Guild Wars 2

nicbet.1820:

2250 Gems later … no pink quaggan backpack. I have to keep on looking. Just thinking it’s kind of unfair that you can get the “blue” for boys ones for 300 gems and the rest of us has to pray to the random number gods :-( And yes, I can totally see how this could feels sexist…

The easiest way to stop this is to not participate. If lots of folks didn’t gamble on the chests, obviously they wouldn’t put the items in the chests.

rhodoc.2381:

The tracker is just useless. What there should be is;

- Remove 5 cap from daily
- Make it auto-expand when there is available space(not when something updated)
- Remove or collapse finished achievements

I like your first two suggestions, but the last one should be optional. I kind of like seeing that 100% up there as I complete objectives.

They need to move all currencies to an account pool, like gems and laurels. Karma needs to be moved to the account pool. All other currencies need to be moved there and OUT of the bank/bag storage. How many spaces does it take to just get one set of armor? Too many.

I agree with the well thought out post from the OP.

I’m hoping they will add it to the other areas too, but yeah, small guild and no influence was being added to art of war because it is all about WvW. We just recently did the two to get the treasure trove. The next art of war thing for us is 5000. Had I know that it was going to be that important we could have done it instead of architecture. Oh well.

I’m trying to post something that doesn’t come across wrong. If you are going to ban names of fictional beings that might offend someone, you are going to ban a lot of names.

In fact necromancers are in general mostly considered to be evil and the mere existence of the class could be offensive to some people.

I honestly have difficulty understanding the Lucifer/Satan banning. I can understand banning the name of a real person who caused pain and suffering in the world – like Hitler. But of fictional beings?

3 at 80, in order of leveling – ranger, elementalist, mesmer
3 that are leveling now – necro, engineer, warrior
2 that will be last to level – guardian, thief

Kylissa.6094:

1) Items bought with Karma should be able to resell to a karma vendor for a small portion of the karma. If there is a way, it’d be cool to be able to return it before equipping for full refund. Destroying on upgrade makes me just want to save for the final item instead of switching out.

I like the other suggestions too but am highlighting that one. As someone who has wasted almost 150K karma in the last couple of weeks, I’d love either the above suggestion implemented or make armor and weapons account bound. At least that way I could use the items at some point.

I realize “people should pay more attention” but it is super annoying to not have some sort of recovery mechanism. It would probably cut down on some support tickets too.

One thing that I liked about GW1 that I wish to happen in GW2 is to completely separate skills in PvE and PvP. Builds that become popular in PvP inevitably lead to a nerf that is unnecessary in PvE. Hence, the popular PvP builds that are mentioned by the OP that will be nerfed. Annoying.

Other than that, I have to agree with Kal Spiro. I’d rather they work on how the pets function and make them more viable. In some situations they work well. In others I simply put them on “stand by me and stay out of trouble” mode and they are useless. As it is, since we have to have pets, we have to be what was called in gw1 “beastmaster”.

I’d really like them to rework the traits so that we don’t have to put trait points into beastmastery. We aren’t choosing if we will or won’t use a pet, so that trait line is just annoying to me. If, as the OP asked, you could choose to not use your pet and up your own damage, then that traitline would make sense. As it is, the pet is always there, so that line should be inherent in the pet and not require points. I don’t know how it should be reworked and what should be in its place but I do think it should be reworked.

Given what you said, I would continue to level both your engineer and your elementalist. You seem to be enjoying them and they meet the requirements you mentioned.

You’re welcome.

My boss has no sense of humor. At all. Pain to work for.

I most heartily wish you could beam your sense of fun and humor into his brain.

We are saving Art of War until last to upgrade. Everything else seemed more useful to our small guild. Some of us play in WvW but not as a guild. We decided that Art of War would wait.

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I think this is worthy of a sticky. I would never have thought of it being due to not accepting a chest reward.

I think as many or more hate Logan Thackery. I like them both just fine.

As a sylvari I saw Trehearne all along and agree that I think that made him make more sense. I just picture him as a bookworm, introvert type that rose to the need of the moment.

I accidently bought 2 karma heavy armor for my light armor wearing character. 84,000 karma down the drain. If it had been account bound instead of soulbound, at least I could save it for when I level a heavy armor toon. I should have been more careful.

I would love if they had a way to sell it back within a certain time limit.

