Guild Wars 2

laokoko.7403:

Once the skins get depleted from the trading post.

This will never happen.

Well.. I play the game… gather stuff, level a character, work on some achievements, maybe kill some world bosses.. nothing special.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Technically, even amongst minis in the TP you have some that are 50 gold + and others which are of better quality for only like.. 10 gold.

Plus that entirely depends on the person. In the case of Guildwars2, and Guildwars, I don’t think that argument works. Unless you have for example one mini that just stands around, and then another mini that makes attacking animations at enemy (No damage), makes comments at certain NPCs (and vice versa) and the like.

I mean look at the Mini Karka. It’s not even that amazing as a mini compared to others, possibly a bit big, but it’s not like.. Super cool or such. It’s just rare and pretty much impossible to get now really.

But what does this have to do with the thread topic? We were talking about presents not mini pets from the gemstore.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

kokiman.2364:

ProtoGunner.4953:

The 1st birthday gifts were very underwhelming. I ended up with 9 Queen Jennahs etc. What were they thinking? After the good feedback from GW1 where you got a chance of many different minis, why did they change this?

I hope they will alter the rewards this time around.

GW1? Good feedback? Wut? I can tell you one thing in my playtime (which was pretty much until GW2 got released) I never got a green minipet. RNG shouldn’t be a factor when it comes to presents.

Uh, I hope you understand that generally no one knows what they get as a gift.

I guess that’s more destiny and fate than proper RNG (Though that’s philosophy and not remotely relevant) but I dunno. Haven’t you ever celebrated a birthday as a kid? Or Christmas? Pretty sure you don’t get told what you’re getting on either, only a vague idea or expectation.

Okay let’s take christmas as an example. A family has 2 children, 1 gets a lego set and the other one gets a playmobil house, both are happy because the presents seem to have/do have the same value—> this is a good system!
Now what would happen if 1 child gets a lego set and the other one gets pick-a-stick set? How do you think the second child would react?

The RNG in GW1 was okayish but giving people presents with different values is kinda crappy.

ProtoGunner.4953:

The 1st birthday gifts were very underwhelming. I ended up with 9 Queen Jennahs etc. What were they thinking? After the good feedback from GW1 where you got a chance of many different minis, why did they change this?

I hope they will alter the rewards this time around.

GW1? Good feedback? Wut? I can tell you one thing in my playtime (which was pretty much until GW2 got released) I never got a green minipet. RNG shouldn’t be a factor when it comes to presents.

After the negative feedback I’m pretty sure that they are going to change some things around this time.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Like seriously. I haven’t done this path in months because this fight is so broken now. It does too much damage and it’s literally impossible to do without wiping.

Man I LOVE your sarcastic posts.

Greetz and happy wallrunning!

Malediktus.9250:

This thread isnt about if you believe me or not. Its about getting an alternative way to get the Llama mini.

Have you bought the latest minipets in the store?

IVIUIEI.9631:

Sweetfx is so much easier.

Downsampling with Sweetfx? Have I missed something?

JusticarArkiel.1564:

double of 0% is still 0%

What? The chance to get a scrap is not 0% it’s 20%

Hey, to keep it short. Anyone here who runs GW2 with gedosato? It seems to be compatible with the game but apparently you have to change the resolution in a gamerprofile.xml? There is none for GW2.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjiEnZ1RzqDMdGdmalZoX25nVUtOT2FOLUw3S0Fzenc&usp=sharing#gid=5

Have you bought the latest minipets in the store?

Clickbait article

Morsus.5106:

I tried to jump after it too, and I’m a human. That sword is the only way to end years and years of death and suffering. I’d put my life on the line for it too.

That’s what he thinks we still have magdaer.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yeah, since they took all the links off the Official Site pages, and the URL redirects now, I’m thinking the Atlas is no more.

Without saying anything? I doubt that. It still contains valuable information for people who just came back into the game.

When I try to open the link to the atlas (atlas.guildwars2.com) it just redirects me to www.guildwars2.com .

It’s really hard to judge. I have to see at least 2 more releases.

For what it is right now? Really good. If every release will be like episode 1, season 2 will be great. It’s the first time i’m thinking “what’s going to happen now?”

Take your time AND read everything. Crafting for example, talk to the trainers and they will explain how it works. Don’t rush to max level, just enjoy the game for what it is – an mmoRPG

Gave him 4g, nothing happend.

