Guild Wars 2

You do not like ele? Choose another profession. Besides XP and leveling is not required for PvP, so you may delete Elementalist and choose it’s name again.

You got eight other professions to choose from, so feel free to try them all.

Hail Necro! Hail Conditions!
All Mighty Necro, please spare our mortal lives!

Not all players will be satisfied, but most people are satisfied; for example: active players not complaining on forums or writing support tickets.

As long someone plays the game, then he/she likes it, otherwise that someone would not play the game in the first place (except for testing purposes).

This topic is a great idea. I would also love 5 stats.

Try playing PvP with a full premade team together in voice chat (example: Teamspeak).

@Bwadark.2519

Why did you start Ranked PvP? You wanted ranked PvP stress, now you have it. Next time read the forums before starting PvP ranked, to avoid distroying your own entertainment with stress.

[trolling]

You can drop tiers? When? Where? How?
Please tell me… I have 2 more ticks and I will finish Diamond.

[/trolling]

What?! You want more scandal?! Can’t you read the forums?!

ArenaNet, please do not release patch notes before 26 January so I can enjoy peace a little longer.

So far, many people consider Mercenary as the new must-have amulet after balance patch, because the majority of players will be using it.

For now, let’s just thank ArenaNet for their creativity and ingenuity regarding PvP.

Evan Lesh.3295:

We are still watching this thread to determine configuration changes for ladder search range.

Wait… you are watching this thread? You are not watching game logs and game statistics?

Dr Patrik.3642:

What is so bad about energy sigil that it has to be so heavily nerfed? The only classes it will really affect are ones that rely on dodging to stay alive. So given the current information, those classes will be weak after the patch anyways.

In my opinion it had to be nerfed so it can be harder.
By getting a boon you will use it’s effect after 5 seconds; meanwhile Vigor can be corrupted into Bleeding.

I had fun with Elementalist before celestial was added to PvP. Something tells me Ele will not die and I shall have fun with it.

Changes to PvP are good, otherwise we will get bored.

Do not worry. Elementalist will not die. No profession will be removed or rendered unusable, otherwise the game and gems will not sell.

Worst case scenario: elementalist will no longer be meta, but will still exist a great PvP build for it.

In my personal opinion, I think elementalist should no longer be meta. I played 4.3k games on elementalist since game release. Since celestial was added in PvP in 2014 (if I remember right) elementalist is in meta. Even an international tournament was won with 2 elementalists on same team. Sorry, but it was in top for too long and now it should drop from the podium. 2 years of continuous meta is enough for any profession. We should make room for something else (because nothing is perfect).

No matter what happens, elementalist will still be playable and fun.

Some say a profession is dead. Others say another profession is dead.

Let’s be clear: nothing is dead. The game is very much alive. If you like a profession, play it, enjoy it, have fun with it. Everything else is speculation.

If you want to throw the meta argument in response, please make sure you are the winner of at least 10.000$ 1st prize tournament. That is where meta counts, that is where all small adjustments and teamwork counts. If you are just another casual player, or best player wannabe, then simply enjoy the game first, before acting desperately on forums that some profession is dead.

Remember this: Pacman is not dead, it’s still played, after so many years. I think elementalist or any other profession will not die in 3 weeks. This is a game, we should enjoy it now, because it’s future success lies in your present fun.

The game already has 2v2, 3v3, arenas. Just create a custom arena Courtyard, and set it for 2v2, 3v3, or whatever you desire. Simple.

I do not understand why many people complain. In my opinion this slot is great.

It is simple: get 1 Shared Inventory Slot + 1 Permanent Bank Access Contract, and you will have your bank with collectables and wardrobe, available everywhere, on all characters.
Now that is huge storage and right now you can’t get any better than this.

I like it when ArenaNet creates new things, new items, new designs without reforging, new special effects and new properties. I like this new item.

What I do not like is people not being able to see something different here. If players want bag slots, they can buy Bag Slot Expansion (400 gems); if they want to transfer those legendary items much faster (without going to bank), they can buy Shared Inventory Slot (slot, not bag, 700 gems).

If you do not understand something, simply search info about it (official news, official wiki, videos, screenshots, etc.)

People should read official news, official wiki, or even watch youtube videos, before buying items.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shared_Inventory_Slot

Some people should really read the notes and official wiki.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shared_Inventory_Slot

Some people do not know how to read, others simply do not understand what they read, others do not care and buy anyway.

For all of you, if you do not understand something, there is wiki database helping you with more information, or videos with people posting what they bought.

For more information, check this link from official wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shared_Inventory_Slot

10/10 for Tuthan.3250

This is my Revenant, burning for PvP, in a candle.

