Guild Wars 2

Infernia.9847:

Ascended items take time to get, are soulbound on equip and are useless if you want to change your build due to a change in the balancing of a particular class.
It’s bad enough you have to get the gold together to change your build with exotics. I can’t imagine doing so with the ascended gear. You better know exactly what build you’re going to be using for at least a year before you purchase them.
Some people are certain and have no intentions of ever changing their build. That’s great until Anet decides to do something like boost condition builds and make them more effective than before. Now that person may want to get some condition damage/duration in their build. Doh. Not going to happen at least for however long it will take to grind out new ascended trinkets, then weapons, finally the armor.

That’s silly. I’ve got plenty of tokens and laurels to switch on the fly and that’s with playing FotM once a week if I play at all. As such, even a major overhaul isn’t really a big deal to me, and I’m the definition of casual.

The only type of ascended gear I have so far is celestial. It’s like the safety net piece. It’s not great at any one thing but it boosts everything just in case I need to change my build. And when I go from PvE to WvW at least I’m covered when changing my gear.

I’ve got celestial too because it is so comfortable to use. I don’t want to play perfect, I just want to get through all content in a decent pace.

In Guild Wars 1 Eredon Terrace you could attack the merchant and teleport to him, through the portal. This allowed you into a rather large “off limits” area. Went there often, it was a pretty nice place to be.

Scrambles.2604:

And taking shots at peoples live’s just makes you sound bitter…“anyone worse than me is a noob and anyone better than me has no life!”

I never call anyone noob. Never did. I’m a pretty big noob myself and I don’t care about becoming a top player. I do want to improve to the point where I can beat most content while still having fun. People who are better don’t necessarily have a lack of life, and I don’t immediately disrespect them.
However people often tend to disrespect me for not wanting to improve, when the facts clearly are so that I don’t have time for that. I don’t want to improve because it comes at the cost of something I don’t want to lose. That’s my choice, not yours. If anything makes me bitter, it’s people not respecting what I want out of a videogame, namely fun, fun, fun. I’d rather have fun losing than grind my teeth to win
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Only when “being good” comes at the cost of sacrificing your entire life, that I will form an opinion. Apart from that it’s mostly live and let live.

LumAnth.5124:

I know NC gets the money but I just have this deep grudge for them.

Grudge for a company … I would realign my priorities if I were you. Do not love and do not hate companies, they don’t feel anything for you either.

Although I have no one to blame but myself for Aion… Those are years I could have spent cherishing my time with GW1

I played Aion for a grand 3 months, one month was launch month during which I only played the queue … I have more regret for WoW but learned a lot from that too, how to spot a grind game early on.

I’m surprised NCSoft managed to avoid the clear grind with Guild Wars 2, I do think they want to make a sustainable western brand with Guild Wars. Gives me hope for the future.

From the data I pull following conclusions:

People with money spend money.
Because clearly people aged 24 and up buy the majority of gems.
Is that surprising? No. You didn’t analyze the gem store, but rather income levels vs age, that’s the underlying variable. At age 16 you correctly assumed these people live from pocket money, and don’t spend on gems. At age 20 these people have college to fund. At age 30 people have a job. Given age spreads, nothing else is proven. That part of the survey literally has nothing to do with the gem store. If you had made the same survey but based it around income levels, you’d have the exact same result.

Quality over quantity
I’m extremely happy with that conclusion, and I hope A.net will make it too. The Horn, permanent tools and services go in that direction. Boxes have to go.

Over half of a subscription
I do feel we get a good return for that money. In WoW, I never progressed beyond the second raid. As such, most WoW patches were void of any content for me. In GW2 I can actually play the new content. That conclusion doesn’t hold water for me.

Quality of life stuff
We knew this would happen, and I’m 100% content with it. Feels to me like I get something in return. Merely paying a subscription is a complete waste of money, especially when the so-called content is not made for me but only for the hardcore raiders. I never got a content update in WoW. Could you imagine Molten Facility only being available after beating FotM48? That’s what happened in WoW.

