Guild Wars 2

Yeah, it seems like a staffer could maybe come into one of these threads and tell everyone how it’s supposed to work, so we don’t wonder.

Well, I was using the cats that were pictured on Dulfy’s website. Does she have the wrong information?

I can’t feed the Eastern Ward Lion’s Arch cat or the Beetletun cat. Anyone know why this is? I have the correct food in my inventory.

Is the bloodstone empowerment item worth it to buy? What does it mean that it stacks up to 3 times? Stacks with what?

Is anyone else getting disconnected a lot?

I’m getting disconnected so much that I’ve tried repeatedly to finish the first Season 3 instance about the memorial and I can’t complete it. It’s so long and I get disconnected before I can finish it every time.

Not thrilled with the amulet change. I liked my might infusion.

What am I even supposed to use? I don’t need karma or increased XP since all my characters are 80.

So, that leaves only gold find and magic find. Not sure which one would even be more beneficial….

You guys better not read your mail for a few weeks, too. The last time someone tried to spoil me, they just mailed all the info to my mailbox.

Why is Darkhaven only matched up with servers with 4-5 times their numbers? Why does ArenaNet do this? I don’t understand the logic of their matching system. It appears they don’t understand how to do fair match-ups.

Yeah, GW2 is absolutely in love with RNG. It’s everywhere.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I don’t get it. Is there new content to do now or is this just an announcement and there’s nothing in-game?

There are new events to do and new achievements to get.

Are the events isolated to specific areas? I logged in and received nothing in my mail about where to go or what to do…

The ley line events are something you learn about after killing a dragon minion in old Tyria (branded, icebrood, etc) and you get a drop from one. The most recent events you kill a bandit and get a drop. You take the items to the NPC who knows about them (it will be on the tooltip) and the NPC will direct you to the next step.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

They might be disappointed by the sales of the new expansion, too. It depends on how buyers react to the hype and general let-down many experienced with the first expansion. And since there’s no guarantee that anything announced for an expansion will actually make it into the game, it’s hard to say. Buyers might be leery the second time around whereas they were more trusting the first time.

Danicus.4952:

I personally find HOT uninviting as a solo PVE player. It lacks the difficulty progression structure present in most games. It demands group (zerg) participation for individual rewards. It requires the development of mobility masteries to effectively access map areas efficiently. It loads the player with an ocean of inventory filling currencies or keys. It creates an unprecedented level of grind for goals.

I get bored pretty quickly doing the same few events on the HoT maps. The structure with the timers doesn’t really appeal. Hoping all future maps aren’t going to be exactly like these, but we’ll have to see. They might be. Masteries are pretty grindy, I think. Most of them haven’t done me much good, so it would have been nice to pick and choose. Grinding through long lines of XP just to get to a mastery skill I actually want and will use is kind of mind-numbing.

Does doing this really make any money?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I don’t get it. Is there new content to do now or is this just an announcement and there’s nothing in-game?

There are new events to do and new achievements to get.

Are the events isolated to specific areas? I logged in and received nothing in my mail about where to go or what to do…

I don’t get it. Is there new content to do now or is this just an announcement and there’s nothing in-game?

RoseofGilead.8907:

Celtic Lady.3729:

I haven’t seen any Nevermores or HOPEs yet. They seem kinda rare.

Really? I seem to come across at least one person with Nevermore everywhere I go in-game.

Nope. I haven’t seen any yet.

I haven’t seen any Nevermores or HOPEs yet. They seem kinda rare.

I always have to taxi via LFG for DS. I never enter a map that actually has people in it just from porting in. DS is largely a group map. I haven’t heard of anyone soloing all the events and the meta. So, people in the maps seems to really be a thing here.

misterman.1530:

Not everyone goes online to watch a twitch stream, a youtube video, or read wiki notes about a game they are playing.

Yeah, I have WAY better things to do in RL than this.

Yeah, I hated this fight. I only did the HoT story once all the way through on my main, and it’s instances like this that have kept me from doing it on all my alts. I tried playing it with my friends, but the design is so unfriendly to groups that it doesn’t really help at all.

By comparison, I did the Core Tyria story on 10 alts all the way through and didn’t get really frustrated once. It was shocking and disappointing how much less I enjoyed the story aspect of HoT than I did the previous one. I couldn’t even believe it was the same game…

The design of the HoT maps is such that you really need people to be out there playing to get much done. I had a much easier time soloing empty core Tyria maps than I ever had trying to get anything done in an empty HoT map. So much is dependent on the group events, so I understand where you’re coming from.

