I feel your pain. Not so much the dying part, the game is super easy. It’s just so bad. I want the rewards, but I can’t bring myself to play the game. I was actually going to pay a friend of mine to play my account because he used to play, but he wasn’t interested.
Are the HoM rewards really worth the effort? I have multiple accounts and don’t miss them on the accounts without them. Personally, I’d think devoting that effort to GW2 would be more worthwhile — unless you’ve already done it all and are doing this while waiting for the expansion?
I want the raccoon for my Ranger, I want the Moa for my other Ranger, several of the skins are really nice.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/reimagining-progression-the-mastery-system/
Because the Mastery training bar completely replaces the experience bar, players who’ve reached level 80 will no longer gain levels but will instead train Masteries. This means characters that have reached level 80 will no longer gain skill points through leveling. Skill points will be added as rewards across high-level content to offset this change.that probably got revised, they are getting rid of skill points now.
they basically said skill points will be from skill point challenges only now. (and your first 80 levels)i dont doubt they will have some new skill point challenges, or some old content may now be skill point challenges.
That would mean that it was rethought over and revamped within the last 46 days as that article was released on Feb 5th. I think it’s more likely they just didn’t tell us the details of the new skill points rather than scrapping and redoing them after posting that blog.
nah, anet works that fast on design level.
They changed the initial trait system like 30 days before ship or something.Its not really a change. Skill challenges will happen in high level areas. What they said in previous blog was a rough idea for the same thing.
basically they want the total amount of skill points to be finite now, this way when they introduce new specializations, you will have to do the new skill point giving contents.
“Hero Points will be limited, and they’ll be earned strictly through what are currently called skill challenges (these will become known as hero challenges) and leveling up.”
anet has already told you that they were figuring this out now, which is why they didnt mention anything before.
Still doesn’t make sense to remove them if they are going to be used as a crafting material in the Mystic forge. After those are used up, then what?
They’re not being used as a crafting material, they’re being converted into a crafting material. The obvious answer, therefore, is that they won’t be used for acquisition anymore, a different system will be in place. Maybe just buy it with gold.
Yes it’s fair. Your potential to unlock a given skin in the wardrobe was to have the skin on one of your characters or in your locker when the system went through.
If you didn’t have the skin then you couldn’t unlock it. For specialty skins you will never be able to unlock it in the future.
If you had done a lot of work and had been storing for a while you could unlock every skin in the game. That isn’t to say that everyone has the ability, nor will have in the future the ability to unlock every skin in the game. That’s not how it works, how it is intended to work, nor how it should work.
I wish I could get the Tribal top. It was a discontinued PvP skin. I’ll never get it. It would have worked amazingly for a elementalist I’m making. Too bad for me.
Accept that you can’t and shouldn’t be able to have everything. Accept that it is actually fair that you can’t and shouldn’t be able to have everything. You will be a much happier person in the long run.
You just need to complete the skill points, nothing else.
If the system works like masteries then each progressive unlock will cost more.
So will everyone just automatically have their fall damage trait as a built in feature now, do you think?
Most likely, since it’s a completely new system, everyone will be respecced.
If you are level 80 with map completion then you will have enough points to unlock everything, period. If you are sub 80 or have not at least gotten all the skill points in map completion then you may not have enough points to unlock everything.
If you have a level up scroll, keep your level up scroll, it will continue to level you up.
If you have a skill scroll, either keep it to find out what it gives you after the change, or burn it on your highest skill point character to see what it gives you after the change. In either case, all your excess skill points will be converted into mats.
Mats should include Philosopher Stones, Crystals and Wine. If we’re lucky they also include Coins and Clovers. But I wouldn’t count on it.
I’m keeping all my skill points and I’ll burn them after the change. In the mean time I think I need to go out and complete skill challenges on my other characters so I won’t need them later.
Question about the new trait lines. We are going from 13 select-able traits to 9 for each tree. (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/)
So a difference of 4*5 = 20 traits are getting cut.
So that is 20 traits ANet allows us to buy with effort or gold+skill_points. Anyone else have a problem with this? Should new characters, as of last April, expect some sort of refund?
No, because those 20 traits will primarily be traits that the majority of people aren’t bothering to buy nor earn anyway because they’re not good/worth using. That’s why they’re getting scratched.
