Guild Wars 2

I don’t see it changing the current prices all that much, as demand will still be higher than supply by a good bit, as the MATS are needed for several items ingame,

Yes but that same RnG that stops hardcore farmers from getting the ultra high end loot is what also in the long run drives them out of the game, infact its so clear it does this espically around Pre’s that Anet finally took steps that allow you to create the Pre’s for your Legendary.

The Loot/RNG system is totally broken in this game, ive seen players that haven’t logged in for 6+ months log in play the forge a dozen times and pul out a pre, yet people who play everyday get nothing from it.

If they don’t do a major overhaul of the loot system for the expansion, it will start to drive people away, as the sad truth is, there is nothing to do in this game, there is no endgame, there is only farming, and when farming never drops loot you get bored and move on to a new game.

Just make mails from Anet have a big Anet Logo watermark in the place where the message goes, so there is no way people can miss it.

Ralanost.8913:

Just be honest and say that you hate not being able to get ahead of others by spending your money.

I have never bought a pre or a legendary off the TP I have sold a few quite a few that I have gotten from the forge, but the point remains the same, if they require the same mats as the old ones people will dominate the market, if the MATs where only used for legendary’s that would be fine, but alas they are not, there are several things in game that need those MATs to craft, certain armor/weapons etc,

So from this update those people who do not care about legendary’s are going to get hammered by the TP prices for those MAT’s when they need them for the other gear they are crafting,

For me when Powerful Blood hits 1g each it will be great, but as this game is firmly designed for the causal player and not people like me who play more, they are going to get ruined by this update if they want anything nice.

I have no problem with Pre’s and Legendary’s made via the mastery system being account bound, but if it comes from a drop of forge it should be tradable.

Did they not say in the preview that the orbs needed to charge the new super weapon where handed in to NPC’s in several locations to stop 1 big zerg from dominating, also if 1 big zerg is in the middle of the map trying to cap this and become successful, smaller havoc groups who are nearer to towers etc, can run in and cap them before said zerg gets close to them, meaning it was all in vain…

Also did people not keep asking for open field battles, let the zergs battle it out, and let the smaller havoc groups roam the map.

Why change it now though, by not making them tradable it will allow those who have 10’s of 1000’s of gold to dominate the market when it come out what is needed, imagine if it does require the same MATs as current legendary’s and you have to farm for them now instead, people who can control the market can push them prices WAY up, it makes no sense to make 1 set tradable and 1 set not,

Not to mention that by making them non tradable they will hurt there own Gems – Gold market.

From what I can gather its only the pre-cursor method that is changing, after the pre-cursor its still the same method to make a legendary, so it shouldn’t affect you.

Temporarily disabled the looting of rewards, there really isn’t anyway to fix that situation in that zone unless you put the spawns on opposite sides of the map,

For now you will just see masses of people not bothering at all, I never seen this happening on NA, but it could be my timezone I play in that caused that, I did see it on twitch 1 day where an EU player was in there, but they where in a Queue for the BL’s and everything was Queued 20+ so what are players like that supposed to do now, sit in LA or just log out???

If the rewards in WvW where better for killing players then people wouldn’t farm such things.

The only time ive seen people in there doing was when watching a twitch feed and it was way more than a few people it was an all out slaughter fest, but the person streaming was in Queue for a map, and infact all the maps where Q’d so yea.

We don’t see this on NA at all, but then NA WvW is nothing compared to EU WvW.

Sorel.4870:

The stability changes are meant to balance WvW. The fact you didn’t like them doesn’t mean they were PvE changes. Also, for obvious convenience reasons, Anet has tried to keep the skills almost identical across all three game modes.

About the camera changes, many WvW players asked for a broader FoV and more camera options. I do think ACs should now be fixed accordingly.

Balance WvW your joking right, the change to stab was done across the board lets look at it,

PvE change, a boss/enemy may to a CC skill once every 5-10 seconds the stab change is more like for the new HoT update coming at a later date,

sPvP 5v5 your boon stripping is limited vs the boons you get on/put on yourself,

WvW, 80vs80 boon stripping craziness, its so bad now that no one will battle open field, if they wanted to make WvW more defensive they got there wish as no one will fight unless there are 20+ AC’s that can fire threw a wall, I was on TS this morning with 80 other people and we couldn’t get an open field fight with an enemy zerg, it was all pew pew ranged until they could pull us close enough for siege to take over,

WvW = broken with this patch, they need to separate WvW from the other game modes completely, other game modes don’t have 60-80ppl fighting 60-80 people open field with multiple different builds etc, we need a different form of Stab, they completely separated PvP and PvE in GW1, they could do it here, instead of the 1 FIX for all.

