Guild Wars 2

what a mess in jq right now.

instead of fighting the Sbi and IoJ, people starts to challenage our commanders and question their decision. It is so hard to form a function zerg in BL right now without seeing a few guys question them.

How do you feel about the hammer/gs combo in wvw? Does these two weapons works well with eacb other?

I enjoyed the hammer gameplay, but i have recently got my hand on an awesome gs skin and i had to switch to gs just so i can see the skin -_-

J am thinking leaping into the front line, hit all my cds, and switcb to hammer and start bashing…..

Thanks

Pretty sure you only use 1 and 2 as a hammerdian 90%of the time, and only use 3 4 5 when situation calls.

Unlike gs, you don stand still hitting you cd constantly. You are constantly moving especially before your third chain.

Personally i dodge whenever i finish the second chain, hit the third chain, and mb to activate combo. The result is a very engaging and dynamic gameplay that you wont get from other weapons.

It will take simetime to get use to hammer tho especially if you mained a greatsword or sword before

i should be more clear. I was refering to 2 hand swords in other mmos

Just want to say what an amazing job your modeling team did for the weapon skins. The greatsaw is probably the best looking 2hand sword you can find in ANY video games nowaday.

Yes, the twilight is good with its dripping effect, but at least there are tons of those same type of weapons in the mmos out there. The greatsaw? it’s one of a kind!

same thing goes with the shield and other skins.

I can’t wait to see what you guys have in xmas.

why not?

it’s a holiday event…. have some holiday spirit ….

it doesn’t have to be different color… Take the greatsaw for example, you can make a model without the engine and animation, and make it more common.

The thing is this is a game, not a casino. When people spend certain amount of money, they would expect to have something in return to show for….

I think Anet should have use the TF2 item system in holiday events. Make a set of skins with normal drop rate, such as 10% or something like that. Then make a set of the same skins with different color and make them rare.

This way people can still win the “lottery” in those chests, and normal players can get the more common skins.

This would calm people down.

No, i got almost all the rare skins in this holiday already, so i am not “crying” i didn’t get the stuffs i want. The problem is that I understand people who spent 50 bucks+ and got almost nothing to show for.. This, no matter how you look at it, would only discourage people in the future.

it’s not that hard.. a set for common people, and one set with different color for lottery. Win/win for everyone….

i think he means he just want to pay one times… not 5…

but ya, we got these skins in a pretty expensive way… I just dont see whats the harm to make them BoA so my alts can share the skins..

please? Anet?@@

o while i am at it, BIG thanks for the event. It amazes me how much effort you guys put into this just for a 10 days event….

or make the transmuted items BoA…. Got the greatsaw and want to use it on both my guardian and warrior…. it’s kinda sux that i can only choose one

Now that the halloween patch is here, are we safe to open the Lion chest box for those skins now? Or do we have to wait for certain event to kick in to open them in the 23rd?

Thanks

^ read the halloween news in the offical website… there are more than that.

i hope they would give us FoV adjuster… instead of makign FoV further…

i really enjoy the current FoV. Hopefully they will let me lock down the current FoV when the fix come out.

it’s the same. It just feels like larger on norn because the model is bigger. But asura’s attack range is a lot larger than its model size (including his weapons)…

This is also why asura can stand in mid air in jumping puzzles. It has the same hit box as the largest charr and norn

lol token… that’s full of kittens..

1. what kind of advantage does people with deeper pocket has other than easier to get cosmetic items?

2. there is usually nothing interesting in lion chest right now other than a really low chance to get unlimited tp and banker, or the endless potion. What were you expecting from them?

also Rng is rng. I have gotten at least 2 keys out of 5 boxes i opened since i played.

3. this is what i think is ridiculous. How on earth could you spend 100 bucks real money on gambling pre cursor weapon? Unless you are talking about buying gems and exchange for gold to buy exotic weapons and gamble it on MF… if that’s the case you probably deserve it because it was a really dumb thing to do to get the precursor weapon.

p.s. those games that gave away their client for free and depend on cash store to survive are usually p2w. I don’t see why you are bringing up that point here when cash shop are just for cosemtic items.

You still get a free devil horn from halloween.

