Curiously no mention of banning the people who buy from gold sellers…
I liked the OP, a good read, not too terribly hyperbolic.
A thought that’s relevant:
WvWvW “skill”
WvW is not the skill portion of pvp in GW2. It’s a big sandbox where people can play with whatever approach they like. It’s not intended to be balanced or fair. People who buy gold will have an edge, people with better gear will have an edge, and spy/sabotage is definitely part of war. If someone wants to go there and fight wolves, that’s their perogative. If someone wants to devote an account for spying, that’s their perogative.
There is a skill-based pvp system in GW2, but it’s based on small teams. If you’re looking for quality gameplay, that’s a place you can control it.
Those of us who play alts have noticed, too, that mid-level zones are rather empty. With lvl 80 being the absorbing state, it’s inevitable unless you somehow find a way to keep people doing new characters.
Dungeons are notably the weakest part of GW2, and seemingly were designed to be a niche. But amid all the screams that dungeons are too hard and not rewarding, the response was to make them even harder and less rewarding yet.
The way I look at it, each game has its strengths and weaknesses. Some games (say WoW and Rift) were designed to be dungeon progression games, with pvp tacked on afterwards. So their pvp is meh. Other games (say lineage2) were designed to be bone-crushing pvp games. And their pve play is meh.
GW2 – gear doesn’t matter. No penalty pvp on side games that’s a lot of fun. It’s like Disneyworld in an mmo. There’s a lot to like. A lot lot.
(edit oops didn’t finish)
GW2 is not a dungeon-runners game or a progression game. So play it as you want, and then go play something else if you want a dungeon-progression. That’s ok, that’s how it’s designed.
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When I look in the gear lockers in the mists, I see a lot of sets that look like good coverage and a lot that look sexy or beautiful.
I haven’t noticed many (any?) with good uncoverage of the butt.
It’s definitely not Tera, but there is a trend that the higher a set is, the less it covers on a woman.
You’ll have to wear down his stacks of defiant. Then you can control him. And then start working down the stacks again.
You have to know a party of 5 could keep a boss stun-locked and trivialize the content if they didn’t have some sort of mechanic. In other games, they just make ‘em completely immune. Here it’s gonna take wearing them down.
First learning task: navigate
Explore the starting city. See how some of the people are marked differently, as vendors, bankers, etc.
Takes pushing the W key to go forward and turn with the mouse.
Next go to starting area and do the basic stuff. This game helps by severely limiting what you can do at first, but doesn’t do very good scaffolding along the way.
Your first renown heart almost definitely will teach to use F and pay attention to on screen messages. Should be able to win every fight with auto-attack.
Keys in helping a newbie -
1. Keep the keyboard and mouse in her hands only.
2. Understand step-by-step. Shut up about your awesome 80 traits and BS.
3. Encourage good habits, but leave her some space to learn it herself, and find her own way.
C’mon guys, he’s a comedian. Taking it seriously is sorta like watching The Daily Show to stay up on current events.
Critical hit with a hammer on the head of a nail. Causes 2 stacks of bleeding.
This topic was asked a couple days ago. The thread received an official response and was closed.
The official response is that even if you’re using the built-in interface with a standard keyboard and mouse to autofire, if your character is acting while you’re not at the keyboard it IS considered a breach of the user agreement.
We should report it in the same way you report actual bots.
What? you mean this isn’t a beta server? :o
The xp achieve is definitely bugged. I’ve gone a few dungeon runs in a row without dying, getting a few levels in the process, and not got the achieve. But then did get the achieve not too long after dying off a cliff.
To get the achieve:
It seems to not matter if you die, but does matter if you change zone or log out.
The prices on the BLTC are so screwed up that, risks notwithstanding, if you want to buy something that costs gems (like character slots, deluxe upgrade, bank slots, etc.) it’s actually cheaper real money wise to buy gold from a gold seller and convert that gold to gems and use those gems to buy what you want.
Does that not seem ridiculous to anyone else?
It’s ridiculous if and only if ANet is going to actually ban gold buyers. I haven’t heard of even one player that was banned for supporting the gold buyers yet. We’ll see.
Blizzard famously took the position that they’d not ban gold buyers, and their system is pretty bad that way.
If you meant to get ratings of the game on A-F scale, then you should collect judgments on A-F.
But that’s not what was asked.
We’ll see if they ever get religion on banning gold buyers/sellers and botters. For now it seems like they’re scrambling to catch up.
Bank slots IMO are a great buy. Bag slots, character slots. I don’t see other things as being all that attractive. I hate my town clothes, but there’s not many choices, and they’re all dumb. Boxing gloves?! How’s that fit in Tyria? Aviator sunglasses? Kttens! we can’t even ride a mount, let alone fly.
The $$ to gold rate is set by ANet. They can pass off some BS about it being based on the market, but THEY set the parameters, and they made the choice. They could have chosen a rate that would have discouraged outside gold sales/buys. But they decided not to. Why?
