Guild Wars 2

Okay, after having spent 3 hours trying to get the bauble achievement in zone 3 I’m definitely going to suggest that there either:

1. Needs to be some kind of 000/000 bauble counter for each zone or:
2. Need to have the achievement not dependent upon a boss kill. Since there’s no way to go back and figure out what you missed you may miss it again next time.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Make cinematics skippable please.

Waiting for a character to stop talking, before being able to use their services, is a bit annoying. This mostly applies to Moto when you want to hand him your coin.

Allow us to instantly pick up baubels that spawn on top of our characters. Its annoying having to move back and forth for every pot you smash, and every enemy you kill.

All of these have been on my nitpick list. It takes almost a full minute and a half to even get started in zone 1 between having to wait for Moto’s intro speech + the intro cinematic.

Here are a couple of my suggestions:

1. Add Bauble Bubbles to the shopkeepers inside SAB. It’s really inconvenient to have to zone out and buy them from Moto every time you hit the cap, especially since when you zone back in you have to start from the beginning of the level.
2. I would like to see SAB progress account wide, particularly when it comes to the upgrades (shovel, whip, etc.).

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/31-days-of-sales-in-the-gem-store/

31 Days of Sales in the Gem Store!

by The Guild Wars 2 Team on March 1, 2013

Each day in March we’re putting a different item on sale in the Gem Store! Save from 15% to 40% on boosters, upgrades, consumables and more! Each sale begins and ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time, so make sure to check the Promotions tab in the Gem Store every day in March to see the daily savings!

Well, it’s official. Not a single “upgrade” on sale all month despite that being in the advertisement. Seems like it may have just been a ruse to get people to stock up on gems at the beginning of the month.

They could at least make the rare dyes account bound. I’d accept paying separately for the others (at their current price), but 20g for a true black and 10g for a true white, two basic colors most people want for their characters, per alt? Yeah, that’s too much.

1. Dyes
2. Karma
3. Legendary weapons

Well, I am disappointed. There has not been a single upgrade on sale all this month let alone “upgrades” as advertised.

Yeah, I know, there’s one day left. Course, that’s what I’ve been saying all week, “There’s still X days left” and every day is another non-upgrade sale.

Nike.2631:

I’m one of the people that plays to PLAY (as in liesure activity with some light cognitive demand) rather than playing with gold as a scoring mechanism.

I am normally the same, but since the buff to boss event chests I have added farming some of them into my routine, which often helps complete some of the daily achievements as well. It assures me of a modest ~2g/day income (since the subsequent account bound nerf), which is substantially more than I was making prior. There isn’t much gold to be had from being an altoholic who enjoys roaming about the world doing random DEs and map completion, sadly.

Wow, I always thought I was abysmally poor, but the replies in this thread are making me feel rich. o_O

I have about 200g. I honestly thought that was very little for someone who has played ~20 hours a week since September. I’ve actually struggled to find ways to make more gold. What I have is mostly due to selling everything and buying little to nothing.

I got a ticket on my second chest opened. I couldn’t help but laugh. Naturally, when I don’t care about something is when I’m able to obtain it with ridiculous ease. I’d gladly sell/trade the ticket if I could.

I’m not sure Halloween vs. Wintersday is a fair comparison. I actually thought the toy weapon skins were better than the ones in the gem store and none of them compared to the awesomeness of the chainsaw greatsword.

Regardless, even if the fused weapon skins were sold for 800 gems each then the question would become how many people would spend $10 for one vs. how many people have spent $200+ on BL keys.

A similar situation happened with me. The result is they permanently lost gem sales from both myself and my best friend (who was also affected). We were planning on buying more gems too before it happened. The difference was only 200 gems for the each of us, but apparently that was worth losing all future sales from two customers.

I’m still waiting on the “upgrades”, which I assumed to be account upgrades.

I’m going to laugh if character slots are put on sale April 1st though. :P I just hope it’s not via another “flash” sale, especially since I can’t get Twitter to actually notify me of GW2 posts.

