Guild Wars 2

I rarely team up with others because there’s no need to, you are still helping whoever is around you, it’s like everyone is already in a group with you anyway.

So what was the point of making it one time only again?

Krim Dal.5416:

Shinzan.2908:

Krim Dal.5416:

Shinzan.2908:

Is any of this reflected in game? Karka are still at large and there’s no sign of the consortium doing anything there.

The Consortium IS there…they have a few locations where they’re pimping it out as a vacation resort….why not go check it out for yourself?

I’m there right now and I’m quite sure everything looks the same as it did before the event…

You weren’t there before the event.

I’m talking about the final event from last night that a lot of people missed. The event anet won’t repeat because they want people to feel like they had an impact on the world. After which the zone just resets to it’s default pre event state so there was no significant impact anyway.

Krim Dal.5416:

Shinzan.2908:

Is any of this reflected in game? Karka are still at large and there’s no sign of the consortium doing anything there.

The Consortium IS there…they have a few locations where they’re pimping it out as a vacation resort….why not go check it out for yourself?

I’m there right now and I’m quite sure everything looks the same as it did before the event…

After staving off the Karka invasion in Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle, the Lionguard (aided by many citizens from Lion’s Arch and volunteers from all over Tyria, including several famous heroes) ventured to the karka homeland of Southsun Cove, and managed to kill the Ancient Karka, thus ending the threat to the rest of Tyria for now. Meanwhile, the Consortium is exploiting the island as a holiday beach resort, and their (former) employee Canach, who is widely held accountable for irresponsibly endangering Lion’s Arch, is still at large.

Will this do?

Is any of this reflected in game? Karka are still at large and there’s no sign of the consortium doing anything there.

The one time event itself didn’t change anything though, there’s still karka on the island, the zone looks the same etc.

Anet reasoned that they want one time events to be meaningful and change the world and that making them repeat would lessen the impact but if there’s no impact to begin with that explanation doesn’t hold up.

Unravel a mystery of monstrous proportions in The Lost Shores, a massive one-time world event that will change Tyria forever!

So where are the changes? Nothing significant happened, the event had no consequences as far as I know.

What was the reason for making it one time only again? They could just leave it to loop every few hours for a week or even permanently since it has the same impact as downing the Claw of Jormag.

This is a big issue with the colosus path, if one of us got knocked down to the very bottom we had to suicide or send someone to run all the way down then back again.

SLOThief.5317:

Shinzan.2908:

I very much should be able to jump back into the game and experience the same content as those who play constantly. I think getting things in game should be a matter of skill and not time played, someone shouldn’t have nicer and stronger gear just because they spend more time grinding for it. And I definitely would mind having to play catchup each time a new item tier gets released.

Time spent acquiring gear and moving through content should mean something, and again, if you can think of mechanics they could add to the game that would result in the most ‘skilled’ (let’s not even try to define that) players getting the best gear, let the ideas flow my friend.

People are criticizing ANet endless for the not catering to the right community, or not ‘sticking to their manifesto’. They’re honestly, just trying to do what’s best for the many different groups that make up their player base. Who care exactly how you define casual and hardcore? Why not just suggest what you’d like to see in the game, rather than picking apart the decisions the developer is making and offering no ideas of your own?

Ideally you should be rewarded for overcoming challenges and finishing content, not repetition. Running a dungeon 100 times is no harder than doing it once, if you can beat it you got the skill and already overcame the challenge, after that it’s just repetition.

The guy who plays more than me can have more stuff than me but he shouldn’t have better stuff simply because he’s got the time to do the same thing more often.

I’m a casual player too and don’t agree with anything you said.

I very much should be able to jump back into the game and experience the same content as those who play constanty. I think getting things in game should be a matter of skill and not time played, someone shouldn’t have nicer and stronger gear just because they spend more time grinding for it. And I definitely would mind having to play catchup each time a new item tier gets released.

So speak for yourself.

What happened to making all grind just cosmetic? You lied about there being no required grind, yet ascended armor and improved legendaries are just that. Maybe you should reread your own manifesto because this goes against everything you promised and a lot of players feel rightfully cheated.

