Guild Wars 2

Key farming is making a character, running it up high enough to complete the personal story to level 10 because that’s the instance that awards a BLC key. Rinse and repeat.

That’s so you’ll buy 2 packs for a set of armor. It’s all about money.

I’m glad they’ve decided to add a semi-wardrobe to the game. It’s not a real wardrobe since you still need transmutation items. Ideally, once you unlock a gear piece, you’d be able to apply that anyway you like, on whoever you like, whenever you like – infinitely. Still, for a game whose appearance system has thus far been in the Dark Ages compared with most other MMOs, this is at least a little something.

It still doesn’t seem to solve the ridiculous limiting of the town clothes system unless I’ve missed something, we still can’t switch up town clothes looks to armor and back again.

Not too happy with the 3/1 ratio conversion for transmutation stones/crystals. I’ll lose a lot of stones with this and be kitten from the git-go. Also, no doubt transmutation charges will not be dropping from doing the cities. Now, you can get more stones by doing the city completions. I’m guessing this will no longer be possible.

So, if zerker is still top dog after the nerf, then what’s the point of this? Are we really saying that Anet devs are too stupid to do the math and know this?

It can be frustrating when so much gameplay relies on RNG, which sucks for some of us and works for others. I try to minimize my expectations accordingly, For instance, I’ve been playing since launch and haven’t had a precursor for a drop yet unlike some others that get one on average of one per month since they’re been playing. You can get rather rich that way.

All MMOs have grind. The grind just varies with each game. Usually, though, if someone in this game thinks leveling is a grind, they’re trying to get to 80 by playing only one section of the world – i.e. Krytan regions if they’re human, Ascalon if they’re charr. Leveling goes much more quickly and easily if you throw in all the other regions different from your race area.

So long as 80s can instantly unlock everything for free (as you mentioned) I’d be cool with this. Not sure what will happen with partially complete characters like level 40s for instance that have bought 2 of their trait books but haven’t bought the 3rd one for level 60 yet.

Most players want expansions at some point. MMOers are used to expansions and they like them. This doesn’t mean, however, that Anet will make them. They like their living story disposable content, so that may be the expansions here. Company’s going to do what it wants not what players expect.

I really don’t get why the troll in HotW was changed in the first place.

Your post (which has nothing to do with mine, anyway) doesn’t change the fact that this isn’t making anything “easier.” “Less often” doesn’t mean “easier.”

It seems to me that the vast majority of players leave MMOs because they get bored or dislike a particular change that happened. They move on to other games.

I really don’t see why dyes couldn’t be tradeable as they are now but become account-wide when you double-click to use it.

Traits are so easy to understand, I had no idea what they were talking about with making them easier for new players. This new system doesn’t seem to make anything simpler, it just means traits start later and you get them a lot less often. Don’t see how that equates to “easier.”

Why would China get account-wide dyes while we have character-per dyes?

I was hoping “looks” referred to cosmetics and outfits and we’d finally get a wardrobe that doesn’t require the constant use of transmutation stones and buying multiple sets of exotic gear just to have a different look.

Facilitating Friendly Play – making it impossible to kick group members while standing at the last boss chest in a dungeon.

I just leveled a character and got several pop-up tutorials all throughout levels 1-20, including ones that explained the (already ridiculously easy to understand) trait points system.

They have several trait tutorials now, so confusion isn’t an issue any longer.

Having trait points to assign frequently has been something that new players really enjoy and look forward to. Also, lower end content will be more difficult, and therefore less enjoyable, without any traits till 30.

Right now we can get all our traits for a cost of 3 gold 10 silver. If the new traits, which will all be bought individually, cost a lot as some have speculated (100 g per trait) that would mean a lot of players will not be able to buy any traits.

Haha! Yeah, I’m not much for the punk colors. I like more realistic color options.

I wouldn’t mind seeing some hair colors that don’t look like you dunked your character’s head in a vat of blue or purple dye while she was drunk.

1. Permanent content
2. Permanent content
3. Permanent content

I don’t play alone. I’m in a small guild of friends and we often play together. Our guild is too small to take advantage of any of the guild events they’ve added to the game and none of us play for hours at a time, but there is a social aspect when we’re on.

The profession imbalances with regards to dungeon runs has caused a lot of players to move on to other games. The short answer when someone asks what profession they should be making is warrior, maybe guardian. Otherwise, they find themselves more or less locked out of content later. Guilds help a little.

The problem with the recent events that showed a distinct lack of balance was that the constantly failing events have convinced a lot of people that this game is lacking players. I saw a lot of comments in chat about how this game must be doing badly since they obviously don’t have enough people for their events. Some of us tried to tell them this was more about badly planned events than population, but no one really seemed convinced.

I have to admit that after the LS I’ve been conditioned to look for the latest zerg event. It feels weird not to have one anymore.

There’s no shame in leaving a game you’re bored with to play another one. Check out some of the many other MMOs out there. New ones are always coming.

Technically, if a game is still online, it’s not really dead. All MMOs have people; they just might not have very many. If there’s still one player left, then I guess the game is not dead, so yeah, GW2 and various other MMOs are not dead.

I think he’s funny as heck. And I’m not the only one either. lol

Yeah, yeah, we know. Has nothing to do with our discussion about the problem itself.

