Stop whining/crying. You missed it, ah well; it’s a game. I missed getting the Gas Mask helmet that i thought was cool because of circumstances IRL. should i/do i care that i’ll never get the chance to get it again? no…. there should definitely be items that you have a one time chance to get. it creates pride in accomplishing it. You miss it, move on; something else will come along. always remember it’s not THAT important and again, it’s just a game.
Bump for a great idea, also addressing the WvW gear salvaging (even if only to get runes/sigil) is a great second topic as well.
They are not going to fix the salvaging issue. As i submitted a trouble ticket it for the day that wardrobe came out. They responded with: It is working as intended. unfortunately you will need to be the transmutation splitter to get the runes/sigils off those types of armor.
AKA, they want you to spend more needless money at the gem store, but no one is going to do that in their right mind, as it’s so expensive and would only prove worth it when trying to get a generosity sigil out of something.
UPDATE: coworker pointed out that a stealth on vet kill would be bad, as you can’t capture a point while invis. So, that skill is open for suggestion. But, the main draw of my proposal is the 15% run speed upon stacking. This would definitely promote more build diversity amongst players in wvw. Do you choose to keep a utility to get 25% run speed? or do you put your wvw rank points into the new rank skill i proposed that grants 15% run speed, so that you can free up a utility slot for something more support or attack oriented. less cookie cutters
i call it “Avoidance” and it’s meant to help at least slightly mitigate balance in wvw. It would work like The guard killer and guard defense lines, except, it would give you up to 10% chance to block attacks from guards,lords,supervisors (since there has to be a 10% stat), and that wouldn’t be too OP. the mid-mark skill (like the 50% endurance regen on guard kill) would grant 3 seconds of invisibility on guard/vet kill as it’s special. The final rank in it would provide an ability that stacks 3% run speed per guard/vet kill, with a max of 5 stats, equaling 15% run speed (Which will be overridden if swiftness is applied, but default as long as you have the stacks when you don’t have swiftness). this will help promote build diversity for builds and classes that do not have a lot of options for run speed without sacrificing a lot of utility.
rank 592 – no ascended chest yet (got 1 ascended ring, but i don’t need any of those since i have received over 20 easily from FotM)
in Fractals of the Mist (FotM) – i’ve run 451 fractals and still no ascended weapons chest. whereas i see people who have already gotten 2-3 and have run far less than me.
Joy.
what OP said. definitely. lack of communication and follow-through or at least follow-up on empty promises that could have easily been implemented by now, makes me feel like they don’t value me as a paying customer. Ive poured over $200 additional dollars into this game, and i’m a hardcore wvw’er. People have been posting in the ACCOUNT BOUND WVW XP forum in wvw forums for months now, with no response from devs in months. So yes, silence will damage their player base. absolutely.
I’ve already stopped playing for the last few days, and will not come back to this game until wvw has account bound xp at the very least. the lack of communication/care on the dev’s part is pretty lacking in my opinion. their continued focus on lackluster pVe continues to disappoint me. There are plenty of hardcore people who do wvw/pvp that buy gems and support this game. i myself have already easily spent $200 on the gem store since launch. I’m a hardcore wvw’er with 11 level 80 toons all tailored around wvw for different needs. Anyway, i digress. I have plenty of games to play in the meantime while i wait for gw2 to show they care more about living up to their promises in a more timely and communicative fashion. Until then, stay golden my friends.
i’ve already done 3 likes and 3 dislikes, but i wanted to append a recent frustration. I have 10 characters, all of them wvw oriented. and i must say, that rangers definitely need more love. Longbow and/or greatsword rangers are completely worthless in group/zerg skirmishes and can’t even survive 1 on 1 easily. Last night we were in a huge fight at a camp of all places that lasted for over 20 minutes, and as i tabbed through enemies, they’re all mesmers, thieves, warriors. Bear in consideration that i also play a wvw mesmer and thief (i just don’t play the annoying constant-stealth version of those 2 – no invisibility here by choice and i still do fine).