Lies, kitten ed lies, Statistics
Once again you prove that statistics can be bent to prove literally anything. With the same data, I come to an entirely different conclusion.

Thinly disguised trinity thread is thinly disguised.

Trinity will not come back.

As for the skill system, it really makes sense in terms of balancing and learning curve. In Guild Wars prophecies, before factions, there were already so many skills that most people lost the overview, and this didn’t become better with factions and nightfall. By Eye of the North, 60% of the skills were so underpowered they might as well not exist. 20% was so overpowered they were the de facto standard build for every profession, with about 20% that was up for choice, if you could recognize them.

A.net successfully avoided that in Guild Wars 2. I strongly believe they should at least double the amount of utility and triple the elites in this game, but the basic system just works fine.

Resonance.4216:

It’s a generic fantasy korean grinder MMO that just happens to be set in Tyria.

Guild Wars 2 is neither generic nor korean and most certainly not a grinder. You’re trolling.

Bright.9160:

marnick.4305:

Well, that’s exactly my size then. If I bought a car for people size 5"2’, I made a mistake, clear and simple. Why test a car for people size 6" driving on race tracks, if people size 5"2’ driving in cities are the primary market? GW2 was not marketed to hardcore people.

Yeah, but when you sell cars to a wide audience, even if it’s marketed for 5"2 people that only drive in cities, but your car is also able to drive on highways, you should also test how it goes on highways, otherwise people might find something wrong with it. Like warp drive once you go over a certain speed limit.

It should comfortably drive at 100km/h if it’s a city car and 140km/h for any other car. 140km/h is already about highspeed limits in most of continental Europe. It is not necessary to design your car to drive faster, except if you market it to Germans (who don’t have speed limits).

SonicTHI.3217:

marnick.4305:

Let’s be clear here. I tell people “we’re working on it” on a daily basis. People who’s entire income depend on that statement. Companies who could lose millions of euros over such statements. They accept that because they know we are actually working on it, and who’d rather have a good fix than a rushed one.
So please understand that in my perspective, comparing millions of euros vs a mere videogame, that “we’re working on it” is more than enough to keep me waiting for something that will come eventually. If I couldn’t accept that, I would be a hypocrite. I’m not.

If you really work at such a high level i m sure the people who you say that phrase to can either sue you to oblivion if you do not deliver or at least fire you and i m sure you have meetings where your performance is assessed and graded and others where you have to explain things a lot better than with only that phrase.

Sometimes that’s the only possible explanation. They can’t and won’t sue me. Why would they? And why would my boss fire someone who delivers good customer support? I love my job and try to do it to the best of my ability. It pains me to say that line but again, sometimes it’s the only possible answer.

However the end customer – developer or publisher relation is quite different and the phrase “we’re working on it” doesnt carry nearly as much weight in the game industry.
Game companies have no contractual obligations to their customers so please understand that the only thing we can do is bring this issue up with ANET on these forums. And no this has nothing to do with entitlement. As a consumer i expect any product i buy to work as advertised and if not for it to be fixed in a timely manner. If that is not possible i want to at least be given some proper explanation and not be kept in the dark.

As an end customer you bought the boxed product. All obligations from A.net’s side ended there. Indeed they have absolutely no contractual obligations to add one more update to the game. They do because they want to earn money through gems, so the only argument of value you have, is your wallet. No forum post you make can have more influence than the amount of real money you spend to buy gems.

In the MMO industry, “we’re working on it” means several months on average. Eventually A.net will deliver. If not, people will stop buying gems for $$, so A.net has a good reason to deliver ASAP, which in this genre means, hopefully by the end of summer. Hopefully being the key word.

In GW1, people demanded 7 heroes, claiming gloom and doom for the game. A.net delivered, but it literally took years.

So again, what does “timely” mean to you? Months? Days? Years?

Iruwen.3164:

marnick.4305:

Customers understand that. I’m so glad I don’t have to work with entitled gamers but rather with Ph.D.’s who have a clue.

