Guild Wars 2

One Note Chord.5031:

I actually liked grinding for my legendaries, and I’m looking forward to getting more when they add more. If ascended items were only about the infusion slots, and otherwise had the same stats as exotics, I think they’d be a great addition to the game, because I like fotm, and I’d be okay with working to do higher levels (as long as agony never showed up anywhere else in the game)

The problem, like other people have said, is that the actual additions they’ve made are bad for the game. Even Colin Johanson agrees! He once listed these things as bad to have in a game: “loot drop systems that require doing a dungeon with a tiny chance the item you want can drop at the end, raid systems that need huge numbers of people online simultaneously to organize and play, thousands of wash/repeat item-collection or kill-mob quests or dailies with flavor text support, the best stat gear requiring crazy amounts of time to earn”

So Colin is actively striving to put into GW2 things he thinks are bad. That’s a strange approach, and it’s one we’re concerned about.

Never heard about PR Talk?
Do you also complain about generic asia mmo nr #15123 because they advertise it as an epic mmo with awesome fights?

stof.9341:

kokiman.2364:

Just as a reference, when I reached Level 20 in GW1 I wasn’t even close to my first set of max armor + max weapons.

Well unless you mean something different and talk about that rune thing that was ultra expensive

The runes, the weapon upgrades maybe even the hero equipment. Ascended gear is BiS and in GW1 the rune of sup. Health was part of BiS gear.

stof.9341:

Also, nobody gets 450 Mithril while leveling from 1 to 80 unless they go out of their way to gather as much as possible.

Just as a reference, when I reached Level 20 in GW1 I wasn’t even close to my first set of max armor + max weapons.

knight.8926:

I was really stoked that the pistol made laser sounds but to my dissapointment the sab rifle is just a normal gun shot. Did they forget to put it in?

But that’s not true. It has a unique soundeffect which sounds pretty awesome, by the way.

Orpheal.8263:

If you believe, only because you are a casual gamer, that a casual gamer can’t be required in a game to do some “effort” to get something, even if it requires of them normally more time, than it does for hardcore players, then you absolutely play the wrong game my friend!
Just a word of advice.

Pretty much this.

Some people seem to be either in a hurry or want everything the moment they log in.

showtime.9175:

We finally did it! Tribulation Mode complete!

Thanks ArenaNet for the best content so far. Hopefully there will be much more of this!!!

So why did you use an infinite coin?

Gratz.

Steele.2784:

…

And where is the fun in that?

Whatever.. at least you posted it in the map chat/forum to get some validation.

Gasoline.2570:

Sure, but say I could put down 10g and get a full mf set that got me up to 150%

I do wonder. At least some clarification by anet would be nice, I get that it’s accound wide but the amount of clicking and gold alone required for higher numbers is astonishing.

For every character on your account ?

azurrei.5691:

Looks like the Anet legal team has some work to do…

Selling serial codes is not illegal. Those people aren’t selling digital goods, they are selling a piece of paper with a code on it.

Crise.9401:

kokiman.2364:

skullmount.1758:

kokiman.2364:

Delvoire.8930:

Have you played SAB? Continue Coins are quiet easy to get. You also don’t even need them as you can just wait a day and play again without the coin….

Sorry, they removed that grind. You can open chests/dig up baubles only once a day (accountwide).

What a weird change especially with the introduction of the hard mode.

Yeah, I’d really like to know their reason for that change. Maybe so you can’t get as much bauble, so not as much continue coins, which means more pressure to buy the infinite coin?

Also, I really hope the infinite coin isn’t soulbound. They better let us move it to different characters.

The reason behind this? A.Net needs/wants to monetize every LS Update, that’s the reason.

You might be right, but more likely the reason for the change to baubles is to prevent people doing what they were doing in April which is run with a throwaway character delete, recreate and run again… rinse and repeat for easy infinite baubles from World 1-1.

And how did those baubles effect anything in the game besides this minigame?

skullmount.1758:

kokiman.2364:

Delvoire.8930:

Have you played SAB? Continue Coins are quiet easy to get. You also don’t even need them as you can just wait a day and play again without the coin….

Sorry, they removed that grind. You can open chests/dig up baubles only once a day (accountwide).

What a weird change especially with the introduction of the hard mode.

Yeah, I’d really like to know their reason for that change. Maybe so you can’t get as much bauble, so not as much continue coins, which means more pressure to buy the infinite coin?

Also, I really hope the infinite coin isn’t soulbound. They better let us move it to different characters.

The reason behind this? A.Net needs/wants to monetize every LS Update, that’s the reason.

