Guild Wars 2

There will be a better deal eventually, thats like saying the sky is blue. Unless its made by Blizzard all games eventually go on sale. Good to see you taking it like an adult when you disagree with pricing on things, would hate to see you in real life buying something large like a car or house. Do you throw fits at sales people a lot?[/quote]

No, I’m just throwing a fit at someone that is harming the game by endorsing something that many people are very unhappy with. Many people who may or may not spend Germs, many who may or may not purchase HoT. Thus this harms Anets income.

You don’t have the best interests of Anet at heart, not really because if you did you’d realise this is a very bad move to loyal players. It’s not to do with the price, it’s to do with the fact that instead of giving Vet players the core game (which we have and have no use for) give us an alternative, give us the expansion alone with a slot for the Revenant.

In time maybe they will do this, unfortunately most have to learn the hard way.

dervix.9126:

Erskine.5206:

Tamasan.6457:

Zappix.7928:

Seems like a slap in the face to veteran players like myself who have played since beta…

Hi! Veteran player here with over 6,000 hours played. I didn’t feel any slap.

Price for expansion is more than fair.

Ultimate edition already purchased.

Hyped and eagerly awaiting another 6k.

A completely non sarcastic Thank You to all the fine folks working at ArenaNet. Keep on rocking.

7k hours here and still also no slap
We all know that the price of things and games goes down with time.
I don’t feel cheated.
I got 7k hours of fun (and being afk a bit^^) and the ones that come after me won’t ever get the feeling of headstart or the old lions arch getting destroyed etc.
They can have the base game for free if they buy the expansion. That’s good!

Steam has the summer sale on right now. Still I don’t feel cheated if a game I own is cheaper now. That’s just the way the world works.

Agreed. Sure, veteran players are getting snubbed a bit by having pay more for an expansion, but it balances out as they got more content that new users will never, ever, ever have access to. Ever. Still, I think they could stand to lower the price of the expansion for accounts that already own the game. IDK.

There’s no question they should lower it or instead of adding in the core game, add in 2 character slots or 1 character slot and a few gems or something.

Something that is of use to Veteran players.

Erskine.5206:

Tamasan.6457:

Zappix.7928:

Seems like a slap in the face to veteran players like myself who have played since beta…

Hi! Veteran player here with over 6,000 hours played. I didn’t feel any slap.

Price for expansion is more than fair.

Ultimate edition already purchased.

Hyped and eagerly awaiting another 6k.

A completely non sarcastic Thank You to all the fine folks working at ArenaNet. Keep on rocking.

7k hours here and still also no slap
We all know that the price of things and games goes down with time.
I don’t feel cheated.
I got 7k hours of fun (and being afk a bit^^) and the ones that come after me won’t ever get the feeling of headstart or the old lions arch getting destroyed etc.
They can have the base game for free if they buy the expansion. That’s good!

Steam has the summer sale on right now. Still I don’t feel cheated if a game I own is cheaper now. That’s just the way the world works.

You and your partner in crime that I responded to previously are missing the point.

You really applaud paying twice for the core game? Sure $50 or £50 for the xpac with a character slot is fine. No character slot and the core game for $50? I already own the core game, all of us already own the core game, what use is that to us?

Remove the core freebie for vets and add 2 character slots or 1 character slot for the Revenant profession.

Blindly defending such a foolish move by Anet is bad and you should feel bad because you encourage this sort of marketing ploy which if you read through this thread and the many threads created, many people are angry with. You are by proxy hurting this game, a game I love.

Tamasan.6457:

Zappix.7928:

Seems like a slap in the face to veteran players like myself who have played since beta…

Hi! Veteran player here with over 6,000 hours played. I didn’t feel any slap.

Price for expansion is more than fair.

Ultimate edition already purchased.

Hyped and eagerly awaiting another 6k.

A completely non sarcastic Thank You to all the fine folks working at ArenaNet. Keep on rocking.

Congratulations on buying the core game twice and congratulations on supporting idiocy and very bad marketing because Anet has just lost a lot of its loyal customers. You might be a snowflake but the rest of us have the sense not to purchase the core game twice and will wait for a better deal. And there will be a better deal eventually because when the Gemstore items stop being bought, when the sales from HoT aren’t as high as they expect. Watch the price drop like a falling brick.

Fanboy.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Base-game-included-with-the-49-99-expansion

Don’t really know what to think about this.

