Guild Wars 2

Let’s not forget that due to Captain Ellen Kiel winning the Captain’s Council election, Waypoints are cheaper than they were before. But I think to double the cost would be too much, especially for new players.

It’s reasons like this why I only do fractals or dungeons with people on my friends list or from the same guild. Too many elitists kicking people like schoolboy bullies.

And yes, as second posts states, it would be very difficult for Arena Net to monitor what goes on in every dungeon run. However, if there’s a log kept for reports on ‘Party Abuse’ or something, and the same name(s) keep popping up, that gives them a good idea of who’s doing what to some extent.

If you do get kicked from a party and you feel it was unfair, best thing to do is probably block them, so you know never to party with them again.

Saucermote.9140:

Pure stats, only Power, or only Condition Damage.

I think having just 1 stat might be too imbalanced, but having twin stats instead of three stats might be ok though. I’d like Precision/Toughness, Precision/Critical Damage or Precision/Condition Damage as pairs rather than in three.

I think most of Piken Square will end up staying together and a couple of developers have already acknowledged the existence of Piken Square & Tarnished Coast in the topics here, so I have faith that they will keep this in mind, and so should you too!

I’m on Piken Square. Personally, I don’t think it’ll affect RPers much. If you feel someone is trolling your RP time, you can place them on block. If it gets to the point where they are still harassing you after you’ve politely asked them to stop and they keep violating you ignoring them, you can always submit a ticket if harassment persists.

To be honest, most people who RP tend to Roleplay in places where there is no PvE content (such as The Busted Flagon), so we’re worrying about very little in my opinion. Most people who play GW2 are respectful of other people, I’ve found. You’ll always get unruly people in any game, but the way GW2 is, it just seems to be a friendlier game than other online games I’ve played, and unruly people, particularly in Piken Square, are a very tiny minority, and them trolling will only alienate themselves further anyway.

:)

I reckon there’s a chance there’ll be a Mega-RP server! Imagine that? xD

ProtoGunner.4953:

6’000 hours. That’s more than 10 hours a day… I can’t find any words to describe how questionable I find that. No job, no wife, no life?

Anyway, I played about 2000 hours and have killed 17 or 19 of those, always wondered what a ‘giant’ is, now that it is so low.

I’m a full time carer for my disabled wife but thank you for your input.

OldSomalia.6180:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’ve killed 12 and played nearly 6,000 hours. So at this rate, it’ll take me 500,000 hours to complete, or 20,833 days. Or 57 years. I’ll be 89 when I complete this achievement.

You didn’t spend 6000 hours farming Giants, so be less dramatic.

I’m not being dramatic, I’m working out how long it will take me personally, at the rate I’m currently killing them. Be less dramatic please.

I’ve killed 12 and played nearly 6,000 hours. So at this rate, it’ll take me 500,000 hours to complete, or 20,833 days. Or 57 years. I’ll be 89 when I complete this achievement.

Nurgle.6597:

I’ve been playing for 2 years and it that time only received 2 gold selling whispers, both times i just replied that I don’t buy gold and asked them not to spam me, thing is, it actually worked.

It only seems like it worked, but they are bots, not an actual person typing it out! Best thing to do is to right click and report for gold selling, then block them. Glad you only had 2 in the 18 months the game’s been out though. I’ve had about 10 in the past week or so!

So, a bit like the Paper Clip in Word when a boss is about to pop-up?

I’ve probably got about 80 gold sellers on my block list now. Each one I get a whisper from the same website, offering ‘free gold when you buy this’ (I think that’s their futile attempt to over-ride the rule of you’re not allowed to sell gold by selling items instead and giving gold).

Each time, I right click and report for both Botting & Gold Selling, just to make sure ArenaNet get the message. To be honest, in my block list, most of them don’t show as online anymore after about a day or two, so it looks like ArenaNet is doing something about it, and pretty quickly after the report too. These gold sellers have many, many accounts, so that is probably why it seems nothing it being done.

ArenaNet can only work on it, one account at a time. They will no doubt be using proxies to hide their IP addresses.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I would love to see some changes to the laurel system. I detest time gated anything in a game and this game already has too many currencies. The daily achievements still reward a mystic coin and nobody minds that all, because they are at least a bit useful and more important, they are tradeable.

The Laurel Vendors should be turned into Mystic Coin vendors and we should be able to turn in our laurels for coins. That would take one unwanted time gated currency out of the game without changing much in terms of player rewards from time played.

The reason they introduced a new currency was to make it exclusively for the player who earned them, hence, why both laurels and the stuff a laurel merchant sells are not tradable. If you used Mystic Coins instead and sold them, it’s the same as one person doing the dailies for someone else. That’s the reason they did it, but of course, it’s up to everyone to decide whether that’s a good or bad reason in their own opinions.

