Guild Wars 2

Blanche Neige.7241:

MarkBecks.6453:

the drops should be higher for people doing the event from start to finish

Players who do an event from start to finish kills more mobs, and thus have more opportunities to drop something than those who do less.

Point taken, but my beef is against the players that sit and do nothing, RNG does work if you do more events? Not, it needs the crowds to roll the numbers, or I could sit their for 2 years before I get a drop. Doing more events when their is 2 people taking forts is the frustrating part, then when the mobs come, the RNG kicks in and the portals drop. Its a catch 22 situation, and all I’m saying is it should work like WvW, no activity, warnings and a kick from the map to allow active players to keep the RNG numbers rolling, that would give you more chance.

I would like to add my 5 cents worth here, and yes, it is frustrating not getting a portal, but the real issue here is the campers at base that do nothing (maybe go for supper/coffee/tea) who knows, while a handful of people grind to get the map ready. Once this happens as if my magic, the non moving players suddenly come alive and active and they ready for the chain, that’s my frustration, and in all fairness, if Anet are offering us a chance at a glimpse of Maguuma, then the drops should be higher for people doing the event from start to finish, that would be “polished” RNG. Don’t kill me, just my opinion.

I played turret engi to test the new system, and they lasted 10 seconds exactly, nice touch when Rangers kill you from miles away, necros have their horde, and Mesmers can spam clones then leave, ad naseum. I asked when the devs were busy with the idea of changing this if the engi build would be adjusted to compensate but obviously not. I played for 30 secs then switched to finish the game. I honestly think the engi profession is so lacking anyway, and I would have preferred to see the turrets being portable and moving with him like pets. But that’s just me, and fyi, I have all profession, all races so have a bit of insight into builds. I know all builds change to balance them, but just think this was looking at turrets which I agree were OP, rather than the overall engi build. Ex engi

The problem with engi, is in his downed state, he doesn’t have time to use his skill 3, so the number of times the turrets save him will now be nullified. If you going to do this change, I would like to suggest you speed up the actual engis skill lag to counter this. I play all professions, all classes, so agree with the change, but needs some tweaking to the build to balance it out.

My Character was named Peta File, and I could not log in this character until I changed the name. Please explain the difference of my name to paedophile? I am disappointed and had no option but to do this. GW2 has a violence, drinking, swearing tag, and the whole purpose is to run around killing things. I don’t get it, to me this is the most pathetic thing that I have encountered so far, we are supposed to be adults, and their are a lot of names out their that are tounge in cheek which I enjoy, but really, in light of what this game is all about I find this totally unacceptable.

I have recently posted on this same article, but more centred around the mystic forge and RNG in general. I have played every day for 3 years, and have definitely noticed a change in drops with each and every patch. The drops from bosses would be an average of 3 rares from bosses, this has changed to 1 rare (only good for mystic or salvage if you have 13 lev 80 fully geared characters). But the most noticeable change for me has been the mystic and bosses, and if you get an exotic these days, its now dropped from a lev 80 (usable by characters) to level 75, and more than likely a Sigil Of Force. (only good for salvage). So what is RNG? that was my question, and imo, its a number that can be changed with any patch to reduce or change the drops. I enjoyed the Mystic Forge as part of the game, as their was always the chance of a decent drop, but alas no more. I have MF of 216 base, and even tried with over 340 mf with boosts, no difference, mystic stones, no difference, so that’s my opinion, the RNG is subject to change at any time. My solution is simple, I just play the game with no expectations because I want to just enjoy playing, however, it also means I don’t buy gems because I used to purchase them to buy an item, then the balance to buy BL Keys, and these drops have also changed. The rewards of the game have dropped significantly to be noticeable, as many players have noted in this and other discussion threads. It would be nice if ANET could look at rewards, as its all about the gear, the clothes, the weapons, the prestige, nothing else.