I am one of those collectors who would love to collect skins of armor and weapons. It would be a focus of the game for me. It would get me to participate in parts of the game I wouldn’t routinely participate in, just to unlock a skin.

I like this idea. I would like for them to set up something combining the features of the Hall of Monuments and the PvP locker. The specifics of how it is implemented are less important to me than just having it implemented. I want some way to have different looks without it being a huge ordeal and taking up too much space.

I think search choices to narrow down what you are looking for would work to solve the issue.

I don’t want them to put in a time limit. That will clutter up our mail boxes reaching the 10 mail limit quickly as I imagine it would mail one item at a time back to you. The only way I would be ok with a time limit is if it was for a long time…a month minimum and you were refunded your listing cost when the item was sent back to you.

That’s a great idea. Currently my day works fine but in some places the night is unplayable as it is way too dark. I’d like to be able to adjust my night separately.

I would most like skritt. I think the most likely added is Tengu.

I honestly do not object to any of them being added as playable because I love variety.

The only sticking point for me is the number of classes we have. Does that limit us with playable races? I don’t know, but I don’t see myself making duplicate classes just to have different races/species to play.

Additionally, there needs to be variety in appearance, and the ability to wear armor and use weapons. I do hope at least a few are added in.

Over time I hope they do add more flavor to the game. I do miss quests that tell a story and missions that are repeatable that tell a story (similar to gw1).

To give lore, they could use the orders. The priory could be giving us more of the history, recent and further back, the order could be giving us current information and political/family stuff, and the vigil could give us the information on the military, guards, etc.

The towns could have lots of quests that let you get to know the people of the town. They could even be repeatable with little rewards but would make the town seem more in depth. The video the OP linked to explained it very well.

I’d suggest you find things to do outside the house that bring you into contact with other people…volunteer to help out at places (humane shelter, soup kitchen, etc) find some hobbies that result in interaction with people. Then concentrate on what you are doing instead of the interactions. You are probably putting too much effort in the interactions and making them seem too important for the other persons comfort. I imagine people wouldn’t mind being a friend but don’t want to be the friend.

Do we really want them replying to a “can we have mounts” thread ten or more times a day instead of working on something that will be in the game? Heck, I’ve even seen them reply in a thread and people to continue to post complaining there was no reply.

Perhaps if there was a sticky up top that listed the most common requests and a status on them.

Mounts…not on our radar
Guildhalls and housing….sometime in the future (no exact date)
etc

Then we could refer people to the sticky.

Did Anet state that was the reason? Until they do, what we state is just speculation. However, if that were the reason then why isn’t dungeon armor rare instead of exotic. I like the looks of it more than most of the cultural armor skins.

I think they should upgrade the armor to exotics. As it is you have to skin them onto other armor for the stats. Why can’t they make the very expensive armor exotic.

Other than that, the price jump is a bit extreme. I think they should add in another set of armor in between tier 2 and 3, different looks, price halfway between the two. It would be nice to have another look for cultural armors also.

Our Top suggestions (Part 1):
1) Preview the look of items in AH:

I’ve seen it mentioned that they are working on this. I believe we will have it. I do agree it’s needed. In addition the ability to sort out armor by light, medium, and heavy.

2) End game:
Agree. You always need things for people to do to keep interested in staying with a game.

a) Raid level end game with unique reasons to do these.

People need to get over their hangup when the word raid is used. This is an interesting suggestion and fits in with the dynamic events focus of the game.

b) Given a Quest to gain achievements:
“- As we finish the guild achievements it unlocks unique more items in the Guild Upgrades. I know we are doing this through influence, but look at some upgrades like “Research politics lev 5”, there is no point in it as their is nothing to get after. I suggest to take a good look at that one. "

I really don’t like the “no result” areas where you only achieve the ability to research something tangible. Also, you are right. More needs to be added to give guilds something to work for…my thoughts are that you will be working towards a guild hall eventually.

d) Guild quests & Homes/halls!
Would love these. I wonder how far away they are on the timeline.

e) Server achievement:

I like this suggestion.
3) Larger selection of items in Store:

I’ve been surprised there isn’t more there. I’m sure they would make money on the items.

4) Armor/ Trait Set swapping:

I’d like more armor tabs for sets.
5) Dueling

This would be fun.
—— More on Part 2 —--[/quote]

Our Top suggestions (Part 2):
6) Mounts
No opinion.

