Guild Wars 2

The April fools prank is Anet personnel are despatched to break up the riot and throw everyone in Rata Sum jail cells. Moto is arrested and his Super Adventure Box confiscated for being a threat to public safety. Golems are posted around the city to keep the peace against a growing rebel SAB sympathizer militia. Anyone caught with SAB paraphernalia is subject to social “reeducation”.

I want to believe… but I wouldn’t put it past anet to add these for the sake of banking off the large part of the community’s desire for SAB.

Zaklex.6308:

For those of you wanting the put the ability to store your gold in your personal bank, I have some news for you, and you’re not going to like it. You have problems if you can’t keep yourself from spending the gold in your account, it’s called impulse shopping, and if you do it in GW2, then you do it in RL too and really need professional help

If you bother to read the Gold Sellers notices, they all start at 1000 gold for $XX.XX, by limiting the amount they can transfer to 500g a week, you’ve effectively, at the minimum just doubled their cost of doing business. More likely you’re looking at a 66 – 75% increase in cost of doing business. Think about that for a while.

This is the best quote of the thread. If you need to trick your mind into thinking you dont have gold you actually have you have a serious problem. And it is probably a indicator that carries overs inti real life.

Most of you with this mentally dont even have over 500g a week to spend/transfer. Get over yourselves and learn some self control if you have spending goals. This change affects a very minimal amount of players. This change also hinders the vast majority of 3rd party rmt.

I suspect the only people upset about this change is the people that actually use 3rd party rmt. Control you spending people. There is no reason to use your real money on a video game 3rd party or not.

This will bring us back to GW1 days of “100k + 50 ecto”. Kudos to Anet for trying to fight illegal RMT, but this will do nothing except make RMT move to selling stacks of ecto or damask or something with a high value and turn over.

Whats the point of having them as a reward if they are just going to deactivate them?

People earned them. Its not like you can’t go out and earn your own tomes.

I think it would be silly to have these in the game if arena net didnt want then to be used in this manner. I think they are well aware people have planned to do this and wouldn’t include them in rewards if they didn’t want people to use them.

Plus I think they are planning for people to use these in this manner. If you need certain mastery to progress events and kill certain enemies the community is going to need people to have high mastery to enable them to progress through the content.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

In addition, iirc, the guy said it only progressed his bar by about 1/5th so one tome won’t give as much exp as people are thinking.

Yes,

I assume that this is because the exp required to progress a mastery is much larger than 1 skill bar.

It was confirmed on one of the pax demos. Someone had used a tome of knowledge and it progressed the exp aspect of the mastery equivelent to the exp it gave.

You will not be able to spam tomes to unlock them though. You still have to find/earn mastery points before you can use tomes and writs to progress the exp aspect.

I would like to think anet thought these through before they started throwing tomes and writs at us… As someone with all lvl 80 classes these are just sitting in my bank waiting for a day they will be useful.

Don’t people get banned for this mod?

I like the logistical gymnastics it takes for people to infer it shouldn’t be fixed because you shouldn’t care.

Somehow its okay that people receive reward and recognition in error for accomplishments they didn’t even attempt and egotistical to want that error corrected to preserve the integrity of the reward system.

These bugged HoM rewards would be like if I was in the Guinness world record book for running the fastest 10k because I drove to work.

That wouldn’t fly in any type of achievement and game and still have people take it seriously. It is not wrong people want thier recognition to be equitable and taken seriously. People are just going to have to deal with not getting free stuff.

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This is precisely why I don’t pay real money for things in this game. The idea you can pay cash for something and have the chance of not getting the non-existent virtual item you wanted that cost them nothing to reproduce is ludicrous to me.

Anet could easily sell these colors individually for a higher gem mark up and make money. I don’t understand why they do not unless they are making serious cash of people’s gambling compulsions.

I would feel ripped off too if I spent like 10-20 bucks and got back all crap dye, just learn from it and tell then this unacceptable with your wallet. They could really care less after the fact.

Thay good news that they are not splitting the wvw and pvp base. That would just be painful for both sides.

