Guild Wars 2

“gems in the pool”?

Sorry to the break the news to you.

The ‘gems’ are a fictional/virtual currency which does not have, and will never have, any kind of tangible quantity associated with its existence.

The ‘gems’ are infinite.

The ‘gems’ will never run out.

The ‘gems’ will never be in low supply, or high demand.

“Gems” and the stories they told you surrounding their incarnation are nothing but a marketing ploy.

But I’ll have some fun.

Lets entertain the notion that ‘gems’ DO have a limited quantity.

Even if they do have a limited quantity in existence at any given time, the quantity is a virtual figure. And an irrelevant and useless and meaningless one at that.

This virtual figure is nothing more than a number in a text box which can be edited by the company at any time.

Even if ‘supply’ of this virtual and invisible resource miraculously hits 0, do you think the company controlling their very existence would sit there and say “sorry, we have no more gems to sell! We can’t take your money!”

No. They would manipulate (increase) the non existent quantity, and business continues as usual.

As for the cost of gems?

It was a well thought out marketing ploy.

Start them out cheap, to get people used to their existence and role within the game. And as time goes on, slowly make them more expensive, until their cost becomes grossly unrealistic in terms of playing for/earning them.

A scare/intimidation tactic.

“Why play for countless hours to generate 70 gold for 800 gems for skin or quality of life improvement you want, when you can give us $10 and receive it instantly?”

Marketing. Marketing. Marketing.

3 words: Hall of monuments.

I enjoyed earning titles and accomplishments, and storing them, enjoyed filling the Hall up, and enjoyed being able to show others.

We all know GW1 was a fantastic game that will be lost in the ages, with all these terrible casual friendly ezmode generation games coming through. Filling up the Hall of Monuments was a significant part of the last few years of GW1, even for GW1 veterans who didn’t get into/never got into GW2.

GW2 doesn’t need a Hall of Monuments replication (storing achievements (achievements are a joke in GW2 anyway)), but things like that are what keep people playing.

Especially when you have to EARN it.

“too easy to make gold off it”

Incorrect.

Karma is slowly acquired through playing the game, and unlike ‘gold’, it can’t be abused to make absurd amounts (playing the TP, TP manipulation, RNG, etc) in a short period of time.

Even if it was still possible to be traded in for the goal of generating some ‘gold’, the price of the material would fall to vendor price (everyone doing it), and making ‘gold’ from it wouldn’t be ‘easy’, or substantial, since karma is rather limited + market flooding.

Note: you can put 4 karma items in the mystic forge and salvage it, if you have no other use for karma.

Permanent content after all this time?

- A few useless mini games (most people only do it for +1 daily AP)

- Belcher’s Bluff (Once you do it, you never do it again, even doing it the one time is boring/RNG)

- Account wallet (glad to have it, but it’s only a pebble in an ocean, aka not a big or significant change)

- 2 Open World luck based 100 man zerg only raids that players have no control over, unless they form an anti social guild and run and hide from other players in forced overflows.

- Fractals of the mists. Stagnant for more than a year, and then when it finally got some attention it wasn’t anything significant.

- WvW ranks. Took them over a year to change their mind from “NO!”, to agree with the players in making it account based. Another pebble in the ocean.

- Removing the overly punishing “Soulbound”. 2 years of begging later. Pebble in an ocean.

- Account Wardrobe. 2 years of begging later. Pebble in an ocean.

- Ever expanding Gem Store. No player cares. Add more skins to the game that can be EARNED.

- Some new PvP maps. And most players hate their very existence, especially in SoloQ and TeamQ (Before being removed from TeamQ). Skyhammer is still hated by the PROVEN MAJORITY of actual players. Rank farmers opinions do not count.

- Edge of the Mists. No one wanted an insignificant PvE karma train map. This project was a failure.

- Borderland Bloodlust. No one asked for this, anywhere, ever, and all it did was create chaos and dissent.

After 2 years that’s a really pathetic list. But that is what happens when you assign 80% of your staff to Gem Store brain storming, instead of working on the game.

They recycled ‘box release’ content over and over with the temporary Living Story. The majority of players want the map to expand. Recycling content is pure laziness, and gives the illusion of content, and being TEMPORARY, it was LITERALLY an illusion, as it no longer exists, ever.

PvP and WvW need developers and staff assigned to them. I mean more than 5 temporarily cycled people.

