Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this post is allowed, so please move or delete if needed. Just wanted to say as of few moments ago an issue I reported to support a day ago, at my own fault, was resolved.

The speed and how this was handled was exceptional, I have played many MMO’s in the past, some with decent customer service & some not, thank you for exceeding those games with this example and I’am sure others.
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Joopy.6547:

Wetpaw.3487:

If anything I hope Anet has a team monitoring the player base that are actually participating in SAB, & weighing in if this is part of the LS to continue with.

This is its second coming (first was in April) and it’s back because enough people played it and wanted it back!

I know you’re entitled to your own opinion but just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be back >:P

I had to suffer all of last months Crowned Pavillion/Scarlet stuff that I didn’t enjoy (one lag-fest, map screaming event was enough) but didn’t come on here saying boo!

Opinions on forums of content in a game, blasphemy!

Bunda.2691:

There is no monthly subscription fee. Please remember this as we close this thread.

oh how I miss the sub, a sub that allows 99% content to the player. I really like GW2, and the direction Anet has taken has been great, but whoever running the Gem store should be let go.

It is starting to feel instead of immersive world of Tyria & adventure, but a F2p cash grab game where $$ is always the main subject/content, Gem store or TP.

Careful Anet, Ncsoft has a pretty nice sub game around the corner eyeing your playerbase….

Yup skimmed dulfy’s and here, no thanks, pass on this LS. Is this to be expected every year? I hope not.

If anything I hope Anet has a team monitoring the player base that are actually participating in SAB, & weighing in if this is part of the LS to continue with.

Take a screen shot of party members names soon as you zone in, everyone should do this. This has not happen to me yet, but I have been in a group where it has had happen. After I seen few posts like this I started SS all dungeon groups.

Tsezar.6950:

ascended gear is the biggest lie anet does.. they dont know that they gonna destroy the game with it… i see it coming that ppl gonna leave because of it.. already 5 ppl i know said when more ascended comes into the game they gonna quit.. i mean anet shouldnt forget that this year elder scrolls online comes out.. ppl who start to play it will never come back to gw2 because other ppl have way better gear then them and tehy are miles behind

TESO & FFRR are not even on the same playing field as GW2, why? They’re xplatform console, boxes within walls for both those games, not real mmorpg’s & it shows once playing.

you’re welcome
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/16/guild-wars-2-developer-livestream-chat-discusses-the-fine-art-of/

My Norn Grimpaw in the house of Raven. My Norn is pretty much human max height, small for a Norn.

Blahblah, besides all that, because it would be fun & I hope they do add more races + race change.

I mean they did bring SAB into GW2, if we learned anything from MMO’s lore is for books.

Diviner.7405:

So I never really understood this logic.

Why cater to casuals?

I have heard claims and claims that there is a larger casual base than a hardcore base…. but is this really true?

Now I might be wrong here, but I would imagine casuals are the people more likely to move from game to game after 1 month or so then a hardcore player.

So what I see Guild Wars 2 doing is:
Most casuals move on to other games in 1 month or so no matter what you add to the game. It is just their nature.

At the same time, hardcore players are alienated and leave.

So the outcome is that you are losing on both sides. Would it not be better to keep the hardcore fan-base, so you are at least winning on 1 side?

Maybe Im missing something here…. hmmmm

Because NCSoft already has WS for the rest of us

Excursion.9752:

Glad you all like the update … I am on the opposite end of the spectrum on this.

I very much dislike SAB, just horrible content for a MMO imo. But you cant please everyone all the time, like above poster, glad you all will enjoy it for me

Just made this post today, somewhat related to your post minus the MF =P
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Movement-speed-1/first#post2657398

TehPwnerer.7215:

Anyone who does this kind of stuff is scum. Selling spots in dungeons that other people worked for only to be kicked out because they didn’t pay? That’s messed up. People shouldn’t need to pay to PuG in this game.

This is exactly why I don’t pug. Thank God I have an amazing guild and don’t need to worry about stuff like this.

%100 agree these kind of bottom feeders should get Dhuum perma banned,

Everyone should screen shot your screen when you enter a full party to get all group members names etc..

Just my two cents, please take in consideration a change to increase movement speed. I have seen this done in a few other MMO’s of my time. With such a strong commitment to no mounts I think this should be taken in consideration.

