Guild Wars 2

Yesterday I read this and this post.
And while playing I came up with a interesting idea. I’m sure you already had some ideas like that, but who knows… :-)

I created a new topic because I would like to make clear this has nothing to do with precursors discussion I refered to, but of course it would also be an option. However:

People actually need something as reward to enjoy gaming. Now there is Karma, EP and Money and very rare drops. But you always get the same amount out of every event. So why should you move on to the next?

1) You introduce a new kind of token: a “World-Token”
2) For every small event/veteran you receive one, for every chain up to – lets say – three.
3) Now the trick is that you receive a token just once every two weeks or even month with a 100% probability for each of those events. If you repeat the event you can get one by random – maybe like the rare drop rates, salted with some crazy DR algorithm. ;-)
4) Now you create vendors that exchange those tokes into all kind of different stuff, like the consumables or any kind of “fun” items. As also for some more rare items. After all that would be up to you and it could be just absolute everything.
5) In addition you introduce very rare/interesting and of course expensive monthly items.
6) To circumvent the 250 stacks problem you can exchange tokens 1 to 10 and vice versa.
7) Everything is account bound. So you could say this month everyone can get Imryldyeen, but since it is account bound it would not influence economy for very long. This rewards should only reward playing content and absolute nothing else.
8) Also you can exchange this “World-Tokens” against Dungeon-Tokens, but at a level that is so low, that it is much easier to do dungeons instead. (Just to attach a lot of great content to those tokens)

In conclusion you could say that if there would be a reward that is only given once over a “long” period with some very interesting stuff as exchange reward and also monthly variation like with Nicholas Sandford people would have a reason to run around all of Tyria – even in starting zones.

You have created the content – now you just need to attach a reason to play it again and again and again!

Thanks for reading and have a nice day ;-)

florence.1674:

My husband offered a theory today. What are the chances that the people playing the TP with these precursors, are gold sellers themselves?

They will never tell us, but they will know. At least chance it is very high some folks are playing with desires. Before Lindsays warning post they just bought up all they could get, just because they could not determine it’s price – now after Lindseys warning you can always see at least one sword listed and now it looks like “they” try to test what people are willing to pay. Why not? I mean if I would have a ton of gold I would always keep up the highest buy order – cost no tax – and sell only for profit. While there is a low quantity this is a pretty safe business – and it is always profit – you cannot lose gold right now. In addition you can now get two dusk and two dawn at exact same price without 1c undercut – that’s makes pretty much no sense if it is not the same person… However like I said before it is just guessing in the wild. That the greatswords are primary used lies simply in the nature of gamers buying those weapons, but that’s another story.

I said I would not post on this topic anymore, but I like to add one thing – some of you are discussing since page one/two – always with the exact same arguments – maybe it is time to have a break and let others speak.

Cina Reas.6938:

No. You get vendor trash.

Me? Yeah I know -:)

So I complete my personal story aaaaand: 3 green level 80.

;-)

So if I played Arah Stroymode before “Victory or Death” I really have to repeat Storymode?

Edit: Yes…

I would really like to see those weapons as a result of a legendary journay through Tyria and execpt the precursor – I think – it already is very well done concept. On the journey you have to collect the stuff that you cannot buy and also some of the materials (like already very well described on the first page of this topic). At the end you buy the rest and so the gold you spend will be spread all of ther world, because everyone find some piece of these materials you need and they have a relative high quantity. So it is not concentred on one item and that is always good in a market driven economy. Also in addition you have to sink 100 gold for icy runestones – I think this is a lot, but you know it is always 100 gold and you also know in the end it is to keep the economy healthy and you know anetz receive it – not someone looking for other ways to create gold after the days of botting.

Pretty sad that the other 18k readers do not post what they think – it is always the same folks…

edit: last post for me on this topic – eating up to much time – however please give it a thought and stick a little more to your paradigm and make it achievable for everyone with the same or at least comparable amount of work and time. thanks.

Yeah you are right is is Dusk – my game-client is not english.

In any case, what exactly does that say?
I’m just thinking… I mean it was bought and listed within minutes… But I wont say more, because it is just guessing in the wild. And as OP said anetz is already watching.

Malediktus.9250:

Some precursor traders in this thread. Sad.

