Guild Wars 2

Duskfall.1296:

I understand what you are saying. We had no heads up about free transfers closing trust me. The reason we tried to recruit so hard was in reaction to BG swarming us so much. As it turns out when people found out about the transfers closing we already had contacted a lot of guilds and they decided it was now or never and came over.

Yeah, I don’t think that Anet DEVs would cheat like that.

Just a coincidence. It happens. I wouldn’t read too much into these allegations.

Ofcourse, there will always be conspiracy theories. What would the internet be without them!

sceptus.9415:

Rumor has it your server knew about the transfers being closed at least days before anyone else and reacted on that by reaching out to people.

That would be really lame, I doubt that DEVs would fall so low that they would use inside-information.

It’s true that SoR was recruiting extra guilds before the end of free tranfers was announced and that they are now benefiting from it, but that can just as well be a coincident.

John Smith.4610:

The Blue Ace.2850:

John Smith.4610:

The Blue Ace.2850:

John Smith.4610:

I did not promise to do anything to lodestones, nor did that blog have anything to do with lodestones.

You were talking about balancing the market by adding more ways to get items if they were lacking places to get them in game.

And based on how many threads there are on the forums about this topic and how much they cost lodestones are clearly not balanced in this game.

Oh I’m sorry, please tell me what I was talking about in my blog. I didn’t mean to interrupt you, continue.

Again from your blog

“We’ve noticed several markets that are clearly out of sync in terms of supply and demand. It isn’t interesting or fun to have a market flooded with items that contain very little value, so we’re making adjustments to the game every day. Players can expect to see these markets even out over time.”

Just answer me this john, charged lodestones, does a.net consider this out of sync or not?

Because there have be many threads about this topic whether it stirs around manipulators, lack of supply or one lodestone being higher than the other.

I was making the point that you guys are working to balance the TP, on the topic of lodestones, I do not think they are, at all.

Your currently fixing precursors which are like 500 gold give or take,
And yet some people think that 430 gold for 100 charged lodestones is acceptable, what logic is that?!

I find this post disrespectful and rude. Until you learn to stop and think about what you’re asking, take in the information you have and make a logical question I’ll not be replying.

o_O Was this post edited or something? What is rude about it?

If you don’t want to say something, that is understandeble. But everyone has the right to ask, no? You said that some things are out of sync, he asks if you think lodestones are one of them.

Seems like a perfect reasonable question to me, considering their price and the price of pre-cursors.

MattCoy.3098:

DaShi.1368:

Are ecto chances with mystic salvage kits 20%?

Mystic has 25% chance of rarer materials, this includes ectos.

No, it does not include ectos, ecots aren’t considered rare for this.

Dreamslayer.7659:

As you said, your sample sizes are tiny.

No, not really.

Results should already be pretty consistent with 100 & 50 salvages, when the odds are this high (something like 33% to get an ecto, with 3 rolls per salvage or some equal system like 0-20 = 0 ecto, 21-80 = 1 ecto, 81-90 = 2 ectos, 91-100 = 3 ecto).

When you do those 100 & 50 times and see that big of a difference, it is very unlikely that it is not significant.

omni.6094:

Thanks Carnivoor, you’ve just given me that much needed fuzzy feeling inside by revealing that there are actual innocently naive gamers on this forum, who just want to play, have fun and enjoy their experience. I have been so sick of browsing these forums as a result of being constantly exposed to nauseating, acronym riddled ‘hardcore’ gamers, who just want to constantly complain until they’ve essentially completed the game.

Newbie posts are always a good read, for this exact reason: too many forum-people take stuff waaaaaay too seriously!

Psychatog.8246:

ive was getting 8.4-9k crits with them while my alpha golem was wielding golems in a box

That’s an excellent idea, lol, I’m gonne try that right away too, lol.

Still room for all the people that want to have the TC-experience. For free!

Bring your cookies!

Tiglie.5834:

So this confirms it. You change is not addressing culling just loading.

<nods>

That is what I thought too: in this patch, nothing gets fixed for people that have fast PCs (with SSD drives, for example).

We can only hope that things gets fixed later for everyone, but this month won’t help me at all.

John Smith.4610:

GW2’s TP is by a wide margin less effectively manipulated than the other games mentioned in this thread.

Ah, for the very first time that I know off, Anet admits that there is indeed manipulation going on.

Next step: make them see how wide spread it is!

Final step: do something.

