Guild Wars 2

Okay, that was funny.

I like the living story. It gives the player a sense of being involved in a changing world where stuff happens and then it’s over. It’s like either being at the Final Four this year in Arlington or you weren’t. People showing up in Arlington now isn’t going to be able to experience being at the Final Four. Sure you might be able to catch a Ranger’s game next door if they are playing at home and walk over to Six Flags for some coaster action but not the Final Four.

I’m all for an expansion that opens other parts of Tyria for leveling up in (Cantha) and that’s more likely now with the megaservers attempting to prevent empty zones since new areas will spread out the population.

Back in the day, City of Heroes eventually handled major zone changes by having instances with old content under the rational of time travel. But CoH was a heavily instanced game. GW2 simply isn’t. Plus it’s zones were much smaller so it didn’t overly bloat the game files.

And there are a couple of different dye charts for the game.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dye#Colors

http://www.dboo.net/gw2_colors.html

http://www.dragonsworn.net/dyes/

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/24/gw2-dye-gallery/

Don’t remember where the color wheel is at so I’m linking my copy, it wasn’t complete before and it’s not exact for some materials.

Note not all galleries are up to date with the latest gem store dyes. Dulfy’s is and the Wiki is almost.

It was new content at the time we played it. Simply because it’s not around now doesn’t discount that it was new content when it was around. How would you be able to tell stories about the destruction of Lion’s Arch if the content was permanent? Lion’s Arch is either intact, destroyed or being rebuilt. You can’t do that with fixed content.

I don’t have a problem with the thread. I don’t have a problem if it’s bumped to the top because many people are adding their support. The problem I have is the same person bumping the thread without appearing to bump the thread. I read all new posts on this board and I find it annoying that a thread with nothing new in it other than the same last post that’s always less than an hour or two old in a thread that was otherwise inactive.

Bumping for the sake of bumping is against forum rules. But if it’s not obvious because the bumper simply deletes their last post and replace it with an identical one is still breaking the rules.

When I click on a post that the forum is saying has a new reply and in reality it isn’t, that annoys me.

minbariguy.7504:

lordkrall.7241:

Content is content even if it is no longer available.

Content isn’t anything if it doesn’t even exist anymore.

No content is content if people play it. Doesn’t matter if it’s not around anymore.

Koberius.7190:

So, when is the China release supposed to take place?

Officially May 15th but it’s been in open beta for a while now and anyone who bought a game license won’t get their account wiped. Also their version of the Gem Shop is up and running for a while now.

Lydia Solace.1348:

Please if your reading this and also want to see Bunny Ears back just post it only takes a second and it is important for their return. So posters in our community just simply say you want them back too in a reply to this forum it is the best way to show your support .

Honestly Lydia this is becoming annoying. Please stop phantom bumping by deleting your post and then posting so it doesn’t look like you’re bumping the thread. You made your peace now just stop. You aren’t adding anything to the conversation.

We already have a “what you want to see in the Gem Shop” thread that includes returning items. Post there.

OP, you couldn’t add your voice to one of the existing threads on the subject, you had to create your very own? Or the official wardrobe feedback on the discussion board?

I’ll grant you that wardrobe feedback thread is overly broad. They should have made more feedback threads than lumping several major changes into one.

Saw this on IO9 from Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. Eir?

We aren’t power rangers. Professions aren’t color coded. You may color code them but few if anyone else does.

My Thief wears blood red.

If P2W means ANet wins then yes OP, it’s P2W.

The upgrade extractor first appeared Dec 17th, 2013, about 4 months before this patch. Players always thought it was stupid because except in rare cases it was cheaper simply buying another upgrade. Now we know why it exists.

Extractors had been in the store for quite some time, way before the April patch was even hinted at. Edit: Introduced 4 months ago.

Even when they were first introduced, it was normally cheaper simply to buy the run/sigil again.

The problem comes from the fact that the transmutation stone/runes allowed you to do more than take the skin from one item and place it on the other but allowed you to mix skin, upgrade and item stats between two items, keeping one and discarding the other. Maybe they never considered that players used this ability to transfer upgrades from non-salvageable item as a cheap extractor. Maybe when pointed out they went “Hey, that’s why the extractor isn’t selling” and “fixed” that oversight.

Edit: More likely, now that I saw it introduced 4 months ago, that the change was intentional. That they knew the way the wardrobe system was being designed that this ability was going to be lost so they put the extractor into the store so it wasn’t rolled out at the same time.

