Guild Wars 2

All the BLTP weapon skins I have obtained DO have animations. They are not uber-flashy (like some of the Legendary weapons) but they are there.

There is this saying about “giving an inch”, that might be appropriate for MANY threads on these forums….

Romek.4201:

my speculation is:
Arenanet will bring with Precursor Crafting a complete New Set Legendarys (Tier 2)

I agree this is the most likely method of introducing this (FULLY Account bound).

…… and stop dropping precursor for Tier 1

I doubt this….what would be the reason to remove this existing source? If the new items were FULLY account bound, then they would not effect the previous Precursor market.

HOWEVER, the material markets (T5, T6, RARE items, etc.) used to make Legendaries would be GREATLY effected by this introduction…..prices would likely spike and then eventually settle to a new (higher) equilibrium price. Make no mistake that every player would be effected in some way.

Filaha.1678:

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It, however, does not prevent orders where the tax would reduce it to below the vendor price, which is the more important part and you conveniently ignored, so there’s no need to be rude.

This fact makes OUR point….that players are “simplistic” and putting TP data on a P2P trade system is NOT going to prevent “fools and their money being parted”……

There is NO WAY that less Customer Service tickets would result from them putting in a P2P trade system (note ADDED not replacement of the TP system). You can argue this point till you’re blue in the face, but you are just spitting into the wind (and deluding yourself) if you believe it will. I would think VERY few people ever trade (with an unknown) via mail and even fewer do it a second time.

NO perceived benefits to the game or markets would ever be considered over less CS involvement in trading AND the NECESSARY gold sink of the TP fees.

Illogical.6218:

aaah yes, cuz having level 80 profession and not knowing how to use it is really usefull

Funny how we DON’T have this item and yet this still appears to be possible….go figure?

• Do not forget about discovering T5 RARE items. While their recipes cost karma and their discovery is not that big a boost, the items will salvage for Ectos when no Ectos are used to make them. These are great to do between LVL 420 – 450 or +475.
• Try NOT to do any Exotic discoveries during the material refinement phases (400-42# and 450-47#) as those are best held for when refinement can get you no advancement. Making Exotics you need to use is an exception but try to limit it.
• Don’t forget to the un-craftable inscriptions / insignia that can be obtained via other methods (Soldier, Cavalier, Sentinel, Rabid, etc.) If you can use the item, buying the inscription / insignia off the TP does allow you a discovery you cannot get another way (note you STILL have to pony up 5 Ectos for these items).

Protoavis.9107:

arkealia.2713:

People don’t understand that as soon as anet will announce precursor crafting, the price of all mats involved to craft a legendary will explode. Meaning mostly T5, T6, ecto, cores and lodes.
A lot of things will be more expensive and your legendary won’t be any cheaper.

Those things are farmable (or farmable and promotable) and a significant portion of folk already have most mats apart from the precursor.

There’d be an increase but it’ll go along with an increase of farming.

So you have no problem with driving up prices for all these items for the entire player base as long as you get your alternate access to a Precursor? My indifference toward those whining for this alternate method just swerved toward contempt…..

Just to add, getting hung up on the semantics of the term “Legendary” as a reason it is broken is not actually legit. If they had named the weapons “AWESOME WEAPONS”, would your complaint (that they are BROKEN because there is nothing LEGENDARY about obtaining them) hold up? No. Are they potentially named incorrectly? Very possibly….but some smart guy once asked, “what’s in a name”.

Sure, everyone that does the required work to get one should get one (and they CAN). However, that required work should not be the equivalent of showing up to work on time for 25 years….you shouldn’t get a top tier, BiS weapon for doing the Dailies for 3 years without missing one (maybe you get a title for that….shrug).

….I, and many others, have been complaining about the RNG-system for precursors for a long time now, and Anet still hasn’t done anything about it. They say they’re “working on it” but it honestly shouldn’t take this long to work on it. They’re dragging their feet and I think we, as a community, deserve to know why.

First, you and many other complaining does not mandate a change. If there weren’t any players with these items, it might, but those items are around every corner….they must be obtainable.

Second, Anet NOT doing anything about it should tell you something (like they see all the Legendaries being made and don’t feel the system is “broken”).

Finally, they have said they are looking into introducing a new system for obtaining Precursors via crafting (and NOTHING more). Asking for status on this is reasonable but stating they are “dragging their feet” and you “deserve” an answer not reasonable.

BTW, you are going to be less than satisfied when the method to craft the Precursors is similar (but much longer than) getting the new LS Bback Items AND those Precursors are NOT the currently existing Precursors (in some way, they MUST be different).

