Guild Wars 2

At Hermes, you might have misunderstood for diminishing returns and anti-farming enhance equal opportunity. Especially when it comes to gold and the market. IDK why people don’t get that in the real life either.

This was the first thing on my mind when I woke up this morning. Which is truly sad in itself BUT, this just irks me so…. It’s a huge set back as it was all my gold and resources. I don’t have any other exotic items but armor even. I have no in game resources left to take advantage of the Holiday sales this weekend.

I checked the wiki link and Snoring is right, AKS is the only unique item listed. The page was last modified yesterday. Though I’d love to know when was the creation date of the page.

Besides, in game, it doesn’t mention anything on what “Unique” means. I thought of it in terms of it’s stats. That it’s unique from every other exotic earring. Which it is obviously. The item is not quite Ascended as it cannot have Agony values. But, equivalent to Ascended in range of stats. No where does it say in game that you can only have one of them on your character. At the very least, it could have been like buying Dye’s on the TP. In which a pop-up of red text alerts you that you’ve unlocked this already. Or, simply lock an account from purchasing two of them. Since there’s no reason to have more than one on an account.

If this was just by oversight, Anet should make good and fix this so no one else loses 30+ gold. For me, I can sell to an NPC for a whole 3 silver

This just ruined my evening. After the Lost Shores event, I bought Gems, sold them for Gold, and bought Karka Shells on the Trading Post. All to get 2 Ancient Karka Shell’s on my main and only level 80.

Like every other accessory, I think of them in pairs. Accessories have two slots on the character. Now, only to find out after I went and bought them, you can only equip 1. Thus, here’s the head’s up for anyone else who might not have noticed this.

Well played Anet, I spent money on something I can’t sell, mail, or even salvage. If I was rolling in gold, I wouldn’t mind. But, this is an ouch for me. I still shake my head, am I wrong in thinking if it was to be a single item, it should have single slot to receive it?

I completely agree with having Dungeons scalable to accommodate solo play.

Running a very similar build to Findros above. Maybe he’ll agree, it’s a good all around build that’s very versatile. It’s a bit squishy but, you have to get precision near 1900. Then build power and toughness with what’s left afterwards.

I think duration should be including in the scaling of the dungeon incentives. Player level, gear, and difficulty should be counted too. I also feel it should scale for occupancy. If I want to go all Indiana Jones and run a tomb solo, there should some capacity to do so.

I would also institute DR and anti farming because it helps balance the game. Also, it introduces more difficulty for the truly gifted gamers who need more to feel satisfied.

WOW, I’d just like to point out it’s the selfish that are labeling others as greedy or selfish. All I here is “me…Me…ME!” I should have what you have, no less? How about NO…. Game Snob!

What if someone wanted to join Your party and wasn’t even level 80 yet? Gasp Heaven’s forbid anything like that could happen. Like helping others in a social game is such a bad thing??? When I run a dungeon, I openly invite any level to join my party. Since I’m aware they’re treated like Leper’s by folks like you. You know, like those pesky NEW players that keep Anet happy and in business.

Or, the casual players…. that haven’t the time to level.
Or, the older/younger players without the coordination or reflexes to be as fast.
Or, the actually handicapped people that could have a whole host of reason to not be as “optimized” to play as your Godly self, Super Gamer.

Are you THAT person, when we all go out to dinner, loves everything until it’s time to pay? Then complains and whines non stop about the service. Kinda sounds like it from this whine fest of a thread.

btw… Awesome Adam Savage quote Rakuren Kenshou.7689 I love that one too.

Congrat’s on hitting 30. Good to see someone’s getting ahead in the dungeon. I was thinking Anet should have added an additional level per day.This way it would taken a month to do 30 levels. Keeping the game from “fracturing” the players as much as it has. As someone who’s hit 30, would you have been ok with doing a level per day? Just curious…

Much appreciate!!! I’ll look into those you’ve listed. The weapon models I’ve found online, like on gw2db.com, don’t show the effect just the base weapon. Guess the real trouble comes from wielding an Axe and Rifle mostly. Looks like Swords get all the Dev’s love

Guess all I need are some cool skins really.

