Guild Wars 2

Due note – that we get free weapon slot cooldowns (basically) for swapping in between kits while other classes have 5 seconds. That is something that shouldn’t be ignored in this conversation.

Lox.1089:

I want to know why my Asura is so afraid of water. Is it really really cold or something? Any time i go into water, she screams as if I’m trying to kill her, even running through ankle deep water can trigger it.

could be worse, could be like mine where he screams whenever he goes thru a waypoint.

I personally love Engineer, the flexibility in the class is very good and once you get a feel on the class, it’s very fun. When I switch to other classes it feels like I’m missing something important.

1) have your password(s) to your account and email be very complex.

For example:

heli0s1sg0f0rl4ncht3st. or something similar. Typically with passwords you want to think of a phase and replace parts of the phase with capital letters, numbers and special symbols if possible. The phase should be memorable to you then you simply add your own flair to the password to make it unique.

unless zones get insanely large… which they probably wont… then there is literally no need or point to them. If you are outside the zone, you use the waypoint closest to the area you want to be in… inside the zone… it takes me only about a minute maybe 2 to get to the area I need to go.

Asura Engineer: Dob Clank
Asura Warrior: Tiny Being of Death
Human Thief: Apsalar BrdgBurner

Leiloni.7951:

Danikat.8537:

Although I have to admit I don’t know if inactive/non-participating players affect the event scaling. That would be harder to test because you’d need a group of people and a quiet area with a frequently occuring event to test it.

When an event starts, the size is determined by the amount of people already in the area.

Also it adjusts the event on a regular basis if more players enter the area during the middle of it.

TheVirtualFrog.8714:

maximumpanda.5178:

best rp i have seen yet:

necro LF erotic RP…

was enough to nope me off the internet for the day

That’s actually hilarious. I would have asked the guy if he prefers to make sweet Necro love to women with or without a head still attached to their neck.

Should have asked if sparkles are needed.

Kain Francois.4328:

Considering the fact it’s dumb for my profits to have posted the story period, I’m obviously not trying to inflate anything.

If anything, I see prices of Blood continuing to decrease because they are overfarmed.

I’m not an economist. Just trying to share my story and hopefully inspire others to do more than sell their mats.

I say inflate because people when they read this tend to jump on the bandwagon for the listed item pretty kitten quick, which will probably mean the armor will probably tank in price because of increased supply while the price for the materials will increase because of the demand.

Though it was definitely inspirational.

I can’t tell if this is an attempt to inflate that particular market cause if not… you probably just did for all those crafting materials. Some things you really should keep to yourself.

Asura Engineer all the way. to be honest – I like the racial Golems. hey provide a nice Oh kitten button that you press in emergencies.

My engineer looks pretty decent imo.

The Kryta shield look pretty nifty on the engineer becuase of the shape of the shield has a little built in “slot” on the side for a pistol it looks like to me. Reminds me of a riot shield or something.

I’ll tell you why a lot of the things are balanced they are… cause if we got 10% bleed bonus like some classes do, then grenades are painful. You can have a 6% chance on a crit for each grenade you throw (2-3) to put on a bleed stack with a certain trait. That means you have 18% chance to toss on a bleed stack on top of your bleeding grenades that automatically give it. Basically the engineer has to be balanced if you are going as a condition-type. I stack vulnerability like crazy (grenade spam from a distance I Admit) as well as a multitude of other conditions. So it’s not uncommon for me to max out the stacks fairly easy within a few seconds and keep it up there.

Also Adrenal implants do not stack with vigor btw. Probably explains why it’s a grand-master trait instead of the low level trait it used to be. They didn’t want anyone choosing both thinking they stack. By putting it in grand master, the chances of someone going for the 10 vigor trait bonus is slimmer.

Also side note – you have to be really really careful with the engineer when it comes to balancing, we can get absurdly powerful really easy because of the flexibility of the class. So if you are going to suggest things, you literally have to make sure nothing else in our class can make it broken or OP.

