Sorry to here your problem DreamWind but you should have been prepared.From the launch of GW2 it was known server transfers are free only because guesting had problems.
2nd Anet gave us two weeks to prepare and establish on a home server before server transfers become payed.
I think that you should have done some researching before even thinking to transfer.It was clearly known that server transfers won’t be free for ever.
Its such a nothing mechanic. Everything you need to group for (dungeons/fractals) can be done easily cross server anyway.
I really think its massive fail to put so much time into producing this feature. Maybe next time it would be better to actually work on PvP and WvW more than for 5 minutes every day. You know…that huge section of the game which hasnt been updated for 5 months and the one which is dying as a result?
And your prediction already failed miserably.Today i used it not only once but twice.
Other games charge 25$ to change serevers and charge a monthly fee and don’t let you guest for pve. Dunno seems like an ok deal to me.
Yes it is a good deal.And even if you buy the gem pre-paid card with 2000 gems for 25$ you still have an option to not use all of them.You will be left with something even if you transfer to high populated server.If you move to some other server you will be left with even more gems and that is awesome.
500 gems – to a low populated server
1000 gems – to a medium populated server
1800 gems – to a high populated serve
If you think that server transfers are a highway robbery then you are totally mistaken.
Server transfer prices are perfectly fine.You pay 25$ to move all your characters.That is not even close to what blizzard takes.25$ per character transfer which will be very expensive if you want to move all your heroes.
I could say that personally Anet gave me a win win situation and I’m pretty happy about it.I pay cheaper for a server transfer than I would pay in WoW and I have more options from which to choose from.
Anet even gave me an option to decide how populated to be my server and on top of that gave me different types of paying options.Blizzard will never do that.So in total I’m pretty happy to what Anet did and I fully support them.
I will post the same thing here what i wrote in the other Mount thread.My opinion won’t change.
I don’t want mounts for one simple reason.It takes developer time which can be used somewhere else.There are a lot better and more important things to do/fix before mounts ever see the light.I want the time developers spend to be on something more usefull.
With how waypoints currently work i don’t need and I don’t want mounts.That is my personal opinion only.
When i’m in a map and i’m porting from one waypoint to the nearest waypoint it’s instant so why would i want mount?If mounts are added they must not be faster than your normal swiftness running speed.I don’t want mounted players to have an advantage from the running ones.
Also if they are ever added in the game i don’t want them usable nor in the cities nor in the dungeons.It will be too overcrowded.
This is coming from a person who had 143 mounts when i was still playing WoW at the end of Cataclysm.I was,I am and I will be a mount loverI just don’t see their use right now in the game.
What i may want is an improved logging screens when i port from other map and removing the need to enter through logging screen when i pass on foot from one map to other.Keep the overflow but hide the logging screen.Now that will improve my playing time.Even if mounts are added logging screens will still bother me if they stay like this.
I don’t want mounts for one simple reason.It takes developer time which can be used somewhere else.There are a lot better and more important things to do/fix before mounts ever see the light.I want the time developers spend to be on something more usefull.
With how waypoints currently work i don’t need and I don’t want mounts.That is my personal opinion only.
When i’m in a map and i’m porting from one waypoint to the nearest waypoint it’s instant so why would i want mount?If mounts are added they must not be faster than your normal swiftness running speed.I don’t want mounted players to have an advantage from the running ones.
Also if they are ever added in the game i don’t want them usable nor in the cities nor in the dungeons.It will be too overcrowded.
This is coming from a person who had 143 mounts when i was still playing WoW at the end of Cataclysm.I was,I am and I will be a mount loverI just don’t see their use right now in the game.
What i may want is an improved logging screens when i port from other map and removing the need to enter through logging screen when i pass on foot from one map to other.Keep the overflow but hide the logging screen.Now that will improve my playing time.Even if mounts are added logging screens will still bother me if they stay like this.
i will say the same thing which i posted in one other thread.
The dungeons had become pathetic aoe fest and hae been nerfed to the ground.I think Anet want more casuals.That is my personal opinion only.
Blizzard character transfer is 25$ per toon.If you want to transfer all your heroes will be really expensive.
I have no idea why people are complaining for Anets payed character transfer?25$ to transfer ALL your characters is a lot more cheaper than Blizzard.
