Guild Wars 2

Could have something to do with playing from China. They do love their firewalls and censorship over there.

there is a ticketing system and you can use it to report this… or use the game bugs forum. And no, I think this is just you.

I’m nearly certain that the effect on the bifrost has something to do with Norse mythology… not 100%, just about 99.99999999999999999999999999999…%… well you get the point (and if you know math you really get the point).

Now when it comes to the bow… that one I see no reason for other maybe they… yeah, I got nothin’.

Take a look at the “Trading post grayed out” thread, this is a duplicate. I left my thoughts over there for you to read, but I’ve yet to have to issue so its all just speculation.

Y’all aren’t by any chance running Windows Vista, are you? Sounds like UAC is preventing the game from accessing through a different port once it is opened. I’ve heard the common fix is choosing run as admin when you launch the game. If that is working just change your user account settings to not use UAC (My computer in running 7 with training wheels turned off; I’ve never seen the problem firsthand). Next place to look would be ani-virus/firewall settings. This seems to only be affecting a small number of players so I doubt it is a bug in the actual game.

“But using the online tools available to observe the TP it was very clear that fierce competition was affecting crafting and nearly every craft market was selling at lost ( bellow material price x 1.15 ).”

I am concerned that you were and engineer. your math is incorrect. your breakeven point is material price / .85. if you’re selling at price x 1.15 you’re losing money! : (

This is why the TP is all messed up!
I still find tons of places to make money.

I have tons of ecto….. I want money fast…. ECTO DROP RATE GOT NERFED!!!! sell ecto at higher price. 10 i far too small a sample to make this claim anyway. Nice try,but fail.

lynspottery.6529, my comment was misdirected at you, sorry. I did recognize those pictures and I have worked with photographers in the past to try to come up with something that simulates what I see for other people. Unfortunately, since very few of the people who have color deficiency are truly “blind” to a color, it is not possible to do easily and I’ve seen no real reason to try to simulate it other than as a way to try to get pity for a “disability” (Fun fact: color deficiency is not a protected disability under US law and it is legal to discriminate against people without “normal” color vision in hiring). I don’t want pity. I don’t need people trying to understand what I see. I need people to go “ok, you can’t see red/green distinction. you can use blue/yellow… check this box to activate that feature.” Simply changing tint with graphics messes up the rest of the games colors too, and I love what it looks like now, and I dont lik what it looks like when I adjust for the ability to see the rings (I got frustrated and turned the off so I wouldn’t get frustrated, I can handle the occasional boom and I’m dead.)

Just because most games don’t have it doesn’t mean that GW shouldn’t… most games don’t have Charr, but GW2 does.

Colorblind mode for me is just turning off the aoe indicators and watching the rest of my screen. If you know a lot of “totally” colorblind people you know a lot of liars. True colorblindness in affects fewer than 1% of the color deficient population. As for tweaking color balance just for UI, no thanks. Red/green distinction is near impossible for me due to the severity of my color deficiency I would prefer an in gaame option to change my threat color to yellow and my friendly color to blue… and that wont help the blue/yellow deficient freaks out there ( not intending offense, but you folks are super rare), they’re good with the current colors though if I’m not mistaken.

Lastly, those pictures do not look the same to me. It would be great if you stopped trying to simulate a disability to pretend you understand. You cant, and until you wont, because at the start of the day you can still see all the colors in your closet and know you match when you walk out the door.

Spent several hours attempting, cursing, and raging out of the clock tower… then I made it. Too hard for casual players, maybe (I did a 4 hour marathon with no success). Entirely frustrating, most certainly. Reward that doesnt seem worth the effort, BINGO! And for exactly that reason I think this was my favorite piece of Halloween content. Every time I started screaming at my PC I looked a the top right corner of the screen and saw “mad time” and remembered that the tower belonged to Mad King Thorn. Seemed like it was supposed to make me crazy (which it did), and do the same for most who attempted it (clearly it did). I wouldn’t say it was a good design as a Dwayna themed puzzle for winters day, but as a centerpiece of the realm of someone more deranged and violent than the offspring of a Mr Hyde and the mad hatter union, it was PERFECT!

Click [here] to go crazy!

