Guild Wars 2

Maybe not a “slap in the face”, but there is definitely some emotion that is brought up when I go out of my way during each opportunity to get every mini possible. When my play time is structured around methods for getting minis I don’t already have it’s not just “/sadface”, it’s more like… like I was playing a game and I thought I understood the rules(that minis were a collection that I could keep up to date and completed), and then the rules change overnight. It’s gone from a thing that I had to either grind out gold for, do challenging content, or switch to a larger guild so I could get commendations and changed in to a “randomly attend all our events in case we have an unannounced mini available there”.

Like I said, not a slap in the face like arena net came up to me personally and was all “screw you, let me poop in your cheerios”. But it has gone from difficult, challenging and time consuming in game collecting to something that I just am not physically able to do because of my financial situation… and it sucks man.

Cloud Dragon?

Helenorz.2547:

and also, just a FYI, this mini is no longer $500 on ebay. it’s more like $40.

Only a single sold listing shows at $40. A few are around $60 and the last sold listing went for $91. They will only go up in price now that there are only like 3 listings on ebay.

They should Fate. I think it would be hilarious how much uproar there would be about an event only legendary.

I don’t mind spending real money on minis though. For the rytlock I bought the collector’s edition. For the HOM minis I actually went out and bought the GW1 complete collection from gamestop and am slowly working my way towards the minis. This is the first mini made so that the only way I can get it is ebay. Like I said, I don’t mind spending money on minis, but before all that money has gone towards the developers/publishers of GW1 and GW2. The idea of it going to RandomEbayGuy693 bothers me. Maybe it shouldn’t, but I personally feel like anet could have handled it differently and it’s a tad bit upsetting that right now my only option is a 3rd party RMT site.

For a year now every mini has been obtainable via gameplay. All of a sudden that’s not true any more and it sucks pretty hard. I really don’t understand this decision at all and I really wish someone from PR would realize that is does cause alienation in it’s users. It certainly makes me not want to spend any more money on minis.

You could say the EXACT same thing about people that buy minis in the gemstore right? Spending real money on an in game mini. The ONLY difference is where that money is going. For minis sold via the gem store the money goes to anet. For this really kittenty system they have with mini mr. sparkles the money goes to randomebayguy43262.

Literally don’t care how you make it available, just make it available. In game rewards for real life events is a terrible policy and I was under the impression it wouldn’t happen again after everyone expressed their dislike for it in regards to the dragon t-shirts.

Gem store, rare drop, mystic forge, RNG box. Literally anything other than “attend a costly event across the country”.

It’s not even just SAB. The game really really needs a /die command that can be used anywhere except pvp and wvw.

Just wanted to chime in again and let anet know that I’m disappointed with how they’ve handled this so far.

I’ll be honest. Spend about 20 hours looking around this level. It’s lost all fun and excitement of exploration about 10 hours ago. I’m done with this achievement unless someone posts a completed guide or some help is provided from a dev. Though honestly I’d be happy if a dev gave us no hints and simply said “XYZ number of players have completed this achievement” so we know it’s possible. After the absurd amount of time I’ve spent looking for this I really feel like it’s a bugged achievement and don’t feel like wasting any more time on it.

Just because it’s happened before doesn’t mean it should happen in the future. “It’s always been done that way” is a terrible reason to do something. Hard to attend out of game activities should never reward exclusive in game content. A lot of people dismiss this because it’s a mini, but what if they started giving out legendary skins that aren’t available in game at these events. A blazing phoenix greatsword legendary that shoots fiery birds, sets your character on fire, and leaves fiery bird footprints behind. People would absolutely lose their kitten over it.

Mini Mr. Sparkles would be nice. Willing to pay 4000 gems for it.

Nighthawk.6453:

No, that would be nice, but unfair. That level of difficulty is possible because you don’t get any unique reward. If they add a title – that would be totally unfair to newbies that can’t do it.

