Guild Wars 2

Wanze.8410:

Beldin.5498:

Me and my luck .. finally could farm some wood .. set some into the TP for 2.89 and
5 minutes later it looks like this

While the price for planks still is beyond 9s. I dont know why people dont refine their stuff before selling it. The players you want to sell your listings to are usually the impatient kind (thats why they buy directly). And if they are the impatient kind they are more likely to buy planks directly, rather than saving 10c on logs and then refine themselves.

I normally refine .. i already had set 57 planks into the TP and was also undercut
by a lot when i farmed my first new wood, and so i tryed to directly sell the
unrefined wood.

Woodplanks mostly also don’t sell that fast as Steel or Darksteel so i often mix
between selling planks and logs when i farm a lot of wood

Me and my luck .. finally could farm some wood .. set some into the TP for 2.89 and
5 minutes later it looks like this

Wow .. the supply is really low if i compare it with iron ore. Never really looked at those numbers.

Maybe your virus scanner has deleted the gw2.exe and windows found another one
in a directory with no GW2.dat ?

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

I’m leaning towards “less people farming materials within a certain level range”, impacting supply.

The question for me is more why it is sometimes over 2s then goes down suddenly
to nearly 1s and then 2-3 months later again rises to over 2s.

I remember it was long time over 2s after we got ascended weapons, and then when
we got ascended armor it went down and was for very long time under 1,50s and
in April the first time again went over 2s.

All i can say i made Eternity and don’t have that title. But i’m not sure if i had
bound Twilight. But it would make no sense in my eyes to give the title for that
because in my eyes its the intended way to get eternity, and the whole get skins
of sunrise and twilight, and sell eternity .. its more a kind of bug / oversight for me.

Behellagh.1468:

Some will cry that this is inflation or price manipulation but players can still go harvest seasoned logs, convert them to planks and undercut.

Haha .. my main home in the last weeks was already again Dredgehaunt Cliffs instead
of Timberline Falls. Sadly i had no time to play today and yesterday and missed the
highest prices i’ve ever seen i think. It has been to 2.50 now and then but 2.90 ?

If now also only Rosemary goes back to over 10s ^^

dlonie.6547:

Vayne.8563:

dlonie.6547:

I hear ya Vayne, that’s a valid concern, but:

James Quall.6029:

You should be saying “make everything tradeable” instead of “don’t make dungeons”, because unless you follow that up with “…or pvp modes, or wvw maps, or living story episodes, or special world bosses” you’re a hypocrite who just wants to edge out the part of the game you don’t like so nobody else will have new dungeons either.

still this^

And I’d be saying it, if this is what Anet had been doing but it hasn’t. So I don’t want raids if the reward structure doesn’t change, because I don’t suspect it will change.

If everything was tradeable I’d have a lot less issues. But I think it’s more likely we won’t get instanced raids than Anet will change their loot policies of recent months.

So you why aren’t you protesting stronghold, PvP, LS, etc etc? Why just instanced content?

You really think including a few dungeons with HoT would kill the game? You think that would be “catering” to a minority, by adding a few things for hardcore players alongside a ton of casual content? You’re not making any sense.

The problem are not some dungeon .. the problem is the cry for hardcore
dungeons for a limited player base with exclusive rewards that only these
few players will get.

For me you can have dungeons where you need 20 hours to kill one single mob
as long as the rewards are not significant different than in the normal version

Problem is, without those better rewards nearly nobody will play that stuff
so its wasted developer time.

And i can’t remember to hear from the PvP or WvW Players all the time that
they want exclusive stuff.

You can get the chest for killing Vinewrath in Silverwaste, without doing the story.
You get one chestbox guranteed at the first kill, after that you can get more but
they are RNG.

So if its mainly the chest you want (i really love it) then just do Vinewrath

NVidia constantly releases crappy drivers .. so yeah it could be.
Try older ones .. if they don’t work try even older .. and so on .. its the typical procedure with NVidia.

Fastest way to switch it is just to go into WvW and put it in the bank at the crafting
station, then logout and get it with your next character.

However that only makes really sense with the clockwork pick when you make
harvesting runs on different characters ^^

GummiBear.2756:

Donari.5237:

The problem is it won’t automatically go in the invisible bag if you have any other open slots higher up.

That why my invisible bag is my first bag

That wouldn’t help really since you switch 1 item against 2 items. So if the invisible
bag is full and your staff is in it, the switch will free 1 slot for one dagger, but not
for both.

In the end the best is to use invisible bag but also always open your invent and
sort it manually. Normally i have for example things like salvage kits in my invis bag
or dwarven keys that i simply then put into another bag to free a slot for the
other weapon.

