Guild Wars 2

@TheNecrosanct

As long as you can turn your badges into Siege and then turn those in to Superior Siege and can sell them on the TP they are certainly not useless to anyone. It’s nothing but pure profit. Sure you will need spirit shards but if you have been playing this game long enough to have a ton of badges saved up you should be swimming in those already by now.

I can and do agree to a degree that more options is always a good thing. So I certainly would not be against it if Anet decided we could get the GOB again through BoH or as the easier alternative being the reward track. However I doubt they will as it seems pretty obvious they do want people to venture into WvW as part of the process.

As for GoE my opinion stands, no need to change that and as even you said – “it’s so easy to do” so why even bother changing it?

However I do have one last thing to say. And that is Anet are not “forcing” anybody into doing anything here. Legendries are not required for anything. They have never said they were. In fact they have always said they are for those players who like to prove mastery over ALL aspects of the game. Okay so maybe they used the word “mastery” a bit loosely but I think you know what I mean. That is at least venturing into each game mode enough to be able to get what is required to make the item. They may have over looked this when they added BoH to the achievement chests. Thus maybe why this change now. So having said that, who knows, who’s to say that they wont be addressing the PvP reward tracks for the dungeon part as well? Maybe that was another thing they over looked? Time will tell I guess. Also I think it was a VERY big mistake of them allowing completed legendries to be sold on the TP in the first place. Sure the precursors, go ahead have at it. So if you are saying that was a mistake as well then yes I would agree with you. Because it does just throw all “achievement” out of it for those that do and can just simply buy them as well as somewhat demeaning the whole “Legendary” title/thing. Too late to fix this now tho I guess.

So I have been thinking. After you complete a heart in an area you really get no reward for continuing to do what you did for beating the heart. Such as rushing into that centaur camp and smashing their weapon racks to pieces, stomping those plagued rats etc.

Now I know a lot of people would say well just don’t do it any further. My response to that would be but what if I find it fun to continue to still do it? Sure I could still do those things just for the fun and I do. But it’s always nice to be rewarded for “helping out those in need”. And honestly that’s the whole point of doing these things in the first place – to help the npc’s in the area that need these things done (while also getting to know the area/lore of course). Also if we continued to get rewarded for doing these things it just continues to give you that feeling that you really are helping these npcs out as the reward is the “thank you” from them.

I’m not asking for huge rewards, actually something really really small would be good enough for me. Say something like 1 karma for each thing done perhaps or another bar fills like the original would and once filled maybe a small karma or cash boost.

Now personally I am an altaholic and have 5 chars with world complete so far and working on my 6-8 getting there. While doing my alts I have been thinking to myself “this cash is pretty nice for completing hearts/maps but what then once all 8 chars have 100% complete?”. Will I stuggle to gain cash as easily? Perhaps this is why so many people say it’s hard to make cash because they don’t level alts and continue to get this cash from heart/map completes.

So again adding such a reward for continuing to do heart activities after the heart is complete could help there as well as give people incentives to perhaps go back to those areas and do things that they have not done for so long. Also MOST places are just totally pointless to visit again once the heart is done, this could totally change that.

In short, reward us for continuing to help out the inhabitants of the world and make it seem like we truely are making a difference. Turn these area’s mini quests into sort of mini DE’s in themself that we can muck about with while waiting for the real DE’s to kick in.

Thoughts?

PS Please do not put this thread in “sugestions” sure I might offer a couple of ideas here but the intent was more as a discussion to get an idea for the thoughts of others.

Thanks

“Everyone can now see where they rank relative to other players. Login to the leaderboards web site and you will see your percentile ranking as the top line of the leaderboard!”

Sooo I must be stupid because really I don’t see how this update compares me to other players. All I see next to my name is something like “90%” and not a ranking.
What exactly does this mean? Does it mean I am 90% of the way to the max number of achievment points (minus the repeatables) or does it mean I am the same as 90% of the other players? Why not just show my ranking number? Wouldn’t that have been more senisible for the morons of us out here? :P

Also what is the point of the filter option “By World” if you can’t use it. I mean you may select that option but there is no refresh button or anything to actually make it work and the page does not auto update when selected.

Good ideas here Anet but just bad implementation/information about how to use?

