1. New high quality permanent content.
2. New high quality permanent content.
3. New high quality permanent content.
4. New high quality permanent content.
5. New high quality permanent content.
6. New high quality permanent content.
7. New high quality permanent content.
8. New high quality permanent content.
9. New high quality permanent content.
10. Get rewarded for playing the game.
Most defenitely this.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Have you lost your mind? Don’t give them ideas like that, we need more meaningful fun content not more RL money grubbing, before you know it GW2 will become CSW.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Game’s not dead and I still play once in a while.
98% is completely soloable with the heros/henchies, but, will need the EOTN expansion for access to your HoM.
If i’m on at the time I will run with you, my IGN is Im Mudbone.
You will find that there is a grind, but, I like(d) it and think there is a lot that blows GW2 out of the water except the graphics(GW2 has this beat).
Lots of gameplay, MUCH BIGGER and you ACTUALLY EARN your weapons/armor. I have well over 6000hrs in-game.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
To the above posters that want more unique minis instead of one single mini given out by the millions — I’m afraid ArenaNet/NCsoft won’t do it as it would cut into their mini pack gem market. Its the only reason I can come up with why they did it the first time and I don’t see them changing now.
I had to give you a +1 to agree and to say that it’s SHAMEFUL.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
A macro enabled keyboard is NOT a violation of the game’s RoC. You can use macros on your macro enabled keyboard AS LONG AS you do not break the one game function per button press.
Keep the Game Action to Key Press ratio to exactly 1 to 1 and you will be fine. From Mark Katzbach’s post above, the problem start if you “map multiple key functions to a single keypress, regardless of the intended use or outcome”. (emphasis is mine)
Come on guys, this is not hard to understand.
Another ludicrous statement, why would anyone in their right mind set a macro that uses 1 keystroke for 1 action when that can and is done without the use of a macro enabled keyboard.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The answer has always been the same, one button, one key press.
Can we lock this topic already?
What had to be said has been said, now people are just trying to nit pick every little thing to find loopholes.
One key press, one button. That’s the only thing allowed.
Beaten to death and never answered, LUDICROUS. Macro enabled keyboards are designed for MULTIPLE KEYSTROKES in 1 keypress and the macro-enabled Steel Series keyboard has been given an official GW2 oky-doky to use endorsement.
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Combat Mode does much, much more than 1:1 keypress and is allowed to be used.
ArenaNet does not and has not ever reviewed or approved any third-party applications. Combat Mode, as are all other third-party tools, is very much “use at your own risk”.
20. You may not use any third-party program (such as a “bot”) in order to automate gameplay functions, including playing, chatting, interacting, or gathering gold or items within Guild Wars 2. You may not assist, relay, or store gold or items for other players who are using these processes.
Using AutoHotKey to map multiple key functions to a single keypress, regardless of the intended use or outcome, is a violation of the above rule.
Or is in game advantage only reserved for players who pay you for the privilige?
Official description from your page:
“The Guild Wars 2 Gaming Keyboard features a visually stunning design, vibrant red illumination, raised macro keys, a fully customizable keyboard, and more.”
My thoughts exactly and of course “THEY” will not explain themselves with that move if macros(as designed to be used) isn’t allowed in this game, “they” should amend “their” rules since “they” violated “their” own policy with the introduction of the Steel Series MACRO ENABLED keyboard as an OFFICIAL GW2 allowed device, a bit on the ludicrous end for this company don’t you think.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
It would be nice if we would be able to change our looks from the Hero panel.
So, under the Equipment, Dyes, Wardrobe, there could be a new tab called Makeover
In there we can preview all the changes like when using the Total Makeover Kit
Transform the TMK into Makeover Charges
WHAT? Then we couldn’t buy gems to pay for doing this. Pure blasphemy. {:-þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Unless you are pressing one physical key per each individual action, it is not permitted. Anything that presses multiple buttons per single user button-press or key-press is not allowed.
How comes you guys are able to find time to answer to something incredible unimportant like playing an instrument but we don’t hear anything about the future
or status of the game ??