And having to grind up for agony resistance just to do the new dungeon, how is that not exactly like WoW raiding?

https://twitter.com/mkerstein/status/268039519671033856

So yea, dunno what to make of it but I guess ascended gear isn’t what everyone think it is?

It’s true that people are overreacting over a lack of information but who’s fault is that? Why is anet using third party sites instead of their own forums to facilitate communications? They could avoid so much grief for everyone if they just posted stuff on here and responded to people’s concerns.

Maybe they are just releasing these ?

I guess legendary armor to go with the weapons wouldn’t bother me, as long as another 3 months won’t bring the introduction of divine armor to be followed by abysall etc, gear treadmills in mmo’s suck.

I don’t enjoy pvp much to begin with though I gave WvW a try anyway, but a combination of high repair costs, long travel distances to get back to the action after getting downed and low badge drop rates made me stick to finishing the monthly then doing stealth runs of the jumping puzzle instead.

I’m glad a fix is coming, anything to make getting legendaries more achievable without luck or exploit would be a welcome change.

As someone who hates pvp being able to get badges without fighting anyone is nice. I do think objectives should reward them as well though.

Keeping the price but making them exotic quality would be nice.

The other stuff needed to make a legendary takes effort but can be done if you work for it, no problem with having to farm the materials and karma etc.The only problem with the legendaries are the precursors themselves since it’s up to pure luck and they are so rare that a few people who got lucky or exploited now control the market. I hope they make getting them easier, since even with the precursor you’ll still need around 200g, a million karma and tons of materials so it’s not like they’ll become commonplace all of a sudden.

Gear progression in other mmo’s is just a meaningless gating mechanic keeping people with less time to play behind. Consider this, if a new sword lets you do 5x times more damage but you fight monsters with 5x more health you haven’t made any progress and the only thing that changed was the arbitrary number assigned to your attacks.

I think Logan’s actions are understandable, if foolish, I certainly wouldn’t hate him for following his heart and running of like he did…

The issue with him is that he doesn’t own up to it, instead of just admitting that he screwed up and taking responsibility he’ll throw a tantrum when anyone brings it up crying about how he did nothing wrong and it wasn’t his fault kitten

Rytlock even comments on this if you are a charr player though so it’s definitely intentional and not simply bad writing.

What’s strange is that this does work in pvp, just tested it in the mists and the target circles do increase while in pve they don’t.

8.5/10, had fun with the event, only the drop rates for the skins/black lion chests sucked, and the communication from the devs could have been better overall, like not teasing a one time only event and not giving the time, then the event turns out to be a 5 second cut-scene that repeats periodically anyway.

I’m quite happy though, even managed to snag a greatsaw from the tp before the prices tripled.

Thanks, I’ll be doing that from now on then.

Lurch.9517:

Even though Blueprints are soulbound, it is possible to give them to any other player of your server.

Just move outside of the spawn area, double click on the blueprint so it appears on your action bar, press button 1 to lay the siege weapon down then any other player can pick it up.

If guys that dont like PVP but are doing puzzles for the badges, donated their Blueprints to the WvW guilds on their server in this way then they would be helping the cause and be thought of a bit better maybe.

Coud you explain how this works? When I put the siege down it starts building, how does someone else pick it up again?

Albane.8367:

Why do you need the badges? Power/Toughness/Vitality Gear for your PvE? You could run Ascalonian 20x for this gear anyway. Your argument has too many holes.

Remove all PvE from WvW.

Maybe read what I wrote?

Shinzan.2908:

I think the real problem is that they made getting badges of honor required for legendaries,

Agree with the last part though, shouldn’t have to do PvP for legendaries, monthly achievements or 100% world completion, don’t want to be in WvW any more than the WvWers want me there. :p

I think the real problem is that they made getting badges of honor required for legendaries, seeing I hate pvp I just run the jumping puzzle nacked to get the badges without having to fight anyone, and I know I’m taking up slots of people that actually want to help and contribute but I’m just making the most of the system Anet set up… if I didn’t need the badges I wouldn’t be there.