Just to point out, originally there was going to be “shotguns” in the game but they decided to merge them with rifles. Hence why engineer feel all shotgun like. The rifle is not bad per say, but I do wish we had a sniper rifle kit or something. Cause I wouldn’t mind giving up a utility slot to get some more range. Grenades are nice, but they are situation only tool and if you do have to practice in order to hit with them. Not saying grenades are bad mind you, just learning curve is involved.

To be honest, I see the armor much as more a cultural thing. Asura want functionality and things that work. Anything else is excess – so they remove it. shrugs though plenty of my guildmates have cute asura I guess. Ironically the big ears = boobs thing means that all of my guild mates are well endowed apparently.

Dishconnected
You seem to have missed the 2+ million soft wood logs @ 2c, then. If that isn’t supply glut then I don’t know.
Regardless, this claim is very curious and you are essentially calling ANet liars. whistle

Shrugs Just a theory. I put in many “I could be wrong” sentences that I don’t see a problem. It’s just a observation. Nor am I calling them liars either. I have no doubt in my mind they very much tried to make it global but the server could not keep up with the demand. So they could have switched it to regional.

Side note – on your remark with my other post – You are most likely correct and I’m fine with that since you bring up many valid points. My main concern is that it seems like the market is no longer getting an large influx of in/out items that should be happening with the large player-base we have. It very well could be other variables are affecting this and creating it – but I’m not sure. Shrugs It’s not really my concern. I just want casual players selling on the market not to feel intimidated and won’t sell their goods.

As for the FIFO method, to be honest, that is a horrible method, especially if someone decides to post – you know, 10,000 of one item.

Alexander Quess.1932:

They should just add a Tyrian version of poker then.

Ok, texa’s hold em, ante of 25 copper, 5 copper minimum bid!
Any takers?

yes please. I would totally do that… would Anet do it? sadly no. Gambling laws and all that.

Maxster.4521:

That depends on sell rate of a position, how you’re playing(slower with higher price faster with lower) and your overall money reserve. Especially by last. At some point, you’ll just forget about gathering.

true enough. Once you get sufficient gold reserve and enough goods moving around on the market – even now with my relatively low money supply (lost quite a bit of gold last week due to the rapid decline of some items within mere hours) – I don’t really focus on gathering that much. Then again, I don’t have very much time to play guild wars 2. I tend to login 5-6 times a day for 5-6 minutes, do buy orders, sell things, then log off. Been very busy lately and not able to play for long periods of time except on the weekends.

Though that spurs a question – are traders people who have less time to invest in the game and this is their solution to be involved in the game in an meaningful way? (rather than leveling, exploring, gathering, crafting etc).

Hippocampus.8470:

Finess.2176:

How does one become a “shark”?

According to this thread, to become a shark one must play EVE, it seems.

At least they aren’t arrogant and saying sharks only come from EvE Online. Technically speaking, you can become a shark by playing poker, blackjack, texa’s hold em, giving private loans out… etc…

I have to say, it is fairly easy to make a profit on the TP, however if you are expecting fields of gold that is easy to get – then your dead wrong. The market usually hovers 5-10% profit per 250 stack for a lot of the items I deal in. Sometimes I can score a 15, 20 or 30% percent profit on a stack, but that is very rare. You only score maybe 5-10 silver profit per stack. It takes time to be frankly honest and farming is a lot faster than buying/selling on the TP unless the market is in busy mode.

Risingashes.8694:

Server load:

Do you really think 1 million people hammering away at the server selling 250 stacks is less strain than 1 million people selling the exact amount they currently want to sell?

To me that can reduce the server load by 50%, 75%, or at least a large percent. How do you justify claiming that it would increase server load when the number of individual transactions would have to fall if the 250 limit was removed?

Seller protection:

If you are listing 10000 items you would have to expect being undercut. But that doesn’t mean you loose 1.35g it just means you need to wait until the buyers buy your products.

If you want more liquidity then it’s up to you, as the seller, to split your stack in to as many different packets as you think are nessesary. Maybe split it 25 times and relist once undercut, this means the removal of the 250 restriction has reduced your time wasted by 37%.

