Guild Wars 2

Khadez.4958:

Taygus.4571:

Khadez.4958:

Soa Cirri.6012:

Khadez.4958:

As to if it is as bad as the other N word. No it’s not, if it was it would be a “bad word” already obviously.

My point, thank you for illustrating it.

My point is that the fact that it is not a bad word yet does not mean we should not think about it’s use and where it’s going.
The N word has not always been a bad word

There’s always going to be words people use in a way you don’t like.

Either block(don’t socialise with) those people or ignore it. It’s just a word. Only you can let it offend you, not the user.

As I said earlier. Its not me that this is aimed towards. Its usually aimed towards newer people in a group I’m in a dungeon with. I’m not bringing this up because I am offended, I’m bringing this up because I don’t like how offensive and arrogant people get away with it.

Ok, send my post to those newer players that get offended,

If you think people are being rude, block and report and encourage these newer players that you’re so righteously defending to do the same.

Its a word, really, we cant block every word in the dictionary because some people are rude. May as well block wth and omg while you’re at it fs and c’mon! oh and ltp

I’d like this, I leveled up an ele sylvari, kinda wanting a human instead though.

but I’d settle for being able to buy a gemstore item that lets you level up any class to 80(if you already have that class at 80) or something like that.

I understand it’d cause some trouble with the personal story/home instance..but meh. Sometimes you just get sick of a race and don’t want to level the class all over again just to switch race.

Khadez.4958:

Soa Cirri.6012:

Khadez.4958:

As to if it is as bad as the other N word. No it’s not, if it was it would be a “bad word” already obviously.

My point, thank you for illustrating it.

My point is that the fact that it is not a bad word yet does not mean we should not think about it’s use and where it’s going.
The N word has not always been a bad word

There’s always going to be words people use in a way you don’t like.

Either block(don’t socialise with) those people or ignore it. It’s just a word. Only you can let it offend you, not the user.

I call myself a noob when I’m new at something >.> ……………………………seriously, there are more offensive words.

Pipra.7580:

Trouble.3859:

I’m not saying that GW2 is a bad game, but I am saying that it needs real, permanent content to stay alive…

I have a short attention span. ‘Permanent’ content gets stale very quickly for me and I’ve yet to find an MMO which can keep up with my appetite for it.

The Living Story content, on the other hand, has kept the game fresher for me than any game before this one. Yes, I know that it’s often trivial in nature and quick to be completed, but that’s not the point. Having something new to look forward to every couple of weeks is huge. The anticipation drives my interest.

I’m sure that I’m not alone.

This post, is the point I was trying to get at, when I mentioned permanent content. Everything gets boring the more you see it.

I also like the small bursts of new content that is the LS. It’s fresh, it may only be interesting for a day. (for some..I find it interesting for a week). But it’s new. And once you’re bored, you know that in 2 weeks (or 4 weeks) there’s gonna be more new

I pug teq, everyday, get to it 30-40min before spawn time. People start organising.

Also we had to wait an hour previously anyway, thats nothing new with megaserver.if you didnt wait you’d end up on overflow.

Stormcrow.7513:

I go early usually then they jump maps and I end up not being able to get in.
I just log off after about 5 minutes of attempting to join a server.
It isn’t TTS’s fault at all and they are fantastic to play with, it is the crappy megaserver system.
Pretty much given up since those are the only things that I find fun after 2 years.

its the megaservers fault because they jump maps? maybe you need to be quicker to taxi in. or ask them not to jump maps so often.

Like I said, I’ve had not trouble with teq. I do it everyday since megaserver.

Stormcrow.7513:

There is not alot left to do in the game besides Teq and Wurm.
I joined TTS and* even then it is almost impossible to get into a hosted server* to do the events.
I find myself trying to get in and then giving up.

What? really?

so far I’ve had no trouble completing teq(have yet to see it fail) buy jumping into map 30-40min before spawn.

Wurm, I’ve only completed once…it was organised. and we had to wait about 40 min early…I had no trouble getting into the map.

and why would people buy unlimited gathering tools then??

