Guild Wars 2

Slyder.9215:

What do you guys have against donkeys.

The poor things.

Not if your the donkey from Shrek XD

we will always find something to do, if we are not force to do it, in gw1 did any of us stop playing after getting GWAMM or all the best weapon in game? no not really we still had plenty of fun things to do.

yeh I’m haven’t log on all weekend and I’m the type that play till 5am on weekend. I’m still hesitant to log on until drop rate is worth the time invest.

been like that ever since the halloween event, though it was my connection or even computer, guess its not just me.

Has the drop rates for rares/exotics got any better since the patch or it still porous bone heaven?

Kyosji.8961:

This is something I’ve been thinking about while spending 2-3 silver at a time going from waypoint to waypoint.

What happens if you spent all your money and you’re on your last few copper and suddenly die for whatever reason. What happens?

you remain dead until some divine souls (another player) run by and see your carcass and kind enough to rez you. Been there, flat broke, dead cannot user waypoint, very sad moment and quite funny one too.

Assassinin.4963:

Saidor.7028:

So what happens if you are skint and have no money and die????

I believe in that ‘dead’ state, you can still chat, open and send email to seek help from friend.

If nobody helps you, you can open up Trading post to sell you inventory items.

If you have no inventory items, you can ungear and sell you armor and/or weapons.

If you have no armor or weapon (fully naked), you can sell your inventory bags.

If you have no inventory bags, TOTALLY NOTHING, you can seek help from technical support offline.

If technical support refused to help you, I think it is not unreasonable to delete GW2 and move on to other game.

even at that point where you are dead and try to selling on TP you won’t get that money until you go and collect it lol.

Saidor.7028:

So what happens if you are skint and have no money and die????

you hang around waiting for someone to rez you. had this happen to me once, flat broke no money to teleport to WP. this is a design flaw as far as i see it.

light medium or heavy?

no experience with light armor,

for medium i recommend duelist, feather, or winged

for heavy i recommend berserker or barbaric.

if none of those suits you, just go armorless XD

go with ele, warrior or guardian. do not go ranger they are horrible.

haviz.1340:

Were you expecting different outcome? It’s for levels 80 with full exotics. It’s an elite content, you can’t just wander in with level 2 with no skills unlocked, no traits unlocked, no weapon swap unlocked and most importantly not good enough gear. This game seriously needs gear checks. Less QQ, more pew pew. Get level 80 and appropiate gear first. Then you can enjoy gw2 to its fullest

Then don’t upscale any player less than level 80 if that’s the scenario, why upscale them and then have them unable to get a group? troll much?

Xandax.1753:

Game hasn’t been out long enough for me to feel sad if I were to leave the 20th.

For some of it is, because we were so bonded to GW1 (god walk amongst mere mortal) everything from the storyline, gameplay to the npc personality (I miss how Olias/Koss would leeroy into every mob), heck I miss all my GW1 Heroes (Olias, Whisper, Livia, discord built XD), then 200 years later the descendant of our great character takes on a great threat. Sound very epic does it not? and having to leave all that it is very sad, at least to me ^_^

It know what you mean, really sad having to leave the game and brand you enjoy so much, especially for those of us who have dedicated many years to GW1 and having come from GW1.

Been hanging around the forum to see if any dev will respond to all these frustration, so far its been quiet.

dirtyklingon.2918:

everyone in in fotrm making 8x per evening than they ever did in cursed shore way back when the only issue with drop rates was the diminishing returns.

more than a month of changes to cursed shore’s drop rates later, it’s not worth the cost to teleport there anymore compared to pretty much every single other zone in the game.

nevermind that fotm is again, about 8x more profitable per hour than cursed shore ever was at it’s best, cursed shore having at one time been the most profitable part of the game aside from pre nerf 15 minute dungeon paths and exploits.

so if what you want is gold, there is absolutely no reason to do anything but fotm. and that’s what they want you and me and everyone to do, is more fotm. but not becasue it’s fun or interesting. but because it’s by far the most rewarding activity in the game now in terms of gold and stat gear(ie all the actually useful stuff).

If thats the case why not leave curse shore as is and let the people find out that FoTM is now the new profitable area? Why force them to go there?

