Guild Wars 2

2 months later I can finish exploring the world. Thanks Anet

Irontodge.9524:

Hi Norax,

We know for sure the guy is targeting commanders and people with the golden title. It is a French guy being malicious.

He is targeting commanders and people with the golden title because we are more likely to be wealthy.

He must have really hated me as he deleted my characters, as far as I know, no others have been deleted.

I was refering to be able to get your sesion token, ip, or some kind of thing, more related with real life than with ingame things (which can be possible) but just to discard. Like sameplace living friends or something like that (which seems unlikely knowing that since it goes for ‘golden’ ppl).

Gold sellers use to stay close to banks so they can get player names to send ingame mails, which fits perfectly with this case. Knowing what kind of title has a player (is info your pc recieves) to try to exploit something else knowing his account name, plus some other stuff can lead to the exploit.

Lets see how all this end.

Edit: I seriously doubt that they will make a rollback. They didnt made such a thing with the ppl that exchange karma weapons for gold.

ZohanLannister.1245:

This is purely aimed at high profile players from ROS server. And is not coming from there security issues. It has to be coming from games side. How else can they the hacker think "right irontodge is next " and then suddenly know all his information? email address etc. He cant ! what he does know is hes on ROS has Commander and is very active. so he know has his game id and somehow from this he gets to log in and strip him bare.

Maybe you have been ‘followed’ by a long period of time, but sounds more legit that anet has been breached.

Do you live in a common country or area or something like that?

I hope all gets fixed asap

I still don’t like it. I will grind lvl10 until I get the atts I like, and maybe then, I’ll keep progressing through levels.

I’m Dungeon Master and I almost stoped doing anything else than staying in LA playing TP and doing 1 run on fractals a day.

Still dissapointed for this senseless random grinding.

Thanks god the pink items are account bound, so I can reuse some of them with other characters, but….

Getting koss on koss, with vitality, when agony hits a percentage of the HP, seems like an awful idea.

I found this on reddit, but didn’t find any useful stats yet

Thanks for the replies anyway ^^

Steely Phil.3952:

That’s true. I voted ‘dislike very much’ for exactly this reason. I actually have no problem with a one time event that rewards those who make it with an extra cut scene or a piece of town clothing. I usually don’t attend, but I don’t feel like I’m being punished for not going. 300g worth of swag is an issue though.

So you think everyone got a Dawn?
I opened the chest 4 times (I know you will hate me for this, but I sacrifice sleeping hours for it) and the most valuable thing I get was the karka 20 slots bag. What it’s nice, but its faaar away from those 300g, which is a lie, because it was around 280g and few moments later it was under 200g. With that huge spam of precursor weapons and exotic, the price of EVERYTHING went down.

They said not so long ago that if you get gems with ingame gold, the rate goes up.
If some one purchuase gems with real life money, the rate goes down.

As easy as that.

I’m running the ‘Inmortal Guardian’ build I saw on reddit some time ago. I like it very much, and I drop my mesmer (which I don’t like how it behaves at PvE atm) to use my alt guardian to face FotM dungeon.

I’m on lvl 11->12 atm, and I was expecting to follow the stats of the build I was using, but I just notice that my progression have been BLOCKED because:
1- There are no crafteable ascendant items with Tou and Healing Power atts.
2- Crafting another one with random atts, that breaks my build seems pointless to me, because it will be bond to my guardian, and once cleric ascendant recipes are made, I’ll need to craft it again, which is a huge investment, which gets doubled pointlessly.

So if I need to break my build, to keep progressing in FotM, I’ll be pretty sad :/

tl;dr: When will we get cleric ascendant craft recipes?

I’m not native english, I hope you understand my point.
Thanks in advance!

Erulogos.2591:

Mackdose.6504:

We’ll see how you feel when you hit FotM 20 and need people to be geared to continue to 21. I’m not sure why one game mode suddenly destroys the whole game.

I may never get that far. I expect by then Agony resist would be something of a must, and the grind to get the Ascended backs makes getting a full set of raid gear in WoW seem like a blink of the eye. Back when I played said game, you could acquire (via whatever token the current expansion was using) roughly 1 piece of gear per week using their random dungeon system, plus whatever the RNG gave you while raiding. Unless the Ascended rings have a much higher drop rate than exotics, and even possibly rares, once you get to Fractal 10+, Ascended gear is a heavy grind proposition.