Mosharn.8357:

Pve has gotten southsun the map no one really cares to go to and that is pretty much it for new areas added to the pve world map. Fractals lost support so long ago and the skins are bore grind of repetitiveness.

If this game wants to get anywhere and have more people playing it then they have to release PERMANENT ACTUAL CONTENT or its not going anywhere. When that happens im sure a lot of old players and new players will visit the game. till then enjoy your repetitive fest.

Bolded part is the problem with permanent content…its great and all, while it’s fresh after that it becomes boring and people stop playing it.
Whether the content is permanent or not, once it loses it’s new sheen, people stop playing it.

frequent updates of temporary content help with that, to me. because the content doesnt stick around long enough for the playerbase to get bored with.

alwinp.2791:

These people exceeding 10 hours + a day

Have you considered getting a job? you probably spend A LOT less hours doing piece of kitten work (like farming a precursor in gw2), convert money to gold and buy one instead.

1…retired people play this game.
2. some people work and still play for long hours. afk/insomnia etc.
3. Some people have disabilities that prevent them from working.

so next time you get judgemental…think the above..kay?

Moss.5371:

“As for expansion, we are now focused on the Living World production, have not considered this issue.”

Mike O’Brien, yesterday
http://news.17173.com/content/2014-05-17/20140517123651663_1.shtml

thankfully, ..now if only people could stop asking for it..just so they can devour content in a month.

Sartharina.3542:

… what is the purpose of Karma, anyway? All I’ve been doing with it is buying weapon and armor skins for dirt cheap from renown heart vendors.

obsidian shards <3

no…all option?

maybe you should take this up with support? closer to that patch day would’ve been better too.

they dont want people doing dungeons…aint that obvious? XD.

I’ve never noticed much loss tbf, I do dungeons for gold. and then teq/fracs and whatever else/whenever else. I’ve yet to be short.

but hey, I’m not against it, more karma for me =

Devata.6589:

They should completely focus on expansions. Dropping the cash-shop as that only hurts the game for many people.

Even if they would put out an expansion now they would likely get way less sales then what if they would have gotten of they did not alienate many of those people with the cash-shop focus.

And if they will continue doing that after an expansion that a possible second expansion would likely sell even worse. It’s really time for them to go back to a real B2P model throwing all the cash-shop stuff back into the game.

An expansion would be the perfect time to make that shift.

exapansions..with no cash up, will not bring in enough money to keep a game like this running..it’s cash shop or sub.
and I’ll take cash shop over sub any day.

OP, I don’t want an expansion, I like the short bursts of content, if I get bored, I go play a different game.
expansion just means content that players will get through in a month or too and then thy’ll start complaining and asking for more content. always more.

this at least keeps it fresh, keeps people logging in, …its a very different way of updating, and I for one prefer it.

Wanze.8410:

The mystic forge merchant (miyani) sells it for all three professions. I wouldnt suggest to craft it with tailor but with leatherworker instead. Right now, it costs 165 gold more to craft the Gift of Blades with tailor, compared to leatherworker and it only costs half of that to level your leatherworking from 0-500.

thanks for the advice.

Is it still possible to pick up this recipe? for tempered spinal blades.

I remember being able to buy it during LA but at the time I didnt think I’d want to craft it.
Is there an alternative place to buy it? (tailor).

Junkpile.7439:

Taygus.4571:

Junkpile.7439:

I wanna play staff / D/D without any attunement cool downs.

?
What does this have to do with out of combat switching?

No idea, but i wanna use two weapon sets in combat and attunement cool downs are annoying.

every class has cool downs, this would be overpowered.

please don’t mix up what we’re asking for. Something that wouldn’t give us an advantage just improve QoL of ele’s/engies.

Junkpile.7439:

I wanna play staff / D/D without any attunement cool downs.

