Guild Wars 2

maybe it is time to stop all this guessing about what other people think, get ready to party with coming update when lions arch will be awesome again and new features

(PS I do not prepurchase simply because i am waiting for a physical copy)

load game not in LA and all be fine. just travel from another map into LA gives (for me atleast) always a fairly good connection from start. then again i got 100 up/down connection on fibre.

can’t wait for the boxed version! sad there is not coming an colloctors edition (I hope they change their minds about that REALLY!)

I’d suggest playing each character till AFTER the “new player experience” (or NPE for short) and then some just to figure out what plays best for you. by that time you have played both a fair amount of time to feel what is best for you and put your gold and time in more and more.

personally i’d go for elementalist because of the amount of different things you can do with them. heal or damage (support and dps) and solo it is very good to do once you know how to play an ele. My thief is still waiting for me to be outfitted with better gear and all, but for me the gameplay wasnt as much fun as with my ele.

(I am a casual player so i probably will be called out for this with words like “nub” and “dont know how to play”).

the patch hasnt even dropped yet, so be quiet and come back 24th

they will not allow this. sorryy.

arenanet developer team is not at fault here, it is their marketing team that ties in with NCsoft about every single transaction being made about the gemstore or purchase of new games, go look there.

you gonna have to buy HoT seperately as it will not be included in the box, pay twice get one.

Crossaber.8934:

Jornophelanthas.1475:

innocens.1582:

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Cut these people some slack. They are not so much defending ArenaNet’s pricing policy, but rather their own purchasing decision. After all, agreeing with this angry mob that ArenaNet gives bad deals, would mean that they would have to admit that they fell for a bad deal. Nobody wants to admit to being a sucker.

By the way, I am not claming the current pricing scheme is a good deal or a bad deal. I have not purchased the expansion myself, so far.

you actualy think someone cares what the angry mob thinks of them?

ps:i bought it 8-)

No, they don’t care what the angry mob thinks about them. They feel they must defend their purchase against the angry mob’s accusations, because otherwise they must draw the conclusion “I am a sucker”.
What they are telling themselves is “I am not a sucker. Therefore, I must have paid a fair price. Therefore, HoT must be priced fairly. Therefore, the angry mob must be wrong.”

And this reasoning has nothing to do with whether the angry mob is right or wrong here.

I do enjoy and feel okay with my purchase, if that makes you think i am a sucker, then so be it.

I don’t think they will reduce the expansion price for the veteran anyway, and if you don’t buy it at the end, its your own call. Hope at the end you won’t “be that sucker” if they keep the cost as is.

for me it is not about the cost. for me it is about the fact that i have to buy the core game again while i own it already WITHOUT getting something in return for that except an expansion pack which is basically defined as DLC. I will buy it regardless, when my economy allows me (my sons birthday just came up before the pre order thing but i do not care about the beta stuff tbh). but honestly the thing is more about players who got the core game already and no alternative being in place for those players with the standard edition or paying an extra 10 or 25 dollar for having this little extra. (which is not going to cost arenanet anything really)

for me it would be nice to have this expansion with the ability to choose either the core game OR 1 extra character slot. that would be nice and give alternatives for existing players and new players alike.
I love this game, I love the things the developers come up with. the art, the gameplay (mostly) the ideas, lore, creatures, animations, well, prety much all of it. and all this “hate” and anger is not so much pointed towards the developers, it is towards the kittened money pull and grab ideas of their marketing team, THEY are responsible for this total F"#“¤” up, not the devs.

mulzi.8273:

I really do not think the $50 is what most people are really upset about. Its the most obvious and easiest thing to use as a scapegoat.

The real issue is the nickle and diming. Had Anet included a character slot and perhaps a unique account bound item (bank slot? inventory bag? etc) for the $50, people might have hemmed and hawed a bit, but at least they could point to the price and say they got something tangible for value.

I really hope HoT has alot of content. the backlash will be immense if there is only one Silverwaste-like area, one pvp map and one LS, all of which will be completed in 2-3 days.

THe nickle and diming as you call it isnt that they should add the base game and an extra char slot and and and, there simply should be an alternative for the free base game included.
An extra standard edition with 1 free character slot
or the current standard edition for new players.

