Guild Wars 2

…my humans would side with the charr… (I don’t even a charr I just don’t like jennah/Logan)

Idk anything about blacktide, but I’d encourage you to try logging in for reset and try then. Reset usually has the most action/people who may be able to help. (Plus if you run fast enough you won’t actually have to fight…

Or you could always play wvw and start soloing towers and on slow nights keeps.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vera

No. The rewards in Aether path are fine, just a little RNG based (like everything else).
For example: Xanthium (staff that only drops in Aether path) sells for 700g (at least when I picked it up a few weeks ago)

Harper.4173:

zaced.7948:

Harper.4173:

We’ll get back at the Charr for what they did.

taking back what was rightfully theirs? all your puny race could do they have already done. if a massive suicide attack is your best than the feline magnificence has nothing to fear.

If you knew your Guild Wars history you’d know that the land was never theirs. The Charr came from the Northern areas and spread south taking over the land that belonged to the Grawl which were the original race that inhabited that region. They enslaved the Grawl and took the land for themselves.

They weren’t there originally.

Later the humans came and took the land from the Charr pushing them back north.

So if the Charr can push, conquer and call it "Charr land " then by the same rules the humans pushing back the Charr and conquering the area makes it “Human land”.

Also you owe a lot to humans. Don’t forget it was humans who were crucial to your race being set free from their “false gods” and the leadership of the Flame Legion shamans.

No, it means by the same logic if the grawl had risen up and attacked the charr with armies (and tactics I.e. searing) we would be defending their right to do so… Just like we defend the charr.

Charr being set free is almost as beneficial to the Humans as it was to the charr. If the charr still accepted false gods it would likely mean zhaitan would still be alive.

I finished my Kudzu a couple of days ago as well, and at first I wasn’t really impressed. However I would encourage you to go wander around in a high lvl area that isn’t filled with people and start killing stuff, when you crit you leave flowers on your enemies and when you shoot you can hear birds chirping.

Little things that are hard to pick up on when you’re in a group, plus I still think we have the coolest footprint effects.

Doggie.3184:

Ameepa.6793:

No one can steal your gold. You voluntarily gave it away.

Take it as a lesson. It is important for real life too to learn not to trust anyone.

Yeah there’s no trading in this game outside the TP so you gave it away. Stop trying to dodge taxes, the Queen needs those to rebuild LA, or make herself robot slaves, or buy shoes (never happen).

Also, feel free to troll legendary sellers in LFG as they shouldn’t be doing that.

I know no queen. (LA has a captains council)
I would never pay taxes to feed Logan…

Normally I would agree with making it available year round (and certainly if I were in your shoes), but when you think about how easy this item was to get when it was available making it locked into certain times of the year is the best way to ensure that not everyone is walking around with it. (assuming that was the intention on Anet’s part, Mawdrey requires a lot of work so not everyone has it)

Tbh: just delete your frags/dragonite until you have a comfortable supply of them, at this point it isn’t likely that they’re going to introduce something that eats them by the thousands (compared to 50’s now)

Vayne.8563:

I’ve been to most of the other MMOs out there, and they all suck for one reason or another.

Threaten to leave all you want. There isn’t that much to leave to. Every time someone was waiting for the ESOs, or the Wildstars, or the Archeages…those games didn’t stick and ran into all sorts of problems. Now that Sony sold out SOE to an investment firm, I expect that EQ Next is going to have real issues, so where are you going to go?

The grass is always greener on the other side of the street.

So does Gw2 (for different reasons among us, because none of us can say it is a perfect game/communications set up) {Granted though: Gw2 sucks less than the competition}.

ESO is going BTP which for a lot of people puts it on the market for the first time (people who refused the sub from the get-go), and for people that played it at launch an awful lot of the bugs that forced people to leave have been fixed (plus consoles, some of us want to get back to console gaming in some form or other).

We all understand that certain people (you {Vayne} and I) probably won’t leave gw2 anytime soon no matter what Anet does because we have too much invested in the game (and let’s be honest… the forums). However releasing a full priced expansion and only offering 1 set (meaning 1 light, 1 med, and 1 heavy) of in game earned gear would be marketing suicide.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Upgarde-Extractor-price-is-too-high/first#post4665966

Zention.1849:

Okay..two things..

