Guild Wars 2

There was a thread just 2 weeks ago. Some people wrote they have problems seeing the icon in the map.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Hero-Point-icon-changed-back/first#post5486577

I had that Problem sometimes too. For me the change is awesome, since yesterday its way easier to find them on the world-/minimap.

So thanks & great change anet!

After seeing that finishers are less than 30g on the tp, I can stop worrying about the keyfarm effect. Seems there are more than enough people buying keys for real $ or with big losses for gold.

Edit: sry^^ I come to the conclusion because it’s the first ‘new tradeable’ item added to the blc chest. So their tp price is mostly determind by ‘keys’ gained after the nerf (ok, might be that some farmers saved their keys, but I think if someone saved them that kind of person wouldn’t probably use it right now). So even if we guess that finishers are not wanted or not ‘rare’ drops (like ticket scraps) the price is still very low compared to their gem value.

Might be that I have a logical flaw, feel free to pin it^^

I fully agree to op, a change would be nice.

In case a change never might happen: You could use a personal guild bank and just put the 250 stacks in there.

Noone gets spirit shards for level up through experience (lvl80) anymore. That has been removed with a patch ~1 month ago. Reason was something about the mastery system from HoT.

I think everyone understood you. Question is, why it should be a bug?

For example:
I block you: I won’t get any whisper/pm from you, but I can write you whispers/pm.
You block me: You can write me whispers/pm and I can’t write you anything.

Is that an example what you described as a bug?
If yes, in both cases you can prevent any issue by just blocking that person and it would be no bug.

Big sorry if I got your bug wrong too.

Calcifire.1864:

Zaron.1987:

Bomber.3872:

So even if the precursor collections would cost twice as much as currently, it would be awesome and still be the best change we get with HoT!

. never read such thing here. i guess on this topic your are a lonley special snowflake

he’s a notorious troll here, just ignore him, everyone else does

Thanks mate… Actually I thought it’s common knowledge that collections maingoal is to remove rng factor from gaining pres…
Because the rng factor is the main complain about legendary’s since gw2 release:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/RNG-And-Precursor-Drops
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/precursor-collection-and-RNG
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/crafting/Need-precursor-not-a-QQ-about-RNG-or-TP
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/crafting/gw2-precursor-recipe-scavanger-hunt-news

Two with anet staff:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/RNG-as-a-concept-Discuss
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/337596-collections-non-rng-precursors/

Even one from gw2 release:
https://m.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/115cwa/guild_wars_2_forum_official_response_drop_rate_of/

The first point is not an issue. Just get zerker gear and you are finlne.

For the rest, as a main necro player, I wouldn’t agree more. The reason are pretty simple, ranger and necro are not bad/worse than others, they just have not group support. Dungeons and fractals and wvw are group content, so there is a need that each class adds some support to the group. That could be easily solved if (for example) necro would get a traut to stack might or one to create stability, etc.
Comditions itself got a lot better since last major update, they are fine. (Of course you should play zerker and not a condition statt build, that still is luckly worse.)

About the necro minions… Well after 3 years it would already be a big wonder if these at least would attack while you attack something…

Anet should get on this directly after they introduced the alien invaded cantha region.

No duelling, No mounts, No capes.

Haurt.6420:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If they are still paying $50 then maybe they could first save up $10 and then $40 and buy the expansion.

I’m not saying that they have to buy the expansion you are totally missing the point of what I’m saying. The $10 is to upgrade to core. If they enjoy the game enough to want the expansion they then can pay $40 MORE to upgrade. Or forget the discount altogether. Just offer the Core game for $10 so that people who want to lift the restrictions of F2P can.

There is no “core” for ~10$. There is not a different way to upgrade. There only exist two important versions: first is the f2p version, which needs some more restrictions. Second is gw2 for ~50$.
Simple thing is, either play for free or pay for the game.

And no there is no core and no HoT version. While veterans were angry because they had to pay againg full game price for the addon anet stated clearly that this way of thinking is wrong. The 50$ version is not HoT, it’s the ever ongoing price for gw2.

So most simple way to explain: use the trial to test the game and gw2 = 50$.

No mounts, No duelling, No capes.

