I’ve never been hacked but a friend was in Guild Wars 1. It took about a week to ten days for the complete rollback to go thru. Apparently they have to see not only what you had but what happened to it. Since its usually stolen by hackers/gold sellers who sell your stuff to others, this can take a while.
You should get a first response from ANet in one to three days. Each back and forth response can take from a few hours to a day. Don’t open up additional tickets, it slows things down. Just update the email response you get from them when you need to.
While the nature of the Internet makes repercussions more likely (in a way) you can still have a metaphorical slip of the tongue while typing. It’s the equivalent of being made, or such, and punching the wall. Not a great idea, but sometimes you do it before you stop yourself.
How is it possible to spend time and effort typing something without realizing you’re doing it? Speech is natural. Typing is not.
A combination of poor impulse control and a person who thinks nothing of cussing another person out over a trivial matter.
It all depends on what you like. Some people like to specialize and some like to generalize. I’m working on my 8th level 80. Four are in full to mostly full exotics. The rest are in a mixture of rares and greens. I play whichever profession I feel like. With such a range of combat styles, it keeps it more interesting. My thief doesn’t fight like my ranger and my ranger doesn’t fight like my guardian.
I googled gondon and came up with conom also. I guess someone who knows Russian saw your name and reported it. One of the hazards of having a game where players speak multiple languages is the ability to offend someone somewhere with any random name.
My guess is, if he quit then he wasn’t hacked. Hackers usually keep running the account, turning the characters into bots for farming. Do you actually know this person? How do you know he didn’t give away any passwords? If you know him, maybe you can get him to log back on and put the stuff back.
It would probably increase sales if they put the makeover NPC in game. I know I bought makeovers in gw1 after first checking with the NPC to see what the change would look like. If you can’t preview the new look to make sure you are going to like it, it makes you more hesitant to spend your money.
Who knows. I never post lvl 80 things unless they’re rares anyway. There’s not much point. Who’s going to buy a blue or green item at lvl 80?
I’m leveling all 8 professions, which is expensive let me tell you. So I buy level 80 greens for them as a cheap placeholder until I can scrape up the cash for exotics (the one I use for dungeons has full exotics). I know other people are leveling more than one profession so that is probably the main market for them. Maybe people also buy to throw in the Mystic Toilet, trying for an upgrade?
If you search the forum you will find other threads on this, at least one do them has a Dev response. Check, Race Change, under the Black Lion Trading Co forum. You can read those to find out what everyone has already said about this subject. If you have something to add, that will be the place.
No, they are right, I’m just not gonna do hours worth of work for someone like you. Why would I?
Because posting stuff and claiming they are fact but refuse to actually provide any proof is stupid and just makes you look silly.
Awww shucks. Guess I’m stupid and look silly now.
Not so much “stupid and silly” as not using arguing your points properly. Anyone can come on to a thread and make claims. The difference is whether that person can back them up. If a person comes to a thread, makes a claim that x% of people do y, then they either need to prove it or they need to stop making these claims. It drags down the conversation when people make claims they then refuse to show proof for. And other people then think, this person is biased, has an axe to grind and doesn’t know how to debate a point.
I guess what people should remember is with nostalgia, you only tend to remember the good times and ignore the bad. Its like with the WoW group. ‘BC was the best. BC was the greatest.’ Do they also remember when every 2v2 team was most like resto druid / class x? Do they remember feral druids having avoided the hybrid tax and were killing people and OP, resulting in the second biggest nerf at that time? Do they remember druids healing metely by shapeshifting? Nope! Those were the bad memories that they dont wan to remember as it would taint the happiness they want to feel.
This happens to every mmo. I bet if we could dig up the beginning forums of gw1, we would see just as many complaints as we see now.
Yah, and they had some of the same complaints. Game is for casuals, it’s a failure, etc…
Example:
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Originally Posted by Blackace
A.)I dont think this game failed either, but it is not as succesful as people think it is according to the original focus the game claimed it set out to be
B.)This game is not free
a) this game wasn’t a complete failure…but if I was ArenaNet I’d be putting a tally mark in the “Failures” column. It fell desperately short of it’s original goal. The game is visually breathtaking and a lot of fun to play for a pretty good amount of time. But it didn’t achieve it’s primary goal. PvP lacks competition and original thought and the PvE is mindnumbingly boring after your first time through it. It’s going to take something drastic to save this game.
b) thank you for pointing out that the game isn’t free…I’m tired of listening to people argue that we should “take what we got because the game is free”…last I checked I spent 50 bucks on it.
