Guild Wars 2

SnowHawk.3615:

“Am I and many others going to be wasting time in the Pavilion in hopes to attain the Chaos of Lyssa back item that is 100 times more rare of a drop (it seems so far) than Dwayna or Grenth for no apparent reason other than to annoy people.”

Working as intended.

They didn’t listen. They looked at their own metrics and realized that nobody could be bothered with it, and for good reason. Hopefully they will get a clue card for the next event.

Where the hell are we supposed to do this now?

Essence Snow.3194:

I don’t think it’ll bring players back. Too little too late imo.

Maybe not to the Pavilion, but there are plenty of ways to get tokens.

Now that’s a bit more like it. T6 mats vendor is really nice, and more champ bags too.

I guess you really were looking at your “metrics”?

Vol.7601:

On the livestream they said that Crystal Reid was the one who changed the Pavillion from a lootfest to what we have now.

I was thinking it was Devon Carver. This “lack of loot” is exactly his style.

This right here is nothing close to Marionette, and it’s a shame they had to replace content (coordination instead of farming) rather than having it supplement it.

Nerfing a re-used a event from the previous year, and destroying the champ trains at the same time? It’s not a wonder that more than a few people are a little bit bitter at the moment.

Nope. I can make more guild farming my way from Hoelbrak to Orr, and the scenery is nicer.

Clear.8512:

It is ok to enjoy stuff without rewards periodically.

That’s what television is for. This is gaming.

I hope I cleared that up for you.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Is this event really as poorly designed as I understand it? You complete it and from then, your rewards are determined solely by how many other players will complete it?

Yep. You understand it correctly. This has been the Anet boss/event design concept for quite some time now. What you do hardly matters. Your rewards depend on people you don’t even know, and sometimes can’t even speak to.

Sorry to have to tell you this Hule, but you’re talking to the hand.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Fixing it would be easy and doesn’t require anyone to write an essay.

Add Loot. Done.

The loot is there. You just need to do the event correctly to EARN it.

People have already stopped playing this event, at least on the megaserver I was just on. Nobody went for the bosses because they already had those achievements. It was just a few players working on the Kill 10 Rats Achievements.

I think I need 2 more cheevos and I will also be done with this No Loot Nonsense.

Fixing it would be easy and doesn’t require anyone to write an essay.

Add Loot. Done.

Get the meta fast. This place will be a ghost town by Friday.

This event was built for the Chinese in order to introduce skins from previous LS stuff that we already have. Too bad Anet can’t/won’t just come out and say so.

Lightsbane.9012:

all that’s true pretty much but wvw EoTM nets me at least 20-30 champ bags a night.

FTFY.

Seriously. There has to be some place “in-game” for server community to come together.

So, the low level map populations just died.

Welcome to EoTM.

This is absolutely your biggest problem in the game?

Thanks for the laugh, noob!

New character slots are truly easy to organize. Good luck with race change.

You can blame it on Diminishing Returns. Go ahead, camp the wolfmaster for more than 4 or 5 kills and then check out how much XP and karma you get per kill.

By running the full Queensdale train you avoid DR.

This is even worse than the ideas from the kittenes who want “dueling” in the open world. GvG hunting each other down in PvE, or in the major cities? I like map chat just the way it is thanks.

Calicoe.5149:

o my bad, drinking alcoholic beverages atm (graduated college yesterday party on over here)… but my issue with that is what if they dodge your mind wreck? with that being said i have multiple ways to interrupt you. Just my opinion

Mind wreck can be blocked to, that’s the other reason why I also like interrupts. Takes practice to use it well but you can mess with people minds that way too.

IndigoSundown.5419:

What? Given the number of players who duel on PvE servers in other games, I’d say this objection, at least, has no merit.

The objections from those don’t want open world dueling never have any merit.

Elixir.2169:

I know this subject has been brought up alot beaten to death by both sides but I want to bring it up again just so the devs don’t forget that we can fight over it one more time because it is something that could greatly boost many peoples enjoyment of the game. would destroy the cooperative nature of the PvE environment.

FTFY

Dee Jay.2460:

GW2 “endgame” is essentially a giant gold farming contest.

Yep, it’s that and large scale PvP with forts and siege, running around in crazy little circles for PPT.

Back to the first bit, we craft bows because the leather is dirt cheap and wood isn’t too bad. It’s certainly easy to get. Overall, bows are cheaper to craft.

AFAIK you don’t get more crafting experience if the item requires more mats. The only thing that gets you more crafting XP are the various critical crafting buffs like the WvW buff, guild buff or the coin mall item for that.

If you combine all of those buffs on a Friday before WvW reset you can save yourself a lot of mats because you gain crafting XP much more quickly. It makes a really big difference at levels 400 to 500.

