Guild Wars 2

pdavis.8031:

This topic again?

I don’t get just how “unfair” the watchwork pick is over the others? Does it have a chance to drop sprockets? Yes. Is the price of sprockets so high that it is making millionairs vs those who don’t have the pick? No.
Its it allowing those who paid real money to have a significant advantage over those who don’t/didn’t? Not really.

Plus think of the sprocket generator that many people have in their home instances is . Is that also unfair? Should everyone be given a generator so everyone has equal access to it?

following that same logic, it’s also unfair that some people can speed run dungeons, and do a full dungeon tour in a short time. They get more money quicker than those who can’t do dungeon speed runs. (Which is the chief complaint of the watchwork picks. That people get more money quicker.) So they should either make it so all dungeons can be run by anyone in under 5 minutes. Thus putting the rest of the players on the same level as dungeon speed runners.

No, the watchwork pick isn’t unfair. It doesn’t provide a significant advantage over anyone else. Plus it helps put sprockets into the market, so those who don’t have it, can still make the back packs and whatnot. Plus it keeps prices low. If it wasn’t there, then prices would be stupid high and no one wants that.

Well you would say that wouldn’t you since ur obviously have one and are making money out if it. Comparing a gem shop item to dungeon speed run is ridiculous, how can u even think they’re the same thing. Many ppl including myself have spent tons of real money on these tools and ur comparing a dungeon speed run to it? Incredulous.

Pimsley.6087:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If the pick wasn’t for sale your argument would have some merit. Since it’s there in the store to buy, those that want that functionality can buy the pick. No reason for another version to be made.

This x100. Get it or don’t. It’s your choice but stop complaining about it. It’s not some uber exclusive item. Everyone has the ability to purchase it.

So even though i purchased all my characters the full tools sets when they first came and spent a small fortune on them already, you’d want me to buy another one? and what, throw away one of my other existing sets, or leave them rotting in the bank? is that what ur suggesting? Perhaps u can afford to do that but i can’t. I’ve spent enough on this crap, on what i thought would be the best tools, then the watchwork comes and now, not only can u make money off the mats u gather but get extra bonuses to cover ur purchase costs. if you call that equity, then i guess ur bias and i can understand that, since ur making extra money out of it and want to keep it that way.

Draknar.5748:

Astralporing.1957:

I guess they prefer to pretend the problem doesn’t exist. Maybe if they ignore it long enough, it will go away?

But yeah, making the watchwork pick be superior to other infinite mining tools was an extremely bad decision.

Draknar.5748:

Do you want cool animation or do you want the chance of sprockets. Everyone has the same decision to make.

Not true. I bought my molten picks (more than one) before watchwork one was created. I did it, because i believed Anet’s assurances that there will never be a better one that will make molten obsolete.
Those assurances turned out to be a lie.

Anet made assurances that there would never be a better mining pick? When did that happen?

I do agree with you that I would be a bit frustrated if I were in your situation. But I’m talking about at the current point in time, and not necessarily talking about people who purchased picks prior to the release of watchwork. That’s a different discussion I feel.

For players now, you have the same options as everyone else. Which is more valuable to you, a cool looking animation, or a small amount of extra income.

Those that struggle to make money, I can see watchwork as the obvious choice. But if you are like me, or most veteran players, you’ve pretty much figured out how to make money in this game so a cool animation would be more valuable to me. I have the watchwork mining pick. I don’t think it even amounts to 1% of my income.

I think u’r underplaying the income form this pick. i was watching twich stream of a person using it and every 2nd hit on ore and wood got them a sprocket. Imagine therefore if u were doing lot of gathering , u’d be getting stacks of it each day at 2s+ each last time i looked, that amounts to a lot of money.

Astralporing.1957:

I guess they prefer to pretend the problem doesn’t exist. Maybe if they ignore it long enough, it will go away?

But yeah, making the watchwork pick be superior to other infinite mining tools was an extremely bad decision.

Draknar.5748:

Do you want cool animation or do you want the chance of sprockets. Everyone has the same decision to make.

