Guild Wars 2

Bernie.8674:

Whatever jealousy you’re perceiving in that argument is all in your mind.

There are people on this forum that handle every instance of someone disagreeing with them by screaming that everyone is just jealous of them. It’s all very kindergarten school-yard. And they don’t seem to realize that their saying it doesn’t actually make it true.

I think they want so badly to believe that someone in the world could possibly be jealous of them, they adhere to the whole philosophy of “If I say it often enough, it’ll be true.” Others just want to feel superior by psychoanalyzing complete strangers online, not realizing that this is always 100% inaccurate.

Oh, okay. lol I didn’t realize there are many trains left in the game. The only one that comes to mind atm is the Frostgorge Champ train.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Astralporing.1957:

It is possible to do that with one lucky drop, but yeah, generally that seems quite high for a casual.

Yeah, it came out in another thread that he bought the gold, so there’s our answer.

I’m sorry you’re so JEALOUS that it happened that because it didn’t happen to you, it can’t happen to anyone

lol You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Coffee.7058:

What I love — the people, beauty, and making gold.

Just out of curiosity, how do you make your gold?

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Obtena.7952:

The only mistake that I know of John admitting to was with the sheer amount of Bloodstone Dust players farmed. Something about it being 10 digits more than what he expected.

Do people really farm bloodstone dust? I’ve got more than 20 stacks of it in my vault and I didn’t farm any of it. I wish I could get rid of it.

That must have happened before the Queensdale train was euthanized.

Well, no, I didn’t really do the whole train thing.

Mireles Lore.5942:

Im jusy curious what mmo had fishing and what made it so great?

LOTRO has fishing and it is pointless (unless you cook a lot with fish and most don’t) and boring.

Rift has fishing and it at least gives you more in the way of rewards, like artifacts. So, it’s much less boring than LOTRO’s imo. But it gets boring after awhile, too.

I’m sure there are other games than these. Pretty sure Archeage has fishing, but that game has major, major issues.

DarthMcCoy.8657:

I am seriously hopping that the tomes of knowledge will be disabled from being used by the Revenant class.

I think it’s fairly safe to say that this is never going to happen. Everyone is just going to have to deal with level 80 revs at launch. I don’t know why this would really bother anyone, anyway.

Obtena.7952:

The only mistake that I know of John admitting to was with the sheer amount of Bloodstone Dust players farmed. Something about it being 10 digits more than what he expected.

Do people really farm bloodstone dust? I’ve got more than 20 stacks of it in my vault and I didn’t farm any of it. I wish I could get rid of it.

Astralporing.1957:

It is possible to do that with one lucky drop, but yeah, generally that seems quite high for a casual.

Yeah, it came out in another thread that he bought the gold, so there’s our answer.

I’ve been using the frostbitten tools since Christmas, and I’ve only gotten 2 of them, so the drop rate doesn’t really impress me much. lol

edgarallanpwn.8739:

Celtic Lady.3729:

edgarallanpwn.8739:

I got 550g in my 1st month casually playing. Don’t see an issue

Guys, this dude is just making it all up. If you look at his other posts, you’ll see that this number keeps shifting. It was 300 g his first month, then it was 500 g his first month, now it’s 550 g his first month. My guess is he’s got around 2 – 5g in his pocket, if that.

Considering my first month hadn’t finished yet, but i guess if you want to meet in game to see the 200g i have on hand on top of the 300+g i just dumped on dyes and mordrem weps, but hey. Item values don’t lie.

I never said HOW i got it. I probably got really lucky. I found multiple high value exotics, such as rhendaks ring(75g at the time) and sold my crustacea for 170g. Thats and easy 250g right there. Factor in exotics selling anywhere from 2-30g depending on the ex, plus all the rares i sold(not farming legendaries anytime soon) so the 20-50s a piece per rare too while farming boss runs(which took no effort or time) while i study

Yeah, I still don’t believe any of this, but my opinion shouldn’t really bother you. lol However, we all enjoy a good rant on the forums now and again, so you’re welcome.

