Guild Wars 2

Just salvaged an Apostate’s Gunnarsong longbow and got… absolutely nothing. No mats, no runes, no love. Is that right? Not sure I’ve ever had a blank salvage result before.

I tried to set fire to TD so I could watch it burn and dance in the embers but it was too damp to take the flame. Pity.

The OP does not speak for me. I like getting all the trash.

Hoarding is the wrong word for what most players do.
Most players just deposit mats at every opportunity and don’t pay any more attention to them unless they want to craft something or unless they overflow the storage. I fall into that category. I only sell stuff if I feel I need the gold. If you have max storage then that means you can have up to 2000 of each item out of sight and out of mind. It’s more “ignoring” than “hoarding”.

Having said that, I really don’t have a problem with players who want to play the markets. If they want to speculate on future prices then good luck to them. It’s their game too and it’s not like this is a difficult game to earn gold in.

And, um, none of it is real.

My guess would be that the price will increase a little in the build up, jump to a peak in the first few days of the event as impatient players splash gold to get stuff quickly, then the price will gradually drop as the event goes on.
It is only a guess though.

I decided to bite the bullet and make a serious attempt at it last night. In general I don’t like using “spoiler” videos but I knew I would have no choice with this one. So with the help of Dulfy I got to the start of the JP after a few attempts. I fairly quickly got to the second waypoint (I’m counting the first one as the one where you first reach the large lava “room”). And that was it. After 10 minutes I was down to my underwear, having already died countless times. After about an hour I was still there. I felt to have got a reasonable way into the puzzle but not far enough to reach the next waypoint so I just kept dying and dying and dying.

I’m a Norn and some of the camera angles were dreadful so I sometimes just fell off ledges. Other times there seemed to be a slight lag in the glider deploying which meant I was immediately too low to make the glide. So whilst I would really like that mastery point I suspect it is one that will remain out of reach for me unless I happen upon a very patient mesmer or two.

I felt to be mostly undone by the clunky controls and cameras rather than by the puzzle difficulty itself. Turns out some of us cannot “easily jump everything”…

On a brighter note at least I unlocked that last map point so I can complete the map now.

I think he said he’s off on an extended holiday but I’m not very good at interpreting this stuff…

I think it’s an excellent opportunity for them to nerf everything on those HoT maps, get rid of the adventures and move all the mastery points to just next to the way points. That might just about tempt me back onto those awful maps, at least until I get all those precious mastery points ;p

Those maps were never popular. Plenty of players went there but that does not mean that they liked them.

(Vayne – you’re on!)

I’m amazed at some of you folks.

Why would any player be against the opportunity to expand their bag storage?

I can’t even get to the start point. ..

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

I log off in my living room, ‘cause that’s where my computer is.

~EW

There’s always one. And it’s always you…

I always park in LA.

nopoet.2960:

I’m just looking for a refresh.

Then look elsewhere instead of trying to reduce other players’ fun.

Complete the HoT story if you have not already done so then dive into the Living World 3 stuff by acting on the mail about Eir you will have waiting for you.

Orpheal.8263:

I don’t know, all I know is that I got somehow hacked roughly 4 years ago with everythign that this person who did it was able to know only was the display name and nothing else…

Ah, I think it’s because you set your password to “password”.
But I might be wrong.

I did quite a bit of multi-looting before LS3 launched and I had one very entertaining experience where I joined a squad to find the comm declaring that he was the most unforgiving kitten ever and that we should expect to be kicked without warning and with no reasons given and then listing more rules than usual. He was so OTT it was proper funny so I stuck around.

The thing is, he was true to his word. Players were kicked all over the place and the comm was constantly ranting in chat about stuff. It sounds odd but I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of not getting kicked. The loot was OK rather than spectacular but the backdrop of a constantly cycling squad was just funny. I eventually got kicked a with a couple of minutes left but I was strangely satisfied.

It’s a reminder that we shouldn’t take it too seriously.