Why are people buying/crafting eternity? The skin looks awesome but so not worth it. You’re freaking lose a legendary by crafting it. You just had two legendaries and get one out of this two, who might have cost/took you ages to buy/craft. So it’s not worth it, that’s at least in my humble opinion.
Also the price of Eternity is well..3,7k (droping of prizes) – each legendary cost 3k ( – therefore eternity should cost sth. around 6k. You are losing a legendary. Can’t understand why people never raged about that.

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I would always save some money, you never know what comes and therefore having some extra cash in your pocket, can..well..save the day. For example a new skin or – I don’t know – cool things.

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On the other hand, I would buy a new legendary now or wait just before the patch. Until then prices will greatly decrease. So it’s up to you.

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Well at the end of the day. It’s up to you. Gold can be farmed again, therefore spending it isn’t that big of a loss. But also keep in mind, that there will be new legendaries. So you might be upset later on, for not waiting. But still the decision is up to you.

Just figured I should let you know,
If you value legendaries at skin value and not stat changing you don’t lose a legendary, you get a free one.

The way the forge works is fairly cool in that
(Account bound legendary + Account bound legendary = non-account bound legendary) Sell the new legendary and you basically got a free legendary skin.

Short people problems…
Tbh: I’ve never noticed but I wouldn’t be bothered by this.

Brahmincorle.1264:

It is designed to be this way. More expensive things mean more ppl buying gems in order to convert them into gold. There is only one real gold sink in this game and it is known as the Mystic Toilet. This thing was very cleverly designed to swallow large quantities of gold and usually get nothing in return… just like real world slot machines. It is clever because it is so demotivating to use it that it persuade even more ppl to buy gems and convert them into gold. Gold is then accumulated on (proportionally to overal population) small number of accounts and since there are no real gold sinks other than mystic toilet or gem shop, it ends up inactive (out of system) on player accounts untill it is ultimately destroyed in mystic toilet or in gem shop (gold exchanged for gems used for puchasing gem shop things is forever lost…).

I don’t think you understand what you’re talking about…
There’s very few ways of throwing gold directly in the forge, and most of them rely on other game mechanics (buying exotics for forging isn’t a gold sink since most of the gold goes to other players and not removed from game. If anything it is an item sink)
…
Gem exchange does not work anything like that at all… When you buy gems (with gold) you’re buying those gems from someone who is selling gems for gold. Certainly there is a large ‘tax’ on the gold —> gems side but most of the gold stays in economy.

Map completion is entirely optional, if you don’t want to do it you don’t have to. The only thing really necessary are WP and all you have to do is walk to unlock them.

P.S. you’re asking for a way to pay to not play the game.

Torsailr.8456:

And next thing you know a horde of skritt just ran off with your house. FOR THE SHINY!

Wouldn’t even be mad….

Bump

I still want to level my engineer but it’ll never happen while the elder dragon “hobo-sack” lives on in Tyria.

Pockets.3201:

grifflyman.8102:

RNG is the best way to reward your fan base for hours of playing…..
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Seriously.

RNG is the best way to waste your players’ time and leave them disappointed.

RNG is the best way to make your players really unhappy… and still keep half of them playing.

I guess the ram items might be a one time thing because the festival is… But I would imagine there will be a sale in the middle of the year to buy it if you want it….

However if you want it you really should just buy it now while its available.
As for the celebration hat, it was a one time thing, and if you don’t currently have it on your account (or at least in the wardrobe) than no you can’t really replace it.

Pretty all of the above light armor salvages into cloth which is needed for damask which is needed for all ascended armor.

Wanze.8410:

NaotsuguLH.8915:

Lazaar.9123:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event

As to the dead bodies specifically: “Events can detect that players have not performed any actions relating to the event within a period of time and will scale down the event accordingly.”

“Within a period of time”. But some events are less than 5 mins, like Silverwastes’ Breach and VW. Most likely the event will fail before the scaling down occurs.

It detects dead people as fast as it detects new players in the vicinity.

But how relevant is that?
People entering the vicinity (and inversely leaving) has nothing to do with their participation. I could believe it was instant except that would mean an encounter might scale down in between attacks (or during a long enough fear, run, or stun)…
So it would almost have to be longer than a few seconds in order to be reasonable.

Artaz.3819:

insanemaniac.2456:

maybe they should have it now so we can all speculate more easily

That and we can have a consolidated place to go to find info.

Info we don’t have yet though…

We don’t really have enough information though… I mean they gave us a lot more than I was expecting but certainly not enough to provide more than a page of viable discussion.

^yep anything that has foot prints is one of the legendaries.

GamerOnline.3650:

Perhaps we should ask for the VIP system while we’re at it if the dragon mini can’t be obtained without it.

