Guild Wars 2

Well… Firstly you actually get rewarded for playing EotM…

I skimmed through this this so I apologize if someone else said something similiar but here’s my spiel:
I like the leveling tomes, but I don’t Spvp much so I don’t really see them very often so I resort to the next most unnatural leveling method… EotM, all the time. Which requires very little effort, absolutely no knowledge of my class, and is hardly fun most of the time…
So: my solution is when my level 80 levels, why don’t we get tomes ? Even if only once every 5 or 10 levels.

Side note: 4 80’s and 4 40’s…

simplesimon.2084:

If you create an account just make sure you use a diffent email and password then what you use for GW.

Yea, actually that is a really good thing for any 3rd party forum, or “self help” like gold wars or curse.

No, it’s not against EULA.
It has been around since before launch. I believe John Smith addressed it at one point (not directly this website but others very similar)

Ultimately it boils down to whether you have the skin (fresh from bltp) or if you have access to skins indefinitely (Zenith). It wouldn’t be too bad if they had moved the bltp skins in with the achievement skins, but from the past they knew they could continue charging for the transmutation charges on them. (Before wardrobe system)

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Or, you know, you could actually try playing this (quite profitable) map properly and contributing to its success rather than attempting to ruin it again.

Ha, Ha, Ha… Actually play the game what is this nonsense…

Jk, I agree entirely.

Its been a long standing joke that they do have a dev team for wvw… Except it’s only one person and usually they last about six months before disappearing from the forums.

Ok… I read the posts, and while I agree with the idea of giving her the precursor, you should erase all ideas of a legendary story for the rest of the mats (map completion aside) you will end up farming gold or mats together.

Side note: did anyone else read the title of this post and think “WTT legendary for girlfriend” ?…
No? Oh Ok…

You may want to add more detail I think I know the one you’re talking about (new LS) but I could be wrong.

DR has a waypoint within 1200 range of a bank, guild bank, and TP… LA can’t even come close to competing with that…

I’m sorry… To be honest I was in wvw when I saw this beautiful back piece, and then when we stopped for a bio break I bought it. Then equipped it, loved it, and will continue to use it…
Moral of the story…
<—— plays with the entire game muted…
Happy Saturday

My intention is not to sound cynical or to insult you…
However this is a really silly complaint, and ultimately well I have nothing to add…

Lol… I really want you to be kidding but I don’t think you are…
EotM is a full time PvE zerg farm, was it intended to be? No. But it is, and yes there is hostility but don’t worry about it because red can’t talk to blue… ( it’s Ok no one cares about green anyways). Its also perfect for locking people up because its in the mists so they can’t hurt tyria from there anyways.

Yea… That’s kind of what I thought… I can go to wvw stand in a tower and see no one for hours (hence no reward) or stand in blue SW and get attacked every 10 minutes… And the NPCs don’t have siege disablers, so more reward, more stuff to kill, and less standing around. Unfortunately that means SW>WvW. For the time being.

At this point I’m a little surprised some of you still have teeth…
I’d say MF got kicked during Halloween (All the loot came from bags… And how much MF came out of them)

Certainly the amount of luck being pushed in now from these bags is also making luck easier to farm. (Of course it doesn’t actually do anything in the new area’s).

Personally I like the bags because I don’t have to empty my inventory frequently. However it wouldn’t hurt if MF was included instead of just being for dungeon runs and low lvl champ farms.

You can blame me… I was inactive during the election and to be honest I regret letting that human get elected.

+1
Don’t forget we need some PvE k-train action out there!

I love when the group I am with fail… Then proceed to solo whatever boss/fight they wiped on…

But when I die I want everyone else to suicide rush the boss, if it dies awesome, if not, they do… Either way I get to waypoint/rez.

Candy corn isn’t just used for this recipe, lowering the drop rate is a *bad* idea. I agree that crafting in this game sucks after a while because everything is in 100’s and 250’s. But last year candy corn wasn’t dropped enough, so this is a better solution.
I don’t know of anyone who is actually use the balm but my understanding is it turns candy corn back into Tot bags. (Crafted using corn, use on ambients, kill, get bags.) Which to me looks like it’s intended as a way for people to still fight for minis (kitteny RNG ghost wolf). So saying it isn’t worth it just means you’re not looking at the right value.

laokoko.7403:

Dasenthal.6520:

laokoko.7403:

mjasa.5821:

I have one drop for me in 2 years and really want to make the eye of Rodghort.
So with this drop rate I will have enough to make my scepter in 20 years, cmon Anet really :[

I dont’ know why everyone in this post felt they have to farm the item their self.