As it stands in game sPvP is separate to PvE,

Recent updates to the game have made WvW nearly impossible, they have removed nearly all open field battles, as now its a battle to see who can run into a tower first and load up 20AC’s and sit behind a wall,

We need WvW completely separate from PvE, so that when they want to nerf something into the ground for the sake of PvE it doesn’t completely destroy another game mode, and vice versa.

If it was Anets goal to put more nails into the WvW coffin with this update then good job your goal was met, if you actually want people to still be playing WvW when the new game/map comes out then stop killing us off already, its time to stop the 1 FIX for all game modes approach.

As you are destroying a game mode that many people do enjoy with each update.

Or just remove Arrow Carts completely….or reduce there power by 75% and make them do no damage to certain siege……

The changes basically made it that on reset night its going to be a race to see who can build siege the fastest, then sit behind a wall and wait.

AC wars where already a big problem in WvW but now since the camera change its beyond stupid, now you can just build 10+ AC’s right behind a wall, change camera settings and hit the entire area outside the tower/keep etc you are trying to defend, with little to no worry about enemies getting close,

The new camera settings where poorly thought out for WvW, maybe its time to REMOVE all loot from kills when you kill someone with Siege and reward better for open field battles, as WvW is a joke now.

If you make the rewards better people will come,

The problem is that in open world PvE , Silverwastes dominates for loot and rewards, im stunned Anet has not reviewed this and push better rewards ( fix the loot table, im looking at you cursed shore ) in other zones,

Its funny how megaserver destroyed some zones and yet it makes other zones great places to be, with CS it was destroyed, I never see temples available for capping anymore, they are always done, events are normally always done, because there is no proper reset timer on them, yet in SW where it resets the entire map after a battle you can pretty much bet no matter what time of day you go there, events/loot will be waiting.

They should add a reset timer to every zone that has a world event in it, CS should auto reset every hour, where everything becomes contested, ( you can only get the reward chests once per day so whats the issue ).

Ok, for someone who had a chance to watch the live stream today, they are replacing the old boarderlands with this one, but are the removing all 4 maps and putting this in, or are they putting this in place of each boarderland, so we will have 3x the new map and EBG on top of that??

The new map looks great, its hard to tell how big it is from the previews, the new event in the middle I think will be better for open field battles.

One of the biggest complaints ive seen on the forums about WvW over the last 2 years is lag, the new map has mechanics in it that just look like they will promote heavy lag, and unless you have an excellent computer you maybe struggling real bad in battles.

arron.7348:

abjured

the dankening has two carries that are holding them back and the eu/cn teams are too inexperienced in comparison to the other two

So what where you saying about the EU being inexperienced, 6-0 wasn’t it….

The come back from Orange Logo was great.

Garrisyl.7402:

I watched him stream for the first time today after hearing lots of bad things about him. Honestly, he seems like a nice guy and is genuinely enjoying the game. He is also cursing less and is generally much more positive than many other top streamers. Concerning the toxic players he might bring to the game; there seem to be plenty of those already judging by the amount of kittens following him around everywhere trying to ruin his experience.

Cursing less, we must have been watching different streams.

His stream is nothing special,

I would say that your loot is based on pure RnG and MF is just a made up stat that anet uses as a gold sink,

I used to farm a lot in this game, and when MF was changed I pushed it to 300% base fairly fast, ( I do not regret this ) but a friend of mine who refuses to use MF seems to get way better general loot that me when out in the open world, even though his MF is over 200% lower than mine,

Given all that and now that Anet seem to be pushing rewards into boxes instead of drops ( IE silverwastes ) MF is nearly no use at all here, and Anet stay mute on this topic because as the stands people are still sinking gold into MF.

The only Mortar ive seen doing this is the one at north gate, but in saying that given the locations of the 2 Mortars at north I think this was an intended design as they are nearly beyond useless where they are sitting, they should have removed them both and added Arrow Carts in there for defense instead.

Id say they probably will add 1 extra slot with the expansion it would be kind of harsh of them to say here buy the $40 expansion then another $10 on a char slot to play it, or go and delete a char you’ve been playing for the last 2 years.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_Find

With all bonus MF you can get +295%, on top of the 300% base you can build and +16% from AP’s your max MF currently ingame could be 611%, this doesn’t include zone wide MF like anet added with southsun cove came into the game, or MF from silverwastes, as they are only available in them zones.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this topic, my guild was discussing this on TS the other day, and when it came down to it, we basically all said there is nothing to do until the expansion comes, its basically comes down to logging in for 10 mins a day to do dailies, the problem with this is that its becoming more boring to do this, and a lot of my friends have already said they wont even come back for the expansion.

