I heavily oppose anonymous character inspections, unless it’s on a request-only basis, and you have the option to disable requests.
You don’t get to see my gear unless I decide to show you.
Exactly. Totally agree. Inspection only encourages elitism. If you want to know what skins someone has that you admire so much, ask them.
This thread just validates my decision not to participate in the Halloween event. I was on the fence, but not any longer.
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Im a little annoyed that all these people who didnt get the game on release or were too lazy to level up are expecting to have all these items handed to them at level 1….
I have two level 50+ characters. Is that enough “hard work” for you?
Hmmm, I had a similar problem but I did not get the HoM portal stone in my inventory. Turns out I had not visited the HoM in GW1. When I did then I got the portal stone. So I am guessing the OP has already visited the GW1 HoM. I also took my main GW1 character into the HoM. Maybe you can do that too and see if it helps.
I have never been above 2g (but I’ve been close). I am level 53 now.
Also, I have not once bought or sold anything on the TP. So that 2g is just from selling\buying stuff to\from vendors.
My impression of the YouTube gamer guides is that the authors prefer it as a means to show off their “skill” and to hear themselves talk.
I feel like someone having to click on your character, and squint to see little gray font to see the title
I didn’t even know you could do that. I selected one of the titles and asked my guild members if they saw the title over my head or anything, and nobody saw anything.
Ha ha, me either! I selected one of my HoM titles but had no idea where they show up. I just assumed it was yet another broken aspect of the game.
But yeah, titles should be [Character Name], [Title] and hover over our character not needing to do anything (e.g., click) other than looking at them. So something like “Fizzbin, The Kitten Slayer”.
I vote to get rid of it all together, not change it into something else.
I recall my earliest days with MMOs getting a whisper about buying gold. At the time I had no idea it was wrong. Maybe this is normal and legit? I nearly did it too but the delivery was the give-away for me (in-game meetup to trade gold). My point? There are probably tons of people playing who have no idea gold selling is wrong and not part of the game. To stop the practice would include an in-your-face message at game startup time; so in your face that you cannot not know it is wrong.
Yeah, I was severely disappointed with Jauggernaught. I thought at least that I would get larger, like a double-sized Norn. But no. 30 pts gone.
“Players become truly addicted to information.
They start making rules – allow access to your character’s information or you can’t join Group/Guild.
And it’s downhill from there, all the way to obnoxious elitism.”
Yup. Go look at the Diablo 3 forums. Those forums were full of hatred and condemnation to begin with. As soon as the ability to link your post to your character was introduced, then people’s comments were immediately being discounted or otherwise invalidated based on whatever criteria suited the person (not enough hours played, hasn’t reached level X, whatever).
This sounds like a good idea on paper, but in practice, it would actually detract from the game. Those who suggested and wanted it would be overjoyed, but then would come all the rampant complaints. “I can kill this red, but not this red, what gives, ANet?” “This sucks, these things are yellow and are absolutely trashing me. I’d rather just know everything’s level, because this isn’t fun.”
Then one of the categories should be “Not Possible”. But even so, the color coding would change and would always be relative to your “hidden” level. I don’t see the problem.
That’s a very interesting concept. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to literally have an MMO-type of game with no level system at all…just story and stuff to do. That way, people could actually play the game instead of getting all hot and bothered about getting to max level and then complaining that there’s not enough content.
This is brilliant!
I quickly discovered the joy of sword/main hand axe/off hand. I love it. GS got boring fast despite the dps. Plus my norn woman looks badkitten dual-wielding sword/axe.
I totally disagree with the OP. Down scaling is a very good thing. And it’s one of the things I like most about GW2. Claiming you cannot help out lower level people is disingenuous. Of course you can still help lower level folks. You just cannot one-shot, steam roll content.
Oh FOR SURE! +1 This pleases the gods!
I think they should waive the way point fee when resurrecting after death. It just adds insult to injury. It’s bad enough we have to pay repair, run back from the way point which is sometimes contested so you have to rez much farther away.
I’ve had multiple infractions for posts involving Rift talk. As far as I can tell none of them violated any other guidelines… but of course the “reason” was vague and didn’t say why it was really taken down. They just ninja bad PR with more bad PR
That has happened to me (and probably will again for this post). Some of the mods act upon a very liberal interpretation of the forum rules.
On the topic at hand, I also wanted to say that the class build system is very cool. Any class can play any role in the Holy Trinity. And on the negative side, Trion has had an extremely big nerf bat which is the reason why I left the game. They nerfed the priest class into oblivion for a while because of a PvP issue. WoW did the same thing at one time and on both occasions I left their game. Since we pay a monthly subscription I don’t think destroying a class, even for a finite amount of time, is not appropriate (would have been better if Trion had said the mega-nerf was temporary until a more permanent fix was in).
I played Rift for over a year. It’s a great WoW-style MMO. By that I mean it has the endless gear grind if you are into that and the so-called “Holy Trinity”. The Rift devs did an absolutely awesome job at UI design and implementing new features as the game progressed. On the negative side, the quests are quite boring IMO making leveling a second character a bit of a chore. The dungeons are quite linear.
I totally agree with point 1 in the OP. I despise crafting. I don’t mind buying something that was crafted by someone who can tolerate crafting though.
