Guild Wars 2

havoc.6814:

@ Deimos Tel ARin and Cryx Tryx:

Okay, I get it, you play mesmers. That explains the vabid defense of the portals on your part. Do note that it is not my stated desire to have portals removed from the game, but rather altered to still be viable and desirable skills, without allowing others access to rewards they did not earn. I even made a suggestion to that effect in my OP.

actually i do not mainly play mesmers in PvE / WvW.
i did play mesmers in sPvP last time though now i switched to playing thief in sPvP.
my first and main PvE / dungeons character is a warrior.
though now i am casually leveling up my mesmer via dailies in PvE.

anyway, i still do not understand why you are so angry with the mesmer portal.

anyway, though it may your desire to change the mesmer portal to your liking, it is not the players decision to make that change.

the mesmer portal did receive some changes though since launch.

- recharge timer increased from 60 seconds to 90 seconds
- limit of 20 people per portal

it is gone for the moment.

i think, in the future, they might be available again, via Asuran time machines!

well, and i think those Asuran time machines probably consumes so much energy so it will be a limited time event as well.

Empressium.5482:

reduce the amount of t6 needed from 250 to 50-100ish, issue fixed

well, i think, if they did that, then those who already spent 250 will rage.

i think some grind or expensive price for “special skins” is still reasonably acceptable.

let there be no skins / basic skins option for a less grinding alternative!

havoc.6814:

No, that is not my issue. I earn my rewards. I do the content. I neither beg for, nor desire, freebies.

good for you!

Apparently you fail to understand just how important to everyday life this very basic value is.

guild wars 2 is a game. i do not understand. could you elaborate more?

Go ask your mom about it.

and this is related to this topic? O_O

Teamwork? Really? It’s one guy giving a bunch of other guys a free ride. Where is the teamwork in that? When I take a bus somewhere, am I working together with the bus driver? Are we a team? Really?

well, i am referring to portals used in
- WvW skirmishes
- Citadel of Flame explorable path 1 boulders

i see those as team work.

free rides are … well, free rides!
i see them as generosity!

so … does seeing generosity makes you angry? why?

Vayne.8563:

And nerfing jumping puzzle rewards is not enough of a problem to me to worry about it.

regarding the new jumping puzzle reward, i think the vendor selling price change of 60 silvers to 3 silvers is a bug fix.

it was not intended in the first place.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-June-25th-2013/first#post2330359
see the patch notes:
“Fixed a bug that caused the sale value of the exotic shoulders that drop from the Aetherblade jumping puzzle to be higher than intended.”

bug
higher than intended

now observe all the exotic armor items vendor selling prices in guild wars 2.

it is a bug, now fixed.

and some people are getting angry with a bug fix.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It angers me because a legit alternative to making money instead of CoF farming doing something I like (JP’s) was nerfed because of this skill.

are you referring to the new jumping puzzle’s exotic shoulder armor price decrease from 60 silvers to 3 silvers?

did it occur to you that the high vendor price of 60 silvers is a honest mistake in the first place?

observe the current prices of exotic vendor prices in guild wars 2. what is the highest? now, think again.

It angers me because people come here and complain that there isn’t enough content and the content we do have is too easy because they skip all of it with portals.

everyone has a right to complain. but why are you angry with other people complaining? seeing other people complain, makes you angry?

It angers me because I can work with a small team for 20 minutes to take a keep in WvW just to have to flooded with an enemy zerg because of this skill.

so you are saying that you felt angry, because you lost a battle, due to advanced tactics by the enemy?

are you trying to tell us that you felt angry because you lost?

are you a sore loser?

So it has nothing to do with players trivializing their own experience, they are actively making my experience worse.

how did they make your experience worse?

a bug in the vendor price is fixed makes you angry?
other people complaining makes you angry?
losing a WvW battle due to advanced tactics makes you angry?

errr …
do you need anger management courses?

havoc.6814:

Let me just turn that around. Why can’t I have a skill that allows me to enter a dungeon, kindly ask the bosses to step aside, and help myself to their chests? Why can’t I have a skill that fills up my bags with Ori ores so I don’t have to go hunt them down and mine them?

because no such skill exists in the game?