Ihales.3820:

I don’t really like the previewed system. It is basically same as the current one with added extra grind on top. Gold-wise it will be almost same but you will be forced to do some other stuff too. I guess pretty much everyone except gold sellers hoped it will be much cheaper way to get precursor (for example 200g vs 1000g out of TP), but with added time gate/grind etc. So in the end proposed system will be even more time consuming and for people not playing all game types equally even worse than current system. I know we are not losing the old acquisition methods, but this is not what we were waiting for 2 years since this was announced.
(Do you remember that announcement new legendaries and precursor crafting in 2013? Yeah they are 2 years late and you have to buy expansion for it too. source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/ )

It was never an attempt to make precursor cheaper. Anet communicated it clearly and actually listened very well to the community this time. The reason for precursor crafting is ONLY to remove the unbelievable horrible rng factor.

So even if the precursor collections would cost twice as much as currently, it would be awesome and still be the best change we get with HoT!

Gw1 is the best game ever. So yes totally worth it. But remember you might need ~1 year for the gw2 reward, these HoM points (50l take more time and dedication than like 20 legy’s in gw2. And the gold title is the most ‘valueable’ title in both gw1 & gw2. Even all other gw2 title combined are like kindergarden easy compared to the god one.

Zerker will be superior forever. The core basic gameplay of gw2 is dmg > all. So anet might find ways to introduce hardcore content which can’t be done by zerker, but then other statt combinations wouldn’t do it either.

Yes these prefix are pretty useless. Hopefully anet might remove them soon. You probably know it, but best thing todo in gw2 is just to use full berserker gear. With berserker you can play most efficient, because a dead enemy can’t hurt you and they die fastest with zerk^^

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Bomber.3872:

BrotherBelial.3094:

… Its a moded engine of GW1 after all…

Seriously where do some people always get that totally wrong information???

Gw2 is a totally different engine than gw1. Basically it got build from scratch by anet. That’s why it took ~5 years for gw2 release. Well that even was the main reason why gw2 got created instead if another gw1 addon. Because gw1 engine had too much limitations (no walking+skill use, no jumping, no rolling,…)!

I think you are misinformed/mistaken:

Game engine

Guild Wars 2 uses a heavily modified Guild Wars game engine which includes support for true 3D environments, more detailed environments and models, better lighting and shadows, new animation and effects systems, plus new audio and cinematics engines and a more flexible combat and skill-casting system.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2#Game_engine

And the Wiki’s source:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/20/gc-2009-guild-wars-2-first-details-and-qa

Mike O’Brien:

During the past two years of development we made huge advances to our game engine, adding a persistent world with free-form movement and exploration, day/night cycles, cutting edge support for dungeons and interior environments, numerous graphical advancements including support for more detailed environments and models, better lighting and shadows, new animation and effects systems, plus new audio and cinematics engines, a more flexible combat and skill-casting system, and so on.

Good luck.

It says right at the beginning if the IGN article:
“Eventually we reached a ceiling of how much we thought we should add to the game without undertaking a radical revamp. So two years ago we announced our intention to stop developing additional campaigns and instead turn our company’s attention to developing a sequel. Developing a sequel allows us to start again with a clean slate and build a new Guild Wars from the ground up to be the game we always knew it could be.”

Parts of other engine are part if the gw2 engine. As far as I remeber parts if gw1 engine might have been reused. But gw2 was build from scratch in a totally new engine, it’s NO moded gw1 engine. If it would have been possible just do mod gw1 engine than anet would have done that and created new gw1 campaigns instead if gw2.

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Any group of people who will exclude you over a handful of digital currency were never your friends in the first place. Edit: under me, I would have put up an sarcasm sign if I would have found one…

The guild system is changing drastically with Guild Halls so if possible wait to see if that changes the situation, but if you are forced to choose I would stick with my IRL friends if I were in your shoes.

Guilds are not for friends. For friends you have the friendlist. Guilds are for people to get together for a common goal.

But yes, I hope for the guild change with HoT too. Alot if what has been anounced is effectively to remove the current system problems. If we really can represent 5 guilds at the same time, and guild currencie is only ganied with guildmissions and raids and that the overall guildschat works, well then the guild system is pretty close to be perfect.

Guild Upgrades cost influence. Influence is only earned by members that represent the guild 100%. Everyone who doesn’t represent 100% is just abusing the work of others and has to be kicked. Sadly anet does support such toxic behavior with their 5 guild system.

