Guild Wars 2

Taygus.4571:

I love when people say things like
“5-10g a day”
Is that a 5 hour day? 1 hour?
Is that doing dungeons or exploration or personal story?

your day of play is very different to “my” day of play. Please think about game modes/and ways of playing before spouting off how much you can “easily” get per day..

And I love when people respond to answers like mine with: “5 – 10 G/day? You must be crazy and an insane farmer!”

And yeah, I suggested 1.5 – 2 hours playing the game (what I think is casual) and doing different things like a dungeon run, maybe level a lil’ bit, do pvp/wvw, whatever! If you sell EVERYTHING you get during that time (even salvaging tokens, if you are running dungeons), you usually end up having ~ 7.5 G/2 hours (sometimes less, sometimes more) – especially after prices for yellows and T6 and other crafting stuff have risen.

Valento.9852:

Sure. I’ve been playing the game instead of farming, I should’ve chosen a different path.

What do others do?

I’m no hardcore farmer, ‘cause I hate farming (= stupid) – but: Even if this game isn’t throwing the gold at you (like in other MMOs), you still get at least 5 – 10 G/day simply by DOING STUFF (except standing around and chatting). So if you really played since release on casual level, you have to have enough gold for a pre.

Btw. not every pre ist 800+ G, so it’s more a “I wanna have ETERNITY!!!” complain.

@korelg.7862
Go away and troll somewhere else with your offtopic comments.

MrRuin.9740:

I thought he had meant spamming “lfg” in the common and map chats, like some people do.

Nope, if it would be chat spam, I’d understand a spam protection. This way, you just get punished for other players faults (e.g. not reading the description, so you have to repost and can’t properly because of the spam protection).

Sandpit.3467:

Any reason why you can’t use the LFG tool?

You can use it, but you can’t edit the LFG message anymore if you changed it too often. That’s the problem.

GROMIT.7829:

I’m guessing he kicks people out of his party under 8k AP a lot and can’t advertise the party fast enough to repeat it again.

Nah, my/our limit isn’t that high.

Hi,

it’s really annoying, that LFG messages are treated as spam, if you post them too often!

Usually this happens, if you edit your LFG message – e.g. you are looking for special classes and you have to re-edit the message or you have to do a new LFG, because people can’t read and join your group.

Of course you can work around this by letting another group member post it, but it’s unnecessary annoying.

STRanger.5120:

A guy who wants the game to be better.

Or: “I want more and faster easymode farming of AP.”

No answer yet, WHY there’s any need to change the daily. Laurels? Nope.

Most of all dailys you can easily do while playing the game 30 – 45 min/day. And not by focussing the daily, just by playing the game.

If you can’t make that, there’s something else kinda like a weekly already ingame, called: monthly. And what about those who can’t make the weekly, because they only play 3 days a week and don’t want to focus on making it? Should they get a weekendly?

Edit: Remember one thing, suggestions in this forum are not here for you, those are for devs. So that’s the thing.

Called criticism. Learn to handle it (e.g. stating arguments).

Like your suggestions and even if some dungeons are broken, Anet fixed some too. Like some sorrows embrace or fractal glitches.

Agree with most of your suggestions, only things I can’t:

2. Bosses should drop LOOT

…

4. Make Trash Meaningful.

Like some one wrote before: This is in fact harder than removing the glitches or anything else, because if the loot is too good, people will start farming dungeons and dungeon bosses for gold and good loot. If the dungeon is at some point (too much adds you can’t skip anymore) is too hard, they simply will farm until there, leave and start again. So maybe the loot should get better boss for boss.

Farmer answer:

1 – No
2 – Yes
3 – Yes
4 – Yes
5 – No
6 – No

STRanger.5120:

I kinda agree with that, the daily routine is somewhat exhausting …

Then don’t do it. Problem solved.

Lik.7345:

I think that do daily in the 3 metagame (sPvP, PvE, WvWvW) all days is not so fun. Sometimes i want to play sPvP for all the day, in others day i don’t want to do sPvP at all and do some dungeons and fractals.

Same as above: If you don’t have fun, don’t do it.

If you only do it for the laurels and you don’t want to be forced to focus on only one aspect of the game: Well, that’s why you can get them via the PvP, PvE or WvW daily.

If you are doing it for APs – well, then you just want to grind them easier with turning into a weekly, don’t think that’s why we have them.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Now I am an allrounder/generalist and a very social gamer – and you might not be, but honestly, I don’t see this as unreasonable at all.