This rings echo’s of another post on the bugs section where the OP was its not my system its the games fault, yet point blank refused to post any details about there system setup at all.

If the game was infected with a virus after the patch everyone who plays the game would be having the same issue.

If I had to guess I would say that your virus scanner is trying to scan the gw2.dat file and it crashing the system because of it, or its eating so much memory trying to scan a 20-22Gb file.

I have seen this in another game I played where the .exe file was over 15Gb and the Virus scanner would lag the entire system down trying to scan threw it.

Brux.3415:

Full re-installed seemed to offer some brief improvement, in that I survived all the way through an Ulgoth raid. However I did lose all sound as the local population picked up and when I immediately went over to Metrica to do the Fire Elemental, my machine just restarted. No more errors, just an automatic shutdown.

If your system just hard crashed, the windows system event viewer is where you need to look to see what errors the system was recording before the crash, ive seen it before where people get hard shut downs and its related to the PSU.

Wow 4 pages on this, really this could be applied to many items on the trading post, and its always the same answer,

Its Supply and Demand

According to gw2spidy

Silk Scrap

Supply:
661876

Demand:
733908

Hence the price going up, its the same with everything when there is more demand than a supply.

I find Silk 1 of the easier lower end mats to farm, nearly every zone if not all zones you can farm it fairly easy,

The price will continue to climb providing.

A. the demand outstrips the supply
B. people wanting to buy it instead of farming it

Id be disappointed if Anet stepped in here and changed any values etc, as that would lead to a lot more issues in the long run.

This game is designed for the casual gamer, that has been proven time and time again, given this point, most people who only play an hour a day or so will never farm enough T7 mats to worry about not getting them used by MawdreyII or SoG,

Anyone who plays more or does a certain type of farm will always have excess mats, if you change the game/items to only work for those who play for hours/farm a lot then the target audience gets left behind,

Seeing as I only spend 10 minutes in game a day now to do dailies as the game is boring with nothing to do until the expansion I don’t find the T7 mats an issues to be fair, granted I do have an alt char with 120 slots full with stacks of them but yea.

Sharpoon.8197:

Things started going south when their main pst-ocx commander, Lorthos, quit the game and during Season 1, 2013 when IRON went on hiatus and the other EU guilds the server had acquired (KISS and WIC) transferred back to the EU servers. The lack of coverage hurt their ability to compete against the other T1 servers. Internal fighting between the WvW guilds happened. The oceanic and sea guilds were struggling. FEAR and the core of TW were the first to leave the server.

Was it not IRON who left first to go back to EU, they left after the first week or so of the season, as did they not want more fights instead of PPT, I don’t blame them either, but once they went the core of the EU WvW for SoR died with it.

From the conversations I heard on TS I don’t blame FEAR for leaving, they got blamed for so much crap that happened on there, yet they where always tagged up, and one of the people crying about them never tagged up and ran with there guild untagged.

The long story short it the continuous drama behind the scenes is what killed that server.

On an up note good job for GSCH for sticking to there values and staying with SoR in memory of there friend.

Agreed, I don’t do a lot of sPvP but for the guys that do it a lot, your getting screwed by anet, the rewards are bad, very bad, they don’t have to be up with PvE drops but the higher your rank goes the better your rewards should be, this is probably a good reason why so many ppl avoid sPvP.

As for WvW the rewards have sucked since day 1, and probably will never improve either, hence why both game formats are suffering badly,

Hopefully in the expansion things will change.

I just had a match where the ranger stood AFK for the entire match, and the thief was afking also until I called them both out in chat, then the thief just ran outside the base over and over to get killed.

We ended up getting hammered 500-190 there was nothing 3 of us could do against 5 players.

This one is poorly designed, it will look like the honeycomb is fully built when its not, and after the 2nd build it will hide the xx% built part so your not sure, I think it does take 4 times, and you have to stand in that little white box that spawns behind it, in which case bring blocks as the trolls will push you out.

William C.6195:

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who gets frustrated by this.

And, it’s no fault of the player, really. It’s just that the system allows them to join ranked and get put with people with far greater experience.

So you want them to go into unranked where they can get facerolled by pre made Guild Teams, surely this restriction has to go both ways, if your are xx rank you cannot enter unranked matches,

I ran into so many pre made guild teams who rolled today threw unranked winning by 200-400 points, yet when I went into ranked areans, not once did I see said guild teams, funny how that works.

OP

Nightfall came out on October 27, 2006
EotN came out on August 31, 2007

Guess that evidence, just doesn’t weight up.

Vol.7601:

My body is ready for the new leggies

http://imgur.com/a/CMO9x

I have another +5k stored away in alt account/gbanks. this is going to be lucrative

That is just amazing, espically if its all farmed and not bought.