Corvindi.5734:

I’m playing alts. I’m not going near that endgame grind. In fact, I don’t even care about getting exotics now.

Well with the new content, exotic is no longer the top tier for armor stat, make sense not to put the time into exotic. But if your expected to run around with rare armor and trying to get a group to farm those ascended gear, gl to you, as there is a thread regarding people being picky when it come to group forming, got to have exotic armor in order to join

Ballistic.4531:

Tifa Lockheart Ex.9614:

It is a win, with GW1 when the game stop selling, they created costume and personally I didn’t mind dishing out a few buck to look awesome. I get to look cool anet get to make money, it is a win win.

Buying costumes and buying gear from the cash shop are two different things. I’m all in for the first one.

Yes the gear stat changed all that, I would agree never to pay in order to be competitive, but if its cosmetic its all find by me.

It is a win, with GW1 when the game stop selling, they created costume and personally I didn’t mind dishing out a few buck to look awesome. I get to look cool anet get to make money, it is a win win. Since there was no sub fee it was a way we the player help keep the game alive. How else were they going to keep the server running and pay the maintenance fee?

Haven’t you heard? there apparently was or seem to be a “ghost nerf” to cursed shore, the mob now drop mostly porous bone/garbage lol, not worth the time invested into it anymore; at least for now. There is alot of thread going on about this.

Nar.8327:

Columba.9730:

are these things tradable – the essences?

Nope. Pure design genius, right there.

LOL that just made my day. Remember when harvesting tool were soulbound? XD

Kaleidoscope.8091:

And now that we understand what ungreebly is, what the eff is a grobble?

LOL

dimgl.4786:

This is nothing new. I saw this coming from a mile away. If ArenaNet would’ve focused on making the meta game more about skills rather than gear we wouldn’t have this problem. If all gear was equal in stats we wouldn’t have this problem. Biggest ArenaNet slap to the face for all of their fans that came from GW1.

And people said I was crazy when I first posted about the hidden/ghost nerf of pent/shelt XD. If they come back and said it was a bug and that it wasn’t intentional, then I just screwed myself royal; I threw 100g coin that I’ve earned farming pent/shelt into the mystic toilet before closing down the game XD.

Greebler.7843:

There are many beefs I have with the game at present that make this game fall into a ‘bad joke’ among mmo’s realm;

1. Diminishing returns; play in a zone for more than 1 hour and drop rates there become greys. Leave the game for an hour come back and get good drops again. This also applies to WvW; what the ? If this was a mechanic to punish bots, it also punishes regular players too.

2. Jumping puzzles; whoever thought of making this a mandatory mechanic was a sadistic soul; getting their jollies off watching us FAIL over and over and over again.

3. Just to add another little sadistic kick to this; MAKE HALF MY SKILLS THAT ARE WORTH HAVING CAUSE ME TO LEAP OFF OF PLATFORMS IM FIGHTING ON!!! Dodge the mob attacking you? Over you go! Bottom of the cliff for you!

4. Putting nodes in impossible to reach places; a lone farmer vs 50 mobs in the node areas. This further reinforces the idea that the staff must not like gamers.

5. Fractals are a grindfest the likes of which we have not seen since EverQuest 1.

6. Add in the fact that IF 1 person happens to drop from your group during a fractal… you CANNOT get another person to come, but instead must finish AS IS… or start over.

If you play mmo groups for any amount of time; eventually someone will disconnect. Whether it is by their choice or not; the group should not have to suffer!

7. Legendaries; the grind from beyond.

This entire scenario is forcing a sickening grind on us, but then adding in diminishing returns = a game which is unreasonably sadistic to the point of disgust.

1. Did not know about that until a farming buddy ask me if i hit DR, agreed with that instead of finding the source of the bot and banning them, they punish the player.

2. Some jump puzzle I find challenging but it is fun and doable. Mad king click tower was worse for me but after beating it, it was easy and fun.

3. Yes I’ve had my fair share of that either with jump puzzle or fighting mob on the platform, either my skill make me jump off the cliff/platform or that I get knock back by the monster and fall to my death lol.