Still against having to run any additional software, 3rd party or not, at the same time. It hurts those whom are running older systems. Which cannot handle additional software running at the same time. Web browsers are not small in footprint. If this is Anet’s stance, then they should increase the system minimum requirements. It’s also slap in the face to everyone using a single monitor at full screen.

btw… I spent over 3 hrs last evening trying to build a party for FotM level 4. Finally found a group willing to do CoF story mode instead. Afterwards we did HotW story mode just because it was so hard to get a party together to begin with. It was a chore instead of fun.

Ok, I will give you that if (when) they add additional qualities to the new gear they will further out shine the preexisting gear. For now though, it’s not that much. I’ll also agree, they have to work on power scaling functionality. It should be much more linear.

Look, I’m also on board with all of you complaining of the gear grind I just bought $20 in gems on Monday to jump start the trek to Ascended gear myself. It sucks and I’m angry about the Gold Sink too. In reality though, I’m an idiot! Because dying in WvW in 5 seconds or now maybe 3 seconds, is really little difference in game play, right?

btw…. lfg FotM level 4, anyone?? lol

Well, let’s put it this way. Average PvEr can get 1 gold in 30min just by going from place to place mining orichalcum. Zero effort. If you’re lucky, you will get 200g just pressing “1” in a huge zerg during some of the “one-time” events.

I’m called out the animal dung! Most players can run around Orr for 3 hrs and be lucky to get 1G. Orichalcum is worth very little in the TP and harder to find. All the mat’s from Orr have little value now. All I ever get for drops, and I run Orr daily, is some fairly worthless blues and greens. Maybe a yellow once a week. An exotic… pfft, I don’t even remember the last time. That’s with 75-80 on Magic Find too! Once you get enough money to buy exotic explorer’s armor, travelers runes, and opal trinkets maybe then you can get more gold/hour. But, you have to have all that gold to begin with!

See…. that is the “Top Down” problem as I described. Screw the entitlement argument since we all bought the game for around $60. But, once you break that exotic level barrier, you’re wealth obviously skyrockets. It’s that wealth that inflates the cost for everyone on the TP. Leaving newcomers and casual players way behind in the dust. Forever playing catch up.

It will be the demise of the game if not focused on by Anet, that you can believe. At least they appear to be working on it by having this past weekend event in conjunction with the free trial period. Newcomers were able to join in and get some good loot from the beginning. I wouldn’t be surprised if loot drops are in fact higher for those with less hours and less gold. Diminishing returns and tiered structures are required for a perpetual game design.

Thank you OP for sharing our pain! I don’t mind dying much. Heck, I’m an Axe/Warhorn and Rifle Warrior so it goes with being a support character.

I shall, as long as whirl wind exist, avoid using the Great Sword. I simply dislike the whole idea of it. Though I do enjoy the Ice and Fire Great Swords you can pick up in some fights. If those become available, I’m there!!! And, if anyone knows any swords or axes with great visual effect’s, please share?

I know my post is the last one on page 1 but, it might help if you realize it’s only a 10% boost. NOT the 20%-50% some are making up.

Orichalcum Rings are +67/48/48 points with an upgrade slot for a jewel. Jewels are +25/15/15. Totaling 92/63/63 or 218 points.

Acsended rings are 103/68/68 or 239 total points with an Infusion only upgrade slot. Which is about a 10% increase, right?

Now, the new back items are about an 18% increase. Though back pieces needed a boost as they have been under powered. I’ve never even had enough Gold to purchase a Guild Back pack yet. So, the new items having a plentiful drop rate was welcomed.

Yes, I agree I do not like being forced to run Fractals. But, it’ll only be for a couple of weeks I tell myself. Though I’m aware I’ll be forever feeling without and near hopelessly grinding away to play catch up to the wealthy in this game anyway. This market functions around on a “winner take all” mentality when it requires more of a perpetual game theory enacted. Fun or entertainment rarely enters my mind anymore….

