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[Suggestions] Gemstore Items

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We’re running out of sale days! Hop to it anet.

IGN Tweet & Core Game = F2P - what does this mean? [unconfirmed]

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Yawn*

All you people that are screaming terror on the F2P core game need to do a little research. But wait this is the internet why would you try to google before whining.
From the data mined “Trial Account”
http://thatshaman.blogspot.com/2014/07/upcoming-features-from-entanglement.html
List from /u/Vahkris on reddit:
Only one or two character slots
Limit of level 15
Seems like a limit on how high a “rank” you can get (specific to trial or possibly PvP related)
Only able to send mail to friends.
Can’t send items or gold through mail
Can’t speak in map chat
Can’t access Team Arenas
Can’t access main WvW maps (EB and Borderlands)

Follow your own advice, that “research” of yours dug up information from a free trial that happened over a year ago and it has nothing to do with this free to play discussion.

IGN Tweet & Core Game = F2P - what does this mean? [unconfirmed]

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And now he gets to have the same experience I had without paying a cent. It would be nice if Anet did something to thank their players who have been playing since beta instead of trying to drive us away.

So you’re now trying to say that its unfair because he will get three years worth of enjoyment from the game? Because by that time you will now have six years worth of enjoyment. Unless of course your argument is that he will experience three years worth of enjoyment in a day, in which case nevermind, I didn’t realize I was debating with someone so… special.

Judging from the way Anet is taking this game and trying to get rid of veterans, I doubt anybody will be here for another 3 years

Oh for goodness sakes. The datamining shows trial accounts where you can get to level 15. Don’t go all gloom and doom until you have the facts and know what you are talking about.

That was data-mined over a year ago and is meaningless. That trailer doesn’t say a trial, it says play for free, limitless adventures.

IGN Tweet & Core Game = F2P - what does this mean? [unconfirmed]

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Making this game F2P is unacceptable. 100% unacceptable.

(Idea) Armor Mastery

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The problem is mix and matching which creates clipping issues.

Yeah, cause this game has no clipping issues. /s

There are tons of clipping issues in the game already and anet doesn’t care. This is a weak excuse.

why are not more people wearing wings?

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I wish I could just hide all backpieces on my screen. Especially the wings.

It is bad enough they hide my minis, letting people hide my character aesthetics aside from the typical low model solution would just be insulting in a game about character aesthetics.

It was such a nice 3rd bday till..

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I made a mistake > http://i.imgur.com/ytbtthr.jpg , was so looking forward for 3rd year birthday gifts but I accidentally picked wrong dye kit which I already had all dyes from, now stuck with a kit I can’t do anything with. :l

You should be more careful next time then…

Anet for the 19.737.928 time, close useless topics like this faster!

What? How is this useless. This is a discussion forum. It doesn’t have to be a productive thread it just has to be a discussion. You’re just being a hater.

Can i put m. armor skins on a elementalist?

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While you cannot wear heavy armor on your Ele you can try to work around it.

Here is my “heavy” armor look for my Necro in preparation of Reaper.

http://i.imgur.com/Lp2lJ1k.png

Headpiece: I am using the crimson glowing eyes but you can use anything you want.
Shoulders: Sorcerer’s (Human T3)
Chest: Sorrow’s Embrace
Gloves: Sorrow’s Embrace
Legs: Citadel of Flame
Boots: Sorrow’s Embrace

Describe the Dragonhunter in 3 Words

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Traps are bad

Developers are blind

pet-less ranger

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1k gems for... an OUTFIT?!

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I’d like to buy the wedding dress and white wings for my Asuran female char as I think those and my halo would look really cool. Problem is I can’t afford both so what should I do?

I could jump onto these forums and whine about prices and how unfair it all is or (bear with me guys as this may be a new concept to some of you) I could decide which I want most and just buy that one. I could accept that I’m not entitled to everything I want, only the things I can afford and from that list, only the things for which I’m willing to pay. A new concept for some people but our grandparent’s understood it and it may yet come back into vogue.

Or anet can stop trying to inflate the value of gemstore items. That is another solution.

Feedback: Mix and match outfit.

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His whole point was about outfits, not armor skins.

Remember back in the days when we buy a Gem store outfit, we could mix and match them with any clothes? Nowdays, it’s just one outfit.

We were never able to mix and match outfits. We, however were able to purchase a set of armor skins. The OP is saying about how now we can’t mix and match outfits, when they were never outfits in the first place, they were armor skins.