PvP and WvW also need constant balance changes/tweaks, to keep the meta from stagnating/being stagnant. Tweaks need to come every month to keep things fresh and creative. But since there is no PvP/WvW staff, this will never happen.

PvE fluff and Gem Store fluff/illegal gambling practices need to stop.

The game that came in the box was fantastic. But since then the game direction has been terrible and lacklustre.

There is a lot of room for improvement, the company just needs to be willing to devote resources in the correct areas.

Its toooootttalllyy awwweeeessooommmeeee.

Right?

As a standard in any game, map chat is a no holds barred free for all, and its expected that anything can and will happen in it.

My server, sea of sorrows, was pretty tame for the most part, our conversations were generally mature, insightful and helpful, even in arguments.

But now with mega servers, in less populated maps of PvE and especially heart of the mists, I get to experience a vast world of other servers trolls, angry teens and sociopaths at any time of the day.

Other servers trash has overflowed into our pristine waters, and it will never be the same.

Map chat drivel/toxicity has increased by 9001%.

This thread has officially degenerated into childish playground drivel.

Everything that needs to be discussed has been discussed a few pages back, the real meat is on pages 13-15 or something I can’t remember and can’t be bothered checking which pages it was.

Since this discussion has gone past the point of no return it needs to be closed.

I couldn’t care less if they release them again.

Why?

Because it is just a few pixels, who gives a crap? It doesn’t affect me.

Yes I was there, yes I have them. Unless I was an over entitled and shallow jerk that wants to be a special snowflake then I’d say no. Thankfully I’m not.

Someone wearing ‘X’, ‘Y’ or ‘Z’ pixels doesn’t affect you. On the other hand it increases the playing experience for those who missed some temporary ill explained joke content.

Thread is still going.

“pro-mount” side still hasn’t given a real reason why the game should be ruined with mounts.

19 pages… with nothing but “I want it, and a speed boost”.

Sigh.

Otokomae.9356:

I still don’t know why everyone keeps using the term “2v1” to describe what’s happening this Season. This isn’t a “2v1”, this is MATCH-FIXING.

This isn’t a case of 2 servers hitting the same Garrison at the same time because each of them wants to take it. This isn’t 1 server seeing an enemy getting pushed from the north, and deciding to take their unprotected camps & towers in the south. This isn’t a server refusing to join a fight because they are passively working on upgrades while the other 2 servers duke it out.

This is a case of 2 servers sending a group of representatives to weekly meetings with each other in TeamSpeak, where they decide which server will take 1st place, & which will take 2nd during the next week’s match. Each week, one of these servers AGREES to take 2nd place, allowing the other server to take 1st. That is match-fixing, plain & simple.

Even in the most severe 2v1, all 3 servers are at least attempting to win the match, even if they know they have very little chance. They are at least trying to place as highly in the match as they can. In this case, the servers involved are NOT playing to win, they are each playing towards a previously agreed upon outcome to the match.

So please, when talking about the current situation in Season 2, stop calling it a “2v1”. This is something else. This is Match-Fixing, which in ANY other game or sport in the world, would generally be called “Cheating”.

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

Saw the word match fixing, then I looked at your signature.

Makes sense.

Its ok, buying guilds and player, then doing “server blackouts” to exploit and bypass the “FULL SERVER” cap isn’t cheating or match fixing or manipulation.

/facepalm. How do you even function.

Btw, its not match fixing when its a rule that 2v1 is allowed. Clue up. get gud

If you and your server would like to become the target if 2v1… all hope is not lost. Follow this guide, and you can soon be the target of affection.

1) Care about PPT

2) Buy guilds

3) Buy players

4) Cause server blackouts to stuff your “FULL” listed server with even more players to make up for your lack of skill.

5) “Win” matches because you have 20x more players than every other server

6) Trash talk, saying you’re the best players, and the best server, just because you dominate PPT. Even though all of your guilds that participate in GvG get rolled by T2 guilds. Because T2 players are better at everything.

7) Say fighting doesn’t matter. Say it doesn’t matter that you get rolled in even fights and gvg. Say PPT is the real game.

8) Omniblob the #3 rank server for more than a year. When called out, say its not 2v1, it just happens. Then say "even if we are 2v1ing, its WvW, its bound to happen.

9) Over a year later, people will get sick of your omniblob mega stacked band wagon trash talking server, and 2v1 you.