I have the invis bag on the second slot btw. so its easy to access.

I wonder how many people would really ride a siege devourer with runspeed like -50%

Vayne.8563:

I already have people I know who have walked away from this game because of the way the rewards are. Because it’s too much WORK for them to do all the achievements for the Living Story and there’s no other way to get luminscent armor.

If all armor now ends like that .. or quite a lot .. that will also maybe kill quite some
fun for me. Was bad enough that we only got Carapace as only new set (beside the
PvP set) in the last year .. and i still haven’t grinded out all the bandit crests.

Menadena.7482:

The activity always confuses me. It takes up time but it does not matter if you win or die to get credit.

edit: dual fractals? There is only one of them running today. Where are you seeing 2?

I meant the activity is for me as a strictly open World PvE player more or less the same
as having a second fractal.

Vayne.8563:

Jerus.4350:

It can and does Vayne, but on the flip side, it can also strengthen a community.

It is all in the way the community handles it.

It’s when you have conflicting goals that you create a situation where the toxicity arises. That’s why I’ve seen more toxicity in Silverwastes than I have in any dungeon I’ve done. “kitten it south, you all suck!” is a pretty common response when they’re overloaded with people and fail. But… that’s easy content and you still have toxicity.

Instances can allow people to play with only those they want to, that’s a good thing imo.

In many games the best rewards are locked into instances. That means that people who want those rewards have to brave those instances. The people who are “good” at those games, band together and farm those instances. The other people try to get into groups, and that’s where the conflict starts.

Now, if you have say 20% of players who love hard content, 20% of the players will be satisfied with that situation . 80% will be broken into two groups. Those who never do it and those who do it grudgingly even though they don’t enjoy it.

Of the groups who don’t do it, that group will be broken up into two groups, those who don’t care about the rewards and those who are frustrated that they’ll never see them. So you have a potential to kitten off a much larger percentage of the player base than you’re helping.

On top of that, the hard content crowd almost always wants if not better, at least exclusive rewards.

So you end up with some people who are really happy and some who are disenfranchised. I’ll probably do the content and not enjoy it. Enough of that and I’ll stop enjoying the game, which is what happens in every other MMO I’ve played to do.

I do enough stuff for rewards I don’t enjoy, I think why am I playing this game to not enjoy it, and I walk away. Happened with Rift, WoW, Lotro, Aion and others.

This game I like. But if exclusive rewards, too many of them, are locked behind content I’m not enjoying, I can see myself walking away from here too.

One of the things I like about this game is that I can get most rewards doing most things. Not all, but most. I’d sort of hope that would stay the same.

Yeah .. call me to that bolded part. I never was that big fan of dungeons but did
them a lot, and even of other won’t believe it i was also really good in tanking
instances.
However i also noticed that i self often wanted to slap my friends if they didn’t
played as good as i expected .. because if i do such stuff i can also be very much
be a perfectionist and get angry if others are not.

So .. in the end about many other reasons its also that i want to avoid to be a kitten
when i simply avoid dungeons now totally ^^

Dalwhat.2867:

Why? Can someone please explain why this is even an option in the daily rotation?

Also .. why is it under PvE and not PvP ? Aren’t all these activities in the end more or less some kind of PvP games ?

In the end its more or less like dual fractals for me .. again no daily today ^^

Don’t know how often i killed Claw of Jormag and Shatty to get my dragonite back
in the days when i made all my ascended weapons.

But people will not start to complain how much work it is to destroy a stack now and
then, before we get back there i assume.

party buddy.4956:

Buy black lion skins from the tradepost that are currently available at 1 Black Lion ticket. (Around 100g) when Anet switches that skin to 5 tickets the price will triple, Sell the Skin for 300g

Of course that could take over 6 months maybe.

Or ANet suddenly sells them again for 1 ticket .. like the chaos skins where i had
already a skin for over 2 months in the TP that was undercut each time as soon
as it was the next to sell.

In the end .. if its not your first character .. its mostly faster to just farm things like
t3 or t4 metal and wood, sell that and buy the jute from it.

Mothsnok.3925:

Yes, the problem is that until lvl 5 I can’t open “Pet management” menu, so I was so confused…

The funny thing is .. we could do that at level 1 in the original version, but then ANet
thought it was too confusing for new players ..

Btw.: directly in Hoelbrak you can also get a Wolf, Raven and Snow Leopard near
the Buildings that have them in their name, and there is an Ice Bear at the frozen
Lake.

