Guild Wars 2

Einlanzer.1627:

To be clear, I wasn’t suggesting that asc./legendary have better stats than they do currently. I strongly feel like they shouldn’t. I just meant there needs to be something cooler about them than a stat boost or stat swapping to make them appealing to collect, especially as the game moves forward – Instead of adding new tiers in the future, they can add new types of asc/legendary with unique qualities to make them worth chasing.

And thats what skins are for mate instead of chasing better stats, you chase a diffrent look.

All they need to do is keep introducing dif skins on the ascended/ legendary items they put into the game going forward.

Spending time you mean the few sec it take to login and get chest?
If you wanna be hardcore you do daily and home instance gathering aswell.

ElectricGoat.8253:

After doing some more research to understand your question. It seems that Arena net is charging the same price in euroes as it is in dollars, and the price in euroes is higher than the one in dollars.

I think in that thread they said something to the effect of: “Deal with it, arenanet can charge what they want.” and “its probably VAT since its processed in the UK”

I dunno, is there a way you could force it to give you the price in dollars? Or is that against the rules or something.

Its kinda odd tho I live in norway and dont have vat so shouldent I get a lower price then my friend living in sweden with vat?

Edit
wouldent buying usa give us a code that aint compatibe with with our eu accounts tho?

I know I dont have vat tax since steam actually sell me games with 0 tax.

Ohoni.6057:

Pve is considered a single mode by ArenaNet, these rewards are already available in pve, but just not the way that you may like.

ANet may consider PvE to be a single mode, but if so, I utterly reject that opinion and hope that they change their mind on that. Things like raids and fractals have no more in common with open world PvE than sPvP does with WvW, and yet hose are considered two separate modes. They need to do more to balance out the rewards earned by PvEers who do not enjoy group oriented, instanced PvE content, just as they’ve made efforts to balance WvW rewards with sPvP’s.

There are only 3 officially recognised game modes though – PvE, WvW and sPvP. I understand what you are asking, but it’s asking a lot for Anet to cater for every niche player.

Nobody’s asking that they cater to every niche player, just that they cater to some fairly large groups of players that they currently are undervaluing.

The subset of players who never run anything other than raids/fractals is probably so low, that it wouldn’t be worth the time/resources to invest in producing tracks.

But what about the subset of players who never run raids or fractals? A proposal like this would benefit both, by allowing both groups to pick up on the content that they are missing. Furthermore, it’s not like this is an entirely new system, they already have it in two of the three recognized game modes, all they need to do is expand it to the third.

Because reward tracks are there specifically to boost sPvP and WvW “toward” the same wealth accumulation as PvE. It just doesn’t do enough to even come close to the gold conversion rate of even casual event trains.

But again, if it were just about balancing reward quantities, then they wouldn’t need to have the high variety and player customization of the reward tracks, they could just have a system more like the current PvP tournament reward brackets, dumping out generic loot based on performance.

Again, I do not ask for MORE loot from PvE than we’re getting now, they can balance it out however they like. All I want is more VARIETY from loot, divorced from playing specific content to get it.

If you want to argue that the rewards in PvP are still not enough, that’s fine, that’s not in conflict with our position in any way.

PvE players have dungeons as an option. if they exlcude a particular area of PvE, but still want those rewards, then they will lose out and it is absolutely right that they should.

PvPers and WvWer have dungeons as an option too. Nothing is stopping them from running dungeons. But you would argue that they don’t want to run dungeons, and that is true, but it can be equally as true of a PvE player. There is no more reason that a PvE player should be fine with having to run a dungeon than that a PvP player should have to run the dungeon. If you don’t want to run the dungeon, you don’t want to run the dungeon.

Instead of giving PvE reward tracks in the same way as PvP and WvW, allow us to switch out our gain of spirit shards per level to another reward, such as blood rubies, petrified wood, etc, or dungeon tokens of your choice.

That would be nice, IF the Spirit Shard system still worked. It hasn’t worked since HoT came out unless you unlock every available mastery first, including raiding ones. If you don’t raid, you don’t get any spirit shards.

PvE player vs environment so no raids and fractals arent diffrent the open world your still playing against npcs and the areas they are in.