Seems like a slap in the face to veteran players like myself who have played since beta…

Thanks Anet.

You are not alone, I was in Foefire map and a necro was in downed state on the other team.

Couldn’t stomp him, was auto attacking but he kept healing despite us hitting him.

I have no idea what’s going on with this but I thought I was alone in this.

Needs to be looked at as it’s pretty game breaking, there were a few others on my team that tried.

The option to actually stomp didn’t even come up whilst this necro was down…

I love that Charr run on all fours, it’s unique and looks good.

However the armour, oh my the armour needs to be fixed ASAP.

I and my poor, poor click finger would really welcome this!

Also, please do this with alcohol stacks.

Cheers.

Thank you rapthorne I’ll take a look into that!

Hello everyone, I don’t know if this has been asked yet or has an answer.

I am a UK based player and I’ve had a look around shops such as GAME and the smaller independent game shops for Guild Wars 2 gem cards.

I haven’t been able to find any, so I was wondering if any other UK or any players really know of anywhere I can purchase these cards as I don’t have a debit or credit card.

Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance.

There is a market for mix and match outfits, I too am put off by buying outfits because I personally don’t like them as a whole, I only really like bits of them and want to take boots or gloves or shoulders or any other single part that I like and mix it in with a unique outfit of my customising.

Anet could potentially make more income by coming to this market because people aren’t going to stop buying outfits if they make the individual parts wearable, the main outfit is wearable so yeah..

I think this gap in the market is something that Anet should take advantage of, but I’m not a designer or anything so I don’t know how difficult it would be to implement this.

People are also crying out for dyeable weapons, even if it’s a basic pallet of Red Green Blue options or something, it could potentially see even more income if they made it like the hair and makeover kits. Another part of the market that Anet is not seizing.

But this has been suggested so many times, it just falls on deaf ears…

Cobalt is quite nice, but I’m sort of with you on this, I’d like to see an actual watery blade, perhaps it could be a legendary? Creating a rain effect around your character/leaving water footprints as walk? I don’t know.

I did… Still had issues with it popping out into combat, despite being stealthed myself.

Pets are still bugged beyond belief. But I guested and got it sorted.

Phil I was having the same problem last week, I had to guest to another server and that sorted it out for me.

As a ranger, stealth didn’t do anything for me due to my pet taking damage from the vines and unstealthing me.

But guesting worked, I hope it works for you.

There will be no shame!

What really is annoying is not reaching the downed player in time and they die. It’s as annoying as some Ranger or Mesmer knocking your enemy out of all the AOE that’s been spammed on it..

Seriously Rangers, Mesmers and Necro’s stop doing this please! Illusionary Wave, Point Blank shot and fear are not good in comparison to multiple stacks of AOE all damaging the target.

Learn this please.

tfcgeneralkmk.9508:

Zappix.7928:

When it comes to crafting the account bound ones, will you be able to craft the old school pre cursors? To make weapons like Bolt, Sunrise etc? Or is this crafting method for the brand new legendaries?

Sorry if this seems like a silly question.

yes you will be able to do you just won’t have to rely on TP, mystic toilet or a very small RNG rate to get the precursor for them

Oh thank you for the clarity and response! Sounds good, I like this!!!!

When it comes to crafting the account bound ones, will you be able to craft the old school pre cursors? To make weapons like Bolt, Sunrise etc? Or is this crafting method for the brand new legendaries?

Sorry if this seems like a silly question.

I just got booted and it won’t let me re-connect. European player on NA server here.

:/

Agreed it needs fixing!

I agree this needs fixing soon, thought the last 2 patches would have fixed it but nope..

Very irritating.

The voices all over the chat is really starting to annoy the hell out of me.

“ASHES AND DEATH” “ASHES AND DEATH”… Seriously fix this, do a roll back or something.

This is extremely irritating, I keep hearing “ASHES AND DEATH”, “GOT THE DISPENSER RUNNING”.

Please fix this.

I saw the Engi hammer, he was surrounded by these little flying robot things?

I can’t wait! YAY! I wonder what the Guardian will get?

I just creamed my knickers at the trailer.

Oh my! Very much looking forward to this, cannot wait!

“This is the bit that throws me off on these forums. The “burst” is/was a managable effect in PvP, it was the maxing adrenaline and holding on to it that made the warrior OP in the eyes of many players. Warrior is my second most played class. I played it when I wanted to only somewhat pay attention to the game. This was because holding onto adrenaline was a powerful tool that speced way beyond the benefits of any other class (and yes, I have an 80 of all classes).”

