Guild Wars 2

I like this idea, but only within the map. So moving between maps would cost the same, moving in the map would be cheaper.

They used to be 1/10th of the current price. I don’t see what was the problem with that. I reached lvl 40 with like 6k karma and spent 1k on each weapon. After 10 lvls I had already replaced them.

You’re finding problems where there are none. If two worlds decide to attack the 3rd so be it. It’s impossible to coordinate such thing, so when it happens it’s purely coincidental. And WvWvW isn’t supposed to be fair. With just 2 sides on a map it’ll become pretty static and boring. With 3 it becomes much more dynamic.

Marrond.1385:

You like to look at them? Take a picture? I have picture of my girlfriend, sure it’s not as good as she is herself but that’s all I have when we are nowhere near to each other sometimes :P

Sometimes a people get a new gear and talk about it? I honestly don’t understand how the concept is so hard to comprehend.

The thing is that the guide says tiny venom sacs but you can get tiny totems, for example, instead. Instead of following guides people should just learn how the crafting system works and you would require a lot less materials.

Marrond.1385:

Canoas.8423:

Because gear looks different depending on race/gender/dyes used. You can’t see what a character looks like without being next to him.

And what is the point of inspecting the player that isn’t next to you? I have nothing against I just don’t see any reason to bother with.

Because I have a friends and a guildmates who don’t follow me around wherever I go?

As far as I know all professions except for jeweler and cook use totems/bones/venom sacs/etc. Just sell the mats you don’t use and buy those off the TP.

You get tons and tons of transmutation stones so you can use whatever “skin” you want for each item. I fail to see why people would complain about the looks of any gear if arenanet gives you the means to change it for free.

I have weaponsmith and jeweler both at lvl 400 and I didn’t have any trouble lvling. It cost me 3g at most to buy the materials I didn’t have.

ZaZaKing.9132:

All this guy is asking for is if anyone knows how to make something, and you guys go on some crazy grinding circlejerk tangent. It’s early in GW2’s life, can’t we keep the forums decent for at least a few months?

The OP was asking for the grind of the purely cosmetic legendary items to be nerfed. He said so in his second post.

Exer.5078:

What’s wrong is that nowadays, people are playing more than one game at the time. At the same time, people feel entitled to the outdated concept of time consuming grinding.

I am not in the clan of “give it to me right now”, but more into keeping touch with reality in terms of grinding. I dislike alienating people into countless hours of farming in an attempt to keep people playing strictly their game, while diversity in gaming is what makes things move forward in this industry.

The legendaries are purely cosmetic!!!! Seriously, it’s been said countless times so far. It makes as much sense whining that it takes a long grind to get a cosmetic item as whining that an achievement is hard to get.

Like I said, the armors cost pretty much the same think to make regardless of the stats.

What do you mean speed that process up? And what low rate?

I suggest you first buy rare armor and rare weapons, it should cost you about 2g. 3g if you count in the runes. After that you begin buying piece by piece until you have your whole exotic set. It’s not slow at all. You should be able to get the best gear available in about 2 weeks if you play moderately.

Yeah, me too. My suggestion is that after weakening him with the turrets he jumps and grabs onto the ship, and then we, along with Eir and her team, have to actually fight a weakened Zhaitan.

Or maybe he wouldn’t die from the fall and we need to fight him on the ground.

Right now WvWvW happens every day, but once it gets balanced it’ll only be once every 2 weeks. I don’t think people will have problems with spending a couple gold every 2 weeks, I honestly don’t.

I don’t see the need for this. I keep the tonics I like (golem, deer and pig) and toss the ones I don’t. Why would you want to store tonics in collectible tab that you know you won’t use?

No, it can’t be. The only difference between stat combination is 3 items which are worth 1-2s each. Everything else is the same. You were probably looking at something that wasn’t a craftable armour.

That 3 gold per exotic item will take some time. You’ll probably get around 1g per 2 hours of moderate play. However, this is the best armour you can get, you won’t get anything better than that exotic armour.

Also, you’ll need to buy runes, which cost 10s-2g depending on the rune you want.

@montie
You get the materials by salvaging items and from mines, trees or plants. The crafting system is pretty simple, just go to youtube and see a video about how it works, there are plenty of those.

Crica.1503:

WHY would I want to WAIT longer then I have to? I dont.

So no ty, I prefer to use an auto-grouping feature.