Don’t take it personal, but all people I know would call people like you anything, but never a “social gamer”. You are in different guilds for your own advantage – because you want to have more store, because you want to trade minis, so on. It’s just pure oppurtunism, nothing more, nothing less.

Oldman Playing.5607:

I’m not trying to bash what the op suggested…. but. Its my opinion that excellent guilds would arise if we could only join one guild across all characters. The guild that I’m currently in is suffering from “translucent players issue” or guild jumpers. lol i don’t have a good name for it sorry.

Agree with this, experienced this in other MMOs where you only had one guild / clan / kinship you could join. This lead usually to strong / elitist guilds, because you couldn’t say something like “Oh you are doing THAT? Well, then till later, I don’t like to help you with that, I switch to my other guild with interest XYZ.” to your pals. And you were proud of being in that guild (so the bonds were much stronger) and worked hard for your / their reputation (in usually every aspect of the game, not just a special one), because being in really good guilds was kinda hard to achieve – hardly anyone would have said something like “Oh, you think my guild sucks? Well, it’s only my pve guild, so idc, f*** ’em.”

Long story short: Nope, you should even decrease the actual amounts of guilds you are in to like 3. Nobody needs more than that. Really. No one. Everything else → friendslist. Or you simply should learn to set priorities.

People love colors, people pay a lot (of gold and/or shards) for them. Continously. On every new char.

If I were Anet, I’d never remove this cash cow and gold sink. Even not if you’d pay me, because you pay even more the common way.

GrimHero.5140:

I’d also like to see interchangable weapon skills to keep weapon fresh and preventing from becoming rather dull/boring. But thats probably not happening any time soon.

How that? Skills changing depending on the weapon: already got that. Skills not bound to weapons, but to “traits” (like in classic MMOs) so that you can’t recognize a knockback-hammer-bob, because he does it know with the greatsword?

Orthas.4937:

how much “more” do you think this would help build diversity? it would just mean that the current builds that revolve around primarily utility skill type(shout guardian, meditation guardian) would become far stronger, …

Totally agree with this. With 1 skill more, people will only try to close a gap on their current builds or enforce them, what will lead to less diversity, because some builds will become even stronger.

Or simply get them @Balthazar.

Doing this would be removing the last reason do to that annoying event.

Orthas.4937:

People have been willing to spend as much as it is, to buy it for one character, OF COURSE the guys who are selling them will raise the price if it becomes account bound, they would become so much more appealing if they could be used on alts as well without having to buy another one.

Usually sellers start to underbid each other if they don’t sell their stuff quick enough – example: skins from LS, that usually get cheaper after the first hype, mats for ascended, so on.

So the price will go on in the long run.

sorudo.9054:

if they really want ppl to buy gems trough real money without removing the gold->gem exchange then they better make a bonus gem system for that, so you ether spend your time farming gold all the time or you buy gems with real money and get more gems then you can get trough the exchange.

Since the gems for gold exchange rate gets “worse” (I still think it’s fair) every week, you’ll get more and more gems for money.

And: The lotro system gives you more “gems”, but it’s like giving away money to customers, because then they would buy less gems (if they get more). Giving a free bonus mini to customers doesn’t hurt Anets profit a lot, and like so many times said before: they need to make a living too.

And: I played lotro before and many didn’t make a lot of microtransactions, they usually waited till the next big bonus weekend and bought max turbine points – so they had no need to buy any the next months/year. Don’t think, that Anet would favor this.

So? You met a glassy burst thief that had a “lil’ bit o’ luck”. If I meet those fellas while roaming solo: death shroud (ofc always full, if you don’t know how, well…) + reflect, than I “grapple hook” the then runaway and bye bye.

Means: The Necro is still strong, even if the new heal is kinda crappy for solo pvp/wvw. The only use I can think of is for sigill necros (are there seriously any) and if you play only as a tanky supporter (what kinda sucks compared to other classes).

Other classes got a “crappy workaround” too, e.g. our pure support guardian isn’t happy with the new heal either (if you play a support + heal guardian you know why) and even the new warrior heal isn’t that good. Yesterday one of our warris died in fracs, because he forgot to change the heal and did never get a hit when active.

Ironvos.9014:

If noone goes on the map, it gets basically overrun by enemies and the stability rating will be low, granting no worldwide bonus to players.
Unstable maps however could grant a local bonus (like +mf, ) to everyone that is on the map, to encourage people to go there in the first place.

