Guild Wars 2

ya i tried to logon TC before because I thought people will go there. Since it is much active than my home server.

Apparently everyone guest to “I think BC”. So if you want to do guest to BC.

Even the overflow is much more active.

Mattargul.9235:

laokoko.7403:

(…)So GW2 is already pay 2 win 1 year ago? many skins can’t be obtained through normal game play.

I’mma let y’all read that one again. Ok, so…

1) fancy skins mean you win the game. lolwut?
2) skins = vanity items; reasonable people would agree that charging for vanity items is ok
3) who again are you winning against by buying that fancy pick? the gold ore node?

If you want to talk about P2W look at the guy who has a high-speed connection going to his 8k super computer vs Joe Blow on DSL with a $500 steam-powered rig from Walmart.

Everyone is just throwing around their definition of P2W. I’m just kindly asking the guy what he consider p2w.

And actual a few people consider anything you can’t get from normal game play as p2w.

Most people are probably just guesting. The overflow are doing much better compare to some of the home server.

I think technology for single shard with district kind of like that in GW1 is a good idea. But I’m not sure how difficult it is to implement. And server transfer is one of the way Anet makes money. I’m not sure Anet would do that.

I just think it is a dangerous game Anet is playing. Many people bought the molten alliance mining pick int he belief it is the BiS.

I understand the (no where did Anet said that promise part). I’m just saying when Anet start doing things like this, they might loss some customer.

I understand the Anet need to find ways to make money part. I just think they should think of other things to add instead. (I don’t know what, but I think their gem store department could think of something better).

I have trouble logging on any more beside doing daily and living world achievement.

The problem is I get sick of grinding. But when I stop chasing those carrot(rewards) I find I don’t have anything to do any more.

It almost seems the only content left for me to do is do the same repeatable (whatever).

I don’t know fractal levels have gone account wide. among with many other changes. thanks.

I’m not sure the reward for farming Marionette is actually good.

The wurm might be good because of the mini, and ascended box is ok. I don’t think the Marionette actually drop those. Much easier to get some rares doing other things.

I havn’t played since october last year so I’m not sure what have been changed.

I did fractal lvl10 on my knight today, but tried again lvl10 on my warrior. I didn’t get the daily reward.

Does that mean you can only get the daily once every day now?

Manuhell.2759:

The precedent was already set with the old digital deluxe edition/digital deluxe edition with heroic edition items. Around six months ago.
People should have complained earlier. They didn’t.

I’m pretty sure people complaint about that among with many other things. There are just far more complaint on the watchwork pick.

My problem is “if i would known they going to release a better mining pick, I wouldn’t have bought the molten alliance mining pick”. I think many people felt the same way.

maddoctor.2738:

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

maddoctor.2738:

As I mentioned earlier in this thread that problem is easily solved by guesting (free) to an underpopulated server. No need for the instance at all.

wrong..

this is not wvw, this is openworld.. people are already guesting and this has nothing to do with lower populated servers.. this has to do with not getting in the event on your own server, with your own guild or friends.. not being dependant on upleveled players who can’t bother to come on ts or really serve a purpose, or are only interested on the loot that champions don’t drop, or not waypointing when dead because ‘hey why run when you can endanger and most likely get the people ressing you killed..’ or complain in mapchat about not being ressed. etc etc .. other 100 reasons i can mention why to make this event also an guildmission instance.

And that’s why I said you can guest to an underpopulated server to play with your friends and guild and do the event without worrying about the upleveled people, have you seen how many people gather for the wurm on some servers? Zero, none, at all times. If you already have the people to do it “guild mission” style, you can already do it with the current system, it’s free and easy.

I was at one of the server and there are 0 people there. I suppose the next big problem is I don’t know how many guilds have 100+ people online at all time. My guild which is quite active average 35-50 people on at any given time.

nexxe.7081:

This is why mmos implemented instancing, because it gave groups and raito be more coordinated, without some random people messing up the encounter.

That’s why this open world raid felt kind of weird.

All the dedicated player just gathered to the same server or join dedicated guild[TTS], just so they can get rid of as much “random people who’ll mess up” anyway.

Im Mudbone.1437:

laokoko.7403:

Im Mudbone.1437:

rogerwilko.6895:

yes it is.

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P2W is the ability to buy something NOT OBTAINABLE through normal game-play which IS NOT the case for the items mentioned in my reply before yours, so, no it’s not unlike GW2 which has MANY items ONLY OBTAINABLE by paying for them. THAT is P2W.

So GW2 is already pay 2 win 1 year ago? many skins can’t be obtained through normal game play.

