Guild Wars 2

It’s not the best but its also not the worst. Both sides are being overly dramatic in this…

aspirine.6852:

omg that patch note.
“Fixed an issue in which players could take repeated falling damage when running down steep inclines.”

i cried a little when I read that.

LOL
kitten …. now I don’t get to laugh at friends when they die that way. * giggles *

We don’t need new servers.
We don’t need players only ever aiming to get in the top 3 servers.
What we do need are players willing to join all the remaining servers.
…..sadly I don’t see that happening.

Blude.6812:

Azhure.1857:

Lo and behold, the forum goers have done it again…
Fighting for hours, days, even weeks on end.
Running in circles trying to attain that magical and elusive grand prize:

Consensus--This amulet radiates power and hums a low tune. (Special effect: Randomly plays General Lee’s Dixie horn when a player jumps with this item equipped.)

• +42 Power
• +42 Precision
• +42 Toughness
• +42 Vitality
• +42 Condition Damage
• +42 Ferocity
• +42 Healing Power
• +100% to Magic Find

This thread is such a grind.

It’s optional—-you don’t have to read it—so therefore it is not a grind. LOL

You’re the best. * highfive *
Love it. Thank you.

Lo and behold, the forum goers have done it again…
Fighting for hours, days, even weeks on end.
Running in circles trying to attain that magical and elusive grand prize:

Consensus--This amulet radiates power and hums a low tune. (Special effect: Randomly plays General Lee’s Dixie horn when a player jumps with this item equipped.)

• +42 Power
• +42 Precision
• +42 Toughness
• +42 Vitality
• +42 Condition Damage
• +42 Ferocity
• +42 Healing Power
• +100% to Magic Find

This thread is such a grind.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Azhure.1857:

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Azhure.1857:

If they shortened the afk timer to 1min while inside an active event perimeter, I’d say that would work. Anyone that needs to step away for a drink or nature break could very easily step outside of an event circle before stepping away.

So, I’m going to the bathroom, and I’ll feed the cats in the meantime. Takes me about 5 minutes. During that time, an event spawns around me. And I’m kicked because I happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time for a second too long.

That is correct.
It is interesting when people equate “getting kicked” with being punished. Its called a character select screen. When you return from being away — simply log back in and continue on your merry way.

if that was only true in SW… I can be in a map that is about 10 minutes away from a breach, get kicked (for whatever reason) and come back in a map that has just finished the vine…

You called my suggestion out specifically. It was reasonable in that people that know they’re stepping away for whatever reason can quickly port or run to a safe location (aka where no events are located) and then step away without being kicked by my suggested 1 min timer. That way their precious map IP is still held for them as long as they’re not afk for an hour or disconnect. So why do you insist on arguing the point?

Or are you attempting to call out an injustice when people don’t return to the very same map IP when they return back into a game, regardless how long they were kicked out? If that is what you’re talking about, then there are solutions in place for that. Join a party while farming so when you log back in you already have people anchoring the map for you (as long as its not hard capped). Or pull up your map chat history and try to join on someone else that was there.

If that happens to you and the map ends up hard capped, all I can say is that its unfortunate…. but its still a good system, overall. This is not an offline game. When you disconnect there can be no admin address to that particular map when you go off: “All players FREEZE. LadyRhonwyn has disconnected. The map has been locked so none of you can leave, event progress has been halted, and none of your comrades may join until she returns. Thank you for understanding.”

Life goes on.
Open world PvE also goes on.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Azhure.1857:

If they shortened the afk timer to 1min while inside an active event perimeter, I’d say that would work. Anyone that needs to step away for a drink or nature break could very easily step outside of an event circle before stepping away.

So, I’m going to the bathroom, and I’ll feed the cats in the meantime. Takes me about 5 minutes. During that time, an event spawns around me. And I’m kicked because I happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time for a second too long.

That is correct.
It is interesting when people equate “getting kicked” with being punished. Its called a character select screen. When you return from being away — simply log back in and continue on your merry way.

Kedarrian.2905:

Azhure.1857:

Kedarrian.2905:

All those people in this thread, giving the same block-ignore, ‘bad egg’ advice.

I bet if they spent 4hrs or whatever on some farm, receiving little, and then some person passes by and flukes a big drop and links it, i bet a few curse words would hit the air at least.