Absolutely not, no mini is worth moving such an awful system in to the game. I want the mini just as much as everyone else but that system is horrendous and not worth it…

Added note: the VIP system will never come to the Westernized version of the game, confirmed by higher up.

Sort of… But you won’t get (or get him) banned for it as long as you don’t make it a habbit. (The rules are mostly for account sellers or people that used to sell levels)

Aeolus.3615:

TheDaiBish.9735:

I thought the whole point of these new systems – Mastery and Specialisation – was so that level 80’s would have a way to continue progressing?

They keep progressing but arent those specialization only to be used on the new map?

No. Masteries will only be usable in certain areas, but specializations will be usable everywhere (new heals, skills, traits) so it would be a PR disaster for those not to be included in wvw, PvP, dungeons, etc.

It really depends on a few things, if you try to sell it (even to just break even), how it reflects on Anet (you’re more likely to get sued if they don’t like it), if it feels like you’re competing with them for their customers, other stuff like that….

In truth any kind of fan art (or fan based work like your game) is copyright infringement, however if you can get permission than it’ll make your game a lot safer to develop.

Sorry you’re not happy… But I don’t know what you’re asking or trying to do other than kitten about something a lot of people like.

If you’ve been playing for more than a year your main should have all of the traits/skills unlocked. I hate to say it (mostly because I really hate the new-ish trait system) but if you’re still spending gold on new traits you probably don’t need those traits and you really shouldn’t be buying them now…

If it’s not your main (the problem that most of us are in now), then I would actually encourage you to ignore that character/their traits (or more likely: buy what you need and ignore the rest) because there is a new system that should be incoming with HoT, while we don’t know much about it, it should be an improvement.

pdavis.8031:

Essence Snow.3194:

pdavis.8031:

^^

I didnt factor in each different stat per armor. So 23 different stat types over 6 different skins adds in an additional 828 different pieces, just for light dropped armor. And of course you have about the same for crafted armor, and all the named light armor. So that makes up for the rest, so 3000 isnt that All that far fetched.

Wow plenty of sources for silk…why do people say its so hard to get!?

A lot of players do not like buying everything off the tp. They like going out and getting themselves directly. That’s where the issue lies.

True, but even with just dropped armor there is still tons of silk available. Also in most of the discussions about silk, its those wanting to buy it off the TP that are complaining the most about prices and amounts needed.

In any event it would intresting to see on average per day how much silk is coming in and out.

That would be really cool… but tbh I think it would be cool to see how much of anything comes and goes into the market on a day to day basis… (As long as it isn’t giant eyes)

Seera.5916:

meklin.4530:

Get a guild bank. It doesn’t take much to create, 6g for the first 50 slot guild bank. Just don’t drop the guild if no one else is a member, or else you will lose it all.

Can also store mats you wanna save here too. Just not account bound mats.

Insurance for this is the next time you see the game go on sale, buy a second account. Make the second account also be a member with invite privileges. Then if you accidentally boot your main account, your guild isn’t wiped and your secondary account can re-invite you.

I’d encourage this too, but I don’t know why you would stop at invite privileges if you don’t make the second account a leader of the guild you can’t promote your original account back to leader/ownership of the guild status.

The only advantage for this feature is to keep yourself from spending it… (not judging… I do it too) but you can do this with a guild bank to which it costs a little to get started (buy in on your investment) I personally found it to be totally worth it.

Hopefully this is an acceptable way to solve your problem. Unfortunately as it was stated earlier this was actually removed from the game (with wallet I believe).

Vayne.8563:

Dasenthal.6520:

Sizer.5632:

dietzero.3514:

Dasenthal.6520:

This is not a NPE thing, it’s been in place since launch.

You can’t send more money than you have looted at a time. (Not TP, not vender, not dungeons, straight up looted a few copper at a time)

That is absolutely ridiculous.

And totally made up. It goes by a set time limit, at least 2-4 weeks, but its been so long since I had a new acc no idea what it is exactly.

It is stupid, but think of how much 10g was back at launch, when precursors were selling for 30g, and back then it probably was doing good at holding back gold sellers. It wouldnt be a bad idea to increase it especially if there are a lot of new+returning players in the expansion that might run into this problem.

Btw if you really want to get around it have him buy 10g worth of crafting mats or food or whatever (ideally stuff you will need in the future so you dont pay the TP fee reselling them) and transfer them to you through a guild vault.