7) Fixing some animations
Agree.
8) Count down on Monthly:
Great idea.

Think i’ll wrap it up on those points with one final note:
1) Content addition & story arcs.
- When you add content such as the Living Story, Events, Etc to game, make sure its starts on the day you patch it. Why? Because people are running around looking for the new content only to be disappointed it won’t be around until the next day. Gives negative response from members (-1000 Happy Player points)
- Give better direction as to where to go to start event. Add quest that shows on Map & leads you to the starting point. No one likes to wonder around for an hour & then end up googling/asking on Global about it.
- Event/Story Arc must build momentum for the player. Such as our members ran out did the living story achievement 75 acts of assistance.. first day.. Now what? I keep looking each day.. nothing. (another -1000 Happy Player points)
- New Content excitement will diminish the longer between “something to do”
What would be better?
- Content is available on Patch day as thats why people log in and are ready to go “Check out the new stuff”
- Quest pops up from email, much like Dungeons with location(s) of start of event.
- Story arcs that build day after day that could even be tied into daily achievements or even “Story Achievements Quest”.
- When adding things to game, like waypoints, Items, etc. A letter/ in-game news of where to explore/look to find new stuff.

Again, thanks for your excellent work on this game & here’s hoping for more home runs in the future.

Lord Kismet
Leader, Ring of Destiny
11 Years of teamwork & fun together
http://gw2.kismetbp.com

All in all, good suggestions.

This idea is very appealing to me. I do like the idea of tokens and then the addition of city specific items. Using it for cultural armor would be cool as well as the addition of some city specific items.

I’m pretty sure it’s a bug not a feature.

I think these have been mentioned by others:
My slayer and weapon master achievements are down by 1 each.
Pumpkin carving is zero (from being maxed)
Oddly some of my slayer achievements didn’t go down by one, but most did. Do you need to know the ones that didn’t go down?
Some I couldn’t tell you if they went down or not.

The absolute worst one for me is the Lifetime survivor: 499,999/500,000
Hints are ok for me. 83/83

Doomguard.5094:

So why not just click on the item you want instead ?

Sometimes if there is a lot of animation going on, you can’t even see to click, and what you are seeing is lagging behind what is going on. I would agree that it would be good for those to be on different keybinds. Sometimes I want to rez someone and it picks up loot first.

I wish there was an auto loot that you could select to put loot directly in your bags, especially in wvw and dungeons. Failing this, I wish revive, loot pickup, and interact with objects could be on separate keybinds.

Gaile Gray.6028:

Your friend can guest on your server. Of course that means he cannot participate in WvW, but it would get you together. Alternately, since he’s a new player, perhaps you and his other friends could take up a collection to help him pay for the transfer?

(Deleting the characters would not provide a free world transfer.)

Anet really should change this. If someone is just starting out and mistakenly starts on the wrong server, deleting that character and remaking should allow them to chose the right server. After all, you have no characters to be on a server at that point.

It would be valuable. I’ve had the case where I had a lot of the next tier item but not enough of the lower tier to get my crafting level up. I had to either farm or buy it. It would have been convenient to create the lower tier item.

That’s too bad. I haven’t seen that happening, but I have seen people getting into fights over NPC’s not being let die.

Also, the dodging can get a bit annoying. I will aggro a mob and attempt to dodge and someone, being helpful, kills the mob. Obviously I’m in distress because I’m dodging and not really doing the mob damage. :P I don’t fuss because they are being nice and helping me out with a mob. It just really delays me finishing dodging for the daily.

In both of these cases, I never complain because there is really nothing to complain about. People are just playing the game. I have seen fights break out in say and map chat though.

xCrusadentx.2784:

Removing/Reducing costs is what really ruins exploration. Exploration means walking through the world, doing quests and events, and taking in the scenery. If you waypoint to a location for an event, then tp somewhere else for another event… Ooo, orr event up, waypoint there; thats not exploration, thats teleporting around the map for the sake of getting money, karma, etc. Learn to enjoy the game; the costs are fine, the game is not called teleport wars 2.

You have to explore to open the waypoints to start. Once you have explored an area, after that isn’t exploration, its travel time. The first time is a journey. The 10th time is a commute. As for the Orr events, if you run to them you will never do them. Most are not complete-able solo and they are over quickly. If the group runs to them you run to them, if the group uses a waypoint, you use a waypoint.

