Guild Wars 2

Stego.3148:

Aeonblade.8709:

There is no problem with salvage or ectos, it is around 0.5 per.

/thread.

You sound uninformed can you not post here again? The normal rate is .9 not .5

I salvaged 166 cof helmets and didn’t get any more then1 per proc and others are having similar results since yesterday. The chances of this happening are ridiculously low if everything is the same. There are reports of multiple procs still going on also.

Just salvaged the rest of my CoF marks 77 helmets in total and received 38 ectos from it with 1 double proc.

77 Items
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39 nothing

37 Single Procs

1 Double proc

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38 ectos total out of 77 = .5~

I’ll upload the video now this goes along with my previous sample that i started this thread off with 166 helmets and .5~% no double procs at all.

There is something up and i’d appreciate people back off a bit about concluding my thread without data.

You should probably post this in the Players Helping Players forum, it’s there for a reason. You had a bad run of luck. In conclusion, you are in the wrong place complaining about bad luck.

Working as intended. Just saving you time and grief because nothing good will come from this thread in general.

Is there any reason why you guys just removed most of the posts complaining about the RNG boxes?

Laii.2780:

Aeonblade.8709:

Laii.2780:

Quick map update sense Millennium live map is down ^.~!!
Bad things happen when we can’t build any siege but golems cause this dumb bug ; ;

I wonder how much cat food it takes to feed the TC mega zerg….

:3

Dawwwww da kitty!

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Vayne.8563:

Aeonblade.8709:

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Doomknight.7923:

thats hilarious because
1. those are all opinions =)
2. NCSoft owning Wild Star is fact.

and i will bet that the micro-transaction model used in GW2 will be in Wildstar.

Actually, 1 and 2 were facts. WildStar’s artstyle is more comparable to Torchlight’s because it is a cleaner cartoon style without the characteristics of the WoW style (ie: oversized spiky shoulders). And no information on the business model is available – that is not an opinion, it’s a fact. They are still debating on the model.

And if it is – good. That means that WildStar will be a game with no subscription fee, no pay to win, and the ability to buy everything in the game with gold.

I can’t name one MMO business model that is more reasonable.

Pretty much anything without RNG. If it has gambling for items in it, it will be the same garbage cash shop that is worse than every other MMO out there currently in GW2 now. EQ1, EQ2, Vanguard, soon to be Rift, etc. all have better cash shops that guild wars, and most of those have sub options. I can buy any skin/membership/anything I want in EQ1 and 2 with in game gold as long as it’s for sale. All of these games are more “free to play” than GW2 could ever hope to be as long as they gate content behind RNG boxes. Oh, and I don’t have to gamble with hours of my time that Anet likes to waste! The only 2 games I can think of with worse cash shops is Neverwinter and ToR, and both of those games are notoriously crappy.

Skins are not content. Lotro has races and quest areas that you have to pay for. DDO has the same. And EQ 1 and 2 are owned by Sony and don’t provide content updates nearly as often. I’m not sure either are currently as ambitious as Guild Wars 2 is.

Also don’t they offer option subs?

This. At the end of the day, nothing in Guild Wars 2’s cash shop or business model is unreasonable. The RNG boxes offer SKINS. NOT CONTENT. NOT POWER. SKINS.

No other MMO on the market offers the large, frequent patches for the price of this game. Very few MMOs offer gold -> cash shop currency conversion – and most that do involve pay-to-win shops.

I disagree. Also Sony does weekly updates still, just like they always have. Every F2P I have played in the past 6 months let me get anything I wanted in their cash shop with in game money, sans Neverwinter, which was awful.

Defend it all you want, I’ll continue to spread the word to those I know of the shady business model they have in place. At the end of the day I’m happy because I’m not ignorant enough to buy the content gated behind a .2% chance drop

Opened 6 chests today, got 4 greens 1 rare 1 exotic. Was only a 1g exotic too.

At least they are trying to show that maybe in the future they might think about us!

Vayne.8563:

Aeonblade.8709:

How is GW2 more ambitious than GW1? Just curious, that makes no sense because they dumbed GW1 down, made it shinier, and removed half the game and called it GW2. I’m just not sure how you can say it’s a bigger project when there is less to show for it, even at release.

