Guild Wars 2

thanks! Lucky I’ve got an engi as main

Absolutely. I think this should have been implemented already. Some of these items need to be rebalanced though.

I agree with OP. The worst that can happen to an MMO player is to have their gear deleted. A level increase does exactly that.
My ex- and current girlfriends all had my passwords except that of GW2 for exactly that reason. I don’t want an angry ex in my account. Me and my brother had quite some fights and stuff got destroyed but never, ever, did we touch each other’s characters. Chris threatened to do exactly that which I fear most.

They should drop from Champs, Vets and in the Underworld (which should have been implemented instead of fracktals).

And that’s how an international debt crisis starts. Not by the companies allowing a gamble, but by consumers who don’t realize borrowed money (Credit Cards) won’t suffice to cover all the pretty things forever. Sooner or later someone has to pay for your want.

Bottom line. Don’t spend money you can’t afford to lose on a gamble. The gamble was the game, the thrill of unboxing. If you would be guaranteed a top tier item, it wouldn’t be a gamble?

On the other hand, good for your spouse. You realize you don’t like gambling so hopefully it doesn’t become an addiction Make a monthly budget for GW2 gems and don’t spend a gem over that. A good father always budgets his pleasure along with the needs of his family.

Risingashes.8694:

Go to any stock exchange and ask to bid $200.01 on a $201 stock and they’ll laugh at you. As stocks rise so to do the allowed bidding units. Penny stocks (0.01-0.10) allow half cent bids, while dollar stocks allow 1c bids. $50 stocks allow 5c bids and so on- and so on.

Because stocks exchanges realised, long ago, that efficient systems require limits that don’t encourage destructive behavior.

I strongly recommend you to go to a stock market and place a 200.01 bid, or even a 200.005 bid. It happens all the time. That one cent is exactly where the big money is made.

There’s no problem here except for markets with low volume. Even a high transaction volume market at high prices doesn’t have any problems with this undercutting.

They are very challenging, but once you get them down you can do them ungeared. That’s the biggest difference with other MMOs. Also they’re only 5 man so the voice chat is not so much about commanding but more about helping.

Basically, you’re required to learn the tactics one way or another. If you do that with voice and a guild group, you’ll learn them fast. If you do it over chat with pugs, it’ll be slow. If you keep your eyes open and prepare to learn, you’ll learn faster either way.

Whether or not voice chat is required is up to your group to decide, and up to you to join such groups. Not required, strongly recommended at first though although I’ve learned plenty of explorables without a single voice word.

High heels! But give minus -50% move speed in Sparkfly Fen and other swampy areas such as recently resurfaced seafloor places.

I for one agree with the suggestion of high heels, for the mere fact that I loved them on my gw1 ele.

How about you just make a norn warrior? Race changes in this game are not possible because of design issues that span the entire game. However:
- 1 to 80, one week of playing or 1 day of crafting
- full exotics, one more week of doing dungeons or paying 10 gold (800 gems)

good luck playing the game as intended.

On the other hand, you’re giving me farming ideas

If you have a decent karka farming build you can make a ton of money of these drops. Ye getting a bit lucky is required but I feel like the nonRNG baseline isn’t bad to start while any cool drops are extra.

You should be asking yourself what you’re doing wrong. Between GW2lfg.com and personal skill, I have none of the OP problems.

I have the same feeling. Big progression was made in the last months. Lost Shores was a bad move but apart from that, the game only got better and better. Even Lost Shores was mostly good except for ascended items and the associated bad communication. Fractals and the Cove are both very nice areas, I just wish a.net hadn’t puppied on the ascended puppy.

When I compare to WoW launch and Aion launch, this game definitely improved, whereas wow only got worse every patch after 1.08. In Aion I didn’t play in the first 2 weeks (queue) and when I finally started playing the game was already dead. In vanilla WoW I was a warlock, in Aion Spiritmaster and now engineer. I sure have a thing for bugged and troubled classes and let me tell you one thing, compared to other games, engineer is working just fine.

So for all the things that are wrong with GW2, it still is the best MMO launch as of yet. Compliments to a.net and good luck on the incremental improvements to the game.

Doing events is the main source. The karma booster in gem store is pretty cheap so feel free to use them. Running dungeons nets a fair amount and merely doing the daily rewards a nice 4.5k (on top of the event karma). Joining a WvW zerg will give you quite some too.

Save up any karma consumables and mass use them under influence of +karma stuff and you’ll get even more karma out of your liquid karma.

Doing the monthly, if you have time, gives you a huge 45k karma.

