No, I think what they’re asking for is a pop-dialog that says
“Warning: You cannot equip multiple unique items with the same name on a single character. Do you still want to purchase?”
Heck, we get pop-up dialogs for salvaging green items, and those are basically worthless. Having a pop-up for a laurel vendor isn’t too far fetched, is it?
It’s literally a slot machine.
I don’t drive by the Casino every day just to yell at the establishment. Instead, I just don’t go to the Casino.
The term isn’t even consistent between TWO GAMES IN THE SAME FRANCHISE, how the kitten can you believe that the term “Unique” has some universal meaning at all?
“I didn’t play GW1, so therefore it doesn’t matter” is not a proper explanation.
The main issue is that most people are piled around the event maps. GW2 has one or two long running events each month, and that tends to be where everyone gathers. Right now, everyone is in Southsun. Last month, people were piled in Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau.
If you want to group up with people, just send party invites out when running in a crowd. You gain bonuses for being in a party, so most people aren’t shy to accept.
Ugh, I really want the pirate outfit you get when you do the undercover drinking contest with Tybalt. I saw it on my thief and instantly thought that it looks perfect on my character ;_;
You’re basically choosing between 20% more gold/magic find vs 4/5 in a stat.
Seems like a no brainer to me. You only need agony resist for level 20+ fractals. Level 1-9 don’t have any agony damage, and level 10-19 can be done easily without agony resist (and you’ll get AR from rings anyway).
Wow, there are a lot of semantic problems in this thread. I guess to make sure people who know the heck I’m talking about, I’ll stick to this standard.
Sex – In reference to biological/physical structure, i.e. Male vs Female vs Intersexed
Gender – In reference to social/behavioral structure, i.e. Masculine vs Feminine vs Genderless
Sexuality – In reference to romantic/sexual interest – Heterosexual vs Homosexual vs Bisexual vs Asexual.
Sylvari have physical sex, but the form itself is rather arbitrary. As per lore, they have the shape of Man and Women, but that serves no reproductive purpose. It can be argued either way, I think. You can say that Sylvari have a designated sex because they mimic the biological sex of men and women. You can also say that Sylvari are a “sex-less” race, in the same manner that you don’t consider individual leaves of a tree to be of distinct sex even if they look different.
In reference to gender, Sylvari certainly do have gender. They express feminine and masculine traits, and there is a fuzzy line between them. Remember that gender is a social construct. The definition of what it means to be masculine and feminine changes with the culture. However, you can take note that they use gendered pronouns, and have distinct gender identity. I don’t think we can really assume that Sylvari gender is associated with a Sylvari’s physical form, though. We don’t have any evidence either way about this, honestly. Especially since lore shows Sylvari have some form of control over their physical form (growing leaves to simulate clothing), a Sylvari’s gender identity may have a direct effect on his or her physical form.
In reference to sexuality, as per lore, the Sylvari seem to have no qualms over gender preferences/orientations when it comes to romance or sex. The preference for a male Sylvari over a female Sylvari seems to be equivalent to liking blonds over brunettes. Pansexuality (basically a step beyond bisexuality, claiming to enjoy relationships with all forms) is probably what is considered “normal”. I’m sure there are Sylvari who are exclusively heterosexual or exclusively homosexual, but I think they are considered atypical within the culture (considering how open-minded and curious they are). Because of this, I would think that Sylvari wouldn’t be too concerned with interspecies relations, either. Since sex serves no purpose than to enjoy each others companionship, I don’t think it’s much of a stretch for a Sylvari to consider romance with another race.
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Honestly, I think the rarest would be the Christmas weapon skins sold in the gem-shop. Mainly because no one actually bought them…
In Runes of Magic, you could own “Mannequins” that you could use to decorate your living area. You can dress up these mannequins with any set of armor you own, and by interacting with the mannequin, you swap your armor with it.
Unarmed/Knuckles combat for all classes.
As a side effect, it fills in the skill slots for wielding only a single-handed weapon.
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Except not every character in LoL has a mana system? A lot of them have alternative resources or no resource at all. Are you saying those characters are less strategic than those who have mana?
Mana, essentially, is just a “global cooldown” attached to all your spells. Basically, it’d be something similar to the Thief resource system, except your skills have cooldowns as well.
