Guild Wars 2

I use the press to target>release to cast option. While it doesn’t center on your target, it does wonders in terms of putting the AoE where you want it instead of where your cursor happens to be.

mahri.8410:

Not if this is limited to guild only/guys in your friendlist

Selling to guildies can already be done via the in game mail system or through the guild bank.

mahri.8410:

Not really dead. I’ve got another idea. If yo want to trade something in GW2 to a certain player, you can’t. Here is another idea:
1. You send to a player a special mail, in which you attach your item you want to sell. The player can get the attachment, but only if he pays a sum determined by the seller. The transaction could also have a TP fee.

Some might want to sell items just for guildies. If he puts them on TP, other players outside the guild might grab them first.

Yay, now gold sellers can bomb us with trade mail that we have to carefully ensure we appropriately decline!

nekretaal.6485:

The snowball sigil is great.

Yeah, it’s so great people aren’t even willing to pay the 30c people are asking for on the Trading Post!

As you mentioned, it’s only value is in WvW zergs in a specific niche, for which better options exist.

It represents completely wasted development time.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Anet created the TP as a marketplace INSTEAD of player-to-player trading. I doubt they’d go back on their word and return to a system that is antiquated and rife with scamming.

GW1 had player-to-player trading, and even though it seemed fool-proof, there were plenty of ways that people could get scammed. (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Scam)

The main reason why people want this method of trading is to bypass the listing an selling fees that the trading post has. If Anet made a player-to-player trading system, it would have to uphold the 15% tax anyway or they risk creating a double economy and huge inflation This 15% tax would negate most people wanting to sell through player-to-player anyway, considering how convenient the TP is.

Lastly, if they made a player-to-player trading system they would have to spend a lot more resources maintaining it (and its advertising channels) and increase the amount of moderators dealing with scammers.

And since there isn’t really a good way to determine what 15% of an item for item trade is, they will never put this in the game.

They decided to give us a snowball sigil instead, which is almost 100% useless.
The Exotic one can’t even be forged, making it completely useless.

Player to Player trading offers the following negatives:

1. It is inefficient.
2. It bypasses the gold sink.
3. It can easily be used to scam people.
4. It increases the workload of ArenaNet employees who have to deal with #3.
5. Chat channels are filled with WTB/WTS spam.

Player to Player trading offers the following positives:

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I got the Leaf of Kudzu from the Forge last year, so I made a female Sylvari to use it.

Neb.4170:

I just wish the fight was either…

1. Less boring
2. Shorter

Number 2 could be easily fixed if they didn’t reset his health for phase 2. Let our DPS in phase 1 carry over and we wouldn’t need so many phase 2 burns.

Sword AA is not broken or bugged, it is just, as a max DPS weapon, incredibly poorly designed and directly conflicts with ArenaNet’s stated design goals.

They should nerf Sword damage (it has too much utility for a high damage weapon) and buff Greatsword damage (perhaps at the cost of losing the auto-evade).

Rangers have god-awful focus in their weapon designs, and the few weapons we do have that have a clear purpose aren’t terribly good at it.

Toggle Walk Mode.

I’ve bound it to the keyboard for all fights involving predictable fear spam.

I’m not able to get into the game right now, so I can’t post my data.

I do want to point out that this information is not really helpful though. You could spend 10,000 hours crafting in Lion’s Arch and not get a Precursor, primarily because you never do anything that COULD drop one.

If your thousands of hours aren’t spent killing LOTS of enemies, you aren’t maximizing your chances per hour and thus your thousands of hours are really only worth a few hundred or so.

Vladimer.7051:

So Anet is saying no new armour tier, Does that mean no Legendary armour?

Or There will be Legendary armour but same as ascended stats…?

If there is Legendary armor, it would be Ascended stats (with the option to select your stat allocation).

skullmount.1758:

Lazaar.9123:

Only characters that are deleted due to a hacked account get restored.

And an account restore is only once per account, iirc. (Gaile might be able to correct me)

I think they’ve moved that up to two restores now, but yeah, you are limited in the number of times they will do it.

Vaske.2817:

Does anyone know if Anet can/will restore deleted character now? I asked looong time ago and they said they are not restoring any deleted characters, and i was wondering if that might changed now?

