Guild Wars 2

MarkoNS.3261:

you do realize im not saying remove tp, they could add direct trade along side it,

Yeah but the TP has a gold sink tax to it, so even if mechanically the TP would run along side it, people would be trading anything to avoid paying tax, granted mostly high end stuff, but that’s where it’d effect the economy the most, the tax from Legendary Weapons not being taken out of the economy like it should be.

Cultural Armour as well is a factor.

Less tickets to support too.

Look at the price of an Identity Repair Kit. For the price a racial change contract would probably cost in relation to one of those, it’d probably be cheaper to get a character expansion slot.

Yargesh.4965:

They are not humans, straight backs are not a sign of authority.

I agree. Also, the way a Charr walks, makes it look like they don’t give a puppy about what is around them. Fifty pirates around me as I walk through Lion’s Arch? Who cares?!

Maybe it’s the Charr on GW1 that need the fix?

It’s not like the direct trade didn’t come with it’s own problems anyway in GW1.

Dolphinash.8736:

hopefully.

:D

I currently have a Condi mesmer using Perplexity, so I’d probably choose that over Tormenting, though I am also currently levelling another condi mesmer, which I will be trying Tormenting as well. I reckon they could both play well, and both conditions are fun to gift on one’s enemy.

reapex.8546:

Charrbeque.8729:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2016-06-01#General

The inactivity timer is no longer impacted by autoloot.

It’s a good start. Autoloot will no longer prevent the game from logging you out for being AFK.

Agreed, unfortunately the macro to have your character take a “baby step” to reset the timer is still active.

Perhaps, but then we can Report for Botting if we still see AFK Farmers. Then ArenaNet themselves can do the rest.

drunkenpilot.9837:

Stahp with these threads already. No, we don’t “need” to know ANet’s plans. Overcommunication has gotten the devs in hot water in the past because, shockingly, the GW2 playerbase can be extremely fickle and demanding. Yes, we may have one of the friendlier communities when compared to other MMO’s, but take a look at nearly any thread on this topic on the forums and you’ll see just how overtly demanding this community can be. We are not entitled to know what they have in store for us. Wait and see.

Agreed to some extent.

ArenaNet will say something like “We will look into such and such…”

Players will say “What happened to such and such that you promised us?”

The word promise is being tossed about too much by players in threads lately. ArenaNet barely use the word promise, if at all.

Hi,

In Diessa Plateau, there’s a chain even where you must first stop Dredge from building a barricade. This event I did today, which was successful. However, it was only successful in that all the pieces of wall were not able to be completed, but all pieces were up without full health.

After the event was completed, the next event kick started, to retrieve sledgehammers from the Dredge Mine. But players are unable to get into the mine due to walls being put up, at zero health per wall, and unable to destroy them completely.

Picture shown.

Night time pretty much always happens when Behemoth is due. And ends after I think the Frozen Shaman.

That said, I’d like to see darker nights to be honest.

As above, Just. ^.^/

Just a flesh wound.3589:

“10) Another character with a MC star above his or her health bar.”

No star, no more. ;-(
The star was removed with the beginning of the Mastery system. If you mouse over nameplates you’ll see mastery numbers, titles, PvP ranks and char name. But no star.

I was sure both stars remain? I shall double-check this for science! points to sky like Batfink

Edit:
Scientific conclusion: Confirmed – you do get to keep your World Completion star!

(I got permission from my test subject, erm, I mean my guildie to post the image!)

Sir Alymer.3406:

I’d actually enjoy map comp on alts if there was some sort of benefit to having done it on another character.

But there are benefits. A few benefits in fact.

1) More karma from completing Renown Hearts, as well as any events along the way.
2) XP for such character if you are doing Map Completion from scratch (highly recommended anyway).
3) Two pieces of gear for each PvE map you complete.
4) 70% Chance of a Transmutation Charge, 30% Chance of a Black Lion Chest Key for every PvE map you complete (estimated).
5) 40 Ore/Wood or 20 Chef materials for every PvE map you complete.
6) Loot from most kills along the way.
7) 2x Gifts of Exploration for finishing the map.
8) Having more than one character being able to go anywhere you want.
9) You don’t have to do as many HoT hero challenges to maximise an Elite Specialisation.
10) Another character with a MC star above his or her health bar.

Granted, you get the same on each character as the first, but they are still benefits. And a lot of them for doing Map Completion.

RoseofGilead.8907:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Another thread that’s a symptom of Instant Level 80.

No thanks.

Well, this thread was created 6 months ago, so . . .

A symptom of amassing Tomes of Knowledge then.

Well spotted. Should have seen it myself.

Jasher.6580:

Honestly, I would probably start playing the game again if they made this an option.

So basically, you’re necro posting your own thread to say you won’t play the game until there’s a way to not play the game?

