Guild Wars 2

Well, part of the deal is that I can afford scarlet’s kiss now when it was first released. It was around 30-40 gold. But it just kept climbing after that. So if you don’t have enough money at the beginning you will never have enough.

And to quote esmee about the laurels for crafting bags. I did one of those and got like… an armored scale, a crystalline dust and a vicious claw, I was expecting something more along the lines of some orichalcum ore and gossamer scraps. If I spend all my 50-something laurels on those bags then I’m just going to end up with a bunch of those things.

Also, I been playing since beta weekends and 3-day early headstart. in roughly over a year and a half we already reached the point I was talking about.

See I been using the exact same armor and the exact same weapons for the past 8 months at the very least, since summer 2013. I got a new longbow but thats because I FINALLY turned in my endgame pact token.

treborIRL.4521:

so you play every now and then and expect to have tons of gold on your account? if it bothers you to be that broke in game you can always buy gems and turn it in to gold, or is gold hard to get IRL too?

gold is quite difficult to get in large amounts in real life o_O

Also the point I am making is that I saved ALL my cash for WEEKS, spending on literally just maintenance things like armor repairs. I haven’t bought any new armors or weapons. I saved every gold and silver I could muster. The point is that you would think you could get something nice after saving all that BUT YOU CAN’T!

This game only rewards saving to the extreme degree.

Everything is too expensive, EVERYTHING. To me this game is already reaching an equivalent point in GW1 where platinum wasn’t viable anymore and people had to start using globs and z-keys as currency.

want to get that craft from 400 to 500? Pfft you don’t even have half of what it takes in buying stuff of TP to get what you need (because you’ll never actually have everything you need to start out with)

When scarlet’s kiss/rainbow came out, I had 10 gold and I couldn’t afford it, people said “Oh more people will get them and the price will go down” Well I was farming regardless and got about more gold over the course of the event. Those skins instead have jumped up to several HUNDRED gold in price, even before the event ended. Basically because I couldn’t afford it then, I’ll never afford it now.

I can’t believe how unfriendly this game is to the casual player in concern to endgame content. I never really thought about it until I realized that with 40 gold there really wasn’t anything I could do anyways with it.

Now some of you may have hundreds of gold I’m sure, but for someone that has plays now and then (and plays in bursts especially with decent new content) getting that gold took me a few weeks of play. I am frankly exhausted and yet I can’t really get anything nice with the money I had earned. I spent 30 gold on mats for getting to 500 armorcrafting WITH the crafting booster active and got roughly 40 points.

Sorry I had to rant.

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a few nice things, mostly just bi-weekly grind fest, everything that was really neat got put into the friggin black lion chest.

^^^ I am referring to how GW1 was done, there was no cash shop until like 5-6 years later. At first you bought the game and everything came with it.

Then each expansion costed 40 bucks.

WHY does there need to be a gemstore?

What was wrong with how things worked with GW1? (though it later had a cash shop, way way later). Isn’t the thousands upon thousands of people giving 60 dollars for the main game and 40 bucks per expansion enough?

I have around 30 T stones and obviously there is really no point to them. Why am I, being level 80, being given transmutation STONES from certain chests like map completion? I can’t use those at literally any point. I need transmutation CRYSTALS.

I need to do something with them, so let me mystic forge them into transmutation crystals. Even if the ratio is 4 to 1, I could at least do something with these darn things.

it’s different when it’s living story and not personal story

The difference is that you had the stupid idiotic kissy kissy face relationship in our own faces for the past few months. It was horribly written and frankly I don’t see how the writers should be embarrassed by this.

OH GOD NO DON’T BE DEAD
KISS
LEL IM NOT ACTUALLY DEAD

Every girl I know that plays this game that is at least bi (3-4 of them, actually, progressive girls love to game apparently). I have gotten around to asking them while they were playing what they think and not one of them liked it, they thought it was stupid kissy face drivel.

I’ve said it before, I’ve said it like 8 times

If they continued to support guild wars 1, I would immediately go straight back to that over GW2.

5

some cool moments
mostly meh
some bleh

give me proper expansions over this 2 week cycle grind-for-the-weekend stuff.

then they put tormented weapons in the black lion chest… oh boy that really rustles my jimmies

I been playing for around 4 hours now and been in every instance of every hour. I have gotten a grand total of 3 chests from the 11-12 knights we have killed (we failed once).