Once you delete it, it is gone.

Soldier is good training gear for dungeons.
Once you learn how to use Active Defenses (dodging and skills), you can start shifting your gear to Berserker in order to increase your damage output at the expense of your Passive Defenses (healing power, vitality, toughness).

Can you imagine being so unhappy in life that even fictional things upset you this much?

I actually think it is a GOOD thing if dyes were to cost more, as then it would actually make it profitable to CRAFT them.

The Log In Rewards reset every 28 times you log in.

Every day you log in, you get a reward. Every time you get the 28th reward, it starts over.

For a first character, I usually recommend a Warrior since they are very tough to kill. Once you’ve played the game awhile and have gotten used to the active defense concept, you can branch out to the squishy classes like Thief and Elementalist.

The biggest problem with fixing condition damage is that it really requires a complete overhaul of the entire gear/stat system at the ground level.

Condition Damage should never have been a stat. Duration is OK, as are traits that increase damage.
Each player should only be able to apply one “stack” of each condition.
All values (damage per tick, duration, application method, etc.) would all need to be redone to balance.

These changes, while MAJOR, would resolve the condition problem. You’d still gear for Power for DPS, but would trait for conditions if you wanted to play a condition spec. Condition damage should be supplemental to the build, not the build itself.

Person to person trading is only asked for by the uninformed (who shouldn’t be that way after reading this thread) and those who seek to scam others.

It has no place in modern gaming as it is a horribly-inefficient and crime-rife antique.

If we set the timeout to be 5 minutes, it would really cut down on the number of “harmful” AFKers.

If the map is able to quickly beat all three bosses, we’re talking about 8 minutes or so. If you can down the Vinewrath in 8 minutes, then the AFKers didn’t prevent the active players from completing the task so kicking them wasn’t necessary.

If the map is unable to quickly beat all three bosses, we will be extending the fight for several more minutes as the paths fail and get reattempted a few minutes later (until you win or lose all 15 siege). Because the fight is being extended, the 5 minute timer will start to kick in and purge the AFKers who are clearly harming the map’s ability to successfully complete the event (either because they are scaling things up, or occupying a space that a useful person could be occupying). By getting rid of these AFKers, the map is then able to effectively complete the task (albeit in a longer amount of time).

So yeah, I do think maps like Silverwastes need a more aggressive AFK kick, and I think that 5 minutes or so is a reasonable amount of time.

Of course, you’ll always have the leechers who figured out the auto-run key, but those folks are dedicated to bad behavior and are going to be nearly impossible to keep out.

Raising the level cap breaks the game, especially if it only applies to people who buy the expansion.

It’s nothing more than a dirty trick used to manipulate the players into thinking they are being given more content, when the reality is that they are simply doing the same content over again just to get back to where they were before.

I have absolutely zero respect for game companies that employ this tactic as it is unethical in every respect and insulting to those who have an average or better level of intelligence.

That said, I am incredibly relieved to hear that Guild Wars is treating us with respect and not trying to trick us onto the 1990s hamster wheel model.

darkace.8925:

Prolonged periods of not moving and not attacking at events equals leeching, whether you’re actually sitting at your keyboard or not.

Agreed.
There are plenty of non-group event areas where you deposit your backside while doing non-group events.

If you are in an area that depends on the map acting in concert to achieve a goal, you should be acting in concert to achieve the goal.

The problem is that unless they put it in chat, it is impossible to prove whether they were bad (which includes ignorant, poorly coordinated, etc.) or griefing (i.e. intentionally causing the event to fail in order to cause grief to other players).

If you whisper them instructions (such as “please don’t attack the bubbles, they must be killed when the boss is within the light blue circle, thanks!”) and they proceed to continue the bad behavior you may consider reporting them at that time (although they may not speak your language, so it is still possible that your whisper was not understood).

Mireles Lore.5942:

Sometimes I wonder if the last 4 number on our accounts is the seed for the random number generator. If that’s the case it’s still random… but we are just stuck with the seed that was randomly generated forever. They might be lucky and unlucky seeds. There is no such thing as a perfect RNG generator. Just equations and theorems that give the appearance of random.

