Guild Wars 2

I think once we kill all the dragons we will realize they were needed to keep everything in balance by either keeping Nature in balance, or destroying races that grew too powerful but it’l be too late and tyria will be doomed because the dragons will be gone.

Although at this rate, it’s going to be for 2030 :P

You are clearly misunderstanding what an exploit is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_%28video_gaming%29

This is a quote from Chris speaking for Anet

Chris Cleary.8017:

In a player driven economy, the demand of an item surpassing the supply generated by the playerbase will increase the value of it. While there are some items in these bags that are not based around cosmetics (the low drop rate of T6 mats), the price of these bags is directly relative to the cosmetic value that is being placed on them. While currently profitable, that profit is derived directly from other players and their willingness to play a higher price. In essence, this is a transfer of wealth not wealth generation.

As far as this specific spawn of ambients is concerned, it’s defiantly one of the faster ones to farm. As long as the playerbase is willing to pay for that item, and the demand remains higher than the supply, it will be profitable. This is not an exploit, it’s the playerbase saying “thank you for farming this, because we didn’t want to”.

So an exploiting is basically us using a bug in a way it was not intended to our advantage, Maize balm was an item with an intended effect so regardless of what you think about it, or what i think about it, If Anet allows it it’s NOT an Exploit

Before making any assumptions i never agreed with allowing it, nor did i participate in it but it’s not an exploit.

This may have been asked several times before but as the search function doesn’t work, I’m wondering, is this ever going to return, or has Anet stated it won’t in any way?

I missed this whole event, and after reading about it for a while It seemed like a lot of fun that i missed out off

If your not getting the Exotic chest you’ve already done Teq that day, keep in mind resets are at 1AM CEST time

If your not getting smaller chests which you can get over and over then you are slacking at defense

It’s already been mentioned several times by Anet that “Very soon” they are going to fix this and not in months or weeks but an upcoming patch

I have farmed Dry top a couple of Times, But overall i think Dry top is an amazingly detailed part of the world and i Love it’s content and storyline, in fact i don’t think I’ve met anyone who disliked Dry top.

Then Again there are always players that hate farming, which is understandable I farm a lot, I don’t particularly like it, but when I want or need something I will farm for it

I’ve recently rolled an Ele, and my guild whenever running anything love Ele weapons, so i tend to stick them just a little too high in the Wall just out of Reach.

I had quite a couple of Laughs with a tiny asura jumping up and down next to a Labyrinth wall trying to get the Ice bow….

I guess It’s no wonder they want to demote me to “Potato” Rank

People underestimate what scaling events impacts on how hard a fight can get if you have underpreforming players, or dead ones.

Impressive though

It never happened in other MMO’s that died out, so it wouldn’t in this one if it got to that point, every game will have issues, this game does as well, however It’s currently the best option out there and I won’t quit it till i find something better

Full time invisibility OP? Lmao, you can’t cap or protect during it
OP crit specs? I mean i saw a lot of zerkers at Launce which was quickly changed to more tankier specs besides certain Classes

Unless your talking about WvW but in there it is zerg wars

Anyhow if your leaving gimme your stuff at least :P

If you sell 10 stacks of ToT bags you can get a refractor from the TP

The leader from the “King” guild i believe it was, has opened over 470K bags in order to try and get the mini ghost wolf, but has been unable to, he’s lost an overall of 3.5K gold after reselling all contents if I’m not mistaken.

Yet I’ve seen people open 2 stacks and getting both the cat and the wolf.

It’s RNG, either you sell them for hard raw gold or you open them in a lottery setting and see if you get lucky

I never had an issue with this, but i used icy night dye on it, so it’s black anyway, i think it should be removable or at least dyeable

Simzani.4318:

It is an exploit. The red post just officialy stated that arenanet now approve using exploit of game mechanism.

An exploit(er) is defined as the use of an bug or glitch in a way that wasn’t intended by devs to said player advantages
If developers say it’s “ok” it means that said bug or glitch is no longer “unintended” and it would be classified as sort of a feature.

