Guild Wars 2

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Medazolam.3058:

Yeah, this. it certainly ‘appears’ that they have heard the anger against RNG real money transactions. I would expect the Rich Dragon Coffer to be a bit more costly (maybe) but of course it has a guaranteed skin ticket.

It is indeed very logical that something from the store would be more expensive than something that drops in the open world yeah.

Let people buy what they want.
If people want to support ArenaNet and at the same time have a chance of getting a special skin, let them.
It is not like you NEED the skins from the boxes anyway.

Kalendraf.9521:

Leaving out the words “and gold” was extremely misleading. At best, it’s an incomplete/inaccurate statement due to the omission. At worst, it’s false advertising.

That would be the case if they had say that they costed ONLY karka shell. They didn’t however, and anyone that actually thought it would be trade-able for shells only were quite naive.

WolfOwl.3968:

Dragon Bash implies beating a dragon, rather than celebrating it. The backstory of GW2 is dragons have risen up and are wreaking havoc.

I am fully aware of that.
In the dat-files there are however talks about people not wanting to celebrate Dragon Festival because of just that. The fact that they have lost family and friends to the Dragons, and that is most likely the reason it is Dragon Bash instead of Dragon Festival.

Aeonblade.8709:

Another wasted opportunity to make ten dollars off of thousands and thousands of people immediately by Anet.

They hate money~!

Ten dollars from thousands and thousands of people is still less than 200+$ from a thousand people.

Lévis.5489:

A lot less excited about it because i thought it would be the good old Dragon Festival.

Then why would it be called Dragon Bash rather than Dragon Festival?
And based on the information in the dat-file it is changed because of the fact that people don’t want to celebrate dragons when the Elder Dragons keep killing their family and friends ^^

Blackhearted.1264:

Yea, and so did the crates. Except the rate was very low, meaning it kind of didn’t matter that they dropped.

Of course not.. silly me. People will only be happy if the containers were gained for simply logging in and was guaranteed to give the tickets. How could I forget that?

Blackhearted.1264:

Oh look. They’re doing this lottery for skins bullkitten again. It’s kinda like anet doesn’t listen to a kitten thing that anyone says at all.

Oh look, yet another one that didn’t actually read the preview-page.
It says quite clearly that the Dragon Coffers (that contain tickets for the skins) DO drop in the game-world.

Shadowmoon.7986:

I"m glad they removed the Dragon Festival, it not like we wished completely remove any reference to Cantha in this game. It not like there is a HUGE thread requesting Cantha presence to be somewhere in this game……

The fact that it isn’t the Dragon Festival with oriental themes is a HUGE failure imo.

I am quite certain that the Dragon Ball mini-game is from Cantha.
I am also quite certain that the reason for not celebrating the Celestial Creatures (including a Dragon mind you) is that people hate dragons, as can be seen in the dat-file.

Gasoline.2570:

lol wut, so youre saying stuff ppl want should be unreachable no matter how much effort they want to put in? Maeks perfect sense.

No, I am saying everything is achievable without farming, and those that whine about farming getting nerfed simply can’t accept the fact that they can’t have everything right at this moment.

Gasoline.2570:

What a neat-o story man. I almost belive you.

Now if you talking stacking your mats since launch, Ok, maybe then. Otherwise, a few months of “normal” play will barely net you like 40 of each t6 lawl.

And that illustrates the issue quite well.
People want stuff right NOW.

I love how people keep whining about this.
I have NEVER farmed nor bought any T6 material, and yet I have almost full stacks of all of them sitting in my bank. So clearly it is fully possible to get the T6 materials without farming the same mobs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

I would say it is quite a logical move.
Having open threads can/will lead to loads of flaming and stuff if someone does not like the guild that is advertising, and that would require even more moderators and such on the forums, which would cost money and resources.

The temples in Orr seems to be quite possible to beat still. It is basically the same thing.
Another thing to keep in mind is the Karka Queen that will be unlocked only when the four Camps are “owned” and that one will drop a daily chest.

It have been possible since the release of the game.
You simply press the Buy Gems button in the gem store and there you can select how you wish to pay for them, with Paypal being one of the possible payment methods.

Quaggan ftw <3

Raestloz.7134:

Have you ever been able to stunlock a veteran?

On my own? Of course not.
With a group of people? Yep.

