’t otherwise have gotten. As it is, they’re simply inflicting a lot more damage, a lot faster, on Tequatl for the same event rewards that they’ve always gotten.

P.S. He also said in the same thread that “record kills” are an unofficial, community-created metric that ArenaNet has no call to intervene with:

“Record Kill” is an entirely artificial and community created metric. You can choose to completely ignore kills that revolve around temporary lack of balances in skills.

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Exploiting - Bans and Suspensions.

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The current skill state (or balance) is not going to fall under a situation where we would consider it an “abuse of a bug” or “exploitation of a bug”.

This is really the same situation as when the Mesmer fall trait was in a state where the damage was significantly too high.

No we aren’t going to action players for that.

So people using the bugged guardian trait on say, teq will not be banned? I don’t think they should personally because then you are basically telling people not to play guardians, but I want it to be clear.

I think myself that it’s a pretty clear statement. If the guardians were using the bug to get an unfair advantage other over players or to mess with the economy, it might be a different story, but as it is, they’re basically just using the bug to kill Tequatl faster for the same rewards as they would have gotten without the bug,

The New Lion's Arch - Feedback [merged]

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Even before the first attack on LA, the old city had a ramshackle, slapdash quality about it. I suspect – it may even be canon lore – that the captains literally hauled their ships up on shore to use as buildings. I much prefer this streamlined, elegant new look, and I don’t find anything out of order about the huge central space in the middle of the city at Trader’s Forum (as remarked elsewhere, it seems to have been purpose-designed for guild gatherings and mass events). I do miss the lion fountain/statue, though, and could wish for another crafting complex.

LA Exterminator + Sharkmaw jump = Rage

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I feel your pain. I had to get one of my guild’s mesmers to help with that dreadful jump (I’m not even good at jumping on my main in the first place) and he had to try several times before he could (1) survive and (2) set up a successful portal.

Spot the Karka

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I have no idea how they’re able to manage it, but at least a few mesmers have been able to get onto the rooftops near the flowerbed karka and set up portals. If you’re lucky enough to be near one such, it’s a fairly easy shot from the roof down into the box where the critter is hiding.

HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]

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Anet already said if you recently bought Gw2 you get it turned into a pre-purchase just contact support.

What about people who bought GW2 not recently, like those – such as me – who pre-purchased it in 2012? What do they get?

Snowden Drifts Daily Frustration

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Are you aware you can complete your daily within 15 min or less in pvp?

There are those of us who do NOT want to do PvP.-

Why no Risen Centaur?

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All jokes aside, the in-game explanation is likely that the Risen haven’t reached most of the centaur lands yet, with the possible exception of southwestern Kessex Hills (but that and the swamp at the southwestern end of Gendarran Fields are the northernmost limits of the Risen advance in any case). Note that there also seem to be no risen skritt, ogres or grawl either, likely for the same reason – none of the known communities of those races are within the zones of Risen activity. We do have risen quaggan, however; several quaggan communities are under direct threat from Zhaitan’s minions, and others have been overwhelmed.

Queen Jennah's Throne/Stone

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I vaguely recall a similar stone in gw1’s Talmark Wilderness area in Kryta. Could be mistaken though. I think it was where claypool is now.

The old site of Dakutu Village? Judging from several maps that compare GW1 historical sites to GW2 sites, Claypool appears to have been built upon the site of Dakutu, which was the first main base of the Shining Blade during the civil war.

Toxic?

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SW toxicity is simple. Dead ppl never port and upscale events for rest -> Events fail. Fix sould be simple.

please. dead people are inactive people and therefore the event get scaled down accordingly to the amount of active people playing.

From what do you derive that conclusion? The received wisdom has always been that the more players in a combat zone, alive or dead, the more the opposition gets scaled up.

Dragonite ore storage

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Remember when we had to beg Anet for more sources of Dragonite back when it was the hardest of the three ascended materials to gather? Crazy how we’re throwing it away now.

…and once again we see the wisdom of the old saw, “Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it.”

You guys have got to do something.

