Guild Wars 2

It is one of the poorer AA systems I’ve encountered. Still, it’s not the worst.

New Player = Yes.
Vet Player = No.
WvW Players = lololololololololololol cries

Grats.

Now, can we have all the content that the other 90% of the player base actually cares about?

You hardcore types have had your 3 minutes of fun.

style.6173:

Actually, I think this is a really good chance. The game over the last year or so has felt uninspired and I think a new look will be a good thing.

Agreed. Hope Colin gets a new gig somewhere else though. He seems like a nice dude.

Nilkemia.8507:

…Surprising. Not sure what to feel.

Are you really surprised? Given the way the game is going, I’m not.

GW2 needs someone with fresh idea’s in charge.

Posting AGAIN because spotted yet another howler of this problem on reddit. Please fix this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/47gmsi/trolling_game_mechanics_with_placeable_items/

CAN WE PLEASE GET THE NAME OF THE PLAYERS WHO PLACE THESE ITEMS TAGGED TO THE SPAWNED ITEMS / NPC’s? So we can block and report them?

Don’t worry! New items in the Gemstore. Give us your $$$$$$$ -_-

FrizzFreston.5290:

Info-bump:
You can still harvest both Guild Halls. Just make sure you have different levels of synthesizers. This doesn’t mean the upgrade to a higher tier of materials, but a higher tier of synthesizers. If the synthesizer upgrade is the same in both guilds you cannot harvest in both halls. We upgraded our synthesizers yesterday and now we can harvest in our allied guild again.

Ah, I wondered why I suddenly couldn’t harvest in both.

SirBlunticus.4258:

So funny, most games just have this stuff in them (from launch).
Anet will try to sell them as QoL “improvements”
lolololol…just you wait.

Yes, well, if they hadn’t rushed the xpac, they wouldn’t need to be doing that, would they……

It broke. Like lots of other stuff in the game lately.

ANet, I know it’s terribly important, but can you please take some people off the Gemstore team to help fix up the game. We can do without yet another glider for a little while.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

Kelly.7019:

Oh jeeez please don’t do any of that.

I currently have 161 MP and have like 1- maybe i’ll get 2-3 more if i can make it past Hearts and Minds personal story that i’m currently stuck on. But I still haven’t done the raid MPs yet and doesn’t look like i’ll be able to as only the super difficult adventure MPs are left which i can’t even get silver at…. and its very, very unlikely that I’ll get anymore. Trust me, i’ve been through the list.

you are always stuck until the point that you skill up and get past it
happened plenty of times to me doing lume armor collection but i kept at it, got better and ended up successful. i think people should stop complaining about things being difficult, if even 1 person has completed it than that proves it is achievable and that the problem is most likely your skill

You elitist goat! lolololol :-P

I made a post about this the other day.

What they need to do is have ANY player-spawned NPC tagged with the name of the player that spawned it. That way, it can be reported. The problem right now is that you have no idea who summoned them.

It would also allow people to add that persons account to their block list. Because these idiots love to spawn these items at popular chests/nodes/npc’s, etc they would rapidly find themselves added to a large portion of the playerbases block list, and shut out of doing stuff.

Can we please have summoned NPC’s tagged with the name of the player that summoned them?

People are always intentionally spawning them on top of the banks, guild NPC’s, etc etc etc.

kitten ! Forgot to add the player name is needed so we can report them for doing this intentionally.

See, I couldn’t even finish this fricking title!

Like, seriously, why? I can understand some limit, but 45 is way too small.

I can only find three – weapon, tailor and armor. Or are the others hiding somewhere. Why did they remove them? (old map had them all )

Rio.4259:

People did leave, I know that for a fact…since I know people that left. but I dont know if it would be enough people to make it seem “deserted”. >.> Yesterday/last night was the headstart launch of blade and soul, as well as the start of season 5 in diablo 3. Maybe that had something to do with it? The population seems “ok” to me…Tequatl at 2am and the map was totally full, so…-shrugs-

Yep, was smashing out Paragons all day :-D

SirBlunticus.4258:

Lyenyo.2891:

I’m scared that this addition reflects the state of the game, desperate to grab as much cash now while the ship sinks.

^This

They are certainly very greedy these days.

Couldn’t hurt to put in a support ticket. You’ll never know if you don’t ask.

Yojimaru.4980:

There’s a widowed lesbian Charr in Diessa Plateau at [&BNwDAAA=]

Mechalibur.9618:

Hm, not that I can think of. There’s at least one for every other race, but I’m not recalling any charr. It’s probably because sexuality (straight, gay, or otherwise) doesn’t really come up much in game, so there’s really no reason to assume charr culture is anti-gay.