LordByron.8369:

i didn t get any Crystal (are you sure you didn t get a “stone”) since many months when i used to get some often. (fine trasmutation stones)
And wiki says they are not on the list anymore……

Aye, I went in and checked and it was indeed a Stone, my bad ^^ (deleted the post btw)

Arah story mode does NOT take 2-3 hours to complete, unless your group is completely useless.

It is also very possible to get to the position of the dungeon solo without much issue.

As for getting a group they are actually adding a LFG-thingy into the game soon and until then you can always try: http://www.gw2lfg.com/

undouble.1472:

Historically, 200 years is insufficient (timewise) for over 20% (est) of a populace to diverge as has occurred here (Flame Legion, Nightcourt, Sons of Svanir, etc) and become a DANGER to society—————-a vocal minority, yes————-an annoyance to the “Righteous”, maybe——————-a threat, improbable.

Might I suggest you read up on some real life history? Chapters that could be quite interesting to focus on is Germany during the 20th century, Napoleon and Alexander the Great.

Because stun-locking a boss is no fun?

Good thing we are getting a LFG tool quite soon then

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1f80pl/lfg_skyhammer_and_more_in_the_updated_gw2dat/

You missed my point.

If specific classes get specific abilities people will require specific classes to do specific stuff because of their specific class-ability.

No
They should NEVER add this, because that would suddenly mean that you “needed” certain classes in WvW, and that is never a good thing.
It would also be a balancing nightmare.

Because they are currently farming in Southsun.

I personally have a hard time to see a need for this, especially since the game is set for release in China quite soon and one can assume that their version of the game WILL be in Chinese.

Another issue with this is that if they do it for China, why should they not do arabic interface as well?
And greek?
And japanese?

I can understand the issues people might have, but at the same time people need to take into consideration the time and resources something like this would take, and also the fact that most people have the ability to either read/speak English or the ability to learn it.

If they start giving interfaces to some languages then who would decide where to draw the limit?

Not here yet. Most likely coming on the fifth.

Erukk.1408:

As Aaron said, Ascalon was never Charr land originally either. They came in and conquered the area from another race, so you can’t really use the homeland excuse. Another reason you can’t is that excuse, is because you can actually see the Charr Homelands on the map. Its the green area, above the Ascalon region, in the far NE corner.

Actually no, you can see the BLOOD LEGION homeland on the map.
We also know that the Flame Legion homelands seems to be Fireheart Rise.
We don’t however have any information about where the rest of the legion have their homelands. (Although Iron Legion seems to have claimed Ascalon as their base of operations at the moment).

We also have no information about which (if any) race inhabited Ascalon before the Charr came there. All we know is that the Charr took the lands sometime before year 100 BE. And the fact that they took the land does not have to mean they actually invaded and occupied it from another race. It could have been a no mans land before the Charr came.

Because technically they are?
Ascalon was never a human kingdom to begin with. They simply stole it from the Charr and claimed it as their own.

If someone invaded and occupied your homeland you wouldn’t really see them as the good guys now would you?

As for the ghosts: They ARE evil. The Foe-Fire locked them into a state where they see every single living creature as an invader and will try to kill them.

ASaturnus.4980:

No, it’s not. It’s using the wildlife as a weapon. He’s targeting Consortium property because he wants it destroyed, not because he wants to instill fear in civilians. Dead civilians are not his targets, they are collateral damage.
And I’m not biased towards Canach, I think he’s a dangerous criminal. But I’m biased against opportunistic definitions of terrorism.

And who are using said Consortium property?
Thats right, civilians. Ergo he is attacking civilians.

Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror); are perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians).

Which is EXACTLY what Canach is doing at the moment in Southsun.
He don’t care about civilian casualties as long as he can spread fear and damage the Consortium.

Dragonbash Festival.

ASaturnus.4980:

A terrorist ist someone who uses terror as a weapon. Attacking civilians in order to force a government to accept a certain agenda. Canach on the other hand uses the karka and other wildlife to target the Consortium contracts and propaganda to stirr unrest. So Canach is a demagoge and an unscrupulous guerilla fighter, but a terrorist only if you use an opportunistic definition of terrorist.

So.. causing dangerous creates to attack and destroy settlements is not using terror as a weapon?
What he is doing is more or less the very definition of terrorism.
He might be targeting Consortium, but there is still a rather high amount of civilian death and destruction. At this time ALL settlements are getting attacked, not just the Consortiums bases of operations so clearly he don’t really care who he kills with his attacks.

But then on the other hand I don’t think terrorists or their followers see themselves as terrorists either, but rather as freedom fighters. So this discussion will be quite biased since some people are siding with Canach.