If you want to get 9 more giant eye, it cost 27 gold. I don’t think farming for 27 gold is that harsh.

Its 27g today because someone is selling theirs… If I needed to buy 250 of them the price would be well above 4g a pop by the time I finished. _( Supply and Demand)

I dont’ find it too difficult to fill the buy order quite honestly. You probably have to do it slowly in a patch of 10 without having people aggressively over bidding you.

If what you said is true, the price won’t stay at 3 gold, which have been the price for quite a while. (Supply and demand). Supply is low but quite honestly as a recipe which is used only for 4 items(and 3 of them require low amount), only the immobulus require a huge amount).

I was refering to trying to buy all of them at the same time (buy order or straight up purchasing). If you put in 250 buy orders with an item this low supply you’d simply be forcing people to outbid you (overbidding by a few copper). Now throw in someone else’s 250, and you can rest assured it will take a very long time before your order is reached. Unless you overbid the other order, introducing a bidding war and temporary inflation. (When both are done price will gently return back to around 3 gold.

laokoko.7403:

mjasa.5821:

I have one drop for me in 2 years and really want to make the eye of Rodghort.
So with this drop rate I will have enough to make my scepter in 20 years, cmon Anet really :[

I dont’ know why everyone in this post felt they have to farm the item their self.

If you want to get 9 more giant eye, it cost 27 gold. I don’t think farming for 27 gold is that harsh.

Its 27g today because someone is selling theirs… If I needed to buy 250 of them the price would be well above 4g a pop by the time I finished. _( Supply and Demand)

Elestian.6134:

Consider that downed state skills are also not equal across professions and that the downed state is, itself, a mercy other games don’t afford you.

This, every time you get downed you should be dead. If your interrupt is just stalling the impending stomp then it’s a waste of time. The exception is if you might be rezzed or rallied, however your allies should be more focused on the interupt //killing of people stomping than you should be.

@ the lotro comment you were grinding because it was ftp. Which makes it difficult to fairly compare here

Zenith.6403:

Vayne.8563:

I was more addicted to WoW than to Guild Wars 2….but I have more fun playing Guild Wars 2. I like this game because I don’t need to work for armor. I have my armor. It doesn’t matter if I get a skin I want today, or tomorrow, or next thursday or next April. Won’t change the game for me. That’s a very powerful thing coming from other MMOs.

- If you read what you said, you can find that it’s just the talk of lonesome figure who is chasing carrot on a stick. “I like this game… because it doesn’t contain this aversive element from some other game.”

What’s the meaning of “liking” something anyway? It’s not pleasurable like reading a good book is pleasurable. The emotions the player experiences are not happiness like happiness of watching a good comedy. The challenges are not challenging like chess is challenging. Being in a party is not any kind of sociality. What remains, thus, is some kind of lizard brain that says I must follow through the suggestions the game constantly feeds me and I feel rewarded because the game says I’ve been rewarded.

Idk….
The first time I finished a 24 man raid (not gw2) gave me pleasure (mostly cause I finally got to go to bed at 4am), happiness. It certainly provided plenty of challenge (some of it internal {being up till 4 in the morning after working the day before} some of it external { Thorog stepping on you… For example})
I quit playing that game 3 years ago in preparation for gw2, I still talk to a few of those guys. Certainly a very social experience when you add the 3rd party voice software (ventrillo at the time, but raidcall, Skype, and TS)

I haven’t had time to read all the posts yet, but I read the first few, arguably if everyone posting here still plays gw2 as their main game it is the best mmo (for them).

I tried to pick the “best” mmo from a list in my head, but gw2 won every time; not because it’s absolutely better then everything else, but because if any other game was better I’d probably be skimming their forums for controversial topics to get me through the work day.

Ledddawe.8964:

is that worth ?

That question wasn’t directed at me… But not in a financial sense ATM. (In other words if you sell everything that comes out of the bags today, you will lose money)
However some of us are doing it for elusive minis (glaring at the ghost wolf), and others are betting it will be worth it when supply goes down… Personally I think Mystic and some of the others are doing it for science.

