Guild Wars 2

I play on Linux primarily and Mac (macbook) ot do stuff like BLTP and crafting.

My only two complaints with playing on Linux are the fact we can’t see the BLTP due to chrome (or is it chromium?) and the lower framerates cited by Jenni M Veran above. The former is why I use Mac for BLTP.

I do not crash, and using a script, I can use all 8 CPU cores (albeit, even on a single core, it’s still fast).

But if it would alleviate these two issues, I’d love to see a native client as well (even if perpetually beta like the Mac client)!

Little.1635:

must buy, infinite coin
three days, one skin
two three, still bugged
still no, mod answer

This is like GW2 haiku – GW-ku?

Another way to solve this would be to add more (different) conditions to the game and make bosses selectively immune to certain ones.

As it stands now, we have small-damage over time spread across a handful of condition types. Adding anything above 25 is a waste of time, as it does nothing at all.

If anet had more condition types, the “small” could be stacked across several types of DoT, making them worthwhile additions to a battle.

Make world bosses and above immune to certain ones and more sensitive to others, if you want to add strategy; but effectively, World bosses are currently immune to a HIGH percentage of ALL damage potential (i.e. when measured over the lifetime of a fight, any attempt to stack a condition above 25 is thrown away – that might as well be immunity). My thief will apply like 3-4 conditions in the first 60 seconds of a fight, and perhaps maintain those every ~30 seconds.

With 8 million players (ok, exagerrated) on a boss, that equates to about 30 seconds or so of their participation in a fight being something other than DPS (Power).

I’m going with the assumption that the addition of conditions (hey, I made a RHYME!) is planned for the future – because I’m an optimist.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

62%, I believe. I’m not really trying very much. Just salvage blues.

Identical to this ^ post. Considering doing both blues and greens now – since I’m not salvaging ectos, it’s starting to be noticeably slower.

Arkham Creed.7358:

Step one: Open options and click on keybinds

Step two: scroll through the list until you find “stow weapons”

Step three: Bind that to whatever key you prefer

Step four: Next time you are stuck in combat, press the keybind you created above

Step five: enjoy being out of combat

Works every time for me.

I run into this bug about 1-2 times per week. I usually just stealth on characters that have it, but I am SO going to try this out the next time it happens on my characters without stealth, THANK YOU!

Astral Projections.7320:

They fly underwater to give you mail also. I’ve also noticed that non mail birds fly underwater also. While waiting for an underwater champion spawn in Frostgorge, there are these birds that repeatedly fly by underwater in a circuit.

they’re making up for the sharks that follow you onto dry land.

What is it with modern games and not having a journal where you can jot notes in-game?

I made a request in the crafting section for a list of disciplines across all other characters, but if that’s a bit much, how about just a free-text area in-game where we can jot notes?

An example of what would suffice is the journal in the classic Baldur’s Gate II: SOA. It didn’t allow for formatting or anything fancy – just basic text.

That whole attention deficit thing could be aided by such a feature

ArenaNet, I’d love to see somewhere in the UI a per-character list of crafting disciplines.

I have one character who has several trained, but even if it were only two disciplines per character, it’d still be nice to be able to see via UI what they all have trained. As it is, I forget who’s trained in what and have to log in to each to check.

Yah, I know paper, but that’s so 19th century.

Draco.2806:

Not sure if I remember it right, but can’t you run at an angle at the exact same speed as running straight forward?

Forward yes, backward no. Our characters haven’t eaten enough crawfish

We can’t really argue reasonable or logical when talking about a heroic character who can do the things our characters can

That said, a huge part of the AI of the mobs are assumptions about player character mobility. If the latter changed, the combat AI for all the mobs would have to be changed. Now that I think about it, so would AoE radii (radiuses?), since they are also designed on such assumptions.

I don’t PvP, but I can see an argument there in that it’d make for a more exciting combat “feel”, but not in PvE.

Just curious: I forget why the change? I seem to remember one or the other (vets before, regular after) was a bug… anyone recall?

gaspara.4079:

Just another glowing example of the moniker you can’t please everyone. So many mmos have had forums filled with complaints that they aren’t adding new content fast enough. Now a game does it every two weeks and thats too fast.

New Flash: You don;t have to do the living world content. Take a break a skip an event if yo want, since more thna half of them are available for the full month these days you can always come back in the second part and do it. Look at SAB its still open until the end of the month so you can go back and complete things. Not getting every achievement for a living world category is not the end of the world. Play the game in a way thats fun for you. and ignore all the players saying you must play it this way or that way or have the highest achievement score or work on a legendary or get this or that, just have fun.

