Guild Wars 2

Khristophoros.7194:

Nope. There’s no “fixing” the economy. Capitalism sucks for the 99%. When will you people accept that? There’s nothing that makes it fun.

Nonsense.

But as great as capitalism is in the real world, it’s not necessary in gaming.

Khristophoros.7194:

You can enjoy a maxed out character and play all the same content as everyone else instead of being a slave to the economy like in other games.

For now.

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

Many items because of bots -> items do not cost a lot of gold -> people can not sell their items for a lot of gold -> people can not buy a lot of items.

Few items because of DR -> items do cost a lot of gold -> people can sell their items for a lot of gold -> people can not buy a lot of items.

I don’t necessarily disagree with your conclusion that drop rates are intentional and are intended to curb actual human players’ drops, I just want to point out that the former is not universally positive and the latter is not a universal negative, and in fact the conclusions you draw at the end “people can/cannot buy alot of items” are totally baseless.

I would rather farm for my own materials than farm for gold to purchase the materials.

I should thank you, though, for pointing out to me that the problem is the trading post itself. Normally I’m a supporter of capitalism and free markets, but if ever there is a place to fool around with less optimal forms of economic governance it would be in gaming, where the stakes are so low. Trading posts (or auction halls, etc) are clearly as toxic to MMOs as AQT is. No wonder they’re becoming staples of the industry have coincided with the genres relative decline.

ZaiTh.6378:

Everyone should know by now, it is to control the Bot population. If you look around, you never ever see bots in this game. GW2 has the Best Bot control of any other MMO I have ever played.

Surely you’re trolling.

nerva.7940:

i still cant believe how hard Lost Shores flopped.

Why? The looks like it was still in alpha before they made a pass or two to clean it up for release. Seems like wasted content, because they could have just released fractals by themselves, and continued working on Lost Shores until LS was worth releasing.

America.9437:

And the mmorpg solution for the last decade has been to make it easier to get to L80. Because that’s where the real game begins.

Except that was once a solution used in mature games once expansion content was released and the previous content was no longer as relevant. Now, it’s par for the course that leveling will be so easy at release that it takes maybe a week to hit level cap.

enlil.3849:

I think GW2’s events would have benefited a lot from adopting the PQ system of Warhammer Online, if anybody’s familiar.

That’s what dynamic events are, an evolution of WAR’s PQ system.

TBH, I think it may be a design failure. WAR PQ’s were often criticized for their poor reward structure; seemingly nonsensical contribution trackers used to determine base seeding for reward lists before applying massive RNG. GW2 implemented none of that into DEs, and yet while they’re still just as sparsely populated.

Perhaps, similar to cutscenes, this style of content should be used sparingly. The events would seem more dramatic if they were limited to only major events such as the dragons.

Akumu.7238:

I was kidding about the unhuman like bads earlier. Now I see they really do exist…

I 1v4d for sub-80s next to the allied dredge cannon by Anzalia’s the other day.

I can only guess that outside of WvW, the four of them combined still had single digit levels.

Mumu.6203:

Great siege defense skill , dunno why no one is using it …

I do on occasion. Handily pushes smaller sized zergs off of doors, but is useless once they start setting up ranged siege, and until the recent changes to wall/door repairs, I would drop into the middle of zergs as they passed through and hastily start repairing the wall/door, separating them into more manageable groups.

Villious.8530:

Can you tell me how to do that? I have +10% runes and the signet mastery trait, but there is still around a 16 second gap when my swiftness runs out and my signet comes off cool down.

+10% of 30s is only 3s, and 80% of 60s is 48s, so a 15s gap would be expected.

Do you have any points in Tactics?

Tynan.6279:

Yet the Ele D/D does the same thing you describe —-They bail out and come right back with full health and you fail to mention them once, why not? Is it only the stealth?

Yes.

Dual.8953:

Well to be fair, they need to be capable of something constructive for their server, and they’re rather lack luster at sieges.

No they don’t; ninja assassin is great for PvE gaming, but not so much PvP gaming.

WereDragon.6083:

Also in closing it seems like there are ALOT of WoW players here who want stealth to act just like Rogue’s stealth.