Ps – is it a me problem or a problem with your site at the moment as to why my cursor is sometimes disappearing and not flashing (blinking) at all? First time I think I have ever seen forum lag like this when typing messages anywhere…. really making things hard to edit I tell you what (and I never say “I tell you what” but felt compelled to do so for some strange reason :S).

Hmmm.

I could see when they finally give us the Skritt playable race that they could use pistols by throwing them at their enemies. Now that could be cool. :P

Substance E.4852:

Paulytnz.7619:

Lanierx.2607:

You casual peasants complain about this like if it would take ages to get rank 30 on WvW. You get rank 30 in a week or less. You guys are pathetic.

I’m rank 110+ and I love to WvW just for the fun of it. I just don’t see the point in this if you don’t need rank 30 to buy said items off the TP or to equip them or whatever. It’s just silly really. All it will do is to promote buying legendaries off the TP for those who don’t like to WvW.

lol, yes. I’m sure people will elect to farm 3000 gold rather than follow a commander in WvW for a week.

Well if you tie into that all the other fiddly bits of creating a legendary such as all the needed mats, getting your hands on a precursor, getting craft levels up. All of that WITH now having to get rank 30 for those who dislike WvW, yes, yes I can see how it might seem a little bit more attractive to some people.

Edit: also where does this “one week” come from? I’m sure some people could do that in 2-3 days, for others (depending on their available play time and wvw exp) it could take much longer. Yet I do acknowledge lvl 30 is nothing really…..

If you are talking about the part of the LS2 that makes you go through the maze it can be completed. You just have to know your way around and where to go. I did this 2 weeks ago on one of my alts and could not see the minimap either due to this issue.

So if it’s your first playthrough yes it may be rough but it is possible. So right now you have a few options:

1 – Wait for the fix.
2 – Try and stumble your way through it.
3 – Ask someone who has done it before who remembers it to help you out.

3 is possible as there are players like myself who have taken numerous alts through the LS2 PS who know the maze pretty well for the story instance. So perhaps try on the player helping player sub forum.

As to the topic at hand, I would say it’s good that GMS can’t take us through things by workarounds or whatever. Could you imagine all the cries on the forums from players demanding Gms to help them through every bug because “but they helped my friend so you have to help me too!”? Yeah I would say that would not be a good day for these Gms lol. They would probably not even want to log into the game anymore or hide on accounts without the Anet tag.

warbignime.4610:

Arnath.2319:

What have the devs been working on over the past year because it can not just be this incredibly tiny patch?

I am already finished, story done, map done, achievements done.

They added no new armor, no new weapons, no rewards to work towards, nothing to keep me loged in.

What they did add was great but it was way to small. I thought MO said this patch would be roughly the size of 8-9 old Living World chapters? This felt like the size of one!

Not only was the size of the content small but the polish was bad too, compared to Season 2 and Dry Top and SIlverwastes this map, the achievements, the rewards, feels like a massive step backwards.

First, MO never said that ever. So dont know where u got that from. Also I can not take you seriously when you call Bloodstone Fen a step back . Even though its small on the map, the verticallity makes up for it, if we are counting the landmass together it is bigger than southsun and bigger half of DT. The rewards are cool where as you get gliding combat skills. I can not take what u said with a straight face.

And don’t forget we can mine Blood Dust now, can feed our eaters more often now!

Also a super easy map complete for an easy exotic and chance at a bltc key. Send all your alts out there now before they nerf that key chance!

Ferum Flamebender.5910:

Elite skill capping, saving your builds (WhY is this not in Tha GaME!?!), just 8 skills but you could put ‘m everywhere you want, 2 professions, My Dhuums soul reaper :’(, a random arena, and yes…

The holy trinity!

When I heared guild wars 2 wouldn’t have something like a trinity I was excited (never again waiting 3,5 hours for a dam spiker in temple of ages). But they completely removed something like a trinity, you always feel.. ‘Average’ with your group, and there is no healer!

I miss guild wars, soo much

Funny as an Engineer in dungoens I do pretty well at healing others. I’m sure if I built my guardian and Ele as healing builds I could do just as well.

The problem is not that there are no healing classes it’s more that there are no tank classes. Tbh no one char can or should be the only tank (person taking damage) in ANY boss fight. You have to spread the damage around, get in close do some damage, take too much yourself and get out to heal up.

Oh and I miss having more weapon sets we can change to during combat.

