Guild Wars 2

Malediktus.9250:

yanniell.1236:

Was already suggested tons of times before. U guys should read the topic about it.

Cant hurt to remember Anet that we still want this.

Yea! Cause that worked so well with precursor scavenger hunts and new legendaries… (Both things they’re constantly reminded about.)

Wrong forum… Unless you think SAB and WvW are related? (I have to ask… I mean people still think EotM is related too…)

Um… No?
It sounds cool, and it even helps explain the awful leveling (pardon: I meant NPE). However at this point I think the majority of players want something to do at 80, not more to get to 80.

Osu.6307:

Any wvw guild going to eotm to farm bags has to be unbelievable bored. I mean, 650 point tick bored. An organized wvw guild should be able to kill a 30 man blob without much trouble. Not exactly good practice.

Idk… My guild has occasionally when we’re running low on numbers… 5v40 is always fun…

Wintersday will end when the patch goes through on the 13th. What time depends entirely on when Anet releases the patch. ( They normally don’t do well at keeping their schedules hour-wise)

Azhure.1857:

Buy your Sheets of Charged Ambrite if you want it quickly.

Its so easy for you to say that its nothing to veteran players because we “have a lot already”, which isn’t necessarily true, and that it only “hurts” new players. This approach can be taken towards so many things in the game. The demand for immediate satisfaction. It cheapens the efforts for those that have come before you but you don’t really care about that.

As an example:
How would you feel if Luminescent armor skins became available for just a few laurels in a year from now? All the time and effort that so many people put into getting them through the original way the devs designed it to be — reduced to a simple and cheap laurel purchase a year or two later. Perhaps because new players started crying about having to wait and/or work at it.

I’m sure many of you for this change will completely disregard my opinion on this. It still needed to be said.

Work (I.E. farming bandit crests and meta’s) =/= waiting 24 hours for something to click once and hit f. (I.E. charging quartz)…
There, it needed to be said…
(I whole heartedly believe they won’t change anything, but I get grouchy when people try to act like the smartest kid in the forums… That spot is reserved for Mystic and Wanze)

I would say no… At first glance it sounds Ok, but there are so many things that could go wrong. With crafting your losses are minimized (none of the experimental crafting mats are worth more than a few gold), while the forge can use almost anything I.E. precursors that look like regular skins (cough leaf of kudzu cough). Right now my precursor sits in the vault to minimize my chances of causing damage if this change occurred there would be no place to keep it safe. (Invisible bags, but they’re kind of a silly solution).

Malediktus.9250:

If we give up on it, Anet might believe we stop caring about it.

That requires an assumption that they care about us (WvW) which 90 % of us (WvWers) don’t believe.

Um… If you like T1, then T4 is an awful place to be. Idk what Q’s are on T2 but I’d start there instead.

~SBI kind of sucks for wvw, we have a large zerg group that’s fairly organized (for a zerg) . Then a handful of organized guild groups.
~~personal experience on SBI

Dyonisian.8610:

Of course I did, how am I supposed to know what product to spend money on if I can’t even trust reviews?

In their defense, Angry Joe’s review was from launch, and I assume most other reviews as well. Most of the problems you’re talking about were only created a few months ago.
In all fairness Gw2 is well worth the buy in, but the game doesn’t start till level 80 (contrary to popular belief)

DrDivine.5378:

Arcadio.6875:

1. Legendaries have the same stats as ascended, but you can change the stat type(zerker, knights, carrion, etc.).

2. It’s worth it if you really want it and not worth it if you don’t lol. Eternity has no advantages over Twilight/Sunrise.

lol I guess for my second question I’m going ask to ask this, does Eternity have better or unique special effects to it that make it look more appealing?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eternity
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sunrise
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Twilight

May want to check that yourself as we probably have different tastes than you in cool effects.

The value of legendaries are based entirely on the skin, the weapon, and the rarity. So by choosing Eternity over the other 2 it would suggest that you like the skin more, if you don’t, then choose one of the other swords. Or if none of the legendaries look good, you can buy a different weapon skin in the TP as well.

