Guild Wars 2

While on this subject:
Why did designers at arena net think it was a good idea to allow players to sell Legendary Weapons? Doesn’t that make them feel less legendary?

Is arena net happy with the current and increasing value of precursors?

What kind of damage would releasing crafting a precursor do to the overall economy? What about not allowing the new legendary items to not be sold?

“however the precursor building (and corresponding additional legendary items) is the one highest at risk to not make it this year.

It is still something we absolutely plan to do!"

This should have been higher on your list of priorities. Probably more important to players than ascended weapons and armor and that seemed to make the cut just fine.

I appreciate the post. Letting us know it’s very possible it won’t make it this year. I find it very sad that it probably isn’t.

If you like wells I would look at Ascii’s thread like suggested. Also there will be a trait patch on the 15th, so look forward to that as well. Maybe even hold off until you see the changes.

You have excess luck?

Triple post! :p

GL this week everyone. Not that it even matters until the season starts.

well im a noob can you explain to me?

“SOR has the best community. It doesn’t need to pay for friends.”

Boy is this debatable.

“As a T1 player we need our own league there’s no reason to have us face off against even our closest non-T1 rivals, it’s just a blowout every time.”

I agree there is going to be no challenge from 1-3 vs the rest of the bracket. Even though there are occasional good fights in 1-3, I still find it boring to play the same servers week after week.

Also what of rewards. Everyone in T1-3 just get those rewards? Or do you limit those just for that bracket?

Teq himself is not un-fun. It has a lot more to do with waiting and overflows.

“Southsun and Halloween both had shoulder skins, and I seem to remember Southsun having aqua breathers and some kind of tiki mask.”

Had forgotten about these skins. Tiki mask is town clothing.

You make some good points RED about it actually being cheaper to convert gold to gems and buy the armor. Again though, not an exciting way to obtain them. Not that paying gold for T3 is exciting either.

As for cost to develop. I understand that. They’ve been telling us for a while that it’s cost prohibitive. On the other hand they make statements like “the gem shop is doing very well”. Seems clear to me that time are good for them. I guess I am starting to feel more and more like this is a f2p gem shop game rather than a b2p game. I hate to think or feel that way but it’s how it’s becoming to me.

I want to run dungeons and get rewarded. I want to kill epic bosses and get rewarded. I know there is RNG involved, and you shouldn’t get instant BiS or super sword of awesome every drop. But the rewards feel dismal. 1-3g is not luring me into the dungeons or to events.

Players need to stop clinging to the manifesto. It should be clear by now that while their intent might have been to follow it; concessions have been made and some of it is no longer valid.

Here is my concern.

Normally we would be looking at an expansion in the works or possibly close to release. This would probably give us a variety of things including new armor in the game. (Not gem store, but earned in the game)

We’ve seen a few skins with achievements, aqua breathers, set of gloves, and shoulder piece. Ascended whenever that hits. (next month I would guess) I do not consider back pieces to be armor, they are accessories to me. We’ve seen a lot if not too many of those released.

How many new armor pieces in game would you expect to see in an expansion?

I am not sure, but I would expect more than 4 skins and 3 aqua breathers. These aren’t even full sets but pieces.

Can the living story provide these things outside of the gem store?

I am not sure that it can. Or that they will. I understand that armor takes up a lot of resources to produce. Six pieces per set, they have to fit all the characters etc.

Players would be or are ok with them in the gem store. At the same time give us more to earn in game. Earning gold to convert to gems isn’t nearly as exciting as getting an armor drop, or even a token system. Dungeons in general are very lacking in the area.

With the recent exception of TA (possibilities of new weapons). The other dungeons don’t drop anything. You get a bag that is under whelming. Perhaps I am too WOW ingrained. I kill a dungeon boss and I know he is going to drop something cool. Might not be for my class but he drops something. (fixed loot table)

Each of those dungeons have a token system. Why not have that armor drop and have it account bound?

I am on BG. We kill him a lot, even still. But you really need to be on the main server in order to get a good kill in. Most overflows are nearly empty. Two things are currently hurting this event for me.

1: It can be difficult to get into the main server unless I have a lot of time to spend standing around doing nothing. Which I do not.

2: The respawn or spawn time in general is too long. I realize that it’s not out of the ordinary as opposed to the other world bosses. However because of the overflow issue and that he needs to be coordinated, it’s far too long to be standing around.

One last note. Recently they revamped his rewards. I ‘ve been trying to get in and kill him since then but have been unable to. I simply haven’t had the time to dedicate to trying to get in at the right time to kill him, and I don’t have all day to sit and wait.

would love some commentary or listen to the open communication of your team.

