Guild Wars 2

It’s a 50/50 for me

The bad is that names can be circumvented still be understood, with all the immature gamers around what would ANet do? Delete all the Bad named Legendaries? Offer a free name change? Ban the player? Too much hassle if you ask me.

The good is that some cool creativity can come out of it like for example a couple Tom and Anne name their Swords, Bows, etc after them.

Unfortunately I think the negative part takes over.

ANet doesn’t care if your SSD doesn’t load LA (or any other area) fast enough however I do agree with you.

Can’t agree more on Divinity’s Reach, it’s one of the best looking (Ghost Towns) in the game, adding something permanent to that place would revive it a bit.

Hmm, how about like GW1 working for it instead of swiping the credit card. Leave other less prestigious skins to the gem store.

Ok this is the proof I’m not going crazy then.

This happens on my guard as well specifically with traits II and III which as Ray said the traits from level 1.

Krosslite.1950:

Totally do not support this. keep them account bound. otherwise we encourage gold farmer

Yes let’s support the soul bound / account bound horrible mechanic any further, I personally don’t like those Jade weapon skins and If I ever get one I’d give it to a person that needs it.

I fail to see how this would encourage gold farmers, there’s precursors that cost hundreds of gold, minipets in the 70g+ and yet no one complains, the ticket would be no less.

@OP: Unfortunately making them mail-able only is highly susceptible to scams. But I do agree they should be tradeable.

Never gonna happen, for obvious reasons related to the real world. In Skyrim you can’t kill kids for a reason as well.

Norns are like humans, just taller. Then we’d have immature people running those characters as naked as possible.

No thanks.

Player Character.9467:

They already implemented a system for you to get the rings you want in the event that the RNG doesn’t spit it out, pristine relics.

Except that you have to sleep in fractal for days (unless you got many characters) / get lucky / do 1 month of laurels.

I have a friend who hates fractals so pristine crystals don’t cut it. I also don’t find it very reasonable 35 laurels for 1 ring.

I see no harm in making them tradeable, even better they could make them dump-able into the mystic forge and you can get fractal ecto, vial, crystal for those who want to have them infused without grinding (and hoping) the mats drop.

Sorry Double posted, delete this please.

“Stop focusing on temporary content and put in some permanent stuff” I didn’t watch the whole video but this line is what’s hammering the nail in the coffin for me.

I’m a completionist when it comes to events, however since this is a game where players are meant to have fun, I like to take my pace with the game. The Living Story can make some players feel in a rush and if they don’t finish everything by end the of the event they will be left with a broken event line.

Living Stories to me are nothing but a mask to generate profit from this game. Create content just to remove it a few weeks later, leave players that didn’t play much with a broken quest line, introduce the event’s “special” RNG box, rinse and repeat.

I used to collect the minipets from these events but after this dragon bash mess and the moa money sink I stopped caring entirely about them and soon I’ll be leaving the game cause there’s nothing to do. I spend 80% of my time in LA chatting.

A few other things I’d like to point out is I’ve played GW1 for 7 years almost non stop and I’ve amassed 22.5k hours and almost finished my 3rd GWAMM. In GW2 I don’t even have half the excitement and willingness to play as I had for GW1. There were no RNG boxes, no temporary events except halloween, christmas etc.

I remember Sorrow’s Furnace was full with players for months and Domain of Anguish kept people coming for a long time too and then when the game was coming to an end there was Hearts of the North, War in Kryta and the Winds of Change that resembled living stories of GW2 except that in GW1 they’re STILL there.

To make it short, ANet needs to go a little back to their roots and what made them popular and successful in the first place. To my eyes GW2 has turned into a money cow and it is no better than one of those F2P Asian MMOS.

Maybe a Lie? Fault on the kickee? Story just too odd?

First of all I apologize for my english. The whole story is simple, 3 guildies (us) and 2 pugs (which were friends), 1 of our guildies was new to the dungeon and he messed up a bit.

The 2 pugs were elitist jerks and decided to kick him along with me and the other one (cause we were his guild mates and we would have reinvited him back).