That is correct.

You have very high standard.

What if you can obtain every item in the game. But say the sprocket mining pick require 1,000 hours of farming and grinding for gold to obtain or you can just buy from the cashshop for 10$. That means it is not pay 2 win?

Im Mudbone.1437:

rogerwilko.6895:

yes it is.

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P2W is the ability to buy something NOT OBTAINABLE through normal game-play which IS NOT the case for the items mentioned in my reply before yours, so, no it’s not unlike GW2 which has MANY items ONLY OBTAINABLE by paying for them. THAT is P2W.

So GW2 is already pay 2 win 1 year ago? many skins can’t be obtained through normal game play.

I don’t know the definition of pay 2 win. Everyone have different opinion.

But there are other items that can be only be gotten from the gem store already. Skins, kite etc. Does that mean it is pay 2 win before?

Also having a currency exchange, means everything from gem store can be gotten in game. Does it mean it is not pay 2 win?

I can say the same about the other 500 asian F2P games with currency exchange. Everything can be gotten in game. I think people still call those games pay 2 win.

I’d like to contact support. But I don’t think I can because the website blocks support for people in my region(other people can’t contact support where I live too, I live in Taiwan). How am I suppose to get help?

My problem: I bought a molten alliance mining pick, and I bought another 1 again. But I realize Anet changed the mining pick to account bound.

Now I like to get a refund of gem. Since no point to have 2 if it is account bound.

It depend how much those sprocket will went up. I have maybe 10 toons filled with sprocket, by the look of it, it won’t went up too much.

The reality is you can convert gold to gem too.

I get many people are unhappy though.

I would be very unhappy also. But I give up being the carrot chaser.

Oh wait, if Scarlet is “permanent” added to the WvW maps. Does that mean she’ll never die? (sigh)

Vol.7601:

Minae Iss.7054:

I don’t get it, links to you bragging and a useless skill icon ?

Why do you think I can afford all that? Because of that icon

I dont’ know. It’s much easier if you can tell us what you are griniding instead.

I presume it is something to do with cloth. I havn’t play in a few month. So don’t know what the next “grinding spot” is.

Ayrilana.1396:

I wouldn’t necessarily call it pay to win since the sprockets do not provide you any advantage over other players.

Exactly. Which is exactly like buying gold. That don’t provide any advantage over other players.

I don’t get why people are suddenly bothered by things already happening.

The only thing the sprocket mining pick do is making people more gold. Which is already what you can do now with gem conversion.

Vol.7601:

laokoko.7403:

You do realize you can already buy 5 trillion sprocket by simply converting gem to gold right?

I fail to see how everyone suddenly get shocked they are paying for advantage.

Right now watchwork sprockets are +35c each.

Wouldn’t you be annoyed if anet offered a pick that offered a 20% chance at 4 chances on a node rather than 3? Cause that’s what is happening if you were to use this on a copper or mithril node. There is no telling the value of sprockets 6 months from now, either.

So you are annoyed by that and not people can buy gold already?

I’m already annoyed. They dont’ need to introduce a new advantage mining pick for me to be annoyed.

It’s just a formula to add +5 agony resistance to the ring. On top of the infusion you can add.

Check the ascended gear web page and you can find the formula.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shard_of_Crystallized_Mists_Essence

I think the complaint is the content added might not be the content certain people want.

wvw crowd have been complaining about every patch.

I’m quite easy going. So any new content is fine with me.

You do realize you can already buy 5 trillion sprocket by simply converting gem to gold right?

I fail to see how everyone suddenly get shocked they are paying for advantage.

maybe centaur, quaggans, skritt, tengu, Kodan, largos can form an evil alliance.

Don’t ask me why quaggans are evil.

If you just open the bag/karma/chest once you get each of them it isn’t bad.

It get pretty bad when you get say a few stack of 250 karma jug.

quite honestly I don’t think I"ll ever down wurm unless I join “elite groups” called BG server or TTS.

That being said people can still kill one of the head and have fun with it.

I dont’ know what Largos is, so I vote for quaggan

^ Many people dont’ want instanced raid, so they suggest 10-20 man difficult instanced dungeon which require coordination on the living world forum.

Go figure!

Cappy.2786:

WilliamDaBloody.2591:

Instance suck in general.

If you want an instance like with a larger guild just go to an overflow.

Yeah, I despise any kind of instances.

What I would like to see though, are 10-20 player dungeons, where they have to play coordinated…

Your first 3 points are why GW2 can’t become a better game

Your 4th point is what actually everybody wants….

