Guild Wars 2

I agree with that, but imho making rares and exo gear drop more often should help people to get gear without need to grind so much for a basic gear couse as i said jewelry and backpiece is not included in the calculation but you still need to get them.
Since day 1 the number of exo gear i dropped from mobs is 5 pieces.

I not mentioned the money u’ll still need to buy proper runes and sigils for your gear, and there goes a lot of money, and if u want to reskin that dg armor with a tier 3 cultural armor…well… good luck with farming gold for armor and to buy gems for trasmutation stones heheh

Zephyr Lee.2491:

Aedil.1296:

Awesome.6120:

Farm cash and buy lodestones like everyone else does.

GW2 manifesto is dead, and you’re saying the truth.

Okay so we are back again crying about “the grind”
This game has no grind.
Getting max gear takes no time to get.

The only “grind” comes from people who want the “cool” “flashy” weapons.

I like a balanced set (Power, though+vit) for my characters to use for pve, I have all professions so 8 chars.

Taking in account the Ascalon Catacombs is the fastest and easier dg to do to get tokens for a full exo gear i made this calculation:

Armor: 1200 tokens for 1 set
2h Weapon: 390 for 1 weapon
1h Weapons: 2 weapons can cost from 210 to 300 tokens -> (300+210/2)x2= 510
2h underwater weapon: 390

Every char should have an armor, offhand weapon, secondary weapon and an underwater weapon so:

1200+390+510 = 2100 tokens for every char (16800 tokens for 8 chars)

Let’s say i do Ascalon Catacombs path 1-2-3 one time every day (just 1 time to still have a life) so i get 66 tokens every path = 60+6 from bags => 198 tokens a day

2100/66= 31,8 times i need to do AC to give exotic equip to just 1 char

31,8 × 8 = 254,5 times i need to do AC to give all chars an exotic equipment.

Conclusion: Repeating Ascalon Catacombs 254,5 times to give a basic equipment to my character.

Basic becouse jewelry and back piece and other avaliable weapons are not included.

Font Wikipedia:

Grinding is a term used in video gaming to describe the process of engaging in repetitive tasks during video games. […] One reason that is less influenced by player choice is a lack of game content or to be able to battle stronger enemies. […] While grinding’s potential to cause players to stop being entertained may be seen as contradictory to good game design. etc etc etc.

In you opinion, is repeating 254,5 times AC dungeon suitable to represent this description?

Repeating AC for 84,85 days, every day path 1,2, and 3, is grind or not?

Thanks for reading sorry for the wall of text.
Sincerly

Rares never give ectos.

Before patch rares gave ectos now i get ecto drop about every 10-15 rare i recycle.

before patch ectos were dropping at least every 4-5 rare i salvage.

thanks

Awesome.6120:

Farm cash and buy lodestones like everyone else does.

GW2 manifesto is dead, and you’re saying the truth.

Paulytnz.7619:

I think that your problem is that you think you can “farm” in GW2. Honestly, Anet do NOT want people farming….

I would love to ask Anet and Paul how do u justify the existance of Magic Find sets of armor weapons sigils runes and food if Anet don’t want us to farm taking also in account the amount of money u need to create an MF set?

Anet said they don’t like grindy games, they said they don’t want us to farm, but looking at what do i have to do to get a full set of armor, or enough matherials for a legendary or to craft anything, i would say the opposite of that, and well fractals…just have no words about it many players already talked about it.

A LOT of items needs 250 ectos, 250 lodestones, cores, 250 t6 materials, to be upgraded or produced, wanna talk about the skills points too? u know how much gold u need to buy 250 kitten charged lodestones on the trading post? or the hours u need to farm just 1 with a full magic find set+weapon lucksigil+food?

I sincerly suggest the Anet team to watch again the “Anet Manifesto” couse gw2 is really not a game for Casual Players, unless they just think a casual players don’t deserve to have a satifying nice looking armor or weapon, or they just don’t deserve any exotic/ascended gear..

Last thing: people do not split only between
1 – who have time to spend playing on GW2 and nerding to get stuff
2 – who have money to spend on GW2 and buy gold with gems

There are also people who have no money and a lot of free time, too bad they have to spend most of it looking for a job they cannot find due to the infamous economical crisis (here in italy the country is down on the knees).