BrotherBelial.3094:

… Its a moded engine of GW1 after all…

Seriously where do some people always get that totally wrong information???

Gw2 is a totally different engine than gw1. Basically it got build from scratch by anet. That’s why it took ~5 years for gw2 release. Well that even was the main reason why gw2 got created instead if another gw1 addon. Because gw1 engine had too much limitations (no walking+skill use, no jumping, no rolling,…)!

Probably you did dungeon story before pvp reward tracks were introduced.
You have to redo story to unlock these.

VaegaVic.6394:

1) The Anniversary sale.
What a disaster. You had multiples forum and a subreddit all crying out for items they wanted, items they would physically give you money for, and you ignored them. I don’t understand that mentality. Your customers want an item and you say no?

I agree mostly on what you wrote. On the quoted part, thats not that easy as it sounds. For me a sale is that you get something ‘cheaper’ and not just reintroduced. So for me around 50% of that stuff was a real sale.
On the issue that anet didn’t bring what player requested: well, I understand and agree that anet should reintroduce some items that weren’t available since 2 years.
Sadly a lot requests on the forums are about gemshop items that have been available multiple times this year or sometimes have been available just some days ago. I’m seriously happy that anet ignores such requests.

Just saying, but there are already some hundert items to cook at level 400 which are used for the whole party/server. Don’t really understand why that should be a level500 feature.

Thats an awesome design! Now I’m really happy to play HoT with my sylarie too instead of only humans.

Anet should add way more such race/char special things. For example some things for humans to never forgive these terrible charrs (death to all). Or something for asuras to show always how much better they are than bookahs.

Such special things in gw2 would be just so totally awesome!!! Best suggestion here since a long time.

mounts, capes and duelling

Nothing breaks immersion more than these three horrible things.

Anet changed yesterday something on the tp UI. Probably your speed gain comes from that. There might be no need to limit your graphics for this matter.

There will be no vanilla gw2 pve update. Gw2 pve is awesome.
Zerker is love, zerker is rule, join the zerker raids and get all the much worse combinations out of the game!

Asura – anything, because they look like walking rats. Who should want to play something like them

Corelion.7460:

Whiet Wings please… make they come back..

oO , they were already available two times this year. Last time wasn’t even one month ago…

No wonder anet adds the same already bought stuff into gemstore again and again and again and again and again and again and again….
How about only requesting items that haven’t been in store since 2 years? Or at least wait some months until requesting the same stuff again…

Healix.5819:

SW chest farming will soon be nerfed, which will help alleviate your problem.

No. It won’t be nerfed.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

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That’s totally right. Just want to add: Anet allowed and agreed the same way to blc chest farm. We all saw last update where this went.

This restriction is one of the best! Just write in mapchat that you give out some free items to new f2p player and that they only have to whisper to you.

After that immediatly switch map and have fun

bank tab = gems = $$
Anet should remove all restrictions on account upgrades. Like:
- bank tab
- crafting license
- charslot maximum
- char bags
- material extension
- whatever I forgot

All the money they could earn! About the server space argument: A long time paying customer is way better for server space than spacewaste from f2p accs.

Miss Lana Too.5794:

Bomber.3872:

Anyhow, I want anet to make it easier to farm keys instead of harder.

They literally just did the opposite of what you want. Why would they go back on that? It’s not something that they wanted to encourage, as it affects their revenue. The NPE was put in place to try and hinder players from key farming. We found a workaround. Now the weekly limit is put in place. We might find a workaround. Who knows?

tl;dr what you want is the exact opposite of what Anet wants.

Anet did officially allow key farm and they especially allowed and agreed to it during the npe update.

So whatever reason the limit has, it’s not that they don’t want us to farm it in a normal amount of time. They only did/want to cap the gain of individuals.
So I think with HoT there will be introduced at least one new way to farm/earn blc keys.
I only wish they would have waited until HoT release (same with other changes) or reverse it until HoT.