Nightshade.5924:

Still can’t get past the stupid moronic melt under your feet snowflakes. For the third year running. How anyone does, despite evidence to the contrary, is beyond me. Farm it? I’d like to just get to the second stage.

Shame on ANet for gating the WP collection behind something that not everyone can do. Not everyone is a JP god. And it would have been nice to know that the WP collection was set up that way, UNLIKE ANY OTHER COLLECTION THAT I AM CURRENTLY AWARE OF, so that I could have NOT wasted any time or money on it.

The drinks and candy canes were also rather out of control. 10000 of anything should NOT be an achievement slated for 3 weeks… more like 3 months, if not 3 YEARS. Kinda like the WvW achievements. Pretty much an all around EPIC FAIL, so far as I am concerned. And it MUST be said, that’s pretty rare here in GW2. Maybe NEXT year sanity, reason, and common sense will prevail. I certainly HOPE that they will.

Bah Humbug.

I can not give enough +1 to this post. This is also what I think.

Nightshade.5924:

Still can’t get past the stupid moronic melt under your feet snowflakes. For the third year running. How anyone does, despite evidence to the contrary, is beyond me. Farm it? I’d like to just get to the second stage.

Shame on ANet for gating the WP collection behind something that not everyone can do. Not everyone is a JP god. And it would have been nice to know that the WP collection was set up that way, UNLIKE ANY OTHER COLLECTION THAT I AM CURRENTLY AWARE OF, so that I could have NOT wasted any time or money on it.

The drinks and candy canes were also rather out of control. 10000 of anything should NOT be an achievement slated for 3 weeks… more like 3 months, if not 3 YEARS. Kinda like the WvW achievements. Pretty much an all around EPIC FAIL, so far as I am concerned. And it MUST be said, that’s pretty rare here in GW2. Maybe NEXT year sanity, reason, and common sense will prevail. I certainly HOPE that they will.

Bah Humbug.

I can not give enough +1 to this post. This is also what I think.

Donari.5237:

The 30 rounds of Snowball Mayhem alone will take a good hunk of hours and you’ll need to spend time in Bell Choir and Toypocalypse as well. Getting the dolyak escorts going so you can pick up dropped gifts may cost you gold as most people aren’t donating to Ho-Ho-Tron any longer. You’ll need to watch timers for when Claw of Jormag is up so you can go do that, and you need to do that boss 3 times. I don’t think you will be able to do Grawnk for the Star of Gratitude since as I recall that requires three days of bringing food to the Grawnk.

Here is Dulfy’s guide: http://dulfy.net/2015/12/16/gw2-2015-a-merry-wintersday-achievements-guide/

Take a gander and start planning your very long day … good luck!

And good luck grinding 10k drinks in 1 day.

From what I understand, Summer 2016 is perfect for completing Winter 2015, because many drinks will come back in Trading Post.

Thank you ArenaNet for decisions of 6 months suspensions. We will have many snowflakes and many winter drinks in summer.

6 months is OK.
After 6 months they will come back, wearing all the rewards you did not obtain (because of them), and that will motivate all players to continue the fun with honesty, hard work, and non-automated grind.

Aidenwolf.5964:

From the company’s point of view I can certainly see why you wouldn’t perma ban a gold buyer as they’re likely to buy gems legally and sellers perma ban is obvious. I haven’t had to try 6 times to get into a JP since your ban wave so I guess you nabbed a truck load, GG.

I would want to see your face 6 months from now, when you will see that truckload of players coming back and wearing the skin of Wintersday you did not manage to obtain, because of them.

@Chris Cleary: Thank you.

At start, this game was not built for PvE grinding, but dynamic events, engaging players in a changing content with story. Now we were asked to grind 10k drinks on Christmas holiday.

At start, this game was not built on the idea of 1v1, it was built on teamwork and PvP balance with teams. Something tells me this concept will soon change too. Just wait a bit.

Who knows. Hopefully next year there will be some new skin for 1.000.000 drinks. People will love it for that great prestige and great looking.
:)

Ayrilana.1396:

Alin.2468:

Bans are good, but is too little… too late. Wintersday is almost over. Besides, baned accounts are not a solution.

It was much easier to simply remove those achivements with 10k drinks and food since day 1 of Wintersday. That way there would have been no hacking, no exploiting, no bans, and no flaming in forums.

No. That’s not a good way to handle the issue.

It is the best way to handle any issue, because it’s all about cause and effect. You can choose to treat the cause, or it’s simptoms. If you only treat simptoms, the disease still remains.

They can choose to remove the reason of exploiting, or ban accounts. If you remove the motivation for exploiting, nobody would do it because there would be no reason to exploit. If you ban accounts, the motivation is still there, and hackers would only create new accounts and continue what they wanted (skin or gold).

