Guild Wars 2

I have experienced this as well.

+1 for a great idea. And hopefully with that, discounted waypoint travel to areas 100% discovered…

Did you post this in suggestions? At 10 gold, itd’ be worthit to level this character up to whatever craft it requires…yikes. On that note, I think what would solve it, is to be able to sell karma items BACK to the vendor. Just as books. I’ve accidentally bought two of a recipe, or 2 of a book, as there isn’t a confirmation. You cant sell back, or sell period karma recipes, and my second ‘warrior’ skills book was completely worthless to me

Buy it off the trading post? I got personally sick of fighting pirates for 30 minutes during a chain of events, and literally half my loot was butter. I’m glad its been corrected. You can have mine and give me some hides! =P

There is a massive amount of pets currently in my opinion…but I do agree that a pet evolution might be a neat enhancement.

Coming from a standpoint of playing GW1 for 5-7 years, and only playing maybe 10 rounds of pvp in all, I can DEFINITELY appreciate where they are coming from.

I’d rather be doing a dungeon most any day over WvW or pvp…BUT on that note, I dont ‘mind it’ myself, and at times it is a nice change of pace for a short while. But previously, I distasted it, and can definitely appreciate someone being heavily discouraged by the very hefty “500 kills” requirement for a legendary weapon. Hopefully they will provide alternatives (or have?) to that requirement.

As for world exploration, I think that’ is valid, as other’s have mentioned…it is a part of the GW World. You can ‘view’ a battle scene without taking part. Put on your survival and run skills, and explore away. And with really hating it, maybe knock out a section a week. I don’t like the wvw being part of the monthly…

Anything less then 24hrs lets you take advantage of rich orichalum ores and the like. Or better yet, make it 8 hours but require 100 gems, so that there’s an obvious cost that well outweighs any materials gained.

Or buy a second account (many of us had second accounts in GW1), and buy a so you can play 24×7 on two different servers.

The reward is drops. When your 80, xp doesnt matter, (if your not getting a legendary for EVER, hitting 80 30 times just isnt a reward, and karma doesn’t matter to some who are happy with dungeon armour and weapons, so all thats left is mats for crafting, and the .
chance to get gold and exotics. When you take away drops for someone like myself who is exploring an area, and hits numerous events and such along the way, I dont want to zone out, just to keep enjoying the events?

I think it’s ‘too’ stringent as it stands…and if nothing else, i don’t mind as much the karma/exp cap, as I do drops. How am I supposed to get 100 icy lodestones for my legendary, when i have to kill icy lvl 80 things, for 1 hour, and I got 1.

The problem is, the gear and legendary requirements were designed, based off originally developed drop rates. Now that I cant farm say icy stuff for icy lodestones longer then 15 minutes, and may not get a single drop I need in that time, the corresponding armor/weapons need to then be adjusted for what they require…

This is especially noticeable on servers with higher WvW concentrations. I have experienced all of this. My friends on other servers that are less concentrated, get in instantaneously and have no idea what I’m experiencing…

I literally have to log on like an hour before hand, go about my business at home, move my guy once in awhile and keep checking back hoping I don’t miss the message. And what happens 9/10 is I still dont get the message, start up a dungeon, or a world event, and BAM 2 minutes in, with no warning it finally say “hey we are ready for you now”…

Granted you can’t have a ‘timer’ when they dont know when someone will leave, but a “you are # 5 in line” would CERTAINLY be a huge boost to this system.

I played GW1 off and on for 5-6 years. I never once performed said grind to get obsidian armour, knowing I personally was content with the other armours with a much smaller time constraint requirement based off the time I was willing to put in. I definitely ‘liked’ the other armours, and would have ‘liked’ to have them, but I didn’t lose sleep over it and continued to enjoy the game. So no, it’s not a requirement, its a bonus to those who will look forward to continue to do dungeons down the road, and not want to get 3 sets of exotic gear in month 1.

With the reward changes, now you get less tokens now, which are now more difficult, and still not necessarily for the dungeon your wanting, and at least from my experience yesterday, on my FIRST time exploring a specific dungeon, the drops were by far worse then what I could have got just roaming around a typical map. The loot, and the chests, and the completion bonus, literally left me with a profit of mayyyyybe 3-5 silver for 2 hours of dungeon delving. So the next time my friend asks me to help him do that one…I’m going to suggest a rand pug unless he really needs my help. Was totally not worth it to me, but that is my own experience, that the reward did not at all pay for the time invested.

Have any of you played the elementalist?

We get:
Staff
dagger
scepter
focus.

We also can’t fast swap.

So we are pvping against say, a warrior who charges in with swords, then dashes away pulling out a gun and sniping now that his adrenaline is charged.

