Guild Wars 2

proxy.3297:

we were all under the assumption that arenanet wouldnt screw us over with horrible drop rates for skins. we expected to maybe open a few or maybe even 10 chests to get a single skin, not 100. if arenanet was more honest and upfront about the rarity of the skins then there wouldnt have been as big a backlash.

ill just spend the gems i got left in random things but for me its done.

and you are one of the most … .. . flamboyant fanboys that sadly this community has, i expected loads of fun, fun is getting things out of the event, yet elitisms is rampage in this community.

“i gotz dis shiny skinz u can haz it or i wont be unique” mentality.

guess wha? do you think we are all 14 year old kids that got nothing to do or play 15+ hours the game to have fun?

Fanboys incoming, i know but do you know people spend RL money to support the game you are playing?

If this its what you call fun where vanity items wich doesnt affect a single bit gameplay and most people would love to wear are this lottery based, well you have dug your own grave.

i spent almost 30$ because i wanted to get a skin from your chest, and guess what, not even one.

If you didnt realize micro transactions are what make f2p games go over the top

Look for example League of Legends, they sell skins wich dont affect gameplay, some of there are unique and have different particle effect and they sell a lot.

yet again you have dissapointed me badly, dont expect to get a good review if someone ask me about this game.

@Zii: you couldnt say it any better, still lets wait and see im not sure if i want to be one of the “first” to open chest but well…

perhaps because every medium set looks like the same, heavy armor sets are all bulky and when someone says (myself) we could have another couple of skimpy ones i get stoned to death by irrational haters, where only light sets (for females) looks good and i struggled to get one that looked decent and manly (for my mesmer).

im ok with aesthetic rewards but this game lacks aesthetics rewards.

before i get stoned to death again I LOVE this game i have an absurd amount of played time and i will keep playing but we need more aesthetic rewards.

i have at least 10 keys for my 35 chests i do think they will make it account bound i dont want to derail or hijack thread but i support that part.

AS!! Anet has stated by themselves that skins wont be the only thing will come out, so everybody will keep something from this event.

as i said i have 10 keys ive never been the luckiest guy in MMOs so at least from that 10 keys i hope to get a skin if i dont i might try with another one but not before i cry in a corner.

Tumbero.3945:

Some of you need a girlfriend.

and you need to get a life.

=) imarite?

@illgot: you couldnt say it any better +1 for you.

@Kymbre

did you even saw the pic i posted.. i did it because people like you seems to hate deeply this kind of armor wich i still wonder why you do when as you can see there are other type of armor in this game where 10% of them could be considedered “skimpy”.

so, your irrational hate towards “skimpy” armor seems a bit pointless to me, you do enjoy full covered armor i enjoy skimpy armor cant we all be happy and both have equallity dont take me wrong but grow up, be mature and realize not everybody has same taste for things and you should respect people for that.

spacemayu.4817: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for you might be tasteless but i found it pretty cool thats why its call diversity of taste and im grateful for that.

BrunoBRS.5178:

if you mean the random boobshot, i say it’s for the better. it looks ridiculous.

well if you would take a moment instead of typing random things or rolling your face in keyboard you can see that almost every other heavy female armor arent skimpy so i dont know why you should care that much if 1 armor fills the huge niche of people like me that go after bikini armors.

@Alexander Dragonfang.1759: indeed

i was going after that armor for my ALT wich i think it looks kitten+sexy+skimpy wich are mostly the features i look for my female alts but suddenly when i previewed breastplate armor its now covered.

go ahead and look for yourself, perhaps theres something wrong with me, or not.

look for Arah dugeon armor in this pic, then preview it from vendor.

BrunoBRS.5178:

aside from the horrible animation issues, whips are an incredibly niche weapon.

unless you get the chance to wield one and i can bet you will!

This thread already exist. feel free to bump it or copy paste this suggestion =)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Whips-New-weapon-idea/page/2#post308721

Sister Sola.8109:

We never saw the body. And why in the world would we believe anything that lying sack of Mouth had to say?

Personally, I think Tybalt is out there “selling apples” all the way across the Crystal Desert in preperation for our next big dragon battle.

dem ninjas cutting onions ;_;

I just bought a Dungeon piece wich i already had, so, suggest me what to do with it, it seems i cant get a refund and im not interested in lvling another toon just for him to use it.