Why are you so willing to accept that people are allowed to simply skip content and take what they want, while others earn it?

why does this bother you?

i still get my content, they get theirs.
everyone wins!

why so angry?

CryxTryx.9208:

I was a little bit torn at first. The only place I could see a potential problem is WvW I guess, but then again all sides have the same opportunity so it is not a balance issue.

When I first started playing GW2 I looked down at the porters, but then again I was bias, I love the jumping puzzles, all of them, I love doing them.

Not everyone does. Now sure you can say ‘Then they don’t deserve the reward.’ And you might be right, but the jumping puzzles do not give anything signifcant anyway.

That being said, if people really want to trivialize their own content by porting to the end of the puzzle who am I to speak against it? Doesn’t hurt anyone, except potentially themselves.

So I guess my question is, why does it anger you to see other people trivialize their own game playing expirience?

i think it makes OP angry because OP thinks the mesmer portal skill is destroying the game?

well i think the mesmer skill promotes team work and people helping one another.

it is a good thing.

the mesmer utility skill – portal is working as intended.

what are you talking about?

them PvE carebears got it all wrong.

this is not an attempt to get PvE carebears to try out WvW-Eternal Battlegrounds-Obsidian Sanctum-PvP

but instead an all you can eat buffet for the WvW-PvP regulars to feast on them PvE carebears.

working as intended.

thanks for the feedback!

edited the title.

hope it gets a bit more attention now.

Katreyn.4218:

It would be nice to eventually be able to make/get a ascended backpieces without doing Fractals (sure you have the Sclerite one, but I’m talking all stat options). I just got tired of crap drop rate in annoying Fractals so I gave up on finishing the backpiece myself. But I guess they want to keep it in Fractals for the time being.

yes! we need more options!

and everyone else is fine with the grind?

well, since the max size for guild is 500 members, sooner or later we have to start kicking to make way for active members.

Tainden.1640:

Deimos, my guild already use this measure and we still regularly find ourselves capped or very close to it. We like to keep a couple of spots open as many of our guildies have the ability to invite people. And given that there isnt always a guild leader on to boot an inactive account it makes sense to be a few below capped. That be said thanks for the tip

ooo. i see. hmm for my guild, we reached 400 members, i think we need to purchase the 500 max upgrade or start booting truly inactive members. we have around 100 – 150 which are inactive for good. >.<

Another idea i’ve also heard of is set everyone to a nominal rank, and everytime a guild leader see’s someone online, increase their rank to another rank. After X amount of time (say a month or 2) you have a fair idea which ones are inactive. Not meaning u have to boot them all straight away but still means u know who u can remove to make room. Havent actually implemented this idea yet as i’ve only just heard it.

aye this is what i do. i set the ranks to be:

founder
generals
commanders
majors
lieutenants
sergeants
corporals
privates
recruits
M I A

Zaxares.5419:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

You seem to have forgotten the PvP players. While it is all fine for PvE, that stat difference is very major to them.

Ah yes, I did forget about PvP. Still, all ANet would need to do is buff up the gear in sPvP to Ascended tier by default. WvW is a bit more tricky, but you could include Ascended gear purchasable with Badges of Honor, so WvW players also have something to work towards besides WvW masteries.

WvW vendors do sell ascended items but laurels are still needed though.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Laurel_merchant

Meglobob.8620:

Bored of back items now…given us loads recently…

How about ascended/exotic air breathers for a change?

yes, loads, but what about people who want ascended stats (for back items) but do not want the grind involved to get the fancy skins back items?

and yes we need rare, exotic or ascended breathing masks!
even better if we can craft them.

hmmm i will make another survey for them breathing masks later.

tl; dr –
Do you want basic ascended items that can be acquired with much less grind?
For example, obtainable via karma, coins, laurels, crafting, drops etc.