This is why there’s a problem with adding vertical progression to what was a horizontal system where the only thing they thought players would care about is moving skins onto desired items rather than moving upgrades instead of or as well.

Yes it’s still there. And they will likely NOT transfer your items.

Now if you have a trusted someone over on your old server with a guild slot still available you could let them join and after what ever the cool down period is to access the guild bank, they could mail you the stuff that’s there.

FXAA was implemented because it is a post process filter that impacts frame rate minimally. Yes it can smudge textures that it mistakenly interpret as edges needing anti-aliasing. The only other way to reduce jaggies is super sampling and that has a noticeable performance hit.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/say-goodbye-to-armor-repair-costs-and-hello-to-free-trait-resets/

The Mystic Forge is going to get a lot of changes this year. To kick things off, we’re adjusting the way Zommoros distributes rare and exotic rewards a bit, allowing for more variation in output. This is just a stepping stone to further changes that will make the Mystic Forge a much better experience in the future. Please note: the rate of precursors will not be affected.

That’s the gem to gold and then buy off the TP price in gems. Basing off of prob and stats and the current gem to gold price you are looking at TP prices in the 26.8-33.5g range equivalent. There are only 24-31 dyes above that price range and all of them but abyss are Gem Shop dyes.

As pointed out in other threads, changes to the MF was mentioned in the patch notes.

Some Mystic Forge recipes have been updated to provide a wider range of results.

All Mystic Forge recipes for crafting PvP items have been removed along with PvP crafting materials.

They aren’t going to reply here. The breach wasn’t at their end. Someone got enough info from your system, likely though compromised e-mail account, to add an authenticator and then it was easy to jack and empty your account.

And since this wasn’t the first time and they made clear that only one restoration per account you are SOL. Maybe you need to evaluate your e-mail and computer security habits rather than lash out at them.

Where did it ever say that the item out would be the same level as the items fed it? I get drops that are in the mid 70s to 80 as a level 80 and those items in the 70s are considered fair reward so why not the MF?

I sell rares that cost more than an ecto + major rune/sigil price. All others get salvaged.

Most bids for rares are priced close to the break even point for salvaging so I would suggest only doing this on rares that drop rather buy Level 68 and up rares to salvage.

If you don’t mind waiting they place bids for your ectos. Lots of players will still sell to highest bidder and ectos are a very high volume item.

I’m guessing seeing the caps on dailies and monthlies that they must believe that players are gaming them to get achievement chests at to rabidly. It also forces PvP only players to mingle in the PvE world. PvE is the bread and butter of the game and Megaserver attempts to fill all zones at all times to fix the “rarely see anyone” perception. Forcing PvP players into it “helps” keep up appearances.

I fear for the day when out of the 6 PvE activities that two are for things I’m not good at like jumping puzzles (which take me hours to do one) and something like skill interrupter (I’ve only interrupted skills by accident) or daily activity (aggravating and time consuming).

TPMN.1483:

There is also currently a bug with the mystic forge .. 4 rare 80s can result in a lvl76 exotic.
It has been suggested that the usual forgers are holding off putting stuff in the toilet until it’s been fixed.

This will be constraining demand more than usual.

That’s not a bug. You did get an exotic from 4 rares so it was a valid promotion.

The box price was never suppose to fund the game like GW1. The Gem Store was always the plan on how to pay the bills quarter to quarter. The box price paid for the 5 years of development because the $10 million a year for the last couple of years of development from GW1 wouldn’t pay for a 250-300 player dev team.

They explained how the wardrobe worked. They said it was for changing skins. They said transmutation stones/crystals were going away. We didn’t do the addition and realize that by eliminating mixing two items together to reskin an item meant moving item stats and upgrade was also going away. We had nearly two weeks to realize this and either ask or take action on the upgrades we wanted to save.

Could the devs have explicitly relayed this change to the player base? Maybe. It’s also they may have been so focused on skinning items that they forgot or didn’t think it was as important as skinning.

Great, someone figured out how to bump a thread without looking like they bumped it.

Alice.8694:

Example.
If the new dyes came out as a 1000 gem one shot for 6 unique dyes, everyone would equally be able to purchase and enjoy them. They would also see a huge sales increase due to the reliability of such a purchase.

Except right now those 1000 gems will buy you 10 chances with a 20.30% chance for one and a 73.26% chance for more than one. But it does come with a 6.43% chance of getting just old existing dyes. A “fairer” price would be in the 425-525 gem range for a guarantee “exclusive” dye but that doesn’t flood the TP as another source of “old” dyes.