Pangie.3217:

There’s nothing wrong with working slowly towards a weapon you want. I started working on my legendary last month and it would probably take another 6 months before I’m finished at the rate I’m going. I don’t mind taking so long because I don’t need it now so I won’t be hardcore grinding to get it. I’m only doing stuff when I feel like it.

Which is exactly what I’m doing, but going for a mere skin would give me a big setback on the upcoming power increase. Feels like wasted time in advance. This was so different in GW1. Sad quaggan.

For someone who has played many other MMOs and RPGs you obviously haven’t played Diablo?

Let me explain. The GW2 devs originally made Diablo 2. In Diablo 2 you had this marvelous thing called the Horadric Cube. Most recipes in the Horadric Cube were based on a gamble for very, very expensive items. If lucky, you’d get a huge return on investment, if unlucky, you wouldn’t get squat.

The Mystic Forge has the exact same function. Unless you have a puppyload of gold to burn, DO NOT touch it. The Mystic Forge will be on its best once the game is around a year old and people have the disposible income to start gambling big time. In a year, it’ll be the most popular feature in the game for veterans.

Do not forget that the Horadric Cube had a few easy well known cheaper recipes too, mainly regarding upgrading gems and runes and making upgrades. See a pattern?

Voted. GW2 is easily the best MMO ever released, and it’s launch was the least troublesome I’ve played as of yet. Furthermore the game is more than alive 2 months after release which is an achievement in and of itself.

Ye some things happened which I don’t agree with but that doesn’t diminish the fact that GW2 clearly is the best MMO on the market currently. For that, I cast my vote.

Remember how GW1 looked at launch. Now look at the current state of the game.

It’s called power creep, if you only buff, in a short time all skills will be too powerful which leads to huge problems. Even without buffs and only nerfs, power creep starts to happen because players become better.

Nerfing a powerful skill is usually better than buffing weak ones.

Savan.8495:

you know whats awesome….. transmute

If only I had the time to grind out two weapons. As I stated, just farming one is already a big deal for me.

Just as a thought experiment… would it be a good idea to up the alternative drops? Apart from the mystic clovers, I feel it should at least be a money making gamble on the long run.

There’s a list of beautiful weapons on the wiki, that can be forged in the mystic forge. Many of them seem to be a very good alternative to legendaries, many are very, very expensive. I’d love to go for Ilya+Mad Moon on my engineer. There’s just one huge problem…….

I can’t, for any good reason, go for this horizontal progression. If I don’t go for legendary or ascended weapons, sooner or later I will start lagging behind on the gear curve. Yes, at the moment it’s shallow, but at least a legendary will keep its relative power.

Why is this a problem? I’m a time limited player. I can only afford one of those weapons before summer, and if I don’t go for the legendary, I will regret it one of the future patches. I sincerely need this legendary just to beat the incoming threadmill. I hate the prospect of this happening. For all the cool skins implemented in the last patches, I will get none. It makes the GW1 fan in me cry.

Please fix this. All skin weapons need ascended status or they’re just worthless to normal players.

Showed her the trailer which was beautiful. Started playing and showed her the winter wonderland. She was really into it, even though she has absolutely nothing with videogames. I consider that an accomplishment. The wintersday content is beautiful, too bad I’m meeting family and stuff so I won’t complete any achievements I don’t care, the general atmosphere really rocks.

What’s also very nice … the blue completetion bars get me into the atmosphere even more. I’m going for 100% on my alt and world completion fitting into the season is a good thing!

I also looked through the patch notes, seems like BLC is finally going somewhere while fractals gets some much needed changes. All in all, I support the current patch. BRB buying gems I buy gems for good content. One look at Wintersday is enough to buy gems for (don’t compare to Lost Shores, that patch made me vomit)

Your problem is that active content on your level is the fastest way to level. On the other hand, mind numbing grind is only possible on far lower levels and those won’t get you to 80. If you want an easy time, I can only recommend to complete areas that are at least 10 levels too low for you. It’ll be mind numbing but also slower so ….

But really , if you want an mmo to grind … go play wow. You won’t find what you’re looking for in GW2.

GMT is the basis for all other time zones, CET and PST are both calculated from GMT. Without GMT, a.net is just making it needlessly complicated. Last time I tried to calculate from PST to GMT+1 (summer time) I ended up in a 2 hour window where everything was possible.

Dondarrion.2748:

Nicholas and Mr. Yakkington may be dead and gone, but maybe an heir could take up work in Tyria

Ameranth?

I totally agree there’s both devs and players who deserve their fair share of coal, but please do not generalize on both the devs and playerbase. Not all players are whiny entitled skritt and not all devs are asura who’s flawed inventions blew up in their face due to the worst communication skill.

