Guild Wars 2

4-6Gb is hardly ‘too much’ in this day and age, I doubt all of it is needed at once, and that’s what the SWAPFILE is for!

BTW, Anno 2205 doesn’t have scores of players and other objects to track, render and generally faff with.

Vayne.8563:

Good post. I wholeheartedly agree. Though I did beat Prized Possessions without help, it was an unnecessarily frustrating process. I tried Hearts and Minds a couple of times and decided to wait for bug fixes, because it’s just not worth it to me.

Given the age of this content do you really think Anet will ever bother trying to fix it?

Bloodstealer.5978:

So you don’t see Account sharing as a much more serious violation, one that warrants only a few days time out in the naughty corner along with players that have maybe abused the LFG policy or spammed chat .. cmon lets not silly..

Personally I don’t see account sharing is ever ‘bad’, ever.

A single account can only be played once at a time so it matters not at all who’s playing it at any point in time IMO.

Frankly I’ve always viewed the ban on sharing by treadtional sub-based MMOs as nothing more than corporate greed!

For instance, in WOW you pay for 24 hour access and if you use 24 hour access Blizzard has nothing to gripe about, so they have nothing to gripe about if two people share it ONE AT A TIME: same goes for Trion, Square Enix, Turbine, Sony, etc. etc. etc.

With B2P and F2P games the devs’ bleats about sharing have even less credibility than that to me.

Silmar Alech.4305:

But this is indeed the case. The gold you buy in the gem exchange was indeed sold voluntarily by other players. Gold is not created from thin air in this system. The gem exchange is called gem exchange because of that: one player gives gems and receives gold, and another player receives these gems and gave this gold.

I know that’s the line Anet spin with their resident ‘economist’, I frankly don’t believe it, never have. It’s fine for Anet to sell gold, they should have the courage to admit that’s what this is about.

I’ve been playing MMOs since 2004 so I’m very well aware of the damage RMT do .. I played FFXI over the infamous Christmas 2005 period for those who know that reference .. and I’m not at all advocating using them, RMT is in no way the ‘victimeless crime’ many think it is.

Aha!

That’s why I didn’t know it was not HoT, I stopped playing before LS2 and only logged in during 3 of the 8 episodes.

Thanks for at least letting me know hadn’t missed something glaringly obvious in the original game.

Loli Ruri.8307:

Chris Cleary.8017:

Hey all,

We have been fairly relaxed since launch on players purchasing wealth from “Real Money Traders”, but that stops now. We will be taking a very active stance against RMT buyers from here on out.

Why would you take a relaxed stance against crime? RMT is not acceptable in any game.

Likely they clamped down when Anet started selling gold via the thinly-disguised TP exchange mechanism and they didn’t want any competition.

Do they seriously expect the gold people buy for gems comes from other players?

Souto.2716:

Now with the full core game being free there needs to be a way to limit what the P4F players can do and to entice them to buy the game.

The game Rift shows you a different model is possible, it isn’t a ‘given’ that F2P players need to be limited in order to coerce them to buy the game.

True, all other hybrid games (like DDO, LoTRO, ESO, SWTOR, etc.) limit in some way, and LoTRO F2P players are severely crippled, but Trion went a different route and as a F2P player you have access to the entire game (bar new ‘classes’, which even subscribers have to pay for).

pdavis.8031:

fellyn.5083:

pdavis.8031:

fellyn.5083:

pdavis.8031:

fellyn.5083:

pdavis.8031:

I must have missed the paywall. I didn’t realize I was forced to use real money in order to gain ANYTHING in game that I wanted. The legendary I made, as well as multiple sets of ascended, fully geared out 6 characters, completed various collections, etc.

Oh that’s right because it never happened!!!

It was designed that way to encourage you to buy the game (which is HoT and the Core game. The free version is a glorified demo). Also part of the design is to promote the games longevity and re-playability. The masteries, legendary “journey”, backpacks, etc. Make sure that A) You can’t just do it all in a couple of weeks, then complain that the game doesn’t have anything to offer, B ) It encourages you to do a variety of different things instead of just farm gold by doing the same things over and over and just buy what you want from the TP, and C) it encourages people to buy the game and not just forever play the “demo”.

