Guild Wars 2

Didn’t you hear? In GW2 end game starts at level 1!

I can completely imagine the conversation between the vendor and the player character.

“Hey! I’d like to buy 100 Icy Runestones.”
“Sorry, only selling one at a time.”
“Err… okay. Give me one.”
“Are you sure? These things are like super expensive at one gold per stone, and only used to craft legendary weapons.”
“Yes I know that. I’m going to craft one and I need 100 Icy Runestones, among a lot of other stuff. Just give me that.”
“Alright then. There you go, one Icy Runestone for one gold. Anything else?”
“Yes. I still need 99 more.”
“Sorry, only selling one at a time.”
“You said that already. Just give me the next one.”
“Are you really sure about that? It’s one GOLD per stone!”
“NnnnngrrrlllllAAAAAARRGGH!!”

Today. 800 gems per set.

The funny thing is, in most cases there would be absolutely zero need for a cutscene (much less a marionette show) at all! A few words exchanged between the hero and an NPC, or even just between a couple of NPCs. These both could be perfectly well done in-game with the speech bubbles. Look at the beginning of the candidate trials! I laughed aloud when the first mate made his “kitten jump” as Kiel said he’s going to return the money to their rightful owners.

If someone would run their character into an awkward place to speak their lines in the conversation, it’s their loss.

Of course, this also wouldn’t be an issue if we could cancel buffs on ourselves by right-clicking on them.

It sure is achieveable through the game. All you need is about 26 gold give or take a few silver. Compared to the Aetherized Weapons it’s a bargain.

Lonely Hermit.1967:

Tom Gore.4035:

My bottom line stands. If you can’t play the game, you don’t deserve the achievements. End of story.

I took a break from GW2 and I’m missing the molten alliance endless mining pick and all the achievements related to those events. Do you see me whining on the forums about those?

No. Man up. Those achievements are not or at least should not be something you lose sleep over, or come to the forums to whine about.

Well, you obviously don’t get the point. Nobody said that we can’t play the game. The point is that we are forced to play these minigames and we can’t play anything else at all.

I won’t write anything else because you won’t probably get the point anyway

I do get the point. The point is you feel you’re entitled to get the achievement without a) spending some time in the game or b) doing anything that requires any skill whatsoever.

Both metas can be achieved with absolutely zero skill (it will take some time) or very minimal time (takes some skill).

I’m sorry that you cannot get an achievement (look that up in the dictionary?) without any effort or time invested.

It’s an sPvP setup, what is this “zerg” you speak of?

Phew I only need a couple of pieces from the heavy set for one character, so no problemo.

So getting the braham armor for my norn warrior. Goodbye another 10 EUR. Guess it’s for a good cause

EDIT: Wait, it’s 800 gems per piece or per set?

Yeah your CPU might be the bottleneck here.

A good advice for the future is to use a GPU/CPU monitor to see which of the components is being bottlenecked. In your case, I assume the graphs would show near 100% usage for 2-4 cores of your CPU and less than 60% usage for your GPU.

There is no machine powerful enough to handle a big WvW zerg in GW2. The client is not very well optimized.

The Baws.5164:

Yeah it exists, it’s called Crafting.

You can get to 80 through Crafting in ~ 8 hours but it costs a tremendous amount of gold and can therefore not do it on a first account.

Guild Wars 2 isn’t about the end game. It’s about the journey there.

Sure you can. Buy gems, convert to gold and level away.

I’ve got one drop in my time playing. It happens, but it’s about as rare as a precursor.

Excellent suggestion, although it definitely would need to be color-coded by realm.

If it’s an option to not show it on your screen, why not.

My god that would be awesome

They’re really going over the top with their kitttenfilter.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Tom Gore.4035:

Crossplay.2067:

The fact that Cursed Shore and Southsun Core are nearly empty while Queendale has a healthy population shows that they have clearly crossed that line and it is hurting the game.

Yeah. That must be it. Nothing to do with the Homeland Support achievement.

