Guild Wars 2

I just want to stow in when I’m in a JP… But every single time you take fall damage it comes back.

Horses don’t exist… No seriously.
No horses in tyria, you’ll have to stick with riding charr

I actually like it this way, whenever I’m trying something new in the TP I record all the prices/actual profit by hand. If I forget to write something down, I usually remember the split second after I hit sell. This way I don’t have to go search for my buy/sell log to find the exact price of what I sold/listed the item for.

That said… I’m not fond of it the rest of the time when I’m just trying to clear my inventory of runes/sigils that I picked up while salvaging.

Spawne.3128:

Linken.6345:

Spawne.3128:

The one thing that has been made clear is that they will NOT be adding new content to the game in terms of items. Skins only. Most of which are only going to be available from the store as DLC.

were have this been made clear?

Since they added mewdey and carpace armor to my knowlage pretty recently and it aint in the store

They have been repeatedly saying that the games primary focus would be skins only, which is exactly what carapace armor is. There is nothing different about it over any other exotic armor you can buy at the auction or from the dungeon vendor other then the skin, which is bad for the most part anyway, luminescence armor being carapace armor with a horrific sky blue dye which is absolutely hideous. I made an exact copy of the luminescence armor with my carapace armor pieces just by adding dye to all the available color slots. lol

So when you say “that they will NOT be adding new content to the game in terms of items.” you’re actually saying… what exactly? That they won’t add any new stat combinations to items? Well that can’t be true because of sinister, nomads, and celestial. That they won’t be adding new items (new weapons, maybe a cape slot), well fair but nobody’s asking for that either.
The way I interpreted what you said was that they were done adding new items, but then according to you the carapace gear/luminescent are just skins even though they have a gear equivalent (the rare you get from the box). Well new legendaries would also just be new skins, just difficult skins to acquire that can change their stat combination the same as current legendaries.
Side comment: They wouldn’t add new legendaries to the gem store, because they make way more money selling the gems/gold to buy them off the TP.

SFShinigami.2015:

I doubt it will affect roaming much. Roaming would contribute so little in terms of points compared to two blobs clashing. It would take hours upon hours for one roamer to equal the same number of potential points wiping an enemy blob would give in just a minute or two.

PPK won’t really help roaming… but the white swords will.

Personally I’m looking forward to being able to solo towers and the like again without getting bulldozed by larger servers.

I was curious about that to… There’s at least 2 white knights nearly everyone here is familiar with, as well as a handful depending on where you spend most of your time.
I don’t know what countries they’re in, so maybe it doesn’t matter but letting the white knights get some kind of backing (even if only in their heads) is a bad idea.
I love gw2, I’ve been here since pre-beta, I white knighted the Facebook page for months during the beta, so I understand white knights and this is a really bad idea if you let someone who cannot look at both sides of the coin be in charge of reporting to Anet…

Other comment, I thought about applying; but it sounds an awful lot like another job, but with none of the benefits.

Lindbur.2537:

Rising Dusk.2408:

In addition to my previous post, it’s horrible that the dungeon forum is being removed in favor of merging it with “Guild Wars 2 Discussion”! That is akin to merging the WvW discussion into the PvP forums because “It’s still PvP”. Dungeon tactics, dungeon speed clear opportunities for improvements, challenges, and the whole dungeon community at large is very, very distinct from the open world PvE group.

Please reconsider and keep the dungeon forum distinct!

Virtually all of us in the dungeon subforum echo this statement.

Please do reconsider.

I’m not even a dungeon person… But I remember my wvw matchup threads. so I support y’all.

Anet doesn’t set prices… Players do. We all know it’s worthless (because of ascended), however we also realize achievement hunters love their collections. And its that collection + drop rate that make it valuable.

What about the John Smith sticky? “Questions about the economy” will that end up in general or will it just cease to exist? (Or is it possible for it to lose sticky status?)

So what’s gonna happen to the questions about the economy (specifically, the thread with John Smith) I struggle to think they will be stream lining communication between red tags and us by getting rid of John Smith.

Djinn.9245:

I’m seeing a disturbing pattern here: “forcing” players to do things that maybe not enough players like. Maybe not enough players like WvW so lets make an entire zone with WvW mechanics. Maybe not enough players like JP so lets make a zone that is one big JP.

I understand that many players do like these mechanics and I have no problem with Anet adding more and more optional WvW (EotM) and JP. But I do have a problem with this game which was supposed to be “play as you like” forcing players to do things they don’t like to do.

