The ‘sales’ info and notifications have usually failed to provide the news, info and notices in a clear, concise, timely, and unambiguous manner.
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Let’s see.
Changes that persist.
Moa Racing (Lion’s Arch)
Not So Secret Jumping Puzzle (Gendarran Fields)
Twilight Arbor Aetherblade Path (Caledon Forest)
Tequatl (Sparkfly Swamp) completely redone
Sanctum Sprint (minigame)
Southsun Survival (minigame)
Kessex Hills (new events, hearts have changed, new daily chest)
WvW (ruins, ranks with specializations, traps, new area for GvG set aside)
PvP (solo queue for tournaments, observation mode and new arenas)
Crafting (six crafting professions now go up to 500)
Ascalon Catacombs revampThen there’s recurring content that isnt’ there today but is in fact new content that you can experience. Stuff like Dragon Bash, Bazarre of the Four Winds, the Queen’s Gauntlet and SAB.
Even the two dungeons that were available and taken away have returned to the Fractals, as new fractals…along with mistlock instabilities from level 31-50.
Those who say nothing has changed obviously aren’t looking very hard.
Edit: That’s not counting QoL updates of which their were many, including changes to champion bags.
Thank you. this is much more helpful then the previous if you dont like it go away post. Now I have some things to go check out.
I did not say go away, I said you tried it and found it wanting. Why would you want to suffer, unless you get a kick out of suffering.
“The game does not live up to your standards/expectations. What have you lost exactly? The market is huge, go out and find something enjoyable that meets your needs.”
Sure seems like a go away post to me.
A full expansion for free?
Edit: No srsly, now they have me curious. Meh, we’ll see what the year brings, it’s only just begun after all..
But the thing that many GW2 fail to realize is that we already get that. It’s called Living Story :P
It’s just that Living Story gives you new content every 2 weeks while an expansion you need to wait more than a year to get content all at once.
I’m thinking we get to see some new maps brought back to life from the original GW. Maybe we will get to go to the Crystal Desert after all and deal with the dragon there ;S
The living story new content in no way whatsoever qualifies as an expansion or does it even mimic an expansion. It’s just additional repetitve content in a different package.
An expansion would bring a new world/maps with new content,pve,quests etc. Going around old maps getting old socks and hats, or dragon scales or whatever is not.
But they also said that working on huge patch that coming in 2014.Doesnt matter do u call it expansion or not,important is to add more perma content
They also said they released an expansion’s worth of content in 2013. LOL!!
Ya but no one would have paid for that nerfing/grinding/recycled content every few weeks——amount of new content is not an indicator of quality content. An expansion would have to be so much more than what is being continually offered up.
It stands for ‘Public Relations’
LOL—-+1
So to answer your question:
No, GW2 has nothing to offer for farmers.
However, GW2 is the most grindy MMO I have even seen. So it’s grinders heaven.
+1 for that truth.
The RNG is kind of killing the notion of reward. You can play the game for a year and get nothing, while another will play a month and get a precursor drop.
Also, ArenaNet are so scared of people farming (abusing) things that give better rewards that they prefer to have everything give crappy rewards.
Exactly!!!! and I don’t believe for a second that RNG isn’t flawed when all players don’t have an equal chance of getting rewards. I fall in to the rarely get a rare drop as well as never seen a precusor.
From what ive seen so far Wildstar is superior to Gw2 in every aspect(gameplay, combat, PvP, Devs) but this is not confirmed, we will see if that is the case in a year or so from now.
All good except I understand it will be a monthy subscription pay to play—-no thanks.
lol who cares… when ESO comes out u watch and see how many servers will still be highly populated…
Except it is subscription based—as soon as the beta is over, I’ll never play it again. Free to play and I would stay.
As for the the GW2 future—unless they open up a a few areas/map (expansion!!!!) with new quests etc for lvl 80s—get rid of the grind and time gated crafting—-add real content/ change the living story to be soloable—the future looks very very very bleak.
No. I am not walking across the whole map to do a 5 min event. Not sure why you think this would be a good thing.
Ditto, me thinks this question was asked just to generate responses.
Bt this questioned was asked many times in another thread
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Copper-Fed-Salvage-o-Matic/first#post3331174
and the devs never responded or just ignored the question/ some even bought because of the change to yellow. Now it’s changed back and again no help from those in the know. How rude (imho).
Wait, Germans have a different number system?
9 9 9!
- 1 for sure!!!!!! LOL
Been playing since the beginning and I have stopped buying gem cards and have a few new games to play from the steam sale—so in my case and others I know , we just aren’t playing it or spending money on it.—Made my 1st acsended and I won’t do that grind again, RNG is flawed and I doubt I will ever have a legendary. The 2 week additions have become just more of the same as well a mediocre, and what they did to TEQ was just inexcusible. Still havn’t bothered to complete my pesonal story since they made the conclusion MP instead of SP like the rest of the personal story. I’ll come back when new areas open and I have new maps (that’s plural not singular!!!)to explore.
