Guild Wars 2

No way it’s one night only.

Person 1: I bought the wrong thing and there was no confirmation so I lost 30 Laurels.

Anet change it!

Person 2: I’m tired of having to confirm all my purchases!

Anet change it!

I sympathize with game developers. There really is no pleasing anyone.

It’s not Anet or the game’s fault if people can’t control their gambling. People who can’t control their impulses just love to blame everyone else.

Come on now people. We know by now the RNG (or whatever you want to call it since some people appear to have disproved it’s RNG) in this game is balls. People have opened a billion crates over all these living story events and gotten nothing but Dolyak poop.

Point is, why are people still getting so upset by it? On paper, is it preposterously ridiculous the odds people are facing? Absolutely. Is it anything new? Absolutely NOT. Why Anet does what it does with these crates may never be solved or fixed, but buying up 2000 crates and getting nothing then complaining is like someone who spent $200 on lottery tickets and didn’t win the jackpot. These crates are the lottery and you folks aren’t winning. We know by now the low rates are terrible, so buying up 100g in crates and getting nothing really only leaves yourselves to blame.

I’m done with these crates. I’ve opened about 150 just from drops and refuse to buy any with any kind of currency. I’ve gone to selling them and am making quite the profit alone. They’re adding up to several gold a day just in crates, in addition to regular earnings through dungeons etc.

From personal experience, I don’t seem to get any more rares with lots of MF than if I don’t have any at all.

I hate starting a group for a dungeon only for someone expecting us to wait for them to finish up their events. People are even saying “give me 5 minutes to finish this event.” Are you kidding me? That’s what kick is for, but lately people haven’t be voting yes. I think it’s pretty inconsiderate to expect a group to wait on you unless the event/boss is almost dead, which should be clarified when joining. Right?

I wish there was at least something to do with karma armor once it’s replaced. It’s kind of sad to just destroy it, but what else is there to do if I don’t need/want it anymore? No sense in it taking up bag/bank space.

Would you people shut up. This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen on these boards. I’m not a “regular” gem buyer. I don’t know anybody that routinely spends real money on gems. I did it 2 or 3 times since launch. 10 dollars here or there didn’t seem like such a big deal and I too don’t make very much at work. This game is FREE to play for kitten’s sake, and I like it very much. I had no problem spending real money to support Anet here and there.

And I don’t see anything wrong with people giving them a little extra support getting a free gift. Even if I didn’t buy gems, they’re kitten mini’s for crying out loud. I know some people are obsessed with mini’s, but come on. People are acting like Anet is handing out Legendaries for people who buy gems with real money.

They aren’t splitting their player base at all, nor are they “spitting in the face” of people who use gold for gems. Anet allowing gold for gems keeps this game free to play in all aspects, and you sit there and complain they reward people who toss them a little extra money to make the game we play and love better.

Anybody remember the Allen Iverson press conference about practice? “We’re talking about practice. Not a game, not a game…” etc etc. Well, we’re talking about mini’s. Mini’s. Not armor, not free town clothes, not even money. We’re talking about mini’s man. I mean how silly is that."

I get the principle behind it is what people have a problem with, but in the end you not being able to afford even 10 dollars in gems in not anyone’s problem but your own.
You complain you can’t spare 10 bucks, yet you bought a 60 dollar game. NOTHING on the gem shop is required to enjoy this game and people who buy things off of there enjoy NO advantage over someone who has never spent a single gem on items. They are for player convenience, and player CONVENIENCE only. They aren’t selling weapons, armor, trinkets etc. Half the stuff on there is ridiculous town clothes related garbage. All the stuff like Black Lion kits etc are available through dailies and chests. Don’t sit there and complain Anet tossed people a couple mini’s for giving them a little financial support when they aren’t getting a dime from anybody after initial purchase. You’re a gem buyer through your in-game gold. Enjoy your free to play game, one that you don’t have to spend a thing playing and enjoying instead of complaining when Anet gives people more or less worthless items.

Don’t scrap it, but definitely create a Guardian and see how you like it. From co-maining Pally (healer)/Warrior(tank) from WoW I knew just what to jump into for GW 2. Suffice to say Guardian is NOT a Paladin. In fact, I hated it. Warrior fits me much better because that’s how my play style has always been. Melee with little need for magic. It’s also why I’ve never had success as caster magic classes.

If you’re just going by DPS, Warrior will outdo Guardian all day long. I personally enjoy the no-nonsense brutish attack from Warriors. Guardians have a TON of support utilities however. A lot of people expect they are similar especially using most of the same weapons, when in reality the only thing they have in common is armor type. It’s night and day playstyle-wise. Guardian just didn’t click for me with the magical attacks and what not and it was clear Warrior was for me.

