Guild Wars 2

5%, 10% etc reduced WP and Repair fees is Way Too Steep.
Only now are we obtaining 1% incremented Account Bonus Stats (MF, Gold Find, etc)
This amount should fall in line with these percentage based like items.
1% for the 1yr Birthday. 1% for the 2nd, and .5% for each year thereafter.
The problem is, if you play for 3Yrs+ on your system, the concept of the Gold Sink (the real reason we pay for WPing and Repairs) becomes Null Void and Obsolete.
This breaks the game. It is not ok to implement systems that intentionally break the game. Also, if this were to be implemented, I’d bet you anything over the next 1-2-3yrs that ‘The Asuran Council is endeavoring a New Undertaking to refurbish the Exterior of Rata Sum! All WP and Asura Gate travel will now either be raised 20%, or become fee based if they were not raised or did not have a fee required prior to this New Awesome Shiny Great Undertaking!’
Therefore rendering that now what… 20% reduction on Wping completely useless.
Taking Gold out of the economy (i.e. Gold Sink) is a Needed Function to sustain a Healthy Economy. Rendering it useless will not benefit the game, the servers, or the end Player.

Again, you misunderstand.
I do not care for PvP. I never have, and never will.
It’s a personal choice.
I don’t duel in games that offer it.
I have no need to be violent towards the fellow next to me for ‘no better reason than they are there’ and refuse to be baited by some jerkwad just so he can gank me.
I don’t play this game as some kind of anon-Vendetta Mask that so many others do.
This Personal Life-Choice is based off of My Spirituality and My Core Fundamental Beliefs of how I myself should interact, respond to others, and co-exist.
My statement was- I Myself do not Chose to be a part of this aspect of the game. [The WHY in all honesty is none of you or any other readers here business, or I’d have posted the WHY] However, that as a Core Portion on the Game, and it’s Population- To remove this aspect of it is ludicrous. Just because I myself do not think it a good investment of my time, does not mean the 1000’s of Players who frequent the Mists don’t.
This was what that singular line was encompassing.
The thought process – Just because I don’t subscribe to your Opinion and View doesn’t therefore make your perfectly logic, rational, and reasonable point Invalid.-

As for the rest of this Thread, I applaud each of the small steps and bounds of faith you’ve acted and enacted to give not only the game, but others that posted here their due validation.

The world is quickly running out of individuals of like nature. It’s going to be a sad, dark future if this is not remedied.

Vitus Dance.4509:

Skritt get my vote.
Believe, if you will that it’s all about the ‘shinies’, but they’ve a secret agenda just waiting to happen…

They found this Dragon’s Brood while being help captive by Krait Slavers:
‘Another dragon awoke in the deepest parts of the seas, creating tentacled horrors from its surrounding. Its awakening forced the krait, quaggan, and largos living in the Unending Ocean to flee north toward Tyria, in many cases forcing them into the path of the risen armies. Little is known of this dragon still.’
Above Mentioned Dragon

So the story is that this Dragon forced Krait out of their home, and massacred them whilst fleeing through Zhitan’s armies. The Krait have not forgotten this. (Cue Krait reason for Personal Internal Struggle Here) While being held captive by Slavers, some Skritt that were adversely affected by Brill Alliance Lab’s (next to the Rana Landing Complex WP in Voloxian Passage, Metrica Province) – gleaned just enough information to learn
Dragons Hoard Shiny Stuffy Stuff Stuff Stuff.
They sent in scouts, something that Skritt do rather well in all honestly, and they found… Dragon Brood. Not just eggs, like the epically disastrous Destroyer Fiasco- But Wyrmlings. Ferocious, hungry angerballs of roiling scales and serrated teeth protruding from too many mouths.
My view of ‘Mama’ here
And then one made one into a pet and Brought It Home.
:O
Yeah, was good til the ‘pet’ part, but hey! It’s fun to have fun sometimes! Plus, as a bonus feature- with a Guard Wyrmling – No One will Ever take your shinies!

Edit: explanation, dreams, fantasy world posting, and wanton gluttonous wishing for a Wyrmling Pet of my Very Own….

After another heated debate over ‘why do they put PvE stuff in PvP contented areas???’
This one hashed out with my own boyfriend over breakfast…
I had -IMO- a good idea.
Maybe not brilliant. Maybe not stellar. I’d say merely Good.

I may be off in this, but from what I could see and they way the travel into and out of OS felt, it is an Instanced Area. If it’s not, I think the way it’s set up could be easily remedied this way. You warp in, you Warp out.
Create the OS’Dungeon’ as it were. An Instanced Area that at any time can hold No More than a single 5man party- 1 from each server. Total of 3 parties, 15 people.
This limits the area to no more than 15 ‘living’ beings (and I use that term loosely with the PvP crowd )
This gives the following griefer relief to the QQing going on, while still maintaining the Competitive Spirit intended by the Zone
By limiting to 5 from each server, there will be no more Grief Mob of 30, 40, 50 or more on 2 or even 10.
There would be no true ‘re-vamp’ of the current map. The only thing needed would be to cut it from it’s cloth, and turn it into an Arah Clone, and paste it the same way the current Instances are.
If you fail to bring your other 4man piece if the party… Dude… you’re gonna get hosed.
At the same time, 5-on-10 or 5-on-5-on-5 is still enough to have a dang good time. Since you’re in your very own personal OS, you can spam each other til the Dolyaks come home… No one can cry over Unfairness, ANet intentionally doing something to Block my Achv, Why Did They Even Do That?!?, or any other number of silly, valid, or … Or Anything.
You get fairness. The JP stays INTACT and WHOLE and able to be completed. The mounds of Griefer Mobs trolling for 2 to 12hrs with the sole intention of You Not Getting That Achv will be no more.
Yes, I’m sorry ANet, I tried to think of a solution that Every Party Profited From… But Alas… You’d get stuck with a higher Power Bill from running the extra Servers needed.

Thanks for listening.
Happy Day.
Flame On!

Mike.7236:

tovadaun.6304:

yes, there are flaws. Every game will have them. Every thing will have them.

A wise observation!

I wonder though, have people actually suggested PvP should be removed from WvW, or did you just make that up?

My faith in humanity hinges on your answer.