Have you thought about it the other way? They’re trying to bring people from WvW into the living story? Or people that like jumping? They’ve been using the same maps/ puzzles since launch… Plus the puzzle isn’t mandatory no matter what any one says.

Shoes come from the defense event, the only benefit to the JP is the tonic and rare items.

Sidenote: open your wvw panel join eotm, load, leave eotm. Don’t have to relog.

As for cut scenes… Yea I wasn’t happy watching googlie eyes 3 times in a row for Asuran.

Yep I agree. Granted, I leveled my crafting and bit the bullet for the ascended gear… But I would have preferred nearly any other option. That said I would love to not do it again for my ranger.

Taku.6352:

Yeah let’s fight the inflation by injecting even more gold into the economy to push the prices even higher. That’ll surely go well.

I chuckled… But yea, the gold is an incentive not really required.
I mean we used to farm AP for bragging rights, and no loot at all.

Rin.1046:

Hvaran.6327:

This thread insults me alot.

The OP want to change me on some AI.

Or i will start MU thread here.

If i go to some pvp mode i don’t want to have another build “just to kill that guard”.

If i would like to do pve mostly i would go to PVE, dungeuon, ls event or whatever else is out.

I mean, WvW is not just groups of players getting together and fighting each other is it?

IT IS!

Firstly, Anet themselves said WvW was supposed to be a mix of PvP AND PvE, not just PvP.

Yea… But Anet also said things about manifesto’s, fully geared by level 80, and scavenger hunts for precursors.
This is the first promise I think the bulk of the community effected would be Ok with if it were broken.

It really depends on how much he teleported.
Between the sword 2, lightning reflexes, and 2 dodges backwards my ranger can put plenty of distance between where I was 5 seconds ago and where I am now.

Ensign.2189:

They are a gamble, and a gamble that’s priced for customers that throw tons of money at the game. If you’re just going to spend $10, $20 on gems and only want the skins you’re going to be better off buying gold with your gems and buying the skins you want directly.

Keys aren’t a terrible deal though. The tickets and ticket scraps are great, of course, and there’s a lot of value locked up in things like black lion salvage kits and, while rare, the permanent contracts. If you enjoy the gamble and get mileage out of the boosters and the like I wouldn’t dissuade you from buying, but you’re going to have bad luck on occasion and you need to be prepared to deal with that.

Gonna throw in the leveling scrolls too. While their value depends heavily on who has them at the time I picked up 7 levels with my keys yesterday.

I agree with OP…
In that the story instances are useless to me… However there are people who have invested in the portal stone, the gathering nodes, and in doing the meta for the exclusive nodes that would probably disagree with me on how useful they are, so it is a safer bet to just ignore those areas if you don’t like them…
BTW blocking them completely doesn’t work either sense you need the instances for map completion.

Tezcatlipoca.4965:

Mhmmm… so is it really like ensign said? I need to buy everything with gold or be playing the game at the time that the skin came out? And If I neither have the gold nor the time at that EXACT time, I can just forget the skin because there is no reliable way of getting tickets? (besides key farming)

I understand that I might be exaggerating a bit, but I am still a bit confused what the reasoning is for such low rates of these tickets. The only thing that comes to my mind, is that they don’t want to reward key farmers. When was the last time you got the key from a normal mob in PvE or PvP? Exactly! Is there another way of getting keys that I forgot?

But yeah I learned my lesson, don’t buy keys… but Herr der Friedhöfe, even if it is RNG a company that makes money from gem purchases should maybe think of adjusting the RNG. Just my personal opinion though.

This might not be what you want to hear, but if you want X and you can get it from the chests or the TP. 9 out of 10 times it is a better use of the $ to buy the gems and convert it to gold and buy the item out right from the TP.

Unfortunately Anet has the internal policy not to get involved in guild politics, which you could consider this to be… Although depending on how support views it his account may or may not be punished for it. However Anet’s long standing policy is that the only secure method of trading is through the TP so they generally don’t look fondly on these kinds of cases.

Sidenote if you’re trying to hide the person’s name (which you should be) make sure you black out the part that says who you whispered last. (On the last 2 pictures)

RoseofGilead.8907:

Yeah, if I do a collection, it’s because I want to do it for the completion. I don’t need a silly title or other extra incentives. If it looks like a pain in the butt, I’ll skip it, not matter what the reward for completion may be. If it looks reasonable, I’ll do it.