More power to NCSoft—-I suggest they order Anet to make a great expansion ASAP.
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Thanks for the info, I wondered how you got them online without using a card.
BTW some people get another credit card that has a low max ($500./ $250 etc.) and only use that one for online purchases.
it’s secure and how did you purchase them at best buy online?
Outside of the occasional rude bore that thinks he’s been nominated to be the Dictator of Queensdale, I have no problem with it. However, the zerg needs to recognize that not everyone wants to be a part of it, and if tsomeone wants to kill champs on thier own shedule, they have the right to.
I’ve never understood the crying sound the zerg makes when someone kills out of order as the pace of the zerg is so fast, that any lose is neglible.
+1 Love the ‘Dictator of Queensdale’ comment—op should add it to his tag line—lol
or maybe anet can add it to the achievement title menu.
and the drops have always been bad for some while others get good stuff all the time.
The RNG is flawed (imho) but they are unable to correct it.
A lot of exaggeration going on in yet another thread about the champ trains in Queensdale. For at least the last month I have not seen an argument get nasty on Tarnished Coast over people hitting champions out of order. From reading thus thread people would think Queensdale is a non-stop argument. For the most part when a champion gets hit out of order the zerg just moves on because they are used to it by now. The only problem causing I have seen was when someone or a small group intentionally messes with the order and they are the ones taunting in chat. Even then most everyone just ignores them and goes to the next event and the antagonists get bored.
As for impressions on new players, I have seen many new players receive more help and attention because Queesndale is populated and people are there to answer their questions, help with skill points and so forth. So hey, let’s nerf the map and make it more vacant right? New players talking to themselves in /map gives a good impression too right? If you are so worried about new players go to starter zones and look for people to help and give them that good first impression.
Please stop with all these exagerations about how new players think the champ train is the game and get bored and quit. Stop making up storys about excessive map chat grieving because as I have seen the map chat does a great job policing itself. You may not like champ farming because you think there are better ways to play the game and that’s fine. Just stop worrying about how others play. You will enjoy the game much more that way.
Oh and if you are on the end/nerf champ side then that should revoke your license to complain ever should some aspect of the game you enjoy get the rewards nerfed. Asking for reward seyestems to get nerfed is a slippery slope. Think about it..
And another +1!!!!
So tired of players that think they own the game and the devs should change/nerf parts of the game. You want the trains to end? Suggest that a new map(lvl 60-80) with new events etc be added to the game instead mediocre content every couple of weeks.
Players will also gravitate towards these kinds of simple mindless loot opportunities when they are in the game.
Unfortunately, this leaves many other engaging group events in the world untouched and other zones desolate.
While I applaud the players resilience for staying with such a dull manifestation of the game, I feel Anet should take an approach akin to paternalism* and remove the Queens zerg, in order to force change and diversity.
This may upset some players, who feel they should be able to play how they want to play, but sometimes the world demands an authority or organization to guide us gently towards perfection.
Who is with me?
NB:
**"Paternalism" comes from the Latin pater, meaning to act like a father, or to treat another person like a child, limiting some person or group’s liberty or autonomy for their own good.
Just because YOUR liberal ideology compels you to force your play-style on others, does not mean that the Queensdale gig is a bad thing. For those of us who have been here since launch and do not WANT to level through all of those crappy mindless events for the 8th time, this is a relaxing, albeit slow alternative that you can pop in to and out of with ease. The game needs things like this, and less people who would see things ruined for others because they do not personally see the value in them.
And the notion that YOUR advice is “fatherly” is laughable. Please do not ever try to impress your warped ideology me or my children.
+1 for that!!!
Urmaug’s secret. It’s extremely easy, it’s fast to get through, and it’s in Lion’s Arch, which is loads of convenience all on its own.
Same for me
I could give you an honest opinion but then i would get infracted by a mod for it.
Ditto!!!!!!
Queensdale Champion Train is wonderful, relaxing and you can clear your mind. It is peaceful, and this game does not have so much peaceful places after all.
I have level up most of my characters just opening maps and doing all hearts, and doing most of the events on the way. It is stressing, boring, lonely business. It is like playing single player game in MMO world. If I see on the road like 5 people on the same area where I am, that is lucky. In this way I earn like 8 – 9 gold on the road, when I do all hearts and most of the events. But when I jump in the Queensdale train, in a day I can earn more money. I just smash all white, blue, green and yellow items, and end of the day I will sell all those materials and get my money. I only save those exotics ones.
Most of all, I can see other players in Queensdale Champion Train, we are many, we have fun, but most of all, I can leave all stress from my sholders and finally enjoy the game.
So let the train go on. Those who don’t like Queensdale Champion Train, they don’t need to jump in. But those who likes it, let them have it.
