I also pay $8 for a Netflix streaming subscription and I don’t feel the need to watch 24/7 to avoid feeling like I’m not getting the most out of my sub. I doubt many others do as well.
Basically the same as a game sub. I don’t buy this argument that there is a “barrier” to subs other than a financial one. And if you can’t spend $10-$15 on a sub, you need to do something else other than gaming with your free time.
The amount of “you” in there makes me feel like you’re making a personal attack. In my case it’s not a financial issue, my yearly expense is 1/3rd of my income, Australian .Net developers are often being paid in the 80k – 130k range, on track to retire at age 45
I find subs to be a barrier, when I’m subbed to a game and I’m out doing something in my free time, I feel like the sub is a waste of my money so I ultimately end up spending all my free time with whatever I’m subbed to. Which is one reason I like how some sub MMO’s are handled in some some asian countries, you sub based on time (say 100hrs) which you can use over months if you don’t log in much. For me, personally and how I react to them, it’s not healthy so I avoid them (and with the vast majority of mmo’s these days going f2p after a year…it’s generally not an issue to wait a year)
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Based on dev responses this won’t ever happen. They’re considered prestige items, granted I find it a little annoying as I want the white flower back piece (have the red, but would much prefer the white)
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
GW2 has the advantage over its competitors in that nobody really “quits” the game since it doesn’t have a monthly subscription.
If I was ANet I would try and schedule a “Classes 2.0” patch roughly 1 months after TESO’s launch. That’s when the initial months ends and people have to decide if they wish to subscribe.
If ANet pushes a patch then with revised class mechanics, new abilities and a trait overhaul I imagine that would help retain a lot of players.
But again, the “no subscription” is GW2’s strongest suit.
I too have a hard time accepting the standard subscription model after playing GW2 for a year.
Really? Subscriptions are typically in the range of $10-$15 a month. A trivial amount.
Just cut out Starbucks for a day or two.
Logically you are correct but psychologically for many people subscription is a barrier that makes them feel like they are wasting their money/not making the most of their money if they aren’t playing 24/7.
Personally I’d probably be back at DCUO ( I spent more in their cash shop than gw2) if not for the fact to access my in game currency above 2.5k I have to sub (a lot of the newer items from npcs cost more than 2.5k) which makes progressing in the game and accessing the newer DLC content (raids) essentially impossible within a reasonable time frame.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
An amusing way to discourage a thief I’ve found as an engineer with flame thrower (I was just having fun) is if they keep stealthing is to just keep hitting 1 on flamethrower and spin your toon round in circles. With the range and dot it does and just how counter intuitive it may seem, there’s been many times in wvw where a thief could have easily killed me but they ran off instead….maybe I just seemed crazy.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Accessibility. What good is the content if no one can get to it except for a vast minority of people? At level 30 most people have a reasonable shot to see the instabilities with a moderate bit of effort. Putting it at 50 shuts out the vast majority of players and would discourage many from even trying.
So does that make it right to take it away from us? Just so majority will be ok with it? It’s like saying that they’ll take away legendaries from minority, so majority can catch up to their accomplishments. Or resetting everyone’s achievement score and taking their right to rewards they unlocked, so everyone can “start at equal footing”. We worked hard to get to that level 50 while others were farming gold and getting rewarded for doing dungeons and such. Doesn’t matter how you look at it, it doesn’t make it right.
“That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” – Spock (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
You guys went to school? You invested your time to get certain degree? New curriculum introduced and they told you your degree no longer valid?
That’s the type of equity wiped make people upset. Real life & in game.
If you don’t understand this principle, I don’t have anything more to say.
That sort of stuff happens in real life too. You either learn the new content to refresh your degree/certification or you find a new line of work. So here you either learn the new mechanics they’re adding in at level 30 or you find another game/part of gw2 to play.
O rly!? In real life all your old degrees get deleted as if they never happened?
they dont delete them, it just doesnt give you any access to anything of value for having it. lets say you got certified in windows 95, thats pretty useless these days. In general your degree is only an entry point now, and you are expected to periodically upgrade it via either experience or further studies.
lets say you learned cadkey in college, now they use autodesk, unless you kept up, yur left behind.