Unless, as mentioned before, these manipulated prices are okay for Anet, because it forces people to buy gold -mostly with gems, I hope- and thus lets Anet make more money.

Sins Vorkag.5218:

If all you are seeing is just Pink and AL then you are either blind.. or they are culled. Let’s see there’s DIS, FIST, TSL, KH, TV, TSF, TTC, and many many more that are in WvW every single day.

Yes, I wanted to say that too (and I am from one of the guilds he mentioned).

I think he based his opinion on the times where we log off for 30 minutes so that the server isn’t full, to give the Asian/European guilds a chance to tranfer to our server.

During those times, most people are gone, so it may seem that guild stop fighting.

But all in all, I do not see much lower numbers in the odd hours than the past weeks.

arpodz.5196:

I never would have thought of the possibility that lighting would strike a thief hiding in our keep and reveal him. Wow.

Her. It was a her.

But, yes, Quaggans strike at enemies if there are any in range. Enemy siege or enemy players. I like flipping quaggans, it’s just a pity that when you take a node for your server, another server can IMMEDIATLY take it out. There should be some sort of Quaggand defender with a buff or so, like a camp.

Indo.8629:

According to your own players, you guys have so much internal strife and conflict about remaining competitive.

Nah. We are role players. We may yell louder than others and post more and shout and scream.

But in the end, someone yells ‘Cookies are better than Pie’ and we all agree that cookies are indeed better than pie and then we sit around the camp fire together and forget what all the other fuss was about, munching on our imaginary cookiesh.

We’re role players. It’s what we do.

Sure, one single guild left TC in the free tranfer period. It’s a pity to see them go, but it’s to be expected that some people tranfer at the end of the free tranfer period.

Lanthrudar.1437:

I’ve also seen commanders poo-poo the fact that there was any sort of voice channel where people could listen in to the over-all strategy going on.. I did wonder why anyone with a commander tag would ever discourage trying to let people have more information of overall strategy?

No one is against more information.

But some people can not have VOIP, so if you want to communicate to everyone you have to use communication channels that everyone has, like /t.

Your VOIP system excludes a portion of the community.

Now, if someone that is on VOIP would also repeat the major events on /t, that would be good.

But that is certainly not always happening at the moment, people on VOIP do not always talk in /t too.

Except when their plan fails because they didn’t have enough people ofcourse. Then you seem them in /t asking people where they were.

Bottom line: using VOIP exclusively excludes people from getting information.

Lanthrudar.1437:

Is simply trying to help people understand some of the strategy’s of WvW, that’s it’s really not just the single player out there, but all of us as a team, does that make me some sort of “T-1 pro-WvW” person?

Kinda, yes.

First: fun does not always mean being organised into one big team.

And TC is a server where alot of guilds are like… 5-10 friends who made their own guild and enjoy the game. Win or loose. It is about fun. In the end, even for big guilds, the game is all about fun.

Alot of people do not act as one single team on TC, discussing overall-strategy. No, people look at their friens and do things that they want to do together with their friends.

This not-too-organised way actually works, because those people are having fun and thus staying in WWW longer, comming back to it, meet new people to have fun with…

And that is why your idea -of having TC act as one single team- will not work. People have too much fun doing what they are doing now.

Jayne.9251:

Lanthrudar.1437:

I do think it’s puzzling however when some of the same people complain that making things organized is making the server “pro-WvW” are the same people who complain that we’re not winning.. And they either don’t care to show up to help or don’t listen to anyone and do their own thing which can sometimes cause additional problems.

You do realize you just insulted two of our more dedicated WvWers? Coral and Tallisi, like me, are often in there 10-12 hours a day working their butt off.

Thanks for defending us

I read mails like this with the same attitude as I read newspapers: I try to ignore the insulting things and focus on the message. I am Zen! I am Unagi!

Seriously… thanks for sticking up for us!

Urrid.4593:

I don’t want to win I want to enjoy the community we had. Splitting TC into VoIP and not VoIP has been something I’ve opposed since day one.

I will still be around hoping for good things come February but the state of our WvW community and the state of the game is not helping.

Go ahead and yell at me in game I’ve put in my weeks and months.

Can I hug you instead? :-)

I think that TC’s problem is that some people want this to be a T1 WWW server, with chains of command and common communication networks and daily meetings and what not.

Most of TC is not like that. Most are a group of people for who WWW is fun by itself by itself, not just when we win.

