Guild Wars 2

Got a mace from the chest on my first run.

I’ve did it twice, no achievement.

Both times I left half of the mobs up (about

Someone else in my party got it, but it’s bugged.

I also hear that party deaths must be considered.

colesy.8490:

Map completion is too hard, so no.

I can understand if you do it multiple times, but complete it at least once. It’s not hard, it’s time consuming.

It’s not about being jerks. Some groups don’t want to have to explain the mechanics to new players or have to deal with a newbie getting downed every encounter, or someone playing a class and using a totally inappropriate weapon/build.

If I want my party to be strictly lvl 80s, that’s my right as a party leader. If you don’t like it, then I will have to kick you and you will have to find a party that will accomodate you. Thankfully we have a LFG tool now that can be catered to your interests.

It really, really varies on SoR (T1)

Of course during reset time you can encounter queues of up to 3 hours.
During the week some BLs never hit a queue while certain ones have queues for up to an hour since massive guilds are dedicated to that BL.

Cornish.8472:

Why your adding new areas to wvw? i.e borderlands

Why your adding Leagues to wvw?

Why are you not reducing the amount of ppl from each server that can enter a wvw map to stop the horid skill lag?

Why are you not sorting out the main problems with wvw?

Why are you still letting ppl transfer to high pop servers?

Why are you letting new players join high pop servers?

You first two questions should be “when”. They’ll say “when it’s ready” or “When we choose to go that direction, we’ll notify you”

“Why are you not sorting out the main problems with wvw?” That takes time and is a work in progress. Go show me a game that is 100% perfect. There isn’t.

“Why are you still letting ppl transfer to high pop servers?”

They are encouraging people to fill in the lower servers rather than stack in the high ones. There are five tiers. Low, Medium, High, Very High and Full. Low/Medium are free while high costs much cheaper. What’s wrong with encouraging people to spread out?

“Why are you letting new players join high pop servers?”

Because it’s ‘high’ and not full?

Anet gives something for free and people still complain

Unbelievable.

Mathias.9657:

^so that’s the justification for no new armor sets? Pretty lame if you ask me, just because something is hard doesn’t mean it should be ignored. Especially in a game all about (lol or supposed to be about) cosmetics.

You do know there are ascended armor previews out there, right?

Just cause you don’t have them now doesn’t mean they’re ignored. It takes time to develop stuff. I’m sorry you can’t have everything handed to you in one week or whenever you want it.

Armor set is much harder to design than weapons. All weapons are the exact same across sizes. You just scale them from small (asura) to large (norn/charr)

Armor? Not only do you have to scale for size but you have to scale for race. The layout of armor on Charr is much more different than an Asura, for e.g.

This is why they constantly come out with backpieces. It’s something that scales easily just as weapons do.

I believe they said you get a golden dolyak

KyreneZA.8617:

Vol.5241:

I’m very interested to hear your definition of grind and how to eliminate it.

“Grind” verb:- doing the same thing repetitively, with little to no real progress towards one’s goal.

I’ll use a conservative example: crafting a single exotic longbow (the fugly “Berserker’s Pearl Stinger”) vs. a single ascended longbow (of the fugly ‘demon-crab-tick’ “Zojja” variety).

The first requires 30 ore (10 nodes), 42 logs (14 nodes), 4 leather sections, 5 ecto (so between 2-5 world bosses depending on RNG in drops and salvaging) and 5 blood (about 1-2 hours worth of skelk/drake culling or riding the champ train in Frostgorge). All in all I’d estimate about 4 hours of total game time (depending on your luck finding/salvaging the leather), of which probably 1 hour (the bosses) is “fun.”

The second requires 720 ore (240 nodes), 2270 logs (~750 nodes), 600 leather sections, 18 ecto and 15 dust (so between 10-25 world bosses), 5 blood, 10 dark matter (5-6 crafted exotics salvaged with BLSK), 500 dragonite ore (17 temples), 500 bloodstone dust (trivial; probably during the temples), 500 empyrean fragments (unsure; I use world chests and JPs, but that’s sub optimal). All in all (ignoring time-gating) at least 72 hours of total game time, of which probably 4 hours (one round of bosses and temples) is “fun.”

