Guild Wars 2

GW1 : Human female ele
GW2: Human female ele
Both have the exact same name. 250 years may separate them but they are direct lineage and 2’s parent wanted to acknowledge the former hero in the blood line by naming their daughter after her. Turns out the name seems to breed hero’s :-)

I spend a fair amount of time in Lion’s Arch doing the run between the trading post and the bank (although I think I will be doing that in Rata Sum now as they are much closer).

During my little jogging session I pass two Asura who saying something along the lines of:

1st Asura: “What does a Sylvari think about?”
2nd Asura: Says soemthing long and meaningful
1st Asura: “I was going to make a bad salad joke”

I’d love to know what that salad joke was!

Nostromo, nice post. Thank you :-)

This isn’t a complaint, more a curiosity.

Do you feel like you are progressing? What I mean is, to use myself as an example. My main character is at level 80 and has been for some time. I do the usual stuff of dailies, the occasional dungeon run, sometimes a fractal run. If I am online when my guild does the guild bounties I try to get in on that. The thing is though, i don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere. I don’t have a legendary, I can accumulate all the bits but until I have a critical ingredient (the precursor) it’s all for nothing. I have tried to get a precursor, I hope to get one, but it doesn’t happen.

So I look to the trading post. I buy cheap and sell high. That’s what it’s about right? Yep I make money from it, but for what? To stick in the bank? To buy exotic items? Already done that, so now I just put the money in the bank and leave it there.

I could do the daily mega boss shuffle. Yep, I get a rare each time and break it down for the glob of ectoplasm. That then goes in the bank too.

I could do the Super Awesome Box, but the rewards don’t appeal to me. I was never into the whole 8 bit game thing so it doesn’t have the nostalgia for me. If you’re into it that’s great

So that leaves me there the other day sitting at my computer, looking at my routine for this game and wondering, what to do. Perhaps I just need to step back for a while and do something else. Perhaps I should just buy a precursor, but that kind of defeats the point of earning it.

What ways do you keep yourself engaged? How do you ensure you are progressing? I should clarify that by progressing I don’t necessarily mean leveling or whatever, more along the lines of that you are moving forward in some way in the game, that you aren’t on a treadmill, running your heart out to find you aren’t actually going anywhere?

As I said this isn’t a complaint, overall and fundamentally I love this game, I’m just feeling a little stagnant at the moment.

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XGhoul.7426:

These are “rough” safe estimations as I have probably made more:
~14 abyss
~8 celestial
~10 black
~15 white
~9 midnight ice
~12 midnight fire

Purchased, crafted or from unidentified dye drops?

Hi, I added an experience, a magic find and a karma booster, together with a 4 slot bag into the mystic forge to get a booster multi-pack as indicated towards the bottom of here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_forge

On opening the multi-pack I got an experience booster, a magic find booster and a karma booster.

I thought perhaps I was going nuts, so I tried again and got the same result. I thought that it would increase the quantity or add some variety or something, but no.

What is the purpose of having that recipe in the forge if all it effectively does it destroys a 4 slot bag? Did I miss something?

Very first dye drop I had turned out to be Abyss. That was during the 3 day head start. None since then

If you have the credit card info saved it will only allow you to use it, I think, 3 or 4 times in a month. If you don’t have it saved, you can use it as often as you want.

I got 3 tickets out of 40 chests

Okay so it’s not just me then. Everything went fine then I got a message saying unable to purchase.

I originally bought Guild Wars (the original) because it didn’t have a monthly fee. Fell in love with the game and eagerly awaited Guild Wars 2. I tried WoW once, using their free trial thing. The graphics disappointed and being immediately in the game, someone came up and attacked then killed me. That was the end of my WoW days.

I agree with Melchior too, enjoy the game and don’t focus as much on the forums. There is a lot of anger and hostility here. The game, generally, is awesome, sure there are parts that need work but they will get there, a large portion of the forum community however, are not so awesome.

Rin.1046:

Ema.4953:

Game Over
It’s a bit of whimsy at best. The world has moved on from 8bit graphics and zelda, making this a permanent feature of GW2 would be a waste that people will eventually get tired of, especially staring at those graphics for too long.
It’s like when someone brings out a bit of music that has a strong classical element to it. It’s refreshing and unusual at first but you won’t be seeing it make a come back to the charts.

This can be said about a lot of things, it’s not really a good argument against it. People will get bored of Kegbrawl, PvP, Dungeons, Fractals, you name it. Something like this is just a bit of fun which you can jump into when you fancy something different. Making it temporary will force people to rush through it as quick as possible until it’s all done and not enjoy it at their leisure.

If you feel you will get bored of it then that’s fine, you are not forced to play it. But I fail to see why others should not be allowed to carry on playing it just because you’ve got bored of it.

