Guild Wars 2

I agree with the OP for sure – dredge was one of the longer ones to start with. I’m sure ArenaNet doesn’t want people using bugs and exploits, but if people are forced to use them to make it through the dungeon in a reasonable amount of time, consider altering the mechanics if you’re going to prevent the exploits.

We ran dredge last night and with the new champion dredge mine room spread out so much and not stacking areas, it made it really really difficult with a decent group. So you’ve got a number of really time consuming aspects to the dungeon, plus that dredge champion room/ bomb lead up that takes forever and is reasonably difficult, you’re making a total fractal run up to 2 hours in length, which is excessive.

Agree with draxxynic – I like that you can log right back in, but it’s a pain in the kitten if you can’t plan accordingly, and get booted from a fractal or something when I was supposed to have enough time.

To make it simple do one of two things:
1. Either make it more ambiguous by saying: “there will be a new build in the coming hours”
or
2. Stick with your actual announcement of “new build within the next 1-2 hours” AND ACTUALLY FOLLOW YOUR OWN TIMELINES

Even better, option 3 – say a time it’s going to come down, and take the servers down at that time.

It’s total crap that you don’t follow any of these 3, but rather:
1. Give a vague time of new builds
2. Don’t even follow your own timelines
3. Give minimal warning (2-3 minutes??) when you’ve clearly just lied about your timing

Total crap. Just had a message ~30 minutes ago saying “a new build will be available in the next hour or two” which is vague and lazy enough as it is, but then to not even make it within 1-2 hours?

Seriously poor customer experience. Really, really bad.

I can’t honestly believe that a game so great could have developers that send out a game-wide message, and then don’t even stick to it.

Really terrible.

okay call it what you want – “orb of blood” or whatever.

Uruz Six.6594:

dbgamer.3407:

0/54 southsun crates – countless hours.

Nope, you’re right – doesn’t hurt the player base

So you have no counter to my argument, just griping over playing the lottery and coming up short. Well alrighty then.

Sarcasm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

0/54 southsun crates – countless hours.

Nope, you’re right – doesn’t hurt the player base

Canakun.8031:

Vampirial.9056:

Canakun.8031:

Just an fyi to those of you with a vendetta against ANet about this…
The gem store and it’s products is NCSoft, not ANet. Stop being mad at the company that made the game…and better yet, don’t even be mad at NCSoft, because the cash that’s gone in to these crates (and other things) have given them enough to give the nod for a GW2 expansion.
If you don’t have a job and your mum is getting tired of you using her credit card, then just don’t go for these appearance-only items. You’ll live.

For the record I spent $40 of the cash that I earned from working on the game, because the game is worth it in my opinion. Not only that but knowing that my purchases haven’t gone to nothing and that it’s helped fund an expansion, I’m actually happy.

Last i knew most of the profit from the gem store went to NCsoft and funded their other MMOs? But maybe i was mislead somewhere?

Yeah, the profit goes to NCsoft who then decide what to do with it. Because the profit from the gem store in GW2 was so good, they decided to use that money to fund an expansion for the game which I guess would in turn equal more profit?

dbgamer.3407:

Canakun.8031:

Just an fyi to those of you with a vendetta against ANet about this…
The gem store and it’s products is NCSoft, not ANet. Stop being mad at the company that made the game…and better yet, don’t even be mad at NCSoft, because the cash that’s gone in to these crates (and other things) have given them enough to give the nod for a GW2 expansion.
If you don’t have a job and your mum is getting tired of you using her credit card, then just don’t go for these appearance-only items. You’ll live.

For the record I spent $40 of the cash that I earned from working on the game, because the game is worth it in my opinion. Not only that but knowing that my purchases haven’t gone to nothing and that it’s helped fund an expansion, I’m actually happy.

Do you think that ANET had nothing to do with the gem store? that another company just randomly dropped in and started selling stuff? of course not. ANET has absolute say in this…

ANet DESIGNS the items that go into the store, yes. But the gemstore is hardly their jurisdiction. NCsoft is the development company and they are the company in charge of the gemstore.

Dude that’s like saying McDonald’s isn’t responsible for their beef patty because they don’t farm the cattle.

