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If you don’t stare at your sell order all the time, you won’t be frustrated by things like this. The best real-life market advice I have ever gotten was ‘set and forget’, when you item sells eventually you are 100% free of the feelings that caused you to make your post.
That only works if you don’t need CASH now. I mean I can’t just go up and call JG Wentworth annuity payments instead.
The point being sell and forget only works for people who are rich enough to not need more in the short term. Most players are not in that position.
So make a better assessment of when an item will sell.
It’s really as simple as that, if you want to sell an item faster you will sell it for less.
That’s how it works.You can either wait for a higher buy offer and fulfill it, or simply put up a sell offer so low that you expect it to sell fast.
Or in other words: stop being greedy if you don’t want to get undercut
Except for the first sentence, I don’t understand what your response has to do with my comment.
so here is my response: mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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So a very small group of people have voted
Looks like it’s 439 votes, are you familiar with statistical sampling at all?
on an unofficial site
A site where all the users are GW2 WvW players, the group of individuals whose opinions would be most relevant to WvW seasons.
where not even the majority was against it,
45% were against it, 21% are for it… hmmm
means that having another season is a bad idea…?
Probably.
Unless you are being rather ironic about your statistic sample comment, ignore the next few sentence.
You might want to take an actual statistic course statistics or even read to understand why your comment shows just how little you know about statistics.
Here is the most important thing about statistics, it can only work on a truly random sample of a specific population. That means, in this case everybody that does WvW has to have an equal chance at being selected to vote or give an answer.
The vote on that forum doesn’t meet that and here is why:
1. On average for most MMORPG, less than 5-15% of the players ever visits the official forum. What makes this worst, is that Gw2WWW.net is probably less than .00001% of the active players and or even less.
2. The type of people that visit WvWvW do not represent a sample of the population, but a very small (given that only 436 people voted) percentage of the possible number of WvW players. The people that are most likely to visit Gw2WWW are the extreme minority aka fringe. So they cannot be taken to represent the majority. Not even on the official forums. It would be like asking on the warrior forums if warriors should be nerfed. The answer will be reflect the general population perception of the class.
Tl;dR
Learn statistics before talking about statistics.
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How is this related to PvP? It seems like one of those things that should be sent to that verbal diarrhea called general discussion.
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If you don’t stare at your sell order all the time, you won’t be frustrated by things like this. The best real-life market advice I have ever gotten was ‘set and forget’, when you item sells eventually you are 100% free of the feelings that caused you to make your post.
That only works if you don’t need CASH now. I mean I can’t just go up and call JG Wentworth annuity payments instead.
The point being sell and forget only works for people who are rich enough to not need more in the short term. Most players are not in that position.
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I am not doing any $$ to gems to gold trading UNLESS the rate is 100 = 10g+. Until then all my purchase gem purchases will not translate into gold.
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They had it in beta, I am assuming it was causing loading problems so they took it down.
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The rewards show a fundamental lack of understanding by Arenanet on why people choose to stack, instead of rewarding spreading out, you get rewarded more for stacking. Even if you never spend a day on TC, JQ or BG you still get rewarded more than spending your time on SoR fighting because you can easily just do your stuff in EoTM then spend a night in BG and you will get rewarded more than someone that spend all 8 weeks in SoR.
This is just colossal failure on Arenanet’s part and goes to show why WvW in Na/EU will never amount to anything.
The best thing to do is to remove all differences in rewards due to standing (same basic reward for completing Meta) and require a certain amount of time to be spent in WvW (for an extra set of reward + basic reward) if you spend 40+hours on your server. This will be designed to completely screw over people that choose to stack, while rewarding players on smaller servers. Then the winners can get something special for winning, but it cannot be better than the first two types of rewards.
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Instead of time you get participation points, different from WvW xp, you get them from doing things like capping, killing players and dying to player anything WvW related. These will be invisible to the player and can only be gotten on your WvW server (no EoTM) and they are only calculated at the end of the tournament and the rewards will be depended on the average or median of the server players, so if you are higher you get better rewards. Obviously to prevent players from intentionally tanking their averages, the has to be a minimum threshold for the average and the more time you spend in WvW participating the better the rewards you get (personal participation >> Server median). This also allows servers with less population not get punished because they constantly fought a bigger and stronger servers. The rewards for participation will be significantly better than from completely the meta event. So for example, you can have potentially 3 rewards: Meta completion (EotM)+ position reward (just a slightly better meta completion reward)+Participation reward (better than the meta and has ascended gear and materials).
