Guild Wars 2

Just a side note to all people that see dollar signs. “Buy high, sell higher” has a horrid way of backfiring in this game.

But without goldsellers I wouldn’t hear from my friends Kjsdfkja, Ufijakjdfx, and his little brother Oiuoalskjdfkjlx in the mail every morning.

Any news on this ANET?

This bug hasn’t been in play since release. I played through all the Beta weekends and early in release with this bug not surfacing. But since it has appeared, it has been constant and it actually seems to be getting worse.

Used to happen mainly when things were crowded. Now it’s starting to happen more and more through ordinary roaming around in the world in uncrowded places (and when it’s crowded, turning with right click is so unreliable I have to keyboard turn)

I can tell you from experience, in this game after you have hundreds of gold…it starts being difficult to find ways to invest all of it to get the huge exponentially increasing gains you figure on.

When you have 20g in the bank and you’re investing with 15g of it, it’s not too hard to get a hold of 15g worth of stuff that’s worth flipping. When you have 1000g in the bank it’s not so easy to do the same with 900g of your funds. Most things don’t trade in that kind of volume. If you try to flip very expensive things, it’s common for them to just sit there. Then a few more go up and you’re facing the very real possibility of wanting to take it down and relist.

Also when things go wrong (and they will), you can lose a whoooole lot of money.

TLDR going from 20g to 40g while staring at the TP is much easier than going from 1000g to 2000g. By leaps and bounds.

I’d be fine with them giving us the ability to get even bigger banks, but lets face it, unless you’re aggressively playing all the characters on every slot on your account…they have more room for more stuff to hold. Put stuff on them that you probably won’t touch for a while.

Corn will stay dead until the price on crossing, mad moon, and arachnophobia go up by enough that some people decide they’re actually worth crafting.

What’s profitable in crafting changes on a daily, even hourly basis. Someone telling you “this makes money” might not even be true by the time you load up the game to drain all the profit out of it.

Ditto with flipping items on the TP really. I couldn’t give a hot item tip even if I wanted to. When I load up the TP, I don’t know where the money is at that moment yet. I have to look and find it.

This idea that crafting should turn a consistent easy profit by just cranking off items in a game where you can craft 200 items in 30 seconds is just silly. You’re selling to real people and their demand is finite.

You WANT people to flip items in this system. Items being bought and sold more than once thus get hit with the 15% tax more than once. More transactions means less money in the economy which means less inflation.

There isn’t really that many of them. They just aren’t selling quite yet since a lot of people that wanted halloween exotics got them already (referring to the crossing, arachnophobia, mad moon).

But I look at the TP and I see like 50 for sale. Not many really. They’ll slowly go away as people buy them and actually transmute them. Even if there’s plenty more in people’s banks while they wait…they’ll still go eventually.

The prices on crossing and madmoon seem to have bottomed out. No real movement further down last couple days. Very few people are going to sell it at the buyer’s asking price at this point, they did that already. Probably a good indicator they’ll (slowly) go up now but we’ll see. I grabbed a few yesterday for that reason.

May take a while though.

As for character customization change, yes.

In fact they had a bug a few weeks back where they accidentally added a character customization change to the gem shop early and had to remove it, since they said it wasn’t functioning properly yet. There was an ANET post in a thread where someone asked why the customization thing they bought wasn’t working, heh.

So clearly they’re working on it.

Before they can add more traits and really broaden gameplay within classes, it is necessary to untie stats from trait selection.

This could be done while still allowing us to customize “trait stats”. Would just need to add an extra screen. Each time you get a trait point you use it to both select a trait, and go onto the second screen and select 20 stat points with it (right now placement gets you 10 in 2 stats). Cap any individual stat at 300 so you can’t go 1400 in one stat or something.

Cap stats at 100 until you unlock the second manual, 200 until the third etc to simulate not being able to load 300 in a stat early since you can’t do that now. Work work wonderfully.

This is one of those things we’ll probably see in the game eventually, but I wouldn’t count on it any time soon.

Just getting a single badge for taking a tower or keep would really help.

Not even more than one for keeps or castle. Just one lone badge. It’d work pretty well.

I imagine orbs will be back right after they get to dealing with that “temporary removal of dolyak escort rewards while we figure out a solution.” =P

I’d rather they lower these mobs hps and then actually make them dangerous.

If you aren’t enjoying it don’t do it.

If you want to do it anyway but are finding it too grindy, just pick an area and explore half of it each day. If you’re still in the mood, then go ahead and finish the area…then stop.

