Guild Wars 2

Healix.5819:

Malediktus.3740:

One thing I (and probably others too) noticed is that it says collect all 20 weapons skins, which either hints for a new primordus themed skin coming or even a whole new weapon type.

In PvE they’re Primordus, but in PvP they’re Destroyer. There’s 20 skins in the Destroyer set.

They used to be called Destroyer in pve, too. But Anet renamed them in a patch.

Lethalvriend.1723:

Malediktus.3740:

Its a typical Anet.
It also only gives 3 AP. Something like this should give at least 10 if not 20 AP.

Nearly all achievements since HoT give very little AP. You can see the trend if you look through older achievements and the ones you get from HoT (and those added after).

I am aware of it. And its a stupid trend considering the backpacks are at 39/42k AP and we seem to get less than 2k AP per year. So even the top achievers like me will need many more years to get there.

One thing I (and probably others too) noticed is that it says collect all 20 weapons skins, which either hints for a new primordus themed skin coming or even a whole new weapon type.

Blude.6812:

You can unlock it in one session of play, maybe an hr or less of play.
No big deal.
http://dulfy.net/2016/08/23/gw2-tremors-current-events-achievements-guide/

I needed over an hour for Southsun alone because I could not find the last 2 targets and had to start over twice. Overall this “Primordus Go” was a pretty frustrating experience.
Why did the sensor buff even have a 30min timer?

EDIT: looks like the post I quoted got deleted

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I’m not sure why anyone thought that the collection could be completed as easily as just crafting all the primordus weapons on the same day as Seis’ last quest.

Most people would say that crafting 18 exotic weapons needing a minimum of 420 destroyer lodestone would be enough effort for an ugly ascended staff and 3 AP collection.
The only reason people want this Destroyer Scythe so badly is, because it was unavailable for 4 years and not because it is an outstanding skin.

Its a typical Anet.
It also only gives 3 AP. Something like this should give at least 10 if not 20 AP.

Amaimon.7823:

Malediktus.3740:

5 mystic coins for a reward track would be way too much. Essentially 150 mystic coins per month for every WvW player.

that’s about a 10th of what you need for 77 clovers with a drop of 0-2 on the 10 coins.

what? On average you need 231 mystic coins to forge 77 clovers. Not sure how 150 coins can be 1/10 of what you need to craft 77 clovers.

I am very disappointed with this.
Also why does it only give 3 AP to do the collection? Should be at least 10

5 mystic coins for a reward track would be way too much. Essentially 150 mystic coins per month for every WvW player.

Exclusive rewards for being there at the right time are a great thing. And yes playing at release of the game makes you more special than someone who starts right now imho. You sticked a long time with the game and should be rewarded for your loyality.

Darknicrofia.2604:

how many achievement points is it worth? kappa (but no… srsly)

probably 5 AP

and legendary or no AP like in season 1

you are SOL, next time start earlier and not at the end of the year

Technically everyone has the same chances to read the patchnotes / log into the game. But its not Anets fault if you are at work or have a slow internet or computer.
I looked at the partner list and most of them do not produce content I would consider consuming. Similar applies to raid content testers. That content could fully be tested on a public test server.
If Anet wants to reward content producers and testers they should do so exclusively with gems or real life currency.

I dont care about content providers and would loose nothing if they would close down. So I am not ok with them getting market benefits.

What about Illustrious Legend? Will you fix it so people who got it due to the bug will have it removed? I worked hard for it.

Justine.6351:

Screllelcitc weapon set was available in the last 6 months I thought.

Sadly not. The only reason they do not cost as much as fused yet is because they are very unpopular

moonstarmac.4603:

They did bring Fused Weapons back about 1 year ago for 2 Tickets each if I remember correctly. It lasted 2 weeks. They do this on occasion, you just have to watch the announcements for such.

I am 100% sure they did not come back ever since the introduction of the wardrobe. Otherwise I would own them.

I hope it never returns. It is nice to have something exclusive to the very first Halloween of GW2.

Fused and Sclerite weapon sets have been unavailable for the longest time. Not sure if Anet will ever reintroduce them

Djinn.9245:

Malediktus.3740:

Djinn.9245:

FrizzFreston.5290:

Doesn’t need a fix, since it’s not broken.
The reason it needs crystalline ore is to make it artificially rarer, so that not everyone is running around with it.

Why shouldn’t everyone who belongs to a Guild be able to “run around” wearing Guild gear?

