Guild Wars 2

It’s a bug that’s been around. Try switching characters and see if it comes back.

ekarat.1085:

The issue is that scribing stations exist only in guild halls, not cities. Crafting practically requires TP access. Hence, you need both in the same place.

Is there a scribing station at the Guild Initiative in Lions Arch? Or how about taking your char to a trading post then from there going to the guild hall. You can leave the guild hall, land beside the trading post and then go back to the guild hall. It’s probably not much longer than running from the scribing station to wherever a TP would be in a guild hall then running back to the scribing station.

Ashen.2907:

Bruno.3812:

I was pointing out that if you have to play to pay then it’s by definition not free to play.

So what is it if you do not have to pay to play GW2?

Lol. Typos.

They’re mostly RNG grab bags.

Think of them as Black Lion chests that don’t need a key and don’t have a chance for something really good.

BloodyNine.7504:

Bruno.3812:

If it’s f2p, how did I just manage to spend $100 for an expansion? F2p means free to play. You can’t play over there without paying.

You didn’t have to buy the $100 version. I paid $50 for it. Did you get $50 worth of content? I think so. Look at how much you get in other games for $50 bucks. Most times it is a LOT less.

WoW cots $15 bucks a month. Plus the initial cost of 49.99(on sale now though I think)

So the cost of this game is drastically lower. The lights need to stay on somehow. Especially if you want updates and events and fixes. Those require people, who require money. You either pay a subscription, or you pay in other ways. ANET has chosen the gem store.

Do I love everything about this game? Nope. But I play it over other MMO’s that do have a subscription cost.

Do you realize you completely missed the point of my post? Because you did miss it, by a county mile.

I wasn’t complaining about the cost. I was pointing out that if you have to pay to play then it’s by definition not free to play.

Maybe just have a bunch of people transform into various types of Mordrem and wander around SilverWastes trolling the easily confused.

zenleto.6179:

DarcShriek.5829:

Draknar.5748:

What! Optional items in the gemstore that I don’t have to purchase unless I want to!?!

How dare they!

A good company would have forced us to buy them.

And then punished you if you didn’t.

Maybe that whip focus has a use after all.

BloodyNine.7504:

I think maybe it is because I am newer to this game. But none of this surprises me. The game is F2P. They have to make money somehow. These people don’t work for free. The astronomical costs of items in games is by design. Why pretend otherwise? They NEED you to pull out your credit card and buy gems or the game goes away. Purchases of the game will only go so far. To keep it running there needs to be a revenue stream.

I can understand why people are upset. To be honest I would rather have no gem store, pay a subscription and have everything earn able in game. But that isn’t happening.

This doesn’t excuse the the obvious problems stated in many other posts. I am just saying, I understand why they do this. Not just why, but why the have to do it.

If it’s f2p, how did I just manage to spend $100 for an expansion? F2p means free to play. You can’t play over there without paying.

They said earlier on a blog post that Wintersday starts on the 15th.

(says innocently) The bundled items were discounted from 2800 to 2000 gems.

Last year it started on Dec 16th. The year before, Dec 10th. The year before that was Dec 14th. That will give you a possible range of starting dates.

Scribing was poorly designed. A guild based crafting to unlock guild perks should be progressed by any member of the guild given authorization to do so by that guild.

For example: a panel at the crafting table that has guild wide scribing. Any scribing progression is attached to the guild itself and not attached to the guild member. Any guild member that has a scribing permission from the guild can advance scribing higher or craft wanted items. That way you don’t have multiple people in one guild fighting over scarce resources to individually level up their own crafting. They will use scribing mats donated by guild members into a scribing mat donation panel or they can use their own mats to progress the guild’s scribing. If they get tired of scribing or leave then the guild doesn’t lose that progress and only needs to select another person who wants to do scribing.

While I can see them making a Mini Me based on the ability for Mesmer clones to look like the Mesmer, I can’t see them giving it away. A Mini Me sounds like it would need a lot of time and work to put a changeable appearance on a mini pet. They’re bound to want to charge for that.

Truthfully, I was quite happy with the ability to get account bound dyes from the gemstore dye packs. I’m hoping they offer that again for each birthday from now on.