Actually, I don’t want stealth in anything remotely PvP at all.

I played a golemancer briefly. Of the two Asuran racial golems, only the ranged one was worth a kitten The rune summoned golem wasn’t bad, though. The mini-pet is just a mini-pet and the costume brawler skin is weak.

Still, a funny sight to see a posse of three different sized golems running through LA.

Yeah, the only thing legendary about legendary weapons is the grind. They totally shot themselves in the foot by washing the whole thing through the trading post.

Banjal.7328:

When I see someone in full T3 armor and at lest 2 legendaries I always lol,cause the first thing I think of isn’t a status symbol.

Nonsense; it’s clearly a Trading Post achievement, it’s just hidden in your achievement page.

AmagicalFishy.6935:

This question stems from so many people wanting Legendaries to be more accessible; saying, for example, things like “The precursor is the only thing holding me up!” Yes, that is because the precursor is the very rare aspect of having a Legendary weapon.

The precursor is holding me up…not because it won’t drop, but because I don’t have enough gold to buy it off the TP.

I hope that answers your follow-up question.

Qid.1937:

Dee Jay.2460:

It is an incredibly anti-melee game in PvE

I get that melee is supposed to be a higher risk-reward but the scale is just completely off.

90% of fights in this game are a snooze-fest for ranged combat and can easily be beat by avoiding the red circles.

Melee have to not only avoid the red circles through a clusterkitten of particle effects, they must also observe the boss animations for any sort of 360 melee swings or choreographed attacks and avoid their auto attacks which sometime trigger within 0.5 seconds.

And all that while the boss randomly switches aggro targets every 5 seconds.

Totally balanced.

The biggest joke is the number of abilities that ONLY target melees and that ranged simply don’t have to worry about.

Most boss red circle abilities don’t target melee nor do most ‘randomly switch every 5 seconds’

Are we even playing the same game?

Amra.6028:

Upper middle class.
Not as boring, bland and useless as in WoW clones, but also not the EQ2/FFXI type.

How so?

You don’t even farm for materials, you farm for gold to buy the materials; you can do it all without ever leaving Lion’s Arch.

That’s as “boring, bland and useless” as in so many other MMOs. In fact, I think even WoW had a more involved crafting system, at least with regards to certain pieces, let alone some of the endgame weapons.

I never played EQ2/FFXI, so I can’t comment on them, but my reference is Asheron’s Call, where the spell component system was a more interesting use of what amount to crafting mats.

DreamOfACure.4382:

This game isn’t about end-game.
It’s about enjoying the whole experience from exploration to crafting to even a little WvW.

The exploration is alright, and if I was interested in rolling alts maybe I could enjoy it again, but I did alot of exploration when leveling my main because I felt there was nothing to rush for (and ended missing out on alot of guild activity, which really started falling off hard around the same time I hit 80).

But the crafting? It’s the same mundane crafting I see in every other MMO; nothing about it is interesting.

Rannulf.9417:

Vasham.2408:

Rannulf.9417:

Vasham.2408:

Nurse.1085:

I realize Anet must have done something to increase the cap or filtered it out or something, since the other week they all went from Full to Very High.

However, now they’re filling up again and I can’t get on the server my husband and Guild transferred to (which is Tarnished Coast). Neither can my sister-in-law.

Are these servers stuck at Full? Every time I look, it never moves from Full. Any Tarnished Coast members know what times I should be aiming for to camp the World Select screen?

Server status is based on the number of accounts tied to a server, not the number of players actively online. Even if Tarnished Coast was completely empty of players it would still read full. Shame Arenanet chose to lie about their subscriber numbers like that. : /

Not sure if serious or trolling. anet doesn’t have subscribers, and the server status do base on number of players online.

One of the community managers admitted to it being based on number of accounts. Denying the truth won’t change it. It’s probably all Arenanet can do to prevent NCsoft from shutting the game down after it failed.

Show me a link until then you’re a troll.

That’s how they managed to open up so much space on the servers; not by upgrading them, but by cleaning out inactive accounts.

The Beast.4350:

so there is no chance that i could enter a full world due to the fact that it has the maximum amount of accounts tied to it?

