Guild Wars 2

Tessen.5920:

It sounds very interesting to hear your views! Thanx! I am still wondering though. If some people always represent while others only represent when we do guild missions for example. Isn’t that unfair to the people who generate the influence?
I mean it kinda sounds like loafing if you only represent for the guild missions.
What do you guys think?

Guilds should be managed in whatever way seems best by their leaders.

If they want a more open guild where people can rep as they please whenever they please, then run your guild accordingly.

If you want your members to rep all the time, run it that way.

The guild I am in requires 100% repping. Not only does it help with influence, it helps us communicate with everyone and foster a friendly community atmosphere. It is really hard to communicate with members and bond as a family when members are not repping.

If our guild is not meeting the requirements of a member, I encourage them to go to another if that is what they choose, no hard feelings. Everyone is here to have fun and everyone has fun in different ways and has different needs.

If members are repping other guilds, there must be a reason. There must be something that this guild isn’t doing or providing for them that the other is. Maybe another guild is a better fit for them.

Not every guild is for every person. Find one that fits you. Or multiple guilds if that is your thing. Run your guild the way you want to run it.

Pugging is a dangerous road. You can get a bad group of PUGs and an easy run can turn into a nightmare. 30 minute run is not over an hour.

You really don’t have much to gauge the group you are with. If I see someone with high AP, I just figure he/she has been playing a little longer than someone with less than 1000.

Does that mean he/she is better? No, definately not always. But with the limited information I have to go by, I can use that to guess they have played a little longer and are hopefully a little more skilled at the required tactics than someone who doesn’t have that much AP.

That said, I don’t discriminate against people when PUGging for any reason. Unless they are just plain bad.

And I never give a guardian a hard time about dying. Guardians are the focus of the aggro the vast majority of the time, alleviating pressure off the rest of the team. If they die more there it is usually because they are getting the brunt of it.

I main an Engie, but when I run my mesmer I simply use a focus. Gives me enough speed where I don’t complain much any more.

The other utility that the mesmer brings more than makes up for the lack of speed. And having to give up an off-hand weapon slot for a focus was not a deal breaker for me.

My main Engie, on the other hand, has perma-swiftness thanks to traits but lacks a lot of utility. (Funny, I know.. supposed to very versatile).

My mesmer with a staff/sword/focus and knights gear can kill enemies way faster than my Engie all zerked out. And bring stealth while doing it to help avoid unnecessary mobs.

My big issue with the mesmer is more condition removal than speed.

To be fair, a change such as this probably should have been included in the patch notes.

Deniara Devious.3948:

I really hope a large underwater area remains. I won’t get angry, if the quaggans or krait will be gone, but the completely remove one major aspect of game (underwater combat) from WvWvW, that would be a sad decision. The tiny pond in Eternal Battlegrounds really isn’t enough.

I really hate jumping puzzles, so I hope there won’t be anything even remotely like that instead. We already have separate jumping puzzles in WvWvW. No need to add more.

I agree with this 100%. I understand a lot of people love JPs and hate underwater combat, but there are those of us that love underwater combat and hate JPs. There should be room enough in this game for everyone.

Underwater combat is already sorely lacking any type of respect in this game as is. Just because people don’t like it and don’t spend the time learning it doesn’t mean it isn’t still a viable aspect of the game.

It will be a bad decision to totally remove underwater combat from WvW.

Wotah.2975:

Oh man, and I just made my Kamohoali’i Kotaki.

Yeah, I just made Frenzy.

Why do they keep removing aspects of the game? I understand the want for some new territory and changes to the map, but to totally eliminate underwater combat?

Sigh

The cost of those new portals is pretty stiff. Mesmers still will be the go to guy for portals.

I too have about 36. The limit is probably 250 like everything else. (Per stack)

Use Piles of Crystalline Dust instead of fractal relics in the recipe.

They have changed this with the wallet update.

Their logic is flawed imho.

Nerf the original sources for T6 materials, only to introduce new sources for T6 as a ‘fix’ to the problem?

That logic makes no sense to me.

Easy to forget, I know, but Frenzy needs some updating too.

A misty aura that only works about 50% of the time, fish that swim around the weapon.

No special projectiles or anything of the like.

Very beautiful weapon, but very little effects.

What could you possibly want out of those chests besides a ticket for a weapon skin? Those boosters and tonics are near useless.

Cheapest method of acquisition:

Ascended Amulets: Laurels (Purchase from WvW vendor for less laurels + BOH)
Ascended Accessories: Guild commendations
Ascended Rings: Fractals
Ascended Back piece: Fractals or Craft via MF

That is the reason. People are not going to craft it and sell it for less than their cost.

There is no difference. The chaos gun has the same look too, and at one point in time it was cheaper.

There is some validity to this post.

