Guild Wars 2

Glad I’m not alone

I’m not showing my /deaths though

sighs This is the Queensdale Champ Train all over again.

People are entitled to kill a champ if the game lets them. That part is not griefing. If they afterwards start to abuse people in map chat, then report them for that, but killing a champ that you are allowed to kill is not griefing.

You may pwn the champs, but you don’t own the champs.

Abhor.5602:

I also find it annoying that I have two dozen people on my followers list, and I know almost none of them. Adding someone as a friend should be a two-way process where the other person either accepts or declines.

Also, you’re pretty bad at tic-tac-toe, Computer. 3-3-1 in my favor.

Personally, I like it – if someone is kind enough to think of me as a favourite to them, I always return the favour.

With nearly 7,000 hours ranked up now, I have to admit I am addicted to Guild Wars 2. However, combating addiction is the responsibility of the user in most part, and a bit of self control is what is needed. In which, I don’t have any :p

There is an in-game clock in the map, which I guess is there to be like the old “You have played this game for 3 hours. Please take a break” but less effective, but also less intrusive. At the end of the day it’s down to us players to kerb our playing, not ArenaNet.

Don’t save them! You get no benefit from saving stacks of them up! Use as soon as you get from salvaging. I double click about 15 – 30 of them per day.

Palador.2170:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Suggestion: make the sheath a back item.

Question: Are we commenting on an item that still doesn’t exist for players yet, or has something come out that I don’t know about?

It’s an item worn by one of the new LS characters, and it can be seen in the Wardrobe. I believe it’s under a second entry for “Iron Sword”, you need to go to a bank to see the weapon model. Try looking at it stored, then drawn.

Yeah I thought it was still this case, which is why I’m left wondering why people are complaining about an item that is not available for PCs, as if it is!

Suggestion: make the sheath a back item.

Question: Are we commenting on an item that still doesn’t exist for players yet, or has something come out that I don’t know about?

Not on this site, and even if there is elsewhere, I wouldn’t go there because if there were, who is to say the list of names you see are guilty? Someone could troll the list and simply put someone they don’t like in the list who is actually innocent.

Yargesh.4965:

set your language to only accept from other English clients. You will be inconvenienced but hey you won’t have those nasty foreign people on your chat.

It’s automatically set by default anyway, so the OP must have disabled it at some point.

To the OP: Is there not a more polite way you can post the question? I understand your frustration, but the way it’s posted is a bit, well, it’s borderline xenophobic tbh.

Also, perhaps considered guilding and friending up?

Siobhan.6027:

Thats what you get for trying to play bad pvp in a bad game.

How is this constructive?

I’m happy with most of it – just wish that when your character is indoors you don’t see the grid lines. I think this is an ATI Graphics Card issue though.

The only way to see your own name is to be in party with someone, and have them target you. But as others suggested, it’s not really something people want or need (nor is it a Mac Beta issue! :p )

Yeah it’s been said in similar posts before – If you’re connection or computer isn’t stable enough to accommodate PvP that is organised and might affect other players, you probably should know better than to keep risking it by logging in (especially when you know you’ve crashed twice before!), so sorry, I have to agree with others and say that the buff is fine as it is.

With the deepest respect of course

I don’t know sorry, but I can’t imagine it being much fun, would sound like work to me. I’d rather play the game how it was meant to be played personally.

There has been a response!

ColinJohanson.2394:

To maximize your odds of running into other RP players more often, you’ll want to make sure you’re on the same world (generally TC and Piken are viewed as the RP worlds), and in guilds with other RP members also on that same world. For example, everyone from TC currently will be set to high priority to sort together, same thing goes with people who are all a part of the same guild (so guild up RP folks!)

We’ll continue to monitor, adapt and update the system as we go forward as well, for now I’d suggest seeing how it works once we enable the mega server system across all maps and then giving comments and feedback when you see it in action!

(edited to add Piken!)

I don’t RP as regularly as other people do on Piken, but I think that most of the time native Piken Square people are finding their way to the same megaserver as other Piken Square roleplayers personally, although I can’t really say for the majority and most of the RP I’m involved with is Guild RP, but the megaservers have not been an issue with us.

My advice other than guild up, is to friend up as well, with as many people as you can from either Tarnished Coast or Piken Square (depending which one you’re from) that you know RP.

