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Reasoning pitfall: Not Moving =/= AFK

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Prolonged periods of not moving and not attacking at events equals leeching, whether you’re actually sitting at your keyboard or not.

Yup. This is especially true during Silverwastes and events like Tequatl. I have friends looking for an open server, and you’re wasting your slot on the overflow. If you’re TPing, RPing, etc. please do the polite thing and go to a different overflow and allow someone else to take part in the event at hand. It would be like going to a sold out movie and then spend the whole time ignoring the movie and playing on your phone.

[Suggestion] Achievements on first run.

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I haven’t gone back for any of the achievements because I don’t feel like replaying the episodes :/

2 groups that wish for 2 different end-game's

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That’s like building a sportscar, but it is aimed to sell to grandma’s and grandpa’s that don’t drive harder than 100km/h.

No, that’s like building an economy car for city commuting, and some people protesting that this car doesn’t allow them to drive at 200km/h. It doesn’t , because it isn’t a sports car.

MMO’s are the sport cars of gaming. While GW2 doesn’t have to offer a gear treadmill, it should offer challenging content. While I did get really frustrated trying to fight Liadri the first 30+ times, I enjoyed it later.

Please.. Account-bound Crafting

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Recipes should be account bound even if crafting profession is not. You could level up your characters with the crafting but at least have access to all the recipes you have encountered on your travels. You will still have to level up to be able use those recipes.

Are recipes not account bound at the moment? If not I’ve made the wrong assumption! I’ve been buying the recipes from Karma merchants on my main for all the crafting disciplines as the items say they are account bound. If the recipe only unlock for the character that consumes it then that’s a disappointment, I thought it’s unlock the recipe for all chars on my account.

The recipe sheet can be traded, but once it’s used it’s on that one character only.

Future Feature Pack Wishlist

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Build Templating
Precursor Crafting
More Skills
Ascended Armor without crafting
More Weapons per class (I won’t rest until my Guardian can dual wield Shields!)
New dungeon paths
Option to buy Potions from Dungeon Vendors in bulk

Please No Profession Loot

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The way the dev put it, it sounds more likely the usable loot drop rates will be increased slightly, while the unusable loot drops rates will remain the same. So you should be getting more of gear for your character, but not losing out on salvagable gear. In the end more loot for all.

First rule of Guild Wars 2: ArenaNet does not buff drops.

Are "Gates of Maguuma" for lvl 80?

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I hope this is an actual level 80 zone with no upscaling.

Wait...that's it?!

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The episodes have always been short, but this was ridiculously short. I feel bad for anyone who pays gems for this.

Breaking the 4th wall

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Please no
/fifteenquaggansdancinginarow

Increasing trading post tax.

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With the changes we’re making that remove some of the systems that take gold out of the economy, we need to make sure the economy remains balanced in terms of gold input as well. We’ll be reducing the amount of raw gold that comes out of champion loot bags and events in an effort to keep the economy balanced and spread out player activity a bit.

Why do you desire to see “rich” people taxed? Most of the rich people get their money from farms like this. If you tax the TP, it will cut into me crafting for profit (keep in mind I’m not rich, I just hit 100 gold yesterday, so I’m not “rich” by in-game standards) which will result in me going to farming. If that’s what happens to me, it’ll happen to everyone else who crafts for profit, which will only increase the amount of farmers using trains. Why is it that you want everyone to have to use the trains to get their money? Champ trains are the worst thing for the economy, not the “rich” who use the TP.

2 feature packs and 1/2 season, not enough

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Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?

Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868

A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.

EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.

This won’t reflect the majority’s opinion. It will possible reflect the majority of a minority which are forum posters. The most vested, hardest to please people in the game. The dissatisfied ones. That’s what this reflects.

If we know nothing else from the past it’s that forum posters often don’t express majority views.

In a recent quote, which I’ve quoted elsewhere, a Lotro dev said that even though there were a huge number of forum posts by raiders, only 2% of the game’s population raided.

Polls on forums generally prove very little.

