Guild Wars 2

OP is the reason why we can’t have nice things.

Once every quarter, we’ll release a new, major balance update to shake up the meta for the next quarter.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-road-ahead-for-2015/

I suspect that the reality is the vast majority of players are not making hundreds of gold a week, or even a month. A minority might do, and they’re probably also people who are more inclined to spend time on the forum talking about it. But if most people were able to do it the rate of inflation in game would be much higher than it is.

My solution is fairly simple: I accept that I won’t make gold as fast as some people do, and therefore won’t be able to buy expensive items as frequently, and then I stop worrying about it and get on with playing.

Most importantly I don’t care how much gold I have at any given time. I don’t try to keep a fixed amount, or earn a fixed amount per day/week/month. I’ve been playing since launch with no significant breaks and I can only remember one time when I had more than 100g, that was the 7 months when I was saving for a precursor. It might actually have happened at other times but I don’t remember.

Shortly after buying the precursor (which cost me just under 800g) I got down to literally nothing: I bought the precursor, spent almost all of what was left over on materials for an ascended coat, went to Drytop for some reason and died, and the waypoint cost took the last of my coin. But that didn’t matter either, especially because it was in the middle of an event so about 2 minutes later I jumped back up to over 1s.

Instead what I do is keep a mental list of items I want, roughly in order of priority (and subject to change at any moment) and as and when I have enough for the next one I want I buy it. It might be weeks or months between purchases, or it might be very quick (although that’s usually when something relatively cheap jumps up the list – like when I randomly decided I wanted the noble coat skin for my ranger). Buying the item might take me back down to under 1g. But none of that matters.

Spending gold on things I want is just another goal to work towards within the game. I don’t worry about completing achievements on a regular basis (even dailies), or completing maps within a certain time frame. Why would my approach to gold be any different?

(And now I come to think about it I think this is at least partially because I’m an adult, officially at least, and in real life I have to be responsible with money; making sure I can pay my bills and afford food and something goes into the savings account for emergencies etc. Games are my escape from that, where I can spend everything I have on something random and not care because I don’t need to afford food or rent or whatever.)

Would be really nice to see cultural glider skins make their way into the game in exactly the same fashion as the cultural armor and weapon sets. Also, this is literal horizontal progression.

I think we need both types of maps.

Random Dynamic events mean it is possible to go for a while without one. I remember before the megaservers loving the apps that let me know when DE were about to start or ongoing because sometimes, especially when you have a fully explored map, you don’t have too much to do.

I brought this up to the Fractal team in my most recent report on the matter, so they’re aware of it and we’ll have to see what they do, if anything. I wouldn’t expect a developer response here, however.

If the expansion is no longer fun for you after 1month, then I’d say pack it up and call it a day on GW2, my friend.

It seems as though reward is all you want to play for and that you never truly found any of the content fun in this game. You seemingly liked dungeons, now they don’t reward you as well, so you don’t like them. Fractals (which is hands-down MY favorite content) doesn’t give good enough rewards after you do the dailies, so my guess is you only do the dailies, if at all. Also you find them boring.

There aren’t really problems with PvP other than people haven’t adapted to the new specs. Trap DHs? I play a trap DH. It was great owning people those first two weeks. Then players caught on. Oh wait, you triggered my traps then ran out of them and put like 6 conditions on me? Guess I’ll just stand here and die…

I’d suggest finding a game you feel is rewarding enough for the time you put in.

Adry.7512:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Wiki says

Nightfury
Choice of one of the following ascended shoulderpieces (note that all skin weights are unlocked upon usage):

Did you check your wardrobe to see if the other skin weights are unlocked? If so, then you might just craft another shoulder piece, or use the one you have, and skin it over.

yes, but i was crafting my necro’s light ascended shoulder piece to be nightfury….i would need to craft another ascended shoulder and skin it as nightfury….then i would have an extra heavy class shoulder piece for no reason. its just unnecessary and extremely annoying, plus poor work on the dev’s part for not clarifying the options.

Well, then you’ll need to contact support and see what they say and if they can help you. If you want personalized help you’ll need to make a ticket. Threads on the discussion forum may or may not be read by an ANet staff person and may or may not be acted upon as a bug fix, and won’t get you sent another shoulder piece.

I confirmed that the 10 non-account bound mystic forge stones I had in the bank are now account bound and stack with previous stones. I cancelled my orders I had placed for these stones and got my money refunded. They can still be found on the TP in a bugged manner because undoubtedly people put them up for sale when there were not account bound and never cancelled their sale.

