Guild Wars 2

This bug still happens. Got no golden chest twice during the last 7 days. And no I did not camp at the wurm for diminishing returns to happen.

Yes, but the game will go on. If HoT gives 6k AP i give it max a year until the first people reach 40k

Adding 10k+ AP with HoT wont change anything. Anet would (have to) add new rewards for higher AP and people would cry for the new rewards.

Muusic.2967:

Farm SW til you’re about to cry, take a break and sell your spoils. Buy Giant Eyes from tp.

Fixed.

Not a fix at all. They only come with less than 0.1% chance from heavy moldy bags and even lower chance from mawdrey bags.
Who will sell you the eyes if everyone just farms the gold? A lot of people seem to be doing that already or the price would not be skyrocketing.

Dante.1763:

Malediktus.9250:

Giant Eyes are almost at 9g now

werent they 7g the other day? i mean i went and looked when iread the response about needing 250 of them…

indeed, but there are so few on the trading post, that buying 30 for the shield skin raises the price a considerable amount already.

Giant Eyes are almost at 9g now

Astralporing.1957:

Dante.1763:

Weirwynn.2390:

On the one hand, I don’t agree that just anyone should be able to buy the set with gems, but on the other, the achievement point system is horribly, ridiculously broken, so meh.

It would help if they had changed the order of the rewards so that by 18k AP you could get a complete set. But to get the other you still need 36k AP.

Yes. They should change the order in which we get those skins, so you could complete a set before the currrently ridiculous value of 33k AP, but at the same time they should stay AP-only.

You complete a set at 30k AP, 33k gives your 2nd leg skin, 36k your 2nd chest skin.

It is morally fine, too. I have pity (actually not, it was their choice to waste so many hours on it) for the people who take pride in getting the achievement the long and tedious way.

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I do not like this suggestion. Ingame achieveable skins should never appear in gem shop.

Vavume.8065:

@ Maledikus, Except I have played the whole game, 22k AP here, and everything I do I do legit, unlike you, since you are just an OS farmer grinding Ultimate Dominator, no one respects you for that, and why should I care who is in your friendslist? I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be associated with you or anyone else that takes part in those OS farm events that you are so proud of, its pathetic.

At this point no one knows just how much Anet will nerf these titles, if they devalue my work by completely undercutting what I have already done then sure I will be annoyed, but I will live with it.

@ Atoss, I could think of a few more titles for him tbh :P

OS farm is legit, our beloved Game Security Lead Chris Cleary said so.
You are welcome to get kills the slow and tedious way if you hate being efficient.
I got 73k kills “legit” (by your distorted definition), that is good enough for me

Vavume.8065:

Malediktus.9250:

Vavume.8065:

So many casuals in this thread that just want everything now, I would rather they leave the achieves as they are right now than cater to casuals.

Its a casual game and if you think a single achievement should take years of real time, than you are playing the wrong game.
With 9k hours you can EASILY get 27k+ achievement points if you started playing at release. I fail to see how a single achievement should take more time and grind than all the other 100s of achievements together.

You are right I could have easily got 27k achieve points, but guess what? I didn’t care about getting them, I care about playing WvW and that’s where I prioritize my time, you asking for Ultimate titles for cheap is like me saying “Hey anet I want 27k AP too but I cba to work for it, but give it to me anyway” get my point?
And yes I do want achievements that take years to get, and guess what again, that’s exactly what we have… I’m not playing the wrong game, maybe you are…

A dev said 2 years ago that the current values are placeholders, so its your own fault if you worked that hard to reach just 2.7% of the goal (27k of 1m dolyaks). Insisting now that your work should be valued is nonsense. And the past showed that Anet does not hesitate to devalue peoples work whenever it makes sense for them.

And guess what? I much rather have people with 25k+ AP in my friendlist, parties and guilds than some hypotetic person with yakslapper or ultimate raider. It only shows you focused thousands of hours on a very specific thing instead of playing the whole game. So yes, I would have no sympathy for you if your “work” gets devalued.

Vavume.8065:

So many casuals in this thread that just want everything now, I would rather they leave the achieves as they are right now than cater to casuals.

