Guild Wars 2

it’s not really possible to lose, that is if you open them yourself using stabilizing matricies as keys, or buy encryptions at 35s or less, due to guaranteed 2 +1 agony infusions and making them into +9’s every 100 to +12’s every 600 and some.(encryptions with frac lvl 3.)

I don’t even think a dev’s acknowledged this issue yet… sadly.

Adoness.5701:

what surprises me most about this, is that there is not a single word from Anet about what is currently going on and why and if he is disabled in the first place, perhaps it’s just a bug that they haven’t realised yet, for example: the WvW heroic notarary got disabled due to an exploit in WvW, Anet made a post on the forums saying they’re taking it down for a bit to fix an exploit, and that trader doesnt even block progress for people, this trader however totally blocks progress in the game, yet nothing about it…

YES! this is exactly the point I’m trying to get across.

Still down, been over 24 hours now… really want to use that new merch

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Xbon.9086:

(yes I could artifice, but it’s cheaper to use the vendor by far, and a lot less clicks/waiting)

Looks like that’s exactly why it was disabled.

it cost a mastery point, so I don’t see why you shouldn’t get a discount

day 2 and I have amassed 2078 +1 agony resistances from playing fractals being unable to bulk infuse. pls. pls. PLS. let me make my +12 now. (yes I could artifice, but it’s cheaper to use the vendor by far, and a lot less clicks/waiting)

DoctorDing.5890:

I was slightly alarmed to see the recent ANet HP announcement say that they are very happy with the difficulty level of HoT. I can’t help but think they have lost touch with their core audience. I’ve recently left another game where the devs listened to the vocal minority who said they wanted it harder. It stopped being fun for me, and for others, so that game now has fewer players and might struggle to survive.

Casual players are the bread and butter of these games which means providing a huge quantity of relatively easy content. I don’t think the expansion can be a commercial success if it only targets hardcore players so, yes, I think it will get nerfed sooner or later. Open world stuff should not be a struggle for normal players with average kit. But it’s hard to ask those players what they want because most of them will never come to the forum.

Those HoT maps are big. There is plenty of room to accommodate players of all skill levels. Maybe Anet need to learn from GW1 and have a hard mode version of each map for those who are “in it to win it” rather than ramping up the difficulty in the normal maps.

Put simply: some players don’t play for the challenge.

you have the ENTIRE core game for casual play…. the game lacked any serious PvE, sure, fractals, and dungeons, but fractals just ended up being more hp more damage… with HoT we finally have hardcore pve content with mechanics that make it challenging, and you complain? end game is supposed to be challenging, 1-80 you learn your class, 80+ you learn the fights

It’s been over a day now and there’s absolutely no word on why it was disabled… +1 agony infusions have tanked in price and I’m holding onto over 2000 waiting to convert…. what’s going on? :\ amassing so many new +1’s that they’re taking up so many slots in my inventory

can we get some official confirmation of why it’s down atleast? ugghhh… is their working day over?

captainteemo.6537:

I was looking to extra my old infusion out of my back piece (a +10) just so I can upgrade it to progress further. I’m confused why the ability to salvage ascended items is available to all players, but the “Infusion Extraction Device” sold for 20s needs to be positioned on the little island only available to HoT players?

I suppose as a non-HoT player I have access to the gem store upgrade extractor. But, it seems heavily biased the new (yet generally still old fractals with just higher scaling and a re balancing of instabilities) fractals become so difficult for old players, and HoT paid players get all the nice new advantages to make life a lot easier for them to progress.

seems perfectly normal… you’ve had 3 years to save $50 somewhere in the likelyhood that there’d be an expansion… a lot of people with core game now are just f2p nowadays, giving them the entire experience would sort of kill the point, if you’re not f2p you can still trade your gold to gems to get an upg extractor; or get hot once, and only pay 24s each time.

deSade.9437:

They’re making it so it’s more expensive to craft them. Need more gold sinks…

source?