10) Spam the forums with threads about how 2v1 is ruining the game. Oh, and you’re totally not a hypocrite, and in your posts, say you’re not a hypocrite, so everyone believes you.

11) Say the game needs to change, because your server isn’t allowed to be 2v1’d, only other servers.

12) Be the only server to kick up a fuss about being 2v1’d because you’re tooootttaally not an over entitled hypocritical jerk.

13) After being laughed at, take up a new stance, say, “we enjoy being 2v1’d, it means we’re the best, otherwise it wouldn’t be happening”. Even though you’re dying inside.

14) When being called out for being the notorious guild buying player buying band wagon omniblob server, say that’s not the reason you’ve been winning, say its because you’re skilled, say its because your server is just soooooo gooooood at the game, people admire how skilful your server is, and want to be as skilful as you.

15) Continue to say how good you are at the game, even though you can’t win gvgs let alone even numbered open field fights.

Congratulations! You’ve made it through the training, you are now ready to be the target of 2v1.

Necro cannot escape fights in wvw. You either win or you die.

But a norn necro?? Hello bear and snow leopard. Zoom zoom.

Logged in for the second time in 3 weeks. Can’t WvW or PvP because of the lag.

It’s 2014. Your servers have been lagging significantly for MORE than a year, huge amounts of delay, and spikes, and rubber banding.

Yet you do nothing but update the gem store.

PvP is unplayable. Melee is unplayable. Dodging is unplayable.

Game servers back in 1998 in the 56k dial up days had less delay than 2014 GW2 servers. I’m not even joking about this. I have NEVER played on game servers that lag as much as GW2.

How do you manage to have such terrible servers, and no regard for fixing it, in 2014?

It is pathetic. It is amazing how big a nose dive a company can take between 2 product releases.

Sincerely,

One of the many frustrated customers still waiting for you to fix your servers/game. Logging in less and less as time goes on, eventually not going to bother since you don’t care about fixing the servers and bugs in your product.

/End rant. Get your act together.

@ Drogo

Yes, sometimes he can be immature, at least its in a comical way.

Yes, sometimes the scores reviewers give games are completely wrong. (to high or to low).

Angry Joe covers games quite extensively, especially big hyped up releases. Metacritic is garbage btw.

But here’s a hint: don’t look at scores and ratings, ever. Look at the actual review, and the things it says and shows, then make up your own mind. Ratings and scores don’t mean crap, by anyone, ever.

As for Skyrim, I’d give it a 10 now (not when released of course), I’ve had over 1000 hours of entertainment without plugins/expansions ALONE. With plugins and expansions…. so many hours played. A game that can provide that much entertainment is doing something right. And its single player.

Truth be told, I’m already playing less and less these days. Lets call “playing the game a lot” 100%, right now I’d be playing at 5-10%.

The main thing that has kept me playing for a long time is WvW, though I’ve always been PvX.

But one can only play the same mechanics/strategies/metas for so long before it gets boring, despite the awesome community and player interactions that exist.

What I’m hoping for is the company to decide on a clear direction, and to get its priorities sorted. Which means working on the game by adding content, fixing content, constantly shaking up the meta every month amongst others. They also need to divide staff evenly among the game modes.

Actual meaningful changes. WvW has lacked a dedicated developer team since launch. With 80% of staff allocated to brain storming for the gem store, these things cannot happen.

But what I know for certain is, the longer the company focuses on fluff (which mounts definitely fall under), the less and less I’ll be logging in until big changes come.

But mounts? That would be a point of no return.

ESO?

Allow me to leave this here. This is Angry Joes finally finished review (months of playing it).

In short ESO is utter garbage. I suggest watching his entire review.

Like many modern video games, it was released in an alpha state, and has never undergone testing.

There’s a lot of great suggestions and ideas and opinions in this thread.

Some of it has been brought up hundreds of times.

It’s sad that the players care 500x more about the game than the company.

And that is mainly what GW2 is missing. Passionate staff.

Yes, those were topics that will be affected, and I then also listed very specific points under those topics, and all of them WILL happen.

Your line by line responses consisted of:
“I don’t agree”
“I don’t see how that would happen”
“They wouldn’t have to do that”

Take one look at the “finishers”.

There is stupid crap like the “cow falling butt first onto the corpse”, and “dancing quaggans with mobile water theme park”.

You really don’t agree if mounts are introduced they won’t make stupid crap like flying quaggans? I call that being naive.