The best advice I could offer is to check the server status during a patch; I think that’s the most likely time they’ll clear accounts. But it may be some time yet before space like what was created recently will be available again.

Stealth is a amazing PvE mechanic, but an absolutely awful PvP mechanic.

Pets, too.

Also made much worse by the culling mechanic in this game.

Hydrophidian.4319:

A disturbingly large number of people don’t seem to think so. From a design perspective, I consider that to be a big problem. ‘Cuz, even if I’m mostly fine with it myself, if all those people move on to greener pastures, my own game experience suffers.

The community could use a little more of this sentiment.

Kojiden.8405:

So then I guess the 200 cogs are useless? Lel.

I’d hold onto them for a few days yet; it’s possible the reward is bugged and giving 200 instead of 250, and that they’ll somehow supply you the missing 50 cogs at some point.

ophidic.1279:

Ansultares.1567:

For the record, you sound whiny and entitled, so should we disregard your post entirely or should we give “whiny and entitled” posters the benefit of the doubt?

You sound like half the other people on here. Anyone who disagrees with anything is whiny and entitled.

And for suggesting that people be open minded, I received an infraction (and for mentioning that, I’ll receive another one; hope I’m close to that temp-ban).

Incidentally, OP spent the first 1/3rd of his post on the subject, so I can’t see how it’s even considered off-topic, or why he wouldn’t be called out for it and I am.

Selective application of rules is exactly why we shouldn’t let big government become even bigger.

The cogs aren’t used for endless forge attempt tonics.

supergica.8652:

Hey, I don’t agree with the fact that classes are unbalanced in PVP, but abusing broken mechanics? Maybe I should let the ranger have a 10 second head start or let him hit me 3 times before hitting back? I pointed out that some classes have a lot more abilities to escape ganks then others. Take it up with Anet if that is not ok with you…

Stealth and clones are broken.

But between the two class balance devs, I’m sure at least one of them plays a thief, and it’s more than likely the other one plays a mesmer.

I don’t see how killing someone who can’t see you for 90% of the fight is considered skillful.

Narkosys.5173:

Dont worry I figure by Feb it will be a full f2p game and they are just working the kinks out now on how to suck the money from people.
I think with the mini expansion there will be an announcement about it in order to increase the games population and increase revenue streams.
GW2 game of the Year now free to Play try it now….. got a nice ring to it actually.
*enhanced edition – more free content.

I don’t know about that, but it’s the fastest I can recall a developer pushing a “recruit a friend” program.

Stinson.5972:

Except you don’t need to do that. You just need to do some sort of activity that makes you enough money to buy the materials.

This is really a killer for me; everything feels so homogenized when it’s siphoned through the TP.

You farm for gold because farming for mats directly is too inefficient (and outright penalized after 30m), but then the legendary feels like 10x the grind because it’s coming entirely through a single source, the TP. So too everything else except for ascended gear, except ascended gear is its own single source grind cycling through limited fractal content (and with that awful level system; that should be fixed before the end of the month, but naturally they’ll do nothing to address it).

I would have been very impressed if legendary weapons had involved world spanning quests incorporating the achievement system even, instead of constant gold farming in order to purchase almost every mat from the TP.

penatbater.4710:

1. do some the jumping puzzles/mini-dungeon (some you need to be 80, like in orr)
2. pick an achievement you want and work towards it
3. WvW
4. try to get 100% world completion

At least award me a precursor or something if I’ve effectively beaten the game.

Rising Dusk.2408:

and the economy improves by sucking more gold out of it through the sales taxes.

Explain this to me. I actually see it all tanking as more people are driven away from the game by an obscenely high barrier intended to push you to buy gems, combined with wholly unrewarding or under-rewarding content. More participants would make it healthier.

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

The person controlling the dusk market posted the twilight sell and buy orders to drive up dusk prices.

It’d be nice if they just actually increased pre-cursor drop rates, instead of using the Obama approach of more stimulus. These one-time payouts do nothing to address the underlying issues (and worse, in the case of the government it assures increases in future tax rates without any increase in future benefits associated with the stimulus expense, making it practically as useful as just burning the money).

supergica.8652:

(that ranger is never gonna get past 6 people out to get you, but a thief/mesmer/guardian might)

Abuse broken mechanics, check.