Saying they WANT to do it is not a Promise it will happen. From my understanding, it’s a technical issue not allowing them to make Guild cross Server right now. While they haven’t been specific with the details, they have commented that the fact that there are a number of very large current guilds that DO have well developed Guild resources on multiple Worlds that is making the task difficult (and potentially impossible).

They have also stated that starting the cross world Guilds from scratch (like the China version) is easy, but changing our exsiting Guild structure to cross World one is not. Again, a Guild with a bank, many purchased upgrades, etc. on 5 different worlds is NOT going to be easy to turn into ONE big guild.

It would be great for them to do this and it appears they WANT to do this, but whether or not it’s technically (and potentially economically) possible remains to be seen.

• There is a starter city for each race (5) and Lions Arch (kind of in ruins right now) for everyone.
• Adjacent to each starter city is a starter area (for levels 1-15).
• Areas adjacent to those starter areas get progressively higher in level.
• You can travel (via Asura gate) from any Racial city to Lions Arch and from LA to any other Racial city. This allows you access to ANY low level zone whenever you want.

You are NOT isolated to your own Racial city or starter zone….go explore them all! Note that you may want to look at the map and make sure you aren’t entering a zone you are too low to survive in as several of the cities (Norn Hoelbrak & Charr Black Citadel) DO also have direct access to higher zones you likely do not want to venture into until you are high enough level.

Per above, if you are not constantly swapping your Attunements you aren’t fully using the potential of the Elementalist class. Yes, you can play (and be successful in PvE open world), without swapping, but you playing lazy and being inefficient when you do so.

Water is difficult to use effectively in a solo situation (other than the Healing aspect and a few projectile skills). It is much more effective in a group were enemies are engaged with other enemies. It is also better used against stationary or Ranged enemies (that have less tendency to move. Also good for use with knockdown / knock back skills (like some of the Earth skills. Don’t underestimate the power of dropping a chill in front of advancing melee enemies, however.

Keep in mind the Steam Ogre Event is time gated and there seems to be a rogue group of players that find it funny to do the even prior to the Fire Elemental just to ruin other players attempts to do it afterwards. You can stash a charged key(s) in your bank for later use, so you don’t actually HAVE to do the Fire Elemental event first (but it IS required to charge a key).

To be honest all the T6 materials are going to require 100s of gold to gain a stack of….Powerful Blood is just the most expensive (used to make Zerker gear).

IMO, the only case where this can become a significant issue is a Condition Build on a single target enemy content (World Boss / Champ train). On the OPs question about Events, I suspect each event (or TYPE of Event) has there own Bronze/Silver/Gold requirements that must be met (I seriously doubt they are all Bronze=X damage, Silver=2x damage, Gold=3x damage, for example). In other words, I think the OP is mistakenly assuming that every time they get Bronze it’s because they didn’t cause enough damage…..there are likely other factors of the Event itself to consider (I’m not saying damage isn’t one of them, but I doubt it’s he ONLY one).

I can think of over a 1000+ coding issues that need addressing before this request is considered. I’m not against supporting other OSs, but I am against it even being thought about until some significant bugs are fixed and improvements made to the EXISTING game.

At the very least, let us pay SOMETHING to convert them to scrolls via an NPC….

nearlight.3064:

Let’s do it! Let’s all rush the support team with asks for a refund and see what they do!

You can’t hear roars of laughter via email…..(and they can automate a NO response rather easily).

Besides, unless the coin was NEVER used (I kind of doubt that), you already got you money out of it. Trying to throw a collective tantrum to get some content returned is not likely to change their plans.

Many of the skins can be obtained via Karma (and some no other way). Many long term players spent millions of Karma right after the release (myself included). I honestly have no idea how close (or far) I am away from this Achievement….guess I should look into it (I may have it and just not be aware).

I think you mean Quiver of a 1000 Arrows….Swift Flight needs Powerful Blood….you don’t want to go there.

Since I care nothing about the backitem’s look (and I’m not alone…I consider them FUGLY and detract from how I want my character’s ’look"), what is my incentive to obtain a decent, high end back item for the minimal stats they provide?

I get I’m in the minority and can buy SOME exotic ones at the Temples, but there are far too many stat combos missing. Can we get some craft able back items (and re-breathers), please?

Missed this by about 4 seconds last night….Elite Thief and more than ONE Ranger actually knocking him CLOSER to the skrit hole…. LEARN to use knockback properly people!

Faux.1937:

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I can get it, I have everything to get it, I have all the free time in the world b.c I work from home, BUT I dont agree with it, so im not.

