Guild Wars 2

The Eternal Grace.3157:

The thing for me is that their recent temporary content, such as the Flame and Frost stuff, is very dull and boring. Sure, it’s content, but who cares what content is involved if it’s utterly boring to do.

I think a lot of people felt this and voiced it on forums. Those who did so constructively and not so rudely, I’m sure Arenanet took into consideration. The finale is coming up soon, and then it is very possible that soon we will see the next arc. I doubt they will just ignore the complaints and issues with this run in their next attempt. Perhaps they can better build up the content next time, or even go all out the entire arc. They have plenty of suggestions from us, and I hope we all can make a difference by showing our support whether that be supporting what we liked or supporting others who disliked some content. Because that is the only way they can truly create content that we all can enjoy.

Snow White.9680:

That’s not a definite no :P

In all fairness I also did not see them reply to a user who mentioned Unicorns. So we can’t rule those out either. I see them possibly being introduced as soon as they can get a real one so that they can accurately portray them in the game.

Let me start by saying this is not a complaint thread about temporary content.

There are many people who believe that temporary content is:

Ruining the game
A waste of time
Pointless

I’d like to discuss these beliefs in a constructive manner directly and see how others feel after reading my thoughts on the subject.

The first point “Ruining the game”-

Temporary content brings new players and veteran players alike back to the game. Many threads suggest this, and show that the content-although short, has caused a lot of people to play when perhaps they might have remained away. This content was released and many players did have fun with it. The Flame and Frost content was a nice touch, and although its beginnings were a bit slow and simple, it has gradually improved. The SAB event was widely loved and adored by the community as can be seen from in game and the SAB forums. This content didn’t even start out as something functional, and yet turned into something amazing. So I do not believe they are ruining the game. This brings me to my next point.

Point number two “A waste of time”-

Many people think temporary content was a waste of time, but they fail to realize the content as a whole. A temporary dungeon provides 2 very important things:

1. A chance to try out new dungeon mechanics
2. A way to not add to troubled dungeons if it is not a success

Designers use these tools to try out a new way to go about dungeons. In doing so they get a free testing audience-you! So when the majority of players enjoyed the dungeon or instance, they know they are doing it right. Many dungeons need revamping, and perhaps they find ways to do that through the temporary content. Instead of tweaking this and that in every dungeon and guess, they have a clean slate to start anew. This is a great tool to find ways to fix core parts of the game and to better improve player experience. Now if that content was widely disliked, they have less to lose because luckily it will be gone soon and they can move on. So instead of spending a bunch of time on a new core dungeon which could get a large amount of hate, they create dungeons using other designers ideas and feedback about current dungeons. It is a win-win for all of us. The bonus for this is that we get new skins, mining tools, dyes, and more. So you could even think of it as if the devs were saying:

“Hey, here is our new idea. We would love for you to try it. If you like it, love it, buy the skins off the gem store and show you enjoyed the content, or go and try to get this item free by doing __.

Just for trying we will give you XP, drops, new items, new characters in the living story, and best of all FUN!"

So we are play testing their ideas and given rewards for doing so. Love it? Great! They will do more that follows what works. And less of what doesn’t. I see this as a grand strategy at defining the game, and expanding it into many features we will enjoy in the future.

Finally the last point “Pointless”-

I pretty much summed up how I believe this type of content is anything but pointless above. But for those who don’t enjoy the content, you don’t have to do it. Which, if you think about it, works out for everyone. You didn’t like it? Well it will be gone soon, and they will try something different next time that may suite you even better. If you did love it, then all the more reason to come back and do the next arc!

A final note on items. I realize there is much frustration over temporary content and RNG rewards. As I mentioned above I believe they will learn from the feedback we provided in these cases and hopefully manage there release better next run. As for the limited time items, we can see these as prestige items. Those who were here get to show off the content they were a part of. And I think that is something all players can understand. I don’t expect to get the prizes people got for pre-order, or for the beginning of the games release. I missed out and I can accept that, but here I am enjoying the new content. And those after me may miss out on these great things. So consider it a privilege to be a part of the history of the game, that in itself is an amazing reward.

Snow White.9680:

stale.9785:

As a hint, for the OP – the mount thread was closed for the same reason the previous 2000 mount threads have been locked then closed. ArenaNet has said, repeatedly, there will be no mounts in game.

Continued whining about something that has little support from the fanbase, and no support at all from the company, achieves nothing.

I’m surprised people don’t get infracted or temp bans for starting these threads.

Would you please provide a link to a definitely no on mounts from arena net? Anyway, even if they did say no, things can always change.

“Hello, I’m here to crush your dreams.

There will be no mounts coming with the Flame and Frost story arc.

Also, to address further speculation we’ve seen about the concept art for Flame and Frost (and what it may portend): there will be no Cantha and no dragons coming with the Flame and Frost story arc, either.

Thank you."
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/251576-incoming-mounts/

There seems to be a great hatred for mounts, just sayen’ ^^

But yes, you never know.

However-
We did have a horse mount possibly coming, it was going to be the most amazing thing ever. And could have put everyone’s worries to rest, and even be offered for super cheap! Sadly though… forum thread after forum thread beat that poor horse to death, so badly it can never recover and has since gone to a better brighter place…

What we do know:

Colin promised us tinfoil hats that could make us look like mounts to other people, and as cool as that is I really don’t want people trying to mount me while I’m afk..

People continually asked for mounts in so many threads, Arenanet supplied us with brooms to sweep our tears away.

