Guild Wars 2

velmeister.4187:

Vegas.5790:

As long as max weapons stats are very, very close to exotics, it really comes down to the ‘skin’. If someone wants to pay $10 for a killer skin, so be it. Until you see something with crazy stats, they are true to what they said.

There are plenty of issues with this game, and the agony mechanic seems to add to them. Unless you really like to get smacked down.

I don’t believe you get it. I don’t believe you even understood the OP.

Even if the stat is increased by 1 point, it is an increment. It is better than the other. Its a simple concept. Just because you are OK with “non-crazy” stats it does not make it right. ANET simply cheated its core player-base 3 months after the release of the game to milk more money from the gear grinders who did not buy the game because of the lack of vertical progression.

This has been their plan all along as something like this can’t be done in 2-3 months, when the game required years to develop and current existing issues take forever to resolve.

Shame on you ANET.

Spot on the truth right there!

What is clear from reading through a lot of these posts is there are indeed two camps.

GW1 veterans and bored of Pandas WoW veterans.

Shamefully, Anet are catering to the later

“Will there be another new tier after Ascended”

They broke a promise to not do this in the first place……and only 3 months into the game.

I’m going to say yes

Slic.2406:

Replace the D3 stuff of the following link with the appropriate GW2 references, and make a GW2 version of this article on this thread. Let’s see who can make the best GW2 rendition of:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889888966

That pretty much sums up the direction GW2 is heading, especially with the introduction of Ascended gear, which has better stats than slotted/jeweled exotics, PLUS an infusion slot on top of it.

I whole heartedly agree. As a matter of fact, when I first read the article on ascended gear, I though of D3 immediately

GOSU.9574:

I disagree. Even though I am totally against this looming gear tread mill being forcibly imposed, I do not agree with your weak premise.

Up until now I have enjoyed this game without needing anything from the BLTC. Now recently I did buy Gem Cards, but I only did so for cosmetics and a bank expansion, and I didn’t need any of that, just something I chose to get.

Unlike D3 where in order to succeed you had to use the GAH/RMAH, you do not have to do so in GW2.

Uhm, no ascended gear no resistence to Agony, no content progression……..Gear grind or BLTC

Apparently Anet’s original “manifesto” was willfully disingenuous.

I hit 80, I got my money’s worth to be sure but I wont continue playing now.

Doesn’t matter if it’s digital or retail you would sill be downloading the same amount of data.

Ambika.6257:

so it’s bugged?

Don’t know for sure but it is supposed to happen every three hours.

What they need to do is incentivise low level zones for high level toons.

Mergers will just have over crowded (overflow) high level zones.

It’s a timed event, you can’t “trigger” it. And it bugs out (stops working) after a few days of a server reset.

The hardest (or what seems longest) grind for me was 45-50

Just do DE’s, events or grind above your level. Take XP boosters. Food or tonics from chests. Also, world exploration helps. Go to LA and portal to each of the cities and get all the completions for the city.

Don’t misinterpret concern as a complaint.

The OP is absolutely correcct in his detrmining that there is an exposed flaw in DE’s by their nature when there is no one around to do them.

Absolutely, I see plenty of people on at some times. Doing dungeons, sPvP, PVP, WvW et al……

However, the DE’s expose it’s own design flaw when it’s empty DE after empty DE.

Maybe it has to do with the current populations expectations that any given DE might be bugged (there are a lot of them) so don’t bother making that a focus of their play but it is still a reasonable concern.

Happy Birthday!

I have no idea when but just wanted to wish you well on your day

Two, one to hold the ladder while the other unscrews it and steals it?

Gilandred.9870:

Warrior. They have banners and shouts for support, and can wreck as good as anyone with a weapon, especially melee. You can even do both at the same time.

^This. Banners are something I rarely see unfortunately because they are not very useful for solo PvE but for group events and Champions they help a lot.

I usually drop them in my skill set before a DE since it doesn’t matter how much DPS your throwing individually when 20 other people are also DPS

Gather EVERYTHING!

Chances are, you are not going to level out every crafting skill. Keep the mats you need and TP the rest.

No point in keeping cooking mats if you are never going to cook.

Stop using salvage kits on everything just to get mats yo will never use and sell the loot instead of salvaging.

This alone will net you a few gold a day.

560M

It’s mobile, it’s DX11 and it slices through (Most) games on high settings.

