What if quartz was unlike tokens, and every instance of the item quartz was character-bound, with quartz nodes being open to mining once per character? What would be the implications of such?
I have 8 characters which isn’t that uncommon. Many people have 5. I read one post where a guy had 40 something characters. If the quartz is really valuable and you have lots of characters you could make money fast. If is not valuable, then it’s no big deal. So it depends on the value of it.
I was thinking that quartz, the item, was soulbound on acquire, and making the node character-bound – but that would be an issue if quartz can be stored. But what if?
I can’t imagine it will be soulbound. Lets say, for arguments sake, it will be used to make jewelry only and you mine it on a character. However you have jewelry on another character. This means you will never be able to use it unless you max jewelry on that toon. Or if its used in any other crafting and you mine it on the wrong toon. Too bad, got to max that crafting now on that toon or delete the quartz.
The notes however didn’t say there wouldn’t be quartz mineable in regular PvE. Only that people will have their personal nodes. If the quartz is bound to the account and not available in regular PvE, the people who have these nodes could conceivably make a lot of money, depending on what they make. I’m betting the quartz will be also available in the game.
That doesn’t necessarily mean quartz won’t have anything to do with it, I wish people would stop making assumptions as though they know how the reward system will exactly work.
I can wait for the codes for zenith weapons, they do look cool though
There probably are folks who know exactly how the reward system will work. These folks being playtesters, presuming ArenaNet has kept player testers after development of the initial game at least.
Anyways, as xCrusadentx.2784 said, the achievement rewards is just one aspect of the update, while the quartz is most likely to be akin to the Azurite Crystal/Orbs, which were limited-time, though one’s able to get one for their home instance. Think on it: would ArenaNet be so stupid as to limit achievement rewards which will be permanent to something available for only a limited time?
Anet has done some dumb decisions merchandising-wise, but that’d be an all-time high of stupid, and I doubt that they’d be doing such.
The way it’s its phrased, the nodes sound permanent.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-09-2013/
Personal Quartz Node
Once you complete the meta achievement for this release, your home instance will have a daily resource node, allowing you to harvest Quartz at your leisure . Quartz is a new material being introduced in this release and will be used to craft new recipes!
However that doesn’t mean they can’t also have quartz nodes or change the loot tables so you can harvest quartz from regular nodes ingame for all to use. Just that people with the meta achievement have a personal node.
Unless you delete a character, wouldn’t you have to buy 3?
1st character, change name to placeholder name (one contract)
2nd character, change name to first’s old name (2nd contract)
1st character, change name to 2nd character’s old name (3rd contract)
You could use 2 if you changed one name slightly. Changed the spelling by a letter for example.
You have 2 characters, Tichorum and Alexis for example. Alexis becomes Ticorum and Tichorum becomes Alexis. 2 contracts.
If ANet wanted to make Skritt playable all they have to do is tweak the lore a bit. Maybe say some Asura has made a wearable device that connects each Skritt to enough other Skritt that they get the intelligence boost and that the device works world wide.
You haven’t played for about a year in a game that is 10 months old? That means you haven’t logged in since the very start of the game. And dueling is the only thing that you say will bring you back? It doesn’t sound like the game has enough features you like to bother about.
What if quartz was unlike tokens, and every instance of the item quartz was character-bound, with quartz nodes being open to mining once per character? What would be the implications of such?
I have 8 characters which isn’t that uncommon. Many people have 5. I read one post where a guy had 40 something characters. If the quartz is really valuable and you have lots of characters you could make money fast. If is not valuable, then it’s no big deal. So it depends on the value of it.
The main reason, I think, that Guild Wars 2 mobs are so simple is that in Guild Wars 1 you played with a team each time, unless you were solo farming. You had access to all professions when you made a group up. This means the mobs had to be able to counter this. Now most players have only themselves in regular PvE. If they were encountering mobs that acted as a group and buffed each other, it would make getting thru a map really difficult for the average solo player.
One problem is that search capitalizes the first letter of the searched word and this can give zero results. For example, I searched this thread for matches (first post). It autocapitalized the word and gave zero results. I then forced it to not capitalize and then it gave a result.
Henge of Denravi server. I do this mini dungeon occasionally and when it’s bugged it’s always bugged when I get to it, before I even start. It’s always the left side that isn’t displaying. So far it can be done if I am willing to try different patterns until it unlocks.
I would like to point out that it doesn’t say anywhere that this will be the only way to obtain quartz. For all we know, quartz could be added to the world as a regular crafting material (either with new nodes or, probably more likely, as a random bonus drop from metal nodes).