Also no because too bad. That’s not how these games works.
Whatever they play, it’s not Ranger.
Ranger is actually one of the most played classes by Anet staff, from what I have personally seen.
Considering the problems that class has always had and still does, I find that hard to believe. If any number of the Devs actually played the class I would think there would have been any effort to fix those problems. I will admit that the class is in a better place than it was at the beginning of the game, but it still has built in problems that have not even been approached in a meaningful way.
Whatever they play, it’s not Ranger.
Hearts are good for leveling, they give a lot of XP compared to the other exploration things. I prefer to only complete hearts by doing events associated with the area the heart is in. Sometimes that’s easy, but other times it’s next to impossible because the events are bugged or just won’t start so some reason.
did anyone know that Chinese server was sold SAB skil about 288RMB,about 40 Dollar. Especially in April 1 to April 13.
i dont understand your post
At the beginning of April there was a gimmick by the Chinese producer that included some SAB assets for sale.
If there is one complaint I have in relation to this future update is inconsistency where the story dungeons before that would remain as they are but only the Arah dungeon will be changed. I think it would only be deemed appropriate if the story dungeons have adjustable levels of difficulty depending on how many people you are able to bring from 1-5.
I would also like to see the other story dungeons given this treatment and then also fit into the personal story where they belong in the context of the story. That way when you reach Arah the last thing you experienced from Destiny’s Edge was the group working through their issues and accepting each other, not the group coming together for a moment only to break up even more thoroughly back at level 30.
I feel like a clarification is needed, as it seems that the community is confused. My assumption is that he is talking about dailies, not log-in rewards. Dailies are the handful of objectives that you have to actually do in order to achieve. The reward for dailies is AP, XP, a Level, Karma and Mats. There are a handful of other things depending on the big objective. I have no idea what PvP and WvW rewards are.
This is entirely unrelated to log-in rewards.
The OP wants to, either do a bunch of things over the course of a month, or do a handful of much tougher things over the course of a month for an equivalent reward. Because that’s what Monthlies were.
I think this is not a good idea. Monthlies weren’t great. It was still possible to complete your monthlies in a day, defeating the whole point of them. The dailies you don’t have to do, but if you chose to they don’t take much time. Because they happen every day, if you want to do them you will get more reward overall than if it was monthly, but you have to keep doing them to get all the possible reward. If you skip a day it isn’t going to ruin you, unless you’re one of the handful of people super obsessed about their AP “rank.”
If you want to be super cute and girlish you’re playing the wrong culture. Asura don’t care. Have you ever once heard any Asura talking about clothes? No, they’re talking about building things, changing the fabric of the universe and other intellectual pursuits. That’s what Asura care about. Clothes are just a functional necessity because that’s where their pockets go, and pockets are useful for holding tools.
I noticed this today while I was checking my binds. F5 is bound to Profession Skill 5. But no profession has 5 skills. Engineer. Elementalist and Ranger cap out at 4. Revenant only seems to have 1 which is for legend swap.
Might this be a new skill that will be associated with specializations?
Do you have vipre? I was just having this issue. Turning off firewall didn’t work. Add the following to your exceptions though. Worked great for me. ‘assetcdn.101.ArenaNetworks.com’
You sir win the prize. Thank you. It didn’t work, but when I went into the firewall history I saw that address and added it to the allow list, and that worked.
I wouldn’t have even thought to look there otherwise.
Every time I try to run the game, now, I get error during the initial splash screen, before the login.
Download failed! Please check you internet connection and try again.
There is nothing wrong with my internet connection. I can come on here no problem. I was stream video. I can play any of my other online games and MMOs. I can download no problem.
I tried disabling my network connection and re-enabling it. I rebooted. Neither of these have made a difference. I also renamed the folder and tried to install from scratch but the installer failed also.
I put in a support ticket, but just in case I came here hoping that I might get an answer sooner. This all started happening yesterday Saturday, April 18. I didn’t have any problem logging in Friday.
I find it amusing that ANet admitting that it doesn’t break any rules is being presented in this thread as ANet saying it’s ok and that they probably wouldn’t prefer that it didn’t happen. The simple fact that they won’t support it is an indication that they don’t support it. They just can’t crack down on it because there is technically nothing to crack down on. Technicalities are a kitten.
