Guild Wars 2

Valento.9852:

I hope ANet makes this map hell more annoying…

I hope you enjoy playing on an empty map.

You’re talking about playing on the attack side. Try scouting and defending for a night.

Straegen.2938:

Same ole story for GW2. They have a solid WvW player base only because there really isn’t anything better out there. As soon as another MMO that has action based PvP combat comes along, WvW players will flock away from the game. So far though everything that has come along has been worse… looking at you ESO.

Exactly. 2014 was supposed to have been a great year for MMO titles.

Nuh-uh. Didn’t happen.

You know you can easily get more defense for camps? Right?

All you have to do is go there, and defend it.

Now that we have skin lockers you would have to be a bit daft to actually make both of them.

Slomo.1029:

So please, for the love of the flying spaghetti monster, stop using EotM as a negative example in every thread to defend Anet from the evil minded WvW players. Simply because the WvW players didnt design it.

It’s his best Straw Man argument. He defines it how he wants, and beats players up with it. Constantly.

I just wish the self appointed mods would go away.

Standard retailing tactics I’m afraid. They want to create a sense of urgency in buy their product.

Someone does not understand the concept of “They want your money”.

This will never happen.

They did it again with Bountiful and Furious recipes. T6 mats for almost no extra effect.

Becka Williams.4978:

If dr’s so rare, why have it at all, then?

It helps to point out the bots.

johnsonade.9547:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

No. and Hell No. Anet tried to bring more PvE to WvW and we players ignored it. We still mostly ignore the grub too so long as there are fights and PPT to work on.

Are you seriously bringing up Grub?

Nope. Scarlet’s Toxic mobs.

I bet you didn’t see the mesmer talk about one of the bosses from the last patch?

The didn’t fix it, and I’m sure they wont “fix” this either. Get a ranged weapon.

A couple of bosses that are basically a big pile of hit points, and too many adds with CC effects. Sort of like Orr in the bad old days when I couldn’t be bothered to go back there, and now I wont be going back to Silverwaste for a couple of weeks.

That isn’t the slightest bit fun.

No. and Hell No. Anet tried to bring more PvE to WvW and we players ignored it. We still mostly ignore the grub too so long as there are fights and PPT to work on.

Zaxares.5419:

Wanze.8410:

Charged Sheets of Ambrite are basically available at vendor value (of the needed crafting mats) right now. So if you plan on crafting ascended (or exotic) sinister gear, I would buy some now, if you want to circumvent the timegate on charged quartz.

I already bought the amount needed for my planned Sinister Ascended weapon. (Just the one, for my Necromancer.)

And I already have almost a full stack of charged quartz. Home instance farming and krait skill point, ftw.

Please don’t pay any attention to Kite.2510. He was obviously beaten as a child, daily, by his younger sisters and from this experience he has come to believe that we should all suffer similar painful situations.

His mother was quite likely in the MAFIA. Mothers Against Fun in America. The rest of his family are quite likely to be CAVE people. Citizens Against Virtually Everything. At the end of the day he will quite likely be sent to his room, with no dinner. (/jeremyclarkson)

Now then, could each of us go back to playing this game the way we want to play. You do your thing, I’ll go do mine. Thanks.

Played from day 1, 8k hours in game. I’ve had one precursor drop in all that time.

Precursors are not “dropping everywhere”.

Thanks to both of you. Back to squirrel mode I guess.

Yep. I completely agree. Make it so #1.

Is this a thing yet? I know Legendary weapons can select Sinister stats but I’m wondering if we can craft this stuff.

Anyone… Anyone… Bloin!

Imaginos.3756:

What really burns my biscuit is that not only do you have to get the insignia type thing for the new stats as a drop but you then have to get recipes for each existing armor part instead of using the DISCOVER panel like 90% of crafting does!

Well, the insignia thingy is from a vendor who only accepts map based currency, forcing players to go play the content, rather than just buy the stuff with game gold.