That would make more sense. It seems strange to only have the node available for people who get this one living story and everyone else is out of luck. Including anyone who buys the game after this.
Yes, but even if that was the case, most of the quartz would still end up on the trading post. There is no theoretical limit to the amount that people can mine over time, but only a limited amount of crafted pieces that a player needs or wants.
(I sold off all my azurite in the end as I had no need for it.)
Either way, I’m not too worried.
Lol I sold my one azurite orb. Not much I could do with it anyway.
It will be interesting to see the recipes for the quartz. Probably the new Zenith weapons. I bet the first one made is listed on the TP for an outrageous price.
Someone was speculating it will be part of a recipe for ascended items. I hope so. They hurt jewelry crafting with the ascended stuff they have now.
I would like to point out that it doesn’t say anywhere that this will be the only way to obtain quartz. For all we know, quartz could be added to the world as a regular crafting material (either with new nodes or, probably more likely, as a random bonus drop from metal nodes).
That would make more sense. It seems strange to only have the node available for people who get this one living story and everyone else is out of luck. Including anyone who buys the game after this.
I’ve bought a 2nd ascended ring (same as first one) & didn’t know I couldn’t equip it until I’ve already purchased it. From what I’ve gather on the offical forums. GW2 won’t refund your purchase. As a casual player these things take a long time to gather such as Badges of Honor + Laurels. Other game has such a refund feature & I don’t see why GW2 can’t do it.
Saying it can’t be done just doesn’t help the problem since I’m sure I’m not the first & probably won’t be the last player that have made an honest mistake! I’m sorry to say this but if it can’t be fixed then I’m done with this game. It’s just a simple feature to add & it won’t mess up the encomy like they’ve stated. It’s an EQUAL TRADE, you simply take back the ring & refund the same amount of currency used to purchase it in the first place.
I’ve read that if you infuse one so that it’s no longer identical you can wear both. If you were going to infuse one anyway, it’s worth a try.
Guest to a server that has one open and get the points.
I just farmed events and everytime the temple event started id go along and eventually got it.
I did it without guesting but I did it with another guildie and before they nerfed the loot drops. There were a lot more people around then. In fact, there were hordes of people in Orr just a few months ago. Now its almost deserted on my server. When I go there I see the occasional person where there used to be crowds. If he is playing solo and on a quiet server where not many people are in Orr, it might be easiest to guest. Or wait till they restructure Orr once again and more people come back.
Companies do things for financial reasons. In this case, it is brand name awareness that brings people in who played Guild Wars 1. To change the name now would not only lose that but cost money to redesign the boxes in retail as well as other costs. What financial incentive would the company have to change the name at this date?
I used to have to login once daily, now it’s twice daily. Please allow us to keep logged in. It’s especially annoying when it logs you out right when you are typing something.
I don’t do fractals but I try to do about 5 of the world events each day that I play. So far I’ve gotten 15 exotics from them. Other than that, about 2 settlers pieces in Southsun and a sword in Orr, that I can recall. Maybe one or two more. I don’t normally use magic find except sometimes food.
I don’t think there are many games that allow you to transfer for free. Guild Wars 2 is actually fairly cheap. Not only can you do it for free by deleting all your characters but you can pay with in game gold instead of real world cash. WoW, for example, is $25 real money only, no ingame gold, and it’s per character transferred, not for account. So if you had 5 characters it would cost you $125 dollars. By comparison $10 for your whole account is cheap.
I totally disagree with this. In my guild we have some (specially older) people who can’t do jumping puzzles. We are a very social guild that help each other with everything. This includes with doing jumping puzzles.
GW2 is a social game that encourage helping each other. There is nothing wrong with a portal and wanting to get rid of them in puzzles is in my opinion very selfish and anti-social.
So true. I’m one of those old players who can’t do jumping puzzles, (I also have fibromyalgia) My fingers just aren’t flexible enough.
Over the years gamers have become older and older, many who play mmos nowadays are 50+
Something to think about
—EDIT— On a side note; -I am of the opinion that in a game you use the tools that are handed to you/your class to achieve the goals/solve problems. Thus, using portals are not cheating imo
I’m another one of those older players with arthritis in my hands and playing on a laggy connection. One of the people I play with has fibro also and she has problems with JPs also. I suspect a fair number of Guild Wars 2 players are older.
I can do some JPs but others I simply can’t no matter how long I try. If a Mesmer portal is offered, it’s gratefully accepted. I figure since this is a game about helping others then this is ‘working as intended’.
