It matters a great deal. I personally think the transfer costs in this game are a complete joke. kitten you can farm it in silverwastes in like 4-6 hours if you’re lucky, 6-8 hours if unlucky or have ultra low MF. With this kinda time investment you can go server hopping once a week with ease even if you are a casual player.
So you make 330 gold in one day by doing Silverwastes? Anet should look into that (and no, I don’t believe you, unless you’re very lucky and find precursers non stop).
This in itself is wrong and GREATLY contributed to server stacking, guild buying etc. No one should be able to buy guilds, ever for any reason, period. Each and every individual player should be responsible and have a pause at the word “transfer” which is not the case currently.
Guilds have been bought before – I know of a guild which wasn’t only bought but is also paid for filling the off hours. So even if that happens the new system hasn’t changed anything regarding buying guilds.Personally I think it’s too early to say what this system did/does but I’m glad anet acknowledged that there is a population issue and tried to tackle it. By changing the status of low populated servers from “very high” to “high” they increase their chance to get new players. Not because of the status butbecause of the costs. Right now a lot of people may panic and still opt for higher tier servers “because they could be closed a week from now” but who knows. At least it’s a start.
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Yes. I make around 300-350ish per 4-6 hours average in silverwastes, and no, I am not the only one, in fact I was just talking to people about it on teamspeak last night when we were doing some WvW, and not only I am not the only one, but there are people that make a lot more then me as well. And no, it is perfectly legit, not a single exploit cheat etc. just straight up legit gameplay. Not necessarily in one day, but rather hours / maps total. Usually I stretch it over few days due to the monotonny of it and DR kicking in anyways, but if I push it I can indeed do so in 1 day as can many players, most just do not realize it, they do not take advantage of all the ingame available systems. If you’d like detailed step by step instructions, please let me know, I will PM you as it is a very off-topic discussion.
And I do stick to my point, which is that server hopping, especially to servers which are now labeled as “full” was / is just too cheap due to ingame available options and has contributed to the current situation on fairly large scale.
Bullshyt. Few have the time that I have to play the game ( I’m disabled) and I have never seen a payday like that in the silverwaste. You might be crafting ascended mats to make a nice profit but its gated and you would have to have more than one account to be able to pull that kind of gold down in a day unless you got an exceptional drop, which is few and far between in this stingy game.
I don’t personally make anywhere near that much gold since I rarely spend time in SW, but I know roughly what he’s probably doing because I have friends who do it too. They make around 50ish gold per hour spent farming in SW.
In games, as in real life, success doesn’t come from working hard, it comes from working smart.
Yes I agree completely with your statement Dawdler, but these days even facerolling on the keyboard is enough to make a more skilled player lose in 1v2
I’ve won 1v3 against players that were collectively worse than me.
I’ve also lost 2v1 and 3v1 against a single player that was better than my group is collectively.
Outnumbering your enemy is not an automatic win. You only feel that way because you were on the losing side.
We’ll be seeing a clusterkitten of purple stars in mini-map.
Doubt it because it requires the mastery track to be active, and most people aren’t going to be running a mastery track designed towards helping other players, they’re going to want the selfish ones.
I’m fairly sure that speed buff in cities and auto loot are things that a lot of people will want.
U can see Fa blob which always get rekt by yb, only 1 pushing
FA has a blob during SEA? That’s FA’s weakest timezone. How can it have a blob? SEA guilds on FA are small, like around 10 ppl each, and don’t always rally and hate tagging up.
I did see 20+ YB run away from a single Dx member not too long ago. And a while back 30+ YB ran away from Alphabets solo push.
So I guess anything more than an NPC counts as a blob.
All I gotta say about the people discussing YB/SOS/FA and the transfers… You got what you deserved, FA (: Glad you’re suffering now because I’ll never forget when IoJ was against you and you all spawn camped us every day for the entire week, fortified everything we had and when I tried to solo hold a camp (which I managed to do for 4 hours thanks to your roamers who can’t accomplish anything without a zerg) you eventually pulled the champion to wipe the NPC’s, capped the camp, then sat there upgrading it for the rest of the day so I couldn’t take it back. Literally the worst server I have ever faced. And when I was on YB it wasn’t any different. Roamers that can’t do squat without a group of 5 – 10 and would chase you ten miles if you managed to escape their initial dogpile. Feels really good to see FA finally getting the daylights punched out of them and I hope it continues until they completely deflate.