Plus I would recommend revisiting “paywall”…it might help you out.

Are you in a guild? Simple question. Yes or no answer will suffice.

Yes I am in a guild.

Then you are already past the pay wall.

What does being in a guild or not have anything to do with a pay wall?

They removed guild features from the core game, repackaged them, and put them in HoTs exclusively.

Are you sure about that?

I haven’t seen anywhere that says any guild features have been removed from free accounts, and only available exclusively in HoT.

It’s nothing to do with ‘free accounts’, the paywall applies to players who bought the base game.

They removed the old perk system allowed guilds to earn them via Influence and made the Scribe craft do the same thing, which they put behind the gate of Guild Halls which is behind the paywall called HoT.

THAT’s what they removed from the core game, made people buy HoT to get back but also in the process screwed-over small guilds who used to be able to earn the perks but now can’t unlock the Guild Hall needed to do the same thing.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Silverwastes is a Core Tyria map,.

D’oh, see, I said I’d been gone a couple of years.

I thought Orr was the only level 80 stuff in the original game and seeing Silverwastes was 80 I assumed it was HoT.

Was this area in the game from the start? I have literally no memory of ever being there, the 4 level 80s I had not once to my recollection ever saw it.

/utterlybemused

Seems the lack of any Anet comment shows they’re perfectly happy to kitten off their players at times.

I ended “Torn form the Sky” at 63% into Gliding Basics IIRC … I just spent an hour in Silverwastes doing around 10 events and my progress is STILL 63%.

If getting XP isn’t how this advances, how does it? The big glowing ‘tick’ by the Mastery is glowing so as far as I can see it’s enabled.

Is Silverwastes not in the “Heart of Maguuma” the mastery XP tooltip says?

I’m finding Masteries a total Mystery!

BrettM.9062:

Kraggy.4169:

I did find one new Waypoint in the far SW of Ashford, it doesn’t appear on my world map so I didn’t even know it was there, I stumbled upon it while playing a new Charr last night, before reading the replies here so I now have seen one of these additions.

That’s for one of the new-ish guild puzzles. You will find similar puzzle waypoints in the NW of Snowden Drifts and on the west side of the iron farm in Brisban Wildlands.

If you don’t yet have the explorer achievements for Ascalon, Shiverpeaks, or Maguuma, then you need to scrape around near the doors of the puzzles to unlock the names of the areas behind them. (Or do the puzzles with one of your guilds.)

Thanks but I do have all Explorer achievements, all lists are fully ‘ticked’ which is what lead to ask here as I was clueless how to try to track down the missing POIs/Waypoints/Vistas; and yes, I recall now seeing a guild puzzle marker or something outside a door right next to the Waypoint, I did wonder about that.

GreyWolf.8670:

I was in the same situation a few weeks ago and I finally just turned off all the event/story notifications and ported from zone to zone until I got the “There’s an unexplored area in this direction” notice.

THAT seems like an obvious idea I’d failed to see.

It will also let me see if there are any missing items in the zone summary.

Thanks.

slamfunction.7462:

Many other F2P MMOs (lets stop kidding ourselves, this game IS F2P), are offering similar services

No, it isn’t F2P, stop mis-using terms.

Qugi.2653:

Narrrz.7532:

If you do already own the full core game, you get a free character slot (or you did during prepurchase – that offer may have ended now)

Expire was only for prepurchase.

The info page in the TP Upgrade page for not-HOT accounts STILL SAYS you get a free character slot, so either you are incorrect or that page is false advertising.

It’s pretty aggravating that even the main Story is gated by Masteries .. you finish the intro “Torn From The Sky” and immediately hit your first roadblock and can’t continue until you’ve ground your first Mastery .. and then it seems the same thing happens again and again.

I was looking forward to playing through the HoT story in one go, unlike of course the original which was level gated, but it seems Anet found other ways to force you to do other stuff simply to enjoy the story even without being able to level-gate it.