I’m very sorry to crush your hope for the Human Race, Mike. Here it is, in all it’s horrific glorification:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Remove-PvP-in-WvW/first#post2492389

Silly Human… why would you walk into a War Zone and cry foul?
Oh, and yes, I do know he’s trying to be ‘cutsey’ and ‘sarcstic’. The posts he directly quotes are Not. This is a serious party foul to some.
I don’t get it. I don’t get the point of PvP, truthfully. That has no bearing at all that the argument ‘Remove It!’ is valid. Or even sane and rational.
If anyone cares, I’ve created a post with a Suggestion on how to make the OS more viable to all types of players, while maintaining it’s true purpose.
Sorry Mike, to pseudo-hijack your thread. And it is and isn’t a shameless plug for my own post. I’d really like to know what you all here think of the idea. Really.
How to Fix the Obsidian Sanctum (Really): here
Happy day, all!

Gator.5729:

What ^ said. You will get an email. Keep that email afterwards, if you ever need to reference the serial key (for support/ account verification) it is the only time you will every see it.

This is and isn’t a good idea.
It is but only Only of done ‘right’.

The proper way to store an email with a Serial Key that had massive security threats if lost is to Print It Out and store it in a safe place. Alternately you could ScreenShot or Windows Snipping Tool the Key, and store it digitally -in an alternate location from you Inbox- Or even secure (way more so than Email!) programs like Evernote that will even allow you to access that from anywhere you have Internet connectivity (no, it’s not in any way ‘like’ email, and Big Big Corporations use it for vital information sharing. It is more secure than your Email!).
But to leave the Blazing Email Header from ANet screaming ‘Your Serial Key is HERE<<< is plain silly.
First thing that happens after a hacker scams your password?
They search every single piece of your mail for things Exactly like that Serial Key.
Then what? Then you get your account hacked and you’re blamed for keeping your Serial Key in an UnSecured Location -because there is not an Email Client that truly is Secure anymore-

This is the potentially happiness-fatal mistake Anyone can make.
Your Bank Account, CreditCard, Address, Phone Number… What More do you want to give a Hacker access to?

Daevinity Inspirata.2508:

To some extent I could go along with that reasoning, except that some of the armor sets created for female humans ARE female on Asura as well – like the feathered and winged sets. Also the TA set has a female option on the Asura. The feathered and TA sets even expose the chest skin where it would normally have supported breasts/cleavage on human and norn characters.
Snip…

No, it isn’t Female Feathered or Winged. It is the Male Version of ALL the armor.
The Arah and Twilight Arbor – all of them. It’s why they look so hideous in Heavy Karma Armor. shudders

While I do now see where you’re coming from on this, I have this to say on the Zerk Mentality:
Yes, the rewards need to be better balanced and everything that’s been stated. Yes, Absolutely!
However- you need to look at the root cause of the behavior. I’m having the same kind of ‘root cause’ household fight w the Hubby (PvP should NOT be removed from WvW! Ha!)
The root cause -from what I’ve personally seen- comes to these things:
1: Massive amounts of hours speed/farming runs through dungeons/fractals
—This leads the many to believe that ‘If I have a glass-cannon I can just DPS the mobs down faster than they can one-shot me’ and be through the run faster, and getting through the run faster means that shiny drop at the end and a whole (what?) 30s?
2: Ignorance of how Stats are not only applied, but utilized, by the general average majority Player
— There’s not a whole lot of min/maxing going on. And I personally LOVE THAT. I hated having to rely on elitistjerks for some HolierThanThouEndAllYouMUSTOrElseBuild. However there’s a limit to the lack of knowledge Player’s should have about ‘X’ stat gives ‘x’ end result. If there were better information readily available, I (would like to) think that the Stat Diversity would shy away form the Zerk Mentality.
3: COST. On my server anything but Zerker gear is through the roof. This makes Players go Farm instead (either to Craft it themselves or the endless loop of Dungeon Runs for Gear). (now see #1) And when the redirect of See #1 isn’t applicable, it’s because they’ve found some new Event to exploit instead of make new gear it seems…

So, yes, there are flaws. Every game will have them. Every*thing* will have them.
Yes, there are a great many we can touch our fingers to and say -‘Dot’- this needs to be fixed. But there are some that seem to think that burning down the house to kill the spider is OK. What they don’t get- while they’re setting the drapes on fire that lil bugger has made a break for the neighbor’s house. (like the ones who want to take PvP out of WvW… ./facepalm)
btw, in case there is any doubt, that first bit up there? that was me, apologizing. that’s generally as fuzzy as it gets.

Wait…
So you’re telling me there’s Stealth Technology in this area..?
After the what- 6hrs it took me to clear that stupid JP for the Kite due to the excessive farming from the WvW ‘bloodthirsty’ … I’ll leave the rest of that sentence just hang. You can fill it in. If I did, it would only be ‘kittened’.
Yes… Please do tell me how we PvE’ers that come form other games and do not aspire to be bloodthirsty so&so’s benefit in any way from being farmed for hours on end to complete a single task? No matter what that task is, or why.

A better solution would be this:
Have an NPC standing at the Gates. For Sale- Time Duration Buff/Debuff (call it however you like) purchasable for a fee for ‘Non-Combatvite’.
So I can go in, for 10min or 30min for a price and have my no-kill zone while I Jump or Explore. And to be dead certain that the other Farming Community can’t exploit it- Make the Buff/Debuff Non-Loot-Interactible. This means if you kill, you get XP, but ZERO drops, as well as ZERO nodes etc. So no ’I’ll buy the Non-Combative Buff and sit and Farm mats all day!’ Uhm… No.
And hinder the Chat System in some way. (most likely impossible, I know :/ ) So that unless you’re in a (regular) Party with only /P access, you have no access to the Chat System. So no ‘NeNerNeNerNeNer, You can’t hit me’ stupidity. Sure, they could sit and /e at you. Then you can laugh at them for wasting a gold to become a Mime and uselessly flail at people for no good reason.
Also, I’d be happy with a marginally stiff cost. say 40-50s for 10min, and 70s-1g for 30min. Yes, upwards of 2g/hour. Let me tell you, it’d be a stellar gold-sink. I suck rocks at JPs. Not only would I be spending money on WPs back and forth to the Gate Dude w the Buff, but the Buff Itself.
AND… If I fail to bug out in time… Guess what? Yip, it’s open season. So if I’m 10ft from the end of the JP and that buff wears off… /WHACK!!/
Huh. And Thus A New Sport Is Born. Pansy-Sniping. Bwahaha!!!!
Similar to this