Mirta.5029:

and you get the same type of custom instance when you open a dungeon, however we’re not getting charged for running explorable mode, do we?

I must have missed the ability to create custom dungeon runs, sounds fun though. How do you do that?

Helping a terrorist just because they might look like they are right is quite dangerous.
That is what breeds new terrorists after all.

And no matter how you twist it, Canach is very much a terrorist.

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

which is still more than $0

Indeed, but then again the space needed to have custom servers probably cost a bit more than $0 as well.

Darius Glazkov.9750:

you don’t have an “undo” button in your IDE / a revert button in your version control software of choice?

They probably do.
But that would also mean the new addition would get removed. And they are most likely trying to get both of them to work at the same time, which is why an undo-button would be quite useless.

Are people seriously still complaining about this?
Did you even look up the cost for 20 days of renting time?
It is 450 gems, which is not even $10.

Lorelei.3918:

This wasn’t even a issue until anet released new skills AFTER we had already put our points into the wvw tree.

You mean just like they told us they would do before they released WvW Ranks?

GameVeight.2745:

+1

No wonder that half the community thinks that dungeons are too hard and the other half thinks they are too easy. I’ve been playing for three months and I had no idea that bosses had chat window tells.

They don’t.
There is two bosses in the whole game that does. And those were added to the single-room boss-fights in Southsun with the latest patch.

One thing to keep in mind is that gameplay != lore.
If we were to follow lore blindely Charr would most likely not have either elementalists or Guardians. While Asura most likely only would be Engineer, Mesmer and Elementalist.
Norn only Warrior and Ranger and the only races that would actually fit with everything would be Sylvari and Human.

bubu.4973:

I was honestly surprised that when the game came out, they didn’t already have a dungeon finder tool. I thought that was pretty standard by now.

It is actually quite unusual for games to launch with dungeon finders.

Electro.4173:

They should just change the wording to “A new patch will be released within 2 hours”. Then it wouldn’t be an issue.

I am actually quite certain that that IS the wording. At least I have seen the whole “within the coming hours” at least once.

Zaxares.5419:

Confirmation of this please? I’m more inclined to think that once we sort out the stuff with Canach, the crazed animals (including this Crazed Karka Queen) will stop attacking the settlements, meaning that the meta-event will also stop occurring.

Wouldn’t mind if it stayed though; having another World Boss to drive players to Southsun Cove will be a good thing once the settlers and their awesome MF boost disappears.

Can’t find the post on the forums at the moment, but this quote is from the guide on the official site:

The map-wide event and the Karka Queen fight will continue to be available even after the rest of the Last Stand at Southsun content goes away on June 11.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/a-guide-to-last-stand-at-southsun-cove/

Junkpile.7439:

Royce Melborn.3276:

How could you possibly complain about that? If I get a rare sometime even better!

Because rares, siege weapons or badges doesn’t mean kitten to me. I would take green skins (which wouldn’t make my character look something else than cheap stripper) over these every day.

And what makes you think that these chests are added for people that are not really interested in WvW?

Dhampyr.2104:

Three words – Public Test Realm.

It amazes me that sweeping changes are apparently made without playtesting.

And it amazes me how preachers of the PTRs seems to ignore the fact that they usually don’t help anyway.

They already added Duels.
Custom arenas in the sPvP area.

That is probably the closest thing you will get to duels in the game.

If it keeps happening after every single patch, why assume the problem is at their end and not yours?

Nuvo.5014:

Fanboy!!!. Any normal mmo when they find a problem like this (Siege is basic for wvw) they just tunr off the area, map, etc… till they fix it, and normally they fix it in a few hour no a few days. This is just the lack of respect that anet has toward the wvw community.

And funnily enough I would actually think that people would whine even more if they turned off WvW. WvW is still very much playable, it just focuses more on open fighting than taking towers.

Different games have different code-structure, and also different issues and therefore takes different kind of time to fix. Quite logical.
Personally I have seen quite a few other MMOs where issues that made certain content in the game completely unplayable have been left into the game until the next big update.

Hydrii.5136:

Rewards very meh I expected at least a guaranteed rare like a world event chest. Takes a bit more time to level than doing a couple of the easy events and far less reward. Is what it is I guess. I played wvw before the change and will still play after just thought we were finally getting something interesting but just more lackluster additions.

So you wanted to be able to get LOADS of free rares every single day?
It is after all quite easy to rank up multiple times per day.