Guild Wars 2

“OP does have a point, this would be lvl 80 exclusive armor/weps.”

They could have made Ascended “Legendaries” right away then. Legendaries are 80 only and hard to get, and no stat increase. Thusly they’d have fit in perfectly with everything as Legendaries are 80 only already.

“This. Let us make something clear , Anet never said they would not add something strong than exo. What said is that we would always be able to get max stats gear in many ways.”

They kind did multiple times with the whole “casual friendly no grind no increase in stats ever” statements they’ve been blasting for years.

But then I guess those people got fired to make way for the more gear grindy wannabe’s in the company. Or they got converted. . .

Great, now I think ANet is invasion of the pod people 6.6

I hope they do not increase the % damage on crit modifiers. It would make no sense, they are % after all.

Yes I know they increase magic find, that’s A stupid and B magic find is a stupid stat.

“We got a new level 80 zone that isn’t Risen. Why can’t everyone be happy about that?”

It’s funny that people are saying this. Orr and farming the Risen didn’t kill the game for everyone – look at how many pages there are over how upset people are over this.

“Wouldn’t the lvl 80’s like to have something to do? How long can you coast on your lvl 80 exotics really, it has to get boring sometime.”

By doing jump puzzles? By helping friends? By leveling alts? By doing titles? By maxing dyes? By playing the game? By enjoy myself? By getting all the armours? By collecting all weapons? By doing pvp? By joining WvW? By increasing my guild? By maxing out my bank? By getting more sets of exotics? By doing events? By getting all legendaries? By going through new content as it’s added? By gearing my alts? By trying out new suits of armour to make new designs? By seeing what I can do? By playing the game like I am currently doing and enjoy myself.

In other words. What lead EVERYONE through all the years of GW1 without EVER getting a new piece of gear.

“I prefer this game over the others, but staying the same power/progression forever in an MMO is just not very attracting. They dropped the ball, so far, on pvp and wvw. PvE isn’t doing so hot either. But we want this game to be just like GW.”

You’re only progressing in your head mate.

The monster gets +20 toughness, so you need to find a weapon that has +20 power to make up the difference. This isn’t adding new content, it’s devaluing the time you already spent and forcing you to spend more. It’s stupid.

So, in other words, Karma?

“What happens if they introduce a new massive expansion and push the level cap? I cannot even begin to imagine the QQ rage.”

I could imagine you’d see a lot of WoWonites and the freebie asian MMO players jump onto GW2, and their current playerbase leaving.

1) Stop insulting the man.

2) Dude, it takes 15 seconds >.< I understand what you mean to budget it in, but that’s really a fringe request.

“I really hate to break this too you, but the game will not last long if all the upgrading a players character can achieve is minor fluff via skins.

If this all Anet plan to have for character advancement, they truely are stuck 10 years in the past on thier GW1 platform, which today, is not what this genre of gamers want."

I normally try not to insult people. But Taem, you are balls on moronic if you really believe this.

Do you see FPS’ (other then a few cash store centric ones) adding more powerful guns every week? No – yet HOLY @#$% PEOPLE ARE STILL PLAYING COD4? That can’t be, that game’s old and has no new guns! Surely this is a lie.

Why do so many people play the free trial to WHO? There more then just it in the world that’s free, yet people enjoy it for gameplay. Why do people not pay a monthly fee for “gear progression” to get max renown rank? Because it’s only gear progression and you can get the same gameplay right at the begining.

Gear progression is quite literally the only thing people should be able to say “Maybe another game is for you” because it’s the only concept (ok, it and no dedicated healer) that GW2 should really never sway on, and they are.

" Idk, it just feels nice to know you can do more dmg."

Trivializing gameplay just makes the game more hoopy then good. You just have more hoops to jump through. Following in the wake of WoW and other MMOs, here’s basically GW2 as it follows. . .

Right now we all have exotics so everything is known difficulty. Now better gear is there, everyone does that[those] dungeon[s] until they get it. Everyone ignores the easier dungeons, and either the easier dungeons get a “hard” mode or new harder dungeons are added. You hit the regular gravelings in exotic armour for 500, you hit the regular gravelings in ascended armour for 600. You hit the new gravelings in ascended armour for 600, but they have 6’000 HPs instead of 5’000.

