Guild Wars 2

linuxotaku.4731:

I think what you’ve described others doing — buying things to horde and resell at a profit — is not something which supports a healthy economy or a positive experience for new players. In economic terms, the price is not being determined by use value, but rather by speculation — in this situation, I think ANet is probably doing the right thing in providing additional supply. You got the item you wanted at a price you were willing to pay — it’s not clear you experienced much harm, other than knowing that you could have got a better deal by waiting.

I’ve occasionally lost out through changes in the market (e.g. with the battle for LA, they reintroduced some drops which I’d been keeping in the hopes of selling at a profit) … but I have to say I think that was a positive experience for more players than the ones hurt.

My view may be tainted by posts like this one, though:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Permanent-Hairstyle-Contract/first#post4264536

… where it certainly sounds like some people were willing to try to manipulate the market. I think you’re basically SOL if you attempt to manipulate the market, and ANet decides the result isn’t what they want. They can always change the market.

As I’ve stated before, I agree that the Hair Stylist Contract should be permanent. I only disagree with how Anet did it with advertising it as a 2 week limited drop and then just leaving it there. If they had stated from the get go that it was now permanently part of the loot tables, it would have been excellent.

The main issue is that a lot of people bought them at prices that were artificially inflated because Anet announced it would only be available for two weeks. If they had instead announced that it was becoming a permanent part of the loot table much like how the other three permanent contracts are, there wouldn’t be an issue. As I believed that it was only available for a limited time, I had even bought gems specifically to exchange for gold to buy it as the expectation was that the price was going to jump again once it was off the loot tables. If I had known previously that it would be available permanently, I would have just made the gold the normal way from playing and from the TP and bought it when I had the available gold. It almost feels like it was a bait and switch of a limited item to get people to buy gems to trade for gold to be able to get one.

As anyone in my guild could tell you, I have spent way too much money on this game as I do buy a lot of gem cards to buy stuff off the gem store. I keep the gem store and in game economies separate except in this one case where I believed that the Permanent Hair Stylist would be gone after two weeks so traded gems for gold to ensure I could get one in that time period.

Buttercup.5871:

niconori.7235:

it’s supposed to be an exclusive or sacred item. now it seems like anyone could have it. this is dumb as kitten anet

Wait what? The buy price is at 2600g currently, and you say anyone could have it?

You know most people don’t own a legendary, right, but want to? And that for 2600g you can craft almost any legendary you want?

No item should be “sacred” in any event, that would be really messed up. Some things can come close to that, if they are items that can only be obtained through the display of extraordinary skill (e.g. winning a PvP world tournament). But certainly not some random drop from a black lion chest, that’s simply bunkers.

Which I agree with but Anet shouldn’t have said that it was only going to be available for 2 weeks and then just leave it on the loot tables when those 2 weeks expired.

RedStar.4218:

Wait, those still drop ?
Last time we had an announcement that they were put back in the loot tables from July 29 to August 12.

July 29, 2014

The Permanent Hair Stylist Contract is now a very rare drop from Black Lion Chests for the next 2 weeks only.

It was supposed to only be available for the 2 weeks from the feature patch as noted in the patch notes. Instead, they left them in the loot tables and everyone who bought one during the two week period expecting them to not be available anymore are now left with having spent way more than necessary on them since they continue to drop.

Judging from Gaile’s response in this thread, I’m guessing that Anet leaving it on the loot tables is intentional. I just hope this doesn’t become a pattern where they state a time frame for things from black lion chests just to drive up prices when in reality, its going to be left permanently so we should all just wait for prices to settle down instead of being artificially high.

I crafted 5 armor sets and 17 weapons so far. Have enough mats to craft a couple more sets.

I made a spreadsheet for ascended mats to track profit rates on each one for custom offers on mats, available offers, and for the price i’m getting the mats for so i know if its worth it to sell at the time or to hold on to.

