Guild Wars 2

Oh you bought the digital deluxe upgrade to core account?

Yea and its not a demand so you can donate or not.

Noone here remember how the fire elemental in metrica province used to burn zergs to death before it got nerfed into oblivion?

Aint it usualy around 5-6pm for eu?

wouldent call a copout a solution

Recent years, you mean since the game came out?

There was a thread awhile back with quotes from reddit that a Just a Flesh wound started and someone else continued, sadly it seem to not be used anymore.

Since gw2 is a ncsoft game I would think yes mate

zoomborg.9462:

Considering you really have to try in order to fail at 95% of PvE people get really intimidated by the actual chance of failure, that there is a chance to fail some mechanic, that u have to do training, learn class properly, use voice communications if needed and on and on it goes.

If there is a limitation to raids, it’s always time and nothing else. Then again if you don’t have the time for it why do you even bother with raids in the first place….

There aren’t really any excuses if some1 wishes to raid. Tons of posts on the internet, amazingly detailed class and boss mechanics guides, a golem to practice and perfect your rotations and a variety of options for people to find or create groups.

So if I come with a soldier exotic bear/bow ranger and try/train hard enough I will beat the raids…. thats good to know mate

Since time is the only limitation.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Just make a flag where you can block inspection. I would gladly have this feature then. In Aion you could block inspection, that easy.

Mounts: yes of course.

Duelling: I don’t like PvP and duelling in WoW was not my cup of coffee, but it would be a nice addition and not much work (well if you ignore balancing). Skills/traits could swap to PvP mode if they decide to – finally – separate those two.

Yea but then we have these people, -Yo why are you blocking inspections? unflag it or kick.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Maybe when they will run out of dragons we will see some actual villains. The ones with personalities and goals.

you mean like scarlet?

Taffette.4017:

Really? I have to admit, that’s not how it read to me. Must pay more attention How do I get back into story instances that I’ve already completed?

Activate said episode on the same chars story journal.

shadow.6174:

Yay, look who is back… the (err…) loved (nop) NPE >.>

Anyway, seriously now. Yes, it’s like Linken mentioned, it’s intended as part of a streamlining attempt they did a while back called New Player Experience.

For info about when those elements will be unlocked (understand visible) in map can be found at https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Level_rewards.

A last thing: in NPE’s philosophy… “You are not supposed to see Vistas and Points of Interest yet because we think that they are too overwhelming for you. Come back when you are more experienced.” :P

P.S.: Seriously Anet, can’t cases like this one show how NPE needs seriously some revision? -_-

As much as I disslike this system, I dont want them to waste more resouces on it and possibly make it even worse.

Well alot of people complaind that end boss was to hard, so instead of rebalancing and adding a 4th path with the aetherblade path they removed it

BrotherBelial.3094:

The Harbinger? Looks like ANet is not the only one.

Aint that a sylvari from another tree in their personal story?

You have to get high enough level on the first char of the new account to unlock vistas, hero points and poi on map.

Its part of the old patch npe (new player experience) and how to much icons on map was to hard for them to understand.

Edit
A quick google search and we got this thread with a red post

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Can-t-see-Vistas-on-map

Edit 2
Your user name is a bug you can get support to change it for you by sending in a ticket with what you want it changed to and they will add random .1234 numbers after it

To me this is the biggest Nono due to the bolded part

21.) BLC Unlimited WvW Bloodlust Boost (Account-bound, 8000 gems, gives 5% boost to overall stats, 50% magic find, 25% EXP, 25% WXP, 25% movement speed while in WvW or EoTM, duration 24 hours, no cooldown.)

1h sword and horn/torch will do more damage then greatsword if you can get used to the horrible auto attack on the sword

TexZero.7910:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Sykper.6583:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

TexZero.7910:

Astralporing.1957:

Hardest of the hardcore? Not really. Above the average? Definitely. An average player is not likely to clear a raid unless they are being carried by better teammates.

I’m not sure if people who clear raids should take this as a complement or those that don’t take it as an insult….

It’s beyond belief that you think this lowly about people around you in this game. Yet you want to call the raiding community and its players toxic with this kind of attitude and mindset ?