A dungeon finger would be great, a party search like GW1 had would be nice too (you could put in what content you are looking for), it should work cross server too to help the lower populated ones.

You can report people for kicking you just before the dungeon ends, though really refusing to ress doesn’t make you look any better than them.

I keep getting spam suppression messages when looking for a party, lacking a dungeon finger spamming LFG is all you can do though. Agree that it needs an adjustment imo.

The more people can get something the better, they shouldn’t change it imo.

Heh, just wait till you are level 80, waypoint costs are higher than event rewards at that point.

The more people get access to cool stuff the better, I’m glad they gave another chance to get these. Thanks Anet.

What’s puzzling is that even GW1 had better grouping options than GW2. They should add a dungeon finder like in WOW but if that’s not an option GW1’s party search would still be an improvement over nothing.

Ravina Gray.4719:

Both waypoints and repairs are moderate costs easily recouped in one heart quest, one event or one round of gathering. PvP tab go to heart of the mists take portal to Lion’s Arch – that makes one leg of going to the bank/merchant/changing zones free.

What level are you? This is certainly not the case later on.

At the start waypoint costs are reasonable, the issue is that they scale up quicker than the rewards, at max level the reward for an event is less than getting there cost you.

I think they should make waypoints free and increase repair costs to balance it out, meeting up with friends or guildies or going to do a dungeon shouldn’t cost anything, and dead would still be punished.

I’m not sure how this keeps happening but quite often, usually in big events my target will switch from the monster I’m fighting to some nearby ally, is there any option or key binding change that could stop this from happening?

Did it as a human elementalist, I found that hiding the HUD and reentering the puzzle till no charr and norn were in my group helped greatly. Thought it was pretty cool.

Really my only issue with the tower are the other players, impossible to time your jumps right if a huge norn or charr takes up your screen.

Wow thank you! That wasn’t there before I’m sure, glad to have a time at last.

Those are the bad guys our characters aren’t part of any of those groups. Just explaining they would need to rework the whole game to allow for factions and allegiances, it’s not as easy as turning on a pvp flag so would require time and resources that could be spend elsewhere.

Yea… I’m also worried about the achievement, one of them is for the Halloween event participation, so if it’s the one time only one those who won’t make it can’t get the title at all.

They kind of tried this already? The are the craftable weapons (arachnophobia, the crossing, grinning shield) which cost a fortune, then the black lion’s skins expect those cost 40g+ as well because the chances are too low. They should have kept the craftable ones as rare and hard to get and the others for available for everyone.

Open world pvp just leads to griefing, but if it was only some servers you have to pick I couldn’t care less how someone else plays. I’d never step foot on there though.

That said it just wouldn’t work in the game’s current state, for one thing all the races are at peace so it would go against established lore.

I’d argue that the same issues would arise when actual players at their computer run events, but fair points, I see how that could be annoying.

Why do people care about there being bots, never got that, I understand Anet would care but they don’t affect my game experience in any way.

Still need an answer to this.

The A very big thank you thread got a dev response within four posts, you’d think this would be more important. <<

None but Anet knows and they aren’t telling, closest we got was mid day pacific time.

Well anything that makes the skins more avaliable is bound to bring the price down so even if you don’t have the required stuff you should be able to buy one cheaper.

Got my hopes up, I’ll remain optimistic.

Joiry.2504:

So, my questions, in summary – does a skin really have to be owned by just a few people to make it special?

Both I think. Some items can be rare and expensive but cheap or easily attainable alternatives should exist, and this is the important bit, they need to be just as cool as the rare stuff.

The Halloween event has two sets of weapons, the craftable ones which take a lot of effort and grind to get, and this is fine with me, some people enjoy having something to work for so they can.

There’s also the black lion chest weapons, which should have been available easily for all but because of how rare the chance of getting one is they go for 40g anyway and that sucks.

Yea, you’d think the event would repeat like GW1 ones did but everything that has been said about this by official sources points to the contrary so until someone from Anet says otherwise I’m expecting a one time thing.

Midday could be anywhere from 12:00 to 17:00 so not very helpful, I might be able to make it if I just know the time.