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Thanks for reporting this! This looks like a scaling issue where the effect is scaling the character’s size but the skill itself is not scaling. A fix for this will require some design work so I can’t say a whole lot in regards to when it could be fixed.
While a respect this honest answer, I’m really concernd that we didn’t even get a "soon™ ".
I wish I could say soon™. But this is a pretty interesting issue to address.
Easy fix:
Just make that if you enter a pvp match, you automatically get transformed into a human character, so no issues anymore (for the time you are in this match). Like when you use a tonic or so.
And btw I want an option for myself to let everyone be shown in a pvp match as a human so I finally can see the animations of the Freaking asuras and norn mesmers stop destroying my view…How would this idea handle things like cultural armors? Won’t turning everyone into humans cause a loss of uniqueness in the game? Every player has specific facial adjustments, body types, heights, armor colors, and weapons; what happens to these?
Make them taller like you can make them with the fun box. But this should only apply in a PvP match to make it far for other classes.
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Why is it so hard to understand that the issue here isn’t teamwork or communication, the issue is that this is open world content that requires anyone who knows the content to discourage people from going to the fights? Marionette was great design, and it totally required teamwork and communication. What it did NOT require was people to stand idle and beg other people not to go to the bosses. It did NOT have an infinite timer, either. If you lost, you did it in a relatively short amount of time, and then the event started up again.
There’s nothing good about the design, here. It is poor implementation all around.
Actually, NO.
The difference between this boss and Marrionette was that Marrionette made it blind-fully obvious you needed to split up and not ignore certain lanes or risk almost immediate failure. People still had to split up before and most of the successful ones require players to move around before the start of the battle. The successful ones, actually forced players to move around, you just probably did no care to remember.
The biggest issue with this boss is that we don’t know what is going on with the other 5 bosses, such as HP and players attacking. all of these are things that can be easily be improved on from now on. But don’t fool yourself, Marrionette was not different from the boss blitz.
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This not an example of a bad design.
This is simple a conflict between different types of players. The players that hate zergy content to the players that like zergy content.
For most of zerg wars 2, the players that enjoy zergy content have been rewarded and trained to keep that mentality. To the point where the overrall skill level of the guild wars 2 players probably dropped as the result of playing this game.
Now Arenanet is now changing things up and removing the overreliance of the zerg mentality to achieve suggest.
The ONLY real flaw with this festival is the fact that it doesn’t show everybody on the map the current status of each boss such as HP AND the number of players attacking said boss. Arenanet in the future, if this is the path they want to take should do what they did with the bosses in LA and provide buffs that act as a way to indicate the number of player attacking a boss. This will remove the dependence on commanders and reduce the amount of communication required to defeat anti zerg content. Players need to be retrain and the best way is to slowing take off the training wheels not just drop them and let them sink.
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It’s not what we want. It’s weather Anet will make more money from it.
Anet might make more money from selling 1 time transmuation charge or 1 time hair contract than give us permanent ones for 2000 gems.
I don’t understand why people keep suggesting ways in which Arenanet, a for profit company, should make less money. It is like they never ever think through it. It is like Arenanet exist to self their needs and NOT make money.
They have to strike a balance between keeping the core players happy, (and playing the game) and encouraging players to part with gold/gems.
That is where are you wrong. If you have been following f2p like games for a while you will realize this one truth, they companies don’t need everybody to spend the money, they only need a very few to spend to make a profit. Less than 15% or .15%. Not sure yet. I dont have access to the data now.
So no, they don’t have to make a balance or attempt to make players happy. the truth is some players will never be happy and there is no reason to attempt to make them happy.
What you are suggesting only brings short term profit gain but overrall will cost them more in the long run.
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the only way for permanent Transmutation charge will exist is IF it is hidden behind an RNG wall, so expensive and so low that less than a few thousand players can ever get it. Similar to Chaos of lyssa.
It’s not what we want. It’s weather Anet will make more money from it.
Anet might make more money from selling 1 time transmuation charge or 1 time hair contract than give us permanent ones for 2000 gems.
I don’t understand why people keep suggestings ways in which Arenanet, a for profit company, should make less money. It is like they never ever think through it. It is like Arenanet exist to self their needs and NOT make money.