I think you are intelligent enough to draw your own conclusion, bearing in mind my previous point about “grind” escalation.

So what I’m gathering is you want end-game rewards to be just as easy to acquire as the 2nd best tiered item?

You want everything to be easy enough to acquire in short time?

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Vol.5241:

You guys are not comparing LS and expansions properly.

If Anet came out with an expansion right now instead of LS, we would have had all the LS content up to now.

When you guys think of expansions, I bet you’re thinking of new classes, maps and a lot of content.

Well what if it takes 2 years of work for Anet to come out with that kind of expansion? What if we had 2 years of Living Story to gradually push this kind of content.

Living Story hasn’t done anything like that yet because they’re working on it.

If I had to choose between the two, 100% of the time I would choose Living Story. Again, it’s about accessing content all at once or having content stream in.

What do you think keeps players more engaged and playing the game? Having several months, maybe years inbetween expansions? Or having biweekly mini releases that keep players involved in the game and interested every 2 weeks?

I think most of their issue is that when they think of LS, their brain screams “temporary”, which was a big issue with LS. We are getting more perm content now, and we’ve been told to expect more of it to come, but a lot of people are just too jaded to acknowledge it, or believe it. Can’t really blame them too much though, neither side is innocent in its short sightedness.

Yeah and it’s fair. The temporary content didn’t help the Living Story mission at all. They should have focused on temporary cosmetic changes rather than content, such as changing the world directly, like how we saw the lighthouse get destroyed or the lion’s arch statue get exploded by Mad King.

You guys are not comparing LS and expansions properly.

If Anet came out with an expansion right now instead of LS, we would have had all the LS content up to now.

When you guys think of expansions, I bet you’re thinking of new classes, maps and a lot of content.

Well what if it takes 2 years of work for Anet to come out with that kind of expansion? What if we had 2 years of Living Story to gradually push this kind of content.

Living Story hasn’t done anything like that yet because they’re working on it.

If I had to choose between the two, 100% of the time I would choose Living Story. Again, it’s about accessing content all at once or having content stream in.

What do you think keeps players more engaged and playing the game? Having several months, maybe years inbetween expansions? Or having biweekly mini releases that keep players involved in the game and interested every 2 weeks?

No.

I think the content provided between an expansion and living story can be equal

Expansion = content all at once
Living Story = gradual progession of content

In the end we get the same amount of content. I prefer the latter because it keeps people interested in the game and engaged. If we went the expansion route, we would have long periods of no content being released.

And considering that we are following a B2P model rather than subscription, Living Story is much more profitable.

As you said, it’s at the highest tier and we can’t get anything out of it anymore.

Now I don’t have any clue on how Anet programs their stuff, so I’m just making assumptions here:

They use a template for mystic forge runes/sigils.

It probably follows a generic formula where you insert 4 of X tier and have a % chance to get 1 X tier mat or a % chance to get 2 X+1 mat.

Including superior sigils in this formula would break it and who knows what that might do to your game. So they just disabled it from being included.

I’m sure they can put in a condition that would combine these exotic sigils but I very much doubt that it’s a priority to design.

Chase.8415:

Solution to condition cap is simple. Every time it gets to 25 stacks, an upgraded condition is transformed from the previous stack of conditions (i.e 1 stack of “deep wound” is equivalent to 25 stacks of bleeding with the damage as the entire 25 stacks of bleeding). They could technically do this unlimited amount of time and in addition it would still be balanced in PvP.

Finally a reasonable and constructive suggestion. That I can get behind.

As a speculator, I really should start datamining. I hear it’s easy.

Wanze.8410:

Ethics.4519:

Yeah, this is one I drug my foot on. I knew I should have bought a bunch of gossamer, silk, and leather, but I just never got around to it. Oh well.

@vol I get the first 3 on the list (as I’ve been trying to hit up lodestons/cores a lot) but copper doubloons? What’s the rational there?

Speculation about Anet introducing a mf recipe to promote copper doubloons to silver doubloons.

