Guild Wars 2

Well why don’t they release the content every 2 weeks as they are doing now, but lasting for a month?

That would solve both problems:
- Content being too fast! (You have a month to do them) – Would benefit those due to RL can’t do things in a 2 week time period!

- Small content to play! (You have 2 Living story events @ time) – This would sort the event zergs trough both content.

/cheers

Team Survival Mode? Like Queen’s Gauntlet for a team?

hum… maybe

LordByron.8369:

it actually didn t have ANY risk since it was already said long ago they would be bound……

I learned a long time ago (since the removal of Lyonguard Lyns), that people don’t read the news.

Why not to make these Essence of luck to be upgrade in the Mystic forge:

- Blue rarity -> Green rarity -> Yellow rarity -> Purple Rarity -> Mystic Clovers
- Make Mystic Clovers useful other than Legendary material…

/cheers

Honestly i don’t do Fractals for a very long time. I can’t be sure of any other Karma trough Fractals except the one you said!

Unfortunately, Yeah

!Flipper approve this message!

Pendragon.8735:

Does this exist now? Supposedly the old Magic Find gear was going to change into one of Assassin/Hunter/Dire stat combo, but Dire is not a choice for selection to change over your old Magic Find Gear.

I see Dire stats on the ‘Errol’ Medium Armor set at 80 but nothing for Light or Heavy. There are also lots of Dire weapons which were converted from traveler, but will there also be armor?

Yesterday i changed my MF light armor set into a Dire set… It was transmuted thou…
weird

You don’t need to get to the Open World to do events.

Dungeons/fractals rewards karma too. See for example the Events existing in Dungeons,
(i.g.: CoF ->http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Citadel_of_Flame_)

/cheers

I find funny how everything is a seen as a conspiracy to rob players pockets!

Build your 300MF at your pace!

/cheers

They want players to play new content at each new update. That will increase the player focus on those specific items thou increasing the player wishes on acquiring them thou spending cash! – My PoV!

This way the content feels more unique for those who acquire those items! – ANet PoV!

/cheers

gotkitten ed.5318:

I need Karma since I want to craft a legendary, but I don’t want to play events to reach a decent amount in an acceptable time.

^This is the why!

Players don’t want to play the game for the game’s rewards!

/cheers

D best.3547:

LHound.8964:

To be fair, i believe that the higher tiered gear, should have an effort/reward associated to it. So to be handed as a reward (i.g.: Laurels) i don’t agree.

Ascended weapons aren’t that difficult to create. The biggest limitation is the time gating for it’ creation. I bet that if there was no time gating, a solid amount of players already would have full sets of these weapons!

When i saw how these weapons immediately said : “Cool, some effort related reward, as it should be”. Don’t expect to receive everything for free!

See the thing is Anet specifically has said they want players to have fun while playing their game. I truly want ascended available to me even if it takes 200+ hours for 1 weapon but I am not willing to no enjoy the time I take to get there. If you on the other hand enjoy crafting, then the currently implemented way of getting ascended is perfectly suited for you.

To create an Ascended Weapon you must play all the game’s content! Same items can be obtained trough different places (Dungeons, World Bosses, Champions, WvW camps, WvW Towers/keeps). There is in fact one obligation – crafting, and i agree that for those who don’t like crafting it can be a pain to level that thing up.

In time there will surely be other ways of acquiring the same weapons trough different procedures. A substitution for the crafting procedure could be the mystic forge, but at a higher cost and higher efforts.

The other obvious solution is to forget about ascended weapons and use the 5% inferior Exotic weapons.

But one thing i must say: Effort should always be there!

Q -“So what next when luck is maxed?”
A – I’ll still be unlucky as usual … QQ

To be fair, i believe that the higher tiered gear, should have an effort/reward associated to it. So to be handed as a reward (i.g.: Laurels) i don’t agree.

Ascended weapons aren’t that difficult to create. The biggest limitation is the time gating for it’ creation. I bet that if there was no time gating, a solid amount of players already would have full sets of these weapons!

When i saw how these weapons immediately said : “Cool, some effort related reward, as it should be”. Don’t expect to receive everything for free!

To be fair, i can’t understand how this is bad for WvW. The items needed for ascended can be also obtained from completing WvW events (capping camps, towers, keeps).

Can someone explain me how is this bad? Rly

Mystic.5934:

I assume you’re referring to the inflation that can be seen here (http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19725 = Ancient Wood Log):

That has nothing to do with inflation. It’s a simple offer/demand mechanic. However in a few days/weeks, will see a price stabilization both taking inflation and Offer/Demand Mechanics into consideration!

