Guild Wars 2

UrMom.4205:

i’m sure this has nothing to do with it but….when i reached a stack of ectos in my collection, my ecto rate plummeted. I moved that stack to my bank so my collection was empty and my ecto rate went back up. I’m superstitious so I think it helps lol.

Interesting theory. There might actually be something to this, but then again I’m pretty superstitious sometimes too :P

Vayne.8563:

Aeonblade.8709:

cherrie.8907:

marnick.4305:

cherrie.8907:

On a slightly related note, the fact that buying boxes doesn’t even support this game much, or most, but crap like Aion or Lineage, is another great reason not to buy this stuff.

That’s like saying you shouldn’t sub Aion back in 2010 because it support Guild Wars 2. You really have no idea how companies work do you?

You just want to pick up fights and insult people, don’t you.

If you ever listened to other people, you’d know how prelevant oppinions like “Buy Gems to support ANet and GW2” are. Well, it would be nice if the people who who do just that knew “how companies work”, as you put it.
Because apparently, as sad as it is, the best way GW2 could have gotten an expansion faster was and is NOT to buy gems as declining profits from initial sales and shop is what motivates NCSoft to give green light – ie fund – new expansion.

Well said, I haven’t bought a single thing with real money in game since I found out NCsoft is spending money I designated for Anet. I will not fund Aion, as it’s probably the worst game I have ever played hands down. You know something is wrong when you quit in the first week of your free month for buying the game.

Except you don’t KNOW that NCsoft is doing that. For one thing, Lineage STILL makes more than Guild Wars 2 does, and both Lineage and Aion are part of NCsoft East, where as Guild Wars 2 is part of NCsoft West. You’re just making an assumption.

Furthermore, it really doesn’t work like that. NCsoft is 100% responsible for financing Guild Wars 2. That is to say, they own the company.

It’s like saying I won’t buy coca cola and support it because I don’t like other soft drinks they’re making, or other food stuff.

Without support Guild Wars 2 will go away…it really is that simple. Whatever profit a company makes, it can spend any way it wants, as long as it’s legal anyway.

We’re both making assumptions so it’s a moot point. Neither of us knows where the money truly goes. Try harder.

Until there is transparency, whether they are owned by NCsoft or not, I will not waste my money. I’m not some eastern gamer that plays a game because the grind is massive. I’m from the states, and here we like to play games because they are fun, and we also like to get what we pay for. If I don’t feel like I get what I pay for, someone else gets my money.

cherrie.8907:

marnick.4305:

cherrie.8907:

On a slightly related note, the fact that buying boxes doesn’t even support this game much, or most, but crap like Aion or Lineage, is another great reason not to buy this stuff.

That’s like saying you shouldn’t sub Aion back in 2010 because it support Guild Wars 2. You really have no idea how companies work do you?

You just want to pick up fights and insult people, don’t you.

If you ever listened to other people, you’d know how prelevant oppinions like “Buy Gems to support ANet and GW2” are. Well, it would be nice if the people who who do just that knew “how companies work”, as you put it.
Because apparently, as sad as it is, the best way GW2 could have gotten an expansion faster was and is NOT to buy gems as declining profits from initial sales and shop is what motivates NCSoft to give green light – ie fund – new expansion.

Well said, I haven’t bought a single thing with real money in game since I found out NCsoft is spending money I designated for Anet. I will not fund Aion, as it’s probably the worst game I have ever played hands down. You know something is wrong when you quit in the first week of your free month for buying the game.

Mercurio.4970:

The full implications of a developer also acting as gold seller (in a cash shop game culture) are finally starting to hit. How did we ever come to accept this?

It’s not just the RNG, it’s the “limited time offer” bullkitten and the implementation of every cheesy intelligence-insulting marketing trick in the book that infuses every piece of new content; that really gets me. It’s not very subtle to an educated adult. And it truly sucks all of the “fun” and “achievement” out of the game.

Well here’s one of the minority that was VERY vocal, started at prelaunch, guild leader of 200+, achievements around 6K, and spent a decent amount of cash shop money that is no longer willing to play the game.