80’s had been running around Queensdale in numbers long before Homeland Support, and might very well be long after the achievement is a faded memory in the history tab.

Yes because it’s a guaranteed zone to get events done quickly for daily/monthly. I don’t think that’s what Crossplay suggested, though. I think he meant to point out that old players are leaving and only new players play the game.

Could be wrong, ofc. What I do know is that the 80s in Queensdale are not there to farm, unless the Behemoth event is up.

ezd.6359:

I am fine. I feel myself better than in other games like Aion. BTW this game requires better processors, not video cards. So i always play on max settings. You can try max settings too, no impact at all.

With 100 people around servers lag sometimes, but my fps is good.

Sorry man, but you’re full of kitten. With 100 people on the screen and everything maxxed you’re not running anywhere near 60 fps with your setup. Not. A. Chance.

tolunart.2095:

lilstev.3498:

So I’m just guessing exotics increase your chances at drops than rares or at least that would make more sense.

Well, rares in the Forge produce an exotic with something like a 20% chance. Exotics produce an exotic with a 100% chance. Precursors are always exotic, so if rares in the Forge produce a rare, there is no chance it will be a precursor, while an exotic always produces an exotic and therefore the result always has a chance to be a precursor.

So, on average tossing 400 exotics into the MF gives you 100 chances to produce a precursor, while 400 rares gives you 20 chances to produce a precursor. If the cost of the rares is less than 20% of the cost of the exotics it’s probably worth it to use rares, otherwise you are better off using exotics.

You should also factor in the mystic forge stones, which everyone is currently sitting on a hefty bunch of.

ExTribble.7108:

Only one I can think of, which is kind of a combination of others.
Invisible Equipment Bag: Any armor, weapons, jewelry, etc. that you unequip automatically enter this bag. Also serves as an invisble bag (no sorting/merching).

Wardrobe Pack. Yes, please.

Ice of Dragons.1637:

maybe they will try to change the focus away from la to other cites

That’s pretty much confirmed already. The next part of the Living Story will revolve around Divinity’s Reach.

Which is cool. Although I’m a Norn there’s no denying DR is easily the prettiest of the cities in GW2.

I’m also pretty hopeful the focus will come to each and every one of the cities, in turn. The only one I’m not really looking forward to is the Grove. So bland…

Can you give more information? Where was this and how many other players were on the screen? With everything maxxed, especially shadows, you will see low FPS on crowded areas such as boss events, Lion’s Arch and WvW zergs.

One thing that might also be the cause is too low memory. How much you’re running at?

TheLaughingMan.4320:

The monetization team, which is now running the show, wants to milk you for as many gems as possible before NCSoft shuts down GW2, no chance of them making perm tools account bound

The monetization team seems to be doing a crappy job, unless they plan to withhold the paychecks for the content teams who are pushing updates every two weeks now.

Bad troll is bad.

Esplen.3940:

Undean.9704:

I have to agree with Crovax about this. I have also been averaging about 40g per million karma. With 1 million karma I got about 25g from Unidentified Objects alone, then the rest of the money you make depends on what lodestones you get.

Again, I spent 1.7m karma and got ~8g back from unid objects.

I’m not complaining, I’m just stating that you might be overstating the amount you made.

I’m also not saying that this is a bad method of using excess karma (I still have 1m karma on my main), but I want players who use this method to be informed.

As for the OP and all people who are unsure of whether or not they should buy boxes…

What are you going to spend your karma on?
If you know the answer to that, then you don’t need to buy boxes (or, perhaps, you do).

If you don’t know the answer to that, think about boxes as a (free) stock. It’s something you’re holding onto and it gets more value (more karma) as you adventure. You can cash out whenever you want, or hold it in case new usages for it come available.

kitten y analogy, but I just woke up.

You were sitting on 95% karma buffs, right? Otherwise you’re not doing it right.

Melfice.5091:

Tom Gore.4035:

Considering each use of the kit costs around 39 silver at the current conversion rate, highly unlikely. Compared to the Master Salvage kit I would say the 80% there will win the day in the end.

