That’s a great question OP!
Why is there an exchange differance? If I exchange dollars to euros then back again, if there’s no fee, I should get the exact amount back I started with.
Not the best example because you the exchange rate between $ and € isn’t equal.
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I reccomend they set up some in game voting systems, tie it to the black lion trading post, since that appears to be fairly web based. Every couple of months players could vote on the best concept designs. They can also add new unseen armors so everything isnt predictable, and also not just the most popular, but at least 1 set during a time frame would probably be appealing to most players.
Remember the Ellen Kiel vs Evon <3 vote ? Yeah I don’t want to deal with that. And with the amount of trolls, the votes will be worse. And everything looks good on concept art, but then Anet puts it in the game…
I’m “fine” with armors I don’t like as long as once in a while there’s one I like. Sadly this day has yet to come.
And then there’s all the armor from GW1 that was or wasn’t used and the armors in GW2 that shouldn’t have been available to us yet it isn’t, which makes the whole situation even more annoying.
Yay shoulders, aqua masks, helms, gauntlets and backpacks that generally don’t mix well with anything else (kind of like the chaos gloves in GW1).
However, gem store armor, for anyone who played GW1 think about that : if you wanted a 15k you had to farm. 60 k + mats didn’t miraculously appear in your storage without farming. Just like 800 gems don’t. My main complaint (aside that I don’t really like what was released) is that you have to buy the whole sets even if you are interested in only one or two pieces.
But then, when I see what we are going to get…Yep we’ll have new armor sets, too bad they don’t look good.
Are you implying that GS#5 is an efficient way of pulling stuff together?
For guardians ? Well when you an idiot that likes to blow enemies away, yes it’s a nice thing.
Who cares ? It’s not like this is going to make them change their design for armors. “It might impact future designs !” yeah…light armor finally got another pair of pants without a skirt attached to it after 15 months of complaints…oh wait.
But then again, if the pair of pants we finally get is a pair of skin tight leggings, I’d rather have a skirt without a pair of pants underneath this time.
Lastly, all you’re doing is knit picking bad examples of GW1 quest rewards and ignoring the fantastic ones such as new skills and spells. That’s not a nice thing to do.
Because they were the exception and farm from the norm. Only quests in Prophecies and EotN gave you skills. And only a few quests had any nice monetary reward.
But that’s not the problem : at least they had different rewards. When I do an event that takes me 10 minutes, where I can fail if I mess up, and get the same reward than an event I could have done in less than 3, something’s missing.
DE’s unlock new merchant too, have you ever looked carefully at what they sold ? It’s beyond terrible. Not only does it costs gold, but you can find a counterpart (sometime better even) with the nearest Heart. Sure there are a few exceptions that sell fun items (experimental riffle), but most of them sell you completely useless items.
Can enemies kill you if you don’t move ? If no you are exploiting.
Stacking isn’t an exploit. You can achieve the same by pulling monsters, but guardians seem to prefer to use something else than a greatsword these days (mostly a scepter with a shield and then use skill number 5 to “protect” the team).
Unfortunately doing things like that, people don’t learn. And thus they keep being bad.
That’s because he isn’t cut out to play GW2. You know why hearts were put in the game ? Because during the first tests, the players didn’t know what to do. Anet had to modify their idea because the players that wanted to explore didn’t want to do it without directions, they wanted to be guided through.
Now that the game is released I also don’t really want to explore, but not because I don’t have directions. Because after wasting hours and hours on finding nothing at all, I don’t see why I should continue to bother exploring something when there’s nothing to explore (I’m exaggerating a little).
Anyone think that maybe different stat combos will have different looks?!
I hope so, but unfortunately when you preview them the pieces aren’t from the same stat sets yet they go with each other too well for different sets to exists.
All respects to people who like the skins. Hopefully future skins will have a darker tone, medieval, norse, etc. (my preference)
Even more out of the box would be early Native Indians light/medium skins. But this reminds me of the late renaissance era of europe, especially spain.