Wow, I actually wanted to reply to your post first since I’m also “in the industry”, maintaining an accounting system which processes high volume transactions, but that was so arrogant and uncalled for that I won’t even bother dealing with you. You basically just called the entire playerbase of GW2 stupid. Maybe you should work on your social skills first. Farewell.

I have good hopes that not the entire playerbase of GW2 consists of entitled gamers. There’s more intelligent people in here, the rotten apples are exceptions. Unfortunately, the exceptions are far more vocal on forums, and on forums don’t tend to take no for an answer.
I didn’t want to insult the entire playerbase and I’m sorry if that was to be misinterpreted, I’m sure you understand what I wanted to say if you read it a second time.

That said, I usually call people when I’m not sure my emails can’t be misinterpreted, again a reason why having forums is a very bad idea. Text is too prone for unintended insults.

BTW: I don’t like to be quote mined. Answer the post instead of one out-of-context sentence.

Yargesh.4965:

marnick.4305:

wolfie.7296:

Vayne.8563:

Developers aren’t players and players aren’t developers. They actually take completely different sets of skills. Saying a developer doesn’t play the game well is sort of pointless.

It’s like editors who can’t write. Many editors because editors BECAUSE they can’t write. But that doesn’t mean they can’t edit.

You are 100% wrong. It’s more equivalent to a car designer not getting in their new vehicle and testing it and understanding limitations and flaws. And then saying that it’s comfortable for everyone to drive, when they are 5’7" and many buyers are 6’0" or greater and find it extremely uncomfortable.

Or in other words … if people over 6’0" (whatever that non-metric nonsense means) buy your car en masse, you mismarketed your car.

6’ = 183 cm

Well, that’s exactly my size then. If I bought a car for people size 5"2’, I made a mistake, clear and simple. Why test a car for people size 6" driving on race tracks, if people size 5"2’ driving in cities are the primary market? GW2 was not marketed to hardcore people.

Zelyhn.8069:

Right. Maybe talking about high arena ranking would be more relevant. I just hope you get my point.

I was specifically referring to r14 to make my point. I don’t generally respect people for being “good” at games, because good is so open for interpretation. I want to have fun, doesn’t matter whether I’m good or not.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I didn’t miss it, I just wholeheartedly disagree with it.

I wholeheartedly agree with it.

Zelyhn.8069:

marnick.4305:

xiv.7136:

Going into any room, anywhere, and just saying “I am better than you all” will make you rather unpopular rather fast.

He would be right though. He’s better than all of us at being a first class a—kitten.

Being the best is defined differently for different players. I never considered people with rank 14 in WoW “the best” because it came at the cost of things that are far better than r14, namely a life.

You have to differentiate the two: there is the player, and there is the person.
A r14 player in wow is likely the best player, but this makes no assumption about his personal life.

Being good at WoW was not a requirement for r14, however being bad at life was.

I would never dare to judge anyone’s personal life, I am a strong believer of the idea that all people and things are equal.
This does not prevent me from judging the skill of a player and ordinating it.

r14 factually required 2 continuous months of at least 14 hours per day played. Every single day. Missing a day meant delaying r14 by about a week. People with any hard RL requirements, even if only half a day every other week, were not able to get it. Time investment was literally the only requirement for r14. Being good was not part of the equation.

wolfie.7296:

Vayne.8563:

Developers aren’t players and players aren’t developers. They actually take completely different sets of skills. Saying a developer doesn’t play the game well is sort of pointless.

It’s like editors who can’t write. Many editors because editors BECAUSE they can’t write. But that doesn’t mean they can’t edit.

You are 100% wrong. It’s more equivalent to a car designer not getting in their new vehicle and testing it and understanding limitations and flaws. And then saying that it’s comfortable for everyone to drive, when they are 5’7" and many buyers are 6’0" or greater and find it extremely uncomfortable.