In the end, you’re at the same point, but you had to grind to get there. Honestly, just about every gear based MMO would die overnight if everything was switched from numbers to percentages, because you’d be hitting that end game demon boss for .5% of it’s HP a second, the same as you were hitting that stupid first boss when your group fought it.

I’d have multiple digit legendaries by now if 100 gave you one. . .

I love how your answer is “Please don’t screw up WvW @#$% UP PVE INSTEAD!”

The correct answer is to simply nip the gear threadmill in the bud. I already have enough with leveling my alts, unless this was a one time account unlock that applies to your armour – which actually would be somewhat ok but isn’t how it’s being presented – it’s going to be bad.

“please elaborate how you believe it cripples a casual gamer rather than rewards them for playing.”

. . .

If someone has to explain why achievement point you gain from from mass dungeon clearing, grinding (weapon skills/dailies) and completing the game 100% is going to adversly affect a casual who won’t have as many points as you then I can’t really think of a better explanation to you. Making them consumable is superior to making them passives.

I love how ANet managed to spend this much time making GW2 and people got bored of it in 3 months, while that people didn’t get bored of GW1 until several years after. I think they need to bring back some of the GW1 dev team, don’t they only have 1 guy left from the original team?

Still missing my gem store purchase hat from the halloween event, no reply from the support team, third time sending a statement to them.

Illiander.8049:

ANet screws up: This happens, your bank is the least of your worries.

You forgot NCSoft screws up and lets someone into your NCSoft master account and they then reset your GW2 account and then log into your account and steal all your stuff.

This happened to a bunch of people (myself included) in GW1, NCSoft politely tells us to contact ANet as getting items back isn’t NCSoft’s problem, and ANet tells you they can’t help you and to use a better password for the hackers to reset next time.

Expecting good customer service from ANet is pretty useless, kind of like how they disabled the network verification tool after implementing the phone verification tool. . . That really helped all of us without smart phones it did. I can’t view my saved networks anymore.

ANet will improve the game a lot, but I don’t expect much improvement to their customer support. Seems their idea behind support is to ignore and laugh at your just hard enough so you get angry but not hard enough so that you leave (I’m for instance still waiting for an acknowledgment to my lost halloween item from ANet). Oddly, the forum moderators who delete your posts seem very on the ball.

If ANet can’t do this – I would prefer an NPC in your starting base that you can collect all dropped WvW loot from. This would prevent people from stopping due to filled bags or from missing loot and make dying not as big of a burder because yay I get to collect my loot.

I love how when i recommend this triforce type crafting system no one replies = P I support this.

Don’t worry, once ANet adds a legendary that requires Dredge Lodestones, you’ll see people flocking to the dredge.

“They probably have an economic looking into such things, determining the ‘sweet spot’ at which the most people buy things with the highest possible price.”

If in game is any indicating factor they may need someone better at finding sweet spots.

“There’s still no gear which has VIT or Toughness as a main stat beyond low levels. It’s always secondary, meaning you get less of a boost than you do for other stats, usually in favor of power. What I’d like to see is gear with a central focus on defense rather than focusing on attack as the majority seem to do.”

I think that’s an ANet attempt at balance. Since it’s generally considered better to have toughness then vitality, it’s why healing power + vitality/precision exists while healing power + power/toughness exists and why soldier’s is power first with lesser toughness and vitality.

I personally think that’s an inane way of going about it, but it’s the only way I can think of it.

EDIT: Hey, star star is bold. Awesome.

There’s also a few other lacking ones. Like precision/condition damage/toughness and precision/healing power/toughness. It has the vitality version, but not the thoughness version.

One of the reasons I would really like moldable stats for armour – ex : Drop a superior stat (superior insignia component of precision damage), major stat (major stat of toughness) and anther major or something (ex: two minors for equivalent to major toughness, or a minor tough and minor crit to get Valkyrie’s PvP).

. . .

You do realize that the armour that only increases two stats is actually increasing less then the armour that increases 3 stats right? Low level armour is one max, medium level armour is two max, high level is 3 max. . . You won’t find though and vitality only since it doesn’t exist because end game armour is always better and increases 3 stats.

Also, power/vit/thoughness is in. It’s soldier’s armour, AC tokens can get it (amongst others) – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soldier%27s#Triple_attribute. If you want supportier, go for clerics – power, thoughness, healing power.

I don’t think the price of buying characthers should be lowered – it lets you have everything on one account.