China is really a whole different game. Arena net just sells the art, programing, and virtual resources to them. The provider can really do whatever they want with it. They might not even be giving away that particular skin.

Well as far as will everyone get it… I havent heard anyone say that the do not want it while still continuing to play. It seems obvious you will be at a handicap if you don’t own it. This isnt much different from gw1 as far as having all the skills and professions full owners had vrs people that were missing some expansions.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/reimagining-progression-the-mastery-system/

Its not very clear but under the question “How do I get masterys?” It says the ability to trait them is unlocked for all players that own Heart of Thorns. Also I think its been mentioned on a interview.

Yes they are expanded to the core game but they made it sound like you have to own the expansion.

I believe it was also mentioned that you wont have access to mastery and specialization features as well. You will probably have the same game you do now save the camera and mechanic updates.

It will be interesting to see how they handle stronghold being in the queue for conquest for ppl without the expac and wvw map that some ppl on the server won’t to be able to access

Thats not going to stop people from outbidding you by the minimum amount possible. It will just artificially inflate buy order figures.

Its narrow minded to think that these wont ever see 500 because of ascended jewellery and thay ascended food is silly. There are plenty of applications and there are still ascended material spaces in our bank slots we have yet to see.

Jeweler could offer ascended jeweled infusions or even open up the way to legendary trinkets with switchable stats. Heck even jewels that give effects like the preserved queen bee.

As for cooking they already been dropping hints of ascended food. It could easily be 3 bouns food items, potions, ect that would be account bound and require you to learn the craft.

They added 500 crafting and ascended gear to every other profession because before there really was not a strong incentive to craft. The same really goes for cooking and jeweller until they bump it.

We might not see it soon but I think we will see it someday.

Im jusy curious what mmo had fishing and what made it so great?

Donari.5237:

I know of whom you speak, Mireles Lore. Those of us in the know give Map Chat a warning when she starts her spiel but there’s no 24-7 coverage possible.

The safest thing in games and RL is to be cautious about giving to beggars. Do it, but wisely. I remember one homeless woman I passed near the National Archives on a regular basis, asking for money for food. There was a vendor cart nearby so I bought her food, easily chewable given her bad teeth, and she was so clearly grateful that I gave her cash every week after that. Most of the time you offer to buy food for someone and they get cranky — like the guy outside Chipotles that refused to come in with me so I could buy him a burrito. He claimed he was trying to go get some other type of food.

In game I’ve sent people items I saw them needing on the forums, I’ve helped run folks through LS, I’ve handed out bags to clearly new players. But I tune my skepticism high and I never give to someone who just flat out asks for handouts. I like to be generous, not a fool.

Yeah I usually say something when I see that person too.

A few times I gotten PMs from people something to the effect of “is he really scamming? I was about to send ____ until you said something”

There is also this person in divinity and lions arch that has been just a few T6 mats short almost every night for a month now. Yeah some people have no shame but others are gullible.

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I have some of these to I bought when they were worth under a gold….

There are two things I think about when I think about selling things like this.

Do I need the gold? These will appreciate in value. Gold sitting in your wallet will not.

Are they expected to return to the drop table? Unless they release a story journal for season 1 and have these as a reward. They are not going to increase in supply.

So if you said no to both these questions I wouldn’t sell.

Send me an ingane mail requesting an invite and I will contact you when I log on tonight and send you an invite. We are on Yaks Bend. My account name is Mireles Lore.5942

I didnt expect it would max a track but earn you a mastery point. It seems you need x amount of points to fill a track.

The way I have interpreted information was.

We will be earning mastery points instead of skill points when we fill the exp bar. So one tome will be one mastery point, not an entire track.

Hello hotsync & yalbir,

I lead a medium sized guild on yaks bend server. We have many members in the US and Canada that are active in the evenings. We have a roster size of 170 with 30+ online and representing in the evenings. We take pride in keeping our roster active so rest assured that none of these members are fillers to exaggerate our size.

We have been a guild for many years and are constantly seeking new players to keep things diversified experiance wise. We would be more than happy to show you the ropes and you will find many new players like yourself to group with.