Edit: Extra idea about how to minimize exploitabilitites. :D

Devildoc.6721:

tovadaun.6304:

On top of Damage Avoidance, you’re also forgetting the awesome major factor they’ve introduced in GW2…
Be Responsible For Y.O.U.R.S.E.L.F!
Snip…
Thank You ANet. I won’t Ever have to play WoW again. You have no idea what that’s worth to me. <3

Problem is, that leads to a lack of teamwork. There are classes that do necessary utility functions that aid the group, Guardian and Mesmer namely, in their projectile defense (wall of reflection, feedback, phantasmal warden), boons (particularly might from guardians, stability from guardians, banners from warriors, and quickness from mesmers), and boon stripping. Otherwise everyone would just run 5 warriors.

Snip…

I do believe you misunderstood me.
I am not in any way saying that one is entirely self-sufficient. I am saying that there is no need for a dedicated healer role because each and every Profession has the core skills to heal themselves built in.
In WoW there are a couple straight healers, a couple hybrid heal/non-healers, and a few classes that simply have zero ability to heal anything.
In GW2 we are not so. This is the point I was trying to make. We do not need a healing role, because we can heal ourselves (when we fail to just Avoid the damage).
Absolutely we need the other support! My two main alts i play are a support Guard and an Elixir Gun Eng! Without the teamwork from the rest of the group, or even some kind of skill thrown in by random-passing-by-stranger-dude-or-chick-on-their-way-someplace-else… Sometimes an endeavor to kill something might just go a little more south than we’d hoped for But by no means do we need someone who’s only purpose in the game is to watch a set of bars for depletion and refill them. This is essentially all a healer does. Anyone who claims otherwise is not doin’ it the way it’s ‘played’ (for lack of any other terminology). The years I healed in PvE, Dungeons and Raids were not the most Stellar of my life. Nor were they stimulating.

And yes, I agree with that Defiant buff. There is no equivalent to it on the PC side of the game. And while no- we shouldn’t have every deck stacked in our favor- having that particular Ace up your sleeve is a little hinkey to me.

@OP
You write a post stating that you want a ‘dedicated’ healing class – yet you yourself don’t choose to play one. Why would you force this on the player base as a whole, if it isn’t even what you would play? I don’t understand the lack of logic.

My request is this:
I’d much like to see a TimeStamp in when things such as Achievements and Account Milestones (read Order requirements are met etc) are earned.
I have recently needed to provide information to ANet CS for a trouble ticket on an item that I received a month ago as an Achv Reward. They asked me for the Date and Time I received it. Really? Uhm… I have no inkling of what Day it was… Even less so what time (in all honesty, I’m not even positive which alt I got it on!)
However, if the Achievement Panel had a TimeStamp..;)
You see where I’m going.
It would also be just plain cool to have. You could then know how long it took you to complete certain Metas/JP Completions/Dungeon Full Clears/ Etc.
I have no idea how ‘hard’ (I say this in a relative way, as programming is on one hand easy and on the other insanely complicated depending on what you’re trying to accomplish) this would be to implement- or if it would in any way be able to be retro-active. I’d guess not retro-active, or the system would’ve had the time and date I’d received my reward, and CS would not have needed to ask /me/ for it.
Still… One Hopes…
Thank You.
Happy Day.

My request is this:
I would very much like to know if it’s possible for:
While on my Guardian, if my Elementalist has ‘x’ items in her/his bags.
That’s all. Just in the tooltip for the item when I hover on it, that would state
Green Wood Logs
Blah Blah ToolTip Stuff>
John: 12
Kate:2
And if the alt had none- it just wouldn’t show anything at all.

Edit:
Clarity, and learning to grammar

Zenith.6403:

Korsbaek.9803:

the bank in hero pannel would be good as long as you cant take stuff out of it

Total Agreement Here^
There exist Permanent Bank, TP and Merchant Contracts. You can receive them from hot drops from BLChests, or there are always a few to purchase off the BLTP.
If you wish free-standing access, get one of these.
ANet makes money off MicroTransactions that Players make each day. That’s why it’s there. This game is Play to Buy. There is no sub, so this is ANet’s sustaining income beyond license sales.
What Zenith is stating, about not being able to remove items from the Hero tab, if implemented, is because a few of these MicroTransaction Services are designed to do Exactly This!
If you wish these things the answer is simple: Buy Them!
As far as items stacking to 999? Why? What benefit would that provide us? I’d guess that due to the fact that the largest stack of required mats any recipe in the game requires is 250, that would be the largest stack of items we need. If you need more, then by all means, Put The Extra Stack In Your Bank Tab – Like I do.

- What? Why? Do you people actually enjoy these loading screens and map travels just to get your inventory sorted? If you could have anything you wanted, you would want to have the current system just the way it is?

Almost Every Other Game (worth noting) has a Bank (and most of those have the separate Guild Bank as well) for Storage. It’s a carryover from the Real World. You cannot just open your pocket and poof there’s everything you’ve ever owned in your life in your pocket. It’s a touchstone. It’s to make playing in a Fantasy World easier to process by our minds by not being so completely unbelievable as to be beyond acceptance. (Example: Looney Toons- Wiley Coyote and his ACME Rockets ring a bell?) In the real world, you go to a Safety Deposit Box and store your items. Or your refrigerator to store your food. Or the cellar for your firewood…. It’s not simply …where…? Under your hat? Please, tell me, in all honesty- logicaly and within even a Magical Using and still maintaining basis in Physics World… WHERE would you put 250 (or if what you’re suggesting 999?) items of EVERYTHING!?!!??

Paying to get rid of articifial limitation. The way I view the use of money is that I buy services that benefit my well-being. I go to grocery store to buy some food. and you do NOT keep it under your hat when you go out to adventure, do you? ALL of it??I go to barber to get a haircut. and do you keep the legal binding contract you’ve made with the Barber under your hat when you go to the Volcano to do the Diving Achievement???? I pay my electricity bill to have electricity in the house. the same electricity runs to the Bank that stores your Money and Valuables I bought this game to have entertaining pastime. Frankly I don’t care how Anet handles their finances, but I notice bad quality when I see it. If ANet did not have MicroTransactions, they would not have electricity, and therefore no servers and YOU would not have a game to play

By no means is it ‘bad quality’. The generation of ‘I want it all and I want it now and I want it without having to anything at all’ is truly wearing on me.