This is the closest I can get to having proper statistics, so unless ANet wants to advertise our little poll on Facebook (which would be awesome, but we can’t really count on that) then the forumers are the only people I can really poll.

Insider trading is kind of unfair....

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Can you prove that this isn’t just a bunch of speculators?

Queen Jubilee and The Bazaar expectations

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Above that area was the gauntlet which were 12 1v1 boss fights with Lydia being the final and hardest boss in the game.

Woah, why do I have to fight my Skyrim wife?

[Suggestion] Solution for instance-stealing

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Stop selling paths.

Dungeon selling isn’t against the rules, but stealing instances is. Shouldn’t action be taken against the rule breakers?

1:st Halloween Weapon Skins for claim tickets

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precursor crafting […]reduces any form of prestige.

Because there’s prestige attached to the Mystic Toilet’s RNG. Hahaha, yeah right.

Confessions

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Staff Elementalists are for might stacking.

Why crafting is so unpopular.

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They need to add more stuff to make crafting more profitable. Such as a 10% chance of a double craft and getting 2 of the item, so if I make 100 orichalcum I’ll get 110 on average. Doubling the XP with it would be a good decision too, so if I craft a Destroyer’s Berserker Greatsword I have a 10% chance of getting a second one for free and getting double XP. There would be a good bit more exotics on the market and the prices of mats would drop some since there’s 10% more. That would be much better than our critical XPs lol.

2 feature packs and 1/2 season, not enough

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Do you have a pie-chart where you asked every person that has bought the game, or is this a case of “I don’t like this, therefore no one does”?

Let’s make a pie chart to reflect the majority’s opinion.
http://strawpoll.me/2368868

A simple little poll on strawpoll (2368868) to give us a piechart.

EDIT: 50/50 right now (only 2 votes), the more of you that vote the more accurate the poll will be. Please vote to put an end to this question.
EDIT 2: 4 votes no, 1 vote yes.

This won’t reflect the majority’s opinion. It will possible reflect the majority of a minority which are forum posters. The most vested, hardest to please people in the game. The dissatisfied ones. That’s what this reflects.

If we know nothing else from the past it’s that forum posters often don’t express majority views.

In a recent quote, which I’ve quoted elsewhere, a Lotro dev said that even though there were a huge number of forum posts by raiders, only 2% of the game’s population raided.

Polls on forums generally prove very little.

This is the closest I can get to having proper statistics, so unless ANet wants to advertise our little poll on Facebook (which would be awesome, but we can’t really count on that) then the forumers are the only people I can really poll.

Misleading data is worse than no data in my opinion.

Feel free to go shout about it in Lion’s Arch to make it more reliable.

Living Story Weapons now on Sale!

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I really wanted to get Belinda’s Greatsword, but I don’t buy cash shop skins on principal. Plus I know I’ll replace it since it doesn’t feel like I earned anything.

Wait...that's it?!

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The only thing that made last patch’s episode (we are talking strictly about the STORY component after all) was that it took loads of time to read all the books in the Priory instance. If you only rushed straight through it and only did what you had to, it was just as short as this episode.

You didn’t actually read the text in those books did you?

Give zerker gear chance for a stat change

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This whole thing seems a little backwards to me. Instead of making the other gear better to get it on par with Berserker, they’re just trying to knock Berserker down to the same level as the rest and failing at it. Like @Inimicus said, as long as bosses can one shot you regardless of defense, who will want it? THAT is the real problem, not Berserker stats.

[Discuss] Revenant Trait: Improved Aggression

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In the poI they seemed to be regaining energy pretty fast. I think you could gain 50% energy in 6-12 seconds. You just couldn’t spend it on anything else other than taunting.

You regain 5% energy per second, so 10 seconds. In theory, this could mean 100% uptime at the cost of only being able to autoattack.

You Know You've Played GW2 Too Much When...

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…when I do business the only currency I accept is in gold, silver and/or copper. I refuse to accept paper money!