I hate how a thief can just invis right when you start your #2 longbow skill and the rest of your arrows won’t hit anything at all, but worse still is that Sick Em’, the one skill you gave us to help counter is laughably bad. first, you have to even be able to target them to use it on them (good luck since they’re almost always invis until they backstab you for near 10k damage, burst you and then invis again all in 1-2 seconds). but even the 4 seconds that sic ‘em last is just about worthless since thieves are so acrobatic and evasive. If you’re not going to beef up rangers more, at least make sick ‘em last 8 seconds instead of 4. That MIGHT help, but even then i’m not sure. Just saying, my favorite wvw toon used to be ranger (before short bow range nerf on my first ranger), but now, try as i might with various builds, i can’t make them able to compete whatsoever. Also, spirits and pets die so quickly in group or zerg skirmishes. Guards get to cast group buffs that help everyone, warriors get banners that cannot be killed, rangers get weak pathetic pets to buff others that melt easily. broken in wvw. Until they are fixed you’ll no longer see me running a wvw ranger (they’re already scarce and for good reason – the are the laughing stock literally of wvw). I’ll stick with my 4 current fav wvw toons: d/p p/p thief, guard, necro, and mesmer
3 likes:
match-ups
the wvw rank abilities as they are now
being able play with friends?
3 dislikes
that wvw account bound xp hasn’t happened yet
lack of new maps to play on in wvw
trying to force any sort of living story content into wvw (like winters day gifts)
how about a low-tier vote: GOM [ASH]
rangers WERE my favorite class before Shortbow range nerf. It was absolutely perfect for my play style. I love being acrobatic and survivable, and my ranger was actually very viable in wvw before that sb nerf. was 1200 range, now it’s 900…FARRRR to short a range when you factor in using your #3 sb skill which makes you leap back and evade on attack, which is imperative to an acrobatic ranger. If they would at least make it 1,000 range it might be more viable. Shortbow or not, rangers should be able to do a bit more range than a thief with a short bow imo. Anyway, i’m not going to complain. I’ve been playing since prelaunch, and have 9 toons and all classes…SO…when anet nerfs something i really liked, i just go play a different class.
just to inform Wanze and others here. i could EASILY photoshop this and outdo everyone here on deaths. How? easy. I take two consecutive screenshots, one after CTRL-SHIFT+H, and one with the chat window up. i photoshop the chat window with the text i so desire (mimicked perfectly) and layer that over the screenshot of whatever environmental things are going on behind it. I could easily do this in 10-15 minutes. I’ve been a professional graphic designer now for 8 years. As i’ve stated that this is possible, i’m obviously not going to do this, nor compete in the contest, but i did want to alert you guys to the possibility of someone easily being able to do this. Risky competition given that someone could easily photoshop it fellas. Keep a sharp eye.
yeah after 2 days of dailies :P…not exactly easy/fast to grind there Johnnymiller…. though i do buy them every chance i can.
i agree with this. when i invite friends over, i hate that i have to log into each one to show them my awesome weapons/skins and back pieces i worked so hard to get and how they compliment my outfit. This should be an easy patch.
perhaps it’s because i haven’t run the story mode of the new fractal yet? perchance should i do that even though i’ve just been jumping into 34+ fractals as of late? not sure if that would affect the loot or not; i hope not.
ever since everyone got set back to fractal level 30, in the 12 fractals i’ve run so far, i’ve yet to get any ascended item whatsoever (let alone a fractal skin – but i’m used to those being rarer). In the past, i used to get an ascended ring AT LEAST every other run (doing 1 to 2 runs a day). It’s just odd that even though i don’t need any more ascended rings for any of my 9 toons, that i haven’t even gotten one of those, let alone anything else. Anyone else seen a decrease in ascended loot (not counting mats)?
i honestly doubt they are going to give their employees a break, at least not a good chunk of them, unfortunately. They’ll likely be taking this extra time to take care of more stuff in the game moving into next year and trying to catch up with their schedule. Possible, though i hope it’s not the case. I know what it’s like to never have off days (not even on Christmas)…so i hope somewhere out there, people are getting off work.
i recently salvaged 10 rares, and only 2 of them dropped ectos, and both of those two only dropped 1 ecto each. so yeah, i’d say it might have been nerfed. NOTE: used Black Lion Salvage Kit
it’s not OP anymore…they nerfed the prowess of a lot of conditions this patch (dec 10)…making people that love playing zerker thieves and warriors even more prominent. not sure why there’s an OP thread, but hey, people will complain regardless.
any idea when EotM is starting up at least? sorry; multi-tasking at work here atm…i know, i should be ashamed :P. and thanks for the previous resonse.
