Guild Wars 2

aspirine.6852:

What kind of report do you guys sent in to Anet then? There is no griefing or trolling option in the report function
We have 2 very annoying pve trolls who like nothing more to put up their commander tag and confuse people and call out wrong fights when they tag up.

1. Hit the “support” link at the upper left of this page.
2. On the new page that opens, hit the “Submit a request” link at the upper right corner.
3. Choose “In-game issue” from the menu and you should be all set.

I did this just 3 days ago. Got a reply really fast (the next day). No action yet. The guy is still killing golems, wasting supply, and dropping tons of siege during defenses to disrupt building of useful siege.

So I guess the best solution is to grind out 2 Ascended weapons, one with night, and one where you put slaying sigils that you overwrite each time you do a different dungeon (for the day dungeons)?

MagicSlurpees.4851:

Lord Kuru.3685:

You enjoy sitting in traffic when going to the grocery store?

cranked.3812:

Glad to hear. Please come to TC and keep CoF open for us at all times. We would really appreciate it.

Also, your analogy doesn’t make sense. First, as said above, you like traffic? Second, you CAN teleport in this game. In fact, you can teleport straight to the entrance, so I guess I am not seeing your point.

~Whoosh~

LOL.. yeah.. you’re right

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

panzer.6034:

Some people posting here don’t seem to understand the OP.

Yes, you can transmute but the problem is that if you grinded for hours to get an ascended set and then placed an expensive skin on it, you then are far, far, far less likely to buy more skins and overwrite your super costly ascended gear. When exotic was the tops and was easy to come by, it wasn’t a big deal to pick up some new pieces to add new skins to and show off your new look without losing stats. When the BiS armor is super hard and expensive to get, you’re less like likely to buy fancy new skins when your options are to either put them on sub-optimal gear (exotics) or destroy the expensive skins you already have on your maxed-out armor set.

um… except that unless I missed my guess, you can keep the Ascended Stats when you transmute each and every time, and use the new appearance from each new skin each time you transmute without losing the Ascended Stats whatsoever.

And also, thanks to transmutation crystals, it is actually cheaper to buy the actual armor you want the skin of, rather than to buy such and such skin for the armor. Unless the skin is exclusive to being a skin and thus cannot be bought in a pre-existing armor format.

When you transmute you lose your old skin. If that’s a skin you bought (or worked hard for) you might not be so happy. Your solutions are:

1. Suck it up and lose the old skin.
2. Buy splitters at 1 for 300 gems or 25 for 6000 gems.
3. Don’t put a new skin.
4. Lose interest in putting skins on Ascended gear altogether.

I’ve noticed that I’ve (unconsciously) chosen #4.

When exotics were best-in-slot gear, it made sense to have separate weapons for dungeon running — one with sigil of night and other(s) with slaying sigils for the daytime dungeons. With Ascended weapons, it’s not nearly as easy getting a second weapon.

So what sigils do you all run with now?

Beldin.5498:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Beldin.5498:

Azure.8670:

ascended medium armor is gangster, the rest sucks

I made the medium chest just for the look, if i want another look i simply switch to my old exotics. The difference in stats really make no difference on armor.

However i see the problem on weapons for me, since they give at least that 5% damage bonus.

And if they begin to introduce vertical stat grind into infusion slots (+5 stats now, then +7, then +10, and so on), what will you do then?

I use Traveller Runes on 5 of my characters, that alone cost me more stats than what Ascended and maybe these infusions will give me. So thats how much i really care about having maybe 1-2% more in total stats.

It’s not going to be 1%-2% if they keep increasing the max stats of infusions — which I believe is likely… especially since:

1. Anet loves their grind.
2. They “promised” Ascended would be the final tier of gear (for now) and this gets around that in order to keep gear grind in the game.

THE Dentist.5960:

Oozo.7856:

Kind of a surprising score for this matchup.

Not really, NSP people have families and we have been trolled all week by a few guys who clearly are FC or working with someone from FC. Destroying golems, FC magically shows up when no one is around but that guy, can’t place siege with him throwing it on top stacking it. Just ready to be done with FC tbh and get rid of that kittener. With threads being closed anyways that’s my rage for the end of the forums as we know it.

This. It’s pretty bad. Big blemish on what otherwise would have been good fights with FC.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

Just make Map chat readable by all servers, that way people will vent their anger there instead of making tonnes of posts which you then have to moderate.
You save time moderating, filters on in Map chat prevent too much abuse (lol), and the kids get to scream their heads off and we all get to laugh at them.