I enjoyed playing the new BETA, the character felt quite easy to play, and got used to the skills quite quickly. I used mainly hammer as I found the ranged attack more practical for that map. I unlocked the gliding, and must say I really enjoyed this part of the testing, pretty smooth and cant wait to unlock the rest of the gliding skills. My only concern was every now and again I did a 180 Deg turn away from my target when hit. This wasn’t a fear, but happened to me a few times to be noticeable. Damage was quite severe, but that can be expected from this kind of boss, and I did get caught a few times when starting but learnt quickly to stay out of AOE damage zones. It would be nice to unlock the other traits later, and found the xp bar with all the info quite usefull. The armour look and feel was also really good, movement was also pretty quick which would make a difference in support roles while running with zergs. I found skill 4 on hammer to be quite good, but the wall did tend to drift a bit leaving me exposed. Otherwise excited for the expansion.

I have been playing GW2 for almost 3 years now, and have put in many many hours, 5 world completions, 13 lev 80 toons, 3 legendary weapons. I would like to know why every time their is a patch, the RNG numbers are changed to give worse drops? I cannot understand why you manipulate the numbers so badly that when I throw 3 lev 80’s exotics into the forge with a mystic stone, my returns have gone from lev 80, to lev 78, to now lev 76. I seriously cannot waste time doing boss runs day after day, and get absolutely useless items out the forge. This is part of my game that I enjoy, however, its getting a bit stale and boring, and RNG is open to change by simply changing the numbers. I cannot fathom this out, as base stat, MF and all the other boost’s are simply smoke and mirrors. It makes no difference what youre MF is. I open 50 chests and get 1 rare, and the rest blues and greens. Please review the boss drops or do something, as I am so utterly bored right now, and need to be convinced that you looking after the players, without whom, you have nothing.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

PvP Specialist here

Few questions about this:

1. How often do you swap from your main class to the class daily to get the AP?
2. Do you enjoy the encouragement to try another class?
3. If you were to change this daily, what would you want it to be changed to instead?

I think it may up to the individual player to choose his class, as the number of level 2’s is indicitave of people having to roll another toon to just do the daily. This means that if they don’t have the class tomorrow, they will re-roll and delete other toon as they may not be able to buy spare slots for new toons. I have no problem with the levels due to the way the system works, but I would like to see rewards for capturing, holding etc on any class, and to make it fair, rewards for winning 2 matches, no classes set

well we playing SFR again this week, week 3 in a row, but I seem to be smelling some sort of desperation, as in the home border, they have a Trebuchet in their Citadel area focussed on Sunnyhill, and once you claim it, the treb starts, and their is no way of getting it, this is a clear exploit of fair gaming, common guys, you cant be that desperate for a win you have to resort to this behaviour.

I have been playing long enough to notice changes. RNG can be changed simply by changing or building new numbers into a patch, and its certainly open to change, RNG can simply mean anything, and any number. I have noticed when dropping 4 lev 80 exotics or 3 lev 80’s with a stone into mystic, that I am rewarded with a lev 76 to lev 78 weapon, with Sigil of Accuracy or Sigil of force (only good for salvage, and useless to a lev 80 toon, of which I have 13). So after many, many attempts, I have seen a pattern change. I feel I am being sold a lot of hype about forge stones and RNG, because after playing for nearly 3 years, the good drops have become less and less from as far back kitten month ago. RNG is explained by the Devs, I appreciate the explanation, but mystic is fast becoming a no go zone for me, spoiling a huge part of the game that I enjoyed. I used to spend 4 hours doing boss runs, and looking forward to an attempt to get something decent, all I think now is nah, waste of time. This is not a dig at the Devs, simply my opinion and real life game experience.

so far since the new living story, I have been unable to complete Arcana. This is an important part, as I have 1100 badge to purchase the skin, and have completed all other aspects of the game. I have submitted bug reports, posted on forum, but up to this point, nothing!