I ask around and others are getting all the loot just fine, while many more like me aren’t getting diddly squat.

I even turned on aoe loot on interact, nothing. Others are spouting the same complaint as well.

You don’t even need to create new ones.

Green Moa
Golden Moa
Swamp Drake (the kind that has a really long and flat face/snout)

OK so I did some gameplay for a couple hours yesterday, I made about 3 gold

I wake up, check the TP, the price of cyanide dye jumped 5 gold in a single night

so i’m actually BEHIND

help

I’d really like to not play the RNG game, as I believe gambling with real money in a video game is a terrible marketing decision for any company to get into. Reminds me of that awful Atlantica game.

So how about a deal? I give you so many gems and I can pick the dye I want.

I bought one of your dyes with an exclusive chance to get something nice, what do I get? A common dye I already had, so I spent real money on your game for NOTHING.

So yeah I’m complaining, but I am also saying that I would give you money if you would just had a RNGless option.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Fox Reeveheart.1890:

because it’s anti-fun for the person that just wants to get the JP done for the sake of getting the JP done, like me and tons of other people. It’s anti-fun when you’re the low-populated server (compared to other servers) and you see that there is 1-2 other people MAYBE from your own server in the JP as well, you try to help them but get killed in the process because people literally sit there for HOURS just to BS you.

So basically they should make the kites easy to get?

Because there are many people who find JP, Fractals and other content unfun.

At the end of it, you got to decide whether the hassle is worth it. That goes for any content.

Here’s some help though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKqmNrSfwWE

And another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPCRQRFWoFU

the kites are by no means easy to get

griffonrook was a nightmare

I done obsidian sanctum before, even without many fights it took 3 and a half hours

TheDaiBish.9735:

Fox Reeveheart.1890:

A jumping puzzle is man vs environment (with occasional man vs ai enemy)

throwing a Jumping Puzzle and making it a pvp area is one of the stupidest ideas I ever seen implemented. Infact it’s ANTI-fun.

Given how different people find different things fun, you can’t really say it’s not fun. Just not fun for you.

Also, how is it a stupid idea?

because it’s anti-fun for the person that just wants to get the JP done for the sake of getting the JP done, like me and tons of other people. It’s anti-fun when you’re the low-populated server (compared to other servers) and you see that there is 1-2 other people MAYBE from your own server in the JP as well, you try to help them but get killed in the process because people literally sit there for HOURS just to BS you.

Vayne.8563:

It’s anti fun if you don’t like it. It’s my favorite jumping puzzle in the game. We do this with my guild, usually takes about ten people. If you can’t get ten people together on your server, don’t do it. It’s not required.

But saying only PvE people deserve jumping puzzles, so putting them in PvP is not fun because it’s not fun to you isn’t great. Dungeons aren’t that much fun to me, but I acknowledge there are people that like it.

The dungeon wasn’t designed with mobs…it was designed with traps that one side could use against the other. In other words it was designed to PvP in. And for those who like that, it’s certainly fun.

It’s anti-fun to you because you’re not a PvPer. The answer here is simple. If you don’t enjoy PvPing, don’t do the puzzle, because you really don’t have to. It’s a choice.

I did it several times this week, just to help out guildies, even on days when I already had gotten the chest. Every time I beat it it was a rush, moreso than any other jumping puzzle in the game.

Edit: You need a bunch of mesmers in that group….so you can portal people up as they fall. That’s what we do.

but it’s required for zephyrum sanctum kite achivement, which is a mainly PvE/living story achievement, not PVP

A jumping puzzle is man vs environment (with occasional man vs ai enemy)
throwing a Jumping Puzzle and making it a pvp area is one of the stupidest ideas I ever seen implemented. Infact it’s ANTI-fun.

If you’re on a low populated server, the only possible way you can get this done is to go with a massive zerg of people and make sure everyone gets to each spot at the same time.

I am trying to get all the kites, but obviously i need obsidian sanctum for kites and achievements.

but it’s filled with nothing but people of the opposite team that literally just stand at crucial points, waiting to troll you, they do it for NO OTHER REASON.

