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Trading Post and Mailing (suggestion)

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Those are in there for various reasons, least of which is gold sellers.

Anything worth buying this week?

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It’s all personal as to what is worth it to buy. What I like is not what you like.

Did HoT ruin GW2?

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I have been having loads of fun with HoT. No bad taste here. Not regretting buying the expansion. Can’t wait for LS3 and either another LS or the next expansion.

Table to see which wpn skins you are missing?

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Like I said on another topic when the site came up to use ….. I am not giving a site outside the game access to my account information. So I will just open the wardrobe tab inside the game to see what I am missing.

Anyone Else getting Bored

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Here is a novel idea …. Why not take a break and do something else for awhile? You are not paying a monthly subscription. No need to worry. The game will still be here when you decide you want to come back.

was this known (relinking)?

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Yes it has been in beta for a little while.

Suggestion, Patron Membership

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ANet has already said (multiple times) for the last 10 years that there will be NO sub/membership fees EVER.

I have been playing online games since the BBS days and still do not understand why someone would pay $50 to $100 (or more) for a game and then pay $5 to $20 a month just to be able to access what was already bought and paid for.

/age and /deaths

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Gw2efficiency gives you this info on account summary. I’m fairly certain that PvP deaths don’t count.

For my part, SAB ruined my deaths per hour ratio.

Fine if you want to give access to another company and it may be ok but I can get the information straight from the game itself so no thank you on letting someone else having access to my game.

You should look up what an API is to understand it.

You do sound like quite the silly pirate.

I understand what it is – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface – you give that site permission to access your data on the API from ANet. I choose not to. I also choose not to be on FB, twitter or any other social interactive sites for various reasons, mainly as I do not want anyone to know more about me than I do. And they all have algorithm’s to extract all kinds of info and track where you go online and track you when you walk into other stores. You would be surprised at how much information gets gathered. I can’t stop all but I can stop some to a degree.

/age and /deaths

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Gw2efficiency gives you this info on account summary. I’m fairly certain that PvP deaths don’t count.

For my part, SAB ruined my deaths per hour ratio.

Fine if you want to give access to another company and it may be ok but I can get the information straight from the game itself so no thank you on letting someone else having access to my game.

''BEEPER'' for Guild Wars 2

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The treasure chest icon is from world bosses and those are on a timer which you can access thru many, many websites. For instance the Wiki has one so does Dulfy.net. I am sure there are others that have the timer for the world bosses.

There is absolutely no reason players should have to go outside the game to get information about what is currently going on in the game with regard to events. Especially if the player is already on the map. This is 2016 folks, that world event timer should be accessible from inside the game. Create more immersion, do not destroy it. I can understand having to go to an outside website to look up a quest chain or the materials required for a recipe. I do not see why a player needs to go outside the game for a timer of live events happening while playing the game.

Because it’s easier to give someone a link and make them find the answer themselves than to look up the answer ourselves and tell them.

There is so much more information on those sites than just timers for the world boss events. By giving them the sites they get way more answers to questions that maybe they would not have asked in chat.

''BEEPER'' for Guild Wars 2

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If anyone asks in chat “why is everyone standing around?” or “what is MAW?” (or what ever the name for the boss is on that map) or any question(s) that ask about the world boss then I point them to the websites so that they know when the rest are. There are usually people that have played for a while that did not know about the timers either, not just “newbies”

And when the daily has people asking “where are the events?” then I point them to how to fix their mapping options to show close events so that they did not have to keep asking and know when they pop up instead of waiting for someone to post about it.

''BEEPER'' for Guild Wars 2

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The treasure chest icon is from world bosses and those are on a timer which you can access thru many, many websites. For instance the Wiki has one so does Dulfy.net. I am sure there are others that have the timer for the world bosses.

perm harvest tools should be account unlock

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All I can say is that if they were account bound

Ummmmm They ARE account bound!!! To move them from one char to another all you have to do is either put them in the bank so that next char can use them (which is what I do) or get the shared inventory slots and put them there for the next char.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gathering_tool
“Each gathering tool has an infinite version that does not run out of charges and can be purchased from the Gem Store for gems.”

perm harvest tools should be account unlock

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And then people would be posting how they needed to be refunded for all of the excess gathering tools.

When they made them account bound they did refund for a short while. But now it’s been so long since that change I doubt very seriously that they will refund anymore.

Then there are those that buy different ones to match the characters they make. I doubt they will want that change.

