Guild Wars 2

Kal Spiro.9745:

More probably they are here because they have played other MMOs, and experienced unique items. As such they understand what unique means in the context of the genre. It is common knowledge to them, and therefore it should fall under common sense to make use of it.

So .. what other MMOs are you talking of ?

I played Lineage2, EQ2, AoC, RoM, AION, RIFT for example, and in none of them exists something like that.

And if unique really means they are so unique the NPC shouldn’t even have a second for sale. Or to go one step further there maybe shouldn’t even be more than one available in the whole world.

I must say, i don’t even know the Unique items from other MMOs. In Diablo it was simply more or less what in MMOs is called Legendary or Fabled or whatever.

I know what you meant. It happened to me also 2-3 times when i did exactly that.

However i never had a problem when i killed Shatterer and after that some other Boss and after that again Shatterer.

It also didn’t happend always .. before Megaserver i also managed to kill him on one server directly before reset and killed him again directly after that on another server with the same char and got chest for both.

Its not a new bug. It happens from time to time if you do nothing else than that specific world event on one character.

Personally i have the feeling that camping at events often just doesn’t work. Moving the character to another area and do an event there normally helps.

Draknar.5748:

Also the description does say “Unique” which would essentially imply that you can’t wear multiples, however, that isn’t explained anywhere, so I could see how someone wouldn’t notice that or if they did not really know what it means.

Read what i just wrote before :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Anet-please-put-warning-up/4134651

Fenrir.3609:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

emikochan.8504:

It says unique on the ring.

It’s a really small tag at the bottom of the stats, barely noticeable. And how are people supposed to know what this ‘unique’ tag actually means?

It’s called paying attention, reading something and applying common sense. But no, there should clearly be a fifteen page PDF guide to walk people through this.

Not really. If you have ever played Diablo 2 there was for example the famous “uniqe” Ring “Stone of Jordan”, and you could without problems wear 2 of them. So as an old Diablo Player you simply don’t expect that just from the word “unique”.

http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/urings.shtml

It also happens here in Dredgehaunt Cliffs sometimes, and thats really not that steep here that we should get falling damage when running down.

That are normally white items that have a level that can be divided by 5.
Avoid to buy them since that are items that were bought from NPC Vendors and can’t be salvaged.

phys.7689:

Beldin.5498:

Or in other words .. those game force you to do content you maybe don’t like at all to get your stuff, while GW2 allows you to play whatever content you like and you still can get your stuff.

Not really, as long as you can sell the gear you get, other games you choose the content you enjoy, you get really good at it, and you sell items from what you are good at to get the money for the items that arent in a mode you play.

In those other games most of the better gear is bind on pickups, so if you don’t like raiding you never have the chance to get the better gear.

projectcedric.6951:

Best part: a very large open world.

Worst part: a very large open world with no significance.

Example #1: Despite the megaserver, what reason do I have, as a player, to revisit areas like Dredgehaunt Cliffs when anything that I need from there I can buy from TP?

As a passionate gatherer Dredgehaunt Cliffs is one of my favourite zone.

Before Megaserver it was also my favorite zone for leveling alts, since there are quite some nice quick events there. However since Megaserver there are now also too many players that do them.

Nerelith.7360:

I did not say " All casuals are uncommitted. " I said " SOME casuals are Uncommitted, and centering your game around THOSE casuals is a mistake on anet’s part. THOSE casuals will shake Gw2 rather easilly over the next hello, kitty II release precisely because they ARE Uncommitted casuals."

Very much like all “hardcore” players that consume whatever content they get in a few days or weeks and then leave for the next game, since in the current game “endgame sucks”, and the next one will be soooo much better.

I already had to laugh hard when i read that people got to 50 in 3 days in WS and complained how bugged all the endgame there is, and there are only 3 different things to grind for them

Guhracie.3419:

I don’t see the Ancestral Outfit (slot) in the wardrobe yet- it’s there if I’ve purchased it, though. Is there a reason for this?

Question : do you use the “big” wardrobe at the bank ? Or do you also don’t see it when you use the wardrobe in your Hero panel and click on the outfit-slot ?

I finally managed to die for falling damage in Timberline Falls when running down a small hill that was maybe 3-4 meters high.

I already started to do just 2-3 steps and stop then whenever i run down there now.