Can’t enable super sampling in GW2 but everything else is maxed and I get a constant 35 FPS

I seem to recall a succesfull lawsuit against CoH (read NCSoft) regarding a naming convention, using abstracted names even, of famous superheroes.

So you can’t blame them.

Kain Francois.4328:

mastershke.8145:

Kain Francois.4328:

Ok. I decided I would participate.

If I win, I will sell Dawn instantly to the highest buyer on Trade Post to get whatever additional gold I need to purchase The Hunter of Rage, and I will keep no more gold than that.

Once I buy The Hunter of Rage, I will randomly divide the remaining gold to 5 lucky posters in this thread.

I am making that promise. Once I get The Hunter of Rage, I don’t need the extra gold. So I will give away the remainder!

Wasnt the point of this to give it to someone that will use it?

I am pretty desperate for The Hunter. It’s also a legendary Precursor, so it’s not that offtopic.

Not only that, but I’m willing to divide the remaining gold to people in this thread. Are you not happy with free gold?

I really think you have missed the OP’s point.

Well, gold sellers have found a new batch of accounts. Just logged in, three seperate mails.

one word…..Bots

Like Revenant said, best to assume it has. I cna’t see why GW2 would deal with a different vendor and if your accounts are linked, more the reason to change your info.

Treat it like it has is the best advice until Anet say otherwise.

It’s the bots breaking events but same support concerns from me.

DougM.2305:

Believing that I have to put in hundreds of hours into the game in order to get my money’s worth is one mindset that some people need to get past.

I have to agree with that as well.

I’m going to say one thing. This game can’t survive low populations purely out of design. DE’s and WE’s are already empty, regularly on what is labled often as a full server but never bellow high. As higher level players wont pay to play in low level zones with high level investments (repairs and waypoints) filling out lower zones will always be a problem without constant influx of new players, thus leaving large portions of the world, underpopulated for purpose.

I suppose, with a loyal enough base, re-rolls or new characters will sustain the game for some period of time but in the long run the same problem will occur.

Is it dying? No. Is it thriving? No.

Quite frankly, my assessment of the game in the past 2 hours has soured dramatically.

All be it, there are a lot of unconstructive threads but mods are deleting anything and everything that paints the game in a negative light, regardless of being constructive or from legitimately concerned comments from players that they want to invest time and money into their game.

Dammage control is clearly taking precedent over nearly anything else. That’s NOT a good sign.

Absolutely! I cancelled a couple of pre orders because frankly, as much as I love this game, I wont have time to play the others. In essence, GW2 SAVED me money.

Edenknight.9284:

I also want to note that both of my screenshots are post-patch last night. I wasn’t doing anything exploitative or shady whatsoever. A few guildmates had called out that Dwayna has spawned and I did the chain event there in Orr. This was the first time I’ve been on the map, so the DR is definitely character bound, not map or event bound.

It would appear that you hit the cap after about ~30 minutes of doing karma events if they are chain events and it takes somewhere in the realm of 1 hour to reset. Essentially cutting all game play to only being 50% effective? I don’t really understand why I can’t roam around to different maps, doing different events and not get punished for it.

Arenanet, I -love- this game, it’s a blast to play with friends and guildmates and the game mechanics are really refreshing and new. I have one major griping and it’s with these systems in place – it ruins fun and generally makes me just want to log out for the day when you hit these caps. I think a lot of people feel the exact same way and I don’t want to make it a threatening post or rage post so I say that in the most constructive way possible. Please give us your stance on why these systems are in place, or what we can expect in the future from DR systems in general.

My sentiments precisely

It’s funny (well, sad) that you put it this way because last night, post patch, after realising I was gettng hammered by DR for farming, I went to the crafting station, when I saw I didn’t have enough of what I needed, I turned to the AH.

Then suddenly it hit me, I’m probably paying a bot for my mats. Stopped right there, logged off and promised myself no more frustartion just to play a game I was enjoying thoroughly before all this DR.

Veeber.3192:

No it’s not, you can’t trade/exchange items/gold for real world services. You will be banned.

More than likely this

Yeah, Im taking a break until this is sorted.

I have a bit of OCD and how I like to play leaves DR punnishing me hard, quick and thouroughly.

Truly explore an Zone and it kicks in quick. By the time I’m done with a quarter of a Zone, DR has hit EVERY system.

Yeah, it’s maddening. On my world and the zone I’m in, practically every event & SP is broken. So I’m grinding ingrediants, which probably makes me look like a botter, standing in the same area for a few hours because there are no events working.

It happens, but it needs to be sorted permanently.