Guild Wars 2

I just completed the story line quest and am a bit befuddled from the rewards I received. I get to choose one of three WvW items (2 Flame Rams, 2 Ballistas or the Alpha Siege Golem) and then I get a item that once read gives 1000 influence to the guild, Three loot bags (gift boxes) and the Pact Victory token for a rare weapon with stats I don’t use. The three bags/boxes produce two pieces of masterwork lvl 78 and 80 light armor which I cannot use and a masterwork Trident again, which I cannot use. Not to mention the WvW item which I will more than likely never use and the influence I can use but I’m the last man standing.

Thanks for everyone’s suggestions and opinions in advance. =)

Exotic? Legendary? Rares with superiors work fantastic!

Braggo.7819:

Although i have had GW2 since the first beta i haven’t played much as i have a WoW subscription. Im looking to cancel WoW and using GW2 as my MMO and playing alot of other single player games.

What is the end game like here? from what i can see it is mainly PvP based as i havent heard of raids other than the world boss style of things.

Do you Queue for instances or is it finding your own group? as finding your own group sounds difficult.

Is the “lack of players” i heard about troubling or just people talking crap?

Finally i am mainly a pve player so does this game suit me or do i need to be a pvper?

sorry the the wall of text and questions.

Ill voice an opinion.

Once you hit 80, It becomes a grind for money, karma or various rewards as loot for gear. (chests, kills or achievement rewards, etc.) That’s similar to every other mmo out there. New content was added called Fractals of the Mists. This opened up a avenue for people to grind for loot. (see above) as well as new features like Ascended gear. This caused people to not roam the end-game lands or run those dungeon as much. They still do but it’s a bit harder to find people. If you want the dungeon gear, You have to run the dungeons but it’s not necessary. See the reasoning?

I have yet to dig into PvP really. It’s its own entity. Your best bet is to find four of five active players when you play for the group content. That way you won’t have to keep trying to find people to run it and you’ll get to know how everyone plays and become efficient.

Since loot is player based and not group defined, I don’t see any issue with a player wearing MF. Like nodes. Doesn’t affect me, good for them! BUT, If they are level 80 wearing level 80 gear and dying, then I would have to say they are playing too aggressively drawing aggro. At 80 now, I haven’t made any MF gear but I want to assume it’s way more of an adjustment to your character (skills, traits, play style) that just swapping out gear. Use the ole noggin people.

There is one more thing to consider, Once you reach lvl 80. You’ll be unable to use any armor skin lvl79 and below to transmute to lvl 80 armor. At least I have not found a way. This is very confusing why we cannot skin from a lvl 1 piece onto a lvl 80 piece or even light to medium to heavy respectfully since all races/classes/genders have the models already in place.

Captain Penzan of Moriarty’s Hold. Elmo Finigan too. Great stuff!

Whisper agents disappear when you approach them. She may be one of them.

its the amount of stats you receive with higher level gear. Hence why I look for people at around my level.

I only use the TP to sell by undercutting the lowest price by 1c. If I find a item that’s listed as the same price on the TP as a merchant (or the cost of the item’s worth) it get’s vendored. Whites, Greys, Blues and Greens all get vendored now.

The gear-centric game, max level gear, makes for everything before lvl 80 obsolete. Except for superior upgrades which are ’through the roof’ now. I want to assume this is a control feature of the economy by changing loot drops.

I have barely over 1g. I play with Fine/Rare gear, Fine/Rare upgrades. I believe there are a couple features that need to get implemented. And I could guess it will tick people off or cause a debate.

Trade posts need to expire. You paid a ’fee’ to post your product, You lose your ’fee’.
Trade posts need to expire from inactive players.
Suggest to remove ’buy’ orders.I think this causes a bit more confusion than what it is.

I was looking forward to getting to 80 and getting out of the ’crafted’ look. I’ll argue that the most important part of a mmo is how your character looks. Anyways, Knowing the pricing of the alliance armor (1.2g + 1.8g per piece give or take) Knowing it’s only RARE gear, I had the impression that the cultural armor was similar. I was pretty excited only to get my bubble burst. If I may coin a phrase ’Are you kidding me?’ The stats that come on the armors are less desired therefore I want to assume others have the same re-skin thought as I was having. C’est la vie!