Same goes for quip/dreamer as a precedent of how stupid the mount designs will be. And just because these exist, it does not mean they should add more toy theme park candy crap.

As for the ‘mount’ standing on completely broken angles, even upside down, on certain slopes and ledges and objects, I don’t even have to point out which other games these problems exist in, because I can just point out that these problems exist with tonic transformations in GW2 already. Feel free to try.

And a third one from ‘immersion breaking’. As for mounts appearing out of thin air, and disappearing instantly like a fart in a strong breeze, this one will certainly happen.

As for doing instant 90 degree turns and 180 degree turns, the mechanics already exist like this for players, as well as siege golems. They would not change this for mounts, and it will look highly ridiculous and lower the aesthetic quality of the game significantly. It already looks broken when golems do it.

Not being able to agree with all of these points taking place, just points to ignorance and naivety.

I’ll finish with a question, so the ‘pro mount’ side can add something a bit more substantial to the debate.

I would be forced to see mounts.
I would be forced to see their massive flaws, poor designs etc etc all my points from before.
It would burn my retinas.

What do you suggest could happen so I and others do not have to bear witness to this apocalyptic tragedy?

Also, in order to have a constructive conversation/argument, dismissing the oppositions logical reasoning and saying, “that doesn’t count, null and void, lies and slander, what else you got?”, just because it isn’t convenient for you or agree with you, does not add anything to your side of the lake, it simply shows you are never willing to accept the flaws of the proposal. Like a bull, if you will, once its eyes are focused, anything can happen around it and it will never notice.

You know where else one side dismisses logic that isn’t convenient to them? Science vs religion.

Gibson.4036:

Astralporing.1957:

Yes, that’s pretty much it. Of course, anti-mount people do not need to come up with any reasons why mounts should not be introduced (beyond “cuz we don’t like them”). Pro-mount people however do need exactly that.

They may need to in order to convince the anti-mount crowd, but that’s not going to happen.

I already have provided every reason under the sun in 2 different posts.

And I never said “because WoW” or “because I don’t want them”. But you and others keep repeating those 2 lines as “the only thing anti-mount people are saying”.

The reasons I wrote, are exactly what will happen. Every single one of them.

The horse is dead, bury it.

It’s the best part of the game. And the company still hasn’t realised it.

I guess I was right about the siege golem thing. You just don’t want to ride them.

It’s an attacking mount. If that doesn’t pique your interest, nothing will.

What’s Guild Wars 2 missing?

Guild Wars.

Adding to Rauderi’s ones.

Combat becomes harder to balance. We all know ANet already struggles to balance the combat, let alone traits, let alone weapon skills.

Warriors could bring more CC without sacrificing engage/disengage abilities.

Ele/engi would be left behind, or have even more crazy spam rotations if given a second set.

Thief even harder to kill. So many perma stealths and perma evades and shadow steps on demand.

Guardians can bring mobility along with their high survivability weapons.

I see nothing but pain and tears, if weapon sets are increased.

Skan.5301:

Let’s break this down, shall we?

thaooo.5320:

It’s the same few people banging their head on the thread and dribbling all down the page, ignoring all logic and reasoning, and telling people who don’t want mounts to stop posting here. Now you’ll say, BUT YOU’RE TELLING US NOT TO POST, yes, because you’ve provided nothing but “I want it”, and “I want speed boost”.

Have the people who don’t want it provided anything other than “NO WOW HAS IT AND GW2 IS DIFFERENT SO WE CAN’T!” or “YOU HAVE SPEED BOOST SO USE THEM AND RUN AND WAYPOINT!”

No? I didn’t think so.

thaooo.5320:

“the charr have mounts”
- Are you referring to their siege weapons? Yes, siege weapons, NOT MOUNTS. By that logic, if you want to mount siege weapons, you can happily do so in wvw.

If you can ride, ie, move a number of spaces in any direction in it, then it’s technically a mount. The siege in WvW is not a mount. It is an object you interact with

First.

Read my last 2 big posts which are FILLED with reasons, instead of ignoring them. Even in your post you commented (mind numbingly) on my reasons.

Don’t ignore them, read and understand them, they’re right there for you, if you choose not to read them or understand that they are legitimate counter arguments, that is YOUR choice. But your choice to ignore all reasoning does not help your limited argument.

Second.

It is clear you’ve never fully played this game besides PvE.

