Guild Wars 2

This was a copper node, nothing special. In this case it wasn’t a ranger, but they usually are. I’m trying to train myself to hit PRT SCR and this time I got one.

How do I raise a ticket for botting? In the Support part of the game menu I see “Report a bug” but nothing about reporting players.

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Okay, I see how to report it, I missed Panda’s ‘friend’ comment but I didn’t see how to attach a screenshot.

I’ve seen a good number of cases of this: I’m farming a resource node when a player appears out of thin air, farms the node then disappears, seconds later they’re off-line.

I don’t see how in-game I report this.

I see pattern to my MMO game playing:

1) In FFXI I usually play Tarutaru
2) In LOTRO Hobbits are my choice when they can play the class I want to level
3) In GW2 it’s the Asura which appeal to me
4) In WOW goblins and gnomes generally do it for me

In all these cases it’s the ‘small people’ who are given the humour, the amusing animations, and often the more pointed dialog (as per the ‘oral orrifice’ line quoted earlier).

Sadly, Rift has no amusing small race .. dwarves don’t count.

Thanks for those comments, they’ve given me a far clearer idea of Karma and its’ uses than I had before.

I’m pretty much in DEKeyz’s camp, I only buy gear if I find my character is struggling with quest rewards and drops, but I do insist on talking to those wretched Karma vendors and in the mid 20s now I’m seeing some nice gear that my crafters can’t make ATM.

Your comments make me think that I can afford to splash out a little from time to time and won’t have too many regrets later.

Cheers all.

Fish.4567:

my friend uses wiki’s definition of nerf: “reduces the desirability or effectiveness of a particular game element” and saying that nerfing dungeons reduces the effectiveness.. ie. making it harder.

The problem here is in the ‘OR’ in that definition, ‘desirability’ is not at all synonymous with ‘effectiveness’ and hence ‘nerfing’ one doesn’t necessarily imply the same effect in the other.

Making something less desirable is unrelated to making something less effective; and in the case of the dungeon being less ‘effective’ can easily be seen as making it less of a challenge and hence less effectively keeping players from getting the phat lewt.

Your friend is failing to see language is often more subtle than a literal reading of the words would indicate.

‘Nerf’ in general means ‘make weaker’, it’s the context that’s critical to what exactly is happening and how the object of the nerf is in comparison to its pre-nerf state.

At the time I was looking there was 1 listed at 1s9c and around 15 listed at 1s10c.

I didn’t go back and try again last night, so I assume by the time I try again that single one should have gone and the problem should have gone away.

Cheers.

I want to buy two Minor Runes of Scavenging, the toon I’m trying to buy on has 50+ silver.

Searching the TP gives me a list starting at 1s9c with 1 Avail. I enter I want to buy 1, tells me the total is 1s9c but the BUY button isn’t enabled.

I’m staring at this dialog and I haven’t a kitten clue what the heck’s wrong.

Why is this happening? What am I missing here? I’ve only bought a few items off the TP but up till now I’ve not had a problem.

Ooops, I hit ‘delete’ by mistake. /cry

Thanks, when I’m rallying I don’t feel I have the time to read the tooltips very much, I missed that until you guys pointed it out to me.

Thanks.

Noob question perhaps, but it has me baffled ATM … why is it that my Warrior, alone among the classes it seems, always dies even after Rallying and defeating the mob he was fighting.

I can’t figure which Rally skill is causing him to rally mid-fight (as opposed to when he manages to kill the mob who downed him as the other classes seem to do) and then causes him to die even when he defeats the mob.

I don’t recall ever surviving a successful fight on this class.

To mis-quote Shakespeare, that is the question.

Is it advised to hoard Karma points till late/end-game or spend them as you level on gear or crafting?

I ask because in other games equivalent ‘currency’ is often wasted early/mid-game. Take LOTRO for example, for those who know it, Skirmish Points can be used to buy useful leveling gear, but later on they’re far, far more valuable to barter for Legendary Item upgrades.

Is GW2 like this or not? If I spend, say, 10K Karma points leveling up to, say, 50, will I later bitterly regret that because KPs get harder to earn; or will it be the case if I hoard them I’ll end up at 80 with many thousands unspent?

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

It’s a dungeon, so it’s not soloable,

Which sucks hugely and is a nasty surprise for those who didn’t realise GW2 was a ‘forced grouping’ game at the point it matters.

vasidino.3276:

Chill. What do you think they should do? Release little bits of it or something?