Have you just bought them ? Then you mus apply them once to be in the wardrobe.

Have you bought them before, and maybe overwritten them ? Then they are of course not in the wardrobe.

For the outfit .. i have it in my wardrobe .. maybe double-click it one ? Not really sure if i had to do that.

phys.7689:

Obtena.7952:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

penatbater.4710:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

GW2 seems to have trouble figuring that out, which I think comes back to the issue that this game is economy focused instead of content focused. Every encounter is designed around how it will affect the economy instead of centered around the reward like in other MMO’s.

I dont think the game is economy-focused. But every single decision regarding rewards, loot, item WILL have an impact on the game economy. The fact is, you really do have to take into consideration the game economy, because a lot is hinged on that. I’d wager a poor economy turns people off faster than poor content. (case in point: count how many threads there are that complain about how a.) the market is screwed b.) difficult it is to get a certain reward vs the lameness of the dungeon, living world, game mechanics, etc.)

But it doesn’t have to be. Rewards in Wildstar, WoW, Rift, etc don’t have any effect on the economy. Gold is used for fluff and if you have bad luck and that is it.

Sounds like GW2 … Gold is also primarily used for fluff. You don’t need gold once you outfit yourself for whatever aspect of the game you want to play. Ascended gear is not needed for anything but the MOST difficult encounters only because of a specific gating stat to boot, not the increase of stats you get from the gear itself. That’s where the difference you speak of is a wash. Other games evolve around ever increasing tiers of more powerful gear. GW2 does not.

People need to understand that FUNDAMENTAL difference between GW2 and everything else before they start QQing about rewards, gold, inflation, economy, etc… most don’t. Once you come to realize that almost ALL game content is balanced around the rare/exotic-level of gear, you come to realize how silly crying about the difficulty of obtaining Ascended gear actually is.

the gear in other games is really just a gating mechanism, or an incentive. It doesnt really matter as much as the fact that their is teired content, it basically allows them to simulate a beat this level and progress to the harder new area thing.
GW2 has gear teirs, but it isnt leading you anywhere. I dont object to that in principle, but the problem is it does lead you, just not into playing the game in the best way. The best way to play gw2 reward wise, is to do the simplest easiest thing that generates the most equivalent value in gold. In other games, the best way to play is to do whatever they decide is the best things to do.

Or in other words .. those game force you to do content you maybe don’t like at all to get your stuff, while GW2 allows you to play whatever content you like and you still can get your stuff.

danikaix.4670:

I did not say it was anet’s fault nor did i “point my finger” at any point, I merly asked for their help.

This looked however as if you think its ANets fault :

Do we need to open a ticket or just wait for an answer here because i dont see any replies from ANET’s team on the tech support area at all

What do you expect from ANets tech support here to say ? They can only also not say much more than what i already did, that you can only wait for Level One to upgrade their Hub.

We had the same problem in Germany with the German Telekom and Level 1 shortly after Release .. took nearly 1 month till it was fixed, and i used a VPN at that time to play without constant lags, since with that i got a different routing.

Draknar.5748:

Scientia.8924:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Scientia.8924:

Leveling – that is finding sources to gain XP – is extremely easy

The problem is with the trait system, characters are ‘weaker’ than before because they don’t have traits to compliment their builds

No – then you can unlock by concentrating on them. It is not hard.

This belongs in the Trait thread, but I guess I’ll dump it here. Character progression should never depend on other people’s cooperation or ‘random’ time spawns.

Example #1:
I come home late from work and have an hour to play. I ask for help to defeat Grenth and instead people refuse to help – because the failure event gives more loot. The next day I log in, by the time the event chain would finish I have to leave.

Example #2:
I have a good 2hrs to play. I need Melandru’s and guess what – it’s bugged for god knows how long and NOBODY can cap it. GG.

It takes maybe 5mins to kill the Priests? But players like me have waited DAYS hoping both players available+time of actual spawn fall within their window of gameplay.

This system fails not because we’re not ‘concentrating’ on unlocks, but because factors out of our control are preventing us doing it when we have the time to

Wouldn’t that 1hr be better spent running 1 or 2 dungeon paths and then just unlocking the trait with gold? Or killing 3-4 world bosses and selling the Rares on the TP for 35s/ea. Or playing EoTM and selling your loot. Or crafting one bolt of damask and selling it. Or doing an Iron Ore/Platinum Ore node run and selling them.