The staves in this game are very lackluster. I’m used to the elaborate staff designs in WoW and most staves in GW2 appear dull in comparison.

Mystic.5934:

It’s going to cost you /wayyyyy/ more than 800 gems before you get anything useful/you want from a BL chest.

I’ve never purchased a BL key. They’re not worth it. I have one character I’ve been sort of wishy-washy on her name, but I don’t dislike it enough to blow 800 gems to change it. However, it’s still nice to know whenever I have keys to burn that there’s a chance to get the contract.

Yeah, I really expected name changes to be part of the Total Makeover Kit and to separately be more in line with the cost of the makeover kits.

Darkmind.7516:

I just got one out of the black lion chests…

They can drop from those? Nice. That gives me some hope because 800 gems is way too high, IMO, for a name change. I’d sooner spend that on another char slot.

Yeah, I just finished reading the patch notes. Glad I didn’t rush to sell all my T6 dust now. :P

Vol.5241:

It’s stupid that people expect to sell crystalline at 50s for an extended period of time. Why would I waste my listing fee for such an unsustainable price?

Extended? This was within maybe 5-15 minutes of the spike. I didn’t necessarily expect those prices to last (hence listing very small amounts at a time), but I also didn’t expect someone to come along and undercut by half in that short amount of time either.

I only have about 10 dust that didn’t sell at the higher prices, and if prices keep increasing then they’ll sell at some point in the not too distant future.

I was online when that happened. Managed to sell some dust at around 50s/ea. before some idiot(s) started listing at 28s. I mean, come on, there’s undercutting and there’s just stupidity. I think whoever it was actually ended up undercutting the buy orders, if that’s even possible.

I’m just glad I was only selling small amounts, I expected undercutting but nothing that bad. Unfortunately, no one after that bothered to look at the listing history and have just kept matching lowest seller since. If they had, the price would probably still be in the 40s range at least.

GW2 has to be the first game I’ve played where there’s a distinct lack of skimpy plate armor. My warrior is a Sylvari and it irks me to no end that I can’t find anything (besides Barbaric) that shows off her lovely markings and glow.

Past sales being any indication, they will never tell you when anything “good” is going on sale until less than 24 hours ahead of time. These March sales are the most advance notice I can recall ever being given and, I suppose not surprisingly, so far nothing’s been of interest.

Regardless, supposedly “account upgrades” are included at some point in this month’s sales, but that could just mean individual character bag expansions for all we know. Especially since bank slots went on sale a month ago (less?) and character slots have only been on sale once in the game’s lifetime (as far as I know) around the new year.

General advice is to stock up on gems when they’re cheap and hope you get lucky. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if character slots are another “flash sale” or put on sale a week after March since that’s how they seem to like to handle the things they know will be popular.

Oh, come on. All of GW2’s sales have sucked unless you got lucky. Anything worth having is a “SURPRISE!” sale where only the people who had stockpiled gems (or buy them for RL $) benefit (or more recently who follow them on Twitter + happen to be online during a “flash” sale). Meanwhile, the sales where they actually bother to give you advance notice are only on items most people don’t want.

Maybe that is trivial, but I could argue any complaint against a video game as a whole is trivial, yet that doesn’t stop people by the thousands from doing it every day about every little thing. This is no different. At least people complaining about the topic are actually on topic instead of complaining about people complaining, which has no real value at all.

I think anyone who bought gems in advance for March’s sales has been sorely disappointed in one way or another. :P

Aviator caps and killstreak boosters? Really? sigh

Nice idea! I recently bought GW1 during an Amazon sale to start working on HoM and it’s a bit overwhelming, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

According to the wiki the only place you can get them outside of the gem store is via BL chests. I have 25 sitting in the bank, but those are from many months back, I want to say even before the Halloween event.

I recently opened about 20 chests and didn’t get a single transmutation stone, or really anything of value. :P

Well, I tried chest farming today on 5 alts, all level 80. Just bouncing between Frozen Maw & Fire Elemental is enough to keep you busy (although I did do every dragon event at least once). I honestly don’t even know where people find the time to do any of the other events let alone guest on other servers.

