That’s actually a big lie . In gw1 there was 0 grind and 0 gear progression .
You could have the ugliest looking gear with the same stats as the coolest .
Gw2 is probably less grindy than 95% of Mmos but adding a new
Tier of gear is a grind to me . I can logg back in my gw1 account and
I will have the same stats as somebody who never left gw1 which is not the case for gw2 . If you havent played since launch and you comw back you are undergeared .
Guild Wars 1 became a game of skill progression. Literally people would grind out the newest skills, and then later Anet would release more that were more powerful than the previous ones. So yeah, your gear would be the same, but you would be behind in the skill progression.
“Here’s what we believe: If someone wants to play for a thousand hours to get an item that is so rare that other players can’t realistically acquire it, that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game. Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”- Mike O’Brien
What happened Anet? You said you didn’t want it to be a grinding game but it is and with more updates that you come out, you are not lowering the grinding of the game but you’re increasing it. Example? Ascended Weapon. The new halloween weapon.
I’ve grinded so much in this game its unbelievable spending over 400g to try and get dusk with no luck, farming hours and hours with no luck, and it is coming to the point where the only thing which is farming champs is becoming boring. I have 6 level 80s and sometimes i have nothing at all to do. I have no legendary but thats because i dont want to spend hour and hours grinding for it. I would do it if it wasn’t such a bore to do.
Please please please make this game less grindy like you said you would!
Discuss Freely =]
Problem with the word grind, is that it is very subjective. IMO, Legendary is a grind, and fits very well with the description in the first few lines in the quote you gave. Ascended, imo, is not a grind and I see it at something I can certainly realistically obtain. I am a casual player, play about 10-15 hours per week.
Obviously your idea of grind is different then Anet’s idea of what a grind is. If Anet feels that the pace to get ascended is not very well received amoung the general population of the game they will probably change it for future ascended gear releases, but if they don’t then that is a good sign that generally it was well received by the player base.
If you read the entire passage, it starts talking about the grind in games to get to the fun stuff. And it most games it’s true. People level first. They want to rush through leveling. They want leveling guides. They want to level as fast as human possible and consider it a chore, because raiding is what they want to get to. Half the problem with this game is that people want to play it like other games.
The same is true here lol. Why do you think so many people spent the gold to just craft some characters to 80? Because you have to slog through 80 levels otherwise doing stuff you already did, which really wasn’t that great to begin with (few skills fighting the same mobs, doing the same events such as “kill 5 mobs” etc), just to get to the fun stuff, where you have all your gear/skills/traits and aren’t at a massive disadvantage for the stuff you can do upleveled.
In this game you don’t level to raid. You don’t do significantly different things after you hit max level. As much as anything else, that’s one of the things this game was sold on, and it pretty much remains true.
That’s because there is no fun raids in this game, just open world zergfests that are devoid of skill. Yes there was finally an attempt with Tequatl, but they shot themselves in the foot making it require 80+ people. Yet one of the arguments AGAINST raiding is how hard it is to organize 20 people lol. Not to mention mixing “hardcore” content with casual strangers.
But as I said, you hitting max level is significant.
When I played Rift, I felt I was being funneled into dungeons and raiding. The open world was a joke and meant nothing. I don’t feel that here.
I played RIFT and I think the open world stuff is far more meaningful there than it is here. I think Anet could take a few things from Rift IMO.
But just taking the other side, I could say the open world was a joke here. I mean really, auto attacking zerg fests even on world bosses, that’s enough said. Hopefully they don’t give up after the Tequatl fail, because it was a good try.
To me, that’s what Colin was talking about. And it was backed up, as I said, many times after the manifesto was first released, at interviews and panels in conferences.
I’m not sure why you spend so much time posting to hard core defend Anet like, well you know already (fanboy). But I have to say you’d make a good marketing guy or politician, able to make giant post after giant post trying to spin these blatantly false quotes into something positive. It really is fun to read lol, these arguments go on forever.
I think we both know how wrong they were, but that happens all the time, it’s just a simple fact and we’ve mostly accepted it. They probably had much bigger ideas that just didn’t cut it. Look at home instances or the personality system that never really made it.
Any who thought they would be able to make a level 80 instantly after leveling one character to 80 had very very unreasonable expectations. Anyone who thought leveling up is grinding absolutely chose the wrong game to play. “Well I have to level up to 80 levels to get to the fun stuff” is no where near a valid argument when you knew full and well that you would have to level up all your characters from the beginnig.