It is not just guild gear, it is ornate guild gear. Why should everyone be able to run around in ornate gear?
There is also non ornate guild gear, but I think it is not available anymore (used to come from pvp).

So there actually ISN’T non-ornate guild gear. So my question remains: Why shouldn’t everyone who belongs to a Guild be able to “run around” wearing (the only) Guild gear?

It exists, I have the old non ornate guild armors. You could go beg armor to add them to the legacy armor boxes.

Djinn.9245:

FrizzFreston.5290:

Doesn’t need a fix, since it’s not broken.
The reason it needs crystalline ore is to make it artificially rarer, so that not everyone is running around with it.

Why shouldn’t everyone who belongs to a Guild be able to “run around” wearing Guild gear?

It is not just guild gear, it is ornate guild gear. Why should everyone be able to run around in ornate gear?
There is also non ornate guild gear, but I think it is not available anymore (used to come from pvp).

The trebuchet should be deleted. I hate the map with a passion because of the trebuchet.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

You can’t even unlock the ability to buy the recipes until you have a pretty high-level guild, that keeps them rare enough.

There’s really no reason for guild weapon/armor recipes to cost crystalline ore at all, especially when they also cost guild commendations (and every shimmering/tenebrous weapon requires a regular guild weapon as crafting material, and that costs commendations too). It doesn’t even make any sense, there’s nothing DS-related about these items.

(also the cost of the minipets are ludicrous, especially considering how uninteresting most of them are, but that’s another topic).

The guild hall level is not a prestige factor anymore. Plenty of community guilds have lvl 40+ and are more than welcome to invite you to buy the recipes.

I hope it comes soon, I already have 18 of the t6 gifts and almost a stack of insights, so I am ready to start building legendary armor

Expensive is the prestige of GW2. Mystic weapons would be like tier0 prestige, legendaries (and some special exclusive stuff like scythe or jetpack) t6 prestige

JaddynnStarr.5201:

@Malediktus Hmmm your going to have to share the location of the extra pods with me then. by my count you have 30 with all the camps, end reward areas have an additional 15-20 with 5-7 random across the map. thats around 50-55 on average. Where are you finding the additional 30+ pods at?

I dont have a map, but I did another run and found 88 pods, I think I could push it to at least 90

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Malediktus.3740:

You need mystic coins only for prestige items and some overrated guild hall upgrades. So even if they would cost 10g per coin it would be totally fine in my eyes.

No, they’re also required for a number of low-end weapon skins too (or at least, they used to be low-end), including the mystic weapons required to get the elite spec weapons.

They are prestige weapons since you can get the same stats cheaper in other ways.

I hate feeling forced to do tarir multi loot at least once per day to not feel like leaving a lot of materials/gold on the table
So I agree with nerfing tarir multiloot instead of buffing other content. Make each chest only lootable once per 2hours (so you can loot them again next Tarir if you wish).

An activity meter could be the solution. So this in another game. If your activity drops 0 you get booted from the match and receive punishment

it is clear that server linking failed, WvW is loosing activity every day

TheManowar.2014:

Malediktus.3740:

Did you calculate the chances to only succeed 9 out of 91 times with a chance of 30%? It is statistically very unlikely. If I did the math correctly the chance for this to happen is roughly 4*10^-49

I think you did something wrong, it’s actually about 3*10^-6 : it’s a low chance, but it’s plausible.

woops. I must have added a factorial or exponent too much somewhere in my calculations. So this will happen to 3 out of 1 million times someone is going for a legendary. Still very low. But since you need on average 231 tries for 77 clovers it should even out in the long run.

It is so unlikely to happen that it is the most likely explaination to me. Of course Anets random number generator could have a bug, but Anet always denies that.
Do you realize how rare 1 in 4*10^-49 is? The earth is made out of around 6*10^49 atoms. So it is almost like managing to find one randomly selected atom in the entire planet earth.

You need mystic coins only for prestige items and some overrated guild hall upgrades. So even if they would cost 10g per coin it would be totally fine in my eyes.

TheNecrosanct.4028:

Thank you for completely missing my point.

I didnt miss your point, its just that you dont have a clue about statistic. Just because something is possible does not mean it will ever happen in the lifetime of the universe.
And 85 out of 91 is even more rare than 9 out of 91 because the chance of success is lower than the chance of failure.