In conclusion, if you continue to beat this poor horse, and have already purchased your tear sweeping broom, then now is the time to lay this idea to rest until updates are done. Because we went from no mounts, to a broom, don’t be surprised if the complaining leads to us getting pacifiers and bottles next BLTC update…

The splinters from riding the brooms are a constant reminder that Tyrians were not meant to have mounts.

ZilentNight.5089:

If the living story is now over, can we call it a dead story?
Or will this be going forward be known as “Temporary Story”

“The Neverending Story”? Anyone who knows what that is, probably just had the same thought about queensdale dam monsters as I did :P

I have been hosting small events just outside cities, perhaps I’ll work more on doing them in town. I think others could do this too, it was just simpler to go to queensdale or maw area, but I see your point.

Added another one for those darn ninjas >.>
Posted in original message.

I seen the full music list at https://soundcloud.com/arenanet, I can tell you guys take great pride in what you do

I think sooner or later we should be able to buy the entire sound track(GW2+SAB) to date that comes with a mini-moto :P Just a thought I’d pay $20 for that ^^

IndigoSundown.5419:

Geotherma.2395:

I use 30%, which is 1 food. Is that too much for you? Even without MF, I can get at least 1g/hr. Again, guesting is open.

Don’t mind me, I just hate the Magic Find mechanic with a burning passion. So, you’re saying that 30% MF makes a difference of up to 3G per hour? Is the 4+ number an outlier or is 4 an average?

My average with 30% is around 4g+/hr. Problem is I’ve been super lazy/busy at the same TIME! Lately lol.. But I don’t need money, so its not a big deal. For me the secret base number is 30 ^^

Some magically numbers that I won’t explain in any way whatsoever:
0 = 1-3~
30 = 2-4~
230 = 5-10~

Also, I rarely party with people because I am (according to them..) a good luck charm. And since I’ve yet to find a way to charge people for using me as a built in MF… I just solo. But anyone who is on my server is welcome to mail me if you would like to farm together, assuming I have time, and you can handle my epic afk’s when my son is throwing my wii u controller around like a frisbee.

Behellagh.1468:

On another thread it appears that Photoshop is the preferred method. :p

I lol’d irl :P

IndigoSundown.5419:

Geotherma.2395:

Solid Gold.9310:

Axesome.1025:

Hicci.8761:

Axesome.1025:

Hi,

I think it’s nearly impossible to get rich in GW2. I do a lot of events, guild missions, yet i am so poor. Can you make some solid cash without farming 24/7?

Yup. If you are as casual as you claim to be, you can just do daily bosses, maybe some cof and other additional stuff. You can easily get 10g/day.
If you can’t even do that then you don’t deserve all that fancy stuff you want. There are no magical ways to get rich in a blink of an eye. (unless you get incredibly lucky)

I still don’t understand how can casual player get 10g/day.

10 did I read that right, 10 gold a DAY for a casual player, if only that were true I would be mega rich by now.

1 gold a day is much more realistic.

Casual does not mean efficient. I casually farm, i could sum up my actual farming in maybe 3 events to 4 per hour. In that hour it is possible to make 4+ g. And that is without dungeons, so if you perhaps did 2-3 very quick CoF, then 2-3 Orr events, 10 actually seems a bit low.

Did you forget to mention that to get that kind of return from events, you need to pay the Magic Find tax?

I use 30%, which is 1 food. Is that too much for you? Even without MF, I can get at least 1g/hr. Again, guesting is open.

SKiNBuS.4730:

Geotherma.2395:

Roktar.2497:

SKiNBuS.4730:

How about… NO NEW CONTENT until OLD CONTENT is POLISHED.

Every time I see new content coming with soooo many daily hindrances and unfinished features etc… (if I didn’t have a lot of patience) I would have /ragequit many times over.

Rainbows, unicorns, backpacks, quaggans, retro, leather shirts… please, please, please… this is out of hand.

You know why there isn’t a All in One video game?
Because it’s a BAD idea.

(generalizing, don’t rage)
You want capes… play a Superhero game.
You want Pokemon… play pokemon.
You want 80’s… play 80’s games.

Mini games… cool.
Game changing content… please think.

I see these retro\super weapons (cool or not) it destroys any atmosphere or feel the original world had.

GW2 will be a second hand store in no time. Piles of useless toys added into a fun semi-realistic world to a spiraling out of control helplessly unrealistic world.

I’m scared of what’s to come.

SKiN.

Totally agree with you my friend. The childish thing, Anet tries to add in the game is ridiculous, quaggan backpacks ? really ? kitten T3 cultural charr armor fighting zombies with a plush on his back ? the “old style” 8 bit crap ?

I hope the devs start doing some serious content and not this childish thing because this game will fail so much, even in their facebook page when the game was released it has 1kk likes, now it has 800k… numbers don’t lie. We need content, new or old polished SERIOUS content.

GW2 should be 100% srs bsns…
We should have complete dark and dramatic gameplay, there should be dwarves and elves and high elfs. And darkness should come and overwhelm the world! And then when all that content is done we will introduce pandas! Wait…. Thats another game..

Everything about GW2 is humorous, there was funny non serious, not dark themes since the games creation. We have mini people as pets.. We have toy dolls and skritt.. At what point did you think this game was about serious things? I believe the majority of the playerbase enjoys or tolerates the things that you and a “very few” others complain about. If you want seriousness there is COD, BF3, Crysis 3, and probably some dark MMO’s out there that better fit your style.

I’m not saying it should stop all together but the original story does not at all go retro or would quaggan backpacks have belonged in it. It’s an obvious money grab (which is fine) but it’s almost a sellout to lure people in with a rich and indepth story and then turn it into pac-man vs anime one year in.

