Many players will find this topic uneccesary, irrelevant, or a threat to your income because you make a kitten ton selling precursors you are lucky enough to forge but I don’t care. I have been playing GW2 since early access (I was in beta too, but that doesn’t count) and I have forged 1000s of weapons, done countless dungeons, WvW, and events without a single precursor drop.
I feel like my account has a hex on it, some quirk in the coding that prevents nice things from being added to my loot table and I’m tired of it. It’s time to end the nonsensical RNG where legendary precursors are concerned.
I feel for you and can relate as well with 5.3K hrs since early access(and BETAS as well), I can’t prove it but I believe there is an account RNG conspiracy. {:-þ -LOL
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
A guildy tried sending me a bunch of mats about a year ago, but, because of name similarities they were sent to someone else, I PM’d him and recieved no reply so I added him/her to my friends list and to this day that user has not logged on no matter what time of day or night I checked, this leads me to suspect/believe that is a definite dormant account, so, needless to say they were never returned. Oh well.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
IMO, they want you to BUY GEMS with RLM and convert to gold to make IGM, very sad we can’t make and obtain gold/items/mats just by playing the game, so sad.
Totally farcical statement. It is beyond easy to make money in this game. You should state your real opinion: You personally are not getting as much money as you want to get.
You are correct, I do have trouble making money in this game and has been this way for me since release and I am POSITIVE I am not the only one, but, my first reply still stands.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
IMO, they want you to BUY GEMS with RLM and convert to gold to make IGM, very sad we can’t make and obtain gold/items/mats just by playing the game, so sad.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The graphics settings in GW1 are far superior to GW2, in GW1 it even takes FULL ADVANTAGE of my SLI setup running almost everything in the triple digit FPS.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Since GW2 graphics are CPU RENDERED at this point, they would have to do changes to the game to have the graphics GPU RENDERED first for ANY Direct X rendering to be done.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
As raised in another topic and for privacy reasons, the date that a guild leader should see is not the last time a player logged in the game, but rather the last time a player represented the guild. For guild leaders, it’s more accurate and for us players, it’s more correct privacy-wise.
The only inconvient for you, staff of GW2 is that you have to stock that information in the player/guild relation space rather than in the player space.
All I have to say is go back and count the nay-sayers as opposed to the yay-sayers and see for yourselves and see, I have in the past and posted the outcome in a couple of the several topics started on this.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Sorry but so many are against dueling according to past forum posts on the subject that I can only say, thank the powers that be that there is no mention of this travesty.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
OR, will those wanting to make the Bifrost have to get 1 of every color available now? That would seem like a very expensive endeavor if this were the case.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
NO, because everything works around gem shop, and already unlocked dyes wont be account bound
What is wrong with you what do you think this game is for to make you happy its to make money at the end of the day the thing Anet has done that no other games for the most part is let you take in game gold and make it into gems. If you wanted to stop thinking them as gems but a gold cost if that makes you happy.
I just do not get some ppl you hand them a sliver spoon on a sliver platter and they complain about it not being gold.
OMG I can’t believe you said the part I underlined in your statement, games ARE to make one happy/amused not to continuously line their pockets(that’s what boxed/digital sales are for, not gem store scam sales), I loathe the gem shop scheme/scam(to me and most likely me alone thinks this way unfortunately). Happy gaming(or not, since, by your statement gaming isn’t for fun).
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Wildstar is the perfect game for those who like CARTOONISH games.
So what? Too bad you can’t see beyond the art style. We know GW2’s artstyle doesn’t make it good.
I must say that as much as I am highly disappointed in the DIRECTION that GW2 has taken the graphics are far superior, stunning and detailed than any game on the market today and yes looks are what keeps me playing GW2.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Let’s be honest if you were dumb enough to be scammed in this game you had it coming mate.
Oh that’s a bit premature, we don’t even know how he was scammed. Kinda seems the majority opinion is trading outside of the TP (which is a bit… well there is a reason we can’t trade with other players), but it might be something else.
Sorry but I can’t think of one thing other than that being the case, if you can, please enlighten the rest of us.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I was just scammed 375 gold by Xothas.8231 I would like the Guild Wars 2 team to look into the chat logs and help me out.
