Guild Wars 2

Unless something strange happened with mystic coins where they made them easier to get, it’s one of those ‘hedge against inflation’ type items I suppose.

Not something that’s going to turn a quick profit, but just something that’ll very slowly increase in value.

I just keep the ones I get. Eventually I use them for something.

Kantharr.2308:

If you do this then it will change the personal story COMPLETELY. Maybe make it a requirement where you have to beat your personal storyline in order to use the kit.

Switching could just reset the story and let you make those character creation choices again.

You don’t get anything doing the story again worth doing it for monetary gain vs the time put in, so it wouldn’t really matter.

Vol.5241:

Oranisagu.3706:

I’d prefer a way to level alts faster.. I mean its nice with the first two or three chars, but then it gets really old.. I’m trying to get my fifth to 80 and it’s such a chore, I can’t take it for more than an hour a day anymore..

Vol.5241:

No. Too difficult to code and quite unfair.

so you’re a programmer? being one myself I would’ve assumed that would be quite an easy feature to implement.. it’s nothing more than changing one variable, resetting skills (weapon and normal) and traits as well as unequipping all gear in case the new class uses a different armor set.

I’m not a programmer but I briefly dabbled in it in university. And an MMO is much more complicated than what they teach.

Let’s see some of the problems that arise:
-what happens to class specific weapons/armor? Yes you say to unequip – but what happens if the character’s bag slots are full?
-what happens to skill learning progress? Where is that information stored?
-what happens to your skill points that you invested in skills and utilities? And if they are refunded, what happens to those skill points if you spend them on items in game (i.e. forge). Do you get refunded those skill points back when you switch to your original class, thus becoming an exploit?

In order to do a class change, you can’t be allowed to have anything equipped.

Skill learning progress? weapon skills? You class changed, it is lost.

Skill points you spent on utilities are refunded to you. Skill points you spent on anything else are not.

I think it’s hilarious that people actually went through with a gender change without considering their own name.

I can see thinking “I don’t want to use this because then my name won’t match”. But actually doing it and then realizing the situation after the fact is pretty impressive.

This might be the one game I’ve played where I’d like to see this.

Just due to the ease of leveling a char to 80 but the extreme amount of time that can be spent on cosmetics.

Would be nice for long term players with a lot of time investment in cosmetics that want to switch mains. Course some stuff on your new profession wouldn’t be usable anymore but you could weigh that in your decision as needed.

It’s something I would probably use a year from now. In reality though, just making more of the high time commitment things we get (Legendaries etc) account bound on use rather than soulbound on use would be more desirable imo.

I think the drop has already happened. Starting to see some speculation.

If there’s not much there, come back later.

You’ll be okay.

phlemhacker.1372:

Yes.

That said, I would rather there be no level cap at all. I think there should be a cap on stats, just not levels. That way you have a better idea of how long everyone has been playing. That was one of the things that bothered me about GW1, you would go to play some max level content, and half your party didn’t know how to play the game due to it taking no time whatsoever to get to 20.

You can already measure this with achievement points.

Maybe not full stop, saying that the guy with 200 achievement points more than the other guy has been playing that little bit longer. But as far as seeing who’s been playing for a bit? It’s fine for that.

And if you’re doing anything where you need to join a real party, you can mouse over them and see it.

How about we leave it just as it is so people can pick a race based purely on what they want to look like?

More race specific armor for looks only? Sure. Fill up vendors with tier 4, 5, 6, 7 and 900 cultural armors. Anything else? Lets leave that to other games.

So spend gold making an ascended backpiece.

As much as I like GW2, this game has some of the most boring and simplistic pvp I’ve seen in any MMO.

I’m quite sure it has nothing to do with some weird idea of balancing.

There’s some relatively popular sets missing that aren’t even that good. Lets say you could put power/vit/cond dmg stuff in every ascended slot, would the entire world be overrun by those flavor of the month carrion gear wearers? Worried about us all complaining about these newly OP shortbow rangers or something? =P

“Man those guys were free kills before, but once they raised their power and condition damage by 30 and got 200 more hps, they just RUN THE WHOLE SHOOOOWWWW”

Meanwhile in WvW:

servermate 1: “Guys, they’re coming! IT’S A HUGE ARMY OF SHORTBOW RANGERS!”

servermate 2: “Wait wait…are they wearing regular carrion or ascended carrion?”

servermate 1: “Oh, those two up front are just wearing exotics”

servermate 2: “oh okay np” swings weapon randomly, everyone dies

servermate 1: "WAIT THOSE GUYS IN THE BACK ARE WEARING ASCENDED CARRION

entire server: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” overrun, huge massacre, server deleted

I haven’t really noticed any difference. I run quite a bit of fractals and the chest loot seems to be about the same as it ever was.

