Guild Wars 2

I get thrown into empty maps via the megaserver system all the time.

Sounds like DR.

Valky.2574:

Looks like we are getting a free exp booster and trading post express instead..
gonna spend my $ some where else apparently anet don’t need it

Unless it’s a permanent trading post express, then yeah, kinda worthless. lol

PyrateSilly.4710:

What gold sink are you talking about? I am making the same amount of gold if not more since the expansion hit.

The game has plenty of gold sinks. The fact that you’re able to make money doesn’t mean there aren’t gold sinks in the game.

NumenorLord.6539:

• They nerf dungeon rewards to stop elitism but bring raids that are ten times more elitist than any dungeon run (at least in dungeons you could succeed after a lot of time with a mediocre group. Some of us liked to teach newbies to run dungeons, that’s not an option in raids).

They didn’t nerf dungeons to stop elitism. They nerfed them to stop gold earning.

Cyninja.2954:

Why would this be of consequence to your SW farm? Aren’t you opening your bandit chests on low level twinks for the lower tier crafting materials?

Shame, could be making so much more gold.

Not everyone has low-level twinks.

Raven.1524:

If you want everyone running around with twilight and stuff, making your weapon skin feel common then fine.

Seriously? Have you looked around? Everyone is already running around with legendary greatswords of all kinds!

And they have been for years.

I’d go for more rewards myself. Something to bring the time vs. reward more in line.

I’m really hoping outfits from now on aren’t always going to come in a bundle with glider skins for 2850 gems.

Odin of Ark.4860:

Regular masteries can be lvled anywhere in central tyria. And its not hard to level maguuma masteries at all. Dragons stand is pretty great for XP.

A lot of people would like to level Maguuma masteries outside of the jungle maps because they’d like more variety while leveling than the 4 maps provide.

I make varying amounts of money in SW. It isn’t the exact same every time. I have to say, I’m kind of suspicious of people that name a figure and say they make this exact same amount every 1 hour or 2 hours or whatever no matter what.

Now that the system has changed, I don’t know why anyone would require 100% rep.

The only thing I can figure is some leaders seem to get their feelings hurt if you spend time repping any other guild but theirs.

Requires a fair amount of online research.

I admire you for putting your money where your mouth is, Vayne. I don’t see many people that love HoT saying much to people that dislike it that doesn’t include some version of L2P. So, it’s refreshing to see someone actually offering their time to help.

I’d change a lot about HoT no doubt, but I’ve found it less intensely unfriendly a month later than I did upon release. There’s much to be said for keeping plugging away at something until you can reach a level of comfort.

That said, the only thing that I really want right now is if you can get me into a map that guarantees the Gerent goes down successfully.

They seem to do massive amounts of damage for their size.

And sometimes they run in packs of 15.

SirDrygan.1823:

I didn’t even bother to donate to my guild at all. They will probably kicked me one day, but I do not care anymore. Donating is taking out resources that I need to make my ascended gear that I am forced to make in order to join a raid team, if not, they won’t even consider you if you are on exotics. And I am an ele that hits hard, I still need to squeeze out that 5% extra damage in order to get into a raid teams…..

Yeah, I don’t know of any guild groups that allow their regular raiders to wear anything other than ascended. From what I’m seeing and hearing, ascended gear is already considered standard raiding requirements.

Actually, I play several MMOs with good communities, so this isn’t anything exceptional.

Cyninja.2954:

Here is what you do:

- take a deep breath
- accept that you don’t HAVE to get every reward there is in 1 week time

Problem solved.

He never said anything about getting everything in 1 week’s time, so the only question I have is…

Whut are you on about?

Aguri.2896:

People kept talking about how good the community was, how there was no elitism based on what gear you had, how you could play all content in the game with level 60-80 blues and greens just fine and that ascended wasn’t required. Oh and let’s not forget my personal favorite, that max gear in this game is easy to get.

It’s possible that these people are new players with no max characters and therefore no real experience with what it’s like in level 80 areas, HoT zones, and what’s it’s like to get max gear.

Iason Evan.3806:

The new glider/outfit bundle is the latest debacle. ArenaNet are outright telling people who don’t want HoT that they don’t want them using the gem shop. Why would I EVER buy a bundle that has a glider skin in it if I don’t own HoT? Sell that biz a la carte please.

These seem really overpriced to me. Normally, an outfit costs 700 gems. Gliders sold by themselves cost 400 gems. Therefore an outfit + glider should only be around 1100 gems.