Exactly. Just like we periodically upgraded our fractal level. If we didn’t keep up, we got left behind. Sorry, but older degrees don’t get deleted. Do you not list old degrees on a resume? You do. You even list degrees not associated with the job most of the time.
Nope, I don’t list any education older than 10 years ago and I don’t list anything not relevant to the job I’m applying for, it’s out dated or irrelevant. On my current resume no one can see I even had a college education, all they can see is I’ve worked with the largest bank in my country and been involved with a dozen or so of the largest grossing ecomm sites in my country (which ultimately is far more impressive than a college education), the fact my education was in a coding language that isn’t really used except for in legacy systems isn’t something employers are or would be interested in.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
So, reading those quotes, they really do intend to create a gradual but constant power growth. For example, they fully expect to one day raise the level cap. In doing so, all that shiny ascended gear will cease to be the pinnacle of gear and you’ll need to suit back up again. Only your legendaries are safe.
Pretty much
Adding to that, I won’t be surprised when the level cap does rise if current legendaries remain level 80 and require some giant grind to get them up to level 90.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
I only know of the teleport hack. If I’m being a look out at a tower and I see someone running towards the tower only for them to disappear and then reappear on the wall or inside the tower….something isn’t right.
The annoying thing is there’s basically no way to report them since you don’t know their name and nothing you can report in game with gives is appropriate or allows you to explain what happened. I don’t feel like Anet really care to be honest :{
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
For those asking for some sort of compensation for lost FotM levels- have you read or did you follow the posts when people were complaining about the change in magic find gear? Many of the comments were similar to what I’ve read here. Anet offered no compensation to people who had several sets of armor & weapons, including MF armor & weapons.
“Oh, but you could change the stats to whatever you wanted after the patch, so you DID get something!” Many people already had everything anyway, so a duplicate set wasn’t going to do them any good. And recall the ambiguous language used regarding “account bound”? If Anet is going to reply to your satisfaction, you can bet that in order to avoid the same mess in this situation, any answer is going to be reviewed by all the devs involved before it gets posted.
As someone who spent time, money, and materials on MF armor, weapons, and trinkets (but only to solo farm, as I did not like the lost stat while in dungeons), I feel your pain. But don’t hold your breath waiting for compensation, cuz it ain’t hapnin’! Can you imaging the poo-storm from those people if high ranked FotM players got some sort of compensation?
You just contradicted yourself and reinforced what everyone is saying.
There WAS compensation. Regardless of if it suited everyone or not is irrelevant.
There is no compensation here whatsoever, not even an offering.
Magic find was changed for the better, removed a wasted stat from the game and everyone still had gear out of it, salvaged or kept.
It’s only a contradiction if you feel that my personally giving you 4 ecto’s (ie what the useless gear I got turned into when salvaged) is inadequate compensation. If I send you 4 ecto’s in game right now, would you cease posting on this topic? No? Previous poster isn’t contradicting themselves then.
Fractals are being changed for the better too…
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Hahaha, all of them? you know the rules…. “#32 – Pics or it didn’t happen”
I have rare materials like cotton etc. And money for everything else. It is stupid to store 16k mithril ores while i can buy it anytime.
I just wanted to say – MMO is not SIMS or other barby like game. Even when they make ascended gear more obtainable, someone will make 1000 alts and start to cry “omg i can’t gear all of them, give all items for free QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ”.
Apparently, people who make 8 and more characters, don’t play all of them, they just want to dress and undress them… don’t tell them (it is a top secret), but they don’t need all of them be full dressed. Or they will lose all motivation to play GW2 as a barby like game. When this happens, they just go to characters screen and make new characters. So it does not matter how many alts they have, they will do it all time. For “normal” people (who actually play their characters) ascended items are accessible. Just not in the moment new patch hits servers.
Are you suggesting people want to get BiS gear for their alts because of how it looks?
Like, how those leaked images of Ascended armour look? Seriously?
On topic:
No, it won’t be alt-friendly. That would detract from the game’s new direction which is up, up, up and away!
No. I think they don’t really need it, because they don’t play these characters. They need goals (achievements or something else) to motivate themselves. And ascended gear is one of those things. When all alts will get all items, they start to collect money for full sets of legendaries or something else. Does not matter what they say, because they don’t know what they want actutally, they want endless process but with visible end (or steps towards end goal).