At any rate, the end result is I made about 2g after 5 hours of doing this. I don’t play the salvaging lotto, so I just sold each rare (no exotics) for ~30s/ea. YMMV.

Granted, this is an extremely limited sample, but I really don’t think you have anything to worry about re: alts & chests. You’d still do better just farming Cursed Shore on one character unless you get extremely lucky and loot a precursor (if that’s even possible).

I would love a forge recipe, but whenever it’s suggested people chime in that it’d be a loss of money for them since it’s a gem store item.

I’ve just started equipping my alts in level 79 gear solely so I can have the freedom to transmute as I wish (and use up the copious amounts of regular stones I have).

Currency pane, collectibles section, forge recipe, exchange, something would be nice.

I’ve done two monthlies since launch and the result from both was filling up my limited bank space with account bound currencies I don’t have enough of to do anything with, but I hate to just destroy them. I probably would if there were something useful I could convert them to, but otherwise I hang onto them just in case.

I also really wish they’d expand upon karma more.

I used to get the fine stones from BL chests, but I haven’t in many months. Meanwhile, I have almost a full stack of 250 of the regular ones sitting in the bank.

MrLT.6028:

White Charr: [&AgFmmgAA]

OMG, it’s Tybalt!

Rising Dusk.2408:

My blunders all come from selling too early.

Same. I think my biggest loss in potential profit thus far was selling Unidentified Dyes too early. I sold them when they were at a then-high of 8-9s. Less than a week later their price literally doubled (and has stayed there ever since).

Conversely, I wait too long to buy things thinking the price will decrease and it almost never does. My biggest regret so far is not buying gems when they were still below 1g. It just never occurred to me that they’d ever go much higher than that. (Stupid, I know.)

Shimond.2478:

I think they’re hurting alts enough with dailies being account wide instead of character wide.

Ugh. I don’t want to have to do the daily on 8 characters, especially when half the time their daily options suck. The better solution, IMO, is to make Ascended gear account bound. At least then I could swap gear between whoever I felt like playing at the time.

TigerDragon.4037:

It doesn’t have to be human/commoner. Any race/class/personal story selection gives a key as reward for level 10 story completion. Human warrior commoner seems to be what most people think is the fastest run, though.

As someone who’s done every personal story arc for every race to level 10 I can say with certainty that human commoner is the fastest/easiest. Warrior is debatable though. I personally thought ranger w/shortbow was much more effective.

Fiontar.4695:

The gem store is a pretty sad story in potential revenue lost pretty much across the board. I fully expected the store to be packed with cosmetic skins and items by now, with at least a half dozen new skins added monthly. Even MMOs with much smaller ongoing budgets and skeleton staffing have managed to devote the required asset development time needed to fuel very steady income via cosmetics.

Well, at least I can say there’s been nothing tempting in the gem store other than account upgrades. I admit, I did expect Tera level of pumping out fabulous cosmetic items though. Even the 3 combat armor skins they have are disappointing compared to some of the ones available in GW1.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

The danger of increasing the value of things at lower levels, even in the player market, is where it goes from there. It winds up being a problem of a different sort, how letting people at lower levels have more cash on hand affects things. Someone else can take that one, because I’m fairly certain nobody’s going to take me seriously when I say “having more money in circulation is not always a good thing”.

There’s really nothing to buy at low levels. It’s at 80 when the need for gold hits you like a ton of bricks. I suppose not everyone would know that they should be saving/investing for when that time comes though.

I don’t know what the answer is. It just bothers me that things are so expensive and there are so few ways to earn enough income for them. I can’t even say I’m unhappy about Orr being nerfed, although, I think they should have nerfed CoF in conjunction with it. At least it would (theoretically) put everyone but the TP players on a more even earning playing field.

I’m not going to do the math, but keys are 125 gems (I think), which is either a little over $1.50 or 2.5g at current rates. I opened about 20 chests the other day and mostly what I ended up with were a lot of mystery tonics and boosters, which to me isn’t worth either of those values.