Spvp and wvw is small scale combat and large scale combat against players so both got reward tracks its simple really. ( you can even pve in wvw since they got npcs and objectives you can take alone.)

Xeph.4718:

zealex.9410:

Xeph.4718:

zealex.9410:

Xeph.4718:

zealex.9410:

Xeph.4718:

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

There’s gonna be more raids and fractals, chill guys ^-^

That’s a shame, I quit before HoT and only just came back to play again, I made legendaries before it was made easier? (I guess) and now I find out I can only get legendary armour through raiding? ( I heard about upcoming pvp but not really into that at the moment)

I loved gw2 because it had no raiding for so long, now I find out this game turned into all the others….

Thats unfair for the game. Just because they try their take on succesful systems does that make the game a generic mmo? Also just because we had no raids doesnt mean now thay we have that the gw2 raids are like the raids in other games.

You aren’t wrong, but the one thing I always loved about gw2 and partly what it was originally always based on was not having ‘gated’ gear, sure skins were exclusive to dungeons but same quality gear was available to craft etc.

Unless your saying I can craft legendary armour then this is the issue I have with raids, I enjoyed dungeons and fractals when they came out but raids usually take more dedication and time, plus I don’t think my guild has a presence anymore, not that I have the time in one go currently.

Gw2 used to be very much inclusive of all, I loved it because during my time between fractals and dungeons I grinded 4 legendary weapons, I’d rather do that any day than raids, and would have no issue if the gear quality was available via grinding old style instead. Unless I’m wrong it isn’t and therefore I feel arenanet have gone against one of the original selling points of gw2.

You cant craft legendary weapons and trinkets either. Its something that involves a greater part of the game.

Same with legendaty armors. They invlolve 1 gamemode maynly and other parts in a smaller scale. (youc an argue that theres less freedom with this idea but the devs wanted this ti be a sign of dedication in 1 part of the game.

I fee that as long as more legendary armors come into thw game that will be better. But i also believe excusivity is good and it should exist.

They have anounced that they will add legendary armors in wvw and pvp as well so ye.

Gw2 is not a ra8d centric game in any strech of imagination it just has raids for ppl who like that. In no way raids devalue any other gamemode or pve type of content.

Gw2 brought raids but added its own twist making it something else you can do ans not the be all and end all.

But by making legendary armour requiring something from raids might as well be making it raid centric, that’s the issue and basically just copying every other game making raids the be all and end all to getting ‘best’ gear, which GW2 wasn’t about. I guess they lost players and just gave in.

I already bought HoT before I realised this, but as it looks like they have no intention of removing raids being the first and for the majority of the time being the only way to get best gear and going on with that mentality I won’t be getting the latest expansion. Once I’m bored with HoT, GW2 will just be added to the rest of raid required mmos. yawn

It’s nothing to do with the work, I probably spent longer making four legendary weapons in vanilla before the changes than it would take to get the armour or relatively, but I simply don’t have the time in blocks without interruption to raid, or honestly the inclination.

As i said you will be able to make legendary armor in wvw and pvp as well. Also by your thinking since the legedary weapons require gift of battle they might as well be obtainable from wvw only.

Also legendary armor is by no means better than ascented armor stat wise. For some ppl its just more convinient because you can sigil swap.

Its unfair to the devs just because 1 gamemode provides a way to get legendaty armor to say " i wont be buying your game". There are other methods to get legendary armor.

Also, raids were a goodanswer to something ppl asled for years and that is challenging content. Content which anet failed to deliver pre hot. Raids dont affect in any way the rest of the game, you can just ignore them and you even realise they exist.

Thanks for letting me know about the legendary armour stats I was thinking they were better, as I said Im only just back ankitten ew to HoT. That helps a lot.

Yeah making the legendary weapons I hated needed the gift of battle also, but at least I could do a little of that at a time, not having to sit for a couple hours straight like you do in a raid. That’s always been the main problem since I can’t do that anymore due to ‘life’

I understand about challenging content and honestly if the armour isn’t better statted than ascended which I can finish crafting on my own then I don’t really have an issue.
Like you say I can just pretty much ignore raiding, I don’t want it taken away from people just not to be like I originally thought was the case.