It’s ambitious because it’s larger and they have a much faster update schedule. You’re not thinking in terms of the sheer size of the world. Prophecies was largish, but pathed. You didn’t get to much of the map. This map is far more open. The zones are bigger.

Prophecies had one single race with one single starting area, and nothing resembling an actual city.

A lobby based game is far easy to program and manage than an MMO too. There was nothing like dynamic events in prophecies. So while prophecies started with 500 some odd quests, and 25 missions, Guild Wars 2 started with 1500 plus dynamic events, plus all the hearts, plus all the personal story instances. Like them or not, it’s a whole lot more than 25 missions.

Guild quests didn’t exist in Guild Wars 1, either. Jumping puzzles didn’t exist or even jumping. Just adding a z axis made a lot of things popular, including underwater combat, which grows the world much larger and gives a whole different style of combat (which in itself is ambitious).

You may like Guild Wars 1 better than Guild Wars 2, but Guild Wars 2 is much more ambitious.

Agree to disagree, on the GW1 thing and I don’t agree with that last line of your earlier post. If you aren’t doing any of the work, it’s not your business whether you “own” it or not. It’s you taking credit for someone else’s work. But that’s semantics anyway and really not the point of this thread :P

GW2 is about as ambitious as GW1 turned WoW can get. They don’t have scheduled content updates, they ignore PvP/WvW most of the time.

Ambitious would be quit being thieves making RNG boxes and limited time items in said boxes, and fix the kitten bugs in the game and add some content.

The Molten Facility was cookie cutter and lacked a single player mode. The dungeon was kitten buggy too, missed 2 clears because it bugged out and wouldn’t let us finish the instance.

That being said, Southsun isn’t any better, both events have been hot jersey water trash.

There is no problem with salvage or ectos, it is around 0.5 per.

/thread.

Laii.2780:

Quick map update sense Millennium live map is down ^.~!!
Bad things happen when we can’t build any siege but golems cause this dumb bug ; ;

I wonder how much cat food it takes to feed the TC mega zerg….

Gasoline.2570:

Expansion. I highly doubt there will be any real sets until an expansion. It’s sad, really.

And an expansion is off the table right now while they twiddle their thumbs with sign repair and temporary content half the people missed. All of this under the guise of a “story”. What a load, give us something real to do.

Fegelein.7026:

We would welcome you guys to Dragonbrand! As Mayo have mentioned, we still have some areas that we could improve in our NA primetime, and you guys would be a lot of help in that area. DB is not a Kain 2.0 that came all the way from T8 as most people are saying. We have experienced ups and down from mid tier to lower tier, yet we have persevered and became stable in T3. This server has core WvWers that didn’t come in quick massive influx like it was in Kaineng. We play to have fun, and at the same time to stay competitive in WvW!

Also, don’t worry about the server’s full status. If BT can squeeze in to Blackgate, I don’t think you guys will have trouble transferring to Dragonbrand

Hope to see you guys in DB!

Well said, DB was well on it’s way to T2 before we got a few more guilds and now we are a solid red/blue T2 server. The time we need players the most is during NA. We are outmanned most of the time during this time slot.

Rawr.5930:

Aeonblade.8709:

Was there a point to this post or did you just want to use a meme? Be honest

Less is more.

And.

Too many cooks spoil the broth?

It was sarcasm. Wish I could find that post I made saying DB would be lucky to be a stable blue/red server in t2. I really just want to show it to people saying DB was going to shoot to T1 in 2 weeks. I don’t think other servers (outside of our tier) realize just how outmanned we are most of the night.

The biggest problem I have with AC’s is the cheaters using FoV glitches like eyefinity etc. to see places they aren’t supposed to. Honestly the damage IS way too high, but I can deal with it a lot better than exploiters.

How is GW2 more ambitious than GW1? Just curious, that makes no sense because they dumbed GW1 down, made it shinier, and removed half the game and called it GW2. I’m just not sure how you can say it’s a bigger project when there is less to show for it, even at release.

Iconik.8712:

This all seems silly now:

“Well, BT is leaving FA. They’ll have a hard time bouncing back from that.”