What about free kits that you got from daily?

Well if you consider them truly free, then why not. Salvaging rares with a “free” BL kit is certain to bring more than just selling the rares, unless that particular rare goes for 25s or more on the TP.

Solo.9027:

Tom Gore.4035:

Julie Yann.5379:

This is why I don’t buy keys. Why the F would anyone pay real cash for a small chance of maybe getting something shiny? I just can’t figure out the thought process behind that.

How about paying cash to support the MMO you like? Granted I’m not saying everyone should chuck 60 bucks on RNG, but 10 bucks a month or something doesn’t seem so bad to me.

I’d rather spend it on “sure thing” like the infinite tools or similar and not RNG, though.

Anet is supported as soon as you buy the gems, the problem is when they give you practically nothing back for those gems. If I liked this set of skins i’d tap into my cash purchased 2400 gems(currently) but with bad rng and me not asthetically liking them i’m going to sit this patch out. Hopefully they put out a perma mining tool triple pack or some nice skins for direct purchase next time.

It is your choice to gamble away those gems or not. You obviously made the wise choice (you could have bought a skin off the TP with those gems if you liked), some people did not.

Crossplay.2067:

The fact that Cursed Shore and Southsun Core are nearly empty while Queendale has a healthy population shows that they have clearly crossed that line and it is hurting the game.

Yeah. That must be it. Nothing to do with the Homeland Support achievement.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

Fellow Evon supporters I know Kiel is ahead but while she has the numbers we have the determination, Join me this Sunday and lets buy, farm and steal every ticket we can and show once and for all that this do-gooder Kiel has no chance.

This aggression will not stand.

This message brought to you by Citizens of Tyira For a Better Tommorrow, Tommorrow.

Give me 10/100 votes at a time option and I promise to drop 100 votes for Evon immediately.

Katz.5143:

Tom Gore.4035:

What-in-earth are you talking about? It takes maybe 4-5 hours to complete each meta of the latest round and that’s not even sweating it! You have two weeks to complete them. If you can’t spare 10 hours over 2 weeks, how in the name of everything that is good do you feel you should be entitled to get those achievements?

Every time I read these posts I’m beginning to feel my joke about people wanting the “achievements” mailed to them when they log in wasn’t a joke after all…

You make me lose faith in gamers. Gamers are supposed to actually play the games.

Did you read the OP post? It takes YOU 10 hours spread out over 2 weeks. It is taking the OP much longer than that. And no where did it say they did not want to play the game. The complaint was that they are TEMPORARY.

Why can’t they add in new things every two weeks for the fast people with a lot of time to spend in game and then just leave it in the game. Then the rest of us can finish it, just at a much slower pace than you super fast people.

My bottom line stands. If you can’t play the game, you don’t deserve the achievements. End of story.

I took a break from GW2 and I’m missing the molten alliance endless mining pick and all the achievements related to those events. Do you see me whining on the forums about those?

No. Man up. Those achievements are not or at least should not be something you lose sleep over, or come to the forums to whine about.

The point is, we shouldn’t have to jump through these hoops to vote. I can’t understand why the devs didn’t add “drop 10 votes” and “drop 100 votes” options. That would have taken them maybe 10-15 whole minutes!

Well the thread itself has nothing really wrong, except the fact that Guild Halls are one of the most requested features ever since launch. You could maybe have found 20+ threads about them by searching.

Makes you wish the Chinese also spoke English, doesn’t it?

ezd.6359:

This game has excellent optimization! I have i2500k@4.2GHz, nVidia GTX 670, 8GB RAM – i have no problems at all! If you have problems, try to disable programs (they eat memory), delete viruses and of course reset overclocked hardware to standart parameters.

I will be very happy to see DirectX 11 in GW2, it should increase performance even more. Many things like floor in Rata Sum are ready to DX11. I want to see it NAO!

I have pretty much same setup as yours. Let me know how you fare in WvW with 100 players on screen and everything maxxed?

Yeah… thought so.

