Guild Wars 2

Julie Yann.5379:

rozcinana.7249:

it would be awesome if legendaries became accountbound on equip rather than soulbound on equip so we could transfer them between characters. they are such a huge undertaking to create, i don’t think it would be too much to ask?

If they ever do give us the possibility to make Legendaries Account bound it will probably in the form of some Cash Shop item that sells for a stupidly high amount of gems.

What, account bound your legendaries for the low low price of 2800 gems? The sad part is, it would probably sell, even at such a rip off of a price :p

I agree, this has been a glaring problem with the story line for me as well. Why exactly are these dragons viewed as powerful, given how easily they seem to die/ be thwarted by mortals, wouldn’t the Gods just laugh at them and flick them away as a human does a fly?

Azala Yar.7693:

If GW2 is in the top 5, then it just goes to show what a sorry state MMOs are in.

I don’t know where this metric comes from anyway, top 5 according to who? The paid off people at MMORPG.com? The ones that were paid off on Massively? Which paid rating system are we referring to exactly? GW2 is one of the better games out there, but I don’t think it’s anywhere close to an actual top 5 MMO of all time. Those days were gone years ago, honestly.

Lexandro.1456:

Aeonblade.8709:

They are discussing ways to eliminate the need to craft ascended armor/weapons in the progression CDI threads. Look for a fix for us non-crafters in the next few months I would imagine.

I made it very clear to them crafting isn’t a time sink a lot of people want to invest in, and got a pretty positive response, so look for more ways to acquire the armor/weapons in the future.

My crystal ball tells me thus;

6 months from now ;

“Added ascended weapons and armour to laurel vendors –
Weapons cost 100 laurels each, armour pieces are 75 laurels each”

The way the devs have been going with ascended trinkets this is entirely possible.

This is probably the most likely scenario, albeit not my preferred one for attaining the gear.

Mama.2798:

You wanted moar cuteness? Here you are <3

Glorious!

I used to love exploring in MMO’s, but ever since the in game map has become big, it has all but completely lost it’s luster to me.

Exploring on EQ pre Atlas, now that was fun, exploring today in mmo’s is like going to a popular hiking trail and saying it’s “exploring”.

I love how the esports thing has worked out for all 17 people playing sPvP.

DB- King of Oceanic PPT and inducing rage in the masses since release babayyy.

TheRainbowKnight.3651:

Let the casuals have their champ trains. Everyone knows that’s not where the money is.

Please, enlighten me as to an easier/more casual way to make 5-10g in an hour. I don’t count TP manipulation as making money, because it bores me to tears.

cesmode.4257:

Aeonblade.8709:

cesmode.4257:

Aeonblade.8709:

Someone asked why do the champion train in one of their earlier posts (sorry I can’t find it now).

Basically, because it’s one of the few areas of the game that are rewarding. I can go kill mobs in Orr and get nothing, or do the champ train and make nearly 5-10g an hour, depending on luck.

Champ trains are one of the only profitable areas of the game for a casual player.

How do you make 5-10 g per hour? Im lucky if I make 1 or 2. The silver you get from the bags and events are offset by the waypointing. Ive watched it closely and its either offsetting or you actually spend more $$ waypointing. So you rely on the champ bags. All I get from these are T5 mats, greens and blues, a skill point here and there, bloodstone dust. I salvage the greens and blues, the ‘large bone’ that I got from the bag might be worth 1.25 silver, and the rest isnt worth anything on the TP. The chance that rare drops is hardly worth the time. Exotic drops are a myth.

I see the champ train as a karma train. Pop a booster, and you get something like 300 or 400 karma per champ..quickly.

But in terms of coin..how do you profit? (serious question)

Don’t break down the greens and blues. Sell them on the TP. Some of them sell for 20-40 silver a pop. When you bring in 10 green items in 15 minutes, that adds up quick.

If a blue salvages into an Elder Wood (T5), this is worth more than selling the item outright on the TP, no?

It depends, always check before you salvage. I have sold blue items for 40 silver + depending on the item/supply/demand.

Keep in mind selling blues on the tp at 5-10 silver a pop is more reliable than relying on this game’s horrid RNG to give you higher tier crafting materials.

cesmode.4257:

Aeonblade.8709:

Someone asked why do the champion train in one of their earlier posts (sorry I can’t find it now).

