Guild Wars 2

In the past when they have added something like to TOT bags, it was in a fourth slot. So having it take up one of the three seems like a negative. Personally, I got a key for a character finishing a zone, and for the first time since beta, I am saving the key in the bank until they “fix” the BL chests.

Make bloodlust automatic on the red map to even out the map size disadvantage. Red is the lowest rank server, and to give the the hardest map will be a downer.

Revert, please.

One other thing – this is like begging players who do not have enough gold to buy 400 gems to go to an illegal gold seller and break the rules of conduct.

Bad anti-player idea.

If you think about the real living world, that real life thing, if you were the most obsessive football fan in the world, you still could not possibly watch every single football game played in the world. Too many leagues, clubs, games. So if anet wants to create a living changing world, you cannot continue to expect that you can experience 100% of the content without missing anything ever. So maybe player expectations need to be tempered.

Or maybe as the OP says, Anet has to re-consider how fast their treadmill is spinning, and whether a lot of us hamsters will get exhausted and fall off.
And how hard it is to get back on.

Sometimes I look at a thread mainly to see what the devs replied.
I can read a couple of posts and understand the point of the players.
But then I have to read through like 7 pages of comments to find the Dev response.
I would be great to have a one-click filter to show just the Arenanet responses whne I want to quickly understand what the developers’ think of the issue.

If unique was self-explanatory, the game would not let you buy 2.
There are plenty of other things the game won’t let you do. Heck at the laurel dealer there are items that the game will not lot you buy more than once – the crafting starters. Apply that code to the ascended gear.

Or get rid of the soul bound restriction. Here and everywhere. Free trade, man.
If I find it, buy it, or earn it, I should be able to sell it or give it to whoever I want.
IF I buy 2 of something and can only use 1, then let me sell the extra.
Don’t force me to drop it in the toilet.

It wasn’t called soul bound in GW1, but you could not trade armor or customized weapons. It was bullpucky then, and it still is.

account bound is almost as bad.

If I buy something with karma I earned, I should be able to sell it. I can’t sell Basil? I can’t sell a Bank express?
Give me one good reason.

Another difference from GW1 is that all GW1 classes could carry 4 weapon sets and swap to them during combat. In GW2, some classes can carry 2 sets, some only one. The ele can swap alignments to change skills, and an Eng can activate a kit. But a ranger with greatsword/short bow cannot swap to a longbow in inventory during combat.

Big difference is that in GW1, your skill bar could not be changed outside of town (some exceptions like signet of capture and Norn transforms) so GW2 is more flexible on skills than GW1, but less on weapons.

Adding an additional weapon set swap, maybe purchasable by an 80 for skill points from Miyami or someone – that might be a nice incentive for max level characters.

Nerf ambient creature – The real menace!

you should both post your server name as well. I’m sure some guilds will come calling, and a good friendly no-elitism guild is your best ticket to start.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

maddoctor.2738:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Calling people stupid. Being Elitist jerks. Kicking someone for not knowing the path/map…ie being new. Etc and so on.

All reasons why I don’t do fractals….or dungeons. I seem to attract kitten….go me

Go with guildmates, it solves all those problems ^^

My guild consists of my husband, and myself. Believe me, if we could 2-man it, we would. Of course, I’d be content with heroes too…

Really, join a second guild that does dungeons and is reasonable about representation. My son and I have a two-man guild to keep our extra stash, but we joined a 150+ member guild on our server HOD and we have had a blast. look around and talk to folks in cities to find a guild that matches your play style – they are out there. If you are on HOD PM me for a sales pitch for the guild we joined.

Not interested in Angry Guild Birds.

I would like to see a Super Duper Monthly that gave 1000 laurels and took so much time to complete that hardcores wouldn’t have time to spare to post complaints about easy content.

Being a lefty with left hand mouse addiction, I feel resigned to moving and clicking on skills and the slowness that causes, especially when I lose track of the mouse cursor in a snowstorm.
I think about remapping, but I am not convinced it would be better, just confusing, and that I would revert back to what i know in desperate situations.
I bought a Nostromo N52 but I found that it was really ergonomically married to left hand pad / right hand mouse.
Maybe if I was 19 I could retrain myself brute force, but at 19*3, not so likely. My right hand just does not have the dex needed to jump all over the keyboard, and it also manages to suck as a mouse hand.
Any interesting skull implants on the market? I’m nostalgic for William Gibson novels.