It’s not the theme or whether it has too much going on or not (although in some cases it’s part of the problem). It’s the number of layers, the turtle necks, the lack of femininity for female armors (I’m not asking for for a plungin low cut or a mini skirt, but this http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/e/e5/Elementalist_Elite_Canthan_armor_f.jpg looks better)…and on the other end : my guardian will now have very long legs, too bad he’s going to appear kind of out of shape. Oh and the thing in the middle of the legs…they won’t look worse without it.
However, the male light set isn’t bad. Except for the turtle neck.
“Unfortunately” GW2 is a living world. Which something a lot of players wanted. What a lot of them didn’t realize is that this means that sometime you won’t have anything to do in a specific zone.
If you really think about it, they didn’t mess it up too much. Most DE’s give you a gist of what’s happening in each zones and you get too see those events unfold before and after.
However there are technical limitations : events in low level zones (Queensdale) respawn really fast to allow new players to enjoy them without having too wait too long, which might annoy your immersion (if you are the type to get annoyed easily). And in higher level zones the problem is that the waiting time between events in chain can sometime be more than 5 minutes…yes even 5 minutes is a long time to stand still in place, especially when you don’t know if something is going to appear and nothing hints at it (no NPC running around, no dialogue box telling you something is coming up).
Also, some event chains can’t be done by yourself because there’s probably an annoying champion and the end of it.
And finally, the reward factor simply is missing for a lot of them. And I’m not only talking about monetary rewards. For example, can someone tell me what’s the point of “The Kodan Claw” meta event ?
However while I know there are no events that take you from one zone to another, I think you can find little hints here and there. But honestly, I didn’t explore enough to know that for sure, because wandering around alone gets annoying after 15 minutes.
girlfriend is going to kill me if i don’t ask
where is that in game? (even if not available, that blows out of the water pretty much every piece of light armour they have released so far)
Countess Anise wears an altered version of the first one (she has different leggings) while the second one can be seen around Divinity’s Reach. And in case anyone is wondering they were supposed to be worn by our character too : in the mesmer preview video you can see one wearing the the first one.
Why we don’t have it though ? Not a single word on it.
I just hope that the next time ANet stop being cheapskates and hire real designers instead of college interns
A college intern would have done something simpler. It would have looked less “epic” (I guess if you want to call it that) but at least it would have probably looked better…but hardly worse.
And the ascended weapons aren’t ugly. There are so many weapon skins, with big showy effects that they feel kind of too simple for ascended weapons.
And what bothers me the most? It says in the preview that these armors were made in the style of famous Luxon and Kurzick armourers. That’s an insult to both factions! They look nothing like those famous sets!
That can’t be true…you and other people who heard this must have misunderstood…Both the Kurzick and Luxon light armor were among my favorite designs. You can’t look at this http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/2/29/Necromancer_Elite_Luxon_armor_f.jpg and think it looks like what we’ll have in a few weeks/months.
However, this one : http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/9451224BG24.png was clearly inspired by this http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/d/d4/Mesmer_Elite_Kurzick_armor_f.jpg, yet we still aren’t allowed to have it.
An Asura is cheating…nearly everything can look sort of cute on them.
I don’t think this thread contains one piece of constructive criticism so far all. What looks bad about them? What specifically do you not like? What would make it look better?
“Armor is ugly because ugly” is honestly a worthless post and anet will just ignore the feedback because it isn’t offering a single thing of value.
It’s been more than one year (since the first BWE actually) that I and many others created dozens of threads complaining about armor designs. Since then not a single set seemed to take those critics into account. It doesn’t however mean that all the armor they have released (2×3 sets) are particularly ugly. For example I kind of like the feathered light armor, because unlike a lot of other skirt, it actually compliments the wearers body instead of making it look like your character has an behind that isn’t harmonious with her body. Nonetheless, it’s not a pant like armor.