But you know, “play how you want to play…”

STRanger.5120:

Heh, nice try m8 Well, you can stay in your WvW, nothing changed there. Why did you even post in this topic in the first time? The bug was fixed in the PvE zone…

I was there because we finally had a farm that was worth my time. That and, we’ve got a pretty kittenty match up this week too.

STRanger.5120:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

STRanger.5120:

What about playing the game as intended?

What about playing the game the way I want to?

You can try, but hands down, that was never the viable way, most of the ppl already know that. Where were you been since the release?

Mostly WvW, so you really don’t want to get started with me.

STRanger.5120:

What about playing the game as intended?

What about playing the game the way I want to?

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

We need more carrots to do the intended events and less carrots to farm one single spot.

If you were speaking playing defense in WvW, I would agree. More carrots there would be a good thing. This is PvE/farming. leave it the way it is, thanks.

Kaldrys.1978:

Anet actually screwed up the reward system again. The most profitable thing to do in the map is to group up in the area north of Amber and dig up chests. Easy champ bags. No point in being anywhere else on the map.

Anyone who is only farming during the defense phase isn’t going to be farming for long.

Xillllix.3485:

Also, I don’t think Anet is making PvP zones, so we’ll have to PvP somewhere else than these old WvW maps if they want us to keep playing the game.

I think you’re right. They’re probably not making any new PvP zones, because they want you to use the custom arenas, and buy time tickets.

Fernling.1729:

“They don’t want dueling in the game.” That is what you said in one post and then minutes later you say, “I don’t know what they want to do. They don’t tell us.”

You’re not very good at logic, and you’re arguing for the sake of the argument. You don’t like to take no for an answer and this is exactly why so many players do not want any sort of open world PvP. People like you are toxic about that topic.

I said “I don’t know what they want to do”, with relation to the topics you brought up. Cantha, Elonia, races, professions.

I can tell you what they “do not want to do”, because actions often speak louder than words. Anet treated the bug in Remnants, as a bug, and they fixed it in record time. Check out the bug lists in the professions forums. Fixing this open world PvP situation was a priority. Obviously they are working to avoid any sort of PvP in the open world.

I’m looking forward to your next less than logical statement.

Fernling.1729:

They haven’t added cantha, elona, new professions, new races or the rest of tyria to the game. Your logic says they don’t wwant to add it to the game at any point?

I don’t know what they want to do. They don’t tell us.

Now then, you said you have seen “recent posts” from devs telling us they want to add open world PvP to this game. Links please.

Fernling.1729:

You’re the one making baseless claims saying Anet doesn’t want dueling in the game.

I’m not making any baseless claim. The simple fact is, Anet could add this at any time, if they wanted to. It was available during the beta tests and they took it out. I know why.

Now then, please feel free to post a link to Colin’s famous “not off the table” interview (from two years ago), because so far as I know he has said almost nothing on the topic since. Of course nothing is off the table. Anet doesn’t want to upset any group of players about any topic, and open world PvP would cause a kittenstorm close to what we saw when Ascended gear was added to the game, a couple of months after launch.

Fernling.1729:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

They have a perfectly good reason. They don’t want dueling in the game, and neither do a lot of the players.

They actually say the opposite. I posted some stuff from them over the last few days. They actually want to add it to the game, it’s just not as high a priority as other things. It’s been said by Colin and Justin Odell.

They said this recently? Or you’re dredging up old posts again, in the faint hope that you’ll get your gankster wishes? Please show me a recent post from a Dev. Colin would be just fine.

Mitch.4781:

Oh wow what a shame…It was such a tiny area and brought an interesting twist to the map. Well, one thing is for sure, it can be easily done so they don’t really have any excuses for not introducing duels now.

They have a perfectly good reason. They don’t want dueling in the game, and neither do a lot of the players.

It’s gone as of this patch. This is the most definitive sign ever from Anet that they do not want open world PvP.

Please enjoy ArcheAge.

Think of it as a “Test of the Twits”, and this is why open world PvP is a bad idea.

LOL… Already Fixed.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-November-4-2014/4541463

rogerwilko.6895:

I must confess…
I used them once… long ago…

Traps too, to my great shame.

