Guild Wars 2

mesme.5028:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Jski.6180:

RedStar.4218:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

RedStar.4218:

Yes you can. File a support ticket.

That’s rather misleading.

It depends on how long s/he has owned it and how many hours s/he has played it. There is a limit.

I know. But since I’m not the one who wants to do this, I won’t bother looking for information for that person.
I’m just telling him that it’s possible.

If he realty was looking for it then he would of not posted this here he just attestation grabbing or also known as “trolling.”

Oh I know, but I was waiting for popcorn to pop and had nothing better to do…

Gonna have to go buy more, it’s my last bag…

Try the gem store.

They should put popcorn in there…. that would be nifty. Could make a cute toy.

Edit: And yes, I intentionally ignored your sarcasm.

Jski.6180:

RedStar.4218:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

RedStar.4218:

Yes you can. File a support ticket.

That’s rather misleading.

It depends on how long s/he has owned it and how many hours s/he has played it. There is a limit.

I know. But since I’m not the one who wants to do this, I won’t bother looking for information for that person.
I’m just telling him that it’s possible.

If he realty was looking for it then he would of not posted this here he just attestation grabbing or also known as “trolling.”

Oh I know, but I was waiting for popcorn to pop and had nothing better to do…

Gonna have to go buy more, it’s my last bag…

Scrambles.2604:

The only time i’ve heard people complain about duel based harassment are in games that don’t even have duels. You can find these threads for GW2 and ESO. I never heard anyone complain about duels in games that actually have duels.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2913052473
https://forums.station.sony.com/dcuo/index.php?threads/harassment-via-duel-challenge.180927/
http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?t=42227
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/12330703293

Just a couple, quickly googled… lots more. Feel free to google…

Complaints about harassment from not just dueling, but from inspect commands and dps meters too. But we have no cause for concern…

RedStar.4218:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

RedStar.4218:

Yes you can. File a support ticket.

That’s rather misleading.

It depends on how long s/he has owned it and how many hours s/he has played it. There is a limit.

I know. But since I’m not the one who wants to do this, I won’t bother looking for information for that person.
I’m just telling him that it’s possible.

Lol I wasn’t looking for the info either, but if you’re going to tell them that they can, you should probably give them a heads up that there are some limitations to it. Some people are just stupid enough to expect to get a refund despite having owned it for an extended length of time and/or played it for a few hundred hours.

Had a guildie like that in fact. He played several hundred hours, decided he didn’t like one of their updates and wanted him money back. He cleaned out his account, got himself temp banned (was funny to watch, honestly), and then filed a refund ticket. Long story short, yeah he got denied. (And then kittened loud and long about being ripped off, blah blah)

RedStar.4218:

Yes you can. File a support ticket.

That’s rather misleading.

It depends on how long s/he has owned it and how many hours s/he has played it. There is a limit.

I like both necro and ele. I have 1 of each at 80, and a baby necro in the works.

I think ele is harder to learn and play well. It has the least hp of the 3 light classes, and can be very squishy.

Necro is definitely a red-headed step child, along with Ranger, at the moment. Although I don’t have an issue with either in my groups. Its definitely more tanky, and I love running around with my own swarm of minions.

I can’t really say that you should do ‘x’ over ‘y’ because I enjoy both classes. I love to play them, and which I choose really just depends on what mood I’m in. Honestly, I would say do both. Play one for a bit, if you get bored play the other. They have distinctly different styles.

The news post about this simply says ‘someday’ in regards to unifying the guilds. I believe it was said somewhere that they want to do this by the end of the year. (Think it’s the same post, don’t recall or care at this point). Its only June. Its not precisely a small task, especially considering some of the larger guilds having purchased all their upgrades across multiple servers. They have to work all those kinks out. Give them time.

Scrambles.2604:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Scrambles.2604:

hey guys. I’m gunna bump this thread when i receive my first duel request in Wildstar. I’ve been surrounded by dozens of people at any given point in the PvE world, but no duel requests yet

So, i will let you guys know when i get my first duel solicitation. And of course i will let you know when i get my first dose of harassment, duel spam, map chat abuse, what have you.