I know I’m just a drop in the bucket, however, so good luck with the future and your rep ANET! This was the “3rd strike” so to speak (I hung around the SWTOR forums for a few months after leaving as well, just for closure, if you’re wondering).

It’s amazing to me how online games offer no staying power anymore, it’s all a disposable tissue-thin experience. Like the reputations of their developers, they are only temporary cash-ins for the publishers – who move on to trade hard-earned dev laurels for quarterly financial reports boosts.

A truly inspiring post. Hope everyone at Anet reads this.

Afya.5842:

Aeonblade.8709:

FranBunnyFFXII.3508:

So I managed to get lucky and pick up a pair of the holo wings, and i’ve seen the Shattered wings on preview. I have to say they look nice… Except for the fact that they are swinning so hard.

They would look better if they weren’t so heavily animated. If they were less flappy and more stationary they’d look excellent.
The animation is fine standing still, but moving it just looks odd.

I’ve owned “wing” back items in other games, and having them flap like this, just looks strange.
If you’d like to see a game that did “wings” right, Tales Runner did an excellent job.

Why would I want useless unflapping wings on my back? That makes no sense… Completely defeats the purpose of them being wings…Wow.

The purpose of wing is to fly! not flap……

Thankfully, flying won’t happen in this game I don’t think Anet is that self destructive.

I don’t really care for the idea personally. Direct buy would be the only way to get my money. I’m not spending 20k on gems to the gold tier of a reward ladder or something. This game already has plenty of grinds and achievement grinds, no more is necessary when a more simple and easy fix would do better.

And to what someone else said about excitement factor from drops – It’s non existant in this game. There is no excitement factor. “Oh another 1.5 silver green. Fun” Yea, I don’t think so. The game is way too luck based or the entire system is broken to begin with. RNG boxes just demonstrate this on a level everyone can understand because it’s the same broken system with real money involved.

just my 2c.

bri.2359:

What I don’t understand is the hell-bent rush to get this achievement!
Players are camping these things like world events now …

If any player cannot kill 300 holo’s over the month while playing normally, then the player needs to find another game.

Guesting on a low pop server in order to kill 300 in 1 hr is, frankly, obsessive, and says so much about the state of the game and player base.

This is really depressing ..

That’s because these events are a chore, not fun and engaging content. The quicker I farm them and get done with them the happier I’ll be.

FranBunnyFFXII.3508:

So I managed to get lucky and pick up a pair of the holo wings, and i’ve seen the Shattered wings on preview. I have to say they look nice… Except for the fact that they are swinning so hard.

They would look better if they weren’t so heavily animated. If they were less flappy and more stationary they’d look excellent.
The animation is fine standing still, but moving it just looks odd.

I’ve owned “wing” back items in other games, and having them flap like this, just looks strange.
If you’d like to see a game that did “wings” right, Tales Runner did an excellent job.

Why would I want useless unflapping wings on my back? That makes no sense… Completely defeats the purpose of them being wings…Wow.

Eviator.9746:

Fuzzion.2504:

Dear Gents and Ladies,
As we are almost at an end;
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JQ would like to congratulate :

DB on their very first Bronze in Tier 1 You did very well my friends !

JQ on their 14th Silver in Tier 1 Well done folks

Last and not least

BG , congratulations on your 4th Gold in Tier 1

May next reset be as exciting as this one as been
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Love, Fuzzy.

PS. Im off to the pubs, its friday after all

The last several days your posts have actually been nice and sportsmanlike. +1000000

Hopefully you stomped enough RE that you got the hate out of your system. It’d be nice to not see your anti-RE posts in the matchup thread that has DB in it. Cheers!

Agreed, have fun at the pubs!

MauricioCezar.2673:

This is why we have a forum guy. To get questions awnsered. What do you want to me do? Garbage 1000+ rares for then come to ask if anyone more have problems? I don’t have money to spare.

Its a sample question, that only a sample awnser : “No, the rate its normal. No changes” will be samply resolve the problem. Don’t need a worthless awnser without any content, Thank you.