Saying 10,000 items needs more context. There is a difference between 10,000 really easy items to obtain that one can get 5000 in 8 hours of gaming, compared to 10,000 hard items to get that you can only get 100 in 8 hours of gaming. So need more context in this regard.
Can someone please answer the one above. Really need the context in all of this.
ok? but that doesn’t answer my question at all. 10,000 of one item that is very easy to get is way different then 10,000 of one item that is not easy to get. I want to know how easy and common are the candy corns? All I know is I have 320 candy corns, and I spent something like 15 minutes in the labyrinth and that is all I have done related to the halloween event, and I didn’t even mine any of the candy corns. So I am asking in general how often these things actually drop. For 6.8 Gold you can buy 10,000, which is telling me these things actually drop really often.
For all we know everything that has been happening since Flame and Frost has been planned by an Elder Dragon, perhaps Scarlet herself is actually an avatar of an Elder Dragon, or she serves the dragon. Personally I hope this is where the story is going.
since we got a story about Scarlet’s birth, and Sylvari aren’t affected by Elder Dragons’ magic, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Ok, that would take care of the avatar part of my theory. But does Scarlet have free will? Can she choose to serve an Elder Dragon? I would say that her serving an Elder Dragon is very much on the table.
the manifesto itself, which is only 1 video out of 24.
18 of the 24 videos are showcases.
There is a video in there that tells you specifically about the personal story and another video in there that specifically tells you about dynamic events. There are other videos that tell you about everything
It’s telling me how it’s different on GW2 from traditional MMOs, not actually telling me much aside from instilling in me that GW2 is different.
So what you’re saying is that anything that MIGHT be misintepreted from three years ago, in a single video should have it’s own page of corrections just in case someone might misunderstand it, because my understanding of some of those lines, even without the clarification was completely different.
No. I’m saying a link to where I can see it on the official GW2 website should be there. I shouldn’t have to go to some random website that saved it on their server from a post way back when. Someone at ANet wrote it, I don’t see why it’s on deleted blogs and not situated where I can see it without a Google search on the topic.
saying that this is something Anet has to rectify is just plain silly.
Why? Why is it silly to say ANet should go back and fix the Manifesto to reflect what they really meant? Because of time? Because of all the content that’s being worked on? They can spend hours doing live feeds, but can’t fix a video? It’s still their main marketing point. Do you see the almost daily threads on here about this topic? People are still viewing it.
Those who continually bring up the manifesto are living in the past, and any MMO player will tell you that’s not a good place to be.
It’s called nostalgia.
If the game had met your expectation in other ways, would you still be bringing up the manifesto? Would you even care about it?
I would. But I don’t base most of my comments off of the Manifesto. And so would others. Because there’s more that’s been reverted that’s outside of it. And before you tell me MMOs change and evolve and all that, I agree with you, that they do. But, they shouldn’t go in the total opposite direction over what was said. A small turn is alright, but going all the way around is not.
Maybe you understood everything that was said in the Manifesto in all your wide worldy wisdom. Others didn’t. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that maybe 20 people total understood what was actually being said in the whole video. Truth or not, the other 98% of the game’s population didn’t..
98% of the players didn’t even see the manifesto video in the first place /rolleyes
Care to backup this statement?
lol, you pick mine out, but not the one I was responding to?
the manifesto itself, which is only 1 video out of 24.
18 of the 24 videos are showcases.
There is a video in there that tells you specifically about the personal story and another video in there that specifically tells you about dynamic events. There are other videos that tell you about everything
It’s telling me how it’s different on GW2 from traditional MMOs, not actually telling me much aside from instilling in me that GW2 is different.
So what you’re saying is that anything that MIGHT be misintepreted from three years ago, in a single video should have it’s own page of corrections just in case someone might misunderstand it, because my understanding of some of those lines, even without the clarification was completely different.
No. I’m saying a link to where I can see it on the official GW2 website should be there. I shouldn’t have to go to some random website that saved it on their server from a post way back when. Someone at ANet wrote it, I don’t see why it’s on deleted blogs and not situated where I can see it without a Google search on the topic.
saying that this is something Anet has to rectify is just plain silly.
