Yep, I’m the same way. Just got done throwing all of my gold into the mystic forge. As predicted….nothing…but at least I had fun proving my point. No different than a casino. I prefer games where the payout is based on effort and time and not an extremely low-odds house-run casino.
Seriously, I don’t want to quit this game. But I don’t know what to do, and I’m looking for suggestions (or just validation to go back to wow or whatever).
I find this game extremely unrewarding. I can handle punishing because practice and skill can usually overcome that. But where are the rewards?
1.) Grind a precursor? Impossible because of DR.
2.) Buy the precursor? I try to save. I TP every T6 mat and sometimes the gear if it’s selling high. I might make 2-3G a day. That’s quite a few days just for a precursor.
3.) Farm some ore and TP that? What….all 6-10 per server times 3?
4.) Mystic forge? I already know what my luck would be.
I’ve heard a suggestion that some accounts are simply assigned to “back luck”. I don’t know if I believe that. But, guess what? I have two accounts! Just to test that.
When I look at all of the alternatives, I see the only possible way to achieve anything worthwhile in this game is to buy it with cash. I’m not going to do that. So, if that’s the reality, just move on?
I have so much time into this game when you count two accounts. I really don’t have anything to show for it other than holographic wings and fire gloves. I guess I could have sold the wings but the day that I went to do it was the very day that they made it impossible.
It seriously seems impossible to earn a reward in this game! And who wants to constantly feel unrewarded for their work?
P.S. I used to get an occasional exotic in a chest. Haven’t seen that in months. And about 25% of the time, I don’t even get a chest from a champion. And, no, I’m not even farming them! Just playing normal the way they want me to play.
I chose Ranger for this reason. Wound up deleting her at 80 to try again from scratch and really think through the build. Got to 80 with a conditon trap build (pve) and realized that I wasn’t going to get what I wanted out of a ranger (pve). I watched a necromancer and said, “now, THAT’S what I want my ranger to do!” But I was concerned about clothie survavibility. Nope…no problem…if you stay on your toes. Been 80 for awhile now and still like this class the best. Also, you don’t have to go conditionmancer. That’s just what I like. Very solo-friendly.
I’m not even going to argue RNG, pseudo-RNG, quasi-RNG, pseudo-quasi-RNG, and outright rigged RNG. I have a lot of background in statistics (doctoral level). None of the arguments matter. It’s driving me also away from this game. They need a new behavioral psychologist on board because people reach a point where they realize that the rewards are just not there. Can I buy an exotic for less than 1G on the TP? Yes. Is that fun? No.
Thanks for the constructive reply. I was expecting something else that I already knew about such as how combat slows you down and how that is particular problematic for rangers due to pets….or my favorite…it’s an optical illusion. :P
I just checked defrag after playing for an hour or so. (I’m using Auslogics. Is Defraggler better?) Anyway, I have some fragmentation but none are gw2 files. So, the big problem is how there are several rows of white clusters before all of the gw2.dat clusters, and this happens after updates. Problem solved when I compress. I will definitely keep an eye out for files interrupting the clusters. I see your logic there.
If it’s my OS, I wonder why it wants to put gw.dat so far away from all other files. It doesn’t do that with any other program (except for reserved clusters, of course) and the occasional Avast straggler.
I’ve spent months spending a good amount of time trying to fix things on my end. I am not anywhere close to being an expert and depend on forums and trial/error. My specific problem was that my characters run smoothly for a few seconds and then run as if trodding through mud. There is no specific number of seconds for each; there is no pattern. It doesn’t matter if I’m in a dead zone or LA during peak hours. Time of day. The weather outside doesn’t matter. What I ate for breakfast might matter but I haven’t fully tested that.
For a long time, I thought that it was fps because I would jump from 12 to 8 to 2 and back up. Obviously, that’s a bit low, but I think that went away when I turned off ipv6 and use only ipv4. Now, I can hit fps of 30 but it still jumps around reaching lows of 18. But even a low of 18 shouldn’t cause this smooth/mud random speed behavior.
None of the forum suggestions about -repair, fan speed, etc. have made a difference. I thought it might be the use of multiple on the trace route specifically in TX but then learned that this is normal for all games these days.
Ok, so here’s the potential solution, what I can do about it, and what Anet might be able to do about it. First, when I defrag, I notice that GW2 is using about 30 clusters connected to each other but very far from all other clusters on my drive. When I defrag AND optimize, the problem is solved. I didn’t believe that this was the source of the problem until the most recent update followed by an update the next day when they addressed the karma issue. I had defragged and optimized the night in between the two and was surprised to see that the problem has returned so soon. So, now I know. To make matters worse, after playing for an hour or two, a few clusters will be found far from the big set and crammed in between the ones that my computer is using without the game. So, my computer is bouncing from clusters far from everything else back and forth to these other ones. And THAT, I believe, is causing the shifts in movement speed (or rather computer operation speed).
Suggestion for Anet? Don’t provide updates. No, I’m kidding. But don’t put the clusters on some area of my drive so far from the others. Every time that you do, I have to defrag and compress everything. Defragging doesn’t take long but optimizing and compressing means my computer has to work while I’m sleeping. It takes a few hours. No other program has ever required this.
I could still be way off-base but this seems to be fixing the problem until another update.
Thanks! I’m glad they worked it out that way.
I have a question about the skins you get in the HoM. I know they are account bound. But, I’m wondering if they are limited to one per character or account. For example, I was thinking of putting the skin on lower level gear. Then, when I get better gear, I’d go back and get a new set. They don’t cost anything. But I don’t want to use the skins if the vendor is later going to say something like, “sorry, you already used your one awarded skin for this character”
I just noticed this too. For example, I can sell and buyback Hearty Staff for 54c but in the buyback screen, at the bottom, is it says that it’s worth 4s32c (???)