Guild Wars 2

Tyr.6097:

6 of 9 classes will using staves, 2 of 9 classes currently using rifles.

I’d rather the thief get a weapon based on the skills and theme it would have, rather than based on how many other classes already have said weapon.

It’s not a competition.

Another “Urgh… ArenaNet want money. How dare they?” post.

You don’t have to whip out your credit or debit card to get gems. You can get gems by converting gold to gems as well.

Because Guild Wars 2 wants to break away from the norm, and do things slightly differently to traditional MMOs. When you think about ranged greatswords and melee staves, Elementalists & Necromancers being able to shout magic words isn’t that far fetched.

Who knows, maybe even thief will get shouts? Or perhaps, since they’re sneaky, they’d be whispers instead.

On the contrary to what some people believe, the Megaservers aren’t really harming Roleplaying as much. In fact if anything (on Piken Square at least) they’ve helped because I’m seeing more and more Roleplaying out in the open world, and that’s nice and refreshing.

I co-run a mostly RP guild on Piken Square, where we do missions at set-times in PvE areas, in areas of any level, and a lot of the time, we’ve walked past other guild RP too (even some RP in other languages – which is good).

If you are playing from NA on an EU server, the chances are, you’ll noticed little to no lag difference at all.

I’ve always said that Piken Square is the friendliest and most welcome server you will find, so if you decide to come to Piken Square, you will be most welcome indeed.

General Erofcharrs.9835:

Why isn’t there an option to begin a duel with someone in PVE?

Because from day 1 of Guild Wars 2 PvE was designed specifically with it being Co-Op mode only.

sirsquishy.2619:

So in short, do not AFK near Mobs unless you want suspensions. Skills automated or not, Pets active or not. Its just not safe.

This is not true – go AFK wherever you are, if you need to go AFK. If you’re genuinely going AFK, they won’t take action.

If you’re going to go AFK with AFK farming in mind, then you will get a suspension. If you’re genuinely AFK, you’ll probably be dead, or probably not in an AFK hot spot, or not with the exact same build as an AFK farmer next to you, or not near a load of mobs that drop sacks that might give linen. There’s so much criteria that the chances of someone innocently being AFK then suspended is negligible.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’d much rather RP it with another player, than have it pre-scripted by an NPC.

The problem here is that if the other player isn’t online at the same time, you can’t RP. With a Home Instanced sim, you can visit your wife and kids whenever you want. According to the core Guild Wars 2 philosophy by Colin himself, you should be able to play the game the way you want to in order to get rewards. And being married to my charr waifu is all the reward I want.

THat’s certainly one problem of having a player waifu instead of an NPC waifu. However, it’s pretty much the only one. With an NPC waifu, I wouldn’t be able to take her outside of Salma (or whichever home instance), I won’t be able to take her to pubs, on holiday, on mercenary jobs with me, play games, have arguments, make jokes, play tricks on each other, take our pet Pymgy Moa Korde out for walks together, go Trick or Treating, throw snowballs, light Canthan New Year fireworks, drink egg nog or play the “See Who Can Spit The Furthest From The Bridge” game in Lion’s Arch (my character Aria is currently leading 7 games to 4 on that one!).

tl;dr – I’d rather have some days of uncertainty of whether a player will be able to log in, and have infinite possibilities, than have guaranteed limited & pre-scripted romance.

RoseofGilead.8907:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Another thread that’s a symptom of Instant Level 80.

No thanks.

Well, this thread was created 6 months ago, so . . .

A symptom of amassing Tomes of Knowledge then.

Well spotted. Should have seen it myself.

Jasher.6580:

Honestly, I would probably start playing the game again if they made this an option.

So basically, you’re necro posting your own thread to say you won’t play the game until there’s a way to not play the game?

You can salvage for pigments now for scribing. It’s a free pigment – probably not as exciting as a free dye you can unlock, but still something!

The hue of the said dye, couldn’t be whiter. It’s the texture of the material you’re putting it on that’s making it dull. No matter how white they can make a dye, it’ll still do it because of the skin.

They were on for the same length of time as the black wings. The 24 hour window was not a surprise to most. Maybe in the future we’ll see both on the Gem Store at the same time, but to say it was swearword is a bit over the top, considering there was a timer showing on this item too!

How do you know every single one is telling the truth as well?

I’m 33.

This thread is borderline creepy. Is it any wonder you’re not hearing from them?

Again, that was not saying AFK farming was allowed. It was saying that if a pet kills for you and you gain loot, it is allowed, not purposely positioning yourself somewhere and going away whilst you sleep to gain loot or XP for your central Tyrian Masteries.

