The funny thing is, on my server, we farm aethers, yet, the only event we fail on is frostgorge. We finish all the rest, some with almost 15 minutes left on the timer, and everyone is happy. So I really don’t know where all the QQing is coming from.
Because your experience is the same as everyone elses right? And what magical server are you on?
Just finished the first invasion after the update and can summerize it as boring, easy, little loot and one champion per event. Basically now, once people get their 13 maps done, there is no point of going back to redo the invasions. Oh, and Aurora Glade barely made it even though the zergs were not farming champs but doing the regular events. So people, thank you for whining and for ruining a perfectly good and fun farm.
The one I did today after the change we were getting 3 champs per aether blade event at least.
Gonna have to be within the next few updates. If they stick with the every 2 weeks schedule and I didn’t miscount that will give us 9 updates between now and December 24th, which will be the last one of the year.
They said that would happen in 2013. And from what they’ve said they got bigger things on their plate than removing magic find, so yeah..
My guess is it will happen the same time they put in ascended armor. Which will happen at the same time they bump crafting up to 500.
This was likely done because of the excessive zerging in Queensdale. You could gain levels fairly quickly.
Uh.. no. DR has been in the game for a long time, and it is supposed to combat against bots, but as per usual, it hurts actual players a lot more.
DR never affected dynamic event karma and exp before so no it never existed except for drops. If it existed before then people would not have been farming the boss events in Queensdale to level toons.
It has affected rewards from events since it was put in the game many many months ago.
I have not experienced any loss in exp/money/karma from the portal events. I’m actually doing the events though, from start to finish, not just tagging and running to the next. The DE DR doesn’t kick in that quickly for it to effect you if you are doing these normally, unless you’ve already been in the zone for a while farming something else.
I have apparently hit a different kind of DR, maybe. After doing like 8 invasions today I just got a single piece of scrap as a fail reward for one, failing worse in the past has provided me with a choice of 40 scrap or 4 boxes along with the other money/exp/karma/item rewards. I got nothing but a single piece of scrap though, and I participated plenty. Not sure if it glitched or if you do so many invasions in one day they stop giving rewards.
Awful lot of assumptions on your part and all of them wrong. I was playing regularly and got hit with it in both Frostgorge and Gendarren Fields. I don’t just run through and “tag” stuff then move onto the next. I stay for the duration of the events.
9 months would be squarely in the middle of the second quarter of 2013. They wouldn’t have sale data for the third quarter of 2013 which would contain the 1 year anniversary for the actual game.
Calm down forum warriors, the skins drop as random loot, you can buy them off TP if you choose to do so.
Would go a long ways towards settling complaints if they had said that in their patch notes.
Instead we get just this:
The Zodiac Weapon Skins are now available for purchase from the Black Lion Weapon Specialist. This weapon skin set is inspired by the classic Guild Wars Zodiac weapons. For one month only, until September 16, these weapon skins cost only 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket. Claim Ticket Scraps can be acquired by opening Black Lion Chests. Black Lion Chest Keys are available in the Gem Store in the Consumable category for 125 gems each or a pack of 5 for 450 gems.
How in the name of all that is good and holy do you have enough resources and luck for multiple legendaries?
Where the hell is my first precursor? At this point, I dont care which one it is.
WTF is wrong with this game where people get multiple legendaries with insane amounts of gold or fantastic RNG luck.
I didn’t say I had enough resources for multiple legendaries. I said I had enough karma to get enough obsidian shards for multiple legendaries. That was before the wallet change 2 weeks ago.
Well I was in an event overflow. Changed my graphics settings and my game crashed. Log back in and I was in a new overflow that didn’t have the event. SO MUCH FUN.
Everyone do themselves a favor and don’t change graphic settings in the middle of a big zerg or you’re gonna have a bad time.
Anyways, for those wondering. 21 zones are eligible for invasion. All possible zones will be invaded every day. That means more or less they start every hour. The first one started at 10 am and the second one started at 11 am.