I bought some stacks as well but i doubt they will introduce this anytime soon.
Silver Doubloons got revised and changed after Magic Find got eliminated from gear, so my guess would be that they are working as intended.

The great thing also is that it’s a high yield/low risk investment. So your losses per stack, at these prices, would be about 5-10G.

Which for seasoned investors, is nothing.

Meglobob.8620:

Hand shoots up! Me, me…

Honestly, the ranking chests in WvW, I have only ever had 1 green item per chest and I have opened 300+ by now. Well plenty of others in WvW are constantly linking exotics, precursors and ascended…

I still have a mad, insane laugh when I remember Devon or some other dev posting ‘plenty of ecto’s now’ ha ha ha ha

Same in PvE I never get any exotics or better, never anything worth 1 gold +

It sucks big time, GW2 has the worst, rubbish loot in any game EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF PLANET EARTH!

I get better loot in Diablo 3 and I never thought I would say that!?!

It’s fairly commonplace to troll people on items

KyreneZA.8617:

Vol.5241:

morrolan.9608:

fey.5438:

Google -> gw2nodes -> enjoy.

Still a grind. When T7 mats became the higher level T6 mats availability should have been increased. I said in another post that I felt like gouging my eyes out after farming to 500 artificer and I’ve still got weaponsmith and huntsman to go.

Everything in games are a grind. Otherwise what’s the point of playing? Do you want to log-in one day and have all your ori’s available in your inventory?

Or do you actually want to go out and work for your items?

Emphasis Mine

Most of us want to play this ‘game,’ not have it be a second/third job. Strawmen of “It’s an MMO, get used to it” or “It’s supposed to be a grind” needn’t apply. GW2 was supposed to be the paradigm shifting game that moved the MMOG leaps and bounds away from its bad past. While ArenaNet have done a lot right, the grind is unfortunately still with us, and exacerbated each time ‘new content’ asks more grind from the players.

While grind will get people logging in, it’s only a matter or time before they log out—often permanently.

I’m very interested to hear your definition of grind and how to eliminate it.

Because grinding in MMO’s will always be there. There just isn’t enough resources to create a grindless MMO. It’s impossible.

And don’t take Anet’s word for it by saying this game has no grind. It’s just a buzz phrase.

Valdemas.4960:

Volt, the man stating the obvious and simultaneously driving the prices up. Personally I make sure to throw in gems like “Sheesh did you see the gossamer prices?” followed by the armor links before/after Tequatle killing in community channels or big world events. 80 stacks of gossamer won’t sell themselves. Rock on.

I think I’m pretty well known around here to have some credibility. I’m also very open about my investments and make disclosures when needed.

The BLTC forum represents a tiny portion of the playerbase (though I would say a large % of the wealthiest players in game do browse it) so I don’t have any problem sharing investment tips. Sure, disclosing my investments could lead to price increases which would benefit me, but I’m not investing for a miniscule increase and it’s not my objective to get rich off pump-and-dump schemes.

Hey, if you want other obvious investment opportunities (again, disclosing that I have also invested in some of these)
-cheap Lodestones/cores
-dust
-Crystals/orbs
-Copper Doubloons

Guhracie.3419:

rjnemer.7816:

Please dont join groups that say “Experienced only”. I dont feel like taking an hour to get past the ooze part. You will be kicked. K thx.

Did you not even read the post?

Personally, I love when people advertise for “experienced only” because I know (no matter how experienced I am) that it’s not the kind of group I want to run with. Good job for representing the stereotype so well.

So ‘experienced only’ groups are made up of players you’d never want to run with? Perhaps they actually consist of good players that help during others times, but for that particular run, they don’t have the time to explain mechanics and want to speed run stuff.

Is it fair that I label casual players to be inefficient, unknowledgeable and undisciplined?

Probably not, but hey I admit I do it anyway.

Zikory.6871:

To give the generic anet response, the rule is 1 key 1 function. So you want to hit 1 key to type out “stack up” which is technically 1 key 8 functions. So based off there policy no its not allowed. BUT is it something they will punish you over, only anet knows. I know plenty of people that use macros and never got banned, I also know people that use macros and got banned. Its really hard to say what they will do. Sorry this won’t really help but at least its a idea.

