Guild Wars 2

Wethospu.6437:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Wethospu.6437:

I can see that you hardly read. And as expected, you don’t care if this topic dies.

Why would you expect that? Do you presume to know something about my motivations?

Your words, I just twisted them.

I never said anything about your expectations about me. Why do you never give a straight answer?

Wethospu.6437:

I can see that you hardly read. And as expected, you don’t care if this topic dies.

Why would you expect that? Do you presume to know something about my motivations?

Zaxares.5419:

Making them tradable would be nice, but it would basically crash the market for them.

A more likely solution is having them salvageable for random Ascended mats (Dragonite, Empyreal or Bloodstone), Dark Matter and Mist Essence.

Dark Matter, please. I’ll be dancing with joy, even if they salvage into just Dark Matter and nothing else. I just can’t get the stuff in favorable numbers from salvaging exotics.

Wethospu.6437:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Am I accusing you now? I thought I was just asking a very reasonable question.

Well, are you? How could I know? I see. You only want this topic locked.

I want what now? I hardly read or post at all on these boards, I have no agenda and I don’t play at forum politics. I couldn’t care less about which topics live or die.

You’re the one who keeps bringing up the kind of stuff that gets topics locked, for some reason targeting me with weird, nonsensical accusations. One after another.

Am I accusing you now? I thought I was just asking a very reasonable question.

Wethospu.6437:

Manasa Devi.7958:

What’s all this about removing progress? No one is losing any progress.
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There you go.

Can you explain in what way that message goes beyond stating my own opinion? You accuse me of “answering how others see things”, and I don’t quite see how the statement you quoted did that. The two bolded words don’t give me any clue whatsoever.

Wethospu.6437:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Wethospu.6437:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Estriella Faerie.4029:

If you’d have to spend hundred of hours to unlock those waypoints, maybe you would see our point…

I wouldn’t, because I consider every hour I play a reward in itself. I’ll never be in a position to regret spending time on a game, because I’ll have enjoyed spending that time.

Let me you tell you a secret. You are not the only one playing this game. There are also… other people!

When asked about how I would see things, I answer how I see things. Odd, right?

Odd is how you think you can answer how others see things.

Odd why you think I did. Because I didn’t.

Wethospu.6437:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Estriella Faerie.4029:

If you’d have to spend hundred of hours to unlock those waypoints, maybe you would see our point…

I wouldn’t, because I consider every hour I play a reward in itself. I’ll never be in a position to regret spending time on a game, because I’ll have enjoyed spending that time.

Let me you tell you a secret. You are not the only one playing this game. There are also… other people!

When asked about how I would see things, I answer how I see things. Odd, right?

Estriella Faerie.4029:

If you’d have to spend hundred of hours to unlock those waypoints, maybe you would see our point…

I wouldn’t, because I consider every hour I play a reward in itself. I’ll never be in a position to regret spending time on a game, because I’ll have enjoyed spending that time.

Dotadaily.8901:

To be honest why bother to infuse a backpiece? An infused backpiece getting a free +5 AR infusion is ONLY JUST after spending 250 ectos to upgrade it. Those none infused will be getting a FREE AR slot and slip in a +5 AR bought from NPC. Those like me who spent 250 ectos for that additional +5 AR gets ripped off. 250 ectos is definitely not equal to 75 relics for that +5.

Non-infused ones won’t be getting a free new slot and will be restricted to only the basic slot that takes a +5 resistance infusion.

What’s all this about removing progress? No one is losing any progress.

We’re just losing access to something that doesn’t exist anymore. Just like, for example, we lost access to the waypoints we unlocked in the Bazaar of the Four Winds map when that map was removed.

I didn’t take the fractal into account when deciding to vote. I value quality of gameplay over lore, and because I had no idea which fractal would end up with the most entertaining gameplay, I couldn’t let it affect my choice.

I never buy keys, yet I do use waypoints. A handful of silver saved is better than nothing at all, so Kiel got my vote. And she delivered.