I agree 100% with you
Ditto from me too!!!
Omg another started a post about the QD train— AGAIN!—It’s been discused over and over again. Yet another one from a persone who knows best and demands it should be changed just because they don’t like it. So tired of people who demand game changes just because it isn’t their sytle of play. So sad.
You are right, crafting is easy! It’s the grind and/or cost to get all you need to craft that is a long boring /expensive experience and of course time gated makes it
even more of a negative experience.
Made Zojja’s great bow—I doubt I will make another ascended item.
Should have been both SP and MP. Players choice to play the game as ‘you want’.
This is so late—-Canadians had thanksgiving in October—-so thanks!!!!
All the unlimited havesting tools in the gem store harvest every level of their respective nodes.
Yes!
The reason that you weren’t told is because it would be hard to nearly impossible as others ^ have said. More likely you were being trolled/punked by someone.
I believe it is once every 24 hrs per character.
Crystal node has been pretty stingy lately, heck, every node feels stingy.
But yes, 3 crystal is a real drag.
+1 and I’ll add EVERYTHING in this game is pretty stingy. And the RNG has a flaw, they just haven’t found it yet.
Oohh boy—here we go AGAIN!!!!
Why oh why create a new thread about something that has been posted and talked about in many other threads?
2 main areas (frost and queens) and because of them PVE is ruined for the entire game???? don’t think so (imho).
Mod please merge this into the other nerf the champ train threads.
becoz he wants the mod to delete this thread perhaps ?
Just write delete thread, not change the title when people don’t agree with you. Makes the OP look like a fool.
truth!!! +1 for that!!!!
It will be the first place The Concordia sails to when it’s refitted.
Nerf the champ trains and add better rewards to orr to make it actually more appealing.
I can only agree with your second suggestion.
It’s a broken RNG—simple as that, and I will never be convinced otherwise. Either they can’t find the flaw, or can’t be bothered to find it. (imho).
At 497—-but I am just too tired of farming wood-and my gold is down to 17-will get there eventually, but orr is just too much of a drag, gorge and southsun dont’ have enough nodes and leap varies from day to day—but is likewise annoying. Maybe it’s just time for a break.
There are a few threads about this and most agree—-they should be account bound. However, NCsoft likely controls this with an iron fist and a Anet has no say in the matter.
They heard somewhere a precursor dropped in open world loot and had to investigate why.
Lmao—-best answer ever!!!!! +1
Mouse G5 thumb button wore out because of dodging—-downtime gives me time to pick up and install a Cyborg.
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More solo content please.
The RNG formula is flawed, there is a major programming mistake in there somewhere and I can’t be convinced otherwise. The same people seem to get reward after reward, be it drops, precursors, tickets, exotics etc while others always get nothing. I am in the second group. Some say its just luck—sorry don’t buy that either. When one group of players consistently get good rewards (or whatever) and another group of players consistently get junk or nothing, then there is a problem.
Well it’s obvious that people don’t like hard content. If champs are already hard then they must make them normal mobs instead of champs. How about that?
How about you arrange and organise a very group to do teq every night. That should give you the challenge you want. But good luck with that, it’s a dead event. As for the original post, it appears that that you will not get much support.
Let the peeps play as they wish.
2ndly—you really did more than exaggerate the amount of gold to be earned.
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An interesting read and like the LB changes, but I am still waiting for the pets’ AI to be addressed as well as a way to park them unless called on. Infact when the pet is parked there would be a significant increase in ranger damage etc to compensate for the pet being ‘left in the cage’.
I wouldn’t mind the scaling up—but just to be the devils advocate, many enjoy the champ train and if they want to play it that way, who are we to judge. If they want to run around in a circle for hours and lvl up,so what. Does that really have any drastic effect on how you play the game, or do you figure everyone should play the game the way You want them to? Does it ruin GW and the way you play?
Ps —drops have been nerfed anyway
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Nerfed-Champ-Bags-Boxes/first
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Nope—it was ruined and deserted as many players predicted would happen.
I guess the best policy is to myob and stay out of other peoples concerns. You just logged in and really, you weren’t directly involved. I say this reagardless of the fact that I believe people can kill what they want and when they want. But move on, play the game like you want to, let others play the way they want, stay away from direct confrontations, no matter if you like the train or not.
It’s GW2 RNG: Working as intended. Happy grinding.
Sorry it’s flawed, and I will never be convinced otherwise.
I’d be happy if ALL the names/titles (except those in your group or guild) would auto turn off during any large event. Pehaps they can start there.
The bottom line is not to buy useless cosmetics. Maybe I don’t get it, but what a waste of any money/gems as well as the time it takes to earn them in game.
However if people are willing to spend, Nsoft will sell.
Sure, look at you own, but I would rather a toggle off or auto all off be implemented for everyones’ name etc during large group events.