Plus we can use ingame gold for the service. Can’t do that in a Blizzard game.
Yes we can use in game currency too.That is one more thing that makes Anet’s server transfers better.
What i like the most is that different type of servers cost differently.That for me personally is a bonus.
Blizzard character transfer is 25$ per toon.If you want to transfer all your heroes will be really expensive.
I have no idea why people are complaining for Anets payed character transfer?25$ to transfer ALL your characters is a lot more cheaper than Blizzard.
I love how the mere idea of an update being launched during regular business hours at the company’s primary timezone is somehow completely unacceptable to some people here…
I don’t want mounts for one simple reason.It takes developer time which can be used somewhere else.There are a lot better and more important things to do/fix before mounts ever see the light.I want the time developers spend to be on something more usefull.
With how waypoints currently work i personally don’t need and I don’t want a mount.When i’m in a map and i’m porting from one waypoint to the nearest waypoint it’s instant so why would i want mount?If mounts are added they must not be faster than your normal swiftness running speed.I don’t want mounted players to have an advantage from the running ones.
Also if they are ever added in the game i don’t want them usable nor in the cities nor in the dungeons.It will be too overcrowded.
This is coming from a person who had 143 mounts when i was still playing WoW at the end of Cataclysm.I was,I am and I will be a mount loverI just don’t see their use right now in the game.
What i may want is an improved logging screens when i port from other map and removing the need to enter through logging screen when i pass on foot from one map to other.Keep the overflow but hide the logging screen.Now that will improve my playing time.Even if mounts are added logging screens will still bother me if they stay like this.
Idk I just hit 50 a couple days ago and started doing AC and is it just me or is the cave troll and kohler in p1 way too OP. Im all for tought battles that require skill to fight but sheesh!! We used kohler to fight the cave troll and waited like 10 mins for the fight to end… Why even have dungeons if your gonna run through 2/3 of it to get to the end and then have npcs fight npcs to beat it? IDK it just doesnt make sense to me.
Your friends are absolutely right.The guardians tale aggro very easily and can kite-tank as long as they want and with much less effort than the other classes
Don’t you exaggerate a bit?I never had to transfer even once.What a new player has to do is just to log every day and see what is the progress of his realm in WvW.It took me 3 weeks to get everything without even transfering even once!My home server is not with the best performance in WvW.So it took me a while to discover all 4 maps.
To all the people that complain i can give an advice.
1.Discover all vistas,waypoints,points of interest and skill points out of buildings.
2.Discover everything that your server is currently controlling.
3.Log in everyday and look how is the progress going,Took me 3 weeks of the so’’hard’’ work you are talking about that i got bored.
4.You don’t have to fight anyone at all.I personally skipped almost 90% of the fights.Look from far where you go,check your map and you will be able to avoid everything and everyone.
In conclusion – WvW map completion is not so hard as people try to make it.It just takes some time to finish.Now if you can’t afford to invest atleast 20mins per day to jump from map to map to see what is the progress of your world so you can discover the things you need well…then you just don’t deserve Map Completion at all.
Seems that once you hit 30+ you really need to be in a group with others since otherwise finding a group for odd level fractals is a huge chore.
I absolutelly agree with you that a group is needed at higher levels.Especially at 40+.It’s not only hard to find and long to make a group,but every time when i’ve tried to make a pure pug from randoms i was very disapointed.The experience is not good or nice.You just don’t know what will you get into.It’s very uncertain what kind of group you may get.And i don’t even want to talk about the 1st tier pugs.
That is why i prefer to have a group with which to make a slow,but certain progress.
You can do a few things:
1.Open all your bag slots.
2.Unlock all your bank slots.
3.Make a guild and unlock it’s bank.
4.Make an alt which specialty is only to collect things.
I personally have opened 8bag slots,3 bank slots and have an extra alt with 4bags x15slots each.If at some point the space is not enough i will unlock more bank slots and buy bigger bags for the alt
We are still recruiting a good dps elementalist or mesmer.If you are close to level50 don’t be shy to contact me.We will help you out to catch up with us.
There is a time set already:
Weekday evenings starting at 6pm or 7pm gmt finishing at 9pm or 10pm gmt.
Weekends will be for more serious progression than usual.