No more skillful than following the zerg, but as per those class descriptions obviously the intended design.

It’s certainly the most dramatic distinction between Anet’s business model and a subscription based MMO. I can’t imagine any subscription based MMO being this stingy with a holiday event.

Levetty.1279:

I keep reading the phrase ’shady drug dealer style scam ’ but I still have no idea what it means, or how it can apply to acquiring toys for a digital characters.

I’d say it’s more like gambling, and the more they introduce it into the game the more they invite the government in to regulate it for no other reason than that Anet couldn’t come up with something better than a slot machine, despite having so much more sophisticated tools to do so.

Erasculio.2914:

Twil.6307:

I want to play but each day I just feel compelled less and less because I have the things I want.

so it doesn’t bother me the least that grinders think it’s missing grind.

The game is extremely grindy. I’ve never seen less rewarding dungeons, farming, or really just about any other content.

It all seems very shortsighted.

Karl McLain.5604:

We were exploring at making Arcing Slice more interesting to use before the recent patch was released. At one point we added Might to the ability, but it didn’t feel good trading adrenaline (and potentially damage from traits like Berserker’s Power) for just increased damage. It looks like the skill facts were left in when we changed it back to the original state.
In the future, we’re looking at changing Arcing Slice to apply more utility and be less of a damage oriented burst ability, as the weapon has plenty of damage already and not much reason to use the burst.

Hey, practically the last ability that needs to be addressed is getting addressed ahead of anything else.

Modern day MMO development at its finest. Keep up the good work. One day you’ll get there, champ.

Dee Jay.2460:

Both items prices are based on supply and demand. The price has nothing to do with how powerful of effective they are.

And demand isn’t based off how powerful and effective they are? /facepalm

Qid.1937:

Honestly gold isn’t difficult to make and the cost of crafting a legendary averages to a relatively low amount..

500g+ is “a relatively low amount?”

raven.9870:

warrior is good to do everything your be able to do it with it..
if you pretend to push some button and kill people, well you are wrong..if you didn’t notice the game has a different way to play, is much more action..no point target and run in is direction with a simple click..i kill 104 player just with warrrior in an afternoon..after 3 day as newgamer..(i played gw1)..you have to move,smash,dodge,bleed..but first of all..you cant just stand still in the middle of the battle like a fool and pretend to survive..you have to count on toher commarades..retreat when are more then you can andle..

So, play like a thief, but without all the cool toys which allow them to be effective?

raven.9870:

don’t complain a class just because is not epic enoug as you espected, this is not gw1, open your mind a play…whenthis game starts? septermber?..kittent we have loads of time..and arenanet will imporve change nerf bilions of times alla the classes..so just sit on your chair and play..have fun..don’t complain..support

Did you read the new class descriptions? They basically came out and said their design goal for warriors is to leave players feeling gimp.

Budchgon.2108:

If you do not know how to do each fractal exctly how it should be done for the fastest completion (mob skipping), or you ‘die’, or ask a question about what to do – you’ll be opening yourself upto a childish torrent of ‘omgnoob/ltp’ from the so called experts.

How do you reach fotm 10+ without learning how to do each fractal, how it is completed quickest, etc.?

And what fractal vets are running fotm 1-5, which is presumably where a novice would be?

I call shenanigans, l2block.

I’ve heard 30m.

If you’re farming lodestones, I’ve also heard they nerfed Charged Lodestone farming.

I’ve seen various buffs keep me in combat. Obviously debuffs will, and some debuffs can stack to extreme durations (2m+ poisons are stupid).

Warrior trait Empower Allies, for example.

HunterFox.2578:

Love it…its awesome to see folks doing things like that.

Wish the unbreakable bells weren’t so damn expensive, or I’d pick one up and try to do stuff like that as well. I’m nowhere near as good as the guy in the video, which is why I won’t dump 80g into a bell. Because I won’t dump 80g into a bell, I’ll probably never get one, and will probably forget about this cool mini-game until next wintersday (assuming I’m even still playing).