Currently outside of maybe spvp/tpvp (idk) 25% signets seem a must eating up many other great utility abilities.

I propose increase in speed for ALL classes by 25%, & removing the signets of speed.

Thanks for your time, keep up good work.

Paw~

tolunart.2095:

Celebratty.1632:

I have school on the weekdays and a part-time job. I can get on for maybe an hour on the weekdays, and focus mainly on the weekends. .

There’s your problem. You’ll have to quit school and your job if you want to keep up with the people who play (correction: farm) 18 hrs per day. Time = money and you need one or the other to keep up with the Joneses.

Consider it a blessing, do you really want to join the champion zerg crews?

Personally I wont waste my game time with that kind of play. Job, school, and family here, I just treat this game like a sub mmo. Drop $15-20/month and I can pretty much get any LS item/champ drop I want, and if nothing interests me I wait til gem to gold is real good make some easy coin.

I went to CS yesterday to see what all the fuss is about, this is what I had taken in.

Lag, skill lag, culling, and a bunch of players running around in circles kiling champs trying to find groups of leet dps….hours at a time, how boring.

Here Anet $15 this month/gems to gold covers anything I would got in that mess, back to playing the game, I don’t mind paying a sub fee. =)

Had the naga for sometime but after 3 of them all within the year seem to have the same problem, the left mouse click would get very sensitive and double click on me. I have had the G500 for sometime now and it’s the best mouse I have used, very well made.

For some odd reason those dancing white numbers I see In large groups just puts a big grin on my face more then any other class.

Lightsbane.9012:

world vs. world is what sold me on this game. it gets absolutely no love other than the obligatory ‘siege mastery’ insert every 2 weeks or so.
however, the driest part of this game(for me and the guilds i join, every game) is the pve content. we use pve to make money and get achievement points. since the latter is so difficult to acquire in wvw(and since new pve content rolls out biweekly without missing a beat) we’re kind of forced/encouraged to do something most of us loathe doing.
now imagine if WvW got even 50% of the attention that PvE gets.
please give the wvw players some attention. we earn noticeable buffs for our servers, isn’t that worth something? and all we get is siege mastery? i would get achievement points so much faster in pve, i know, but farming AI monsters, and speed running dungeons is far less difficult than destroying an organized enemy zerg. where’s the reward for that?(loot bags is not the kind of reward i’m talking about)
QED: until it’s possible to make as much money off of wvw as it is off of farming mindless mobs, my wish probably won’t be granted.

I agree with most of your points, except the last. WvW is what brought me to this game too, and for sometime now I can barely spend more then an hour w/o having to exit.

WvWPvE is what it is, I want to see huge friggn BAMs that you can summon (think oldschool AV), Unique armor and weapons, big fat loot like PvE, some map changes, perks, GvG/duel zones that benefit your server in some way…basically a bunch hunk’n of love.

I think the use of majority by op is pretty fair, yes w/o the numbers it’s hard to be accurate, but any adult with responsibilities job, family, RL, etc can agree two weeks is a little fast.

Will I burn out and stop playing? No, but I’am not a “must have” completionist kind of player.

I was surprised FOTM achievement page didn’t have a title after full completion like Dungeon Master.

and to add would love to see titles for your order Whisper, priory, and Vigil.

What was all localized in Orr over Plinx/Shelter farm rotation now has been expanded all over Tyria. I think this is great.

All we need now is open world consensual dueling, GvG, & I will never leave open world PvE.

I really enjoy Jade Quarry, good amount of WvW & WorldPve.

Before I reset my PW (didn’t really know what was going on) these are the steps as it happened,

Out and about playing then froze up, loss server connection.

Relog, Error- something about for security reasons we have suspended the account, can be due to login from a new computer or campus. (didnt take a screen shot then, I should have.

Try to login few more times to get the error screen in my above pic.

Try re-typing my PW, didn’t work.

Virus scan, clean up.

Fall for a phishing email that came conveniently right after my account freeze. Senders listed above post.

Scan forums, find out the email on the list of phishing ones (just came almost same time I got kicked, assumed it would be Anet).

Login forums & main site page of GW2 (both work), change password.

Login the game works.