The GW2 hierarchy doesn’t support nor condone player to player trading, it’s a do at your own risk thing. Sorry you were scammed, but, consider it payment in a lesson learned.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Giant is NEEDED for the “GIANT SLAYER ACHIEVEMENT” which takes 1000 to complete that achievement and since there are only 4 MAX in the whole of Tyria and the one in “Naegling” is fully soloable(as others have mentioned), even with my lowly Ranger(although takes forever {:-þ), then, I have to say NO. If anything we need MORE GIANTS that go towards this achievement.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
That has nothing to do with it, also you don’t even know the answer. Anet would have to Answer it. It’s possible they might allow a stat change.
What DOES have to do with it is the FACT that right there in the ANET ToS it states along the lines of ANET has the right to change ANYTHING they want to at their discretion without compensation to those displeased with said changes, so, as much as I also being one of those opposed to those changes as well the answer is NO.
The point is that the right thing to do would to allow players to change the stats on their armor. I know you just want to sit here and troll the people that are upset that their hard earned ascended gear is becoming significantly weaker, but there seriously is an issue here, and we are looking for answers from Anet, not some troll under the bridge.
Please try to constructively add to the discussion.
Please explain how I am trolling by stating a fact that is CLEARLY outlined in the games ToS and as I stated I am also AGAINST what is being done, but, have NO GROUND to stand on when it comes to game changes.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
That has nothing to do with it, also you don’t even know the answer. Anet would have to Answer it. It’s possible they might allow a stat change.
What DOES have to do with it is the FACT that right there in the ANET ToS it states along the lines of ANET has the right to change ANYTHING they want to at their discretion without compensation to those displeased with said changes, so, as much as I also being one of those opposed to those changes as well the answer is NO.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
1.) So GW2 Finally got account bound pick-axes okay good, but what about Account bound cosmetics I find it really annoying that I spend Real Life money on cosmetic items which I like, but they are bound to a single character once used I have no way to freely transfer it to another character.
2.) Lions Arch, I would seriously like it rebuilt already, I don’t want to throw insults directly at the devs, but I think the actual destruction of Lions Arch was a stupid move, for Story Wise I feel it should have been made instanced.
3.) The third thing that would be nice is allowing players to repeat/replay past events in an instanced mode similar to (Defiance) for obtaining weapon skins, and armor cosmetic items I find it really annoying that I can’t obtain old event weapons and cosmetics for my characters.
4.) Another option to all of this would be to get rid of transmute stones, and allow players to take a piece of armor and covert that armor into account-bound Cosmetic Armors that can be freely switched on all characters on an account similar to a game called (Runes OF Magic) and similar to the way PVP armor cosmetics work I believe in GW2.
5.) Limited Mining Picks/ Cosmetics is the other thing, please remove limited time sells like mining picks and such, allow players to buy whenever they want to for gems, perhaps I like my Molten Pick which is account bound but perhaps as a player im willing to spend $10 to buy a second one but can’t because its no longer for sale.
6.) Forgot one add player housing/allow players to construct their own housing in their instance which all characters on the same account can go into, along with crafting stations and such which can be purchased in cash shop including merchant npcs to be placed inside the instanced area.
Please get rid of the old put in some new, and fix Lions Arch, Thanks.
I have to agree with OP. I actually find GW2 combat much more boring than in mmo with holy trinity, especially in PvE. Now everyone has one role and its dps. So what that we have evasion, it does not add that much.
And tactics? Give me a break. Stand at one hell of a big boss mob and spam all your skills, evade some attacks, so awesome..
Remember Colin Johanson joke about other mmos? “I swong a sword?..” Well that is a joke on GW2 now
Well to be honest, removing holy trinity didn’t change anything, it just made everything more zergish. So no, there was no innovation here.
Because spammig 4 skills in a “rotation” and side step from an obvius danger zone is soooooooo exciting.
Auto-spamming 1 skill is a lot more boring.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
And what about a key that, WHILE YOU KEEP IT PRESSED, automatically clicks each 0.75 seconds? I really want to do a key like that with my keyboard´s macro system, but everytime I ask to anet in the forum if it’s legal they don’t answer. I’ts unacceptable that we have to break the left-click button of our mouse for a game.