?
What does this have to do with out of combat switching?

solo, krait champ in caledeon, there’s like no one who wants to do that champ
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also, maybe get your kicks by soloing dungeons?

refine them or delete them……………

who’s jenny? how do I guarantee she stays alive? Where does she spawn so I can follow her? XD

Woljnir.7810:

Man, the “ele’s have 4 attunements thus 20 moves” thing is sooo tiring. We know. We don’t care about not being able to switch weapons during combat. We of all people know that would be stupid OP. We would simply like it if, out of nothing but sheer convenience, we could swap weapons OUT OF COMBAT without having to open inventory every single time.

Say it with us now: OUT. OF. KITTEN. COMBAT

LOLZ <3

cheshirefox.7026:

i’m gunna argue no
simply because elementalist is useless in this game
and if you give them an ‘even out of combat’ weapon swap
the other professions will ask for an ‘out of combat’ weapon swap on top of their regular weapon swap, and* they will be even more faceroll trolltastic*

how though?

what nobody seems to be getting.
Is that these ooc weapon swaps are happening anyway………………. whats so wrong with making it easier…and not just for ele..make it a “template” for all classes, and allows a key to be assigned to a template.

RoseofGilead.8907:

I got the achievement several months ago. So, as far as I know, it’s still able to be done.

so I should try again and report as bug…just wondering… annoying as did kill her…

tigirius.9014:

Thaddeus.4891:

Beldin.5498:

Ya its TOTALLY FAIR. The ele have access to attunement so they don’t have access to a secondary weapons set. The engie have access to kits so they don’t have access to a secondary weapons. That is balance. If they wanted to give 2 weapons to an Element, then attunement would not exist. Now you can say that that most of the 20 skills are not that good and you would be right. Some of these skills need a bit of modification. But overall elementalist shouldn’t have access to a secondary weapons set. But anyway, that wasn’t the argument in the first place. We were talking about out of combat switching and it get back to my point. I aggree with you guys. I’m just saying, lets try to build a global system for easy weapons switching while out of combat because right now the inventory management is really bad. But that’s a global issue with all the professions not Ele and Engie specifically. In fact (but that’s only for me personnally, its not a argument) I switch weapons from my inventory for most of my professions, but almost never for my Ele or Engie.

Taygus.4571:

I wonder if the naysayers play eles/engies? ..and play them often. the 20skills isn’t really a good reason against this, as we use multiple weapons anyway, I switch when ooc quite alot. so I’m still memorising and using all those different skills, what we’re asking would save the hassle of dealing with the inventory.

Engineer was my first profession. During the first 3-4 months of the game i played almost exclusively on my engie on which I completed my storyline, did all the dungeon. After my guardian became my main in PvE, i still continue to play only Engineer in WvW and sPvP for about a year. Ele was my third character and I played it a long time only a few times per week. But for the last 6 months its my main for dungeon running.

How exactly will adding 1 more slot to weapons and adding more options for weapons for engineers going to be an issue with balance? Because aside from the balance team having to work a bit more to ensure that it plays properly in PVP I see absolutely 0 arguments that are factual that would make it possible for Engineers or Eles to faceroll oponents just from adding these options.

I do however see a whole bunch of warrior/guardians/thieves suddenly concerned that doing this just might give engineers/eles enough diversity skills that would allow us to finally be on par with what those three classes take for granted.

apart from that,
what we’re asking for is out of combat switching, something we’re doing anyway, we just would like it to be a little easier. Is that so “out of balance”?

so…..nobody knows??

Dusty Moon.4382:

Vesuvius.9874:

Beldin.5498:

Dusty Moon.4382:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Dusty Moon.4382:

That would be too hard to implement and I can see that there would be a huge exploit issue. NO

It is the truth – when A.Net brought in the Ursan skill, they thought it would be a hard skill to use and situational. It was exploited for 6 months before it was nerfed into oblivion.

All players want a balanced game but the balance HAS to be in their favor not others. This whole issue smacks of that exact attitude.

I bet the ursan skill was also the reason why dyes are characterbound and that will never be changed, and why you have to buy each skin again and again for every character … and that will never change .. because .. it can be exploited thanks to the ursan skill (whatever the heck that is .. but hey .. a reason for things that will never happen)

Ahh … and now we also now why we will NEVER EVER get trait templates .. because of the Ursan Skill !!!!

