I vote they make the old versions tradeable, so the copies I still have in my mail from last year(because I don’t see the appeal of wearing a book on your back) can be turned into gold to buy something actually useful.
Lol, exactly. I had to look it up a while back when people started whining about wanting it to be a playable race. Funny that many people play through GW2 and have no idea what a Tengu is, yet they are SO prevalent and important to the world! (yeah, sure they are…)
With leagues coming up, highly unlikely they will make trials soon. Would cause unfair play as anyone can make as many trial accounts as they want.
Possible, that is a cause for concern. Free trials should be more regular, just restrict trial accounts from /map, /yell, /say, as well as using the mail system for concerns regarding gold sellers.
Yet you have people walking around as cats and this doesn’t bother you? You’re in a fantasy world where Tengu are a HUGE part of it, I mean they had a massive part to play in the GW1 story line and their fluff is well established and enjoyed by the player base.
Tengu need to be implemented. We have all the professions we need everything has been covered profession wise.
I also don’t understand your distaste for avians, considering you rarely see avian races in MMO’s at all.
We were talking about Tengu, not Charr – I don’t like Charr either. Another race just slows down the rate (from practically nothing now) of new armor sets being introduced – no thanks.
If people are harassing you in game and breaking TOS, you report and block.
Exactly.
However, OP, since you now KNOW that FGS is a place that many servers like to farm as a group (inc yours, apparently) it would be preferable that when in this ONE of TWO farm zones (out of a bunch of zones where groups tend to not get together to kill champions regularly) you should join with your community, not knowingly play against it. There are plenty of other zones you and your friends can go kill champions together without potentially disrupting a large group of players.
I really have no interest in new races – the current options are fine. I would prefer they spend time on new professions and weapons/skills for existing professions. I would have zero interest in playing a bird race and really would prefer not to see other players running around as birds – bows that shoot unicorns and stuffed animal backpacks are already too much.
Finally, the way they handled Agony Resistence is ridiculous. It was meant to be a form of progression for Fractals of the Mists, but now you can attain more Resistance via Guild Missions and now Ascended Crafting. How does it make any sense that players progress through Fractals of the Mist by not doing Fractals? It is completely dysfunctional progression.
It WAS initially only available through Fractals.
Players whined and complained that they shouldn’t have to do Fractals to get the gear that only mattered in Fractals. I’m not kidding.
People wouldn’t have minded had the gear NOT had higher stats than exotic – Ascended SHOULD of been exotic stats + agony resist, but it isn’t. Fractals are better designed than most of the explorable dungeons, but, a dungeon that just amps up difficulty a little bit every “level” and then throws in a fake, arbitrary resist that you need is just dumb, lazy design IMO. I bet Ascended originally was exotic + resist, and then Anet freaked out with the mass exodus of vertical progression minded players and decided at the 11th hour to increase the stats too, claiming “Ascended was always planned.” Yeah, sure it was.
Maybe the next batch IF they are done better (more objectives, less grind these and those mats) AND are either Soulbound on Acquire or Account Bound. Making them tradeable was one of the worst mistakes (of many) Anet has made – it completely cheapens Legendary weapons to the point of being utterly pointless. Two guys stand next to each other with Twilight, one spent 100’s of hours meeting all the requirements (though most are shallow farm this, farm that) while the other whipped out daddies Visa and bought $750 worth of gems.
Funny how many people are answering the OP and telling him how wrong he is based on their experiences on both PvE and ZvZ while he’s talking exclusively about tPvP.
But game on, my friends.
Really? he spent more time talking about WvW than tPvP is his post – WvW is PvPvE, so…
Elementalists, like “mage” classes in a lot of other games, just like to whine. I have an elementalist and other than being a tad squishy compared with my other classes, she is perfectly fine.
The main issue I think is people think of this type of class as “glass cannon, fireball one-shot up your kitten ” kind of class…and the GW2 elementalist is NOT that type of caster. They have some burst dmg, they have some sustained dmg, they have decent mobility, AND they have really good healing. It is a good all around class with some weaknesses (like ALL classes in this game) – just because they dont have a one-button “I win” people cry. Those people need to get over themselves and learn to play or go play a stealth/backstab thief if they want easy kills.