The point being that this ‘protection’ is just putting a silver lining on a needless restriction. Given complete freedom each buyer and seller could each act in exactly the same way that the system current forces. The difference being that it would be their choice, their strategy.

TP Participation:

People buying in small parcels will always have an advantage over high quantity buyers/sellers due to the ability to undercut. You’ve actually stated this in your own argument. How do you justify saying how large orders are uselesss due to undercutting while at the same time claiming that large orders would force small undercutters out of the market?

Seems to be internal inconsistancy.

Yes, but it’s not just server capacity, it’s one of Anet’s ways to control the market without dictating prices to people. As well as to control artificial inflation.

This is about keeping people engaged in the market so they are buying and selling goods. For people who only have lower amounts of goods to sell, larger amounts are intimidating. Do you honestly think many people really sell copper ore on the TP anymore?

if you feel like getting your money a month later or never depending upon the circumstance (Copper Ore)- that’s your choice. seriously, who would want to compete with a listing of 10,000 by 1 person? They already under cut any price that’s over 1,250+ items listed for many of the profitable items.

I feel People don’t quite understand how the trading post operates with sellers/buyers. I believe a large portion don’t even realize there is a 10% sales tax for example. For them the typical line of thought for most people is that it’s first in – first out.

So in the mind of the typical player, you put in 10,000 – you just blocked off that price range probably indefinitely until the 10,000 is gone (if ever). People will just hover down to the next lowest price and operate at that. As other people post large amounts as well, the trend will tank whatever product as people will continue to undercut to “avoid” waiting for their goods to be sold.

By having it sit in stacks of 250 – each one is counted as a seller at least giving the illusion that there is multiple people selling. This is healthy as to players they will see that there is multiple sellers and not just 1. So they are more likely to post at that price rather than undercut. Will they? some will. Not all. Of course there will always be under-cutters.

On my lower level characters – I have a crap ton of logs, do I bother selling them? Of course not. I ended up taking a crafting that used them so I didn’t just toss them out of my inventory. It wasn’t worth my time, effort and, money (listing fee) to post them on the trading post when there is tens of thousands which could mean months before they are sold. Otherwise, I would just toss them out of inventory or give them to a friend who needed them.

I agree on the ghosting bug comment, however until that is fixed, it will continue to plague the market and could be affecting low cost items – it’s just the higher price item losses are more vocal.

Putting your suggestion into play means elevating your goods to the level of those rare items in terms of cost and money which as you stated seems to stay with high valued orders.

Overall….

You want to make TP easier on yourself since you traffic a lot of goods, but you fail to realize the potential consequences on the market. If you don’t believe the amount of goods posted will negatively affect the health of the economy and thus your profit margins – that is up to you. I believe they will. There is a very good reason why Arena Net did it.

Perhaps you should ask yourself why they did it when they originally had it so high? They certainly don’t do things for the hell of it. There’s a reason/motive behind it we might never know. I feel it’s directly related to keeping the economy healthy and fit as possible while giving players as much freedom as possible in terms of pricing.

It’s understandable. To be honest, I think a lot of practice with the engineer is needed in order to succeed with it.

Also not every class is attuned to the player. Some people have natural draws to certain class. For me – It’s definitely the engineer. I can’t play the Mesmer class – the class mechanics just don’t mesh with my style. There is similar issues with the guardian though that could be just a drastic difference to the engineer class.

Side Note -

I also have a few observations about the market ever since it came up after they fixed the exploits and fixed the other problems.

I no longer believe the trading post is world wide and I believe it’s divided by region or by clusters of servers. As a programmer and server admin with some experience with Android, C++, Website Designing, Databases and a little Server Administration – there is very little reason for me to think the trading post is worldwide. I totally admit – I am just over a year from graduating with a Bach degree in Technology Management with minors in Leadership Studies and Business Administration. I do have Associates in Computer Technology with a focus towards Server administration. Does this mean my opinion worth any more than anyone else? Nope. I’m just stating why I think the way I do about this subject and where I’m coming from/thought flow.