Ursan Skill = 42 !!

It’s also the reason why we will never have mounts or go to Cantha

Skills are different than dyes. The more ridiculous your statements are, the more people realize you never really think about anything other than, "I WANT THIS!!’ That is not a reason.

I have given plausible explanations and then my reasons are belittled. Nice argument. Please learn how to debate. Making fun or belittling just takes away from your arguments.

What about the fact that, we are swapping them ooc anyway? and we’re just for asking single keybind to this and a slot space outside of inventory to hold the weapons.
I mean ele’s and engies are switching weapons anyway. You’d have a point if we never switched weapons.

another question, what classes do you main?

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btw, I think you missed that the poster above was being sarcastic.

use the join arena instead of “play now”, play now is only for while you waiting.

(but yeah I also hate that auto-balance…got thrown from winning team to losing, too many times..)
I normally just wait in hotm for match to start.

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Taygus.4571:

ok, rather than making the easier.

Have a fractal “box” drop instead of all the various skins…and allow people to pick the skin they want from the box.

This would keep the kitten RNG but at least people could get the weapon skin they’ll actually use.

Shh…… don’t bring up the “Fractal Box” around these parts. That is a touchy subject.

lol, ok………..

Jski.6180:

I think it would be best to ask for temples build saves over this so an ele or eng could simply swap to a new save build for there wepon swapping out of combat.

This would let the eng and ele have there gear and builds set up for the weapons they want to swap to outside of combat for the boon etc.. that you may want to use before a fight. Think of it stitching to d/d for aoe aura then back to staff before the fight so your pt can get a nice boon boots at the start of the fight and you will not lose your staff ability during that fight.

or have templates, that include the option to save armour & weapons?

and even if they brought in templates, I’d like to able to assigne the switching to a key.(keyboard has plenty. ) this would be good for every class.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

ProtoGunner.4953:

If you run dungeons over and over it gets boring, the trash mobs don’t drop anything interesting usually. So people will skip.

See, I don’t understand this at all. I generally only do CM, but I’ll do it 2-3 times a night on week nights, and a dozen or more on a weekend during the day. I kill everything every time, skipping doesn’t make it any more or less enjoyable. Beyond that, the only times I’ve ever gotten a rare or exotic drop, it has come from a trash mob. Not the champs or the chests, which you would think that those would have a higher chance.

shrug

Maybe it’s the people I’m doing it with? Because it’s never boring. No matter how many times we do it. I’m going to assume that I’m in the minority though, since all people seem to kitten about is how ‘boring’ this game is (in general).

Most people play for the gold, not the dungeon.
Or the tokens, again ..not the dungeon.

They want to get through it as quick as possible, they don’t really care about drops, or chest loot, just that shiny gold at the end……….so they can use it to buy waht they want.

I’m one of those people, and in my case I use it to buy crafting mats or convert to gems. I’m also working on gathering every dungeon skin. Which means I want to get through dungeons as quick as possible so I can start the next dungeon, asap.

If you don’t like that way of play. Thats ok

Type in lfg “no skipping”..problem solved. (btw this is more at the opening post)
Also OP, you can’t skip mobs on your own? with what class? at the beginning I found it hard to skip mobs, had a friend who’d help me through with stability/speed. but eventually I got the hang of it, and now I generally skip mobs easily. takes a little practice. also some mobs are designed to be skipped, se p1 for example has a never ending supply of mobs.

Thaddeus.4891:

Vesuvius.9874:

THIS! Agreed 2000%! Some people just need to learn to take a moment and read before blurting out garbage.

Its not about garbage. If I come into a sPvP match, i don’t have access to my inventory and I can’t change weapons. With my thief I have access to 2 weapons each with 5 skills. When I come with my Elementalist, i have 1 weapon with 4 attunements, each having 5 skills. Its not fair If the Ele can use S/D against a certain professions, then get out of combat and switch to D/D because he see another professions and then engage that guys with a different set. I get that its out of combat, still that give a advantage to the Ele that now have a lot more choice of skill during each battle.