Stuff like that really annoys me especially when A-Net always says they don’t have time to answer
Because Mark isn’t a developer. Do you people read or are just plain idiots?
Being a tad insulting with that last statement, not everyone knows who is and isn’t a dev, a little decorum please.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
As a staff ele I have 2 weaps, staff and trident. There is NO option to swap at all. Fine, I removed the trident, killed a few things and jumped into the water. Lost the stack….huh????
So unless I spend 10 gold on a sigil for the trident, this is hopeless. Please someone explain the logic in this. Now I’m avoiding the water as much as I can. Sad!
Well, that’s better than my situation where I cannot maintain my stacks at all, since I run S/D and only switch to staff when I come across a zerg. I lose my stack every time regardless.
Whoever thought fixing this was a priority is clueless. There was absolutely nothing wrong with how stack and switch functioned before. If you think certain skills are too much with stacking and 2x proc sigils, you should nerf those instead and not nerf the stacking sigil. It’s just plain clueless and/or lazy to nerf stats across the board. But hey, it’s the same group of Devs that gave us ferocity, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
How about, just plain cluelessly lazy.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I lose my Bloodlust stacks every time when I waypoint from one place to another inside one region. I understand loseing the stack if I leave the zone I’m in but I’m not leaving the zone.
I asked a question about this but my question was removed for a reason I don’t understand.
Your thread is still there, it just dropped to page 4 of the General GW2 Discussion sub-forum.
Ahhh, got buryied. -LOL {:-þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I lose my Bloodlust stacks every time when I waypoint from one place to another inside one region. I understand loseing the stack if I leave the zone I’m in but I’m not leaving the zone.
I asked a question about this but my question was removed for a reason I don’t understand.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Really? Are you kidding me? Of the most stupid thing to complain about this is it?. So what they put a message up to tell people about a special sale in the Gem Store. Who cares? Did that message actually mess up your play? Did it take too long to read? Did it give you a headache?
People seem to complain about that gem store for the reason just to complain. Go to other mmo’s with an gem type currency store. Compared to those in real money ours is cheap. Go to them and try to use in game gold for the gem type currency you can’t. Here in GW2 you can and people should appreciate that.
It does all those things to me as well as make my eczema flair up.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
all businesses advertise. while i agree its tacky and lame, it is better than annoying splash graphics on the website and launch page. its a little text blurb….ignore it like you do half the morons who post stupid kittene.
They already advertise. Each time you log in you see whats new in the Gem Shop each week.
+1. Next thing we will start seeing are some kind of cryptic messages that are subliminal suggestions about their cash-grab gem store, can’t wait.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
They could try actually selling things in the gemstore at an honest price without gambling
They… do? The only thing on the gem store that involves gambling are the handful of items exclusive to bl chests (tickets/ticket scraps, mostly), everything else on there sells for a set price.
A set price yes, but, he said HONEST PRICE which I translate to as a FAIR PRICE not the ripp-off prices they currently charge.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Not being very realistic there mr realist(time to spend your gems on a name-change contract). There are many who have already done everything to be done in this game(you can name it and i’ve done it or tried it ad-nauseum) and farm while waiting on the next NEW thing to do(not some old tired, rehashed crap), that is also mindless. I paid money for the game I will play it LIKE I WANT TO not how you or anyone else tries to DICTATE.
Cool story.
Sounds like you’re not getting enjoyment from the game in any of its aspects, may I suggest playing another game for a few weeks so you have some enjoyment until they do release something?
I’m trying to help you to have fun, since it is clear you are not having any fun with the current direction of the game.
Mindlessly grinding faceroll content is not fun, if it was, you’d still be doing the QD train minus the loot. Since you’re not still doing the lootless QD train, you were never having fun to begin with.
Don’t take your anger out on the players trying to point you in the right direction, take it out on ANet for their poor business model that is leading you to not have fun.