So please, STOP trying to get me to play your way, I DONT WANT TO.

I have NEVER asked you to play my way, i have even stated I hope anet puts in the feature YOU want to use so you CAN use it.

I simply prefer to use an auto-grouping feature so I ALSO hope anet will put one in the game ALONG with the feature YOU want.

So you’re whining because you don’t want to wait a few more minutes to join a dungeon?

You’ve spent more time saying you want to play YOUR way than the extra time you would have spent waiting at the queue with the system I proposed for the next 10 dungeons.

daemonlama.5413:

Actually, the version he wants isn’t instant all the time either. It isn’t like you click find group and bam! you instantly group…There is a grace period. so not much difference in time either.

And with people leaving the group when something goes wrong (which is prettykittenoften on the harder bosses whenever someone is doing a instance for the first few times) it would take even longer.

Aeson Thackery.5927:

Instanced nature..? The only instances in GW2 are the home one, dungeons, and the ones used for your story..and maybe a few other random ones here and there. Unless youre mixing up zones with instances, which i feel like you are.

Zones are instances as well.

To fix the instancing problem you would need to “bind” each guild to a specific map, and you would need to pay to transfer to another map, like you do with a waypoint. However, I think the main problem is with the sheer number of guilds. You’d be seeing a lot of flying ships spread around the map when no one is using them.

Marrond.1385:

When I see something nice and ask (this is how I found skin for my medium armour – Duelist for male ) people allways answer. When I ask for build they alt+tab and give me link (sadly not many of them ever heard of shortening links but oh well I’m thankfull anyway) with whole build. Not sure why should Inspect exist. There are no unique armours in terms of stats, and dungeons can be done with glass cannon builds. It all goes down to player. Because how do you exactly know what’s experience of the player you’re inspecting? How do you know if he maybe would do better than you with only 11k hp on lvl 80 with full Berserker gear of Divinity? Or how would you be able to judge that seeing a guy with support build? I’m very curious, really.

Because gear looks different depending on race/gender/dyes used. You can’t see what a character looks like without being next to him.

SteepledHat.1345:

Just ask. I’ve asked probably 8 people what they were wearing in game and I always got a reply. Ask nicely and people will answer.

Because gear looks different depending on race/gender/dyes used. You can’t see what a character looks like without being next to him.

There’s no PLAY MY WAY. We would be doing the exact same thing. The only difference is that you would need to wait a couple more minutes. Waiting a couple more minutes is NOT considered a playstyle. You can’t say my way of playing is waiting a couple more minutes to join a dungeon. That does not make any sense.

You need to craft the items, get someone to craft them for you or buy them at the trading post. It costs about 20-30 silver per rare item and 3 gold per exotic item.

Crafting all the way mate. There are about 7 stat combinations a weapon/armor/acessory can have btw.

Crica.1503:

Canoas.8423:

So you’re saying that it wouldn’t destroy the community because all it does is divide it?

the community is ALREADY divided because of ppl like you who try to force players to play the game THEIR way…

Try accepting players and how they enjoy playing the game instead of trying to FORCE them to play the game YOUR way and it might not be so divided?

Right now there’s no LFG tool. My suggestion would be pretty close to what you want while not dividing the community. All it would require is for you to wait a couple of minutes longer. That’s nothing compared to what it is right now and would save a lot more time than having a matchmaking where people just leave without a second thought the minute something goes wrong. With the LFG tool you’re suggesting you would lose a lot more time in the long run and create a lot more dissatisfaction.
I fail to see how waiting a bit longer for a group and pretty much ensuring a better play experience in the dungeon would ruin the fun for you.

Because gear looks different depending on race/gender/dyes used. You can’t see what a character looks like without being next to him.

I very much doubt you won’t come across a merchant before the tools run out. I keep a spare pick, axe and sickle and 2 salvaging kits (sometimes 3 when I come across a merchant and one of them is almost running out). That’s 5-6 slots out of 44 and I’ve never gotten my inventory full.

You can just link a waypoint by shift-clicking it on the map. By double clicking it you will teleport to it. To me it’s pretty easy to meet up with my friends/guildmates.

So you’re saying that it wouldn’t destroy the community because all it does is divide it?

You don’t need to use space in your inventory by little ammounts of tools if you use them.

Yet you don’t trust them enough to link them your gear. Do you burn off every icon on your clothing so your friends don’t know where you got it as well?