The dungeon tells us that whatever her secret is. It’s “nasty” or something to the effect of what Caithe did was “nasty”

Malyck doesn’t seem to fit with “nasty” at least not to me.

So what could have Caithe done that even Scarlet would consider nasty? Whatever it is I am sure it’s probably not as exciting as we are all hoping.

10 chests and nothing but greens, everyone I’ve been with get the same type of loot. This is going to sounds negative; Can you put better loot in chests? Raise the drop rate on rares from these chests please, something. Greens, even with luck are still worthless.

At the same time it’s really pointless and boring to have T1 bracket of 3 servers. Sadly no solution in sight.

“Also, to the BG posters underestimating the loss of MERC. Prior to losing MERC BG would tick at 400 PPT all week in a 1v1 against SoR. This week SoR’s SEA has ticked up to 500 PPT. If that’s not portraying the impact MERC had on the matchup, then nothing will.”

It’s been a week, give it time. It had an impact, we’ll see how much soon enough.

I’ve had this back pack for sometime now. There is no slot for sPVP locker to store this item. Several updates have come and gone. I’ve submitted bug reports with no response. Are you going to fix this at some point? You keep adding new back slots to the locker so I assume this is technology you have. I also assume that it’s an oversight that hasn’t been caught.

Please add a slot in the sPVP locker for tybalts backpack. Thanks.

I hope JQ comes in any place but 1st. Like someone else said, with all the recent buying and stacking of guilds it would be too funny.

If JQ wins by an overwhelming number and more or less steamrolls all other servers then Anet needs to take a hard look at how scoring and wvw in general works. The solution for every server then would be to buy as many guilds as you can. I find that a sad realism.

this thread makes me cry. I want all of those in game :P

signed. Armor is terrible looking. While I didn’t love all the weapons, some were nice looking to me. The armor on the other hand…

There was no bridge to gap.

In an interview Colin J mentioned that ascended was created because the developers originally thought Exotics were going to take some time to acquire. This wasn’t the case, infact exotics as we all know are very easy to obtain. Fresh 80s have them very easily.

Ascended is supposed to fill that role. While offering a slightly better stat upgrade (still not needed for any current content) it also takes longer to make because it is time gated.

Probably not the best system as most will agree. Crafting to 500 is a gold sink, and Ascended weapons aren’t time gated at all. It’s a money gate with a slight grind for a few materials.

also the mini’s are sub 15g each. I wouldn’t call that an unreasonable amount. Got both for 6g each early after patch.

You can buy them in the TP. Those mini’s aren’t account bound. (I still don’t like it either, but there is another way to get it, you’ll just have to pay all your gold for it)

Not sure how trait reset is a pay to win feature. I won’t be buying one personally, I’d much rather be able to save different builds, and then this might be useful to me.

arah (story big time) has a lot of holes or feeling incomplete in some places. Wonder if they will blow that one up too.

“YOU ALL JUST LOST THE GAME!”

I was so close to winning too. kitten . Good thing I have an infinite continue coin! Huzzah!

“I seriously think they are trying to kill this game before ESO comes out and crushes it.”
Man are you in for a surprise. Worry more about Wildstar if you are going to worry about an unreleased game.

“I’m a bit confused. It seems almost like ArenaNet has a crippling fear of content creep because their metrics tell them that if they spread out their player base too much it will irrevocably hurt the game. "

I get the same feeling. We know from interviews it is a major concern of theirs. My fear is that it is crippling like you say.

Sometimes that is all you can do. Arena net made is clear months ago that they are trying new things. Sometimes those will work out and be awesome. Sometimes they won’t. If the community feels this impassioned about it they I hope that comes across clear to the developers and find an alternate way the next time.

edit “As long as we can help the Nightmare Court COMPLETELY KILL SCARLET”

The short story released today leads you to believe she isn’t there. At least not yet.

“This is just confirms my fears that when other dungeons get touched or a new path, they’ll simply remove one of the paths. Great when they remove arah 4, but for the rest of the dungeons, not so much.”

You are probably correct. If the quote from colin is any indication about blowing dungeon paths up. Seems like this won’t be the last time. Best thing to do is let them know in a constructive way that the community doesn’t prefer this decision. For the most part I’d say that message is getting across.