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Truthfully, I haven’t noticed that much of a drop in player population. I still spend at least a couple of hours per day (mainly in the evening) logged in to do Teq with my guild and dailies, SW chest farm (which I lead for my guild) on Friday evenings, guild missions on Saturday, and map completion for lower-level characters on Sunday (I’m currently leveling a ranger up which gives me something to do), and I should get back to doing some breach/VW cycles in SW to replenish my bandit crest, key and shovel stocks. I have the good fortune to belong to a guild that’s not merely large and active but whose leadership puts serious time and effort into keeping it vibrant, and the core membership of the guild is as reliable as clockwork in showing up every day. (Of course, it probably helped that 9 of us got portals for the last closed HoT beta!)

Why is Anet so protective?

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It’s not so much a problem with the OP’s view of things, as it is that his post is really quite typical of the way a certain type of “hardcore” MMO player has viewed GW2 since it went live. The fundamental issue here is that those players have a misunderstanding of ArenaNet’s core intentions and design philosophies regarding GW2. ANet went into the project from the get-go with the intention of creating a PvE environment based on cooperation, not competition, and they built the PvE game to foster an environment where players would work together instead of against each other. That’s why you have such things as rewards (XP’s) for reviving downed or dead players, loot drops set up so as to give every player involved in the kill of an enemy a chance to get a drop (and guaranteed drops with champions and world bosses), the dynamic event system which is intended to attract any and all players in the vicinity to complete said event for rewards, resource nodes available equally to all players with the appropriate gathering tools, etc. That, in turn, is why you will never, ever see open-world PvP or kill/node stealing in GW2’s PvE, because putting those in there would run completely counter to ANet’s “cooperation, not competition” design philosophy for GW2’s PvE.

Content today?

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Unfortunately Anet is struggling for money and players. China was a massive flop and most people have moved on from GW2. They simply don’t have the money or resources to provide content for the game anymore. They have all their eggs in the expansion basket.

Or at least that is the only reasonable explanation I can think of. Most MMO’s release major content updates every 2-3 months in ADDITION to releasing expansions… Not sure what Anet’s problem is…

Please, show us all these MMO’s that release major content updates every 2-3 months, I must have missed all of them.

You are quite the white knight, aren’t you.

Stop using sneer words like “white knight” against players who advance the proposition that ANet might, somewhere, somehow, sometime be right about something and that some players clamoring for or complaining about something might in fact be in the wrong. (That is generic, by the way, aimed at all players who use such sneer terms, not against you in particular. I’m just fed up with the way “white knight” seems to get trotted up against anyone who has the temerity to take ANet’s part on anything.)

Why do you play female characters as a guy?

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Most of my characters in GW1 were female and that carried over to GW2. Like a lot of other players, I’ve done that for reasons which are basically aesthetic/stylistic; human and Norn female characters, which comprise most of my lineup, just – to me – look better and more attractive than their male compatriots, and so do their armor and outfits. The fact that there is no difference in stats or fighting abilities between the genders also helps. My main is a Norn female engineer, whom I’ve currently got dressed up in the Exemplar outfit, dyed black, with the Black Feather Wings backpack skin, over ascended armor with mix-and-match skins; my guildmates like to joke about her goth appearance.

Overclocking CPU help with performance?

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If you OC, you need to make absolutely sure that you have top-notch cooling and that you follow the instructions (if available) provided by the manufacturer of your CPU and motherboard precisely. Overclocking puts a lot of stress on the CPU and can shorten its service life appreciably, especially if not done quite right, and I’ve never done it myself since I personally don’t think that the potential benefit in performance increase outweighs the potential cost in hardware damage and software issues. As pointed out above, upgrading your hardware, if you can afford it, is likely a much better path than putting extra stress on your existing hardware. I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB last year (the printed motherboard manual indicated 8GB was the maximum and I didn’t know I could go to 16GB until I researched online) and I’ve seen distinct improvements in GW2 performance.

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Ascended Item Disposal

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I agree. Ascended items ought to be at least salvageable, even if the powers that be don’t want to make them sellable on the TP. I don’t understand why legendaries can be traded on the TP but not ascended.

Do older people play this game?

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I’m 51 and I’ve been playing GW/GW2 since the beginning of 2008. The guy who introduced me to GW and tutored me in it is a retiree in his 60’s, and my GW guild was/is led by a grandmother. In fact, my GW2 guild is led by a married couple just about my age.