Not true. I bought my molten picks (more than one) before watchwork one was created. I did it, because i believed Anet’s assurances that there will never be a better one that will make molten obsolete.
Those assurances turned out to be a lie.

Totally agree with you Astralporing. I invested a lot of real life money when Molten gathering tools first came out with the reassurance from Anet they’d be the best tools now and forever. Call me crazy if u want, but i enjoy the convenience and i bought 9 full sets, 1 for each of my characters. You’d have to agree that’s a lot of doe. But now i’m stuck with 9 inferior sets. Imagine if i had waited and bought 9 watchwork picks? I would be one rich player by now.

So yea, i second the disappointment and betrayal i feel. With Revenant coming up, I would have bought another set, but as is, I will never buy another, ever! I don’t care how inconvenient it is. Not unless they bring all other tools sets to par with watchwork.

Samuel Loretan.8601:

I believe asuran hydro-engineers are currently investigating this issue. Something having to do with the migration pattern of the Mystic salmon (which makes its way up the fabric of reality each year, as you probably know).

Thankfully, as you’ve seen, despite its invisibility, the water supply still exists, so there’s no risk of drought. For now.

LOL, thanks for the reassurance Samuel. Having those little asuran geniuses on the job warms my heart, coz I was kinda getting worried the beautiful green fields around Kessex Hills may suddenly turn brown. Although, come to think of it, that could mean less grazing for Centaurs which may reduce their population some and that wouldn’t be a bad thing at all.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Not sure if this happens anywhere else, but the creek running around fort salma is bereft of water. the waterfall near the vista is still visible but the creek bed is just dirt. I thought it was the way game loaded so i completely exited the game and restarted it, but it’s still there.

I’m assuming it’s a bug and not anything on my end, so i’m wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem?

Update: ok when i made this post i was kinda alone in fort salma but i’ve had some one else come look at the water and yea, he can’t see water either. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t something on my end. Phew, feel kinda relieved.

Also walking around fort salma, at the lower end of it, water suddenly starts again just like out of ground. there’s a definite line of dry and then water starts flowing again down toward the broken bridge. but on the other side of the fort, toward brisban wildlands, the entire creek bed is dry bar the waterfall near the vista.

Not sure if this happens anywhere else, but the creek running around fort salma is bereft of water. the waterfall near the vista is still visible but the creek bed is just dirt. I thought it was the way game loaded so i completely exited the game and restarted it, but it’s still there.

I’m assuming it’s a bug and not anything on my end, so i’m wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem?

My Charr is still saying things in other races voices, not often but now and then she’ll say things that are jarring, especially when u on headphones.

Right now, the frequency she says things is like it was b4 last patch that supposedly fixed this issue.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

It looks pretty darn good on a Charr. I like it anyway and btw, you’re supposed to wear helmet, especially for this outfit. You would never see Balthazar without one, now would u?

P.S I especially like the flaming tail, pretty cool effect.

It looks pretty darn good on a Charr. I like it anyway and btw, you’re supposed to wear helmet, especially for this outfit. You would never see Balthazar without one, now would u?

People, including me, have been asking/hoping for minions to be fixed for a year or more now, but so far, nothing has changed.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Here’s a Dev post about PS steps: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Personal-Story-An-Apple-a-Day-not-progressing/first#post4936578

Good luck.

Thanks for the link, but that’s related to a completely different story step, a much earlier one. I have done quiet a few story steps in Orr in the last week and had no problem until i came to the one above. It’s possible they’re related but i don’t know, they’re so far apart.

Not sure if anyone else has experienced/reported this, but i’m unable to complete this story step, where u escort the Charr tanks into Orr.

The mission bugs out at the first step where one of the tanks gets struck by a mine, you then have to clear the mines form the road while the tank is being repaired.

The problem is, there’s a perpetual wave upon wave of undead attacking that location with insta respawn rates. Before the tank is repaired, the NPC that supposed to be repairing it, runs off to fight the undead which never stop coming. He then dies and I’m unable to revive him due to constant attacks. So even though i’ve cleared all the mines, the tank never gets repaired and hence i’m unable to progress.