They’ll get done, there really isn’t that many of them.

It would be very easy to get loads of achievement points if one salvaged a whole lot, such as buying things on the TP to salvage and resell.

Even without that, certainly not a bug/cheat to have over 5000 achieve points.

I will on stuff that isn’t gambling.

Ending right now. New build.

Nope, it’s gone. In fact the entire halloween event was supposed to end hours ago.

It actually took me playing all 8 classes (several to 80) to realize that the elementalist is the only one of the 8 that’s really active to play. Engineer is second but it’s a distant second.

If you haven’t tried elementalist, give it a shot and you’ll probably like it a lot. It takes more effort to achieve the same results as other classes, but I guarantee you’ll never feel like you’re just going through the motions.

I hope so too. I think a lot of people would like these (especially the rumble) but probably just played them once for achievement purposes then continued on with other halloween stuff.

I definitely agree with this.

I would love to see stats from traits removed and stats on gear just bumped up an appropriate amount to roughly compensate for it.

Another even easier (and more desirable imo) way to do this would be to just add a second screen for stats in your trait screen. Each trait point you get would give you 20 points to allocate to stats (instead of you placing it for 10/10 like you do now). Limit the total that can be placed in a stat to 300, so it works out as it does now.

Then you could pick the traits you wanted, you could pick the stats you wanted, and your character would be truly customized for your needs.

If they made the event 6 months long people would still come on here 2 hours before it ended and say “Been super busy, need items”.

Written in print, most are ordinary bad jokes.

When the Mad King says them though it’s pretty funny, just because of his voice and delivery.

I’ll miss halloween lion’s arch period. The town looks so cool imo in halloween mode.

The big killer for me is lack of swiftness while in town clothes.

Now I’m not suggesting that you have perma swiftness anytime you wear town clothes, that’d make people want to keep switching back and forth while out in the world which would be obnoxious.

What I am suggesting is that they give perma swiftness WHILE IN TOWN. When I’m in town I still use various swiftness tools in my skillset to get around. In town clothes I can’t do that, so I don’t wear them.

I know people will say “but the waypoints are free”. I know that. They’re still spaced far enough apart that I have plenty of situations where I want to use swiftness in town, keeping me out of town clothes. Got the free speed boon npcs, yes. Still have to bother going to them though, extra step that you don’t feel like taking in town.

This stopped me from bothering with buying one of the halloween costumes, because I know I won’t end up actually wearing it in town simply because of this.

The big killer for me is lack of swiftness while in town clothes.

Now I’m not suggesting that you have perma swiftness anytime you wear town clothes, that’d make people want to keep switching back and forth while out in the world which would be obnoxious.

What I am suggesting is that they give perma swiftness WHILE IN TOWN. When I’m in town I still use various swiftness tools in my skillset to get around. In town clothes I can’t do that, so I don’t wear them.

I know people will say “but the waypoints are free”. I know that. They’re still spaced far enough apart that I have plenty of situations where I want to use swiftness in town, keeping me out of town clothes. Got the free speed boon npcs, yes. Still have to bother going to them though, extra step that you don’t feel like taking in town.

As for the storage issue, the costume npc would be great. If not that for whatever reason, just giving us a big costume only bank tab with 100 slots would go a long way. This isn’t really a big deal to me personally because I’ve bought lots of extra bank tabs. For the average player though, I’m sure it’s another deterrent to get costumes when you want as little deterrents as possible.

I’d be pretty surprised if they don’t go back up to that, if not more. It may not even take that long.

I mean you straight up can’t get them anymore. Also when someone uses or transmutes it, they can’t resell it later, it’s gone for market purposes.

The only reason it even went down to begin with is that some people saw it went high and got excited, thus putting some on the market (we’re talking like 15 new ones put up here, I saw it. It wasn’t like the world was flooded), while people were wary because it’s hard to make a big 80g+ purchase on something that was so much cheaper recently and were reluctant to buy.

Regardless of gripes about items/loot, the ANET team is really to be commended. You’ve really set the bar high on holiday content with what I’ve seen for Halloween. It was practically a game in itself, so many different kinds of things to do.

When the most popular complaints are “I didn’t get enough loot” or “The tower is too hard”, you’ve done an incredible job. Adjustments on such things can be easily made in the future. In other games you get a little change of scenery in a few places and a couple tasks to do. This halloween you made something that could encompass all gameplay during the event if someone chose to do so.

