Guild Wars 2

That’s probably what I will go for – I am unsure about the rules, which is why I made this thread…I am not unsure about wanting to do it But I don’t want to risk my account, so if there is some rule I don’t know about, I’d like to know before doing something stupid…

Even though I know the chances are slim, I am hoping for a dev response to this, as I know I am not the only one wondering.

I don’t feel defensive at all. I just replied from the opposite view point from yours. I know of all the doubts people have, I am just getting tired of it. I understand – but at the same time I am trying to find a workable solution for both sides. Because I do want my gold and if someone can save a ton compared to TP in return, it IS a win-win situation for both of us.

@JustTrogdor

If you don’t want to do it, don’t. Many people agree with you – but many don’t. I use the TP plenty of times a day and so far have never had to think about avoiding the fee – but 15% on an item over 500g is a LOT of gold I am losing…to a virtual company, that doesn’t even really exist. If it was 5%, I would gladly pay. I feel like that would be fine. But hey, I was super lucky with my drop and don’t feel like letting a non existent TP put fees on my luck for no reason.

There’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with not doing it either.

I am SO glad, there is no /inspect.
I hate people copying looks. I hate people copying stats and builds. And I hate elitists who STILL think, they need a certain kind of gear set up and nothing else to succeed in whatever they are LFGing for.

Just because someone has the ‘right’ set up for your taste, does not mean they can play. I have been with countless zerker warriors, who just die all the time and contribute nothing. Rather than looking for people with the right gear, try looking for experienced people only, LFG for people that know what they are doing and if you doubt them, ask them a specific question that would prove their worth to you.

Partying with randoms is ALWAYS a risk. Nothing will ever change that. If you don’t want the risk, make your party search as specific as possible – or party with guildies/people you know only. Problem solved.

@ Jrunyon

I am not spamming. I send my WTS message ONCE and ONCE only. Per day. I also wrote ‘scammer’ not ‘spammer’ Wondering if people reporting me for scamming just because they THINK I might be, could harm me in any way.

I would also not send the item, before I receive the gold. I don’t care if that scares people, because they have to trust me first – I know I am honest and they can either agree to sending me the money first or not. I am in no rush selling and if I can’t find a successful trade after a long time, I can STILL use the TP.

@anzenketh

I had no idea, that there’s a limit on the amount of gold you can mail! See…it’s my first time XD That’s interesting. But I guess they would just have to send it to me in several mails then.

Honestly…by far not everyone in game wants a legendary. I know PLENTY of guildies who find them as ugly as me And the same goes for all the added new weapon skins so far. Not a fan. There is by far more people out there, who DON’T want a legendary. than there is people, who do. I am absolutely certain of that So yeah…they are rare for a reason, but it’s not, that anet wants to get rich. If legendaries and precursors weren’t hard to get, there wouldn’t be any reason to want them anymore.

Hey folks I have a question. And yes, I have searched already, but the forum search is weird and not very functional, so I didn’t find an answer.

I would like to trade a high priced item via in-game mail, to avoid the enormous TP fees. Don’t reply with anything resembling “But the TP is there to be used”, or “The fees are there for a reason” or anything the like, as I have heard that plenty already and it has nothing to do with my question. Thanks in advance.

My question has several parts.

1. Am I allowed to trade items via in-game mail?
2. I advertise in map-chat and people call me out as ‘scammer’ just because I do – if they actually report me for scamming do I get into trouble? (I am not scamming obviously)
3. If I find someone to actually trade with – am I responsible, if it turns out they got the gold they used to pay for my item by buying it from some shady website?
4. I would be send a huge amount of gold, I would send someone an item – will anet investigate me for gold trading simply due to the large sum that was mailed to me?

I’d really like clarification on this. It doesn’t happen very often that I come into the possession of an item that’s worth THAT much, that I have to think about avoiding fees In fact it’s my first time. But I’d like to know. Also for all the other people out there. I would of course record the entire transaction via a bunch of screenshots, just to be sure

Let’s get back to agreeing that taking the farm spots out of the game is not, what we like to see and keep this thread on topic…I am hoping for a lot of people to agree so that maybe something good happens for once

I was just going to start my own thread, when I found this one. I fully agree with the OP.