Not really sure what happened, account seems safe atm, nothing missing.

Just a quick suggestion, add the gem store armor sets to the same system as achievement armor/weapon tab allowing them to be pulled out. I’am all about supporting the game, even bought two armor sets over my time w/you guys, but with the last two sets I just cant see my self buying anymore w/out this feature added.

Ten dollars for a set should allow it to be used infinite times. This should be applied to weapons gained in this fashion too, average $60 a weapon I think this is reasonable.

Reducing the cash machine customer feeling players have had of late.

Keep up the good work,

Thank you

Mark Katzbach.9084:

The currency wallet will not have the 250 stack limit. Currencies in the wallet will behave in the same manner that gold and karma do currently.

Loving how this game gets better and better.

I still have not received an email regarding my account closure and reopen, one thing that did allow me back in was reset PW, not sure how or why that would trigger a safety closure of the account w/above mentioned pic.

I want to try the Security app, but if I were to lose my phone how would I log into the game?

I’am going to try to take the steps to change my email connected to this account maybe, have had it since pre BWE2.

Update, changed my password tried login and it worked? I would like some confirmation on those emails if not to much trouble, I have had a few prior that looked odd and deleted.

Update: Looks like after reading your guys sticky that both of those are phishing emails,

My account was just blocked, I will add a pic. Not sure whats going on, I ran a virus scan & did a password change.

I have two emails from what I hope is Guild Wars 2, this was a support number I was given #130731-000902, and emails from senders.
ArenaNet (noreply@guildwars.com)
Guild Wars 2 Support (support@guildwars2.com)

I have my order date, order number, & serial code.

Any help would be great.

Master of Timespace.2548:

Another useless RNGfest. Typical Casino Net.

ikr, plus a sub! it’s just over the top… I have played a few MMO’s in my life time, and a weapon/armor drop has always been on chance to drop from event/boss, not only rare chance but usually would have to roll against a fellow player for the loot.

This game would be better enjoyed when players realize they don’t need everything they want.

Monoman.2068:

My necromancer wears white and I dislike the bit frost. Not to be sexist, but it’s a model for female characters through and through. I would personally prefer a legendary staff that’s not white, covered in rainbows, and has skittles rotating around it.

As you probably already know, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st

I still wont go for it on my Necro though

I believe because two ways to get them, one from the vendor 4winds for white/gold tickets that’s account bound (til you put skin on a exotic stat back, then it’s soulbound).

Then you can receive one as a reward from the race that’s soulbound on equip, and see these on the TP. Could be mistaken never won one in the race.

Unless some patch came in I didn’t catch the notes.

update: http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-fortune-scraps-and-zephyrite-skins-guide/
Read post, then confirmed in comments below.

The flute is one of my favorite items I have bought from gemstore, and it’s account bound (I would have bought gathering tools if they were AB too fyi)! I have not bought any other instruments, didn’t take my interest, w/not a musical bone in my body I bought the flute and very happy about it.

Going to throw in one small suggestion, it would be real nice if I could play it plus /sit.

Make the player redo his/her story and change Cultural armor into account bound, both sound reasonable to me for paid race change.

Personal story does not matter that much if at all, plenty of players never even touch their story.

Race does not matter at all, really tired of players in games crying No for new content that will not effect them in anyway if they choose not to take part. I prefer the model “play as you want”, race change is optional, and optional content always keeps players interested.

For the players that level through WvW, DE, gathering/crafting story can be meaningless…If it mattered so much I wouldn’t have been able to level my Necro 50 levels in a afternoon not leaving LA.

Players that don’t want this really don’t matter in this optional content, it is the players willing to drop 800 gems that do.

Race change would be a great money maker, I for one would use it too.

With LS update every two weeks I do enjoy the game more, it was pretty slow after capping out three classes I stopped playing, I didn’t even bother w/dailys.

Now with intentions to make much more of it permanent, better content, and constant reward system through LS & Achievements anet I think has done a good job listening to its community while keeping to the idea of how they want GW2 to grow.

They keep this up Guild Wars 2 year two looks pretty good from here.