I’m just nervous that my over 2000 hours of playtime is going to be a total waste if in another years time the game has turned into Asian game show\pokemon\gemstore when it was advertised nothing like this… dragon fighting, lush content, a living world, etc…

I respect your opinion but you’ll have to respect ours too.

SKiN.

I think we have close to the same amount of hours, but in my time I’ve seen things a bit differently. I see people happy with occasional fluffy items and cute things, people enjoying a change from the core dynamics of the game. Arenanet tries to please as many people as they can, they add to the game what people enjoy. From their figures on purchases and such they can deduce what sells well and what people like. Look at the SAB forums, people loved the idea, at least the majority. Stuff like this is a break from the day to day. When you are walking through a town and see a giant charr with a pink backpack, I find that absolutely funny. And that’s how most respond to it, enjoying its humor, in that it is different. Even if we do not enjoy the content, the items, the shinys, doesnt mean someone else doesn’t.

And humor goes a long way in keeping players happy, far more so than the whole dark emo universe that encompasses so many of other MMO’s. You can tell by reading just about any posts from devs and designers that we have a light hearted and humerus design/dev team. They are bringing their work (not ours) to us to enjoy. It is their decisions and direction, and I respect that even if I don’t like some or all of it. It isn’t about making a game that other people like, it is about making a game that encompasses what the designers wanted to share with the world. And beyond that, it is about adding things that others can take away from the game with joy.

There is far more to game design, development, production, creation, than just pandering to certain people. At its core the game is the vision of someone else, and you either enjoy it or you don’t.

Elbegast.6970:

I don’t get it. I haven’t seen any sign of this ‘living story’ everyone keeps talking about. Everywhere I go it’s the same old world events…over and over again. Nothing changes.

So, where does this ‘living story’ start at?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/flameandfrost/Guide-Flame-and-Frost-The-Razing/first#post1700562

SundayTrash.9562:

Are people having fun or is the majority of Tyria living in poverty.

Judging by the “I’m bored” and “I have too much money” threads, i would say people are bored and rich, or poor and frustrated. Sooner or later the poor will become the other, and be in the same situation.

What is important is that people not speed run through the game, that ruins it entirely. You can make thousands of gold in very short time if all you do is farm and sell, but once you do that you burn yourself out. And I think gamer burnout is a huge problem with this game, and is mostly on the players side of the problem. The game on the other hand is working to move forward with new content and fixes, but they can only do so much so fast. This week I will do my part by buying a crap ton of useless or semi useless things I’ll never use of the BLTC, just to support their hard work :P

LordByron.8369:

What anet is doing is an insult to PvE players

We get constant nerfs to PvE due to PvP played by few players….

While PvE is awfully broken.
GW2 guardian and warriors 2

Dont even try to pretend any class can do everything in PvE…while its true having 5X sustained DPS makes the difference in ANY pve situation (from ARAH to lvl 40 fotms etc etc).

But its pve who cares of balance? not Anet for sure (they will split skills? will i get war dps with mesmer or ele? if not that who cares).

Well the new talk about separating WVW skills from PVE skills could help. AS they have been doing blanket nerfs/buffs, which was less efficient. If they do implement this idea, it may help a lot with the frustration some feel in either PVE or WVW. I for one hate anything that makes pve play more annoying simply because a skill of mine is being used in an OP way in WVW or SPVP..

Maybe we can get this in an upcoming patch And it would help some more recent people with problems similar to this.

Circling Skies.1872:

Is this on Sea of Sorrows? Cause if it is I bet a lot of people there know who you are talking about. He/She is annoying and likes to blame people/guilds for “ripping him off” and such. I know they have been reported. All I can tell you is ignore them. Leave LA if they are there filling up the chat. Tell the truth I don’t notice him anymore.

This person had a questionable name and changed it. First name start with an F and the second name with a R?

In other games they allow you to see peoples previous names. The account name feature of GW2 is amazing for discouraging trolling,stealing etc, perhaps the history availability would further that usefulness.

Gasoline.2570:

Fine transmutation stones are so integral to this games design philosophy that I have no idea why they are only in the gem store. Everyone uses them. EVERYONE. It is a basic neccesity when you reach 80 and want the skin and stats together. There is no avoiding it. And you can’t get them from anywhere else, at all? What???

Your argument actually makes it sound like keeping them on the store makes far more sense than not lol..

They need items on gem store that provide a continual profit, this is one of them. If they get rid of it then people will complain about another core gem item. Then sooner or later Anet is giving everything for gold and we have no new content because they are poor…

Iruwen.3164:

I want to create a fat, old, bald, midget human.

With the right hat you can :P Because hats seem to force us to shave our heads lol…

I know this isn’t directly the same but perhaps https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Aura-around-different-rarity-icons/first#post1612212 this idea could be implemented to also include special items like this.

I’d really like a more clear indicator that something is rare or skinned. But I did notice usually the name stays the same on skinned items.

goldenwing.8473:

Geotherma, please read the posts carefully, you’ve missed a couple of defining facts.

And yes, I understand ANet’s reporting system. And the tools ANet has to use. I can understand how in-game tools are not always adequate.

As for making the troll famous… he had already spread his bragging across the game as the “best” tank, promoting himself, getting others to pay him as a “teacher”, selling his “secrets of success”. He was already known.

Didn’t leave the game because of a boor, we left for a variety of reasons, the last one being the dev’s unwillingness to enfore their own rules, as well as rewarding the person egregiously breaking the rules on a continual ongoing basis. Slight integrity issue for us.

The issue in all this is that the devs in the other game not only did not have adequate in-game blocking/reporting tools, when they did get information from multiple sources, they turned a blind eye and it cost them money. Boors, are not only bad for the community, they can be bad for business.