So I guess I have both luck and discipline. I bought 5 keys, and only 5 keys, and I got 2 medium Guild commends and a fused weap-ticket. Also a repair.

So I feel pretty lucky.

I wonder if it is better to buy 5 than 50? I would normally assume every RNG result on these is independent.

I wonder if they are tracking negative forum vibes against our accounts, and I have been such a positive, lighted-hearted, mildly sarcastic fellow that I haven’t accrued any negative vibes (until now).

Hey, it could be true – people here keep telling me that there is no depth to which Arenanet won’t go to grief the players.

Or maybe they reward conspiracy theories? Nah.

I am still waiting for the diving goggles to appear for the ‘dive into the Collapse’ feature in Divinity. I am sure something fabulous awaits me at the bottom. ;-)

My guess is that the new NPCs for F&F will lead us there, probably for a culmination. Not sure an ancient Karka like thingie will fit in there though.

Drew.1865:

You seriously don’t think just because something is labelled unidentified that it isn’t already locked into a color or a group of colors? Anything is possible and I bet Anet controls drops completely and all the label RNG makes me lol.

They control when and how much every item drops in this game and I bet there’s nothing random about it.

Marshall Applewhite told me in a dream that if I wear brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes when I open dyes from the laurel vendor, I will get the new Heavens Gate dye, which is more valuable than Abyss.

Shucks. So much for my proposal to Target that they should add Asuran shoes to their Fall fashion line-up because all the fashionistas are going crazy over them.

I’ll have to come up with another ‘get gems quick’ scheme.

So sell the ones you get from the laurel vendor. No one will know that you are passing along nerfed dyes.

Nerfed dyes. jeez.

Finally a solution for event overflow. DC ’em all.

Just kidding.

Same error :-(

TooBz.3065:

It means that there is, once again, no good reason to have an alt.

Disagree. You can park an alt at every dragon/mega boss and switch to them when the pre-event starts. No need to spend anything to map into the waypoint. You don’t need a decked-out 80 to survive a boss kill. You could even name your alt after the boss he stands around waiting to kill.

quidnunc.4239:

There is a limit of one chest per day per toon

per boss – 1 toon can get 1 chest each from different bosses, yes?

Original guy is probably a patriotic Swede.
All he needs is a three crowns guild crest.
I too like it.
Given the fact that you can change colors at will, I think it is great when people experiment. My thief has gone from all dark to all bright to more pastels than a neighborhood in Bermuda. Then back to dark.

Personally I would like this mechanic removed, both ways.
If I can gain a tactical advantage, I should be able to use it.
Conversely, the enemies should be able to hit back, but at some disadvantage.
If I can shoot farther because of height, yay for me and boo-freaking-hoo for them.
If they have a positional advantage, they should be able to pummel me!
And I should be able to hit back, to a realistic degree.
The game should not care if I can poach a deer with impunity.
It is a freaking deer, not a TRex.
And no boss should be designed to allow that – it IS supposed to be TRex(like).
Having anything invulnerable is bogus.

So my Engineer puts four rare armor pieces – all medium armor – into the mystic toilet and out come heavy gauntlets, soulbound on acquire.
I can’t wear, can’t sell it to a merch, can’t transfer it to another character, and can’t salvage it.

Is there anything I can do with this other than throw it away?
Or put it back in the toilet?

I thought I was a nut having 16 characters. I had less than 35 in GW1 over 4 accounts (though only 1 less) :-).

I may have to buy a couple more if the price of gems ever levels out.

I least now I know I won’t max out anytime soon – anyone know what the max number of toons allowed is?

goldenwing.8473:

Coming up on 7 level 80s out of 35 alts. (I am at 6 now – all in orange gear).

To the OP – if these posts show you a different perspective, that’s good. Glad you posted. You still have those alt slots if one of us gave you a good reason to use them.
You don’t have to throw that nice gear you find for other professions into the mystic toilet – maybe you could revive an alt and work them up to using that nice gear.

Sad part is that even low level alts can do dailies and monthlies, sometimes faster than an 80 who feels compelled to play in high level areas.
And think of all the wasted potential storage space. You could have a main and 4 mules without buying any extra slots.

We demand everlasting Elixir S for all professions!

Asura of the world unite.
All you have to lose is your height!

