Guild Wars 2

He said an expanded/new reward system. It could be just getting more laurels from your achievement points but more likely it’ll be an entirely new system.

Course even if it isn’t laurels, it could be another system that can get you ascended pieces, so end result is in the same neighborhood.

They probably don’t know what they want to do with it yet other than “We want for people to get a lot of achievement points and then get something out of it besides a number on the screen”.

Stuff where the item is limited in a way where you literally can’t get it isn’t really any fun honestly.

Making it really hard to acquire so “You probably won’t get it, but technically could” is much better. Even if you do end up not getting the thing.

I wouldn’t say all is lost for legendaries. Right now we just have some weapons. They can (I think they even mentioned they WILL) add legendary armor. You also have to figure they’ll add more legendary weapons at some point, possibly acquired differently.

We could have some that are really expensive, some that take doing a bunch of really hard stuff, some that are time gated, some that require being in some top percentile of WvW in some meaningful way, it doesn’t have to be one method across the board. There’s all sorts of ways they could implement obtaining a prestigious thing of some sort, variety is good.

The goal of a game should not be to suck less than the competition.

leman.7682:

I did the same, then I quit the game.

I feel like there are no real interesting things left for small guilds and small teams to do.
WvW obviously favours larger guilds, GMs are for big guilds by design.

Of course, you can PUG Fractals, but why would you? They get boring after just couple times. Small groups have literally nothing immersive.

Well my problem isn’t that I can’t do anything without others. In fact if you want to get things done in a game without having to even talk to anyone, this is your game. I cleared all dungeons and ran up to fractal 41 just through gw2lfg.com.

There’s little point to running dungeons period though. Some people farm CoF and stuff for money, that’s fine for them. Doesn’t interest me, don’t need it. I think they overestimated how cool the dungeon armor is and how much people wanted the skins. There honestly isn’t a single dungeon set that I look at and say “I want that skin”. I don’t mean “I don’t feel like farming to get it”, I mean if I could have any of the full sets appear in my inventory for free right now, I wouldn’t really want them.

Fractals, well you can get your rings and backpiece there, fill up your inventory with the 20 slot bags. It’s all no problem, can all be pugged.

Fractals are one of the better designed things I think, in at least giving you a reason to go there a bit more. You get your rings and back there, the 20 slot bags, it’ll have you coming back for a while before you’ve exhausted the place. Not bad.

I’m unguilded (Well, I’m in a one person guild, me). I have a legendary. I have all the ascended except for the accessories which I’ll just get with the laurels. I have a good amount of money. I’m not a TP baron but I make a good amount of money flipping, enough that doing things for money doesn’t really interest me.

I’m not missing anything by not doing guild missions, I’ve seen what they entail and it’s nothing special at all. Basically I’m just plain out of content so I’m just stalling by raising money and getting the daily laurel. Forget vertical progression, I’m even out of horizontal progression to go for. I can get another legendary (which is actually what I’m saving up for now) but the money for that will come anyway.

Hoping the WvW update makes doing WvW something more meaningful.

Jabberwock.9014:

Wow this sudden spike in precursor cost has me scratching my head. There were 17 sparks for sale and now overnight that’s been reduced to 6. I was expecting the new boss drops to keep prices stable due to lower rare costs, but evidently not. Is demand really up that much due to cheaper ectos?

Quite a few sell every day. All it takes is for prices to drop to the point where people feel it’s no longer worth mystic forging them to sell for profit anymore, then supply disappears for a bit.

I knock out the daily.

I pop in a few times a day and set new buy orders/post whatever stuff I got.

That’s it. I get my laurels and money.

Seems like something is missing here.

When I feel like I’m not being meaningfully rewarded for my time.

I don’t mind doing stuff.

I don’t even mind doing stuff over and over to get stuff.

It’s when I feel I’m putting in more effort than I feel is justified for the reward that I’m unhappy.

The worst grinds to me are when I feel like I have to schedule appointments to do stuff, like WoWs raiding. I hate having a checklist of things to do and nothing meaningful to do outside of them.

I shove asura because they don’t have feelings.

Adam.4103:

There’s too many things that would make it problematic. Most so with the story mode, racial skills and cultural armors. I don’t see it happening to be honest.

Story line is reset back to beginning.

