Guild Wars 2

Antara.3189:

Electro.4173:

Kioshi.6597:

They are supposed to drop rare. else everyone has the skin and it is no fun anymore. Maybe they should make the ticket tradable to compensate for the hardcore players but not increase the rates imo.

Not fun for you maybe. I for one couldn’t care less if every single player in the game has a skin I like, I pick my skins based on whether or not I like the appearance, nothing more. If everyone else has one I don’t care, I still think it looks good. Other people having it don’t diminish the look of the skin, and a skin that’s rare doesn’t suddenly become better looking.

This doesn’t whole true for everybody. Half the crowd may like items due to the look, while the other half may like an item because of the difficulty/rareness the item is.

I see both parts of the park, but having rare items is healthy for the in game economy. If everything is the game is “flat” priced, then there is no economy and the game looses a large fan base. Easy game= bored players.

The i’m a special snowflake argument holds no water with me. Its reeks of eliteism which destroys games.

If stuff is too grindy or too rng dependant then it leads to frustrated players. And frustrated players leave.

Dependable rewards does not have to mean easy rewards. And hard to obtain rewards does not mean they have to be exclusive.

If they spend time making weapon skins i’ll never get, i’d prefer they just dont bother. I care what my character has, not what other people have.

or you know, be nice for a while, and get screwed over, and join the real world, where people rush in and grab what they can and who cares about any one else.

Anything else is just asking to lose out to people who dont play by your rules.

because punishing people for leaving misses the point.

Why do they want to leave…..thats the issue that needs addressing.

Dindin.2378:

1 dragon coffin is not rewarding enough. Who thinks te same?

everyone on the planet apart from Anet.

Swim.6830:

Anyone else experience this (total not accumulating)?

yep another bug not fixed

the amount of bugs and poorly designed content in this release has got to be very embarrassing for Anet, its been shockingly awful,. If I was a dev I’d be ashamed of it. Not only the bugs and exploits, but the lack of quality.
Take Holonodes. in a game designed around scaling aparantly no one thought what the consequence would be for players to share these nodes and for them to only have weak mobs lumped together.

All they had to do was make mobs tougher, spawn them at range around the device, make multiple waves dependant on number of players……simplez, but no thats not been thought of apparently.

Denwic.2607:

The funny thing about all the people whining about RNG is that they fail to understand, this event has only been out for a single day, if you didn’t get your weapon skins yet you still have almost an entire month to get them. The problem isn’t RNG, the problem is impatience.

Furthermore, who said you were entitled to these skins? Anet made them because they wanted something for you to go for, they even made it easier then ever with the Dragon Coffers dropping from every mob in the world.

This is not a white-knight hardcore ArenaNet defense fan thread, this is a reminder that the event has been out but a day. And that if you didn’t get “your” skin in the first 24 hours of its release, then you still have a whole month to go. This event was made for us to get back into the game, so go out there and explore. Level an alt in the Krytan areas, farm CoF (if that is your heart’s content), make a goal (if you don’t have 100% map completion) to finish the Shiverpeaks because whatever you decide to do, your chance for skin attainment only increases.

That is all, and a good day to all of you.

because it s buggy, exploited, and its almost as if the content has been designed to frustrate players.

Ramus.2546:

Because the losing award is so bad, and it all comes down to the team that zergs best, people would rather just quit instantly than waste time playing a losing round. What I don’t get is why there isn’t a 15 minute block for quitters. Also increase the losing team to 5 candy or a random chance to get a coffer based on the score, it’s insane that wasting that much time results in a reward that can be gotten from hitting a dragon pinata instantly.

penalties jsut hide a crap system.

the problem is not that people quit, its because they want to because its not worth staying.

Sod it, i need 20 wins, so if i get put in a game losing by more than 60points i’m out.

Pretty much why you never tie wins to an achv like this, but sadly anet dont know that aparantly

They should leave in minigames.

Esp in cities. Dragonball should have been in divinities reach, keg toss in hoelbrak, super adventure box in rata sum, they could add an arena game in black citadel and something (moa races) in the grove. To keep the cities with people.

And crab toss could have stayed where it was.

I can understand the living story moves on, but why remove these types of things, they take dev time to make, lets get some real use out of them.

Grind grind grind grind
grind grind grind grind
grind grind grind grind
Pray to RNG gods
Open all boxes….find nothing of use
repeat.

There you go a guide to dragonbash.