I don’t think you can say what others are doing, I currently play 7 characters on a regular basis (wvw gets a bit repetitive if you’re always playing the exact same toon) but it’s getting harder to do so and justify it with subpar stats and the ever increasing time required to gear them appropriately.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Don’t even think about knowing what we felt when we did fractals or know what reasons we have to do so and the rewards they didn’t even make up for the rez orbs we had to use all 2 Levels to advance to kill maw. so no rewards no challenge tell me what was my reward now?
The fact you had to use a cash shop item to advance, aka what pay to win tends to mean, probably should have indicated that maybe what you were playing wasn’t intended.
All I can say is that if such a compensation were to be granted, it should never be something unique that can’t be obtained any other way.
When you add unique rewards for doing something unexpected, they must stay. Like Legendary Defender of Ascalon stayed after being added when people managed to get to level 20 in pre-Searing ascalon.
Those levels are being removed, replaced by new forms of difficulty and variations, and there was no previous warning about it, so they can’t have unique rewards. Any reward for getting to them would have to be something that other players can still get, like a miniature from series 2.
And never something you’ll get from the new content, like a title for reaching level 50 in the new fractals, as the new 50 can’t be compared to the old.
agreed
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
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And people got compensated for losing MF-gear which has also been repeated multiple times. I seriously hope you are trolling.
compensated by having to salvage a tonne of gear to get back their progress…woo!
The biggest compensation was account wide MF structure itself.
Yeah, it’s a slippery slope all these deleting kitten. Doesn’t make it all right.
Well there’s your reward here, account wide fractal levels, even right? At least the account wide fractal level isn’t set to 0 like everyones magic find….
Actually players didn’t lose their MF gears, they get to choose any other stat they want. Gears were not simply deleted as it is the case now with progression.
There magic find was and seeing as I was talking about magic find….
Their magic find… hell, my magic find, was definitely changed, but in exchange we got account wide MF, a nice boost to get things started and a really simple means to built MF for the entire account without having to sacrifice stats. MF became more accessible for everyone at any level. It was worth the trade off (to me) to sacrifice a high MF on one character temporarily when the long term projections were taken into account.
Which is my point, it was for the greater good as is this change. People lost progress back then and were required to regain it, as they are now. Overall point is, if people complain every time someone looses progress the game is force to stagnate in various areas instead of improving for everyone.
Ppl got compensated for they’re Progress back than so they should do this noo… man either you won’t understand it and are a troll or you aren’t the smartest guy in town!
Really, I didn’t maintain my magic find without having to salvage a tonne of gears to re-earn it. I didn’t get some exclusive reward that no one in the future would ever be able to obtain like people are asking for now as compensation…all I got was the loot I already had and a worthless set of gear that couldn’t be sold as I already had all stat combinations I required on that toon and resulted in 4 ecto’s….I’ll give you four ecto’s if you want, it’s great compensation
really resorting to personal attacks?
so you got compensation what you do with it your Problem but no Need to argue ppl got compensated again.. Name me 1 MMO were legit LEVELPROGRESS has been deleted so far?
But you are being compensated. You’re being put at the MAX LEVEL before the new content (so am I really, got to 34 down to 30 for me) and if that compensation isn’t enough I’ll give you the compensation I got with the MF change, account wide level and 4 ecto’s.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
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And people got compensated for losing MF-gear which has also been repeated multiple times. I seriously hope you are trolling.
compensated by having to salvage a tonne of gear to get back their progress…woo!
The biggest compensation was account wide MF structure itself.
Yeah, it’s a slippery slope all these deleting kitten. Doesn’t make it all right.
Well there’s your reward here, account wide fractal levels, even right? At least the account wide fractal level isn’t set to 0 like everyones magic find….
Actually players didn’t lose their MF gears, they get to choose any other stat they want. Gears were not simply deleted as it is the case now with progression.
There magic find was and seeing as I was talking about magic find….
Their magic find… hell, my magic find, was definitely changed, but in exchange we got account wide MF, a nice boost to get things started and a really simple means to built MF for the entire account without having to sacrifice stats. MF became more accessible for everyone at any level. It was worth the trade off (to me) to sacrifice a high MF on one character temporarily when the long term projections were taken into account.
