Guild Wars 2

eithinan.9841:

Wanze.8410:

I dont doubt that there are quite a few investors in quartz, I am one of them, but to believe a single player bought the majority of the 7 million quartz form the tp over the last 3 1/2 months, is simply ridiculous.

There have been many sinks added without a doubt. But to deny that even 30k gold is some insurmountable amount to invest for a few people is naive. A couple whales working together could get that easy. A single one could. Heck, you wanze could have moved this your self if you cashed out a bunch of other investments.

The thing that tells me it is an intentional movement of the market price as opposed to a natural upswing is the pace of the sales I got. Especially when it was moving from 40c(my lowest listings) to 1s it would go in spurts of a few copper at a time. Each one of those was a mass buy out not natural sales. If they were simple, normal usage i would have sold all of the ones at 55c one day and then a few days later the 56c listing would sell. I wouldn’t have been looking at my recently sold tab and seen listings sold for 55c, 56c, 57c, 58c all over a short amount of time. Not with the tens of thousands that were sitting at each price point.

To be clear I never said a single player, but a single player could do it. I know of a handful of people who have over 100k gold and I am not that well connected. Whether this would be a wise investment, for a single player, of that much gold is debatable but make no mistake about it a single player could easily pull it off.

Even regular consumers usually buy in bulk, at least 1 stack, they dont buy 25 each day just because they only need 25 each day. Some propably buy the 2500 they need for a full set at once. Now i dont know how much listings you had at every value but they would have to be substancial, about 50k or so, in order for you to determine, if those 50k were bought out by a whale or just a bunch of consumers that bought multiples of 250 each.

Your listings at 40c disappeared back in november, your listings between 55c-60c disappeared in january. Any data on the last 3 months, where the bulk of the supply went?

I know i checked my sales on celestial gossamer insignias over the last 4 months (took me around 3 hours to count this afternoon) and i sold insignias worth over 2.5 million quartz each month, 86% of those sales were single recipes, which indicates that they were bought by consumers, not investors.

For me, thats a huge indicator that the demand for quartz is in fact substantially higher than the mere 7 million we lost over the last 4 months. We propably consumed hundreds of millions of quartz since the start of the year.

My investment in quartz/charged sheets of ambrite/celestial recipes is propably around 3-4k gold with an actual lowest listing value around 5 times that high now.

Might sound much to some people but in the end, its just enough to cover the global demand for a couple of hours.

Anyways, if you think general demand in the last couple of months came mostly from investors, you are foolish to buy quartz now. If you think demand came from consumers, you better stock up now.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

I’m sorry, but for those of us unhappy with the game in its current state…we’ve grown tired of staring at the “roach” in our “food” and being told that it will be addressed, eventually.

Here’s the problem with your analogy.

I think near everyone would think that a roach appearing in their food would be horrible. And if a roach was indeed in your meal, it would be addressed immediately. To this point, where there has been genuinely game-breaking bugs, Arena.net has dealt with them swiftly.

I think a more accurate analogy is that you’re at a fast food restaurant with a hundred people behind you. You place your order, get your food, and realize that you really don’t like it all that much. It’s not quite what you thought you were getting.

So you start start crowding the counter along with other people who don’t like the meal (though not all for the same reasons), and wondering why the staff is “ignoring” your problem while fixing others AND taking new orders.

Meanwhile, there are others munching happily wondering what you’re complaining about. This stuff is GREAT, they think.

This isn’t a roach in your food. Stop pretending it is… because ironically that’s EXACTLY what DOES get you on the “ignore this person” list by the staff.

Some extra tips I’ve seen from guilds I’ve been in.

Define what kind of guild you want it to be, for example, WvW heavy guild, PvE heavy, dungeons and so on. I feel this is important for small guilds that have a small number of active leaders (or even a single one), even if you plan on doing a bit of everything, usually there’ll always be one aspect of the game you (and your leaders) will like the most, advertise it as being a guild heavy in that aspect and mention that you also do the other things. That will also make sure that the people that join will be on the same boat than you (otherwise you might end up having people join that are always in WvW or PvP while you spend most of your time in PvE or dungeons, for example).