Or in other words … if people over 6’0" (whatever that non-metric nonsense means) buy your car en masse, you mismarketed your car.

wolfie.7296:

marnick.4305:

He’s wrong to the extent that a car designer doesn’t necessarily have to test drive faster than the legal speed limit. If the car is comfortable at 140km/h, it’s a comfortable car, even if the max speed is 220km/h.
If devs play like 90% of their players, they’re actually doing it right. But they should play.

yes they do have to test it faster. handling is and should be a top priority. if a car exploded at a certain speed people should know.secondly you paid no attention to what i said about a person’s height. why you would ignore that and try and make a counter-point, idk.

If people buy a car to drive in most countries in Europe, they should not expect to ever drive faster than 140 km/h. If it starts shaking at 160 km/h, that’s actually acceptable. Of course it wouldn’t explode.
Handling is important for the circumstances which the car was designed for. Some cars are meant primarily for cities, no one screams when a 2CV can’t drive faster than 100km/h without falling apart. On the other hand, a Ferrari will lose against that same 2CV on a freshly plowed field.

The height comment I ignored because at first I believed it was not relevant but actually … yes, some cars are simply too small for large people like me. I couldn’t drive a Clio if I had to bring my mother to the hospital, I’ve got about 1 head too many. That’s why I drive a larger car, a car that was tested by a larger person.

[quote=2238811;LHound.8964:I find amusing how you claim your solution is the holy grail for all of GW2 problems and all the ranting on the forums. The honest truth is there isn’t a single solution to the problems. Gw2 was created to bring entertainment to a multiple type of crowds. Social players tend to feel the game is too hard (grind cosmetics, work for the legendary, work for gold), Heavy MMoRPG players think the game is too bland (no content, no effort, no objectives), E-Sports players looked for competitiveness ( and found none).[/quote]

In politics I usually go further. Politicians who claim single solutions to all problems are actively being dishonest. To the masses, that’s usually easy to swallow, which is why the masses (ergo players like me and resonance) tend to come up with one-solution-fits-all threads. To implements 100 threads for 1% would work far better than to implement 1 thread for 100%.

Not just that but “balance time/effort vs reward” is so incredibly vague that it could be considered dishonesty by itself. Meaninglessly vague statements are worthless.

xiv.7136:

Going into any room, anywhere, and just saying “I am better than you all” will make you rather unpopular rather fast.

He would be right though. He’s better than all of us at being a first class a—kitten.

Being the best is defined differently for different players. I never considered people with rank 14 in WoW “the best” because it came at the cost of things that are far better than r14, namely a life.

Yesterday I did Arah p3 for the first time with several newbies (including me). We were all cooperative, we listened and downed Lupi on third try. No player, at any time, claimed to be good or elite. We knew we were unexperienced and rolled with it.

That’s just my take on all this nonsense. I don’t hate talent, but I don’t hate the lack of talent either. Both would make me hate myself.

Dub.1273:

Bright.9160:

Dub.1273:

What happened to the “X”, did your guild loose it bright?

Do you ever post relevant stuff in a thread, or is your sole purpose on this forum to derail everything you see?

I usually worry about getting more infractions or even a forum ban because everything i won’t be able to say anything good about people playing a condition/toughness guardian or wrongbow-spamming ranger.

Likewise, I’m not able to say good things about people who belittle others for using a build they personally find comfortable to use. Celestial set + divinity runes is a very comfortable set. Not the best, not extraordinarily good, but comfortable for most.

wolfie.7296:

Vayne.8563:

Developers aren’t players and players aren’t developers. They actually take completely different sets of skills. Saying a developer doesn’t play the game well is sort of pointless.

It’s like editors who can’t write. Many editors because editors BECAUSE they can’t write. But that doesn’t mean they can’t edit.

You are 100% wrong. It’s more equivalent to a car designer not getting in their new vehicle and testing it and understanding limitations and flaws. And then saying that it’s comfortable for everyone to drive, when they are 5’7" and many buyers are 6’0" or greater and find it extremely uncomfortable.

