Guild Wars 2

Is the 2-week suspension only for people who insult people who work for ArenaNet? Or for people who insult people?

I’d be fine with all of this if it was an across-the-board rule of respect for all of us. It’s a serious issue of basic human respect if not.

We were told something about a spunky female being behind the molten alliance stuff. And the prisoners at the end said they were mad at someone (can’t remember if they said it was a she) who was manipulating them all. And the image below came out around then.. not sure if it’s the same person.

I don’t remember if this was ever answered. Has it been said who she was?

Getting killed by a single attack from full health is almost always a bad idea. It sours my experience.

It’s made even worse by the fact that enemies appear out of thin air, and simultaneously pelt you with 5000-10000 damage multiple attacks. Dodge isn’t unlimited but their mega attacks are. It’s not even possible to dodge most times because they begin attacking before they’re even visible.

There’s no strategy. The pile of defeated players can attest that there’s a problem here. People have complained about this map being full of monsters that were overpowered and not worth it. So the response is that they get buffed and attack in zergs that are individually more powerful than a vet anywhere else.

Does anyone care about what we’re saying?? This feels like Anet holds a grudge against us and wants us to have a bad time, and lose money. Please treat us like our time and energy is worth something.

I had a lot of trouble with my male ele finding pants that didn’t look like a skirt. The choices were:
Aladdin pants
miniskirt
long skirt with a strip removed at the front
spandex leggings (AC armor)

I had no idea that there was a) candy on the ground, and b) that standing on any enemy’s goo the ground could be anything but harmful.

The “s” in discount is silent too! “dye-count” :P

I find the most disrespectful and insulting responses are directed at people making a complaint about the game. It can be a calm, rational complaint about something that is broken, but it will be met with hostility from another user. One person’s criticism of a game isn’t personal towards other players, so there’s no need to react with insults.

I rarely see people just accepting that someone else has a different opinion. Sometimes it’s trying to convince that person they are wrong, but mostly it’s just ridiculing them for having that opinion via the unconstructive “QQ”, “whiners”, “idiots”. These posts don’t contribute to the topics but they remain.

I feel like reasonable-minded people of any opinion are driven off of the forum because they don’t want to deal with the hostility.

Good luck finding other players or a guild to go around the map with you. It’s like asking for charity.

I have 2 stun breakers, but I’m not waiting on an attack to press the button, I’m running to get somewhere. There is time between deciding where to go next, noticing you are immobilized, rushing to hit the panic button and if the thief hits their 2 buttons before that, I am dead. And no, you shouldn’t need to be an expert with his finger always over 7 in case a thief is around you at all moments in PvP, that’s crazy. No other class requires that.

Also, stun breakers have 40-45s cooldowns. If yours aren’t available, it’s instant helpless death.

For the Lord: I did run to the base, catching the thief while the door was still up. and doing a bit of damage, but of course stealth + 33% speed means they have no fear of dying, and they raced up to the lord, bypassing guards (as only thieves can) and got to work. I had used immobilize and 2 knockdowns + aoes, and only a couple hit because they were dodged or blocked. I managed to get his health down to a sliver (with practically no help from the NPCs), but he vanished, healed, and resumed until Lord died.

There’s no reasoning that makes this is a sensible behaviour. Until it is made sensible, I’ll choose away from Thief.

In my experience contested waypoints are normally open for most areas, closing them off from outside map travel adds additional in game cost and load time delay (my big concern).

The system was built with the idea that those contested points were placed in relation to open waypoints in a way that made sense. If additional waypoints were placed near contested area, but just outside the range, that would make more sense. Or maybe move the existing waypoints out of the contested area, have them always on the fringe. As proposed the plan is going to make getting around a chore, and it already is.

Compare WoW. Running somewhere sucks for time, but you get to see the world between point A and point B seamlessly. In GW2 you get loading screens if you try that over distance. It’s decidedly worse. But GW2 has the leg up on WoW in fast travel. The waypoint system is fast and efficient, but suffers from loading screen downtime. Flight points in WoW are pretty, but ultimately a time to sort your bags and get a drink. Nearly as bad as loading screens. I I could have windows open during loading screens, things might be different. I frequently have a 3-5 minute wait on loading screens, though usually somewhat shorter in map.

Something more has to be done than locking down contested waypoints. This is the easy solution, but there has to be a clever or at least elegant one.

AFKers are still a problem with scaling. Dead players too. IMHO that is a fundemental problem that needs fixing. The overflow problems encourage players to linger, which curses the next event.

You can’t really blame people for wanting to stay as it’s very hard to get into local servers. So the solution has to be to make their Akitteng not affect the event. This can of course be done, since there are AFK counters already in place.

Tried to tip someone for a JP port and there was an odd message I didn’t read, in place of the Mail Sent message.

