I agree, I’ts stupid that we have to pay 200 Gems to play each chapter. Some people don’t live by their computer and wouldn’t have the time to sign in. If it was free for that day of signing in then it should be free forever.
Each episode was free if you logged on to the game once, for a few seconds, within a 2 week period and some were free for a month, iirc, so it wasn’t just one day that it was free.
There is a child in Fireheart Rise that appears to be talking about a descendant of his but unfortunately he, as a merchant, was never put in the game and I don’t expect he ever will.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Villager_
Dialogue
“Over here. Don’t let the grawl see you.”
“What’s going on?”
“My friend Nick said if I brought him some grawl necklaces, he’d trade me for a gift. He said these kinds of scavenger hunts are an old family tradition for him.”
“How many have you got so far?”
“None. I’m not even sure they have grawl necklaces here. But I’m not giving up until I get at least five, no matter how long it takes.”
I don’t see how, lore wise, they can get around not having the Zhaitan personal story at least available to do as you are referred to periodically as the Commander and the biconics know you as that person who killed Zhaitan. That’s your credentials and why you are the boss. So I’m going to assume that your character will have that storyline available to do.
The question is, how and when do you get your profession of Revenant.
Possibility: start a new character as a warrior or guardian (so they will have heavy armor to start with). This character, in the starting instance, will have a story line that takes them to the mists where they perform a task that makes them a Revenant. Upon leaving the starting instance they level to 80 and then can go to the new maps.
The Zhaitan story line will be available for them to do if they wish.
1) Allows guilds to group up so that guild chat can cross guild barriers.
2) Allows greater access to guild events.
3) Helps guilds to coordinate guild missions together and other guild members to temporarily join to do another guild’s missions (especially useful for guilds that have trouble getting enough members to do the missions or for members who can’t log on when their guild does their missions).
4) Increases guild chatter.
5) Increases the chance that someone can get help with something.
6) Helps when guildies want to do dungeons but don’t want to pug.
7) If the alliance member’s tag is a distinctive color, is a way to decrease the sensation of “alone in a crowd” that is a problem with Megaservers.
I like unlocking areas and waypoints on a new char and getting the exp for leveling. So, no thanks for me.
But if they make it a gem store item so those who want it can have it… However, it would most likely mean that any chars would not get the Gifts of Exploration after unlock which would be a problem if someone gets the account unlock and then changes their mind about wanting to craft a Legendary.
“It looks if green logs have stabilized between 45-50c each but soft wood logs are on the express elevator to hell, going down.”
Time to buy and hold?
Don’t know. Before Silverwastes they were about 5s each with 100K supply on the market. We may just be returning to status quo.
There is a sharp rise in price and drop in supply starting beginning of November and returning to lower prices at the end of January. Neither date matches the new dailies or the new accounts. The start does match with Echoes of the Past and opening of the Silverwastes, where everyone and their dog went to play and farm bandit badges. Maybe it has to do with that and farmers abandoning their old farms.
How can people get scammed when they can always look up prices on the actual TP beforehand if they wish to use the lfg venue to sell/buy items..?
Are you freakin’ serious?
Exactly how can a seller be sure they get their gold?
How can a buyer be sure they will get the goods?
If either goes wrong, Anet gets contacted and has to waste time hunting down the bad guy and banning them (note they will NOT refund any money or items on a deal gone bad).
Everything above is irrelevant when BLTP is used for transaction.
Whether you like it or not, the solution is already in the game.
I do agree that a clear policy on the use of the LFG tool for buying and selling needs to be stated in the LFG tool window.
KarlaGrey hasn’t played (by his admission) in a long time and also admitted he posts to do forum PvP. Since he hasn’t played in so long, then he only knows what he reads on the forum and what he remembers from way back when.
Hmmm. I wonder if the new maps will have these lower tier nodes or just the T5 and T6.
If not, then unless there is new items to craft using them, then won’t we see the T5-6 go down and the T1-4 go up as people make ascended gear but don’t want to spend their time farming in the old maps?
This might effect cooking also if people want to make food but don’t want to run to old maps to harvest those nodes.
It’s pretty ridiculous that this game doesn’t offer player trading that doesn’t involve the trading post. You would think a game as beautiful and advanced as this would have such a simple feature.
+ 1 Disappointed
A separate channel could be added specifically for that with a statement that players trade at their own risk.
