Guild Wars 2

PowerCat.5738:

There’s been several reports of players being given a full refund for the game and the gems they purchased as a result of being banned for the snowflake exploit.

Is everyone banned from this eligible for a refund or only certain people?

Cat look at it this way, players who didn’t attend the one time event got a chest. You could probably get a full refund if you told those in charge that you like cheese. Be sure to volley logic out the window!

Asglarek.8976:

because you can only target legs on dragons silly.

Noob, it’s toes or bust :P

I loved fighting the Dragons in Skyrim but I think the multiplayer version would be a nightmare to do. Besides it won’t even be worth it, you could spend 1 hour killing a flying dragon and all you’d get would be some whites and if lucky a blue or green = waste of time, GW2 is excelling at that atm. When dragons are unrewarding you know it’s broken

Because the game is only called Guild Wars 2. Christ thats like expecting SSX Tricky games to have snowboards instead of wingsuit crap, get over it :P

Seriously though, I miss Guild announces that they doing things like Alliance Battles where anyone could go. My Guild are a good bunch but dungeons suck imho, with that, I won’t bother. No point

Between the kittenty drop rates and the lack of social aspects unless you have a good Guild, I’m curious about what GW2 is trying to be?

I added more people to my friends list in Spamadan in 3 months than I have in my entire GW2 experience (just a generalisation)

Ursan.7846:

Great Samuel.5346:

Also to Ursan, Southsun Cove is hardly a new zone. I mean really. I haven’t found one reason to even visit that place.

“…………Er. Still doesn’t change the fact that they have added new zones (fact) and are adding in new zones, and from everything they are saying, will continue to do so in the future.”

I can’t wait to read about the next zones fiasco because I sure as hell won’t be playing it. Bet they’ll even ban new players who manage to get 3 copper from mining nodes in the new zone. Hackers, they should have gotten gloppy goo or hooves from those nodes!

Chessrook.8643:

A norn, a human, a charr, and a sylvari walk into a bar.

The Asura walks under it.

Good one

2. Where is the Guild in “Guild Wars”?

I remember back in GW1 my Guild (still same one I’m in in GW2) would have parties in the Guild Hall and set up dungeon runs, Alliance Battles etc. etc. This game (GW2) has been aimed at the me, me, me generation. So many good people have left

Mystic Starfish.2586:

1. Depends on your server, of course

A very good point!

Snarftastic.6709:

1) Is the population decent? I’ve heard way too many mixed things on different forums and games
2) How is PvP? I keep hearing something called “sPvP” is dead and I’m all about the PvP in games, especially loved GW1!
3) I’ve heard a stupid amount of bad and good reviews for this game, can any actual players give their quick opinion about it?
4) And lastly, endgame, mind-numbing or okay?

1 = You will hear “Areas are full” to “Dead” – Saddle up and decide for yourself!

2 = Never Tried it – I only do Pvp when crosshairs are involved.

3 = It’s not GW1, it kept me interested for hundreds of hours though. By comparison GW1 kept me interested for several thousand.

4 = Mind Numbing – Imho – brings me back to not being GW1. Dungeons were fun back then (in GW1). Now, I wouldn’t even touch them with ‘your’ barge pole.

4.5 = Jumping puzzles, map completion etc. etc.

Robique.8279:

Since we are/were playing the game, we all agreed to the user agreement section 11 (i):
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/

“You understand that You have no fundamental right whatsoever to use the Game, and that You understand that NCsoft may in its sole and absolute discretion terminate Your ability to access or use the Game for any reason or for no reason whatsoever as detailed above under Section 3;”

But ofc, nobody ever reads that and then whines about getting banned.

Gratz on being employed by Anet Robique :P

Because of Crystin Cox.

Mechanix.5719:

why so much hate for the Jps they are fun and easy

Chaos Crystal Cavern was neither.

So far I’m at about £80 spent on Steam these holidays but zilch on GW2, there is no point at all in buying slots to create one of each profession/race which was my plan because I will outlevel my weapons faster than they drop to keep up with the monsters levels making the game a chore. I’ve only logged in to wish my Guildies a Happy Christmas and Merry New Year lately.

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

They closed the original topic, the one which already contained all the data they require, because it is an embarrassment and may scare off potential players coming to these forums for more info about the game.

Nothing will come of this. This horse is long dead…

I pray this isn’t true, it’s been a while since I could sweep anything under my carpet. Maybe Anet need a Dyson? Bah, and the Necro’s sent them cake!

Nightarch.2943:

Paul.4081:

Nightarch.2943:

One does not simply acquire loot in Tyria.