Why? Why is it silly to say ANet should go back and fix the Manifesto to reflect what they really meant? Because of time? Because of all the content that’s being worked on? They can spend hours doing live feeds, but can’t fix a video? It’s still their main marketing point. Do you see the almost daily threads on here about this topic? People are still viewing it.
Those who continually bring up the manifesto are living in the past, and any MMO player will tell you that’s not a good place to be.
It’s called nostalgia.
If the game had met your expectation in other ways, would you still be bringing up the manifesto? Would you even care about it?
I would. But I don’t base most of my comments off of the Manifesto. And so would others. Because there’s more that’s been reverted that’s outside of it. And before you tell me MMOs change and evolve and all that, I agree with you, that they do. But, they shouldn’t go in the total opposite direction over what was said. A small turn is alright, but going all the way around is not.
Maybe you understood everything that was said in the Manifesto in all your wide worldy wisdom. Others didn’t. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that maybe 20 people total understood what was actually being said in the whole video. Truth or not, the other 98% of the game’s population didn’t..
98% of the players didn’t even see the manifesto video in the first place /rolleyes
People are considering open-world champs bosses now?
Wow.
And that is a key point right there, the open world champs are in fact not bosses at all, notice how none of them have unique names. Even Shatterer is actually a title, not a name. When one shatterer dies, another one takes it place. Actually bosses are all in instances only, none are actually in the open world, and do not respawn 10 minutes later unless you started the instances again which is not the same as respawning.
Saying 10,000 items needs more context. There is a difference between 10,000 really easy items to obtain that one can get 5000 in 8 hours of gaming, compared to 10,000 hard items to get that you can only get 100 in 8 hours of gaming. So need more context in this regard.
Can someone please answer the one above. Really need the context in all of this.
No all voice chat is done on third party apps like TeamSpeak and Ventrilo there is no built in voice chat in this game. Most large guild run a voice chat server, join a guild that has one and you will get voice chat.
You can’t use a third party apps when you playing the game. They will ban you.
even voice chat.
no… they will not ban you for using voice chat third party app. Not even sure where you got that from.
it’s from guildwars2 user agreement.
read #15:
"
You acknowledge that (i) the Game may contain other software or components that are either owned by a third party or in the public domain, and (ii) NCSOFT has no proprietary interest in such software or components (collectively and each, the “Third Party Software”), and as such, cannot grant you a license to use such Third-Party Software. A listing of any such Third Party Software (if applicable) is made available to you in the Documentation, the “Read Me” files for each component of Third Party Software, and is set forth in the THIRDPARTYSOFTWAREREADME.txt file located in the installation directory of the Software, and is available upon written request from NCSOFT. Your rights in any such Third-Party Software are governed by and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the applicable third-party licenses set forth in the Documentation, the “Read Me” files for each component of Third-Party Software, and in the THIRDPARTYSOFTWAREREADME.txt file located in the installation directory of the Software. By installing or using any such Third-Party Software, you acknowledge and agree to fully comply with such terms and conditions. IN ADDITION TO ANY DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH IN SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THE DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH IN SECTION 12 ABOVE AND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH IN SECTION 12 ABOVE SHALL APPLY TO NCSOFT, ANY THIRD-PARTIES UNDER AGREEMENT WITH NCSOFT, ANY PARENT, SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE OF NCSOFT, ANY EMPLOYEE, AGENT, SUPPLIER, LICENSEE, CUSTOMER, DISTRIBUTOR, SHAREHOLDER, DIRECTOR OR OFFICER OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING, AND ANY LICENSORS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING WITH RESPECT TO SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE. NCSOFT IS NOT OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ANY SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE UNLESS EXPRESSLY AGREED TO IN WRITING BY NCSOFT UNDER A SEPARATE AGREEMENT. YOU FURTHER AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, HOLD HARMLESS AND DEFEND NCSOFT, ANY THIRD-PARTIES UNDER AGREEMENT WITH NCSOFT, ANY PARENT, SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE OF NCSOFT, OR ANY EMPLOYEE, AGENT, SUPPLIER, LICENSEE, CUSTOMER, DISTRIBUTOR, SHAREHOLDER, DIRECTOR OR OFFICER OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING, AND ANY LICENSORS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIMS OR LAWSUITS, INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES, THAT ARISE OR RESULT FROM THE USE OR DISTRIBUTION OF SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE."
Umm, that doesn’t say what you think it says.
