Guild Wars 2

What else do you want for free?

mmm nvm, it’s single use

Vol.5241:

Unlimited retrait book (item)

Lets you retrait anywhere in the world rather than having to go to certain places.

Of course, the fee will still be there.

I would pay 800 gems for it.

woooo

SteepledHat.1345:

Eternity is hideous to me. The hilt effect is gaudy and the foot steps look terrible. So the only use it has to me is if I ever get bored of my Sunrise. I can craft eternity and sell it, I suppose. But that’s about it. The effects on Eternity look like a desperate attempt to distinguish it and shout “Look at me! Please.”

and your Sunrise is no different. You’re no different than any other legendary holder.

Why stop at giving hairstyles for free?

Lets bring back free transfers, free minis, free keys, free everything!!

I’m sure Anet is totally willing to work for free.

After all, the consumer is ALWAYS right, and I’m entitled to being treated like their #1 customer.

amirite?

Perhaps someone has a hoard of totem investments and sold them all to gain liquidity in the event of some other investment opportunity to be released today.

Lucky.9421:

It is time for the QQer’s to admit they weren’t doing F/U anyway.

I bet if Anet removed Belcher’s Bluff games or even Moa Races, we’d still have a hoard of bandwagon complaints. Despite the fact that no one does those at all anymore.

The complaints are overblown, the majority of the fanbase doesn’t mind the change at all.

It’s hard finding people doing it now since people are guaranteed to be in FGS.

And AFAIK, none of those are events except the slime, which is on a long timer (something like +6 hours) so it shouldn’t even be a factor in the train.

Lucky.9421:

Yeah I would prefer the dungeons be just puzzle rooms and boss fights. Open world has plenty of trash mobs.

Keep it short and sweet.

PS – OR if that makes the content too condensed, just have each trash mob be regulars with some one or two veterans thrown in. Instead of an mix of silvers and bronzes(not the same as vets).

and then queue the whining threads from players who don’t like puzzles

KOPPER.1458:

players are only up in arms because something is being removed. Doesn’t matter what it is, and they would still be “up in arms”

^ this this this

Or pretty much anything Anet does, there will be someone to whine for the sake of whining.

Give everybody 10g upon dungeon completion, someone will whine.
Give a precursor at end of personal story, someone will whine.
Introduce new WvW maps, someone will whine.

Doesn’t matter if it’s good overall. Any minute negative detail will be exposed by the forumites and overblown.

I hated this path, could never get it done and it was an all or nothing path (if you screwed up initially on last boss, GL)

Nuking this path is good. Maybe I can finally get my Dungeon Master.

It’s not temporary, it’s permanent. Geez

AndrewSX.3794:

This is ridicolous.

Period.

Stop doing temporary content for once, add some permanent one, players get some hope for seeing stuff added in the game finally…and now you come up saying that in order to put a new path you need to take away one of the old ones?

Seriously?

I’m speechless.

(i’m not arguing about the issues of TAFU – which are just pugbusting, so the path is actually fine – but the idea itself of taking away stuff is just…bah, i don’t even.)

Calm down. Seriously. The new path is permanent.

Who said they were replacing all three paths? Source?

Draco.2806:

Vol.5241:

One of the devs already commented awhile back on why we don’t have sitting animations.

For one, you have several distinct races, which presents problems when sitting. You’d have to animate everything from a tiny Asura to a huge Charr. And don’t forget the wide range of heights that you have to deal with…

As an amateur modeler and animator, I can tell you that those excuses are simply bogus.

All of these problems are solved with naked-eye measurements coupled with judicious application of inverse kinematics, which the game already supports to adjust the position of actor’s legs.

Vol.5241:

Not to mention the RP community in GW2 is a very, very small minority.

So is the number of people who have Legendary weapons.

Then again, how do you expect to have any RP community in a game that doesn’t support RP? And why do we assume that it’s only the RP community that benefits from these features? They’re universal.

I know nothing about animation but I give more credit to the game director who knows more about the technical capabilities of the game to have more knowledge on whether or not it can be feasibly done.

