Guild Wars 2

This may be the best post I have ever read ^^

That’s what the bank is for and, lucky for you, it’s right next to the mystic forge.

Wait, were still looking for a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist?

I didn’t get that memo…..

How about just adding a simple window where you enter the amount of items you want and click “yes”? Not sure why stuff like this wasn’t added in the big update we had in april.

Who comes up with this stuff?

How will a precursor in the 5k achievement chest reward varied and active gameplay? It’s pretty easy to 5k just spamming LS achieves and some of the easier/faster normal achieves.

Precursor acquisition isn’t suppose to be easy. If it was so easy, legendary weapons would be even less legendary than they already are, which at this point is already pretty low on the scale.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

cranked.3812:

1. No
2. Bugs only get fixed when they affect the LS or anything to do with the gem store, otherwise you are SOL.

that’s actually not true. If you show a dev the bugs/exploits (or tell them) they MUST check them out once they get to work. Several things have been fixed because of this.

Can’t tell if serious……

I have gotten a lot of Accuracy weapons out of the forge, so I agree with you OP. But, I did also get Dawn today so I won’t complain too much.

hannah mee.7925:

Lamir.6702:

hannah mee.7925:

I’ve never had this problem with Detha when I didn’t skip stuff and just killed things – Kholer, the gravelings and the oozes.

Although to “fix” the self-imposed bug, pulling oozes to kill Detha while the players stay out of the way and let her die sometimes works.

This bug should certainly be fixed, but if you don’t want Detha to bug in AC path 2, DO THE kitten CONTENT.

“Self-imposed bug.” I like the way you think.

The bug only happens when you skip content. I’ve had an undeniable 100% success rate by killing stuff. So yes, it’s self-imposed.

Are you referring to skipping kohler or something else?

CLAP CLAP CLAP

Best troll ever…… OR…… ?

1. No
2. Bugs only get fixed when they affect the LS or anything to do with the gem store, otherwise you are SOL.

Mityr.1320:

In the case of dawn/sunrise u will have around 1400g profit if u craft the legendary and sell. But only if u have the precursor already. Remember u need 1500 gold to invest also.

You won’t make 1400 gold profit. Even if you get the precursor as a drop, it still has value and can be sold for whatever the going rate is at the time.

phys.7689:

essentially its a dishonest practice used to manipulate peoples behavior, however, as far as i have heard, its not illegal.

So is about anything you see on TV, so I guess it certainly would not be illegal then.

Behellagh.1468:

Except there are players who insist that certain rewards should only be attainable from doing certain content. Devs too. So those rewards that are only offered during for doing LS content is make account bound so players who don’t do that content can’t simply by themselves one. It would be like buying an Oscar or an Olympic Gold Medal.

Your example is extreme but I see your overall point.

OTOH, they make way too much stuff account/soul bound. Their logic on some things seems pretty random and unnecessary.

I agree with Buttercup, changing the drop rate of t6 mats to keep the prices in line is very easy to do for anet and is NOT a good argument against this idea.

Purple Miku.7032:

I still think they should add the option to enter a password/captcha to your LFG posts. I’m not sure if the problem is just as prevalent in NA servers as EU, but 99% of the people who join your party won’t have read the LFG before joining your party in EU.

I wish they’d all get permanently banned but obviously that won’t ever happen lmao

It’s the same everywhere. Literacy and/or common courtesy is apparently too much to ask.

@The thread: They should definitely add this feature. I think it would actually save us from most of these elitist jerk complaint threads by making it so people actually get to play with the people they want to group with. With people’s inability or unwillingness to read and respect others wishes, the easiest way is to have an in game option to filter people out of groups before they even join rather than “interviewing” them which only leads to arguments, fighting and threads being created here out of anger.

HardRider.2980:

AH yes.. how dare other players from other countries dare play this game and speak a different language.
As an Englishman and speaker of the great language.. I don’t mind it.

What are you talking about? All the OP wants is to be able to play with people he can understand and communicate with. Is that really so much to ask?

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Phoenixlin.8624:

Good for you. But as an Englishman and speaker of the great language, I want to play this game with people that I can communicate, not random intelligent life forms.

As someone who is not English, I actually find this kind of offensive.

Oh boy, someone is offended. That didn’t take long. You people are blowing this thing way out of proportion from what the OP is saying. He/she just wants to be playing on a server with people he/she can communicate with. Where is the problem here?

They (anet) have a habit of doing this with recipes. Maybe they just pull numbers out of a hat to decide the quantities of ingredients used in some of the recent recipes.

