1200 gems? Thats 15 dollars >.> Is it just me or are the prices going up?
Gem store prices IMO are ALL grossly overpriced for what you get.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
A few precursor bits of info here:
A) My computer is a beast. At no point do I experience exceptionally low framerates during the dragon battle. I hold a solid 20-25FPS DURING the battle, 40-50 soloing around the world (all max visuals)
B) Considering I’m a software dev by trade and a long time gamer, I’d like to think I do know the difference between server and client side lag
C) But in case you don’t buy B- I constantly monitor my connection on another computer screen. 12ms pings against google with 0 packet loss
D) I am on Tarnished Coast server
OK! Now that the above info is out of the way…
Nighttime battles against dragons can be pretty rough for me
Skill lag can be rather insane during Teq and Jormag, taking as long as 6-8 seconds for one of my skills to register that I hit it and go off. My client is showing it as being pressed (the skill starts flickering like “hey, I’m about to go off!”, but the skill doesn’t actually activate for those 8 seconds.
The dragon battles are awesome. I love them. But at the same time, this skill lag kills my interest in them entirely. Rather than battling for the fun of it, I’m just there for the reward. Rather than using strategy or skill, I’m just hitting buttons and hoping SOMETHING will activate and get a few more points of damage done in my name. It’s rather unfortunate, since the dragon mechanic is amazing
So I was curious- is there any mention of whether this is being looked at, or is it something we’ll just need to get used to?
From the patch notes: “Optimizations;
We’re rolling out our first set of optimizations. This is the first in many steps involved in helping resolve issues with “skill lag.” Some players will experience a slight improvement in skill lag issues with large groups of players, while some players may also experience a slight raise in their FPS.”
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
we are not even able to purchase Southsun Supply Crate’s at the moment, are we?
From the patch notes: “You can now purchase the Southsun Supply Crate in the Consumable category of the Gem Store for 1 for 150 gems or 10 for 1200 gems.”
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
BAH!! Still no Guild Halls, not impressed.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What I don’t understand is if ANET doesn’t want us to farm then EVERYTHING should be obtainable at a reasonable rate and not almost unobtainable as it is now, or, allow us to farm without the DR kicking in so soon. Totally unacceptable/unfair as it is for the casual player.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Click the gear in the upper left of your screen choose options, in the window that opens uncheck "Double-Tap to Evade[/b].
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
If you guys understood the written word all would be revealed, after all If I said I will be ready WITHIN an hour or two, this means I will be ready at ANY TIME WITHIN that hour or two, very simple to comprehend.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Why can’t you use the “Transmutation Stones” I still have 11 LvL80’s left and still use them on occasion, now the 66 LvL79’s are useless to me.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Now that is one equal opportunity bug there. {:þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
sorry got to change the question….. x_x
why cant we wear town clothes for combat just like in any other games… that would add more variety in outfit selection …
btw most town clothes’ desgin suck quite badly….
The reason for this is very simple and it is in the name of such item(s) “Town Clothes”. Question answered, move along, nothing to see here.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
you can kill the pet after it start healing or knock it back!
Problem solved.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I’ve run into this before. Rolled a new character and couldn’t rep right away. Sometimes logging out and back in will fix this. I have also found that sometimes completing your first baby quest will sometimes fix it too. (ie I could rep after killing the earth ‘monster’ in the human starting story)
What he said.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Take 20 or 30 steps in any direction and stop you may see 10 or 15 people materialize. – Welcome to Culling Wars.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I still play the original GW series, working on my last title for GWAMM, after that probably not as much.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Got 1 yesterday. Been so long time since I seen one drop.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
About 3 to 5 a week I’d say.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Not realty here its just a room to stand in why would you need that? If i am going to be afk all day why be online? If i was going to minly events why not do it with ppl out side of your guild?
UNHEARD OF RIGHT. Guild halls in a game called “Guild Wars” most urealistic thing ever heard of. The Guild Halls in GW was IMO one of the most epic things in the game, we had our own merchants, runesmiths, armorers, weaponsmiths as well as many other things as well as the place for your guild to congregate and hold GUILD ONLY events and such. Totally useless.
No “Guild Wars” is about the story before GW1. You have all of this in the cities and as is ppl do not use the home cities most of the time. You can also as a guild call these work places if needed.
As for these “UNHEARD OF RIGHT” as you call them as a player you have no rights Anet give you the right they want to and can take them away as they feel needed. This is how all online games are even steam is like this.