In all honesty I think anet is overlooking that is all (or actually their marketing team is looking to much at other companies).

DieselFueled.3257:

It’s fifty freaking dollars. Grow up. I gave them 100 so they can ignore 1 of you.

Please PM me for my paypal so you can give me 100 bucks as well then you could make anet ignore 3 of “them”.

I wish i could pre order. I did with all previous guild wars games (except EotN). BUT! I think it is not right to include the basegame to long time players, with no extra characterslot ability. (no I am not entitled). The least thing they could do is give out the same expansion but instead with the basegame for free, add a characterslot for those who own the basegame already. THAT would be fair. everyone would get the choice to pick a version for their own usage.

I WILL get the new game no matter what, just not yet. Calmly waiting for more information. We know we will get guild halls and trait changes and such, BUT we get that also without buying the expansion pack, so that argument is out of the door for the yay-sayers. It will all come to what the actual expansion will bring us. and as far i see it we get a few maps (3 I think?) new skins and new enemies and some extra gameplay). So currently on the info we have I can understand the rage of many people. but as the title say: Do not pre order and wait for more info!

wait till points of interest and more info!

no

/15char;(

i want the ultimate but sadly it is WAY out of my price range. this will make me having to save up 3 months on my budget. so no currently i am not happy… and yes i did know it was coming but my sons real life birthday came up first. (not begging btw)

50$ for expansion AND a character slot MINIMUM! that is all i ask for. As far i can remember it always has been like this with anet on gw1, so why not now? I really can not understand that I have to pay either 10$ extra ingame OR pay 25$ extra to have some useless title and mini on top of the characterslot. Talk about bad ideas….

I get no extra character slot. Something that previously ALWAYS was included with n expansion or “new” game when linking the serials. This is just a bad move to make us pay 25 euro extra for a characterslot and some useless title and mini

Danikat.8537:

But we’re not being charged for the difference between what we’ve paid per hour so far and the average price of entertainment for that time.

We’re being charged for access to the new content, which apparently many people feel is not going to be worth $50.

NO! you are paying for access AND the time you are going to play. and likely if you buy it already you are going to play it, a lot.

but some people have a certain budget. and this budget must be divided for the worth. 445swedish kronor (45 euro) for expansion plus base game with NO extra characterslot for someone who owns the full game already is IMO a bad move. I probably will still buy it just not now.

I agree though, I SURE got my money’s worth out of it. just gonna have to buy a hardcopy I always do that with GW games

no /15charrrrrrrrr

any guild that announces that they NEED XX% REP is an instant no go for me. (unless they say like once a week login with a character in our guild. sure that i can do.
But I bought this game, and I like being in several guilds with several purposes per guild.

I am not against it, but it is pretty much against the nature of an adventure game to require players to be fully with “you” (guild).

e3 first then we will see when next update is. (suspect 23th or later)

Gibson.4036:

mcwurth.2081:

Diovid.9506:

- Break bars.

what is this?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Breakbar

ah and i was searching and searching on break bars…. did not occure to me to write it together lol. Thanks!

marsh frog.

but for real, highest item i ever got was like 5 gold worth? cant even remember what it was. playing since headstart. got some tickets from BLC and some total make over kits as well. but i do not really count that. besides in the end it are just some pixels.

Diovid.9506:

- Break bars.

what is this?

everything loads slow now.
character selection screen
map loading is more then doubled.
UI of all elements in the mainscreen is slow and dialog boxes.
characters load very slow.
mobs load slower.
and sounds that come 2 to 4 seconds later or not at all or loads get muted.
skills are slow responding (lagging up to 3 seconds)

I had to stop play and logged out.
hope a fix will come soon.

you must have been offline for some while or not read anything in your launcher.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/daydreamers-wings-honor-guard-finisher-and-mini-beetle-in-the-gemstore/

this was posted 2 june!

so you got in the beta, get free upgrade that you had purchased already seperatly for gems, and now you want to trade the stuff for gems?? little greedy no?
use them skins instead of transmutation stones.

