Guild Wars 2

In plentyof mmorpgs, people who do elite content usually make their gold from selling the exclusive items they get from that content.

This is either a mistake, or Anet has gone that route rather than rewarding people with pure gold, and causing inflation.

Yes, I completed the event but did not get credit for it.

Didn’t get a good look because I was too worried about not dying, really didn’t want to repeat that fight

Too late, the cast has already been set.

I think they should just make them smaller, , and people should have the option to not see them, they come in handy in a lot of situations.

How often will we be able to get a new Immortal Weapon box?

I can’t decide between the sword and the longbow.

Thank you .

Will our current personal guild banks be safe after the guild changes come? Looked a bit but couldn’t find a comment on it.

Question may seem obvious to some, but I’m just double checking, better to ask now than end up running to the forum on Friday asking, “What happened to all my stuff?!”

We will see on Fri-Sun, but I think they are more interested in making thick leather, and mithril just as expensive as silk, rather than lowering the cost of silk.

fellyn.5083:

They nerfed Orr farming spots because people were trying to create farming spots where they weren’t intended to exist by stalling and and intentionally failing certain events.

Lets get the entire story okay? It’s not like they did it just to wreck peoples fun.

They’ve been nerfing Orr long before that fail events on purpose mess started.

First they nerfed plinx

Then they nerfed pent/shelt spawn timers.

Then they nerfed pent//shelter spawn timers again.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see a sw nerfed if they would rather see people playing on another map

Yes, I bought the ultimate edition, and ended up paying around $106 and some change.

Randulf.7614:

I presume Platinum means the cash shop allows them to reskin weapons through the BLTC chests more easily. Or allowing them the option to just sell say a red version of an existing white weapon.

If the weapons werent designed with dyes in mind, adding the ability to dye them now would be a huge task given the number of skins and trying to work out on each which bits are dyable. Plus many skins have existing colour variations, such as Ascended, Tequatl and a few others.

Its a nice idea and has been suggested pretty much since launch, but it is unfeasible given the time and resources required and subsequently development of future content which would suffer as a result.

Regarding this, they can simply do what dark age of camelot did, and make some weapons dyable, and others not.

I only end up in event maps, chest farma ate the ones I have trouble getting in

Vayne.8563:

mcwurth.2081:

TexZero.7910:

One person isn’t a guild.

actually it is. The guild is named and created, it just has one member, no matter how you turn or twist it, it is still called a guild within the realms of Tyria.

No, one person isn’t a guild. One person as the ability to make a guild but according to the actual definition of the world guld, even lore wise, one person is not a guild. A guild is an organization. You can’t organize 1.

That’s why 1 person does an event and gets 2 influence, but 2 from the same guild get 20.

Anet was nice enough to allow solo players to make bank guilds, but it’s really just a tolerated abuse of the system.

“Tolerated abuse” seems a bit harsh since at one point they actually suggested people make one. (Back when they introduced the wallet and people wanted to keep their gold seperate.)

Zach.2618:

The devs would be worshipped for bringing in raids which gave such awesome rewards!

By the same 1-10% of people who legendaries would be restricted to in your vision?

Redenaz.8631:

I’m actually not sure this would be useful. If you just want to cross a body of water to get from point A to point B, it’s (usually) very easy to just plow through it without stopping to fight.

If you’re in a situation where you would have to fight (story missions, open world events, underwater fractal, etc.) walking on water wouldn’t do you any good.

It would be super neat to be able to walk on water, though, just because it would be cool. Not sure it would change anything, however.

It would be extremely useful if you don’t want to risk losing your charges (aside from using that trick to keep them)

8g an hour is pretty decent.

If you want more I guess you can look into ways in how to profit from the tp while you’re farming in sw.

The gemstore is going to be barren.

Hope we get a lot of new interesting outfits.

Bomber.3872:

This restriction is one of the best! Just write in mapchat that you give out some free items to new f2p player and that they only have to whisper to you.

After that immediatly switch map and have fun

Guild Wars 2 has a great community.

Taking a guess that the average may have been one key a year for most active players, so maybe we will be getting five keys a year instead of one..I don’t know.

yeah….

Crimson Clouds.4853:

The chest and legs are human T3 cultural (medium).

The shoulder piece is the shoulder scarf (gem-store).

The headpiece is reading glasses (also gem-store).

The feet are sneakthief (as far as I can tell).

Not totally sure about the gloves- probably something fairly basic, but I would only be able to find out if I jumped in game and went through the wardrobe previewing just the gloves.