Its a casual game and if you think a single achievement should take years of real time, than you are playing the wrong game.
With 9k hours you can EASILY get 27k+ achievement points if you started playing at release. I fail to see how a single achievement should take more time and grind than all the other 100s of achievements together.

Vavume.8065:

yanniell.1236:

Vavume numbers are way out of line. 5k camps flipped would already be insane. Every achievement should be made with an average of six months of continuous playing to get them in mind.

Why should they? 6 months is nothing, some of us have played WvW for nearly 3 years now, so the achieves need to represent that in some way, nothing wrong with having an achieve that takes 3 years to get imo, its called difficult, there is already far to many easy achieves catering to casual players, there should be at least some that cater to the hardcore.

You said you spent around 9k hours in WvW. Thats over a whole year of ingame time (a year has 8760 hours). I bet the vast majority of players did not even play 1k hours of GW2 let alone WvW during the 3 years. You suggested 40k camps which would take over 2 years of real time even with your playstyle. That is outrageous.
If Anet reworks the achievements I doubt they will spend the effort to cater to a tiny fraction of a percent of the playerbase.

@Vavume the numbers you suggested are absurd. I am getting close to 4k camps flipped after around 3k hours in WvW. 40k is not achieveable by natural play, its years of grind.

Death to the crook Evon Gnashblade!

Hvaran.6327:

ALL that AP hunters, OS and EOTM farmers.

I want to express my huge NOT love, NO respect and NO sorry to you.

Off topic? Otherwise I am amused too when there is a queue on OS because of the farm when people want to gvg.

TyPin.9860:

From the German news blog (www.wartower.de):
„Angewandte Tapferkeit“ und „Angewandte Stärke“ werden nun zu Basis-Effekten für Spieler ab einem bestimmten Weltrang.

In English:
“Applied Fortitude” and “Applied Strength” will become base effects for players, that have reached a certain World Rank.

EDIT:
Not sure how much one can rely on such information. Maybe the effect will only be applied to German servers^^

error in localisation
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/36qzdj/upgrading_world_vs_world_upgrades/crgccbp

Indeed, this further casualisation of WvW makes me sad and angry at the same time.

Terrible changes. Making everything more casual is Anets answer to WvW problems?
Most WvW players already have over 1000 points with nothing to spend it on, now it will be even worse.

For some reason Anet always finds ways to make WvW more boring. Siege disablers, supply draining cows, arrow cart buffs, field of view buff, stability nerf (I hate pirate ship meta) and now this.

DarkMezmer.5198:

Now the main question is which reward track will best to farm those keys cuz I got 88 lion chests just wasting space in my bank.

It says it has the same droprate as PVE now, so you will likely need decades to find 88 keys.

ZilentNight.5089:

They really need to unlock the account bound minis “on acquire” similar to how many armor/weapon skins work.

That would cause trouble with the mini 3 packs from gemshop you need to put in forge for a specific 4th mini. You would no longer need to buy them twice.

Orpheal.8263:

I would just love it for the sake of god, if ANet would finally remove that stupid follower list from the game and add the mechanic to the game, that for getting “friends” added, you need to accept a friendship request…

the way how anet handles the current system,s the whole communication and chattign stuff i nthis game is WORSER THAN FACEBOOK and thats some kind of bad achievement to achieve first, one must say to design a communication system, thats worser functionizing than what FB offers…seriously

We live in 2015 and not in 1985, there should be more and better communication organization options in and for our friend lists.

When I want to kick someone permanently from my “follower list”, assuming Anet is so insistent to keep that crap for whyever,, then it should be everyones personal choice to kick Person X permanently from the own follower list.
But as the system works now, once sombody follows you, that person basically will follow you into all eternity, even that person becomes inactive and never returns, but that stupid following just spams your list bigger forever making it harder and harder to actually keep that list clear >.>

No I like my follower list. I have like 1000+ people following me.
Followers are not your friends, so no reason to be able to kick them.

Considering how much work was spent on the art of the lion fountain they should definitely bring it back. It is probably one of the most complex assets you can find in GW2.

laokoko.7403:

Malediktus.9250:

Do not get me started about the aetherpath in twilight arbor. Unless you get one of the rare drop weapon skins once in a lifetime, you basically wasted your time.

which is precisely what I’m talking about.