Overpriced items make me think that enough people have either left the game and so aren’t around spending money or the people that have stayed are keeping their money, so that overall they’re not making much money with their gem store and need to overinflate the prices to make up for the people that are no longer spending money.

Someone had noted in a different thread, I believe, that there are 19 extra mastery points, so it would be possible to skip some of the adventures if you wanted to.

Just for fun, I ran the tally we have so far.

Would you pre-purchase the next expansion?

Yes/Probably Yes – 38 votes

No/Probably no – 70 votes

Maybe/Undecided – 13 votes

Most people would consider it optimal, I think, if they could be rewarded while having fun simultaneously.

And I think a fair amount of players find receiving rewards to be fun in general.

warbignime.4610:

eldrin.6471:

so people you ask in games opinions matter more to you than the thousands of posts on these forums?well each to there own.

Also Reddit, if you want accurate representation reddit is the place to go, also a lot of post are made by a few people posting multiple times so thousand is kind of exaggeration , it is nothing compare to the GW2 population as a whole. The fact is people who are unhappy are way more likely to post on forum, and bad post here can not be down voted to oblivion like reddit.

If posts people simply disagree with are downvoted on Reddit, how is that representative? Doesn’t it simply mean that whoever gets there first, their opinion is the one on top? Be it positive or negative?

JediYoda.1275:

Celtic Lady.3729:

SirBlunticus.4258:

Not to mention collections being hidden behind them.
Seriously!?
Anet says “can’t have your weapon unless you play pin the tail on the donkey. Can’t have your mastery point unless you make a ring around the bottle.”

Do you need to get gold for these weapon collections?

No, have to get silver to unlock collection items

Silver, wow. Okay. Too bad it isn’t bronze.

ReaverKane.7598:

Pretty good point, the current mega server tech, does hurt the game, especially when it resets map progression…
Also its odd when sometimes you have a Auric Basin Meta going on with 3 comms and you get the message to move, only to be carried to a emptier map.

Being moved from a reasonably populated map to a mostly empty map is something else that is frustrating since HoT. It happens to me way more than it should.

I don’t remember experiencing this pre-HoT, either.

Goldrock.9076:

I think people are frusterated because they came in thinking it was gonna be a hand holding theme park game

This is not why players are frustrated.

Where do you even get this stuff?

Honestly, I get all my airship parts while trying to get rid of crowbars that seem to spontaneously generate in my inventory bags. :/

SirBlunticus.4258:

Not to mention collections being hidden behind them.
Seriously!?
Anet says “can’t have your weapon unless you play pin the tail on the donkey. Can’t have your mastery point unless you make a ring around the bottle.”

Do you need to get gold for these weapon collections?

I’d like to have the option of completely removing crafts, too. And, as has been noted, to transfer crafting to another character.

Something I’m not a big fan of is the ability for characters that don’t have a given craft to be able to read and consume recipes for that craft. I wish this wasn’t possible to do.

ahdok.8462:

• Thirdly, after about a week, one of the guild leaders starts sending me PMs demanding that I “pull my weight” and that they’re stripping “freeloaders” out of the guild, demands that I deposit significant quantities of gold into the guild account or they’ll remove me from the guild. Guilt-trip messages telling me that everyone else is putting their ‘fair share’ in and that I’m sponging off them.

This is something else that has been made much, much worse by HoT. The expansion added guild halls to the game and the materials required for upgrading and the new scribing crafting profession are really intense. So some guilds have begun harrassing members to pony up lots of gold and mats so they can progress faster. Some have even gone so far as to “tax” its members, requiring a set amount of gold each week/month in order to remain in the guild.

Personally, I’d never stay in a guild where members are allowed to constantly beg for money or mats. This is simply bad behavior. And I’m not a big fan of taxation in guilds, either.

ahdok.8462:

• WvW seems completely un-tutorialised. For example, I have no idea how to break into a fortified site, and there are no NPCs that I’ve found that explain it, and there are almost never any players in the WvW maps.

WvW used to be busy, but with the changes that arrived with HoT, a lot of regular WvWers have stopped playing much. I’m hoping the game gets it all sorted, but until then it’s just too bad that new players like yourself haven’t had a chance to really see it like it’s intended to be.

krzysiek.9061:

@Celtic Lady
" Upgrades for a guild should be based on percentages that directly relate to a guild’s size or activity level. " – kick everyone from your guild, leave only ~6 players > upgrade your guild > invite players you’ve kicked.
Influence was the best system. It’s so sad that ANet chose guilds for their gold sink.