Delvoire.8930:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

and the trip towards P2W is one step closer…

Want to do trib mode… sorry you will need to buy this “convenience” item or spend 99% of your time grinding coins and only 1% of your time actually getting to play.

Have you played SAB? Continue Coins are quiet easy to get. You also don’t even need them as you can just wait a day and play again without the coin….

Sorry, they removed that grind. You can open chests/dig up baubles only once a day (accountwide).

What a weird change especially with the introduction of the hard mode.

Happy? Of course, that’s why I crafted this expensive piece of gear.

The chat.. censor it next time.

milo.6942:

oh my god, kittenty conquest in wvw too?

Uhm do we play a different kind of WvW? Because last time I checked you get points by capturing and securing/holding positions

Azunai.5974:

kokiman.2364:

Azunai.5974:

Could we get a response on whether it’s in the works to give professions access to more current weapons?

They said that they are working on that, iirc.

Source? Though I doubt you do have one that explicitly says _Anet will make more weapons available to all classes.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7597/Guild-Wars-2-ArenaNets-Master-Plan-for-2013.html

What’s more is that the team is also working very hard in finding a way to make it so that every profession has access to every weapon and their own weapon skills for those previously locked weapons.

There you go

Azunai.5974:

Could we get a response on whether it’s in the works to give professions access to more current weapons?

They said that they are working on that, iirc.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Note that none of these are going to be a big help at the “minor” level, so you may just as well be better off saving your money and using available gems or other upgrade items for general stat boosts until you can use Major or Superior Sigils.

+125 Power helps a lot.

Yes                                       

Elbegast.6970:

kokiman.2364:

Elbegast.6970:

Can someone explain, in detail, as to what this is all about? The OP is too cryptic.

Did you even bother to click the wiki link he posted? Everything is explained there.

Yes and I saw nothing that explained anything about how to obtain any of what the OP was referring. It is just some link to some summoning crystal.

So, what is this all about?

/spoonfed mode activated

Acquisition
Given by Fylinn, Sworn to Winds during Wayfarer’s Reverie, in exchange for a Proof of Waves, Proof of Winds, Proof of Flames, and Proof of Mountains together.

Let’s click on the Hyperlink for Wayfarer’s Reverie

Wayfarer’s Reverie is a special event that occurs around the Guild Wars 2 original release date on August 28. It is comprised of four quests which take players throughout memorable locations related to the main plots of the Guild Wars campaigns and expansion. PvE foes drop Wayfarer’s Marks during this event, which can be traded to Reverie Prize Distributors.

Now you’ve learned how to use a simple website

Elbegast.6970:

Can someone explain, in detail, as to what this is all about? The OP is too cryptic.

Did you even bother to click the wiki link he posted? Everything is explained there.

Tribio.8531:

birdn.9201:

We also talk about the problems that were in the game’s early life cycle, and how ArenaNet addressed them. Thanks for your time!

Please check out the WvW forums before congratulating ANet on addressing problems (that have been stated 12 months ago)..

I also want to close with a congratulations to ArenaNet for all of the fun they provided us over this past year. Many recent MMO’s have struggled keeping a playerbase for even that long.

And GW is losing a lot of its playerbase as well, my friend.. Get out of PvE from time to time.. ;-)

Is this how you celebrate a birthday?
“Hey sweetheart you are a year older now! But that’s not important because you still haven’t found a girl/boyfriend, you are still struggling with basic math and overall your marks are really really bad! No reason for us to celebrate.”

You didn’t even bother to check the other thread…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Magic-Find-merged-1/page/4#post2715188
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Magic-Find-merged-1/page/4#post2715468

Zumy.6318:

I know someone that bought 2700 roses below 2g.
OFC now John Smith will say ppl having over 100,000g gold is not realistic. Also show some graphs that precursers are bought by unique buyers.
And everybody will believe it.

And a friend of mine bought ~120500 Zephir backpacks.

The MF Update will also bring a lot of Ori into the game.

GW 1 related.           

Maybe you should read the update posts and the dev posts about it after all..

They will only remove the magic find that is on gear.

No, fractal weapons never had any stats besides the damage on them.

Wispy.8679:

Turbo Whale.1738:

Elementalists get evasive arcana. reckless dodge should be changed to something like that evasive arcana that heals 2k + .8 x healing power, does around 5k damage, and does some condishuns like blind or chill. keep it where its at on the trait line (either 5 or 15 i don’t remember) so all warriers can have

Not sure if trolling or if you simply have a complete disregard for game balance.

I can picture it now, running double energy sigils, building momentum and warhorn 5. Winning teamfights purely by spamming dodge roll with insane sustain and abuse of extreme amounts of evade frames. And because that wasn’t OP enough lets add on some condis for that extra ‘fk skill’ factor.