Lately there has been attempts by some to become a pro-WWW server. To be a pro-server you need (due to game mechanics) a zerg-only mentality where people follow orders.

This is never gonne happen on TC. The sooner everyone in TC realises that, the better.

So, no, Coral, I won’t yell at you for voicing the opinion of alot of people on this server. I will yell at your side.

We can make signs and stuff!

CHIPS.6018:

Let me just say that the server transfer announcement couldn’t come at a worst time for us.

In my opinion, next week would even be worse.

You will still be in T2 tomorrow. But if you do so terrible next week, you’ll go to T2.

The way the ranking works makes it so that it is best to loose big one week and break even the next week, than it is to loose small two times. You’ll stay in T2, I think (unless we at TC get some Asian/Euro players in, but there don’t seem to be many comming over).

Very good post, OP. I hope the new WWW release will help with some of the issues (like the zerg mentality) and thatthe culling will be solved soonish too.

But all-in-all, a good description of what goes wrong witht he current top-tier WWWs. Going from T5 to T2 on TC thought me that the top tiers borderline cheat with stuff you mentioned, I hope ANet fixes it!

Astraea.6075:

I was going to reply to Tallis, but I realised there wasn’t much point… people believe all sorts of crazy things despite evidence to the contrary.

Do you really think that a company doesn’t try to maximise their profit? Read a job description for any marketing person and you’ll see. Just because Anet is a gaming company doesn’t mean that they would do their marketing different than other companies.

But I understand that alot of people do not want to think about that kind of things because they see it as manipulation and no one likes to see themselves as being manipulated.

John Smith.4610:

Gambling would be fun for some people, but it has a lot of negatives to it, I think we’ll probably stay away from it.

The Mystic Forge is pure gambing, isn’t it?

tkalamba.2541:

SBI seems to be aiming to close the point gap. They may soon overtake TC.

Yes, they decided that enough is enough.

Probably because they could already hear the laughter from the GW2 community if they would loose to us, the role-playing-softies

Xsorus.2507:

covenn.7165:

This will give players a progression path where they earn new WvW-only abilities and bonuses

Yeap..Realm Rank system finally coming to W3..Sweet

Wonder if they’ll do it character based or account based.

o_O Going from ‘progression path’ to ‘ranking’ is a big jump, me think. What makes you so sure it will not be ‘do x events’ and ‘have y kills’ to ‘progres’ ?

Also… I am pretty worried about ranks in WWW because they usually favor the DPS-people. Currently, the loot is purely based on DPS: no matter how much you buffed, debuffed and/or healed, if you didn’t do enough damage on a mob, you don’t get loot. I hope that if they implement a ranking system (which I don’t see as needed in WWW, but okay) that this raking will not purely be based on DPS.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I don’t think anyone ever explained why TC are nicknamed “Zombie coast”

Am I missing something obvious?

We call ourselves that sometimes since a few weeks, after someone (from CD?) said that we are like zombies: even when you kill us 10 times, we always come back!

ykyk.2740:

Well, if you do it to us over at Tarnished Coast we’ll hold a party in your honor!

Well, we hold parties for pretty much anything, like yesterday the there-is-no-reason-to-party party!

And for the record, I’m pretty sure that sidestepping through walls (visible or otherwise) is an exploit.

urzen.7096:

DivineBeing.2086:

spartanx.1364:

DivineBeing.2086:

I gotta hand it to Choo for killing BG pugs with their portal bomb tactics. Sooner or later, the pugs will learn how to properly counter a completely stationary ball of players.

5 Necros = bye bye ball.
5 Warhammers = bye bye ball.

It works extremely well right now. I recommend to keep on doing it that way our pug’s can learn to counter it now than later in tier 1.

Do you pull your punches on our “Pugs”? Is that some unwritten rule that your never supposed to portal bomb a pug group or something?

What? I think you took what I said wrong. There is no sarcasm at all in my post. I am complimenting your portal bomb strategy as it is working right now. (This next part isn’t sarcasm) I ask that you keep doing it so our pugs learn to counter it now rather than trying to learn in tier 1.

Relax man.

The sarcasm was obvious.

o_O I didn’t see any sarcasm in the po…oh, wait, YOU are being sarcastic!

Novalight.7568:

Anyway, Smith is right, he does have the most complete data of us all. From that statement, one can extrapolate that the market is where they want it

I agree.

The thing that most people here fail to realise is that the in-game economy needs to serve one purpose and one purpose only: to make money for Anet.