Hopefully, my own experience can dispel some of the myths surrounding the negative and “inevitable” consequences of a game with open world dueling.

I’m not against duelling but one person not being spammed/harassed with duel requests is hardly enough evidence to dispel this myth.

hey man. Case studies have there place, too!

If anything, i can dispell the “absolute” claims. As in, if duels were implemented there would “absolutely” be widespread abuse. I understand that those claims are very unrealistic in the first place, but you gotta start somewhere!

There is nothing to fear, brothers! The ability to duel doesn’t equal the inevitability of harassment! There is still hope!

chuckle

There’s still hope for world peace too… We just aren’t holding our breath….

As the GW1, and now the GW2, player base has shown time and time again, if it can be exploited, it will be. No ands, ifs, or buts about it. Someone, somewhere (likely multiple someones) will do it. That’s just how it seems to work.

Such a feature, if it has the ability to be abused, will be abused. If such abuse where not an issue to be considered, they wouldn’t include anti-abuse coding in current features, there ould be do no need.

It may not happen to you. Hell, it may not happen to me. However, it will happen to somebody. Likely multiple somebodies. All I desire is that those people be given the correct tools to deal with such abuse, and GW2 does not presently supply such tools with any adequacy. Now, should that change, I’m quite flexible in re-evaluating my ‘no dueling’ stance.

Well, I get to join the club….. at long last.

100+ attempts later, I finally killed Liadri over the weekend. (New armor, new runes, upgraded trinkets to ascended, and a new keyboard later….my wallets are crying…)

Not going back for the 8 orb achieve. Nopers… just killing her was sufficient, tyvm.

I don’t have a screenie on me atm. I will update a little later with ‘proof.’

While I agree that this is an amazing idea, and am inclined to ask for it as well, I know it’ll never happen.

Why?

Very simply, it would make things far too easy for the player. Yes, there is such a thing as making things too easy.

This type of convenience would allow for far too much ease of passing around account bounds items such as the salvage-o-matic, gathering tools, armor, etc from character to character. This makes the player disinclined to make further purchases of such things as the gathering tools and the salvage tool and even things like the bank access express or the 2 week banker golem. This results in loss of revenue for the company.

I am not against an expansion. I would love to see new skills, new zones, new armor, even a new race.

However, Factions was not a large ‘expansion.’ (Technically wasn’t an expansion, but we’ll use the term here for simplicity). People completed it in a day with their prophecies characters. Personally, I would prefer to see something larger in scope in regards to an expansion for GW2. As such, I expect it to take significantly more time.

Devata.6589:

It does not effect YOUR game-play. In fact if they put ascended stats in the cash-shop it would not effect my game-play. However I would still be against it as it does effect the game-play for other people.

You might be fine with those items because they don’t effect your game-play. I’m not because overall it still effects the game-play just not your game-play. There are only trivial for your gameplay not for game-play in general.

And what I am saying is not that they have to do anything for free. Simply that they make there money with expansions in stead of with the cash-shop so they don’t have to put any of those things in the cash-shop.

It does affect my game play though. I enjoy collecting minis (which is why I frustrated myself to the point of destroying my keyboard in my ‘journey’ to kill liadri). If I want something from the gem shop, I either set myself a goal of making enough gold in game to get it or I see if I can budget the gems into my spending for the month. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can’t. If I can’t then it makes me try that much harder to earn the gold in game. Its not the end of the world if I don’t succeed though. Such things don’t impact the game itself, just my personal goals.

On the other hand, having something like ascended for sale in the shop would impact the game as a whole. Maybe it wouldn’t affect you right away. You may think it wouldn’t affect your game play, but power creep eventually affects everyone. At which point, then people could kitten that the shop is becoming pay to win.

