Guild Wars 2

Working as intended … this area is what pvp servers in other games are all about. The jumping puzzles in WvW are pretty easy once you know them, it’s the players which give it replay value. Walking inside makes me thrill with excitement, going into ganky areas is fun!

If you don’t like it, don’t play it. That’s my best advice. These jumping puzzles are designed with ganking in mind.

If you’re hating the combat you’re missing out on one of the best aspects of this game … not only is the environment beautiful, what happens in it is equally beautiful. Especially in lower level areas the events and some hearts are very high quality and without downscaling they would be trivial. In other games, getting 100% on the quest achievement is a chore, in GW2 it’s an integral part of endgame, and enjoyable to boot.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Deus Fatorum.2473:

any damage falling, combat, whatever

. . . now to find some person in WvW willing to hit me with siege weapons directly and see how that stacks up.

Don’t forget vuln stacks and take of your armor

It’s possible to make tankish builds with every profession. It mostly means you can hold agro for 10 hits instead of one but then you still need to get out. Working as intended.

Level scaling is one of the key features of this game. It allows me to play meaningfully in zones that interest me so I don’t feel forced into Orr all the time. Playing in Queensdale or Far Shiverpeaks lets me earn money/karma while enjoying mobs and events that are actually interesting.

Dessy.7369:

Gw2 have only one god thing and that is the lvling form 1 to 80 the rest of the game is a poor game

It really is a theme park in the best way possible. If I go to Ascalon I’m not punished for being lvl 80. Instead I can meaningfully play the game. Same in Kryta. If you see the entire game as a lvl 80 zone, perspective really changes.

The fun parts in the game are thing like completing exploration, getting all jumping achievements and doing big bosses for the heck of it. I do the big dragons whenever I can regardless of what the chest holds. I do events because they’re cool , and the coolest chains are not found in Orr but rather in Harathi Hinterlands and Ascalon.

Jack of Tears.9458:

So, bein’ a PnP RPer for Twenty Years I gotta say I’d love ta see ah Guild Wars RPG; the world bein’ so very interestin’ an’ different than allota other settings out there. But, I don’ expect we’ll see that. So, instead, I’m thinkin’ I’m prolly not the only one what would love ta see a Guild Wars Lore Book released, with all sorts ah info about the setting, history, races, etc. Throw in some nice art work and, Bang!, yer just printin’ money.

This page all by itself tells ya there’s plenty ah people what are interested in the Lore, an’ plenty ah questions what need answering. There’s so much that could be filled in more, on jus’ about everything that it’d be easy ta fill a book – the problem would be figurin’ out what not ta put in so as ta keep the page count realistic.

Whatta think? Yay, yay? Yay? That’s what I thought.

First, I think you need a book on English grammar. But that’s off-topic.

Second, I agree. A Guild Wars RPG would be awesome.

Dustfinger.9510:

marnick.4305:

Cannibalism in humans isn’t practiced mostly because evolutionary we’re very much at risk for prion disease. Culture doesn’t have much to do with that, it’s just that cannibalistic tribes tend to go extinct.

There’s only 5 known prion infections and they all need one particular protein in the host. Species which don’t use this protein are immune to prion disease. In those species, selection against cannibalism doesn’t happen and likewise in a sentient species without this protein, cannibalism wouldn’t be the same problem.
If the Charr cranial matter is of a different kind of proteins, then prion disease isn’t nearly as much a problem. There’s plenty of carnivores practicing cannibalism in the world with Alligators being the most well known.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that they would probably have little problem eating intelligent beings becasue they refer to humans as “meat” in the last game. But animals practicing cannabalism doesn’t speak to the moral ramifications that was refered to. Even eating human meat in extreme survival situations has been a strong taboo in many cultures. The algonquins have the story of the wendigo to disuade themsleves from resorting to it, prefering to suicide or resigning to starvation.

Cultural ramifications virtually always follow evolutionary imperatives and if fact are usually social constructs around instincts. If cannibalism leads to disease, both culture and evolutionary wiring will prevent you from harming yourself. If cannibalism doesn’t lead to disease, culture will have no opinion on it. Cannibalism in Charr is culturally possible if and only if they are immune to prion disease.