There is nothing you can do. There is nothing you should be able to do. Good for the French guys for sticking it to you. ANet supports them more than you.
1) This is a common and regular thing in MMOs. It should be expected that when you click next after putting in your name you are committing to that name.
2) Yes, if you insist on having a single word name this will be an issue. This game is over two and a half years old. This is, again, a very common thing in MMOs. You should expect that in that much time someone has taken most of the single words. That is why it is in your best interest to use a two word name. Titles and Surnames are your friend.
3) This is the part that doesn’t make sense, that I don’t understand. Since the first two things are true, and should be expected of a game that’s been around this long, why would you enter in random garbage if you still aren’t willing to live with random garbage? Why would you start throwing in crap names when you could instead be throwing in a two part name which has a significantly greater chance of success?
So… you’re wrong. There is at least one other option, therefore a dummy character is not the “only solution.” Be smart about your name selection and use a two part name. That way your first character can be your first character.
I don’t understand the problem. Unless you are dead set against a character with title or surname you will almost certainly be able to get the name you want.
Wow, so yeah, I was actually all for this when it was first presented. I thought it looked great and seemed functionally better. After watching the video and seeing the actual flow of the UI, though, I have changed my view. That is not good. It is definitely not cleaner nor easier to use than what we already have.
There are far too many menus and extra drop downs and the whole thing is a cluttered mess. I do hope you are competing in the UI challenge. And I hope you make some iterations on this design. It might have potential, but right now it is not what we need.
You mean the new trait-system that they have outright confirmed will be reverted/changed with HoT?
And to compare the trait system with SAB to make a point is laughable.
And yet this was just a response to someone who was making that comparison. So is it only laughable when the point to refute claims that ANet never goes back and fixes things. Or was it laughable then too, cause I thought it was pretty funny.
It was publicly announced, that is confirmation. The only confirmation that is more confirmed would be a patch note on it.
After a couple of weeks ppl complain there is nothing new in SAB. I think they want release it again if they have W3 finished. Which will take a while.
I honestly doubt that any player would complain about more permanent content at the moment.
Then you have obviously not spent enough time on these forums. People will complain about anything. If they announced that SAB was going to be permanently opened the forums would be full of people complaining that SAB is stupid and detracts from their enjoyment of the game because it doesn’t make sense. There are a whole slew of people who find SAB to be immersion breaking and can’t stand the idea of other people who enjoy it being able to play it.
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I’m happy with the way it is. I think it works just fine.
And here I thought this was being necroed to show that ANet really does listen, and while it may take them a VERY long time to act on an issue, they do get around to it.
Thanks for the link. I have had the game since release and have yet to finish my personal story because of the last instance.
I guess I just have to wait for the patch, at least the end is in site now.
Or, you know, you could just find a pug doing it and do it. It’s not like it’s even a hard dungeon, it’s just long and boring.
Five slots, make it a gem store item, even an expensive one. I’d buy it. This is actually a really good idea, especially being a low slot item as it’s going to inspire buying extra bag slots. Not just one, but potentially one per character. I’ve got 14 characters right now. That would be a huge influx of cash. And if you want more slots across characters you have to do it again.
This would not impede gem spending because of the handful of items it would make easier to share across characters, it would boost spending for the effort to make them available to all your characters.
This is a very useful item, and a very marketable item.
I bought the originals, then the clockwork for the sprockets. No plans to add more unless they provide some benefits — like the sprockets.
That’s what I did. Not happy spending 1000 for the second pick, but whatever. That’s the one I pass around to my alts while my main operates the original 3.
They never change their minds, ever. To prove it, let me give you two very specific examples of them definitely changing their minds.
They do love there cash grabs after all but the SAB coin cash grab was wrong by any MMO standard and I hold them in lower regard than I do other MMO’s.
The fact that they refuse to return SAB is proof at this point will those who bought the coin even return or have they already left in complete disgust?
We never left?
Is there any news on when this is going to happen? I just reached the story step where I will be entering the dream with Trehearn. How far past this step can I go before I would start interfering with this upcoming change on my character? I want to experience the new story exclusively and to never have experienced this interim change they’ll be fixing.
From the OP it would be 8 weeks. I believe it’s around 6 weeks now from the date of this post (4/13).
I can’t recall what chapter and step is the one you are talking about, then I can’t tell how you would be affect and if you would be so.