Which is my point, it was for the greater good as is this change. People lost progress back then and were required to regain it, as they are now. Overall point is, if people complain every time someone looses progress the game is force to stagnate in various areas instead of improving for everyone.
Ppl got compensated for they’re Progress back than so they should do this noo… man either you won’t understand it and are a troll or you aren’t the smartest guy in town!
Really, I didn’t maintain my magic find without having to salvage a tonne of gears to re-earn it. I didn’t get some exclusive reward that no one in the future would ever be able to obtain like people are asking for now as compensation…all I got was the loot I already had and a worthless set of gear that couldn’t be sold as I already had all stat combinations I required on that toon and resulted in 4 ecto’s….I’ll give you four ecto’s if you want, it’s great compensation
really resorting to personal attacks?
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
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And people got compensated for losing MF-gear which has also been repeated multiple times. I seriously hope you are trolling.
compensated by having to salvage a tonne of gear to get back their progress…woo!
The biggest compensation was account wide MF structure itself.
Yeah, it’s a slippery slope all these deleting kitten. Doesn’t make it all right.
Well there’s your reward here, account wide fractal levels, even right? At least the account wide fractal level isn’t set to 0 like everyones magic find….
Actually players didn’t lose their MF gears, they get to choose any other stat they want. Gears were not simply deleted as it is the case now with progression.
There magic find was and seeing as I was talking about magic find….
Their magic find… hell, my magic find, was definitely changed, but in exchange we got account wide MF, a nice boost to get things started and a really simple means to built MF for the entire account without having to sacrifice stats. MF became more accessible for everyone at any level. It was worth the trade off (to me) to sacrifice a high MF on one character temporarily when the long term projections were taken into account.
Which is my point, it was for the greater good as is this change. People lost progress back then and were required to regain it, as they are now. Overall point is, if people complain every time someone looses progress the game is forced to stagnate in various areas instead of improving for everyone.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
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And people got compensated for losing MF-gear which has also been repeated multiple times. I seriously hope you are trolling.
compensated by having to salvage a tonne of gear to get back their progress…woo!
The biggest compensation was account wide MF structure itself.
Yeah, it’s a slippery slope all these deleting kitten. Doesn’t make it all right.
Well there’s your reward here, account wide fractal levels, even right? At least the account wide fractal level isn’t set to 0 like everyones magic find….
Actually players didn’t lose their MF gears, they get to choose any other stat they want. Gears were not simply deleted as it is the case now with progression.
The magic find was and seeing as I was talking about magic find….
The reset here is just resetting people to the MAX level before the new content, it’s not like they are resetting people to 0. Honestly Anet should have just removed fractals as part of the LS (since the LS can remove content at any time) and then opened a whole new set of fractals and then in a year as part of the LS add in some story about them figuring out how to access the old fractal levels in the new fractal system sans all the bugs. Maybe then the whining would have stopped.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
read it, don’t agree with it (the only thing I do agree with in that article is how eve got crafting resources right). The whole article basically stems down to players wanting to be “special” and will do things they don’t even like to be “special” (why people do things they don’t enjoy beyond the bragging right of it is beyond me) which probably translates to a self confidence issue in the real world which isn’t about enjoying the game or the play style but about bragging rights which in itself isn’t a desirable personality trait or something that should be encouraged with a community that’s trying to be fostered into a friendly one.
Lol, that’s an awful reponse, you’ve to be kidding yourself.
Yes, majority off ppl playing mmorpg is not geek/nerds. There is no point to feel special in mmorpg and every1 should just do group hug @ lion arch. <sarcastic>
Not what I said at all….
Point is, in a game, you should be doing things because you enjoy them, if you’re doing it to show off it’s a little bit sad. At the end of the day, eventually the game is going off line, all progress will magically disappear, if weren’t doing it because you enjoyed it I think you may have missed the point of playing a game
Ppl enjoy it and they want to brag basically, why do you think ppl show off standing @ LA. In WoW … Ironforge, or any major city in any mmo. Players play it, enjoy and want to show off. That’s the whole point. You are trimming crap out for the sake of your crappy argument.
Btw you dodged the whole nerd/geek with issues lol. I see what you did, you darn casual.
Dodged what? the whole nerd/geek sentence in your initial post isn’t clear english, I have no idea what you were getting at. Any perceived dodging isn’t intentional I just can’t decipher what you were attempting to mean.
