Guild Wars 2

Turbo Whale.1738:

Solution: 1. Allow cosmetic upgrades to hobo sacks available in the gem store (Maybe I can turn my cute quaggan backpack into a grenade bag?).

Take it one step further by changing grenade animations to throwing quaggans and someone will get my lifetime vote for President of Earth.

locoman.1974:

That would take a LOT of gems.

As of last night, gem to gold ratio was about 1.5g for 100 gems. Let’s say the legendary is selling for 1500g (I remember seeing eternity at least once for over 2000g), that would mean 100,000 gems. Let’s say someone buys gems per bulk in packs of 4000 gems for $50, that would still come up to $1,250… quite a bit expensive for something that offers absolutely no advantages over much cheaper alternatives, I’d say… and that’s not taking into account that dumping 100,000 gems into the trading market is bound to lower the gem to gold ratio.

Sadly, that’s assuming gems are involved in the gold purchasing at all.

cargan.5689:

No one asked the obvious why we have riding clothes with nothing to ride?

We have brooms! Although I think ANet may be having a little bit of fun with us now.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

I did the Cattlepault over the weekend also.
I bet 50 silver and lost. No Cow token received.
After the first time betting, I just decided not to bet until it was time for me to get into the launchee’s seat.
Whhhhhaaaaaooooooooeeeeeeeeeeee, faceplant.
Well that was fun but, um, once was all my old heart could take.
You youngsters might want to get a Fastpass.

. . . the heck is a Fastpass? Back in my day you stood three hours in line and brought water bottles if you wanted to get on that ride :P

I dunno guys, this looks pretty awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/RGdTQzk.jpg

At 3:35 PM, we (SoR) have about maybe 20 people in our own BL, and far as I can tell we’re outmanned on all maps. Map chat is dead, team chat is dead, TeamSpeak has maybe 10 -15 people spread across all channels.

I know we don’t have 24h coverage on this server, but I’ve rarely seen it this bad across all maps…

Best part about going to the dragons for me now a days is popping a cauldron down and watch as 6 people + bite and costume brawl…

Then watch as a few people run at the dragon as a moa. Good times.

I think, OP, the problem is that there are different types of players. I’m more like you. I’d have done the event, because I could care less about rewards. But there are also people who DO play for rewards.

One side is not better than the other side. We just see the game differently.

I’m an immersion player. I’m immersed in the world. I feel like I’m there. If an outpost is under attack, I’ll defend it, because it’s what my character would do. But a lot of people don’t play this way…and that’s okay.

No one’s play style is worse than anyone else’s. It’s all just a matter of a different point of view.

cargan.5689:

Strange i feel a little alone here in my feeling that the market isnt “corrupt” enough.

JS has by word and from what we have seen of the market quite hands off. Relying on the market to adjust its self rather than trying to micromanage the huge volume of transactions that occour daily to try and please the vocal members of the forums.

Gem prices will rise from simple economics, when the game started it was OMG i made my first gold, it seemed like a fortune now dumping 30g on ectos while they were cheep to knock off my clovers was by comparrison a small amout.

More people have more gold so when some thing like a cute back pack comes along they can buy more gems and are willing to pay more for them. When the sale ends gems drop. I would think it was actually in the interst of Anet to have the gem market totally hands off to encourage free trade back and forth.

I am sure there is a quote from the Devs some where that the price is totally player driven sadly i cant find it at the moment to back my opinion.

“John Smith.4610:
As a quick aside. Gems in the currency exchange are finite. You may buy gems with real money to your hearts content, but if you don’t put any of them gems into the currency exchange the currency exchange’s stock of gems never changes.
John Smith.4610:
Think of it this way. The government can print as much money as they want, that doesn’t mean your bank account has access to that money. The currency exchange does not have access to gem creation. It has a limited stock that players add and subtract from.”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Help-I-don-t-understand-gem-supply-concept/first#post1535605

Was this it?

Tempting, isn’t that?

There is no contest. A GC memser will rock a GC ranger 1v1. No need to breakdown traits for this one.

Well John, you tried. Can we jump now?

Honestly, I’m having trouble following the argument, so I don’t have much to add. I can suggest that if you want a constructive discussion, you’d have better luck not painting ANet as corrupt profit mongers.

