Guild Wars 2

No, no, no. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshkO8HqQ10

Which AOEs in pve are too high/ strong and why are they considered to be that?
O.o

There will come the day where we all get enlightened! Seriously.
I am waiting, I am ready for it.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

We have the tech to turn off their loot without having to patch.

That’s interesting. Didn’t know that.

Maybe they include new profession related skins?

Another thought:
Maybe the gear is “free”, but what about the fine transmutation stone we’ll need, in case it is not just a skin or an exotic armor?

95% chance to receive porous bones. ^^

Did you take your 9 dyes from the TP into your inventory or is it still waiting for you to be collected?
Maybe if you did not collect it yet, you might have bought 9 from one person and these were delivered in one batch and you also bought the other 12 dyes from other persons and it could be that you don’t have enough space in the TP tab to show the remaining 12 until you collect the 9 dyes first.

Radio Isotope.3045:

Indeed Lok i thought i saw concept art for them with all the customization options.

Were you thinking on that one? http://www.kekaiart.com/uploads/5/4/7/6/5476798/4274396_orig.jpg

Anyone else experiencing that you are not allowed to stop reviving nearly regardless what you try to do?

It is a little bit game breaking and I want to have an official statement for that.
And why is it so much worse since around two weeks ago?

One scenario:
I am doing event chains with a lot of players. There are some people going down/ dead. I notice a safe moment, run to them, start reviving one.
Then there are some cases that I personally want give preference to, like:
a) an incoming AOE
b) some loot nearby
c) fighting foes who attack me
d) …

So in the last month I just cancelled it by dodging or moving me out, it was also a little bit tricky before to stop reviving, but it worked quite fine.
Now it doesn’t work anymore sometimes (in 90 % of cases), however I am not allowed to escape/ cancel reviving. Is there some magical super clue which sticks me to the person I tried to revive?
Why?

If you don’t know what’s causing it, please implement a function/ button (not F!!!) where you can stop all your actions immediately.

I really love reviving people, but not on these terms. (It is not enjoyable to: lose control over your character, not being allowed to play to my preferences, to die whilst reviving (!!) and then to pay for the destroyed armor, …)

Please pay attention to that really annoying, but important, issue.

I’ve experienced that too! It is so annyoing. :-(

And related to that statement:

Phuriocity.9218:

I never used to have a lot of problems with this, but in the past week or two, it’s gotten 100x worse.

It is so true! I never had this happen before (or never that much, so I didn’t notice it) and in the last few weeks it happened so often.
I really thought I had to test if my keyboard would not function properly anymore, but as you all mentioned it, there was definitely a change which resulted in a worse and annoying control functionality.

In my case I am representing my guild with all my characters.

You could ask Support what to do.
I think at least you are allowed to sell it from private via ebay or similar.

Why does it only effect guild chat?
I experienced that too that the guild chat was empty, but the map chat was not.

Did they change the guild chat display recently? I’ve never seen it disappearing before due to character changing. In my mind it was still there, like the map chat now.

Please report them there: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Request-Orr-Bugs-and-Exploits/first

Another thought which wasn’t mentioned/ discussed earlier. There was this big ban on botters in November or December, anyone knows when exactly that was? (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/mike-lewis-on-the-war-against-the-bots/)

Could it be that it is related to the bugged drop issue/ DR mechanism?
a) Say there are 300 people (200 players and 100 botters) on a map, so perhaps the higher the amount of people, the higher the chance on better loot (because there will be a bigger loot table in general if there are more people that want to loot?)? After they banned the botters, maybe there remained just some players, so it decreased the loot for them?
b) Maybe they just implemented a system (or “improved” DR) whith the result that a botter cannot get too much good loot in a specific whatever (time, zone, number of foes, ..), but even if it does have an effect on them, it also sometimes effects some legit players quite easily and prevents them to have decent loot due to a buggy or a too restrictive DR mechanism? How can we get rid of the boogeyman (= buggy DR mechanism, hunting us wherever we go)? Can we please have another statement how to reset DR to normal?
c) …

I do not have special insight how they handle the whole loot issue, but the last (official?) thing I’ve read was that the loot is indeed shared between the players..
Prior to this I thought everyone has his own loot table to grab from.
So with loot sharing, there also is the issue, that if you don’t tag the enemy first or don’t do enough damage, you won’t get loot or you receive loot with minor quality?? Is that right?

