Guild Wars 2

totally agree…the only reason I don’t use the compact view is because I cannot differentiate between bag types

/signed

All you need to do is put the mini pet in an invisible bag…they then will not be deposited

The home city idea is actually a good one…why do we even have a home city??? My Asura has been to Rata Sum probably once since hitting 80 two months ago and that was to buy a set of cultural gear…no reason to go there…even though I think each city is amazing looking…all that work in designing those cities, for everybody just to sit in LA spamming LFGs…with so far all major events happening there too…I know there is supposed to be some kind of player housing in your city at some magical date in the future…but I assume that will be a portal there anyway and you still won’t go for a stroll through the city

First I want to say those look amazing…second ANet NEEDS to make the Daynight weapon set! Looks way better than some of the legendaries…and they would have to keep the smoke effect on them too

not sure if making it soloable is the solution to this problem…I have this problem as well…I dont like getting together with a group where I know I must be in for 1.5 hours or more without the option of taking a break or leaving without ill effects…I think one big problem is Story Mode…by making something like Story Mode they have created a case where as time goes on less and less people are willing to do a dungeon in SM making anybody who waited to do them until now SOL…so maybe making Story Mode soloable would be a good idea…but the Explorable Modes should definitely remain a group thing…OR a dungeon finder could solve all these issues

I dont agree with the whispers between servers and this might be the reason they don’t show you the persons name but I would probably track down a person who ganked me for revenge purposes if I knew their name, which is the only reason I would want that…but at the same time less griefing is always a good thing…the color coding helps identify enemies over friendlies….so I say keep it the way it is

I don’t think this is a 50/50 split subject any longer, I was one of those people in the beginning who would say dungeon finders are not good, however after standing in LA for 5 seconds and seeing 100 “/map LF2M TA Exp”, and on top of that having a hard time myself getting a group to do a dungeon that isn’t popular in SM, it would be very very beneficial at this point, alts trying to do SM now has become a pain…if there was a dungeon finder you wouldn’t have to rely on those people who need SM to have to sit in LA for hours trying to find a group (which they are likely out leveling their alts like I am)

I have noticed this as well, with my elementalist sometimes I switch into support mode especially on a difficult boss, and it does seem that when you are in that role the rewards are less, when I am playing as a glass cannon and nuking everything I get tons of drops but trying to heal in water attunement i get maybe 1 or 2 mobs to drop something…seems to me that it would be a bit difficult to know how much you contributed to the event, but not completely impossible

I agree with OP, I am not big on dungeons personally, I prefer just exploring and working on alts, however sometimes I would like to do a dungeon and to sit in LA trying to get a group for a story mode has been a nightmare…and besides those left who are willing to go to a story mode don’t know wth is going on in a dungeon…SM was a bad idea from the start…I realize I should probably have done them as soon as I hit 80 but that wasn’t what I wanted to do at the time…but now it just plain sucks

I saw a message to meet with “Ignavus Ridgerunner” after completing the Mad King dungeon, it was only up for a second not sure if that was a bug or not…if it is not where do you find this person?

I have completed all other jumping puzzles in the game and for the most part I found most of them challenging and fun, the only two that were frustrating for me was the one in Metrica Province and the one in WvWvW, the one in MP was frustrating but reasonably so, the one in WvWvW sucked cuz of griefing some people from another server up top for around 3 hours before we finally killed them to complete the puzzle with that being said…
This puzzle’s level of frustration has nothing to do with lack of skill or sheer difficulty, I think it would be fairly difficult if I were doing it in an instanced version just for myself but as an Asura I have to with my “gut” as when to jump…I have tried it with a Norn and a Human but as I do not play those nor have I done any jumping puzzles with them I found that even more difficult to learn
How to fix this I do not know, but hours upon hours of frustration does not equal good fun…and to those people who say “I have done it 10 times now, on an asura and a norn and a charr” GTFO…go do something else let the number of people attempting this thing dwindle down

I know this was posted by others, I have seen them, I couldn’t find one to add onto but basically I am using this map for those times when I have trouble locating that final pesky POI or Heart in an area
http://www.guildhead.com/map

And they have a GREAT way of seeing how many POIs, Waypoints, Skills, Hearts and Vistas for that area…on top of which it is MUCH MUCH easier to read the names of those areas…basically when you zoom out to see the entire map you see the areas named with the counts on them, but in-game it could be just like this except maybe 10/16 to indicate you have completed 10 out of 16 POIs and when you have all them just say 16….
I think this would help a ton to figure out completion of areas
Basically right now I have a Google Doc for each of my characters where I am keeping track of it…and that kinda sucks

I submitted an in-game bug for this, around a month ago when I got my World Completion but never got my Gifts of Exploration
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Exploration

I was just wondering how I would get this now? I don’t know if the bug that was causing it has been fixed or not, I have seen other posts on this topic, but have not heard anything from my original ticket.

