Guild Wars 2

Could we maybe get a vendor where we can buy scrolls and tomes of knowledge for badges? I mean I love wvw but in the endless grind to pursue rewards and advancement of characters, I can’t help but feel like I’m losing out whenever I do wvw. Badges are pretty much worthless. You can buy traps and siege disablers I guess, and kind of reduce the cost in laurels of some ascended jewelry, and buy some junk gear that you’d probably better not put good upgrades in because they cannot be salvaged and cannot be sold, or even forged.

So you go out, you kill a bunch of players, and get a bunch of badges, complete achievements and get more badges…. and for what? After awhile you just stockpile them up for no purpose.

I find myself having to do sPVP lately even though I despise it partly because it’s a reliable way of getting tomes of knowledge. If I could get tomes of knowledge (I have multiple other characters still needing levels) through wvw, I could do that, something I enjoy, instead.

PPK would be truly great with a higher or no AoE cap!

Remove or increase the AoE cap would change the entire dynamics of WvW. Instead of stacking, commanders would say “spread!”. Would be an awesome and interesting change.

Knowing anet they will likely fix this by removing all windows from the game.

1-You have to have some poor guy locked inside a tower/keep all day and he gets ZERO rewards for it as he can’t participate in the PPK.

2-It’s a lazy solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

3-It promotes karma training.

4-There are no rewards for people who follow the enemy blob.

5-It benefits the server with the largest population ONLY, no one else coz everyone else would just give up after reset day and the weekend.

6-No seriously how lazy a game change is this?.

7-Night shifts will suffer the most and just give up, for example FSP without fail at about 3/4 am run a 20 man group with a few golems, it takes a bit of doing but you can suually keep your garrison with a bit of effort, now it’s gone coz you couldn’t react to a keep not being scouted at 4am coz lets face, even Burk needs sleep (love you Burk).

8-It’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooo lazy.

If we are going to have more badges Anet…

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE SOME REWARDS WORTH BUYING WITH THEM!!!

Just a thought there…

I currently have 30,000 badges in my wallet.

As said the only useful thing to buy is siege with them.

Well, badges would be freakin awesome if we could, you know, SALVAGE the armors and weapons we buy with it.

wvwvw is saved, ty based anet

I have 40k+ badges, i definitely need more.
Thanks a lot.

Holy crap this will save WvW! To be honest, I’m not bothered by this announcement (would’ve expected WvW to receive nothing and just be completely forgotten about) but I still have ~30k badges I can’t be bothered to spend. I wish there was a way to use these badges to buy a WvW dev team. Pls.

Whatever, I guess this is just a nice small improvement overall.

The new Daily system which hand-holds clueless and aimless players is, accidentally, once again leading to additional limits and constraints for loyal veteran players, which will turn dailies for casual players into even more of a chore and annoyance – just like the Traits (67 pages) and NPE (17 pages) changes did.

PROBLEM

According to this article, players will only have 4 fixed PvE dailies, and they will have to do at least 3 of them to get the daily reward. However, the problem is not with the amount, but with the requirements of new dailies:

• Daily Ascalon Forager
• Daily Maguuma Wastes Vista Viewer
• Daily Malchor’s Leap Event Completer
• Daily Fire Elemental

Let’s look at what this means:

• Bring your character to a region you might not have or don’t want to explore yet (new Sylvari player in Caledon Forest) to harvest stuff there.
• Bring your level 80 character which you might not have to a region you might not have or don’t want to explore yet and find a vista there.
• Bring your almost level 80 character which you might not have to a region you might not have or don’t want to explore yet and look for events across that map.
• Log in at specific time after looking up times at external websites (no in-game schedule exists) and bring your character to a region you might not have or don’t want to explore yet.

How is it different from the current PvE dailies?

• Daily Kills
• Daily Reviver
• Daily Events
• Daily Gatherer
• Daily Leveler
• Condition Applier
• Daily Kill Variety
• Daily Recycler

Let’s look at what this meant:

• Kill stuff while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Revive stuff while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Do stuff while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Gather stuff while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Do enough stuff to get a level while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Spam different skills while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Kill different stuff while playing the game when, where and how you want.
• Salvage stuff you get while playing the game when, where and how you want.

In other words, you were rewarded for simply playing the game; unless you were an achievement hunter, it felt natural and it was rather hard not to get dailies while playing PvE. (I think it would be safe to assume that most casual players do not ever step into WvW/PvP; however, the new PvP dailies will have variations of the same problematic concept, like “win a game on a class you don’t know”).

With NPE in mind, I see where there problem lay: completely new players felt clueless and didn’t know what to do! So just as with “go to this vista and press F, go to this PoI and you don’t even have to press F…” system, the new dailies are telling people what they can do. The problem is, though… there are next to no options!