This way it might make people care a bit more about the world and reward people for doing more diverse content instead of farming.

You expect people to do something for somebody else – and then this could work. But those who profit from those boni are usually farmer, that are the most selfish players there are. They won’t do anything for those boni, but always complain if they don’t have them.

You can see this actually with the pre system: hardly anyone does them, but with the boss spawn lots of players out of the ground.

Orthas.4937:

If anything it would raise prices though, as one piece of armor is now sharable across all your alts, you’d only need to buy one of each stat permutation.

Why? If I already have Eternity for my warrior and can use it now with my ranger and mesmer too – why should this raise the price? Indeed, many who plan to buy/forge a second one, can now simply use their old one, so the demand will go down.

Players with a legendary are often those 24/7 players or those, who pump a lot of “real life gold” into the game. Casual players, that are often very happy to have 300 or 400 G, still won’t buy this stuff after making it account bound. Those get the much cheaper ascended stuff.

EroticAndHeretic.7398:

Then why Charr can wear ascalonian armor? Since when Ascalonian would make armors for their enemy?

Didn’t know yet, that they dug out the armor. And it’s no armor bound to a culture, it’s an armor bound to a dungeon.

Or: Why can’t I buy ascalonian armor with charr tokens? That’s so kitten unfair!

No offense, but if your friends left ‘cause they missed hints or guidance, then it’s maybe your fault too (to a lesser extent).

Why do I say that? I played something else before and almost everyone from my/our old clan we got to play GW2 stayed here – only a few left or aren’t very active, because they like the “WoW-clone” concept more. And yes, they felt a little lost too or weren’t willing to google/read a lot (now they do it to optimize their WvW/PvP builds, but if you start a game, you aren’t willing to read/google for hours).

So I/we helped them, leveled with them, explained them stuff and answered questions in TS. Wasn’t such a big deal, helped them a lot and let them stay here.

I don’t think, GW2 differs a lot from other games that were new at their time. When I started playing MMOs with the usual WoW clone, there weren’t many explanations either. Or big help. You had to learn almost everything on your own, like how the game works and what classes/builds are sh***y and which aren’t. The only MMO that was easy to learn was Ultima Online – and that only, because the game mechanic didn’t differ a lot from the original offline game.

I think, GW2 is quite easy to learn – even without googling – and anything, but not very complex. Maybe some areas and some classes are kinda hard to level or understand (compared to easymode/self explaining classes), sure.

Tooltips are wrong and misleading? Don’t know which, honestly. The main stuff works quite well. And what you describe as a big problem, like the toughness issue or that they don’t get an easymode build template – well, that’s the stuff you discover if you play a lot and isn’t very important while exploring the world and while “learning to play and understand” the game. Later, yes. But then usually people already decided to stay here and start asking questions in their guilds/mapchat like “How can I make more damage/survive – which gear is good for which class and why…”

Umut.5471:

I can’t see any reason for them to be soulbound. That would help us play with different alts and different builds easier.

If you want it that easy: Why not give everyone 200 laurels and ascended gear when he creates a character? This would make it even easier to play different builds.

Sorry, but sometimes it feels like people only want to play farmarama with better graphics, means: not to do anything at all to get their stuff.

Legendarys should be an achievement you have to work hard for – ingame to get or buy them or if some want, in RL to earn enough money to get them. Ascended are just Legendarys for the poor, so making them tradeable makes no sense at all – then you’d remove the big disadvantage they have for being very cheap and easier to get compared to getting/making a legendary.

And yes (like said before), it would remove a big gold sink too, that would result in a stronger inflation of the ingame gold.

Brave Mallyki.1563:

Same person different character.

Because you can hardly, without stalking them ingame via FL, tell that “Michugga Wannaka” and “Hollala Shakly” are the person. To most people it would seem that both have Eternity and not just the account.

This would devalue the achievement of a “Legendary” if it’s like “Oh see, another one with Eternity running around, can stand this skin anymore…”

If it would be accountbound, people will instaswitch their Legendarys way more often than with the “move to a white item” trick.

And just for economy issues: If you’d make it accountbound, you’d move a VERY BIG gold sink out of the game.

Well, I like the Balthasar-pres quite much. Of course you get a sh**load of greens and blues that are only good for salvaging, but also lots of bags with T6 mats, that are often (whole south-pre done) worth 2 – 4 G (if you are lucky).