I’m not saying it’s the correct response. But anyway, it happens that all the people who would experience that initial emotional reaction aren’t to be found on this forum. Which is nice of course.

My guild runs a WBT for a couple hours each night and we have had many precursors drop over the last 2 years. A few of those drops hit players that were new to the game, had just joined us, or they were very infrequent attendees. Did I get angry or jealous when it happened? Not at all. I just don’t place as much value in the possessions found in this game.

Just because you can’t wrap your mind around how other types of players behave in this game — doesn’t mean its false when they behave differently than you do.

WBT = world boss timer events i take it? Invalid comparison, same with someone fluking a great drop during a dungeon run. An event to which we all say gtz, especially if it is a guildmate. There’s a big difference. And that’s a difference i can definitely wrap my poor little head around. Can you also?

Apologies if I insulted you. I could argue, however, how your resulting attitude is a prime example of why you believe everyone would respond in kind under that situation.

In response to the comparison — a farm is a farm. WBT, maize, Silverwastes, champ trains, dungeons, etc etc. We throw many hours into all of them and if someone that doesn’t suddenly appears and walks away with a grand item? Its all the same regardless of which farm it was. My reaction to such a lucky drop is also always the same. I’m happy for them.

@ OP

Ascended Crafting did not make you quit the game. Your attitude towards it resulted in you quitting the game. There is a difference there — one that many people don’t recognize when they create threads such as this.

Regardless….
I hope your endeavors elsewhere prove to be more enjoyable for you.

When I see gold sellers I always tell them to go kitten themselves first, then I /report and /block.

When reckless zerglets get leveled during fights that should be easy to stay alive, I no longer revive them. I’m done with helping taggers get their rewards when they have not a single shred of common sense. Instead I dream of ways I can steal from them when they’re down or drag their bodies to the edge of a nearby cliff.

I would prefer some kind of trinity system over the DPSfest that we currently have.

I once followed a WvW commander, along with 60+ other players, off of a high cliff. It was way too high even for those of us traited for fall damage. Everyone died in one nice pile. Made more embarrassing when an enemy roaming group was right there to see the whole thing go down.

I have spent way too much time playing this game. Like…. way too much.

When farming in the Silverwastes, I tag events and move on without helping to complete them. * grimace * Yes. I’m guilty of that.

On several occasions I have arrived at Megadestroyer by base jumping… without a chute.

Kedarrian.2905:

All those people in this thread, giving the same block-ignore, ‘bad egg’ advice.

I bet if they spent 4hrs or whatever on some farm, receiving little, and then some person passes by and flukes a big drop and links it, i bet a few curse words would hit the air at least.

I’m not saying it’s the correct response. But anyway, it happens that all the people who would experience that initial emotional reaction aren’t to be found on this forum. Which is nice of course.

My guild runs a WBT for a couple hours each night and we have had many precursors drop over the last 2 years. A few of those drops hit players that were new to the game, had just joined us, or they were very infrequent attendees. Did I get angry or jealous when it happened? Not at all. I just don’t place as much value in the possessions found in this game.

Just because you can’t wrap your mind around how other types of players behave in this game — doesn’t mean its false when they behave differently than you do.

Cleansing Flame — Guardian Torch 5

While I hardly use it, sadly, I still love the animation. My charr breathes blue fire.

I do not support this suggestion.

eithinan.9841:

Pandaman.4758:

Just to play the devil’s advocate here, but maize farm groups tend to farm naked because they want to give everyone in the group a chance to tag for credit and get loot; sometimes there are people like

eithinan.9841:

You should have stayed and trolled the maize farm and messed it up for them. blocking anyone who whispered or complained.

who roll by in full gear and troll for whatever reason you’re not aware of, so there’s probably a fair bit of accumulated saltiness even before you arrive. If people perceive you as denying them loot and getting something awesome in the process, they’re going to go from annoyed to toxic really quickly.

This isn’t to defend their attitudes, mind you, but it’s probably equally toxic to instantly vilify people without trying to understand why they’re being jerks in that brief minute of their lives you happened to encounter them at.

I was responding to the OP. To simplify it for you, the OP should have trolled the farm because those farmers were abusive to him and his gf.