I’m on my 3rd mouse because of that crap.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Core issues were left unfixed for a long time it doesn’t shock me people would want to leave. Silence is all you can really do as a company because if you miss the deadline or it has to be pushed back nothing can save you from the wrath of your player-base. Also you have to have things cleared with marketing and management before you can really disclose information and not all things are finalized. I personally wasn’t impressed with living world i think i only really enjoyed the SAB and gauntlet.
Gw2 still has the best combat/art in the industry the only thing that looks better imo is Blade and Soul which is another ncsoft title.
Kinda off-topic, but just wanted to point out that GW2 isn’t a NCSoft Tittle. NCSoft NA Publishes it on the ocidental world, but they have no call on the Art or the game mechanics (i.e. They have no call on development decision and tasks, that’s all on ANet).
Also, Blade and Soul is developed by NCSoft KR, which, apart from being a mother company to NCSoft NA, doesn’t necessary work together with it.
Players from Lineage 2 know what I mean, as with things gets implemented on the Korean servers but take months to be localized and, sometimes, are split into multiple patches, while all suggestions from ocidental markets are just ignored.
I need to correct you here. NCSoft is the parent company, and all decisions made by them are implemented in game. It’s not a matter of them making suggestions. If they pick a course to follow, Anet listens. However, they give creative freedom to the team to do what they need to, but most likely within some predetermined guidelines. In the Cantha thread somewhere, one of the Devs commented that NCSoft is one of the better companies to work for in terms of that creative freedom.
Back on topic, because NCSoft is a publicly traded company in Korea, they release earnings reports. With the amount of money being generated by GW2, this pretty much ends this thread’s debate: http://global.ncsoft.com/global/ir/quarterly.aspx
Back in the good old days in GW1 there were the talks with Gaile Gray, the Arena.net-blog, the channel on youtube and good informed fansites.
I feel a great silence there now too and I fear it might have to do with NCSoft and therefore ANet are restricted in some ways they couldn’t even talk about.
I mean – the whole blog is not just written anymore but completely disappeared from the empty shell of ANets’ site.
Not even sure if the community managers are still active in fan-forums these days – have to check that.
Besides this, there are only very few tweets and it feels like FB and co are also not that well-managed iirc.
Even on this forum they are felt to be barely seen and the translations of the german site are somewhat behind the english one most of the time.
It would satisfy me if they would only say officially that they are busy on X and therefore has Y, Z, and the rest to wait until it’s finished.
I miss Gaile :/
I too miss Gaile. I miss seeing/talking to her character in-game in GW1 and reading her “Talk:Gaile Gray” page in GW1. I wonder if she is an active GW2 player.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
As for “doesn’t do anything that is asked”, they just fixed halos/horns in dungeons…so, I guess they do.
I try to, and do, answer questions players have, when I can. So, there’s that.
What do/did the halo and horns do differently in dungeons that they didn’t do in the open world, which they still do and haven’t fixed that has been pleaded for?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I’m not leaving but these days I have a hard time staying online more than half an hour.
My main grief as I call it is ANet’s law of silence. I remember the days before launch when ANet needed a player base, there was a multitude of articles, blogs, pictures and videos.
Yup and then players took everything written there as gospel and started demanding that they adhere to their demands.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
You can’t place all the blame on the players, when there were many things stated, then Anet later did the complete opposite. I think account-bound to character-bound dyes is one of the best examples of this. Other changes in design have had very split opinions among players, but account-based dyes was a popular idea that I think most liked.
If you’re hyping up an aspect of the game enough to dedicate an entire blog post to it, you should expect players to be upset when one of the key points of that blog ends being completely false at release or some point after. I know that games change over the course of development, and even after in the case of MMOs, but making changes that contradict previous statements and views on game design need to come with very good reasoning and explanation for the changes. I don’t think the dye change explanation did much to ease the players’ dislike of the change.
Sometimes the changes come from a more business/profit-oriented viewpoint, which does make the entire situation more difficult for Anet to explain, and the players to accept. If you are trading in your word (or your credibility/honesty, whatever you want to call it) for what you (or someone else) considers a good business decision, then you are probably going to anger customers. The problem is that even though the decision might seem good for business/profits, angering your customers is a bad business decision. It creates an environment where it’s simply easier to say nothing, and keep making business-minded decisions instead of making promises you’ll be expected to uphold.