Why would you think that?
Since you got 4 legendary weapons and they dont have better stats the ascended weapons.
Kinda mind boggeling that you would think armor would be diffrent.
Edit
Wvw legendary armor you can do just as gift of battle alittle at the time will take you years most likely but you can do it.

NoPhate.2480:

Seera.5916:

NoPhate.2480:

I’m at the 80 hour mark myself.. No gems yet. Tickets are in but no response

Tickets as in you’ve sent more than one?

If so, close all but one and be patient. The ticket volume is higher than usual so it may take some time for them to get to your ticket and resolve the issue.

I sent one in yesterday, they said wait for the 72 hours, so I updated it at 80 hours, but I wasn’t sure if it was already closed, so I made another..

Got an email saying they merged the tickets and closed it.. Not sure if they closed both tickets or just the extra one..

Still no gems, and no word, but they were quick to merge and close the ticket.

Edit: I see the new one is marked as closed and not allowed comments, but the original one looks to still be open, so I will leave it be.

So you bought it thursday? I would give them 72 hours in work days meaning monday to friday to me.
Wouldent expect them to work weekends to send out gems tbh.

Ohoni.6057:

Agreed. PvE players need to have a method of working towards PvP and WvW-only rewards, just as PvPers and WvWers can work towards PvE rewards. There also needs to be a PvE way of converting Ascended armor into Legendary like PvPers have now.

I dont see the need for the pve ascended armors to be able to upgrade to legendary.
You already have raids for pve legendary armors, do spvp or wvw if you want it another way.
You always said you wanted legendary armors that was easier to get but took longer time well we got it now Wvw one is just that.

What other WvW/pvp rewards are we talking about gift of battle?

I cant see why you quoted my post Seera

Who want a dirty sock to the face? I know I dont since my sock smells.

Derkojote.1957:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You must craft the items for any subsequent characters on the account.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Sword_Regrown#Notes

Good luck.

I can’t see the remaining shards of Caladbolg or the other stuff I need to collect. They don’t show up. So Do I no longer have to collect them or,,,,?

So you done the caladbolg quest on your human thief and are now trying to do it on your sylvari engineer right?

If your still trying to do it on the first char you did it on you wont be able to do it.

zoomborg.9462:

Linken.6345:

Solstace.2514:

I don’t understand what some people want. Raids were provided because players wanted challenging end game content. Of course they are going to be difficult to complete – it requires organization, coordination, practice and skill.

There is plenty of other game content that caters to players who are not interested in that kind of a grind.

If you are interested in raiding, there are tons of opportunities to learn or work with raiding guilds. There are several guilds that recruit and train new players. But it requires effort on your part.

If, on the other hand, you prefer to just press 1 repeatedly or roll your face across a keyboard to succeed, there’s content for that too.

But it’s not fair or reasonable to demand that raids be dumbed down to a level where any player can complete them. That defeats the point of challenging content.

But then they went around and locked legendary armor behind it to force people to play raids if they wanted it.
( lucky it only took us complaning years to get other methods to get stat swap armors)
You can keep uniqe skins and ofcourse raids should get their own rings, trinkets, backpack and what ever else in the future.

Leg was introduced as raid centric armor from the beginning, unless u are blind or misinformed. U make it sound as if Anet pulled the dirt under you so u are clearly misinformed.
Now we got WvW/PvP leg armor and i know for a fact that u, personally, aren’t gonna go for those either as any person who just whines never actually does anything but whine. I guess i should watch the PvP/WvW threads to see if u are gonna complain there about accessibility as well, lol.

No was just explaining to the one I quoted why people got ticked off when raids got something totaly new that you couldent get anywere else. ( and now you can so good for everyone. )

Since all the raiders wanted was challengeing group content and got ticked off when people complained it was to hard since they wanted the armor too.

Well will take me quite afew months since Im wvw level 270 but now I can get it at my own pace.

Edit
If you read my post carefully you see I never said it wasent raid centric, I even said they put it there to make people play raids or they couldent get it

zealex.9410:

Being unique and diff for the sake of being unique and did isnt always amazing or oraise worthy. If there are systems in other games that have been proven to work you need to take inspiration from them and improve upon those systems. Like Colin said “Innovate”.