The game has ways to make gold. They’ve recently buffed the rewards for doing events and I can make what I consider a nice amount by doing events and harvesting whatever I come across and selling off mats at the end of the day. If I’m willing to spend a few minutes refining once I have a stack of mats then I make a bit more. Maybe it’s not Wanzelike income but I’m content with it. In an economy where I don’t need food or shelter, whatever income I get is above my few needs. All that’s left are wants.

So, can I as a farmer/event doer have my wants satisfied in this game? Pretty much. I ruled out some cosmetics as being more expensive than my “want enough to work for” scale and settled on others and now each char has a look that I’m happy with that fit with my budget. What more do I need? Should I be thinking about other players with way more than me if I can’t even see how much they have? Spending time making yourself unhappy about other’s riches when you don’t need these invisible riches is the definition of envy.

The game offers lots of ways to get gold. It simply can not offer ways to get gold that suit everyone’s taste. Which means you might need to do boring farming or crafting or doing events in a map that pays well to get gold.

Truthfully the arguments that I’ve seen where people want more gold yet refuse to do what is needed reminds me of an old joke.

There once was a man who fell into a river and was swept away. Other people, seeing him in the river rushed to help. One man with a rope stood on a bridge and when the man sent by he threw the rope to him. But the man refused to grab it, crying out, “God’s going to save me!” Another man was in a boat and tried to grab him as he went by, but he refused his help, crying out, “God’s going to save me!” People in a helicopter, seeing him in the water flew to him and lowered a ladder but he refused to grab it, crying out, “God’s going to save me!”

and then he drowned.

He arrived in Heaven, and there is God. And he reproached him saying, “God, I believe in you and you let me die.” And God said, “I sent you a man with a rope. I sent you a man with a boat. I sent you a helicopter. What more did you want from me?”

The moral is, maybe those who refuse to do what is necessary to make the gold that the game offers should stop crying out “ANet should save me,” and save themselves.

They said in their blog post A Legendary Journey that “This crafting system is an account-based activity, which means you’ll only be able to craft each precursor this way once”.

It’s bugged or poorly designed and will let you start to craft a second one, but it will not let you finish crafting it. One person who posted on the forum after starting a second weapon was able to get a refund of his materials after contacting Support.

Where were you when you noticed this?

SirPrizeBartSachs.4670:

How do you farm cloth and leather? Specifically the lower tier ones, not the common thick leather and silk from salvaging lvl 80 blues and greens.

Two main ways that I know of. One is killing mobs that drop bags in the map level that those cloth and leather are from. Those bags will have cloth and leather of that level. The other is having an alt of a particular level open up all containers. For example I have a level 60 open up all champ bags, PvP containers, gear bags, etc to get linen, platinum and leather of that level.

And here I was going to suggest that Leolas name him Legolas.

I don’t think they are going to make new guild missions. why should they? The old ones do what they are supposed to do. Not only will new ones take a lot of time to design when they are busy with PvP and from what I read an overhaul of WvW, but will quickly be as well known as the old ones.

As an example, they’ve haven’t redone the events in the old maps. We’ve seen them for the last 3 years.

I’ll give you [X] amount of recruits a month/week/day and in return, when the job is done and you feel like they’re quality people, you pay me [Y].”

To be blunt, I can’t see this part as causing anything but trouble for you. It’s too subjective. What is a quality person and how would it be determined? If you get 10 recruits for a guild and the guild leader later refuses to pay, saying they aren’t quality people, then you’re out of time and gold. It would have to be gold upon acceptance into the guild.

You could always give it a try. Just because it’s not in game doesn’t mean there isn’t a need for it. It might be more lack of anyone trying to do this than lack of need, though I’m not sure how it could be paid for or how well it might be received if some guild members were thought of as “bought” by guild funds.

Never even heard of this before as something that’s done.

Generally people either advertise in map chat or invite people they’ve met and spoken to.

It’s easy enough. Just donate a few supplies for repairs. Something like 5,000,000 planks, 10,000,000 ingots, 5,000 ectos, 1000 lodestones, 100 PvP potions, 25,0000 leather, 500 mystic coins and 500 T6 mats (per guild member) should be a good start.

Yes, it is. There’s tons of stuff to do and places to explore for a new player. Have fun ingame.

Sheobix.8796:

Swift.1930:

Bruno.3812:

Swift.1930:

Bruno.3812:

Crafting never affected a mastery line. It increased leveling XP until you reached level 80, but not a mastery XP.