You were very fortunate that you did not encounter bugs. I DC’d over and over then decided to wait for the updated patch. I tried it again, and after getting to the end boss, the fragile shields keep spawning in his damage areas then disappears in phase 2. I got him down to 45%, but don’t have time for pointless running around. You cant see if his health is dropping because it hardly changes. Frustration is not a good thing in any MMO, as it removes the “fun” factor. At this point and hours of trying to do living story, I am getting past the “sell by date” Although I have enjoyed living story and all the new content, frustration and sanity prevail. Please let me know when you do a FIX on this, or not, thank you.

Well the so called Swiss system which means you don’t play the same server twice needs some tweaking to put it mildly, we drew the same overpopulated server 3 times in 4 weeks, so still trying to read between the lines of what the devs said pre matchups. WvW is a really important part of the game and somebody needs to pay attention, and maybe time to relook at your overall system, no ques for most of the tournie, which means the winning servers don’t win by skill, but by default due to their numbers, and people just not interested.

So this would be the correct place to log a BLTC query? or is this the place to dump those hundreds of queries that don’t get resolved? just asking, still waiting….

Well WvW Season 3 is upon us, and you of all people should know the importance of food and oils during any Dungeons, Fracs or WvW activity, as this is part of your design. So let me explain that I have posted issues with BLTC for 3 days, sent bug reports, and still nothing. I have put in trades for different oils, and when trading it shows their are 9999 units +, so the issue is not with quantity, but this is what I’m currently waiting for. Potent Superior Sharpening Stone, 3 days, 2 days, 2 days (3 batches). Master maint oil 54 mins, potent master tuning crystal, 54 mins, master tuning crystal 55 mins, toxic maintenance oil 13 hours. As you can see, I have tried various combinations at various times, but 3 days for a few trades is downright pathetic. You are penalising everyone for a few people exploiting the system, but those not running exploits, cheats, farming ect get penalised for the few. I am really getting tired of waiting for issues that are important to the game play, designed and implemented by you, but no resolution. Please fix the issues, its affecting my game play, and if it cannot be resolved, let me know so I can make some informed decisions. Thank you

I have posted on the forums previously about the way the game has not progressed imo, but has regressed to a sad state. I have 12 alts, 11 at 80, and my last one at 10, which due to your new system, I will sadly not even attempt to level. I was able to do full 100% map completion on a ranger which was my first toon, and although I only had mediocre armour, weapons and trinkets’, I was able to solo the whole map. It just seems that greed always drives the developments, and now on a completed arah map, my rewards were lev 76 weapons (what can I do with this). I have also found the most common lev weapon from mystic is now also lv 76, this is not a coincidence, as my toons are lev 80’s and require lev 80 weapons. I am assuming the RNG which is supposed to be random, has been changed to NOT so random. I used to do boss run, collect rares, and drop in mystic and usually get something decent once per day. I have done this all week, and yes, I got a weapon yesterday, pffft Lev 76, seems to be a pattern to the system I think. So you have taken an awesome game and have slowly cut every fun thing from the game, so the guildies cannot make money on their own, but would have to now spend money and buy gems to complete their toons. The whole structure of the game has changed to make money for you, yet it detracts from us having fun, and what you fail to realise, is that we are supporting the game, yet you give us what you feel is best for us, and pay no attention to your own forums and what we are asking for. I believe in supporting a “free to play game”, and am a regular money spender on the game, but due to your decisions on changing things so drastically, I have decided not to spend more money. I would like to add that if you fishing with holes in you’re net, you going to lose the majority of your fish through the holes, so I suggest you take care of those holes before you lose the whole “catch”.

I understand the patch to stop guildies flipping for profits in BLTC, but now been waiting for 17hours and 13 hours respectively for superior potent sharpening stones and food for the WvW tournie. My characters have just about run out and this is not acceptable, 17 hours to pick up something is nonsense I have sent bug reports, but as always, no response, no solution. Please, this is a critical time and I need the buffs.