I am an older gamer and not a big fan of the jumping puzzles that are timed. If I can take my time I do ok, and I have watched some vids on ones that I have trouble with.
But generally I love that you can jump at all so much – playing years of gw1 with no jumping, I find it a lot of fun. I also love getting up on rooftops, just wish you could snipe more often – hate when an enemy turns invulnerable after two shots.
The only gripe I have is the camera up your shorts problem.
Sure I miss a lot of jumps, but I find that if i get frustrated, just go kill something and have fun, maybe come back to the puzzle tomorrow with fresh energy.

Not about not buying it. More a question of when, mostly about non-80s.
I have a lot of characters, and I have the gold. It was more a question of who benefits most, given that you can’t max every trait line. I haven’t seen that much trait discussion (not that I have read every post).

Thanks for adding point 3 Biofringe – very important.
2nd question was looking for opinions on how good each profs tome is.
Just wanted to see what people thought.
Maybe a better question – is there any profession that absolutely needs the gm traits to, say, do well in dungeons?

So I see two reasons to buy a gm tome for traits:
1 – to get a 3rd trait in a trait line
2 – to get a specific trait at the gm level

Are there other reasons?

and which professions get the best value for the 2 gold price?

kinda sad part is that gw1 had named weapons from bosses, and here in Gw2 there is the opportunity to have both armor and weapons drop, plus other cool stuff, but it’s not happening. Maybe in an expansion, I can hope.
What makes me crazy is quest champion bosses like the giant at Nageling drop absolutely nothing. Not even nose pickings. No wonder nobody is there most of the time.

Erasculio.2914:

The MMO genre is stagnant. Normal people look at MMOs with disgust, as they are not so easily deceived by the grind. Whenever someone tries to do something new, grinders complain since they believe all MMOs should be only a new place to grind, and nothing else.

GW2 is trying to advance the genre, though, hence the small army of annoyed grinders in this forum. ArenaNet’s strategies are far from perfect, not to mention incomplete, but they are going in the right direction. Just as people used to say “If you want a good story don’t play FPS, go play RPGs” and then were forced to shut their mouths after the release of Half-Life and Bioshock, so will one day all the grinders who say “If yu don’t like grind don’t play MMOs, go play single player RPGs” will also be forced to shut their mouths. I wait eagerly for that day, and hope GW2 will manage to be it.

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I agree very much, and I almost regret missing your first point.
I might complain sometimes but overall I appreciate very much what Anet has done with GW1 and GW2, especially that they stick with it and gives years of value and new content. Not everything is a home run, but they keep trying.

Checkers is a non farming game too.
Erasculio, come on, you know he meant mmorg type games, not single player games.

When I am in a jumping puzzle or an interior, it seems like I am viewing the world through a butt-cam.

Giant at Nageling, diessa plateau. Plenty of npcs and players to rez. Every 20 minutes or so. Also a separatist event with lots of bodies. only downside is no chest.

I go to visit Owain. She’s just so cute.

Seriously, the young Karks drop bupkis, (either nada or junk) and the riders not much better.
The scales and drakes are easier to kill but the rewards are little better.
Once you try a few jumps on the puzzle and realize that sucks too, you’re gone.
Improve the drop rates and people would go there.

if anyone is just starting or stuck on the heal daily, just go to Plains of Ashford and rez dead legion soldiers. They are always laying around near the roads.

So, I can craft a whole set of armor from scraps of junk, one piece at a time, or as a whole boxfull, but I can’t stitch up a damaged pair of gloves myself?

I become a 400 craftsman who can make better stuff than any vendor, and I can’t fix a hole in my shoe?

I have to go talk to some layabout who never moves a muscle to get my armor fixed for a price, or buy a magic orb that never drops in combat?

Isn’t that kind of … dopey?

How about an update or expansion or skill that lets you repair?

Your stuff, and other peoples. Maybe actually profit by something other than grinding dungeons?

Every time I start to second guess my decision not to bother with dungeons, I come to the forums and get to read something that verifies my decision.
The elitists say L2P, and the devs say “let’s try to think of as many things as we can to prevent L2P from being fun, or even possible.”

At least in GW1, you could find someone every once in a while who could help you learn something new, like a new build that helped in a tough mission or area (Though there were lots of ‘no-noob’ runs like Duncan the Black or speed clears). Or you could use heroes to go in and get a clue of how to beat the mission or dungeon.
In GW2 without a decent LFG tool and separate servers and 5-man teams where one weak link/learner hoses the group, and most groups opting for elitist, what is the point of trying to learn?