So, strategically, what does this give us? Basically, if all the skills stay the way they are, you would fight until you run out of mana, then be forced to disengage. You can’t keep fighting because you can’t use skills anymore. This turns into a “whoever runs out of mana first wins” sort of deal, essentially. Resource management becomes the metagame.
Mana potions would introduce a “Richer player wins” scenario. Whoever can afford the potions have a clear advantage over those who cannot.
Mana would also likely introduce some “mana management” specs, where you would have to gear and trait into maintaining mana at the sacrifice of adding interesting effects to your current skills.
Overall, Mana is meant to be a “long term” resource, where you have to manage it across multiple encounters. GW2 doesn’t really work like that because you heal to full between encounters. Having your mana refill to full between encounters completely defeats any strategic elements to mana. But how would you refill your mana? Sitting still until it regens slowly is dumb. Potions are not gonna happen any time soon. Do you have to go back to town to refill mana? Go back to a keep?
I’m really confused as to what is in the Gem shop that’s so kitten precious
Bag Slots: Are you really carrying 100 items with you at all times?
Bank Slots: What are you hording? Especially since crafting items have free slots
Character Slots: Maybe for an Alt-aholic
Dances: I agree. Dances are OP
Town Clothes: Because everyone deserves to look ugly
Mining Pick: Someone did the math, and you would have you have to use it constantly for like 6 years to break even?
Mini Pets: Baby lions are the only things that matter, right?
Probably because of clipping issues. They recently released Guild Banners, though, so maybe they’re inching up to capes.
I also love discovering that all of Tyria is really just a thin crust of dirt on top of water.
Victim of the week, really.
I honestly don’t understand why people badger on about “You should’ve looked up what Unique meant before buying”. As if we ever stopped to think what “Exotic” or “Ascended” meant before buying those items in the first place.
The game makes no communication what “Unique” means in the context of this game (especially since Unique means different things in other games). It’s poor game design. Stop making excuses for it.
I’m under the opinion that getting 100% map exploration should require you to explore 100% of the maps.
Are we just yelling out things that sounds like classes and demanding that ANET put them in the game? If that’s the case, I want a Rune Wobbler, a Cheer Manipulator, and a Load Gaper or I’ll threaten to leave the game forever.
The things I find wrong:
-RNG within the gem store
-Slowly reaching the point where new things are only in the gem store
-Gold/gem exchange will rise up to the sky
Based on what assessment? ANET just spent all of April dumping weapon skins into the market.
700hr / 8 hour work day / 5 day work week / 4 weeks per month = 4.4 months of work if 1 hour of work == 1 hour of gameplay (which is a stupid and ridiculous expectation).
It’s actually more like 8 hours of work == 1 hour of gameplay (in the optimal case, honestly). That would take 35 months, or almost 3 years of work to create a single legendary quest line. In realistic terms, it might take closer to 5 years.
I wonder how many people actually realize that the “grind” is for a Legendary weapon have the same stats as exotics, and that it is merely a long time-sink to get a weapon skin that doesn’t even look that good.
Seriously, SAB skins are better than some of the Legendary weapons out there…
We just finished up an event that gave out tons of free and stylish weapon skins….
Care to elaborate and be a bit more specific?
Did you miss out on Super Adventure Box? The month long event that basically gave out skins hand over foot? You could spend one day doing SAB runs for a skin, with a chance to get a tradable version of the same skin in the chests. The tradable skins are worth like 20-60 gold right now.
Yeah I ended the month with 49 bubble baulbes left over. Kinda upset about that, but I did manage to get every skin I wanted as well as some I’ll be selling later. That’s not what this thread is about though.
You’re complaining about skins being available through the gem shop. Are you arguing that Anet should never put weapon skins in the gem shop?
We just finished up an event that gave out tons of free and stylish weapon skins….
Care to elaborate and be a bit more specific?
Did you miss out on Super Adventure Box? The month long event that basically gave out skins hand over foot? You could spend one day doing SAB runs for a skin, with a chance to get a tradable version of the same skin in the chests. The tradable skins are worth like 20-60 gold right now.
We just finished up an event that gave out tons of free and stylish weapon skins….