Oh .. i thought it was already fixed since i didn’t had the bug anymore when i
played around with the dyes 2 days ago o.O

Behellagh.1468:

That is what is being said, the version of Windows AFTER Windows 10 will be packaged as a service.

They talk about over a decade for Win-10 .. so who knows what will happen until then.
I will be over 60 then .. if i still live .. lol

rapthorne.7345:

Got a reply to the ticket I sent in about this.

GM Vagrant (Guild Wars 2 Support)
Jun 2, 12:04

Hello Michael,

Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team.

While we understand your concern, we are unable to give an accurate answer, since Windows 10 is not out yet. In any case, we recommend to make a restore point.

Thank you for your understanding on the matter.

Regards,

GM Vagrant
Guild Wars 2 Support Team
http://help.guildwars2.com/

So they don’t know

How should they ? Its NOT RELEASED .. so who knows what Microsoft and especially
NVidia will mess up untill then.

130 hours was also what i needed for my first character that was leveled only with
exploring.
Gets faster with each char if you have money to craft some professions, and also
do less and less exploration on each new character.

Spent 3000+ gold maybe for something around 30.000 gems in total ^^

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Two things someone exploring can do. One is to go into options and make sure the content pointer is set on Hide Events and Personal Story. Then go to each map in turn and see if the pointer locates a missing area.

This is however bugged in Orr it seems. At least when i did my 100% world in
Straits of Devastation at some point it wanted to send me to Mount Maelstrom
even if i didn’t had 100% of Straits.

Suinz.5968:

Keneth.6490:

You will likely never see content in the game that only a few select people can do, and if you do, it likely won’t be particularly rewarding.

Anet’s goal, for the most part, is for everyone to be able to play their content and have fun doing it (though they often fail at the latter).

The number of people who want to play 10-20 man instanced raids is a niche crowd at best and pleasing those people at the expense of others is likely not worth the investment (although they’ve been experimenting with the implementation of different difficulties).

It’s bad enough that they’re trying to cater to people who want to be special snowflakes with super rare RNG gear and who get off on the misfortune of others. We certainly don’t need them catering to some hardcore minority who gets off on feeling elitist because other people can’t handle the same content.

They would be accessible to everyone. Just like how dungeons are. I don’t get the mindset of “ONLY A FEW AMOUNT OF PLAYERS ARE ABLE TO DO CHALLENGING INSTANCED CONTENT”. That makes absolutely no sense. ANYONE would be able to do the content. They would just have to put in the effort and not want to be carried by spamming auto-attack.

You know .. that the biggest challenge always is to beat the roster-boss ?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I paid for him to take me through the last few I needed and was delighted to finally get those done after nearly 3 years of playing. I’m extremely bad at JPs (It took me over 30 minutes once just to do a particular vista) and I find them an unpleasant experience. The last one he did for me was a particularly long one that I don’t see myself ever being able to do without assistance from a Mesmer. Maybe it would be possible to find a Mesmer who just so happens to be porting people for free to the puzzles I needed but in 2&1/2 years it hasn’t happened so far so I considered that option to be unlikely.

I finally made my 100% world after nearly 3 years because a friend of a guildmember
that was on TS3 a while ago helped me with Vizir Tower, the evil Vista in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, and the one in the Cave in Straits of Devastation.

I sent him 5g after that .. he sent it back, but i had no problem to pay it because
after falling 4-5 times to death in Dredgehaunt after trying for 15-20 minutes to get
to the top .. i really gave up on that one.

So realistic seen .. if it takes me an hour, i could farm 10g in that hour .. paying 5g
is less money than i loose because i can’t farm at that time.
Also the player that helps me can’t farm, and if it takes him 30 minutes thats also
what i can earn in 30 minutes. Fair deal for both in my eyes.

Sylent.3165:

I know everyone has a different taste which is ok. But in my honest opinion the only one that didn’t scare me is the first one. The other 2 remind me of something I’d see in a really freaky movie

Oh yeah .. they are really scaring o.O

I play only female characters .. but having only these choices i would finally play a male again.

jackaljag.8637:

Other than dungeons, gather everything you see

Yeah .. especially platinum, iron , T3 and T4 wood.
Dredgehaunt Cliffs and Timberline Falls are my favourite zones for that

Looks totally normal for me.

You must understand the TP is a web-application, that runs on a webserver in USA
and so its not as responsive as having a programmed ingame tool that only accesses
an SQL Server that is located in the same place as the game server.

dlonie.6547:

The only thing with the WS F2P thing is that it’s supposed to go F2P this fall, it’s still sub until then.

Which really confuses thing, since I have a feeling HoT will land around the same time (something this fall). I wondered about the overlap, too — seems odd, given the same parent company.