Indeed, one must simply record loot drops pre-15th and also since and make comparisons because thats what the game is all about. If you haven’t been keeping a record of your drops since day one, “I pity the life you’ve wasted!” (Tannis quote from BL2).

Keeping a loot record is absurd. I pity you for playing such a horrible and tasteless rather generic as well as unsophisticated game, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” ~Mark Twain.

You do know I was being sarcastic?

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans” – William Blake.

Lack of skills, lack of secondary profession to at least let us beef up the amount of skills we have as our main ones, lack of useful Elite skills, lack of elite skills to capture.

Lack of creativity with Veterans/Champions with zero personality, they are just nameless pointless monsters to be avoided thanks to the effort-reward ratio.

No Titles unless you actually click on a character, why have titles at all?

Clicking on other players is paramount with the click system as opposed to having clicking on monsters as top priority, why in the open world while fighting a boss should/would I be clicking other players if there are no dedicated healers? At best clicking on other players should be disabled and ties in to the other point of having titles displayed under/above at all times. Then when you hit 1 out of the inability to actually target the boss thanks to other players you targe a minion and don’t get credit for the bosses demise.

“Neither my Processor, nor my Video card, ever run even close to full load”

Glad it’s not just me!

Crapgame. I don’t use ambient occlusion myself but even that GW2 is CPU bound it’s not utilising all my processors.

I think They’ve tried to cater for loads of cpu’s and something went wrong. I’ve heard Guildies with lesser PC components than me running this game maxed without issues. At least thats what they claimed.

nofo and CharrGirl, i have a goo computer (goo computers ftw. I meant good btw), do I really need to buy a better one just to play a graphically inferior game to the ones I can run at ultra?

Thats just wrong.

Steb, I’m assuming you are the same person who’s thread I read on the forums (now Ge-Force instead of Nvidia or something).

I agree with you 100%. Isn’t this game CPU based though? That will be out of Nvidia’s hands. Although that said Nvidia have had ambient occlusion updates for GW2 but every time = vanishing hills so the QA = bit rubbish. But again it brings us back to cpu bound.

It would be nice to know what the deal is from an Anet insider, if it’s because the game is CPU bound.

I think if Nvidia could help they would but atm it doesn’t seem like they can help. I was in LA the other day and my brother laughed at my low fps, not because he’s mean but because he’s seen other games (better graphically) running on my comp. and was a bit baffled.

Is it hard to change a game from CPU intensive to GPU? Or add an option to choose?

Annoying thing is the game isn’t even fully utilising my processors if it is CPU bound. I open task manager and it seems that my resources are being ignored or bottlenecked by something? But only in this game.

Oh and for the record, for a couple of days a while ago my processor fan would go bananas when I played GW2, as soon as I exited GW2 it went away (limited to 60 fps so not like Dead Island). This leads me to believe that the way the processor is being used is just wrong and needs an update. Never bsod, never reset but just my fan going bananas and only with GW2. Still using same fan since then and no other problems so they must have patched it.

I just hope this is helpful to Anet in some way.

Nightarch.2943:

One does not simply acquire loot in Tyria.

Indeed, one must simply record loot drops pre-15th and also since and make comparisons because thats what the game is all about. If you haven’t been keeping a record of your drops since day one, “I pity the life you’ve wasted!” (Tannis quote from BL2).

I can’t go back in time Stephanie, sorry, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. Check my login details if you want.

Jski.6180:

Paul.4081:

Jski if Anet confirm that these higher stats will have no basis on future expansions, wooties. But Remember when they said…..

See the problem?

That your willing to only believe one way with no proof in it? At best your being a cynic this is the worst type of substitute for logic.

I have no belief in anything computer game related that isn’t fun. I am a cynic yes. But after 5 years of GW1 was I ever cynical towards the game.

Actually what the hell are you babbling about Yoda? Need a Santa hat?

Christ, one thing we Necro’s are good at is munching conditions to boost healing. I do miss Dunkoro and Tahlkora though.

tigirius.9014:

The thing is this. Here’s a dungeon that was never supposed to be in the game, with a gear level that was invented (it was not missing trust me), with stats (that was never supposed to be in the game it was all supposed to be cosmetic), that suddenly became the real focus of this game.

But Anet claimed it was supposed to be or was it Ascended items they were babbling about? If ascended were supposed to be in since launch, why weren’t they in the beta and have reduced stats on Legendaries when they were planning on introducing Ascended only to have Anet beef up stats on Legendaries for their introduction (ascended)? Why throughout years of development claim that exotics are………why…why…why…We know now!

