Being valuable and offering convenience are not mutually exclusive conditions.
It’s not one or the other.
And it’s not a single value to all, it would clearly be more important to some than to others.
Cosmetics aren’t even convenience, they offer no advantage whatsoever. But they are valuable and important to many people.
Right, an item like a permanent field trade post is extremely valuable to a person like me because I love to play the TP and constantly upgrade/sell gear.
I would pay a lot for such easy access to a trade post or vender (I love keeping my inventory organized and clean).
Even if the mounts only offered a 15% increase (some classes don’t need them, a thief can have a default 25% increase), a few of the classes sorely need a way to travel faster.
My mesmer can only get short bursts of speed increase, not really enough to switch all her weapons and skills around just to use.
As for a money maker, Blizzard made what, 2 million in about 4 hours of the release of their Celestial Steed?
Don’t just think of it as a way of making players happy, think of it as a money maker, think of all the special mounts you can make for your cash shop!
I have never had a key drop off a mob or world chest.
I have had a couple of keys come out of the black lion chest, and gotten them from map completes. I wish I could get at least 1 key every map complete.
Illgot – could that be because they want you to buy gems?
Guess what? Just because there is no sub cost doesn’t mean that the servers don’t require electricity, bandwidth, maintenance, updates, hosting, etc. It doesn’t mean the developers & support staff don’t need to be paid.
They have ongoing costs, they want to encourage us to buy gems.
And if they are doing it in a way which is selling convenience instead of power, then they have my full support.
I support a cash shop, I think it more profitable for the company than subscriptions. I am explaining how valuable an item like a permanent merchant and trade post is to people that keep saying those items offer nothing more but “convenience” and not worth trying to get.
I bought a second account just so I could buy items off the TP and mail them to my main characters. Basically I have a whole account that just handles the TP for me.
If I had the option I would spend 200 dollars just to buy the permanent TP. The permanent merchant would have to give me access to top tier kits and resource supplies to make me interested.
You don’t need to have a permanent banker to avoid running back to cities all the time, just two accounts…
2 accounts with characters you play.
I do not know if there is a certain goal you need to reach before mail/guild bank becomes unlimited, but you can not mail and use the guild bank unless you level characters on both accounts.
im not ashamed of my play hours i love this game
thats my 3rd lvl 80 and im still craft ignorant, i just love the combat and live off the land.
kudos OP for a great contest and good luck everyone.
no fair using your “assets” to help you stand out!
please ignore all the reposts, I was having issues getting my reply sent due to the forum bug, and now I can not delete the extra posts because the option to edit is not available.
The only time dying with the target is an irritation is:
1) If the target dies within 1-2 seconds after summon (or worse, DURING summon)
2) For Zerker, if for some reason everyone decided to focus down the one mob in the pack that you used as a centerpoint for the AoE.
What I would suggest as an alternative would be that the Illusion stays up for X seconds OR the target dies, whichever is longer. Don’t make it long, maybe 5-6 seconds, and it should be fine.
I like your idea for phantasms, last 5 seconds even if target dies immediately (which happens much too often in zergs).
And my idea for clones is only while you are in combat. Once you are out of combat all clones would vanish. This way there is no Mesmer walking around with 3 clones out confusing noobs (not that it is hard to pick out the real Mesmer).
That would just ruin the community, you know, the great community we have in game… high levels just spaming low level zones that they only want other high levels to join their dungeon runs… and refusing to even answer questions from new people…
My LFG tool is logging onto my lowbie trade post alt, spaming LFG in /map chat while posting and buying items on the trade post, all the while trolling with the other people about what ever random topic people off their ritalin talk about, getting an invite an hour later, then logging on to my main I have parked in that dungeons zone.
I would love an LFG tool. But hey, not having one builds more of a community right?
I agree. When the TP was new and I made 20 gold my first week of it opening to the public I would have laughed.
Now that the profit for buying and selling has equalized… yeah, it’s a bit too expensive. Really, cultural armor should be the first armor a person obtains and transmutes, then they can replace that with dungeon bought gear.
I think it is a little backwards to expect players to first deck themselves out in dungeon gear then move to their races cultural gear.
As for restricting the armor so it “means” something, that is what we have Legendaries for.
My thief because I can’t tell what is going on, if the boss is attacking or if there is a red circle near all the player created spell effects.
My mesmer because I at times can not target the correct mobs and cast aim ground specific targeting spells reliably.
I partially blame the massive amount of effects and the other part goes to the inability to zoom out more and actually see my targets location through all the spell effects.
I never had this issue in WoW, maybe because I could zoom out more and see above my target and all the effects.
delete all the old mail in your box. You are only allowed to have 10 player/store sent mails. Anything after that and you have a back log of mail waiting for you.
I had this issue, deleted all the gold selling spam and mail from other people and my items showed up.
ANet mail really should not count towards the 10 mail limit.
yes but the only issue with the LoTR system is that they don’t charge you to change your appearance.
True, for the players the system is the best I have seen for customization (they do not even have limitations based Light/Medium/Heavy) but for making money it lack…
oh wait, they could have mirrored LoTRs system but required a transmute stone to place items in the appearance slot.
I am not 100% sure why ANet went with the current appearance system. It is not original, I’ve seen it in other FTP games, it is more limiting, and very irritating that social clothing actually looks better than a lot of the gear in this game to me.
I have no issue with people undercutting me 1 copper.
They undercut me, I cancel my auction and undercut them back.
Or if it is not worth canceling, I just wait until later that night when I know my item will sell due to knowing the general market value of the item and being patient.
It is not ANets responsibility to protect people from blindly following advice posted on another web site. It is also not ANets responsibility to ban or punish players that try and control the market by posting misleading information on a web site other than the official Guild Wars 2 web site.
The only person you can hold responsible is yourself for not doing research before jumping in game and spending all your money to use a recipe that does not work.
Has society reached a point where “personal responsibility” has become meaningless?
Try it as a Mesmer. They actually need time to build up clones and phantasm and the instant their target dies so do all their clones and phantasms.
Also they need targets to cast many of their spells. So far I only know of one AOE spell that does not require a target and it is short duraction and 30 second cool down.
Yuck how can anyone play a game with those huge black borders?
It’s like watching a movie letterbox. Sure, you have black borders at the top and bottom, but you are actually seeing more of the movie than the full screen TV versions.
Gold companies have already done this. One company did this in SWTOR, I got money mailed to my characters twice, my account was banned then restored a few days later once the devs caught on to what was happening. They had to end the practice of blindly banning accounts that were sent money.
But in other games I have been sent large amounts of money by mistake and just taken it. If gold sellers start sending gold out to random players, banning account would have to immediately stop.
Buy gold from gold sellers or use earlier exploits which never got you banned.
If you had a leg up from either of those or had access to the TP the first week or so before it opened for everyone, you could easily have made hundreds manipulating the market.