Two wrongs =/= Right

Randulf.7614:

Report, block and move on. If it was genuinely an accident, then it is one of those things – certainly nothing of significance.

It’s an online video game where this is rampant sadly- such behaviour isn’t worth acknowledging or dignifying.

^ Exactly this.
Report, block, and move on.

Terrahero.9358:

There is only a chance to get some from Herb nodes in Ascalon. The best odds are in Plains of Ashford as the Herb Seedling has the smallest drop table of 5. The higher level herb nodes have as many as 10 possible drops.

And the NPE removed a bunch of nodes from Plains of Ashford, because it might confuse new players. So the best map to get them got nerfed.

Yeah. I really wish they’d not done that. I used to farm them in PoA. Sadly the NPE means new players could hurt themselves if they use gathering tools, so they had to be pulled.

Bahlol.6125:

Anet did NOT say “the game has NO grind at all” they know there is ( they made the game. lol) however, they said you don’t have to do it.

I did not read the whole thing but here are my thoughts on this topic in general:
the reason they took WvW map completion from the 100% world completion is because many servers are stuck vs way stronger servers, and never get a chance to do the WvW map completion, so that’s not something they are changing about the ‘Grind’ in the game rather its a fix for a problem.

take away the grind and make the game grind free!, everyone get dungeon master because they played the dungeon once and just for playing the game for 100 hours lets give you a legendary(that a grind for hours though) and lets not reward players who played the game days in and days out and invested many hours of game play and make em just like everyone who played the game for 3 days and quit, no more special skins for fractal grinders who played them for 100’s of hours to get that lame underwater skin that no one ever see and make it once you play an underwater fractal you automatically get the skin, and once you finish all fractals you get the fractal tonic that only a hand full of players have ATM, and once you kill a player in WvW you get the “ultimate dominator” title and kill a player in PvP and get dragon rank and finisher, I think you know where im going with this.
if you don’t want a ‘grind’ in a game maybe you should be playing a single player game not an MMORPG

I agree here. So many players are quick to complain about “grind”, its many interpretations, yet very few are taking a moment to think about what a game with no grind at all would be like. We would play it for a few days and then walk away from it. There would be nothing keeping us there.

Thankfully the grind in this game is entirely optional — whether people accept that or not.

DeWolfe.2174:

So it’s going to be a challenge unless the Dev’s bump the server cap to let accounts shift around again.

I really hope they don’t do that. Its silly allowing the T1 servers to keep growing because so many people keep complaining. The other servers could use those players.

lighter.2708:

We want an update on the update.

Thank you for using the correct term. “want”

Brother Grimm.5176:

Not sure how I feel about this change but getting upset about it seems a wasted emotion.

Same here.

1 Experience Scroll – First 20 levels
60 Tomes of Knowledge – Last 60 levels

^There is the fastest way to level up.

You could transfer to a less populated server instead of wishing that the FULL status on your server be temporarily pushed aside so your friends can get in.

Bristingr.5034:

Why Anet? What’s the point of it being called WORLD completion, if they don’t even have to explore the entire world of the game anymore?

Southsun, Drytop, and Silverwastes doesn’t count either. Nor does all the areas of the “world” that we don’t even have access to. * shrugs * It is what it is.

Chista.4750:

Technically, they could. They could decrease the afk timer to a ridiculously low number, like in activities. of course, this would cause rage storms from all the people that just needed to go to the loo in a 1 hour SW…

It’s choosing between two evils, and it’s only to question which evil has the better pay-off.

If they shortened the afk timer to 1min while inside an active event perimeter, I’d say that would work. Anyone that needs to step away for a drink or nature break could very easily step outside of an event circle before stepping away.

I don’t know if “most broken” and “least played” go hand in hand here.
But if I had to guess which class was least played I’d say Engineer.

Malediktus.3740:

We want an update on the update.

^ There.
Fixed that for you.

Malkavian.4516:

I checked older forum posts and I am guessing that this is a countermeasure against hackers and gold farmers. What I don’t get is that my friend has his account for 2 months now. Shouldn’t he be able to send items as normal?

My thoughts:

Either your friend is pulling your chain or he needs to contact customer support.

Huh?
I know of no such restriction.
When I got my first precursor, The Legend, I mailed it to a friend less than an hour later with no problems.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Some of the underwater weapons are too beautiful to never be used.

