Guild Wars 2

I don’t ever bother taking my HoM ones around anymore. Constantly having to re-enable and without invisible bags (afaik) I always send them back with my materials, why oh why? If I had a right click option to lock them enabled and to stay in my bag I might actually use them and buy some too. I don’t know how much invisible bags are but I’m not buying one just so that I don’t keep posting my minis back to my bank. Would be nice to have two mini slots on our character screen at the trinkets (like the weapon swap and selected mini is always following the player).

I got my first Black Lion key drop after 480 hours, not even on my main mind you this was an alt. warrior. I still haven’t had an exotic drop (outside map completion rewards).

Pretty safe to say the drop rates in this game are ultra-abysmal for me

Raine.1394:

There is no checkbox at he bottom of he email, sorry.

Maybe it’s on the screen after you authenticate but there is one there somewhere. My IP has changed 3 times since I got the game and was sick of logging into hotmail to authenticate everytime then I found the checkbox.

Theres a checkbox at the bottom of the email to add your IP so you don’t have to check emails each time you login.

AnemoneMeer.7182:

Yup. No use for them now.

I’ve been keeping them in my bank too in case Anet needed them for proof or something that we were at the Karka finale. But I suppose they’ll be checking logs or something and not our bank storage

“Why on Earth would they make the same game twice?”

Call of Duty has been doing that for years, made a lot of cash for them

Ryuujin.8236:

Paul.4081:

Anyone know?

Yes, there is. You can freely close the makeover window and come back to it later.

The kit is only consumed once you click the button to confirm, and even then it opens a second prompt double checking before applying the changes.

Excellent, thanks

Hope this makes sense…

I created my Sylvari Necro in ultra haste on the pre-purchase weekend when the servers opened 3 hours early so have always wanted to go back and tweak her. Is there a confirm button you need to click to apply your makeover so you can decide not to use it on that toon after checking out different hair and skin colours etc? I might not want to use it on my Sylavri because she’s grown on me (no pun intended) after all this time.

Anyone know?

Grizledorf.5290:

Maybe if they introduced cross-bows.

Or let them use the spearguns on land.

I made a warrior this weekend and got to level 20. Got no dye drops to play with at all. I had to steal money from my mains sold items in the TP to buy some dyes for it.

I don’t think it’s specfic to just dyes though. I’ve even had to start buying karma items for my warrior too because the drops were so scarce. When I first played through my main at release I was getting reasonable amounts of drops allowing me to change my armour and upgrade my weapons fairly regularly. Now it’s mostly what the Merchants themselves call junk that drops. And if you actually have junk drop from a Veteran or a Champion consider yourself lucky because I normally only have my desire to fight anymore drop after killing them.

I heard there was supposed to be a drop increase but it seems to have gone the other way. I’ll see how it goes but the the reason I’ve uninstalled and shelved Borderlands 2 now is because the drop rates in that were abysmal too

lordkrall.7241:

Paul.4081:

Well I guess happy players also disguise themselves as monsters because I don’t see them in game. Don’t get me wrong it is a good game and I like it but the player count is getting shockingly low.

Depends on the server I would say.
I have yet to see a single EU server being labeled as Low during the times I play. And I have yet to get into Lion’s Arch without first having to be at the overflow for quite some time.

FotM players in LA don’t really count though.

lordkrall.7241:

It is worth sticking with.
Most of the negativity is overreacting and most of it comes from the same group of people.
Also keep in mind that happy customers tend to play the game and such instead of shouting about things on the forums.

Well I guess happy players also disguise themselves as monsters because I don’t see them in game. Don’t get me wrong it is a good game and I like it but the player count is getting shockingly low.

Maybe they’ll release a version of LA without FotM that way it can be like the rest of the world and have barely anyone there?

People who think “If you don’t like it quit” is a valid point don’t help GW2 in the long run. Not the worst, but certainly not the best. People like that should change their names to Ben Dover.

I thought we had DR anyway, or are the drops just garbage in general?

BlackDeath.8106:

TWMagimay.9057:

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

You missed the jumping puzzles? There are the only decent thing in the zone? lol

2 jumping puzzles, 1 laughably easy and the other frustrating to no end, all 3 chests gave me “what did i just waste my time for?!”-rewards. Skipping stones can also be rather frustrating for those who aren’t good at fast jumping, the other one can be exploited with jump skills.

Aside from that…yeah…that map blows. I went from rounding up 4-5 enemies to waiting on projectile reflect shield to come off cd before attacking a young karka. 75 more karka to go for monthly and then I’m out of there for good…

One good tip. Young karka is really easy. Double dodge when you see them do that range attack (its kinda like a cat stretching pose).