I searched through 3 pages of these forums and didn’t see anything pertaining to that. Any word from Anet when we’ll have account-wide wvw xp? Last i checked it said soon, but I think i wasn’t the only one who was surprised it didn’t happen with this latest patch. Isn’t it true there won’t be another patch this year? if so, it doesn’t seem soon after all.
Anet was good about resolving this peacefully with me. i feel compensated. LeoPaul gave good advice. In the end, however, i really wish i could have kept my original AS PURCHASED flamekissed skin.
here is the Sylvari that i only purchased a character slot for after the release of the flamekissed skin BECAUSE of the flamekissed skin and no other reason. Notice also, i mixed and matched with purchased Trickster’s leggings too (before the note of them reworking flamekissed…). I put the Flamekissed leggings on my mesmer because it mix-and-matches well with her outfit. I’m not just using a full set of t3 human-looking gear all on one toon anyway. None of that should matter. i want to keep what i purchased. 1600 gems worth and 28 gold for dyes (and the time i spent leveling him and playing him before note of the skin change). note: my 9th character (so it’s not like i could have just created one from a blank space, i had to buy the character expansion as well)
Ashabhi…it’s not that simple at all. MANY factors and grey areas to consider. simply scroll up and read my latest post for example.
here’s my personal situation and experience with this situation Rednaxela and Ronpierce (and whoever else cares, for understanding how deep this can go for users):
I spent 1600 gems, and 28 gold with the release of this flamekissed armor. I spent 800 for the armor skin, and because of how i forsaw this armor skin looking on a sylvari, i spent another 800 gems on a new character slot (my 9th character). i spent the 28 gold on two different rare Midnight dyes (Fire and Ice). If they redo the skin into something i personally hate (having a background and career in art, character appearances are the most important thing to me in this game), i will be furious with just the simple refund of 800 gems. If i hate it, i would definitely want the full 1600 gems and 28 gold back (i’d eat the time i spent playing the toon and leveling with just minor dissatisfaction). I only created this character and spent all those gems and gold SOLEY because of the way i enjoyed the appearance of the flamekissed skin on a Sylvari.
Before getting the news, i had already gotten my sylvari to level 19 strictly through wvw play (so also, my ranks would be worthless at that point too, because again i only created this character because i was proud of the way he looked with the armor AS PURCHASED). It goes deeper still, i also applied Trickster’s leggings to mix-and-match with the rest of the flamekissed set, to my sylvari…so i’d also be losing PURCHASED trickster’s leggings if they change the skin; because i thought the leggings complimented the flamekissed set perfectly. You see just how much they’d have to make up for to apologize to paying customers? This is why i think Ronpierce’s and others’ (including my own in this thread) with a similar solution suggestion, should be considered.
I don’t want the new skin, I want to keep my cultural T3 I bought one year ago already :o
(well not me but I’m sure plenty would be saying that).
The solution is simple. Simple but it won’t please everybody because it’s not possible. You got group A that say : “we don’t want that armor skin in the game” and you got group B that says “we want to use that armor skin”.
There is NO way to please both groups. All ANet can do is please one or the other. Group A arguments (cultural armor should remain race exclusive and not available for 1/3 the price on gem shop) fits better with ANet vision for their game so they please group A and take the armor from group B. It sucks but that’s the best they can do to fix their mistake.
Now, if ANet suddenly reversed their position AGAIN, they would be clowns.
Actually favoring one side and screwing the other is not the best option. The best option would have always been finding a middle ground. Let people who bought it keep it. Rework and re-release a new set for everyone to buy. People who bought it would have been happy/relieved, people who hate it would only have to deal with a small handful of people who have it, and the only people who could really be TOO upset are the people who acted too slowly on buying it, but it would be the most globally fair.
Absolutely this. it seems that this will yield the least amount of upset people.
good thing you’re not Anet, Arnath. i’m sure that after all the money i’ve given their company, they’d value my business more than someone who doesn’t get my money :P. I (we) will continue to await THEIR response to our other concerns. people who can’t speak on Anet’s behalf rather than quoting them directly, while those of us with deeper questions continue to wait, should stop quoting them as a go-to for every question, as their original response doesn’t necessarily cover every question.
hmm, seems Arnath has no answer for my question :P. he said he’d be “Happy to answer them”…guess he doesn’t have all the answers to our concerns; hence why we are posting in a forum hoping our concerns and questions will be addressed.