Any racial skills you’ve trained are removed from you, skill points are refunded so you can get the skills of your new race if you want.

Characters must remove all equipment before being able to change race, Cultural armor for another race won’t be equippable on the new race.

I don’t have any interest in changing race myself, but this is not something difficult to handle at all.

Just having the damage numbers appear when you hit them with direct damage while they’re in stealth would be sufficient enough imo.

Not bleed damage ticking on their head tracking their movement, just the initial hit so you can know “Yay I hit them”.

Chuck Norris tanks FOTM 80 on his glass cannon thief.

I don’t really care how easy or hard things are to get. If I want them, I’ll get them always.

Time gating is just an obnoxious mechanic. With time gating, you can’t try harder at something and be rewarded. You just meet the minimum requirement and that’s it.

In this case, it’s a piddly requirement. I login after dinner and knock out the daily in 15 minutes…then that’s it. Nothing else to progress it further. Kinda silly.

I’d settle for them just adding exotic aquabreathers if nothing else. Still nothing better than those masterwork lev 79 or 80 karma ones, and then there’s only a few stat layouts besides.

I’m all for adding prestigious non weapon items of any kind.

The fancy glowing fractal backpiece was a good start. Would like to at least see more stuff like that.

Actual “legendary” armor, I’d like that too.

Would be nice to at least be able to change the color

This game gets updated more frequently than almost every subscription MMO, heh.

Murderin.8269:

Do you get laurels from regular dailies/monthlies or can i do the pvp ones too.

The pvp ones don’t give you laurels.

While no one knows the timetable on any of this, I don’t see why they wouldn’t continue updating the legendaries they haven’t yet. Especially after that patch where they updated a few recently.

Yeah it’s pretty tiresome too.

Tired of them balancing based on what’s good for standing in a circle or getting people to not stand in a circle.

Stuff like the “eat 25 food” daily is there to chip away at the excess food supply in the game in the hopes of making it worth making all those foods that are 1-2c again one day.

That much is obvious.

Salvaging 500 items for the monthly is the same deal, getting rid of lots of excess junk in the TP. Often the best/cheapest salvages aren’t the ordinary salvagable hides, rags etc that are made purely to be salvaged. So it clears more junk.

Same for the “make 5 things in the mystic forge”, getting rid of stuff because they know 95% of people are going to clear it by just buying the cheapest stuff possible and throwing it in there, eliminating it from the game.

These are useful things for the economy and they want you to do them.

I wouldn’t sweat the laurels too much if you miss days of playing.

They’ll keep adding more ways to get this ascended stuff. The laurel method is just a baseline way to obtain them for now.

The chests should stay and people should continue to get loot from a wide variety of sources, based on what they feel like doing.

Sokar Rostau.7316:

I was under the impression that Ascended items were being added to the WvW vendors. Not sure where I got that from, but if it’s true then it had better be the stuff that’s already available or there will be an outcry from all of the people that will be “forced” to play WvW.

Also, Flame & Frost heavily implies that something is going to happen to Southsun Cove.

I’d like to see the WvW update coming up have ascended helms and gloves or something on the vendor for whatever WvW thing, then put them on the laurel vendor too.

Just once, I’d like to see the prime way to get something to be what I was actually doing anyway.

I like the new dailies. Usually I can get the new ones done faster than the old 0/15 kill variety, 60 kills, 20 gather, 5 events ones.

I like WvW in small doses but I often get bored after I’ve been playing it for a little while.

Probably will play it more once they have the WvW patch and you can get points for abilities and stuff.

Should be tradable simply because 95% of the people that spend meaningful karma on opening a bunch of chests are going to be getting more than 1.

Edge.4180:

VicSkimmr.3216:

Edge.4180:

Ethics.4519:

What’s wrong with pushing people to try new things?

What you’re essentially asking is what’s wrong with pushing people to play the game in a way that may not interest them.

Why not just enable open-PvP in the PvE zones? What’s wrong with pushing people to try new things?

You realize the daily quest is optional, yes?

By his logic, so is playing the game.

And, yes, I know playing the game is optional, but my point is sometimes offering the advice “just don’t do it” as a solution in cases like this is generally not very helpful.

It is in this case, since you can complete the daily without participating in ambient killer.

You got really used to seeing that sleeping quaggan on the TP “down for maintenance” screen.

