Guild Wars 2

Ruby Red.4019:

Masterpyro.4310:

I don’t understand what peoples problem is about a “gear grind”. After max level, full exotics, what do you expect to do? A gear ladder is simply the only way they can continually reward players to keep playing. The gaming industry has conditioned gamers over the years to expect reward for doing a task, so this is what it comes to. Gear ladder is the only option, don’t like it, why the hell are you still playing?

In the case of ascended gear however, this argument is even less valid as the gear ONLY pertains to the fractals dungeon. Agony doesn’t do anything outside of fractals. Ascended Gear stats are therefore equal to Exotics with a gem on them.

As for gear in WvW, by completely replacing the gear system like sPvP, that leaves pvpers no reason to play any pve content ever. You should be able to kitten on people if you spent more time getting better than them, thats just how things work. Saying everyone should be on equal grounds is like saying a newly hired 9-5 worker should get the same salary as the CEO on day 1. Earn your stripes.

“Earn your stripes” This just makes me LOL typical of the mindset gear makes a good player and perhaps you missed the part where GW2 billed itself as a different MMO that’s the problem with gear grind there’s nothing different about it and it encourages the attitude you have. When gear is a level playing field the game becomes about skill and having fun, just playing not expecting “kitten on people” just because you have more time on your hands. Ascended gear has more base stats had it the same as Exotics ppl wouldn’t be complaining because ANet would not have broken their word.

Why did I waste 2 months of my life leveling and getting all the gear if I’m on the same playing field as noobs that just opened an account? I love that this game is about skill, but I don’t think you understand the concept of reward in games, the way the industry has conditioned us to expect(Great video another player linked before that explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWtvrPTbQ_c). That’s not how MMOs work. GW2 is a different game but you simply cannot take reward out of this style of game, it is expected. People are leaving the game because ANet tried doing it differently and unfortunately it doesn’t work as-is, people don’t like it, they are conditioned to feel like there’s nothing to do if they can’t get better “stuff”.

And I don’t give 2 kitten about looking prettier than you(I already found my favorite skins so im done in that aspect of the game), I want to rip off your head and kitten down your neck. “There’s other games that do this” is not a valid response, I want to do it in Tyria with these sexy graphics and this specific combat system.

You aren’t meant to buy your way to the top, the store was designed for (mostly) cosmetic items and various boosters.

Curious.. Why do you need the armor if you don’t have the time needed to get it? Surely you also don’t have time to do anything with it either, right?

Agreed, if not ONLY having set recipes for things, then remove the different chances of getting something. Everything on the drop table has the same chances of dropping as everything else on the table(based on what is put in). Tossing in 4 exotics should give the same equal chance to return any exotic weapon, precursor or not. No falsely inflating value of things.

Rieselle.5079:

You: Ascended gear gives an unfair advantage in WvW!
Anet: Ok, let’s make WvW use PvP gear.
You: Gold lets you buy upgrades and siege, and gives an unfair advantage!
Anet: Ok, siege is now bought with medals.
You: Server population gives an unfair advantage!
Anet: Ok, let’s limit the allowed players to the lowest pop server.
You: Timezone coverage gives an unfair advantage!
Anet: Ok, WvW is only available during peak times.
You: Grinding jumping puzzles give an unfair advantage!

Anet: Look, just play tPvP for gossakes!

Moral of the story: WvW was never meant to be balanced. External meta-game factors make a far larger impact on winning and losing, compared to anything that one player or character does or has.

This ^
We should give Iran half of our nukes to make the war fair. Fair is not a word you use to describe war. Although Guild Wars is a game, WvW is a “war simulator” of sorts that takes real military tactics/strategy to win. Bigger army with better skilled and better armed soldiers wins the war.

WvW is not PvP, it is PvE with other players in the way. It is for massive army zergs to take the castle, not balanced 1v1 fights. Go play sPvP if you want balance.

Just to change it up a bit I will attempt to make both sides of the argument happy with this idea..

Ascended Gear Item
- A small increase in stats similar to the rare to exotic jump(You got new gear all through out the game, why only now are there problems with 1 more tier?)
- An upgrade slot like all other gear pieces
- An infusion slot which ONLY has agony/dungeon related stats on it.
- Sexy new skins(off topic but dear god please redesign pearl weapons)
- Craftable, with mats acquired from within the fractal dungeon(Also trade-able).

This way, its simply another tier, the same way you got garbage, moved to fine, masterwork, rare and exotic, and can be acquired the same way as other gear.

Sabo.1485:

If you want a game where the entire point is to get ever increasing stats from gear to do ever increasing difficulties of content, there are literally HUNDREDS of MMOs you can choose from. Let those of us who don’t want that type of gameplay have this one, please.

