Guild Wars 2

Malediktus.9250:

Looks like a pay to win item. On the other hand it costs 22.3 gold worth of gems. You could buy 557 orichalcum picks for that.
And if a new ore better than ori comes out it will be obsolete.

It would be pay to win if it was better/stronger/could do other things than items available in-game.
That is not the case.

It is available from the store for a limited time.
Just like all the other content specific items (Halloween, Wintersday, Lost Shores). All these have had limited time store items, and the only thing that happened when the time was up was that they were no longer buyable.

akuzum.5263:

Anet put really weird tooltips lately. On one side it says “account bound” and on the other side “soulbound on use”.
One side it says “unlimited use” and on the other side it says “limited time”…
ANET pls put clear tooltips.

What the item in question says is:

Recovered from the Shiverpeaks, this dredge tool has unlimted charges and the same efficiency as an Orichalcum Mining Pick. Available for a limited time only.
Account Bound
Soulbound on Use

That is exactly what is says in the store, and I would say that it makes it quite clear that it will:
1: Work forever
2: Only buy ble for a limited time
3: Is accout bound
4: Will get Soulbound when equipped.

I really don’t see what is unclear.

It is most likely the sale itself that is limited, not the item.

Yes they are, they are quite expensive though.

Kwishin.5124:

You are right that the gold to gem transfers are not their main goal, but the cash cost is also high for an in-game item.

Why?
I for one find it to be rather fairly priced.
10 euros in order to never have to worry about not having a pick ready.

It is a permanent convenience item after all, it should be somewhat “expensive”.

How come everyone on these forums always assume that the prices should be based on the cost for converting gold to gems?

The gold to gem transfer rate is completely irrelevant when it comes to pricing stuff in the gem-store, since ArenaNet want people to buy the gems directly to buy stuff, not get it for free with gold.

Vol.5241:

Anet is genius. I hope they look at the sales data and show that people are willing to pay lots for guaranteed items

Next up:
-perma logging axe
-perma mf booster (5000 gems)
-perma BL salvage kit (5000 gems)

Quite unlikely that they would put permanent versions of gem-store only items in the gem-store.

The BLC is another matter though (which can be seen with the permanent bank, merchant and BLT hidden in there)

Nope, just got a Charred Dye and it was sell-able.

Mairenaianelle.3849:

o.O He said he didn’t get a themed dye, though.

I would guess that he meant that he didn’t get any of the new exclusive dyes.

You get either a blue-hue dye (for the Frost one) or a red-hue dye (for the Flame one).

Yes, this game is fun.
If not I wouldn’t play it, nor would I hang around at the forums.

The areas that you can access are marked with names and level-span.
The map in the SoS is Southsun Cove, which can be access by talking to a guy on a ship in Lion’s Arch.

They will have better stats than exotics.
When Ascended weapons get released the Legendaries will be bumped up to match their power.
They will however never be better than the highest tier.

No, you get one dye, from a pool of 25 colors including (in those 25) 6 exclusive ones

The Deep, Urgoz and DoA are all in continents (or well, DoA would technically be accessible if we get access to Ring of Fire) we currently don’t have access to, so it would be quite weird to go there.

As for 8 man overall that is quite unlikely, since the game is balanced around 5 players.

Drimina.4392:

The game is very good and is evolving to better. I think the game needs more variety of armors and I would like to see a lots of new sexy armors of all types for female characters . What is your opinion? Thx

No.
There is a reason there are quite few “sexy” armors.

If people want female characters with minimal clothes there are loads of other games to play.
No reason to add more of those silly things here.

Quite funny this really.
People complained about the lack of stuff that actually effected the world and so.
Now that ArenaNet added a few of those things people complain about how they effect the world.

And who are you to decide if the items are “finished” or not? Or if the are “legendary” or not? Isn’t that all a very personal thing?

Kingfisher.7213:

Interesting, thanks for the information.

Is this previously established lore from a book, or the original Guild Wars?

I tried googling this place, and checking the GW2 Wiki. The Wiki has no background on it besides saying it is an instance for this event.

Hope it’s not a situation like it is lore because this new guy Braham said he is from there, and since he said it, it is now lore.

It is lore because it didn’t magically turn up.
Gameplay != Lore.
Just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it is not there.

We can’t actually see any of the Elder Dragons as of now (except Zhaitan) that does not mean the Elder Dragons do not exist.

The name is based on a situation in lore. Not mechanic based.

There might be GvG battles in the future, but as of now, there arent and they most likely won’t come until Guild Halls are released.

You are fully allowed to buy more bank and bag space. Do that.
There is a reason you don’t have more or less unlimited bank-space.

So.. what makes you think you are supposed to farm the game?

What you should do is reporting the hacking. If not you might risk losing your account.

It is highly likely (I think it was confirmed, but can’t find the quote) that most of the things will get removed when the story line is over, at least those that would not make sense afterwards (such as refugees, sign, attacks and the first Rox/Braham stuff.)

So, you suck at dungeons, therefor you want them to make dungeons easier?