Blackthorne.4081:

Dasenthal.6520:

Yea, but dry top will be here longer than 2 weeks.

Yes, all the more reason to want to save time.

Yup, but whose time? You save the player 5 minutes every… 3 hours (I’ll assume one death every 30 minutes) That player farms lab for 3-6 hours a night so 10 minutes a day. Thats between 70-140 minutes over the course of 2 weeks. If a single dev can put it in with less than 70 minutes of work than it might be worth doing..
However that only applies to time, I agree with the earlier comment about potential profit on cannisters as well though.
(Sorry for long winded reply, wanted to make sure I covered everything)

So it’s related to this: how do guys feel about the maize balm? Sell now or hold on to it? I’ve put a great deal of thought into it and came out clueless.

Yea, but dry top will be here longer than 2 weeks.

If you’re in the labyrinth long enough to die 6 times you either should switch maps or should get a drink/ bio break anyways. (Complaining about any repairs under 6 deaths is silly to begin with)

I’m just barely 3k bags in, I’ve gotten enough corn & misc. Candies to buy everything I wanted… (Although zuzu was a drop). I’ve resorted to buying guildies the hex outfits because I can… I just want this mini, but this is just silly anet. At the very least you should put some of these in the raffle as a “consolation” prize even though it’s harder to get than the great saw ever was.
70k bags at 5s a pop = 3500g
Great saw before event was still worth <3000g

Since they are different TPs and effected differently. Pure speculation.

The point is for the ghosts to steam roll… What they need to do is make the matches shorter, because either everyone plays fair or they hide off map.

Just cause Krall posted this I disagree…. ….
No, actually your stubborn and I like you.
But this should not happen unless it happens with a proper search bar.

I was actually gonna say the exact same thing Timmy just said…
There is a roadmap, but they’re not aloud to talk to us about it, because of spoilers in the story… (Quite literally the excuse presented from one dev)

Ultimately, it’ll be awesome to see if this really happens… At this point I don’t even care if they include healing or not, but we’ll be lucky to see if they actually have or can get ahold of the funding for this kind of project. Given what’s going on in the behemoth forum sounds like finances might be tight for a while.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

pelle ossa.9705:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ok, guys. Some of you are unhappy about this change, I can see that. BUT… quite honestly, most of you are sort of (I hate to use the word) ranting (sorry!) instead of offering suggestions.

if you pay me i give you a lot of suggestions…. there is a reason for this huge ranting…..

Gaile arenanet have to find the right way for this , not the player , but seems you don’t want to do the right things for the player (veterans or news) but only for your profit…..

That reply is the last thing we need right now.

“We kind of need suggestions on what you want”

“Lol pay me, otherwise figure it out”.

This isnt digital minesweeper. Do something.

Suggestion: Add a 100 Gem option for people who like trading in small increments. Optionally, add a 25 and 50 gem option to allow people who need that extra 25 for the Black lion key or are 50 gems away from a hood mask or whatever to get what they need without an extra 450-475 gems of work.

Ideal suggestion: Put it back to how it was. Doubt the metrics will allow this so let’s propose the former.

This “improvement” was the last thing we needed right now. If the devs are gonna penalize people for being mad its only gonna bring this game closer to Warhammer (RIP)

How do you value gold to gems though? That’s why it needs to be a conversion, right now there is an equation determining the values of demand for gems based on gold offers, and gold demand based on gem offers.

Ok… I’ve been avoiding this thread for a while because 4/6 of my characters have been around or high enough level not to be bothered by it.
The unlock mechanism is silly, when you get your second trait point and you only have 1 choice for a trait.
My suggestion would be: give us a list of events we need to do, and as we do it we get to pick the traits unlocked. If we need to do 3 lists for the different tiers so be it. Plus Spvp doesn’t have this problem but once again you play favorites and shoot wvw up levels in the foot.

lordkrall.7241:

tigirius.9014:

I’ve got a suggestion for them. How about fixing things that are REALLY broken in the game and have been for years now.

Do you really think that they took people away from trying to fix those things for this change?
Do you even think they would need more than a days work (at most) to make these changes?

It humors me on a spiritual level that you think they actually have someone working on hobo sacs.