Agreed. If ANet doesn’t wish to make this reportable, then add a LTS tab and put on it that if they get scammed, then the scammer will get suspended/banned but they will not get their gold or items back. In Big Red Letters.
As soon as I posted the suggestion that Wanze = John Smith, my iPad froze and had to be rebooted. Was that you? Did I take off my tin foil hat too soon?
I’d love to have an NPC like that, yes. I’ve (regretfully) bought and used a kit for a single feature before, it’s cringe-worthy.
So have I, to change height on a char or a tattoo color on my Norn. I was wishing for the NPC so I could look it over before buying a kit so I could be sure I wanted to do it.
You buy makeover credits from the store and you can look at the possible changes without needing a kit first. If, in this game, they make it so each single change costs one credit then you can change one feature for the lowest price up to everything for the highest.
I know I’ve been watching it for days now but in the last 12 hours it got zany with large (over 1000) amounts dropped 10-15c less than current bid followed by a series of 1c undercutting until the next large drop 10-15c less.
It’s a darn fire sale. It reminds me of the pork belly scene in Trading Places. “They’re panicking out there, I can feel it.”
The lumber dailies perhaps? Enough players get it, it could give that much of a supply boost.
I would bet that’s a big part of the reason. Most people are going to port to the nearest zones outside a city and harvest either green or soft wood, then sell it. I know that’s what I do for these dailies and there are always others running around doing the same thing. For mining, I go to my home instance and get 90% then one node outside.
In addition there are all those new accounts leveling chars and chopping green and soft wood.
Dailies and new accounts together can be the reason for a lot of this rise in supply.
Having the armor headpiece show in an outfit would be an improvement. I would love to have my necro with her Demon Mask and bright yellow eyes and that new Archive outfit. Very evil mage looking imo.
I want to throw out something else that indicates this is not a reportable offense.
I seen plenty of threads where someone is protesting being forced to change a character name. Threads where people protest suspensions for a second (or third) bad character name. Suspensions for bad language are protested. Botting bans are protested. Yet I’ve not seen a single thread or post where someone protests a suspension based on LFG.
If people are getting suspensions for something they thought was a legit way to sell items, I guarantee some of them would post.
In this case I would argue, evidence of absence (of posts) is evidence of proof (that this is not a reportable offense.
Anet just need to let few GMs monitor LFG at random time each day and use warning or few day ban on that are selling on LFG tool,soon no1 would sell on it and GMs can focus on other problems.
Even in Gaile’s response, she never states that you can’t use LFG for selling. Anet only states that they will not replace your item or good if you are scammed. They will take disciplinary action if there is proof that someone scammed, but the item and gold are still not replaced. Selling via lfg is allowed, whether we like it or not, and Anet holds a “look the other way” mentality with it.
Silence isn’t necessarily a “yes” or a “no”.
When asked about mods, they said its against the rules. When asked about botting, they said its against the rules. When asked about scamming, they said its against the rules. When asked about gold buying, they said its against the rules. When asked about trading on LFG, they said its a bad idea.
I would say, silence means it’s not against the rules. If it was against the rules, then what do they gain by refusing to say so?
There are some gray areas in regards to what may or may not be acceptable. The examples you gave are fairly clear cut and mentioned in the ToS. Think of it as how they’ve approached usage of 3rd party mods.
Maybe that’s the problem. Perhaps because it’s not mentioned in the TOS and therefore it’s not a reportable and punishable offense until it is (can’t suspend someone unless it says so in the TOS).
The suspension punishments ramp up for repeated offenses until someone gets banned. If they suspend someone for an appreciable amount of time or ban someone and it’s not against TOS, this might cause legal problems for them.
I bought a new account and I’m leveling some chars there while waiting for the expansion. I had to buy and gift it an outfit. Those noob armors (shudder) and my one lonely transmutation charge are a bad mix.
Now they rock in something stylish and my eyes don’t have ‘fashion twitches’ whenever they get a new piece of armor from a drop.
I bought a bunch of outfits on my old account to switch out looks just for fun.
Anet just need to let few GMs monitor LFG at random time each day and use warning or few day ban on that are selling on LFG tool,soon no1 would sell on it and GMs can focus on other problems.
Even in Gaile’s response, she never states that you can’t use LFG for selling. Anet only states that they will not replace your item or good if you are scammed. They will take disciplinary action if there is proof that someone scammed, but the item and gold are still not replaced. Selling via lfg is allowed, whether we like it or not, and Anet holds a “look the other way” mentality with it.
