Guild Wars 2

X T D.6458:

yea they have 2 respawn timers, daily respawn and the 5-6 hour one

It gets even more complicated .. the 5-6 hour timer is only applied if the map is still
the same IP. If the IP has changed you can harvest them again directly after the
daily reset ^^

The same applies also to permanent iron for example .. the one in Dredgehaunt
in the spider-cave confused me a long time, because sometimes it was there directly
after daily reset .. and then the other day again not.

Serophous.9085:

Astralporing.1957:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

lordkrall.7241:

People really should keep in mind that ArenaNet have said a grand total of nothing about this as far as I am aware.

The only reason this thread exists is due to the fact that someone saw that they had a scheduled appearance on the PAX homepage. ArenaNet themselves have however not even mentioned it.

They reserved the largest room for the longest amount of time of anyone at the conference… if that isn’t hype then what is?

Needing a lot of space for those coffee tables.
Really, i have seen Anet hype many times already. This isn’kitten You really shouldn’t expect any meaningful reveal to happen.

They need all that space to show nothing is off the table.

I bet even the speakers will be on the table.

In fact, if Colin isn’t laying on a table, I’ll be sad

I guess it looks like this there :

Wanze.8410:

Well, then I guess we will see Mike and Colin take the stage on their brand new mounts, their capes flying from their necks while they have an epic duel.

Then they will adress the crowd:

Are you excited about what you just saw? We sure hope so because this will be the only time you will see this ever!

Haha .. i would really like to see/hear something like that

Dub.1273:

Wow. Only extremely kittened people can understand how this will harm anyone but griefers, who join groups not fitting their criteria. Aside of that, this would be a win/win for both speedrunners and phiw’s.

Yeah .. and of course a DPS meter would also help to find out all those “slackers”.
Because .. even if your full ascended you can still be a “slacker” ..

Or should the gear-check maybe better directly include a history of your DPS from
the last 100 dungeons you did ? ^^

Talyn.3295:

Beldin.5498:

Its always funny on Reddit if people post how nice the community in GW2 is, and the
only persons that cant understand that are dungeon runners.

It isn’t just the dungeon runners. I think we can all remember all the threads about the “Fail” Event farming in Cursed Shores or Frostsound, then chest farming int the SW. All MMO’s have issues with their communities. Guild Wars 2 is in no way different. That however isn’t the topic of this thread.

But they stopped things like those special events in CS that lead to “toxic” behaviour.
However they cant just shut down all dungeons .. but they can say : no sorry, but we
don’t invest more time into that cause we never expected it to turn out that way.

Nope .. this game was never thought for elitism like thar .. and in my opinion this is
also the reason why ANet has totally stopped any development of dungeons. Beside
that dungeons were never really the focus of that game.

Its always funny on Reddit if people post how nice the community in GW2 is, and the
only persons that cant understand that are dungeon runners.

HtFde.3856:

Beldin.5498:

HtFde.3856:

Vayne.8563:

Can you be killed by other players attempting those dailies? If so, it has something to do with PvP. It only has nothing to do with PvP if no one chances upon you.

Yes you can – and I can fall off in a jumping puzzle and die, I can get killed by a champ … I really can’t understand the problem some people seem to have with being killed by players while aparently having no qualms about being killed by NPCs or the environment.

A champion doesn’t laugh at you and dances on your dead body, or whatever else
some ganking kids in MMOs do after they jumped you from behind while you were
fighting against other mobs.

And this actually bothers you? Seriously?

In PvP farming arenas (and ranking arenas) NOONE dances on you – (a) they have better things to do and (b) you respawn way too fast for that to actually happen.

In WvW it happens but (a) I love it when they do that because it gives me enough time to direct people to them and it’s a resurrected me that dances on them a few moments later and (b) if you do ruins and guard killer your chances of running into someone is really, really small and most of the time (when you do those in your homelands) those guys have better things to do because of (a).

I have had VERY bad PvP experiences mself in some games – you left the town and were insta-ganked by people who camped there all day and had nothing better to do than to kill people leaving town – kitten poor game design. GW 2 is much, much better designed in this aspect.