@Nretep: Your reply is kinda rude, first of all I’m not dumb and I went to check gw2lfg myself and seen the kicker advertising for 3 more, clearly they weren’t the mature kind either with their “NO FRENCH” line in their comment.

Secondly upping the vote to 3 would prevent such abuses from happening much less, It won’t solve the problem entirely but it will surely make an improvement.

Now I understand this doesn’t happen all the time but I see no reason why it should be put aside.

Mist Y.5214:

What did you do to make them kick you??

Me? nothing, one of the two guildies that were with me was new to the dungeon and he kinda messed up a bit at Bjarl and the alarm part but that’s not a good reason to kick him, and since we were 3 guildies they knew we’d have reinvited him so they just kicked us all.

That was the whole reason of the kicks and definitely not a good one.

I’ve had enough with those arrogant players who kick you right at the end of the dungeon. The amount of votes should be increased to 3 in order to avoid unnecessary kicks.

Few days ago I was with 2 friends doing Crucible of Eternity, since we lacked people from our guild we searched for 2 pugs, so far so good, we arrive at the last boss and they kick us all 3, next thing I know is they put an advertisement on gw2lfg’s site for 3 more (to replace us).

Second story happened to one of my guild mate an hour ago, he got kicked before the last boss in Citadel of Flame.

Upping the vote will greatly decrease the risk of such abuse from happening.

Those people that think ANet is being generous by giving you free packs as a thanks for supporting the game you’re quite wrong, you already gave them your money and a free packs means nothing compared to the 10 bucks you’ve paid don’t let the chest blind you.

While it’s true you’re supporting the game, you’re also encouraging them to keep the RNG stuff.

If you buy a bunch of these chests with your hard earned money and get junk, don’t come crying on the forums you got nothing good, it will be all your fault.

I’ve already seen a few people complain about this very reason and it’s their own fault. If there’s a lesson to be learned, that is they shouldn’t support these methods, use the brain and judge with the wallet next time.

Raesin.2908:

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

My guildies received this too, and only the ones that paid real money for the gems. So with this I presume they didn’t put the box in TP on purpose, those who pay real money get the privilege of getting it first and free.

To the ones that can’t or didn’t spend real money (which I happen to be one of them) they have to wait and of course won’t be getting it free either.

Thanks, I won’t forget such an insult.

Are you really that bitter about getting things either a few days later or having to pay?
It’s like asking why the mechanic won’t fix your car when you refuse to pay him.

Your reply doesn’t make any sense, If I had to take my car or anything else that needs a repair I would surely pay for the service, My point is completely different than that.

I paid for the game like everyone else, just because others have bought gems with real money that doesn’t mean they should get a better treatment.

If this was one of the many free to play (F2P) games out there I wouldn’t have anything to say.

My guildies received this too, and only the ones that paid real money for the gems. So with this I presume they didn’t put the box in TP on purpose, those who pay real money get the privilege of getting it first and free.

To the ones that can’t or didn’t spend real money (which I happen to be one of them) they have to wait and of course won’t be getting it free either.

Thanks, I won’t forget such an insult.

Adding insult to injury you shouldn’t have spent real money in the first place (except to buy the game itself).

As you’ve just found out yourself it’s not worth it.

Money making scheme disguised as an Event.

Moa Bets should be GW1 Rollerbeetle Racing style instead of a huge money sink

RNG Boxes and 3 Mini Pack, If you get this pack and the rare mini you have to spend another 500 gems for the full collection and that’s over 24 gold.

It’s all about the money and that’s exactly what I’ll never spend on this game.

Been 2 months and no change, bumping this up still not giving up :-)

I can confirm this is indeed a bug. Lately I was wondering where all these mistwrought keys were coming from.

Today I made sure I had no keys on me and upon opening the chest I noticed they were still in my inventory.

Very good post. I was happy with GW2 but then things started going bad since the Xmas Minipets, they weren’t a buy once pack like the Halloween set and that was the day when the greed started.

Fast forward to this day, the cash shop is full of limited time items making players feel in a hurry like they have a knife to their throats, Speaking for myself this isn’t how things should be, I think ANet would make more money by making the items permanent ESPECIALLY when the said items can’t be traded.