We will never know, but ultra rare highly demand stuff in the TP is a nightmare – you can dominate it pretty easy…

Minutes ago Dawn was in TP for 350 – now it is gone, but guess what – immediately someone lists it for 360.
Yesterday there were 2 Bifrosts and yet there are 7.
Doesn’t that – especially Dawn – say everything about who is overall in charge of the legends in TP?

Is it fun?

“If our model was subscription based, we might be spending all this time racing to add as much filler content as possible to keep players chasing the carrot. Instead, as content designers with the goal of creating fun, we get to spend this time refining our content and making it amazing.” – let time decide :P

the higher the level and rarity of the thing*s* – i guess nothing else is meant…

but what are 4 legendarys transformed to? ^^

Malediktus.9250:

Looks like precursors go up in price again. All 250g+ Dawns and even a 300g Dawn vanished from TP today.

The gap between buy and sell is so high that some folks will focus on controlling this – if you have enough gold it should not be as hard I guess. Why use bots if you can just turn a legendary chaser into a “bot” ;-) Would be really nice if one could see who those sellers buyers actually are. It is very strange that their are sometimes more than ONE 150+gold buy offers with exact same value. In the end only John Smith really knows the answer…

deathTouch.9706:

Are there others who obtained it legitimately as a result of performing services in the economy, satisfying supply/demand, cutting costs of manufacturing to increase profit margins, and invested broadly and intelligently in commodities? Yes, that’s what I did.

- – that’s absolutly not why I play a game and a legendary would give me a reason to play in different areas, complete map, wvw ,(…) I dont play to just battle an imaginary economy in front of the tp panel and to hope to be smarter then the rest… After all you’re just perform those action on some database rows – my life-time simply does not worth such actions – and time is the only resource that is constantly floating away… ;-)

Morkath.9702:

There are better ways than RNG if only you just used your imagination.

Absolutely it could even be harder but at least you would know – luck is everything but not “legendary” – maybe it should be named “Weapons of Luck”. Probability is never fair ^^

edit: I just read Is it fun? Yes absolutly – as long as you don’t think on a legendary ;-) A huge cheer to the dev staff and studio heads – I play no other mmo because it is more like occupational therapy then anything else – I stopped Anarchy Online when GW1 was released because of this attitude – you did a great job on breaking the rules and not following everyone else just because it is to much financial risk in creating something really new. but I still think you missed it with the legendary… Don’t you think that one for each account after story first completed would be even more fun ? Just imagine if everyone would receive a weapon everyone would have a reason to visit dungeons, wvw or explorer the map. Sounds like a lot more of fun to me :-)

I don’t know and I don’t care about such ways of money making I just play, but both were created by brand new accounts and both were removed from reddit. The first removed just the text and the second try deleted his account – maybe to remove its posts too – however he lost control over his content so he removed the google docs stuff I guess… all in all this is very strange and that is what me lead to think of market manipulation. I mean the “guide” says buy conduits/bags and we all know some people are heavy speculating on this stuff. And if “they” have some bots under their control they will raise the income. It is just I dont belive this was made out of good intentions… No matter if it works or not for at least a short period. If someone put such a lot of work into it why should he try to remove it as soon as someone asks for scam? It just makes no sense at all…

And that is what happend today on reddit:

The first try

The second try

What is really interessting is how much work is put into this stuff. It looks like there is a whole team on it. For the second try they produced two documents that are already removed from google – maybe to use somewhere else. But I saved them so if you like to take a look have a lot of fun and be aware if you see something again.
The data
The guide

@deathTouch.9706 if i read you posts i guess you just don’t want it because you own one(only ?) by yourself (…).
and that is exactly why I do not like those kind of weapons and stuff in mmos in general.
first it separates the player apart in two groups like this kind of conversations perfectly show. and secondly such high priced items in the tp leads to inflation since there is a huge gap between demand and offer which in addition obviously attracts “trader” and this both even affects players that never ever would think once about such a item.
for the tp this is from my pov actually very worse, because with mats some “traders” could not have such great market impact like it is right now. they constantly keep up buy orders and place sell orders high enough – so they will stay in control for very long time – after all it is always profit… there should not be such pricey items in the tp economy…
if i like the game i play it no matter if 50% own this weapon or 0.01% – but I do not need to agree to its mechanics that affect everybody – so i accept you think that way and please accept that most of the people probably dont think so and dont care how rare something is. all your posts will not change anything on those peoples attitude.
for me a game should be fun and luck is of course a good element to let people feel good – but right now the opposite is the case, because it also affects the unlucky.