Facts:
- At the moment the patch will go live and the trading post is working, players will literally eat the new content as if there is no tomorrow. This highly increase the demand of the said items increases it’s overall price.

- After the initial rush, as the cost of gold haven’t risen(there was no added content , except the Champion farming to highly add large sums of money), the item prices will stabilize at a lower value than the spiked, but still a higher than the pre-patch values.

- Inflation may occur, due to the same item, now gives extra functionality, creating a higher interest on the item and therefor, increasing the amount of gold players are willing to pay for the item.

- John Smith is a good economist. Small changes and bam… that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

/cheers

I guess you all missed the notice:

“Due to the current economics the Lion has took a leave of absence to farm some champions for gold. Otherwise, he couldn’t afford to pay the rent of the square”.

No.

A max price don’t cover inflation and offer/demand market behaviors!

/cheers

Make 5 times more expensive and then make it account bound!

Sharkinu.8096:

And 2nd: not until they either disable the commander icon in PvE or give us an option to hide commander icons in PvE.

^ Why is this a problem, really?

/cheers

There is no particular formula (that we know off) to predict how gold to gems ratio will change. What we know it is dependent on the demand/offer.

When news of a major patch with a lot of Cash Shop content is released, it is expected that the price will immediately rise due to the players trying to get cheaper gems to use for those items. The demand will increase highly for the existing offer. Some players will spend real money for gems to buy the same cash shop items and after they buy the items, they will sell the remaining gems. When they sell the gems, players already bought what they wanted, so there will be increase in the offer, and a decrease in the demand. This will make the price lower.

However, since less players want to spend real money in the cash shop then what previously were, the overall price of the gold to gems ratio will increase over time, thou making the gold per gem higher and forcing players to spend real money to buy their cash shop items!

The math i can’t give you, but this is the mechanic!

/cheers

Well, reading in wikipedia about colorblind problematic colors @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

I can see that the green its the most problematic of them all…

a Blue, Yellow, Red or (Cyan, Magenta and Yellow which is similar) would be the best for all types of Clorblindness listed there. I am no expert about this subject, but it seems a good combination!

Neek.9531:

Got my first character to level 80 and after I week still no exotic…. What can I do to change this?

Just complete a lv75+ map. It will reward at least 1 exotic!

/cheers

Well, the colors changed from blue to cyan, although it may seem a pain to the eyes, if it helps the colorblind players, it’s fine by me. But i honestly find the green and the cyan very similar when scrolling fast on the map, and it might cause some confusion.

If they could at least change the color scheme, to be both helpful for the colorblind and also easily distinguishable from each other. As someone else said, CMY is a possibility or Blue, Dark Red and Yellow.

/cheers

Draconicus.7564:

Well, the good news are there for all who really want to understand and appreciate them!
Cyas!

The good news as long as they are truthful and correctly stated, are for those who want to appreciate them. Other than that, they are just misleading and create expectations where they shouldn’t exist! Don’t let your desires cloud your judgement

/Cheers

MagnumSteack.5179:

How can you just believe it will not happen in the future ?

Easy! Have you seen the entire map of the GW Universe? Why would they have to make old GW content playable again?

Draconicus.7564:

Sorry mate, but “HE” is official, and he STATED exactly: -“But if you’re worried that the regions of Cantha and Elona are equally inaccessible, fear not: Zadorojny has clarified that he will not rule out either area for inclusion.”

This (as the rest of his interview) means: YES we will do it, just don’t know when!

Outstanding Interpretation skills you got there… You read a thing no1 else read…
That Statement reads: “We will not rule out (it’s a possibility) the area for incursion”!

This thread is completely misleading!

“The Possibility to have” is not the same as “Having”. We may never see Elona and Cantha in Gw2…

/change title or close thread pls!

krixis.9538:

just do what they did on runescape

have anet set min max prices of items and let ppl set prices within th emin max prices of items.

tada economy is saved and players can once againa fford things that should never of been overpriced by 150% in the first place.

screw TP flippers they ruin economys

Setting Minimum and Maximum prices is not a good thing. The regulators (in this case ANet in the form of John Smith and John smith’s minions) can’t define how the price should flow, it simply removes all the economic parameters like speculation from the equation.

Now what they could do, is like a regulator should do, set a penalty for those who are abusing the system (market manipulation is punishable by law) and setting higher taxes for those who pass trough a certain amount of gold/profit. This is how it should be. With taxes being higher as the selling price increases (adjusted also trough inflation), there will be a point where the gain is maximum. This way the prices will tend to the optimum maximum profit value, instead of spiking up everyday!

