Its up now. Happy patching
Oh yeah.. Arena Net know how to please!
36 and love it. Can’t wait to see whats in the next content patch (oct 22nd yay)
The Orr exotics are for style more than stats imho
Bumping a bit of common sense since this got burried at the very end of page 2.
No moar troll treats. No means NO.
If you hadn’t noticed, the troll has left the building.
Adding mounts at a moderate initial price could be a great way to counter this.
We don’t need mounts. We can port anywhere for pocket change (and we get free ports to lions arch / capital cities thanks to WvWvW).
There is a reason that most titles in this genre (MMO-MMORPG) have monthly subscription fees, and that is because these games require a constant cashflow to keep the game worlds running.
I don’t believe that’s the case anymore. In the past the bandwidth, server horsepower and storage could have been an issue but not anymore.
Also, I don’t think Arena Net really need players buying gems to sell for gold. I bought a lot of gems but I never sold them for gold.. there are plenty of items in the gem store that are worth while.
If Gw1 is a good indicator, they will be selling a lot of expansions. I’m not worried about their cash flow.. not one bit.
In dungeons, bosses need a much larger “rare” drop rate.
This, so much this.
The Dungeon chests and bosses (specifically Champions) need a major loot buff.
I’d love to see specific drops for bosses.. especially if the armor / weapons you get have the bosses style or artwork in them!
I really think the rate of exotic and rare drops increasing would do wonders for this game
Yes it would! But didn’t arena net say something about changing boss drops in dungeons?
I’m not really sure how you disagree.
I only disagree with the part where you “have to work hard” to make money. In GW2 you don’t really need to work at it. No one has to grind gold for repairs or trait manuals unless they have a serious case of spindrift.
And yes, like you say, gear is so easy to acquire. Even at end-game imho, you don’t need to spend. I did spend though, because I lack patience and there’s nothing else of real important to spend that gold on anyway.
Heavy Moldy bag, 2 weeks after release I was selling them for 2 silver and some copper and I just sold the last one for 68 copper.
Why buy a bag for 2 silver that may contain common T5 crafting components I can get for copper? The economy will change as more and more people are reaching Orr. And since mithril and (T5 wood, forgot its name) is so abundant and easy to farm their prices have plummeted. This naturally lowers the price of your bags.
This is from my very first post:
… Since every player can harvest resource nodes and have exp incentives to do so, the price of these materials is lowered significantly (except for T6 since the nodes are rare, and T5 since it can be transmuted to T6)….
And you should re-read this, maybe it will sink in.
The only real problem is that players expect the GW2 economy to behave the same as Wow’s or Rift’s… They forget the massive differences in supply / demand this game has compared to others of its “kind”.
I know it isn’t real life, but how many of you are sitting on absurd masses of money for little work and time contributed? Probably nobody, unless they inherited it or have a very wealthy relative. If you want to be “rich” then you gotta work hard, and devote your time and dedication to it. That’s how it should be. Otherwise, gamble and have your chance of striking it big.
I disagree.
To be “rich” in GW2 you simply have to curb your spending (something you can’t do IRL due to taxes and rent/morgage). There isn’t really anything you need to spend on. There aren’t any obligatory gold sinks (other than manuals). Even changing traits at level 80 only costs 3 silver.
Repairs scale with your level, teleport fees scale with your level (and WvWvW gives you a free port to lions arch and every major city from there). Gear can be crafted with a little farming OR is acquired easily from dungeon running (be sociable). Runes also can be acquired from dungeons.. and dungeons yield a lot of silver in return (don’t wipe). So essentially you can gear up without spending gold or karma.
Most of my friends were surprised how easily they acquired the gold they needed for the training manuals; they din’t even have to try. There isn’t any reason to buy items off the TP really.. heck I leveled to 80 when the TP was “down for maintenance”.
As for WvW.. siege can be found in the jumping puzzle (although I hear its disabled now) or bought for badges. Gold isn’t really required for anything except repairs.
Not making up facts let me log in and get the name so you don’t accuse me of trolling.
Its dubious when you remember prices but not what was being sold.
Let me ask you a question, are you even 80 yet? Or are you one of those people under 80 who knows all?
I’ve been 80 for quite a long time now. I’ve crafted three different exotic sets (armor and rings/accessories) for magic find, healing and DPS (precision/crit). Currently farming karma in Orr for the temple sets. Also working on a few dungeon sets. I do not PvP. Eventually I’ll buy the T3 cultural armor.