I’d say OP is talking about both armor skins and outfits.

While I may like the idea, I just don’t see the devs changing the system at all.

I guess when I use to mix and match my witches outfit and my mad king thorn outfit I was making that up right?

Assault Knight Cores

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I hope not. Else this would be really unfair to those who actually did the event to gain these cores and to those people who invested into this time limited item.

Selfish behavior like this is even more unfair than people who hold onto an item just to force an artificial price increase.

Dress/suit locked for each gender?

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Heteronormative? It IS by definition normal to be hetero. As Hetero and people who are hetero are the vast majority. So yes, I am glad Anet doesn’t waste design resources making content to appease the literal 2%.

1k gems for... an OUTFIT?!

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Can’t even launch a invalid complaint against reasonably priced items in the gem store without people coming out of nowhere to defend it wildly. What a sad state of affairs.

Fify.

Its 300 more gems for an outfit that has 5 different cultural wedding sets inside it. I don’t know what the pricing is like where you live but where I live, if an item took more time and effort to make, it costs more.

You people can keep coming out with such ridiculous reasons but at the end of the day its still just a single outfit and its overpriced. You’re still wrong.

1k gems for... an OUTFIT?!

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Can’t even launch a valid complaint against overpriced items in the gem store without people coming out of nowhere to defend it wildly. What a sad state of affairs.

Guild wars 2 anniversary sale [merged]

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I guess you’re right

But we’ll see, i won’t be holding my breath

Its basically a 99% chance the black wings will be back. Probably even tomorrow.

1k gems for... an OUTFIT?!

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Yeah, giant rip off. Disappointed.

3rd Birthday Gift [merged]

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Something…something…jealous…something.

3rd Birthday Gift [merged]

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Lol…It is a reward for being around for 3 years.

Halloween starting already?

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One of my personal story missions had random candy corn golems in a cave. Just seemed out of place

The candy corn nodes sometimes randomly appear. Its a bug that has existed since the first halloween. The candy corn golems are the product of people using https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Maize_Balm on ambient creatures to farm Trick or Treat bags.

Botter in Iron Marches in Piken Square

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Nobody cares, idk why people need to get so defensive about this stuff. Does this guy having a few extra gold really bother you that much?

Hey Anet can you nerf Ice Bow yet?

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how are you going to design challenging content (that they’ve promised) that fits both of the following criteria: 1) Doable by the casual group and 2) doesn’t die instantly to the optimized group.

You don’t make content that fits both of those. It is contradictory. It is either challenging or it is easy. That is Anets biggest fault. They keep trying to make content that appeases both parties but it simply isn’t possible. The only true solution is to make two versions of each content one easy mode and one hard mode. But then the problem comes that people will just do the easy mode for the rewards anyway because the other fault Anet has is that they won’t make the more difficult content any more rewarding than the faceroll content so the point of trying goes out the window.

And this is where your wrong. They are in the business of selling games to as many people as they can appeal to because it takes years to develop a game before it will even see a profit.

It always amazes me how many people can’t get beyond the island of “their own game play” ….

What does anything you said have to do with what I said? I said you can’t make content that pleases both players because it will either be too hard for one group or too easy for the other group. They have to pick one and they refuse to do it so we always end up with kitten content that isn’t properly optimized for either group.

Hey Anet can you nerf Ice Bow yet?

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how are you going to design challenging content (that they’ve promised) that fits both of the following criteria: 1) Doable by the casual group and 2) doesn’t die instantly to the optimized group.

You don’t make content that fits both of those. It is contradictory. It is either challenging or it is easy. That is Anets biggest fault. They keep trying to make content that appeases both parties but it simply isn’t possible. The only true solution is to make two versions of each content one easy mode and one hard mode. But then the problem comes that people will just do the easy mode for the rewards anyway because the other fault Anet has is that they won’t make the more difficult content any more rewarding than the faceroll content so the point of trying goes out the window.

Hey Anet can you nerf Ice Bow yet?

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Not sure why it should be nerfed? It has a pretty long cooldown. If people had their way we’d all be hitting for 3 damage a hit with every attack and all encounters would take 5 hours.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Here’s a simple question to people who aren’t happy with some of us choosing to not run zerker in some situations. If I had my reaper in valk gear would you speed run with me or would you demand I run zerk?

No, because I would take the Zerker Reaper instead because I am not going to kitten my group because you want to gloat about your higher health pool.

Despite what you claim less crit chance = less damage. There isn’t even a debate there.