I understand what you’re trying to go for; however, there is no way to know for sure that they could make enough to sustain their needs through just expansions. GW2 is not built the same way as GW1. Anet was a much smaller company then, not to mention that the GW1 games were built as stand alone boxes, not expansions. Each game was smaller than what GW2 is as a whole. A factions sized expansion for GW2 would probably cause as much kittening as it would happy feelings. Why? Because people would be done with it in a matter of days unless Anet implemented some type of gating to slow us down and drag it out, which would generate its own subset of kittening. Also, keep in mind that factions took a year to push out. For any substantial sized expansion, they’d need at least that much time. However, pile on top of that LS updates, QoL updates, the China launch, and whatever else they having going on in the background…I can see that time frame growing almost exponentially. They need to keep a solid income flow through all of this…

Beyond that, keep in mind that GW1 started offering its own micro-transactions right around the launch of Nightfall (might have been slightly after, but it was long before GWEN). Before they determined that they would not be doing any more boxed campaigns. That implies to me that box sales were in fact not sufficient to sustain their income needs.

Yes, EU has gotten their chests. NA will get theirs after reset tonight.

If you did not get your chest, talk to support. We cannot help you.

Edit: The vendor to spend the tickets will be available 6/3, as per the twitch stream just a few min ago.

Rauderi.8706:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

However since China is going to be involved, I highly doubt that’s feasible. Sadness

Wouldn’t say China’s going to hold back level 80 zones. They’re probably already 80, anyway. =P

They might be, but I was trying really hard not to be stereotypical.

I’d be ok with all new zones being heartless….

It’d be nifty if they were all lvl 80 as well….

However since China is going to be involved, I highly doubt that’s feasible. Sadness

yawn

I’ve been playing since beta…

No precursor.
No legendary.
Not worried about it either.

RNG is RNG, sometimes it favors me, sometimes it hangs me by my toes and beats me like a pinata (in other words I walk away feeling like total kitten). I’ll have one eventually, maybe through a drop, maybe through the TP, maybe through crafting. Who knows, I cannot see the future nor am I going to stress over it either.

frayon.3984:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Yes, it’s doable. Never did the math honestly, but this is precisely how my husband and I finish off our characters.

We do not do any of the personal story when we start out. We clear maps, gather materials, craft, and karma train wvw until we are 65.

At 65 we start our personal story (lvl 3 quest) and just do them in order. Obviously as you run to the map locations for the various later stories, you’ll still be popping experience for pois, area discovery, anything you kill, and wp’s along the way. I also still gather anything in my path of travel. Obviously how much you skip in terms of killing and gathering will change your outcome somewhat, as opposed to mine. Typically I hit 80 right around the level 78 or 79 PS quest.

Thank you for answering this I was nervous I had wrecked by starting at lvl 65 getting to the lvl 10 mission then stopping to lvl again. thanks.

No prob.

My husband and I have been ‘perfecting’ this for a little while now, since sometimes those last dozen or so levels can feel tedious.

We tried it @70 on our 2nd set of chars, but had lots left over once we hit 80 (not a bad thing).

Our third set we tried 55, but caught up to our stories and fell behind, requiring additional leveling.

The same happened for starting at 60 (fourth set of characters).

Our 5th set, we started at 65, and breezed straight through.

I think I have all but 2 of my other characters sitting at 65 and waiting to do PS. I’m working on getting the last 2 to the 65 mark (ones 55, the other is 43 respectively).

Yes, sometimes I put far too much thought into some of this stuff. My excel workbook for this game (or the ones for any of the others I’ve played) would scare the pants off people…

I’d rather a min in the cash shop (no impact on game play) vs having something like ascended stats in the gem shop (impacts game play).

They have to put something in the shop to generate income. GW2 isn’t build to work like GW1. I’m perfectly content with cosmetic, trivial items being there.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Kal Spiro.9745:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Kal Spiro.9745:

khani.4786:

Atlas.9704:

One Queen Jennah mini was fine, multiples were not. Unless we have a Mystic Forge recipe I’m unaware of that can use them!

Put a Mini Queen Jenna in with a Mini Logan Thackery and you’ll get a Mini Dead Snaff.

>.>
<.<

I’m only interested if Mini Dead Snaff can swim

Does floating, face down across the surface count as swimming?

It’s better than disappearing like some minis. But I feel like Dead Snaff should actually be a kite. I mean obviously he doesn’t have locomotion, so he should be dependent on use to drag his corpse around.