[Suggestion] Racial Reward Track

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We had this in GW: Eye of the North, where there were racial reward tracks for norn, asura, dwarven and human (Ebon Vanguard) where the players could earn titles and skills (by doing quests specific to the race). This system was a development of that found in Factions where you could earn titles and skills by doing things for either the Luxon or Kurzick faction.

Exemplar Attire

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One thing that those who complain about the “feather butt” on this new outfit seem to overlook is that it looks right with the Black Feather Wings. I have my engineer in Exemplar Attire dyed black and illumination, with the wings, and she looks terrific IMO.

Event incentives

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I’d agree, insofar as the loot-dropping system needs to be revamped seriously to restore decent drops from mobs. I understand that ANet restricted loot drops in order to deal with the problem of farming abuse – which was, in fact, a thing, and led, among other things, to unneccessary toxicity in various areas where farmers clashed repeatedly with eventers (e.g., Coiled Watch). However, the problem is that ANet’s default response to farming problems from the beginning seems to have been to nerf the drop(s) in question completely and then do nothing to restore them once the people farming excessively have gone away. I think the pendulum on drop nerfing has swung too far and needs to be dialed back to a happy medium without triggering another round of overfarming. Same thing with the overdoing of chest drops, particularly the absurd situation where you open one chest to find yourself confronted with another chest or bag; that needs to be fixed as well.

Carapace Armor - What to do?

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I salvaged mine so that I could get the skins and mats.

Maguuma Explorer

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Note that the above-described technique works for all the other regions, and helped me complete the explorer achievement for all regions.

Teqatal Chest, Buggy?

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All I can say is that I haven’t been getting the bad results that some people have reported in this thread, and that I’ve been getting at least one ascended chest almost every month since October including three Tequatl’s Hoards – in fact I got Angchu’s Weapon Chest a few days ago and a precursor drop (Venom) last week I can only say that you need to be active in the three defense phases to get gold-level rewards (i.e., all four bonus dragon chests) in addition to the main chest. That means you need to, as pointed out before, get a gold medal in at least one phase. Basically, pick one battery and stick to it instead of roaming around the map, stay within the event area circle, and try to tag as many enemies as possible so that you get credit for the kills.

Why the weird new hairstyles?

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But…. it’s a high fantasy game, and I’m seeing so many hairstyles that fit with 2015 and the age of gel/spray and heavily stylized emo/pretty boy/fashion cuts.

Bring in some grimy hair styles, gritty beards and rugged faces for those who want to make real adventurer types too.

Some of us, though, play “high fantasy” games to get AWAY from grime and grit, of which we get all too much elsewhere.

10 years

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ANet doesn’t even celebrate the birthdays of Guild Wars 2. I’m fully expect them to not acknowledge the 10 year anniversary of the franchise.

News to me. I started playing actively again right around the 2nd anniversary of GW2, and I could have sworn there were a number of things going on to commemorate it.

Orr temples and toxicity among players

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Reading these forums gave me the conclusion that the only toxic community is in dungeons. and pvp. and wvw.

If everyone is toxic, noone is toxic.

Stop being oversensitive. The only reason this happens is because arena net gave us megaservers without ANY way to choose the map, so farmers can’t split with other ppl doing events. The only ppl to blame are ppl who decided to realease a feature that limits ppl ways to play how they want to. This applies to farmers as much as to you. They want to farm event, you want to complete it. Fail mechanic is part of the game. It’s only anet’s fault that you;re mixed on the same map

Actually, it’s not quite true that there is no longer any way to choose a map. You can use the LFG tool to find a map that has the event you want, or join the party of a friend/guildmate who’s in the map that you want. That’s how it works in the Silverwastes; by this date, there’s a pretty well-organized if informal system dividing the map between event and chestfarming instances using the LFG tool. It sounds to me as if the various Orrian temples could benefit from a similar setup.

This game kills graphics cards?