And to be completely honest No, the only thing I’d like to see changed in the current inventory system is this:
While on my Guardian, I’d like to know if my Elementalist has more ‘x’ in her bags.
That’s it. That’s all I’d like as an addition to the inventory system. And I’m going to post that. Right now.

On top of Damage Avoidance, you’re also forgetting the awesome major factor they’ve introduced in GW2…
Be Responsible For Y.O.U.R.S.E.L.F!
I played WoW from Bkittenil March of this year. I was a dedicated Healer. I played all 4 Healing Classes: Druid, Priest, Shaman, & Paladin- all healing speced. It’s my preferred class. Played them through years of patches, changes to traiting systems, Dungeons, Raids (5 & 25mans) Every xpac.
I’m HERE now.
I’m here, and HAPPY now.
Never again will I have to completely stress out in a Raid because some asinine PUG Tank decided he wanted to pull a whole room and … I dunno… go get coffee. Never again will I have to deal with idiot DPS (read Hunters mostly -but not limited to!) who feel the need to kite 9k extra mobs from a /different/ room and then point the finger at Me when I couldn’t keep them alive and the tank while he was tanking a Raid Boss.
Because every single Profession in their own Skill Set is not only capable of Damage Avoidance -BUT!- Healing T.H.E.M.S.E.L.V.E.S. when Damage Avoidance is failed.
I agree w Tom.
Go back to WoW* or some other cut-rate crappy MMO, because GW2 is clearly not the game for your tastes. (*yes, this comment implies that IMO WoW is now, a cut-rate MMO)
Thank You ANet. I won’t Ever have to play WoW again. You have no idea what that’s worth to me. <3

I’d really like Heavy Karma gear for my Asura that doesn’t make me look like a Diablo (1!!) reject. (visualize some creepy heavy warrior Imp dipped in Chrome. Yes, I know there’s dye. It makes it No Better when you envision this Imp dipped in Blueberry Sauce……..)
Seriously. 252THOUSAND Karma, for this..?
[url]http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Armageddon_armor_heavy_asura_both_front.jpg[url]
It’s horrific. It’s not just ‘unusual’, it’s appalling.

I’ll tell you why your Temples are Contested most of the time.
[url]https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Farming-the-Giant-outside-Arah[url]
This is not limited to Arah.
On my server, any time there is a group large enough to take on a Temple it is met with this.
They are not usually there to Complete The Event. They are there to do nothing but Farm The Event.
Had one evening at Dwayna that after 2hours!! of killing Risen on a platform, I left. The others there were not simply badmouthing, but shouting (caps) obscenities to anyone not contributing to the furthering of the Farming (i.e anyone caught trying to actually complete the event).
THIS is why your Karma Vendors are never open.
Period.

YES. the Perma-Cripple Sucks.
NO. It is not removed by Cleansing Wave (Ele Skill, traited or otherwise) or anything else we’ve tried.
YES. I’m a Guardian, I and have a Warhorn.

I agree completely.
I have more time on my hands than my boyfriend. He rarely plays at all any more. His exact quote?
“Why should I bother? As soon as I have the time to do any of this, it’s 2days before it’s over and it’s pointless.”
On my frustrated personal view:
I started playing about a week before the end of Flame & Frost. I was in a new Game, new Mechanics, new Everything. Noob. Totally.
How was I to know that the only way to get Sentinel’s Gear was to run Molten Facility 9k times for the Insignia/Inscription drops? There is no recipe for these. Only the items, and only attainable from this dungeon.
So what it’s turned into is those ‘Veteran’ Player’s now have cornered the market on these items. If you can find any they individually (for Exotic quality) run anywhere from 18-40g (sometimes more) for the Crafting Item. Actual Crafted Exotic Gear is even more insanely priced. At the last I looked, an entire set of this gear would’ve cost around 200g.
So this punishes me, a new player in three ways:
Those who came before me were able to acquire the loot.
Those who have the loot are exploiting the fact that it is in no way any longer attainable, and driving the cost to ridiculous amounts.
Stacking the deck against me by giving others means of profiting not just from sales that are just not available to me but also from gear stats that I simply cannot afford to buy. As a Guardian, this does actually apply to me. -Not items I was too lazy to farm, Unskilled enough to get, Decided I wasn’t interested in participating in ‘X’ to receive as reward- etc… But that are simply no longer available in the game to get. That isn’t based on savvy or skill. That’s an unfair advantage due to … I couldn’t afford the game a month sooner?
Also, will this end up the same with the Crystal?
I have the Gift of Quartz, currently there are oodles of Quartz on the market, due to farming nodes in the LabCliffs and the Kite Baskets.
What about after the LS is concluded? What about those who either A) were unable to get the Meta for the Gift – or begin playing after the LS Event is over?
Sure, there will be Crystal on the market for a while… As the number of them dwindles, and the players who have Gifts only receive 3 a day… What will happen to the cost of Crystal at that point? Will we then become as those with the Sentinel’s Items are now?
I know I don’t want to be like one of them. There is no real way to prevent it now, is there.
You say “But you can not gouge for those items on the TP!”
Yes, but you’re still Flawed. Taking a bakitten Murphy’s Law of Averages and Statitics, I’m gonna go w the figure of 80-90% of any Crystal I’d choose to post on the TP for an insanely low cost (as opposed to the insanely price gouging costs) would not be picked up by some poor Noob player, or one who just simply started after the Bot4W LS Event… But by some other Player who will then re-post with their insanely price gouging cost. And don’t think for a second that’s in any way inaccurate.
You can say “Then just don’t sell them on the TP at all!”
Again, that’s defeating the purpose of economy, supply and demand, and being a decent human being.
If i just vendored those Crystals… How is that in any way providing them to those who weren’t here to get the Gift, or Baskets, or LS? It’s simply acting as if I myself didn’t have it. The few silvers it netted me could be had by vendoring trash from a days killing.
So- There is a problem with non-repeatable content specific items, and the inability to revisit expired content.
Will anything be done about it?
I hope so.
But I’ll look like Quaggan if I hold my breath waiting for it.
Edit:
It just hit me…
The Quartz, and the Celestial Recipes… are limited to this LS. The Charged Crystals, and the actual gear the recipes make are Account Bound.
If new Players come in after this LS event, this Celestial Gear will be entirely Unavailable to them. Period. There wont even be a gouged market. I can sell my Crystal to them… But unless there are Gouged Recipes still floating on the market (that will run out) the average New Player will just Never be able to have Celestial Gear.
And any argument of “Celestial Gear Sucks” is Invalid. It has it’s uses, and whether it’s useful to you or not in no way exonerates it from the massively heinous Oops scenario the LS and un-replayable content has brought us.