You must have missed the threads complaining that the HoT maps were too difficult and the nerf of those maps that ANet put in a few months back.

Players have consistently complained about difficulty jumps since launch. Hell, I remember the QQ about Marionette mobs requiring being stomped to kill off. Yet somehow the community moved forward, should we just never raise the difficulty or challenge players ever?

That’s not at all what I was saying. Reread my post and the others as you’ve missed the point of this exchange.

It’s not whether or not players should be challenged. It’s about the skill level of the average player and whether or not the average player can clear raids. If the average player couldn’t handle the HoT maps and those maps had to be nerfed to accommodate their skill level then the average player is not going to be able to do the hardest content in the game.

I get what you’re trying to say here. But it doesn’t really hold any merit.
Players complain, alot. However, that has no bearing on their ability to overcome a challenge. Sure some will quit but i’d wager a good majority will overcome. I’d also wager that the complaints made about HoT (PvE difficulty) were largely due to an overwhelming desire to maintain the status quo(ex Cursed Shore/Southsun/Drytop/Silverwaste difficulty levels) by a very vocal minority.

Does that mean however that the same people who complain could never ever in their wildest dreams begin to attempt or clear a raid ? That’s what ludicrous about the statement made, that somehow these players are so inept that they could never do it.

And we have the same here a very vocal minority wanting to keep legendary armor stuck behind raids becosue reasons.

if you want to keep the skin fine just make the functionality of legendary armors and a skin of its equal to openworld/fractal, spvp and wvw aswell.

Same they should make a legendary backpack for raiders and openworld.

Dont remember seing it, but how would leveling 14 levels instead of 7 help you get a second legendary?

With all the tomes of knowlage the game give from dailys just loging in, wvw/spvp reward tracks etc how could you not have max leveled alts by now?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Linken.6345:

Squee.7829:

I just wish they’d make it available for the people who had one but accidentally deleted it before the wardrobe system was activated.

And how are they suposed to know who and who dident have it once before the wardrobe hit?

Anyone with a toon that logged on during the give-away.

Just becouse you had an account and logged on during that time dont mean you claimed the hat/horns etc.

Squee.7829:

I just wish they’d make it available for the people who had one but accidentally deleted it before the wardrobe system was activated.

And how are they suposed to know who and who dident have it once before the wardrobe hit?

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Crinn.7864:

So basically people are salty that a prestige item is actually prestigious, rather than dirt common like the open world legendries.

This game’s entire progression system is cosmetics based. (since the devs don’t want vertical progression creep) At the end of the day some cosmetics have to be exclusive for the devs to maintain any kind of meaningful reward system.

Now you will get Astralpoling saying then it should have been a skin and not a legendary that they get as their reward…..

Well actually if it is just a skin and it’s supposed to be prestigious, then take it off Raids and slap it into the Gem Store with an extreme Gem value. Not many would be willing to shell out the cost if it’s super high on Gem cost.

Now in seriousness, I can’t speak for others, but I’m not asking for a freebie, or an easier way than Raids. Just an alternative way of getting the armor from content I’d rather play, like WvW.

Yes but sadly anything anet or we will come up with, will feel like a easier way to some raiders.

Blackwyn.8127:

Vayne.8563:

Insisting I invest quite a bit of time doing content I don’t enjoy is simply ridiculous for a game company to do.

This right here is the problem in a nutshell. No one is forcing you to do this content, it’s completely optional. You won’t gain anything that you can’t simply acquire in the game right now other than a cosmetic skin.

Now the problem isn’t with you or anyone else with this mentality. It’s Anet’s fault that this mentality became a normal state of the game.
For several years Anet has designed it so that you can pretty much get anything you like in the game as long as you put a little effort. This was same with the difficulty that was measured by dungeons and to some later extent fractals.

Then Anet did something drastic. They changed all this in HoT with a loud boom. Rather than doing a smooth transition to this new gameplay they had in mind, they just dropped a huge bomb on the community and expected it to change over a week.

Now we suddenly had Raids, rewards that wasn’t acquirable by everyone and so on. So now we have two different ways conflicting with each other. The mentality that they burned into us for several years with a gameplay that goes completely against that.