Lightingale.6502:

mcwurth.2081:

make it repeatable then, like entrophy achievement. doesn’t matter, the point is people stop rezzing others as soon they made the title. today layed in a chatty map for 15 minutes, at least 20 people ran by and didnt even bother to resurect me. this was not the case looooooong ago, when the game was still fresh and many more people that actually cared about their fellow adventurers in tyria. now, just ego ego ego game, but, i do not fully blame the community it is oversight from anet and a lack of new content.

I think the reason people don’t rez other players anymore is because of those people in SW who keep telling everybody not to rez players and to WP out if you die. I mean, if you’re not going to rez me when I die, then why on earth should I rez you when you die? And besides, if the custom is to WP out immediately when you die, then there’s no point in trying to revive someone, because they’ll be gone before you can finish reviving.

it is sad really yes. I always try and go as fast to downed/dead players to resurect them. I will keep trying to do so. very often all i get is “ty” or nothing at all, but when i get a person saying “thank you” i bow and tell them to have safe travels through tyria and then just run off.

I don’t know, but for me it gives a nice feeling knowing i helped out someone. Some even became friends with me after i rezzed them and helped them to reach their goal.

Offair.2563:

mcwurth.2081:

What bothers me the most is that at launch we had only to rez 1000 other players to get “the title”. beyond me why the cap was set on 1000 and not like 100000 or something. 100 ressurections is done very fast! they should change that titles rewards and add some tiers. 1000-5000-10000 etc etc

Want to have achievements with crazy requirements? WvW ones are saying hello o/

that is not what i said, did i now?
and no i do not go to wvw or any pvp form as i just do not like to pvp in games like this. (this does not equal i am bad at it btw, i just do not enjoy it).

make it repeatable then, like entrophy achievement. doesn’t matter, the point is people stop rezzing others as soon they made the title. today layed in a chatty map for 15 minutes, at least 20 people ran by and didnt even bother to resurect me. this was not the case looooooong ago, when the game was still fresh and many more people that actually cared about their fellow adventurers in tyria. now, just ego ego ego game, but, i do not fully blame the community it is oversight from anet and a lack of new content.

Lightingale.6502:

The only thing I hate about JPs is that some of them, if you make one tiny mistake you die and then you have to start all over. sometimes this means wasting like 10 minutes.

now I always watch Youtube video before starting a JP, cuz i don’t want to waste my time having to restart JP over from the beginning just cuz of one small mistake

10 WHOLE minutes!!!! if you worry about 10 minutes of gaming time maybe you shouldnt even make the choice to do something that takes long(ish). a game is to relax, not to rush through.

What bothers me the most is that at launch we had only to rez 1000 other players to get “the title”. beyond me why the cap was set on 1000 and not like 100000 or something. 100 ressurections is done very fast! they should change that titles rewards and add some tiers. 1000-5000-10000 etc etc

DreadShogun.1305:

So do you need to have 72 hours of played time? Or Is it just 72 hours after you make your character? I don’t play a lot at one time so if it is total played time then it’s gonna be a lot longer then 3 days.

try it

just dont click it at all, it will give you a “leave map icon” above your minimap and you can click this as soon your event is over. simples.

Leriol.8421:

I have checked every PvE map percentage three times and confirmed 100% for all of them. One character shows 98% map completion — 477/486 WPs, 633/652 PoIs, and 221/226 Vistas. Looking at the WvW map, those are the only ones I’m ‘missing’.

I know about the “new PoIs” and made sure to get them done.

i had this, go in bloodtide coast (where the island is with the whisper people cave) instant 100%. I think it is a bug.

i dont even have player names on at all…. useless resource

suffish.4150:

While I am usually fully with Anet on the decisions they make about the rules of the game, the lfg tool is one I really do not understand. I was entirely unaware that selling home instances is against the rules and thought it was a clever way to make money on the instance owner’s part and I bought them almost every day until recently when I have started to go farm nodes for myself. That said, I still do occasionally buy home instances and would like something clarifying: is it ok to BUY home instances but not sell them? If it is not, of course I will stop completely but it is a convenience that I do like from time to time.