Figure out what stands your guild apart from other guilds and advertise it. Some examples, doing daily events (mondays doing dungeons, tuesdays is WvW day and so on), doing silly stuff (mass naked dancing in LA), maybe a guild focused on no drama easygoing people, or on the other hand one focused on progression and speed clearings, stuff like that.

Don’t only advertise with the random map spam… there are usually so many of those that most people just tune them out as it is. Instead invite people to do activities with you. If you do silly stuff, advertise it on map chat (Guild X is starting the naked WvW race in 10 minutes, if you want to participate, go to Y waypoint and get naked!!!), or dungeon running (Guild X is going to run Y dungeon in 30 minutes, if you want to join one of our groups, sent me a tell!!!). One good example I ran into sometime ago was with guild missions, a guild was about to start their guild mission run and advertised in map chat in LA whoever wanted to help them (and of course get their commendations), they sent people temporary guild invites (giving them a specific rank) and went on to do the missions, and when they were over gave everyone thanks for their participation, and that they would remove the temporary members when they were done, but that whoever wanted to stay as a guild member, just mention it on guild chat and would be moved to full member.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Pickles.9436:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Pickles.9436:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

borgs.6103:

In my country, we have a saying:
“I don’t like what you said, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

ANet has a saying:
“You signed an agreement, a contact with us, that you would follow the rules or be suspended or banned and we expect you to keep the agreement you signed and quit trying to say you didn’t or that you did sign the agreement but you didn’t really mean it.”

Yes, its always an awesome agreement to sign to play a game, especially with the part of “we can change these rules whenever we want”

I’ve been reading your posts in this thread and I have to say, I think you are exaggerating the situation.

ANet has already said that the occasional F bomb is not enough to get a person in trouble. If that doesn’t, then saying people are afk here and your other examples are not reasonable ones. All ANet is asking is that you don’t use words in map chat that you wouldn’t use in a public setting full of strangers.

You’re right. I am exaggerating and on purpose too, because that is what this thread is based off of, an exaggeration, one that is actually being taken seriously.

Well, then you’re not helping the thread by purposely derailing the discussion into debates with you about speech that you know is not a problem.

So then what IS the problem? Again, we can look back at the OP and see its an exaggeration, it isn’t true and unfounded. All that was needed were a few posts saying “no, its not all the time or constant. If it does happen, report, block, move on.”

Instead, we are now into an 8 page discussion of…something…and basically ignoring what the OP first stated.

I would like it to be handled like it was handled in Fallout: New Vegas. There, when you leave the tutorial, the game asks you if you are happy with your character or would like to change something.

Tutorial gives you a decent amount of time to examine your character and decide what you like and don’t like when you see it in the game world (as opposed to the creation screen), and the one-time free makeover would be very handy and not exploitable.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Having reread the thread, I see a few different things:

• Some players, like me, only rarely see extreme instances of offensive behavior.
• Some players don’t see issues at all.
• Some feel they see them daily and have modified their game experiences to avoid such instances.
• Some say “Buck up and ignore it.”
• Others say, “I have a god-given right to offend you, and you have no right to complain.”

End of the day, why don’t we let the professionals decide? Why don’t each of you who see offensive chat report it and let the moderation team make a decision about the overall offensiveness of a word or phrase in the context of the game. The team is not draconian, they understand the difference between a word spoken in the heat of the moment and a pattern of abusive language. Report and forget and trust that things will be taken care of in the best and more fair manner possible.

Well, I don’t think this is about you being professional or not. I think you’re very professional btw.

It’s about the agreement that you mentioned before. I have an entitlement to urinate. I have a physical need to do that eventually, but I cannot do that whenever and wherever I want to. I have to respect everyone else.