Don’t waste a dodge, just move left right left right etc. and the projectiles miss you. You can’t be up close for this to work. I learned this trick on the Orr guys who attack with the pink ball projectiles.

I haven’t been back since the event for the same reasons OP. The rewards just don’t justify the effort required in that place.

GW2 is ultra Ebenezer Scroogey (buy gems, buy gems) with drops but that place has the droprate of Veterans/Champions which is almost nil.

There was a ship at the LA docks during the event to take peeps there, probably the same to get there now.

All I want for Wintersday is someone to cast remove conditions on Anet to get rid of Nexon

Vayra.3290:

Quite simply if you want something 100% you should have to participate in all aspects of the game.

As for getting a legendary, you’ll have to participate in WvW anyway to get 500 badges.

You’re right, I’m sure on the WvW forums there was a big outcry of “We need more players taking up slots just to get a title and not contribute!”

Show me the Mists on the world map and I’ll change my mind.

binidj.5734:

Waffler.1257:

In Guild Wars 1 you had to play in a 4v4 arena match to get out of pre-searing. Guild Wars was a PvP focused game, maybe do research next time.

That requirement has been changed, there is no longer any PvP requirement to get out of pre-Searing Ascalon; this is presumably because the developers came to the conclusion that it was a really bad idea.

Jade Quarry etc. were actually on the WORLD MAP so were included for good reason, well a more logical one at least than this hoops jumping tactic. Pre-searing wasn’t even included in the Cartographer title so you’re talking rubbish anyway (Waffler).

I bet people would still defend ideas like this even if they made you buy gems for 100%

Ps. I and many others (Guildies/Alliancies etc.) played GW1 for years and thought of it as a PvE game with PvP elements, depends on your perspective I guess. Although I think originally GW was intended to be PvP with the world being the tutorial or something?

eric.6079:

so you are saying you want 100% map exploration without exploring 100% of the maps? yeah…ummmm…uhhhh….

So Pvp-ish maps NOT on the world map are included instead of dungeons which are actually on the map. It’s like including the moon on a map of the earth.

To get players into WvW make them want to, don’t force them, forcing someone to do something = not fun and chore-ish.

Hey all,

This has worried me for a while now, my ISP seems to change my IP address every few months (I’ve added 3 now to GW2/Forums).

Will the old ones that I’ve added to allow be deleted automatically when I chose to ‘Allow Network’ for a new IP?

If not, how can I request that the old ones be deleted?

My only issue with auto attack is that it stops working at random and very frequently (at least for me). Recently I was fighting the druid ice champion thing in Frostgorge and my auto attack stopped working at least 30 times in that fight alone.

It should be called a Knockdown Stun. Everytime I get hit I think ah well, time for my toon to have a little nap.

I can get up from lying down quicker with my hands tied behind my back than my toons can from standing up. Granted when I do it I haven’t been whacked on the head with a hammer

I won’t be back, theres no incentive to go. The drop rates were so bad during my entire time there that there’s is no point to me ever setting foot in that place again. Unless they toned down the big Karka’s since the weekend I doubt anyone will even bother fighting them.

Looks great though so this is such a shame.

cannons.8109:

I kinda agree with OP – except we should be able to hire henchmen to fill out our group like in GW1 instead of soloing.

Except in GW2 they could make us pay to hire them, there’s another cash sink for them which they seem to be so very fond of.

Costumes over armour, I might actually buy some if we could do this. At the moment I’ve spent all of 5 seconds in my town clothes and played for many hundreds of hours.

I won’t be bothering with it either but that goes for all dungeons. If it’s going to make GW2 a living hell without having it in future expansions, I won’t be buying them, simple as that.

Mungrul.9358:

I didn’t get a mail offering a link to a survey; I only knew it existed because of this thread.
Would someone care to link it?

I got one yesterday then deleted from mail when I completed it and got another one today asking me to take the survey again.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eGW2LostShores_en

I was running down to Orr and on my way seen a Pirate Captain event en-route so thought, I’ll do that, easy Karma.

The respawn rate was bananas, I can kill the pirates in a couple of seconds and they were still respawning faster than I could kill. The respawn rate must be broken at that place or at least during the DE. I just left and kept on heading to Orr.

Drop rates in Lost Shores are beyond pathetic, I doubt I’ll be back there after this weekend. Whats the point if nothing drops anything? During the event I killed Karka for about 2-3 hours before disconnecting and got one drop in that whole time, ONE DROP in 2-3 hours of countless Karka!