They are used — when underwater.

Does it really matter if someone outbids you by 1 copper, 1 silver, or 1 gold? I believe the real frustration isn’t the amount but the fact that you are outbid in general. Which sucks but is no reason to change the market.

If you want instant gratification then buy something that is on sale.
If you’re trying to save money by ordering instead — then you run the risk of being outbid. People are free to do so just as much as you are when you make a bid.

Khisanth.2948:

Isn’t everyone homeless? I don’t think any of my characters have a home address.

Okay. That’s adorable. * gives Khisanth some money *

Donari.5237:

Azhure.1857:

mXz.4512:

Naming and shaming isn’t allowed on the forums. Regardless ‘how bad’ someone is. Best to just report that person anonymously in-game.

Er….. how is begging against the ToS? I’m just curious.

Well, defrauding other players is. Compare with scammers who trick people out of valuable items. While the items don’t get restored, the scammers get banned or at least punished.

Not only does someone with that much AP have much better legit ways to make money, s/he clearly knew s/he was scamming based on the comment to OP about it only needing to “work” on some people.

Oh yes. I know the stance on scammers. I just don’t believe beggars fall into that category. Regardless of their AP status or not, nobody that gives money to any of them is fooled in such a way that they believe they’re getting their money back in any way… right? If its a new player that is too lazy to play the game or if its a veteran that is just getting some giggles out of it, the giver will be down the same amount of money that they want to hand out.

Perhaps I’ll never understand why beggars should be banned in this game.

BellewTheBear.2081:

Soooo….still no update or communication? Does the patch need a day or two of QA? Or a week or two? How is the QA going so far? Is everything panning out or is it a jumbled mess? A little information would be nice to hear.

There was communication.
We were given “a little information”.
What you want is a blow-by-blow of everything going down — which I don’t find to be reasonable at all.

mXz.4512:

Naming and shaming isn’t allowed on the forums. Regardless ‘how bad’ someone is. Best to just report that person anonymously in-game.

Er….. how is begging against the ToS? I’m just curious.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Ummm…what? Do you understand how mammalian anatomy works?

The hunched posture is necessary for a species that both runs on all fours and bipedally. Their bipedal stance allows them to manipulate tools and everything else, but their skull can’t mount on the neck in two different manners (for bipedal and quadrupedal stances). If you don’t believe me, lower yourself onto all fours and look straight ahead or even up. While moving. You will probably hurt yourself. This is why the charr spine inserts into the skull at the back instead of the bottom like with humans. Because it inserts in this manner, their bipedal stance needs to accommodate it, hence the hunched posture.

If anything, the charr posture makes them much more beastial than any other “beast” race in a game.

+1
Well said.
I like the charr just the way they are. Sadly there will always be those players that just want a human model covered in fur, with a tail, and cat ears. Meh.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Odd the OP never returned to their own thread up to this point. I guess some people just like starting fires.

Thread isn’t even a day old. Not everyone keeps checking in every hour on the hour.
Though you are right — there are some people that enjoy starting fires.

1) When one guild member takes things a little too far during our daily PvP games and all hell breaks loose.
2) Sitting at the end of a jumping puzzle on my Mesmer, watching others try so very hard to get where I am, and eventually having to cave and drop a portal because they’re just too adorable.
3) Watching zerglets run straight into boss mechanics that will surely kill them.
4) When those same zerglets, now dead, start wailing for someone to revive them.
5) When other players run in to revive them and get downed as a result.

Dime Baggins.1058:

mtpelion.4562:

Dime Baggins.1058:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey there,

We know that some of you are anticipating a new build for Guild Wars 2 on March 10th. We wanted to give you a heads up that the game update is coming, but it will not be going out on March 10th. At the present time, contents of the build is undergoing additional QA Testing. If we get more information about an anticipated timeframe for the build’s release we’ll try to provide that info in advance. But of course as always, we will update in the forums with detailed update notes when the build goes live.

Thanks for your patience.

Heya,

Is there any sort of time frame for when? Like, this week, next week, next month?

Thx Gaile =D

As an IT professional, I always get a kick out of this question.
The answer is always “It’ll be ready when it is ready”.
It’s not baking where you put it in the over for exactly 30 minutes and it comes out golden :P

I am an IT professional as well and asking for a precise exact time is not really what I was asking about, which is why I used larger units of measurement. Notice the usage of the words ‘time-frame’, ‘week’, and ‘month’, not day, hour, minute or second.

