That’s how GW2 was presented to us, as they decided that they could not deliver chapter 5 without a better engine, and gave us GW:EN to help us transition.
Just on a side note to the engine, in the late 90s there was a game called Ultima Online (some of you might even have played it). In the early 2000s they decided to update the engine from isometric to 3D (which in itself was not the best of decisions, due to other reasons ).
But even though the engine was changed, the existing world remained (new parts were added), the characters remained, and even though you had to buy the update (in addition to monthly fees at the time), it was truly an expansion and continuation of the existing game.
GW2 broke with the existing GW1 world, its existing characters and in comparison feels much more like a new book in a familiar world instead of a new chapter to an existing one.
It was not just the engine that changed however. It was it went from a MOCORPG to a MMORPG. They took out heros, added more tiers to armor etc… etc… So with what they wanted to do they had to create a new game.
ArenaNet is working on re-balancing the achievements. ArenaNet took a look at the difficulty of obtaining some of the achievements and adjusted the score based upon the difficulty. Who knows WvW achievements may get a points boost. Perhaps to that of equal to HoM possibly more. If you don’t think GWAMM it is difficult look at the following links. Then just think of the grind that may be needed to obtain some of them.
For a idea I would post here for just one of the titles that is perhaps 1/40th of 50 points.
Snowman Summoners can be obtained at any time for new points towards this title. They can be obtained from the final chest in the Secret Lair of the Snowmen, although getting the max rank of this title would take approximately 1,667 hours if playing in Hard Mode with henchmen, with each run lasting approximately 20 minutes.
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It would cost 166,700 Copper Zaishen Coin and 33 Platinum 340 Gold to max this title track via purchased Crates of Fireworks alone.
In Guild Wars 1 Platinum is about as difficult to obtain as gold in Guild Wars 2.(If not sometimes harder due to lack of trading post) A lot of the high valued armor in Guild Wars 1 was worth 75 Platinum. Difficulty to obtain probably equal to that of T3 armor if not harder due to no trading post.
Now that is just 1 Title To just get Max Honor you need 40 Titles total. Each with the same if not more difficulty to obtain.
“I was making fun of OP for complaining about getting stuff for AP.”
Sry, this really will my last post regarding this.
When did I ever complain?
My whole point was, and still, is, the fact that these badges
are-tailored-towards-a-specific-aspect-of-the-game.
They are useless for anyone else.
We’ll, perhaps not useless then, but certainly not considered valid rewards.
And that fact makes them a redundant part for anyone who has worked to his or hers achievement count in the hope that there will a reward at the end of it.
We did not expect that a big part of that reward would be of no use to us.
I’ve made no complaints, other than to point out that,
Anet, no matter how much PvP stuff you throw at me, I will never PvP.
I will, however continue to enjoy your PvE.
Now I’ll sign off.
There are signs that this thread won’t end well.
T
I don’t PvP either, but I use the badges for ascended gear. It’s the same as FREE laurels.
And yes, you’ve been complaining the entire thread.
Complaining
Present participle of com·plain (Verb)
Express dissatisfaction or annoyance about a state of affairs or an event.
Wut??? How do you do that? I have many badges too, I just dont know what to do with them because I never was interested in pvp. Maybe wvw but not untill I am finished with pve.
So basicly people who do not pvp, what do you do with the badges. I’ve seen people buying weapons and armour, can you use that in pve? I think not, but I dont know anything about it.
Siege merchant inside of WvW see This Developer Stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Mwats025Q&feature=c4-overview&list=UUP_FgMqOxp_VsM0UfrL-DxA for more info Would love to trade them into siege blueprints that if you really do not want to help your server you can sell on the TP. If you want to help out your server ask in map chat if anyone wants them while you are there.
Where are people getting the fact that they are putting in account bound mats. I actually got the opposite.
This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.
IMO-
The Celestial gear was a test to see how to community would to the new way of crafting.
The hole living story for the first few months up until now was a bunch of tests. This is why I was ok that it was meh. Looks how good our game is getting because of it too.
