I dont know if this has been suggested, but dragging a skill from its slot directly onto the ground area that you choose may be a great benefit to those who do not want to use fast cast ground targeting for whatever reason.
I was also bored with it within a half hour. The art and scenery were great, but please, slow down and think about better permanent content. Please give us a break from grinding out the same type of objectives for achievement points. Please work on an expansion with some substance.
I dont mind achievements being tied to mini games, if people actually played (as intended) them for the achievement. But, Im kind of getting tired of loading into a mini game and being yelled at by achievement farmers, when I try to play the game the way it was intended. This has happened to me in Keg Brawl, Crab Toss, and Dragon Ball.
They claimed that Jan-Feb would be an expansions worth of content…… I know that they back tracked on that quote, but he did say it. I would like to see a new continent. That is part of what made GW1 stay fresh. GW2 is getting stale. If it weren’t for my guild, I wouldn’t be playing.
Id be careful anet, because for every 1 person praising this dungeon there has been 10 people (by my guesstimate) left frustrated. If you keep on frustrating them……
Do you have any idea how much time I spent getting those achievements? Do you know how many achievement farmers that I had to put up with, while I played fair and square? If something isn’t going to count, don’t put it on the panel with the rest that do please.
Its fairly easy to see the change in coffer drop rates lately. Maybe the designers should go in and see if they messed it up when they nerfed the holos. It wouldnt be the first time it happened.
I decided to try out the keg toss today. I practiced with the Norn npc’s for awhile and then entered the game. Once inside, I found my team standing in a circle with the other team passing it along. The were just achievement farming. Ive heard that it is already rampant in the crab toss too. Anet, if you do add more mini games, please dont tie them to achievement points.
It would still be nice to have an official reply as to whether bauble baubles will still be the currency for any new skins or items in any subsequent SAB levels. Who knows, they may require a triple bauble or something, so that we have something to keep us actively farming.
I have heard people speaking of making throw away Asura alts to farm the first 2 chests over and over. Is this an exploit? Can we have an offical answer please?
Hey Anet devs, Im sorry but I get a laugh out of you saying that you are going to expand rewards across the board. You have been promising that for months and nothing changes each time. You even came out and stated that world drops were increasing and that vets and champs would drop good rewards in your patch notes….. it was a lie. I just dont believe you anymore. You seem like nice people in all of your videos. Please be honest and nice behind the scenes too.
Mitra, I dont know about you, but I usually get ectos from crafting rare weapons, though I didnt put any into the recipe. In fact this is a major way that most people get their ectos. Where are you getting this info?
I did read some of that thread Wildcode, but its mainly about the nerf to drops FROM mobs. What I have noticed is that mobs themselves are starting to drop loot less often than before.
Im not sure if it is just me or if mobs in Cursed Shore drop items on death less than usual lately. I can kill up to 4 or 5 mobs and not get anything. I used to get something most of the time, even if it is only a junk skull.
The patch notes said that any level 80 character working in a zone level 55 and up should receive some loot drops at thier level. I have been running around a level 60-70 zone and am still getting lev 77 or 78 drops, just like I used to. How hard is it to understand that if a toon is level 80, then drops for his/her level should be lev 80. Is it just careless programming, lack of brain power, or just out right lying here? I hate to be so brash, but I get pretty tired of it. Please do what you are saying that you are going to do.
For all of those who are saying that “agony” which is obviously a rip off of dread from LoTRO isnt a big deal now, well, LoTRO players didnt think so at first either. Please dont excuse anet for this, content gating is more than the one time mission that players had to fulfill in gw1. What is going to happen, is that this gating will pervent players from getting ultra deep into the new dungeon until more ascended armor pieces are released.
Even if it is “working as intended”, it is not working as anet promised. They said prior to launch that drops would be up leveled to the players level in lower zones. The closest thing we get are mid lev 70’s drops at lev 80 once in awhile. Groonz, I hear what you say, but it isnt the player’s fault that anet doesnt have any foresight (exotics making players op at lower levels) and the game should work as promised. I know that things have to change once the game is launched, but this one is just plain lack of thinking things through by the dev team….. what a surprise eh?
The thing is, this is happening left and right and over and over in this game. Does anyone at anet have even a little bit of foresight? Cant they think…. If I do this, what may be a consequence? They seem to just hash this content out and then worry if it works later. Then to fix it they just nerf it into oblivion.
It looks like a split between who hates the port costs and those who want them as is. In the end, anet has to make a business choice. The people who are unhappy with ports are the ones that they are going to loose money on. You see, unhappy people are not going to give anet their money through gem store purchases, they are going to stop playing the game. That means no buying expansions either. On the other hand, if they lower the costs, I dont really think the other group will be that unhappy.