Thank You

So I was thinking about the way gem prices currently are
800 gems = $10.00
1600 gems = $20.00
2800 gems = $35.00
4000 gems = $50.00

Right now it is basically
80 gems = $1.00

Usually when you purchase more of something there is a discount…so what about getting a bit more if you pay the higher amounts?
Like this
800 gems = $10.00 (Same)
1700 gems = $20.00 (100 extra gems)
2600 gems = $30.00 (200 extra gems)
3500 gems = $30.00 (300 extra gems)
4400 gems = $50.00 (400 extra gems)

Just a suggestion, I think that would give more incentive to buy more at a time…other wise I don’t really see the point in spending more than 10.00 at a time.

I for one am all for banning people for inappropriate behavior, botting, gold spamming etc…however reading the forums a lot as I have been I am very nervous with this game and have never been that way before in any other game…I recently started farming for karma and gold…before I was just running around whatever zone I thought would be fun at the time and just hitting events as they popped and was having fun…but I was constantly broke usually not having more than 1 gold at any given time (mainly the cost of porting around was killing me) but something that has happened to me is any time I see a large amount of people doing an event…I start looking around for bots and if I see bots I report them then run away as I don’t want to be thought of as a bot by other players…while I think perma bans are good, the process by which people are getting banned seems almost ad-hoc with some players getting banned without them even knowing why and I think this might be affecting the community of players who don’t want to lose all the money they have invested in this game and losing the ability to play this excellent game.

Everything I have seen in the updates recently has been “We are going to lower your rewards if you are good at the game because bots and gold farmers are good at the game too” so because of this people like me who do not usually grind/farm gold are forced into doing so…I understand that these bots and gold farmers are killing the economy, believe me I see that, but punishing legitimate players for the bots’ behavior is simply put…a bad idea.

Basically my suggestion is this…make the banning system more informative…when a user is banned they should know immediately that they were banned and why…and this suggestion might be a bit too much but maybe could allow the community to see why a person got banned…I know giving away “how” you determine a person is a bot makes it easier for bots to get around that, but it would be nice to at least understand how a player that have no intention of doing anything wrong can avoid breaking these rules.

If you want to think about it in real world terms, if I am a citizen of a country and that country has laws that can put me in jail for driving the wrong way on a street, how does a person avoid doing that if there are no signs telling them that law is in effect?

Seconded…applying a “quick fix” as they stated in another post for camera issues that is affecting certain players is not the answer, options are always better… the camera issues are significant…I did Arah story mode the night of the fix and when on the air ship my camera was all over the freaking place…it was inside the walls half the time…i had to zoom all the way down on my character just to see what he was fighting…give options please.

Somebody with one of these “dinosaur rigs” are already at a disadvantage…that will always be the case in every game that is ever made… I don’t run a gaming rig, I run a laptop with a decent video card but no where near top of the line stuff…I have thought for a while that there was something….off…about GW2 camera stuff, it doesn’t make me sick or anything but as soon as I saw the videos of the FOV…I went “that is my problem” I am seeing too small of an area…if they want to cry fairness as an excuse I say make 3 monitor setups not allowed cuz they are unfairly seeing more than I am….and while you are at it go ahead and make everybody view the game in 1024×768 with graphics turned down to the lowest possible setting…that would be “fair”
Catering to the lowest common denominator is no way to run a game… nor is catering to the top tier hardware….but somehow they are doing both…they trumpet the fact that their game runs on eyefinity 3 monitor top of the line rigs…then say they can’t implement something that would help a small portion of their base because it would give them an unfair advantage over people with crappy rigs…that is some schizo stuff

I also wanted to add…if “this game is about position and knowing your surroundings.” is so important…then why do they support 3 monitor setups? that have a much larger field of view than you can get on a single monitor? I most definitely agree that knowing your surroundings is indeed important…seems to me that anybody with a setup like that would have an unfair advantage against anybody that doesn’t which is most everybody else…a simple help fix would be an FOV slider

I am not entirely sure I understand the “bannable offense” thing but here is basically the best explanation of “why” FOV is so important, some people can handle some can’t…options are always BETTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZUao2jTGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XsPYPGcl0

Hah…I want this as well…our guild is Flaumig Hase “Fluffy Bunny”…would be cool if maybe emblems became a community driven thing with Anet putting out some guidelines on what is allowed and what isn’t as well as formats required and then letting all those creative types make cool emblems…my wife is a graphics designer so should be able to get her to make something fairly easily

The repair bill is basically the reason why I don’t do WvW…I understand some sort of “death penalty”, I would say do something like GW1 with the reduced health thing but there would be no reason to stick around in WvW if you were at 60% reduced health…easy kill then…the distance run is indeed a punishment.