You can’t really compare legendary playerbase and RP’ers. RP’ers are a subset of MMO players that are already developed. Yes, legendaries are a tier of weapons that a very small % of the total population has but you must not forget the % of people who do not have it but are actively working on it.

If you fail to immediately tell the difference between Sunrise/Twilight and Eternity then you don’t know where to look.

When stationary, you can see the glowing orb on the hilt.
When unsheathed, you can see the purple haze on the character
When running, you can see the huge foot trails which dwarf even Twilight’s footrails.

Being able to see people fail was part of the novelty of Mad King. Especially when they failed at the last jump. No to instancing.

Here is Colin’s direct words:

“So, what’s the deal with chairs?”

A brief, surprised laugh. “You know, I honestly have no idea. One of the great challenges that we faced with chairs, and this is kind of ironic, is that because we put in five different races of differing heights into the game, we found we had to make every chair uniform and have everyone always sit on them the exact same way or build an entire system that recognizes the height of the chair and appropriately animates your character.”

Being able to sit on chairs is a privilege, not a right.
Johanson adds dolefully, “We kind of forced ourselves into a corner where we either go back and re-art every chair in the game, or we build this system for sitting. I think in the grand scheme of things, given all the other projects, we have going on, sitting, as important as it is, is not something we’re currently working on.”

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/colin-johanson-talks-dungeons-dragons-and-chairs

investment protip:
-invest in copper doubloons

relatively low risk investment incase Anet introduces a doubloon promotion recipe

I’m not entirely sure why you have priority over any other guild or any other server.

One of the devs already commented awhile back on why we don’t have sitting animations.

For one, you have several distinct races, which presents problems when sitting. You’d have to animate everything from a tiny Asura to a huge Charr. And don’t forget the wide range of heights that you have to deal with.

Then you have the different types of sitting furniture. Bar stools, logs, chairs, e.t.c. You’d have to animate every single piece of furniture in the world.

Then you have to deal with clipping issues. Do we ignore them (and have people continue to complain about them) or do we just go forward and spend a ton of time towards fixing it?

All that time invested in fixing such a novelty feature is simply not worth it, especially when there are toher more important QOL fixes this game has.

Not to mention the RP community in GW2 is a very, very small minority.

I’m 100% sure price will go down, but it won’t crash

+$1000’s

no regrets

MMO players are the most spoiled out of all gamers.

But in all the MMOs I have played I have never seen a more spoiled fanbase than GW2.

There are at least three Anet employees on SoR (can’t remember names), one of them a QA employee that has sat in Sparkfly for a week giving tips.

The thing is just because they have a tag doesn’t mean they are devs, let alone devs dealing directly with WvW.

Here’s a protip

If you have multiple alts and you do not play them often, park them at jumping puzzles. It’s best to park them at the most difficult ones since the # of loots you get scales.

For example, the pirate one south of LA is the hardest and longest JP in the game and can reward you up to 7 items.

It’s a good way of getting use out of your alts and getting green/blues to salvage

“Have to have a voice communication 3rd party program to coordinate effectively.”

Any difficult content in an MMO requires that. Anet is not the first.

MrRuin.9740:

Vol.5241:

The summer metrics and concurrent playerbase show it’s working.

Not really. Numbers are just numbers. They don’t show how many people are truly enjoying it, how many are doing it because they are addicted or fanatic AP collectors, or how many don’t like it but are fanboys doing it anyway cause there’s nothing else to do.

You may be right, but you may be wrong. Numbers don’t tell anywhere near the whole story and you can’t claim it as fact.

Numbers are neutral and unbiased. I’d take that over the subjective, biased and minority opinions from the forums.

Lothirieth.3408:

Vol.5241:

Lothirieth.3408:

Vol.5241:

Except that there are very few exclusive guilds that can maintain +80 members at one point to just do Teq.

The dedicated Tequatl killing guilds are the ones that are doing this.

And what’s wrong with this? Why do we blame them for ‘hogging’ a server when they are pretty much just consisting of pugs who have the desire to work together?

As opposed to those pugs who are hogging a server and refuse to contribute and wish to solo Teq? I think those are the ones you should be blaming, not those that actually want to coordinate.

