Guild Wars 2

Donari.5237:

As someone who doesn’t flip or otherwise play the TP beyond occasional guessing of what new skin will be valuable in a month, I’ll say the biggest pair of QoL changes that could happen to affect every player would be 1) being able to sort by armor weight and 2) being able to search for back pieces by category rather than a list of possible names.

As someone who’s been unable to open the TP since Sunday morning, I’ll say that access to it is core to enjoyment of the game and I’ll be grateful to get it back even in its “archaic” form. I have been getting increasingly cranky from the impact of losing use of the TP and Gem Store. Dwelling on it, actually, I seem to mention it in most every post I make because it is so huge a deal to me just now.

I’ll add one more to your list and I’ll be happy: 3) remove/send back all bids that are at/under the vendor cost!!

VideoGamermike.5813:

Pelion, -you- dont understand basic economics. Economics isn’t about finding the absolute max you can make a profit on, thats not how real trade works, despite what some fools may think.

1) Jute scrapes worth 95 copper? come on man, thats completely ridiculous, I can get 20 of those in 20 minutes, and you wanna justify that price? give me a break. Copper you might be able to justify as 30+ bronze because its time based and thusly more limited, but 95 is just insane.

First off getting 20 in 20mins is like ~1s a minute which is nothing. There are far better things to do, such as a world boss and you get a rare that’s ~25silver +items, or dungeon which is ~30min for 50s +items.

Second jute is based on rng you have to get the drop from a mob, while copper ore is not. You can easily see on your map where copper is and you ALWAYS get copper when you harvest a copper node.

Third correct me if I’m wrong but a lvl 80 doesn’t get lvl 10 armor drops. So the only way a lvl 80 get’s jute is by farming the salvage items like the rags, so what we have to reroll a lower character to farm jutes….fat chance it’s not worth it.

2) Now, let me give you the most basic thing you can get. ITEMS PRICES ARE BASED ON THE COST IT HAS TO GET THEM, NOT MARKET VALUE.

No items are based off of what people are willing to pay for. Doesn’t matter how rare or how hard it is to get an item if people don’t like it or want it, it’s going to be cheaper then an item with the same rarity that people like.

Now, since jute scraps are gotton from salavage, their price should be based on what they are refined from, not the other way around. (B in this case is a more refined form of A, so A is the price setter, not B )

You are buying the said item for what you get not the item itself so you have it backwards. B would be the price setter since you are buying for B, not for the A. A better example would be bags you are buying the bag for the items in the bag, so the items found in the bag are the price setters. The cost of the bag will never be higher then the most expensive item in the bag and it will never be lower then the cheapest item in the bag it will be at an average cost of all the items in the bag. So the items in the bag are the price setters.

So…what would you charge for one of the most common item in the game? Do I need to keep going. Again, this item is so easy to get, no one in their right mind would feel -good- selling this thing.
So yes, You’ll forgive me if I take my common sense, critical thinking, and knowledge of market that understands what market value actually is(NOT a price setter), somewhere where I don’t have to feel guilty everytime I sell something.

1st off it’s only a common item for low level characters.
2nd there is a high demand for it since people with like 5 lvl 80s don’t feel like leveling alts they just power level them most of the way with crafting. I believe it was cinnamon you mentioned before which was 1c well that’s because it’s a common item and there is no demand so that makes sense.

You really shouldn’t have any guilt for selling an item for 1 silver. Jute is worth that ~1 silver to a lot of people just look at the number of bid offers. It’s simple marketing of supply and demand.

“Clothing” Pros:

• It’s neat how all 3 sets are similar to each other but different.
• The straps and line details just look amazing.
• The “cape” of the heavy look fanatic, I wish the other 2 were more like it, with a cut design at the bottom then a plain cut. The cut design really adds to it imo since like I said it’s not a plain cut, after all we see the backs of our character the most I seeing another pointed “cape” is like eh.
• Awesome that they are adding more male skins that show “skin”

“Clothing” Cons:

• What’s up with those shoes, that curl on the heavy is just urg, the light and medium I can deal with but the heavy noooo way.
• I find the mask just plain creepy, blank expressionless, no eyes *shudder.
• I feel like too much of the neck cover is attached to the chest piece. I feel like half or most of the neck cover should be attached to the helm not the chest piece. Not really an issue if you view your helm but for those who hide the helm it might be off putting.