I get why they want a lot of group stuff in this game. It’s design is much less solo-friendly than many other games, like LOTRO and SWTOR, for example, which are extremely solo-friendly.

My main strategy for dealing with this game is to do everything I want to do while everyone else is still doing it. I’ve ended up deserting many of my alts as a result of certain map designs, unfortunately. I only have time to get 1-3 characters through content, usually, before the content is ditched by the majority. I try to minimize taxiing as much as possible because I dislike it and consider it to be bad game design.

I like having the option of soloing content since it means I’m not dependent on other peoples’ playstyles and schedules, but I’ve accepted that this game is never going to be that way for me. It’s obvious to me that the HoT maps are where they’re going with content style now.

Basically, if I want to get things done on a game without having to depend on other peoples’ schedules and whims, I play another game.

I just haven’t got the ability to force myself to spend hours trying to complete a mini game. Anything that would take me hours to do, I skip. To me, it’s not worth the frustration. If I don’t excel at something in a game, I don’t do it. It’s a game. I practice for hours for real life competitions.

But I don’t do it for a game…

If it really frustrates you, I’d just give it up and do something you actually find enjoyable.

Not having to constantly buy yellow grade salvage kits makes mine worth it to me.

Vayne.8563:

Celtic Lady.3729:

ProtoGunner.4953:

WTF? Just buy the kitten expansion if you wanna play the new stuff. Really, what are people think? You get everything for free?

He doesn’t want to play the “new stuff.” Did you actually read his posts?

Does that include PvP seasons, which is new stuff?

I haven’t seen any comments about Seasons. Talking about basic PvP, which has been in the game since launch.

Sourde Noire.5286:

Honestly, I never understood all this hate against Trahearne. I can only guess it’s this mentality of you as the player being the hero, wanting all the glory for yourself.

My criticism of Traherne has nothing to do with glory-mongering. Traherne’s character from the very beginning never seemed to really shine to me. The voice acting was, imo, not that great. Too many of his lines were delivered in too much of a monotone or with a real lack of emotion for the situation.

And I have no idea why anyone thought having Traherne monologue about himself nearly every second we weren’t fighting was going to be a good idea. This just ruins the character even more for me since it makes him seem completely oblivious and self-absorbed. Also, there were too many comments that spoke of false modesty to me, just the way the lines were delivered, making him see even more disingenuous.

More than once to me his character comes off as being insecure and needing constant affirmation. At the end of the Zhaitan fight, he’s off by himself instead of with others at the party, giving the impression he’s moping or expecting someone to come and beg him to join in. Little things like this is why Traherne’s character didn’t hit the mark for me. Other people will interpret his character differently, but this is how he came across to me.

ProtoGunner.4953:

WTF? Just buy the kitten expansion if you wanna play the new stuff. Really, what are people think? You get everything for free?

He doesn’t want to play the “new stuff.” Did you actually read his posts?

mauried.5608:

I cant understand why people would play a game thats advertised as having no mounts in it , and then keep complaining about theres no mounts in the game.
Why not simply play a game thats got mounts in it?

Why should a person stop playing a game just because there might be something about it they wouldn’t mind seeing changed? Your suggestion is completely bizarre. And anyway, a lot of gamers play multiple games, so the likelihood is that they already play multiple games with mounts. Doesn’t mean they can’t ask on a forum why there isn’t mounts and it certainly doesn’t mean that alone is worth ditching the entire game for. Seriously.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that non-HoT owners get different dailies than HoT owners do, so as not to disclude them.

STIHL.2489:

Celtic Lady.3729:

STIHL.2489:

Celtic Lady.3729:

You’re not making any sense. I’m saying that if they added mounts that they specifically made to move faster than we do running, then the mounts wouldn’t be purely cosmetic.

You are suggesting they put in some stupid store item I need to buy to maintain optimal run speed? No thanks.

No, I’m not suggesting that. lol

So what exactly are you suggesting?

As I see it.

Cosmetic Mounts that do nothing but Look cool = Good!

Function Mounts that I am obligated to buy to maintain top run speed = Bad.

So what are you advocating they put in the game?

I’m not suggesting they put anything in the game. My comments in this thread dealt exclusively with a general opinion on convenience and cosmetic vs. functional.

The patch is really nice, but it didn’t address ALL of my concerns. It did make some very nice changes, though.

STIHL.2489:

Celtic Lady.3729:

You’re not making any sense. I’m saying that if they added mounts that they specifically made to move faster than we do running, then the mounts wouldn’t be purely cosmetic.