I’m an altoholic so I end up with a lot of keys via personal story, but I’ve had maybe 3 actually drop since I started playing in September. I was kind of hoping for the tiger backpack or the hair contract, now I just have an alt full of account bound junk I won’t ever use.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Because due to how the game works your alts going after Fine items dropped will steadily rise in level. Tiers will, inevitably, pass out of focus. So then you start another character . . . and eventually the only way to handle the problem is to delete a character and start over.

Well, they could always just put in the same chance for a level appropriate upgrade as already exists for gear. Whenever I run around Queensdale doing events on my level 80 I still get plenty of low level gear drops in addition to anything that’s actually my level.

However, as I said before, the real issue is how much focus crafting has put on those materials in the first place. If recipes required less of them and more actual gathered materials (ore, wood, etc.) then it would be much easier to farm lower level zones for crafting and hopefully the value of those items would increase as well.

One of the big reasons I’ve seen for difficulty making money at low levels is because virtually nothing has any real value. You’ll always end up with way more ore/wood/cloth/leather than you need (hence why they’re so cheap in the TP) and not enough fine materials. The only other low level items of any value are rare picks off of herb nodes (vanilla beans, chili peppers, etc.), which most people save to level their cooking anyway (at least I did).

Of course, all of this in a roundabout way goes back to farming Orr because it was one of the only 3 areas (TP, CoF, Orr) in the game to make a decent amount of money.

kRiza krimos.1637:

Why shouldnt people that spent time and resources to make more lvl 80 alts benefit more from having them? Jealous?

It’d actually be one of the few areas where having alts does work in your favor. GW2 could stand to be a lot more alt-friendly.

lordozone.9167:

If you’re not on SoS, come guest with us. Just look for our commander icons in CS, if we are running, they will be up. Same for you Neodome. Come guest with us. Afternoon runs are hit or miss, but evenings it pretty much goes down.

When exactly are your “evenings”? I checked SoS periodically last night between 4-9pm. The only commander tags I saw were people hanging out at Anchorage Waypoint who never moved except to do the Arah event. I wandered around a little bit, but I never saw any coordinated group making the rounds.

As long as the centaurs don’t control the camps, that chest is always there and has nothing to do with event chains. It’s on its own 20 minute timer unless no one else is in the area and then it seems to respawn within a few minutes. (I discovered that during one of the many times the event chain has broken on my server.)

Today is the best set of daily options they’ve had since they started this randomized nonsense. It’s the first time in almost 2 months I haven’t had to go out of my way to get it done and actually completed it playing as I enjoy.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

I’ve done the same thing but I found . . . it’s not quite “poverty” as much as “I don’t have nearly as much money as the people selling Precursors or expensive Sigils/Runes” . The problem is, unfortunately, I’m okay with not being super-rich.

It depends on what you want. Everyone’s different. I’m an altoholic with a penchant for vanity so I will never be “super-rich”. Buying one set of T3 cultural + an Abyss dye would almost wipe me out completely.

Corehaven.5480:

Because while there’s a choice of 9 options, 4 of them are so ludicrous (typically) that you just do the 5 that somewhat aren’t. Although I have no doubt the day will come where I don’t do the daily because I can’t find 5 that I will suffer doing.

Every time they’ve changed the dailies, I’ve hated it. I thought this time would be great because we were getting optional ones. Instead its 9 options, nearly half of which are totally ludicrous, leaving 5 that are more wonky and annoying than usual.

So much this. While I did appreciate new options such as 40 kills in Ascalon/Shiverpeaks, I was disheartened to see many options that are either terrible (PvP/fractals*) or unfeasible (skill points/personal story when you’ve already completed both).

By the time I auto-discounted those things I was only left with 5 other activities I could do and unfortunately a few of them (healer, aquatic slayer) were ones I was hoping I’d never have to do again after this patch.

• Seriously, how many people have posted they never did the monthlies because of WvW and Fractals requirements, so they decide to put them in as dailies instead? boggle

Kimyrielle.3826:

In my opinion, the different ways to play the game (namely open world PvE, instances, WvW) should yield a roughly equal monetary reward per hour played. If this were the case, people wouldn’t be forced to artificially ‘farm’ gold, they would get it from playing the game normally. Which in my opinion is the way it should be.