I think swearing and many other activities are the same. It’s not that you cannot do them. You just cannot do them here.

Yes. I’m generally in favour of the idea of the new system, but the pool of possible choices is far, far too small.

People see what they are looking for.

Those with a Pollyanna-ish attitude will see fewer offensive statements than the easily-offended. ANet is doing the right thing by having an internal policy based on their moral and ethical code. We are guests on ANet’s servers.

If ANet’s policing is ineffective, they know they’ll lose customers. On the flip side, they’ll also lose customers if they’re ridiculously strict. In the end, they must find a balance.

Freedom ensures balance. ANet is free to set policy for a private game, we players are free to come and go as we wish. From what I’ve seen, ANet provides such balance as best they can.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

zombiedeadhead.9830:

Well I’m not at all surprised that the first and only reply is someone trying to be clever by talking to me like I’m an idiot.

On the contrary, I was trying to be helpful to someone who had provided very little information on what was going on or what they had tried to do to troubleshoot.

I’m sorry that my reply was upsetting to you.

Yup, they did not try to make you look dumb, idiot or something, it was just a very general and basic troubleshooting for when no much info is available or is vague. Also, what was suggested can happen to everyone, anyone can overlook stuff and later get the “oh how couldn’t I see it” moment. In other hand, your response was somewhat rude and would chase away anyone willing to help. Don’t take me bad, just clarifying stuff. But well, let’s let it be for now. Glad you got it solved.

So… I wasn’t able to find much data on the drop rates of Globs of Dark Matter, so I did some tests and thought I should share with you fine folks:
Mystic SK: 471 salvages = 234 GoDM (0.4968 each)
Black Lion SK: 346 salvages = 340 GoDM (0.983 each)
all items salvaged were level 68+ exotics. I also found out when I started to do this that level 67- exotics do NOT drop GoDM, or inscription/insignia.
more data to come soon
edit1&2: did some more salvages, updated amounts.

So you can see when the bosses hit 75, 50, and 25%.

Dunno why this isn’t a thing already…

Behellagh.1468:

That’s of course assuming you want to do fractals.

@OP – what he means is that you can get ascended rings from doing fractals rather than spending laurels on them.

I would suggest getting an amulet (Distinguished Circle of Logic – zerk stats) with the karmic infusion (for karma). Then hoard a pile of laurels for future use as you will need them to make ascended weapons and gear (laurels are required to purchase the recipes). However, if you are really keen on spending them, most people use them to acquire T6 mats either to sell on the TP or to use in crafting (such as for legionaries).

Instead of new sigils and rune effects, I think reworking and improving existing runes and sigils are more important. As it stands, there are only a very small set of runes and sigils that are most commonly used and many sets go unused or rarely used except for testing or experimentation.

If you have no use for it, just destroy it.

Like you said, it’s not hard to come by. If you really needed a load for ascended gear, you’d be able to quickly farm enough by doing World Bosses.

I have refined a lot of mine into dragonite ingots for prospective ascended gear, but still haven’t used much of it.

They might eventually introduce a dragonite ore eater item (Like Mawdrey and the Star of Gratitude) but my guess it is still a long way off. You mainly get junk in return from the eater items anyway, so it’s really not worth wasting bank/inventory slots on such garbage. :P

If you really want to stockpile, make a new character and fill the inventory up with your Dragonite Ore.

You have to consider these things on a strictly cost-benefit basis. The cost of storing it is high (inconvenience, lack of room for other items) whilst its overall benefit is very low.

Since the discussion in this thread has derailed and is no longer constructive this thread is now closed.

I just wondered… Why getting some stats combinations on your equipment is impossible (ex. main Power, and Prec + Tough secondary), and even if possible there are kittened requirements (zealot).

When I see materials I am sure such system once was in game, or was planed.
Blood is Power, Claw is precision, Fang is Ferocity, Bone is Vitality, Scale is Toughness, Totem is Healing Power, and Poison sack is Condition Damage…

Why cannot I use 3 blood, 1 scale, and 1 claw (or even 3,2,2 for more expensiveness) and craft Power (primary), Precision and toughness equipment.