So get to the event within 10 minutes of it starting if you want to participate.
Used all my karma with max buffs a week or two ago. I now have about 1.6 million karma that is going to waste. This is after I already spent millions on obsidian shards. lol
The change is fine. Simple fact is that boosting karma made it worthless and would have continued to do so in the long run.
I wonder, will there ever be skins that look like they might actually hurt an enemy when you hit them with them? Maybe a little more steel, Anet.
Sclerite weapons would like to say hi to you.
Anyways, the Zodiac Sword was one of my favorite weapon skins in GW1. It’s disappointing that I can’t play the game to get one, but instead just fork over money. A lot of money.
they deleted my own thread.. (they did copy paste it here also.. )
Well it shows they are paying attention but won’t grace us with a response.
It would be nice if they could at the very least tell us we’re wasting our time talking about this ‘cuz nothing’s gonna change. That would be appreciated.
Then we can all move on quietly and live happily with the knowledge that we no longer need to support Anet with real money transactions via the gem store because they won’t fix the problems they created.
So far that scenario has only happened once and that’s okay. But if they keep doing it every 2 weeks, making content that they expect only a small portion of people to be able to complete then we’re gonna have some problems.
I recall them saying the same thing about the Clock Tower event (that they only expected a small percentage of players to be able to complete it), so make that at least twice.
And frankly, we don’t really know what their expectations are when they release content unless they tell us. Who knows how many times, when designing content, someone on the team may have pointed out that something might be too difficult for many players only to be overruled by devs who really don’t care about that particular demographic? This dev team seems aggressively devoted to designing content that they know many players will be frustrated with, all in the name of providing a “challenge”.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Yes there is. If they keep making content only a very small portion of the player can complete guess who will be playing the game in the near future? Only a very small portion of the current player base. Why bother playing when your only reward for doing so is failure coupled with all kinds of fee’s. That’s so much fun.
I’m okay with hard content if I can beat it at my leisure. That’s not a problem. What I’m not okay with is having to do it within a certain amount of time with all the flaws that come with it because it’s rushed.
I’m sure on the eve of several highly anticipated mmos coming out, taking the route of alienating most of your playerbase by not only making the living story content- which people DO expect to be able to reasonably do- nearly impossible AS WELL as being very costly and time consuming is going to reward Anet in the end.
So far that scenario has only happened once and that’s okay. But if they keep doing it every 2 weeks, making content that they expect only a small portion of people to be able to complete then we’re gonna have some problems.
hype sells, content doesn’t. Their marketing division is way better than their developing one.
Servers are still busy with people. That means content does sell, or else they would be merging or closed down.
1) Tons of people who helped create those “fast selling” numbers have quit due to the severe disappointment of GW2.
2) I know a good majority of people who are making those “busy servers” busy merely because there is nothing better out and they are waiting for that next game.
Essentially GW2 has not been compelling enough to be a game that will stick and will be forgotten when that next game comes out.
It is a good and enjoyable game for primarily people who aren’t part of the original GW1 fanbase. (that is a red flag)
I played GW1 for the better part of 7 years. I enjoy GW2. Then again I didn’t start playing GW2 with the expectation that it would be a GW1 clone with shinier graphics and an open world.
warrior has the most diverse and the largest amount of weapons available in comparison to every other class in the game. it explains warrior as the weapon master on the class description on the wiki.. two handed axes will not happen as axe is a burst related weapon and greatsword already takes the cake for 2 handed burst, plus 2h axe was never a weapon in guild wars 1.
we have the most weapon sets/combinations available to our class than any other, if you think it needs more you either need to re roll to one of the other classes that has less aka all of them or deal with it
Why are we restricted to weapons that were in GW1? Great swords weren’t in GW1, nor were torches, rifles, war horns, and pistols.
If we can’t get a two handed axe I personally would love if they gave us spear for use on land with the exact same skill set it has for water only tweaked for use on land obviously. That would be an amazing weapon with good mix of control, burst, and sustained damage. Kind of good at a lot of things but not the best.
