Guild Wars 2

Flood.6105:

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Lol, I spend $8 to $10 on lunch every weekday. I’m pretty sure I’ll get more enjoyment for my dollar with the pickaxe.

If it’s not $10 worth of cool for some folks that’s fine. There’s lots of stuff in the gem store that’s too expensive for me to want to buy, but I don’t think the folks that do buy it are foolish. It’s a game not an investment.

I didn’t buy it because it was cost effective. I bought it because it looks cool when I mine. If it had been limited uses, I wouldn’t have bought it because I would have felt the need to save the effect for a special occasion, and that would have pushed the value below the $10 threshold.

I totally get that it’s too expensive to be worth it for some folks. I see it as two fancy coffees (and maybe a cookie) from a cafe. I think I probably wouldn’t have spent the money if GW2 had a subscription, but as it is now, it’s a permanent item in a game I can pick up and play whenever I want. I also have a main character that I’ve been playing since early access, so the soul bound part didn’t pain me too much.

rolky.9538:

Sounds very strange to me. I would like a higher-up to confirm that.

Yes I know the search function on the forums stinks, but this has been discussed many times before. I use Google with a site:forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum option.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Gem-prices-vs/first#content
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Gem-costs-why-are-the-EU-paying-18-dollars-more-for-4000#content

In this thread, there is a clarification from ANet:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/1-dollar-is-not-1-euro/1436897

John Smith.4610:

That UI is for US Tax, VAT is added into the price. We pay 20% on all transactions from Europe.

Nike.2631:

Nothing about rarity is nothing about rarity. If the table were unweighted (making these a fabulous way to get some of the rares in the pool), that would be such an attractive proposition that there’s no way I’d forget to specifically say so in my ad-copy…

Well if only 6 out of 25 are exclusive, that’s a way to add rarity, even though the chances of getting any one of the 25 are the same.

It’s not a proposition I find attractive. I understand that something you can just buy with cash isn’t rare and special unless it is exorbitantly expensive, but I don’t think things in the gem store should be rare Edit – well maybe some things like exotic minis that are tradeable I haven’t really thought it completely through. I think it is enough that there is a rare chance that you’ll get something expensive from a chest or dye pack.

Why not just accept that folks with a tiger charr or pink quaggan back pack are just may be folks that spent more in the gem store and not necessarily folks that got lucky? I sort of get the feeling that you don’t want folks to have all of the special stuff in the game just because they have a lot of disposable income, but the reality is that trying to make that happen makes more folks unhappy than happy.

Mourningcry.9428:

Best to be careful about those kind of assumptions.
I personally don’t recall any rates being officially stated.
It would not be impossible for dyes to have unequal, predetermined rates.

That’s a good point, but the way it’s worded leads me to believe it’s an equal chance. “One random dye from a pool of 25 that includes 6 exclusive colors”. Nothing about rarity.

I’m not inclined to buy one. If it was a set up so that you would get one of the 6 exclusive dyes without knowing which one, it would be more attractive to me, even if it was more expensive or there was a mix of common/uncommon/rare among the 6 dyes.

The folks that are interested in dyes probably already have the non-exclusive ones. Is there a way to tell which 25 dyes are in the pool (other than various shades and saturations of blue)? I don’t see anything on the wiki.

munkiman.3068:

I won’t be doing it in the future though. I’m sure i spent more money on this game at this point than i did on my release ps3. I think the pick is a good deal, however i already blew all my disposable income on keys.

That’s the tricky thing about games without a subscription. I know I’ve spent more than $15 a month on GW (and yeah I just snagged the pick – limited time items impair my judgement). I’m actually contemplating whether I want to convert some gems to gold with the current conversion rate. I never was good at predicting when things hit their peak. Every time I get ready to pull the trigger something new shows up in the gem store and it goes a bit higher….

Forgive me for not reading all of the previous posts in the thread. If this has been said before, then here’s an extended +1.

I would love to have a PvE locker/wardrobe. I do think though that a transmutation stone should still be required to apply the skin to a piece of gear, and the only cost of stashing something in the wardrobe should be destroying the item. For me the advantage of the wardrobe is organizing the skins, and having a permanent copy that isn’t equipped by one of my characters.

