Guild Wars 2

Awesome ideas! Too bad they’ll never happen.

We’ve been asking for guild commanders for a year already. Nada happened.

This new patch does nothing for WvW, again.

style.6173:

Nothing new this release isn’t a bad thing. I’d rather ANET focuses on giving us an awesome BL update than on giving us another pointless siege skill.

I would rather they focused on guild commanders and the UI, than any border land update. And just why exactly Anet doesn’t understand this is completely beyond me. After all, we’ve only been asking for guild commanders since day 1.

Pfft, I often don’t have 45 minutes to play a full on fight intensive invasion. I’m leeching just because I’ve got kitten I have to go and do for a few minutes? Get real.

Besides that, how does this affect your game in the slightest?

Cactus.2710:

If you really want it, you’d better hope that it isn’t on ANet’s to-do list. That’s where all good things go to die.

It sure seems like it.

Your best tactic is to never ask for it and to pretend you couldn’t care less about it … then it might suddenly appear out of nowhere in a patch.

Cynical, but true. With the exception of culling (which should never have been a thing), updates to WvW have mostly been things we didn’t ask for.

Meglobob.8620:

The official reason, I think, is in this regard they want each character to be individual and not a generic account character…

I think, Devon? one of the devs said its not going to be changed, no matter what, wxp and the passive WvW skills are going to stay soulbound…

That’s they way they want it, that’s the way it will be…

I’m sure they’ll will come up with all sorts of magical fixes once the next great thing is released, whatever that might be.

Adinay.2589:

So many people are not buying the permanent gathering tools from the Black Lion Trading Company because they are afraid Tier 7 materials, or an expansion will negate these tools.

I’m about as far away from being an Anet fanboy as you can get, but I can’t even for a moment imagine that Anet would be that stupid. They don’t listen to their customers, but they’re not stupid.

As for whether or not these thing are worth the game gold? Well, I find them really convenient, particularly since I gave up playing my alt characters. The fact that I gave up on them isn’t a good thing, but this game is really not friendly to alts.

Brutal Arts.6307:

Programmer/Developer Laziness Hearing Problems.

FTFY. They aren’t listening to us.

Zeldain.5710:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Because them finishers are SO OP!

Not sure what the issue with finishers are…they don’t affect game-play whatsoever and are purely cosmetic.

That’s exactly the issue – they don’t affect gameplay whatsoever. So instead of design time going into gameplay, it went into monetization.

Yup, it’s exactly the same issue with GvG players squatting in the WvW maps. Anet hasn’t yet figured out how to monetize it, so they don’t support it all.

This topic has been brought up so many times, its no longer even interesting. Well, Anet isn’t interested in it. They would rather bring us siege mastery and capture points, and other stuff that we never asked for.

It isn’t going away. Get over it, or find a new game to play. There are a few coming.

Behellagh.1468:

No the difference in the two exchange rates is the same ratio as it always has been. The Gems to Gold is 72.25% (or 85% x 85%) of the Gold to Gems rate.

With the median price increasing steadily, the spread increases as well. Of course there is daily fluctuation.

Zepidel.5349:

Riddle me this Mr. Smith what did $20 of gems buy 6 months ago? And what can $20 of gems buy you now?

I actually pegged my mark to stuff I’m planning to buy, exactly one character slot, and I’m not willing to spend any more real world money on this (for a variety of reasons).

A gem buyer using only game gold will be paying more for that item now.

A gem buyer using real money will be paying the same for that item.

A gem buyer, using real money to buy a non-TP item is going to spend more real money for that item but not totally because of inflation, but because of “the spread”.

Item prices are outstripping the value of real world money, vs the gems they can buy, because of “the spread”.

Svetli.4276:

new ppl who don’t have money or exp how to get money will buy gems with dollars
simple

If they have sort of disposable income, and they are willing to spend it.

Most of you have never traded on the stock/options market so you probably don’t understand “the spread”. The spread is the difference between the best buy offer, and the best sell offer.

Gems are more expensive now in game gold terms, and yes desired items on the trading post are more expensive than ever, but you can’t just buy your way into this game now. At least, not as easily as you could at the start of the game.

The price of gems, per game gold has climbed steadily since day 1.

The gems per real world money has stay constant.

But, the difference between “the price of gems for game gold”, and “the gold given for gems for sale” has steadily gotten farther and farther out of whack. This is called “the spread”, and Anet is using the spread as yet another gold sink.