Silence isn’t necessarily a “yes” or a “no”.
When asked about mods, they said its against the rules. When asked about botting, they said its against the rules. When asked about scamming, they said its against the rules. When asked about gold buying, they said its against the rules. When asked about trading on LFG, they said its a bad idea.
I would say, silence means it’s not against the rules. If it was against the rules, then what do they gain by refusing to say so?
What if the map population is over the lower capacity when it kicks in? (People do get there ahead of time and wait). Does everyone get kicked out of the map?
I’ve never really understood the attraction of getting new levels that require you to get new gears to fight mobs that are scaled to your new level. One one hand, it’s character progression, but on the other hand it’s a unthinking sort of progression. Ratcheting up like that makes the old areas trivial and in non scaling games, not even playable as there is no reason to go there.
Of course right now they’re going to make the Revenant SEEM overpowered, but that’s just part of their marketing strategy. Of course they want us to think the Revenant is OP, because that will drive people to buy the expansion pack!
For those who are Super Smash Bros fans, I bet you guys remember how incredibly overpowered Megaman looked in the Smash Bros 4 announcement trailer. But now that SSB4 has been out for a while, can anyone honestly say Megaman is overpowered? No, I don’t think so.
So don’t worry, the Revenant won’t be OP.
^
How about the trailers for Guild Wars 2 before it came out, where chars were killing 5 or 6 mobs with one AOE or Jotun with one spell. Granted a fully traited level 80 can do that in the starter zone, but it’s not quite the same.
He’s looking for a tattoo sleeve. Not a real tattoo.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeve_tattoo
A sleeve tattoo (or tattoo sleeve) is a large tattoo, or a collection of smaller tattoos, usually themed in similar manner, that covers most or all of a person’s arm, usually from shoulder to wrist.
As long as you are not providing access to an account,if people are playing on their own account, then I don’t see why it would be a problem. You are only downloading the client which anyone can do.
I think the problem with Internet cafés was non secure access to accounts. People were able to steal other people’s login information.
I’m assuming you’re pretty young and these comments apply to you if you are. If you are in your 30s or above then you can disregard.
Before you do something permanent to yourself like that you should ask yourself if you will still like it in 10 years, or 20 or 30. What if you’ve grown to dislike the game or just indifferent? What sort of job will you have in the the future? Will a tattoo of this sort match that job?
as others have mentioned, if people would creep out from their comfort zones, they may be surprised how much fun other games are.
Or they may not. What makes you think i haven’t tried those game modes i dislike?
I’ve agreed with you, but with all the condescending admonishment that I should try PvP because I just might discover how fun it is, I’m actually starting to come around.
Mind you, I have absolutely no intention of ever even attempting to fight another player, but I’m really starting to think that rolling a level one, joining ranked PvP, and practicing my /dancing just might be fun.
Ask your teammates questions like, “how do I weapon swap?” and “how do I set my skill bar?” PvP people are a friendly bunch and if you ask questions like that, they will tell you things you ain’t never heard before.
Or I could play what I enjoy and find interesting, not play what I find utterly pointless and uninteresting, and not give a flying kitten how you or anyone else thinks I ought to play.
I play for my own reasons, none of which involve filling my need for challenge and competition by measuring kittens with internet strangers or getting satisfaction or pleasure from being better than someone else at a video game.
<sarcasm> However, I did enjoy the implication that people who don’t care about PvP probably haven’t figured out how to even swap weapons. </sarcasm>
Lol. That was a joke. If you were going to troll your team by dancing then I thought you would appreciate ways to troll more.
as others have mentioned, if people would creep out from their comfort zones, they may be surprised how much fun other games are.
Or they may not. What makes you think i haven’t tried those game modes i dislike?
I’ve agreed with you, but with all the condescending admonishment that I should try PvP because I just might discover how fun it is, I’m actually starting to come around.
Mind you, I have absolutely no intention of ever even attempting to fight another player, but I’m really starting to think that rolling a level one, joining ranked PvP, and practicing my /dancing just might be fun.
Ask your teammates questions like, “how do I weapon swap?” and “how do I set my skill bar?” PvP people are a friendly bunch and if you ask questions like that, they will tell you things you ain’t never heard before.
It’s buggy. I had several days once where I got influence for doing events on my personal guild, but no influence for logging in. Then there are days when I know I’ve logged and repped on several alts, but only one to two register with influence.