Does this game currently have a way to turn down spell and weapon effects of other players, or all spell/weapon effects on screen?
I have played around w/options video settings and can’t seem to find anything. I have seen in other games this may be called “particle” effects?
Google search say no?
Thanks

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/
http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/

are my go to also for more details, spoiler alert though on Dulfy

mrauls.6519:

Don’t use Dulfy then -_-

What he/she said, don’t like it don’t look. I personally like going to Dulfys or Guru for a preview, some weeks between school, work, and family I want to be able to go to Dulfys and speed through content for the rewards. Some weeks that are more relaxed I don’t bother and I play out the content at my own pace.

Players that don’t want that kind of information should group w/other players (guild) to take on that content. I rather not be told how to approach content by control of information, but rather at my choice.

Fernling.1729:

Vikestart.4523:

killcannon.2576:

They tend to remove items from the gem store after an arbitrary amount of time. This tends to lend those items immediacy and increase the need or desire for them “right now”.

It’s a marketing tactic that resonates with a large part of the player base. Makes them feel “special”.

Well, do items sometimes reappear in the store later on, or is it written in stone that they appear once and then they’re gone forever?

The ones that are removed are labeled as being temporarily available in the cash shop. It is implied that they will not be returning.

I don’t think it’s implied they wont return, but they are for a temporary time. I can see items like the gathering tools/holiday costume brawl returning again over the course of the game multiple times for a temporary time.

Melchior.2135:

Rewards:
- A special achievement
- A Communal Boost Bonfire that provides a boost to karma gain, experience gain, or Magic Find for you and your friends
- A consumable boost for 24 hours of 200% Magic Find and coins from kills
- 3 consumable Fireworks to celebrate the moment in style

Yeah… not worth making a Facebook account for.

I can see if you got a facebook account already I’m sure most already have it liked, but you can pretty much get these rewards anyhow standing in front of the LA bank, and I imagine most are just throwing away the fireworks now from coffers (the cd on them are annoying).

so you wont miss much

I use a AH Shout build 0/0/30/30/10 GS/Staff. Tag a ton of mobs, cleanse cond while granting might to allys when you crit all the while healing. Plus area avoidance (can be very useful not to mention very funny watch a zerg run into that stacked w/reflect), mob tagging+f1, boons. Usually mix zerk/and tough gear.

Guard staff is one of my favorite weapons for the Guard pve/pvp

What about WvW? For many players it wasn’t the LS that brought them to this game, pve is just pve-click F, kill this, collect this…it’s nice and all but what about WvW?

I know it’s broken atm, but it would be nice to hear some serious updates about it.
1. Blob Zerg’n
2. Rewards (drops, armor, weapons)
3. Making it so you can actually see many players on the screen, and if not possible revamping the system so it actually works the way you guys/gals intended.

So many players left because of how WvW has turned out, it’s to bad too it has some great potential, I think.

1. RNG Reward system, I wont bother buying anything RNG related in gemstore, reward system is really bad ingame.
2. Culling pve & pvp….I wouldn’t call WvW culling a fix, it’s still broken.
3. WvW- this needs a HUGE revamp, it’s broken content. Culling (or the fact the game can’t run what Anet has intended for it), rewards, and somehow make it so it’s not blob zerg’n (close proximity debuff, anything except stacking, stack/zerg’n makes horrible gameplay).

Henge.3907:

Not everyone uses every media website known to man.

ya, sorry no “tweet’n” for me either.

This is the content that supports the game you should be happy about. No rng boxes, cartel packs, gambling, town clothes. You even have the option to pay w/ingame gold. This is a step in the right direction.

If only GW2 forums had a ignore feature (not intended for op)

to the op, I can sum an answer up for you nice and quick…welcome to b2p/f2p mmo model, GW2 does this model the best, go ahead and try other f2p/b2p they don’t even compare.

Gemstore/buygold>everything else

I can’t believe people actually think farming/grinding was diminished by Anet because it went against the game philosophy of GW2. I would love to see the spreadsheet on how much more gold was bought as DR was added and farming/grinding were X out in the game.

Most of you must be new to the f2p/b2p mmo’s, would you rather have rentals, restricted content (LS cost real $$ to unlock), talent skill change cost real money, or p2win (stats)? This game is pay2look good, and compared to other f2p/b2p this is the best it’s going to get.

Maybe entitled mmo players will finally get off the bandwagon of f2p/b2p & realize benefit to the sub model.