ORLY.

“We’re done farming Southsun and all those guilds moved over so expect DB to start trouncing.”

ORLY.

Was there a point to this post or did you just want to use a meme? Be honest

Tolmos.8395:

Then they can add in child support and alimony! 70% of all your gold drops, with a temp-ban for each month you fail to produce said gold!

So pretty much what Anet puts us through now?

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Doomknight.7923:

thats hilarious because
1. those are all opinions =)
2. NCSoft owning Wild Star is fact.

and i will bet that the micro-transaction model used in GW2 will be in Wildstar.

Actually, 1 and 2 were facts. WildStar’s artstyle is more comparable to Torchlight’s because it is a cleaner cartoon style without the characteristics of the WoW style (ie: oversized spiky shoulders). And no information on the business model is available – that is not an opinion, it’s a fact. They are still debating on the model.

And if it is – good. That means that WildStar will be a game with no subscription fee, no pay to win, and the ability to buy everything in the game with gold.

I can’t name one MMO business model that is more reasonable.

Pretty much anything without RNG. If it has gambling for items in it, it will be the same garbage cash shop that is worse than every other MMO out there currently in GW2 now. EQ1, EQ2, Vanguard, soon to be Rift, etc. all have better cash shops that guild wars, and most of those have sub options. I can buy any skin/membership/anything I want in EQ1 and 2 with in game gold as long as it’s for sale. All of these games are more “free to play” than GW2 could ever hope to be as long as they gate content behind RNG boxes. Oh, and I don’t have to gamble with hours of my time that Anet likes to waste! The only 2 games I can think of with worse cash shops is Neverwinter and ToR, and both of those games are notoriously crappy.

Palador.2170:

Aeonblade.8709:

Good thing we as human beings have the ability to absolutely not care if people don’t like what we say. It’s wonderful.

I’m just trying to point out why some people dislike where the story seems to have lead. It feels bad to them, no matter the intent.

Then don’t do the content? People know there is no such thing as “good” and “evil” right? right!? Especially in a video game haha. Besides I’m sure it will be some free the slaves bonfire on the beach feel good cop out ending like all the other events/quests we get

Mif.3471:

Mayoken.9851:

T2 is very stable between TC/FA/DB. Dragonbrand could use Rethesis’s assistance to match TC’s NA power.

On average early NA we tick around 160-200 and by 9pm EST we are ticking 210-260. I’d like to see our min raised to 200 and max around 300 on average!

Considering DB quite often ticks 400 during oceanic/SEA time, I fail to see how DB ticking 300 during NA would make T2 a more “stable” matchup. Especially considering that T2 matchups are currently often decided by 10k points.

The sense of entitlement that bandwagon servers have…

We’re in 3rd ticking 125-150PPT the last 2-3 hours during NA time slot. Logic defeats trolls again! What’s the score these days? Logic – a bajillion, trolls – fap?

Out of all the game breaking bugs in this game. I highly doubt more than one or two people care about a pick or sickle animation on an item designed to rip you off 10 bucks. I maybe wrong, who knows

Well, crafting would be useful again maybe. As it stands now the only reason to craft is if you wanna level fast.

Palador.2170:

Florgknight.1589:

So if I wrote a story where people were brutally murdered, am I suddenly endorsing brutal murder?

If you write a book where the hero of the story does that, and nobody sees anything wrong with it, then it might come off that way, yes. Doesn’t mean it’s what you INTENDED it to say, but people might easily read it that way.

Good thing we as human beings have the ability to absolutely not care if people don’t like what we say. It’s wonderful.

These definitely need a loot increase! about 3-4 hours per rank nets 15 silver and a green. In PvE I can make 15 silver and a guaranteed rare in 15 minutes. WTF Anet, why so broken?

It’s a bug that has been happening all the time to me since the last patch. Log all the way out and back in and it fixes it for me. Really annoying, happens about once an hour.

JoePhuket.8045:

Please come to SOR as we have the best NA community here. Our communication between maps is impressive and we are the least stacked out of T1 and T2 servers but it is our superior intelligence and organization that make us the true #1 NA. We have no queues in any maps 24/7 especially during NA prime time, so I guess you guild dont have to wait for queues like BG and JQ does. We basically roll BG and JQ ’s 80 man zerg with our elite 20 man zerg. An addition of another NA would greatly help us to dominate T1 even more.