I have to say that Evon’s personality is light-years better than Kiel’s. She seems so serious and dull by comparison. Gnashblade is often hilarious. Kiel couldn’t crack a joke if it was an egg and she sat on it.

Then spores should be gatherable like food items. The events themselves seem a little out of place now.

Yes, she means her interests are in keeping with the College of Statics.

Yeah, in between the extremes of too much and not enough is what we call balance.

The hiccups were stupid and distracting and made what I presume was supposed to be a serious scene seem cheesily comical. I kept thinking that she wasn’t going to be any help at all – a dumb blonde that comes to a fight drunk.

I just want the vistas to go back to the way they were before.

Not gonna happen, but still…

I never saw the cutscene, either.

Not sure why looters in a town populated by pirates is a problem exactly.

Nunna.6413:

lesbian wedding next? lmao

Gosh, I hope not. Some things are best left to the dark.

The whole relationship fell flat. Like an episode of Life in the Dreamhouse where Barbie tells Ken, sorry, but she’s decided to play for the other team.

The leg wasn’t even in a cast. It didn’t look broken at all.

I liked the ending scene well enough but the choices regarding Scarlet were unsatisfying. After reading her diary, I wouldn’t say I was exactly sympathetic about her death, but I wasn’t in a partying mood, either. The bar scene acts like an amoral person died with no other losses to worry about.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

That would make sense, if there was a mistake to begin with.

There was.

Cool! I just got this in-game mail saying that my points in WvW had been refunded! I didn’t have to check the forum or anything! I just got informed in a helpful way that something had happened that affects my character. Wasn’t that nice? Whodathunk?

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

But then, it’s still better than Twilight.

Made me laugh.

I always wondered why those guys required finishing like in PvP. Of course, it never occurred to me to waste gems on finishers because of it.

kotgewitter.3657:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Moshari.8570:

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JustTrogdor.7892:

Look, you were given a window to spend heirlooms. It was advertised and promoted in the last week. Just because you were or were not thinking about what to spend them on does not matter. You didn’t spend them within that window, sorry you lose out.

“Advertised and promoted” would imply that they put it out there everywhere so that no one would miss it, rather than a single post in the “news and announcements” section of the forum. Had they placed it in the Login section of the game, I would have seen it. Had they done an in-game email, I would have seen it. Had they made an announcement in ALL of the relevant forums (such as this one and the living story one, and the general game one) I would have seen it. And had they done all of that advertising and promotion…I would be right there with you agreeing with you 100% But I feel that if I missed it….and I visit the forums at least once every other day, I read every announcement on the login screen (even about gem-store items), I read every in-game mail and actually talk to vendors and surrounding people…If I missed it…then there were a TON of people that never saw it at all.

I would not call what they did “Advertised and promoted”…..I would call it “Mentioned”. SO you cannot blame people for missing it and simply say “it was out there”

That reminds me of “hitchhikers guide to the galaxy” when they are destroying the earth to make a new transgalactic highway and the humans are saying “WTF??” and the aliens simply say…“Hey, the form was filed with the galactic central office, it was located, on display in subbasement 57 of the galactic central offices. Its not our fault you did not have the means to travel between the stars to go and see it.”

Bookmark the following links in your browser. That way you don’t miss updates:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates

but if I only check those….I would have also gotten rid of all of my blade shards….since they told me to keep those in a different forum.

And what if I don’t read the forums? Like I said, also speaking for several of my guildmates who are stuck with stacks of these as well….one played with me last night and planned on jumping on this morning to use his (just in case) (which truthfully I did also)…but missed out opportunity because this time, they patched early.

I would count this as “player error”. Just because you missed a confirmation from a Dev forum post, doesn’t mean the company should bend over backwards to assist you. Here’s another link you may want to bookmark in your browser:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/devtracker

I actually do read devtracker….however its easy to miss something in there when the devs are posting a LOT (for bugs etc)….because, I missed it there.

To all the people arguing against it…in what way does it hurt you to bring the vendor back for a week? Or to add it to the new “blade shards” vendor that is supposedly coming?

Just curious why some people are arguing so hard that ANET should not bring the vendors back….to be honest, it really doesn’t hurt me much…I probably missed out on like 8 obsidian shards from all the belongings I had….and I have 6 million karma I could spend on that….but I am arguing FOR it for the people that missed out. So I am curious why some people are arguing against it?

It’s not fair for those who do read Dev posts, and subsequently turn in all our trophies in a timely manner.

If every player knew about the time limit, then it could be “not fair” for those who did it in a timly manner.
Or you can call it unfair for the player who farmed those items and cannot use them anymore.
But I think, if the majority of players don´t even know about the time limt, then there shouldn´t be a question abot “Fair or not fair?”. This a problem with the communication between anet and the players. If they have an important change, which directly affects the player, why dont announce it in the patch-notes or send everyone a short letter? My personal favorite is a small pop-up-window ingame, so it doesn´t spam the mailbox.
With that even those players who don´t use the forum or don´t use twitter (or whatever) and are playing GW maybe once every 2/3 weeks will know it.

The fairness non-argument makes no sense and never did. There are better ways to communicate and I assume Anet is learning from their mistakes as they go.

20 gold? Excuse me while I turn my head so as not to rudely laugh in your face. If you want a deal, you’re going to have to pony up more than pocket change.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Vendors won’t be back. Sorry for your luck.

I think they will actually, but your opinion is interesting anyway.