For insignia, inscriptions, armor pieces, and weapon pieces, quite a bit of money can be made if you craft certain ones and sell them. Spreadsheets are just a tool just like anything else and can be used in anyway you want. I’d rather have a spreadsheet so i only need to set the formulas up once and it will do all the calculations for me.

Suggestions by Nike. Other commentary not included (watch the video if you want to hear that).

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721PbmPYmEg

Dungeons
-Rewards generally where they should be
-CoF P3, SE P2: examples of dungeons that rewards should be rebalanced

Other suggestions such as randomized encounters (too hard to balance for Anet team), changing boss fights (interesting for short period of time), Hard Mode from GW1 (attacking faster and/or more HP) don’t really address the issues for a long term plan.

Long term solution
-Gambits for dungeons. Stacking gambits would add to rewards multiplicatively. Comparison would be like the Fractal Instabilities. Individual instabilities for the most part aren’t too bad. 3 or 4 of them at the same time will be challenging.

Fractals
-Dredge fractal. Remove clown car. Go straight from bomb/gun path to the end boss.
-Daily loot. Gold reward should increase 10s per level instead of per tier. Level 50 would reward 5g, lvl 45 4g 50s, etc.
-Remove uninfused rings at lvl 26 as it used to be.
-Remove infused rings at lvl 40.
-Use the empty space in the loot tables from taking rings out and add a chance to drop asccended weapons, ascended armor, and fractal weapons
-Replace all ascended armors and weapons with the stat selectable boxes
-Implement the fractal weapon box where you can pick the skin
-Add the removed TA path F/U as a third tier fractal. Either change it by causing spiders to despawn on wipe in the last room or have the fractal end after the Vevina fight.
-Open up new fractal tiers each month until the end of the progression is reached.
-Datamined information showed fractals going up to 140. This can be done gradually over time.
-Increase drop rates as difficulty goes up.

Open world bosses
-Buff loot for Triple Wurm boss. Suggested amount: 20g
-New raid bosses should be new not revamps of existing bosses
-Turning current world bosses into raids will create content that the majority of players won’t be able to do. This would also remove an efficient dragonite farm for people working for ascended items.
-Create bosses for different group sizes. Boss tuned for 20, 40, 60 man groups and create a way that only your guild or group can do it.

Guild Missions
-Create new uses for guild commendations. Only real current use is to get ascended accessories or Sentinel’s gear.
-Create new uses for guild merits. Current uses not worth doing.
-Instanced raids for example.

Solo play
-Bring back Queen’s Gauntlet as permanent content
-New bosses/gauntlets periodically
-Rebalance bosses/gauntlets/rewards aggressively so if a farm such as the Deadeye farm is discovered, it is only there for a short period of time
-Provides solo players who are looking for challenges something to do that changes instead of just soloing Arah over and over.

Long term
-Elite zones
-DOW/FOW/UW type zones.
-Non linear, do objectives in any order.
-Unique rewards for each zone. Tradeable rewards
-Do all objectives for large reward. Get smaller rewards per objective completed.
-Each section difficulty comparable to a dungeon path
-Some kind of cost to open the instance.
-No waypoints. Death is a death unless rezzed by party.
-Team wipes would end the instance.
-Character swaps would spawn you in dead.

Eh the story modes aren’t hard though Arah does take a while to do. Just do them again on another character and unlock explorable on the ones you don’t have.

So do we get a refund for the trait books we already bought or should we get rid of them as soon as possible?

Arcane Wave underwater was changed to cast on your target since when you’re in underwater combat you would need a surface to use it as a ground targeted aoe.

You actually can get it to hit on you. Look up, cast it, move forward while moving your camera back down. It should land on top of you.

Living stories in the past have overlapped so you had 4 weeks to get anything. Eh whatever. I’l just finish them in the first week from now on so I don’t have to worry about it

Was there any notification that this one was going to last for 2 weeks unlike all the previous ones that were available for 4 weeks? Was expecting them to be available for a couple more weeks.