The question still stands.

I understand the desire to know…
But does it REALLY matter? I mean besides wanting to know the date so a select few can plan ahead and take off from work? * looks at SyncOnari *
We know its coming soon — isn’t that enough? (This is not just directed at you but everyone that is asking or downright demanding more information on this.)

Thank you, Gaile, for the communication here. It IS nice to know. I also appreciate ArenaNet polishing the update more if it needs it -versus- releasing it when its not ready. That would be more upsetting than a delay.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’ve gotten 8 chars to 100%. ^^

Not everyone has the time or desire to do that.
Gratz on your achievement though.

@ OP
If you take your time and just do a percentage of a map zone each time you log on, you will eventually get to full world completion. You need not do it all at once.

Randulf.7614:

I have to say it calmed down in game very quick. I see a very small proportion with them compared to the rest of a group at say Tequatl or Silverwastes.

I’m not seeing the issue really. I don’t like them, others do. Certainly isn’t something I get offended over in a video game though.

Yes. It already has improved as far as the wings go.
However I would still like to have the ability to turn off backpacks on other players. I’ve wanted it ever since they released the Job-o-tron backpack. I can’t stand it. There are people that bought that bloody thing because it bothers other players. Why trolls like that are given priority over those of us that are just asking for a toggle ability is beyond my understanding.

Olvendred.3027:

Azhure.1857:

lordkrall.7241:

The problem is that you are not a new player.

Completely new players that have not been “poisoned” with talks about how much the new system sucks seems to have no problems whatsoever with the new system.

How exactly do you know, lordkrall, without having engaged in similar talks with said new players? I’m oh so curious.

Even without the numerous posts by actual new players (though they mostly get lost in the flood of posts by vets), it’s simply a matter of common sense. If someone convinces you to play something, and then as soon as you actually start playing, they constantly complain and tell you how absolutely terrible everything is, then of course you’re going to get a negative impression of the game.

It’s quite hard to do, but one of the most important things when introducing someone to a new game is to let them experience it themselves. Be on hand to provide advice and tips if asked, but always let the new player take the lead. Let them discover the game themselves.

Oh I agree that new players experiencing the game for the first time can be affected by negativity and their view may or may not change as a result.

I was taking issue with Lordkrall’s all encompassing statement about new players and how they “have no problems whatsoever” unless they’ve been corrupted by veteran disapproval. That it is only possible for new players to dislike the NPE if they’ve been warped by our attitude towards it and not their own.

lordkrall.7241:

The problem is that you are not a new player.

Completely new players that have not been “poisoned” with talks about how much the new system sucks seems to have no problems whatsoever with the new system.

How exactly do you know, lordkrall, without having engaged in similar talks with said new players? I’m oh so curious.

cheshader.5081:

Azhure.1857:

lordkrall.7241:

cheshader.5081:

Main selling point is to clutter screenspace of other players? Ok.

No, main selling point is to show your cosmetics to other people. If they can turn it off at will, why bother buying it?

The very same question I’d expect a troll that buys musical instruments to have just so they can have their giggles at the expense of other players.

Actually, for those guys there is an option (though as a result you can miss those who are really good at it).

“Actually”, that was my point.

lordkrall.7241:

cheshader.5081:

Main selling point is to clutter screenspace of other players? Ok.

No, main selling point is to show your cosmetics to other people. If they can turn it off at will, why bother buying it?

The very same question I’d expect a troll that buys musical instruments to have just so they can have their giggles at the expense of other players.

Welcome to the “New Player Experience”.
Where new players can’t possibly be anything but brain damaged individuals and must ALL be treated as such.

Dawdler.8521:

No need and it would be incredibly confusing. Follow that blue commander! No wait its sapphire. Or is it winter ice? Possibly cobalt.

Give us 4 different shapes instead and you quadruple the amount of options while still keeping it simple.

Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.

I made a thread a long while back about reintroducing the Disease condition back into the Guild Wars universe — my goal was similar to yours.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Disease/first

Thanks for adding another suggestion to challenge stacking in this game.

I miss DoA. * sigh *

No. Please, no.