Guild Wars 2

cesmode.4257:

But I do not know why they continue to say they cannot(or wont) restore things like this.

Well some of the challenges that springs to mind is:

how do you determine how far the roll back should go?

if a player removed something from the guild vault during the rollback period, legitimately or not, how do you track that item and any other item/value that may have been modified in the interim through use or trading? do you go in and undo a bunch of transactions that were linked to it?

IndigoSundown.5419:

No, thanks. If I have to have stats on armor, I would prefer not to have them be stats that do not relate to combat numbers.

Then I’m guessing your armor doesn’t have any Magic Find on it, so this doesn’t really affect you either way =)

Arya.9021:

OR you could not pay people. Omg, really? You can just choose to do the dungeon yourself? No way!

If you dun wanna get scammed, dun do it. Simple.

You’re missing the point entirely.

This is happening to players who joined a party in good faith to play through and complete the dungeon, only to be kicked out near the end.

They aren’t paying anyone for anything.

Zuer.2814:

I’m not asking for a help with an issue here. Simply asking if the development team is aware of and/or taking care of whatever got messed up in a patch.

There haven’t been any patches, this is an infrastructure issue, not a software one.

seem to be affecting both data centers so it’s likely to be on the auth server.. but it could be any number of things, many of those being outside anet’s control.

Best way to minimize the odds of this happening is asking around in map chat for your party leader’s rep and also making note of accounts you see offering this type of service, at least you’ll know never to join up with them.

and yes, you can upgrade your trial account to the real deal and you’ll get to keep all your progress

dronzer.8392:

I think the OP is referring to having a health bar above the character head, that’s what I would class as a nameplate. .

Hum.. we do have a health bar above a character’s head.. ?

urak.4863:

That makes the ideal solution to have more people working with their team, right?

Dev 101: development takes time and thought, the benefits of throwing more resources at a project plateaus pretty early on.

what do you mean specifically by “nameplates”?

-don’t use one of the skins that glow or have particle effects
-turn off the particle effects in your display options.

so in order:

yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
yes

hopefully that’s cleared everything up for you

Fordel.3208:

Why would it be OP?

because since it keeps reapplying itself with each hit, it’s near impossible to escape.

it would turn into a repeat of ArrowCart+Leg Specialist, only mobile.

dragon.8345:

b/c why would I leave all of my friends and go to a server that is not competitive?

Your server is more “competitive” because it’s more crowded, the cost of being competitive is having queues.

g15 keyboard(never liked it that much) + g600 mouse(huge upgrade to my gw2 game play, cannot say enough good things about this mouse.)

twice..today?

because you can only get the chest once per day.

as others have said, it’s an extra drop, it doesn’t replace anything.

Daethonfoot.3516:

Too bad you cant chase a high rank/title like one character players can. USE YOUR HEAD. Alts are about having more fun and less redundancy. Five 80’s is five times more fun than one 80. USE YOUR HEAD.

Please keep a civil tone.

While five 80s might be five times more fun than one 80, it also took five times as long to level all those characters to 80, didn’t it?

I can chase any title a player with only one character can, it’ll simply take longer to get there. I’m committed to this game and I don’t mind if maxing out everything on everyone takes a few years. I played guild wars for six years, I’m comfortable taking the long approach.

Dante.1508:

The only thing i’ve found that even slightly resembles Guildwars world is under the water in Lions Arch and the monsters, other than that this could change its name and be a whole new game..

This might interest you then: http://zoom.it/TWLx

all the gw1 locations found in gw2.

style.6173:

I’d want different WvW skills based on what I am doing as well. It adds more strategy to the game which is a good thing.

No, that actually removes strategy.

Zoid.2568:

I won’t give you any hints.

I already have answers to this but i want to hear your opinions so we know if you know the issues GW2 have and how you’re going to solve these problems. If you give the wrong answers i will have to write a long thread about how you don’t know anything about the issues in your game and hopefully it will help you see the issues so you can fix them.

I LOLed pretty hard at this.

Kincaidia.3192:

You think it should cost 25 gold to respec a single trait?

The goal of respecs having a cost is to limit frequency.

If the cost is too low the game becomes: take control of AC, max out all points to AC mastery; get off the AC and jump off the wall, move all points to siege damage reduction as you run to a nearby camp; get to the camp, switch all points to guard damage, etc..

For the abilities to have meaning they need an opportunity cost. The lower the cost, the more it favors time played over player decisions.

How low do you think the cost should be?

Mystic.5934:

because of GW2, I increased the size of my mouse to about double what it was. it helped A LOT

I’m not sure if you mean physical size or just the cursor.. but since you brought up mice size I have to mention that upgrading to a g600 dramatically improved my gameplay, mostly due to how much more intuitive ground targeting felt when the same hand was activating and targeting.

Dante.1508:

It should be like Secret world where the fast casting target actually casts around mob your targeting when fast cast is on. So you can just point and shoot..

Makes life so much easier..

unless you want to use your ground targeted skill on something other than your primary target.