Yeah you can pull out the credit card again to buy something you want, and you’ll get less for your money than you did at the start, but that’s because of “the spread”, and not because of “inflation”. Anet is steadily draining gold from this game.

I fully expect this post to be deleted.

Jewelry is probably the easiest craft to start but as others have said it’s not really for a newb player. You’ll need a ton crafting mats to get started, or pay through the nose at the trading post. The nice thing about Jewelry though, there is no salvaging of drops for even more crafting mats. Just go and collect everything you see along the way and “deposit collectables” along the way.

There is also no salvaging for cooking, but that one is way more complicated and it’s best to use a guide to make it fast.

boredinbc.2786:

A WATCH!

Wait what?

I think it’s safe to say that all the leather in our inventories isn’t going to get turned into watch bands.

Every day. There are no other recipes yet, but you know what replaced wind up spring watchworks? Quartz crystals. You don’t think the introduction of Charged Quartz and now watchwork sprockets is a coincidence do you?

Talon Silverhawk.5964:

There seem to be a lot of player who just don’t understand and wont.

This is a game and if your not having fun in a game, one just leave to play something else.

I guess you didn’t see our numbers problem last night? A lot of people have left WvW because the match ups are not fun, and the invasion farms are insanely more profitable.

I know what I’m doing this week.

Wolfaen.9461:

Anything that promotes small group play or open field combat is good in my perspective.

This will do nothing to promote small group play. These new capture points are just new zerg targets and people will simply continue to follow the blue taco. We’ll be flipping these things faster than the Vale supply camp because there is likely no supervisor on the point.

Things will be even worse if WXP, karma or XP is involved in the capture.

I have no idea why you guys think this is fun. I’m sick of the lopsided match ups.

Of course not. These days we’re lucky if we get 1 good match up every 3 weeks. Why the hell should I buy WXP boosters if I’m rarely playing WvW?

meep.2601:

if friday’s livestream isn’t absolutely unbelievably amazing, these forums will somehow get 100 times more negative than they already are. can’t wait!

Warming up my popcorn maker!

kazi.6438:

Easy workaround is to go back to LA for 1 second, request kick, go back to WvW.

… and how long is your Q time?

Only a WvW player can go to a Living Gold invasion and wonder why the zerg is larger, faster, stronger and just plain better than in WvW. Where did these people come from and why don’t they play WvW?

(because it’s quite obvious that the loot/rewards in WvW are crap)

Soul bound just NEEDS to go. It should not be a thing.

My take on this issue? I would love to see GvG areas that are not a part of the WvW maps. One person in this thread suggested Claw Island. That would be just fine by me.

It will not happen until Anet finds a way to monetize it. In the mean time, buy yourselves a private sPvP arena and learn to play Asuraball.

Do you really want invasion mobs just standing around doing nothing somewhere on a WvW map? That’s what they do on the PvE maps, absolutely nothing until they are attacked by players. We have the Overgrown Grub for that.

Katz.5143:

I hope they aren’t permanent. They are a nice temporary change but I wouldn’t want to have to put up with this from now on. O.o

No kitten. The Risen mobs in Orr are bad enough, and most of the waypoints can never be used. That’s part of the reason why I almost never go there.

I have no idea why people play with the mystic toilet like this. It’s broken.

I got them all done, but I had to go hardcore on it.

jobah.7241:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

This is reasonably cool as an instance, not terribly hard and there is obviously some story to come for people who like that sort of thing. On the down side, my positional relay thingy is on my main character, my WvW character, who for very good reason isn’t exactly a DPS machine.

That positional relay thingy is soulbound and I’m not doing those events again to get another one on my DPS necro. Lord Faren has been reduced to soup stock in my personal story line.

Poor Lord Faren, we hardly wanted to know him.

Before you jump to conlusions, how about actually trying with another char?
Maybe you will find out that you can go straight in like you normally would…

I tend to take tool-tips for what they say. If what you say is so, why aren’t you blowing raspberries at Anet, and their woefully lacking QA dept?

Oh, no. I know. You’re a fanboy. Poor you.

Oh and, I don’t mind that Lord Faren has been reduced to soup stock.

This is reasonably cool as an instance, not terribly hard and there is obviously some story to come for people who like that sort of thing. On the down side, my positional relay thingy is on my main character, my WvW character, who for very good reason isn’t exactly a DPS machine.

That positional relay thingy is soulbound and I’m not doing those events again to get another one on my DPS necro. Lord Faren has been reduced to soup stock in my personal story line.

Poor Lord Faren, we hardly wanted to know him.