It reminds me of this comedian Brian Regan, he did a bit about the serving size of Fig Newton’s. The joke was the serving size is like 2 newtons. So he is pretending he is the guy in the factory talking to another employee going “Hah, I put this serving size on the package as a joke but it went out like that….”

Kind of how these recipes are made. Someone writes it up as a joke but it “accidently” goes out like that.

Not sure who the target audience is for your post. If people don’t even understand how the basic TP interface works between selling to highest bidder or listing it yourself, what hope do they ever have of making any money flipping?

Carighan.6758:

cranked.3812:

I think doing something like that every three months would keep people much happier in the long run.

But independent of what you think, WoW clearly did the long-term experiment and showed a very significant ebb-and-flow based on patch and expansion releases.

Why does everyone feel the need to compare everything to what WoW did/does. It’s a totally different game that was P2P. You can’t really compare the two games.

Carighan.6758:

What I find interesting is that there seems to be an expectation that ANet should pump out content much faster, but it sounds as if this expectations comes from an observation somewhere else.

Well, anet does pump out “content” on a fairly regular basis so, I suppose, people get the expectation from that. They release new stuff every 2 weeks.

What the OP, and many others like him/her, are trying to say is make the content better and/or release it differently so it appeals to more people and isn’t such fluff every time. I think many people are getting sick of the two week schedule that just doesn’t deliver anything quality and re-playable.

I think twoscoops ^^^ summed it up the best and hit the nail on the head.

Also, to those who think that releasing a new map and a new dungeon will make people bored in a week instead of two hours, you are sadly mistaken. I think doing something like that every three months would keep people much happier in the long run. Or how about spending the time to actually fix some of the major bugs in the game or fixing the dungeons that are broken and/or maybe add to them or change them up a bit. How about anything besides what we have now.

Dual.8953:

cranked.3812:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I read like one paragraph and decided it wasn’t worth reading the rest. Something about hambow veterans and learning from them or something.

My exact sentiments.

@OP: This game could use some actual challenging content, I agree, but the reality is the majority of the player base doesn’t want that. Most of the people want to log in, spam 1, collect their reward and log off. It’s a sad reality.

If you read it through, the OP wrote this well aware of that. He means for content for the players who find the reward in the challenge rather than the reward.

Personally, I’d just like a few dungeons where you couldn’t play like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQQ3ABebbw

OK, but what I said was the majority of the player base doesn’t want that. From anet’s perspective, they aren’t going to add content for a small section of people, most of which likely don’t spend money in the gem store to support the game anyway. (Not to mean that in a bad way) I don’t like it anymore than the next guy/gal here, but sadly, they aren’t likely to add said content any time soon, if ever.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I read like one paragraph and decided it wasn’t worth reading the rest. Something about hambow veterans and learning from them or something.

My exact sentiments.

@OP: This game could use some actual challenging content, I agree, but the reality is the majority of the player base doesn’t want that. Most of the people want to log in, spam 1, collect their reward and log off. It’s a sad reality.

Barbarka.9362:

maha.7902:

Tears.5627:

I miss the feel The Deep and Urgoz Warren had in GW1. I was just thinking how neat it would be to have a dungeon that puts a constant debuff on you until you down the boss of the section. I would be especially excited to see a dungeon like this that specifically murders the META groups that just copy and paste everything they see online to farm this game of any fun for casual player or players that don’t want to be limited to 3 classes just to shave off 2 minutes a run.

This doesn’t sound like someone extremely bitter about people who they don’t even play with and wants to offer a terrible suggestion to punish them for no logical reason.

Not at all.

Maha why do you even post anymore… You mad BRO? Cause people laugh at your corner camping.

Maha’s point to the OP is, you shouldn’t come in here with poor suggestions because you are mad that you were excluded from a group that you don’t fit into.

This is just another "I got excluded because ‘X’ reason threads. How many times do people here have to say it: MAKE YOUR OWN GROUP. Do you even realize how easy that is? I can make a group anytime with any description and it fills in minutes. Stop complaining here and put some effort in.

EDIT: Attacking him in a personal matter makes you look even more childish.

It’s no different than any of the other 500 bugs that are still in the game that they refuse to fix. The devs don’t actually fix dungeons anymore all they do is make them more tedious, i.e. removing wp’s, adding more dredge, so on….

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Laurel vendor sells them too.

Yeah at what cost though? Price would have to get pretty high before that option became viable.

1. Yes they all provide the same amount of levels no matter the craft.

2. You get 7 levels going from 0-400 and 3 levels for 401-500 for a total of 10 levels.

3. Correct, it doesn’t matter what level you start at, you will always gain the 7-10 levels depending on if you go to 400 or 500 respectively.