To quote:

Michael Henninger.7451:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Tl;dr intentional mechanics that allow pet kills to give experience and loot =/= permission to afk farm.

This is absolutely correct.

If your pets are doing the killing and your mastery is doing the looting; you’re okay as far as GMs are concerned. This does not mean design can’t/won’t/should/shouldn’t update the system as it works today.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ranger-Pet-Botting/page/3#post6093187

Kessex hills is good to get champs – the Toxic Spider Queen spawns often enough and near the Alchemist, that there’s no need for a CPH (Champs Per Hour) run in circles – you just go as often as someone shouts a champ, and because it’s not CPH based, nobody gets irate in map chat when a champ is killed.

Trying to set things in an order is not guaranteed, so should not be heavily relied upon anyway, and that’s why the Champ Train in QD had to go, because it was made ‘a rule’ that it should be done this way or that way, and other players were wrong because it was messing up the “correct” order of things. There is no order to the champs in Kessex, and that’s better for everyone.

My opinion of course.

cafard.8953:

Craray.2603:

There is still a lot of RP on Piken Square. Even with the Megaservers.

In WvW? Because apart from wvw maps, there isn’t a Piken Square anymore.

I disagree. Piken Square isn’t just a server. It’s the people too.

It’s virtually impossible.
What would all the Heart Vendors sell?
Where would all the gear go that’s currently for sale on the TP?
What would we all craft that uses the materials in-between Green Wood Logs & Ancient Wood Logs (among the rest)?

There’s just too much overhaul, for virtually the same experience of what we already have, in my opinion.

I agree, was thinking the same thing myself this morning, the stickies could do with a clean up.

I think we should all just consider the free shared inventory slot the compensation, and have done with this. ArenaNet can’t compensate anyone since it’d take up too much time figuring out who donated what to whom, for how much, and the fact that most money that went onto materials went to other, unknown players via the Trading Post.

TPMN.1483:

We know how much gold Evon makes from the trading post.
My question is how big is the city he has to store all the items he has – I mean:
18 Million candy corn, 10 Million noughts, Thousands of Weapons – does he have an underground network under LA or something ?

Zaishen chests.

misterman.1530:

You don’t have to be first for things. Really. But if you want it, again, that’s fine. I don’t.

Exactly. There is no need to be the first for things, only a want – and as long as there’s a want for something, companies will sell. But it was you who said:

misterman.1530:

Let’s face it, people who preorder are not competent consumers.

Was that a joke too?

Edit: P.S. I didn’t take the 10 year old girl thing as an insult, by the way.

Doggie.3184:

penelopehannibal.8947:

“We don’t have out-houses. We have water closets”

“Like, latrines?”

“No. They all flow out to the same sewer system”

Where are they and how do I pee into them?

See CETheLucid’s reply & picture.

CETheLucid.3964:

Use your imagination.

“PvP-ers” “PvE-ers” “RP-ers” “PvE Scrubs” “Elistists” “Completionists” “Achievementists” etc….

What will make the community even better is if we all stop labelling each other as if we’re different players – We are all Guild Wars 2 players at the end of the day, and labels segregate the player base, creating pockets of discontent.

I find both Confusion and Torment the most fun conditions to use on a PvE enemy, for some reason. Especially Torment.

I think they work well just as they are myself, sorry.

I’m convinced I need a Parrot Shoulder Skin in my life now.

I have about 230 people on block and 200 of them are gold sellers. Hardly any of them if any at all have shown online for ages, so the chances are even if they are given back – the user isn’t using the game anymore.

Mayko, sometimes you have to go into your Activity Monitor and force quit the running process of GW2 there. Sometimes, there’s a ghost GW2 running too, so you have to end both. Your client will open then when this happens.

A pain I know, but it works

wbfytw.4265:

Hello players of GW2 I quit the game 2 days after it went f2p for the following reasons:

1: F2P players, I can’t explain how much I hate f2p-ers. More gold spamers the “I can’t do that cuz am f2p” etc. And the most annoying part for me is the childishness…. The pay to play sets a somewhat a barrier for kids to play games sure their parents can pay for it and so on but it is never the less a barrier Ive played a lot of games f2p and p2p and i found the p2p community to be more mature.

2: The game became to grindy.. I have full asc set weps armor trinkets rings for 3 classes (no legendary wep) but after I read the patch notes for the up date that legy armor and trinkets would be added made me lose it.. I want to play the game for its challenge and competitiveness not who has better gear. (Again I know that legy doesn’t give a big advantage)

3: the economy is down. U know why

why am I considering coming back

1 I have some free time on my hands and am bored
and am picking between Diablo 3 and HoT
The favor is for Diablo 3 tho

Point 1: Gold Sellers are nothing to do with P4F players, at all. Gold sellers have been around since 2012, and in fact, I’ve been getting less not more gold sellers since this game became P4F. Your “hatred” for players you don’t know I suspect stems from the simple fact you think you’re above them just because you paid for something they get for free. I could be wrong though, but it’s a common occurrence among games or websites where there’s a shared paid & free community.