Market regulations is a delicate subject, specially with the operation being done, stealthed by the game’s client and locked into the servers database. Some kind of more intense monitoring of the market should be done, to reduce the TP schemes…

/cheers

Nurvus.2891:

I disagree with this.

First, we had the ridiculous “logout to rob enemy of kill” attitude.
This suggestion just brings it back with a different flavor. No.

Suicide do not deprives no1 of the kill, nor of the loot. It just ends it faster… It’s a fine addition for those who simply don’t want to waste 5-10 seconds in downed state if they are alone…

It has nothing similar to that “logout to rob enemy of kill” pathetic move.

Zacchary.6183:

I hate being downed. It doesn’t matter where I get downed… I hate it. I understand it gives that “fighting chance” but like everything else it gets abused if it can’t help it. Most of all its freaking annoying especially when you downrallydownrallydownrallydead.

So instead of going through this really unpolished process of getting killed, how about we have the option to just kill ourselves? It would be a great addition to downing because you can stop the annoyance of a slow death while denying your assailant the satisfaction of benefiting off of your defeat! No zerg rallies, no lootbags, no xp. Just sweet peace and the joy of knowing that your enemy didn’t get a kitten thing for their effort.

But for the sake of realism, lets give it a 1-2 second charge so your enemy at least has some time before they are robbed of their loot/kill.

I can agree with a “Suicide Pill” move if:

- It stops opponents rally upon suicide or chance 20-40% to rally;
- It gives opponents the loot bags. It’s their prize for defeating you, and should never be stripped of that;
- Reduces by 1 or 2 secs the respawn time (sPvP);

This might cut that lost time while not being defeated not being up. Time loss is bad specially in pvp (spvp and wvw).

Just sweet peace and the joy of knowing that your enemy didn’t get a kitten thing for their effort.

^This reason is NOT a good reason for suicide!

Weird… i haven’t received the mail and yet it was sent to “me”… /jk

Shame on you for being a used bot…

Well this is indeed a bad sign…

Dusk prices will escalate a little further. All market items, specially those high priced and with low supply when immensely overpriced, it stabilizes a little higher than it was previously.

Example:

Dusk Market :Old Price 700g
Player A: “It’s a high value, let me wait a little longer to see if it decreases a little”
Dusk Market :Spikes to 1000g
Player A: “kitten, it spiked to 1k gold… If i only bought it @ 700g”
Dusk Market :Starts reducing as no1 will pay 1000g.
Player A: “I’ll better buy it fast, or it might spike again and i have to spend even more gold” – Spent 800g for dusk…

The willingness to pay higher for the Dusk will increase due to a item market spike. Always!

Some illegal market prices do just this. The item worth 10, someone spike it to 50 and set others to 25 to create that sense of sale/discount/bargain… A sneaky move…

/cheers

It’s about the business. The higher the cost of the product, the bigger the advantages it have to bring, or players will not choose to buy the higher priced product.

So, I would agree to a cheaper account, if it brings limitations (example) :
- Cost → USD 25;
- Karma, XP, WXP and Glory rate → halved;
- Instances tokens received per run→ reduced by 40%;
- Maybe a level max lv79 restriction;

In line with this, the create another upgrade into : Heroic Edition priced @ gems worth of USD 40 (3200 gems), and being unable for the deluxe upgrade unless heroic account.

This could create a higher influx of new players. Old players could help their friends with the gold→gems upgrade to help them if they have a tight financial situation.

/cheers

Salvaged all my gear … 3 sets full exotics including weapons to have some goals in the game… Made all of them again and 2 more. (WvW gear…)

/cheers

Viking Jorun.5413:

Gehenna.3625:

Wukunlin.8461:

you really raging over a trailer? also the chinese voice acting is terrible.

The English voice acting in the game is also terrible, so no difference there.

The trailer by itself looks pretty awesome though. Sadly, the game isn’t actually quite that, but that’s my personal opinion of course.

I do think though that GW2 was made with Asia in the back of their minds. I wouldn’t be surprised if it would prove to be a bigger hit there than here. And since the financial report already showed that the income for GW2 has gone down considerably (which happens to pretty much ever MMO so this is not meant as a stab), the timing is right.

It does make me wonder though if the West wasn’t the big beta so they could get the game ready for the China release, but hey, that’s tin foil hat stuff of course

Ah, conspiracies! NCSoft is a North Korean company, but they aren’t the publisher for the Chinese release.

North Korea have gaming companies?

C’mon people…

With all the negativity that players have been passing to others, it’s more than obvious they needed a strong marketing process to attract more players (in this case Chinese players) to the game.