It could work .. all those people that still hoped for instanced raids in GW2 can, after
they finally see the reality, directly change to WS

maddoctor.2738:

I expect another “convenient” gap when B&S launches in the West. Is it really bad to have gaps like this? No I don’t think so, the publisher wants to make sure their games don’t compete with each other as much.

Wow .. after over 2.5 years of silence something happens with B&S in the west ?

How old is this game already now btw. ?

mtpelion.4562:

I’m going to vote NO on this as farming for rare ingredients is a great way to make some quick coin (because the reason they cost so much is primarily because people prefer to pay me to go get them rather than go get them themselves).

Yeah .. i sometimes can even make 8-10 gold/h farming lemongrass .. however you
need at least 10 characters for that and 2 zones you can switch to via guesting.
Or 20 character o.O

Sekhmet.6153:

mtpelion.4562:

That which has no subscription cannot die.

There will be a natural population drop thanks to the team taking time off of regular updates to focus on the expansion. That’s the price we pay for expansions (which is why I preferred the living story method).

Thats not true actually. Just because its free doesn’t mean it will exist forever. The moment NCSOFT sees it as being unprofitable, it could get shut down. It still takes resources to run a game, and not every company is going to be committed to just keep a game alive for a small fanbase.

It definitely helps keep it alive much longer, but you can’t just assume it will live forever. They even shut down City of Heroes.

Yeah .. SOE also killed Vanguard finally after 7 years .. and i think NCSoft is much
quicker with pulling the plug than SOE (now Daybreak Games) was.

In the end the main problems are the drivers. And i can’t see into the future and
tell you how good the ATI and NVidia drivers will be at release.

Bathos.6341:

This content gap is frustrating.

The content gap will be even more frustrating after the expansion is released and
people have consumed it in 2-4 weeks and then have to wait 2 years for the next
expansion.

Yeah .. maybe we get LS3 .. but LS2 was already worse than LS1 in terms of content gaps
and i don’t think we will ever going back to the LS1 model.

Khisanth.2948:

Chili peppers are not a low level only material. They are available all over ascalon.

Its more or less the Rosemary of Ascalon. However i prefer the shiverpeaks for farming
so no Chili Pepper for me

dlonie.6547:

Adding instanced content doesn’t need to introduce a gear grind, and ArenaNet came upon a good formula for achieving that. They just didn’t follow through on it, and that’s the real shame.

If not gear grind then the players want at least better mostly “exclusive” loot for doing
those dungeons.

Who plays Aetherpath ? Even if people from GW1 sounds like that was what kept
them playing there for years .. the chance of that special rare item .. just look at
the prices of those weapons ..

Else so many people on Reddit for example praise the nice friendly community in
GW2 .. however thats open world .. the dungeon community is often titled at the
most toxic part of the game .. even worse than PvP.

So what should they do ? Create even better cash cows for the best speedrunners
that they maybe even can rush after some days in no time and where they cry
again for more challenge with even better (exclusive) loot ?

Or bring back the trinity, remove dodging and root us when using skills, so they can
bring a better balanced hardmode stuff, because thats simply much better to
achieve with a pure numbers game with some RNG.

Personally i don’t really have a problem if all those people that want their raids
go to Wildstar instead of turning GW2 into another raid grinder. However it
seems they simply always return .. as if its their personal crusade to make each
MMO similiar to all those others out there ^^

Gaile Gray.6029:

After throwing a dramatic hissy fit about the disappearance of another long (and of course worthwhile, well-written, and pithy!) post in the alleged-computer-lounge (where you might load one web page every 4 minutes, IF you were lucky) I decided to spare my fellow passengers further drama and determined that I should simply fire the forums back up (figurately, NOT literally ) when I’m back in the USA.

Notepad is your friend

Camping was also really fun often .. but i don’t really want it back i think.

Don’t know if somebody ever player EverCamp 2 ? First there were mobs that
could randomly spawn maybe once a week / day whatever .. later it was changed
to a placeholder system where either the needed boss or the placeholder could
spawn around every 15 minutes.
So it was kill placeholder .. wait 15 minutes .. and repeat .. mostly you were camping
a boss for 3-5 hours .. oh and they had open dungeons, so maybe there was already
a group camping, then you had to do something else and look again later if you
now get the spot.

Dondarrion.2748:

I’m more worried that people will now go get themselves invested in WS (that now goes f2p) or check out ESO, SW:TOR, etc.

Oh .. WS will kill GW2 the second time, and ESO has already killed it twice .. and now will kill it the third time ?