The issue is is that removing these forums cuts off the players from the WvW team, so how do we then make suggestions and talk about WvW improvements?

If this happened, I’d imagine the in-game “report for verbal abuse” button would explode from overuse.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

You guys do know that Transmutation Crystals exist, right? And that they allow you to transfer the skin of one armor onto the stats of another armor. This includes allowing you to get the skin you want onto Ascended Armor of any sort… What’s more is that they only cost 10 dollars for 25 of them… That is 10 dollars for enough to transmute 4.16667 sets of armor (not counting weapons).

And what if you don’t want to destroy your previous skin? One that you perhaps wish to use again. One that you perhaps paid money for?

I think you’d need a transmutation splitters for this. They cost 6000 gems for 25 splitters. If 10 dollars buys you 25 transmutation crystals, then it costs $18 to split the skins for one set of armor.

Beldin.5498:

Azure.8670:

ascended medium armor is gangster, the rest sucks

I made the medium chest just for the look, if i want another look i simply switch to my old exotics. The difference in stats really make no difference on armor.

However i see the problem on weapons for me, since they give at least that 5% damage bonus.

And if they begin to introduce vertical stat grind into infusion slots (+5 stats now, then +7, then +10, and so on), what will you do then?

Azure.8670:

and its not fair for us to put this negativity out there because of our reasons.

“Our reasons”? The negativity can be blamed on Anet. Perhaps you can tell them to start fixing bugs that have been in the game since launch — over a year and a half ago. Perhaps you can tell them to start creating content that’s more than ticking achievements off a list. Perhaps you can tell them to stop with the gear grind.

I think that would help new players more than telling people to stop being negative on the forums.

Donari.5237:

They’re only useless if you have only 80s who will only wear level 80 stuff.

You have level 80s who don’t wear level 80 stuff?

OneManArmy.9732:

Cloudwalkernz.1328:

lol I often wonder if Anet ever play their games.

Look at the Upgrade extractor for example. It costs 250 gems to purchase. This means 17 golds. The most expensive upgrade is about 5 golds.

So who will use an extractor unless you got one free from an lion chest?!

the most expensive upgrade about 100-300 gold. check agony infusions

This. I also take its existence as evidence we’ll be seeing an infusion stats grind next: infusions give +5 stats now, then it’ll be +7, then +10,…

chemiclord.3978:

Personally, I saw a company try to redefine the MMO genre, change the way people play MMOs… and that larger market pretty much rejected the concept whole cloth… like it had done for EVERY challenge to the way they had grown accustomed to.

At that point, with you already “all-in” with GW2… what would you do? Would you honestly let the game flounder and eventually fail out of the principle of the thing?

They got greedy when they had great sales upon launch and gave up on all the changes in order to keep everyone who bought the game. What they could have done was accept that those who bought the game looking for grind would quit but work to keep their target audience.

We end up with something that was developed as one game but supported after launch as another. That’s a large part of why GW2 has been a disaster.

lordkrall.7241:

And I am quite sure that they have way more eyes and ears out checking out any other MMO being released than most people here does. It is after all their line of business so it is highly unlikely that they wouldn’t keep informed about it.

This may be so. But Anet’s problem is not ignorance of competition. They can be the most well informed people out there, but in the end, they make bad decisions. A lot of them. That’s their most serious issue.

If you need to save supply at the present time because of the fear of attack, the second worker allows you to quickly build the upgrade once the coast is clear.

Danko.9602:

It’s still your choice to make ascended gear or not. So you still play however you want. You just choose to ‘grind’.
If you don’t like the idea of ascended gear, don’t pay attention to it. It will not affect you anyways.

You can bet that next is infusion slot grind. Now it’s +5 stats… next, +7… then +10, etc.

And only Ascended gear has infusion slots. Ascended gear will affect you.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

What if I told you that I’m grinding out Ascended armor for the skin?

What are you going to do when you want a different skin?

• Ascended gear is a HUGE pain to grind.
• Skins are (almost all) one-time use.

These two are in conflict:

With exotics as best-in-slot gear, if you wanted to have two different looks to swap between (or just didn’t want to destroy an old skin when you’re switching to a new one), you’d just get a duplicate piece of gear and skin that.

With Ascended gear, getting a second look is far more costly (you either need a splitter or do another grind). A possible result of this is that people are more hesitant to buy skins.