The original question is a poll for stay or go and why. If the OP didn’t want people to say why people thought the way they did the question shouldn’t have been asked. You and I disagree on this topic – that’s fine, that’s what polls are for. I’m not arguing against your point of view, you are perfectly entitled to have an opinion that is different to mine, so why are you saying I’m wrong for disagreeing with you?

Game Over
It’s a bit of whimsy at best. The world has moved on from 8bit graphics and zelda, making this a permanent feature of GW2 would be a waste that people will eventually get tired of, especially staring at those graphics for too long.
It’s like when someone brings out a bit of music that has a strong classical element to it. It’s refreshing and unusual at first but you won’t be seeing it make a come back to the charts.

Agreed, I don’t care about titles at all. I have no interest in seeing a bunch of titles on a screen long before I see an actual player. More power to people who go for the title thing, it’s not for me though. Please give me an option to have less clutter on my screen

At the bottom of every page of your web site you have a link to “Legal Documentation” every link has a space in it, breaking the link.

For example clicking legal documentation leads you to the URL
https://guildwars2.com%20/en/legal/
The %20 indicates the space bar was pressed while typing the link by the person that created it. This leads nowhere. You have to manually go in, remove the %20 to see the web page, which is
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/

The issue continues though as every link you have on that page also has the %20 space in there, making every link unavailable unless manually changing it.

I discovered this to see if the new, extremely long, terms of service thing we had to agree to after the new patch was listed here in full. It is here, at
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/
But of course is linked as
https://guildwars2.com%20/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/

You might want your web person to remove those unnecessary spaces in the hyperlinks.

You did get a warning when you signed up and agreed to the terms of service. By agreeing you indicated you accepted the policies of the game – including the naming conventions.

They gave plenty of warning they were changing the way chests dropped. They explicitly said that after this patch, you would get one chest per account per day per dragon that had a guaranteed rare. Everything else was back to being random, with a chance of further rares but no guarantee.

You’re complaining about something they announced weeks ago.

Mini pets drop? Seriously?

Gasoline.2570:

Tell me this is natural and manipulators don’t exist. Come on anet, can you please fix precursors already?

Inb4 tinfoils.
Inb4 trolls.

Do you get how markets work? Oh and anyone is a troll if they don’t agree with you?

By the way, this is natural and has nothing to do with manipulators

Ahh okay. I’ll not worry then. I don’t turn on any of the titles as it is

41/50 here. I hadn’t thought about getting 50/50. What’s the advantage?

Draco.9480:

… a lizard man … among the dinosaurs which was intelligent like humans but way stronger abilities.

You just described the Silurian’s from Dr. Who.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_

This is awesome! Thank you.

Guaranteed rare = separate chest. Once per day per ACCOUNT (instead of per character as it was)

All other times, I still MIGHT get a rare, but once the guaranteed one is done, the other times are a chance.

This will stop the lag for sure. Awesome awesome awesome
I’m happy

boo (that’s 1)

No not in the slightest. Having to run right on the edge of every single wall just to get that 0.01% extra needed was annoying. I’m very glad they made it the way they have to get map completion in 2

Geotherma.2395:

Ema.4953:

Not in Australia though oh well

You don’t have any of those stores listed?

I can access Amazon of course but the rest don’t exist in Australia. If I was going to buy it online I might as well just get them in game.

Not in Australia though oh well

They sell gem cards? Where?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

I do not think this is possible at all.

In Guild Wars 2, it appears that the original ownership transfer of guilds is impossible.
The guild is disbanded if the original guild founder leaves the guild.

Sure it’s possible. You just put the new owner as leader then demote yourself, then leave.

Nothing about precursors will change until more of them start appearing in the game. That wont happen until the stats on drop rates increase

Where are the giants? Are they the big bloated dudes that explode at the teq dragon or somewhere else?

Blacklight.2871:

Destiny’s Edge disagrees.

Who? Destiny’s edge was vaguely mentioned early on in the personal story but were soon forgotten in favour of Trahearne’s story. ;-)

Did they remove the option of pressing Y then selecting your status as looking for group, which then gives you a small icon above your head? That was there at launch, has it gone now?

Hey it was a thought / suggestion. I hope I didn’t come across as saying or implying it should happen, more a “if this, why not this” type deal.

I understand and respect your arguments against it. Sure it could lead to more things like deposit fee and withdrawal fees, and yes it would hurt new players until they weren’t new player anymore.

I certainly understand this is not a real economy.

Like I said it was more a thought than a demand for its inclusion. I also agree money should be spent than horded, thought it’s getting harder to spend with so few things to actually buy.

vespers.1759:

oh good lord this game is turning into real life. kill me now lawd!

I mean it in terms of they have a trading post and a taxation system, so if they have those why not add the third?