Another thread that’s a symptom of Instant Level 80.

No thanks.

I think the cake blaster could do with being Ground Targeted to be honest. There doesn’t seem to be any control where the cakes land.

I don’t understand why you’re forced into using Shortbow. I have a thief that uses Shortbow, and a thief that uses twin pistols instead. Both are fun to play with different roles.

I think there’s nothing wrong with the naming system. Players who have named their characters 3 years ago may come back. The game is designed to be ‘play whenever you want’. For them to come back to the game for whatever reasons, it wouldn’t be right for them to come back to find their character’s name has to be re-written.

Asura and Sylvari don’t have surnames, but you can still give them a title if the name is already taken.

For instance, instead of trying for Memp (I personally know that Asuran name is taken) try Golemancer Memp or Lionguard Memp etc.

Or for the Sylvari Caerven (again, I know it’s taken) – try Warden Caerven or Agent Caerven.

They still conform to the lore, and depending with who you want your character to be (especially for RP) your character will have deeper meaning.

As JAFW said, it doesn’t matter except for WvW what you choose. However, to increase your chances of getting into an ‘RP Shard’ – you might benefit from adding as many people who are native to Tarnished Coast as you can, as well as joining an RP specific guild.

If you haven’t already done so, I also recommend you joining guildwars2roleplayers.com – to make it easier to find friends you can RP with.

PvE isn’t meant to be competitive. It being a fully co-operative mode was one of the fundamental selling points points of the game in the first place.

A separate trait line for underwater combat. Doesn’t have to be 3×3×3 necessarily, but enough to add more variety whilst in the depths. Take current traits for spearguns/spears/tridents away from the current trait lines, and put them in the underwater combat line instead, for example.

I imagine most replies get sent to the ticket number holder’s email, rather than discussed in public.

Lord Kuru.3685:

There must be a plot twist because Dragon’s Watch means they’re working for the Dragon. LOL

Unless it’s a prelude to the currently unhatched egg of Glint? Our future ally?

Finally we can put this behind us. Good job, ArenaNet

Behellagh.1468:

What does repping buy the guild post HoT? Repping gives the player access to GH services and bonuses but right now it’s favor from doing guild missions and material support for upgrades are what’s important to the guild. Or am I missing something?

I think it’s more about repping for longer periods, compared to repping here and there. For example, before HoT, the guild you repped would get influence for the events you do, the PvP kills you do etc as long as you repped for that guild.

Now, you only have to rep for a few minutes at the most for the services you’re pointing out, meaning you can equally help more than one guild each day now.

To be honest though, it would probably have limitations, especially for those who have 20+ characters (probably for those who have 10+ to be honest!) – it would be nice if they could do it though.

Hesacon.8735:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hesacon.8735:

I wish I could spend my useless karma on them.

Buy cloth gloves from heart vendor. Mystic Forge them. Salvage then sell. Then you can buy them.

Sounds far too tedious.

Well, you’re welcome for the tip anyway. o7

Hesacon.8735:

I wish I could spend my useless karma on them.

Buy cloth gloves from heart vendor. Mystic Forge them. Salvage then sell. Then you can buy them.

What Fleshy said, but I’ll also add that you can report for Verbal Abuse too, and perhaps karma will bite them on the kitten’s tail.

Sequekhan.2091:

People want to start crying and abusing other players, that’s fine.

Report them anyway, because it’s actually not fine.

Firstly, use a different password for your game than your email. Make both passwords a sentence rather than a word or small phrase or your favourite pet or your boyfriend/girlfriend’s name etc.

Then use the 2 Tier authentication that keeps harassing you when you log in if you’ve not done so already.

ArenaNet do great work in keeping our accounts safe, to where they can. But the truth of the matter is, people’s accounts are their own responsibility at the end of the day.

In fact, I would probably go so far as to say all accounts that are hacked are down to the player being at fault, not ArenaNet.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Hmm…does the agitated Leylines (previous Current Event) have something to do with Raids? No idea; I have never ‘raided’ (if that is the correct term).

I suspect tomorrow will bring a new ‘Current Event’ and may (probably?) have nothing to do with Bandits.

You’re right, I was thinking more on the Bandit/White Mantle thing and forgot about the ley line thing. So, maybe current events are towards more than one thing. I don’t raid myself, so I hope it’s LS3 (or both, as I don’t want other players to be disappointed even if they play a game mode that doesn’t appeal to me!).

But anyway, I’m digressing the topic. More AP are coming with the Current Events thing!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, new APs have been coming out with ‘Current Events’; it looks like those are being released bi-weekly.

I suspect they are leading up to Living Story Season 3, which should have a plethora of new Achievements (and Points, of course). =)

I hope it is towards LS3 – though I think it could be towards a Raid Wing, considering where that portal’s location near the bandit bridge (and a new zone from there would run parallel to the other two wings) – though I know that portal has been there since I think before LS2, so I could be wrong on that.