So the point of your post is to announce your “sit in”? I’m unsure how you think that’s going to change anything (other than you NOT getting the item), but you are welcome to do so. Good luck.

Behellagh.1468:

Just want to clarify. Lower case b is bits, upper case B is bytes. 300kb/s is roughly 30KB/s which is 105MB/h.

I have 3Mb/s DSL. I get 300KB/s or roughly 1GB/h. Digital download of a new game can take me 1/2 a day (or night) to get which is why I back all my games up. Easier to reapply a patch or two than download the whole game from scratch.

While your point is a good one, the incorrect usage (and advertisement) of Kb vs KB is NOT one that is limited to users….businesses screw it up all the time (intentionally or not). Buyer beware.

Jigain.8231:

Comments such as “can’t even play for 5 minutes” and “dropping back to character select screen every 3-5 minutes” or “dc-ing every few minutes” hint at the respective issues being distinctively separate from the issue that the thread was created for.

I agree with the quote….I’m not discounting or in any way disregarding people posting here with connection issues, but these issues ARE not the same as the issue that appears to have been (mostly) addressed by the last patch. Characters getting STUCK at loading screens indefinitely with this thread title error message involved.

I get the disconnect error is the same, but that’s like diagnosing a car that wont start and lumping all the potential issues together as “related”. Some may be, but most can have no effect on the others (ex: out of fuel and a cracked distributor cap).

BTW, anyone having issues during their local peak times (early evening hours), might want to check with their ISP for potential throttling….yes, it could be an Anet issue, but if your ISP is messing with your bandwidth during peak hours (when the are MOST likely to do so), a simple conversation with them that includes the term “throttling” often clears the problem right up (even if they deny it or pretend they don’t know what you are talking about). At the very least, it’s worth a conversation with them.

Are you stating that you have transmuted the item to the extent that a Transmutation Splitter cannot recover the Legendary or that you are just unable to obtain a Splitter?

I know when the Wardrobe system came out, this issue came up LOTS and from my understanding, Support was providing Splitters to players to try and resolve the issues but that may have been a limited time deal (I was never directly involved and only recall the reports in posts here). Post in the 3 days old thread and see if Gaile can assist in this (if there is a technical solution).

Dusty Moon.4382:

Well, when the WONDERFUL Queensdale train was taken away, the train invaded EotM which was a basic overflow/beginners map for WvW. IT IS A WvW map, if you don’t want to be involved with that, then don’t go into to that map. It is unavoidable it you have 3 different factions fighting for the same piece of land. Saying anything different is just hysterical.

Don’t say:

1. It is stupid for WvW’s to derail the train.
2. It takes resources – no not really.
3. It is NOT a WvW map

All three are truths, not made-up reality.

I have said my peace in this thread – done now….

Peace and enjoy.

Not sure who you are arguing with or responding to, but If that was an attempt to answer WHY, I missed the “because”.

1. Nobody said it was stupid, but there must be a reason…is it a secret?
2. My comment was that it takes resources AWAY from a fight that has a point for a Guild based WvW team….the REAL WvW maps. Again, what REASON is there for Guild based WvW to want to “take” EotM when actual competition exists in another set of maps?
3. It has no bearing on the weekly WvW map score, so while it is a WvW map…it’s not one that really matters (or shouldn’t matter to anyone serious about actual WvW).

Again, I’m just asking out of curiosity as to why a Guild of WvW players would want to do this….if it’s simply for easy kills, that’s reasonable (kind of cowardly, but understandable).

Belzebu.3912:

PsiKann.9853:

So what actually is a karma train? Is this a group of characters that are focused just on obtaining karma?

Exactly.
WvW Ranks, level and drops are consequences of that karma train.

….and badges….I’ll take a Laurel discount for a few hours in EotM any day.

Guardian STAFF #3 is very flexible swiftness (can get 15 sec for a 5 sec wait) AND damage. #2 can give you a HUGE heal in the later instances while being an effective short recharge damage source and # 1 tags tons of salvage (granted copper and Jute….but PROMOTION).

Burning from Virtue is very effective with #1 staff on the lower levels to clear mobs FAST.

I found from MY experience, trying to swap weapons was just too much work, so I stick with a single weapons. Note that to break up the monontany, I run Warrior GS or Axe/Warhorn (not crazy about Sword/Warhorn tho it does give some extra mobility). I also occasionally run Thief Shortbow and several different weapon sets of Ranger (tho not as much as Guardian or Warrior).

ipan.4356:

PvE is an afterthought in GW2.

I have no doubt that they want PvP to be more popular, but your statement is just utter tripe and hyperbole exaggeration…..you know it and just want to stir the pot with tolling statements.