Nah. Dead Snaff backpack.

I’m not sure my character would be able to get over the stench associated with such…. maybe it comes with a clothespin headpiece?

Kal Spiro.9745:

khani.4786:

Atlas.9704:

One Queen Jennah mini was fine, multiples were not. Unless we have a Mystic Forge recipe I’m unaware of that can use them!

Put a Mini Queen Jenna in with a Mini Logan Thackery and you’ll get a Mini Dead Snaff.

>.>
<.<

I’m only interested if Mini Dead Snaff can swim

Does floating, face down across the surface count as swimming?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

According to the News Release, it should be implemented by December 2014.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-megaserver-system-guilds-and-the-future/

And there’s Cedo with the link I was referencing…. but was too kitten lazy to fetch.

Many thanks again.

Belzebu.3912:

Azrael.4960:

Ronah Lynda.2496:

I would like a mount specific for the race of the character who has a birthday. …

At this moment, the image of Batman slapping Robin comes to mind, with him saying STAHP WITH THE MOUNTS.

You’re welcome

<3

Per the blogs regarding the megaserver, yes they are working on unifying guilds. No more server chapters, just one guild – one pool of influence, one set of upgrades, etc. There was no firm ETA. Only that they would like to do it sometime this year.

I don’t really see the issue either, and I was just doing this the other day.

I was with my husband, and 2 other guildies. All new chars, running around QD completing hearts, popping events. Was even recruiting as we went. We were just having fun, if it took someone one or 2 kills more to complete a heart, it wasn’t a big deal as we were enjoying just goofing off together. Its not like we were standing around doing nothing either. So I’m not sure how you’re having an issue OP.

Azrael.4960:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Azrael.4960:

ideas, ideas, ideas..
5. Just for novelty’s sake, a special effect when a character opens their birthday gift in town. Like a huge fireworks display or something. You want this to be more communal? nothing more communal than being wished a happy birthday.

Maybe have those fireworks form a number 2, so everyone knows how old you are. (Should make this work on ‘new’ 1 year old presents to, only it would say ‘1’ instead of ‘2’ obviously).

Yes, I’m insane.

A special birthday banquet and resultant food fight!

Oh gods… I just had a mental image of Trahearne popping out of a birthday cake. I think I’m scarred for life….

Ah the good old days….

Swimming in booze and candy and DP removers…..

Need a speed boost in town or around your GH? Pop a chocolate bunny

Need a stat boost? Here’s a golden egg and some candy corn

Need to remove some DP from heroes or want a moral boost? Here’s some rainbow candy canes and honeycomb

Need a hp and e boost? Have a candied apple or a cupcake

sigh

Maybe I’ll play GW1 when I get home tonight…

Azrael.4960:

ideas, ideas, ideas..
5. Just for novelty’s sake, a special effect when a character opens their birthday gift in town. Like a huge fireworks display or something. You want this to be more communal? nothing more communal than being wished a happy birthday.

Maybe have those fireworks form a number 2, so everyone knows how old you are. (Should make this work on ‘new’ 1 year old presents to, only it would say ‘1’ instead of ‘2’ obviously).

Yes, I’m insane.

Vol.7601:

Do you guys ever go to your parents and friends and demand a ‘better’ birthday gift?

What is with this sense of entitlement? Just be happy you get anything..

I wasn’t demanding. I was asking, and making suggestions if they opt to continue with birthday gifts. Sort of assuming they will, considering… but, could always change. Which is ok too.

And yes, I regularly go to my husband and make suggestions for what he should get me for my birthday… and mother’s day…. and our anniversary. If I don’t, he gets kittened off at me. I tried telling him one year I didn’t want anything, wooooo boy did that cause issues. Never again, let me tell you!

Edit: if only I could type today…

Lol, I’m onboard with this suggestion. I was cleaning out my bank recently and ran across half a dozen things that were ‘Soulbound to another character.’ With 13 characters on that account, it took me a few minutes to swap through and determine what belonged to who and scrap it from there. (It wasn’t armor, so it wasn’t tier specific, so I couldn’t narrow it down that way).

