Guild Wars 2

Play with him to keep an eye on his interactions with others. Perhaps make a family guild.
I played gw1 with my sons.

Like everything in the world, it can be good or bad. For me it was a way to hold conversations with my sons. We would play and they would talk as we played about school, life, whatever. I’m a mom instead of a dad by the way.

Even now my oldest will get on gw2 and chat with me when he has the time. He is in another state now so its a fun way to communicate.

The one you get for the achievement is not this one. This one comes from the chest (RNG- rare).

Bugged for me too.

Gaile,
Do you know if this will be retroactive? That is, will the current soulbound harvesting tools become account bound?
Thanks!

Sawyer.1530:

Contiguous.1345:

It sounds like you have a pretty one-dimensional view of the game. You say you don’t like ‘it’ but you don’t say what the ‘it’ is you don’t like.

Since there are dozens of facets to the game allowing you to play pretty well whatever and however you want, it sounds to me that you had a rigid idea of what you wanted the game to be and it doesn’t fit your criterion.

Fine, move on.

I actually think this answer is pretty dead on. I would agree my expectations for what this game probably is and what I’d hoped it would be seem to be pretty far apart. I am starting to get a the feeling I’m just not a massive on-line person. “Fine, move on” may be some pretty solid advice! What don’t I like about the game so far? Although it is true there seems to be opportunity to play “whatever” I want, I have yet to encounter anything engaging. I have not exactly played for a super long time, but for the time I have played, I’ve not yet been engaged with anything I’ve done.

It feels like a Renaissance Fair. At noon there will be a jousting match to watch, come back in thirty minutes and you’ll see that jousting match again, and again at 1:00, too. I turn around and its the same old thing and the first show was as unengaging as all the repeats.

One of the other posters said I’m probably just doing something wrong or don’t understand all the game has to offer – I kinda hope he’s right. I’ll give GW2 a couple more tries before I pick up my toys and pout all the way home.

I think this sums it up pretty well. This game is very much like a Renaissance Fair in many ways. What you have to do is abandon thoughts that this is like other games, especially RPG such as Skyrim. Don’t think of it as a replacement of a game that you liked. Instead, drop all expectations and explore to see what the game is. Then you can see if you like it. Otherwise, you are just missing the other game instead of exploring this one.

I would suggest getting another character slot also. That way you won’t second guess yourself later thinking you wished you had saved onto that slot for the birthday gift.

DevonCarver.5370:

Orion is correct, you will need to have done enough damage to the gate to get credit for the achievement.

The questions are:
Does that mean you have to be on the siege?
Does that mean it needs to be a small group of people so that you can get a higher percent of the total?
Does that mean you have to be on a certain class?

Edit: I’ve found that I can get credit on some classes with just using their weapons. (ranger with longbow). Other classes I can get if I can manage to use siege a little. Otherwise its a no go.

They only count if it is multiple mobs that come out of the door or if it is a veteran mob. The bags or single regular mobs don’t count. Also, sometimes a door gives nothing. Sometimes it disappears.

Every door should count.

I wish they would take the entertaining, good content, and creatively incorporate it into each years event.

Last year there was a lot of great story and other dungeon/mini games that really could have been here this year. Why throw good stuff away?

They easily could have included all of them.

I get the impression that the goal more and more is to concentrate players into one or two activities just to have a lot of players doing the same thing at once.

That gets old after a while. The scavenger hunt story could be left in. Just be creative about how it is incorporated.

Some people get online just to be unpleasant to other people. That is how they play. For some reason they tend to congregate in Queensdale and in Lion’s Arch. The problem isn’t the zerg or the large groups hanging out together. The problem is the few that are unpleasant in chat. The best thing to do is just use /block. Explain to new players how to use /block.

I think that instead of coming up with elaborate ways to ameliorate the perceived problem, it would better to get at the root of the problem.

The problem is that people whose main gameplay is wvw are in competition in queues with people who are just mapping wvw or getting the achievements.

We also have the fact that they want to encourage people to try wvw to increase the number of people who participate.

We also have the fact that some people want a way inside of wvw to get achievement points, etc.

I think that suggestions should keep all those things in mind. Your suggestion would take them designing an entire new system and would also be contrary to attracting new people to wvw.

Can you think of an alternative way to address the queue problem?

Dropping from mobs would be an acceptable alternative.

I am strongly opposed to the RNG chests in the gem store that contain anything other than the stuff you can outright buy in the store already – such as boosters, revivers, minipets.

I don’t buy the RNG chests and I don’t think they are good for the “feel” of the game. They seem exploitative to me. I’m sure many people are fine with it and think it is good for the game etc. But every time I see them mentioned I picture sleazy used car salesmen. It makes me lose respect for the game. Maybe that is just me. But it seems to me they are taking advantage of a subgroup of players just because they can.