That “I play how I want” attitude is one of the reasons why they should have made large scale encounter content be instanced. It’s already been stated that the Wurms was designed for large hardcore guilds in mind but then they make it in the open world where you have to deal with any randoms that are in the zone as well. They can leave it in the open world so if by some chance a server wanted to get together to do it but have an option for it to be an instanced raid type.

It’s working for my bank guilds that only have 3 or 4 people in it but the page won’t update for any larger guilds or my friends list. Looks like it’s unable to load over a certain amount or something.

Similar to how Legendary weapons can change their stats while out of combat, why not do something similar for sigils on them? People use different sigils depending on what they’re doing. I would see this as a sigil library. You get the sigil and add it to the weapon and you can change it to any sigil that’s been added any time that you can also switch the stats.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Enko.6123:

Please let your support personnel know as when I asked them about the emails, I was told the following:

The e-mail you have received is not an official e-mail from the Guild Wars 2 Support Team or from ArenaNet. It is most likely a phishing attempt. Please DO NOT click on any links within that e-mail. We will not send e-mails that state that your account will be terminated if you do not respond. We will not send e-mails that state that an account has been compromised (unless we are responding to a player). Any e-mails of this type are most likely malicious in intent.

Please tell me the ticket number in which that response was sent. I need to follow up on this so we all are on the same page. Thanks!

Phishing Attempt (request #180448)

Please let your support personnel know as when I asked them about the emails, I was told the following:

The e-mail you have received is not an official e-mail from the Guild Wars 2 Support Team or from ArenaNet. It is most likely a phishing attempt. Please DO NOT click on any links within that e-mail. We will not send e-mails that state that your account will be terminated if you do not respond. We will not send e-mails that state that an account has been compromised (unless we are responding to a player). Any e-mails of this type are most likely malicious in intent.

Rencruzer.9614:

What bugs me the most is that I can only make 1 piece of Ascended mat per day (per type) but have 6 armor/weapon crafts. There should be 1 cd for each mat type per craft.

So make the timegate character bound and account bound? It would definitely push up the rest of the crafting mats for a bit as everybody tries to get all of their characters to 450 Huntsman plus 1 armor craft.

Electro.4173:

Toroxus.9256:

That’s 20g off the TP buy orders, or you could have just saved up the Silk as you’ve gotten it during normal play.

Who would ever save 43 stacks of a single material 0.0

Eh I had more than 43 stacks. Had enough silk scraps to make around 70 stacks of bolts. Sold about half and kept enough bolts for myself to craft damask on 3 accounts for the next month.

the inscriptions that aren’t crafted with t6 mats cost an extra 5 ectos.

Another reason why damask is really expensive is that its new. People have been stocking up on leather for a while now since you could make them with huntsman. Damask has been slowly dropping though I do agree that it’ll never go down to leather. It’s fairly similar to the rest of the tiers of leather though since just not as many things take leather than silk or ore.

I’ve been told it works as well. If you’re rushing it, you do realize that your guild will have to do at least 550 events with at least 2 people there just to make up for the rushing cost and the cost to build the buff.

2 people at an event = 20 influence. 10% of that is 2 influence. Cost to rush the pvp influence buff = 1000 influence. Cost to build the buff = 100 influence.

If you only have one person present at an event, you’ll only get 2 influence total so don’t even think the buff will effect it.

There’s not much point in rushing the influence buffs since most of the time you’ll be better off without having done so unless you’re sure that your guild does enough to make up for the cost.

it’s also discouraging to see that they implemented wvw seasons when tele hacks still work in game.

I think the main problem that the WvW players are complaining about is that we’re getting a lot of players in WvW who don’t care about WvW or even want to do it. They’re just there to get the achievements even if it at the expense of their fellow players. If they had the seasons the way it was but didn’t include the achievement points, then you would have good competition and possibly draw in some new blood since Anet would be advertising WvW. By putting achievement points in, we have a ton of people who are just running around trying to get points instead of learning how to WvW.