Getting 140ish FPS on sandstorms. And I can finally hear my 780ti working

Made 30g so far.

Ronin.7381:

kokiman.2364:

Kohlteth.3715:

Didn’t ANet promise no “Gear grind” no " Better gear" was their promise or are they joining the train that Blizzard perpetuated all those years and why so many hate them too ..

Is Anet ready to do that and become what they promised they wouldnt be ?

You’ve never played GW1, have you?

Because they promised us the same but we ended up with a worse grind.

The grind was practically non-existent beyond looks, mats, and money spent. You didn’t get significant stat changes going from 15-45k armor sets since both had the same exact values but one required more materials and platinum to obtain. UW, FoW, Kurzick, Luxon, Vabbi, etc

So what about the PvE only skills? They got stronger the higher your title rank was. Good luck getting max kurzick/luxon without grinding And they provided the same small boost an ascended armor now provides.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

You can avoid spoilers if you really want to anyway.

Now I’m interessted, how would you avoid spoilers if you want to test big boss fights (maybe smth like the marionette)? You know the stuff that actually needs testing with lots of people.

Glint’s Lair was located in a grain of sand. Maybe her child is doing the same, not sure why they would carry that portal to the lair around though.

Bandwidth throttles? Thank god we don’t have that in germany.

I guess the patch will be 500ish mb.

Season 1 had a lot of releases that got overhyped by A.Net. Maybe they learned their lesson

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I don’t know. 500,000 or so people just recently joined the game, so….

As others have said, nothing says there will only be one map added in Season Two. Nothing says there will be any maps, added, actually…though I believe there will be a few added over the course of the season.

Recently? It’s been a month, iirc. I am pretty sure most of them reached level 80 by now.

Why do you think that we will see several maps in this release?

What’s so interessting about her?

I really hope that it’ll be a level 80 because let’s be honest, who doesn’t have a level 80 character at this point? The game has been out for 2 years, content shouldn’t be balanced around people who just recently joined the game. We need a new map, with fresh content, tough enemies and new mechanics.

You need 50 Keys to get 1 ticket (scrap = 20% dropchance)
50 * 30 mins = 25hours ~60g for a 1ticket item

I can get way more than 60g in 25hours playtime

stale.9785:

Information isn’t available all in one place – to get an accurate view of what’s going on, you have to peruse the main page, the forums, facebook, twitter, and now tumblr.

I think their reason behind it is to get more attention on all those social media sites. That attention translates into more people seeing the product especially people who may not be familiar with the game already. Putting information exclusively on certain media sites “forces” us to go there, maybe even make an account, follow/like/whatever them to get all the infos.

Astralporing.1957:

CC Danicia.1394:

You never know where you might find cool things. http://guildwars2.tumblr.com/

Exactly. I never know. I do know, that they are quite often not where i’d expect them – on your own webpage.

At this point fanpages are way better because they collect all those information that arena.net spreads all over the internet.

Kohlteth.3715:

Didn’t ANet promise no “Gear grind” no " Better gear" was their promise or are they joining the train that Blizzard perpetuated all those years and why so many hate them too ..

Is Anet ready to do that and become what they promised they wouldnt be ?

You’ve never played GW1, have you?

Because they promised us the same but we ended up with a worse grind.

Mortifer.2946:

kokiman.2364:

Vol.7601:

I hope we will get a new zone next week, but I think it’s best, for storytelling reasons to set everything up in Brisban for this release, and then in the next patch, we make a move into the new zone for whatever reason.

I’d love to see that but I seriously doubt that any company would be able to pull that off especially when we look at the maps that we already have, they are all incredibly detailed and beautiful you can’t produce those kinds of maps in such a short timespan (not talking about the 2 weeks)

There was a dedicated team who was working on a desert since launch.

You got a source on that?

Vol.7601:

I hope we will get a new zone next week, but I think it’s best, for storytelling reasons to set everything up in Brisban for this release, and then in the next patch, we make a move into the new zone for whatever reason.

I’d love to see that but I seriously doubt that any company would be able to pull that off especially when we look at the maps that we already have, they are all incredibly detailed and beautiful you can’t produce those kinds of maps in such a short timespan (not talking about the 2 weeks)

I doubt that because that would be a lot of work. We may see some small hints here and there but nothing major.

