Guild Wars 2

John Smith, the market dev.

ANet’s solution in the past for such game play was eliminating rewards from the farmed mobs. This happened in Orr on one of the Temple metas.

Except your post is a wall of text that even interested people find difficult to read through. Ever heard of bullet points?

Prices rise due to a combination of reduced supply or increased demand. Since the Megaserver the T6 farming circuit has become more difficult to do, which cuts supply. Also with the wardrobe there’s an increase push to make legendaries since you can dup the skin once you have one, which increases demand.

And that doesn’t take into account level 500 crafting so you can craft ascended items also pushing up demand. One of the reasons Dry Top mat farming is currently big, trying to fill the need.

Except that’s the CPU bogging the frame rate down, not spectacular photo-realistic effects that modern FPS try to achieve. That’s why so much time is spent optimizing the CryEngine, Unreal Engine, Frostbite, etc.

$10 of gems converted to gold will cover the 65g to post to get 1100g from selling it if that’s the problem.

I would be happy if I could zoom in more.

Shouldn’t have to swig bobblehead potion, or stand back to back, just to see a close-up of another player’s face.

Qwerty Azerty.1790:

I don’t feel like buying the gemstore minis anymore if I can’t have the full collection.

This sounds familiar. Sounds like mini Mr. Sparkles from a year ago.

If on average you get a ticket out of every 20 to 25 chests (1 in 4 or 5 for a scrap, 1 in 40 or 50 for a full ticket) that’s roughly $21 to $26.25 per ticket. Converted that amount of cash bought gems to gold, at this moment, would be 190-235g. There are 174 different skins with a high bid under 190g, 67 above 190g high bid.

All of the Ley Line skins, the one that currently available at 1 ticket, are less than 70g low sell price on the TP. That’s a tad less than $10 worth of gems converted to gold.

Honestly they should have had Asura with the Goku hair style instead of the Charr. Who wouldn’t want to turn Asura into Trolls.

It’s a loading asset race issue. Basically they enable the renderer if enough of your immediate surroundings has loaded rather than waiting for all of them. They did wait until it all loaded at one time but players complained it took to long to zone. Very true if all you were doing was running from one portal to another in LA or porting to a WP in a city or zone from the entrance.

Defragging does help (2nd vote for Auslogics) but it’s really a hard disk issue speed issue.

It depends how ANet goes about detecting use of “third party tools”. I believe it was mentioned recently that they may not care what you are doing with the tool, just the use is enough cause to ban you.

To build on that, AMD wants to showcase their card’s performance, which means helping the games that are frequently used in video card benchmarks. When was the last time an MMO became a popular benchmarking tool?

What’s the point of paintball? WvW is server capture the flag. It’s for bragging rights. Also point totals are used to unlock bonuses in PvE.

Roaming is guerrilla warfare. Your small team grab points like supply camps and take out road guards, denying your foe repair/siege construction supplies and possibly draw off an enemy zerg toward the you while a main zerg of your server goes for bigger prey.

1st it is possible that most player who got one choose to keep it, which means few if any show up on the TP.

When the current supply is 0 and you are the first to put one up for sale, the price is entirely up to you. However it’s unlikely someone would post below the current bid which was 4300g. And listing it at least 20% higher than high bid isn’t out of the ordinary either.

And guess what, a 2nd one got listed at 5000g now while the bid had dropped to 4000g. Bid’s now 4600g.

As for the price being outrageous, 18 months of pent up demand tends to do that plus there is a lot more wealth in the world than the 1st time it was offered. And a lot more hairstyles and colors.

I simply can’t believe someone was so naive to think the price was going to go down. High bid was already over 3000g months before they announced this, it was never going to be 500g or less ever. What part of “a very rare drop” gave you the idea the market was going to get flooded with these?

Heck it’s still Dx9. Mantle improves on Dx11 performance which a Dx11 port and redesign would need to be done first before Mantle could be supported.

Because in ANet’s PoV, rare means rare. One in ten isn’t rare. An argument could be made that one in one hundred isn’t rare either, not in a game with several hundred thousand active players.

Of course once you get one you can dup it forever with the wardrobe now for a cost of a transmutation charge. I guess that’s an improvement.

Megis.9264:

Nessie isn’t “very rare”, Nessie is a myth, at best.

Almost like Permanent Hairstyle Contracts.

No, you missed the short time it was 1850g earlier today. Or the time today it was at 1450g.

The joys of a small supply spread across a large price range. As supply drops below a certain threshold, it exposes more extreme prices.

Oh No! The Dreaded Market Manipulators!

Try 18 months of pent up demand with near 0 availability. The high bid was already 2600g, 7 months ago and started going up 3 months ago with the feature patch. Not sure if there was a reddit mining article that hinted at it’s return or not but bids shot up close to 5000g for a day or two to drop back to a more reasonable 3200g.