Brannidus.4175:

This might even provide a reasonable incentive to get players to invest in crafting ascended trinkets if 500 jewelcrafting is released. They can use ones they acquired elsewhere in the game and change them into others with gold instead of using up laurels/fractal relics/guild commendations.

You clearly have not been paying attention.

I would gladly pay 40g to change the stats on my ascended gear rather than have a 1000+ gold investment rot in my bank or on an alt.

John Smith, everyone’s favorite economist, seems to prefer that we all re-invest.

Jaken.6801:

The mechanic of this boss is really annoying for my Mesmer.

As I am reliant on my phantasm I can not use it to hurt the boss, since they get instantly defeated as soon as they enter the battlefield.

Same old, same old. The devs don’t play or test this stuff with mesmers, and I still haven’t figured out how to start this part of the story with my thief.

Figured it out. I have to start right back at the ghosts in Salma. Great.

A new currency was absolutely needed?

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

I just wanted to pop in here to note that we had submitted this feedback/suggestion in with our community report to the developers about this release.

… and apparently they ignored you.

Sariel V.7024:

I asked this question point blank over in the economy thread.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/I-have-a-question-about-the-economy/4456718

I took part in that thread too and unfortunately the answers we get comes down too, “because, reasons”, which isn’t all that satisfying.

Swamurabi.7890:

Is that the type of balance you want?

Do you want a Ktrain flip festival?

That’s what you’re going to get.

John Smith.4610:

I’m very pleased with this year’s Halloween, and I get the general impression that the players agree as well.

I would agree that the rewards vs time spent are better than they have been in the past, but I would still like to have seen some original content. Now that I have the items I wanted, I’m only playing the content for the daily achievement points and then I move on.

Yes, I have that much time on my hands.

Algreg.3629:

why in the name of the lord? Can´t you be happy there is at least one thing in abundance in this game?

Seriously. I wish I could make ascended armor for my thief with leather only, but no….

I need silk too and that stuff doesn’t drop well for theives.

ghost.3208:

Shouldn’t this actually encourage more defense and scouting?

You want to encourage players to defend and scout? How about reward them for it, rather than take their tools away?

They haven’t implemented it yet. They want to test it.

My point is, this is already having an affect on game play.

I am one of those wierdos who often plays defense, scouting, reporting, repairing, etc…

Normally I can call any commander I see in my friends list and report an incoming situation and those guys will bring their guild/zerg to our border, but not tonight. They were busy flipping stuff.

Ok, it’s Thursday and the game is over, the match has been decided. Normally that doesn’t matter on our server (RoF) because when we suddenly get outnumbered even those guys flipping camps and downgrading towers will come back to our border and defend, because that’s where the fight will be, but not tonight.

I am not going to scout, report, defend or repair anything if players and commanders aren’t going to listen to reports, and come help fight off the bad guys. Tonight I was the only one on our border doing that, but that’s enough of that.

This situation isn’t going to get better.

laokoko.7403:

It’s probably a bit hard to used up those stacks and stacks of maize balm after the halloween instance is removed.

The Queensdale swamp area works just fine.

Fluffball.8307:

But it’s a sitting duck to a LB ranger. They literally have no answer at all, assuming it’s not a guy who just hopped on to ranger after last patch; somewho who actually plays ranger. I don’t think I’ve ever lost to a necro 1v1, and that’s a ridiculous statement.

Necros also struggle mightily with movement speed.

Edit: Hmm, after some thought I would list necros quite high in small group roaming, but zero in solo roaming.

A lot of characters are a sitting duck to a Bearbow Ranger, if they catch you unaware. Even a thief has problems with that. If I see you first on either of my thief or Necro (or mesmer), it will be another story.

As for mobility? If you do it right with weapon swaps and utilities you can have 100% max speed all the time, and a lot of the time you’ll have Spectral effects too.

I still prefer my thief.

P/D Thief, P/P Thief, Shortbow Thief.

We’ve been asking for this since day one. Still nothing is done about reward defensive play.