I don’t even need it during crafting equipment lv. 1-79 it could be only for lv 80 exotic, and ascended equipment.

There is lot of “bad blood” around zerker meta. But even Game don’t provide any viable equipment with a bit less damage and some defensive stat (like my example). So you are Uber DPS, or punny DPS (and nothing between). Whit this I would happily change my berzerker warrior gear for some mix that would provide me some more armor and vitality (on expense of ferocity).
Of course it wouldn’t remove berserker meta, but it would be step in right direction.

What is against it. If you are afraid that it will make much more easier to reach lv 500 during crafting, then you can use more expensive version, or lower boost for finding new recipe.
When crafting there is already hard to find some stuff, so additional sorting methods would be useful (ex. sorting, by set) even without changes.
At level 80 you buy recipes for dowels and inscriptions (there probably would be need for blank inscriptions) so there wont be problems with interpretations while inventing.

Serophous.9085:

Mini John Smith. So I have insider trading info when standing beside a trade post NPC.

Mini John Smith who says random lines like “I am the destroyer of the designers intention to make people happy”.

It is really simple. If you like the current skill based combat system (i.e. mobility, dodges, etc.) then you should be against Trinity since it completely breaks this system (when it becomes required).
Trinity:

• Makes roles rigid.
• Makes gameplay stagnant, you can only do one thing at a time.
• Makes team cohesion more fragile. People will blame each other for deaths rather than themselves.
• Makes stats more important. This just compounds most other problems.
• Makes skill (active defense) less relevant.
• Devalues movement (same reason as active defense). Why heal when you can move away from attack? If you can’t move away from attack then why move?
• Because of AOE range it incentivizes stacking more than zerker do since now you need to stack to survive (heals) as well as cleaves and to kill faster.
• Mandates gear the same way zerker is now currently.

Trinity does not:

• Fix conditions in PVE. This is a technical issue and would remain a technical issue even with dedicated required roles. Conditions may work little better if less people can inflict them but still in group play they will be as broken.
• Make combat harder. The difficulty of encounters is a problem of mechanics, AI, and our optimized strategies and practice. Combat may even be easier with trinity since you as an individual only have one concern.
• Create Diversity. It limits its more than anything else (reasons listed above). Professions
• Makes teamwork better. It forces teamwork since people become dependent on each other. This is brute forced so will not work always be desirable. Currently you can get by if your team works but with Trinity you are as good as your weakest link. You can’t be the sole survivor who heroically completes the encounter.

You can’t just add weapons because they’d be “cool”. Not only is that not a proper argument, but it’s also missing the fact that you would need to design a niche for the weapon to fill before it can even be considered. There’s no point in having two different weapons that do the exact same thing.

And your argument about 1h and 2h options existing other than for axes, you’re kind of not in the right there either:

• What is the 2h option for Dagger? Can’t be GS since that’s Sword already.
• What are the 1h options for Shortbow and Longbow?

So for your argument to be anything valuable, you need to:

1. Establish a niche for it
2. Give the same treatment to every other weapon

Yes, I want Season 3. And no, I don’t want an expansion at this point. I’d rather have them add $40.00 worth of expansion material for free. I’m funny like that.

The reason I think having a legendary should including the major game modes is because I see it as a reward for mastering all aspects of the game. Leaving out the buying and selling aspect (which I never agreed with), I think that the idea of crafting it, and showing that you’ve got the gift of battle and the gift of magic…it’s all the aspects of being a hero.

There are rewards for playing different aspects of the game already. A legendary should transcend those.

Man, read the blogpost about the new leveling experience they posted about 2 weeks ago. There they explained for what these crafted items are intended:

To give your alts gear with better stats at certain levels to speed up leveling. They also stay account bound after use, so you can recycle-use them with every alt you level.