Lets not even discuss superior tier upgrades. lol

Yeah, I know there are plenty of threads about it.

A ‘RARE’ tier with less desirable stats. Please adjust the prices to the same prices as player’s affiliated alliance gear. (Whispers, Virgil, etc.) This would be fantastic!

They can set the max numbers to what ever they want. A business design in attempts to regulate.

I believe everyone has the opportunity to get the same items but I do not believe everyone has the play ability to at attain the same items. That’s a bit unfortunate.

I am not hardcore but I have received my $60.00 worth. As 80 and facing to what is needed, It doesn’t look too appealing. I have 8ish zones to explore. It’s turning out to be a poi,heart,vista,skillpoint hunt whereas I used to explore every nook and cranny. People everywhere. I went broke getting a rare set to start the grinds. I realized afterward I had forgotten about my lvl 60 skill book. ugh.. So the grinds start. I should be ready in umm, 6 months, maybe.. Longer? lol

haha! had a good laugh. Thanks!

One time events just makes players feel not included. BUT it’s free and they can get away with it.

Assuming its clothing as well, town only. Too bad. The other items are buffs we already have save the mini and the hat. As a warrior I have the mistfire wolf as a skill. Just checked and it’s been disabled. LOL!

I’m lvl 78, wear mid 60’s masterwork gear, 74k karma and have 4g. I’m not one to grind over and over. My last hope for lvl 80 exotic gear was to purchase it with karma from the WvW but I find they have the same skins as a 15-25 karma merchant has. With a different name and price. Why? /cry. Aesthetics are HUGE in mmo’s but unfortunately in GW2, You have to be rich or love to grind.

I feel I am coming to an end. Anyone able to offer and enlightenment?

MMO’s are about people mingling, doing whatever. Population dwindles, People move, Population booms elsewhere. New players see the most populated sever and join. Designating RP is another factor. What can you do?

My thoughts are a bit different. I haven’t hit 80 yet. I am so sick of soloing, I actively try to find others to join in the fun. That’s really not the issue for me, Its the ’rush rush’ game play passing everything to the ultimate goal. People simply aren’t considerate anymore.

For instance, In a PUG group your in a dungeon fighting and battling your way through. Your in combat and most mobs are down but your still fighting the last one. You defeat the mob only to find the rest of the group already way ahead.

Where’s the group help for the goal? Where is the ’lets all stick together’ group play? Narcissistic, Holier than thou personalities. UGH! Not much you can do with gear-centric games.

Not dying?

You really wont make lots of gold unless you play the TP. To play the TP you have to loot something. So go farm. heh

I get home from work Friday in anticipation to start the new content! ---client starts to get updated around 6:30pm. Lvl52 Warrior.

Twenty minutes-ish later I get in game to find Phase 1 complete from chit-chatter. I hit the forums to confirm. Appears to have ran around 30-40 minutes or so from what I read or heard, I think.

INVESTIGATION!! Actually had a good time. In fact, doing anything they script and design has always been a fun experience. I get part 1 done and head on over to Caledon and to my surprise load into the Overflow. At least 40-50 players running around, defeating the evil that plagues these lands but it appears to be having a good time. All awaiting the infamous Noll to spawn. There’s the close by event that happens that’s a plus! After a hour or so, everyone is chatting that Noll is broken or down. But then you hear that others say it works. It was broken for me so I thought ’I’ll come back.’ No worries, plenty of time over the weekend.

The one thing that I hugely enjoy about GW2 are all of the types of puzzles and climbing and platforming. I cannot, never get enough of it. I applaud the designers.

Saturday, I load in to find Noll is still down. No worries, I head on over LA and in the overflow to await the beginning of Phase2 around 3pm est. It didn’t start at 3pm but closer to 4pm as I recall. The change that I noticed were the dock posts all of a sudden has torches in them. After 10minutes or so realizing I was on the wrong dock, I headed on over and eventually made it to the island.