Adoness.5701:

I dislike that we havent heard anything about it at all, Anet hasnt even mentioned yet that the merchant is disabled, unlike with the WvW trader which they did mention

wvw was because of something to get lots of badges of honor, we don’t use that currency in fractals, what’s up? :|

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Xbon.9086:

no reply yet from any gm? ___

This here is actually a trash can with a fancier name, don’t expect a response tbh. It’ll hopefully get mentioned in the patch notes and that’s pretty much about it.

they’ve responded to other topics here… and nothing in patch notes, also still disabled!

no reply yet from any gm? ___

really wish we’d get some info… I got 1540 +1 agony resistances stored up ready to craft into a +12

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Andraus.3874:

They just shut him down. I guess it’s a bug. I hope there aren’t any consequences for this…. I personally used like 4 stacks of +1s I was Saving up. I made 3 +9s and a +12 using that merchant. I never crafted them before and just bought my previous ones off the tp, and honestly thought this was just a easier and faster way than crafting. Didn’t realize it was also less of a requirement.

Side note: this is how you know something is an exploit. Anet shuts it down almost immediately after a post like this on the forums.

Well this merchant makes no sense then. Why buy ar from him if you can craft it for the same price at the crafting station.

Seriously, wtf? I thought it was an advantage of the Mastery…

yeah… I thought that too, since it stops at +21 and you have to go back to making them normal afterwards… ugh, I just stocked up on 1500 +1 ar’s to make some +9’s and a +12 too… but now the future of AR is uncertain..

and this is why I skip any fractal that isn’t aquatic, urban battleground, uncategorized, swampland or molten facility boss and move to the next applicable fractal.

check fractal of the mist achievements

Please add a way to change the level while in the mistlock observatory… now that each fractal is 1 island and 1 level and we know the islands/levels they are, we end up having to leave and reenter multiple times for one run, tons of loading screens when it seems like there should be a functionality to change the fractal levels while in the mistlock observatory itself…

slurry.2716:

lol why not make a build to knock people off ledges and have some fun break time instead of getting so bummed?

haha, tell me about it… also you can change your build in the PVP lobby, so just keep two sets of builds on hand that you can remember on the fly, one for fun maps one for serious maps, you have over a minute to change back into whatever build you’re running

Raziel.4216:

DeceiverX.8361:

Raziel.4216:

DeceiverX.8361:

the fact that yes a very sizable number of people seem to agree with this notion.

Proof?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/elite-specializations-how-many-hero-points-Merged/page/40#post5643684

Game has over 7m active accounts according to the infographic they revealed yesterday.
That forum topic has 1.9k posts, out of which a large portion talk about how good the hero point adcquisition method is.
For the sake of your argument let’s assume that all 1.9k posts are people saying they got a refund.
7 million accounts in gw2 (3m+ sales before f2p went live) – 1.9k refunded, how is this a large portion of the playerbase?
I’ll ask again, proof?

yeppers, I posted multiple times in there about how it’s beneficial, you don’t just want the character auto completed as soon as you start the game, there needs to be progression

PvP tracks incorporate practically every element of PvE so far, from dungeons to specific zones, even the new zones, but no fractal track exists yet? now that golden frac weps are out why not give a chance at a regular frac wep @ the end of a repeatable fractal track, could also incorporate relics, fractal keys and fractal encryptions/agony infusions in the major boxes

I unlocked my Chronomancer in PVP lobby, I heard you’re supposed to get an achievement + chest with skins? I got neither.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Sylv, I shared your inspirational story with our Live Stream tonight. No names, no identifiers, just simply shared that Guild Wars 2 was helping get one of our players get through a tough time. I know that will be appreciated by our players, and that they join us in wishing you a swift and full recovery.

It’s always amazing to find developers who truly care about the community, and make great games at the same time.

as for OP, keep fighting, you can make it through this!

Orangensaft.7139:

the annoying thing will be to do this with almost every of my 20 max lvl chars

you’re the one who chose to have 20 characters, and you don’t HAVE to get elite specs for all. for me, I have 1 dedicated char, and 5 chars I rotate on/off, and don’t worry too much about, my main will definitely be a focus for elite specs, and I probably won’t worry too much if I can’t get elite specs for the other 5.

f2p players can’t even access most of the guild hall features, so asking money from them would be extortion in the first place, lol.

JediYoda.1275:

I don’t think they have ever reset the TP as it would disrupt the economy, I know they have cleaned up the buy/sell orders before.

i THINK (I could be wrong…) when they moved from the old TP system to the new one in the first feature/content pack, that all trading post orders were reset, I can’t entirely remember right now though

BunjiKugashira.9754:

You’d just be buying gold that someone else bought gems with. No gold is being created during that process. Good luck next time.

In fact 2*15% of the value is destroyed during this process. You’d be destroying gold instead of creating it.

yep.
trading post is exactly where it should be, both gem side and normal side, each time you use TP you destroy gold from the economy, thanks for your contribution!