Both mounts and ra9ds in gw2 are vastly diff from their ff14 or wow counter parts.

Saying is bad that the game has its take on sucessful ideas and needs to be unique is just stupid.

/rant

Id like capes actually, as for voice channels i dnt think that would benefit the game that much really. At least in open world. I could seeit be cool for pvp.

voice chat for pvp no hope that never comes all that salt from people getting beating by better people.

Yes becouse meta builds was really needed in open world before right?
Will be just as much build diversity there as it ever were.

Solstace.2514:

I don’t understand what some people want. Raids were provided because players wanted challenging end game content. Of course they are going to be difficult to complete – it requires organization, coordination, practice and skill.

There is plenty of other game content that caters to players who are not interested in that kind of a grind.

If you are interested in raiding, there are tons of opportunities to learn or work with raiding guilds. There are several guilds that recruit and train new players. But it requires effort on your part.

If, on the other hand, you prefer to just press 1 repeatedly or roll your face across a keyboard to succeed, there’s content for that too.

But it’s not fair or reasonable to demand that raids be dumbed down to a level where any player can complete them. That defeats the point of challenging content.

But then they went around and locked legendary armor behind it to force people to play raids if they wanted it.
( lucky it only took us complaning years to get other methods to get stat swap armors)
You can keep uniqe skins and ofcourse raids should get their own rings, trinkets, backpack and what ever else in the future.

Theologus.7209:

Seera.5916:

Fraudulent purchases are typically done by gold sellers with stolen credit card info seeing how many they can buy and turn into gold before they get banned. So of the gems came instantly, gold sellers would get tons of gold instantly.

And in Your oppinion someone who use “stolen credit card” will do it with preorder for 80€? Why, if they can get this 4000 gems for 50€ 365 days a year?
Yeah…

If you think alittle yea they probabely will use this since anet get magnitutde of orders bigger then ususal to handle.
So the gold sellers might get afew accounts slip through the checking due to 72 hour limit being reached.

Why would they care if it cost 80 or 50 bucks its not their money.

Well since fractals are in the mists they can be past present or future or even possible futures.
So I see no reason why your two examples cant be inside a fractal.

yea you need to do the whole event, how could you not be able to run back from waypoint to get afew hits in?

So your trying to install the game in your download folder, sounds bad man maybe move the install file to the folder you want the game installed?

Raine.1394:

You get to play it a little this weekend so there’s that. From the announcement video and after show it looked decidedly better and different than HoT and there were many references to building on GW2. Wooden Potatoes was able to run by mobs and not be swarmed and swallowed alive unlike HoT. I’m ever hopeful but after HoT I won’t pre-purchase. I’ll wait for release, in depth reviews, and feedback on the forums before I buy. If it involves platforming or puzzles in the core game or densely packed annoying mobs I won’t buy.

To be fair WP run past mobs and dont get swarmed in hot either.

for them to make it great again it have to have been great before and it never were.

Dante.1508:

zealex.9410:

Come in like 5 days after the release (so in less than 2 months) and we will tell you. Btw hot was nerfed months ago, its fine now.

No it wasn’t unless it was nerfed to Vanilla GW2 standards in the last 8 months then its still insane to play…

Let me guess your playing in your berserker gear still?

Maybe learn to play the maps with soldier would help, maybe you need more gw2 got gear such as nomad for the people who want stuff to tickle them to death.

Its to combat gold sellers that buy accounts with stolen cards convert gems to gold.
Sell said gold for profit and then the original owner of the card charge back the money spent on game.

Its an ok ui but being able to costumise it more by moving stuff around would be nice.