Sincerly

it could just be the same vendor as now, with the option to sell the items back. it should be easy enough, as they sell items for token, they can also buy back items and give tokens.

is that so impossibile he used a hack?

like all the other games….thanks

I totally agree on dungeons. I agree less for fractals. I mean fractals is seriously pure grinding especially for gear is just crazy but I feel it can stay there just for ppl who actually like to crazy grind for gear.
On the other hand i feel than dungeons should not be like that. I lost the count on how many AC runs I’ve done for my ele armor and for weapons….this is frustrating and boring like all the other dungeons in all the other games.

EDIT: for who said up here that ppl actually do dungeons for skins you’re wrong. most ppl i know me included does dungeons couse to get gear couse they cannot afford exotic gear on trading post.

I am Human. We make mistake. I am a guardian and i took by mistake a light armor version instead of heavy using CoF tokens….no way to give back that armor i cannot use and have my tokens back?

Please Anet, can you at least think about it?

wasted much time for those tokens…..kinda frustrated.

thanks

EDIT: it’s also soulbound lol it means i cannot even pass it to another char.

Here are some of my weapons I created a while ago while I was waiting for gw2 to comes out. My dream is to use them ingame! <3

Staff of Rising Sun
Staff of Darkness (3 rings on the orb rotate)
Scepter or nightmare (inspired by GW1 wayward wand)
Gryphon Swords (some colors)

I used the 3D platform of Second Life to do them for sale to RP community on that virtual world that’s why on the vendors image u read “resize” or " particles on/off" and so on, it’s the script functions inside it.

Please guys tell me if u like them!
Thanks

why do i have to force myself go water and or earth whilst guardian and war can just use whatever they like and have fun and be always functional?
there is a very big devide between some classes you cannot deny that.
I don’t understand why should i go for a guardian or war or ranger (easy mode) when i love mages.
The promises said into the arenanet manifesto werejust lies.
Yet i see wars just swang the sword again and again and they win anyway, not much strategy in that.

Sorry for being sincere!

EDIT: and if i just want to go full fire & air traited? I’ll die in 1 hit than? since with water and earth i die with 3 hits

I’m angry.
I don’t know what have u done with the elementalist but i cannot go on this way.
I’m going to delete this lvl 80 ele and make a guardian, ranger or a war to be at the same level as the other classes.

It’s not possible i have lvl 80 exotic armor traited all defensive with water and earth using mistform arcane shield and every kind of protection i can use and stilli die after 3 hits in WvW or PvP.

I played 6 years the original guildwars and i loved my ele every single day, GW2 really pissed me off.

thanks

EDIT: lvl 42 thief with ugly gear is actually more resistant than ele 80 full exotic, guardian lvl 62 with warden armor (tier 2) is about 3 times more resistant -.-" i just have no words

EDIT2: Calle with lvl 62 guardian i can actually manage 2/3 ppl in WvW with ele barely 1 and yes my main is always been ele and i started with it since beta, it’s not a matter or L2P trust me is a matter that after beta ele sucks.

Edit: I wanna thanks all the kind ppl that made constructive suggestions especially Dacromir and Eveningstar! thanks guys! still Ele is totally broken for me, so i’ll probably go for an easy mode guardian until things changes, so i’ll be comfortable managing 3/4 ppl in wvw.

Hello
Thank you for this amazing game! I would love to say a thing that hurts me a bit:
my main character is a human ele, and i found out that the only armors i like are ascalon clergy (and that’s fine), tier 3 sylvati ( i’m human and cannot use it), vigil cloth and whispers cloth, too bad i cannot use them since i choosed the priory

I’m thinking to delete my lvl 80 ele with 100% map just to get at least another of those armor so i’m not forced to wear only the ascalon one.

I really don’t understand why all the female cloths armor looks just gorgeous whilst the male one pardon me but really sucks the same armor set on female is much more detailed and creative whilst on the male is just the opposite.
Do i rally should delete my main character with all the hours and money i spent to make it just to have a nice suitable gear?

Another thing, please PLEASE i beg you put a swap weapon button for ele out of combat only! I’m not asking for it during combat but out of combat please come on!

Thanks you for your attention.