If they want people to do them they should all be reasonable… It’s kind of like the WvW achievements (although actually attainable in this case) If you want people to go after them there should be a reason to do it. As of right now: it costs about 900g to get the Exotic Hunter Achievement, that’s it… Actually pretty darn easy if you think about it, and yet why do people complain because that’s neither a long term goal (Because no one is actually farming those weapons, they’re just farming the gold) or a decent reward.

It isn’t about whether the rewards are spectacular or not, people like me prefer to Min/Max our time/gold/resources into Rewards/more gold/less grind. While people like you (and more so directed at the person above you who said “I just like checking things off a list”) prefer to finish certain achievements just to finish certain achievements.
The only problem is that these collections (at least the ones that work) are really the only “Long term” content that has been introduced to the game in the last year (Legendaries at launch, WvW achievements at launch, PvP ranks at launch, Fractal levels I believe more than a year ago, etc.) but they’re long term content that only takes 10 minutes to finish if the person doing it has the resources…

I apologize I kind of went off on a rant, I wasn’t intending to do that…

Exactly… When I first heard about the Karmic Converter I was super excited to finally have a way to use my karma (Other than Obsidian Shards) and then found out it would cost me a fortune to just get my hands on it, yea… no thanks. I guess I’ll just start farming low level forge items with it…
“Yay, Linen farming”… /Sarcasm

Dramen Maidria.1034:

So, just to remind you, EotM is a WvW map, even though it has been invaded by PvE trainers. and sometimes people go in there to do exactly that. Sometimes it’ll be a small group, other times I have seen entire guilds wipe the ktrain over and over. It isn’t bad karma, they’re using the map for its intended purpose, its just that PvE people seem to think they are still in PvE there.

Normally I would agree with you… (My guild regularly trolls the PvE’ers…)
However if there was a spy involved (not entirely sure there was) than it isn’t really how it was intended to work. It is mostly a valid complaint in that case.

It is luck of the salvage… But I’d tell you’re probably better off salvaging since ecto sells for more than the 14s

Unfortunately I think all the veterans in most games are currently being displaced. I mean look around…
No new dungeons, wvw updates, or PvP (we’ll see in a few weeks)
I know Sapience left turbine after a similar and much more public realization. (Sapience was the dev in charge of lotro’s community team, until he announced that only 10% of the player base actually wanted ‘raid level’ endgame.)
Listen to any vanilla WoW fan and they’ll tell you the game is getting easier via nerfs and the like. (WoD excluded because I don’t know how that’s working out)…

Unfortunately devs are starting to ignore vets more and more, but not just here.

I’m gonna give a +1 for the post that compared NPE to life support…

Ultimately I think this is an awesome comparison for some aspects, but part of the problem is that the head (devs) doesn’t communicate with the (milk…. No offense but the community really should be the heart not milk)
Otherwise OP gets +10 for a unique forum post to brighten a dull morning on the forums.

You may want to check Divinity’s Reach too. At least that’s where I park my toons.

Yea… Except in your career the revenue isn’t based on constantly hiring new people.
Box Sales = life

Hopeless.5403:

Dasenthal.6520:

Plus it wasn’t intended to make money fall from the sky

Could care less about gold. Spam a few dungeons for that.

So you feel this magic percentage and the spamming luck charms is currently “working as intended”? That’s kool, I don’t lol

Money = exotics, T6 mats, even rates to some extent.
And yes I do. I am not saying I like it, I’m just saying Anet isn’t in the business of rewarding good play, they’re in the business of rewarding long term play. IE killing teq 600 times for a precursor. Versus killing a teq like creature with 5 people.

Crovax.7854:

Dasenthal.6520:

Crovax.7854:

warduke.1780:

Crovax.7854:

warduke.1780:

Olvendred.3027:

I disagree. The problem with karma at present is that there’s already far too much of it about. This makes it difficult to introduce good karma sinks that don’t break other parts of the economy. You want to remove one of the only existing karma sinks.

Yeah, I get that legendaries cost a lot of karma, but most (all?) of that is in obsidian shards, which can be acquired in a variety of other ways. I think Anet’s done enough to reduce the burden of farming karma for a legendary for newer players.

The usual concern about karma gear being unsalvagable is that it makes it impossible to recover upgrades (runes, sigils, etc) without an excessively expensive gem store item.