I have gotten used to the costs. With my first character I was leveling, the cost was prohibitive. I never had much coin and just getting the trait manuals and decent armor and weapons, plus leveling crafting left me little to no money for traveling. Now I have two level 80’s and am making money in dungeons and Orr. I can subsidize my alts as they level. Plus I stopped leveling crafting. I decided to view crafting as an expensive hobby that I will take up again once I’m well off.

However, I didn’t waypoint to help random people out back when I couldn’t afford to do it. It became a habit. Now I will use a wp to go where I personally want to do something and I will waypoint to quest with two friends. If I came across someone while running around that needed help I would help. But I couldn’t afford to use a waypoint, especially knowing that by the time I got there they might not need help anymore. Now I can afford to use the waypoints to help out folks when they ask but I’m in the habit of not even noticing it in map chat.

Is that good or bad for the game? I don’t know.

At this point, I don’t care because I can afford to travel. When I was new to the game it was extremely aggravating, annoying, irritating, (add further adjectives).

Banono.4597:

Facepalm…

OP, if you show someone that picture and they think it’s a in game shot you have some special friends. It is just a picture showing off the massive exodus of refugees from a disaster, nothing more nothing less. Like Regina said it is to convey a mood for this update.

Let me guess ask you something. Do get mad at CGI trailers? Were you disappointed when SWTOR showed epic lightsaber duels, and in game was nothing like it? How about WoW when they had Ozzy and Mr T in their ads? Did you make a post demanding a Night Elf Mohawk?

I wanted a night elf mohawk And I didn’t even play wow. :P

Re: tinfoil hats – should add recipes for those to tailor/leatherworker/armorer

Josh Foreman.8250:

kineticdamage.6279:

Pure target audience strategy. They saw how westerners rejected Asian elements during Mists of Pandaria development, so they took it as a business rule and wanted to surf on the rejection. That is speculation of course, but it is so obvious …

That’s not what happened. This went down long before anyone even know MOP was coming. It was simply a cultural consideration.

Someone should explain the reasoning behind it. Otherwise there will be rampant speculation and chaos will ensue. o.O

I remember using Vengeance in GW1. So much fun.

Is there any chance of looking at the cost vs. reward for WvW. Right now the only reason for me to play it is fun. And I do find it fun. However, if you calculate repairing armor costs and upgrading stuff costs vs rewards you get for playing wvw. I’ve found little reward. The bags are hard to see/pick up when you are in a moving battle and rarely have much in them. Dungeons are much more reward for the time invested.

notebene.3190:

Musty.3148:

thanks, doesn’t that seem…excessive? lol

I thought so the first time I saw it, but it’s not too bad. I’m only at 13% and pretty happy with the progress so far. And that’s only doing white, yellow and OJs. If I need to pick up the pace and start doing all the blues and maybe greens, it’ll go quick.

I’m more worried about the dungeons. Too chicken to jump in a gw2lfg group.

I’m way further in all the other monthly things than the salvage one but its early in the month. I need the materials for crafting anyhow.

The gw2LFG.com works great. I was hesitant to try it too, but started using it for fractals last month and dungeons this month. At first I was just whispering people who had posted there but now I’m making my own posts. I needed to complete the Arah dungeon for my story and posted that. We ended up with a full group of great people all wanting to complete it for their story. I was the only one who had been there before. We had a wonderful time.

If they want a true gold sink they should put in an income tax. Those that have the most gold should be taxed the most.

GummiBear.2756:

well surely if you had to watch the battle more than a couple minutes it should have been possible for your team to ress you? if not well either a bad team, or a VERY VERY bad mistake on your part to die at a spot they can even reach you

It wasn’t me so I’m not sure how she ended up where she did. But it was on the other side of the wall in the airship. We couldn’t get to her. Just a pain that she was missing the fun. It was that longggggg battle in the airship in Arah so she missed a lot.

Sargonnas.4168:

Just wondering if I should be saving Karma and what exactly I should be saving it for. And just other small tips. My main is a lvl 10 Charr warrior.

I handle the karma two different ways. Some Karma is earned as you do things and some karma is in containers and can be stored in the bank, such as karma jugs.

Karma that was earned I spent on whatever I needed as I went along.