Spoiler: the main protagonist of the book is Kormir.

Squall Leonhart.2075:

Windows 8 is insanely popular and actually a very good operating system.

no it isn’t, on both counts.

Don’t troll. Windows 8 has lower system reqs across the board than Win7. That’s a fact.

Both corporate and consumer level people are moving to Win8 in a very fast rate which pales Win7 conversion rates. These are also facts you can find everywhere on the webz.

Third fact is that most Windows users are still on XP due to the Vista disaster. XP support is ending next year which means a huge influx to the stable and user-friendly Win8 which just happens to be a quantum leap over XP whereas Win7 was more of the same.

Add two and two together and the vast majority of consumers will be on Win8 users by summer 2013. One doesn’t need a crystal ball to know that. By that time, GW2 will definitely be supporting Win8.

Chat macros can be anything I guess (except wts gold). As far as combat goes, one keystroke = one action. You can program your macro to perform different actions based on a decision ladder but basically every time you press the macro, only one action can happen.

My personal guide would be:
- format to ntfs
- install windows
- install gw2

Good to see it runs OK under wine though. I really hope this project can achieve windows-like performance one day.

Curuniel.4830:

It’s also possible that casual sex/‘dating’ (norn hunting dates, hah!) is common, and it’s not considered too serious or exclusive until some form of marriage proposal or agreement. I’m really not sure. I can’t see them leaning too much to the ‘open relationship’ or polygamy end, purely because history suggests people often react badly to the idea of polygamy so I don’t think ArenaNet would go there.

Not to burst any bubbles but apart from very recent western history, polygamy was actually the norm in virtually the entire world. Only by spreading European culture by the sword did the world become more monogamous on surface level. We all know how often people of all genders cheat so even that surface level hides a few interesting things. The reality is that polygamy for both sexes is pretty much the norm, we just don’t like to see that fact in plain view.

Plenty of cultures in the Americas, Africa, Asia and pre-christian Europe practiced open polygamy. Even in Europe monogamous marriages were mostly financial arrangements, while love and lust would be found elsewhere. In ancient Greek and Rome these sentiments were prevalent, while medieval aristocracy openly practiced “courting”, a word derived from the courts of kings. Only in post WW2 history did cheating get the extremely bad connotations it has today.

That being said, a good hunt ends in passionate lovemaking as described very vividly in the books of Belgian writer and colonist-missionary Jef Geeraerts. What happens in those books, I expect the exact same with norn.

Narcemus.1348:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

By the way, my money is on the original Ascalonian settlers being exiles from Kryta. That being the seed which began the tension between those two nations.

Actually we know that prior to there being 3 nations in Tyria there was just 1 nation that spread from Orr to Ascalon, and a human colony from Elona that was in the area now known as Kryta. So Ascalonians are much more closely linked to the Orrians than the Krytans.

More precise, Ascalon and Kryta were both Orrian colonies before they gained independance => GWproph manuscripts.

It would be a needless retcon. Abaddon is dead. Let him rest in pieces.

Embolism.8106:

marnick.4305:

Since Charr are a warring species, I would expect them to eat their slain enemies and even be cannibals when needed.

While I would not be particularly surprised if that were the case, I don’t see why you would expect it. Humanity has spawned numerous war-like/warrior cultures and very few of them practice cannibalism (yes, I know eating a sapient of another species is not technically cannibalism, but it carries the same moral ramifications).

Cannibalism in humans isn’t practiced mostly because evolutionary we’re very much at risk for prion disease. Culture doesn’t have much to do with that, it’s just that cannibalistic tribes tend to go extinct.

There’s only 5 known prion infections and they all need one particular protein in the host. Species which don’t use this protein are immune to prion disease. In those species, selection against cannibalism doesn’t happen and likewise in a sentient species without this protein, cannibalism wouldn’t be the same problem.
If the Charr cranial matter is of a different kind of proteins, then prion disease isn’t nearly as much a problem. There’s plenty of carnivores practicing cannibalism in the world with Alligators being the most well known.