@Chrispy:
Your comment has absolutely nothing to do with this suggestion. Just because the Cosmetics of the Armor are the same does not mean in any way at all that the stats are too. Berserker’s Draconic looks exactly the same as Knight’s Draconic. Your argument and rude insult are invalid.
@OP and the Thread:
/sign
I think a Wardrobe/Toolkit/Toy Box would be excellent. Those who participated in Dragon Bash and got the Shattered Wings were only able to use them once (unless you were fortunate enough to learn early on that you could put them on a White rarity item, unlike me) and so though your Account was credited with the Achievement, only a single alt is able to display the Shattered Wings. It was an Account Reward- but not usable by your Account.
This Wardrobe would alleviate that issue. All skins you receive as rewards, etc would be unlocked for the appropriate Class etc, and for a certain Stone/Crystal cost could then be used at will.
I also 100% love the idea of putting this function in the Home Instance. We now have the Gift of Quartz there (useable once/day/acct) so there is now Precedence! Yay!
I truly hope the Dev’s give us some Fabulous Cosmetic Love sometime soon!
Happy Day, all!!

This is still broken? It seems everything is. I just lost my Holographic Shattered Wings. Because there were 0 Results for bugs with them. Thank you, ANet. Now I find out from someone on my server that it is NOT a bug with my wings… That it’s a BUG with Your Search Function. And my wings are gone. I have a Support ticket in, and they most likely will tell me I’m hosed… Most likely due to some OLD FORUM POST that I had NO WAY of finding….
Seriously? WtHeck is the issue with this????

Yes. I understand this. And when all mail, including Hearts and Stars and Envelopes are deleted, and nothing remains in the box, and other PCs are sending mail that most definitely does show up in their mailbox…
That tells me it’s an issue.
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I know that the ‘mailbox full’ fix and it’s requirements to be met exists. No, that is and was not the issue at the time any of the three mail I sent out failed to reach their intended destination.
As I did state, in two cases, there we PCs looking for the Hint Completion for Mail. Over time, they did indeed get their quota. My mail, addressed directly to them, and then whispered to ask if they had received it, and they had not- continued to receive and then complete the Hint within about 10minutes.
Also, if that were indeed the case, if after all the mail in the inbox I sent the stuff to (15 ectos) was deleted (and they did) that would say that it would’ve arrived. It has been 5days now. The ectos are poof gone- Still.

Yes, I agree.
What irritates me within the mail system, is the availability of 5 slots for items, and armor sets that take up 6. Therefore either 5 pieces or minimum one piece of armor will be lost. If it’s the 5… that can be insanely expensive.
I hope they do actually fix this. If this is ‘working as intended’ then I’d like a more accurate confirmation message something along the lines of ‘Your message may have taken a detour and gotten lost. Please play again.’

I am having this issue as well.
The party(s) involved were requesting mail be sent, in two instances to help with Hint Completion, and one instance I mailed a gift to them.
My exact issue is this:
I right click some one’s name in M Chat. My Mailbox opens, but does not automatically have a message waiting to be composed to the person (as would be if the person was in my party, and I right clicked their name and chose ‘Send Mail’). When I chose the ‘Compose’ option, and type in the player name (as is listed exactly in M Chat) and send the mail, complete with Subject Line and Body (and in one case an item) and click Send- I get a confirmation window pop-up that states my message has been sent successfully.
The recipient does not receive it. In all three cases, the mail did not ever reach the intended target. After whispers, I have confirmed their mailbox was not full at the time I sent my mail. Also, the time I sent the gift, it still has not ever pinged the mailbox (5days now, it’s just ether >< ).
So… Why can I not mail others, and why even if I type in their name are my mail messages still not finding their destination?
If the destination is on my Friends List- my mail will find it’s home. But only if.
It is not a matter of full inboxes.

Some of you keep forgetting in reference to the Legendary Weapon rewarding 5AP vs Dailies Rewarding more…
Can anyone just waltz right up and Craft a Legendary? Cuz I thought it took quite a bit more than that. I don’t see everyone running around with them.
Don’t you have to do many many runs to get the right drops? Kill lots and Lots? Like … as you’re completing Slayer AP? Or completing Dungeoning AP? Or Weapon Master AP? Not to mention the loads of loot, karma, and money acquired.
So… in reality Crafting a Legendary gives Bonus Points in addition to all the other AP completion, in the 5AP gained from the actual act of it, but-
Did you Craft it to get the AP?
I’d really like an honest answer.
Were you after those /5AP/ or was it a happy side effect of ‘Dude!! I got my LEGENDARY!!!!’
???

Kamahl.3621:

Iason Evan.3806:

Limiting the daily stuff like some people are suggesting here is troublesome. We are supposed to play how we want. Some people like doing dailies. Just because you don’t like doing dailies doesn’t mean you need to try and take away from what someone else likes to do. Achievements that take longer grant more points. Dailies grant a few points because they are done every day.

Except they don’t, you can get up to 15 points a day off dailies, whereas earning a legendary weapon gives you 5. Do you see the problem here? Playing the game like a chore will get you more rewards than actually going for interesting and unique goals.