Basically, because it’s one of the few areas of the game that are rewarding. I can go kill mobs in Orr and get nothing, or do the champ train and make nearly 5-10g an hour, depending on luck.

Champ trains are one of the only profitable areas of the game for a casual player.

How do you make 5-10 g per hour? Im lucky if I make 1 or 2. The silver you get from the bags and events are offset by the waypointing. Ive watched it closely and its either offsetting or you actually spend more $$ waypointing. So you rely on the champ bags. All I get from these are T5 mats, greens and blues, a skill point here and there, bloodstone dust. I salvage the greens and blues, the ‘large bone’ that I got from the bag might be worth 1.25 silver, and the rest isnt worth anything on the TP. The chance that rare drops is hardly worth the time. Exotic drops are a myth.

I see the champ train as a karma train. Pop a booster, and you get something like 300 or 400 karma per champ..quickly.

But in terms of coin..how do you profit? (serious question)

Don’t break down the greens and blues. Sell them on the TP. Some of them sell for 20-40 silver a pop. When you bring in 10 green items in 15 minutes, that adds up quick.

Also, I sell all my crafting materials on the TP, because I’m not a crafter/ refuse to do parts of the game I don’t enjoy.

Someone asked why do the champion train in one of their earlier posts (sorry I can’t find it now).

Basically, because it’s one of the few areas of the game that are rewarding. I can go kill mobs in Orr and get nothing, or do the champ train and make nearly 5-10g an hour, depending on luck.

Champ trains are one of the only profitable areas of the game for a casual player.

Mostly WvW to tide me over till Anet releases some content or ESO/EQN come out, whichever happens first.

Evogrin.6027:

I can’t wait for 2014… Lol @ all who are complaining…. Just leave for another game and stop QQing on our forums?:) …There is a difference between not being happy with the state of the game and trying to voice opinions towards a solution, and just QQing for no reason whatsoever. Its not worth anyone’s time, especially yours. Life is too short, go find something you enjoy, and leave this enjoyable for those who enjoy it? MERRY CHRISTMAS

Please keep the trolling to a minimum, this has been a relatively tame and well thought out post, sans the few usual “this game sucks” people

Regardless of how many tantrums are thrown by the people who crafted them, more avenues to get the gear will open up, they stand to lose far more than they gain by not opening up ascended gear to WvW players or non crafters, and they have already acknowledged this.

Kaiser.9873:

Since no one really knows the mechanism that Anet uses to count server populations except Anet they should not tie gem cost for transfer to whatever their definition of server population might be. The best and easiest way to calculate gem cost for transfer is to tie it into the W3 tier that a server maintains. If need be they can average a server’s tier rank over the life of the game to come up with a calculation.
Average W3 rank:
T1- 1800 gems
T2- 1500 gems
T3- 1200 gems
T4- 1000 gems
T5- 600 gems
T6- 300 gems
T7 and below- Free

This makes the transfer cost more inline with need.

Another option would be to merge lower tier servers. Most companies do not like to merge servers, as it gives off a negative vibe to current and future customers.

This would be a much better system. As it stands now if they counted “live” accounts instead of all accounts, including dead ones, I would be surprised if any server outside of T1 and T2 actually had Very High population.

The entire population metric needs to change. Someone that hasn’t logged in for 6 – 12 months probably isn’t coming back, and should not be counted towards a servers population. It just stinks of manipulation of numbers to me. Some kind of Bill Clinton style number game, where you switch the metrics of “success” around around till it looks better.

CC Danicia.1394:

Zanshin.5379:

Let me know if you see a dev playing guardian.
They always seem so bored in their videos when they talk about the guardian.

Me 5 minutes ago. Shout out to the folks hanging out with me!

Daw, that’s a cute charr. Those are rare imo.

They are discussing ways to eliminate the need to craft ascended armor/weapons in the progression CDI threads. Look for a fix for us non-crafters in the next few months I would imagine.

I made it very clear to them crafting isn’t a time sink a lot of people want to invest in, and got a pretty positive response, so look for more ways to acquire the armor/weapons in the future.