Point 2: The game is only a grind if you let it be. You don’t have to grind for anything to be honest, especially since you’ve already got full ascended gear. Most grind is about skins, and lets be honest. If they were easy to get, people would complain about most people having the same thing as everyone else. Anet can’t win either way.

Point 3: Is it?

On your reason coming back, but you’re not really you’re going to this Diablo game: why are you telling us then?

If you think it’s just some big massive, undercover marketing conspiracy then don’t buy it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

My main account was banned not long after launch for “gold selling/buying.” Me and 2 guildies pooled our gold, put it in our guild bank and then took turns removing then replacing the 200 gold back in the guild bank to get the Golden title and achievement. A few days later I was banned. I contacted support and they reversed it the next day. So, they do make mistakes but if a Dev comes out and says he checked that account and the suspension is correct, I’m going to think he didn’t say that without looking at it carefully.

Agree with this – I’d sooner believe the words of an official dev over some stranger that other strangers believe, just because they have a YouTube account!

I understand you perfectly well (I did read your post in full…), but it’s not really ArenaNet’s fault that your guild moved to what is now a full server (and a winning one as I said since they’re T1). They said at the time of introducing server-linking that they will constantly review it.

If server-linking wasn’t a thing, you’d actually be more stuck, not less, since the guild still would have moved, but you wouldn’t have been able to play with them at all, much less within a linked server.

I do though hope, that the server they have moved to opens up for you though, so you only have to transfer once.

But to call it bias from ArenaNet towards you not playing every day is a bit far fetched. ArenaNet didn’t sit at a desk and say with Montgomery Burns’ voice “Look at JavaChips – she/he’s a WvWer but doesn’t play every day. Let’s force her/him to pay money every two months with this system and make her/his guild’s new server full..Excellent!”

ArenaNet are not punishing you with this system, they are trying to make a system that lets people in lower populated servers enjoy WvW as much as higher populated ones.

MarkBecks.6453:

GW2 has a violence, drinking, swearing tag, and the whole purpose is to run around killing things.

This is a common excuse for bad behaviour from players as well. Guild Wars 2, like every other game, has an age rating, and the organisations (Such as PEGI) give it the appropriate age rating when taking into consideration these things that are included (such as deeming the game to not have too much blood to make it a 15 instead of a 12 for example).

If Guild Wars 2 allowed your name, or had references to Paedophillia, it would at best get an 18+ rating. If not, get banned from sale altogether.

Whilst doing map completion today, I’ve run into numerous AFK farmers. A lot more that I have ever seen with this character, than I have seen with probably all the other 17 characters I’ve done map completion with put together, or near enough.

All in various maps, since the announcement made by Michael. One particular instance was worrying. In the picture below, there are five AFK farmers at [Stentor Cannonade] POI, Straits of Devastation. All AFK, during a heavy assault event by risen forces. Two of them I ended up struggling to revive before I realised they were AFK farmers, as I was switching between fighting and reviving.

There were four rangers, and one elementalist. All of which are upscaling the event in question, with just myself as the real player fighting against the risen. If this behaviour is going to be allowed, it will be detrimental especially towards events, as well as lower the value of the overall economy over a longer period of time, if more and more players start doing this.

The time and place this happened (if it’s important) was around 00:30 BST, megaserver /ip 206.127.146.105:0 on EU servers.

I’m not sure what you’re expecting, but it sounds to me like you need to change your ISP rather than it being a game problem.

There have been countless monthly updates since the game’s initial release, so I’m not sure how you’re expecting to have what was built only yesterday to be on the CD that was made nearly three years ago!

As it’s an online-only game, you do have to kind of expect monthly (if not bi-weekly) downloads, as well as usage of data whilst playing the game online. It’s not a game problem, its the problem of the way you’re using the internet.

Harper.4173:

My question to all those who are reporting these farms is this:
How do you distinguish between a human doing what I described above and a bot?

We players can’t distinguish it. That’s up to ArenaNet to come to a conclusion whether a player is breaking the ToS or not. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t report if we suspect a player is cheating though.

Chris Cleary

If you believe that you have run into a player who is cheating, please feel free to report them! You can do so by using the right-click report functionality (Report as Bot), and/or by emailing information to exploits@arena.net.

It says part way through “and the revenant will be the first profession to use the staff as a melee weapon in Guild Wars 2.”