Welcome to SoR

SoR is a great server and I have met a bunch of cool people there, but #1 NA and the underdog? You can’t be both dude :P I mean recruiting is one thing…but is there a video of this elite 20 man guild taking out a zerg? Or am I missing something? I’m confuzzled.

Thought this was talking about the old clunker xbox 360s. Very misleading lol. I think they are called Telegraphs.

Odaman.8359:

Aeonblade.8709:

Odaman.8359:

I think FA is the only server I could think of that truly needs RE, with BT gone I think they could use more NA players. SoR while they have room don’t seem to be hurting for NA, but they’d know better than I how their queues look at those times.

lol

=p Did I make a joke, at least im not spamming OMG my server needs u.

FA is fine, still outnumber DB and sometimes TC during NA prime. Let’s not destabalize a tier because 1 or 2 guilds left a server

Odaman.8359:

I think FA is the only server I could think of that truly needs RE, with BT gone I think they could use more NA players. SoR while they have room don’t seem to be hurting for NA, but they’d know better than I how their queues look at those times.

lol

Buttercup.5871:

Welcome to skinwars. Your highest goal is a weapon skin. It’s dubbed: “legendary”. The terminology is laid on thick so that you know that this is your goal.

Most people cannot acquire this skin. Why? Well, we all know why. The droprate of the necessary “precursor” is so abysmally small, that the price is abysmally high.

Now consider the following. With each event, including the next event (Jade weapon tickets incoming), the new tactic appears to be: introduce RNG boxes that contain a “temporary” weapon skin. This skin is exclusive. It’s practically like a legendary. Veeeery exclusive.

Unless you’re dirt rich in-game, you cannot buy enough keys/boxes to get a “skin ticket”. And you cannot save for them, nonono; they’re “temporary”. So flip out your credit card, or grind yourself into oblivion (the latter is actually made impossible due to the DR system).

Now, tell me, are you still wondering why these precursors barely drop? Still wondering why there’s no “scavenger hunt” more than half a year after the very idea was announced? Or why your WvW chest contained nothing but masterwork items?

It’s so obvious, I should have seen this coming from miles. It’s just like in Aion, where NCSoft did the exact same thing (They lowered the droprate and adjusted the game mechanic of certain items to increase the sale of related store items. Manastones, anyone?).

Well said. With every patch they destroy their reputation further. They can’t develop actual content apparently, they would rather gate skins behind RNG boxes. Add to the fact they charge exorbitant prices to even make your character look halfway decent, no new skins really added in 9 months besides temp skins that were pretty bad anyway…What’s going on? Are we giving up on class balance, new skins, new content altogether? How do I explain to my friend that he can’t just buy the skin he wants, no matter how much he would spend, he has to play Anet’s pull the lever kitten your face gambling system.

The only part that I don’t really agree with is that legendaries are the end all be all of skins in this game. They are pretty god kitten ugly.

Zahara.3842:

So after going through the dungeon and finding out about what the contracts are, that we will be helping load away from Canach’s plan according to the acheivement tab, are we endorsing slavery?

From F&F we had refugees who were part of a drastic tragedy, given an opportunity for a place to live, food, since their homes were destroyed and Hoelbrak and Black Citadel filled to capacity, forcing men, women, and children to seek help. The consortium makes those who want help sign a contract, that forces them to live on an island filled with its own dangers, forced to work, no protection, and no choice to be able to freely leave. The one guy, Canach, who is trying to free them, albeit not entirely the correct way to do so, is being touted as the villain for his motives. Apparently we will not only help in his arrest, but help to thwart his plans to further advance the consortium’s plans in further trying to make it impossible for Refugees to return to their homeland, continuing to keep them in danger, forcing them to work for the consortium, all in all what I can think of being termed as anything else but Slavery.

wow just wow, didn’t know companies could be so bold nowadays and it be overlooked

Good joke post, would read again +1

Until they do an entire rework of the dungeon system in this game, I appreciate the single player experience. It’s much better than the trinity-less dps fest all dungeons in this game are. Thank you Anet for letting everyone see the story this time, not just those that have infinite time to put up with broken mechanics

If they want a group experience, thats fine, as long as the rewards are of the same quality. Otherwise there is no point in keeping single player story lines/ dungeons around.