Lets take a look at the Ascended Back Item for our example:

Both [Back Brace] and [Spineguard] [goes under armor] so there are no special skins for these 2 back items.

From here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Equipment#Backpieces
We have the following ascended back items:

All the following require [1 Vial of Condensed Mist Essence], [40 Crystals], [50 Globs of Ectoplasm] and [250 Tier 6 Fine Crafting Material]

250 Vials of Powerful Blood (Book of Secrets, Quiver of Swift Flight)
250 Vicious Fangs (Koss on Koss, Bowyer’s Delight)
250 Armored Scales (Symon’s History of Ascalon, Sights Be True)
250 Vicious Claws (There with Yakkington: A Traveler’s Tale, Quiver of a Thousand Arrows)
250 Ancient Bones (Tome of the Rubicon, Endless Quiver)

The grind involved is outrageously long, if one does not buys additional [Tier 6 Fine Crafting Materials] from the trading post.

These 2 are a bit different:
Sclerite Karka Shell
1 Sclerite Karka Shell – from meta achievement
50 Globs of Ectoplasm – various grind
250 Karka Shells – kill mobs grind
100 Passion Flowers – harvest grind

Prototype Fractal Capacitor (Defensive / Offensive)
1 Prototype Fractal Capacitor (exotic) – bought with [1350 Fractal Relics]
240 Philosopher’s Stones / 40 Crystals – 24 skill points / levels
1 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence – rare drop in [Fractals of the Mist]
1 Gift of Ascension – bought with [500 Fractal Relics]

i.e. Prototype Fractal Capacitor needs a total of 1850 fractal relics to make.

At the moment, all ascended back items have fancy skins and take quite a lot of grind to acquire them.

What if, people do not want fancy skins, just a normal ascended back brace or spineguard that does not have fancy skin?

And with that we end the example regarding the Ascended Back Items!

Now comes the magical survey question:
Do you want [Ascended] [Items] without fancy skins that can be acquired without having to go through outrageous grind? Like say, acquisition via:
- karma vendor
- laurels vendor
- coins, orders vendor
- crafting
- drops

Thanks for reading!

here’s a tip,

if a guild member’s last known location is “Unknown” each time you log in everyday …
then that said member has not logged in for a very, very long time.

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/ask/session/L3RpbWUvMTM3MjY1NTY3OS9zaWQvcVZVZ2g1dWw%3D

I need help with…
Violation Report [SELECT THIS]

Zaxares.5419:

1. They are not required to do end-game content. Currently Ascended gear is only essential for Fractals 20+. You can get by with Exotics, Rares, or even Masterwork gear for the rest of the game. If ANet maintains this stance going forward with Ascended weapons/armor, I see no problem with it.

the stats different of
12 exotics vs 12 ascended
can be quite significant …
armor: 6 pieces helmet shoulders chest pants gloves boots
trinkets: 6 pieces back neck ring ring accessory accessory

2. There is a way to upgrade level 80 Exotic gear to Ascended status. My personal suggestion would be to do this via the Mystic Forge, by introducing recipes where you put an Exotic item, Mist Essence, Crystals/Stones and Ectos/Obsidian into the Forge, and the Forge spits back an Ascended copy of the same item. Make Mist Essence tradable and acquirable from Laurels, and you now have a way for everybody to upgrade their gear to Ascended tier.

sure, if the amount of materials required is reasonable and does not require an outrageous grind to acquire.

aye, what vayne said.

there are still people playing in sPvP, WvW.

though some remote PvE areas may have less people though.

xarallei.4279:

No. It was bad enough that they introduced Ascended gear at all. I would prefer that they not introduce any more. But we all know that’s not going to be the case….

aye, since we know the inevitable will come, lets try to make it less damaging as possible.

if we have more less grinding options to access ascended stats, then …

it should be better yes?

to those who feel way point fees hurt:
1. do you non fractals of the mist dungeons with guild members?
2. do you do guild missions with guild members?
3. do you sell confirmed rares from meta events daily bonus chests?