By the way, if not have any changes in the drop rate, I’ll continue salvagind they and hoping for the best >_> .

Yea, somebody pee’d in the kids cheerios on the forum this morning I noticed. It’s sad that harassment is the highlight of some people’s lives.

Just another reason for them to completely revamp the entire loot system.

I have a hard time playing anything Non Human or Norn. In other games I play strictly Humans/humanoids.

I can’t take tree fairy people and dog cat men things seriously. And I don’t trust Asurans for obvious reasons.

It seems petty, but I want to play a human in any game because I like being a human being. It has nothing to with a lack of imagination, but more to do with pride I think.

I also can’t play a Necromancer because Anet’s version of a Necromancer is the worst iteration I have seen. Look to DAoC, Rift, EQ1 and 2, ANYTHING for how to a design a necromancer. What is in this game is like a soft headed blood mage from Dragon Age.

This has come up before. A quick search around the web shows them for sale at various places. Will not give any links, as I don’t agree with purchasing a legendary, even if it is the most viable option of getting one currently.

I’d love to see a TCvsJQvsDB match up. This week showed we are just out of reach of being able to compete with 2 T1 servers, but I think having 1 T1 server in with some T2’s would make the PPT a little more even.

JQ is fun to fight. BG is just scary overpopulated compared to us in WvW.

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

That’s adorable… But on the last picture I’m pretty sure the cute kitty there is wondering why it sat there through 3 pictures and you still haven’t picked up your tp profits

Haha that cat would flip watching me play then. Sometimes it’s a week or two before I stop by an actual TP and pick it up. Usually when I run out of gold :P

Viking Jorun.5413:

Aeonblade.8709:

I have said it before and will reiterate, this game makes even Perfect World games blush with embarrassment over how grindy it is. I have played several games made by that company, and while I probably won’t ever bother again, they were not nearly as grindy as gw2 is.

I hate when people say “grind” about guild wars 2. “Grind” is repeating the same task over and over without change to get a single goal. Guild Wars 2 gives you options as to how you want to play. It’s your own choice to grind.

If you want to play this game and accomplish anything, you will meet a wall of grind. Whether you agree or not is inconsequential to what actually exists in the game. I appreciate the response though.

dagrdagaz.4913:

One thing about a possible expansion, more new bugs and still not all bugs and broken things in original GW2 fixed, nty.

Pretty sure that ship has sailed. We have been sitting on some of these bugs for 10 months. If it was going to happen it would have happened already.

Let’s try to keep this on topic about the RNG box debacle however.

Nar.8327:

locoman.1974:

Agree with the op.

One thing we have to understand here. We, the forum community, while we are very passionate at times and very vocal, are neither a big nor representative of the game community as a whole (I’d even go ahead and say that I bet most of the game community doesn’t even know or care there are forums). While I’m sure they do take feedback from the forums, I bet that the biggest source of feedback arenanet looks at is what are people doing in the game.

Which leads us to this thread, people in the forums are mostly against RNG boxes, myself included, but unless that outcry against them isn’t accompanied by NOT buying them in the first place it’s useless, from their point of view ends up as a “do as I say, not as I do” situation.

So what can we do, other than complain?… well just stop buying them, and after two bouts of RNG boxes (sclerite and flame and frost) the “I though I might get a ticket easier” isn’t an excuse by now, even if you bought the gems with gold (from anet POV is the same, the gems were still paid by someone, and it’s even better because a healthy exchange market encourages people to buy more gems to exchange for gold and serves as a gold sink as well), and encourage your friends and guildies not to buy them either.

And also, if you have enough disposable income of course, buy any skin introduced that you might be interested into. To get them to stop using RNG we have to show them two things, first, that using RNG boxes isn’t profitable enough, and second, that selling skins directly or other alternate methods IS profitable.

I think they would have gotten that message if they hadn’t tried direct sales with the Wintersday skins. I think I can count on one hand the number of people who would pay for a wooden weapon. I didn’t buy any, but I certainly would have bought 2 or 3 fused and 5+ of the jade ones.

