Hopefully by now Anet has realized that giving content to these casual players is a terrible idea and not worth the time. No matter what they do they will whine and complain. They dedicated an entire expansion to casual players and none of them bought it. Expansion sales were abysmal. They should instead focus on player that actually buy stuff and spend time in game. I.E raiders.
LOL, where are those sales figures? and BTW if they returned to and focused on the original concept of the game, the sales would have been through the roof (if they were actually shared). BTW what expansion did you buy? because it’s not the one everyone else bought.
Nope you can switch your specializations back and forth in the build menu. I tried the druid specialization and went back to being a regular ranger, druid just didn’t click with me.
[quote=6040103;Aidan Savage.2078:. Also, to get this out of the way, not specifically at OP unless they bring up this point, there are no such things as lucky and/or unlucky accounts.[/quote]
a few lines down “Buy and sell items or services only through legitimate means authorized by Guild Wars 2 and us.”
So that is Anet official policy, you don’t have to hear personally from them for clarification, it is quite clear. The site you are talking about clearly says it is unofficial. That site is not only selling materials, but gold and accounts as well—-all illegal.
If they get caught they would be gone. In fact if you are aware of accounts that are doing so YOU should report them.
So buy them and see ya when you get caught.
You really don’t need to visit all the locations since they reset. I got my 20 points and mastery in couple of days and can easily get 10 to open the chest on a daily basis now.
Although the OPs’ post was tongue in cheek, if Anet even considers buffing HoT, it will just hasten the games demise. Of course some of OPs’ responses insult and ridicule others who challenge and disagree.
Time for the mods to lock and/or delete the thread since it offers nothing.
Okay, this is the kind of discussion I disagree with. Tell me, on which response did I insult and ridicule? This thread has been entirely justified discussion. The mods will not lock this because I have every right to express my opinion as you do. You state “buffing HoT will hasted the games demise.” You need to back up your claim. I believe the exact opposite. If content is nerfed to the ground then players will eventually run out of content. This game needs to increase with difficulty as time goes by and they need to back this up with increases in our abilities. (Ex. Elite Specs)
seems to be some missing discussions now, there was one in particular response that drew my attention, was the reason behind my post and I was going to quote a few commits but it is gone. And yes it is my opinion and seems to reflect what many others feel about HoT. I also have found ,more times with not enough players in HoT lately, it wasn’t like that until recently. Your threads premise does not appear to reflect the majority of opinions I have read at the forum. Harder content can be developed, but not exclusively over other types of play that I would say the majority prefer. One can play TT wurm if one wants to, but the rest of the map is open to do play as you want. This isn’t the case with Hot.
GW2 had content that could not be done solo since launch.
True, but nothing that would stop me from getting vistas, HPs, WPs, 100% map completion, going virtually any where on any map solo at any time etc. etc. Not talking
about champs or map bosses and group events, those have always required groups of different sizes. If one world boss wasn’t up , you could just check the timer and and join in with boss kill.
Although the OPs’ post was tongue in cheek, if Anet even considers buffing HoT, it will just hasten the games demise. Of course some of OPs’ responses insult and ridicule others who challenge and disagree.
Time for the mods to lock and/or delete the thread since it offers nothing.
http://doncpauli.com/lore-untangler/ it shows all the locations but I question the answers provided ( yes I know they rotate and are different from his guide), but so far I haven’t seen one question he has in his guide.
Did you read what it said on the purchase page???
This> “*All in-game items will be delivered upon redemption of a Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns serial code.
Gem delivery may take up to 72 hours after purchase.”
I believe it has taken longer in some cases too and has been covered before https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/72-hours-to-get-my-gems/first#post5432906
The rewards for having unlocks are -ACCOUNT- wide so after unlockig gliding on 1 character ALL your characters can glide, same for the rest. As most experience tends to come with the normal “hunt” for mastery points I had little probelms maxing most of them. I must admit I was at 58/49 mastery points for tyria (I still have 9 to spare after max levvelling those) and I CoF-ed my tyria levels….~10-12 hours of pure boredom and dropping flame legions by bushels later I finished my Tyria track. Had good fun though with ppl some on TS as well with music bot, bad jokes and a good drink.
As for HoT masteries I farmed points and did some spider mayhem, then went on to do events and Meta’s while trying to get the remaining 40 points or so i was still missing… With regards of slow experience gains:
-Use Food/Utility/Fireworks/Banner/guild booster for ~50%
-Use celebration boosters (or birthday boosters) for 100%
-Use heroic boosters/ experience boosters (old and new) for 50-100%
And make good time…. having + 200 – 250 % XP tends to help..