If it’s in their game, they’re responsible.

*edit – re-read your post and while you have a point about NCsoft – I don’t think ANET is absent of blame here.

Canakun.8031:

Just an fyi to those of you with a vendetta against ANet about this…
The gem store and it’s products is NCSoft, not ANet. Stop being mad at the company that made the game…and better yet, don’t even be mad at NCSoft, because the cash that’s gone in to these crates (and other things) have given them enough to give the nod for a GW2 expansion.
If you don’t have a job and your mum is getting tired of you using her credit card, then just don’t go for these appearance-only items. You’ll live.

For the record I spent $40 of the cash that I earned from working on the game, because the game is worth it in my opinion. Not only that but knowing that my purchases haven’t gone to nothing and that it’s helped fund an expansion, I’m actually happy.

Do you think that ANET had nothing to do with the gem store? that another company just randomly dropped in and started selling stuff? of course not. ANET has absolute say in this…

another idea – a bloodstone focus that actually makes your whole hand drip blood – or fix the current one to look like that.

Broke down and bought 10 more crates – and have got 3 more from the beach.

0/48.

Thanks ANET

Thank you ANET.

I’m sure you this was in the works well before my post, but I’d like to think you listened:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

I think that the reliance on swapping to specific weapon sets for swiftness, and the imbalance of certain classes having access to swiftness more frequently than others (mesmer comes to mind), demonstrates the need for a more unified approach to swiftness.

I think it would be absolutely awesome if you were to implement a legendary type quest to attain a pair of swiftness boots. J-boots from EQ come to mind.

I’m sure others would agree.

Update – got 5 more crates over the last 2 days, with nothing but crap in them.

0/35 on the tickets from the crates, with countless hours of grinding.kittenRNG

ScottBroChill.3254:

Been doing southsun since yesterday and got two southsun crates. the second one had a scarlet weapon claim ticket. I hope this makes you all mad because your complaining about random chances being too random because you want to be guarenteed to get it, but it isn’t the point. It’s a rare weapon that you don’t really have control over whether you get it or not. Farming more or playing more or buying more from the gemstore won’t guarentee you getting it. That’s the beauty of random chance.

I personally enjoy getting random weapons like this. It feels special. I know that not any little jabroni can go and get it from grinding and only a certain amount of people will have it. And for me, this system works better for me. SAB had the same thing, but they also had the ability to farm currency for it. Well I didn’t have the time to get all the babbles or whatever they’re called so I couldn’t get one of those sweet hologram weapons. I didn’t get lucky that event, but i did this event and that’s the luck of the draw i guess.

But I don’t condone this for legendaries because the grind is so absurd it’s an impressive feat. Legendaries need to keep their reputation of being hard to obtain through a lot of time and work.

LOL of course “this system works better for me”. You got a ticket on your second crate. And you’re proving everyone’s point – it’s completely random. No matter how much grind you put in, you theoretically wont be rewarded for your efforts.

Agree with Deathdance.

It’s pretty idiotic for everyone to be saying “you’re playing the game wrong” and “you don’t need new skins, it’s all about gameplay and dungeons blah blah”.

Everyone plays the game for their own reasons, so you can’t say that people wanting a skin are doing it wrong.

The arguments aren’t about which game aspects are the right to attain, it’s that attaining certain parts are being made nearly impossible for some because of RNG and a limited time event.

If you’re going to introduce an aspect of the game that you want people to work to attain (whether it be dungeons, or guild missions, or gear, or titles, or ANYTHING) give them a reasonable chance to attain it, not based on RNG that can totally screw a number of people who have bad luck, despite the hours and hours they dump into it.

If ANET did this with legendaries, people would be losing their minds. This is a smaller scale of the exact same principle. Legendaries are difficult to attain, but at least with hard work and enough time, you can get them done by your own efforts (lets not talk about wvw map complete).

Yep, agree here too – if you introduce something in the game, it’s reasonable to make people work hard for it. It’s NOT reasonable, however, to make people work hard for a random chance of getting something.

Change up the mechanic ANET, as you can see, some people are getting the tickets on their first or even 10th try, and some people aren’t getting them on 70+.

There’s a serious problem.