Transferring some ideas over from our pre-discussion thread:

•Legendary questline. I don’t know anyone that gets excited about collecting 250 of every material required for the current crafting of one. There needs to be a Legendary Quest arc that gives us a reliable way to get a legendary.

•Account bound all magical items you use on your character. Why can’t I use my Guardian’s old gear on my Warrior? It’s not like I can sell it on the TP. Or do anything at all useful with it.

•New skill sets and 2-3 new trait lines that give us new combinations of stats. Why do I have to get condition damage to get precision on my Guardian? What a waste. Or let us choose from a pool of stats available to each trait line.

•More skins and weapon skins. Like, a lot more. The game seems devoid of choices in this category. I can walk around LA and everyone is wearing the same stuff, because it’s the only stuff that looks good.

•More titles, means of achieving said titles, and making the WvW Ultimate Titles actually obtainable

•I’d like to see a progressive horizontal skill set. Something that maybe changes the color of guardian skills from blue > red and changes the skill animations accordingly. Doesn’t add any power, and let’s us customize our characters spell effects.

•Fixes for costume disparity: Why can’t I buy the good looking armor with my WvW badges? Why are there next to no skins in WvW? Where are the exclusive WvW skins for season participation? Inquiring minds are wondering!

Thanks again for the topic Chris, hope you are having a wonderful holiday season

TheDaiBish.9735:

cesmode.4257:

I mocked the pet battles pre-MoP as well..until I tried them and they are really cool! Think Final Fantasy 7…you sit there with your pets that have unique little abilities and you battle other pets in the world, or other people’s pets..and you level them up. Just something fun to do on the side. Infact, this is going to go into the horizontal progression CDI thread.

Also, yes Fratured! was a good update IMO. A a healthy addition of fractals and a revamp to the fractal system. Tequatl, agreed for better or worse…depends what server youre on. My server kills him nightly I found out. But mostly, he sits there un-engaged. Maybe they went a bit too far with him.

But notice, you pointed out updates that had signifiance substance and significance combat. And notice, that these two updates were not tied to(or if they were, VERY loosely) to scarlet and the LS updates and story line.

The one thing I can pick out of the LS that was truely good was the gauntlet. Those fights were boss.

There were pet battles in FF7? I cannot for the life of me remember them.

I forgot about the Gauntlet. I didn’t actually complete that.

As for Tequatl (and for all world bosses, for that matter) I feel they could be vastly improved in the short term simply by:

• creating scaling unique to each boss, that is tied to their mechanics. For example, the Shatterer’s healing crystals, or the Underworld Portals on Shadow Behemoth.
• Making some of the mechanics appear in random places, instead of set places. See above examples.

That way, the mechanics can’t be ignored by most players, it would help cut down on the zerging part, and the best part is you wouldn’t need a high amount of players, but the need for teamwork and organisation would remain as it scales up (which was the original intention of scaling?).

The pet battles are more like Pokémon than FF7. I think he was referring to the combat system rather than the game itself. The pet battles are fun, till you realize there are certain pet combinations that are broken that everyone uses. And I mean everyone.

The way I’m looking at it, GW2 has until ESO and EQN as well as WS release to come up with some good, engaging, real content. This is all personal preference of course, those games may flop, but I don’t see that happening and would like for Anet to kick their game up on the updates this year.

Cautious Optimism here. Hoping for lessons learned on temporary content and LS stuff, the return of real permanent content, and we get information on a sorely needed expansion this year.

Actually, just ordered the remainder of what I needed for my new build as well. It’s been over 6 years since I upgraded my old pc, and even though it runs GW2 on medium/low settings, WvW is a chore sometimes. I’ve never been one to spend oodles of money on top of the line equipment, so here’s my budget PC.

New build for 2014:
Biostar B75MU3+ Motherboard (Love Biostar, fantastic support for budget gaming)
MSI Geforce GTX660OC 192-bit 2gb GDDR5
Rosewill Green Series 630W Continuous @40C PSU
Intel Core i5-3350P 3.3 GHZ Quad Core Processor
G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8gb (2×4gb) DDR3 Memory
Kingston 120gb SSD (Already have a 500gb drive for storage)
and finally… Windows 7 64 bit Professional(sadly I have been using a 32bit OS forever)

EDIT: Forgot to add the case, Rosewill Redbone U3. She’s a beaut.

