Guild Wars 2

Depends on if you think you MUST have Legendarys and full ascended. In that case its not alt friendly. If you are fine with exotics and some nice cheaper skins its totally alt friendly

mtpelion.4562:

Not true. You can get up to 6 ores with 3 pick attempts. The likelihood of that happening appears to be statistically impossible, but getting 4 ores with 3 pick attempts is relatively common.

Never saw that beside rich iron nodes and maybe some other rich nodes. Even rich gold never gives more than 1 per pick.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

I like the Arctodus farm in Frostgorge. They give bloods, claws, fangs, and hides. I used to do it for about an hour at a time and I would get like 10-20 of the tier 5 and a handful of the tier 6 mats I listed.

Yepp .. thats what i also mostly do.

I think the Icebrood droprates were nerfed maybe a year ago when the corupted Lodestones were still selling for 1g70s or whatever. Since the prices of the Lodestones are so low now, and prices of fangs and claws are nearly like blood at the moment, Arctodus farm is much better.

Also you can maybe kill the troll from time to time whenever the champ-train is there

Zaxares.5419:

Hmm, I’ll have to pay more attention when I’m mining ore then, but I’m still quite certain I haven’t gotten bonus ore like that before. I harvest EVERYTHING I come across, and while I do notice the bonus wood, I haven’t ever noticed the bonus ore (this is all with the Molten pick), which strikes me as odd.

You don’t ever get more than 3 ores out of 3 picks, however sometimes you can pick 4-6 times. Wood can also sometimes be harvested for max 6 times and herbs up to 4 times.

However that also can only happen on your home server and not on guest servers.

Wood and herbs can also give sometimes 2 items per try on all servers, normal ore nodes not.

You need however the expensive Transmutation Crystals for the first transmutation when using T3 Armor since that one is lvl 80. After that you can use just the cheap stones until you need crystals again to put it on lvl 80 armor.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Me too, on my human and norn characters. Lol

Yeah .. i also only play Norn and Humans

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Beldin.5498:

Inimicus.7162:

Same old issues on norn females, im glad nobody at anet even took the time to go LOOK at how this would turn out on said models

What issue do you have with norn females ? I don’t see any problems.

I think the shoulders are the issue. Yours are hidden, though.

But I’m not sure entirely.

Ah ok .. i always hide shoulders .. on all of my characters

I really wished we had real numbers how many people really play full zerker all the time.

If i read the forum it sounds like 95% or whatever ..

If i ask players from my guilds its more like 5%

Inimicus.7162:

Same old issues on norn females, im glad nobody at anet even took the time to go LOOK at how this would turn out on said models

What issue do you have with norn females ? I don’t see any problems.

Rangersix.1754:

Only if I get Norn tier 3 heavy on my human male! No deal otherwise!

I would be fine if they make the cultural armors available for all races. I also don’t see a problem since we can use cultural weapons from other races. So i think one of the main reasons was maybe only that they don’t wanted to create all those Skins for Chars ..

There is also no real reason why armorsmiths from other races are unable to copy the design of armors from other races. Even not if you say its fantasy and not real live. Its just a piece of cloth, leather or metal.

On the other hand .. it also makes of course no sense that warriors can’t wear leather or whatever ..

Bought maybe 30.000 gems so far, all with gold. However i wouldn’t have a problem with paying something like the usual 15 bucks per month that i normally spent for a subscription.
I also have still over 10.000 gems at the moment

Yeah, its simply feathered, but i’m ok with that since i used the normal feathered before.
The effects on the leg armor also looks nice from behind for me

People just have to go away from the opinion that they MUST have a legendary.

I have 11 80s and all are full exotic, 10 of them have at least 1 ascended weapon, and most have quite some nice skins.

So since it was said that shorter grinds feel more rewarding, maybe do what i do .. instead of grinding forever for one stupid legendary, buy something nice for all your toons more often … this for me feels very rewarding

Aeonblade.8709:

mtpelion.4562:

Aeonblade.8709:

PvP isn’t winning for everyone. A lot of people don’t even play it. Winning in this game can be gold, skins, PvP, achievements, all kinds of stuff, and it varies player to player.

No. Absolutely incorrect.

You cannot win at playing dress up. You can only win where objective criteria are present for determining who has won and who has lost.

This is your opinion, and I respect that even if I disagree. To have unique skins for some people is winning in a game, whether you recognize it or not, in their mind it’s winning. Open your mind, think outside the box that developers have created for you to play in.

Then the game is already P2W just because you had to pay for the box, else you were never able to dress your toons. So the shop is still irrelevant.

