Guild Wars 2

Chilling is completely random. Sometimes it will chill sometimes it is as if it has no sigil whatsoever.

This has nothing to do with its extremely long (IMHO) cool down, it just does not work anymore. I can have my swap weapon put away for an hour and switch and….nothing.

Hour long or more cool down? I don’t think so. I call bug.

Well, and going to the laurel vendor could mean they might add spiffy stuff and we should check back! (yay I got back on a positive note!)

I actually did read it wrong and thought it said to spend 1 laurel. I made a post about the idiocy of that kind of thing, and then reread what it actually said and went: doh! and deleted my post.

I am like on eggshells I guess reading the forums makes me too jumpy…I need to spend more time in game and less time around negative nellies.

I like the Dodger. (I loved the combo too, but I knew how to use that)

But the dodge I had to learn. I never dodge. I am a mediocre player at best. I am more a ooo look shiny read all text talk to all people oh gee that is cool tra la la player.

But I did it. If I can, anyone can.

I honestly wanted to save it. I kept Gwen’s torn cape and her broken flute in my inventory for 7 years in GW1.

I actually do have the broken flute, torn red cape, stone summit badge, and the preserved red iris in my inventory in GW2 (yes, they all still exist here)

But I was curious as to what the reward was on consumption, so…I ate it. 5000 karma.

I have received one chest. It had a common dye in it. I have received dyes normally as well, on the corpses since the update. I think the chests may be RNG. Wish they would also have a sound like thud. Remember in GW1 the thrill of hearing the little dye drop noise?

Here is what I found so far. (In character.)

http://claypoolgazette.wordpress.com/

Due to recent events, Lord Mayor Johlin has commissioned a Newspaper to keep up with events around Tyria.

http://claypoolgazette.wordpress.com/

vespers.1759:

daily crafter is really annoying me. i don’t craft on any characters and i don’t enjoy spending money on the materials needed to craft.

i ended up making piles of salt and pepper and i disliked it immensely. everyone needs to kill enemies and dodge and all that, but not everyone crafts and not everyone wants to.

i would love to see crafting removed so i never have to do it again.

You can send me your salt and pepper. I will send you some soup.

Oh, and just FYI, in case people are not aware, The little orange bar above your health (I think it is endurance) that “fills” for you to dodge? You can actually click that with your mouse to dodge, you do not need to double tap any movement key, just mouse click and dodge away!

Healing (raising the dead) In one easy spawn: Triskell Quay, in Kessex Hills, near Overlake Haven waypoint. The fishermen here are always dying, it is part of the renown heart. You can raise 10 people in less than 5 minutes.

Veterans in one easy spawn: Clear Goff’s Bandit Cave, Gap Waypoint, Kessex Hills.

There is also a chest. And for me at least, I was thrilled that my drops from the chest were great last night.

Also, butter. (from the bags the bandits dropped)

I am excited. I am thrilled.

I feel like I am at the beginning of a wonderful and long tabletop campaign, only the images in my head are beautifully created by the folks at Arenanet.

Well done, guys.

I have played tabletop since my college days in 1978.

My mind is full of questions and I feel I am a part of the Lore of Tyria again.

Again I say…well done.

I am piping in again on day two to say:

I love the new dailies. I liked the combo one as well, and I like the dodging one too. For all the people who scream about things must be difficult to be challenging to cause this much fuss over learning a new skill, or learning to dodge, of being forced to do something, this thread is hilarious, to say the least.

You do not have to do the daily. You do not have to earn a laurel.

Again it is a laurel. An achievement. There are many that I will never do. As I stated before I never get the monthly because that “forces” me to do wvw or fractals. So, I don’t do it. I don’t get that reward.

shakes head I will never understand gamers. They will scream if their ice cream is too cold.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Korsbaek.9803:

and the people complaining about crafting achiement can i ask why you are not complaining about garthering achiement as if your not crafting you have no need to garther to

Gathering and crafting are two different things. Non-crafters often gather materials to sell as a source of income and it doesn’t involve leveling or taking up a craft. Raw materials are usually worth more than refined ones, so if they end up refining their materials before selling them, they’ll ultimately lose money, besides having to do something they don’t enjoy and hadn’t intended to do on the game originally.