GW2 is especially better designed since it gives me the choice to avoid everything
that has to do with PvP. And after playing AION for 8 months i finally took the
conclusion that i never ever will set a step in a game where i am forced to have to
deal with PvP players.

And there are of course more things that bother me .. and yes i know not all PvPler
are total idiots .. but i simply avoid PvP like i would maybe never visit a Hells Angels
Bar .. even if maybe most Hells Angels are really friendly persons.

I normally just use google and type in “GW2” followed by what i search for.

Donari.5237:

Today’s Daily Krytan Forager was super easy even without a home instance herb node. Love that Beetletun lettuce field! Just WP to Beetletun and run out the main gate, there’s a corral ahead of you with more than enough lettuce plants to let you harvest four.

That WP is also good for Vista in Kryta

Helpful for example do 4 evens in Dredgehaunt Cliffs :
-Wait for veteran possible partner event that starts every 12 minutes.
Fight veteran, run to hut with the veteran svanir shaman, wait for possible partner
to talk with shaman and kill shaman.
- do some stuff until event starts again.

NOT helpfull
- go Dredgehaunt and do 4 events

Sorry .. but your post is very much just the NOT helpful type.

Mirta.5029:

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Wildstar gets what it deserves for the dated solutions and most of all horrible fps issues in a game in which gameplay is very dependant on smooth framerate. Lesson to be learned for future mmo releases.

one thing that I fear is that there will never be a game like it. Finally there was a difficult MMO on the market aaaaand it died. Yeah… So much for variety.

It just proved once more that not a lot people really want to have overly hard content
and that raiders and elitists are simply a minority even if they don’t want to believe
it because they are overly represented at most forums.

Also @ANet .. take that at a hint that EQ-Style Raids is the last thing we need to “save” the game.

Carighan.6758:

Bilacus.6104:

Yeah, I don’t enjoy fractals either (nor hamster-wheel maps like Dry Top and Silverwastes). No more GW2 for me today.

So what is it?

• No WvW
• No sPvP
• No Fractals
• No Maguuma Wastes anything

What dailies would you enjoy? Mystic Forger, Exotic Crafter, Laurel and 10 minutes AFK in LA? :P

Or maybe just something like the old daylies with more choices ?

5 Events where ever you want
4 events in Shiverpeaks, Kryta, Maguuma, Ascalon
kill 50 mobs wherever you want
harvest 20 times .. maybe even 100+
apply 20 conditions .. also maybe 100+

And so on ..

HtFde.3856:

Vayne.8563:

Can you be killed by other players attempting those dailies? If so, it has something to do with PvP. It only has nothing to do with PvP if no one chances upon you.

Yes you can – and I can fall off in a jumping puzzle and die, I can get killed by a champ … I really can’t understand the problem some people seem to have with being killed by players while aparently having no qualms about being killed by NPCs or the environment.

A champion doesn’t laugh at you and dances on your dead body, or whatever else
some ganking kids in MMOs do after they jumped you from behind while you were
fighting against other mobs.

I think ANet hired the soup evil german from Seinfeld :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVqBzP0xdKk

So today he again says to me : No daily for you !!

Wonder when we get a daily where we have to do 2 fractals and 2 dungeons .. maybe Arah and Aetherpath ..

Else i must just think about the soup kitten from Seinfeld : No daily for you !!

JustTrogdor.7892:

I seriously wish Anet would send a real in game mail to everyone warning of this. I see about a half dozen or so threads a day about this problem. An in game mail to all players would help quell this problem.

In the end that also brings nothing since people are simply not able to read and understand mails.

There stand clearly under the mail that it is from another player and not from ANet .. and still they don’t get it.

Halor.8163:

-How do I make a note on the world map so I can see where I have to go to on the mini map?

You can set 1 point on the map with either alt, ctrl or shift click .. always forget what
the correct key is .. just try them until you see a white dot on the map.

Had that in my first MMO .. Lineage 2 .. and i don’t miss it at all.

Searching for hours to find hopefully the cheapest stuff and always running in danger
of beeing scammed in some way .. and also having to let your character sit in game
the whole night when you went to bed, to sell some stuff .. no thanks.

caveman.5840:

woooh lvl 42 and I finally have 3 trait points to spend -.- “REALLY”

Yeah .. beside the aquisition problem of the traits now, this is the other really ugly thing.