Rauderi.8706:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

It isn’t a concern of mine and your quote is completely irrelevant to my point.

Ignore him. He’s been making irrelevant points for the last several pages now

The silk discussion is interesting, no doubt, but it’s amusing how many people are pretending to know anything about either economics in general or this game’s economics in particular. It’s fairly easy to tell which is which, though.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

I got 550g in my 1st month casually playing. Don’t see an issue

Guys, this dude is just making it all up. If you look at his other posts, you’ll see that this number keeps shifting. It was 300 g his first month, then it was 500 g his first month, now it’s 550 g his first month. My guess is he’s got around 2 – 5g in his pocket, if that.

Kal Spiro.9745:

I do not expect either of those to ever get the grandmaster treatment.

Ascended food is silly, and the jewelry is already available for laurels.

I seriously doubt they’ll permanently keep an imbalance for 2 out of 8 crafting professions. Besides, why is ascended food silly? That’s just an opinion, and who says the food for 400-500 has to be ascended using bloodstone dust, etc. materials, anyway. It could be something else entirely.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

It isn’t a concern of mine and your quote is completely irrelevant to my point.

GW2’s daily log-in rewards do seem to be superior overall to those of other games, such as LOTRO and Rift. I’ll actually log in to this game for those rewards, but the other 2? Their daily rewards are so pointless, I never log in for that reason.

The number of people making 1000s of gold a day trading on the TP is likely comparable to the number of people in the current sPvP world competition. This kind of TP trading is simply not accessible to most players playing the game. If it was, we’d be seeing a far different economy than we now do.

It does seem odd. Why have fractals on there and not dungeons? The last time I did a fractal set, it took way longer than my favorite dungeon runs.

Wouldn’t mind the new daily system so much if I could still get AP for each daily I choose to complete.

I’d be surprised if both masteries and specializations weren’t gated behind the new expansion.

That’s the thing with grind discussions. ArenaNet has a very narrow definition of grind that allows them to make their claims. But this gets lost in translation because the average MMO player doesn’t relegate the definition of grind to simply “leveling up” or “getting top gear.” Most people consider the game as a whole and when you do that, there is a lot of grindy stuff in GW2, so the game’s claim seems outrageously untrue to most people coming into the discussion.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Logging in now to buy all the mini Kasmeers.

Like I said, people are going to lose a lot of money on this.

Yeah, if a player loves repeating content in the Silverwastes over and over again, then getting their silk for ascended will be fun. It’ll prolly still take a while, though, because I’m very skeptical of people claiming they can get all the silk they need in just a day or two of this.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

i made 500g in a month as a casual player

That number seems rather inflated…

SidewayS.3789:

• WvW removed from map completion

Wow, can’t believe they’re actually doing this. I remember all the people asking for it and all the people making fun of them, saying L2P and this will never happen.

Look who’s laughing now.

This is like the guys playing girls that say they’re RL girls so people will give them money.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

I don’t know dude, I find sPvP and WvW pretty fun and I don’t even have to waste hours and hours on it, nor does the OP. He could jump right in and go straight to the good stuff. No need to do hours upon hours of boring stuff.

If you’re saying that you can sPvP right out of the intro, I don’t think that’s actually possible for new players to do any longer. I heard you have to get to level 22 to sPvP now.

Every time I go into Southsun Survivor, I have to spend several minutes as a mote, which is what I am the minute I enter the game.

Yeah, but no one knows if that recipe is going to be any good or not, so people won’t necessarily buy more Kasmeers for inflated prices based on that information.

My guess is someone is going to lose a LOT of money on this.

What this means is that most of us haven’t ever seen our own characters in the cutscenes for the Arah story dungeon.

It’s the one reason I’d like to be able to solo the final instance of the personal story. For all the previous stories, my hero is the one in the cutscenes. It’s jarring to see a completely strange character in that place instead. It takes away from the feeling that this is, in fact, your own character’s story.

Why would you buy them at all?

Well, a lot of people that play games want BiS gear since they feel like they aren’t really “playing” the game unless they get that.