I do not intend to do fractals. But it is part of the monthly. Has been for some time. I don’t do jumping, this month the monthly had find jumping puzzles. I don’t do pvp or wvw, but that has been a part of the monthly for some time.

I just do not get the monthly. So some people may not get ONE daily, if they really do not want to craft, then don’t, miss that daily. Like I have always missed the monthly. It is just not achievable for me. I keep hoping that some month down the line, a monthly WILL be doable. I have to wait a whole month for it to change, I don’t mind if there is one day where I may find it …just not my day.

Oh and dodging? I am a ranger, so I do not do this much. But I learned to do it, I doved my pet, and had a level 3 grawl ranger hit me and then figured out his pattern and got my dodge daily. Gee golly willikers, it was so tough. ( I do dodge a lot on my guardian and my elementalist, but I just wanted to SEE if my ranger could do it, since I never dodge as a ranger)

Crafting daily? I do this without fail, everyday. I refine things. I am hopeful that when they introduce guild halls, they will be built. With materials. Get crackin.

Combo Daily? I do this without fail, everyday. I find the combos fun, and require skill and thinking and not just brute force.

Reviving 10 people? I do this, without fail, everyday. If you are really worried about it, go to that village in Kessex where the Krait kill all the villagers. Or Nageling in Diessa, when the giant has appeared, the whole town dies off en masse.

Now lets talk about the MONTHLY which I never get. I don’t grind and I don’t farm, so I don’t do Fractals. I also do not do that much pvp or wvw. So for months I have not received the monthly—- just something on my list of unattainable things—— but many of the same people who are having conniption fits over refining some jute or some copper are the same people who find the monthly achievement “easy”. mmm hmm.

I see a lot of gritchy posts, and I am usually one of the ones on a tirade, but so far I have loved every change I have encountered on the new patch/update.

I enjoyed the new dailies, they were not hard to complete (although I did not get to finish them with each new bump) I actually did not have an issue with the Combo Finisher one (as I said in another post, I built my ranger around this skill) The only real problem with the daily was that so few people even knew about Combos, and I assume they just never bothered to read their skills, and to practice them. The “count” of the combo in the daily may have been a tad wonkified, but that was the only thing I noticed.

I love that you fixed the Swamp. This is such a wonderful epic battle, and for so many people who have never seen it, it is a treat! It also gives new people this real feel of the beauty of Guild Wars 2.

I love that you fixed a bunch of my past reported bugs! I feel like maybe all that typing in the little bug window was actually read and acted upon!

I love that you moved the exploited rich ori node.

I love the laurel stuff. I feel like I might actually have something I can DO that will reward me for me just playing the game and not WORKING the game, or gaming the system.

I love the way this update is being implemented. (slowly, and not BOOM omg omg its all befudgled!!!)

So, I feel the love, and I feel my love coming back.

Sigh. The one thing that made me feel “special” was the combo in the daily. I have always done combos. I liked them, I built my ranger around them. I finished this part of the daily with another ranger quickly and taught other people how to do it.

Also I have always particularly loved the combos with guardian/ranger, since they are so strong. (although granted, they are not “kill strikes” on the guardian)

I am ENJOYING the new dailies. If you make the combo even BETTER then I will be double happy.

Every time I see dwarven ruins I get nostalgic. I spent so much time down in Snakes and Lornar’s mapping.

I do not have them, I will never have them. I am not good at dungeons. Especially dungeons made of twinkied-up mobs that spawn at a rate of kittenroaches in a slum kitchen.

I have one character with exotics, several that will probably never get them. I have hit some kind of eternal plateau in my money making. (although I rarely spend money, I run instead of wp, put on whatever “found” armors I get, and run away run away to avoid armor repair costs. My money sits at the same amount it was a month ago.