I would like to see this change, so we can return to a situation where they can make statements about their upcoming changes and decisions, but we aren’t dealing with that Anet anymore. I expect the trend of silent business-minded decisions to continue to prevail over promises of popular decisions. It’s just so much easier to defend/damage control a silent change, than to regain the trust after a broken promise.
The bolded/underlined part of your statement makes them look racist for not letting all characters indulge in all the colors available once obtained by one character on the account. {:-þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What is even sillier is the fact that we will probably STILL GET THAT RUBBISH well after, much like other things that were removed and still got for some time after.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The condition/attunement use is totally stupid in GW2 at least GW1 had it right you HAD TO USE water/ice against fire and comparable anti/opposite-conditions(so to say) on creatures attuned a certain way, why it’s different here is beyond me other than to say VERY LAZY DESIGN.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I really think more people should be vocal about the game’s targeting system. This is the core of Gw2’s combat, and it’s absolutely horrendous, much like the camera system. Please let yourself be heard if you think this needs to change.
Yes the targeting system in GW2 is the worst I have seen, I play only one class/role, that being a ranger and from BETA to present my characters target is CONSTANTLY DROPPED or target switched when I use “Barrage” and has been ignored, I have been told by many others that it is a ranger thing only in that guildies who have multiple alts have this problem as well, but, ONLY when on their ranger. So, why the hate and TOTAL disregard to the ranger by this company.
Try to turn of right click to select.
I MANUALLY target mobs.
Irrelevant. If you lose targets all the time and mainly if that means you suddenly have another target you might want to turn of right click to select. Now you can select them with left and right mouse-click. What happens is that when people turn (holding the right mouse click) they accidentally select another target.
Maybe I should have elaborated in that all auto-targeting is turned off/unchecked and I MANUALLY select my target by double-clicking my left mouse button(habit) on a specific target to select my active target, to add to this when I use barrage 75% of the time my selected target is randomly switched to some obscure mob. So now what am I doing wrong? Or could it be one of the rampant unaddressed bugs that keep getting swept under the carpet because it doesn’t affect EVERYONE and no-one cares about the lowly ranger anyway, right. AND the following reply summed it up PERFECTLY and is spot on.
There’s more problems with the targeting than just the auto-deselect.
The targeting often targets neutral mobs, such as Moas, during massive battles.
The targeting often refuses to target a gigantic enemy that is right in front of you.
The targeting often refuses to target enemies that are partially off screen.
The targeting often deselects targets that go off screen.
The targeting often fails to select targets that the player is directly clicking on.
The targeting often targets enemies that are behind the enemy you are facing.
The targeting often targets an enemy you are not facing at all.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Was the Trinity bad? I wouldn’t say it’s bad or ever was, and was very meritable at the very least in conception if nothing else. However Anet’s decision to remove that trinity was whilst unnecessary, a nice attempt at revolutionizing the MMO gaming style.
The problem is what has replaced the trinity. CC is useless on bosses. Conditions don’t work at all. Every class can support themselves to the point where they don’t need anyone else. What you have is an MMO, where no player needs another player in a sense, which is contradictory in a game which requires teamwork on a fundamental level. The only time where this is different is in the case of fights like Tequatl, but that’s mechanical teamwork i.e. you need x amount of people on this and that. There’s no roles per say in terms of player-player interaction, but rather, roles in the functionality of what takes place in the fight.
I think they’re trying to change the way things work but.. Eh. The game is already so far what it is. And without doing MAJOR overhauls, which would have to be done independent of LS or the like with lots of resources, I doubt they’ll ultimately finish it.
I have bolded, underlined and italisized a portion of your statement and agree with this 100%, which brings me to say/repeat what I have said several times before in that being you can do everything yourself(there are many who has soloed things that really shouldnt be soloable, like lupicous for instance) not needing teamwork/help is akin to nothing more than a GLORIFIED SINGLE-PLAYER GAME in an MMO setting.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
But the thing is, classes are made to vary in specialties. If you want to consider yourself good at your class, then you need to learn all aspects. Give a healer spot will give better usage for many ingame viable options to be heal/support by both items and gameplay for people. Forcing a heale/support roll will be so much better, but don’t make a requirement to heal so that if the team wants a 5 man zerk, they can do so.