Not totally made up… However you’re right about the time schedule (I left it out of my original post because I was in a hurry) however I don’t know what the time was so in no way could I help. The rest of what I said is not wrong.

This is what you said in your original post:

“You can’t send more money than you have looted at a time. (Not TP, not vender, not dungeons, straight up looted a few copper at a time)”

This is absolutely not true. Period. Because I’ve sent more money by far from an alt account to my main than I EVER earned on that account in any way.

Like I said (now bolded). It only applies for a set time, what that time is I don’t know but that is how the limit is set.
I apologize for not getting all the information in one post for you, but when put in proper context I’m not wrong.

Sizer.5632:

dietzero.3514:

Dasenthal.6520:

This is not a NPE thing, it’s been in place since launch.

You can’t send more money than you have looted at a time. (Not TP, not vender, not dungeons, straight up looted a few copper at a time)

That is absolutely ridiculous.

And totally made up. It goes by a set time limit, at least 2-4 weeks, but its been so long since I had a new acc no idea what it is exactly.

It is stupid, but think of how much 10g was back at launch, when precursors were selling for 30g, and back then it probably was doing good at holding back gold sellers. It wouldnt be a bad idea to increase it especially if there are a lot of new+returning players in the expansion that might run into this problem.

Btw if you really want to get around it have him buy 10g worth of crafting mats or food or whatever (ideally stuff you will need in the future so you dont pay the TP fee reselling them) and transfer them to you through a guild vault.

Not totally made up… However you’re right about the time schedule (I left it out of my original post because I was in a hurry) however I don’t know what the time was so in no way could I help. The rest of what I said is not wrong.

Gold/most crafting mats- probably silver wastes, farming events and then bandit chests.

Tbh: you really can’t farm specific mats, you’re better off farming gold to buy the mats or forging them.

Dave.2536:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Dave.2536:

JustTrogdor.7892:

root.9415:

If you are doing map completion in wvw while the maps have queues, you will rightfully be told to GTFO.

Other than that I see no problem with people doing map completion, have fun!

Players doing map completion in WvW, even during queues, have just as much right to be there as anyone else since it is indeed required for map completion. If you don’t like that perhaps you should lobby for removal of WvW from the map completion requirement.

You have the right to do map completion in WvW. You do not have a right to be shielded from being (correctly) told that you are a liability for the server.

Haha okay. You know it is funny. I’ve seen many threads over the years of people complaining about having to do WvW for map completion. One of the most common suggestions aside from waiting for a map to flip is to ask for help in WvW. I guess those suggestions were wrong.

If you think telling people to get lost or how ever else you want to phrase it is helpful for the community then go for it. There is one way to keep people from coming back to maybe benefit their server later in WvW, and that is to insult them and tell them to go away.

Yes, when the map is queued and people are doing useless things they’re going to be asked to be useful or go away. Feelings may be hurt. Sorry not sorry.

Perhaps all those “ask the commander to help you cap something” replies need to be appended with “please don’t make selfish individual requests when the map is queued and there are more important things”.

Maybe then we will have fewer black and white straw man arguments as well.

This… If you have a Queue don’t ask for help. If you have a queue and you’re there for map completion you should understand that you’re basically afk on a teq turret at reset. (I hope that makes sense since its PvE)….

Vayne.8563:

Well whoever said you have to earn enough money in game to cover what you send is completely wrong. That was a guess on their part, but it’s a bad one.

I had a bit of luck on a third account I bought cheap and ended up with a net profit of about 800 gold. It did lock me out of sending that for a while, but by the same token I was able to send it without having earned even 100 gold on that account.

There is a criteria, but it has nothing to do with how much you get.

Uh huh… Bad guess…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Transferring-from-a-New-Account

Edited for bad link (sorry copy/pasting from phone)…

This is not a NPE thing, it’s been in place since launch.

You can’t send more money than you have looted at a time. (Not TP, not vender, not dungeons, straight up looted a few copper at a time)

Jana.6831:

Donari.5237:

NPE = New Player Experience. Last April the game’s first levels changed fairly drastically, removing a lot of the things you used to do in the early part of play and adding in the level reward chests.

No, that was in september.
April: Crit damage nerf, megaservers, trait system, accountwide colour unlock and wardrobe.
September: NPE

Edit: I’m a bit fussy about this as the NPE is not a bad idea in my opinion, the trait system is and people often think they were released simultaneously which they weren’t.
And @ OP: Before the NPE each of your characters had to unlock each of the weaponskills by using the weapons, so even as a “veteran” you had to do that stuff all over again.