The reason why I liked the QD train was because it was easy to train alt characters there. I find map completion boring, I dislike PVP and WVW, so the best way to train new characters was in QD. that is no longer possible and now in order to level them you have to “play the way it was intended” and do map completion and all that. That gets boring and tedious really quick, not to mention it takes multiple times longer than the train did.
I didn’t really do QD train for loot, but its always a nice bonus.
You never did it for the loot? You did it strictly for levelling?
Fear not! You can still do the train til your heart is content, its all still there, train it up!
‘au contraire mon frere’ I quite enjoy what I do(which is hard-core farming) and I have fun doing it, that’s why I won’t let the likes of you and your ilk DICTATE how I should play the game, I play it how I LIKE which so happens to be farming EVERYTHING from low to high level areas and I have never belittled or harrassed others in-game for playing how they like, I don’t nor have I ever stayed in one area for long and I salvage 95% of everything I get and horde the mats I get for crafting, to sell on the TP or help my guild-mates out when in need. As for your mentioning the idea of playing something else until new content comes out, I do that as well it’s called GW1 which I absolutely love.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Logged into Divinity’s Reach. Chatted for a while. Did a few heart chests in Queensdale. Bought some new outfits with gems I bought in the TP. Threw a bunch of unused rares into the Mystic Forge, didn’t get anything worthwhile, but, hey, life is good – it was fun! Think I’ll pop some more gems for some transmute charges so I can change up my wardrobe a bit. Man, I love this game! The only thing that would make it better was if that horrible, dreadful, despicable Champ Train was gone … what? It is? Woo-hoo!!! Unicorns and bubblegum and lollipops for everyone! Back to the TP – I had my eye on that Legendary thingie, Eternity or something. I think I have a few thousand left on my Visa…
WOW! Methinks you like to brag to much, but, I digress, I too like SOME aspects of the game, but, nowhere near as much as I did/do GW1. As far as the Trains go(i’m a hardcore farmer and that won’t change), some are still going strong and that is where I go as well as the dailies and world boss events at reset. Never got a precurser(been in-game since all BETAS), don’t want a legendary(too foo-foo to my liking) and for now my MC will stay in my wallet.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I have a feeling that what we are seeing is a combination of milking the current playerbase and targeting a different market on another continent that has literally hundreds of millions of people.
The China market is HUGE. Even if this is just a cashgrab strategy, they can make bank and not care if the game itself died a quick death.
Ah yes. I am sure they would be willing to put 300+ people (and friends) out of a job for some swift dollars….
Well, I would assume that most of their best talent has left for a good reason….
And I agree with many of the posters in this thread. This game is quickly starting to look like another cash-grab P2W scenario. I suspect NCSoft wants to shelve GW2 to make way for their upcoming MMOs such as Wild Star (you know, the kind that requires everyone to pay for kitten monthly subscription fees no matter what.)
I give Anet 3-4 months tops for improvements, now that they’re really going to have to work for it if they want to wow their new Chinese players. If we continue to see more cash shop in exchange for more stealth drop nerfs and RNG, then I think it’s time to say goodbye to this game and hello to something else. And that new “something else” won’t be Wild Star if NCSoft’s business model is anything to go by.
I like how people complain about trivial subscriptions fees and then cry when they’re beloved F2P game becomes a cash grab.
Not that ALL F2P is bad. Rift has a very fair cash shop, but that’s the only example I can think of at the moment.
I have no problems with the cash shop. In fact I’m a huge supporter of the Gem Store and have already spent sooo much buying the skins and minis from it that I’d rather not share not my balance here out of embarrassment because of it.
My issue is that they’re ruining aspects completely unrelated to the gemstore through nerfing gold drops, mat drops, RNG chances and farming in an attempt to pressure players to take out their credit card for a quick fix.
The gemstore should be aesthetics, toys and boosters only, it has no buisness kittening around with the gameplay this drastically. And when it does, it practically becomes P2W.
So instead of nerfing the gameplay, how about releasing more appealing skins through the gemstore? You know what would be great? More racial armor types. I’d know I’d get out my credit card in a heartbeat if Anet released more armor skins that catered to the body types and aesthetics on charr, sylvari and Asura since Anet is too lazy to fix the clipping and stretching issues associated with non race-tier armors. I bet that would make them and many other players very happy.