All in all the total for all of this was around $600 with deals this year.

Jaxs.5830:

Johje Holan.4607:

Nothing to do with freedom of speech or censorship. Anet is a private company, they don’t have to let you say anthing on their forums.

Having the ability to do something, and it being a good idea, are entirely two different things. While you are slurping back your purple kool-aid, some of us are concerned about the long term effect this will have on the game.

Bingo. Never drink the Kool-Aid.

I was gonna make a Sylvari one time, then I realized they were communist hippies. Also their cultural armor is absolutely the most horrendous design I have seen for an armor. At least the heavy armor anyway.

Palador.2170:

Ensio.8172:

Nar.8327:

Weapon naming.

Oh yes! Please, make it so!

I couldn’t wait to name my rifle “Charlene”

I’d never even thought of this as an option before, but I instantly wanted it the moment I read it!

Stuff like this amazes me that it isn’t in every major MMO that comes to the market. Maybe LoTRO and DAoC spoiled me, but naming your items and full length cloaks should come standard in any game, at release.

Anything less is backtracking in development. Full length cloaks and customizable items should not be the exception, they should be the norm.

My condolences go out to all those affected by this giant PR blunder of Anet’s. I’m not a fractal player, have never done a single one, but I feel like the way they treated the Fractal community with the “update” is something that should go down in game development history books as what not to do.

To the OP: Don’t let the forum guys get to you, there is no wrong in wanting compensation when compensation was promised, and then promptly not delivered.

You’ll have to max every single craft to level completely from crafting, I’d recommend getting to 35 and getting your first rare tier of gear, then upleveling in WvW.

fun, temporary, potential

Draknar.5748:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It’s funny watching all the champions of this game twist and turn and lie over and over and change definitions to defend their position. It’s pretty spectacular the level of denial this thread contains. All the people who realized this game was P2W left already and are waiting for an actual sub game where they hope they won’t be nickle and dimed for every last look and feature.

Think you’re the one in denial, my friend. Guild wars is P2Bequal/casual, not P2W. You have two options: you can pay real money to get gold to buy some of the mats to make Ascended gear (because many of the mats are time gated and cannot be purchased) or you can not pay anything and run dungeons/bosses/champ train to make the money/farm the drops to make Ascended gear.

In the end, both will have the exact same gear. Person A has full Ascended gear, Person B has full Ascended gear. How the hell did one win over the other? This is a casual friendly game. You can either play 6hrs/day and get BiS, or play 1hr/day and also pay real money for gold and get BiS. THEY ARE EQUAL.

Anet is making it so that casuals can still be on par as hard-core players. Not better, not advantaged, equal. That is not pay to win. It is an equalizer.

P2Bequal. That’s a new one for P2W I haven’t heard before. Whatever you would need to call it friend

bobomb.5209:

Maybe an “Elite Revive Orb” that does what you specified, but can only be used in PvE. I can Arena Net doing this. But as for PaytoWin? It would be completely unfair in any other gamemode besides PvE. Is it pay to win in PvE? Who cares who are you beating NPC’s? No one cares that you spent a little money to have an advantage in a boss fight that could save the fight. Would you REALLY complain if someone on your team used a revive orb, revived all of your dead team mates, and basically gave your fight a second wind? No you wouldn’t and if you would you would only be saying that to prove me wrong, which you wouldn’t.

There’s a lot of assumptions being made here, the whole point of P2W in this game revolves around PvE anyway, because most of the game is centered in PvE. Basically, it would be them saying “Well, you aren’t skilled enough to beat this boss, but if you give us $3, we’ll beat it for you.”

Reeks of P2W.

Erebus.9276:

JobCreator.1956:

Johje Holan.4607:

Nothing to do with freedom of speech or censorship. Anet is a private company, they don’t have to let you say anthing on their forums.

I hope my cell phone carrier never hears about this because by your standard, as a private company, they won’t have to let me say anything on my phone. If you split too many hairs too many times you’ll eventually be bald.

Bosley natural hair solutions, you’re welcome.

Crap don’t work. Look up the horror stories on google.

I don’t think adding more stuff that is debated as a P2W item would be a good idea at this point with the debate on the game being P2W already at boiling point.