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The male charr in that tight suit and little slippers looks like wolf man from Chinatown.
On another note, “boob window” is such a great decription. A window for boobs to be looked at and for the boobs to look back at you.
And everybody wins, except for the few people that hate that not all armor appeals to their puritan sense of style.
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If you want an opposite gender armor, go pay 350 gems for a total makeover kit and actually swap genders.
Why should people have to change their character’s gender in order to wear something perfectly viable for that character? The gender restrictions on GW2 armour are for the most part completely arbitrary, for all races.
Because that is essentially the only thing that will make the OP happy and it wont bring in accusation of ripping off players.
The reality is not every armor is going to appeal to everyone and I am glad Arenanet isn’t attempting to make everyone happy, every time.
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I don’t, that’s why I came here to ask to verify. Also to hope of having a hairstyle change option available that doesn’t cost $3.13 per change (Self-style kit), or ~28g every time.
- You don’t need to change your hair style every time.
- You could only get the Permanent Hair Stylist contract from a Wintersday Mystery Box, which cost 100 gems per attempt. So by the time you actually got it, the complaint about spending 28g every time would seem pointless.
- Don’t expect to see a way to avoid paying $3.13 per change unless you decide to start farming keys and getting extremely lucky.
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It doesn’t drop anymore and it never dropped from the black lion chest in the first place.
The wiki is written by players, not by Anet so dont take what it says like the “word of god”.
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kitten , I just realize you can’t wear it with the glasses I bought in the cash shop.
GG
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4 weeks.
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You misremember Guild Wars 1 if you think the underwear there was customizable. It was sometimes better looking, depending on the profession, but never dyeable or customizable.
They did have a few nice ones, the elementalist and the Ritualist in particular, but they were not any less naked than what you are talking about.
Running around ‘naked’ is a time honored tradition in video game.
Underwear in Guild Wars 1:
Nostalgia is a powerful force, it can even corrupt memories.
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Wow a lot of you supporters have really talked yourself into believing this one…
Amazing…. NCSofts/Anets psych department is probably eating this kitten kaboodle up.
You are certainly not wiser than the people that choose to spend THEIR money. It is such a childish mentality to have and maybe you should stop projecting.
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The amount of ego in this thread is overwhelming.
So many people got offended by him claiming to be the best around.
Unbelievable as to how many people took the bait.Shows a lot of things about the people playing the class.I know that we are few and i know that even less are good but please..most of you in here must think you are gods because you play an underplayed calss that has gone from heaven to hell and back to earth.Take a chill pill and enjoy the funny thread.
are you shocked about the amount of kitten this thread has?
Remember /Eleist tags on signatures?
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So what you are saying is, i should hold onto my bags and then sell as quickly as I can once they fix it?
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If you hate TP players, you are probably just are just mad you cant do what they do.
This is the most silly, not saying anything argument a TP player can use.
Ya, it is mostly silly because you can’t generate any reasons to counter my point. That’s how life works. The TP works the same because TP players take advantage of over 200k + players to make their money.
It’s not possible to be taken advantage of when players knowingly allow others to make money off of them. Please stop protecting people who cognizant of market activities.
Your statement implies that I meant taking advantage in a negative way and I don’t mean that. TP players take advantage of people laziness or impatience.
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If you hate TP players, you are probably just are just mad you cant do what they do.
This is the most silly, not saying anything argument a TP player can use.
Ya, it is mostly silly because you can’t generate any reasons to counter my point. That’s how life works. The TP works the same because TP players take advantage of over 200k + players to make their money.
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The reason why TP players make more money than flipper is the same reason why CEOs make far more money than their employees.
Flipping and speculating requires far more skill and knowledge than doing something every old yahoo can do. It doesn’t take any skill to do PvE it takes some risk and brain power to make money off the TP.
If you hate TP players, you are probably just are just mad you cant do what they do.
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What are you talking about dude? It’s a hella challenging fight that feels rewarding as hell once you can pull it off.
I don’t think OP cares about personal satisfaction, which is the whole point of this post.
@Sourde Noire.5286
The fight is easier for multiple reasons.
1. The camera issues are gone.
2. Over the year, your skill as a player improved even if you are not aware. Things like control and how you move or use your skills.