However, after the 3rd attempt and same scenario happening, i notice way ahead a green circle which was very hard to see at first due to it being on green background. this was another part of mission it seems, where u had to defend the tanks for a period of time, so i thought i’d try this and the mission got updated to where the giants started appearing and i had to go to the temple of Zephyr to find the source of where they’re coming from. So i did and the Sylvari Cyrian i think is her name, sacrifices herself and the mission seemed to be progressing to the end. I get the final speech & cinematics, but no credit for completing the story. I realised then the reason is that the first objective of repairing the tank is still active, so i run back to the location and yep, the perpetual battle is still going on and on.

Please note: I’m writing this on behalf of my 2nd account that’s doing the story. I haven’t created forum account for it as yet but in the end, its still me doing it. Just wanted to state that to avoid any confusion. If details of that account are required please send me a message, thanks.

I would really like to be able to complete the story on this character before the changes are made to personal story as i do not know how that will affect my progress. Any official comments if this will be fixed, or is being worked on, would be greatly appreciated.

So I’m at “Battle for Fort Trinity” but not done it yet. Should i wait? Or won’t it matter if i continue?

Awesome news btw getting PS restored, it was terribly disjointed last time i played through it. It’s also good to hear you’re moving toward giving solo options for Arah. It would be even better to have this option for all dungeons. An option to one day be able to reply PS, would be the ultimate awesomeness. But i disagree having your character reset to be able to do it, as suggested by someone above. With lvl downscaling there’s no need to go that drastic. Only the story need resetting not your character.

Yep same for me too, my client hasn’t updated yet and i can’t create Revenant.

I see ppl streaming beta already, yet my client isn’t updating and Revenant is greyed out. Am I doing something wrong?

niea.7504:

Doesn’t Mordremoth have some control over minds? Maybe this is just him driving us all crazy.

Well had it been 1st of April, i would have said Anet pulled this one on us, but since it’s not…yea, could be Modry lol…though i hope not. I’ve had to take my headphones off, coz once i realized it was my char saying those things, it started to hurt my brain.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

It’s your character saying them. I thought the same that i was hearing random voices from other players even though like u all say no one around me. then using the new camera features, i zoomed into my character front on and saw her saying all those lines herself. it was funny hearing my ele sylvari yell “for great justice” in a male human voice. then i stood there for a while and watched her and yep, it was all her saying them.

This only happens to me in open world, not in cities or instances, at least not PS story instances. I have been experiencing some random issues with my characters’ voices ib4 this patch already, where they use other races/genders commentary, but now the problem is really severe.

Oh and also on anther matter, (i’m sure it’s been reported already) the guild chat don’t work at all.

Ok an update. It does happen in town too. I switched to my charr and yea, she was using “retreat” shout and others, both males and females voices lol.

It’s your character saying them. I thought the same that i was hearing random voices from other players even though like u all say no one around me. then using the new camera features, i zoomed into my character front on and saw her saying all those lines herself. it was funny hearing my ele sylvari yell “for great justice” in a male human voice. then i stood there for a while and watched her and yep, it was all her saying them.

This only happens to me in open world, not in cities or instances, at least not PS story instances. I have been experiencing some random issues with my characters’ voices ib4 this patch already, where they use other races/genders commentary, but now the problem is really severe.

Oh and also on anther matter, (i’m sure it’s been reported already) the guild chat don’t work at all.

I’m seeing the world of Tyria with new eyes, it’s wonderful, thank you so much Anet for this awesome addition to the game!
Luv you!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-March-16-2015
not read it yet myself.

pdavis.8031:

Ok I know there is a discussion about the prices of silk. However with 35,628 pages of back and forth, it’s getting difficult to keep track of all thats going on, and arguments are just being repeated.

So instead of discussing the reasons behind the prices, the disparity of mats and time required for light ascended armor, lets talk solutions to the problem.