I’d love to take part in Moa racing, only Anets TP bugs caused me to lose most of my money and they wont give it back.
So I cant. Thanks Anet.

How Anet could mess it up so much is beyond me, For supposedly professional developers the level of frustration this content is causing should have been blindingly obvious. It was to me as soon as I saw it, and likely to most other players too.
And they even said this was the kind of stuff they were trying to avoid in the manifesto….what happened? did all the devs who had a clue leave?

lordkrall.7241:

You do know that you can get the skins from Dragon Coffers that drops from every single thing in the whole world right?
And rather frequently as well.

frequently?
have been reading the forums. I’ve not been keeping count but I’ve opened hundreds, and no ticket.

People have opened thousands and no ticket….

its pay to skin.

As cosmetics are endgame in GW2, its pay to win, plain and simple.

hard to argue with this, Anet are really treating their customters like crap.
Not only is content buggy and exploitable, and the support it crap, but they level of grind and RNG is ridiculous

Its not for all levels. you’ll spend a fortune just chasign the holograms on waypoints.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If you bought wings off the Trading Post, can you not just place them back on the Trading Post for sale, at a higher price? In my experience, these kinds of things usually increase in value after a time. Hope that helps. =)

Price has dropped considerably.

And its anets fault for incorect tp buy order page and laggy systems.

I’m pretty much onthe verge of just quitting, game is full of bugs. Whilst i like it, if i can have confidence in systems like the tp, i’ll take my money elsewhere to a game that is more polished and professionally run.

I put a buy order up for the wings from DB. Nothing happened.

I left it a bit, nothing up.
I tried checking the “items I’m buying” page, nothing listed at all.

So I tried again, figuring it had not registered.

Nothing happened again.
Oh well, TP is broken I’ll try later.

then I got mail……I now had 2 items. I only wanted 1.

Anet refuse to give me my gold back. I only ordered a second (which i thought was one) due to YOUR trading post beign unresponsive.

Incident: 130611-002097

The unused surplus wings are in my bank, please take them and put my gold back in. I got that gold with gem purchases and its a lot of gold for me. I consider this basically fraud and theft on Anets part, and hold Anet and their laggy buggy systems 100% responsible.

Your response that I should check the buy orders page was not helpful. I did that. And yet it was obviously not accurate. Please explain to me how the hell I am supposed to know if an order went through if it does not show on the buy orders page. really I’d love to know.

Epic.3950:

why would you make an arena type game with an auto targeted attack as your main weapon. it makes no sense it should be about skill not mindless spamming of 1 to win. If the attack isnt bugging out which it does half the time its making impossible shots and the animation is not even close to the character when they move… WHY the bomb should have been the 1 skill

dont spam1….put on autocast!

Sajuuk.6420:

Same thing happened with the Xmas boxes.. dont QQ about it please

Ash, more rage please. Your angry level is dropping dangerously low.

why not make the mobs:
A) have more health
B) spawn round the projector and not ontop of it so they cant all be aoe’d
C) make them spawn in waves if more players are around. A wave of small ones, then a smaller number of big ones, possibly even a tough one if there are lots of players.

There is plenty to justifiably complain about, and I hope anet are relalistic enought to realise it and sort it out.
I complain because I realise what putting buggy content like this out can do to the rep fo a game. and there is lots of competition out there and even more comming out soon.

But you are right. The artwork is brilliant, one thing Anet consistently gets right is eye candy and they really went to town on this one. They artists and zone developers are top notch and did really well onthis event (can we keep the mystic forge please, the normal one is such a let down after this one).

HawkMeister.4758:

bettadenu.5483:

Cameirus.8407:

really? you can stun the Moas….ahahahahahaha, is any of the content released with this patch not a bugfest or exploitable?

Anet, hire some QA people please.

I doubt that you could do it any better.

Actually he could, and me and you and about 10000 other players, if ANet would start using a proper testserver.
Like pretty much every other MMO out there.

But they seem so fond of falling flat on their face after pretty much every new content launch, oh well.

it is sad that i’m not even supprised anymore. Its so standard for content to be a total bugfest that I’m not even mildly shocked. Disappointed that they dont learn, but not shocked.
Anets rep is rapidly becomming one of untested, buggy, exploitable content with no quality control.
Which is a shame as they started so well.

you mean I’ve been playing through horrible games with people using regen food for nothing?

another bug to add to the incredibly long list.