I already make a second run to fractal 10→11, not because I like that level, its because agony is a pain in the kitten and I MUST grind the ring if I want to progress.

Not funny at all. I still remember when you need to make kanaxai 15 times to get the axe. They changed that to the dungeon tokens, and those where not even needed unless you wanted the skin. But now, I MUST grind some levels of that dungeon, because I may encounter huge problems with agony.

And way worse…. the ascendant items that exist atm, don’t even have the atributes I want. There is NOTHING focused on tou + Heal Pow. So to progress I must BREAK my build.

It doesn’t make sense at all.

Fixed for the great justice.

Erasculio.2914:

Luculus.9860:

_*Do people think, in general, that these forums (and game forums in general) are so negative because the people who are really enjoying themselves just play and don’t come here to whine?*

The reason why Ascended gear was introduced was because player feedback, arguably in this forum, told ArenaNet that people wanted more “progression” in the game.

If complaining worked to get a gear treadmill, do you really think people should stop complaining against it?

IMO, those complaining about the complaints (lol?) are being somewhat hypocrites, since they were complaining about the game until a very short while ago.

+1
You win an Internet with that explanation.

Welcome to ‘Time Warp’ problem since launch.

dalendria.3762:

The people who love the game will more likely support it by using the Cash Shop.

I was about to support the game (again), but all that I get was this knife in my back.

It’s all about trust.

I was thinking in Anomaly with those 250 skill points needed, but 800 skill points are needed for full ascendant gear.

Lets no-life AC & CL for months.

At least I get 4 20slot bags.

You want the precursors to be easy? There you have… free legendaries for (almost) everyone.

Lots of hours played here too, and nothing but crap… at least I have 4 20 slot bags.

So no comment was made by a dev on this.

To sum up, screw those nice looking not-legendary expensive forge-recipe items. RIP

It’s easy.
Log in with your mesmer. Go to LA. Press f12, change character, create a guardian and level it to lvl80. Get full magic find rare equipment and then go CS and auto-attack with GS, hammer.

It can take you a while, but farming will be less anoying. Thats what I made, and if you have time enough, thats what I encourage you to do.

No problem. I recorded it for you.

I swap chat voice channel around min20, so no random talking.

http://www.livestream.com/norax/video?clipId=pla_b83d1818-591c-436c-ba0e-83a937a2e67c

Enjoy!

None. It’s not anymore the game I’ll recomend at anycost.

http://www.gw2db.com/items/67096-vision-of-the-mists-of-nullification

250 ectos * 22s 50c ( http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721 ) = 56g 25s 0c
1500 orichalcum ore * 2s 77c ( http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19701 ) = 41g 55s 0c
100 mystic coins * 3s 27c ( http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19976 ) = 3g 27s 0c

Total: 101g 7s

With this price, why its still exotic? Its not between a regular exotic and a legendary?

Any chance to get it ascendant?

I guess it will hapend the same with foefire GS

Everybody knows dealing 9999 dmg is much funnier by far.

/sarcasm

More powerfull gear will discourage me from playing

Vasham.2408:

They’ve confirmed that there will be no new “tiers” of ascended gear already. Maybe you should relax.

As they stated at the beginning of the game saying exotics will be the max gear?

spiritus.7983:

I play too many mmos, and all where the same:

opening – “we are diferent then others”
6 monts – we implement this “unreequired” option for more competitive players cough cash spenders*cough*
9-12 months – if you wanna win you need to pay

We all see this new “progression” and we all know where that progression leads :pay to win. Question is how long?

(not to mention how many minutes it takes for this post to be deleted)

Didnt you see the fighting costumes at the gemstore?
Witch its totally OP compared with other costumes, plus they can use utilities.

We already have a p2w game.

Good questions sir. Hope they get repplied asap.

apocalyps.7106:

@quidgy.1483 i didn’t ask for new content in storyline,
i ask for somthing to do after i finish this, guild wars 1 has underworld, has fow, has kanaxai, elite areas, that are repeatable and hard, maybe these things are needed ?

Not in the beginning.

/thread

Cyberman Mastermind.6012:

MrLee.6892:

Its the people who did play Guild Wars 1 that are raging and saying “leave my precious Guild Wars 2 just like Guild Wars 1” Don’t ever change a thing darn you!!