It also ignores the feeling you get beating the house you may get with the RNG reward mechanic. If you get lucky with a single 125 gem purchase you feel great. Ha! Take that, I beat you and your RNG boss monster.

Sorry but that’s the nature of the game. More players around, lower you frame rate will be and it’s more of a CPU problem than graphics problem. That said the integrated GPU in the A8-6500 is fairly low end. An upgrade to a low power (due to the limited size power supply in that PC) would improve frame rates outside of zergs but you will still see a major dip in performance in them.

The biggest change is the wardrobe only skins. You can no longer mix and match item stats and upgrades along with skinning. There are people very upset at the loss of this “feature”.

Sorry, thought you meant a single rune was now 48g. I’m aware there had been price spikes on some so I erred thinking that was the current price for one.

A 250 gem extractor is less then 25g. In the case of your 48g rune this seems to be the cheaper alternative.

The devs may have always frowned upon separating item stats from runes/sigils in karma items (giving them a open slot) and simply turned a blind eye so they could still be skinned using the old transmutation method.

This may be a way to prevent players from creating items more powerful than the devs planned for. Maybe the old method was bugged and you shouldn’t have been able to create franken-items?

ghost.3208:

Opened 20 dyes, got 5 enameled dyes (one repeated which I’ll save for later)

It’s just pure random, you can’t expect to have 50% of the dyes being enameled given their chance. I gotta say that I got really lucky having 25% of the dyes being exclusive, BUT sometimes I don’t get a single one from the packs.

It’s frustrating I know, sometimes the frustration pays off and you get what you wanted, but the next time you’ll get frustrated again when the RNG is not in your favor. It’s best to save up the gold and wait until they keep on dropping, they’re expensive but it’s a safer way to get them, I’ll try to do it for the other ones but don’t really have 700g atm xD

Not really surprising because as I explained earlier in the thread that the average number of new dyes from opening five should be 1.2. 20 scales to 4.8 so 5 is slightly better than average.

Percent chance to get X new dyes from 20.

0 – 0.41%
1 – 2.61%
2 – 7.83%
3 – 14.84%
4 – 19.91%
5 – 20.12%
6 – 15.89%
7 – 10.03%
8 – 5.15%
9 – 2.17%
10 – 0.75%
11 – 0.22%
12 – 0.05%
13 – 0.01%

And this distribution shows why so many people hate RNG rewards. If 100 players open 20 dye packs each then 45-46 of them, nearly half will get less than 4.8 and feel “cheated”. Even if you exclude those that got 4 because “it’s close enough” that’s still 25-26, roughly a quarter of the players, will feel “cheated” that they got 3 or less.

So how many times can you make a customer “feel cheated” after spending $25 in gems until they don’t bother to come back and try another RNG item. So $2500 yielded 48 new dyes and 1952 other dyes of various rarity.

Brother Grimm.5176:

You couldn’t extract them, but you could transmute them onto another set of armor (different looks or stats).

Moving is a form of extraction. So the problem is you use to be able to buy exotic karma item, assuming you have a lot of karma, and move the rune/sigil onto a different exotic with different stats. You didn’t care about the skin or the stats of the exotic karma item, but it was a “cheap” way to get the rune/sigil.

Use whois and see if the owner of your IP registration info says Hong Kong.

https://www.arin.net/

Enter your IP into the search box in the upper right corner. Then click the link on the company line on the WHOIS-RWS page to see the address.

I assume shock and dismay that a level 17 masterwork item is for sale in the multi-gold range.

2 characters
2 Level 80
1 at 100% and the other at 66% but that includes WvW.

Not everyone care about ascended items. Not everyone do Fractals. Most don’t bother looking through all the rings at the Laurel Merchant to see what each does. At 35 Laurels, which you can easily convert to 35g, makes 20g look like a bargain. Even 25 Laurels and 250 honor seems expensive.

Also looking over the last week it looks if the ones that were bought were bought as low as 14g.

Just because the low sell price is X doesn’t mean any are sold at that.

Players are ticked because their normal game play that they had been doing for months is now impossible. (Megaserver, making various farms impossible to do)

Players are ticked because the trick they found to get certain items “cheap” no longer work. (Wardrobe, preventing moving runes/sigils along with skin)

Players are ticked because their desire to play in relatively unpopulated areas is now impossible. (Megaserver again)

Players are ticked because they have to explore the world to unlock traits or pay for them rather than simply leveling. (Trait change)

Nobody likes when they are forced to change their ways.

First, no such thing as a “regular” exotic.

