Guild Wars 2

SkyShroud.2865:

i think anet change their mind and decided that a expansion with tons of new things is better than incremental patches

Ya, I am wondering if there will be ‘tons of new things’ or only a small bit more than what they gave us with DT/SW

What are the “tons” of new things you are expecting?

What if HoT is nothing more than a glorified over hyped map like SW. Do you remember all the advertising for how awesome SW was going to be? I am fearful that heart of thorns will be nothing more than the opening up of the maguuma area just a little bit more, with another gimmick movement skill like the crystals in drytop. and a couple new skills. Could you imagine if they had released Eye of the North with just one map, and a few new skills?

I am extremely skeptical that this so called expansion will be anything of substance.

(I will forgive you if you give me totem axes, and an 55 build from The Falls)

Are you people daft? Of course this is a nerf, It is a nerf to the value of sigils and runes, because now there will be an even more influx of garbage runes, making them even less valuable. Not that 16c for a minor rune could go much lower, but I would prefer they make runes/sigils only salvage from major/mystic kits, which would maybe increase the value of salvaged items…

really hoping chaos skins go back to 5 tix, so they go back up to 300g again.

This whole thread is ridiculous. All anet needs to do is make it harder to kill foes than just having high damage output and a player hitting 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

Everything else is just trolls feeding each other.

It is all part of the plan to remove all connections to guild wars 1 in preparation for the expansion release.

Do you think we could get a achievement leaderboard, that only takes into account currently available achievements? We can keep everything else the same, I think people who have joined after the original release might like to see how they stack up against players, with the content that they have available to them.

basically just a leaderboard that doesn’t reflect past holidays and no longer accessible content.

I am not asking we remove the other leaderboard, but for AP hunters that started late, a more accurate one might make them feel a little better.

I ’ve had people mock me, call me names and hurt my feelings, all because I used my kick kitten legendary axe in a dungeon run, instead of the only socially acceptable way to play this game – full out zerker!

So if anet is paying attention, they might want to take into consideration that people may be leaving this game for one that they can “Play the way they want”

I still cry myself to sleep every night since that day, Do you have any idea how hard it was to get that kitten Axe? and I’m not allowed to use it…

@Malediktus and Vavume…
Your counter arguments to a reset are overwhelming,

but maybe if they give us the option to reset, they could also create an ‘auto fill’ option for people who have more points than places to spend them.
You do realize that if you click the last box in the bar, it will complete the bar, you don’t have to click each individual box.

So I made a WvW specific character a while back, I had a bunch of points saved up, and dumped them into Siege buffs and the standard defense against guards/more damage against guards lines, But being the idiot I am I didn’t understand the best use of the points I had. Now I’ve been waiting for months… how long ago was the last reset? hoping I can fix my point allocation. Please Anet I really want to redo these to make my WvW experience slightly better.

See the thing is…. In GW1 if you needed something, you looked at wiki, saw what dropped it, and you went and killed that foe until you got what you needed.

So GW2 screws up many GW1 players, because in GW2, the only drops you are guaranteed to get are crappy blue/green weapons.
New players say SW is “the best place to farm” because they can just pack their inventory full of these crappy weapons/armor, and also get mats. But GW1 players have a hard time adjusting to farming 1 item to sell in order to buy the item they actually want.
I learned this by trying to farm charged lodestones in Malchor’s, I got 1 on my first kill, and none after that. There is no anti-farm code in this game, other than the fact that if you want it, it won’t drop often enough to be considered farmable.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Dear OP… Some of us like the small scale combat in WvW and would prefer it not to change.

Myself for example, I spent most of my time in this game in T1. I’ve transferred to nearly a dozen severs all in higher tiers and wasn’t comfortable until I went way down to T7. Why? Because I like to solo roam and in higher tiers you’re either a Thief or you’re a Thief if you want to solo roam and not get steam rolled every 10minutes.

It might not be as competitive and there might be multiple times in a day where it gets slow but I prefer it to higher tiers any day…

My intent is not to remove low population WvW servers, but to have worlds populations totals reflect the number of people that are representing that world. Changing how we define what makes a world populated won’t change the number of people playing WvW, but it will take servers like Dragon Brand, which is a PVE server out of matches against other T3 servers.
If you are in Bronze, and the majority of the people on your server are PVE, which is usually the case, Your server will still be an empty ghost land where you can farm cap camps and sentries to your hearts content, without actually having to play WvW the way it was designed to be played.
FYI, I am a roamer in HoD, and it is annoying now that we have queues, but it doesn’t prevent me from getting in there and playing the game the way I want, And we are nowhere near bronze anymore.

(edited cus I can’t keep threads straight… I do want a higher map cap% though)

can we just get a higher cap…

Im confused do the higher tiers not want more people, or do they? T1 likes having coverage, but we don’t want lower tiers bandwagoning to T1? I must just be tired….

So if Anet decided to re-evaluated the home worlds… basing the populations, not on active accounts associated with the server, but rather accounts that interact with WvW. What do you think would be a metric to determine if an account should be counted as being part of that world. Understand that with Megaservers ‘Home worlds’ only apply to WvW anyway.