Excuse me, but can you please point to where I made any judgement about this being done? I’m afraid that I didn’t do any blaming.

I’m a part of one of those guilds and have done this “hogging”. I have no comment on it being right or wrong but I think it does highly a massive problem with the logistics of the Tequatl fight.

That response was more for the poster who said that these guilds were “hogging” it when they’re really just organized pugs (but he did explain later). I quoted you out of sheer laziness.

You are probably standing next to the bloated risen norns that explode like banelings.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloated_Creeper

etrigan.4213:

Vol.5241:

TW and Choo are PvE guilds? o_o

Woops sorry I just found out they were WvW guilds.

Had no idea, they are sorta sloppy in WvW and I just assumed. My bad.

Still shout out to Fear, they are legit.

I haven’t ran with TW yet since I’m still bitter about Pryan destroying my cauldron ;(
Choo can be good when they are led by certain commanders (some of them are new and still learning). Perhaps you came across a newbie commander (gotta start somewhere)
I run with FEAR a lot since whoever they face becomes instant loot dispensers.

See sig

I’m always curious why people have to block names or chat

Lothirieth.3408:

Vol.5241:

Except that there are very few exclusive guilds that can maintain +80 members at one point to just do Teq.

The dedicated Tequatl killing guilds are the ones that are doing this.

And what’s wrong with this? Why do we blame them for ‘hogging’ a server when they are pretty much just consisting of pugs who have the desire to work together?

As opposed to those pugs who are hogging a server and refuse to contribute and wish to solo Teq? I think those are the ones you should be blaming, not those that actually want to coordinate.

Zelu.1692:

Manuhell.2759:

The game itself gives you no instruments to coordinate, though – being it in open world.
And it all returns to what i said above – if they wanted it to be a guild event, they should have designed it as one to begin with. A private instance – not unlike the empty overflows used by guilds – where you can eventually kick afk people and troll, and you choose when to begin said instance instead of waiting for hours plus a variable spawn window (something that by itself brings people to wait afk there).

I completely agree.

In the end, the tricks one needs to kill Tequatl show exactly that: guilds are either hogging some server’s main or creating and controlling their own overflow to be able to attempt the kill. So in essence they are tricking the game to do this in an instance with selected players. So it is really not “open world” content.

But I have killed him a couple of times now and will probably do so again tonight. And I am happy at hard(er) content within GW2, particularly as nearly all of PVE is horribly rollface. It just feels wrong to have to somehow manipulate the game to get an “instance” and then wait an hour or more for the boss to finally show up…

Except that there are very few exclusive guilds that can maintain +80 members at one point to just do Teq.

I agree that instances would have been better, but this is GW2’s approach to raiding – open world.

In many instances teq has brough servers together through working with one another. All the other meta events we’ve had have not done that so far.

Teq can be a great, long-lasting meta event if anet finds a way to overcome queues while keeping it open world, as well as fixing rewards.

Yeah I’m sorry your friends/guilds don’t like this, but personally I enjoy the new content every 2 weeks. The summer metrics and concurrent playerbase show it’s working.

Banatine.3691:

I’m yet another one of the disillusioned masses.

I’ve done 10 runs of Teq so far, and in every single one you know within the first 30 seconds whether it’s going to succeed or not. And at that point, you just spend the next 14 minutes essentially waiting to fail. That is not fun.

I think the time limit is a joke anyway. 15 minutes for the Shatterer is childs play. 30 minutes for the Claw is meaningless.

But 15 minutes for Tequatl is just insane. Hell, on SFR, 30 minutes would still make it impossible for 95% of the population. Tequatl is hard enough, the time limit is nothing more than an artificial inflation of the difficulty. And given the rewards are less than stellar, even the guilds will stop bothering before long, since he just isn’t worth the trouble it takes to bring him down.

Tequatl is not hard. A few days ago Teq was beat before the 7 minute mark. I’m not sure you understand that but that’s insanely good.

It’s hard because the players choose to make it hard. Failing to coordinate means you don’t deserve the rewards.

The BIG reason why people are losing interest already is because of the insane queue time.

