Guild Wars 2

OP,

We’ve gone round and round and round with ANet on this issue. They’re not gonna budge. For the record, however, I personally agree with you. It was way more fun to have all those skills to chose from and experiment with and create teambuilds with.

GW1 is far superior to this…in so many ways…not just this one…

Cheers

/15 characters

Paradox.5498:

Not correct, february will be the first month rewarding laurels for the monthly achievement. January still rewards the old way.

What’s your source?

slash.5428:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

“When it’s done.”

:D

Let’s all report this user for trolling

Yus! I agree…

GW ST is amazing. It’s a shame that GW2 put no thought or imagination into it and just randomly recycles GW1 ST music. It’s really kinda dumb to be in the Cliffside Fractal and hear Nightfall theme music…and that’s just one example.

Sort of off topic, but sort of on topic:

Anyone else feel that the attention to detail in this game is little to non-existent?

Frankly, I don’t want to see Ascended gear at the TP. I don’t want to see Legendary gear at the TP, either. As long as people can buy gold with real money, I think it’s crap that they can just spend it on gear that they never had to actually earn.

No thank you.

OP:

Sorry this happened to you. Many of us were under the impression, when we bought Guild Wars 2, that this would never, ever happen. It’s a big reason why we bought Guild Wars 2. We were sick of WoW-like games where you constantly had to grind out your gear so you could play the content.

Unfortunately, ArenaNet is able to say that they never said that there wouldn’t be vertical progression in Guild Wars 2. And well, they never did come out and say that exactly. Where millions of Guild Wars fans all got the impression that there would never be vertical progression is anyone’s guess. Mass delusion, or something. It certainly never said “no vertical progression” here:

http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

…although the 8th paragraph under “rethinking combat” is intriguing…

Anyway. Feel glad that after all that time, money, and effort that you put into getting your character set up just how you wanted, you can now spend more time, money, and effort to get even better gear. Doesn’t that sound fun?

Cody Crichton.7516:

Hello, and thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to post about the issue with all sylvari females “yipping” occasionally when they take damage. A bug was found with one of the sound files—yes, a bona fide bug and not a matter of taste. The problem was fixed in a previous patch. I believe the fix came through with the Wintersday content.

Everyone who was plagued by the issue, feel free to play your female sylvari characters again and let us know what you think!

Thanks Cody! It’s nice to get a response
And thanks for fixing this!

I’m sick of the same. I’ve mentioned it in other threads, as have many other people. Nobody from ArenaNet has responded to any of it, however.

Bailey.6892:

Did the payed transfers go in now? What else went in?

O well was thinking of having our guild (to small to make a difference) move to a lower pop server to see if maybe their we could be of more use.

No, they start on the 28th. You’ve got until then to move your guild, for free. Good luck!

I’d think the best way to get their attention would be for the entire community to stay away from the Gem store.

Sadly, I’m suspicious that there are just enough people with too much money and too little sense that are buying loads of gems and turning them to gold for them to not really care.

It’s a crying shame that you can buy a legendary with real money….

So…I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere.

Are all the audio fixes that have been promised since launch going to be in the update next week?

Please say yes

I went with Jazz standards for GW2…because they are creative and fun

Satin Doll
April In Paris
Minor Mood
Chameleon
Stella By Starlight

Oops forgot the screenshot. Here it is.

I get a graphics bug where ropes flicker between white and brown. These ropes are generally part of wooden platforms. For example, the wooden ramp structure at the beginning of the Snowblind Fractal, or the wooden ramp structures all throughout the cliffside fractal.

I’ve attached a screenshot.

My machine:

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I think the GW system of skills and builds is far, far superior to the GW2 system.

Builds for PvP, PvE, dungeons, farming, AB, JQ, FA, anything!
Individual builds, team builds, hero builds….so many fun possibilities.

I really feel cubbyholed in GW2.

Just wondering who’s active at off-peak times on the North American servers. I’m essentially looking to see if there are any large, active groups on in the morning to early afternoon timeframe, server time.