It’s cheaper to craft it yourself, depending on the value you put on karma and your time that it would take to do world completion, which isn’t really all that bad doing it one time.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

cranked.3812:

Still can’t tell if this is an actual complaint or troll thread…..

I would call it a valid complaint, but small things like this really bother me as well.

I wouldn’t exactly call it a valid complaint since it is just some icon on the screen that happens to be displayed incorrectly.

With all the broken things and bugs in this game is this something that should actually get any type of real attention?

Duke Darkwood.4237:

250 isn’t bulk enough for you? You can scrap it by the stack, and I don’t see why you’d ever have more than one stack taking up inventory space; even if you get thousands of dust a day, it should only ever take one

Not sure if serious…..

But, he was being sarcastic based on the fact that anet decided to hand out a disproportionately large amount of dust compared to the other ascended mats that are needed for crafting.

Still can’t tell if this is an actual complaint or troll thread…..

TChalla.7146:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Zypher.7609:

thaooo.5320:

$200 on gems? Wow.

That alone is more than 3 traditional expansions, except GW2 has no expansions, nor does LS even add up to one, since it was temporary and done in an hour each time.

It’s also more than a traditional yearly subscription!

I’ll never understand why people do this.

Never judge what people spend their money on. That could easily be an hour of work, or 8 hours of work. But the enjoyment that can come from that, even if it was 8 hours of work, if that saves him/her from having to grind 20-30 hours in the game isn’t that worth it?

I’ll judge them all I want thanks. People like this are why we don’t get actual content anymore and just fluff. They are directly impacting my game experience, so I will feel free to judge them.

You’re absolutely right about this. They do directly impact your game experience, since without their monetary help, the game would completely stall and servers would eventually go down. Having said that, I feel the need to say thank you to the OP.

THANK YOU!

You could look at it from the other side of it. Like say, if people wouldn’t spend so much on gems which shows anet solid support for what they are doing, they would be forced to create real lasting content in the form of an expansion to make money. IMO that would be better, but to each his/her own I guess.

Riondron.1069:

silvermember.8941:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Riondron.1069:

So, you gave us the option to buy the Bone pick again, but only for 7 days???
I’m am sorry if I sound a bit sarcastic here, but not everyone has immediate access to either gold-for-gems, or real world money during that seven days. Some people get paid bi-weekly, or even monthly, or just simply cannot afford to drop some cash during that 7 day period. It’s things like this that make players angry and disenfranchised with the game.

If $12.50 USD is breaking your weekly budget, you have bigger problems than a convenience item in a computer game.

I don’t necessarily agree, because you assume something doesn’t just bring up that makes having 12.50 USD bank breaking. But I will say that, I agree breaking your weekly budget over a game shows a lack of priorities.

Umm…u both do realize that I was not referring to my own personal finances, right? True, 12.50 shouldn’t be bank breaking, but not everyone plans to have money to spend that week based on a random sale for a video game’s goods. There are many walks of life that play these games, not just rich/young/college/high school/poor/welfare/basement dwellers/handicapped/ etc… and anet cannot possibly expect players to the be able to drop cash at random on a whim. Some players can easily do this, but I am guessing that most can’t, or won’t. My Real point to all of this, is that if they can keep the same cook’s outfit, finishers, buffs, copper-fed-salvage-o-matic on the gem store constantly, then why not the gathering tools?

Grimm’s point is if there is ever a period of time that you can’t just drop $12.50 on a video game, you probably shouldn’t be buying that item anyway as the money is more likely better used elsewhere. And to your point, I would imagine that more players than not by a larger margin are able to spend that kind of money on a whim.

If you really want these items, buy gems when you can and save them for these moments. By now, everyone should know these random sales come up from time to time.

sounds pretty profitable to craft legendaries as long as you have the karma/SP and so forth.

Before I start, I know forging isn’t the best idea (RNG and all), but I have two questions both of which I feel like have been answered before but I can’t find them.

1. Is there a consensus on whether it’s more effective to use exotics as opposed to rares? I know it all boils down to RNG, but is there any real good research that has been done to give a more definitive answer from a cost/# of tries point of view?

2. Can you use 3 exotics/rares and 1 mystic forge stone and still get a precursor? If so, do the odds change? Basically, does the MF simply treat the stone as a level 75 item?

TIA

kuittaa.7360:

laokoko.7403:

It should automatically sell it to the lowest bidding.

Not long ago we had forum poster saying that he didn’t understand why he can’t sell an item for whatever price he wants, and he said there were “full maps” of people with the same mindset. Well, now they can, and they should be happy for that.