One of the dungeon group I know actually do them everyday. And they get like 4-5 of it. And it’s worth it to them since they can do it in 20 minutes.

You think it’s not worth it because you can’t do it fast.

I can do it fast, but if you only get a skin every 100 runs or so on average it still turns out to terrible gold per hour

Accounts do not get deleted, they are just closed incase they get are able to succesfully appeal their ban.
I also see no reason why they should be automatically be deleted from your block list. There seems to be no limit on the block list, so who cares if you have 1000+ people blocked?
My block list is insanely long and once you are on it chances are low to get ever removed from it again. I still see people logging in on it which blocked 2 years ago.

laokoko.7403:

No one bother with harder content if it don’t reward something good.

And if it reward something good, it just become cash cow for pro group who either speed run it fast or sell it to other players.

You make it sounds like its something bad to reward good players for doing harder content. In fact it is something really good because it encourages people to get better instead of farming chests in silverwastes (or whatever is the flavor of the month farm), playing the trading post or buying lots of accounts for daily login rewards.

Currently GW2 has a seriously out of whack reward system.

Tequatl gives way better rewards than tri headed worm despite being much easier.
Fractals 50 gives 1.4g (the rings are vendor food at this point and you get duplicate skins most of the time if any) while needing the time of an full ascalon run, even with an above averaage group.

The easy regular dungeons are on farm status for everyone and give guranted gold + tokens you can use for dungeon specific armor and weapon skins.
Do not get me started about the aetherpath in twilight arbor. Unless you get one of the rare drop weapon skins once in a lifetime, you basically wasted your time.

Wanze.8410:

In my opinion, you should only get 1 gift of exploration these days for map completion as they took the wvw maps out of the requirement.

The opposite. It should be an account unlock you can claim as often as you like similar to the achievement point skins.
Map exploration is one of the most boring activities I ever found in this game.

Azala Yar.7693:

IndigoSundown.5419:

All that said, I sometimes have a hard time separating out those who want a challenge from those who want better (and/or exclusive) rewards. Often, the two wants are inseparable.

Most seem to want better rewards, so they can sell them for greater profit or to give themselves an advantage.

This game is good in the fact it’s not going to have better stats than ascended. That’s one thing this game needs to stick to.

Harder content doesn’t need to have better rewards, if the reason is purely to test your skills.

Trouble is a lot of raiders in other games do it for the profit they can get from the better rewards. They are effectively stimulated by the amount of gold they can make per hour rather than how difficult it is.

There is nothing wrong with wanting harder content with better/more profitable rewards. Why should low skilled activities like chest farm in silver waste be the most profitable thing?

Considering Anet loves rolling a dice when deciding how many AP an achievement gives, its impossible to tell.

Indeed, more challenging content such as Liadri would be nice.

Probably never, the minigame is way too confusing for new players

This discussion is worthless if you keep arguing with magic and exclude nukes.

We are always looking for more players.

Its a fun mechanic which mixes things up. I like it.

Parae.3479:

As far as I am aware, this miniature is unique in that it can be forged (I may be entirely wrong on that one). I also assume that the regular llama would be added to the wardrobe upon being forged anyways. I don’t quite see any unfair advantage, but rather just having lost an item over an innocent mistake in how the wardrobe system functions and this specific miniature.

No, adding a higher quality mini llama (neither at forging not at unlocking) to your wardrobe will not unlock the lower ones.

I keep inviting more and more people to SFR, I like long queues.

The CS has no tools to remove something to your wardrobe, so it will most likely not be replaced or you are getting an unfair advantage. Everyone would do mistakes and add their stuff to wardrobe to sell the item later or use it for crafting.

Fenrir.3609:

Malediktus.9250:

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The opposite should happen. Each dungeon should have at least 1 spot where 5 players are required to stop people from soloing group content.

No.

Edit: Why on earth would you enforce that? As long as a dungeon is set up to promote challenging group play, there is zero reason to arbitrarily enforce a specific number of minimum players.

Add in n person requirements/gates when you think they make sense/increase the challenge/fun. For all other times, if someone is capable of soloing group content (or doing it duo or three/four man), why should you whack in gates to prevent that?