Open world has to stay relatively easy, because if getting around is a chore many folks will not enjoy the game as much. That’s the problem with HoT – restricted pathways with mobs you can’t avoid and/or run through. Bloodstone Fen was better received because you can get around more easily and pick your fights when you want.

What puzzles me is why they have not yet introduced a hard mode for instanced content – same mobs but harder hitting and more damage resistant, increase the loot, add a few achievements etc. That would not be a huge amount of development and would go some way to satisfy those who want more challenge.

The risk of making the game as a whole more difficult is that you lose more players than you gain.

Sammyjoe.4271:

In the early years of Gw2 I have never had more fun with a game. I would come home from school everyday and play until I went to bed, rinse and repeat. However when people wonder why Gw2 is maybe not doing the best it can be its for a few reasons, stupid reasons in fact. #1 WvW server merges: I have had at least 50 people from my server who have called it quits after the server merges. It totally defeats the purpose of one server working together and eliminates what that server did as one. For example, my server would do “Theme nights” and reset parties at north camp before the WvW matchup reset. All of that stuff is eliminated when you have 2 other servers with you. Server merges completely destroyed my super friendly, super close server community. #2 Condi Metas: This is all about PvP and a little of WvW roaming. Basically Anet requires you, for PvP to either run the cheese condi builds and completely destroy anyone you want, since condis have been way over buffed in the past years, or your build better kitten well be able to cure condis like no other. This is why PvP is growing less popular, I think, every day. There’s no thrill of winning a 1v1 fight if all you do is stand there and spam some condis and call it a day, take us back to the good ol’ days when we had to make builds from scratch not just jump on the condi bandwagon since they’re godly overpowered or just go to Metabattle and get a build that will make you seem like you know what your doing. #3 Buffing then Nerfing (MOST IMPORTANT): I never was able to understand why Anet (not trying to rip on anet I love them) can’t simply make all classes even. Every big nerf patch a few classes get nerfed, and rightly so (I’m looking at you Dragonhunters and Engis) but for some reason they feel the need to buff the HELL out of other classes. So since I’ve been playing since the November after launch I dont believe I’ve ever witnessed all classes being equal. There is always 3,4, or even 5 classes ridiculously set above the rest. Like engi, I mained a engi for the longest time rocking my awesome rifle build (I’m still salty anet about removing Synaptic Overload) back when engi was believe it or not, hard to play! Well thats my rant, I feel some of the skill and knowledge of our classes and the game are fading since new players can throw together this overpowered condi build from Metabattle and destroy everyone. I could be wrong, give me some feedback and long live Gw2 (with changes)

Ah, if only our keyboards had, say, an ENTER key. Imagine how much better life would be.

Yeah, those messages were annoying, especially when they reached double figures….

The starter zones have been quite well populated recently because there was a sale on char slots. That’s certainly why I’ve been back in those zones.

Worth buying blacklion keys?

Nope. Never.

Spook.5847:

AzureWolf.9150:

It may be frustrating when someone undercuts you by a coin, but that’s basic economics and it exists in games the same way it does in the real world (just watch how eBay works to see the same thing play out).

But I agree that it’s annoying

Certainly the market needs better controls to prevent manipulation by players.

No it doesn’t. It ain’t broke. You have the choice of buying/selling instantly or trying to improve the price by being patient. As stated by several people above, almost everything sells if the price is in the normal range. My stuff all sells within a day, the only exceptions being new items that have yet to find their price level.

Apart from spamming a URL in chat, which I don’t think you can copy-paste, I’m also puzzled as to the nature of the crime.

However, Rose’s advice is good – put a ticket in with supporting evidence.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

It may only be one character slot for that price.

Nah, i bought 7!

Anyone know the duration of the sales? The items change every few days. Can’t decide whether the blow my last few gems on yet another char slot or whether to hold out for something else….

I’ve been in a game with a test server and it was not very successful.