Even if they make you gamble chest for rare skins, you can still get enough keys in game via buying gems with gold. I managed to gather 1100 gems just last night as a lvl 59 without alt from selling materials, and i think i can get at least 400 more gems in a day or two. Thats 15 keys right there…..

Yea, the rng factor sux, and i think i will rage if i fail to get the skin i want from the chest with 15 keys from gold and 4000 gems worth of keys via real money, but i respect the fact that its neccessary to let anet make profit so more contents would come.

They have already give us enough options and chances to earn those skins.

Ya! I totally agree that if the game doesnt add more contents two months after release it will fail!

How dare they call the halloween patch contents!

Akari Storm.6809:

Yeah, I think people are really confusing a LFD message board type of interface with what WoW ended up with, cross realm auto-placing into a group.

A LFG or dungeon or w/e isn’t different from spamming in a town. All it was is that you que for dungeons and ppl would contact you to see if you wanted to run the dungeon.

Anyhow, what is needed here is a global LFG chat that is server wide. Even when guesting is up, keep it server only because I foresee ppl using it to spy in wvw if it were cross server.

It’s either that or a dungeon message board, where you click a box to tell others looking at this interface that you want to do this dungeon and this particular path and then people message you through tells or what have you. This could be cross realm due to guesting will probably be in effect anyway.

it’s already like this in gw2 i think… well… similar…

the problem is that most people don’t know it exist..

I don’t mind a lfg tool that’s more in line with gw1… but a system like WoW is just… BAD. The last thing i want is to turn LA into a queue hub

This

Its a shame that people dont have any reasons to stay in othe big cities right now

Most of the cities are just so beautifully done in gw 2 that its just a waste to make them a pre 80 portal….

Dynamic events in cities, from small events like cleaning DR to big events like random dragon invasions to any cities would make people care about them more

Imagine dragons attacking the reach from sky …

Even think of typing only afflicted?

There are more important things to do than solving a problem because you refuse to use keywords in your search.

So the op doesnt want any monsters to respawn in high populatio area?

The respawn rate is fine and peobably the only thing that respawn too fast are ghosts…and thats not even that far off.

Transfer to a high pop server…. Its not that difficult….

yes… for a game that focus mainly on cosmetic items, Asura is getting the shaft big time…

The only piece of gear that people can actually notice on an asura is his helm… other than that the rest of the gears are pretty much unnoticeable.

It’s hard to fix the armor since Asura are small afterall.. but at least let people notice our weapons…. I can barely see my weapons model..

Like the title said, I think whenever a server owns 90% of a WvW map or outmanning the other servers, there should be a buff that allows the other servers to get 1-2 free siege golems for free….

that’s right, free siege golems for the losing teams. Not only being outman isn’t fun in WvW for the losing side, it makes WvW extremely boring for the dominating side too. A system like this will give the losing servers a chance to fight back and regain their land. This way matches will be a lot more closer than the current state where a server would just give up on the second day when they get spawn camp on the second day

Simonic.2609:

carson yuen.6739:

The price of the weapons are driven by the supply and demand law. Its price keep risingbecause people can afford them at that price range. This is call infation.

O and please dont say gold sellers. Not many people can afford 400 usd to buy gold to get an ingame weapon.

Inflation has little to do with supply and demand. It has a lot more to do with excessive money supply. However, as money supply increases, prices normally increase because every dollar/gold is a little bit less valuable. Or rather, every coin has less purchasing power than the week before it.

A lot of people claim that the legendary mystic forge is a rip-off…well, technically, that is currently one of the primary money sinks within the game (that, and the Commander title). That leaves a lot of unused money floating around.

And, further — GW2 is relatively cheap. 200g will run you about $90-100 USD. How much gold do you make an hour? We’ll assume 10g. It will then take you 20 hours to make 200g, or $90-100. Let’s assume you make $10 at work. Now, you’ve made $200. You can then spend $100 to buy 200g, pocket another $100, and spend the next 20 hours however you wish in the game. The opportunity cost was $200. Out of the entire deal, you essentially gained $400. Only fools and idiots do not even contemplate buying gold. And, there is a reason why companies put such strict penalties against it. Further, the “harm” done to the economy is not anything an extra couple thousand players would have caused, or a handful of excellent TP users. Keeping in mind, the gold sellers (minus bots, and stolen accounts) are not exactly abusing the system — that money would have been “created” by players regardless. They just target it towards a specific group of people…who most often want it to buy something high priced. Giving the impression that the price is right for the product. But, they will continue to be made out to be evil incarnate. Yet, they are brilliant…and a billion dollar industry. Yet game companies remain completely in the dark as to why it is happening.