I dont know if anyone have had the same problem but i just wasted 180 tokens by mistake tried to preview an item but i “derped” and bought it, its there anyway support staff can help me?

have anyone tried to refund tokens?

i mean, that its a lot of work 180 tokens means 3 paths or 1 path per day and thats a lot! i want to cry ;_;

Timbersword.9014:

Super hard bosses have their limits. Or rather, AI has it’s limits. Someone will learn the encounter, bring it down, then post the method all over the internet. So much for something being legendary.

Here’s the thing everyone needs to understand: legendaries are intended to be rare. They’re prestigious, and they don’t grant anyone any more power over someone that has their exotics. The RNG is a sure fire hard stop in ensuring they’re kept rare, in a very fair way, believe it or not, but an aggravating one.

Getting my Foror’s Compendium of Dragon Slaying felt ****ing awesome, precisely because it was a drop.

But fine, suppose the RNG aspect is removed, whom here as actually thought about HOW to make the legendaries hard to acquire? A simple answer would be “hard boss” but I just explained how that doesn’t stay hard for long, unless you’re a dimwit or working with dimwits.

Rather, I think the requirements should be exporing the whole world, completing every jump puzzle, and getting a gold medal in every single event in the game, maybe even every single long term achievement such as killing quotas, and just for $#!%s and grins, every single dye too, all without dying ONCE. Am I missing anything?

Great, so now legendaries could be reserved for players playing the game like it’s on hardcore mode, whom will probably play it ultra safe whenever and wherever possible.

And you know what? They could have that ^^^ AND the RNG method, just to keep the hope alive for those that didn’t survive the journey but don’t want to restart. Thing is, I’m fairly certain a good number of the people in this thread wouldn’t go through with that kind of grind either.

Some things are intended to be rare. I smell jealousy.

In fact thats a good suggestion and thats what i meant when i said that they should give us mechanical players a way to obtain them aside the luck factor, and its not jealousy but what if i tell you that Anet game concept was " a world to explore" so in any case anyone legendary should have been someone who has obtained tittles, defeated monsters in any size and shape, saved towns, villages and the continent someone who deserves wearing a legendary weapon.

or should i just throw things into the MF and then BOOM! im legendary, thats really ridiculous.

Alexander Dragonfang.1759:

Legendary system is totally wrong. From start to end. “RNGedaries” are just that, RNG god blessing you and only you, thats not an archivement, thats just luck, i dont see any sense of “legendary” archivement there. Even if i want the moot, frostfang and zap, just for the skins, having to face RNG again is not what i wanted when i buyed the game.

They just couldn`t put the weapons in at least, disguiessed RNG in the form of “IMPOSIBLE” bosses? so no boring grind involed but a good fight with which takes months of tries to get? a boss so imposible most ppl could not even defeat, even more, a boss so imposible that summoning the boss requiere a WEEKS of programmed events doing for the same team to even ENTER the boss, as a lifelong quest.

And, after months of tries, you get your sword… NOW THATS LEGENDARY.

Indeed i would rather have that that luck based concept.

Cavalier.9064:

What are you talking about when you say “some players are legendary and some are not”? Your whole post is really confusing.

Are you referring to obtaining Legendary Weapons? If so, there is actually very little true RNG related to the creation of these, with Mystic Clovers being the obvious exception.

might be confusing because my english its not that good when i rant, nonetheless precursors are a factor in making a legendary weapons and the only ways they are obtained its, drop from Cursed Shore or Magic Forge.

zerospin.8604:

Because Legendary was a typo and they meant Luckendary? :P Lost in translation between departments xD

to be honest its really sad, yesterday i saw a toon wearing a legendary at his back and i wasnt amazed or amused i just tought “so lucky”, and that my friend its sad.

I never understood why RNG has to decide if someone is better than anyone else, why you might ask?

i understand that random number generator might be the best “go to be” for a MMO but its a stale concept and has been proved that not everybody has the same factor sometimes called “lady luck”.

IMHO when you tell me that doesnt matter if i have 100hrs spent killing a mob for a drop, or dropping things into a magical blender just to get something but someone else might do it at the first try, does that means he/she is more legendary than me? or we are both equally legendary when i spent 100 more hrs just to get the item i want?