I say this because there is a distinct lack of resources that we saw when the trading post was up during the launch. And by that I mean, the crap load of copper and other resources. Thousands upon thousands of it. Much like butter and logs etc are now but those aren’t selling.There is not simply enough buyers and sellers on the markets to justify it’s still worldwide.

If it was still world wide – we would have saw an inflow of absurd amounts of resources as people leveled up there characters but we haven’t. We’ve only seen thousands of resources but not tens of thousands which an very active population of over a million should be able to easily do on a daily basis. Even with the bots right now – certain crafting items have very few items listed in it. I highly doubt everyone is using that huge amount of resources produced by the active population.

Another reason why I say this is that with the world population, there would be more back and forth going on in the market place for prices as people would constantly jockey for best selling/buying price. Right now, it’s kind-of too smooth selling for the supposed amount of people.

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It is very possible I could have missed this event – I was fairly busy with real life and college early in September and for most of it. I don’t believe I have though.
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Risingashes.8694:

@AndrewWaltfeld.4621
If someone has an item be it 10 of it or 100,000 of it they should be able to quickly offer such goods at whatever price they want for them. It’s then up to the buyers whether they want to purchase it or not.

If someone with 10 items wants to sell their items then they should just offer it for 1c less like most do now.

Clogging up seems to just be a negative interpretation of providing goods to people. When did this become frowned upon?

What does ‘clogging up’ mean? Why are people with 10,000 of an item punished as opposed to someone with 100 of an item?

I put it in a negative light because I believe it will harm the market with both buyers and sellers. That is why I put it in negative light.

I wouldn’t call it punishment to be honest. It’s hardly a punishment for having that much resource. I see it as a blessing as my recent experience with the tiny totem market recession and me losing 14 gold in the process. If I had done what you suggested, the repercussions would have been far worse for me and everyone else who was in that market. I was able to quickly adapt as the market receded and recoup my losses at 7 gold which was at -30% loss. If I had act later , I wold have had 60-70% loss right now.

Simply put, by forcing you to put in quantities of 250, I believe that there is seavral reasons for this.

1) It is simply far easier for the Trading Post Database to keep the numbers low and deal in those stacks. I believe by forcing people to sell in lower quantities, the trading post is easier to keep up.

That is probably why they bumped it down so low from the first beta weekend. Even with the low amount of people during that weekend, they probably saw the signs of stress on the trading post and realized they need to a way to disperse it the processing load.

By keeping the stacks at 250, they realized that the trading post was able to keep up much more efficiently. As the beta tests grew in size, the trading post was able to keep up until launch week when it couldn’t handle the strain of 2 million players (or however many million).

2) It’s a form of protection for the Buyer/Seller. IF you post 10,000 tiny totems, any other players is going to see that in the TP.

As you can tell on the market for many items, people barely tolerate 1,000 of any item on a sell list or buy list before they decide to either undercut or increase the buying price to beat you. It prevents you from sinking tons of money/resources into a system, especially selling, from you getting screwed over.

3) Especially selling. I’m not repeating this and making it own individual category because it’s willy nilly. I’m doing it to hammer a point you have over looked heavily.

To sell 10,000 items on the trading post for example is a listing fee of 1 gold, 55 silver with a sale fee of 3 gold, 10 silver at the price of 31 copper per unit.

If everyone undercuts you – and they will 100% Of the time – you just lost 1 gold, 55 silver just to re-post those items. Did I mention the profit is only 2 gold 35 silver?

By forcing you to put in 250 stacks, you’ll only put in 4-5 at a time so you don’t flood the market with product.

4) Encourages players to buy and sell on the trading post. There is no one guild or server controlling the market of something. By posting in stacks of 250, the average user’s confidence in selling something will remain average/constant unless the product tanks heavily in the market.

If you see people posting 10,000 of something, your immediately thought is that you only have 100 or so, your product is not going to sell very well for a profit. So you don’t bother selling or you give in, and sell it to probably the same person who posted 10,000. Which leads to inflation as people stop posting product on the market for people to buy/sell. (Less Supply = higher prices because demand increases).