And again, it is an absolute fact that Anet will not ban you for using Voice chat software. Considering that Windows PC have Apps running all the time. The only third party apps Anet would ban you for are ones that actually make the game act different then intended, like speed hacks, able to stay underground to move around freely, bots. Voice chat will absolutely not get you banned. They would have to ban probably 90% of their playerbase if they did.
well I just don’t like this agreement.
you never know only if you got banned.
No one has ever been banned for voice chat, no one in the history of any MMO including this one, that is beyond ludicrous. There is absolutely no logical sense to ban people for using what is basically a telephone system.
LOL! I don’t think he understands what the User Agreement is saying.
You can’t use 3rd party software that INTERACTS with Guild Wars 2. Team Speak, Ventrillo, and Mumble are all software yes, but they interact with your computer’s OS. With your interpretation of the rules, you shouldn’t be allowed to have an Anti-Virus prog running in the background, let alone hardware drivers, or even Windows itself.
how do you define “interact”.
First find something in the TOS/user agreement that talks about not using 3rd party apps, cause the one you showed is not the one.
But when talking about Interact with the software, again that would be about bots, speed hacks, software that lets you stay under ground. Not some voice chat program that does not interact with the software at all.
LOL! I don’t think he understands what the User Agreement is saying.
You can’t use 3rd party software that INTERACTS with Guild Wars 2. Team Speak, Ventrillo, and Mumble are all software yes, but they interact with your computer’s OS. With your interpretation of the rules, you shouldn’t be allowed to have an Anti-Virus prog running in the background, let alone hardware drivers, or even Windows itself.
What he showed is talking about the third party software in guild Wars 2 that is owned by other companies or is public domain that Anet put into the programming of the game, and them stating that they cannot grant licences to use those 3rd party software beyond the scope of what is already programmed into the game, and then a bunch of other stuff that had nothing to do with what he was trying to say it says. Nothing in that section 15 says anything about not able to use 3rd party apps.
No all voice chat is done on third party apps like TeamSpeak and Ventrilo there is no built in voice chat in this game. Most large guild run a voice chat server, join a guild that has one and you will get voice chat.
You can’t use a third party apps when you playing the game. They will ban you.
even voice chat.
no… they will not ban you for using voice chat third party app. Not even sure where you got that from.
it’s from guildwars2 user agreement.
read #15:
"
You acknowledge that (i) the Game may contain other software or components that are either owned by a third party or in the public domain, and (ii) NCSOFT has no proprietary interest in such software or components (collectively and each, the “Third Party Software”), and as such, cannot grant you a license to use such Third-Party Software. A listing of any such Third Party Software (if applicable) is made available to you in the Documentation, the “Read Me” files for each component of Third Party Software, and is set forth in the THIRDPARTYSOFTWAREREADME.txt file located in the installation directory of the Software, and is available upon written request from NCSOFT. Your rights in any such Third-Party Software are governed by and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the applicable third-party licenses set forth in the Documentation, the “Read Me” files for each component of Third-Party Software, and in the THIRDPARTYSOFTWAREREADME.txt file located in the installation directory of the Software. By installing or using any such Third-Party Software, you acknowledge and agree to fully comply with such terms and conditions. IN ADDITION TO ANY DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH IN SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THE DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH IN SECTION 12 ABOVE AND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH IN SECTION 12 ABOVE SHALL APPLY TO NCSOFT, ANY THIRD-PARTIES UNDER AGREEMENT WITH NCSOFT, ANY PARENT, SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE OF NCSOFT, ANY EMPLOYEE, AGENT, SUPPLIER, LICENSEE, CUSTOMER, DISTRIBUTOR, SHAREHOLDER, DIRECTOR OR OFFICER OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING, AND ANY LICENSORS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING WITH RESPECT TO SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE. NCSOFT IS NOT OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ANY SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE UNLESS EXPRESSLY AGREED TO IN WRITING BY NCSOFT UNDER A SEPARATE AGREEMENT. YOU FURTHER AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, HOLD HARMLESS AND DEFEND NCSOFT, ANY THIRD-PARTIES UNDER AGREEMENT WITH NCSOFT, ANY PARENT, SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE OF NCSOFT, OR ANY EMPLOYEE, AGENT, SUPPLIER, LICENSEE, CUSTOMER, DISTRIBUTOR, SHAREHOLDER, DIRECTOR OR OFFICER OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING, AND ANY LICENSORS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIMS OR LAWSUITS, INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES, THAT ARISE OR RESULT FROM THE USE OR DISTRIBUTION OF SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE."