I’ll play devil’s advocate and say that it should be allowed.

Considering that every computer right now is built with a copy/paste function, and that it’s very easy to repeat any phrase with a simple three key stroke in “CTRL+V, Enter”

So if Anet doesn’t mind us relaying chat commands through copy and paste (which reduces the # of keystrokes), then I don’t see why they won’t mind us relaying chat commands through 1 keystroke.

morrolan.9608:

fey.5438:

Google -> gw2nodes -> enjoy.

Still a grind. When T7 mats became the higher level T6 mats availability should have been increased. I said in another post that I felt like gouging my eyes out after farming to 500 artificer and I’ve still got weaponsmith and huntsman to go.

Everything in games are a grind. Otherwise what’s the point of playing? Do you want to log-in one day and have all your ori’s available in your inventory?

Or do you actually want to go out and work for your items?

Of course though, I can predict the complaints already:

-Anet why you selling stuff in the gemstore b4 fixing your game?
-This is obviously P2W, I’m quitting
-Please fix all Wvw bugs, give us GvG, new maps, GvG, and more GvG b4 you sell stuff!!!

I think they are 1-week retroactive rewards for your server’s ranking.

Charak.9761:

Yeah I’ve always wondered why we have chairs/benches in game that we can’t sit on.

you can sit in a chair in every other MMO. Maplestory even gives you a portable chair.

Yes I suppose Maplestory is an appropriate comparison to a modern MMO

If you are sick of getting kicked, then go make your own party and say that it’s a casual run.

That way, if someone does decide to kick you, everyone gets kicked!

styx.7294:

The banners would be cool. Heck, if you could skin the warrior banners with guild emblems, how neat would that be?

That would be nice, but the items would be exclusive to warriors and I dont think that would do well.

Instead, Anet should introduce a new consumable for banners, which provide minor aoe buff as long as it is equipped – let’s say, +10 to all stats. These banners are huge and have generic designs that can be used by everyone. However, exclusive colors and the ability to embed guild sigils would be available through the gem store.

kuora.5402:

Vol.5241:

The main reason WvW loses to PvE is because MMO fanbases are generally PvE.

And WvW can’t get much in terms of the gem store, unless you want to start introducing P2W items.

Actually I can think of a couple that will sell like hot cakes that isn’t p2w.

-cosmetic siege skins
-cosmetic guild banners that you kite around in battle
-cosmetic keep/camp/tower decorations
-commander tags
-commander tag colour changer

Yeah I was about to post an idea about that!

Would have been nice to have cosmetic siege skins exclusive to ranks, but having extra gem store skins would be nice. I was thinking that an unlimited siege item would be real nice, but that could very easily spiral to P2W.

Unique commander tags symbols would definitely be a huge seller, and I’d bet even the PvE’ers would buy it as well. If Anet provides a wide variety of detailed graphical symbols I totally could see them pricing it to be very expensive, say 1500 gems.

Ethics.4519:

I don’t understand why they would do this to us. The hardcore player in me NEEDS this armor because, well, stats. The casual player in me says wtf, looks ugly as hell, no way am I gonna get that.

Then transmute?

Evilbeavers.3964:

Vol.5241:

Hahaha, I told everyone to buy it!

It went up because of the Ascended Armor codes that have been found

I know I should have bought more…

i’m so jealous. I only bought what I had room to store. A measly 2 stacks and a few of leather. Currently building up my gold so I can buy gems to get more storage. >.<

As someone already mentioned, gbanks are good alternatives.

Don’t forget to utilize free space on alts with 15 slot bags, as well as refining if you are getting tight on space.

The main reason WvW loses to PvE is because MMO fanbases are generally PvE.

And WvW can’t get much in terms of the gem store, unless you want to start introducing P2W items.

Solo.9027:

I got to the ooze-elemental door nonsense and then graciously dropped from party. I got the only TA skin I will ever want months ago and don’t care about scarlet or anything related to the sky pirates. Patches like this make me glad Anet updates so regularly because if I am not interested I only have a few days until something worthwhile gets teased and then released.