Maybe a list of whats not bugged may be shorter……cant think of anything off the top of my head…

fantastic may be going too far, but its a pretty fun minigame.
Sadly its full of exploits and bugs. And will be taken away after a month.

Why they cant leave this stuff in is beyond me (when they fix it)

play 20.
exploit 20
win 20.

or
play 20
dont exploit
win 0

your choice.

Well I’ve had a fun hour being a jerk in chasing Holograms, basically having to screw over myfellow players to rush in and aoe spam to try to kill stuff to get loot, and thereby annoy everyone else going for that one.

Good job Anet, in one fell swoop you recreated the situation wow made with dailies in MoP. PLayers have to actively compete with other players to get credit….

What was it your manifesto said about that kind of stuff again?

bettadenu.5483:

Cameirus.8407:

really? you can stun the Moas….ahahahahahaha, is any of the content released with this patch not a bugfest or exploitable?

Anet, hire some QA people please.

I doubt that you could do it any better.

If I had their resources< I damm well could. I would be embarrassed to let content out like this. Its always buggy, its always full of exploits that players find within minutes. A decent testing team and QA process should pick this stuff up. Of course not everything would be caught, mistakes happen, but not onthis scale, practially everything has been either buggy or exploitable, or just plain does not work in the live game.

you know what players did first thing at Moa races? went straight in and tried speed buffs and stuns. Because we know it works on other npcs, people tried it on Moas….and stuns worked.
If Anet had QA that should have been picked up, if they had a test server it woudl have been picked up. But no it goes straight onto live and look what happened. And same with DB and food buffs.

I love this game, but the quality of the releases lately is quite frankly not up to scratch.

really? you can stun the Moas….ahahahahahaha, is any of the content released with this patch not a bugfest or exploitable?

Anet, hire some QA people please.

Ghosttalon.2416:

Rainzar.6905:

nice to see how serious people take their fun. yes clearly everyone should get banned from the game permanently for ruining an optional pvp-based mini-game which has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the game. after seeing how crazy it is in one match i felt it was kinda boring but i guess others just can’t help themselves and won’t play w/o it.

i don’t see why people don’t use some common sense and NOT play until its fixed? you have a whole month to play the kitten thing, getting all angry and worked up because its not working perfectly day one because of some kitten doesn’t fix or change anything. reporting these people if anything is making things worse by wasting the time of those people who look through those reports that are lookin for genuine cheaters and exploiters.

This wouldn’t be so much of a concern if it didn’t activate a profit margin for such exploiters. The candy and coffin can be sold for quite a bit and these exploiters will use this to their advantage. One of the exploiters I saw said that he earned 3g from the exploit alone and had most of the gear. I don’t see how you would consider this to be fair.

how do you earn gold? you get sod all in reward win or lose.

its not an exploit, its kitten poor quality control on Anets part.
I dont think people should be banned for using it personally. Just dont play, then all people using it will be in matches where no one can kill anyone else!

Anet need to stop releasing buggy untested content.

yep, half the time they just dont work, and quite often when they do, they dont push you high enough. More bugs in this content….

Kapina.9012:

And yes, I agree, it kills all the fun in that game. I myself love that minigame and consider myself ok player there but need to fix that food bug.

Yeah, because running after someone with auto attack on with tracking projectiles really takes skills……..its just a case of which team concentrates their fire most effectively.

Hellgrod.6719:

I dont know if there is a post on this already but some peeps (dont loose health – bug) and use this just to expliot the Dragon Bash Arena game. New people try to join and dont understand why people cant die and leave the Arena. I will certainly not go back in there for a run of fun again

For others sake, Fix it
Well designed, The game was extremly fun while it lasted for 5 mins
It reminded me of quake 3 arena xD

its not a bug, its that foodbuffs still persist in DB, so if you eat regen 85health per sec food before entering you carry on doing so. and as you only have 100 health in DB…..well its pretty much unkillable.

Anets fault, complete lack of testing and quality control.

roostapro.9827:

Savoy.6824:

Have any of you guys tried going to the less populated zones to get the projectors. Have you tried guesting on to a low population server. Have any of you tried to use any problem solving skills at all to get these nodes or did you all rush to Queensdale on Tarnished Coast and immediately QQ. Im not trying to be rude here but Im not sure any of you are doing anything other than running into an obstacle and immediately throwing your hands up and saying its bork, game sucks. Heres a list of zones that contain the hollowgrams:

Queensdale, Kessex Hills, Brisbane Wildlands, Caledon Forest, Metrica Province, Plains of Asford, Diessa Plateau, Wayfarer Foothills, Snowden Drifts and Gendarran Fields

please don’t guest, I would rather enjoy my small population and enjoy this event without guesters yet again taking priority.