I actually think this was part of the problem as well. The ones they have let us directly buy are god awful ugly. Put the good skins on direct buy and see how well they do

For instance, I’d pay 20 bucks for a Fused Greatsword skin if I knew I could of gotten one, but I’ll never even worry about it if it’s obtained through pulling a lever and watching the slot reel.

I have said it before and will reiterate, this game makes even Perfect World games blush with embarrassment over how grindy it is. I have played several games made by that company, and while I probably won’t ever bother again, they were not nearly as grindy as gw2 is.

I agree. This is what I feel like when I’m a new character taking on the champ troll for the first time.

I’m sorry you two feel that some people’s time is more valuable than others. It gives us an insight into humanity and the game both at the same time. Good show. It’s not disingenuous to place blame on the party at fault btw to whoever said that.

Gonna try to keep this on topic a lil bit for the OP and step out a while. Thanks guys.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Arkham Creed.7358:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Buying boxes =/= no expansion.
Conversely not buying boxes =/= expansion.

There are more factors to it than just RNG box purchases. Yes, profit margins do have an impact on business decisions, but people not buying RNG boxes would not be a break the bank issue for them necessarily. If the profit forecast becomes that bad from just people not buying the RNG boxes, they are actually more likely to scrap the game than make an expansion for it. Risk vs reward assessment….

Not buying boxes =/= game being abandoned.

True, and technically I didn’t say it would be, although I probably could have phrased it better.

The general point was that if RNG boxes make up so much of their profit that a reduction in their sales results in a rush for an expansion (in order to save their bottom line), they may opt that the expansion isn’t worth the time or investment. It’s a gamble, and with other games launching, they could potentially make more on one of them over a rushed, buggy expansion for a game that is no longer producing.

Aeonblade.8709:

Yea….I’m gonna go with no. Box sales are way down, they don’t really have anything in the TP worth anything or that sells other than RNG boxes…So if we stopped buying them and opening them someone might pay attention for once.

You have the statistical evidence of your claim on box sales being ‘way down’ I’m assuming? I mean, you wouldn’t just throw that opinion out there as fact if you don’t have hard evidence to back it up.

I won’t argue that box sales have likely decreased, that is normal for any and all games. But ‘way down’? That’s a hefty claim to make when we don’t really know one way or another (unless you secretly work for NCSoft and failed to mention it)

Anywho, my point was that your boycott could as easily backfire on you as not. Depending on what risk vs reward assessments showed in their trends.

I actually do have somewhat statistical evidence, look at the amount of time between the 2 million and 3 million sales announcements. And where is the 4 million announcement? It isn’t here, because sales have slowed down.

That’s about the best evidence I can give though, Anet is very tight lipped, and I would be too. Enemy at the gates (consumers) and all

I’m not saying I’m right, but one can logically deduce that sales of the game have slowed. Hell, I hope I’m wrong even!

Rising Dusk.2408:

Aeonblade.8709:

The trade off being someone’s $60 is worth more than mine, gotcha.

Both players have the same opportunities, one just chooses not to pursue them. That’s the player’s prerogative.

Whoosh. It’s not a choice if some of us have families and work. Who chooses a game over their family? This is actually really funny to me, thanks :P

Mackdose.6504:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Aeonblade.8709:

There is no reason some dude playing 1 hour a day 5 days a week should end with more laurels than me playing 5 hours one day on the weekend.

Exactly. No single players time or effort should be worth more or less than any other player. That is almost word for word from the so called Manifesto that this game was sold on.

“Play the game the way you want to play…” and all that yadda yadda.

He’s not being restricted in his play, just in the rewards for the time played.

If you can’t do 30 minutes a day to get the laurel then don’t. I’m not about to get mad that I can’t get Arah armor because I can’t have 3 hours set aside to run it. I can’t get dungeon master, either.

There are trade offs to 5 hours in one day vs 1 hour for 5 days, and you would do well to bring both sides to the table when discussing time played vs rewards.

The trade off being someone’s $60 is worth more than mine, gotcha.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Buying boxes =/= no expansion.
Conversely not buying boxes =/= expansion.