The event at lyssa could be finished at any given time by one or two people. No matter how many farmers where there. The fact that farmers told people doing the event to ‘kitten off’ and cursed at them in all kinds of ways was wrong and disgusting – but there is the ‘report for verbal abuse’ option, isn’t there? There is no legitimate reason to take away every single farming spot in game.

What about those ridiculously high priced T6 mats? How about ridiculously high priced rare drops like precursors? How are people supposed to afford purchasing all this stuff from the TP, when they are not allowed to farm for gold?! Or mats, which is what most people farmed lyssa for btw. Seriously? And it was not the only thing in Malchor’s that has been changed/nerfed by the way. It seems like they overall got rid of all farmable events. Why?! Because some people complained about people farming?

Do it, or don’t do it. It should be everybodys choice. It’s impossible to achieve a lot of goals in GW2 if you are prohibited from farming gold and/or T6 mats. I am SO disappointed with this choice. If you are taking away all farming options, at least find a way to balance prices on the TP in return. You can’t do one without the other and call that ‘balancing the game’.

Well…I hate crab toss, but since I am a completionist and wanted the achievements and title I forced myself through it today and got it all done. Needless to say I won’t be setting another foot into that crab toss ring ever again

No screenshot means it didn’t happen XP Nice job

I have never received a single tip before yesterday – I portaled people through the Southsun JP for over an hour and everyone was really thankful and happy, which made me super happy in return XD I didn’t even expect any tips, but then one person tipped me 1g and I was like WOOT O_O It was my first tip and it was a lot, so it was double awesome But I never expect tips. If I do so, I will say so when announcing my portals. I think it’s perfectly fine for mesmers to announce “Portaling for Tips” in mapchat – you ARE spending your time there after all. But if tips are not specifically asked for, I wouldn’t expect any. Some people will tip regardless and that’s great! Some people just send you a thank you in chat and that’s fine as well

Just want to say, I will be glad to portal people to the end of this JP whenever I am on and available. I have spend a long time and many tries in this JP myself, before I finally managed to finish it and completely understand the frustration of people having difficulties.

I spent over an hour yesterday portaling people through and will do so again today – I like helping Especially after having been frustrated so many times myself XD I’m on Tarnished Coast, my main is Ciunas, so if you do need help, look out for me

To everyone saying “Just frecking do it!”…not everyone can. Just accept that. And stop judging someone based on the fact that YOU manage to do the JP. Thanks.

Why is this funny to you? You are taking ONE mesmer GS skill and complain about it…the rest of mesmer GS skills are useless dmg wise, which can not be said about warrior GS skills. Seriously…warriors complaining about not enough dmg output, really? O_o

Okay, this is obvious. It’s fair. 100b does a lot more dmg. Mesmers get evade. Both skills are easy to miss with btw. not just 100b, since you can’t move or it gets interrupted.

If we take a full zerker warrior vs. a full zerker mesmer, so pure dps – the only way these skills compaired to each other can be fair is the way they are. You can’t get the superior dmg AND an auto evade while doing it…

This is still bugged on Tarnished Coast as well…I take it with all the Flame and Frost stuff going on they don’t spend any time fixing bugs? -sigh- I’d really like to finally finish Diessa Plateau…

1. I start the quest and spawn correctly, but nothing happens. Can’t talk to anyone, no cutscene starts, nothing.
2. I relog and it happens again.
3. I relog again, I start the quest and spawn inside a box no larger than my character and can’t move at all.
4. I relog once more, spawn correctly but same thing as in 1. happens again…

This story quest is bugged. I can’t even start it.

If they remove jetpack and Mini from chests so that those remain unique to the story arc event I’m all for this idea. I do love the dungeon and would definitely repaet it from time to time later on, when the actual storyline is completed and over with. I’d HATE to see the super rare and unique rewards become permanent and therefor lose all their value.

Honestly…LFG people that want to it it your way. When you do 30+ runs like me, to get a jetpack drop, you do not want to spend 1-2hrs inside that place every run. If you only do it 1-5 times just for fun, then you might want to play out every single bit of it. I don’t understand people complaining about people who want to farm for a certain item. If you don’t want to do it that way just go with a group that’s not farming!