Scenario: ANet releases 1 week limited time Bow of Awesomeness but Player 1 won’t be able to buy it during that week for a reason or the other BUT will buy it in the future, however since the item was time bombed Player 1 didn’t get his item and ANet didn’t make profit. It’s a loss-loss situation for both.

I’ve played the RNG game in other MMOS before and it failed every time. I once believed ANet was different, I was wrong and mostly disappointed. The cash shop is getting worse everyday and much similar to other F2P MMOS out there. If I wanted to play the same RNG game I would have saved myself the 60$ and keep playing F2P games, after such an experience I won’t buy any future expansion packs it just doesn’t seem worth it.

I’ve been receiving these emails for a while too and today I happened to trace the ip address it came from and guess what, China.

Anyone reading this thread and using Hotmail accounts I would advise you to change to something else. I say this because it’s the only email address where I get tons of spam and all these GW2 phishing mails (Funny thing is my GW2 account isn’t even hotmail).

Other members of my family have Hotmail too and they receive similar mails (they don’t play GW2).

Important Question:

When will ANet remove (or make it a toggable option) on Right Click targeting? It’s been almost since release that many people want something to be done about this highly annoying feature.

Maybe it will be introduced in this patch and it’s simply not listed here but it would be great if ANet changes this.

Sometimes I wonder if ANet actually cares, a thread made over 5 months ago and still nothing, We’re not asking for new content, but a simple toggle.

I can’t count the times I started reviving some npc during a battle or target wrong enemy. It’s really frustrating.

A simple fix to this would something like this:

1. Player 1 opens

2. Players 2,3,4 get a “copy” of the instance

3. If one of the players leave the group, they get kicked out (as it currently works) PLUS the added loss of their copy of the area.

That way no one gets kicked.

I’d agree to this, GW1 didn’t have it. Probably they didn’t do cause it’s not as simple to do it like other mmos.

Especially since GW1 & 2 are the only games I know that have their data secured in 1 big file which also serves as a security measure.

I’ve just updated the game and when I found about the new ascended earrings I could say obtaining them wasn’t the nicest discovery (I’m looking at those 50 ectos).

But aside from the above, I’m highly disappointed at the lack of a missing bonus combo I like, there’s no (Precision, Vitality, Healing Power) Earring.

I can understand this patch took a lot of work to put out and the big amount of changes. I believe I’m not asking much and hopefully it’s something that can be added soon.

Thanks for reading.

PS: I uploaded a picture to reflect better the stat combo I’m referring to.

I’d like to point out that this bug is still present and it’s pretty frustrating in WvW where every second counts. Functionality is hit or miss, pet alive or not.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything OP said, Back when I played GW1 for almost 6 years non stop, I started getting bored (after 6 years go figure), so I had switched to Perfect World International (PWI) and for almost a year I kinda enjoyed the game but of course started going downhill, never ending better gear and RNG pack madness (the equivalents of Black Lion chests).

So with a few months left till GW2 I kinda left the mmo scene playing other games and GW1 occasionally and meanwhile hoping GW2 will be even better than GW1.

In my opinion OP said everything already. Often I ask myself “What did we pay the 55 euros for?” cause the game truly feels like an F2P.

In terms of grind I started comparing this game to PWI, mainly because the amount of grind required to get a nice skin is insane. Lodestones that cost close to 2-3 gold each, 250 ectos for just 1 weapon (and those aren’t even legendary). TBH I’ll go as far as saying it’s almost worse than eastern mmos. This was the very reason why I left PWI and refused to go back for any reason.

Also while many praise GW2’s graphics and art design I certainly agree, but in this gaming era it’s normal for such graphic details to be present. I’ve mentioned this just so some people don’t come out saying “But GW2 has awesome graphics and that’s part of why you paid for this game”, If we take it into that there’s many mmos with nice graphics, Planetside 2 comes to mind brand new mmo fps without any price tags.

