Guild Wars 2

A possible explanation:

Some dynamic events have NPCs with an orange star above their heads that tell you were the event is taking place. If you talk to them and “accept” the event, that event will be in your GUI no matter where you are on the map.

One of you could have such an event active while you’re all standing outside the active range of the event. In that case, only the player who accepted the event from the NPC will see the event.

Myralien.6754:

20 slot bags from WvW don’t have compact and other annoying restrictions on them, fractal bags unfortunately do

Many of my characters use a few of the fractal bags that collect masterwork items, in the first few bag slots. That way, their “green collecting” power has no effect whatsoever. They’re fine bags, and cheap.

It’s a bit annoying, because I’m so used to the “inventory resize bug” that I start dragging at my inventory window any time I see a scrollbar. Seeing that bar used to imply that my inventory had spontaneously resized again.

I find it very aggravating when the leftmost slots of my inventory rows don’t coincide with the first slot of the ‘bank view’ of the inventory that’s only 4 slots wide. It makes it harder to find stuff. That’s fixed now, so I’m happy.

There’s definitely something wrong with the vertical scrollbar. I can’t get rid of it no matter how much I stretch the window. I just get more empty space to scroll over with the ever-present scrollbar.

With all the airships parked all over Tyria, you’d think you’d run into some NPC willing to buy some airship oil.

The problem there is that those few stabilizing matrices are more valuable than some of the rubbish that drops instead of them.

In my experience, the recommended dailies pull the encryption:key ratio out of whack. Just doing the 3 tier 4 fractals will give you a guaranteed 12 keys, which is usually enough or at least nearly enough to open all the encryptions I find.

The 2 recommended daily chests give you extra encryptions instead of extra keys. Throw in the encryptions you get from the big end-of-fractal chests for those levels, and those 2 fractals dump a lot of extra encryptions on you.

My worst story pales in comparison to the hairstyle kit.

I forgot to extract the +11 agony infusion from my Unbound before forging it into Ad Infinitum. The worst part is that during the last few steps I needed to do to complete the final gift, I kept telling myself not to forget to extract that infusion. Also, I dumped thousands of +1 agony infusions after they went up in price a bit when people were gearing up for level 100, and was left with none of them to make a new +11.

There’s far too much rubbish on the loot tables for t4 daily chests. A single potion? Please just give me a Stabilizing Matrix instead.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

It’s because if they were account wide bag expansions, they’d have to charge a heck of a lot more than one bag expansion for one char only. Every char have you have now and every char you made from the time of purchase onward would get a free bag expansion. That would be a VERY good deal.

If they were account-wide, I’d buy them and I’d pay that “heck of a lot more”.

As they are now, not a chance in hell I’m ever buying even one.

Ven Zehn.6573:

I was thinking “Legendary Sucker” – from Naruto although, since we can’t use Sucker, “Legendary Fool” ?

Not to insult those who managed to get it, I quit after I did like 20 or so lol…. but how many profited, and how many lost incredible amounts of gold by going for it?

I never actually intended to go for it but I made a significant amount of gold while getting it. I tried it to see what the fuss was all about and kept going because I kept winning. I only stopped when I hit the “100 times” achievement.

I disagree with the OPs numbers. It didn’t take me 10,000 gold and 25,000 ectoplasm. Just 100 gold, 250 ectoplasm, and a whole lot of luck.

Wrong wurm. You need to do a Twilight Arbor explorable.

The collection tells you what to do and where to go.

Dav.9152:

Also, for a lot of casual players in big boss events, so long as the boss is losing health, and they are winning, they are probably not aware of doing anything wrong by not CCing. “Was the event successful? Then I must’ve been doing it right.” That also furthrs the “I don’t care about CC” attitude b/c they didn’t need it last time. They end up getting carried by everyone else and don’t realize there’s more to learn. Only by repeated failure will they finally stop to figure out what’s going wrong.

The vast majority of the time, people are actually right when they think they don’t need to break that bar. Most encounters are easily winnable without ever putting even a slight dent in the bar. That sure doesn’t do anything to educate people, and after fighting dozens of enemies with useless break bars, running into one where not breaking it has major consequences, they’re still clueless.

A simple answer to the original question: the usefulness of a single slot depends on what you have available to put there. Do you own a permanent bank access express? That shared slot is the most awesome thing ever. Do you own a salvage-o-matic? Still pretty good. Tarrktun personal delivery portal? Sign me up!

Ascended equipment isn’t soulbound.