Now the solution is easier said than done. The community as a whole needs to simply adapt to the new path Anet has chosen. Many has already done this but many hasn’t either.
All the content is there, nothing is locked (assuming you have full game obviously). Just change your mentality that if you don’t like doing certain content, that you won’t get its rewards and that’s perfectly fine. You don’t need to do it. The rewards are not something you need and can progress just fine in the game without it. Especially when the main reward is just something cosmetic.

Guild Wars 2 has always been about ‘Do what you enjoy doing’. It’s as simple as that. Play what you enjoy playing. Everything you need to do to get the best gear is there in many optional ways as it is.

Ok I see lets tell arena net to take the legendary armor out of the raid rewards then since all you seem to want is a skin they can slap that together easier so they will be happy.
This new legendary that transforms should be put on hold untill all game modes get their own versions.
You will be happy with that right?

Edit
3 expansions later and we are still waiting for legendary armors, that would be funny

I remember a dev saying the lost those skins

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Khisanth.2948:

Redfeather.6401:

Dang, I remember getting that hat. I have no idea what happened to it either.

Go talk to the Black Lion agent on each character and check if one of them is wearing it.

Good idea. There are still people who haven’t done this on all their toons (sometimes because they stopped playing before the wardrobe arrived).

Wait I can get things from black lion agent somehow if I had it before?

I would say warrior

Yea since third party software is illegal, I would like to know aswell.

Anka.5086:

Vayne.8563:

Crinn.7864:

Vayne.8563:

I"m not saying it shouldn’t be a component of raids. I’m saying there should be an alternate route besides raids. The raid component wouldn’t have to change at all.

If there was another route to get them, people from all sides would be in here kittening about how “other route” has it easier and how Anet is clearly personally discriminating against them.

As opposed to now when Anet will devote months of resources to something a minority would have. Someone is always going to complain. I’m complaining right now. It doesn’t make me right. It doesn’t make Anet do it.

The question is which group is larger and which, according to Anet has the most valid complaint. Saying we shouldn’t ask for something because another group my complain is pretty much a pointless exercise, because right now, there’s a group that’s complaining.

Deal with the idea that it’s not going to change and start doing raids. We didn’t see any of these topics up until Lege heavy armor trailer was released. Anyone can do raids, it’s not difficult to defeat any of the boss at all. Other players have proven you can 6-man almost every boss with decent gear. All it requires is time and effort. You don’t have that? Tough luck, legendary armor is not for you. It’s the ultimate prestige item in GW2 and it’s not going to be handed like legendary weapon and backpiece candies. Freebie players like yourself will be glad to know lege armor wont be out for another 3-4 months. You have plenty of time to get required 150 LI. Gd Luck.

We did see this topic alot, people just got tierd of being ignored.
Sure keep that skin raid only and dont release it untill you got 1 set for each game mode Wvw, spvp and open world pve aswell then.

Vayne.8563:

Calinc.2315:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Calinc.2315:

Soooo am I ever going to get anything in return for paying full retail for the first game?

All of the new players purchasing the expansion get everything I’ve paid for for free. When I pay for the expansion I will have effectively paid double for the content they get, does this seem/sound fair?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Yes, 3+ years of enjoyment, access to content that will never return, access to prices and exchange rates that will never return, and the satisfaction and pride of being a long-term vet!

You’re welcome. =)

That’s a fair way to look at it. I guess the bother was the sensation that they turned the expansion into a money grab from the long time fans. I guess I’ll wait for another sale, I still don’t think the expansion is worth retail… not like the original was. And I bought all expansions for the original without complaints >.>

People use terms like money-grab with such alarming frequency? But exactly what is a money grab here?

If you buy any triple A MMO, you’re pretty much buying the game, and then paying for the expansion. Now in the case of WoW and FF XIV, you’re also paying $15 each and every month for the priviledge of playing the game, plus paying for expansions and I believe both have cash shops on top of that, and I know WOW charges for server changes.

If you play SWTOR and ESO, and bought them at launch, you’d have paid a sub for a year (that’s $180 for those counting at home) and you’d still be paying for an expansion. In addition both games have optional subs…in the case of SWToR the optional isn’t really optional.