Bans are good, but is too little… too late. Wintersday is almost over. Besides, baned accounts are not a solution.

It was much easier to simply remove those achivements with 10k drinks and food since day 1 of Wintersday. That way there would have been no hacking, no exploiting, no bans, and no flaming in forums.

There is none. Choose what you like. Most easiest class is the one you love growing; most efficient class is defined by what you like doing. The limit is not in the game, but in your mind and imagination.

smiling.9028:

Alin.2468:

this no-life record

Alin.2468:

your virtual item

Judge much?

@OP good for you and congrats! I’m always surprised how far people will go to belittle someone else’s work doing something they enjoy for no apparent reason. When we go play Baseball, Basketball, Hockey we don’t get told they are "no-life efforts and the final score isn’t considered a “virtual” item just because it isn’t tangible.

While I don’t share your enthusiasm for the JP i can see your efforts have brought you happiness and even some coin to put towards other goals. Because that’s what a MMORPG is all about to me, setting goals and reaching them

Let’s make things clear: this is an online game (or product) with a specific target. This is not an official sport or e-sport. You can not earn money from doing jumping puzzles, but you can earn money from baseball. I think your goals should be changed (my opinion), otherwise you will reach nothing but making a product more profitable for someone else, on the expense of your personal life time.

The boundaries of no-life are pushed to new horizons every month, event after event. It’s hard to say something good or bad about this, because soon will come another player and break this no-life record, and another player after that, and so on.

If there is one thing we can not control or predict, is the craziness of human mind.

If you enjoy that much this event… go on and have fun, be all you can be. Don’t let anyone stop you from getting your virtual item, useful only for a few characters.

PulsarianDevil.8125:

aerial.7021:

Alin.2468:

aerial.7021:

I remember the days when we used to gather around, with glee and excitement each yearly event from halloween to wintersday, waiting to see what funny hats Dwayna & Grenth had for us that year, free they where as we stood on our chosen circle on the ground, collecting presents ever so often as well all free no effort required just be there, those days are gone now we must button mash and ignore all else in a tireless pursuit for it, why ArenaNET did you employ the Grinch to ruin the fun of those yester years?

Because things have changed.
Why?! Because they want more and more money.
In the past you obtained rewards for free (such as Toymaker Bag) or did a few very casual events.
Now, the mechanic is much more simple, with just a few clicks: buy gems, use gems to buy gold, use gold to obtain Christmas rewards. We should be happy, not sad. It’s a new year and over the past year rewards got easier to obtain.

That doesn’t mean all progress is a good thing, some progressive things are hideous and heinous crimes against humanity with various degrees of black to white, using a yearly event to gorge greedily on your customers with an event that is about giving and charity is one of those things from my perspective that falls into a darker gray area, if we want a civilization that is progressively good then we need to do good things to each other, if we want a greedy selfish civilization then we only need agree to the insanity of our current world, or you stand up against it and be counted in the face of all that is wrong and say no more.

This is 1 time a year they truly could show gratitude for their customers, “Please insert Credit Card here”, for your virtual items just doesn’t cut it, not because I would deny them finical reward far from it but because of the time of year this 1 particular event exists.

They probably make a hell of a lot more money with the gem shop than they would if they charged everyone $15 a month to play the game. And the conversion rates for gems/gold are particularly greedy too — but it is what it is. I like the game, and I’m glad it isn’t “pay-to-win” (having endless gems doesn’t make your char stronger than other chars). Overall I’ve spent less on GW2 than other MMO’s over a similar time span (July 2013 – present), mainly due to the lack of a monthly fee. I did buy gems for the first time this fall (initially as part of the expansion, and later, another 8800) — but most of those later gems were for a holiday gift, and not for me personally.

I think they could make a vote, to change GW2 into subscription based. I honestly think, if all players would pay 1$ per month, Anet would make a lot of money, so they can not even think about designing such strange and awful achivements in holidays. I would pay 1$ per month, simply to not be offended by such marketing, especially on Christmas times.

jarieleledan.8249:

Ok, I think my question disappeared in the merging.
Will the essence of snowfall and essence of mischief be doable after wintersday too?

Honestly, I think you should ask in a support ticket about this. I doubt people care that much about a complicated and expensive Wintersday skin to complete this skin after Wintersday is over.

In many players opinions this Wintersday is a complete fail, because last year (2015), a new and powerful beast came into this game and started appearing more often than before; it’s called Greed. This greed makes many players not care about such different achievements, and move on with their fun. If you still desire to be among the few chosen ones to complete such strange achivements, then ask in support, as these are not achivements for casual players or majority of gamers.