I’m guesting on a low pop server….that says all you need to know about how badlythis content is designed.

Da Sonic.6521:

For the first time in my Guild Wars 2 history, I’ve been annoyed by another player being near me, for the simple fact that they were near me. They didn’t do anything wrong, they weren’t rude to me.

They did, however, start the un-instanced Hologram Projector and everything died before I could get to it. And then again. Many times I never even got a chance to get to the Projectors before they were destroyed.

I don’t want to have to race other players to have a chance at killing the Projectors, it makes a toxic community, rather than one that works together.

yep, this event conflicts with pretty much all of the promises in the manifesto. Its grindy, its buggy, it puts players in conflict, its pay to win (or at least skin).

I think the level of grind in this event is appaling.

Even playing 24/7 for a month< I’d not make enough candies to get the wings at the current rate. its a joke.

And the quality is appalling. Dragonball unplayable due to food exploits, placeholders still appearing despite being labelled DELETE ME, do you have QA anet?

To be honest togetehr with appalling RNG failboxes I am pretty close to just quitting. Most of my goodwill has been eroded.

Shirogatsu.3150:

One zhaitaffy for pinata, one zhaitaffy for losing dragon ball, one zhaitaffy for winning + little chance for another zhaitaffy!
Is it a joke?
You need 100k of them for wings :|

its a joke, a very bad one.

Anet said they dont like grind, this event is nothing but. And unless you drop hundreds of gold buying candy, an impossible one.

William Fairfield.1428:

We are looking into this. Thanks for the find

how about you do some actual quality control before releasing? The amount of bugs in this event has got to be pretty damm embarrassing for you, esp as poor quality control is basically expected of Anet nowadays.

Mjolnir.6591:

They need a serious health buff, guardian great swords wiping out the holograms before anyone else can get a hit in on anything.

Poorly designed

Unfortunately poorly designed is becoming synonymous with GW2 content these days.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Yeaaaah….fix incoming later today.

want to updrop rates on candy too?

how about lower cost of moa racing?

how about making holograms last longer so people dont spend ages wasting waypoint fees hoping to get there in time before they die (takes less than 5secs to kill them).

dragonball or what ever that lame minigame is (fps type games in mmos with target lock does not work btw) gives 1 candy as a reward……

that feels a little lame to be honest.

Also, the holographic things in the zones is awful design.
It shows up on map, you way point and run…..but they take me, solo, less than 5seconds to kill….
So no one else gets there and wastes waypoint fees……and after doing about 5 of them I have 24candy. yey, so rewarding considering I need 100,000

Streps.9784:

No idea if this has been done before but i want to see what people have to say anyway, i made a guard not that long ago love it to bits awesome class that tanks direct damage really well but i mean the hp on a normal WvW guard is pretty low and conditions when they build up just chew me right down i normally just go down to condition’s building up,
now yes i can have the condition remove traits and signet (i do use the signet) but even still fighting against necro’s or any bleed built class is crazy with such sad hp, my warrior has better hp and condition removal and damage and that just dose not seem right.

really in the end i just don’t know why a heavy armor class that’s built to support has such low hp compared to light and medium armor classes and even the only other heavy armor class.

My guardian runs between 15k and 18k health in wvwvw, and is pretty much unkillable unless you get rolled over by a zerg, and even then its takes a while to die.

Because of our healing you have to think of guardian health as a constantly refilling pool rather than one that empties.

Put it like this (numbers made up purely for example):
If I have 100,000 health but no mitigation, and I take 10,000 dmg per second I need to heal 10,000 health per second to stay alive.
But if I have 50,000 and 50% mitigation and take 10,000dmg per second I am really only taking 5,000 due to mitigation, which means I only need to heal 5,000 damage per second to stay alive.

Guardians have lots of self healing, and so increasing toughness and having low health is not such a liability. Of course you’ll have to find the balance of health, mitigation and healing that works for you.

I think they just need to make it so that if you show a back item your kit does not change. If you dont show it, then your kit shows when you activate it.

judgement.9842:

Does anyone have a grenade build they run in wvwvw they would be kind enough to share?