Do you really think that GW2 is anywhere near to GW1? Apart from name and story there are hardly any similarities anymore.
(That itself doesn’T make GW2 a bad game, though.)

So it must look like a wow clone. amirite?

showatt.9413:

fixit.7189:

Wow, this thread is a mess. They are cramming anything related to this topic right into this one and making it even more confusing than it already is. What real dev is going to even bother reading it now? lol.

It’s actually best that they don’t.

honestly most people here are all about GW1 and wanting to make the game exclusive to GW1 fans.

They don’t want to game to reach out to a new market – instead they’re happy to close their eye and pretend the game isn’t dying because the lack of progression.

Gw2 is nothing like Gw1, which is why the “diehard” gw1 fans have already gone back to gw1.

Gw2 is a game on its own, and it has attracted not only gw1 fans but also fans of other MMO. to satisfy everyone’s need, compromises have to be made. It’s really sad how most of the community doesn’t seem to understand that.

If I wanted to play a game based on gear progression I wouldnt choose this one.
If I chose to play GW2 is to have equipment parity among all player base, and not a race to get a weapon that deals 9999dmg

vysaek.8290:

Frotee.2634:

People are moaning because ArenaNet listened to the people moaning for a carrot on a stick – instead of staying true to their loyal fans who were looking the one game which doesn’t.

The problem isn’t a 2 point increase in stats – the problem is that the very same people who have already started getting bored because they rushed through content and spend hours and hours on getting legendaries will be bored again in no time. And then we’ll need another increase in stats to pacify those people, only to have them getting bored again a few weeks later…it’s a vicious circle.

That happens in every game, even MMO.

Welcome to reality.

Yes! Like for example in GW1…. oh! wait…

You will be handicaped if you don’t have it, so you are forced due to stats.

Edit: Nothing to do with agony, agony is just a mechanic that I can deal with.

showatt.9413:

Face it, new gear is always going to come out sooner or later. Gear progression is an absolute necessity to MMO. It gives you a sense of achievement, it prolong your playtime and it give you a reason to grind. In the future, when the level cap is raised, you can be prepared for new exotics that offer better stats than your current level 80s.

Contrary, a game without gear progression is plain bad because at max level you’re basically just playing dress-up with your character. You pour hours and hours into grinding, only to acquire some skins, how is that satisfying?

I was kittening satisfied when I get my first obsidian armor. Plus my first tormented weapon. Plus my destroyer weapons. I don’t need a progresion based on gear, back to GW1 we had tittles to feel the progression, we had skins, and we lack the feeling that ‘this will be easier with the new armor set, so I’m handicaped until I get it’

Gear progression is BAD when mixed with pvp (WaR rr90++), and we have wvw here.
Titles and skins are my carrots. Builds and armor sets are my carrot to face diferent environments.

Gear progession based on stats is a piece of kitten.

HykCraft.4610:

Sometimes, I think the developers are playing a different version of the game than we are.

Indeed, they are.

The hardest highend mission in GW1 was creating a group for Urgoz.

Vasham.2408:

That would require the GW2 community to be a couple of things: calm, rational, and open to new ideas.

Sadly they are none of these things.

Gear progression is a new idea? God kitten

/facepalm

Ninth Requiem.3250:

Also; there’s a new PvP map in this update, so …

In LoL it took a year. And the map was unbalanced.

Wagnard.4027:

Because the core devs that created GW1 without the gear gate content left ANet a long time ago.

Where are they now?

Jrunyon.3012:

Oh nooooo, I wont be able to progress to the deepest parts of the optional dungeon without the new armor which is only useful for this dungeon…. This game sucks omg you are tearing me apart Anet.

Its like all logic goes out the window when people come onto these forums.

l2read. The stats will work everywhere.

https://d2vn94glaxzkz3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ascended-EN.png

Orb.1702:

took me about 2-3 days to grind the armor, its pretty easy if you know what to do

Also was for GW1. You faced 28++ level enemies with your lvl20 armor.

Whats the problem? The unskilled people that cant face a challenge?

Tormented weapons weren’t better. Why this new ones must be?

Make us to create exotic equipments due to builds, not to kittening gear progression.