Wonder no more. John Smith has confirmed that absolutely nothing related to your account in any way shape or form determines or influences your “luck” other than your “Magic Find” stat.

I’d link you the quote, but I’m busy right now. You can look through John’s or my post history to find it though (I’ve linked it a few times).

EDIT: I broke down and found the quote: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-have-a-question-about-the-economy/page/15#post4487484

I really don’t understand this infatuation with new races. You do realize that one new class is worth an infinite number of cosmetic-only races, right?

So I was trying to get some PvP rank points last night and joined a practice map. Upon match start, I was spawned as a member of the Red team, in the Blue team’s starting area. This allowed all 5 of them to quickly kill me which left my team down a man at the beginning of the match (which was bad, because we only had 3 people anyway).

Just thought someone, somewhere, should know. I’ve only had this happen once, but I don’t really PvP that much since it isn’t very fun to play solo.

I’m pretty convinced the whole “they promised precursor hunt/crafting” thing is the main reason we no longer hear about anything that hasn’t been released yet.

Psientist.6437:

I don’t dislike the direction of the story, never had a pet theory. My criticism is directed at how the writers find their path and in my opinion they are forging a path parallel to that of a Marty Stu’s. Please make a note of that

Would this firm connection be firmer than the connection between you and your tomatoes?

That would be impossible to say at this point. I was merely pointing out that there are “levels” to the meaning of the word “from”. Until we have more data, we cannot exclude ANY of those levels from the realm of possibility. This means that jumping to the conclusion that “from” means “minion” is premature.

It would help if you included what your exact request to Support was.

Regardless though, you will need to get your friend to contact Support as you can’t really do anything on their behalf. You could report them as a scammer, since that’s what the account is now…

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’m sorry, but “we come from the jungle dragon” kind of says they do, indeed, come from the jungle dragon, and in turn that they are indeed dragon minions.

Tomatoes come from my garden, does that make them my children?

I got the impression that the lack of the use of the word “minion” in the game was intentional.

Hessian Mercenaries were hired by England to fight against the upstart colonists. Those mercenaries were servants of England, but they were not English. They also kind of quickly abandoned their masters and joined up with the colonists…

I think that the Sylvari were more along the lines of an experiment in which Mordy cultivated them to be independent and intelligent, but susceptible to his influence.

The “Zerker Problem” is the result of two choices made by ArenaNet:
1. Having Active Defense (dodging).
2. Having all offensive and all defensive stat allocations.

Choice 1 is one that I agree with, as it makes the game more fun.
Choice 2 is the problem. When you make a game that allows a large difference between the best and worst in terms of DPS, the percentage of “unacceptable” builds is also larger. This leads to a playerbase split between those who demand the most efficient runs (and those who blindly think they are following the most efficient runs just because they copy their build) and those who don’t care that much about efficiency and are just playing to have fun. Once those two groups meet up, the terms “elitists” and “scrubs” show up almost instantly.

Ideally, there would be no gear sets that have only offensive or only defensive stats as this would squish the possible DPS range and increase the number of “acceptable” gear sets which would then make both groups less hostile to each other. Obviously, there would still be the actual “elitists” who only want the meta in their group because they are doing speed runs (which, let’s be honest here, don’t have a problem with scrubs because they aren’t using the LFG tool, they have a whole guild dedicated to excluding non-meta players which keeps them out of the fray) and the actual “scrubs”, but they will have less of an impact.

Unfortunately, it’s probably too late to delete people’s gear and force them into a narrower band of DPS possibilities (remember all that ruckus over the Magic Find removal? and that wasn’t even a helpful stat at all!), so we are stuck with the current toxic environment where the two sides throw stones and hurt everyone in the middle.

If someone provides false evidence and someone corrects it, then there are TWO possible outcomes:

1. The evidence was not known to be false, or was incorrectly believed to be true – The presenter of the evidence may be a bit embarrassed, but certainly not humiliated. “Oops, sorry” and move on.

2. The evidence was known to be false and presented intentionally – The presenter deserves no respect from anyone, should be humiliated, and, in my opinion, have their forum access rescinded.