Granted we have 4 different elements, but i.m.o doesn’t near make up for the even better benefit other classes get from having more weapon varieties, and weapon swapping, and the extra skills from those swaps. If I want the benefits of daggers because the battle went from say “staff” range, to close up. I have to leave combat for 30 seconds and then I can equip my daggers. Not exactly feasible for pvp when we are already seemingly the weakest damage dealer and glass vitality in the game. I’ve played a warrior, and can do more damage, take more damage, and have quite a bit more versatility both in pve and pvp.

It then would need additional programming to turn that off, to prevent lapses in maturity resulting in inappropriate phrases and songs blasted to annoy the community (Such as what can happen on say xbox live).

They obviously already have the programming in for a transaction log for trading post and a transaction log for sales to a vendor. Id be shocked if it really was an issue of
that they “can’t” do it with purchase vs sales. Speaking from a software programmers perspective.

They have a “buy back” when you accidentally sell items.
How then can’t it be programmed in reverse order? I had the same instance happen, where I went to buy a class book. I somehow double clicked vs single clicked, and it didnt’ “prompt” me to confirm, and I suddenly had two skill books. You can’t sell it back to the vendor. I had to sell it at a 90% loss on the TP…no other option.

Why not with hearts like it does quests and “Retrieve me x item” events. There is a giant yellow circle surrounding the event, boss, or “retrieve me something”. I would prefer this vs having to watch the upper left hand corner after fighting several mobs only to realize I walked past the invisible line and none of it counted.

Especially in the current state of the economy, where you spend several of your own gold, to get to 400 crafting, as items don’t outweigh their costs. And items are selling for next to nothing both on the TP and from vendors. I cringe every time I have to go to town and back as I can easily spend 25 silver teleporting around to help guild mates over a period of a few hours.

The only downside to rewarding off downed state is it needs to be an average for the group. A warrior can dish out just as much and more in damage, and can take 2-3 times the hits as say, an elementalist, but the elementalist may have more AOE abilities, and do less damage but to a higher count of creatures, etc.

It’s like using cheat codes and God Mode to beat a game the FIRST time through…
You lose the desire to play it again..as it takes the fun out of it.

“Sucks to be you” isn’t a customer service friendly response when it is well known there are still items out there with bugged names/graphics. Not sure the best solution in the case, short of take items off the market that have incorrect names.

I would suggest as is the real world case with many goods, that you require a buy that is say 15% above what a vendor will offer on ‘trade in’. This will gaurantee that the seller gets reimbursed post listing/taxes and at least breaks even. As it is, if you sell “at” the vendor price, you already are losing due to listing fees/taxes.

Please don’t knock peoples suggestions for in game items…those kind of suggestions and creativity are what drive enhancements and change. There might be a demand for beanies, pink fairy hats, firefighter costumes, and whatever after all. (Its a medieval game, and we have baseball caps with a gw logo after all). And this type of content can additionally create revenue for the company through the gem store. It should definitely be encouraged.

What about a change to the BLTP system where you can only put in a buy “custom offer” 15% above what a vendor will offer? Currently the system only requires you to put in a buy at the current ’Trade – In" price a vendor is willing to pay.

I would almost never be able to purchase say a vehicle, at the “low trade-in value” dealerships pay to someone.

As it is, I’ll go to sell something, and the current offering, I can’t except due to a change, as it says “The current offer is below the allowed limit from vendors” or something to the effect…but then why havent they patched it, so that the person cant MAKE that low ball offer…

A core i7 is definitely a great cpu for gaming, but you’ll probably want a new monitor. The 15.6 inch monitor sounds like something someone pulled out of their storage, as you can’t find a monitor smaller then 19 inches (21 usually) these days on the market for purchase from a retailer. You’ll also want more of the “DDR3 SDRAM” as the game uses about 1.5 gigs, windows likes half a gig, and that leaves you with zero.

I would recocmend at a minimum if you wanted it for Guild Wars, to go with 4gb of Ram (Your motherboard dictates whether you have 2 slots or 4 slots) If you have 2 slots, I would go with two, 2 gig sticks of memory (ram), or if you have 4 slots, it’s your call on whether you want to go to 8 if your going to be gaming. (Must have a 64 bit version of Windows to run anything greater then 4).

Best of luck.

Source: Building pcs and gaming for 10 years.

Good place for purchase of said items: Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect…etc.

If its a be all-end all, I’d recreate the character now. And not bother getting any further in the story. Or it may continue to bug you as you only get farther and farther towards legendary items/100% world completion/legendary weapons, etc.

There are a few guides on getting vista’s and skill points. Some are challenging to find, no question. I spent an hour and died several times to find one yesterday, only to find out the skill npc wasn’t even there due to a bug preventing completion of that area.
And the vista in that same town? You can’t find it ANYWHERE…it literally is not visible…but after searching for almost an hour I finally figured out how to get to it and find it for that matter…some are very easy, some are very challenging, all part of the fun.

Thanks for posting that! I was curious as well since the original one doesnt seem to take any upgrades at all.