Oh and of course there is also ArcheAge .. and Black Desert ^^

dlonie.6547:

Challenging instanced 5 man content is a great way to get to know your guildies. You and a group of friends go in a face an ordeal and come out the other side with stories, laughter, relief, and accomplishment. They are a very strong “bonding” sort of experience. I’ve gotten to know dozens of former and current guildies (and even some people I met in PUGs) very well from chatting while running dungeons. Just because it’s only 5 people at a time, it doesn’t mean it’s the same 5 people.

Hmm .. in that case i want camping of mobs back. Really camping a mob for long
hours was for me where we had the most fun, because there was also the time
to have fun when you waited for the next respawn, while when you are just
endlessly killing mobs there is not much time to chat .. and in raids there was
something like “raid discipline” where nobody had to talk and everybody only
had to listen to the wise people.

Vayne.8563:

I don’t believe that instanced content is really the goal of the company.

It has never been. Nearly everything i had read before release was talking about the
open world .. and maybe a little about WvW. Oh .. and yeah sometimes they also
said they have some dungeons .. but for me that was always something that they
just tought they couldn’t totally ignore .. but wished they could.

Daywolf.2630:

Suinz.5968:

That is one of the things other MMOs such as WoW does great.

well… that should be your solution right there, no? I mean that if it’s so great, why be here wanting it in this game?? Or is it that… it’s not really great, and your bored? Now you want the same thing here that drove you away from there (at least temporarily til next expansion). The problem with WoW is that no one there really knows what they like, just accept what other people tell them they should like. Group think, or hive mind, a loss of identity just accepting that something is “good” when it’s not, just because everyone else there accepts the hive mind thought. Goes against human nature, because you are still bored with it.

Yeah .. its fantastic how MMOs have trained people over years to think they want
content that they will never play, and that gives items that they never will have.

But hey .. its fantastic to have that because they can see it maybe on some few other
players and then they can worship them

dlonie.6547:

On a related note: Wildstar is going F2P in a few months, and is $20 for the box at the moment. A lot of the dungeon folks are switching.

Oh .. i thought they were already all there because it was such a great game .. or do
you think that it gets sooo much better because its F2P ?

Yeah .. you only have 4 GB of RAM, so it may happen that your windows wants to
swap to your HDD now and then, and the low space can be a problem.

Try to make some more space available.

Also upgrade to 8 GB would also not be bad.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ceridwen.6703:

generalraccoon.3857:

Vayne.8563:

I see. So I should turn off map chat and not get event notifications because some people want to act like children? No, I think that’s probably not right.

And no, carebears don’t rule this forum…carebears rule this game. Proud to be a carebear. If it means that I’m a nice guy, who would rather play cooperatively with people than beat the hell out of them, sure I’ll wear it. Happy to.

The PvE in this game was designed to be cooperative. As for changing things not affecting us, well, it does affect us. Because all those other games have options to turn off PvP and whatnot and they all still suck because design decisions are made around that open world PvP that affect everyone.

And since I don’t need my PvE being affected by open world PvP (there’s already too many PvE changes that have been dictated by PvP), then I’m happy to not have it at all.

Saying something won’t affect other people doesn’t mean it won’t.

My favorite reply in this thread so far. I so agree to this and a proud carebear too.

I concur! Also happily signing up for Care Bear status. How caring, being a kind and generally a good individual wanting to help out others is a bad thing is beyond me.

And this is exactly why the forum needs avatar picture, so we can all put carebear avatars on our posts. Sign me up for carebear status.

As a carebear and tree hugger i would maybe take this one

You can simply ignore Dry Top .. not really much there beside grinding for
ambrite weapons.
Also you just need to jump once there the first time from the entrance. As soon
as you have the waypoints there is not really much need to jump.

Cant say much for HoT of course .. but i hope it is not as much of a navigation
nightmare than what i fear.

Vayne.8563:

aceboogie.4031:

I agree with almost everything you said. unfortunately the care-bears rule this forum so you wont get many like ourselves.

And no, carebears don’t rule this forum…carebears rule this game. Proud to be a carebear.

How i NOT miss to be called “carebear” or “tree-hugger” all the time, after having
left AION.

But i also prefer beeing the carebear over beeing the school bully all day long.

Halan.7931:

It looks like you want to play Lineage2, with PKs, clan wars, trash-talking, mob training and so on.

Yeah .. Lineage 2, AION .. or something like that where you can gank and grief
low level players with your top tier equipped high level chars.

Please leave this game alone .. i left AION in disgust about all the ganking and i have
very bad memories of beeing KS’d all the time from china farmers in Lineage 2.

If you really want that crap .. go there .. but leave GW2 alone.