Would there be accounts that participate in WvW so little, as to not qualify as being ‘Part’ of that world. Could an account become unaffiliated and only exist in the “megaserver” without a defined server name.

What if there were an Opt-Out option from WvW. as an example
“I do not wish to participate in WvW, but I do not wish to transfer servers, please detach my account from [your world here]” These types of accounts could still participate in EOTN, but would no longer prevent other players from transferring to a ‘full’ server.

my system is half as good as yours and I get high 70s FPS,
Have you tried restarting your computer?

Ya, I would join an active guild, creating one from scratch is not easy, you will get no support from anet on building guild cohesion. So unless you are a really charismatic leader and are willing to give up your life to bringing other people together…
Not to mention This game is designed to cater to large guilds, unless you like just playing with a small group of friends, which some do.

Its all a matter of perception.

Go get all the lost coins in the Silverwastes, then go back to the original JP, and tell me they are still hard.

But will there be any reason, in PVE, to use any skill other that 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

I will never understand why there are players of this game who jump to the defense of the game, when ever someone asks if the bugs will be fixed. Why is asking for the game to be made better such a threat to these players? There are things in this game that need to be fixed. Can we expect them to be fixed, or when HoT comes out, will we the player base just move on to reporting bugs in that release that may, or may not be acknowledged or fixed.
If a bug is not going to be fixed, it would be nice to know, so an individual can move on to something else.

The game is played differently by everyone, some players expect a higher standard of game play. So if you only play an hour a day, and are not concerned with the glitches etc. fine – but don’t belittle those who live and breath this game and would like a better QoL

YES PLEASE! There are 5000 achievement points in that Historical content that I would love to have access to. 10 a day for daily is inconsequential for an AP hunter, I can’t make any real progress there.

At the moment there is no way for me to get out of the 90th percentile, unless I can get access to content that the top 1000 Achievers completed.

Oh, and more giants, and a non bugged giant spawning event would be nice too.

Thank you all for playing, it helps me a lot.
so far the consensus is the only reason to do dynamic events is Fun. Whatever fun is… kinda vague

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/What-is-your-favorite-Event-Chain-sans-Zerg/first#post3763537

Why would someone take the time to do dynamic events? specifically the ones that do not give a chest. I am not talking about world bosses, but just the inconsequential-Xp, less coin than the cost of a waypoint, dribble of karma, dynamic events.

And don’t tell me because they’re fun, there is plenty of more rewarding fun in this game. For instance grinding a portal key in SW.

Why in the hell is this topic still on the first page…. Hey Anet, Next April 1st, please replace all hyenas with Giants!!

I second this, drives me nuts that I’ve almost completed the HOTW track, and it’s not the one I am working on! I wish those points had gone towards the track I am trying to gain rewards from.

ya… I can post twice a day if im lucky – don’t think I have a signature either, and can’t create topics… great now im gonna get infracted again for posting here… I can’t win

HOD transition week, lets see how we do now that everyone has settled in. Can’t spell Chef without CH

I agree with the OP sentiment, Is this a puzzle game, mind teaser, to try to figure out through logic and trial and error what to do next? or is it a role playing game where you know the rules of this make believe reality, and you just have to make your way through it, the way a character would progress through Dungeons and Dragons for example.

The game relies on the community to explain to players where, what, how, when and why. instead of building that information into the game play.

I can not, for instance, gain knowledge about a possible event, by performing a preceding task to that event. The Foe I kill, or the NPC I help does not have any guidance or helpful dialog, other than pointless banter that most players ignore.

I could suggest though, that the wiki should be incorporated into the game, in the form of an overlay similar to how the tradepost works, so it does not feel like you are breaking immersion and leaving the game, to find information to help you regain immersion once again.
The whole going to Dulfy and wiki and youtube, and reddit completely takes you away from gameplay, and turns everything into a research project.

Is it still botting if you set your skill to auto attack using the capability that is built into the skillbar?

I detest underwater fighting, there is no depth perception, the weapons are terrible, and movement is horrid. Very little reason to go in the water once you get the skill points you need. I almost forget there is water, cept when I have to swim from point a, to point b in wvw, and lose my golem.

The WvW forum section should be consolidated with the General PVE forum. It is PVE after all, and there doesn’t appear to be any meaningful threads here anymore. Any time anyone creates a topic that could lead to potential positive changes to WvW it gets deleted for being insubordinate to the powers that be. I can’t even say that those threads get pushed to the back pages anymore, because there are no new threads.

Is the lack of interest in this sub-forum a direct reflection of the lack of interest in WvW in its current state? People have made their cases for improvements/suggestions and have been sufficiently suppressed. Concretely convinced that what they post here is ignored, or deleted so why bother.

Do not go gently into the dark… ^bump

The title I wear is "Champion of the Gods’. because No one else has it, except me.