Happy Christmas from NCSoft & Crystin Cox! Watch your wallets!

tigirius.9014:

The thing is this. Here’s a dungeon that was never supposed to be in the game, with a gear level that was invented (it was not missing trust me), with stats (that was never supposed to be in the game it was all supposed to be cosmetic), that suddenly became the real focus of this game.

But Anet claimed it was supposed to be or was it Ascended items they were babbling about? If ascended were supposed to be in since launch, why weren’t they in the beta and have reduced stats on Legendaries when they were introducing Ascended only to have Anet beef up stats on Legendaries for their introduction (ascended)? Why throughout years of development claim that exotics are………why…why…why…We know now!

Happy Christmas!

Jski if Anet confirm that these higher stats will have no basis on future expansions, wooties. But Remember when they said…..

See the problem?

OP, if it was still cosmetic I’d still be farming for my ‘Mini Polar Bear’ (while buying my costumes like I did every year til now). As it is, I’m finding it hard to login.

I’d love to see Dervish but atm with so many bugs in current professions, I hope the team working on them get pulled to bug fixing/balancing for a month.

Miss Sugarific.8471:

RedBaron.6058:

Everyone likes to play Sims and decorate houses. It will be implemented very soon with brand new furniture available at BLTC costing very affordable prices in gems.

Where did you get this information from?

Ikea

Rhysati.4932:

Paul.4081:

Guild Halls to me were a place to meet up with some of the big cheeses and rub shoulders with them. In GW2, with multiple guild representation, how will that work?

Just because the system is there doesn’t mean everyone uses it. I’m in one guild with no plan to join any others at the moment.

Same here, I’ve been in mine since GW1 but the goalposts have been moved.

Maybe they should replace the current multi Guild system with the Alliance one that worked so well in GW1.

That way even small Guilds will have a chance at being, they can all pull together to form a tight Alliance. As it stands atm your either in a big Guild or in one with freinds, apart from that your chances of raising a Guild are low to bust.

Guild Halls to me were a place to meet up with some of the big cheeses and rub shoulders with them. In GW2, with multiple guild representation, how will that work?

OP, theres a thread on how multi Guilds is a bad idea on GW2Guru. Obviously Anet were trying something beta on a triple A title.

Search for ‘Death of Small Guilds’ on GW2Guru

I’ve been lucky to have been in one of the big Guilds from the first game.

Rukia.4802:

Red Falcon.8257:

There are large amounts of endgame in GW2.
If you are a PvE player you can play any of the (at this point 40+?) dungeons or dynamic events around the world, along with completing the story, exploring all the world (map completion) or digging the rare skins.
As a PvP player you can do World vs World if you are more of a RvR type or sPvP if you are an arena type.

I have 800 hours in and still very satisfied, hope you have fun too.

40 dungeons huh, wish I was playing your version of GW2 lmao then again your sig has fanboy written all over it so I shouldn’t be surprised having multiple paths in a dungeon does not make it an entirely new dungeon lol.

There are 9 dungeons in total I do believe.

I was thinking about this vocally in LA tonight (got reported by a racist for being one for my trouble. Kids). I miss doing dungeons in the GW1 way. Going to the Eye of the North outpost where there would always be players lfg for HotS. Or when Zaishen Bosses were up us helpy helpersons could go help the newbies while helping them build their heroes then come back and do them in Hard Mode with Guildies.

I’m having trouble staying logged in because even the Wintersday things. As fun as they are have zero longevity. No promise of a mini bear, etc. etc. My bank has quickly filled up with garbage and most of it I have no use for but keeping it just incase. I have a feeling this is to sell bank slots rather than an ongoing Christmasy thing!

Happy Christmas to all, all the best!

Ath.2531:

Paul.4081:

I’d wait for that porous bone event chest even if I hadn’t been to Orr. Legendary Porous Bone-er Pre-Cursor. You jelly (marrow)?

u dirty

You just have a dirty mind

Ok, I ramble a bit but seriously what do you guys think of having active guilds, guild requests as part of the character creation screen? Have the top 5 Guilds in the server show up and you can request an invite.

Christ even have all Guilds active on the server show up for new players to join so they don’t feel so alone.

I’d wait for that porous bone event chest even if I hadn’t been to Orr. Legendary Porous Bone-er Pre-Cursor. You jelly (marrow)?

NetherDiver.6079:

Paul.4081:

NetherDiver.6079:

I don’t understand what the issue is. People are running into DR. DR exists. Why do we need proof of it?

I think they need to look like they care, keep some players busy collecting stats. That is the ultimate grind where gaming becomes an unpaid job.