With the big mega event this past weekend, I noticed several characters running passed me with weapons having effects. Wondering if anyone can help in pointing out which they might be. Crossing my fingers there not all Legendary ones.

Particularly, if there a really nice Axe and Rifle besides Frost Fang. Which I do not see affording anytime this year.

Diana Dewolf – Level 80 Warrior – Part time stunt woman – WvW chew toy
Though still likes to remind me often that she is Awesome.
#nornitude

Diana Dewolf – Level 80 Warrior – Part time stunt woman – WvW chew toy

I do appreciate the lines of the Norn. My favorite in the game, which isn’t from my character, is the “Urge to kill rising!” Whenever I hear that I smirk. I so hope they get Claudia Christian back in the sound booth for some new content!

wait… you mean I can finally buy a great sword???? I haven’t used one since … oh… idk… day 2 or 3

I was just adding up the new accessory slot gear. A lot of it is not a specific as existing exotic gear. Which would make a more spread out and balanced character. Whether it’s a good thing, idk. What I do know is, Ascended gear adds up to at about a 10% increase in total points. Which is more than just a couple of points, though not 20% either. Quite substantial really when many aren’t even at Rare or Exotics yet. We’re like tissue paper in WvW as it is!

Will offensive Agony work in WvW? That’s just another thing to deal with now….

I know this is intended for good but, this thread just irked me. I’m getting tired of the consistent request to do chat “outside” of the game. This is the game and I run it full screen on a 50" plasma. I do not have another TV sitting in the living room to chat on. Nor will I open and have a web browser running in the background. For FPS isn’t that good to begin with either. So why would I burden the system and cause myself more headache by having additional software running in the background? This goes especially for WvW! For all those darn insistent request for team speak, ugh! If we can’t securely and conveniently chat in WvW that’s a game design issue.

Please do whatever you have to do Anet to build a better chat system, please???? Because I’m not buying new tv’s, computers, or whatever else. For Dungeons, what’s wrong with placing several NPC’s holding a tablet (like a waitress) which is a roster board in Lions Arch? Also, have those NPC’s guarding each dungeon door have such a roster board too. This way we can just click and sign up with our desired Dungeon, level, and path. Seems simple enough to me. We already click on NPC’s and a purchasing screen pops up. It would be the same design mechanics we’ve been using from day one.

I posted about this a couple of hours after the dungeon opened on Friday. Titled the thread, “BOOTED from Dungeon” as I thought that was easy enough to find

Yes, to all that this has occurred to, I’m with you! It happened on our first run at the dungeon. About 2 hrs in and almost to the end of our 3rd Fractal and BAM!… loading Lions Arch screen. Truly annoying and yet, not really a couple of days later.

Like all jumping puzzles, it’s not Norn approved! Having a full height Norn Warrior as my main character makes jumping puzzles incredibly difficult for me.

I’m still learning to, instead of getting frustrated, to laugh them off as an even more unhealthy and unrewarding usage of time.

I agree Colossus was the best one I’ve done thus far. Just as a normal reaction, I bowed back to him and received the achievement too. Good fun that one was.

Personally, I’m not a fan of game elements that are based around inducing adrenaline. You know the “Zomg…..Zomg….Zomg…!!!!” moments. Some are ok but, for people to run puzzles like this for hours just isn’t healthy. Maybe would can get some thought based puzzles instead of speed based ones?

“Remember you can get the skins for karma north of Lion’s Arch.”

Can someone tell me more about the skins mentioned? Where exactly?

I wasn’t able to finish my first run, we were booted right before the end. Right now too turned off to even load the game.

I agree with your initial post. I feel like a hamster on wheel with this game. Constantly grinding and grinding to keep up. It’s bad enough keeping up with an economy being drive by bots and 3rd party gold. I don’t need Anet increasing this by designing items so prohibitively expensive. How many hours a day do they think we have to play???? Not to mention doing the same thing over and over isn’t really…. what’s the word…. oh yeah!… FUN!

