Guild Wars 2

Everyone thinks the greatsaw greatsword skin is awesome, they will still think that after halloween.

Same with the scythe. What you need to worry about is will christmas bring in better skins or will nice skins be put on the BLT.

I bought a few skins while people were trying to dump them because of the mad king chest being patched in, I doubted they would increase the drop rate. I was right and got a 2 scythe and 1 greatsaw for about 35 gold.

are the recipes learnable then you can produce the item or is it one item per recipe?

Wayshuba.5912:

illgot.1056:

Wayshuba.5912:

zaneber.6908:

ok, so let me get this right.
On the other hand, nowhere in any official response did they say that the skins were guaranteed or that there was a high chance of getting them. The argument relies on the semantic assumption of what “chance” means to you, and that is actually a vague enough term to make you cautious of any assumptions. Some people consider 1/100 a low chance, and some consider it a moderate or high chance depending on the context, but you cannot say that default assumption is that it is a high or low chance.

One can safely assume that you will spend $5 – $10 on a virtual item in an MMO. That is pretty standard. However, when a person spends $100 on keys, gets nothing and then effectively puts another $50 worth for a second chance (since the forge require two chests worth of stuff) and STILL gets nothing it has long past reasonable assumption. This is simply about how do you get people to pay ten to twenty times what they would consider reasonable for a virtual item (remember the outcry in EVE over the $70 cosmetic item?).

What has happened here is simple, it’s a fleecing to try and get more cash then people would reasonably spend. Mark my words, this second chance is only going to reinforce why people will not use the cash store in the future.

The person understood that the items were rare and chose to gamble. ANet did not force them.

I gambled once in another game, lost something like 50 dollars, did not get anything decent, never gambled again.

I will spend 50 dollars on a single in game item if I think it is worth it, but I won’t spend 1 dollar on a chance to win something.

Again, show me in the original patch notes or the store where this was listed as rare. It wasn’t. In fact, the store leads you to believe you will always get something Halloweeny. So, no, not everyone KNEW the chances were rare. Get the point here? Not only were the chances extremely rare, the materials presented to the average player were also very misleading.

show me where they stated it was a high chance or guaranteed drop.

Wayshuba.5912:

zaneber.6908:

ok, so let me get this right.
On the other hand, nowhere in any official response did they say that the skins were guaranteed or that there was a high chance of getting them. The argument relies on the semantic assumption of what “chance” means to you, and that is actually a vague enough term to make you cautious of any assumptions. Some people consider 1/100 a low chance, and some consider it a moderate or high chance depending on the context, but you cannot say that default assumption is that it is a high or low chance.

One can safely assume that you will spend $5 – $10 on a virtual item in an MMO. That is pretty standard. However, when a person spends $100 on keys, gets nothing and then effectively puts another $50 worth for a second chance (since the forge require two chests worth of stuff) and STILL gets nothing it has long past reasonable assumption. This is simply about how do you get people to pay ten to twenty times what they would consider reasonable for a virtual item (remember the outcry in EVE over the $70 cosmetic item?).

What has happened here is simple, it’s a fleecing to try and get more cash then people would reasonably spend. Mark my words, this second chance is only going to reinforce why people will not use the cash store in the future.

The person understood that the items were rare and chose to gamble. ANet did not force them.

I gambled once in another game, lost something like 50 dollars, did not get anything decent, never gambled again.

I will spend 50 dollars on a single in game item if I think it is worth it, but I won’t spend 1 dollar on a chance to win something.

they will probably disable the bonus on jugs soon

I’m just happy I got to open a chest.

I have never seen a key drop in game since I started and have only found about 6 from completing maps or storyline quests.

The Witch costume is 100% more fun than the Mad King outfit.

Witch broom allows you to fly around on it, you can summon a cauldron for costumes, and it has the cat.

Mad King, not sure what he’s about, but his animations are kind of boring, just raising the staff, and his food fight table gets old fast. Candy Golem isn’t nearly as cut as the cat

Hickeroar.9734:

People are complaining about having brown leather armor?

Dyes? Just saying. :-)

It’s medium not leather.

In between Light and Heavy. Honestly they should do away with the restrictions of transmuting when it comes to armor and just put up the class symbols when we select a player.

The best way for ANet to make money is to sell decent items with good value.

It’s all based on a chance.

even if it were a 50% chance, you could open 100 chests and still not get the items you want.

yes, you transmute the appearance from one item to another as many times as you want. You do permanently lose the appearance of one item but retain the other.

I wish there was a locker for the costumes. I love both halloween costumes but won’t purchase because it’s pretty expensive for one character to use and sadly… not worth it to me as “social” clothing only.

Maybe if they had an option to “poof, change into my town clothes when not in combat” automatically or something, but I’m not going to switch outfits constantly just to enjoy what I bought.

ANet has to make money and gambling seems to be one weakness that earns a great deal.