The items were still in my inventory, so I trie dagain and it said “Processing previous mail”. repeat and the same result.

Agree.

The only thing I’ve noticed they added to PvE is the skritt burglar, which I’ve seen once. I missed the loot bags that apparently dropped because it was nighttime. But they are supposed to give junk items, just like everything else in the game so nothing to get excited about.

1. I intended that the buy orders would be part of the limit.
2. Flipping morality is a whole other topic. I’ll just say I disagree that there’s nothing wrong with it.
3. They are stopping me from buying because my orders just get topped with huge stacks that will take weeks/months to come in. Same with for sale items. I’d love to make it so that you could only outbid/undercut if your stack size was smaller. It would cause some disadvantage to mass production, as there is none currently.

Alright I’m not taking part anymore.

Was this thread made so that they could lock that one without backlash?

There are about 60,000 threads with people feeling your pain. A lot of people have left, and those that remain are in instances.

There’s no motivation to do PvE for anyone who has already done it, especially areas that aren’t max level.

The trade off is already there. You’re trading off sharpening stones for only having them affect certain enemies. And also the storage slots are a big tradeoff. Most people wouldn’t bother with potions, so having them be extra effective in those few cases where you fight all of the same enemy type is a reward for the people willing to bother with them.

We are desperate for bug fixes. They should be happy to give us what we want. It’s in their best interest to post every little fix they do to make us think they’re actually hard at work pleasing us. But they don’t.

Are any bugs fixed? Were the changes something that would make everyone angry?

Saying “fixed bugs” in the document that is supposed to list the bugs fixed is unacceptable, and it just breeds even more paranoia amongst the already paranoid user base.

Please list all changes from the past patches and from now on. If it makes us angry, let us get angry. At least we’d be able to rely on you to tell us the truth.

There wouldn’t be an instant negative reaction in past updates were accompanied with patch notes that explained what changed.

At this point, each update makes me worry about what has been taken away, made harder, or changed in a way I don’t like. There’s no transparency in “general bug fixes”. There’s no reason to hide positive changes, rather those are something they should be bragging about as it’ll make us happy.

this thread was locked and directed here for the answer to “what time?”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Whats-the-time-for-Flame-n-Frost/first#post1300492

I come here and a designer even posted but there’s no official time given.

Even saying “We don’t have a time.. just sometime before the 29th in PST, probably in the later part of the day” would count as an answer and would make us feel communicated to.

The forum search doesn’t execute for me so I couldn’t see if this already was suggested.

The only way to know what your MF% is is to hover over each piece of equipment and add it up. There should be a stat shown like there is for damage, healing power, critical chance.

This would also let us know for sure that the MF% on boon is working.

Regardless of what is appealing to look at, we should be thinking about what is best for everybody. Not just ourselves, not just our friends, but the impact it has on all players.

The fact that it already is considered normal and not strange for women to be half-naked when going into battle, while men are fully covered, proves that people can be influenced by this. Making women look more sexual is one more push in the wrong direction.

While a few of us may be mature enough to realize how bizarre it is and not be negatively affected playing with it, it gives a bad impression to the rest. I think it’s better for gaming society in general to get out of this habit.

Unshakable is pretty awful. It’s so bad that the best strategy is to not use a strategy and use all skills at your convenience, and if it works, it’s your lucky moment.

What sucks as well, is that when you use a skill (like Updraft) on someone with Defiant, it still says “Interrupt”, yet their attack continues, and yes it does damage.

Flipping is not using your brain. It is the least difficult way to play the market. And there are different ways to play the market without playing the middleman. It is unfriendly, wastes gold and makes it more difficult for people who want to buy or sell something to actually do it.

I have made money by crafting things that are hard to find, buying materials for crafting cheap, looking for the best way to dispose of items. This is actual effort and thought making money. Flipping is something anyone can think of and do with next to no effort.

I like the idea of not being able to buy huge stacks of an item at once.

I don’t think a feeless TP will make prices skyrocket. It will make buy/sell prices equal and pointless. There would be no way to find deals as a flipper would take even 2c difference and sell them in bulk.

The more time goes, I feel like the smartest and most consciencous players will do worse than those who don’t care about the economy or the way they do business. It’s coming down to “lower yourself or stop making money”. Which for me means stop making money.

Wow. This thread explains so much of why the trading post has been getting gradually more of a headache for me to deal with.

There have been items that I keep getting outbid on and it seems like it’s by one person. I will put my bid in, then very soon afterwards it is outbid. There are long stretches where that bid is the top one, but as soon as I bid again, I have been topped.

I had thought there were people who just spent their whole day checking to see if they had the highest bid. But that is just way too much work, and there’s no way to play the game while doing that. That work + the inability to play is the HUGE advantage in these programs. Holy cow.