I do not think this is a good idea personally. Thanks for sharing however.

Vol.5241:

If we’re gonna want some lore, how are they gonna explain The Dreamer?

The Dreamer, a bow of immense power, was crafted in the Rainbow Hills of Ascalon. Created by none other than the Pride Dragon himself for his most trustworthy and loyal servant, Rainbow Bright, it was used to bring grit lovers and dark brooding emo kids to their wobbly knees for many centuries before being lost to the history books.

Arkanfel.8403:

Jayne.9251:

Lol next up from Anet … The food trap.

See, now we’re giving them ideas! xD

Oh my. A trap that removes food/potions. Please no. I will hit one after every pie I freaking know it.

Genophix.3098:

No Walking.6349:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Thank you for your very helpful contribution to this thread.

Maybe if we kept the discussion constructive instead of just venting and complaining, we could actually get ANet to respond to the OPs questions. That would be super-lovely.

Probably isn’t going to happen in another frustrating QQ-fest of a thread, though. Think about it! Thank you

What do you want Anet to say exactly? Here is what they’ll say if they post here.

“We are thankful for your input, and would like you to know that mini-games are on our radar.”

AKA: Never gonna happen cause they’re gonna lose players once TES:O comes out, and focus on gem store stuff or more worthless living story stuff in order to keep making money.

Was a good dream though when the game launched. Tons of mini games would have been great.

I thought ArenaNet had proven they put players above profits. Remember when they stopped selling digital copies until until the lag issues got sorted out. If your gonna attack a companies actions get your facts right eh.

Oh my god no, they have proven time and time again they put profit above anything , it’s really not even close. I wish I had your attitude though. If it wasn’t true we could buy the skins we wanted, bugs would have been fixed months ago, and LS would be a permanent update.

I would spend 600 gems on a collection storage upgrade.

Slomoshun.6317:

I guess, “coalition” was a bad word to use. I don’t mean you guys are literally sitting in TS3 together working together, I mean you could be, but I highly doubt it.

What I mean is all week FA and TC have been pushing DBL and EB leaving us to do nothing but defend, poorly. TC barely enters FABL and FA barely enters TCBL. And if they do, the most either take is a couple camps and maybe a tower.

While DBL is getting hit from FA on the east and TC on the west and EB is getting the same treatment.

Add all that to the fact that some of our key guilds/commanders not rolling out in full numbers, which is very evident and the fact that the forum warriors on here from DB painted a pretty large bulls-eye on DB’s back.

Oh, and lets not forget that for some reason DB pugs can’t be bothered to get into the community TS3 and get some kitten coordination running. I mean if TC and FA have the time to get in our TS3 and listen to where we’re going I can’t see why our own server can’t.

Can’t tell if serious….And if there are spies all over our TS then wouldn’t it be stupid TO join it? Why must ye contradict thine self, kind shrew!?!?

Crapgame.6519:

RvR – 2001 Retail DaOC launch. Hitting lvl 21 and heading out into the real world not knowing what lays just down the road. Stealthers controlling the gates, etc.

Darkness Falls – DaOC RvR dungeon. Losing control of your keeps so enemy can gain access. Decide if you want to stand and fight, run and hide, or logout and come back later. Or, just go crazy and charge to their enterence and fight until death.

My Thane – DaOC – Magic hammers that break any and all CC which resulted in shouts and name calling over Vent because I wasn’t supposed to use them. Watching the number of hammers increase when fighting zergs…

Redcaps and Spiritmasters – sure fire way to power level any and all. PAC healer with suppression spiritmaster = loot and exp faster than you can blink an eye.

I really do miss PBAoE groups, it was so much fun.