Now if you talk about PvE. Its only a quality of life things of how you can switch around weapons between fight. What you propose don’t give you any real advantage over someone else, which is ok. But why just add a out of combat weapons switch for only 1 weapon set and only for engie and ele? Maybe its better to give better tools for inventory management? Like a set of shortcut that allow you to use item form your inventory by only pressing a key. Like if i press shift+1 i use a potion of slaying, when i press shift +2 i switch my Staff to a Scepter, using shift + 3 will put a focus as secondary weapons, etc.

That would fix the real problem witch is inventory management between combat while not giving advantage to ele and engie in PvP content. Don’t say that my idea is the best (i just throwing the first thing that i could think of), but fixing inventory management see to be a far better thing to do than just fix Engie or Ele.

In this case, in pvp matches, eles won’t be considered as ooc, just like the inventory/ traits get locked, even when you’re ooc in the match.

We;re asking for a single key switch, to switches we do anyway. thats all, not advantages,a carry slot if you will, so they’re not in inventory, and can be switch with a single key press. WHEN ooc, /out of a match.
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I wonder if the naysayers play eles/engies? ..and play them often. the 20skills isn’t really a good reason against this, as we use multiple weapons anyway, I switch when ooc quite alot. so I’m still memorising and using all those different skills, what we’re asking would save the hassle of dealing with the inventory.

OMG yes please, …
Its really annoying constant switching between these items in inventory. would dtill have to switch from inventory , as depending on situation I use staff, d/d, d/f, s/f…but if I could have at least one swtich slotted, would be excellent.

yes I’m bumping.

Is this achieve possible?
Just beat taidhe, got the daily chest but not the achieve… (or is it like teqs achieve in the panel, not achievable? )

ok, rather than making the easier.

Have a fractal “box” drop instead of all the various skins…and allow people to pick the skin they want from the box.

This would keep the kitten RNG but at least people could get the weapon skin they’ll actually use.

XacTactX.6709:

I feel for the op 100% people who don’t honor lfg descriptions suck. Last week I got instant kicked for being a ranger for the first time when the lfg asked for zerkers and didn’t ask for any specific class. I thought having 16k Ap would save me from the bearbow stereotype but guess not.

when ads ask for zerk, (they also mean, no ranger/necro.—and in rare cases engies, just don’t join “zerk” only groups). sucks, wish people had to write a reason for kicking. and that it told you exactly who in the group started the kick, and who agreed.
(this would help with other issues, like kicks at endboss, or random in game)

Rentapest.6503:

Because Ranger is the most nerfed class in game and nobody wants them in the group, it’s impossible to get into or make a group for Fractals!

I cannot progress beyond lv27 because nobody will join me and or will instantly kick me if I try join their group! I’ve been waiting for nearly 20minutes now with “swamp ready” etc to try bait people into joining, but no luck. I know full-well that it is because I am on my Ranger.

I enjoy bow classes and playing as a Ranger, but because of poor game design I am repeatedly forced into either playing as Melee Ranger or on another character JUST to complete dungeons and fractals. I think this is totally unfair and outrageous that I am forced to play another profession!

The only way to get Fractals done is to joina group that is not yet entered and quickly enter them at the level they want. That puts me in control of the instance and ensures they cannot kick me. I feel that this “exploit” is unfair to players and again, I should not be forced into taking such drastic actions JUST to do a fractal.

you think rangers don’t get any love?
Try maining a necro!

You’re complaining about two things here.

your first is the prejudice against rangers.

your second is that there are few game mechanics that make range worthwhile.

On the first point, people will join, you just need to be patient.
On the 2nd point..deal with it. as a necro. I have to focus on power instead of conditions.(which is a little against the class role). Rangers aren’t just about range. And if the mechanic doesn’t call for it, deal with it and play melee.

Melee does more damage, which means bosses get killed quicker. Thats why people want you to melee. don’t like it? play a staff ele, I think thats the only class thats “acceptable” as range…or suggest to anet to make range encounters more viable. but right now, just get used to playing melee,

Azrael.4960:

Simple tip, if you’re going to pug a dungeon without guildies always host your own run. If they kick you then poof their run is gone.