Anet, you promised things, yet im still waiting for it, this is a rant post ive not spent too much gold (around 9g throwing things into the MF) and wont spend more because i have never had luck in MMO, never and i been playing a lot this genre.

i wont mention other games but im a mechanical player give us the mechanical players a way to be legendary aside the luck factor, the luck factor for me its just a slap in the face for those who doesnt have luck or doesnt enjoy gambling.

and for the ones who will say they are not a requisite to enjoy game.

i know they are not, but like you want them i want them to, so that means im not allowed to have one just because i dont like the aspect of throwing money and luck deciding if im legendary or not?

give us the mechanical players a way to obtain them without the factor of luck.

to be honest the ones who defends the luck factor deciding who is legendary or whos not already have the item or are just naive about this broken concept. ill keep thread bumped for those who like the way it is, when you already have spent 100g+ just trying to get 1 piece you can come here and rant with me.

thats a bummer @Dead when i did path 3 i hoped AC set would look similar like that, but no, it looks way, way to bland imho.

CoF its ugly and my first one was CoF and i tought like CoF set wich have like flames AC would look similar but ghostly in the night.

=/

@Evoked: i dont think its funny and bots has driven away most of my guildies and friends from this game, i everyday wake up hoping the will ban them all (perma hyper banned, something along 1000 years ban)

Its discouraging ive work so hard for the little i got and still whenever i am in an event i have to see 10+ botters just running around destroying everything, economy along with it.

its is ENOUGH come on Anet its almost 2 months into the game and yet i see more bots every day.

For the love of god only 1 GM ONLY 1 gm, make 1 of your staff jump into an area and say /m any bots here, im banning them.

not only people will point out location of every single botter but it will also restore hope in the game. if its not too late.

i think we should be able to buy armor from other factions when we have beaten zhaitan, just sayiing.

Hi, guys, i just bought the ascalonian breastplate along with the GS and let me say the GS looks SICK! and it glows when in the dark, but my ascalonian breastplate isnt showing any particle effect.

dont tell me i need full set but i think the pants are hideous and i really want the ghostly look but not with all set just a few pieces. ty.

only if Mesmer clones are inmune to AOE damage, your post is bad and you should feel bad.

Well i guess my RNG works one day, because this games RNG HATES ME!.

here my hours played.

Zenyatoo.4059:

For a low hp class? Vitality.

Your toughness doesnt mean jack when monsters hit you for 12,000. At that point it’s vitality or bust. Especially if you play a low hp low armor class. Toughness works better against lots of small hits, as well as any direct physical damage. But vitality is critical for the larger hits, and condition damage, both of which are incredibly prevalent lategame (try melee’ing something that spews out poison 24/7 which does 2k damage a tick and tell me you dont wish you had more vitality. Or get smacked by 12K from a green missile and tell me you arent thanking your lucky stars you have over 16khp)

Also healing has the worst scaling in the game (300+ healing power on an ele makes our heals like 5% better. Whereas that 300 into vitality gives us far higher survivability) So dont worry about trying to match up healing power to vitality or toughness.

So, Cleric set its useless ;_;? almost finished for my warrior dont tell me that i threw 9g D=!!!!

Or some way to alt + drag select screen and report the 15 bots that are in Wayfarer Foothills running in circles just to name some place out of the 5 areas wich seems like Bot City.

To be honest i dont want accesories to be bought with karma its one with cooking that still has the feeling of “crafted” everything else just drops at our feets.

i would second this if you add this as a suggestion where more accesories can be made.

nastyjman.8207:

I’m throwing money at the screen, but it’s not giving me any whips. What gives?

hahahahahaha this never gets old. +1

@DreamOFAcure: indeed consistency is a very big deal filling some niches wont draw many customers, but ive never been a fan of specific profession weapons, i think its a stale concep and coud be change.

im not saying that Elementalist should use GS, but why not? i mean its harder for Devs to make 100 more skills to let everyone wield any weapon but i guess if whips are for at least 3 profession of the ones i listed would please many many people.

nexxe.7081:

Bring back Tybalt! As an undead orrian? Please? >.>

hide something into an spoiler ;P we dont want to spoil some PS parts.

bpphantom.8243:

The Norn women are like asian women. They look great until they get around 60-70 and then the suddenly (BAM!) turn into shrunken old crones full of ancient wisdom. Fact.