Should just let people buy fractal weapon skins for an appropriately high amount of pristine relics. Let’s say 30 pristine relics for a weapon skin. Leave them as the possible daily reward as well of course.

Don’t gamble it.

There’s a very real chance that you’ll use up all your money and have nothing, then you’ll want to quit the game.

MMO gameplay isn’t engaging enough in most cases to exist purely for the thrill of gameplay, without having something you’re working towards or earning as well.

Not in the long term

Legendaries should definitely be “account bound on equip” or something.

It’s not like they’re hassling everyone with the 30 day password change business.

They want people to change the password, once. I think those of us that changed it when they suggested it a while back (months ago) don’t even have to do it again.

You’ll be fine, I promise. It isn’t even worth thinking about. 6 months from now, maybe they’ll ask you to change it again. It’ll be fine then too.

I used to main a necro.

They aren’t bad. No one’s going to accuse them of being OP but they’re better than engineers are right now I think.

I just stopped playing because I got bored after playing it for a really long time, which would have been the case with any class probably.

Make 50 awkward sexual advances to npcs

Gaudrath.6725:

So would you guys be happy if they introduced a way to get a precursor via, say, a solo combat challenge that is so hard only 5% of people attempting it have even a chance of ever winning it?
Even if it means that for those of non-godly skills (which includes you, me, and pertty much everyone) would have zero chance of getting one?

Stuff like that would actually be a good start. You have to figure some people that want a precursor would succeed at the ventures, bringing the precursor prices down by a bit if nothing else. (Demand being that much lower to buy on the TP)

I would think for a newer player just selling the UNID dyes you get without opening them would finance an awful lot.

You think people are going to farm laurels for months to outfit all their alts with ascended, without spending an hour of farming money to buy exotic jewelry in the meantime?

There’s apparently going to be more ways to get laurels, not just from dailies/monthlies.

They’ve said achievement points will figure into it somehow if I remember right. I wouldn’t sweat the prices on stuff too much just yet.

I agree on this. I used to get a key once in a while from loots, not just from exploration rewards. Maybe once a week I’d loot a key from a mob. A little more than that actually

Now I haven’t seen one in a few months.

As someone who regularly crafts rares to salvage for ectos, I haven’t noticed any difference at all.

.8 to .9 ectos per rare, depending on RNG.

Not that 80-90% of the time I get an ecto. I don’t. But after figuring in the times I get 2 or 3 ectos from a salvage, .8 to .9 is it.

I honestly, since release, have never had a case where I joined a group and was kicked maliciously for anything. After maybe 500 dungeon/fractal runs.

Not that I claim it doesn’t happen, I’m sure it does, but it just isn’t something worth caring about.

If you’re really unlucky and it does, think “Those guys sucked, heh” and just try again and you’ll be fine.

Definitely in agreement with anything regarding, if nothing else, just adding the rest of the stat combos people use to the existing ascended vendors.

It would have been neat if there were pvp only laurels from pvp dailies, with a vendor in the mists that had cosmetic pvp stuff you could buy with laurels.

Like more fancy stomps or armor skins or tournament tickets or whatever.

When this game was released I got the money for 80 exotics playing WvW.

It just took a bit longer, was fun though.

If you don’t care about what your gear looks like, you can get your stuff from the trading post no problem regardless.

My opinion, which has been built on since release, is actually that NO ONE enjoys gathering

It’s so comically unprofitable.

I mean sure if you’re on your first toon, have at it, but seriously

See a harvesting node? If it’s not a rich ori node, you’d be better off killing the stuff you see on the way, it’ll be more profitable to sell n the TP than completing the approach and harvesting from it.

One of the funnier posts.

Guesting has been commented on repeatedly since release. “I want to do this!”

I’m not interested in it being raised any time soon.

In the far future if I’m sitting around doing nothing, yeah could go for it.