We do make use of teamspeak every night and can find member socializing on the server every evening. You will get the most out of your guild experiance if you log into ts often.

For more basic information about us and specifics on what we offer and how we run things please view the link below

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/XHSA-NA-Looking-for-returning-players/first#post4850586

If you have any questions or would like an invite please contact me in game on Mireles Lore.5942

Welcome and good luck in your search for a guild.

Dungeons dont account for all that much ap in the grand scheme of things. I dont think you even break 500 from all the dungeon AP.

People here are wrong.

If you buy eternity and equip it you unlocked the 2 other legendary skins and the precursors.

Here is the proof.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gUKDwXz8qY

I have, in this order. Invisible 20 slot, back pack, oiled 20 slot, exotic fractal box, rare fractal box, masterwork box, and two equipment box.

Inventory sorts itself. Can go a few dungeon runs without going into inventory and I never run outa room. My inventory Invisi bag first for easy access to consumables and seige. Backpack holds copper fed salvage o matic, exotic a bl kit, and rare bag a mystic. Open bags, hit deposit all collectables, hit sell junk at merchant, tp or salvage the remainder with thier respectful kits and you are done. Its all nicely sorted for you on its own.

Could probably agree with this…. kind of dumb that you can do this.

But at the same time. I always do take pleasure in the hilarity that I made a person mad enough to engage in this type of immaturity. Seems to happen alot in pvp when I beat someone x times in a row.

I use the Logitech G930. Great 7.1 surround sound. You can tell which side sounds are coming from. Nice and loud. Great microphone. You wont get any background noise on teamspeak unless its as loud as you are. It also mutes when you put it in the up position. 3 Year warrenty if anything ever goes wrong with them.

Its wireless and ive never had any problems with it cutting out or anything and has great range. If you need to you can charge it via micro usb cable it comes with while you are using it. I had to send it in only once because of a plastic peice that cracked when my infant son knocked it off my head and onto the hardwood floor. They replaced it no problem even though the warrenty was just a few months from experation. Just make sure you keep the receipt or an image of it.

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I dont think the put this in because of how heavily it was abused in Guild Wars one as a way to farm matches. I am pretty sure they dont want to see Red resign days come back so people dont have to sit through a stomp.

Paying for new content is what it is. I doubt it will outright die but more people will defiantly be in the new content. Even guild wars 1 is still being played after the release of 2.

If the devs are smart. Future living story will be in the main game and lead us into another area for a totally seperate 3rd expansion.

Seriously, assuming the means are there, whos playing now that will absolutely not purchase the expansion?

People that are not getting the expansion probably don’t plan on playing much longer or not really invested in the game that much. The game itself is in its 3rd year. Sorry, but unless you are a minor with no income, if you can’t afford or save 50$ the expansion you really need to evaluate if you should be playing video games.

So do these wings have any sway and sheeme in the light like they were in guild wars 1 before they “fixed” them and made then into cardboard? Or is it just a copy and paste of the cardboard cut out they turned em into after the “fix”.

That costume in guild wars 1 was the only thing I spent real money on for in game items and the “fix” is the reason I never will again.

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Hello Pinkfluff,

I would like to offer up some info for my guild based on your criteria for your consideration.

I have been leading this guild for about a decade now since Guild Wars 1 started. I share the same values as yourself and work activly to build a community where we are not just guild mates but friends.

Our focus is to build a friendly community. We may poke fun at eachother and some of us a little rough around the edges but this is a zero discrimination guild. Our memebers could really care less about gender, age, sexual orientation or any of that. We are all people and we are all here to have a good time and play some guild wars. Our members are very diverse in the since of age and orientation and we have a pretty good ratio of men and women. Even though we do not have a minimum age all of us are 18+. We are all here to have fun, chat, and laugh a little as we play Guild Wars. Our guild runs are on a first come first serve basis, we dont care how experianced you are or what class you play.