They’ve already shown they don’t give a flying kitten whether something is fair to obtain as evidenced by Mini Mr. Sparkles.

Player Character.9467:

This one’s my favorite, unfortunately it’s also very poorly lit.

Needs moar gamma.

Did you finish the dragon boss? Because on infantile it’s kind of a joke. You can just stand at the top of the rainbow platforms and afk until it’s time to dps the boss. Then you walk up and press 1 until he gets up. As for his “cheap charge”. You can outrun it. He sometimes still catches up, but you can avoid most of it by just running along the outer circle.

How did you get yourself to walk for a short distance at the end? Also have you made it past the traps at the end of that?

Can you list what you’ve found so far laknihs? No way to know if someone has one of the two you’re missing unless you post what you already have.

The second I get knocked past my checkpoint, I stop trying. There is no point in trying to recover after that. Yes, about 10% of the time I can recover but it gets to a point where once I hit the water I’m tired of fighting and I just want to start over. Not asking for this to be mandatory, but by far the most frustrating part of W2 so far are sections where you lose complete control of your character for a long period of time with little to no chance of recovery. It’s the most anti-fun mechanic I’ve experienced yet in SAB.

I don’t mind dying. I don’t mind doing the same run hundreds and hundreds of times over and over. I do mind that falling in the water means waiting forever for my HP to eventually run out so I can just restart at the checkpoint. I would like to have landing in the moving water to just instakill me so I can do another attempt. Punishing players for a failed jump or for getting hit by a mob is fine, death is appropriate. What’s not appropriate punishment is the forced wait for your character to finish tumbling while slowly losing 1/2 a heart each time.

No, I don’t think you should ever segregate your user base even over something dumb like this. MMOs are the great equalizer, where you get out of the game what you put into it. Saying that only wealthy individuals with an excess of free time, or just be lucky and live next to the convention center, can get in game rewards and no one else can is a great way to divide the community.

So… there are new SAB minis and I don’t know if I should buy them. I’m on the verge of just giving up mini collecting seeing as how I don’t feel like ebaying to finish it. The question is should I spend more real life cash on the SAB minis and hope they make mr. sparkles available later, or should I just call it quits now?

I think this is one of those issues where the people it affects it affects in a significant way, but there aren’t enough of those people (mini collectors) to really cause a big fuss. So arenanet’s way of handling it is to just ignore us until we’ve just accepted that being a mini collector means spending large amounts of real world money on 3rd party sales sites like ebay.

I don’t think 800 is too much. Even 1600 would be fine. But only as a once a year mini available for purchase during the game’s birthday.

Literally ANYTHING other than having to buy it from 3rd party websites. Worst kittening mistake I’ve seen anet make since the games launch.

Just curious, does anyone still get together premades and queue up for the team queue?

Similar to how there is a unique recipe for the twisted minis. When I found that out my first thought was, "Oh, Sparkles must be a mystic forge recipe obtained from combining the 3 golems you get from guild commendations + something else. It all made sense logically until I found that you couldn’t forge those.

I think most people can agree that exclusive in game items for attending real world events isn’t fair. I think a mystic forge recipe for sparkles requiring the 3 commendation golems and maybe the inquest golemcaster would be a great idea and one I think most people would really enjoy.

I guess they don’t. Pretty sure this is one of those things that literally everyone is universally against. Hell, I’ve even seen some of the rare and lucky few that got these guys saying that it’s a pretty unfair and kittenty system.

I thought anet learned their lesson last time with the shirt. People dislike it a great deal when you make in game items completely and utterly inaccessible for the lifetime of the game. Even worse when you label that item a “collectible” and then make it impossible to collect it.

Looks like character based unfortunately. Really punishes players who remake characters and those who would routinely create pvp characters.

Dropped thousands of gold getting all the minis. Is it really to be eternally marked as incomplete because I don’t have the funds to fly to germany?

Same thing here. My watchknight is gone. here is a screenshot of the achievement and my empty bank.