I would buy a wardrobe from the gem store if it was available.

Bloodstealer.5978:

OK.. I picked up this thread a little late and note the 200 replies thus far… and everyone is entitled to think what they like.
But reading the OP made me wonder… if this game is giving you all you want and is so much fun, why do you state you were bored and went back to A N OTHER MMO to overcome the boredom??

Because even if you really like steak, eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day isn’t that great. Variety is the spice of life. I switch up games all the time. It doesn’t mean that the game I was playing was bad or boring. I don’t really understand expecting one game to be the only game you will ever play.

Different games usually have one thing that makes them unique. SWTOR had a good story and an interesting conversation system, DDO had a cool dungeon mechanic where you scored points for completing it different ways, etc.. They all had different classes and skills and style and lore. I found the same thing as the OP though – when I went back to them for a change, I had been spoiled by GW2 and couldn’t get past some of the things I had overlooked before.

For example, I didn’t know that being able to deposit and sell things from my inventory without returning to town would be such an important feature, but going back to other games made me painfully aware they didn’t have it.

Zaxares.5419:

Long story short, I enjoy MMOs, but I buy games like Dragon Age or Oblivion for a different kind of experience, and that experience isn’t found in MMOs. If there are many more players like me, TESO isn’t likely to be a game that will keep our interest.

I also play Elder Scrolls type games for a change in pace from an MMO. While I’m interested to see how they go about translating some of the mechanics, I’m concerned that they will make some design decisions aimed at converting their existing player base that might not be the best idea for an MMO.

I think it was a pretty gutsy move on the part of ANet to keep the lore from GW1, but make a completely different game. A lot of folks have complained about that but I really appreciate that they started from a clean board and thought about what would make a good game instead of carrying over things that worked from GW1 and trying to build something around it. Don’t get me wrong, GW1 is an awesome game, but it wasn’t designed to be an MMO.

Mitch.4781:

Guild Wars 2 may have it’s flaws, many of which are discussed ad nauseum on these boards, but the fundemental game has moved the genre on.

I know what you mean. I was watching a preview of Wildstar, which was a game I was really interested in a while back, and stopped it about halfway through when they started talking about layering quests so you could get two done at once if you planned it right and then they had to sit around for a bit because other folks playing the demo killed all the quest mobs. My thought was nope, not doing that again. Seeing all the exclamation points above the heads of the NPCs in the quest hub made me a little queasy.

Edit – There was another similar thread a while back you might find interesting Guild wars 2 ruined all other mmos

Spider Bro Jenkins.2780:

But seriously, I was pleasantly surprised by the community’s maturity. One of the reasons I was afraid of mmos was because of stories I heard (not even having to do with being female) of people being mean. So it’s even more surprising to hear stories from the ladies here about the extra grief associated with being female.

I’ve found the community to be very good compared to some of the other multi-player games I’ve been involved in. I think the game design itself, and ANet’s active enforcement of the code of conduct contribute to making it a better environment for everyone to play in. The mean folks tend to gravitate toward toward games where it’s a little easier to grief folks and where you aren’t going to end up suspended for 72 hours for your vulgar character names. (Gaile is my role model for being assertive in text).

Geotherma.2395:

Sky.7610:

Their mistake is not trying to screw people over, rather overvaluing their goods (also lack of capital to certain degree).

And by the looks of it some lack of understanding some basics about the TP.

I find it surprising that folks still think it’s possible to buy up all the supply. Right on the front page of the TP where it lists the top supplied/demanded items, it shows multiple millions in volume. And yet the penny doesn’t drop.

FourthVariety.5463:

Just because nobody is judging you for having dirty boots, doesn’t mean you hover over the mire.

So what is the penalty for a German citizen who participates in an unlicensed gambling operation?

I’m of the mind that you keep your own boots clean before you starting looking for dirt on other folks’ boots.

Vol.5241:

But a 400g mark-up on something as useless as a minipet (that no one will actually see) is not going to happen.