I was in the middle of a large number of people that just started to head out to run events. I suppose this would be my first experience with a zerg group running events. Again, quite fun. After that, spent the rest of the night attempting the skipping stones puzzle. Yeah, I was laughing my kitten off.

Sunday, I load in to find an update! I hit Caledon and find Noll was spawned and just as I arrived, a group started to attack. So I assisted and boom! It completed the task and I received the mail. I kind of laughed it off and went ’ah well.’ I then hit LA once again to find the next step has been wiped clean. Sad panda...

I then load over to Lost Shores a hour after it started, found the group. I bet there were 100 people there. Holy smokes! I preceded to stay alive and damage as much as I could assisting. When everything was over, the chest was active for me. LOOTS!

I couldn’t complete the content which kind of sucked but all in all, I had a blast. I then go run Fractals for the first time and we completed lvl 1. I haven’t gone back and now am 63. Good loot, fun content. Good times. I would move all dungeons to similar difficult level models and up the loots or nerf Fractal’s loots in comparison to the rest of the dungeons. Or both.

A note about scaling in my experience, It does work but if you don’t have the amount of stats as the lvl65 (i think)gear, runes, sigils and jewels, You won’t be able to take the hits very well. What I find is that the rush rush mentality and taken over. People want it now. Appears to be a reason why players are gating the levels of Fractals with gear. I can guarantee there are nicer ways to voice it however. That’s all I’ll say. Have fun!

If the design is simplistic, people will do it. Once content is ran, re-ran and ran again, the content is learned. Trivial even though its kicks your butt every time.

With these two thoughts, All they have to do is adjust the loot tables. Boy wouldn’t that cause some stuff.

I have only ran Fractals lvl 1. I had a tremendous time! Very fun but I blinked and they were over. I hated the rush, rush, get it done feeling. Honestly haven’t looked much into it due to i’m only 62.

I want to assume everyone wants to be strong and look the best? Yes?

I see one open. Whats the issue?

Hmm, I don’t see any issue making mounts. Get rid of wp’s all together. Use mounts and make us have to feed and give them water. There is your sink. Then they could scale it up for faster mounts, more water, more grain. MORE, MORE and MORE!!

ok never mind.

At lvl 55 with my gear being 50+, I found lvl 1 FotM very challenging. It’s mainly due to the stats on the gear and their upgrades. Im not there yet but it appears lvl 60+ gear is the level to become more efficient due to the amount of stats your gear holds. This is why people go down. IF you don’t have them, then your relying heavily upon your party.

I would make FotM all agony. The whole dungeon and any level. Then I would allow any gear to be imbued with a agony slot to fill.

I’m a bit broke too. Around a gold but I’m only 55. I guess I could make more money selling salvage items, But I tend to salvage a item if it says ’salvage item’ on it. Everything else gets vended. I do take unnecessary risks so a lot of my waste is repairs and porting. Ive never sold mats, I bet thats my biggest issue. They all get thrown into the collections.

Corporate levels always dictate ’Communication.’ I would have to agree, Where is it?

Is the amount of skill points, skills and stats on the gear that make players strong. So with lvl 80, you have the 6 stat runes, stronger Gems and Sigils.

Its like a six cylinder Mustang dressed up to look like a Cobra.

The game is set up for players to be min/max. Its a bit of a shame. However, If I encounter personalities as like these in game, they get blocked. Pretty simple. No room for them in my game.

There is no other choice. Live it and love it. You can apply the raising vertical progression with just about everything we do. Its really human nature.

The fix would be to add Agony across the board all levels. Develop new lands and dungeons for all levels. Perhaps a second 35, 45, 55 etc. Add in a Story line.

Allow players to add a slot what ever piece of armor/weapon that want too upgrading it. This could be hugely creative or very simple. Add in game all the components, crafted, dropped, etc. This fits the Forge and current designs.

Missed Friday due to ’WORK’ One time 30min. event? Really?

