It only takes a few players out of thousands to all decide, “hey I want to farm insert mob for t6 mats”, at the same time to kitten a farming spot.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
In every other MMO out there, you can farm to acquire materials to create something, it takes some time, but you can, you have a DECENT drop rate. But in GW2 you can’t, even with high magic find you only get junk and the drop rate of good materials (the T6) are ABYSMAL (to be gentle).
“B-but you have moldy bags!”
Do you mean those bags that have a 0.0000000000000000001% chance of T6 mats and a lot of Thick Leather Section?
Yes, it is a complain, but what i want to know is, why we can’t farm the materials? Why it boils down to farm gold like a madman in dungeons and fractals?
I don’t really know what your talking about. This game follows the same model as all the others; you kill stuff, they drop things and many of those things are mats or stuff you can convert into mats.
You are not playing the same game as everyone else then.
I think he is.. you on the other hand seem to be wanting something similar to .. easywin.
Every MMO I have ever played has the same method of gathering… resource nodes, reward loot, champion bags or trash mob kill loot and all are based on a similar RNG concept.
Farm places are nothing more than spots on a map where certain mobs etc are located that have a chance to drop something you need.. yes a chance. The loot tables get altered a little based on the level of the map/mob etc…. GW2 is no different.
T6 mats are rare mats for a reason high level /rare/specific requirements and as such have a reduced chance to drop them.. nothing new there either. I f they dropped to easy players would soon have nothing to play for .. yes MMO’s have carrots that are dangled on strings but to get the carrot you gotta jump through the hoops and guess what,, as a business its ANET’s job to try and keep you jumping for the carrot for as long as possible in order to retain you in game or tempt you into thinking its time to go buy some gems to convert to gold and buy what your after
That said the only mat I personally think has an issue regarding drop rate is the Giants Eye, but I believe that is due to be fixed by ANET in the future.
Simple fact is if you cant wait then go buy it from the TP
I think what he is saying is in some other MMO’s you can reasonably farm materials directly to make/obtain whatever you’re going for. It’s not easy, but it’s not an impossibly daunting task either.
But in Gw2, for example, if one wanted to make a Gift of Light, directly farming 100 charged loadstones from sparks would be absurd. It would be far easier to just farm gold, and buy 1-3 lodestones or cores a day.
Not saying this should be changed, Gw2 is Gw2, and those other mmos, are those other mmos.
You are correct about understanding aophts, but are missing the point of Bloodstealer’s comments. Every other MMO, in some form or another, does exactly what GW is doing. Whether your hours are whittled away by farming Charged Lodestones or Honey Lemons, you’re going to run into the exact same thing. The exact item and form of it aren’t the same necessarily, but you’re still having the exact same system.
I got it, I just took it that the OP was one of those individuals that like farming/gatherings the materials to make an item on their own for the feel of it, and Bloodstealer’s easywin comment just made me think he was saying OP just wanted things handed to him.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
In every other MMO out there, you can farm to acquire materials to create something, it takes some time, but you can, you have a DECENT drop rate. But in GW2 you can’t, even with high magic find you only get junk and the drop rate of good materials (the T6) are ABYSMAL (to be gentle).
“B-but you have moldy bags!”
Do you mean those bags that have a 0.0000000000000000001% chance of T6 mats and a lot of Thick Leather Section?
Yes, it is a complain, but what i want to know is, why we can’t farm the materials? Why it boils down to farm gold like a madman in dungeons and fractals?
I don’t really know what your talking about. This game follows the same model as all the others; you kill stuff, they drop things and many of those things are mats or stuff you can convert into mats.
You are not playing the same game as everyone else then.
I think he is.. you on the other hand seem to be wanting something similar to .. easywin.
Every MMO I have ever played has the same method of gathering… resource nodes, reward loot, champion bags or trash mob kill loot and all are based on a similar RNG concept.
