Guild Wars 2

TheBlackLeech.9360:

I agree with the soulbound major runes being account bound, but would prefer to have the superior runes non-forgeable.

Why is that? Right now there are a lot of “useless” sigils (the 26 charges invul/demon sigils some to mind).

I suppose I’d get more views if I gave this thread some indignant and partially misleading title like “ANET U NO LET ME MYSTIC FORGE EXOTICS”

Please allow exotic runes and sigils to be used in the mystic forge, such that 4 can be combined to produce another exotic rune or sigil. I don’t see why they aren’t able to be used.

Also, runes looted from dungeon chests need to be account bound, rather than soulbound.

I think these are two relatively minor suggestions which would have a fairly benefical impact on the game.

I think you guys are being a little vague with what you mean by PvE, since that is a pretty big category. Do you mean open world PvE? Dungeons? Exploration? I’d say the thief is pretty decent at open world PvE and exploration, but reaching an equal level of effectiveness in dungeons to other strong classes requires a lot more effort.

OK, so something like:

You gain guild influence equal to 50 times the number of foes killed.

You gain silver equal to 5 times the number of foes defeated in the area.

You gain experience equal to (not sure how high this should be) times the number of foes killed.

There could perhaps be a bonus for killing champions.

Elite Druid <3

Geikamir.6329:

Vayne.8563:

People go for the easiest loot, period. So if you put more loot somewhere that’s better it will not longer be an unpopular event. This is what happened with the big world events. People didn’t camp them that much until they were guaranteed a gold. Suddenly there’s lag, there’s overflow servers, there’s all sorts of stuff.

If you buff the rewards on everything few people are doing, you’ll throw the entire economy out of whack with inflation. If you change where the big rewards are, people will just start doing the new stuff.

I agree with the OP in principle, but unfortunately human nature makes this very hard.

Each time an event is done the bonuses would diminish. So the most profitable way to do events would be to do tons of them all over the place.

Which gives another great idea. What if waypoint costs flucuated based off of use? So waypoints that never get used would be cheap and popular ones would be expensive. This would even work as a great indicator as to which areas DEs are likely to give the best rewards.

This is also a really great idea, with the waypoints scaling with price. I’m glad you mentioned it.

Geikamir.6329:

Vayne.8563:

People go for the easiest loot, period. So if you put more loot somewhere that’s better it will not longer be an unpopular event. This is what happened with the big world events. People didn’t camp them that much until they were guaranteed a gold. Suddenly there’s lag, there’s overflow servers, there’s all sorts of stuff.

If you buff the rewards on everything few people are doing, you’ll throw the entire economy out of whack with inflation. If you change where the big rewards are, people will just start doing the new stuff.

I agree with the OP in principle, but unfortunately human nature makes this very hard.

Each time an event is done the bonuses would diminish. So the most profitable way to do events would be to do tons of them all over the place.

Which gives another great idea. What if waypoint costs flucuated based off of use? So waypoints that never get used would be cheap and popular ones would be expensive. This would even work as a great indicator as to which areas DEs are likely to give the best rewards.

This is also a really great idea, with the waypoints scaling with price. I’m glad you mentioned it.

Here’s the idea I have in mind.

Each event should have some sort of counter that keeps track of the last time the event was finished successfully, if it was even attempted. The counter adds one stack to its reward multiplier over every 12 hour cycle from the last time it has been started and there were failed attempts, and adds two stacks if there were no attempts at all. Here is an example:

Formula for reward multiplier: 12 hour cycles since last successful event + ( cycles event has been unattended * 2) + (failed attempts/2). Rounds down and has a maximum of 50.

Krait Witch event: The event begins and there is 1 failed attempt to complete it in a 24 hour period.

1 + ( 1 * 2) + (1/2) = 3.5

This event gains 3 stacks to its reward multiplier.

Temple of Balthazar: The event chain begins and there are 6 failed attempts to retake the temple over a 72 hour period.