The bad thing with this event is, that the whole SoD area isn’t designed very good. Usually people, if not there for map completion, are only running trough there with their toons to get them to the next ML/CS WP. One big issue: too many WP are contested and even if you free them, they are retaken in seconds – so you won’t do it and nobody wants to port there (because you have a veeeeery long way to events like Balth or EoZ).

And yeah, it sucks that the Balthasar event instafails if the moral drops down and you have to DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, so even less people want to do this (very) long (and hard) event chain. Why not let them retreat 3 – 4 times before that? I know you can do the Balthasar event with very few people if all goes well and everyone uses the nearby MOAB-grenade kit, but the last few steps are such a PITA…

And that’s why the temple usually is hardly open for business.

Sure, but if you only play like 30 min – no offense, but should this really be worthy a kinda high reward? Since you can do a lot with the laurels, in my eyes it’s a pretty important currency (= high reward).

I’m thinking of 2 possible exploits if there wouldn’t be a CD timer.

Well, and if you are having a “bad luck day” and you get a lot of dragonite, but you need bloodstone dust… you’ll curse that it is random.

Would be really great for making videos and a feature I’m missing in GW2 too.

Jtor.7543:

… but I would hate to not use my legendary because of its lame skills, which is kinda already happening.

Actually I hardly use my “main” weapon since the kits/gagdets/so on offer you such a broad spectrum of weapon skills. And maybe that’s why the weapon skills for an engineer compared to other classes are kinda rare.

Well, since you can get only 1 laurel/day… does it really matter how long the daily will take?

Because: If you do a lot of PvE or PvP actually it’s no big deal to get the requested daily achievements in like 1 hour. The PvP daily is in my opinion only a substitute for those, who don’t want to do that much PvE.

pupi.2465:

And the thing you pointed about World Bosses, if you would do that because its funny, wouldnt turn the game “funnier” overall???

I’d think it’s maybe funny (once) – think the other 80+ doing the event won’t think the same. And that’s always the same with 100 % OpenPvP servers.

But yes, if you join on a special OpenPvP server, then it’s clear to everybody. But: then Nretep.2564 is right too.;)

It will always lead to ganking lowies, no matter if you exclude starting zones or not – ok then you kill a lvl 52 on his way to the shatterer (with a lvl 80 with full ascended gear). Does this make things any better?

And nooo, this won’t happen in GW2. Well, it did so in any other MMOs I played before, because the “ganker” usually comes around with better gear or more “friends”, so the lowie is 90 % on the loser side.

Besides: Since GW2 is an open world game with open world bosses, some morons could easily ruin (At least I’d do that, ‘cause I think it’s funny.) the gaming experience of many more – like killing the cannon guys at Tequatl or generally people fighting a boss.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

At the moment movement in huge battles is discouraged for all the looters because there’s a relatively big chance to leave some loot behind (in case you don’t spam the loot button all the time, which you shouldn’t during a battle).

Instead of a bigger loot rang, they should introduce auto-remote-loot! Even crappy MMOs like lotro have it.

Then there wouldn’t be a need for button spams and corpse walks.

Dreadforce.6980:

Maybe just super rare drops that that are tied to specific zones could work.

You already got those, like e. g. Spirit Links from the Behemoth chest.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

What has Anet personally done for players who haven’t spent money, but are dedicated to the game still?

Me (that never spent any money for this game)? A helluva fun and a nice time!

SpyderArachnid.5619:

What I am saying, is Anet doesn’t personally reward you for playing their game. Not just Living Story, but the game in general. Anet doesn’t recognize dedication to the game or the hours you have spent in the game or anything you have done in the game.

1. If I level up to a certain level, if I finish a map – I get a letter. My progress gets rewarded, even if its a bot.
2. My dedication is rewarded with loot, rank, so on.

Why should Anet thank me for playing their game or reward me for it? I do it for fun, it’s not work, were I want something in return.

What you want is like being in a football team and everytime I catch the ball, the coach and everybody around me comes to thank me for catching that ball/playing football.

Even if you expand this to a customer/business owner level: the last time the manager thanked me for buying some flour and fruits at any shop plus giving me free stuff … well, I think that never happend to me yet.

All those complains are not retracable for me.

It’s not “You HAVE TO buy 4.000 gems to get a backpack and a Sparkles mini!”, it’s “Hey, if you buy 4.000 gems, we give you some extra stuff during the holidays.”.

