In my opinion, in game immersion is subjective; couldn’t you just say you are using gold to purchase gems from the black lion traders, then using these gems to buy things from their special warehouse. That maintains “immersion”, and doesn’t upset any of the player base that already purchased these items.
Crafting being more fun is also a mater of opinion, I personally do not enjoy crafting and would much rather go out and explore/adventure, which ends out making gold as well.
Honestly I think they should just be left as they are. Some things are only available in the gem shop. All the outfits, some skins, account upgrades (char slots) and things like that, and none of these items require a cash purchase.
Since you can buy gems with gold, the store doesn’t offer any items you can’t find in the game.
I always report violation action in game with the in game report system. But there is not documentation about how it works, I have no idea if they really care about those.
This part of my post
““Thank you for your report of an in-game conduct violation. We will investigate this incident and take action, when appropriate.””
Was taken directly from a CS reply to a report sent in the way I suggested. So they may actually look into reports filed this way as well.
yeah, I was always asking for documentation of this part, but there is not official replay.
What documentation do you have that they look at the other?
I always report violation action in game with the in game report system. But there is not documentation about how it works, I have no idea if they really care about those.
This part of my post
““Thank you for your report of an in-game conduct violation. We will investigate this incident and take action, when appropriate.””
Was taken directly from a CS reply to a report sent in the way I suggested. So they may actually look into reports filed this way as well.
I actually like the footfalls for twilight and sunrise, they work very well for the swords and they don’t look like my dog just threw up on the carpet… Sometimes less can be more, especially with flashy particle effects.
I would never describe the foot falls for these weapons as “no effects”; look at the minstrel, flameseekers, (does howler have any yet?).
The only other thing then what has been suggested that you might be able to do is screen shot the fractal ready screen. That way even if they kick you, you have their names. After that, I think you can submit ticket with a violation report, usually the only response you will get is the canned
“Thank you for your report of an in-game conduct violation. We will investigate this incident and take action, when appropriate.”
but at least it’s something.
Giants may actually become easier in the near future. Watching the entanglement teaser, it looks like there may be some giants coming up in this living world!
The idea of having legendary themes would be kind of cool, but that would require ALOT of new weapon skins around 12 per legendary theme, compaired adding new legendaries which would probably be 1 skin per weapon type… I have to admit though, I would love the idea of a minstrel themed staff, or bifrost themed sword.
Wouldn’t something like this “instead of a precursor” kill the precursor market? Unless crafting them is particularly difficult and expensive.
This would also require a new mystic forge layout, you can’t put 5 things in at once.
iWarden fighting the 4 golems at the end of the harpy fractal… Target a golem it will fail FAR more often then it will actually start attacking (actually I don’t think I’ve ever seen it begin attacking).
Teamwork involves knowing your place and knowing when not to act as well.
Not saying it isn’t a type of team work, I just don’t think most of the player base logs on to GW2 to play the game by sitting out…
Fixing the fights so the dynamic scaleing wasn’t completely ridiculous for more then 10-15 people would be the ideal solution; players that want to organize and go for gold could; players that don’t listen wouldn’t effect the attempt so negatively; and people wouldn’t be turned away from fighting a boss because “there are to many here”
OP: I agree, people being told… DONT HELP, NO ONE ELSE COME TO (what ever boss), Etc. Then later on we get the. More mindless people coming to X it’s a fail, and it just get’s worse from that point.
I tried to help in a organized run; we did fine with me and 7 others at boom. The next try we had 4 new people insist on doing boom; all the other bosses had 12 or so (the max our current self appointed map leader wanted per boss) so I ended up sitting out to “help”. I suppose it’s team work of a sort, but I don’t think many people log in to work together with others by sitting out, and being told to sit at the center pad and wait.
It’s a question of inclusive play or exclusive play, I thought GW2 was aiming for inclusive, the boss blitz on the other hand…
Tell that self appointed leader to sit out if he feels it’s that important. Watch him say no. Then ignore him and go help wherever you can, ideally whoever is shortest on people. Each boss can handle at least 15 easily. Like I posted earlier, we were getting shurakk down in 2-3mins with 15 a few times last night. 3-4 hours last night, full map the whole time, 18 golds in a row, never had issues where people were told to GTFO, told to move from one boss to another sure, but there was always somewhere where people could go.
^^; that’s what most people do, then they get called out in map chat…
The simple solution would be fix scaleing so if the fight has 15 people it’s doable in the right amount of time… VS go over 15 and GG no gold:/
OP: I agree, people being told… DONT HELP, NO ONE ELSE COME TO (what ever boss), Etc. Then later on we get the. More mindless people coming to X it’s a fail, and it just get’s worse from that point.