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

I am a vet player myself been playing since guild wars myself came out wiped my account x5 even and redid it all over again till the beta of guild wars 2 came out .

the way I see it the game owes you noting at all it sure owes me noting at all . what the game did owe you got out of playing the game for this long with many updates and few other things and some events having said that

I already put my order in for Path of Fire of the ultimate edition with the gems to boot . to me that is the whole perk in its self and I do not need to come to the forums crying me a river oh I am a VET their for I get perks for every new thing that comes out as well as perks for new packs that come out too . when you do that you only make us and the game and company super bad . and that needs to stop now like I said the game owes me noting and sure does not owe you any thing at all so stop crying

So your previous thread is just blowing smoke?
No wonder you dont get the engine upgrades you crave mate.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/no-new-system-specs-Path-of-fire-no-buy/first

Panda.1967:

Considering the fact that I was able to start LS3 beforw I bought HoT… you will still get access to LS4 even without PoF… you will not however, get access to PoF raids or legendaries.

We cant be sure of that since the 1 box model is gone maybe the unlock lw story episodes without new expack is aswell.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Linken.6345:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/80-boost-questions

Answer is in there looks like they stack so you would get 2

Edit
A shame really here I thought they would be like the level up scrolls and we would get another free shared slot

You still get another free Shared Inventory Slot; it’s just that with the second one, if you’ve yet to use the first one, they stack.

ooh good news looks like we can expect more shared slots in the future.

buy new digital expansion create a totaly new account with the name you want your done.
only down side is you have to start over.

Arcadio.6875:

Gliding is one of them. All the masteries that aren’t central tyria masteries are exclusive to HoT. Mounts will be exclusive to PoF even though they can be used in central tyria.

Were have they said they can be used in core tyria?
The video they specificly said it should feel exiting to move across the elonan desert in a variety of ways when speaking of mounts.

Dont sound like we will use them in core or hot mate.

yea have normal tools on all characters then the unbreakable in sharde inventory slots just remember to dubble click when loging in and before loging out.

Why some people say souldbound is before they used to be and those people have forgot to speak to the black lion trader to get their tools unlocked to account bound.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/80-boost-questions

Answer is in there looks like they stack so you would get 2

Edit
A shame really here I thought they would be like the level up scrolls and we would get another free shared slot

well you can only buy the digital deluxe upgrade from the gem store.
do you have the normal PoF edition bought for hard cash already?

Edit
Looks like this is wrong, I thought they would do the same as previous exp

niclas.7693:

Dear All,

My bags are always full with materials, as I cannot store all of them in my tiny material tab. If there is a kind soul out there who could gift me a Storage Expander I would be really grateful. I’m in EU.

You could always sell exess materials off convert gold to gems and buy that expander to fix the problem

unless its for musical instrument

Red sticky for the win

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Searching-the-Forums/first#post4701411

max for jewel crafting is 400

did you put up buy orders if so the trading post takes the gold you need to buy the items

Edit
If you cancel them it will get put into your trading post balance

Well it aint supported so why should it be there?

Well other then the charge on low level urban battle ground, I cant really agree to any of these improvments.

You want easier/shorter fractals mate, well there is alway fractal 40. ( and even that short one you complain about a 6 second cut scene)

I would say necro but whats easy and fun for you might be something dif.

sorudo.9054:

so in short, ppl who don’t like to grind and can’t stand craft grinding will never ever get them.
also, in short, they’re so useless even the TP don’t want them.

Good for those people that gen 1 is avaliable on the tp then hu?

Linken.6345:

You can replay the story anytime mate, click a empty slot make a character.
Alternative delete a character remake the same one.

Reply to myself
About scarlets war, they said way back that they would like to introduce scarlets war again but all we got so far is the recap video. ( No info at all if we ever will get a reworked full thing ever)

You can replay the story anytime mate, click a empty slot make a character.
Alternative delete a character remake the same one.

No unlike gliding what would they add?

We cant run in the air but now we can glide.

Feanor.2358:

Astralporing.1957:

Feanor.2358:

“Easy mode challenging content”. Am I the only one who sees a problem with that?

Do you really thing that the same difficulty is the same level of challenge to everyone? I’m pretty sure that there are players, for example, for whom raids aren’t a challenge at all. As well as those that would be challenged even with a lower-difficulty version.

The thing is, those who would be challenged by a lower-difficulty version can get the very same level of challenge in existing content like fractals.

Yes please point out what fractal you can go into with 10 people and they will get the very same level of challenge.