It would probably make them some money though, but I can’t say I support any more P2W items personally.

Nick.6972:

Expansion? What expansion? I’m playing the game and I dont see it anywhere. Should I contact the support team?

Haha to true, I’m hoping this temporary stuff is balanced with permanent updates next year.

Johje Holan.4607:

Nothing to do with freedom of speech or censorship. Anet is a private company, they don’t have to let you say anthing on their forums.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was warning about.

Fernling.1729:

Kind of odd. Gw2 was also massively’s runner up for the most disappointing game with its living story.

Well we all knew how people felt about the LS on the whole, but there were a few gems mixed in with the coal this past year

Ashabhi.1365:

Here’s another take….

Let’s say you go to 2 big 3-story department stores.

In one store, you buy a ticket to get in, and then you can go to any floor, and see/do/buy anything you like. You can even buy “bonuses” to help you along, such as shopping bags or carts.

In the other store, you buy a ticket to walk in the front door. Unfortunately, you can only go to the first floor, unless you buy a ridiculously expensive ticket for the 2nd floor, and in turn buy an even more expensive ticket to go to the 3rd floor where the stuff you really want is located. Whether you actually “buy” anything or not, you can’t even see it until you’ve bought your ticket.

In the first example, it is much like GW2. You can walk into the world, and go anywhere, buy anything, and see everything for the walk-in price (the box.)

In the second example, you are being forced to pay more and more just to see the content in the rest of the store, whether you actually buy anything or not. You are also required to buy an upgraded ticket to see the ultimate uber gear on the 3rd floor. This is not unlike many truly P2W games.

It’s not how much you spend for “perceived” gains, it’s how much you’re FORCED to spend just to make it to the top level.

By this definition, GW2 is most definitely not P2W.

So what about for people who think GW2 is more like the second store? It’s not like their opinions are invalid, as you said it’s all about how it is perceived.

EDIT: Bah I got roped back in here somehow. Darn.

Commisar.8695:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Ft7TZthuM

God bless.

Oh my. I’m so happy. It’s so beautiful. Brought a tear to my eye. Best WvW video yet.

FVCT.2479:

Possibly a new profession is in the works?

One would assume so after a year and a half, but they have been pretty tight lipped about it. Look for more info in 2014 imo.

blakjak.2970:

So I was running some CoF and got my regular hobby dungeon explorer achievement.
Those numbers.

I shudder to think on what ANet thinks grind is if this game has minimal grinding in it with that many dungeon runs needed.

Haha, that is an awesome screenshot. Thanks for the share

Gnat.9405:

I would just like the physics department to add some weight behind player characters’ attacks.

Now that would be cool, more realistic combat movement would be a big plus for me as well.

Mimizu.7340:

why do people continually start Suggestion threads in the Discussion forum?

Honestly, because the suggestions thread is devoid of any human life I think. To really get any attention for a good idea, GD is a better place even though it shouldn’t be.

Aarean.5398:

Aeonblade.8709:

Aarean.5398:

This is funny. So many whiners coming out over this. Gw2 only problem is the amount of babies it attracts to complain about its content. I enjoy the game and what they release. Whether you have something to complain about or not this post is NOT the place and you guys cant figure that out. Anet needs to start a complaints subforum and delete all the whining not posted there lol. Its all subjective because i enjoy this game alot more than wow and wow never had this much whining. Simple fact is people are spoiled.
Again this topic is CONGRATS ANET GOT AN AWARD AND NO WHINING WILL CHANGE THAT ITS DONE AND OVER WITH.

I really didn’t see much whining beyond the 2 or 3 troll posts at the beginning of the thread…I thought this was a gem in the rough honestly lol.

Well it kind of includes the nonstop whining on a day to day basis as well. Which is continuous as im sure you know.

True that is

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

JustTrogdor.7892:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Well, the category is ‘expansion or update’ and it doesn’t specify that it has to be perm.

Either way I find it odd that the most highly acclaimed GW2 ‘update’ isn’t really GW2 but an 8bit side game. I’ll dig up my NES if I want to play those types of games.

shrug

All rewards are opinion based. You don’t necessarily have to agree. Its just like critics and movies. The critics give it a C, you go see it, like it, to you it gets an A.

cough Pacific Rim best movie ever cough cough

(A good example, didn’t do well in theaters or reviews, but I loved that movie.)