I was on IoJ when we were put through the grinder of 4 T2 servers. Every single one of them did that, that wasn’t specific to FA.
fairly sure there is a block limit or at least there was. I blocked so many gold sellers at one point I couldn’t block anymore. Then I cleared the older ones from my block list since I assumed those accounts are now banned.
asc gear can drop pretty much anywhere. I’ve already gotten several pieces in WvW
got 1 piece in 2600 ranks, can confirm ascended definitely drops in WvW once in several years
Got 4 in roughly 1200 ranks. Got 3 from sPvP, currently Tiger rank. And got none from PvE so far. Also crafted a full heavy set.
I’m not saying it drops often, only that RNG is just that RNG. Crafting is the most reliable way of getting asc, just like crafting is the most reliable way of getting exotics.
I guess that if they dont send any survey to all beta testers is because they dont want that specific feedback.
Or it may be a mistake (emails not sending properly)
I think it is stupid either way, and shows lack of control by the company or lack of care from the company towards its players.
But you know… their game, their rules.
It is not the first “error” they make, and im sure will not be the last one.
it’s already been mentioned before that emails are sent out in batches. This is a perfectly normal and acceptable way of doing things. I don’t know what Anet’s code for sending emails is like, but I assume that if a batch fails they’d probably have to restart the whole batch. It would be a bad idea to have a single batch send an email to say 30k people then maybe due to an internet outage, it fails while sending the 15001th email and now they have to redo the whole batch and spam 15k people with double the email. If the batch was smaller and is say 500 people, then at worse they have to spam 500 people, not 15k.
umm in GW1 lets say you’re on a necro who doesn’t normally use bows and you have ranger who does use bows as your secondary profession, then you switch ranger out for ritualist, all of a sudden your bow is useless since you have no bow skills.
The GW2 way of “swapping your secondary profession” is by swapping out your elite trait line. It’s basically the same thing.
You cannot use bow skills on a GW1 necro unless you have ranger as your secondary profession. You cannot use tempest skills/weapons on a GW2 ele unless you have tempest as your elite spec trait line.
Why would you need one for pve…? If you d/c during a dungeon/fractal you can just log back in and come back. If you d/c while in the open world, then the same thing.
I don’t do Fractals, i hate the toxicity in the community that plays that content, simply because i roll a ranger and those are speed runs mostly that kick out any player that don’t fit the meta.
That is false: avoid zerk meta group & make your own LFG. problem solved.
If people still kick you: I would simply think that it’s your fault for playing badly.
exactly, all these people complaining about being kicked out of dungeon/fractal groups need to realise that they can start their own group that isn’t as elitist. Problem solved.
why not just track it? When you click your daily chest, it opens the panel up and you can track the ones you care about. Or if you have absolutely nothing tracked, they show up by default anyway in the top right corner.
You are seriously exaggerating if you really think that every single player that does WvW would all go to 1 single server…
not 100% obviously, but enough will do it that things will be ridiculous unbalanced. Have you seen the current T2 matchup and the result of people bandwagoning to YB? Or any of the previous bandwagons from matchups gone by? I mean back when free server transfers was a thing I remember IoJ owning every single objective on every single map in the matchup and everything was fully upgraded. It was boring for all involved.
Reaper, DragonHunter, Shiro. Reaper would be top priority.
Chronomancer I’m interested in, but I’m a pretty bad mesmer so I may just wait until other people come up with builds that are relatively easy to play then just copy those.
“Tickets can be mailed/given to others, or sold on the marketplace.”
Um, no? If your idea is to get people off a full server, this doesn’t fit. This is basically saying, if you’re on a full server you get a chance to get some free gold.
I agree, Tome of Knowledge should suffice. I imagine a new player would want to level a character from the beginning, to get the whole story. Apart from that, leveling in Guild Wars, really doesn’t have to take as long as in, for example, World of Warcraft.
I started a mesmer about two weeks ago, and was able to level her up instantaneously to level 20, with the birthday gift (can’t recall the name of it). With only playing less than two hours a day, I’m now level 50, and can get her to 80 when she hits level 65 with tomes of knowledge.
and during all that time spent playing alone in content that your friends and family have already completed, they will have completed alot of expansion content without you – the point of a character boost is so friends and family can play together in content that none have done yet, and I think it would attract alot of new players to the game.