So I don’t know, if the company who gave us simple and elegant designs like virtualy any armor in GW1 can’t even get half of their sets correctly, there’s an underlying problem.
Edit : Oh btw they can :
-http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/9451224BG24.png
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/26647/Human_dress__saucy__render.jpg
I actually hoped at least one of those were going to be ascended models…
Well, I suppose the best explanation is best skins are now gem store purchases.
If it was the case at least I’ll be annoyed by having to farm more to get better skins, which we did in GW1 to get 15k.
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I’m really sorry, but honestly how can someone look at any of these armor (male and female) and think : “yep those are the skins I want to have. I want to bother with obtaining them for the looks”
So I have to join a gigantic guild and guest on another server to do this? It’s ridiculous. Each individual server should have the resources to pull this off. This is a game design failure.
It’s not like guesting costs anything and you can have multiple guilds.
And to pull what off ? To pull more than 150 players in a single zone fighting in the same event ? There comes a moment when it stops being a server problem and it starts being a personal computer problem. The fight already suffers problems due to dozens of animations going off every second….even good computers have a more or less big FPS drop.
Or did you mean that each server should be able to kill it ? Well technically, they can. Whether players from a particular server want to try to do it and are competent is a different issue.
Different play styles, different problems.
While I doubt anyone has any problem with Bloodstone dust, I don’t do enough dungeons or JPs to get Emryreal fragments. However I jump from one meta event to another, so I have quite a pile of Dragonite ore.
I’m with you Tom, I think they are making the lore as they go. It sometime seemed that they did that in GW1, but it’s more obvious in GW2…thus why I barely think about lore in this game.
My biggest gripe is that Obsidian Shards (which most probably will be needed) are quite hard to get these days.
Guest on a server that did it. Use gw2stuff to check. On the week ends there’s at least one server that completes it. Then buy as many as you want (I bought 500 last time).
Apart from buying the thermocatalytic reagents, I already had the T6 materials, had a nice initial stack of ore and wood and gathered/salvaged the rest.
The Queen Jubilee and Scarlet was the perfect time to get T6 materials. And gathering on multiple characters on multiple servers is a help (which is an activity I find to be relaxing).
But I really doubt that I put 200g worth of materials in it. Even if the price has rose since…
A couple minutes before he comes back (I’d say around 5 minutes), the meta even message changes and the world event shows that Tequatl is attacking (even if he isn’t there yet). There will always be someone who comes late.
I think that the new worlds are way too long. That’s it.
I used my 25g to buy one. I’m using it to try to finish the rapids in normal mode….
It’s starting to annoy me…the rapids…if it’s buggy don’t design a whole level based on something that bugs nearly every time you interact with it >.>
Unfortunately, I don’t mind the seemingly non logic placement of traps, but the bugs (or lag) is getting the best of me >.>
All I hope is that TM won’t be full of bugs. Hell, even one “carefully” placed bugcould be extremely annoying.
SAB part 1 didn’t have a lot of mandatory jumps. Of those jumps, very few needed fast reflexes and only a few of them were somewhat hard (out of achievements).
Also you could always find a team to carry you all the way to the end.
The first world in SAB was easier than nearly every jumping puzzle because you didn’t have to wonder “can I even jump there ?” or “wait…is that a texture bug or am I supposed to go there ?”
The second world seemed harder though.
But let’s not forget : Baby mode. Yes the rewards aren’t the same, but you aren’t doing the same “work” as those playing in Normal mode.
Don’t give up on Jumping Puzzles. Practice practice practice, because Anet won’t stop putting them in the game.
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Why does a cap make a student more or less able to get enough materials? Without a cap the student should be able to get enough materials. The only difference is that everyone else isn’t relegated to putting in the amount of time/effort that the student puts in.
Students can have irregular play time. The might be able to play 1 hour/day for a week then nothing for nearly 3 weeks and play all day during the last week-end.