1. at least 26 silvers per dungeon path completed. some boss drop silvers too.
2. 50 silvers per guild missions completed. 1.5 gold per week. bounty, challenge, rush.
3. this one varies, average 15 – 20 silvers.

do some dungeons
sell rare items from meta boss group events
do guild missions

you will not feel much hurt from the way point fees anymore.

remember not to say bad words in wild star !!!

thanks for supporting ncsoft again via wild star !!!

Cacti Eleven.9135:

LilMcGinley.3890:

I really hope ANet looks into this. I know on the Reddit thread they said they are but something on the official forums would be nice.

Kind of a big deal to ban 4-5 people who’ve come out and said it and for it to be wrongful ban

They did. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Metrica-Province-JP

i wish they change the tone of the auto perma bans messages also. too arrogant.

they want you to buy and use transmutation crystals !!!

go, go, buy some !!!

MOAR gem store sales !!!!

Resonance.4216:

It’s a jumping puzzle in the middle of a PvP map. Why would anyone ever get into trouble for pvping in a pvp zone?

aye, true that.
but in the topic that i linked, i saw some one claiming that he / she have reported at least 20 players for participating in PvP inside obsidian sanctum !!! O_O

God Of Fissures.8627:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

2. sky pirates

How do you figure?

hmmm just a wild guess.
cos the big thing in the sky could be a sky fortress or something.

Dear Gaile Gray,

Camping Obsidian Sanctum …
are we allowed to do that?

i mean, last time, before siege weapons were not allowed, we would build arrow carts at the dome, then rain arrows down there. to kill those players who were trying hard to come up. after that, no more building siege weapons. we camped there less though we still go there sometimes for the chest when we got a friendly mesmer.

before sky pirates event, during dragon bash event, i went into Obsidian Sanctum 2 times, twice, it was empty. I guess everyone is busy with dragon bash.

now, with sky pirates, there is a black out cache achievement inside there and it seems like a lot more people are interested in venturing into Obsidian Sanctum again.

and with that, came lots of complaints, mostly from “strictly PvE players” who complained about PvE content being placed inside PvP area.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/skypirates/Obsidian-Sanctum-for-achievement-really-merged

so, are we infringing any guild wars 2 rules of conduct by camping the obsidian sanctum and pvp-killing any players of other home world servers?

thanks!

more discussions here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1h6g2k/clearly_something_is_wrong_with_the_metrica/

via TheTerrasque
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1h6g2k/clearly_something_is_wrong_with_the_metrica/carjrrw
From the emails the unlucky ones have received:

We have complete confidence in our detection and in our decision to terminate the account. Therefore, we will not accept an appeal in relation to this account termination.

The decision to terminate the account is final. This decision has been thoroughly reviewed by our team, and we maintain absolute confidence in our conclusion.

The account will remain permanently closed and is not eligible for reactivation under any circumstances.

via NeiSoulshade
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1h6g2k/clearly_something_is_wrong_with_the_metrica/carkc2k

I want you to know that we take great care when analyzing accounts prior to termination. NCsoft support staff is both diligent and conservative in determining which accounts are using these programs, and we only terminate an account only after we are able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that such use has occurred

As previously mentioned, we are confident that our detection systems are accurate. A review of the violation history confirms the account termination, and we will not entertain further discussion about this incident. Subsequent tickets will be closed without response.

anet must apologize and compensate to those innocent who got banned while doing the jumping puzzle.

1. dragon bash
2. sky pirates
3. crystal desert themed spvp map?

marnick.4305:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

stop trolling, please!

what trolling? i am merely starting the facts.

at the moment, most of their man power are focused on living story content, which comes with rng boxes, which promotes gem sales.