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See PaxTheGreatOne’s post for a comprehensive list of things to check when your PC is experiencing overheating. Specific to dust:

Dust accumulation is among the top physical causes (not within the circuitry itself) of issues with a system’s hardware, because PC’s are very sensitive to heating/cooling issues. In my own case, I experienced repeated incidents last September with my desktop rebooting unexpectedly in the middle of a GW2 session. It wasn’t until I opened the case that I saw why; the insides were literally caked with dust. I had to go down to my local computer shop, buy a can of compressed air and give the innards a thorough blowing-out. Ever since, I’ve made sure to check my computer’s insides every couple of months.

Underpowered/cheapo PS’es are another primary cause of a desktop’s components failing to work properly, and one I’ve experienced a couple of occasions in my time. You need to make sure, always, that your PS has enough oomph to handle all the internal components you want to put in your desktop case, and that it has good cooling.

TL:DR – if you’re having overheating problems with your desktop, ALWAYS make sure to open up your case and check for dust accumulation first thing. And ALWAYS have a can of compressed air on hand. Which reminds me, my own can is about exhausted, I need to go get a new one today.

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Mystic forge is quite disheartening...

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Trying to use the Mystic Forge to get the kind of exotic weapon you want is a loser’s game and will only bring you grief, as you’ve found out. As far as I’m concerned, the MF is only good for things like upleveling mats, making legendaries and legendary components, and such-like things.

what do you think of my norn's look

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See, this is why my human and Norn characters are all female, just as most of my characters in GW1 were female. With all due apologies to the design team, the designs for male human/Norn characters have just, in the main, never personally appealed to me. Plus which, I have a thing for the type of statuesque Amazon that Norn women so often turn out to be, and have ever since I first made Jora’s acquaintance in Eye of the North. :P

Guild Wars 2 April fools 2015 [merged]

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It was funny but in bad taste considering Germany’s recent crash.

C’mon Anet, you shoulda known better.

This event was planned and developed for months. It is not something they decided to do a week ago.

There are always things that happens around the globe. Does that mean they should never be allowed to release anything?

Could they not have changed the headgear to goggles and made everyone look like they are driving a car? the sound effects would have made sense still and they would have avoided a sensitive issue in the news.

No, because the original joke – which has been explained over and over and OVER again – would have been lost. The joke refers to a bug that happened during the beta phase in 2012 and that has been joked about ever since, with some players asking for a “/plane” emote. As I remarked in another thread, I see no connection whatever – and it makes no sense to me why some people see such a connection – between characters wearing vintage leather aviators’ helmets, sticking their arms out to emulate prop-driven planes, funny noises and music, and the screen postprocessing being tweaked to emulate a silent-era or early talkie movie – and the recent tragedy in the Alps. If ANet had meant to make fun of said tragedy, I submit to you that they’d have done something like have the characters dress as modern airline pilots, hold their arms to emulate jet-driven airliners, make jet noises, and crash every so often.

Guild Wars 2 April fools 2015 [merged]

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Interesting that the apology was posted in German (on the German forum) but there’s been no similar statement in the English-language forums. (And I say this as someone who sees nothing wrong with this April Fool’s and thinks that some people are just being extraordinarily oversensitive.)

What? You mean, on the forum where the only people even affected by the plane crash might be?

Also, I hope when you say “some people are just being extraordinarily oversensitive” you aren’t referring to those who had friends/family on that plane. Because from where I’m standing, the oversensitive people are the reddit meme-lords who thought it appropriate to make 100 threads complaining about the 5 threads complaining about the joke.

You’re proving my point. I, for the life of me, cannot comprehend how making the players wear old-time leather aviators’ helmets, stick their arms out to emulate prop-driven airplanes, tweak the postprocessing to make the screen look like a silent-era or early talkie-era movie (the first thing I thought of when I figured out what was going on was “The Dawn Patrol” or “Wings”, both classic World War I aviation films) and adding funny noises and music had anything whatever to do with the recent tragedy in the Alps. I’m going to be blunt here: the connection exists only in your mind and in the minds of others who somehow made a connection that absolutely does not exist.

Consider a temp forum close

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Yes and I moderate other forums and happen to know forum “manners”. There’s NO legit reason for 1,000 different people to create 1,001 threads on the SAME exact thing when they could be all stated in ONE thread. Thank god I’m not a moderator here, because the exact action I stated, is exactly the action I would take for people being so rude by not just using ONE thread (it’s more work for the poor moderators to merge threads than they should have to do if people just stuck to simple forum etiquette)! It’s not about not allowing people to express themselves, it’s about asking people to mind their manners, people who don’t mind their manners should have posting privileges removed!