Farm places are nothing more than spots on a map where certain mobs etc are located that have a chance to drop something you need.. yes a chance. The loot tables get altered a little based on the level of the map/mob etc…. GW2 is no different.
T6 mats are rare mats for a reason high level /rare/specific requirements and as such have a reduced chance to drop them.. nothing new there either. I f they dropped to easy players would soon have nothing to play for .. yes MMO’s have carrots that are dangled on strings but to get the carrot you gotta jump through the hoops and guess what,, as a business its ANET’s job to try and keep you jumping for the carrot for as long as possible in order to retain you in game or tempt you into thinking its time to go buy some gems to convert to gold and buy what your after
That said the only mat I personally think has an issue regarding drop rate is the Giants Eye, but I believe that is due to be fixed by ANET in the future.
Simple fact is if you cant wait then go buy it from the TP
I think what he is saying is in some other MMO’s you can reasonably farm materials directly to make/obtain whatever you’re going for. It’s not easy, but it’s not an impossibly daunting task either.
But in Gw2, for example, if one wanted to make a Gift of Light, directly farming 100 charged loadstones from sparks would be absurd. It would be far easier to just farm gold, and buy 1-3 lodestones or cores a day.
Not saying this should be changed, Gw2 is Gw2, and those other mmos, are those other mmos.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I’ve recently moved my gathering routine from plat and iron to orr nodes.
I usually ignore the mobs in orr when gathering, but then I thought, “wait, aren’t heavy moldy bags selling for 7.5-8s right now?” So I started killing any risen in CS or malchor that got in my face. (get about 7-9 bags a run so far)
My main gathering characters are currently Warrior, Ranger, Guardian, which all use greatsword, so I’m going to make an ascended greatsword for them to share. It’s obvious a sigil of undead slaying will be used for the first slot, but what about the second, Sigil of Force, or Sigil of Air?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I think they may have initially reduced t6 mat farming areas to combat bots or whatever, I don’t know why they did it, just that they did. /shrug.
The nerfing of a handful of former t6 mat farming areas, combined with mega servers, has left things pretty desolate as far as t6 mat farming goes. (there are still some okay areas, but…megaservers)
Also, to me it seems most of the mobs in Dry Top seem to have reduced drop rates compared to some of their counterparts in the older 78+ maps.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I think it would be cool if we could do somethings to unlock cultural armor to be used on other races, but doubt it will happen, because most players will probably be against it. (and anet might consider it to be too much)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Or you could just not bother crafting a legendary like most people.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Most people probably don’t have legendary weapons, they were meant to be the ultimate grind/accomplishment, don’t worry about it.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Meh, maybe if we get a bag space/bank space sale over the weekend or something.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
There is no need for it for even level 50 fractals, since you can use the crafted infusions to reach the required AR. Therefore it is quite optional.
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Make up your kitten minds.
Either it’s needed for something or it isn’t. And if it isn’t needed, then there’s no reason for it to give better stats than exotic, much less exist, so the equipment gap may as well be closed.
There is a reason for it to give better stats than exotic.
It’s much harder to obtain, and many people have already invested time and money to obtain it. The gap so small, I wouldn’t even call it a gap (not including highly valued exotic skins)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I hate that super banana mini pet.
I guess this is what I get for laughing at those who are annoyed by job o tron.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Is there any way to get in there just to walk around, and look at things, or do you have to replay the living story to reenter?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I prefer looking at and outfitting female character models.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
A backpiece that matches a black/dark color dye scheme, and tone. (tone as in meaning, no smiling black Quaggan)
- new skins for boots and gloves that have that glow
- Intricate single piece armor skins. (torso, legs, etc)
- Black glowing eyes
- new power cores added as semi uncommon drops from black lion chest for new spinal blade back piece colors. (like one that gives off a white glow, purple, glow, dark glow, etc)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Well you first explain how the stats don’t matter at all and then you say they are the only reason to ever to craft ascended items. This contradicts itself.