Because something that can be soloed can hardly be challenging for a group. See all the speed run records. The dungeons are a joke for any half decent group.

-1
The opposite should happen. Each dungeon should have at least 1 spot where 5 players are required to stop people from soloing group content.

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Tseikk.9032:

Do we have a specialist yet?

They have been selected, emails were sent out yesterday.

How do you know?

I applied, and recieved this email. http://i.imgur.com/OV0rcV7.png

I’m sad I did not get the title, but I am sure who ever they selected is up for the task.

Alt account? Cos even you only have a total of 11 posts in 5 months. The only difference is that at least you posted in the WvW forums section

Again I have 4 pages worth of posts in 3 months, again mostly in WvW, and again I do not meet the requirements to apply.

The fact that Gaile said she would keep your application on record yet again signals bad tidings for us, the WvW community. We need someone who is active both in game and in forums!

I think instead of the mods telling us what is good for us they should hold an election, people who want to be FS can apply and then let the players decide who they want.

Lack of posts is a terrible argument. Its like saying “we prefer you have atleast 3-5 years experience for this entry level job”. The fact is you have no idea how I would have done the job, having 10000 posts does not make you qualified, it only makes your opinions known. The position requires being able to parse information, not post a silly opinion or “My Top 5 Fixes For WvW”, none of which are actually feasible. You think the people who lurk instead of posting are less capable of doing the job?

So congratulations on having 4 pages of posts, it means literally nothing other than you post a lot. If someone had 4 pages of “terrible” (ie, doesnt align with your beliefs on WvW fixes), who you still approve of them?

Yes, I strongly believe a worthy WvW specialist should have 100+ good posts in the WvW subforum.

But we all know the forum specialists are just a ploy to lull the masses, so who cares who becomes one.

Conski Deshan.2057:

If you destroyed/sold the pve versions of those items prior to the wardrobe update the game has no way of knowing what you had. They physically could not retroactively award it since they have no idea what you had. You can re-buy those skins for a couple of silver on the tp.

PS. Wait till you get to the 2000+ skins stage, the cheapest unlocks are 2-4g+ a piece.

I am in the 50g+ range already sadly

Bensozia.8071:

Why are points set in stone anyway? Why not have the points adjustable like they are for traits?

Would make the points pointless if you can adjust them on the fly. Need ballista? Unskill arrow cart and go ballista. Having more than x points would turn into a quality of life reward to save you 10s of reskilling.

CookieMonster.5869:

Ok I’ll stop being new now and turn myself into a veteran GW2 player. /face palm.
The thing is I don’t have the gold to pay upfront like that. You lose like 100g+ by going that route.

If you do not have thousands of gold (in gold or assets to sell) you are hardly a veteran at this point.

DDCarvalho.2071:

That would be very nice, and would sinergize very well with some already existing spreadsheets to track achievements, like this one

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/34z4h7/soi_created_an_enormous_achievement_spreadsheet/

If someone combines this sheet, the API data and some human expertise about the easier/hardest APs to gain, this can be a great way to gain a little AP every day.

Maybe it would also be possible to make a website where people could voluntarily upload their achievement and wardrobe data for other people to inspect. This is also something I always wanted to make or see such a site happen because people ask me all the time for details about my achievements or wardrobe (trust me, being top 10 ranked it happens quite a lot).

Michael Henninger.7451:

Match manipulation is a no-no.

So where does match manipulation start? Are GvGs outside of the Obsidian Sanctum match manipulation? Is “wasting” supplies to advance repair achievement match manipulation? Is using a 2nd account to trebuchet objectives to repair on your main account match manipulation? (there are people doing this) Is wasting slots on the map by afking, waiting in spawn or roleplaying match manipulation? The list could go on and on.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Malediktus.9250:

They are already soloable, just takes some effort instead of steamrolling.

They are not soloable to the vast majority of players. Take your elitism somewhere else.

Its not elitisism, its a valid option if you are too lazy to make a group.

They are already soloable, just takes some effort instead of steamrolling.

Please do not reset our points. I have everything maxed out and I would hate to waste minutes of spending all the points again.

Yes look up /wiki Immobulus

mtpelion.4562:

They’ve already announced the fix for this.

We know very little about this fix so far.