Yoroiookami.3485:

I’m happy for you guys, but for me, personally, it will just become harder to recognize who’s a total newbie and who’s not. :<

I’m not sure why you’d want to recognise who is a newbie and who is not, other than for dungeons, which in my opinion, is unfair. The Achievement Points should not be used for this purpose in my opinion.

Once, I declared my /age in map chat and someone started whispering me saying something like “You’ve got 5,000 hours in but only 8,000 achievement points? You should have more than that by now. Not that I’m judging!”

Well, my reply was “I don’t know about you, but I’m not playing this game for the points” which is true – I don’t play this game for the points. I play this game to have fun, mostly in PvE.

As I’ve said in another thread, there’s no such thing as a bad player, just sore winners and sore losers. I firmly believe this because we shouldn’t be singling out new and inexperienced players and separating them from more experienced and elite players. It’s unfair to categorise someone as a bad player, as someone you wouldn’t want in your party etc. To me it splits the community up, and leaves new players feel especially unwelcome.

That said, I’m not saying this is your intention! But I know some people advertise LFG saying “Minimum 5,000 AP” and stuff. If nobody is willing to help new and inexperienced players, how on earth will we get experienced players in the future?

Champ trains have destroyed map chat. Piken Square used to be the most social server going. Well, it probably still is, but the train has ruined friendly play, mostly when the train goes out of sync, and people start swearing and shouting at people. Calling people an R-Word or an F-Word, naming names in full caps just because a by-stander, who is fairly new to the game, picked up the troll runestone.

Don’t get me wrong, I like how people have found an easy way to make money early in a character’s career. But when it’s a starter level zone and all new players here is derogatory and inflammatory language, it doesn’t set a very good example.

I know I probably shouldn’t feel this way over a game, but I actually find it heartbreaking because Piken Square is otherwise a really friendly and welcoming server, especially to new players.

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

Your collective pending releases have done more to finally get ArenaNet to start making improvements to Guild Wars 2 than all the forum posts combined over the past 19 months.

I doubt it’s because of other MMOs coming out, since everyone including ArenaNet knew they were coming out anyway! They didn’t just make these improvements on the fly over the past couple of weeks, in some hysterical panic. This has been many, many months in the making, on top of making new PvP, WvW and Living World content!

Mireles Lore.5942:

It’s not really about the score. Its about your ability to unlock rewards is diminished because of the way you earned them. This is not supportive of the idea of “Play How You Want”.

If you enjoyed playing all aspects of the game and being rewarded for it on a regular basis… You have alot to lose by this cap for seemingly no apparent reason at all.

Yes, I understand that point of view – I personally have other goals though, and receiving an AP chest is nice, but it’s just a little bonus for me. Most people who have a problem with this seem to be in it for the numbers it seems though. I may be wrong, I dunno.

If you’re doing combat in pants or bare chest mostly for RP, that sounds like a one-time situation to me! Seems a big request for " ‘Charge!’ /em gets stabbed in the bare back by a Centaur. The End." to me!

You can check how many points you have in each category by hovering your mouse over your Achievement Points score in the hero panel.

4,665 Permanent Points.
4,673 Daily Points.
1,010 Monthly Points.

That said, I’m really not bothered either way. They’re just pretend pennies to me. I can live without having a high score. I know my points might seem like a lot to some people, but I’ve put in 5,798 hours into the game, so most people have a higher points per hour ratio than me.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

penelopehannibal.8947:

There’s no such thing as a bad player. Maybe a sore winner or a sore loser, but no such thing as a bad player.

Have you ever seen a newbie mesmer stand right up next to the enemy, use the GS auto, and then complain it’s such a weak weapon? I die a little inside everytime I see that.

Some players are bad. I have more examples if you require.

That’s not them being a bad player though, is it? Inexperienced, and perhaps a sore loser if they whine in /map chat. But not ‘bad’.

There’s no such thing as a bad player. Maybe a sore winner or a sore loser, but no such thing as a bad player.

If you open the Activity monitor and search and close something called cookied (that exact spelling, it’s not a Type O!) and end it, that does the same trick for me, and since it’s called cookied (like cookies) it must be doing sort of the same thing

We already have mounts – every time I’m in Queensdale, people are catching some ‘Train’ :p

I have 1 incinerator and one nearly made (already got Gift of Incinerator so too late to backtrack) so i know how it feels with the legendaries.

Extra dyes get converted to an Unidentified dye, which now goes for about 40 – 50 silver ATM, so not a complete waste when it comes to dyes. I do feel sorry for multiple Abyss/Celestial purchasers though, but there has to be some short-term pain somewhere for a long-term benefit, and I agree with it in the long term.