Several of the solutions already presented, and discussed at length are:
Decrease the amount of silk required for damask.
Increase the amounts of other mats required for ascended medium/heavy.
Introduce a reliable method for obtaining silk.

Lets try not to bring those back, and start another circular discussion about the pros and cons of each. Instead lets come up with new solutions. looking at the problem from another angle and devising a new solution.

As others, and myself, have suggested in the other thread adding cloth as a salvage drop to medium armor, would increase the supply, which in turn would have an effect on the TP prices, as well as make it more viable for “farming”.

What other solutions that we haven’t looked at, that could possibly be viable?

I would like to see a complete overhaul in the way we obtain materials such as cloth and leather.

All humanoid enemies should drop 1-4 scraps of cloth relevant to their level and likewise, beast-like enemies drop leather.
The bags in which u randomly find these mats, should be overhauled as well, where they only hold mats that are required for inscriptions/insignias etc, such as as blood, bones, venom etc.

This would not only make sense in terms of how u obtain these materials, but would also create a more reliable source to obtain them.

Brother Grimm.5176:

MrWubzy.3587:

I don’t mean to derail the thread or anything, but since I started my ranger a couple of weeks ago I haven’t noticed any issues at all in my pet’s AI. The pathing is a bit off, sure, but my pet does exactly what I tell it to do, when I tell it to do it. Are there any videos or red posts on this issue so I can check it out?

The complaints are valid (the bugs exist), but some players over exaggerate just how much of an issue they are. Do the issues need to be fixed? Sure, but “badly” is a misrepresentation of just how important the issue is.

Generally fixing Pet AI so they don’t stand in red circles (no matter if they are attacking or not) would fix 80% of Pet issues.

So you think a pet that’s not attacking your target despite being commanded to is acceptable and not a big big deal? I guess u don’t play ranger or necro, or haven’t faced those issues so it’s not a problem for you and therefore in your opinion it doesn’t need fixing?

Considering pet classes have half their abilities in pets and pets not attacking certain targets is a major issue in my book and needs addressing asap. The fact that it’s been neglected for so long is shameful. We rangers and necros deserve a medal for having put up with this for so long. Or at least, we deserve some respect from fellow players and not have them belittling this matter by suggesting we are exaggerating the problem.

Here’s my thief.

Well I like them on my Necro with the Lich outfit, but not sure about the other races. On Asura they seem to sink in the ground, but haven’t tried them on mine as yet.

Some of these issues have been there ever since i can remember, but it’s totally ridiculous they are still here this far into the game. Please, for the love of god, do something to fix these pet AI issues, they’re extremely bothersome and ruin gameplay whenever they occur.

Ranger underwater pets, do not attack Orrian fish or urchins. They will stay in their poison getting hit till they die, completely ignoring them. Yet above water, the pets will attack the Orrian fish, so this problem seems to be reserved for underwater. I sometimes use same pet for underwater and land, such as reef drake, and its weird to see him ignore Orrian fish underwater, yet fight it on land. There are also many environmental objects that pets won’t attack.

I don’t think i need to mention how badly necro minions are broken, in particular flesh golem and shade. This has been going on at least since April last year and nothing has changed. I even swapped one of the minion related traits as some ppl suggested in the past that it supposed to help, but although at first it seemed to work, its back to square one and the minions still stand there while ur getting smashed. I generally praise and defend this game 99% of the time, but this is really shameful in my eyes and needs to be addressed as soon as possible.

Even though (like many others) I’ve disliked the new dailies since day one, I’ve not said much about them until now. I wanted to give them a really good run b4 i gave my feedback on them. I must say, I hate them more than ever! Compared to the old system, they’re terrible. Some, rare days, they’re bearable, but most days they’re horrible.

Why is it that 90% of the time, the new dailies are in noob zones, it’s so boring i can barely bring myself to do them any more. Don’t get me wrong, i love the noob zones and used to go them occasionally, but now, it’s like every day, do shadow behemont, do frozen maw, do fire ele, do jungle wurm, do events in queensdale, do events in metrica province, do events in wayfarer foothills etc, etc, ad nauseaum. Really? Why? Who thought this would be good for the game?