Of course, we’d have an example if Logan and Rytlock would just profess their love for each other :P

You’ll have to share that list because to my knowledge, the only gay characters are the aforementioned widowed charr, Kas/Jory, Caithe/Faolain (there are hints that Faolain also had a thing going with Sariel) and some nameless Sylvari scattered through the grove or in the sylvari personal story (who are never seen or heard from again).

Personally I’m still waiting for a gay male npc that isn’t some nameless Sylvari.

Palador.2170:

I would think that it’s actually more common in the Flame Legion, where males and female spend more time separated from each other. This may have given it a slightly bad reputation in the other Legions, possibly resulting in a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” state where it happens but isn’t openly talked about.

That could even be one of the things that lures some charr from the three main Legions into Flame, looking for acceptance. Or drives them to places like Lion’s Arch, where the culture is more open and accepting of some things that might be frowned upon in normal charr society.

“Fun” fact, Flame Legion have “breeding farms” where they keep their females.

Also, Cymbel and Nia in the Fields of Ruin! I always help them save thier pups :-D

Alin.2468:

It is simple: get 1 Shared Inventory Slot + 1 Permanent Bank Access Contract, and you will have your bank with collectables and wardrobe, available everywhere, on all characters.
Now that is huge storage and right now you can’t get any better than this.

Problem: No more Permanant Bank Access left. All “mysteriously” sold out just before the patch dropped.

It’s almost as if -GASP- someone knew the change was coming before it happened -_-

And you can bet when they re-appear on the TP they’ll cost a small fortune.

Axelwarrior.9084:

I think they’re overpriced and too limited for a simple convenience. I would definitely buy them if they were something like 1000 gems for 5 slots, with a maximum of 10.

I would love to sit down and ask a million questions of the person / people that decide these prices in the gemstore. It’s all over the place. They get some stuff spot on, and yet on other items they just leave you wondering if they were on drugs or something lol. It’s very strange.

Still, I see the same issue in other games, so it’s not unique to ANet.

Alicornus.7095:

When I first read about shared slots, I was excited about it. When I saw that ArenaNet actually charges 700 gems for one single inventory slot, my excitement went from 100% to null. 700 for a shared bag? Not exactly a steal, but with a 20 slot bag in it, it would be decent and I would have use for it. But 700 for a shared slot? No, no, no, no, no.

Until I read it’s description, that’s what I thought it was – a shared slot for putting bags in. Like a 20 slot one or whatever. BUT ONE SINGLE SLOT??!?! #KeepDreamingAnet

Rising Dusk.2408:

GM Awesomeness.8619:

As for refunds: if you’ve had these account-bound items for ages, we won’t be doing refunds because you’ve already derived substantial benefit. If, however, you bought them more recently, we’re doing refunds on a case-by-case basis.

I appreciate the response, but respectfully contend that I don’t think this is an appropriate stance for customer support to take. When infinite gathering tools became account bound, players were able to get complete refunds for the extras that they did not need any longer regardless of time purchased. Additionally, when the wardrobe went live players were able to get complete refunds for any town clothes previously purchased regardless of time purchased. This situation is no different. Players’ gem store items become obsolete with the acquisition of this new functionality, and their permanent items that are no longer useful should be refunded regardless of time purchased. Seriously, with an account bound bag slot the best course of action regarding extra items like Salvage-o-Matics is to destroy them. That feels horrible and should not be something you guys proliferate.

Please reconsider your stance.

Yep.

Tommyknocker.6089:

GM Awesomeness.8619:

…snip
As for refunds: if you’ve had these account-bound items for ages, we won’t be doing refunds because you’ve already derived substantial benefit. If, however, you bought them more recently, we’re doing refunds on a case-by-case basis.

This seems kinda sketchy to me. If I work full time, and bought the item in question 2 years ago but only used it a few times, does it not warrant a rebate?

On the flip side I am a no-lifer and bought the item 2 months ago but used it multiple thousands of times I will get a rebate?

Unless you are running some internal numbers on <uses of item> it doesn’t seem fair.

“derived substantial benefit” is somewhat subjective. Will they go through account logs and check how much each one was used? Then refund the less used ones, but not the lots used ones?

On my main I use it all the time – on my alts, not so much lol.

Tommyknocker.6089:

I’m keeping my gem store gathering tools on all my characters (4 sets) that have them because equipping and unequipping them is a pain even with a shared slot. I did submit a ticket for the extra royal pass and the extra 3 copper feds I have so I am hoping they will at least reimburse me for those.

Yeah, the tools are less bothersome for me for some reason, plus I quite like the different effects on the ones I have. Shallow I know, but whatever. My extra salvage machines though? I’m definitely putting in a ticket for those.