First off, the devs never allowed enough time to fix any problems that turned up so there was a perpetually unhappy bunch of players who would report bugs and then see them go live anyway.

Second, many players used the test server as a means to gain an advantage, either through trading or new exploits. The prices of some materials in the live game would dramatically rise or fall in anticipation of the changes on the test server.

Third, as stated, many players were not even remotely interested in testing stuff – they were just impatient for the new stuff so by the time it hit live they were already bored of it and spoilers and trolls were widespread.

Finally, and this is the main point, plenty of major bugs still got through, because nothing tests the code as effectively as a million players all trying to do something in slightly different ways.

One of the things I loved most about GW1 was the huge variety of skills and the, sometimes unexpected, interaction between skills from different professions. Balance was not a problem in PvE and those skills and builds made it more fun imho.

Green tag. BAH! That will be the thing that I stupidly ran to yesterday thinking it was the target location for the personal story on my new toon (bought a couple of char slots in the sale).

As for the thanks yous, yes, thank you for most of the game. We complain a lot but actually the game is in a pretty good place right now.

Vayne.8563:

IndigoSundown.5419:

I don’t mind mini games being in the game. I do mind the stand-in for leveling being gated by them. They ought to be rewarding enough with intrinsic rewards that people who like that type of thing feel rewarded for doing them.

This. Mastery points should have never been gated behind those types of games, nor should collections.

+1.
Actually, make that +2.

Char slot sale!
CHAR SLOT SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo hoo!

I think they should compensate anyone who complains with a special title…

I asked exactly the same thing some months ago. I’ve no idea how typical my experience was and WvW has evolved a little since then but have a read:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Easiest-way-to-get-Siege-Commander-s-Spoon/first

Good Luck!

I lost my common sense and became fat and bald.
Actually, that might have been a bit earlier now that I think about it but I’ll contact CS anyway. They could probably do with a laugh right no.

@OP, no way did you lose that much stuff in such a short time.

Ah yes, that makes sense now. My ISP is having a few niggles so I assumed that was the cause but now that you mention it I only saw the problems in FoR.

Cascabel.5806:

At this point, all the compensation I need is a hug…

Even though I know nothing of your age, gender or, ahem, preferences, I’m sending you a big fat hairy man-hug. I may even slap you on the back. No hair stroking though. That would be too weird.

I don’t think a rollback is a decision they take lightly. They have acted quickly to limit the damage but there are always going to be some unlucky players who lose something a bit special as a result.

Imagine how much worse it would be if it was a 24 or 48 hour rollback.

I’m sure someone recently predicted the end of the game and a server shutdown…

penelopehannibal.8947:

Any form of subscription would be bad for a game that was marketed as a Buy to Play model.

this

And please remove activities from the daily PvE rotation. The activities are not PvE.

Starting HoT now is slightly unfortunate timing because many players will have moved on to the new Bloodstone Fen map and are also pursuing the crazed creatures events all over the place. You can do some HoT stuff solo but most of the events and metas require a decent number of players so you need to make use of other lfg tool and also be aware of the fixed times of events for each map. If the meta is under way you may struggle to get anyone to help with other stuff on the map like HPs. Chances are that the map you are on has a reasonable population but most of them will be at a specific event so you need to learn those events and figure out when the non-meta “window” is on each map.

Fixed timers, big metas and legendary bosses that take an age to kill don’t make for a very fun experience for me. It doesn’t even matter if you die-rez-die-rez, just batter away….

With HoT they just set the difficulty level too high for the average player. GW1 and GW2 have always been casual games with vast amounts of quite easy content. HoT upset that balance, which pleased some folks but not others. For me, it’s not fun so I mostly don’t go there. For my wife, well she stopped playing at the very start of the HoT story line. That bit where you have to earn gliding to proceed but it’s hard to earn XP because you can’t kill much and you can’t follow the gliding, bouncing zergfest. So I can state as a fact that HoT caused a massive 50% of players in our household to stop playing.