The only bad thing is like I said, you’ve really set the bar high. If you can manage to maintain this kind of both quantity and quality content in future events, you’ll have done something that simply has never been done in an MMO.

PHENOMENAL JOB.

When I talked to him after completing the 150 carvings, I remember him saying something about congratulations you get this special title! etc.

Making it sound like he was “giving” you the title. Think it’s just flavor text.

In reality I got the title as soon as I completed carving 150, before talking to him.

Once the event is over I doubt the halloween tab is going to even be there. It’ll be replaced by the next special event in the special event tab (Thanksgiving, apparently)

I’d like to just see them do a stock haircut that goes under the hats. Let your hair color be accurate but have some short hair underneath that maybe looks like it could be tucked into the hat if you normally have long hair.

Sometimes being bald underneath works okay with certain hats that go low on the head. It looks pretty bad with the witch hat, which sits pretty high on the head in the back and truly does make you look bald.

The event ends on the 1st. No more halloween world stuff.

The BLC chests will continue however, to have a chance at the skins until Nov. 5th.

That’s an…..interesting….costume!

$0.

There isn’t a single game that has ever, or will ever be released, where the item you buy for gambling is worth what you pay.

On this hat you look even more bald than usual considering how high it sits on your head in the back.

They need to make some token universal hair that goes under these hats. I get not wanting to deal with every hairstyle. If it was short hair then it would look like most of your hair was tucked in the hat and it’d look so much better.

+50 for this. Or at least some extra universal bank tab for town clothes only that can hold a lot of stuff

He’s just misunderstood!

It seems it’s easy to get into an ugly loop where you completely dominate one week, get dominated the next, dominate thenext etc.

This comes from one server taking a big lead early and 2/3rds of the players on the two losing servers giving up early and just staying out. Then when you visit a borderland, see there’s only 13 people there on your server or something, you leave.

There’s precedent there, the outnumbered bonus exists, but it doesn’t do anything to cause people to want to play when outnumbered.

We need something meaningful. Something good enough to really make you want to stay when heavily outnumbered. Not something broken, but something good enough to really make you think twice about staying. Else you end up with half a day of active play at the beginning of a reset, followed by 6 1/2 days of waiting where hardly anyone plays. Boring when you’re losing, it’s also boring when you’re winning too.

Looking for ideas on what could fix that.

Also, a lot of asura sound like Ray Romano

Donari.5237:

I ended up not minding the group of people. My big issue (besides just not being good at fast jumping) is that I use mouse-movement so constantly going to the right takes my mouse off the pad unless I lift it back to the left, which means stopping long enough to do so. At which point, helllooooo green goop. Or at least it slows me enough I reach the leap of faith too late.

I am sure WASD would help … if I weren’t utterly right-handed and completely untrained in WASD use. -shrug- I have given up trying and give all praise to those who have succeeded.

This gave me some trouble too, with my hand just continuing further to the right. I still walk forward with W though, rather than doing the left + right click thing. I tended to do the quick mouse adjustment during any brief periods where I got to just walk straight forward for half a second, or during any longer jumps.

On the very off chance they go up in value after the event (with wonky stats and a non unique skin, probably nothing exciting here) then sure…hold onto them and sell when the time is right.

If not, you could always keep them for a magic find set. Put magic find runes in them or something.

As for feeling like you really need to keep them though, nah.

I don’t even see the bar popup unless I stay at the doorway when he’s talking.

I did like 30 MK runs before I even realized it was supposed to change your skillbar.

The two side game pvp type deals they made are really cool, it’s a shame they’re off in the background because people are busy farming. Especially the one that’s kind of like a MOBA.

It’d be a real sin if the event ends and those go with it because I bet an awful lot of people played 0 or exactly 1 times just to pick up the achievement and forgot about it. That’d send a bad message that such things aren’t worth making because people don’t care.

No there won’t.

We’re complaining about the jumping in the MAD KING dungeon now?

Come on.

You should maybe screw up once, your first time in there not knowing where to jump from. That’s it. There’s no hard jumps and there aren’t even many of them. You walk a few chains and hop down from a few spots? I mean there’s nothing.

Seems like I read that when act 4 starts, the MK dungeon will close. Is that true or just rumored?

One thing I think they could do better for next time is directing players on the event.

It doesn’t really matter to me. I end up just googling what information I need regardless, but for many I’m sure it’s a turn off having to go outside the game to figure out what it is they’re supposed to be doing or where to go.

A lot of people skipped the jumping puzzle, yes.

So they did all the many other halloween events instead.