Not that I disagree, but my Mom always said “there’s a butt for every chair”. Some folks get a lot of enjoyment out of their mini-pets. There’s a thread in the general discussion forum with screen shots to prove it

That’s the only way luxury item markets can work. Someone has to get some intangible value out of the item that the person selling the item doesn’t. Otherwise the seller would just hang on to it.

Milennin.4825:

The story can do it by making the player do badkitten stuff. Like slaying a god in Nightfall campaign. That made me feel like a hero.=P Just killing something big and powerful is enough for me to feel like a hero in a game, but it must be done right.

Having my avatar do bad-kitten stuff is what makes me feel heroic also, especially when it involves really active playing instead of just being part of a raid doing the one thing that my class was brought there to do.

It doesn’t have to be in the story though. Some of my most heroic moments were killing champs solo or with one other player that happened to be wandering by when I jumped into the fight (or happened to be fighting when I wandered by).

notebene.3190:

Pandemoniac.4739:

If you find a thread that belongs somewhere else, just flag it and explain that it’s not in the right spot. I do it all the time and the threads get moved around. With the number of posts on the forums, I think the moderators appreciate the help of the players in identifying stuff that is potentially out of place.

I do all the time, I was just extra frustrated today because they usually get stomped on much quicker.

It’s the weekend on the NA side of the globe… I think the staff is tied up making sure that the infractable posts are taken care of first. I also think that there may be a language barrier that causes moderators to leave some of the more subjective decisions to the next shift.

If I wanted to play devil’s advocate I could claim your post is in the wrong area and steps over the code of conduct line by questioning the moderation. You’re sort of forcing your post to be on-topic in the same way that you have a problem with other folks doing in the PHP forum. I’m not going to do that because I think it would be a silly waste of a moderator’s time.

Does it really matter that much? The PHP forum doesn’t roll-over that fast and I don’t see anything offensive in there.

Fay.2735:

So what that I like cute pink fluffy things, I also like gears of war and beer. People really need to stop putting negative connotation to anything considered feminine as if it’s a bad thing.

I agree with you. There was at least one post in the Female Clothing thread that got removed for ridiculing the OP for wanting a dress available in the gem store.

I’m not that into cute but I don’t think less of the folks that are… if we all had the same taste, there would only be one skin and one color scheme for everything in the game. Boooring. I thought the princess wand and some of the other items from the Winter event made for some absolutely adorable get-ups that I enjoyed seeing.

If you find a thread that belongs somewhere else, just flag it and explain that it’s not in the right spot. I do it all the time and the threads get moved around. With the number of posts on the forums, I think the moderators appreciate the help of the players in identifying stuff that is potentially out of place.

Vayne.8563:

Plenty of women love dark fantasy and science fiction and gaming. In fact, it’s gotten to a point at science fiction conventions where there are more women than men.

I think you’re so right about that… if you want to draw me to a game purely by graphics alone, you would make a Warhammer 40K Inquisition MMO. I loved Space Marine but I couldn’t play it because I kept stopping to watch my avatar stomp the heads off of orcs and ended up getting killed.

Actually I think women have it easier than guys in this regard. We can play Hello Kitty if we’re attracted to it, and we can play Space marine if we’re attracted to it and no-one will seriously question our sexuality. I feel for the guys that are attracted to things that have been labelled feminine. My man still insists that I make him watch Project Runway, even though he’s obviously straighter than a ruler.

Lots of folks have lots of thoughts, but the topic of manipulation has been beaten to death, resurrected, and beaten back down a number of times. Here’s a few threads off the top of my head:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Precursor-prices-manipulated-badly/first#post1797653

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Storm-precursor-150g-overnight

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Prices-of-Ectos-being-controlled/first#post1641450

If you want the cliff notes version – there are more people trading on the market than you think there are, and because we only see the bids and asks and not the actual trades, there is no way to know the real price of an item.

Snow White.9680:

People play GW2 because it’s a kitten good game, and it suits their gaming needs. That’s all. We’re all people who like gaming and our sex shouldn’t be brought into the equation at all because it’s irrelevant. The sooner we realize this the better.