With that said, The solution to this whole problem is simple.

Here I made a simple diagram for people to use when joining parties. It will solve all of the problems.

That’s the problem…. everyone thinks zerker is the best gear for everything. Are you aware that a Reaper in valk gear has the same power as zerker, the same ferocity as zerker, and over 100% critical chance? Anything over 100% probably isn’t helpful lol oh and with valk a lot more health. Did you know all of that or just assume zerker was best?

Lol, Precision > Vitality 100% of the time.

What good is precision when you have over 100% critical with 0 precision?

Show me this imaginary build where you have over 100% crit with no precision. I would really love to see it.

Your “100%” crit you’re talking about is based around several conditions that must be met. The enemy needs to be at 25 stacks of vulnerability AND you need to be in reaper shroud. Two things that will not be happening at the same time 100% of the time or even 100% in general.

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An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Here’s a simple question to people who aren’t happy with some of us choosing to not run zerker in some situations. If I had my reaper in valk gear would you speed run with me or would you demand I run zerk?

No, because I would take the Zerker Reaper instead because I am not going to kitten my group because you want to gloat about your higher health pool.

Despite what you claim less crit chance = less damage. There isn’t even a debate there.

With that said, The solution to this whole problem is simple.

Here I made a simple diagram for people to use when joining parties. It will solve all of the problems.

That’s the problem…. everyone thinks zerker is the best gear for everything. Are you aware that a Reaper in valk gear has the same power as zerker, the same ferocity as zerker, and over 100% critical chance? Anything over 100% probably isn’t helpful lol oh and with valk a lot more health. Did you know all of that or just assume zerker was best?

Lol, Precision > Vitality 100% of the time.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Here’s a simple question to people who aren’t happy with some of us choosing to not run zerker in some situations. If I had my reaper in valk gear would you speed run with me or would you demand I run zerk?

No, because I would take the Zerker Reaper instead because I am not going to kitten my group because you want to gloat about your higher health pool.

Despite what you claim less crit chance = less damage. There isn’t even a debate there.

With that said, The solution to this whole problem is simple.

Here I made a simple diagram for people to use when joining parties. It will solve all of the problems.

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An anti 'Meta' rant.

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I don’t know why I bother with these conversations. Nothing but children going on about how they purposely spite people who want to play differently than them. Why anet doesn’t ban these trolls is beyond me.

this guy is a great example of what I’m talking about.

“AWWWWW, man! Why, man, can’t we just, uuhhh, play separately, I don’t go onto their thread, man, and like, say disrespectful things. I, like don’t expect everyone to just, like, respect what, I like want and stuff without even understanding their point or anything…”

(and yes, I’m a huge wanes world fan, so I don’t deem this an insult, please add “,man,” and “like” into my posts when quoting them, I’ll love you for it)

and yes, I spent time ranting for a page or so….

but the number of agreements is startling I’m so glad to know I’m not the only guy who feels this way.

and yes, I do occasionally link zerk gear to the wannabe speed runners… and yeah, its usually when I need money….

But ya know what the Dev’s recently did? And its why I don’t really do this anymore, unless I’m in the mood to troll the trolls…

THEY GAVE US THE SILVERWASTES!!!!!

now, speedrunners…. please go ride the train down there, and make like 5x the gold. and let me run dungeons with a group that wants to have fun.

oh, and I’m not redefining fun… btw. I’m clarifying that being yelled at, or yelling at people for screwing up your gaming all night, isn’t fun

oh and sure, lets just do “separate but equal” on this one…. complete with gay marriage bans, Jim crow laws, and kitten, while were at it, lets let people buy and sell players on the auction house! (please don’t be stupid enough to miss the sarcasm here.)

kitten me….

If you don’t want to be yelled at then don’t join speedruns when you don’t run the meta build or gear. If you expect to be allowed to have fun the way you enjoy it you should be willing to allow others to have fun the way they do. Stay out of each others parties. Nobody goes joining Anybody Welcome parties and starts kittening about people not wearing zerker so keep yourself out of zerker parties when you’re not wearing it. Its a pretty simple concept that you just admitted to ignoring. So the only issue with this game is YOU.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Slowing down a meta speedrun even a little bit when you know the intention of the group instead of just making your own anybody welcome group is spiteful, trolling, griefing, and I would even go as far as to say LFG abuse.

You think they don’t notice because they’re too polite to complain. But you always notice when your times are off, even if its just a few seconds.