High Bids
May 1st – 3200g
June 1st – 3400g
July 1st – 3000g
July 25th – 3200g

One contract was on the market at 4999g for a day mid June.

Finding a contract up on the market is like spotting Nessie. Did you actually think they would be selling for 3-400g like when they first came out?

It was said jokingly since the other 99% of the time she would have a complete set of picks and videos displaying the new swag if not strategy guides.

This is the first time it’s been back in 18 months. Want to wait another 18?

Pretty sure a lot of motherboards manufacturers with H77 chipsets can lock the CPU at max boost all the time. But it’s been a while since I’ve trolled through H77 reviews.

Gold generation has a direct influence in overall inflation of goods on the TP. Gold generation has an indirect influence over the price of gems because it only matters when players use it to buy gems. Only buying gems with gold drives up the price.

AlphaNeonic.1925:

The only reason there is to make you jump through all those hoops is to disguise the fact that you’re ultimately paying 20-40 dollars for a single weapon skin. If you’re okay with paying half the price of the game for one skin, more power to you.

Boy are you off. The scuttlebutt is you have a 1 in 20 to 1 in 25 chance for a ticket when opening lots of chests (1 in 4 or 1 in 5 for a scrap, 1 in 40 to 1 in 50 for a whole ticket). So a 7 ticket fused skin you would need 140-165 keys. At 25 keys for 2100 gems that’s 11760-13860 gems which is $147-174. At this moment that many gems can fetch you 1040-1225g at the exchange which is enough to buy 2 of the most expensive fused skins and have change left over (or one of most precursors). And that’s guaranteed. There is no guarantee that 140-165 tickets will yield 7 tickets.

So yes, it’s to obfuscate the true cost of those skins. But it’s much worse than you think.

All the reviews I saw with the G3258 the test setup was with a 3rd party cooler, hence my comment.

Ah, no, I keep them on me and not my bank. My bank is full of ascended mats and BLTC junk.

In Dry Top, definitely. Other places, I think that’s because you do more damage than a mob of NPCs so tag, you’re it, as in the biggest threat.

Not everyone feels comfortable overclocking sirsquishy.

Once you add in the cost of a new motherboard and 3rd party cooler (for overclocking) to the price of a G3258, you are in i5-3570 (not K) price range. The i5-3470 save $20 and is roughly 5% slower than the 3570.

mtpelion.4562:

Svetli.4276:

who keep green runes in their bank honestly o_o

I keep up to 3 so that when I get to 4 I can drop them in the Mystic Forge.

Looks like he’s doing the same.

I do the same. Also minor runes and sigils.

Guhracie.3419:

Behellagh.1468:

It sounds like a cheaper variant of the airship or pavilion pass except dumping you in your race’s home city with it’s free way points to most player services. The return option is kind of odd considering from the description you lose the ability to go back to where you were if you manually leave your instance. There is very little in your home instance in terms of services so why give it a PvP like return function?

I thought I saw where someone said trying to leave the home instance teleports them back to where they were, so there’s not even that.

In which case it’s totally pointless unless they are looking at gem store items to add services to you home instance and this is the first step.

Taygus.4571:

Behellagh.1468:

You never have to buy another of that tool again.

No need to carry spares.

It takes no inventory slot.

No chance of ruined materials due to the wrong tool.

but..if you play alot of alts, you have to switch it between them, which gets annoying fast.

tbh OP, only the watchwork one is worth it.
They’d be more worthwhile if I didn’t need to stop at a bank when I switch alts.

Sorry, I don’t think parking my characters at a bank when I log off an inconvenience. Also I play characters in bursts and not alternate them during the play session. The tool is just too useful not to take the 2 minutes to transfer them.

Would an “Account” bag be useful, sure, but that’s not the topic, the topic is “are they worth it” and now after having one for a month I have to say, enthusiastically, yes. It’s like cruise control and an automatic transmission. Once you have them, you can’t imagine living without them. It’s one less thing to worry about.

BlueZone.4236:

There’s lots of people foolish enough to throw away thousands of dollars on virtual items.
It only takes a small percentage of people to contribute to the majority of revenue (google “f2p revenue” to get an idea).

Also, considering the state of the game right before mega servers were introduced, it’s highly unlikely the majority of the 3.5 million accounts were still active.

I expect only 10-20% of the 3.5 million accounts are still active. Gamers hop to new games faster than bees with flowers.

The i5-3570 which means you wouldn’t likely need a new motherboard. The one you have the G2020 in should work fine. And with the extra cores as well as the clock boost you will see a swift kick in the frame rate.

@BeeSuit

12300 gems could have netted you around 1200g today. But instead you bought 145 keys (5, 25 sets @ 2100 each and 4, 5 sets at 450 each). You should have gotten around 5 to 6 BL tickets, counting scraps converted to tickets.

But if you were betting on the hair contract. Yeah, 145 chances isn’t close to what you need to even get a 50/50 chance. When they say rare, they mean rare. Rare as in Wonka Golden Ticket rare.

