Guild Wars 2

Don’t fix what isn’t broken. If a guild wants exclusive members they can just require 100% representation. I’ve been in plenty of guilds like that.

If you want the legendary you can have it if you are patient and don’t waste your money. Just do it. Don’t think about how unfair it is or how some other player got 8 precursors out of the forge or how some guy who just started the game got dusk from a random bandit in queensdale.

I got my legendary without hardcore farming. What did I do?

1. Dungeons runs. Most lucrative way to play the game without having to rely on lucky drops. Find a good group and learn how to do fast clears if not hardcore speed clears. Use the tokens to buy high level rares and salvage for ectos or buy exotics and salvage for inscriptions.

2. Playing the TP a little and flipping some skins, but no where as much as some people.; I am not a TP baron. Probably smartest thing I did was get some rare recipies to craft some profitable items, but that was not the bulk of my money.

3. Save my money and only put maybe 100g in the mystic forge. I ultimately bought my precursor.

Price of orichalcum and ancient wood are very likely to go up because I suspect a bunch of people farm those nodes. One change might be that people will run through Orr more often and farm there. No more easy Frostgorge farm on alts, though

Other prices may not go up as much as some people think. One factor might be how much stuff you can get from spvp after the patch. Maybe that will become the new way to farm?

There is a lot of homophobia (and also misogyny and racism) floating around the online gaming community probably because of the demographic: young males. Unfortunately, certain terms and phrases have effectively become slang and are used so widely that it would be hard to ban everyone who uses them. Some comments are so obviously offensive, though, that you should probably report those people. If it’s someone you know, you could also first try politely asking them to stop.

I feel this system is going to be better than the old system but may need some tweaks. I think a lot of people don’t like the idea that you don’t know which map you are actually on. One solution would be to create a numbered “district” that identifies every map that is created. You can see which district your friends and guild members are in and then choose to jump to that district or queue up for it.

Of course, the sorting algorithms may work so well that guild or parties are never split up and everyone is happy. Who knows until we see how the system works in the real world.

I think these changes will be mostly positive. Yes, some things will change and people will have to adapt, but I think you should see no real changes in highly populated areas like LA/Gendaran fields. Reason? The sorting that determines what map you land on includes home server as (I suspect) a major factor. The biggest differences will be 1) low population maps will now have more people (but from different servers) and 2) boss events will be easier to schedule and complete, but also harder to mass farm.

I believe that the golem banker doesn’t start counting down until you use it the first time. Leaving it in mail would work.

chronometria.3708:

Fasalina.6571:

I’m not and RPer but I hope ANet notices this thread and maybe think of a way to fix it. I personally don’t see how it can be fixed.
The thing is this change helps a lot the general community and I just can’t say no to it.
But anyway, what would change for you guys if more people are in town?
I mean wouldn’t that actually be better for RPing? As in you actually have a populated town with real people that most likely will mind their own business? I mean if you get harassed you can just report em. But since I’m not an RPer I don’t really understand what would be the problem

Overall its a good idea, the one change that is needed is that it should not affect cities. There is no combat and no group activity in a city, they are purely social areas. This system will try to keep cities busy, which means that any off peak time will see the populations all sent every which way. It will treat the social side like a tequatl raid, thinking that any player is a good player and not understanding that roleplayers need to keep together even when the population in their city is not so busy at that hour.

If I walk into divinity’s reach, our hub, at the wrong time, I will be sent to some random place, with random people and there is no “real city” to request a taxi to. Some of our community will be in one place, others in another. It will be a total mess and I doubt even that the shards will have handy numbers or a main shard, as happens now, so we can all taxi to the right place.

It’s going to be complete random mayhem, but that can all be changed by not having this affect city zones.

So you would rather play a single player game than be with other non-RPers? The solution is to load up Skyrim or other RPG when you can’t find other RPers in GW2.

So… you’re in an RP guild, have RPers on your friends list, party with RPers, and are on the unoffical RP server? Seems that if Anet’s algorithm is working you will end up with people who also RP. I wouldn’t worry about this until you know for a fact how it will work.

Also, I doubt Anet is going to reverse their plans because it will help all other aspects of the game. Do you have an alternate solution for ensuring maps are full and people can play with their friends and don’t get stuck on overflow alone?

I’m on JQ and also know of people who just waited for server status to drop to Very High and were able to get on. Would be nice if there was an official source about how this works.