I’d like to add my two cents here as well. Totally agree. This fight is a challenge even with a good team. Challenge meaning, that you can’t just stand in one safe spot and shoot – you always have to pay attention, be on top of jumping waves and dodging red circles, I really love it! Also love how active both bosses are in moving around, teleporting, jumping etc. Keeps the fight interesting no matter how many times you do it! I am on my 12th run now and still not sick of it And whenever I do it with someone I have not done it with before I can not be sure we will succeed at the end! Lovely <3

And even though I will miss it once it’s gone on the 12th, I am thankful, that it is temporary! Makes it feel more special and unique, will keep me doing it for that duration and then later no pressure to keep farming it. That’s how it should be!

I also experienced this every single time we wiped at the last boss. I actually thought it’s meant to be that way, because it ALWAYS happened! Good to know, that it’s a bug

Vulpis.8063:

I think the Frost is likely the cold-shoulder reaction a major chunk of the player base is going to give to any future content if their only options are going to be ‘Run a forced-group dungeon or have your entire effort be worthless’. Just before I logged in last night, I was considering buying some more Gems and getting stuff in the store. Not a chance in Hades I’m going to bother doing that now, though.

If you don’t like grouping up, do the dungeon solo? Will take you longer, but it’s absolutely doable. So…go for it?

This is solo able on a ranger as well…even though it took me so long, that I eventually just quit ROFL I am pretty sure anyone with decent dodge/jump abilities would be able to painstakingly slowly work their way through this

You were probably unlucky with your team setup or were with people, who had never done it before. Once you know the mechanics, it is actually really easy. The boss fight is still challenging, but once you are on top of jumping waves and dodging red circles it really is not that difficult. Maybe try looking for an experienced group!

I just want to add to this the ranger point of view…

As a ranger you get 0 down skills, that prevent you from getting finished off. I am REALLY ticked off by this. It takes forever for the pet res skill to become active, by that time I am 99% of the time already finished off >.> Compared to all other classes, that is just a complete disadvantage.

Game Over.

It absolutely doesn’t fit into the game. It feels odd and wrong playing it. I wouldn’t mind for it to come back occasionally (aka a ‘running-gag’ type april fools joke), but really wouldn’t want it to stay permanently. I’d love for the skins to keep some of their exclusive status and I’d find it extremely sad if the community got even more divided by a feature that feels so out of place. Fractals did enough with dividing people! Please don’t keep this in game.

PS.: Please DO add the missing weapon skins though!

I want to bump this. As a condition dmg ranger I feel completely screwed with ascended gear. I’d like

Power, Vitality, Condition Damage
Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage

to be available with ascended items. Currently I can not buy any rings/back pieces to use, because they would harm my build completely. I can not progress further in fractals due to this also, as I NEED infused items with AR to even progress over FotM 20…PLEASE add stat combos to ascended gear!!!

Can I please get (Condition dmg being the primary stat):

Power, Vitality, Condition Dmg
Toughness, Vitality, Condition Dmg

Thank you. At this point, I have fractal relics to buy whatever I want, but neither the rings, NOR the back item have valuable stats for my build and I am honestly more than angry about this. I worked hard to get those relics, now I can’t buy any of the gear?! I am forced to stop my progression through fractals, because I can not buy and infuse ascended items to get AR to survive past lvl 20…it’s just plain wrong.

And now the new amulets also don’t have the right stats! Please, just give ascended gear the same stat combinations as exotic gear guys!

My 2 copper about AoE in PvE:

Yes, some AoE skills can toned down. It is the how, that concerns me. And the which skills. They stated in the livestream, that they will be looking at any and all AoE skills, and that just scares me.

The most simple solution, that would make sense to me is this:

You use a single target skill and do 10 dmg on a mob.
You use a AoE skill and do 10 dmg to the mob closest to the middle of the AoE circle and less dmg to the mobs further away. The further a mob is from the middle of the circle, the less dmg it takes. Doesn’t this just make sense?!