Literally all of those MMOs are garbage. What do you think people did between finding out what GW2 was and release time? I tried all of them and they were not AAA quality. Guild Wars 2 is an MMO, which people associate with some form of constant never ending progression. Getting better gear is what people know so that’s what they did. If they find a way to make my game time reward me in real life some how that’d be great. But that wont happen. Until someone throws money at my indie game studio ;p

Alberel Leonhart.9640:

Once people hit max stats they were supposed to spend their time working towards new skins, such as the legendaries. This is how GW1 worked and it was successful enough to spawn this sequel, so don’t try to imply stat progression is required because it’s already been proven false.

That’s a good idea except here’s the flaw: People extracted the game assets from the game and I was able to see what every skin looked like from the get go. I found the only skin I liked and deemed it “The Best”. I have acquired that skin, and there are no skins I deem “Better”. In this aspect I am done. They need to hire people to constantly design cooler looking gear, which costs way more than adding some new numbers to an item database.

Because that’s more art to design, more skills to develop, more skill effects to design, and way more balancing to do. They were nearly out of money completely when they opened pre-orders, and that money only got them to release date. Now they are running off in game purchases, and that money is spent designing new world content for people that already played the rest of the content.

Its not priority to add new weapons which only allow people to do the same content a slightly different way.

sPvP is the balanced PvP game. WvW is not at all supposed to be like that. Balance is NOT fun all around in every aspect of the game. Its not a handicap to have higher stats, its just a staple of MMOs to have progression, and the only way to do that is to set people apart from one another based on how much time you put into the game. I will agree with you in that I didn’t fully scope out a full set of ascended gear, but even still, why wont other people just go get the same gear I got? Nothing is stopping them and in fact, Fractals are one of the most fun and interesting parts of the game now(provided more levels come out regularly).

Its not like they are 10 years behind of content updates with max levels killing them around the world as they are trying to progress. They can progress at their own pace and join WvW when they feel they are ready. I did WvW the whole time i leveled and I didnt feel like people that were already 80 destroyed me every time, and it even felt good knowing I took out someone with higher gear than myself. Its no different than going against a legendary boss, takes more skill to take them out and the reward is much greater for doing so.

Daendur.2357:

azmodeus.3409:

what ascended gear problem…its fine the way it is.

no it is not.
The problem is that they have greater stats than exotic gear.

Your exotic gear has greater stats than my level 10 fine armor! cry

Eder.9120:

Masterpyro.4310:

In the case of ascended gear however, this argument is even less valid as the gear ONLY pertains to the fractals dungeon. Agony doesn’t do anything outside of fractals. Ascended Gear stats are therefore equal to Exotics with a gem on them.

I’m afraid you haven’t understood what has happened here, Masterpyro. Ascended gear stats are 15%-40% higher than Exotic, the gear itself has higher stats and the gems come with stats too. THAT is why everyone is complaining!! There used to be no difference in stats between Exotic and Legendaries, now they are introducing Ascended and bumping Legendaries to match that.

Take a look at this picture: http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2012/11/Guild-Wars-2-Ascended-stat-comparison.png

The stats on the ascended item are equal to +/- 5 points per stat an exotic item with a gem on it. The Ascended item can only fit an infusion item, which is only agony related and a very tiny normal stat buff. If you are against this person, you are not vastly over powered, if you have enough skill you can beat them still with the same rotation you would have beaten them with other armor. And what are you doing in the game if not progressing to a better armor set thats available? If you were done with the game before, full exotic and legendary, now you have a reason to login again.

Point is, the game in its current state is winnable. MMOs are not supposed to be winnable, I should have something to do next month and the month after for as long as the game is still supported. After I get my legendary I am done. Now i have something else to work for.

I don’t understand what peoples problem is about a “gear grind”. After max level, full exotics, what do you expect to do? A gear ladder is simply the only way they can continually reward players to keep playing. The gaming industry has conditioned gamers over the years to expect reward for doing a task, so this is what it comes to. Gear ladder is the only option, don’t like it, why the hell are you still playing?

In the case of ascended gear however, this argument is even less valid as the gear ONLY pertains to the fractals dungeon. Agony doesn’t do anything outside of fractals. Ascended Gear stats are therefore equal to Exotics with a gem on them.

As for gear in WvW, by completely replacing the gear system like sPvP, that leaves pvpers no reason to play any pve content ever. You should be able to kitten on people if you spent more time getting better than them, thats just how things work. Saying everyone should be on equal grounds is like saying a newly hired 9-5 worker should get the same salary as the CEO on day 1. Earn your stripes.