Raiz.7402:

With that said, I would like to leave you all with the following attachment of a Image I found while scouring the internet, where a single person has multiple precursors in their inventory through god knows what type of method.

This indeed does not look very “normal”… If there is one person posting this picture there are for sure more similar out there… So all in all econonmy is already out of balance one month after release… wow…

Jagged Horror sound is still out of control and is not solved by Fixed a bug that made pet footsteps excessively loud, especially in water.

edit: also this bug is not any longer on your list but still in there.

“Night capping” would mean that the players capping doing this at night – I have no problem with it. But that is obviously not true when their timezone is up to 12 hours shifted from the servers local time. Thats not war thats unfair like your predator drones – after all it is a game nothing else, you make the rules and a game should make fun for everyone or people will lose interest sooner or later!

I’m a student so I can play at night from time to time, but I for myself already starting to notice that I lose my interest very fast. If that is not gone change and since you now said you wont do anything about it, it is pretty much clear for me that I won’t play any longer at night time under the week against such a server. My only hope is now that maybe if players start to boycott WvW the others will get bored to death – maybe in about a year… But well then I’m probably no student anymore…

Ps: Also I dont understand why you then seperate US and EU based servers. That somehow do not match..

just keep jumping and you will succeed – but watch out the follower not to die, because they will block you from your primary task – gl

“Is the **** idea I ever heard in the mmorpg history. :P
The next step will make a rose triangle near the avatar if the player is ****…”

This is for sure against forum rules and your account is you game account so you better watch your words.

I added your profile to my alternative collection. You can find more here or here.

In regard to the ongoing “chain discussion” I would guess from the devs post that a chain means an automated execution of more than one combat and/or movement related command with the result of a direct impact on the combat/game-state with just one single key pressed through yourself. Or in other words, don’t reduce the forced sequentiality that the default mouse/keyboard players have to deal with. So you can for sure overinterpret his words if you like to, but I guess it is not what he meant with “chain”.

Gz

I don’t think so, because it is just for 3 seconds with 10s cd and they could adjust the cooldown if it is not enough. So I do not see any problem with it. I mean if I apply a full set of runes it should be somehow usefull and I do not see how this rune is in current state – at least for me as a necromancer..

(6): When you use a healing skill nearby foes are chilled for 3 seconds. (Cooldown: 10s)

First I thought it is a bug that the rune is not triggered through regeneration skills, but from the wiki it seems that healing skills are just real healing skills.
Right now it is for my playstyle pretty useless in comparision to take 5/1 instead and so I would like to suggest the rune to be triggered also by regeration skills.

edit:I just had a look on all those runes – I did not know that there are that much with the same base – and I still think there is a little inbalance in those if you just say every “When you use a healing skill..” rune works the same way with all those different effect no matter if buff or condition. So after looking on all those runes my wish now seems a little bit special – please just consider to make superior runes effects a little more superior please… ^^

I’m no xpadder user, but you may find something here or of course in the world wide web ;-)

Yeah that is another problem and sure is also a reason, but if transfer cost money I think it will calm down – just a matter of time and if not anet will make a lot of money and that’s ok for me. ;-) I for myself and also others would never switch the server just for WvW and the problem even with very expensive transfer will still exist on some servers.

My suggestions are more related to give guild a opportunity and casuals players a timeframe to plan with.

Ok, here is what I would like to see in far future in WvW queue system.

1) You introduce a automatic ticket system, every guild member can apply as guild-player (maybe capped to i.e. 20 slots squads) or single player.
2) Then you assign a 24 hours slot. (Or 12 with the ability to choose a day/night slot based on time zones)
3) If a player with a slot is not playing the slot is given to normal queue.
4) If a player with a slot would like to join the player with no active slot and the longest playtime so far is removed after the next event or a grace period with warning.
5) Also a slotted player could remove itself from this slot if it is a period where he/she cannot play and some other person is assigned.