Exactly. No instanced raid, but 10-20 player dungeons with large boss and hard encounter which require coordination!

^ but many people don’t want instanced raid. That’s why it is much better to do private overflow instead! >

Maybe they hope the event will fail fast enough so they can get their daily and get out of it.

I dont’ even think the success rate is even high on main server.

That being said, I think many people are still enjoying themselves despite not even coming close. (or is it they are just doing the daily).

http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/

Celeras.4980:

As someone who has beaten Marionette maybe 5 times thus far, I think I can honestly say that the success rate is far above 1/10. 50/50 seems about right with in my personal experience, and I think that is fine for this kind of content.

Can’t you just go to dragon timer and view the success rate? you don’t need to speculate.

http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/

SoPP.7034:

Malchior.5042:

potential and possibility

Sure and understanding the rudimentary nature of people is important too. ‘Path of least resistance’ comes to mind, there’s nothing ‘equal’ in this process.

Everyone who cares to down the boss is just guesting. You probably have better chance to down the boss in overflow than the home server of the lesser server.

If I want to down the raid boss, I guest to the other server.

My own server may have enough people, but I still guest. Because those servers are the designated server for people “seriously enough” to down the raid boss.

Basically a gathering of all the hardcore raiders. The problem is with guesting. People just give up their own server when they could just guest to other server which gathered all the serious player.

they could ditch the server design and just create multiple overflow of the same zones(from what I heard that’s what GW1 do)

yes you can win in overflow. You just need to be in an overflow which organized group purposely go there.

You might have even better chance in an overflow because no one is on your home server(everyone given up)

Most of the time when I joined an empty overflow. People’ll start showing when the event starts.

It dont’ necessary mean there will be enough people. But usually many people showed enough in the last minutes so can at least give it an effort.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

You know, solid content, not fluff. Like new zones….

I think it’s the part we did get new zones. Queen’s gauntlet, blazzar of the 4 wind air ship, SAB…

I dont’ know why those have to temporary. Of course I know their be coming back some time in the future, I just don’t understand why those can’t be permanent.

It’s nice when we get to keep the say sprint mini game from bazaar of the 4 wind… but why can’t we keep the whole thing(area).

I never played GW1. But I think being able to select from a list of overflow is a good idea. Instead of the current server system.

Spoiler alert. Scarlet won’t die.

In fact the next expansion. Jormag and Kralkatorrik will rise and attack from the north and south, while Scarlet launch a simultaneous attack on the major city.

^ ya I get the we get the we get a lot of permanent content part.

But just think how much content is temporary. Which is much much more.

I actually really like the living story. So when I went away for a few month, I felt kind of sad I missed all those LS.

Ya and alot of the problem is those content are just add on to what is already there. I think the SAB developer said himself he loss a bunch of players the second round. That’s why I like to do the living story I missed which can only be done once.

The dungeon leader left and kick everyone out fix isn’t in the suggestion. Unless I missed it.

well, do you want to logon and do marrionette, and found you are on an overflow with not enough people very often?

They did say one of the boss is temporary. So the whole part about it’s only been out 1 week…

I went to 1 of the popular US server and I saw 1 person there waiting at wurm. I’m not sure where the people are. Maybe they all ditch for a better overflow.

I think over all many people are actually enjoying the event. If you don’t mind almost guarantee failure but can still enjoy yourself. There wont’ be a problem. Im’ not sure the rewards is even that great to care.

Vayne.8563:

Raine.1394:

laokoko.7403:

Have you ever played a game with 1 virtual server(with instance) before?

Not that I played TESO beta, you still have instanced of zones. And it still segregate players base. You may have a bunch of friend on another server and some on another server. Yes the TESO idea is smartly add everyone together. But I can’t say it’ll always be perfect.

I’m not aware of any current games using this model and it appears that ESO is breaking new ground here. Yes, it is all about managing work across computing resources, software and hardware and players will be distributed across instances of zones, ideally not aware of it. And, yes, it can be implemented well or poorly, but this is the direction for games in the future.

Isn’t Eve Online all on a single shard?

Yes but Eve don’t create multiple instance of the same area. It only have 1 instance of any place.

Have you ever played a game with 1 virtual server(with instance) before?

Not that I played TESO beta, you still have instanced of zones. And it still segregate players base. You may have a bunch of friend on another server and some on another server. Yes the TESO idea is smartly add everyone together. But I can’t say it’ll always be perfect.

I think there’s too much emphasis on finishing the event.

It’s not like the reward is that good. If you really want the sprocket node, just do the daily 11 times.

And if you want the achievement point… suck to be an achievement junky.