Guild Wars 2

I hated asuras until I seen this..

http://youtu.be/Of1XolajIl8

And now I have 2.

Farming leaping lizzy for weeks w.o a drop was not fun :P

I really have no problem with other servers guesting over during the events. The more the merrier Other guilds can come and do events etc, and all the rewards will be fairly given. I’m spending all week gathering more rewards up to the event. All are welcome to contribute, come, and share in the event. I didn’t want to have it ON valentines day because some people are probably out with their better halves, or sulking with chocolate ice cream. Kidding :P But everyone is welcome to come.

Rhialto.8423:

This is a really cool event! Not on Northern Shiverpeaks, but if I were I’d definitely check it out.

You can Guest

If any guilds will be coming to the event please post here so everyone can see who will be there. Thanks

Here’s hoping this gets added in an upcoming patch.

Navi.7142:

Launch til 15th November = everything was fine, decent loot (sometimes bad luck, sometimes good luck)
after 15th November = loot suddenly decreased (most of the time very bad luck)

-.-

Navi I would be honored to have you and anyone else follow me around the map for a day killing mobs and doing event. Seriously, no insult intended. I would love a few grinding partners for maybe 1-2 hours, we can kill lots of stuff and get loot. Maybe I can be someones good luck charm for RNG who knows.

It’s called random number generator for a reason. It is digital luck. The closest we can get to in a game. Flame all you like, but clearly YOU want loot because person B is getting it and you are not. Only way to make it “equal” would be to simply give every mob X amount of items dropped every time. You cannot change “luck”, you can simply in this programming get better chances with MF. There is no way for the gaming world to get “their fair share”, this is not communist russia. If you want more loot work harder. And for the people who said they cant make more than 40s an hour, I just vid myself making 38s in 5 minutes on complete crap loot. I’ll continue a daily vid of different places for people to see. You can flame, and troll, and complain, and call me anything you like. But fact is, you work hard, you get loot. You want everyone to have “equal chance”, then everyone has to play the same amount of time in game, hit the same amount of mobs, play on the same server, play at the same location with same gear/items, mf. Oh yea, and every mob would have to have 100% chance to drop item a,b,c. If you know how to program it better than do it, otherwise less namecalling and more “proof” than just “oh I didn’t get any yellows..”. because while everyones qq’ing on this forum people in orr are /map chatting about 2-3 golds and yellows. Maw people talking about a decent yellow. Goes on and on. So anyway, to be continued, back to making vids.

If every dev upped loot just because some people had bad luck.. we might as well have 1 mmo, that allows you to use godmode commands and infinite loot. So we can beat it in a month and own everything. This is the least difficult, easiest farming, simplist grinding game I’ve ever played in 15 years. They gave you an answer, they did not nerf anything. Then on top of that JUST to please people calling them names and garbage, they said they would continue using resources and time and money on making sure there is nothing wrong. So instead of working on content, working on bugs that matter, they are working to appease the tin foil hat crowds from rage-quiting over ignorance. Seriously, threads like this are a reason some people never look at forums. No respect for peoples work, namecalling, and conspiracy theories, might as well call this GW2 forums-Jerry Springer style.

Horrorscope.7632:

wildcode.5403:

Geotherma.2395:

10g+ a day SOLEY off penitents when it pops. I use omnomberry bars and no mf gear.

This gets me angry. I am lucky to make 40s an hour with 122% MF from all the events in the area when they pop and this person is making more than double that just from 1 event …

What level are you?

80.

My lower alts don’t make nearly that much. Drops are about the same blue,green, yellow. But the money comes from higher tier drops, which comes from higher level mobs.

Still looking for more Vday items, found some cute minis and stuff. Anyone know of other items that could be awarded or brought?

wildcode.5403:

Geotherma.2395:

I hope the luck for others improves, and I’m not rubbing in my drops. You can easily make far more daily if you do more than what I do which is just grind lol.

While I understand that you do not see an issue, please understand that others, including myself, have trouble even making 40s per hour chaining events, jumping zones, etc. While I make my money primarily from harvesting ori/ancient wood/omnomberries using 5 different characters at times, it is impossible for me to make the same amount of money any other way.