I don’t need mounts.The waypoints are a lot more faster than mounts.
I don’t think i need addons either.
Now grouping system is a different story.I wouldn’t mind getting it in game.
A group is recruiting 2 new members to join our progression through higher levels of Fractal of the Mists.Our current difficulty is 50.We are looking for experienced Guardian and a Glass canon to join our dungeon runs.Especially is needed one of the following classes as pure dps – elementalist,thief,mesmer or necro.You must have atleast 25AR if you want to come with us.We are doing one or two levels per night.
The runs are always in the evenings.
There isn’t a specific time set.
We start when everyone is online.
We are on Europe servers.The group is cross realm.
If you are interested post here or contact me on Moiraine.2753.You can whisper or send me mail.
Sorry OP but i strongly disagree with you.In my opininion FotM is perfectly balanced and is very good made.As Arah and the Fractals are the only good end game for hard core gamers the two dungeons do their job perfectly.
FotM’s levels 1-9 are pug and casual friendly yes.They are very easy too.But now days are filled with noobs and leavers.All my friends and everyone else who knows what he is getting into should avoid like plague 1-9 tier.Because they are filled with the not experienced population of the game.
The solid pug groups start from tier 10 and up.If you want an experienced pugs i suggest you to wait untill end of January so you can do the higher difficulties.
And one more thing.FotM and Arah are the hardest end game for pvers.They are not meant to be pug fiendly.Especially the higher levels of FotM like 50+.There you need good coordination and a speciffic class stacking if you don’t want to buy reviving orbs.
The current state of FotM for me is perfect.It has a little from everything and for everyone.I like dungeon’s design a lot.
Tera is just one more grinding game with different combat system, nothing more….
I find this comment hilarious, since it perfectly describes Guild Wars 2. There’s nothing to do in this game but grind, grind, and more grind.
You guys forget that Gw2, as any other game in its beggining, its not nearly finished. Every mmorpg begins with a lots of flaws and systems that are in their very beggining. You just have to give them time, and there’s not much to do about it.
It’s absurd to think a game should be forgiven for shipping unfinished. Plenty of MMOs have flaws at launch but the unfinished ones (SWTOR most recently) have short lifespans. There is absolutely no excuse for launching your game without the most basic features the way GW2 has.
Gw2 by the moment is not a game to play full time as you can do in WoW or L2. If you do, you’ll encounter this problems, or lack of endgame.
You can’t excuse lack of endgame on the game being “not meant for fulltime play.” You don’t design an MMORPG around that unless you’re trying to make it fail. Even a buy2play MMO like this requires lots of active players buying gems to stay afloat. Assuming customers won’t play full time due to it’s non-subscription nature is foolhardy.
You are absolutely right.When MMORPG come to the marked it should be a finished product.
I don’t mind that i don’t have to grind for my gear.Actually i’m pretty happy with gear which is purely cosmetic.What bothers me is the lack of things to do as a group.Yes i can do events,WvW or jumping puzzles by inviting people in a party but why to do it when i can do it solo?
There are very few places where you actually NEED to coordinate with people.
When something is played as a solo game.Everything is optional and you have almost 0 need to interact with other people that is not a MMORPG.(MassiveMultiplayerOnllineRolePlayingGame)
While i was leveling i had none interest to play with other people.
When i became 80 the only party with other people that i did was fordungeons and nowhere else.
GW2 brings people together in WvW but what is the point to make a party there when i can just zerg it?
I can make a group with other people in the open world but why to do it when i can do alone everything:killing mosters,do events,farm materrials,do jumping puzzles.
Even the 1st eight dungeon don’t need big cooperation.
The only 2 places which are group friendly and are not for pugs/zergs/casuals maybe are Arah,FotM 50+.
Why do i have to even stay in a guild when we don’t do things together?For it’s upgreads only?
I totally agree with the OP.GW2 is very mych solo friendly.I still try to find a reason why should i group with people when i can do everything alone.
And what is the guild here for?I have more than 1k hours played and still can’t find a good group or guild to do things with it.It doesn’t mater is it WvW,dungeons,events or even gathering materials.
OP’s points 1 and 2 hit right in the spot.GW2 is solo and casual friendly but fails to make people do something as a solid progressive group.Pugs and Zergs are not such groups.