FYI, worked out most of this just from looking at the gallery on the wiki. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Human_female_medium_armor

I find it to be a pretty useful tool.

EDIT: The gloves are from the noble set.

One small correction, the legs are sneaktheif as well.

Mmmm, one lost benefit of keyfarm is using it to get that last scarp when you’re stuck at 8 or 9.

Eh, this my be borderline “pay to win”, but I would be for more happy to see/obtain, and use item boosters if they also provided.

When this booster is active
- Promotes all fine gear drops to masterwork tier
- 25% increase in speed. (does not apply in WvW or PvP)
- Quickness is granted during gathering
- Mobs level 64 and up have potential to drop t6 material equivalents or their t5 loot table while this booster is active. (ha, this may be what takes it too far. ) Not being too serious with this, just giving some examples.
- A special effect is added to the characters appearance while this booster is active.

Silmar Alech.4305:

Lambent.6375:

What is there not to understand? You may not agree with it, but it’s easy to understand.

Players think the process to obtain Black Lion Skins is too expensive, and they don’t feel that other things you get from black lion chest make up for it.

Players who farmed keys because they were too expensive to buy, cannot do math. It’s about the worst time investment you can make.
I was told you were able to get about 3 keys per hour. One key costs 90 gems if you buy 5. This is 90*1.25cent = $1.125. Per hour $3.375.

You are farming for the equivalent of $3,35 hourly wage. I don’t know how you get paid in your country, but here in Germany a cleaner for your household gets about 10 Euro per hour (assume $1=1Euro).

If you go farming keys for 12 hours, you get 3*12=36 keys.
But if you go working as cleaner for only 4 hours, you get $40, which also gets you about 36 keys. For the remaining 8 hours, you can go playing Guild Wars 2 and do whatever you like – you don’t have to waste your time and create and delete characters the whole day.

If you now tell me you would never pay $40 for black lion keys with money you earned the hard way in 4 hours as cleaner, why would you tell me you waste 12 hours of your life time by clicking through a computer program to get the same amount of keys? 4 hours as cleaner more wasted than 12 hours as nothing? This alone should tell you that you should never started farming in the first place.

Personally, I haven’t farmed a Black Lion key ever since they changed the requirement to level 10.

I have a few opinions about this, just because someone views something as too expensive does not mean they don’t have the money to buy it, they could just view it as too expensive. I think mcdonalds is too expensive for what they offer, I have the money to eat McD everyday, but yeah…

Then there is time constraints and commitment, if someone randomly wants $40 of keys, using your suggestion they would have to go out and look for a second job, then commit themselves to that second job, even though all they wanted was $40. They could quit after 1 or 2 days of work, but that would probably be bad for them in the long run.

With key farming someone could wake up one Sat morning and be like, “Oh, I have nothing to do this Sat morning, let’s farm some keys!” Then be done with it until they decide to do it again a couple months later.

Tuthan.3250:

Makai.3429:

As a dedicated key farmer, this hurts really bad. Despite the grind and bad luck, it was, at the very least, an alternative. Like others have said, Anet is unlikely willing to give us a straight answer to the reasoning behind this change, and it’s sad they’re still employing time gating as a quick fix to a problem that they’ll sweep under the rug: never forget Continue Coins or players having their karma boosters removed for no given reason. With all of these frenetic, unexplained changes, I have extreme reservations about using the gemstore or even playing the game beyond getting my daily metrics treat – what’s the point if my accomplishments will be rendered useless on a whim?

In any case, looks like it’s time to add another column to Spreadsheet Wars 2.

I don’t understand why some people upset about this change. Key farming was not what Anet wanted in GW2. They designed the personal story reward as a bonus to your story completion. If players want keys, they should buy gems (or convert gold into gems) then purchase keys on the gem store. Period.

What is there not to understand? You may not agree with it, but it’s easy to understand.

Players think the process to obtain Black Lion Skins is too expensive, and they don’t feel that other things you get from black lion chest make up for it.

On average you’ll probably have to spend $20-$30 for just one ticket, which will get you one skin, and only during the time e the Black Lion weapons are on sale for one ticket, after that they’re looking into the $50-$100+ range. (you can also get lucky and get an extra few skins)

At this point anyone who aspires to just get one of each black lion skin that’s released, may as well be playing a P2P, they’ll might save money that way. (unless they have a lot of play time, or have amassed a huge sum of gold they can use to just buy the weapons)

Of course, we wont know how this change affects the actual market until the next 1 or 2 rounds of black lion weapons.