In GW1 it would tell you who it belonged to, please add that here!

Facepunch.5710:

As, someone who doesn’t give two flips about minis, I don’t personally disagree with you, but I would still sympathize with an argument that 2nd birthday minis shouldn’t be for newcomers.

I could sort of sympathize with that argument, but not whole heartedly. Considering what new 2nd year minis would likely sell for, the majority of new comers probably wouldn’t be able to afford them. Unless they did the cash to gems to gold thing, or devoted hours to farming dungeon paths. At which point, well… they can do the exact same thing for a legendary… why not a mini?

Facepunch.5710:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

My only gripe about last year’s gift was that the only mini was Jenna. One of her was cool, 10 of her…. not so much.

I absolutely love the birthday boosters. (I’ll take these again anet, pretty please). They helped me level both the character and my wvw rank. Handy indeed.

I had no issue with the experience scrolls either. I’ve used every one that I’ve gotten. Admittedly, I don’t think I need any more of them now though…

So, my thoughts on this year’s gifts:

-Create a set of 12 or 15 minis, like was done in GW1. Let us get one of that set randomly from the gift. Do make these tradeable.

-Include the birthday booster again. Even if people don’t have characters that need the experience anymore, the 100% bonus to karma, magic find, gold, and wvw rank is still very enjoyable. Not to mention, it stacks with other boosters.

-Not sure what to ask for as the third component. Lot of things I would like, but probably not advisable. Maybe a scroll that grants 5 levels to any non 80 character? A small bag of dungeon tokens? A random weapon ticket? An ascended weapon box maybe? Not asking for a precursor or anything here, but something useful would be appreciated.

I like these suggestions, Lanfear, I’m all for thought-out and useful gifts. My only thought is that I don’t think the minis should be tradeable, because then you’ll have people selling them to players who aren’t 2 years old, which seems contrary to the point of giving exclusive birthday gifts. Instead, maybe let players choose which mini they would like from the set, sort of like you get to choose which Zenith weapon you want from each achievement chest.

Some will still complain that they will need 10 2-year-old toons in order to collect the whole set, but I guess you can’t please everyone.

See, I don’t have any issue with people selling these to other players. To me, minis are just a collectible thing, and in GW1 all minis were tradeable. I’ve always felt that all mini’s should be tradeable in GW2 as well.

Some people don’t care about them, and just don’t want them. It should be their option to sell them to someone that does want them at that point. (As opposed to just trashing them, or letting them rot in their collections tab, which sort of makes them a waste of development resources) This would also help alleviate some of that issue that you bring up – having to have ‘x’ number of characters to get them all.

Although, technically, since they would likely be random, even having ‘x’ number of chars wouldn’t guarantee that you got each and every one. You could get a duplicate of a one or two. (Anyone remember getting 2 or even 3 of the same white mini in GW1? lol) Allowing them to be traded ensures that you can eventually get the whole set, to appease those collectors.

Yes, it’s doable. Never did the math honestly, but this is precisely how my husband and I finish off our characters.

We do not do any of the personal story when we start out. We clear maps, gather materials, craft, and karma train wvw until we are 65.

At 65 we start our personal story (lvl 3 quest) and just do them in order. Obviously as you run to the map locations for the various later stories, you’ll still be popping experience for pois, area discovery, anything you kill, and wp’s along the way. I also still gather anything in my path of travel. Obviously how much you skip in terms of killing and gathering will change your outcome somewhat, as opposed to mine. Typically I hit 80 right around the level 78 or 79 PS quest.

My only gripe about last year’s gift was that the only mini was Jenna. One of her was cool, 10 of her…. not so much.

I absolutely love the birthday boosters. (I’ll take these again anet, pretty please). They helped me level both the character and my wvw rank. Handy indeed.

I had no issue with the experience scrolls either. I’ve used every one that I’ve gotten. Admittedly, I don’t think I need any more of them now though…

So, my thoughts on this year’s gifts:

-Create a set of 12 or 15 minis, like was done in GW1. Let us get one of that set randomly from the gift. Do make these tradeable.