However in the end, if we take charged quartz as an example, it takes less than 5 minutes to launch the game and get it. If you have at least 10 minutes (which anyone can get) isn’t a problem to obtain your charged quartz (as long as you have the necessary materials).
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Or they could do a weekly cap, instead of daily.
A monthly cap would be even better.
That way people with really irregular playing times (like say, a student) will be able to get enough materials.
But then again…we aren’t talking about time gating a dungeon or an event…they are time gating transforming a T6 material to a T7…Unlike dailies which can take some amount of time, getting a charged quartz takes less than 5 minutes. This kind of time gating isn’t even asking us to play the game, it’s just incredibly annoying.
The SAB stuff in the outside world is just holograms anyway. Special solid-state holograms. The Super skins say as much themselves. Its not like they’re actual video game enemies come through rifts to invade Tyria or whatever (which would be a bit silly and out of place), they’re just holograms created by Moto and placed around the world.
…here’s a nice idea for Scarlet.
I love SAB. I don’t mind the weapons, they are far from immersion breaking.
But the rest ? The fluffy backpacks, the way-too-expensive-for-what-it-is townclothes, I’m not too fond of that.
As someone pointed out before, the only zones which were left untouched by Scarlet were in Maguma. It wouldn’t surprise me if the update following the SAB p2 is Scarlet posing a threat to Rata Sum.
As for lore-wise : it already started to fell apart when GW2 was released with the retcons. And the need of Anet to keep it extremely simple because “players nowadays don’t read what the NPC have to say”…
OP : no sarcasm at all, nice job. The fur, the armor, the colors, the pose, everything is just perfect together. And that crown ! It’s beyond perfect.
It makes me laugh (in a nice, puts a smile on my face, way), and actually, if I had enough cash to throw away, I might make my charr dress like you, but in a dark red theme.
Actually they plan on removing magic find from armor and weapons….not from the game.
Oh yeah that’s right. But in the end I’m a bit biased against MF in this game…RNG is RNG.
But again, as a birthday gift, a 24h booster isn’t a great gift. Neither is an experience scroll you could get in. The only thing that marks the birthday is a mini pet which unfortunately you’ll end up getting way too many.
No one cares about magic find boosters? Ummm kay.
As a birthday gift ? Not really.
And actually, not even Anet cares about it, since they plan on removing MF in the future…
They should have awarded the gifts based on the account age, not the characters. Players might have whined, but what difference would it have made ? More than 1 Mini Queen is useless (even just 1 is), not a lot of players have any use for experience scrolls, and no one cares about the boosters.
Who the hell even cares about mini ? Especially a miniature NPC…Minis used to be like small pets in GW1. It could be considered cute.
Then they took it to creepy levels by releasing NPCs as “pets”…I don’t know, it just creeps me out.
Her wiki entry is everything they could think of to show that she is extremely smart and strong and cunning : she trained and excelled with every main races except Humans (but she got Hyleks).
The only thing missing on her entry is something like “she killed a dragon by herself”.
Btw : since I’ve yet to play it, and for some reason can’t find any thread talking about it (I’m terrible at searching), what are her motivations ?
People are lame, they will just park every single alt they have with the different JP’s and collect the loot. No, bad idea.
Yep, better to mindlessly farm something. If someone bothered to level up a character to level 80 just to park it at a easy to do JP, let him.
Doing the same for champion loot would make the “hidden” or “hard” events more rewarding. At the same time, I’d suggest lowering the loot of champions freshly spawned to limit their farming (but I’m gonna get a lot of flak for that).
That would be something smart. Or lower the quality of the box based on the amount of time the champion was alive. Start with nothing, then white then upgrade it with each passing minutes. That way less people will mindlessly zerg and instead they’ll dispatch through out the world.
Even if someone makes a huge route going across zones to quickly farm them, it would be more fun than trying to hit an invisible foe.