So every trophy ever made was a waste of time to “cater to the 1%”? I guess that’s one way to look at it (from a purely self-centered, selfish and potentially jealous point of view).

Countering the “learn to play and earn it if you want it so bad”, replys with “not everyone can play in the NFL and win the Super Bowl.” is such a DUH!? response. It should then follow that not every person that ever touched a football should get a copy of the Lombardi Trophy…..(again, DUH?)

Soinetwa.5193:

Brother Grimm.5176:

I think the advanced colors should require DONATIONS from members of your squad.

How about we reward actually being a good Commander than just letting any yahoo BUY them? Not that I could do any better, but I’m sick of realizing how inept the sell appointed leader is after 10 minutes…..

As for, “the community will not stand for it!!”….gotta love a good barking dog….

Lheimroo.2947:

Face it; Anet has a track record of turning things that sound cool into voracious insults.

Taking a added feature (no matter how poorly implemented) as a “voracious insult”, is a personal perception issue you should look into altering.

two commanders want to have another colour
one joins the other pays him the new colour and reverse

putcome both have bought a colour…
wow stll just something too easy to obtain

sure because of posers thisll become a huge goldsink
and due to inflation now 300gold isnt tat much anymore
really.. it shouldve been much more

id just wish some right klick i dont want to see THIS commander anymore
or a i dont want to see any commanders anymore
anyway..

i think overall its okay for anet to rise the price
its quite nice that they told us that be4hand actually^^

Wow….your imagination (or lack thereof) on how this might work is staggering…..how about some LIMITS on the donations….like a 1g max from any ACCOUNT (just an example). The funds go directly to playing for a higher “ranking”.

Beyond an idiot just wasting 300g, the higher commander colors might just mean something…..and the suggestion of seperate ranking / colors for WvW / EotM / PvE are something to consider as well.

grifflyman.8102:

Don’t spend gems till they start listening to the community.

Do you think they CARE if you spend them? How cute….

Lady Deedra.3126:

There is a few people who can control the precursor market. It is already being done.

Proof or keep shining your hat…..

Taygus.4571:

ah, seems like a waste of time unlocking skills, though

You need to unlock weapon skills if you want any type of speed boost….no Utility Skills or Traits at that low level. Speed boost is a MUST for quicker runs.

Filaha.1678:

Then please explain how one could be taken advantage of if the trades worked through the BLTC interface and displayed the relative costs of the item(s) involved on both sides so everyone involved can see the exact current TP value of their item(s) so it’d be right in front of their face if there’s a huge disparity in prices.

Do you realize how many idiots post sell orders on the TP NOW that are losses to selling the items to a vendor? Again, a fool and their gold are easily scammed…. In addition, why would they put the BLTC info on a player to player trade window? Just because some don’t understand why the 15% tax is needed and want the benefits of the BLTC AND being able to bypass the 15% fee? Not gonna happen.

Also explain how our current system of “If you want to do item for item trades, do it through an entirely unsafe method” would inherently cause less tickets.

1. Only ignorant players (or scammers) try to use mail for anonymous trade. Anyone else that uses it with anyone they don’t implicitly trust is not too bright.
2. If the system were a “legit” trading method, time would be required to investigate the trade and every possible issue involved (like, “he said he was gonna send me another 2g when he sold the item….”)

Filaha.1678:

If they make it properly secure and realistically foolproof, they don’t need to police it because they could easily adopt the stance that if you get scammed despite having the game tell you right to your face the relative prices, then it’s your own fault and there’s nothing they can do about it. They could also limit the difference in relative price to prevent slime for diamonds trades, or if they don’t want to do that, have it pop up with an extra warning if the disparity is over a certain percentage.

If I go and delete one of my characters and then put in a ticket saying it was a mistake and deleted the wrong one, should I realistically expect them to undelete it? Not really, since their security measures are pretty dang foolproof in that regard.

You’d be surprised how many times a week this very thing pops up in the Account forum…..many more likely just send a ticket and never post. You underestimate just how impossible it is to make the system “foolproof”.

Beyond all this waste of my time to explain things you already know, the real question is WHY IS THIS NEEDED? There is a pretty foolproof system already in place. Use it.

thehipone.6812:

and if b) Does it make sense (i.e. is it fun?) that a player’s progress towards that goal can be blocked or even erased because timmy plays 8 hours a day or has mom’s credit card?

Fun for who? (Timmy appears to be happy).
How does Timmy Block or “erase” the progress?