Additionally, key farming was a pretty fun activity for some individuals.

5 keys/400 gems please.

@ the people that think they’re going to be getting keys as drops at a decent rate now. (pic related)

Black Lion skins will probably go up in price, unless they start doing key sells more frequently. (or I may be underestimating the number of people who buy black lion keys, and rip themselves off from selling skins so cheap)

I hope I’m wrong, I want to be wrong, I want to stick my foot in my mouth, I want people to point at me and mock me.

First I’ll say I did the event through its entirety in order to obtain the toxic skins, and my character was exhausted after. (pic related)

Going by most of the complaints in map chat through out the event, most players had a problem with (as many have already mentioned in this thread)

1.Lack of reward from events, aside from the stacks we received.

- We don’t need champ boxes, but it would be nice if all the mobs had a higher chance to drop equips, then people could actually put their Magic Find to use.

2. Event was too short for the number of blooms rewarded per round.

- Many players, including me, spent our weekend nights in map chat while participating in the invasion talking about how we wanted to go to sleep, but we needed to get these blooms…and we weren’t joking. Reminded me of late night grinding in dark age of camelot, it was kind of nostalgic, but painful.

3. Rewarding based on how many events one completed caused a lot of issues, which had been mentioned plenty of times in this thread.

- Results may be better if instead of giving stacks, at the end of the event a small chest spawns at the location of the event, and remains there until another event begins in that location.

This will discourage people from event tagging, they wouldn’t want to lose their chest, and slowly reward people as they play through the event, so they wont be screwed by a disconnect.

Bonus: After an event is completed, it would be nice if “reward” mobs were spawned, monsters that have an even higher chance of dropping rare equipment, as well as mats.

Uhh, that’s all.

Things I was hoping to see on sell.

- pirate outfit (discount)
- Bunny ears (didn’t care about them at furst, but they have been talked about so much….)

One of the reasons I say there are too few skills in game, is ranger sword for example.

Right now, a lot of people hate it, some people love it, the devs wont do anything about it because either they don;‘t want to, or they don’t want to ruin the experience for the players that love it.

If there was multiple weapon skills in game for individual weapons, it would be a simple matter of switching out those autoattack leaping skills.

On top of the fact that it can be a bit annoying to have certain weapons pigeon holed behind certain builds.

/shrug, oh well.

Yes .

nottsgman.8206:

it is the trigger for this event
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeat_Karas_the_Undying
apart from that, I know nothing about it

Interesting, thank you.

Yes, this will be useful during macho event completion.

notebene.3190:

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:|

Mini Super Banana?

Yeah, I was going to say that too.

I’ve been wondering for a while, is there a story behind this, or is this just a cool piece of art?

(plus the eyes glow looks at name)

pdavis.8031:

Lambent.6375:

pdavis.8031:

Lambent.6375:

Mo Mo.1947:

Julie Yann.5379:

dom.2748:

No, they should be banned. They are intentionally causing harm by placing hostile portals at locations where they can’t be seen and where people will be pressing F so they end up taking it without their knowledge.

Don’t think they should get banned but Anet should make it so portals don’t take priority over siege weapons/blueprints, chests, trap activators, etc.

Lol get banned, as if… They could maybe change the interaction priorities, but isn’t there already a controls option to set AoE loot to another key? If not they could make that option.

Either way, people should thank troll portaliers for waking them up. If you take a portal without thinking or autorun up to chests slapping the F key all the way you are droning too hard.

ALSO, portals have a slight activation delay. The completion effect and sound happens before you can actually use it, so if you see that pink disk and hear the glamour just stop spamming F mindlessly. Problem solved.

Unless you don’t see the pink disk due to a combination of it being slightly obscured by other objects/characters, and not expecting anyone to place a portal there.

The megadestroyer incident was just used as an example since I happened to accidentally catch it on video, you’re not addressing the fact that some mesmers use these portals to disrupt events like Teq/wurm mid way, which has nothing to do with looting, and “stop spamming F” does not solve.

I have to agree with those that are saying it shouldn’t be/isn’t reportable.
All that it takes to avoid a portal is a little bit of awareness. While you may not be able to see the portal itself due to a variety of reasons, the activation itself changes color and text…it’s not all that hard to miss.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Portal_interact.jpg

So again, instead of just randomly smashing F (or whatever key bind you have) maybe take 1/4 of a second to glance at the dialog that pops up to see what it says before pressing the button.