Tigaseye.2047:

Good luck with your job and congrats on the soon-to-be new addition to your family.

Good gaming laptops do cost a small fortune…

Was looking at the Alienware ones and pondering whether to buy one, but with all the customisations it was nearly £2K and knowing me, I will have pretty much “killed” it within 2 years…

£1K per year, just to play games in style, is pretty hard to justify.

priorities my friend… $1k a year, you can spend that much maintaining a car or paying off a car, instead of owning a car for example, I own a high end gaming laptop.

Since devs are making sweeping changes to the economy, I believe the last time this happened they reset all buy/sell orders in the trading post, will this happen again? there’s still a lot of invalid buy orders that need to be cleaned up atleast… (some sell too)

Seera.5916:

Arewn.2368:

You made hasty preparations based on early release, vague, non-finalized information.

Honestly, there really wasn’t much in the way of “preparation” that needed to be done for Heart of Thorns. It’s mostly busy-making.
You basically made up work for yourself to do, spent time doing that work, and then were disappointed that the work didn’t pay off as much as you wanted it to.

For example, “making 2 legendaries” has nothing to do with preparing for Heart of Thorns. And preparing mats for the new legendaries before we even knew what they were, let alone what they’ll be made of, is risky no matter how you look at it.

And the hero point situation was handled fairly appropriately. The priority should be on systems that will have you actually play the xpac, not cater to people who “prepared” prior to it’s release so that they can skip the xpac’s content. You aren’t being punished for preparing, you’re just not being explicitly rewarded for it. Which sounds right to me.

My advice would be to be careful of hypetrains, make informed decisions, and keep in mind that things which are in-development are very much subject to change.

I get where you’re coming from. There’s nothing wrong with being excited for the new content, and it’s natural to look for things to do while you wait. I just don’t think your expectation on how the developers should handle it are warranted.
I do however admit that not knowing the cost of elite specs for so long left us in a bit of an awkward situation.

Hearing the exact number of hero points 3 days before launch when the number required for 1 elite spec given what players were asking and talking about doing on launch day for weeks now is appropriate? When at this point even if ANet wanted to change it, they couldn’t change it in time for launch most likely? Not giving more details out on the system or even a simple explanation on the why they chose the numbers they chose is right? When neither of those options caters to the players who have an issue?

you can unlock your elite spec, that is the mechanic and weapon used for a mere 60 points, there was no lie in saying you could prepare that way.

Celtic Lady.3729:

8 new builds from midnight tonight to midnight tomorrow night…beyond that, I’m not yet guessing.

god I hope not, my 250 kb/s internet could not handle such a feat, I’ll be lucky to be playing by 2 am pdt.

Narrrz.7532:

Rather than defaulting to open world, maybe we could get a general listings category where people can put groups that either don’t fit elsewhere or for one reason or another are looking to grab attention (i’m thinking primarily of fractal groups looking to complete a daily).

…fractals already has its own category, literally everything that needs a group has a category, you host in fractals and say you’re going for daily, done. anything not in the already listed goes in open world because that’s the rest of the content.

you people bought infinite continue coin KNOWING it was temporary content, the coin was to grant infinite continues during the event duration, the event is over, and they don’t have to have any obligation to bring it back… I’m pretty sure they said they would, but later, their focus is HoT right now.

Mirion.9361:

Like Comon why havnt we get gotten a new Engine yet!! and before yall open your mouths i know this was said before but i ask you guys just why havnt we not gotten a new Engine.I dont ask for much but us XFX users are suffering from bad FPS which is messing up our Gameplay.Better yet would of been better to bring Dx 11 to the Game After HoT

first and foremost, why not dx12? dx12 runs WAY more efficient than dx11 ever could hope.

but you have to realize an engine change to something like dx11-dx12 requires a complete code rewrite… see anarchy online, they’ve been porting from dx8 to a higher dx and it took them years to port the game over, not even sure if it’s done yet.

I’d like to note, even if you complete a map 100%, it’ll tell you to move onto the next zone if you’re too close to an exit/no events nearby… I’d like it to show the nearest event regardless of distance… if that’s even possible, it looks like events are already coded into the guide, so why not allow people to just choose events?

just buy straight from gw2… certain retailers will get your key revoked because a lot of third parties have stolen keys/keygens/etc

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The problem (for the Americas at least) is the time. Midnight on the west coast, 3 AM on the east coast. Even if everyone did download not that many are going to be playing, not at those hours. It’s going to be later that the most people will be on for the NA servers.

see every other midnight release ever, I personally stay awake/change my sleep schedule for that one day to pull an all nighter on said game.
Hopefully the servers can handle it and arenanet knows what will happen!