Although some in this thread have said what you’re citing, there’s an underlying nugget of feedback to the developers, too, that is important:

It’s not that we “have” to play the LW content; it’s that we are NOT (or are gonna STOP, in some cases) playing it – for whatever reason (annoyance, rl time constraints, sense of hopelessness to complete achievements, quality, etc).

If I were the producer, I’d listen hard and long to that, because it means some portion of the population is NOT going to consume a product I have put out… meaning there’s diminished ROI (the most obvious “return” being continued adoption or play time in the game).

I have no idea how many people are religiously playing the LW content, but you can be sure ArenaNet can mine that data. If the combination of the analytics from said mining identifies a relevant lack of adoption, the prudent business decision is to determine “why” – that’s where the forum posts come in.

Solo.9027:

John Smith.4610:

Hyper.6374:

tolunart.2095:

Hyper.6374:

TLDR:- is anet manipulating the trading post that’s supposed to be player driven?

No.

Awesome and your source?

No.

There needs to be a John Smith pvp finisher on the gem store where a big red “No.” drops on the corpse.

I’d pay 300 gems for that.

There’s also a short-term trick involving pretty precise timing.

Assume you have a metric kitten ton of Supply Bags

If you can pick a time when a lot are about to be dumped onto the market (right after the Modnir event, for example), you can drop the price about 4 cp, and many of those that follow you will sell for a cp or two lower just because they want to get rid of those “free” drops from playing the event chain.

If you can get into that stream and do it a handful or so at a time at varying points, the players will help you drop it down a hefty percentage.

You can set a really low buy price in there, pick up some el cheapos along the way.

If you stack ENOUGH sells in there (say upwards of 1000 in most cases except cloth), you can set a false “ceiling”, and the players themselves will keep lowering the price because they know getting through 1000+ sells “takes too long”.

Takes a significant amount of sell resources and timing, but a busy weekend will allow that to happen. It’s also risky as hell.

If you see a false ceiling in place, wait till Sunday night, they will USUALLY clear out as the architects take them back down for crafting or whatever reason they’re doing it.

EDIT: additionally, since a good majority of those will clear out Sunday night, you can look at the sell list, identify a ceiling or two, and post your sell order higher than those.

No idea if what I just typed makes sense to anyone else but me.

DusK.3849:

I wasn’t aware you need minis to play this game.

I hope I can do Arah or Tequatl with the minis I got without gems.

This precisely.

Dragons should be a challenge yes, but I don’t get the “difficulty” folks at all. Note, I am making an observation here, NOT asking for a nerf or otherwise.

There’s little strategy (I’ll grant dodge-rolling waves, teams dealing with health issues, poison)… it’s mainly the same as the other world boss fights (although the interludes with the jump pads etc are fun) – beat a bag of hit points that just stands there. Very static, primarily DPS.

The challenge comes from the players/team.

Great – I prolly own about 30 stacks of containers now, lol!

Edit: Nope – only 8

Yah it appears to be down for me as well. I placed a buy order this morning, 32 were fulfilled, the remainder are no longer visible (shows “No Results”). Also cannot place new buy orders and the sell list shows nothing listed.

I presume database refresh or some such?

Edit: yup – quaggan have nap now.

I assume this has been asked for before, thus explaining the lack of replies; but this really would be helpful. I have accidentally bought an expensive exotic that I couldn’t wear due to this oversight. Granted, I didn’t do it again, but it’s annoying.

EDIT: Another feature that’d be more complex to code I assume is a compare functionality. Similar to Newegg or Best Buy… check a handful of items and compare them all on one page. Flipping pages and scrolling through a long list of items is annoying. If the OP suggestion is implemented, though, it would reduce the need for this second one.

Before the change, I noticed the white drops and the bag drops reduced – never noticed if dyes changed. I’d love to know the answer to this as well.

Until I heard it, I was thinking “tehCOTTuhl”.

I don’t DESPISE it, but it’s really getting on my nerves as well. I have pretty much gotten to the point of wanting to avoid everything new because I know I cannot finish it anyway.

We get it – you’re trying to get us content – and I DO appreciate it! But (and I can’t believe I’m saying this to an MMO creator) it doesn’t have to be this frequently!

Jabberwock.9014:

…still glitches making you immobile at the end until you re-press w half the time.

Oh whew… I thought that was just my machine doing that!