These are consequences of a poorly thought out bandwagon plan.

No Walking.6349:

Cause karka queen is once a day…… Maybe people want more than one chance at world boss loot buddy.

There are plenty of other world bosses. I still don’t see any reason for OS puzzle.

But go ahead, give us a good reason to go there. Superior siege prints isn’t good enough.

No Walking.6349

Maybe a world boss chest with a single random account bound superior siege blueprint.

Not even close to “enough”.

These days we burn down the karka queen in seconds. Why should I bother with a jumping puzzle that can take hours, for a siege blueprint that I can make in the mystic toilet?

What? 10 or more precursors per day?

Holy Shiny Footprints Batman! How can I get one of those?

Oh wait. I would still have to rely on RNG. Never mind. Back to the batcave.

The loot would have to better than a champions chests to get me in there.

I hate jumping puzzles.

Straegen.2938:

Make it short.

Shorter than short. Get Shorty!

Server transfers sucked yet again, but at least spying/sabotage was no longer an issue.

Rewards suck yet again, unless you joined the bandwagon. Uff Da!

I dunno, maybe 3 way EoTM with China vs EU vs NA?

Awesome post. I’ve recently been screwing around with a roaming interrupt build with some PU ideas and it’s fun. I’m sure there are a lot of thieves out there swearing about me resetting the fight, and coming back with full HP.

On the other hand I can outright flatten road guards with this build and solo camps too, even though it’s not a DPS build.

There are some fantastic ideas in this forum, but you have to figure out what works for you.

Queen Jennah has a couple of things that defy gravity, but I prefer Anise’s robes.

I’ve done it, for the single reason that it’s one way to get the veil when you need it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If it is any consolation, I was playing Pong as a seasoned adult. I’m sure you can do the math. Lol.

My first ever hack and probably best big brother troll was to change the paddle width on the Apple II+ version of Pong. I let the game run over night and got the all-time family high score.

Mix’n Match is the best way to build an unusual look. Add in weapon color and select dyes to match and you’re unique.

I love underwater combat and in particular I really miss the lakes and quaggie nodes in the borderlands. Owning a keep meant keeping control of your quaggie node too, and people who can’t fight there should leave my quaggies alone, or else!.

I miss my quaggies.

Those aren’t reasons, those are more proof that Anet hates us.

The “last seen tool” is proving its worth here. Over 3/4 of our 150+ guild haven’t been seen in over a month. Mid-term and final exams are a part of that, but so are “other games” and the stone cold silence we’re getting from Anet.

Legendary crafting is not complicated, it just needs a precursor weapon that cannot be crafted, and probably never will be.

Carighan.6758:

Yeah but I wouldn’t make the clones do anything. They’d appear to be doing things though, and quite well so, using utility skills, weapon skills, moving, dodging, everything. Only, none of it has any effect.

But, they would look much more perfect in appearing to be players.

This. Just so much this. Active skills, a dodge, a utility heal , cast a weapon specific skill, complete with food and buff appearances that completely mimic the caster, and they all do exactly nothing.

Sadly, mesmers can’t actually have nice things like this.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

The new meta:

‘If at first your post doesn’t succeed, post, post again.’

Yep. The PvE dueling crowd do it just about weekly.

Oh and, “Blackgate, TC, SoR, and some other server”.

Now can this thread be closed too? Thanks.

Scrambles.2604:

Unless “awkward” is the new “finished.”

You remember when they said they want to support build diversity? Then they went and nerfed a bunch of the rune sets so that you had to use the entire set in order to get the best effects?

Awkward is the new finished. I’m glad you understand.

I have no idea if Anet is for or against this idea. Aside from that one really obtuse, “well yeah, maybe, hooo-hum, if we can make a profit on it” video, I’ve never seen them do a thing about it, except to create custom arenas, for profit.

Please take your dueling there.

Btw, I’m all for dueling and I’ve said that many times. I don’t want to see it in the open world and I think you’ll find that most of the people who object to dueling are only objecting to the open world part.

LOL. Are you serious? “Something we might look at in the future”

Along with precursor scavenger hunts, precursor crafting, playing the game the way you want to play and of course, Anet doesn’t make grindy games, because nothing is ever off the table around here.

Get real.

The last thing this game needs is yet another currency.

Scrambles.2604:

None of that matters though, because all evidence has shown Anet is pretty much OK with open world dueling.

Really? Care to show us where you read that?

Open World dueling? No thanks. Again!

Still, a good 5% of the supply dried up over night. I didn’t really expect that.

Don’t bother with the demand side. That’s too easy to game. Just put in a ton of bids at 1c, and it looks like HUGE demand. It’s the supply side of the equation that will determine the rising price over time.