At current state it is obviously a huge problem to join wvw on some server if you are playing at daytime and only for short periods of a day. Also with longer matches and no kick regarding to match resets it is even more a problem. Hardcore players have an advantage and also guild have literally no chance at all. If guild members could apply for a ticket guild-wise the wvw matches would also get more interesting, because guild will organize. Also if I would know I got a ticket in three days I could plan on that and not waste my time with waiting and waiting and then logging out once and losing my current queue.

Just my two cents I’m sure you know this is a problem…

Edit:Please no server transfer discussions – this is not my point here!

The problem is that the right mouse button is pressed only if you touch your stick. Just press the right mouse button and don’t release it anymore. You need a right mouse button toggle functionality in your xpadder profile. You do not ever need to see your mouse cursor in a combat.

Lauren Hotson.5068:

Oh dear, I’m sorry. I should have better clarified. When it comes to weapons clipping through coats or other pieces of armor, it’s actually the armor itself that’s causing the issue. I suppose having you list the weapons was for naught. Basically all I need is which specific armor is having the issue. I’ve taken note of the armor you’ve listed and the issue will be addressed.

Sorry about that!

Well I’m looking forward to it – I really hate clipping ;-)

Skolops.2604:

This is also happening with the majority of all medium armors (not only the karma ones). The odd thing is that they seemed to work fine until about a week into the game, and then it showed up all of a sudden. It’s actually fairly annoying!

That’s somehow good to hear, because it means it can be sorted out ;-)

Lauren Hotson.5068:

JLBernardes.3048:

My male Charr thief’s pistol and dagger, when “holstered”, almost always clip through most of his leather coats that are on the longer side… Does this count? I can’t get a screenshot right now since I’m still at work, but it happens pretty consistently with a lot of different weapons and armor…

Yes, this is exactly one of the bugs we’re looking for. For this we’d need the armor names as well as the weapon names.

Now I’m a little confused, because pretty much every warhorn clips with human light armor coats and I’m sure you know it.
As example again like above Human, Male, Necromancer with Light Mortal Leggings of Grenth from left to right “Pearl Siren” HoM-Reward “Mountaincall-Warhorn” and best example I came across so far “Orrion Warhorn”. So I don’t see how you want to fix this, but since you are asking for ;-)

Ok I will start with my brand new armor:

Topic I created just today

- Screenshot is in the topic above. Screenshot in Hero Panel makes no difference same result, however I attached it.
- Human, Male, Necromancer
- Light Mortal Leggings of Grenth && Light Mortal Shoes of Grenth
- Keeper Jonez Deadrun [Karma-Merchant] : Cathedral of Silence : Cursed Shore

Hope you can do something, because I’m pretty sad about this…

Well of Corruption Thumbnail Bug

Maybe we should collect things that are not bugged? ;-)

ed:“Loot from monsters on group events is not dropped to Necromancers as often as to other players (lack of direct/fast damage output?).” => That’s very true, i.e. in orr events crit damage dealers kill everything in just a second and I get absolut nothing! However when it is 4 o’clock in the morning it drops like hell.. Very very unfair system for a DoT class I have to say..!

So I post this under bugs, because from my pov it is somehow.

I bought the light karma armor set. And I’m pretty happy with what’s above my waist and not really with what’s beneath. However I could live with it’s design, but now look at the attached image.

On the light lagging’s – one piece alone – the pants comes through the skirt. Also the shoes comes through. This is on both sides of my character, but it is more on the left (front perspective) than on the right.

I can understand this may happen if the character is moving and I also understand that weapons will never be perfect for every character. But if I buy a armor set I expect it to be solid and very especially not only one piece alone to produce such bad clipping failure and that if my character is completely standing still!

So my questions are:
1) Is this “normal”/expected and I have to life with it or transmute? I do not want to, but I also attach great value to my looking. Why the Fire God’s Light Vambrace is cutted of under the armor and not my pants/boots?
2) If not, is their any chance we could get an in-game character customization to sort this problems out through a taller character or smaller circumference of the leg?

I know you have more serious problems to face right now. But please could you give me a hint? I really do not want to transmute and I can wait… And I think I’m not the only one..

Thanks.