I went out and bought a fancy new car… then I whined to the dealer when they started selling for 80% what I paid the next year… no I didn’t. I paid to get it first and be the only one on the road with it. STOP WHINING BECAUSE YOU DUMPED 100+gold into something. if you have that much you should have though about how to spend it more wisely.

I started to get a little frustrated with the event then I decided that it was intended to make us go crazy… it was designed by Mad King Thorn and all. I was half expecting to get up to the top and get nothing other than an insti-kill from the Mad King.

’nomics nerd back again…

Demand when used in economic terms refers to the demand schedule, a curve that shows the quantity demanded at a given price. Supply is the supply schedule, a similar curve showing the amount supplied with current production capabilities at a given price. A “change in supply” is a shift in the supply curve, not a point movement along the curve. A simple model of the supply curve where price (p) is the x axis and quantity (q(p)) is the y axis we can say q(p)=a*p+k where k is some constant. increasing k is a change in supply, changing the coefficient on p is also a change in supply. neither of which will affect the curve for demand q(d)= b*p+c where c is a constant. Hence demand is independent of supply, but quantity demanded depends on the supply schedule as that is the point defined by the intersection of the supply and demand schedules.

This is the most confused bit of economic theory as the terms are usually not used correctly in colloquial interactions, but as this was looking to be a rather serious discussion I thought it best give a mini eco lesson.

’nomics nerd out… again.

Edit: when you say when supply drops or dries up, that is a downward shift in the supply curve . Assuming the demand schedule stays the same the quantity demanded at a given price decreases (price shoots up) due to increased scarcity. What we see in the game market though, is fluctuating demand schedule for gems. Gems are produced by paying a fixed rate on the gem store and the supply schedule (on the in game market) is changed only by an increased demand for gold (or rather the items only purchasable with gold). The demand for gems (on the in game market) however, is dependent on the demand for items purchased only on the gem store. This is an exchange rate problem between two currencies, not purchasing question. look at the relation of the USD to the Euro for ou future examples. It is a better paradigm.

Please realize that an increase in demand is only caused by more people demanding a service/good. It is independent of supply. What you wanted to say is that the lower supply creates a movement along the demand curve resulting in a higher equilibrium price.

’nomics nerd out.

It looks like some aspects were an attempt to balance the effects of bots and gold sellers. The games needs a few strong gold sinks to yank the extra gold out circulation. I’m still hoping that the drop rate from the chests was due to a misplaced decimal point. I want a skill based way to get cool looking stuff (skill is not 13+hours a day, that is grind)

I like the token idea, like the hats from GW1. everyone gets one skin token at the end/start of the event (too late for Halloween but not to late for Christmas… er wintersday, sorry). New weapons every year.

maybe have the token be available at the end of an easy chain of tasks (like the jingle bear and moa from 1) easy, but did require you to go play the world a bit. Just keep the tasks confined to the starting areas so new players aren’t left out.

and for the record… the $$ I dumped into gems this morning not going to do it again without knowing the drop chances on the chests. I like A-Net, but that was more of a donation than I wanted to give (twice what I plan to spend every holiday since I was trying to get something for a friend too.). I’ll still buy gems in the future, but I’ll be spending them on something other than inventory clogging chest keys.

Sorry wall of text. hope one of the official people actually takes time to read and consider. I know its unlikely to be fixed and someone will just come in and say its the nature of MMO’s to be this way. To that person I just say why stick with the status quo, GW2 broke so many other MMO traditions why not one or two more?

ps: arena net is the only developer I’d expect to create a robust economy. I was more surprised that some of those ideas weren’t included (I’m sure there are technical reasons for some).

I’m no politician so I don’t have a simple fix that I can throw out here as a cure all. some things are working great, others not so much. I do have a few suggestions based on some illogical price trends.

1) Crafting should be at worst zero gain. currently all crafting materials are selling for more than what you make out of them. Why? because we’re restricted to a price floor in the TP and have infinite supply so our market equilibrium is defined by the artificial limit (seriously you say you hired an economist and that is basic stuff there). I’m not suggesting capping the total supply of mats in the game (people would just horde it to jack the prices up), but the price floor on a crafted item should be a floating floor equal to the market value of the materials required to make it. At the same time I’d like to see a return to the GW1 idea that gender a of race y cannot put on armor that was worn by gender b of race z. Get rid of the armor drops, or at least require that they be customized by one of the master craftsman NPCs before being equipable (extra gold sink there). It doesn’t need to be a big cost just a bit to let you know that it had to be fitted to your character. also armor drops starting at masterwork should be soul/account bound on acquire or have vendor value = to the value of a crafted item under the above plan.