An argument you don’t understand or agree with isn’t crappy. lets not start verbally attacking people for disagreeing with you as you have in two posts now…..
I dunno, by going through this thread (and others like it) I don’t see many people saying they loved doing fractals 50+ for the game play, I see a lot of moaning about how much hard non enjoyable effort they put in to get there and are demanding compensation for it, I would imagine if they enjoyed it the fact they enjoyed it would be something they were thankful for.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
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And people got compensated for losing MF-gear which has also been repeated multiple times. I seriously hope you are trolling.
compensated by having to salvage a tonne of gear to get back their progress…woo!
The biggest compensation was account wide MF structure itself.
Yeah, it’s a slippery slope all these deleting kitten. Doesn’t make it all right.
Well there’s your reward here, account wide fractal levels, even right? At least the account wide fractal level isn’t set to 0 like everyones magic find….
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
read it, don’t agree with it (the only thing I do agree with in that article is how eve got crafting resources right). The whole article basically stems down to players wanting to be “special” and will do things they don’t even like to be “special” (why people do things they don’t enjoy beyond the bragging right of it is beyond me) which probably translates to a self confidence issue in the real world which isn’t about enjoying the game or the play style but about bragging rights which in itself isn’t a desirable personality trait or something that should be encouraged with a community that’s trying to be fostered into a friendly one.
Lol, that’s an awful reponse, you’ve to be kidding yourself.
Yes, majority off ppl playing mmorpg is not geek/nerds. There is no point to feel special in mmorpg and every1 should just do group hug @ lion arch. <sarcastic>
Not what I said at all….
Point is, in a game, you should be doing things because you enjoy them, if you’re doing it to show off it’s a little bit sad. At the end of the day, eventually the game is going off line, all progress will magically disappear, if weren’t doing it because you enjoyed it I think you may have missed the point of playing a game
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
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And people got compensated for losing MF-gear which has also been repeated multiple times. I seriously hope you are trolling.
compensated by having to salvage a tonne of gear to get back their progress…woo!
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
I think I might prefer that the just knock everyone back to 1. Its a new line up. It has new mechanics. Lets have a fresh start for everybody .
They have already done damage to the community… at this point the best thing they could do is just let people keep there current levels and apologize. They seriously wanted to make up for it they could remove the current person who is in charge of leading the design teams.
Or just remove fractals from the game entirely (you know like the rest of the LS) and then in a few months release it with a bunch of new features, levels, mechanics, name and say “have at it” anything to stop the entitled whining at this point, there’s people demanding 3 legendaries as compensation for their level being reduced….the entitlement is over the top.
You lost nothing but a number. No
Did they take fractal relics from your account? Yes since I won’t be getting 15 each daily chests now
Did they take ascended items got? Yes the Chance to get multiple rings per day on multiple characters through accountbinding
Did they take any gold you earned? Yes, I invested my earned Gold in rez orbs in order to advance this Gold is than lost
Did they take any loot you found? Yes, I would get 10k Karma if I complete lvl + my loot tables are better
Did they take anything besides a number? Yes, all of the above + 150 hours of my hard work to get it.
I can see english isn’t your first language but you appear to understand and are being obtuse.
Things changing so you can’t do it in the future (15 relics, multiple rings) is not the same as them being taken away from your account. Things change in MMO’s all the time, this includes rewards, acting like those things are being taken from your account is juvenile and comes across like a 5 year olds tantrum.
The account binding thing has occurred to EVERYONE in pretty much EVERYTHING in game from world bosses, dungeons, etc it was pretty obvious it was going to happen to fractals also.
Yes, things changes in mmo all the time. However, pve wise, i can’t remember for the life of me any major devs that actually wipe out progression. Old things are usually phased out and their rewards become cheaper and easier to obtain.
Account binding is not a good thing, it shows on the current dungeon. Ppl who doesn’t play near peak time and reset, will be usually, left with not many to play with, indeed the odds to meet scrubs increases.
Wiping progression defeats the whole purpose of gamers playing mmorpg in the first place, yes, to progress.
The thing is, players progress in this game has already previously been wiped for the greater good of the community.
