Guild Wars 2

Soo what is wrong with Chris here?

If OP’s friend took a random ban screenshot off the interwebs and tried to play it off as their own, then that isn’t Chris’ fault. You deceived him.

Time Gated Materials (time gate) + Icy Runestones (gold sink) + karma (account bound currency) + Random items that are severely undervalued (Mystic Coins) = prec

All in all it should be enough to make the average player feel like buying the precursor/gambling is a viable alternative.

So here is my plan
30 days worth of time-gated materials + 500 Icy Runestones + 150,000 Karma + 100 Mystic Coins = precursor

You can expand this and reward everyone with a precursor token, which in turn would be combined with three named exotics in the forge to make your desired weapon

i.e.

Precursor Token + Ebonblade + Breath of Flame + Cobalt = Dusk
Precursor Token + Charrzooka + Exterminator + Levvi = The Hunter

Psientist.6437:

Vol, I can only assume you are basing your predictions on the popularity of professions played. I am not challenging your predictions, I think the logic is sound, just wondering where your data comes from.

The impact may be small but still fun to discuss as long as we make sure not to incline players towards speculating.

edit: Our base line for armor type variety drop rate is also important. Should we assume the variety drop rate is even now?

I didn’t factor in class popularity because I don’t have the class splits and it would also make things really complicated. But yes, warriors and guardians I’m confident are the top 2 and they are also very good at farming, so their farming efficiency alone could in theory make up for the drops for mesmers and ele’s (since they are both bad at farming)

I don’t see much incentive to not tank. You see it in real life with sports teams intentionally tanking in order to secure a higher draft pick.

Alright so the new meta class is Mesmer

That way you get the two most valuable items (greatswords and cloths)

anyone know a mesmer farming guide? ;3

I don’t see why Anet would mess with the ratios AND publicly state it. What benefit do they have for that?

But yes, you will see a gem/gold ratio change before seasons because they more than likely will

a.) introduce promo pricing for transfers
b.) open up the full servers

which will result in the gold/gem ratio changing due to player demand…not from Anet’s internal decision making

I feel the same way about you, but for different reasons.

Whenever I see a nice skin that they have released, especially when it’s something like a weapon or a backpiece, I feel like I will never wear it. Because there is no way that I’m going to replace my Eternity with a Ley Line greatsword or my fractal capacitor with a crafting backpiece. I can’t ‘downgrade’ because I feel like I’m wasting money.

I think these new skins are more for the general playerbase or up and coming players (that is the theme of today’s reveal). Having more options doesn’t hurt I suppose

The Comfy Chair.7265:

Romek.4201:

Vol.7601:

Leather will continue to be extremely low because it’s limited by demand, not supply

not when the backpacks all will need some leather as a base reagent^^

Yep Anet will be doing something about the low cost of leather at some point. The t5/6 versions are by far the cheapest materials, so it’s a good pool for them to draw from for future craftable items. Therefore, buy a ton of t5 leather and sit on it for a year :P

I too think they will have to address leather, but making it a component in a semi-desirable item would not be the way to do it.

I do not have the link, but I remember John Smith talking about silk and how he regretted how it was handled when they introduced it as a component for ascended items. The requirements were too over-ambitious and as a result the price became highly volatile. The same mistake shouldn’t be repeated with leather.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/crafting-backpacks-new-leveling-items-and-more/

“Finally, since we believe that, especially for newer players, good rewards mean things you can play with (and not just things that may happen to valuable on the Trading Post), we’ve made it so that you’re more likely to get loot that you can use. It’s still possible for a warrior to get a new staff to sell or for mesmers to find a rare rifle, but it’ll be a bit less common than it was before. We’d rather that leveling players found things that felt like an immediate and useful upgrade or gave them a look at a new weapon and a chance to expand their skill set, and this seems like a good way of doing that.”

I think this change can have a huge effect on the ore/cloth/leather commodities, assuming that profession loot is also applied to armors. If it’s only applied to weapons, I don’t see a big change.

So if it is feature is applied to armors, I think the long-term implications for these commodities are as follows

-Cloth – price will drop but still have moderate value. The reason why cloth is expensive right now is because it is an item that cannot be farmed. The price is boosted by the supply of this item while also have a moderate level of demand. With this change, supply will most definitely increase, but this commodity will still be limited by world drops.