Many skill points would bug out and then just stay bugged until server reset. Ditto DEs.

The game itself though, was surprisingly stable. There was very little in the way of server downtime. No massive lag etc. It was pretty good.

Remember in beta when people were complaining about Greatsword rangers? heh.

Probably easiest way to handle it would just have your story completely reset when you change races.

Which isn’t really a big deal.

BLSKs are best used to retrieve high value sigils and runes. That’s when they should be used.

As for ectos, as you’ve said, it’s silly to use them for that.

I assume each rare is worth .8 ectos. That’s about the salvage rate you come up with over the long haul using master salvage kits, taking into account the 0-3 ectos you get from a rare.

If you’re intending on ever USING ectos, then it’s not even close, salvage every time. (Example: You want something that uses 250 ectos. While working to get the money for them, you get some rares on the way, salvage them and get some ectos towards your goal) An ecto in your inventory is definitely more valuable than 85% of .8 of what you put a rare up for if you don’t plan on selling the ecto (Cuz of 15% fee).

As for selling ectos vs selling rares, which is better varies. It tends to be better to salvage even so, if it’s a mob drop rare, simply because you usually get the rune out of it too which sells for a few more silver.

Personally I’ve just been salvaging all rares and keeping the ectos, even if I don’t really have anything in mind for them. They keep adding stuff that takes ectos so it’s not like I won’t be using them.

I make a lot of money through flipping on the TP and I stopped bothering to visit sites like gw2spidy months ago. The apps that have come out that do similar things and then some, I haven’t even bothered trying.

Opportunity is there.

Main reason I’m not fine with it is it helps players avoid the non cash portion of legendaries, which were clearly part of the process of making one by design.

I don’t think people should be able to skip getting world completion, getting 500 dungeon tokens, 500 WvW tokens, all the normally unbuyable things by just paying more money.

As for them not being soul bound on equip, I’m all for that regardless. Even if they remained sellable, I think once you equip one they should become account bound not soul bound. That’s far more important to me honestly.

The main reason you see elementalists request this isn’t so they can “have more abilities”.

It’s because regardless of how many buttons you can press on a weapon through attunements, they’re range restricted.

If you’re holding daggers, you have no long ranged attack in any of the attunements. Eles need to switch from one weapon to another pretty often because of it.

It’s not like this is going to make anyone more powerful. It just means not fiddling with the inventory bag out of combat every time.

Quality of life changes are good.

I’d also be in favor of them somehow putting extra spots for weapons on all the professions so they could swap in 3rd/4th weapons out of combat if they wish without fiddling with the bag too. That’d just take a little more effort to add, while the Ele and engineer one can basically use existing code with a stip that they can’t do it in combat.

I’m for it.

In fact I would extend it and say that minis should just be stored in an account bound slot on your inventory sheet, so you could take any one of them out any time you wanted.

Need more sources of ascended as account bound drops for alts.

The rings are in a pretty good place and we need more stuff like that.

I often use queensdale to fulfill certain daily requirements but I’ve found it strange just HOW MANY people are there lately.

I think it’s more just that people go because other people go. It’s a place where you can do stuff and still chat a lot.

My thoughts are if people need to argue in defense of every new feature added after serious outcry, ANET needs to note this and work on adding things in the future that won’t obviously kitten off a lot of players.

I know they can’t add things that will please everyone, but if they’re consistently adding things over half the playerbase seems to not like, something is wrong.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Are you actually certain it doesn’t stack? I will accept that it is super pointless if it doesn’t, and as such was under the impression it had to stack because who would actually make something like that otherwise.

Definitely doesn’t stack. Whatever your fastest movement bonus active is, is what you get. They don’t add up.

And yeah you’ve got it right. “Who would actually make something like that?”. That’s how I feel about it.

Oglaf.1074:

Movement speed buffs don’t stack; the most potent overrides the rest.

i.e applying Swiftness (33%) with Signet of Air (25%) results in a 33% movement speed buff.

But hey, 10% as a 5 Trait is alright. Warriors got something similar (10% with melee weapons) but it is a 10 point Trait instead. At least yours is “free”, so to speak.

No, it’s not alright at all.

If it was a 10 point trait, we could do the same thing everyone else does with bad traits…and just not take it and pick something useful instead.