There are more factors to it than just RNG box purchases. Yes, profit margins do have an impact on business decisions, but people not buying RNG boxes would not be a break the bank issue for them necessarily. If the profit forecast becomes that bad from just people not buying the RNG boxes, they are actually more likely to scrap the game than make an expansion for it. Risk vs reward assessment….

Yea….I’m gonna go with no. Box sales are way down, they don’t really have anything in the TP worth anything or that sells other than RNG boxes…So if we stopped buying them and opening them someone might pay attention for once.

Mackdose.6504:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

ghost.3208:

(why is everyone so upset about dailies??).

It’s about the laurel that’s tied to it. It’s an artificial time gate to obtain some fairly nice stuff, and players hate that sort of thing. In my case it means that there is no chance ever that I’ll buy an expansion of this game.

What exactly does this time-gate besides stats and pink text? All content is open with or without laurel gear.

Gear/Skins IS a large part of the content to some people. The sooner people realize this, the better off the game will be.

Ordika.9513:

Aeonblade.8709:

…What? Farming T6 mats is a non option right now. DR kicks in after about 30 minutes to 1 hour, give or take. No play style is “more desirable” that is not logical at all… Both people are playing the game for 5 hours.

You know how other games dealt with this? I’ll use Rift. You could stack up your daily dungeon quests up to x7 if you didn’t do them for a week. Then run dungeons on the weekend when you could actually play. They accrued at a rate of 1 daily per day, everyone is happy, everyone got 7 dailies a week, no one gets screwed. Also, I highly doubt someone who logs in just to do the daily is going to spend more on gems than a weekend warrior would. In fact if anything it would be a wakitten really isn’t hard to fix, right now development is just moving too slow to keep up with the times.

Calm down, I wasn’t trying to be insulting just offering a different point of view.

In Rift or WoW, you are correct no different play style should be rewarded more, as they equally pay for access to the game. But, what about the activities one chooses to engage in during play, those are rewarded differently so it is not so much a stretch to also reward differently in other ways (ie if I want to spend my play time dungeon diving I get X rewards, where if I want to farm I get Y).

GW2 is slightly different in the sense that past the initial purchase this game lives or dies on people buying gems. In that case ANet would be smart to foster whatever behavior they find leads to more gem sales (castigating them for this is wrong as businesses exist to make money). If encouraging people to play in short frequent bursts instead of a few longer duration sessions, leads to more gem sales, then they would be wise to foster this behavior to ensure the health of the business.

Rift is F2P. And I am calm, I don’t know where you got that I wasn’t? I’m sorry if you took my response as me being insulted, as I was just explaining to you how it doesn’t matter what days you do play, but rather time played altogether. I’m just letting you know that the view is illogical and unrealistic for a healthy game, and it shows in my friends list, LA, and WvW

Ordika.9513:

Aeonblade.8709:

That’s the main gripe with dailies. Dailies are content for people without jobs or people who can play every day. Really makes you not want to play. There is no reason some dude playing 1 hour a day 5 days a week should end with more laurels than me playing 5 hours one day on the weekend.

Theoretically (I hate arguments about what people ‘deserve’ and/or are ‘entitled’ to) you would be correct, in a perfect system (or at least one based on duration not frequency) you would be given equal reward. However if you look at Laurels more of a reward for regularly logging in and playing even minimally, the entitlement to equal reward is no longer there. Whether you like or agree with that system of reward is a different matter all together, but an argument could be made, that his play style is more desirable, ergo, rewarded (probably marketing in the sense that people who log in more often regardless of length of stay are more likely to buy gems).

However, the case could be made that while his 5 Laurel will earn him 15 random T6 mats, you in your 5 hours have the ability to both get more T6 mats, and control what mats those are by focusing on killing certain things. Granted with RNG and DR you could get screwed, but since I am not a farmer, I have no idea what to expect even from 30 min in one spot for a particular mat.

…What? Farming T6 mats is a non option right now. DR kicks in after about 30 minutes to 1 hour, give or take. No play style is “more desirable” that is not logical at all… Both people are playing the game for 5 hours.

