Guild Wars 2

ProphetSword.5427:

Whatever happened to the idea that everyone was responsible for themselves?

No one seems to like it, at least everybody I’ve talked to seems to think the novelty has worn off and what with fotm grind being the new thing that is a “must have”, they may as well add the trinity, at least dungeons wouldn’t be a repair fest cus some people can’t play (no finger pointing, a mere fact that some pug runs are hellish, it’s hard to stay alive when 3 other players are dead at your feet because they didn’t move their kittens in time!).

Judging by the way the dungeons play & all the other changes from the manifesto, it’s only a matter of time, then gearscore, then flying mounts!

Iruwen.3164:

Snowy.9580:

Scone Expenditures.1097:

…from my 200+ man guild (32 got a precursor,19 got 2 precursors and 5 very lucky players got 3.)

And another nail hammers home into the coffin that was GW2!
Thank you, your helping my mental dilemma of “should I return & hope it all turns out ok?”.

Funny how people instantly accept such claims without hesitation, even if this was true, it’s pure coincidence. And everybody had the same chance.

That chance should never have existed though.

I’m hoping it’s “Golemdenburg” ..and it goes the same way!

Scone Expenditures.1097:

…from my 200+ man guild (32 got a precursor,19 got 2 precursors and 5 very lucky players got 3.)

And another nail hammers home into the coffin that was GW2!

Thank you, your helping my mental dilemma of “should I return & hope it all turns out ok?”.

lordkrall.7241:

Snowy.9580:

What economy? The price of everything has gone through the roof!

It’s nice of the devs to make it feel like “real life” with a MMO recession.

The only rich people are the 1s that milked the chest in the bad event, and those that bought gold from “Far Ming Ho”.

And guess what will happen with the prices if they remove gold sinks?

I’d have some money?

lordkrall.7241:

It would hurt the economy quite badly.

What economy? The price of everything has gone through the roof!

It’s nice of the devs to make it feel like “real life” with a MMO recession.

The only rich people are the 1s that milked the chest in the bad event, and those that bought gold from “Far Ming Ho”.

wildcode.5403:

I ran into a simular issue today, with the loot drop bug not allowing me to make much money in my free time, I used up all my cash waypointing around during a guild activity and ended up having to quicky “run” to a merchant to sell what little I had (only 20s worth by the time it all sold on TP and merch). So tonight I’m “trying” to make some cash via one of the karma runs if the loot drop bug doesn’t get in the way too much.

Sadly, it’s no bug.

It’s the great loot nerf!!!

The loot has a DR now to stop the bots that don’t exist, hurting the players in the process!

For some, it has been the straw that broke the camels back!

phooka.4295:

I went there on the weekend, saw the event chains that opened the waypoints. OK, we own the place, now what?

Turns out, I have no idea. The map seems devoid of any real story. Events happen from time to time but they mostly feel like “Karka attack us, help!” mixed with boring old WoW-quests that just happen not to be there half the time and are therefore “events”.

Granted, I went there, did the weekend-stuff, got the map filled out and all, then got bored and left. I just didn’t see the point to the area.

So, what’s to do there? What’s it about?

It’s the new test area. If your character can kill one of the mobs while not dropping below half health, you’ve won! (or your playing a Warrior! :P).

Nope, even offered some a weekends trial… They laughed!

You only get them in FotM, as it’s the new toilet!

…And so it begins! Hello Gearscore, goodbye cruel world!

LFM FotM lvl 25 must have GS of 18,000,000 and own a Ferrari. /sarc

Erasculio.2914:

Actually, the DR system is needed to stop farmers as much as it was needed to stop bots. Farmers add a huge amount of inflation to the game and thus increase the price of items for the real players (those playing the game to have fun, as opposed to those grinding the game to farm).

Punished for having more time on your hands. Just amazing!

Whose of us that play more and love to craft must have paid less or are maybe just 2nd class citizens/players.