Personally I never gamble so will never buy keys or dyes or mini pets off the BLT. If they instead sold those items for say 20 dollars a skin I would buy one or two.

weren’t people able to farm up a lot of karma before diminishing returns patch for karma was installed?

there was a Pirate outfit you got on the storyline mission. It was your basic shirt/vest and pants. That is an outfit I would have loved, sadly shirts and vests do not exist for us.

what is the nerf?

Voqar.2349:

I peaked at about 44g but blew a bunch of it prepping gear for my next 80 and impatience in maxing out one of her crafts, so I’m down to 24.

I’ve spent a decent amount getting 2 80’s fully exotic (gathered most but there’s some stuff you end up buying) and all 8 crafts up to 400.

I also have a serious dye addiction. Most of my gold has been flushed buy 20 undiscovered at a time and playing dye lotto. Finally kind of getting over this now that I have to scroll on my main just to see my 40+ rares dyes. :P

I bought all the exotic dyes and it only cost me about 10 gold (a few weeks ago).

roughly 70 gold but I’ve probably spent around 40 gold.

@Kymbre sorry you missed women’s rights movement by about 150 years and the sexual revolution by about 50+ years. Do you even know what those movements were about? They were about choice, not forcing one view or policy on other people that did not share those views or policies.

Giving players the option to chose how they look isn’t stating that all women should be objectivied sexually no more than a man dressed like a barbarian and only wearing leather straps on his chest.

Diversity is good.

Focksbot.6798:

I wanted to play a warrior but didn’t feel like shelling out 30 gold for my cultural just to look good …

So by ‘look good’, you mean semi-nude and impractical? I think it should be a general rule in these games that if you want heavy or even medium armour you have to cover up. Anyone exposing skin gets increased vulnerability. Give people the option to look sexy at the expense of stats, and then facepalm when they whinge about it.

Yeah because 99% of the armor is heavy and bulky. Sorry if my tastes are impracticable in a game where we fight dragons and cast fireballs from our hands.

Fluff can be a very good reason to grind, but here is the issue.

Fluff is all about how something appeals to a player and that is greatly subjective. What is not subjective is math.

personally I like sexy outfits. I haven’t bothered logging in to play because I just can’t stand 99% of the leather outfits, 99% of the heavy outfits, and 70% of the light outfits.

I wanted to play a warrior but didn’t feel like shelling out 30 gold for my cultural just to look good and I refuse to stare at a character that looks like they are wearing something a LARPer would be embarrassed to wear. So instead I just haven’t bothered logging in at all.

I know the general value of an item so I set mine in that gap people leave when constantly undercutting when there are a lot of people selling.

When I log in the next morning I usually sell everything. Which is why I walk away with 2-10 gold a day selling a few hundred items.

it only has weak buying power going through ANet. If you go through a gold seller and convert your bought gold to gems, you get 3 to 3.5 times the gems.

Sadly this is why I stopped buying gems from ANet, not because I buy gold from gold sellers (which I do not) but because I realized how much they are charging for so little.

You know who has artistic integrity? Starving Artists.

Halo.1064:

“We’re doing what we can”?

What does that mean? Of course you CAN give us this feature, but will you?

they won’t because they apparently still have a few bugs. How would you guys feel if you bought them, changed your character, then the next time you logged in all those changes were reverted?

ANet wants to get this out as soon as possible, they want the money they know is going to be thrown at them the moment recustomization is released… but they are also smart enough to know not to intentionally release a buggy item.

for DEs with large groups, Engineer.

They can drop down turrets on one end and spam AOEs on another.

You know why I left World of Warcraft? I could not stand the look of my characters as I leveled.

There were posts reaching their limits on replies because people were begging Blizzard for some type of visual customization on gear, and for years Blizzard just ignored their players stating such customization would destroy their vision of the game.

Guess who pays for the game to exist, it is not the creator of the game, it is the players that spend money. Ignore the players desire on things which have NO impact on game balance because your “vision” is more important and eventually they will leave when something new comes along.

wonder if there are more options than we get at character creation.

At least we know it should be released soon

how much was it?

when I walk around in real life, the ground does not take up 70% of my view. That is why it looks so wrong in game.

John Smith.4610:

Out of curiosity, how many feel that a 100% free market would be a good idea?

no, it would just be another thing the gold sellers can control.

who sets the price? People that buy gold from gold sellers and then converts that gold to gems.

oli.4786:

No, the reality is that it is supply and demand. You may be unhappy with the prices but plenty of others are not and so it shall keep rising. When people deem them too expensive then people will stop buying them and a stable price will be reached or it will go down. The reason it’s been steadily going up is simply because the game is new people are accumulating more money as time goes on and they can afford more.

That’s because players are buying gold from gold sellers and converting it to gems.

If I can spend 50 dollars on 200 gold from a gold site, then convert that to gems, I’m getting 4 times the amount of gems than if I buy directly from ANet. But ANet isn’t filtering out these illicit conversions, they are just using them to fuel their insane gold to gem prices.

Elemental is more AOE.

Mesmer is more single target.

I have little experience with the Elementalist, but the Mesmer is decent.