You know how other games dealt with this? I’ll use Rift. You could stack up your daily dungeon quests up to x7 if you didn’t do them for a week. Then run dungeons on the weekend when you could actually play. They accrued at a rate of 1 daily per day, everyone is happy, everyone got 7 dailies a week, no one gets screwed. Also, I highly doubt someone who logs in just to do the daily is going to spend more on gems than a weekend warrior would. In fact if anything it would be a wakitten

really isn’t hard to fix, right now development is just moving too slow to keep up with the times.

EDIT: Really Anet? I can’t say Wash…It?

Nakoor.1980:

TW vs Agg Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFA04mkujs

TW vs Agg Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxA-pOSPJU=

Agg also has a video up of their PoV.

Cool video, thanks for sharing.

Ranger is still broken, Mesmer is still overpowered. Most of the content they have added since February was temporary, and has since been removed.

Currently we have the Dragon Bash festival running…and they added some guild missions I think… Not much has changed at all friend. Farming for materials is even harder than it used to be as well.

Oh and WvW got a much needed update, which is still up in the air if it was a good thing or not. sPvP got custom arenas, but I don’t know anyone that even plays sPvP anymore other than to just test builds.

Probably the best change was to add ascended gear to WvW, too bad it’s still gated behind laurel and ecto aquisition.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

ghost.3208:

(why is everyone so upset about dailies??).

It’s about the laurel that’s tied to it. It’s an artificial time gate to obtain some fairly nice stuff, and players hate that sort of thing. In my case it means that there is no chance ever that I’ll buy an expansion of this game.

That’s the main gripe with dailies. Dailies are content for people without jobs or people who can play every day. Really makes you not want to play. There is no reason some dude playing 1 hour a day 5 days a week should end with more laurels than me playing 5 hours one day on the weekend.

That’s a huge problem that they need to address. Dailies were old news 5 years ago. Let’s not rehash bad content.

As far as the dust “fix”, no it was obviously a band aid fix. I thought that was pretty apparent when they announced it. There is no question that it just causes more unbalance in the economy, and drop rates are still so low it doesn’t matter anyway.

They need to approach this from the point of view of a doctor: Don’t treat the symptoms, treat the real problem, which is this game doesn’t even drop loot half the time, and goodness forbid you get an “unlucky” streak. Even the lucky loot streaks in this game feel slow paced and grindy.

Excursion.9752:

Agree with most everything that the OP spoke of.

I will speak on behalf of my friends that left the game already there were 40 of us in our guild and now only 3 to 5 play. Most of them left because of the gear grind felt trivial and without purpose. The drop rates were bad and they felt like there was no point to grind for top end gear when the gear they had worked already for them.

People want to feel rewarded when playing a game. Nerfing drops and classes does not increase difficulty or balance the economy it increases rage. The lack of Build diversity and weapons all around are still very poor in the game. Sure you can use other builds but for what reason when there are well documented superior builds out there for any class. So instead of nerfing the builds that are working buff the skills that are weak and not used.

It would be wise if they aren’t already track every trait, weapon, armor type, sigil, rune, trinket ect.. Figure out what people are not using and look into making them better. More balance would inspire new builds. This would help make the classes feel new again. Because right now I’ve been running the same build on each of my characters for I don’t know how long.

In short improving reward for performance would greatly help this game.

Agree with a lot of this. That last line is golden.

Dawww. I wish my cat showed the same interest in GW2. WTB Kitten to farm for me :P

This is why you don’t put a mini game in a meta achievement or give item rewards for completing said mini game achievements. Mini games interest some of us, like me, about as much as what some random guy pulled out of his nose last Tuesday.

That being said, I abhor people who leech off of others progress and achievements. This should be considered a form of botting, I agree with that assessment.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

I hate all the illegal alien ‘guesters’ on my lower population server.

If I’m in zone and I see some running around to the holos, I’ll activate them just so they can’t get their loot.

Really… I have that much hate for them.

A prime example of how after thousands of years of technological advancement, and we still get petty and jealous over something so small as digital gambling boxes and fake dragon taffy. Yay, humans.