When your nodes are on CD for gatherables, do you do penitents, maw, dragons etc? That’s all I really do. For the price of things in game, doings things steady and all, I personally think around 1g an hour is a fine amount. The best exotics (non shiny crap..) are only 1-30 gold really. I had an 80 in a week just grinding and doing story/events, and a full exotic top set in 2-3. I do play much more than others but by comparison to other MMO’s I feel like I could play casually and still feel rewarded. I will say that I tend to get a lil bored, but that’s mostly because I do not do dungeons or wvw. Soon though, when I have more time. I’d love to have a grinding partner though, feel free to come guest

wildcode.5403:

Geotherma.2395:

Guy one: I don’t get good loot off 10 mobs.
Guy two:I get amazing loot off 10 mobs.
Guy one:Game is broken.
Producer:There is nothing broken that we can find. And we did not nerf drops.
Guy one:Clearly lying, game is against me.

Spend $10 dollars on lottery tickets, when you lose write to your state and explain that its rigged. Clearly you deserve more loot because, well, its you. I once won $100 in lottery. I seen a guy win like 10M on tv. Next day he got poisoned to death. Luck works both ways. As does a RNG.

Player One: I haven’t seen a rare in days.
Player Two: I am getting about 1 an event.
Player One: What’s your magic find like?
Player Two: Don’t have any. troll face
Player One: kitten.

Not seeing rares for days, while others around you see them regularly, that RNG trolling you.

lols

Well I can give my honest MF info, I use omnomberry and have a buff from my guild. 10% I think? And orr makes me 8-12g a day on a good day. Before patch tho, less mats dropped and bags. I made 6-8g. When I’m not busy in college programming, I will try to do a daily log and post my results maybe it will help since I play so long a day grinding dead ppl :P

I hope the luck for others improves, and I’m not rubbing in my drops. You can easily make far more daily if you do more than what I do which is just grind lol.

Guy one: I don’t get good loot off 10 mobs.
Guy two:I get amazing loot off 10 mobs.
Guy one:Game is broken.
Producer:There is nothing broken that we can find. And we did not nerf drops.
Guy one:Clearly lying, game is against me.

Spend $10 dollars on lottery tickets, when you lose write to your state and explain that its rigged. Clearly you deserve more loot because, well, its you. I once won $100 in lottery. I seen a guy win like 10M on tv. Next day he got poisoned to death. Luck works both ways. As does a RNG.

Loot is amazing for me, love the update and more mats dropping now(in orr). Using the extra funds to host the vday event and help my guild I’m in. Thx for the patch.

gwawer.9805:

Free virtual food and especially a free virtual food banquet is such a tease. It just makes you want to gorge on real-life food. Especially with some of the names they have for the in game food they really makes you start salivating and want to eat something in real life

Lol this is true, tbh after posting all the foods I had to go buy dinner cause my stomach hurt. And dinner had to be a huge meal lol

wildcode.5403:

Geotherma.2395:

10g+ a day SOLEY off penitents when it pops. I use omnomberry bars and no mf gear.

This gets me angry. I am lucky to make 40s an hour from all the events in the area when they pop and this person is making more than double that just from 1 event …

You can do Maw,dragons, and orr events. Just move around when the orr ones aren’t up. if you have loads of karma or don’t care about karma gear etc, buy some of the new chests off of the karma vendors in Orr. You get karma back, junk worth some good cash, minipets, and sometimes lodestones worth a lot. Again its RNG, but I did well with them. And don’t forget your story and dailys.

Also the game isnt about doing ONE thing. People sometimes forget to look at all aspects when grinding/farming etc. When your walking to another wp, are you killing along the way? are you grabbing those mithril ore? Little things like that. i usually end up surprised at the end of the day when I see 89 mithril ore, or 120 junk bones, and feel like I didn’t really even have to pay attention. The mentality part of it that I do is that I:
1.Sell my yellows etc and don’t go get the cash till end of my day
2.I keep depositing mats all day and don’t remove them to sell till end of day.
3.Play the game on my own time and grab the good events as they come.
*Don’t wp out of somewhere until you have at LEAST gotten the WP money back.10 minutes in a zone gathering or killing isn’t going to hurt.