VOLKON.1290:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Awarding a title now would be unfair to all the people who didn’t push on beyond the point where pushing on was pointless.

Nonsense. They did what they did, earned what they earned, let ‘em have a title. The more challenging content is coming and a title won’t carry anyone through it. Odds are their skills will do them fine, but time will tell.

I don’t mind if they get a reward, I’m just seeing a whole new avalanche of complaint threads popping up if they do.

“Why wasn’t I told there was going to be a reward? I was only 2 levels away before the reset. If I knew there was going to be a reward, I’d have done those 2 levels months ago.”

I can’t imagine they’ll set themselves up for that.

Awarding a title now would be unfair to all the people who didn’t push on beyond the point where pushing on was pointless.

The only kind of progress lost is the same kind of progress that’s lost when a living story setting is phased out: access to something that doesn’t exist anymore. Makes sense to me.

You need to make the climb 2 times in order to do all achievements, because there are 2 dives.

So far, I’ve done one dive and the second climb. I plan to keep that character at the top to open the chest a few more times, and perhaps do some more runs of the final instance. I’ll do the second dive close to the end of the event, and never go back.

Plenty of people have figured out that you only need to ascend to the top 2 times in order to finish all of the achievements. I for one won’t be ascending from level 3 to the top ever again, keeping a character at the top until I’m done with the tower.

I haven’t spent anything beyond the initial purchase of the game. I’ve used gold to get the gems to buy what little there is and has been in the gemstore that interests me. I bought thousands of gems in the first few weeks after launch, for laughable amounts of gold. I’m yet to run out of gems.

Shapeshifter.2815:

Just checking, I have completed Mad King Says three times this morning, each time getting the mask and no trick or treat bags. I thought, I was supposed to get a mask the first time through, and then trick or treat bags then after? BTW Same character for two runs….could it have something to do with the patch and next time through I will get trick or treat bags? Thanks for reading

Edit: Just completed it for the 3rd time running on the same character – perfect run, and still only got a mask.

The same is happening to me.

Cirian.8917:

I’d be very impressed if anyone has scored 7!

See attachment!

It was a flawless run in an instance with no other players. There wasn’t time for more.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Danikat.8537:

Manasa Devi.7958:

CETheLucid.3964:

I can’t get around your obtuseness about this if you don’t understand the gist of what I’m saying.

There is no “you can only run this content if you have XYZ gear” thing going on in this game.

That’s a blatant untruth, unless you erroneously consider minipets and vanity skins non-content.

I’m confused. Other than the final Halloween instance, which requires the candy corn mini, what content is there that you can’t do without a mini pet or a specific weapon skin?

I admit I’m not an expert on this game but minis are one of the things I’m most interested in so I would have thought I’d have heard about it if they now unlock new activities.

The minipets themselves are content. Everything you can have in your inventory is content. Every pixel, every sound, it’s all content.

So now we are down to semantics of the word, “CONTENT” and not the actual concept trying to be pointed out? I.E. That specific items in the game are not NEEDED to actually PLAY the game. The personal choice to pursue these items to whatever extent is 100% on the player.

It’s no more a player’s personal choice to enjoy having minipets than it is a player’s personal choice to enjoy any other aspect of the game. There is no difference at all between the pleasure a person derives from having a certain minipet and the pleasure a person derives from playing through a dungeon.

If you think it’s just about semantics, you’re letting your conviction that your personal preferences are the norm cloud the fact that other people may have different preferences that are just as valid. That’s a disturbing lack of empathy.

Danikat.8537:

Manasa Devi.7958:

CETheLucid.3964:

I can’t get around your obtuseness about this if you don’t understand the gist of what I’m saying.

There is no “you can only run this content if you have XYZ gear” thing going on in this game.

That’s a blatant untruth, unless you erroneously consider minipets and vanity skins non-content.

I’m confused. Other than the final Halloween instance, which requires the candy corn mini, what content is there that you can’t do without a mini pet or a specific weapon skin?