I agree about the earn it sentiment too – but if your server is never in the green position, and you can’t get a team to storm certain keeps, it’s impossible to get world complete, earn or not.

hoping this is in the next patch – when do they switch the maps? every week with patch?

is there DR of loot though? or is it just tokens?

I have a question about diminishing returns with regards to loot. If I farm CoF, for example, and after 5 or 6 runs I’m experiencing DR, then switch to another dungeon, will I see DR on loot in the other dungeon (say, TA)?

Yep, you’re right. It’s unfortunate, but that’s really the only solution

And Tolunart, I don’t completely disagree with you, I’m just saying I don’t think it’s the best model, as it allows people to get out of control.

Yes but Max, why would they introduce something that presumably they want people to work to get, and then make it so difficult to actually attain? You’re right, they’re not twisting ANYONE’s arm to go do it, it’s entirely up to us. But if you have an event for 1 month only, and make it nearly impossible to get the item, what’s the point of introducing it?

99% of the time when I run into the final boss room in P1 of CoF Exp, I have to manually switch my weapon set in the hero window. I usually run greatsword and sword/horn. When I’m running in from the second last room, it happens just about every time.

think it would be cool to get a “Weapon Master” title once you complete all of the achievements in that category.

I never said I need it. I said it’s very very very difficult to get for most players. I don’t understand why ANET implemented it this way, aside from forcing players to purchase a large quantity of gems to take a CHANCE of getting these items.

Yes, but if we use your example, a bartender will stop serving someone if they’ve had too much to drink.

Also, in SWTOR, you get a monthly set of coins if you sub yes, but there are other ways to get the items than just the RNG – you can trade for them, and don’t need to buy extra coins.

Completely agree with you tolunart – people need to be responsible for their own actions, however, when you hear that people are spending $200+ on RNG items and still not getting them, it’s crazy, and out of control. I think ANET should re-think the way their RNG items are done.

I think SWTOR has a better idea with a monthly allowance of cartel coins (or black lion keys if you want here) and have the items be tradable, so that people have multiple sources of attaining them.

I think it’s a step past effective marketing.

Danikat.8537:

Because every time they make one of these RNG boxes a handful of idiots spends about $200 each on them. Even people who spend a “reasonable” amount probably pay more than they would if it was a straight sale.

As long as that keeps happening they’re going to keep doing it for 2 reasons: 1) it’s profitable and 2) they’ll look at number of complaints on the forum vs. number of boxes sold and conclude that a vocal minority don’t like them but the majority do, even if it’s actually a minority of players buying huge numbers of boxes.

Basically your best option is to stop buying them and hope everyone else comes to their senses and does the same. And until they do there’s plenty of other cool weapon skins in the game.

It’s profitable – but it’s irresponsible.

By allowing this kind of addictive spending and making things so rare you’re hurting your player base.

and the event only lasts a month, right? it’s not like this is over a year

any updates on this? any word from ANET?

What’s the approximate drop rate for the southsun crates? and then what’s the RNG rate to get a ticket from the crates?

It seems like ArenNet has made it next to impossible for casual and even most hardcore gamers to get a ticket without purchasing a ton of tickets.

I think it’s ridiculous that the drop rates are so low that a casual gamer who really wants the weapon skins, are screwed.

I’ve spent probably 10+ hours farming the crates, and have gotten maybe 10-12 crates, with no ticket drop. I’ve also been frustrated and purchased 20 crates with no tickets.

This doesn’t seem to be achieving the goal of (I’m assuming) giving your players new content.

The same was with the molten weapons. I understand wanting them to be rare, but leaving it up to RNG and really low drop rates is punishing players.

Most of the time (I’d say 75%+) when I right click on someone’s name in the chat window, I am unable to invite or join someone’s party, even the person I’m inviting is not in a party.

The most recent instance of this was last night, in LA, I had 2 people in my group, and tried to invite a guildy to a group I had going by right clicking on their name in the chat window. No option to invite the person appeared, despite repeated right clicks, and regardless of their name’s position in the chat window (even after it was moved up a number of spaces).

This happens all the time.