The one to Rule.2593:

It really is annoying having to play classes you aren’t as good with as your main.

Yes but that would remove all of the cannon fodder, they wont do that!

Pssst, I am in total agreement, my MMR is probably bad as I was going for those achieves last season and some of the classes were so useless, was nigh impossible to get wins. Add to that other people are also on classes they are not so good with as well for the same achievements = big, bad mess.

I remember one guy called me out too for being on a class just for the achievements. He said “hey guys we lost because 1 of our guys is here on a sub par class for achieves”. The funny part was I was second highest in points while he was at the bottom. Once I mentioned that fact he quickly left the map.

I noticed this yesterday too and it does suck. I think there are various reasons for this tbh.

Cause 1: Players on forums moan they only get “junk” blue and green drops all the time from mobs/chests.

Effect: Anet says to themselves “so they don’t appreciate the loot we give them. Lets give them events where mobs drop no items so when they do get greens/blues in other areas of the game they will appreciate them more!”

Cause 2: Back in the day some players moaned that greedy players were using Magic Find gear to get better drops and this was having negative effects for other players who played with them because they were doing less damage. So what did Anet do? They finally removed Magic Find from gear. The result? Since players could not use gear for better chances at getting more/better loot they looked at what else they could do to replicate this. Enter the Berserker Meta. Obviously if you are killing things faster you are increasing your drop chances/loot gained.

Cause 3: Before HOT is released players post on the forums that they are concerned new HOT maps will take people away from other maps because the loot will be better/more enticing. Thus players who do not have HOT and who are still in these maps will find it harder to do events and earn rewards, especially Silverwastes which is still pretty well much a new area to the game.

Personally I think drops in this game have always sucked to a degree. You can kill mobs and get nothing. You can go 5+ mobs like this and get nothing. Sure it might not be much of a problem if you are in zerkers gear and killing mobs at a decent rate. But for those of us who never went for that meta and went for something with more survivability we suffer because of the slower kills. I can understand why they implemented this system too. 1 to fight bots and 2 they probably figured people will kill things in groups thus no need for everything to have a drop because a group can kill things dang well fast and have lots of loot from all the mobs dropping.

Add to that they want you to do events rather than just going around and killing things mindlessly or farming certain areas for long periods of time. Again I can understand this but it just sucks when you are trying to get somewhere and there are annoying mobs in your way all the time and so you kill them to be done with it and then get no reward for your time.

I am now also going to compare this game to another game that I came here from for the drop/loot systems. Just so you get an idea how having good drops can improve on gameplay. Namely Runescape, yes it is not a AAA game or a very great one for that MMO epic feeling. Yet it does FAR better than this game for the drop/loot system. Now in that game you truly have to “grind” for your levels. You do this by killing mobs non stop for hours on end and the best method is usually choosing a mob type and staying in their zone and killing for very long periods of time. This may sound boring and well, it pretty much is. However because of the drop rate you notice it far less. Simply because you get a drop EVERY kill. Yes the vast majority of the drops are junk such as gold coins which could be worth anything to the value of 2 copper up to 2k copper. If not that you may get herbs to make potions or other craft mats. Only certain creatures actually drop weapons or armours and those that do are usually rare and require a certain lvl or other some such to be able to even fight the creature. The coins do add up and you feel like you are progressing in the end because of this. Also since you are getting a drop every kill and the pool of items is pretty vast it feels like you are opening up a birthday or xmas gift each time as you just never know what will pop out. So again this adds to the fun of the killing and takes your mind off the mindless grindy boring combat system.

I feel the loot/drop system in this game seriously needs to be looked at and changed. Gives us a drop EVERY time. Make it a crappy 2 -100 copper if you must. That’s fine, I don’t care it’s a low amount because it is at least SOMETHING. Remove weps/armours from drops, make them exclusive to crafting or rare creature drops. Replace the weps/armour drops with something else. Heck more leather/cloth/loot bag drops would be more appreciated I am sure.

Ok, rant over. :P

Hmmmm let’s see:

The Art of Combat – I would say the balances to classes that were advertised ages ago.
Critical! – Bound to be Zerker gear/Ferocity
A new way to explore – Camera changes, maybe 1st person view finally?
A colourful Outlook – Dyes maybe or weapons being able to be dyed?
Looking For Groups? – LFG finally being out of Beta.
Removing restrictions – More info for the trait changes.
Account Bound – more things account bound, perhaps legendaries etc.
A Solid Foundation – Guild Halls maybe or a major story to LS.
Facilitating Friendly – I would say a big chance this is all Guild related, again possibly to do with halls.

