Guild Wars 2

Okay, so I’ve been watching an item (a chef recipe) for a couple of weeks. The lowest ask price has been 6g with no change over this time. There was only 1 bid at 1g with no movement over the weeks. The number of items available has stayed static at 50…you guessed it with no change.

So, I finally decided that I’d try to see if a bid of 2g might convince one of those sellers of the 50 to change and sell. I go in the next day to look at the item and there are now 7 bids. 2g1s, 2g2S, etc. I’m sorry, but this clearly is unusual with there being no bids, new offers or additional items on the item for a few weeks.

Is this just something we need to live with or is this a reportable type activity?

So, with Dragon Coffers in the BL Chests and Jade Weapon Tickets making a return is this a foreshadowing of the Dragon Bash returning on July 1st?

I tend to agree. Silly me, I picked up a pair of daggers in WvW for another character and then realized later they were soulbound. Oh well…

How often is there time to vote on something in WvW? “Hey guys, I know we need to recap some stuff, run some yaks, defend a few other points, and scout, but can we hold on a moment so we can all take the time to vote on this siege?”

I think this is a bit of a cop out. One person makes the initial request of deleting a piece of siege and it’s a simple as an icon popping up over the siege with a green check mark to agree to delete or a red X to select not to…it would take each person a second and they don’t have to make any choice if they don’t want to. You make it sound like a town hall meeting would be required where reasonable minds know this would take a second or two at most…

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I’m not sure why one would care about keeping obsolete items, but…everything belongs to ArenaNet, and as such, they can do as they wish with obsolete items.

I’m not certain nothing from that list of ‘discontinued’ items has not been removed completely from the game, either.

Regardless, Glory Boosters were discontinued. It was announced long before they were removed that they would be removed, and as such, they are no longer available, no matter where they were stored. /shrug

Actually, they said that they’d be discontinued, and that they’d no longer be usable. Not sure they said they’d “remove” them from inventory. Also, keep in mind regarding the PvP locker that every other item taken from there was returned to me via the wardrobe system.

I guess what is sort of nagging at me is that I received some of those boosts from BL Chests that I opened with keys purchased with Gems that I bought with money. They refunded direct purchases of Glory Boosters, but not those acquired via BL Chests. I even said if a refund was not possible how about just exchanging them for other boosters even if I had to trade 2 or 3 for 1 new one. Now they release this Booster Dust stuff that allows players to convert boosters into different boosters…why not just honor my request several months ago???

I’ll still say that this is the first time that Anet has actually taken something from players (regardless of its uselessness) and not returned something….again, I’ve got Jade Wind Orbs in my GW inventory that have had Zero use since 2006 (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Jade_Wind_Orb)

that list is discontinued content/items. You can still hold onto those items even though there is no use for them or no longer available.

What I’m asking is has Anet ever before taken something out of someone’s inventory because it is no longer available? It seems that the player should be able to hold onto an item even if it has no use or no longer available….

So, I realized today that my Glory Boosters that were stored in my PvP locker have been removed from the game with the locker.

Is this the first time that an item has been removed by Anet without the player’s consent? I still have Jade Wind Orbs on my GW account…

yes, yes, I know they have no current use, but should I still be the one to decide to either delete or keep them?

Feyd Rautha.7298:

Here are some of my ideas:

- Voting system for troll siege, click on and vote to delete siege similar to a party kick mechanic.
- Original player who dropped the blueprint can always delete.
- All vote/delete actions are logged to the chat event log (like emotes) with player names.
- Siege is mostly indefinite, however enemies who capture an camp/tower/keep now also capture the siege.
- Open field siege not attached to a capture has a decay timer.

This! There really is no reason that there cannot be a community controlled mechanism for removing undesirable siege and allowing for a better solution for keeping desired siege.

1) Separate instance from Queen’s Gauntlet: Allow players to choose what they want to do before entering the arena. With the players for both events combined the available player pool for the Boss Blitz has been diluted with players doing the gauntlet making the Boss Blitz less achievable. Those who want the gauntlet get the gauntlet, those who want Boss Blitz get that event.

2) More structured Gold Sink for starting the event. 1g = 100% MF boost, 1s = 1% with a max of 1g per player. No limit on the number of players who can contribute to start the event. Simply make a time window of when “contributions” will be accepted and then start the event. However, there can still be a required amount of Gold needed to trigger the event. If not reached, the event does not run and next event is in 30 minutes. No contributions accepted after start of event.