We are a PvX guild that is mostly PvE. We were a guild that used to be Yaks Bend exlusive but since the megasever we been accepting memebers from all servers. Some of transferred after some time, we do not require it or even encourage it. We are not very big into the wvw scene. We do however do many activites in PvE. We have held guild missions every week since they came out without fail. We do fractal and/or dungeon runs daily. We have a focus on the living story and have become pretty effective at getting people thief achievments. We also have some members that sPvP regulary such as myself.

Our biggest event is guild missions every friday. We usually have around 30 people show up. Sometimes more. Other than that what we do other days are very impromptu. I myself try to bring people on dungeon and fractal runs. Many other members get together and do world bosses or the silverwaste. Our newer members will seek eachother out and map or level together. There are always many things going on as I try to seek out players that be social and reach out to others.

As for our size. You said it best. Quality over quantity membership. One of the values I take pride in when managing the roster. We currently have around 150 members and we hover around this. We have 60-70 accounts log in througout the day daily. We are most active in the evenings US with 30 people online and repping on this time. I clean the roster monthly for recruits that have not repped and logged on the last month or witnessed excessively not repping for the time they spend online. We do not require 100% rep I beleive that if I am doing a good job people will pledge it on thier own. All people that have pledged 100% rep have ranks that allow for 3 month inactive time before they are removed. I take my roster very seriosuly when it comes to keeping it active and try to balance fairness with the level of a members commitment.

I feel like we are fairly balanced when it comes to casual vrs hardcore. We are hardcore enough that we know how to get dungeon and fractal runs done effectively. But, we are casual enough that we will not enforce class, build, or experience requirements. The goal is to be effective but at the same time inclusive. We do not push builds on people but we are always willing to offer advice to people looking to improve.

We do make use of teamspeak 3. Some of us are on thier every night to socialize. It can get very… colorful in there but I feel it is all good fun.

I think I covered most of your points. You can read more basic information about us in the link below. As I do not like to copy and paste recruit and address players points directly I think I pretty much covered all the info in it but you are still welcome to take a look.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/XHSA-NA-Looking-for-returning-players/first#post4841611

The best way to contact me is in game on Mireles Lore.5942 via mail. I usually like to have a small dialog with new recruits and like to be online when they enter the guild so they have a proper introduction.

Good luck on the search for your new guild. I believe you will make a great asset to anyone that recruits you. I hope to hear from you soon.

-Mireles

Every time I think about updating my comp for gw2 I read things like thisand decide against it. Getting new hardware wont do anything for this game. Im using 3-5 year old equipment and haven’t had any of these problems. Yeah everyone drops fps on huge boss fights, but other than that this game has run flawlessly ane never crashes. This is low end nowa days but…

I been running the game max settings with supersample and vertical sync on. Charcter number limit on the highest with the chracter model at limit at medium. Most of the game runs between 40-60 fps only dropping lower during boss battles. 1920 × 1080 res.

AMD Phenom II x6 1075T OC 3.5ghz
Asus EVO Mobo
XFX 2GB DDR5 R7 260x
8gb DDR3 corsair ram
150gb raptor hardrive
750w power supply
Windows 7

I went from intel to this at a time where my budget was pretty tight to AMD. This is the most stable rig I ever owned. I never have to hard reset it and the only time it bluescreen ia when I was pushing it to far.

If your game is crashing or is unreasonably slow its rarely the game, its your rig is unstable or just isnt as compatable with it. Sometimes drivers on newer stuff just dont look backwards to older graphic engines like gw2. Sometimes from bad hardware from people cheaping out on the mobo. Sometimes its simply the driver and you can’t do anything other than wait. Sometimes its just one of those times where the manufacture screwed up on the model.

My point is, if you are building your own rig. It is very rarely an issue with the actual game especially when its been out for so many years.

AHWillis.7469:

How many do you guys usually have on from the East Coast? I’m East Coast, but your guild sounds like a good fit for me.

Hello AHWillis,

Sorry for the late reply. Most of our memebrs are on the east cost and we are most active in the evening hours in your time zone. We have 20-30 on and repping at this time. The best way to contact me is via in game mail. If you havent already please contact me in game and we will get you introduced to the guild.

Thanks,
Mireles

Alot of people have tags they dont use in eotm. The reason there are no tags is because nobody wants to tag up and lead. Especially if you are not green that week. It just isnt worth going to eotm if you are not green.