“Magic is just science we don’t understand”. A lot of stuff in nature appears magical until we pick apart and learn what is happening. Glowing jellyfish, for instance, is an impressive phenomena that would easily be marked as Magical until we attained our knowledge of biology and chemistry.
A good lore has a proper “system of magic”. Introducing limits and circumstantial peculiarities to magic makes it more believable. It piques curiosity as to how it works and how the world takes advantage of it. Orrians making use of magic for trivially as opposed to Krytans who use magic strictly is really telling about the difference of culture and the circumstances in which they live.
Maybe we don’t quite understand exactly WHY you’re doing the WvW jumping puzzle. Most people do it for the badges and free siege equipment. If you’re not interested in WvW, I don’t see any reason why you should care about this JP.
How is this different from skills like Corrupt Boon, Arcane Thievery, Well of Corruption, and all those other skills that punish the user for having boons?
These skills have been around since launch, but it’s only a problem when Warriors have something to counter boons?
If you buy Blue armor from the Trading Post, you can sell it back for almost the same price. You’re basically paying several copper to rent a set of armor for 5-10 levels.
It’s probably because your primary is the one on the left, and all games run on the #1 slot.
Here’s what you can do. Make the screen on the right your Primary monitor (Right click, Screen Resolution, and check “make this my main display”). This will make GW2 run on that screen.
Now, you’ll notice that you don’t have a taskbar on your left screen. Windows is dumb like that, but I have a solution. Install this program:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/
It’ll give you a taskbar on your secondary monitor, with start button, clock, and everything.
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This whole “Dragons are the only good DEs” stuff is silly. There are dozens and dozens of DEs out there that reward you just as much as dragons. You get a chest AS WELL AS a guaranteed rare equipment.
People just think the ones on the timers are the only ones that exist.
You guys should join my guild (BlackWater Vanguard on Yak’s Bend) when we do our Meta Event rushes. There are a LOT of DEs that no one takes part (because no one is tracking a timer) that gives the event chest, and some of them scale to a ridiculous level.
There’s one event in Orr that’s particularly hilarious. We had almost a hundred people in the group, which scaled the event up to two Champion Abominations. Now, each of these abominations were as tall as a dragon, and they are HARD. Like they charge through the zerg and everyone in its way is dead. We wiped the zerg at least twice taking these things down until we figured out the proper attack/dodge/revive rotation.
I don’t understand the desire for Trinity. It’s a solved puzzle. It reminds me of Zelda bosses. “Oh, thing with giant eye. I guess I shoot it with arrows. Yay, I win…”.
Sometimes I feel like no one plays higher level fractals. While the early fractal bosses are pretty cake, the higher level ones require a level of strategy where you need to designate roles. Roles aren’t really based on class or build, but they are roles that need to be filled anyway.
For example, for Bloomhunger, I found it best to have some kind of melee DPS to take out the small spirits to remove the harsh buffs they give. For Captain Ashym (Ascalon fractal), having area heals and regeneration are almost required to counteract his permenent Retailiation buff.
Then you have your Guild Bounty bosses, and all sorts of stuff goes down. A lot of them, you need some dedicated boon stripper. Or maybe you need area condition removal (wells, fields, condition flipping).
Maybe Anet hasn’t quite figured it out, but they’re definitely making progress in the right direction.
This is the problem that removing roles creates. Without defined roles to help structure combat and content, the classes with the most utility and optimal skills are just flat out undeniably more viable than the rest.
Example: Time Warp, Portal, etc.
Arguably, these skills are some of the most useful skills in the game. Does Guardian or Ranger have an Elite or Utility that is even half as effective or role-creating as Portal or Time Warp? Not really. The imbalance lies in the lack of distinction of roles and the disparity between skill favor. Aside from Wall Of Reflection, what Guardian utilities can you really say are as useful as Portal? Elites as useful as Time Warp? Absolutely none and it’s even worse for Ranger. ArenaNet needs to devote more resources into correcting these problems.
I don’t think removing roles contributes to this. In fact, it probably does the opposite. As useful as a Mesmer is for utility, it is nothing compared to the high demand of a Priest in WoW.