Which would require a matchmaking system that destroys the community. On the other hand, you could wait a couple of minutes. Or better, once you use the system and get to know other people, find a good group in seconds.

Then why would they want you in their guild? You won’t even trust them with showing what you have equipped. Sounds reaaaaaaally unfriendly and untrustworthy to me.

Or you can wait a few mins and someone would invite you.

Yet you wouldn’t show them what gear you have.

Or you can wait a few mins and someone would invite you.

Sounds fun but I don’t think it’s worth being a legendary weapon.

The penalty is there so you don’t die mindlessly. In WoW, for example, it would reduce your durability by 10%. Here it makes you pay for the waypoint instead.

This would be pretty close to auto grouping. The main difference is that if people don’t want to play with you they can choose not to.

So you want to join a guild but are reluctant to even show them your gear? Why the hell would you join a guild then?

Ok then, we can easily fix that by allowing the person to choose to be instantly invited. If you don’t want to bother finding a group it would automatically accept the first dude that invites you, bypassing the “hey, want to join this group?”.

Something like steam’s security where you get sent an e-mail with a code to “unlock” a new IP would be enough.

If it works let us know. I’ll be wanting to “copy” a few anonymity hoods just in case = )

Crica.1503:

Canoas.8423:

Seems to me that all the problems you said would be solved by the small description I suggested.

none of that would solve me having to spend my time looking for a group

auto-grouping would solve me having to spend my time looking for a group

i dont know any other way to say it – i wish to spend my time playing the game – i do not wish to spend my time looking for a group

If you don’t bother spending a few minutes searching for a group then maybe you don’t deserver one.

But with auto-grouping it would become much much much more common. And those who are a bit worse would just get replaced instead of being helped.

Al right then, allow only to inspect guildmates/friends.

Besides, gear is pretty easy to get here. An exotic item costs like 3g, a rare one costs about 25s.

Seems to me that all the problems you said would be solved by the small description I suggested.

And even if ninja looting cannot happen, what matters is that the mentality people have changes once the LFG tool is implemented, ruining the community.

Googled a bit, here’s what I found:

1.) Make a new thief with hood.
2.) Have another character buy a cheap mask. NOTED: This mask needs to be white or blue name (This is important)
3.) Put said mask in bank.
4.) Log onto the new thief with hood.
5.) Now you can transmute the mask into hood.
6.) Put the new transmuted hood into bank
7.) Go into your current thief and then take out the transmuted hood.
8.) Now you can transmute the hood with any mask

There are players who want a LFG matchmaking to help them find dungeons faster, others argue that such a tool would destroy the commit (and I also share this view).

So, what I propose is a mix between the two. Have a tab with a list of the groups and players who want to join a dungeon. You can add yourself/your group and leave the list whenever you want. Besides listing your class it also let’s you add a small description, mainly so we can explain our playstyle and avoid useless setups (like 2 condition thieves since conditions won’t stack over 25).

The big difference between this and a LFG system would be that there was no matchmaking. Nothing is automatic. Want someone to join your group? Ok then, ask them. Want to join someone’s group? Ask them as well. All it would do is let you easily search for other people while doing events or such in another map instead of being forced to stay in front of the dungeon spamming /map.

It would pretty much just be an interface to meet fellow dungeoneers which would make finding a party much easier but still wouldn’t feel like you’re playing with npcs instead of people. Communication would still be needed, and you would be the one choosing who to invite to your group. If the guardian you played with yesterday is on the list maybe you would want to invite him instead of someone else, for example.

@Crica
Ninja looting matters because that’s part of how people act in dungeons. With the LFG tool no one would blink an eye at ninja looting, they simply did not care about the rest of the group. If you didn’t notice a change maybe you were the dude who already did this before the LFG.

Also, how is it being spammed with “come group?” bad if your intention is to join that group? You would only be asked once. You want automated matchmaking, there’s no reason for you to decline an offer to join their group.

I really want the inspect feature. So far every single time I’ve wanted to inspect someone it was a friend or a guildy who was far away. I can’t ask him to link the items because even if he links it the items will look different on my char then they do on his human/sylvari/asura/norn. Other times I wanted to see if I could make a better weapon with my crafting than he had.

My suggestion is: Have an inspect feature where the user chooses who can see his stats: His friends, his guildmates or everyone. If you don’t choose any of these all the other dudes would see is how you look, the item slots would look empty just like in the preview window.

I think this would please everyone.