Well that was all off the top of my head, probably miles off the mark. :P

Found them!

15 Char…

I agree with this suggestion. It takes me sometimes 15-20 minutes to change into the statue from the Endless mystery tonic, it’s annoying and a time waster!

Clicking on the tonic should pull up a list of what we can choose from. This way multiple people could make a whole lounge room or kitchen if they wanted without all the random garbage!

Ummm what? How exactly can you tie class balance with “quality of life”?

I main an Engi and I too have full ascended and I don’t feel weak at all or that the enemy is OP. Where exactly are you playing for the enemies to be OP?

Gaebriel.3754:

I never keyfarm and never will, so I don’t really have an opinion on it.

But what I always wondered, why do people put so much effort into something that is almost guaranteed to reward you with random junk? I mean, you’ve seen what’s in those chests lol. You gotta have an empty character slot, powerlevel with tomes or crafts and then play through all the story steps, most likely for a booster, a dye and a common mini…and then repeat it. I’d go nuts. I would’ve lost my love for GW2 in a week like that. For the cool BL stuff like hair kits etc, isn’t it far easier to farm some mats, sell and convert? I mean, look at the low level mats prices, find like 10 level 20-30ish trees and you basically got 1g. :P

For me the change sounds like a good thing. Apart from story steps, I usually get my own keys by zone completions, and recently I often seem to get a key at the end.

I would farm keys when I was bored or just too tired to focus on anything else. I would never do more than 1-2 in any 1 sitting and would usually only do 1.

To me it was kind of like buying one of those scratch and win tickets. A quick thrill where you expect to get nothing of value but there is a chance that you could get something nice.

Over the years from doing many map completes on all my alts and farming keys I must have opened up I would guess maybe 200-ish chests. From that I have had maybe 3-4 tickets worth of scraps and the odd full ticket here and there. A perm Tonic, maybe a few minis and other things such as makeover kits that I would never have bought off the Gemstore but they have their uses I now see.

You are right you get a lot of boosters and for the most part they were useless. I say “were” because now that there is a way to convert them into whatever booster you want they can have a good use. Example I turn mine into gathering boosters and have my alts sitting in Orr at the trees. So I get Foxfires, extra Ori, Ancient as well as Omnoms and Peppers out of them. Selling these on the TP I should think would cover the cost of the silver from the converting.

Apart from that the HP regen Booster for the combat version can come in handy in WvW.

Oh also I still have 80-ish repair canisters and maybe 30 odd Revive orbs, they have their uses as well. Orbs for Fractals and Solo Jp’s if you make a terrible mistake lol.

So in summary: it was just a fun thing to do when too tired/bored to do anything else and over time the rewards can all add up. Oh and on another note my last 4 chests opened have all given me scraps and 1 of them was even a double scrap drop or another key with a scrap. So the scrap drop rate is not as low as some people may think.

Nike.2631:

If the number over the target has a little red splat behind it, it’s a crit.

You are correct, it took me a few goes but here’s a pic.

Well you can make this game more challenging for you very easily without taking off armour etc. You are level 9, no problem go to a lvl 15 part of the starter map. That still too easy? No problem again go to the next map, the level 15-25 and I assure you that you will start to get 2-3 hit. Not only that but the mobs will start to chase you down from half a map away lol. Has anyone else noticed this before? I tried it one day for a laugh just running though the maps on a low new char and I can tell you, the further in you get the mobs TRULY do chase you from half a map away. It’s like they can smell weakness :P

Naught/No
Player
Experiment/Enjoyment/Eureka moments – take your pick. :P

Considering the map you are on I would say he’s just chillin’.

If you want ascended weapons/armour in the future it’s worth it. But for now you can wait and just buy what you need from the TP. Just have fun exploring, doing events and such.

Welcome to the game and happy hunting!

I figure because these skills would bypass any Energy costs and the mechanic that Revs need to be aware of and manage their skills based on energy. I guess they figured it could make things too easy for Revs…..or not consistent. Yet in a way it feels very sloppy and as if Revs get shafted because of this.