Also I would prefer pistols on warrior over dagger. I think that would be fun.
I remember reading somewhere they were bringing back limited time weapons/armors so who knows.
Don’t have the slightest idea where I read that though.
I get asked quite often where I got my shield and people are always disappointed when I tell them it can’t be gotten anymore. So it would be nice if they bring them back for a while.
Oh look another thread filled with people who haven’t figured out that they can turn off map chat.
People harassing you in other chat mediums? Block them and report them. This isn’t rocket science people. I’ve blocked and reported many, MANY people and I have received zero repercussions for doing so because it was always justified.
If you’re still moping and upset because of what a randomite you never have to play with or talk to again for the rest of your life said to you, then the internet & MMOs may not be the place for you. Grow a thicker skin. If I killed myself every time someone told me to I’d be dead 100 times already.
So what you’re saying is that people who are playing the game the way it was designed have to turn off their map chat because other people are breaking the rules of the ToS/CoC they agreed to when they first started playing the game and exploiting game mechanics?
I don’t know if you get insta-banned if you get reported enough times. But one thing I do know is that abusing the report function is a bannable offense. Hopefully people who are reporting overs who actually want to play the game the way it was designed get what they deserve.
Crap. Deadeye was probably my best (maybe even only shot) at getting the gambit achievements. Yet another example of ArenaNet’s exploit early and exploit often philosophy. Thanks for ruining things for those who haven’t gotten that far yet farmers!
except this wasn’t an exploit, there were no rules being broken.
This was certainly an exploit. An exploit is taking advantage of a bug or loophole and playing the game in a way that was not intended by the developers. Obviously, it was never intended for players to be making hundreds of gold by farming Deadeye. This farming very much had the potential to significantly impact our in-game economy. If it wasn’t considered an exploit, Deadeye would never have been changed.
Good rule of thumb when it comes to identifying exploits…if it is too good to be true, it most certainly is.
Except for it’s not an exploit (I only killed him maybe 5 times trying to get the gambit achievements). Just so we’re clear here. I could have taken advantage of it had I chosen but I chose not to.
It’s playing the game as it was intended. It’s anets fault they had the lack of foresight to give out so much money as a reward.
Again no one was exploiting him. They were killing him within the rules of the game. That by definition is not an exploit. See purposeloy failing arah gate events to farm them repeatedly if you want to know what an exploit of game mechanics looks like.
If it was impossible to win the gauntlet on a class, I’d see a manner of debate, but it doesn’t seem that way.
I find it funny that people accuse gw2 of being boring and lacking of content, but once the content actually gets challenging, they throw a fit. It’s nothing I don’t expect; honestly there should just be a lever you pull and the game will tell you how awesome you are. (And there would still be complaints that some people get to pull it more).
I’m sorry. It’s a game. There is success and failure. The game is generous to not really penalize you for failure, but you’re not supposed to beat the game by default. I’m seriously concerned if some of the complaints are seriously. God forbid you pick up an older game that hands you a “game over” screen; one that says “Yea, you screwed up and failed, try again”. Does it really make you less of a person for not being able to do some task in a video game? Pro tip: It does not. Stop pretending missing out on achievement somehow makes you less of a gamer, or a person.
Point is, it’s one thing to not be skilled at something. We’re all bad at something. It’s another thing to say something can’t be done, just because YOU can’t do it, while blissfully ignoring everything to the contrary. That’s still okay. But the world I’m afraid, doesn’t revolve around you. Just please self reflect on it. When you say “This is bad for us”, did you mean “this is bad for me”. At least have the guts to say it when you complain and speak for yourself. But you’re probably bad at complaining too, since that kind of attitude aspires for mediocrity.
P.S. I won’t finish the gauntlet, don’t really enjoy the mechanics, and most likely won’t aim for it. I’ll just have to like, live with it.
If you want it, you’ll try for it. If you think it’s stupid, broken, and imbalanced, then the activity itself has no value and there is also no point in complaining about it.