They should give you an easier time on outfits and such though. >.< If I have 10 characther slots, I should get two bag tabs for the same purchase instead of being double charged for the same. Same with costumes. Those become pricey and IMO unfairly target people with many characthers.

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Seems to clip worst for the charr due to the fact they are very tall and hunched over – though it always clips for everyone when holstered as far as I can tell.

This (the freakish length) is how the model is supposed to look. I’d like a height scale slider on most weapons myself due to crap like this, but right now I consider the charrzooka and a few other weapons to be good indicator of players styles so you can avoid them as necessary.

Please note I said indicators and not quoted for the law, I change my opinion after I know someone.

Answering again, I doubt they’ll change it since that’s it’s only appeal – I think it clips less on asuras and looks somewhat ok on norn, humans and silvary, no?

“I agree with this. This makes it really hard sometimes to get people for a group. In Guild Wars there was a reasonable amount of time, but in GW2 it seems as if thought the time even resets if you make a seconds mistake. It’s really bothersome. I have to tell my party I’m suppressed, and they have to ask for people instead.”

Actually, this is how it worked in GW1 for a very VERY long time. Basically, it had around a 5-10 minute timer and if you tried to talk any time during that the timer seemed to reset. Later on they lowered it to 1-2 minutes, then about 10-15 seconds.

Here it has gone pretty insane. I will note it is client based. . . Actually, a lot of problems seem client based. If you close and reopen the game it fixes the issue with the trade post jaming, and it clears your “you have talked to much” log.

That said, I tried waiting once when I was crafting to see how long it took. I was on “you have talked too much” for 45 kitten kitten minutes.

I’m pretty sure a lot of them have it botted, considering how many times I see people log out in sPvP too for no kitten reason.

PvP bots are so fun >.<

Side note, I think most people log out in WvW due to the repair cost most then anything else. 6 silver/death @ level 80 is a bit.

I’d like for gathering tools to be account bound instead of soul bound. I sometimes want to hunk copper picks to my alts but am stuck using them on my mains.

“I am not trying to be rude, but I have never had this issue. In Everquest, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Warhammer Online, RIFT, or even Guild Wars 2….I have never done this. If you spend a week farming something, you should spend 5 second making sure you are buying the right thing. I doubt that logic would apply anywhere else in the world (at the supermarket, at your local Subway, etc).”

I have never been in a drunk driving accident, does that mean drunk driving laws should be revoked and people should just drive carefully?

I agree with the confirmation on items that cost over 1-2k karma. I honestly do not want this if I’m bulk buying apples >.<;

Also, ANet does have a (bad) history of saying “Oh well you dun gon @#$%ed up!” even if it’s their fault. I remember I once got hacked along with a bunch of people when the NCSoft site had problems and ANet’s generaly answer to all of us was to use a stronger password to get stolen the next time. Lovely.

You can already upgrade 2 slivers into a shard, 2 shards into a core, and 2 cores into a lodestone. . . Actually, you might not be able to do it with slivers (which would be strange). That said, it’s quite a bit expensive, 25 silver per transmute.

A percentage of drops are affected by player level. I can’t tell you the exact percentage, my guess is around 30 to 50% (good days/bad days playing leads me to believe that).

For instance, say ten items drop – you may get 2 level 70s and 8 level 7s, or 5/5, or 7/3, or 3/7 on both levels ends.

Considering I sent a bug report now two weeks ago for a piece of armour I lost (it was gem store bought stuff) due to a bug in the inventory, and haven’t even gotten an automatic message back yet, I think overwhelming and just ignored would go hand in hand now.

Aren’t ALL the mystic weapons (expect IIRC the longbow/shortbow for some reason) red?

“I love how you assume that the only ones who share that viewpoint are farmers. I have that opinion as well and I have yet to even run a dungeon. Money is incredibly easy to make in this game; it’s not funny…”

. . .

“I am not farming, nor am I running dungeons, yet I can afford me dusk constantly!” If this is not true, do not state it is.

Now, to be honest, can you -regain- the money by FARMING near the waypoint you teleported to? Yes. If you are playing this game only/mostly to farm though, you’ll discover two things. 1) You’ll rarely use the waypoint system, so it will seem fine. (stop arguing on something you never use). 2) You’ll generally stay in one spot (which is why you’ll rarely use the waypoint system. . .)