Dolan.3071:

Woljnir.7810:

What I found funny is that the first group I joined that did the CoF 2 skipping it was taking longer to get over the gap/wall with the air hammer than if we had just done it normally. Exploiters gonna exploit, so just find a new group. I just think it’s dumb people want to do it on the shorter dungeon paths.

People trying to get through a dungeon using a different method for the first time are going to take a little bit longer than those who have mastered it. But if after the first run you still can’t jump properly then I can only assume you’re the type of person who still has difficulty with the dodge mechanic.

Hmm, no, I’ve mastered dodging if that was directed at me. I couldn’t get the hammer jump because I just wasn’t in it. With practice I could get it every time like the pros, but I don’t want to play CoF 2 that way because it’s easy enough as it is.

It would be nice if a warning came with the purchase, but it comes down to buyer beware. Lots of other MMO’s have unique rings and such that can only be equipped once per character.

If you ask me there are already too many shades of each color. I bought 10 dyes with laurels and the first two I opened where different shades of purple and I honestly couldn’t tell the difference. They even looked the same on my armor.

I’d like to know what dumbkitten would pay anything for information like that. Takes no time or effort to look up good farming spots online or just ask around.

What I found funny is that the first group I joined that did the CoF 2 skipping it was taking longer to get over the gap/wall with the air hammer than if we had just done it normally. Exploiters gonna exploit, so just find a new group. I just think it’s dumb people want to do it on the shorter dungeon paths.

LoL, I always post in my LFG for CoF “Non-psycho group LFM. No pinging gear allowed.” CoF is getting way to serious. The elitism on the lfg website is just outrageous sometimes.

It’s not called “trash” for no reason. There’s plenty of people out there who will group with you to eradicate all life in a given dungeon. Some of us simply don’t have the time anymore to do all fights and kill all the trash. You enjoy fighting everything, some of us enjoy being able to get several dungeons done in what little play time we may have. For me, I work and have a family, so I don’t want to spend my whole play period in one dungeon fighting useless/worthless trash enemies I can fight out in the world on my own.

They will NEVER be account bound, people. Anet is not going to actively eliminate the harvesting tools by making the infinites account bound so they can be passed from alt to alt. Harvesting tools are a gold sink, and the infinite versions are for convenience, for which you pay extra. If you want them for all your characters, then buy multiple. Don’t get me wrong, making them account bound would be pretty kitten nice, but we have to look at the reasons why it can’t happen.

Terms and Conditions folks. Anet could put in there “If we wake up and feel like banning someone, it might be you” and if you agree to terms and conditions, you can’t complain about one kitten thing. This game is Anet’s property, they can set any rules they want. Talk of freedom of speech and the Constitution is just ridiculous, but someone always brings it up.

That being said, because there is a filter yes it is not a license to say whatever you want, I think Anet could at least give notice someone was offended and to watch your mouth. I tend to watch my language around PUGs because in today’s world you can’t hardly say anything without offending someone. Keep it to friends/guildies. If we posted our conversations/guild runs on these boards, it would basically come out as:

“That kitten kitten just kitten my kitten. I was about to kitten that when the kitten kittened my kitten. Kitten kitten you and I need to kitten that kitten’s kitten.”

xD.

It makes the game too easy though. I’m not one of those elitists that complain about everything being to easy, I love that I can sit down and play just about anything I want to do in this game, but being able to just pass gear/items around from character to character just seems cheap to me. It’s lazy and would ultimately crash the economy if no one ever needed to buy anything, ever.

It would certainly be nice for some of the player base who simply can’t afford to be buying the best dyes for all their characters. Things like Abyss (or ANY black for that matter) and White and just basic colors to be honest that are rare quality and annoyingly expensive in some cases. The gold sink is understandable, but it just stinks how expensive some of them are and are too rare to rely on RNG for.

Has this topic ever been done before, about how this Norn face kind of looks like Liam Neeson? Maybe I’m just crazy and am seeing what I want to see.

That ain’t Snake Plissken. I heard he was dead.

Hmm, guess it wasn’t such a good idea after all.

So, people are sick of talking about race change, and for all intents and purposes it’s not gonna happen, but what about character trade-ins for some of us who find out all too late our profession would be better suited as another race. For a fee, we trade in our character for the same of another race, and then create from from scratch and pick a new story etc, but that new character be level 1/80. 1/80 as in they start brand new as a level 1 would with starter gear etc, but they’re level 80 and people can redo story if they want or just get back into the gear grind. I’d even take a trade in for half level, which we start over at level 40. Players would forfeit anything soulbound/racebound (cultural armor), karma, and anything in the characters bags at time of trade in if they choose this route.