Umm, that doesn’t say what you think it says.
And again, it is an absolute fact that Anet will not ban you for using Voice chat software. Considering that Windows PC have Apps running all the time. The only third party apps Anet would ban you for are ones that actually make the game act different then intended, like speed hacks, able to stay underground to move around freely, bots. Voice chat will absolutely not get you banned. They would have to ban probably 90% of their playerbase if they did.
will we get to see a heroic edition upgrade in the black lion, similar to how there is the digital deluxe upgrade for those that didnt play the first game?
Would be cool if there will be lot of people I know would be happy.
Digital Deluxe Edition upgrade in the GEM store does include everything in the Heroic Edition, has been like that since Heroic Versions got released.
No all voice chat is done on third party apps like TeamSpeak and Ventrilo there is no built in voice chat in this game. Most large guild run a voice chat server, join a guild that has one and you will get voice chat.
You can’t use a third party apps when you playing the game. They will ban you.
even voice chat.
no… they will not ban you for using voice chat third party app. Not even sure where you got that from.
will we get to see a heroic edition upgrade in the black lion, similar to how there is the digital deluxe upgrade for those that didnt play the first game?
Would be cool if there will be lot of people I know would be happy.
Digital Deluxe Edition upgrade in the GEM store does include everything in the Heroic Edition, has been like that since Heroic Versions got released.
1600hrs. based on that number I am a causal player. Congratz you proved nothing. I got 9300AP which based on leaderboards is not that high either.
You are a funny one.
Over roughly a period of 400 days since release you spend 200 working days (8h a day) on GW2. working five days a week means you spent 40 weeks of work on this game…
I really hope you are sarcastic with this casual thing, if not, well, sorry.
I thought first you right -1600 is a lot -, but then i looked at my /age.
“since creating the account 392 days ago … 2.531 hours” Holy moly!!!!
No, i do not want any math on this. I have a 40-50 hours/week job, an RL and other hobbies as playing online. I’m sure not the very casual gamer but still far from “employed for gaming” and i know a couple of players who spent much more time as me in this game.
So what casual is, is also just a very subjectiv definition.
I’m pretty sure that vast majority would agree that 6.5 Hours a day, kitten hours a week, playing is far far from casual, and is more towards Hardcore. Spending kitten hours per week is very close to “employed for gaming”
You would think the Manifesto was the Holy Bible or something. Do people worship this thing and offer ritual sacrifices to it?
The manifesto listed Anet’s core ideals and intentions for the game. Many many people bought the game based on these words. To many people, Anet has gone back or even turned 180 degrees on many of those words — that’s why they feel betrayed. It’s as simple as that.
Based on a 5 minute video from 3 years ago, but they never bothered to look at any other information ever again for the next 2 years prior to release, or even bothered to look at the myriad of information available if they happened to look at that video a long time later? Sorry, but if they feel betrayed, it is not Anets fault at all, but their own. Anet had information out there for years, but they can’t force people to actually read it. The spirit of the manifesto is very much intact, I haven’t seen anything that goes against the Manifesto… then again I actually read the information that Anet gave us for the 2 years prior to release.
just wanted to say thanks for making an awesome theme park MMO. Normally I play a “Space Based Online Sandbox Simulator” made by CCP, but this is a great
change of pace. Love the regular content updates. Don’t let the haters hate.
I thought Eve Online was called “Spread Sheet Simulator” not a sandbox game…. I kid I kid =P
anyways, I agree awesome theme park MMO. I haven’t played MMOs since I quit WoW over 5 years ago, and played MMOs since 1999, got really bored of the the MMOs back then, and Guild Wars 2 is actually different enough then any other MMO I have played, plus it got me back into playing an MMO again.
Saying 10,000 items needs more context. There is a difference between 10,000 really easy items to obtain that one can get 5000 in 8 hours of gaming, compared to 10,000 hard items to get that you can only get 100 in 8 hours of gaming. So need more context in this regard.
For all we know everything that has been happening since Flame and Frost has been planned by an Elder Dragon, perhaps Scarlet herself is actually an avatar of an Elder Dragon, or she serves the dragon. Personally I hope this is where the story is going.
I don’t think it is a requirement to be competitive in PvP, if players just want to run around killing each other just for fun and don’t care if they win or not, let them be.