-Include the birthday booster again. Even if people don’t have characters that need the experience anymore, the 100% bonus to karma, magic find, gold, and wvw rank is still very enjoyable. Not to mention, it stacks with other boosters.

-Not sure what to ask for as the third component. Lot of things I would like, but probably not advisable. Maybe a scroll that grants 5 levels to any non 80 character? A small bag of dungeon tokens? A random weapon ticket? An ascended weapon box maybe? Not asking for a precursor or anything here, but something useful would be appreciated.

I read it as ‘June’ the first couple of times too, which made me go huh? since 6/1 is a Sunday.

Still, I’m perfectly fine with another month before S2 kicks off. I’m crushed for time trying to finish my husband’s wvw tourney meta this week (1 reactor, 20 yaks to go….). Then I need to finally kill Liadre on my account. Then do the gauntlet on his account. Yup, I’m good with having plenty of time available….

Then of course, reading the article in the pc gamer which says this:

“Speculation aside, what we know for sure is that ArenaNet are planning a slightly different structure for this season. Rather than a content update every two weeks, the team want to alternate between story and features—resulting in more “quality of life” updates like last month’s April Feature Pack."

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/05/29/guild-wars-2-launches-living-world-season-2-in-july/

Made me scratch my head a bit too… Does that mean we won’t have new LS every 2 weeks? Or that we might have 4 weeks of LS, a feature update and pause, then another few weeks of LS? Or some type of ‘interlude’ in the middle of the season for another ‘feature patch’? Too many options to think about…

Orangensaft.7139:

can you link me the official confirmation for that pls?

Its on the front page of the GW2 site. First news item. Is in the banner. Not sure how you miss it…. unless you completely skip the home page…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready/

I laughed so hard when they mentioned T.

Personally, he’s just another Rurik, Togo, or Kormir. Doesn’t really bother me in the least, in fact I sort of expected it. I can only hope, that like Rurik, we get to kill him in the end. Now that’s fun.

Skimmed, didn’t read the whole thing…. That said…

NO! Tequatl does not need a nerf.

In fact, the other world bosses need to be brought to his (and the wurm’s) level, to remove the ‘stand and spam 1’ mentality. These are supposed to be world bosses. They are supposed to be hard. They are supposed to require some tactics, some general understanding of the mechanics.

It is completely doable by pugs (first hand experience here). The more people talk politely in chat (less kittening, less blame), the better a run tends to go usually.

If you hit an instance where there aren’t enough people… maybe try rallying a few to the cause. Pop into LA, Gendarren, DR, etc and post a message in chat. People do come.

Sadly. I only get to do Teq on weekends because his timing just plain sucks for me ( I’m either driving to work, at work, or sleeping during his spawn times during the week).

rincewind.9528:

Honestly, rewarding for “being there” is kinda lame.
What you can be proud of? No taking breaks on the game? Playing non stop? Having a lot of free time to spend in the game? Managing you time well so you can play the game?

I probably look at the temp content, very differently than you. I don’t have a lot of time to play. So I don’t get everything done. To me, each story, each arc is the ‘life experience’ of my account. Sometimes I’m there for it, sometimes I’m not. Do I like missing out on it necessarily? No, but that’s not any different than real life either. It makes the game interesting and unique, at least from that perspective. I kind of enjoy it.

Honestly that’s the bad thing about the temporary contest. Gives you a sense of urgency. You MUST play the game now or you miss rewards AND story.
Watching the cutscenes in youtube isn’t the same.

I don’t feel a sense of urgency from it, but again it’s probably because of how I approach it. I do a little bit here and there, working towards the meta. If I get it done, cool. If not, oh well. I don’t let it rule my life, or my play.

Conversely, one of the biggest complains about the temp content is that it’s ‘too small.’ People complain that they can do it in a couple of hours, generally. So where is the sense of urgency if it can be completely so quickly/easily? You can’t have it both ways.

