Guild Wars 2

Sylent.3165:

I personally don’t think they should be brought back. Items like that are a way for players to either show off wealth, or that they have played for a long time. Considering it’s an mmo those types of items are very typical.

If there is a collection achievement for them, they should come back at least once per year. 3k per skin in a set of 19 weapons is outrageous.

I would like to see all the sets which never came back after the release of the black lion set achievements come back eventually. Otherwise it would be unfair to add achievements for weapons which never were available for 1 ticket since the achievement was added.
I am working on my 17th set at the moment

No. The ambrite weapon collection should not become buyable.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Then, perhaps Dungeon Sellers could ask for an item(s) equal to the amount of Gold they would charge. Just as in GW1 where certain items became currency. No limit there. =)

And loose 15% when selling? Bad idea. Stop defending Anets decisions even if they only inconvenience 1% of the players.

I agree with Orpheal. The mortality rate in western countries is around 10 in 1000 per year. Going by that tens of thousands (10k per year per million unique copies sold) of people who played GW2 died already.

Looks like another downgrade to me. Anet should stop fixing what isnt broken.

I found a map error in bloodtide coast:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Map-bug-in-bloodtide-coast

Posting the link here so I do not have to waste webspace to upload the screenshots a 2nd time.

the tickets for queens gauntlet and the sab currency should go in there too

I guess this is a result of the triple trouble update. The map shows I am standing in the water althogh I am on the beach.

Depends on why the account was banned. Sometimes Anet bans the serial numbers of specific hardware parts, so any new accounts automatically get banned upon login in. You should contact the customer support and ask if they are ok with it.

Aberrant.6749:

Malediktus.3740:

ronpierce.2760:

Duke Nukem.6783:

im so done with weapon skins, i cant keep up anymore and they are releasing them faster than ever lately, it must be because they arnt selling so well anymore

maybe they should move on to black lion armor skins?

Selling and making them faster if they aren’t doing well would be a troublesome escalation of commitment. Likely they have data on sale trends and they probably slow down after about two weeks. I could see that. Dry times are wasted potential.

Its a pain to do the black lion collections if you only have 3 weeks. We used to have 4-6 weeks to get those 700-1000g (+ the 7 tickets from the previous collection).
It wouldnt be so bad if the black lion achievements would not exist, but they do so I feel forced to do them. Currently at 16 completed collections.

Where was it stated that they’ll be around for 3 weeks? I would like to pick some of these up, but obviously want to wait for the prices to drop a bit.

Balthasar and Daydreamer were only there for 3 weeks, so I concluded this is the new timeframe we have. Previously they took 4-6 weeks for a new set.

I had one hoard in 200++ kills (stopped counting long ago). I took the greatsword.

Why do people pay 20g for that crap?

It looks awful. The whole color sheme of the effect is terrible.

ronpierce.2760:

Duke Nukem.6783:

im so done with weapon skins, i cant keep up anymore and they are releasing them faster than ever lately, it must be because they arnt selling so well anymore

maybe they should move on to black lion armor skins?

Selling and making them faster if they aren’t doing well would be a troublesome escalation of commitment. Likely they have data on sale trends and they probably slow down after about two weeks. I could see that. Dry times are wasted potential.

Its a pain to do the black lion collections if you only have 3 weeks. We used to have 4-6 weeks to get those 700-1000g (+ the 7 tickets from the previous collection).
It wouldnt be so bad if the black lion achievements would not exist, but they do so I feel forced to do them. Currently at 16 completed collections.

It looks bad too with the aegis effect

Prototypemind.4026:

Malediktus.3740:

Just look what Final Fantasy is doing. Regular updates + a much larger expansion than GW2 will be getting.

FF also didn’t do it right from the start. It took a shutdown for a rework to get them into a good place. That said, it’s also subscription-based with that funding going into a much larger studio. Revenue doesn’t fix everything, but it certainly helps, and this game can’t fund that level of development.

Even with that in mind. The content roll out has been poor. Living Story S2 is all the worse for not offering dynamic content that groups can hop into. There should be instanced fights, but there should also be a continuation of open world play, and Dry Top/Silver Wastes are not enough to sustain that.