I bet they start offering a 3-pack on the 21st. Then those of you who already spent real money can pull out the credit card again and spend some more.

It’s extremely unseemly, even if I’m sure the idea was that they didn’t want all the cash-shop players to have them immediately on day 1, but they still wanted to give players a chance at them before they offered the guaranteed purchases (my guess being on the 21st).

Either that, or they really do think their cash-shop players are suckers, addicts, etc. Which is what’s so unseemly about it.

They’d do well to drop the RNG boxes in the future; they’re burning plenty of cash-paying players, players who may decide not to buy any gems at all because of that one time they were burned.

I was thinking of using gold→gems to buy the 10-stack of boxes, but based on the luck I’ve had elsewhere in the game, I’d get more value out of giving out 1g each to the first 20 strangers I come across in-game.

leprekan.7248:

SpedalFlux.1520:

can devs confirm this is possible? legendaries can now be sold? there is one on the trading post for 9500g

That will only cost you about $7,900.00 USD in gem conversions. They have operators standing by to take your orders.

You’d be stupid not to 3rd party that one; probably less than $5,000 via 3rd party.

Still way overpriced.

Legionius.3641:

Communism, regardless of morality, once made a few countries super powers.

Briefly. So did Fascism. Neither is a winning strategy, but capitalism offers the freedom to fail, making it an easy target for fearmongers who don’t respect democracy.

Tito.3270:

Let me guess, you are american and the only 2 systems you know are capitalism = good and communism = bad, sigh…

I don’t live on a commune numbering only a few dozen people, so why would I ever want to be a communist?

Communism and civilization don’t mix so well. The next 20+ years will be dominated by reminders of such.

If they didn’t leave out some or all pieces from an obvious stat combination, what would players complain about?

dmanibusan.7406:

I just hope that they dont change/remove the keys from Lionguard Lyns because i made several thousands of crates of commendations right when the new patch went live..

I’m pretty sure that’s the plan; I believe somewhere I read a comment (from a dev or an in-game message) stating that she’s “restocking her supplies.” I read that to mean she’s temporarily disabled, and when she returns they’ll be removing BLKs from her inventory.

projectcedric.6951:

I played D3, complained that they took everything good about D2 away, and then realized that Diablo 3 is not Diablo 2 Part 2.

Would have been a better game if it was.

Peregrine Falcon.5496:

At one point we did try pulling them out of the circle, but it’s entirely possible that none of us were inside it. Perhaps that was the problem.

Happened to my group; I feared one pack off the circle as they were first approaching, and I guess this shifted my group’s positioning; then on a subsequent pull when I kited the skritt out of the circle, they all followed and no one was standing in the circle.

“Wow, unbreakable bells are 80g off the TP.”

Lizard.4862:

If they made an event where you win if you just stand there, it would take about 10 minutes before someone would complain that it is too hard.

Lost Shores event part 2?

Frank.7452:

It’s impossible to own every pet from this event by design, as you will only be able to get 2 of the 5 pets that don’t require gems. Maybe the lesson is you don’t need it all, but should instead just get things you like.

The individual pets are/will be directly available for purchase through the gem store.

Ventari and Princess Doll mini-pets are currently available.

Avengersoul.8256:

Just another reason why DR doesn’t belong in this game.

DR and MF both suck.

My eyes are blind but I can see.

Slenderman.8506:

Im using the lowest possible settings

Switch to windowed mode.

Use whatever control panel app your GPU utilizes to force any “fullscreen” settings, such as Vsync.

samrogan.9132:

TL;DR: turning your settings to low and mouse sensitivity up will help with jumping puzzles.

You can also set it to run in windowed mode.

Three times the first one to get the achievement (didn’t realize at the time that it would be the same map each day).

Two time the second one to farm some extra toys for the monthly; now that’s complete so it’ll be one run only for the three remaining days. And however many runs it takes of Toypocalypse to survive the 50 waves needed for the achievement.

Theplayboy.6417:

Play to win the game not to get the achievements and both will happen fairly quickly.

Not really, seeing as you get zero credit.

The map was slightly better once I had completed my achievement, but I’m grateful its over and I never have to look back.