I have over 200 people on my friends list and find no problem being with Piken Square people

• when you walk into a bar and kneel next to a chair instead of sitting on it.
• when you jump the queue in the bank.
• when you’re at the railway station and someone looks at their watch and asks “Where’s the train?” and you explain it got nerfed…

We haven’t even got a two handed Katana (yet – if at all!) and we’re already asking for a one handed one?!

But yes, I agree that if the Two-Handed ones (whatever the proper name is supposed to be) are available to players in the future, it’s only fair to have a one handed one for thieves too.

tim.1280:

Fastest pug fractal run I have had to date had two rangers in it… Sadly, most rangers can’t play their class well so that’s where the bad reputation comes from…..

You and many other people who say this should re-phrase that to ‘most rangers you’ve seen’ because I’ve been in many dungeon runs with rangers and never had any problem at all, whether it was Caudicus’ Manor, Twilight Arbor, Citadel of Flame or Arah.

Eowin Of Rohan.2619:

“i’m gonna be mad”.

Seriously. You just got nice free content (that probably wasn’t planned when you bought gw2) including story, personal instances, repeatable content, a new map, events, some new mechanics … and this is the very first update in the Season 2 that will most probably have several other ones with new maps along the way !

Also, @people who say it’s a tiny piece. Did you even bother exploring it ? It is bigger than is seems when you first discover it in your world map. It’s a small map, but it’s still a nice one and doesn’t deserve to be called “tiny bit”. Btw, its already bigger than gw1’s Dry Top.

+1

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Greatsword, hm?

ANet: adds Katana, makes sure that thief can’t use it

ANet: adds Chiroptophobia, makes sure that necromancer can’t us it. :p

Gaile Gray.6029:

We need:

• Guild Name (exact spelling)
• When possible, a character or display name of a member of that guild (this is golden for us)
• Guild Tag (Unfortunately, we can’t review tags without the guild name OR a character or display name of a member)

Thank you sincerely for your help!

Thank you – this is very helpful.

Another “Urgh… ArenaNet want money. How dare they?” post.

You don’t have to whip out your credit or debit card to get gems. You can get gems by converting gold to gems as well.

The game’s been out for 674 days, and I’ve probably spent roughly the same amount in £ (GBP) in gems since release.

I enjoy the game and most of the releases so far, and looking forward to tomorrow’s too.

:)

Hi,

Further to this topic and my thread which was linked, I today bought a £10 GBP Gem Card, and got it displayed as 900 Gems instead of 940. Again, no alarm since I got the full amount. Last time was a £20 GBP card for 1880, but only displayed 18.8 – so the amount is getting closer this time

Thanks.

*edit – I’m on Mac Beta if it helps

Thanks – I will from now on use that, though I can’t remember the two player’s usernames in question since I only spotted them for a split second before they ran past me in game!
:)

Earlier this week I spotted two separate characters with what I thought were inappropriate guild names and tags. I used the option to report them for inappropriate user name, which I thought was the same way.

However, I have since seen one of them still with the same guild tag. The guild tag refers to a body part with five letters, minus the letter e. I re-reported him.

The second one was the guild name, which had spaced out letter of a word that is 10 letters long that describes a very disturbing type of criminal (with hunters at the end).

I’m just a bit worried that if I’m reporting them for ‘Inappropriate Character Name’ that their guild name and/or tag would be overlooked, and that ArenaNet might think I’m wasting their time.

So, my question is, am I reporting them in the right way, or would ArenaNet like me to submit this kind of reporting instead, so I can go into more detail?

Thank you.

My main thief runs Assassin’s build rather than Zerker build at about 80% crit chance – any more than that is a waste if you get the boon Fury (as it gives you +20% Crit Chance)

WvW & sPvP hasn’t really changed, because it’s not really meant to! You buy any other game which you only have to pay for once, and that’s usually it. You get what you pay for. The content you see is the content you get.

BUT… then ArenaNet give WvW extras, such as Edge of the Mists. PvP has had extra maps, such as Skyhammer as well as a changed tournament system.

So yeah, I don’t see a problem. WvW zones were designed as they are to be kept in the long term. And they’re not going to fill WvW and PvP with 100s of different maps because there’d hardly be anyone in them, except maybe 1 or 2 which will have loads because it’s “The best one”.*

Edit: *for rewards or something.

This is turning into the Champ Train arguing again.