If it’s better than the one we received at start? Yes it is, and it always should be. It’s a ongoing process for Anet. I’ll start worrying when the quality starts going downhill, cause it means they don’t give a crap anymore…

Bottom line. Get over it!
/Cheers

iCryptik.1496:

Why do total makeover kits not allow for a name change if you change from a male to a female?

I changed my ranger to be my first female character, and now she’s stuck with a pretty well known male name.

Name changes should be included when changing sexes.

If your name is Charles and you submit yourself to a transgender surgery to change sex, you still be named Charles. To change your name to Charlotte you still need to exchange it at an official government source. This process is named here as “name change contract”.

Not quite doable…

What they could do though, is making during 2 months :“Weekends Trial accounts” where trial players could:
- Play PvE/WvW till level 15.
- Play sPvP/tPvP with no kind of limitation.

This should be released ingame at the same time with:
- New PvP modes;
- Official scheduled tournaments;
- Improved Rank/Glory System that counts towards something else (like able to do a sPvP kind of legendary weapon)

And off game:
- Promote sPvP and tPvP in several gaming sites. Even a tPvP competition between Gaming websites.

PS: As a suggestion i would love to see available a GvG in the mists too (if that’s being designed at all as a WvW type interaction). Maybe a 20×20 on a 4x bigger map, with 7 points maybe (or other type of system)

/cheers

DuskDon.9716:

Hmm, to be fair I’ve never had a problem with Mass invisi, I’ve always found it quite helpful and useful with the annoyance of the casting time. But some of the things ppl have said made me re-think that it is kinda stupid to have a 90s cd, I think this is because it’s only meant to be used ONCE in a fight or something but shortening it to 75s or 60s would still work

I use the MI as the Elite skill, in my tPvP matches i use it alot…
I don’t agree the CD should be diminished. I believe it’s fine as it is. The only thing it’s annoying it’s the freaking Cast time. It’s ridiculous.

Increasing the invisibility time for 1-2 secs would be neat too…

Chaos Archangel.5071:

I love Melee-ranged builds. I’ll be trying this out with sword-sword / staff, probably with 10/30/30/0/0 for Furious Interruption.

Using a Sword-Sword Combo is neglecting 2 of the biggest assets of this build:
- Illusionary Counter → Apply Torment;
- Confusing Images!

Furious interruptions although a great trait, it wouldn’t benefit this particular build. This build is a counter attack build, so while we wait for an attack, the quickness has passed.

Helios.3598:

For moar ret you might take Mimic and Confusing Cry (rather than 10 in Inspiration).

Those 10 points in inspiration are the ones i’ve been changing. To be fair, i’ve already done that on my ingame trait scheme, but i’ve changed it, as this build is not a condition based, although it may seem

Thanks both for reading. Try it out

/Cheers

INTRODUCTION:
Sometime ago i’ve changed my build from a standard Phantasms build to this one. It works extremely well in 1-1 and 1-2 situations even against thiefs in WvW due to the fact the generally kill themselves. I soon after saw the potential of this build and tried it in sPvP and it worked extremelly well!

THE BUILD
The link the build follows (updated as of 15/10/2013):
Thorns of the Rose Build

HOW THE BUILD WORKS
This build relies on the opponent attacks to actually kill him. With a combination of stealth (Decoy, Mass invisibility) and Daze (Chaos Storm, Diversion & Counter Blade) we maximize the amount of Boons, including Aegis (Block) which grants Retaliation! The Block is also done by Scepter(2) and Sword(4) skills.

It is intended to battle as near as possible to the opponent, to make the block mechanic effective with the Scepter – Block/Torment and with the Sword – Block/Spike Damage. Activating the Chaos Storm while being near, grants a lot of buffs, making the Mesmer a deadly trap without the opponent knowing (retaliation, might, etc…).

Finally the Mass invisibility (small cd) with the Lyssa Runes(6), gives a GTFO there if the battlefield is becoming to heavy, giving Mesmer all the boons, and stealth (which grants him even more buffs). This also, makes all the clones and Phantasms stealthed for a Stealthed Shatter!

The build keywords are: Block, Retaliation, Aegis, Stun, Stealth!

FIELDS OF APPLICATION
This build is made particularly for all player vs player interaction (both sPvP and WvW). Although the Mesmer lacks the speed in the WvW counterpart, which grants the opponents a window of opportunity to flee!
This Build works poorly in PvE due to the Enemies slow attack speed works badly with the block mechanic!