If you’re not willing to go to a lower level area to play with your friend/help them out then you are not their friend. Especially considering in GW2 you still get decent rewards playing in lower level areas
so from what I understand we will be getting new legendary weaps in HoT which will be account bound.
now, will we still be able to get (from drops) pres for old legendary weaps tho?
Like, I really wanna get The Bifrost but Im only like half through farming gold for The Legend…
I need to know if I can still take it easy on gold farming or need to start spending 20h a day in SW
thanks
they may actually become easier to get via precursor crafting, but i dont know which precursors will or will not be craftable. is it only the new ones or the old ones as well ?
also, if the old precursors become craftable in addition to the current system, they will become much less expensive and will devalue a lot, as well as the legendaries they are used to produce. keep that in mind, there may be a point when you can buy the bifrost for less then it currently costs to get the legend and then you’ll be QQing.
Precursors for both the current set and the new set will be “craftable” I believe through the mastery or the collection system. These will be account bound and my understanding is that legendaries both old and new created using these precursors are also account bound on acquire.
Precursors for the current set of legendaries are still obtainable through regular drops, mystic forge etc. These precursors can still be sold on the TP and legendaries created using them can still be sold on the TP.
So once HoT hits, the price of the current precursors/legendaries may drop due to a potential decrease in demand, but it won’t be dropping due to an increase in supply. And you also have to take into account that the new precursor crafting limits it to one copy of each per account. There are people out there who want multiple of the same legendary and they will still be buying precursors and legendaries from the TP
I’m pretty sure the intent of camps was never, NEVER for the purposes of being solo-able. That is why they added in the Sentry guys between points, which are entirely solo-able. The camps are intended to be taken by small groups of a handful of players or large groups. But again, they’re not really intended for solo players. That has more to do with Ascended gear creep (yes, it did creep a bit in comparison between 2012 and present) and creative play adjustment by players. But that is to change with the new WvW, which is a great thing.
I can solo camps with only exotic gear easily. In fact with certain builds on certain professions I can solo camps with exotic armor and random, non level 80 trinkets.
I wasn’t in the stress test, but imo for the shrines if it works the way you say it does, I think they should keep it. Reason being this opens up a lot of very nice possibilities for a small group to defend against a larger group.
Suppose the enemy has a 40 man zerg that has capped all 3 shrines and now has “no fall damage” on. Meanwhile your side only has 10 people so you can’t fight them head on, what you can do as 10 people is send 2 to each shrine ready to attack/cap them. Meanwhile the other 4 people act as bait and try to get the zerg to jump off a cliff. With proper communication you can wipe the enemy’s entire zerg through smart play.
As far as chokepoints go, it’s going to be really painful to attack definitely, but as far as warfare goes it actually makes sense to design your keep with many chokepoints. I’m fine either way really, more open spaces would be nice, but chokepoints also makes sense.
It’s also probably the only choice for any off-hour players. The T2 NA is as screwed as it can be but the off-hour coverage is still way better than below.
This is the wrong way to think about it. This is why NA is in such a bad place. Because all the people from a timezone go to the same server.
SoS should be the last server of choice for an “off hours” – still OCX I assume – person. They should transfer to SoS’s opponents so that they have someone to fight against.
Exactly. SoS is weak during NA, so NA players need to go there. SoS dominates during OCX, transferring more OCX there will just make things boring for yourselves.
if you play during NA and you want competitive, then SoS is actually the right choice. they are weak during NA and dominant during OCX at the moment. So if you go there you will help bolster their NA and help balance things out. Going to a server that is already dominant during your playtime is boring.
As someone that has maxed out all crafting profession, I’ve always been a bit frustrated that I can’t sell my Ascended gear on the Trading Post and make some money back that it cost me to get them all up to lvl 500 in the first place.
Plus many of my guild mates are newer to the game and with the current cost of mats I would like very much to be able to help them out and craft there gear for them.
It really has never made sense to me that Ascended gear was account bound on aquire/creation. The argument that it cost karma/laurels, etc. to make them is valid but if we can sell legendaries on the TP that aren’t used by a character, then why doesn’t that same logic carry over to Ascended gear. As long as the gear isn’t equipped let it be sold.