Certainly you should look at your rank permissions, and set up a rank for new players that only allows bank deposits. That won’t stop this completely, but if someone joins with thieving on their mind, seeing that they are in a no-withdrawal class until they impress an officer, they might just bolt right away and not bother.

If the person is in your contacts, you should be able to see their current guild, and you could try to contact a guild member/officer and tell them to watch out for this one. I would do it without broadcasting the guy’s name – it is possible that you have id’ed the wrong ex guild member (slim but possible).

Anyway, that sucks and I have seen it before in my 2ndary guild – unknown user cleaned out the bank – so I wonder if this is a repeated scam in midsize guilds who recruit openly. This will only get worse with guesting, so I would say caution is going to be needed.

ophidic.1279:

Don’t forget Henchmen/Heros so you can do a dungeon solo without having to worry about others.

For me, I miss Heroes and Hench the most for the opposite reason!

I want to learn to do dungeons, but I hate being a drag on an experienced group, and being the weakest link because I don’t know my way around or know what the deathtraps are.

I don’t want to feel humiliated for trying to learn something new. That is not my motivation for playing the game.

At least with jumping puzzles I mostly can fail, then succeed, without screwing someone else along the way.

I would like to be able to go into a dungeon with a bunch of NPCs and explore and learn without messing up someone else’s run. I don’t care if it is for reduced rewards, or even no reward except for creature drops.

I also think more people would do dungeons if you could enter with 2 or 3 and have the slots filled with npcs, even if they are mostly Trahearne-like or pincushions.

I would settle for a “teaching stupid people” dungeon group, but I haven’t seen one advertised.

ArenaNet – teaching the youth of the world not to gamble, one Wintersday present at a time.

RNG makes us gamblers. I am fine with that.
Account bound makes us suckers.
Buying something you know you cannot sell, and have no use for 10 of, is a sucker play.
Anet please re-examine all account bound items that you forbid us from selling. In the long run you will sell more gems. Stop making your fans into suckers.

Caelib.2497:

The boxes should be renamed “Open this and you die”. The Princess Dolls are an instant death.

Not instant – they usually start unorganized espically if you drop a trap or a turret. Run in and grab the drops So they dont evaporate while you fight, run back and start to fight, trying to isolate.

If there is not drop, usually you can get socks or something from the dolls.

I try to aggro something near by so if I go down I have something easier to kill than a doll. works sometimes, but not always.

Haven’t noticed the over leveled toys – maybe I died too fast. :-(

Usually if you have 2 or 3 people you can kill them. not hard to pair up – ive done more grouping for present hunts than ever before.

So I am looking forward to Wintersday and I see the ad for another discount, and I am thinking yeah, maybe a second account. Then I try to logon and connection errors. Another auspicious start to a big event. What a buzzkill. There goes that plan.
Back to Gw1, which works.

Nothing like a little nostalgia. Running around with 7 heroes and mob of minions, killing stuff and grabbing a buried treasure. How come I cant send these mats to the bank? Oh, Gw1. Where’s my salvage kit. Ah the memories.

Enough of a break so that gw2 is now loading. all is right with the world – for now.

If you are out in the wilds and want to avoid a hefty waypoint fee to get back to lions arch, go to wvw instead. You can bank, trade, repair, and such, and then if you want, take a free portal to LA. A a PVE guy, to me it’s the only thing wvw is good for.

The browse/demo idea is the “best in thread”.
I like having to work for the dyes I want and make choices.
I love the unidentified aspect, and love that I can craft dyes.
They would not have made a ‘rare’-ness system if they didn’t want commerce to play a part in this. They knew the way the dye market economy operated in GW1, and they improved on it.
Don’t you think they are cooking up new colors for expansions? I don’t think we have hit 65 million yet, and that doesn’t even take into account blends and textures (peppermint stripe for Wintersday?).
I think the system is great and there is better to come.
The preview/browse feature would cut down expensive mistakes (bought the wrong green) and might cut prices a little, but it would be a crowd pleaser, IMO.

Chickens peck and chickens munch,
Chickens cluck and chickens crunch,
Chickens flap and chickens croon,
Chickens kill you dead soon.