Bots flooded the market with gold, I got that part. Although from John’s response, it sounds like flooded is too strong a word. Endurance is upset that the ill gotten gains weren’t deleted. I got that part, although I’m not sure how technically feasible removing the “bad” gold from the market is…

Someone buys gold from a RMT and uses it to dump a thousand swords into the forge and sells a precursor to an innocent bystander, how do you take that gold out of the market? Do you take the money away from the thousand sword sellers or take away the precursor? Ok, let’s put a pin in that for a minute.

What’s the next part of the argument? How exactly does the price of gems come into it? Why would I buy gold to buy gems, when I can just buy them directly? I’m not being snarky, I’m trying to understand. The gold infusion by the bots would have spread out over the entire market, and after a little turbulence, settled out right? I’m not understanding the problem.

Gasoline.2570:

Weeks? Those bots were in the game for months. And there still are some left.

Weeks? lol.

I never will understand this strange urge to speak condescendingly to a developer who actually has actual data to back up all his statement.

If you’re gonna question him, at least do it in a respectful way. Because since they have all the data, it’s very possible that they are right. And if you’re rude, you just end up looking silly.

Thank you for improving Cursed Shore somewhat. Of course during prime time getting in enough hits is still hard and culling is still there. But as long as one is there during other times it works pretty well.

That penitent, shelter, jofast has gotten Champions and veterans is very good. It is starting to be as though as it should be. Making it a little more exciting playing the game.

One thing I miss though is the evil risen that pulls you to them. I can understand that players get annoyed that all the risen does this, but around 40% of the time it would be quite fun :^)

Remember folks, Orr should not be a nice, friendly place – it’s supposed to be evil. :^D

Thank you in advance

I agree with the OP!

All the mob-tagging leechers are gone, so the mobs don’t disappear in an instant anymore. Now there are usually 5+ good players at these events who can down all the trash, vets, and the odd champ without anyone going down. The events are actually fun to do now, everyone works together, no culling and the loot rate is better.

Still the problem with champs dropping blues, though. This really must be changed, and soon.

This is on Gunnar’s Hold.

Dropped an entire lvl 80 group……….just wasnt expecting damage like that from anywhere lol

Avatar.1923:

learn to dodge

its what the combat is about; mobility and dodging. avoiding attacks, interrupting them, aegis them.

thats how you play the game.
its not final fantasy.

but a lot of people play it this way..
anyway, i remember i was a “not so good player” but after 400h i can say i quite rock with my guardian!

Not sure how you can dodge something that you can’t see coming or aoe fields that don’t actually render, but hey, l2p fixes everything I guess!

Nike.2631:

Answering the crazies but not the real questions again .

Simple question mode: does the vendor coin value of a rare affect the ectoplasms-outcome of salvaging it?

Pleeeeeeeease?

While I don’t track coin value for my salvage items, I do track “type” (albeit not as rigidly as I’d like). Considering greatswords have higher coin values than other items, I tried to look at just those in my data. I don’t have nearly enough data to draw conclusions from that small of a subset, but there’s no real appreciable difference between the salvage rate on greatswords as compared to the average. I just ran a quick total (remember, all these are ridiculously small sample sizes) and the item types whose salvage rates were more than 25% greater than the average for mystic/masters kits were Torch, Shield, and Chest (only tracked by slot, not armor type unfortunately). Torch (sample size is low double digits) came in at a whooping 62% higher salvage rate (looking at total ectos gained rather than success/fail) than the average.

/Please note, as I’ve stated far too many times already, the sample sizes for those figures are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too small to draw real conclusions from, I just wanted to share some of the data on this to point out that there is some reliable tracking going on, even though most of the data sets I’ve seen neglect to even distinguish between level 80 exotics and level 74 rares. All of my data is for rare items of at least level 76, but the vast majority of items are level 80.

Silly Billy, the challenge isn’t for you, it’s for your computer and internet connection :p

Montari.1824:

When I am out in the world with my ranger she kills all those nasty critters on site! They are evil and worse than the minions of the dragons.

Sure, killing bunnies is fine if they’re in the process of trying to eat your face off.

To be fair, your character is a vegetable and that is a rabbit.

When I am out in the world with my ranger she kills all those nasty critters on site! They are evil and worse than the minions of the dragons.

Yeah very difficult to complete puzzles on my norn. On a positive note, I look very awesome in my cultural armor.

I agree, jumping puzzles as a norn are more challenging. I have read that you can use transformation potions (the wintersday griffin, for example) that have the ability to jump to make these a bit easier. It’s a workaround, not a fix.