So we get the booster this weekend that gives the double XP/WvW XP, a few weeks ago we got the call to the mists one for sPvP

Why don’t you start rotating these each week for the sPvP/ WvW communities, I remember in GW1 we had weekly weekend boosts/buffs etc.

I do play WvW but this buff this weekend really pushed up my WvW play along with my friends too.

So if we could summon anyone huh,

Kanaxai – nothing like a dual axed demon smashing your face in.
Duncan the Black – oh look I just summoned 40 spirits and now your dead.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/LFG-joining-party-bug/first#post4703865

I had exactly the same issues, reported also on here and ingame.

So me and a friend where in SW and the LFG came up so I merged us with another party, it then instantly kicked me from my party and let my friend join the other group,

This has been doing this all day, I cannot join a party via LFG it instantly removes me everytime from any party I try to join, I can add people who are on my friends list/ guild, but if I try and join someone via LFG tool its instant kick for me, its like the party im joining doesn’t even exist in the first place.

Has anyone else had this issue, it could be some form of lag so that the LFG tool is not updating in real time for me, so when I see the LFG pop up its actually already gone, but then how could my friend get into a party and I get auto removed…

EDIT: this cannot be lag, its happening 100% of the time now if I am in a 2 or 3 person group and try to merge parties, it kicks me from the party instantly and allows the other 2 people to join them as normal, they can then invite me as normal to the party, we tested this several times in a row and I can replicate this issue.

I cannot join any party via the LFG tool at all, as soon as I hit join it will grey them out as if I have joined them then a few seconds later the join button will reappear.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Alert-In-Game-Mail-Scams

The drop rate of these seems to be higher than the other parts, since the SW started I think I have had 1 glove box drop from the breach rewards, and ive done a lot of breachs, yet the Coat Box dropped twice from the chest in 3 runs for me, I know its pure RnG and for once I was on the good side of it,

I feel more the issue for those who haven’t got it, is going to be how they will get it, sure the new boss is new, but once people get the coat box, and achieves they wont do it, the rewards seem ok, but they are no better than running around the map for 5 mins and opening 20 chests, the BUFF u get to MF is also useless, as most of the drops in SW come from chests, it might increase your chance of a drop very very little.

Take note anet, maybe nows the time to start making MF work and affect boxes in the game also.

So the breach completed as normal, and the 2 minute timer for the chopper to arrive started as normal,

However the first champ also spawned at this time, and no one could get in to attack it, then popped up the big red arrow to get into the chamber ( before the chopper arrived ) we then had 2:30 to kill the champ instead of the normal timer.

KurisuX.7340:

Beat it with a team of 3….it’s a lot easier with other people for the ring of fire, though it’s good if someone is healing or watching out for those who get snagged by aoe…..those who solo’d it have my respect….

We had a team of 3 and none of us got the achievements first time, we rolled it with a 5 man party and destroyed this instance,

1 of our team tried it solo and could not do it, he said the lights went out before he could get them all done, and he had 4 to do solo, I didn’t try this solo so I don’t know if there is a different mechanic at play.

My friends are all getting the same issue, we are in various locations from EU/US, seems like a global issue.

The dailies are fast everyday not just today, the new system was revamped and completely designed for the casual player, hence why they really take no longer than 10 mins to complete on the average day, I know the odd random day will have kill jormag, but as the game stands its not worth doing that one, that’s when you normally see WvW big spender.

I made an ele about a week ago, and use tomes to power level it, the new trait system is horrible, I don’t know how they ever thought this was a NPE as its a terrible experience, alas sadly its been so long since it came into place, I cannot see Anet ever changing it,

ALL of the minor traits should be able to be unlocked in 1-15 zones, be it world events, map completion etc, its crazy that some low level traits require you to complete higher level zones/world events.

The only thing that works with the NPE is the rewards from personal story.

If I had to guess, I would say it will be combined on the LS update on the 13th Jan.

When you log into your main character and hit M to load the map what does it say in the upper left corner about points of interest etc,

Even if you have completed the map before, there have been several new WP’s PoI’s and a few hearts added to the game since, this will show your % under 100% until you complete them, even if you already did 100% before, if you already got your reward for mapping once, I wouldn’t worry about it, as it does not affect your game, as you do not get the reward again.

Check that the card is running at PCI-E x16, ive seen it so many times on here where people complain about the FPS and good GFX cards etc only to find the PCI-E port is running at x1 instead of x16.

If you already have everything but the pre, as in all gifts etc already made, start selling off all your mats you get, you’d be amazed how much gold you can generate when you don’t bank everything.