Did you seriously earn a Legendary for the Achv Points?
Really?
I know if I earned a Legendary I couldn’t care less if it came with 5AP or 500AP. I just earned an awesome kick-kitten weapon- not to mention all the Slayer, Weapon Master, Dungeoning etc AP completion deeds I did while getting said Legendary…

Just one final thought from my end, and then I’ll leave this alone.
In the past ANet has listened to your rantings and ravings and changed things either last minute or just after the fact. To my experience it has never EVER been in the player’s favor.
Just sit back and think on that.
In the most extreme recent past:
The Holo Minions- too low health, too many were being sniped, people were ganging up and wiping them out too fast
ANet’s Solution? Increased Health Pool: Effect? Most players (now that the ‘Gold Rush’ is over) with standard gear cannot take one on their own wo being defeated, and the rewards (Coffers etc) were nerfed significantly.
The RNG Boxes: The ad showed a certain wording. In the first day, within hours those items were not to be had. Players bombarded the forums relentlessly.
ANets Soultion? Changed the wording and most likely the contents of the boxes to suit Themselves better, not the Player base, and the Player has no option but to be stuck with the changes made.
The Moa Racing: The first day (before the fiasco with the exploit of stunning and cheating because it seems humans simply must exploit and cheat a system if it can be) the pay-offs were much better than the are now, after the exploit/Patch to fix the cheating/exploit.
So again… Sit back and think about what you’re doing here. Really think on it.
They are implementing a whole entire re-worked, re-balanced system.
They already have irritated players and nerfed rewards given thus far due to excessive complaining. I personally don’t blame them for it. When a 2yr old throws a tantrum, you take away their toys.
So if you continue to scream about Daily/Monthly AP… Do you think they might not just do a global reset of all the AP? It is a /Fresh New and Improved System/ after all…
Just think about what you’re doing…

Kamahl.3621:

Donari.5237:

-scratches head- How is this a competition, again? How does one person lose if another has shiny pixels faster than them? I feel like I’ll “win” if I get to see more varied detail in the game. On other characters? Fine by me.

Because it’s more than cosmetics, we’re also being rewarded with gold, gems, and magic find / XP / etc bonuses. Chaot has an excellent point – if dailies are counted towards this progression, players will simply work towards those rather than the game’s non-daily achievements, and it will go much faster. Rather than spend an hour working towards weapon master or champion <X> or somesuch, you’ll be getting twice as many points as you’d get from actually getting that achievement (read: 5 for a given rank typically, versus 10 bonus achievement points up and beyond the daily). I’m chiming in to say I agree with Chaot, I’d rather be doing non-daily things and hammering towards new content, it makes each point more valuable and harder to earn than the last, and that’d be great! Not just “I logged in and rattled off this list of chores, I love getting home from work and doing work for the sake of efficiency”.

Here’s what will happen:
Dailies count? In a given period of time, nobody will give a care about these achievement point rewards.

Dailies don’t count? It’ll breathe life into sPvP and WvW (at least for a little bit on WvW’s part, achievements take forever there), and other rarely touched areas of the game – Keg Brawl is gonna freakin’ explode.. assuming dailies don’t count, obviously.

Not everyone will. There are still others who don’t/won’t PvP, WvW, do Dungeons, Fractals, JPs, Keg Brawls, etc. The fact that you /assume/ that only if Daily AP is taken away somehow magically guarantees participation in these other events astounds me.
I am doing my absolute best to not come off as snarky or snipish and I do apologize if I sound as such.
My time is valuable to me however I chose to spend it and personally it’s not your concern exactly how I spend it as long as it doesn’t violate the EULA I agreed to when I registered my GW2 Account. My AP are my AP, your AP are your AP and it’s not my place to harass you for how you wracked them up.
If you now choose not to do your Dailies, it seems you’re losing AP that you could’ve been using come July 9th. That also was a personal choice to ‘Play Your Own Way’ – was it not?
It’s just plainly how I see this. You earn AP your way, and I earn my way. In time, or not, depending on how limited the style and areas in which each person plays, they will have rewards.
If you’d like to bring in the monetary rewards, then all I’d have to say that would be this:
All Gold, Karma, etc must be removed from Instanced [everything] Event related things as Rewards. I don’t do Instances (dungeons, Fractals, most LS items) therefore it’s unfair that you get Gold (Silver, Copper), extra Karma and other stuff (i.e. things such as finishing Slayer Kills AP and Killing Blow AP, etc) from [constant repeated runs on] them and I do not. /drowns in her own sarcasm/
That doesn’t make any sense to me at all… Not one lick ’o sense…
edit:
learning to grammar! oh the joys of sleeplessness!

I think the idea of getting rid of AP for dailies and monthlies and the like is petty and shows a true jealous nature in each of you pressing so hard for it.
My boyfriend and I bought this game in February. Where I now have just over 2k AP, he has just over 200. He puts in a lot more time at work and into his house than I have to in mine. Most of his AP comes from dailies. For him, it is an achv to get into game and get his daily done most of the time. So by taking those points away, you will then tell those who do play, but are constrained by job or family that the time they have to play is now Worthless. That because they are not able to complete Living Story Events- Have time to spend at length in Dungeons- Have time to spend at length in PvP or WvW- that their time is Meaningless and Worthless.
That’s not a way to help encourage the Community.
Do we even know HOW these Rewards will be set up yet? Has there been some sort of system released to us? Do you have a link that shows that it is in fact a ‘spendable’ currency? Or maybe it might end up that as an example:
for each 200AP in the Dailies/Monthlies Category you’ll get ‘XXX’ shiny prize (and tiers)
for each 10AP in the JP Category you’ll get ‘XXX shiny prize (and tiers)
??
Do we even know how it’s to work yet? Before we go bashing on each and everyone’s way of accumulating anything at all?
I do not PvP. Period. I never will. Gratz to those of you who will get all those extra AP over me because you can, and do it well! I wouldn’t dream of taking any of those from you, for any reason. You say ‘Ok, killing One Dude in PvP seems stupid, why get a point for it? that’s OP’ Maybe to you. To me, it would be an achv. Because I am dismal at PvP of any kind. I’m also dismal at JPs. I’ll never have many of those. I’m not complaining about them, either. If someone’s idea of earning a reward is to Grind Out Dailies for a year… That my friend, is worth an Achievement!
F&F won’t be back. So the person who buys the game today won’t ever get those points for completing that LS. It just doesn’t track to penalize anyone for their play style, play availability, or play time.
I see my AP and know that I put in all that time and effort to get the points I earned.