Tiny Tove.3589:

After Anet pulled the 10,000 drinks requirement out of their kittens I stopped caring about bots. I literally do not, can not and will not blame anybody for botting in the face of such hatred.

I’m going to stop reporting gold sellers too.

It’s a small contribution to lowering standards that I make compared to Anet’s.

No I don’t care if you cry.

Ideed. I also do not care. What is the point of all this stress?
When Anet introduced 10k drinks, what did we expect? People actually spending time away from family and jobs, to get them? Or we expect people to go and buy 6k gems for converting in gold?

Sure not. In front of such strong requirements, people will try to cheat and exploit the game features, people will try to buy gold directly from gold sellers or other online resources.

In conclusion, I also do not care. As a protest to such high standards I will do absolutely nothing.
Thank you Anet for all this fun, Happy New Year.

1. Game is too easy. Rewards should much harder to get and should require much more time spent ingame.

2. I want to spend more gems in shop. All items, achievements and rewards should not be account bound, so I can buy them with gems (or gold, by converting gems to gold).

aerial.7021:

I remember the days when we used to gather around, with glee and excitement each yearly event from halloween to wintersday, waiting to see what funny hats Dwayna & Grenth had for us that year, free they where as we stood on our chosen circle on the ground, collecting presents ever so often as well all free no effort required just be there, those days are gone now we must button mash and ignore all else in a tireless pursuit for it, why ArenaNET did you employ the Grinch to ruin the fun of those yester years?

Because things have changed.
Why?! Because they want more and more money.
In the past you obtained rewards for free (such as Toymaker Bag) or did a few very casual events.
Now, the mechanic is much more simple, with just a few clicks: buy gems, use gems to buy gold, use gold to obtain Christmas rewards. We should be happy, not sad. It’s a new year and over the past year rewards got easier to obtain.

We will soon be going into 2016.
Will there be some super offer on gems, items and HoT expansion? For example I would love to buy some old (returning) items from Black Lion.

Sandpit.3467:

I was just wondering, if Winter’s Presence was a Gem Store item, how much would it be?

I think it would be about 400 gems. But this is not relevant from profit perspective. As it stands now this item costs about 6000 gems converted into gold. This is exactly why we should congratulate marketing team for taking the most profitable decisions at the end of this year (2015).

Besides, if I remember corectly, they decided to not put armor skins for gems, only outfits. Therefore, not having Winter’s Presence for gems does not impact their long term decision, instead it provides a lot of gems income, while gold becomes less valuable (from so much gold being ingame – look at how prices do not drop at the end of the event).

If you want to think smart, start buying gems now, with gold, while nobody does and everyone is focused on those drinks; because after this event is over, there will be so much gold ingame that prices per gem will go straight up like a rocket.

Stormy Dragon.9210:

Fast forward to 2015, and suddenly the big collection for this year’s Wintersday cannot be completed without doing the jumping puzzle multiple times.

I am extremely unhappy about this.

We are all unhappy about this, because things change, and not the way customers desire.

The only strong feedback we can provide is not completing the events at all, and let only a few die-hard players do them. That way marketing team will feel their holiday decisions in next year statistics.

This should have been a beautiful event for a special holiday, instead it’s a big Grind Wars for whoever catches more drinks for an achivement and skin special effect.

Where are the good old days when Santa gave players a free item on Christmas?

I think I will not complete this Grind Wars – Wintersday Collection, for 3 reasons:

1. I hate leaving my family for hours of grinding in a FTP game.

2. I do not wish to destroy my mouse or fingers with 20.000 clicks (10.000 double-clicks), because exploiting Grind Wars client with other software is not allowed.

3. If I would obtain 800 gold from gems, it would cost me about 75$. Instead of spending 75$ on my ingame character for Festive Imbiber achievement and skin; I think it’s better, in my personal opinion, to spend 75$ on imbibing myself with beer and wine for 2 whole weeks.

There is a response from ArenaNet.

Bandit Sniper bundle was released on November 24 and since then price for Shadow Abyss Dye dropped from 194 gold to 140 gold. Also, price for Shadow Blue Dye dropped almost instantly to 50% from 20 gold to 10 gold.

These are facts. This is ArenaNet’s response of bundle success.

I liked all bundles so far. I love it when prices drop, and this bandit outfit is so awesome. Thank you ArenaNet; keep up the great work for bundles.

A few players may cry on forums, but facts are an actual proof.
Shadow Dye is still dropping in price. This means players buy the bundle, therefore it’s a success.

How dare media show us Coca-Cola advertising?
How dare ArenaNet show us Trading Post advertising?
This is not acceptable. Have you all been living under a rock?

Bundles are not in Home page. You can find bundles in Promotions page and Style page.
Enjoy shopping.