Er, yeah, you know, like how Blizzard trickles huge updates weeks ahead of time and only needs to download a small ‘activator’ on the day of release.

Katai.6240:

I love how the mere idea of an update being launched during regular business hours at the company’s primary timezone is somehow completely unacceptable to some people here…

You people must love being called into work for the midnight shift…

Well, actually, in SERVICE INDUSTRIES it’s usually considered good business practice to PUT YOUR CUSTOMERS FIRST, rather than your own convenience.

Silly me, of course, thinking that customers’ convenience should matter more.

Sky.9347:

There is a difference though between LVL vs XP required, and LVL vs TIME required.

I think that’s what they are trying to say.

Indeed, of course that’s what Anet meant, but this is a web forum, many posters don’t let facts get in the way of a good rant.

A shame this achievement requires PVEers to do PVP to get it, always sucks when you’re forced to PVP for something in a game where PVP is supposed to be optional.

Khristophoros.7194:

You can craft them.

Why do you want that anyway?

Also, protip: check http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page before you ask questions on the forum.

Er, right, let’s see that advice you’re helpfully providing here … we’ll put Sigil of Karka Slaying into that page you so helpfully provide a link for (we’ll ignore the sarcastic tone of your reply), and then click the link which the Search yields: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Karka_Slaying

Sigil of Karka Slaying

A Sigil of Karka Slaying gives extra damage against Karka.
[edit] Minor Sigil of Karka Slaying
Minor Sigil of Karka Slaying.png

Minor Sigil of Karka Slaying

Type
Sigil
Rarity
Masterwork
Value
16 Copper coin

“

Double-click to apply to a Weapon.

+3% Damage vs. Karka

— In-game description

[edit] Major Sigil of Karka Slaying
Major Sigil of Karka Slaying.png

Major Sigil of Karka Slaying

Type
Sigil
Rarity
Rare
Req. level
39
Value
1 Silver coin 8 Copper coin

“

Double-click to apply to a Weapon.

+5% Damage vs. Karka

— In-game description

[edit] Superior Sigil of Karka Slaying
Superior Sigil of Karka Slaying.png

Superior Sigil of Karka Slaying

Type
Sigil
Rarity
Exotic
Req. level
60
Value
2 Silver coin 16 Copper coin

“

Double-click to apply to a Weapon.

+10% Damage vs. Karka

Yup, the Wiki really answers the OP’s questions I see, h’e obviously very grateful for your friendly help.

/rolleyes

Slaskia.8376:

In EQ2 and LotRO, I frequently started up a solo questline,

Except with LOTRO Turbine recognised the importance of the Epic quest line .. totally the equivalent of the Personal Story here .. and changed every quest in the Epic line to have a SOLO OPTION .. perhaps Anet should learn from that, especially as the entire PS is soloable until the very last and critical moment.

Vasham.2408:

If you don’t want to group, don’t play an MMORPG. Simple.

FYI, the ‘G’ in MMORPG doesn’t stand for GROUP

Tarvok.4206:

Hey, I’m curious about something. For those of you who feel the activities of active traders is negatively impacting your game… what exactly is it that you’re doing that is being impacted by this activity? I only ask because I honestly can’t figure out what the TP is for for those of us who’d rather avoid that sort of thing, given there are supplies of very good items that have nothing to do with it (karma, tokens, etc).

As some who despises ‘playing the TP’ it’s simple: I resent this activity because it means I have to spend time farming gold simply to be able to buy something that I need, when in the absence of ‘market players’ the price would be lower and I could probably afford it without having to waste time accumulating large amounts of gold.

These players are leeching off the efforts of others, those who went to the effort of getting the items these ‘market players’ then exploit; and often do so using TP bots of course.

See, their fun makes me endure huge amounts of tedium or else go without stuff I need whereas in their absence that tedium would be hugely lessened.

Direksone.3867:

People like coming together in a group of 10, it creates a bond among them. I can remember after weeks of wiping on the Lich King that we finally killed him, it was a glorious day indeed.

Some of course think the only real raiding content in WOW was the 40-man stuff.

Namu.5712:

Having raids does not mean tiered gear.

Why do people keep tying great ideas to wow concepts.

They could have raids simply for the challenge and reward amazing skins, money, mats, etc etc.