I would like something somewhere in between what gw2 has going and what wow has going as far as progression goes.

Like 6 months after I’m bored with gw2, “we’re raising the level cap! get some new stuff!” Could go for that.

Races being cosmetic should be an idea stuck to in all future MMOs.

This was the one thing I liked about SWTOR and I like that GW2 does it too.

Let people just pick what they want to look like and not have to be making some permanent sacrifice between appearance and skillset of any kind.

Racial advantages/disadvantages have been a terrible idea ever since D&D/MUDs.

If you’re having problem with the dodge, go grab one mob, dodge its stuff for a couple minutes, done.

If you can’t do it in a couple minutes, practice for a few minutes succeeding and failing, then use this information so in the future it will take you a couple minutes. Done.

i definitely want to turn all of this off.

I know when I have dailies and I know I can look at the achievement screen if I want to check how I’m doing.

I want to turn 100% of notifications in the upper right off permanently.

I’d like to know what’s going on with these boxes too

Long term lev 80 players are going to use more ectos than they get from salvaging rares that they personally looted. The more people playing, more popular the game is, the more ectos will cost (even if it’s only a few silver more etc).

Balance to any player that doesn’t play a class is always “I should kill them pretty easily, maybe it takes 10 seconds or so, but I’m really good so if they last that long the class is balanced”

In every game.

We’re adding ascended to more slots, new exotic stat combos on jewelry and all that…yet to my knowledge there still isn’t anything better than those lev 79 or 80 (depending on which stats you want to settle on) mastercraft aquabreathers yet on the karma vendors.

I know aquabreathers aren’t a big deal but it looks kinda silly still wearing green quality gear as best in slot.

In my day we paid 5g for rare pow/vit/toughness backpacks from the guild backpack guy and liked it.

Astralporing.1957:

Minion of Vey.4398:

Astralporing.1957:

Sladeakakevin.4162:

This is only the first stage of getting Laurels. They said they will add more ways to get them in the coming months.

But will they add more alternate ways to get ascended eq? Like by crafting, for example?

I know, crafting being actually useful is a novel idea…

Since release a large amount of people have been using crafted exotics, and still are today. It seems vaguely useful…

Only because there are still slots that don’t have ascended equivalents. And only because Anet forgot about more than half of useful stat sets when making ascended. First will not last forever. Second i hope is going to be fixed eventually. Then there will be no point for exotics at all.

So in other words crafting is useful, will continue to be useful, but might be less useful if things happen to go a certain way that isn’t likely, such as ascended NEVER being able to be crafted in the future.

Got it.

Astralporing.1957:

Sladeakakevin.4162:

This is only the first stage of getting Laurels. They said they will add more ways to get them in the coming months.

But will they add more alternate ways to get ascended eq? Like by crafting, for example?

I know, crafting being actually useful is a novel idea…

Since release a large amount of people have been using crafted exotics, and still are today. It seems vaguely useful…

I don’t think they should be account bound either. Only because anyone that’s a longer term player and uses this much is going to get quite a few of them.

I think both the +20% gold and even more so the +20% MF ones are grossly overtuned and need to be nerfed.

Pretty seriously nerfed too. If they went in today as +5% gold and +5% MF, many many people would find that very desirable and use them no problem.

Yeah need more combos. Not just for the amulets but the rings and backs too.

Which is strange since you’d think that’d be one of those things that could be very quickly fixed.

I went and fiddled around checking this out, it’s pretty bad.

Needs a look. Right now you’re better off being a lev 20 in blues killing lev 20 mobs than a lev 30 in blues killing those same mobs. By a somewhat meaningful margin too. It’s not a huge deal for 80s in exotics clearing lowbie zones but for people leveling normally that are just some levels above the stuff they’re clearing as they play normally, it’s really wonky.

Wondering this also.

I found a hack where if I killed mobs repeatedly they kept dropping things.

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Raebfle.5914:

I play WvW, sPvP and PvE. I personally prefer WvW or sPvP but PvE is still fun. But I also wonder, sPvP is nowhere near as diverse as PvE – So why should you get a laurel for doing like 5% of the work? You can complete the entire daily in 3 matches of sPvP which in reality, don’t usually last that long. I dunno – I like that the rewards are seperated

I’d like to see them make spvp diverse enough that it was worth rewarding a laurel for I think.

But yeah, the spirit of your post is correct.