The thing that struck me is the manifesto was a lot more true in lower levels than higher. In your newbie area, combat was quick and interesting. In higher area, particularly with risen, you can dump 2 whole skill bars on a mob and it’s still coming.
The higher we got, the more sluggish and bogged down it feels. I jump down on an alt and it feels a lot fresher.
8 gold as a max for a lvl 80 is a sign there’s been a lot of spending along the way and/or a lack of gold-earning strategies. Yes 100g is a lot. But 8 g you should have attained more than that long before 80.
My guild: Everyone chipped in what they could and we have a couple commanders so far.
And there is nothing wrong with not having a gold earning strategy while leveling up in a new game. I also hit 80 with about 8G. I spent a few on the T1 culturals and repairs and what not. Had I known how difficult and limited it would be to earn coin at 80, I would have saved every cent.
No, of course not. And there’s nothing wrong with being poor. Some of the greatest heroes rise from humble status.
Culturals — now there’s a splurge! Why they cost so much?
It’d be nice. If they do ‘em, you should only have access to your home server IMO, or they’ll be total troll and flamefests. As is, they’re gonna take a lot of moderating.
Shame they don’t have guesting feature functional yet.
Don’t worry too much. You can either find a new guild on your new server, or wait and transfer back when there’s space.
8 gold as a max for a lvl 80 is a sign there’s been a lot of spending along the way and/or a lack of gold-earning strategies. Yes 100g is a lot. But 8 g you should have attained more than that long before 80.
My guild: Everyone chipped in what they could and we have a couple commanders so far.
“edit: by the way, I need many ectos for that weapon, so I sell them rarely..”
This is a clue. If you sell what people want, you’ll make money. If you sell ectos, you won’t have ectos but you’ll have gold. Your choice.
Look at what’s valued. Get it. Sell it.
It is a shame ANet hasn’t better security to manage the bots.
I don’t see the influence on the market tho. Is it worse than the people who went server hopping to grab up unlimited orchalcum ore?
If you don’t think something is worth what the market values it at, then sell if it’s priced too high, and buy if it’s priced too low.
Your personal utility doesn’t have to match up with the global market.
@Venomlaced those people who buy gold from outside sources are at high risk of losing it, as every gold-seller transaction is logged in the mail database. So maybe you spent twice as much buying gold, but you’ll not risk a ban from it.
Time will tell if ANet has any interest in fighting outside real-money gold sellers. With their cash shop, I suspect they may, unlike other games (say WoW) where they tacitly approved gold/plat/adena/etc buying, if only to defend their income stream from gem sales.
My guild has rallied to get books for our WvW leaders by asking members for donations.
I don’t fear bad commanders because it wouldn’t take more than a time or two for you to figure out if you like a squad leader or not.
Calling it PvE gold isn’t accurate – you make the same in WvW as you do in PvE — there’s a reason you can BLTC from WvW.
Making other cheaper ways of getting commanders is not going to get you quality control in leadership. If someone fancies themself a leader, they can get the book. It’s up to you if you wnt to follow them or not.
I can see why this is hard, cuz the trading post is not actually part of the game servers, but a separate system. So passin that info is a lil tough.
Note there IS a pretty big set of models you can view in the pvp lockers in the mists.
OH! how about some hairstyles or tattoos that you can only get via gems, so you’d have a little better chance of looking distinctive?
I swear there’s only a couple face/hair combos that are used for sylvari and human females
One person I know had a problem that seemed to be related to the name/address on paypal not matching the name/address on guildwars2 account, and gem purchases were denied.
words like arrogant and bigoted, when you’re dealing with automated processes are absurd. It’s not personal — it’s a computer.
Wait a bit. As gold enters the market, the exchange rate will become more favorable for gold-buyers.
lighten up, if your bank’s not sending the money, you didn’t actually buy them yet, eh
call the bank, work it out, deep breath
Not seeing sex-change as a minor thing, imo
the other cosmetic things, ya
I’d think name/sex change too, but more spendy than a simple trip to a salon. It’d be nice to have race change, but that’d require forfeit of all race-based items and reset the personal story, seems complicated, charge even more.
anything for a price is a good theme for a cash shop game. I bought a race-change potion in EQ2.
^.^
Yeah I think it must have been the local.dat file that got messed up, and apparently it’s not vetted during a -repair
kinda need them to actually implement “guesting” before it’d be worth extending the LFG tool to cross server.
But as best I can tell, people don’t find the LFG tool all that useful anyway.
I read an article that claimed research showing that 19/20 games that are bought never make it to the end. We gamers are concerned about depth and length of playtime, but the simple fact is most games don’t get finished, presumably because they quit being fun.
That’s gonna happen with GW2. Especially with a mountainous list of things you could do, not all of it is gonna be fun, and you’ll leave, at least for a while. That’s completely ok. There’s no subscription. So drop out and drop back in. Don’t fret about it.
I love my guild. It’s a long-standing guild with a great history.
Without my guild, I’d really not care much for GW2, because I play MMOs for social reasons. The game doesn’t encourage relationships the way other games have. You don’t need a party to do anything, with the dungeons (badly bungled as they are) being the only exception. It’s just not a group/community-oriented game.
Still having a guild means voice-chat, playing with people of compatible maturity/attitude, easy access to groups to do things, and a sense of belonging. My guild also has an internal marketplace to share items and resources.
If you want to enjoy GW2, I urge you to find a good guild.
I thought I’d post this in case it helps others.
Symptom: graphics were all stretched and weird looking, like a character’s nose getting pulled clear to the horizon, and graphics flashy weird like a really bad hallucinogenic trip. Game was unplayable.
What didn’t work:
virus scan, system check, everything else what fine, only GW2
Updated graphics driver
ran with -repair
What did work:
Deleted just the folder in Documents, left the main program install in Program Files the way it was. Started up and everything was fine.
Cause – as yet unknown. Windows 7, nVidia graphics. It’s my S.O.‘s computer and she swears she didn’t do anything to settings…
What was next on our list of things to try was to completely uninstall and reinstall. I thought ‘what the heck – if by some miracle this works it saves 5 hrs of download’ and I be kittenly kittened, it did work.
It would be different if pvp ever happened in the actual world of Tyria. I can see the point of it being extra, just a tack-on to the game.
But WvW is sposed to work with a match up system, so in principle your server will face even matches most of the time, once the system reaches a stable equilibrium. If you truly suck at it, eventually you’ll be facing the 2 other worst servers, and hopefully can make your way to the pois.
costs less to respec than it costs to waypoint back out to where you were when you decided you wanted to respec
If you want to run dungeons regularly, your best bet is /g guildchat and your friends list.
The LFG tool is, like a lot of GW2, very old-school in flavor. Social-engineering (altho the rest of the game seems not to facilitate social ties)
Ignore the hearts, do everything else, you’ll have plenty. I’ve ended up so far ahead on xp on all my characters, I can’t possibly hope to zone-complete and stay within level range of the zones. And I don’t use xp boosts.
If you’re feeling you’re leveling faster than the content, you’re missing most of the content. It’s not the hearts.
Personally I think it’s best to just gather, leave crafting til later, too, to be kind to your coinpouch.
40g, 28g, whatever —
you have a choice. This is a cash-shop game. If you want it, you can buy it. Or you can work it out grind style, or patiently. you have a choice
You can buy good gear with gold. You can buy gold with gems. You can buy gems with $$.
i really hope you aren’t dumb enough to defend this
Ok wise me up. where’d I go wrong?
It was false flattery. Your English seems very typical to me.
No ’fense.
Race, outside of the first parts of your personal story and cultural armor/weapons, doesn’t affect anything in the game. Even races with long-standing animosity.
You can go to Queensdale and play there, whatever zone you like.
You’ll travel to Lion’s Arch, and from there can take Asura gate to any other home city.
Nothing matches a warrior’s kill speed.
Engineer gets my vote.
Anecdote:
My SO had to take care of some RL stuff about 20 minutes. I stayed in game in the same place waiting for her to finish, and kept getting the same couple of rapid respawns of aggro mobs.
By the time she came back they were not dropping anything at all. I was on a 70 but mobs were 65.
You can buy good gear with gold. You can buy gold with gems. You can buy gems with $$.
In game, you’ll have to do something, a lot, to get gear. You won’t have to do it quite as “a lot” as most other MMOs, but there are brakes in the game to slow you from instantly getting it. Unless you wanna gem-store it.
The hearts are by far my least favorite aspect of the game.
I really wish they’d not have put them in – rather make zone completion based on triggering/completing more dynamic events.
Cuz the hearts feel like chores, and feel like previous generation games.
There ARE hardcore games. Where you delevel when you die. Where PK can take your stuff. Where to get max level will take you literally months of /played.
Lots of games like that. Go play them. They don’t tend to perform well in NA market, but are very popular in east Asian markets.
It’s very much not the game ANet advertised. Everyone instantly can have 80 fully geared. Play for months and you’ve still got the same stuff stats-wise as someone new.
EQ1 felt bigger, more real, and more dangerous to me.
The poster above me points out that you didn’t have maps, or minimaps, and certainly didn’t have instant WP travel.
I like what ANet did, but I think they fouled it with the clunky aspects – the invisible walls, arbitrary walls, and inexplicably unclimbable slopes.
Just trying to get around in a home city, for example, there’s sooo many streets you can’t get there from here – have to run a mile to get 50 feet. No real world would ever be designed that way.
Not having places to go (seriously, there’s not a single clothes vendor in the whole city?), can’t even sit on the chairs.
It’s a great world. It’s a shame they stopped short of making it feel more natural.