10g+ a day SOLEY off penitents when it pops. I use omnomberry bars and no mf gear. I cannot speak for the Dungeons drops as i don’t do many. As for other events maw, dragons etc, my loot is pretty steady. Sometimes I get blues sometimes a yellow or even an exotic. I farm mobs for about 6 hrs a day, taking breaks in between, afking for food/life etc. On average i play 11 1/2 hours a day and see no problem with loot. Much like leveling it is very easy. If you want 80 in a week you can do it, if you want 100g in a week you can do it. RNG is RNG, and if they make the game any easier it might as well add /godmode /infinitecash to the programming. When people don’t get what they want they want someone/something to blame. Most games don’t even respond to these remarks, at least here you get producers telling you 1 on 1, that there is no nerf. GW2 isn’t perfect, but it at least does what most others can’t even do w/o doing it and charging you $$$ for it. As in fixes for crappy aspects of game in the form of cash shop items.

And if Ned there has programming ideas that are better than anets maybe he can do a public service and email them to arenanet.

470hrs played 41 days time.

If anyone has other ideas for rewards or places they would like to see us visit and drop banners just let me know. If you have any questions or want to contribute you can contact me too, or simply come to the event ^^

Events-

There is a rumor in Queensdale that a rare Pink Moa has been spotted. This moa is special and not like the others. For months it has hoarded away treasure in a secret burrow and those said to find the Pink Moa get a share of the bounty!

During the event if you find the Pink Moa you will be given a reward. Only the first to find him will get a reward. He will appear again several minutes after and can be found again, perhaps in the same area or in another. Hints will be given, and you have 15 minutes to find him.

In the spirit of laughter and love the second event will be a joke contest. We all love a laugh, and who doesn’t like a little Guild Wars humor.

Event Details:
The Joke Contest will be held with the other events. You can make up any joke so long as it follows the following rules:

1. Must be Guild Wars 2 related.
2. Must be tasteful, follow Arenanet code of conduct etc.
3. Must be FUNNY!

Mail me the joke in game during the time of the event, I will post the best on this thread and award the winners. Remember the prize and event info is in the link at a lower post.

Poem Contest

Write a short poem, GW2 related and mail to me during the event. I will pick the best ones and post them on this thread.

Event Details:
The Poem Contest will be held with the other events. You can make up any poem so long as it follows the following rules:

1. Must be Guild Wars 2 related.
2. Must be tasteful, follow Arenanet code of conduct etc.

Mail me the poem in game during the time of the event, I will post the best on this thread and award the winners. Remember the prize and event info is in the link at a lower post.

Cutest Couple Event

Want to show off your romantic couple pic? Post a pic on this thread during the event, entries can be any race/class/sex. Can only reward 1 couple a day, one for Friday and one for Saturday. At the end of each day the best photo will be chosen and the prizes awarded.

Event Details:
The Cute Couple Contest will be held with the other events. You can make up any pic so long as it follows the following rules:

1. Must be Guild Wars 2 related.
2. Must be tasteful, follow Arenanet code of conduct etc.
3. 1 picture Entry per couple.
*Must include names of the two players in the screenshot.

Mail me the poem in game during the time of the event, I will post the best on this thread and award the winners. Remember the prize and event info is in the link at a lower post.

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Hello one and all!

This week I’d like to host an event on the Northern Shiverpeaks Server. Since it is close to Valentine’s Day I will be making the event Valentines themed. I’ve gathered several things to bring to the event, consider me your Santa Clause of love

During the event there will be food for all, guild banners, boxes of fun, and possibly guild banquets. I’d like to invite everyone to come who can, and take part in the event.