There are plenty of other things you can do to gather the money in 1hr to unlock those traits. You don’t have to wait days to unlock anything. Ever.

That exactly is the problem .. the new system is no fun at all but just another gold sink where you can better farm something else and then buy the traits for much more than we have paid before.

Araleg.3152:

Nevermind, just confirmed it myself, the chests are now dropping them at an alarming rate. Previously i had opened around 2000 and only got 1 air-filtration skins. After opening just 50 i have already got 2 catcher skins.

So that confirms what i thought about the rising Iron Ore prices .. nice .. time to farm more iron

Its more that the game is “Pay too get gold” and that from the very beginning since you could change gems to gold.
The pick is nothing else .. however i most say that recently i started to switch that pick from character to character before doing my mining runs.

Nonetheless have i just recently bought another bone pick for my latest character.

Yay .. got my Desert Rose for 18g .. but with my luck i suspect it will fall even to 10 or 5 in the next days .. lol.

Wonder if they maybe have even changed something with the drops from those boxes, since Iron Ore has also gone again from 1,50 up to 2,20.

I hope that Slough of Despond Waypoint in Frostgorge now again works as before, that it gives you a message that you are ported to the next, but you are NOT portet since that WP is never really contested since the mobs are behind the wall and never come to the WP.

Brother Grimm.5176:

There best bet would be to try and compile an x64 Client but that would take a LOT of resources that are currently better spent on content development. It is also questionable whether or not an x64 client would generate much performance improvement as the graphics would still be saddled with the DX9 bottleknecks.

That would mainly help against OOM crashes that people even on 64-bit windows have with to high details in big zerks i think.

I prefer axes meanwhile on warrior. Has always annoyed me when 100b didn’t hit because a mob was moving, or you had to dodge or whatever.

So personally i mainly use GS on Guardian and Mesmer.

Had the same last need due to a current bug in the TP.

The bug starts when you click “sell item” and the TP opens, but the right side of doesn’t open.

So after that i clicked on something else i wanted to sell, just a piece of salvageable cloth for kitten and sold it.

After that i noticed that the yellow weapon that was worth 65s was sold for kitten

Essence Snow.3194:

Gold is not a rewarding reward for a lot of players. It’s a secondary result of going for desired rewards. That’s where this game misses the mark. It believes gold is the best reward.

Gold is in the end just an exchange vehicle.

Forget about gold for a moment and think we would change mats directly.

So say i want a powerful blood and give you 25 iron ore. Now a year ago i had maybe also given you the same 25 iron ores.
At that moment its totally irrelevant that blood has gone from 25s to 50s and iron ore from 1s to 2s.

It would only be a much bigger Nightmare to know what everything is worth at that moment since that hardly can be handled with something like the TP, and professional traders could maybe make even more profit with that.

Pinipal ? From current memory i only know 1 place in Dredgehaunt cliffs where 3 or so of them are.

Arctodus would be ok .. i already kills gazillions of them for T6 mats

Medazolam.3058:

yes MF on food still works, as does the MF infusion for the utility slot on a ascended amulet. I routinely run 300-400% MF while doing cursed shore events, in my opinion there is a very noticeable difference in the amount of rares and T6s mats I get than when I do those events with less MF active.

I’m still not sure that Magic Find works at all on crafting mats. I’ve farmed a lot Arctodus before the account MF with just around 70% MF and now i have nearly 200% and the numbers of drops have not changed in any noticeable way.

Ohh … nice .. hope there will be a Desert Rose left for this price when i’m home from work

CryEngine was used in AION, and in big Battles it was also a dia-show with very low frames.
Also players there were mostly not rendert before there were so near to you that archers could already kill you in the moment you saw them.

Also what a lot people don’t notice i think is, that GW2 has by far the most detailed armors and cloth simulation of all current MMOs i know. That simply costs a lot of power to render.

Nerelith.7360:

The the drop rate on ancient Bone is ridiculously low. The first Hour I got 10… the second….2… the 3rd … zero… the 4th ….1….

I needed over 100…

If you farm the Icebrood where long time ago people were farming for Corrupted Lodestones .. we suspected that the droprate of those mobs has been nerfed when lodestones were worth 1g70s or whatever, and getting lodestones AND T6 mats was much more than you could earn elsewhere at that time (beside speedrunning CoF)

Else however its simply RNG .. when i farm Arctodus it differs mostly between 2 to 12 T6 mats in 30 minutes .. and i really have farmed them a lot and also sometimes for 8+ hours.