Yes holding onto adrenaline had its uses, for extra healing, condition removal and for pumping out a burst when switching targets. It played an integral role in other builds that weren’t just burst spamming

Anet have implemented a punishment for missing your burst now, that alone should be enough without the depletion of adrenaline added when not in combat or if they wish to keep it, it needs to be reverted back to the way it was or the decrease time reduced because as it stands it is just way too fast… When you combine that with the slower gain of adrenaline it just rubs salt in the wound when adrenaline is the core mechanic of warriors. It’s like making clones/phantasms just stand there and do nothing. Oh wait lol… Or Rangers pets not behaving right. Oh wait lol… I’m not against changes at all, but disproportionate changes to things that weren’t that big a deal? Hmmmm.. Not for PvE when most of the QQ was coming from WvWvW and sPvPers.

The poster above me pointed out that there’s been some bugging with some of the bursts, that they’re missing when they shouldn’t be missing. This doesn’t just apply to them, sword 2 also misses most of the time, even in range against a stationary target I’ve seen my war just fly straight over my target when she shouldn’t be doing that.

All I’m saying is, it’s overkill and I’m sure many warriors as we have indeed seen posting in here agree.

Agreed, adrenaline in PvE depletes way too quickly when you’re out of combat. By the time I’ve killed one enemy my adrenaline bar isn’t full, now some might argue (hurr you don’t need full adrenaline if you’re killing mobs that fast) maybe so, but once you’ve killed one and you move onto the next one the depletion of it starts. It’s sometimes nice to build up adrenaline and when it comes to facing your next mob or group (especially with a hammer) you can Earthshaker them all for lelz. It doesn’t do insane damage, it’s just nice to tag, help prevent their initial attack etc.

Add this nerf with the terrible new gated levelling and personal story system and add in the slower build up of adrenaline, it makes levelling up a warrior an absolutely horrendous task and it’s essentially overkill to the original issue (hambows in PvP spamming bursts and LOLing with healing signet).

I agree that adrenaline bursts needed to be toned down a tad (for PvP, why they haven’t split skills like they did with GW1 I have no idea get on that anet!), but this? Way too much with very little to compensate. PvE is not PvP, what is overpowered to players in tournaments or 1v1 should not affect the majority of the players in PvE, where bosses can 1 shot you, or have an insane amount of health.

SoR is also a very selfish elite to take when you’re in a group, the increase in adrenaline is not worth it.

Once again, something that needed toning down just a little bit has been given the “Smiter’s Boon” treatment….. Way too over zealous with that nerf bat!

I liked the one where minipets where adult size and our characters shrunk into minipet size.

By far my favourite.

WTB mini me pls.

To be fair, most of the changes or proposals in this sound a lot better than the recent living story that we’ve been fed so far.

lol

Anyone remember last year when people thought loot drops were bugged? There was a huge thread that got locked after a couple of months?

Then Colin came out and said there is a problem with the loot..?

lol.. Not good, sorry but this isn’t good.

Just completed it again and once again, no loot from any of the three knights…

No word from Anet on this, is it supposed to be daily loot from them or what?

Can you please respond to your community because it’s starting to annoy a lot of players.

Cheers.

Why can’t they start selling black lion tickets/scraps for gems? Increase the amount of tokens needed for each weapon, but ensures that there is a guaranteed way to get those tickets?

I hate RNG, everyone hates RNG. Anet still makes money this way and it pleases the community.

Do it!!!

Really? You’re complaining about too much loot?

Seriously this community moans about anything sometimes. Just because you got a lot of loot doesn’t mean everyone that took part in the event did. But hey, if you want to give me or anyone else some of your loot then by all means feel free to send us some in the mail!

Kudos to the actress her English accent is really well done! I like the new Scarlet voice as well during the battle with the Hologram.

I agree with you, it’s an amazing song. Well done to the composer!

I have to agree, this was a really good way to finish this part of the living story, I actually really like Scarlet, I really like the end battle with the hologram and I really love the music.

Well done anet, credit where it’s due, sure there were some bugs to start off with but seriously? This was really great and I enjoyed it so thank you!

I also can’t wait to see what the next living story brings to the table.