Alpha Golems and Omega Golems are siege weapons, they also move. You say it has to move to be a mount. Go right ahead and ride them till your heart is content.

Thank you for not deconstructing a post full of logic and reasoning for the sole purpose of disagreeing with it, and providing no logic or reasoning for your side of the argument.

The rest of your ‘post deconstruction’ serves no purpose, and adds nothing to the argument except ‘it disagrees with what I want’.

It’s the same few people banging their head on the thread and dribbling all down the page, ignoring all logic and reasoning, and telling people who don’t want mounts to stop posting here. Now you’ll say, BUT YOU’RE TELLING US NOT TO POST, yes, because you’ve provided nothing but “I want it”, and “I want speed boost”. You want a speed boost? Use the ones provided, there is more than enough in the game, and the game works perfectly fine with them. A mount won’t do anything but visually ruin the game. Movement has a cost, movement has value. Apparently you do not value movement, yet here you are asking for speed boosting mounts, it makes absolutely no sense, at all.

And stop with the poor analogies and poor comparisons and poor hypotheticals.

“imagine if the game had no swords, but had every other weapon imagineable”
- We’d still have weapons to use. So what? What were you trying to achieve with this ill thought out statement?

“the charr have mounts”
- Are you referring to their siege weapons? Yes, siege weapons, NOT MOUNTS. By that logic, if you want to mount siege weapons, you can happily do so in wvw.

POORLY DESIGNED:
- Instant 90 degree turns (aka lack of turning circle)
- Instant 180 degree turns (^)
- Standing at awkwardly impossible angles on cliffs or steep hills/objects (somehow floating horizontally, or somehow floating vertically!)

STUPID MODELS (my favourite one)
- Magic Carpet
- Flying Quaggan
- Rainbow
- Golden Shiny Super Centaur That Poops Love Hearts
- Hover Board
- <Insert the plethora of easily thought up vomit worthy garbage>

IMMERSION BREAKING
- Most importantly I will be FORCED to see other people on this garbage.
- I will be FORCED to view the all the things I listed under the above 2 headings.
- Mount will appear out of thin air, and disappear instantly. Disgusting.
- As above, standing at awkward broken angles, instant 180s.

LORE IGNORING
- Only the Stone Summit and Undead had the occasional mount in the past. The rest of Tyra did not punish other creatures by sitting on them.
- Horses don’t exist in Tyria
- Mounts don’t exist at all in present day Tyria

Doesn’t matter what I or others say. Doesn’t matter how logically we construct our posts and opposing view. The same few people will blindly ignore it all, and post the same senseless “I want a speed boost” posts.

If you can’t add anything here except “I want a speed boost”, of which there are tonnes of ways to achieve it, then obviously this is a terrible suggestion, something unnecessary, and not worth ruining the game for.

Look at my posts. Look at how much it provides for the “no mounts” argument.

Now try do the same for the “pro mounts” argument. You can’t come even close, all you have is “I want speed boost”.

Asmodeus.5782:

I’ve decided not to get a Predator just because of the exploding feet thing.

I can forgive the footprints because I get WAY too much enjoyment from the awesome sound.

@OP

Mis-Quote Blizzard:

“We gladly exploited stupid people who spent $250 on single items/pixels, and very bad statted items/pixels at that, and even items/pixels we changed the stats/values of later, for over 2 years. We made a heap of money, and we agree NOW after 2 years and 9000+ threads telling us the Real Money Auction House is a plague on the game/social aspects, we will close it.

Thank you for your money,

-Blizzard"

fishball.7204:

3. When putting buy orders you can click really fast 3-4 times and get 1000 orders in instead of 250.

Definitely works for us Aussies. Dunno about Americans, their 0 delay/lag might prevent that.

Gibson.4036:

thaooo.5320:

They add mounts and over 90% of the player base never plays this game again.

Like mounts have killed other mmorpgs by driving off all but 10% of the population! Amirite?

Those games launched with mounts, not introduced them.

Those games launched with mounts, and people who are into that kind of unpleasant garbage went there and stayed there (until they realised the core of GW2 is better than that game and came here and made these threads).

Those games launched with mounts, and people like me didn’t go near them simply because it had pointless mounts in the game serving no purpose.

I’m not against mounts when the game is designed around mounts being a big integral part for whatever reason, and it makes sense. Like a medieval combat game where mounted combat exists inside a trinity of melee/ranged/mounted combat and each has its strengths and weaknesses in different situations. It makes sense from a lore standpoint, and it doesn’t break immersion, and it doesn’t reek of weirdo kiddies.

