Gaile Gray
ArenaNet Forum Communications Team Lead
“For those of you making serious suggestions, thanks and keep ‘em coming. *For those posting off topic comments, please don’t. This is a good thread – let’s make it work.”
In other words, if you want to discuss the gemstore please make your own thread. They want this thread for suggestions only.
Unfortunately, they reward us with a little bit of everything; something for PvPers, something for WvWers, something for PvEers, boosts, “fun” items, etc. So unless you participate in every facet of the game, you will receive stuff that is useless to you.
ANet can not know what everyone likes, so it makes a lot of sense to give us some sort of “gift certificates” with which we can select stuff we will appreciate. We don’t get AP Chests every day, and a reward should feel rewarding.
It would be nice if they gave us a chance to get hard-to-find stuff, like rare armor or weapon skins. (The Radiant/Hellfire stuff is the right idea, but I am soooooooo tired of being locked into Radiant for every character on my account. Why not let us pick from both? What the Hellfire? Must I get every Radiant weapon type unlocked before I see a piece of Hellfire equipment?)
Not sure what you mean here. There are no Radiant/Hellfire weapons and you get to chose one armor piece from either set when it comes up. Choosing Radiant once doesn’t mean you can’t choose Hellfire the next time. You aren’t locked into one set once you make the initial choice.
This thread made me curious enough to log into each of my level 80s to check.
Skill points used in crafting: ~1300
character’s unused skill points: 1294
Scrolls in inventory: 1010
All my characters were grandfathered into the trait system so they didn’t have to use skill points for that but once you’re done, skill points gain rapidly.
OP’s suggestion is only feasible if ANet has kept account statistics since launch. While they undoubtably keep statistics for the game as a whole, that doesn’t mean it’s kept per account. I would think it wouldn’t be, as it’s useless information that takes up data space.
To be more explicit, I already have one of each profession. Each is fully geared in a mix of exotics and ascended and has a full set of traits. If there isn’t a new profession to go with a new race, there’s little incentive for me to make a second profession that I already have, relevel, regear and go through the trouble of getting the traits for it.
why is it so wrong to make GW1 active again…….no really, are you so focused on GW2 that you don’t see what GW1 still has to offer.
they can add expansions, new chapters, update the graphics (and you don’t need a whole new engine for that).
heck, if they add more and more stuff for GW1 they can make it possible to add allot of stuff in both GW1 and GW2.
for instance, add the whole northern part of kryta/maguuma jungle as an expansion and within lore add this in GW2.
that way, GW1 becomes more active, they can add stuff for both games and even have a profit from both games.
There is nothing wrong with it but it’s an old game with dated graphics and an old engine (where you can’t even jump over an inch high ledge) that ANet has made its money off of and now they are concentrating their efforts (and budget) on this game. They might make a profit off of adding more content to Guild Wars 1 and they might not. It’s an older game and doesn’t have the “buzz factor” to draw in new people to pay for those new costs.
To make new content means either hiring new people, with their salaries and benefits, or pulling away people from their jobs in Guild Wars 2. Obviously doesn’t ANet feel the benefit cost ratio is good enough to do that.
Try being a dungeon runner. I’m drowning in Bloodstone and Ephemeral mats, but never, ever see dragonite :-(
I try to get by on a bit from LS and the occasional world boss, enough to make an ascended weapon every few months….armor? Forget it :P
You should try the Lost Bandit Chests in the Silverwastes. Each chest has either Dragonite Ore (10-20) or Empyreal Fragments (7-13). Putting in an hour or 2 in that zone will get you plenty of crests to exchange for bandit keys.
There are essentially unlimited numbers of skill points you can get. Each time you level, and you will continue to gain exp after reaching level 80, you get a skill point. Skill points are in various loot bags also (scrolls of knowledge).
Completing a skill challenge (202 in game)
Past level 80, for every 254,000 experience points earned (one level).
Dessa’s Experiment Journal (purchased for 35 Fractal Relics)
Scroll of Knowledge
5 skill points are earned for:
Using Sea of Sorrows gained from the History Buff achievement
Levelling up:
8 skill points are earned at levels 20, 26 and 32.
7 skill points are earned at levels 38, 44, 50 and 56.
6 skill points are earned at levels 62, 68, 74 and 80.
May what they should do is make that game free to play and get their money off of the Guild Wars 1 shop. Being free to play would attract more people to an old game. I doubt they make much by selling the boxed games anymore.
That would be great. The game is already on steam. They could make it free (+microtransactions) with the premise that they would keep adding new content.