Yeah, it costs a bit. It has its uses if you are going to do crafting and have a lot of intermediates to store temporarily. Is also useful when you start getting more than one stack of materials that you don’t want to sell.
I would more recommend it if you get your regular bank panels completely bought and find that you need more storage because it’s filled up with account bound stuff.
Just because some skills were OP doesn’t mean it wasn’t awesome to have thousands of skills to choose from.
It kept gameplay from being BORING. I’m BORED of GW2 because the weapon skills is what you use the most, and they are ALWAYS THE SAME.
Right and other people aren’t bored by Guild Wars 2. That’s what opinions mean. In your opinion, more skills make a better game. In my opinion, more skills make a harder to balance game that will eventually fall to the wolves. It’s not worth the risk.
At any rate, I find the combat in Guild Wars 2 to be MORE involving that Guild Wars 1, at least in PVe. As I’ve said in other threads, once you outfit your heroes, even before you could take 7 heroes with you, I could practically AFK even in hard mode content.
There’s no way you can tell me that standing there and pressing 1 repeatedly is any worse than standing there and doing nothing and STILL winning. If you brought a minion master, a spirit spammer and a healer with you, you were all but invincible in all but a couple of instances. If you played with the sabway build or the even more widespread discord team which came later, you were godlike no matter what build and skills you personally took.
You want to talk about boring combat? The imbalance in PVe was so bad, that I ended up not playing the game because it was too easy.
I’m going to side with Vayne here. I took a Spirit Lord Ritualist to 50/50 in HoM (PvE only). You combine that with 4 or 5 minion master necros with discord, and it was easy. Each necro had up to 6 minions. I had all my spirits. The necros hit targets with discord. We just rolled thru most content in HM. You had food to buff your whole group before you started, remove any death penalty and rebuff. It was so easy, I played as a Ritualist/ranger so I could have a Fiery Hound of Balthazar. Not because he did any damage worth mentioning, but because I liked the way he looked. I could afford to kitten myself. It didn’t matter.
Guild Wars 2 is harder IMO. I can’t run around with a meat shield of 10 or 12 (or more) minions and 6 spirits or so. No helpful priest to keep me healed. Can’t send my heroes in front of me to take agro while I stay safe in the back. No Mesmer heroes to block skills before they even happen. There is no way now I would take a useless skill just for the lolz.
Youll find warrior and guardian to be significantly stronger than the other classes in a PvE setting. Human is probably the best race to start if for no other reason then more people play human than the other races so youll have more people to play with.
However, you don’t have to stay in one race’s starter zone. At level 2 you can go to Lions Arch and then to any one of the other race’s noob zones. So unless you are one of the people who won’t go another race’s zone, I wouldn’t pick a race for that reason.
Yes, please keep the new cutscenes from now on. They convey emotions better and are more aesthetically pleasing. The personal story scenes just didn’t cut it. People might be dying all around me and my character is standing there, idly swinging his arms and calmly discussing things. It completely ruins the story.
Maybe they should implement a PvP server which you can only get to by guesting and where everyone is red to each other. By not making it a home server, you don’t get the problems with people getting ganked at level one and then coming to the forum to complain because they chose a PvP server and it costs money to switch. Everyone who wants to duel can go there and they can assume all the people they meet there want to duel them.
Well, I didn’t say I agreed, just that that was their answer. :-) I know in Guild Wars 1 we saved builds on our computers. I had numerous builds saved and I’m sure I wasn’t an exception. I agree, I don’t know why they can’t do the same with pet names. Maybe some quirk in the programming for this game? They did make some odd design choices on a number of subjects.
This has been brought up before on several threads. On one of them at least, the answer was given that they decided it would take up to much data space to store all the pet names.