Julie Yann.5379:

There are some big changes on the horizon, a lot of people are speculating, of course the market will be shaken up but it is only temporary and it will stabilize gain

I suspect this is precisely the case. Somewhere in the area of 12-18 hours after any significant announcement, we always see market movement… keep an eye on that a few times and you’ll see how knee-jerk traders can be. I highly suspect nothing more than speculation.

cillercammy.8064:

I think all these angry posts sound quite ridiculous. Here are my thoughts!

-First: Anet stated last November that Ascended gear was supposed to be in game at launch, but didn’t make it do to budget and time constraints.
…

Had it not been for this, I might be on the rage bandwagon – I am taking them at their word with this announcement, thus my panties are completely wadless.

aladore.3945:

Paponzi.1637:

Really? Skills must be used in that order, not based on the situation?
Not sure if…

Of course not.

You can always arrange every skill you’ve acquired for each weapon your class uses and rearrange them in the skills bar…

Oh, wait… Maybe not.

I don’t agree with the OP. I DO agree with this – lemme move stuff to where it makes sense for me, for goodness sake!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Vol.5241:

I’m actually a bit ‘worried’ about China. Just look at the trailer they had and the # of views – they only have 44K in a month. That’s a really, really low number.

But then again, I don’t even know if the Chinese use youtube as their main video site. They don’t even use twitter or google.

youtube is an illegal site in china. None of those views come from their chinese playerbase.

Which is also why it would be difficult to launch an MMO there unless it is TOTALLY Chinese players only. And changes would have to be made to some of the political story lines.

That’s abnormal – not what I was complaining about in the OP – bug.

Nike.2631:

Maybe as a setting you can check off/on in the options panel.

This – give us a toggle. There are times it has saved me and other times where I was doing a handful and wanted it turned off.

Maybe I assumed facts not in evidence – if this is a performance thing, why not just have “select” controls near every item (possibly with a custom sell price box) so we can hit the db one time via a “sell marked” control?

If the original intent was anti-bot, this is a complete non-starter idea. Nor is it a feature market-timing flippers would use, given they are availing themselves of volatility.

But for the average adventurer leveling in open world (with at least 50% of their loot being sold at the ask value), it would be handy.

Zaxares.5419:

DeWolfe.2174:

I have no clue where Anet get’s it’s demographics from? To think gamers have THAT kind of disposable income to spend. How about charge less and make it up in volume? It’s not like you have reproduction cost, it’s virtual!

:)

You’d be surprised at how much money some people are willing to dump into virtual currency. There was a thread over in General Discussion about mini collectors who were peeved that Mr Sparkles was a (potential) Gamescon exclusive and therefore it permanently ruins their ability to complete the collection. Some of these collectors have spent thousands of dollars on gems to get all the minis. Likewise, we don’t have any concrete figures, but I’m willing to bet that those Legendaries selling for thousands of gold on the TP get bought too.

I remember reading an interview from Zynga (the makers of Farmville) who said that less than 5% of their players spent any money in their cash shop, but the 5% that did, spent MILLIONS. If that’s a reflection of what the gamer demographic is like, it’s not hard to imagine that the people pumping money into the gem store far outweighs any sales in bulk that ANet might pick up by pricing these goods cheaper.

I’ll never do it again, but I spent about 2 grand on my and my son’s transactions in DDO over like 4 years. All from $.50 to 2 bucks a transaction here and there except for a few $5-9 purchases of quest packs and one huge expansion there at the end. Stupid, but I can see how that can happen… it sneaks up on you.

Behellagh.1468:

Go off the beaten path and hunt down critters there, they give you bonus XP if they’ve “lived” for a long time since they spawned.

That’s gotta be one of the most useful things I’ve read in the forums for a while – I had no idea that was the case! Is that in the [things I wish I knew] thread that’s stickied? I musta missed it.

Contiguous.1345:

I love it when someone comes up with a fairly arbitrary number and specifies it to umpteen decimal places.

There is an 64.2635241% chance someone will disagree with you that the crit chance number is “arbitrary”

No, I don’t have a dog in the fight, just thought that was funny.

Danikat.8537:

It does work. The problem is what it does is actually relatively limited and doesn’t always work as players expect it to.

For a start it only affects drops from enemies. It doesn’t help with chests, bags, quest/dungeon rewards etc. And you’re still limited to what’s normally in those enemies loot tables. You can boost your magic find as high as it will go and you’ll still never (for example) get a precursor from an enemy who is below level 80 because it’s not in their loot table.

