Guild Wars 2

anet can’t balance there game very well in wvw or pve. So lets add more stuff that gets us further out of balance. Just because tools are being added to wvw doesn’t make it more fun or competitive. Lets add more fluff for fluff sake and sell it to the f2p players as its awesome upgrade. Forget about the basics, you know competitive nature of matching servers together. Adding more junk to an already troubled game mode.

Well having one map for wvw would make ppt more interesting actually matter. Since the player base would need to destack and spread out across all serves. All serves would be closer competitive wise. we could see more server variations instead of same servers week after week.

My drops come in spurts. This week I’ve gotten more exotics than normal. My rare salvage to ecto rate feels better too. I know its just rng.

My tin foil hat theory is the less time I play the better my drop rate is. Its like anet coded the game to give better loot if you play less and wants to make you more excited to log in and play by giving you better loot. You go away on a vacation and come back its like drops falling in your lap.

I would keep crafting all your time gated materials at the very least. Then once you decide you’ll be ready to get it done quicker.

After HoT content is released two short months it’ll be Christmas. I was speculating if HoT would go on sale that soon. Since GW2 includes HoT and the base game the chances seem even higher that there will be a sale. Part of me thinks maybe I should have waited on preordering and score a 50% off deal or something. But alas I’ve been so bored I didn’t want to wait two months to play new content. I just hope I’m not disappointed with the pace of HoT content as in are they going to have much to do right off the bat or is it going to be like living story released every couple weeks. If its content that’s released every two weeks I could have easily caught up except for mastery unlocks. Maybe some players on the fence can score a good sale deal at least. Just a quick thought I had…

kill tequatl for karma and for the feeling of not soloing everything. Very pugable these days easy.

Don’t worry about ascended gear really. Its not needed outside of fractals. If you do guild missions and log in to the game they are basically free. Or wvw and use badges for reduced laurel cost. I agree I was a bit kittened at ascended trinkets when they first came out since it made jewel crafting kinda pointless.

Vesuvius.9874:

Trinnitty.8256:

New patch today, introduced pvp crashing. Just thought I’d let you guys know (op). another bug via update per usual.

If you knew even the slightest thing about game development, or even just plain development in general, you’d know that bugs are inevitable. Please keep that in mind the next time you decide you let the world know of this obvious fact.

My post was directed by the naysayers that don’t seem to know about game breaking bugs after anet updates. Just shedding some light for them. We know software has bugs in them across all platforms. Compare apples to apples, Anet updates compared to othe mmo updates. Who has the most bugs introduced after updates?

New patch today, introduced pvp crashing. Just thought I’d let you guys know (op). another bug via update per usual.

Crashing in PvP… still

lets get rid of the AC spamming looks good to me.

You’ll get reused to it. Human brains adapt pretty good.

Its funny I finally started doing some key farms after buy HoT preorder. I wanted to do something with my extra char slot and all those lvl 20 instant scrolls. In reality this should never been a farmable item to begin with as in making characters and deleting them to obtain a key. All they really had to do is put the key at level 80 instead of level 10. I guess they threw us a bone and let once per week farm.

1. Expand the wardrobe to work with sigils, runes. Ultimately I would like an unlock system per armor slot where you apply runes to armor and they get consumed and unlocked so you could switch them in and out without rebuying and destroying them or carry multiple armors. It just makes sense with traits being swapped on the fly to be able to swap armor stats, runes and sigils too. You could even add some small amount grind to get the runes/sigils or recipes to be able to allow the this new system to work without it being dumbed down.

2. wvw formats that change monthly 1v1, 1v1v1, with new maps being added to the mix. Rebalance siege such as no trebs or catas build behind doors that hit through gates to destroy rams etc.

3. Permanent content added more often. Long 3 years it has been. southsun cove, silver wastes and dry top.

I would rather see it simplified. What I would do is have the map clear so many events so everyone is rewarded equally for success. Make a requirement or earning say 10 event completions in order to get map reward. Then limit each players reward so that you can only get 1 box per map each day. Increase the reward to compensate 3 reward limit per day. This way we all won’t need to grind all our game time to get sufficient funds for items. People will spend like 3 hours of their time instead of all day/night.