You are suggesting they put in some stupid store item I need to buy to maintain optimal run speed? No thanks.

No, I’m not suggesting that. lol

flog.3485:

Srsly people what is the point of soloing a map that is supposed to bring end-game content? Even in core tyria there is stuff you can’t solo: try to solo Orr temple events, try to solo world bosses: here is a hint, you can’t. The thing is, some players here just hate any form of difficulty whatsoever. Sometimes, I am really having a hard time believing some here like the game, or worse, like playing games

Why on earth would you assume these people are talking about soloing group events specifically? No one expects to solo a large group event or a world boss. You seem to be missing the point entirely.

STIHL.2489:

Celtic Lady.3729:

A speed boost is temporary. Given a choice, I’d rather have a one-time purchase of a mount for always rather than a speed boost I have to keep buying. And if they made the mounts run faster than we already do, their use would be more than cosmetic.

We can already run faster then horses, as such a mount in GW2 is Purely Cosmetic.

You’re not making any sense. I’m saying that if they added mounts that they specifically made to move faster than we do running, then the mounts wouldn’t be purely cosmetic.

I appreciate several things about the update:

I like the monetary reward for doing dailies.
I like the new WvW reward tracks. I hope it brings more people out to WvW.
I like the XP increase in HoT.
I like the new reward system for HoT events.
I like the new, more detailed LFG.

For sure, the 2 g from dailies, and I love the new WvW reward tracks. I also like the extra XP from HoT maps and I like the new reward system out there for the events.

The only caveat I have is the WvW reward tracks seem to reward you much, much more slowly than the PvP ones do. If I could ask for a change, it would be to speed up the rewards of the WvW line to make it more comparable to the PvP line.

STIHL.2489:

Celtic Lady.3729:

There’s nothing wrong with a game having mounts so people can get around faster. Overall, they appear to be very popular in the MMOs that have them. For whatever reason, GW2 decided not to have them. Maybe they just wanted to be different. Maybe they didn’t want to do the work of making them and sustaining them. Maybe they thought players would think the map waypoint system would be way cooler or more convenient.

Overall, I think the waypoint system is more convenient. But on maps where they’ve – chosen not to have very many – that’s when I think a mount system would be more convenient since I can get out my mount anywhere.

I seriously doubt, however, that the non-mount system will be changed. I think they’d make a killing in the gem store with them, but then they’d also have to deal with an entirely new system they’ve never had before, so I don’t think it will happen.

I’m going to respond to this directly, with something I already said.

STIHL.2489:

I don’t have any issues with mounts.

We already have: a Magic Carpet mount, a Flying Broom mount, and a Tunneling Drill mount.

Now, before anyone says anything about how those are not “mounts” we as players can already outrun Moa’s Giant Dogs, Wolves, Deers, Panthers, Lions, and all manner of animals that would be faster then horses, any animal we could use as a mount in GW2 would in fact run slower then we can, so Mounts would purely exist for cosmetic purposes, assuming they did not in fact slow us down.

With that understood, I could see other kinds of fun mounts, like maybe a Miniature Tricycle, Pogo Stick, an Asura style “Hoverboard”, or a Charr Gear Bike. There is a whole realm of ideas for cosmetic Mounts in GW2. Including, for those that would want it, the iconic majestic stallion, perhaps made of fire or even as a steam creature, that leaves flaming hoof prints. But regardless of what mount we had, in the end, we would be able to outrun it on our own two feet, because we can outrun everything else.

However, I think the real reason why we don’t have legions of cosmetic mounts, as collectible and available as mini’s, is because no one was really into them, or Anet would have made more of them.

Now if all you need is a Movement Increase, they sell, Speed Boots which will do what you need.

Mounts are purely a cosmetic thing.

A speed boost is temporary. Given a choice, I’d rather have a one-time purchase of a mount for always rather than a speed boost I have to keep buying. And if they made the mounts run faster than we already do, their use would be more than cosmetic.

mysterion.1276:

penelopehannibal.8947:

mysterion.1276:

I wonder why they made a category for RP but not for sellers. /:

Because selling items on LFG (as apposed to selling dungeons, raids, SAB levels etc) is against the rules, so I think they just don’t want to encourage it!

But selling achievements and raids is officialy allowed, and thats what im doing but theres no category for it (I was waiting 4 hours to get one buyer then I surrendered. Normaly it took me 20mins to get full party of buyers.

But I see people selling things like crafting materials on the LFG. It’s not just selling instances.