Thank goodness they aren’t going to ever do that “hampster on a wheel” nonsense of raising levels and gear with every expansion. I much prefer the way they have it, increasing the profession’s depth by the new Mastery system.
looks like he’s thinking on the same lines as me with the thief getting the rifle
It doesn’t matter considering he doesn’t know more than we do.
True, true.
But there was one person in that video wearing medium HoM armor carrying a rifle. We know already that rangers get a staff and that engies get a hammer. That makes it likely that the medium profession rifle carrying person is a thief.
Sometimes I did the old dailies as a checklist (but it gave me the freedom to check them off in the way best suited for me) or I completed them while pursuing my other goals.
These new dailies are checklist only and they don’t even allow me to check them off in the way that’s best for me. Doing the new dailies is “playing” according someone else’s specifications, which is not playing but work.
You get 20 for each explorable dungeon path and most of those can be run pretty quickly and I believe they can be run twice a day, if it’s only the empyreal frags you are concerned about.
The lost bandit chests may (or may not) give you 7-13, but you need to spend time doing events to get keys and then time searching (and being harassed by hyenas and mordrem while carrying a shovel or trying to unlock).
If you have alts, you can run them through the easy to reach chests in Queensdale, plains of Ashford and Wayfarers. I would run my 9 alts to those chests and get a fair amount, but it’s time consuming to do this.
Interesting. I missed that announcement and was wondering. It’s going to be a long dry spell if it’s several months till the expansion starts.
Guess I’ll be leveling alts on my second, new account (and seeing what the fuss is for the NPE and traits) as well as doing key runs on my old account.
Wow. Some of y’all haven’t gotten a box before 30 events or so? Thats awful reward design. Either there should be a token that drops with each final chest and after you get X number you can buy a carapace box or the boxes should be on sale for 1000 crests like the others as a fail safe.
Is it taking up a valuable slot? It seems to be in the same drop category as the exotic rune and the bone fragment. At least it’s 10 silver and worth more than the rune.
Huge crowd of people at the first event I found. A handful of weak mobs that spawn and die before they take more than a few steps. (Bad scaling).
Then I found an escort event. People are getting testy in map chat because they can’t find events or get to them fast enough. So I was at the escort, reading the irritated map chat posts telling others to ping waypoints, and I didn’t bother. Why? Because the event was a longish run from the nearest wp and if I did call it out, by the time they got there it would be over. (Again bad scaling).
Another problem tied with bad scaling and events ending fast, is that there is usually (as far as I can tell by looking at the map) only one event going on at a time. This concentrates the zerg (which, by Dwayna, is the last thing needed) and further frustrates those who can’t get there on time. (Bad scaling in terms of event frequency when so many are trying to do events and only events).
It’s going to be odd for the Revenants, which is new expansion content, so to be leveling outside their expansion. That’s not something that’s normally done in games.
It also sounds very off putting. People buy the new expansion to play there on their new character, not to appear in the old content, having to get to level 80 before they can access it. And yes I know some can pop level scrolls and get to 80 in seconds, that’s not the point. Others are going to have to go through the whole leveling process by playing. If they have to wait till however long that takes them then they are not going to be happy.
A few possibilities.
One, there is one leveling map your char appears in. If it has 3 biomes, the bottom can be low level, the middle, middle level and the top, higher level. When you get to 80, you can leave. If they give extra exp, it can be quick. It will still be a problem as the Revenants will be leveling while others are playing the game and doing the story line, which will mean that many will put off leveling the Revenant till later, after they have played a while.
Second, you take a level 80 to there and and he speaks to Rytlock and becomes a Revenant. (Less likely as it may require a guard/warrior because of armor issues and because it means losing your previous profession).
3rd possibility: you get a new char. You chose the Revenant profession and you are level 80 at start. (Obvious learn to play problems here).
Of the 3, my guess is on a dedicated tutorial map with a fast push to level 80 mechanics.
None of these will happen. You will level up from the very start until the end. MMOs add new starter-zones with races, not classes.
Also, Anet said that the new maps will have huge reply-ability, if you think a level 50 map that lvl 80s can 1 shot everything at, is replyable, I would indeed disagree with you
Are you arguing that there will be no scaling in a new tutorial map and that Queensdale, Brisbane, Mount Maelstrom, all the below level 80 maps, have no replay value for level 80s? This hasn’t been my experience of the game.