If there was some easy, risk-free way to make 10g in 10 minutes everyone would be doing it and there would be massive inflation in the market. If you don’t have enough time to play the game for more than 10 minutes a night, then I suggest buying gems with cash and converting to gold. If you do have the time to play, then just do the things you enjoy most and save your gold for those big purchases that mean something.

They’ve actually made dungeon story account bound for pvp reward tracks, so I am thinking they’ve also made it account-bound for pve and just haven’t told us yet.

Wanze.8410:

Yesterday they mentioned in Ready Up that Magic Find will affect chests now as well, so that could offset the loss of direct coin per champ kill.

I thought they were just talking about the pvp chests. Would be cool if it effected regular chests as well.

What I hope for:

1. Overhaul of how commander tags work. For instance, adding the ability to set tag to “guild” mode or group mode where only people in your guild or joined on you can see the pin. This would allow guild leaders to pin up in wvw without drawing the map to them.

2. More fixes to guilds. I really was hoping for upgrades and influence to be put into a common pool for all servers, but supposedly this is too hard for anet to do. Perhapes we will still get it!

3. Fix the overflow thing and allow people in parties and guilds to stick together. Maybe even allow large guilds to create their own private overflow

4. Fixes to Trading Post. For instance, can I please have the ability to filter armor by type? Pretty please?

High end dye prices are already dropping probably because people are opening unidentified dyes. Not sure if prices will take 6 months to recover though. Eventually all dye prices will return to normal or slightly more expensive than normal prices.

They will probably announce changes to guilds sometime in April.

The spike in unidentified dye market was also driven by a massive feedback loop. You see, most people buy unidentified dyes so they can open them and sell back the colors they get for a profit (hopefully). I suspect it’s even easier to do so right now because the colors you are most likely to get (common) are now expensive because people think they are going to game the system duplicating “cheap” common colors so they can get those unidentified dyes and sell them at like 5g a piece. They will not. They will only be left holding the bag.

What happens after the patch is that people stop buying common dyes because they can’t game the system any more. Prices drop on those. At the same time, a bunch of people will be turning around to sell those unidentified dyes at 1g a piece but no sane person is going to buy them because they will not be profitable to open at that price.

Anet is decreasing the supply of dyes because the demand will be lower. It will all even out. If you are buying unidentified dyes because you think you are going to make a killing after the patch, you are in for big disapointment.

And if you are buying common dyes in hopes of gaming the system… well, you are going to lose a whole lot of money.

It will be about removing restrictions on ascended gear. 500 Jewelcrafting also.

Belenwyn.8674:

World-wide influence and unlocks for guilds maybe?

Think that will be part of “Facilitating Friendly Play”.

How about removing restrictions how we get ascended gear? This might be both the introduction of 500 Jewel crafting and making all existing ascended gear types available from all existing sources, including 1) laural merchants, 2) guild commendation merchants, 3) fractals, and 4) wvw. Maybe they might even make it so that you can buy and sell ascended gear on the TP. Now that would be cool.

Why not release the patch on March 25th? Basically March 25th in the U.S. is March 26th in China, or after CBT3 has ended. And it’s a Tuesday. And it’s before WvW Season 2 starts. And it’s before the game is released in China. Seems logical to me. Also there is April 1st, another Tuesday.

Arantheal.7396:

Latinkuro.9420:

the answer is simple really.
warrior, guardian, ele, mesmer anything one of the other useless classes can do one of these main classes can do it better.

until a.net decides to make the others either part of the meta or changes the meta nothing will change .

So you need 3 guys to do the job of one engineer?
Healing, condi-cleaning, dps and control. Not even is the engineer the most versatile class in the game, he can easily specify himself for even outperforming any part you perceive as the actual “meta”. And that can be done by many classes, including those you failed to understand

The group I run dungeons and lvl 49 fractals with:
Me, our enginner – group-heal / nades dps (and therefore dps-groupsupport) / control
1 ranger – pet-tank and dps / control
1 ele – dps / additional heal if needed
1 mesmer – dps / control
1 necromancer – condition-mancer

Sometimes one of our group got no time, so we must use the lfg-tool for dungeons (never would I run a fractal with someone who’s not in my ts-channel), and everytime we get a warri or guardian I really feel sorry for them. Yes, it sometimes proved as false prejudice since we found someone who actually can play his class, but often enough we got a complete kitten with us who kisses the ground at nearly every boss (or even sometimes on the way to them). And no, I don’t feel superior to people who just started the game and lack the training, but those who fail constantly while running around with 11k achievement-points and a fency legendary on their back which served no purpose but to polish the ground.