With adding in this many achievement points and also not increasing their server capabilities, whenever there is a semi large fight going on, we all end up having massive server lag to the point where a lot of skills won’t work. Large congregation areas such as Stonemist or when a mass attack on a gari already had this type of lag and Anet has needed to increase their servers for a while now. It’s just even worse now that every single BL and EB is full all the time with massive zergs hitting each other now.

As far as people saying its SoR’s fault for stacking their server, we didn’t advertise to buy guilds like some other servers had. I actually have seen the same WvW guilds on SoR with the exception of 1 guild for the past 4 or 5 months. SoR has always had a disproportionately larger % of WvW players to PvE players.

Ben Newell.1759:

This has been nicely answered already. We intentionally went with making groups collaborative and open, and we were aware of the potential for abuse. That’s why we implemented the reporting system for it. It was a decision where we decided to trust in our community and make things more powerful and flexible, instead of locking everything up and making it slower/more cumbersome. Honestly, from my experiences using LFG, it seems like this was the right call.

Also, griefing in LFG is not a lot of reward for a lot of risk. It’s just not worth the suspension/ban to cause a minor inconvenience to someone.

When party members join, can this be added to the system log so if they do abuse it by kicking the group leader once they join, we can see the names of it? Currently, all party chat disappears so if there is abuse and you can’t remember their exact name, you can’t report. If two griefers join and vote to kick the party leader really fast, you don’t always see their name and thus can’t report.

stale.9785:

I thought that this was the current method of the RMT freaks to deliver the “any legendary any time” that gw2wallmart bots advertise in LA. something to do with they can’t just mail the items for fear of bans all around, so you’re told to put in a specific buy order, and the RMT bot fills that order specifically.

I could be wrong. Only other thing that comes to mind is manipulation of the market by the few in-game people who control most of the gold.

The person would have to be the highest custom offer if they did it this way. If you list something lower than the highest custom offer, it sells it to the highest custom offer.

That one doesn’t give credit for personal story completion since you just sit there and listen to them. Just go on to the next mission. There’s a few story line quests that are just dialogue so don’t count.

Eh we have plenty of room on SOR. we haven’t been buying guilds like BG.

Last time a population comparison was given from an Anet dev, SOR was said to have a similar population to Fort Aspenwood.

SchuMidas.4782:

sooo… you have to wait till Tuesday ? why ?

patches need to go through a change management team probably to check and document stuff. this is basically a bandaid until they can get the actual fix out.

You can infuse one of them and can wear both since now one is named “Ring of Red Death (Infused)” and the original is named “Ring of Red Death”. Though since you paid the laurels for these, I’m guessing that you don’t do fractals at all and won’t have the fractal mats to infuse it.

if you have 2 on swap weapons equipped, only one works because the internal cooldown on the on swap effect is shared between the two. So one activates and cooldown starts which prevents the other from activating.

It’s the same deal with Iron. All other metal materials cost 2 to refine while Iron costs 3. All other wood materials cost 3 to refine while Soft Wood costs 4.

As Antara mentioned, in the beginning of the game, there were so many T2 mats that they did this to increase the demand for them. With Ascended armors needing them and T2 mats costing so much now, they probably need to rework T2 to realign with the other material tiers.

As for farming them, I’d rather farm 3 or 4 stacks of elder wood in 20 minutes and sell those to buy the other mats I need.

We have a player on SOR that has been griefing the server intentionally for months and nothing’s been done to him. A bunch of us have reported him and nothing’s been done. As far as I can tell, reporting in WvW does nothing.

Unless you’re going for the achievement to kill the Foreman first, just pull the mobs in smaller groups and kill them separately.

We just had one person with the pheromones dragging the ooze through the oil slicks, killed Slick first, then killed Sparki. Fight wasn’t too difficult once we decided to kill Slick first.

Took us about an hour to complete on our first attempt. A lot of the mechanics made sense once you just looked at the descriptions. On further runs, we can probably get this done in 15-25 minutes since we won’t be running around trying to figure out the mechanics in each fight.

F/U was fine except for the spider spawns if you wiped on the end boss. Path could have been fixed fine if those spiders just despawned if the room was deagroed. Just because you didn’t run it doesn’t mean no one else did.