6 + ( 0 * 2) + (6/2) = 9

This event gains 9 stacks to its reward multiplier.

Temple of Dwayna: The event chain has not been attempted in a one week period.

14 + ( 14 * 2) + (0/2) = 42

This event gains 42 stacks to its reward multiplier.

For each stack, a specific formula calculates the XP/Karma/Silver gains. I haven’t determined it yet but they should be in accordance to the following:

XP: Logistic. Should award ~200k XP max at level 80 with the highest possible multiplier. If not level 80, event should give around 75-80% of a level at max multiplier.

Karma: Quadratic. Rewards increase more the longer the event is not attempted. Should give ~4500 max for an event with the highest multiplier.

Silver: Quadratic. Rewards increase more the longer the event is not attempted. Should give ~50s max for an event with the highest multiplier.

I think, if they actually carried through with wiping said items, they’d have a PR nightmare.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Andrax.4576:

Ive asked about transmuting order equipment and moving it to different character (with white items) from support few weeks ago and this is the answer i got.

The issue you reported with being able to transmute Basic items and bypass soulbound restrictions is not the intended design of transmutation. Our Quality Assurance team has already been notified of the issues with this and are working to get this resolved as soon as possible.

In the past, there was a similar issue with Order of the Whispers skins that were acquired by players who were not a part of the Order of Whispers. When the issue was resolved, all items that had these skins applied on characters that should not be able to receive them were wiped and the skins were lost. Any items that are currently benefiting from this issue will likely see a similar resolution with the unintended skin being removed from the character and unrecoverable. Taking part in this issue would see the risk of losing your items.

So i would personally be cautious while doing this. Its confirmed that you wont get banned from doing it, but your item might get removed if you do this.

If they have half a brain they would not do such a thing and if they were actually smart they would add a vendor after you become pact commander, that allows you to purchase order gear from the other orders. Unfortunately, the devs judgment is sometimes… lacking.. to say the least.

I think the term for it is “nerfing fun.”

Thoughts? Like extra XP/karma/silver, possibly other things? I think this might encourage people to go out more and venture in places that don’t get much traffic. I’m not entirely sure how it would be implemented, but it’s sort of like the opposite of diminishing returns on an event – the less participation one gets, the higher its rewards might be.

Lack of a gear grind? lolascended

What classes have you played to 80 and taken to multiple dungeons?

Yes, it is true. Watch this and you will get your answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGXMhxiLUEs&list=PLzYy8FVzP3HZcddc7Zc8t8Q3PaztcOPiM&index=3

TL;DW: Team of 3 warriors 1 mesmer 1 guardian clear arah path 3 in 15 mins. It’s the combination of damage, utility, and survival from this composition which makes such a fast run possible. They are certainly very skilled and coordinated players but I am not sure a team composed of say, a thief, 2 rangers, a necro, and an engineer, even with the best coordination and skill, would be able to get that close to their time.

I have a bunch of classes, all of which have different sets of 80 exotics.

Alison Taylor
Profession: Warrior
Traited: Can switch between DPS and support/shout
Experience: Path 3, once
Time: Nights most of the week, usually after 5 PM (GMT-6)
Other: Mostly looking to get familiar with Path 3, and I’m mostly interested in getting tokens for a few armor pieces. I’d like to go through all of the modes at least once but it’s not something super important to me.

Savannah Hawk
Profession: Mesmer
Traited: Can switch between DPS and mantra spam heal

Miranda Kerry
Profession: Thief
Traited: When doing dungeons I usually run with a venom share build

He doesn’t want something too insanely expensive. For metallic grays, consider getting graphite and gunmetal dyes. Regal and ocean are reasonably good dark blues.

Toxyn.9608:

Warriors already exist, though they would use guns in our time.

Guardians, similar to Warriors, would use guns in our time.

Necros would be jailed / killed as it would be highly illegal.

Rangers essentially already exist.

Engineers essentially already exist.

Thieves essentially already exist.

All classes in real life can heal since we have antibiotics.