If the stats are irrelevant now, there is already no reason to craft ascended gear according to your statement.
However I see a lot of players using it.
It appears to me like the stats are indeed very significant, so much, that they justify the massive grind required to get them.
“If the stats are irrelevant now, there is already no reason to craft ascended gear according to your statement.”
This^ There are many threads explaining just how meaningless ascended is. One reddit poster even did the math and showed that wearing ascended while in lower level zones nerfs you because of scaling.
There really is not reason to make the armor unless you’re like me and just have nothing else to work towards.
Finally found it, here is the reddit thread.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2mgibt/why_ascended_gear_is_a_big_joke_in_pve/
I was looking for it earlier this week.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I agree, I’d like to see more “shinies” in the gemstore.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Wonder If I can get a free self style hair kit from support.
(really just typed this as filler, but seriously serious blank stare face)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Back when they were testing(assuming this) the ticket system with Dragon Coffers, and Dragon’s Jade claim tickets, many people requested some sort of scrap system in response to them opening thousands of coffers and not getting a ticket.
I’m guessing they kept this in mind when they first released Black Lion Claim Tickets.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Hmmm, I might delete my level 26 necro and get back into keyrunning.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
The item probably ended up vanishing before you got back to where ever it dropped would be my guess.
Makes you wonder, exactly how many of you have left behind precursors?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Cutestwizard
Gem Store Hero
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
During the early days of this game wasn’t it known that there would be grind for skins?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I like the GS, not too often that we get a sleek and smooth looking one. Not that interested in the rest, they look good though. (I think the bows are a bit bland)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Use to get them from bags every now and then, people don’t farm CS like they use to so I guess they are in shorter supply. (This was back when LA was shutdown)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
You can also buy the end result of the time gated mats off the tp.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Yeah, it would be nice if it was possible for them to bring back things like Scarlet invasions, and such, during down periods.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I enjoy having traits for both LB, and GS, which seems like I will no longer be able to do under the new system.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
So, after these changes go through, If I decide I want a GM trait for longbow, I wont be able to select two hand training as a trait for GS? I’m I missing something here? Why?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.
Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.
How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o
I can move fine. Things get choppy during big fights and some cut scenes but other than that it’s ok. I do have everything set as low as it can go, so while the game doesn’t look the greatest, I can still play. I’m on an HP laptop same as the OP so upgrades are not an option. One day though, I shall build a real pc.
What are the specs on your hp laptop?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
So why should the .175% of players effected by this be catered to?
(Yes, that is the percentage given by Chris Cleary)
Why should security be reduced in an effort to limit and hamper gold seller activities because a few rich players feel like they are getting punished?
Why should I have to be less protected because I don’t have thousands of gold?
Because it affects more than just the initial people they assumed. I did not hit the gold limit, but I was affected by the change because my guild leader cannot accept my gold submissions.
And why couldn’t those same submissions be placed into the guild bank? Then, they are safe there until such a time as it needs to be removed? Then the guild leader/officers can withdraw the gold and send it to where it’s supposed to go. Or allow the player to withdraw what they were supposed to get?
There are ways around it. Right now people are knee jerking to it because they finally feel the effect. But after a couple of weeks they’ll forget about it, have adapted and moved on.
Maybe they don’t want a shady character in the guild to steal it.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
All Anet has to do is make pent/shelt events occur just as often as they did in the old days :p
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
While this thread is around.
I just upgraded to an i5 3470, and I currently have a Radeon HD 6790, would there be a significant benefit in me upgrading to an r9 270?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
I’m curious, how did the game run on the G630? I have a G620+mobo sitting around and I’m not sure if it’s worth setting up as a home/travel PC.
Sorry for the late replay Fermi, the game was playable. I had my graphics set to around medium, and still managed to be useful during events like teq, fps were low, but I was still able to function.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Out of curiously, what are the specs of your current pc?
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
This is not necessary. And why would anyone use gems to buy transmutation stones, they are easily obtained.