Getting EXP is not the problem with mastery system, it getting points to unlock after you have enough exp that are behind aspects of the game that people don’t care for or can’t be accessed unless you are there at the right time. Anet is mistakenly forcing people to play aspect of the game they may hate.
The main problem for me is putting them in jumping puzzles, mini games and behind time gated / meta events that lock you out. That being said, I have two character with 100% map completes , all strong boxes and mastery poi. But now I am stuck playing aspects of the game I have never cared for like JPs and those mini games. There has to be a better way to let players earn mastery points playing the game as one wants to. So I agree, it’s a fail for me.
I restarted my computer and installed the nvidia update (which are jst settings for The Dvision and rise of the tomb raider) and everything is back to normal again o_O so weird.
Warning—there has been many problems with the latest Nvidia driver. In fact Nvidia has withdrawn it today and replaced it with a beta. You should replace your with the beta with a clean install.
Agree with the concept that a new forum is desperately required. I don’t agree with most of your reasons.
I love the merging aspect specifically when it deals with SAB and Mounts. There is only one agenda no matter how disguised as a new point of view. Closing your own threads, no big deal or required for a good forum, just ask a mod. Hiding others comments, again not needed. If you can’t deal with comments that come your way, then don’t post, specially if you know you are going to get responses that you don’t care for. Toxic or trolling, again ask a mod to make a decision that is in the communities best interests. That being said perhaps don’t make a topics that you are aware will result in a clash. The general tone of the suggestion appears to be more about ‘me’ than enhancing and benefiting the community as a whole with an up to date forum engine.
Encourage and politely demand that Anet spends the money to get new forums.
Search—now that is what really needs to be addressed and you ignore it.
Something the devs could use(be required to use) to communicate efficiently instead of using all the various unofficial alternatives. (again ignored).
Which only makes sense, GW2 doesn’t have a real physical copy, just a cheapo case with a download link, the exact same download link you get if you purchase a digital copy.
You can buy one with CD some place. This person buy one.
Given that that post was in October of last year, near when the game launched, I would not put a high expectation on finding a copy with a disc. Given the number of patches, I highly doubt ANet released too many copies with a disc and not a download link.
Got mine from Amazon in Canada recently. There is a disc in the box. If you already have the full account core game installed, you just use the activation code to unlock Hot.
No, it’s broken and they can’t fix it because they no longer have a business relationship with the contractor who designed it (and who broke it before he left).
Try the advice in the red stickied post above or try using this site: Tim’s GW forum search
You are correct they can’t fix what the contractor did, but they could replace the forums. Anet or NC have chosen not to spend money and have a working Official Forums, which seems to be the the standard for every other game, both professional,indie etc.
“Simple answer, yes. We didn’t need to nerf dungeons like that. But we also don’t have a dungeons team to keep dungeons updates. So that’s the dilemma.”
Have to call them out on the dungeon comment.
Funny how they bring up no dungeon dev team. Funny, they could Nerf dungeons with no team, but can’t restore the rewards. Why won’t they just restore them to their previous state?
They didn’t say they couldn’t restore the rewards. They said they are going to reconsider the rewards.
Source
ProbablyJohnSmith We’re continuing to focus on Fractals as our primary focus for 5-man content. However, given the reaction, we are taking a second look at the current dungeon rewards.
I wasn’t calling them out on what they were considering, I was making an observation on how they can nerf this aspect of the game with no team but can’t do anything about it without a specialized team. So in others words, Doublespeak.
“Simple answer, yes. We didn’t need to nerf dungeons like that. But we also don’t have a dungeons team to keep dungeons updates. So that’s the dilemma.”
Have to call them out on the dungeon comment.
Funny how they bring up no dungeon dev team. Funny, they could Nerf dungeons with no team, but can’t restore the rewards. Why won’t they just restore them to their previous state?
I hate to break it to you, but HoT is very much group oriented. The wast majority of hot hero points requires goruping to get it down. And the hot mainly relies on large, map wide meta events.
and that is one of the major problems with HoT. Thank goodness they are going to fix it (and other things) in April.
Colin left. I see no reason to continue playing Gw2. Rip my life, bye all.
Opposite opinion. It could be a good thing because the I didn’t care for the direction he was taking the game. Unless, of course, he left because he couldn’t stomach what he was being told to do. But I wish him well regardless.
as much as I hate to say it. these problems tend to not be anet fault. Graphic drivers are terrible black boxes.
The reason why I keep blaming graphic drivers is because I run this game on linux. Drivers are much more stable on linux than on windows and I do not have any of the stupid problems that the majority of users of this forums has.
In this case you , I have to say that since you are running linux, you really have nothing to contribute to this thread other than promoting your preferred OS and talking down to forum users. Drivers are not the reason “that the majority” have problems with various aspects of this game. I do know that any problems I have with the game are from Anet (not in this case because I don’t have the problem).