I agree that watching the cut scenes via youtube is not the same. The story is the only part that I think needs to remain after a patch. Either through some type of npc or some other intractable object. This way people can watch and catch up on story that they may have missed. If they missed out on the achievements or the reward, well, such is life. It’s not the end of the world.

Dat looks like a new zone portal. Me likey.

Looking forward to it….

Aidan Savage.2078:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Um… Have you bothered reading the patch notes? Or reading the trait descriptions for that matter? Jagged horrors are summoned as a result of the Death Nova trait under Death Magic.

Ahh. Doesn’t precisely make sense (to me), but I vaguely recall that change. (Been a while since we read those patch notes)

I still say gimme back my GW1 MM though. Along with my hexes. Necros don’t feel like necros in this game. I very much miss the GW1 version.

I’d say give me back a GW1 ranger (where I can perma-stow that god kitten pet), but doesnt mean it’ll happen.

I’m actually quite on board with that too. I enjoyed the option of being a beastmaster or a ‘ranger’ in gw1. Pets → 100% optional.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Um… Have you bothered reading the patch notes? Or reading the trait descriptions for that matter? Jagged horrors are summoned as a result of the Death Nova trait under Death Magic.

Ahh. Doesn’t precisely make sense (to me), but I vaguely recall that change. (Been a while since we read those patch notes)

I still say gimme back my GW1 MM though. Along with my hexes. Necros don’t feel like necros in this game. I very much miss the GW1 version.

Wait… they took away my jagged horrors? (Been building a baby necro, I hadn’t gotten into traits yet) If so, not cool anet. Gimme back my GW1 minion master!

Edit: Not agreeing this ruins the class, but it does sort of suck. I like my minions (just wish they had a tad bit more brain).

Dusty Moon.4382:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Dusty Moon.4382:

That is your choice – not the game (looks I mean). if you want different looks, it costs – that is the way it was in GW1 also. I never did graft FoW armor in GW1 – just took too much.

It’s still a downside, considering one of the main points of the game is cosmetics. I did point out what my options were in regards to addressing that downside. I did not say it needed to be changed in any way, either. Although I know others have asked for some feature that allows for a character’s look to be ‘remembered’ when upgrading or changing armor, but that sort of makes the trans system semi-moot, imo. I was simply pointing it out.

Ascended armor is not needed to play the game other than high level Fractals. You can be competitive w/o Ascended Armor or Legendaries. They are totally optional – people keep acting like they aren’t optional but they are and since they are (optional) these items take longer to craft than others. If you want them – do the work.

And no where did I say it was a requirement. (I’ve been one of the loudest voices saying ascended is optional since it’s release.) Hell, as far as I’m aware, even high level fractals can be done without the additional ascended gear, so long as you have the upgraded rings / back piece to which you can add higher agony infusion values.

Nor did I say anywhere that I wasn’t willing to do the work. In fact I pointed out that I have no issues leveling all of the crafting to max, and that I was treating ascended as a ‘long term goal.’

So why the hell are you getting kitteny with me?

I was just saying to the OP – not picking on you (got a guilty conscience?).

People get so defensive then they flag immediately – I was just pointing out. Don’t have to be aggressive about anything.

Guilty? Not in the least. Tendency to be annoyed with the people on here for being idiots? (not you specifically necessarily, but in general, as we’ve seen in many, many threads) Oh yes, yes indeed.

Back on topic:
In cosmetically heavy game, the downside exists. Whether it applies specifically to person A or person B isn’t the point. Only that is does exist. I was simply highlighting it, since no one else had (and options, at least by my own thoughts, on how to address that downside). I hadn’t seen anyone else point out that with the April 15th patch, ascended become account bound either. ‘Minor’ details that I felt worth noting to the OP.

Considering you quoted my post, when you swapped from talking to ‘me’ to talking to the ‘op,’ you might have called it out. Otherwise it can be interpreted as responding wholly to the post you opted to quote. (Thus the ‘I never said…’ section of my response)

Dusty Moon.4382:

That is your choice – not the game (looks I mean). if you want different looks, it costs – that is the way it was in GW1 also. I never did graft FoW armor in GW1 – just took too much.