Any comments on this?

The problem is the lack of communication from Anet. Without official statements or explanations how some things work (like: “How do I get loot? How does the DR affects me?” and so on) it leads us to fantasize or hypothesise how things might work. The silence also results in a feeling that they don’t care for the legit player. (I am sure, they do care, but very often it just doesn’t seem so.)

Fyrebrand.4859:

My suggestion:

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Dear GW2 Player,

An error has recently come to our attention regarding the grievously disproportionate profitability of salvaging certain Wintersday items. This flaw allowed a loophole in which mass quantities of Globs of Ectoplasm could be accumulated at an inappropriately low cost. It is understandable that this may have seemed like an effective method to gain items and profit, or seemed “too good to be true.” In fact, this incident was the product of a temporary oversight by our development team, and was not functioning as intended.

In the interest of protecting the economy and maintaining a fair balance of materials for all in the GW2 community, we have had to regretfully roll back certain players who took extreme advantage of this brief window of opportunity. We will be restoring your gold and relevant materials back to their original levels before the incident took place.

ArenaNet is committed to providing a level playing field for all its players, and regrets the error. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, but please use your best judgment in future and resist the urge to offset the balance of fair play. We are immensely proud of our community, and are grateful for any players who bring matters like these to our attention. Don’t be afraid to speak up and help us make the game better for everyone!

Sincerely,
The GW2 Team
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I absolutely would have loved such a reaction from Anet.

I first heard it ingame that you would loot better in a group. They said there would be a (official?) statement in the official forums or the official handbook.
Then I tried it.
And the results were better in a group.
Maybe it’s just a big coincidence, but it works better for me to loot in a group, preferably of five. I got more and better loot. I do not receive GREAT loot, but at least I am getting decent loot, you know.. better than nothing (which nearly means playing not in a group). ^^
At least in Orr I really like to group.

Dirk Jan.9534:

Twitter; “We’re looking into the problem right now” 6 mins ago

Meh. They should post it on the official forums, too. -.-

Happened to me, too.

Did you then deposit your collectables? Ectoplasms have their own slot in your bank chest. Try to look there, could be you find your missing ecto there.

Have a new low level character to farm that lower level cloth again. ^^

If you like Wayfarer Foothills, why don’t you go there for leveling with your human? You do not have to do the human area, you can choose to start everywhere (after you finished your tutorial).
Sometimes it works out that you level enough by completing an appropriate zone, sometimes not. If not, choose another area in your level range and go there.

For grouping you might join them?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OPERATION-UNION-Bringing-Players-Together/first
They really love to help out new players and will welcome you. :-)

I have a norn ranger and it is great.
But otherwise I play every profession, so I have a lot to choose from everyday. I like them all, they are different and some are really easy to level (especially warrior) and some not (mesmer, ele), but the best thing for you would be to give every profession a try. Play them all and look how they feel for you.. then decide if they feel alright or not.
Doesn’t hurt you to try them all out.
And try every starter area, you might find one, that you enjoy more than the human one. ;-)

If you have another character slot free, you could create a new character, outsource the yellows and wait until the black lion kits will drop for you in the future. ^^
Or do you need ectos now?

You can also try:
- redemption for 44s (hint of orange)
- nectar for 7s
- lemonade for 25s (yellowish)
- harvest gold for 12s (dark golden)

I am sure there are a lot more, but these are dyes I’ve unlocked and are in my opinion golden. The prices above are taken right now from TP.

Yeah. If you want to say something bad, you just kitten it by yourself or the system will do that automatically.
:-D

Some right questions would be:
a) Why are they not constantly communicating with us about this real substantial issue?
b) When will they provide us any new information concerning this issue?
c) When will they listen to us and improve loot/ DR mechanism, regardless if their measurements show if it is perceived or not. How many people more have to speak up that they are not satisfied with the loot behaviour until they realize they will loose people who would love to play their game?
d) When will someone read the old thread and begin to understand that something happened?? When??

I didn’t post in this thread, whereas I was quite active in the other long now closed thread.