Gold isn’t an issue in this game. There isn’t any magical recipe to make it either.. no sure fast way. Dungeon running with a solid group is pretty good, 26 silver for a 15 min run + money for selling the drops gives a few gold an hour. Getting UBER lucky with a precursor drop would be like winning the lottery; don’t count on it.
As for becoming wealthy in game… its inevitable with time. So your thread about money being hard to get is.. well.. laughable. Gold was hard to get in the first days of WoW too.. I had 100k when I finally unsubscribed. (And that’s not all that much).
Edit: You still didn’t answer my question: Which item sold for 2 silver and now sells for 60 copper? Or are you just making up facts?
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In other words the market is working as intended due to supply and demand :-)
The only real problem is that players expect the GW2 economy to behave the same as Wow’s or Rift’s… They forget the massive differences in supply / demand this game has compared to others of its “kind”.
This thread is a joke, right? It has to be.
The OP is a troll. So yes, its one big messy joke.
Question how do you think the prices went form 2 silver to 60 copper? What drove the prices down If the bots were selling the item to the vendor for 11 copper? Because we all know all bots would rather have 11 copper then 2 silver.
Be specific. Which item sold for 2 silver and now sells for 60 copper?
Calling the pot black are we but failing to look in the mirror? Event’s/mobs give crap loot + tons of money sinks in the game. Yah I would say Anet isn’t doing anything!
P.S. your trying to tell me the people running the bots would rather sell to a vendor then on the trading post? Surly they are not that stupid.
You Sir fail at using the forum reply button. You also didn’t read; troll indeed. Events, bosses and chests all drop the same loot essentially… welcome to diablo. However, the quantity you get (and vendor) racks up the gold rather quickly.
People selling items at 1 copper over the vendor prices aren’t bots, they are misinformed players. They actually make less money than vendoring it (don’t forget about the 15% black lion tax). Its far easier for a botter to vendor everything, get gold quickly then sell it for USD to players.
I find it rather amusing that you replied to my single post three times, editing and deleting them. Answering quickly doesn’t make you more right.
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Just admit it I am right, the bots have drove materiel prices to the ground. And now most of them sell on the trading post for the same price or a few copper more then what a vendor will give you.
Its not the bots doing that. We have a loot system more akin to diablo than a traditional MMO. The market is flooded with masterwork and rare items, therefore they have no value.
Since every player can harvest resource nodes and have exp incentives to do so, the price of these materials is lowered significantly (except for T6 since the nodes are rare, and T5 since it can be transmuted to T6). Everyone can craft anything, so prices of crafted gear is close to cost as well.
The only profitable thing to farm is gold itself (drops or sell item drops to vendors) and rare drops (legendary precursors, ecto, T6 blue crafting items, etc). This is most likely where most of your bots are operating. Prices have not rock bottomed like you claim.
I’d also like to point out that your entire thread is meaningless. Its basically asking why it takes a little time to get everything, You’re also pointing your finger left and right trying to create conspiracies (oh noes, arena net is controlling the exchange rate). You also show a complete lack of understanding when it comes to the GW2 economy. In short, you are a troll.
No world PvP was one of the selling points of this game. If you want to PvP, either do WvWvW or structured PvP.
And if all you want is griefing lowbies, this isn’t the game for you.
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“Optimal” build…. hehe.. optimal for what? And in what circumstances? The location and team composition will alter what is deemed optimal.
Unlike other MMOs with very structured roles and boss enrage timers, there isn’t really a need to be optimal in the traditional sense. There is a need to synergize well with others and have sufficient survivability for when things go wrong.
How do the logouts stop you from taking towers and keeps exactly? How can someone loging out affect your server’s score? Its a matter of perspective. When someone logs out when I’m running after them, I grin.. heck it makes me even chuckle. If they log out while I’m taking there resource depot, I love it.
I see lots of people nerd raging about others logging out before they die. Honestly if the person you’re attacking simply gives up, why are you so mad? Its not like they can log right back into WvWvW with the queue.. and its not like they are getting anything meaningful done in there by logging out.
If people want to talk about exploits and cheats, talk about that nasty teleportation and flying hack. That’s a bannable offence. Rage quitters? Sucks to be them imho.
I have a hard time conceptualizing a raid without the holy trinity. At least, a raid that requires coordination and the proper use of cooldowns / abilities to survive the mechanics.