Now, if you go a step further and look at the fact that games like WoW and EQ are both giving away all past expansions if you own the core game and buy the new expansion— doesn’t Guild Wars 2 have to try to compete.

The big issue with MMOs is that the longer you wait to get into them, the greater the barrier to entry. And since all MMOs suffer natural attrition over time, getting those new players in is vital,, not only to the company for profit, but for the existing veteran player base.

The best thing Anet could possibly do for existing veterans is to remove barriers to entry for those who haven’t started playing yet. I’m a long term veteran and I’m really happy that they game is being offered for free to new players. They’re not screwing me..they’re keeping the game healthy.

Maybe if I were playing WoW or FFXIV and had to pay $180 a year just to be here, I’d feel the expansion is overpriced. But I don’t pay a sub fee and I think that the price isn’t so unreasonable…particularly as current players also get the Living World Season 3 for free, which so far has come with two new zones.

If you don’t buy the expansion now, at least make sure you log in regularly (assuming you own the original game) so you unlock the new Living Story zones. Some people have already missed unlocking the first chapter for free.

Yes its good they give the unlock of lw s3 to everyone if they log in during the months each is released so they can use it when they buy into the game.
Regardless if its hot or the next expansion.

FreedomFTW.4275:

I am still waiting to get free HoT cause i don’t have intention to pay 2 times for the same game

Good news mate, just wait untill next expansion hits and you will get exactly that.
Since it will be bundled in with it.

Well the new living story maps got more mastery points then what the new lines need and from my experience if you can fill up a mastery track the exp will go into it even you u dont have it active.

Dont help if all of them are filled up and waiting for points to get to next stage tho.

I made a free account as security on my 3 bank guilds so I can invite my main account back if I happen to leave one.

Well they dont fight at all if not idle at a camp , why should they turn around to focus on you?

you dont want toughness since that make make you the target instead of the tank

So we really want 1 warrior 1 mesmer 1 druid 7 elementalist groups?

Aint that even more limiting?

sunnypsyop.3025:

This is a necro thread… I just posted the same thing because “lunatic inquisition” brings up no search results… I smell a conspiracy…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lunatic-Inquisition-is-missed-in-2016

You do know that forum search is broken beyond repair right?

mia.8209:

nagr.1593:

Plus it’s not fair to those of us with world completion on 2+ alts.. it would mean our hard work is meaningless then.

Again, by that logic you should all be raging against the existence of tomes of knowledge and hero point unlocking through WVW because that’s “not fair” to people who level all their alts the slow way and do the actual hero points out in the world. Not to mention people buying gold with IRL money instead of earning it in game, which is pretty much Anet’s business model. And again – this would just be the wps: it wouldn’t affect vistas, hearts, events, hero points.,.. It would just be the waypoints.

I could also see a service in game as an acceptable alternative – WoW has a flight service as an alternative to flying yourself, Wildstar has a taxi system, maybe something similar could be implemented that got you a bit closer at least. I’ll settle for just running through half a map to get where I’m going instead of a whole or two maps.

They already have it and its called teleport to friend stones.

Ashen.2907:

I didnt buy HoT until a few months after release so perhaps I missed something. When were hearts removed? They were gone by the time I got the expansion.

OP just phrased it abit bad, they were never in hot maps since they are level 80 maps same as orr and sw etc.

But the OP thought they should have been for some reason, they can run around hot maps doing single events and chains without being heavily guided I guess.

well all weapons get turned into scythe in reaper shroud

Dawdler.8521:

By the title, I thought you wanted a teleport to enemy.

Yea that would be troller heaven to teleport to people that blocked them =)

Gehenna.3625:

Derdhal.6908:

Gehenna.3625:

Derdhal.6908:

Ascended are not overpowered. They are as overpowered as exotic in comparison with rare, for example. And, nowadays, you can get a full ascended equipment with no great trouble or effort.

As a player who never got any ascended gear except some trinkets like rings and amulets, I would be interested to know how one would acquire a full set of ascended equipment, mainly armour and weapons, “with no great trouble or effort”.