Also I’d like to mention minipets, In GW1 this was a big thing and many people were proud of owning such items especially the high end ones, so what happened to that in GW2. Minipets were divided into 2 sections, account bound and the tradeable ones.
I for one love to collect these minis and I find it a total slap in the face of players to make these a limited time gamble, let’s take foostivoo (quaggan xmas mini) and the polar bear from GW1.

To get the polar bear you either grinded the same dungeon over and over WITHOUT spending a cent whole event. For the quaggan you had a higher chance but also a higher cost cause of RNG and a limited time. So what happened now? Those who got the mini are well and good, but those unfortunate ones (like me) who don’t play much but still would like to get the mini with time can’t because the whole thing is account bound and there’s no other way to get it unless they offer it next xmas. Polar bear in contrast to this was available all year 2000 ectos or not but it was AVAILABLE and that’s the catch.

Last thing I’d like to mention is Legendary weapons. While some people have these and they are definitely hard to get, the most part of the population barely has 10% of what they require to craft. As has already been stated “the Ascended items are to bridge the gap between exotics and legendaries.” Currently legendaries have same stats as exotics and if the ascended items statement refers to a possible stronger attribute does that mean the game may become P2W if that happens?, I’d like to remind that legendaries can be traded and anyone with a good bank balance can buy this in a quick time.

Also another note on legendaries, I think they should be one of the few weapons that SHOULDN’T be tradeable.

There’s a lot more I could write but I’ll stop here for tonight. I currently play the game cause my GF does and that’s the only reason I enjoy it (still not as much as to go crazy about it like I did when I spent almost 7 years on GW1) and not because the game is super, on the contrary I feel it lacks content and weight, achievements are just like "meh I killed 100 jellyfishes grats I guess) when in GW1 titles had a sense of accomplishment such as doing all missions in hard mode, there was something worth working for. Overall I feel that it’s like ANet used the good name of their game and created a cash cow. I’m not trying to insult or offend anyone but as a customer point of view it’s not worth the money and like I said earlier, if it wasn’t for my GF, I’d have asked for a refund within the first 2 months.

Stormscar.5489:

Am I the only who thinks that Anet have just gone crazy with the number of items which are soulbound/account bound? This is why the economy of the game is just so boring. The only thing that people trade are precursors, a few weapons and mats for crafting more soulbound/account bound items.

I just think everything would become much more interesting if dungeon tokens/MINIPETS/armor would be able to be sold. It would also get rid of RNG, and you could be able to buy the items you want without grinding for them, but just buying them off TP with the money you make.

There’s many Account/Soul bound items in the game is for Anet to make more money off the gem store.

Start with event minipets, would Anet have made the same amount of money if the xmas minipets were tradeable?

What I think you’ll find even more ridiculous is the account bound exotics that come out from the fractal chests.

Also I got an exotic backpack from the final boss in Arah path 3 (forgot the name of the item) and this was account bound too, Anet why?

Too make long story short, trading flexibility in this game is so stagnant is because Anet wants to make more money from the gem store which unfortunately isn’t something we’ll see changing.

EDIT:

Catcrafter.3917:

Dungeon “stuff” must stay exclusively available trough tokens because they also carry a statement with them, statement that many people feel its more important than actual weapon/armor skin.
Back to the topic. i agree with the OP, more things should be made tradeable like boosters, tonics, special events stuff, BL chest stuff, town clothing and so on…
I am also sure we can expect to see many more tradeable stuff in the future as the game content continues to grow, so don’t worry, just be patient

I agree with everything you said but don’t keep your hopes up, making all those items trade-able would mean less profit for them and that’s where it’s a no deal.

I’m pretty frustrated and angry with ANet’s decision on this, screwing out their customers for more money. GF wanted to make me a gift for xmas, sent along 20 gold since the packs are account bound. So what happened I opened the boxes but got multiple minis of the same type (which wasn’t a bad thing) from 10 boxes.

However, thanks to ANet, I can’t share the extras (don’t even bother commenting on the mystic forge). It’s really disgusting how they’re treating their players. I’m really disappointed.

EDIT: And since GW2 is already like a chinese grinding game, adding an “Unbinding Stone” consumable purchasable from the gem store wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

I see this thread is almost 1 month old and still no fix, this happens with every pet and almost all the time.