He’s wrong to the extent that a car designer doesn’t necessarily have to test drive faster than the legal speed limit. If the car is comfortable at 140km/h, it’s a comfortable car, even if the max speed is 220km/h.
If devs play like 90% of their players, they’re actually doing it right. But they should play.

It’s going to blow up eventually. The boxes are one thing I sincerely don’t agree with. Price those things 2000 gems for all I care but give people a chance at getting them without RNG (pun totally intended).

lordkrall.7241:

marnick.4305:

I would expect a required couple of hours live playtime per week in a company like A.net? Any comments on that?

Now that would be quite silly, don’t you think?
As far as I know no employer can actually force people to do something involving their company on their free time. And I would rather have them actually work on the game rather than playing it during working hours.

I would expect people to work during their work hours. Guild Wars 2 is their job. As such, I expect Guild Wars 2 devs to play during work hours. I actually expect management to give everyone a time slot for doing so during work hours.

With our hardware I’ve programmed several fun things during work hours, simply to get experience with our product. That ranges from simple games to personal projects and even some embedded Guild Wars jokes. If I weren’t allowed to toy around with our own products, I couldn’t be a good employee. I’d expect the same from A.net employees.

Dragon Ball is once again a glimpse at the awesome A.net can create. Some of that should make it into permanent content somehow ….

I wouldn’t take GW1 as the perfect example though. Weapons for looks was a luxury most couldn’t afford. BDS and frog staff with decent stats were almost impossible to get. On the other hand, green items lost almost all their value after a few weeks. Furthermore, temp festive items were the most valuable cosmetics in the game.

That said, I really hope A.net can find a solution to this issue. It’s not a real problem to me but more like a serious thorn in the side. I can ignore it for a while, but not everyone can and no one can ignore it indefinitely.

The boxed weapons will become a bigger issue with every content release. The current implementation with dragon boxes vs elite dragon boxes is a step in the right direction, but not nearly there.

TheLaughingMan.4320:

No endgame other than WvW. The players who keep saying, “The game is the endgame!” are just anet parrots and absolutely nuts. Why was GW1 so popular for so many years after it was released? Why did people keep playing even PvE for so many years? Challenging end-game areas, and truly open-ended character building, which took trinity and threw in hybrids and so many different options.

The entire GW1 map was endgame, especially factions and nightfall. So saying “the game is endgame” is correct for both GW1 and GW2. I don’t just spend my time in lvl80 areas and neither did I exclusively play “endgame” areas.

Guild Wars 2 needs a few elite areas, but not many. The open world has to be strengthened to the point where leaving into an instance feels bad. FotM has to be expanded to the point where completing it feels kitten. Apart from FotM, there should be a few more extremely large and hard dungeons like UW/FoW/DoA. Not too many, it’s not a focus, but 2 more would be awesome.

Ameepa.6793:

Depends on whether they are European or African mail birds.

Correct answer.

I’ve never heard of an MMO launch that was bug free. In fact, GW2 is the only MMO I’ve played on launch at all, mostly because other MMOs had permanent queues or downtime in the first month.

In hindsight, locking sales, removing forums and TP, disabling guilds etc etc all meant I could actually play the game. I mean, who needs forums when reddit works just fine. The guy who made that decision should get the Nobel Prize for gaming.

Rama.6439:

This game is such a joke when it comes to difficulty, senior citizens and the mentally Ill could easily play this game and partake in meta events and run dungeons.

Senior citizens and the mentally ill are already limited to petanque. Are you saying videogames should be rationed to the physically and mentally capable?

I did a triathlon last week. Do I qualify for your game?

How much total crit chance do you have?

Vol.5241:

There are items in game that are possible to monpolize. They include items such as holiday skins, precursors, or even giant eyes.

And when it comes to rare skins such as the Ghastly shield, all the power is in the seller.