Rage The Numbers.7943:

Nicolle, are you saying that, for getting ecto, using a Mystic Salvage kits is better than using a Basic-Master Salvage kit?

The black lion salvage kit is pretty good too. Idk the exact numbers but yes they are better. Look at the % chance they have at giving rarer items.

Its nice that you don’t care, you probably got some loot. I was there for the majority of the event and crashed near the end so I got nothing. The crash was not my fault, their server couldn’t handle that many people in one area. I deserve the same chance at rewards everyone else got.

What motivates me to play is progressing and getting stuff, that is what is fun to me. I have progressed as far as I can, so now I just want the best stuff. Literally every other patch they have put into this game was to make getting stuff harder. This is the first event that actually gave people fantastic rewards. If we knew the rewards before hand, I would have tried much harder to get back into the right overflow to finish the even after the crash. But every other bit of information lead me to believe they would just screw me again. Turns out I got screwed in a different way than i expected.

I had up to 15 second lag on skills, after the ancient was pretty low the game crashed. Relogged to a server already done with the event. Guild is now linking all their awesome exotic drops and precursors and I got jack kitten. Bet all they will do about it is say sorry and move on. They need to build a team that goes through every bit of data to properly reward players that got screwed.

If you didn’t crash, sounds nice.

Same this is BS, my whole guilds linking exotic kitten they got and I DCed part way though, let alone the massive lag the whole time. Got nothing. Super lame.

Can anyone tell me who the voice actress was for the character Lionguard Lyns that is standing around the middle of LA? She sounds oddly familar and I can’t quite put my finger on who it is. I don’t think its correct but she sounds a ton like Jackie Tyler from Doctor Who.

Agree with OP, absolutely breathtaking. Hope to see more of this style dungeon in the future!

Yaos.4528:

Masterpyro.4310:

Im sorry but don’t be selfish, they don’t have to all die because you couldn’t do it. Either wait til they legitimately wipe because they aren’t able to do it with fewer people, or let them win it without you. You don’t deserve chest items if you couldn’t do it either. This play style makes rezzing strategic. Waypoint zerging doesnt make any sense and makes content way to easy.

That’s not how it works, for anybody to res everybody has to die. If somebody ends up in a spot where they can’t be reached then everybody has to die since there’s no way for them to come back. If anybody disconnects or leaves everybody has to leave.

By rezzing I mean press F over their body and get them up. Why are people dying in places that can’t be reached? Ive always had my whole team within short bow range..

Im sorry but don’t be selfish, they don’t have to all die because you couldn’t do it. Either wait til they legitimately wipe because they aren’t able to do it with fewer people, or let them win it without you. You don’t deserve chest items if you couldn’t do it either. This play style makes rezzing strategic. Waypoint zerging doesnt make any sense and makes content way to easy.

Nothing game breaking but a bit of an annoyance. Miyani is sending me the same mail over and over every time I hit a loading screen (even waypointing within the same zone).

Also the NPC Subdirecor Blingg is saying his lines over and over. He wont shut up. You can even see his text from half a map away.

Only way I can think of making this as smooth as possible for people is having people actually go through the portal in LA first and goto Dessa’s lab. At that point, you can now recruit people who are in your level to play with. Maybe add a portal to goto the next level down to recruit for a lower ranked dungeon.

In the dungeon’s current implementation, it will get elitist real quick.

EDIT: Also, add an indicator somewhere in the HUD what level you are specifically all the time, like a mini-map overlay or on your Hero panel or something.

The clock tower in itself is one of the most fun thing’s I have done so far. It’s done perfectly, except that it is not a personal instance. There’s just so many big kitten people I can’t see myself. It’s getting to the point where some players are making new norn guards with big armor and spamming /say just to piss people off.

Yea idk what fog you are talking about but dear god i need to stop being paired with big kitten chars and norns. Single instance please.

And also would like to stop being ported out when I dont touch anything..

EDIT: what Qelris said.. thats the fun part..

You should get yourself a Razer Naga mouse. Not just for Guild Wars, but for computer use in general. I bet it would help a ton!

Because people were logging out and logging back in and picking up the ToT bag again until they ran out of overflow servers. I assume same happened with the chest.

Its.. candy…

Its.. candy…http://www.amazon.com/Brachs-DK-Candy-Corn-5lb/dp/B002MYF3T0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351281468&sr=8-1&keywords=candy+corn

TSLlol.4879:

Masterpyro.4310:

Soo the rewards are 28 candy corn, 3 account bound skele tonics and 3 account bound halloween tonics… Thats what I got for spending 2g40s on 2 keys to open 2 chests for 6 tonics to put into the new recipes… awesome.