I doubt they would add new content as it would require either hiring more people or taking people away from gw2 work, so imo that’s a no go. However they might want to consider it because they would get some transfers over to gw2 as the new people finish their free game..
Oh, yes, I forgot another Hall of Monuments Portal Stone (surely one is enough?).
Are you sure you got a HoM Portal Stone from an AP chest? You hadn’t just forgotten about it in your inventory or something? You definitely shouldn’t have gotten one of those.
^
There are no Portal stones reported as rewards. There are a set of chests that repeat themselves. The Large Achievement Chest is given out every 1000 AP points and the items inside the chest don’t change.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Large_Achievement_Chest
2 copper
200 Badges of Honor
Box o’ Fun
2 Boosters (randomly selected)
2 blueprints (randomly selected), including superior versions and traps
2 Gem Shop items (randomly selected from those awarded for Daily)
2 Jugs of Liquid Karma
10 Mystic Forge Stones
That saying, while the items in the chest aren’t exciting (especially after you’ve gotten a few chests) they are useful. And there are the weapon/armor skins as well as steady increases to luck/gold/exp/karma.
I do like how we are, by storyline, heroes several times over, but hobos in our home instance. When hitting the nodes in my instance I’m not tending to stuff on my property, I,m chopping down trees in the park and swiping someone’s laundry off the nearby drying rack.
Reported for vagrancy, theft and destruction of public property.
(J/k)
It would be nice to have some sort of home/display place but I’m not putting any hopes this game will do that.
May what they should do is make that game free to play and get their money off of the Guild Wars 1 shop. Being free to play would attract more people to an old game. I doubt they make much by selling the boxed games anymore.
500 (2 stacks) isn’t that much compared to what you get playing PvE. I’ve used up 25,000 (100 stacks) of dragonite crafting ascended weapons and still have about 10 stacks left.
I did it last night, zoned in on map that had the new boss event. I noticed I wasn’t getting bloodlust and my pet wasn’t getting Master’s bond. I thought at the time that it was bugged.
@papry
I agree the drop rate is abysmal, horrific and imo a bad business move. However that does not mean that ANet agrees. I’m sure Gaile passed on what we said but if ANet didn’t agree then there is nothing further, truthfully, that she can say. If there is nothing new for her to say about changes to the drop rate, then there is no reason for her to pull up this thread and update it.
Yeah, you’re frustrated and I would be too if it were me (I saw that drop rate and decided not to touch it), but she is only the messenger.
Oh, and AP — that makes no sense, I agree. I’ll ask about that, it just seems so very odd! Unless that’s the Super Rare Extra Sparkly Legendary Unique Candy Corn Cob of Death to All Monsters™, it just seems strange.
I’m gonna make a BIGGGGGGGGGG SIGHHHHHHHHH……….
This is no error, this have been the case since the halloween event.
After all as the mini is account bound if( MAJOR IFFFFFF HERE) get a second one, you must be able to transform into something else, don’t you ?
I read through this thread to get caught up, and there seem to be a few questions that I can address:
The miniature is extremely rare, it’s true. But the drop is random, which accounts for one person getting a pooch in a few hundred bags and someone else not getting it after opening several thousand.
One of our statisticians just checked the drop rate, and there is no error in the drop rate — it truly is dropping as designed.
Diminishing Returns do not apply to ToT Bags. I mean, phew! I read that question and my blood ran cold, but I felt sure — and the designer confirmed — that DR is not a factor with the Trick-or-Treat bags. Open 1, open 100, the drop rate is not impacted by diminishing returns.
I’ve passed along your suggestions. I believe that changes are not planned or even possible for this year’s event. What happens in future events — whether Gwynefyrdd will return — is not yet on the radar. Again, your thoughts and suggestions have been shared and I know that the devs do listen to your input. But what actually takes place in 2015 and beyond is not yet established.
I also want to say that I’d love nothing more than to have Gwynefyrdd for myself. One comment here — “he swims!” and I was gone. I truly wish all of you great good luck with this goal!
First you came on this topic saying that the abysmal drop rate of the mini was correct and dismissed any possible modification on the mini.
Just now, you discovered that the forge recipe exist and you find it strange.
I’m really disappointed.
There is a difference between telling us that a drop rate is at the level it was designed to be (what Gaile is saying) and saying that because it’s low, it needs to be changed. (what you seem to be saying).
It is an abysmally low drop rate and it is correct in the sense it’s at the level that’s assigned it to be. Whether the drop rate should be higher, is not something Gaile can say. She can only affirm the drop rate is mathematically correct as designed.
As to the recipe, she is Forum Communication Team Lead, not the knowledge keeper of mystic forge holiday recipes.