At one point, games will finally understand economics, opportunity costs, money supply, and what not. Until then — expect continually higher prices.

the last time i check the gold price from my mailbox spam, the price of gold is almost 1 usd per gold… so 200 bucks will net you a little bit more than 200g, which isn’t enough to buy dusk or dawn at this point.

now I am sure some people can shell out 300+ usd on a precusor weapon, but those are the minorities… Once those guys raise the price of the weapons and bought it, normal people would not be able to buy the weapons assuming what the OP said was true. Then the supply and demand rule would kick in and the price of the weapons will go down.

the problem is it isn’t going down right now because a lot of people has the ability to make gold from trading or farming in a legit way. Therefore, the price of the weapons, which is driven by ALL the servers in gw2, has not hit the plateau yet.

This is completely different from what the OP claim. He was accusing that ONLY people who buy golds can afford the weapons and normal people would not be able to afford the weapons.

Ixal.7924:

Athaulf.1530:

On the other hand just name one MMO, one Game or even one pirece of software that
has been produced in the last 15 years taht didn´t have any bugs.
See? You can´t

Because GW2 has just “some bugs”. TOR was released in a much more finished state than it, so was Rift.

swtor? swtor??
the swtor that had the skill delay but that delay ALL your skills for half a second after you use them??
The swtor that had to take down the whole illum 2 months after release because of unsolvable performance issue which still exist today?
The swtor that gives people 25 fps with high end computer, fixed 3 months into the game, and was broken again in patch 1.4 a month ago?
The swtor that doesn’t have server transfer FIVE months after release?
The swtor that made people to pay 15 bucks a month sitting in the fleet on a dead server waiting for pvp queue to pop and a healer to show up for operation? and they made them wait for months because they can’t get the server transfer working??

god I can go on and on about Swtor.. I can’t believe people actually use that steaming pile of kitten as an example of how much better other mmos are compare to GW2…

on the side note, Swtor was released with non scaleable flashpoints that you won’t go back once you reach the cap. Combine this with the on rail style of gameplay, and they still got more game breaking bug than GW2.

do you know GW2’s server has less down time since it release than a week of Swtor’s server maintance? That’s right, you got more downtime a week in Swtor than 5 weeks of GW2 since release!

And we have people complaining how buggy GW2 is because of a couple of bugged event and skill points.

Spending gold or rng is just a small part of creating the legendary.

What you are asking is to make anet to spoon fed the legendary to u.

The price of the weapons are driven by the supply and demand law. Its price keep risingbecause people can afford them at that price range. This is call infation.

If others can afford them and you cant, well, tough luck.

You think the high price part would make it legendary, yet making the weapons an option for most people as your title imply is legendary?

This is also why anet place the dr system in game. It is to prevent infation so the weapons wontbe 1000g by now. But i guessu are also one of those guys who complains about not getting enough gold because of dr?

O and please dont say gold sellers. Not many people can afford 400 usd to buy gold to get an ingame weapon.

so the OP took a gamble in mystic forge knowing it may not give back the sword he wants in return, took the chance, failed, and complain about it?

ok got ya.

Ravenmoon.5318:

I could care less for a boon, but with the increased duration they took my only combo field away. My build is fully on greatsword both in combat strategy and traits build. I used to make it so I could use the cleansing bolts and so my party members could shoot out remove conditions. I don’t really see retaliation as a good choice in PvE O_O
I have low health points, I run around in exotic knight’s armor so I don’t get hit that much and if I do I don’t have a lot of HP to withstand all that damage. It’s not like retaliation is absorbing and reflect x.x

I am just like the OP wondering why would they do this. I do feel a lot useless now in dungeons, not that I did much, I couldn’t tank mobs anyway, and now I get no bonus DPS and no combo field support. I’ll just make 3k+ damage with the whirl every few seconds, but basically every other class would out-dps that amount in 10 seconds.