I reread the OP and I am at the specific first mission relevant to this change. So basically if I want to experience the whole story I have to not continue with that character until it’s done.
Fail
I don’t even want a refund on the coin. It was only 600 Gems and I bought them with gold anyway. If they brought back SAB and reintroduced the coin it would probably be more than 600 gems, so I’m content with what I’ve got, even though it’s technically nothing.
For those still confused why anger of the minis is justified, it is because the released the minis just before the anniversary of the original release of SAB. This isn’t a matter of releasing the minis at a time the content wouldn’t be expected to appear. Nor is it a matter of releasing the minis for content there has never even been information about. They know full well that the community associates April Fools with SAB first and random April Fools jokes second, especially the SAB fanatics. Releasing the minis just before April Fools, without any information one way or another, is like releasing Halloween minis a couple days early or Wintersday minis a couple days early, then not doing the corresponding event.
It is a betrayal and devastating. They really should have put out a statement. “We are not bringing back SAB for April 1st. We know how much it means to you, though. So in appreciation of your support, here are the SAB minis. We are thinking about it, we do remember, and we do have plans for SAB in the future. Just not right now.”
People would probably still have Rioted in Rata Sum, but not a single person would have felt betrayed when SAB didn’t show up just like they said it wouldn’t. People would have been happy for the minis and maybe accepted that ANet is thinking about them. The lack of anything, at all, is what upsets everyone. No statement, no explanation, no sympathy. They’re cold and hurtful and makes it look like a cash grab to dupe the believers.
I feel like people don’t understand where voice comes from when they make requests like this.
Voice is extremely expensive. It isn’t like it is a handful of lines, it’s every line. Not just the lines you say, but the lines you might have said instead if you’d chosen a different path. It’s just not feasible.
Doesn’t it take 72 hours to get the first vault, guild stash, up and available? If you start the guild upgrades going as soon as the guild is made then your restrictions should end and the guild stash should be available at the same time. If the guild is only 48 hours old, unless you spent a lot of gold buying influence to speed it up, then you can’t access it anyway, as it’s not there to access.
bought a lot of influence
…and yeah to those who ask… its not that big of a deal… but I mean what is the purpose of preventing the guild leader from using his own guild bank?
What if the guild leader is a gold seller? This is exactly what these restrictions are about, keeping gold sellers from making guild vaults quickly as and using it to move gold around.
If only one person, ie the guild leader has access to the bank, how would he be moving anything around to anywhere but his own account?
Gold seller creates guilds ahead of time, deposits gold for a customer, invites the customer, makes him the leader. That and similar chains have to be delayed till ANet has checked the data, and can delete the bought gold before it got spend.
But I do not understand: If he hasn’t the right to get money from the guild, I think he also has not the right to deposit money in the bank! How does the money come in the guild bank, if it is his guild (created and leaded by himself) and his money?
You can deposit without being able to withdraw.
Who run Barter Town?
You should also be aware that crafting gives you xp, so you will level just by doing crafting.
There are pretty faces, and there are less pretty faces. There are also many body types. There are options, as there should be. Unfortunately the OP is apparently the type that feels that if his specific personal preference isn’t exactly met, then the whole thing is flawed and needs to be overhauled.
Sorry that you only enjoy gazing at beefcake and tree bark. Some of us enjoy all the other options, so ANet is covered.
Is there any news on when this is going to happen? I just reached the story step where I will be entering the dream with Trehearn. How far past this step can I go before I would start interfering with this upcoming change on my character? I want to experience the new story exclusively and to never have experienced this interim change they’ll be fixing.
Class armor would be kind of cool. But I really don’t think it would work.
If the game had started that way it would be one thing, but this far in it would be like them telling us what we should be looking like, and it almost certainly won’t mesh with our own views of what the class should look like. Then the other classes of that weight class will be weighing in saying how that should have been their armor and it becomes a big unnecessary mess.
I would like to see more armor like norn armor, in general, but other than that I’m good with races having exclusive armors for themselves.
Top 5 answers
1. Because they think the players here will somehow shame you into
doing content you don’t enjoy.
2. Because they think forcing you into fractals will make you want to play WvW and
PvP. (yeah, unbelievable)
3. Because they don’t know how many of us are not doing our dailies every time this
happens.