But I am strongly against:
- “Becuz addin it wud b kewl”
- “Becuz I alwaiiz wanted 2 own a pony but my parents sed no”
- 0 practicality within the game
- Poorly animated
- Poor design
- Poor mechanics
- Lore destroying
- Immersion breaking
- STUPID MODELS
- Insert other reasons I’ve written 200 times before.

It is easy to manipulate low supply markets and completely break them like this, when you can buy all the stock at no effort, just 2 simple clicks.

This is the folly of the current implementation of Trading Posts in every new generation MMO.

The old system of standing around spamming “Selling X” and “Buying X” meant market manipulation was close to impossible, since you can’t rip the supply out of the ground at your leisure.

But obviously that way of trading has it’s drawbacks too. Spamming, standing around instead of playing, 90% of items are worth more selling to the merchant so you can keep playing to generate more wealth.

A middle ground needs to be found, and that’s probably the next big step an MMO can take.

A market that has the ease and freedom of selling your wares to the masses with a few clicks, instead of it being a painful struggle, whilst limiting the impact the gold hoarders and full time traders have on manipulating prices. The hoarders and full time traders will still be able to play the market, and make huge profits and hoard nice big pointless numbers, but they won’t be able to artificially bloat prices (ruining the game for the other 99% of players) with those profits/gold hoards.

Someone will work out how to achieve this eventually.

Focus offhand weapons are literally the same thing as you are suggesting.

They add mounts and over 90% of the player base never plays this game again.

You want mounts so badly?
Mounts are the one and only thing you want from a video game?

There are plenty of games that meet your needs, do not attempt to ruin other peoples enjoyment with something so pathetic.

Jekkt.6045:

ive been observing this now since the day of the balance patch when i revived my old d/d ele. the celestial build is in a very nice spot right now, if played skillfully you can win the majority of 1vs1 fights.

guess against which class i struggle the most? – hambow war

So your class/build dominates 7 out of 8 classes, and you’re upset it doesn’t god mode dominate all 8.

Logic like this is why spvp is broken.

Crixler.2857:

On a somewhat related note, I’ve also often wondered why they chose to make the “2” dragon symbol be red instead of a more Zhaitan-ish color and design (obviously still keeping the 2 shape). The current red logo looks more like Primordus, both in color and design, which isn’t really all that relevant currently. They could have had a different dragon themed logo for different expansions (or however they end up releasing other dragons in the end).

When the logo was designed I sadly think they didn’t even know the other dragons existed, until players pointed to the lore.

Conspiracies regarding the “2” label:

- Only 2 game modes will get worked on (PvE/Gem Store)
- 2 Credit Cards are better than 1
- 2 years between each dragon release
- 2 times the grind once they listened to the WoW players (who subsequently left to return to the grindier grind)
- 2x the lag with each passing month
- Only 2 people work on the game
- 2 warriors beats everything except 3+ warriors
- Conditions are 2 times stronger than direct damage
- Conditions are 2+ times easier to play than direct damage
- 2 or more decap engis on one team is an auto win
- The item you want but can’t afford will cost 2x more next week
- 2v1 against Blackgate results in #BGTears

This was asked for in betas, at release, a year after release, and now, by literally every GW1 player.

It’s not gonna happen, ever.

Why? ’Cause ANet.

Iplaytokill.1674:

Guild Wars 2: Gem Store.

He meant the future releases, not the current release.

Guild Wars 2: The Grind for the Exotically-Rare-Ascended Tier

Official response on the shield is that it won’t be getting any improvements, because it is already at peak aesthetic perfection.

If you add footfalls or an aura to this truly epic shield, it will look like, and become, a toy piece of crap like quip or dreamer. What once was epic, will become garbage.

Not every skin in the game needs to be a toy piece of candy crap.

Not everyone wants every skin to be a toy piece of candy crap. If it is toy candy crap you are after, plenty of skins already exist to fulfil this.

Im Mudbone.1437:

I have seen numerous DEV’s playing the game since starting in the BETA for GW2 and I would think there are several of those with GM abilities.

Of course you have, you’re on stackgate. Devs really only reside there and stacked quarry.

It’ll never happen.

But if it did, it would have to be PvE only.