The April update and LS3 improved things considerably but, guess what, it’s too late to get back many of those players that left. And that is bound to hit the profits.

I can’t be the only person who plays with their inventory window resized to cover most of the screen.

So I double-clicked quite a few times before I realised that the very short animation was happening behind the inventory window. I genuinely thought that the double-click was doing nothing at all. So, yeah, not very well thought out really.

I’ve not noticed any extra lag but I do now see a very very slow initial rendering of places which is something I have not seen before in this game. It’s particularly bad in the main cities. I’m not talking a bit of flicker. When I portal to Hoelbrak my toon stands in mid-air for one second then it takes probably 5 or 6 seconds for the environment to get fully drawn. Once it is done there are no further problems or lag. It’s so slow that I can portal in and run to and enter my home instance before more than a pot plant or two have appeared (it takes a bit of practice to avoid the invisible walls!)

So something definitely changed around the time of LS3.

…. plus… Steam is EVIL

(See previous thread)

Aw, man. I didn’t even know about these events. Now I’m going to have to go and wait for them… ;p

@OP

The only way you could achieve what you ask without another purchase is to give your non-HoT account to your GF and then start afresh with the HoT+Core account you have just bought. Not ideal as you will lose all your progress.

Actually gold sellers in most games continue to exist precisely because they do deliver what they promise. I’m not even sure they are breaking any laws although they are certainly breaking the terms of use of the game as are the players who buy from them. Both buyer and seller deserve to be perma-banned.

But I still don’t understand why Anet have not bothered to implement even the simplest of chat filters. Make the bad guys work a bit harder for their money.

I’m loving the endless gliding on the very generous supply of updrafts. Maybe they should add a few more updrafts to the other HoT maps so we can get around a bit easier.

Of course, gambling can be enjoyable too and you can view the losses as an acceptable cost for that enjoyment. Everyone has a different threshold. I used to regularly play a slot machine in a local pub. Its payout was set at about 80% so the losses, on average, were fairly slow. Over the course of a couple of beers I’d chat to folk, feed the machine, win some, lose some and stop when I’d spent around the price of another couple of beers. It was entertainment. Not all gambling is bad, but I can see how someone could get carried away with it. The thing to remember is that folks only ever boast of the wins.

And don’t be too judgemental of someone who spends lots of RL $$$ on the GW2. Be happy that they are subsidising your game.

Khisanth.2948:

This has happened with the gold selling spammers in Path of Exile. The amusing thing is that it has gotten to the point where the spammers’ messages are so obscure that you would have to spend a bit of time to decipher what it says.

That’s exactly the point I’ve been trying to make and something I’ve seen in other games.

Right now we get a neat, clear and blatant advert from the bad guys (I don’t even know how to format a message like that!). With not very much effort on a filter that message will evolve in to a messy stream of characters and TXT speak that requires some effort to decipher. A less clear message means fewer customers for them. And it would show us players that Anet are at least trying to stop it.

I’ve sometimes wondered whether a community-managed filter would work. Anyone can modify it and the changes get voted up or down. Players can opt-in or out of the filter.

I’ve also wondered why software can’t be batter at deciphering disguised urls and adverts. We have software that can understand natural speech, recognise faces, drive cars and beat a Go master yet it apparently can’t spot that “(dot)” or “\/\/\/\/\/\/” might be part of a URL. I reckon someone needs to offer a research prize for it…

The point of this thread is very valid. Players who have absolutely no interest in raids or raiding and who have absolutely no use for a raid mastery are being “encouraged” to do them just so they can have a use for excess XP again. It’s like asking a jazz-hating metal-head to buy a Robbie Coltrane album just to earn a Metallica bonus track.

The jazzers are saying “Hey, you might like it”, “Broaden your mind”, “You don’t know if you don’t try it” but the metal-head is thinking “But all I want is the bonus track”.