(Edited multiple times because I seem to be a keyboard dyslexic – tons of typos and stuff)

Trait system = NPE
If you focus on only on what was released in September then you’re right, traits are unrelated.
However if you look at the grand scheme of the changes that have been made:
“Simplifying” gem exchange
Traits
Leveling rewards
(How SP are awarded, technically apart of above)
Etc.

All of them and others (had to leave them off due to time constraints on my end) are commonly considered NPE, as the underlying theme of the last years updates. So it depends on which NPE being referred to… So you don’t need to be “fussy”

I can’t believe WP is still around…
Anyways: I have no idea what the program does, but if he uses it (and talks about it) than I would assume it is safe since Anet pays close attention to him.

Malediktus.3740:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Mystical_Dragon

“Chinese version only – reaching level 13 of the VIP system.”

Give me a moment to find a source outside Wiki. . . .

Hope they bring the VIP system to NA/EU then. I want this mini.

No you really don’t, the VIP system would create a divide the likes we’ve never seen on these forums and more importantly it would hurt the game, think gem exchange kind of hurt but much much worse.

On a positive note though: it was confirmed by one of the higher ups (I think Colin, but it could have been Chris) that the VIP system would never come to the US.

Ok… I think you’ve proven that lore wise it wouldn’t be immersion breaking. Congratulations, now try and prove that we need them. That is after all what your trying to say right? Because we can have it (since it isn’t game breaking) we should have it.

Personally it would be immersion breaking for a warrior to use a scepter since he has NO magic what so ever.

You guys (engi community) are persistent… Good luck

No. Seriously crafting is fine , actually crafting is better than fine. Crafting needs to go back to the old system (level 1-400 style, not necessarily the levels but the ‘discovery’ element) If you can figure your way through 1-75 the rest of crafting is common sense.

Electro.4173:

Unless you’re talking about the Lunar Festival dailies and Dragon Ball, in which case, yah. I guess you do have to do 2 games worth of participation each day for that. But its not the end of the world if you don’t do the LF daily.

I agree wholeheartedly… But you do get a laurel for doing the Lunar Festival Daily

I feel like some people forget China isn’t Cantha…
This event is for China’s new year, just like we get wintersday every year.

It has nothing to do with Cantha, nor is it a hint of cantha…

(Personally I don’t want to see Cantha in gw2, and I really doubt we will given all the complaints about it from China)

DeWolfe.2174:

I opened 11 Divine Envelopes before reset without any MF buffs. Then opened another 11 after reset with my character fully buffed (for me) to 647%. No difference at all in the returns. Pretty ticked off right now since the envelopes specifically say “Magic Find” and not “Account Magic Find”. I wasn’t even aware such a metric existed until I asked in DR’s map chat. There someone informed me of this “account” magic find bs.

TY Dev’s for not only giving me content that’s an incredible gold sink but, a booster and influence sink as well.

In fairness the RNG may just be unfavorable in your second 11, or been really favorable in your first 11… (After all if this was ToT bags, winters day boxes, or champ bags everyone would be telling you it wasn’t a large enough sample size)

Personally my issue stems from the fact that there is no reward for opening them in the first place.
1. Vender junk (nice, because it helps cover costs)
2. Random food (nice, but I’ll buy it from TP)
3. Fireworks (cool and unique, but consumable and extremely limited)
4. Ugly as kitten back piece…

No Minis, tonics, unique (read: good) skins…
Granted I’ll buy them everyday because I like collecting skins, even if I never use them.

Khisanth.2948:

Nick.7259:

If it would be the character based luck then we should max perserverance, kill vinewrath, grab MF banner and Guild buff, take MF booster, laurel MF booster and celebration boster, add utility infusion and food/utility buffs before opening letters? Sure, it could be that way, but I doubt it…

All those things would be a(or the) reason it only works off of account magic find.

I would think that… Except most of the festival food comes with MF, not likely a coincidence.

1. If he doesn’t trust you, he will kill you. He’s legendary there would be no trying to defeat him, he would one shot you…
Plus he should trust you because it is assumed you’re pact commander and ally to Destiny’s Edge. Even if you ate salad.

I would assume the first borns are safe (since they have the strongest bond to the pale tree).

After that the Pale Tree protects the sylvari, but since in the trailer it shows a sort of Sylvari epidemic I would assume not all of them are safe.
~side comment: I would assume the opposite about the sylvari who reject the pale tree, more likely they’ll follow their ‘true’ purpose.