Melchior.2135:

Curuniel.4830:

Which begs the question, are there also Steam Asura and versions of the other races, or not? I would pay good money to see a mechanorn or something.

FIVE color-coded Mechanorns. One in each beast shape, and one who stays just Norn shaped. And then they combine, and smite evildoers with an energy sword. And then they throw down with that Captain Planet Golem that pops in the arena in Metrica Province, but realize that they’re all on the same side and instead team up to kung-fu fight the hidden top-secret 7th Elder Dragon of nondescript cartoon-badguy wickedness.

Go go mechasura. Mighty morphin Mechasura

There’s only 1 reason for level increases, which is to reset gear for newcomers. If there’s no gear gating, level increases are not necessary.

Which begs the question… how much gear gating will there be?

Purely gem per item chests are the best investment in the game. Apart from bank and character slots, I would buy mostly black keys. You can do this yourself:
- go to wiki
- check the drops, you get 3 drops, one for every category
- add gem costs for the cheapest in every category
- chests always drop more gemwise than the cost of keys
=> if you don’t need anything particular, keys are about the best buy for gems in the game.

I see it as a slot machine that always pays out. OK sometimes it pays dollars instead of euros and other times pounds. I don’t need those right now but everyone goes to the US and UK at least once every few years so no need to throw those away.

Calcifire.1864:

asura personal story spoilers below

they were made by your character if you choose an asura and your first invention is the infinity ball

you end up using it to see your (possible) future, but accidentally open a portal instead, your future self and your friend step out and explain that they are what happens if you kill zojja for holding you back, you become a ruthless dictator and conquer the world with your steam creatures. so they came back to make sure you kill zojja and conquer the world.

Ow dang I’d rather be this dictator. Well, a.net sure dropped the ball there :p I’d love a map of Tyria, coloured pink for my empire and some blue dots here and there for resistance.

Charr doesn’t need agriculture. Plenty of references to cow herds, and I imagine they also have sheep and other grazing animals. Animals can graze in a wasteland like Ascalon as even under the worst circumstances, some plants adapt and start growing there. This means the production is localized instead of distant.

Also, Charr are purely carnivorous. Animals like kittens (not censored) can survive several days without food. Overall food intake for carnivores is not necessarily lower but rather more in spikes. Since Charr are a warring species, I would expect them to eat their slain enemies and even be cannibals when needed.

Fun. That’s my main reason to play the dragon. When I log on I first check dragon timers. For a time limited player it’s the most epic content available. I kitten on rewards, the reason I play GW2 is because rewards are not relevant.

There is exactly one place in the open world and 1 quest in the PS which contain these illustrious creatures yet they are the biggest enigma to me. Yes or no, will they be expanded on?

For those who missed the AMA, Mike O’Brien and Chris Whiteside keep mentioning a “shallow power increase”.

Yes or no, is this a good idea?

As far as I’m concerned: no. Bad idea. Keep this power increase bs out of the game.

Also hypothetical level increases were mentioned. Give your opinion.

For me, also a big no. If I stop for a year and come back, I don’t want to find an outdated character.

This is exactly what I imagined the game to be before launch. Most of it holds true, some of it completely opposite.

Shallow power increase my kitten-puppy hybrid. No one wants it, no one needs it. As you said, increasing power stats is the worst of the worst in the gaming community. It makes the MMO genre the most detested kind of game in the world by non-players and rightfully so.

The only reason I kept playing GW1 for so long, was because there was no gear grind. No shallow power increase. WE don’t puppykitten care

You shouldn’t compare GW1 to WoW. That’s just unfair. Look at it this way. My boss probably earns a rough million euros a year (or could pay himself that if he wanted). Does that mean I don’t earn good money with my 50k per year? One has to put things in perspective.

OK you’re right, WoW made billions. It’s the only MMO ever to achieve ten figures. Probably the only game ever. It’s an outlier, statistics 101 tells you to ignore WoW income numbers and focus on what’s the norm. Breaking even is already insanely difficult in the gaming industry.