I am just wanting to find out if the pieces left over from crafting Mawdrey and Mawdrey II have any use. They were their in the first place, but unused, so I am sitting with a Chaos infused Clay Pot, and a Package of Oasis Soaked Plant food. The only option I have is use or destroy, and this makes me very unhappy, as they were part of the crafting stage, but seem to be left over. Both these items have cost me a lot of gold, and grind, and I need to know if anyone knows the reason they exist, or the reason they were their to craft in the first place.

I had a previous post which seems to have disappeared with no reply or explanation, and that was; I am still associated with my old server 4 months later, I lost a guild bank when moving to Deso from Aurora Glade, and I lost a lv 400 Jeweller on my toon that had 3 crafts, and if I buy a additional crafting license, can guarantee that that would have to be redone anyway. (I have 10 toons, so any one of them could start new craft, but that’s not the point, previously 1 character could have all crafting disciplines).

When I started playing, my first character was a ranger, which I did 100% map completion on with lower grade weapons, armour or trinket’s that I currently have.
Their have been so many changes to game play, that now with Ascended Gear rings, trinkets, armour, I cannot do half of what I did on pre ascended armour and weapons, with pre ascended trinkets. The drops have become really bad, meaning I would have to spend more money to buy mats, which puts money in your pocket, but does not indicate the time and effort I spend to try obtain these through normal game play.

The lv 1-15 maps where people start have NPC’s that regenerate 10 seconds after you killed them, and not 1 but you confronted with 5 NPC’s making it hard to try complete each section, or trying to level a new character. I really feel sorry for the new players starting out with minimal funds to purchase armour, weapons and trinkets. The cost to kit out 1 character has skyrocketed in the last 3 months. Skills only kick in at lev 30, and most don’t belong to guilds when starting out, making it difficult in their first experiences of playing.

Their are many positives in the game including the Mega servers, which means maps always have characters on them, but doesn’t guarantee anyone will assist with a skill point as most players doing low level maps are also starting out and don’t have gear or skills to assist, but the drawbacks of these servers are overflows and lag which still exists.

I am one of those people that believe in spending money in the game to support it, but after buying some BL chests, I am sitting with 7 Royal Passes, 11 instant repair canisters, which now costs nothing, and are these passes really needed, as the Divinity Reach event is over (to me that = wasted money, and disappointing drops).

I am just disappointed that all the fun factors that were in the game, of farming runs in Queensdale for new players who loved the comradie and boss runs, and excitement of levelling, to excited map chats have all but disappeared. It seems that everything is so geared around spending money in game, that the enjoyment has gone, and if you had to monitor some map chat, would get an idea of what people are thinking and saying.

This is my opinion of the game, and after sending bug reports for the last few months with no change or explanation, or email, and after posting on the forum with no response and my post disappearing, felt like I need to post how I am feeling about the game, and how it has supposedly progressed. A good indicator of this is in the guild panel showing the last time a player logged on, and sadly, lots of inactivity of really good players that have been playing a long time, and strangely last login, one day after the new living world came out, coincidence, I think not.

I moved from Aurora Glade to Desolation during week 1 of the Season 2 WvW tournie, and after a few days, was able to play in the WvW maps. I saw I was associated with AG, which also said as I play, this would gradually change. I play an average of 4-6 hours per day in WvW, so I assumed this would change during the course of the weeks. It is almost 3 months since I put in a bug report regarding this, but not only did I lose out on the Deso Tokens for their placing, but seems many wasted hours playing for nothing. I also lost a Guild bank full of mats (mithril, orich ancients), food, buffs, rares, exotics etc. These things were reported all at the same time, yet today, 04 July 14, I am still associated with Aurora Glade, and as yet 3 months later have yet to receive a response. I spent gems to transfer, which I purchased, yet no response. I have seen game issues and exploits fixed within 24 hours, as it affects you, yet this is now 3 months old and getting a bit stale.