3. The most important, because you are familiar with the fight. The after the first time you beat a boss, generally, it becomes significantly easier assuming everything reminds constant. You know the fight, you are more confident and the fear of losing is significantly less aka less tension.
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Since when has Arenanet ever shared their long term plans relating to content because someone made a forum post about asking?
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They just finished nerfing the last of the gold generating methods in the game. Pretty much the only way to get gold in a reliable manner is either a- playing the TP or b- with a credit card.
Hence the announcement.
Yeah, or running dungeons.
Or doing world bosses.
Or gathering materials and sell.1. Nerfed with ferocity changes and dungeon changes. approximately 20% less gold per hour than before, currently still the best g/hr availible actually playing the game. Will likely be nerfed again soon.
2. Nerfed to oblivion with Mega server changes, over a 60% nerf, no longer viable
3. Also nerfed with mega server changes. Still viable for lower tier mats, no longer viable for T6.
The methods are getting less and less, and the output is getting smaller. Coincidentally, you can get more gold than ever from your credit card!
Let’s assume what you said is true.
In a way, your points actually work against you.
1. The people that buy gold with gems are also generally not min-maxers but casual players. Casual players are generally not min-maxers, at least not the ones to do the optimum dungeon route or tactics to maximize gold.
Considering the fact that I am one of the people who buy gold with gems, that statement is probably an “over-generalization”.
1. Not really, all you manage to accomplish was show you don’t know what “generally” really means. The whole purpose of using generally was that there are exceptions.
3. If you are a farmer, there is almost no real reason to ever engage in gem to gold trade because you be making more than enough gold to serve your purposes.
Just to be clear i mean $$ to gem to gold trade not gold to gem to gold.
EDIT: Well it seems I was mixing you up with someone else. So I edited out the the mistake.
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Right now is the best time to buy celestial crystals as well because by next 6 months they will be up and popping.
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They just finished nerfing the last of the gold generating methods in the game. Pretty much the only way to get gold in a reliable manner is either a- playing the TP or b- with a credit card.
Hence the announcement.
Yeah, or running dungeons.
Or doing world bosses.
Or gathering materials and sell.1. Nerfed with ferocity changes and dungeon changes. approximately 20% less gold per hour than before, currently still the best g/hr availible actually playing the game. Will likely be nerfed again soon.
2. Nerfed to oblivion with Mega server changes, over a 60% nerf, no longer viable
3. Also nerfed with mega server changes. Still viable for lower tier mats, no longer viable for T6.
The methods are getting less and less, and the output is getting smaller. Coincidentally, you can get more gold than ever from your credit card!
Let’s assume what you said is true.
In a way, your points actually work against you.
1. The people that buy gold with gems are also generally not min-maxers but casual players. Casual players are generally not min-maxers, at least not the ones to do the optimum dungeon route or tactics to maximize gold.
2. The ones that used guesting to get more world bosses with different characers are generally also farmers.
3. Gathering mats affects everybody equally, so the prices should be more stable.
The point, everything you said is the exact opposite of your intent. The ones affected by these changes are generally the ways that introduce more gold into the system which leads to inflation aka farmers. Farmers are the reason why gold has been increasing at a very high rate, so all these changes you are complaining about doesn’t actually negatively impact the players more likely to do gem to gold conversion. They do gem to gold because they things are expensive and they can’t compete.
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Investments come at a risk. Welcome to real life.
It would be a risk if Colin Johnson didnt claim they will not be rereleased.
China will just ruin the NA/EU game, it was a terrible idea to have them synched.
In the grand scheme of things, NOT really. There is only one reason why syncing might be bad and that is IF the game fails, but that doesn’t affect us in any meaningful way.
rereleasing items only punishes the hoarders, but I doubt Arenanet cares if it devalues those items because that is significantly cheaper than having redesign a few things JUST to make less than 100 hoarders happy.
They will be missing a lot of skins and Arenanet would either have to remove them from the UI, which leads to having to keep track of more versions of the game than it is necessary.
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I know right, it is almost like this was a festival release which means nothing literally changed, designed as a hold over while they wait to syncing the game with china.
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how about NO?
open world PvP would kill the game in 3 days flat.
As I said all carebears can safely crab their PvE megaservers.
99% of the population are carebears and im not exageratting. Even if there was an Anet employee with the guts to push this idea through, NCsoft would never allow it.