Same thing is happening to me, my character is a mix of Zerker armour with Cleric trinkets. Doing plenty of damage but it’s not giving me any loot.

Pls fix it’s no fun!

I agree, as someone who’s home world is BG and has been since the start, it’s incredibly frustrating to be constantly put in overflows, or be told you cannot join BG group because it’s full.

Didn’t the Krait in the first game have some statues to the Margonites in the desert sort of near the Arid sea? I could be wrong they’re probably not Krait but they made a Hisssing noise when you ran past them?

They had all kinds of statues built around there and there was a link to Nightfall?

Is it a Norn female Ranger?

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve done this. It is quite irritating but the suggestions here are pretty useful!

Hehe Clind I have suggested dyable weapons before, it would be lovely if we could.

But yeah Guild Wars 1 had lot’s of weapons I’d love to see make a return. Staff’s in this game could use some love, especially necromancer themed ones as all the staff’s seem to be bright, cheery and happy and not sort of dark and necroey.

Hi, was having a think over the Guild Wars 1 weapons and thought that http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hourglass_Staff this would make an excellent come back as one of the weapons.

I reckon with some upgrades to the way it looks it would make an excellent addition to the game. Some of the animations can change, for example you could have the hourglass turn upside down as the character takes the staff out.

Well I’ll let some other people leave some suggestions for this but it was a really nice looking staff, it was a special addition item iirc but hey.

Don’t you just love it when you have the enemy all nice and balled up in a big pile of AoE and along comes Mr Mesmer or Ms Necro and fears/illusionary waves them out of all the damage dealing sparkly spells.

>_<

Thanks for doing this, I thought I was going crazy on my Guardian but yes I have noticed this.

Very detailed analysis you’ve gone into and thanks again for the video and highlighting the issue at hand!

Very much appreciated

The lag was terrible last night, it was fun though because no one else could attack me.

Please for the love of the six will you fix the lag and the delay in skill activation that plagued a lot of us last night in W3.

Unplayable in its current form, it’s wonderful you could manage to activate skill one, but don’t poo poo me as a Q_Q er because plenty of people last night suffered, as did our enemy who couldn’t even attack us.

For future reference anet, when you add enticing goodies in W3 please make sure the servers can handle an anticipated expansion of players that will come along and seek to attain those goodies.

Thanks!

I have just beaten him again and managed to get the achievement along with the chest.

It’s extremely buggy right now, I had to log out and then back in again because none of my skills would activate. But thankfully managed to get it

Hi I just beat the Legendary Skeletal Lich and got the gold reward/karma and experience for defeating him but I didn’t get the achievement and there was no chest or anything?

Has this happened to anyone else?

Shiren.9532:

Zappix.7928:

Astralporing.1957:

Zappix.7928:

Unfortunately I got put in the overflow during that event like quite a few others. This needs to be addressed, home players should be given priority of their servers.

They are.

I dunno so much, this has happened quite a lot to me, guildies call out the event during the pre or as it’s just starting and on a number of occasions I immediately go to the wp and then bam I’m in the overflow. I think guesting really needs to be reworked, perhaps no loot at all for guests and keep people gated to their own servers so they have a chance at actually doing the events together on their home world or put a cool down on guesting or something because right now it’s no good. It’s no better than those that used to hop worlds in W3.

A large number of people who currently call BG home are bandwagoners. So you’re saying they should be given priority in PvE because they actually abandoned another server to stack on a WvW one?

If someone defeats Tequatl while guesting on BG, are they less skilled and deserving of a reward than someone who calls BG home? I watched the video of the win, aside from having VOIP co-ordination and a superior strategy, the average player in the video wasn’t that different from most other servers. Most players are still failing to jump the waves. A lot of the people who were there for the win weren’t even BG natives – people were trying to guest on BG before they killed him.

You talk about the people who hop worlds for WvW but a big bulk of the BG population today is exactly that.

Nice accusations you’re throwing around there, point is, guests shouldn’t be filling up my home world server, perhaps they should go off to their own servers and help their own players complete the event there. It’s frustrating to be constantly put into an overflow map, lagging out with less players in the overflow when you’d planned to do the event on your home world and get it over with with a big group of players. Anet should probably merge the under populated servers with the over populated ones. Now there’s talk of more players guesting to BG in order to complete events.

Oh and yes, home world players should always be playing in their home world, guesters should be placed in the overflow not matter how good or bad they are at the game.