In which other ways can you reliably accumulate obsidian shards? There’s PvP which gives a few… 20 for an entire track, if I recall correctly. Then we have Silverwastes – before the chestfarm, that was a decent way to acquire shards. I haven’t been there since but I gather it’s not even worth it now. Then there’s laurels, which are almost always going to be spent on more important stuff.

Finally you have the other methods related to seasonal events etc. like SAB, WvW tournaments… not reliable, as they are not present all year round.

Silver Wastes nets you an insane amount of shards. In the last 2 weeks I accumulated around 1500 shards just from casually playing and opening the chests I come across.

Is this post-nerf? My friends got around 500 shards in one day I believe, before the chest farm was nerfed.

I’ve heard you can’t get anything near that now though.

Around 1k of those were after the nerf. You don’t even need that many for a legendary,
only around 500.

Nope… But you need em for the ascended mats that come with…

‘Nope’ what? Example : 250 shards for Gift of Mastery and ~241 for clovers +- a few depending on your luck.

Didn’t mean “No you’re wrong” meant “No, but you still them for X”
(The meaning as I interpreted what you said was that they had no use outside of legendarys)
My bad

No. Too many people grinded for the 300% MF for them to get rid of it now… Plus it wasn’t intended to make money fall from the sky, it just increases your 1/300 drop chance to 1/100

lordkrall.7241:

The problem is that most people still wouldn’t actually do those things. Rather they would just come here and rage about being “spammed” by the system and demand that it stops.

Doubtful… No one complained about being spammed by the once a month letter containing free stuff from gem purchases.

Crovax.7854:

warduke.1780:

Crovax.7854:

warduke.1780:

Olvendred.3027:

I disagree. The problem with karma at present is that there’s already far too much of it about. This makes it difficult to introduce good karma sinks that don’t break other parts of the economy. You want to remove one of the only existing karma sinks.

Yeah, I get that legendaries cost a lot of karma, but most (all?) of that is in obsidian shards, which can be acquired in a variety of other ways. I think Anet’s done enough to reduce the burden of farming karma for a legendary for newer players.

The usual concern about karma gear being unsalvagable is that it makes it impossible to recover upgrades (runes, sigils, etc) without an excessively expensive gem store item.

In which other ways can you reliably accumulate obsidian shards? There’s PvP which gives a few… 20 for an entire track, if I recall correctly. Then we have Silverwastes – before the chestfarm, that was a decent way to acquire shards. I haven’t been there since but I gather it’s not even worth it now. Then there’s laurels, which are almost always going to be spent on more important stuff.

Finally you have the other methods related to seasonal events etc. like SAB, WvW tournaments… not reliable, as they are not present all year round.

Silver Wastes nets you an insane amount of shards. In the last 2 weeks I accumulated around 1500 shards just from casually playing and opening the chests I come across.

Is this post-nerf? My friends got around 500 shards in one day I believe, before the chest farm was nerfed.

I’ve heard you can’t get anything near that now though.

Around 1k of those were after the nerf. You don’t even need that many for a legendary,
only around 500.

Nope… But you need em for the ascended mats that come with…

This has been discussed in a CDI… So the logical assumption is that it is with precursor scavenger hunt (RIP)

Karma
Bandit crests (SW) and the chests in SW too.
Fractals
Laureals ( although this one is pretty bad)

JustTrogdor.7892:

-1

+1
For the -1…

Beldin.5498:

~snip
After having played AION i will simply never again enter zones where other players
can gank you without consequences like for example in Lineage 2.

But you’re on our map… That is reason enough for a good gank…. No reason for consequences for playing the game as intended.
8 toons
4 80’s
1 map completion
Between 30-60% on everyone but thief (100%)
Edit 1: forgot part of the question
Edit 2: misinterpretation +punctuation fixes.

Mithyl.8620:

It’s blue and has level 6 stats unfortunately :\

Thanks for the input all – not that I’m particularly keen on using shields at low levels anyhow, but was just wondering.

It’s a fair question though… I don’t really know anyone who levels with shields, but someone should’ve caught a low level offhand weapon like that… Swords, daggers, etc. I can understand.

I had this happen with silver waste, if you change what you’re saying you can delay the suppression.
“Organized Silver waste join and leave”
“Org SW, join then leave”
“SW, mostly organized… Join and leave”

~just some examples of what I was doing, lasted a while before I got lfg suppressed. (Should work in chat as well.)