:(

8 hours of answering the same question over and over again, with the same PR answer over and over again… Enlightening!

Hows the bugs? Hows the culling? Hows the loot nerfs? Hows the class nerfs? Oh, and any chance of dropping the God awful RNG?

Our guild has gone from a healthy double digits to 2 (TWO!) online over the weekend, but everything is ok and the sky is intact!
It’s fast becoming another swtor style wreaking ball mmo, all we need now is for EA to buy 15% of the shares like Nexon did.
:(

Shadowlancer.7102:

Before this thread gets closed due to it masking the question about asking for mounts.

I promise you, the moment “Mounts” are included in this game, a majority of the player base will leave. We will all, just flat out abandon this MMO.

You want “Mounts”? Go play WoW, until then please for the love of “Grenth” SHUT UP!

Developers already mentioned about “Guild Halls” , “Housing”, and “Cloaks” are already in the works.

Well done, your by far the rudest person I’ve ever met, and your “mount” paranoia is showing!
/good day!

Well, that was the whole idea of the mounts & houses all being in the gem store, that way the loot drops & gameplay wouldn’t need to be nerfed like the DR etc. that it is atm.
Of course the housing & mounts idea is only a mere example, the point of it all being that they leave the gameplay alone and use another means to get cash from the players, because atm I feel we are being punished for gathering mats/loot etc.

And I can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want mounts? Faster travel, nice to look at & fun to use. Hell, they could have a “charge of the light brigade” in WvW!

…players get happier!
How? I hear you cry!
Simples! Do away with the new, “must do!” FotMs and the awful gear (we can’t it’s needed to bridge the gap to legendarys – lower legendarys then! easy!).
Fix the gathering of mats and loot back to it’s old (or better) level. Buying, crafting or farming gear shouldn’t be a part of the game we love!
What should be a part of it (to make the company money) is armour and weapon skins in the shop, THEN, add mounts (I know that they aren’t needed, BUT, they are fluff, and fluff in the form of lots of different coloured/styled mounts will make a lot of cash).
THEN, add player housing, making even more cash via the gem store (have 3 teirs of houses like in DAoC, for example 800 – small, 1600, med, & 2800 for a large. NOW, add windows, lots of styles from arched to stained glass, each at 200 gems (you’ll want more than one window!), doors for 200 gems in different style and shapes, gardens, furniture, fireplaces.. the list is massive! (all houses come with plain/boring/standard windows & doors ofc).
Gear (a part for looks) gets left alone, players loot gets left alone, Anet & it’s friends gets richer, players may want to play again & zones won’t be empty (cus LA is the only place with anybody in it!).
I so hope they stop hurting this game, the rest of the MMO market is tripe! (imho ofc).
/salute

We are the new SWTOR, laughing stock of the MMO world!

People are very upset by a lot of things thats happened lately, sadly not all understand this and this divide is taking its toll.

Embolism.8106:

Precursor prices continue rising and players implore Anet to do something about it. When Anet does something about it players complain Anet is cheapening Precursors.

I realise it’s not necessarily the same group of people making those complaints, but I hope you see my point: Anet cannot please everybody.

The fact of the matter is, Precursor prices had to be brought down: if they continue to rise they will only become more and more unreachable by new players, a group that will continue to increase throughout the game’s life. It is much wiser to do something now instead of say a year later, when much more players have been frustrated by the ever-increasing price of Precursors.

While I can understand why you’re upset, it is for the greater good.

It’s not that it was done, it’s how it was done!

Metaphor time?

5 people each get a letter saying “YOU HAVE WON A PRIZE!”
Person 1 looks and has won a Ferrari F430, 2nd guy gets a Porsche 911, the 3rd a Lamborghini Gallardo, while the 4th & 5th get Lada’s.

Now that’s great for the top winners, BUT (the fun part) some can’t even drive or has a driving licence (trial account anyone?). Hell, some even got 2 cars!