Orb.1702:

Why are people complaining about free content? Honestly if your not happy with this game anymore LEAVE ure not obliged to play and it ANET doesn’t force a subscription fee.
Ascended items is something i’m looking forward to after i’ve got my 80 exotic armour

I was happy for 7 years about how GW1 worked with the armors. Gear progression is simply the way anet shoult NOT take. I’m still here because all the effort I put on GW1, and all the effort I wanted to put on GW2.

GW1: 20hrs -> Max character, max armor, max weapons.
5k hrs played

GW2: 700h played, and still not max armor (being max ascendant now). ¿Kidding?

Edit: Every player, even casuals, should be able to get a max armor EASILY, not the same with skins.

I’m even depressed for the gear progression.

If the ones that are now playing with pandas did so, why not?

bbanfillov.9308:

Um it’s not a bug. If more than 2 people leave the party while 3 are still inside, the whole group gets teleported out. I don’t know why Anet put that there but yeah.

Your info may not be accurate.

If the leader of the party (the one that enter the dungeon first) leaves the group (he got kicked, you get kicked, he change character) everyone gets kicked out but him.

Asagi.1405:

Take, for example, Arah path 1. Not terribly difficult, but huge, HUGE gaps in waypoints where two bosses don’t generate any (is this intentional or a bug?).

imo thats a bug. Cos in path 3 & 4, that ‘close’ waypoint was spawned, but not in 1.
Also, once i saw a screenshot from path1 where that WP actually exist.
They just fixed the doors, but not the WP of path 1. Rlly dissapointed.

And yes, the CoF3 torches w/o voice chat almost imposibru.

The OP provides accurate info.

foofad.5162:

I’m an 80 and I’ve never cared what level my group was in AC exploration. As long as they follow along and listen, I don’t even care if they’re first timers.

Some don’t. Best way to filter people for a dungeon group imo are the account points (I’m on 3k, I filter for 1500).
Not everybody fits to do Speed Runs. Once I almost got kicked from speeding the dungeon, thanks god I was the first one entering the dungeon.

I moved to the less populated server in the EU to do that achivement before the ‘week CD’ on transfers. Anyway, its only 1 week, so you could try. They are still free.

And what will happend with the WvW bonuses?

Anyway the threshold should be 0, if its higher, you will left like 5 player (if threshold = 5) alone in that server with no population coming.

Also… who the fraq cares in changing to another zone when I’m in a middle of DE chain?

I doubt that this is a good idea. Imo anet wont move toward that direction. The same way they wont let lfg in the mists to find ppl from other servers.

I still think that for PvE its better doing it by districts, but in that way, you lose the ‘server’ feeling.

I would like to put an example that I found in the spanish forums. Hope you can see clearly how anoying can comanders became in PvE.

And we are on our 2nd month since launch.

Hi there!
I come from Baruch Bay [SP] and checking some spanish community forums I found some anoyance with the commander icon in the minimap, mostly in PvE and LA.

Since everything in the minimap can be hide (vendors, waypoints, etc), the commander icon CAN’T. A lot of arguments goes around trying to coordinate resource runs or pve big events, and thats useful only if I take part on them (which is not the case).

So most of the complains I found are related that the only chance for a PvE-er to hide those icons (that overlap any other icon) is to bypass the commander ego by asking him politely to hide his status. Which is unlikely the case, because they like to show it up 24/7 (I would if I could too).

To sum up… ANet, could we get an option to hide Commander icons as we can do with other icons on the minimap, at least in PvE? It would also make sense to disable it for PvP.

The profit will come from both parts:
PvE-ers will see what they want to see in the minimap.
Commanders won’t get anoying whispers telling them to shutdown their status.

tl;dr: ANet, pretty please, could we get an option to hide commander icons in the minimap?

Thank you in advance!

Most of this post points at a serious misunderstanding of how the game and the gaming/RMT industry works. It’s upsetting that you think that going to the goldsellers is 1. your only alternative or 2. acceptable because you encapsulate the risk yourself. I’m not an educator by trade, but perhaps if I can make the issues a little more clear it will help others understand why none of this is true.

Fixed. It hurted my eyes.

Anyway, totally agree that there is no need in getting gold from goldsellers. If they dont get profits, its not worth for them hacking accounts, so everyone will be a bit more secure.