Modern Leveling

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Playing game maybe? I level so fast just exploring and playing the game …… also get lots of materials and gold that way too.

Considering coming back.

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Played in beta and headstart over 3 years ago. Prepurchased HoT and have been playing that too.
Call me a “white knight” if it makes you feel better but there are actually quite a few people that are playing and having lots of fun doing so, I happen to be one of them. I still play pretty much every day, I have not run out of things to do yet. I still come across events and stuff that I had not seen before.

Best advice I can give you is to download and play again. It costs nothing to do that since the game is “pay to play”. The whole f2p thing is nothing more than a long trial thing. They have so many restrictions on their playing. Only you will know if you like the game or not. I don’t care how many people you ask, no one can tell you your preferences.

Season 3 Soon?

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True. If that’s the case, very interesting indeed. Maybe it was released before Anet intended it to be?

Would not be the first time that some publication released something a day or two earlier than what ANet asked for.

found a poster: some kind of propaganda

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You may want to peruse this. It has all the locations for the posters. You need to take them down within a set amount of time – http://dulfy.net/2013/07/10/gw2-cleaning-up-the-neighborhood-separatist-propaganda-achievement-guide/

There is also this one that you can do at the same time – http://dulfy.net/2013/07/10/gw2-speedy-reader-the-founding-of-ebonhawke-achievement-guide/

Returning Player: Got a few Questions

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Season 2 is for sale in the Gem / Trading Post. If you had logged in while it was going on you would have gotten it for free. If you want to complain there is rather large post about it.

You can do any part of the personal story or HoT story at any time. You do not have to do them in order unless you are following the story completely. Honestly I did not nor does it matter to me really about the full story. I can read the synopsis online if I really wanted the whole thing without it being broken up by playing the game.

LFG is for finding any group to do what you need help with and that includes story parts, hero points and dungeons and yes even the new 10 man dungeons otherwise known as raids. Thou to be honest I would not do a pug for those as you need to be more coordinated with the team.

As for adventures, look at the wiki as there are lots and it will give you pointers on what you need to do in them.

Hitting level 80 you will have all the hero points you need to unlock everything for your basic skills, for the elites specs you need more hero points.

You can now (with some help from the gem store) have 4 crafting disciplines on each char at a time. You can max one out and move to another and still be able to go back to the maxed one at anytime without loosing levels in it, just a few silver to do it each time.

Concerned about WvW and World Options

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Again —-- ANet is NOT making you pay anything. You are volunteering to do so to continue playing with a guild that moved while you were away. ANet is NOT forcing you or making you do this.

Gift of Battle Feedback [merged]

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Concerned about WvW and World Options

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So you took 6 months away from the game (either cause you had to or you wanted to is immaterial) and while you were away your guild moved servers. Now for you to play you have to pay to play on the same team while in WvW and somehow this is ANet’s fault? You are not being “FORCED” to pay anything. You are volunteering to pay in order to play with your guild that moved.

Gift of Battle Feedback [merged]

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Gift of Battle Feedback [merged]

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They DID announce this a few weeks ago.

What items are save to delete...

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Double check the Wiki to see if any of them are used for something else. Some are and some are not.

When is population checking being run?

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ANet has metrics about everything in the game. They know how many play on which map at any given time. They just do not share that information with the general public. And honestly I don’t blame them for not sharing with the general public.

Sitting out the rest of the polls

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These polls are better than our national election.
Which i don’t go to, since noone deserves my vote.

Even checking (or writing in) “None of the Above” is better than not voting. If that is your vote than vote it that way whether here or in any other election if that is how you feel.

Add map search

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You might want to try here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map
or
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyria

These pages and their separate sub pages will show you each section and what is there in each map. If you do find something extra or missing you make some updates to the pages since it is player driven with a little help from ANet.

Hardened Leather Squares

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Playing the stock market / trading post is very risky. It is not ANet’s fault here that you did not make more gold.

The state of thick leather

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Check here – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Thick_Leather_Section – for where you can get more. Go there and kill the enemies and get the loot. Does not matter what level you are as the loot table for that loot will only give the loot listed

Are squads which encourage blobs hurting wvw?

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Wow ….. quite a few people complained that they did not like the other map because you couldn’t blob and have massive fights ……. Now we have people complaining about blobs?