Devata.6589:

Beldin.5498:

Wanderer.3248:

A R W E N.6895:

I Will repeat my question again. where is my high level end game rewarding content

I will add that i am not talking about wow raid like stuff (never played wow fyi, only played gw1 since its begining)

I will also add that i am not talking about a gear grind.

Just to make thing clear and to make people understand that what i am looking for is something instanced to do with other player that is harder than fractal or arah. Something that you have to practice over and over again for awesome rewards. Ever heard of DOA in gw1? (Thats where your tormented skin come from fyi)

It’d be hard for all of a week, but people would figure out how to do it, start farming it and then you’d be back to whining on the forums about how easy it is.

And once everyone was farming it and running around with the same rewards you’d be complaining how it’s not rewarding.

Yeah .. just look for example on the initial price of the Tequatl Mini and where it is now :
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/47846

Either drop-rates are really low, then nearly nobody plays the content like New Twighlight Arbor Path, and those Items are still expensive, or the things drop more often so everyone plays it and then prices go down, just like all the Champion Weapons.

So you think the drop-rates are different? I don’t know the drop-rates but I think (and it would make sense) that drop-rates are the same for those two cases. However many people are ‘grinding’ the same content for gold. Mainly Champions and World-bosses. That’s why in total still many people get the Tequatl mini to drop and so the TP overflows with the mini lowering the price. That dungeon path is not part of the content people farm a lot so the prices stay high even with similar drop rates. It really proof what I am saying if drop-rates are the same. In fact when you would higher the price so it becomes more obtainable for people the prices might still stay lower as the Tequatl mini simply because it does not get farmed that much.

All i wanted to say is, that the Twighlight Path in theory must be exactly what some people always want .. the challenge with high rewards. But .. since the reward drops not every now and then they don’t play that content.

But if now ANet would make the droprate higher everyone now plays that content suddenly and the market will be flooded with those items, so prices go down and suddenly its no longer “rewarding”.

In the end .. whatever they do .. its wrong.

I remember when i made my Vision of the Mists at the end of 2012 i think, ectos were around 33s at that time.
And .. at that time i was making maybe 2-3g/h with farming, while now i make 6-10g.

Also even if a lot things are higher in price now, you must the the relations that it is simply also easier to earn more money. At least if you sell your stuff at the TP and don’t sell your crafting mats to the next NPC .. lol

Nerelith.7360:

I think you are completely misunderstanding me. I Like to farm for the drops I need to level up my profession skills…Just as ONE example.

I Like knowing " Mobs A, B and C…In area X… drop ancient bone, I need ancient bone to make Item Y." And go there, and spend a few Hours Just… avoiding patrols, as I solo farm for ancient bones to level up My skills yes… but also, for the sheer enjoyment of managing the camp alone.

It is tied together. It is Not Just " the pure enjoyment of soloing the camp"…. it’s also the REWARD, of getting the ancient Bones to drop….

It’s NOT JUST Not being able to gold farm… yes that is also an issue for me, at least not being able to do so consistently, and repeatedly.

Diminishing Returns is chasing me off this game.

I wonder when people will finally notice that DR does not exist on crafting mats.

I have farmed many many hours Arctodus in Frostgorge, and even noticed how many T6 mats i got every 30 minutes, and even after 10 hours the drops were more or less the same.

DR only affects drops of weapons, armor and this kind of crap that in the end is not that important if you farm for T6 mats.

Wanderer.3248:

A R W E N.6895:

I Will repeat my question again. where is my high level end game rewarding content

I will add that i am not talking about wow raid like stuff (never played wow fyi, only played gw1 since its begining)

I will also add that i am not talking about a gear grind.

Just to make thing clear and to make people understand that what i am looking for is something instanced to do with other player that is harder than fractal or arah. Something that you have to practice over and over again for awesome rewards. Ever heard of DOA in gw1? (Thats where your tormented skin come from fyi)

It’d be hard for all of a week, but people would figure out how to do it, start farming it and then you’d be back to whining on the forums about how easy it is.

And once everyone was farming it and running around with the same rewards you’d be complaining how it’s not rewarding.