Would help a ton for map rewards/people who want to do map events over map completion.

I’m interested in this too since my internet speed is atrociously low

new action camera mode looks great! I hope I remember to turn it on when HoT launches.

Eponet.4829:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Yall forgot the shards though. If he uses the PvP pots after launch he will get those shards that he can sell if he wants.

Don’t forget the transmutation charges though.

The shards aren’t just being added, they’re replacing transmutation charges.

So, what do you value more? Shards of Glory, or Transmutation Charges?

replace every 2nd transmute charge"

i say save for hot because there will be a track that gives a black lion key @ end, use on that track.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Non-commander raiding squads are available for all players to set up raids for free. You’ll have access to all necessary functionality without buying a tag.

Not all functions though.

anet says they want to deincentivize dungeons, so why would they do any of this?

Windsagio.1340:

cthaeh.2168:

Windsagio.1340:

Because players don’t like dungeons, and they don’t want to throw good money after bad.

Raids are a gamble they’re taking, and fractals have a comparatively low development/maintenance cost.

Yes, players dislike dungeons so much that they had to remove the rewards to get people to stop playing them. If players disliked them this thread wouldn’t exist.

Well, no.

People don’t like the dungeons, People like getting a ton of gold from dungeons.

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As far as ‘they don’t like dungeons’, they’re reducing the gold drop (but not tokens) and otherwise not really supporting them.

The reason they’re not really supporting them is because it’s not a good investment.
As far as reducing the gold drop, they thought it was too high, and don’t want people doing content just for the gold when there’s (they hope) more interesting newer content out there.

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To paraphrase your post; “If players didn’t like the very high yield/low effort gold farm from dungeons, this thread wouldn’t exist.”

yeah; I have to go out and say the high yield low effort is only reason I play dungeons, I think they could’ve been done a lot better, and I don’t really play to enjoy, just for the gold bonus.

IronPhoenix.2045:

Hey guys,

im a trader so i often search for a lot of items every day in the Trading Post. I personally love the new Trading Post but there are still 2 things i would really like to improve.

Many items in Gw2 got really really really long names for example “Ravaging Privateer Shoulders of the Flame Legion”. The problem is there is a letters cap in the TP search so i often cant find a item like this without any addional filters.
But if i have to use on 50 items special filters cause the names are too long, im wasting much time. I dont even understand why there is a letter cap cause Anet knows how long Item names can be. So pls let me search without a letter cap so i can find my items even if they got long names.

A second improvement to search items easier and with way more precision would be to search for the item´s chat id for example [&AgE4KwAA]. Every item got a special chat id so you can find your item with no problem and you dont have to search with filters etc for minutes.

Thats all of my TP feedback. I would really love to see this one day in the TP it would bring a lot more comfort into the item search.

Have a nice day
Angelo

I have a tip for you, for the first,
type “I am Evon Gnashblade” in trading post just like that, all caps intact, it will change the trading post to a more condense version where you can easily sift through those listings to find what you want.

I feel like it could also incentivize collecting mini’s, since if you have a whole bunch it could be a hassle trying to find the one you want to pick/just don’t feel like changing minis all the time.

Okamikazi.8652:

There is a hotkey setting called “Lock Autotarget”. I know the name doesnt make sense right…but it works. Go test it out in the heart of the mists. I found this out on these forums a long time ago.

he doesn’t want to lock his target… he wants to unlock and drop it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Xbon.9086:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Xbon.9086:

pretty sure devs don’t want the game to become like WoW where if you’re not in the specific set of gear party owner wants you to be in you get kicked.

No, they have that gw2efficiency now to take the place of inspecting for the hard core raiders.

lucky for me I wear unstatted armor that I can pick any stat of so that it looks blank then, eh?

Idk. The Efficiency will tell them whether or not you have ascended armor and iirc, what your char is wearing, which is what raiders will want to know.

And if that gets prevalent, that part of the API may be shut off to discourage toxic behavior. Hopefully it doesn’t get abused like that, eh?

We can shuffle finishers; why not shuffle minis in the account wardrobe as well? Every time a zone change occurs/you log back in/etc one of your minis will be randomly selected for use. I have so many minis that don’t get any use that could benefit from this.