Guild Wars 2

maniamsmart.7981:

… the fact that the game is free…

No, no it’s not. It’s B2P.

That being said I’m more than happy to support a game that I enjoy with buying the odd knick knack every now and then.

I like outfits for the simple reason that I don’t have to keep transmuting my gear all the way to level 80 to look semi-decent.

I like armor skins because mix-and-matching is the real game at 80.

I would love to see more armor skins come out, but I would also love to see the outfits become available as armor skins as well.

Give us more of everything Anet, not just outfits.

I came in expecting to see something about the candy corn nodes that are STILL popping up since they started the Halloween celebrations 2 YEARS AGO

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Request-Refund-Hero-Points-for-non-80-s

I totally agree with you, but the problem is that the majority of the player base just doesn’t seem to give a rat’s kitten about anyone bar themselves. If it doesn’t affect them they won’t speak up for or against it.

Like here I got “deal with it” repetitively. But the thing is that we shouldn’t have to!

Yeah because having a mini Eir or a mini Rytlock makes sense O.o

No. In fact, I’ll add a hell to that.

HELL no.

Paulytnz.7619:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Randulf.7614:

My guess is when the game was 75% off, people bought extra accounts, which could then get extra dailies/laurels

Yup, precisely that. It was 75% off one weekend, so I bought a second account for $10 rather than a single character slot for $10.

Crazy, but I now see the logic, 5 new char slots vs 1 lol. But yet you miss out on all those account bound bonuses. Oh well I guess there has to be some kind of a trade off for that bargain price…….

There is. It’s called double laurels.

As to your first response it does pretty much answer it unless you’re having trouble wording your questions correctly, Alex. (see, I can be a condescending kitten too!)

Alex.1496:

My elementalist has a conjuring wheel filled till Conjured Frost Bow. It wants me to fill it with 9 HP for an elite skill called Conjured Fiery Greatsword. But… I already have that skill in my kit ! I dont know if it is a bug or design choice. I am only asking why is this so. Why i have skills that i didnt trained?

Unless you’re in PvP, if you have a skill on your bar that you are able to use that you have not unlocked by way of Hero Points just yet, then I would submit it as a bug.

Nightwalker.7982:

Just gave the asura a try, No luck on him either. This is what i have in my inventory.

Those are not tickets. Those are the weapon skins that you have to trade the tickets for. You can’t trade in the skin.

This is the icon of a ticket: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/a/a8/Dragon%27s_Jade_Claim_Ticket.png

You can right click>preview/unlock skin/sell at trading post.

I think the poll speaks for itself. 95% leaning towards no.

If anything I’d like a “golden title text” implemented like they have in Tera. For certain titles that are deemed “prestigious”, the text of the title is in gold, and much easier to see.

Total characters (on the one account) 44

Elementalist – 5 – 80, 72, 25, 22, 22
Engineer – 5 – 80, 80, 23, 22, 22
Guardian – 5 – 80, 26, 24, 23, 22
Mesmer – 5 – 80, 40, 26, 23, 23
Necromancer – 5 – 80, 80, 24, 22, 22
Ranger – 5 – 80, 80, 23, 22, 22
Thief – 5 – 80, 80, 23, 22, 22
Warrior – 5 – 80, 33, 26, 24, 23

Keyfarmer – 1
Name holder for Revenant – 3

Still waiting on that one slot Anet promised us for the prepurchase.

Alex.1496:

Why are there skills available even if I didn’t trained them?

Kal Spiro.9745:

They reset all skills. Blanked out your character. Then based on the traits and skills you had selected before the change their system tried to recreate your build, buying back skills and trait lines it thought you needed.

I think he answered it pretty accurately. Seems you’re the one with reading problems Alex.

If you want a more in-depth answer then, like Kal said, scan the first few pages of the forum.

GuzziHero.5104:

Miss Lana.5276:

Wait, you didn’t get bugged out on the ship?

When the ship got to the giants they sat there, the ship didn’t move and no mobs spawned. I waited 7 minutes then submitted a bug report.

The challenge was not getting mad that I’d wasted time on it for nothing.

The one with 3 giants on the right? This is a very old bug which I thought they had fixed. Basically you get past it by not attacking, just reflecting attacks.