Take for example a thief .. a very important trait here is opportunist (at least for my
sword/pistol build) .. and thats the passive master trait .. so you need to be 60 now
to get it, while before it was 40. That means before you had it at least for half the
way to max level, while now you can’t use it for 75% of your way.

Just a hint that may help : In GW1 you needed to have a lastname

I had the same problem once, and tryed all the names i normally used, but just a firstname.

They can send you items from the Gemstore back directly via mail.
In your case you should maybe decide what version of the skin you want to have
and ask support politely if you can get skin back.

A friend deleted a while ago his character with a clockwork mining pick and he got
that back after some days.

Novuake.2691:

Can I mention that most medium armor is terrible too? :P

Just my OPINION… See what I did there?

What .. don’t like trenchcoats ?

I tried lotro with DX11 and the performance was not better .. sometimes even worse
than with DX9, and i also had some issues where things looked not so good and i
quickly went back to DX9.

That is ther perfect example that just changing to another DX version doesn’t
automatically makes everything better. It needs a lot of work to do it right.

Luna.9640:

This forum restructure is actually same as BURNING DOWN A LIBRARY.

^^ Very much this

Scoobaniec.9561:

Novuake.2691:

Shakki.3219:

Anet it’s 2015.. give us at least DX11… there is already GPU’s with DX12… -_-

Games take YEARS to design, HOW THE HECK do you expect them to serious port everything to DX11? LOL

Well WoW dindt had that problem..

Blizzard also earns 150 million dollars every month from subscribtions alone.
Normally they should even have the money to toss out a full expansion every
2-3 months for free with that.

There are only 3 Backpacks i really use .. Desert Rose, Fervid Censer and Light of Dwayna ^^

Before the wardrobe when i only had one Fervid Censer i also had hidden the backpiece on all my chars.

But i dream of having a horse as a backpiece ..

nGumball.1283:

People should have been there when was WoW was released.
By this point, it had gotten fewer updates than GW2 and the first expansion was released over 2 years after release.

Yeah .. while EQ2 already got its third expansion .. and that with a much smaller team
than what Blizzard had (or at least could have with the money the earned)

Could anybody who is a better economist than me finally write a guide what
would happen to the economy if it suddenly rains precursors ?

What i think is :
If precursers get cheaper prices of yellow items and ectos would fall, so you earn less
money with them .. and T6 mats would rise since many more people now want to
make legendarys.
In the end the legendarys would have nearly the same price or at least take you
the same time to get all the stuff than before.

And thats also the main reason IMHO why we don’t get the precurser hunt because
its really hard to see what it would do to the economy.

And of course a big NO to any cash-shop RNG stuff.

Vayne.8563:

The real issue with the trait system is that people asked for horizontal progression, but when they did, I seriously doubt anyone meant taking away functionality we already had and making us obtain it more slowly.

I think that people expected new traits or skills for which there was horizontal progression.

What we got instead was the same food we’ve been eating all along, priced at a much higher price.

Most people wouldn’t mind something new and different in the supermarket that cost more. It’s a treat. It’s special.

But if you raised all the prices on every day commodities, that would kitten people off.

Yeah .. but its a good example for “be careful what you wish for” .. especially if you
don’t really make a good description of what you want.

For me this also was clearly the answer to : “Skill hunting in GW1 was so great !!”

The same like Ambrite weapons, luminiscent armor and Aetherpath is the answer to :
“in GW1 we farmed zone x for 8 year because it was sooo fun to finally get item x”

Aetherpath and Karka Island were also the answer to “giff more challenge”

So .. ANet listens .. they only answer with things you never expected

And i personally knew from the beginning that getting the traits would be much
more expensive .. and laughed at those people that really asked for a refund for
the books the bought .. lol

Buy gold for gems → buy precurser from TP.

See .. you already can do that.

Else if they would produce masses of precursers out of thin air, what do you think
would happen with prices of T6 mats and other stuff you need for legendarys ?