Unfortunately, a lot of players hate underwater environments. Which is too bad because I’m sure they planned a lot of things with it and are now more hesitant to release new ones.
And the crown pavillon isn’t an ideal place for a challenge.
I’m not talking about the problems between sharing the same models for males and females charr/asura.
I’m talking about the armor not being tailored for a Charr, which Asuras don’t suffer from as much. Even if we forget horns and tail, a light armor charr wearing nearly any of the leggings looks like something that shouldn’t even be in this game. The whole thing doesn’t look right.
And the Cultural armor…Where did they even get their inspiration for that ?
This is what we had in GW1 :
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Charr_ritualist.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Charr_Flame_Wielder.jpg
This is what we have in GW2 : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Charr_cultural_armor/Light
It’s as if in 250 years, someone came and sprayed water on them, forcing them to cover up even more than humans.
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Charrs don’t look good in skirts. Ever. Their legs aren’t made to be covered by a full skirt. But hey, Anet wanted to give every scholars a broad array of skirts and every medium armor comes with a trench coat…If only more players played Charr, maybe there could be hope of seeing nice armor for them…
(Sorry for this huge off topic)
Probably because those with third party fly hacking would have a field day with the free instant loot. Anet would be hesitant on doing that.
“Let’s not do that because hackers will abuse it ?” I’d say to go for it and see those hackers come out more easily.
And as of right now, even if you manage to find a mesmer at the end of EVERY JP, it would be incredibly faster to just follow a champion farming zerg.
Exactly. It’s Anet’s game so they can do whatever the hell they want. For all we know they’re lying about the whole thing and we’ll get playable tengu.
If the cultural armor is as bad as the Charr, and if other armors are as fitted to Tengu as they are to Charr, I’d rather they refrain from doing that.
And if the armor is better fitted for a Tengu than a Charr, I’d rather they rework on Charr armors before bothering with another race.
So let’s see how the price of materials have gone through the roof since the update, by comparing the prices between August 5 and today :
Charged Core : 96 silver, now 83 silver (kind of a bumpy graph)
Charged Lodestone : 2g64s to 2g35s
Globs : 19s to 24s
Giant Eyes : 73s to 74s
Crystalline Dust : 11s to 15s
T6 Blood : 32s to 34s
T6 Claws : 15s to 11s
Dye : 19s to 21s
Point of this : prices dropped a little for materials that could be found more easily during this event (certain T6, some lodestones). The other materials which didn’t have an increase in drop rates didn’t see their price go through to roof.
Exotics and rare ? Players are getting them by the truckload…that won’t increase their price on the TP…just look at the new weapon skins and how some sellers are eager to cut down the price just to be sure to sell their item. In just a day, Entropy dropped from 400g to 189g and now it’s at 43g…
Tazza (Final boss of SE1) hasn’t dropped loot for months either. I presume this is intented though, as there are 5 other bosses dropping bags on the already very short path.
If you fight Troop commander Kaeyi and Tazza at the same time, as it’s intended by anet, you get loot from both of them. A friend insisted on killing both the last time i did SE P1, so that’s why i know.
That’s incredibly weird. Because that’s what we did. We only got something from the champion.
I don’t remember which one we killed first, but I doubt Anet would bother to put something like : you must kill Kaeyi first if you want a blue from Tazza (back when Kaeyi was added).
Either killed or kidnapped, but I agree. Why give us a mini of a character that’s only just getting some spotlight? That is, unless it’s the only thing we’ll have left of her. Otherwise we may have just gotten Mini Trahearne. Anyone agree?
I don’t know, ask Mini Kiel and Mini Evon…Anet loves to hand out minipets at every opportunity they have. Getting a Mini Queen, during the Queen’s Jubilee isn’t something incredible…I thought we would have been awarded one for completing the 16 achievements.
3. Who else could summon up hundreds of mesmer illusions all throughout the huge crown pavilion all at once?
Not Kormir :p