Also all the discussions about picks are irrelevant since there have always been dresses in the shop, so that already let you win. And don’t forget exchanging gems directly to gold gives you much faster the gold you need as first buying a pick, then harvest 160.000 times until you have made some profit.

greenthumb.7529:

so has gw2nodes just ..stopped working? or has it moved somwhere , it was a massive help and time saver for me, i need it back in my life!

Huh .. hope they have just a temporary problem since i always use it to find the best server to harvest in Frostgorge with my 11 characters

At least it was still working yesterday.

mesme.5028:

Time gated crafting items can be purchased for cash/gem/gold as can legendary weapons, nice gem shop armor skins and unlimited use picks/salvage machine to just about everything else, saving you time and in game gold, i don’t see how gw2 isn’t p2w.

So .. how many players have you killed in PvP that you wouldnt have killed with your unlimited pick ?

Exactly .. zero .. nada.

johnIV.3849:

So I was calculating, and I figured it would cost me around 2000 gold to craft sunrise. How long do you think it would take to farm 2000 gold.
I was thinking like 5 months playing about 4 hours a day.
Thanks

Instead of calculating yourself you can also use this side to get the actual price :

http://www.gw2legendary.com/

Mightybird.6034:

I am aware some mobs are tied to certain locations and will reset if kited out of them. I’m not even talking about that (although that is stupid as well.)

Its not stupid, since else you could never avoid fights with running away if mobs will chase you forever.

Else, i know that was a big problem with underwater fights after release, but haven’t had any problems with that since a long time.

Vayne.8563:

tolunart.2095:

Hule.8794:

Corpus Christi they already said there will be short break after end of LS, but because they did not announced length of that short break, many people thinks that Feature patch will be in summer.

ESO launches in early April, the most logical time for GW2 to have a major update is within a few weeks of April 1, either to draw attention away from the release (mid-late March) or to recapture the interest of those who play the free month of ESO that comes with the purchase of the game but don’t continue paying to subscribe to the game (late April-early May). So far it seems this will coincide with the LS finale and the features update with a few weeks between to account for a temporary drop in logins from the new shiny.

I don’t think so. I think they’l wait until the shine wears off a bit and THEN launch.

The shine of ESO has already worn of after the beta event in january, after all i have read so far.

The PROs for ESO were often just something like that you can at least create Elves that don’t look absolute horrible

Salt.4621:

Beldin.5498:

Vayne.8563:

My issue with taunt is that it kills any illusion the enemy is intelligent at all.

I’ll keep banging way on this guy, even though he’s not taking damage, and even though I’m a super intelligent demon from the abyss, I have no idea healers exist or someone is keeping him alive.

It’s just too contrived for my taste.

I always have to laugh when people in a trinity game say they want a better Monster AI since i know that they don’t really want that because any AI would kill the trinity.
If a monster is intelligent it would ignore the low damage tank, and first kill maybe the healer or the squishy DDs.

I’d very much disagree. Taunting works on human players all of the time. I played WoW for years and in every single BG I played I’d often simply /laugh at someone (usually rogues) when my ret pally was OP’d and smashing anything that moved. 9 times out 10 that player made a bee line for me every single time in sheer frustration and annoyance over a simple emote. Out healers loved it. The other 10% didn’t fall for it but boy does emote tanking work. Its a taunt. It works on human players a lot. I’ve had players log out, log into my realm a some level 1 character and abuse me in typical WoW fashion. “F%$$%#g scrub, blah, blah, blah, rage, rage” all over a /laugh or a /mock. Music to my ears!

Im not really surprised that most WoW players also are in need of a better AI

Meehael.8240:

That would probably also include less time gating, maybe a bit higher drop rates… You name it!

I expect even more time gating, like you can do dungeons only once a day, and also that maybe a lot of items (better items, more item progression) get bind on pickup, and that is the last thing i want.

Vayne.8563:

My issue with taunt is that it kills any illusion the enemy is intelligent at all.

I’ll keep banging way on this guy, even though he’s not taking damage, and even though I’m a super intelligent demon from the abyss, I have no idea healers exist or someone is keeping him alive.

It’s just too contrived for my taste.

I always have to laugh when people in a trinity game say they want a better Monster AI since i know that they don’t really want that because any AI would kill the trinity.
If a monster is intelligent it would ignore the low damage tank, and first kill maybe the healer or the squishy DDs.