:p

hahahah this reply made my day. i second this.

erm, what do you call an assasin? i sense some trolling in the force, thief could have been called “mc chicken and nuggets” and its still, ninja, thief, assasin, shadow killer class.

well, i guess we should just let this thread die.

Bazeel.8602:

Denial of Service:

I am not attempting to be a jerk here, or anything, but something about your playtime struck me as a bit odd, then I did some rudimentary math.

1—-47 (days) x 24 (hours) = 1128 hours
or
617 (hours rounded up, of course) / 24 (hours) = 25.7 days.
Thusly:
1128 (hours) – 617 (hours) = 511 (hours) or 47 (days) – 25 (days) = 22 (days)

-2-Needless to say, I love this game too, but Jumping Rytlock Christ, get out of the house more. Or stop using programs that play the game. Either /or!

Aside from that, very well-written post. I understand the initial frustration of powerleveling myself up to 80, only to realize…I was 80 all along, in a sense. Sure, I unlocked more skills, and so forth, but rushing myself to the end of the game really gave me no benefit, aside from these abilities (Most of which aren’t tremendously helpful, anyway). I slugged away to craft myself my final tier armor, and procure the best statted exotic weapons that I could…but then what did I do? I was at a loss. Money had no real purpose, aside to stockpile for cosmetics, or pass off to another character. Farming was dull, bland, boring, and any other synonym you can think of for tedious. Then I decided to explore.

Exploring the lands of Tyria is a pretty interesting experience (aside from Orr- love the zone, hate the mobs- beating a dead horse here), with plenty of enriching in-game sights. I took my time, now, and only found myself frustrated when running across the random horde of nude rangers, and their trailing bear army.

Personally, I feel the economy will figure itself out, one way or another. Either it will become ‘BLACK AND WHITE DYES 20PLAT’ or it will actually stabilize into something that is a flowing market. I assume the first, but I hope for the second. Most in-game economies are -very- unstable for the first months the game is out, but eventually settle down. The biggest issue I see thus far is people undercutting other people by ridiculous amounts, and lowering the average price of goods to near nothing. That, or offering to buy good at 1 copper more than vendor price, which nets people less in return, due to tax (listing price, etc). Fix some of these issues, and get rid of the bots, and I’ll be happier than a pig in…uh…mud. Right. Mud.

1- that means 25 days playing 24 hours straight but playing 13hrs for the past 47 days yields an absurd amount of 600+ of gameplay

2- hahahaha that made me laugh yeah i know, but i have 2 months where i have to just lay down because in work i broke my left rib and got something wich i dont know how to translate but its when the nerve gets a lot of pressure from the ribs and when you move it hurts like hell so nothing better that just lay down playing a game.

for me atm its just sleep and play (i kinda wish were like this more often).

dude i like you XD nice reply and yes, ive reported over 3000 bots (hyperbole much?) in my whole adventuring career.

-Downside of guild wars 2-

Somewhat this game feels rushed at certain point, in bw1- to -bw3 everything felt really polished almost perfect for an upcoming mmo, indeed its well polished up to major lvl areas where game started to breakdown with some bugs, but HEY tell me only 1 released game that didnt have a bug over the first month.
But thats not the point i personally feel that this game could have use another month or 2 of beta testing

This game derailed his concept along the way, one of the main things that made me say i want this game was the major concept of non-grind, yet this game isnt for casual gamers let me explain why, its true you can get any gear by any means. like crafted, karma, tokens but the easiest one its the crafted.

still the big and huge problem that everyone can get max gear and there is no much difference.

its that casual gamers dont play for stats they play for looks.

so, when you have a T3 set that cost 100g wich are only for looks you are just saying to casual gamers, you cant have this unless you grind enough, ive loads of casual gamers and they hardly do 1g per day, so that means they will need 100 days to get that full T3 set, wich comes to my next point.

gold sink, gold sink makes an established flux of gold to prevent an inflating economy and that is marvelous but current gold sinks just damage casual gamers wich means they are not allowed to fully enjoy the game.