Yeah .. just look for example on the initial price of the Tequatl Mini and where it is now :
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/47846

Either drop-rates are really low, then nearly nobody plays the content like New Twighlight Arbor Path, and those Items are still expensive, or the things drop more often so everyone plays it and then prices go down, just like all the Champion Weapons.

6000 gold for one Legendary armor ..
or 6000g → 60000 gems .. buy 60 different skins from the TP

I think i prefer the second.

Figlilly.3907:

I hope it is the Consortium sickle. The Thresher is annoying to me.

I have all different kind of axes and picks, but also only the consortium sickle for that reason.

This program is allowed since it is just an external application that only stays always on top in windowed mode. Else its not really anything else than using your browser and have the gw2stuff website open

Yay for accountbound food that needs Vision Crystals to craft

laokoko.7403:

get permanent bank

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/35984

Not sure if that is really an option ..

Shifu.4321:

Hmm would 500 JC be popular though? Ascended accessories are already extremely abundant, unless they add something special.

As somebody who only plays open world PvE and has 13 80s i still wait for that, since i still need a lot of that stuff.

Zyst.3514:

@ OP, no troll, the solution is….endless salvage kit, or carry around 20 of those basic 25 use kits.

Endless salvage kit is the way to go .. 20 normal kits would give him only more space problems

Try to rename your local.dat .. this helps sometimes since there are most of your settings saved.

cranos.5913:

About 50-70 gold in 3 hours doing a dungeon speedrun tour.

Thats max 23,3 G/h … now would you tell us please a little closer what dungeons you run and how exactly you make that money ?

Or is it that you just found a precurser and put that on top of that for the current month ?

direx.8207:

Domino.1359:

direx.8207:

I can make about 18 gold in 80 minutes doing my daily mining run, more if I feel like doing it on more than 1 character.

seriously? kitten . all maps or just higher level (50+)?

I jump around to lots of maps, mainly aiming for iron and platinum (copper too, until it goes back down in price).

Yeah, i also mainly search for Iron in Dredghaunt Cliffs, and Platin in Timberline Falls.
And trying to find Ori / Ancient wood in Frostgorge, but that takes up much more time now since mega-server

For the 18 gold in 80 minutes you must maybe farm Ori in Orr, but i hate that area and never was good at training through mobs so i already avoided that before mega-server.

KarateKid.5648:

If FGS trash mob farming – ~3-5G/hr

If running around primarily harvesting and mining – ~1-2 G/hr

Hm .. do you sell all stuff at the TP ? 10 T6 fangs/blood/claws is already over 4g and in an hour i normally get more than 10, so i would say its 5-8 g/h for FGS trash mobs.

Mining and harvesting .. i can make maybe 6-10g/h .. however having 13 80s helps alot with that

VPN is very much the only thing beside changing the provider, and even then you don’t know if that one maybe also has problems somewhere.
Else we only can wait that the providers upgrade those points .. or that less people watch Movies over the internet

Personally the whole open PvP crap will already not let me really play that game, so i will maybe download it to play with the character editor, and thats it more or less

Really ? Are you one of the persons that have 100k+ Gold and already own all legendary weapons, or why do you want an armor set that costs maybe 20k gold ?

I really hope they never start with something like that, ascended armor is already soo much over the top for me.

Dusty Moon.4382:

videoboy.4162:

I don’t understand why people keep saying “only if the other classes get it too.” The other classes already have it…

But Elementalist have 4 ATTUNEMENTS (FIRE, EARTH, WATER AND, AIR) to use with one set weapon/set – the others do not. So in essence you have 4 different types of attacks with one weapon/set. Ele’s already have 2 more sets of than the other professions.

Besides that you simply not get the point of what OUT OF COMBAT means, i also doubt you ever have played an elementalist.

Or have you ever tried to kill one mob on fire, the next on lightning, the third with earth and the 4th with water, and felt that you are sooo much quicker with that than say a warrior with an axe ?

Reality is you kill fast with fire, maybe decent with lightning, and everything else is something that you maybe just use while waiting for you cooldowns, and not while it is another weaponset. Oh .. and autoattack with Scepter on fire is sooo great .. that you are maybe forced to switch to something else and then you are locked to other crappy damage spells untill you can finally go back to fire ..

Still .. this isn’t even the point.