I am not goint to repeat what I’ve written in the other thread, because anet is capable of reading, it’s not my duty to do so and as long as there is no one stating how we can provide their requested concrete data, I am not throwing in my old statements, which in their opinion are just perceived.

But I have some “new” observations:
-> Normally we “all” figured out a server restart/ patch/ update would result in better loot drops in the hour(s) right after it was restarted.
This is the second time I’ve seen NO difference compared to before (like I described it in the other thread in November and December).
-> If you group with other party member, you’ll receive better loot drops than if you are not grouping or if it are just two of you.
-> It seems that after the dailies reset your loot improves (more materials and blues instead of masses of porous bones and some materials between).
-> If you farm long enough (in a group) in Orr, you’ll get a rare or two, but mostly you are not getting anything valuable.

Riot.5210:

I actually just got one out of a chest. However, I am brand new to the game (been playing a week) so I don’t have enough gold to sell it yet. >_<

Well, I am sure, you are not him (trying it a second time), but be careful not to be thrown into one pot with that other guy who was really cheeky to another person who just wanted to help him out.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/permenant-trade-post-pickup-contract-cantsell

My suggestions would be: Keep it until you want to use it for yourself or until you are able to sell it with your own earned gold.. it doesn’t run away, if you just play for a while like other players do (start poor, become wealthy over time) and then sell it (and make a nice profit due to your luck!).

Hey, just a guess, but try it out after the patch right now. Is it working for you now or still bugged?

Give it a try after the patch right now. Is it still bugged?

Highly likely it will be stuck until a new patch/ update/ server restart comes. Then it will automatically reset until it bugs again. ^^
Unless they have fixed it in the meantime.

Yeah, it’s really annoying. Maybe I should come back when it’s ready..

Is it still in your inventory?

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

UnIDed dyes went from 5 silver to 12 silver due to their sudden, suspicious rarity.

Well, that could be explained as a result of banning an enormous amount of botters. ^^

But yes, something strange happened since the 15th November patch to the drop rates or/ and to DR.

That would be helpful.

And I also don’t get it why they have multiple karma merchants for the same food (basil, ginger, paprika?) in one small area.
I just could imagine they serve as a placeholder until they release more food to be bought from them in the future. ^^ (So they’ll remove one’s offering and replace it with new food.. but that doesn’t make much sense they just could introduce another merchant..)

I think you already have your answer?
In your other thread you said you want to be tanky and have a bow. That’s a warrior.
I’ve never heard of a tanky short bow thief to be honest.

I know, I know.

But it’s a little bit not satisfying enough sometimes when the issue with some vistas/ bugged events/ whatever are still there nearly since the launch. (Just so you understand it is not complaining about anything really new which I want to have fixed ASAP..)

I am still convinced you are all giving your best. So keep that doing! :-)

True.
In fact it is a 12 days old response, but you are right.

Sorry for wanting an update for the people who still have troubles with that vista. ^^

(For me it was solved after the latest patch came.)

Jeffrey, it’s very nice of you to link him/ her there, but there is no statement either in that thread here or there what you are doing with this bugged vista.

Are you working on it? Will you fix it permanently?
Can we expect that it will work (temporary or permanently) after the next server restart/ update?

It’s not helpful to link to another thread where just more people are wondering what will be done to that issue.

What about wearing just white or blue gear and playing pve content again? :p
That could be indeed a challenge. ^^

I pretend my mesmer to be a ritu. ^^

As I tried to figure out how I can substitute my gw (ghost based) ritu with another profession in GW2 I came to the following conclusion:

- Engineer: can build turrets
- Guardian: has some ghostly weapons to summon
- Mesmer: has illusions

For my part I decided for mesmer and didn’t regret it. It feels similar to my lovely ritu from gw, however it is not the same. ^^
I also have an engineer and a guardian, but the mesmer is my main.

I am not sure whether they will have a comeback for the ritu profession, but as long as it isn’t happening I am quite happy with my choice.

Maybe you would give another profession which could feel or be played similar a try?