Additionally, I also believe that there is no difference between selling dungeons and selling home instances and they should both be ok (if someone is willing to pay to get your stuff why stop them?). Selling specific items on the lfg however I do see why that is against the rules and although I have no problem with seeing it (I just ignore those groups), it is in my opinion misusing the tool and I support Anet’s decision on bypassing TP fees in that way.

it is somewhat a grey area, arenanet do not like it but can not really prevent it. just do not use the LFG tool to advertise it as that is illegal.

I have bought only one mini from the gemstore because i just love the mini fox kit. (I love foxes, cant help it). but I try and buy each month 800 gems (not even 100 swedish crown so very doable) and sometimes i use them sometimes i do not. mostly i buy account upgrades or something. I do not find the prices very high. but that is me. Anet is a business and must make some money somehow. i am glad i can contribute (in a way) to this. Without the gemstore (and it is changing prices) we have decent servers and a really big team working on all of what we get. basically for free.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It is the Sticky at the top of the page, I believe.

Good luck.

yeah i read it after i closed up this post…. silly me, always read it once those stickies then i forget often about them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Options#Camera

Seera.5916:

CureForLiving.5360:

Selling dungeon paths have always been a gray area.
Selling home instances seems to be a no-no.
Selling items… not sure what ANets official word was, but it is buyer beware.
Guild recruitment isn’t something I’ve seen before. Although I do think Anet needs to implement a better system in-game to help recruit new guildies.

LFG is not to be used to sell items, so not allowed. And it’s not allowed to be guild recruitment either.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Our policy: Players may use the LFG Tool only for the formation of a group.

Players may use the tool to sell a spot in a group, but they may not use it to sell or trade items or for any other unintended purposes. Doing so will result in an account infraction.

And later on in a reply on the thread:

Gaile Gray.6029:

• Advertising an access portal is not allowed.
• Guild Recruitment is not allowed.

Both are unrelated to forming a group and therefore are not part of the intended purpose of the Looking for Group Tool.

could you please link that post?

RoseofGilead.8907:

mcwurth.2081:

i laugh at posts like this whining about the camera. This is why we got the new options. USE IT!

In all fairness to the OP, the camera changes didn’t help that much when it comes to tight squeezes. The JPs where that’s particularly bad still have those problems, but there’s only one or two that are that bad.

That being said, I love the JPs in this game and always want more.

before the camera changes i tried many puzzles myself (main is norn) and had huge troubles getting through them so i gave up, did maybe 5 or 6 total, and that where the super easy ones.

within a few weeks after the changes i did all jumping puzzles. it is so much easier now. take the time, find the right place for your camera and make the jump, do not give up if it fails but try and adjust again and make the jump. usually after 2 or 3 tries i make it. I love being able to put the camera above me under me beside me, even in front of me to make a jump i would otherwise not have been able to make. for super tight spots, first person camera is your friend.

utilizing the tools given by a-net might not seem logical to everyone but it is a great help.

report is all you can do. miss-usage of the tools is not allowed.

i laugh at posts like this whining about the camera. This is why we got the new options. USE IT!

this is what becomes from alcoholics and party people, they forget things and can not keep up anymore.

(Got 3 norn myself and OP is completly right)

to get back into the game: Guardian
to get back in the game and have a little challenge: Engineer
to get back in the game and have some fun while leveling and a challenge when getting into the somewhat higher level areas: elementalist

I recently done all three profs after i got back from a while not being online at all, this have been my personal foundings. (and pvp or pve difference i can not tell you since i do not pvp)

The expansion has never been delayed as there hasnt been an official release date, ever….

what does sexual preferences have to do with a fantasie game? isnt like caithe lesbian already?

(i am no where near against lgbt community, but it is just a game after all)

joe.7684:

mcwurth.2081:

Rozbuska.5263:

SW toxicity is simple. Dead ppl never port and upscale events for rest -> Events fail. Fix sould be simple.

please. dead people are inactive people and therefore the event get scaled down accordingly to the amount of active people playing.

From what do you derive that conclusion? The received wisdom has always been that the more players in a combat zone, alive or dead, the more the opposition gets scaled up.

a simple search on the term “scaling” on the wiki.

no, i do not want more clutter on a cluttery screen. ONLY if it is toggable maybe. seems a waste of resources though, just check the wiki or some other timer site/app