Conspiracy theory does not make it fact. You’re stating delusions.

hmmm you got a good point.

but it has been 10 months, and i see more RNG boxes than mini battles.

can’t blame me for being delusional right?

anyway i’m still playing guild wars 2 everyday, though casually.

Nooka.8390 ,

would you buy, if the gem store offered:
- “Tyria World Map” unlocks all way points, earns exp for unlocking all way points
- “Master Crafting Tome” max level a crafting and +10 levels of exp

anet appreciates your purchases!

Nooka.8390 ,
if the gem store offered a “Tyria World Map” which unlocks all way points, would you buy it?

Im Mudbone.1437:

What does RNG boxes have to do with this topic? Please don’t hi-jack threads to instigate a flame-fest.

Im Mudbone.1437:

And this relates to this topic how?

in my opinion, my perspective, it is related. somewhat related maybe. that is what i choose to believe in.

i am answering the question “Will we ever see Mini-battles in Tyria?” by the way. and i thought the mini-battles refers to mini-pets arena.

well, it has been 10 months already, and the only mini games we see are from limited time events, well, some may be annually events, i.e. mad king, wintersday, dragon bash. others seems one time, flame and frost, sky pirates.

i am guessing that the “mini pets” arena in lions arch is supposed to be one of the mini battles.

10 months have passed. why no progress? what we have been seeing more and more?

mad king event
- mad king weapons from RNG boxes via black lion chests

flame and frost event
- fused weapon tickets from RNG boxes via black lion chests

from this point onwards, no more RNG boxes via black lion chests, because black lion chest keys can be farmed via a free character slot. slowest is 50 minutes per key.

secret of southsun event
- organic weapon tickets from RNG boxes via south sun crates

dragon bash event
- dragon weapon tickets from RNG boxes via dragon coffers

what do i see here? RNG boxes! RNG boxes everywhere!

perhaps they got a very small team working on mini battles. i dunno. but within these 10 months, i see lots of RNG boxes. and to me, it feels like a lot of effort is put into marketing these RNG boxes. perhaps this is just me.

but anyway, i will continue to play, and wait for new content!

Caffynated.5713:

Crazy thought here, but:

yes! this is exactly the case!

those bears sure are very self centered!

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/81876/39181118.jpg

just to share a bit,

my casual guild in Sea of Sorrows – Choo Choo Train Volution [CCTV] does our guild missions on every sunday evening, after 9pm, GMT +8:00

recently, we usually go zerg in WvW for some fun after we complete our Guild Bounty, Guild Challenge and Guild Rush (we skip Guild Puzzle though, maybe only once per month) and this weekend, Sunday, we will zerg Obsidian Sanctum after completing our weekly weekend guild missions run, so most of us will have a good chance get the cache achievement.

we have about 50+ active members online doing guild missions each weekend.
i believe they should be happy to come along to clear their cache achievements.

strength in numbers!

however, i do hope the WvW servers match making does not screw us over this saturday.
i.e. if we get paired up with 2 aggressive servers they might have taken over our keep in eternal battlegrounds, this means we must fight to take back our keep first. or they have a lot of people camping inside obsidian sanctum and we need to wipe them out first. but i think 50+ members should be enough to clear out any forces inside obsidian sanctum.

it is random.
i got 1 black lion key from a WvW map completion recently.

however, if you want non gem store, black lion keys, it is faster if you farm with with a free character slot.

human commoner warrior.
you can get one black lion key within 50 minutes or faster depending on your skill and luck. could be faster if you get a few people doing it together.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

stop trolling, please!

what trolling? i am merely starting the facts.

at the moment, most of their man power are focused on living story content, which comes with rng boxes, which promotes gem sales.

when ncsoft decides to stop harvesting players via rng boxes, then we might see mini battles in tyria.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Just to clarify:

It’s actually significantly cheaper than a sub fee. The $20 you spend is the initial cost. It could also cost $10 + Gold, or no money at all if you have enough gold.