I saved the karma jugs in a stack in the bank. Then I used karma boosters, food, banner, etc to maximize the karma earned from the the jugs and opened just enough jugs to have enough karma to buy karma armor in orr when a character reaches 80. That gave me a full set of exotic armor right away. That saves me the gold it would cost to purchase a set of exotic armor.

A friend on the other hand, played ascalon catacomb dungeons enough to get the tokens for a full set of armor for his level 80.

There is a sticky thread at the top of this forum that has some useful hints in it.

Hellkaiser.6025:

……..
TL;DR:
Why is it an issue :S I don’t get it, just ask people to leave you alone they shouldn’t take offense if you’re tactful and explain to them nicely, it’s a necessary evil tbh

After interacting with people all day long at work, constant talk talk talk, I need some alone time to recharge my energy. Having to explain to people that you want to mindlessly kill mobs and harvest to wind down after the day postpones your energy recovery.

Think of it as every interaction resetting your progress to zero.

If you can be invisible, you can recharge your energy in let’s say 30 minutes. If on the other hand, you have to reset to zero every five minutes, it can take forever.

It is nigh on impossible for some people to understand this but just take our word for it. Some people need peace and quiet just for a little while before they are ready to jump back into interaction with others.

The problem I have with dodging is that “helpful” players keep helping me by killing the mob I’m dodging. Pretty humorous. But it has pointed out to me that people are willing to jump in and save you from a mob. :P

The one thing I’ve noticed is that I don’t seem to get the same amount of experience for the daily as I did before they changed. Perhaps it is the change in not having as many tiers per achievement. I miss the experience. Other than that I get the achievement completed more quickly.

Also check out gw2lfg.com, you can usually tell if it is a newbie friendly group from what is posted.

The only time my pet annoys me is doing jp and vistas. I find using the bird is a little less annoying.

GummiBear.2756:

Katz.5143:

@ Agent Ice – well said.

I would like to point out that really this punishes a good group more than a poor group. If one person dies, and you can’t get to them, they are left out of the fight. Sometimes for a very long time if the group can’t stop to rez them or can’t get to them. You will have to completely finish whatever is going on.

The “bad group of rez rushers” that some of you say is the reason that we need this mechanism are less punished by this because they will all die and then all rez.

I think a compromise would be that after a certain period of time the person be allowed to rez and rejoin the fun.

ehmm not really, the good group would either be able ti finish the boss with a man down, and if not they try again and likely succed.

Now the bad group, would wipe, go in try again, wipe, go in try again wipe etc etc etc, where before they could just rush in and never loose their progress, so tell me again HOW are the less bad group punished less when they likely never be able to complete it versus the good group that at worst is just delayed a little

No where did I say that the group could not finish without the downed player. I said that the downed player would just have to be bored laying there not contributing, not playing, until everything is done. You like the mechanism, I don’t.

I get what you are talking about. You want the encounter to reset so if the group wipes over time they have to start all over again. If they had a timer so that you had to be down for a certain amount of time wouldn’t that accomplish the same thing? If everyone is dying they would not be able to get back fast enough to not lose progress. But if the group is up fighting then the one downed player after a while could come back and re-enter the fight.

For the crafting daily just take a crafting profession that refines ore or logs and refine the lowest level ore or logs. You can do the harvesting daily in the low level area and save those materials. All you have to do is set the interface to refine 10 of the ore or logs.

Its actually the quickest/easiest one to complete. Well it and the talk to the laurel npc one.

@ Agent Ice – well said.

I would like to point out that really this punishes a good group more than a poor group. If one person dies, and you can’t get to them, they are left out of the fight. Sometimes for a very long time if the group can’t stop to rez them or can’t get to them. You will have to completely finish whatever is going on.

The “bad group of rez rushers” that some of you say is the reason that we need this mechanism are less punished by this because they will all die and then all rez.

I think a compromise would be that after a certain period of time the person be allowed to rez and rejoin the fun.

I got a superior rune of orrian yesterday in orr. I’m guessing it was from the Arah dungeon, story mode, but it might have been elsewhere, I wasn’t paying that close attention to what came from where.

I was going to move the rune out of the bank to an alt. It doesn’t fit the character that got it. To my dismay it is soulbound.

My questions are:

Are superior runes often dropped as soulbound or was this just an unlucky circumstance?

I’m guessing the only thing to do with it is vendor it for a silver. Is there any other use for soulbound runes that don’t fit the character they are soulbound to?