Now, with all of that aside. If you hate Zerker meta so bad why do you want to ride on the coattails of their dungeon runs? Join an anybody welcome LFG and have fun just playing the game. Since that is apparently your goal right? No, you have to ride the coattails of the zerker metas speedruns because even you don’t want to spend 40 minutes doing the same dungeons over and over.

What slows groups down more, me in non zerker gear or bad meta pugs thinking they are doing it right because DNT told them to wiping because they are bad. A lot of my meta only runs I end up carrying them because I’m a better player than a lot of them. And that’s the kittening point, skill > gear in a situation where you don’t know your group and how skilled they are. In premades and guild groups you bet your kitten I’m in meta gear because then it matters. It means jack kitten when bad players think they’re good because they are in “optimal” gear. So no, it’s not trolling or griefing, it’s saving my own time in the event my group sucks.

Of course some of them will be bad. They’re either new or learning. Using kittenty gear as a crutch isn’t how you get better. Once upon a time I sucked at this game. I wore zerker gear since day one. People laughed at me and told me to put on defensive stats. No, that is pointless. I learned to dodge, I learned to time my blocks, I learned to use reflects when needed, I learned how to use all of the games active damage mitigation. You’ll never learn to do those things when you’re in so much useless defensive gear that you don’t need to do those things. You’ll never become a good player, just a hindrance.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Slowing down a meta speedrun even a little bit when you know the intention of the group instead of just making your own anybody welcome group is spiteful, trolling, griefing, and I would even go as far as to say LFG abuse.

You think they don’t notice because they’re too polite to complain. But you always notice when your times are off, even if its just a few seconds.

Now, with all of that aside. If you hate Zerker meta so bad why do you want to ride on the coattails of their dungeon runs? Join an anybody welcome LFG and have fun just playing the game. Since that is apparently your goal right? No, you have to ride the coattails of the zerker metas speedruns because even you don’t want to spend 40 minutes doing the same dungeons over and over.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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I don’t know why I bother with these conversations. Nothing but children going on about how they purposely spite people who want to play differently than them. Why anet doesn’t ban these trolls is beyond me.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Again, if you don’t follow the Meta due to any reason just link zerk gear and carry on using your valk or clerics. The best part is you can be in speed runs, make the fast profits, NOBODY will know, and it kind of sticks it to the zerker meta crowd. It’s a total win ROFL

So your solution to the non-existent zerker problem is to be a jerk and ruin other peoples days because you can’t be bothered to type “LFG <dungeon> <path> all are welcome”? If the meta crowd is such a minority like you people make it out to be you’ll fill up really fast right?

Yep… that’s pretty much the case. After being cursed at and ridiculed for the gear (usually soldier or valk) or build I choose to run when in reality it adds barely anytime (because I’ve played since bwes so I know what I’m doing) I’m pretty sick of those people. It’s almost fun to do it out of spite at this point. It’s going to be even BETTER in HOT because I can be a Reaper with over 100% critical and Zerker amounts of power and crit dmg from valk gear.

So, you’re the problem with this game. People like you who would rather ruin the fun of others than just play with like-minded individuals. I hope you get banned.

I find meta peeps amusing. Gives me a reason to even play.

In WvW, there is this guy always going on and on in TS with “big symbols? Who use that? Noooooob lolololol”. I use it because I always run my braindead zerger Guardian as full Nomad, tons of constant AoE healing so meh, who cares. I picked the trait and havent bothered changing it.

But he obviously does care. So I make it my personal task to always drop my symbol on him.

True story.

I’m not sure what your full nomads Guardian has to do with this PvE meta conversation.

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Again, if you don’t follow the Meta due to any reason just link zerk gear and carry on using your valk or clerics. The best part is you can be in speed runs, make the fast profits, NOBODY will know, and it kind of sticks it to the zerker meta crowd. It’s a total win ROFL

So your solution to the non-existent zerker problem is to be a jerk and ruin other peoples days because you can’t be bothered to type “LFG <dungeon> <path> all are welcome”? If the meta crowd is such a minority like you people make it out to be you’ll fill up really fast right?

An anti 'Meta' rant.

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Basically these threads always come down to one thing.

The anti-meta crowd expecting the meta crowd to have to play non-meta but can’t comprehend that with the current system they don’t have to play meta they just have to form their own groups.

Form your own group, and play how you want and how you perceive the game to be fun.

The rest of us will be playing the meta and having our own kind of fun.