This is probably one of the worst ideas a online company can do in regards to managing the community, especially in regards to an MMO. Actually games have tried it in the past, it usually makes the situation much much worse.

You wouldn’t want to be a member of the alternate-history discussion forum I belong to then. The administrator and moderator team take a very dim view of bad manners in any form and have never been shy about kicking misbehavers or banning persistent/incorrigible infractors.

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Interesting that the apology was posted in German (on the German forum) but there’s been no similar statement in the English-language forums. (And I say this as someone who sees nothing wrong with this April Fool’s and thinks that some people are just being extraordinarily oversensitive.)

Can we get rid of Rezzing totally dead?

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No. Just no. I think you’re going to find yourself virtually alone on this, as even most of the people who are annoyed by dead players lying around instead of WP’ing are highly unlikely to endorse such a drastic “solution” as you propose. Besides, there is a penalty to dying – you get one piece of your armor damaged every time you die completely, and if you die enough times, your armor begins to break outright, one piece at a time, and the only way to fix it is to map out to somewhere where there’s a repair NPC or anvil available. You might as well ask for repair costs for armor to be restored, while you’re about it.

Personal Story Restoration update

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Thanks for the updates, Bobby! I do want several bits of clarification regarding what happens, first of all, if you have completed “Forging the Pact” and have the first step of “My Greatest Fear” up but have not yet started it. My necromancer is in that exact position – according to the schedule you posted, she’s at C7 Step 2 Failure “Shell Shock” – so I wanted to be sure that once she completes “My Greatest Fear”, she’ll be able to proceed with Chapter 8 according to the new/restored personal story schedule.

Also, my mesmer and warrior completed “My Greatest Fear” a long time ago, and have been at C8 Step 1 “Temple of the Forgotten God” for a long time but hasn’t done that episode yet. Am I correct to assume that they will be able to complete Chapter 8 according to the new/restored chapter schedule?

Finally, I have two other characters who haven’t yet gotten to selecting their greatest fear – my guardian (Forewarned is Forearmed, not yet started) and elementalist (Battle of Claw Island, not yet started) – so I assume that they won’t be affected by this change. My ranger and thief are in the level 20-30 range so aren’t affected.

Gold Transfer Changes

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I’m amiable to the change for mail, what I’m staunchly opposed to is the guild bank change. I dislike having to have all of my gold on-hand. I don’t like the risk associated with potentially clicking the buy now button when checking the prices of legendaries, so I prefer to keep a majority of my gold locked away in a bank. I used to keep it in my personal bank (ideal solution), but since they removed that I now use a series of guild banks. This change will keep me from being able to access my gold freely, and I am not okay with that.

I don’t, in fact, use my personal storage guild’s bank to store my gold because guild banks, unlike personal/account banks, are not protected in case something happens such as your being hacked (as my guild leader explained to me when I was setting up my storage guild last month). In fact, I don’t even store high-value items in my storage guild, only things that I don’t need immediately but are too good to just throw away, such as Halloween and Wintersday items.

As for the risk of clicking on the wrong button, that’s a genuine thing, and it’s happened to me a couple of times, but the real solution to that is to always stay alert as to what you’re doing when you’re carrying out a transaction on the TP involving buying or selling. Don’t be half-asleep, inebriated, or distracted when you’re using the TP.

Gold Transfer Changes - My story and impact

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While I won’t be affected by the gold trading limits, I do think that this restriction might not be as effective as ANet would like. Gold sellers will probably just start trading in Ectos or another form of commodity rather than gold. It worked back in GW1; no reason it couldn’t work here again. When you’re dealing with large volumes of currency, players do tend to be more blase about losing out on a few 10’s of gold here and there.