So just exactly what am I supposed to do? There is no checkpoints in the puzzle, you can be 5 feet from the very end, ganged up, cc’d, killed, then woops too bad looks like you have to start all the way at the beginning

ok i checked, i bought gems on june 22nd, 10 bucks worth, yet I have no kite, what gives?

nvm, JUST got it

chronomancer plz

but in all seriousness, we are likely to not see a new class, but new race? sure

likely is the tengu

Yes I would like to know how you got the kite.

i heard you had to buy gems during a certain time period, which I did buy gems to get the dragon bash mini pack with real money!

I read this as “Is Orr now obese?”

of course, being an undead from the sea would certainly make you a bloated corpse

im just wondering what the summer pets will be if there is any

RNG boxes are terrible and you should feel bad

hundreds upon hundreds of boxes, probably around 600 coffers… no ticket

and that is considered small compared to the THOUSANDS people have opened and gotten nothing. I personally know someone who opened around 2800 and got zero tickets.

while yet I know someone else who opened 10 coffers and got a ticket, at that point he just sold the rest of the coffers he got.

it’s just luck, but luck on such a tiny tiny chance that it’s silly. They should have just made it tied to achievements or made it so that you are guaranteed one ticket somehow.

Hell Avenger.7021:

Mungrul.9358:

No, you don’t. Check again.

Edit: As proof, check the following table for all sets available from temple vendors.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armageddon_armor

For heavy armour, the helmet has to be acquired through other means.
For medium and light, it’s leggings.

Melandru and Grenth. check their heavy armor options.

P.s. wait you are right, missing the helm

Conspiracy?

I love the order armors, for some races they look just right, I would love to put my asura warrior in some heavy vigil armor, but there is a big problem.

The stats are not maxed out, despite the fact they require you to be level 80.

“Just use transmutation stones” you say. Well for one that costs real money, and secondly you cannot craft their particular set of attributes. I have 400 armorsmithing (i maxed this within the first month of play of game release) and crafting power/toughness/vitality armor is not available.

I wouldn’t mind paying more for an exotic tier of the armor with better stats. Most of the armor pieces are about 1 to 1.5 gold with the chest at 1.88 gold. I’d pay 5x that (but no higher) if I could get the armor with exotic-tier stats.

I remember when I bought some vigil boots, I was going to get the whole set, then I the dungeon armor sets had higher stats all across the board, I stopped after the boots.

You can keep the rare-tier vendor, though I doubt anyone would use it anyways, I hardly see order armor used, and the stats is probably a good indicator why.

Farewell, you have more courage then I do as I will do everything in my power throughout my life to stop death as I am afraid of it so much.

Is immortality a possibility within our lifetimes? It’s not an impossibility, technology is actually advancing faster everytime it advances, it’s not going at a set rate. As time goes on it’s actually our advancement is accelerating exponentially

sorry but… what is flippers? TP flipping? wha? I don’t understand this lingo, plz explain.

What I dislike is that many of the mystic forge weapons don’t count as being legendary, for instance the cragstone and such, despite I like those weapons more than the actual legendaries themselves! But I need a legendary for achivement and badge and all that jazz.

COLIN PLZ

we want our tengu race… then possibly hylek

let me take you back, to like 2005 I think it was when Guild Wars 1 was being released, they were talking about possibly making new playable races in one of their development posts (before it was released) on the main website. Obviously this never happened.

Don’t let that happen to GW2.

CRAB ANIMAL COMPANIONS

THIS MAKES ME SO RELUCTANT TO PLAY MY RANGER

WHERE ARE MY CRAB PETS?

Yargesh.4965:

I think Tengu as well. They where planned but pulled at the last minute for technical reasons, or so I understand anyway. If the technical reasons have been fixed they will be a playable class. If they can’t be fixed then the areas might open up as NPC only and the races we have available now need to go in and help/stop the tengu.

Tengu class? sounds interesting

time to roll an Asura tengu

I wanted to get the aetherblade armor for my asura, but, when I wanted to preview the armor it gives me the male model armor.

I ask around and I am informed that this is how it is for asurans and charr females.

Anet, is this how it is supposed to be or is this just a bug?

I wish Anet would come right in here and comment on this. I was so excited.

Not to mention the little Anet arena with the minis in it next to fort marriner

actually, 2 reminds me of my main character whom is also a female asuran with the CM helm (and probably the only person using the CM helm in the ENTIRETY of Ehmry Bay server)

well first one is obviously dragon bash

other ones I don’t know

Not enough tangible rewards to be considered any sort of “expansion” content. The festivals are nice and actually have stuff to do and unique things to get.