MANY builds are build around AoE, so generally nerfing AoE dmg or Lord behold, making mobs immune to AoE dmg, would make AoE skills COMPLETE useless. It’s as simple as that. In PvE, there are barely ANY encounters, where it is you vs 1 mob. It’s almost ALWAYS you vs 2-5 mobs. So for PvE, I really do NOT understand why is is being looked at at all personally, but understand the thinking behind it. And making logical changes to AoE like mentioned above wouldn’t only make sense, but also keep AoE builds viable.

Taym.8326:

Not really the same complaint as you but…

I always thought it was wierd that since the sylvari have these glowing patches of skin everywhere that their racial armor would take this into effect and find ways to show it off. As I wear medium armor on my character I always thought it was strange that no armor set even attempts to show this (other than leather which looks less than satisfactory). It also bothers me that similarity between nightmare gear and sylvari cultural armor, It is pretty much sylvari racial armor for every race which is a disapointment. I am secretly hoping the entire set gets reworked though

I guess it just makes all that character customization on glow etc in vain because the only glowing patch I ever get to see is the hairstyle option glow and that is really sad because the character models look great, I just want armor to compliment it instead of cover it.

I totally agree with this also! For light armor there are quite a few, that DO show off skin and therefor glow…but for medium armor, I am in the same position as you. SO SAD!!! Where is my pretty glow!? I have decided on a funky mushroom hat for this toons remake and am loving its uniqueness and light bulb-like glow though :P But yeah. Especially cultural armor really SHOULD show our glow MUCH more!

As for the TA armor set, I really don’t mind. Simply because I feel like it looks ugly on anything else than Sylvari. Kind of out of place. And therefor, whenever I see a non-Sylvari wearing TA armor, I don’t get jealous or upset, I feel a bit sorry for them, that they didn’t find a better look for themselves XP

Urthona.3198:

For what it’s worth, I actually think your character looks way better in game than in the preview. It matches her “skin” tone better.Then again, I seem to be weird in that I dislike abyss in anything but accents.

Haha XD I usually totally agree with you! I am absolutely not one of those, that uses abyss on all their toons, just because it’s a ‘status’ dye etc. In fact this is my first abyss dyed character! BUT, for this character I am trying to achieve a very contrasty look and the very deep black with very bright contrast color is just what feels perfect for her for me <3

Anyway…I did notice, that the reflexes and lighting change a LOT in different places in the game. And the best is of course nighttime, when the armor starts to glow! I spend most of my time in dungeons and most of those are pretty dark/nighttime effects, so I think after getting used to it I will still be okay

So…I just had to share my thoughts.

I JUST bought my newly gender switched female Sylvari the cultural Tier 3 medium armor. You all know, how you preview in the PvP locker, preview at the armor vendor and then finally decide to buy, right? Well I loved the look and decided that abyss dye would look perfect, after previewing that also. I decided to go with it in combination with a really bright, shiny looking contrast color.
I LOVED the look in the preview and now spent a bit over 70 gold…only to realize, that once I turned off my preview and awaited to see my awesome self in-game, I was sorely disappointed. The actual dye looks nothing like in does in the preview. Due to the leaves of the armor reflecting the light in a very weird way, my abyss black dye now looks brown-ish. And gone is the awesome contrast of the deep saturated black with the teal (and all other colors I tried as well)

I am VERY disappointed at this point. After so many tries of finding the right armor, buying gemstore armor and finally even a gender switch, I thought I had finally managed to make my character look good…WHY does the most expensive armor set available behave like this in-game? Seriously? When I pay that much gold, I honestly expect it to look like it promises to look

I take that back. You’re better off somewhere else

I am going to bump this – as I just went in there and tried doing this achievement. It is bugged on Tarnished Coast. I am currently standing here, only one pattern appears on the stone face (left pattern) after doing that pattern, the first left torch lit, then nothing else. Right pattern doesn’t appear, left pattern doesn’t change, I am unable to complete >.>

My 2 cents.

Dungeons:

Exotic armor/weapons – none
Rare armor/weapons – barely (MAYBE 1 in 30-40 runs).
Rare crafting mats (like molten lodestone/core in CoF) – about 1-2 every 1-5 runs
Blues and greens – equal, about 5 per run
White armor/weapon – about 5 per run

Loot from Champions, bosses and event chests:

Blues and greens only. Never gotten any rare or exotic. Bosses and champions often empty.