Every time i’ve gone to these zones to do whatever the daily is, it’s an utter zergfest regardless of the time of day. I’ve been lvling some new chars and it’s impossible to get credit for events or event to hit anything. Millions of bearbow rangers, shoot everything from mile away and as a new char all u do is run around like a headless chook, hoping to hit something.. And as a melee? forget it! even ranged u don’t stand a chance. I ask again, why is it that 90% of daily content is in noob zones? not even in 2nd zones but the very first noob zones. It’s seriously mindless and kittened to be forcing lvl 80 chars to keep doing these noob zones over and over and over day in and day out.

The other thing that i absolutely hate about theses new dailies, is how we are forced to gather 4 nodes of wood, or 4 nodes of plants or 4 nodes ore etc. So me having 3 trees in my home instance for which i payed $10 of real money and which always only give me 3 hits at these nodes and never ever an extra one, i’m still forced to pay WP to go to some map just to get 1 log? I mean really? I have to assume this was done deliberately to force people to go foraging or w/ever, but was this aggravation of your playerbase really necessary?

Solution, return some of the old daily options. Make the events region based. For maxed characters have them do bosses in maps lvl 60+. combine the gathering like it was in the old dailies, ie gather 20 of whatever in whatever region. Add more than 4 choices per category and for god sake, stop forcing my lvl 80’s to noob zones, it’s insulting. Ur making me hate them and that’s a shame b/c as i said, i normally enjoy these zones.

Malkavian.4516:

I’d rather not have to ask mapchat for “events?”, but with this issue I have with the content finder not finding any events within my area (even though I completed the map). Is anyone else having this issue?

I was actually going to start a thread myself on this issue. If the content guide is working as intended, then its poorly designed. It works in certain scenarios but not in others especially when it comes to informing you about events. For eg: when completing a particular map and u have it on default settings, or even PS disabled, you get notified for things that give you map completion, ie: heart, vistas etc, and you can even see events if u zoom the map out.

However, once u complete that map, it shows u nothing. It auto switches to ur PS story guide even when disabled and it constantly points you to the next map you still got exploration to do. But no events can be seen on the map any longer. The only time you can see the events is if u come very close to them, but that’s how they used to work under the old system.

Oddly enough, for my chars that have 100% world and PS completion and with content guide at default setting, it shows me events on the entire map. So to me, the whole thing is a bit of a mish mash and really needs to be fixed and standardized.

I feel actually bad as i was advising people constantly asking “any events?” in the map chat to turn on their content guide to see the events on entire map, as that is how it worked for my completed characters. But since i started lvling alts, i’ve found the new content guide very confusing until i figured out the inconsistencies and i’ve played since head start. So i can only imagine how confused new players would be by this guide.

The available options are too few and they don’t work as described. For eg: it says disable personal story but it doesn’t really disable it, it’s always showing on ur UI and the map itself. All it does it switches priorities on what it shows u first, putting other things u can do in a particular map ahead of the personal story. People don’t really need to have a big blue dot on the exists out of the map to tell them there’s stuff in the next map they can do. All they have to do is view the world map to see undiscovered areas in the world. Those big blue dots would have better served players if they’ve showing where the events are in the map they’re in. More options could be added, to only show events or exploration guide, or Personal story and if u disable something it really is disabled.

I noticed this issue some time ago, but lately, seems to be getting worse. Like today for eg; on my charr ranger I experienced this problem almost every interaction she had with NPC’s and also when in downed state.

She says things in a human male voice. Or a human or Norn female when interacting with NPC traders etc. It varies every time, but it’s really jarring to hear her speak particularly in a male human voice. For eg: i was doing fractals a short while ago, and she got downed by the lava balls, she yelled in human male voice, help me! Or something to that effect. Then when i returned to LA, interacting with a trader, she had a Norn female voice.