Any smart company isn’t going to waste their resources on trying to force open world PvP in a game in which the mechanics actively work against such a concept.
If an Arenanet employee suggest that, they should be immediately fired since a) they don’t understand their own game. b) don’t understand how expensive it will cost to change the systems to allow open world PvP. c) spending money to cater to a population that is literally infinitesimal when compared to PvE.
There is a reason why there are few games that have an extensive amount of open world PvP, even games with open world PvP servers tend to be dead or dying significantly faster than PvE servers is because the people that want open world PvP, want to fight people other than actual PvPers. So with ganking (PvEers) at a minimum, they eventually quit.
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Sorry, I was trying to exaggerate, I suppose I shouldn’t have (I sometimes forget sarcasm is impossible to convey properly in text. It has an additional 20-30% stat bonus depending on the amulet your comparing it to. It’s significant by any measure.
Edited to remove the unnecessary hyperbole from the OP.
I think the point is it’s not the amulet’s fault. As Chaith said, there’s only one top-tier celestial build, and a second pretty good one. That’s…hardly gamebreaking. If celestial eles are too over the top, adjust traits or skills, not the amulet.
There are at least 4 Celestial builds that are viable and run at top end.
Celestial Engi, Self explanatory
What alternatives do Elementalist have when they are screwed by Arenanet’s lack of foresight and thought into game balance.
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I really wish they would drop patches on Friday evenings. I never get to participate in the flurry of financial fun during the middle of the work day on a Tuesday.
I SADLY secretly installed guild wars 2 on my work computer to get in on the action.
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Since everything you get in the chest has some value, maybe not to you, it’s not gambling per se. Most have either a gem or gold value associated with them. Everyone’s a “winner”, just some lucky players may get something worth considerably more.
It’s just sadly since the introduction of skin tickets, the lure is too great for some. Doesn’t matter what the odds are.
90% if the problem is the player does not know what the actual odds are. 10%? 5%? 1%? 0.1% for a ticket? Who knows.
It is not the job of the house to tell you what your odds are. that would be like shooting themselves on the leg.
Personal responsibility is a thing, use it. Next time OP will think twice before investing in chance.
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Sorry for the hiccup, here’s the mithril and I also found Powerful blood (pretty sure this is the t6)
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Getting gold should be way way easier once you realize that dungeons give a boat load of gold compare to 1.5 years ago. This is assuming that the level cap in beta allows it.
The second possibility is via PvP, again compare to NA launch where PvP gave nearly zero gold, right now PvP gives a lot of gold. So making 18g in two weeks seems unimpressive when you consider just how much easier it is to acquire gold, as compare to NA/eu launch.
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This sort of thread again. I’m amazed how many new players(or players that have not spent enough time playing this profession to master it) fail to realize the various defensive methods the Ele possesses to avoid, counter and recover from damage easily. This have been discussed extensively on previous threads already.
If you aren’t making any arguments, don’t bother posting accusations left and right.
And really? Necros have far less control skills?? You limit the meaning of control. Control is controlling the fight, which Necros can easily do with things like chain fear, boon conversion, condition unloading etc. I am not saying Necros are in a better state, but don’t say things which are obviously false.
I never bother to argue with players that dont know what the Ele profession truly is capable. Specially, when it comes to this topic that has been debated several times and proven wrong.
If you truly feel that way, you could post something to disprove his claims. And for some reason you don’t feel like doing it, you could have simply not said anything at all. We don’t care if you are debated this topic for years, if you don’t want to debate it any further just move along, we don’t need to know how much better you think you are than everyone else.
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I would assume that they will not be linked as they will likely have different versions of some items (Deathwish, Deathly Pauldrons…anything with skulls on it). Because of their cultural differences items with human skulls on it are forbidden and as such they’d have different appearances. So their items, trading post and gem store should be separate unless there is some server sorcery that renders each object based on a person’s location.
Just my guess on this.
your guess is wrong.
Due to Chinese laws foreigners cannot be interact with the Chinese players. It has nothing to do with something as simple as you described.
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t6 materials are going to drop HARD.
Time to unload some mats.
edit: Not selling mine because I believe it is better to have more mats than less mats.
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krazyFlyingChicken is mostly right.
Most of the changes to the ele have been less about the ele and more about changes to other things.