I tried to help in a organized run; we did fine with me and 7 others at boom. The next try we had 4 new people insist on doing boom; all the other bosses had 12 or so (the max our current self appointed map leader wanted per boss) so I ended up sitting out to “help”. I suppose it’s team work of a sort, but I don’t think many people log in to work together with others by sitting out, and being told to sit at the center pad and wait.
It’s a question of inclusive play or exclusive play, I thought GW2 was aiming for inclusive, the boss blitz on the other hand…
The OP not using the PREVIEW is far from beside the point, as he is complaining about having to “pay to get rid of it.” Using the preview option he could have avoided the entire problem of not being happy with the new look of his character…
This person spent REAL MONEY (probably) on something and did not get fully what they wanted. Since when did any of us pay for this new possible dragon, LA and bla bla. No offence but try thinking before posting perhaps?
Why did this person not just look at the preview of the hair be for hitting the make changes button?
But i try scepter on my zerker Mesmer. It doesn’t take much dps.
The reason I want scepter for zerker is I want to craft Meteorlogicus. I already got sunrise and bolt for her. There is no way. I change her to condition.
Is there any build can use these 3 weapon at once?
The only real thing scepter would have to offer is lots of clones for shattering. Just stick the bolt in your off hand and you are good to go…
Also why would sword/GS not work for conditions? Sharper image works decently with GS (especially if you take the roll clones) Sword off wouldn’t be terrible either.
^—- I must be doing it wrong too, I rarely trait for the weapon cooldown things. The one exception to this is the focus trait, I love the reflects!
Jun, you mention a necro using axe/focus as a viable (not optimal) set up… How is that any different then a Mesmer using scepter/torch for a zerker build; it’s possible, not optimal. Also staff was (probably still is) extremely viable as a berserker shatter build.
That simply states the exchange rate is set by the current demand of gems. The post is a discussion about the current price of gems and the algorithm used to determine it, VS having a free market.
If you are actually trading one players gems for another players gold my apologies for the inaccuracy. (If it is actually based solely on players, wouldn’t it be possible to literally run out of gems or gold?)
Why do people keep using the argument: “You can change gems to gold and therefore it is already like selling gear directly in the store”?
It is not even close to that.
Firstly people need to trade the gold for the gems. Gold is not suddenly being created in the gem-transfer.
People keep making that argument because it is true…
Firstly, you are NOT, I REPEATE YOU ARE NOT trading your gems for someone else’s gold. You are trading your gems for gold that is created when you hit the transfer button. There is NO player to player transaction in a gems to gold transaction.
From what I understand, the gem to gold rates fluctuate higher depending on the current amount of gems purchased with cash.
Bottom line __________________________________________________
Player A buys gems —-> Trades them with A-net for gold (This is how it works)
player A buys gems —--> Trades them with player b for gold (This is NOT how it works)
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Yes it’s true that the gear/items are created or found by players and then listed. However, if you buy that gear with gold that was obtained by first purchasing gems; then trading those gems with A-NET (NOT A PLAYER) to gold; then finally using that gold to buy things, you essentially bought the items with cash. It’s similar to buying gold from a gold seller.
^^; Well I won the right for my sylvari to look like a human in cultural T3! I’d been thinking about rerolling her to a human for a long time now just for that armor set…
Please don’t post links to the post about it being changed~ I know it’s going to happen I’m just enjoying it while I can
SeNoZinD is right, Masterwork crafter refers to the masterwork level of item (Green) crafting…
As for ascended, I’m not really sure about being excited or not yet, though we have been told to expect it befor the end of the year (or has that been changed).
In GW2 it’s not like having thousands of gold or gems gives you an advantage over someone who doesn’t. Getting exotics/ascended isn’t much work, and you can’t buy ANYTHING that gives you a playing edge against another player.
That’s why so many people will say GW2 is NOT P2W… It’s more like P2playdressupdoll.
The P2W thing, Usually in my opinion P2W means paying will give you an advantage that non-paying customers (is customer the right word for someone who doesn’t pay?) can not obtain. Paying to win in GW2 is like having a who can decorate their house better for the holidays contest with your neighbor. It’s just a graphics ego stroke with both parties looking pretty dumb to any outside viewers.
Back on topic….
@OP: I don’t understand why or how doing this would be in A-net’s best interest. As you said, "The average player now can get full exotics with in a day of hitting max level if not before. " If you take that into consideration the skins are FAR more valuable, thus easier to sell to players.