That said, there are ways to make your cursor more visible. Just not official ones. Google.

Funset.7893:

Men, who would spend 1300 gold on a torch _

Yes, it most probably was a man.

Wanderer.3248:

EVE is just… different. It’s so much slower than most MMOs, but much more involved. With training queues, and sell orders, and long running manufacturing jobs, I can play EVE every few days, or every few weeks, and still keep “in the game”.

I’m glad you put the “in the game” in quotes, because what you just desrcibed is not a game, it’s a kitten spreadsheet you pay a monthly fee to twiddle about.

HawkMeister.4758:

Tom Gore.4035:

I’m pretty sure they have 0-1 guys working on the clientside currently, determining by the client updates (none) we have got in the last 6 months.

Yeah this!
Pretty safe bet that they only have a hand full, if that.
After they fixed culling for WvW these guys are very likely still hard at work on the open world version.
Biggest problem with these things is that you can´t just hire new guys and they will instantly write better code.
If they had hired the talent at game launch maybe by now we´ll be able to see some core improvements. Who knows, maybe we even will.

The culling issue is fully server side. The only thing the client guys had to do about it is to introduce the detail selectors for player models in WvW.

In effect it means, that instead of working to make the client run better and optimize it, they just quickly coded in some sliders so that we can make the game uglier and hope it runs smoother that way.

Considering how much their client improved from beta to release and the first couple months, I’m pretty sure they DID have competent client programmers, but it seems those guys were fired or left the company ages ago.

You guys should tell Anet to hire some client programmers before wishing for client changes/improvements.

I’m pretty sure they have 0-1 guys working on the clientside currently, determining by the client updates (none) we have got in the last 6 months.

Actually your cursor remains where you held down your right mouse button. But can’t see any harm if this would be an option.

They seem to be selling pretty well as they are, considering almost everyone I see has a set…

This is the recipe you need. Fortunately it’s cheap.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/43835

Well I have a full time job. Spending 300-500 euros per year in a hobby isn’t that bad I calculating in the return from the old parts which I usually sell.

Asurastafarian.9708:

Seriously, Anet, get a kittening reality check and let people do what they want !

They did. Now people who want to access Arah will be able to.

Just get autohotkey or some other automation software or this will kill your mouse and the finger that clicks it.

Avelos.6798:

Tom Gore.4035:

I’m running a i7 3770k OCd to 4,2Ghz with a GTX670 and I feel my rig isn’t running GW2 well enough, because I can’t keep a steady 60 FPS in big events and WvW with everything maxxed.

That’s because the game’s software platform engine is a POS. If it was optimized well enough and stuff, I bet you’d get like 90 or more FPS in wvw. :F

True enough, but I’m not holding my breath waiting for improvements on the game client

I’m an enthusiastic on PC gamer tech, so I’m upgrading my computer every year anyway

As said everyone has their own definition of “running the game”. If you do a lot of WvW for example, the budget machine will struggle to keep a playable framerate with anything else than low settings. If you on the other hand tend to solo most of the time and don’t mind that your framerate will dip (seriously) in big events, the budget machine will be alright.

I’m running a i7 3770k OCd to 4,2Ghz with a GTX670 and I feel my rig isn’t running GW2 well enough, because I can’t keep a steady 60 FPS in big events and WvW with everything maxxed.

What-in-earth are you talking about? It takes maybe 4-5 hours to complete each meta of the latest round and that’s not even sweating it! You have two weeks to complete them. If you can’t spare 10 hours over 2 weeks, how in the name of everything that is good do you feel you should be entitled to get those achievements?

Every time I read these posts I’m beginning to feel my joke about people wanting the “achievements” mailed to them when they log in wasn’t a joke after all…

You make me lose faith in gamers. Gamers are supposed to actually play the games.

Yes, it has. The fluid combat system has made me completely intolerant of old-fashioned tabtarget systems with 30+ abilities on your hotbars.

It could kill even ArcheAge for me, although that game has a lot more to the RPers than GW2 does.