“When the ship got to the giants they sat there, the ship didn’t move and no mobs spawned.”

I said this in the post that you responded to.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-much-have-you-spent-on-Gems/page/3#post5124778

Old thread on the same topic

In Obsidian Sanctum a guildy showed me how to get from one of the higher sides spawn platform onto the middle one by using slick shoes and rocket boots.

While I’m not mad about the changes, I can see why they’ve been implemented and I don’t see any real need to change them back.

2 sets of cultural t3 I’ve had to re-purchase because of the wardrobe. I can’t think of anything I’ve completely lost, but I do think this should have been implemented sooner.

7 dungeons with 4 paths, 1 dungeon with 5 paths, fractals with 50 levels.

That’s effectively 83 dungeon paths for you to experience.

I don’t think gw2 really needs any more dungeons at this time – and I don’t think any more will be released for the base game itself.

Be aware – sometimes it bugs out if you don’t watch the cutscenes, so it can completely block your progress.

http://gw2crafts.net/

it calculates with the current prices on the tp, so if a price on the tp changes, the calculated price will reflect that change.

Soja.5918:

If you don’t want to have to progress on them, maybe the point of character progression has been missed.

I don’t know. I just picked up and dealt with it. I guess not everyone is as resilient as me? Then again, I wouldn’t want to level 40+ characters either…

I’m not against progressing on them, and that was never intentionally implied, nor stated.

I’m against:
a) not knowing whether the next hero point I earn I will actually obtain or whether it’ll be taken off the “debt”
b) having the exact same things unlocked on all my characters when I didn’t want those things to be unlocked on them with this new system in the first place.
c) being chosen for by a third party what should be unlocked for my characters when I had no say and I was uninformed in the way in which the skills/traitlines would be unlocked (and I still don’t care about the hows and whys behind it – I hate the outcome)
d) not being able to progress the character in my way at early levels

I never said I didn’t want to level 40+ characters, nor was that implied. You are putting words in my mouth and being passive aggressive. That’s a childish move.

1 – which norn?
2 – which sylvari?
3 – you can preview dyes you haven’t unlocked in the hero panel, so you should be able to figure it out.

Soja.5918:

Or you could just… progress on them.

That is what I am doing with my Engineer and Guardian. Am I being forced to use builds I may or may not have chosen? Yeah, in a way. But I am also getting to play with new ones and discovering parts I may not have dabbled in otherwise. It’s not so bad.

The problem is – like I mentioned in the last comment – that people have been “in debt” of Hero Points thanks to the bad implementation. I don’t want to have to progress on them, do some mapping and think “oh great now I have xxx points” get to the hero panel and realise I still have none.

If a refund is given not only will I know exactly how many points I have, but I will also be able to play the way I want to play (which is half the point of playing a game in the first place).

Donari.5237:

I think having none active may be what did you in. The program assigned points based on the most heavily invested trait lines. With all at 0, all were equal, so it had to randomly select rather than focusing on your preferred lines. I’m only guessing on that, but it would fit the pattern I’ve seen.

I know you’re trying to help but this thread is not about asking why this happened.

I don’t care why it happened. I don’t care about the formulas behind all this, or the thinking, planning and preparing.

I want my hero points back on my non-80s. I want to play them, but I want to play them the way I want to play them which isn’t supported by lack of choice and being locked into things I don’t want.

Heck, I’ve heard of people being “in debt” to the system for Hero Points, but that doesn’t show up on the counter at all either. I like the new system but the implementation is what riles me up.

Bumping this. I feel like my lowbie toons have really been handicapped by this lack of choice. Would be nice to get some dev attention regarding this.

elkirin.8534:

I have had it bug at the giants 4 times, 5th time i let all the conversations go without impatience and it progressed.

The mission is not a lot different to the old 5 man and I intend soloing it again as my characters reach that point. Difficulty is personal, I do things I enjoy.

I think it has something to do with skipping the cutscenes that activates the bug.

I just bugged out on “Romke’s Final Voyage”. I’ll see whether it bugs without skipping the cutscenes this time. Got all the way to the end too :/

Edit: Just finished that story step and can confirm it has something to do with skipping cutscenes. I’ll have to be patient until they get around to a fix :/

Fay.2735:

Majic.4801:

Why do I get the feeling he’s the guy who goes around gluing quarters to the sidewalk, then smirks quietly in the shadows when passersby attempt fruitlessly to pick them up?