There is only one way Anet makes money from existing players, that is when they buy gems woth dollars.

Some people buy gems for purchases at the gem store, but I would LOVE to know how many people buy gems to convert to gold: in other words: how much $$$ does Anet makes a week from gem-to-gold buyers.

I bet that there is someone atanet who’s job it is to ensure that the prices in the TP are set in such a way that it generates extra income in $$$ for Anet. They say it’s ‘player driven’, but if Anet can make -say- 3 million a month extra by selling gems because of the high prices on TP, you can be pretty sure they will intervene on the TP.

.

Also… a good marketing director would like to know two key indicators:

A: how much dollars would Anet gets extra, when the gem price goes up with 10%.

B: how much players would Anet loose when the gem price goes up with 10%, in each ‘’expected income bracket’’ of players.

They would divide players into different ‘’expected income brackets’’, based on the prediction of how many dollars this person will spend to buy gems. A player that has indicators that suggest he will never buy gems with dollars is worth alot less than a player that has indicators that he will buy gems with dollars.

Categorising customers like this is standard practise in pretty much any company with returning customers, it would be very surprising if Anet doesn’t do this.

As long as A >> B, a good marketing manager would demand that prices of gems will go up with 10%.

Same for a lower gem-to-gold ration, ofcourse.

No, it doesn’t happen ’’often’’. Just once in a while, when someone is trying to manipulate the market by buying all offers of one dye.

Since Anet allows this type of market manipulation, there is not much we can do about it, unfortunatly.

Mikitten058:

So are you saying you would like SoR to not attack TC while TC attacks SoR?
Or saying you want SoR and TC to only fight BG?

I want to have fun
And happen to think that it would be more fun if both TC and SoR attacked BG. Your opinion may be dofferent, ofcourse, but I prefer winning against BG then loosing against BG.

Kerithlan.1659

Red still mostly helps Blue rather than Red when Red and Blue gang up on Green. Blue still wants to make sure Red doesn’t have an opportunity to take points from Blue but rather Green.

That’s not true.

Instead of having two enemies, you only have one.

You got, basically, two options:

<b>Option 1 is what we are doing now.</b>
Red versus Blue & Green
Blue versus Red & Green
Green versus Red & Blue

<b>Option 2</b>
Red versus Green
Blue versus Green
Green versus Red & Blue

In option 2, both Red and Blue will be able to capture more points AND both Red and Blue will be able to better defend.

I find it hard understand why anyone can disagree with that.

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Ofcourse, <b>Option 3</b> would be the best for Blue…
Red versus Green
Blue versus Red
Green versus Red

And let’s face it, that is what you are hoping for: that SoR attacks TC, BG only attacks TC and leaves SoR alone.

But… how can you still hope that this will happen, after been in the same tier with BG for three months? Do you still believe that BG will leave you alone when you attack TC?

So, once you understand that option 3 is off the table, you should see that option 2 is better for you.

Mikitten058:

Sunspots.9861:

TheDevilWithinU.7092:

Peetee.9406:

Chessrook.8643:

Yanno, I find it interesting, SoR, that you don’t seem to understand how much damage BG is doing to both of us. We have both been attacking Stonemist, true, and we’ve both broken through on different fronts… maybe not the inner gate on your end (As far as I know) but still…

So then why are you sending zerg forces at Ogrewatch? We’ve been trying to hold our forces back off you. Through a combined two-pronged assault we could probably be able to wipe out the forces in Stonemist Keep. Then of course fight each other for whoever ends up owning it in the end, yes, but still…

At this point I don’t care who has Stonemist as long as BG doesn’t still have it fortified and waypointed by tomorrow morning.

Thats how we roll, playing for 2nd before it was cool!

We don’t play for second.

But you have been second for almost 12 weeks.

Doesn’t mean we play for 2nd.
We want to win, but fall short of it.

You win by attacking the 1st, not by attacking the 3rd.

Kerithlan.1659:

Nothing personal. It’s just how the game is designed to be played. Alliances only work if 1st and 2nd want to push 3rd out of the tier, or if 3rd is stupid.

This is all true for the points that you get.
But… the RANKING is different.

The 2nd in the ranking gets more RANKING when they take 5 points from the 1st than when they take 5 points from the 3rd.

Taking one camp from BG gives SoR 5 points.
Taking one camp from TC gives SoR 5 points.

But in the first case, BGs points will go down. And when BGs point go down, SoR gets a better ranking then when TCs points go down.