I know FF relaunched their game. But the relaunch was worth it with a lot of additional stuff and less bugs. Do you have any numbers on the staff size and revenue FF makes? I doubt its much better than GW2. The problem is Anet is maximizing their profits instead of player fun. I dont mind if they make profits at all, but it seems like they reinvest too little of their revenue into their game.

Just look what Final Fantasy is doing. Regular updates + a much larger expansion than GW2 will be getting.

Vayne.8563:

Malediktus.3740:

Julie Yann.5379:

GW2 playerbase=impatient

GW2 playerbase = proud to get nothing

You can be realistic without being “proud to get nothing”.

If you lined up 50 MMORPGs and looked at how many of them actually go months without updates, you’d probably be surprised. This is particularly true before expansions are released.

I don’t know why people think this is so unusual.

None of them claimed to have a living world with biweekly updates.

Julie Yann.5379:

GW2 playerbase=impatient

GW2 playerbase = proud to get nothing

lynxthecat.8649:

Malediktus.3740:

High poly count is good. Its 2015 and system requirements often go up over time in MMOs. Its not Anets fault if you use ancient low budget hardware.

its not about high polygon counts. A Cube of 1 million polygons will look the same with a cube of 12 polygons. But the former will kill your cpu.

its about optimisations so that you don’t use more polygons than u need to display the same thing.

Its clear that the new maps have a higher poly count because they are more detailed and not because they are a cube with 1 billion polygons.

oscuro.9720:

I just want a way to get those weapon skins and other things you can get from tournament rewards…

Yes, if they dont bring seasons, they should make the skins available for a ton of badges each. Like 5k badges each would be good.

aophts.9862:

25000g, yep, that seems legit.

25k gold isnt much. There are people with millions of gold in items in the game.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Chrono.6928:

just a heads up about the op’s scythe, if its for a necro the scythe shadow effect on your staff doesn’t line up from the scythe, so it looks kind of weird like 2 scythes but not in a good way, like when armor clips or doesn’t line up sort of. Unless they fixed it, just know it was a big deal back in the day and lots of people got really mad.

now an evil looking guardian or ele, sure would look sick there.

They fixed that ridiculous double scythe bug quite a while back, luckily.

Did they? Nope.

The book costs 10 USD, I rather use the money for gems.

Whats fun if players go to bed? If I want to do karma train I can switch to a different border land or play eotm. At least on SFR there are quite a few commanders who rather go sleeping, too, if the enemies go sleeping because karma train is not what they are looking for.
I would rather wipe on purpose every now and then just to not make the enemies quit (its both more fun and good to advance my achievement if there are enemies around)

85g was never much. I remember I had over 200g back when the skins were first introduced in 2012. And I didnt get that gold by trading or converting gems. But silly me bought 7 Mad Moon shields instead of Ghastly Grinning shields back then because I thought the mad moon shield looked better.

There are plenty of other stuff people can get for cheap for their own enjoyment. People should stop feeling entitled to getting anything they like.

I would like new seasons. I want a full set of mistforged hero weapons.

Do not instantly buy the items, use buy orders. It saves lots of gold. There are 100s of each of these exclusive skins in players inventory waiting to be sold.

Sorel.4870:

Malediktus.3740:

And that is exactly why its a cheesy tactic which should be fixed. I can understand any commander who gives up on commanding because of this sniping.

Me too. That is why sniping is an excellent strategy. Not only do you win fights, but you also demotivate the enemy. That is how wars are won.

But this is a game which people play to have fun, not a real war. Otherwise people should stop complaining about trolls, spies, hackers, etc, too. Because everything is fair in war.

Probably not. Its more comfortable to farm Gold than running around in low to mid level maps to farm logs.

I dont think this is a good idea. Save up the gold and buy it from the trading post.

Offair.2563:

Why fix something that is not broken. Our commanders never whine about being sniped.
Time to improve?

Anet wants to make the WvW more fun for casuals, so it is broken.

Nerfing the ability to snipe commanders would be a good start.
Also making the WvW achievements actually achieveable.