I was going to do the ‘world’ stuff after completing the Story, but I was so fed up being locked out I’ve gone back and started some new characters to work on Tyria Masteries until I feel in the mod to start the HoT grind.

DarcShriek.5829:

Dinks.2478:

Skyline Crash.6254:

There are two types of players
Players who are casual and are fine playing the FREE core game. And then there are more hardcore players who have bought heart of thorns.

The free players shouldn’t care about getting the BEST gear and the COOLEST skins. They play for fun because they are casuals. The hardcore players do care about that stuff. And they have it available to them more effectively in HoT.

The problem is, there are still people who refuse to buy the expansion yet are hardcore players because they feel like they’re getting gyped/don’t have the money/feel like since they already bought the game, shouldn’t have to pay for the expansion. They are in a limbo between casual and hardcore. They expect all the niceties like ascended gear and legendary weapons but dont want to upgrade to the expansion.

While 50 bucks I’d a bit overpriced for what we got, people spend 50 bucks are stupider crap everyday.

Ascended gear has been in the game for years. It is part of the core game. An expansion should stand on it’s own merit. You don’t nerf and remove stuff from the core game to make the expansion more appetizing.

WOW nerfs existing gear with every new expansion.

No it doesn’t, it simply makes it no longer BiS when character levels go up, which doesn’t apply here due to level scaling and the fact HoT didn’t increase the level cap.

So your WOW comment really has no real relevance here I’d suggest.

Gnian.3862:

I panicked

That’s what the kitten -holes who sent it to you bank on, it’s why phishing is so successful.

You don’t use the same password on multiple sites I hope (gaming or otherwise), if you do you need to change those too, pronto!

I’m struggling to translate this into something I can understand.

Just what is this OP about?

Thanks to you all for the help, I was unaware of the changes you explain, I have seen some quest changes (the rabbits moved into the valley away from the trolls in Wayfarer for example) but I didn’t know Anet had added POIs, etc. At least I now know the main areas I need to look in.

I did find one new Waypoint in the far SW of Ashford, it doesn’t appear on my world map so I didn’t even know it was there, I stumbled upon it while playing a new Charr last night, before reading the replies here so I now have seen one of these additions.

Again, many thanks.

Nearly two years ago I got an 80 to do every zone completion bar the WvW ones and I more or less stopped playing around then.

Recently I returned and today I learned that the WvW ones were removed so I should now be 100/100, but I’m only 99/100.

Looking at the world map I see:

Hearts: 300/303
Waypoints: 484/486
POIs: 646/652

I’ve checked my achievements and all areas Explorers are complete, so how can I have had zone completion on all non-WvW zones 2 years ago yet now be so many items short now?

How on earth do I locate the ones I don’t have when the maps are complete? How could these magically be un-done when 2 years ago they were done and marked completed?

BTW, I DO have Chantry of Secrets, I know it was one that was often missed, it’s part of the Kryta achievement which I have.

I had EXACTLY the same problem.

I opened a ticket and was told by CS this is a restriction placed by Anet’s payment processor, I assume the 8k costs above a threshold of some sort. There is no ‘error’ it’s a typically unhelpful ‘security’ message, trying later will never work.

If you can buy one chunk of 4k you should be able to buy a second.

Skyline Crash.6254:

There are two types of players
Players who are casual and are fine playing the FREE core game. And then there are more hardcore players who have bought heart of thorns.

The free players shouldn’t care about getting the BEST gear and the COOLEST skins. They play for fun because they are casuals. The hardcore players do care about that stuff. And they have it available to them more effectively in HoT.

I seem to be a third type of player .. a ‘casual’ who doesn’t bother about the BiS stuff but who bought HoT.

Does that make me a softcore player?

VaLee.5102:

Do it the way ANet expects you to do, buy gems with real money and convert them to gold.

This sadly does seem to be Anet’s new economy meta.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Honestly if you don’t have at least 4th tier mastery of every line by the time raids launch then raids aren’t designed for you. The higher tiers I could understand, but if you are complaining about needing poison lore or updrafts, then you aren’t going to beat the raid anyway so just don’t worry about it.