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When your choices are clear content as quickly and easily as possible or suffer the bad decisions of the inexperienced running builds that are not only not good but actually detrimental to the group you take the more fun path of quickly and easily. There is no further discussion needed.

Are infusions worth it?

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No, no they are not.

How to get rid of that stupid SMS request??

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In the last 2 months alone there has been zero day exploits enabling remote code execution and privilege escalation for OSX, Windows, and Android. That means if you visit a site that either:

  • Chooses to display malicious code
  • Got hacked and is displaying malicious code
  • Is displaying content fetched from another site that contains malicious code
    You could get popped. With no action on your part: no visible downloading, no clicking anything, just simply viewing the web page with any browser, even one that is fully up to date.

Its great that you are careful not to get phished. It’s great that you always check to see if you have an HTTPS connection to every site that you are logging into, and that the “l” in the url bar isnt a 1 or the .com isnt a .something else. It’s great that you use the “remember my password” checkbox (mine doesnt seem to work). It’s great that you never download something from CNET or download.com or whatever that might contain piggy back installations.Those are all good practices that go a long way, but …they hardly mean much.

The front pages of CNN, NBC, FoxNews, and Yahoo have all hosted 0day drive by download type malware within the past 2 years. Thousands of people with up to date browsers and antivirus got infected each time, without clicking a thing. And those are just a few popular websites people care about. There is no way to completely avoid exposure to this stuff short of not being on the internet. And good malware is patched and recrypted regularly so the people who are infected might never detect that infection even with up to date anti virus (they better pray they have a suite with good heuristics because you can not rely on signatures alone).

Accounts get farmed with phishing emails and malware that can harvest credentials when you log into this very website, or to your game. The remediation process takes time and money away from development. I don’t want to give them my phone number either (dont we already have “this isnt your normal IP” verification by email?) but dont come on the forums and act like you are immune to a computer intrusion because you “aint stupid” and don’t need a fallback plan.

Okay kid, you’re done. The minute you said that people are getting viruses and stuff from no fault of their own your credibility was shot. Stay off of shady sites and you have no issue.

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Because you install shady software and don’t know how to use the save password feature I should be harassed every time I try to load the game?

And it because people are as naive as this that the 2-step verification is needed in the first place.

Obviously not, 3 years in my account is perfectly fine. Because I don’t use the same password for everything, I don’t enter my info into obvious fake phishing sites, and I don’t install keyloggers like a fool. But you have an answer for everything. You just sit on these forums and call out anybody who has a criticism against anet. Its like a full time job for you.

Once a week? No I am being harassed to use it once or twice a day. It is unacceptable.

From Inculpatus’ post above. you can hit play directly and not deal with the reminder at all.

So, hit play directly. You don’t have to deal with it at all

No, That is not the case at all, what happens is you have to press the button to ignore the reminder and then hit play. Then next time you load your game do the same thing, rinse repeat forever.

What is wrong with setting up the non phone option? Not only is your account more secure but you won’t get those reminders also.

Shouldn’t have to install shady authenticator software to avoid being harassed.

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Because you install shady software and don’t know how to use the save password feature I should be harassed every time I try to load the game?

And it because people are as naive as this that the 2-step verification is needed in the first place.

Obviously not, 3 years in my account is perfectly fine. Because I don’t use the same password for everything, I don’t enter my info into obvious fake phishing sites, and I don’t install keyloggers like a fool. But you have an answer for everything. You just sit on these forums and call out anybody who has a criticism against anet. Its like a full time job for you.

Once a week? No I am being harassed to use it once or twice a day. It is unacceptable.

From Inculpatus’ post above. you can hit play directly and not deal with the reminder at all.

So, hit play directly. You don’t have to deal with it at all

No, That is not the case at all, what happens is you have to press the button to ignore the reminder and then hit play. Then next time you load your game do the same thing, rinse repeat forever.

How to get rid of that stupid SMS request??

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“E:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -nopatchui -email emailhere -password passwordhere

?

So your solution to not having to use the authenticator is to add my account info as clear text in a shortcut solution? This is exactly the type of kitten that causes accounts to be stolen.

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Because you install shady software and don’t know how to use the save password feature I should be harassed every time I try to load the game?

And it because people are as naive as this that the 2-step verification is needed in the first place.

Obviously not, 3 years in my account is perfectly fine. Because I don’t use the same password for everything, I don’t enter my info into obvious fake phishing sites, and I don’t install keyloggers like a fool. But you have an answer for everything. You just sit on these forums and call out anybody who has a criticism against anet. Its like a full time job for you.