You will get that 1% magic find in the next chest. First is the 500 point chest. 1 chest per day until ALL are paid in full to you. People NEVER read the patch notes anymore…

Seriously uncheck the “autoplay” on your log in screen so you get a chance to see the latest news and have a chance to click on the link!

I think what they are planning is better personally……..

Instead of having to FIND a group you will be able to go with almost anyone. That’s how it should have been in the first place.

Lordrosicky.5813:

How am i like 25-12 including about 20-5 in my last 25 games and yet my mmr is below my friends who are 6-7?

Just because i was trolling my placement games now i have to grind like 100 games to get my mmr to my skill level because i gain 10 points per win.

Some sort of alteration is needed to make it so your most recent games have higher impact on mmr than older games.

Sounds like you got what you deserved tbh. :P

With the old system you could only do upgrades by purchasing them with influence. For my friend and I it was tough to get the vast amounts needed for some of them. We had no issues unlocking all of the bank access and some small things like banners and such. However we could never earn enough to even unlock guild missions so we never even got to try them.

With this new system you say goodbye to the influence cost as it is replaced with gold/mats. Sure it may seem harder as you need to actually have those mats and gold or go and make it. But to me it’s actually easier. Because you can do many things in the game to earn coin to straight out buy what you need. Again with the old system influence (especially for the very small guilds) was a lot harder to come by and was via a very boring method. You had to pretty much party your guildmates and spam events to get any decent amount of influence. That is very linear and repetitive and obviously worked more in favour of the bigger guilds.

So imo I think this system works better for smaller guilds.

Vayne.8563:

Angry Joe wasn’t on my radar at all until his Guild Wars 2 review. I wonder how many people found out about Angry Joe by following Guild Wars 2.

Puts hand up

I found out about him after playing GW2. Basically just after they launched the game I entered in “GW2 review” or something into google to see what other people thought of the game. I watched his video and thought “wow this guy has it spot on”. You can be sure if anything it only enforced my view of the game and kept me going even tho we were having teething issues at the time (no working TP etc).

Heehee what a funny concept. Why not go to the police and ask them if it’s ok to create a gang/group where you can go and rob business? Of course it can only be businesses that will allow it! Some how, I can’t see that happening. Well it could I guess, from those who want to claim insurance….. but then again we have no insurance companies here. Do you plan on starting one of those too? :P

I am not trying to be rude or anything, just had to comment because it’s posts that like these that make you think outside the box and when you do, you just have to laugh at how crazy some people’s imaginations can be. A good laugh of course “with” and not “at”!

Yargesh.4965:

Paulytnz.7619:

Yargesh.4965:

I really wish they had not gone the cute route. It is a dragon, not a puppy.

Oh don’t worry I am sure she will be fully grown soon enough and look very mean and scary. Who knows, perhaps one day instead of gliding we will be flying on her back!. O.O

I don’t care about mean and scary, wasn’t my point.

Okay….

So besides “cute” or “mean and scary” what else is there, ugly? You want it to be ugly? Don’t you know all babies are cute! It’s just the way it is! :P

Substance E.4852:

Paulytnz.7619:

Substance E.4852:

Paulytnz.7619:

Lanierx.2607:

You casual peasants complain about this like if it would take ages to get rank 30 on WvW. You get rank 30 in a week or less. You guys are pathetic.

I’m rank 110+ and I love to WvW just for the fun of it. I just don’t see the point in this if you don’t need rank 30 to buy said items off the TP or to equip them or whatever. It’s just silly really. All it will do is to promote buying legendaries off the TP for those who don’t like to WvW.

lol, yes. I’m sure people will elect to farm 3000 gold rather than follow a commander in WvW for a week.

Well if you tie into that all the other fiddly bits of creating a legendary such as all the needed mats, getting your hands on a precursor, getting craft levels up. All of that WITH now having to get rank 30 for those who dislike WvW, yes, yes I can see how it might seem a little bit more attractive to some people.

I still don’t see how given that you either have to zerg up or wait 3+ weeks to complete the wvw map to get the exploration gifts anyway.

This reply just proves my point, by adding another thing to my list that people have to go through lol. Clearing the wvw maps. If Anet keeps adding more and more little things like these that frustrate players of course to some it might seem more attractive to just farm the gold instead to get the shiny rather than go through all these annoying little hoops.