On one hand I agree that the best way to combat bad perceptions is to just be the person that doesn’t fit the perception.

On the other hand, I think it’s important to talk about this stuff because folks need to know what’s in their head doesn’t sync up with reality. There are some folks out there that believe that most girls game because their boyfriends do. If they never say it out loud and have women come forward to say “I’m an example of someone who doesn’t fit your perception” how will they ever change their thinking?

I do think it’s important though to just dispel the perception without judging the character of the person that holds it. Anyone can have a mistaken view when they don’t have enough information (there’s that fable about the blind men trying to figure out what an elephant is by only feeling different parts of it…)

ShadowBlaze.2573:

Actually I’m thinking of coming back but I’m afraid that this game is so alien to me now that it’s a completely different game from last December when I decided to leave for a long break. Any advise for me?

It’s basically the same game with more content. Come back and just start playing – it costs nothing but time. Check out the news on the main site and see what new stuff appeals to you and jump in.

I would love to quote all of the ladies in the thread but I settled for up-voting instead. I don’t announce that I’m a woman, because the den-mothers who insist on being the center of attention because they’re a girl annoy me. I’m not reluctant to jump on to voice chat though, and I do correct folks who address me as male (unless I’m playing a male avatar).

In general I don’t feel excluded because I’m a woman. I’m in a guild that’s mostly I Australian and I feel more excluded for being an American than female. Apparently there’s a perception that most homophobic, misogynistic, ignorant, rude players are from the US. Treating folks as part of a group instead of as an individual is bad behavior regardless of which group you’re lumping them into (well in social terms, if you’re doing a statistical study, carry on).

It would be nice if folks could just be polite when they’re in the company of strangers. You shouldn’t act differently than you act when you’re hanging out with your buds at home because there could be a woman around. You should act differently because you’re in public and being respectful of other folks is just civilized.

So the attached image may be too old a reference for some of y’all but I got a kick out of it.

Danikat.8537:

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/guild-wars-2/1226457p1.html

I stumbled across this online while looking for something completely different. I think it comes on a little strong with the negativity towards other games but it’s actually making a good point.

The article lays out the advantages pretty clearly – I think the negativity toward other games was more to make the differences clear than to bash the other games.

Right now I’m not playing a lot of GW2 – I’ve gotten sucked into Skyrim which I bought on sale a few months ago and just now got around to looking at. I still hang out on the forums and keep track of the changes but I don’t feel like I’m losing ground. I might miss some living story stuff, but it’s not going to keep me from coming back and picking up where I left off. I am watching the Gem->gold conversion rate and thinking about putting some more money in the game even though I’m not playing right now because I know I’ll be back eventually.

I’ve dropped and picked up a lot of subscription games and gone back to games that went free to play after they couldn’t get their subscription model working. Every single one of them, I made a new character and started over to get back in the swing of things. Just trying to figure out what mods I was using in WoW and where to get comparable versions that worked with the latest patches was a long annoying process.

I don’t have that problem with GW2. If I’m gone long enough to forget how my characters are set up, I’ll take them to a starter land to put the training wheels back on. The content is easier without being so trivial that it doesn’t let me play my build. One thing I appreciated is that when Fractals were added, they were accessible to everyone. They didn’t raise the level cap or gate them behind raiding tiers. Yes there’s fractal levels, but you can go at least look at the new stuff without having to catch up.

goldenwing.8473:

Sokar Rostau.7316:

(snip)I think at least part of the reason is that GW2 isn’t as… “masculine” as other games of the genre and has many “girly” elements to attract female gamers.

55 year old female gamer here who got her husband interested in MMO’s…. I play GW2 for two reasons:

1) dungeons are 5-man
2) game is not gear-centric (e.g. my “gear” does not play for me, the game permits me to use skill.)

One of the first MMO’s (outside of DAoC) in the last 13 years that I have really enjoyed for the “skill” aspect since I stopped playing FPS.

PS: Yes, my daughter and I both agree: Skritt are funny and Quaggans are too cutesy.