JustTrogdor.7892:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Well, the category is ‘expansion or update’ and it doesn’t specify that it has to be perm.

Either way I find it odd that the most highly acclaimed GW2 ‘update’ isn’t really GW2 but an 8bit side game. I’ll dig up my NES if I want to play those types of games.

While I agree with what you are saying, this is a win either way for GW2. It gets some recognition, helps seal the deal of SAB’s return for those who do enjoy it.

All we have to do is not play it if we don’t enjoy it, and let the people who do enjoy it have fun.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I would have to say i’m against this… All this does is give Anet a reason to basically say:

-> Sticks fingers in ears
-> screams lalalalalalalalalla as loud as you can
-> The game is perfect, there are no problems, see these “important” posters say so

Unless you are suggesting that they also flag and read highly critical posters not just the cheerleaders. People take the time to post ranting critical posts for a reason, they see a problem and want it fixed.

I would assume he/she meant both ends of spectrum, negative and positive feedback, as long as the poster isn’t using personal attacks or insults.

Also, I’m pretty sure sticking their fingers in their ears is what they have been doing up until now anyway, so no loss right?

Grats GW2, can’t say I agree with it at all, as that was my least favorite LS update, but to each their own and I’m glad Anet is getting some recognition for something

If it had been permanent, I could see this being more deserved. Hint Anet. But I don’t think 2-3 weeks of temporary anything should be considered or even measured against a full fledged expansion. It’s like comparing a Pinto to a Ferrari and saying the Pinto is better because it’s old school.

Grats again Anet on all your awards so far

Oozo.7856:

Preacher.4836:

Guys… This is WvW. It’s not designed to be perfectly balanced, and that is most notable in the small group fights. WvW is not about making sure that your opponent and you have the same advantages and disadvantages, and smart players will always try to give themselves the advantage. Advantages can be number of players, skill of players, maneuvering/fight location and a bunch of other things.

So yeah you died because you were outnumbered, out of position or out skilled. If you don’t want to die change your behavior and adapt. Only a fool will expect his enemy to give him a fair fight, so make sure the odds are in your favor before you commit.

Now, if you want the short and sweet version. Stop complaining that it wasn’t fair.

Preacher

When exactly did AZRG change from a guild that used to fight the odds (great movies, btw)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdPs52iTeA

to a guild that will only commit when the odds are in their favor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36ZG_JR-bk

Uh. So what was a random video of you dying to 3 or 4 different guilds that probably had no knowledge of some 1v1 that was all in your head prove exactly? I’m just watching this from the side with popcorn, but whatever that video was supposed to be it just made it seem like you are whining. The people that came in and stomped you weren’t even the same tag.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Really? I never had a problem and found the community way more tolerable than the GW2 dungeoning community. Open Raid is not illegal btw and it lets you list requirements. Don’t like them? Then don’t join.

Also if they are heroic geared there is no reason for them to be in Flex unless they are helping a friend out.

Guess it differs cluster to cluster, but my experience with Flex raiding was one that accelerated me leaving the game and coming back here more often. LFR was maybe a 15 minute queue time, or I could sit there and get turned down again and again because 523 ilevel is far too low to do flex SoO for most of the groups I encountered, even though the game said I was ready to move up.

It’s a pretty good idea imo. Would go a long way to make WvW feel rewarding again (or even to begin with).

It should at least be looked at as a way to equalize matches, since most of the tiers are set in stone these days.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

Yargesh.4965:

If they standardized it so there was less room for personal bias it might be worthwhile.

Yeah I saw the bias thing as both a plus and a minus. I agree, with 340 ANet employees, what employee 1 thinks may not be the same thing as what employee 339 thinks useful. Hopefully they are all like minded but individualism will surely rear its ugly head

Maybe this would work around it?
Any ANet employee could flag a poster and it would get somehow highlighted but if you as an Anet employee flags someone, then it would get a slightly different flag denoting someone YOU deem worthy.

Having the flags be on a per person basis would be a good idea. This would let devs get hands on with good ideas, and then they personally could agree or disagree with them, without impressing on others their own views without a discussion on the topic first.