I like this suggestion. There are many things that could be added to the game that will give people something fun to do and a reason to log in and play. They have put all their eggs in the living story basket, which is a bad idea.

I love your suggestion. I collected mini’s in gw1 and even maxed out the hall of fame for that part. I’ve played much less attention to them here. Your suggestions would change that.

What needs to happen is alternative pursuits should be added to the game.

1. Your miniature suggestions or a variation of that. This is well thought out and looks fun to me.

2. A wardrobe that will store armor and weapon looks (per character or per account, I don’t care). That will give me the fun task of collecting more armor and weapons to get ALL the looks in game, even the looks I don’t like. :P

3. For rangers – more pets. It was fun searching out all the pets. More could be added, not for their skills but for their looks. Some should be hard to get due to where they are or what you have to fight to get to them.

4. Housing and trophies to put in there, other decorations.

In and of themselves these are all fluff suggestions. But for many people, this will keep them playing. We need things to do other than farm and tick off achievements.

@OP
Your suggestion would improve the system. I find the current system exploitative of customers with low impulse control.

I would like a personal trade system. I know they don’t have it because of how it was abused by gold sellers, etc in gw1.

The problem I see with your suggestion is that we can only have a certain number of mail before we reach our limit and people could abuse this by sending trash items to folks for exorbitant prices. This could be overcome by having the return button to return the mail but it would be annoying to the person having to return it.

I would prefer that they add a feature to the trading post whereby people can specify the purchaser’s name.

Actually this has been brought up many times.

I personally won’t buy it because its over priced. I think at the very least it should be exotic armor. As it is you have to immediately transmute the looks to better armor. Not worth it to me.

mercury ranique.2170:

Simple answer: No!
Guilds are and should be able to govern themselves. I think that it would be wrong if Anet would put anything in place.

Just make sure that you keep your security tight enough. In my guild only 2 people have access to the ‘good’ stuff. They take it out if needed. All the other 498 members have access to the other stuff, but thats mostly leveling sigils, leveling food and stuff like that. If thats gone, well meh.

Dont blame anet or anyone else when your guild got robbed, but review your internal policy.

How is this related to an account getting hacked? What if those 2 people in your guild get hacked?

Edit: we just don’t have “good stuff” in the guild bank. We have common junk that it would be stupid to steal but people can use for leveling crafting and what not. Not ideal, but then we don’t have to worry about the guild bank that way.

While there is no way to prevent all disagreements in game, this one could be solved by having certain champions always spawn with the buff.

I think the problem is that there are time limited achievements/content and that puts stress on the people who have less time. I had no problem getting this done but then my evenings and weekends are free of obligations. Those who have restricted time will be more sensitive to these sort of problems.

As for the bad map chat. I look at map chat for information that I can use and do my best to ignore the bad behavior that often occurs. I also observe good behavior where people ask for help and others respond and assist quickly. Its a mixed bag.

Due to reading this thread, I took precautions as I went through this today. I killed everything nearby first. And then I checked to make sure the count went up by one each and every time.

I strongly encourage that extras be put in for these achievements in the future. So instead of having to participate in all invasions or find all krait shards or all of anything, change it to a portion of a total.

That would help prevent the bugs from being so annoying. It would save developers from having to chase the bugs down and players from being frustrated about it bugging out on them. It would also allow you to just play the game. I don’t enjoy having to act like an accountant when I am doing content.

The Sixteenth.2561:

Usualy a month or two, but achievement migh not last as long, some time it does, sometime it doesn’t. So the shortest deadline is two week in every update.
Do you know how to add 14 days ? The easiest way is to look up a calendar, and count 14 days after the launch.

Usually its either 2 weeks or 1 month lately. And they got into a pattern of releasing content at the first of the month that lasted the entire month and content in the middle of the month that lasted only 2 weeks. However, they sometimes will end content that started at the first of the month in two weeks. So you cannot depend on it lasting any more than two weeks. Additionally, some content isn’t available the entire 2 weeks. Example: mad king says.

You could have left out the snarky "Do you know how to add 14 days ? " comment. The OP asked a legitimate question. I too would like to know reliably and conveniently how long each content will be around. Having to rush assuming that it could be on a two week expiration date is unnecessary. Some games (EQ2 for example) have an ingame calendar that clearly shows when content will be available. Baring that, there could be a calendar area of this forum that clearly shows that. Often the dates can be found somewhere if you know where to look but why should you have to look around to find out something this important?

All the Captains hang out in that bar….Crow’s Nest, I think it is.

It depends on how annoying it is and how badly I want the rewards. If it seems too impossible and I can put lots of time in it and still never get a decent reward, I’ll give it up (Teq, for example).

If it is annoying and grindy but I think I can complete it, I will do it even if I hate it to get the reward.