I think they should revamp ALL current and future Story Mode dungeons to be designed for two players…that scale to five players – sort of like most of the special temporary dungeons. They should give 1/3 of the reward that an explorable dungeon path awards (so for most, 33s, 20 tokens, etc) once per day. That way, people who prefer to solo or do dungeons with a friend or two can slowly work towards dungeon armor of their choosing without being forced to run explorable paths with a full group.
“Karma is useless”
“Karma has 0 use”
“Karma is too easy to get”
“We have nothing to spend karma on”
“Karma is a waste”
I’ve heard sentiments like these for months. That is why we got Karma nerfed. Now it’s not flowing like water, and people suddenly have issues?
Only 10 people play this game and they all were complaining about having nothing to do with karma, right? There couldn’t possibly be players that have not played this game since launch or only play a few hours a week and don’t have millions of karma to spend on nothing.
I have over 5 million karma, never complained that there was nothing to spend karma on, and think that the nerf was over the top and a step backward, especially for new people. You don’t take things away…you give people more things to use the currency on.
I don’t get what’s so “horrible” about them, a lot of people seem to like them. I do. I personally wouldn’t wear the light armor, but it’s not “horrible” and it adds more variety.
What exactly is so horrible about them? And when are people going to stop talking as if their opinion is fact?
You don’t even have to wear it, there are tons of other sets and individual pieces that can be mixed together with transmutation stones.
It’s all subjective, of course. Me and my GF just previewed them in game and her reaction was the same as mine “well, if that is what they look like – no need to worry about them at all.” I think they are all very MEH – and I don’t care THAT much about having “pink” armor so we will probably just make some gold off the people who do like the look (probably very few…) or just HAVE to have ascended stats, assuming there are no other options to acquire them.
Assuming this IS what they are going to look like, it’s funny how far this game has done an about face on its original design. We went from focusing on cosmetics to focusing on stats – and this armor exemplifies that perfectly.
good news if this is ascended armor…because it will save me the hassle of having to worry about it and I can just make money off all the crazy people who just have to have it.
Please enlighten me as to what benefit the Trait item in the shop gives me over carrying around 5s training manuals in my bag that already reset my traits “in the field.”
F/U was a nightmare – other than laughing with guildies when they died to spouts, that path was not fun AT ALL – especially with the bugged final encounter. I’m glad it is going the way of the dodo…
Interesting that DR still says “high” for population if everyone is leaving…then again, we all know the server population indicator has very large, “changing” definitions…couldn’t have a server than appears “dead” in the list now can we – that would look bad. I still don’t understand why SoR/JQ/BG/TC are not “Full” and locked – are there really THAT many inactive accounts that they are comfortable letting more people transfer to them?
They didn’t drop the price, it is on sale. The Digital Deluxe upgrade in the gem store includes all the heroic edition stuff…and it was just on sale for two weeks last month (1600 gems.)
Lvl 80 versions of the “Berserker’s Duelist” set have never existed (there are lvl 80 named sets eg. Nika’s with the same skin, however.) There have only ever been lvl 62, 70, 76, and 78 versions of the exotic “Berserker’s Duelist” set since launch (at least in the live game.) You are not paying any sort of premium because of the name – the cost is directly tied to the stat distribution and Superior Rune set in the item.
The only other effect that might fit would be the rainbow effect from the Aetherized Spear, but I imagine that would garner even more complaints (and would probably be too similar to Bifrost).
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With those two ideas in mind, it does NOT make any sense for GW2 to be time gated because it’s not subscription and the high-end crafted items are all account bound………
Economically, it certainly makes sense. What are the odds that any player will spend money in the Gem Store (GW2’s ONLY additional source of income after the original purchase) if they are not in-game and active? (hint: rhymes with “HERO” and it’s a very low number).
Subscription MMOs have the advantage of automatically taking your money every month if you forget to cancel it…. Yes, they need to keep the majority of the players engaged to keep them subscribed but, the monthly fee will continue to roll in from some percentage of players that no longer log-in (for whatever reason) as long as the players don’t unsubscribe. ANet’s model on the other hand, brings in NO money from the existing player base if they are not actively in the game buying gems.
You can complain about the realities of ANet’s model all you want, but I (and many others playing here) embrace the no fee model and at least TRY to understand some of the choices ANet makes based on this economic model. I’m not saying I like them all, but I fully understand that they must strive to make money and they are providing me with loads of entertainment, so I’ll continue to support them for the time being. I in no way indicate that support may not change in the future.