As the same with everything else in life, you are never entitled to the current promotional offer if you bought X before the promotional offer started. Also, it is not ethically or morally wrong for Z company to not offer you Y promotional offer because you bought X item before the promotional offer.
How did you miss the dialogue asking if you wanted to pay the gems and if you were sure you wanted to proceed? Even when you’re tired, it’s not hard to see the bright blue gem icon.
it is easy to not pay attention when you are tired, and what I was planning on doing would only have taken a few minutes, which is why I didn’t stop playing right away.
Someone in our guild did the exact same thing and received a one-time refund and a correction back to his original home server. It came with a “we won’t help you if you do this again…” message.
nah, don’t want to be bothered to do all of that. I have no guild or any friends on my previous server, so no real reason to transfer back. I’ll just consider it a happy accident, because I have heard good things about BlackGate.
Advice2: Do not keep 1800 gems in your wallet. Buy them when you need them. That way you cannot transfer or buy anything on the gemstore by mistake.
This post will probably get deleted because it advises people to not buy gems if they are not going to spend them.
Wait for it…
A buddy of mine bought me a 2000 ($25) Gem Card from a store. He doesn’t play computer games (just console games), but he knew I liked the game so he bought me the card as a birthday gift.
I know it is too late now for you, but is there an expiry date on the gem card?
Just so we know if i am planning to gift those to someone in the future.
Also, enjoy Blackgate. Great people, great server. I guest there very often.
There is no expiration date. Just make sure the person doesn’t lose it.
A buddy of mine bought me a 2000 ($25) Gem Card from a store. He doesn’t play computer games (just console games), but he knew I liked the game so he bought me the card as a birthday gift.
What was his reaction? lol
Sorry to hear of your misfortune. I’ve never transferred for gems, is there no confirmation window on how much it will cost and so on?
He laughed and said “You idiot” lol. Its all good.
When you press transfer, it shows you how much, then when you press Transfer, it does the deed. It takes just as many clicks to guest as it does to transfer. So yeah, was just to take good enough notice. I don’t blame Anet at all for the system, my own fault. But one that I am laughing at, and not bothered by it at all.
So from this point forward, everybody who personally attacks a member of the studio will get an immediate 2 week forum suspension on the first violation. Any further attack on studio members will result in a permanent termination of your posting rights.
Do not use Hundred Blades on anyone who has the Arenanet-Logo-Tag in WvW!
You will get 2 week suspension.
Why doesnt Arenanet just make themselves invincible, instead of us having to watch where our Hundred Blades lands? What’s worse is I cant control my pet attacking devs in wvw…If my pet attacks you, and you designed the AI, that means that you attacked yourself, I should not be forum banned for my pet attacking you in-game.
I encourage everyone to start playing Warrior or Thief in WvW. They have no pets. Or use any builds for other classes that do not include pets.
What happens if i am in the middle of using Hundred Blades and a dev just walks into it?
I will stop to WvW until devs dont play it anymore, I dont want to be banned. I suggest you all do so too.
If you did not understand my post, then please dont reply to my post.
+1, it is even funnier considering how often people take a quote from an Anet staff and use it in the meaning that Anet never intended.
Advice2: Do not keep 1800 gems in your wallet. Buy them when you need them. That way you cannot transfer or buy anything on the gemstore by mistake.
This post will probably get deleted because it advises people to not buy gems if they are not going to spend them.
Wait for it…
A buddy of mine bought me a 2000 ($25) Gem Card from a store. He doesn’t play computer games (just console games), but he knew I liked the game so he bought me the card as a birthday gift.
I think people in this thread are confusing the forum policy with in game TOS.
OP is talking about protecting his in-game assets, not forum moderation.
It just so happens that his first post has huge hints of talking about the recent event of changed company policy on the forums, but he isn’t talking about that change at all. The recent events he is talking about is something that happened in game apparently, and all this just happened by coincidence to be around the same time as the forum moderation change.
The OP needs to change his whole first post to actually reflect that he is talking about recent events in the game and nothing to do with the forums, and make his post sound like he is not talking about the recent forum events that happened in the last day, then people will not get confused. Because his first post just coincidentally matches the type of stuff people are talking about now with the recent changes to forum moderation.
Public service announcement: It is advised to not initiate guesting on another server when you are tired, it could lead to the accidental transfer to that server.