Am I jealous? Sure, I am. But I’m also feeling cheated and bitter!
If they wanted to be fair they could have had given all a precursor or even all the same loot (ie. the bag & jewelry without the rest), but no, they wanted to alienate some of us.

It has lost it’s appeal, I log on, stand about LA for 10 mins, swap to an alt, stand another 5 mins, then log off and play a non MMO game (Xcom atm).
At the start it was great and I had a goal, was even thinking of working on a legendary til the event. The lag was ok, the fps wasn’t bad, but the culling & end loot destroyed all hope of making this epic.
Players boasting about how they are 300 gold richer because of the event, non 80s and trial accounts with more cash than most of us will ever see, material collection nerfed and players punished for doing so.
The bots got removed & I cheered irl, the prices on the TP went up and it was ok, I could live with that, but to then nerf gathering to make up for the bad TP market, was just sick.
I feel like this game was the love of my life (of MMOs ofc) only for it to have been sleeping around with console games! (yes, I hate those brats! :P).

“Our sincere thanks for all your feedback and for being part of the journey as we continue to build upon the world of Guild Wars 2.”

The man said it himself.

B with some F. Do like my alts though, just can’t be kittened to play them atm.

Leonard.2867:

Snowy.9580:

The vid left out the part about doing World Events to get 10 free precursors @ level 70?
/sadface

Say what? Talking about the one time world event? That event was a good intention by Anet to where they issued a survey about. This post is not about the one time event.

You need a precursor to make a legendry? Unless they have changed it in the last patch! ^^

Edit: To make things more clearer… They have gave out a ton of pieces needed to make legendry weapons, therefore lowering the said time needed to grind/use RNG to get your hands on one. /salute

It needs more questions imo.

The vid left out the part about doing World Events to get 10 free precursors @ level 70?
/sadface

Yeah, it’s bad when trial accounts get precursors as loot while the rest grind their kittens off and get nothing but lag, culling and DCs.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. waves

Happyfool.8951:

Snowy.9580:

Azjenco.9425:

Probably the best part of yesterday’s event was the payoff. Opening that chest was so satisfactory, you certainly felt rewarded.

If by that you meant that a lot of people got precursors, while the rest of us got kitten. Then yeah, it was awesome and well worth the 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back… NOT!

Blame the RNG. If you got a precursor, i’m pretty sure you won’t be bitter about it and rant on the forums.

I kitten did it twice and didn’t get a precursor, you don’t see me kittening do you?

Lol. I like your idea of what a “rant” is. You clearly haven’t been reading the forums much.

Azjenco.9425:

Probably the best part of yesterday’s event was the payoff. Opening that chest was so satisfactory, you certainly felt rewarded.

If by that you meant that a lot of people got precursors, while the rest of us got kitten. Then yeah, it was awesome and well worth the 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back… NOT!

Adding the holy trinity and raiding would totally crown this game as king of the MMOs (imho ofc), then throw in some goals (DAoC style) to WvW, while removing the repair bill in WvW and it would just be heaven.
This is already the best MMO out atm, but it could grab more players if it used the WoWisk style raids and dungeons, the dungeons clearly arn’t working as thought when the forums are full of players upset about dying so much in every instance. The “everyone’s a DPSer” was a good idea, but it clearly isn’t doing much in the fun department when it’s nothing but die and run back, die and run back.
Some way of adding in trinity style play a bit more may work, we already have the heavy armour classes and some healer elements, and after all, there is no reason not to cover all the bases, making everyone out there happy?
Or do we only play to the call of the choosen few?

Calling for other classes to get nerfed? Really? Very sad people!

Ask for some love, not hand out some hate!

Ok.

Thank you for replying Stevie.

Namely, how do you turn them off?
They seem to cover every skill & your health if your a clicker.
No, I don’t like using number keys (or any other skill 1s – it’s a old school thing!).
Yes, I have searched for another post about this.
No, I’ve had no joy & it’s wreaking my fun!

Checked your in game mail?