On my Guardian -at lvl80, upon re-leveling, I get not only the swirl & knockback- but no Error.
Edit:
Posted as behavior pre- 6/27/2013 evening patch

The current thread can be found Here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Content-temporarily-disabled/page/2#post2302748

Brand New Necro. Leveled from 2-3. No Traits. Loot was a junk item only.
Caledon Forest, Defending the Rangers form the Risen Attck at the lvl2 Renown Heart at the Verdance.

Actually, the current and new live thread for this issue is here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Content-temporarily-disabled/page/2#post2302270
It IS a new issue as of the June 25th patch, and we are being asked to help.

I’ve received this upon Level Up due to: Gathering normal nodes (a Portobello Mushroom), upon Heart Completion, and Exploration – As Well As – Group Events and Glorious Chests. So I cannot agree that it’s only with some new loot table, unless we’re to start getting loot upon Leveling Up.
I have only been on my Eng, and yes, there was One Change: Fireforged Trigger: This trait has been moved to the Adept tier. (Now Firearms I)
I have had 2 Level Up’s in between all of these that /did not/ trigger the Error. I began getting the Error upon leveling to 63, and have received it all but 2/8 levels.
I have made no changes to my Traits since the patch, just the additions of my new points into lines not affected – Firearms I was already taken at the time of the Patch.
Her build is: (@lvl70)
0/30/10/20/0
with these Traits taken:
Firearms: I, IV, VI
Inventions: III
Alchemy: II, VII
The final 10 points are going into Inventions X. (If it matters)
Maybe what we need beyond screenshots of an Error in our chatlog, are the specifics of what we have, and where we have points placed.
I am not at all discounting the theory of ‘phantom loot tables’ by any means. I also don’t think this is a single issue. I honestly think that BOTH things are happening.
Unless- by some odd twist- they are now going to give us tangible rewards from the ‘phantom loot table’- there seems to be two coinciding issues with the Error.
One, upon looting things in world, like chests, nodes, Glorious Chests from the side of your screen, etc. Producing the Error.
This screams content that isn’t yet released (phantom loot)
Two, upon leveling that something else is happening behind the screen that is changing things that it either A) shouldn’t and is or B ) might give us in the future and isn’t ~yet~ or C) someone seriously broke a line of code.
C) applies to both One and Two, of course, quite equally.

Also- There is no available option in the Bug Report under Support in game to send this kind of Bug. There are ZERO options pertaining to the ‘Level’ or ‘Error Message’ area of the game. I think this seriously needs to be addressed. If there are Bugs involving Leveling Up and Chat Log Errors to be reported, and ZERO options that have even the slightest remote idea of resemblance in the Bug Report Option Drop-Downs… Just /who/ will be reading these reports? They are not related to /any/ yet given topic available.
Edit:
Irritating- B ) makes a smiley face… useless for making points.

Lvl70, gathered a Portobello Mushroom. Hit 70, got error. Again.
I only receive it on level up.
Friend I play with was getting the errors for prior 3 lvls, but when he hit lvl80 he didn’t get one, so no screenshot to send in. Figures.

The one that bothers me the absolute most is the LionGuard dude in Kraitbane Haven. Every time you walk into town, he runs right into your face and YELLS a the top of his lungs “HEY! Trouble’s Coming.. blah blah…”
Yes! We /know/ the Krait Champ is up! No One Ever Kills It! Thank You! Now STOP accosting me every time I go into town to repair or sell things!
He scares the crap outta me Every Time! His voice is SOO loud and he Yells for no reason… Even the Crazy Norn Chick “Pay Heed… I haven’t taken leave of my senses…” doesn’t Yell at you! I’ll take her hands down any day over that guy.
Is there anything to be done about that guy?
Tie him to a rock and use him to bait the Krait Champ maybe?

Request to a Moderator to merge the threads, please? Pretty please?
I’ll behave, I promise!
(as long as behaving involves maiming Ætherblades! )
Edit:
Thank you!! <3

I don’t think it’s ‘costing’ us anything. It is telling us that we aren’t able to do something. Not get something. If it were a matter of looting, or obtaining, I think we’d get a different error, like when your bags are too full.
Also, I’ve received this 2 of the 4 times and I have not received any reward except XP. I have leveled by Exploration, wandering into a new area, Discovery boom Level boom Error boom. Nothing to be withheld.
I had worried about that point myself, honestly. If I was not getting something in my loot table, or the like. The first time it happened, I leveled and received Group Event Glorious Chest Rewards simultaneously. I thought maybe it was telling me there was an error with it.
But now this doesn’t seem to be the case. At least on my side.
If others find theirs is working differently, there may be some more heinous bug happening. O.o

Edit:
Teaching myself how to use grammar. sigh

As far as the items-
Your bank is shared across all alts. Your Collectibles Tab is too, and is shared straight to the crafting station. No more mailing this or that alt money, no more wondering if you sent it to the correct alt! You might want to check over the Wiki (easily accessible ingame by typing /wiki (space) item you’re interested in and Enter. It will auto-open your browser to the best likely page. i.e.
Party>/wiki vial of weak blood [Enter]
As a recovering WoW addict myself, let me welcome you to the world of Tyria. Sometimes the Devs don’t get it right. Sometimes they don’t even get it wrong. But I’ll tell you one things for certain from my end…
I won’t ever have to look at Azeroth ever again
Thank you for joining us!
And much thanks to you Devs, too!

I appreciate your thought Koko. I’m very happy that the extra bound key works for you.
But please try to understand where the others and myself are standing.
They gave us Two Options. One of them does not work as it (albeit) logically should.
Just because one solution works for you, does not mean it works for everyone. They obviously knew that, or they would not have had the two options available.
There’s a Box to tick to state to the system ‘I Want AoE Looting’. This means ’above all else, I Want AoE Looting. If I did not want AoE Looting above all else, I would not have ticked that box!

Again, on Level-up. Here’s the next pic.
Again, Level-up on Heart completion, not Event related.
Again, Different Zone.
So if the update today was to have addressed this, it failed.

I created a thread last night about this. It happened to me three times, all on level-up, in three different zones, two during events, once turning in Heart items. OP is Here
There are other posts about this as well now I am seeing.
The last time it happened, I was not looting anything.
Also, I apologize if the link isn’t proper, I’ve never used this kind of system before, and have no idea if I’ve done it right. May take a few edits, I’m sure.
edit
Whoo hoo! I got it right!
That is all.