I’m undecided about how I feel about them. Part of me wants to use one, part of me wants them to be banned. I feel like the advantage should go to people who work harder. I’ve made my own excel sheets and put tens of hours into making trading more efficient. But this is an advantage that is both automated and requires no work for the end user. That’s an undeserved advantage.

If some can use this, everyone should. But if everyone used it, buy orders would be a frenzy of outbiddings until they met parity with sell orders, and the whole purpose would be defeated. That fact tells me these programs aren’t good for the game.

Spidy refreshes every 15-30 mins. And it’s the autobidders that are cheating. People are doing it 24/7. A minute or so after they are outbid, their old bid is removed and a new one is replaced. There are one or two bots dominating areas of the market that others can’t come close to competing with. It is automating in-game actions, getting an advantage over other players by doing things that take time with the slow UI, and can be done at the same time as doing other in-game activities. It’s solid cheating and it’s being completely ignored by Anet, unless it’s them doing it.

The HotW hole in the wall has been closed. I’m not complaining about that change.

Just when I was thinking you guys had learned that stealth nerfs kill all trust we have in you, you do it again, nerfing the HotW hole in the wall without telling us.

Once again, we’re left wondering “what else have they changed without telling us, because we’d get mad?”.
sigh

Are new armor sets coming in the not-too-distant future?

I’m arranging an exotic armor set & skins, and would hold off if new skins will be coming, otherwise I’ll go full speed ahead with what’s currently available.

CC Danicia.1394:

Clark Skinner.4902:

Does ArenaNet feel that it is more wrong for an ArenaNet employee to be insulted than anyone else?

No. Unfortunately, we do have to infract, suspend, and ban numerous folks from the forums, who have never once insulted our team.

So these people who insult an other player will also get the 2-week suspension?

I am only concerned with getting my monthly. I’ve been avoiding fractals because of this issue and want to be able to do it before January.

I won’t be taking part. I don’t believe they are actually interested in our data. I believe the loot rates were intentionally decreased dramatically despite how much we would hate it. I believe the thread asking us to “prove it” is a way to make us feel like giving up complaining, because there’s no way to prove it concretely.

If I was going to dedicate my time to logging all of this loot (which Anet can definitely log themselves), I would only do it if I knew it wasn’t going to be tossed in the trash without being read.

Sounds great! Let’s make a group and— oh wait.

Trading post window tabs:
1. Gem Store
2. Gem Exchange
3. Trading Post (Buy)
4. Sell on Trading Post
5. My Transactions
6. Pick Up

On top of the loooong existing bug where clicking an item in the Transactions tab takes you to a buy page (while still in the 5th tab and no way to get back to seeing your transactions)….

There’s a newly added bug where when you right click on an item in inventory, and choose Sell on Trading Post. It now opens this “Sell Your Stuff” page within the #3 Buy tab, rather than the #4 Sell on Trading Post Tab.

tl;dr 1 Right-click sell should open on the 4th tab like it used to. 2. Clicking on an item in 5th tab should switch the active tab to #3.

I was at a dragon today and someone who hasn’t been playing very long wrote in map chat gleefully that s/he got a rare item.

It’s been in effect so long that people are thinking this is normal. I wonder if that’s what Anet is expecting will happen with everyone with time. Pittance becomes standard and people stop complaining that something was taken away from them.

IndigoSundown.5419:

loot from Champions will be upgraded

It already has been upgraded. Back in November, guaranteed loot was given from champions and veterans, and made so that they are worth fighting over normal mobs.

Yet despite that firm promise, nothing changed. And then they said they identified the problem and fixed it, except nothing changed. Fortunately, we only have to kill champions for an additional 2 months, on top of the 10 months already played, before we can begin to get something somewhat more worthwhile.

My time feels very respected.

This patch buffed all of the classes, but the buffs for ele really help other classes instead of the ele.

-The Geyser got bigger. Eles don’t need it to be bigger, they can target it on themselves. The extra size helps allies get affected by it. (when they don’t reflex dodge out of it, that is)
-The water auto-attack heals those in melee range (not staff ele), which is a buff to other classes.
-Unsteady Ground is just a CC now, not even a combo field like Line of Warding, and reduced eles DPS and ability to tag. I’d rather the guard use its Ward so I’m able to do enough damage to merit a loot drop. And against bosses, this is useless.
-Conjure weapons are a utility skill that is given 50% to the ele and 50% to the ally who picks the other one up. And considering a lot of other classes do more damage with a conjured weapon, these buffs help them at least as much as it does eles who dare to sacrifice a utility to slot Conjures.

This, in addition to the nerfs to AoE, attunement radius, evasive arcana radius, glyph of storm targets, glyph of storms having a red AoE circle resulting in them being dodged, no heal from water auto-attack 1 if nothing targetted, Windborne speed radius reduced, healing rain radius reduction, Glyph of Renewal range reduction.