Sat. Stuck at Noll. They updated the game, Noll completed Sunday Morning but Miyani’s chain was yanked.

Joined the final event one hour late. Ran to the battle and fought umm about 2 hours I believe until complete. Received the chest but cannot use any of the loot save the 20 slot.

Exploring for the first time is always the best experience. Being in a zerg group made this happen. Being 50 and scaled up to 80, I found I still didn’t have the stats to be really sufficient. Had fun for the time running the events until the group dissipated.

Similar feeling with AC, being 50 using 35-40 gear and scaled down to 35 in comparison to a 80 scaled down to 35. They tip-toed through the tulips.

The phases are a horrible design. It doesn’t allow all players to participate.

From a personal and business standpoint, I understand the feeling you get that something is free to use. I understand the amount of people using something makes it ’feel’ like everyone does. Assumptions can be terrible. Please keep information released on your forums and/or your wiki. It’s your neutral ground. Just an opinion. hehe

Miyani’s content has been removed so that your unable to complete the first part.

I wonder if this was meant to launch players from Mad Mardine’s Catapult in hopes to land on the tower for the Vista. Assuming the Vista is up there.

I feel the Diminishing Returns affects higher level players hitting the lower level areas more so than a proper level player in the same area. No, I haven’t actually checked into this but wearing the same gear and leveling to 20 say, Hitting a 1-15 area appears to be a bit more of a challenge than someone in the same gear at 15.

Running a 40-44 warrior in a 1-15 zone with gear around 35+ level. I can say sometimes its tough and a challenge and even to where you need assistance. The more stats you have on your gear, the easier it is. (precision, Crit, Vital, etc..)

Just about every 5 levels or so, You can upgrade. The task is that you may not want the stats available for that level of gear. Therefore you have to wait until those stats become available. Check out the crafted Vitality and Toughness gear. The prices have escalated at least 5x if not more and going up!

You could run around naked in hopes you’ll get a laugh out of the other side rather than a sword in your belly.

I didn’t say it was a GOOD workaround.

Ive found NVidia’s drivers have a gaming profile built in for GW2. I had a crashing issue until I adjusted some settings, working with the Global Settings and game settings. Crashes went away. I need to update my video card.

i7 3820 3.6GHz Quad
16GB Ram
NVidia 460 GTX 1GB

I’ll have to agree with the OP on this one. All races can be all classes therefore the models are already in game. I’m thinking the transmutation stones are bugged and broke!

The TP will never level out. Once a item becomes inflated, whose gonna buy? Unless of course the person removes it (which is doubtful).

aw shucks! I was gonna post about the Moa mounts. There are already several corrals of Moa’s around. A armored Moa! *thumbs up* heh

Simply saying ’no mounts’ without justification of your statement is absurd.

mouse mode would help greatly. Please implement ANet!

Every class has HUGE playability. It’s designed that way. You can go with the ’cookie cutter’ designs people post but you don’t need too. You will need to have a empty slot and try each class up to level 10 using every weapon that class uses to unlock the attacks. Find whats fun for you.

You are the only one who can choose.

I agree. I’d like a reward that my character can actually use. Another deterrent.

Not to mention a coat.

please allow us to skin anything and everything.

Just leveling a warrior and reaching 20, I decided to upgrade. Checking just Masterwork gear, I find I cannot afford it now. Plenty of supply there but the price keeps going up. Stagnant.

Just a guess, It appears people have bought out the items and are re-selling it a a higher price. For what purpose? Don’t ya want people to buy? lol! Could be totally wrong but the more inflation, the less sold and less players. Seems more of a deterrent than anything else.

Just wondering for I cannot find anything saying they will. Many issues if they don’t. Correction, Not auctions but items being sold.

It appears many have having this issue at the same time. So a server must have taken a break.

A breath or fresh air. I like them and hope jumping puzzles remain as a main stay in mmo’s.

ARGH!! these forums are terrible. Crappy re-directed JAVA. sry.

This is why we should be able to skin what ever armor there is out there and not restricted to what our character uses. I also agree that there are too many coats. For all armors.