Do you know how many people had maxed out magic find only for it to be striped from their gear, their magic find reduced to zero and be made account wide for everyone….and no one went on the entitlement rampage some are now even though magic find gear was far more obviously intended than 50+ fractals….if you need to rely on a cash store item to progress, that’s pay to win…what are anet against?
The game changes things and peoples progress gets lost, this wasn’t the first time, it wasn’t even the second and it won’t be the last.
Things change in MMO’s all the time, this includes rewards, acting like those things are being taken from your account is juvenile and comes across like a 5 year olds tantrum.
read it, don’t agree with it (the only thing I do agree with in that article is how eve got crafting resources right). The whole article basically stems down to players wanting to be “special” and will do things they don’t even like to be “special” (why people do things they don’t enjoy beyond the bragging right of it is beyond me) which probably translates to a self confidence issue in the real world which isn’t about enjoying the game or the play style but about bragging rights which in itself isn’t a desirable personality trait or something that should be encouraged with a community that’s trying to be fostered into a friendly one.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
regardless It is wrong to say to the new people: ‘’ Go with your guild’’
Not all people got that option as they are funny enough, new to this game.
instead the experienced players- should be told to go with their guild or friends, since they do most likely have the option.
Great job Op I’m rooting for ya
On the same note, not all lvl 80’s have guilds or use MMO’s for socialization to have in game friends (I know the only time I talk to my guild is on a Sunday when they do the guild mission…it’s the easiest way to get ascended trinkets at the moment). There’s a lot of lone wolves out there who shouldn’t be thrown under the bus either. Either way the LFG tool is for anyone looking for a group, each group being advertised has a description, realistically what should be happening is people filling in that description appropriately (which sadly isn’t happening)
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
I don’t think AR is the main point here though. Only certain mobs (usually bosses) have agony attacks and those can be avoided if you learn to read their attacks. What the OP was pointing out is that even the normal Aetherblade and molten mobs hurt a lot more than usual and that merely increasing their numbers/health pool/damage is not going to increase the variety/fun in fighting them.
It will just be a lot more irritating.
It isn’t. AR has no relevance to anything the OP brought up. People just like to post without really reading things.
The whole point the OP raised is with changes to CC and these mobs in particular if they start just up mob numbers like they often did in fractals, no party is going to have enough condition cleansers to get through at higher levels.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Start your own party, add “alts welcome” or “any level”. And optionally add the players who join and then leave to your block list – you probably wouldn’t want to play with them anyway.
I never join parties that say “level 80 only” – it suggests the players in question think they’re playing WoW (where stats inflate insanely at max level). In GW2, a level 80 player can easily have lower stats than a level 75 player, and stats aren’t very relevant anyway (you get downleveled inside the dungeon, so the real issue is whether you have access to superior sigils and all talent tiers, and that happens at level 60). For AC, I’ll take an experienced player on a level 35 character over an inexperienced level 80 any day.
When you’re down leveled many levels and in exotics, you’ll be down leveled to the max stats of the level you’ve been down leveled too.
With AC there’s really not that much to be experienced with, you just need to follow and stack at pretty much every boss which even the inexperienced can do.
Having said that, form your own party and note in the party description that all levels are welcome and you won’t have the problem you’re having.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
As a reward to those who help damage walls and gates. They helped capture keeps, towers, castle and didn’t receive experience because they’re at the siege and can’t get to zerg in time.
I think that’s only the case if the leave the seige.
I know I’ve gotten capture event exp/karma when I’ve remained at the treb, trebbing away to reduce an incoming defending zerg.
I THINK I miss out on that though when I leave the seige and try to catch up to the zerg (and don’t quite make it in time) which is a bit odd/annoying.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
I got to level 31 pugging (was just accumulating currency to make the back piece shiny) no talking required other than “Ready?” “3, 2, 1, GO!” “Don’t kill the targeted one”
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
It’s more like if ANet reduced everyone’s level down to 60 and kept the level 80 content the same; so activities you should have had access to in the first place are now out of your reach.
Errr…no it isn’t.
It would be more like if they reduced everyone to 60 and then changed the core mechanics from level 60 to 80. Fractals aren’t remaining the same past 30 level…..
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Nope. The game stopped being alt friendly when they implemented time gates on the account level rather than on the character level. It’s also build diversity unfriendly since getting all all the gear for a separate build is not something you’ll do in a reasonable time frame.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
You don’t have to restart the character to get it back.