I have learned to never accept the request to change. It always moves you to a less populated map in my experience. I learned this way back with the marionette event. However when it forces a map change in the middle/end of an event is not only frustrating but needs to be addressed and fixed. BTW, the only time I use it now is when I farm material or the event is over. It does come in handy when farming.
To those that say it’s all RNG. You have to remember that Anet has acknowledged that there are outlier accounts on both ends (some get lots, some virtually nothing). There is a thread here . Nothing has ever come out of it that would address the issue. In a lot of cases it’s just RNG . However, some players are really extra happy or sad depending on what kind of outlier they are. Once you have one you are stuck with it though. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/RNG-as-a-concept-Discuss/first
No, you’re not stuck with being an outlier. Each drop is independent of the last. Your drops don’t know if you’re an average or an outlier.
There is nothing saying that an outlier can’t become average or move to the other side of the bell curve. And average accounts can become outliers.
And all accounts will tend toward the average as they get more and more drops.
Because that’s the law of large numbers.
And none of us here are saying that there aren’t accounts that have had bad or good luck with drops. Just that there’s nothing in their account that made them have bad or good luck before they even started playing.
We will disagree then. In my experience once you are an outlier, you are always one. But quite bluntly no one knows, not you, not me. We are both speculating. Anet will never make public their RNG. Mathematical ‘law’ may be a fact, but if the generator has a programming flaw, no ‘law’ will change it.
Ditto, even though I appreciate the suggestion, I really don’t want to use a BETA client. Get it in final and I will use it. I never had DC before unless there was an ISP problem. It really does need to be fixed. Maybe I wouldn’t care too much if I could restart and rejoin my squad, but even that didn’t work. Or I didn’t have wait so long for the event to start again. In this instance today it seemed the entire map and everyone on it was gone. Just me changing to a beta isn’t going to fix that. I really am not convinced that the problem is on the customers side in this instance at all. Since a patch appears to have made it happen more (OPs’ post), I highly doubt it.
Post reported with a request to merge it with the mount thread.
OP use google to search the forum (forum search is broken)for mounts and , as mentioned above by all, and you will find that is has been beaten to death and has been dismissed.
To those that say it’s all RNG. You have to remember that Anet has acknowledged that there are outlier accounts on both ends (some get lots, some virtually nothing). There is a thread here . Nothing has ever come out of it that would address the issue. In a lot of cases it’s just RNG . However, some players are really extra happy or sad depending on what kind of outlier they are. Once you have one you are stuck with it though. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/RNG-as-a-concept-Discuss/first
I said why—BORING! and I just pop in when it’s a daily anyway. And champs that drop nothing doesn’t help. and it is a lvl1-15, so the 80s with all ascended and legendary should not be calling for a difficulty increase.
But the changes to PvE, based around PvP elements, is not helping it stay that way.
I was trying to think of a way to say what has happened to GW2. This captured it (and don’t forget what they did to WvW , dungeons. bugged LFG etc.).
Yes it was the best.
Just change the pre. . After do the pre a few times, you just don’t want to do it. Sitting and waiting or participating in the pre doesn’t change the fact that it is too long and boring.
There have been many threads explaining why the forum search is broke (among other issues).
Use google to search here.
But the bottom line is ANet/NCsoft refuses to spend any money and time to replace the forums.
At least I finally found a good map at 8:30 am , succeeded and got my tiger and electric. Then I went after pods and found that the clock ticked down and boom! the hammer came down and couldn’t grab all the pods in the tiger area.
Yes, but assuming servers are divided equally by a specific cap is all speculation. What if the extra 20 are simply thrown in a occupied server? It’s all speculation to be honest. Perhaps you are right, perhaps you aren’t. From personal experience I haven’t had any issues.
@Blude
I don’t know what to tell you man. I believe you are trying. I actually ran DS three times today to grind out a mastery. Each time I went in about ten minutes before the meta. A squad leader was there with about 20-30 people. When the map reset I was brought into a new map with the majority of my squad. The rest taxied in. I find this extremely odd though. Can you try another DS tomorrow and report the EXACT time you went in here? DS meta starts every day at the (same time – I think) 1 1/2 hours apart.
If anything you can add me and we can try it together! I am more than willing to help you out.
I will check the timers again tomorrow. I have a few appts and might miss the events though. Thanks for your offer.
I have only finished DS once and have lots of POI, mastery and hp to get yet. I didn’t know where to go to get my tiger and electric wyvern either.
Tried DS 2x’s today. (using a timer btw) Both times map was empty and there were no LFG taxis to a populated map. Total fail, and time for the revamp Colin implied was coming for HoT. As OP stated—empty.