3) Structured Time & Reward. Start on the half hour and allow 25 minutes for each event. This will allow for a 5 minute contribution window and for commanders to pool up players for each segment. <10 mins Gold Rewards, <20 mins Silver, < 25 mins Bronze. >25 mins perhaps a small consolation prize.

4) Event Rewards Algorithm: Must be in the arena for X% (>60%) of the event AND hit X# of enemies in order to receive event reward. This will eliminate the ability to gain the reward via being afk.

5) Kept the NPC’s that provided boons vs. specific enemy types.. this would have assisted in the coordination of teams for each specific boss and given a specific advantage to focus on that boss.

Others?

how soon people forget….

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Miniature_Polar_Bear

I looked to see if there were any threads on this already, but the search tool is not always reliable.

Has ANet ever said why Ascended Drops are not sellable? I can see a possible reason for not allowing crafted ascended gear to be sold, but would be nice to be able to sell that very rare occasional ascended drop.

I would love to see more content that is intellectually challenging and goes beyond the nature of spoon fed story line progression. The clues would need to be obvious at first to capture the interest of the player base, but as a character progresses the challenges and puzzles become more complex and difficult solve. While not a perfect example the fools errant (from the 80’s) comes to mind. http://www.fools-errand.com/01-the-fools-errand/

Incorporating something that ties to the GW2 world and incorporates a similar chain puzzle/challenge mechanism would be a huge hit.

Is it just me, or should ANet include a way to make Azurite Orbs from the Azurite Crystals? Why can all other orbs be crafted but not Azurite?

I hate to dig this all up again, but they are willing to refund boosters purchased with GEMS, but NOT boosters acquired from BL Chests opened with BL Keys purchased with GEMS. Particularly in instances where it can be shown the GEMS used to buy the BL Keys were bought with RWM. This position of accepting one and not the other seems a bit overly nuanced to me.

Just convert these things to crafting boosters, MF boosters, or something else that helps me, but doesn’t provide any game play competitive advantage.

I’ve actually been in an organization that offered world-class customer services. We were benchmarked all the time by Fortune 500 companies who would ask to come in and see how we did business. Doing nothing at all for the customer when the costs of service is negligible, if existent at all, (i.e. one virtual item for another) is head scratching. I won’t stop playing and even if they do nothing it won’t diminish my enjoyment of GW2, but it still is a curious position for ANet to hold. Just my opinion.

While the races unified to defeat Scarlet and her allies they are now fractured and combative as they argue over the rebuilding of Lions Arch and political control of the strategically located city.

The discourse has turned hostile and violent as Charr, Human, Asura, Sylvari and Norn fight to control Lions Arch. Every race has established a foothold and fortifications among the ruins and entrenches for a an epic battle that will determine control and the future of Lions Arch.

Not to mention how folks would “bid” for something and then when it was time to pay up they either 1) didn’t have the amount they bid 2) would try to renegotiate or 3) decide they didn’t want it after all.

I’d like to make a suggestion that since glory in PvP no longer exists that there be a way to transform the Glory Boosts into another type of boost. I see this as similar to the changes in Magic Find where after the change players were directed to pick the new stats on armor and weapons that had Magic Find on them. Thus, a player simply double clicks on a glory boost and is asked which type of boost the player would like.

I was curious if this could possibly be a hidden quest and tried to send an e-mail through the mail client in GW2 to Izzitt, but alas I simply received a pop up error window that said there was no one by that name.

a lot of movement (up and down) on cores right now. I don’t think it is outside the realm of possibility that cores would be used to colorize other ascended items….

Supply and demand. As supply decreases price will increase as a function of demand.

They can be mined from sprocket node (if you have one) in your home instance.

Vol.7601:

Not that I know of. I’m reversing my speculation position on them considering that blade shards could be used to make cores after March 18th.

I suppose , but logically I don’t think it makes sense to use blade shards to produce the Assault Knight Power Cores. Is there a current example of using something account bound to produce something that can be sold on the BLTP?

What is a “Dye Evaluator”?

For example. I start at the Legendary Static (Red) Knight. I engage in the battle and are getting in hits throughout, but at the end there’s no loot when I hit “F” and no sign of a chest anywhere…I thought there we’re supposed to be champion gear boxes and such.

I’ve played this event about 5 times now and have never had any drops or chests from the knights. Is this a bug or am I not producing enough damage to get warrant the reward?

it would be nice to know exactly how the platforms populate.