Um… but the main thing is that crafting gives a very specific thing: XP. That’s the same stuff that we get from kills, events, exploration, and story. If crafting doesn’t affect the mastery line, why should any of the other normal ways of obtaining XP work? Maybe we should only earn level XP from adventures! Uhoh, I said that aloud, didn’t I.
Well… beware the next patch.

They disallowed crafting XP to give mastery line XP. Possibly because they wanted people to progress the mastery line by playing and not crafting. I’m sure some people would take a level 80 char, get the cheapest crafting to 400, take their next level 80 char and repeat, if crafting leveled a mastery line like it did crafting.

To be fair, it takes a very very very very dedicated crafter to get serious XP from crafting after hitting level 40 or 50. So if it’s going to take hours and hours on any/every character to get XP from crafting for mastery levels, why not leave it in? It’s obviously their preferred gameplay, so it’s not really cool to leave them out.

It’d even benefit the new business model, because dedicated crafters are probably some of the bigger spenders (bank tiles, money top-ups, etc). Killing/doing events doesn’t directly benefit the business model. =P

obviously you have never used gw2crafts.net

it takes me roughly 120-140 gold to craft a toon from level 10-80 in 4.5 hours.

By this same idea, I can use the 80 tomes of knowledge in my bank to insta a toon to 80, then use this same logic to craft every profession from 1-400/500 and you will have enough xp for 80% of all mastery points.

This is why they did not include it, silly.

In addition to what you said, using the fireworks buff adds 10% to any XP from crafting. Which is a fair amount as when it speeds up you get XP after XP, each of those increased by 10%. (I use the fireworks buff to increase the speed of leveling my key runner by crafting).

And then take a second char already at level 80 and repeat the crafting as needed.

Tigaseye.2047:

Jana.6831:

Tigaseye.2047:

No, I didn’t miss his point and I am certainly not envious.

That was the point I was making and keep trying to make.

This isn’t about envy.

As a non-envious/jealous type of person (I’m probably the least envious/jealous person you could ever meet, in fact), I find it offensive that people keep accusing anyone, who can see there is a problem here, of being envious.

Not only that, but in terms of rewards, in this game, I have very little to be envious about anyway.

As I have almost everything I need and/or want.

I don’t have legendaries, as I feel they are overly expensive and so, made a conscious decision to not buy them with real money, as I feel it would be unfair on others to do so.

Not to mention, it would amount to overpaying for the game; especially, considering it’s not the best game it could be, frankly.

I have bought lots of skins, however, as they are “just” skins and I do have a couple of ascended weaps and some armour, from drops.

I can’t guarantee no one else is envious, obviously, but the point is that not everyone is and there is far more to this situation than just (potential) envy.

All I can assume is that all of you saying this are very envious personality types yourselves – which is, probably what motivates you to play the TP so much, to get stuff – and you are just projecting that onto others.

Really, there is no other explanation, other than possible trolling, or repeating what you hear from other (envious personablity type) people, parrot fashion.

This made me really laugh out loud – what problem is there?
I can tell you what a problem was for me: Not being able to get a bow for my level in wow as the TP was controlled by 2 persons max. I had enough gold but no bow had been offered. You can get anything in this game without the TP, so I don’t really understand what “the problem” is.

The problem, lest we all forget at this advanced point in the proceedings, is the one described by Ohoni, in his OP.

That people have a tendency to become demotivated and/or disinterested and/or depressed, if the disparity between the rich and the poor is too great, or if one person receives a windfall that makes them disproportionately more wealthy than the average person in their community.

The “community”, in this case, being the players of the game.

As opposed to the, largely mistaken, common belief (especially in very capitalistic countries, like the US) that witnessing other people’s success/wealth/fortune motivates people to work harder.

The problem here, is that people might decide to just give up and leave the game, if they feel their only viable option to make a reasonable amount of gold, is to play the TP.

…and yes, we could all choose to say that what other people make shouldn’t affect people negatively.

However, the findings of the study, mentioned in the OP, would suggest otherwise.

That should be of interest to Anet, if they want to retain players.

Yet how can the game give all people more gold without also raising the prices on the trading post, unless it simultaneously increases the drops of everything by a large amount.