On top of that it only gives you a percentage chance at better loot. I’m not sure what the base chance is (I think it varies between enemies) but the example the wiki uses is that if you have a 1/10 chance of getting a rare item then a 200% magic find boost will raise that to a 3/10 chance.

The only time I’ve noticed any difference from magic find is when I was running around Southsun with the 200% boost. With less than that I suspect you’d have to record all your drops to be able to really see any difference.

It’s also important to remember that rarity is determined entirely by the games categories. The algorithm doesn’t care if a particular green item has 1000+ copies selling for 1s each on the TP. It still classifies it as rarer and more valuable than all blue items. Likewise it also doesn’t allow for the demand on particular crafting materials. So in some cases farming with higher magic find can actually hurt your chances of getting what you wanted.

Overall if your aim is to make more gold then higher magic find will help you. If you’re aiming for specific drops then it depends greatly on what you’re going for and where it might come from. It might help, it might not. It might even hurt your chances if the magic find doesn’t affect your chance and you’re sacrificing other stats which could allow you to complete attempts faster and therefore do more in the same time period.

Pretty much this – MF plus a slew of mobs will make a significant difference in your gold per hour.

Once I heard MF was changing significantly, I swapped all my MF gear out to survivability gear. As soon as I did that, I noticed fewer exotics and rares over a play session.

Because that’s subjective, I define “fewer” as: out of three 18-slot bags, I previously got approximately 1-3 exotics and 3-5 rares per session of (for example) running 8-10 events in the North of the Hirathi Hinterlands (that’s 2.5-ish runs of the chain starting at the Hirathi attack on the two outposts before I’d get bored and change to something else).

After changing to non-MF gear, I’d get 1-2 of each for the same session. With just my character/account-based MF (3%, I believe), lots of greens still drop, and more blues than I can count.

maleko.5206:

You don’t really HAVE to farm in this game to enjoy yourself. If you just participate in events etc then you just collect gold as you go. If you feel the need to farm to enjoy yourself then you are doing something wrong – i.e. stop being so tight and BUY some gems with real gold rather than expect to get everything for nothing handed to you on a silver platter like so many on here seem to. Free to Play does not equal Free for everything you want in the game! if you don’t like the thought of buying things with real world money then be prepared to farm for the gold…that is your decision.

I have to admit this is very true. I have taken advantage of the Trading Post to flip items (or container contents) a LOT; but running various zergs, the current invasions and/or pavillion zergs, or just flat-out playing a little of EVERYTHING PvE (events, hearts, explorers, puzzles) are – in descending order – probably the least boring of the ways to make gold. Dungeons are in there somewhere, too.

Can we please adjust that anti-bot delay? I am not selling like a madman, but the anti-bot code is triggering way too quickly, causing the what… 5 second overlapping delay?

I think the idea was brilliant, but it needs to be scaled back 3-4 seconds.

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

DO NOT Attempt TO WHISPER KarateKid.5648!!!!

This guy blocks anyone who says “Hello”.
He may sound normal in Forum chats, but be aware of in game conversation. He is anti-social and won’t even reply back to a simple greeting.

Firstly, that was a mistake – I have unblocked you. I tried to block someone spamming about their guild too much and blocked you errantly.

Second – yes, D/D Ele is what I was looking for, so thanks all for the recommendation. 40-eleven button mashes was what it felt like at first, but then I started developing combos, so I like it. Not to endgame yet (only approaching 50), but she’s a ton of fun!

Before I say this: I know in its CURRENT state, multiclassing would lead to ridiculous OP-ness.

Now that I’ve said that, does anyone know if ANet has ever hinted to multiclassing as an option later?

Playing around on my first elementalist the past few days, I could see some real synergies with thief and ranger that would been really cool.

Zacchary.6183:

Wolfheart.1938:

Zacchary.6183:

OP should try arguing with my mother.

Or fighting a thief in WvW

Nothing compares to my mother.

Nor watched DDO fall completely apart. I do, howver, agree – most of Orr is difficult only in anger management over annoyances.