Skritt > Quaggans 3/3 females agree

I’m a 44 year old woman and I play GW2 for lots of reasons – but they all add up to one big reason, which is they fixed everything I hated about the many other MMOs I’ve played.

It’s not the overtly girly stuff that attracts me to games (it actually drives me away from games almost as fast as Anime style graphics). The idea that rainbows and unicorns attract women is sort of regressive. What attracts women to games has a lot more to do with play style I think. I don’t like to come home from work and get all hyped up and confrontational in my games. I like to compete, but only when it’s mostly my skill against your skill, and it’s more strategy than reflexes. I’m a fan of WvWvW, and not that into sPvP.

Here’s some of the reasons I like GW2 of the top of my head

• fluid combat that requires you to be situationally aware and conserve your resources for the right moment
• it’s not gear centric
• there’s no mob/node/xp stealing <- I think this appeals to a lot of women
• level-scaling so I can wander around where ever I feel like it instead of having to plan out my quest arcs so I don’t out-level them
• transmutation stones and the dye system let me wear the gear that fits my build without looking like I’ve been dumpster diving. (And that’s not a girl thing – my man seriously spends more time making sure his avatars look cool than I do on mine)

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Release the Tin-foil Hats!!!

Unfortunately, all we have left are these Black Lion surplus copper foil hats. They should work almost as well.

Seriously though, the TP spans every single server. That’s a lot of players and copper ore is one of the top three most traded items on the market. The chart is looking really weird lately.

Did someone release some “get rich quick” guide that said to trade copper? Whatever your plan is, apparently there are thousands of other folks trying to do exactly the same thing.

Edit – Oh yeah, on a lark I Googled it and apparently trading in copper ore is a make easy money fad. See? It’s harder to be a TP Mogul than most folks think

Ambrecombe.4398:

Uh, where do you specify your lvl in your post exactly? I quoted everything so you couldn’t edit anything.

I asked him directly and he said 71, which is right for having crossed the line over to Vexa’s lab. Generally I find if you just ask folks instead of accusing them of being up to something shady, you get either the information you were looking for, or confirmation that they were up to something shady

Deepcuts.9740:

My level is 71 when near the Lab.

Vawn.3041:

“Set a fire for a man and he is warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life!”

— Unknown Destroyer Troll

Thank you for this, it made my morning.

phys.7689:

the person who is selling a good, can only get as many goods as they can get at the time. The person buying and selling is only limited by their starting capital. The difference is person who can hunt 20 items in day can make 3 copper more per item if they play the market. The person who plays the market can 3 copper more per item if they play the market, but they have 1000 items sold per day.

I see your point, however, you’re assuming that every trade they make is profitable. When you go out and farm, you always get something for what you find even if you just vendor it. The farmers are also getting karma, skill points, tokens, and the chance of getting something rare dropped. I’ve made a significant sum on dyes for example, and they weren’t even that rare. The best way to earn is probably a mix of trading and farming, but I have never had any problem gearing my characters and I’ve never bought anything on the TP for the sole purpose of reselling it.

But we aren’t talking about folks that want typical stuff. We’re talking about folks that want legendaries. To earn that kind of cash quickly you have to gamble and that’s all there is to it. Trading is gambling. If it was as simple as dumping in some money and getting back 30% more, everyone would be doing it.

It reminds me of a craps game I was in once. Some lady was dropping thousand dollar bets all over the field and when she won, she raked in a LOT of money, but at the end of the night I was about $200 ahead with my $20 bets and she was about $25,000 in the hole. She had a great time, so I’m not judging, but if you only watched one roll of the dice your perception of which of us was making more money would have been very skewed.

Well, it wasn’t nice, but they didn’t kick you after you were already half-way through, so I wouldn’t say it rises to the level of reporting them. Someone not wanting you in their group is not griefing. Make a note to yourself and just don’t group with them in the future. If they treat enough folks badly, they’ll be sitting around trying to fill up their group while you’re doing run after run with the other nice groups you’ve found.

I’d also note their guild (for yourself) – folks like that tend to run in packs.

Philly.2361:

So basically, i was running around the province of Hoelbrak, when i encountered numerous karma merchants, that only sell basil leaf, bell pepper, ginger root . Whats the point of these guys?