I don’t know, I feel like I thought it out a lot better than I wrote it out. I know it’s our own fault for not making sure we had the race we wanted, but at 80, re-rolling just seems daunting and it ultimately just makes me not want to play that character anymore xD. I rushed into a human warrior, but Norn is the way to go for me. I guess I can chip away at re-rolling, leveling isn’t that bad, but, well, I’m lazy xD.

Here’s my updated Thief. Norn T1 legs with Krytan Chest. Colors are Midnight Ice and Rose Tint. Popular chest, but haven’t seen it in combo with these pants yet.

I like the WP’s. Depending on where you needed to go, it could take forever to get somewhere in WoW. I don’t need to be wasting 10-15 minutes of my ever increasingly valuable playtime just travelling somewhere. I experienced the thrill of exploration the first time I did 100% world completion. After that, I want to get where I need to get as soon as possible and not waste time on travel.

gw2lfg.com if you didn’t know. Time of day also factors into being able to get a group, even with the website. I think it’s important for dungeons to be group efforts, since a large majority of the game caters to being able to solo stuff (which isn’t altogether a bad thing).

I don’t see any reason why players can’t challenge each other to a simple duel anywhere. My friends and I have wished since launch we could test out builds and different playstyles on each other in simple, friendly duels.

Nope. Fair has nothing to do with it, that’s how holiday events work in these games. There will be new stuff next year no doubt. Anet (or any other company for that matter) simply cannot possibly accommodate people who weren’t there for it because when people buy their game is completely out of their control.

It sucks. I have like 80 chests, mostly from launch when they dropped like candy. Keys shouldn’t be as kitten rare as they are. Honestly the Gem Shop isn’t really a viable option for me since I have so many chests. I have gotten a few off downed enemies, but I feel like the droprate could use a little boost. I’m not saying they need to be dropping every other enemy, but they are simply way to rare these days.

I think it’s stupid we have to do all 3 BL when they’re EXACTLY the same map. Should only have to do one for map completion.

JubeiTM.5763:

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

Daily – 1 laurel
Weekly – 3/5 laurels
Monthly – 10 Laurels

Why changing monthly to 15? I find this good enough.

I like the idea of weekly but yearly seems a bit.. too long and will probably discourage at first.

30 + 20 + 10 = 60 laurels/month. Too much.

Weekly should have a completely different reward. Maybe tire 6 materials. And I think it shouldn’t consist in the same old silly achievements. Why not involving the players in events on empty maps long forgotten. There is so much content going on without rewards to motivate the players to participate on them.

I like that idea of tier 6 mats for the weekly. 60 laurels a month does sound like too much, which is ultimately why it won’t ever happen.

I would like to see “dual speccing” so to speak. I can’t be bothered by different gear sets since I’m too lazy. My setup works well in both instances, though not optimal fully for either. Spec swapping would be great for those of us that do respec often.

I couldn’t be bothered by the math at the time (even if it was only 15 minutes ago) xD, but that makes sense. I guess the way I looked at it was all wrong in the end anyway, since it’s the completion that counts. Completing the daily gives 1, completing the weekly would give 5, and completing the monthly would give 10.

Assuming four weeks in a month, doing the weekly every week of a month would then give more laurels than the monthly. To me, the monthly should give the most.

Exotic greatswords are 390 tokens, so four of them equals 1560 tokens total. Most people will just do CoF to get four of those, but any four greatswords will do. Now that I’m finally geared, all my tokens from the various dungeons I enjoy are going to go towards greatswords and I hope I get something better than a pearl greatsword for them xD.

I don’t think there is such a thing as the wrong item from the Mystic Butt. It does what it wants, takes what it wants, and certainly gives you whatever the hell it wants with no rhyme or reason xD.

PLEASE, the ability to color/recolor hair accessories. The starter colors just don’t cut it, especially later on when color plans change.

To start off, I’ll say I’m mostly at fault for this, but I missed a pair or exotic leggings from the final CoF path 1 chest because the boss died right where the chest spawns and the host had already looted everything before the dungeon completion popped up. I was close enough to the chest and opened it and saw an exotic (finally, like only the 3rd one I’ve ever gotten from a chest since launch xD) and hovered over it to see what it was when suddenly I’m ported back to Fireheart Rise since the “host” had left group. This all happened in about in about a 5 second time frame. Luckily it was only Zho’s Leggings which I didn’t need and are only worth about 90 silver. I know I should’ve just auto looted or looted it and then examined, but I got excited.