Mirta.5029:

Aeonblade.8709:

Good list, I long for the days when people had to actually try in the games they play.

you mean settle down and grind until their ears bleed?
Growing up with multiple games, investing over 100 hours in all of my RPGs finding every secret, every easter egg, every quest, every pathway I don’t think that the game should force you to grind (Never liked Morrowind, because of hows hard it was to level up in it), but rather provide a big world that you can wonder around and experience without thinking too much about your level (Most RPGs nowdays and very new MMOs do do that).

To each their own

Gimme the microphone first, so I can bust like a bubble
Southsun and Lion’s Arch together, now you know you in trouble
Ain’t nothin’ but a K thang, baaaaabay!

Flash.6912:

Most players play mmo nowaday expect things handed to them. There is starting and ending to grind. It’s called “COF P1”. Anet needs to act tough on Legendaries and stop listen to these whiners think their 200s hours or so deserve to get it. It’s called Legendaries for a reason. RNG is part of the game, get used to it.

Are you mad that your “hard work” for a digital man toy is going to be wasted? Poor lil guy.

Rouven.7409:

Aeonblade.8709:

Why do you want one of those god awful looking legendaries anyway? The only decent ones are the greatwords and the axe. Just wait till they revamp them to look like they are actually legendary and adjust the mat requirements. As it is right now, I stand to make a fortune off people who want a hideous item from T6 mats, look at it as an opportunity to prepare for the future.

Suffice to say that I don’t like the greatswords – not because of the design per se but they are too broad (which is necessary for the effect). A lot of them are very clever and nice, they just don’t always suit my characters.

On topic – I don’t think the precursor hunt is supposed to help with prices, but give people a more reliable and hopefully “fun” way to obtain one piece of the puzzle.

To me it seems that the economical concerns are absolutely dominating the concerns about fun.

Well it’s pretty important, they made legendaries based around TP farming/playing, so concerns about TP prices are well reasoned.

Why do you want one of those god awful looking legendaries anyway? The only decent ones are the greatwords and the axe. Just wait till they revamp them to look like they are actually legendary and adjust the mat requirements. As it is right now, I stand to make a fortune off people who want a hideous item from T6 mats, look at it as an opportunity to prepare for the future.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

r z.7261:

You won’t see a large expansion from Anet for Guild Wars 2.

Why?

Because they allocate too much of their development towards temporary content.

You must not have played the first Guild Wars.

I did and I agree with him. This may change in the future, but don’t expect an expansion this year.

Warrior – Damage/Damage/Damage
Mesmer – Utility/Clones/ Support
Guardian – Support/Utility

Everything else is useless in the current meta, regardless of what sets them apart, it’s pretty irrelevant when they aren’t comparable. This is for PvE.

In PvP/WvW, the player determines which class is effective and unique. More akin to the lists above.

Charr RN.9860:

DB, stop manipulating the system. A new rating system comes out and suddenly you start diving toward 3rd place? I am blatantly accusing DB of this. JQ was a mastermind at manipulating the system. FA going to take second?

Quick! Everyone stop trying so this guy can be right! It’s important!

IndigoSundown.5419:

Calae.1738:

Astralporing.1957:

Calae.1738:

Anything that is easy is not worth doing.
Anything that is difficult is worth doing.

Both statements are blatantly false. There are a lot of easy things that are worth doing and/or need doing. There are a lot of things that are difficult, and yet completely without any value. Those two things are often completely disconnected from each other.

I don’t want to derail this thread but; I’d like to use a real world example.

Any easy task you can think of will one day be replaced by machines. There will be no human labor required. We use our ingenuity to overcome cumbersome obstacles and tasks that we don’t want to do.

If we continue to condition our brains by feeling rewarded after completing easy tasks; we risk developing a behavior that will automatically make us choose the path of least resistance.

Your example does not apply to games. Games are not tasks. If you turn a computer game into into a task and create routines to completely automate it, you are no longer playing the game.

Games most certainly have menial tasks. I’ll use the board game monopoly for example: Old school monopoly had a person assigned to be the banker, and distribute funds among the players. Some of the newer versions, even if they were met with poor reception, included credit card style swiping for purchases and gains.

The fact that people still prefer the old hand counted money method over something clearly easier, more advanced, and pretty much one of the reasons we have science to begin with, shows that people are already conditioned to repeat menial tasks even when there are better options readily available, thus dumbing down our society even further than it already is. Just use the card swiper, and use the time you saved by not counting out money for the 40000th time in your life to do something productive, like math that matters.