4. Yes Ori node hunting is a slap in the face.

5. Didn’t even bother to touch the event stuff after the ghost nerf of cursed shore two farming event. But from what I’ve been reading what other player are saying on this forum, so glad I did not participate. Instead I went out and got the christmas tree early.

6. That sounds very agonizing indeed.

7. When I originally looked at the requirement for “the Dreamer” on wiki I was like WTF?!! are you insane! (ranger was my first toon), but then; it make sense if it was so easy to get everyone would be carrying one. So I just bite the bullet and decided I would go for one for my tank and would take my time getting each of the required gift, most of which I work out require money. But the ghost nerf on cursed shore had made that very painful so i gave up long term goal as well as the game all together.

I do still missing playing the game and the cursed farming/socializing while doing so. but the empty mob drop or frequent porous bone, just give me second thoughts.

^____^

dirtyklingon.2918:

in the past month my farming experience doing the same variety of events(and yes it was variety) in cursed shore has progressively worsened. idk since this particular patch.

however previously this month, in teh last few weeks, i did get normal for previous months’ drops in lower level zones.

cursed shore however, has become a waste of time for me. an expensive one at that.

I know exactly what you mean by that: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Will-not-touch-game-for-a-long-time/first#post774190

Don’t think they will go back on it for awhile or admit they did such thing, after all they don’t want us the player to have that kind of power. Who knows maybe they will change it back without even telling us, but until then I will spend my time christmas shopping for the kids XD

Eddie Van Grog.7095:

Ahhhh… bye!?
It is sickening the amount of threads like this!!!
“I don’t have my goldies and shinies… I want them!!! And I want everything to be easy and for me to have it all!”

Look, I played GW1 for 6 years and never managed to have enough money to buy an obsidian armor! AND??? Are we all imature spoiled brats here? Yes, as you say… Let the flaming begin!

Because with all this pointless threads, this game will not improve!!!

FYI GW1 for 6 year I have 8 char and each one with FOW armor + 14 stack of ectos in storage, but thats not the point. The point is that I’ve support the game for that long, it was a great thing. And yes I do buy in game costume with real money to support arenanet. What they are doing now with this hidden nerf and the new content update, well all the posted thread speaks for themself.

Mil.3562:

Did this patch buff mob attack too? Seems like my hp is going down twice as fast after this patch. Thank you Anet.

Agreed on that. Died multiple time at pent. Never had that before.

Paul.4081:

Tifa, what was your nick in GW?

Lenneth Valkyrie

Yeh there was nothing mention in the patch notes. If anything they say more rare and exotic drops. Certainly don’t feel that way.

Yeh hard work for max armor only to know 6 month down the road it will be obsolete. Not worth the time and farming for gold has become difficult. I’m gonna put my sword down for the time being. Good luck the the rest of yah

Its not bad luck on my part. I have confirm this fact with other player in game who notice the same thing so it isnt just me. After completing. 602 renowned heart and all that other map relate achievement i wouldnt say thats all it took. It was already hard enought making money in game. This new patch just made it harder. I dont feel like grinding for long hour with little result. Oh well thats just me. Have fun to all those who still enjoy the game or believe they still enjoy the game.

Decided I was going to go for legendary GS for my tank. Started farming pent/shelt event in Orr (most efficient way i know) for money to fund the sword. The farm was going great, lots of rare drop to sell and each gold coin I made I felt closer to my goal; until Nov 15. update. BOOM!!, rare drop now become porous bone and lots of it. I don’t know if this was intentional or a bug, but now something that I calculated was going to take me about 6 months to get, has now been extended by 3x if not longer. nty anet nty, I’m a 8 to 4 guy, and only got about 2hr a day to play. FYI everyone in my guild has stop playing the game a month ago, but I told myself its going to be great, and I think its great! but if you going to make it so that it require people to put more time into it, I bit you farewell - Loyal fan of GW1, 6 years.

Let the flame begin!!

Sometime the only way to complete a certain map in WvW is to transfer to the winning side. With the server transfer wait time now from 1 day to 7 days. It really slows down progress for anyone seeking to get map completion does asap. Forgive my ignorance but I don’t see why transferring server is such a big issue that anet got to put a wait timer on it. If someone could shed some light on this matter that be great.