The point is, what if this happens to someone when there’s something extremely valuable? It’s just gone? I’ve had friends tell me they missed boss loot at the end of dungeons completely because the host auto loots everything (nothing wrong with that) then leaves right away, so anyone out of position is kicked out.

TL;DR If the host leaves party at the end of the dungeon right away and someone ranged doesn’t make it to the body/chest in time, then what? Can this be changed in any way?

Edit: And I spelled “Losing” wrong. Wonderful xD.

Yearlies is probably a definite no. Weekly I could see. Maybe they could bump the monthly to 15 laurels and add a weekly that give 2-3. Depending on what the list available, the dailies can be done in about 10 minutes. If I see the list is going to be a pain or is full of stuff I don’t want to do, I just skip it.

My problem is all the BL maps are exactly the same map (are the SP’s the only thing that rotates?). I don’t understand why we have to do all 3. Also the problem is WvW is PvP. People can argue all they want, but people who do WvW religiously aren’t doing it to fight guards and wildlife. They’re playing to kill other players and take what they have (castles/points/forts etc). I really wish we didn’t suffer equipment damage when I’m killed by a player. I don’t mind getting killed in this environment. I do mind getting penalized for it by having to pay repairs.

Thief =/= Ninja, despite most people going for that look and how some of the moves available look. But also, Ninja also =/= a super agile, smaller, clad-all-in-black lurker in the shadows. A ninja will work in the cornfield in plain sight for several days waiting for the perfect opportunity for a kill. A samurai warlord will hear his assassination is inevitable and will triple the security and be waiting for a warrior in black coming from the shadows, when in actuality the assassin is the pig farmer who’s already been in the compound for a week. But I digress. Sure, Norn don’t exactly have the build for covert ops, but there is more to being a good thief than being small or adequate size. And despite it being a fictional character and a video game, I bet Efut from the vigil could throw a whoopin on some people twice or even thrice her size xD.

I like the Norn female running animation. It’s cute.

So IoJ is the blue team again this week? It sure has been rough lately. Seems like whatever color we are whenever I log in we hardly control anything D=

II want to wear the aqua breather outside of water as a gas mask for my thief.

I want gardening. I want to grow flowers and plants instead of only harvesting them

I hate to necro, but I still know a lot of people interested in this >.>

LoL, I got decked out in MF once and it felt like it took an hour to kill something. I’ll just stick with the food for my extra magic find. Gear never really got me anything except headache. Then again I’ve NEVER had any sort of good fortune with rng in my MMO days.

Faowri.4159:

The worst thing about the pick is that it’s a convenience item capitalising on a very clunky, inefficient game mechanic, when ideally Anet should be revamping the harvesting tool system so that it isn’t inconvenient by design.

It’s a fact that when you use a high level tool on a low level ore, you’re wasting money. The only solution if you care about being efficient while world-roaming is to bank or carry a variety of different-level tools around, which absorbs inventory or bank space. A better solution would be one tier of each tool that consumes more uses the higher-ranking node you use it on. E.g. a mythril node could consume 5 uses of the pick, copper could consume 1 use. That way you always have the ‘right’ tool equipped, and you can just choose to spend more on tools that have more uses available, like the old GW1 style salvage kits.

When this inconvenient-by-design mechanic is fixed, then we can start talking about cosmetic tools with sparkly effects. Until then, this kind of gem store item just seems like paying to fix a game design mistake.

I said in my first post that picks are gold sinks. That’s why they’re a pain in the kitten. I used to carry several types of axes etc while out in the field, but now I’m just too darn lazy. I eat the potential losses and just use my mithrils. I figure one CoF or dungeon the next day will make up for it xD.

Ryuujin.8236:

I’m surprised at the number of people defending this.

In most other respectable, even F2P MMO’s (Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, Neverwinter, even Guild Wars 1), purchasing an outfit or item unlocks it across all characters on your account, forever.

Guild Wars 2 sits with the less respectable MMO’s like Allods Online (Infamous for it’s pay to win components and pay-per-death model), by selling you a one time, soulbound item

Us who defend it understand it. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy anything from the shop. People don’t seem to understand the idea of convenience item. One that you pay something extra for that makes the game more convenient. Lazy people like myself saw “infinite pick” and had to have it. When I see something on the shop that I think is kitten, I tell myself “not interested” and move on. I don’t come on here all kitten because I’m too mad that I want it but don’t want to have to pay for it.

Honestly, who doesn’t see the problem with an account bound, infinite pick? People complain already this game is too easy.