I was fiddling with different specs and wrapons, moving gear between my bank and bags, but when i went to put on my primeval pants and shoulders, they were just gone! I checked bags and bank using the search feature, and they were no where to be found. I still have the other three pieces, but not the others. I checked the merchant incase i sold them, and not in the buy back either.
Your best bet is to contact support and talk to them.
They had summoning stones in GW1. They gave you a 30 minute NPC companion to fight beside you. Maybe ANet needs to look into bringing them into the game for regular PvE.
You need to post in Tech Support forum. It’s the forum below this one. This is the forum for people that forgot their password or got a suspension, stuff like that.
I had never even been to the WvW JP before. Thought I would check it out after reading this thread a few days back. Found the entrance, went in. Only red name tags in there. Jumped down off the platform and moved towards the center to explore a bit. Several enemy players started running toward me. I zoned out. Maybe I’ll try this at 3am, see how it is. But it’s a bit discouraging for a primarily PvE player like me.
Using the living story’s logic, it’s time to remove all of the risen from the game and the entire story quest. Zhaitan has been gone for ages. Make everything limited and you don’t have a game anymore.
Zhaitan is gone for the people that have finished their own story line. He is not gone for the ones that haven’t. The people who haven’t finished their storyline are probably a fair percentage of the population.
It’s strange isn’t it. They make a new crafting material with its own set of stats. It has its own slots in the inventory, unlike dungeon tokens or boosters you get from BL chests. And it’s something they had for a short time only.
When I read about it at first, I thought it would be added to the loot table for ori and mithril ores in regulat PvE. You would think they would bring it back. What is the purpose of having it for a short time only?
What? Running to 50 different effigies then dancing like a trained monkey didn’t get your heart pounding? O.o
I miss the old quests system for these events. They may have been the same each year but at least I didn’t fall asleep doing them. Run to effigy, dance. Run to cache, open. Snore.
Why can’t they have an on/off like toggle? Click once, on until you click again, regardless of whether or not you go to another zone. Surely there is one way to turn off the method where the mini stops showing if you go to a different zone.
And this is why the game needs the NPC that holds your costume for you like the Guild Wars 1 NPC did. He held your costumes for you so you didn’t need them in inventory or worry about accidentally deleting them.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costume_maker
Costume maker
Costume makers are special NPCs that create costumes for your characters. Once you have purchased a costume from the Guild Wars In-Game Store or the NCsoft Store, speak to a Costume Maker to receive your costumes. Once you have purchased a costume, any character on your account can wear it. Each character just needs to speak to the Costume Maker to receive a costume.
It’s a great mystery to me why they didn’t set up a similar NPC in this game when they had it already in the last one.
Why do people keep calling this a PvE achievement when it’s in a WvW map?
A jumping puzzle is still a jumping puzzle, whether there be WvW players or not.
Allow WvW to take place in a dungeon and it’s still a dungeon.
Being located inside WvW does not change what it is
What makes jumping puzzles exclusively PvE content? In fact, what makes Living Story achievements exclusively PvE content? There has always been achievements tied to both PvP and Living Story, such as dragonball and crab toss. Every time such a mini game exists, PvE exclusive players get upset that they can’t complete these achievements because they have to compete against other players to get them. I was actively preventing people on the other team from getting dragon ball wins for an achievement by killing them, so does that make me a griefer? How is this achievement any different?
The dragon ball achievement didn’t count toward getting the reward, in that case the wings. In this case, the mini.
People griefing in the JP are stopping others from getting the meta achievement and the mini reward. Playing in the dragon ball only stopped people from getting one achievement not tied to anything.
Also as its been stated if its for the immersion then consider that the starting outfit for human females is not much more “armor” like than the town clothes top and skirt. I dont see how any immersion would be lost in allowing us to transmute those looks onto our armor as well.
Yeah and how about the quaggan backpack.
I like that but it totally destroys the “immersion would be lost” argument.
My personal opinion is, they lost the immersion argument with the ANet logo on the unicorns. Anytime you have some real world company’s logo on anything ingame that completely blows the immersion argument out of the water.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Cupcake
Birthday Cupcake
Double-click to grant yourself +100 maximum health, +10 maximum energy, and 25% increased movement speed for 10 minutes. This item cannot be used in PvP.
Maybe decreased skill recharge instead of the +10 max energy.
Hmmm. The thread I read, they said it could be done that way.
Sorry it didn’t work for you. A guy specifically told me on a previous thread that you could change from an Eu server to NA and vice versa by doing that.
That’s what I’ve read other people advising on similar threads, that you can change servers by doing this. If you have only low level characters you can give it a try. Or wait till other people get on this thread to say whether or not for sure it works.