There’s both talented artists (Southsun is b-e-a-utiful) and laid back casuals (who reject ascended gear without whining) who deserve their load of presents.

They just want a jolly good spanking. It’s the Wintersday Spank Inferno.

I want:
- mud bricks
- precursor scavenger hunt which takes weeks to complete casually
- fractals breakpoints instead of levels (eg 1-5, 5-10 etc)
- lowered and non-fractal requirements on all ascended gear
- moar gems (but these will be under the X-mas tree, pretty sure of that)
- integrated gw2lfg.com interface <= this website rules
- map can be shown on second screen
- all events show on map

Sender.7958:

I doubt you’d get one, since it is sale / promotional item for those who get the game now. Or do you think that every promotional sale a company has, should also apply retroactively to every customer who ever purchased at any point in the past?

I would imagine that goes without saying.

I simply don’t have time. My brother claimed he played the tower for 5 hours straight to get the reward. Truth is harsh, I didn’t even play 5 hours during Halloween. You know…. life, work, Halloween coinciding with All Saints Day. I’m not wasting a rest day on this game.

That’s all… yes repetition will solve the puzzle… if only I had the time… if only regular human beings with a hint of real life had a moderate chance to get the Tower, I would have gotten it.

If it wasn’t an achievement, I wouldn’t have cared. That alone fixes it. I didn’t get the full mad king book either, only the first part.

Anyone else got serious Tim Burton creeps from the trailer?

Kholer by default can be solo’ed by every profession. His damage is pretty low except for his pull, which can be avoided by dodging perfectly. As such, even a naked untraited random profession with random weapons and skills will be able to solo him if and only if the player is skilled enough.

On the other hand he’s very difficult, up to impossible, for a team of new players.

To me this shows perfect game design.

Correct. The entire process gives you 10 levels. As you can double check on the wiki, every point will give you some percentage based xp, every 100 pionts an extra bit and a big chunk at 400. All those add up to a nice 10 levels.

Tierce.5370:

With ~150% MF on, I can kill 3-4 young karka per minute, or around 100 per 30 minutes, and during that time I have been getting 4-7 shells. I suspect that a rough estimate of young karka’s base drop rate (with zero Magic Find) for karka shells is about two percent.

I would imagine karka shells aren’t magical and therefor don’t drop more often because you have worse gear.

I’ve got an 80 engineer. Don’t have much problems in Orr. I’m just a good player, I won’t have problems with any class. I just like engineer most

Your post doesn’t make sense to me. Most people leave gold sellers out of the equation when debating anything about the gem prices because frankly, they’re irrelevant.

Yes you could buy theoretically gold from these bots. However the cost is the following: they hack your account, strip it of valuables and steal it for botting. In case this doesn’t happen, you will get perma-banned since gold buying goes against the EULA, you will not get an appeal. As such, you lose your entire account either way.

Either that, or you just buy the gems without putting your account at serious risk. Your choice.

MethodicMockingbird.6520:

When you value gold more than real money

Actually, it’s very much possible to calculate the relative value of gold to real money.

… when divorce papers are presented to you. Seriously… don’t let this happen.

GTA 3 Vice City channel!

Don’t think it’s illegal in any way.

Related question: does the mini collector title make your minis soulbound or can you just dump them on the TP again afterwards? Specifically the expensive ones.

Bump for the initiative.

Also => gw2lfg.com for the dungeon tokens

With a team, none of the legendary objectives is particularly difficult.

Good luck

Safest bet would be: somewhere in 2013 with the January update most likely for PVE and February for WvW.

Paradox.5498:

marnick.4305:

optional step 0) buy yellows for every slot to get started. For less than a gold you can get full rare armor. While not best in slot will give you enough stats to start doing dungeons/orr/southsun/whatever.

Prices for lvl80 rares have gone up quite a lot recently, due to the value of ectoplasms. Don’t expect a full set for less than a gold, it’s actually close to 2G at the moment. But yeah, a full rare set isn’t that much less viable than a full exotic set. Exotics are overrated.

Everyone could have about 2g when reaching lvl80. Otherwise, just craft. Yellows don’t need much materials and if you’ve been gathering you can have some guildie make a set of random gear.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The asura have offered to experiment on the sylvari and determine why they appear immune to corruption, but so far no one has volunteered.

Is that an official lore position or just stating the obvious? =)

Konig Des Todes.2086:

@ marnick
That is entirely possible, but I don’t think so. Anet has stated quite a few times that they don’t like closing doors. And having Mordremoth dead off the bat kind of does that. However, as proven by Zhaitan, even when dead an Elder Dragon’s influence/corruption remains and might still be able to be spread.