I think at one point during the beta they had other goods on them, but were simplified before final release. They can safely be ignored

Philly.2361:

Also, another weird karma merchant is the weapon tier merchants, located near the bear and wolf lodge. The weapon stats are all messed up. I would love to spend my karma points there if, for eg, a dagger for my thief toon, would have stats that reflect my class, like precision, power or condition, compared with bulk healing and vitality stats.

1. Thieves aren’t the only profession that uses daggers.
2. Healing and vitality stats are important to some builds and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with getting them on your weapon.
3. The only reasons to buy karma gear is either because you can’t get the stats from regular gear, or because you like the skin and you’re going to use a transmutation stone to transfer it to an item that has the stats you want for your build or you’re broke… look for a different karma vendor that has something with the stats you want.

Essence Snow.3194:

Profit potential from farming is no where close to that of trading, to the point of not even being comparable. With the use of assistance tools (which have no official stances…see posts) the effort needed for trading is diminished substantially.

I don’t understand. If the person providing the supply in the first place uses the same tools as the trader to figure out what to supply and what price to sell it at, their profit potential can be just as good because they don’t have the cost of buying up any supply and doubling up on the tax and they don’t really shoulder much risk that they’ll lose their investment when the market takes a turn. The thing about farming is that you can always go get more stuff. If a trader loses their bankroll on a bad trade, they start back at square one.

Yes, it means that you might end up with stacks of stuff in your bank or on your sale tab for a while until the prices swing back around, and that you can’t just grind in the same spot without thinking about what you’re doing, but a trader doesn’t flip the same items over and over either. Maybe the farmers would need to craft also so they can transform some raw materials into something more salable (like rares->ectos).

Regardless, I remain unconvinced that the gap in potential profits is overwhelming. I think we’ll probably not be able to agree though because there aren’t a lot of hard facts to point to… how much money you make depends not only on effort but on talent. A bad trader won’t out-earn a good farmer.

Essence Snow.3194:

What we have now is relying on the tp 1st. Imo it should be a supplemental tool, not a primary system.

Well I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on that. I can’t think of any argument that can change a personal bias – and I don’t mean that in a negative way. I simply mean that’s your view and there’s no point in trying to talk you out of how you feel about it.

This thread from a while back might help:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/PvE-name-for/first#post366525

Unfortunately it looks like there’s no PVE version. I think the closest thing in shape from the Argos Soft Gallery would be Noble’s or Pirate

Syeria.4812:

I guess I just assumed that Spidy was NA only, but that’s a good point. Since everything else between the two regions is separate, I would have thought the TP would be too. But since it’s clear the TP is hosted on a separate system from the actual game servers, there’s no real reason it would need to be divided.

Well it’s pretty unusual for games with regional servers to bridge across them, but I think it’s a good thing and probably evens out some of the time-of-day related price swings and the supply of rare items. I can’t imagine how upset folks would get if a precursor was 900G in one market and 400G in the other.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Here’s my newly discovered one. I have no idea what’s going on with this one:

“A_N_D L_D_O_A”
“ankittenA”

Imagine an “I” between the D and L

Yeah I just experienced this today as part of checking out what was going on in the We were supposed to be GODS thread. If you move around too much, it detonates the lab and boots you out to the entrance.

Yay for searching before posting

Actually it does look like there’s a problem with the terrain in that area. I was messing about with the veteran spider in the cave by the chest, and my quick shot jumped me back inside the lab.

Deepcuts.9740:

Pandemoniac, it would be exciting if someone would actually (or did already) find a way to exploit this in WvW and get the same benefits/damage.

Lol, yeah it will be really exciting to get banned or suspended. It won’t work in WvWvW regardless, because everyone is 80. There is no boundary to exploit. Besides other players can be remarkably reluctant to just stand there and let you pick them off when you have an unfair advantage.

Deepcuts.9740:

As Pandemoniac sugested, it might be the 6 levels difference. Really? 6K+ damage extra for 6 levels? I do not think so.