To be honest I prefer big paid expansions like Factions and nightfall with slower, more chock-filled PERMANENT additional content. Like how GW1 did it.

Thats the key word, how much of the monthly update stuff has actually stuck around permanently? Southsun… and now the aetherblade JUMPING PUZZLE will be permanent.

All these living story updates feels like nothing cause you are getting nothing out of it except the fact you are now playing a book cause there is nothing at the end for you to get, only the satisfaction of seeing what happens next. For a few people that’s enough, but for the majority of us it’s not. This is why I basically skipped out on the entirety of flame and frost. And guess what, none of flame and frost is permanent as far as I know. (outside of the one mini and the weapons)

laokoko.7403:

I believe from the developer video. The dev says the moa racing will be permanent content. But the helmed mini moa will only be available during dragon bash. After dragon bash is over you get a different mini instead of the helmed moa.

ahh, sounds good, because some of us don’t have the tons of gold to blow gambling, over time sure, but not now.

at the time of this posting I just won my first moa race. Huzzah!

Only 16 more first place wins ._. I hope they change the cost of that mini if it changes to the mini moa… good lord.

ok so, how will one be able to acquire a mini yellow moa then after dragon bash is over?

Hebee.8460:

The Helmed Moa that can be purchased with winning tickets is only temporary for the Dragon event . It will go away with Dragon Bash & be replaced with another mini-pet.

Source on the helmed mini moa being temporary? That doesn’t sound right AT ALL. Nothing I have read says that if you own the helmed mini moa that it will be gone from your inventory after dragon bash is over.

Hebee.8460:

I bet its the replacement for the Helmed Moa from the moa bet racing.

I don’t understand what you mean by “replacement”

Next to First Mate Horrick mini in the collection tab is a special Mini Yellow Moa slot, do we know anything about this yet?

Since the game has been released, there has been a bug with the goemm’s lab jumping puzzle. Periodically, when you fall and are transported back to the very beginning, instead you land, everything immediately disappears and you are warped high in the sky with nothing to stand on and you are sent falling to the earth and to your death.

With one of the skypirate caches in the jumping puzzle, this makes going after it incredibly stupid.

So we beat the dungeon after 2 and a half hours, this “aetherblade cannon” drops, and we can’t really do anything with it. My assumption was that you use the weapon to take down an airship, but there was no airship and it’s only option was to drop it or “do nothing”.

Anyone else know whats going on here?

I would like to know if that if you already have "shake it off!’ in a slot and then Shrug it off procs, does it use your actual slot of Shake it off or is it considered like a free one?

Widow.5849:

Mmmmm, I dunno.
I have banners that currently heal for 32.5k for their duration and I think that’s pretty darn good. I still have to craft 3 more exotic Cleric pieces yet… and upgrade my crappy Green lvl80 trinkets, too.
Even if it’s just me doing support in a dungeon no one’s dying, so I think the Healing stat is doing it’s job just fine XD.

~Mewmewcachoo (warrior – CD)

I like you, cause I been wanting to make a support warrior build.

This stems from Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition of all things. The first class I played was the warlord, a support like a cleric but was non-magical, thus used things like shouts and such for the flavor. Rather than magically healing his allies he used his words to motivate them and such to continue the fight and propped them back on their feet. So I been wanting to make a tanky support warrior with runes of mercy and water sigils.

I play a warrior as my main.

things are fine and dandy in the world map, but the very instant I go into a dungeon I am nearly forced to switched to ranged, this is especially true for bosses. Many if not the vast majority of bosses have knockbacks and aoe centered around them and so forth along with many of them doing huge damage. Sometimes it’s hard to watch what they are doing due to their size (like the Nokk and Tazza fight) or there is too many particles and I can’t make out what the heck they are doing.

I switch to my rifle and things go much smoother. Being melee sucks in dungeons.

I do feel SOME of the items cost too much
I mean, 390 for a rifle? That took me hours upon hours of grinding the same route of the same dungeon over and over

Why didn’t they just make all armor 180? Or heck I could live with 200 and such.

Cause from what I been seeing, that seems to be the case.

I was hoping to craft a mystic hammer, but when I saw the mystic claymore and saw it was the same as the inquest broadsword, my heart sank.

Any able to confirm they use the same skins as inquest for other weapons? I was also looking into getting a mystic barricade (shield) though i hear thats bugged currently.