Galen Grey.4709:

To be honest I am not quite sure it would be a good idea to increase those two anyway. Does anyone actually like the idea of ascended food / ascended jewels (that you plug exclusively in exotic items…. hmm)

Not interestet in ascended food .. but i really wished i could craft some ascended
rings and earrings, since i don’t play fractals and have a lot of alts, and will not have
enough laurels even in 2 more years to buy all that stuff.

Olvendred.3027:

The last time a similar thread popped up, I suggested an automatic forum tag to appear below the poster’s name, so show how long it’s been since they were in game. In something like 3 month intervals.

eg.

Olvendred.3027
(Last online more than 6 months ago)

Doesn’t stop people posting, but lets people make up their mind on whether or not a poster has experienced what they’re talking about, and so on. And how much weight you want to give to their opinion.

i like that idea.

Ashen.2907:

Beldin.5498:

Vayne.8563:

I can think of one person in particular (who I won’t name obviously) who claims to no longer play than game and hasn’t played in a long, long time. All this person does is make snide, unproductive one line remarks, or agrees with someone who has done the same. They make judgment on content they’ve never experienced.

This behavior is pretty obviously there just to get a rise out of people (and this person admitted to me that’s exactly what they enjoy).

All you can really do is ignore them and move on. I should certainly ignore more of them than I do.

Problem is really when they post their usual garbage in thread from new players.

ANet stopped thinks like the Champtrain in Queensdale because they didn’t
wanted to have a toxic environment for new players in the starter zones, but
what i see here often is very much the same … new player says hallo and maybe
we see 1-2 welcome posts and some nice tips .. and then there is already the
first one that tells them how bad the game is and that they will see it real fast.

Sorry for the derail but the whe new player toxic environment thing has me puzzled of late. On the one hand they nerfed the Queensdale train and then they use daily events to encourage level 80 swarms in low level events.

As much as I like the daily changes over all I just do not get that one.

Yeah .. i found it alsow funny when people now wanted higher scaling for the
events in the starter zones. If that ever happens we suddenly have back the
champtrains in Queensdale when it is in the daily list ^^

Vayne.8563:

I can think of one person in particular (who I won’t name obviously) who claims to no longer play than game and hasn’t played in a long, long time. All this person does is make snide, unproductive one line remarks, or agrees with someone who has done the same. They make judgment on content they’ve never experienced.

This behavior is pretty obviously there just to get a rise out of people (and this person admitted to me that’s exactly what they enjoy).

All you can really do is ignore them and move on. I should certainly ignore more of them than I do.

Problem is really when they post their usual garbage in thread from new players.

ANet stopped thinks like the Champtrain in Queensdale because they didn’t
wanted to have a toxic environment for new players in the starter zones, but
what i see here often is very much the same … new player says hallo and maybe
we see 1-2 welcome posts and some nice tips .. and then there is already the
first one that tells them how bad the game is and that they will see it real fast.

Donari.5237:

I generally enjoy the Timberline Falls events around that quaggan pirate island. Also in Timberline there is a bridge defense where losing it means the bridge is gone until the next cycle of events (a real pain if you haven’t yet got the WP on the far side).

I think you talk about Lornars Pass here.

There are many ways that may help .. teleport to a waypoint, enter WvW .. enter PvP Lobby ..

ErazorZ.5209:

Beldin.5498:

ErazorZ.5209:

Beldin.5498:

ErazorZ.5209:

Jerus.4350:

Gold->Gems removes any kind of Pay2Win. Stop complaining go earn your gold, convert it and get your skin. Their system promotes buying gems but you don’t need to. They still need to earn money you know. Geez.

How does it remove pay2win? When all the content for said gold is earned doing monotone farming, aka non fun activities in a so called game.

So running a dungeon 100 times until you get a RNG drop finally is a “fun activity”
while doing the same dungeon maybe 50 times to earn the gold to buy a skin
is stupid farming … do i get that right ?
Not to forget that you can play any other content to earn gold, while for RNG drops
you mostly have to do the exact same content again and again … for me that is
monotonous farming.