The “skin” debate

• Tights, body paint, form fitting armor, w/e you want to call it is skin-like. I don’t care what card you want to play, but the fact remains that the dye parts are giving off the appearance of clothing making it is slightly awkward for the female skins. The clothing basically just cups the bottom doesn’t cover at all, like wearing a bra that’s 2 cups too small. I honestly don’t mind the heavy one at all, I just wish that the light and medium ones covers as much as the heavy version does. (TBH it’s the only reason I didn’t buy a light one)
• Do I wish it was dyeable, yes! It would most certainly be awesome if we could. Having to work around the blue is a tad bit of a hassle plus everyone with the skins are all forced to be the same color, I like being different. Plus I like having my characters being different from each other so I wouldn’t want to buy more then 1 set (light,med, or heavy). Although people tend to go crazy and it might look gross to have everyone running around in different slimmer colors. Perhaps tweaking the blue to be more transparent or no blue at all would be a better option (granted you covered the naughty bits for all the kids playing).

Overall my thoughts for the future are troubled
While the recent armor effects have been nice and cool, I’m worried about it. First we have the achv armor Radiant and Hellfire, Flame gem store set, the Wurmslayer armor, and now the Zodiac… I get why there’s an effect for the achv armor and the Wurmslayer armor sure, but there wasn’t really a reason for the Flame or Zodiac there were just there not even tied to the LS. I just really hope they are not making the effects a new standard, as nice as it is I don’t want it on EVERY armor. I love mixing and matching but with the effects it’s hard (for my taste) to do so since the effect sticks out so much. That being said I’m not saying never have effects, but could we keep it to rare occasions and still output normal skins without lighting or mist come off of it.

I never read anyway that quote from Anet anywhere, so I did a quick google search. You got this quote from guildwars2guru.com …. I’m pretty sure that it’s just a community page not the developers.

It is an issue wanting to change around sickles and picks. I’m sure a few people have bought doubles for similar reasons, such as necros buying the BonePick. Since ArenaNet is not likely to change them to account bound (since it is a money making opportunity, plus many people bought multiple ones and would complain/want to be compensated) maybe they could add Gathering Splitter to the gem store and it could cost 500gems. The splitter would return the gathering tool back to it’s Account bound Soulbound on use status. I feel like it would be a reasonable compromise since players would have the option to change them, people who already bought multiple ones can’t really complain since they didn’t switch them to account bound, and ArenaNet still has it’s money maker.

I have mixed feelings about the cap. It is great that a newbie a year down the line will not be forever behind due to the Dailys they just have to make up ground with the LS stuff. PLus those who are all about AP pts can relax once they reach the cap.

The downside IMO is that it sucks they choose to cap it at it’s max. I wish they would’ve choose to have a daily cap instead, so that once you get your daily chest you get no more daily points. That way we will always get AP points. I will probably still do the daily for the rewards when I reach the cap but I will now just target the easy ones to get it over with instead of enjoying doing them.

It wouldn’t be too hard to set it up with a daily cap. They can make similar to the LS progress achievements. All the achievements will reward no points themselves. Instead there will be a progress achievement It’ll have 5 layers and give 1 point each layer. Once you get to layer five it gives you the achievement chest reward.

I still have a year before I hit cap, but I would like to think I would still be playing in that time, and with the max cap I have mixed feelings.

Just in general I think the medium armor should have more options then just trench coats….

Adine.2184:

i dont know about necro style but ive had an idea using the atunement system for a heavy.

A Heavy class that “attunes” itself to either offense or defensive roles. Its class mechanic would be to have an offensive and defensive chant that would switch weapon skills based on it . It would have a medium base health and have the following weapons
Main hand
Sword,Axe,
Off hand
Dagger,Shield,Sword,Mace
2 hand
Longbow,Hammer
An example of offensive vs defensive chant might be
Sword Dagger offense grants a chance at poisoning a foe on dagger strikes and is purely offensive where as Sword Dagger defense grants a chance at stability every so many seconds and has more block/evade skills

This is a pretty neat idea. I picture it to be similar to how ele attunes to its different elements and only allow it to have one weapon set at a time. Could even maybe be Offense, Defense, Support if they feel like just offense vs defense isn’t enough. Offense could grant might and damage conditions. Defense stability and blocks. Lastly support could remove conditions and regen.