Ok… So it’s not worth using in its current state (to you) so don’t use it.
If Anet wanted people to use this on their runes than they would be cheaper, obviously they’re intended for extremely expensive or difficult to replace upgrades and not for something that can be replaced with ease.

Found one of my old posts that applies:

Dasenthal.6520:

johnnymiller.5968:

Skynet.7201:

I’d prefer the removal of WvW from map completion entirely. I imagine it’s a nightmare for people that only play PvE.

Agree with this. Have completion for one character & still play world vs world on a part time basis.
Also understand the idea is to get people into world vs world, yet players with no interest in this format of the game are kittened.
Generally the easiest opportunity is when your server is lucky enough to be on the dominating end of lopsided world vs world rounds.

How do you guys feel about players who wvw exclusively though? Are we not allowed to like shinies? We have to go PvE if we want any shiny weapon, and yet we don’t make forum posts complaining (largely because we realize we’re the minority)about being locked out of dungeon skins, or luminescent skins (specifically referencing things available in Spvp, because Spvp still does not equal wvw).
Yet you’re complaining about 4 maps:
76 Points of Interest
13 Skill points
40 vistas.
25 Waypoints (All given btw)
and yet…
There are
301 hearts (Not included in wvw)
646 Points of interest (722 total- 76 listed above)
189 skill points (202 total- 13 listed above)
226 vista’s (266 total -40 listed above)
482 Waypoints (507 total – 25 listed above)

Total all that up (using totals)= Hearts + POI’s+ SP+ V’s+ WP’s =1998 things need for map completion.
Things need for wvw map completion = Hearts (0) + POI’s (76) + SP (13) +V’s (40) +WP (Functionally 0, but i’ll give you the benefit of the doubt 25)=154

154/1998= roughly 8%
You guys (PvE’ers exclusively) have to play 8% of the game you don’t like to get your legendary (or your achievement, what ever the motivator is). We (WvW’ers exclusively) have to play 92% (more than 11 times as much) of the game that we don’t want to for our legendaries (I don’t know a single WvW’er who actually has the nerve to say “I just wanted the achievement” so…)
And guess what: we do it, we might cuss and moan to our guild mates, but we do it. So, like I said earlier:

Dasenthal.6520:

SideNote:
If you want legendary but don’t want wvw: Buy the kitten.
If you don’t want legendary but want map completion: Deal with the kitten
If you want map completion but refuse to deal with the kitten: Live without the Kitten.

Cheers!

X T D.6458:

Anyandrell.6238:

The better idea would be to not make WvW part of map completion. Just sayin’.

Before AP chests and EoTM gave badges of honor away like candy, players actually had to do WvW for them, to get the gift of battle, and finish the gift of mastery. So WvW mapping was never the only part of the legendary making process. Also now you have to be Rank 14 minimum to get it, so again mapping is not the only part.

Unfortunately though now that we have EotM people think they should just be handed the third thing (wvw map completion).
Personally I think if I had to suffer through PvE maps then PvE’ers should be forced to go to wvw.

Always check your trait panel for how to get traits, not the reddit or even the wiki. If it’s so inconvenient I would encourage you to just buy.

Personally I accept the insurance concept as a reasonable idea for getting a legendary… However it only cost me about 50g to get my ascended staff (with little to no grind, outside crafting to 500) so I would take that over the 3700g worth bifrost. So as far as insurance goes in order for that cost to pay off in the end it would have to be a ridiculous amount of work (while still less than legendary) for whatever the next tier is.

Everything in the dungeon has to be destroyed, it doesn’t matter who destroys it (although you do need to be in the instance).

Certain things in the dungeon are invulnerable mostly the really big cultural sights, but tbh if you missed something it was a probably a tree… Those things suck and some of them are actually hidden.