Must be nice being a poor little rich kid to brag about all the money you spend on gems for a game that SHOULD BE items gotten for just playing the game, as the saying/quote goes “a fool and his money are soon parted”.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
You were doing your thing then suddenly on your screen pops up “Scarlett minions are attacking (somewhere random)” You would drop what you were doing to go help! What a rush.
I’m not saying this but the concept of breaking things up was great.
I absolutely loved the advertisements about Scarlets Minions attacking certain areas, dropping everything and jumping on those trains. -LOL {:-þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What about something like they had with Scarlett Minion attacks? Now that was fun. Sure do miss those
I wasn’t around for those. What were those?
Welcome to a LS that is now dead. I had a vision of them making an expansion that is nothing more than all the dead Living Stories brought back as a sick joke for all the ones wanting an expansion(including myself).
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Having champ trains in the starter areas was just bad – a turn-off and distraction to new players. Good riddance.
Note that nothing was done to Frostgorge or other areas.
Because Frostgorge was already nerfed with Trio earlier.
IMO, the FGS train was made better(albeit that it takes a little longer to complete) and fish, kodan and norn combined as an event was a GOOD THING, I now get 4 BOXES instead of just 3 for doing them, VERY EASY to get to them and get them done by remembering the time it was finished and knowing it to be a 30min respawn from time of completion.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I hate people saying that we should support them. I bought the digital deluxe version and I have spent about $200 on storage space and collectible space and character slots. And I got digital deluxe version for one of my kids and the normal version for the other. That is way more than enough support. Now how about they stop kittening with the game and let us play rather than nickel and dime us.
Because they want every nickle and dime they can get.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
We currently have no plans to implement an in-game voice communication client. There are plenty of viable third-party options available, such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble.
That is an interesting response.
Then what does GW2 need speex and opus for? :P
Both of those audio codecs are designed for VoIP.
Sure they were DESIGNED FOR voip use, but, can and are used in/for other types of audio use, such as music streaming and more.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
We currently have no plans to implement an in-game voice communication client. There are plenty of viable third-party options available, such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble.
Thanks for the information.
I feel an in-game voice comm would be far more reliable than third-party software, not to mention more convenient for Ad-hock grouping.
Definitely something you guys should consider implementing , especially if you intend to develop more dungeons and fractals, or dare I say it? raids.
There are plenty of viable third-party options available, such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble.
I’ve used all three, and they work well. No need to spend money to reinvent the wheel, when you can get the wheel for free.
I have also used all 3 and in my experience they can go down for hours, usually at the worst possible time too.
Is that truely your experience? I can’t speak for the the rest, but I’ve had a vent server for so many years that I can’t remember (back to Crimson Skies). It has NEVER gone down during play-ever. The only time it is down (in my experience) is during scheduled maintenance which the inform the owner about and even that is rare.
Bottom line-I thing your comment was more reactionary than based in fact.
So much what Blude says, in the time using Vent(in the GW1 years) and TS3 for GW2, the downtime accumulated for those 2 voice comms has been MAYBE 3 days(72 hours) total in the 8+ years of voice comm use during GW1/GW2
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Want to know what this game would be like with in-game voice com? Go to Steam, download Team Fortress 2, and play a few games. Tell me how long it takes before you feel the need to mute an annoying 12-year-old.
Not just 12 year olds I have heard those in their 20s and 30s+ I’d like to reach through my mic and strangle in the BG WvW channels before even myself at 60 years old can be annoying at times which is why I just keep my mouth shut and listen to directions and try to follow without becoming an a**hole.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The Queensdale train simply had to go. It was not a beginner friendly map in the least. The Frostgorge should have remained intact though. It was an end game area and not a lot going on that the train would have ruined.
The FGS train is just fine, I like the trio, you get a box from each boss body drop and a 4th delivered on side of screen,
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