Tattoos for Humans too please!! Oh, go on ArenaNet, please can we have human tattoos? Ones that differ from the Tribal/Celtic style of Norn perhaps. Maybe anchors on arms, and LOVE & HATE on knuckles. Or a sparrow flying with a banner saying “Mum” with a love heart behind. :p

Seriously though, tattoos on humans would be awesome!

In all fairness to ArenaNet, they never actually strictly said “10%” they said “About 10% with a full zerker build" To be honest though, if we Bezerker & Assasin players all as good players as we say we are, we should actually welcome the extra challenge!

(I’m assassin build myself and would like more time killing an enemy! )

Dean Calaway.9718:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I tried to find where the wiki got the information regarding Daily Reward chests, but couldn’t find anything. It could be every day like laurels, could be random like stones. I don’t think even if this does change, that it’ll ever be Gem Store only though, so don’t worry about that.

I can tell from experience it’s an occasional drop, maybe 1 in 10 dailies you’ll get 1~3 Transmutation Stones.

Oh yeah, know about the current stones, get some myself every once in a while. What I meant was, unsure if it’ll be the same system as we have now or slightly different when it changes to charges – I can imagine that when the wardrobe feature comes out, there’ll be a high demand for them in the beginning, and as we progress the demand will slow down a bit.

But, I think the demand will always be higher than transmutation stones & crystals ever were, even when the demand does die down.

Edit: And yes – as people have said, err on the side of caution and stock up some stones & crystals while you still can.

Magische Boek.2530:

No Repair Costs = Rewarding Unskillful Play?
no repair costs = rewarding experimental play. there’s is still so much stuff to be tried and with the free trait reset + no repair cost people can realy go try stuff.

I agree with this.

The punishment itself is having to still go and fix it – it was just a double-punishment that a lower-level player has to pay. Dying is not just through ‘unskillful’ play, as you put it. It can be caused by many things, such kitten a telephone ringing, or someone at the door. Or because something really funny just came on TV! :p

5.7 K hours since day minus three. Not done beta though, but still no Precursor. I ended up buying instead, less stress.

/em plays a mean air guitar.

sinzer.4018:

I don’t think they’d be gemstore only. I think at worst they’ll be attainable in the same amount of ways ad the trans crystals… so gemstore, 0.26% chance from daily, BL chests. So almost gemstore only :p

I hope current sources of trans stones still exist post-patch though.

Seeing as i’m too lazy to do map complete i’m going to wait until the ‘removing restrictions’ blog that should be posted today before deciding.

I would eat my in-game [Top Hat] if Transmutation Charges were ever Gem Store only

On the official wiki, it states under the ‘Transmutation Charges’ topic that you can obtain them as so:

- Gem Store
- Black Lion Chest (Unlocked)
- Daily reward chests

Converting transmutation consumables into charges. Double-clicking an item will convert it, and the charge will be added to the currency wallet.

3 Transmutation Stone.png Transmutation Stones = 1 Transmutation Charge
1 Transmutation Crystal.png Transmutation Crystal = 1 Transmutation Charge
1 Transmutation Splitter.png Transmutation Splitter = 5 Transmutation Charges

Bear in mind the wiki itself states, this is on a topic that is “still in development and subject to change”.

I tried to find where the wiki got the information regarding Daily Reward chests, but couldn’t find anything. It could be every day like laurels, could be random like stones. I don’t think even if this does change, that it’ll ever be Gem Store only though, so don’t worry about that.

Splid.6147:

What would be really nice is to see the number of legendaries each person who posts in this thread owns as a number below their post…

On page 5 people are still arguing that “stat swapping” more than makes up for the 2000+G loss we will incur.

To clarify, I don’t have a problem with people proposing suggestions, but if you don’t own 2 duplicate legendaries, you don’t really have a valid opinion as to how far up the creek we are right now.

We’re not actually up the creek though, are we? I think that’s a bit of an over reaction. We’re still going to be able to play!

It is a little unfair, especially due to the time people have put in, and in some cases, money, since I’ve bought a few gems over time and converted them to cash for two incinerators. But let’s face it, someone has to get hurt somewhere with otherwise great changes, and we’re quite a small minority.

Plus, we don’t actually know the full facts until the game itself is released!

This is an issue as I currently have 1 Incinerator and halfway through making the other. I already have Gift of Incinerator, so there’s no going back now.

Although if I do find I’ve probably wasted my time, I can’t help but feel that if we’re honest, we’re just a small minority, and Arena Net can’t please every single person in the game, only most people.

I personally can sell the Incinerator when it’s finally made, but even though they’re only a small percentage of the population, it’s those with two soul bound of the same legendary is who I feel sorry for.