I admit I’m not an expert on this game but minis are one of the things I’m most interested in so I would have thought I’d have heard about it if they now unlock new activities.

The minipets themselves are content. Everything you can have in your inventory is content. Every pixel, every sound, it’s all content.

CETheLucid.3964:

I can’t get around your obtuseness about this if you don’t understand the gist of what I’m saying.

There is no “you can only run this content if you have XYZ gear” thing going on in this game.

That’s a blatant untruth, unless you erroneously consider minipets and vanity skins non-content, in which case it is just misinformed opinion.

Another plus one here. SPvP spectator mode instead of the advertized Southsun Survival.

I get my soft wood planks by mystically upgrading green wood planks. The price difference is such, that even a pretty bad roll on the numbers has me break even, and my rolls have been a lot better than pretty bad.

Best: Black Lion Salvage Kit

Worst chest ever:

• 1 ticket scrap (I only use the odd key I get while playing, so it’ll take me several years to get enough of these to buy a weapon.)
• 1 PvP glory booster (‘Deposit Collectible’ and never see it again)
• 1 heavy bag of coins (Containing just short of 2 silver)

My last few chests were all a total waste of the time it took to open them.

Mystic.5934:

if it didn’t, it would take the same time to load the 2nd page as the first. what I observe is that it takes 2 minutes to load the first page, then instant for all future pages.

That doesn’t mean you actually download all of it. The first, longer time, is probably the time it takes to initiate the session and the query, server side.

In my experience, there’s rarely less than 16 hours between daily reset and patch releases.

(I haven’t been online at every patch release of course, so my experience might not be an accurate estimate, but you’ll definitely have lots of time.)

Apart from the quality of the loot, the fact that all rewards are daily (bonus chests daily per account, victory chest daily per character) doesn’t exactly motivate people who already got them for the day to help out in subsequent events.

This definitely is a “get achievements and get out” event for me. Too much planning for too little time spent actually playing. Not worth the time.

There is an idle kick. Problem is, it takes so long to activate in PvE maps, most players never see it.

Hekka.8730:

Yeah. Don’t get me wrong, I’m guesting, but it sucks to not be able to play in your own instance. I’ve been lucky enough to guest on the main instance of some larger servers, but I’ve seen as many as 60 players AFK at the (contested) WP for the entire duration of the event. That’s ridiculous.

They’re the more reasonable type of AFKer. The really bad ones gather on and around the launching platform at the eastern turrets, causing champions to spawn to assault the turrets.

eyelogix.1654:

korelg.7862:

easy solution: 5 minutes before the event starts, the system should pop a “ready check” for everyone in the map, that would get rid of 90% of the AFKers

Err no it won’t because the system can still be abused. You are better off putting a debuff on the afkers, or just simply get transferred to the nearest WP that isn’t contested.

They need to be gone from the map entirely to allow more active players to zone in. Any other solution is a half measure at best.

Being rewarded for failure is weird.

On the other hand, events that take an entire day’s worth of gaming to get a single, viable run (if at all!) after long waiting times and frustrating efforts to get into the place you want to be, with the people you want to be with… that’s weird too.

The krait don’t want Tequatl to poop smelly fishheads all over their beach, that’s why they help him to clear out our beach to use as his toilet bowl.

We should be thankful that Tequatl’s ambitions don’t go any further than defecating on a remote beach in Sparkfly Fen. Imagine the damage he could do if he decided to actually attack and conquer inhabited areas. He should reconsider his dietary habits though. Dropping such a huge load every few hours, and taking 15 minutes to squeeze it out, that can’t be healthy.

The chests for getting him down to 75%, 50% and 25% appear to be daily.

And people are starting to find out. Here’s a conversation I overheard (paraphrased):

“Come on guys, let’s at least try and get him to 50% for an extra chest.”
“Why bother, I already got my 50% chest today.”

AFKers are a problem, but sadly they’re also a symptom of what’s wrong with this event.