A clear sign for a rally-bot: a warri who joins our group from the lfg-tool and tries to kick our ranger. happened yesterday…

The guards and warriors you get probably die because they are designed for killing mobs before their lack of defense becomes a problem. This works in an organized group running meta builds, but not so much in a group like yours. This is why I would never pug with a full zerker anything. And yes, I am sure there are super elite players who can solo on a full zerker, but most people just aren’t that good.

Anet only needs to make one small change to legendaries: make them account bound. This solves two problems

1. You cannot sell an account bound item, so some rich guy can’t buy a bunch of legendaries without putting in any work
2. If you want to use the legendary with a different character, you can

Should the Mord battle be done as a dungeon instance or as a huge zerg battle? If it is done as a zerg battle then how will the new player be able to complete the content if the zerg has moved on to other stuff?

1. LA remains in ruins for a while and takes some time to be rebuilt if ever
2. New areas in Magumma Jungle that are level 80 (I don’t want to grind out new levels and get all new gear for those levels)
3. Horizontal progression with new skills, traits, weapons, and even a new profession
4. Tengu as new race with a new racial city
5. New Legendary weapons and ultimately Legendary Armor
6. New Dungeons
7. New additions to WvW, sPvP, and ultimately GvG

Dwarves are a real option with Primordius. We all know there are people who would love to play one.

I would like a permanent stow option for pets so they don’t keep popping out while doing jump puzzles every time I take falling damage. Having the pet out is also a problem when trying to run past trash mobs in dungeons or other instances where you don’t want to draw aggro. Also, while I’m on the topic, I would love to see some option to go completely petless without suffering a big hit to dps and functionality; maybe a passive buff of some sort? I know this last part is wishful thinking, but it would be nice.

What people are saying in this thread is mostly right. However, according to the law of very large numbers, you should start to see the theoretical average the more trials you conduct. Unfortunately, this means you have to conduct a very large number of trials (i.e. buy like a million chests) to start seeing those average results consistently.

Hello everyone,

Are you interested in helping Jade Quarry be the best it can be in World v World but don’t want to run with the zerg? We’re a small but growing guild interested in making a difference through focused, organized group play.

Who we are looking for

If you can play from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, are conversant in spoken English, willing to use Team Speak, and are interested in World v World then we want you in our guild. Also, while we don’t have any restrictions on age, we do want players who are mature, respectful towards others, and willing to work as a team. We also expect that once you are in our guild you will remain a loyal member and actively represent.

In addition to pvp, we also enjoy running dungeons, doing jumping puzzles, farming for gold, and helping each other level characters. This means we are not 100% WvW all the time, though it remains our focus. So if you are more of a pve player but want to get into WvW, we may also be a good fit.

Who we are

We are gamers first and foremost. This means we are competitive but we also want to have fun. Because of this, we prefer a casual, friendly play style to the intense “pro” gamer approach. If you can’t laugh at yourself or are easily frustrated, then we may not be the guild for you. We are a small guild and plan to remain small. We feel it’s better to have a few people who get along and work well together instead of having a large guild where everyone is a stranger. Our goal is to recruit enough players so we can consistently man 1 or 2 groups of 20 or so players in WvW. This provides us with enough people to make a difference and also gives us enough to run several dungeon groups when we want to take a break from WvW.

Interested in joining?

If you’re interested, please whisper or mail Kirito.8560, Fenar.4025, or Bee.5319 in game. We would like to have a conversation with you first before you join. This is to ensure we are a good fit for each other.

Thanks for your time

Fenar

To the developer of this puzzle:

It took me 8-10 hours to get this one done and I loved every second of it. I actually think it was the best part of the Halloween event. I am not an elite gamer or master jumper, I just was focused on mastering each part of the puzzle without worrying about what other people thought about me. I think some people really need to look at themselves in the mirror and stop blaming everything on other people or things beyond their control. You see videos of people easily doing this puzzle, so obviously it is not too hard for them. I bet there are even some people that think it was too easy!

Keep up the good work.

The only change I would make is that Arenanet really needs to make it clear to people how much money they will actually get after the sale. I suspect many TP noobs have no idea they are losing 15% of the sales price to listing fee + sales tax. This is why people do stupid things like sell stuff at less than what they would get vendoring it.

Otherwise, day traders provide liquidity to the market. I will often sell high ticket items to custom buyers because it removes the risk my item will be undercut by other sellers and that I will be forced to eat the listing fee.