1.2) Adjust drop rates, fine crafting materials would certainly need to be far more frequent drops and armor far less common. Logically once I’m done slicing up a bandit his armor isnt going to be much use. Maybe I’ll be able to take it to a master smith and have something salvaged, but nearly every moa/drake/canine/feline I kill should have a claw or two in tact that I can chop off and throw in my pack. Control the drop rate (supply) to hit a price target. you can add/remove extra recipes (demand) to tweak the market if needed also.

2) When you do an event please clearly communicate what you expect the real money value of certain items to be. Not sure if you intended it but the cash price of the greatsaw was over $50 USD earlier today. the drop chance out of the chests either needs to be changed to bring that down, or please tell up before we throw cash into the gem store that it is intended to be an elite item on par with exotics. Many players were under the impression that it should have been on par with the cost of GW1 costumes and expected that an investment of 15-20 USD would give a fairly high chance of obtaining at least one skin. (I’m ok with random loot tables but if BL chest prices are any indication a significant portion of the player base gave up). Maybe consider adding event chests and event keys so we can at least be assured of some fun event themed goodies then make those chests and keys able to be traded on the TP, or just increase the drop rate of the BL keys in game, nothing coming out of those chests regularly merits that level of rarity.

3)The trading post: for the most part this does not need any change other than maybe giving us a way to view the buy and sell listings on the same screen we purchase/sell from. currently the only way to see all the information is to already have one of the items in your inventory. And if possible please include an indication of number of sales per minute on that page since we don’t have real time information people are just undercutting the sell price to dump it now rather than listing at the same price and getting it sold in 45 seconds. Its a perfect example of how MMO players discount the future, but that only because we have no idea when the future is. I’m very interested to now the velocity of certain commodities in the economy even if it were to be published weekly/monthly on the website you would be creating a more stable healthy game economy.

4) Bots: you know they’re out there and flooding the market with stuff. Be a bit more aggressive in getting them out of the game. require periodic authentication of reported bots. something like if you get reported for botting, have a mail sent out requesting a reply within a timeout of something like a few minutes (5-10). If there is no response then simply cease drops for that account until the response comes in. I’d actually propose requiring it of all players every 2 hours or so just to remind us that we’ve been playing for a long time. (this last idea was just thrown in because I like the number 4. I know its not well thought out, and everyone hates captcha.)

I failed in my attempt to get a weapon skin today, now I’ve got 80 fine transmutation stones, 207 tonics and more gathering tools that I can hold. I’ve got no use for all those fine stones, but I spent real money on many of the keys so I don’t want to just trash the stuff. At the same time I know there are other people in the game without the money to purchase gems to buy the fine stones but do have gold to pay on the TP. It would be nice if we could trade transmute stones or at least had some other use for them in game. I’d also like to be able to dump my tonics into a vendor or trade them as well. I don’t need over 200.

Why are there other weapons in the game? just let everyone use GS. balancing skills would be easier.

I only gambled because I assumed that arenanet had a decent respect for casual players who wanted to show them some support… the current drop rates are for the botters and exploiters and the hardcore gamers who spend 12+hours a day in game and are buying gems with gold.

I’d gladly pay for the skin I wanted, but at current gold prices on the gem exchange I’d be spending upwards of the $70 I spent on keys for a single skin. Put that in the $20-$30 range and I’ll do it. but now I’m just a bit annoyed that I have 83 fine transmute stones 200+ tonics and can’t even dump them into a merch for a slight refund in copper.

I’m sure that Arena Net has noticed a problem with their drop rates, now I’m just waiting to see what they will do to “reward” those players you spent a considerable chunk of change on gems expecting to have a reasonable chance of getting a weapon skin. I was expecting something that comes close to the purchase price of cstumes in GW1 to be reflected in the chance for a skin in GW2 chests. I was wrong. I should have waited for someone else to be the idiot first, but I wanted to surprise my GF with a weapon skin to use for the event so I dumped what I figured would be enough money, taking into account random variation, for two skins… $70 later I’m hoping they just misplaced the decimal point and will correct it. I’m not the only disgruntled player at the moment.