The introduction of champ loot has led to zerg loot trains in a few select maps. Also, the introduction of the crown pavilion has led to zerg farming the bosses there.

Both of these seem very counter to the idea of getting people ‘out to the maps’ to explore.

AFAIK, the aura has never worked with kits. I have the Quip on my Engie and I don’t think they really intend for it to work with kits.

Legendary and kits is an issue they have been avoiding since launch. Just like hobo sacks, they like to pretend the issues aren’t there.

Still in the loot tables and still dropping, especially at the end of jumping puzzles.

There really is no excuse why these are still in game. Them being sellable is not a reason either. The election is long over and these should have been removed.

Doing away with the very limited underwater combat there already is in WvW? That, good sir, gets a big thumbs down from me.

I want more underwater combat in the game as a whole. Not less.

While attempting tier 1 of the gauntlet a couple days ago to get some of the achievements, I once was tossed into an ongoing matchup that of course ended badly for me and the other guy.

Someone was already in the ring fighting his boss when I was transported into the arena with my selected boss also. We both promptly died in about 4 seconds of chaos.

I assume this was a bug and not intended? Anyone else have this happen to them?

I had this happen with 2 of the legendary bosses a couple days ago. I wasn’t farming either. Popped in and killed two of the bosses while doing a little bit of the gauntlet for achievements. No loot from the corpses. Gold medal awarded.

Ran it last night with over 350% MF. Got all the 100+ kill achievements (6 of them) and still didn’t get much for the time invested. For about an hour, I got around 3 gold worth of stuff. I can do better than that elsewhere.

No exotics. No lodestones/cores. Rares were plentiful as they should have been. Overall, I am not impressed at all by the rate of return of this place.

COF speed runners were all about the gold. Run multiple times for the mass amount of gold.

With the introduction of the daily gold bonus that is account bound, they effectively stopped that. (Coupled with the removal of coin from the bosses)

COF1 speed runners didn’t really do anything to ruin the ‘token’ business. If a COF speed runner was using an ALT, it was to bypass DR and get the maximum amount of coin. Tokens were not a real issue here.

I don’t see how COF speed runners can be to blame for the change to the daily token rewards for ALTs.

Side comment: I find it really amusing that in the news announcing the wallet, the picture shown is obviously from a COF speed runner. Lots of COF tokens and lots of gold. Seems they were abusers of the problem also. lol

If you really want to be sad, look at the PvP forum. That forum ALWAYS has Dev activity.

I have seen this behavior in Malchor’s Leap before, about a month and a half ago.

Every node on the map was in a different place each day. No updates or patches. It was a little weird.

Still existed for me last night.

Very rarely do they spawn in a location that is unreachable.

Usually when there is a node indicated below ground, there is a tunnel or passage beneath you. I have found they actually purposely place nodes near entrances to hidden tunnels and underwater entrances to help players find the entrance.

To encourage players to participate in a wider array of dungeon content, we’ve designed the system so if you complete the same dungeon path twice in one day, you’ll receive the normal reward for completion, but won’t receive the bonus gold reward again during that day.

Is this still the normal reward for completion? No.

Not many here are arguing that the gold bonus should be character bound. I agree that the daily gold bonus for a dungeon path should be account bound. ALTs should NOT get the full daily gold bonus.

There is no real harm in a person running the same path on an ALT getting full dungeon token rewards (for the first run on an ALT). That is the real topic of conversation here.

And the time people have to play shouldn’t be a factor. If one player only has 2 hours to play while another has 8 hours to play, than person A is going to have less stuff. Plain and simple. Doesn’t matter how many ALTs you are running. That argument really doesn’t hold much weight here, from my point of view.

A person playing 2 characters does not have more ‘stuff’ than a person playing 1 character for the same amount of time.

If a person is playing for 2 hours, regardless of whether it is 1 character or 2, he/she is still going to receive the same amount of loot.

You can’t miraculously cause loot to increase just because you are running on an ALT versus running your main.

Bug still exists for me after the latest hotfix.

Wow.. really?! Did they even announce this change or have I just missed it?

Edit: Found the reference. Buried in another thread. Thanks for the info.

They really should have put that info in the patch notes. Pretty important imho.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Also I believe my character has a bit of a gift for landing lodes for some unknown reason… not just among the icebrood but sparks as well, and even the Orrian trinket boxes.

I hate you and your luck. :P

But, I agree with the MF not mattering. Back when the lodestones used to drop it really didn’t matter whether you were wearing no MF or a full set of MF. Their drop rate remained the same.

Though, unlike your experience, I have found their drop rate in the last few months to be horrible.

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Thread title says nothing about the bug.
Thread post says nothing about the bug.
Thread screenshot doesn’t point out bug.

YEAH ARENANET, WHY AREN’T YOU MIND READERS??!!?

They are well aware of the bug.