Hi,

I would like to report this small error that I got when I entered a £20 Gem Card code on the Gem Store today. I don’t know if this is ongoing, whether it is Mac Beta or universal, so I’ll put is here for now.

It shows after accepting my code that I will revive 18.8 Gems. Luckily, the amount I received after a minute or two was indeed, 1,880, so I’ve not issue with the gems I received, only the cosmetic error at the start.

frans.8092:

penelopehannibal.8947:

This system of being re-directed to a different WP when it’s contested has always been there since August 2012.

It has become more annoying since megaservers, since a waypoint may be contested in the megaserver you are put in.

The megaservers don’t make it more often than it was before the megaserver was in place, since most if not all events occur at the same frequency as they did pre-megaserver.

You could have been in Divinity’s Reach in Pre-Megaserver days, then WP to Ojon’s Mill Waypoint only for it to be contested because of Skritt stealing tools. It’s no more likely now than it was before.

Astralporing.1957:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Tumult.2578:

So now every time we waypoint to an area where any events are occurring, our gold is taken, but we don’t go there. We go somewhere we did not want to go.
This is worse than having most of the waypoints show uncontested, even when they aren’t.
I’m concerned that a lot of players will look at this as simple robbery?

This system of being re-directed to a different WP when it’s contested has always been there since August 2012.

True. Of course, it never actually worked before, you got only the information popup, but weren’t really moved away.

It still does the same now too like with me near Ojon’s mill – so it’s not charging any different since before the megaservers it’ll have no impact on people’s pockets!

Tumult.2578:

So now every time we waypoint to an area where any events are occurring, our gold is taken, but we don’t go there. We go somewhere we did not want to go.
This is worse than having most of the waypoints show uncontested, even when they aren’t.
I’m concerned that a lot of players will look at this as simple robbery?

This system of being re-directed to a different WP when it’s contested has always been there since August 2012.

I have about 230 people on block and 200 of them are gold sellers. Hardly any of them if any at all have shown online for ages, so the chances are even if they are given back – the user isn’t using the game anymore.

They might not be blocking you – they might just be showing invisibly – the only way to know someone is blocking you is to try to mail them instead of whisper and if the mail gets through without saying “Sorry, this person is blocking you”, then they are invisible and not blocking you.

That said, if they’ve been trolling you and verbally abusing you in any form, you may block them, and report them using the in-game report system and choosing verbal abuse.

To those who have quit the game:

Just go. Don’t hang around the forums expecting everyone else to be sorry for you leaving, bringing it up every two topics saying “This is the reason I left” etc – If you’ve left, good for you. Do you want a medal or something?

Please let the rest of us enjoy the game.

The game’s never relied on Zerker builds. Never has. Just some people’s attitudes to non-zerker builds are a bit off in my opinion when they run the Zerk-Only parties in dungeons claiming they carry people who aren’t zerker when in my experience, it’s been the other way round.

I run a Carrion build on my Mesmer, and in one run, everyone else were Zerkers and they were like “OK, we’ll let you in this time, but don’t expect us to carry you or you’re out” and yet, it was me who was the only one that didn’t die.

It’s people running Zerk-only parties that are the ones alienating people, not the other way round.

Kumion.7580:

From the first paragraph of The Story Journal subheading:
Characters under level 80 will be able to see the available episodes, but will not be able to play them until they reach level 80.

Does this little tidbit bother anyone?

On the positive side, I’m cautiously in favor of the concept of the Story Journal. (Cautiously, because we’ve seen how good concepts can go horribly wrong.) I like the idea of being able to access Story content even if I wasn’t able to play at the time it was new. I don’t even mind the 200 gems much. The company should be able to see a modest profit for their work, IMO. Good content will be unlocked by more people and Anet will be able to see what percentage of players are willing to pay for it.

On the negative side, I haven’t seen one person in this thread mention this giant push to be L80. This game wasn’t supposed to be all about the endgame! What happened to the journey? Why should I bother with another alt, ever? Everything they’re building is for 80s. The new trait system is kitten-burgers for alts and noobs. Now alts and noobs can’t experience the Story? This is NOT a happy thing.

Doesn’t bother me since being a non-level 80 character is only temporary. Not to mention, that most of Season 1’s Living World content was pretty much played by level 80 characters anyway.