Ecto Salvage rate:

You can tell me, what you will, but it is down. I used to get at least 1, mostly 2 and often 3 out of 1 rare. Now I get often 0, mostly 1, sometimes 2 and barely ever 3. I salvage ectos daily, I used to buy rares of the TP and salvage for ectos for profit – I don’t do that anymore, since the salvage rate IS lower and it is not profitable anymore.

Magic Find:

Magic find definitely does NOT increase droprate. I have tested this plenty in my long farming hours. It often happens, that JUST after taking of all my MF gear, I get a rare drop >.> Since droprates on rares/exotics, rare mats etc. are so super low though, this is really a bummer – without MF I still barely EVER get rares as drops.

I have played about 630 hrs now (2 month break since launch) and have mentally given up on getting rares/exotics from actually playing the game aka drops being viable. Which makes me sad

My final thought:

At least bosses, champions and event chests/chests in dungeons should give viable loot, that makes you go “Yai!” for having participated and successfully beaten the content! It takes time, team effort and skill – so where’s the reward??

I am okay with the other droprates – of course everyone wishes for them to be higher But the ones above are the ones that actually anger me. I have gone over to ditching an event before it ends, because I know I won’t get anything anyway. It makes me sad, that I don’t care about the dungeon chests anymore, because I know I’ll only get blues and greens anyway. Might as well skip bosses, that you don’t have to kill, right?
I don’t feel like that’s right. Thanks for reading <3

Happy New Year to all of you <3

Hey guys

Me (currently 2 lvl 80s, 2 more coming up – Guardian, Ranger) and my hubby (currently 2 lvl 80s – Guardian, Warrior) are looking for a VERY ACTIVE and FUN PvE guild on Tarnished Coast. We are 27 years old, experienced, helpful, loyal, active, fun and uncomplicated.

We are looking for a guild with a lot of members active at any given time, active and fun guild chat, people to run dungeons with and work on zone completion, farming together, group up for jumping puzzles and whatever else comes to mind when thinking of PvE

We’d like an uncomplicated community, where we do not have to join forums and fill out page-long applications before joining…been there, done that. Looking for a guild that focuses on IN GAME community rather than posting on their forums etc. (having guild forums isn’t a bad thing, we just don’t want to be required to hang out there non-stop…we want to PLAY THE GAME!!! XD)

We do not mind an in-game interview to get to know us though Or just ask here <3

There are so many guilds out there…I am sure there is the right one for us! We are looking forward to finding a new home!

PS: I am an RPer as well, so if your guild has an active RP community as well, that would be a dream come true <3

Honestly…remembering AION, where parties for end-game dungeons would only let you join, if you already had the full set from that very end-game dungeon, I am VERY glad they don’t allow to show fractal levels or gear. How are you ever supposed to get geared or level your fractals, if nobody takes you into their group, unless you’re already at the top?!

Seriously…if you are so concerned about your group members, group with guild people only and be elitist there. If you PuG, expect some newer players to be in your party, take a breath to explain difficult fights and strategies – that really only takes a sentence or two in party chat. Once everyone knows, what to do an when, even new players can be a nice addition to any team. If you don’t want the risk, don’t PuG. Simple.

I just want to let u know that you do not get your toy frame back anymore. I just tried making an endless tonic and did NOT get my frmae back, even though the forge only gave me a small Wintersday gift…

Want to /sign this as well. Previewing is such an essential part of designing your toons looks – AND get inspired for new characters and play around before creation.

Also PLEASE add preview to the trading post. PLEASE!!! I know we can preview armor via the PvP lockers but – I do not want to have to buy dyes for 20g just to preview them and see, that they don’t look nice.

Want to add my 2 cents to this…I’ve been a member of Pax since the launch of SWTOR and am now full time active in GW2. We have a great group of regular people playing, we have plenty of guild events and just recently started our Charr warband RP group, which is a lot of fun! We are having fun times running dungeons with guildies, working on zone completions, have regulars for WvW and SPvP and currently enjoy the Wintersday events together!

Join in!