Tried it a few times. In each case I was subject to messages like, “Noob GTFO”, "Moa mekitten, “You suck, I hope you die”
I don’t care to participate in such a hostile environment that doesn’t respect sportsmanship. It is my impression that many PvP players cannot control themselves from insulting others when they lose or win. That is one reason I hope there is no open world dueling.
Agreed. The attitude is terrible.
I go to play in unranked, which I assume is the PvP map for noobs, and map chat is filled with, OMG my teammates are all noobs, everyone on my team sux so bad, etc, etc, etc.
That’s the main reason why PvE people don’t like PvP.
I saw this in wiki and my immediate reaction was, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I sat there and looked at it just to make sure I was seeing it right. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Candy_Corn_Cob
Because I’m gawdawful in PvP and can’t kill anyone unless they are gawdawfuler.
I am just going to take a guess that you are a very casual player with a small window of time you’re able to play and you don’t like being destroyed in pvp during the time you have to play.
Have you tried practicing with friends or group queuing?
All my friends hate PvP.
I’m working on it though. Every few days I do an unranked. I’ll never be good but maybe one day I won’t be gawdawful.
I also would appreciate being able to swap out my utility while it’s on cooldown – not that I mean I should be able to access my utility immediately as if it were off cooldown, but just allow it to swap and the cooldown to countdown like normal. Just a quality of life improvement.
Not sure I understand. Let’s say you have just used a utility skill with a 40 second cooldown and you want to switch to a skill with a 20 second cooldown. When you switch, how many seconds will it be? 20? That gives an advantage to people who switch right before a fight as the switcher only has to wait 20 seconds and the non switcher has to wait the full 40.
I took it to mean that they’d want to be able to switch skills during cooldown with the cooldown of the previous skill still in place, not reduce the cooldown by switching skills. Something like using a skill with a 40 second cooldown, switching to to a new skill with a 20 second cooldown about 5 seconds later, and still needing to wait the remaining 35 seconds from the cooldown already in place before it can be used (not suddenly counting down from 20).
So, they would have to rewrite all the cooldowns as X minutes unless switched to Y minute skill then the Y minute utility has X minutes minus time already used for that previous utility skill?
Hmmm. If that’s what he meant, I suspect ANet could do it, but it sounds complicated and likely to be buggy.
It’s not complex. You making it that way.
The Cooldown animation would be there from the 40 second Cooldown ability, but the icon on the bar is the new skill you chose. So when that 40seconds is done, the new skill is there to work like it normally works, since nothing changed about that skill at all.
Yes,
So, they would have to rewrite all the cooldowns as X minutes (40) unless switched to Y minute skill (20) then the Y minute (20) utility has X minutes (40) minus time already used for that previous utility skill?
That’s what I said.
They are going to have to reprogram it so that the previous skill cooldown overrides the new skill cooldown for the time of the switch since the new skill will be put into cooldown automatically at switch.
I also would appreciate being able to swap out my utility while it’s on cooldown – not that I mean I should be able to access my utility immediately as if it were off cooldown, but just allow it to swap and the cooldown to countdown like normal. Just a quality of life improvement.
Not sure I understand. Let’s say you have just used a utility skill with a 40 second cooldown and you want to switch to a skill with a 20 second cooldown. When you switch, how many seconds will it be? 20? That gives an advantage to people who switch right before a fight as the switcher only has to wait 20 seconds and the non switcher has to wait the full 40.
I took it to mean that they’d want to be able to switch skills during cooldown with the cooldown of the previous skill still in place, not reduce the cooldown by switching skills. Something like using a skill with a 40 second cooldown, switching to to a new skill with a 20 second cooldown about 5 seconds later, and still needing to wait the remaining 35 seconds from the cooldown already in place before it can be used (not suddenly counting down from 20).
So, they would have to rewrite all the cooldowns as X minutes unless switched to Y minute skill then the Y minute utility has X minutes minus time already used for that previous utility skill?
Hmmm. If that’s what he meant, I suspect ANet could do it, but it sounds complicated and likely to be buggy.
I also would appreciate being able to swap out my utility while it’s on cooldown – not that I mean I should be able to access my utility immediately as if it were off cooldown, but just allow it to swap and the cooldown to countdown like normal. Just a quality of life improvement.
Not sure I understand. Let’s say you have just used a utility skill with a 40 second cooldown and you want to switch to a skill with a 20 second cooldown. When you switch, how many seconds will it be? 20? That gives an advantage to people who switch right before a fight as the switcher only has to wait 20 seconds and the non switcher has to wait the full 40.