Could it be that every player who gets an Ascended piece of gear is potentially money lost for Anet?

Example: My necro had two identical exotic daggers with different (expensive) skins that I’d switch between depending on my mood. Now that I have an Ascended dagger, I have no interest in skinning it because it’s going to be a HUGE pain unskinning it in the future (and I don’t like destroying expensive skins by overwriting them).

Aeonblade.8709:

geist.3980:

Aeonblade.8709:

Just wait a few months. It’ll hit the laurel/honor badge merchant. No need to craft or rush into crafting it.

don’t hold your breath.

They confirmed in the vertical progression thread that more avenues to attain ascended weapons/armor were coming to WvW and other areas of the game.

No breath holding involved, Anet themselves said it was something people wanted and that they were going to make it easier to attain for WvW players.

What they say they’ll do and when they’ll actually do it are entirely different things.
Don’t expect this to come anytime soon because of Anet’s glacial development pace (especially with respect to all things WvW) as well as the fact that they know they’d anger a lot of PvE players if Ascended gear comes too easily too soon.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

They NEVER said there wouldn’t be any expansions, just that they’re focused on Living Story. LS and Expansions shouldn’t be excluded from each other, as people are trying to make them look like.

Ether way to answer your question it’s a No to expansions coming SOON.

LS and Expansions are not mutually exclusive in theory. But with finite dev resources, we can realistically only have one or the other.

In any case, GW2’s problems won’t be solved by an expansion anyway — they have, for example, serious problems in their storytelling department that will appear whether in LS or an expansion.

saalle.4623:

But they also said that working on huge patch that coming in 2014.Doesnt matter do u call it expansion or not,important is to add more perma content

They also said they released an expansion’s worth of content in 2013. LOL!!

SonicTHI.3217:

Because ANET abandoned the development of GW1 to make a better game based on the same principles – no grind for stats, cosmetic endgame, good and engaging pvp.

Instead why dont the people that want vertical progression and all that go back to WoW?

This.

Just wait for the infusion grind that I’m sure will be next (+5 now, +7 next, +10 after that, etc.). That’ll force people who don’t plan on getting Ascended gear to do exactly that.

Living world is a great idea on paper. In reality it’s a disaster:

it’s buggy, rushed, and pretty much devoid of real gameplay content. The story is total garbage that feels like it was written by a third grader.

And the worst part: it has taken all focus away from fixing game issues/bugs that have been in the game since launch a year and a half ago.

skullmount.1758:

Sometimes the present doesn’t even drop a gift, at least for me anyways. I’ll get the mob, but no present.

This too. All this does is encourage people to pop the big gifts, grab presents (if there are any!) and run.

Sirendor.1394:

I have. Played LoL, SMITE and Forge, but they lack lore and result in a completely random killfest, without any goal at all.

Looks like WvW is the closest to the PvP you want that GW2 has. Unfortunately, it seems Anet doesn’t really care for it much.

I think the jungle dragon is a minion of Scarlet.

Is it ok to farm these bandits?

What’s up with the endless waves of mobs in Brisbane Wildlands (Hidden Lake area, Seraph Observer Waypoint)? The WP is forever contested. Is there a way to clear the area, some event or something?

bri.2359:

Yes, the demand for leather is low cos most of the medium armour wearing professions are smart enough to realise ascended armour is not needed, is a massive waste of time and a gold sink.

The next vertical grind will almost certainly be infusion slot stats. Currently they offer +5 stats … expect that number to slowly rise. These stats will add up and eventually they will be necessary as this grind gets going.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Besides, I find the accusation of “a new level of time gating” a vast exaggeration, given that it only takes 5 minutes in 3 additional days to finish a meta-achievement.

What is there to exaggerate? That’s the definition of time-gating.

If it’s becoming harder to have fun, take a break for a while. Only not logging in will make the devs pay attention.

Urejt.5648:

skyhammer removal or skyhammer change should be top priority. Sadly, it is not.

Anet LOVES skyhammer. You won’t see it removed.

Nike.2631:

Funny how a tankish/bunker build with lots of active condition cleanse doesn’t even notice its princesses rather than say plushie griffons or skrit.

Nice to know something out there eats Berserkers alive .

Zerker gear works fine. You just need to have cleanses.

If you’re pulling them together, make sure you wait for their invulnerability pulse to go off (a few seconds after opening the gift), then pull, cleave/AOE them down.