That leaves the Mesmer and Elementalist. Both use magic that doesn’t exist here, so I would think they would be the two best choices.

I’d go with Elementalist since we could generate our own electricity, start our own fires for heat / cooking, use the water to never be thirsty, and manipulate the earth to landscape.

You’re definitely right about some things, but the sort of healing Guardians can do is pretty much magic. Plus, I don’t think people can turn invisible like Thieves can.

Nevertheless, the thought of raising dead stuff (i.e. necro) is certainly thrilling.

I’d be a Guardian, because I would like to heal/cure people and whatnot. How about you? I’d imagine being able to rain down fireballs would be pretty kitten, if perhaps somewhat limited in application.

In all fairness, MMOs have generally been lacking in the story department. For that experience, single player RPG’s will universally provide a superior experience, since that is their focus.

If I can get ~1000 responses this would have a lot more validity.

I’ve got a new update on the survey, with 91 responses.

http://kwiksurveys.com/tmp_pdf/report-5B616EC2E74846C7A7F825A24753AD1B.pdf

I think the “generally like” option would include many people whose feelings on various things are rather neutral. When parsed into enjoy the most/least, you get much stronger results.

Results after 2 weeks: http://kwiksurveys.com/tmp_pdf/report-2919978438914C2E8B185A5217D83DB5.pdf

The total number of respondents was slightly under 50, which is a good deal less than what I was hoping for. The survey is still active and you can continue to take it. However, general trends seem to have emerged. Here is my summary:

- Substantially more players enjoy the PvE components of this game than the PvP components
- Open World Exploration, Dynamic Events, and Dungeons are considered popular PvE components
- Dungeons, however, may be somewhat polarizing, as they also rank among the top 3 most disliked PvE components, along with the Personal Story and Crafting/Trading.

For order armor: If you level up another character you can have them join a different order then buy the armor you want and transmute it onto some common gear. Then it will be transferable to your main.

kokocabana.8153:

What about having the cost in gems be scaled to the total number of dyes being synced? Like 2 or 3 gems per dye.

Makes sense too.

I have a suggestion: An item that allows you to synchronize dyes across characters on your account. Cost might be like 800 gems. When used, it takes all the dyes used across all your characters and makes them available to other characters on your account. If you add any new dyes after that, you’ll have to sync them again if you want them to be available to your account without having to buy the additional dyes.

Thoughts?

Yeah, I agree. The thing certainly is powerful, and is appropriately powerful for the event. The consumable item itself doesn’t have to be nearly as strong but it should at least do something close to what’s intended.

If you are being attacked by an enemy in the water and walk on shore, or are on land, you can still be attacked or affected by underwater specific conditions such as sinking. It obviously makes no sense to be “sinking” on land.

The T2 one is alright, if you’re interested in mixing and matching pieces. I rather like the Aristocrat’s jacket, and with the right dyes it can look quite nice. The T1 is a bit bland I’ll agree.

1 day left before I publish my results, which have been pretty limited so far.

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

What if the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant Event is the wrong one? To me it feels wrong to have a grenade-marker O_o

Have you even done the event before?

Dunno, can’t remember many specific events to be honest. Maybe, maybe not. Exactly where does it happen?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Use_the_Pact_weapons_to_kill_the_Risen_giant_guarding_the_area_near_the_temple_of_Balthazar

It is a DE in the straits of devastation, shown in the circled area. If you speak to Tactician Lystratia while the Giant is alive, she asks you to take a grenade kit that has access to some extremely powerful abilities – in addition to grenades you can call down ballista and artillery strikes. When the giant is dead, she converts to a merchant that sells a “bombardment target marker” which has a bomb icon. When you consume this “bombardment target marker,” you gain a standard rifle consumable – the kind that pushes you back and is discarded after 1 use.

15 responses so far. I was able to get 1000 on my last survey, with 200 on the first day.

Yareon.2835:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

What if the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant Event is the wrong one? To me it feels wrong to have a grenade-marker O_o

Have you even done the event before?