I tend to think this wouldn’t happen nearly to the degree people say it will. The logistical nightmare of getting hundreds of people back into your guild once you’ve kicked them for any length of time is fairly prohibitive. Besides, suggestions have already been made to make this less likely to happen.

warbignime.4610:

So you want nerf difficult and interesting content to boring mindless spammy regular maps. What a great idea.

You might want to try reading a post before commenting on it.

What the OP said and what you said had absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Keeping my map participation when I’m prompted to move to another map would be terrific. I also think maps closing an hour after getting this message regardless of how well the meta is doing is something that needs fixing.

Having the events progress on a faster timer would be really nice, as well. The mandatory waiting is not fun and I’ve seen many map groups fall apart during the wait.

I agree that the Gerent Meta needs reworking. I think it expects too much of a group for open world content.

Noxious pods are…what can I say? Obnoxious! I would like to see more of them on the map pre-dragon-kill. Definitely too many machetes.

I still think Hero Challenges should be soloable. Again, waiting for help that often doesn’t come is not fun.

And I’d love it if we could have more access to the entirety of the Dragon’s Stand map for map completion purposes. So much of it is locked away for so much of the time.

The only thing I really want is auto-looting.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

It’s not fair for small guilds to get cheaper upgrades over larger guilds.

I disagree. Upgrades for a guild should be based on percentages that directly relate to a guild’s size or activity level. What’s not fair is for small guilds to carry the same weight as much larger guilds.

And I think it’s a bad idea overall to discourage smaller guilds. The world is big enough (or should be) for both types of groups.

Behellagh.1468:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Behellagh.1468:

55 laurels every 28 daily logins. No drought here.

I still need hundreds of laurels. 55 a month feels really slow. lol

Craft slower.

Rant time …

Honestly a lot of complaints I’m seeing since HoT revolves around the idea that the player needs to get X now. This “group think” leads to a rush on the TP which shoots up the price of mats for crafting; the gold to gem exchange rate when something cool comes out or goes on sale at the gem shop; hero points for specialization; XP for masteries … I can go on.

A lot of these aren’t a problem if the drive for immediacy is ignored. Since raids rolled out the week it’s now ascended armor and the new precursors/legendary weapons.

It’s Black Friday at Wal-Mart in the microcosm of the game but instead of sucker punching the grandmas for a 70" TV for $499 it’s everyone draining the TP, their collections, cheap salvageable goods all to get affordable mats and if you are late to that party the cry goes out that it’s too expensive or it’s time gated. FOMO is imaginary. There will still be groups doing the first raid wing months from now. Everyone doesn’t need to do it this week so you all don’t need your gear yesterday.

I have all my gear. I need infusions.

Swift.1930:

So although I don’t know exactly how often developers frequent the forums, here’s what I’d like to suggest: a release of exploration maps. They don’t need to contain many (or any, at first) events. They don’t have to contain skill points/hero challenges. They don’t need to be lined with waypoints (the more challenging the adventure, the more interesting it could be). They don’t even have to contain points of interest! (Although they would contribute to lore very nicely.) They just need to contain mobs, villages/towns, NPCs, and landscape. It would make the world bigger and more open! And Anet can always use the maps later on if you need room for Living World events or updates.

This does sound like a really unique idea. The many and varied maps that launched with GW2 is one of the main reasons I chose to play the game in the first place. I’m big on map completion and exploration. I would explore any maps available, though I enjoy them more when they have map items for me to collect such as POIs, vistas, HCs, etc.

That said, I can see the appeal of a wide-open map with not much on it at first. Simply a place to go and run around in and explore. I’d want the mobs to be reasonably well-spaced so I can look around without having to focus overmuch on survival, though.

The idea of adding things as time goes on (in relation to future LS updates, for instance) is really intriguing. It would be fun to see events, vistas, POIs, waypoints, etc. added to open maps in a gradual fashion following a storyline. I liked the way they slowly added to the Dry Top maps with each story update, letting us play segments at a time and becoming familiar with the areas gradually.

I love that they’ve added some maps since launch. Southsun was the first, but I was disappointed that there was only a handful of POIs and not much else when it arrived. I’m glad they’ve since added the map completion legend and rewards to Southsun, Dry Top, and the Silverwastes. (I want them back in WvW, too, but that’s another discussion.)