Whenever we make a purchase we are charged a tax. Whenever we sell something, we are charged a tax. Whenever we travel somewhere, we are charged a tax. We have a bank, where we can deposit goods and coins. What incentive is there to actually put cash in the bank? Sure you get an achievement when you reach a certain level of “saving”; which I think is around 200 gold deposited.

Why aren’t we earning interest on those savings? By following the economic principles of taxation and free market trade, why not complete it with interest rates?

As a way to encourage using the bank more, as a way to potentially offset some of the numerous taxes we get charged (way points, repair costs etc), earning interest on money put in the bank, would not only help people grow their bank, but will actually make the bank useful for money collection. Taxation stands at 15% for buying and selling, interest rates won’t obviously be that high, so even a 1% interest rate (or even 0.5% if you really want to be miserly) per day (week? month?) would be better than nothing, which is what we have now.

I understand this would involve a whole new set of programming to work out what every person has in the bank and then calculate the interest and automatically deposit extra money, but it’s worth looking at?

I suppose, worst case, if it is too difficult to do on a per account basis, then what about earning interest for guild banks?

danbuter.2314:

Is it possible for you guys to rethink this? Having the Daily kick in right in the middle of prime US gaming time is a TERRIBLE idea. Maybe you don’t realize it, but a good chunk of players immediately drop everything they are doing to go chase Dailies. This creates a lot of havoc. Why wouldn’t you have the reset at 3AM or some other slow time?

3AM Eastern American time is peak playing time in my time zone – which is not in America.

No matter what time they pick it will be “bad” for someone but it has to happen.

Americans get most things their way – take the lost shores for example that whole thing was done to purely suit US players. I personally think it’s good that the resets don’t happen in my peak playing time

Khisanth.2948:

There is one thing to be aware of though. This used to be the case but I am not sure if it still is.

The issue is/was that the name reported in the history is tied to the character used rather than the account. If someone used a character to withdraw and then delete that character the history will report something like ‘Unknown’.

I think this changed. I deposited some items in guild bank with one character, with the history showing that character name. I logged in a few days later with a different character and my previous deposit was showing my current character name, not the character I used when depositing it. So I think they changed it to represent account name rather than character name.

Deleting an alt to me would be like deleting a family member.

Rhaps.8540:

Gw1 had it right in terms of gear. A huge selection of stunning armour sets to work towards and a plethora of weird and wonderful looking weapons to match. None of which came with inflated stats. You could work toward standing out visually but you never felt compelled to do so in order to have the highest available stats, something I think most mmo gamers will strive for.

The thing I think people seem to forget is Guild Wars 1 is a game that is in it’s eighth (8th) year. Sure things look great now in terms of armour etc, but when it first started in 2005 there was no where near the option now available and there was certain nowhere near the level of armor/skin/weapon/classes available. Intially there was very limited options available, it took time for things to grow. By comparing GW2 with GW1 is unfair. Yes, they share the same lore, the same developers and the same publishers, but one game is in it’s 8th year while the other is yet to hit one year. GW2 will grow over time just as GW1 did. Gear, armor, weapons, everything will be expanded on. Patience and understanding are needed instead of the “I want it all and I want it now!” attitude that many on this forum take at the moment.
That’s my opinion on things at least

It’s not grinding, it’s called game play. If you expect the best of everything with little to no effort what is the point? Grinding is spending months and months and months to get even the most basic of things.
Exotics, ascended etc, need you to play the game to get them and it won’t be an instant gratification deal – it will involve time to play and skill. The thing is though, you don’t need exotics or ascended if you don’t want. You can still play the game perfectly fine without them.
This game is multi-faceted. You can do a great deal of things in it all the while not needing to grind to get there. If you want to grind a dungeon/event/path/whatever, that’s your choice, it’s not compulsory.

Nope, I don’t feel that we are being forced to do anything. Dailies and monthlies are an option for me, should I want to do them. There is nothing about this game that is being forced on me. I paid my initial $60 and ever since then it’s been my choice do partake or not in all other areas of the game.

Yeah teleporting bots have been around for a while.

Hard mode like in GW1?

No they made them a little harder – for now. What I mean is they buffed a few of the bad guys in dungeons so you have to rely more on your skills and dodging than finding a hiding spot to rapidly kill the boss. So your initial entry into the dungeons will be a case of “OMG why is this so hard now?” but the more you play it the better you get with your skills the less you will wonder why you insta-die

Biggest tip I can give you is to have fun, explore everything, participate in events, level up to 80 to get to the 80 zone events and of course have even more fun.

Sure there will be times when you feel frustrated, but that’s normal, by and large though this is a very fun game that on occasion has hiccups.

Also getting into a guild that has friendly active members will increase your fun factor rapidly.

Welcome back

This is no longer a level 35 dungeon. You have to be level 80 if you want any hope of completing it.

Same with me. 6 complete and no daily reward / laurel.

It’s not pink – it’s “light red” ;-)