I will reply on behalf of Colin:

Stares blankly at you for some time saying nothing. Face gets more serious as time goes on.

There we go and now you know as much as I do.

Adamantium.3682:

Paulytnz.7619:

I feel sorry for new players that are low lvl who get bumped to 80 for this place and die alot and have to pay that 1 silver per WP. It’s not so bad for those of us at 80 who can make cash for this but think of those low lvls……

Also a jump puzzle disguised as a new living story, really? Lol….

You should bring a low level if you’re that concerned because waypoints are really cheap for them. They definitely will not go broke.

Not tried but I have a feeling everyone is boosted to 80 which is exactly my point….

Oh boy my friend just told me the place is over run by low lvl new players. And they get direct access to HOT maps? Is this true? Are low lvl players buying this and not realizing if they leave the place they will be smack bang in the middle of a lvl 80 area?

Is this even purchasable for players who do not own HOT?

So many questions lol.

Tbh unless you are a ranger it’s kind of hard to stay ranged as any enemy will run straight at you anyway.

I still use ranger for any farming I do as he kills very fast with my build. Berserker, Stalker for pet with full pet trait line, he does bulk damage and is constantly healing himself. With longbow and my stalker I can easily throw some 20 or so stacks of vulnerability on enemies. He can tank pretty much all vets and some champs even. I have a bear on standby if he gets close to death to buy him some healing time vs champs.

You can send your pet at one enemy by hitting F1, then change target to another and kill a separate one yourself as well. Or what I personally like to do is run close to a group of say 4-5 enemies and send my pet at each of them, hitting them all once each. Wait for them to gather around him then smash them with Barrage. Piercing arrows is a great trait as well as you can line many of them up and hit them all.

Of course you will get others saying ranger sucks bla bla and that you can just melee. But if you really want to go ranged I would def give ranger a try.

I feel your pain, my 200-300 ping keeps this adventure well and truly out of my reach….

I have a tip that worked for me somewhat:

1 – Use the item while standing still.
2 – Choose which one you will go for, the best option is usually any Green if none a Blue.

3 – If Green or Blue simply walk in that direction until you find it. Keep your eyes on the ground in front of you not the area around you.

4 – If Red, face the direction of the one you want to find. Open your map and look in that direction. Use any WP in that direction. NOTE: having the minimap stay still in the settings will probably help with this step – that is, never have the minimap rotate as you turn your char.

5 – Once teleported use the device again and hopefully it will now be Green or Blue. If so you should know what to do by now.

6 – If it is still red, face the direction again and use the map/wp teleport again until Green or Blue. If you find yourself jumping between only 2 WP’s you will need to walk in the direction until it changes to Blue or Green.

Hope that helps!

Well the thing is if someone from Anet sees this post and looks into it I am sure the information I have already given is plenty for them to do so. :P

I discovered this problem because as I have been playing the game I have been making vendor and karma vendor lists to help me train skills like cooking etc. This is the only one I am missing in the whole game! I have a feeling this vendor may sell oranges which I really need more of lol……..

Hmm I would say they may have to increase the 60 min warning close thing especially in some of these maps if Meta events can easily take longer than that to do. Either that or if there are enough people in the map to just remove the auto close thing altogether until there is a certain amount of people in it..

Good to hear that you got this mess sorted out. I assume it had to do with the “forced” PW change we all had to deal with last year. Also good to see you posting that you had good customer support, often we only hear ppl on these forums with their negative customer support issues.

I have probably done the personal story now too many times (8 to completion) to comment on all this, it just seems like a blur……

Having said that tho there were a few memorable moments, not many that really gave me that “oh this is awesome feeling” but there were the odd one or 2. I really think it’s unrealistic tho to have expected them to touch on a lot of the different factions/pact groups etc through the personal Story too much. I think the point of that was to set up the basic lore for future expansions and now possibly instead living stories.

Part of the problem here tho lies in the fact that instead of doing this they have chosen to bring in even more factions/groups just to add to the current mess. I think for the average player it’s too much too fast and not enough “oh so that’s who that group are and what they are about”.

So at the moment its like “I don’t care, just tell me where to go, who to kill and give me my reward” oh and “I hate Scarlett, kill her now”. It’s sad really….

