Guild Wars 2

This was funny and way better than the event

Wow..

Yeah, I am sure you guys have done a ton to help breast cancer this way.

How much money did you raise or donate?

Manifoldgodhead.2356:

I think the best thing for Anet to do regarding transportation in general is take the controls away from the masochistic kittenbags.

have no clue what you are trying to say here.

I know this is a strange question, but are all of you that get effected by this, by any chance, female?

Broseph.9283:

I am a libertarian and not much a fan of taxes, haha. But in a game, gold sinks do something different than taxes, they help prevent the currency from losing value (otherwise everyone would gain so much wealth that prices would have to rise on things to counterbalance that).

I feel gold sinks are necessary. I would like to pay it in a different form rather than not paying it. I would gladly pay more in repair costs, or a higher % cut on the TP, and so on. My preference is to pay nothing to teleport and more on something else that still affects me, but doesnt limit my options so directly.

Edit: Katie Feathermoore, your answer rocks.

I take it you do not do dungeons much or sell a whole lot of stuff on the TP.
As it is now, people choose not to repair in dungeons and the prices on the TP is in many cases so low that you loose money selling things there, compared to selling to merchants.

Oh and I do know that taxes and goldsinks are not doing the same things.
I was comparing it because no one wants to pay either.
And obviously you do not want to pay taxes, so.. go figure.

Very good point ASB

It is sometimes hard for people to see the larger picture.

Here is the problem though.

Where in the game would you put goldsinks that effect everyone?
You do understand the point of having goldsinks I gather.

It is always the same. People want the gold sinks away from the things THEY are doing and onto things they are not doing.
Its like paying taxes. We all know taxes are needed, but we just want someone else to pay them.

Where is it you want to go to all the time that is really expensive?
And from where do you want to go?

Broseph.9283:

Well, everyone wants to jump around…but they aren’t jumping around nearly as much as they would be if there were no costs associated. Some of the cities wouldn’t be so empty already.

The costs say to me: “if you would like to travel, you need to work for it or else you will run out of money, AND, if you would like to travel and at the same time continue to accumulate money for whatever it is you are saving for, then you need to travel ONLY when necessary or else you will reduce your efficiency.”

I am basically saying that while most aspects of the game respect our time, this one is somewhat inconsistent with that premise. The WP tax acts as both a gold sink AND a determent, and I am questioning whether or not this is exactly what A-net had in mind, given their experience with the first game.

You also mentioned that all cities, except for Lions Arch, are empty.
Hello. Hold it right there. There is NO cost in going from Lions Arch to any other city, unless you are extreeeeeeeeemly lazy and do not want to spend 2 minutes at most to go there.
But if you can’t figure out how to get around without using the WPs every time you have to go somewhere, then I guess its more a tax on the less fortunate ones.

Press H

Choose PvP tab

Go to Heart of the Mist

Complete training (or don’t)

Go to Hall of Memories

Enter Big Purple Portal

Lions Arch

After you done it the first time, it gets even easier.

Yes it take a little time and effort, but not much. It is a couple of minutes to get around to almost all cities.

If you want to talk about how expensive it is to portal jump when you are playing with your friends at low levels…
Well, I just dont portal jump with them, they should be running around more than porting anyways.

And since everyone wants to just jump around, then its a very good gold sink

If you feel you can afford to go to LA, then you can go to DR too.
In fact, dont skip the whole map, go to the nearest city, use the FREE city waypoints to get to the portals, go to LA, and from there, go to any other city.

You can get to LA for free by using the mist or RvR.

I see no problems here really

O M G !!!

Nice touch Anet.
Very nice.
Thank you for the laugh

Had around 15k karma at lv 40.
Did not buy the weapon.
In fact, I have only spend karma on cooking.

Its not that I am waiting for anything, just easier to come by gold than karma, so I use the TP for now.

Is this your latest thing on the “Pointless negative things about GW2”?

I just want to press one button to start fighting and then not anything else.
I mean, how am i supposed to roleplay while having to dodge, target, moving and pressing all these buttons.
Not even sure what they do

Illushia.3721:

ANet seems very against adding anything to make anything ‘automatic’ as far as combat or movement are concerned.

Adding something to your target to make them more visible would probably be a better alternative.

Yeah. Like an arrow or a green glow….
Wait, nah that would be stupid ideas.

No Thanks

I think it will dumb down the game.
Once you learn to control your character better and get a better battlefield awareness, your issue will not be a problem anymore
And that is actually the point of a more skill based pvp game

Thypari.9043:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zy752/combat_mode_02_beta/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdgW_G4FyU

Since the beginning of GW2 betas I suggested this system as secondary option in the options menu. This is just perfect.

Can we use it without getting banned? If not, are you guys please please please implement it?

Legal have to do with law, so there is not much there if you are strickt.
But they do not ALLOW us to use 3rd party software to effect the game.
And yes you can get banned for it.

I could have sworn there was AT LEAST 99% mesmer players.

And here is why: (Opinion)

Illusions and super short skirts.

I see like 99% mesmers… its crazy

Raserei.8361:

Here is why: (Opinion)

Passive: 25% movement speed

There are no mounts so everyone wants quick travel.

I see like 80% thieves…. AT least on my server. Its crazy…

You see what you are most focused on.
There is not 80% thieves, not even close to that.

So whole argument is mute.

Phoonie.9704:

SlimeA
HP: 100
MP: 0
ATK: 10

HeroA
HP: 200
MP: 20
ATK: 20

Yesterday:
After 5 round, HeroA is victorious.

Today:
After 5 round, HeroA is victorious.

Tomorrow:
After 5 round, HeroA is victorious.

1 Year from now:
After 5 round, HeroA is victorious.

Taking aside the perception of skill, HeroA may have slain many slimes throughout time, but every encounter ends the same. He does not kill it any faster or any better today than he did yesterday or in the future.

There’s no sense of growth in the character and no reason for attachment. They could have just done away with leveling of the characters like they do for PvP.

That is right. If the hero does the same thing again and again, this will be the result.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If the hero decides to mix it up and change what he is doing (not what he is wearing) hen maybe he will kill the slime faster.
Or he might die. Who knows.
It will certainly be more interesting.

I do understand where you guys are coming from.
You like feeling that you get better when your character gets better stats.
But that is usually not that case, in effect the monsters just gets easier.

This have been discussed again and again and bottom-line is that GW2 aimed to be different, to cater to a different crowd.
It might not be you, but we are here and we are playing the game. And we are having fun.

To the OP: No I do not play to be average: I play to be as good as I can get
Gear doesnt make me better