Guild Wars 2

I don’t know either, but the tweet suggests more the truly free. And as we already know arenanet, they will probably do it. Free player can enjoy WvW, PvP and a giantic core game. It is enough for a lot of people and it will probably earn Anet some money from buying Gems. But the implications which it will have on the game are too big.. it’s not worth it.

Please, really don’t :‘( . It will ruin the game, you will see. If you want, make trial versions. But a true F2P will attract only:
1. little children who will be ruining the experience for others
2. people who will never buy expansions anyway
3. BOTS, BOTS, BOTS…. lots of bots :’(
4. a lot of trafic, full megaservers, a lot of lagging, skill lagging/stucking
5. and with bots comes ruined economy

It will be horrible. You already have a lot of problems with fixing old and new bugs, and by this you will complicate this your situation even more.

Dear Mr. O’Brien, really don’t do this. This game is just fine even without it. You don’t have to lower yourself (as a company) to UNsuccessful MMOs that recently joined the market.

If core game is truly free I will be ANGRY! we don’t need more bots

It is not Win10. Trust me… Win 7 is the same.. it is a problem at Anet’s end. They decided for a new way of having dialogues in HoT, and some patch ruined it for the original game.

Dear ArenaNet, this is really too much. First, you destroy personal story audio. And now you destroy combat audio too?? You pushed some “bug fix” patch and pushed even more bugs in. What about taking a break, taking a deep breath, stopping to push that HoT release when it is obviously not ready, and FIRST FIXING THE GAME?

This is seriously embarrassing for me. My girlfriend started playing HoT, and since she started she gets her leveling experienced ruined by bugs. And I am like: “Oh, yeah.. It used to work like this and that, and don’t worry, they will fix it soon for sure [no, it’s a lie, it will be like this forerver].”

Really, stop doing your announcements about the future, and fix the present. Without this, there is no journey ahead for you.

HOWGH!

When is the fix coming? My girlfriend is going to play Season 2 and I don’t want the story to be ruined for her as it was with original personal story.

put limit on number of shown characters. Welcome to GW2. Even NASA cannot run this game smoothly.

Warriors are extremely boring. After 3 years I still didn’t level mine to level 80…. boring boring boring.. even in PVP

I remember how I once got 2000 gems for 7 gold right at the launch years ago xD. Now, I always buy them because it is cheaper to earn real cash than to farm

I noticed they removed the mini-chess. It is not like it was too much fun to play, but WHY did they remove it? If it was bugged, you are supposed to fix it, not to remove it. – Btw, when will you reactivate HOM vendor? Thank you.

agree. do this please and I will buy it

Haha, OP, you are perfect I love your “cool kid” theory. It certainly seems like it. What zerkers don’t understand is, that there are many types of players. I will try to make a list:
A) the ones who are trying to do the hard content
– 1. the full zerker elite player
– 2. the full zerker noobs who thing they are the best because they own zerker, even though they lack skill/meta knowledge
– 3. any other spec who is doing elite content their own way – clerics, soldiers, conditioners
B) people who lack the time to farm overpriced zerk, especially runes, sigils and infusions, thus playing with different, less efficient stat combo, even though they would not necessarily die in zerker meta
C) The ones who lack the meta knowledge/gear, and thus doing elite content only rarely
– People with no clear build (they, for example, don’t even understand the concept of build. E.g. – my girlfriend…. my lovely elementalist is glad she can kill some enemies, do her story and immerse herself into that beautiful world [which is sometimes ruined by bugs like missing audio in personal story – can you fix this already, devs?])

This problem is very complex. It is not just the attitude of players. It is also the system of PVE gear itself. It is very very very time consuming for REGULAR players to acquire gold for the most expensive runes like scholar, or strenght. When I drop this rune, I rather sell it! Because it is so freakingly expensive that i can use that gold on something that I like much more.
I really don’t know how to fix this problem. Maybe I would create a chain of challenging quests which would unlock runes/sigils on the whole account. And everybody can then spec his or her toons according to his or her needs. Exactly like in PVP. But I understand that this is not what many players and devs would want.

Anyway, in the end it doesn’t really matter. I just ignore the elitists and run my lvl 49/50 fractals and dungeons with normal non elite people. We succeed almost everytime, and sometimes we fail. I think that is how it is supposed to be. High risk(of time loss), high reward.

… I will probably edit this post later and add some more thoughts xD

Btw!!! IT IS REALLY TRUE that noobs are looking up to zerk elitist as the gods of GW2 xD

Side note> I’m running full ascended/legendary soldier guardian with soldier runes and full condition removal build, and I love it. I play it for almost 2 years now and I don’t think I will ever change it. Why? Because when i play with REGULAR players, they usually need my support. Mai Trin is an excelent example.. People there are usually clueless of what to do, but with my condi removals and guidance, they understand they can’t run away too far and that they have to keep her in lightning AOE until her buff stack is gone. I love the idea that my guardian is really GUARDING them. That is why I love the new meta PVP bunker guardian… finally a guardian who is doing his true job.