Seriously, can not express how agitated and annoyed at this. It appears several parties were, for no reason, booted. My party just finished breaking the ankle seals. We stopped for a minute for a breather and then boom loading to Lions Arch screen appeared.

This was around 5:15pm est. We began quite soon after the initial event ended. Once in Lions Arch I asked and it happened to others as well. If it happened to you, please post it below.

I have one request and that is, when in stealth, a Thief cannot “finish off” anyone. At least the cowards should have to show themselves! Not this invisibility nonsense. At least it gives anyone around a shot at them.

^thanks, that’s a good suggestion. I’ve been crafting Knights one at a time. Kinda annoying this way. I do make an ore run in Orr when I’m on.

Last night I was looking for Armored Scales too. Came up completely dry after several hours of farming. Had +50% MF and was killing more Barracuda and Jellyfish on the West side of Frostgorge than I could ever count.

In fact, farming scales is on my to-do list whenever I play next. I had not thought of Kraits in WvW. I’ll try that next to see.

There was an oddity, I was seeing Candy Corn last night. Just for a second or two in Cursed Shore. Perhaps it’s still buggy after the Halloween event?

I’ll agree, WvW armor repair is costly for newer players. Even now, I reserve my WvW time because of the expense. Once rolling full exotics and have little to spend silver on, I’d be much less concerned with cost too.

I’ll also agree, logging out during combat is cowardly and completely against the spirit of the game. Instead of the Hall of Monuments, there should be a Hall of Shame! A place in Lions Arch where the names and images of cowards hang on the wall for all to see.

The only issue is, to ensure it’s only for those that alt+F4. I wouldn’t want this to occur if the client crashes. Which happens frequently enough for me while running in large Zerg’s and huge battles.

Since I’m new to MMo’s, I automatically assumed it was just to increase the chances of getting higher level Masterworks and Rares from looting. To me, that alone was well worth the effort to always have some form of magic find boost’s. Money is so restrictive to me, I won’t even consider not having it.

For running the Mad King, I received more from the initial mob then the chest at the end.

Much appreciated!!!! Now only if Sandy will be as kind to keep the power on the next couple of days

I woke up early for this “One Time Event” that seems to be staying open for days Can we get a firm answer on how long it will stay open. This way we can make an appropriate schedule. Thank you!

I’m still having this issue. The other night I was in WvW. And, then once again in Orr. I haven’t even tried another Dragon event.

For me, it only seems to occur once game play get’s overly frenetic. It just overwhelms the audio and it goes out. Then crashes later…

That appears to be a Norn at the smallest height, correct? A friend rolled one like that and I didn’t even realize it wasn’t a human. I’m guessing weapon size has to be bound to overall height settings.

Isn’t the whole point of this, is to have as many options as possible? We should simply be asking for more options. Body sliders for muscle volume and body fat would be great. Additional options for scars and tattoo’s are fine. (Even though I personally do not wish to promote tattoo’s Additional zones for dyeing armor and hopefully weapons. I’d say yes to it all because each of us should be happy with our character creations.

I read yesterday they’re working on character customization for after the roll. So, we’ll be able to modify our current builds as more options come on line.

Ivanov I can hear the, not so reserved, frustration in your words. I do understand. Even though others may not have a build to your liking , its truly up to you to stay or go. Or, to be aid others if it’s within your capacity to do so.

Now, if you waited until you were angered before speaking, how harshly do you think you presented your opinion? If they responded with “we will play however we like , you can’t tell us what to do.” it sounds like you placed them on the defensive rapidly. Did you pleasantly say, “Hey, I noticed your running a 5 sig build. I just read about this AWESOME Warrior build you could try. You’d be invincible with it!” Were you pleasant, positive, and encouragingly selling it? Because even on this thread, I have not seen you posting an actual Warrior dungeon spec for others to follow yet.

What could potentially be a great idea (also also help you from having to suffer like this again) would be to post a new thread with a title like “Warrior Dungeon Build” With all the spec generators available online, you could easily put a great build together and post a link. I’m certain your fellow players will be quite appreciative.