This kind of stuff is why the GW2 community has a bad reputation.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

yesterday I saw 4 people standing next to the holo-projector and doing nothing. I watched them for a couple of seconds, while standing next to the thing. Well, I decided to open it and they burst down the mobs while I was laying on my back…

I’m definitely not happy to see those guys again

They were probably waiting for the 5th member of their party to get there. If you didn’t ask why they were waiting, you deserved it honestly. I’m sorry but just running up and activating it with people standing there is rude. I have even made friends by asking if someone was waiting for another person.

I have a hunch this game has a similar problem to what AC1 had for a while… Some algorithm is seriously fubar that makes some characters or accounts literally not get anything. For instance I have only gotten 3 Exo’s in 2 months. Meanwhile, some guy in my guild gets that nearly every day.

Palador.2170:

Given that the doll is an accessory that gives a bonus to several stats, I would have thought it was a reference to a scene in Disgaea where you’re introduced to a zombie that is equipped with … something … that can be stolen and equipped to give a bonus to several stats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsSLQ-YYCBo

That is freaking hilarious, and makes me want to play that game.

Mirta.5029:

Dakiaris.2798:

I was doing that but now it’s a pain to make it to the holo and tag the mobs in time.. People are just aoe them to the point I’m lucky to tag one… I’ve tried nearly every zone and it’s the same everywhere I go.

do it at off peak hours. 3 AM to 9AM barely anyone on farming in Europe.

Also, try guesting to lower population servers. Pro Tip: People tend to overlook Fields of Ruin because it’s in the middle of nowhere.

Zelyhn.8069:

More and more I am experiencing this habit that the community has to despise people who claim to be skilled for this game.

Try it: go to LA, and say that you are a good player.
(Note: I am not saying I do it. This sentence is for rhetorical purposes)

People will instantly tell you that you lack humility, that you are an elitist, that you are despicable etc; for no reason.

People do not want to see or be aware of the fact that some players can be more skilled than them (no boasting, just statement of skill). The community seem to believe that they would be better off without such players.
It appears as if the community would like to stay bad and play only with bad people.

It is also the same on the forums.

I believe this is not benefiting the game in itself because it promotes stale and boring gameplay additions rather than diverse and challenging content.

As a comparison: when you play football as an amateur you play it for fun and you dream of being as skilled as the players of international level. In GW2 the ’amateurs" have no such dreams, worse: they do not want to face the fact that being better is possible.

With all due respect, why the discrimination?

It is a well known fact that people who scream they are skilled usually aren’t, and people who complain about elitists usually aren’t skilled either. The skilled people are the ones playing the game, not arguing over how casual or hardcore they are.

Basically if you need to mention skill, casual player or elite player, you are not skilled.

Dakiaris.2798:

I wouldn’t convert gems to gold just because I would be giving into what feels like is being pushed on me by a.net.. and I was putting in nearly 14 hours a day farming to get my gifts for my legendary…. I just don’t wanna do that many hours a day anymore I wanna make 10g per day without having to bust my kitten speed clearing and watching the number game on the trading post…. I wanna make progress without getting rid of the little life I have been trying so hard to keep.

Hey I didn’t say it was the best solution, but it would cut your farming down to 2 hours a day and give you your life back! That said I can’t support them through gem purchases anymore either, So I do know how you feel.

scootshoot.6583:

The fair weather JQ players been using the pve content excuse for a month now. On a side note, kudos to the JQ WvW die hard guilds and players that showed up hard the first 2 days of reset to bury DB. Morale is a huge part of WvW, by you guys burying DB early, the rest of the DB pug rallians decided not to show for the rest of the week.

Try talking to the Instructor when you first zone into WvW, I think he will help you out by explaining what WvW is, then you can learn the finer points about WvW from playing it. If you would like I can give you some links for new players

IRL If you make even minimum wage is more cost effective to convert gems to gold from real money. There really isn’t any other option than that or CoF/CoE and trading post camping.

I.E You make 7.50 an hour. Let’s say you have 2 hours of disposable income from each day of work. That’s $15 before tax, or 800 gems. Convert to gold, and you make about 6 gold an hour from “farming”.