Let’s assume, for sake of argument, that someone has 90% of a limited commodity.
1/ for holiday skins that only goes as long as those skins exist. Every skin used is gone. That means your monopoly really has to make a ton of money, which will be difficult by undercutting.

2/ most people assume the Ghastly shield will return in November, which isn’t a long time from now.

3/ precursors drop all the time. It’s impossible to keep a monopoly on stuff that drops often. All you can do is give other people higher profits on their drops.

With drops “all the time” I mean millions of players times 0.01% droprate from chests, is still several precursors a day.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I know that I play on Live, but usually only a few hours per week. (What with work and all.) I also don’t always represent the Arena.net guild, since it’s nice to just play sometimes. And, no, our game accounts aren’t the same as GM accounts; we don’t get special items or anything like that.

I would expect a required couple of hours live playtime per week in a company like A.net? Any comments on that?

Leablo.2651:

marnick.4305:

As with every other company …

The money goes to NCSoft, who first pays employees first, then investors, then GW2, Lineage, Wildstar etc etc. GW2 is a successful money maker, I expect a lot of future investments to keep it at a good moneymaking level.

It’s a good thing you’re an insider at NC and every other company to tell us exactly how they distribute their funds to product development. Oh wait….

I don’t pretend to work for NCSoft but I do have a job. This is simply how business is done. If you didn’t know that yet, I can only make one conclusion.

That said, isn’t this a stupid question. If I sell something to a customer, who gets the money? Me or my boss? Ain’t such things self explanatory?

Depends entirely on who you are and who your boss is and the nature of the roles you have at the company. So no, it’s not a stupid question but yours is a pretty stupid analogy since employees and wholly owned subsidiaries are not at all equivalent relations.

Not at all equivalent but paying someone doesn’t necessarily mean he gets the money, is all I’m saying. Even the CEO of a wholly owned subsidiaries merely gets a salary (if his books aren’t cooked). It’s no use discussing this further since that’s simply how stuff works. If you expected A.net to get 100% of the money, you were wrong.

I don’t mind the effigies or pinatas, but 300 of those stupid things is 150 too many.

right click > destroy works just fine for me :p

danbuter.2314:

I agree with the op. DPS seems a far more reasonable agro maker than toughness.

In GW1 it was the person who would die first (based on health+armor) who had highest agro. Made perfect sense.

www.gw2lfg does the job just fine, isn’t a hassle at all. I really wonder what the OP misses.

Furthermore, an LFG tool is confirmed development and probably almost done given the leaks in .dat. It’ll probably not be a dungeon finder, but better. Until then, gw2lfg.com serves your needs.

Youtube “guild wars 2 9 months later” by wooden potatoes. He made a very nice overview.

Who’s this dashing woman? Why does she look like an assassin?

It’s under releases

This was already a joke back in early days prophecies. War in Kryta added a few groups of roaming lions.

Agree if both original and cloned item become account bound (including legendaries)

Yargesh.4965:

they have had zero impact on my gameplay.

Nice wording, given that farming is neither game nor play but rather work.

Astralporing.1957:

Hard to say. On one side, the farm nerfs did not affect too much the drops i get, because generally i don’t farm. On the other side price of everything goes up and up, which becomes a problem (since, as i have already said, i don’t farm).

And yet, the facts clearly show that prices have been constant for several months on stuff like precursors and gems.

Aeonblade.8709:

tolunart.2095:

Vayne.8563:

Then you have games like Guild Wars 2, which I enjoy, but still uses RNG in lock boxes, and arbitrary achievements and temporary content to keep people logging in.

Of them all, Guild Wars 2 is the best solution for me and my style of play…but it’s far from perfect.

I have to say that even pay-to-play MMOs are among the cheapest forms of entertainment, hour for dollar. Consider other games that cost like $60 and you spend a rainy weekend or two playing them, reach the end of the game and either play everything over again on harder mode or set it aside and buy another. Cable/satellite tv with the premium packages can run over $100 a month, my Rift sub was $100 a year.