So no, I do not believe I will be anything other than mediocre in Guild Wars 2.

[edit: I find it hilarious that the first part of a common pest is kittened out.]

As with every content patch/update, I am excited with anticipation.
Please don’t fail me Anet. I want to love Guild Wars 2, but my love is fading.
My list of things I will never do, I will never accomplish is growing long.
Please let this update give me something that I can do, that will make the game rewarding and not a dragging grinding work a day chore.

Or let the forum-goers be right, and I will believe I am “just not good enough” for this game, and take their oft repeated advice: Gee, you should quit.

I just killed 57 mobs without a single drop.

I have come to the conclusion that Arenanet does not wish me to play the game.

So I logged off.

I do not enjoy killing things for killing sake. It would be nice to get a drop now and again,

“Diminishing returns” means “diminishing gameplay” and also “diminishing players in the game” and “diminishing people you recommend the game to”.

Here Lies Sage Laurel
Her Material Storage was Full
And She died when a Stack fell on her.

Orr is boring. The mobs are all the same, there are entirely too many of them (I call it Spawn Diarrhea) and they drop …junk mostly, if they drop anything at all. Bones, bones and more bones. Best to just run on by. I have no desire to go down there, no desire to finish my story line, and actually getting to the point that more and more I am looking to see if there is another game coming down the pike that I would like to play.

Games should be fun. not annoying, or aggravating.

A “challenge” is not endless mindless spawns and killing for killing sake.

My pet pig is named “Breakfast”.

Personally, I would like to see a lot of breakfast recipes added. Bacon and Eggs, Pastries, Donuts.

And beverages. Lemonade, Tea, and of course….COFFEE.

Annoying people was one of the reasons I liked “no cost” waypoints and multiple instances that I could choose to go to in gw1. If someone was annoying me? I just poofed away.

I have never gotten an exotic drop, and I have played since Beta. I have gotten a rare drop perhaps once or twice.

I rarely get “greens”. Maybe once a week, almost always wayyyyyyyyyy below my current play level.

I get a lot of “junk” —-I am happy if I get a “bag” with something useful in it, an orange and I am ecstatic!

I think that I am that kid that gets a pound of hamburger for Christmas from their parents and is busy making hamburger sculpture.

I have never had a good drop rate since Beta. I do not grind, I do not farm and I usually have to kill between 20 to 50 things to get a “piece of junk” to sell to the merchant. I think they developers have my account marked for “Holy crud we hope she quits soon.”

I can only come to the conclusion that there are accounts they cannot ban, but wish they would go away.

I would have looked for Gwen’s garden! Very neat tho. Nice glitch. er feature.

First, respectfully, I found the art in Wintersday to be profoundly beautiful and well done. The dolls, the toys, the city decorations, the snow, the little icons, everything about the artwork was amazing.

I was a little sad that I did not get everything I wanted, but then that is the way it is at Christmas too, so why not at Wintersday. I am satisfied I came out of it with a few nice things, and that is fine with me.

I had to change my paradigm some from Guild Wars 1, where we hoarded up things we knew we would use the rest of the year, because there weren’t any to hoard.

The overpowered (for me) toys in the gifts around world made me eventually just run from them as evil things, and may have marred me for life on any big bowed covered object.

I also am coming to believe that perhaps games in general have outgrown me, as there is no longer even a modicum of “difficulty scaling” for those, like myself, who are not in it to be the biggest baddest booya around. I guess perhaps this is just the new normal for online gaming: Be Uber or Get out.

But thanks Anet for the pretty shinies. “You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes…you get what you need.” In this case? A big swift winter boot to the rear.

We all wondered who these gifts were addressed to….apparently they are to be opened by the manly, uber strong godlike “I got this” people who can solo them, and not the rest of us.

Well get crackin’ boys, there are a LOT of unopened presents around the world. No one touches them.

Yea, good luck with the perma-stun golems. I no longer open any presents.