1 is a separate issue tied to population size, not the size of the map itself.

I assume the most likely issue is the client not being able to load a bigger map in memory without taking a non-trivial performance hit.

either way you have to manually target the ground, the only difference is that one way requires a double click but gives you a more visible and informative cursor, whereas fast-cast only requires one click but uses a fairly small cursor that’s easily lost in screen clutter.

Evolut.2398:

I don’t think a single WvW player is in favor of the WvW ranks being character bound and would rather they have an account wide rank

I’m a single WvW player who is in favour of ranks/abilities remaining soulbound.

and I doubt I’m the only one

I think resets would be fine as long as they’re limited to once a month.

I use 6 Alts in WvW and am perfectly happy with wxp/abilities remaining soulbound.

my characters are individuals and they have specialized in different things, i like that.

Vaugh.7193:

This has been suggested before: It can be fixed by PPT is relative to the total amount of players playing WvW at the time of the tick.

ppt relative to population leads to one massive problem.. once a server gets a lead, this encourages them to stop playing.

document ongoing collusion and report it as thoroughly as possible.

problematic.9623:

SkylightMoon, SpehssMehreen, both of you failed to communicate that you understand why people are angry. Do that first if you expect to have some kind of audience with the angry gamers.

I don’t think the issue is that gamers are angry, nor is the reason(s) they are angry pertinent.

the issue would be said angry gamers not being able to express their anger in a respectful manner.

Ignore map chat.

not only will it solve this specific problem, it’ll allow you to live a happier life, bereft of the garbage that is public chat channels.

Mbelch.9028:

“Many feel previous nerfs left the class unplayable.”

A statement made about every class, in every mmo, at every point in time.

God.3542:

I don’t even go to WvW anymore because the rewards are so much better in the new place.

If you to prioritize rewards over enjoyment, that’s your own problem.

Bowulf.9726:

But there IS something to be said about your WvW experience as a player that you should be rewarded for, not just your warrior. Yes?

your experience as a player is rewarded by… making you a better player.

Not including the new weapons, you’ve just described a human guardian.

I find that having wxp be soulbound has actually pushed me to play WvW with my alts more and has helped to further individualize them.

I want my characters to be specialized in certain things and I want them to each have their own accomplishment.

I’ve noticed that in the majority of all these complaints about this or that account-wide limitation being “bad for alts”… it’s never about alts being special and unique, it’s about players using them as generic build templates they want to swap between or using them to get around farming limits.

Any solution based in hiding information from players won’t accomplish much, players will simply create a 3rd party tool to get around it (ie: the millenium site).

even within a set of 6 servers, at least one of those matchups will be just as unbalanced. People tend to forget matches were just as lopsided before the new system.

and plenty of players still have fun, I know I’m one of them

That makes sense … except that cost is a pretty small factor in making players want to transfer. It does impact destination choices once they’ve decided to transfer but it doesn’t give them any reason to leave their current server.

even if you make it free, there’s got to be an incentive to make players from overpopulated server want to transfer to a smaller one. Simply lowering the cost won’t magically pull players away.

the problem is that not every server has foes that are that closely ‘balanced’ with them.

no matter how you determine the matchups, there will be some that are unbalanced. at least with the new system servers don’t stay stuck in the same unbalanced matchup for months.

eekzie.5640:

Right now, the majority of the ranking is based off how active a server is in WvW. Rather than how skilled they are.

How would you evaluate a server’s skill level?

because wvw doesn’t really have a ‘population’, it has ‘activity’… which varies in many ways, some of which are simply not predictable week-to-week.

So they use total server population since it’s the best indicator of potential activity.

The upswing to the unbalanced nature of the match is that as long as your server puts up some kind of fight, you’ll probably gain a few ranks.. and no matter how well ER does, they’ll most likely drop a few ranks.

the new matchup system isn’t about winning the match, it’s about performing better than your rating expects you to.

it’s a lot less frustrating than playing for the win.

Denial Of Service.5732:

if i worked hard to lvl up an alt why im not allowed to profit from it?

Because this is a game, not a paid job.

Denial Of Service.5732:

whats the point anymore to have an alt?

Enjoying different class and build options, as well as developing new characters.

your problem isn’t that alts are useless, it’s just that they’re less useful as a tool to farm specific things repeatedly.

which, btw, isn’t what they’re meant for anyway.

not to be difficult but that post by eva is very vague.

the main resistance to the “accounts-tied-to-server-only” theory is how the population status fluctuates. there’s simply no way that a sizeable portion of player transfer servers every single day.

Look at threads where players complain about not being able to get into a given server that is full: the universal response is to keep trying on off-peak hours.

why would peak/off-peak matter if current activity wasn’t a factor?

Cymric.7368:

Good job cheating nsp, killing treb using hacks. See the combat log.

I’m a bit curious as to why you took the screenshot before the fireballs started hitting you?

How do you know which player submitted those bids?

i have 8 character slots and maxed out bank tabs.

If you enjoy the game and plan around being here for a while, then yes, it’s definitely worth the money.