On the other hand, GW1 still made a pretty solid income. Not billions but at least enough to pay for the prolonged development of GW2. For a company who’s only ever made 1 game, that’s a huge achievement. Dare I say this was exactly because GW1 did not have vertical progression? I wager that’s the only reason people were still playing it after 5++ years. At times I left for months and when I came back, my character was still just as powerful.

Perspective.

Well… this is one of those moment where you learn a term. Sometimes that costs a bit of money. I’m sorry but that won’t change for the next term. In chess you are required to move a piece if you touch it unless you say j’adoube. First time you put a piece back in the center of it’s square you’ll lose the game because of that.

Fortunately “unique” is a property that’s pretty constant across most MMO-type games. You won’t make this mistake again.

Blaming a.net for not typing out the complete explanation of a standardized term is silly.

Indeed that quote from Mike O was just ignorant. GW1 did have vertical progression in the sense that players got better and better at finding progressively better builds yet the absolute gear numbers remained the same. It was a very fluid game as far as power curve goes. I liked that. Seeing the game evolve over the years even though there wasn’t any number increases was a joy.

I really liked the introduction of the HoM. That alone was worth playing for and the pure sense of achievement from raising it to 50/50 was far more than any other MMO ever gave me. Horizontal progression at it’s best.
There should be some kind of overall achievement track in GW2 that mimics this. A completionist achievement in every section.

Alteris.1528:

I lol’ed at this, I’m using a Phenom II X4 955BE at 3.9GHz paired with an HD4890 and 8GBs of DDR3 1600MHz, I average at 1680×1050 45-50+ fps Note I use SweetFX aswell with everything but reflections, FXAA, showdows and depth blur maxed out. donno where you think AMD CPUs are any less supported by games in general then Intel CPUs ? That’s complete utter rubish, both perform well in there own right GW2 is just poorly optimized atm for both Intel and AMD, were not comparing an ARM cpu vs a desktop CPU, if we were Then you can say which one has the better support :P lolz.

AMD + laptop + games. Good luck. Hope you like your eggs hard boiled.

Let’s not be fanboys here. In a laptop you’ll want something that’s cool and fast at the same time. The best choice has been intel for decades.

In a desktop PC I regularly recommend AMD cpu’s. If you have half decent cooling, they’re indeed just as good as any intel, sometimes even better. But again, this is a laptop.

kirito.4138:

GW2 will run on Windows 8, many people have played fine with it. However, it is not officially supported yet by Anet. Windows 8 is new so there might be driver incompatibilities with certain hardware.

The company I do support for doesn’t support Windows 8 yet either. You know what that means when you call for support on a Windows 8 machine? You don’t get any…. But it is coming soon and same is probably true for GW2. Windows 8 is insanely popular and actually a very good operating system so no support for Win8 would be suicide. I’d guess around februari-march.

Seriously… there are hardly any threads with Win8 issues. If anything, the general consensus being that GW2 runs just fine under Win8.

The root problem is NOT GW2, of all causes, that one can be discarded for the sole reason that the vast majority of Win8 users doesn’t have said problem.

You guys are blaming devs on problems that haven’t even been conclusively established. Please check the mouse problem thread if you really want to see an existing verified problem. Three posts doesn’t make a bug. Gather information, without information, you have no claim for a GW2 based bug.

I keep love for my girlfriend and I don’t hate anything, life’s too short for such things. I’m 25 years old which should explain my gaming background more than enough. I also have a job which explains my gaming style.

I like GW2 as an mmo, however I seriously hope a.net can fix some of the ascended gear disaster. Sure looks like they know it, and Chris apologized several times throughout the AMA. That gives me hope, people who can admit mistakes usually are the ones who don’t do so twice. Blizzard never ever apologized for some of their worst mistakes, instead managed to make the same mistake over and over again.

Ye those destroyer eggs were hilarious.