Sounds like you’re hanging with the wrong crew. I’ve had zero trouble doing dungeons, fractals, WvW, or Guild Events with my Necromancer. Maybe you’re just part of the wrong guild.
I don’t really understand why people keep comparing GW2 to WoW when the class system is clearly much more like Diablo. The classes are completely self-sustaining. Classes can be built to a certain level of viability in many roles. Lack of a "true" healer or tank class. I feel like the GW2 to Diablo (particularly Diablo 2) is a much better comparison than GW2 with any of the other popular MMOs.
People are shooting unicorns and rainbows from shortbows, and you’re saying SAB stuff is ruining the immersion? Are minis and fireworks really all that distracting?
I don’t understand why so many people are interested in making this game a pay-to-win scenario.
If the pick wasn’t overpriced, then it would be an economic advantage to those who can afford it. Essentially, people with real money or lots of gold right now will have a clear advantage over people without (especially new players who come in after the pick is removed).
Why the heck would you want something like that in the Gem Store?
I think the main problem is that there are NORMAL utility skills that I would find way more useful the ELITE skills I’ve been given. I would love to have an additional Necromancer Well in my skill list over any of the elites I’ve been given.
This is like trying to figure out the ROI of the hoodies. Honestly, if the ROI of the pick was obvious, then everyone who can afford it would get it and everyone who can’t is SOL. That’s pay-to-win. The high price and the super-long-term-investment-for-pennies nature of this item is exactly the way it needs to be.
So, I bought a pick. Equipped it on the character I play with my son & daughter (15 & 13). I waited. Soon enough, there was a node. We all ran up to the node. I hit the node. As the animation started, I screamed “Oh crap! I hit a lava pocket! Run!” into Vent. And they ran away, while shrieking IRL.
And that’s why this is probably worth more than ten bucks.
Good. Best parent.
you get one for each event.
Most of my thief’s leveling experience was running around with shortbow and spamming 2 (cluster bomb). Fast 12 stacks of bleeding is kind of stupid at lower levels (it’s actually still kind of stupid now). Didn’t really even need to dodge because things would just chase me and taking stacks of bleed.
Some characters will always level a bit easier than others. My Necromancer did the first 40 levels easily with Minions to eat up damage, while the last 40 levels were really rough because of the lack of good damage output. My warrior has his Regen signet which makes every fight pretty dumb.
Necromancer elites are pretty terrible. Plague form and Lich form strip you of your utilities, so they actually hurt when I need to put down wells and junk. Flesh Golem just dies…
I use Take Root on my Sylvari Necro. Definitely fills that slot nicely (especially with the plants that apply bleeds)
Because other people think it’s worth the money? Honest, your argument is pretty shallow.
Nike shoes are expensive. Who would spend $120 on a pair of shoes? That doesn’t seem like it’s worth the money, imo. Still, I guess Nike is still doing fine, don’t you think?
Throw legendaries into the Mystic Forge
Almost every guild I’ve been part of has had a “Must Represent” requirement. It’s mainly because if you don’t represent, you’re not really part of the guild.
It’s a primary flaw in the guild system. There’s really no point in being part of multiple guilds, and most serious guilds require “Must Represent” rules anyway.
You can’t even have one character be part of one guild and another character be part of another. You’ll almost always get dinged for not not representing.
Unique is not a standard MMO term
Just because you’ve seen it in one or two MMOs does not make it standard. Nor is there a standard! There’s no commission that maintains a standard, and there is no one is ensuring that any standard is being followed! We have so much jargon in this genre, and for some reason people expect everyone to know what every term means in every context.
Unique means different things in different MMOs.
- In some mmo, it means you can only equip one of its kind at any given time. That’s the definition here.
- Sometimes it means that the item is truly unique, generated randomly for the player. There will never be another item with the same stats
- Sometimes it’s the opposite. Items usually contain randomly generated stats, but unique items in this MMO means the item has fixed stats (that are usually very good)
- Sometimes it means the item is simply a “Named” item. They’re special in the same way “Final Rest” is special.
Can’t you do Dailies from within WvW? I mean, for the most part, at least 3 or 4 of the daily objectives are doable in WvW. That’s a way to get ascended gear, right?
Titles are functionally useless and ugly. I don’t see the point of having them to begin with.