So in that sense this kind of farming cannot be exploiting.

And before you make assumptions I’m locked out so i can’t farm this either, nor do i really agree with this farm as it will throw off the economy for those lucky players, or multiaccount players.

If anything there should be equal to all and i wouldn’t care at that point, as economy would shift again and balance itself out.

I’m not a new player, but I missed Halloween 2012 regardless Anet doesn’t do exclusive items, and whenever they want they could add it as rewards again

“Internet explorer” Let’s blame GW2 since it affects my browsers(if you want to call IE a browser)

For world bosses the reason is simple, Dcing, it’s easier or otherwise nearly impossible to get back into a Map you were doing say, Tequatl on if you weren’t in a party and got booted to another map, in which case you can try joining on party members still in that run.

As far as other events go, you can go with buff sharing and people saying tagging is better.

So enough reasons to get in a party and forget about it?

I know someone who opened nearly 2 stacks and got both ZuZu and the mini wolf, while i heard about someone opening 470K bags and not getting anything, no i didn’t write the number wrong

Having a ton of lag issues since the Halloween patch?
I keep having random disconects during world events and fractals, as well as skill lag and people teleporting.

Am i the only one and should i check my ISP or is it global?

Electro.4173:

Paradox.1380:

I am not positive but the person that I seen had it in LA told me when I asked that they got it from the Exotic Trick or Treat Champion bag from the Legendary Monsters.

You mean people are actually killing the champs? I’ve been in the Labyrinth for the past 2 hours and seen all of maybe 6 other people total, all just running around doing small door events while fleeing in terror every time the Labyrinthine Horror comes around. I’m rather surprised honestly, day 1 and already deserted? Figured people would be down doing achieves at the very least. Especially if there’s exclusive loot from the legendary bags.

I’m only doing it with a guild having the map full only off guild members, 2 out of the 3 legendaries are a pain to deal with in a pug run, the candy legendary elemental love his projectiles that knockback and deal about 75% of your health if your zerker, so if you don’t reflect him he tends to wipe the raid.

The other annoying one has the tendency to AOE fear the zerg for 90% of their max health, besides gaining retaliation and summoning small mobs that also have retaliation if not killed ASAP

So doing it with a pug group as you can imagine is pretty annoying unless you only go for the other doors

What armor set this is?

http://i.imgur.com/ozBzZO7.jpg

The new system is easier to get clear numbers on, BUT the old one shouldn’t have been removed.

This is a great example of catering to casuals. like the gem conversion system wasn’t simple enough

Dunno, do people really want to meet up in the ruins of Lion’s arch forever? I do really miss the old Lion’s arch a lot, and i wish i could walk it’s rooftops once more….kitten you scarlet

Their pet’s wouldn’t agree much with the exploding gunpowder from guns, if anything

I know there are underwater champions and events, But i’m talking a real world boss, on a scale of Tequatl/Shatterer/Jormag’s breath

In all honesty i do think most World bosses need a revamp to make them more like how teq and triple trouble is done, but that aside going from land to water just seems like a great change

If i can get a 2-handed wrench for my Engineer I’ll be happy

I’m actually asking/suggesting and wondering at the same time here….

Are there any plans for a future underwater world boss? and I’m wondering how many players here would actually like to see one.
As far as GW2 goes Underwater feels like a whole new world, though it’s not that popular i don’t see much complaints about it either, so is there anyone else who thinks an underwater world boss would be a good idea?

Because no other game can offer me this type of gameplay

Wanderer.3248:

Exeon.4358:

Does anyone know if there are any plans for the future to change race?

No more so than there are plans for a forum search function that might actually reduce the number of times the same kitten question is asked over and over and over again.

(That’s a hint).

I know this question was asked at Launce even, so you would prefer me to necro threads out of the depths of these forums?

There is something i just cannot understand, why are there so many players that insist on failing certain events to get more “gilded chests” It’s already been shown a lot of times that farming the regular mobs are much more rewarding and much more stable then Champion farming.