Lets face it, I’ll only waste the gems on something else anyway -_- They’ll still get my money curse them! lol

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I don’t see why they would refund you. You could always share these items as they are account bound. They just made it more convenient now.

Because the duplicates are useless now. You just put 1 silver or copper salvage in that shared slot and every character can use it.

JPUlisses.8756:

People asking for refunds.

What about people that were smart enough to know that a shared slot would come and did not waste in multiple coppers and tools?
It would be unfair that people get a refund while all this time they got extra comfort, while people that were smart did not, there should be a prize for being smart, not dumb!

I want my 9000 gems.

Well, considering the TP price of the Permenent Bank Access spiked “Before” the patch, somebody did know it was coming.

axe.5621:

And again rivers of tears… Don’t like it? Don’t buy it and stop crying.

Slot is a very usefull to place Permanent Bank Access Express in it. Thanks ANet!

Good luck with that. None left on tp, or they will be like 5000g when listed.

I thought that was quite a funny patch note lol

You have to laugh really. They sell multiples of items to the players, because we have no shared bags, then they introduce shared bags (very expensive ones mind you) and that makes all those other items completely useless.

GG ANet.

Swagger.1459:

Duke Darkwood.4237:

Then don’t buy it.

Me, I don’t see the need for it. I do see the usefulness of it (keep a salvage o matic for everyone to share, or maybe a costume brawl item or some other gizmo-class item that you like using a lot, maybe an endless tonic)…. but I think it’s kind of silly.

So I’m not buying it, for that reason. You can choose not to for its cost (which I agree is kind of high; 500-600 would have been my estimation of its value). But I can definitely see others getting it.

It’s definitely a QoL convenience, plain and simple. Many are willing to pay for such things. Others do not. Still others pick and choose their perks, weighing cost and utility.

20 shared slots though? Definitely very much overboard. I really don’t see it topping 10 even in the long run. As for the price…. Anet may tweak it if it doesn’t sell, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. It’ll sell.

It’s a rip off plain and simple and a very very very poor decision.

Sorry, but you are trying to defend gouging of players, and that’s just as bad as this account slot rip off.

And doubly a rip off as they sold many account bound items because we didn’t have this shared bag facility in the past. Lots of peeps now have useless duplicate salvage and harvesting tools.

Xan.1243:

They really made a big mistake on this. This sort of item, should have not even been a thought of actually making it through the people it made it through.

1) Previous GEM buyers usually buy more than 1 of a “unlimited use” item, such as a gathering tool or toy or pass. Which now is being able to be shared. The GEMS used to buy more than one “unlimited use” items has now been a waste of GEMS purchase.

2) A refund should be in order. From a managerial stand point, there will be a lot of problems with ANET getting constant messages on why this is bad or what they can do to make it better.

3) From sending in messages, you make the buyers heard. At the same time, they other end receiving and reading the email’s will most likely not do much.

4) I am sorry for those and including myself for falling for their scheme to milk us. No way they will fix this. At least not for a LONG time, if ever.

5) I feel cheated, and I bet a whole lot of the community does too.

6) I can only wish something better could happen from this.

And we were worried about Nexon buying in to NCsoft and ruining GW2 with a greedy cash shop lol. They are doing it all on their own!

RoseofGilead.8907:

Agreed. Especially since it’s 700 gems for ONE shared slot. A refund for duplicate items going into that slot would be nice. :\

And the sole reason these items were purchased several times was because we didn’t have shared bags.

So ANet gets its money twice.

Qugi.2653:

Maybe should fix current expansion before work on new one. Just idea.

Couldn’t agree more. The story is terrible – thin as wet toilet paper. And the whole thing is clearly rushed in most other area’s. I wish they would just fix what we already have.

30 seconds seems quick. Plus she has that second life bar.

I always wait in the central spawn point, and then if she doesn’t spawn there, the other two spots are right next to waypoints. It’s a simple port and hit then. Haven’t not got credit in a long while using that method – unless it was to a crash.

People are seriously being banned over discussing some, at best, average movie that’s just been released?

Really? Next thing you know, Donald Trump will be elected President.

Oh.

(Pro tip: If you’ve seen A New Hope, you’ve seen this movie – JJ didn’t try very hard to disguise it, when he copied the first movie. Although Boyega is awesome, and Mr Ford still has it).

Endless Soul.5178:

I wasn’t aware that NPCs had accounts.

:-D

I WOULD HAVE THE TITLE CLEARER BUT YOU CAN ONLY FIT 45 CHARACTERS!