There will be free food and buffs for all, but will also be a chance to win prizes! Different events will be held and upon winning you get a chance to win some of the items. I encourage any guilds and players to join, and if you like make your own events in the same area or others. I also will be updating this with the type of events, trivia etc that will occur, and encourage people to post ideas on what players can do to win prizes. So far the normal man hunt, trivia, kind of ideas would work fine but I’m open to any input from players!

So what can you win??

Well for everyone who attends you get:

Free Banner Buffs-
Experience Buff, gathering Buff, Karma Buff, Magic Find Buffs.
Donated by [KING] guild, the [KING] tag and [TOP] tags are both [KING] guild banners.

Free Food:
Rare Veggie Pizzas, Chocolate Chip cookies, Cherry Tarts, Lemon Bars, Omnomberry Bars, Steak and asparagus/dinners.

The prize rewards include:
10 Globs of Ectoplasm, donated by 2 love crossed ghosts in Orr.
Dyes created by the dye experts at “To Dye for” dye shop.
Dyes include:
7 Hot Pink Dyes
Unidentified Dyes
Rich Grape Dye
5 Pink Dyes
1 Strawberry Cream Dye
Updated items
3 Passion Flowers, every gal loves flowers
Passion Fruits, various amounts.
2 Polar Bear Minis
18 slot silk bag (retail value 2g)
Godskull Sickle-protect the one you love with a bone axe.

Thanks to the bandits in Queensdale we have gathered chocolate bars to give away as well.

Tonics, given by the Asura Ale n’ stuff shop.
Fiery Tonics-Show off your flames of love!
Princess Doll Tonics-in case you’re looking for that prince, why not look the part!
Plush Griffon Tonics-become a cute griffon, get given to someone’s sweet heart, swoon over said sweetheard, mission accomplished
Winter Warband Festive Mortars-nothing says love like firing giant festive mortars at the ones you love!
1000 pieces of candy corn, for those who want to shower their loves with candy and count the teeth as they fall out.

Aside from the rewards I will be bringing Evon Gnashblade’s boxes o’ fun, for all to enjoy.

I’m looking to hold this event Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (2/8,2/9,2/10) and hope to have many more prizes and fun to bring. While I scrounge around Kryta for some love themed items, all are welcome to come and bring their own fun ? I will try to have the events in the evening 5-9PM EST, times can be longer depending on our event supplies. If you would like to contribute, simply come and offer rewards for your own events, and of course it does not have to be during my set times. Most the food trays last about 5 minutes but buff for an hour. The Guild Buffs last 30 minutes I believe and you will have plenty of chance to come back and get more buffs. I’ll be updating with harder quests to receive the more valuable items (dyes etc) so that everyone can have fun. Location will be just outside the human capital, and may also move around the world to different popular event areas like Maw, and Orr’s Penitents WP.

So that’s it, if you’re interested please come! Whether or not you find your e-date doesn’t matter, we have something everyone can enjoy.

Special thanks to:
ladywings [KING]
skylaw [KING]
Guild: [KING]
Dantaeus Heardt

PS-if any Arenanet employees would like to come or contribute that’s just fine by me
Assuming we won’t be having a GW2 Official event.

Most MMO’s include this feature, it allows for tracking how often players are online. Such tracking measures allow guild leaders to remove members who may have left the game or no longer can log in for whatever reason. It’s essential as a guild leader to control your population by keeping as many active players as possible. This builds a strong social atmosphere and supports the game more when it comes to organizing such things as dungeons, pvp, and wvw.

Adding this would greatly improve the strength of guilds and allow for more cooperation between guilds. it is difficult to organize a good gathering of people for such things as WvW when you see guilds with hundreds of members thinking “Oh they could really help in wvw” when truly only a few are ever on. We all understand you cannot play 24/7, well most of us cant , but there are times when you need to put the guild first and support its active members who do contribute to it. Now is the time to add this feature as soon as is possible. Support active guilds, support social strength, and support our ability to maintain strong guilds that make a difference in the game for the better.

The game is called Guild Wars after all, not AFK wars.

Iyeru.5240:

Soulbound equipment is there to make sure that hackers can’t trade your equips, it also means that to change the economy, you have to put more effort into it than to put a left-over equip you no longer use on the market that’s epic. I don’t really get account bound nowadays though, it’s better to have one binding system, not two.