Just…. /15 char? I hope?

Kal Spiro.9745:

If you’re a WvW player, why are you in the pavilion instead of in WvW? No one is forcing you to do anything. You are making the conscious choice all on your own.

Because we’re not exactly getting rich in WvW, although it’s not as bad as it used to be, and I guess you missed out on that old line we were once fed, “play the game they you want to play…”.

Edit: The other problem WvW players have with this event? Map clearance.

Phoenixlin.8624:

It can be soloed in 15 minutes at most.

The tasks leading up to opening it take several hours. Not great for anyone but the hardcore types with time on their hands. So why are we WvW players forced into this just to grind for a bit of gold in the Pavilion?

Finish an event in 13 unique maps when that event shows up once per hour on just one map, and the low level maps never see these events. So we get to sit and pray to the spirits of RNG that the map we need gets invaded?

If it doesn’t get invaded we can all just go pick our noses until the next event starts?

Lovely, but you know? Anet doesn’t make grindy games. Just… saying.

The big hand is pointing to 12, and the little hand is pointing to Whatever.

More guild wars in guild wars 2 please, and a lot less Mario.

Rotating through old temporary content isn’t cutting it here.

shambo.3842:

but you can play with your friends. just party together and if you get separated. right click there portrait and goto there overflow server.

Not always. If your friends overflow server is full, you can’t get in to that one either.

Planning to use Overflow to host these events is looking like a fairly bad idea.

Korval.3751:

3. Successfully complete this 45-minute event 13 times.

13 times, or one time on each of 13 different maps?

With all the overflow problems we’ve had so far, there are going to be some seriously unhappy campers if we have to hit this event on 13 unique maps. We’ll have to be in game at the top of every hour waiting for the last couple of missing maps to possibly be the location of the next invasion, and we’ll have to work through overflow, disconnections, etc.

I really hope this isn’t so, Joe.

Markof.1879:

They say they are potentially turning those JP into valuable strategic areas and you complain ?

Yes. What exactly would be wrong with turn a Keeps Lord Room into a “valuable strategic area”?

Markof.1879:

there are 4 JP in WvW

They are all equally detestable. I would happily trade map completion to get rid of these things. What part of any sort of PvP includes a frigging jumping puzzle.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Jumping puzzles (along with mini-dungeons) will be some of the locations that begin rewarding ascended crafting materials once crafting to 500 goes live; this is intended to help make these areas more rewarding and fun even more annoying to go back to and play.

FTFY.

Would anyone care to guess if we’ll be able harvest ascended mats from WvW? I’m sure I already know the answer.

Because Anet had it in their heads that sPvP would take off as an esport, which of course it didn’t, but that’s where all their development time and energy went prior to the launch of the game.

They had no idea that WvW would be as popular as it is, although for a variety of reasons it seems to be losing something lately. The good, solid comments and suggestions we players have given Anet have largely been ignored and even now our chief dev is telling us this stuff is going to take time.

Sauzo.6821:

I’m waiting for Anet to up the server cap and then offer 1 time free transfers off the low pop servers and then shutting them down.

There is enormous negative publicity from shutting down servers. At worst they’ll simply reduce gem prices to those servers with the lowest populations.

Still, I don’t see anyone moving except for WvW and we’ve seen bandwagon guilds changing server thinking they could make a difference, only for them to move on again later. You have to look at Blacktide and Ruins of Surmia and to a lesser extent Whiteside Ridge, in the EU tiers to see that.

At the very least we should be able to salvage the stuff for supply.. With this new treb mastery line coming it’s almost certain that we’ll never again take any tower or keep with any supply still in it. SM in particular will be swiss cheese because of the lack of supply.

I agree with the OP, but none of this is going to happen.

Gamgee.8612:

I saw a RoF blob aswell, doesn’t mean I have to go cry on forums.

If you saw a RoF blob it was probably on the RoF borderland map, holding on by its fingernails. Like I said, that’s enough of that.

That’s enough. I’m not spending my week getting run over by blobs. I play on a lower level server for a reason. I don’t want to play against servers 7 levels higher than we are.

Is there any other large scale war sandbox game out there?

We on RoF would be absolutely stupid to not work in guild groups late in the evening to take hills, bay, or garrison.

Our guild took the Arbs bay keep at 1am EU time with only 4 people and 1 golem. We were at their inner garrison door when their EB zerg showed up to save it. Of course, our people on EB took advantage of that and cleaned up their corner of EB.

Mission accomplished, don’t you think?