I havnt touched upon the RNG aspect of all, but i can tell you right now if the dungeon is hard enough and the RNG isnt master of everything (actually drops once every 2/3 runs at end) The game would be allot more fun.

Then go and run the new Twilight Arbor path until you have all the skine .. have fun.

You entirely missed what i was saying then. RNG should be fixed. to put it blunt. Droprates should be way more often for special cool loot, wich can be balanced in other ways, instead of making 1 staff drop every 5000 runs.

So everyone should have everything after 2 weeks, and then leave the game because there is nothing more to do ?

Problem is MMOs needs grind, else everyone has finished it like a singleplayer game
after a short time and moves on to the next game.

ErazorZ.5209:

Beldin.5498:

ErazorZ.5209:

Jerus.4350:

Gold->Gems removes any kind of Pay2Win. Stop complaining go earn your gold, convert it and get your skin. Their system promotes buying gems but you don’t need to. They still need to earn money you know. Geez.

How does it remove pay2win? When all the content for said gold is earned doing monotone farming, aka non fun activities in a so called game.

So running a dungeon 100 times until you get a RNG drop finally is a “fun activity”
while doing the same dungeon maybe 50 times to earn the gold to buy a skin
is stupid farming … do i get that right ?
Not to forget that you can play any other content to earn gold, while for RNG drops
you mostly have to do the exact same content again and again … for me that is
monotonous farming.

I havnt touched upon the RNG aspect of all, but i can tell you right now if the dungeon is hard enough and the RNG isnt master of everything (actually drops once every 2/3 runs at end) The game would be allot more fun.

Then go and run the new Twilight Arbor path until you have all the skine .. have fun.

ErazorZ.5209:

Jerus.4350:

Gold->Gems removes any kind of Pay2Win. Stop complaining go earn your gold, convert it and get your skin. Their system promotes buying gems but you don’t need to. They still need to earn money you know. Geez.

How does it remove pay2win? When all the content for said gold is earned doing monotone farming, aka non fun activities in a so called game.

So running a dungeon 100 times until you get a RNG drop finally is a “fun activity”
while doing the same dungeon maybe 50 times to earn the gold to buy a skin
is stupid farming … do i get that right ?
Not to forget that you can play any other content to earn gold, while for RNG drops
you mostly have to do the exact same content again and again … for me that is
monotonous farming.

Zenith.7301:

I mean actual content update with actual armors and weapons not tied to microtransactions or RNG microtransaction box tickets.

But instead tied to running instances ? No thanks .. in that case i prefer to have armor
in the shop.

EQ2 had a nice feature with their housing, that sadly wouldn’t work with GW2 since here the seller pays the TP fees.
However the thing was that you could put sales crates into your house, that were also
accessable from the TP UI, and if you put stuff in there people could visit your house
and buy them from the crate, and then they didn’t had to buy the transaction fee.

Was a great idea to bring you to visit other houses to see what other players did there

Favorite legendaries:

Kudzu
Meteorlogicus
Sunrise

Disappointing:
Frostfang .. since i most of the time play axe warrior, and don’t really like that Legendary.

Its only to show that the grass is not always greener elswhere and that Blizzard has
the same problems than ANet and mostly every other MMO.

Only that people always post in actual game forums, that THIS game is soooo bad
while the OTHER GAME is totally perfect.

And that is simply just not true.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

I don’t know many new players, but I know one, and I know he is super confused with the NPE. He just couldn’t understand how/why he had so much trouble defeating a lvl 9 bandit as a level 9 guardian. He started blaming himself. I told him it wasn’t his fault and I told him about the “thresholds” and that at lvl 9 you’re really just lvl 4. Then he was even more confused.

Ehmm .. if it is that special bandit from that one skill challenge .. that one was always
very hard .. and even with level 20 chars before all those changes i had to try it
sometimes 5-6 times to beat him.

Vayne.8563:

Rift also stole the lore from Aion with barely any changes, without even bothering to change the name of the “good” capitol city. lol

I more or less expected that they took some things from EQ2, since producer Scott Hartsman was from EQ2.

I especially didn’t understood why they didn’t had different balancing for PvE and PvP,
since we also had that in EQ2, and i hated it in Rift when PvE skills were nerfed all the
time just because people in PvP were crying that skill x was OP.