Guys, when reporting PLEASE remember to hover over the food buff and make sure it’s a HP regen one before reporting.

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As always, please use the in game report tool to report said players.
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What option should we be choosing. None of them seem to fit. The only way I’ve found to report is to press Escape->click support->report bug->then use the “take screenshot” button while targetting them and there still isn’t an appropriate category to choose. I’ve just started taking screenshots of their name and account and posting them to https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/ask/ and attaching the screenshot under violation report.

I really hope exploiters are punished.

If no one plans on fixing this then can someone just disable this from appearing as a daily.

Been trying throughout the day. Still not fixed.

and…. can’t get it again today.

Was fixed. Fixed 5 minutes before reset. Got credit it for it at literally 1 minute before. Feels really unfair for those that got screwed out of it.

Well, it’s looking like this won’t be fixed today. Really hope they will retroactively credit people with the singular achievement point. I know it doesn’t seem like much but if you have a competitive leader board based on getting these points then limiting players with bugs doesn’t seem fair and should definitely be addressed.

Is there any chance at all that this will be fixed before daily reset. Seems really screwed up to have an achievement leaderboard and then allow some people to randomly get ahead because they did an achievement before it bugged out and blocked progress for everyone else.

Yeah, it seemed to work before a patch that happened shortly after daily reset. I really hope this gets resolved before reset tomorrow.

Also bugged. No credit. In the screenshot you can see my score on the scoreboard and at the top of the screen. You can also see that I have 0% for my daily at the top right. Please fix this. I detest crab toss game with every fiber of my being, but I enjoy getting achievements. If I’m going to be pushed in to this situation at least get the achievements to give credit.

1. Solo Queue
2. No really, a real solo queue
3. Not a duo queue, or a tri/quad queue. Solo queue. You join alone and you get paired up with 4 other SOLO queue players. You will face 5 other randomly placed players who also solo queued. You do not get placed against a coordinated group of players that are able to communicate at the speed of voice. S O L O Q

I just want to let out a sincere thank you to Josh for letting us know the droprate. You don’t know how nice it is to hear it. Not sure why MMOs don’t like divulging that sort of information, it is EXTREMELY helpful and we love hearing it.

“I’ve cleared all the way to the boss”

Well, there are 15 more baubles in the boss chest…

Yes they are the exact same skins. Also “lol @ people buying them”… so? Some people don’t want to run the thing 20 times to get the 12500 baubles total needed to purchase a skin. Some people want the skin on multiple characters. I know I’ve fallen in love with the skins and personally want GS on my War, Mes, Guard, Ranger. I want the Sword on my Mes and Thief. Backpack on my Engi. Shield and scepter for Guard. Staff for ele. That’s 10 skins. There is no way I plan on farming that many. I’d rather just farm 2 or 3 and buy the rest. Currently buy orders are filling for like 10g on some items so why bother grinding the skins when I can just buy them for dirt cheap.

World 1, Zone 1 the chest inside the chest. Got rare version of the staff skin.

OMG. WvW right after reset is a mass of words.

According to this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Turn-off-Titles-below-Nameplate/page/2#post1727221

They are aware this is an issue and will find a way to address it.

I’m really glad you guys realize this is something that should be addressed. Personal suggestion:

Default: If player names are shown then titles are shown
Option: Hide title display for all players

If a character is selected, show the title regardless of settings.
If the mouse is hovered over a character, show the title regardless of settings.

I think this will get people wanting to display their titles the maximum exposure while at the same time being able to hide that information if a player is in a situation where it is distracting/causes screen clutter/hides other player’s names.

Yeah, really want an option to hide this. Hiding names isn’t an option in WvW.

I understand why some people want their titles shown, but this really needs to be toggle-able. If I target someone, or hover over them, by all means show me all info related to that person. However my screen was already pretty cluttered with names before, which I felt necessary to have up so I could see where my guildmates and party members were, now it’s borderline illegible. Please let us show names without titles!