TO SUM UP:
Pros:
– Very Strong against heavy burst damage.
– Average Spike Damage;
– Very Good in Duels;
– Very Good in Teamfights;
– Teamsupport (Chaos Storm – Buffs/Might);
– Safe Stomps;

Cons:
– Weak against heavy condition builds.
– Slow Speed;

VARIATIONS
The absolute mandatory utility skill is Decoy. The others may vary depending on the situation. More C.Removal, More boons, More defense, etc… Try it as it suits you better

Test it out, and tell me out it goes.

/cheers

EDIT: 15/10/2013 – Small trait and Sigils modification due to past updates!

Esplen.3940:

PS: You don’t get it.

If by chance, it’s pure sarcasm… … … … … … … … … .. .. .. . . . . . .

BadHabitZz.1856:

In my opinion players want balance because theres (allegedly) no holy trifecta. Ive been playing TERA (currently weekly maintanance) since i quited GW2 and nobody cares that zerkers pulls out 1 milion criticals and some classes cant even crit for 10% of this becuase they know thier rolles.
In GW2 theres no healer or tank everybody is damage dealer with few utilities and when some class can fill this hybrid rolle better then other classes its a problem for some players which i honestly believe cant be fixed. One of the reason why i left GW2 was that there will never be high-level cooperation in PvE without trifecta…

I’m sorry, but this is a big load of BS.

Trinity isn’t needed to create teamwork.
Players were lead to believe that running things with the highest possible dps is the best, but that isn’t quite the truth. Support happens and it’s quite better!

It’s a matter of mentalities! Players shouldn’t be forced to go with a predestined class (dps, tanking or healing). In this game they can choose to be more supportive, more tankier or more dpsing, but not exclusively!

I can’t understand very clearly your suggestion Esplen.

What do you mean by removing the PvP from WvW?
- You mean from the Jumping Puzzles?
- You mean from the entire maps?

I can’t quite follow…

PS: I shouldn’t have the need to read another post to understand the suggestion.

Well in some part i can agree with Zacchary.

People tends to shout “omfg this class is beating me, it’s OP” when they refuse to change their builds to face the new meta. We see this everyday. Specially in sPvP and in WvW.

I believe players confuses balance, with class equality. In a game where exists 8 classes, we can’t expect one to beat them all. There are counter builds, that do exactly this. However, i can agree some classes needs tweaking.

I’m using the A4tech XL-747H

It has a maximum of 3600 dpi, weights for adjusting the move and a software to customize the play. It has a small button in the front, perfect for the dodge move.

It is cheap too

/cheers

In this case i don’t believe they will do anything, because it’s an amulet. There is only 1 slot for it, so it’s not a “unique” situation…

I guess you have to suck up your mistakes

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

LHound.8964:

Try 100.000 results, and paste directly their average

There you go:

Build A:
Average: 5575

Build B:
Average: 5566

This simulation proved exactly my point.
Probability on case A ~ 44% and on case B ~47%. Therefor, the expected values based on given probabilities could be used.

/cheers

Try 100.000 results, and paste directly their average

Edit:

Chances are a source of luck. Sometimes you crit often some times you never crit. So your damage depends on luck. If you go for Build B. In the first program runs it were 10 attacks. So if you have enough luck to crit more often with 47% than 44% you get more damage out. Now it’s different.

That’s a fallacy. You can’t take a result for granted in probabilities. Therefore, the only way of taking seriously the expected results is to use the crit. chance as a certainty (when the limit of n cases tends to infinity).

Well i dunno exactly how loot table processes, but i suppose they could have 2 loot tables for the chests at the same time:

- Event specific loot table → Only events items, and nothing if no event on going;
- Normal loot table → Usual loot items (since crap to precursors);

PS: Give a good use to those vote tickets. See my sig. for guidance

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

When simulation a chance you get a better look at it then using a pseudo chance for calculation.

Don’t quite follow what you mean by pseudo chance. The chance is exactly defined (44 and 47%). The outcome isn’t (as demonstrated by your results). That’s the definition of probabilities. When the sample tends to infinity, the results will be 44 (or 47) per each 100 hits….

Using a swiftly written program in java I calculated 10 attacks and wrote down the best of 3 throws:
Build A
Crit Chance: 44
8564 8564 3232 3232 3232 8564 8564 3232 3232 3232
Total: 53648
Average: 5364

Build B:
Crit Chance: 47
8252 8252 8252 3114 3114 3114 8252 8252 8252 3114
Total: 61968
Average: 6196

I’m sorry Green but those results don’t mean anything at all. To predict how Critical Chance may influence the results you must give a higher sample size (10 is to small for a 3% variation). Those results are so wrong irrelevant that they even contradict the real result of Build A being better than Build B. Simple!

/cheers