And that’s why this game’s farming/material system is really, really, REALLY broken.

The expansion has to come out either slightly before or around the same time as ESO. If it comes out afterwards they may as well forget it, because a large segment of the WvW crowd will be gone I think, and I doubt the PvE crowd will stick around either since I don’t really have friends that log in for PvE anymore on GW2.

Hopefully before Christmas I would say.

EDIT for clarification: Not saying ESO is going to be best game ever omg. I’m saying The Elder Scrolls is a household name and Guild Wars 2 fits a niche in the MMO universe.

Vayne.8563:

Terrible idea. OP. And you know if Aeonblade and I agree…it’s just wrong. lmao

Pretty much this. It would be like a surprise peace treaty in Israel!

Strippling.3524:

NNK, please stop abusing dragons tooth. Several times this evening you have abused a glitch and attacked siege behind a gate. I am assuming this was an NNK zerg with no officers/commanders… because I find it hard to believe a “respectful” guild would allow glitch abuse in their guild.

So like, obviously targetting siege they can’t see or bad siege placement or what? Screenshots or something would be really helpful. Sounds like they are just good at using a targeted AoE without some kind of proof my friend. Not yelling “lies!” or anything, just curious if you have some screens

Gellor.6497:

Gismor.8407:

Can anyone from DB tell me what your map chat and/or TS3 chat was like last night for those on DBBL? I was the guy leading the BG forces, and the one throwing all the siege at you guys. :|

Nothing because outside of guilds, people won’t get into TS then whine hard when they die for not listening.

Pretty much this.

Araziel.7201:

alcopaul.2156:

JustTrogdor.7892:

alcopaul.2156:

1.) You go in Resort A for a vacation and spend $2000 dollars and they give you a complimentary shirt when you leave.

2.) You go in Resort B for a vacation and spend $2000 dollars and they give you a lottery ticket giving you the chance to win a car and a complimentary shirt when you leave.

You know which resort to return to next time right?

This isn’t a resort its a game.

Seriously, once again, if we had not been given these as a gift you would not be complaining. Were you complaining before the gift?

You are the minority in this thread as you can see most everyone else seems happy with the gift.

Now go start your own thread titled, “I bought gems Anet now give me some free kitten!”

If you are really this upset about it the next Dragon Coffer I get I’ll mail it to you as a bonus to your gift. I hope you win something fancy.

it’s an analogy. compliment according to how well they patronize you.

i was not complaining at first. because there was no stimulus.

if you are not aware, it involves compensating those who bought gems since the beginning. have you ever wondered or are you aware of the exchange rate in the early months of the game? spending 4000 gems will just get you around 10 gold. and i did that. many people did that. compared to now, think of being ripped big time. as i mentioned, even the resident a.net economist defended the old micro small exchange rate. this i still carry over. but i don’t mind. i just close my eyes and not think about it.

and receiving a mail that tells me these 3 minipets are equivalent to hundreds of dollars of patronizing, well that’s almost a joke. opening old wounds. A.net’s gem to gold gets inflated and the early patrons who suffered from the cruel exchange rate get 3 useless minipets. what a joke.

anyway, where is the option to mail back these useless minipets?

Dude….they’re holographic. They are worth hundreds of real dollars. It’s like being on board the Millennium Falcon.

Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING could be as cool as being on board the actual Millennium Falcon. And the inner nerd shows…..

Only their version of hold’em you only get half the cards you are supposed to, and it’s a .02% “drop” rate to get a matching pair.

Arc.7346:

Aeonblade.8709:

I don’t think anyone will be or should be banned for a patch oversight that Anet is in the process of fixing and has acknowledged it was their own fault.

Meaning its ok to keep exploiting and ruining other peoples fun?

They aren’t exploiting any more according to the OP’s post, Anet has disabled them until the fix goes live. It was a patch oversight, read the other threads here if you don’t believe me. It will be fixed, but starting a vendetta against the people who figured this out so that it could come to light so they could fix it solves nothing.

The lesson to be learned here is have a Public Test Realm to test patches, like every patch that is released.