You see when I got to the wiki it says things like this "Ascended armor is crafted using ascended materials and is a complex process. "

That doesn’t sounds like it’s as easy as you suggest.

It’a a matter of time, not effort or trouble. Just play. You’ll get ascended gear and/or mats to craft it just playing. I assume you don’t consider “play” an effort.

Playing your way perhaps but though I have some of the materials I certainly don’t just pick all of that up while playing. And well the big issue for me really is the crafting system. I think it’s a crap system and I don’t like how it’s set up so it will be an effort for me to bring multiple crafting professions to max.

You should understand that not everybody plays the same way and if you have to do a bunch of repetitive stuff that you don’t like to begin with, then yes it is troublesome and becomes an effort. My brain won’t allow me to do things that are too repetitive because it bores the crap out of me.

It’s ok though, I don’t need ascended gear, but I was interested in what you called easy to do. Clearly it’s only easy if you play the way you do, which I don’t. I couldn’t do that to myself, but I’m glad it’s easy for you.

Then do world bosses like tripple trubble and teqatil for a chance at a drop.

Play spvp on normal or farm maps for more chances at drops.

Even if you cant be bothered with that do fractals or buy +1 infusions merge them with the robo merchant inside fractal hub untill you got enough ar to do t4 fractals for a daily chance at boxes.

Edit

I havent crafted a single ascended piece and got full light armor full heavy and 50% medium done + a bunch of weapons.

Edit 2

Sorry I lied I have crafted ascended but that was the precursor for the legendary backpiece.

and if you done the level 10 story you have to wait untill 20 then 30 etc

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

I killed a handful of every type of crustacean on the wiki on various maps and got nothing. I have been focusing on the Hermit Crabs in Southsun Cove with zero luck. The wiki doesn’t document the drops very consistently. I am hoping someone can remember where they got one last. My fear is they only drop once and then never again once they are in your collection so there won’t be many sightings.

Your hunting in to high level maps as a poster above said go to caledon forest and find the crabs in the middle of the map.
Continue killing untill you have it.

Bloodelfcragy.4028:

AzureWolf.9150:

It may be frustrating when someone undercuts you by a coin, but that’s basic economics and it exists in games the same way it does in the real world (just watch how eBay works to see the same thing play out).

But I agree that it’s annoying

Like i said i don’t think that it sould be taken out just make it so there is an extra charge to under cut the lowest Seller

should there be a similar charge for upper cutting the highest bidder aswell?

Ofcourse not and then the reverse that you ask for is just as silly.

kyrie.8530:

the reason why yours was the lowest before that undercut, was because you yourself undercut someone else, or u put it at the same price as someone else who undercutteti think they should fix it by doing reposting ur kitten cheaper. so u are not kittened and forced to wait for months or lose ur 5% for relisting.
they should make it so that u lose 5% first time u list one item, and then u should be able to scroll down that price of the item in TP for free.

example: i list zap for 1k, i pay 50g to list. Then 20 ppl undercut me and suddently the price is 800g for the cheapest. then i can choose to change the price from 1k to 799g so i have a chance to sell it, and then when its sold, i pay the last 10% of the fee (79,9g)

You should ofcourse pay 10% of the original fee, otherwise you will put it high in hope of hitting it big then lower it without any harm to yourself. So even if you sold it for 799 the fee would be 100g

sophiewhite.3149:

Dawdler.8521:

Thieves can kill people without breaking stealth and channeled skills damage through stealth. You want to fix it? Remove stealth. Everybody happy.

you dont know much do you? ill admit i was wrong about it being a exploit but the second a thief attacks someone stealth is broken.

You were saying?

becouse its not your group.
we dont have the party leader system here anymore in dungeons/fractals and thats good.

if you want to control the group you get guildies or extend your friends list and dont use the lfg.

Moyayuki.3619:

Linken.6345:

my toggle walk/run key is /

This is probably something you should make a thread about in the support forum. This thread is only about the rollback itself. Not sure if the autorun buttons changing is related, so better safe than sorry and make a bug thread.

was more a reply to the person above me who couldent get it to work with r key.

a scribe can use it for decorations.

my toggle walk/run key is /