Lastly, I am a Warrior. The other night I was simply running past a Dungeon with yes gasp my magic find gear on It was way late and the zone was quite quiet. I was asked desperately to be the 5th player. I agreed, even though it kept me up way too late. Since I wasn’t properly equipped for it, I lost copious amounts of silver by the time it was all over. Thus, for every time you think others aren’t pulling their weight, know there are those sacrificing for the sake of others too.

That’s one of the things that makes GW2 gamers such a great group of folks to be around!

I’d love a guild specific back item!!!! I’d pay a small sum for THAT. Any dev with open ears feel free to email me

^That’s pretty freak’n funny! Hoping you get your Hedgehog.

Sounds like a great idea for a lot of the Armor in the game. I would agree an increase or further separation between the dyeable zones would be nice. I know I’d like to choose other color schemes on the heavy plate armor. That’s why instead I’m rock’n a simple monochromatic scheme right now.

I just watched the video above and thinking, ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? From this game, I now highly despise jumping puzzles because
a)the camera angles
b)the nausea
c) I’m NORN!

Might as well not even bother with this nonsense. Being new to Guild Wars, I had no idea Areanet has such an infatuation with Jumping Puzzles. If so much of the game is going to focus on them, then this will drive me away from the brand. Because there is certainly, no joy in futility.

I’d just like a list of All the items in this event so we know what’s available. Why can’t I find one? Then I can start worrying about how to obtain them. Right now I think many of us are confused and in the dark. And, most likely will be by the time the event is over.

Oh, forgot I did get an error code last night. It happened 4 or 5 times on me last night.
(code=58:11:5:504:101)

EXACTLY……. my problem too. Game run’s flawless for hours on end. Yet, when attempting a larger event (the fun ones) like one of the Dragons, I’ll get the same sound as shown in the video. Once an attacking Zerg builds up to a certain threshold, it pop’s the audio and usually freezes the game client moments later.

….Ironically, it happens right before the end. By the time I CTRL+ALT+DEL and reset, the chest is gone!…..grrrr…..

My system’s setup is
Intel Q6600
4gb ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (HDMI out to TV)
Realtek High Definition Audio (optical out to sound system)

I’ll try lowering the settings to see if it helps but, this only began to occur this past week.

I’ve been quite happy with the purchase as I’ve been leveling in PvE. She’ll grab the attention of most NPC’s. Giving me plenty of time to use the rifle or back away from the target for healing. Besides, for me, it’s just fun to have!

As mentioned already, Signet of Rage is the best. Just the 30 seconds of quickness for covering terrain is great.

Heavy Armor is such a disappointment for me personally. Would it be too much to ask for a tick box to show/un-show the tents, I mean umbrella’s, I mean skirts? What’s with Anet and this design theme of skirts on everything???

Though for what you have to work with, you folks are doing some fine work!!!! Keep posting!

I’m for additional content! As my lvl 80 is a Warrior, it would seem like something I’d never get to use. Even though technically I already used a whip in the game, as someone mentioned in an earlier comment above.

If Warriors won’t get to use whips (most likely) I’d like Anet to open up the restrictions on pistols. I’d love to go two handed! Honestly, we’re warriors! We wouldn’t know how to use a handgun???

I’d don’t believe physical aspects are factored into the physics of the character. As in, a Norn should by nature of it’s size, conditioning, and muscle mass have a greater reach, greater jumping distances, and faster terrain speed coverage. But, none of that appears to take place. This was in fact truly disappointing to me. Honestly, if a Norn were to kick a lil Asura, they should be able to punt that sucker 2400 units easily!!! Am I right or what??

In the end, it seems we Norn just ended up being visibly huge targets on the battle field to spot and attack. All the downsides and none or the benefits…. Heck, combat in close quarters, you can’t even get the camera angle down to see a lil critter or Asura nipping at your heals. Rotation speed is abysmal to say the least too…. #NornNerfed