A lot of people are not bothering with legendaries due to the non-clear path to get them. (precursor was rng only) With the hardest part the precursor being craftable this will drive up demand as they are more obtainable.
Supply and demand dictates that if supply is too low people just don’t bother. Because the costs are too high. In this case the indirect cost of RNG is too high. Lowering the indirect cost can raise the direct cost due to demand increases.
First ArenaNet needs to decide on what model they want to use. Expansions/Campaigns or Microtransaction only. After that has been decided we will likely get word on when we will be continuing the personal story.
As of right now they are improving the core of the game. So that a expansion does not drive people away due to missing core features(LFG tool) or laxster PvP They are also trying to keep those that currently have the game somewhat entertained.
Then after all that is done and the content is released(Whatever method that will be) we will continue our personal story.
The difference between the personal story and living story is well …… Close to nothing. The living story is obvious it is not my story. Personal story at least the attempt is made to make it my story.
Other then that I like the personal story because of the way the narrative could be told. Living story is a lot harder to have a narrative that can be caught up on.
Temporary content is bad by itself. This is just one example but we did see this with multiple temporary content. Not only this one.
Anet had to stop they temporary content stuff, but it comes out of a gem-store focus. Make temporary content and get so pressure people to play and buy gems.
If you really want this to stop don’t buy gems (and buy the expansion if available), if you really like temporary content buy gems (and don;t buy an expansion).. And be aware, I am talking about temporary content, not regular patches.. people seem to mix those two up a lot on the forums.
You say this in every thread- we get it-
Thats good.
I think you bought the tin foil hat in the gem store.
Temporary content is there because of the companies goals to tell a living story and keep people engaged and playing. Most people do not buy gems. If everyone stopped buying gems will not stop the temporary content it will kill the game.
A-net has stated that they are looking to add build templates at a later date. However, PvP will likely be getting the option first, being that their gear system has less variables.
By no means should all crafting items be account bound. The design of crafting per the game is to make money.
The way ArenaNet has added Celestial gear proves you to be wrong. If the point in crafting were to make gold, no craftable gear would have been account bound.
You obviously did not read my post. I gave my reasoning why I think crafting was in the game originally to make money. It was the community that decided otherwise.
All they did with this is testing out ways to get things that need to be time-gated to be craftable.
Should some crafting items be account bound. Shure. Everything. No way. Not ever.
The following is a bit more extreme on what is possible. He likely data mined a few items and or used some animation software but it can be done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWCTlxEp6Ds
Hopefully this will silence some of the more vocal minority
A) To what statistical data can you claim one side or the other a majority?
B) Why do you want to silence those with whom you disagree?
You asked for statistical data I was positive that there was some on this topic.
So here you go:
A) "Our data consistently shows, time and time again, that people are more likely to speak up when they have a bad experience, less likely when they have a great experience, and hardly ever when they’re somewhere in the middle. "
Source: http://foreseeblog.com/2012/08/28/feedback-vs-measurement/
On Topic: I am excited for this perhaps we might get some better understanding about the Living Story.
Well, OP has a point. I think certain combinations aren’t available from ascended gear?
And there should be more ways to get earrings. Maybe earrings for badges? Or allow them to be in fractals? Or do we just want people leeching off large guilds?
I think part of the reason why they are testing out this hole quartz thing is to put systems in place to allow crafting of ascended items.
You can put them in your I AM A GOLD SPAMMER. PLEASE REPORT ME BY PRESSING THE REPORT FLAG ICON IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THIS POST! in the Mists (where any of your characters can take them) or salvage them with a PvP Salvage kit.
Use “Deposit All” in your inventory to put them there.
edit: I am not a freaking gold spammer, wtf!
Ugh I forgot about the PvP salvage kit. I have destroyed about 3-4 armor pieces because of it.
Instead of weekend bonuses the bonuses last for an entire week & I believe some of the bonuses have been doubled from what they were back in the day.
Some of the titles have been made easier to achieve as well, for example, the drinks are now spammable. You used to have to drink at specific intervals to get full credit for your various ales.