He’s the guy that designed the clock tower jumping puzzle and super adventure box, that should say it all

I’d like to see someone stop and find the coin in the Mad King’s clocktower!

The big one that I can see missing is the Avatar of the Tree’s dress. I would kill to have that available!

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/6/6f/Avatar_of_the_Tree.jpg

Crimson Clouds.4853:

A-net could kill multiple birds with one stone here and just design a number of “skimpier” chest-pieces.

inb4 there are skimpier outfits and still no armor skins.

rapthorne.7345:

Almost every single traitline got buffed like mad and some very niche, pointless and poor builds got changed around. I don’t see a problem. Most people I’ve talked to love the specialisation system, after adjusting their various builds to fit with it.

The UI was a little confusing to me at first, but once I got past that it was just a matter of reading the traits (and actually seeing the icons. They’re a little too small imo – even with bigger UI). I’m actually enjoying finding new builds to play, and picking up my old mes shatter build with this new spec system has been heaps of fun!

Sure ricochet was removed. Games change. Anet have that right. So what you do is you adapt your build and move on.

Kirnale.5914:

noo exclusive items should be exclusive !

There is absolutely NOTHING exclusive about gemstore items. None. Zip. Nada. It doesn’t matter if they were a day-only sale or if they’ve been in the store since release. There is ZERO exclusivity associated with gemstore items.

The first skin I can think of that has some exclusivity around it is the Luminous armor – purely because you actually have to work for it. Yeah, it may not be to my taste but I know that the person has worked for the skin.

Whereas with gemstore skins I don’t know (and honestly I don’t care) whether they’ve bought them with in-game gold or whether they whipped out their credit card.

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Seriously Anet. It’s been long enough. Communication needs to be wider across the spectrum from you guys. We need to feel like we’re being listened to. Bring back the stupid ears already.

I don’t know how I’d feel about this being implemented for females, but I really see no reason for it not to be implemented for males at least.

skowcia.8257:

If they ever do this i will uninstall. I dindt bought this game to play with some anime bs. Wings are over the top already.

Be happy to see one less “I don’t like it so no one should have it” opinion in game. I’ll even wave as you go!

saalle.4623:

Not this again….cat ears does not fit GW2.Cat ears fits immersion dead games such as Perfect World games.No pls

And what, rabbit ears are considered lore appropriate? Give me a break.

+1 for cat ears. I’d go for it.

Wait, you didn’t get bugged out on the ship?

When the ship got to the giants they sat there, the ship didn’t move and no mobs spawned. I waited 7 minutes then submitted a bug report.

The challenge was not getting mad that I’d wasted time on it for nothing.

Kite.2510:

They just sit there!

For now!

Waiting til the elite specs are released.

Chobiko.9182:

I didn’t realize the hero points come with the level up rewards and not automatically upon level up.

I think this is what a lot of people were expecting. It wasn’t clear enough in regards to getting them all by leveling.

Terrahero.9358:

Hero points got automatically allocated according to what skills/traitlines you had equiped when the patch hit.

-If you had Traitline X than you got all traits from Trailine X unlocked.
-The type of Utility/elite you had equiped had you unlock upto the point where you get those.

“I had exactly 0 traits activated on most of my non 80’s (and yes, like I said in the OP I checked them ALL). They all get the exact same skill and trait unlocks regardless of what I had on my bar or equipped in my traits.”

All of my non-80 characters got the same unlocks despite having different skills and no traits active.

Scientia.8924:

I appreciate the suggestions, although depending on people to ‘do the right thing’ and take it elsewhere is wishful at most.

If Anet (or Gaile speaking on behalf of the company) truly wants to promote open discussion on this website, that’s fine but give it its own space.

Better that players flame each other here than in the actual game. That just splits the community even worse.

I was unaware that Gaile made a comment about open discussion.

In that case if people really do want to discuss it I’d definitely push for a sub-forum for miscellaneous topics. I come to the forums to read about the game, not to see arguments and flaming about sexual orientation.