This is a very well thought out post – I agree 100% – I feel exactly the same.
Runes from the MF that are (normally) purchased with Dungeon Marks (which when acquired this way are soulbound) are soulbound. Runes from the MF that are crafted/salvaged from drops are soulbound on use. What exactly is the problem?
For example:
Rune of the Mesmer = crafted = Soulbound on Use when acquired from the MF
Rune of Divinity = salvaged from drops = Soulbound on Use when acquired from the MF
Rune of the Orrian = purchased with Arah dungeon tokens = Soulbound when aquired from the MF
It would be nice if the dungeon runes from the MF were account bound instead, however.
I think something people are potentially discounting in this thread is that ascended armor, most likely, WILL NOT ONLY COME FROM CRAFTING/DROPS. I’m willing to bet it will be available other ways (fractal relics, WvW, maybe even laurels/karma.) In fact, I think Anet would be insane if it were done like weapons…crafting will be one of several options, not the only one.
Think about what you just said…no really, think about it and then hit your head on your desk a couple of times.
Anyways, this should be an option in EVERY game – who the hell cares what people wear. Heck, some heavy armor in this game looks like leather…some light looks like medium…etc, etc.
Make personal guild banks, I can’t imagine most people are in more than 2 or 3 actual guilds. 5g=50 slots, 40g = 100 slots, 60g = 100 slots for a total of 105g = 250 slots per guild.
If gems were as low as 100 for 4g (they have been 4.5 to 5g or more for the last month,) a bank tab would cost you 24g. So 48g = 60 slots (low balling it)…but 45g = 150 slots in personal guild bank space. Sure, you can’t put account bound / soul bound stuff in a guild bank, but everything else can be stuffed in there!
I agree, TEQ is now elite content for GW2. Compared to any other MMO, it’s about equivalent to your average 25-man raid encounter, on normal mode…with no dedicated healers, so it’s more painful. Good job Anet!
We beat him, it takes coordination and good commanders. How we did it was, we broke up into 5 man organized teams for each turret and the rest follow 2 commanders on 2 different pathways, one left, one right and split the turrets to defend either left or right zerg. This is very doable and I’m hearing the whiners already. They clearly need to learn strategy, which is fantastic. Love this new revamp!!!!
So your huge guild camped in Sparkfly Fen and then beat him, cool, too bad that is impossible for people not in a large guild / lucky enough to be in non-overflow. Proof of my point in another thread this type of non-instanced world boss can not exist…unless it is in a controlled, organized environment.
A for effort on Anet’s part – they succeeded in making TEQ harder
F for fun factor -
This level of difficulty, with no dedicated raid groups and no communication is just horrible. Do we need to learn the fight? sure that will help.
However, between people who don’t know what to do on cannons (and no control over WHO uses the cannons,) people hitting boss once and staying dead, and plenty of unavoidable damage with, you know, no dedicated healers…
You just can’t really do this kind of boss with the way this game is designed… it will get better over time IF people decide it’s worth it – with all the X factors that can not be controlled I’m not so sure people will stick with it.
Simply put: I believe the Tequatl Rising content will be used to re-equilibrate the ecto market at 18-22 silver.
It has already been known that the boss overhaul will substantially increase both the difficulty – and the rewards – of the current crop of world bosses. I believe that this will be used as a subtext for bringing the prices of ectoplasms back down to the “normal” range of 18-22s that has been standard for most of 2013. the past several months. This is of course speculative, but I am thinking that the new boss chests will be dropping rares and exotics at an increased rate, with the possibility of other materials.
I’m sorry, I don’t see how the new content is going to bring ecto prices down to “normal.” The prices are determined by supply and demand – not "prices were about 20s for the last few months so I guess that is now “normal” forever and ever." There is more gold in the system and there is more demand for ecto’s – so I potentially don’t see ecto’s ever going below 20s again unless we have an extreme lull in content. Will they decline? Maybe, but not by a lot…or they could rise even more – especially considering that the Ascended Armor patch is sometime this calendar year, which means it is ~ 3 months or less away. In regards to this content patch, making world bosses “harder” might actually have the opposite effect – people might do them LESS often because of the increase in time commitment vs reward (remember, at least as far as we know, Teq is the only boss outside Karka Queen that is getting revamped rewards) which may actually shrink the ecto supply.