Is it sustainable? I don’t know, after the invasion achievement that bugged out on me and I had to do it many more times than I should have in order to finally complete it, I was burned out and skipped the next few LS. Started back on them at Mad King.

@Kristen Perry

You took the time to come here and post a well thought out explanation. I really appreciate that. Although I wasn’t affected by the changes this time (my sylvari is in light t2 cultural), I was concerned as I love her look right now. Your explanation has eased my concern and increased my confidence in the eventual results.

Thanks!

Well its been made clear that the pace of 2 weeks is here to stay.

With that in mind, please make it less painful. Right now you have released content that takes 250 spores per item. For Halloween you released content that took 10s of thousands of candy corns (that you had made more rare to get) to get items.

2 to 4 weeks to get thousands of looted items that must be obtained by doing the same thing over and over and over and over is not my idea of fun. All to get a recipe or some little reward.

Parts of what you add is fun and entertaining. Parts are just repetitious and fun for the first few times after which it is just tedious to repeat to have a hope of getting enough corn, spores, or whatever to come close to getting the items.

You have improved the ability to complete the achievements in a timely manner.

You’ve set getting the cool weapon skins, the recipes, etc. as obvious rewards for people with lots of money or lots of time and patience with farming.

I do like the story of the current event. I was dismayed when I looked at the cost of the new skill and the cost of getting the recipes at 250 spores each. If I do enough grinding to get those items I will burn out on the game again.

I sincerely hope you rethink the system of having 2 – 4 week events that require some currency in large numbers to get something and then it’s so long, too bad, its gone.

Could someone explain the rationale for having the items for Halloween and the items for this weeks LS cost so much corn/spores? Is this to make it fun?

I agree it isn’t hard. To be honest most things in the game are not really that hard to do.

However, since the norm of the game is to have many achievements on a two week timer and bugs are inherently there and some are never fixed (why bother, its only for two weeks?), then it should be anticipated that these things are likely to have a bug and therefore have a predetermined way to cause it to not be such a head-ache for those it affects.

For example: you must do x number of things out of x + 5 that are available to do.

Edit: and the why bother statement is not to mean that they don’t care about the bug, I’m sure they care about all the bugs in the game. But if it is complicated to fix, and they can’t replicate it to even see what could be wrong, by the time it gets worked out its a moot point. There is no point in them farting around with a bug that will not even be relevant in a week or so.

(sorry couldn’t resist the moot fart reference).

Charak.9761:

Should of made it 24 obelisk shards and only need to obtain 20.

After the having to complete 13 invasions, which bugged out so that I had to do each invasion over and over again, I’m not looking forward to doing this achievement.

I do know now that I must write down each one I do and look to see if I advance. That way I will know which one bugs on me if one does bug on me.

However, suggestions were made last time such as the one above.

1. Have more to do than you are required to do. Such as the 20/24. That way if one bugs so what.

2. Have a tracking system that lists which one completes.

First I pick out which ones I can do my alt that I’m leveling and complete those. Then I go and play WvW and complete the ones that count there on a high level character (just by playing normally, don’t really have to try and complete those).

I normally complete more than the minimum unless I’m short on time. I never complete all of them because there is usually something I don’t want to do listed.

If this is your first suspension you should be able to rename right away. No harm in trying to see.

Just keep your level 80’s and buy two character slots if you want to make something else. At some point you may need your Mesmer or thief for something. That way you won’t waste what you have on them and won’t later regret deleting them.

I think once you have played a variety of MMOs, you tend to get a bit critical of what individual ones lack. I know I want an MMO that has what I enjoy from all the other MMO’s. Sadly, that doesn’t exist. In general, I’m tired of repetitive tasks to get the rewards. All games I’ve played seem to have that as a fairly large part of their game though.

Rangers should be able to use these as a pet. Seriously.

I have level 80 Guardian, Warrior, Ele, Necro, Mesmer, Ranger, and Engineer. I’m currently leveling a thief.

I find in WvW, I play my Necro, Ele, or occasionally my Mesmer. For general mapping and open land PvE, I play my ranger. The engineer is fun but I need more practice with it to feel comfortable in WvW with it. Since my Guardian and Warrior hit 80 and got geared up I find myself by-passing them every time I choose who to play. I’m not sure why but they just don’t seem as “fun” to me.

It gets right down to what are you going to be doing most of the time? And what do you enjoy playing?

My first one to get to level 80 was my ranger and I found her very easy to use for the zone map completions and quite fun finding all the pets while doing that.

Alex.9567:

have a look at the reason

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/99336/race_stats.png

Yes, you could interpret that to say that 64% of the population doesn’t play a human. If you lump norns with humans, 44 % of the population plays a race vastly different from a human. That is close to 50% of the player base.