Start a new character, create that character with the starter item you want, say the thief anonymity hood, then when you get in game take the new character to the bank and take out a basic transmutation stone. On the new character use the transmutation stone and put the starter item in the left pane (not 100% sure it requires this but it’s worked every time I’ve done it this way, so) and the white item of the same class on the right (and remember you can’t cross class transmute, so it has to be light with light, and so on.
Now it should have four panes, two on each side, the ones on the top are the skins and the bottom are the stats, click the skin you want (the starter one) and the stats from the white item.
Hit transmute..
The item should now be account bound instead of soulbound.
It’s how my ele and mes have a starter necro head piece and my guardian has both the starter helmet and shoulder with the ankh
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
New heavy class that draws it’s power from the dragon’s, it balances out heavy to 3, fills the “dark” role of the light/neutral/dark (ele and ranger light/mes and eng neutral/necro and thief dark) and if nothing else gets the story (since you know the release of the class would coincide with LS or expansion) back on track with the dragons who are a giant threat to the world but everyones focused on Scarlet….what?
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Avoid Norn and Charr, the larger models make a mess of camera angles and the scaled down running animation makes them look slow (they aren’t but your perception will be a frustrating slow run).
Especially avoid Charr because of the stupid 4-legged run that curses them, no GW1 or npc Charr is cursed this way, just your character.
Depends a bit on class and how you play it If you go Charr Warrior (which most appear to) you can maintain 100% uptime of swiftness (+33% running) with a trait and warhorn, which also keeps you running on 2 feet the whole time. The 100% swiftness is also possible on some other classes (I know engineer is one)
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
I am replying to both of you at the same time. Just because we wanted fun and new challenges does not mean that our hard work should be taken away and unawarded. Arena net created a fractal system that was:
1) Fully doable in a legit way up to level 50
2) Requiring to level any other alt if you wished to recieve the daily rewards at the correspondent level.
Many people chose to play according to those preset rules, and invested time and gold while doing it. Then Arena net decides to:
1) Take away the 20 levels of progress by resetting everyone
and
2) Make the alt leveling obsolete by introducing acount wide fractal level. I repeat, many people dedicated hours of game play and a lot of gold to achieve something that now the entire playbase is getting for free.
Yes, this alone is reason enough to say that it is Arena nets’ responsibility to compensate those players.
The case is different with the players that pushed to 80 and I have explained it several times thoughout the thread and don’t feel like repeating myself. And let’s not forget that those same people are affected by the above said situation: they have reached lvl 50 and many of them have alts as well.
I’m not sure how it was “unawarded” since rewards were inherently built into the system via chests, loot and exclusive drops….
Which even you yourself point out in point 2
“2) Requiring to level any other alt if you wished to recieve the daily rewards at the correspondent level.”
I fail to see why you choosing to level multiple toons is in any way Anet responsibility. It also starts a slippery slope in that, if I opened story mode dungeons on multiple toons and if that ever becomes account wide should I be compensated? If I buy multiple gear sets at exotic level at launch and then ascended armor (after promoting exotic as the top and final tier) comes along and invalidates progress there, should I be compensated? If I had multiple toons with exotic magic find gear and then the system changes so it became account wide and it gets reset to 0% and everyone got it for free…….
Your hard work hasn’t been taken away, it just won’t exist in the new system due to significant changes to the fractal mechanics which ultimately benefit everyone.
Was it poor design for Anet to not cap the old system? Sure but at the same time it was player choice to do it on multiple toons and player choice to keep going up in levels past the reward threshold.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Man please tell Anet they shouldnn’t give all These revive orbs in the achievment chest and remove em from the trading post because if you use em you get Dhuuumed only gw1 Player will get this sooo I tell it to you … after pressing a revive orb a pirate ghost Comes and will instant ban you … this is because anet considers revive orbs an exploit!
Just because Anet hasn’t fixed the issue doesn’t mean it’s not an exploit.
You sound like the people who exploited the cheap karma gear from an NPC with the launch of the game. ‘’But it’s a legit way, I just bought it from a merchant’’.
It’s obvious you are not supposed to do it. It was explicitely expressed you weren’t supposed to. Finding ways around it does not make it non-exploiting.