“From a lore perspective, the story of Twilight Arbor repeatable is a lot like a “what if?” situation. Who gets to the Nightmare Tree first? Scarlet is now present in the arbor, and that presence has a very tangible effect on how the Nightmare Court can pull off their race to the tree. Because of that presence, the possibilities are narrowed, and Fyonna will not be able to make it to the tree in time.”

No offense but this sounds like a bad excuse. Why was she removed? I hope the dungeon path explains this. I’ll reserve judgment until I play through the path and the story, but I hope there is a tie in there.

“From a design standpoint, we want the Living World updates to change and have an impact on the world. Earlier in the year, Colin gave the example of blowing up a dungeon and replacing it. This is very much that example in action.”

Again as I said above, I hope the story conveys this.

“Everyone on the team is really proud of how the new path has come together, so I’m hoping you give it a try on Tuesday and let us know what you think.”

You can be sure posters will let you know.

It is not about “I have no idea why any MMO company would be “weary” of giving their players too much to do.” It is about adding too many dungeons and diluting the world further. Those aren’t my thoughts, that is what arena net is conveying in their interviews.

" To your last point, this is content being removed for the sake of removing content. I don’t think it’s so technically difficult to add another path, this is their way of “revamping” the path."

I didn’t say it was difficult to add another path and infact suggested that this is their revamp. They took a path and made it longer and supposedly tougher. Sadly some of the previous path is lost in translation. Some players are really unhappy with it.

“You have zero idea why people are “up in arms” about the issue, beyond what they say.”

I am going by what they say, so I do have an idea as to why they are up in arms. Seems pretty clear to me. Doesn’t mean I agree with them. On a separate but related note, a lot of forum posters complain just to complain.

You seem to have a certain amount of distain for my comments. You are entitled to your opinion. I am expressing myself as the other posters are.

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“Not what we wanted, go back to the drawing board.”

Not what YOU wanted.

“You sure like to generalize people and put words in their mouth. Without saying really anything of substance at all.”

Was I wrong? Was their answer going to be different than that? I am not generalizing. Sure some of the statements I make can be construed as that but in this case I would say I am pretty close to spot on. It is easy to tell from some posts how they feel about the subject at hand.

You assume everyone doesn’t like that path because of 1 fight. Probably true for the most part in this case.

“Because if they change anything someone wouldn’t be able to experience it, and that would be a bad thing, right?”

I answer for him/her.

Yes

“Every MMO player should be up in arms about content REMOVAL”

Why? Because so many player go back and run old content? I am sure tons of players are running year 1 wow content all the time.

It just so happens that my generalization on this matter is correct most of the time.

We already know Anet is weary about expanding the world and dungeons in general. They fear thinning players out too much, and having too many dungeons.

They want to fix and or expand upon existing dungeons. They did not fix the current path, they replaced it with an expanded and longer path.

I can understand some players won’t like it. I understand even better a good deal will complain that something is being removed just because it’s being removed.

lordkrall is suggesting the lore could be else where. Perhaps not in the path but still in the world.

“I just wanted to add…. I spiked the GM.” You are now the best player in GW2.

In 15v15 and 20v20 how many bad players are you carrying? Doesn’t group comp start to lose it’s magic after a certain number of players?

well we know the path is removed. We do not know about the lore.

" carry you or to buy a run off someone." Both of these options seem like great fun in a game.

“Let’s wildy speculate on why they’re removing a path instead of simply adding one!”

A net hates fun and wanted to messy up your day.

Seems just as reasonable as anything else suggested.

so go play the path now. You have until patch tomorrow. And you’ve had a chance since launch.

Not to rain on R. Hrouda but many of the dungeons at launch were rather meh. 99% of them still unchanged.

I don’t like RNG, there was a time where I foolishly bought into it. Will never happen again. I still buy other items from the gem store, but anything RNG is not on my list.

No you don’t lose out. It replaces it.

players are only up in arms because something is being removed. Doesn’t matter what it is, and they would still be “up in arms”

I don’t like any of TA to be honest. F/U was probably the worst of the 3 (debatable). It’s replacement content. Not really sure how I feel about that. I’d rather them add new content. Most feedback from that path was that players hated it. I don’t think it will be missed much.

What does it matter how much is spent vs time played? If the person spending the money is enjoying whatever time is invested then I don’t see the issue?

I ended up running with the zerg last night. It was difficult to find fair fights while roaming. I imagine that this has something to do with the attractiveness of the ruins.

“This is Guild Wars, what makes you think you’d fight other guilds?!!”

I LOVE when players make this statement.

Nuka is going to paying for zero for a long time. I don’t recommend you holding your breath though. Oxygen is tasty. :P