Leather – price will stay the same or drop. While leather behaves like cloth in that it cannot be farmed, the price is depressed because of the lack of uses of leather.

Ore – price could rise slightly/stay flat. Ore right now is in a good spot because it has high demand and high supply. Initially, this change would reduce the supply of ore due to a reduced pool of world drops. However, any increase in price would be quickly met with an increase in supply from gathering ore

Any thoughts, concerns?

edit: I re-read the blogpost and it’s suggesting that this may only apply to non lvl 80’s, so the impact may be insignificant

The Comfy Chair.7265:

It definitely will lead to light armour classes getting a bit of a loot advantage with the price of cloth. At least in the short term while silk is high. But all players will still get the salvage items and bags, which tend to provide a good amount of cloth materials in my experience.

pdavis.8031:

I don’t understand. As a guardian, you have just as much chance of getting silk (or any other mat) as any other profession. You don’t need to level an alt to get what you need for crafting. Silk is used across all professions, so you wouldn’t need to have a light or medium armor character to get silk.

If you have a higher chance of getting profession specific loot, guardians/warriors will see a drop in light armour pieces. So they wont be able to salvage for cloth. Light armour classes will see more of those armour pieces. I think that’s the concern, at least!

In the long-run prices will change but not in a good way

I could see the cloth price drop since supply was the limiting factor before, and it may not be moving forward

Leather will continue to be extremely low because it’s limited by demand, not supply

ore could very well increase in value because I can’t see the changes in supply keeping up with the huge demand.

I hope they limit this to just weapons only.

I wish I could flip ;(

On a somewhat unrelated note..

if you want to gamble on the forge, I highly suggest that you save money and do the crafting of rares by youself.

Furthermore, if you choose to do this route, do not gamble axes. Right now the precursor axe is selling at 930g. Why not go for a more valuable precursor and pocket the difference? Something like gambling for The Legend or Dusk.

yes

why, you were expecting one?

lol ‘Banbot’ is going to get permabanned so hard

Why do people even think of these things as a good idea

I agree, I wish we had some sort of birthday event.

It doesn’t have to be something within the lore, as that doesn’t make sense.

But as I mentioned last week, it would be nice if we had a Birthday Buff week where everyone in the game had increased stats.

+50% exp, karma, WXP, e.t.c.

yes, we have the gun but that is cumbersome..

to quote A Few Good Men..

“I want to know what’s in development!”

“YOU CAN’T HANDLE TO KNOW WHAT’S IN DEVELOPMENT!”

Invictus.1503:

. Not saying it shouldn’t have happened, but just that it seems they realized after a few threads on the matter it wasn’t such a good idea

Maybe they nerfed it because it was unintended and was overlooked in QA?

Actually, I’m pretty sure they nerfed it for that reason. Not sure what you’re trying to get at.

I’m an Anet defender and from what I’m seeing here, yeah it ‘seems’ to be an abuse of power.

Yes, I agree that it’s relatively minor and some would laugh at it (I would if I were the victim), but it is still unacceptable behavior.

From what I recall Regina said several months back, Anet employees do not have admin commands on their personal accounts.

So either of these happened

1.) It was a dev employee using his dev account

2.) OP simply disconnected and it was pretty bad timing (do we know if anyone else in that pic got DC’d?)

honest answer:

the datamined scrolls were just plans for the next 10 years (remember there was a line that had a 10-year anniversary item)

these lvl 60 scrolls are probably for down the road when you have your 6th birthday or w/e

Nope, next week. I don’t think they are releasing stuff on the Friday.

Whiteside lives ;o

How is that possible, there are barely any oozes in this game!

Yeah…

let’s say they come out on Tuesday with the announcement of the next expansion..coming..say January 2015.

They could release a roadmap for the next +-19 weeks left with different bonuses to hype up everyone

-Bonus WvW Exp week (100% increase)
-Bonus PvE event completion exp week (100% increase)
-Bonus PvE Kills event exp week (100% increase)
-Bonus karma week (200% increase)
-Bonus MF week (100% increase)
-Bonus Evon Gnashblade week (40% decrease off everything in the gemstore)
-Bonus Fun week (everyone has 100% increased speed, triple jumping height, 500% increase in mini size)

The bonuses are very insiginificant (do they even work now with megaservers?)
The most useful bonuses are capped at 10%

Something significant like 100% increase in exp would entice players to go out and do PvE than usual

I just realized that for the nearly 2 years we’ve had in this game, we never had special community events/weekends where everyone who logs in and plays during that time receives a buff.