See? You expect to get a skin guaranteed for opening TWO chests? This just shows how people don’t understand the concept of these BLChests (No offense) , which fueled the QQ storm on the forums in the first place. I’m still baffled how ANet gave in to this whole storm, but the damage has been done, no use making any effort there.

No I don’t mind not getting a rare skin. A 2g40s investment does not guarantee me a 300g skin. I was simply posting what I got quickly so others didn’t waste more money hoping it was a guarantee. What I’m not thrilled about is that I wasted 2 perfectly good account bound boosters that I could have used instead of blowing on essentially just tonics, which who gives 2 kittens about, and candy corn, which I could have mined myself or even purchased for a fraction of what I spent putting into the chest. They just aren’t understanding rewards. They don’t need to give me a super rare and expensive item, but they do need to give me something that’s not useless garbage.

Give me 1 of 1000 decent armor skins, but not the super rare one. They need new skins every month or so if they are replacing the gear ladder with getting cool skins.

Wow, they really need to hire someone that understands rewards. Got more tonics by blowing useful boosters on them. I don’t need exotics or skins worth 500g but come on, dont ever give me a fluff CONSUMABLE item when I pay money. Gamble or not. They need to constantly be designing skins, like 20 a month to get. They removed the armor ladder but barely replaced it with anything. At least this way, people can be rewarded with nice things, but there’s also still “better” ones to get that will be more expensive.

Soo the rewards are 28 candy corn, 3 account bound skele tonics and 3 account bound halloween tonics… Thats what I got for spending 2g40s on 2 keys to open 2 chests for 6 tonics to put into the new recipes… awesome.

There are bags just sitting in LA? I haven’t seen any..

Did you go back to the master carver dude? I feel like he might give it to you. I have 2 for hunting and bags opened.

I dont even know what its for.. so its awesome that this is suddenly a free bonus. No big deal, theres so much other stuff to do in the mean time.

Only thing I see wrong with the chests for the event is that they were hugely marketed that awesome things will be in them, yet opening just 3 of them gave me no new items at all. I didn’t expect 100g rares, but maybe some candy corn or something. At least some indication that “hey, maybe they are bugged and I just wasted a key before they fixed it”.

I think they should have been more honest about the drop rates, and even publish game wide drop tables for everything sometime soon so I know what not to waste my time on. Other than that, I knew it was a gamble going into it, which is why I didn’t buy 50 keys and stopped after the 3 I had.

Though it is a nice feature[costume storage] i doubt they would implement it. If you get bigger bags its not much of an issue. Plus extra bag slots are a money maker for them. So think of it this way: If you spend gems on a bag slot you can have costume storage space, just dedicate a 15 slot bag for 3 costumes.

Fix is in the next patch, hes in an instance area that has no entrance.

While I don’t believe its a huge deal that it’s not out right now, I have Dexter to watch anyway, some people planned their whole day/week around this event. When someone says a date without a time, the universally assumed time is the second that date starts in the designated time zone. So when October 22nd was said, it should have come out nearly 18 hours ago. If that’s not the case, then give a specific time/timeframe, or give the 23rd as a date.

The very end of the designated day, especially when the pacific time zone is nearly the LAST time zone to go through the day, is not acceptable when dealing with a large international community, free content or not.

I have a similar issue. I have way more magic find than my friend(120+ over his 60 or so, boosters and food included) and just got to a new area to farm just after logging in so no DR. First few minutes I will get a few potent bloods, and if I’m lucky a powerful. But soon after I start getting only junk blues, rags, or gray trophies. After an hour or so my friend has around 3-4 rares, several powerful bloods and is still getting decent drops. As for myself, I have 1 powerful blood and a few potents, no rares, maybe a few greens and upwards of 50 gray trophies.

I’m almost certain my trophies brought in more money than selling the rest of my drops (aside from the craft mats).

Maybe its just luck of the draw.. but it seems like either one of these is the case:

1) The fact that I have more magic find gives me what the game decides as “my extra drops” in a shorter period of time than my friend, thus triggering DR for me much faster than my friend.

2) Less likely but possible.. Something player or account specific(like a characters name) is part of the seed used for randomly determining drops. This would be completely unfair as that would leave someone permanently screwed unless perfect conditions for that player came together.

IMO its really shady to have a secret DR system that limits drops, even for players who may have paid real money for magic find boosters. There’s a better way to combat bot farmers: ban them.

Hahaha nice find :P

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Naked_Man

No one but personal friends ever had permission for the guild bank. Either way, they stole a gold. Clearly no one would ever put money in the guild bank to be taken by anyone. Its obviously there to save up for something. Even if they were given permission, the fact that they took it then left is stealing. I know ANet can’t get it back, but I still want to know who took it so we can attempt to talk to them to get it back or have them banned for stealing, which is as you know against the rules.