John Smith can’t humiliate someone for an honest mistake. The truth is ALWAYS humiliating to a liar though, so if the OP feels humiliated, then that speaks to his intentions.

ekarat.1085:

These lore discrepancies seem minor to me, as a newcomer. They largely seem to consist of unreliable speakers and some wrong dates. All in all, not a big deal.

I’ve written lore on a team of writers before (but not for this game). Minor errors do come up occasionally. These don’t seem so bad to me.

The problem is that to a lore-fanatic, there is no such thing as a minor error. When people enjoy something enough to get REALLY into it, even the smallest breach of the universe is seen as a catastrophic end of times type deal.

It’s a reaction born out of love, so you’ve got to respect them for their commitment, but boy do they get old after a while.

Filaha.1678:

The truthful information that was required in the situation began and ended at “The salvage rate is unchanged and normal, here’s the data that supports that.”

What the player actually did or did not do was unnecessary and doesn’t help prove any points.

I’d have to agree that it’s unprofessional. And brings other policies into question. I mean, we’re not allowed to be told in confidence that someone got punished for directly affecting us that we may have reported, but it’s okay to publicly embarrass a player that isn’t affecting any players at all?

Not unprofessional. When someone presents false data in an attempt (intentional or not) to make your business look bad, point out that the data is false is completely professional. There is no code of decorum that suggests that you have to sit there and nod your head whenever false data is publicly presented about you.

DaShi.1368:

sephire.7296:

John Smith.4610:

As an addendum OP, you salvaged 145 ectos for 279 dust.

As amusing as this is (and it is indeed greatly amusing!), I don’t think it’s good business practice to embarass your customers !

I have to agree. John’s response made me feel greatly uncomfortable. It’s rather unprofessional because it erodes the relationship between the developer and the customer. What are the standards for when Anet should and should not humiliate players? My preference would be never.

John Smith is widely regarded as one of (if not THE) best red posters, specifically because of his snark. It is incredibly refreshing to see people who work for a big company lay down the occasional verbal spanking.

It’s not like this guy was complaining and being told he to take it or leave it, his OP was outright fictional!

Wolfheart.7483:

In regard to examples like the coin flipping:

Think of it this way: each individual time you flip the coin, it’s still a 50/50 chance it lands on tails. So if you flipped the coin 999 times and got tails 899 times, then on that 1000th flip it is still a 50/50 chance it lands on tails.

Having it land on tails 899/999 times previously has no bearing whatsoever on the 1000th flip. None at all.

Expanding on this^

There is an exact same chance for EVERY combination of results from 1000 tosses to occur. The only reason 999/1 seems less likely is because you are looking for a SPECIFIC result in a sea of possible results. As there are a LOT more SPECIFIC results with a more even mix of heads and tails, the average will tend towards a 50/50 split and less towards the outlier results (1/999 and 999/1). Just be aware that you have the exact same chance of getting an outlier as you do of getting any other combination.

Granted, most people don’t care about the individual combination of toss results and care more about the overall average, which is why outliers are seen as “good” or “bad” luck.

Junkpile.7439:

So rng means that some people have better chance get box? If they would use some mechanical lottery machine i would say rng is rng. Pseudo rng is just big hoax.

RNG means that all people have the same chance of getting a box. Because it is a chance though, some people will get it more often than others. It isn’t a result of anything other than distribution.

If you drop 100 pins on the floor, are the pins that wind up touching another pin more lucky than the pins that don’t touch another pin?

Leaf of Kudzu is the only precursor that I’ve ever gotten from the forge, so I made a female Sylvari so that it fits the character’s theme when I finally finish the darn thing (only 538 T6 materials to go!).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-have-a-question-about-the-economy/page/15#post4487484

Sorry for the delay. It took me a while to find the link.

Junkpile.7439:

Thanathos.2063:

RNG is RNG.

Or item isn’t even some accounts loot table.

Accounts do not have loot tables.