From that thread:
MokahTGS.7850:
This is actually not a bug, it is working as intended. It is not optimal, but to save the names of all of your pets (read: all of everyone’s pets) would require another large name database that ANet did not create. Currently the pet name feature saves the name in the slot, not the pet, so changing out the pet type resets the slot name.
Perhaps someday they will change this, but it is not a bug.
Jason King
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This is pretty much exactly what’s going on.
Tl;dr: we may change this some day, but it’s not going to happen in the near future, and it’s not a bug.
ArenaNet Community Team
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It would be nice to have a way to get some of the starting armor pieces that you can’t get any other way.
Some more retro GW1 skins would be cool too. You know you want your obby armor…
What starting armor can you not get any other way? You can always make a toon, go thru the start, soul break any soulbound armor and give it to an appropriate armor alt. Or are you talking about something else?
Maybe what ANet needs is a group of people (testers) whose job it is, is to find ways to grief others on new content before it is released. I get the impression ANet thought about griefing and how to control it but it needs people who are “dedicated” to griefing to find some of this stuff.
There is that one decent one on my Guard…well…kinda.
There is? My guardian wants to know which one. ^^ I use Renewed Focus because I tried the other 2 and they seemed to be overwhelmingly underwhelming. And then that long cooldown starts.
They should make the elite slot capable of holding utility skills. It would be more useful then.
Basically OP is asking for the Devs to do work for him and change the game. To revamp the bank system and make the old system obsolete. To get this result, better reasons need to be given than what have been given so far. So far I have seen reasons of this level, I may want to buy something and its inconvenient to switch characters, or it’s inconvenient to go thru loading screens or to waypoint to LA or WvW for free. In answer, the Devs are going to point to the cash shop items, Bank Access Express and Trading Posts express. Why should they redo the game and lose money in sales on top of that? The people who want this will need to offer compelling reasons for it.
i never said anything about changing the bank. the system is already in the game to have currencies account bound (gems, laurels, and glory already use such a system)
i honestly have no idea where you think i said i wanted the bank system “revamped” the bank is for your items and theres only a small part where you can withdraw and deposit gold. making gold account bound is a long shot off from “revamping” the bank system….
and the bank express is in my experience used mostly for items (storing stuff after events or dungeons) i dont know anyone who summons a bank express because they feel too overburdened with gold….
and why did you even mention trading post express? nothing whatsoever to do with gold becoming account bound
try to stay on topic with your posts please
In order to make cash across all accounts, you have to change the game. If you change it that much, the old bank system is obsolete. Why have a money bank at all if its on your hero panel the same as gems and laurels or if all characters carry it at once. If you want more gold than what you are personally carrying and don’t want to waypoint to a nearby crafting place, WvW or LA, then that bank express is what the Devs have put in the game. I’m not arguing that its cost effective, merely that the Devs are going to say “that’s available” to any argument concerning convenience. You will need a better reason than convenience to counter that.
I mentioned the Trading Post express because I misread that person’s post. I thought he meant he was doing the buying out in explorable area.
Edit: I’m not talking about making the whole bank obsolete, just the gold storage part.
Basically OP is asking for the Devs to do work for him and change the game. To revamp the bank system and make the old system obsolete. To get this result, better reasons need to be given than what have been given so far. So far I have seen reasons of this level, I may want to buy something and its inconvenient to switch characters, or it’s inconvenient to go thru loading screens or to waypoint to LA or WvW for free. In answer, the Devs are going to point to the cash shop items, Bank Access Express and Trading Posts express. Why should they redo the game and lose money in sales on top of that? The people who want this will need to offer compelling reasons for it.
i don’t mind it i think its much better then having to go back to the quest giver to pick up your reward
DEFINITELY not suggesting that we have to go back to get a reward… just that we not receive a mail from the heart npcs, to instead have the personal story tab on the character screen have sub-tabs, one for the personal story, one for each additional story that expansions may introduce (at some point), one for each living story and one for all of the hearts completed (which would include some information about the heart as well as the letter, tailored to how you completed the heart, and reward).
Just wanted to clarify.