Or you could be like me, I personally have all races. Therefore, even though I have three humans, I also have a norn, two sylvari, two charr, and one asuran. (yes more than the 8 classes but they have too few classes. I doubled up on one class.) I tried to hold out for a new race on my thief but gave up waiting as its the only class I haven’t leveled to 80. If they had another race that I could have used for thief, that would have been one less human for me.

I think that they should be added for all armor classes. I’d like the pirates outfit on my charr and asura and they are light and heavy armor classes.

Its just disappointment over the continuing theme of taking things away. Last year there was an incredible story within a scavenger hunt, there was the mini-jumping-dungeon like area you fought the mad king in and reapers rumble. You got a Halloween themed bag from completing content. There were cool themed weapons that were drops. Candy corn was a lot easier to get.

I do like the Bloody Prince. I feel that they missed an opportunity to have a more involved set of “quests” to introduce and defeat him.

I did however like the story.

I thought the achievements were very doable and the rewards for completing them were nice.

Very little. Maybe one stack? At most.

Yep, that’s what I meant. Thanks.

I’ve been putting that one off due to the threads about it not working or working randomly to update.

Is it still broken?

If anyone has gotten it to consistently work for them, how did you get it to work?

(I tried it tonight and got no update)

Is there any reason to not turn candy corn into cobs?

Is there any place you need individual candy corns and therefore would regret making cobs out of them?

I came here just to post about this. If it were armor skin instead of town clothes I would purchase the following:

1 Bloody Prince’s Outfit
1 Executioners Outfit
2 Pirate Captains outfits

As is, the only purpose for me to use town clothes is for costume brawling. I’m not getting that on each toon, I really only need them on one for the daily.

What is the reason for not making these appearance armor?

Is it bugged? Maybe it is supposed to be just for playing. Perhaps it should be in the bug reports.

Are you sure they aren’t working on the Living Story finisher achievement?

I liked everything about it last year. I’d just as soon they kept everything in and run this for a month every year.

As far as the node in the house, I really like that idea but I expect at most it will be 5 candy corn a day per account which at 100,000 candy corns needed for some things will take quite a while. It would really help to have the abundant nodes back across all the maps.

Doors:

1. I would like to see a change regarding the despawn characteristics. Only about 10% of the doors are still there when I reach them. The rest despawn. It’s frustrating to spend money waypointing or run a distance just to have them disappear right before your eyes.

2. Have different icons for travel doors and other doors. I usually either want to go into the realm or want to collect goodies/fight mobs. I don’t see any point in these being random.

Candy corn:

Please put the nodes back from last year. It was nice that they were plentiful and now we need a lot more candy corn and have a lot fewer nodes. This is frustrating.

Story:

I like the story this year. However I liked the one last year where I had to run around and collect information and do tasks for Tassi. I hope that more is coming about that but if not, I’d really like in the future that this be more involved and mysterious and gradual in revealing the facts. But I do want to emphasize that I like the instance with Tassi.

Activities:

Could you add Reaper’s Rumble to the daily activities rotation?

Its against forum rules to call out guilds or players like that. You might want to redo your post before you get an infraction or moderation. o.O

Mak.7625:

Oh my god…wood logs sink……….

It’s Ironwood!

I really like the lead in to this one. I hope they continue this type of content and take it even further. I love stories and speculation!

Really there is no middle ground here, either it is (on your server):

jsduke.6537:

Tequatl the Funless, Loneliest of the Dragon Kings.

or it is great fun and often successful.

My server does the event once a week on Saturday early evening. Sometimes I go. I’ve never seen it succeed but it has come fairly close. The rest of the time there is at most a half dozen people around.

Teq is a “raid” substitute. In other games some people raid only, some raid plus other assorted things, and some people never raid. I’ve been in games where there were some non-instanced raids but most were instanced like the dungeons are here.

Different things appeal to different people. I don’t mind having raid equivalent things but most Teq encounters are deserted on my server now except when this one guild runs it on the weekend.

jsduke.6537:

I don’t think you or the other posters here are “fools and imbeciles”. You absolutely have a right to your opinion, and I’m not telling you otherwise.

I’m responding to OP. He left the game for 10 months, and now he’s complaining that he missed some stuff during the 10 months that he didn’t want to play.

You see how silly that is? He left the game. For 10 months. Were we supposed to wait for him to get back before moving on?

If you don’t play, you miss stuff. Don’t want to miss stuff? Check in once in a while and see what’s going on.

That’s all. It’s not even a big deal.

He was gone for 10 months and during that time lots of things were added to the game. Most of them are gone now. You see how silly that is? I’ve been here the entire time and I still think its silly.

While I get that they are doing something new and we need to get on board or row off to a new ship we like better, I’m disappointed that’s the way its turned out.

They need to go back and revisit several material changes they made as they probably no longer make sense. Like chocolate. Chocolate used to be very abundant and then they made it limited in where you would obtain it.