You’ll have to forgive ArenaNet for trying to give level 80 characters end game!

lordkrall.7241:

penelopehannibal.8947:

It’s not P2P because you do not have to pay for anything. All you have to do is log on once every two weeks. That’s all. Just log on. You don’t have to take part at the time of logging on, you can just log on, load a character, log out, and come back in another two weeks. Is that really that difficult? I think not.

I think this new step is a good thing. Don’t forget, not only would you get an episode for free if you log on at the time, but you can also convert some gold into the 200 gems, and I’m sure most people can raise that in less than two weeks just playing the game as normal.

I understand and like the coming system.
The person I quoted however is advocating that EVERYONE will HAVE to pay. no matter if they log in during the events initial release or not. And doing that WOULD make it P2P.

I see my bad sorry!

Too many words jumping at me and punching my eyes but I’ve been seeing people treating this (not yet released!) update like it’s some futuristic cyber conspiracy against the people so my statement is basically to everyone anyway not just to you.

lordkrall.7241:

juno.1840:

Except that you would not pay if there was no new content — so it’s still a B2P. In addition you would only buy it if you want to play it (crazy, I know).

So if I would want to play new content, I would basically have to pay a subscription in order to experience it.
How does that not make it P2P?

It’s not P2P because you do not have to pay for anything. All you have to do is log on once every two weeks. That’s all. Just log on. You don’t have to take part at the time of logging on, you can just log on, load a character, log out, and come back in another two weeks. Is that really that difficult? I think not.

I think this new step is a good thing. Don’t forget, not only would you get an episode for free if you log on at the time, but you can also convert some gold into the 200 gems, and I’m sure most people can raise that in less than two weeks just playing the game as normal.

I missed my chance to kill Scarlet in Season 1 – If they did put it in the journal thing, I’d be happy as Larry* whether I’d pay for it or not. But I still doubt they’ll make us pay for Season 1.

If they did make us pay for Season 1 (I emphasise they probably won’t) then maybe 800 Gems is a reasonable cost since that’s less than £10 (GBP – it’s about £8.50) for what I see it as a “Bonus Mission Pack” and you can still convert from gold anyway.

(*If you’re on Piken Square, I don’t mean the Cave Troll it’s a figure of speech!)

Test.8734:

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

$50 to buy season 1.

EXACTLY.

$50 = MORE than the price of a MMORPG’s EXPANSION.

Do you REALLY think that the instanced living world content of SEASON 1 was AS MUCH content as an EXPANSION?

So THAT’s how good ArenaNet’s new PRICING model is.

I’m pretty sure that Living World Season 2 will be free since all you have to do is log on once every two weeks. You don’t even have to do them to unlock them, just log in, log out if you want. Is that really difficult? And Season 1 – I very much doubt they’ll charge anyone for that, if they include it in the journal system at all, since it wasn’t designed with that in mind.

Why so many conspiracy theories by paranoid people? ArenaNet want the best for us all, not just themselves guys. Don’t like what they’re doing? You don’t have to like it, go play another game, preferably one with a monthly subscription fee.

Romo.3709:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Romo.3709:

It would destroy the TP market for minis. So I think it’s a rather bad idea. I’d rather have them add a slot to your hero pannel where you can equip them.

I’m not sure how it’d destroy the market for minis since people who buy them to re-sell them don’t actually have to use them. Those that want to keep them can, since I’m talking about turning the current icons that exist in the world, including on the TP, would be a double click to unlock, so wouldn’t be ‘soul bound’ until it’s used.

And to be honest, seeing a dedicated panel like the Finishers might get more people interested in buying their collection in the first place.

The rarest Minis that are now unattainable would become extinct. Lets say Mini Karka Hatchlings, Mini Reef Drake or even Mini Southsun Kasmeer. People that bought them love them, but at the same time it’s kind of an investment. Because lets face it, they all get boring sooner or later, since new cooler looking minis come out. Making them account bound unlocks and therefore taking them out of the economy would make those minis spike in price like crazy. At the same time all those common ones would become even more worthless than they are.

If you look at TP right now out of the top 10 most expensive minis, 5 of them are not attainable through meaning other than TP itself. Making the potential future income items account bound because of the attraction or connection you have with a current mini, takes the item out of economy completely, making it even more rare and even more expensive. Because the fact is that by using your system, the second you make it appear, it is gone from economy.