Auto-Clickers aren’t allowed, as it’s multiple-actions using one keystroke. I’m not sure what the other does, but it sounds like it might be against ToS as well.

There’s a sticky on the main forum page:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros

Safest bet is simply don’t use them, to be honest. There are a few grey areas regarding some of them.

Yeah, give mirrored hairstyles please. I can’t see where I’m going with this flick..

Heibi.4251:

penelopehannibal, if you keep track of points, create a leader board that does so and give people a rank for the most of something, it becomes a competition plain and simple. Not to mention giving rewards for advancing. ANeT made it a competition by acknowledging how much someone has done and assigning RANK.

The rewards you get are nothing to do with competition either, since everyone gets the same reward regardless of what ‘position’ you are in. The person who now has 32,000 AP got the same things in the chest at 10,000 AP as the person who is only on 10,000 (pfft.. “only”).

You can make it a competition if you want, and play it as one, but it doesn’t make it one. If the leaderboard was there are the start, and there was a fair way for new players to compete in it, (i.e. leagues for different player start dates, or an AP to /age ratio listed) then yeah fair enough, I’d say it’s a competition too.

But if I see someone with 32,000 AP points, I take it as a pinch of salt. They’ve not won anything because the ‘race’ will never be over.

I think it’s just basically an indication of your current percentage, since every level until you reach Masteries are divided into ten (so when you have two full, you know you’re about 20% towards the next level).

danielrjones.8759:

How Anet FORCED them to do dailies everyday and how unfair it was because they were unable to play the game because Anet forced them to do dailies.

Can’t tell if sarcasm or not.

A new competent, please.

Heibi.4251:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Heibi.4251:

penelopehannibal.8947:

It’s not a competition.

If it isn’t, then why create a daily achievement limit?

Because it’s not a competition!

Heibi.4251:

And why is there a achievement point leader board, huh? Looks like a competition to me. It makes no sense. And they state it as to let newer players have a chance to catch up.

The leaderboard has everyone on the same ‘league’ – whether the person’s been playing for 1 day, or 1,374 days. If it is a competition, it isn’t a fair one.

Then, by your own words, it is a competition. Otherwise, why keep score, have a leader board, and give a ranking? The artificial cap just hurts people, it doesn’t help.

Eh, by my own words? How is me saying it’s not a competition, saying it is? It isn’t a competition, and I stand by those words!!

Achievement points were available before the leaderboard came out. Achievement points have been out since launch of the game. The leaderboard wasn’t out until at least a year after launch.

So, by your own words what you’re asking really is, why have achievement points? I assume to reward time spent doing certain tasks in game (i.e. the achievement chests) rather than to race each other.

The leaderboard was added later on, I assume to appease the people who are asking out of interest where they stand as opposed to other players and their achievements. I don’t think anywhere it’s ever been stated that it’s designed as a race.

Heibi.4251:

penelopehannibal.8947:

It’s not a competition.

If it isn’t, then why create a daily achievement limit?

Because it’s not a competition!

Heibi.4251:

And why is there a achievement point leader board, huh? Looks like a competition to me. It makes no sense. And they state it as to let newer players have a chance to catch up.

The leaderboard has everyone on the same ‘league’ – whether the person’s been playing for 1 day, or 1,374 days. If it is a competition, it isn’t a fair one.

Also this:

RoseofGilead.8907:

The 30k+ achievement players also have the same cap that the 29k and below players do, though. They’re “unreachable” because they had access to all of the old achievements; and made sure they did every single achievement they could to get every point they could, even in game modes they might not care for. Even if Anet removed the daily AP cap, you’d still likely never catch up to them because they did all the other achievements everyone else couldn’t/didn’t/won’t do.

It’s not a competition.

You can do any emote you want in game, with custom emotes.

/em kisses Logan.
/em strikes a pose.
/em thinks ArenaNet have bigger fish to fry.

If they could, they would, they said. Perhaps they are working on it, or perhaps they can’t. Quote from John Smith:

John Smith.4610:

This isn’t flood control or anti-bot, it’s a technical limitation. If we could reduce it we would.

I’ve said this elsewhere before, but I don’t remember where.

Taken from the topic This is getting annoying

Pact Airships. And also something from the Priory & Vigil to match the recently added [Globe of Whispers]

Rodzynald.5897:

One word: Roleplay

What’s so weird about you roleplaying?

I’ll tell you what’s weird: I’ve roleplayed two different characters from two different accounts having a conversation with each other once, just to get my foot in the roleplay doorway. :p

I think another problem is adding the option of the $5 to other currencies too, across the board.

I would have originally said no to this, before HoT, but you’re right. With the scrapper and druid, it now makes sense.