An interesting idea. Will it be stored on your computer or on Guild Wars 2’s side though? If you think about it, that’s a lot of info to store on their side. I’ve read that 3 million accounts have been purchased so far with at least one character per account. However most people have multiples. I have 8 myself and I’ve heard of 20 or more. But lets assume 5 average per account. That’s a guesstimated 15 millions characters the game needs to store as text info on hearts done. That’s a fair amount of text and its constantly growing as people do more hearts on alts and as new people buy the game.
Considering that Rangers can’t keep pet names stored because they decided that would require to much data space, I doubt that they will consider this unless a way around the text data storage is also proposed.
One of my guildies transmuted hers and was able to switch it from one character to another. We discussed how to do it, she picked a low level spineguard and crossed the appearance to it and it broke the soul binding. I think she had to do it twice tho.
Edit: she may have used one called a back or brace, rather than a spineguard.
Yah, a title that actually sums up what you want will stick in the Dev’s mind better than one thats vague. ^^ I was actually expecting this thread to be about more armor skins in the gem store.
This however is a great idea. I know numerous people have multiple armor sets and inventory can be tight.
Each of my characters carries 10 silver, which is plenty for repairs and way pointing. At the end of the day, I clear out inventory and put any excess money in the bank. Why do your characters need to carry a lot of money around? It’s not like they need to buy much, or anything during most play. If they do need something special, like gear upgrade, you can get it before or after you play.
it wouldnt be much use to someone who only has “10” silver on each character……
and how is 10 silver enough for way pointing? thats like 5 ports. 2 of which would be used to get to the bank and back to where you were
but say i had 30 gold on my main, and i wanted to buy some dye for my other account. it would be easier and faster to not have to go to a bank on both characters and just have it automatically accessible to my other character.
I go to La thru the Mists or I go to WvW to access the bank there. If I go to WvW then the return is free also. Usually I’m not shopping while I’m playing though. I start off with 10 silver and even with waypointing while playing I make enough money to have money to put away at the end of the day. Different play styles I guess. ^^ If you frequently stop playing to shop or your outgo exceeds your income, then yeah, you will need to carry more money.
Yeah, if you don’t have a friendly guild then this is definitely the time to get one. Guildies are usually a lot calmer and more helpful when you are learning stuff. If you die, they are more likely to come back and rez you. Trying to learn while grouped with random strangers is a good way for people to give you attitude.
Under the support panel he needs to go to “have a question” and make out a support ticket from there answering what questions he can. They can send him a link to make a new password. Expect this to take at least 24 to 48 hours minimum. At the top of this page is a stickie on how to submit a ticket.
Not only is the light armor almost all skirts, but it’s mostly long skirts with the front open. Truthfully it’s a strange design. If it was only a few if them no biggie. But having so many, well it is starting to feel like a fetish on the designer’s part.
Heavy armor, can we say MORE skirts? Yes we can. Luckily I have HoM armor available to me which is much more reasonable. Good luck to anyone else who doesn’t have this option and would like pants, especially for female toons.
Medium armor and the cover your butt fetish rages on with lots of long cloaks. Seriously, I want my tailor to get out a pair of scissors and just hack the cloaks off at the waist for my mediums armors.
Why can’t we have tucked in shirts and pants options for armor? Short jackets that end at the waist? Just plain old pants for all 3 armor sets?
They did say a long time ago that the HoM for new people would be cut off, but that was before the game was launched. My guess is they are seeing sales for Guild Wars 1 from people who want the HoM items and so have no reason to stop it. Since they have never announced that it was terminated I would get it and immediately link the accounts. Then you can work on the HoM at your leisure.
I googled tattare and found this. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tattare
Derogatory name for a group of people in Sweden. Maybe someone Swedish saw your name and reported it.
If so, you have no chance of getting your account name back.
ok, i understand you run the risk or chance with gambling. I understand the fact that fused weapons are a luxury item as they are just skins.
But I have spent 200$ worth of gems on BL keys alone to get ONE fused weapon. Still haven’t gotten it. Doesn’t anyone think this is a little ridiculous and outrageous?
The question is, does ANet think its ridiculous or outrageous? When a company puts out a product and buyers express intense interest by buying multiples of it then the company is going to feel that the product is a success. If some have buyer’s remorse afterwards, the company can still consider it a win if the money they make exceeds what they would have made selling the item without RNG. Some may be unhappy, but the company can look at their sales and conclude that the majority was not. I read somewhere that they feel people like “gambling” with the BL chests and I would say the sales validate their belief.