It’s still a downside, considering one of the main points of the game is cosmetics. I did point out what my options were in regards to addressing that downside. I did not say it needed to be changed in any way, either. Although I know others have asked for some feature that allows for a character’s look to be ‘remembered’ when upgrading or changing armor, but that sort of makes the trans system semi-moot, imo. I was simply pointing it out.

Ascended armor is not needed to play the game other than high level Fractals. You can be competitive w/o Ascended Armor or Legendaries. They are totally optional – people keep acting like they aren’t optional but they are and since they are (optional) these items take longer to craft than others. If you want them – do the work.

And no where did I say it was a requirement. (I’ve been one of the loudest voices saying ascended is optional since it’s release.) Hell, as far as I’m aware, even high level fractals can be done without the additional ascended gear, so long as you have the upgraded rings / back piece to which you can add higher agony infusion values.

Nor did I say anywhere that I wasn’t willing to do the work. In fact I pointed out that I have no issues leveling all of the crafting to max, and that I was treating ascended as a ‘long term goal.’

So why the hell are you getting kitteny with me?

I’m sort of on the fence about this suggestion, honestly. I mean, we really don’t need another currency. Although, if they do opt to keep them, they definitely need to go into the wallet.

I’m also not 100% sure about the ‘work towards past living story rewards’ either. I sort of feel…cheated? let down?…whatever term you want to use, that people can just ‘buy’ the previous rewards during this event. We were sort of led to believe that ‘being there’ was something we could be proud of, and have something to display for being there. Thus differentiating us, even if only in a minor fashion.

Now, perhaps from LS2 onwards this may be true. I mean, I can sort of understand what might have been part of their reasoning behind re-offering these rewards (Some people deleted skins to make bank room, China just came online, etc). Although, they never said they would never re-offer these rewards either, so….dunno, sort of conflicted on it.

Blade shards, especially after being made a permanent drop in the game, should have been added to the crafting collection. Since crafting an item was their primary purpose, and I can easily see them being set up for additional crafted items (much like the sprockets were).

Yes, for ascended gear, you have to craft it yourself – weapons and armor.

A little extreme? Yeah, I can see that. I mean, not everyone likes crafting, or even finds it useful. I think they tried (and failed) to make crafting desirable through this addition. Personally, I think there are other ways to make it desirable, but that’s neither here nor there in regards to this conversation.

Anywho, the only exceptions to the ‘craft it yourself’ at this time (through a reliable acquisition method) are trinkets, which you can purchase with laurels.

To me, ascended is a loooong term goal. I just made my first weapon (a staff) in the past week, after getting artificing to 500. Since I use crafting as part of my leveling process, I have at least one on every character (since I have more then 8 chars, I have duplicates). So to me, it’s not a huge deal to level to max at least one of each of the crafting professions. Although, for people with only a couple characters, which are already max, I can see how it could be annoying to do at this stage.

If you don’t have a lot of gold, or haven’t horded your materials as you played, crafting ascended is going to be a pain. Now, whether its better to gather materials, or farm gold is going to depend on the player. Personally, I do a bit of both. I mean, it’s not really hard to simply gather materials that are in your path as you play. Sell what you don’t need, horde what you do. Beyond that, pinch coppers.

The upside is that with the recent feature patch, ascended is no longer soulbound after using it. I can take the staff from my ele, and pass it to my mesmer… or my necro…or my guardian (as long as they are 80 too). Which saves some cost / time / effort / space since I no longer need to make one for everyone, unless they need a different stat combination. However, the downside to this, is that each character has her own look, and I have to either transmute repeatedly or standardize their looks.

Hmmmmmm challenge vs pay… the gripe is that the ‘challenge’ is not always available, and this goes against GW style? If I am skimming this correctly….

So……

Using an elite tome to purchase a skill, instead of rezoning a map (a hundred fricking times) to get the right boss to spawn in prophecies for an elite isn’t the same thing?

To me, it kinda, rather, very much is. Sort of sets the precedent imo. But hey, what do I know.

My vote is also for – ’I like both styles. Love to mix and match. Just give me more armors in game. Period."