It’s well known that “rare” BLTC items that can be sold on the TP aren’t worth if you are “investing” with cash bought keys. As I pointed out at the top that you could have gotten around 1200g guaranteed from the exchange with that size cash buy in. Best skin available is 450g and costs 7 tickets.

And since every chest does contain items, some with cash shop or coin value, it’s not really gambling. If falls in the same category as vending machines at arcades that dispense capsules with toys in them. Or collectible card game booster packs with ultra rare foil cards.

Doesn’t matter how often it’s said. People will buy keys for the rush of just maybe getting something really useful.

KarlaGrey.5903:

You say I am unable of accepting some ppl like the game and I claim you are unable to accept the fact very many don’t.

This game had more income in the 1st quarter this year than Guild Wars made in the last 10 reported quarters of income.

I guess that’s a lot for many don’t like the game.

And that isn’t counting China.

Just not at character creation time.

1st, never look at the price of a gem store item in terms of gold. Anet certainly doesn’t take it into consideration.

2nd, with that removed from the equation you have to compare it’s cash value to similar objects from other game’s cash shops.

3rd, convenience items like gathering tools and the various short cuts to player services are just that, convenience items. They aren’t there to make economic sense.

Lastly cash for gems is now the primary income source to keep the game running and updates coming. This is by design and is the trade off for not having a subscription plan.

It sounds like a cheaper variant of the airship or pavilion pass except dumping you in your race’s home city with it’s free way points to most player services. The return option is kind of odd considering from the description you lose the ability to go back to where you were if you manually leave your instance. There is very little in your home instance in terms of services so why give it a PvP like return function?

That only works, the waste as much of your time argument, if it’s a subscription game. Sure all MMOs string a player along, here with the hope that something will come among in the store that would cause you to buy gems with cash but that’s different that extracting $12-15 a month from distracted players.

They rarely announce ahead of time so check Tuesday and Friday every week on the TP in the promotions tab.

Yes, different socket and the z/h9x chipset is now out for socket 1150.

The HT of an i3 will provide only a very minor boost but the clock boost and the generation improvement the i3 is roughly 40% faster.

But as Ettanin points out, it’s difficult to get maximum performance in zerg heavy battles on anything less than a top end system, that’s quad core or better. The i3 is still a dual core at it’s heart and the game really likes the headroom a third core provides.

You should notice an improvement, but this game can be a bear at times on the CPU.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

I look at this not as a comparison of GW to GW2, but pointing out that GW was far from the limited success, minor niche game some seem to dismiss it as.

It launched shortly after WoW and tbh, those numbers in that period of WoW domination are pretty impressive. GW proved that you could be “different” and succeed even if the genre largely ignored the lesson.

GW made in it’s reported life, 7 years and change, according to NCSOFT, is roughly 200 billion KrW.

GW2 made that in it’s first 7 months, 110 billion KrW in the last 12 months.

In terms of income, GW was a limited success.

Comparing to other NCSOFT properties.

Lineage made over 260 billion KrW in the last twelve months.

Aion made 90 billion KrW in the last twelve months.

Blade & Soul made (excluding China) made 70 billion in the last twelve months.

You never have to buy another of that tool again.

No need to carry spares.

It takes no inventory slot.

No chance of ruined materials due to the wrong tool.

They could also be dropping a bit more frequently and most people are just keeping them rather than selling them.

The constant 1@4750g is dragging up the high bid in hopes that somebody showing up to sell will bite rather than post for sale.

One did sell 20+ hours ago at 2950g.

Limited availability items are available for a limited time. But all similar items it’ll likely return someday once again for a limited time.

For me

Never try to rez a fallen NPC. They take about two hits and do lousy damage when standing.

As for players help them when downed as long as you don’t have aggro. I’m helping someone and here comes another player wanting to help, dragging the boss right to us. Thanks, I’m sure being in the damage radius of his attacks won’t adversely affect the rez assistance you are trying to provide. Of course bosses aggro on players rezzing so unless you have a group so the downed player is back up in two shakes, realize you are painting a big bullseye on you and the downed player.

Sadly if they are not just downed but out, if it’s going to affect your chances of better loot, let him wp rez and jog back. Unless you don’t care about the loot. Yes it’s looking out for yourself but if you are at an event that only spawns every two or three hours, well sorry, every player for themselves.

Sadly Dulfy failed us.

We are talking Journey to the West here Monkey King. The characters that the earliest parts of Dragonball were based off of. The same Monkey King that Jet Li played in that movie with Jackie Chan.

Yes it’s throwing the Chinese players a bone here.

The chance is 20%. That doesn’t mean once every five times.

I’m guessing in the range of 1 in 1000 or worse. Like most extremely rare but tradeable items attainable from the BLCs it’s gold value will be no where near the average cost in keys to attain it.