Leablo.2651:

Without specifics, it’s hard to know where to draw the line. In general, if you find that you are constantly in disagreement with the 4 other people in your party, then chances are good that you are that guy. The one who ruins PUGs because he expects everyone else to play how he wants instead of how the majority of the group wants. If this particular issue is a deal-breaker for you, then you should state very clearly up front when joining a party that you’re not willing to play in any way that is not clearly intended by the developers. Otherwise you are a submarining the PUGs that you join.

Asking people not to take advantage of glitches and bugs is pretty reasonable, I think.

If there are mobs that you can just skip by running through or around them – well, I don’t see that as an exploit. You haven’t “broken” anything, or taken advantage of something that’s broken. Maybe the group wants to skip, but you want to kill them. This could be a case of “that guy” if you cause a wipe or rage or whine because you didn’t get your way.

On the other hand…

Bypassing an area because you can stack up and use an engineer turret to get through a piece of terrain that you’re not supposed to get through is not how the dungeon was designed to be played. Stacking on a boss so it keeps dropping the hammer when it’s not supposed to is not how the dungeon was designed to be played. These are not viable strategies against designed mechanics. These are taking advantages of bugs, and exploiting them.

So here it’s not a case of being “that guy” who wants everything done his way. It’s a case of knowing that people are doing something that they shouldn’t be doing, and not wanting to participate, and not feeling that it’s right to ask anyone else to do it, either.

Make sense?

I like this

/15char

Hey all,

I like to play with randoms sometimes. It’s often a great way to meet new people and learn new ways of doing things. I agree, sometimes things can go horribly wrong, but I find that mostly people are pretty nice, and it’s enjoyable to play together.

I’ve only got one thing I’d like to bring up about this:

I’m constantly being asked by randoms to exploit glitches, especially in Fractals of the Mists. And sometimes, players actually get upset and rage when I decline.

Think about this.

You may have noticed that ArenaNet bans people who exploit.

It’s extremely rude to ask someone to risk a ban just to make your dungeon easier. It’s very presumptuous to assume that you have the right to risk someone else’s account.

If you’re with randoms, Do not ask people to exploit glitches. Ever.

Just play the game, and if you find a bug, report it.

Colin,

Thanks for being active in this thread. Many people have wished that ArenaNet would be more involved in the community, and communicate more with the players. The transparency you mentioned in your blog post is key.

Keep it up, and please encourage other staff members to spend some time on the forums frequently, too.

I suspect that the forums in general would be a much more positive place, as well!

Moderators,

I think I should have posted here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/January-Issues-with-character-art-weapons-or-armor/first#post1204903

Instead of creating a new post. Can you please move it there?

I’d love to have more alts. Sadly, 80 levels per alt is a real drag, and quite the disincentive. Seriously, what MMO has 80 levels at launch? ugh…

Here’s a screenshot of the bug.

Vision of the Mists looks like one sword in preview, but when equipped it looks like two swords.

Suggest making it actually look like its preview. The “two sword” look is rather disappointing.

Aurora Glade!

15chars

There are nice people, there are jerks. Only you get to decide if you’re having more fun playing faster with jerks, or slower with nice people.

For me, the friends I’ve made online have lasted through many, many different games.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

They don’t need to have permission.

The weapons are not exact copies of the ones in GW2.

Isn’t that what Vanilla Ice said about the bassline in Ice Ice Baby? It’s not an exact copy of Bowie/Queen’s Under Pressure?

XD

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

G…As long as it doesn’t bite us all in the kitten by the non RP servers refusing to join our parties …

When did we get RP servers?

Clearly your character has termites. Ewww. Keep him away from my Sylvari!

Unable to “pick up” or “interact” with objects whilst autoattacking with scepter. Kind of a pain in the Jade Maw Fractal when you really want to pick up a Reflecting Shard.

Satin Doll

lol I kinda know how the OP feels…I know a couple people that seem to get everything, whilst the rest of us get a good drop about once a year. Oddly enough, the luck they had in GW seems to have carried over to GW2.

Kaizer.7135:

Faction.4013:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/167irk/post_snowflake_ban_full_refund/

Seems more than a few are getting refunds.