Vayne.8563:

Rift had one single epic quest line that took you through every dungeon and culimated in a raid. That was it. It because very obvious to me that Rift was trying to funnel every player into raids, but I didn’t want to raid. It doesn’t interest me. I don’t find it fun. And I don’t want to depend on 20 people to maybe have a good time.

That was also just “stolen” from EQ2. I even did that epic line in EQ2 classic but it
was already a big pita how much time we wasted wiping at Darathar each week,
and the first group finally even disbanded without ever beating him, and then
finally someone postet the trick in the forums and we managed it with another
group of people.
However 1 month or so after i finally had my epic weapon we got the first addon
and that already invalidated alle the hours i wasted into that.

Still the amount of content that EQ2 had and pushed out was emough to play it
for nearly 5 years.
Rift however only lasted 5 month until i noticed that there is simply not enough
beside dungeons / raiding .. since we didn’t even got lvl 50 items from purple shard
from World Event bosses.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So your argument is that WoW released…

player housing
new raids
20 new dungeons
an entire CONTINENT of content
new abilities
new gear
new mechanics
new PvP stuff

and wow players are complaining that this isn’t enough content so they will come to GW2 instead… is this really your argument???

WoW players are also annoyed of new content that is not playable for weeks and
come to GW2 for that reason. Just heared that this weekend from a ne player couple.

Seems to be thing like that i guess:
http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2m6wxu/wod_currently_unplayable/

oh .. and where have i already read that title ?
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/12618244211

What i’m really interested to know is how many players FFXIV does have in the west,
since if we count the eastern market, that is still very different, we then have also to
talk about Lineage I + II and Aion for example.
However in the west L2 was celebrating 64k users when i played it while it had over
2 millions subscribers in the east, and was at that time (before WoW release) the most
successful MMO ever.

Knighthonor.4061:

Beldin.5498:

Vayne.8563:

I do believe (as in this is my belief), that most players log into the game, kill some stuff, farm some stuff and log off, without ever visiting the forums or ever being aware of the deeper issues.

That doesn’t mean that’s said on the forums has not value. But it doesn’t mean that what’s said on the forums has absolute value either.

Just for the numbers .. our german CM postet a while ago that only 1% of the player
post at the forums, and 7% read them.

So really 1% only post .. and i think it don’t really need much proof to say that people
go to the forums either if they have problems with the game like bugs, or simply that
they dislike parts of it .. or they are really dedicated to the game and those are more
often the so called “hardcore” gamers.

I hear this argument all the time. So tired of it. It’s BS!
SWTOR forum had lots of bad talk. But was the the vocal minority? Because that game went F2P within a year after release…
What about Warhammer? That game shut down. Guess that was also the vocal minority on the forum there giving feedback that wasn’t praise.
What about Rift, or Darkfall, etc?

I guess the developers had a reason to ignore that “vocal minority”,,,, and we see that results of it…

Its not an “argument” but numbers postet of our CM. However i was wrong from
memory with the one number, so its 8,5% that are ready the forums, but still just
1% that are posting.

Here is the link if you don’t believe it :
https://forum-de.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mehr-Transparenz-beim-Runden-Tisch/first#post416077

Also for my taste ANet has already listend too much to that vocal minority and
things like ascended gear, grind for ambrite weapons and luminescent armor and
the worst of all : the new trait system .. are results coming from that.

Oh .. and of course Tequatl revamp was also a big failure for many before the megaserver.

Vayne.8563:

I do believe (as in this is my belief), that most players log into the game, kill some stuff, farm some stuff and log off, without ever visiting the forums or ever being aware of the deeper issues.

That doesn’t mean that’s said on the forums has not value. But it doesn’t mean that what’s said on the forums has absolute value either.

Just for the numbers .. our german CM postet a while ago that only 1% of the player
post at the forums, and 7% read them.

So really 1% only post .. and i think it don’t really need much proof to say that people
go to the forums either if they have problems with the game like bugs, or simply that
they dislike parts of it .. or they are really dedicated to the game and those are more
often the so called “hardcore” gamers.