The overall trend is what anet does us want todo.
For example: arah is a long and extremly boring dungeon and arah pvp reward track is limited by the few potions you get in rankfarm arena (because other pvp modes take too much time too). So how else should I get the arah collections?
→ I love to buy the ways each day. Saves time and is worth every gold.
On the other side I love ascalon, fz, SE. So I’m happily have fun to play these dungeons and sell my spot to others. So I earn money haveing fun and can buy boring stuff I don’t like.
Same with fractals. I hate fractals over lvl30, but I love all fractals below. So I can sell low lvl fractals and just buy me a lvl50 spot (+the nicer loot).
Same with other achievements or storyparts.

Basically and thats still the best about gw2:
I can play how and what I want and even if some things/loot are behind a ‘wall’ I can just go around it instead over it. That the amount of such lfg’s seems to rise is logical.
Everyone wins through selling/buying. Lfg just supports one if the basic needs for most player.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Healix.5819:

uhohhotdog.3598:

They should really just move the key to a higher level point in the story. If people really want to go through 30 or more levels just to get a key then why not.

They basically did considering you get keys from the personal story at level 40, 60 and from S2E6.

No I’m saying get rid of the level 10 story key reward and move it up higher.

Besides that I don’t like that idea because anet should make it easier to farm keys!

You realize that you already get 1 key at the end of personal story level 40, 1 key at the end of personal story level 60 and 1 key at living world season 2 Episode 6 as a reward?

So your suggestion is to remove 1 key from level 10 and add it to level20 or 30. Both are reached in the exactly same time as level10 with the birthday scrolls.
So that wouldn’t change anything, maybe you should think your suggestion through again.

Edit: @under me: yes. Basically it would tak ~40min. to get the key at end of level30. So it would double the time. Still that would be an extremly low raise. Anyhow, I want anet to make it easier to farm keys instead of harder. Just wanted to show that this suggestion is pretty easy to go around. Probably thats why anet didn’t just move it up to lvl20/30.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Bomber.3872:

You can consome 1 stack each/day. I agree it takes time until you convert all stacks after you gained the converters.

But how on earth are you generating each day more than 1 stack??? Even during 4h SW chest farm or 5h world bosses I only get close to 250/day.

I realize many people don’t, but I’ve walked away from a day of play with 2k-3k of each dragonite and bloodstone.

I don’t expect the eater to be able to eat all of it, they don’t want people to feel like they have to farm more to get their daily gunk pellets, so I understand its likely balanced around more average players.
But it would be really nice to see even a small increase, give it a 5-10 or maybe 6-10 range.

Sry I didn’t want to sound like I wouldn’t believe that someone gains more than a stack/per day.
Like I wrote I get around 1 stack after 4h sw cf, I know that I usually have around 1 stack after a full worldboss rotation. Even after ~2h doing the half of all available dunogens I end up maximum 1 stack.
I’m really curious how you get more like 2k+/day (and what time it took^^)?

Dreamslayer.7659:

Dikeido.8436:

CandyHearts.6025:

Dikeido.8436:

StrangerDanger.3496:

Solution: Keys for completing raids, create spvp reward where you grind for a key would operate just the same as normal gear boxes and progress bars only the last reward is a key. Do the same as in spvp only have it in wvw (hell add in all the gear/crafing boxes with the same progress mechanic as spvp)

Keys that you would be able to get per week: 3 (if you grind spvp,wvw, and do a raid which imo is a good way to keep all aspects of the game very active even if your not a huge pvper/pve’er)

more keys you can actually farm, more boxes you open, the more BLT’s and fragments you get. no need to adjust drop rates.

And no please don’t remove tomb of knowledge. those things are probably the most valuable thing I get in game right now given I’m new and saving them for a quick revenant progression.

NO I disagree with this idea over 9000×. Why should key be limited to only those that can RAID/PVP. What about the young, the elderly or the handicap and others who either can’t or choose not to PVP/Raid. Why can’t we have both the key farming be revert back plus the world drop increase.

Because that’s too much and Anet would feel like they are bleeding keys.

How so, do you know something that the rest of us don’t know ?
1. No one except Anet know the percentage of people who actually farm keys.
2. No one except Anet know the increase percentage of the new drop rate.
For 3 years going 4 Anet has turn a blind eye to key farming but now they nerf it to the ground and their justification is OH we increase the drop rate.

The fact that you can farm a key in far less time than it takes to farm the gold to buy a key is all anyone needs to know that a nerf was inevitable.