They will feel they can not sell the product and thus they won’t bother with the trading post. That is a very bad thing for this game and is essentially that the trading post remain an major hub of commence for this game. It provides not only health trading/commerce but server health as well. As everyone feels they can usually make some money off of the trading post.

5) Trading Post Ghost Bug

Need I say more? Do you really want to bet 1,000 or 2,000 or 10,000 resources and hope that small chance never happens? You won’t ever be able to get those resources back and that’s 31 gold down the hole for you. A small chance it could happen – yes. But the chance of it happening to you once increases as time goes on. Better to be an small quantity of 250. 250 is less of a hurt in your wallet.

That is why I believe the quantity of 250 is fine as it is. Both for physical reasons (Server processing speed/traffic) and protection for both Buyer/Seller. The quantity is a shield as much as you may dislike it.

Fay.2735:

I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Asura are racist but chauvinistic… definitely. They know they are the most intelligent of the races and aren’t afraid to rub it in. They even compete with each other for who is smartest.

Do they think the other races are stupid? For a large part yes. Do they therefore hate other races? No… racism generally implies a sense of hatred. The Asura are the most intelligent race and therefore aren’t boasting unfounded superiority when it comes to the mind department.

To be honest I think they just boast about their intelligence to distract you from their physical weakness a kind of nod to the pun ‘Making up for something’.

As for the Sylvari I honestly don’t understand where people keep thinking Sylvari are all serious. Have you met Sieran? Do you know who Caithe is? Have you seen their dance? Sylvari aren’t a serious race. They are generally kind and caring but unless it’s a serious matter they aren’t serious.

I have to agree with this statement. To be honest, I think like in any population group, you’ll have the Asura who don’t mind working with other races, those who hate it etc. It’s very hard to put a blanket statement over the Asura.

I can definitely agree with the sentiment that they feel superior in intelligence. They feel superior in their knowledge of magic and alchemy. I can’t call them all racists either since it’s too much a blanket term. That is probably why people are saying they aren’t either because it’s very hard to put a blanket term on something.

It’s like saying all cheerleaders are skinny. We know it’s not true even though it’s the common stereotype.

My Asura Engineer. Looking Spiffy and educated. I definitely like his look, he’s got this serious educated look, but dressed like an adventurer as well at the same time with his backpack.

If it wasn’t for the fact that I have the mist fire wolf – I would be using the Golems on my engineer as an temporary angro magnet in order to temporarily escape and rethink my tactics. The Mist-Fire wolf simply rofl-stomps alot of the PvE mobs if you give it support and while it doesn’t have as much health as the golem, the little wolves it summons and then does an AoE attack makes it much better than the golem.

I kind-of wish the ranger could have a golem as a pet. I would totally have an Asura ranger using a golem as a pet if I could.

I love my Asura Engineer for the grenade kit lobbing and flame thrower kit. It looks very stylish and cool looking. Also it “fits” the Asura dodging theme very much when you finish evading and you throw an handful of grenades. =)

I agree that some of the weapons like the great-sword and staff etc need to be fixed. But I do not want to see an Asura wandering around with a 7ft long great-sword for example. I despise that type of fantasy and it would ruin the Asura Warrior Alt I have on the side for me since I know for a fact that my Asura Warrior couldn’t lift it up.

I’m all for fixing that annoying small-large but I don’t want absurd sizes for a small body. I don’t want to be Emo Cloud from Final Fantasy in any shape or form.

I would love for more Asura like turrets etc. I don’t think many things need to change other than that since most are simply weapon kits you can equip – and the grenades look generic enough that you couldn’t associate them with any race.

Asura turrets exist as well at least as a rifle turret model. I don’t think it would be hard at all to modify the model for a fire turret and rocket turret either.

A fire turret could simply be like a cross shape ish with a red orb in the middle (forget which enemy model is somewhat similar to that).

The rocket turret could simply look like the Asura ray gun for example.

The net turret could be a modification of the regular Asura turret with it’s own flair.

Would I pay gems for this? Yes I would. 300 gems seems reasonable to me.