Why are you all so kitten stuck on treadmill crap and just outright reject anything that MIGHT indicate treadmills in your mind.

Not sure why more people don’t support raids if they had no treadmill… the challenge is welcomed because all the pve content in this game is stupidly easy for the most part…… sorry devs its the truth.

Fact is, most raiders who claim they do it for the ‘challenge’ are actually no better than the rest: they do it for the phat lewt and are the first to demand’ incentives’ (aka. more exclusive phat lewt) to do ‘hard’ content.

Amazingly, in a game that’s 10+ years old (FFXI) I can press one key and switch from third-person to first-person view .. and in spite of what someone said earlier, combat in first-person is often far better than third-person.

Wonder why modern MMOs don’t make it as easy to switch instantly from one view to the other?

Shikigami.4013:

then it may actually be a good idea to refrain from doing that and do something fun instead (like playing the game instead of farming for hours).

I love how some people insist on telling others what they should consider ‘fun’.

Bearhugger.4326:

Or maybe don’t play pure glass cannons when you solo?

<snip>

The problem with nerfing PS encounters is that this is going to make the personal story an even bigger joke than it already is for tanks.

Maybe I misunderstand, but you seem to be arguing ‘glass canons’ needs not apply to do the PS content which should be reserved for tanks as a challenge?

Really?

Thing is, this game doesn’t have Duel Spec, so one can’t whip out one’s ‘DPS spec’ to do solo content when one’s ‘healer’ spec can’t cut it.

This thread depresses me.

Coming from WOW, Rift, LOTRO (among others) GW2 is a breath of fresh air, no competition for mobs, no ‘camping’ due to horrendously long respawn times, no arguments over who did 90% damage and should therefore get a higher proportion of mobs drops, etc. Who cares if someone strikes ‘your mob’, there is no kill stealing to worry about?

Now, many in this thread are asking for GW2 to become a game just like those, full of selfish people who view everyone else as competition.

And Astralporing is one who seems to want to open the Pandora’s box of “who contributed” to a kill: please don’t, this game is far, far better for none of this “I did more than him” nonsense, LOTRO is awash with that sort of rubbish post-‘Open Tapping’.

Why? Why, people? Why do you want GW2 to descend to the depths of WOW when it comes to ‘community spirit’?

So, this problem hasn’t been resolved yet but I thought I’d post a note to point out this:

I created the first ticket on 28 December, yesterday, the 22 January I got my FIRST RESPONSE telling me it was being escalated followed not long after by a second one telling me to do mess with my browser.

I’ll be doing that shortly (and frankly, without much expectation it’ll work), but is this the kind of response I should expect from Anet, 25+ days simply to get an initial response to a problem???

This is ticket 121228-002553, in case you’re interested.

marnick.4305:

Imho the day-night cycle should be on a 24 hour cycle like in WoW. Night time is barely noticeable and really doesn’t add much to the game in GW2. In WoW, night time was really when the game became fun.

Absolutetly NOT like that where game time = real time! I hate the fact that in winter, during the week, I never saw Azeroth in daytime.

Having real, distinguishable Day/Night cycles, with night being, you know, DARK, is fine, but it should never mirror real-world time IMO, the game should have a significantly shorter day/night cycle.

Was this thread really needed? Hasn’t this dead horse been thrashed enough in umpteen threads since the first Legendary was spotten on the TP a few weeks ago?

pricer.5091:

To flat out buy the gems woth real cash to get the 2000g you need to buy a legendary would cost you over £1600 in British Sterling at the moment. That is more than the average monthly wage in the UK at the moment.

Is there any evidence beyond anecdotal that anyone has actually been stupid enough to do this?

The post three above yours probably gives us a clue.

kineticdamage.6279:

TL;DR : please MMO industry, stop forgetting your nerds.

Hard to know what you want as you’re post kind of rambled, but you seem to be saying you want a key-mashing combat system like WOW, where complex ‘rotations’ are used to differentiate the ‘goods’ and the ‘bads’.

As for “trying tons of templates”, fact is most players never did, they went to whichever fansites the min/maxers posted on and cut/pasted whatever skill/talent/whatever builds that particular MMO needed to get TEH BIG NUMBERZ, and derision was cast on those who wanted to do something different because EFFICIENCY is all that matters to the sheep.