Fact: you can still farm keys by farming gold.
Fact: you can still get keys without spending real money
Fact: It’s not going to be as fast.

It was a shortcut. You can still get keys, but if you want them in quantity, you have to get them the way people get everything else in the game.

Yea lol! I don’t want anymore infraction points so I try to write as nice as possible:

On September 18th 2013 the gold to gem ratio was ~ 4G/100gems. Based on fact argumentation, the time needed to farm a key was WAY longer than to just farm the gold. So with your argument a buff was/is inevitable. It was a shortcut and anet had to decrease the gems/key or increase the keys gained per keyfarm.

I think someone can find the kitten in this argumentation?

Breach is surely not limited to 3x/day. Did farm for 3h yesterday, got 10 nightmare keys and all normal bags/rares.

How did you come up with the idea that breach/vw should be capped?

With all things todo in tyria I love the blc keyruns the most. It’s the best personal story part <3.
Gw2 added around 3h awesome farms each day to my life. It’s just so great that I can still play gw2 after 3 years and still find thousands of great looking skins I can work towards.

Thats why I love to show my appreciation by buying some gems, because I know my money is always well used at anet to even more improve an already awesome game.

Look at the lfg tool. Right now during the last 10 minutes there showed up !8! different sw xx% event lfg’s. Not even 1 CF lfg has been posted the last 10 minutes.

You know that these “SW xx%” are lfg’s for events and not for cf, righ?

PS: That a map after vw defeat changes to cf is the only smart move. I guess noone likes it to stand 20 min. around doing nothing and then start events from 0%, so of course after vw maps change to cf maps.

If f2p likes stuff, f2p should upgrade. If no $ upgrade, then f2p can leave.

charr – warrior
sylvarie – ranger
norn – warrior, ranger, Guardian
human – mesmer, necro, ingi, ele, thief
asura – maybe ele or a little bit thief. Actually I think no profession really fits this annoying little rat looking asura race.

Btw. I think revenant might fit human and secondly norn/char best.

Based on the ‘locations’ in the new lion’s arch I’m sure anet wants us to spend more time walking and more often to wp.
Even more important, if you would see your wallet and would see with one click to what shinies to convert, more people would convert their wallet items.
If more people would use their wallet items instead of hoarding, then it would be pretty bad on some tp markets.

So on the positive side would be more comfort for the player on the bad side would be less time spend more efficient ingame and a TP impact.

So might anet change it? Guess no.

You can consome 1 stack each/day. I agree it takes time until you convert all stacks after you gained the converters.

But how on earth are you generating each day more than 1 stack??? Even during 4h SW chest farm or 5h world bosses I only get close to 250/day.

There are way too much clovers ingame. All these stacks you get from pvp and all the stacks the mystic forge throws at you if you only want some t6.

Anet should decrease the 50% chance for clovers to the blc key droprate or give us some use for all this stacks!

If op’s conclusion might work, then please don’t add SAB!

Anet should be more consequent!
Either give us another even faster way to farm blc keys or remove them totally and let us just buy everything from the chest directly for $$.

The current system is probably the worst for your customers. Your customer whales won’t buy overpriced keys just to gamble a little bit and your normal customer won’t buy keys because it’s way to expensive to pay ~1.000$$ to gamble on rng for getting 1 set of blc weapons to get ONLY ONE more achievemtpoint…

Depends what kind of a casual gamer you are. Are you one that intends to play gw2 for years. I mean like casuals that for example still play since gw2 release. Or are you a casual who plays only for some weeks/months?

If you are going to play for years: craft! Get all disciplines to 500. you will always be able to craft special items or expensive one’s and you even can get alot of gold with crafting.

If you won’t play gw2 for years: don’t craft. The ‘leveling’ costs would be higher than everything you would ever again through it. (Besides that the most boring part in crafting is the leveling to 500)

AzureSky.3175:

10$ accounts

Exactly. And yes I think the $10 sales in January had an even worse influence on it until now. I just didn’t even mention the $10 accs, because I thought that at least since HoT preorder that only the new $40 Version are buyable.

If it’s still possible to buy +-$10 accs, then I probably was totally wrong, because in that case the f2p accs surely wouldn’t have a big different influence.

No capes, No mounts, No duelling!