They’re not forcing people to do it, they’re asking people to collect stats because people think their loot drops are bugged. ANet doesn’t seem to think that loot drops are bugged at all, so they’re asking the players who are running into those issues to document them.

No but they are forcing players to do it. As far as Anet care they don’t see a problem and want players to submit info.

Do you think the players running into this issue wanted this to be the game they bought, submitting stats? It’s Anet’s job to make the game fun, not ours.

Afaik it’s once per week, it used to be less but now you have to wait a while.

NetherDiver.6079:

I don’t understand what the issue is. People are running into DR. DR exists. Why do we need proof of it?

I think they need to look like they care, keep some players busy collecting stats. That is the ultimate grind where gaming becomes an unpaid job.

You can get them, I got my first after about 400 hours so it’s a good source of income in the game, no wait, I don’t think you can sell on the TP. Such a shame, If I played constantly for a year non-stop I could’ve made a pittance.

Anet keeps removing my ways to make cash

Nayru.3947:

Better get used to it, it’s been like this since launch and will only get worse.

You’re probably not wrong, I followed my Guild from GW into this game so never feel alone when I play. To a newcomer though, it will definetly will. The game should add active Guilds to join at character creation where you can send a request to join or play solo.

I’m not calling you a newbie or anything Violet but sounds like you need a decent guild

Congrats on marriage, hope you guys have a happy life together

I remember a couple from GWGuru getting hitched, always nice to hear about.

Great, closed thread. I see a pattern here.

Anet can’t be playing their own game, my alt’s are having such trouble getting relevant equipment drops. Instead of submitting my personal drops, I’ll assume the hundreds of players that were cut off with a lukewarm response don’t matter.

I still haven’t finished my story but I’m sure Guildies would help with Arah. I don’t know what it is about the dungeons in GW2 that makes me avoid them. In GW I used to love when the Zaishen boss was a dungeon one. Possibly it’s the billion hp’s and one hit kills thats putting me off. Thats cheap difficulty.

Navi.7142:

Please bear in mind: You cannot demand concrete data, we are players, not your database.

True, I don’t keep a record of my drops, I don’t sit playing GW2 with a notepad and pen noting all my drops or the lack therof while making graphs and charts. I’m a gamer not an employee. All I can say for sure is that atm the drops are rubbish and rewards for time spent are making it harder to want to login. And trust me, I want to login.

When at the end of a battle I’m standing and the monsters are not, that is win!

Monsters Respawn

Doh!

I dont believe that for a second. I dont even think they even bother to discuss it at all because it is of no consequence to them and they dont care about us gamers. Especially those that are struggling because of what they have done.
20+ pages and cant even say hi is ignorant and degrading to those that care and are effected by this. That is why I think this is ignored plain and simple.
Just how I see it.
No I dont believe they read the forums every day at all.

This is probably the sad truth. I uninstalled the game because of this but I really like the game as it was at release and want it to be better so I re-installed for the Dungeonsday event. But now my Alt. Ranger is level 19 and STILL hasn’t had any drops of armour/weapons since level 8 (outwith story rewards). This is clearly either a method of torture devised by Anet or it’s simply broken. What is the point of having changeable armour/weapons when you never get any?

My level 19 Ranger using level 6-8 weapons is tragic. Sure I could buy some from the TP but if I was a new player I probably wouldn’t really use the TP and think the game was too Ebinezer Scrooge with the drops and go play something less miserly with the drops. Besides it’s got to the point now where I’m trying to see how high I can go before getting a weapon drop for him. If I make 80 I demand an achievement

Low drop rates = Less customisation of our toons, less profit to help us save for things we’d like to purchase, less FUN! Tell me one person who wootied when they got their 19504th globby goo.

If there is a positive side to this abysmal drop rate I’d like to hear what it is.

So far these Holidays.

Borderlands 2 – £27.98
Steam – £43.22
Guild wars 2 – Zero

You know why…..Loads of players have told you why in this thread but you choose to ignore them.

Jefzor.7145:

Then don’t do it. Problem solved.

That is still the worst argument of all time, grats for that.

Second only to the moronic “If you don’t like it don’t play it” argument people recieve when they try to help dev’s improve the game.

Costumes purchased in GW – Every one.

Town Clothes purchased in GW2 – Zero.

Theres a thread on Guild Wars 2 Guru about town clothes and the general concensus is….Well read for yourself.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/77592-do-you-care-about-town-clothing/

Lately it’s reminding me of Flyff. I pumped cash into that rubbish for months. You know what stopped me pumping cash into that bottomless pit? Guild Wars. Now GW2 is becoming the anti of what weaned me off that type of garbage in the first place.