People who want to constantly change their looks everyday would want this.
But you can farm them, I’m down to 10 minutes per stone using Rata Sum map completion.
Basically what raptor said, these people may want to change an outfit of up to three characters a day, and even if it’s just one, grinding for an hour everyday can be a huge inconvenience.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
This is not necessary. And why would anyone use gems to buy transmutation stones, they are easily obtained.
People who want to constantly change their looks everyday would want this.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
At 2000 gems? Maybe, but I’m thinking if something like that ever came out, it may be in the 4k gem range.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Thanks guys, came in the mail today, and I got it installed, glad I flashed my bios the day that I made this post, (needed to do it to get the new cpu to work)
Anyone else who is still running a dual core from the same or close to the generation as my Pentium, I defiantly recommend an upgrade if you can afford it, the game is a lot smoother now, in fact, my PC as a whole is running smoother.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
With HoT coming out, I’m looking to finally upgrade my ancient pentium G630
Wondering if the i5 will be worth the extra $82 bucks. (keep in mind I’m not a really big PC gamer, Gw2 is pretty much the only game I play, along with probably a couple new mmo’s I may try in the future)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116912
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115234
Planning on keeping the same motherboard, so sticking with the LGA 1155.
And just incase this influences when I should get, the GPU I’m using is a Radeon HD 6790.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
You will soon be able mine mine platinum, and as you explore the world you will unlock more areas, and will be bale to specifically target rich nodes, which should make your gather trips a lot faster.
(if you aren’t already using this)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xffs0/permanent_rich_ore_locations_30_final_version/
Also, when you get high enough, start doing teq every day for 2+ gold, and a big chunk of karma.
There is also speed running dungeon paths, along with some other stuff.
Edit: Also, check the prices of the ingot version of the ores you’re selling, sometimes you’ll make more money if you refine them before selling, sometimes not.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Whichever you like the most, the only must have I think is the sprocket generator, candy corn just doesn’t seem that important/valuable to me.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Where was it said the wings wont be back until HoT? Just asking because I keep seeing this, I thought it was possible for them to return at any point from now.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Shoes aren’t visible, but they are the ones from the magitech armor set.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Personally, I would be more comfortable with keys if they cost the equivalent of at min $1. (80 gems)
(Yeah, yeah, I know, inb4 “But what about the people that think keys should be 50 cent, what about 25 cent?” etc)
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
If the item is desirable enough to sell in the gem store, why on EARTH would Anet make it obtainable for Karma? The request might as well be for them to flush some potential revenue down the Mystic Toilet.
Limited time Buff items are a possibility, but much wanted skins will NEVER show up like this. I guess I could see new SETS of weapons and armor being available from Karma vendors in the new HoT maps, but not specialty vanity items.
Wouldn’t it be pretty cool if we could buy items similar to the halo and horns, and buffs that put a visible effect around your body (like the one we had when we were fight scarlet.)
The thing is, imagine you are ArenaNet. You can create cool looking new stuff, and then you have an option:
- Make it available in game for karma, so people have something interesting to use karma for
Or…
- Make it available in the Gem Store, so people give you money for it
Which one would ArenaNet choose?
Make the ones from karma merchants soulbound on top of their expiration date, and sale perma account bound ones on the gemstore?
Other than that, you guys acting as if they never release non gemstore skins/items. :p
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
The cap currency thread got me thinking once again about things we could use karma for.
Wouldn’t it be pretty cool if we could buy items similar to the halo and horns, and buffs that put a visible effect around your body (like the one we had when we were fight scarlet.)
They could cost something like 15-25k karma and expire after 2 weeks of use, and you then have to buy them again, acting as a karma sink. I’m not suggesting those numbers, I just wrote that to give a better example of what I’m talking about.
“Caithe, someday you’ll see, Tyria needs me. -Scarlet”
Ranger Greatsword – Swoop
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