And about the guild I absolutely agree with the OP.There must be a reason to be in a guild.Right now i have 0 interest to be in one.If i am in a guild I want to do something with it’s members.Is it WvW,dungeons,events it just doesn’t matter what.As long we do something together.
So yea GW2 is the game for casuals and people who like to play solo,but currently it’s not for other people than those 2 categories.
If the game was not buy to play it would have failed miserably.THat is the only thing that saved it.
I don’t think ANet made those levels to be even beatable before the rest of the ascended gear is released.
Actully mate if you ask me it’s fine as it is.It may not be pug friendly but,class stacking and coordinated groups will find a way to progress without more Ascended gear.If you read one of my previous posts you will see what i already explained there
It proves, once again, that skills doesn’t mean reflexion. As mentioned, what is the point of continue after lvl 40, 50, 60… 260,270… 580, 590… It’s just a technic of the developpers to keep you playing thousands of hours on something they took 10 hours to develop…
That for me is end game.
I personally don’t play WvW,Events or PvP.I do them from time to time but not very often or regularry.
I like instances and i like to farm them.This for me replaces the need of raids.I like doing Arah and FotM with my group.So yea this is one of the things that makes me playing.
need revive orbs to progress 40+
actually means that you aren’t supposed to progress 40+.
(due to agony limit)
You can’t be more wrong.You don’t need and you don’t have to buy orbs if you want to progress.
There are 3 other ways to make a progress in 40+:
1.Find a ranger.His pet can resurrect.
2.Get a Necro and 2 guardians.The necro’s 2 health bars and the 2 guardian’s books healing him will help you NOT buy any orbs
3.For this you need 2 warriors and 2 guardians.The warriors will use the banners one after another and the guardians will heal with 2 books.
All the 3 methods work just fine.It’s a BS if you say that you have to buy orbs.
I can agree that some pre-made group compositions of friends can be a problem.Like 3 elementalists,1 guardian and a mesmer.But those normally are groups at the higher fractal leves 50+ and they play together and have decided to buy orbs.
But everyone else should stop complain as there are planty of other ways to survive the Maw’s agony WITHOUT buying orbs.
In my opinion the puzzle achievement is fine as it is.Why?Because when you get to it IF you are casual you won’t bother with it if you are hard core you will do it.
Here is what i do.
As a pro jumper I decided to do only the 4 WvW puzzles every day.I don’t only enter but i actually finish them.I’ve focused on one character only.I do it like this only because i want to extend the time of the achievement.
Yes i can do it in one day with one character using LA’s overflows OR using many characters by positioning them at WvW and LA but why to do it like this?
The hard core people will find a way to complete the achievement the way they want.
They can if they want to go to 30 different puzzles and do them.That i’ve been considering of doing.I decided not to do it because i will finish in one day and there is planty of time for the achievement.We are in the 2nd day of the month lol
I’m a jumping puzzle lover i have done everything many times including holiday puzzles.
But the monthly has to be for everyone not only for casuals or hard core.
The current monthly in my eyes is fine.
But as i said before,anet can’t win here.Someone will always complain
what is so worse?To don’t want to move from LA and to wait for things to be handed to you like one other company does?How hard is to step in a puzzle?People don’t even have to start it.
They don’t want to move arround the world and pay for portals?Ok make 5 alts visit LA and WvW with all of them here is your puzzle achievement done.
5×2LA=10
5×4WvW=20
Someone may say yea but i have to go into WvW for that.I will conter yes you do but who said you have to fight?When i’m not willing to get into combt i just avoid everyone who i meet.How do i do that by looking where i run and specifically looking for enemy players who may pass my path so i can go around them.
As i said people will still complain even with such easy achievement
How is that even possible? with 30 agony resist(the max possible with 2 infused rings and back slot) agony should still be wiping you on 60 at jade maw
There are 3 ways to deal with the agony:
1.Buy revive orbs
2.Use hunter’s pet to revive him
3.Use a Necro with it’s 2 health bars and 2 guardians with books healing him.
All 3 of them work just fine.The Maw’s agony is not hard at all when you have a decent party
Actually i like your idea.Especially the part where only you can see the meter and you can’t link anything.
I agree that we need a dps meter.I like to improve my role and that is a good way to do it.