On the eighth day of Wintersday, My RNG gave me
eight lemurs leaping (Asura… it’s what I call them in game)
Seven Mystic Clovers
Six Human Gods
Five Gold Doubloons
Four Norn Spirits
Three Easy Dailies
Two Greatswords Glowing
And a precursor for my legendary

If they were grouped by anything than server color there’s a decent chance I’d be playing side by side with the people my server is killing this week… Which would not be good.

That’s what they were thinking when they made the match ups…. Otherwise it’s EoTM it’s not really… Important ….how balanced the matchups are.

You only end up with 14 (I think, I’d have to double check to be sure) at level 80.

coglin.1867:

Bertrand.3057:

coglin.1867:

I’d your melting on siege, you need to talk to your team. If they are no blasting waters and giving you protection and condi clearing, that’s not A nets fault.

The whole point is that you should be able to use defensive siege even if you are totally outnumbered by your opponent. In that case getting heals, boons, and condi clears from allies isn’t possible.

edit:

Here’s a thought: Why not introduce a sort of “Iron Hide” for defensive siege? Make this only active inside an objective which your server controls, and provide a HP buff to defensive siege that is built with blueprints as well.

What does being out numbered have to do with your team mates not supporting you? Either you are absolutely solo, in which case, you should be absolutely steam rolled or your team mates were not assisting you.

Even if you’re not solo, 5 people should get steam rolled by 30… (Certain skill guilds aside)

On the second day of wintersday, my dear RNG gave me two greatswords glowing and a precursor in a mystic toilet….

joshc.3129:

Dasenthal.6520:

joshc.3129:

Djinn.9245:

Some people like to roleplay so I think that’s why Anet doesn’t want to limit emotes across the board. What I would like to see is a control in Options to limit emotes. Then you could toggle on a limit of the same emote 3 times or whatever.

I’ve seen people roleplay but how is sitting non-stop, cheering non-stop, laughing non-stop and so on look at as roleplay?

I agree something should be done like someone spamming the same emote should get muted like someone spamming chat or give us an option to turn them off so they won’t appear in the chat.

If they fix this like they fixed Chat spamming, that means you get to emote 3 times and then you can’t emote for 10 minutes… Yea, that’s not gonna make for a happy RP community.

My point is if someone spams the same emote over and over again in a short time that should be look at as spamming like how posting the same message in chat over and over again in a short time is look at as spamming and results in being muted.

Also I’m still having a hard time understanding how spamming the sit emote or something like that 15 times in 10 seconds is somehow involved in RP.

I understood what you meant, I’m just telling you that it’s better if they don’t fix it. Spamming the same emote 15 times has nothing to do with RP’ing, however most of us don’t trust Anet to fix this kind of thing, because it will end up like the chat system. If it used the chat system from day 1, I don’t think anyone would complain about it, but making that change now will irk a decent sized community (one of which I’m not apart of, I just know what they’ve been unhappy about it the past)

Stark.1350:

1.)
2.) The ability for any class to drop AoE of any kind, or mesmer illusions, or necro minions, on top of the walls, needs to be removed. Arrow carts could still be built as an offensive countermeasure.
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What… This is silly, the rest of your post I is arguably decent, but this… Why do you think people shouldn’t be able to attack you while you’re trying to defend? Realistically, yes the people defending should have the advantage but not that.
Explain to me how you can justify from a lore perspective: Why my ele can call meteor showers down to strike the ground, but not an elevated platform (in a tower?)
Then explain to me how you think we’re going to build that AC (with a small group mind you,) while their cannon is shooting at us?

We all get it, White swords are important for people trying to defend things. However you don’t need to give the defense every single advantage to give them a fair fight. As it is there are servers that PPT all day long and refuse to leave their towers/keeps unless they out number their opponents 2 or 3 to 1. Some of the things you’re suggesting would make it down right impossible for an equally sized group to force into the tower or keep and make their opponents fight.

joshc.3129:

Djinn.9245:

Some people like to roleplay so I think that’s why Anet doesn’t want to limit emotes across the board. What I would like to see is a control in Options to limit emotes. Then you could toggle on a limit of the same emote 3 times or whatever.