These new rewards have certainly been bad for me. A few rings, a few potions, an ecto or 2. And that’s from doing all 3 T4s every day since patch. Oh, I got an ascended accessory with abysmal stats that salvaged to 6 +1 infusions.

Ohoni.6057:

Umm nothing of your listings includes the buying of a run.

“Advertising the purchase, sale or trade of game accounts, items, gold or other real-money transactions *are forbidden”*

Basically he’s offering a transaction of gold for anything, which is apparently forbidden. I’m not calling him on it, but if the mods come around, it might be an issue. You’re apparently allowed to advertise this on LFG though.

He’s not trying to purchase, sell or trade a game account or gold, or pursuing a real-money transaction. Nothing in that sentence, regardless of how many words you bold, applies to the OP.

They can’t farm the metas like they do VW.

Because of the rotten timers.

I think we can agree that something isn’t right. Either the text of the achievement or the fact that Ad Infinitum doesn’t count.

Ad Infinitum doesn’t advance the Legendary Collector achievement.

Sure, it’s not a weapon, but it still satisfies all the requirements that the achievement demands.

Vayne.8563:

So what exactly are you missing by not doing the metas now?

Duh… The meta-events? Actual gameplay? Did you miss when I said I didn’t care about the rewards?

This update fixed nothing about HoT for me.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Manasa Devi.7958:

But I don’t care anymore. I don’t expect anything anymore, it’s become blatantly obvious that this game no longer aligns with my interests.

You’ve been complaining about every release the game’s had for over three years now. Clearly, your interests are aligned with it, because not only are you still here, but you shelled out money for Heart of Thorns despite having spent years deriding every single thing the game has done.

You can’t fool me. I see past your trickery!

Blatant lies.

Analogy? What analogy? There is no analogy in my above post.

My number one complaint about HoT are the timers. They’re still there. You still need to log on at the exact same time as before this useless update and you still need to taxi. The metas are as inaccessible as ever.

I don’t give a rodent’s rectum about how hard or how easy it is to gather loot in HoT. I never did. There’s not a single skin in it that I want anyway.

But I don’t care anymore. I don’t expect anything anymore, it’s become blatantly obvious that this game no longer aligns with my interests.

Complaint: HoT is inaccessible.
Solution: More loot.

Genius.

Is there still such a thing as getting things ready for the night? When I was there earlier I noticed there wasn’t a tier progress indicator at daytime.

As far as I can tell, anything that can only be bought in limited amounts, can’t be gifted. Probably because they can’t tell if the recipient already has the maximum number.

If this seems like an inconvenience, it would be far more annoying if people received gifts they can’t use.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Manasa Devi.7958:

They could’ve made it a 0 gem purchase.

There’s no option to hide the slots.

They could have, but they didn’t. Do you really expect that it’s worth their time to adjust this solely for those who don’t want even 1 shared slot?

Mind you, I’m not at all against them spending time to allow folks to move around the full set of SIS (shared-inventory slots), as if they were another bag, so folks could drag them up or down on the left side. I just don’t think any special effort should be made to satisfy a type of minor OCD about having +1 slot.

Of course they shouldn’t fix this “solely for those who don’t want even 1 shared slot”. They should fix it for the many people who requested placement options when the slots were first introduced. They should’ve done that months ago. There was a lot of noise at that time, and that was just from the small minority of people that actually bought them. Me included.

When nothing became of those requests, I bit the bullet and put 15 slot bags in the first slot on all my characters, to realign everything. Now, I’d need to put two 12 slot bags in the first 2 slots to fix it, or buy 4 more shared slots that I don’t need.

It’s got nothing to do with OCD or whatever insult you care to throw at me. I just find it a very clumsy setup to have the narrow left-pane of the bank that shows the inventory not have corresponding starting positions as the rows of my bagless inventory. It makes it harder to find stuff and manage the whole thing.

Elden Arnaas.4870:

Hide/Unhide – Hidden inventory slots can be toggled as hidden or visible, regardless of show bags setting.
Top/Bottom- Hidden inventory slots can be toggled to show at the top or bottom of the inventory.
Removal – Remove the free shared inventory slot form the account.

It would also be nice to know who would find more than one of these satisfactory, (or none of them) and why.

I assume you mean shared in place of the bolded *hidden*s.

Either an option to put them at the bottom or having the free one removed would be fine for me. Keeping them separated from the inventory bags even with the “Show bags” option disabled would also work.

Your option 1, the option to hide the slots would do nothing for me. I’d like the 5 I bought visible at all times.