Protoavis.9107:

Kain Francois.4328:

It will be here soon.

it’s not confirmed, given the shoes, gloves and helmet I’m more inclined to think it’s a new heavy style

Chest and legs looks a lot like feathered set, so i doubt that will be heavy. Also they never said they would change heavy, only light because all the uproar because it was T3 human.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Kain Francois.4328:

It will be here soon.

If that is data mined it is going to be terrible. That helm structor is awful.

I don’t really care about the helm since i like the circlet from the lv20 crafted set really, so i will use that instead.

And yes its datamined .. take a look at reddit.

I wrote from time to time they should have a look at the housing from EQ2, and even if i don’t know how the housing in Wildstar looks, i say the style from EQ2 would fit much better.

Brutal Arts.6307:

Don’t worry, WildStar is actually just as awful as GW2. The difference being it has less content, wants 15 bucks a month and has a trinity, if you’re into that kind of kinky thing.

Not to forget .. it looks like WoW.

Then better took something from AION .. that is also NCSoft, and at least looks much better.

Apathy.6430:

Beldin.5498:

Apathy.6430:

Beldin.5498:

Most of all the advertising of GW2 before release was about the open world and events. They never said much about that it would be another dungeon grinder where you have to be in brown holes under the earth for 99% of the time.

They should have called it something other than Guild Wars, honestly.

The only real resemblance it has to it’s predecessor is reusing names and brand awareness.

Don’t really care about that. However i wouldn’t have played it at all if it would have been like GW1, and i needed to convince a lot of friends that it is different because a lot of people simply didn’t liked Gw1 at all.

That’s so cool.

And all of those kind of people will be gone as soon as the next big MMO comes out, and actual fans of the IP will be left with this husk of a game.

Not really .. a lot of people started GW2 because they disliked raiding and item spirals and play GW2 because it was different in that way.

The people that leave are maybe more of those old hardcore GW1 players that simply hate everything of GW2 because it is not like GW1.

Personally i dislike the lower part of the winged pants .. how it hovers above the ground looks just strange.

LordByron.8369:

(starting from the fact i bet most people that liked flamekissed or feathered don t like full helmets nor heavy looking shoulders etc).

I always hide shoulders, and i also hide headwear on all characters that don’t wear light armor. However i haven’t applied the flamekissed headwear skin, and so i have no real problem with that and will maybe just use the circlet from the student set

Main part of an armor set for me are always chest and pants .. the rest can be mixed and matched

Tsubaki.8732:

Sarie.1630:

They whine because if you’re just trying to PvE and if you’re forced into an open-world PvP zone, and you’re being killed over and over, it’s not fun. I know this from experience trying to level for the first time in Aion.

Haha yes, been there, done that. I stopped playing Aion because of the forced PvP. I do not mean forced PvP as in “there is no PvP off switch”, but as in “areas which hold important PvE content are also PvP zones”. I have no problem with dedicated PvP zones you can go to when you fancy some trashtalk fun, but having to put up with players who are only there to grief others when all you want to do is complete your quest log is extremely annoying. Aion is a fun PvE game as long as you are in the lower level zones, because the other faction cannot enter. But later on, the other faction can sometimes enter the lvling zones with higher level players and farm newbies, and one area is even completely shared by both factions so that you are guaranteed to have PvP whenever you go there. So if you want to go to some quest spot to do your PvE stuff, you can be sure that some high lvl ganker is just waiting there to “lolnoob” you. Of course you could always bring a full party of friends, but sometimes you just want to log on and solo for half an hour, or maybe your friends are simply not online.

Yeah .. i quitted Aion when i wanted to bring my second character to 43-44 so that i could level the rest in Theobomus, even if there were just quests starting at 45, but i rather wanted to grind those levels like i did on my first character.

However then i was killed by a group of lvl 50 characters 3-4 time in 30 minutes, and i just quitted and never logged in again.

In the 20-35 zones at least when i was jumped from other there was mostly a chance to fight back and even win now and then, however in Heiron after the game was out for over 6 months, there were more players of the other faction than of your own it seemed, and of course all full geared lvl 50s, while it was a leveling area for 35-45 .. it was just plain horrible.

Apathy.6430:

Beldin.5498:

Most of all the advertising of GW2 before release was about the open world and events. They never said much about that it would be another dungeon grinder where you have to be in brown holes under the earth for 99% of the time.

They should have called it something other than Guild Wars, honestly.

The only real resemblance it has to it’s predecessor is reusing names and brand awareness.

Don’t really care about that. However i wouldn’t have played it at all if it would have been like GW1, and i needed to convince a lot of friends that it is different because a lot of people simply didn’t liked Gw1 at all.

aspirine.6852:

Beldin.5498:

Meehael.8240:

Personally, I still like luck-based drop more than any tedious and boring chore (be it crafting or quests).