Gold making

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I play the game, killing everything and harvesting everything.
Killing everything nets me lots of bags and loot. I know some complain about all the bags BUT the loot inside I either sell on the TP for gold or salvage it.
Harvesting (and salvaging) everything nets me LOTS of materials to either use for crafting or selling on the TP, sometimes making lots of gold that way. It all depends on the prices on the TP.
Whatever I sell on the TP has to be going for more than double than selling to a merch. Usually things sell for way more than double. Sometimes I hold off on selling certain materials when they are selling for low amounts since I know the prices usually go up.

Right now I have over 300 gold. At times I have given 50 to 100 gold to family and some friends and than made it all back selling extra materials.

Why gear drops exist at all?

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I either put the drops on the TP, including the white level gear, as long as it is more than double what I would get from selling it straight to a merchant. If it is not then I usually salvage it.
Some I save to put into the Mystic Toilet, there is no rhyme or reason to what I throw in there but sometimes I get nothing and sometimes exotic stuff comes out. Since I don’t spend money on it and it’s just trash going in I have no complaints about it, lol.

How to fix GW2s end game problem...

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Been playing GW2 since Beta over 3 years ago. I have not run out of things to do and therefore have not reached the “end” of the game. If I did reach the “end” then I would no longer log on because the game would be over then. Since it is not over and still going and they are still adding stuff then, for me, there is no “end” yet.

Hard Mode Clears + Single Player Challenges

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GW1 was all instanced except for cities. Which means that each time it was just you and your party in there so therefore hardmode was doable. You cannot do it with a regular MMO which is what GW2 is. You have wwwwayyyy more than just you in a map now.

Direct Trade ?

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It’s because of scam artists actually. They decided it was better allocation of people resources to have something like the TP than it was to have people tracking down all the support reports of scamming.

You can still do somewhat a direct trade thru the in game mail system or thru a guild bank but it’s on you if something goes wrong.

PVE not competitive enough.

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Annnnndddd the OP stopped posting here a day ago. Everyone is now arguing without the OP ………

S: to mitigate flipping TP and bots

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You can look anytime you want to to see how much you paid for something. Or when it was bought. Are you actually just wanting something to show off to other people when you bought something and how much it was? You also want to penalize people for buying something and not wanting it anymore and selling it within a certain amount of time?

Release inactive char names

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Since the game started over 10 years ago it’s always been this way. They do not and will not take any names away even if the person has not been in the game for years. They have said so several dozen times.

WvW borderland rotation poll

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I like both maps. Both maps have different mechanics to play. Actually the desert one is closer to real life war situations than alpine.

Stop trying to say no one likes something when that is just not true. You may not like it but there are those that do. That’s life, no one is exactly like someone else, no likes everything exactly the same as someone else.

PVE not competitive enough.

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No kill stealing
No drop stealing
No node stealing
All share in the killing with everyone getting XP from it
No open world PvP

All things known BEFORE the game went live over 3 years ago and you want to complain about it now?

Haven't Played Since 2014

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Your level NEVER goes beyond 80.
You can get masteries that give some extra things and there are 166 total mastery points to get if you get the Heart of Thorns expansion.

very happy

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Silly me for thinking that you would still want to play a game that you said was “ruined” for you.

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Another “I quit!” thread? If I didn’t like a game anymore I would just stop playing and play something else. Done that for lots of games. Not this one thou, I do like GW2 quite a bit and I am having lots of fun with lots people in PvE and WvW.

Ls3 and HoT

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No you can’t log in to get each episode of LS3 and have LS2 unlocked.

Yes you will need HoT to play the LS3.

No one knows if you can log in and unlock LS3 without having HoT yet.

The most profitable wvw reward track

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I am doing one of the dungeon tracks myself for various reasons (2nd time going thru it now) so for me it’s the dungeon track I need for awards. When I finish getting those I will move onto a different track and then that one will become the most rewarding for me.

Spy/Saboteur Accounts

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Spying has been around for thousands of years in real life. Spying in games has been around as long as the games have been around. When did it become against any rule to spy on the enemy?

HoT PVE: Worth it?

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Only you can answer that. I like it and am having fun in core and in HoT areas. There are others that hate it and they only stepped into it for about 30 mins or less. Then there are others that hate it and never bought it or played it and never will because “it blows”.

[Suggestion] New Build System [Merged]

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They have been saying for a long time that they are working on it. It seems to be a bigger issue to implement than they thought it would so it is taking more time to do.

Did Heart of Thorns ruin the game?

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Nope, not ruined at all. Still enjoying playing all parts of the game and I have been playing pretty much every day since Beta over 3 yrs ago. I still have not run out of things to do and doubt that I will.