If I wanted to see that flaming I’d go to youtube.

Not only is it obscured, but it’s not on the screen long enough to see half the time either.

+1 to a redo to numbers – both damage incoming and outgoing, as well as heals incoming and outgoing.

Rahkylus.8097:

In other words, atm, i cant even make up for THEIR mistakes, not to mention i shouldnt have to

It was a complete mistake to auto-assign them at all, no matter what they put them into.

Hell I wouldn’t even be against my 80’s getting refunded as well because at least I can buy everything back real easy on them.

You want Elins, go to Tera.

No thanks.

I agree with taking it elsewhere. I don’t think creating a sub-forum is the right way to go about it, nor do I think that it should continue in a game’s general forum.

Azel.4786:

My money is on legal reasons, probably they don’t have legal support / worried about specific legal aspects of the country that they know of or might be unware of that could affect them if they opened up to other regions.

The last time I asked about contest stuff I was told it had something to do with import tax or legalities regarding imports. I could be wrong, but I would think it has something to do with our laws

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

My non-level 80’s all had heto points left after the change. What I think happened is that you had a great mix of skills on your bar and traits activated so that the game had to unlock a great variety of lines to keep the same skills and traits.

I had exactly 0 traits activated on most of my non 80’s (and yes, like I said in the OP I checked them ALL). They all get the exact same skill and trait unlocks regardless of what I had on my bar or equipped in my traits.

I know a few people are upset about this and regardless of what happened it was wrong to have them automatically assigned. I am unhappy with the way it is and I still want a refund of HP’s on my non-80s.

The thing that really gets me is that if I want to play the way I want to play I have to play on an already-80-unlocked-everything character, which isn’t what I want to play!

The UI is a little confusing at first and the trait symbols are too small imo, but those are things I can deal with. Being locked into specialisations and having skills that I don’t want are things that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Request-Refund-Hero-Points-for-non-80-s/first#post5218234

add to the chorus there

As my signature would lead people to believe, I have a lot of non-80 alts (Out of my 40 perma characters only 11 are 80s, which is fine because I enjoy taking my time to level and figure out the playstyle I want for each character).

My frustration with this is that I can’t unlock anything on them. At all. I’m not kidding. I logged in on every character to get the SP > spirit shards and every non-80 didn’t have a single Hero Point to spare. Not a one. They were already thrown into traits and skills that I didn’t want.

For instance the biggest thing for me pre-80 is getting that 25% signet boost on the 4 professions that do have it (necro, ele, thief, ranger), and getting the other professions their respective speed boosts (warrior 25% with a melee wep, engy swifty with a kit, guard shouts and mesmer swifty signet). I am completely unable to do this because Anet has decided to throw points into things that I don’t want and – most likely – will not use until I hit max level.

The other thing I like to do is get the portal for mesmers. With the new LA I have even more want to do this for Troll’s Revenge. But lo and behold on the non-80 mesmers that I had portal unlocked on, it was gone.

I know others have had the same grievances, so I’m putting this thread out there in the hopes that Anet will see it and realise they shouldn’t pick and choose for us. We’re gamers. We will figure it out. We don’t need to be hand held through everything.

nyctalopia.4735:

Soon, our post-80 exp will go towards unlocking masteries.

This.

Though it does kind of irk me when my character does that disco move, get the knockback, pretty lights and all, when really I’ve not gained a thing.

Feels like a celebration of nothing.

nathanjameson.3542:

too many white wings in game, personally. glad a lot of people missed out, as selfish as that sounds

Give it a week and they’ll disappear like the white ones did. They’re only saturating your screen right now because OMG WHITE WINGS IT’S NEW AND SHINY AND I’VE WANTED THIS FOREVER ONLY ONE DAY SALE OMG I NEED IT RIGHT NOW.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Fully agreed. A green icon, or even the same old blue would be highly welcomed. This new icon bends a lot with terrain map.

Green – no. Any shade of green could easily be missed.

I vote for that old blue they used with the new symbol.

Please fire whoever thought of using brown. Absolute genius move -.-

Last I heard they were gonna change the look of the precursors. I’d keep an eye out around that time for updates to legendaries then.

Transformers are retired now, eh?