I have this issue as well, on both my laptop and my desktop, using different brands of headsets on each, both with different sound cards, and obviously different setups from each other. I play almost exclusively with another person, and he never hears the noise.
But yes, like the others, it scares me, and it hurts me, and it makes me fearful for the life of my headset.
I notice it is almost completely random. Up until I saw this post, I actually thought it was something on my end.
Funny thing, that. I have no idea why I would think that. It wouldn’t even be a ‘connection issue’ as my desktop and laptop connect to the game from different zip codes- There’s no possible way anyone can tell me it’s my ISP or my hardware or my router or my modem or my anything. This is not on my end. But this does happen. It’s happened the entire time I have played this game (admittedly not long) since about Feb 2013. That’s a long time to have audio issues not addressed.
I understand that bumping is ‘bad’ and I apologize for adding my voice to the choir of ‘this is still an issue’.
I am done.

Since the new patch June 25, 2013- All 3x I have leveled on my Engineer i have received the error message across my screen, and in my chat log:
That content has been temporarily been disabled. Please try again later.

Please tell me… Just exactly What content has been disabled on level-up, and why?
I am completely baffled by this. I have Never seen this message before.
I had thought the first two times it happened that it was something having to do with the current Event running. The third time, I leveled by heart completion, turning in items to a Skritt. There was no potential conflict of Event Chain, or Ætherblade or… anything that I am aware of.
All three level-ups happened in 3 different Zones. Metrica Provence, Kessex Hills, and the last in Brisban Wildlands, all in different Events or happenings.

I have no idea what’s going on.

EDIT:
Also a more active and relevant post here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Content-temporarily-disabled/first#post2294785

Having the same issue/s. Checked the box, it worked One Time. Does not work any more. I have:
Restarted Client – No Change
Rebooted PC – No Change
AoE Looting has only worked the Single Time, after the original Checking of the box.

Shufflepants.9785:

Valena.5160:

3.) Help people clear normal mobs.

Why? This does not increase a person’s coffers per hour.

This is completely FALSE.
Every Single Mob in Tryria has the chance to drop these coffers. The only difference between the Holos and regular mobs is the drop rate.
So yes, clearing out mobs in the area WILL still increase your greed-filled back-stabbing worthless addiction of coffers/hr.
What this game needs is more false information being spread around. Good job, keep it up!

I will admit- I have not read all three pages of posts. I apologize if I am reposting old information.
Yesterday I was killing Holos w a Mesmer and my Guards skill Ray of Judgement bounces to heal allies were being spent on his illusions.
Just adding my current voice to this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Number_Generator
For one: Stop trying to account for ‘odds’ generated by amount of chests you open. It’s like comparing Apples to Volkswagen’s. Law of Averages, and Playing the Odds are not in any way related to RNG. Do your homework before you throw this around.
For two: If the Rich Coffer states "has a much greater chance’ over the plain coffer, and you now know that thousands (note the PLURAL) of plain coffers can be opened wo a single ticket- What On Earth leads you to believe the jump to ‘greater chance’ from 5000+ is 25? Are you mental? I’m trying to refrain from actually being derogatory here, but you’re making it extremely difficult. If you open say 7000 coffers, and ZERO tickets fall out- WHAT makes you think a ‘greater’ chance means that 25, 50 or even at that point1000 Rich chests will drop one?!
Yes, It’s bad practice. Yes, it’s making their customers angry. Yes, it’s cheating you.
It’s Still Your Fault For Believing in False Information.

I’d like to add my voice in as well here.
When it was time to patch I had logged out in Trader’s Forum. Right near the Mystic Forge. Upon patching and logging in…
It was a wonder to behold.
The Forge actually gave me a jump. The holo of the Shatterer that not just floats above the city, but flies about randomly. The bridge was one of the second things I noticed, with it’s tail curling along it’s path.
It took me a while to realize the pinatas were, well, pinatas! I thought they too were just part of the festivities, but I was still reading the patch-notes as I was wandering wide-eyed around town.
And then the Smooking Began.
Little Tiny Holographic Dragon Confetti bursting from the pinatas!
It sounds silly, coming from a grown woman, but I was racing around town to find more- not to farm and achievement, not to collect Zhaitaffies for an achievement or a skin- Merely for the pleasure of releasing tons of little baby holo dragons to the sky….
All the while w a huge grin on my face that would be akin to a kid in a candy store.

Thank you-
To each and every dev who lost sleep, dinners w their spouses/gf/bf/SO’s, families, friends, relatives, dogs, cats…. The ones you care about.
Thank you for all the movies you missed in the theaters while you were programming and not out gallivanting town. For the family functions you promised to be at, and ultimately were working instead. For the life that passed you by…
So we could have this beautiful event to spend our month in.

Psh. And we get the free mini pets.
Besides a paycheck, that most of us players get too, what did the devs get, besides bashed to hell for the entitled pricks who think everything is about them?

Thank you again. I love it.

His specific statement was to ‘farm it using his Magic Find’
Not buying it with candies.
Also, it would still be about 40g.
You can currently buy them cheaper than that. This still is not applicable. His question is not to Purchase a second skin. He is wishing to obtain a second skin to sell himself. Buying candy to buy a skin and then reselling it… most definitely defeats the purpose of gaining money.

NO.
If you upgrade certain items
ie- Fractal Capacitor, from a standard to an ascended- you will lose the skin.
You should do all item upgrades Before applying these skins.

There isn’t one.
However, if you peruse the rest of the forum on DragonBash… you will find thousands (no, im not exaggerating) of irate, hostile, disappointed GW2 players all angry over these skins. Be they the Wings, or Weapons.
No, really. These things have 60-80% of the game’s population throwing tantrums or near-suicidal in rage.
If you’re a money hoarder, sell. If you think that you have a chance to get another one, I wish you the best of luck. Really.
You might just get another one.
Just know that irl I am horrifically sarcastic, and just in case that last well-wishing came off sounding that way, it was not meant as such.
I myself will not spend the next month of my life farming coffers in hopes that some skin will drop. I don’t care what it looks like or how much it sells for. If you so choose to, Indeed, by all means, go ahead.