Diablo has recently had a 200% increase in legendary rates (similar to magic find) and will be getting a 50% gold boost over the weekend.

Why don’t we have something like here?

Why can’t we have a temporary statue in, say, Lion’s Arch that gives you 48 hours of EXP/karma/MF?

I know there are currently boosters in the game, but perhaps these temporary events can help drive player populations up as well as act as free promotion for boosters on the gem store. This doesn’t have to happen all the time, but it can be a monthly/quarterly thing.

You can even link these events with trial weekends to stimulate the playerbase to go level up their alts, further populating the emptier zones.

Hmm, did not remember that but it looks like it was from BL chests

/quietly puts up buy orders for Halloween weapons

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Vol has succesfully resold chaos of lyssa for 1500g. Why would this halloween shield, not be part if his resell plan? 50/50 i’d say. Sometimes he’s completley honest, And i think i believe him this time. But he loves reselling, so be carefull.

I’m very honest about my trades, I don’t recall ever trying to pump/dump.

Regarding Lyssa, I made +-700g profit on that and that’s just from flipping rather than speculating. I bought it at the buy order of 1500g and resold at 2550g
. And that’s pretty much my only flip as I find that side of TP playing boring.

If I were to theoretically turn evil and try my hand at pumping/dumping, I would do it on high-velocity items so that I could make thousands of gold in profit with minimal risk.

i.e. gold, silver, leathers, crystals, orbs

Wanze.8410:

Will propably be available for 2 weeks only as a rare drop from Black Lion Chests.
Permanent Hair Stylist contracts didnt exactly plummet…

It would be pretty wierd to have a weapon skin as a direct drop from a BL chest.

But I guess it’s a lot more likely to have it retain a 7-ticket cost, which would still be gold saved

If you are not interested in another character slot, I suggest converting to gold right now. I’m not in game, but I assume the exchange rate has gone up due to the promotion.

man you’re insanely lucky. One guy opened 1000 chests and didn’t get one!

please use your gold wisely

Heads up!

that_shaman datamined an update to some old Halloween files, leading us to believe that the skins will be sellable again.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2e7lsa/datamining_upcoming_features_from_the_dragons/

So if you have a Ghastly Grinning shield listed at 2000g up on the tp…

Ayrilana.1396:

Take away grind in MMO’s and then what else is there for players to do?

At that point it’s no longer considered an MMO. I wouldn’t even call it a game.

You pretty much log-in and everything is already there for you.

You pretty much paid $60 and a subscription to do nothing!

Dreamer.1952:

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

If players doing it wrong and exploiting the game is hampered or they are made unhappy by the actions of players playing the game correctly and not exploiting the game

Thats a definition of a selfjustice player that i was waiting for. Now back to my example.
A rated GvG 15vs15 in Os or souths camp wich is not intended from designers is taking place and a Troll is messing it up because he is playing the game correctly. He wants to play with the gvg because its open world. He is following the guilds to other spots and still trolling there. Is that Ok?
This happened really. A full guild was trolling with 2 gvg guilds. Is that Ok because GvG is not intended from the designers?

The ‘troll’ is doing nothing wrong. Yeah he’s trolling in the sense that he’s disrupting the planned activities there but I strongly doubt he would be punished as WvW activities were intended everywhere on that map. Your friends may hate it, and you’re certainly justified, but there really isn’t much you can do except work together and beat back the trolls.

While technically true it can be 100g/h, the majority of the time it’s not going to be like that because of people who complete the event. And when you complete the event, it will not be available to spawn for the next 30-45 mins

loseridoit.2756:

cesmode.4257:

Well, while I agree with most of the people in this thread that anything above green isn’t necessarily needed, I will agree with the OP that this game is nothing but grinding. If you want any sort of gear, cosmetic, achievement, etc it involves a stupid amount of grinding. There is a reason why GW2 is commonly referred to grindwars 2. Theres more grinding in this game than in most.

Theres not necessarily a gear treadmill, although to be in tip top shape in something like WvW you will want ascended, there definitely is grinding in the game. Lots of it.

you realize loot table is also based on the damage you been doing.