One of my favorite things about Guild Wars is that there is something for everyone. Jumping Puzzles are not my thing. (I have crippled hands, and I cannot do them. Just not possible.) There are many things in real life that are like that as well. Know your limits, use your gifts.

For those who love the jumping puzzles, then keep them in, and do more of them! For those who do not: Know your limits and do other things.

The one thing I do wish there was MORE of in Guild Wars is puzzle-puzzles. Trivia, brain teasers, things you have to use logic and brain power or real strategy to accomplish. Then…I would rule Tyria.

“Better that ten guilty go free, than one innocent suffer.” — Lord William Blackstone

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.” —-John Adams

I would like to have bunny slippers.

And a robe, and a cup of coffee.

But mostly….bunny slippers.

Caedmon.6798:

thehipone.6812:

Sometimes you just have to pick the things that you really want off of your Christmas list (i.e. 2 of 5 minis). Sadly, it seems that there are plenty of spoiled folks who cannot live with this system. Kicking and screaming “I want everything” rarely makes Santa/Tixx want to bring more pressies.

Thats the problem with most people,they want Everything and they want it Now,and they want it for Free and if they dont,they start screaming and kicking.

I do not want everything now or free. I do, however, want something spiffy every now and then. By spiffy I mean I go “Wow!” when I get an unidentified dye. I am not, however, satisfied or even happy when I come close to dying in battle and get a “brittle bone”.

I cannot jump, so I have not gone in to even look at the jumping puzzles. Jumping puzzles are permanently on my: “Nalora sucks at this” list.

That list is pretty long.

Did the first day twice, just to see if it changed. It did not.
Did the second day once.

I do not grind or farm. I don’t find grinding fun. Games should be fun. That is why they are games, and not work.

I think that waypoints (all of them) should be free as a reward for 100 percent map completion. If you have 100 percent map completion you get your bus ticket.

I loved in GW1 that you could click on someone in party and see their camera. I miss it a lot.

Don’t touch it! Its evil!

The brand new and exciting way to grief other players. Spawn Dolls or Ventari and drag them to a player and poof.

Oh yea, fun times.

This happened to me twice today. sigh.

Ventari Toys above level 20 are just death and frustration. It makes me a bit uneasy as to what toy of death will be introduced today.

Dear Arenanet,

You have given me the best Wintersday gift you could give, and it is not even one you may have known you were giving me.

I believe in you again.

Wintersday is only 2 days old and it reminds me of those great Wintersday of Guild Wars 1, and yet has so much more. I am having a blast. I am keeping a list of things that have knocked my socks off and stuff I find just super spiffy. So far it is all running smooth for me, and I am pleased as punch.

I love the little “flying saucers” dropping magic snow. The effect is amazing looking.
I love that we can gift exchange and get what we want. I love the joke of the old socks, (even though for years I asked for socks for Christmas, and got them) sweaters and hats.
I love the look of the new Black Lion tool icons.
The first Toymaster Tixx dungeon was nifty and well balanced. Hard, but not so hard that I felt you were trying to torture me.
I love the tiny ventarri (though they can be brutal). And the extra stuff they drop.
I love the balance of quiet solo activities and group play.
I love the sound the little mini snowman makes.
The art of all the decorations is just amazing.

But thank you most for giving me back my belief that Guild Wars and Arenanet are some awesome game developers. I always say to people: Guild Wars is my game. It is the only one I really want to play. You have given my game back to me.

Thanks for the hard work!

Day One is tomorrow. Like really tomorrow…10 in the morning on the coast. On the 15th. (which is today, but not really) Get your footie jammies on and wait a bit longer.

I blew it every time, but knew I would due to my wonky hands. But I thought it was lovely, and a great addition. I left in shame before people could begin throwing tomatoes to get me off the stage.

Ah, thanks Val.

Now about that Barbie Dream House I asked for when I was 9…..

My grandmother always gave me underwear.

…and the underwear was always white and size XXL.

My sister’s were always XXS. (I think she loved her best)

….and they smelled like burned wood. I think she got them at fire sales.