We should accept that they won’t go back to stuff like the mursaat, the underworld, etc… maybe they planned that for post-release but now we have the living story.

There you go, WoW invented factions!

The GW1 faction system would be pretty cool. But I don’t think we will see that anytime soon because a huge part of that feature was PvP and well .. yeah let’s just say that I doubt that we will see huge changes in PvP, let alone new PvP maps with S2.

Of cause it is infinite.

Teyrul.7804:

kokiman.2364:

Teyrul.7804:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As-wCpIszrT9dFB3YjVUVFhfenlDUUpXTVBIdm5qWmc

This is for making money with skill points, your recipe is there.

Outdated and a waste of skillpoints.

Neither outdated since it updates itself nor a waste since it’s the best way to make gold with skillpoints.

Nope. It misses the most profitable option tier1-tier2 mats

Snowmoon.1758:

Why is there a need for legendary??
IMO some skins actually look better.

Think about it, what do you REALLY get when you get a Legendary?
Is it REALLY worth upwards of 3500+ gold JUST to get the below?
1) Bling Bling Footsteps
2) An icon on status screen saying you get a legendary
3) Same stat as ascended, but ability to change stat combo (Is this REALLY necessary?)
and….thats all really.

Legendaries are even more common then some weapon skins IMO.
i actually see more legendaries then eg: Jade Weapons lol!!

For people who have a legendary, congrats.
For others like me who don’t have one, don’t fret about it. Its just another Ascended skin.

Personal preference and just fyi, I do have 2 legendaries and noone of them have bling bling footsteps

But yeah, the issue still stands. I’ve played since day 0 actively and still do but I haven’t gotten a single precursor. RNG is RNG that’s fine but at the end of the day there is no way to progress to your own personal precursor all you can do is trying to fight against the increasing precursor prices by repeating boring farms every day. I didn’t enjoy buying both precursors from the TP where as I did enjoy gathering every single mat for the gifts.. It’s sad that this has become a non-issue for A.Net.

Teyrul.7804:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As-wCpIszrT9dFB3YjVUVFhfenlDUUpXTVBIdm5qWmc

This is for making money with skill points, your recipe is there.

Outdated and a waste of skillpoints.

No need to buy “gaming” junk.

Yeah underwater combat needs a complete overhaul and A.Net doesnt seem to have the ressources for that.

Malediktus.9250:

I will just trade my remaining 5k+ gems into gold and forget about the gem store forever, since there is nothing else I want in there anyway.

I’m pretty sure A.Net already got enough money out of you.

ZilentNight.5089:

OP, I’m in the same boat as you, although Anet doesn’t care about collectors like us.
So I recommend stop buying gems and let them see the consequences of making this decision.

Now they’ll listen! Because 10 people will stop buying gems!

There were doing a 180 on PvP

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-27-guild-wars-2-preview

“We kind of threw most of the Guild Wars 1 PVP stuff out of the window,” Johanson says. "The core PVP system in Guild Wars 1 was the guild-vs-guild battles; these don’t exist in Guild Wars 2 at all. The reason we did that is we found a small, very dedicated group of players were really into PVP and they not only dominated – no-one else played.

“It was too complicated, it was too overwhelming. It wasn’t approachable and we were very honest about looking at the mistakes that we made in the first game. We also looked at other games that are out there, seeing the stuff that they’d done and looking at what we could build in.

And we knew that for a while.

No need to babysit new players even more.

Shockwave.1230:

They can do subclasses at some point too, adding new professions does not have to be mutually exclusive to subclasses. ANet still needs to add new professions to the game at some point as well.

Do you know why we dont have subclasses? Because of the balance. Do you think that the balance of GW2 right now justifies a new layer of complexity? I think the balance team right now has a lot problems balancing the game for all 3 gamemodes.

Shockwave.1230:

Being a Guild Wars 1 vet, I’d like them to do a throw back with one of the new professions they bring in at some point. Dervish is the main one on my mind, with ritualist being a close second.

How would both of those profession be unique in GW2? What would be their class mechanics?

dodgycookies.4562:

Because they consider it worth? If you have no gem store items there are plenty of items worthwhile to buy. Or they could just want more gold. $200 is jus pocket change to some players. I spend more than that on coffee per month.

What kind of coffee do you drink ?!