Wildkitten.3872:

And complaining about this is like someone complaining about 3 bag slots with locks on them, or complaining that there is 5 bag slots for free when they want only 4 because having a fifth makes them scroll the inventory.

No, it’s nothing like that at all. Try again.

Withholding judgement until I can play without crashing every few minutes.

I asked for them to make it possible to move them to the bottom the first day they were offered. When it became clear that wasn’t going to happen, I dealt with it. And now they’re messing it up in a manner that the fix I came up with and got used to can’t fix. I also have no need whatsoever for a 6th slot. Don’t expect gratitude.

Of course they shouldn’t give things for free that come with unwelcome consequences. Would you thank someone who gives you a smelly kitten as a birthday present?

Not if you don’t show bags to begin with. And why would I want to hide the 5 I chose to purchase?

They could’ve made it a 0 gem purchase.

There’s no option to hide the slots.

If I can’t move these things to the bottom I’d like to have this free slot removed, actually. I don’t need it and it completely messes up my inventory layout. Again.

I bought 5 shared slots when they were first released and had to get a 15 slot bag on all my characters to realign everything just the way I want it. What am I to do now? Get 14 slot bags? Buy 4 more slots I don’t need?

They look ridiculous.

Who needs an analogy for this anyway? An analogy will do nothing to clarify the already glaringly clear issue.

The only explanation I have for people not admitting to it is choice-supportive bias.

You can see it being used as a glider in the trailer.

DoctorDing.5890:

By the time you have earned the masteries you are probably done with the maps where they are useful.

Well, they certainly help you rush additional characters through the content.

On my first character, I was annoyed because of all the speed bumps I ran into, lacking certain masteries. On subsequent characters, everything felt completely trivial because of a combination of prior experience and those speed bumps being gone. Both experiences were sub-optimal. Something about the system is off, for sure.

Yes, let’s keep a great many people who’ve been waiting for months wait some more because of some other people who can’t pace themselves and/or have no self-control whatsoever.

“No dinner tonight, dear family, because Timmy gorged himself emptying the cookie jar.”

I found Glint’s Lair nice to look at, but terrible to play through. Too many fights where you’re not fighting but manipulating the surroundings.

I was thinking of things like the 2 completely different fights against the Shadow of the Dragon, the teragriff boss, the stealth mission.

The HoT instances have nothing interesting going for them by way of mechanics, apart from the final one. And on top of that they have the temerity to actually call the parts where we’re just moving from one point of the map to the next part of the map “story chapters”. Ridiculous.

I find it kind of sad that the actual gameplay of the HoT story instances is far less interesting than what was offered in the LS2 story instances. Only the final one comes anywhere close to LS2.

I demand that they give me lots and lots of stacks of soft wood planks. One stack for every stack I made while they cost 4 logs per plank.

echo.2053:

lol its not that they are afraid, its just the typical gw2 player mentality "Faced with a challenge- give up ". They’ll try it once – get absolutely decimated and then go to the forums seeking nerfs – with pretty ironic reasoning.

I’ve not tried it once, I have no intention of trying it and I don’t want it to be nerfed.

By now though, I would like something terrible to happen to it.

I don’t play any content that I can’t be actively playing within 30 seconds of logging in.

The participation reward system is just generally flawed. There’s this here. There’s also sitting afk at the end of a meta with your 200% slowly ticking down while you get chest after chest if you’re lucky and the map turns out to be one that remains active on the next cycle. There’s so many ways to game the system.

The participation system is a good idea, but needs refinement.

I never swap stats, unless it’s a permanent move out of a build that I completely lost interest in. If I need different stats for something, I make a whole new character. I have 9 “general PvE” characters, 1 of each profession, and a lot of characters to fulfil specific roles.

Rebuilding characters is too cumbersome. Too many pieces of equipment that have to be stored, and no quick and elegant way to change builds. Besides, it’s a good excuse to keep making more characters.

So, I don’t really care about legendary armor, which conveniently goes hand in hand with a complete and total disinterest in raids.

I’m guessing the OP wants airship parts.

Kiza.5630:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Blame the game. Taxiing, which is required for plenty of people to have a chance at winning the meta, sets your participation level to 0%. Doing a full circuit is pretty much required to get participation level up to a level where rewards are worthwhile.

Only if you show up <5 Mins before the main event and let other players before do most of the work. A map that goes through the whole event chains with a couple of people organizing always does the meta event afterwards.

If you say so. I’ve never been on a map that long.