Check out this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Uncontested-Temple-of-Balthazar/page/51#post2008834

SilverWF.4789:

DevonCarver.5370:

This has been changed to once per account per day.

Very-very bad.

Agree – this is going to make it very very very difficult for the non-pvpers to get their gift of battle. The jumping puzzles were a risk as it is in wvw by doing a task within a ‘warzone’, so before anyone jumps all over me, I’m just saying I think there are other things that could have been done first (like making it impossible to portal people up in EB, or doing a DR type of thing, or reducing the number per chest). By removing them totally, it’s going to make it extremely difficult.

it’s not too bad if you can type the player in invite window but the problem is if people have special characters – you’re essentially screwed, or they have to type your name in and join.

It’s a very useful feature, but the fact that it doesn’t work so frequently is a bit pain.

hmm.. okay thanks guys, all good to know

ah – great point. That point got past me. I will try again with either peach tarts, or ensure I have a boon on.

Thanks Lexy.

Has anyone else noticed an issue with the right-click invite function? I’d say only about a third of the time it works when I right click on someone’s name in chat to try to either join their party or invite them, especially when they’re the last person to say something in the panel.

My ‘suggestion’ in this case would be to fix this.

It was in PVE. The above paragraph does help, but it doesn’t explain why the value in my hero panel was changing.

I had the same gear on the whole time. the only difference was that I had varying stacks of luck depending on if I was downed, but I accounted for that (15% up or down would be expected with the superior sigil of luck).

For the same period of time I had my gear static (so assume that wasn’t a factor) and I had the chocolate omnomberry cream, guild MF banner, and bonfire magic find boost. I had no other buffs, and yet sometimes my MF was, as I said, in the high 170-200 range, and sometimes it was down in the 130-150 range.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Does MF have a diminishing return or something? I’ve noticed that mine seems to fluctuate up or down by between 30 and 50 points when I’m in the same gear, have the same buffs, and have the same number of stacks of Luck…

I don’t get it. One minute it’s 210, the next it’s 170, the next it’s 150

So maybe I’m missing something – but if your server is kinda crap at wvw, how are you supposed to get the vistas from the green sections in the WvW maps if they’re never open?

I’ve been waiting for over a month now for those areas to be open, or for a group to to siege them with, but no dice.

Completely agree with ZBeeblebrox.

This is a video game, but they should be treating it with better corporate responsibility. This isn’t a lottery – and ANET should have checks and balances in place to ensure that people like the poor bugger above don’t spend $250 on something they don’t even get. This can get seriously carried away. If it was more like the SWTOR cartel packs, where you can at least go and trade the random item you get to someone for what you actually wanted, that would be one thing, but to allow someone to spend $250 and get NOTHING back in return is completely irresponsible.

Perfect! thanks for letting me know

Another thing that would be useful is if your previous search stayed in the search field if you close the window – sometimes if you have to switch out of the window and go back in it’s frustrating that you have to filter all over again.

Thought it would be useful to have a thread where you can post if the Temple of Balthazar waypoint is uncontested for people to guest over to get their obsidian shards from Tactician Deathstrider

Copy and paste the below information:

Date:
Time Event Ended (if unknown, say unknown): 00:00(time zone)
Server Name:

I just rolled a mesmer and am quite liking it so far, but was surprised that the only skill so far seems to be the focus #4 skill to gain swiftness.

My warrior has at least 3 that he can use, and my Ranger as well, and I’m wondering – are Mesmers just doomed to run slowly half the time?

Anything I’m missing that’s obvious or not?

Ya, it’s just a bit of a shock. I just started playing Gw2 a few months ago, and came from SWTOR… the first time I saw a “we will be releasing a new build in a couple of hours” message I thought – “seriously? a couple of hours? That’s incredibly unprofessional”. It’s like you don’t care enough about YOUR gamers to set a time and stick with it.

I know we’re not saving lives here, but if you have a new build set to release – tell us it’s being released at 8:00pm, and release it at 8:00pm!

If you say “there will be a new build in 1-2 hours” release the new build in 1-2 hours, not 45 minutes later. I don’t understand why it’s always so ambiguous and incorrect. You’re a big company, figure it out

Thank you both for the info – and for not being idiot trolls