Your comment about doing something like this allowing A-net to release more skins into the game, allowing for more customization doesn’t make sense to me. Why would A-net release more skins on crafted/droped armor, then they do currently in gem store armor?
Angel’s point is, buying gems with real money DOES allow you to buy max level gear. (Though I can’t see why anyone would need to do this in GW2)
If we use this example: 10USD = 800 gems = 68 gold = full exotic gear. It is 100% possible to pay real money to buy in-game stats. The only in-game player related variable in this equation is the price of the exotics that are being purchased off the TP. The numbers I used are just examples and not accurate.
When buying gold with gems you are not buying it from other players, you are buying the gold directly from A-net; you are NOT buying gems from other players., the same is true for turning gold into gems.
Maybe it is worth it for others (kids) but prolly not for more than 50% of gw2 population.
I like the SaB, It’s a different way to play a game I really enjoy… That doesn’t make me a kid. I honestly think the Sab is fun for a larger range of players than just “(kids)”.
The idea of JPs is really popular, and Sab is like a huge JP… If it’s not your thing it’s not a big deal, there are plenty of other content patches that arent sab.
You could coordinate your guilds and guest a low pop server. I know a blackgate guild did that with ET and they easily killed it.
This makes sense, we should have to guest to other servers to play with our home server…..
I know you are trying to help, but the suggestion is a work around, not a solution. People should be able to play on the server they selected as a home server.
You can keep complaining for pages on end they aren’t going to change the system. Adapt.
I posted one comment saying I don’t enjoy the current system. If no one says they think somethings wrong, or un enjoyable how will anything ever get changed? The point of the forums is to GET player feedback; both positive and negative. That way A-net can continue to develop and improve the game.
Saying if you don’t like it “adapt” makes no sense. I can think of ways to get into a main server and “adapt” at the same time, I would certainly encourage the devs to try to figure out a system that would be more player friendly.
You could coordinate your guilds and guest a low pop server. I know a blackgate guild did that with ET and they easily killed it.
This makes sense, we should have to guest to other servers to play with our home server…..
I know you are trying to help, but the suggestion is a work around, not a solution. People should be able to play on the server they selected as a home server.
Having this same issue on TC. The amount of people AFK sitting in between events is making it impossible for people to come in and try the fight on our home server.
The way it is now, the only shot I have at trying on my home server is stand akitten the overflow and play something else while I wait; hoping that maybe after 3-6 hours I might get a chance if I don’t get disconnected during the entire time.
Hmm Nope, I don’t really feel that way… Honestly ascended weapons are not hard to get by any means. Yes it’s time gated, however you can buy/sell the time gated materials. Since not every one wants the same amount of ingots/wood the supply of materials will increase as time goes by.
The only thing that might be a little costly is getting your crafting to 500, and only because it was poorly implemented… Ancient wood going from 1 silver to 12 silver and now hovering at 8-9 silver per piece, is the only real cost block, and just like the time gated mats… It’s supply will continue to go up, while demand will decrease.
Overall, no I do not support a new gear tier… However I sincerely doubt the new ascended tier is the end of the world.
Hey, thanks, do you think you could find me one that is pre-patch. Anyone who logged in with armor in this condition was probably able to figure out what happened with or without that post.
As I said befor, it seems extremely silly to let us re-stat them, but not let us move them to different characters.
The ones that weren’t bound at all became account bound. Items already soulbound aren’t going to become unsoulbound so you can shuffle them around. Sorry.
Where was it stated they wouldn’t become account bound?
Heres the release notes..
•Weapons, armor, and trinkets that had a magic find stat combo have been flagged as account bound and will now allow double-clicking to permanently change the stat combo. This is a one-time ability, and the options are dependent on where the item was acquired. All trading post listings for these items have been cancelled and the items returned to the poster.
Where does it say soulbound items will not become account bound?
It seems silly to let us re-stat them but not move them to characters that might actually use them. I don’t need a 8th set of exotics on my main now that MF isn’t a stat… So let me put it on one of my alts at least.
Totally agree… It would be nice to have at least a bit more range on the stats we can choose.
I would also be EXTREMLY happy if the armor were account bound, you know, like A-net promised… here are the patch notes…
•Weapons, armor, and trinkets that had a magic find stat combo have been flagged as account bound and will now allow double-clicking to permanently change the stat combo. This is a one-time ability, and the options are dependent on where the item was acquired. All trading post listings for these items have been cancelled and the items returned to the poster.
The catch is…. If you equipped it when it was magic find… It stays soul-bound and does NOT become account bound. I have no need for the extra gear sets on the characters I had magic find sets for, but I would love to be able to move some sets to my other characters… Why lie to players and say one thing, then do another?