All the same, I don’t think you’re going to have any success, Enaretos. As you yourself said, you’re in the very tiny minority of GW2 players who will be impacted by this decision. It just isn’t worthwhile for ANet to create an exception for so small a group of affected players, any more than they created exceptions for people who didn’t like the account wallet or the shared dyes. Plus, you’re clearly not getting a lot of sympathy from the common player. (Maybe if you gave out donations of 100 gold to everybody here, they’d feel differently. XD)

For the record, I also think ectos will make a comeback as high-value currency (as I noted in a previous post). Truthfully, I don’t especially mind. I remember how it worked – and pretty well, all things considered, too – in GW1, and I occasionally made use of ectos as currency in that game too. In fact, ectos are actually easier to get in GW2, providing you’re willing to salvage rares. (I suspect some people would prefer to use dark matter globs since those are a lot rarer, but they’re account-bound, so that’s out.)

Gold Transfer Changes - My story and impact

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Just gonna stop all the people aiming at the legendary selling that profits “only me” => it’s also cheaper for the buyer.

I realize a lot of people are jsut salty because they feel poor. That’s sad. I always tried to help people and gave great tips but whatever, all you can see is the fact that I complain legitimately about my gold not moving as fast as before, but as always, if it doesn’t affect YOU, you don’t care.

I just hope that less precursors being traded cheap will make people want to list higher to recoup for listing costs. Now that was me being salty

Thread is pretty much over. None of you brought any arguments in, you’re basically coming to say you’re happy that it’s happening when it benefits none of ya.

I’m not “salty”, whatever the heck that means, and I find it exasperating that you keep deliberately ignoring that the change DOES benefit the entire player community by making it harder for gold sellers and RMT’s to carry on their scams. I’m probably “poor” by your standards – I currently have less than 500g in “cash” in my bank – and I’m working on both a legendary weapon and ascended light armor – the most expensive such armor to craft, as I’m sure you know – for my mesmer. But I don’t get “salty” about it. I work with the situation I have, and in fact, I’m done with collecting mats for my legendary (I only need 242 more dungeon tokens and I’m there) and I’m expecting to put together my ascended armor next week. And I’m doing both things without having to toss around huge amounts of gold.

So yeah. I think it all comes down to sour grapes because you can no longer toss around insanely huge amounts of gold.

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You can still gift stuff from the gem store for presents and raffles and you can still buy expensive stuff from the tp to give to your friends.

Not sure how much of the gold that is being sent to you/picked up by you from the guild bank is directed to those gifts but i think 26k gold per year is plenty.

Yep, that just removes something I could do since the beginning of the game. Because we enjoy seeing our liberties restricted, right ?

Also the 26K/year is cute, I probably don’t even reach that, as I’m more at 20K/year in and out. Problem is I don’t evenly do it over a year. One month I’ll trade 10K via mail then for 4 months it’ll be TP only. See my point ? The restriction on the account sucks. If there was a way to authenticate as a legit person or whatever it’d be better.

There will never be a change that satisfies 100% of the player base. Even in your case, I see it as a minor inconvenience. I think the positive changes that will result from this (more income for anet to put into the game instead of giving it to RMTs, less inflation) vastly outweigh the negative ones for legitimate players, even for you.

Especially from the curb of inflation, you will profit a great deal, as all your gold will be worth more.

In the end, I’d also say that the people who are blaming ANet for this change are blaming the wrong party for having one of their “freedoms” taken away. Instead, they should be condemning the gold sellers and RMT’s for abusing the feature in question so outrageously that ANet was forced – after two and a half years – to take this step. I do wonder why the people who persist in complaining about the change keep gliding over the fact that it’s aimed not at legitimate players – not even the wealthiest fraction – but at scammers and violators of the game’s TOS.

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Joe, they are putting a restriction on something we could do that was non exploitative.

You drew a parallel to real life and so will I. Imagine that tomorrow your bank tells you : “Sir, we reduced your withdrawal capabilities to 500 dollars a week”. When it used to be infinite. Because after all you payed for infinite didn’t you ?

Then what ? Just accept it because “it’s to avoid credit card fraud man” ?

Maybe you’re fine with this but I’m not. Mail trading was fine as it was imo. The risk to be scammed covered for the 15% TP fee, more or less. Now that they take something away from us, it would be justice to have something else given to us. And not the “preventing gold selling” thing.