Nope, it doesn’t level with you. So a shield that low is kind of useless. Sorry.

Well proof that there is no monetization… No I can’t help…

However the $$, yea they don’t have any of that for wvw because if they did we might actually have more then one part time wvw dev. ( and that said dev might last longer than six months.)

ColinJohanson.2394:

Serophous.9085:

Colin, I’m going to be a jerk about this (but I mean no ill will), and perhaps its just the English language, but it sounds like you are leaving an opening.

Saying “currently running” sounds like “not the exact system as china will come over from china, but we may implement a different one”

As we’ve said before: The royal system will not be coming to NA/EU, period.

There ya go

Thank you!
(We really do appreciate the straight forward answer)

I will restate this: I like the back pack… However I play with the game muted in general. It works for me, if you find any of the sounds in game annoying I strongly encourage you to mute as well… As clearly stated we have some annoying sounds in game (instruments, voice call outs, Halloween music box, Trahearne)

Linken.6345:

its alot better now when you can see who was in your group so you can report them if they do it for selling said path.

If they do it becouse you are bad it wont matter if 2 or 4 have to accept to kick you it will happen

Eh, idk…
If you’re really bad, yes… But people can get kicked for fairly silly stuff because one person is mad (suggests kick) and one person is naive ( seconds the kittenuming valid reason). I’ve seen it happen, kitten I’ve been the second person before.

Firelysm.4967:

As respectful loyal GW1 PvP player, i’ll say this:
“As long as Guild wars 2 doesn’t have GvG, i will keep calling it just >>PVE wars 2<< "

Because game has nothing to do with Guild and Wars any more.. Concept is lost in my eyes until we get what game was meant for.

~Signed
Forum junkie

:)

wasted.6817:

I understand OP and i greatly appreciate her effort and some of the answers she was able to give us. But, what OP said is basically the reason why i rarely check topics with red posts anymore. Because it’s probably just another hug exchange. Hey, yea i like it too, luv u all, <3, bye.

+1
I love the devs who try talking to us( I <3 Chris, Gaile, and John) but with Gaile it usually turns into a “let me get back to you on that…” Then the thread disappears before she replies or she just moves onto the next complaint.
Chris wasn’t much better, but he got us a few valid answers before his thread got shut down.
And John… Tbh I think John is secretly in charge of Anet because he somehow manages to get all the fun stuff (new forge mystery during Halloween), and avoid all the hateful posts… Plus we ( players) think there are more than one of him, maybe we’re wrong and really john is multiple devs…
(Food for thought, seriously though just trying to bring a little less hate for the good people bringing us this game)

You may have to manually block the acct name.
Report as well though, always report.

dlonie.6547:

Redxon.6832:

I’m just defending myself – they are the ones attacking me on the forums.

Totally understandable. It helps to remind yourself that if they seem like trolls to you, they’ll seem like trolls to everyone else. No need to defend yourself, it just gives them more fuel ;-) Getting sucked into an argument to derail your own thread is letting the terrorists win!

Have fun in game

I feel like we have a troll feeding the troll with anti-troll feed….
(In fairness, this thread is just chocked full of troll)

lordkrall.7241:

Dasenthal.6520:

Precursor scavenger hunt: People got mad… But not because it was dropped, rather because it got dropped and then they refused to give us any information for over a year…
The problem is still a lack of communication.

Except that they did give us information.

They said they were working on it. After some time they told us that they were changing it towards precursor crafting instead and that it was planned before the end of the year.
Before the end of the year they updated us and told us that it would not be done by the end of the year due changes to the reward system.

What changes do you think really impacted precursors?
What really happened was this:
1. Way to get precursor without RNG suggested
2. John Smith says “don’t do it, legendarys are to important to crash like that”
3. " Oh, uh…. We’re working on it guys, we really are!" … While waiting for new and unrelated change to use as an excuse for changing their mind.

We all know that precursors control legendarys, and legendarys control the market. But rather than admit that, they covered it up.

lordkrall.7241:

Shen Slayer.3058:

I agree with OP, we are just too in the dark here. They tell us nothing, other developers would provide the gamers with a vision and direction they want to take, not here. It’s so kitten frustrating.

They did that before and a while after release.
Guess what happened every single time something was slightly changed or dropped?

Precursor scavenger hunt: People got mad… But not because it was dropped, rather because it got dropped and then they refused to give us any information for over a year…
The problem is still a lack of communication.