A very, very few players KNEW the battle mechanics and were the min/maxers specifying the ‘flavour of the month’ build and the majority of the rest of the playerbase were the sheep that duly did as they were told.

Same goes for ‘learning the mechanics’, a few bleeding-edge players figure out the fights, the sheep watch the videos these elite few put on YouTube and copy those tactics verbatim.

Death Reincarnated.3570:

For some reason I would rather gather 10x more of the items for a legenday if each had 100% chance of being acquired everytime I try. In such a case, I could foresee better how far I have progressed with my goal.

Totally agree, for me there’s nothing worse than having noooooooooooooo idea how long something is going to take because there’s no way of knowing how RNG is going play.

Far, far better to know how long it’ll take, you can then decide if it’s something you’re prepared to tolerate because for you, the reward’s worth it.

As someone who played GW1 briefly not long after it opened, one thing I loved about that was that I could join up with a couple of Aussie friends I had who introduced me to the game (I’m in England) when they were on, then switch to a local server to play with others.

Grey.7319:

One of the best aspects of GW1 in terms of community involvement was the ability to join any of your friends anywhere in the world through use of the international districts. Different game, different infrastructure I know, but that doesn’t make it any easier to accept a big step backwards in regards to connecting with our international friends.

True, different games, BUT the game which is inferior came second!

I’m amazed GW2 has regressed in terms of a ‘global community’ to the level of WOW, Rift, and all the other games who segregate regions one from another. The only thing that’s better with GW2 is that at least one can transfer between regions, but dynamic ‘on the fly’ moving like GW1 is light years ahead of that in terms of community building.

Laixes.2547:

One time, a person answered me 15 minutes later using an excuse, “I don’t read the chat box when in combat”. And I was next to him for the entire time, spamming hi, hello, ello, and etc. Should I consider that person a bot? Because he was obviously doing similar movements as I am; killing, looting, and going for the next mob in a repeated cycle.

If you did that to me I’d report you for harassment.

I don’t get the need for any reward beyond the satisfaction of doing it, but then I don’t have a big ego that needs stroking so maybe that’s why I don’t see it.

If something isn’t fun, hasn’t got an in-game reward and you don’t feel that simply completing it is enough, then why do it?

Why can’t you put the ‘flag spam’ button next to the message header in the PM list, so we can flag it without having to waste time opening it?

Right now I’m more inclined to ‘delete on sight’ and not bother wasting time to report it, due to this.

Grunties.6841:

Agree with OP. There is absolutely no status I attach to anyone with a legendary because of all of the reasons stated. Most bought it. Those that earned it are tainted by the majority of folks who bought it. I’d be mad if I earned mine and people could just buy it.

The fact you use the word ‘tainted’ shows you have a weird idea of what obtaining one of these by doing it the hard way should be about: it should be about the satisfaction of doing it, if someone is upset because the kitten value has crashed then I feel sad for them.

And if I ever got one it wouldn’t matter in the slightest what you thought of me, I play for ME, not you!

Writetyper.1985:

Why do people want the level cap to increase, btw? It’s just the same game with bigger numbers

Because for most people character progression stops at the level cap; forget phat lewt and gear, I’m talking about character abilities and skill, the continued evolution of playstyle for the class you’re playing, gear generally just makes you more ‘powerful’ without changing the way you play.

And I suggest most games players want more than arriving at the destination (ie. the level cap) then sit there forever running the same content.

True, some games manage this without actually increasing the level number (eg. FFXI with their ‘merit’ system, Rift with PAs. etc) but generally mobs also have to increase in strength to keep balance with increased character power; for that, and other reasons, it seems to me that non-level based character progression tends to be unsatisfactory.

@OP: I love the replies telling you to use the gates.

People, he didn’t say WHY he wants to run, maybe it’s because he wants a challenge? Maybe he KNOWS the gates exist (at level 17 I’m sure he’s been to DR and SEEN the gate to LA).

This idea reminds me long, long ago in FFXI doing a level 1 run with my linkshell from Jeuno to Rabao. As a fairly green noob, that run taught me a LOT about aggro and how to avoid it in the game, lessons that stood me in good stead for a long time.

Maybe the OP is thinking similarly, or maybe he just wants to go explore the world, whatever.

Aden Celeste.3650:

IAs a matter of fact, I would say to have the chest open at the end of the dungeon instead of multiple occasions, and the loot inside depends on the number of mobs killed!