Unfortunately there’s quite a few people in the behemoth forum who believe NCSoft encouraged or forced this change. So not likely to get help from them if that’s true.

Ultimately I’m not a huge gem shopper because I don’t need much… But I know I spend more than most of my guildies ($40-$60) every couple of months and especially during festivals. However as listed above I don’t save the excess I trade it for gold.

If you won’t change the system back, at least make it less likely to get random gems (I.E. from buying keys/ other awkward priced items).

Truthfully I’m not bothered enough that I won’t buy more gems… But there’s 23 pages of people who are, please listen to them Anet. Please don’t chase off more people.

In one of the other posts it was mentioned that this is China’s first Halloween since launch. So the speculation is that they kept them the exact same so they can have access to the same content at least once.

Smokey.7652:

I am not exactly excited about this lottery, but I think I understand why Anet did it. These skins are very expensive in the TP and if they introduced an uncapped decent chance way to obtain them it could potentially crash that market. So by having a lottery they can do 2 things.

1. Give players a chance to get these skins as a reward

2. Control the exact number of skins introduce into the market to prevent a crash

I would on tweak a few things.

1. remove the candy from the gem store. While these are just cosmetic items the vast amount of gold linked to them makes this come too close to pay to win for me.

2. Remove the rng of obtaining the tickets and rather make them fixed rewards for festival events based on the frequency and difficulty of the event.

I agree with the store comment, not the RNG of obtaining tickets.
In theory you can open a pile of ToT bags and get no tickets, but more likely you’ll get 3-4 from 100 (in my limited experience of obtaining 200 bags last night)

If you farm the ToT bags for the wrappers, you can make a little side money while farming. Because ultimately Vayne is right. I don’t know if its per server or per system (EU/NA) but either way people will be buying tickets for those weapons.

DeathMetal is correct, They can’t force you out of the map and if anyone tries you should report them…

However I will admit this is something that Anet should have seen coming with the Megaserver because it was mentioned in the forums shortly after the idea was announced.

Djinn.9245:

There are many players (like myself) who are not going to become WvW players no matter what Anet wants. People don’t like to be pushed to do something they don’t want to do. That’s why, for instance, games that tried to force group play end up “nerfing” their content to allow for more solo play. Because players want to play the way they want.

Eventually enough players will get fed up with not being able to get a Legendary and quit that Anet will finally introduce another way to do it (other than spending huge amounts of gold which most people can’t do). Unfortunately the players who leave will go on to another game and won’t necessarily return at that point.

Um… You’re able to get your legendary, it just requires work all of a sudden. Getting the legendary isn’t hard it’s tedious but it isn’t difficult. All of a sudden because people are required to think it becomes impossible for them to get it?

Plus if the only reason you’re still playing is to get your legendary, as soon as you have it you’re gonna brag for a week or two. Then you’ll quit anyways, especially if you’re not willing to actually work for it. Hate to admit this but farming T6 mats is annoying at worst, Dungeons you don’t even have to think the way most speed runs function, Map completion is the only part of the LI that’s actually any work, and yet people consistently attempt to get it nerfed down so that getting the LI is even easier.
Btw, in case you guys didn’t realize it already there isn’t enough precursors available for the people willing to put in the work, until that gets fixed making it easier for people to get the other gifts is just silly.

pdavis.8031:

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

I would like to throw 4 Anet Developers into the Mystic Toilet.

Would that make one super developer? Although the idea is….interesting…the question is: Do we want to sacrifice 4 great devs for 1 better dev? Even if we did, I can’t think of anyone I would want to give up. :P

There is a rumor that there are more than one John Smith… Maybe that’s it!
We throw in John Smith + John Smith + John Smith + John Smith and we get Back “JOHN SMITH” the ultimate John Smith…

This is speculation on my part: however if it does stack with bloodlust nothing will change, if not then the buff will probably be changed accordingly.
Killing blow, stomp, or hopefully last hit (deals with vengeance and cliff diving)
I’m not super familiar with mesmer it is a rez right? In which case they didn’t die, so you get no points.

edit for awkward addition of kitten.

Well first thing, would be to start slowly. If you’re in the neighborhood of losing 100g you’re going the wrong way. Start with something much smaller then that, either less purchase orders or fewer items if you want to play with armor/weapons.
(I don’t have much time so can’t get more detailed, but didn’t want you to think you were being ignored)