So what was your effective level when you went over to the other spot? Your friend was 80, and you stashed your pet over by him so there’s no way to tell from the video. You could just put your pet on passive if you didn’t want it messing up your numbers.

It could be a bug that involves attacking across the down-scaling boundary or with the down-scaling at that particular location in the game.

Regardless, I doubt it was ever intended to be that way. The down-scaling boundaries probably happen across terrain that the designers didn’t expect folks to fight on – you can tell that the mob you have targeted is leashed by its regen. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I just don’t find it all that exciting.

(Edit for punctuation)

Also make sure you don’t have any filters set and don’t have any text in the search box. Oh, and that you’re at the correct crafting table.

I have a character that is a weapon smith and a huntsman and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve sat at the huntsman station looking for an inscription my weapon smith was high enough to make but my huntsman wasn’t.

Syeria.4812:

Pandemoniac.4739:

This short bow is really cool looking in my opinion:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/gallery/image/4387-fused-shortbow-skin/

What skin would I go buy that is similar but maybe not quite as cool? I don’t see

The difference between the Tiger Charr backpack and the Plush Charr backpack is essentially identical to the difference between the Fused Shortbow and the Molten Shortbow.

Nope it’s not, or folks would have been screaming bloody murder over the Tiger Charr backpack too. The charr backpack is a texture difference. Molten is a completely different skin. Frankly, I much prefer my Ebon Vanguard shortbow over the Molten.

Edit – attached the fused image for easier comparison

Syeria.4812:

Charismatic Harm.9683:

This is incorrect. The Trading Post is actually global and covers ALL servers, not just North American ones.

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that the EU servers utilized a separate trading post system from the NA servers.

I think if that were true, Spidy would require you to put in which region you wanted to look at for price information.

(Edit – messed up the quoting)

JK Arrow.7102:

TP warriors will most likely always earn more than farmers. As a guildy once told me, I don’t farm mobs, I farm farmers. I’m not sure anyone here is saying this can be changed completely but the compromise is making general PvE rewards feel like it is a close comparison.

Well I think you’re assuming that farming mobs and making money on the TP requires the same amount of work and skill, which I don’t believe is true. Farmers can (and many do) increase their profits be being smart about what items they farm and when and for how much they sell them. The reason there’s a gap in earnings is not because TP investing is inherently better, it’s that the folks involved in it that do make a lot of money put effort into researching the best way to get the most value, whether they’re purely working in buy/sell orders or whether they’re selling the items they found by farming.

JK Arrow.7102:

The TP creates a dependence on other players to farm needed items for you rather than allowing a player to get them themselves. Anet loves to use stacks of 250 of something for recipes rather than more reasonable amounts. It would be good from an individual player’s perspective if it were a more difficult decision to either farm something or buy the items rather than the current state of having to buy them.

So, you want folks to feel more rewarded for farming, but you want to reduce the market for the items they’re farming? I understand that lots of folks would rather find items than earn gold, but I think what you’re missing is that buying things on the TP is basically trading the stuff you find that you don’t want to someone that wants it, and getting what you want from someone else who found it and didn’t want it.

Currency is a good thing because it frees you from having to find and make everything yourself. You’re looking for armored scales, but oops, an exotic weapon drops. Are you just going to toss it in the bin, or are you going to sell it and buy some armored scales? That one weapon drop could represent 10 armored scales dropping from one mob, but only if you turn it into gold.

JK Arrow.7102:

What if somehow achievement points were used to purchase high end rewards?

I actually think this is in the works, but I don’t remember where I saw that so take it with a grain of salt.

Deepcuts.9740:

Double checked. Killed the same mobs on the ground and from that place.
There is a Veteran there also. Same situation.
You can check for yourself instead of “maybe you hit critters” or just pay attention to the video.

You were across the line where you got down-leveled to 65. If you look at your pet’s level, it’s 65 when you’re running through a cave of 62s. When you cross the line, it goes up to 71. A 71 versus a 62 doesn’t seem like an entirely fair fight :P

Calae.1738:

It’s lazy and uncreative.

It’s just one person doing one size fits all clothes to save time.