It’s a non-discussion, yet you still seem to want to discuss it.
what made it obvious to not Level in an infinite lvl dungeon? tell me 1 Thing ? you know it know back than ppl just didn’t know plain and simple so don’t blame em I even asked anet in a thread when I hit 80 if we we’re supposed to get there there is no answer…soo.. don’t blame us for anything
When only 1 class could survive it (making 1 class necessary isn’t in GW2 motto) or having to rely on a cash store item…..this should make it fairly obvious or at least send up some red flags.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
You already had your refund, as you could receive the daily chests for all that time on two characters instead of one.
There might be a tiny amount of people that made fractals alts to farm the high levels for several daily chests, but the majoity of us did so for completely different reasons. We wanted a new challenge, we wanted to master another class, we wanted to be able to offer our team a different set up and still be able to pull our weight. The daily chest was the last thing on our minds.
Comments like yours, and the person’s above you (the one that is laughing now) just prove that many people have no idea how much effort and dedication it takes to make it to the levels that are being reset now.
So admittedly you did it because YOU wanted a new challenge and YOU want compensation for wanting a new challenge….I’m failing to see how any of that is Anet’s fault/responsibility and how it isn’t just being entitled to complain about compensation….
Realistically, the compensation was YOU getting to experience the new challenge that YOU wanted.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
(Oh and some skills but hardly anyone uses any of them because the profession skills are better.)
Although in the case of engineer you may end up using a race healing skill
but no one really plays engineer
On a different note, take a look at the cultural armors for each race http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/types.htm#cultural
Only that race can wear it so if any of those really appeal to you have your answer
Ultimately in the end race is a very cosmetic decision, once you get past level 20 personal story race doesn’t affect the story/
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Gossamer Scraps prices have been from 4.2 to 4.6 silver each for nearly one month.
Then, yesterday, there has been a HUGE increase (6,8silver at the moment) in the price.
I remember Ori and Ancient Wood did a similar thing when Ascended Weaponry was about to be released, with prices starting to skyrocket 2-3 days before release. Will this be a sign of Ascended Armor coming next patch?
EDIT: price is 7.4s right now lol
o.O I’m not sure you understand how prices work. The price going up doesn’t mean we’ll get ascended armor soon. Nobody from anet is sitting around waiting for the price to hit some threshold before releasing the patch. Getting ascended armor soon is what makes the price go up.
Cause->effect
I’m not sure you understand what the thread is about…
Generally before anyone is meant to know anything about some Mystic Forge recipe change or crafting change, the things used in those will jack up in price several days before the patch….no one is meant to know but it consistently happens. With this history in mind, the fact gossamer is climbing in price while having been consistent in price for months may be a coincidence but likely points at something in the 26th patch using a lot of gossamer.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
the fractal versions will be different, they already want to change the longer fractals due to complaints so I doubt the event dungeons will return in the same format.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
That’s interesting so would MF affect what’s arleady in the bag/chest at the time of drop. IE the item in the box/bags are rolled for with MF in the calculations. Opening the box/bags will noly give already decided items.
This method would be a useful tool against would be farmers who would hoard bags and chest from farming in full DPS gear and then throw on MF gear to open loot bags/chest.
This would make more sense than MF only affects drops directly from mobs.
MF doesn’t affect what’s in boxes/bags, it affects drops from mobs, not loot from bag/boxes
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
the solution to the problem is probably coming, some combination of better gold and karma rewards for DE, and an increase in demand for karma.
Which isn’t a solution at all, adding more gold to the system with how few effective gold sinks there are will just see prices climb higher as people are more willing to spend and ultimately the value of gems increase further which will likely see more people purchase gems.
If they were serious about the economy they’d stop pumping the system with gold and increase loot which encouraged trading.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
For warrior I have noticed that their heals are a lot worse than other classes, this is probably to offset the extra armour they get. So in the end I think it all balances out.
It’s the larger health pool and the fact they can have 4 simultaneous regens going at the same time.
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
If you go Charr Warrior (which most appear to) you can maintain 100% uptime of swiftness (+33% running) with a trait and warhorn, which also keeps you running on 2 feet the whole time. The 100% swiftness is also possible on some other classes (I know engineer is one)