As for destroyer PTSD, for me that was because I went into EotN with the SF/SH heroes I used throughout the trilogy. Destroyers are immune to burning = no damage at all :p took me a while to realize but once you have some untyped dps all changed.

Yes! His “death” wasn’t in plain view so he could have been raised and we may purify him and he will come back and become an apple salesman in LA and he will tell us stories even though he also lost his right paw so he can’t be an adventurer anymore and and and and.

I’ve been running on Windows 8 x64 since BWE1. I have none of your problems. Upgrading drivers would solve all your issues.

i7 920, 6gb DDR3, 128gb ssd, ati radeon hd4890 (for which no official drivers exist, I just use WinDDK 1.1 and these are quite good actually). Quite the same as your set up so ….

I wouldn’t recommend any of them simply because they’re A/ HP and those suck and B/ have AMD cpus which aren’t supported that well by games. You’ll be selling yourself short.

Three things I could recommend:
A/ buy a desktop pc for that money, you will be able to have one decent enough to run GW2 on medium-high
B/ Do one of those things called “jobs” and earn your pc yourself. You’ll be far more prudent throwing away money at an HP AMD when it’s your own money instead of your mothers. Also you can be proud you achieved your own pc, back when I 14, working my kitten of for my first pc was a milestone in my life. Eleven years later I still love that little machine, I just hope I can say the same about my gf in 10 years.
C/ Convince “someone” to go up to 800. You need at least some core components and for a laptop you ain’t getting that under 500.

I do group a lot. I start playing with people around me and when necessary I use /say. However I do not think forming a party has any added value so I simply don’t bother. Grouping without forming parties makes it far more organic.

It’s like going out and talking to lots of people vs deciding which group you’re with and sticking with it. I like the first option more. When going to a club I actually prefer to go alone even though I have plenty of friends who’d come if I ask. Deciding on a fixed group can hold you back on some good fun.

Illiander.8049:

Which is why most of my customers are running the extremely solid and proven operating system called XP service pack 3. Some still use NT4.0 and there is no reason to “upgrade”.

How many security holes have been open in those since release and still aren’t fixed?

Troll question but actually, not relevant. The same goes for any old Linux based system. Also most industrial pcs aren’t connected to the internet so your entire argument falls.

The choice being made is in the following: a 15 years old newbie installs Linux because it’s cool to hate Windows. His GW2 doesn’t work and he buggers support. The time it takes to solve his problem, could be used to check 20 hacked account tickets. Which path should a.net take? Even if I personally wanted to support the rare Linux question I get, I simply wouldn’t have time for that.

Got any data to back up that assertation? Linux client support isn’t Linux support.

Absolutely. Personal experience. I don’t help customers with Linux problems, neither does anyone at my support team. I would love to, on the base level it sure interests me, but I simply don’t have time for that. My boss would have to hire a dedicated Linux person for the 3 questions we get each month, and even then he wouldn’t be able to solve them all. That’s simply not worth it regardless of whether or not Linux is a cool system to use.

We’re not talking hobbyists here, programming a Linux box in their basement. In a world revolving around money, Linux simply isn’t up to par. Exceptions prove the rule. Seriously, I wish this was different but I can’t change it. From a business perspective, Linux is a joke. No forum thread is going to change that.

Bushido.2184:

John Yanez.5486:

I’ve found Windows 7 to be quite stable.

Imagine running a very important government server on a Windows machine and getting a random BSOD. What havoc would follow…

Windows was not designed for that. It was designed for personal use, where you would expect much lighter loads. Take things up a notch, and the instability shines.

Illiander said that Windows is not stable or secure enough for “serious use”. That is probably what he meant. Nevertheless, Windows is still well-known for being a bit unstable even at the casual level, and much more prone to exploits.

And yet the company I work for uses Windows for very expensive and critical industrial appliances. You seem to forget Windows Embedded and Windows Server exist. The very important government server can not and will not have a BSOD under a non-consumer version of Windows. In all my time working with industrial grade Windows, I have yet to see my first BSOD.