There was one event where we had at least 25 in the lane, but when we got to the platform there was only me and one other player for the first 30 seconds. Everyone is shouting, “STACK, STACK!”, so the two of us stacked and were quickly killed.

Finally 3 others came into the platform, but it was far to late to complete the task…Sadly ours was the only one of the 5 platforms to fail and we were treated to the hoard of insults…

Was this just simple bad luck with 3 slow loading players or is the platform populating random?

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I really enjoyed Scarlet’s Lair, but it was a pity that it was clearly marked on the map with a big golden star. Plus the achievement tied to it kind of made it not-so-secret.

I’d love to see more real secret clues be hidden in future Living Story updates. Don’t mention it anywhere, don’t highlight it on the map for us. Just put it somewhere, and let us discover it for ourselves. And if there’s an achievement tied to it, hide the achievement in the panel.

This X 1,000. Also, these could be outside the living story. Would be nice if there was a multi-layer brain teaser puzzle that led to some secret hoard or tome that gave unique skills. Make these puzzles more attuned to solving ciphers and accumulating clues (that ARENT marked with yellow labeled “clue #2” on the object. To solve the complete puzzle should involve being able to travel to all points of the map (world completion critical). Not opposed to a jumping puzzle or 2 as a part of the effort, but this should not be a complete jumping skill test.

It says “any” because it extends “any” food item. If it would stack foods, it would become game breaking, especially in WvW. Plus they would describe it in the product. you have 12 hours of food you eat, if you eat roasted lotus root 2 hours later, it will replace omnom bar and you’ll have effects of roasted lotus root for 10 remaining hours and so on.

Why would you assume this? Things like revive orbs and armor repair can’t be used in WvW. Why would it be so strange for the BLTP to sell another item that could be beneficial to PVE, but not have WvW value?

Also, as it relates to stacking I think we have different definitions. I’m suggesting that from the description one could (erroneously) conclude that you could eat any foods and the bonuses will combine. As I showed an example of foods that have unique bonuses.

Stacking would suggest someone tries to eat multiple foods with the SAME bonus such as an Omnomberry Tart and Peach Tart to jack up their magic find %.

Again, I think we all know that the same mechanics apply and that eating a new food will remove the old food bonus and replace with the new food bonus. Just suggesting that the description could have been more clear to the customer…

Rouven.7409:

You can only ever have the effect of one particular food on you. It will simply extend the duration of the buff, nothing more nothing less.

I understand how things usually worked, but as this is something people are spending GEMS on why would it be out of the realm of consideration that the primer added a new functionality.

I assumed that it did not, but I bet a few folks may have bought them thinking you could ADD more boosts as it says “any food”…

Metabolic Primer(12 h): Any food eaten while the primer is active will have the same remaining time as the primer, rounded up to the next hour. The metabolic primer does not stack.

Does this extend the life of just a single food item or will multiple food items be extended? What is the effect if I eat an omnomberry bar (+30% MF and +40% G from monsters) and then eat a bowl of roasted lotus root (-40% stun and +70 toughness)? Will the bonus from the Omnomberry Bars be gone or will both bonuses be active for the duration of the primer?

i think it must be account bound as I cannot find it on the BLTP…I’ll start grinding the dungeon I suppose.

Yes, those are the items. Problem is that I’ve tried at a crafting station as well as at the Mystic Forge and it will not allow the items to be used to make this item…

My sense is that I need the recipe…to my original question. How do i get the recipe?

How is this acquired…wiki does not say.

Make an item’s rarity change based upon the number of the item that exist in game.

Example: Sentinel armor. there are FINE and MASTERCRAFT items are selling for 8g on the BLTP because there are so few that exist.

it should be more apparent to a player if something has value despite the craftsmanship designation.

1) make all transactions scaleable based upon the number of items desired similar to crafting. When I’m making ingots the system asks me how many I’d like to make and can even “make all”. It would be nice at the mystic forge when making superior siege weapons to be able to just “make all” and not have to place the items in over and over again.

2) at the bank tab make it that if I double click on my inventory it seeks the same item in the bank and adds to any existing growing inventory of the same item. If this would cause a new stack to be created that is fine. If I drag the item to the bank leave it as is in the quantity I’ve dragged into the bank.

3) offer a “clean up inventory” option that automatically sorts all items by type.