One of my favorite things about gw1 was these acknowledgments of holidays. Just the chance for a chocolate bunny to drop from a foe was fun. I don’t need a big extravagant event. but to get a unique holiday consumable, like a easter egg (How do you not have ‘easter eggs’ in a videogame?) or a chocolate bunny felt like getting a present. Let me also say, the drop rate of these items, and all the other items like Candycorn, needs to be decreased by 99%, I don’t need to fill my personal guild storage with chocolate bunnies, like I did with snowflakes and candy corn. after 1 week of playing.

WTH is a Rune of Sigil? gawd this annoys the hell out of me.

I love how easy it is to derail a thread with philosophy discussions, but back to my point.

The more gold I can make, the more fun I can have in this game – be jealous of my ascended armor, and legendary weapons.

But what ever.
If crafting a sigil has no monetary purpose, why not remove the inference that it does.

So I guess the general consensus is, the crafting mechanic for this game is not interesting, because it is permanent content, but a 1 day event where peoples arms are intentionally ‘bugged’ in an homage to a real ‘bug’ which occurred previously in game. Is SO insanely important that everyone and their mother must comment on it.

I do not believe people are so stupid as to craft superior sigils to raise their crafting rank/or XP, Although I will concede that people do craft inefficiently the other less worthless items for that purpose.

I stand by my statement , Crafting Sigils in this game is broken.

This just seems like a broken mechanic to me, Sigils that can be crafted cost way more to craft than the price to buy them from the Tradepost. This is so backwards. I could understand if a few of them were like that, But not all of them,

If crafting is an intricate part of this game, How can you tell me this is not broken? Why would anyone craft a superior sigil, Why is this even an option?

And Who are you people selling your sigils at a 100-200% loss?

I wanna beable to ride my pet!!!1!!one!

I have no sympathy for people who are trying to sell a legendary, but can not afford the listing costs. No more than I feel sorry for someone trying to buy a million dollar house when they earn minimum wage at their job, complaining they can’t make their payments after putting their life savings into the down payment.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

As far as I know, from reading the requirements, a Forum Specialist is tasked to gather information from the forums about ‘hot topics’ or ‘topics of concern’ and place them in a report to be shown to the Devs, after the Forum Communications Team evaluates said reports.

No requirements about posting on the forums, or providing reports to forum users.

What is it you were expecting from the Forum Specialists, OP?

I guess I just have a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that they will not interact with the forum, other than to apply their own bias to what is important and give it to the devs, with no communication with the posters. I don’t see the point of their function, if its not to get the forum posters, and the developers living in the same guildwars2 reality, but rather to keep the barrier active between the gamers and the developers.

I spend quite a bit of time reading the forums, Did I miss the announcement that the Forum specialist program was being discontinued?

Maybe if someone would put something relevant to the game, and wvw, then Marmatt or a dev would take the time to respond to this thread, from what I can see there is nothing in this thread notable.

/bump

I think they’re actually reading this thread and laughing at the general wvw population.

masters of the carrot on the stick, business model

I am unable to “reactivate” this PvP track also,
I noticed this months ago.
I thought it was just a one time track. since the end reward is a Carapace_Glove_Box and worthless to anyone after the 3rd time through the track.

list of rarities: http: //www.gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/json/rarities
08:26 <Drakie> all exotics; http:// www.gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/json/items/17/0?rarity=5
08:27 <Drakie> there are 246 though
08:27 <Drakie> so you can’t get them all in 1 request
08:28 <Drakie> http:// www.gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/json/items/17/0?rarity=5&perpage=250
08:28 <Drakie> fixed
08:28 <Drakie> cant get more than 250
08:29 <reanne> tyvm
08:29 <Drakie> tbh, if you’re interested in < 50 items you can use http:// www.gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/json/items/all?filter_ids=1,2
08:30 <Drakie> you’ll have to gather the ids first for that though

After spending over an hour trying to find the answer to this, my brain in numb. and I know it’s probably an easy answer.

I am trying to get the list of just exotic runes in csv, I understand how to get

http:// www .gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/csv/items/17/6

into the excel program, but it only gives me the first 100… How would I write that link to only ask for the exotic runes?

There really are only two outcomes here. Either he will make the wvw community happy, or the community will eventually chew him up and spit him out.

What do you think the chances are he will make you happy.

adeadpyro.7368:

Reanne.5462:

Why do you have any BLSK??, You should be salvaging Reyna’s Armor for the Superior Rune of Melandru

There is no profit in doing that…

Well there was if you bought the armors prior to the 16th update, when the highest bid was at 2.5 gold, Shamans(?) Insignia, ectos, darkmatter and the rune ( which is selling for over 5g now)

Why do you have any BLSK??, You should be salvaging Reyna’s Armor for the Superior Rune of Melandru

where did you read that?

I think the game is working as intended. You all should just get used to the new normal. We’ve accustomed ourselves to all the other bugs, why not these?
/facetiousness

Careful anet, if I don’t play this game for 2 days straight, I may venture outdoors, I’ve heard rumors that the weather outside is getting warmer.
/sarcasm

Have any of these so called bugs been acknowledged by the devs?