The only buffs that help the ele is making Blasting Staff trait affect the AoEs it hadn’t been affecting, and the earth 5 going slightly faster so it doesn’t miss as often.

In the Claw of Jormag event, we have an NPC telling us “It’s coming back” “protect the golemns” “we’ve moved the cannons!” It sort of gives us an idea of things from a zoomed-out perspective. Just helps with storytelling.

I had no idea that catapults were even being built or that we had found a way to penetrate the shells. We have a lot of stuff to read, and most of it isn’t important. Some clear and concise pre-messages saying “If they come back, we are going to have siege ready for them and weapons for everyone. If you see an invasion, run to ____ to arm yourself. We will be more prepared for future assaults” would have given us the feeling like we were supposed to have an invasion to stick around for.

I’ve resolved to check who is involved in a match as soon as I get in for now on. If there are thieves, I’m just going to go out and try again until I find one without them. I’ll do this until something is done about stealth and their recent OPness is reverted.

It’ll make my gaming experience more fair, enjoyable, and give people an actual drawback to choosing a cheesy playstyle: fewer people willing to play with them.

Increased rare drops to make us happy (accompanied by a stealth ecto salvage nerf so we’re actually worse off).

Reduced stealth cooldowns because that makes sense.

No change to poor performance.

New activities and items, but with details missing that we discover after attempting and losing money on them.

Class balances.

Class unbalances.

More ascended items (amulet, acc).

A new map that has more than one enemy type so people might actually use it for their daily.

New crafting recipes using up surplus materials (hopefully) that aren’t useless.

Fix to our fractals woes… that comes with a flaw that is exploited or causes an uproar on the forums.

We were told before Wintersday that she’d be available through wintersday.

You can still hear her annoying voice in LA, but that’s a promise that was broken.

I’m sure she’ll return with higher prices and worse rewards. No karka sigils in the items I bet.

Attribute UI was revamped… yet no Magic Find % was given. Why??

In the Aetherpath, when someone walks near the generator, their camera flips around and I think it may warp them away from the generator a bit.

It can glitch out because depending on the angle you approached it, you can press forward, walk to it, get flipped around, and while still pressing forward you walk back into it, get flipped around and it repeats.

The character gets caught in a loop. And during the Oakheart fight, that’s the last thing we need.

I think it’s probably an effect from when the shield is around the generator, so that effect can be removed once the shield is down to fix this problem.

If I told friends who haven’t played MMOs, and who haven’t been trained to slowly accept ridiculous things, they would say that is absokitteninglutely insane and a waste of life.

I just pretend that ascended items and forge unique weapons don’t exist. I won’t ever get them intentionally. Yes there is cheese there but it’s not worth breaking my neck to eat it.

Defending bugged software keeps it bugged. It’s not constructive. How about talking about how to improve things so bugs happen less in the future?

Keiel.7489:

1.5million that’s 6000 bag slots.

They can be left in the pickup tab.

I have to agree. 4 attempts and we’re only getting a few percent better each time. The learning curve is flattening out. I can understand not wanting to release soemthing too easy and then making it harder. It makes sense to ease up once they see how it goes when the patch is live.

I tried to talk strategy before each attempt, and I talked to others about how to learn after each attempt, but it isn’t working. The event should take into consideration human nature, and not expect human nature to adapt to the requirements of the event. Each map will have newbs and we can’t control them, as hard as we try. Nor can we control people who are unwilling to WP or those rezzing defeated. Those of us that are doing it right are meeting the same loss as those doing it wrong. That’s why we can’t have challenging things.

I am going to wait for a nerf before trying again. Either uncontest the waypoint or reduce health.

I feel like this game isn’t meant for hardcore players. The top level gear is meant to be accessible to everyone after doing a reasonable amount of work. I don’t think the reward should be given for the hardcore arena match. It should be gotten by everyone who tries hard, and if people want challenge on impossible difficulty, they can do it for achievement points that don’t have a reward.

Saying that content should be hard so that only 5% of people can beat it doesn’t fall in line with everything GW2 has manifested itself to be up to now. And to me, the bragging rights of 5% aren’t as important as the enjoyability of the whole playerbase.

Everyone has a different preference as to difficulty. They can’t make it suit every person.

The bad camera angles and bad visibility of aoe circles or monitor flare have nothing to do with difficult gameplay, it’s just bother. And frankly, it feels disrespectful knowing someone programmed it that way intentionally just to bother us. I wouldn’t do that to the community if I was designing this.

I feel like they went towards ellen more than the fractal.

We all need to know this.

I just spent 10 minutes killing a trio of Angry Chickens in Ebonhawke. I was expecting a secret cool reward.

I got nothing. Not a secret cool reward. Not a kitchy tonic. Not even a poultry meat!

Thumbs down!