Nilkemia.8507:

And when bosses are hard because of bad gimmicks requiring everyone to die die die die die over and over and over in an infuriating process of trial and error to figure out what to even do first, or read up a guide/watch a video before going in and hoping you do as well. Worst dungeon since the Aetherblade Retreat.

Eh, I found the dungeon pretty fun. The mechanics weren’t horribly difficult to figure out if you just the descriptions of the mobs.

I would say best dungeon in a while. Harder content is what we’ve been asking for. How do you think every other dungeon was figured out? By trial and error. There’s a trend with Guild Wars 2 players that they just want stuff handed to them then complain when they can’t beat it on their first attempt. Reading guides or watching videos takes a lot away from learning how to do stuff on your own.

Fractals are hard capped at lvl 50 right now. Instant death no matter how much AR is intended.

Does this mean we shouldn’t make any lvl 400 recipes so we don’t get caught up in a banwave?

I’ve gotten upgrades using it. Just bad RNG for you, I guess.

Legion Of Doom [LOD] is now openly recruiting on Sanctum of Rall. We currently have approximately 35 active members and have ALL guild missions unlocked.

We are looking for players who have an interest in learning to play at a high skill level or are already at a high skill level. There currently is no requirement for specific character classes, max level characters, etc. Once we get to the size that we want, our recruiting requirements will change.

We are a 7 year old community that played Guild Wars 1 together and has stayed together into Guild Wars 2. About 2 years ago in Guild Wars we were known as Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD?]. We were proud to be a DOASC guild and hold several records in Guild Wars 1 not only for DOA but most elite areas as both Legion of Doom and Club of A Thousand Pandas.

PvE:
We are a high-end “speed clear” guild looking to re-establish ourselves as the elite players of GW2. On top of that, though, we’re a teaching guild. Being the best-of-the-best is a passion for us, but we’re looking to fill out to our size from GW1 and are interested in taking newer players and teaching them how to be the very best.
While we’re a small guild, we’re some of the best players in GW2. All guild missions have been unlocked despite our small size. This makes us the smallest guild worldwide to have unlocked every Guild Mission and we’re among the first 10 guilds overall to do so. We do daily FOTM 20, 30, and 40 runs and there are usually dungeon groups being formed for popular runs like CoE and Arah. We always have people that are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do Dungeons.

WvW:
We have a small presence in WvW which is slowly growing. Those in the guild who WvW would love to see additional LOD members to WvW with.

If you are interested in joining LOD, please fill out the application on our forums () so we can send you an invite.

We utilize Teamspeak so please download if you apply.

Ways to contact us:

forums.lodgw.com

Whisper one of the following in game:
Leadership:
Guild Leader: Naughtie Kittie

Officers:
Bright
Dezerved
Errant Venture
Li Devi
Lyla Frostheart
Xentera

Response Via Email (Landry) 02/06/2013 06:35 PM
Hello, and thank you for your patience.

After further review, we have decided to unblock all of the accounts in question. You are correct that multiboxing is not a violation of our current policy. Automation software that allows for unattended game play is a violation. Your observed behavior in the game may have been confused for the latter.

It’s always possible that our stance on multiboxing by routing commands to multiple instances of the client could change, so I’d keep your eyes on our forums just in case. Also, keep in mind that what you do is rather striking and alarming to most players (and even most GMs) when they see it. It might be in your best interest to tone it down a bit, but that’s not an order. That’s just a practical suggestion to avoid future reports and investigations.

Thank you again for your understanding. The accounts will be reinstated momentarily.

Landry
Guild Wars Support Team
http://support.guildwars2.com/

Third party programs that automate gameplay aren’t allowed.
Third party programs that route commands to multiple clients but still require a person’s input aren’t currently against the rules.

Response Via Email (Landry) 02/06/2013 06:35 PM
Hello, and thank you for your patience.