4. Because they don’t want our money spent in the gem shop.
5. Because they believe you can be forced, and you can. (but where?)
If nothing else, it’s so much easier than making fractals more enjoyable content and it gives us a chance every 10 days or so to check out other games.
(yeah, unbelievable)It’s the ONLY daily PvE content REQUIRING a group. That is the issue they don’t want to deal with, and why the WvW and PvP players post here. Your fodder and they want more fodder in their favorite game area.
There should be 4 daily’s in each category; easy, medium, hard, and enhanced reward harder. Reward the people more for doing what you want instead of penalizing some for not doing it. That is incentive.
No one is forcing anyone to do anything. Why would the WvW or PvP people post here? They have their own Dailies they can do. And since there is no reason to do more than 3 dailies, unless you just want to, they’re good to go without Fractals.
They’re just giving people a reason to do them, or to do anything really. The reason being that people are completely mental and need those ten achievement points more than life itself. If people would work out their issues and stop being hysterical, they might realize that it doesn’t end the world if they miss a day of daily completion.
Everyone is allowed to not do them and will survive just fine. Since everyone has the right to choose to do them or to not do them there is absolutely no reason to change nor remove them. Some of us like them. Some of us don’t. They’re not in the business of pleasing everyone, because that’s impossible.
If by castor you mean a light armor wearing ranged character then Staff Ele is probably a good call.
Mesmers aren’t that hard, but I only have one that I found any fun and it’s a full illusionist.
Necro is a lot of fun, mine is built around being in Death Shroud as much as possible. They’re cool for open world but not generally welcome in dungeons.
Ele is strong and you don’t actually have to be fast, you can do it at your own rate, and you’re always welcome in dungeons even if you’re bad.
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World boss events, ALL of them, need pause stages during which they take either greatly reduced damage or no damage at all, so players in other parts of pre-events and arriving a bit late but well within the time limit can reach them without other players taking them down in less than 10 seconds.
I don’t have a problem with the status quo, but I support all of these changes. They sound fun.
If GW2 went sub I would not sub
They can’t release any info about upcoming patches because that would provide info on HoT’s release which hasn’t been announced yet.
We will be in the dark until a release date is set.
Depending on how far out it is, that’s not necessarily true.
The main problem is that they have stated more than once that they’re not working on anything but HoT. So until HoT is released there is nothing else. Even releasing something that was already out wouldn’t work because the story would have to be adjusted so it makes sense in context.
What I don’t understand is why you would not do a full fractal run if you’re going to do fractals.
If.
If you are doing the fractal daily then you are doing fractals. Therefore, I do no see why you would not just do the whole thing.
It is a serious kitten move to say, “I got the daily, so long, have fun finishing the rest of it down a man.”
I really don’t understand what the problem is. It’s a two fer, or a skip. When it’s more than 1-9 I skip it, cause I don’t want to do that. But when it’s 1-9 I’m all about it.
What I don’t understand is why you would not do a full fractal run if you’re going to do fractals. They take a bit, but it’s not actually that bad.
Just like I love when there is a Vista Viewer or harvesting in the same region as a zone event run. Knock off two things at the same time.
If you can’t do two, well you only needed three things in the first place. Do the basic fractal, then do whatever the other two PvE things were. Done, quit complaining.
I don’t have any ascended gear that didn’t cost laurels. I am actually working my way through making an ascended set for my main. I refuse to buy mats for this endeavor. It will take me a long time because of the discrepancy between silk and all other mats.
I would like to see the discrepancy removed. I do not, however, have a problem with the lack of supply, nor the material cost in quantity and price. I want to see the cost for all the other mats to be increased to match silk. It makes no sense that it’s so easy to make everything else, but so hard to make cloth. It should all be hard.
Every game has a burnout level. That’s why I only play Free to play games anymore. It may be buy to play, but no subs, so I can walk away, do other things, then come back. The longer I stay away the more there is to do and keep my attention when I get back.
I’m still working my way through Season 2. Then I gave that a break to level up all my alts. That doesn’t stop me from going to play other MMOs when they introduce new things. I don’t compare this game to that game or that other game, they’re not the same. They each have things that I’m happy with and other things I’m not satisfied with. That’s the nature of video games. There is no such thing as the perfect game.
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