Once you have a server, it costs 480 gems for 20 days, 960 for 40 days, 1440 for 60 days. That’s less than $10/mo if only one person is supporting the server. Anyone can apply time to servers. Also, don’t forget you can convert gold to gems.

ooo thanks for the clarification Allie !!!

hmmm i guess hybrid PvE/WvW/sPvP players will have more gold to convert into gems.

Parisalchuk.9230:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

i dun think they can change the gems prices now cos if they lowered it, those who bought at 1600 gems would rage.

then again, they can always compensate by giving them extra custom arena kits right?

maybe can try like this …

Custom Arena Starter Kit
500 = 30 days

give 3 custom arena start kits to those who already purchased at 1600 gems as freebie.

Custom Arena Biannual Kit
2500 = 183 days (save 500 gems!)

Custom Arena Self Sustaining Yearly Kit
4000 = 365 days (save 2000 gems!)
Gets +1 day per day if there are at least 100 unique players per day visiting this server.

so if the server is popular it will become a permanent server.
the 100 unique players per day could be tweaked to a more reasonable number though.

i not sure if 100 is too few or too many.

What the hell do I want 2 more servers for if I just bought 1?

in my example,

2500 gems gets you 183 days instead of 30 days at 500 gems. yes, in my example, the price for 30 days is 500 gems. but at the moment we have a price of 1600 gems for 30 days.

4000 gems gets you 365 days and the server gets +1 day if there are at least 100 unique players per day visiting the server.

the custom arena needs more customization options!

i dun think they can change the gems prices now cos if they lowered it, those who bought at 1600 gems would rage.

then again, they can always compensate by giving them extra custom arena kits right?

maybe can try like this …

Custom Arena Starter Kit
500 = 30 days

give 3 custom arena start kits to those who already purchased at 1600 gems as freebie.

Custom Arena Biannual Kit
2500 = 183 days (save 500 gems!)

Custom Arena Self Sustaining Yearly Kit
4000 = 365 days (save 2000 gems!)
Gets +1 day per day if there are at least 100 unique players per day visiting this server.

so if the server is popular it will become a permanent server.
the 100 unique players per day could be tweaked to a more reasonable number though.

i not sure if 100 is too few or too many.

if the PvE carebears want the achievement so badly, what is stopping them from banding together to fight?

there is strength in numbers!

Astralporing.1957:

We’re offended with having to deal with PvP in the middle of a PvE content. Mixing those two is never a good idea.

this is anet’s way of telling people to do more PvP.

anet creative team discussion:
“lets put PvE content in PvP area, that will motivate them to PvP!”
“good idea!”

now if 10 PvE carebears unite, surely they can take out 1 PvP, right?
if they are 10 PvPers in there, then gather up 20 PvE carebears ! or more!

strength in numbers !!!

before anet made it impossible to build siege weapons in obsidian sanctum, my last run, we had an arrow cart built in a place which is impossible to take down.

them SBI just keep on coming in while the arrows just kept on bombarding them. in the end we had to stop because our members are logging off and the SBIs at the bottom kept on pouring in non stop.

i did a naked dance to congratulate them on reaching the top.

PvP in a PvP area is not griefing.
it is called playing the game as it is intended.

achievements are not entitlements.

KarlaGrey.5903:

“Spectral Armor: Reduced the recharge to 60 seconds.”

!!!

yeah it was 90 seconds down to 60 seconds!

perhaps they were reading this topic? O_O

zBluRrYz.1347:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

people will always goes for the most cost effective route.

CoF farming is NOT the fastest way to get gold. I’m sorry. Explore the game a bit more and find little farm spots here and there and there are definitly better ones.

but … but …
i didn’t say CoF farming is the fastest way to get gold. O_O

people will always goes for the most cost effective route.