As for boors themselves, yes, after 55 years, I and my guildmates (some same age), understand they exist in MMOs, the work place, the world at large. Dismissing them as irrelevant is one option. I use it all the time on forums. There are other cases where /block is inadequate and I was responding to the OP in agreeing. There are some good suggestions on this thread. Getting the entire server to /block the person can be challenging.

It just sounded more by the wording that people left solely because of the troll, which seems silly to people. Someone above stated that instance of trolling and moving servers was another game, I must have missed where it stated that, probably my lack of caffeine for the day :P

I definitely despise trolls, and many will work to rid Tyria of them. This term “boors” is new to me, now I have to google it..

I don’t think it is necessary to get the entire server to block them, you just need a few things.

1. A person well versed in anti trolling, as this riles the troll up and accounts for many screenshots and reports via email to be had.
2. Everyone reporting who sees it with pics, but not just in game, outside as well.

The email imo is the best option as you get a personalized response. Also, imagine it from arenanets point of view. “I keep getting emails that I have to take the time to read and respond to. They all point at this one guy, and it is taking time away from helping players with other problems like glitches or account issues. I’m going to hammer this troll with temp bans until they learn to stop wasting players and my time.”

Emails feel much more effective, and I have noted their effectiveness on occasion. In game reports work probably, but you really don’t get responses through them.

thundercrown.3654:

you guys really think people should just lay down and take it when they tell people “too bad. Our server kinda bunked out and you lost your best items. Move on” OKAY forum champions. You should be working with people that have game issues rather than supporting ANET in their “grab the cash and run” campaign.

Just a note on that thread “freedom of speech policy…” does not apply to a game where you are at the “privilege” of using. Not rights.

Also “Move on” OKAY forum champions. " another chance to get infracted tossing insults again.

People are allowed to be heard, your issue however cannot be solved by players. The proper information on how to deal with this was given to you, and instead of listening you attacked that person. You then attacked every person not in agreement with you, and redirected 3 threads, which again, is another infraction. You seem to have not taken the time to read the forum rules, and are sounding more like you just want to complain on the forums for attention. Which by the infractions you are getting, I can tell it is working. I would suggest doing as others have stated before you end up with a “stolen” game as well as an item. You will find no answer to your questions here, and there is a wait period before posting unresolved issues. Take the time to read the rules and respect people who are being helpful without insulting everyone. I see this thread being closed shortly, and probably some more infractions given out. I hope you learn from this, if not, well it is of no loss to the community.

A final note, you said people should be heard and have opinions and then this “who are you? you just a player. beat it. reported for masquerading as an employee” Just sayen’.

SandraSolace.7682:

Geotherma.2395:

On a side note, your in game items have 0 cash value. As you do not own them, or the rights to them, or anything in game for that matter. This entire thread could have been avoided if you simply sent an email and let the proper people handle the situation.

This, I was thinking the same thing. We don’t own a thing and no cash value. If they did have that we would not be able to gain the item by just playing, converting gems or having luck.

After this he made ..yet ANOTHER thread about how players voices are being blocked, linking back to this one. I see another infraction coming.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Blocking doesn’t stop the people from sending you mail right? jw

“/block or /ignore – prevent a player from contacting you in any way.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chat_command

Solid Gold.9310:

Ethics.4519:

Solid Gold.9310:

Axesome.1025:

Hicci.8761:

Axesome.1025:

Hi,

I think it’s nearly impossible to get rich in GW2. I do a lot of events, guild missions, yet i am so poor. Can you make some solid cash without farming 24/7?

Yup. If you are as casual as you claim to be, you can just do daily bosses, maybe some cof and other additional stuff. You can easily get 10g/day.
If you can’t even do that then you don’t deserve all that fancy stuff you want. There are no magical ways to get rich in a blink of an eye. (unless you get incredibly lucky)

I still don’t understand how can casual player get 10g/day.

10 did I read that right, 10 gold a DAY for a casual player, if only that were true I would be mega rich by now.

1 gold a day is much more realistic.

10 gold/day isn’t that bad, and you don’t even have to play the market.

MF gear farming in Orr, you could get 5+ gold/hr selling everything you get. Some people get 10gold/hr doing speed runs of CoF.

“casual” doesn’t mean sitting in LA running around in quaggan tonics yelling “Catch me if you can!”…. which, I do occasionally

Well I must be doing something seriousely wrong then, I spend most of my time in orr, maybe 4-5 hours a night, and I don’t see anything like 10g a day

Feel free to guest, we will help you.

thundercrown.3654:

makes sense as they would want to hide their unjust actions. seems they have a lot to hide.

Yes, they really must hide stealing your items. I mean, it is an epidemic, a ongoing-greatly increasing problem we are seeing every single day. And definitely is not strewn with something as simple as player error.

On a side note, your in game items have 0 cash value. As you do not own them, or the rights to them, or anything in game for that matter. This entire thread could have been avoided if you simply sent an email and let the proper people handle the situation.

And then there is this:

“Thanks for getting in touch with us with your inquiry about placing your video on YouTube or other video or image hosting sites of that type.

First, I just want to be clear that we cannot allow the use of ANY materials from our Closed Beta or Stress Tests. That is absolutely forbidden.

Secondly, our Content Terms of Use (http://www.guildwars...rms-of-use.html) does not allow the monetization of any property related to Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 and it clearly states that all use of our game assets must be used for non-commercial, personal purposes only. Please note that we reserve our right to enforce our Terms of Use at any time, for any reason cited in the Terms. However, at this time we are not actively enforcing the prohibition against placing Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 videos of your own making on a monetized YouTube page.