The system that they use gives a hoigher ranking when you win against a higher ranked opponent than when you win against a lower ranked opponent.

Unfortunatly, not alot of people think in terms of ranking, but only think in terms of points. Untill that changes, BG will be safe.

I saw that it counts you as different sellers when there are people that put their orders inbetween of yours.

For example, if you are putting up several stacks of 250 ore at the same time than someone else, you will count as two, three or more sellers.

But if you put up those blocks and you are the only one at that moment that puts things up, it only counts you as one.

Boulderbolg.3460:

Good job TC at taking the SoR Redbriar tower. I’m not sure how a mezmer stayed in there for the last few hours we’ve owned that tower. Skills.

o_O Nonsense, SoR held that RB less than half an hour when TC portalled back in.

Peetee.9406:

We are not going to pull out of TC BL and fight BG on two fronts. That would be a disservice to a quality opponent. If BG blows us out so be it, they earned their shot at Tier 1 weeks ago.

You got the right to do whatever you want, ofcourse.

But the result is very, very simple: you are fighting one enemy with half your force and another enemy with the other half. Instead of fighting one enemy with your whole force.

The result can be seen in the score: BG wins 33,000 ranking points and SoR looses 27,000 ranking points. This result will stay that way untill we fight differently.

Yes, the rating system heavily favors inertion. Too much.

But in my opinion, there are bigger WWW problems, like the burst DPS of some, the culling (obviously), the out-of-line-of-sigh kills…

I agree that currently it is indeed ‘’biggest zerg wins’‘. We see that on our server now, we always loose our BL because the other server has Asian guilds and we don’t.

Strategy is only importnat when the numbers are more-or-less equal, which only happens at peek hours, where there are queues for everyone.

I always thought, in any game, that there are two ways of fixing this:
- a buff
- NPCS

- A buff would be nice, if done in different steps (for example you get buff A when they have 10% more people, buff B when theyhave 20% more and so on) and not like ‘’all or nothing’’ like it is now. When you are with 20 people versus 50, this buff doesn’thelp at all.

- With the NPCs, they added the outbreak commander, which is a good thing. But this is only for offensive.

I think there should also be some sort of extra NPC group in keeps & garrison when the enemy outmans you, like 5 extra-though-NPCs at Lord room or so.

ColinJohanson.2394:

It’s worth noting, while they said we’re not working on new versions of the home maps currently, they didn’t say anything about new maps in general…..

Also I’ll throw out that the work our WvW guys are doing on culling and progression systems are extremely large, these are feature systems unto themselves. For example a lot of the culling work requires re-building almost entirely the way our game compiles, loads, and handles assets in general. For many companies, this task could literally years, we’re trying to pull it off in a matter of months, these guys are rock stars.

I know some of you got the impression there isn’t much development going on here, but I was to clarify you couldn’t be more wrong. There is a boat load of very serious WvW being done, much of it they discussed in this interview. Major features require many month long projects, our hope is you’ll start seeing the major fruits of those labors starting in our February update.

You’ll hear more details from our WvW team once stuff gets closer to finalized and tested, but we think you’re going to be thrilled with the stuff that’s coming. As an old DAoC fan, I’m freaking stoked about what these guys are doing.

With all due respect, but some issues should NOT take long, like the mesmer hop-hop-hops on a wall and takes a keep with friends nevrer breaching a wall.
Or the we can’t see the target but we can take it out nonetheless.

Not to mention the very, very annoying we-can-catapult-a-wall-down-without-any-yellow-crosses-comming-up.

These are all very, very annoying issues, that should not take alot of time.

I understand that culling is indeed very, very hard to fix, but you also got to have some quick-wins imho.

I love you, Gaile, Ashley and Eva, you clearly worked hard during the holidays, doing your best to give us the best possible game-support.

But…

Is there any way at all, to filter out the posts from you? The DEV tracker is already hard to read (with the topics being cut off and the posts not showing what the DEV said and what was said by something else), but we have to go through dozens and ozens of posts regarding individual accounts to get to DEV posts that concerns all of us

I appreciate your work, it is probably not said enough that you are a vital part of this game, but it is annoying to have to check 4 pages of DEV tracker before getting to one post that is not about account issues

Karmagettie.7231:

I must say, in one week BG and SoR will be introduced to MF finally. We have been on a break for over a week due to the holidays, and it is going to continue until next server reset. I cant wait to engage in combat with BG and SoR. If you thought Pink was strong, MF is just as good. Ask FA/CD/Yaks.