For people who have already completed him and got all the achievements, it is not worth waiting an hour or more to wait in queue to do Teq, even though the fight lasts only 15 minutes. It’s not a good use in time.

For people who have not completed him, they are probably already discouraged or off guesting to more populated servers.

I did teq for probably the first 5 days of release. I didn’t do anything else but wait in that zone. I’m not going to do that again since I have everything I want in terms of achievements and the rewards are not worth an hour wait.

Anet needs to give us better rewards for Teq, but I think they should be time-gated. Give us a token for each successful Teq defeat per day that can be exchanged for unique rewards at a vendor, including but not limited to special dyes, pets, finishers, skins, minis, e.t.c.

If you’re not a hardcore farmer, don’t bother with luck. IF you are, then go max all the way.

I remember farming anchorage one day on BG and Pryan and some TW folks came over to destroy the cauldrons.

I guess even when TW PvE’s, they add a slice of WvW to it lol

Hey I may be from SoR but I’m just a lonely WvW’er here, my opinion means nothing :P

Liquid.9672:

Easy now gents. It was a mid week move, and it takes a little time to get connected and settle in. I expect next week to look quite different on the whole. Also, the true test of current balance among the top three is when we’re all in the same match.

True. It’ll be interesting to see how BG as a whole responds to a match-up with JQ and SoR. Whenever there is down time to “screw” with one side for e.g., perhaps some BG commanders will be more likely to pick JQ than SoR.

It’ll also be interesting to see what other guilds will flock to JQ now that it appears to be the server to hop to going forward. There are other guilds not in T1 that still are very much involved in WvW and want a free golden doly.

I wouldn’t put it past them that they would release it before leagues start.

Just checked the scores on http://mos.millenium.org/na

Is that right? BG is still ahead?

Does MERC regret the transfer? is it too late to come back?

TW and Choo are PvE guilds? o_o

I don’t see how Anet can ban people who received gems. What’s the rationale?

At worst, you got phished.

At best, you got free gems for subscribing to a social tracker

Happens 24/7 on SoR.

Keep in mind that each server follows a different route

Eurhetemec.9052:

Vol.5241:

TooBz.3065:

Vol.5241:

I really don’t get why anti-farmers want to enforce their own tendencies on farmers.

It’s like casuals trying to instill casual tendencies on hardcore players.

Good luck.

I don’t think they’ll succeed but I can tell you why they try. The champ farm trains increase the price of everything on the TP. Or at least they seem to. Much more gold goes into the system than mats.

I’m not entirely sure about that, but then again we don’t have the proof for it

Champ farming does this:
-contributes gold in the economy from pure silver from boxes
-contributes materials in the economy (which indirectly leads into a gold sink through TP fees)
-generates lots of blues/greens, which now act as an indirect gold sink due to the # of ppl who decide to a.) salvage for luck or b.) sell directly to the TP rather than vending for pure silver to a vendor

But anyways, farming can never be stopped. Farmers will always find the most efficient way to make gold and you can’t stop that unless you totally redesign an MMO into something else that wouldn’t even be considered an MMO. These efforts from non-farmers are just wasted.

I don’t know if you know much about economics, but #1 obvious, inarguably, inflates the economy, #2 depresses prices on those items, but only those items, and #3 inflates the price of those items (no, people are not putting them on TP enough to counteract this – obvious from GW2spidy), albeit not dramatically.

So overall, not it’s not unclear or lacking evidence, it’s very basic economics – more money enters the economy – inflation occurs.

The only REAL gold sink (apart from very minor ones like AH fees) is the gem store – and that is what is keeping this under control, for now. People who have lots and lots of money tend to buy gems with it – rather than it all going into the economy.

I very much understand economics. And yes, while inflation occurs among champ farmers, we don’t know if the economy as a whole is getting inflated. Not everyone farms champions and you could say the overall playerbase is not inflating gold.

I don’t understand how you view TP fees minor. Every single transaction gets cut and thousands of transactions happen a day. The only part of the gem store that acts like a gold sink is the buying gems through gold portion. I highly doubt the effect on gold through that method outweighs the TP fees.