Or because you don’t find spider grinding fun.

Sicarius.4639:

Attunement, interesting.

Are you trying to equate the XP grind for Masteries with WOW’s old and abandoned Attunement system?

I agree., sadly many round here don’t so nothing’s likely to change.

skyhawk.5149:

!?!?!? what.. WvW map completion was removed from the game a long time ago…
PvP areas never counted in the first place…
All map completion comes from central Tyria PvE? Maybe check all your maps again and make sure you went to Chantry of secrets

Well, it was nigh on two years I was playing before coming back last month, I never knew the WvW zones had been removed from the achievement, it was a great disappointment to me when I learned they were back at the time I was trying for Been There, Done That.

Over the weekend I did find a couple of Explorer achievements I’d not completed (again, I never knew zone completion and map completion aren’t the same thing), seems there are more I’ve yet to find.

Thanks for telling me that, glad I posted my comment now.

Yeah, sounds like a bug in the overlay add-on/whatever than reality.

simplesimon.2084:

But there is a difference between the two cases. With Tyu the cheat software was never used on his account.

And apart from just his word, we have proof of this … how?

4GB is rather small for a PC running something like GW2 which can use over 2.5Gb regularly for itself.

slamfunction.7462:

Blizzard did a great job of using other MMORPG mechanics and strategies from other MMOs, to build WoW. .

What MMOs that preceded it did Blizzard copy from? I see little in comparison to the large-scale MMOs of the late 90s, UO, EQ, in WOW.

WOW was the huge success it was BECAUSE it presented something new on MMOs, a break from the 1990s group-or-die mechanics as the only way to level a character or do most/all the content in the game.

Aenesthesia.1697:

GW2 took it to the extreme and erased player interaction. The only thing you can do to another player is resurrect him and buff him. But not attack him. Keeping the pve and pvp appart wastes a lot of potential, since the pvp maps have no lore and are pretty boring.

There’s a reason WOW’s PVE servers in total have a lot more players on them than PVP servers, that’d be the same reason games like GW2 and LoTRO don’t have open world PVP.

I got 99% on my ranger the last 1% will never be done since they’re on PVP maps and I don’t PVP so they’re unavailable to me.

My belief is that this works cross-maps while the party teleport in you’re on the same map (it’s a way to get into the same ‘layer’ as the party in a zone), which is borne out by the posters above talking about porting to a map.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Kylden Ar.3724:

While I will have a new 64-bit rig around late December probably, not everyone in that boat can do that.

If your computer is capable of running GW2, it should also be able to go 64 bit, considering the minimum requirements of the game when it comes to the cpu are all able to run 64 bit:

Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3 OR AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better

Please also note: “Due to potential changes, system requirements may change over time and you may be required to upgrade your current system (or obtain a new system) to continue to play the game.”

You’re overlooking the O/S also has to be 64-bit, many will still be using 32-bit Win7 systems I expect, or even XP maybe, and still be running on 64-bit hardware.

Agree about logging back in, twice over the weekend I was in world events with masses of people (Teq. once and the Harathi Highlands end event) crashed right as the boss went down and lost the reward chests.

The drop-rate is dire. I’ve leveled nine Asura through to zone completion over the last three weeks, and had a total of 4 for all the hundreds of kills those characters made between them .. got two one one character!

Pandgami.6745:

I get it Guild Halls are ridiculously expensive and almost impossible for small guilds to obtain and upgrade.

That was the point from the very start. People knew it was gonna be expensive so why all the complaining?

The complaining largely stems from the fact all the perks which small guild EARNED before HoT were taken away by HoT and replaced by mechanics locked behind the doors of the Guild Hall which small guilds are largely locked out from!

Eddie Mo.7169:

Why we should have mounts: Even if they don’t give a speed boost, mounts are a nice way to make your character look nice.