I also would love more maps that allow for gliding, but ones that have less mob density and are less confusing than some of the HoT maps. lol

Behellagh.1468:

55 laurels every 28 daily logins. No drought here.

I still need hundreds of laurels. 55 a month feels really slow. lol

I have made quite a lot of ascended gear, and I did it using a combination of farming/regular playing/grinding gold to outright buy materials.

Regular playing – I refused to work on ascended gear 100% of my playing time. So, I spent a portion of my play time just doing what I enjoyed – leveling alts and map completions. These things netted me materials that I used on my ascended gear.

Farming – I used the Silverwastes map events to farm bandit crests which I used to buy keys and once I had built up a good supply of them, I hit up a chest train (usually on weekends) and filled up my inventory with loot from doing this. I kept the mats that I could use for my ascended gear and I sold the rest for gold.

Grinding gold – Another method I used for this was Black Lion key farming. It doesn’t really work now, but I used it extensively to get ticket scraps, which I then used to buy weapon skins that I sold for good money on the TP.

Every day I crafted my time-gated materials, buying what I needed for that day that I hadn’t already acquired via the activities mentioned above. It took me more than 4 months to make everything I wanted. But really, the time I spent waiting for the time-gated items allowed me a natural break (there was a lot of grinding involved in those 4 months. lol) and gave me time to continue to rack up more gold.

In the end, I’m just super glad I made all this before HoT, considering the TP prices of things right now.

Notsoperky.2348:

Way too many ‘mastery’ points gated behind these mini games- I’ve managed exactly one silver, having tried several and wasting a lot of time on the JP timed one.

I feel the same way. I wish they’d given 1 Mastery Point for bronze, too, in order to pump up the mastery points one can acquire. Or just built enough mastery points into the system that you could bypass the Adventures altogether.

I’ve done enough with these to know that I have no chance of getting even most of the mastery points associated with Adventures, so I’m not going to be “maxing” out anything.

Norrec.2713:

However, it does seem really weird that you can craft T1 and T2 again, considering the amount of materials they need, when you can’t craft the actual precursor more than once.

This seems like a serious screw-up.

Healix.5819:

Here’s the two alternative paths, starting from where Dulfy places a portal.

Orange: Lean techniques required. You glide to the branch below the mushroom, walk up the branch, then glide over to the mushroom, continuing on Dulfy’s path.

Red: You glide to the area below, move to the edge, glide to the updraft in the distance, turn around and glide to the box. This is what Dulfy should have shown.

Wow. The red path is WAY easier. Thank you for showing this.

I can’t get these either no matter how much running around DS I do both before and after the dragon fight.

I’m just stuck at 16/18.

I wish I knew for sure what the deal is with this one.

Tigaseye.2047:

If you criticised them, even 20% of the time, people probably wouldn’t call you that.

I’ve seen him criticize them, but it’s prolly more like 0.5% of the time. lol Which may be why some people don’t view him as “balanced.”

But to be fair, some people are just unreasonable. Not too long ago I made a post in someone’s thread defending something about the game and I got accused of being a white knight, too. Me. Even a cursory glance at my posts over the years would prove I’m nowhere even approaching being a white knight for Anet.

I’ve also been accused of being “paid” by Anet for my forum posting. People that know me even a little had a good chuckle over that one, too.

mcwurth.2081:

HoT is not accessible by free to play players?

Nope.

ZachAttack.3957:

-You can start playing your elite spec from the first trait point you put into it- you don’t need to fully unlock everything

Yeah, but to be fair, you’re not going to have much of an elite spec if all you have is the weapon unlocked and don’t have any of the traits or utlities that go along with them. lol

PyrateSilly.4710:

Again NO GRINDING have I done.

Well, that’s you. Other people have had different experiences. Theirs is just as valid as yours.

TD takes too long, is unforgiving of the normal open world issues with absolutely needing to coordinate everything, and the map confuses and frustrates a lot of people with its design.

As time goes by, it feels like more and more players are losing patience for the long wait for the Gerent fight and the frequent failures despite full maps and organized commanders that they’re giving up and not even bothering to set up for the final push any longer.

I’m worried about the overall sustainability of this map is it now stands.

You know it’s only a matter of time before people start getting upset about scribes they donated hundreds or thousands of gold to in order for them to level up doing things like leaving the guild for whatever reason, leaving the game, etc. Everyone losing their massive investments…hard feelings…

Another reason I think the scribe implementation was poorly designed.