Go ahead mods call this one an infraction too. I know you’re trying to cover up what going on and sucker a bit more cash out of your players, but someone is going to read this before you do so I still win.

I may be “sick” tomorrow. Maybe I should call off tonight.

This hasn’t been addressed yet so I think it needs to go back to the top. I know it’ll take some time to work into the system, but this is still important to us defective people and needs to get take care of please. Get the bugged events fixed first though. I’d rather be able to get squished in an event than be able to see nothing because the event isn’t working

I gave up on reading the map icons, I do my exploring with a guildie who can see them for me. now if only she would catch up so I can finish the lvl20-80 zones.

light armor mele: because a mid armor thief isn’t squishy enough.

I LIKE IT!

There would have to be a serious amount of active defensive abilities to make it viable, but that would probably result in too steep of a learning curve. Only basing that off the trouble people seem to have with the guardian and thief classes now. Only other issue I would have is that none of the light armor really seems to lend itself to a martial class as it is all “scholar” armor. I can’t imagine trying to pull off a Chuck Norris style roundhouse to the head while prancing around in a ruffly skirt…

I turned off the circles on my screen because they confused me, now I just get kitten by dragons teeth and ice spikes because I cant see above my head. For the circles I’d like to be able to change the colors with a slider and adjust their brightness. same goes for the names floating above enemies. the red really doesn’t pop out for us like it does for all the color normal people. when I run around holding ctrl down searching for enemies I fine it much easir to pick out the gathering nodes than the stuff that can actually kill me.

I’d really like to be able to toggle colorblind mode like I can in the civ games to get text telling me what the colors are for on everything.

Not a big priority, for me personally. I’ve come to accept that most of the visuals in a game are designed by artists who, almost without exception, think that purple is a real thing not just a brownish blue. You could grab a colorblind person or two at some point and get some color sliders in so we can adjust the UI so we can see it as well as you. Just a little extra polish for those who like to customize the UI, but it’s big show of understanding to the people who drew the genetic short straw.

edit: I did not realize that “shaft” was kitteh worthy. Especially when I hear NPCs in the game saying “hell” all the time… there probably a kitten there now too. what I’m saying is that I get [inclined plane wrapped around a conical wedge]ed by overhead ele droppings all the time.

symbol was just my way of helping clean off conditions from my allies, I’m ok only getting to do that every 16 seconds. I think the problem of the vast majority of people is that they think that a good build needs to be a bunker or cannon and are dumping and extra 10-15 points into lines that don’t need it. I don’t have a single line over 20 and lvl80 and no intention of getting one up there. I spread my points to get the most out of my blinds and burning. 20/15/10/20/5 and the 20 in honor came with a respec after a few days of doing the temples and getting sloppy in aoe fields. before that 20/20/10/0/20 was doing fine for solo wandering for zone completion.

If guardians would stop trying to be warriors, guardians would be so much more amazing. Too many people saw it and thought it would be a godly solo class with sustained healing and massive damage. I rolled a charr and got that cleared up in character creation when I read that Dinky was a runt, clearly guardians are not meant not a raging berserk.

You have to trait for it but i will blind all nearby when activated.

Edit: 5 points into radiance.

If you roll charr be prepared to hate your tail until you get some armor made for a charr, its my only frustration… other than the backwards footprints.

I’m hoping for something like an absorb and fire back type of mechanic… I’m thinking like Yoda does vs Palpatine. If it hhappens I’ll need to roll an third guardian as an asura so I can pretend to be yoda.

I know everyone is just looking at the symbol cd increase and yelling NERF, but has anyone looked at how much blind you can throw out as a guardian. S+F/GS and I’m taking next to no damage because nothing can connect on me in PVE. That was before the patch. after the patch, sure I do slightly less damage in a few PVE encounters, but seriously now I can just work down my keys and stomp a group of trash mobs in a few seconds. 5,5,4,3,2… 1,1 (maybe another 1) and everything but the vets are dead and I’m at worst at 1/4 health, then switch to sword+focus and mop up the leftover vet keeping them blinded most of the time so you actually finish out the fight and be ready to pop a heal and swap back to GS and repeat. There’s a virtue of justice activation right before the 2 that I forgot. Go try it and then tell me you don’t feel like shouting “I’m the Juggernaut [kitteh]!” when the warriors are flailing at air and everything is dead at your feet.