Glad to have some more support in WWW ! We did much, muchbetter last week than we expected that we did in tier 2, but we noticed that some regular WWW players were missing.

I hope that this week you’ll join us and we will do even better than last week!

Altough, it’s hard with BG’s asian krew, they wipe our borderland every day But… we’re the Toast, we bounce back!!!

Iohanna.4863:

Calling all Thieves! Join the Tarnished Coast for access to a super-secret Thieves only community that may or may not exist!

I may have heard of this guild. Or maybe not! Who knows? Guess you’ll have to join the Toast to find it!

Selling a Legendary on TP is okay, because the only way to get enough gold is to gold.

The only way to buy gold legitematly is with dollars from anet.

And that is why you can buy legendaries: so that Anet makes more dollars.

AmagicalFishy.6935:

it feels like an ominously morphing cell that I’m sure is going to turn into a malignant cancer. It’s the ability to buy gems and immediately trade those gems in for gold.

Well, I see it like this: people that buy gold with dollars (through gems) are the ones that keep this game free.

Whenever I see someone with a legendary (or two, or three), I think: there is someone who keeps this game free for me.

I know that they bought it with gold (no one can grind all that) and I know that they bought that gold with dollars through gems (don’t tell me they grinded 1,000 gold, lol).

Will Anet do something about the lowering gold prices in dollars? Yes. You can be sure that they got a marketing departement that calculates two things…

X : the amount of dollars that Anet receives from these buy-gold-with-dollars customers.
Y : the amount of money that Anet looses because people leave the game because of higher prices.

As long as X is higher than Y, they will not lower the dollar price.

New score!!!

TC 25,672 + 220
SoR 25,705 + 220
BG 24,357 + 255

As equal as equal gets, me think!

Well, we may be the newbie in T2 but we were the first to take all of their own Borderland, woot!

Probably because SoR and BG killed each other and because we encopuraged each other not to sleep untill we secured it, but still, still, we got it first, woot!

It’s clear that the other servers have better strategies, but the first hour TC kept their cool! We took several keeps in other BLs and kept them for some time, camps, towers… IT certainly wasn’t the disaster some had feared.

The first hour doesn’t say alot, ofcourse, but still, it’s a decent start!!!

This thread to discuss & give scores about the tier 2 match…

- Will TC survive tier 2 ?
- Will the world end before the game even starts ?

Read this and find out!!!

Use the website http://www.gw2spidy.com/ for stuff like that!

penatbater.4710:

The problem, tallis, is that no one really gets punished.

Indeed. Anet clearly states that it is an exploit, but these players STILL post here and claim it is not an exploit.

I have never seen that such behaviour goes unpunished.

It is true that all classes have abilities that are wanted.

But the portal is not wanted it is needed.

You can win in WWW without thiefs or elementalists (which I consider the 2nd & 3rd most useful class in WWW) ot without any other class. But you can’t win without mesmers. At least not in tier 3, where we play now.

Rhyis.7058:

your entire defensive team has unlimited supply if there’s another keep with a waypoint

No, you get 10 supply per player per 3 minutes. That’s not unlimited at all.

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I like the whole supply-up-every-three-minutes, it adds quite alot of dynamics.

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When the timer is at 30 seconds, you can…

- jump of the walls and try to destroy the siege, rezzing at a waypoint, take supply and get back.

- go to another BL, take supply and get back to the WP.

- go and ask help on other BLs and let them come to the defence.

.

I like it, it adds quite a few posibilites!

Avatara.1042:

It is a courtesy allowing players who do not want to spend real money BAG AND BANK SPACE? These things should NEVER have cost gems, as they are key parts of any MMO.

Yeah, empathy is dead.

I am one of the people that is very, very grateful that you need gems to buy vault & bank space. Seems odd, but guess what… that is what keeps this game free for you and me.

You can’t have it all: you can not have a game where players do not pay for subscription AND players do not pay for pay-to-win item AND players do not pay for convenience items.

Somewhere, someone has to pay the bill.

Anet decided that the game would not have a subscripion (unlike WoW, Eve…) nor have pay-to-win items (unlike LOTRO, SWTOR…). So, the players pay the bill with convenience items.

I find that totally acceptable.

And on top of that, Anet also decided that if you do not want to pay with dollars for your convenience items, you can pay with gold! Exactly how free do you want games to get?