Nick.6972:

Paulytnz.7619:

Honestly people how many sets can you wear at any given time anyway!? I don’t know which game, or who/where it was ever said that MMO’s HAVE to periodically bring in new wep/armour skins. Even having 7 alts and my main I can’t see myself using ALL of what was made available at the start of the game. Mind you I understand how most of what there are does not look so great, but still…

All the new armor sets are only available in the gem store, that’s the problem.

I don’t see it as a problem. They need desirable things in the gem shop to entice people to spend money and these are obviously one of the better ideas for that end.

PS, not ALL new armour sets are gem store only – ascended is an example that comes to mind.

Makai.3429:

Another mechanic I have trouble coping with is the complete nullification of damage types. Shouldn’t my vapor blade deal more damage to lava elementals? Shouldn’t an oakheart take massive damage from a flamethrower? And why wouldn’t an earth elemental have better shielding against a sword than a hammer? Anet messed up royally in GW1 by having “typeless” damage dominate the game for a vast majority of its life and it seems they just threw the baby out with the bathwater.

Yes……they made it too simple throwing out “magic damage”, “physical damage” etc. Instead they should have brought in Blunt, piercing, slashing, certain types of magic damage etc to help with the creation of different builds/class variety and perhaps even give some classes/builds more of a “role” that some people seem to say does not exist.

Then again having said all that it may have been too confusing for the “Xbox generation” they seem to maybe targeting as the core gamer here. :P

Hmmm might explain the forum lag here too….

So servers been having downtime and rollbcks recently? Tsk Tsk. Still I always seem to take breaks from games right at the right times (things like this happen lol).

I don’t expect any new classes with the next expansion, however if there is finally a new playable race then – yes in a heartbeat! And if that said race were to be Skritt then – Shut up and take my money already for the highest priced package!

No body else have issues with this? This is obviously effecting so many people as even the Wiki has all the other vendors stores info except this very one…..

Mathias.9657:

It’s not that there are few voices of reason to counter the trash talk, but few reasons.

If ANet paid attention to the constant gripes and change the game accordingly we wouldn’t see the same threads pop up 24/7 saying the same exact things.

There would just be new complaints is all. Seen it for 5+ years before on other games forums. No matter how great a game can be/gets someone will ALWAYS find a reason to complain.

Besides if Anet "changed the game accordingly " they could still not please everyone because it’s impossible. Some people like some things one way another group will like it the other way etc. Impossible.

Good, I was waiting for something like this to happen and I think it’s a good thing.

Duuuuude best idea ever! I would want skeletons they as are always my fave enemy in these types of games. So to be able to control and army of them would be just awesome. It’s a shame we generally only see them around Halloween so an idea like this would be a dream come true for me. :P

Bearcats.2340:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

We must do something about this! This is an outrage! I will write a letter to my congressman DEMANDING that something will be done, because the Asura are small and therefore must be children therefore exposed breasts on female asura is child pornography! ArenaNet will be prosecuted most harshly for this egregious injustice, this CRIME AGAINST NATURE!

Your support is most appreciated as well! Writing a letter to your congressman should help resolve the situation. No congressman wants to miss the opportunity to make good publicity though shutting down child pornography.

So now Asura are children? I should think THAT would offend many people.

All I can say is I hated dealing with agony in GW1…….yay now having it here……great. Besides that maybe if dungeons were not so boring/inconsistent and what seems a race for everyone (you know what I mean, everyone just wants to run past everything to get to the end!) then maybe I would be looking forward to this more.

Pretty much what hornswroggle said but I will give you a quick summary in point form:

1 – Salvage almost everything.

2 – At your level however I would recommend against salving rare/exotic gear as you don’t have a chance at getting ectos. Leave that until about 73 (or is it 76 I always get this confused?). Or I should say only salvage rare gear that states on them that level it can be used at. Sell them at the TP, well at least see if they are worth anything more than a few silver, if so sell, otherwise salvage.

3 – Use the Basic Salvage Kit for whites, blues and greens. Use either the Mystic Salvage Kit (made at the mystic Forge and well worth it) or BLTC Salvage Kits for Rares and Exotics.

4 – I would also suggest buying the Copper Fed Salvage Kit if you can afford it or when you can to replace the Basic Kit for salvaging whites, blues and greens. Mainly for the convenience factor. You will never have to worry about running out of kits and having to visit a vendor all the time. It can also save a lot of inv space/time while you are out in the field.

Hope that helps and good luck!