Guild Wars 2

People bought multiple convenience items so that they could be convenient because ANet chose to make inconvenient. It’s understandable that now ANet have a better way of making them convenient (still not perfect) that people are resentful of the money they spent.

Ha ha, well, we’ll just see how many they sell of those

None for this account, not even close, they would have to knock a zero off that price.

Pockets.3201:

I don’t really consider that good communication. They want people excited about that. I’ll change my opinion of how they communicate when they start giving answers about more inconvienent things.

Absolutely, they are very selective about only talking about what they want and rarely about that the player base wants (cough 10,000 cough)

Leohart.4610:

Because you may unintentionally sell something you want to keep.

You can do this with much more valuable items than these odd items, plus you can buy it back from the vendor.

I have wondered why some items have these odd restrictions on them.

Ironwill.5389:

If you have the winter shoulders, you can lag out your framerate by hitting clear preview in the preview panel (the snowflake pattern gets bugged and draws multiple sets at once… which is a cool effect and can also massively drop your framerate) If you really wanted to test what a bad framerate can do to you….

Just been playing with that, soooo hope they don’t fix this but. But sadly they will (PS ANet, pls fix some other bugs instead)

You do have to wonder why anyone would NOT want this.

Besides, it would be a great way to sell more HoT.

Merry Wintersday

I don’t think it will affect many JPs and there could be easy fixes for that such as a few invisible walls or a general area affect that prevents gliding. But even without this, who cares?

In the absence of any useful information I would advise crafting these items now. Drinks achievement is the only thing that will carry on it seems. They only made that concession because of the outcry over the grind.

If the requirement was 1000 drinks there would have been a few complaints but generally accepted. It’s purely the arbitrary grind number that some idiot decided to pull out of a hat that ruined this Wintersday.

Annoying that xp stuff that you earn stop working at lvl 80. You spend a lot of time grinding this stuff and then you reach a point where it is useless and it keeps piling in. Pretty poor design right there.

Lord Beetletun’s stock of scale eggs is running low

It’s because they are bugged, none appear in the scale nests when you activate the event by talking to Chef Victor

DeadlySynz.3471:

The other problem with this item is it gives bots yet another reason to exist again.

Good point, the more repetitive grind ANet puts in the more likely the players will be tempted by automation, or the more likely to buy from real money traders. Wasn’t that all supposed to be what GW2 was NOT about? Reward players for playing rather than grinding?

Anyway, too late now, players have been totally ignored on this issue, Event nearly over, GG ANet, look forward to next event grind.

The lack of response to this thread is very disappointing. Really makes you think this thread was created purely to hoover up the discontent for easy ignoring.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

You can give Swiftness to yourself so it’s not unexpected. Jumps are much easier with Swiftness than without.

Most JPs are not easier with swiftness, just certain jumps are. They are doing this for a reason, to annoy other players. Not nice if every JP is like Chaos Crystal Cavern.

Just add a filter checkbox for “only show lfg for my current zone”

I hope they do this, starting with adding another option for Ranger as many rangers did not roll a ranger to become a heal-bot do druid adds nothing to those people.

Of course there are, you don’t need a new name for it, they are trolls. But to characterise the large numbers of complaints and negative feedback as trolling is just wrong.

10,000 drinks is nothing to do with JP except it’s most efficient way to do it.

Options, we just need more options, this and many other things. I would love an options to actually be able to see the enemy when I am in a battle. All I currently see is a mass of fire and special effects, I have no idea what most of the things I a fighting actually look like.

If they added another jumping puzzle, easier, less timing involved, it would be nice, but then it would just be another regular JP, there are already plenty, when was the last time you did them?

Maybe, but not quite so obvious. The prices of alcohol and presents has been slowly falling over the last week. As we start approaching the end of the event, many people have decided it’s just not going to happen, so there is a massive increase in supply over demand. A lot of people who are going for it are now getting it, again reducing demand, and those same people are now thinking they would want some of that 800+ gold back and farming presents is currently the best way. Don’t expect prices to rocket, most people who don’t have it by the end will just wait until next year rather than pay even more than the current stupid price that thing costs.

Prices may go up after, but I am betting the price is just going to go down over then next 9 days

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Make it always “target next nearest” and people will be unhappy because they can’t target the champs in group events.

Before the “Fixed” it you could have a separate hotkey for nearest as well as tab. When they “Fixed” it they gave us the current mess and target nearest suddenly became just another tab.

And in what situation do you EVER want to select a yellow Moa in the middle of a battle?

This is so easy to test, tab targeting WILL select a yellow if it’s anywhere near in front of you, usually in preference to the mob wailing on you. Don’t believe it then test it.

You must also remember that people who post negatively actually care and want to see the game improve. Those that don’t care just leave. I know which customer I would prefer and it’s not the ones that just leave. If I keep ignoring the feedback and everyone leaves then that one is on me.