Did you calculate the chances to only succeed 9 out of 91 times with a chance of 30%? It is statistically very unlikely. If I did the math correctly the chance for this to happen is roughly 4*10^-49
You are welcome to redo the math using the binomial distribution. If my math is right, then the chance for this event to happen is close to zero even if all GW2 players would do nothing but trying to forge mystic clovers for the next 100 years.

I think mystic coins are in a good spot. Both lorewise (its Zomorros payment for crafting for you after all) and economywise.

Tattoolady.1934:

91 tries -> received 9.

not funny at all. Think bad luck huh?
Can we please get a receipe that doesn’t include R’n’G?

Considering the chance is about 30% to get clovers I think you lied about only getting 9 out of 91.

I did a run of dragon stand today and opened 85 noxious pods in one run which yielded over 100 crystalline ores. So crystalline ore is hardly a problem anymore after April patch.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

He’s right about reviving being too fast nowadays. 1v2s are much harder to win as example because the 2nd opponent will almost always be able to revive faster than you can stomp and with so much stability in the game now, it’s pretty exploitable.

This is highly responsible for why 10,5,5,5,5 vs. 6,6,6,6,6 splits don’t work. The 10 “who is being expected by algorithm to carry his 5s” cannot effectively 1v2 and win in this meta due to revive speeds.

Base revive speed could be turned down 10% as a start. See how it fairs.

Winning a 1v2 should be impossible in a balanced match anyway. So I dont see an issue with 2v1 becoming harder

Yes the achievement should be moved to retired achievements.

Pat Cavit.9234:

I’m whitelisting things when I remember. Ping me in gitter if it’s been a day or so and I haven’t gotten to it.

Looks like you started and stopped midway

Bloodstone Harvest (2 of 15 items whitelisted)
Bloodstone Sightings (2 of 6 items whitelisted)

need manual unlock

What? Its often almost impossible to rezz with all this aoe cleave, traps and all that other annoying stuff

Sounds like all the PVE only players would take the free 2000 gems

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

^And yet, Armor sets were removed from the Gem Store due to popular demand. Players wanted to earn them in-game, rather than buy them.

Now, maybe the playerbase feels there aren’t enough Armor Sets offered in-game, but it’s not like ArenaNet didn’t listen to the playerbase about offering Armor Sets for sale.

And then they basically stopped making the armors entirely. We are getting new armor sets in haemopathic doses.
The last armor set introduced was the pre-precursor of the legendary envoy armor, over 6months after the HoT release. The next armor set will probably be the precursor set of the Envoy armor sometime in the future.

Dawdler.8521:

Malediktus.3740:

Just because Deus Ex uses even more awful monetization models does not mean I need to enjoy GW2s business model. I think GW2 would be better off with subscription, too.

Of course, though it would be 1 subscription per account so with your 30 accounts you’d have to pay $400+ a month to play.

It really doesnt matter whether you enjoy it or not, you can be 100% sure that if GW2 was subscription based we would still have the exact same gemshop and the exact same $50 HoT. In fact the only difference would be that GW2 vanilla isnt free, so we’d probably have about 1/50th the population. Better?

Of course I probably wouldnt have 30 accounts in a subscription model. But I am not buying gems on any account other than my main account, so Anets income from the additional accounts is very limited.
But I also wouldnt need that many accounts in a sub model since login rewards would likely not be a thing, or at least not to such extent and not tradeable.

Just because Deus Ex uses even more awful monetization models does not mean I need to enjoy GW2s business model. I think GW2 would be better off with subscription, too.

Yes, the game is too easy. Even raids feel too easy

Yes.

Buy to play and free to play turned out to be a failure to me. It might make more profit (does it? not sure) for the companies, but the games show it everywhere. Just look at GW2, 80%+ of all new cosmetics appear in the gemshop only.

Jana.6831:

Malediktus.3740:

I am not using my accounts to spy on other servers and activity on deso was fine for the last 2 months where it was linked with RoS. now it is dieing again

Then maybe you should give RoS a try?
And well if you have acounts on every server you won’t need gold to transfer, so you don’t need to sell significant information to the enemy.
Other than that: PvE has got plenty enemies 24/7, wvw never had and never will have.

I dont want to play WvW on my alt accounts, I want to progress my ultimate dominator + wvw rank + reward tracks on my main account.
And why should I try RoS? It is paired with SFR now and all the bandwagoners left RoS again now because SFR is a tier 3 server.

Either the 5th person was in a party with you or the 5th person was gone for less than 120 seconds.

Its still dropping, I got it on one of my accounts recently. The droprate is just tiny.