What happens in that situation? Everyone has a lot of gold. All items drop so frequently that they flood the trading post and prices crash. You can buy everything you want for a few silver or at most a gold or two.

And then what? Maybe you’ll be happy with that but will the majority of players be happy when everything that they get as a drop is essentially worthless and there is nothing to strive for? The trading post is flooded with more items than people want to buy? I can’t see that’s that’s a healthy MMO at all.

If that’s not what you want, then maybe you should detail how the game can decreases the disparity between high gold and low gold possessors, and not just say that it should.

While they didn’t specifically name Trading Posts, they stated their philosophy here where they said they want to make sure that Guild Halls don’t have so many upgrades that cities are irrelevant. With this in mind, I don’t see much chance that Trading Posts will ever be added.

Rethinking Guilds
(snip) Other upgrades ran counter to goals that we had in designing guild halls. One example is the remote crafting station consumables; we wanted to ensure that guild halls don’t make cities irrelevant (snip)

It was free.

It was also free if you paid for it with ingame tokens (gold).

imo you can’t get much free-er than free.

Maybe there is a way to check archives?

However that game is on life support now. I’m not even sure they do any bug fixes. It’s just set up to have the lights on and run automatically with as little attention as possible. It’s not surprising if websites are shutting down too.

^

As above.

The left hand list Is people who want to buy your ectoplasm, and they are offering as low a price as they can. The right hand list is people who are selling their ecto, and asking for as high a price as they can.

Now, you can either sell your ecto straight to a buyer, and take less money or you can list it for sale for more money, but it takes longer to sale and for you to get your money. In addition there is always the risk when you list an item to sale that the market will shift, prices drop below what you are asking, and it takes a long time to sell.

So it’s sell immediately and it’s a sure thing but for less money or list to sell and get more money, but there is a risk that it will take time to sell.

Thanks for the video and the tips.

While flying might be fun, personally I think gliding is a better system. I’ve read way too many complaints on the WoW forums about people who fly everywhere and use that to cherry pick things to do and to trivialize content. They fly in, land, do whatever they landed for at that one spot then fly off and go to the next spot. They never interact with the game except at those specific spots. This effectively removes players from the landscape that non flying players are moving through and makes the map more empty.

Gliding allows you to skip some things, but it also requires you to look for updraft and forces you to eventually land and stay on the ground for a while. While you are there you are interacting with others and moving with them. It doesn’t empty the map of higher level players the way flying does.

Indeed. Checking on my tailor shows that both wiki and that guide are outdated. A hearty wool embroidered insignia (master) now requires:
10 cured leather squares
4 bolts of wool
25 spools of wool thread
8 small scales.

When I click on the hearty embroidered wool insignia on that guide I get this:

Hearty Embroidered Wool Insignia[s]
Ingredients:
1X Bolt[s] of Wool
8X Small Scale[s]
5X Spool[s] of Wool Thread
Creates:
Hearty Embroidered Wool Insignia[s]
Used in the crafting of armor with +Vitality and +Toughness.
Crafting Ingredient: Armorsmith(125), Leatherworker(125), Tailor(125)

if I read your post right, you were looking for hearty embroidered wool insignia but only found hearty embroidered wool insignia (master).

The reason why is that there’s is no plain hearty embroidered wool insignia. That level (embroidered) is a Mastery (green) level. The level below it, hearty wool insignia is a fine (blue) level.

I guess they can try guesting again, but they might end up having to wait until it’s fixed, provably tomorrow when ANet comes back to work and gets the bug reports.

From what I’ve read it’s been bugged off and on for a number of hours. It probably needs to have the map emptied out of all people so that instance can collapse and reset. But good luck getting that with new people appearing every few minutes.

You can attempt to guest and get on another shard that way. You can try individually (not as a party or friending each other as the computer puts you together when you do that) and see if one person can get on a new shard then the others party up and taxi over.

cyberspider.8650:

yeah i spoke to them the one i bought at the time was an outfit the one they gave me is a transmog so i cant use it on the toon i had it on i bought it for my elli but now i cant use it on her

It’s hard to figure out what’s going on because your post doesn’t have certain information.

Support sent you a set of skins that have one use each. Did you use them already? Are you trying to use them a second time? How many Transmutation charges do you have?

The picture below shows how to apply skins from the wardrobe. If you have free skins to use such as the ones support sent you they will be on the top left above all the other skins on your wardrobe.