I totally agree. I’ve been playing since September doing mostly map completion, exploration, DEs, alts, etc. I’m always out and about in various parts of the world, but financially I have suffered a lot for that playstyle.

I tried farming Cursed Shores and I could only bear to do it about an hour at a time every other day at best. It just wasn’t fun. I’d end up retreating back into actually enjoyable activities and subsequent in-game poverty.

Bonefield.9813:

Materials are hard to farm for lower level characters who don’t want to wait until 80 to start crafting; I hoarded materials all through leveling and still needed to buy some from the TP to craft efficiently. It takes quite a few of each type of material to get through a crafting tier, and a change that caused low-level drops to spike in price that high would make starting a craft prohibitively expensive for many people.

What the crafting method they’ve incorporated has essentially done is made gathering materials virtually worthless. Everything relies on rare drops to create. I’d much rather have seen gathered material costs for creating items tripled and drop items needed cut by 2/3. The amount needed really is ridiculous, especially if you want to discover all the recipes.

I have completed all the PvE maps, did every DE I came across along the way, and did not have enough fine materials to level even one profession without having to supplement materials through the TP. Meanwhile, I sold stack after stack of useless ore and wood for literally pennies. You only end up needing a fraction of what you gather versus the amount of dropped items required.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

And if you had similar chances to earn tier-six Fine materials in earlier areas, you’d see the starting areas packed to the gills all over again with people. I mean, not the people you’d want to see there, and new folk wouldn’t have anything to actually do before the farm-squads descended on anything that moved for their materials . . . but it’d be fixed for everyone else.

Initially that would probably be true, but I would like to believe that over time people would come to realize more profitable DEs/farming areas in the world besides the starting zones. I mean, if bags and fine materials scaled then people would ideally be spreading out more to maximize their profits.

As an example, the Ulgoth/Kol chains in Harathi Hinterlands would be more profitable than probably anything you could find in Queensdale. There are probably a lot of other similar events in the world people just aren’t aware of yet. They tend to go with what’s familiar or what they’ve read about others doing.

Rifter.6591:

Then they need to fix there horribly broken downleveling system.

If killing a lvl 80 risen in orr can drop me a T6 mat and killing a lvl 10 undead in ashford plains which is just as hard due to downleveling drops a T1 mat you are NEVER going to draw players from the high end zones. No one in there right mind is going to go through the same effort for T1 mats as T6 mats.

I would actually call it pure insanity to expect people to do this.

Fix drops for downleveled areas and maybe but not with the current broken system

Thank you, so much this. At the very least it would be nice if bag drops also scaled to level.

I still wish these colors were available in character creation as a preview. I tend to design characters with a theme and this makes it so that I’m doing so blindly unless I want to buy a total makeover kit (which I shouldn’t have to do with a new character) because I won’t be able to see what skin tones, etc. look like with the ‘winter’ hairs.

If that’s the list (still patching) that’s not much of a choice. Auto write-off PvP and Fractals combined with map completion that leaves only 5 left to do. Having said that, those look better than the previous ones.

I still wish they’d separate PvP and PvE dailies. I really don’t understand what’s so difficult about doing that.

“Play your way” doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. Ever since they changed the dailies I’ve had to go out of my way to complete them. Even after they removed WvW from the monthly I’m still having to go out of my way (dungeons) to complete it. If I want 100% map completion I have to PvP whether I like it or not. If I need gold I have to farm Orr or CoF, I make comparatively nothing playing “my” way.

Playing “your” way is all well and good as long as you don’t mind being gimped somehow in terms of gear, gold, achievements, etc. Otherwise, GW2 is no different than any other game when it comes to having to do very specific activities to accomplish things.

Well, I agree with you. Although, I think it’d be preferable if they’d honor the sale prices of purchases made within a certain time period of the sale. Personally, I think it’d lead toward more customer satisfaction overall.