Ok since the patch yesterday on the 7th I was fine before the patch but ever since my lag has been crazy, at first I assumed it was my ISP (I have comcast and they suck) but I did pings and ran speedtest.net I am getting what I should around 25Mbps I reset my router a few times so I don’t think it is related to ISP…
Basically what I see is I go to attack and nothing happens for a second or four and all of a sudden tons of hits happen all at once…I am rubberbanding all over the place, I am not sure if others are experiencing this or not but it makes the game unplayable for me.

It could still be Comcast as I said I think they suck it just seems a bit coincidental that it started the first time I logged in after yesterdays update which was about an hour or two after the update happened.

The skill challenge on Borlis Pass server in Malechor’s Leap next to the Bayt Fallahin POI is still down…I was hopeful with the patch today, the one I was missing in WvWvW was up but this one is still down

You know as much as I hate bots and gold spammers in LA and hackers hacking accounts (my wife’s account was hacked) the people that I hate more than these people are the people BUYING THEIR FRICKING GOLD, at least those other people are performing a type of job… if people weren’t buying gold from these people there would be no botting, no spamming and no hacking…it is a fairly simple formula of supply and demand…
I am not entirely sure how to implement but I was thinking that maybe whenever a spammer/botter/hacker is banned look at any account that received more than x amount of money from that account and ban them too…that way players who purchase gold understand that their accounts could be gone if they do so…why are you playing the game if you just want to get the items from purchased gold?

I am really not understanding Anet not saying something somewhere about this problem…looking through the bugs forum there are nothing but bugged skill challenges..different ones in different zones on different servers…so I assume the the patch on Sept 18th that “Fixed various broken events and skill challenges.” actually jacked up more than it fixed…it would be nice in the cases where there are such widespread problems, for the company to at the very least say “Hey, we are aware of the problem and plan to have the fix in on this date…blah blah blah” but as far as I can tell this has been an issue that has just gotten worst over the last week.

I tend to agree with the OP that the monthly rewards are a bit lacking…I wasn’t 80 when I got my monthly achievement but it was 70 cp, 4,740 xp, and 20 Mystic Coins…I think the part that is supposed to matter is the Mystic Coins as you need loads of them for Legendary weapons or something…but as for me I am not planning on a Legendary any time soon…I am not playing the game to get the most “Leet” weapons…but for something that takes so much time to achieve this should be more worth it

Is there any word on the state of the Skill Challenges that are bugged, at this time on my server Borlis Pass, there are two that I know of that are bugged, one is in the Red World in WvWvW and the other is in Malechor’s Leap

Did not know that…thank you

There should be a “could create” number on items (in a different color) that you have all the base items for but need to craft something else in order to craft that item, I may not be explaining it properly but basically would like to know what I could create if I crafted other items…basically right now I look through each item then go to see if I can make those items or not then go back and look at the next item…this was fine in the beginning when you don’t have too many recipes but as the list gets bigger this becomes a bit daunting and more time consuming than I would like…the “crafting speeds up” thing was a great feature to make crafting feel less of a grind than in other MMOs but this would be a nice feature as well.

So, this may have already been suggested but a quick search didn’t turn up anything
Currently in the crafting panel the groups are sorted alphabetically, I think they should be sorted by use so for my Artificer it would be something like

Refinement
Inscription
Crafting Component
Consumable
Potion
Focus
Scepter
Staff
Trident
Upgrade Component

In the slash commands like /wave and /cheer it would be nice that if I had somebody targeted when these were typed it would say their name i.e.

“Mychar waves at Yourchar”

First I want to say that I LOVE the “F” key, fantastic method to loot/talk, however, I saw in previous Update Notes that the Interact “F” got a fix for the priorities, but I think it would be nice if the different types of interactions could be bound individually, for example

Loot “F”
Revive “C”
Stomp “C”
Talk “T”
Greet “T”
Other things I can’t think of off the top of my head “X”

By default they should all be set to “F” but if a player wants to change them around they should have the option…I know I would…it would help a lot when trying to loot a corpse and an NPC walks near you think it is a loot request but it is a greet request and end up having to chat for a few….

I use autorun quite a bit…basically i like to point in a direction hit my autorun key and then look at the map to make sure I am going the right direction…however, when swimming if I do this when I close the map my character is pointed straight down either swimming to the bottom of the area or stuck in some rocks on the bottom.

When the dynamic event for an area near a waypoint is a “Defend” this area the waypoint should NOT be contested, this is a time when calling out to the map for support at xxxx waypoint is needed and if it is contested you cannot call in the reinforcements…if you are taking the area back I can understand it, it is not your waypoint at that time but during defense that IS your waypoint

When running through the Orr areas the different “Risen” do not count toward the “Daily Kill Variety” even though they are drakes or chickens or humans they still only count as “Risen” this can make finishing the daily difficult to do when you are running these areas.