So if any of you out there read this, cancel your buying/selling of these stones as the transaction can’t go through.

Tigaseye.2047:

It is a potential issue.

People can say it’s not, as much as they like, but the truth is that if something like this is available, most people will require people to use it (especially for PUGs, or whatever) and it’s a slippery slope.

It’s the same with DPS meters.

If they are available, even if only to the player, people will require people to post their DPS.

Sometimes that might be a good thing, with certain unfairly maligned classes, but more often than not, it will not be.

I’ve been through all this in WoW.

Allowing inspection, measuring and third party stuff never seems to end well and turns the game into paint by numbers.

This is a potential issue in the same way that the LFG requirements are an issue. It’s not.

Give raids a little bit more time. Once every trick, pattern, etc. has been thoroughly dissected and examined, raids will be able to be run with nearly anyone. Just like dungeons, world bosses, etc.

As far as things like this being a requirement.There is nothing wrong with wanting to play with people of a certain mindset, or have certain builds. That is their choice. There is no one compelling anyone to use this, if they are, they probably are not type of people you should be running with anyway. Such people tend to be petty and cranky when something happens that they don’t like.

you know how there’s different bags for junk, materials, equipment etc…
why isnt there a soulbound or account bound bag for player’s items??
for example if you swap between a 1-hand weapon and a off-hand to a 2-hand weapon from the safe bag, the off-hand weapon ends up somewhere in your inventory, not back in your safe bag. Get it?

i find these very inconvenient because when i try to re-equip my 1-hand and off-hand weapon from my 2-hand i have a hard time looking for my off-hand weapon as it gets lost in my inventory

I think the difference is that the spiders were dropping loot as well as xp. COF farm doesn’t drop the loot so they didn’t feel the need to nerf it yet.

Currently, finding a good instance of one of the new HoT maps is the most rewarding way of play.

If you want liquid gold, TD is the best map to go but you will also find it hardest to get a good instance there because of an overly difficult meta event.

Otherwise, you can go play fractals. The current reward is not amazing, but the liquid gold is actually decent given how quick some of those low level runs are. Very reminiscent of the old dungeon farming.

In addition, they will soon increase fractal rewards. So if you are a huge dungeon guy, get your AR ready and play fractals.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Online games do not work well enough when you lag.

This.

It sucks, but the reality here is that Anet doesn’t have an oceanic server cluster and the game is not (and won’t ever be) designed to play with a 200ish ping.

You’re connecting to a game you know is going to be laggy and unresponsive, then complaining it is laggy and unresponsive.

Anet needs to just establish an oceanic cluster for you guys alreaday. There are so many people I see on US servers and I’d bet just as many on EU servers that a small cluster would easily pay for itself.

We tried with 3 and failed miserably. I recruited a few non-guildies and did it with 7 easily. I’d recommend no more than 9 as it will limit the number of random vine spawns to one. At 10 you will get two.

Tomes of Knowledge. I recommend doing fractal dailies on a max level (you get 3 or so per day that way) or, if you are PvP inclined, sPvP reward tracks (though you won’t get as many).

So, uh, I do this kind of stuff for a living. I can’t say exactly why anet isn’t interested in upgrading, but I can offer some common reasons I or my clients have not immediately switched to newer API versions in the past.

Because switching to a completely separate graphics API is not a matter of just changing a few variables in most cases. It often requires replacing large sections of depreciated code, and this process is generally more complex the bigger a version jump you are making.

Because designing effects and assets to take advantage of any new rendering features may make current installs unplayable, which means you’re not actually taking advantage of the most marketable features of the API upgrade (new rendering features, material pipelines, or performance enhancements that would allow you to cram more polygons, textures, shader passes, or other visual data on screen)

Because MMOs in general don’t like to demand their users to upgrade to experience updated content. it’s far more likely to lose more players than it gains.

Because art direction contributes more to the overall aesthetic quality of a game than shader technology.

Because no matter what it requires engineers to stop working on new things in order to retrofit an old thing.

Anets reasons could be any or none of these, but it’s not uncommon to “version lock” any external programming APIs the minute a new version conflicts with internal code just to simplify your pipeline.

They are too busy fixing the game.

I dont think the Game Director and Game Economist should be spend long hours of game-testing long term goals.

The precursor journeys are meant to be long term goals and an alternative route to a precursor that better illustrates your progress towards it.