The targeting system used to be okay until the ‘improved it’, now you tend to select a neutral mob and nearest doesn’t work at all. Everyone moaned at the time of the change but still they decided to ignore player feedback and go with some idiot dev design decision.

You have to admit though, ANet never address the things that upset players. (cough 10,000). And this just fuels more discontent and a desire to post more outrageous and negative comments in an attempt to get anything acknowledged, or at very least to prevent them putting more bad design in (grind). Sadly it doesn’t seem to work as they just put in more grind, more RNG and more crap to fill your inventory up.

You should ask this on Reddit :/

I really don’t understand what OP point is. Agree with everyone else, this is players trying to make the useless megaserver code work. GW1 towns worked much better with the drop-down list of instances to select.

The new WvW is just terrible so no surprise that people aren’t playing it. The HoT expansion was very small, 4 zones that are only populated at all on a timed meta and that’s if you can get into a decent zone. Most times you are dumped into a dead, pointless map so unless you are luck enough to get a taxi then there is no point being in the HoT maps, it also feels as if there is only VB and AB that were competed,the other two are half finished maps with nothing worth doing in them and terrible zone navigation, especially TD.

All ANet seem to focus on is adding MORE types of currency and RNG into the game, something the players have repeatedly said no to.

And then you have 10,000gate. WTF were they thinking, turning GW2 into one of the worst Korean grinder MMOs out there.

Hardly surprising that there is so much discontent, ANet have really lost their way and it shows in the game, they don’t dare to respond to ANY of the threads that players create about this.

I don’t see why they can’t balance all wintersday activities to give equal rewards and then let the players do what they enjoy

Agree, it would be nice if they responded to the topics we want rather than just a few cherry picked ones they want

especially ones that contain the same URL, but yes, block/report as one action please

Dahmerkitten.1385:

All skins in this game cost gold. Why these shoulders would be any different baffles me. It’s a game- you play the game- you get gold/or you get the items you want. Most of the complaints here sound like you just want to RP in divinity’s reach and get everything mailed to you. It’s a game guys, you have to actually play it. Sorry.

It’s the AMOUNT of gold, the AMOUNT of grind. 10,000 is crazy stupid for a festive event, what is it about the AMOUNT of grind can’t you comprehend?

I agree the boss could be more interesting. How about the portals not being needed, boss can be attacked at all times but the portals spawn enough to make it a priority?

But for me the main problem with Queensdale is the total overnerf of other event bosses to address the toxic train. There is nothing wrong with having a couple of champs in Queensdale, eg. Oakheart and Troll. Currently these are very sad events, make the champs again, two isn’t worth farming. The current vet oakheart is weaker than the standard ones!

lest auld acquaintance be forgot

Come on ANet, could do with a response on this one

The 18 I have do not count any of the repeatables, however they do include the two from last year, Generous harvest and Grawnk Much which I believe some people have said are not counting

I thought it was mostly stolen/hacked accounts they use

We need much more grind!

Well, it’s the only thing we could ask for that ANet will actually give us.

Second to that, I would like a Quaggan slayer achievement.

Too late, I would be surprised if they did anything this year, and they will have forgot all about this by next year.

They fixed it for clocktower, heaven only knows why they didn’t do it for wonderland.

You are meant to spend all your Gems on gold this year so you can get the Winter’s Presence shoulders

Shame ANet isn’t going to do anything about this now. They set this thread up to contain the mess that was spreading on the forum and now it’s a nice tidy corner of the discussions they can happily ignore.

I was just wondering, if Winter’s Presence was a Gem Store item, how much would it be?

Takoyakii.2146:

Nice effect for winter.

Shame most won’t earn it until the summer

Despite all the good things in the game and what ANet have created…

10,000 is a reason to hate Wintersday
10,000 is a reason to hate Guild Wars 2
10,000 is a reason to hate ANet

Please sort this mess out and give us a reason to love you again

Charrbeque.8729:

I never once said anything about teleporting to the end for the reward. That was the other thread by somebody else https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Bots-invade-Winter-Wonderland-JP

Sorry, it was that one I was referring to, though it makes me wonder why you started another thread if you knew that one already existed :P

or tune everyone else into tiny snowflakes like madking’s clocktower. Nothing worse than jumping as an asuran underneath a fat charr’s skirt

Logs are usually made into multiple planks in the real world, GW planks need multiple logs so they are probably more like ply!

They camp the instance because the JP is bugged and hard to get into. Yes they are using auto-run, and the angle is the default respawn angle after you reset following completion. These players have completed it, respawned, pressed auto-run and then gone to the bathroom/whatever

As for OP saying he sees them teleport to the end for reward, sounds more like sever lag updating where players really are; if it is genuine then that isn;t a bot, it’s an exploit but given how these things go, if there were an exploit then everyone would be dong this by now.

The problem is that for most people, even if they get it, it will take all the festival to grind it , or longer, and it’s kind of pointless after the event.