Partially true.

The quality of loot in the table is not dependent on damage

The chance at getting loot is dependent on damage. The fewer the people, the higher the chance. The more people, the lower, as you are competing with others to reach damage thresholds.

ipan.4356:

Bosses – whether they be world, or dungeon – should have chances to drop exotic, and even legendary, items.

lol, so what happens when you end up getting all exotics/legendaries.

FYI it’s now against the rules to necro a thread..

look at the date

I don’t see any meaningful or widespread benefit for this, especially when compared to the complicated coding and testing involved in designing such a weapon.

Of course it’s on low priority. Your issue has nothing to do with content or the game devs who design feature patch content.

You have a bug, a particularly nasty one, but I don’t see why that means guys like Foreman or Izzy should work on it. That’s not their job.

Furthermore, 15 days may not be enough to fix your issue. Considering that is ’a very isolated case, it can be extremely difficult figuring out why it happens.

What can you do? Nothing but wait.

jspencer.3021:

How does someone participate in a tournament like this?

I see a achivements and “how do I get rewards” section in the news story, but what’s involved with actually being a part of it in the first place? Do you just log in and play WvW during the timeframe, or do you actually need to sign up for something? That part I’m not clear on.

Just go play WvW. You don’t have to sign-up or anything. Just participate in WvW objectives.

It helps if you coordinate (or simply listen) with a WvW guild or your server’s WvW teamspeak server.

As a former hardcore farmer, Anet can keep nerfing events all they want. We find a way to make dem $$$.

My only issue is the rewards (which Anet continues yet again to balance properly)

Why are they offering stuff that is available outside of WvW and can be acquired at a non-fixed rate? I’m talking about all the ascended materials, obby shards and karma.

Who in their right mind would spend these valuable tickets on items such as that?

At least put in something that is worthwhile, such as a Tome of Knowledge, more exclusive minis – something that you cannot get with regularity outside of WvW

Also, they do not address guild renting.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

This is what happened to the tunnel farm?

I remember a group of us succeeding that event then running to the other end and succeeding in that event. Then we’d run to the other end, clean our bags, sell junk, post up on the trade post and then do it all over again.

That wasn’t fast enough?

Then again, is this where the QD Champ Train went to? If it is as toxic as it sounds, I’m willing to bet Gems that it is the remnants of the toxic element of the QD Champ Train.

Nah, what you’re thinking about is the old shelter/pen farm, which was nerfed more than a year ago.

This farm is a bit different in that you do not capture shelter but repeat the escort/capture event without completing it.

I too have participated in.

I too think it should be nerfed & was going to get nerfed eventually

atheria.2837:

Serophous.9085:

atheria.2837:

They have publically announced the prices.

Totally ignoring us – I am sad to say that after thousands of responses, reasoning and even begging, we lose as a community and as a gaming family.

Arenanet isn’t here for us – they are here to make moneywalls out of our own suggestions.

I will gladly pay 300g for an account unlock for ALL my characters, than just one. I specialized my characters differently; defenders, attackers, supply runners, etc. Now I don’t have to spend more gold for one character to have the defender tag, more gold for one to be the assaulter, etc. One price, full account unlock.

300 gold per level.

If you need to get there, that’s 900 gold.

what in the world are you talking about

You cannot avoid it. It’s the risk that everyone who sells on the TP takes. What you can do is mitigate this risk. How much mitigate depends on how much gold you want to risk.

Generally the closer you sell to the buy order, the less risk you take

If you look at the price history, there is very limited movement on buy orders, hence very limited demand for this item. There is also limited movement for sellers, although keep in mind that there may be other sellers of the molten jetpack who may be willing to eat the listing fee and undercut you.

What I do for an item like this is price it at 50% of the difference, which in this case 855. But then again, I’m willing to take on risk so your acceptable price may even be lower than that, like 820g.

edit: also WARNING..if you do decide to sell to the buy order, do not use the vendor price trick. You may have missed the news awhile back that they fixed it. If you do not know what it was, don’t worry and disregard this warning

One of the community managers on twitter did state that they changed it after feedback

Your answer is here:
https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/502133727343169538

What’s stopping me from forming a troll guild with the sole purpose of PK’ing newbies in Queensdale?

This has been requested since release. If I remember correctly this is not possible because the items do not have the light/medium/heavy data filter attached to them.