Yup, it happened to me, I accidently transferred to another server because I was tired and wanted to do something on another server through guesting really quick before going to bed. Transferred to Blackgate by mistake. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll enjoy my new server. =D
There has been a massive outreach lately by developers in an effort to bring the amount of forum misconduct and abuse to an end. I appreciate the sentiment as I frequent the forums often and try to be helpful when I can, and critical when necessary.
I am not attempting to justify the insanity that takes place here so often, but I think the frustration that evolves into flaming is so evident that current systems in the game need to be looked at. The biggest disappointment as of late is the reward system for the holiday event.
I wrote about this in a post on the Halloween sub, but I want to use it again as it is a great example of current systems not living up to design paradigm.
In a recent interview at PAX, a developer spoke passionately about how they strive to implement anti-grind rewards, and how playing the game at a normal pace should be enough to gain the player the rewards they want.
This halloween event completely shades that line of thought. You cannot receive the new rewards by normally participating in the Halloween event at an even pace, because they are locked in RNG boxes. This is not an attempt to call out the development staff. It is a legitimate question, that, given the tone set in the short segment of the interview, as well as the recent strive for collaborative development, deserves attention so that players can begin to understand the path Guild Wars 2 will continue traveling. -
How do RNG based, gem-store exclusive rewards fit the philosophy of normal play being the most rewarding method of acquisition?
You are going to need to post a link to the interview so that we can make sure there is no misunderstanding of what was actually said. It has become clear that players have been taking things out of context and giving them meaning that Anet never intended (like the manifesto that many many people have misquoted to mean something different then what Anet intended.)
Anyways, it has been known since long long before the game was going to be released that there was going to be cosmetic items in the store, Guild Wars 1 had exclusive cosmetic stuff in its store, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that there is exclusive cosmetic stuff in Guild Wars 2 store as well.
Now we can argue about the RNG. Personally I don’t like the RNG involved with some of the store stuff, so I do not partake in buying anything that has RNG involved. But apparently there are people who do like it and have no problem spending their money on it. Perhaps it is because they feel the items they get out of the rng chests are things they want anyways, so their money is not wasted either way.
This topic is precisely what they meant by “cleverly disguised” personal attacks.
I am by no means “cleverly attacking” anyone. Policy is policy and it has been made clear that it can not be discussed, which I have no interest in doing any longer.
I’ve accepted the policy and with that, I have accepted the consequences. I am looking for the best advice for keeping valuable items from being lost.
I’m still looking for an answer about creating a guild, will it be lost if my account is terminated? Would it be better for someone else to create the guild that I can place all my items into?
Ok, you accepted the consequences, but the problem is you are talking about a consequence that does in fact not exist. It is a fact that you cannot lose your game account for something you did on the forums, you can only lose forum posting privileges if you do something on the forums. You would have to do something in game to lose your game account.
This may seem like an odd post, but please stick with me a second.
Without going into any details. For a while now, I have felt increasingly nervous about putting time and effort into this game. The reason is that due to company policy, I don’t feel confident that I am protected from account termination.
In light of recent events, I am looking for ways to protect myself and my in-game assets. Meaning, I would like to hear your advice regarding how to make sure that if my account is terminated, my girlfriend and/or friends who choose to continue playing, will have access to anything of value.
Is the guild bank the best option?
You account will not be terminated based on what you do in the forums. If end up being permanently banned from the forums, you are only banned from the forums, not the game. You literally do not have to worry about losing the game because of something you did in the forums.
Plenty, if you’re truly that interested in seeing for yourself. Actually, you can see for yourself. Guest to Gate of Madness or any other server besides the top 3 and walk around a bit. It’s a ghost-world for everyone that is not on the top 3 servers. Then guest to Tarnished Coast and you will see more people in 2 minutes on TC than you see in 24 hours on a lower-tier server.
But I am on a Tier 7 server, and I see people everywhere I go, rarely ever do an event with nobody around, and always get to do all the group events in the zones I go to. I have guessed on some other servers, and didn’t see any difference there either. In my experience all the servers currently labeled as Very High Pop (which is most of the available servers) seem to be really close in the number of players I see. I haven’t tried the High Pop servers, so perhaps you are talking about those?
That would make it a major nerf to condition damage, which isn’t overpowered anyways, because it already has a counter, and it would make condition builds even less “viable” in PvE then they are already are. Your idea just wouldn’t work without it being a major nerf to condition builds and pretty much make them near useless.