4) similar to #1, make a “use all” function for things like essence of luck, seasonal drops like Wintersday gifts etc. This way I can simply open all 100 of an item rather than clicking madly.

5) it would be nice that if an item is sitting in the BLTP for > 30 days that it could be re-listed on the 31st day or after at a lower price without paying a second 5% fee. once re-listed the same 30 day window starts again.

if this has been asked before I could not find it on the forums. Has anyone from Anet ever explained why BUY/SELL price for GEMS is not equivalent? If someone is willing to pay 8 gold for 100 GEMS then, shouldn’t I be able to sell 100 GEMS for 8 gold?

what are the differences?

I’m trying to figure out what I’m missing here. The inscriptions sell on the BLTP for ~7g. However, weapons that actually have these in them are only selling for ~2g. Why would a component sell for significantly more than the final product?

anyone know if these can be crafted this year from the Mystic Forge?

I wonder how many items sit there over priced because the seller doesn’t want to have to pay another listing fee and tax on the item.

My recommendation would be to allow adjusting the price on listed items lower without having to pay any additional fees. If someone wants to raise the price of an item they have listed they must pay the incremental amount that would apply as if they originally listed the item at the raised price.

Might help bring down some prices of items on the BLTP…

Can anyone confirm if this is just a “chance” at a rare dye or a guaranteed rare dye.

The description says “Double click to identify a Common, Uncommon, or Rare Dye from the <color> spectrum”.

The blue and gray levels are 400 level and the mat costs to produce one are really high for just a “chance” to produce a rare…

So everything is account bound?!?!?!? What would be logic behind this? I can’t make stuff for guildmates (small 5 player guild) or sell anything…

I can understand why fixing higher level armor cost more than lower level armor. However, the cost to go to a WP by level is just designed for the pure purpose of a gold sink. Travel should be cheap and uniform…never cost a cent in GW1…

Yes, I’m assuming since I have no insights to how the GW2 programming works either. AND that is the key point. I’m not sure any one of us knows…that’s why we do these “tests” to see how they work out. What I know for sure is that now I have 3 more Jade Weapon tickets than I did the day before. Could it have been a streak of luck? Sure, I suppose. However, I saw results and end of the day that’s what matters to me. I’ll do this again when I get another 1,000 RNG boxes of any type and see if I get similar results. I’m going to have a few of my guildmates test this as well to see what they find. They’ve had no luck getting any jade tickets thus far and I’m sure have opened a few thousand between them.

Ayrilana.1396:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability

Unless you know how the game is programed this doesn’t really apply. It is easy to say if I roll a pair of dice 10 times and roll a 5 each time that the propbablility of rolling a 5 on my next roll does not change based upon the prior ten rolls. this is because the “programming” of the dice is a known quantity. there are 6 sides each with the same chance of turning up and the combinations that make 5 (1-4. 4-1, 2-3 and 3-2) are finite.

Only Anet knows how the programming of the game and how different variables (MF, Zone, speed of opening) factor into the loot mechanisms.

All I will say is that I’d opened ~ 2,500 coffers before this opening 20-30 at a time (as I collected them) , wearing my normal gear and only got 1 jade ticket.

Last evening following the instructions I got 3 out of 1,000 tickets. I do personally beleive that Magic Find has an impact.

BTW, I got so many minis that didn’t stack is why I had to clear my inventory…you see the inventory full warning in my shot…I did not know those would not stack in inventory…so take this into consideration anyone else who wants to try this.

1000 coffers using Buttercup’s instructions:
222% MF
Black Citidel
Opened really fast
3 jade weapon tickets!

Buttercup.5871:

Already sent 500 boxes to Sir Vincent as he was genuinely interested in testing this theory. Sorry Gaviston, not extending this invitation to everyone.

No worries. I hope he posts the results. perhaps you could e-mail me more specifics. How much MF did you have, what waypoint do you go to when you open? I’d like to test on my own. No worries on the 500 coffers. I understand.

Yes, I did seriously extensive testing into this in Aion, I’m a bit of a nerd that way (but a rich nerd because manastones was a serious problem for most players in the game). I would also advise opening 1k boxes at once; I’ll provide half of them if you need (too much gold, already have everything I could ever need anyway).

Sent you a PM

thanks for the comments. I think I’ll hold onto the skin to see what happens. I doubt they’ll ever reach the early pricing, but I have to believe that the availability will drop and since they are different from the other wings that as supply dwindles the price will slowly increase.