Mikali.9651:

could you please stop having agressive tone towards other people?
My eyes are bleeding from CAPS LOCK and sentences like this: “you are still just a guy ordering pizza at a burger place and yelling at everyone who tells you to go down the road to Pizza Hut”
It’s not polite really

Caps were for emphasis of the important parts (since I don’t like having to take the time to use switches for bold/underline/etc. and this forum doesn’t employ the text editing capabilities that every forum since 1998 has used). The sentence above was not intended to be polite, merely representative of the fact of the matter. I have neither the time nor inclination to tip-toe around the eggshell egos of the illogical.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

mtpelion.4562:

Now, ArenaNet could eventually release an expansion, but until they do you are still just a guy ordering pizza at a burger place and yelling at everyone who tells you to go down the road to Pizza Hut.

Except Arenanet did not say what release model they were going to use before launch. Yes they never said anything about expansions but they never said anything about Living Story either.

So a better analogy would be: Going to a restaurant that is called “restaurant”. You have no idea what kind of restaurant but still, it’s a restaurant. You go in, order a steak, then they suddenly change the name to Pizza Hut.

That argument stopped working when the game launched. Everyone knows that it is called “Best Burgers Ever” now.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

mtpelion.4562:

3. If you go to “Best Burger Ever” and order a pizza, they aren’t going to make you happy. If people tell you not to order pizza at “Best Burger Ever” and you tell them that their argument is stupid… well, let’s just say you may need to look up the definition of “stupid”.

Incorrect analogy. Guild Wars 1 had expansions and this game was advertised as a Guild Wars game. By the time the game launched nobody knew we would be getting Living Story. As far as anyone knew, Guild Wars 2 would have gotten expansions just like Guild Wars 1 got them.

If Arenanet made clear from the very beginning the game would have no traditional expansions, then your argument would have made sense.

The analogy is fine because REALITY trumps YOUR PERCEPTION OF IT.

What you expected is 100% irrelevant when compared to what has happened. You expected expansions, but none have been delivered. This means that your expectations are out of line with reality.

Continuing to expect reality to change itself to match your expectations leads to “cognitive dissonance”, which makes you unhappy despite getting exactly what you paid for. Now, ArenaNet could eventually release an expansion, but until they do you are still just a guy ordering pizza at a burger place and yelling at everyone who tells you to go down the road to Pizza Hut.

rapthorne.7345:

Have you actually played other MMORPG’s, or is GW2 your first MMO? if you were able to compare with past experience of expansions in other games, you would see that the content GW2 has offered over two years pales in comparison to even low budget, small dev team anime MMO’s

Expansions consist of a PAID FOR dump of content that players finish in 1 month or less followed by 1 year of NOTHING ADDED.

The GW2 model definitely needs some additional types of new content to really flesh it out, but delivering a stream of content over the ENTIRE year and FOR FREE is 100% superior to an expansion in every single way from a consumer point of view.

leman.7682:

mtpelion.4562:

You’re getting fresh, free stuff every 2-4 weeks and complaining you are getting a stagnate game… so yeah, your demands are pretty ridiculous.

What is ridiculous is your attitude. First you assume Living Story is working for the majority and is the ‘way of the future’. Then you deny a fellow player the right to have it the other way with one of the stupidest arguments on these forums (the game’s not for you).
Your problem is, you don’t understand the issue here and are too fixated on defending the Living World concept to see that.

1. I have no attitude. I’m simply explaining reality.
2. I do not assume that the Living Story is working for anyone. I’m telling you that ArenaNet feels that the Living Story is working to meet THEIR goals.
3. If you go to “Best Burger Ever” and order a pizza, they aren’t going to make you happy. If people tell you not to order pizza at “Best Burger Ever” and you tell them that their argument is stupid… well, let’s just say you may need to look up the definition of “stupid”.
4. I’m not defending the Living Story concept, I’m explaining that it is the way the entire industry is moving.

Mikali.9651:

old-world expectations? Only “mmo” I’ve played for years is guild wars 1.
All others I tried, played a bit and then stopped.
I also played counter strike for years, same as LoL, and both games didnt have expansions.

You are saying things you don’t know.
What I demand is something frekittenhis game was stagnate for too long.
My demans are really that high huh? Please.

edit. saying fr.esh! is curse word? lol?

You’re getting fresh, free stuff every 2-4 weeks and complaining you are getting a stagnate game… so yeah, your demands are pretty ridiculous.