Zdenny.2704:

I personaly like the new overhaul of the LFG system, but it’s very bad when Squad leaders are taxing ppl to event maps. My problem is when the map is full the squad leaders dont delete their taxi requests.. there are too many request in living word tab and its so frustrating and confusing to find a group which is not on full map. And im keeping and keeping to find some for few mins till i found some empty one and join to already finished event.

It really has to be done something with this issue.

I was having this problem, too. Every advertised squad I tried to join were all in full maps and they didn’t seem to know or care that they kept advertising full maps no one can join. I had to finally give up.

Adding more daily options wouldn’t bother me.

I just hope that since I have HoT, all my event dailies from now on aren’t only going to be in HoT maps. I’ll miss event dailies in other maps around the world if that is now the case.

There’s nothing wrong with a game having mounts so people can get around faster. Overall, they appear to be very popular in the MMOs that have them. For whatever reason, GW2 decided not to have them. Maybe they just wanted to be different. Maybe they didn’t want to do the work of making them and sustaining them. Maybe they thought players would think the map waypoint system would be way cooler or more convenient.

Overall, I think the waypoint system is more convenient. But on maps where they’ve – chosen not to have very many – that’s when I think a mount system would be more convenient since I can get out my mount anywhere.

I seriously doubt, however, that the non-mount system will be changed. I think they’d make a killing in the gem store with them, but then they’d also have to deal with an entirely new system they’ve never had before, so I don’t think it will happen.

DoctorDing.5890:

Elden Arnaas.4870:

Or you could, um, you know, just butt out and leave them alone? If it offends you that they’re having issue with this, then you must really struggle dealing with people out in the real world.

Not offended. Just amused at the OTT QQ’ing over something you got for free.

You’re just as guilty as they are because you’re QQing about their supposed QQing. And let’s be honest here – QQing about other peoples’ concerns is way more annoying than the original concerns expressed could ever be.

djaim.8472:

this thread is not easy to follow cause of wildkittens useless discussion

I agree. And his/her arguments aren’t even accurate from a modern programming standpoint. Much of what is being purported isn’t even really relevant to the discussion. And no, a customer doesn’t have to be an expert in the field to have an opinion on their own gameplay. Suggestions don’t equal complaining.

And it only makes sense to have the shared storage at the top if a person’s personal way of organizing causes that to make sense. Otherwise, it makes more sense to have it elsewhere. I get it that they had to put it somewhere, although someone suggested that the shared storage be an optional add-on. Don’t know how hard that would be, but it sounds like a good option to be able to opt out of it if you choose.

Seera.5916:

But that doesn’t mean that players can’t voice their opinions that they would like it to be movable.

I agree completely. No one has the right to enter a thread and tell others what they can or can’t post. It’s also not anyone’s place to cast judgment on another’s motives for voicing their opinions. If enough people mention wanting something, it may very well be made more of a priority in the future.

guildwarrior.6304:

As happy as I am about the patch, I can’t help but feel after so much hard work and labor we’ve gone through, it’s now just being handed out to everyone on a silver platter. So much gold, gems, time spent and now it’s being given out for free. Thanks though?

I don’t understand what you think is so unfair. We got a free shared slot and we got a free level 80 booster along with some minor goodies. It’s not like they’ve given all HoT purchasers a free precursor or something. The freebies are nice, but they’re hardly game-breaking.

Even though it only takes me 3-5 minutes to complete my dailies, I still haven’t been doing them. The 2g is an incentive for me since I don’t really make a lot of gold each time I play. For me, this is a fabulous return on my time and will help me with some expenses I’m incurring right now making another legendary.

I’m trying to figure out if I want to use it on a new character or not. I guess I could and run the Human story for a BL key. lol

Mea.5491:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Mea.5491:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Do the WvW Reward Tracks work in EOTM or do you need to play in EB and the Borderlands in order to advance it?

They do work in EotM!

Fabulous! I need to log on and check it out.

I had to stop farming, whole EotM squad crashed 3 times, our awesome commander got mad and left, lol… Waiting for crash fix now…

Wow! You weren’t kidding about the crashing. I can’t seem to stay in WvW. :/

DoctorDing.5890:

You can probably earn 2g in less time than it takes to do the dailies.

Not the way I do dailies. lol

Mea.5491:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Do the WvW Reward Tracks work in EOTM or do you need to play in EB and the Borderlands in order to advance it?

They do work in EotM!

Fabulous! I need to log on and check it out.

Do the WvW Reward Tracks work in EOTM or do you need to play in EB and the Borderlands in order to advance it?