I know you all like to then start shouting about the damage potential of the warrior but please realize that we can do that combo being rooted to a spot defending other players as they pitch in from a safe distance and try to pull off the same feat with a warrior… I’ll come rez you if you’re doing one of the temples in orr with me (if your Warrior moves from the starting position you lose the challenge).

Really when justice blinds on active and renews on a kill we don’t really need constant retal. Just use the virtues like a good guardian and stop trying to be a warrior. the warriors can then come over and hundred-thousand-septillion blades everything down in case you snagged a vet with your pull . Wait that’s team work and that is clearly not something that the devs want to happen in the game.

’nuf typing back to rekilling zombies and other fun stuff. Just wanted to say thanks devs for making the game a little more interesting my taking out a crutch that I relied on too much before I decided to rethink my style and play with blinds rather than retal.

@ all the pvp players to come; yes I play only PVE and I don’t give a rats posterior about PvP. Go get spiked by a thief and cry about it some more. Their forums are not completely spammed by your complaints.

Also, I expect blind to be a target of a future nerf. Anyone got an extra hammer laying around they want to donate? Launching things looks like so much fun!

What about guardian made you thing “OMG I GONNA BE A DPS KING!!!1!1!!!” eh?

Are you he same people crying about how the offensive weapons master, warrior, can’t last like a guardian?

Every class can play an offensive or support role, they never said that every one can be DPS/HEAL/TANK <- see the trinity?

Finally, your impression of a class should not be finalized before reaching level 30+ . I honestly was regretting my guardian and considering warrior until I fount the spec that fit my style, the traits I needed weren’t possible until lvl 50. So just learn to play.

Charr… because everything else is just meat.

as for eites, I don’t seem to ever use mine other than when I over agro so I’m using the mistfire wolf as an “oh [small kitty]” button to increase my chances to rally when I down.

Charr t3 racial armor is my favorite look in the game too so I just had to roll one. and the blood legion story seems to lend itself well to guardian.

It should give you poultry meat too.

-I assume this was not a serious topic.

5sec of delay on axe better be hyperbole otherwise that is some lag and your gamer credentials are in question again.

That said, I do not notice a long delay usually, but I do get spikes from time to time where my animations and combat log are in disagreement on when skill are executing. That is the only time I see anything close to 5 seconds (1-2 seconds at most) delay from button push to visual cue.

EDIT: I just put my glasses on and saw .5 sec… that is completely normal. its the swing timer. I believe its intentional for class and weapon balancing.

The same is true of every profession. Its not OP, its just that the player is just smart enough to play to the strengths of the class.

I actually like it as is, but I would not mind being able to have mobility and run hammer/mace without needing judges intervention to rush myself into combat. I like the feel of being the slow soldier that just wades through the battle to bash something’s face in or stands back with the casters playing bodyguard for them when something swarms past the warriors and thieves. at least in my mind the guardian seems like it should be one of the least mobile professions and the warrior be the high mobility soldier class.
I know the trinity is supposed to be gone and I love it, but I still like to feel like the class has some sort of defining role in the big battles. Guardian feels like it should be the guy who greets the enemy at the back line and says "congrats on making past the front line. Here’s your prize..." [2],[4] *pow* "NEXT!"

hammer 4= go to jail: Go directly to jail; do not pass go do not collect $200

I’m not sure what annoys me more with the charr. the clipping with the tail or that mine seems to magically remove and regrow his horns depending on which head gear I’m using… especially annoying on dungeon armor that seems to be linked to the Charr race.

This is tyria. only dwarves use mounts, and in guild wars 2 there are no dwarves. Stop asking/ speculating about mounts in the future. It is not going to happen unless the lore writers stop having a say in the game’s content.

Guardians heal so often they have a higher effective health pool than warriors. Necros are just expected to be a little suicidal, maybe? Didnt playmy necro much yet, but a guard with the warrior’s health pool would be super op.

Check your speaker wires. Cheep wires = annoying radio in game.