So while we cannot actively give you permission to place a video from the BWEs on a monetized page, at the present time we are not pursuing the placement of such videos as long as they are not in breach of our User Agreement (http://www.guildwars...-agreement.html), our Rules of Conduct (http://www.guildwars...of-conduct.html) or any Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 Non-Disclosure Agreement.

Please be sure that you include all the required copyright notations in videos that use Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 assets, as defined in Section 3 of the Guild Wars Content Terms of Use. And if you have further questions, please let us know."

Bazeleel.8219:

No, i get that, that is why you see almost no content for it anywhere. Foolish on their part.

Hope they understand that this is the main reason youtubers do not put content up as much as they should.

If blizzard and EA allows this arena net sure as hell better or they will not be able to compete with the other MMOs out there. They are the ONLY mmo that doesn’t allow this and this. Hell even SOE games are allowed to do this.

Its not worth the content producers time, its that simple. When PS2 has more youtube channels then GW2 there is a problem.

I see ads everywhere, spammed on every gaming site….
As for money, no you cannot make money off their IP, as is the case with most company’s you do not own. You can’t run around using other peoples work to make profit… And I highly doubt blizzard or EA allow making money off content either.

In fact.. http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/10d00m/ea_flagged_all_my_bf3_videos_on_youtube/

Blizzard on the other hand, they have tons of money so they probably don’t care. So they may allow it with proper credit. I mean, everyone copies them already in everything they do as it is..

thundercrown.3654:

who are you? you just a player. beat it. reported for masquerading as an employee

Wow…. Players who are experienced with how the forums work giving you suggestions and you just toss this at them? Maybe the loss was rl karma, and you got your just desserts..

Do people not get the hint when the last 90000000000 threads were closed that even had the word “mount” in them? I would assume sooner or later they will just hand out infractions to alleviate the shear lack of use of the search function..

Winch.2657:

I know that a single player game can’t be compared to a multiplayer one and
lag might be an issue, yes, but remember alpha: you can learn when to dodge by sound only, same with jade maw. Or think about the charge skill of the undead abomination in CoE. These patterns do require timing to avoid and are rather unforgiving, but not frequent enough. As a matter of fact I think undead abomination is a more interesting encounter – because of his insane speed and instagib – than alpha.

“you can learn when to dodge by sound only, same with jade maw.” Still a lag issue here, MMO latency is a big problem when making things challenging. Some people will clearly see and experience the actions coming from the game server before others. Thus making quick timing unfair to anyone without a super connection speed. There needs to be a delay between the tell of the skill being used and the actual action, otherwise you put the player base at odds with their ISP and thus hurting the games fun for them.

Solid Gold.9310:

Axesome.1025:

Hicci.8761:

Axesome.1025:

Hi,

I think it’s nearly impossible to get rich in GW2. I do a lot of events, guild missions, yet i am so poor. Can you make some solid cash without farming 24/7?

Yup. If you are as casual as you claim to be, you can just do daily bosses, maybe some cof and other additional stuff. You can easily get 10g/day.
If you can’t even do that then you don’t deserve all that fancy stuff you want. There are no magical ways to get rich in a blink of an eye. (unless you get incredibly lucky)

I still don’t understand how can casual player get 10g/day.

10 did I read that right, 10 gold a DAY for a casual player, if only that were true I would be mega rich by now.

1 gold a day is much more realistic.

Casual does not mean efficient. I casually farm, i could sum up my actual farming in maybe 3 events to 4 per hour. In that hour it is possible to make 4+ g. And that is without dungeons, so if you perhaps did 2-3 very quick CoF, then 2-3 Orr events, 10 actually seems a bit low.

Just a few things I’d like to respond to here:

goldenwing.8473:

Even after the huge number of people had reported the troll for sexist, racist, and other ToS violations, by our calculation, the troll had lost the devs multiple dozens of new players and current subscriptions. Those are only the ones we knew about, might actually have been higher.

If he really did such things I am unsure why Arenanet would not give him temp/perma bans after several instances. But blocking should have worked for those involved. And once blocked, I am not sure how they could continue to troll you as you cannot see them talk.

goldenwing.8473:

The tools provided by the dev were inadequate. The devs did not enforce the ToS they did have, and then they turned around and rewarded the troll by allowing him first access to the highly anticipated new raid dungeon. Bad business decision based on attrition numbers; that was the dev’s choice. /shrug

The tools provided are-Block, In game Report, Email Support Report, and simply leaving the area after blocking. If these were done, I’m not sure why players were affected, as for the reporting, Arenanet won’t let you know what they have done that is an internal thing.

goldenwing.8473:

With our help, strategy, gear and spec were shared. The troll was immediately kicked from the losing guild and relocated (in his shame) to another server and had to start his own guild there. Oh. And yes. Everyone in game (across all servers) knew the story by then. And his character name.

It seems as though people are making this person far more famous than they should.. By bringing so much attention to them in game, I think you are doing the opposite of helping. Now not only is he a troll, but now you have made him famous..

goldenwing.8473:

Sorry, I did not indicate we had actually dispatched the troll. He was an unimportant boor except for the fact that the devs never understood he cost them subscribers. Their loss.

Just to clarify, there are no “subs” in gw2 as it is a B2P game. Once you pay there is no further cost to enjoy the game.

And as others have said, I am confused why anyone would leave an MMO knowing that these people exists EVERYWHERE… just because they did not like this person. They should have blocked/reported and moved on. Posting that people left just makes him look more epic.. because by definition, that is exactly how you feed a troll in the first place… Which I’m sure was not the purpose of this thread.

I think there was a serious lack of anti-trolls on your server, I would suggest that you find them as those people often get bored with the lack of trolls in GW2 compared to other games. They would be happy to assist you.