Just because it was in the first GW game (an non mmorpg game) does not mean it will be in the 2ed GW game. You can make the argument that if something was in an older mmorpg it should be in all the newer mmorpgs too but its a very bad one. Every game is in it self its own game. There may be a tie with a story but its still its own game. If any thing we should be asking for something better then a guild hall not just a copy paste of an out dated game that was not even the same game type.
There is no such game named GW1, there was GW(Prophecies), GW(Factions), GW(Nightfall), they canceled GW(Utopia) and came out with GW(Eye of the North).
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Not realty here its just a room to stand in why would you need that? If i am going to be afk all day why be online? If i was going to minly events why not do it with ppl out side of your guild?
UNHEARD OF RIGHT. Guild halls in a game called “Guild Wars” most urealistic thing ever heard of. The Guild Halls in GW was IMO one of the most epic things in the game, we had our own merchants, runesmiths, armorers, weaponsmiths as well as many other things as well as the place for your guild to congregate and hold GUILD ONLY events and such. Totally useless.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Can I get a show of hands here.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Culling is soooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Every mini I have ever gotten are account bound and I have a few.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Thank you, but, I don’t think they will refund something that was totally my fault.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
how can you accidentally purchase them.. there is confirmation isn’t it?
Yes. The accidental buy was the roxx’s shortbow(I think) when I meant to get the “quiver”(forget name). After getting it(the quiver) I realized it wasn’t a skin to re-skin my quiver to, so, I have no use for it either. {:þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I would like to see them sellable/tradeable like in GW.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Why can’t I give away/sell Items I accidently purchased with gems? Why must they be soul/account bound? Now I must let them rot in my bank or destroy them.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I do have to say this about farming, I love to farm, I farm for my guilds need as well as my own(it’s how I make my IGM). I never stay in one spot very long and I do stalk the dragons and other events daily, but, it just seems I must play my game the way ANET decides I must play it. Why?
because
A) it’s their game
B) like other games they did state that they’re against farming. Both Tera and Guild Wars 2 discourage farming.
Older MMOs allow it and free to play MMO force you to do it. By now there should be an MMO for everyone on the market and I’m sure that you should be able to find one that allows you to farm.
Name 1 thing that can be made in the game that does not REQUIRE crafting materials(which must be farmed)
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I do have to say this about farming, I love to farm, I farm for my guilds need as well as my own(it’s how I make my IGM). I never stay in one spot very long and I do stalk the dragons and other events daily, but, it just seems I must play my game the way ANET decides I must play it. Why?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Why can’t we play the game the way we as individuals feel is fun and not as ANET seems to be preventing us from doing?
Because Anet wants MMOs to grow up and the only way they’ll do that is by taking their medicine; sometimes it’s a bitter pill. They knew when they moved away from the WoW model that there were gonna be people what didn’t like the changes, but you don’t make change by pandering to everyone.
Never played WoW and never will, sorry.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
You cannot go into WvW or sPvP when you are guesting, sorry.
I am actually very sure that you can go to sPvP while guesting. Unless they stealth changed that very recently?
Yes you can, just not WvW.
I stand corrected.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
2,730+ hours in 8 months, no precursor. Precursors are a myth.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Why can’t we play the game the way we as individuals feel is fun and not as ANET seems to be preventing us from doing?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Very, very annoying. Please fix/change this.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I agree that it is a ripoff, but I actually think that is the intention. They want you to see the price and instead of pulling out your credit card / in-game gold, step back and go “Whoa, that’s pricey, maybe I should stay on my server instead”. Seeing as how server means absolutely nothing outside of WvW with the introduction of Guesting (and the fact that instances are cross-server already), this makes sense. That said, they also don’t want players who are desperate for WvW with their friends being held out from doing so, and that is why we’re still allowed to change servers at all.
If you want to play with your friends in their guild and do PvE/PvP content, you can do all of that already at no charge. If this is strictly about WvW, however, then you really need to cost-analyze it. Do you want to support that server that much? If so, then go for it, and it’s worth the money. If not, then don’t and never look back.
You cannot go into WvW or sPvP when you are guesting, sorry.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What I find funny is that one of the “Dailies” is “Gathering” and it is there EVERY DAY. -LOL {:þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
In theory, ArenaNet’s early comment about Legendary weapons implied that they expect people to take 6 – 12 months to accomplish them. When people got full Legendary weapons within just a couple months of the game’s release, ArenaNet was really caught off guard. For some reason, they really expected everyone to be ultra casual about the process and not so aggressive about farming content.