I’ll always rez a player in need, as long as it doesn’t get me killed.
I enjoy the play style of my elementalist.. so I continue exploring and finding interesting looking gear. I play GW2 for the same reason I played counter strike, supreme commander and master of orion for hours and hours; its fun.
I think the traditional MMO model has perverted gaming into some sort of job or career. People race through content to be the first and get the best gear to show off… its not about fun anymore, its about prestige and self esteem. That just isn’t healthy.
Remove the leash and trolls will train kill players left and right.
The invulnerable bit is annoying. Mobs should run away if they can’t hit you.
I’m overcome with anticipation!
Considering they halted online sales for a while its entirely possible they are full. And.. if that’s the case you may regret your server hopping for weeks or months to come.
Did you check http://gw2cartographers.com/ ?
End game means I can work on my armor and looks without my gear becoming worthless due to leveling. It also opens up the last bit of story for the player.
Eventually I’ll want to have more content to run. But honestly, I’m not finished with the dungeons yet, nor have I completed everything on the three Orr maps… haven’t visited the other 70-80 maps either.
There’s this champion abberation that spawns in Orr… every time it looks at me and says “YOU” and proceeds to run to me and smack me until I’m wasabi paste. Trick is to run. Run fast. Run true. Run in circles so friends can kill it quick. If it was a range mob I’d run around a post or a wall.
There are no aggro mechanics IRL either.. sometimes, someone just has it out for you and only you.
OMG lol … watch it turn to kitten in the next patch haha
What is medium? What is low? what is high? What is full?
The answer is, they are numbers they have set and changed over the course of the game.
What are they now?
(I don’t personally care)
Considering their business model it doesn’t matter how many active players there are per week (no sub fees) so I fail to see why they would “trick” the numbers in any meaningful way. They could have increased the caps for all we know.
One thing is clear however, I’m meeting more and more level 80 characters out in the lower level zones. Why? Not sure exactly, but I’m out there for map completion. I speed leveled so quickly I didn’t see most of the world. Its nice now rummaging through books, talking to NPCs and listening to the story in dynamic events to understand the story in each map.
I started playing GW2 like I play WoW and that was a bad idea. I think more and more people are realizing that too.
(Now if only I could buy exp boosters in mists of pandaria..)
FYI, I alt tab out of the game quite often. I’d hate to be banned because my mind swayed on youtube
How about they just add a “cheat” option in the reporting feature. Any automated action (aka prison maps and bans) will be abused by other players.
Is there a way to report in game people who are using the teleport hack? Or should I just use the “botting” option?
Repairing walls and gates doesn’t break pvp. Healing and buffing either doesn’t break pvp. Building siege could be exploited for badges, but it would be an expensive exploit. Were you thinking of something specific?
Then let me rephrase it to: “Nothing worse than having mad players guesting on your realm to bad mouth you”.
Happens all the time in another popular MMO. I’d rather not test the limits of the /ignore list on this game too.
Nooo… if they can’t seem me dancing on their corpses…..
WvW is unbalanced casual PvP… that’s why the gear isn’t normalized nor are skills / traits given either.
That’s the spirit!
if everyone stepped back for a second from the i win you suck mentality you might realize there are some serious issues.
I strongly feel siege should be buildable anywhere. I also strongly feel every wall should be destroyable. They’re covering the only door into the orb room with arrow carts and balistas? Make a new door!
I like the anonymity. Nothing worse than having mad players guesting on your realm to bad mouth your guild.
More pew pew, less trash talk.
Also, if your inventory is full, have the bags mailed to the player.
Perhaps tying the badge rewards to specific WvW related achievements would be better?
Or make the orbs give bonus to rewards instead.
If they patch the siege for collision detection, they’d need to do the same for every AoE ability in the game. Repairing a gate is brutal!
Would you support a buff like proposed to of set native leads/over night caps?
No. If someone wants to spend all night in WvW all the more power to him/her. Recruit more night hawks in your WvW guild.
I like the picture with all the siege weapons. I’d love to stealth over there and break all their toys!
I would have paid real money to see this battle unfold. I bet the defenders were shacking in their boots the whole time!
I found this thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Let-s-see-how-badly-the-1-week-matchmaking-is-going-post-your-server
Some of the screen caps appear to be close. So that answers that question.
Actually, found this post here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Let-s-see-how-badly-the-1-week-matchmaking-is-going-post-your-server
They have screen caps which give a better picture