Would be fun to watch though.

Uhm what? Legendaries have exotic-stats after the patch they will have ascended stats

xephire.8324:

I don’t get players……they farm hours and hours to get ton of gold just to buy armor sets and legendary weapon to just play dress up with.Its just armor with different design and color.Weapons with different design and colors.Just to make you pretty.And if you think that farming 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hours just to get that kind of gear will make people think that you are hard working or should be respected.Well, all i can say is lol.

So you are saying that you laughing about all mmo players?

Warrior              

Algreg.3629:

de-brony some of the legendaries while you are at it, especially Quip :P

de-what?

To be honest, this is something you should solve on your own. Sure contiguous posted a nice guideline but at the end it is more important to use what works for you. I play for example with 12345 ‘R’ ‘Q’ ‘E’ ‘Shift+R’ having Shift also bound to stow the weapon or
some people like to move with asd (and using mouse 1 + mouse 2 to move forwards) instead of wasd giving them another easily accessible key for something else.

The thread title is kinda weird because GW2 does aim towards casuals, there is no question about it. 99% of the games are doing that because they want to generate money and the biggest demographic are in fact casual players.

derekgrant.6504:

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

Well I didn’t mention others because they already had those basic effects (footprints, aura)

My Flameseeker Prophecies says hi.

My Flameseeker Prophecies doesn’t want footprints.

But seriously, changing the effects of legendaries is a two sided sword if you don’t give people the option to turn off those new effects. I crafted my shield because I liked it the way it is. I don’t want footsteps, I don’t want a bigger aura, I just want it the way it is.

That’s pretty awesome.

GW1 related

“lol im not 1 using an2 int3errupt b1ot”

Bright.9160:

Yes.

And there’s nothing wrong with it tbh. It’s a pretty boring event to begin with, and unless you want swift closer, a hit on Scarlet, or farm champions, there really isn’t much of a reason to stick around.

I don’t blame them. I usually just complete a couple of the rift events, and then alt/tab to the forums or something like that. Unless I’m playing with friends, which can make the experience a little bit more enjoyable.

Ladies and Gentlemen … everything that is wrong with MMOs!

Yes, many people in mmos are only concerned about themselves.
We had 2-3 commanders with turned on tags who were standing on one spot, I asked them why they are doing it and one of them replied with “We let others work for us”. People like this aren’t the minority anymore, sadly.

So we get ascended weapons

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Account MF

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and legendary reworks or even precursor recipes ?

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Roxim.2517:

i would but no footsteps and that matters to me.

Why?

Totally NOT looking forward to the next update.

KarateKid.5648:

Before I say this: I know in its CURRENT state, multiclassing would lead to ridiculous OP-ness.

Now that I’ve said that, does anyone know if ANet has ever hinted to multiclassing as an option later?

Playing around on my first elementalist the past few days, I could see some real synergies with thief and ranger that would been really cool.

Current state? It also lead to ridiculous OP-ness in GW1.
It is a nice system in theory but balancing it is impossible.

Bratwa.6582:

Does your comment has a hidden message? It makes no sense at all.

You had no real presence on the map except massive turteling in your third, that’s it.

pejot.4806:

Aye, the main problem with FR are their insane numbers – it looks like most of Arborstone guilds transferred there. At least they drop a lot of loot TaG had a lot of fun fighting french zergs all over EB yesterday evening, too bad that it took DL 3 or 4 hours to realize that when FR are at our corner with their zergball, they can hit FR corner, not only come to our every time…

We did that because you had no reason to be on EB at all.

Azraeel.1238:

1- Dungeons: We have to predict to know what we’ve accomplished and what we are still missing. It only states the number of paths we finished, but not which ones.

Each path has a different story, so it is pretty easy to figure out which one you are missing.

Gehenna.3625:

welcome to Anet.

In GW1 I got hacked once.

That’s wrong noone “hacks” your GW1 account. You gave them your login informations, either via a keylogger or by visiting phising sites. As most of the time the customer made the mistake and it is the companies good will to give the account back to the owner.

We don’t know your friend but things that a quite unique to the game are:

*Jumping Puzzles, maybe even show him a mini dungeon if there is one close by.
*Word Vs. World, there are some intense fights each weekend.
*Armors/Weapons, show off with the stuff you have, it may impress him, show him the trading post and let him look at all the legendaries :P
*Living Story, just participate with him in the Event

marnick.4305:

Even in PVP their primary function was to die (iway, necro factory)

Never seen bunnythumpers in action?