Terrible idea.

So you’re in a PUG that kills all bosses and trash and then wipe on the last boss and for some reason the group dissolves: your scheme says they GET NOTHING.

Great incentivisation.

/scarcasm

GummiBear.2756:

Millionaires.4201:

Corvi.3278:

Whoa.

Crafting provides generous experience. Personal story = XP + items.

The crowd is great around Divinity’s Reach and Hoebrak (events) except of course for the persistent lonewolf who even declares themselves on map chat. Get a group, form a party.

I don’t like people, if I can do something on my own, I will.

then why do you play and MMO in the first place?

I hadn’t expected to see this old cliched question on the GW2 forums, a game which as I see it at my relatively early stage is a game designed to be soloed to level cap and ‘group’ content is, except for loot grinding instances, ah doc world events without the need for formal grouping.

Oh, and the answer to your question: no off-line game is remotely as large with so many things to do as an MMO I’ve ever played, even when I ‘solo’ it.

Finally, let me give a cliche answer to your cliche question: The ‘G’ in MMORPG doesn’t stand for Groups; also ‘Massively Multiplayer’ means others to interact with, it doesn’t per se mean ‘play with’.

Erasculio.2914:

In other words, other MMOs treat their players as addicts, who are expected to do nothing but grind levels and then grind gear, only to see an expansion being released and then be expected to grind more levels and then grind more gear, while waiting for the next expansion.

That is bad game design. It’s very easy to understand why MMO companies chose to go with that specific design – it keeps grinders paying a monthly fee, grind is the easiest possible kind of content to design, and so on.

It’s still bad game design, and as seen recently, it simply doesn’t cut it. All games based on that model died or are dying. There isn’t an infinite amount of people willing to be dealt with as if they were addicts willing to accept any mediocre game, and so this classic model of MMOs has led to failure after failure.

LOL .. I find it hard to think of games like WOW, LOTRO, FFXI (to name 3 I’ve played for years and am still playing, along with Rift and now GW2) are ‘dying’.

They’re all a level grind followed by a gear grind, the end-games are ‘raid or die’, from the viewpoint of this GW 2 newbie, Ascended gear and FoTM seems to be taking GW2 to exactly the same place.

Godfather.8217:

Lineage II was all about botting, infact you weren’t cool unless you were dual boxing at least

The fact you equate dual-boxing in any MMO with botting shows your views about these things are worthless, you don’t seem to know what ‘bots’ are.

Rey.6348:

The idea of playing the market from my smartphone, something I really wanted. Guess it will have to wait :P

Guess some good came of this decision then, anything that cuts down on ‘playing the TP’ and screwing the economy is fine by me,

This is one of the saddest threads I’ve seen on any MMO forum, ever.

Just had another 502.

But in the case this guy’s complaining about, a Champ+5 pack it’s highly probable that by the time a soloer managed to kill all 6 of them the first has respawned even on a 2 min timer!.

Unless the WHOLE PACK is on a timer when the last dies then your observation, though perhaps correct on a per-mob basis doesn’t answer this type of case.

Same pretty much as Deimos, I can use the forums just fine AM GMT, come mid-afternoon and the 502s appear; been like this for a few days, pretty bad right at this moment.

arrownin.3128:

To be honest WoW really has almost no similarities to this game.

Either you never played WOW or else you’re being deliberately misleading: character leveling is a very similar process in both, both are quest-based leveling systems where mob killing is a small part of it (unlike more conventional grind-fests such as FFXI).

True, WOW has a raid-based end-game while GW2 has .. nothing .. but the PVP aspects of both are similar, except of course WOW has no equivalent to WvW.

Sure, GW2 has some features WOW doesn’t, and vice versa, but saying they have “almost no similarities” is laughable.

Um, what do I ‘win’ with gold?

How can the amount of gold you have be a measure of anything but your real-world bank balance when you can officially buy gold with real money?

Lechtrixx.1053:

IF I’m going to get my butt knocked off such a high place, NPC’s should be just as vulnerable instead of this being kept on the platform by some invisible wall.

One HUGE difference between PCs and NPCs: in theory, behind a PC is a human brain capable of actively positioning the PC so that being knocked off/back can be avoided or mitigated, I’ve yet to see an NPC AI in any game actively position the NPC in a similar way.