And, yes, sometimes the free games kind of push you towards pay content, but if you just log in once in a while to relax and aren’t a “gotta keep up with the Jones family next door” type person you don’t ever have to spend a penny on them.

And for an absurdly low price they throw new content at you on a semi-regular basis, other games might get two or three downloadable updates which combined cost as much as another game.

I’d say it’s a pretty good deal, all things considered.

Well said sir, it is a great deal. I have always looked at MMO subs as the best form of entertainment. 50 cents a day for unlimited entertainment, or go see a movie for $20…hmm…choices…. :P

Except those 50 cents easily double considering most people simply can’t play every day. Quadruple that if you take into consideration that everyone goes on holiday, has kids, has exams or needs to go away for business once in a while. A month not played is a month still paid. That’s a huge pet peeve I have with subs for games … I simply can’t play every day, therefor breaking it down to cost per day is meaningless.

To compare MMOs to one of the most expensive forms of entertainment per hour is a false argument. At least going to the movies is usually done with friends or significant others, while people who sub to MMOs are notoriously anti-social.
Honestly, the 30 to 100 euros I tend to spend every weekend on good food and a nice party is better spent than the 15 euros I used to spend on subs.

*Urmaug is insanely easy and short.
*Pirate dungeon in LA is easy once you get it but kinda long. Bring flamethrower or pistols for lighting.

• the one in Southsun is extremely easy, short and accessible.

Others always have something against them, being longish, not obvious on first sight or well hidden. But once you get them, they’re all rather easy.

@Pixelpumpkin
There were tons of minigames in GW1, and I barely played any of them, even though some were pretty fun. I played GW1 because I wanted to play GW1. Minigames, while kinda fun, just didn’t do it for me. I think some are in the same boat Just a rundown:

- dragon’s nest: played it some, but it was hardly if ever active.
- my brother loved rollerbeetle and I loved watching. I never played it myself.
- I forced myself to do polymock for the mursaat. Without that skill, I wouldn’t have bothered
- I did Kilroy’s dungeon a few times, but it just wasn’t fun after the first time.
- I never set foot in dragon arena.
- dwayna vs grenth was notoriously inactive.

That said, I liked Dragon Ball for being Quake. Crab Toss was fun but I wasn’t going to grind it. I don’t care about Keg Brawl. And even though I loved SAB to bits, I just completed it and was done.

That’s my point of view though. I play Engineer in GW2. I’m not a Norn in Keg Brawl

Malediktus.9250:

Its really great to see my mini collection I worked hard for devalue each day. (I am only missing two of the golems for guild tokens)

Nice isn’t it. Now others have a chance too.

Evolut.2398:

marnick.4305:

Zumy.6318:

But you guy want me and my account with 2600 hours of playtime, 7k achievementpoints and 5 legendaries and lots of dedication put in banned?

10 months.
2600 hours playtime.

That’s over 11 hours a day, every single day including weekends, work days, exam periods, holiday with significant other etc etc.

I don’t want you to be banned, most certainly not. But it’d probably be in your own interest to take a little break once in a while. Just saying.

Not entirely sure how you calculated 11 hours a day based on this, but I’ll break it down on a grade 3 level for you.

10 months x ~30 days= 300 days over 10 months
2600 hours/ 300 days= 8.6667 hours per day

Yet I agree, a break from gw2 is needed here.

Made a mistake somewhere. But still… 8.6 or 11.5 doesn’t really change the conclusion.

Let’s break it down on an engineer level for you. A 20% calculation error is expected. Make sure to add safety factor :p

If anything, my income has increased substantially by the several drop buffs.
- most dungeon paths tend to drop cores/lodestones
- moldy bags drop like candy and have t6
- guaranteed rare to salvage ecto on daily basis
- increased drops in low level zones
- karma boxes that give tons of money
- WvW gives a better income since ranks
- daily/monthly has become far easier to get
- gilded infusion permanently buffing income

I really have nothing to complain about. Then again, I don’t ever farm. Don’t have the time and I’m not lobotomized.