The point is, no matter what Anet does, they can’t please everyone.

So, rather than pleasing the majority of the player base, they should please the 5 people who actually want to sell lower than the highest buy order? That’s a terrible defense for Anet’s solution to the “problem”.

It really does seem like, as was mentioned above, Anet just doesn’t know how to code it properly so they take the easiest path and set themselves to ignore mode.

That’s a shame. Anything they are actually good for if you don’t play wvw? Looking to spend them. Stuff I can buy and maybe give out to commanders? What things do they want/need?

What is the best way to do this? Someone told me to buy rares and salvage but I don’t see a vendor. Anyone have some good ideas.?

TIA

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-041514/

Punishing content? You mean anything that doesn’t require you to spam 1 while watching TV?

Seriously, if anything this game needs a heck of a lot more difficult content.

Aphrodesiac.2913:

Before I go on, please read this in a mostly joking tone.

1) Buy only Berserker gear.

2) Archers suck.

3) Engineers suck.

4) Necros suck.

5) Staff Guardians suck.

6) Stack, pull, stack, pull, stack, boss, next.

7) Eles must conjure and must stack might.

8) There are 3 ways to stay in a group but 840495847204857392948.48 ways to get kicked from one.

9) Lilith knows fashion.

10) For every 1 sensible poster, there are at least 5 or more to counter-act it.

11) Gotta blame ANet.

12) Pugs are always completely and utterly terrible but you’re the only good one in your group.

13) Your opinion is the only one that should matter. If anyone tells you otherwise, ignore their “evidence”, attempt to talk circles around them, convince them that they’re wrong and insist that your view is the only valid option. Ever. Period. Kapeesh?

-Coming Soon-

Adaleine’s Fractal Adventures w/ MS Paint.

Well, technically you can blame anet for 1-8, it is their game design after all.

10 & 13 is every singly forum in the history or the interwebz.

Most likely there for when jewel crafting goes to 500.

maha.7902:

And now remember that your average player isn’t going to have the DPS to endure the burning because they’re not optimised. People need to stop trying to think of obstacles for optimised teams, because all you’re doing is amplifying the difficulty for pugs and ramping it up to 11 while giving speed runners like a 2 second speed bump with these “anti-stacking mechanics”.

Once again, people trying to identify a problem that doesn’t exist and offering poor solutions.

Pretty much this^^

/thread

Wasbunny.6531:

For those of us that actually play GW2 and have constructive ideas relating to the topic please post these. This is a great place to brainstorm ideas which could improve the game for all of us.

For those who do not play the game and therefore have no constructive input, well I would respectfully ask that you find something else to do.

Translation:

If you agree with my point of view, feel free to post. Otherwise keep quiet, especially if you don’t log in much anymore.

Ooh another one of these threads. Why don’t you pro duelers just keep this stuff all consolidated into one thread?

I don’t care one way or the other about dueling because I wouldn’t use the feature, but I still think anet’s time would be better spent on fixing other parts of the game that are broken before introducing another, broken, bug-ridden feature that, I think, only a small percentage of the population would actually use.

Flissy.4093:

Statistical upgrades are objectively worth it when gold is plentiful in the game with nothing but cosmetics to spend it on.

Pretty much this ^^

Once you hit level 80 and play a while, you get to a point where there isn’t much to spend gold on except ascended stuff. It’s just a further progression to work toward as an end game activity.

The only way it will change is if they are needed for something to do with the LS arc. Your best chance is to hope for that.

Tarediiran.2840:

Apparently starting a dungeon and sitting on your bottom while everyone else steamrolls the dungeon is grounds for banning, so that’s why I asked. Ty for reply though, question answered

I never heard of anything like that so I don’t believe it to be true. People are kittens to each other in dungeons all the time with actual verbal abuse and no one ever seems to get banned so I wouldn’t worry about that too much.

Having said that, I know people (you) have busy lives but going afk from time to time for 3-10 minutes? Seriously? Almost any path can be done in 20 minutes or less by even the worst of groups. Either allocate the time to finish a path or wait until you have the time.

Glowdeggel.2613:

Is there already a possibility to check which paths i have already completed? One year ago ANET has posted that they are working on this.

Their still “working” on a lot of things after a year.

Gunsnroll.2657:

Quiver.
But why wasting money to make them ? If it is for stat, do it with fractal relics. If you don’t have fractal relics because you don’t do fractal, you don’t need an ascended back.
The stats they offer are not worth the price of the mystic forge ones, and the stats from the exotic/rare or green won’t make the difference.

It isn’t necessarily a waste considering a large portion of the end game in gw2 is making your character look “cool”.