Basically there is a 5% listing fee and when the item is sold, there is a 10% Sale’s tax basically. So 15% total.

It’s not listed that there is a 10% sales tax even though there really should be.

As for your second problem, it sounds like you got hit by the ghost trading post bug as some topics are named. If it makes you feel any better, there is a extremely good chance that the person didn’t get their dye either and lost their gold.

I would be highly surprised if it was only good for one character. Probably more likely appalled if it was.

I would just love it if they lowered the drop of the chests. It’s way too much right now. At first it was like… OOOOooo Chest… but when you have a stack of 50+ in your bank, your like… great another one to toss onto the pile. There isn’t anything special about getting them as people have said. They simply aren’t rare enough to warrant attention as well as the drops they have. Though I haven’t tried since the new updates.

there is also a website called trading post calculator (google it) it’s a nice web based calculator if you don’t want the phone app.

Agreed with the other posts. Or at the very least weekly. Which can lead to mistakes of like bazillion gems for 1 euro possibly. That is clearly outlandish but you get my point I’m trying to make. Realistically speaking – you are better off as people say.

To be honest, I don’t know how they would roll one out, I have a few ideas on how they could possibly do it, but the one thing that keeps it’s cynical grin on it is the one that says “Security.”

Will there ever be a browser based trading post? Maybe but doubtful. It’ll be a logistically nightmare alone with scamming/hacking/phishing considered. You could realistically sell everyone’s possessions off in a split second with a bot program and have them mail it to one person.

Krosslite.1950:

Leave it alone. The tax is fine.
Now we just need people to start selling stuff at a more realistic price.
Not 1 silver of a level 0-1 item
and not 23 copper for a level 26 item

I must add that in recent days I have seen a more realistic pricing for many of the level 0-1 items.
Even though there are still some that are WAY over priced.

Well realistic pricing is going to happen either way. If there is a limited supply of 0-1 level items it’s because realistically, there is very few people getting and selling those items.

It’s all supply/demand and it changes daily and fluxes depending upon what people do. The economy is much like a real life stock market as it’s affected by what people do in the game. (much like if we buy gas or other various products, all of those things affect the stock market).

Hippocampus.8470:

Are you actually sure all that is happening? With all the items that have nearly identical curves for daily average? You claim there’s a daily cycle to it, but I don’t notice any such thing in the raw bid/ask data.

Also, why does this kind of manipulation suck? It keeps prices manageable for everyone who actually uses the item, and people trying to profit from selling it will just have to work a bit harder or deal more exclusively in other things.

Even if it really is manipulation, which I continue to doubt, I’m unwilling to say it “sucks” for anyone but other people trying to play the market, and even for them it doesn’t really suck all that badly.

Well I have noticed some markets tanking as of recently, will they bounce back? Maybe. But to be honest, I think the biggest reason they are tanking is because people don’t understand there is a 10% additional sales tax involved and thus keep undercutting each other without realizing they are in fact losing money.

The problem with the economy is multi-fold and each small individual problem is affecting the entire equation in it’s own unique way. In order to fix the economy, you need to fix these small problems much like an algebra equation. You need to rid of the problem elements to get the desired equation you want.

I concur and whole heartily agree. This is annoying thing to have and should have been prevented from the start.

shrugs to be honest, I see it as a way to prevent people from clogging up the market with 10,000 buy orders that get sorted thru first preventing others from getting their orders in. Unless I am mistaken on the buy orders, it’s usually a first-come, first-served basis.

/+1,000,000 points for this request. It’s so annoying to sort though heavy/light/medium armors looking for one certain type. It would certainly be a nice feature.

Here’s my level 80 engineer pondering a problem to overcome. Rifle… or explosives? Such a hard question.

Or you know, you could do it simpler… it simply states how much of a cut it’s going to take when the item is sold. You guys are slightly over thinking it when all it needs to be done is simply a “bump” down in the interface next to the listing fee. You could call it an transaction fee or whatever. Regardless, not much needs to be changed other than putting it in the trading post interface when you are selling a item how much you will be charged when the item is sold.