I’ll only give you pennies from now on. Have fun counting up your mortgage payment.

Does the class loot change affect lvl 80s?

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I wish it stopped affecting level 80s too, but so far ANet has been quiet. The examples aren’t as clear as they could be, but I was thinking it affects level 80s too.

How many specializations per profession?

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One per profession at launch, with more added later.

the content of HoT...

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I’m hoping that it’s a standalone expansion that you buy in-store, not a digital expansion

I don't agree with hiding updates notes

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That is like complaining that a movie trailer didn’t show you the entire plot before you saw the movie. Like actually.

Except, you know, the story of GW2 isn’t the main attraction. The gameplay is. I want to know what I’m playing. How has swapping to trailers boosted people’s hype? All it’s done for me is make me way less excited for the releases. It used to be I’d see what I could play and then the excitement would practically kill me while I was waiting. Now, I watch the trailer on Monday and forget about the update for a week and then log on Wednesday or so to see what I can play.

I haven’t looked forward to any of the updates since they swapped to trailers except for this one, because it seems to have the most potential to change the world out of any LS update. I’ll still log on later today to check what’s happened.

Please No Profession Loot

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And it is not going to stop heavy classes from ever getting silk or items that salvage into silk, it is just going to reduce how much un-usable gear you get.

The reason it will be decreasing my silk drop is because the only way to get silk is to salvage armor or a salvage item. By reducing the amount of light armor that drops for me I’ll be salvaging light armor less, and in turn reducing how much silk I get. I haven’t had to buy silk before now, and I don’t want to have to start because ANet messed with my drops.

Im Furious

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Fossils for sandy bags ..

I’m speechless now …..

And only 3 of them.

Profession Loot: affects level 80 or no?

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All i have to say is, poor engineers when it comes to weapon drops. Yikes!

Not to mention all the leather the medium armored classes will be getting.

What is going on with Harvesting Nodes?

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A zone resets (and nodes change) every time it is unloaded and then loaded again. Now, this always happens when the servers are down for patching/maintenance/whatever, but a lot of people also suspect it happens whenever the zone is completely empty of players. So if a zone has exactly zero players in it, the server unloads it from memory to save resources, and reloads it when a player enters it again.

The sad part of this theory is that it means GW2 is losing a fair amount of players.

Kiel voters - Happy?

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I voted for Evon and I am happy with this fractal. I even like Scarlet (seems like a crime on these forums lol).

Leave. Leave and never return. Scarlet is an abomi- you know what? If you don’t understand why Scarlet is the world’s worst villain… then I don’t think I can explain it to you. Just leave. (sarcasm and seriousness was intermixed in that post just an fyi)

Mistlock Instability ideas (for fun)

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  • Blood Rush – Apply 25 stacks of Might and 25 stacks of Vulnerability
  • Thick Metal – Apply Weakness and Protection
  • Vampirism – When enemies die they give 20 seconds of Regeneration to their allies
  • Dwayna’s Laugh – Become Confused every time you use a healing skill
  • Reflective skin – Boons applied to allies are stolen by enemies
  • Frigid Air – At 50% health you become Chilled.
  • Mirror Armor – All enemies have Retaliation

Wardrobe and Minis

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I’m sure ANet has considered this very thoroughly

Just like they thought through silk and elder wood?

They did think silk through. And now, look at the price of those minis fly.[/quote]

Silk wasn’t an accident? Well that makes it all look worse.

You Know You've Played GW2 Too Much When...

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…when you invite people over for a party and tell them it’s “Zerker Only”.

Joke&Useless Runes and Sigils

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Superior Rune of the Anti-Zerker:
(1) Attack decreased by 15%
(2) Defense increased by 15%
(3) Attack decreased by 33%
(4) Defense increased by 33%
(5)+1,000,000 Anger
(6) Inability to read LFG descriptions

Will level cap raise?

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I really hope so, that’s probably the only way to retain veteran players, beside new content.

really? all of the players I know hate the idea of raising the level cap

And all the players in-game I know love the idea of a level increase. Let’s get some thing straight here, the people here constitute a very very very small minority of players.