I’m using this right now:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqqbHxShF1LJyoCdGoC1nIF5Xl95hc1WQIA

30/10/0/20/10
Explosives:
II – Explosions can cause bleeding(could be swapped out for larger explosions if you want)
VIII – 20% reduction in grenade cooldowns
XI – +25% grenade range, +1 grenade thrown

Firearms:
III – 50% chance for swiftness on critical

Alchemy:
I – Gain Vigor when you gain swiftness
IV – Drink elixir S at 25% health

Tools:
VI – Speedy kits (because not having perma swiftness in wvwvw is painful!)

Not claiming its ideal, but it works for me. I run condition dmg/toughness gear, either rabid or apothecary, with runes of undead, givers weapons. Put as much vitality on accessories as you think you need.

Swap out elixir gun in you want, I find it useful, but its easily replaceable (lots seam to like toolkits). Between perma vigor, perma swiftness, your 1500 range and the amount of healing you can put out with healing turret waterfields +Blasts, you have a lot of survival, and elixir S at low health can get you out of trouble on a fairly regular basis.

Build is not really meant for roaming or small fights, its for running wiht a group and tagging a lot of enemies.

akamon.2769:

if you haven’t yet, you can check out gw2hub’s preview and they mentioned that the coffers drop relatively easily and getting the weapon tickets shouldn’t be too much of a hassle.. at least not compared to the last few installments of skins.

and iirc, coffers will be available for the TP as well. so you can count on the hardcore farmers to help us all out. XPP

GW2Hub: People are keen to avoid the RNG that has plagued some of the previous content, is there going to be a large proportion of randomness to obtaining the best items or can players expect to complete the content and be rewarded?

Will (Fairfield, ArenaNet): We feel with this that we have a good mix of both of those. We have one set of holographic wings that come from Dragon Ball (a rare chance of getting it) and also the meta-achievement to get another set of wings. They are the shattered wings while the drop wings are bat-like. Those can also be bought off the Zhaitaffy vendor. As far as weapon drops, we will have a weapon set available and tickets will drop in regular and rich Dragon Coffers which you can get in the gem store. The regular Dragon Coffers, unlike other festival boxes will be tradable. They will drop off everything in the world and are rewarded them for doing almost everything.

We like the RNG style, but we also like to offer players several different ways to get rewards. We’ve given RNG and a way of working at it as well. The odds are much better than before. We’ve also modified multiples of rewards so you get them much more (as opposed to once). We feel that’ll give players the more ability to get what they want. Lastly, the weapon sets available is also a full set and we’re adding a Black Lion Specialist where players can use any previously unused tickets to obtain items from Wintersday or a choice of the molten weapons.

though in the end, we won’t know until Dragon Bash starts.. which is SOON! : )))

Ok so the drop rate will be better….its still RNG and Anet seam obsessed with RNG< which is just frustrating. RNG forclovers, RNG for precursors, RNG for weapon skins, its annoying.

They’d get a decent amount of money just sellign the damm tickets.

Electro.4173:

Mockingbird.5460:

Where in the world are you guys getting this number of 100k taffies? Unless the item stack limits have been completely changed for this one item, that would require 400 inventory slots to carry them all. (250/stack)

Watch the video that showcases the new content.

You trade 1000 pieces of Zhaitaffy for one Jorbreaker. 100 Jorbreakers gets you the backpack. 1000 × 100 = 100,000 total candies.

100,000?
They better drop all the sodding time then, or this is just another stupid grind.

Zedd.8239:

Astralporing.1957:

We have assumed the same about ascended amulets and earrings. So far nothing has changed, though.

The difference with this item though is that all other back items have infusion recipes in the Mystic Forge. This puts people that have created the ascended version of the Sclerite Karka Shell at a disadvantage (in fractals anyway) over people that have gone with different ascended back items. It’s reasonable to assume that a recipe will be added to correct this sooner than recipes that let you infuse ascended accessories.

its also the only apothecary ascended backpack….

grenades all the way.

Against unorganised groups you cant generally stand a long way off (preferably at an elevation) and drop grenades on a zerg, hitting loads of people and watch a nice circle of loot bags develop around you.

The arc on the grenades lets you drop them ontop of walls, making them a really good attacking weapon when assaulting towers. and you can throw them off walls and not have to stand on the edge like some other classes do to aoe, so you are less likely tobe pulled off.