But I think it is very sad that meta PVP has only one build which can stand against other builds. And currently metabattle excludes warriors and rangers from meta pvp. That is a big problem, IMO. There is only 8 (9) professions, and somehow it is hard to balance the game so you can play they way you want and be good. It sounded very good in manifesto, but the game failed to deliver this.

Illconceived Was Na.9781 – Thank you for your input. You put it right. That’s why I titled my topic ‘rant’. They do it, because they can, and they actually have to. I don’t like it, it makes me feel uneasy about my purchases, but I can’t do anything about it.

Coulter.2315:

Why don’t you just buy stuff you like? Just because soemthing might never come back doesn’t matter if you don’t want it in the first place.

I never will buy many items from the gemstore, I just get the stuff I like and do it when its available.

Not everybody can afford to buy some stuff he or she fancies the moment they put it in… sometimes it even takes several MONTHS until a person finds extra money for something so needless as “virtual goods”. You are a very lucky person that you can throw money onto your display anytime you like something. Congratulations.

One-day sales that are unannounced, like the wings, is another matter. I don’t want to go into it. It’s not like I would get some fair treatment by white knights in such discussion.

Malediktus.9250:

It pays, but abusing the weaknesses of human minds (free will does not exist) is hardly an honest business modell.

Thank you for seeing my point

You are so clever. Thank you. WTB account!

Thank you, man! /fixed /solved

Kiranell Mordagnir.7852:

I, for one, would be extremely happy to see the unobtainable armors come back. No one has yet mentioned how disheartening it can be for a new player to look at the list of armor that he or she cannot get simply because they did not start playing the game when it came out. I know that for me, the drive to get them stems from an urge for completion on my part; I hate it when I have just a few of something missing. So yes, I’d like to be able to get those armors. I’d definitely be willing to put in the work for them. I might not ever wear them, and I might in fact hate the look of them, but my little heart goes pitter-pat every time I unlock something. And I’d spend more time playing and be more likely to buy things in-game if I knew I would be able to unlock every single skin, if only I worked hard enough.

It’s not about whether a game is good or bad or successful or not. It’s about whether the games and the devs are fair to their players, and I think that fairness should start with giving all players the ability to get the same things. They’ve done that with the gemstore, because you can farm up the gold and exchange them for the gems to buy something if you really want it and can’t afford to spend real-world monies on it. I’d like to see them do it with things like this, too. By all means, make us work for them. But at least give us the chance.

this

Don’t worry about Anet. They earned my money – 2x …edit> ULTIMATE edition HoT.
Noktus: when i was talking about a few pixels I meant SKINS. The game is not just pixels, it is a complex program. And P.s. You forgot you actually get your eyes bleed out by mindlessly hoarding gold through farming 8 hours a day. I am not a kid to afford that.

I actually didn’t use gold for buying gems, ever.

I bought the gems, I want to spend them, Anet already has my money, but I don’t like the shop. Do you get it boys?

SAB. We never forget

Why? Why do you remove some item from the gemstore just to put it back later? You are playing with our mentality. You think it will make people buy it just because “oh my God, what if it is gone forever after this sale?”

Well, I think it would be much more cool for both old and new players to have all created items available ALWAYS, so we can truly CUSTOMIZE our characters whenever we want.

And why did you stop doing discounts on bank/inventory tabs?? I have a very strong feeling you will eventually put it back the second you take away the Account Jump Start bundle, so all the people who bought this bundle mainly for the sake of bank inventory, will feel like hitting their heads on against the wall.

I have lots of gems sitting on my account but somehow your selling strategy makes me feel like holding onto them as I feel like I would regret my purchase the moment you reveal some new item available.

You are selling pieces of pixels for a lots of real money and you don’t even let your customers to feel like they can trust you, that you don’t want to just rip us off.

Howgh!

I cannot preview any things in the gemstore… instead of one column of items and a preview display, i have two columns of items and i just cannot preview anything.

Because GW2 actually connects me with my love who is currently living 500 miles away from me.

I was playing 1st episode of the Season 2 story and when the episode finished I took the portal and it teleported me to Silverwastes instead of Dry Top…. wou

So this is the reason why the events always fail and people jump from map to map…. well, you all obviously just exploit the reward system, don’t care about the event objectives, get your dirty money and go to another map. bleh…enjoy i guess

personal story dialogue audio in general does not play for the first and last person to speak.

Please fix this already, my girlfriend has ruined experience playing the PS

edit: it happens even in the middle of the conversation! example: Temple of the forgotten god – personal story step, the last dialogue after the final fight

Edit 2:
PS: What the Eye Beholds: Professor Gorr – NO AUDIO! even during gameplay

Edit 3:

Personal story: Estate of Decay: Snarl Backdraft – missing audio during gameplay, + missing audio in dialogue.
the same step: Lord Kitah – missing last audio in his first meeting (“A toast to you honored guests…”)
his second speech – last audio missing (“Hekja, my dear..”)
Kitah’s last cutscene – missing
Galina Edgecrusher: “Move aside, then. …” – missing

Thank you very much Wolfric. I will definitely go for your suggestion. Ascended jewelry is not a problem. I will buy ascended amulet, put 10 AR into it and do a few fractals/fractal dailies for rings. and in 1 month she will also have both ascended earrings. Armor and weapon will be exotic for now..