Once a week? No I am being harassed to use it once or twice a day. It is unacceptable.

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No, there really isn’t. Nobody is sitting there brute-forcing anet accounts, and if they are that is entirely on anet for allowing it. Especially since anet has had 2 step authorization since a couple of weeks after launch. So basically we have two options, anet isn’t stopping brute force attacks or people are using the same password for everything. Both scenarios indicate avoidable stupidity and have nothing to do with me.

Bringing me back to the original issue, why am I being harassed?

So you are claiming that there is no such thing as key-loggers for example?

Because you install shady software and don’t know how to use the save password feature I should be harassed every time I try to load the game?

How to get rid of that stupid SMS request??

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^ That is of course assuming that those mails are the only way to lose your account.
That is not the case. There is plenty of other ways to lose access, without ever giving out the details to anyone.

No, there really isn’t. Nobody is sitting there brute-forcing anet accounts, and if they are that is entirely on anet for allowing it. Especially since anet has had 2 step authorization since a couple of weeks after launch. So basically we have two options, anet isn’t stopping brute force attacks or people are using the same password for everything. Both scenarios indicate avoidable stupidity and have nothing to do with me.

Bringing me back to the original issue, why am I being harassed?

How to get rid of that stupid SMS request??

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Gold sellers hacking of accounts cost the game big bucks. People get hacked then they contact support and support has to spend the time to help them get their account back then restore the account If it’s the first time they got hacked, and some people get hacked several times. All that costs ANet money to pay those support people and of course they want to reduce both player aggravation and their costs so they are making everyone secure their account.

Just use the other non phone number system they have and the SMS reminder will stop.

No, gold sellers don’t have anything, stupid people give out their passwords. I’m not a stupid person. I can especially read the giant “Hey, this isn’t from anet” at the bottom of the emails. I don’t need my account secured by bullkitten authenticators and I don’t need to be harassed by anet to use them because they have so many stupid players that they have to assume everybody is stupid.

Almost every day for a while there was a post on reddit or these forums with people like “I got a mail from a GM saying so and so, is this for real?” And in the very same image they linked there was a message at the bottom in big bold letters saying that the mail was not from anet.

Harassing people who don’t fall for that stupidity because of the people that do is not good business.

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I don’t know, but it would be nice if they would stop harassing me to set up the SMS authenticator every time I try to load the game.

anybody getting bored of open-w-pve?

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That’s why I didn’t want a comparisson between SW chest farming and Arah P4 but Arah paths between them. You say that the difficulty of Arah P4 is the main reason for it not being run, let me ask something different, if Arah P4 had actually amazing rewards would it be run more often? Is it really the difficulty that makes it so unlikeable?

Aetherpath has a whole set of weapons worth hundreds of gold apiece on the TP that drop only there, and people still avoid it like the plague.

Oh yes, my favorite thing to do is to run Aetherpath hundreds of times and get no loot because of a poor RNG system. They don’t avoid it because they don’t want the loot, they avoid it because they don’t get the loot.

anybody getting bored of open-w-pve?

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I don’t get why there is so much complaining and whining. This mentality of “This certain aspect isn’t appealing to my exact tastes, lets complain and have it changed endlessly.” Tis exactly what kills the best MMORPGs.

I don’t see how that is what this is? This is a legitimate complaint against a game-mode that is stale and boring after being mostly untouched for 3 years.

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At least the Mini and the Finisher are account unlocks. The 2nd birthday was a huge disappointment. Oh… a gun that gives a decent alt leveling buff? Sweet! I’ll just transfer it to my alt… oh its soulbound… How… useful…

Make "Unobtainable" armor obtainable!

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its a little unfair that i earned tribal set and you didn’t?
while i was pvping you were pveing and earned your Wings of the Sunless,
i guess its a little unfair that i wasn’t given that, Anet should mail me it…

please folks stop trying to get the very few old rare heirloom items made commonplace.
there isn’t much of value in this game, legendaries are all over the place, go to lions arch you’ll see 20 people with Twilight.
the Tribal set is one of the few things that i’m happy i have because of its scarcity.
you folks just want everything to be worthless and commonpool.

Lol earned Tribal set. The tribal pvp skin was pure RNG, don’t act like you earned kitten.

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I’ve been bored with open world content for a while. Its all easy because it has to be balanced for casuals and players who just don’t care. I understand why it has to be balanced for those types but it doesn’t make it any more fun.