Or for a small fee I’m sure Vayne could guest to your server :P

WRod.3856:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nice Try.

But your photo editing skills could use a little work.

I notice this too. LOL

If i was him. I would have used different numbers

Yea, I logged in to check and I don’t see the 4’s looking like that in gold. I would say if it is fake, it was probably 48g. If I was playing around with a pic, I’d be more obvious but would still look funny :P

If the thread stated (If you had this much gold, what would you do with it), that would have actually been a more interesting discussion.

lunawisp.2378:

Geotherma.2395:

Why would anyone click target?

I haven’t seen the deselecting while farming, still uploading the video tho. I seen another video where someone was targeting NPC’s and somehow it would select the NPC while moving the camera. I have just checked this and it doesn’t happen with me.

I don’t understand how you’re avoiding this issue if you’re using the right mouse button to turn the camera. The moment you press that button, the cursor disappears, you have no idea where it’ll be when you let go, so there’s no way to consistently avoid reselection of a target as far as I can see. Unless, of course, you’re constantly swapping targets with the TAB key so you simply don’t notice that your target has changed when right clicking.

As for asking why some people are trying to click to select a target, maybe that’s the way they like to play. What does that have to do with this issue?

I posted a vid of me playing in the previous page, I had no trouble “holding target”. There is nothing “wrong” with the clicking mob idea, to each their own. But it seems inefficient to me, but that’s just my opinion. Like I said in the previous post, in other games people would laugh because I clicked my skills instead of using numbers etc. I still did it anyway, and as with the clicking targets its the same. It might be less efficient, but unlike those players I’m just stating my opinion as opposed to calling them bad etc.

It seems the deeper we go into this discussion the more I realize why perhaps Arenanet has not put this as top priority. Beyond the fact that it may not be one of their top 100 things to work on right now, it could also have something to do with being able to implement a fix. I’m sure they have noticed this thread and have it in mind, but even if they do want to fix it, that doesn’t mean they can right now. I can’t imagine many people in WvW have this trouble as clicking a target would be very inefficient. For soloing I don’t think many people would be having too much problem as tab will quickly redirect you if for some reason this does happen. As some stated it does seem that in dungeons it has been a larger problem. And a few have mentioned world bosses, but most of those are simple tab targets to left-click targets and megabosses rarely move-Maw, Jormag, Shatterer, etc. Again, don’t think I am trying to downplay the concerns of those affected by this, I’m just trying to explore how this affects people. And as I see it right now it seems only some people, and beyond that, only some parts of the game are affected. A lot of it seems to have to do with play style. If this is true, I can understand why it is not the largest thing for the teams to focus on as they have huge things in the works. Balancing, content, bug fixes, exploit fixes, culling in pve, and so much more.

I know they have tagged this thread for follow up and I am sure they will keep up with it. The best thing to do is post instances(moments) that this happens, and how it happens. That will better help them determine how to fix the issue for those players affected.

I usually make it a point to buy stuff for events every week, about 50g. I don’t stock up my wealth like that though, so I find random things to spend it on. But events are always fun for everyone.

GhostClock.6025:

When you stop being alive, you are dead. You die.

Doh’!

I think those places you are talking about would be glitched areas or exploitable barriers. So you are asking for less walls, an easy mode for getting over clearly blocked areas, and admitting to exploiting flaws in the barrier design. And now you want Arenanet to make more of these and just make it so we can run through every zone in easy mode.

On top of that you end it with “I bought this game to explore, not too be another nobody that’s seen everything that’s already labeled.”

Calling everyone with world completion a nobody, and that somehow the game should be endless and somehow create maps so you never experience everything on a whim.

I think i can sum this up by saying your desires to remove the collision/barrier to make it so everyone can just wander wherever they like, will probably go unanswered. But there are some cool PS2 games I can recommend that let you jump off the edge of the world and fly around.

PS-People already beat the game in 1 hour to 1 week+, removing those barriers that block easy paths would just make those complaining about boredom even more bored. And add to that growing list of people who ran out of things to do because they rushed content, or were able to go through content faster than expected by the designers.

I know this forum is here to help new players, and I think that is a great thing. It also helps any players who need assistance. But I think many people may not visit here, and need assistance in game. So I was wondering if there will ever be a Mentor tag, or mentor status for people like those in this forum who wish to help others. A tag much like the commander tag would allow players to talk with those who are willing to help with questions etc. I think an in game “PHP” idea would allow this forum to reach a larger audience. I know this is sort of a suggestion, but I believe it could be a branch of this forum in game. Which would further its overall purpose, because not everyone visits these forums. And even if they do, they could benefit from such a service. Could even tie in achievements or ratings based on players voting etc. What do you think?

Of the thousands and thousands of suggestion threads there is some that are obviously more wanted than others. Of those threads what personally are the 10 top things you would love to see implemented “right now” if it were possible. Think about overall gameplay, each of their correlation with each other, and how these 10 things would benefit the game the most.

Please only post 10 things or less, and try to just keep it as things, not arguing their usefulness as that is what those other threads are for. I’m sure Arenanet would love to see the truly most wanted suggestion all in one place, so maybe this can help ^^

Please try not to derail, or criticize others. You can leave 10 things and mention short pros and cons, that would be great

1. More character creation options-I feel there could be so much more added and this is a large improvement for the game as a whole. Some people I know actually don’t play as much because they see their “doubles” everywhere.

2. Better search options on the BLTC- you can’t really find food (and a reminder there are 2 types) because the search function is lacking. There are many other examples but this is just a quick one.