lets put the same example of the 1g if i say to my friend lets hop over some maps and gather matts they will alway say " i would love to, but no thank you" because 4 teleports means 20% of his wealth and dont get me started about repair bills, its a nightmare for them, wich means that when you hit lvl 80 you are just doomed into a grind fest to maintain your toon alive.

another thing that dissapoint me its the faded RNG im cool with RNG, but kill 3000 times Blob the Glob to forge 4 swords and throw them into a magical blender and hope you get a shinier sword its not what i call fun.

let me explain, faded RNG by Anet have boosted the prices of the precursors wich means only will make gold sellers richer because black market gold its always cheaper than gems, hence more bots will come in in order to sell more gold and its a never ending problem.

at this moment 11-10-12 where the gold and i mean loads of gold is, its in about 1% of the gw2 population wich in a mischievous way they scam people and control the influx of gold into their pockets, and im talking about the precursor yes buth thats another story and im starting to derail from thread.

overall
I would buy Guild Wars 2 again, replayability its 100% and my score its.

8/10
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Disclaimer: -english its not my native tongue so bear with me, i might have a few typos btw.

TL; DR: not included this is meant to be read.

As title says i have over 600 hours of gameplay in gw2, i have 2 toon lvl 80, at this moment lvling another 2, i have been playing since bw1 and pre-ordered gw2 because i felt this game would be awesome.

-Upside-

Indeed it is, let me say first that im deeply in love with this game, and has been the best 60$ ive spent in a game, wonderful job have been done by Anet putting life into the world with a rich lore, rich storyline and wonderful graphics, it is fresh to the MMO scene in some aspects.

as you can see for me replayability its 100% assured i started with humans and have played almost every storyline and for me it felt complete, of course everything cant be perfect, some npcs are dull and forgetable and you cant hardly remember them later on, he died? “who cares” its sometimes the initial response, some arent forgetable and make feel the world so alive that you sometimes will fall in love with them and doing your personal story isnt enough and you want to be with them all the time.

(for me: you can find a thread related to that npc in “Personal story” sub forum).

as i said early replayability its 100% because leveling its always fun it was a great idea by Anet doing an horizontal scale because to be honest who likes playing 600 hours to get 1 lvl 80 when you can have loads of them and do whatever you want whenever you want.

and thats my next point, unless you only zerg in Orr all day all night there are some many things to do that times flies away, if you play 10+ in Orr you are not allowed to say that game needs more content.

why? you might ask, when i first started gw2 i came with the previous mindset any mmo have imposed over, rush, rush, grind, grind, you are max lvl now your power level its over 9000 , now go complain in forum that you dont have more content.

i did that first rushed and max-capped everything then felt i have nothing else to do. then i realized that gw2 its not like previous MMOs, so i then went into a long journey of completing 100% world map and im proud to say i achieved it, then realized i rushed and didnt do my PS so i completed it.

overall i felt really good playing so i decided to start another adventure with another toon and enjoyed PS, the content and world, i felt so good again that im doing it again with another toon, and perhaps another toon.

this game has so much potential that im amazed of things this game can accomplished, but like a coin everything have his other side so.

i want to hijack this well structured thread, derail it a bit and say that this game has so much potential still every day im thinking that exploiters and bots are getting away, its discouraging for us who havent found an exploit, lets take for example the precursor.

over 300g in TP, it only encourage people to buy black market gold because we all know that black market gold its way better than buying gems, why Anet doesnt release the precursor recipes? why let exploiters amass more and more gold while US the legit gamers have to deal with the insane amount of gold sink this game has.

it feels discouraging, atm i have mixed feelings about this game.

in case any of the so called fan boys come here and say “if you dont like just leave” NO! i wont, i love this game as much as you do, but there are so many things that should be addressed.

Orrian Heavy armor probably based in Willow? not Willow himself but the baddest bad guy.

thank you very much for your replies guys it really helped now its time to beat his kitten img src="/include/images/smilies/wink.png" /> ill tell you how it went.

Zoner.1765:

So you tried a bunch of glass canon specs against a class that pretty much is designed to kill glass canons and lost?

yes i did, but i guess you dont have any feedback or you cant help instead decided to bump this thread with an useless response, perhaps its easier to state something obvious instead of helping, but i guess you are not that smart to realize that this thread is about me needing help in order to get a better build against a thief instead of a QQ thread.

reading comprehension will be your best friend zoner, learn to read in order to reply.