Just the 7 hero update made the game a walk in the park compared to the old days & that was before they made most of the titles to get easier before GW2 was released.
Dont get me wrong, there is still a lot to do, but in no way shape or form does it take longer than it used to.
Don’t get me wrong there are some parts that are easier. But the parts that still require other players are harder.
A lot longer then it used too. If you are talking 50/50 I would say at least a year just due to the low population making it harder to play. And that is a low ball guess.
Due to the fact it is temporary content I do not like the fact that they put the recipes behind a Level requirement(Let the armor have level 80 requirement that is fine)
I would be fine with this if they did not have the level 80 requirement on the armor recipes.
The question is how come there are multiple references to crafters selling what they make. Look at the achievement for crafting it says will craft anything for a price.
The community decides crafted items was worthless. Not Arenanet. There are plenty of things that make money in crafting if you find your own mats. They just take either A ) A long time to sell (armor) or B ) are expensive to make. (Bags)
By no means should all crafting items be account bound. The design of crafting per the game is to make money.
That being said with items that need to be time-gated I would be ok with being account bound. However the recipes to make them should be discover-able not behind some temporary content.
Sure the achievements increase your XP karma gold and magic find. It gives you some Laurels. But that does not make it so that you can win. Not only that there are other means in the game for increasing those stats with better success.
In addition to that the amount of work required to get the chests for a new player make this a non-topic. We are only talking about this because we are getting one chest every day. This just will not be happening for the average player base in the future.
It is automation of gameplay. Regardless of how ridiculous or lack of skill it is. Simply automation of gameplay of any type against the rules.
The rules are not just in place to protect against cheating but to also prevent abuse. In this case if too many people do it it would cause a un-needed load on the server.
This is entirely different. The guy was asking if it was ok to read the keyboard, not send key presses to the game. Was a pretty silly question, since if doing so was illegal, you wouldn’t be able to use the keyboard outside the game.
My question: is there any way to separate the purchase of new things from the gem store from your actual game account. For example, I would be willing to sign up for an option that does not deliver what you have bought UNTIL your money is in ANET’s hands. This would protect my game account and allow me to purchase the fluff items without fear. I can wait a few days or even a week or two to receive an item just to be sure that something doesn’t go wrong with my account.
You can avoid most if not all payment issues by purchasing GEM cards where available also.
This was some nice trolling from Anet. The rich bought out all the mats at zero cost, and are now stretching the limits of long integer variables with their gold amounts. I bought quite a bit of candy corn a few hours too late, but still hoped to make a few gold on it. Unfortunately it turned out after wasting a significant amount of gold, that the supply boxes are utterly worthless, which meant that the candy corn I invested in, was also worthless. I expect all of the bought candy corn and most other mats except the most efficient few end up back on the TP very soon, because why in earth would I buy a supply box worth around 25s that gives the same or less than a 4s loot bag that drops in heaps in WvW and from many other mobs in PvE? ;/
I have never received a Box with the recipes in it from PvE or WvW. Are you sure they drop.
If you’re selling siege you likely don’t care about wvw anyway… otherwise there’s a dozen commanders willing to take donations on your server I’m sure.
I don’t quite understand why people who can afford to throw 100g on a badge would need donations lol. Shouldn’t it be the other way around, commanders giving out siege to people who follow them?
The answer to that is simple. After he got his commander tag all his gold went to siege. As before all of it went to saving up for a commander tag. So he is now broke.
Not only that the recipe for the items are not permanently available outside of the trading post. In addition to that the market decides if the item is of use or not.
- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.
LAWL.
‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….
However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.
Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.
The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.
I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.
I am talking much further down the line. If they are not re-released I can see them eventually being sold out. I am aware that they will be available for a while.
However….. This Living story is easily repeatable with a few modifications and just smells market correction event all over it. I could see this event easily returning whenever a market correction is in order with modifications to what is needed.
I am also not worried for myself. But the new players and the players that miss out on the event.
I am sure ArenaNet will do the right thing. But I am apprehensive on the lack of knowing.
- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.
LAWL.
‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….
However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.
Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.
Um…… Pics show they are not account bound. But soulbound on use.
Look at the line just above “soulbound on use” in that pictures.
Oh I see… Um. Ya don’t like. Especially because the recipes will only be around for a limited of time. If there were other ways to get the recipe I would not care. This not only requires me to get 400 crafting but also if I don’t want to spend the 40s to switch around items all the time I have to get multiple characters to level 80. In a short period of time.
Due the release of the new AP use now we have a race for the 10k AP to get the current max level of achievement point.
Right now as casual player, logging since the head start and playing weekends and weekday night im sit at 5.3k AP, maybe in another year i can get about 9-10k.
Since anet is releasing new contest every 2 weeks and every one have around 150-200 AP in one month we can get around 800-1000AP doing dialy and monthly.
So Plz anet make the amount of AP we get from living story a little more high.
Mesmer Portals should be disabled for JP’s or the Mesmer portal nerfed so it is harder/impossible to use in JP’s.
Why??
Because it makes jumping achievements pointless, ie…no achievement at all really, for the Mesmer who did the JP and all the players mesmers portal to the end.
Mesmers often demand payment as well…which causes trouble…
Also, Mesmer portal has been abused in loads of different ways and its one of those skills Anet have trouble designing content around because of exploits from Mesmer portal…
Everyone should do JP’s by you know jumping…they will get a better sense of achievement when they do…
Why do you care? Not trying to be insulting. I seriously want to know so I can understand why they should do this. Because right now they really are not hurting anyone by keeping things the way things are in is helping matters in some cases.
I think a lot more people would be upset then happy if they nerfed/disabled Mesmer portals on jumping puzzles.
I bought 2800 gems to buy myself the molten alliance mining pick, the axe and the sickle I found on the page “http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gem_Store#Upgrades”. And then I discovered that only the axe is still available…
So, I bought the axe, but how can I get the other two?? Only after reading these and other pages and getting back to above gem store page; i discovered that there is a note saying “Historical items
These items are no longer sold in the store” in relative short lettertype…
How to get to the other two pieces or get my money back?
FYI for future reference the wiki is maintained by the playerbase not ArenaNet. You can’t get the other two. May i recommend a bank tab expansion or a extra character slot. Or you can save it for when/if they decide to do something like it again.
Demanding for ports is just not right. That being said.
I don’t consider portals on JP a exploit a bug or even cheating as it requires the williness of others. It already has a large timer on it and not all JP allow a portal by the nature of the jumping puzzle timeing out.
A lot of mesmers run portals for coin. Not as a actual request but becouse from time to time they get tips. And a lot more tip then you think. I think it comes from a culture of runs in GW1 to where instead of asking pepole actually advertized they were running pepole though content. Also some run becouse they like helping others. They get joy out of this so taking it away from them is not a good idea. This is something that was prevelent in GW1 also. I don’t consider it cheating. If it was cheating it would not be part of the game.
I have tried really hard time and time again to do the Jumping puzzles I try first multiple times before I give up though. Some are just way too hard for me at this time and I have limited time to complete it. So I ask and I tip. Why do I ask. Well I like the view at times it is easier to ask if one is avalible then do the grind of some of the other achievements.
I am also respectful in my request. I ask and I tip what I can afford. I don’t stand around for hours spamming for hours.
People during the new Sanctum Sprint begging/demanding that the 1st Place person “hold back” and allow others to cross the finish line to get the achievement so “everyone can get it”.
This I don’t approve of. I don’t see anything wrong with with asking if the first place is ok with it. But if not continue to try and try again. I am sure eventually things will be in my favor. You only need 16 of them for the skin anyways. You don’t need all the points to get it.
While I agree with the sentiment that this is WvW and if you don’t want to fight don’t come here, getting their rears handed to them by ‘griefers’ is in no way shape or form going to encourage anyone to stick around and play WvW. Just the opposite I think.
What it should do is encourage players to form parties or go into EB and rally the troops to wipe the “griefers”.
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