1. You select wardrobe on the hero panel
2. You click on the item you want to change the look of.
3. You select a skin from the wardrobe on the left side of the panel
4. You select Apply on the small panel on the upper right
5. You will need transmutation charges in order to apply most items in your wardrobe.

In the picture, the person has 67 Transmutation charges as seen on the small panel on the right. These charges may be bought from the gemstore or gotten free in game. One for mapping a city. Usually one for getting 100% map completion. PvP reward tracks give you 2 per track. You get 3 every 28 days that you log in as part of the daily login reward.

It doesn’t take that long to get to 80. People go to the EOTM and level fast there. However you play, use all the buffs you can get. Fireworks give you 10% XP on everything you do, including crafting so if you use fireworks and then craft you’ll get more XP from crafting. In PvE, several of the Halloween foods give 15% extra XP per kill and even the cheapest tonic gives 10% per kill. If you have any boosters, use those. Kill all the yellow mobs as they usually have a lot of extra XP and do any event you come across. Doing all that gives a lot of XP and it’s possible to level quite quickly.

Well, I made my suggestion for converting karma to PvP pips in his new thread but he didn’t support me in my bid to play how I want and still get the rewards that I want. I’m bitter now and may never play again.

I read that if you leave your guilds and rejoin, they will be in the order that you join them. (Personal guilds can have a f2p account as a co-guild leader with inviting and promoting abilities so it can invite you back and promote you to guild leader again).

You don’t have any tomes and writs? You get 10 tomes a month and several writs a day just for logging in and doing dailies.

It’s been more than 3 years since that thing was designed. They aren’t going to remove the flower on the basis of one person asking for removal after all this time. They just aren’t. You’ll either need to get used to it there or put the axe away and never use it.

They’ve been removing items from the gemstore and periodically returning them for short periods of time. The Viper armor was removed in late September. They’ve never said when any of the items will come back. You’ll just have to keep an eye on the gemstore

I’ve read your posts, OP but haven’t seen you suggest a mechanism to win at PvP without doing PvP. So, here you go Ohoni.

Karma into PvP pips!

Yes, win at PvE by completing events and turn that karma into PvP pips. (Pips available at a merchant selling pips in a PvP lobby near you). Just play PvE to earn enough karma to get those wings without ever setting foot in PvP.

It’s a win win solution. ^^

Post it on reddit next week during their workday. That’s where the devs post nowadays. They even respond sometimes to random threads there.

xarallei.4279:

Guys you realize he’s just going to run in here accusing you all of strawmans.

Naw. It’s very reasonable.

In fact, I’m thinking of a way to suggest turning all my karma into PvP pips in the Leagues next. I would like the rewards and having the PvP league tag by my name, but don’t much like playing PvP. Since I only really like PvE, there should be some way for me to get PvP rewards through PvE and turning karma into pips is fair. After all, I get karma by winning events.

Essence Snow.3194:

Bruno.3812:

Essence Snow.3194:

Yep totally. Let us buy ESL cup 400k tournament champion achievement too! There’s nothing wrong with that…right…right?

Why not? If the way you like to play doesn’t reward you like other ways do, why not make the rewards easier to get no matter how you play? Therefore, people who only like to play the trading post and not play to get achievements should be able to buy them.

It’s only fair.

That’s brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that? Sign me up!

Exactly.

All rewards should be available through how you like to play. If traders only like to trade but want mastery points from achievements, then their gameplay, which is earning gold, should allow them to buy the achievements (and mastery points) they want.

Ohoni’s ideas solve a lot of gameplay problems when properly implemented.

Essence Snow.3194:

Yep totally. Let us buy ESL cup 400k tournament champion achievement too! There’s nothing wrong with that…right…right?

Why not? If the way you like to play doesn’t reward you like other ways do, why not make the rewards easier to get no matter how you play? Therefore, people who only like to play the trading post and not play to get achievements should be able to buy them.

It’s only fair.

Essence Snow.3194:

You do know that there are a lot of achievements that are easier bought than earned right?

All achievements should be purchasable. It’s the only way to be fair to people who only like to play the game by staying in LA and flipping items on the trading post. Why can’t they pay for all the achievements and earn them that way? Why should they have to do things they don’t like to do to earn achievements?