How do i win 1vs1 against a thief, i fought against 1 thief in my guild we gambled 1g because i said that mesmers are awesome 1vs1 and he replied he could beat any mesmer 1vs1 non-stop all day.

of course i got really mad, i mean i love mesmers, a mesmer its my main and of course i took the challenge.

first he went Crit-Thief
match went like this, he always stealthed when he got near me, started to do damage, then he dropped the mass invi (aka the house) and bursted me down kinda quick applied some stacks of poison and healing was almost impossible.

i tried several builds several things managed to kill him 1 of 5 encounters, tried shatter build but unless i Moa him or pistol 5 him wasnt impossible for clones to reach him.

tried perma invul wich its 2 sword, clone spam f4 and chaos storm, but i didnt do any damage on him.

first tried full divinity, switched to rune of the ogre, tried condition damage and apply confusion because i sense he spams his skills and nothing.

i need to get back my 1g, help me plz =(

EDIT: always went Staff/ sword + pistol or Staff/ scepter + pistol, i sense the problem was the staff perhaps i needed GS. idk.

perhaps math is hard?

because 1000-1200-4000-5000-7000-9000-12000 != 39k damage its just 12k damage, just saying.

Tybalt is such an amazing well done character with an interesting backgrounds and it wasnt enought with only 3-4 missions.

Well ive seen this thread many times and i think its ok the way it is, if i did it and so many people was able to do it why you cant do it?

100% completition its not a requirement to get better and its a gold sink

if you want to do it, its because you accepted the challenge of completing 100% in all maps and you gotta accept that it wont come easy.

you might argue that in a losing server blah blah blah

you know how this game works?

/m who wanna tag along and get this fortress im trying to complete map and i need that PoI anyone wanna tag along?

get 5-10 people with you and you can take that fortress.

avoid main roads and if you have to take a fortress to get the PoI wait until its late and most of the WvWvW have gone to sleep.

For Faux Sake.8457:

ajpearman.2586:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

People are just getting better at them. The more you complete the better you get at learning the mechanics. It doesn’t hurt that you also find new gear!

While I agree that random players in explorable dungeons seem to be getting better skill-wise, your remark on them finding new gear bothers me. I have never once received a dungeon drop that was not useless or near-useless in comparison to what I already have. After all, anyone can afford a Masterwork level set for an incredibly small amount of silver. The only exciting things from drops in dungeons are tokens (which are guaranteed after the boss) and anything that might salvage into ectoplasm.

There needs to at least be some sort of aesthetic drop in terms of dungeon-themed armor, weapons, town clothes, etc. I know dungeon token sets serve most of this purpose, but after a while you realize the only excitement from dungeons is getting close to having the number of tokens you need for that next piece.

I really miss the days when I ran dungeons or raids for the super cool drops that a certain boss might have. I’d find out about those drops and just spend a ton of time running the dungeons hoping for that magical moment I got it. The current system just feels like we get chests of random junk until the silver and tokens at the end.

Agreed. It’d be nice if there were an occassional cool item. Then again, I feel if they made things that way, the marketplace would get flooded with good items and lower the prices of exotics and such even more… with that in mind, since the trading post is the most efficient way to make money in my opinion, I think it’d be a bad idea.

With respect to the junk comment though, I think they should absolutely get rid of stuff like that. Replace the junk you receive with stuff like tokens you can trade for boosts or something. Everyone like boosts and no one actually spends gems on them, so why not?

GOD NO!, i dont want to stay 24/7 in AC killing blob the glob only to get in a rare chance a drop of his blob the glob hat so i i have to kill him 5000+ more times to get a full set and god forbid i get the same piece.

this is what mmorpg have done wrong all the time and it might look good on paper but have you ask yourself, do you really want to kill 1000 AC elementalist just to get his headpiece?

i dont think so.

Dont you dare to nerf Mesmer portals, stop making an useless QQ thread.

poe lyfe.5879:

there will be whips and scythes in any expansions made ive seen enough clamour and anet knows. the gamers have spoken.

indeed the gamers have spoken =3