So my one toon had (past tense) 3 crafts which I could switch to any time. The 3 crafts she had were all 400 + but now I am supposed to buy a boost from Anet so I can have more than 2 on the same toon. Where is my jeweller craft gone? Please can I have an answer to this, as I now need to craft in that discipline, and cannot be bothered spending my hard earned gold to buy another slot, just in case this has been lost. FYI, I do spend money in the game, but out of principle will not. My hero panel shows jeweller to 400.

I transferred after week 1 of the tournament, and every time I logged on, it told me I am associated with my old server Aurora Glade, which would gradually change as I played WvW on my new server, Desolation. I played from between 4 – 8 hours per day for the full duration of the season 2, but the message never changed. I also completed all 19/19 possible achievements and have not received a chest or any reward to date. I also sent bug reports at the end of the 2nd week after server change, and have done this during the duration of the match ups. I am hoping this is a minor glitch, as this cost me gems to transfer, as well as a huge amount of my time and effort during this season, and look forward to a favourable outcome.

lol, what a bunch of naffs BB and SFR, hang your heads in shame, but hey its just a game, and if you feel you have to double team to win, then I feel sorry for you in RL because that’s how you roll. Oh and while you patting yourselves on the back, karma is knocking at your door

I once watched a video which showed some cheaters getting dealt with and banned. I have also reported with screenshots, but apart from that, it does become frustrating when you want everyone to play fairly as its just a game. I have reported via the correct channels, and realise that the forums are not the correct method. I would like to put it over though, as sometimes you trying to take screenshot, stay alive and report a player before he disappears off screen. So my thoughts are, is their not an easier way to report this, or maybe a forum started that deals with Questions and Answers specifically related to cheats and exploits, so that other players are also available to look out for these anomalies? And just as an afterthought, I have seen the same group of players I’ve previously reported via the correct channels, so its an on-going problem which may or may not have been addressed, as I have no way of knowing. Thanks for a great game, and all the work that goes in to try keep us players happy and content.

They say action speaks louder than words, so if you have a look at AG this week, we’ve drawn Riverside 2nd week in a row. All they seem to do is karma farm and dominate all the BL’s due to their numbers. If you look at chat you will see many frustrated players, and really empty BL’s. This is supposed to be fun, but its frustration when you cant even get a decent group together because people refuse to waste their time. I think whatever Anet are doing, its not working. Im really getting bored with this whole game, as I enjoy WvW the most, but what’s the point of fighting Gold servers week after week when we all know theirs only going to be one result. Will their ever be a solution to the balance, No! its not possible because it depends on the people playing, and without the people, the game dies. My opinion

I would like to add my opinion here for what its worth. I enjoy playing GW2, and it has kept me occupied and excited for over a year, but suddenly with all the bosses being upgraded and changed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to solo and just have fun with normal gear and weapons (and yes I belong to an active guild with 300 players). I just think their is to much content alongside the changes to weapons and armour which keep people so occupied with getting an achievement or crafting that ascended piece, that their is less time to play the actual game. (Just go look at LA, then go look at any boss).
I have had my ranger changed so much from when I started that I can no longer run the same map I completed six months ago, yet the changes and enhancements are supposed to be better? I’m more squishy than I have ever been. Some bosses have become almost unplayable, so its pointless giving us all the equipment, sigils, runes etc if you going to just keep nerffing everything levels above us, just for a few more coloured pixels. I’m afraid the fun factor is diminishing into the mists alongside my enjoyment of the game. I just want to be able to have fun no matter if I am running my high lv toons in a dungeon, or trying to roll a new char on a lev 1-15 map. Everyone is so busy with achievements, that it very necessary to be able to solo, after all lv 80 guildies don’t want to run a low level map to help a player get a skill point. Ive completed map twice, have 3 toons at 80, so been here for over a year, but honestly the first time I have become frustrated with the game.