Actually, no game I play with mounts make you look “nice” IMO due to the horrible graphical glitches caused by clipping issues such as weapons slicing through horses’ flanks, capes dropping onto the horse’s hind quarters, etc. etc. etc.

Mounts, like cloaks, are things that video game graphics systems are still incapable of rendering sensibly.

I agree with someone above who said they’d much rather deve. resources be devoted to real, playable content rather than a mechanic the game’s core design made redundant.

PopeUrban.2578:

The entire guild system revamp was done to reward players tackling economic and content challenges together in a way that’s compelling for guilds of all sizes

Wrong, small guilds are totally screwed by this change, they lost all the perks they used to ahve and aren’t able to get a guild hall and get back what HOT took away.

Ryptel.5196:

That is just literally insane that a company is producing a product and providing incentive for customers to pay money for that product.

I mean, we are all entitled to full access to someone else’s livelihood without paying for it. I have this argument every time I need to fly somewhere and I call a taxi. Since my wife normally drives me to the airport, why should I need to pay for the taxi?

It’s complete elitism and infringes my freedom and needs to stop.

whoosh

Also, Orr was gutted of mobs, and other changes were made to make it a very pale imitation of its former self .. and I don’t think the Temples are ever contested or the statues active anywhere.

I once thought Cursed Shore was one of the best ‘end-game’ zones in MMOs due to its ambiance and sense of danger, now it’s no harder to go through that the level 1 zones.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Linken.6345:

Then dont do them mate

That’s not an option to progress.

What progress is gated by the Personal Story? I have several 80s who’ve never even completed the first set.

I myself do hate non-class gameplay .. WOW has it, LOTRO has it, Rift has it, seems to be something games devs want to foist on you everywhere .. and in LOTRO I’ve stopped doing the Epic Story (their equivalent of the PS) for just that reason but at least in GW2 I don’t see anything I’d have missed due to it.

Kaleban.9834:

Triangulator.2867:

Search up crafting guides and increase your account value by ‘forging’ ascended. How much are we willing to lean on others to accomplish benign personal account/character growth?

You want it. You make it. A guild can send you materials to help. But they won’t give you a shortcut. Earn you stripes.

You do know that in the military, each private does not forge their own rifle from solid cast steel, nor does every airman personally assemble their own jet right? A seaman does not build from scratch each boat in the Navy, etc..

This is a GAME .. some people seem to lose sight of that apparently.

Drakortha.6974:

I just wanted to say, upon reflecting on my gaming the past few years, that Guild Wars 2 sits above and beyond all else, and for the years to come.

Thank you.

Without you listing the games you’ve played it’s possible you simply haven’t seen the better ones.

I don’t regret it, but it isn’t worth the price we paid in comparison with the base game which cost the same.

Fluffball.8307:

Don’t you have an external speaker dial? My speakers sit on my desk with a volume knob on them.

Actually, simply remove this pointless effect from the XP tome entirely, not needed at all and hugely aggravating in crowded place where people are spamming it endlessly at times.

pants.1379:

Yesterdays dailies – timberline falls, every second it seemed ‘events?’ in map chat, events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? <<<<<<<<<<is what my map chat looked like, it is now so bad i just turn off map chat to avoid the spam.

It was horrendous, not sure if players are just plain lazy/thick to even look on the mini map (yellow wagon wheel looking icon), or the top right corner of their screen (which points to them), but when you see this every day – during peak times when i’m either gathering or doing the same dailies….

It gets annoying to say the least

Blame the daily that needs 4 of them.

And your ‘solution’ isn’t, I was in one zone the other day and there were NO events on the mini-map and NO events shown in the top right corner. Events should be ON THE WORLD MAP so people can see them, without that you’re running around spamming chat LOOKING FOR THEM!

Anet, this imbalance is unfair to those of us who loathe and detest PVP and never do it, the choice of dailies PVEers have is terrible, make it 6-6 each!

PVE is made worse with one requiring a world dragon event, meaning standing around till it spawns.

Djahlat.9610:

I support the idea, however I think it would get more attention/be more relevant in the Ranger sub-forum

Ranger is not the only pet-class in this game.