After further review, we have decided to unblock all of the accounts in question. You are correct that multiboxing is not a violation of our current policy. Automation software that allows for unattended game play is a violation. Your observed behavior in the game may have been confused for the latter.

It’s always possible that our stance on multiboxing by routing commands to multiple instances of the client could change, so I’d keep your eyes on our forums just in case. Also, keep in mind that what you do is rather striking and alarming to most players (and even most GMs) when they see it. It might be in your best interest to tone it down a bit, but that’s not an order. That’s just a practical suggestion to avoid future reports and investigations.

Thank you again for your understanding. The accounts will be reinstated momentarily.

Landry
Guild Wars Support Team
http://support.guildwars2.com/

The person that received this response has had all of his accounts unblocked and the Support Team has clearly stated that multiboxing is not against current policy.

I do wonder what Anet does to investigate before blocking someone’s accounts though.

Response Via Email (Landry) 02/06/2013 06:35 PM
Hello, and thank you for your patience.

After further review, we have decided to unblock all of the accounts in question. You are correct that multiboxing is not a violation of our current policy. Automation software that allows for unattended game play is a violation. Your observed behavior in the game may have been confused for the latter.

It’s always possible that our stance on multiboxing by routing commands to multiple instances of the client could change, so I’d keep your eyes on our forums just in case. Also, keep in mind that what you do is rather striking and alarming to most players (and even most GMs) when they see it. It might be in your best interest to tone it down a bit, but that’s not an order. That’s just a practical suggestion to avoid future reports and investigations.

Thank you again for your understanding. The accounts will be reinstated momentarily.

Landry
Guild Wars Support Team
http://support.guildwars2.com/

This is from a support ticket from someone that was banned for botting and was reinstated. As per this support ticket, multiboxing is not currently a violation of the rules but may change in the future.

heh too bad they couldn’t just leave the chest up . ..

anyways, still need an invite if anyone has space available

IGN: Hel Hecate

If this is still going on, please send an invite.

IGN: Hel Hecate

GrapeGatsby.6937:

I’m crossing my fingers just like you are, however I don’t think the fact that they changed it from botting to accessed by an unauthorized individual changes all that much (well except it doesn’t feel like they are accusing you of botting, but that’s just preference of whether you care or not in the first place since). I do agree that blaming Gaile is not necessarily the best ideal since she does not make the calls and is just doing her job, that being said I feel it is better to criticize A.net when they have done something wrong since they should care about their customers or at the very least their wallets should care. On the other hand, criticizing botters is like yelling at the wind it’s not like they care and nothing will be fixed or prevented by doing so.

I updated my ticket to show the change in the log in message and almost immediately got a GM asking for my serial code and account name. I don’t know if updating the ticket to that got it moved to another category or something.

Lelak.7953:

Lelak.7953
Interestingly enough myself and another guildie connad.4967 were also banned for botting whilst fighting Tequatl. This seems to be a rampant issue. I suppose that’s what I get for being a good guildie and helping the lowbies level with a buddie. Unlike other bots, apparently, being clothed in full exotic and doing nothing repetitive is the new botting. Can we actually get a log check on this? We don’t respond to chat unless we need a PUG (that is what vent is for… better communication). A simple check for herd mentality on “reported players” would alleviate most of this nonsense. Are we all turning in the same direction at the same time whilst fighting the same mob? Or is Quinn mining while I am warming up chili for my son while waiting 2 minutes for Tequatl to spawn?

That wouldn’t even be a good check. What would be a better check would be to monitor if someone is repeating the same loop in a map over and over and over or just standing in one spot hitting the same sequences of attacks even if nothing is near by.

Critical.5286:

My account is finally restored just a few minutes ago, i received the mail and i could log in. Thank you very much and good luck to all the others.

How long did it take from your initial ban and ticket submission to account restoration?

I had 2 accounts banned. Both had the message for botting. After someone mentioned earlier that their message changed to the unauthorized access one, I went to check mine. One still has the botting message up and the other has changed to the unauthorized access. I filed tickets for both of these Friday night after the daily reset.