Second, supply and demand. It only drops from the Balthazar temple event so limited supply. It has Berserker stats so there’s a demand.

Their purpose is to be able to repair without going anywhere. That’s the service you are buying. Yes you didn’t buy it directly but BLTC are Gem Shop sample boxes with a chance of lottery ticket.

Kamikae.9536:

I will NOT be buying an more dye from gemstore until Anet get’s their head out of their kitten and caters to the PAYING customers. Make the drop rate for “gold” purchased ones suck I don’t care but please don’t give me 15 silver worth of dyes I already have for $25

As said numerous times by players after every new dye pack lottery appears at the Gem Shop yet it’s obvious that enough players are buying that those with dups or first time “winners” are selling them on the TP. Also since their format hasn’t changed in roughly a year and a half that ANet is satisfied with the overall number of sales.

I take it there was a way before the patch to extract the superior sigil/rune from karma and dungeon items that isn’t possible anymore with the changes done for the wardrobe.

There is a faction on the forums crying for more rewards that are specifically tied to certain activities so the wealthy just can’t buy those rewards. That’s why dungeon token and karma bought items have those limitations. That’s also why ascended items are account or character bound. Possession should indicate participation.

And the players here in the tech support board is suppose to do what for you?

Never watched ectos “live” on the market have you? Hundreds if not thousands are traded in the 5-10 minutes that happen between samples on GW2TP.

China is separate because China requires it to be separate. Plus the game is different enough in it’s reward structure that it can’t use a common market.

While the NA and EU game servers are in different locals, the TP server is unified between NA and EU. Since the game went live at the same time and only language is different between them, we can share the same TP server.

Also the game doesn’t officially go live in China until May 15th. Right now it’s in open beta.

Where did I say players are hording stacks of them?

One of my side ventures other than running around and killing things is promoting minor runes to major ones. It was a nice little niche. Doesn’t bring in the big money because I’m not willing to risk tossing in major ones into the forge for the relatively small chance to get a superior that I could sell and profit on after taking the expensive of all the major runes required to get one. But that was before this patch.

Someone is placing large buy orders on every minor rune in the game. In lots of 1-2 thousand. And these aren’t phony 1c bids. And they are put in an order every few days (it takes that long to fill them). So they are either throwing them away. Actually believe some sucker would buy them for double or triple the price they are buying them at. Or they are promoting them to major runes as a step before they promote them to a superior. Roughly 250 minor runes are needed for a superior. The odds aren’t in their favor but if they are lucky, then a lot of money can be made.

I’m content promoting minor to major and selling those which is a sure thing and I’m just annoyed that someone is cranking my costs up every day and cutting me off from my supply.

Only if you are buying with gold. The Gem Store is priced based on cash value and not the fluctuating, ever increasing exchange rate that goes up because so many players aren’t willing to pay $13.75 for 5. So repulsed that they will force themselves to do activities that they hate.

TP simply redistributes the wealth in the game, even removing some of it.

However that wasn’t enough so the rewards that add wealth into the game from nothing had to be adjusted downward.

Every item bought by an “ebil flipper” was voluntarily sold to them by another player. Nobody held a gun to their head and were told to accept only that amount for that item. Same is true with those that buy from them.

Items are priced so the number of people who can afford paying that price is roughly equal to the influx of supply. If only 1,000 of some item enters the TP daily but 10,000 players are interested in it then the 1,000 players that out bid the other 9,000 will get them and that sets the price. While it’s true that 10 players buying 100 each could drive the price up even farther but if they are truly flipping, who are they going to sell it to for a profit? Flipping requires you to sell it for at least 20% (roughly) above your purchase price to profit so if they were the only ones who could afford it at the now inflated price then who’s going to buy them? And what about the 1,000 that come in the tomorrow and the day after that. They would have to keep buying them at that inflated cost to keep the market propped up. They may be wealthy but their wealth isn’t infinite.

The change is sigil and rune prices are due to their reformulation. Some are more desirable than before and the only ways to get superior ones is salvaging them out of exotics or playing the Mystic Forge by chucking in majors, which raise the cost of majors which you can get by chucking in minors so their cost is rising as well.

Dyes, well good news, bad news. Good news the price of fine dyes are at an all time low, good time to buy for personal use or speculate on higher prices in the future. Bad news, if you were speculating between the announcement and the patch, ouch! Bottom fell out there didn’kitten Not sure how long it will be before we see fine dyes back in the 20s+ range again. Side effect, ingredients for making unidentified dyes of a particular color are up as more players get into cooking for dyes.