-This event is too similiar to the aether blade events almost a copy past event with less rewards.

-this event encourages tagging mobs and moving on and not completing events for the duration.

-this event is a gold sink by waypointing around everwhere to get to next event. makek waypoints atleast free.

- it would be nice is the event mobs could count as kills towards maxing out weapon type kill counts in achievements.

- low bloom rewards makes it harder to get multiple things you desire. unless you didn’t want average players to get a couple higher rewards from the list.

It is the track record that almost guarantees Hot will have issues. Just about every new content thing added to gw2 has had bugged events and buggy achievements. Its happened since release. I have come to accept this fact. I accept the fact after every content added to the game there is always a game update/patch to fix something within several hours. Its just the way it is. I played HoT last weekend for first time for few hours and this is some minor issues but that content is watered down to test a few event chains nothing on scale as what will be released all at once on october 23.

The main problem is anet for whatever reason can not release content that isn’t broken in some way or another. Its been like this for 3 years. People just get excited to go do something new and why bother to hurry its most likely to be bugged.

I think these tools aren’t worth it unless they give you a copy for every character imo. You get free tools from winderday gifts and you can buy them with karma too. Just seems like 1000 gems is way high for them.

I would like to see different formats. 2 way for more competitive aspect and this 4 way for fun. It would be nice to have a rotating format every month to keep it fresh.

It will actually make people react faster to save something if wp are contested. I think it has always been too easy especially with siege disablers in the game to delay defending something right away. Nothing like having a map que wp and save the day against less numbers.

We need a lay away reserve an item to be purchased within 7 days. If it is not bought then the item disappears from the reserved ‘lay away’ tab

some people trade karma gear for linen via mystic forge. I have about 8 million karma just waiting to see what HoT adds.

I think there is a fps glitch too. I had it happen twice on me in wvw. I had to restart the game by forcing it to close in task manager (program not responding).

Chaba.5410:

Trinnitty.8256:

FA and SoS are not t2 quality anymore. They are more t4-t5 stuck in limbo. Since anet is helpless to help themselves move servers where they need to be. The ratings take forever to change. We don’t even need ratings to find where servers need to be. A dev that can manually control tiers is all that’s needed.

I’m curious. Are you on FA or SoS? It seems that you are just making guesses.

While the NA is lower than previous T2 standards, FA and SoS both have more off-hours coverage than some of the T3 servers and definitely more than T4 servers. That’s why they are “in limbo” in T2. Look at coveragewars2.com if you don’t believe me. On top of that, FA and SoS have been able to hold relatively stable against a T1 server in the T2 match without any server going major overtime to do it.

While T3 would be a good place to rebuild for FA and SoS, T3 isn’t going to happen unless T3 servers start working to earn T2 or T1 servers start pushing hard. T2 rebuild isn’t going to happen unless players like Stormbolt start transferring to T2.

And you’re right: “The ratings take forever to change.” Doesn’t it make more sense to preserve rating instead of waiting forever for the adjustment?

I’m on FA. I’ve been on FA since a month after release… I don’t play NA prime time very often. I’m normally on for few hours just before prime time. A lot of guilds that were on FA for a long time have left and theres not much leadership. It’s basically karma train, taking keeps and towers back. Covn, Dcon and who else is left playing? TK, fort, Bomb . I see tyryon commanding more now.

FA and SoS are not t2 quality anymore. They are more t4-t5 stuck in limbo. Since anet is helpless to help themselves move servers where they need to be. The ratings take forever to change. We don’t even need ratings to find where servers need to be. A dev that can manually control tiers is all that’s needed.

until tier3 becomes tier 2, rinse and repeat.

how about the ability to still get your loot bags after you die! And auto pick up loot bags without having to use a aoe loot key.

I always thought they should be attainable through mining sprockets from home instance node (rare drop).

Wings remind me too much of Aion TBH.

I think it would be great addition to expand the wardrobe idea. Crafting and unlocking runes and sigils then apply them to gear that would unlock that stat to be swapped in/out through a menu system on each slot of gear. It would be great for guild wars to have real build diversity on the fly.