Depends on how rare those drops are. In my first 2000 hours of gameplay i found 2 exotics in total, and they both were not even worth 1 gold. So at that point i don’t really like luck-based drops really and i’d rather collect my crafting mats piece by piece and know that after x hours of gameplay i have what i want.

That probably has something to do with the drops in this game are beyond terrible. It’s always very suspicious when a game has a real money shop, but when the drops are as bad as they are in this game it’s more than just a bit suspicious I feel.

I still could buy everything i wanted in GW2 without ever have to pay real money, while in all subscription based games i seldom got the luck drops i wanted and also couldn’t get most of the stuff at all because i dislike raiding and everything better in all that games i bind on pickup these days.

Apathy.6430:

VOLKON.1290:

Just because you can’t imagine something doesn’t mean someone else hasn’t or that it doesn’t exist.

Of course, I’m not saying open world stuff shouldn’t exist.

I’m just hella bummed that they spent the last year focusing solely on that, and haven’t touched the dungeons that are in a sorry state.

Most of all the advertising of GW2 before release was about the open world and events. They never said much about that it would be another dungeon grinder where you have to be in brown holes under the earth for 99% of the time.

Meehael.8240:

Personally, I still like luck-based drop more than any tedious and boring chore (be it crafting or quests).

Depends on how rare those drops are. In my first 2000 hours of gameplay i found 2 exotics in total, and they both were not even worth 1 gold. So at that point i don’t really like luck-based drops really and i’d rather collect my crafting mats piece by piece and know that after x hours of gameplay i have what i want.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

There is not even a good logic to craft a Precursor… To fit logic let people be able to craft precursor replicas (Only cosmetic) and as OP says make a great story of it so there is something to work for rather than craft for. Crafting is not fun and I want fun.

Great post OP.

The logic is, that weapons normally don’t drop out of thin air and that a blacksmith has to create them first so that maybe somebody buys it from that blacksmith, then dies deep in a dungeon and there it lies until another adventurer finds it there

Its a bug, seems to happen very seldom, but i saw threads about that now and then.

Hm .. Chest and Legs at least looks a little like feathered set to me .. the rest .. ok .. has maybe a little more a heavy look.

Possible news here :
http://de.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1wta43/data_mining_flamekissed_replacement_skins/

Last week a friend leveled cooking to 400 and he got full 10 levels for that again. So maybe they changed that back, but he hasn’t tried jeweller till now.

At least .. it will make all those players that constantly want open-world PvP happy..

Vayne.8563:

Beldin.5498:

Jim Hunter.6821:

I’m pretty sure the only ones that are against having both options are the people on the open world side because they’re afraid they won’t be able to find a big enough zerg to spam 1 with.

If you spam 1 constantly you should know that you can activate auto-attack with ctrl-leftclick.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Auto-attack

Don’t know how I missed this comment.

No Jim, that’s not true. I can beat instances, and I can raid. I do just fine in dungeons and fractals.

But I didn’t buy this game to play instances. I’ve always wanted an MMO that was more about the open world.

And if you think you can just spam 1 in open world fights and win, I invite you to try the new jungle wurm encounter.

Yes there is plenty of content where spamming 1 does work. There’s also some content where it doesn’t.

I think you didn’t got the hidden message in what i said.

The “spamming #1” is a kind of insult, while nobody really spams #1 besides maybe when your between head and claw of Jormag, but sadly most people still don’t get that even if you tell it 100 times in chat.

Jim Hunter.6821:

I’m pretty sure the only ones that are against having both options are the people on the open world side because they’re afraid they won’t be able to find a big enough zerg to spam 1 with.

If you spam 1 constantly you should know that you can activate auto-attack with ctrl-leftclick.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Auto-attack

Orpheal.8263:

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

And this is just only YOUR opinion.

And also the opinion of the devs i think, else they would have integrated mounts.

I will simply ignore that type of content the same like i will never have 100% map because i dislike all type of PvP and never will play in any PvP are again after i ragequittet AION at some point because of constantly beeing ganked.

Rebound.3409:

Long story short..these infinite gathering tools only adress people that are so lazy they can’t even change characters…nothing more…nothing less.

Hey .. i change my character constantly .. thats why 6 are complete equipped with endless gathering tools and 2 other have axe and pick now

But i couldn’t care less about the account-bound thing, since if you want to harvest a lot in short time switching characters makes sense but not porting always first to the next city and change the tools to the next character

Thaddeus.4891:

But this is a step (even if really small tiny step) in the dangerous direction.