The LOTRO cosmetic system is great, anet would do well to borrow a page from their book. The devs just need to swollow thier pride and admit that town clothes aren’t working and fix it. People arent bothering with town clothes, and people dont pay money for something that they wont bother with.
Yes, thank you for beginning the pvp/pve split. Now the competitive PVP players can have each other’s classes nerfed to the ground and not hurt the rest of us.
Keep the splits coming. PVE does not need to be as balanced as PVP. Monsters dont get mad and stop buying gem store products and expansions, thats why.
Ranger does not mean one who uses ranged weapons. The classic ranger is one who is a master of woodland arts and such. Look at Aragorn from LoTR, he primarily used a greatsword. I usually hate it when people come into threads and say stuff like this (Im not trying to be one of those people), but it seems a pretty common misconception these days.
For me, the game did in fact live up to the hype… for the most part. What is huting the game for me is dev decisions after launch. Things like too many gold sinks, not reimbursing players for anet mistakes, bugs left and right, bots (lets face it they should have had something in place prior to launch), nerfs…. the list goes on.
I think that they need to come out with a mini expansion within the first 6 months, and show that they can make this game interesting. Sadly, I doubt that this will happen, as they are probably spending most of their time fixing bugs and figuring out how to force us to spend money in the cash shop.
The thing that makes GW2 inferior to GW1 -IMO- is that GW2 doesn’t have a soul, it feels extremely generic to me. Maybe they tried to stretch themselves too far with the new races being included; I’m not sure what it is, its hard to put a finger on it. The world of GW2 is beautiful and grand, but the feeling of the game overall is bland. Almost all of the personal story line characters speak in this monotone, as if the voice actors arent acting at all, they are just reading lines.
In GW1, if you killed a boss the loot table seemed improved over that of normal mobs, not in GW2, the loot table for them is worse. I get a little more bored with GW2 every time I open a chest or loot a boss that took 10 minutes to kill. I could go on, but Im starting to bore myself just thinking about it. OK, have at me fanboys in knights armor.
Well, if they would make it so that DE’s give a universal amount of rewards and fix it so that drops really scale to the players level, not 5 levels below it, people would spread out more.
I can hardly blame players for farming a few DE’s all day long. It is so hard to make money in this game that many dont have a choice. Even crafting gear for an alt can leave you bankrupt fast. Things wold get better and cheaper if they would up the rate of crafting drops from monsters and maybe ectos dropping off of broken down green items. It is getting to the point where named dropped exotics are cheaper than crafted, because of the cost of crafting mats.
I dont think that the story line itself was that bad. But, on the other hand, the npc’s in the story have abut as much personality as a snail. I not sure if its the voice acting or whatever.
anet has already given their explanation loud and clear. They arent going to do anything. They think that they are video game gods right now and can do no wrong.
This whole game is one big huge gold sink. I dont find it a coincidence that people are able to buy gems from them to trade for gold. Along with their refusal to help players who have been affected by their badly coded items, this looks like a ship about to sink. They are riding the high of release mania, just like SWTOR devs did before it went south on them really fast. If you had told me a month ago that this would happen, I would have laughed in your face, but the reality of it is pretty ugly at this time.
This was one of the main reasons that I left gw1 for lotro (along with the constant class nerfs), and things were even worse when I came back just prior to gw2 release. The thing is, at that time, it didnt matter to anet if people left, because they already had your money. But, now with the cash shop, they need people to stay active, so that people will use the shop…….
Hickeroar, they wont change anything. The same thing happened in GW1. Eventually they even dried up rare drops in hard mode, until they barely ever dropped. It seems like they like to listen to the fanboys adoration, while they weather the storms of disapproval from many of the other players. Watch, Ill get flamed by a few of those fanboys right now.
Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team.
As you know we fixed a bug recently: The Box of Berserker’s Draconian Armor and Box of Rampager’s Draconian Armor now reward the proper items.
It’s unfortunately that you experienced this bug.
We would like to be able to offer gold or reimburse you for the item you bought at the Black Lion Trading post – but unfortunately at this time we are currently technically unable to provide item restorations or any direct assistance in reclaiming your gold.
Also unfortunately there is no phone number to which you can call to get Game Support for Guild Wars 2.
If you have any other issues or questions, please let us know.
Sincerely,
[GM] Xarqualen
Guild Wars Support Team
Technology? They had the tech to create it and add it to the game. I know that GM’s from years old games were able to place loot in the world if they needed to. If this game is truly that poory made its sad.