I don’t agree – you have 5 different races and two genders to accommodate, even if there isn’t that much variation in the clothes, it’s not a little bit of work to get clothing to work on 10 different models, and make sure you don’t have any texture stretching or nasty seams. I’m sure the dye system also increases the work.

Maybe if the style was more cartoonish like WoW where so few folks seemed to notice the awful texture problems with some of the armors, they could knock a bunch of skins out, but with the style of GW2 I don’t think it would be so easily overlooked.

If you’re going to sell something in the gem store, it’s got to be pristine.

Buttercup.5871:

The dragon chest comparison, however, goes nowhere and only dilutes the discussion.

In what way?

FourthVariety.5463:

Gambling is defined at the moment where you enter a game of chance in exchange for money. Gambling is not defined by the outcome. Gambling is not defined by the availability of alternatives to purchase any of the prices.

FourthVariety has insisted that opening BLCs are a game of chance and that even if your ability to open the chest is removed by several layers from the actual point where you paid money, that doesn’t affect its legal status as gambling. By that logic, opening any chest is a game of chance, and if you paid for the opportunity to open it, it’s gambling in Germany. You can’t open any chest in GW2 without paying for the game. Ergo, ANet and every other game with RNG mechanisms must get a gambling permit to be sold in Germany.

Yes, it’s absurd, which is my point. If folks want to talk about legalities, the discussion is going to inevitably head down the path of picking apart arguments. I find it a bit fun as long as it stays friendly, it moves forward, and folks avoid ad hominem.

In my opinion, the law was written to close loopholes used by real gambling operations to avoid the tax, and was never intended to apply to all games with an element of chance. No law can be written so that it covers all situations unambiguously. That’s why every sound legal system has trials with judges to apply the intent of the law to a specific situation.

Buttercup.5871:

I think I understand his point, despite some flawed anaologies of chips in casinos (can’t convert gems to money, unlike chips). He says it doesn’t matter whether you can buy the gems with gold. The fact that you can buy them with money is what counts. According to him, this triggers his national gambling laws, where you need a permit to even hold a raffle.

Yes, I understand his interpretation of the law as it’s written. The problem is that without citing any sort of a precedent for your interpretation of the text, it’s all just opinion. Even if you are actually a lawyer, your reading of the text of the law doesn’t hold any more water than my interpretation unless you point to a related case where a judge heard the arguments for and against and ruled on them.

Gems are not poker chips. They can’t be traded in for cash, and they can be used to purchase other items than black lion keys.

Opening a chest is not a game of chance. The chest always contains something, you just don’t know what it is until you open it.

By his logic, buying the game would be gambling. I have to pay money to buy play the game so that I can kill the dragon to open a chest which may or may not have a precursor in it.

Almost everyone I run with always has a potion/food on, so I don’t think the lack of auto-consume is really to blame (Although I fully support a consumable slot on the skills bar!)

One of the problems with food is that it is very difficult to find what you want solely through the TP. You have to go to the wiki, look up which food has which bonuses, then type the exact name into the search to find it. This also really limits the ability to sell anything other than the current most popular foods.

Chef is by far the easiest way in the game to get 10 levels, so there are a lot of them, and many of the ingredients are really easy to get. The only reason to not cook for yourself is to save some time, but unless you know exactly what you want, trying to find food on the TP can be just as much hassle as cooking it.

OhhGasm.9604:

For the case of recipes requiring certain amounts of tokens, you can just make replace those tokens replaceable with an item which you can buy from the NPC for the same amount of tokens, much like those bought with 500 Fractal Relics.

That’s a good solution. For existing tokens, maybe a “deposit” could be added to the right click menu to put them into your currency bucket.

munkiman.3068:

Since there is an exchange rate, you could say that gems have a value, which in turn translates to in game gold. Just because you gamble with chips which can be traded for money, doesn’t all the suddenly make it not gambling anymore. Not that i really care about the whole gambling argument, i’m just pointing that out.

I don’t particularly care about the gambling argument either, but I think the fact that the conversion is one way (gold can’t be converted to cash) would be an important legal distinction.