I 90% disagree with OP’s post.

First of all they advertised this game to be grind-free which in truth it requires grind just like other mmos.

Secondly while the dungeon is fun there’s the lack of a reconnect feature, they said they’re looking on it but honestly that’s a rather lame reply, the reconnect feature should have been there since the beginning, have they even thought about disconnections and game crash events during the dungeon and how much frustration this causes to the player and the rest of the team?

Third thing, before someone says that they gave us the new content for free let me tell you this. Being an MMO It wouldn’t have seemed reasonable to release a paid content after barely 3 months from release, to give something new to do since an amount of players already started getting bored of the game.

Another thing to keep in mind is ascended gear and infusion. Unless you had the money and materials ready to craft the new backpacks it will seem VERY expensive crafting these.

My main character is a ranger and I like to go with Power, precision and critical damage, now the powerful blood vials cost about 23-24 silver each which in total it would cost around 60g to craft the backpack I want so now do I really have to craft a less expensive backpack (which cost about 20 gold) just to be able to do high level fractals properly and then start from scratch for another, Does this even sound fair? Hell no.

Does ANet even realize how much it takes to farm up 250 of these materials? And to make things worse they don’t have the strongest gear cause there’s infusion next which is ANOTHER 250 ecto grind.

And if this isn’t grindy enough, who can assure us that ANet will not introduce another tier of armor in the future (keep in mind we’re only 3 months in the game, there’s plenty of time ahead).

I spent these 3 months working on my character getting him multiple armor sets and buying runes for each of them cause I was fine in hunting skins and they just waved the “We don’t care” flag just like that.

If this game’s “hard to obtain” objective was a pretty weapon skin hunt like it seemed at the beginning, I’d have had nothing contrary cause it would have kept the game balanced and fair for everyone.

I feel ANet has lied to us and deceived us with sugar coated words. Since the new gear affects WvW as well this move may force some players into using their credit cards to speed up the process. I believe they’re called money schemes, yep.

Even if players are able to do Fractal lvl 10 and 11 without protection, going further will just FORCE you to grind to be able to complete it and ALSO one last thing to take in consideration, did ANet even keep in mind how many players would try to get in groups without having the new gear?

At this point it won’t be long before I lose my patience and eventually ask for a refund, too grindy and disappointing.

Before anyone replies to my comments above , read it all before judging.

Sincerely,
A very disappointed and frustrated player.

Even though has been answered already:

Two more possibilities:

1. Running the game without 3rd party applications such as running a second copy of the game’s files from different windows user accounts (I know that in GW1 and other games this is possible). No 3rd party software is needed for this.

2. This probably will get a straight no but I’ll ask just the same. VMware or virtual machines in general. Before shouting “3rd Party App” I’d like to mention that this doesn’t tamper with the game’s files in anyway.

It would be great if a Mod or even better, an ANet rep confirms these 2 questions.

EDIT:

I’d like to add that I DID read the link posted by UKNightWatch, and disagree with the mod’s “Multiboxing is very similar to botting”.

Don’t take in a hostile or the wrong way. I’m asking these especially because in GW1 multiboxing is allowed to this day and I wonder why not GW2.

I understand it’s a new game, botters and gold sellers will try to make their best before the game gets old and all the reasons. (probably answered the above question here myself.)

The reason I’m asking here is because in the future I may want to buy a second copy of the game but I don’t have the budget or need for a second machine and being able to run both accounts at the same time would be convenient.

TBH I don’t think it’s unfair for someone to be able to run 2 copies he legally and fairly paid for on the same pc.

I apologize for such a long post. But better safe than sorry and I’m asking because I noticed that no one mentioned the 2 methods at the beginning of my post.

Thanks

Me and my group went through Arah path 4 and after changing a few party members during the run, we arrive at the lupicus boss. Door opens but boss doesn’t turn hostile and eventually blocks further progress. Not sure if this happened to anyone else.

Already sent bug report ingame about this. If it happened to someone else would be great for ANet for further investigation.