3. More skins on the BLTC-Ones that are not just town clothes.

4. A reason to use town clothes.

5. Rarity outline on items in inventory-color coded thin simple outlines to differentiate armor etc from one another. An example would be yellow outline around a rare items icon. This idea is in this sub forum, something I really wanted to see.

6. A mentor option. I’d love to see a player tag on map for those willing to help others in game, much like the Commander tag. Players could turn this off and on, and would freely welcome whispers for help and info from new players.

I forget the others, but I will try and get up to ten when I have more time. In the meanwhile, I’d love to see everyone else’s list ^^

Just curious to see how people rate the current dungeons in game as they stand now.
I’ll try and make a simple form to make it easier, and you can rate story or exp or both if you like.

Ascalonian Catacombs
1-10
Pros
Cons

Caudecus’s Manor
1-10
Pros
Cons

Twilight Arbor
1-10
Pros
Cons

Sorrow’s Embrace
1-10
Pros
Cons

Citadel of Flame
1-10
Pros
Cons

Honor of the Waves
1-10
Pros
Cons

Crucible of Eternity
1-10
Pros
Cons

The Ruined City of Arah
1-10
Pros
Cons

Fractals of the Mists
1-10
Pros
Cons

F&F Dungeon (Soon)
1-10
Pros
Cons

You can rate them all or pick and chose, up to you

When everyone, or those who wished to pursue the content, has finished all of the F&F where do you want to go next?

It was nice running around Tyria doing the events and small quests, even if some felt it was underwhelming. But once it is over and the next story begins, where would you like to go from there? What areas do you think would be the best to explore that are currently closed, that could facilitate an amazing experience within the living story?

I personally would love to see the story start somewhere in a place we already have, but develop into a new untouched area. Perhaps the living story itself could be the unlock to experience the new areas. Those who do the story can find themselves in the new content area, and those who do not do the story will be given a way to get there at a certain changing point in the story. I think this would create a desire to actually want to do the content, as the reward for simply trying gets you to a new place entirely. Maybe this is far out, and more expansion worthy, but just a thought.

Otherwise, I’m hoping a new living story could at least lead us to places adventurers rarely visit, and I believe Arenanet has the tools to see what places in the game are under experienced.

Anyway, where do you think we should go in the next living story?

What are some of your favorite and/or worst moments inside SAB?

Mine started with the frog-Worst
I didn’t do that thing, oh whats it called.. oh yea! Pay attention… And died several times thinking I could go at this like an NES game :P Luckily I learned my lesson and even began liking it so much I made a sound track for the encounter ^^

My favorite would have to be the bridge and the overall area of the waterfall. That place seems endless, the open view seems like you could look on forever. I loved the idea that we go from caged inside walls, to standing on a bridge looking into an abyss of white nothingness. There isn’t many times in MMO’s when you feel like there is an “something beyond”, meaning we usually see the map and that’s pretty much it. We know there is collision walls and barriers and at that point we know we can go no further. But in SAB, and even in fractals, we get the sense that there is so much more that could be out there in that abyss of space. It is definitely a different feeling than just say, running around Queensdale and seeing mountains.

I’d love to see more of this, perhaps even outside of SAB. Maybe a new boss that requires players to do a simple jumping puzzle to fight a megaboss who is up high in the sky. Maybe I’m just thinking too far :P

HawkMeister.4758:

Geotherma.2395:

I’m still debating on either grabbing a 660ti, or simply buying a new comp. There’s really not much else I can upgrade in mine,

No need to get a completely new rig, your core components are totally adequate. Though a SSD drive to install the OS on and run your main game from is basically mandatory these days.

A new Gfx card is really your best bet, maybe the wifey can get your old one. It´s pretty power efficient, so should run in older computers.

I´d get the new 650ti Boost over the 660ti . Adequate performance but dramatically higher power efficiency.

I would like to have an SSD, but haven’t gotten one or done the research on moving my OS to to SSD. Actually I think my current HDD is on the lower spectrum of my experience rating. I’ll check out the 650ti, just seemed silly to take 1 step up, but I see your point. Sadly that computer can’t use this card, or the 450. She definitely needs an entirely new computer :P

I’ll have to compare GW2 to the newer MMO’s and see how much different the newer generation is with optimization.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Geotherma.2395:

I don’t even click any of the bosses because that seems pointless, tab won’t select players, it will only select mobs. So I don’t know why people would try and click through a culling-storm of players when they can use tab.

The problem occurs however also with gigantic bosses. I’m talking targets that are so big that you can’t possibly miss them when clicking them… and STILL the game fails to select the target 50% of the time. (maybe more)

Geotherma.2395:

Also, yesterday I purposely tested this just to see what others had a problem with. And as far as I could tell the only time it selects an npc etc is when you release the right button. So even if you click to move and are over an npc, it is where you let go that maters. I have to double check this to make sure, but I believe that’s what happened.

The problem is not so much with selecting npc’s, but with foes. You could be in Fractals, with the Jade Maw selected, ready to throw that charged crystal… and then all of a sudden the game selects something else. THIS is the problem people are mostly discussing in this topic. It happens throughout the game. Adjust the camera, stuff is deselected.

But why click the giant boss then instead of just tab targeting them? If it is so big that it cannot be missed, then within range you should be able to simply tab to select it.

I haven’t seen the deselecting while farming, still uploading the video tho. I seen another video where someone was targeting NPC’s and somehow it would select the NPC while moving the camera. I have just checked this and it doesn’t happen with me.

I select NPC’s with right or left, and then to deselect I press left click or esc. Usually left click is easier.