I’ve wondered this myself. Why no love for the Sylvari? Only Sylvari in the LS content seem to be bad guys.

The main problem with population imbalance concerns WvW. Any other content can be done via guesting.

If you play dungeons, there isn’t an issue. You can play cross server.

If you PvE, you can guest to any server and join in the fun with whoever you want.

Honestly, part of the problem is with each new Living Story release, they funnel mass amounts of players to a certain area. This makes the maps even more bare elsewhere.

They are not spreading the people out to the maps like the initially said they would like to do. In fact, maps are becoming even bigger ghost towns because of the new content.

I loved having gold on each of my characters. I very rarely used gold from one character to fund equipment or purchases on another. I liked being able to see my mesmer ALT accumulate her small fortune next to my main Engie’s small fortune. If I had a choice, I would prefer it to remain this way.

That said, the inconvience of having all my gold lumped together is small in comparison to the benefits of the wallet. In this case, the benefits outweigh the negative for me.

Still no mention of reducing the current token rewards. This is the unadvertised nerf.

The daily gold bonus has always been advertised as account bound. This is known.

To encourage players to participate in a wider array of dungeon content, we’ve designed the system so if you complete the same dungeon path twice in one day, you’ll receive the normal reward for completion, but won’t receive the bonus gold reward again during that day.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dungeon

And the nerf to dungeon tokens for running the same path with an ALT is hurting the search for parties also. Why run again on an ALT when you won’t get the proper rewards?

cesmode.4257:

It wasnt a ninja nerf. They announced it over and over.
And there are good reasons for them tweaking the rewards. Although, 1 gold for nearly every path so far? Kind of lazy if you ask me.

Where have they ever said they were going to change the rewards for ALTs? They only said the new daily gold bonus was going to be account bound and once daily.

No where have they ever said that running the same path with a different toon would yield you less tokens. I have not even seen this implied anywhere.

Not entirely sure what you are asking, but you can still mine quartz crystals in your home instance if you finished the achievement that gave you this ability.

Otherwise, you can purchase crystals off the trading post.

Before the patch, if you ran the same path on an ALT right after running it on your main you had a chance of DR kicking in if you did it too fast.

If you waited long enough between runs, you would get full rewards.

All paths of AC are 1.5 gold while SE P2, COF P3, all of COE are 1 gold?

Granted, all the dungeons are pretty easy once you learn and master the strategy and techniques. But there are some that are notoriously harder and they are only getting 1 gold?

Arah P3 1.5 gold or AC P3 1.5 gold? I know which one is a lot easier and faster.

Dungeons were nerfed hard.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

DR kicks in if you run the same path too quickly, even on different toons.

But with this latest patch, you are awarded 20 tokens for completing the path and a bonus 40 tokens with teh daily gold reward chest. Doing the same path again with a different toon will yield you 20 tokens and NOT the additional 40 tokens that they moved to the bonus daily chest.

This was a stealth nerf and there really is no reason for it.

Except it wasn’t stealth as it was announced and in the patch notes.

Care to show me anywhere, patch notes or ANYWHERE, that they have announced the change to dungeon tokens?

The patch notes include the dungeon reward update notes concerning gold. No mention of tokens. No mention of moving the 40 tokens to the dail account bound chest.

•All bosses no longer directly drop gold.
•All explorable dungeon paths now give out 1 to 3 gold based on the path. This is an account-based daily reward.
•All story dungeons now give out 50 silver upon completion. This is an account-based daily reward.

Link to the post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Token-Wallet-Thank-you-a-net/page/2

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

I’m assuming it’s still possible to withdraw them as items though, because some of those items are needed for Mystic Forge recipes. Or will you be able to load the Forge directly from the wallet?

Martin Kerstein:

As I am not a designer I do not know 100% how it works, but the recipes have been modified to work within the new system. I think (take this with a grain of salt) you can spend the tokens on an item that then will be used in the recipe.

I’d like to see….. just… something. Some type of progress on these issues.

Anniversary is fast approaching and nothing has been done.

New weapon skins, new back piece skins… and the Engie is sitting on the rock in the corner saying WTF?!

I’m glad they have all this ‘higher priority’ stuff to focus their resources on.

Still in game. This is ridiculous.

DR kicks in if you run the same path too quickly, even on different toons.

But with this latest patch, you are awarded 20 tokens for completing the path and a bonus 40 tokens with teh daily gold reward chest. Doing the same path again with a different toon will yield you 20 tokens and NOT the additional 40 tokens that they moved to the bonus daily chest.

This was a stealth nerf and there really is no reason for it.

Another stealth nerf in the latest patch evidently.

I was going to post about this.

I think they have finally fixed the audio bug with the Quip. Only part of the sounds used to come through. Notice the full effect last night.

If it wasn’t annoying before, it sure is now! But I believe this was a bug fix and not really an update.