If its orange and says “loot” then you are good to go.
If its orange and says “activate”, depending on what you are doing, you may or may not want to press F at that moment.
Same for “use”, “examine”, “talk” “Greet” etc.

As for troll portals in general. I never take a portal, unless the Mesmer is in my party, and I know them. Random portals at bosses and in open world never lead to anything good.

Unfortunately this doesn’t help when people place portals on jump pads so you have to wait before you can use them, and have to opt to run if you don’t want to wait.

I suppose clicking on the jump pad, and watching for the prompt to say “activate” is a bit too much….

I’ll try that the next time I see this happen.

pdavis.8031:

Lambent.6375:

Mo Mo.1947:

Julie Yann.5379:

dom.2748:

No, they should be banned. They are intentionally causing harm by placing hostile portals at locations where they can’t be seen and where people will be pressing F so they end up taking it without their knowledge.

Don’t think they should get banned but Anet should make it so portals don’t take priority over siege weapons/blueprints, chests, trap activators, etc.

Lol get banned, as if… They could maybe change the interaction priorities, but isn’t there already a controls option to set AoE loot to another key? If not they could make that option.

Either way, people should thank troll portaliers for waking them up. If you take a portal without thinking or autorun up to chests slapping the F key all the way you are droning too hard.

ALSO, portals have a slight activation delay. The completion effect and sound happens before you can actually use it, so if you see that pink disk and hear the glamour just stop spamming F mindlessly. Problem solved.

Unless you don’t see the pink disk due to a combination of it being slightly obscured by other objects/characters, and not expecting anyone to place a portal there.

The megadestroyer incident was just used as an example since I happened to accidentally catch it on video, you’re not addressing the fact that some mesmers use these portals to disrupt events like Teq/wurm mid way, which has nothing to do with looting, and “stop spamming F” does not solve.

I have to agree with those that are saying it shouldn’t be/isn’t reportable.
All that it takes to avoid a portal is a little bit of awareness. While you may not be able to see the portal itself due to a variety of reasons, the activation itself changes color and text…it’s not all that hard to miss.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Portal_interact.jpg

So again, instead of just randomly smashing F (or whatever key bind you have) maybe take 1/4 of a second to glance at the dialog that pops up to see what it says before pressing the button.

If its orange and says “loot” then you are good to go.
If its orange and says “activate”, depending on what you are doing, you may or may not want to press F at that moment.
Same for “use”, “examine”, “talk” “Greet” etc.

As for troll portals in general. I never take a portal, unless the Mesmer is in my party, and I know them. Random portals at bosses and in open world never lead to anything good.

Unfortunately this doesn’t help when people place portals on jump pads so you have to wait before you can use them, and have to opt to run if you don’t want to wait.

Mo Mo.1947:

Julie Yann.5379:

dom.2748:

No, they should be banned. They are intentionally causing harm by placing hostile portals at locations where they can’t be seen and where people will be pressing F so they end up taking it without their knowledge.

Don’t think they should get banned but Anet should make it so portals don’t take priority over siege weapons/blueprints, chests, trap activators, etc.

Lol get banned, as if… They could maybe change the interaction priorities, but isn’t there already a controls option to set AoE loot to another key? If not they could make that option.

Either way, people should thank troll portaliers for waking them up. If you take a portal without thinking or autorun up to chests slapping the F key all the way you are droning too hard.

ALSO, portals have a slight activation delay. The completion effect and sound happens before you can actually use it, so if you see that pink disk and hear the glamour just stop spamming F mindlessly. Problem solved.

Unless you don’t see the pink disk due to a combination of it being slightly obscured by other objects/characters, and not expecting anyone to place a portal there.

The megadestroyer incident was just used as an example since I happened to accidentally catch it on video, you’re not addressing the fact that some mesmers use these portals to disrupt events like Teq/wurm mid way, which has nothing to do with looting, and “stop spamming F” does not solve.

Tapioca.9062:

You know how when you were a kid your parents told you not to get into a stranger’s car? Extrapolate that advice and consider the following: Maybe don’t jump into a stranger’s portal if you don’t know where it goes. Nobody can force you to enter a portal. If you don’t know where a portal leads and you jump on through it anyway, it’s on you.

As for this being reportable, that’s never going to happen. How do you distinguish between trolling and people not being very good at placing portals? If I do a dungeon with a pug and they’re not very good which leads to me having a bad time, can I report them for trolling?