When your server probably has at least a dozen times as many players as can fit on one map, guesting has very little impact. I have to wait hours to get on my server, and that’s one that only brought Tequatl down once. We’re not attracting a lot of guest, let me assure you. Guests have very little to do with full maps if you’re on a server with high-very high population.

NYG.2568:

All other servers come to BG to try and get there wins. Meanwhile are natives cant even get in.

Wa wa wa, here we have another genius complaining about guests again. Guess what, your server probably has at least a dozen times as many players as can fit on one map. I have to wait hours to get on my server, and that’s one that only brought Tequatl down once. We’re not attracting a lot of guest, let me assure you. Guests have very little to do with full maps if you’re on a server with high-very high population.

This patch turned playing GW2 into “loitering about doing nothing useful for hours on end to eventually have a shot at 15 minutes of what’s likely to be frustration.”

It fails the “Is it fun?” test.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

It eventually took a completely filled overflow with hundreds of people on TS today, to finally bring Tequatl down on Aurora Glade.

So which was it? Overflow or Aurora Glade?

Tequatl should have a 5 minute pre-event consisting of nothing more than 3 announcements, 2.5 minutes apart, and perhaps some eye candy and NPC dialogue.

First call: Tequatl sighted!
To let people know things are about to get interesting. Also issue an active play warning.

Second call: Tequatl is about to attack!
Have a tidal wave wash over the entire event area. At this point, kick everyone who hasn’t moved/acted since the first call.

Third call: Tequatl is here!
Kick off the boss fight. The 2.5 idle minutes between the second call and the third call allow for people to get on the server and replace all the kicked AFK-ers.

I would pay 100 gold to be able to not see any commander icons, except for when I’m in a squad. I’d like to see the tag of who’s commanding the squad. Nothing else, ever.

One problem I’ve been seeing with overflows, is people trickling in over the first few minutes of the event, because they only head for Sparkfly Fen when the event is announced. That means, no time for organization, and a slow start. Hopeless, unless people start camping pre-existing overflows as well as the actual servers.

They shouldn’t start the timer as soon as the event starts, but after a certain condition that takes some effort with a solid number of has players been met.

That way, events aren’t a guaranteed loss if people trickle in like I’ve seen happening on overflow events.

Vol.5241:

I wouldn’t put it past you guys to introduce several gold sinks in the next few releases to handle inflation

i.e.
- materials from vendors for 500 crafting
- new cultural armors and weapons

Also: with the upcoming changes to magic find, I bet there will be a lot less gold coming into the game from the ‘merching’ of blues and greens.

I’ve had that happen with guild storage twice, and both times the missing items turned up again when I next logged on.

If they’d retroactively send it to digital deluxe buyers, I’d finally feel that the deluxe part would be worth the money. I still regret preordering that. I did so without really knowing what I’d be getting, but assumed it would be good, having always gotten good value for money from ANet in the GW1 years. In retrospect, I should’ve spent the €25 on gems and got useful stuff with those.

funkylovemonkey.3097:

You know what’s funny about this? For the last year people have been complaining about culling, asking for an end of culling.

So they end culling. Of course they are limited clientside by how fast your connection is and how fast your computer is, so to overcome that they put placeholder people in until your computer gets around to rendering the actual models.

Suddenly the calls to end culling are replaced by calls to bring culling back.

Awesome.

It’s not really funny, nor awesome.

It’s what happens when something is done terribly. With rendering settings that are actually useful, and actually work, it would be a great thing.

The game desperately needs an option to completely suppress showing any and all placeholder models, instead showing nothing at all until the proper models load. In PvE, no one has a pressing need to see other players as soon as possible. People in purple pyjamas that quickly (or slowly depending on your system and settings) transform into regular players is very damaging to immersion. It looks, to be completely frank, stupid and ugly.

Between the alphabet soup of unwanted nametags and the Purple Pyjama People, the game hasn’t looked as bad at any time during its existence as it does now. And that’s not hyperbole or exaggeration.