So basically guardian is no good for DPS (with greatsword that is), it’s not a tank either and I want to ask, why did you really change this part.

Could you please think about switching the field’s boon to w/e I don’t really care, I just want my low CD light combo field bacl :| And no I’m not going to switch over to hammer if that’s your intend, i’d rather switch the profession. Hammer is granted a good DPS wep but it’s extremly slow and inefficient by my playstyle. I like to move around, and I don’t see how could I do that after all my skills go into CD.

I’d really like some input from someone at ANet, why would you increase the CD of the field.

My second weapon is staff and I do have light combo field with low reuse but
a) DPS is halved than what my GS can do
b) I get 10 seconds “reuse” of weapon swap
c) I don’t really want to use staff as my main wep, it’s extremely supportive, I don’t like it.

I used to win 2vs6 in WvWvW with my girlfriend thanks to the combo field and being almost always immediatelly cleansed of any conditions. Now THAT was nice. And I can assure you that I didn’t use the retaliation much in PvP. It was like, field -> whirl -> run to leap range because people start to run -> leap -> pull back to me -> whirl again -> Symbol again to cleanse any debuff and extra DPS from field damage -> repeat -> ??? -> profit
And now it’s gone v.v

telling Anet how you could 2 v 6 in wvw isn’t exactly a good way to disagree on a nerf…

fellyn.5083:

carson yuen.6739:

fellyn.5083:

But it doesn’t have to be. That’s the entire point of this thread. There is absolutely no harm in making a more fun and interesting way of getting those precursor weapons than just simply grinding out 200-300 gold and hoping someone doesn’t put one up on the market for twice the price it was going for yesterday.

I’m not sure why anyone would feel the need to defend things as they currently are.

it won’t be call legendary if it doesn’t follow the supply and demand rule

you are basically asking anet to make legendary not as rare as it is right now because you can’t afford to make one.

It’s not a question of me affording one. It’s a question of anyone who plays the game legitimately affording one. You could probably count the number of people in the game who have obtained 200g or more legitimately on the fingers of one had, right now.

I’m not asking for it to be made easier to get one and that’s all you guys seem to be reading. I’m asking for alternative ways to get them. Why is that so hard to understand? I don’t care if the grind is longer to get one than just straight up buying it with gold. That is not the point. The point is that I don’t want to have to rely on others to not be greedy kittens when they put them on the market for insane prices that maybe a very generous 1% of the game population will ever be able to afford.

And the precursor weapons are just 1 small part of what you need for a legendary weapon so I don’t even get how you can say “it won’t be legendary if it doesn’t follow the rules of supply and demand”. That doesn’t even make any sense. To me it would feel much more legendary if I went out and got it on my own than farming up or buying 200 gold and then buying it from someone else.

any legit source to support that people who can dash out 200g right now are all illegitimate?

you are making a pretty bold claim that people who are effecting the sword price all got their gold from illegitmate source. I would really think you should provide a reliable source to back up your claim before this discussion can be somewhat meaningful.

so, i had already explain this. Not many people can spend 200 bucks to buy golds just to buy that sword. Even if what you said are true and that those people bought golds to buy the sword, the price of the item will drop and neutralize once those people got theirs.

and no, just because you have 17 golds at lvl 80, it doesn’t mean other people can’t have 200g from playing the trade market/getting luck drops.

fellyn.5083:

But it doesn’t have to be. That’s the entire point of this thread. There is absolutely no harm in making a more fun and interesting way of getting those precursor weapons than just simply grinding out 200-300 gold and hoping someone doesn’t put one up on the market for twice the price it was going for yesterday.

I’m not sure why anyone would feel the need to defend things as they currently are.

it won’t be call legendary if it doesn’t follow the supply and demand rule

you are basically asking anet to make legendary not as rare as it is right now because you can’t afford to make one.

fellyn.5083:

carson yuen.6739:

Thats supply and demand for you op.

If other people can find a way to get those 200 golds and you cant, the problem is on you, not anet’s.