Can’t do that here, any ele going into the air tree has to take this one which basically is the same as nothing at all.

“Simple. It’s a proven fact all the skilled players chose thieves, while all the noobs picked other classes”.

Roguecraft =P.

phantom.8426:

from reading this thread I’m starting to realize that you get better drops at levels 0-10 and 10-20 than 40+

I wouldn’t say it’s better, but honestly I’ve never really noticed a difference.

I get more loot in the higher fractals, just because of killing so many more mobs. As for chests, if there’s supposed to be a difference in what’s inside depending on the difficulty (other than the daily chest stuff of course), I sure don’t see it.

I wont be surprised if 4 months from now we see in some random patch notes: “Fixed a bug causing fractal loot to not increase in quality at higher levels”

Zephyr’s speed: Move 10% faster while attuned to air.

This may as well say “Placeholder”. If an elementalist is built to use lots of swiftness, as most builds do, this is useless. For those that don’t, if they care about movement speed they have a 25% run speed signet of air, which doesn’t stack with this.

To top it off, it’s just in air attunement to boot. It’d be useless even if it was just “move 10% faster” with no attunement requirement.

Give elementalists something that’s useful in this slot instead. This might be one of the few traits in the game actually worse than that Necromancer jagged horror one.

Intigo.1653:

Yeah, the passive bonuses are a complete mess. You should really only rely on active Swiftness for your speed needs since Signet of Air is rarely worth a spot with all the Swiftness we have.

Worst is the 5 point air trait (10% faster speed while attuned to air). At least with signet of air you can just not slot it if it’s of no use to you. But if you’re going into air, which many eles do, you pick up this trait on the way that might as well say “Placeholder: Actual effect coming soon!”

I’ve fiddled with that gw2buildcraft site quite a bit, it’s good.

Only bad thing is it gives me bad flashbacks of fiddling with WoW DPS spreadsheets to find ways to increase my DPS by 0.2%

Funny thing is I just happened to select 0/10/0/30/30 like hours before visiting this forum and seeing the big d/d thread with everyone talking about it as the thing.

Was like “Okay I want 30 arcane cuz I definitely want the lowest attunement speed. Really like all the water traits and I can switch back and forth between the 30 one. Last 10 for air so I can be swift all the time, this looks really good”

Then I come to the forums almost immediately and see everyone talking about it as the big thing. Was funny at the time. Though I hadn’t decided on runes yet before visiting. Soon as I heard boon duration runes mentioned I didn’t need to hear any more discussion, it was obvious that was perfect.

I keep wanting to go to 20 in air but I don’t want to have 11 second attunement recharges (Funny that, I could go without evasive arcana, it’s the stupid base stats from the traitline) and I don’t want to lose the condition removal from regen in 30 water.

Still pushing for 12 second base attunement recharge time, reduced to 9 with 30 in arcane, so we can get away from that.

Windwalker.2047:

Durzlla.6295:

Raptured.9307:

Lavadiel.6231:

there is simple rure in this game:
1v1:
tank cant kill tank – endless battle
gc cant kill tank, tank wins
gc vs gc – messmer wins

2v2 and 3v3. ..4v4…5v5
2/3/4/5 gc wins vs 2/3/4/5 tanks

that is because in this game GC complement each other while tanks and especially condi builds does not combine so well… and that is why chiftain ninjas (DPS oriented PT build) owns so hard any tank PT in pvp.

Very true. And gc d/d ele pretty much never wins unless against gc war.
Bunker d/d either wins or runs.
have yet to see any effective staff eles in spvp..

gc d/d eles are freaking destructive when they travel in packs xD one of my friends “new meta” builds (thats what he calls everything we run xD) was 5 eles, 4 d/d gc and a staff ele, the 4 d/d gc traveled in groups of 2 -most- of the time, because they are like freaking Slivers from Magic the Gathering…

Ever seen a pack of gc mezzmers?

I won’t get into whether mesmers are OP or not, but fighting against several GC mesmers at once (with my teammates) is one of the most fruitless things I’ve ever done in an MMO.

It’s completely inappropriate =P

Really wish the base attunement cooldown was lowered from 15 to 12, with 30 in arcane still taking it to 9.

Playing without a bunch of points in it feels ridiculous.

What level 6 group content were you doing?