Granted a tutorial map won’t have huge replayability, but it will have playability for each person that makes a Revenant as long as the profession is available in game, for people who are accompanying friends leveling and for people who don’t have a Revenant yet but who want to experience the new map or who have a Revenant but still want to open this map up on an older char.
You mean the whole crafting showing up as max on each character? If so, how can I use crafting to get levels on a new Charr I’m leveling?
Do you REALLY still need for alts Crafting to level them up, when you get easily from your other characters tons of Instant level 20 (and in future surely also lvl 40, 60 scrolls, they are already data mined), in a game, that rewards you from doing dailies easily with tons of accountbound exp givers, in a game, that easily rewards you with instant level up tomes, that you really still need crafting for leveling, when there are tons of other ways that let you leevel up quicker and much cheaper without wasting crafting materials/money/time????
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Actually I do use crafting regularly for alts. I do regular key runs, sometimes several a week. The leveling aids you mention are either speculation, already used, reserved for my new profession or already being used by my key runners. I use crafting to level then level up aids to finish.This is not something unusual, there are guides people made to show others how to do this and I regularly see other key runners.
Other people like to level alts to try out different builds/looks/races/profession combinations. (There are posts with people saying they have the max number of character slots, 64). Many use crafting as a fast leveling. If they make new alts often enough, they won’t have extra leveling aids. Other people are hoarding these aids for their new profession and also plan to use crafting if needed.
Just because you personally don’t have a need for crafting to level alts doesn’t mean there aren’t others who do it regularly.
If they make it optional, sure. But not something for all accounts.
/shrug. I know if my char starts off in an old starter zone I’m not going to level it the old way there. I’ve already leveled 9 chars to 80 doing the old maps and I don’t have an interest in doing that again. I’ll instant 80 and head to the new maps, like I expect most others will be doing.
I kind of doubt that having a flood of people on a new profession already maxed to 80 in new maps where ANet says the content is going to be harder is a good thing but, so it is. If they added a new tutorial map for this new profession where you start at the bottom biome and had to leave by reaching a portal at the top biome then that would give people time to learn the map mechanics as well as the basics of their profession before they hit the new maps with the harder content they are speaking of.
I’m expecting lots of dead Revenants littering the new maps calling for a rez. ^^
(The tutorial map could have a horizontal footprint about the size of a regular map and a vertical footprint of 3 levels where the bottom level is for 1-26, middle for 27-52, and top for 53-80. It could also be “in the mists” and not part of the regular maps for everyone else)
Guild Wars 1 had districts in their cities. You could choose the one you wanted based on a friend in a district or how crowded it was, and move to it if it wasn’t full. If they had that in this game, people who want crowded maps can go to district one and those who don’t can go to the highest number district.
Think how useful something like this could be to a map like the Silverwastes. The chest farmers can go to their own map and the people who want to do events can go to theirs.
Very large, over 200.
How many active: most, at least within the couple of months. The guild kicks people who don’t log in.
How many of those have played in this last 2 months: maybe about 80% to 90%. Most play daily.
Of course there is always the possibility that his account was hacked. He needs to run a security check and it wouldn’t hurt to change the password on his email after he is sure his computer is clean.
The thing is, if they don’t have a starter zone to level and learn, a very large number of people (based on how many have level 20 scrolls, tomes and writs that the game is handing out like candy) will simply pull out the “instant level 80” card and bypass the whole learning process.
If they have a new starter zone, some will still instant 80 but many will take the time to level there and learn the mechanics of the new biomes and even some of the instant 80s will stay there to check out the new map and learn their new profession that way.
@Astral no it wouldn’t. Just an example that could “excuse” that. Rytlock was the first Revenant. After he came back the power became accessible to other heroes through him & his teaches or just the fact that he came back unleashed this new potential power…but everyone who got it had to master it. It’s like u getting a new “super power” over night…u have no clue how to use it. There u go..lvl1-80.
There will be lore i am sure about it.
This is something i came up with in 5 min. I am sure a story teller can do 100x better
(Speculation) One consideration. There will already be a lot of people with enough scroll/tomes to instant level 80 so there’s going to be plenty of “there you go, level 80” from that. Since that’s already in game, ANet might make it official.
If they make people level through doing old content, I hope they have some sort of fast leveling mechanic because for many, those zones are “been there, done that” and they don’t want to redo old maps One. More. Time. when there are new maps to explore.