Wvw and Pvp would be lacking in player numbers, not to mention terribly clunky.

Or if they were to combine the PC and console populations, console players would be trashed in PvP and WvW by PC users.

Ps4 and xbone audience is still small. And GW2 needs more attention at fixing certain issues first anyway.

Morgash.3165:

Seras.5702:

You can’t farm leather from nodes either. The discrepancy is that the recipes are equal, it’s the market prices that are not. Apparently, clothies are more popular classes and therefor the demand for tailoring supplies is higher, thus driving prices up. If the recipes were equalized based on today’s market pricing, in time the market will shift and the costs will be uneven. It’s just a shame that the costs are so vastly different.

Please don’t type something unless you know wtf you are talking about.

Elonian Cord: 50 cured thick leather square = 100 hardened Sections

Silk Weaving Thread: 100 bolts of silk = 200 silk scraps

FYI its 300 silk scraps not 200. Awkward.

You have Anet tags on your server? I think I’ve seen 2 tags on my server (both a once off) in 1.5 year.

5 man parties. And only parties see the target their party selected. So it doesn’t work until squads are more useful, or party size is increased.

Bhawb.7408:

Cogbyrn.7283:

This isn’t Guild Wars 1. Comparing it to Guild Wars 1 and trying to use that as an argument for balance changes is both ill-advised and insane. I understand people loved that game, and I did too, but wishing GW2 was more like it won’t actually make GW2 more like it.

Better to evaluate the class as it is in the current landscape of GW2 than argue what it was and try to shoehorn that in somehow for the sake of nostalgia.

It has nothing to do with nostalgia, and everything to do with class flavor. Confusion perfectly fits Necromancers, bringing GW1 in only cements that fact. We want the Necromancer to feel like a Necromancer, not the incredibly watered down experience a lot of builds give you right now. No one is asking for them to put 5 stacks of confusion per scepter auto attack, we’re simply asking for a balanced source of confusion.

Confusion does NOT fit Necromancers. Necro in GW1 cast curses, NOT confusion. There is nothing confusing about a Necromancer, nothing at all, its pretty straight forward.

Calling necro ‘watered down’ shows you have no experience with the class.

Every single class now has access to a ridiculous amount of confusion, that lasts forever, thanks to perplexity runes. There is an overabundance of the condition, and frankly it needs to be removed as it does NOT promote skilful play, just passive play auto win.

Necromancers already easily spam every single other condition easily, and instantly reapply it when removed. But you want to throw in ANOTHER condition to the already overpowered condition necro? Wow.

If it is that much of an issue for you, buy perplexity runes and faceroll even more.

If you want loot, don’t do wvw. Outside of a glorified karma train with the enemy (like a champ train), you won’t make any money.

The one in that screenshot currently resides in SoS.

Did you ask him for a happy meal? (he’s always ready to feed tyria)

I usually use my memory. There is enough ingame information to make recognition of previously completed events possible.

Necro is tonnes of fun, and extremely useful.

But don’t go out there expecting to survive if your team gets wiped or you get ganked when alone.

Avelos.6798:

It’s called gambling. The player loses 99% of the time. That’s capitalizing on something that works. Any real life gambling situation is exactly the same.

99% of the time? Not even close! Maybe in a lottery yes.

On topic, most used class is warrior.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Highest HP
Highest toughness
Highest armor
Highest mobility
Highest damage
Highest condition removal
Highest weapon swap time
Highest healing without even healing

- Necro.
- Equal with Guardian, guardi also spams protection, sooooooo…..
- Armour/toughness are the same.
- Highest mobility?? That’s Thief. Warrior has highest consistent land speed, but ele FGS outruns warrior during its time. (mobility and land speed are not the same, warrior has no mobility, but has lots of land speed IF BUILT FOR IT)
- Ele.
- Ele or guard for Condi removals.
- Weapon swap times? Engineer has 0 or 1 second swap times.
- Highest healing skill without healing? Signet of malice (thief)

Warrior is not listed once, besides equal first at toughness.

Don’t spout nonsense because its become the mainstream thing to do. Spout logic and facts.

Besides stat types (zerk, rabid, carrion, dire, apothecary etc), the only difference is aesthetics.

There are exotics that aren’t level 80, they have less stats than level 80 pieces, but all level 80 pieces are the same in their stat type.

Aesthetics (horizontal progression) is what the game was supposed to be…… then along came the ascended grind.