~I agree with this.

Titles that give stats are a big no-no. Why? Costumes with stats are a big no-no. So, titles are too. I don’t care if you have to do a lot to earn them. Someone, always, somewhere, will not be able to earn them. This would be an unfair advantage in pvp (duels too if added) and Wv3. These are what caused Kitsu Saga from Aeria Games to die, besides the whole in-game botting system (Like Angels Online and Ether Saga Odyssey have.) The stats on the cash shop costumes / titles were insane. if you didn’t spend hundreds of dollars, you’d suck at GvG, PK, PVP, etc.

~Titles work fine in Aion, also an NCsoft game. the titles are earned through various means like quests etc. These titles offer limited benefit such as HP,small attack boosts etc. Nothing game changing. Many find that in that game its beneficial to have them and a bit of an accomplishment since you have to earn them. On the flip side of this NC made some titles available only for cash, which was IMO a very bad move.

As I said earlier, if a voice chat system is implemented, I would leave the game if no disable system was implemented, even if it was only for parties, I’d want it off for me, always. I’m not going to explain why, as I don’t have to.

~I personally don’t like chatting in game, I feel I can do my part without the need to speak.

Inspecting players is a bit of a troublesome thing. In LaTale, most people have it off because they don’t want you seeing their build. Honestly, you should force it so that everyone can inspect others, so it would be fair to everyone. (This is how TERA handles it.)

~Again referencing AION, they have this feature too. They also have an online website so that you can see what gear is equipped etc (currently broken). It can be turned on/off and I believe the most common reason isn’t because people are scared of you stealing their build but because some players tend to harass others on their “not-so-elitist-attire”.

HP Numbers / percents on mob bars is off, for good reason. You can’t tell when a monster is going to die, so you ALWAYS have to be ready for something, a surprise, doesn’t matter.

~I enjoy this feature, 4+ years in FFXI and 4+ in Aion its nice to see something different.

Reason why magic find exists, is so that there’s a chance not to get the items you want, so that you have to run the event / boss again (This is mainly for sociable purposes.)

One user mentioned solo dungeons, but IMMEDIATELY went and talked about parties. If you’re going to make solo dungeons, it has to be solo, not in a party. The solo dungeon would drop no equipment or items of any kind save for the quest reward (This is how Eden Eternal does solo dungeons) and you get no exp from individual mobs. (Also how they do it.)

~I’m not sure if this was towards my post but I did suggest solo dungeons. I mentioned that they should have some solo dungeons to teach players how to run a dungeon without the problem of affecting others. General rewards for it, perhaps even start them at 10/20/30 etc and possibly give in addition to general rewards a group item or two to help when they enter the group dungeons. This helps the group and encourages people to do the solo dungeons for training and encourages people to invite them.

I’m not moving on any of these opinions. I’ve had enough of people suggesting them, and I’ve experienced them too many times to listen to others. This is how it is, and you should wake up to reality of free to plays you’ve never played.

~I have limited experience in MMO’s I have only played FFXI, EVE, WoW, Tera, Aion, GW2, Lineage 2. Mostly my time was spent on console games with a vast number 200+ that I own for PS3, 25-30 Xbox 360 games, a few Wii U games, and a few other PC games. GW2 feels much more like an RPG than an MMO but so far I enjoy it. I hope to see updates and addons to make it even more of an appealing game than it already is. I believe this forum is good for showing ideas to devs and that good ones will hopefully be taken into consideration. I don’t often flame others ideas, if I comment its simply to give reasons why the idea may have problems but in a tactful way as not to seem rude or tossing others opinions.

7. Previewing armor.

a. On trade post.
b. In normal links.

8. Filters that work on TP.

a. Food filters that actually filter food types, as well as others.

8. An improved LFG system.

Most games are hampered by servers and people from different servers cannot see each other. In GW its no like that. So why not create a LFG system like other MMOS that allows for searches for members based on what they want to do and level. Granted level is less important other than the entry requirements, but the whole shouting thing is a bit out dated.