• glares at ANet*

So that we can report them.

suffish.4150:

There really isn’t a two hour wait for the TD meta event. To be completely honest it’s more like half an hour of actual waiting if you get in a map trying to organise. While the two hours is counting down you could be defending tarir, killing the mouth of mordremoth or doing outposts in verdant brink. There’s loads of content to do in that 2 hours. It is only a wait if you choose to stay in TD.
I would say, for someone not interested in anything else, a one and a half hour wait would be better (one hour do do events, half an hour to organise), but I think the wait is good as it gives me time to do other stuff and it also gives enough time to organise the event, which is essential with events as hard as the chak gerent is.

Good luck getting back into that map. You are mad if you leave a map that is organizing and has even a sliver of a chance at being successful.

It’s terribly designed. You can literally just watched your participation blow off into the wind.

And then a lane fails.

ALL THIS WAITING TO HAVE FUN!

roelvanesch.2817:

Did you try HP’s or MP’s? (Mastery Points don’t work)

Your answer in the other post helped :-D

roelvanesch.2817:

MashMash.1645:

Did anyone find where to charge these?

I have the crafted component, but every place of power in the HoT maps I go to doesn’t give me the option to charge it.

I charged mine in the south-east most HP of Verdant Brink. Any channeling HP should work though, MPs don’t.

It worked! Thank you.

Did anyone find where to charge these?

I have the crafted component, but every place of power in the HoT maps I go to doesn’t give me the option to charge it.

Esquilax.3491:

This hero point is supposed to be gated behind Adrenal Mushroom Mastery (a little box pops up talking about the mastery and what it does when you start it), but people are using mesmers and regen food to circumvent that.

My guess is they want to fix it so there’s no way to get the point without using Adrenal Mushrooms Mastery.

I did this on my Ranger with no food and no help. This was before I had any masteries either.

It was very close and it took a bunch of tries, but it’s possible.

I have the ‘Oiled Ancient Staff Head’ and have been to a bunch of the ‘Places of Power’ in Magus Falls.

None will let me interact with any of them. They all say I have already got it’s power.

What are you supposed to do?

Note: I have unlocked the collection, and have the Plated Staff.

JediYoda.1275:

Celtic Lady.3729:

SirBlunticus.4258:

Not to mention collections being hidden behind them.
Seriously!?
Anet says “can’t have your weapon unless you play pin the tail on the donkey. Can’t have your mastery point unless you make a ring around the bottle.”

Do you need to get gold for these weapon collections?

No, have to get silver to unlock collection items

I agree with OP

So much on “We don’t want to force players too play content they don’t want to play”

Here we are I’m being forced to play adventures to get the last 23 MP’s I need to max out the Nuhoch Lore and Itzel Lore since I have too have with items are locked from me unless I have all masteries maxed out. Plus for collection items are gated behind this silliness for forcing players to play thing they don’t’t to be forced into playing. I don’t really cared much for mini games nor do I ever play them at Carnivals or else where in real life.

Is it that bad? I need 10 more mastery points to complete everything. I got all the easy gold and silver mastery point adventures – some are ridiculously easy. I still haven’t done the hard ones, and I was looking through my hero panel at what I can still get, and I can get every point i need from TD, DS and the story. It seems you can pretty much avoid all the hard adventures. From what I can see anyway.

saturn.4810:

Ardid.7203:

A friend of mine got “Tiny Mollestya” flagged as inapropiate. I really can´t understand the policy. What’s the logic?

Because it sounds like molest.

I think they were being sarcastic.

It’s entirely set up that way to entice new players.

However, they’ll pay for the next xpac. And at that point some more players will come along and get to ‘play for free’.

Then they original players will pay 3 times, the previous players 2 times, and the new players 1 time.

Etc, etc, etc, etc.

TD;LR A sucker gotta pay at some point yo

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

If urban dictionary is the reason then that’s just stupid. Urban Dictionary makes EVERYTHING inappropriate.

It’s like banning something because 4chan did it.

I agree that if that’s it, it’s stupid. I don’t think there are any checks to adding something to that site and just because someone put it there doesn’t mean it’s a commonly known or more than a short lived, local use of a term. I had to dig for that reference, and if it was well know it would have popped up faster.

He can try to contact support and contest it. But he’s probably not going to win, no matter how unlikely that reference is to be a real one.

Clearly its time to go to Urban Dictionary and add a few things. evil cackle

What about Dr H?shbr?wn?

I think you can put those letters with dot(s) right? You can on the pet anyway.

Edit: OMG. This forum won’t let me type them lolololol

saturn.4810:

Lucky Shot.7650:

What does everybody do nowdays?

We complain on the forums.

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