The step in that direction was already made when they decided that we could buy Gold for Gems.

And i’m quite shure that ANet has no interest in creating items that give you soooo much more gold that people never again feel like they should change gems for gold.

And that in my opinion makes the whole P2W discussion irrelevant.

Also .. i would gladly buy the same pick without sprockets .. for 800 instead 1000 gems.

George Steel.1804:

Reverence.6915:

George Steel.1804:

Harper.4173:

Mochann.5298:

Hekdragoon.1972:

Guardians everywhere, since they can more or less do the 3 roles

Having Trinity officially in the game would force a total revamp of the entire system, so Guardian as we know it today would be different.

I think having “no trinity” is the stupidest design choice Anet made among many bad choices, but that’s just me.

And your opinion is just that – an opinion.
Why would they make their game exactly like all the trinity games out there?!

Because well, one famous trinity-based game has been around for like 10 years – with more players SUBSCRIBED then have only PURCHASED GW2. It’s a model that works in the long run.

GW2 was great. But now that we’re in the aging process of the game, the system in place just isn’t cutting it. I’m bored..

WoW at the age GW2 is currently at was a complete wreck of a game too. Botters, hackers, private servers, scammers, account selling, bugs, glitches, poor raid systems, poor pvp, limited pve etc etc. Put some perspective on it.

Yes but that was 2004 when players didn’t know what graphics card their computer had inside of it. It was a complete revolution when it came to opening up the game genre to the masses.

And just as an FYI: MC and Onyxia’s lair were open and available upon the game’s release in 2004, even being present in the game’s beta-testing stage.

The world’s first completion of MC was done at the very end of 2006 – more than two years after the release of the game. That’s called being prepared with something to challenge players with and keep them interested. The only thing we currently have in place in GW2 is the “open world” zerg system (trash). And I guarantee even the new Wurm won’t take more than 2-3 weeks to be downed. Even upon fractured re-release some guys hit 50 within like a week.

That just shows how lazy Blizzard is. For me that sounds like 2 year of no new content, while in Everquest 2 we already had gotten 2 expansions after 1,5 years.

Julischka Bean.7491:

Oh my gosh..just oh my gosh. This poll is stupid because everyone can see how you are voting.

The cool kids on the forum say they don’t like the pick. The forum goers who want to appear cool agree with the cool kids so they can share in coolness….the cool kids friends agree with the cool kids opinion because well, they are friends.

Some other forum goers agree they dislike the pick because that is how the majority seems to run, and if the majority agrees then by jingo the pick is no good.

Mob mentality.

Also, what if a group of..“Ebil Marketeers” were looking into the far future with plans of capturing the sprocket market when the Trading Post supply of sprockets dry up and the new players don’t have sprocket mining in their home instances.

These new players will be forced to the Trading Post where the Ebil Marketeers will profit, profit, profit!!!!!! Heck no, they don’t want Joe on the street to be able to mine sprockets as that will cut into their sprocket profit. These players are using mob mentality to protect their future markets.

I am a proud owner of this sprocket generating pick. I love the colors.

I have a set of each of the previous mining sets spread out on all my alts, and I don’t feel cheated at all. I bought them so I don’t have to carry a metric ton of gathering tools with me. I even bought extra so a few of my alts who are in a cave mining steel don’t have to leave to buy new picks as often.

Hmm…After reading this thread, I would encourage you all to buy this pick and flood the market with sprockets to enrage those who are dreaming of becoming sprocket trillionaires

Lisa.

Good said

I have 5 Molten Alliance picks, 1 Bone Pick, and now also 2 of the new pick and no .. i also don’t feel cheatet

I also have 8 endless axes and 6 sickles, and i will also not feal cheatet if the next of those tools create other crappy items from time to time.

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

I’m not sure because I did not care at the time about this armor, but people on the forums keep saying that at first tier 3 was a lot cheaper, like 30g or so for the full set. And then they increased the price to add another cash sink.

With “the first” they maybe meant the chest piece .. that of course costs “only” 30g.

Else the price has been always that high, at least since relase, not sure about beta.

Corpus Christi.2057:

Hey, kiddos. If you do not want capes, just don’t voice your opinion here. It’s not like, once introduced, they will be mandatory to wear.

However .. i’m certain that for a lot of people it will be mandatory to moan about clipping errors from those capes all the time, and especially on Charr.

And if Charr don’t get capes but other races .. oh my .. the forums will also be in flames then.