I’ve seen people roleplay but how is sitting non-stop, cheering non-stop, laughing non-stop and so on look at as roleplay?

I agree something should be done like someone spamming the same emote should get muted like someone spamming chat or give us an option to turn them off so they won’t appear in the chat.

If they fix this like they fixed Chat spamming, that means you get to emote 3 times and then you can’t emote for 10 minutes… Yea, that’s not gonna make for a happy RP community.

I like any idea that means more legendarys… Even more so legendarys that aren’t all shiny, bright, and happy (dreamer as an example).

Um… You could buy them every year, you could also EARN them every year… I don’t see how any rational human being would’ve thought “I bought them this year, so even though they’ve been given out for free the last 2 years they won’t be next year.”

I was gonna leave this thread alone until the morning but I feel like a quick (and written hastily reply, may help)…
I actually have to agree that this is not a good idea at all.
Firstly I have 4 level 80 characters each of which is carrying 2 or more full sets of exotic gear around (in addition to ascended main sets), so I understand the cost of gear. Making gear soulbound makes it better for the economy by far, for a few reasons but I’m only going to focus on two for the time being:
1. Gold/Badge of Honor/Dungeon/etc. Sink:
Gold: It might not seem like a ton on the gold sink (which is generally going to be more important than the other’s in the list) however there are people that make exotic gear to sell/purchase and they do pay the TP fee’s. (Armor, Weapons, Runes, Sigils, all of which can be fairly costly depending on what gear set up you’re using).
Badges: This one doesn’t seem like a real issue because most WvW’ers have these in an overabundant supply, however those are the same people that use these badges on a regular basis. If you take the ability to spend these away from the average individual (read: people who level in EotM.) Then they’ll have no purpose at all, fortunately they’re in teh wallet so not a huge problem.
Dungeon Tokens: This one at first falls into the same boat as badges, certain people already have an overabundant supply, however people use dungeon runs to buy exotics for crafting pre-cursors as well as for themselves. Ultimately having no other use for them would let people drive the precursors down drastically (Something Anet has clearly made a priority not to do).
2. Item Inflation (or Item supply): If you make it so that I can craft 3 zerker chest pieces (light, medium, heavy) and that’s it I never need to make another zerker chest piece that means for all of my characters I need to make a total of 18 pieces of armor. (In order to keep it simple I’m going to assume that weapons and trinkets are ignored). That’s a total of 90 globs of ectoplasm (another item Anet is known for protecting in value). At first that sounds like a lot, at first it seems it would be impossible for the average player to do anyways, however after a few days of vacation I can tell you 90 globs of ectoplasm is almost laughable as some kind of long term goal or ‘endgame project’.
Now if 90 globs of ecto are all it takes to fully gear out all my characters now and in the future, the value of ectoplasm would drop. Ultimately I think it’s fair to say the leveling gear isn’t a primary factor in ecto price, ascended gear and legendary crafting probably are but not nearly as much as ecto’s current (and intended) use for the average player (read:crafting).
Ok, globs of ecto seem really important, but if they don’t play into the economy in any major fashion other than Legendary Crafting and Exotic crafting then it wouldn’t entirely be a bad thing for the value to decrease… Except that Exotic Weapon crafting would suddenly drop in price of investment (because a main ingredient dropped in price). Not entirely a bad thing, except why are people crafting exotics (Focus: Weapons)? Because they want to make precursors, and ultimately the price of precursors effects the price of legendaries, and while we all like to pretend legendaries are something that only hardcore players have and that they only effect the players willing and able to spend the gold/sell the weapons. The reality is that from day one of launch Legendaries are tied in to the economy in so many ways more than at first appears.
Examples:
Legendary prices effect: Crafting mats (all crafting mats (T1’s not included in actual crafting, but they’re upgraded T2’s, and so forth. Everything is either included directly or used to create more of a certain item)), Weapon Prices (Exotics and rares specifically, however given the crafting materials and their ability to be salvaged from greens, blues, whites those prices are also effected), Armor prices (3 exotics chest pieces and an axe still have a chance to give you a precursor, same explanation as above for greens,blues, whites), Other rare skins (If a certain skin is easier to obtain than a legendary (any BLTP skin for example) its price directly reflects that, and because of that if the price of Legendaries drop significantly the prices of those skins also decrease) Gold:Gem value (It was a common occurrence for individuals with money to straight up buy gems with cash, gold with gems, legendaries with gold. While this might not be as common an occurrence now that those people have their legendaries it still happens and is still a driving force on the conversion factor. (Similarly, people buy gold for their current exotics and other gear))
TLDR: It needs to stay because it is a gold sink, but it is naive to think of it as just a simple or single gold sink.
(Again hastily written, so I apologize if I missed something I will re-proof read it in the morning)