Even if u start to accuse people for buying gold, thats over 200 usd rigt there. When those rich people got what they want, the price will drop if its really that unfair.

And you already has a lot of karma to farm.

Good luck on your legendary.

Yes. Supply and demand. That is exactly the problem. The problem is there is so few of these weapons that they go up in cost daily. Yet literally everything else in the game world has such a huge supply that it’s going down in cost. Look at the market and tell me otherwise.

Things that sold literally last week for 3.5g now sell for 2.5g and are going down in value by the hour. Look at Orichalcum ore and orichalcum accessories, specifically.

As I said before, pretty much no one in the game right now who played legitimately has that kind of money or ever will playing the game the way Anet has made it. A very lucky few can make money off of gambling with the mystic forge yes. But everything else is going down in value.

things go down in value because of the amount of supply in the tp right now. The 200g sword is suppose to be a rare part of the legendary process, which makes its value going up right now.

I don’t see how this is a problem. If people can’t afford the price of the swords, the prices will drop.

if you think the supply and demand law is a problem… Well, you are out of luck because almost everything is ruled by this law, game or real life.

A moba mode in spvp would give players the end game they want….. Sort of

Goin to bump this up

Thats supply and demand for you op.

If other people can find a way to get those 200 golds and you cant, the problem is on you, not anet’s.

Even if u start to accuse people for buying gold, thats over 200 usd rigt there. When those rich people got what they want, the price will drop if its really that unfair.

And you already has a lot of karma to farm.

Good luck on your legendary.

Wvw and tryin to see the world.

I dont believe you have actually see every contents in pve two weeks ago. There are a lot of puzzles, hidden areas, and events all over the world. What keeps the content fresh is how you interact with other people.

Now the real question is what keeps you going in a at max level other than gw2, and 99% of the answer would be," to raid a day per week."

I prefer the gw2 model tbh

GenericBox.1923:

I am not comparing the health of the game during low-pop hours, these are peak times for both American and Oceanic players.

I log on during US peak, and log off after Oceanic peak – so as was my point – I see the population over an entire day, not just as a snippet.

Log on to Sea of Sorrows right now (plum in the Oceanic peak times) – and have a look around.

I know the standard decline for MMOs after release, I’ve played WoW launch, SWG launch, Rift launch, SWTOR and now GW2. There is a predictable pattern of player behaviour.

It shouldn’t be within a month of launch though, it is usually a 3 month point that the decline starts, before players return around 6 months.

This game won’t work like other MMOs because it doesn’t have the subscription incentive (people don’t feel driven to play it because they are paying for it) – so nothing can be said yet of its longevity until the 6 month point.

But until then it is declining much more rapidly than any of those other launches.

yes, the game is bleeding players rapidly because there aren’t enough people in the servers at 2:38 am.

i also find it funny that a player who averaged 10 hours a day of play time would complain about no contents for him one month after release. The only thing that seperates games like wow and gw2 is the raid lock out timer each week. It seems like people prefer a pve mode that only allow you to play once a week than playing anytime you want everyday.

you spent 300+ hours on a game that has released for a month. For people that can only play 2-3 hours a day, the contents could easily last for months until new contents come out.

nvm it’s a charrzooka :/…

silly me

Hi,

I just went to wvw and saw a charr warrior with a rifle. The rifle is longer than the fellblade my charr is using. The user won’t tell me the name of that rifle tho..

so anyone know what rifle is it? it looks amazing.

warriors aren’t that good in wvw. Your main damage comes from melee weapons, and we all know how well it goes in wvw.

Your only range weapons are long bows and rifle. Long bow without trait, has a pretty short range that requires to use your skills pretty close to your enemies. The long bow skills mostly require some loading time to use, which make it really slow. It’s useful in some battle, but most of the time you will find yourself doing very little damage compare to other range classes.

Rifles are better, but it can only deal single target damage and its damage is not really that good either.

Overall, don’t expect to suddenly wtfpwn people in wvw as a warrior. You will find yourself doing more support roles like using banners and shouts than using your awesome skills to kill your target.