They pick up stuff in the front garden which the police unintentionally placed there, but where it can be found. Some people asked the police “Hey! Can I take this?” (And some just picked and picked and picked..) They never received an answer until the police – that had known the issue with the stuff laying around that they didn’t remove immediately when they were asked by the people if it is safe to pick them up – decided “Oh, bad bad bad exploiters. We have to arrest them and never let them out.”
^^

Yeah. Right now I just wanted to link everyone there, too. Hmmm…

Wow! That received a lot of replies. :-D

It seems that either mesmers are not interested in the suggestion forum or there are too few pve mesmers or everything is just fine and we don’t see it. ;-)

I would love to have some more support from other pve mesmers who think similar and express how they feel.

For me it doesn’t make much sense what they are doing to the mesmer profession. Nerfing, nerfing, nerfing, then buffing, oh wait! too strong we need to debuff and nerf it again…
Sometimes we get some fixes – including new bugs – and after a long time we get fixed the last bugs which brings more bugs and finally we receive an update which stabilizes the class again, then some love with a lovely buff just before christmas and then it must be removed due to pvp reasons -.- (not the exploit/bug thing)

It is not fair to suffer from pvp balance changes when they easily could split it..
Why didn’t they just let it be 3 per illusion in pve?
Or at least cut it down to 2 instead of 1?
-> It makes the mesmers viable and competitive in pve and it is a great support for their group. Everyone was affected positively.

Who was responsible to arrange that they in fact increased it first?
That’s great to get some nice attention.
But how did they think it would be great for mesmers? How couldn’t they see that it might affect pvp too strong?
How did they think it is a good idea to buff it in the beginning, then realize pvp disbalances and nerf it again and just don’t care about pve mesmers???

Well, I do not really understand how that can happen, but I hope that they will do it right next time. Either test it first deeply or rethink what they want to do by considering how it affects pvp AND pve.

Give pve mesmers some love.. I know you can do it..

Thanks again. <3

I support this.

Please let us pve mesmer stay competitive and viable in open world pve, in dungeons and so on..
I want to contribute to a fight, do decent damage, support my team and whatever pleases me. ^^
The game isn’t all about killing other players, defeating them by playing AGAINST them.
It is also a game to play WITH them against foes and therefore we need to stay viable and have the possibility to be a good team fighter.

It really seems that you do not really care about that aspect in pve. Or at least not that much as it is needed.
If you must nerf the mesmer into oblivion to balance this profession for pvp, then PLEASE split more skills.

It doesn’t hurt anyone (well, except the pve foes ^^) if a pve mesmer does damage, can use his illusions wisely and support his team e.g. by buffing them nicely.

Not everyone is interested in smashing other players in pvp!
Keep that in mind, please!

:-(

Thanks. <3

It is working again after they recently updated the game.

Ed, did you speak to the cattlepult itself? It is not Mad Mardine who let you use it, instead you have to interact with the cattlepult.

Necro is indeed very fun to play and with its nice aoe possibilities this profession may easily contribute in earning good money at level 80. (Well, if you would like to farm Orr for example.^^)

Oh, and good luck with your new chara and your money this time!

I think it would be helpful if you include on which server you are. :-) (it doesn’t affect every event on every server if one or some more have problems. ^^)

Hey,

yesterday I wondered where I can see how miniatures will look ingame (in animation, not just pictures!), so that I can have a look at them before buying. I didn’t really success in my research (well, I only had a super quick search and found this site: http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/guild-wars-2-mini-pets/727/), but anyway I received an interesting idea…

How about a minipet shop or a zoo where you can see and observe them all?
Maybe they could also implement that you can rent a certain mini for a limited period only with ingame silver (not gold!).
For example: 24h brown bear = 5s (or whatever would be a good deal)

-> they had the time limited halloween weapon skins, so that shouldn’t be that hard to realize?

Maybe they could also make rares or exotics and/ or special minis available.. ?

Positive for players: it is a nice addition for the players (at least I think so ^^)
Positive for Anet: it could serve as a little (!) gold sink

Of course the shop wouldn’t be just a person standing around offering you things. Much more e.g. you would enter a house or a garden or whatever and actually see what is offered. (However there would be of course the attendant with whom you arrange your purchases. ^^)

Well, that was my first thought..a pet shop :-)

And then it does fit with a lot of other ideas I’ve read in the forums..
- a barber shop
- a tattoo shop
- a tavern
- bakery, apothecary …

In my opinion they should add these shops to the main cities and it would revive them.

What do you think?

Which shop or store would you love to see ingame?

Cheers.