Keep in mind that Dungeons is the only “hardcore” content in this game, they are supposed to be hard.
The fact that the explorable mode can even be done by a decent PUG goes against the original plan about making them extremely hard and requiring a very good group.

Most people will probably rather have new content than just easier versions of already existing content. And no, you can’t just “lower the stats” to make something easier. Those that fail the dungeons would do so even if the enemy had lower stats.

So, lets say 1000 of these events (just making up numbers) fit the conditions put in place. That would mean a MASSIVE spam of events every time the cd is done. Unless of course it would only show one event at a time, which would lessen this problem a bit.

Feels like this would just end up spamming the guild chat though.
Keep in mind that there are over 1500 events in the world, and there are most likely a rather high amount of those that would fit those conditions.

I am thinking more of a (permanent?) dungeon than a big one-time event tbh.

Based on lore it was always supposed to be there yes.

It is also quite fun that people keep bringing up GW1.
GW1 was NOT a MMO.

daimasei.4091:

Really?
How easy exactly?
Can you get a full set in 10 days or less?

Depends on how much you play, but yeah it should be quite possible.

minbariguy.7504:

Obviously not for everyone, hence the OP’s post. And a lot of other posts in, say, the Personal Story forum.

Look, I get it; you don’t have a problem soloing everything. That’s great. But your experience ?everyone else’s experience. Surely you can understand that? If not, perhaps these forums just aren’t for you.

Yet it is still fully possible, for everyone, to solo it. Maybe not at once. Maybe not with their current skill. But it is still possible.

But that is just the thing.
Everything outside of Dungeons are completely possible to solo in this game. So adding henchmen to that would make everything completely solo-able.

Why stand around doing nothing while you wait?
It is fully possible to play the game just as usual while in queue after all.

One thing to keep in mind is that guilds are not supposed to be used as extra, free, storage. They are supposed to be used for building groups of friends.

minbariguy.7504:

This. Totally this. Completely this.

And ironically, it is usually the people who insist that others should have to group with them that are the last people I would want to group with.

But assuming that you should be able to do EVERYTHING in a game that is part of a genre that is called Massive MULTIPLAYER Online is rather weird, isn’t it?
If you refuse/can’t play with others, maybe a MMO is not the type of game you should play? At least not if you want to be able to experience 100% of it.

Keep in mind that this is the first time they have done this kind of content, and the Flame & Frost line should most likely be seen as an experiment and test run.

Doubtful.
These kind of mails have always been sent out, from different “companies” even without you having an account with that company (Blizzard comes to mind, where I have gotten WoW-notices for years without ever playing WoW or not having a Battle.net account.)

Sanquin.8396:

Agreed actually, I cant complete the game by myself

It is a MMO though, you are not supposed to “complete the game” by yourself.

They are a kind of weapon with special stats (Condition duration, Vitality and Precision I believe) whose recipes were available during Wintersday.

Nope.
If this was added condition based classes/mobs would more or less be completely useless again the one using cleanse.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

you must be joking, it were 2(!) story-missions with simple “defeat waves” gameplay

well, I should wait and see how big this finale will be

And several new kinds of mobs, new events, much more information, and story.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

so the upcoming F&F-content ist already the last of this series? We got a bit of teaser content so far and now the finale….?! I don’t know what to think anymore.

We have known since the first part that the part in April would be the final Flame and Frost part. We also have no idea how much this part will contain.
And the March update was far from teaser content.

Who said anything about being competitive?

WvW is a warzone.
You can’t run around in a warzone and decide that the enemy should not kill you.

No.
It is in a PvPvE zone, it should have the risk of being PvP:ed.

If you want to complete a JP there are loads of them outside of WvW that are much easier and faster without the risk of PvP.

Cloud.7613:

He has a point, nothing you can get from your personal story is that valuable. As for pact skins, they will still need to do the story line from start to that point to get them to begin with, not a big deal in my eyes since they still have to work for it.

So because they are not valuable people should be able to get as many of them as they want?
What would be the point in having a branching story line if you could just do all the parts with the same character anyway?

Well, at least wait until the story in question until we start talking about the lack of “effect on the world” shall we?
We have no idea how the last part will play out after all.

Geikamir.6329:

But, what rewards are you speaking of? I don’t remember anything that would make any difference at all in, well, anything.

Getting access to items based on a choice and then getting access to the items you would have gotten if you had made the other choice would be rather weird.
It would also be a problem with people getting access to several Pact skins per character and such.

Well.. it would be hard to actually get it to make any sort of sense.

Well.. it would be hard to actually get it to make any sort of sense.The Priory is not fighters, nor are the Order of Whispers (at least not directly) while the Vigil is more or less ONLY fighters.
So how would it, in any way or form, really work out with a full scale “conflict” between these three?

Well.. it would be hard to actually get it to make any sort of sense.The Priory is not fighters, nor are the Order of Whispers (at least not directly) while the Vigil is more or less ONLY fighters.
So how would it, in any way or form, really work out with a full scale “conflict” between these three?It would also go pretty much totally against the whole underlying point of the GW2 setting.