Edit: http://youtu.be/9A_5jMTZobI

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Geotherma.2395:

I’m not really sure exactly lol.. I was so lost on how people have this that I had to ask someone to explain it to me on the forum..

I use right click to rotate my camera as I’m fighting, in combination with both l/r held down at times to run forward through mobs. I’m always using the right click button to swirl the camera as I kite things in a circle also to evade in whatever direction I want. I click the screen to adjust the camera and don’t really end up changing targets unless I want to via [tab].

It should be impossible for you to not have had this issue, if you use right mouse button to adjust the camera. Because it happens to everyone. So maybe you simply didn’t notice.

But since you use tab to cycle targets, you would not have noticed the other problem with targeting. Which is, that click-targeting is extremely unreliable. You could be clicking on a foe big enough to fill the screen, and the game would refuse to select it.

These are core problems with the game’s combat system, which is why they should have the highest priority. The game is all about combat. How can they ignore this problem?

Why would anyone click target? Every MMO I have ever played I got yelled at for “clicking skills”. In GW2 I don’t need to click skills really, and it seems inefficient to click targets when tab is much more convenient. With targets like in wvw moving so fast, relying on such a method seems pointless. I have a video of me just farming in orr above somewhere, but fraps option for mouse cursor was off. I can do another one with it on, but clicking mobs just seems… meh. Though this is my personal style, I understand others troubles.

I don’t even click any of the bosses because that seems pointless, tab won’t select players, it will only select mobs. So I don’t know why people would try and click through a culling-storm of players when they can use tab.

Also, yesterday I purposely tested this just to see what others had a problem with. And as far as I could tell the only time it selects an npc etc is when you release the right button. So even if you click to move and are over an npc, it is where you let go that maters. I have to double check this to make sure, but I believe that’s what happened.

Mixed two so far, I’m new to making music but hopefully these 2 are ok ^^
Think this is the right place for these.

http://lstn.to/6ITN When SAB Frogs Attack
http://lstn.to/6LaA When SAB Ninjas Attack (Jump in a lake)

Roktar.2497:

SKiNBuS.4730:

How about… NO NEW CONTENT until OLD CONTENT is POLISHED.

Every time I see new content coming with soooo many daily hindrances and unfinished features etc… (if I didn’t have a lot of patience) I would have /ragequit many times over.

Rainbows, unicorns, backpacks, quaggans, retro, leather shirts… please, please, please… this is out of hand.

You know why there isn’t a All in One video game?
Because it’s a BAD idea.

(generalizing, don’t rage)
You want capes… play a Superhero game.
You want Pokemon… play pokemon.
You want 80’s… play 80’s games.

Mini games… cool.
Game changing content… please think.

I see these retro\super weapons (cool or not) it destroys any atmosphere or feel the original world had.

GW2 will be a second hand store in no time. Piles of useless toys added into a fun semi-realistic world to a spiraling out of control helplessly unrealistic world.

I’m scared of what’s to come.

SKiN.

Totally agree with you my friend. The childish thing, Anet tries to add in the game is ridiculous, quaggan backpacks ? really ? kitten T3 cultural charr armor fighting zombies with a plush on his back ? the “old style” 8 bit crap ?

I hope the devs start doing some serious content and not this childish thing because this game will fail so much, even in their facebook page when the game was released it has 1kk likes, now it has 800k… numbers don’t lie. We need content, new or old polished SERIOUS content.

GW2 should be 100% srs bsns…
We should have complete dark and dramatic gameplay, there should be dwarves and elves and high elfs. And darkness should come and overwhelm the world! And then when all that content is done we will introduce pandas! Wait…. Thats another game..

Everything about GW2 is humorous, there was funny non serious, not dark themes since the games creation. We have mini people as pets.. We have toy dolls and skritt.. At what point did you think this game was about serious things? I believe the majority of the playerbase enjoys or tolerates the things that you and a “very few” others complain about. If you want seriousness there is COD, BF3, Crysis 3, and probably some dark MMO’s out there that better fit your style.

iwan.8327:

Geotherma.2395:

Not “as” important, and again doesn’t happen to everyone. “Can’t” is also a very strong word.

Do you mind saying how do you avoid that issue?

I’m not really sure exactly lol.. I was so lost on how people have this that I had to ask someone to explain it to me on the forum..

I use right click to rotate my camera as I’m fighting, in combination with both l/r held down at times to run forward through mobs. I’m always using the right click button to swirl the camera as I kite things in a circle also to evade in whatever direction I want. I click the screen to adjust the camera and don’t really end up changing targets unless I want to via [tab].

iwan.8327:

Geotherma.2395:

Maybe because not everyone has this problem. I never even noticed this was a problem for people until this thread. And there are far more important things to be working on right now. If the right click button is a reason for someone to leave a game, then they probably don’t belong here anyway.

What do you mean? You can’t concentrate dps or control where you want when your targets constantly get changed just because your mouse cursor was over some other target when you just want to move the camera/character. How is that not an important issue?

Not “as” important, and again doesn’t happen to everyone. “Can’t” is also a very strong word.

kokocabana.8153:

For all you that have mega rigs but are not getting your super performance, would you happen to be running SLI/Crossfire? I’ve always avoided multi-gpu setups because lots of games just have problems with them. I’d rather drop more money on an single expensive card because it is much more reliable. At 1080 resolutions, multi-gpus really aren’t needed.

As I said above, I stopped using SLI, I’m much happier with just one card now. I’m still debating on either grabbing a 660ti, or simply buying a new comp. There’s really not much else I can upgrade in mine, and I see it being able to handle games and whatnot for a good 5-10 years. So my wife keeps eyeing it every time I mention getting a new one, apparently she doesn’t like her 8 year old dell :P