Refunds will come once the new skin is released, if you dont like the new skin contact customer support and be FULLY refunded.
You will get your old armor skin back.
Your refund will be gems, you spend real money on gems, you did NOT spend real money on the skin. You will never get your money back from purchasing gems.
Now take a deep breath, relax, everything will be fine you can stop panicking.
I am not panicking. I did not buy the armor. I am still curious about the source for your definitive statements.
So, source ?
sigh… i really should not be responding to trolls…
Please go re-read the devs response, the information is all there, it is extremely clear. Wait until the new skin is released then contact customer support for full refund.
really Arnath? there are many with grey areas, including myself. Here is my last post. what is your answer to my inquiry that sounds like it will be fair? considering that i invested time and money into a character ONLY created because of this skin, to compliment this skin? Hmm?. you can’t speak for everyone, and we have the right to address our concerns in hopes that devs will answer them:
my OP quoted:
First, i want to preface this with where i am coming from personally. I spent 1600 gems, and 28 gold with the release of this flamekissed armor. I spent 800 for the armor skin, and because of how i forsaw this armor skin looking on a sylvari, i spent another 800 gems on a new character slot (my 9th character). i spent the 28 gold on two different rare Midnight dyes (Fire and Ice). If they redo the skin into something i personally hate (having a background and career in art, character appearances are the most important thing to me in this game), i will be furious with just the simple refund of 800 gems. If i hate it, i would definitely want the full 1600 gems and 28 gold back (i’d eat the time i spent playing the toon and leveling with just minor dissatisfaction). I only created this character and spent all those gems and gold SOLEY because of the way i enjoyed the appearance of the flamekissed skin on a Sylvari.
SOLUTION: to avoid all the headache and hassle with dealing with customer support and the chance that i may not even be given back everything i spent in full, my solution is that you give an option to players to either a) RETAIN the skin appearance AS they bought it, when they bought it or b) use the new skin that Anet plans on replacing it with. This way there would be NO need for customer support or gem refunds. People who want to keep what they paid for get to, and people who want the new flamekissed skin they are going to design can take that instead. This is something that could be mailed upon selecting the new version of the skin, or retained if not desired.
Thank you, ANet! I don’t have a light human character and I did buy the armor for my norn ele, but I think this was absolutely the right move. If I don’t like the new design I can request a refund. Fair enough, so long as I can keep the exotics they’re on! I’d still love to hear what the rough plan is for armor in the year or so ahead, but the way you dealt with this issue <3 thank you. It’s nice when someone owns up to their mistake and fixes it for all parties.
This does NOT fix it for all parties whatsoever. I want to keep what i paid for with real money. I paid for exactly what i wanted. You wouldn’t want to buy a sexy bikini that turned into possibly a one-piece for grannies after you bought it would you? Same concept. There are those of us who want to keep what we paid for. whatever they do moving forward is up to them, but don’t mess with people who specifically paid for what they did. in my case, a refund alone wouldn’t even make up for it if i end up disliking their new skin. I ONLY created and bought another character slot (9th one) to compliment this Specific new flamekissed skin. Now i’m afraid to even play him more for fear of them taking away the specific look i paid real cash for. for me, it’s all about what my toons look like. And i’ve spent over $160 easily on the gem store so far. i’d hope the money i’ve put into this game would make me a valued customer.
for the record, here’s a snippet of my original post:
I spent 1600 gems, and 28 gold with the release of this flamekissed armor. I spent 800 for the armor skin, and because of how i forsaw this armor skin looking on a sylvari, i spent another 800 gems on a new character slot (my 9th character). i spent the 28 gold on two different rare Midnight dyes (Fire and Ice). If they redo the skin into something i personally hate (having a background and career in art, character appearances are the most important thing to me in this game), i will be furious with just the simple refund of 800 gems. If i hate it, i would definitely want the full 1600 gems and 28 gold back (i’d eat the time i spent playing the toon and leveling with just minor dissatisfaction). I only created this character and spent all those gems and gold SOLEY because of the way i enjoyed the appearance of the flamekissed skin on a Sylvari.
i love how my created thread was merged into this one, so that now it will fade into obscurity, and likely unseen by the devs i had hoped would see it. Ah well…sigh.