Just to be clear, it wasn’t expressly difficult but I hate these stupid gimmicks that require very specific strategies and more communication than a pick up group can manage over ingame chat.

It seems you’re just not skilled enough to do the dungeon or don’t want to even dedicate the time to understand the mechanics and explain it to the rest of the party.

This dungeon isn’t even hard. I really wonder how you’d deal with Arah P4.

Monetary reasons. Makes more money for Anet.

laokoko.7403:

good lord. use a skill point. Get gossamer scrap for less than 5 silver.

Even if silk scrap price raise to 25 copper, you can still get gossamer for 5 silver. Do people not know what promotion is? And use promotion on bolt of silk. I’m quite speechless.

At current prices it costs 1.2G to promote silk into gossamer. 1.2G can create 6-40 gossamer scraps. At best this will get you 1 gossamer scrap for 3 silver and at worst, 20 silver.

It’s still a gamble and the rise in silk scrap shows that people are in fact promoting.

Whatever you do, you are supporting Anet. It’s just one method is directly and the other indirectly.

If you buy gems with $, you are directly supporting them, and I’m sure Anet prefers that way.

If you decide to buy gems for gold, you are rising the price of gems for gold which entices players who buy gems for $ to sell them back since the conversion rate is high.

After yesterday’s patch, Gossamer Scrap has risen by 100% from 4s to 8s

This is largely due to the new item codes for the Wupwup Ascended Armor that have been datamined. People are speculating that ascended armor will be coming very soon.

I’ve been a large proponent of speculating in Gossamer ever since it bottomed at 1.5-2s, so it’s nice to see it rise. I invested 8000 scraps at a conservative price of 4s each (320G). It’s been doubled now to <$640G.

I’m thinking though that there is still a good chance that gossamer scrap can rise even further. For one, the price right now is based on unknown but likely information on the usage of gossamer scrap. On patch day I could see the price rise even further when we get to see the exact requirements for gossamer. I could see it rise even further to prices similar to ancient wood at around +12S (although the cheap price of silk scraps may make it profitable to promote for a time, thus depressing price a bit).

Not to mention that right now we only have one set for armor, and based on a small vocal sample size, people don’t find it exactly appealing. What if Anet comes out, on patch day, with half a dozen more sets? The demand for gossamer could be astronomical.

LordByron.8369:

TP still gives 10 times more than any other reward.
And all players are paying for those few that likes this form of free pvp.

And you have no one to blame but yourself and the playerbase.

If everyone worked the TP profit would be minimal. But people who play the TP play on players who lack foresight, patience and more than likely risk averse.

And that’s not a bad thing.

Subjective.

I like it. Some pieces I find are terrible (like helm) but the pants and the chest are nice. There may be people out there who like the helm, and good for them. The more choices, the better.

Keep in mind that some of the best armors in the game are a combination of different sets rather than one.

Hahaha, I told everyone to buy it!

It went up because of the Ascended Armor codes that have been found

I know I should have bought more…

The big thing for me was that before ranks were introduced, I was pretty invested in WvW. I ran a lot with Titan Alliance on HoD last year and along that came a ton of kills and bags. Took a long break then came back a few months after ranks. I like to try and justify to myself that it’s OK to ‘buy’ ranks as a way of retroactively being rewarded.

I guess you have been conditioned to just stand still and AFK dps bosses in dungeons?

This kiting is a mechanic – deal with it.

There are a dozen other paths in the game that don’t require kiting and you can just GS warrior zerk it down. This path requires movement and coordination throughout and it’s a welcome change. Even the other two paths don’t require kiting considering a majority of the bosses are static or can be melee facerolled.

I pugged it and completed it in 2 minutes.

Either you have no clue what you are doing or you are playing with players who don’t know how to play (i.e. aoeing instead of single targeting)

This is permanent content. No need to rush through and expect to faceroll everything.

I agree the price is absurd, and I won’t buy it. But people seem to be getting mad over the fact that it’s available in the game and that somehow this is setting a terrible precedent. I can understand rage against boosters or even unlimited gathering items, but trait reset? Out of all things?