It’s not a dumb idiom. It means ‘down the road’, as in later on down the road something will happen or later on in time something will happen. It’s just using an old slang word for a particular type of road.
I’ve heard it before, but not recently I admit.
I know it’s not dumb, it’s just, I didn’t think to look it up and now I’m the dumb one. And to the other people, I’m in my early twenties if that means I should have heard it before or not. So, maybe some breaks on the hype train.
Well, not dumb to not google. Can’t think of everything. Just don’t give yourself a massive headache about it. ^^
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To me it meant an item that has a set of stats that no other item has with no reference as to whether or not you can equip 2 of them (and since you can equip 2 identical unique infused ascended items, it’s not consistent in its meaning).
That seems like a rather illogical line of thinking, though. Why would they bother marking that?
And to anyone confused by it, why wouldn’t you just type “/wiki unique” to be sure?
I came from Guild Wars 1, where the word unique for weapons had a particular meaning there referring to the stats only and for other items for their rarity. When they changed it to the new meaning, they could have made a warning and saved the players time and laurels and support time and money.
Why should I have thought to wiki a term I was familiar with in the preceding game made by the same people, a game that is the successor, the follow up game, to the original?
Out of curiosity, what did you think “Unique” meant?
To me it meant an item that has a set of stats that no other item has with no reference as to whether or not you can equip 2 of them (and since you can equip 2 identical unique infused ascended items, it’s not consistent in its meaning).
It’s even more annoying to DC in the last few minutes of a Teq event and come back to a different map, usually a failed one that gets you killed by exploding fish heads (as well as no chests).
The last time I DC’d was at the very start and landed on a new map with lots of people but zero organization and the bone walls already going up (and mobs everywhere).
It’s especially confusing to old Guild Wars 1 players as the term unique in that game was used for weapons with maximum stats for their level but the game didn’t stop you from equipping more than one at a time. They added the restriction in this game but didn’t add a warning.
Well, you couldn’t have more than one of the same weapon equipped at a time at all, so it’s not really a fair comparison.
You could put them in your weapon slots, like you could put 2 of the same weapons in your weapon slots in this game. It’s called equipping when you do that in this game. It’s true you don’t use them at the same time but it is equipping and in this game, soul binding when you do so for the ones that soul bind.
It’s not an identical comparison but it has some important similarities.
You can’t see gold to gems transactions but you can see purchases. You can check there to look at your purchase history in case you bought something and forgot or if someone accessed your account and made purchases.
I agree that Guardian is closest to what you are looking for, but do not expect this game to be like your other games. If you don’t accept it on its own terms and you try to play it according to another game’s rules, you will be disappointed.
Eh, i’ve never really understood why people think that because Charr are felines, that they must have every feline characteristic. Going by regular rules of anthromorphic DNA ratios, the number of characteristics stems from how humanoid the anthromorphic race is.
What are anthromorphic DNA ratios? I googled it and didn’t find that term.
If you are talking about fantasy creatures, it’s whatever the lore says it is.
It’s more akin to the furry fandom, which Charr ultimately fall into, being an anthromorph in a fantasy world. You are right it is whatever the lore says it is though, so people saying that something has to be anatomically correct certainly doesn’t apply.
I’m not sure that ANet has clarified in its own mind if the Charr have 2 or 6. I’ve noticed the males have 2 but in a long ago discussion inside the company published before the game came out about whether the females should have breasts, the designer basically said, 6 or none (visible human like breasts). So they went with none.
So, in spite of the males showing 2 they said the females have 6 (even though that is biologically inaccurate for terrestrial mammals).
Eh, i’ve never really understood why people think that because Charr are felines, that they must have every feline characteristic. Going by regular rules of anthromorphic DNA ratios, the number of characteristics stems from how humanoid the anthromorphic race is.
What are anthromorphic DNA ratios? I googled it and didn’t find that term.
If you are talking about fantasy creatures, it’s whatever the lore says it is.
It’s especially confusing to old Guild Wars 1 players as the term unique in that game was used for weapons with maximum stats for their level but the game didn’t stop you from equipping more than one at a time. They added the restriction in this game but didn’t add a warning.
For those saying Charr have 6 nips, should go play CoF story again and/or go look at Gaheron. He only has two. Also keep the unisex armor for charr at least.
Well yeah… they’re male. xD
Males and females have the same number. Have you ever looked at your male dog or cat? Same number as the female.
I stopped listing mine. I deleted a few stacks and stuck a few stacks in my personal guild bank in the (extremely unlikely) hope ANet puts in a new use for them.
I thought about making ice cream for a karma boost but at 5% gain it doesn’t feel worth it.