Sweet Kormir’s blindfold, reporting people for portals. Come back and discuss this when a Mesmer appears in a shower of butterflies, puts a gun to your head and forces you to press F while standing over their portal. Until then, take some personal responsibility for your actions.

Because that’s exactly what happened here.

Mesmer using Urkel voice “Whoops, did I do that?”

https://youtu.be/2R0Artoedk8

I’m not even mad at this one, I’m more annoyed at the ones during Teq which could have an affect on dps.

BrooksP.4318:

For a game that has no consequence for dying “troll portals” really isn’t what I would consider harassment. The player takes the chance when they enter a portal, they also should accept the consequences(which there is little). Last I’ve checked you still need to “F” on a portal to enter, so only activate portals from people you trust if you are so concerned.

In these situations the portals are placed in a location where the Mesmer knows a lot of people will be headed to, and a place where they will likely be mashing F, and not even notice the portal.

- Like placing a portal right under the chest at megadestroyer, that ports people to the enter of the lava, and gets a lot of them killed.

- or placing a portal onto North Battery’s port pad, that ports them underwater, in the vicinity of champ Krait.

Funny, or spiteful?

What do you think?

- Freedom to use the TP without restriction (like buying/selling skins, sigils, identified dyes, etc)

- Three more character slots

- Two more bag slots per character

- access to map chat

-able to use mail

etc..

Gallant Greatsword

Kitty La Boom Boom.4065:

briggah.7910:

Doggie.3184:

briggah.7910:

azizul.8469:

it’s a free trial . the free2play word is just a sugar-coating.

So when does the trial expire?

When you buy the game.

Oh so if I don’t buy it it never runs out? I might actually try this game out then.

How are you posting in these forums if you don’t have a paid version of the game?

Lol. .

Alloy.2839:

Enrif.7359:

It’s interesting to see how vigilant some are againt unrestricitng some things for people who have proofed not to be Goldsellers/Trolls by achieving lvl 70/80.

Unfortunately, being lvl 70+ does not prove you are not a gold seller. Gold sellers get gold by botting, bots level as a result of gold farming. A gold seller could easily level free accounts and get access to map chat for advertising.

I doubt they would take the time to grind an account to 70 just so they can spam map chat, and get it banned immediately, there are more efficient ways to go about that.

Like camping toons at SB, FE, and Jungle Wurm, and spamming /s whenever the event is up.

I would never expect for someone who has only played an mmo for at max an hour, to have such a vocal opinion already. They are even questioning reviews, despite the fact that they haven’t played the game much themselves.

As far as pve is concerned, gw2 is more difficult for me to play than daoc is, primarily due to the Dodge mechanic.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Lambent.6375:

I’m for f2p players getting map chat at 70+, because at that Point not being able to communicate in map chat will not only be a hindrance to them, but other players as well.

Just think about everytime you,ve seen someone going kitten because someone didn’t communicate something in map chat.

If they’ve reached level 70 then they should have enough information as to whether or not they will buy the game. If they buy the game then the restrictions will be gone. If they don’t buy the game, I see no reason to reward them by lifting restrictions. The purpose of the restrictions is not only to protect the game but also to be annoying enough to make a person who plans to continue playing buy to remove them.

My point was having high level players who can’t use map chat wouldn’t just be annoying to them, it would be annoying to account paid players as well.

The people who only pvp, wvw, or do dungeons probably wouldn’t care about this, but in open world it can become annoying to

-have people start/run events and not be able to announce them, or they’really athe teq or something and need to let people know N battery. Eeds. Ore people, but can’t.

They could also add limits similar to what they have done with whisper.

I’m for f2p players getting map chat at 70+, because at that Point not being able to communicate in map chat will not only be a hindrance to them, but other players as well.

Just think about everytime you,ve seen someone going kitten because someone didn’t communicate something in map chat.

For a F2P player to get even close to the same benefits a player that buys the game or expansion has, they would have to..

- Buy three character expansion slots – $30
- Buy 4 bag slots (not even counting the other 3 characters)- $15

With just that they’re already sitting at $45, and they will have to spend $50 because there is no way for them to purchase $45 in gems.

and they still have all the other restrictions on top of that, so I don’t see how people feel f2p players are getting some big break, I guarantee some wont realize how much they’re spending, and will spend $20-30 before noticing it will be cheaper to just buy the expansion.

He is probably talking about these.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement_rewards

Nah, they could add an alternative means to buy them though. Kind of like how you can buy acc with laurels and ectos, instead of guild commedations.