9. Solo dungeons.

I know that the story allows for instances but solo dungeons could be beneficial.

a. Solo dungeons mirrored off the group versions. Make them smaller with limited daily runs. Make the rewards decent, but more importantly make “some” of the rewards (group wide). Meaning that you do the instance, maybe run 1 solo path of a scaled solo dungeon.Get your loot RNG created of course.. but have a high probability of obtaining loot that buffs your party like consumables etc. Then when you invite said person, they have buffs that help the party in those dungeons. You could further it by making them fun! Chest drops a party pizza, you place it everyone eats and gets a 30min buff of some sort that helps everyone. Or a orb that explodes and heals group useable 10 times or simply get 10 for the solo dungeon. Nothing epic, just helpful.

10. Mounts (PVE) and I stress pve..

a. Something simple horses etc that have slight speed boost. But this could be in a big update down the road since its a big boost to mmos usually as far as player base.

11. A little more on the gem store.

a. I’m not one to say monopolize the game with hoards of $$$ items, but some more stuff would be cool. More skins, perhaps costumes. Or transform items that make you look like random game mobs, like a centaur or a zombie asura, or maybe thats just more for Halloween heh.
b. Backs, bags (specialized ones so as not to hurt the crafters), flags. Back pieces with helpful stats or even just funny back pieces visually. Bags with helpful properties. Flags/banners to put down in pve or even just for fun with guildies/friends that give buffs either stat wise or fun worthy.

12. Some basics most players want.

a. Housing guild/personal.
b. Fishing, hunting with special weapon for special item/meat.
c. Dying weapons.

13. Titles with stat bonuses.
a. Titles rewarded from story,map, etc that give small boosts to traits/stats.

Well thats all I have for now, some might be stupid but just thought I’d share. Thx ^^

Hello. I’ve only been playing for a few weeks now have an 80 warrior and some alts. i enjoy the game very much and a lot of it has everything that was missing from other games. I had some ideas, unsure if they have been mentioned but felt like I could share.

1. Guild NPC’s
NPC’s that guild members could list items for auction just for guild members at a good price along with guild skins and specially made guild items. The cost could be in coin and the amount or some amount would be transferred to influence. ie. You buy a small guild banner item made by person A from the NPC, the money gets transferred into influence for the guild. Or something similar to this idea.

2. Seeing peoples actual levels
a. In open world PVE lands capped/actual
b. On guild roster

3. Seeing peoples classes
a. In guild roster

4. Have bonuses for Gems
a. Bonuses for larger purchases or discounts
b. Special rewards for purchasing Gems in stores (physical versions) ie. Gamestop. NCsoft has this for Aion cards.

5. Advanced Skills
I’ve noticed that as a warrior I like axe/axe and rifle. Unfortunatly, utility skills aside, the 5 skill list tends to get.. well, boring. I understand that combos can be achieved through party members skills but an update to make them more interesting would be nice.

a. Skill triggers like finishers for certain mobs, though complex could be fun. example- You either get your enemy (pve) down to say 5% and a finisher pops up, something interesting, maybe even not 100% chance so it doesn’t happen to often. Or, you could have just different finishers for different weapons/mobs. Say you get a wurm to 5% and
as an axe wielder you get “impale” as a finisher where you gut your enemy. Whether you see the guts wouldnt matter, the skill animation would be fine. Just something to mix it up a bit instead of 5 skills for ppl who lock in the 2-3 weapon sets.

6. Something more at 80 than leveling.

Now I haven’t been playing long so I’m unaware of anything that requires you to level passed 80 to achieve. What would be interesting is instead of simply opening skills which I mostly had all of at 60 (not traits), why not do something more. Say every level after 80 you get one or more of the following ideas:

a. A jug of karma
b. A point towards some sort of epic skill reached only after X amount of points. Nothing game changing, but interesting none the less.
c. A point towards a different basic skill that once unlocked could be switched like weapon swapping but for each skill in the 1-5 list. It would help give variety to the skills and more customization to classes, and more individuality.