BACKGROUND

These threads from the past are worth noting:

• Only 10 Daily Achivements? – an 8-page thread from 7 months ago where players are annoyed since they’re forced to do specific PvE dailies because of lack of choices. Result: increase in choices.
• Please make dailies feel more natural – a thread about making dailies feel enjoyable instead of forced.
• Daily Orrian killer – adding a daily with unnatural requirements caused a lot of distress, and it was still only a subset from a large pool.

SOLUTION

Unsurprisingly, the solution is simple: add at least 3 permanent choices for dailies which come naturally while playing. You know, something from this set:

• Daily Leveler
• Daily Kills
• Daily Events
• Daily Gatherer
• Daily Recycler
• Daily Dodger

This way, playing players will be happily getting rewards for playing, and those who need directions or extra rewards, can do the specific stuff.

WHY THIS THREAD IS IMPORTANT and SHOULD NOT BE MERGED

Because threads like this one will appear in tens, if not hundreds when the patch hits. We’ve seen it with megaservers, traits, town clothes, commander tags, gem exchange… well, with all the changes which had easily predictable outcomes which were pointed at by the community, but were implemented regardless because they were already planned to.

So maybe, this time it’s better to listen to players before making this change? It will save so much time for everyone. Thank you.

Shadowmoon.7986:

Remove premades from unranked, problem fixed. mixed q;s suck.

I agree with you.

Give us back solo arena please!I am sick and tired of full premades beating the crap out of me.

Eris – Players Versus Everything [PvE]

It is with deep regret that we wish to inform you of the death of one of Gunnar’s Hold WvW longest serving and most respected players.

Eris died suddenly at the age of 43 on Monday 24th November 2014.

Eris has played Guildwars since the beta of GW1 moving to GW2 in pre-release.

The offices and members of PvE and his alternate guild Praxium [PRXM] are devastated by this terrible and sudden news.

We have made a donation to the charity chosen by his family on behalf of the guild and the server.

His funeral took place today and an in game service will be held starting at Garrison on the Gunnar’s Hold WvW map this evening at 8pm UK time.

We intend to fire a treb salute in his honour.

The Gunnar’s Hold WvW community respectfully request that our WvW opponents this week (Millers Sound and Arborstone) please avoid combat with mourners on the Gunnars Hold border for approximately 15 minutes between 20:00 and 20:15 UK Time this evening.

Everyone is welcome to attend – please wear pink or bright colours and bring your pink (purple) tag.

Rest in Peace Eris. We will miss you.

Hengis Stone
Officer – PvE
Gunnar’s Hold

So you prefer open field fights? Then what does siege disabler have to do with any open field fights? Absolutely nothing and how does it ruin the game? Learn some new tactics then building multiple rams at once and PVD’ing a gate

things like this ruin the game:
http://youtu.be/CEv9g1EXOeM

and anet doesn’t do anything to stop it

I’m going to keep this brief and this is coming from someone who prefers open field fights more than anything else in the game.

Siege Disablers should be removed from the game.

I’m sorry, but I’d rather have them spend time on a real WvW.

timmyf.1490:

Thaddeus.4891:

Guess want, EOTM ppl want more love and content too.

I’d prefer they actually work on real WvW, a game mode that needs the love a lot more than EOTM. Anet could make a map that consisted of 9 Skyhammer maps connected by rope bridges and if they put enough champs and “capture events” in there, people would play it 10 hours a day for the next 8 years because LOOOTZ!!!!

Let’s not pretend people are in EOTM for the content. They’re there for the low risk + high rewards and super-simplistic gameplay.

Personally, I WOULD LOVE that idea lol. I mostly play WvW and sPvP, so I prefer that Anet put their time on that content. But I know that other ppl play other content. We can’t just say that the content that we play need more love and more attention compare to another content, just because you don’t like that content or find that its easy content or that ppl only play that because of the reward.

Thaddeus.4891:

Guess want, EOTM ppl want more love and content too.

I’d prefer they actually work on real WvW, a game mode that needs the love a lot more than EOTM. Anet could make a map that consisted of 9 Skyhammer maps connected by rope bridges and if they put enough champs and “capture events” in there, people would play it 10 hours a day for the next 8 years because LOOOTZ!!!!

Let’s not pretend people are in EOTM for the content. They’re there for the low risk + high rewards and super-simplistic gameplay.

2 words.

MINDLESS ZERGING…

How is this good content? Just because people are willing to do it(even if its just for levels) does not mean its good content.

Aedelric.1287:

Do not forget Guild Wars 2 was marketed as casual friendly

Really? I don’t remember that at all. Skill based, non-trinity, non-grindy…these were the words used in pre-launch GW2 articles and ads. As far as I know Arenanet never stated that they were focusing on one crowd in particular.

well if you ever want to find the least skilled players in the game, EOTM is the place to do it. and by that i mean be a guardian with a hammer and press 4.

EotM is basically the worst content in the game. Great for avoiding the horrid leveling experience though.