I think I read in a different forum that the commander thingy for 100g is usually obtained by guild members contributing some money towards its purchase.
Ritualist, and I am just adding some more text to this just to pass the 15 character limit requirement to post in this forum — sheesh
I think every piece of clothing should have the show/hide checkbox. That’s what Rift does and it works very well.
I always go to Divinitys Reach because in LA there is too much lag because “that’s where everyone is”.
By the bear!
Excellent idea OP. Power to the role players.
You’re missing out on… what, maybe 10% combat effectiveness? If that?
Gear doesn’t matter much in this game. Player skill matters.
What you fail to understand is that it is much easier to blame others for one’s own failings. It’s human nature.
Look at the person who said that if gear inspection was available he would still kick someone from the dungeon group even if stacking magic find had no appreciable effect on combat effectiveness.
So I was in the Suggestions forum and there was a topic with a title in German. Curious, so I clicked it. Now all of the Suggestions forum is in German and the “Suggestions” link on the main Forum page is in German. Clicking on any of the German Suggestions topics results in a topic not found error.
I love this idea!
Yeah, let’s be an even more disrespectful community. </sarcasm>
When you spend time at work reading this forum :/
Most definately YES. And for me it’s $80 since I bought two bank upgrades because what we start with is pathetic (yes, ANet, it worked, you forced me to spend more money).
Don’t get rid of town clothing per se. Just add more “buttons”/“tabs” for different armor sets. Since the mechanism is already in place to swap armor, why not allow armor sets?
More or less in this order of importance:
1 – Dual professions
2 – The skills/build system we had in GW1.
3 – Companions (e.g., whatever Jora, Dunkoro, Olias, etc were called).
4 – Drawing on the minimap.
5 – Guild Halls
6 – The old dye system.
7 – A map that looks more like a real map rather than a bunch of rectangular regions.
The deck building aspect is the primary thing that I miss. But it was likely the single biggest source of headache for ANet. I mean really, a monk with 55 health soloing a destroyer boss?! Those were the days!
They can edit a post in 20 seconds. but 2 weeks to fix a bugged skill point.
Apples and oranges. False dichotomy.
I don’t open chests any more. I already have too many tonics taking up space in the ridiculously little bank storage we have. They are just not worth it.
Not me. I got tired of the Rift grind for currencies. I was also turned off by the massive nerf batting; not cool for a subscription-based game. Too much like WoW. But I have to say Trion did an incredible job on the game’s UI and are amazingly responsive to the player base.
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Ok, that is just silly ANet. Silly I say.
Yes OP, there are total you-know-what’s in this game and pretty much all other MMOs. It’s part of the little kid machismo. Some day they will grow up but for now we just have to deal with them. That’s one of the reasons why I started an all-adult guild, no obnoxious little snots allowed.
A system that is supposed to punish bots but instead punishes everyone else instead.
But it doesn’t punish everyone. It only punishes you and other people who grind the same content over and over. That’s ANet’s choice. I support it. You can always go back to a more grindy game if you like.
We are all being punished by this stupid DR and Dungeon system because of botters and exploiters.
I don’t feel punished at all. But then I don’t grind the same thing over and over. Too much to see and do.
What fun things have you found on the map?
For me, I enjoyed stumbling upon a statue of Jora.
Yeah, I get frustrated by the transmutation stones. I simply expect them to be able to take the appearance of any piece of armor and apply it to any other piece of armor of the same type (heavy, medium, light). That’s it. What’s the big deal of doing otherwise?
I think the mechanic that makes mobs invulnerable if they can’t attack you cheapens the tactical variety and fun. There has to be a more subtle and clever way to prevent exploits than that.
I totally agree with this point.
This still seems like it can be abused. I suppose if people who too often falsely flag someone as a bot are punished in some significant way, then it might be enough to discourage abuse.
I suspect not everyone who plays this game knows what a “bot” is and if they were suddenly labeled as a bot they might not understand what to do for fear of being scammed somehow.
But in principle, I think it is a good idea, but an expensive one to implement.
Some people have, from time to time, asked on these forums why such-and-such a character name was not allowed. Sometimes it is a clear violation of the rules and other times it seems as if denial was based on an extraordinarily liberal interpretation of the rules. The same thing can be said about forum post censorship but there is nothing I can think of to help with that other than utilizing more diligent and conservative self-censorship. But as far as the character name thing goes, a simple web page with a text box and a button on it that tests whether a name will be allowed or not prior to character creation could be of use to some people. Granted, it is a relatively small thing, but some people might benefit from it; the cost of making such a tool would probably be so low as to make it worthwhile.
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“I just received a infraction for pointing out that someone just made a “terrible analogy”.…..is that worthy of a infraction?”.
I got “infracted” for “+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1” because “+1” was too short because the popup message, when I tried posting my support for the OP’s idea, said a minimum of 15 characters was needed. Shame on me, I guess.
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A friend and I were fighting some trolls or maybe ettins, I forget, and they kept knocking us down. Each ettin used their knockdown once and only after some other ettin already used theirs. So it was like they were perfectly coordinated in their use of knockdowns. Anyway, we spent the entire fight flat on our backs and couldn’t do anything. Needless to say we died.