They were never meant to be saving you alot of time or gold in order to get one.

So i wonder what this kind of project is supposed to prove.

Let me repost some data I posted a while ago. This is for promoting kitten into T2-T5. I’ve never collected data on T5 to T6.

You get on average roughly 1/3rd of the lower tier mat. So 50 in yields 16-17 out while 250 is 83-84. ON AVERAGE

I can’t say that enough. ON AVERAGE

The range for 250 mats in is 40 to 200 mats out. There’s been times I’ve gotten over 650 back from 5 stacks of 250, other times I got less than 300. But ON AVERAGE I get in the low 400s or roughly 1/3rd.

I have data an 175, 250 mat in promotions. Now binning the samples into buckets 10 wide …

40-49: 25
50-59: 20
60-69: 32
70-79: 27
80-89: 10
90-99: 8
100-109: 4
110-119: 10
120-129: 15
130-139: 7
140-149: 1
150-159: 4
160-169: 1
170-179: 4
180-189: 2
190-200: 5

Median (half samples below/above this number): 73
1st 20%: 40-53
2nd 20%: 54-66
3rd 20%: 67-80
4th 20%: 80-121
5th 20%: 121-199

Mean (numerical average): 86.75
1 sigma range (68.2% of the time): 51-127
2 sigma range (95.4% of the time): 42-190

What you notice is the median is significantly less than the mean/average. That means if you will see more output below the average and that can seem like RNG is not in your favor, that you are getting unlucky. But if you look at the distribution you see two “bumps”, one around 50-79 and a smaller second bump around 110-129. It doesn’t take many returns above the median to pull your current session’s average up to the “historical” one.

That’s why you have to look at all the promotions you are doing over time and not focus on individual ones, or even a few session’s. You have to trust that the Law of Large Numbers, that with enough trials the results will converge on the projected average, will prevail in the end.

It’s also the reason I don’t bother chasing the “big” profit per skill shard ones if the % of profit is below 30-40%. The variance in promotion output is too high. Right now the highest profit mat promotion according to GW2Shinies is green wood planks to soft wood planks at 2.5 gold per spirit shard which is fantastic. However it’s less than a 4% profit. They use an average of roughly 86.33 which means if you get only 83 from the promotion you don’t even break even. However platinum ingots, the next most profitable at 1.73 gold, has a 24% profit and you will sill make a few coppers even if the promotion returned 70.

TL;DR – play the averages but take % profit into account which mats you promote if you are doing this simply for the money.

Yes, mat promotion rates are still random but with a large enough of promotions it does converge on an average rate of roughly 1/3rd of the amount you put it, other than promotion to T6. That means 50 in gives you roughly 17 and 250 in gives you roughly 84.

I promote numerous times nightly and get within 10% of these averages 95% of the time.

Leave the party, have them invite you back and you can enter then. Bug existed since 2014.

Here’s a quick explanation why. Let’s imagine for a second that they didn’t nerf dungeons. This means that ANet would have 2 choices:

1) They do nothing. In this case, players are incentivized to farm dungeons since they provide so much gold and XP. While some players would enjoy this, most would feel like they were being pushed to farm old content, despite a new expansion being made available.

2) They make HoT content reward better than dungeons. This would be the economic equivalent of power creep and would result in inflation.

Nerfing dungeon rewards allow devs to incentivize new, fresh content to players while avoiding inflation to the economy.

Night and the enemy is a major HoT theme. Mordremoth and “his?” forces are stronger at night. Like rl plants, (and the Vietnam War. I’m convinced that one of the anet devs is a ‘nam vet. The parallels are striking. ) Mordremoth’s minions have a diurnal cycle.

I don’t see this changing.

Okay, the day before the announcement was made at PAX South.

Since both questions was yes then they tend to push out the vet slots once a week. I just got mine sometime in the last few days but I didn’t notice when.

Now if you activated HoT more than a week ago, you should contact support.

You don’t.

use the gear icon at the top of the mission panel, tell it you only want to recieve pve missions. At the next reset and from there on you will only ever receive pve missions.

Many of the easy/medium ones are totally soloable, and for the rest keep in mind if you have the mission active and are eligible for credit (e.g. tagged the bounty, rand the race course at least once, etc.) your guild will receive full credit.

What’s more, because these missions cost nothing to attempt, don’t require unlocking anything, and can be repeated as many times as you like, it is actually far easier to get rewarded for doing them than before.