I will admit this sounded like a minor complaint until today – leveled two crafts almost to 400 each consecutively. It becomes major when you’re doing that much crafting

Donari.5237:

…What if she’s a sylvari’s fever dream projected into the world after being mixed up with the Reactor blowup?…

Or the Pale Tree’s fevered dream…

Traveller.7496:

…But I have to wonder, why none of this is told to us in-game? Scarlet could actually be an interesting character if you’d constructed her backstory using all you have written in that short story via dialogue and in-game text…

Even a couple cutscenes… this woulda made it more interesting and compelling. NICE backstory, wish it hadn’t been hidden.

neon.4863:

Just send entire teams of Strikers after the elder dragons. Dragon problem solved!…

Man no kidding – those are always first on my “you die first” list. Get three of them offset by about 2-4 seconds in their AI routine and you just ain’t gonna move.

AndrewSX.3794:

2 things:

-split WvW and PvE culling settings. For wvw i might want to have maximum possible FPS, thus sacrificing graphics. In PvE i might prefer to see more fancy and shiny stuff. Re-doing all the setting everytime hopping in and out of wvw is incredibly annoying.

-wasn’t culling a client-side thing? Well, put a check box for “enable – disable culling” – for pve manly. My pc is bad, but i preferred 1000 times seeing only a part of ppl but decently, rather then seeing now a crowd of stickmans (of a horrible pink color, btw).

Inb4 “buy a new rig or GPU” : not everybody is lucky enough to do so. And i played the game fine for 1 year, seeing things changed this way with no option even to keep old settings is incredibly annoying – as long as it’s a client side thing as they always said…

Here’s what’s odd – both for your complaint and the people who are snarking about “buy a new rig”… I have 32GB RAM, 3.6 Ghz 8-core processor and a 1GB nVidia graphics card… not the greatest setup, but not a slouch, either.

When they removed culling, my game performance actually INCREASED. That shouldn’t have happened, logically… less items should have been better, but just the opposite occurred.

I don’t think “new rig” is relevant or helpful, and that something else is interacting for those who are getting decreased performance – OS settings, BIOS, etc.

Everyone complaining about this complains about farmers as though they were just a few people who are “ruining everyone else’s fun”. If you want to kill the trash, kill the trash – if you mute chat, there’s not even the (admittedly) rude trash talkers to stop you.

I died like three times in a row trying to take on too many yesterday evening with two other players while a handful stood around waiting on a champ spawn (We just wanted to see if we could) – we eventually took a few of the trash out. If everyone feels so strongly, kill everything, ignore the cursing power players, and advance the event yourselves.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

This is another Ember Champion (Anchorage) situation. This has to stop. I had to litteraly run like hell/waypoint like hell to get all events done in time. I even skipped a lot of loot. Meanwhile some hardcore farmers stayed on the same events and semi-afk (they even bragged about it), farmed the champs.

In my opinion, those people do not deserve the succes chest. If it wasn’t for me, kinda sacraficing a lot of loot in the process, (and a few other commanders, but most other commanders were troll farmers, like 6 of them), we would not have made it in time.

Again, the wrong people (the lazy, fail happy, greedy, unfriendly, the list goes on…), get the most rewards. Wrong Anet. You are rewarding the wrong people in my opinion. Provoking a fail to an event, should have consequenses, and now it doesn’t. Can you please do a similar fix, like you did on the Ember champ farming. Thanks.

What I find humorous about all the complaints regarding purposefully failing events is how much it sounds like “Mom! sibling did something wrong while you weren’t looking!”

My kids don’t even do this silliness – REPORT IT AS CHEATING or don’t. Let ANet make the call.

DarkWasp.7291:

Sadly I think it’s done a little backward. The trash mobs revive while the big ones don’t seem to…

My first thought as well!

This just happened to me – event crashed out, “client lost connection”, and joining back in, different instance – frustrating, since there were chests and loot “sparklies” on the ground ready to be picked up when DC occurred (we’d just finished an invasion phase boss).

Esplen.3940:

Join within 10 minutes of the invasion and you’re good to go. Invasions start at the beginning of every hour.

That’s not guaranteed – there were like 6 of us in an overflow instance in Hirathi Hinterlands this afternoon. We were there for easily 30 minutes prior to the hour. The event never triggered, and we were never pulled out of overflow (nor prompted). I’ve run the event three times, and this was the only time I had that happen; so it’s likely intermittent.

Man In Zero G.8312:

I loved it – but as I’ve said elsewhere, having NPCs refer to Divinity’s Reach as “DR” is extremely immersion breaking. Scarlet might as well have said “LOL” instead of laughing.

Otherwise, I found it fantastic.

Actually, that caught my attention, too – but for a different reason – I chalked it up to her personality… kinda like those people who append “-ster” to everything. “The Frank-ster!” etc.