If everybody hosted their own run, there would be no runs.

At op, I’d suggest adding everyone you party with to your friends list, this will allow you to block them in the future/report. (I think you still have to send them a whisper to get their name on your chat list again)
You also get to know decent runners this way. Can also remove the names at the end of the run, a liitle bit of extra hassle…but totally worth it, to block people

Cotser.7015:

Just did a full AC run- Got kholer chest for p1+p2, but not p3 o.o

I want to bump this, as this happened to me 2 days ago,

RoseofGilead.8907:

The only time I’ve had it happen was when I’d already done that same path since the most resent reset.

reset for me is midnight, I don’t play at that time, so I hadnt done the path already. (and anyway I did get the burrow chest, and 2nd burrow chest.)
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At the other poster
thanks for the thread link.

zoejo.2317:

Larynx.2453:

Azrael.4960:

Myst.5783:

“Their excrement is something like mulch.”

So, since they’re a plant, are they eating plants to produce mulch? in which case, isn’t that a form of cannibalism? Also, if they excrete mulch, could they just sit in the poop and re-absorb the nutrients from the mulch?

I might be looking too deeply into this

Is eating a cow cannibalism?
Can you eat your own poop to reabsorb the nutrients?

Think through what you just said. No, eating a cow is not cannibalism. Yes, you can eat your own poop, though it’ll be very nutrient-poor.

I don’t think you’re thinking deeply on this at all.

No, eating a cow is not cannibalism. Because I’m not a cow. If a cow eats a cow, then yes.
His question was regarding Sylvari eating plants. Since sylvari are plants… his point is valid. I think..

They’re plants, unless they eat flies and such like some plants do,

all they need is some sun/water, and to spread their roots……………….

aetherblades drop blade shards. (time to start farming that horrible TA path? :P )
fotm have the option.
Go to a friends instance daily. (will take you a long time to gather shards this way though.)

Riss.1536:

So now it’s normal gameplay to give your gold to someone who just had a lucky drop ?
Is it that difficult to recognize that precursors are just a broken part of the game ?
Except in Diablo 3 when they had auction house, I’ve never seen a game where players were OK with being farmed by the luckiest.

I suppose people who are selling pre’s for CRAZY ammounts of gold, think it’s great and so don’t want to admit it’s a problem.

Also people who forked over that gold will be annoyed when(if) anet brings in an alternative method acquisition.

illo.5106:

Valento.9852:

Sure. I’ve been playing the game instead of farming, I should’ve chosen a different path.

What do others do?

I’m no hardcore farmer, ‘cause I hate farming (= stupid) – but: Even if this game isn’t throwing the gold at you (like in other MMOs), you still get at least 5 – 10 G/day simply by DOING STUFF (except standing around and chatting). So if you really played since release on casual level, you have to have enough gold for a pre.

Btw. not every pre ist 800 G+, so it’s more a “I wanna have ETERNITY!!!” complain.

I love when people say things like
“5-10g a day”
Is that a 5 hour day? 1 hour?
Is that doing dungeons or exploration or personal story?

your day of play is very different to “my” day of play. Please think about game modes/and ways of playing before spouting off how much you can “easily” get per day..

pvp needs an underwater zone, or mix zones.

same wvw, could do with an underwater tower or something.

But…first, they need to bring in more waterbreathers. I got my first waterbreather drop from teq. And it was one I cant even use and “rare”, I have never seen an exotic waterbreather, and most on the tp aren’t usable by light armour wearers anyway.

It replaces helm in water, being able to craft a waterbreather, is something that should exist.

So no replies? I know I’m not the only one to get this bug.

Don’t if there’s been other posts about this, I’d assume so, search isnt showing anything.

I always do ac p1/2/3, one after the other.

I got the chest in p1 &2, but nothing in p3. (at 20:02 GMT+1]
I did get the chest for the burrow part though, just none for the ghost.

I know I’m not the only one with this bug, as others in different parties have complained about it too. Is there plans to fix this?