Ascended gear takes a long time to make, but since they’ve said that it’s going to be the highest tier of gear in the game EVER, then if a player can earn it any time before the closing down of the game, they consider this reasonable.

The dungeons would probably be less chaotic if there were one.

Ascended armor, which is BiS gear, is by most peoples’ definition a grind. But since they can say that it’s not required to play the game, then it isn’t a “real” grind.

I think the previous world will be less busy after HoT, but this is true of every MMO. The majority of players are always out in the latest/highest level area. I don’t think there’s any way to avoid it. Some people, like new players buying the game in the future, will be in the lower level areas, but for the most part people won’t be there. They’ll be in the expansion. With ToK, most people don’t even have to level their revenants, making it even less busy than it would have been, from comments I’ve seen.

It’s a gimmick and all businesses know that limited-time gimmicks work.

Like it or not, businesses make more money than unhappy customers with gimmicks.

It would not hurt anything if we received more than 2 silver for hearts at higher levels. The price increase for heart completion is really ridiculously low. At level 70-80, hearts should be awarding somewhere around a gold each.

Why isn’t SAB in the game permanently? Like Southsun Survival, etc.?

Blair.3796:

1. Wings appear in wardrobe. Generate hype.
2. Wings release day announced. Generate more hype.
3. Wings are released to overwhelming hype.
4. Insert key words and phrases such as, “sale” and, “limited time offer” to prompt quick action.
5. Hundreds of players see skin on gem store and, driven by the sneak-peak sale, prepare to buy it.
5.1. Players check the gold conversion, see gems are 800 for ~150 gold.
5.2. Hundreds of players panic that they don’t have the gold and reach for their wallets.
6. Hundreds of players happy with their skin, and Anet has made $10x(number of players who bought 800 gems on the gem store).

Result: resounding success.

See, what Anet did was create a cool* skin and quickly convince a large percentage of their playerbase that they NEED IT NAO. So, they turn a decent profit, while simultaneously convincing players that they just scored on an excellent deal.

Nice list, although, I have to admit that it highlights just how easily manipulated people in general are, which has scary connotations for more important scenarios.

Wanze.8410:

But the TP already provides that function. Just type in the amount of silk you need, and check its gold price. You now know how much gold you need to buy your daily silk.

But not everyone wants the answer to all their in-game needs to be “go buy it on the TP.” Not everyone wants to play this game like it’s the Home Shopping channel.

Glad they’re revamping traits. I sincerely hope the new system gets more alt-friendly rather than less and costs less overall. The system as it is now was such a bad idea and its unpopularity speaks for itself.

The RNG is the way they want it to be. Everyone knows that in a game with low rewards overall, people will buy what they want. This game has a number of ways to get gold, so the rewards need to be low enough to encourage the useage of the system that’s in place.

What is the point of gear pings, anyway? I don’t think you need all ascended gear to actually finish a dungeon, right?

If I can tell that someone in WvW is completing a vista or skill challenge or just getting a POI, I don’t chase down and harrass them. Recognizing that there are non-pvp people on these maps that just want to get their maps done (easy to tell because they often run to predictable places and are often alone) is just being a decent person.

Good luck to you on eventually finishing your map.

Make sure your farming spot isn’t within the borders of a heart. Lots of hearts can be advanced by killing ambient creatures and this is totally acceptable. You don’t have the right to park yourself near a heart and then whine when people kill creatures to finish it. Just sayin.

If you have a lot of tomes of knowledge to burn, then key farming isn’t really that bad even now.

I don’t really mind the tiers, but I wish we could have the old trait system back. It worked just fine and there was no reason to change it.

I often look at achievements in this game and wonder what in the world the employees were thinking, but mostly I wonder if they were sober when they wrote them.

The easiest AP I’ve recently done are slayer ones and pvp ones. Also, weapon master adds up if you play a majority of the classes. There are also dungeon points that aren’t too hard to get and activity points can come in pretty quick, too. I personally think JPs are hard and time-consuming.

If someone in chat is claiming to be an Anet developer should that be reported? If so, under what heading?