The transaction log is there for a reason. If people were not supposed to be reported for taking advantage of “free stuff” they had access to, why would they have a log in the first place?

stop posting this.. we get it, theres bots.

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We had 1 gold stolen from our guild bank, and the log for that withdraw says it was by “Unknown User”. So this is a bit frightening. Not only that, but there are only 4 people in our guild with permissions to withdraw, and it was not one of us. Something tells me that somehow, someone that is no longer in the guild managed to take it and when they left it marks them as being unknown in the log. Please look into this as this is a huge security breach. We have to purge the guild of anyone thats not a personal friend if just anyone can join and take stuff, ignoring permissions.

I would like to know who took the money so we can either be certain it wasn’t a personal friend with permission, or its someone that we would like banned over the issue.

Power.2957:

I’m really kitten the kitten off at the moment for many reasons, but I’m going to make an attempt to stay civil in this post.

So let me get this straight. You say mystic chests (and therefore its items like conduits) won’t be crafted from scratch anymore, but existing items and ingredients will remain. So of course every intelligent trader bought out all of these items because there would soon be no supply.

Then you update the game later than when the patch was supposed to be issued, and in the update notes you write that mystic conduits now drop from black lion chests- aka junk that drops mercilessly throughout the game.

Of course many if not all of the traders who were online that invested earlier panicked and immediately started selling out their mystic items.

Now you say, “Oops, it was a mistake, these don’t come from BL chests.” And everyone who has sold out their mystic items can’t even buy them back.

Do you know what you’ve just put me and lots of people through with this mistake? Is this a joke? Because if it is it isn’t even slightly funny.

You also sell higher editions of the games and advertise that players get a 5-day golem banker for paying more for their copy of the game, and now you say PERMANENT bankers drop from BL chests?

WHAT THE HELL is wrong with you people?

This is an old post but you have your chests mixed up. This thread is specifically about Black Lion Chests, nothing at all about Mystic Chests and John specifically said in his second reply that mystic conduits are NOT a part of the Black Lion Chest drops. Your investment is still safe.

This is happening every time people pass a certain point in the spawn point and teleports you to outside of it. Nice if it didnt goto loading screen, but right not its broken.

What is your question. I have always gotten an answer within 5 minutes of posting here.

There are 202 skill points to earn in completing the map alone, and after 80 you earn a point every time you “level” again. there are plenty to go around, you can buy all your skills and still have an infinite supply.

Ok well, seeing as the majority of you are on the teams DH is against, its understandable that you would be against the idea. None of you seem to understand or care what this post is about and are focusing only on spawn camping, which is not what this is about. It is about people being able to do damage without being able to receive damage back. No matter what side you are on, that simply is not right. The bounds of the invulnerability buff should be fixed to where they do not interfere with battle and only protect people within the little town area. I will attach my map again and hopefully the people that need to see this thread will see it and the rest of you trying to kill the conversation because you want to take advantage of this exploit can gtfo.

Camps were meant to be able to be taken out by small teams that a zerg isn’t paying attention too. That gives them some power when they are outmanned. Personally I see no reason to upgrade a camp at all, they are meant to change hands frequently. Save you money for the keeps.

Vanity.2506:

Stop asking for stupidity barriers to be lowered and instead ask players to raise the bar of thinking and tactics.

Until James Cameron make’s another trip to find said bar, I think we are stuck with what we have. Either way, it’s fine that there is a buff, I personally feel it extends too far. Into the second month of being live with some modifications already made, the fact that there are still problem areas tells me the best course of action is to delete it entirely until it can be reassessed properly. I guarantee the artist that made the ledge for siege to hit the door of that tower did not intend that equipment to be destroyed by someone that’s invulnerable.

And cole, read the whole thread before you post. I am not just talking about zergs rushing 2 players, im talking equal numbers fights and areas where there are oversights in the bounding box of the buff, when the buff extends further than it should.

Oops sorry about that. Here are the other ones in order since I still don’t have the edit button.

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I’m fairly certain I will never change your mind but… Several people posting in this thread have been from Anvil and I realize it is not fun to be pressed back, we were for so many head start games and now that we have a decent night team we are doing better, but the point is this problem will persist even in a fair matchup. The team with the advantage will continue to have an advantage over the underdog trying to take that tower in my first image by keeping any siege out of range. You might say “well take out the wall instead”, but you would still be missing the point that this is exploiting a bug/oversight of development that should not exist that close to the battle.