Einlanzer.1627:

Vayne.8563:

Einlanzer.1627:

PyrateSilly.4710:

The problem with “hype” is most people start reading what other players are posting and getting caught up in what others are talking about without reading what the Devs posted. And in then they start getting conflicting or wrong information that they take to be true. And then they get upset that it’s not like what other players said or what they imagined what was said in between the lines of what the Devs said.

I was not disappointed in HoT. I read what the Devs said. I understood what they wrote PLUS I also understood that things may change anyway since “nothing survives first contact”

Actually, the problem with HoT is that it didn’t contain the amount of content people expect for an expansion from playing other MMOs. The fact that it took three years to come out AND was full priced AND was over-hyped by Anet just made the problem worse. I don’t think you can really put that on players.

See that’s the problem . I got exactly what I was expecting with hype due to what Anet said. They said it would be an expansion light on content and heavy on changes to the game mechanics. They went into excrutiating detail.

The real issue was less the hype and more then distance between the announcement and the launch.

Anet did promise some stuff that didn’t make it into the launch, and some stuff that’s even still coming out but that’s nothing to do with hype one way or another.

I’ve always known and have said for ages that HoT was a combination season pass and expansion. You can find me saying that even before HOT launched.

Those that argued it was just an expansion and didn’t include the upcoming LS 3 in it, well, I got the LS 3 for free, because I was here. And when you add that to HoT content it was a decent sized expansion in my opinion.

And again, I was saying this on these forums from the very beginning.

It’s ridiculous to try to blame players for HoT not meeting their expectations, and surely you know it.

No it really is not anet was very clear what would be included in hot, just becouse some players got over hyped and started to imagen things dont make it ridiculous to blame them for it.

So OP the sigils are working as intended and not as thread title state don’t work

Brigand.9502:

Faaris.8013:

Brigand.9502:

I didn’t realize illuminating an alternative way for the OP to achieve his goals would affect you in such a way. My apologies.

I’d also argue that I play zero time to unlock an elite. I play WvW to WvW. As an ancillary benefit I get to insta-80 and insta-specialize in less than 5 minutes so I can start stabbing people in the face on my new shiny character that much quicker.

If you wanted to give the OP an alternative way of getting the Elite trait line, why didn’t you say so? Like:

“OP, you can also play WvW so you don’t have to do hero challenges in PvE. It works like that: You do this and that, and then, when you create a new character, you can use this/that to unlock the elite traits.”

You don’t even tell how it works, do you have to collect things in WvW that you can use to purchase hero points? Do you get hero points just by playing WvW? I have no idea, and the OP probably neither. Your post arrived at my address like this: “Ha, I have a smarter and faster way to get the Elite traits than you guys, I play WvW!”

Btw. I sometimes do hero challenges despite already having done them before, because just like you play WvW to WvW, many people play PvE to PvE, and as a side effect, they get hero points and other stuff.

lol this thread isn’t about you, put down your pitchfork

So what his/her post is spot on you dident say anything else then lol I wvw get elite spec by snapping fingers no info on how to do it at all.

You know how to do it but do the OP?

Astralporing.1957:

Feanor.2358:

Jockum.1385:

No, raids don’t target the same audience as T1-T2 fractals and dungeons do.

Yes, I was complaining about the quantity of new instanced casual content.
Would you say there is enough content when all raids would get deleted?

I don’t think low-tier fractals are actually meant for anyone, except as a stepping stone toward T4. As for dungeons, Arah explorable says “Hi”.

Astralporing.1957:

Considering that’s exactly how raiders got their raids, it seems to be a really good idea, to be truthful. It’s definitely better than just letting it go, because the latter has exactly zero chance of accomplishing anything.

Except asking for type of content which didn’t exist isn’t the same as asking for content which already exists but you cannot be bothered to enjoy it because you already played it once.

Ooh, easy mode raids exist already?

No it seems even given the thread title this thread is now about casual 5 man dungeon content for some reason.

Humans see connections were there arent any

Well it dident include ls3 since even having ftp got it unlocked if you played during release time of the ep.
That you could then play when ever you picked up hot or the next expansion.

Only reason I bought it before release was so that I could get s3 unlocked since they dident decide to tell us how they were going to do it before releasing the first episode.
( Oh and the free character slot helped aswell)