Please don’t hate me for saying that!

This will be very difficult particularly for people on Piken Square and Tarnished Coast RP servers, for those who RP in certain clothing styles, particular those who RP as a noble in the Wintersday outfit combined with the Top Hat.

I think we have enough professions and races already. Too much of something and you end up complicating the already complex balance.

I wouldn’t mind seeing profession specific weapons though, such as Scythe for Necromancer, nun-chucks for thieves, whips for Mesmers etc.

Yep – Mac here too and getting it – weird thing was I thought it was because I changed from Normal to Small interface size until you mentioned it!

It does make it a little more difficult to read what you’re selling your items for, but I think they probably know about it and will fix it quite soon (I hope!)

Suffering Succotash indeed!

I went to McDonalds with a two headed monster from Tyria. I decided to have mine to take away, but he Ettin.

aris.9567:

Good idea! I don’t play much pvp, I’m at deer rank, not much to show off, but I have some cool finishers that I would like to show off

ty Aris- and yes Deer rank too — I do PvP sometimes on various different professions, just not consistently enough for my finisher to get noticed! :p

Hi,

I was in Divinity’s Reach earlier and was watching a few people show off their PvP ranks with the / rank emote – and then it hit me!

How about letting players show off their currently active finisher too? The emote could be something like / finish or / finisher – as this will serve two great benefits:

1. Firstly, not everyone notices who the finishers have come from all the time in PvP, and some people, like me, don’t play PvP a lot, but have still purchased a finisher from the Gem Store so it’s used occasionally, but usually it’s hardly noticed!

2. It gives other people a chance to see the finisher before buying, like, and when they see someone doing / finisher and the Quaggan finisher is shown, someone else might say “Ooh, that’s pretty, where’d you get it?” and you point them to the Gem Store – meaning it benefits ArenaNet too!

So, yeah, everyone wins! I personally have the Quaggan finisher, and enjoy using it against Toxic Nightmare Courtiers in PvE, but I’m usually alone when I use it!

Thanks for reading and positive feedback or constructive criticism is welcome.

Thank you

People asking for an ‘Open All’ option – what happens if you open 250 chests and you don’t have enough room in your inventory? I believe this will cause more problems in the long run.

Just in case I’m right – SPOILER ALERT – but it’s a guess!

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(The vendor will be an April Fool’s Prank I bet :p)

It’s fixed now – thank you ArenaNet! Don’t know where I would be without my daily 12 hours a day! Despite what other people might think, I think it’s a quick response to get fixed compared to a lot of other games out there.

Can we not just express our concerns in a polite and friendly manner? If we shout and scream, call each other names and say “Mac Client is This” and “ArenaNet are that” it’s not going to get it fixed any sooner.

I don’t know if this is the same thing – but I’m getting ‘Connection to server lost’ disconnections that happens exactly 120 seconds from staying idle but with no “You will be kicked in 50 seconds” warning in yellow text. If I move my character about and fight as normal, I am usually ok – but I am not a shark – I would like to be able to play without the need for constant movement!

Is is particularly problematic when wanting to complete personal story as you are ‘idle’ whilst the video conversation is playing, making it disconnect as soon as the video has finished. I know my internet connection is fine as I’ve been able to watch seamlessly the budget live on my iMac instead of on TV just to make sure.

I’ve also been getting the client crashes with the warning box too, but not as frequent as the ‘timed disconnections’ bug I’ve been getting, both since the patch.

I’ve found that if my character is still for more than 2 minutes sometimes, I get kicked from the server. I don’t know if the disconnection is linked to the client crashes but both have been happening from the same time for me.

You know what annoys me more? Hearing my character say “There’s one to remember me by!” or “Hurts, doesn’kitten” when they only say it when my character is hit with a critical hit, not the other way round!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I just made Mystic Salvage kits in the Mystic Forge in the Terrace, today. I bought all the necessary Salvage kits from the Vendor in the Terrace. Is the character you are interacting with the vendor of an appropriate level? Some vendors react to the level of the character that is addressing them. If you can only buy Fine Salvage kits, then maybe the Merchant Vendor in the Terrace is one of such Vendors.

As for the other NPCs, I suppose that would be nice….

Have you ever had one of those /facepalm moments? Well – this is it! Thank you!

Fishing? Does that mean we’ll be changing the name to Gilled Wars?

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Except div reach has a home instance. YOUR MOVE!

lol! Well, if we’re playing Top Trumps, there’s the Vigil Keep instance right outside the airship full of burly, well trained soldiers and a reasonably priced kitchen menu.

But, I’m talking about what’s inside the areas for your convenience, so you have everything in one place when you double click the ticket which is what both the Royal Terrace & The Captain’s Airship are designed for.