Like someone before said: If you buy a car and 4 weeks later the same car is offered with a free upgrade, you’d never go to your sales dude and complain about it – because you know, you’d look like a total you-know-what to everyone who hears you complaining!

And yeah, I’d like to have a Sparkles Mini too, but I won’t buy any gems – bad luck for me.

Well you already can split stacks with ALT and those splitted stacks stay splitted at a vendor. Ok, they auto-merge at the trading post, but there you can choose how many you want to sell.

I do this every time to split like 4 identical sigills into 4 single sigills to throw them in the forge.

Thrudrheim.8143:

I don’t know why this is but there are times when I’m playing and I’m about to hit a skill or move in one direction and I find myself dodging.

Unbind dodge by double-tapping a move button. (Options → Combat/Movement → Double-Tap to Evade)

Thrudrheim.8143:

A player shouldn’t be dodging by accident, you should be able to only dodge when you press the button.

I only dodge when I push mouse button 4 – works quite well and 99 % of all my dodges are on purpose.

Then they don’t want to play organized and zerg only – and won’t listen to commands anyway.

Ok, I don’t join serverteamspeak too, but i don’t like brain-afk zergs and prefer roaming in small groups, so I won’t listen to a 100G commander commanding anyway. But our zerglings are usually in teamspeak, because the commander doesn’t want to write all day.

nerovergil.5408:

Like The Sims 3, we can remove the wall, i hope theres a solution to remove that terrain in combat.

Wallhack by Anet? ,)

tokola.5172:

Like 5~10 customizable commands that he could use in order to direct players who’re following him.
“Retreat” “Attack” “Regroup”
….
It is important that he can customize it, that guarantees the usefulness of this tool, and gives commanders a new way to excel.

TeamSpeak.

Ironvos.9014:

Although in the end people will just farm the most profitable events again but it’s better than nothing.

Don’t think that those will agree, that like to explore the map or do events there when they play the game the first time.

They already get a bad impression now, if they start in Queensdale. One reason, why I avoided this area with my first char, because I was annoyed by all those idiots spamming their “champ comments” in the map chat and got a very bad impression from the GW2 community right from the start.

Heard something similar from others in my guild when it comes to their “my first week exerience” (regarding QD champtrain or other annoying farmtrains).

And you won’t “revive” the maps with this, you only create another “jump-from-event-to-event” worldzerg.

EverythingEnds.4261:

Content shouldn’t just be played because of the rewards, instead of the fact that it makes fun.

Totally agree with this. If you want to make it more grindy -> asian MMOs.

/disagree

Legendary should be LEGENDARY: a real achievement and not some kind of giveaway – even between you own chars.

Yeah, let’s make everything account bound – even better let’s mail the stuff to our own chars, because this would be even more easymode. Sounds like the usual “I play this game for 5 minutes and I’m not max level with max gear yet – THIS GAME SUCKS!”-complaint.

Sorry, but I think this is already stupid when it comes to legendary gear – and even more, if it’s about armor, that’s a) kinda easy to get/farm or b) kinda cheap compared to legendary weapons.

Agreed – kicked a guildmate ’cause of that accidentally twice.

Well, everybody had the chance to craft a lot in advance. And if you don’t want to pay a lot, then you simply have to wait.

Hell no! Ascended are “Legendarys for the poor” – of course they should have one disadvantage if it isn’t the price.

Then go on, try it with all the other stuff too.

GL HF

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Indeed, CULTURAL armor. Specific to a CULTURE, not a race.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

If it had anything to do with wanting to belong to another culture you would be right.

First you admit, it’s indeed cultural, but then that you don’t want to belong to that culture? Even better: It shouldn’t even be “culture bound”.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

But it has to do with looking good, …

Say the white kids too…

Sorry, but this whole discussion is like: “Hey, I’m with the Whispers, but I want the Vigil stuff!”. – “Then f****** choose Vigil and not something else…”

Again: I like that there are differences between the races and that you have to make (very few) (careful?) decisions in this game – and no: “I’m an Asura with interest in Synergetics and I did the Whispers quests, but I want Charr and Vigil armor and do the College of Dynamics quest line!”

So what? Never heard before, that Humans are part of the Charr culture. Maybe they wish, but: they aren’t cool or beautiful enough.

If you start with mocking “special” features: This deep wish to belong to another culture to get their stuff reminds me of white kids who desperately want to be black to be more gangsta and be able to drop the n-bomb…