Yet i still see so much rage whenever people decide to defend arah(I can get 30+ lootbags from those 10 minutes, not counting how much silk and T6’s drop) and yet people are angry when players do defend said event, because they miss out on 4 gilded chests, ignoring the bags.

I’m wondering why is this? why are players so keen on getting RNG-based gilded chests?

I’d rather be able to buy all my traits with a few consumable items….oh wait

If people are worried about the personal storyline, your previous race’s story would be wiped clean and you would have to start from 0 possibly having to do your new race’s intro but retaining everything else(you would be downscaled of course)

I don’t think you need to complete your whole personal story(as i haven’t done so on every character but my main)

I don’t think the above is hard to implement.

And if people are trying to find the “logic” try finding it behind gender changes….you could as well explain it as a tome that allows you to go back in time via the mists and redo your initial race choice and voila

F2P has ruined many MMO’s so NO please no…

So we can get name changes, gender changes, and any other change besides race change as far as I’m aware.

Does anyone know if there are any plans for the future to change race?
After playing all this time i feel my Engineer should have been an Asura and my guard should have been a Norn to be honest….

Of course i do understand you’d have to do your personal story again with the new race but still the option would be nice…

And here i was thinking you farmed the keys, instead you used a legendary in gold for 350 keys?

Because your “autoattack” is actually a skin that just has no cooldown and is used as an autoattack.

In this game your 1-3 skills have always been Main-hand and your 4 and 5 offhand besides 2-handers and thiefs that have the 3 skill being a mix of the main and offhand

So your 1 skill which is an auto attack should be your main pistol, although i wouldn’t mind the animation switching between pistols shot for AA, i don’t think dual-shooting AA’s would “look” as good

Yes i did mean rewards in NO way do i think we should be able to “buy” map completion

2 Laurels for a map, and 15 for full would be a nice addiction

How many times have you had the message “you have lost connection” popped up which takes you LITERALLY 5-10 seconds to reconnect you to the game, only to find yourself in a different IP away from your organized run?

I have it all the time and the fact that you left means a spot opened, I just cannot understand why there is no system that saves your spot for at least 1 minute after you left so you can get back in in case you do lose connection

Any opinions on this?

Dunno how long it’s going to take the playerbase to realize their grinding like zombies day in day out for gold to get a legendary which so many players already have, and so many players got because of blind stupid luck, or because they bought a precursor when they were affordable.

Seems very “legendary” to be in orr killing Orrians like a zombie for hours and hours, for weeks in weeks out to be able to have a special effect greatsword on your back

Dunno I think I’m too lazy for it, i can make 50G/Day now by running dungeons, but seriously, i don’t see the point

Are no longer crafting, how the heck did that happen?

Since patch the recipe is gone

The only thing i really want to see is, if this wasn’t the case in GW1 being able to view the guilds accomplishments in trophies, From previous MMO’s, when we killed Dungeon bosses, or did other accomplishments, from time to time a “Guild hall Trophy” would drop.

These could be special furniture, interactive decoration things like that.

I recall back when i was playing LOTRO that we got a guild-Beer-Keg that you could drink from, after which you would pass out in 10 seconds, and be randomly teleported to anywhere on the map, and you would have “misplaced” your pants

Things like that were hilarious, even doing competitions to see who could “pass out” the “furthest” away from said guild hall

Seeing the gigantic weapons of slain Dungeon bosses in our yard as a reminder was amazing as well

I got my mesmer in there at LVL40, used a birthday booster and got 40 levels in 10 hours of gameplay of said booster, however I’d only join karma trains in there.

The negative part is you neither learn to play your class fully nor do you get your traits unlocked(thank Anet for that ridiculous part)

I think in general this game is definitely NOT lacking in FX

So basically the changes made to improve gameplay on a casual level are hated by the regulars and casual players alike

Just my opinion here:

As far as i recall, during development Anet stated SOOOO many times PvE, PvP and WvW would be separate, instead of one depending on the other which KILLS so many older MMO’s.