And if what Siliconmana.3816 said about an increase in drops rates included in the patch on the 15th is true then I think they forgot to release it. Veteran Giants in Orr still drop nothing for me after killing five or six of them. Would be nice to even just get a porous bone from them at this point

WanQuiSheR.2734:

so will people get banned for this? it’s like when u ask your dad to take 5$ and then u take 25$ instead of 5$ which would get u grounded.
i hope they get banned for 2-weeks and get only 2 rares and 2 exotics

I’m curious to know if all these greedy people logging in/out to alts helped contribute to mess up the servers which resulted in so many people getting disconnected and missing the chest altogether?

I was raging when I got booted after slogging through the event for about 2-3 hours with the end so close. But it’s true theres always someone worse of than yourself after reading the rest of this thread.

If like others I’d suffered through it all again on a second attempt and then got hit with the new build restart I would definetly have uninstalled the game. Ouch!

After playing through hideous lag for hours to be rewarded with a d/c at the end was horrible.

Drop rates in this game are absolute garbage, I make most money from selling the garbage bags, whatever they are called (In Orr).

Orr is the definition of what gamers think of as absolute torture, never once have I been to Orr and thought – FUN!

Tifa, what was your nick in GW?

Ps. Shotgun4810. Don’t dissapoint yourself, this is a great game!

Raine.1394:

Haha, just change a word or two here and there and this could be the D3 forums. GW2 is a great game; it’s too bad they reversed themselves on their manifesto promises. I think anet is in for a D3 experience as people move from the game to the forums.

Raine – I think they released the event the same time as free invite so players would see all the players on for the event and think thats how the game is.

or maybe I’m just far too cynical?

Mate, most of us are GW1 vets it’s not pointless whinging. there is an amazing game in GW2 though, no question!

I think Torchlight 2 is more comparable to D3 though?

Ostra I think Anet are confused, selling town clothes rubbish when so many GW1 players would pay cash for clothes that overset our armour????

NCSoft are aiming in the wrong direction

We don’t even have preview on the TP so don’t hold your breath!

Gunnars was an amazing place to get to in GW1

You had me at GW1

Renegadeimp.8439:

Paul.4081:

Renegadeimp.8439:

From what the devs themselves have said, they simply dont have the staff to do it.

They said they have 2 people doing balance. On 500+ skills 200/300+ traits. Thats just a very very very VERY bad idea.

If they can only dedicate 2 people to this, think about the other aspects of the game that is getting neglected. COupled with no Test server, so every single patch has been very buggy. Major chains in the game broken, dungeons broken etc….

… im not going to comment on it anymore as ill probably just be banned again by the unnamed moderator or RB2.

Is this why we got such a limited skillset in the first place you think?

I couldnt say. But what we do know is that they were developing another engine for 3 years, then suddenly decided to scrap it in its entirety and make the one we have now. Then they released it early while it was still buggy to beat MOP.

I would go into detail about what happened in beta, but it will just earn me another suspension.

I said in another post that Anets current move reminded me of EA/Dice. BF3 looked amazing when PC was lead platform, then look at the sorry sodden mess that we have now. When companies like NCsoft and that other Korean Grinder one start driving, things go bad!

Mitch.4781:

Paul.4081:

LFG Monks Only (6/8) all over again but worse

GG Anet.

Oh kitten HARDLY! I’ve done all of AC paths on my mesmer from as soon as I was eligible…something even my fully exotic geared main hasn’t done yet. Personally, I’ve found it extremely easy to get groups as long as I meet the level requirements. I certainly don’t want to play with people who insist on 80’s only…That = baddies to me.

Cracks are starting to show in my Guild of 5 years

Don’t shoot the messenger!

kKagari.6804:

Its perfect, I’m up to difficulty level 4 now, kicked out most of the lower difficulty people that try to weasel their way into my group when someone needs to leave, no way I’m running a lower level fractal again.

Weasel their way in? You really think of other players that way? Players all in the same boat, what makes you better than them?

See this is exactly NOT what GW2 (I was hoping for) was going to be about! Disgusting, absolutely disgusting!

LFG Monks Only (6/8) all over again but worse

GG Anet.

Renegadeimp.8439:

From what the devs themselves have said, they simply dont have the staff to do it.

They said they have 2 people doing balance. On 500+ skills 200/300+ traits. Thats just a very very very VERY bad idea.

If they can only dedicate 2 people to this, think about the other aspects of the game that is getting neglected. COupled with no Test server, so every single patch has been very buggy. Major chains in the game broken, dungeons broken etc….

… im not going to comment on it anymore as ill probably just be banned again by the unnamed moderator or RB2.

Is this why we got such a limited skillset in the first place you think?

From the horror stories I’ve read, Mystic Forge needs a perma ban.