What the?…

He’s spent SO much money on gems holy crap, I haven’t even spent a dime but this guy…. lmfao, is this how people get their Legendaries?

Yea and as long as there are a few people out there that spend that kind of money, they don’t have to care about the opinions of the enormous number of people who either don’t buy gems, or just buy a few on occasion.

And, given that almost every Fractal group I get into has someone with a Legendary nowadays, I’m pretty sure that people are just buying them, and not actually earning them.

As long as Legendaries can be bought, I’m not getting one. For all anyone knows, I just dumped real-life money into it. My sets of Obsidian Armor in GW1 were a matter of pride, because whenever you see someone wearing it, you know they put in the work. Not so with GW2 Legendaries.

I’m losing my taste for this game more and more. And it’s all to do with they way they are running that cash shop.

MaideN.3284:

what the hell guys?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_weapons

read the description of the fractal weapons.. no wait, i’ll copy+paste it for ya:

Fractal weapons are Exotic weapons that drop in the higher levels (20+) of the Fractals of the Mists. These weapons are account bound when received out of the Daily Reward Chest. Fractal weapons do not have attributes nor weapon sigils on them. It is intended that players use Fine Transmutation Stones to combine the look of a Fractal weapon with the stats of another weapon.

check out all you need to know about fract weapons.

" It is intended that players use Fine Transmutation Stones…"

Which can only come from the cash shop. Anyone else see where they’re going with this?

Good thing those are some seriously ugly skins.

/eyeroll

15chars

Yes. I enjoyed GW1 for YEARS and never wanted new gear. I kept coming back to GW1 from other MMOs because I was SICK AND TIRED of having to upgrade my gear all the dang time.

Ascended gear is the biggest disappointment in MMOs, ever. I could have played any other MMO and ground out gear. I wanted to play GW2 so I WOULDN’T HAVE TO!

Thanks for listening to your fans, ArenaNet, and keeping everything that was great about Guild Wars (/sarcasm).

Yea, me too. I miss my Monk from Guild Wars a lot. It was a very fun, versatile class.

Yea it’s pretty much make or break time for me.

After the Karka debacle, and the huge amount of trust that ANet has lost from their playerbase due to both the Ascended Gear thing and the way we’re being funneled into grind or Trading post, it’s definitely time to see if they start charting a course back to their Manifesto.

If the level cap raises, or we get gear higher than ascended, or we keep having to “pay to win” then this is not the game for me.

Moreover communication from ANet needs to be more frequent, more responsive to the players, have less marketing spin, and not on websites that most people dont subscribe to (i.e. Reddit).

Gorwe.9672:

On topic: I feel GW1 within GW2. Faintly, but it is there. Sadly, it feels Like today’s ANet is totally different ANet from the GW1 heyday. Shame…

Agree. I think this is where the crux of the problem lies. The communication is poor, and everything alluded to in the Manifesto is largely wrong.

Since it took waaaaaaaaaay to long for them to develop this, I’ve kind of got the feeling that somewhere in the middle of the process something really big changed. Management philosopy, for one. Other major aspects of the game as well.

Sadly, we’ll never really know. But I’m quite sure that the team that built Guild Wars and started GW2 is different than the one that finished GW2, both in (some) personnell, and in general philosophy.

All speculation, I know…

There’s a pigeon constantly cooing in Divinity’s Reach. It’s a ninja pigeon, because I can’t find it. If I could, I’d throw a rock at it!

Charismatic Harm.9683:

The only way I could see ArenaNet implementing direct trade is if it was a barter system ONLY.

No gold can be transferred during a trade. It could only be item(s) for item(s).

I could happily live with this. When the ele gets a greatsword drop, and the warrior gets a wand, it’d be nice if they could just trade.

Charismatic Harm.9683:

If you thought the message spamming in GW1 was horrible, a direct trade system, even if it was barter only, would be SO much worse.

Didn’t think the message spamming was a problem at all in GW1. Did you notice that you could open your Party menu and look at the Trade window to see what was out there?