Now exploration, “Ok” i can still be “ok” with WvW map completion for full map completion, some people might be actually getting into WvW that way.
However, if i level a new character in WvW I’m LIMITED because i “could” be leveling elsewhere to complete my traits, i feel like I’m FORCED to where i HAVE to level my characters.

I agree this game needs a goldsink, BUT SERIOUSLY? this isn’t a good way of a goldsink, allright this downright PUNISHES new players, and everyone trying to make a new character, by downright more then TENFOLDING the price on traits(“unless we decide to follow Anet’s patch to where we should level”)

My recommendation is to ROLLBACK to the old system, at least till something better can be put in place, we could get options that work in PvE a well as WvW, or make it skill-use-gated like how skill unlock used to work on weapons, using skills that are improved by X trait X times unlocks the improvement, a sort of extra leveling

There are many good solutions…..this ain’t one and right now, because of this I can’t play and test out my mesmer correctly, and I’m reluctant to level anything else

For EU besides Baruch Bay(poor guys, now their up against #1 and #2 at the same time while being #6?) all matches are fairly even this week

Gaile Gray.6029:

Honestly and truly: These forums are a huge and very effective medium for communication. They are read daily by members of the team — probably more people than you think! — and the forums, as a whole, give us a much better view of what’s important to Guild Wars 2 players than most surveys would do.

Well the thing is it doesn’t feel that way entirely.

Over the past 2 years I’ve seen this game improve GREATLY as far as “convenience” comes, i recall in the early days people wanting a wallet so we wouldn’t have to bank our dungeon tokens, which we received, I recall many players complaining about soulbound legendaries, conveniently that was fixed things like that have been great.

What has not been so great was the latest feature pack restricting players which is now followed up by a “free trial” period to appeal to more casual players, even though the restrictions are far over the top.

However other issues that are indeed harder to fix, have not been addressed yet while those problems were clear from Launce day.
The endless inflation is a big worry on these forums, and though “Anet” clearly stated they would “intervene” if it got out of hands hasn’t done anything yet in 2 years of inflating prices.

And the last big issue is new content, people expected a new expansion in 2 years time, a new continent to explore, Elona for instance, however after 2 years we got a ton of “convenience” and a largely stretched current content by living story and events.
However as far as “long term” goes this isn’t a good things, because at some point the playerbase is going to break.

And no it doesn’t break just like that, but see before GW2 I’m sure most of the current playerbase came from old-day hardcore MMO’s that were already on the verge of dying after the loyal customers were backstabbed a few times by the company developing the game because “casual” players brought in more money.
We came here because this was a great alternative(aside from many GW1 players of course) however i don’t want to see history repeat itself and players leaving GW because something better pops up and people are tired of the lack of development.

TL/DR: Considering the changes that people have asked for for years that haven’t happened people question the forums and ask for a survey to know for sure Anet is hearing us.

And even though i believe some kind of expansion has been under development, the secrecy of Anet giving no announcement of such can bring a lot of complaints towards that…

ShadowPuppet.3746:

You can use bomb, ft, and eg… the bomb fire field is much easier to blast in than ft fire field.

Yea i use elixir gun, bomb kit and G-kit which i swap out for the FT in Soloing/world-events

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Don’t forget flame blast!!! engineer’s new best friend (especially with a staff ele in the party)
Edit: Also, if you happened to look at the links I posted those builds recommend scholar runes and force/night sigils. Those are really only gonna be your best bet if you play with a familiar group all the time. For pugs I would recommend strength runes and sigil and then either force, night, or accuracy for the second sigil.

I did and i already finished my engineer build using berserker WvW armor with scholar runes and i went for crit/night sigils as i get more power from berserker but less crit + it’s way cheaper.
I’m using an ascalonian rifle skin to keep track when it’s night to switch out.

Dunno why but i don’t like Napalm blast because a lot of times the blast finisher doesn’t work for me(hence why i use bomb kit in dungeons and flamethrower in world-events/solo