It can take a while to kill mobs because you have to get the clones spawned and Mesmers lack decent AOE skills compared to most classes in the game. Mesmers are also reliant on having a mob selected to attack unlike a lot of classes and are one of the slowest classes in the game movement wise (many classes have decent movement buffs but not the Mesmer).

If you want a good all around class, I would pick Engineer. My first level 80 character is an engineer and she is great. I player her mainly for end game.

Engineers are mainly a ranged AOE class. You have everything from point blank range (bombs) to short to medium range (flame thrower), medium to long range (pistols) and extreme long range (grenades and Mortars).

They also can summon turrets.

End game, when you are stuck farming mobs and trying to tag them before they die in 0.5 seconds of spawning, you will regret ever choosing a Mesmer and kick yourself for not playing a class that can AOE tag everything like an Engineer.

By the way, I only play Mesmer because they look cool. I’m not a fan of the Mesmer playstyle… I keep thinking it will get better but it hasn’t.

let them fix the FOV then we can actually enjoy the world instead of having 70% of our screen taken up by the ground we are walking on.

whiran.1473:

aleiro please back that statement up with some evidence of any kind. I’m curious if this is true. Have you found posts about people who bought gold from gold sellers and, in turn, bought gems with it?

I would think that the pricing of gems is natural due to the ever increasing amount of gold in the game system. Once someone has bought all of their exotic gear what is there to spend gold on?

The cost of waypoints and armour repair do not eat away at the gold that my level 80 character makes in the course of playing. Without trying, one can make ~1g per hour after expenses at level 80. If someone really tries they can make 5g per hour.

Most people will be making around 1g – 2g per hour.

What do they do with this gold?

Well, some will do what I’ve done which is to buy gems cause I have nothing else to spend the gold on. I don’t want a legendary weapon.

As an aside, a lot of people who bought their legendary weapon now have gold freed up to spend on other stuff as well. What is there for them to spend the gold on in the game for? Basically, nothing, so why not buy up gems before the Halloween event in the hopes that some cool stuff will show up?

Gold sellers have negatively impacted players when it comes to gold to gem conversion.

Either by producing more money in game constantly or by selling to players which then convert their bought gold to gems, the formula ANet is using is only making it harder on legitimate players.

Do you honestly think the people that buy gold have not realized they can get 3-4 times the amount of gems versus buying from ANet directly?

I have never bought game currency from gold farming sites, but constantly seeing how cheap they are offering gold and how many more gems I can get is really starting to tempt me. I’ve spent 150 dollars on gems so far on ANets site. That’s only 12000 gems.

With that same money I could have gotten 36000 to 48000 gems.

it’s easier to see the AOEs and target when the camera is further up and looking down at your character vs low and down.

does it chance to proc only when you do damage or any time your and your illusions do damage?

Jestunhi.7429:

Fortunately, you can choose to pay a lot for it if you think it’s high value.

Get buying those keys!

And I, as someone who does not buy it, will not be at a disadvantage during any part of the game except how easy it is to get items from the TP. And I’m sure I can live with that.

I did that once in a game and spent about 500 dollars and never got any of the decent items. Because of that I just don’t gamble anymore. I will spend 1200 dollars a year on solid items but I will never gamble in game.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/ now has the item ID code listed as “in game” when you click on a specific item.

Copy the code and paste it in in game chat to see the real model. The database has a lot of errors, I stopped using it a while ago.

so you are comparing a Greatsword to a Scepter… a Scepter which one person is trying to sell for more than the Precursor Scepter (current 99.99.99 vs the 135.00.00).

And you are trying to use this one person trying to sell this one item at an outlandish price compared precursor of another class…

This is what we call an outlier, we ignore these for a reason, because they are part of the insane randomness of life that do not support real information.

Lets compare precursor Greatsword to non-precursor Greatsword.

Dusk: 350.00.00

Dawn: 300.00.00

Valkyrie Destroyer Greatsword: 44.50.00

tagging this, I love both these weapon sets, though I’ll probably have to give us S/S once I start PvPing.

Mesmers need more than 0.5 seconds to prep their phantasms and skills for an attack.

Most of the Mesmer skills at least require a target before they can be used.

Why not have mobs spawn invulnerable for a couple seconds, make angry gestures or move to the staging point, then become vulnerable.

This would give Mesmers and all classes time to target and prep an attack. The current system of spawning mobs vulnerable is only benefiting the bots and front loaded target free AOE classes.

After playing my Engineer, then moving to a Mesmer, end game mob tagging is not balanced.

Hell, even my Thief has better chances tagging mobs with her bow than my Mesmer.

I do not use them. If they offered useful passive, like a movement speed increase or buffed our illusions, I may have picked them.

I actually like it too and I haven’t gotten serious about WvW or PvP yet.

Link.4039:

One-time events that change the game… Me gusta.

I’ve heard this a lot in other games… and the devs pretty much always forced the event in one direction.

right, all it means is do not try and transmute your gear while you are wearing it (not sure why they changed this).