I don’t think its gonna affect much in terms of game play. Its still gonna be the same coverage was we have now. You can have stats on how many people play wvw but the real stat is how many people play wvw off prime time. Many servers can que up prime time hours. We need to see how many players who are logged in wvw at any given time to help balance population.

great idea, i’d like one too.

whats being discussed here is:
1. The eternity isn’t cool enough to differentiate it self from sunrise and twilight so you sell it.
2. Lets say you make sunrise for 2kgold and twilight for 3kgold unlock the skins. Then combine them to make the eternity.
3. sell the eternity to recoup the 5kgold that you spent making the twilight and sunrise.
4. you transmute twilight and sunrise for looks on any greatsword at minimal costs. But you don’t get to change stats or have Eternity skin.

So you get sunrise and twilght skins at reduced cost from selling the eternity. Is it right/wrong or fair? you be the judge.

It’s siege yaks bend 101. If you don’t you’ll have 10 ACs on you in 15 seconds. YB guys use way too much Siege defense/even open field offense :s
If you haven’t played against YB its really the most unbelievable thing to see.

Just as annexample from today. We were attacking from north gate on YB. I could see 9 ACs over the wall. After we broke throw I cleared outer wall down to south gate and there were 6-7 more ACs. Then breaking inner gate there were 6 ACs in fron of lord’s room entrance (3 on each side). Thats not counting trebs :o

I should also add the amount of supply traps YB uses. There for awhile it seemed like scouts sat in camps waiting to upgrade right when ppl go to take the camp. Why so serious YB?

We need more karma train commanders in betas!

BlueBerry.7918:

I’m completely OK with not knowing the exact launch date of HoT because I would rather get TOP quality content, rather than get the HoT filled with bugs and things that might not work, faster.

Judging by all updates over the years here, I don’t think an early or late release date will make much of a diffrence.

Atleast the tab lists the dungeon name instead or npc names. I always had to go through them before to find the right one

- Traits not needing PvE unlocks through quests >good<
- stats separated from traits >good<
- pick 3 full trait lines >some what good<
- new trait skills >debatable<
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I just hope this isn’t a ‘mini’ expansion. I would like to know if we will venture into the rest of Tyria that we have known about in GW1 with HoT. Then go a new continent with next expasnion. If it is Just a few Maguma zones it’ll be disappointing. Finally, I hope its not another 3 years of waiting till more content is added.

Finally a resolution. Now fanboys can stop brown noising anet.

Well, that is until next expansion. Crytal desert for $50 too? Then Cantha $50, then jade sea $50 then…. well u get it

I’ll just wait for a sale or something. Theres going to be so little content anyway, I think. If they slowly release content like the living story you could catch up very fast later on anyway at half the price.

You consider Maguma jungle an expansion? That is some low expectations. I consider expansion Cantha or Elona. you really think HoT($50) is going to have almost same amount of content we have now gw2($60)? they can’t even tell us if we’ll get the crytal desert with this expansion or if thats going to be next $50 expansion.

Flame wars need to stop i can see. People (customers) voicing the opinion on thier product shouldn’t stop whether good or bad.

Thank goodness :s

This is too much of a ‘no brainer’ for anet to comprehend.

I still can’t believe how they flubbed this up. Look how long people have been talking in this forum about price speculation of HoT. They had a good long while of reading player feedback on what we expected to be included. They must have just dismissed our feedback. Anet trying to save the sinking ship.

Anet must be in dire need of cash infusion to stay afloat at these prices. Its too steep of a price. Can anet guaranty that we will get nearly equal amount of content that bought when the game launched since the price is only $10 less? Stuff like guild halls and gvg should have been included at launch. I can almost imagine the amount of bugs/glitches we the players are going to have to put up with when HoT launches, like every major update time and time again.

Alt accounts will just flood empty maps gaining ppt.

Make an asuran engineer. Use rifle skill #5 when hard jumps are giving you trouble

I rather ask why aren’t there more Guild banks in lions arch or one in spvp. I hate that waypoint since it makes me run farther to guild bank. WvW isn’t always reliable guild bank zone with ques or upgrading.