Change the skin but let ppl choose old or new would be my vote. makes complete sense.
I agree with the OP.
My sylvari is gorgeous! Other players told me my main was ‘beautiful’. She has max glow, celestial dye, with touches of midnight ice.
I want to be given the choice to keep my armor. That’s all I want.
Definitely! i even have orange glow on my sylvari’s skin to compliment the rest of the flame skin, and love how the armor looks on him, hence my forking out so much gold and gems.
well, if they don’t go for the solution, i very much hope/expect as a paying customer (i buy gems with cash for the most part), to receive my 1600 gems and the gold i spent on the dyes just for this toon created to compliment the skin i bought IF i do not like their new design. that’s all i’m saying if they don’t go for my idea.
@ Yunielesca then one should have jumped on buying the flamekissed skin (if they liked the original design – as i did) sooner when it came out.
not so obvious to me. why couldn’t they give an option like my proposed solution? seems like a great way for them to avoid a lot of customer support refunds and also satisfy the community in the best and fairest way possible.
To avoid MANY furious/upset customers (myself included) i have a proposed solution for the flamekissed armor skin.
First, i want to preface this with where i am coming from personally. I spent 1600 gems, and 28 gold with the release of this flamekissed armor. I spent 800 for the armor skin, and because of how i forsaw this armor skin looking on a sylvari, i spent another 800 gems on a new character slot (my 9th character). i spent the 28 gold on two different rare Midnight dyes (Fire and Ice). If they redo the skin into something i personally hate (having a background and career in art, character appearances are the most important thing to me in this game), i will be furious with just the simple refund of 800 gems. If i hate it, i would definitely want the full 1600 gems and 28 gold back (i’d eat the time i spent playing the toon and leveling with just minor dissatisfaction). I only created this character and spent all those gems and gold SOLEY because of the way i enjoyed the appearance of the flamekissed skin on a Sylvari.
SOLUTION: to avoid all the headache and hassle with dealing with customer support and the chance that i may not even be given back everything i spent in full, my solution is that you give an option to players to either a) RETAIN the skin appearance AS they bought it, when they bought it or b) use the new skin that Anet plans on replacing it with. This way there would be NO need for customer support or gem refunds. People who want to keep what they paid for get to, and people who want the new flamekissed skin they are going to design can take that instead. This is something that could be mailed upon selecting the new version of the skin, or retained if not desired.
I really hope the devs read this. I am very particular about the way my toons look, and am quite nervous/apprehensive to them being able to please me with a new design that i did not previously approve. I hope my proposed solution does not go unnoticed. Thanks
as the title states, can those of us who bought our Karmic Infusions with the MANY laurels it cost us, before the karma nerf, please be reimbursed for the laurels spent? that would be very nice and fair of you to do for us devs. Sincerely yours, an avid GW2 player and wvw’er.
Devon:
“Strictly speaking the lag isn’t due to population per se, it is due to concentrated groups of players using skills on each other. The server calculates things every time a skill fires off and the more people it hits the more calculations it does. So if you get enough people fighting against one another, or even fighting with one another, you start to see server CPU problems.”
I’d like to think and hope that greed wouldn’t overwhelm your higher-ups and that with all the money your company is making (especially off me for example – i think i’ve paid an extra $150 since launch), that your company could upgrade the servers to ones that can handle larger-scaled skirmishes. Not saying it’s a better mmo, but Aion, an older mmo handled more players at once in a full 360-degree space with zergs of enemies casting skills, handling more graphics and effects and with far less lag. Their servers, along with perhaps their programming team has to contribute to their success. I just don’t understand how a newer and very successful mmo hasn’t resolved these issues yet even after a year. I’m sorry, but i feel justified in expecting more. Playing against other players is where it’s at, especially when you’ve conquered the content. I’m grateful for all the content you provide, but the lag and lack of expansion in wvw is just very disappointing.