The scroll to click thing follows the single action to single reaction policy. I don’t know if that’s ever been officially accepted by Anet, however it is the most popular suggestion for this problem.
Personally I used Windows Mouse Keys for wintersday. It is a single button for double click, takes about 40s a stack (of boxes) 20s (of salvaging).

I like the new system because of the new rewards: I’ve never been a fan of dailies because the only rewards were too general and not enough (laurels and coins). With the new system I get PvP daily so I get a PvP reward. Same with WvW, and *eww" even PvE.

As far as getting the AP, I really don’t understand why people’s first reaction seems to be: “I won’t do wvw, so I refuse to go into wvw” Even though killing a sentry is very, very PvE.

I have 1… I have seen only 1, in comparison: I have had 2-4 of each of the crafting recipes, 3 of the ‘pick a tonics’, 5 toymaker tonics (random ones), and 4 of the dolyak tonics….
(About 6k-7k boxes)
Idk if that helps, I didn’t really do any scientific noting on opening my boxes.

Rozbuska.5263:

It was back multiple times already I am sure it will be back again:-)

Pretty much this. I had to wait a few months to purchase it but it will almost always come back when they do another LS based promotion.

I have to agree with bird here: specifically “rehashed content is better than no new content”.
To my knowledge there have been no fractals added since the fractal event which has been a while. So it would be fair to say we could use more now; However my assumption is that if they make more fractals out of living story it will be after the season or during a more natural break (I.e. not holidays).
posted from my phone… Meticulous enough for you Drarnor?

Guys, I think you’re forgetting that WvW is not intended to be a super HardCore raiding environment. There is no reason why rezzing (hard rezzing or downed rezzing) should not be available in wvw; the five minute timer provides a hard counter to the exploiting mesmers, while allowing for unskilled players to learn and grow whether they’re in a zerg or in some guild group.

Tiffany.8576:

bloodletting wolf.2837:

Tiffany.8576:

Just transfer to a tier with servers that are relatively balanced. Your experience will be much better. Players serious about WvW have all pretty much consolidated to the T1 and T2 servers, on the NA side at least. Doing so will save you a whole lot of hassle, complaining and waiting for things to change on your server or Anet to facilitate changes which make things more balanced.

I love how mega blob servers keep saying that they are more serious or more skilled when it is simply untrue.

It’s just a matter of player concentration, that’s all. In the higher tiers, you have a higher amount of people who are focused heavily or exclusively on WvW compared to the lower ones. There’s a lot more going on literally 24/7 on these servers and the fights are sometimes non-stop. The players on these servers, for that reason, are much more likely to be more experienced than players who play on servers where there’s huge coverage gaps or a lower concentration of players generally.

I am afraid that you’re only party correct. There is certainly a higher number of skilled people in higher tiers, but it has nothing to do with gaps in coverage or concentration of players. It has to do with the fact that T1 is the happy place to be. No one who is on T1 and has been on the same server since launch is T1 material who wouldn’t have been T1 material on a different server. (In other words if Player A has the time, dedication, and skill to play at a highly skilled level, then he would be a highly skilled player whether he started on Eredon Terrace, or BlackGate. But eventually he would transfer to BlackGate because of server populations/centralized area of other skilled players.)