To be honest, I really don’t know what ArenaNet was so surprised. They were caught with their pants down since Legendary weapons were likely supposed to be a large time sink. As a result of this, they started to nerf the available farming options as a reactive way of creating more artificial time sinks.
While I like many aspects of this game, there are times when I wonder about ArenaNet’s lack of ability to predict obvious reactions in their customer base. The Legendary weapon matter is just one of many in my mind. Like it or not, I don’t really expect ArenaNet to change their minds.
So now the rest of us must suffer for an oversight on ANETS part?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
This game has stated at the beginning that it is against all means of farming. It was designed in a way to not allow anyone to farm. You don’t need to farm to gain levels, to gain gear or to gain money. It’s not the game that’s farm inducing, it’s your view on it that’s wrong.
A legendary and other lots of material requiring weapons are supposed to be gotten over a really long period of time. I just ran CoE. Got lucky and 2 bottles of T6 blood dropped. An exotic that I salvaged and sold dropped. If I was collecting the blood I would use the money from the exotic that dropped to buy more of it. I would also sell other T6 mats that I have collected while running dungeons and fractals and buy more blood. See? Easy material management. You don’t need to farm for them
SOMEONEwould have had to farm those T6 mats you would buy. Farming IS a requirement in order to obtain a legendary.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Guild Wars 2 do not want farming to be huge part of the game. -Octavius of Tyria
Great post and so spot on.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Ok, sorry if I offended anyone.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
GW1 is a lot better balanced than GW2, and a lot more solo-friendly. It’s worth buying the expansions, and rolling a Nightfall character to get heroes.
I have ALL my GW heroes on a prophecies character, you only need to get Nightfall and Factions as well since 1 hero comes from there.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I’d like to know this myself. Oversight or intended? Also the first back-piece you get has upgrade slot but you can’t use it, or at least it WAS like this when I started playing.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
use the guild bank.
btw the auto ban bot might ban u if that mail got sent out.
sending over than 10 gold via mail triggers the auto ban bot.
This is NOT SO I have mailed over 20 gold to a few guildies with no problems.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Doesn’t ANET have an ALPHA to test builds on?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The one thing I miss the most from GW is the ability to swap out builds without having to pay for wiping the build and rebuild test another build.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Again, ANET, please fix this. Very annoying, almost to the point of not wanting to do dungeons anymore.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
cries
Was just doing CoF story. Got to flame effigy. Party leader disconnected or crashed or whatever. Some bright-spark has the idea to kick him. Everybody accepts. Why does this force-close the instance and kick everybody out? It is so hard to get story pugs for dungeons these days even with gw2lfg.com?
Im not even mad at the guy that done it, this is in my opinion, a bug or design decision that should be rectified. Between the difficulty in finding groups in the first place, and the state of Fractals at their launch. Pug dungeoneering has been the most frustrating experience ive had in ANY mmo to date. Its quite the shambles.
Oh well, Neverwinter client just finished installing. Maybe ill have more fun over there…
I know your pain VERY WELL, had the experience where got to end(no matter what dungeon) leader of group gets chest and leaves, POOF we all leave leaving a couple of us not getting chest yet or ever for that run. Please fix this ANET.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Usefulness of this feature is very questionable. I hope you will listen to the opinions of players. Most of them who noticed it don’t like it.
HUH!
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I will come strait to the point, I do not like how The Pale Tree has been portray – with an Avatar.
if you look back at the concept art and the tree in Guild Wars 1. you do not need and Avatar.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pale_Tree
Yes the Avatar is/was needed.
The Pale Tree, also known as the Mother Tree to the sylvari, is a massive, magical, sentient tree which is the mother of all playable sylvari. She is aware of activity around her and can manifest as an avatar of herself and will converse with those who seek her wisdom.
All is normal as this shows.
The Avatar of the Tree is the spiritual representation of the Pale Tree, used in order to communicate openly with other beings, primarily her children, the sylvari.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Avatar_of_the_Tree
Nothing to see here move along.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
No no no no, I do appreciate the new option to hide gloves but legs and chest has to stay, otherwise people will start to run naked…
Why do you think the pervs out there want it. {:þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger