Guild Wars 2

I think it’d be fine if they put a lvl 60 restriction on the karma orichalcum tools.

On the other hand, I don’t think it’d have a measurable effect on the orichalcum market.

I haven’t tested that one. Something that’s continued since launch is that traits that say they remove conditions or convert them to boons frequently don’t work.

Warlord.9074:

Guild wars 2 uses the carrot on the stick event system in PVE. Theres no reason to have a commander tag in PVE. The game events circle the area of the event, and in many cases have NPCs that you are supposed to follow not a commander.

Let me give you a different application.

My guild hosts a number of events. Some in wvw, some in pve, even a couple in pvp.

For pve events, we’ll get a squad (often more than fit in a squad) of people going thru pve zones, hitting all the skill points, vistas, triggering the events, and so on. Of course any player who wants to do it solo could do it solo. Or in a small party. We have fun in big groups, too, and the commander book gives some support to it. We also do gathering groups and “Guild Wars 101” events where people can learn more about the game.

The commander for pve isn’t because it’s necessary. There’s no place in the game where a commander is needed. In wvw, the keeps don’t move and people could certainly do without commanders, just using chat or voip to organize. Commander makes it easier to get people involved, and organized on a larger scale than they would alone.

Kyosji.8961:

I’m actually more interested as to what name you were using that was ‘inappropriate’. Your forum name is in no way offensive, because besides popular belief, Lucifer is a common name an many countries, and flagging it as offensive would be an act of discrimination. I would seriously put in a complaint about that.

There’s no telling about what names get reported. I had a friend whose main was named for an Irish village, and was forced to change it. Rather than look at the actual name, they take the report itself as evidence the name’s offensive.

They’re not using the actual client. It’s much better to detect (or better yet, break) the bot on server side than to rely on observed behavior in the rendered game. I think Arenanet believes this, too.

Reporting of bots and people getting mad about cheaters — that aspect is a PR side of it. Getting them out of our game is a programming issue.

ArenaNet can get the bot programs just as easily as the bot makers can get the client. Then it’s an issue of who can reverse-engineer the other guy better.

I think they’re fine in PvE.

The whole squad system is so primitive and awkward. It’s a shame, really.

People being obsessive and fanatical about a video game? That’s just …

LordByron.8369:

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Ryuujin.8236:

YPC.6349:

Problem: Everypony love Twilight.

You ARE the problem of inflating price. Other precursors except dawn(another twilight) and the legend are below your 100-200g range.

This. Very few precursors are actually in the 100-200g bracket.

Some are as low as 20-30g. When people say they can’t afford a precursor, what they really mean is they can’t afford a precursor greatsword

The ones that are cheap are mostly underwater precursors.

I’m not sure why no one wants those, but I have my suspicions (they can’t be seen on land, so you can’t show them off in town to feel superior to the unwashed masses, which seems to be the reason most people want a legendary these days)

no its that most classes are horribly bad underwater and a legendary won t help….

They decided to make legendary top tier forever…so i decided to try to start to build an incinerator (i really hate the skin also -.- possibly the worst legendary….) i would never thougt of it if it weren t for at least having one less concern every major patch…

Btw i won t be able to get 250 gold for the precursor possibly ever unless i start farming orr like a bot…..if this is even still possible.

Do all the other gathering first. With any luck, there’ll be a new dagger legendary that’s not so goofy by the time you have all your tokens/badges/stack of mats/million karma…

I watched that segment. It was just Richie Pinocchio hypothesizing, and I guess ArenaNet hasn’t mentioned anything about doing a bigger, more public test server.

You know, it was 10 servers very high yesterday morning.

At this rate, no one will be able to play GW2 by Friday.

Game completely dead, no one playing anymore. Cuz it’s Too crowded. Cryin shame, it is, crying kittie shame.

wvw queue times have gone way down because wvw has been in dire name of fixes, yet the only dev attention its received is to take things away. There’s something wrong when the whole meta has revolved around exploiting bugs and glitches.

Do the math — there’s an average of over 40,000 accounts per server. There’s only room for 500 in wvw. 1/80th = 1.25% is the max wvw capacity, which means wvw players are about as common as autism.

Anyhow, today at noon there were 9 servers that were not full. It’s better to try during non-primetime. How many servers does your girlfriend need?

You guys are only talking about buy-it-now prices.

Wouldn’t more relevant to talk about the highest buy offer prices? Cuz I doubt anyone would save up for a dusk and then be too impatient to wait for a seller.

The buy-it-now folks are flippers, doncha think?

Edit: I checked it out, and 405g would make you the highest bidder for Dusk, despite its 510g offer. The top ten offers start around 300. It would appear not that many people have actually finished up the other Gifts.

p.s. I find the gamebreaker crew to be fun

And they were what turned me on to Planetside 2, which is a lot of fun, too.

There were 9 open servers at noon today.

Hopefully one of the most hyped features pre-launch (guesting) will be implemented soon. Play with your friends anywhere!

I like games where you can select which character voice you want.

not at this time. it was just for that weekend last month

There was not one part of last month that wasn’t bug-ridden, and except for FotM (which could really have used better testing), it was crippled by bugs and poor performance.

Whether they can make good use of a test server remains to be seen, but the way they’ve been doing things was stinking it up so bad, they had to try something else.

Town clothes, too.

My supposedly noble-born human female has only a peasant dress. And have you seen what Queen Jennah wears? I even wish I could equip armor pieces in the town clothes section so I’d at least have a choice.

I spent one of my characters down to basically nothing about a week ago (in exchange for more storage). It’s not my trader, but a character I play about half the time, and I use for my dungeon runs. Today he has over 12 gold. Without even trying. It adds up a lot faster than it used to.

I actually looked in the stores and we don’t seem to have it in my (pathetically depressed former mill & factory) town.

Game box design is going the way of music album cover art and buggy-whips.

I dunno, I just got DCd. I think they really kittied the pooch on this one!!!

Don’t we get something like this most Tuesdays?

The second quote is taking letters f and u and replacing them with kitten, because it’s a mean thing to say to someone. Unless you really love them.

A few more dungeons open up to you, and of course you have every zone in the game.

There is no change, very much unlike some other MMOs (which the game doesn’t really even start til you’re max level), which is why so many writers said GW2 has no endgame. It’s there, it’s just not any different or very deep.

That they can’t take enhancements makes them fuctionally inferior to the wide array of back items you can get for a couple silver. They are slightly op for a low level, however.

Lankybrit.4598:

It’s baffling why server status is based on the number of accounts on the server in a B2P game. It makes perfect sense in a subscription game, because players would be stupid to consider paying for a subscription when they are not playing the game at least some of the time. But in a B2P game, there could be tons and tons of accounts that have absolutely no activity at all. And these accounts are preventing people getting on the server who would actively play.

It makes no sense at all.

Cheers.

It actually does make sense, in the same sort of approach that gives principled procedures to know how big a 911 switchboard should be, or how to configure telecommunications switches. The load is determined by concurrent and potential users. There actually is a mathematics & science behind this stuff.

For what it’s worth, there’s one fewer open servers today than there was yesterday when I looked. The sky is falling.

Hawkian.6580:

mulch.2586:

Th definitive test would be a lower-level character who earns a chest without leveling, then kills another mob or two sufficient to level.

Low-level chests contain loot up to the character’s level. If there’s loot in the chest from the character’s new,higher level, that would be evidence that chest loot level is determined when it’s looted, not when it’s earned.

I don’t care enough to try to get those data.

The other stuff about non-random RNG… Systematic dependencies can/do happen with digital simulated randomness. However it happens in GW2, I don’t think it’ll have anything to do with the superstitions surrounding it.

You’ve never gotten loot a couple of levels above your own?

Only since Mad King, not on the previously-existing pve content’s chests.

In any case, I don’t find it an interesting question. And I’m someone who’s thrown years of work into some obscure questions.

Th definitive test would be a lower-level character who earns a chest without leveling, then kills another mob or two sufficient to level.

Low-level chests contain loot up to the character’s level. If there’s loot in the chest from the character’s new,higher level, that would be evidence that chest loot level is determined when it’s looted, not when it’s earned.

I don’t care enough to try to get those data.

The other stuff about non-random RNG… Systematic dependencies can/do happen with digital simulated randomness. However it happens in GW2, I don’t think it’ll have anything to do with the superstitions surrounding it.

Quaz.4931:

Shifty.5187:

Lionaeron.5724:

I noticed you conveniently left out WvW, those boosters give clear advantage over others – speed/regen boost anyone? An advantage is an advantage, doesn’t matter how you try and spin your words, you just make yourself look like a goober.

Dude, don’t be mad. I ‘conveniently’ left it out because I hardly play WvW and thus did not consider it. But on reflection, even the boosters there hardly matter, it’s one big zergfest anyway. Nonetheless, I think they should make the boosters work only in PvE (not WvW). And conveniently then, your whole point about the Gem Store is moot, which it already largely is.

People that buy boosters with RL money can run dungeons quicker

Doesnt matter that a lot of people don’t, the fact is that it is possible.

Honestly how are people even arguing the gem store doesnt give any advantage to those spend real money? Like I said before, you can argue how much of an advantage it gives, but it does give an advantage.

It doesn’t give an advantage because you could buy that same item with gems you got from pvp or bought with gold instead of real money.

Lionaeron.5724:

Shifty.5187:

Quaz.4931:

I was always disapointed with Arenanet when I found out about the gem store, and it got worse the more I went into it. They originally said no player would gain any advantage from the shop, it would be purely cosmetic. Well what can you buy in the shop?

- Extra bank/inventory slots (useful when farming/crafting/collecting, the default space is not much, if I have to carry several stacks of tokens on my character with limited slots, I can hold less loot and will therefore be at a disadvantage to those with more slots)
- Boosters, making the game easier for the cost of money, it doesn’t matter that these items aren’t that popular – the fact is gems give a direct advantage of some sort to people spending money
- Gold/Cash, speaks for itself, buying gold with money straight from Arenanet, gives a direct advantage to those spending money.
- Black lion keys, which gives black lion chests, which give black lion salvage kits, which give a higher rate of ecto drops, which gives that player an advantage for buying stuff from the gem store, yet again.

And the total laugh of it is, all these things that give players an advantage, are not what people want to spend money on the gem store!! They want skins, costumes, quirky hats, funny mini pets. Which seem to be less of a priority in the gem store, compared to things that give players an advantage over the none gem buying customer.

The gem store is completely wrong in what I thought it was going to be, and only hear people talk about how there is nothing worth while on the gem store.

GW2 needs to look at the LoL store, I have spent more money on skins and have never touched IP boosts, and I am sure people only buy champions if they are desperate – they dont do it every new champion thats for sure!

None of those things give you a direct advantage in PvP, nor are they that much of an advantage in PvE.

They need to keep the game profitable, and I’m glad they do it this way as opposed to a subscription. Most of the things you can buy are purely cosmetic, and the other things kinda make the gameplay easier, but not better.

I noticed you conveniently left out WvW, those boosters give clear advantage over others – speed/regen boost anyone? An advantage is an advantage, doesn’t matter how you try and spin your words, you just make yourself look like a goober.

They said from the start that if you want a fair playing field, they have that in spvp.

WvW is supposed to have buy to win aspects to it, and is not intended to be balanced. If someone comes with lots of Paypal gold, they can bolster their team. If you have a server ventrilo. On the other hand, boosters’ effects are pretty small.

Note that absolutely anything in the gem store can be purchased with Paypal or with gold. So if you want those boosters, you can have them without spending real $$.

Raine.1394:

Yeah, once it became clear that vertical progression was here to stay I stopped purchasing gems. It really makes no sense to chase the next step on a treadmill with RL currency. At least the WoW treadmill is a free ride. I was wondering whether there were others like me out there.

I’m way out of the loop. I thought WoW was monthly fee.

I don’t see in principle why/how RL vs in-game currency is a distinction that matters for gear upgrades.

What I saw on the dungeon vendor:
390 tokens for a 2h
300 tokens for a main-hand 1h
210 tokens for an off-hand.

I think this is a workable set of ratios. Cuz you get 2 sigils, and more flexibility with 1hers.

The recipes, on the other hand… taking 5 ectos whether it’s 2h main-h or off-h… That’s where there’s no parity.

The best hints were alpha testers, ie. the world-first folks.

Go to bed early, set an alarm, don’t want to miss a minute!!

Isslair.4908:

tigirius.9014:

Nothing drops in the one dungeon they wanted us to do endless due to the age old and tired RNG system.

Really?

There is no RNG needed to get your exotics of any kind.
Karma and Orr gives you a nice boost upon hitting 80.
A 3 or 4 dungeon runs gives you another item plus the nice gold.
You can get exotic trinkets from TP really cheap.

Where is the RNG? Where is the grind?

I really don’t understand how people can say, that it is hard to get end-game items in GW2 =\

Yeah, I just got another alt to 80, had exotic couple of weapons and a full suit of runed armor all set to go, yellows for the others, but all lvl 80 before I even hit 80, with nothing from the trading post, even.

It’s why so many negative reviews of “no end game” cuz you gear so fast.

Does it at least accept orbs to the upgrade slot yet?

I don’t think this is a bad request, cuz we’re just talkin about green-quality gear. But usually quest rewards are soul-bound.

IME the rewards actually went up for most of what I do. As long as the event isn’t less than 2/3 your level, your benefit increased from what it used to be.

What possible difference would it make? From a programming point of view, I’d leave it til the chest is opened.

Chest duration is short, so it’s not like you can go level up before you loot it.

Are you someone who believes a poker hand is determined when the cards are dealt, or shuffled?

Jski.6180:

After 3 month not much should be change its should be more about making sure what is there works right most of the time and they have been.

hear hear!

I know it’s gotta be a hard decision from a business point of view, but from player point of view, the best thing they could have done is wait til next year to release it – get the core systems in place and working.

It’s a shame to see what might have been, not.

Happyfool.8951:

jaydubdyer.9524:

Daily achievments, if you max out gathering daily you get 4500 karma im level 38 and have 10k

Great! Good job on digging up a 2-month old thread!

Haha ikr

It actually took some deliberate gameplay choices back then, because you level so fast. If you did some exploration or crafting, you could be lvl 40 with almost zero karma back then.

I just got another character to 80 and purchased a full karma exotic armor set (252k karma, I actually bought it before 80, cuz I wanted Balthazar and it’s only rarely unbugged and open), and still have half my karma jugs in the bank.

Hawkian.6580:

The link you posted contains all of the methods to get Ascended back pieces at present. You missed out on “Method 2.”

Really, though, more importantly- don’t worry about it for now at all. Easier methods are confirmed to be coming and the only stat boost is quite negligible at this time.

Not necessarily “easier” because that of course depends on what you do in game. If you’re doing fractals progression for the fun of it, you’ll get the pieces as you go.

Definitely the stats boost is so small (at least so far with what’s in-game) that even a full set of ascended represents no discernible performance increase in-game.

ShadowGryphon.6257:

Zid.4196:

ShadowGryphon.6257:

Zid.4196:

You may play any inferior style if you want to.

No offense, but who are you to judge?
What makes you so God-like in this game that you can belittle someone for what works for them?

I’m not really a fan of “everybody is right for themselves” philosophy. As I said, I have to be blunt about rune of divinity. It’s a bad choice, there is no other way to put it. You may like it, you may not like it, you may stick with it: but if you want to improve consider other runes and upgrade.

So I have to infer that you are a fan of everybody is right if they agree with you.
It’s the only conclusion I can come to given the fact that you did not answer my queries.
There’s blunt then there’s insulting and abusive, you are the latter.

So I’ll ask again: who are you to judge and what makes you so God-like in this game that you can belittle someone for what works for them?

One other thing, you chastise some here for “knowing better” than others, yet you are doing the same thing, hypocritical much?

Just let it go. Anyone who makes absolute statements about stats values on runes is misunderstanding character statistics and how they influence gameplay.

All that’s being discussed here is a percent or two difference in actual in-game performance. There’s no such thing as a “bad” choice when there’s no functional difference between choices.

I think the pvp system was the biggest blunder. The eSport that wasn’t. Launching with it not ready to play was especially bad because it only takes a few minutes to get into it.

At least for dungeon runners, it took some time to see the weaknesses there, because of needing level up and gear up.

I was searching for spvp stuff this weekend. Most of what comes up on google is from pre-launch. That’s rather kitten And there was nothing on the first several pages on google that was more recent than October.

It’s not quite true to say the whole pvp community moved on. But almost everyone’s left.

The point with a legendary is that they require almost every part of the game (just not pvp), along with a huge investment of wealth.

So necessarily if there’s a part of the game you don’t love, you’re not gonna love that part of the legendary.

I really wish wvw didn’t suck so much. But it’s not as bad as being “forced” to endure map completion in Lornar’s Pass and zones like that in a game with no mount (flyin or otherwise)

LOCO.1785:

Twitchz.6407:

LOCO.1785:

Ansultares.1567:

And once again, I’m left wondering why include the stat upgrades at all.

That’s the million dollar question, which we’ll never get a real answer to.

We all have a good idea why of course, it just doesn’t make sense, not to me anyway.

I thought this was discussed before? Is Ascended gear not to bridge the gap between the exotic and the upcoming legendary armors?

One of ANets lead devs did state something similar, but the problem is the statement is complete garbage. Bridge the gap? It extends the gap ten fold. So how is it bridging the gap? Have you seen the required mats for ascended gear? For a game marketed as grind free, I’d hate to see what they consider a grind.

It was to bridge the gap between acquisition of legendary vs exotic. I just hit 80 this morning on my ele, and already have a full suit of exotic armor, a couple weapons, and almost all lvl 80 jewels. And I haven’t even shopped the T.P. yet. :p

Legendary weapons are a huge endeavor, not everyone wants to grind it out, especially since it’s so $$ driven.

Ascended gear gives something to work toward if you want that’s non-trivial but not legendary in effort. The point is it’s time, not stats, per se

The cool thing about pvp is you don’t need to level them or gear them up to play a profession. So do whatever you like there.

Ranger is lackluster. They started weak, continue to suffer performance issues w/ bugs and stupid pet tricks, and got nerfed bad.

Warrior is a very strong profession. Definitely the fastest kill speed. They’re great for pve and wvw. Honestly not a profession I’m troubled to face in pvp, tho.

I got a BLT key drop this weekend.

@Zerran: exotic weapon for 2g? I was just lookin up scepters, staff, dagger… nothing that cheap, not even the bad exotics.

Zid.4196:

Grimshetara.3265:

This is a sloppy written “guide” that doesn’t make coherent sense. Were you drunk writing this? The instructions and directions are so poorly expressed.

Yes, I spend all my orichalcum gains on dwarven ale.

Did you actually do this on one or more lvl 1s?

Raf.1078:

If you are talking about the TP…prices are subject to as much as the market will bear and still give the consignee a sale. Sorry you think the prices are high…but you aren’t the one gathering, buying and making the weapons. Not to mention leveling the crafter. You aren’t, technically, paying for a Greatsword…you are paying for a service.

If you aren’t talking about the TP, why are you wasting coin buying the trash from npc vendors?

The pricing that’s under control of the game designers is what’s relevant.

This includes vendor weapons which really aren’t trash, not sure why you’d say that. I can see that not all of ’em have the stats you might prefer, but they work great.

The contentious pricing issue is that, for example, an ascalonian greatsword is 390 tokens, whereas an ascalonian scepter is 300 tokens. Similar for other options, invaders. And the reqs for crafting aren’t scaled for 2h over 1h (the diff is 1 ori bar or ancient plank for a part)

BLTP prices are whatever the market collectively decides.

It’s easy to move thousands of karma to lowbies. But I thought all ori picks require lvl 60.

ArenaNet cut their teeth on small group instanced content, and small group pvp.

It’s what they do best. Big group anything is not their forte, and they can’t do quests without a lot of bugs.

I’m hoping they learned their lesson by now.