As a guardian, I get always facerolled when Ele starts fight with me alone QQ

Hi guys,
my girlfriend who is very new in gaming in general loves GW2 and she just hit level 80 on her elementalist. As I never played elementalist before, I would like to ask you what would you suggest her to do with her build. She cannot have metabuild because that is too squishy, and even more squishy in HoT. She is yet too slow to react to enemy’s attacks and use the correct skills (even more because she is currently playing on very old laptop and a new one is far away to even think about buying it), so I want to build her something that can withstand a few hits from mobs in PVE (she doesn’t care about dungeons). What would you please suggest? – what stats on armor/weapon/jewels … what runes?

And please, don’t suggest me full-zerker so she learns to play the hard way. That is not an option.

Thank you

Biohazard.7523:

Yea I would like to see fixes for the buffs too!
Did they said something about the fixes in expansion ?

your pics are seriously funny I agree that they should put more lines for buffs, but is it really necessary for your elementalist friend to have that halo above her head, and Elen Kiel badge? And there is more…. I never had more than 11 buffs in my second buff line.

Sorry, I already posted my ticket and did not include my location. I thought that you can see my IP there and from it you can exactly see my country (Slovakia) and also my provider (Orange fibernet…the best provider in the country, my normal ping average is 50).

Anyway, the game works for me now. It was my girlfriend who started having problems yesterday – 2x disconnect, 1 large skill lag, and she told me she started having freezing screen issue (but somehow I think it is more connected to her old laptop). And she lives in Croatia. Is this a good webpage for gathering traceroute? – http://ping.eu/traceroute/

My girlfriend – Nikolina.3861 started to have problems now! At first skill lag and then disconnects.

I think December 12

Can someone post a link where to send the ticket? i cant find it in support

Fix iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit :’((( QQQQQQQQQQQQQ

edit: even if i successfully log out of LA, i get stuck in loading screen even though I am already spawned on another map and hear the sounds.

DC at fractals, can you please fix this already? don’t patch the game before the weekend at home!!!!

Please, don’t break the game because of HoT try your buggy builds internally. Thank you in advance for fixing the DCs and stuck loading screens.

OK, thank you for the answer I would also love to be able to use Mistfire wolf with any profession

We revenants be able to swap their utilities/elite and have racial/mistfire wolf skills on the action bar?
If not, not cool! :P

No swiftness of revenant is really a big deal for me. But concerning the dragonhunter, I was really satisfied, even with all the traps. It’s not like you cannot start charging traps, come on a melee range to the enemy and pop them out instantly…. I think it works well.

I was also very confused why I could not do those adventures. They should NOT be attached to storyline. I only managed to try flamethrower thingy and it is NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to get gold… i know adventures should be competitive and difficult, but this is kind of too much. Especially because flamethrower doesn’t work as it should.

So, I played beta for 2 days and that Verdant Brink map is kind of weird. I see events, that we cannot complete (picking wurms and putting them to bakets in frog village) and when there is the meta event, the one with that Sylvari guys traveling to the ancient temple, he always gets stuck the moment he gets into the temple (+ the event about destroying the ruins that block the gate to the temple takes ages to complete). And were is that awesome wyvern fight? I was really looking forward to it. I waited and waited, explored and explored and found nothing…. I even asked several times in map chat and nobody knew… QQ

The problem with blade shards is that you need hoards of it to craft the backpiece. They should really address them. The same as with the cores for shiny ascended version of the backpiece.

I have a feeling that there will be a long time waiting for waiting this content. Maybe after all the dragons are slain when they will be revisiting the orginal Tyria maps. But hopefully sooner.

Hey, does anybody have any info about refunds that are supposed to be given to HoT owners who bought the basic game during the final sale? They said there will be more info in the coming weeks. So far I don’t see anything.

oh kitten :-/
/15chars

HoT maps will be equal to 27% of the whole Tyria map. 1/4 of the world. It will NOT be small.

Isn’t Diablo that 6-hour-long game? See you later when you cool off. Things like these happen in open-world. I also lost a lot of time doing Silwerwastes and not geting Winewrath final chest, but you know… I QQed a bit, and then I came back

Heh, okay then. Should I delete the topic?

What? I created my characters years ago so I don’t remember. But how does it work with the final boss? If somebody misses it, he or she has to wait for it? That sound silly.

I think this is a bad idea! How can tutorial be for multiple players? It works as a personal story. There are steps the character has to activate by moving to them/killing enemies. How do you think this will work when there will be more people on the same map? It does not make sense at all.

As it is stated in the Community Address blogpost, you have to prepurchase by July 31st the latest. – Through buy.guildwars2.com or in-game. The refund for core game will be automatically sent back on your account when ArenaNet sets up the process, so you should not contact support about it.