At any rate, Map Chat is full of various kinds of spams and juvenile crap as it is. I mostly keep it turned off, anyway. Of course, if a Trade chat were implemented….

Market manipulators…

I wouldn’t care if I wasn’t forced to use the TP to trade with people. In any other game, I can directly trade and not have to deal with such manipulators. Another player and I can agree on a price for something completely independently of anyone else.

But in GW2, not being able to directly trade forces everyone to use market value on items, which makes it very enticing for people to try and manipulate the market.

In GW2, if I want to sell you an item for some price other than what some person with more time and gold than I have has pricefixed on the TP, I’ve either got to trust that you’ll mail me the funds when I mail you the item, or put it on the TP and hope you’re the one who gets to it first, and not one of the manipulators.

I realize that you (ArenaNet) have said that you did away with direct trading because you fear scamming. Please, after months now, you must see that without direct trading, EVERYONE can be scammed by one person. Moreover, trying to circumvent this requires trust between two players, either one of whom may not deliver on the agreement.

Another thought (and I’ve got no evidence for this): logic tells me that many of said manipulators are of the RMT variety. They actually have the gold and time to manipulate markets (heck, it’s their job!).

Please Implement Direct Trading between players! Stop forcing us to use the Trading Post where prices may be driven by manipulators!

Market manipulators…

I wouldn’t care if I wasn’t forced to use the TP to trade with people. In any other game, I can directly trade and not have to deal with such manipulators. But in GW2, not being able to directly trade forces everyone to use market value on items, which makes it very enticing for people to try and manipulate the market.

But if I want to sell you an item for some price other than what’s on the TP, I’ve either got to trust that you’ll mail me the funds when I mail you the item, or put it on the TP and hope you’re the one who gets to it first, and not one of the manipulators.

Moreover, I’ve got no evidence for this, but logic tells me that many of said manipulators are of the Chinese Gold Seller variety.

ArenaNet: Please Implement Direct Trading between players! Stop forcing us to use the Trading Post where prices may be driven by manipulators!

I see a lot of comments in this thread about the gem store. I have to agree with most of it.

In principle, I’m not opposed to the gem store. Cosmetic stuff and whatnot is fun, and I’d be happy to buy it.

But there are three things about the gem store that really are beginning to seem very dodgy and manipulative to me:

1) You can buy gems with cash and then turn it to ingame gold.

2) If you work out how much it costs (in real money) to buy your 5 Fine Transmutation Stones, and then take into account that you actually need 6 to transmute a complete set of armor (so double the price), you might realize just what else you can buy with that kind of money (groceries, for example). The prices really smack of greed.

3) The rarity of certain drops and materials essentially forces players to grind their kitten of, or, spend real money in the store. This was reinforced the first time I saw a Legendary on the TP. Moreover so when you start to realize how expensive MF infusions can get (stack of T6 materials, and all).

This is really starting to seem like B2P, with a lot of Pay to Win thrown in. Not fun.

I am Logan Thackeray. Despite the fact that I ran away, I’m secure in my manhood because of my extra special Thackeray Belt.

Logan Thackeray. Seriously.

Have you seen his belt?

If you stand in LA, in the Traders Forum, just outside the Trading Post building, you’ll see these two NPC’s (“Citizen” and “Scholar”). They have a short, but interesting conversation. Any guesses as to what they’re talking about?

There is no need for that in this game. In fact, not having DPS or Aggro meters clearly illustrates the fact that they are not necessary. You can find a random group and succeed just find without a DPS or Aggro meter.

Keep them away from this game, now and forever.

I’m almost tempted to get my tinfoil hat out again after reading this thread…

I guess I see it pretty simply: Don’t exploit. Period. It ruins the game for everyone.

If you find an exploit that the devs missed, report it.

If you know people who are exploiting, kick them from your guilds and report them.

If you are taking advantage of an exploit, you might want to have a look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself some hard questions about your character.

I don’t care if ArenaNet made a mistake with their coding, or overlooked something. If you exploit, you are making the game suck for me and everyone else, and if I find out about it, I will report you.