And that is exactly why its a cheesy tactic which should be fixed. I can understand any commander who gives up on commanding because of this sniping.

I am thinking of something else. It started at the same time they revealed the guardian elite spec which showed the guardian using azure flame skin. azureflame needs 3000 ancient wood logs (4 stacks of ancient wood planks). Could that be an explaination? Not sure if the demand for that bow increased enough to make ancient wood spike.

Interesting, it was at 0 supply for a moment. That is a rare sight for such a common high supply item.
On a related note, anyone know why ancient wood has been exploding since last month?
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/19712-ancient-wood-plank

Why should legitimate players loose 15% of their money each time they money around wealth just to circumvent the restrictions?
Its not like they have been taxed multiple times before by the trading post to make said wealth.

RMT does not affect me. I just block + report any gold seller and move on. So I am not happy to have any additional restrictions. Its like celebrating the NSA or other spy agencies because it might reduce terrorism. Truth is, I rather would die by terrorism than getting spied all the time.

Doesnt silver waste event farming give more ectos than world boss train anyway? On the other hand less and less people seem to be farming silver wastes, too. The price of time essences is going up for no good reason.

Again that does not work with random people. You cannot expect random people (pugs) to move as a unity as soon as the leader is dead. It just turns instantly into a cloud formation and most people will try to get ooc to waypoint. The rest will die helplessly.
To profit from the 5 people aoe cap you have to stick together or are you heavily disadvantaged.

additional commanders are also no solution (not to mention very few people are good enough to start commanding on the fly) since you will not see their tags if you joined the squad of the 1st commander.

I guess less people are doing Shadow Behemoth now. I stopped doing it even if its daily.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

McJAC.4739:

Doesn’t mean nobody won’t sell it to you …. I would bet that if you put a buy order at 3000g you are pretty much guaranteed that someone will sell it to you….probably even for less. However if you start farming now, the price might get much higher in the meantime. But also Halloween is coming and who knows …maybe they will reintroduce few of them back in the game so the price would go down a bit or a lot.

There just aren’t many left. It could be that there is only one for sale. There are any number of other skins in the game that you can’t buy anymore as they were limited release over 2 years ago.

There are 100s left. There are some people who stocked up 100s of each halloween weapon 2012 and sell them one by one whenever they need gold.
But its a sellers market. Price wont go down as long as none are added to the game.

I agree, the limit should be increased to 5k Gold. 500 is nothing.

Vikkela.7261:

Stop ruining gamemodes with your farmerbuddies

I am not ruining anything. And if you feel something is ruined by my playstyle you should support reworking the WvW achievements so I can complete them in the lifetime of the game without finding the most effective way.

Stop trying to distract from the topic.

sephiroth.4217:

Malediktus.3740:

sephiroth.4217:

Shadey Dancer.2907:

A dev did say in the wvw section of the forums that they would be looking into changing the current wvw achievements to something more realistic. That was over eighteen months ago (approximately) so dont go holding your breath

They changed Master of Disaster (25k supply used or something) to “use 10 supply to build siege”

It used to be 1m used for building siege and 10m supplies used in total (building+repairing)

This man knows!

I must have been on the 25k tier lel, didn’t know it was that high.

They were nerfed because people like me built 100 trebuchets per day wasting all the supplies in every objective to raise the title :p

Purple Miku.7032:

So I don’t know if this is true or not but I remember a friend telling me something about anet having legal issues with Nintendo or something, which was why SAB was not returning.

I hope it’s not true and that SAB returns, but yeah… if that’s the case then I guess I would understand the lack of communication about it.

I think if that would be the case, they could just tell us and be done with it instead of giving false hope and refusing to refund the infinite coin.

If there is not at least a zerg of 30 people its dead in my eyes.

Well I had to build 100 trebuchets and stuff per day too increase my WvW titles back then. Sadly Anet nerfed the supply spending title after some time I was prepared to spend 1m supplies on trebuchets. You should blame Anet that those achievements existed not me.
Btw the customer support said it is ok to use supplies however you want during that time.
I see nothing wrong with doing achievements in an effiencent way.

Its helps a lot if you look at the date of the videos.