Rune changes have allowed the ele to be more of a force, combined with a few nerfs to the thieves. Lyssa rune nerf and rune of strength buff. The buff allows ele to easily get to 25 stacks of might. One of the new build is d/f with rune of strength and celestial amulate with cantrips and signet of restoration.
The biggest change however is the fact that they significantly buffed the Celestial Amulet which open a lot of doors for a few other builds to shield.
I mean thanks to the changes for the first time since last june, an elementalist was was used in a tournament finals.
tl;dr
ele no major buff directly.
ele buff by changes to the rune and a few nerfs to other classes.
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next time don’t mess up. Tranquility is a great buff and it is a great way to turn a game’s momentum.
I remember one of the tournament matches, one of the team completely blew off tranquility and it cost them the match. It was exciting.
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Yea it annoys me too that they try to make money from their game.
I don’t think players would complain if a decent amount of money was being reinvested into substantial content, profession improvements, fixes, personal story revamps, dungeons, …, …, … and a plethora of other important core things.
Except that all those things are being. Anet revamped the dungeons for example but barely anyone does it. Players only care about one thing LOOT/Reward.
Guild wars 2 core has been significantly improved since release and is in a far better shape than it was 1.5 years ago.
The personal story will never be revamp since it doesn’t affect anybody but new players and there is no real reason to except maybe story mode orr.
The point being everything you are whining about is/has actually been done, it just seems more like it doesn’t appeal to your taste which is significantly different than things NOT changing.
I really don’t see how people prefer to be nickel and dimed than just pay a traditional, trivial, sub free and get access to everything in game.
In today’s world, the only thing a subscription guarantees is that you are getting ripped off every single month.
That is not even close it is far worse than that.
You get permanently locked out of the game AND you don’t get free content. Makes you wonder what the mandatory 15 bucks a month is for.
You have the honor of spending 15 bucks + 49.99 for a new content. No wonder a lot of companies invest hundreds of millions into an MMORPG, because they know a sucker is born everyday.
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Check out Wildstar. It is an improved version of GW2 with the promise of a sub fee (that you can pay for with ingame money) but no cash shop, ever.
Improved version of guild wars 2?
IT is good that you found a game you enjoy and I am happy for you, but don’t go lie. Wildstar is a game designed to be exactly like WoW but with a more modern combat. I saw modern because NPC have something called white damage that is undodgeable even if you are far away.
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Thanks you. What would scholar rune be sufficient?
I am not really starting out, I just took a long break after dragon bash.
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It’s pushing me further and further away from the game as well.
It’s not fun anymore.
Welcome to the cash shop model. If this becomes the standard in MMOs, then I will no longer be playing MMOs. Because I really don’t see how people prefer to be nickel and dimed than just pay a traditional, trivial, sub free and get access to everything in game.
Though if people must play B2P or F2P games, then Rift has a very fair cash shop.
I know what you mean.
The even more scary part, so to say, is that big games like World of Warcraft have started with cash shops, and even taken the step to be selling instant level 90’s (which is max level at the moment.)
It doesn’t matter what people think, or say- other game companies will take after World of Warcraft like they have done before.
You’re not even safe anymore, even paying for a subscription fee.
To be fair, the WoW cash shop only has a few pets and a few mounts. 98%+ of pets and mounts are available in game. Instant 90s aren’t necessarily bad, either. I have multiple characters and I’ve leveled through the content plenty of times so I used the service once. They are going into their 5th expansion now so I think it’s an effort to get more people into the game and into the newest content.
you lack consistency.
You guys are the ones whining how a b2p game has a cash shop then praise a p2p with a cash shop?
How does that even make any sense?
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I recently decided to start replaying my Mesmer in PvE open world (mainly) and some dungeons NOT fractures. After shelving it for a year.
I have been searching for a few hours now and I am a little confused at what the current builds are, I keep getting conflicting information.
One says mantra full phantasm another says mantra sucks blah blah.
tl;dr
What are the current PvE builds and possibly some WvW builds?
Thanks you for your consideration.
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Some people don’t understand opportunity costs (the “mats I gathered are free” people).
The mats you gather are effectively free and that is because the nature of gathering allows you to do it while performing other task in RL.
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Actually, you have a much better odds of getting a legendary as a PvPer than as a PvEer.
Also legendary is just a skin, it has even less value to a PvP only player. Since the only good thing about it is worthless in SPvP, stat switching.
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