Yes but you should either be able to choose to mitigate them or cleanse them depending on the build in my opinion.
But other players can also cleanse the conditions off of you. So if you choose to have -1 damage/sec per 20 vit, will that also make it so that no condition removal will work on you? Seems like a complicated mess and a way to make things even more unbalanced. The way it is now just fine, its not broken, people just need to learn to play better through a better team composition with skills in the team to get rid of condition damage for the team.
Perhaps condition damage is already balanced damage wise with the idea that there is no counter stat for it. Also, there is a counter for condition damage, it is condition removal that in of itself makes it more balanced.
The only reason I can think of for the mini craze is the huge amount of younger people that grew up with Pokemon, Digimon, ect cartoons and games from the late 90s to now. I don’t know very many people who were in their late teens or older when Pokemon came out that care much about minis, but those who were in the younger teens or younger when Pokemon came out seem to love the minis.
“All player-controlled minions, excluding mesmer phantasms and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in PvE maps.”
Anyone know or want to speculate as to why such a weird number?
I have been to neighborhoods where the posted speed limit is : 13.5 MPH, so yeah, I ask the same question when I see those signs. I think the answer is we will probably never know why such a wierd number.
I am on a T7 server, and I see plenty of players around no matter what zone I am in (except for Orr), very rarely am I doing an event all by myself, and able to complete every group event in the zones as well, because there are enough people to complete them. /shrug
Edited: Sorry, we are not a T6 server, we are a T7 server
Doesn`t take a year to introduce something that they knew we wanted even before the beta started , they`re just giving us the fob off !
I`d happily swop less inane living fortnightly story, the daily and monthly grind for something we ACTUALLY want and i think most Guild Leaders would say we NEED !
I have a feeling that the people who make PvE content wouldn’t have the skills to program a PvP mode into the game.
I don’t understand all of the fuss in this thread. The OP is just pointing out the fact that there is an opportunity cost involved in crafting with mats you gathered yourself. So people who say stuff like “OMG it only cost me 20g to level weaponsmithing to 500 ’cause I had most of the mats in the bank already” are wrong. The correct statement is that it cost them 20g plus what they could have made selling all their mats instead of crafting with them.
^this^
It appears that a lot of people posting here don’t have a clue what “opportunity cost” means. Any money forgone by not selling the mats is money that could have been used for any other aspect of the game, and unless somebody ONLY played GW2 to make that one weapon that one time, the concept totally applies here. The money you didn’t get from the TP is just as real as the money you spent there.
It isn’t an opportunity cost so much as the value of mats you used, whether you gathered them specifically or collected them over the past year while salvaging things, i.e. this Ascended weapon only cost me 20g plus ~250g worth of mats that I had already collected. The mats have a value whether you use them for crafting or you sell them. You wouldn’t call it an opportunity cost as the value of the items are still in effect and you retain that value, in the form of a crafted item, so there was no lost opportunity. Whether you sell the items or use them for crafting, there is no opportunity cost if your end-goal remains the same (i.e. crafting an Ascended weapon).
I do agree that it would technically be incorrect to say that the mats are free (assuming you got them purely from salvage or gathering while playing the game casually) as salvage kits have a cost as does mining equipment. The time spent is negligible unless you are farming. Do you really want to quantify how much time it took to salvage/mine items over the course of a year and then somehow ascribe a value to that time? That would be nearly impossible.
It is exactly an “opportunity cost”. Look it up. “Opportunity cost” is a commonly used term in business that refers to the fact that if you could have made a different decision that would have netted you a certain amount of money, or reduced the cost of something you bought, then that amount of money should be included in your assessment of total cost.
In this case, the cost of mats that you collected yourself BUT COULD HAVE SOLD ON THE TP is a very real part of the total cost of whatever you crafted with them.
Then you might have well as added the money you could have earned in real life by working a second job, working overtime, ect instead of playing the game, to the opportunity costs.
I think scientists have been trying to make gold for centuries now, but could never get it. It is an element, so it would take rearranging the atoms to get it, and would probably cost more to do that then what the gold can sell for.
=P
I just sell anything I do not want on the TP if it is higher than what the vendor will give me. I just play the game the way I normally do, and I always seem to have enough gold for what ever I want. Then again, I do not have expensive tastes, so that could make the difference.