For everyone else, it’s not. . . Teleport – farm 1 gold – Teleport – farm 1 gold – Teleport – farm 1 gold. It’s generally I want to go here ouh pretty oh how about here hey my friend needs me let’s go do that! You just lost 10-50 silver doing this, especially if you want to go around the map a lot.

Most people are a mixture of 1 and 2 (being forced to turn into 1) or dedicated 1s, with a few dedicated 2s in the world.

1 is unphased by a switch to free – it is neither more nor less profitable to stay in one spot and move, or to use the waypoint system. 2 is helped quite a bit as it means that you don’t now feel like it costs you money to play with friends. 3 is helped a LOT.

“It’s completely relevant. You are complaining about the time it took to travel from A to B, because you chose to go from A to C to D to E to B. Then you are eluding that your Dad lost interest in the game because it took so long.”

. . .

“Here’s your hot dog. You can either eat it right away for an extra dollar, or throw it in the air ,catch it, spin around 14 times, and rub this klenex on your shirt 10 times up and 5 times down.”

“I’m just going to eat somewhere else.”

Mike, can you explain to me why the e-mail authenticator seems gone now that the mobile one is up? I don’t have a mobile phoen and hence no mobile indicator, so I’m curious as to why I don’t have my e-mail indicator.

“Nice logical fallacy there.

Two totally different mechanics and problems with two differing solutions."

Don’t want me to use the waypoints (designed to help you move around without being annoyed and so you explore), then don’t try to use a staff without pointing your mouse (a AoE weapon designed around point to target).

Technically, by base of design, waypoints are meant to spread the community around and help you do what you feel like rather then disuade you from leaving the spot you are in. This means they are not working as intended.

Staffs, on the other hand, are supposed to be point and click AoE weapons that are heavily based on your moving your mouse around to drop fields at your will. Technically, the staff is working as intended. Play scepter, or pick a class with less point to click skills. Don’t pick the click skill weapon and on the shuffle class and then complain about too many clicks. . . You may have a valid excuse, and I understand you want to be a mage, but it just won’t work.

“I’m a little confused at why people would be losing money from waypoint fees… been using them to get to areas to explore, usually make my money back in two events, a couple hearts, or selling drops. Maybe a little more of an issue at 100% completion, but the profit has been WAY outweighing the cost. Still, the lack of there being some free hubs is a little iffy.”

The issue is if someone wants to go help a friend and then return to their area. This can cost 5-7 silver depending on where you are.

It’s also a pain in dungeon running. You show up in say frostgorge, or a dead area like CoE, and figured out no one is there. That’s usually 3 silver to get there, free to LA, look for a group, go back to Maelstrom, 3 more silver, kittenomeone dropped, back to LA to LFG, back to mealstrom, 3 more silver, and hope no one else drops. 9 silver for a simple LFG.

It’s free. 0 cash = nearest waypoint is always free. Always empty your cash to a friend if you die before ressing = P

Bacon, aren’t you also the guy who’s opposed to giving people the option to visit the map freely and how they wish?

Suggestion : Let’s charge people who want target on foe to be an option 1 copper per 3 casts so balance out the fact they COULD be unlazy and target the ground themselves. After all, they probably make more money off the mobs then that so it’s all good right?

“If anything the traveling costs encourage me to actually do something at every waypoint I go to. Why dont you just hit up a few resource nodes wherever you go? On that note I imagine thats part of the reason why travel costs exist, removing them would probably necessitate also removing the nodes around a certain radius of the way points.”

How the hell do you figure that? I’m curious here, because what I see is 3 types of people.

1) People who stay put in orr and may sometimes occasionally waypoint to and from a dungeon. This leads to a drain of around 3 silver a day, and yes, it makes full sense for them to say waypoints are ok.

2) Bots who telehack and kitten quickly harvest materials. Completely bad, and probably why ANet thinks waypoints are not good, yet most ores are close enough to each other that you run from A to B anyway.

3) Everyone else who doesn’t want to farm orr or dungeons 24/7 but instead feel like doing whatever. They average 10-40 silver a day in waypoint uses. These people are the ones that think the waypoint fees need to go.

““I do not like to use money on traveling, because I prefer spending my money on things other then the convenience tool. Please make it easier for me to exploring this world which you put so much work into. This is the poison that is hurting every place other then orr, for I cannot ever understand how a waypoint travel can cost the total of 1-5 events which may or may not be near me depending on where I spawned in and how far I traveled, or will cost me 1 ori harvest if I am in orr and not using the waypoitns or 5+ ore deposites if I went to queensdale/harathi to help a friend! Like seriously, do you expect me to FARM MASSIVELY TO PAY OFF THE CONVENIENCE TOOL YOU PUT IN THE GAME TO MAKE ME WASTE LESS TIME!?””