Anet, please don’t listen to a handful of players. Keeping it the same is keeping the status quo, the game needs a change, either level increase or content.

All of the players I know in game hate the idea. Anet, please don’t listen to one player.

Cowardly Warriors

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Thieves can stealth out of combat and withdraw whenever they want. Annoys the crap out of me when I’m playing a Guardian.

Crashing due to a "Invalid Character Motion"?

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It’s only happening to me in Bloodtide Coast, and unfortunately I’m doing map completion there

Profession Loot: affects level 80 or no?

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Sub 80 would make it less annoying without ruining it’s perks.

Evon Gnashblade - Hero of Maguuma

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1 – It’s thanks to him and his goods that we were able to defeat Scarlet. He provided the Lionguard with their equipment.

He was forced to do so by the Lionguard. Or be executed.

And who tried to rob him blind and/or execute him? Oh right, Kiel. She couldn’t even arm her own soldiers, and had to extort Evon. Not to mention she went on vacation during this time. No candidate is clean here.

HoT boxed version - Hard Copy [merged]

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Is Heart of Thorns going to have a physical release in the USA or not? I still haven’t been able to find physical pre-purchases in the USA. All the Gamestops I’ve gone to say that there is no listing for Heart of Thorns at all in their systems. I can’t even pre-purchase the digital. And Gamestop is the only retailer listed as an “official” reseller. What’s going on Anet? The date for the physical pre-purchases was to have started June 23rd, it is now July 6th.

I went to two GameStops on Saturday looking for a physical copy and neither had any. I really want that physical copy

Why?

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I criticise the game because I care.

/me high fives

condition damage in pve

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Conditions will never be a thing in PvE until they’re allowed to crit and can scale with ferocity, or ferocity is removed and a baseline crit damage bonus goes for all abilities.

It’s not about condition caps, get it in your thick heads. Caps are just a quality of life issue, the real problem is the damage scaling.

Conditions are not for critting, they are for damage over time. If you want to burst something down with ferocity, you are going to go Berserker/Assassin no matter what. That’s the design behind them. Conditions aren’t useful because they can’t do their job well in large groups, that job being damage over time. Every time a Guardian’s Virtue of Justice applies a burning, interrupting the Elementalist’s burning and lowering his DPS for 1 second every fifth attack.

Wait...that's it?!

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You didn’t actually read the text in those books did you?

Yes I did. Otherwise I would have no idea how long it would take now, would I?

Talking from a strictly actual playing point of view the content is about the same.

So…. both episodes were ridiculously short then.

'Content you normally see in an expansion'?

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People pay $40 for a console game, then consider it descent if they get 40 hours of gameplay out of it.

People pay $40 for Guild Wars 2, and after spending thousands of hours in the game, they complain about lack of content.

That’s because Guild Wars 2 is aiming to be an MMO, something where 700 hours (the amount of time I’ve played) isn’t much. MMOs are supposed to take thousands of your hours.

Players ask for a new continent, players get a new continent, players complain about having to explore a new continent. Let’s take this moderately, shall we?

We have never got a new continent. We have gotten new zones but that is not a continent. A continent is something like Elona, or Cantha. All of Tyria itself is one continent.

Make your "Point of no Return" quote

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Mmmmm thousand island…

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More uses for Empyreal Fragment????

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They need to introduce a way to convert ascended mats into another ascended mat. I have too much Bloodstone and Empyreal Shards because I run dungeons regularly but not enough Dragonite. I used to be able to get my Dragonite with a couple nights of temples, but Megaservers kind of took that from me.

Are you going to buy HoT?

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If there are dungeons, then day one. If not, I’ll wait for a sale.

*spoilers* Jennah or Trahearne

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TRAHEARNE!!!
Anet, just bring in Trahearne and let Mordy squeezeeeee him, and then munch on him!

Trahearne is EVIL.
Fact.

But then Mordremoth would get corrupted.