What you don’t get is the following: Windows matured heavily on the serious market. Nowadays it is possible to make the most critical servers and machines based on a Windows environment. So Linux is quickly losing it’s advantage there. On the other hand, Linux never caught up in the consumer branch and is still as user-unfriendly as it ever was. Even Ubuntu is a nightmare for newbies as soon as you want custom software.

Don’t be a fanboy. Windows also has serious versions. Apart from that you get a free bump because Linux also deserves the best MMO out there, even though I’ll never play on Linux.

So you want a GM at every possible farm spot on every possible server? Good luck. Even one guy patrolling these areas would be prohibitively expensive in terms of man-hours. If the entire GW2 team was on bot duty, they still won’t have the manpower to handle all bots. The only way to do this properly is by having a good community effort in people reporting these guys.

On the more cost-effective side, a.net develops automated bans. In general this would need to check many reports, actually in the range of hundreds to eliminate false positives. Next patterns have to be found to prove this is actually a bot and not a legit player farming his kitten off. These patterns could be crazy names and no guild, however bots are starting to circumvent those patterns. Because of that, instant bans aren’t possible because good patterns would be known immediately. Thusly, bots are banned in huge waves once every few weeks.

This means you will keep seeing the same bot for a few weeks before he gets banned along with 10 000 of his other friends. All transactions have to be tracked so gold buyers are also banned but not legit players.

If only you’d imagine the scope of the game, and not just the scope of one player reporting one bot, you will realize this is slightly more complicated than you may think.

I have a dream

Where rewards in MMOs are directly proportional to the fun you have. I don’t know how to measure it, maybe a blood pressure usb device, or a bluetooth pill injection. I leave this to the scientists. That ain’t the point as this is more about an utopian MMO, about what a Guild Wars Utopia could be (no pun intended).

Take a hardcore guy. He strings along a raid of 200 people to combat one of the world dragons and downs it. Such a feat is hugely satisfying to a certain kind of people and they get tons of karma and gear for it. However, there’s also a deluded casual in the mix who, through years of playing other MMOs, thinks this is the only way for success although he thoroughly hates it. He will get nothing, and if he persists in this unfun activity, he may even lose levels and gold instead.

Take the man who comes home from work, logs in for 10 minutes and strolls around Southsun Cove before dinner. That’s all he is able to play yet it is exactly what he needs to get his mind off work. He immediately gets his daily rewards and some crafting material to kickstart the next day.

Another guy really likes one particular dungeon, even more so when he has that dungeon on farm. In the end, to some it is really fun to own hard content and hard content becomes even more fun when he can start steamrolling it. This guy gets increasing token rewards the better he gets at said dungeon.

Yet there’s this guy who likes the social aspect most and is rewarded the most for simply standing in LA and reading the chat, posting an occassional comment. The trader guy gets a bonus on every money-making trade he does. On the other hand, the einselganger has increased rewards for doing events in virtually empty zones.

The hardcore pvp’er gets rewards for completely roflstomping other teams, yet casual pvp’er get rewards for enjoying whatever they are doing. A zerg-vs-zerg can be immensely fun even if you wipe. Those who hate pvp on the other hand step into WvW, get map completion instantly and lose gold per second if they stay.

Wouldn’t such a reward system be the most perfect thing in the world? Too bad perfection only exists on paper.

This is pretty simple. Quite some people have gems and want to sell them for gold. Since the rate is on the rise, people hold on to their gems as long as possible to get maximum gold profit. This reduces supply which in turn drives the exchange even higher. Fairly simple economics.

So what is happening is the following: gems in the exchange market are rather low but the savings in gems are very very high. A bit like the RL gold market. There’s plenty of gold for virtually everything anyone would like to do with it, the only reason it’s high is because gold is sitting in dark dungeons waiting to be sold for even higher prices. One day the rise of gems is going to stop, people will cash in and gems drop tremendously. For RL gold the same will happen eventually, just like the house market “always rises” which is exactly what sparked the current crisis.

Basically you have 3 choices:
- buy now at high gold prices
- wait until the eventual crash comes. This can take months though, don’t hold your breath
- buy gems for cash

Economics 101.