If you want to get mad, get mad at the price, not at the item itself.

It’s as if people are complaining for the sake of complaining.

This change was good for me -I was at rank 90 and had about +110 laurels and more than enough badges.

I’m already tricked out in ascended accessories and even have the Endless Cat Tonic, so my laurels were only accumulating.

With leagues coming in a few weeks I bought about 40 ranks to get Applied Fortitude.

Yes laurels are time-gated but I still have about 70 left over incase new items are released.

jakalofnaar.1702:

I have to say, this surprised the hell out of me, and my opinion of this game took a bit of a hit.

One of the features I loved about GW1 was that I could go to an outpost and respec…for FREE.

Not only have Anet removed this from the game, and instead implemented a slight silver-sink, but now they start selling a gem store item which does virtually the same thing for more then 100 times the price of doing it in town?

What a complete rip-off. ±3 gold just for the ability to retrait anywhere outside of combat is definately NOT worth it, and I’d be seriously surprised if these things got sold in any substantial volume…

I guess in a couple months we’ll see an item on the gem store that allows us to save/load builds? Or perhaps choose a second class? Or anything that GW1 did better than GW2.

Dude how can you get angry over something like this.

The ability to respec with pure silver is already in the game. It cost 3s.

THIS IS A CONVENIENCE ITEM
THIS IS A CONVENIENCE ITEM
THIS IS A CONVENIENCE ITEM

It’s NOT a new feature, it’s NOT removing a feature in the game, and it’s NOT something that will get you an advantage.

MrRuin.9740:

If there is to be a cashshop, this is what it should be. Cosmetic luxuries. Skins, hairstyles, minis, and other in game luxuries like bank slots, inventory slots, additonal character slots…..thats what should be in there. Its absolutely nothing you need in any way to play the game. Noone can gain any advantage from cashshop use.
And there’s going to be a cashshop no matter what. Even if they did pay expansions, the cashshop will remain. Anyone who thinks they’d introduce expansion with a fee and drop the cashshop entirely is kidding themselves.
Its there to stay and a mainstay in a vast majority of MMO’s. What you would prefer in it? Being able to buy endgame gear? Lets just put Ascended and Legendaries directly in the cashshop. Fractal backpieces too.

Saying the cashshop stuff isn’t available in game isn’t true either. I have the new hairstyles free twice from free makeover kits. You can also farm and exchange in-game currency for gems.
Willing to farm exotics via whatever method or Ascended or Legendaries or Ap’s every couple weeks, but farming a few gold to buy this is too much?

I’m honestly surprised that the complainers are surprised that there is a cash shop in game.

It’s as if they are patiently waiting the day when Anet announces that they are not going to be continuing with the gem shop. I really wonder what their expectations are.

You should create an in-game survey for each Living Story (no more than 10 questions). You could even do bigger quarterly surveys (25 questions). Rift did this very well when it was in beta.

Why?
-It provides feedback direct from the active playerbase, which will be more reliable than feedback provided through other avenues, such as forums, twitter and facebook

How?
Provide 10-questions which should not take more than 2 minutes to complete. Questions should be generic enough, such as
1.) On a scale of 1-10, rate your enjoyment of the current LS
2.) What was your favorite part of this LS (less than 30 words)
3.) What was your least favorite part of this LS (less than 30 words)
4.) Are there any areas you’d like to see improved (less than 100 words)

Rewards
The rewards shouldn’t be outrageous but not pathetic enough that no one will bother doing it. I could definitely see people do it for laurels or karma, lets say 3 laurels per survey or 20,000 karma.

Concerns
-The biggest problem would be people who simply click through the survey (hey I’ve done this before). There will always be these types of people, but I think the benefits for these surveys outweigh these problems. After all, people who are passionate about the game (positively or negatively) are more than likely to voice their concerns. Those who are indifferent will probably speed through the survey.

Why is it a shame it’s a gem store item? It’s something that people will pay for it they want it but it’s not needed.

That being said, I won’t be buying it because it’s not infinite use.