Aion had a much better and less laggy “WvW” system. they could take pointers on that game. The only thing they did that lead to their demise for me and countless other players was merging many servers…making what was once fun and perfect a giant clutter fest of players
buying black lion keys not just for one event (to try and get a weapon skin), but for 2 more following that…dumbest thing i’ve ever spent money on and never got anything out of.
i agree lanfear…opposite of what i hear many say. i liked more than half of these skins. Who cares how they compare to gw1…i enjoy them just fine and thought the weapon artist did a great job. i’m a graphic designer in real as well…not that that makes my opinion THAT much more important; it really is in the eyes of the beholder. But, there is definitely talent behind THESE skins.
heh. i agree about the RNG crap. the last 3 events where you could get skins from a box i spent lots of real money on them and never got one skin (not to mention not even one scrap (the one where you need 10) out of 14 chests last event). Anyway, 3 days leading up to this patch i traded in lots of my gold for 1300 gems. now this time…having gained wisdom, when i noticed how much i wanted the Zodiac Hammer to match my toon that is all about “Crushing” things, i saw that it was on sale for 51 gold. So…i traded my 1300 gems for gold and bought it outright. Granted…i lost about 10 gold from Anet in the transfer rate back for gold, but i’d rather lose 10 gold, than all the gold i spent on gems to TRY at RNG. Complaining won’t do anything guys, Not buying black lion keys will wisen them up. All they care about are the sales numbers and trends -not you.
so pretty much MOST people are in agreement with being disappointed by how they’re handling birthday’s in GW2….i really hope a dev reads this and responds to it and passes our dislike so that we can get something better, or at least on par with GW1’s birthday rewards system.
P.S. these experience boosting scrolls, like the last one i got, ARE COMPLETELY WORTHLESS, especially to most players who have already played a year. I work 3 jobs and honestly don’t have THAT much free time. but, i do have 8 level 80’s. so experience scrolls and boosters are a waste of your long-term players’ times.
honestly i’d like an RNG unique mini or illusion potion ala guild wars 1. It totally makes me feel common knowing that i’ll get the exact same reward as EVERYONE else who made a year old….yay…. oh, and the RNG unique mini or illusion potion should be sellable…so that if someone wants one they didn’t get, they can pay gold for it. This way, if you didn’t get a mini you liked, you could sell it, and buy one you would prefer. Everyone could feel unique.
Are people still making useless posts on the forums telling everyone how they are done buying BL chests?
Le sigh
they aren’t useless… my hopes are that others that are on the fence about spending their hard-earned gold or real money on this crap will be dissuaded by enough people showing how crappy the RNG is even with them adding “supposedly” more common methods to get to your end goal. In fairness one could also fault you for insisting on replying to “useless posts on forums” telling people not to buy chests.
update, i spent all my gold and bought black lion keys from the gem store as well. so that’s how it was 14+. I wouldn’t just flame only because this event alone. i’m complaining, QQ’ing, whatever you want to call it, because it’s been this way since game launch. And it was the allure of getting more common scraps to put towards a skin that had me suckered into it, and the fact that i didn’t even get one of those common scraps after all of those chests…. Hence the being peeved and fed up. I just wanted a pistol skin as there are only a few decent pistol skins in the game at the moment, and i’ve always wanted a western looking one.
EVERY event since launch that has involved a chance to get skins from an event has yielded me nothing from black lion chests. This one, a seeming marketing ploy in retrospect, stated that it would offer scraps (or whatever they’re called) that can be put towards unlocking a skin (10 needed). These scraps are more common, so that people wouldn’t feel so hopeless when they didn’t get the rare single ticket that let you get a skin. I spent over 28 gold (all that i had) on keys to unlocking these chests…not only did i not get any keys, but not even the more common scraps…not a single one to even put towards a skin. I’ve dumped so much real money into this game…and you thank my business with what? A kite that i find stupid and didn’t ask for…and holographic pet pack in the past? i wasn’t going to buy either of those with my real money. I’ve dumped over $150 extra into supporting this game through the gem store and all the gold i got on black lion chests primarily…and i have not gotten a single skin nor common scrap to put towards one from a “black lion chest”. Very dissapointed and not putting any more money or gold into these consistently horrible odds. I would at least love to be refunded the in-game gold i spent this round on those black lion keys for the chest…as you gave false hope in getting more common scraps to put towards a skin and i didn’t even get one. On average i used to get at least a black lion key one out of every 4 chests….14 or more chests last night and not one scrap or key.