As long as people spend money on RNG then you can expect the gem store to sell it. It’s a business decision.
I can see your points very valid. I agree with what you’ve said. The fact that I have spent 150-200$ on BLChests can be successful. Anet can see my payments as a success… but at what end should gem-buyers be rewarded?
These kinds of odds will upset gem-buyers to the point I’ve heard so many times: "I"m not spending a cent more in the gem store". I think these odds could hurt Anet’s potential profits. In my mind, 100$ of gambling in a VIDEO game, should net out some sort of reward. That’s just my expectation from a video game that does gambling. They could at least put the fused weapons in the store for 300 gems each, or even 500. This still guarantees profit for anet, but they now have accumulated a bit of frustrated customers who have spent more than I and have gained nothing as well.
To what end should the odds be I think is a subjective matter.
Even if I didn’t get a fused ticket, I haven’t received any sort of other rare-reward from the chests.. same old crap. What motivation is there for me left to get them? Which puts potential gem purchases for me at a low.
I would have been glad to buy at least one weapon if they sold it directly, but I got bit by RNG a few months back and swore off buying more keys. I’ve been doing key runs. ^^ It’s tedious but there is some personal satisfaction of getting these keys without paying for them.
If they are going to do this, they should increase the drop rate. I suspect from reading the forum that it’s 1 in 50 which means its easy to be unlucky and need 100 or more to get one.
ok, i understand you run the risk or chance with gambling. I understand the fact that fused weapons are a luxury item as they are just skins.
But I have spent 200$ worth of gems on BL keys alone to get ONE fused weapon. Still haven’t gotten it. Doesn’t anyone think this is a little ridiculous and outrageous?
The question is, does ANet think its ridiculous or outrageous? When a company puts out a product and buyers express intense interest by buying multiples of it then the company is going to feel that the product is a success. If some have buyer’s remorse afterwards, the company can still consider it a win if the money they make exceeds what they would have made selling the item without RNG. Some may be unhappy, but the company can look at their sales and conclude that the majority was not. I read somewhere that they feel people like “gambling” with the BL chests and I would say the sales validate their belief.
As long as people spend money on RNG then you can expect the gem store to sell it. It’s a business decision.
Maybe a moderator needs to move this thread to game bugs.
My understanding was all you have to do to get influence is to log on. Some people are saying that’s all they do, log on with multiple characters and get influence with nothing said about staying on each character for several minutes. That hasn’t been my experience at all and it does sound like is bugged.
Each of my characters carries 10 silver, which is plenty for repairs and way pointing. At the end of the day, I clear out inventory and put any excess money in the bank. Why do your characters need to carry a lot of money around? It’s not like they need to buy much, or anything during most play. If they do need something special, like gear upgrade, you can get it before or after you play.
This armor is Medium armor by the way, but I loved that armor making it’s way into GW2 from GW1. I remembered collecting all the stuff for it for my ranger and stuff pre-searing. Sadly, all that light armor gets for GW2 is Profane Armor and I prefer the GW1 version much, much more. The new version somehow makes my Sylvari Necro look like an insect of some sort.
I don’t know what they did to the Profane Armor but the males look like Power Rangers and the females look like retro 60s Barabarella or something.
As for the Krytan armor, I really don’t know why it couldn’t have been made for both light or medium armor or had 2 identical versions made, one for light and one for medium if the game required it. I wanted it for my necro also. Ended up getting it for my thief.
How long do you need to be representing though with each character? I have a bank guild which I rep into periodically to take things in and out. I almost never gain influence by doing this.
Several minutes, or at least one influence point earned by this character.
That makes sense. The game probably takes census snapshots every few minutes so you need to be on long enough to be “seen” and why it only happened when I forgot and started playing.
That doesn’t explain why the order switched around when I went invisible though.
Someone might have relogged.
That’s possible, but it switched at the exact same time I went invisible. There were only 2 others on at the time and I didn’t repeat the experiment. I’ll have to do it again when there are a bunch on and see.