It would better benefit the crap pugging we have to go through in order to get a group that will do the dungeon. Where I enjoy an occasional Zerg rush, I like enemies having to need strategy to beat an make use of CC, instead of blitz and hope you kill.
Even if you don’t set a tank slot (which there is gear that makes this slot to actually be viable) a heal support is something that should be looked into being used.
But you already can have it.
A hammer/mace guardian can provide perma protection and a quite big healing output on top of reflections, aegis and several condition removals if required. It can also decently fulfill a tank role if needed.
The problem? A meta berserker guardian can provide everything but the healing while doing A LOT more damage, so it’s a better option as long the healing isn’t required (which can be applied to almost every small team content once you get familiar with it). The prot/heal guardian offers an easier time at the cost of clearing speed, but unfortunately that’s something quite important when dungeons are run for no other reason than farming.
Only way to get/keep these boons is to stack and STACKING SUCKS.
But you got to TELL your team to stack or that your putting up such boon if you gave all boons endless ranges and no skill cap then you could just spam boons any time you want taking away from real team work.
Stacking is absolutely useless for PURELY RANGED characters I refuse to stack then run to my ranged position only to have the buff wear off SOON AFTER reaching said position when classes/roles could just individually buff certain classes if/when there are dedicated roles to play. The way it is now being able to be your own healer/DPS/condition applier/tank(pet) is nothing more than a glorified SINGLE-PLAYER game with MMO mechanics.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I really think more people should be vocal about the game’s targeting system. This is the core of Gw2’s combat, and it’s absolutely horrendous, much like the camera system. Please let yourself be heard if you think this needs to change.
Yes the targeting system in GW2 is the worst I have seen, I play only one class/role, that being a ranger and from BETA to present my characters target is CONSTANTLY DROPPED or target switched when I use “Barrage” and has been ignored, I have been told by many others that it is a ranger thing only in that guildies who have multiple alts have this problem as well, but, ONLY when on their ranger. So, why the hate and TOTAL disregard to the ranger by this company.
Try to turn of right click to select.
I MANUALLY target mobs.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
But the thing is, classes are made to vary in specialties. If you want to consider yourself good at your class, then you need to learn all aspects. Give a healer spot will give better usage for many ingame viable options to be heal/support by both items and gameplay for people. Forcing a heale/support roll will be so much better, but don’t make a requirement to heal so that if the team wants a 5 man zerk, they can do so.
It would better benefit the crap pugging we have to go through in order to get a group that will do the dungeon. Where I enjoy an occasional Zerg rush, I like enemies having to need strategy to beat an make use of CC, instead of blitz and hope you kill.
Even if you don’t set a tank slot (which there is gear that makes this slot to actually be viable) a heal support is something that should be looked into being used.
But you already can have it.
A hammer/mace guardian can provide perma protection and a quite big healing output on top of reflections, aegis and several condition removals if required. It can also decently fulfill a tank role if needed.
The problem? A meta berserker guardian can provide everything but the healing while doing A LOT more damage, so it’s a better option as long the healing isn’t required (which can be applied to almost every small team content once you get familiar with it). The prot/heal guardian offers an easier time at the cost of clearing speed, but unfortunately that’s something quite important when dungeons are run for no other reason than farming.
Only way to get/keep these boons is to stack and STACKING SUCKS.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I really think more people should be vocal about the game’s targeting system. This is the core of Gw2’s combat, and it’s absolutely horrendous, much like the camera system. Please let yourself be heard if you think this needs to change.
Yes the targeting system in GW2 is the worst I have seen, I play only one class/role, that being a ranger and from BETA to present my characters target is CONSTANTLY DROPPED or target switched when I use “Barrage” and has been ignored, I have been told by many others that it is a ranger thing only in that guildies who have multiple alts have this problem as well, but, ONLY when on their ranger. So, why the hate and TOTAL disregard to the ranger by this company.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