I would recommend getting a second hand pc for that money from an elitist who’s upgrading. Should work just fine. Make sure you have at least 4gb ram, quad-core cpu and a 2 years old graphics card and your game will run just fine. I’m also sure you have a windows xp license somewhere, there is absolutely no reason to “upgrade” if you don’t want to.

While cutting costs, I do recommend to avoid AMD and Ati at all costs. Not because they’re bad but rather because nvidia and intel have far more agressive support campaigns and lots of games have issues with perfectly fine cpus and gpus from AMD/ATi. That’s a pity but intel has money and uses is in a dirty way.

I lowered polling rate for my naga to lowest (125Hz). This seems to help with the right click problem for now however the out-of-screen problem still exists. Since I paid 90 euros for a mouse which I intended to use with a 150 euro game… something seems wrong when I have to disable the core functionality of a high precision mouse. I do not agree with an 8ms mouse lag in this scenario.

Please… find out what’s wrong with the GW2 engine.

Looks like a pretty good setup… for you Most people don’t realize a customized personal setup is better than whatever people try to sell you is the best for everyone. The world doesn’t work like that. Bridger on Tales of Tyria explained his shooter layout which sounded crazy (ctrl as shoot, shift as jump, left mouse forward, right mouse backwards), but in fact worked pretty well for him. Personally I used Numpad 8456 for a long time (leftie) until I got a right handed naga (GRRRR). Some people prefer ESDFor even RDFG.

Whatever works best for you, you should go with. Don’t let anyone tell you how to bind your keyboard, unless you’re using arrows for moving

Hero.8470:

Obviously you are bitter because peole are quitting gw2. It IS a dying game. Just like any mmorpg after a few months people get bored. This one was just super easy to get bored of.

It’s also super easy to enjoy because it’s not necessary to achieve anything. Instead of grinding the newest tier, I’m roaming in whatever area I feel like, seeking out events. It’s fun. This game feels alive and I’ve got a whole world to explore, even though I’m already at 100%.

Who cares about karma and gold when I’ve got fun as a reward

Don’t make a fool of yourself. You can’t get a refund, most of the things claimed are not ground for a class action and whatever changed you agreed to up front with the EULA.

You can get your money refunded through your credit card company. Do note, however, that this WILL get your card flagged as fraudulent along with all other bounced credit cards used by bots. You may be in for more trouble than it’s worth and without the capability to pay for anything.

Third. If you think you have ground for a lawsuit or class action…. first and foremost contact your lawyer. Most will give you free advice whether or not a class action is feasible. Most will tell you there’s absolutely nothing to base a case on. If you do get a lawyer willing to file a case that’ll be dropped anyways, go to court, don’t post on the forums.

I do not agree with everything a.net did, but I do laugh every time someone claims he’s going to get a refund. Don’t make a fool of yourself.

GummiBear.2756:

yeah, if they let gems expire, that would be case for a lawsuit really i think, since we spend real life money on it

1. No, gems do not expire

2. No, even if they did it wouldn’t be case for a lawsuit. What you think is irrelevant. You signed an EULA which specifies a.net can do such things at all times.

A few tips:
- practice !!! You WILL get better at this
- actually, do not use speed buffs. Most jumping puzzles are designed around standard speed, and you will overjump many smaller platforms.
- same vein, make sure you’re out of combat
- turn off double tap for dodge
- bind toggle walk. Sometimes it’s good to take it slow
- practice, can’t overstate this
- bring a light. Some dungeons feature dark rooms. Mad Memoires has a light, engineer flamethrower can light up a place as can any pistol or rifle shot. AOE templates can help too.
- bring a jump. If there’s a really, really difficult jump, you may want to cheat on it. For engineer I bring a rifle only for this. Other classes have their own cheats.
- practice!!!
- upgrade your graphics card and get stable internet. Unfortunately, internet lag and low fps can completely shut down your ability to do jumping puzzles.
- higher graphics often show a bit more of the environment. This could help with your jumps.

GOOD LUCK, you’ll need it.