I would be more happy with a slot equipment that maybe has an access directly to your bank that you can choose which one of your minis you have stored, you want to show at the moment.

I think you may have misunderstood what I mean by ‘unlocking’. What I’m talking about is the icons we use now are still not bound and still exist, but instead of double clicking them to activate as a pet and put away, double clicking them makes the icon disappear and puts it in your hero panel. Then, it’s in your collection where you can view your collection from anywhere in Tyria. Like a dye if you like as well, if that makes sense.

You can still sell the mini pet on the TP, you just can’t sell a used one is what I’m suggesting (which let’s be honest, we shouldn’t be allowed to anyway!).

The idea is to make it easier for different characters to use the same mini pet without visiting the bank.

Also, a character can change their mini pet without visiting their collection (if they get bored of the old one as you suggested), which means they can stand anywhere with anyone else changing their mini pets to show off to that person their collection. There’s no luggage to carry, and I strongly believe a dedicated panel for minis will get people interested more in the collection, making more sales on the TP, rather than less.

People who ‘flip’ the TP will still be able to sell mini pets in exactly the same way as they do now.

As for these rare ones that are dying out – they will anyway sooner or later. Nothing can stop that if you can’t obtain them anymore.

rincewind.9528:

An interface like the one that WOW used for the pets would be really nice.

But if can’t be done, a equip slot can be fine too.

And how about two minipets active at the same time?
I want to have mini Kas and mini Jory at the same time!! =)

Kas & Jory minis running alongside one another <3

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

It was my HoM that got me interested in filling my mini collection in GW1. The ability to ‘show it off’ so to speak. I lack that ability here. So there really isn’t much of a point in collecting them. Thankfully they don’t clog my bank space here, but they just gather dust in my vault typically.

Only being able to have one, and having to pass it from character to character is hassle, then and now. Which adds to my not carrying one with my to use. Not to mention having to turn it back on all the time.

That turning it back on could be another problem it solves – good thinking! Having a pet ‘Activated’ would mean it’s always on whether you leave an instance or zone or not. And yes, I like most of all being able to activate it from anywhere, and not having to have duplicates for each character.

:)

Romo.3709:

It would destroy the TP market for minis. So I think it’s a rather bad idea. I’d rather have them add a slot to your hero pannel where you can equip them.

I’m not sure how it’d destroy the market for minis since people who buy them to re-sell them don’t actually have to use them. Those that want to keep them can, since I’m talking about turning the current icons that exist in the world, including on the TP, would be a double click to unlock, so wouldn’t be ‘soul bound’ until it’s used.

And to be honest, seeing a dedicated panel like the Finishers might get more people interested in buying their collection in the first place.

Hi,

I’ve noticed that not as many people use mini pets as I expected of this game compared to when people used them in the first Guild Wars. I think part of it is the clunky way we have to carry them around, and the fact that if we have a favourite mini pet, we have to have one for each character (if we don’t want to repeat trips to the bank).

So, I would like to suggest making them into an unlock, like PvP/WvW finishers, rather than having to carry them as an icon.

I know what people are thinking – what about the ones on the TP and in our banks? Well, if they made it so that each icon that exists in the world when double clicked added that Mini Pet to your Hero Tab, so you could click Activate for that character (a bit like what happened with costumes) – it saves having them use up an inventory space, saves them being bought more times than once for each character, and saves them being used then re-sold after a while too. It’d probably be easier to look at your collection too, without having to visit the bank, so if you want to collect ’em all, you can do so from wherever you are.

Thank You

p.s. I welcome any criticism on this idea as long as it’s constructive thank you

I don’t think these boosts should be taken away, because what else are you going to make with the Chef profession other than dyes?

Also, food and maintenance boosts don’t guarantee victory, and you don’t necessarily need them for any part of the game to be successful. The only time I use them is for a temporary Magic Find or Experience Boost. I’m hardly an expert at certain aspects of this game, but I manage without them other than this.

Junkpile.7439:

Melfice.5091:

This is how he responds to you if you say you’re a girl from sweden. I’m amazed this guy isn’t banned yet tbh, reported him with screenshots and he still runs around looking for swedish girls

Why he would get banned? I don’t see problem. That kind of small talk works fine in Sweden if you use hair products and white lacoste sneakers.

You don’t see a problem? Do you not understand that he could (if not already) be speaking in this way to a minor?