Only 5 responses so far? I’d like a few more.

Updated with preliminary results, check my most recent post:

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Survey: http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=vmmtvay63yafvew80879

Following up on my last survey (Seen here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Survey-Are-you-a-PvE-or-PvP-player/first ) I will be continuing with another that asks questions to probe in depth what factors of the game players enjoy most.

This first follow up will largely focus on what elements of PvE people enjoy, while my next follow up will focus on PvP elements of the game. Designing questions to discern PvP enjoyment is much more difficult because many different factors are at work

I will publish my first batch of results 1 week from now. Please share this survey on reddit/twitter/your guild/whatever so I can reach a broader audience.

They can be crappy “ultimates” but when they operate on long cooldowns they give the impression of being “ultimate” type abilities. More skills like http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Crippling_Shot or http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Energy_Surge please.

It makes no sense for it to be a rifle because a target marker means a targeting beacon for an artillery strike. You have to understand the item in the context of the NPC that gives it and the event the NPC is involved in. It makes no sense for Tactician Lystratia to offer a markedly different item than the one she gives in the Champion Risen Giant event.

I know this is a minor bug, but is this being looked into? Same issue 4 months after release. I’m very sure you aren’t supposed to gain a rifle when you use a “bombardment target marker.”

Anyone else agree?

In GW1 there was a lot of variety in elite skills. Some were especially powerful attacks, others were very handy utility skills. Most had cooldowns below 20 seconds. I think it might be a good idea to add more elite skills that follow these lines. I am sure more skills will be added later – no doubt about that, but I don’t want all of them to be “ultimate” abilities that operate on 3 minute cooldowns. These skills are often very situational and often tend to be used in “oh crap” moments as opposed to being regular parts of a build (with a few exceptions).

If any of you have played Aion before, the notion of a hybridized PvP/PvE environment isn’t totally new. In many ways WvW reminds me of Abyss combat from Aion.

Anyway, this will be the last update on the results for now, with about 1000 respondents. The next survey I will post will be on PvE/PvP content enjoyment and I will try to hold the responses back until a week or so passes.

http://kwiksurveys.com/tmp_pdf/report-5CE6082C5E79428395C58B177D966BF7.pdf

Alarox.4590:

irrimn.3192:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

A better idea might be the ability to transfer XP from one character to another. There are lots of ways of doing this, but one might be equipping a special item that when activated, “absorbs” any experienced gained. This item can then be transferred and consumed to gain the amount of stored XP.

This is a “feature” in a LOT of Pay-to-win MMOs and it only imbalances the game because then paying players can “instantly” level a character from 1-80.

I highly suggest Anet NEVER introduces Exp Orbs or anything similar or equivalent.

Define imbalance. Convenience =/= imbalance.

So what if you can instantly level a character to 80 by transferring XP? If you can’t play the class you won’t be able to do squat with it. When you use the term “pay to win” that generally implies the player’s strength is heavily based around things that can be bought. Seeing that PVP occurs either in SPVP (preset level and equipment) or WvW (you get upscaled) being able to quickly level to 80 (which can already be done via crafting, just less conveniently) doesn’t negatively affect balance.

Adine.2184:

I see 2 potential problems here .

1) instead of using Karma people will just grow the product .

2) Higher end crops will likely be mass produced

If people would prefer to use their time to grow the product as opposed to their karma, I don’t see a problem with that. Time is money. If you want speed and want something immediately, use karma. If you are leveling up cooking, it makes more sense to buy from merchants as opposed to spending a week or more leveling up farming. If you’d rather save your karma, you can of course, take your time to level up agriculture along with spending money.

As for higher end crops being mass produced – yes, their quantities will probably increase, but I don’t think that should be a bad thing for most people. Higher end commodities will require more time to cultivate (a week of constant growing/watering/fertilizing as opposed to an hour or day), so only dedicated people would invest into them. In addition, higher end commodities provide consumables that are widely demanded by people. Cheaper food/dyes/whatever is better for everybody.