I’ve noticed this not just on my charr, but my other racial characters where they use other races voice in these situations. It is particularly unnerving hearing an Asura female sounding like a Norn.

I’m not sure if anyone else is experiencing these problems, please post here if u do and please, please devs fix this issue, it’s so immersion breaking.

Thank you.

Tribio.8531:

There are 4 commander colors..
Blue, Red, Purple, Yellow

So I would file a bug report, since you only see 3 at best.. :-/

Ugh you’re right there were 4 colours, i forgot about the yellow lol.

I’ll edit the topic title to reflect that.

I’m not sure if this has happened to anyone else, or when it happened as i don’t often use my commander badge, but just last week i went to use it and on the initial creation, i had the choice of 4 colours as usual, so i chose red. But ever since then i’m stuck with only red, the other 3 colours do not show up as available choice any more. Iv’e ofc relogged into the game many times since then and tried it on different characters, but red is still the only choice i have available.

I did submit an in-game bug, but felt i should post here too since the couple of times i asked in map chat if anyone else had this problem the reply was no. So it seems it’s only affecting me at this point. Or has anyone else found this problem?

In any case, i would appreciate a fix as i use different colours on different characters, such as my guardian always uses blue to match her dye theme, while my ele uses red etc. At least, please some 1 confirm if this is a bug or intended change, thank you.

Edit: changed the No. of original colours to 4 from 3 and amended the title accordingly.

One of my favorites.

Black Citadel Tavern-Interchange between a male and a female Charr

Female standing in corner of the tavern is approached by a male Charr

Female: “Stay away from me, not interested!”
Male: “Well, well, kitten’s got claws.”
Female: “Kitten’s got sword too!”….Pulls out a great big sword and swings it around.

The male walks away with tail between his legs haha.

I got quite a few boot chests, but form my experience, they don’t actually come form opening the chests themselves, but rather as an additional drop when u collect the bandit chests from the ground. At least i seem to remember seeing them on my side screen with some other stuff like dust and the boot chest always seem to be in my bags b4 i even opened the chests.
But like others have said, you can always buy them for 1k crests after you acquire the buy order form skritt event. I got my order first time i did that event. As for the coat, that’s another story lol. Done the vinewrath quite a few times now, but no coat.

If you want to escape the cold and experience that tropical feeling, go to Southsun Cove and down to the beach. You even get stripped into a bikini, there’s a bar and food there, but others may have the same idea. Still that would be my choice.

Hi and welcome to gw2. Not sure if Heroic edition is the same as digital deluxe, but i recently bought a 2nd copy of gw2 for myself and got an armor skin. Initially, i was able to select which armor weight to choose, (ie: med, heavy, light). It was actually stats armor to begin with when I first unlocked it and of rare quality. Normally you can’t wear rares until lvl 35 iirc.

That was a mistake really opening it right away, as i outgrew it very quickly. U get to lvl 10 in this game in a mater of an hour, but i didn’t actually realise b4 opening it that it was armor with stats and not just a skin.

However, equipping it, unlocked the skins in the wardrobe and also gave me a complete spare skin set of it to apply whenever i desire on any med char on my account (for free, just by double clicking it and applying it to a desired pce of armor, as those skins in the wardrobe will cost trans charges to apply). So I’m saving it till max lvl. the only problem is you have to keep that set which is now in separate pces until then lol, taking up like 6 slots of my bank space….lesson learned.

So my suggestion is, keep that box till much later in the game, maybe like 60 or 70 then open it and wear the set. that should cover you until max lvl and you get exotic armor set. If it does have stats, like mine, the stats should adjust to your lvl when u open it. Again, this is assuming that the set u got works in the same way as mine did.

As far as which class to start with, my personal suggestion is ranger. easy to learn and get a pet to help you in battle from get go. plus you can stay at range and out of danger until u learn the game. But then again, I’m bias toward ranger, I just love them.