Rally to us!…..

I want Lord Faron’s red speedo. My warrior would do rock that and make my enemies feel inadequate.

I play for maybe 2-3 hours a day, never do any of kind farming, and I can not consume these materials fast enough. These mats are rewarded with everything you do. Yes they should make it to where it consumes atleast a whole stack every day.

I know alot of ppl buying demask and related items because they plan to level 80 the new class with a scroll and tomes and immediately craft ascended armor as soon as a meta for them is established. Many are probably doing the same thing driving the price up.

Personally I think this is a bad move.

First of all. Anet has acknowledged that the price for cloth items are high because they are not directly farmable. I would not be surprised to see then try to tackle this problem in the expansion.

Second. New classes are always tweaked and nurfed. I wouldnt commit ascended gear until they were done with that.

Just my two cents.

I got around 300 of these envelopes just form buying then from the npc and am waiting to see what happens when the supply dries up. As of right now with the prices in the TP its without a question I will make a profit. Just a matter of how much.

I would count yourself lucky you even got anything out of the forge. Some people throw in thier entire net worth, get nothing, and quit. You can atleast eat the loss and still pull out most of your money by selling it the highest buyer and still have 2 great legendary skins. A result that many just dream of. The thing about eternity, many people do exactly what you are doing, I was going to do this, I would expect to be undercurrent. I would expect the precursors and legendaries will only continue to drop in price. So you are losing a bit of money.

If this really causes you to quit even after u crafted and resold the most valuable legendary you really were not motivated to play in the first place and evaluate if you really enjoy the game.

Hello,

I know I may be a bit late to respond to this, but I lead a casual pvx guild that might interest you. We are a well established guild thats existed for nearly a decade now. We currently sit at 150 members with around 20-30 online and repping durring our peak hours in the evenings in the US time zones.

We have a good mix of veterans and new players and are always willing to educate new members as we look for people that will stay and be active our community. We would be more than happy to assist you and take you on our runs. We are in Yaks Bend but we accept members from all servers. We currently are not very active in WvW but are very active fractal and dungeon runners and are casually involved in pvp.

You can read more basic information about us and how we do things at the link below.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/XHSA-NA-Looking-for-returning-players/first#post4821715

Good luck in the search for your guild and I hope to hear from you soon
-Mireles

If whatever is you wanted dropped commonly the market value on those said items would be cheap and you would be complaining that there is nothing valuable in the chest.

Why do people not understand that scarcity and high demand is what makes items have a high price in MMOs. Thats why there is an RNG function… you have to gamble for scarce items becuase labor and quality of materials doesnt exist in MMOs.

It really depends on the guild and what they are trying to accomplish.

If its a new guild trying to build an active community I would more than assume they would require 100% rep. If you just rep for a few minutes everyday and just drop in to say hi you are not doing them any favors as non reppers makes the guild look inactive or dying. As they built a core group that reps all the time they could probably be more lax with thier rep.

Then thier are activity based guilds like TTS that just exist to do runs. That many show up rep for the run and return to thier main guild. These guilds do not need people to 100 rep then as they are large and have rosters full of people to do the run.

From a guild leader that has always focused on building community, I dont require 100% rep, but you will not move up in my guild at all if you dont. I feel like this is the best way to let ppl try out this guild and reward when they pledge 100% rep (with the exception of a bank). If you are providing them with a superior experiance they will pledge 100% for the rank to show they are fully commited to the community and be proud of it.

At the same time I require majority rep from all initiates. I need to keep my roster active. You are not helping my guild by popping in every once in awhile to try to fill your groups or just joining for guild missions. We send out guests invites for our events for a reason. So, I will kick people I see that do not rep most of the time they are on and non full reppers are marked every month and removed for inactivity and non rep at the end of the month.

Roster activity can make a break a guild. I could have filled my roster 10x over. But I rather have 150 members with 30 plus online that are highly active reppers than a roster of 500 with around 100 online where over half hardly rep. One of these looks vastly healthier over the other.

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