If you need a video game example, look no further than anyone who does not want a LFG tool. It servers no purpose but to make your in game run more efficiently, yet so many resist these. Why? Do you really fear change that much? Is it really necessary to repeat the 30 minute task of trying to find a group in LA over and over again because these people don’t like things changing?

Deamhan.9538:

killcannon.2576:

marnick.4305:

Aeonblade.8709:

marnick.4305:

It feels like the OP is talking about someone that’s not me and that makes me happy. My life has meaning, and videogames are merely a past time. A hobby. I don’t want nor need traditional grinding endgame. There’s no eternal loneliness or failure I’m trying to cover up with being a boss raid leader or having gearscore. No compensation of any kind.

OP, I hope there’s more like you and me in this game, people who are happy and sane, and want to stay that way while playing games.

Yes because people who finish content faster than others have no meaning in their lives. Having something to do for those of us who need it is not a cover up for failure, either.

I guess I’m insane and have no meaning in my life if it means I actually have goals and pursue them at any point in time.

No wonder we are screwed, there are way too many different people trying to mold this game right now.

Some people, if they’d put only half the effort in real life, as they did in videogames, they’d be millionaire. I’m talking people who play more than 5 hours a day, and then complain content is too easy.
There’s nothing wrong with having goals and pursuing them. However if those goals only exist in a virtual world, or progress is only made towards virtual goals, you should have a good look at yourself.

Is this not the same as saying “If you’re goals or reason for being do not align up with what I or society prescribe them to be, then you are flawed” ?

Life is how you decide to live it, not how others decide to live theirs.

Personally I hate ponies

If your goals or reason for being is to play a video game, seek professional help.

Letting people live their own life how they want to live it is great, right up to the point where their life style is doing either themself or others harm. That’s when it becomes a problem. There is gambling, drinking, drugs, and (what some fail to include) gaming.

If you reach the point where a game becomes your reason for being, then you certainly crossed the line from playing as a favored pastime to addiction.

As for myself…

Reason for Being: Well, I have two children.

Life Goals: Again, I have two children so making sure they have a successful start on life is number one. I rent a house, I would like to pay a morgage on a house (something that should happen in a few years). I have my career for which the goal is to retire at 55 with a full, indexed, pention and not to be working until I’m dead.

Now like I said before, if you are only doing yourself harm, then I don’t care so much. However, if you are getting by on welfare and sitting at the computer all day plaing video games when you should be collecting a paycheck for working, then yeah I have a problem. You’re basically living off my (and other working people’s) tax money so you can play video games all day.

I don’t think he meant video games should be your only goal…rofl.

WyldKat.4712:

Andy.9137:

this isn’t even my final form

…what is he holding?

A biscotti

Brigante.9632:

My original MMO was EverQuest 1 and that will always be the best MMO ever made (pre easy mode). It’s unfortunate that they changed it to be as easy as all other MMO’s out there.

Disclaimer: Of course I realise that GW2 is not the game for these ideas and that most players probably don’t want them but this is what I miss in an MMO.

• Leveling
  It should take a long time to get to max level, event months so you feel like you have actually achieved something.

• Non instanced open world raid bosses.
  It was awesome in EQ1 to move through zones when a raid boss was up and could one shot you if you took one step too close.

• Large scale raids
  Targets that take up to 50+ players to take down and that involve strategy. Make the raid wipe numerous times until they figure out how to do it and still then make it difficult.

• Death penalty
  Make you lose half a level worth of xp and your gear/inventory when you die so you have to travel back to retrieve it. That makes you think twice before you attack something. Make you go back to whichever city you have bound your character to last.

• Trinity
  Killing mobs should require a tank, healer, cc/slower and dps to go smoothly. If you can kill without the required classes then your target is much too easy.

• Mounts
  I want to ride a horse to travel faster. I don’t want waypoints/teleporting.

• Factions
  Please make NPC’s attack me if I’m an enemy to their faction. Let me grind a faction to be liked by another.

Good list, I long for the days when people had to actually try in the games they play.