And @Miku man ikr, it’s like everyone here has 10g and since it doesn’t change anything for them they want it…

I was away at the DMV getting my registration renewed, but I wanted to come back to one point you tried to make:

“You drew a parallel to real life and so will I. Imagine that tomorrow your bank tells you : “Sir, we reduced your withdrawal capabilities to 500 dollars a week”. When it used to be infinite. Because after all you payed for infinite didn’t you ?"

That’s not quite as good a parallel as you think it is. Because why? Because ATM’s – the way that most people get their money from their bank accounts in the ordinary course of business these days, unless they have some special need that requires them to see a teller – do put restrictions on how much money you can withdraw in any one transaction. For my own bank, for example, I think it’s something like $300. And if you were to try to get around that restriction by withdrawing multiples of $300 over and over again, I daresay most banks would find that at least a little odd, if not outright suspicious.

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Honestly – it’s like shouting down a well. Every transaction on the TP removes 15% of the gold. It’s gone. That’s a control on inflation, right there. Circumventing the TP ought to be the sort of thing that gets a perma-ban, because it’s, get this, bad for everyone who isn’t the person doing it.

This isn’t a hard thing to wrap one’s head around.

Asking for special treatment, because you personally trade heavily in a way that has never been supported by the devs? In a way that is actually harmful to everyone else who plays? That goes so far beyond self centred that I’m not even mad – it’s impressive.

In real world terms, you’re Bill Gates/Warren Buffet asking to be exempt from the idea of taxation, because it’s inconvenient.

Think again man, the figures the dev was talking about is 0.175% of the playerbase. Then remove the loaners. The goldsellers. People circumventing the TP have 0 effect on inflation. Now that we set this straight, I’m not even complaining because it affects a business I’m quitting, but because it’s jsut something we lose. As simple as that. No more birthday presents for my friends, weekly guild raffles and stuff.

Thanks for your input though :/

No more birthday presents? No more guild raffles?

Now that’s just purely ridiculous. As pointed out elsewhere, the restriction is only on receiving – not selling. You can keep right on sending birthday presents to your friends and you can keep right on having guild raffles. You’ll just have to change your procedures to take the new receiving limit into account. (And as for birthday presents, by the way, you can always just buy a big-ticket item on the TP and send it to your friend as their birthday present, because there’s no limit on the value of actual items you can send through the mail system. I daresay they’d appreciate it as much as or even more than the gold.)

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Unless I misunderstood, the limit applies to how much gold you can receive, not on how much you can send. You can send as many 500g mails OUT as you want.

This means that large guilds will NOT be significantly impacted when they send out large prizes. The winner will have to receive his payment in weekly installments, but heck, that’s more like a real lotto anyway.

Assuming 4 complete weeks to a month on average, that’s 2000g. Not a figure to sneeze at in any way. I’m beginning to suspect that certain people (not you!) are grasping at straws to try to argue against this change.

Actually, there’s nothing stopping anyone from trading for high-value items in kind instead of in gold – that is, sending a certain quantity of items of the same cumulative value in gold as the desired item. TL:DR – I can see ectos, or some other such item, making a comeback as high-value currency.

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but also it will only impact 0.175% of our players during an entire month’s worth of mails

It will affect that many players directly, but when this destroys a guild’s ability to do community events, that affects a lot more players.

No, it does not destroy a guild’s ability to do community events. I belong to one of the larger guilds (MAGI) and we do events every weekend – in fact, every weekend night (Friday: Silverwastes chest farm run, Saturday: guild missions and Sunday: map completion) – that don’t involve or require the transfer of large amounts of gold. We did a “Twelve Days of Wintersday” giveaway last Wintersday and the prizes were valuable items, not gold. Stop talking as if taking away the ability to transfer more than 500g at a time via mail has shot guild activities in the head, because it hasn’t.

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Sorry, but no. Notwithstanding the justifications you’ve offered, it still seems like you’re asking for a way for very wealthy players (the 0.175%, which is actually far smaller than the much-maligned “1%” of real-world politics) to get around the TP tax while the vast majority of less wealthy players have to deal with it. Not to mention that you blithely disregard the simple fact that ANet does NOT support mail trading, does NOT want it to take place even if they don’t actively block it, and has established the TP as the official avenue through which all trading should take place, precisely to avoid all the abuses to which the GW1 system, which was based on mail trading, was subject to.

No. I don’t want to return to “Spamadan”.