With Quartz crystals I agree with you, to some extent ascended crafting I agree with you…
On this though, the reward far outways the cost and I would have made it harder to do personally. (Keep in mind Mawdrey which does the same thing as the Star of Gratitude but with bloodstone dust took weeks to make (unless you paid the convenience premium on the mats)).

So… You want your guild to have zero fights. Why even bother going to wvw in that case?

CajunSinjin.3410:

Well there should be something to be done. I just changed guilds after the one I was in evaporated and now I learn that my new friends and I can’t WvW together?!? That is unacceptable. I understand the need to protect the WvW nature but don’t you agree that I should be able to WvW with my guildmates?

You and your new guildmates can wvw together it’s fairly simple be on the same server… That’s it that’s the solution to your problem. There’s a few ways to get to that point though, find a guild on your server and leave the current guild. Or start saving up gold, or coughing up cash for the server transfer.

No, you shouldn’t be able to wvw with your guildmates. Either you or whoever recruited you should have known about the restrictions on the megaserver vs. wvw and should have discussed them. Unfortunately this system isn’t likely to change anytime soon, and PvE guilds keep recruiting and forgetting about this crucial issue. This is a problem that comes up quite frequently in my PvE guild and it’s really something that the officers should be addressing upon recruitment.

This is totally acceptable, this is absolutely user error. Should this be the situation, no. However with the current system this is how it works, and as the player it’s your obligation to understand how things work in the game, not Anet’s responsibility to make sure you do.

Junkpile.7439:

Sounds to me that you just got outplayed. Enemy moved their troops better and you lost fight. Next time make zerg and fight 40 vs 40.

“Make zerg” spoken like a real T1 player… Seriously I’m lucky if I can make a full party outside of EB on my server.

If no one reports, then no one cares. Basically the moderators are only gonna notice if someone tells them Frodo Baggins is trademarked, and someone has that name.

It never has, and unless they change the system like Gaile talked about in a forum thread for the reorganization it never will.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Hmm, then why not lock out everything else from exotic on down?

Thin line between grindy and dumb (or to much) grind.

Sube Dai.8496:

You can’t spend them on anything useful can you? I keep getting them from PvP and they are annoying to delete (because of the confirmation box).

Ascended crafting, legendarys, certain tonics/ recipes (Probably where the most money is)

lordkrall.7241:

Was it unranked or was it hot join? Those are two different things.

Also keep in mind that pre-made guild group != insta-win. I have met mutiple full guild groups in ranked, with solo joiners and most of the time it is rather even.

In ranked its a little different though. Its like comparing zerk experienced PuGs to guild runs vs. Everyone welcome PuGs and guild groups. (Not saying everyone in ranked is pro, but more likely to find skilled players)

Rage.9723:

The value of them is mostly derived from the ability to make legendaries and ascended items. You cannot turn them back into karma to turn them back into gold.

If that was directed at me, I wasn’t saying you could. Actually quite the opposite I was saying karma has a value which you could use to determine the value of shards.

If not: you can still turn shards into legendarys which can be used to make money.

style.6173:

No. Everyone should have white swords. It is better for ANET to just admit their mistake and fix it.

Fortunately, Anet made the right call on this. By making it an event instead of permanent. Hopefully they decide it was not a success and do not bring it back permanently at a later date.

I like it, although I’d be really happy if instead of random it was like an alternating finisher. So if I’m in a festive mood I can just have it rotate through the festival ones. Plus this takes care of permanent finishers vs. Limited, since if I’m trying to save certain finishers I just won’t put those in the list..

Inb4 “When it’s ready”

They have an internalized value, very similiar to karma. (If you look at any item that has karma items in it: Legendarys, Linen, etc. You can figure an approximate gold/silver/copper value per karma.)
The same would apply here, but in all honesty most (98%-ish) players will never know that value and will be fine without knowing that value.