Cleanse confusions and hit them fast and hard.. if the fight lasts too long, you’ve got to run and reset.

Or, just grab presents and run — the toys don’t seem to have very good drop rates (and the skritt never drop loot at all).

Anyone notice that the skritt that pop out of the Wintersday gift nodes never drop loot?

Wasn’t there recently some guy who posted he did AC (p1?) with all low levels (but only really had 3 low levels) … find those 3 and make a group!

As for people wanting level 80’s…. even though you’re supposedly downscaled, the algorithm is just not done well — gear makes a huge difference.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

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Not 100% sure, but if Anet considers this an exploit, you might be infracted for your post. You might want to delete it.

As for fixing the issue: have the client (to save server resources) check whether the position you’ve targeted can be seen on a one of the “standard” monitor configurations. If not, the target circle goes red.

The server can do occasional random confirmation checks to make sure there isn’t funny business going on with the client.

How long have you been playing? There was a massive karma nerf a while back (August/September?) and it’s much harder to get karma now.

If most of your million karma was from pre-nerf, that means you’re going to have a hard time getting that karma back should you decide you need it (for example to make a Legendary).

tomlin.8204:

Ashabhi.1365:

Personally, I think the kick system is flawed in its inception.

Once inside an instance of any kind, kicking should not be allowed.

This. Exactly this.

Really, how many people are going to join a group and sabotage it from start to finish? Maybe one or two people but I bet not even half as many as these kick-vote abusers. Even the majority of extremely anti-social people just want to finish it as quickly as possible and get their rewards.

There should be no kick option, but an auto-kick timeout would be good, which triggers at say 2-5 minutes inactive.

Griefers gonna grief I guess, but less so without a kick option. You could always report, just like you have to in open world. People are horrid there too but there’s no option to kick from Queensdale or wherever. You deal with it and/or report. Why shouldn’t it be the same in dungeons.

In the end, this might be the right idea. It’s easy to implement — at this point, we can be sure Anet sure isn’t going to spend any real effort fixing the issue — and if your teammates are so terrible, just take the loss and quit the party.

It would be nice if you could kick party members who have entered your party within the last 3 minutes — this’ll help people find the party composition they desire.

You should have known you were going to be kicked after they kicked the one guy and invited a guildee. Your only protection is to be the first to enter the instance because it doesn’t look like Anet will ever do anything about this issue.

That’s how it works. Someone is willing to sell for one less gold than you. If you don’t want that, you need to choose a price that’s low enough no one wants to undercut you.

You’ll never get a dev to come say it’s even less popular. In any case, TAkittenwas the least run because Anet refused to fix the issues with the last boss.

They gave so many free badges away with the Achievement chests that they probably can’t afford to allow WvW gear to be salvaged/toileted/TP’d.

Draygo.9473:

Metrics are more reliable than player feedback.

Only if those metrics are interpreted correctly.

Any one know why the Wintersday JP was changed from last year’s format to this year’s PvP format?

While the Halloween JP last year had everyone starting at the same location creating issues with seeing your own character, they pretty much fixed that with the Wintersday JP by having different start points.

Last year’s format did force people to wait at the starting platform, but I don’t recall the wait being so long — plus, it really created a sense of community .. everyone doing the JP together. Now, while you can go whenever you want, everyone is basically playing by themselves.

(btw: search is broken, couldn’t find a thread with similar topic.)

If you give your stats from the hero panel whilst wielding your Ascended weapon and also with your exotic that’d make it a lot easier for people to do the analysis.

Obtena.7952:

Ralron.8124:

stats gain is not CRap if you are FULLY ascended , even a 5% in damage increase AND more armor!! is decent for END game gear not to mention they also need to keep the game balance so making it TO GOOD would just break the rest of the game.

That true but we aren’t talking about FULL ascended, it’s about Silk, which is only necessary for ARMOR. Since the thread is about the ARMOR, then the context of my statement is correct … The stats gain on the ARMOR IS GARBAGE!

You may think the stat gain is garbage for Ascended armor, but it won’t stay that way. Only Ascended gear has infusion slots — I’m betting Anet will use infusion slots as the next vertical grind .. we’ll slowly see the stat ceiling increase on infusions, forcing people to go Ascended.

PCanineBrigade.4916:

My friend plays Charr Ele and never puts his shirt on because “Real Charr needs no shirt.”

Now that’s playing how you want LOL!