Well good luck and hope you have many fun hours in the world of Tyria!

edgarallanpwn.8739:

segman.3560:

I could understand your argument if the grind was indeed connected to the power level of your gear. However we’re talking about cosmetics. So it is only your choice to aim for cosmetics. Whether it comes from achievements or cash shop it’ll always be some kind of grind.

Now you have a choice:
more time grind – less or no cash spend for a skin
less or no grind – more cash spend for a skin

Looks fair to me. It is only up to you if you go for cosmetics and how are you going to pay for them – with your time/gold or with your cash. You don’t need those skins, you want them. When I want something, I go to work, I get paid and I buy what I want.

The argument is that if i pay 140$ for something, i want to use it when i want, not gated by xmog stones. It doesn’t matter that you can earn them, or buy more of them, if i drop real $ into the skin, i don’t want to have to earn something else to effectively use it more than once. I want to use it, how i want, when i want, NSA.

Unfortunately there are strings, whether people are ok with those or not is an irrelevant point

First of all edgarallanpwn, welcome to GW2. Since you’re new player, you wouldn’t understand the way things were b4 the wardrobe was put in place, so i’ll take the liberty to fill you in a bit and perhaps you may appreciate better what we have now.

The skins were still there, they cost the same and they’ve character based. So if you wanted to use that same skin on 2 different characters, you had to buy 2 of them and were one use only. Not only that, your current armor looks would be overwritten and lost forever! Now, that armor skin is stored in your wardrobe and u can always revert back at a cost of a trans charge.

On top of that, after the first use, if you wanted to change some parts of that skin for eg: shoulders, and those shoulders were level 80, you had to also buy fine transmutation crystals, which cost the same if not more as transs charges do now. The difference was, you could not earn those fine trans crystals in the game as u now can earn trans charges. There was always a chance of getting one here and there as reward for completing dailies or story missions for eg, but basically u had to buy them.

So they added the wardrobe system, made the skins account based, so you only ever had to by 1, which upon use gets unlocked in your wardrobe for all your characters and u can play with it as much as you want. To offset the income loss they introduced trans charges and in my eyes, the way the system is now, is awesome, cheap and very fair. You have to understand that Anet’s only income is from the gem store (and the cheap box price of the game ofc) and unlike in many other f2p or b2p games, you’re not gated form any content. I’ve seen many people on this very forum accuse Anet of greed, but I’ve never felt that way about them, not in gw1 and not in gw2 either. Put it this way, I’ve played many other games incl. sub games that are waaaay greedier than you can ever accuse Anet of.

Now i understand what you’re saying, pay once use forever, but what does that say then of a company with a sub game that requires you to pay every month just to play their game and have a cash shop to boot? I’m curious as to why is Anet constantly being accused of being greedy (not that i’m saying you’ve accused them of that but others have) and criticized for trying to make a buck to produce new content for this game and pay their staff, while other companies seem to get away with highway robbery and still be praised? I mean u get this amazing game and free updates for a very small amount of money really and people complain about trans charges which are so cheap and can be easily earned in game as well. Don’t get me wrong, it would be nice to get all this stuff like u said, but i also understand that they have to make money somehow, or else there would be no gw2 to speak of.

In the end, just like in real life, you want that look? You go out and buy it, but I do hope that none of that cosmetic stuff will diminish your enjoyment of this wonderful game, but rather, enhance it. Good luck and as I always say, have fun!

I’d love to be able to play with my alts as heroes like in gw1. that was a lot of content right there gearing them up and setting up their builds etc. this would be icing on the cake in this game! and yes, agree with others, not in open world but dungeons/instances would be great!

Oh wow, i didn’t know that, like i said it was my first use of these features since it started as all my chars had been lvl 80 and geared for a long time. Thanks for the info i feel silly now lo but it is late at night….at least that’s my excuse hehe.

I was trying to buy some armor & weaps for my new lvl 40 char the other day (first time i used this feature since the update to TP) and was surprised to find there was no lvl filter. I had to search the entire range of what was available for my class. Adding lvl filter to TP where u can type the lvl in a field is essential imo and it would save so much time and frustration. It is especially important with a new class being added to the game in the expac, as I’m sure everyone will be trying to lvl up a Revenant! Yes indeed, i’ll be the first one to do so lol.