Please. Please. Please tell me there will be another profession that uses Melee staff! Preferably one that isn’t heavy armour class. Wink wink!

Are melee staves not enough? Also, who would get to use land spears? Just warrior? What about the other classes, and what about the other two underwater weapons?

Personally, I don’t see the point (no pun intended) of land spears when ArenaNet can give a certain class melee or throwable staves.

Gaile Gray.6029:

They are bright, there’s no doubt about it. I mean, the modrem will see me coming from the next region.

And yet… I love them.

Wait? They can be dyed??

shoves traveller’s cheques in the screen

Aeon.4127:

Topic says it all 28 black lion chest keys not ONE uncommon item or better…

Topic title actually says the opposite. :s

Yep, just like yourself, I use Ash Legion Spy Kits for world completion. I also love the Frost Gun from Gendarran Fields too.

Yeah it’s a fake, so don’t worry about it. Report them, then block them, then carry on having fun. ArenaNet will never contact you about a ban, they’ll just ban you.

Bellatrixa.3546:

penelopehannibal.8947:

You can be in up to five guilds. If your current guild can’t wait for the weekend and for you to join them on Guild Missions, why not try finding another guild? One of the larger ones, for example, where you’re more likely to land with weekend players?

OP has a rep req guild so doesn’t want their players to be able to to do that.

To me it sounds more like a guild issue than a Guild Wars 2 issue to me then.

Please make sure the 64 bit client is stable by then, on behalf of all Mac players who purchased PoF before this announcement was made.

Cuddy.6247:

That’s ten hours a day…

Seeing some of the numbers in this thread, does this seriously not bother some of you guys? Because if I looked back on two years and noticed I logged 10 hours a day on a computer game I’d probably throw myself off the nearest bridge.

Cuddy.6247:

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but being plugged-in for most, if not all, of your free time just seems like you’re avoiding the awkwardness that can come with real life, spontaneous interaction.

Thank you for your wavering concern regarding the amount of hours I’ve spent on Guild Wars 2, and of course, for the state of my mental health.

If it’s really important to you that I must clarify why I’ve managed to spend so much time in the game without throwing myself off a bridge, it is because I am a full-time carer for my disabled wife who needs my care during the day as she suffers from more than one disability.

Sometimes I have to walk away from the game to administer her medication, so there is some AFK time there. Some nights during the week, I engage in RP with my guild mates. Mostly Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Also, on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, my guild and some of our friends hang out in Divinity’s Reach listening to one of our guild member’s radio shows.

As for actual gameplay, I first spent a lot of time levelling alts, then after so many I decided to see how many I can get to 100% map completion. I’ve done eight so far, working on character No. 9.

Some people choose to play and interact with video games instead of watching TV all day. Not everyone is a Game of Thrones fan!!!

I hope this puts to one side some of your concerns, and that I can assure you that both my mental and my physical conditions are at the moment, quite stable and I have no plans in the near future to go throw myself off a bridge.

Yeah, uhm, ‘a’ quickie is like, uhm….

…it’s not a mistake. There are less obvious names than that which have been redacted. I’d just take it on the chin and choose your next name wisely

Yoroiookami.3485:

I’m happy for you guys, but for me, personally, it will just become harder to recognize who’s a total newbie and who’s not. :<

I’m not sure why you’d want to recognise who is a newbie and who is not, other than for dungeons, which in my opinion, is unfair. The Achievement Points should not be used for this purpose in my opinion.

Once, I declared my /age in map chat and someone started whispering me saying something like “You’ve got 5,000 hours in but only 8,000 achievement points? You should have more than that by now. Not that I’m judging!”

Well, my reply was “I don’t know about you, but I’m not playing this game for the points” which is true – I don’t play this game for the points. I play this game to have fun, mostly in PvE.

As I’ve said in another thread, there’s no such thing as a bad player, just sore winners and sore losers. I firmly believe this because we shouldn’t be singling out new and inexperienced players and separating them from more experienced and elite players. It’s unfair to categorise someone as a bad player, as someone you wouldn’t want in your party etc. To me it splits the community up, and leaves new players feel especially unwelcome.

That said, I’m not saying this is your intention! But I know some people advertise LFG saying “Minimum 5,000 AP” and stuff. If nobody is willing to help new and inexperienced players, how on earth will we get experienced players in the future?

Yeah, the fact you’re joking about Slaves is probably what did it. Whether it’s from another franchise or not, they don’t allow stuff like that, as it is quite offensive.

You can appeal it directly with CS, but as far as the forums are concerned, not a lot we players can do for you.

I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings when signing up to the game, as well as the ‘Take a 15 minute break for every hour of gameplay’.