3 mail messages in 5 houres. please do something…

So is this just me or everyone?

time to merge

Yes this is a very serious problem.
Since release Jagged Hoors are very very loud. I play with the german language client, but this should not matter. All sound are way to loud/broken, this especially occurs under water. However it is double annoying because I cannot stop summoning of jagged horrors except I do not spec the line. If I could I would until this bug is resolved, because they not only loud, no they are useless too…
Please fix this asap.

Dear Arenanet,

could it be the Gold seller collected the usernames from this forum? I know it is probably not easy to change, but it would be a good idea if you could not see the numbers behind names in the forum as also ingame except you tell it the proper person or both have each other on friend list.

Just my two cents
Gz

Since a video can say more than thousands of words, lets start with a little recording of me playing guildwars 2 with a xbox 360 gamepad:

Guild Wars 2 with gamepad demo gameplay:
http://youtu.be/S4gWY_AZN5k

And here is my solution how you can play Guild Wars 2 with your xbox360 / ps3 or similar gamepad! I’m working on this profile since the very first beta! Sadly the solution is not based on freeware, but you can test it for 30 days and – from my point of view – even just a month worth the setup and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed – just maybe after the 30 days..! ;-) [There are also a lot of free solutions, some can also be found under the link below!]

All you need and more -> http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Mighty

Basicly all possible commands are mapped onto the gamepad. You have no real disadvantage in fights. It is not as easy to select a target and all the stuff you can do with a fast/precise curser, but in return you are a little bit more mobile. If you are in a group with mouse players, then just let them call the target!

I put a lot of information into the wiki page, however if something is unclear, then I’m glad to help right here.

Please note: This is a very complex and advanced profile. You can do absolute eveything the game offers witout a mouse or keyboard! You wont be able to play it fluent in one day, but I think it is managble in about a week. Concentrate on the important controls first.

Ps: Full HD 3D on TV with gamepad is just absolut amazing! To explain this comment – my TV has a huge input lag with 24hz, but with gamepad it is acceptable – a mouse would be a no go!

Pps: Is anet ok with it? Looks like: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Are-we-allowed-to-play-with-a-gamepad In addition I got not yet banned ;-)

Have some fun and play your way!

Would be interessting to know if all of you modified you sound settings? Today I played for 3! hours WvW without it. But before I joined in I set sound settings to fastest and most stable. This may be luck, but it may also be the reason, at least for me…

I’m also interested in how this work and if the current system is what it should be. I have two sigils one cost 1g and the other 30s. Now I’m not sure which to apply to my weapon, because I do not know the mechanic nor I can find any good information. All I know is that in current state only one stack will apply. Primary seems to be alphabetical. In a wiki discussion I read something about a bug, but I cannot find anything in the forums. In the beta you could stack twice as fast with two sigils of same kind, but that’s not working any more. Since you can wear two weapons it would be nice to stack two stacks or at least stack one for 12 and the other one for 13. However it lacks on any secured information… So please give us a hint. Not even in game tooltip gives any clue on that.. If I read the text it sounds like it would apply more than one stack… That’s absolutely not how a description should be, especially if I have to pay around 1g and then find out it won’t…

Please anet give us some statement on sigil stacking so we can plan…

Well i had this 6x but only in wvw and only in big groups all attacking something. also this caused 3 times a freeze where once exact after I took a karma boost… that is a serious problem if I pay money for a boost and I bug out of wvw and the events are also bugged I completely waste the money… I also set the audio latency to low and best quality, but I will change that now to the opposite… We will see..

Thanks. Just tested it and it is correct it does work and it is visible in the numbers popping up above your head, but it is not shown in the tooltip. It should at least be noticed in the booster description.

Have the karma booster an effect in WvW? I got 680 for veloka and I also know I got 680 for others without booster. Is this correct? I had not the time to take veloka again w.o. booster, but maybe someone knows the answer.

Thanks.

Wheatabix.6814:

Unfortunately, same thing happened to me this morning, the trading post should be closed for maintenance before anyone else loses all their money on non delivered items buys

I would not have lost anything if they had done this immediately after the first reports… If the problem is not reversable a lot more people will be pretty angry now.. I hope that it is still online means that my money is not gone forever..

all fine, but next time a clear statement or faster reaction would be nice..