The real question is: Is it a realistic goal for this player (that obviously lacks the time to earn or resources to BUY a Best in Slot visual status symbol (that is totally unnecessary to play the game)?

The choice to pursue a Legendary does not guarantee success (nor should it). The presumption that WANTING a Legendary means you should be able to obtain it by whatever means possible to the player is simply incorrect.

I’d venture a look at the current LS backpack requirements if you are wondering about what Precursor "crafting " may be like (I’m guessing it’s a small scale test venture).

If players are so focused on obtaining a Legendary that they quit over not being able to easily obtain a Precursor, maybe quitting (or taking a break from) the game is best for everyone. I do not foresee Anet making a U turn in this method because a minority of players on the Forums “demand” another method.

Khairiya.7240:

my experience points towards some pattern in the randomness of the forge.

Of course there are patterns….RNG on a computer is not completely RNG as it’s impossible to come up with a random seed number that is 100% random (unless Anet is using some non-standard method, the RTC of the Server or the Client is involved). That doesn’t mean there is an intelligence (or ’memory") behind the patterns….

Sorry….gotta post it….

My standby is a Human / Commoner / Guardian with a staff….. Never takes longer than 22 min (and I’ve done it in 18 before). This is solo.

With more players assisting, I have seen videos of creation to Key reward in just under 15 minutes. I’m sure it can be done a bit quicker with some luck.

Rouven.7409:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Rouven.7409:

“O Commander! My Commander!”

If you think THAT is a Robin Williams reference…..I weep for literature….

I can’t say I read anything from that poet, out of the american ones I would be more a Robert Frost type. Aside from that you may weep, but you are missing the point.

You missed mine….the fact that you think it’s “not a big deal”, to misquote something like that is the problem. Even if YOU knew it was not a direct reference for Robin Williams, others reading it may not. THAT is the issue.

Why would a Guild want to “take” EotM when that would take away from resources in the actual WvW maps? Is this some sort of vendictive assault on PvEers that use EotM for various uses or just some sort of Ego trip to dominate an area without any other real organized resistance?

I may be totally missing some potential benifit for a Guild in the EotM maps, so I apologize for being ignorant if that is the case.

I think the advanced colors should require DONATIONS from members of your squad.

How about we reward actually being a good Commander than just letting any yahoo BUY them? Not that I could do any better, but It would be nice to know if someone claiming to be a self-appointed leader is competent or not.

As for, “the community will not stand for it!!”….gotta love a good barking dog….

Lheimroo.2947:

Face it; Anet has a track record of turning things that sound cool into voracious insults.

Taking a added feature (no matter how poorly implemented) as a “voracious insult”, is a personal perception issue you should look into further.

Tibi.5892:

what are the odds to get BL claim tickets from chests???
i opened 6 in one shot and got NONE!!

RNG is not a bug….. 6 BL chests is laughable for a sample.

Why don’t you try this experiment without Hidden Killer….ANY damage you inflict while in stealth (see above…I’m guessing retaliation) will result in a Crit…..

Check the USB folder permissions and run the game as administrator. While folder permissions do generally follow the USB, a system can be configured (not intentionally) to set a new drives permissions it is connected and mapped. This would explain the USB that used to work on a system, now longer working.

GW2 DOES heavily exercise the GPU in a system, but if it’s overheating, that’s a direct hardware issue (properly operating GPUs in properly cooled systems do NOT overheat). Unless the environment is very warm and you have inadequate cooling in the system, this sounds like a Graphcis card hardware defect of some sort (bad fan, heatskink seating, etc.).

This actually sounds like some massive lag, and not an actual keyboard / mouse issue.

Are you running on a very busy WiFi / Local network? If possible, connect to your router via Ethernet and see if you have the same issues.

Keep in mind that asking for a refund (from Anet directly) will result in that account being perma-closed and will likely result in the CC used to purchase that account becoming unusable via NCSoft sites.

I’m pretty sure Anet is going to tell you to take it up with the retailer you purchased the hard copy from.

Nobody here has that info. Open a Customer Support ticket (but I doubt they are going to go into details about the reasons for a ban). The message when you attempt log in should give you some indication of why you were banned and the severity of the ban (temporary or perma-ban).

SERVICES (top right of page) > SUPPORT > Submit a Ticket (top right of SUPPORT page).

Note that even tho the installation bar may suggest you are starting all the way over each time you restart the client, you are not.

The client only displays the NUMBER of REMAINING files and the progress bar displays the % of number of files remaining (NOT the remaining size of the download). It’s kind of convoluted and confusing but it does not restart the entire download every time….it picks up where it left off (you can see this if you keep up with the number of files listed and ignore the % bar).