In fact, with the same play style, guardian will actually allows you to live longer due to his surviablity and ultlity.

that guys who said guardian is good for manning seige weapons has a point. That’s the only thing soldier classes are good for in WvW if you want a lot of lootbags. He just didn’t tell you warrior would be doing the same thing in WvW.

ya we should play the way we want to play.

this is why Anet should allow bots.

o and why won’t anet make mobs drops 100g each because i want to play the way i want.

why can’t i get all the best gears at character creation? I want to play the way i want to play.

I swear… this play the way you want is getting stupid. What’s next? complain you can’t one shot people at lvl 1 because you want to play the way you want to play?

Blacklight.2871:

ANet changes their rules all the time, champ. Check the update notes to see just how much ANet has been changing things since launch, INCLUDING the requirements needed to craft legendaries.

Then ask yourself why there’s a suggestion forum if not for the community to voice their opinions about the game and what improvements they might like to see. And so long as I’m required to participate in PvP to fulfill any of my long-term game goals — goals that are not in any way related to PvP, I’ll continue to make suggestions otherwise. I hope that irritates a lot of the PvPers who keep reading these same complaints over and over. Just trying to share some of the “joy” I get from slumming in the Mists.

and i am just pointing you out that your suggestion is no different than a pvper complaining the legendary requires pve contents.

you can suggest all you want. Hell, people can suggest legendary should be drop from mobs because it would improve the game.

Maps and your postion rotates every week. There is almost no reason to claim it’s too hard to complete the wvw maps unless you don’t even want to bother to set foot in there.

you mean gw2 could have destroy wow if it becomes the same as wow?

like instead of shouting forming a group for ac, you will have to sit in town for half an hour looking for a healer and than half an hour looking for a tank?

would you like some gear treadmill with it?

I don’t understand, most of you guys come to gw2 because you don’t want to play wow. You are tired of playing the same combat systems for years, and tired of sitting in town waiting for queue… Yet you guys would come to gw2 expecting it’s a wow with public quest…

Blacklight.2871:

Kal.2376:

Not really, you are saying:

“I want the POI from that tower, but I’m not willing to put any effort to get it, but I do not want to wait for the chance that we have the tower either… I just want it handed to me”.

Get in there, get some people and take the tower. You can take a tower with less than 10 people with a well timed attack. Sure, that is not something that you can do by yourself, but it’s far from impossible even on undermanned servers.

Please stop making the mistake that those who don’t want to participate in PvP are somehow lazy or are unwilling to put in the same amount of effort as anyone else. I think for the most part, we’d be willing to put in a boatload more than the rest of you, so long as it doesn’t involve a mode of play we find particularly loathsome.

Neither dislike nor disinterest are indicative of laziness.

and pvpers would use the same argument in the pve contents, and how they shouldn’t require to go to pve to get the legendary because they don’t want to participate in pve.

legendary weapons is a reward for people who complete every aspect of the game they way Anet wants to. If you dont like go to to certain aspect of the game, you can always find other items to collect.

Anet set up a rule to obtain certain item, and it won’t change because you don’t like to do the stuffs to aquire it.

Saying whoever behind the system should be run over by a truck and then suggest the same group of people to listen to your proposal isnt the best way to make a suggestion.

Some areas’ respawn rste should have a second look tho, and the rate of dynamic event spawn due to the amount of players in the area should also have a relook.

Personally i think its too high when there are a lot of people and too low when there are no people….

come on Anet… tell us when it will be here…

I just find out my asura is too thin to make heavy armor look good… A appearance change kit would be a wonderful addition in the store…

and it’s not pointless. This will be one of the best income for anet in the store as soon as it comes out.

1. Tell ur friend to log in at 2 am during weekday.

2. Select ioj

3. Click transfer

4. Profit

Servers arent always full. You just need to wait past prime time.

Epic title……..

Ya

No you didnt…. At least according to the op.

Apparently thats the answer he gave me after telling him the exact same thing.

^The op’s answer would be because you didnt read a single thing he wrote.

So to sum it up, he doesnt want to put efforts in every main aspect of the game, yet he complains about not being able to get a legendary weapon because of it.

It’s like a pvper complains why he need to pve to obtain a legendary weapon……

Wvw is the end game for now. Its too bad if you dont like it. But i find wvw extremely enjoyable.