The issue here is that Celestial gear already is over the “stat budget”. As it currently stands, the Celestial gear is worth more in raw stats than any other set ingame. Because these stat are widely spread, there are many cases where it will be weaker, but there are also many cases where it will be stronger.
Actually, no, there are practically no cases where it would be stronger. That’s the whole point.
So what people are arguing in this thread is that Celestial users were perfectly fine with gimping themselves and their team (even though plenty of people swore up and down Celestial was more than viable if you build right) because they personally benefited from the MF. But now that that benefit for themselves no longer exists, they refuse to use or feel weaker using Celestial and want compensation for the MF removal, even though the viability from a def/off combat stat point of view didn’t change at all…hmm, yeah.
Synchronize the event. If an event happens on a regular server – it should happen on the overflow as well.
This 100% – Overflow, even in Malchor’s and Cursed Shore, has been a huge problem on SoR during prime time hours (aka when a lot of people have time to play…) since the Ascended patch. SoR is a BIG server, so obviously there are a lot of people logged in wanting to do these events so we can’t blame guesting for the issue. However, GUESTING DOES NOT HELP the situation – it only amplifies the problem.
I’ve called for removing rewards from the large events for guests…but that probably isn’t fair. Perhaps guesting should be DISABLED for high population servers during primetime? Something along those lines is needed to help alleviate the issue.
Maybe Anet will introduce some type of farming before ascended armor comes out just like they did this time. And, maybe, that farming will involve lots of heavy bags with a change in the drop rates for stuff like Gossamer.
champion bags already drop gossamer…
I don’t know why everyone is concerned over gossamer – prices are not going to be like ancient wood for many reasons, but will probably be similar to current prices of orichalcum. Tailors should probably stock up now if you are concerned and must have Ascended asap – LW/AS should have plenty for leveling to 500 if you play semi regularly and salvage drops (for luck.)
The point was that it is one of a few items that you can’t just go out and farm because there are no nodes. The only place to really get them is in bags with a “Heavy” prefix and the drop rates on those were nerfed pretty hard. So, it’s not like you can really go out and farm them easily. Hence the reason I am saying that maybe Anet will change the drop rate so the material becomes more common before ascended armor is released.
possibly, but gossamer isn’t used nearly as much as orichalcum…neither is leather which is also only from bags and salvaging (but demanded by even less items than cloth, of course.) They very well might analyze how much Gossamer/silk/dust is in the system and adjust accordingly, but I personally don’t feel there is a need for any adjustment at all.
Maybe Anet will introduce some type of farming before ascended armor comes out just like they did this time. And, maybe, that farming will involve lots of heavy bags with a change in the drop rates for stuff like Gossamer.
champion bags already drop gossamer…
I don’t know why everyone is concerned over gossamer – prices are not going to be like ancient wood for many reasons, but will probably be similar to current prices of orichalcum. Tailors should probably stock up now if you are concerned and must have Ascended asap – LW/AS should have plenty for leveling to 500 if you play semi regularly and salvage drops (for luck.)
Out of a possible 13 slots (counting 2 handed) this is just one slot that is fractal required at the moment. You have options for the rest of it. This one slot won’t be imbalancing, game breaking, or unfair.
true, still doesn’t excuse it being fractal exclusive – reason it is exclusive? probably less than half the people who run fractals would even bother running them if it could be acquired elsewhere – fractals are not fun after the first time (IMO, and many share that opinion with me) – good way to “force” people to run them.
Crafting was intended to assist in leveling it was not intended to simply easily level a character to 80. To those that choose to do it this method I hardly feel your complaints about cost are justified.
Then why did they make such a big deal out of “you can craft from 1-80?” It was a feature, but they decided to adjust it – oh well.
So you agree that 2-handed weapons should get the perks equal to that of two 1-handed weapons? Ok, that’s fine. Just make sure they take 2 inscriptions to make and double the materials too.
Mats for 1H’ers should be lowered, I agree. Should they be half? no, even if 2H’s get dual sigil slots. Why? versatility. A 2H has a set 5 skills, 1H’ers can be mixed and matched to create a custom set of skills.
And every class can use a 2H…even if it is not optimal in a given situation it doesn’t change that fact. Too cheap to make 2 1h weapons? Then get by with a 2H…