As people have said before they would be willing to spend money on buying it, so why not give those of us that want to make it for them, the ability to help them out.
Seems like a win-win for everyone. ANet gets a gold sink from every trading post sale, the sellers make back some or all of what they spent on leveling up there crafting and the buyers get what they want without the annoyance of doing the crafting they hate.
I believe the new legendaries are actually account bound on acquire. So they are definitely moving away from “buy everything from the TP”
I have a buddy who just decided to try and get back into gw2 but he wanted to play with me. We plan to mainly do wvw together, the problem is you guys Just made your recent changes to the server population readings. I’m on Yak’s bend and he’s on Eredon Terace (that’s where we used to play together). Since the last time I played with him I have transferred up to Yak’s Bend with my guild and close friends so Transfering all the people back is not really an option. He greatly wants to get back into the game but is not interested unless he can play with me and our other good friends. What are some of our options? Any suggestions on possible ways to transfer him in?
Why was this done without warning ie why didn’t you give us say a days warning? There will undoubtedly be players who were about to move but just hadn’t done it yet who are now seemingly left out in the cold as it were.
original post was 4 days ago, so they did give you more than a day’s warning
I had been playing GW2 for some time now mostly PVE. The community is usually nice and friendly, atleast for the times when I have been on.
Recently I decided that I would want to start playing some PVP here. So i decided to go WvW. I was capping this point called carver’s accent (looked it up and it is one of those Ruins of Power in the middle of the map)… Anyways I was with 2 other people and after we captured the point one of them took off. I was with this other guy that told me to get off the cap and said that he ‘needed the cap’. Some people came and killed us and the guy i was with called me all sorts of stuff… but anyways
can anyone kindly tell me why this is so? would it matter to have 1 or more players on the cap?
basically he told you to get off, so that the ruin would decap by itself(since nobody is on) then he will recap it for his own daily. But he doesn’t seem to realise that it’s probably faster for him to just run to another ruin and cap that.
Also multiple people can do the “master of ruins” daily achievement at the same time, so not sure why that person didn’t just get on the ruins at the same time as you. Unless he/she is a player from the opposing server?
hmm, burn guardians are actually fairly easy to kill, I know because I’ve been playing one for a couple weeks now. My situation is really no different from before, good players still kill me easily and I still kill bad players easily. A couple tips:
1. Don’t hit a burn guardian when he/she is clearly blocking
2. If the guardian drops purging flames, don’t fight near/on it
3. Use your condi clear wisely, don’t waste it on a single burn stack
4. Stop letting my auto attacks hit you.
The only two skills that will be hard to dodge are Flashing Blades and Judge’s Intervention. But JI has a long cooldown and can’t be spammed and FB is fairly short range at 600 so you can disengage.
I’m sick of having to loot at all, the game really should just make it a feature to truly auto loot bags. It’s a tedium that’s not needed, I’d rather just enjoy the game and the battles.
I dunno man, I’m personally sick of having to kill people. I’d rather they all just die as I run near them, then all the blues and greens they drop are automatically salvaged and go into my storage,
On a more serious note, seeing loot bags next to my dead body as my group slowly but surely wipes is one of the things that motivates me to get better.
As for looting during combat, as others have said, I have a key for that that I press everytime I see exp show up on my screen. That takes care of everything. And realistically, you’re not keeping track of 20 buttons during zerg combat where loot bags are more likely to get lost. You’re probably keeping track of a couple of useful weapon skills and your utilities and dodge bar, all the while spamming your AA skill.
because some people don’t realise that you can buy stuff with badges and still buy siege with gold from the merchant. Also a lot of people are buying golems en masse from the TP hence the price going up. TP takes I think a 5%? 15%? cut of all buy orders.
I personally think warhorn would be good, mainly because at the moment it is really hard to get a warhorn kill for the weapon master set of achievements, just like it’s hard to get a focus kill or a torch kill. I’m hoping the ele warhorn will be an offensive weapon instead of the support type weapon that warhorns are usually used for.
they have mentioned before that you can only use one elite spec at a time which implies that they are planning for multiples. When/how these will be added is subject to speculation.