CodeE.4857:

Only problem with this is, if people can grow their own omnomberries, there’s going to be a huge supply of them, making them cheap on the TP. Now if someone wants omnoms they just buy them instead of going to orr to find them instead in case they want to save some money; thus reducing the population in that zone. I’m all for a farming mechanic, but not for rare things you can only get from 1-2 zones.

However, there are a number of cooking mats you can only get from karma vendors and the cooking vendor. Having a mechanic that will allow you to grow these yourself without having to find the right vendor would be nice.

I suppose there are several mechanics to encourage one to still go out and gather. For one, cultivation of high-end materials would require more time, care, and impout (e.g. you need to watch over them for a week as opposed to a few days, with regular water/nutrients etc) so only more dedicated players will seriously consider cultivating stuff like omnomberries. Additionally, gathering omnomberries could grant more things than just the berries – you could get rare seeds/cultivars that produce higher yields or other bonuses (e.g. chance to harvest a dye when you collect your produce) and are account bound after first use.

Given that GW2 is taking place in a world where there is mass cultivation of produce and livestock, it doesn’t make much sense to me that we still have to go out and gather stuff like Vanilla Beans and Omnomberries. You’d think that some entrepreneurial fellow would realize he could make a killing by producing and selling a lot of these high demand commodities.

How would you feel if there were some sort of agricultural profession, wherein you could get seeds from various produce and plot them? Over time these would mature and you could sell them off.

The basic idea is like this: You must first obtain the seed for whatever it is you want to grow. Once you have that, you can access an agricultural console. It looks like a grid, basically like your bank. You can expand how much arable land you own, as you level up your profession, or by purchasing more land. You level up your profession by planting progressively higher level crops or such. You can place the seed you wish to plant in each grid slot. Some players may opt for mass production of 1 good, others may choose to grow multiple things.

On leveling up: You can plant a certain number of crops with a certain number of seed. If you want to plant more crops, you need more seed. The ratio of seed to crops varies, but is is generally around 1 seed to 5 crops. Once you plant your seed, you have to wait a certain amount of time for it to mature before you collect your XP (and grown produce). This takes a couple of days, in which you have to maintain your crops in the interim or they will fail (water, etc). Fertilizer can increase the speed at which your crops grow, along with the ratio of produce they yield.

It’s a basic sketch of an idea, a thought experiment mostly intended to try and reconcile realism (widespread cultivation vs gathering) within the game.

A better idea might be the ability to transfer XP from one character to another. There are lots of ways of doing this, but one might be equipping a special item that when activated, “absorbs” any experienced gained. This item can then be transferred and consumed to gain the amount of stored XP.

coglin.1496:

Nex Prenuncius.3140:

They need to get the Conquest helm implemented.

Aridia.3042:

Helm is in the NW section of Forst Gorge via a heart vendor.

The whole set is scattered through that map.

The helm is not there. In fact, according to the wiki, it’s not in the game.

Blacklight.2871:

anonymouse.9053:

I haven’t read this thread’s comments, so I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I would expect that a thread placed in this form would have significantly more pve’ers respond than pvp’ers. Yes pvp’ers read this forum, but those who exclusively or primarily pvp are probably less likely, imo, to read this forum than those who primarily pve.

It would be interesting to see what a similar poll placed in the WvW forum would have in terms of results. But I’m too lazy to do that. lol

It’s in the “Guild Wars 2 Discussion” forum. That’s as generalized and unbiased as it’s going to get. Putting it in the WvW forum ensures that respondents already have an interest in PvP. Placing it here ensure respondents have an interest in Guild Wars 2.

That’s a very good way of putting it. Perhaps PvE discussion dominates here simply because more players are involved in PvE (as the data would show)?

felivear.1536:

You asking this in the general forums which is almost exclusively PvE talk. If you asked this in the WvW forums and SPvP forums, you would clearly get opposite results. This is definitely biased.

You could do me a favor by posting it there. Also, this survey is on reddit on gw2g.