Sometimes there has to be a loser. I’m afraid it has to be you this time. Accept it with grace and regroup. Also, this thing’s been out like a week?
Clearly you aren’t reading most of the complaint threads then. Very few of them are actually talking about how difficult the fight is and have more to do with the harsh punishment failing a fight brings with it and the outright poorly designed arena.
There’s so many negative comments because the more vocal audience of forums are people that never have anything nice to say.
Yeah, that’s it. It’s because we’re negative people. There’s nothing valid to complain about of course. Everything arenanet does is perfect. They could take a massive steaming dump on your desk and you would thank them and talk about how wonderful it smelled.
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The standardized birthday gifts are a tremendous disappointment after the wonderful experience birthday gifts were in gw1 and people are upset that ArenaNet opted to go with a standardized, boring 1 size fits all solution rather than continuing an interesting tradition that many of us enjoyed in its predecessor. No point in having more than 1 character because there will only be one bank slot for the queen mini, which means those of us with 5 or more characters will be deleting our queen to save space.
I absolutely cannot WAIT to delete my birthday gift due to redundancy & inventory space limitations. That sounds like so much fun!
The reason why you see this happening is pretty simple: Arenanet nerfs to the ground every farming area in the game that is seen as profitable so the farmers are rushing to get as many rewards as possible before the nerfhammer hits. It’s not the farmers fault really, but rather the extreme nerf on the farming areas from anet that led to this behaviour. Before you had cof p1 to run, areas to farm and so on. Now, it’s all about the places where champs spawn the most to get as many chests as possible. When this gets nerfed, the zerg will move to the next most profitable thing and repeat the process.
Nerfed to the ground because people keep exploiting events. Said it before – farmers are the cause of their own problems.
It’s not for everyone. If you don’t like it, you’re not forced to buy it so I don’t understand why everybody is crying.
The kit definitely does not save money…it’s more of a convenience thing. Just like how some people buy golem bankers that last for 2 weeks. For some, the kit addresses a daily hassle that most of us go through at some point. ‘Oh dang, I need to go to town to buy more kits’ or ‘Hey guys, I know we’re only on 2nd boss, but I ran out of kits and now I’m out of space…need to go to LA for a sec’ or the classic ‘WHY IS _______ NOT DEFENDING THE KEEP?!’ —> ‘Oh, he says he’s sorry. He ran out of kits and had to go buy more at merchant real quick’
If the kit is worth it to you, buy it. If it isn’t, don’t buy it. Maybe they will come out with other versions down the road and if that is what you are looking for, then buy it. Otherwise, just keep running to the merchant every day to buy kits. There’s nothing wrong with that. You’re free to do what you like. Nobody is forcing you to do anything you don’t want to.
If that’s the case then portable merchants are more useful than the salvage o matic.
You can not only buy salvage kits from them but sell your junk too.
What a horrible update. Boring is the only thing i can think of this patch. I was expecting something great for the 1 year mark since launch but, yet again Anet lets us true gw2 fans down. Im tired of defending his game against trolls and my friends who list the facts about gw2. Its simply boring and this living story is a bad idea. I’ve read that because of the living world we weren’t going to ever get an expansion…….
Maybe I’m just being hopeful and optimistic but maybe they aren’t giving away all the details?
Because not only will next weeks update see the 1 year birthday of head start characters, it will see the 1 year anniversary of GW2.
So maybe they didn’t show all their cards on the page? Maybe they got more for us that they want to be a surprise?
And clearly Queen Jenna is going to resign and announce that the new King of All The Things will be Trahearne. August 28 is Trahearne The Amazing day henceforth.
With the exception of the culling update it’s absolutely NOTHING.
And what a joke for the birthday presents, oh wow.
I guess it’s slightly disappointing that it’s only a Queen Jenna mini instead of one random mini from a large list but as a GW1 player we got mini pets for 1 year character birthdays for 6 years or so. So it’s not disappointing as far as though.
I’m sure some people expected to get a legendary in the mail when their character turned 1 though.