Thanks if u get to read this and especially a BIG thanks to the devs if they could implement this to an already amazing TP that we have! But i do hope it will be soon as i’m lvling 2 new chars atm ugh.

I just wanted to express how pleased i am at everything i saw at PAX. There tons of questions yet to be answered, but from what i’ve seen it seems Anet has delivered on just about everything that the community has asked for. In fact I’m so pleased i’ve purchased (for the first time ever in any game) a 2nd account. I can’t wait to start the new class! I purchased a class slot on my main account a while ago and have been saving it for just such an occasion! I guess deep down i knew this was coming, even though there were times i had my doubts.

Good job Anet! Keep up the good work!

Hi,
I just purchased 2nd gw2 acct and was wondering if i have to download the entire game anew or is there way i can copy or w/ever my existing client? Could anyone answer this please it would be much appreciated. It would be great if there’s a (legal) way of doing this and saving me a huge download.

Thanks in advance

It’s been up for about an hour now and it’s giving double exp for everything it seems. Not sure about crafting though as my crafts are all maxed out so no exp for me there.

rabidsmiles.5926:

And you guys make it twice as hard for those of us making ascended/have ascended armor to switch between characters. One set that looks awesome on a human female will look terrible on an asura

3 dresses? I think you are being generous. When it comes to light armor, a female asura has at most the winged pants for a ‘dress’ look. There are a few others but they are either half dress and half pants or just don’t look nice.

Yeah the winter’s outfit is cute and all but sometimes you want to have a nice armor set and different dye pallet than just the 4 of an outfit.

I agree but you can still make your asura girl look like a girl if u play around with wardrobe a bit. I mean you have to admit, my asura engi here looks pretty much like a girl. But yea dresses options are almost non-existent.

Jade Arkadian.9280:

I really liked the new cinematics too, and I hope to see more in the future!
But on the other hand I wish there was someway to replay theses awesome videos(and also the others from the personal story,living story 1…) within the game. That NPC in the silverwastes is pretty hidden and inconveniently placed.

Maybe through an NPC or an interactive shrine in your home instance to store theses memories!

Take this as a little feedback

Or they could add a tab to log in screen called “replay cinematics” that you have unlocked. Clicking on the tab shows the complete list in order of appearance and you can select which to view at your leisure and without any interference.

I just completed this event…don’t ask me how considering graphic glitch i had to put up with during the entire event. (see attached images).
It started off just b4 the main event started and would occasionally pop, but when the main event started it almost constantly flashed on on and off. I thought at first it camera related as it seems to happen when i turn but it was happening even when i stood still. Once the event was over, it stopped. Occasionally the rest of the screen was black but it would come and go so fast i couldn’t even take shot of it.

Has anyone else experience this? or is it my graphic card glitching?

I can’t update obviously due to traffic, but has anyone else manged to do so? if so do we have new map(s)? There was no mention in the patch notes, but nor was the last time and we had some new areas.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-January-13-2015

I’m getting my Guardian Ascended armor, almost done just 2 more pieces to go. I’ve chosen WupWup Armor and Trooper runes, but I can’t decide what’s the best for trinkets. Would it be best to go with + all stats? Or should I go Bersker or something else? I would really appreciate any help u can offer me as it costs a lot of laurels etc, so I don’t want to make the wrong choice.

Thanks.

If you haven’t already done it, make sure in ur options menu to set the “Content Guide” to default settings. Not sure if this is turned on by default when u start a new character or not, but check that it’s on. This will guide you through the game. When an event is happening on the map, the compass at the top right of your screen will pop and telly there’s an event on the map. By hitting M for the main map, you should be able to zoom out too see the entire map and you will see a smallish orange circle where the event is happening. Then simply head over there and participate. As others have said, events will give u the highest exp.

Today, was the first time i’ve passed up my dailies in like 2 years. I guess there’s even less reason for me to log in now.