I took the liberty of correcting your obvious translation error.

“Why does everyone want to eliminate the cost? The cost is there FOR A REASON.”

Because eliminating the costs increases our fun.

I actually have a hard time understand you. You want them to up the difficulty of temporary content in one hand (ex: Make more/bigger version of the clocktower). Ok fine, I want that but I don’t want it linked to halloween which my friends might not get in time.

Then you want us to add more costs to waypoints for no apparent reason other then you think it’ll be awesome and that going to the mists is an exploit.

Then you want easier class content since people with disabilities can’t move around much and might not be able to play a staff ele in I assume sPvP and WvW. . .

Unforunately, content can’t be easy hard convenient and inconvenient at the same time.

Temporary jump puzzles = easier so it’s possible for people to do it – with or without issues at being bad or disabled – within the time scale. Convenient and easy.

Free waypoints = free. Easier for people to play together and will help spread the community around. Convenient, and helps the game as ANet notes that 90% of the population is in freaking cursed shores.

Ground target = short of reintroducing double target foe, I think it should stay as is. Unforunately, if you can’t move the mouse around very quickly. . . You can’t play the class that requires that. I really can’t explain it any other way here.

Sorry for answering 3 posts in one thread.

“3) Cast at current target (quick press)”

This was kind of in the beta. If you double clicked really fast in BWE2, it would cast on target.

“I’ll just go tell my friend who lost his hand in a traffic accident he can’t go play 50% of the class / weapon combos in the game because you say he is a “Little zeglin”.”

I’m sorry for your friend, but he also wouldn’t be able to play high end competitive FPS or RTS. There are already a wide range of scepter skills (IIRC there’s only 2 skills on scepter that require you mouse target).

“Waypoint costs are there for a reason. They act as a money sink and encourage exploration. Bypassing all of that IS an exploit whether you agree with it or not.”

I’ll have to state you really don’t know how that works then.

Charging people to do something deters them from doing something unless they want to.

People have very little incentive to go around outside of orr/a few other locations that give you good reward events.

ANet charges people to move, or tells them to take a sweet load of time getting from point A to point B.

Ergo, it costs money or time to leave orr and stop making profit.

Ergo, waypoint fees are helping force everyone to stay in Orr unless they have a very big want to leave.

Calling a mechanic that helps restrain players in one area “needed” and calling finding ways around it “an exploitation” is, in the end, kitten

“Click on your friends?”

Because this game’s UI is really good for that.

As an option, maybe, why not. It’ll let the little zerglins who just know how to mash 1-5 start using staffs more, I guess.

“Seriously, waypoint costs are not high at all. If you have serious trouble paying for waypoints you are doing it wrong.”

I love how this is the answer of most people who just farm arah and rarely if ever move, while the people who want to enjoy the world are staunchly opposed to the idea of waypoint fees.

I also enjoy how ANet keeps saying they want people to leave arah.

If you have high toughness, your characther’s shoulder pads get much bigger.

If you have high vitality, your characther starts to glow with health.

If you have high condition damage, you gain bloody fangs.

If you have high precision, your characther spends less time aiming in attacks and makes up for it by fist pumping.

If you have high power, your characther yells out “I AM A MAN/WOMAN!” before attacking.

“And Thirdly; I just read that the guy who created The Clock Tower, apologised to everyone who couldn’t complete Clock Tower and said he would not design content this hard again for holidays. "

I don’t agree with you here – stuff this hard deserves to be in the game, but not bound to a holiday event. In case you misread, he said he will keep designing things but just not do an event THIS hard during a holiday.

Also, Lupicus is honestly kitten The boss is exploitable, and just a kitteny DPS test. I liked the CoF P1 boss, but Lupicus’ potential quad use 1 shot skill spamm is rediuclously annoying. I’d prefer more mechanics like Arah P2’s spider cave, since that’s fun and not just exhaustively boring (unlike the mine field and snipers of arah P2. . . Beatable, yes. Boring. Dear god yes.)

“To easy to get full exotic now”

Please stop confusing hard with time consuming.