That’s all I’m saying. Leave a hundred open doors, and close a few and open a dozen others when you make more content. A.net is pretty good at retconning these open doors, but there’s plenty that were never addressed and will never be addressed. That’s why I don’t put too much stock in 1 skill with the name Mordremoth. Could be anything or could be nothing at all. I surely wouldn’t directly link it to an implied dead 6th dragon, but that’s just because there’s a hundred other open plotlines.

The only thing I read out of this is: There may or may not be more dragons when the game is still popular in 5 years. To me, that sounds like a good position to have a sustainable game.

Kerithlan.1659:

I played since launch, thanks though. Would you kindly point out the errors in my post for me (as I am 100% positive that they don’t exist)?

You refer to the luxon settlement as if it was a thing starting from day 1. It wasn’t, it was first implemented nearly a year later. You refer to the Mursaat as being in Elona and coming back in EotN. They weren’t, you completely mixed up Mursaat and Margonites, completely distinct beings who WERE NOT in EotN. The few mursaat in EotN were a fanserving retcon as they were actually implied to be extinct after the Titan quests. You made several big anachronous errors in the WiK storyline. You also seem to mix up Xunlai and Zaishen. Xunlai never implied any expansions, and none were based around the Xunlai. Zaishen were only there for PVP and don’t really play a big role in lore.

You also don’t seem to understand how adding Elona was a retcon to existing content, not a forward hint starting from Prophecies. No one actually expected Elona until the elonian mirror quest. The Ghostly Hero was never implied to be Turai Ossa until he was affirmed so in the Nightfall booklets. You would have known all this if you played during release.

Stories of odd creatures and a far north don’t imply anything either. That’s a given. The bladeridge mountains do imply that “something” is on the other side. You may as well predict that a coin always ends up either heads or tail. The Great Destroyer in EotN, again, was a retcon and a very bad one to boot. They needed something in a short time and the Great Destroyer was there for the serving.

None of these things ever implied an add on. The Salma quest was added a month after release btw, you should remember, it was the first new PVE content. I’m very happy WiK and WoC came, but all those tidbits were never important until AFTER they became important. Because of that, nothing matters until it matters. Also, your errors are blatant and I don’t believe you were there on day 1 because several of your statements are blatantly wrong concerning the game in release state.

I’m closing the discussion here for two reasons: I don’t want to get infracted for saying the truth and I don’t like pointing out how other people make themselves look like a fool. There is a wiki, before you make any claims, please check your facts. Most of the things you mention are retcons, and were never red herrings.

Remembers me of this one client who told me to go to a 3 hour project at 16:55 on Friday evening. I very kindly told him it wasn’t going to happen and oh btw I’m going on holiday for 2 weeks starting next monday. BUT I PAY YOU he said. Well that doesn’t entitle him either : D

Just think about it. The amount of time you spend in guild wars 2, would it be considered a casual time investment in any other hobby, say for example football, tennis, drawing, going out? Most likely you play about an hour a day. Name any other past time with that time commitment that would classify such a commitment as “casual”?

Being hardcore in MMO games is not possible unless you’re neither student nor working. That’s a cold, hard fact. Don’t fret over it. We still have the option of having the “hardcore” work for us by buying gems, and seeing how the gem prices are on the rise, the casual position becomes ever more comfortable. For me it now takes less than an hour of work to do the equivalent of a week of grinding. Not bad imho.

While implementation of this quest might not be that well, I strongly recommend doing the Arah story. It is a very enjoyable dungeon with interesting mechanics. The killing of Zaithan isn’t too challenging (to say the least) but on the other hand, sit back and enjoy completing the story. It is a moment to cherish and I agree to the way they implemented it.

The first part of the story is very well written and intriguing. I really like the human,
Charr and Sylvari stories. Also the orders are pretty nice, especially the Whispers (apples!). Puppies hit the fan when every well-written character commits suicide so the extremely bland Trahearne can steal the spotlight.

What happened, and arena.net confirmed this at one point, was that at a certain moment the last half was rushed and didn’t go through iterations like the first part.

I want to finish it but I just can’t be puppied. Not only is the story unoriginal, to me Trahearne is actually repulsive to the point I’d rather not play the PS.

Curuniel.4830:

Yeah, that’s true. To be honest I think it’s because they’re not that big on empire in the incorporation sense. It suited the Romans to let the locals do what had been working for them before – less admin work for the new Roman rulers. But the charr are more likely to exterminate people in lands they take; it’s not like non-charr get incorporated into the Legions! And there’s not really a role for non-charr citizens in (current) charr society.

Not for every culture, and not necessarily the best allies either. Divide et impera was the way to establish rule through local customs. Play them out against each other. But that doesn’t apply either unless you count grawl vs humans.