Guild Wars 2

To answer the thread’s title, you shouldn’t, wait until all the information is available and then make an informed decision.
Since they announced the price and there’s still so much about the content of the expansion we don’t know, not even it’s release date yet, pre-purchasing in this case (like in most cases anyway) is a really bad idea.
Just my opinion.

Robert Devine.3087:

… I have never seen a community of players whine about not getting free stuff added to a game so much…

So you decide to whine about other people whining, guess that makes sense O_o

Blackhearted.1264:

The actual bright side is that it saves us money to use on more worthy things.

Exactly, tyvm Anet

Dead.5829:

If you think that isn’t fair, you’re being incredibly selfish and entitled.

So basically anyone who disagrees with your opinion is “incredibly selfish and entitled”, guess that makes sense.

MokahTGS.7850:

Well I’ll just respectfully disagree

Pretty much this.

I will be voting with my wallet on this one.

Leaa.2943:

It is amazing how many people seem to feel they have rights to decide what should and should not be included and how much it should cost. The truth here is, you have nothing to say about this what so ever, and if you feel it is to much then don’t buy the game. …….

of course we have something to say about it and we should, we are not sheep, well most of us and what you suggest is what i intend to do, vote with my wallet.
And before you say it, i know Anet (or anybody else for that matter) will not miss me, i assure you it goes both ways.

wait what… so this EXPANSION costs almost the same as i paid for the full game, is this supposed to be some kind of joke, well unless this expansion has about the same amount of content the full game had at launch there is no freaking way i’m gonna pay that.
I was expecting to come back to the game for this but forget it i already paid for the main game.

daimasei.4091:

sigh… you are lvl 39 and you didn’t bother to equip a rare when you were lvl 35 but, for some reason the sole idea of rares being locked at lvl 39 (which isn’t the case) bother you so much that you have the need to rage on the forum?

If people could stop posting complains before know how things works, this forum may become a nice place -_-

First, i did have rares equiped but since i equiped them before the patch i don’t know if it changed that’s why i asked, you know that “is this really the case ?” part of the post, guess you don’t know how to read.

Second i said it was kinda ridiculous (if it is the case) because there are lvl 35 rares.

Third where am i raging ? was that because of the “why the hell” ? do you call that raging ?

and last about that last part of your comment, why don’t you get off your high horse and keep your holier than thou attitude to yourself.

So my lowest lvl toon just turned 39 and i got this message :

http://imgur.com/9IYiMsa

Note that it specifically says “You can NOW equip rare gear”, is this really the case ?
Why the hell would they make it lvl 39 since there are lvl 35 rare gear, kinda ridiculous isn’kitten

ColinJohanson.2394:

SkiTz.4590:

Colin, just clear up one thing – There is 0% chance EU/NA GW2 gets a VIP system?

We’re absolutely not bringing the China VIP system to NA/EU, correct.

The cynic in me can’t help but notice that Mr. Johanson wrote “the China VIP system” and not “any VIP system”.

They are basically insulting new players by calling them morons lol

edit: very nice vid, funny and very true.

I only checked on 2 of my chars, so my human female has no feet now but my female Sylvari has feet like before.

Also noted that BLTC character preview is a lot smaller than before and not centered (like op said).

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hey everyone,

While this is currently working as intended, it’s definitely something that we’ll be working on and tweaking in the future. We want you to be able to enjoy your minis so hang in there!

Working as intended ? seriously ? I kinda understand other players minis being hidden but why hide the player’s own mini, this is beyond ridiculous, whats even the point of having minis now.

AllNightPlayer.1286:

First they break the running animation and now they replaced the unique human female idle animation with the norn female one. Same animation for different races. Well done!

This ^^, couldn’t agree more.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I agree. I think it’s a mistake for Anet to assume that people know how to add and subtract properly.

Not really the point is it, it’s a quality of life issue, if i am selling a couple items i have no problems calculating the net profit but if i ‘m selling 10 or more items for example, i will be wasting time calculating every transaction when i could be doing something more interesting, like playing the game, just because they couldn’t be bothered to add the simplest math calculation.
I’m no dev but how difficult can it be to code A-B-C=D and then display the result.

GOSU.9574:

From my Ranger/Sylvari looks post (I have since changed the colors from yellow to a bit more orange, and included that on the shoulders):

wow i really like that look, can you elaborate a bit on what the different pieces are, pls.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Curtis Johnson.8456:

We felt it was important when selling something to know exactly what price your buyer was going to see. The change also is the least cluttered way to address feedback we received previously about profit including / not including fees and wanting to be as clear as possible on the order of operations.

We’re balancing a lot of UX design against desire for more information with the new UI.. We’ll be watching to see what sort of confusion comes out of this and may or may not re-introduce a net profit display later.

For me, the net profit is the most important value. What possible benefit is there for leaving it out ?

The order of operations doesn’t matter if the final result is displayed.

What possible reason is there for making this aspect worse by making us have to do more math in our heads ?

Exactly this, it’s ridiculous that a simple math calculation could not have been added for this, i ’m okay with using a calculator if i have 1 or a couple items to sell but if i have 10 or more items i have to calculate every single one, what a freaggin waste of time because you could not be bothered to add 1 more number.

Apart from this step back (imo) every other change seem very good.

Same, started yesterday less often but today it’s ridiculous, lag then dc, seems than i can’t stay connected more than 10 mins at a time sometimes less.

Depends, if i go by story, gameplay, npcs, overall feel, i’d say
8/10, if i go by the “untested, unpolished, bug-ridden” aspect then probably 5/10.
Despite all the bugs i’m enjoying it and in the end that’s why i play games.

CC Danicia.1394:

Please don’t delete them!

You can hold on to your extra blade shards, as the team will be adding something later which will allow you to convert the shards to something of value. Dev will be announcing more on that later. Thanks!

This post is great, i was thinking about deleting most of mine (i have so freaking many )
today, so glad i didn’t do that before
Thank you for letting us know.

Autumn Frazee.3158:

Thank you for your continued reports, I’d like to update that we are currently working on issues with:

• The ‘In Tune’ achievement
• The map wide Health Display for the three Assault Knights
• The ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’ achievement
• Assault Knight rewards

Nice, how about the ‘No More Tricks, Scarlet’ achievement where if you are downed by ANYTHING at ANY POINT during the fight you cannot get that achievement.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-More-Tricks-Scarlet-achievement-bugged

Arkard.3970:

So, after a night of the hotfix, it seems:

- Healing of Blue Knight has been bugged again
- 6 Minutes to Knightfall not being awarded on actual completion, still being awarded at random
- Loot nerfed, possibility of NO loot if you fail to kill a knight at all
- Knights HARDER to kill now with players doing ~50% less damage
- Scaling still messed up

Honestly, ending the living story with the buggiest patch to date is an embarrassment.

that and some achievements are still bugged even if Anet won’t admit or acknowledge it, events are poorly thought out for some classes, etc…

I wouldn’t go as far as saying it is disappointing because (at least for me) it’s not,
overall i like it but “unpolished, untested, bug ridden” (like someone wrote above) it definitely is and even after 4 hotfixes it still is.

Kintaro.6109:

Autumn Frazee.3158:

In Tune

• This achievement is also a tricky one, I would recommend you disable your auto attack so that you are precisely controlling when you hit the holograms. Necros, Rangers, Mesmers; watch your minions, pets, clones, and phantasms, their damage counts against you if you are not attuned. Engineers, your turrets fall under that category as well. For all professions, I would recommend crafting your build based solely on damage your character does and not use any summons or sources of outside damage. Again, attention is critical, always be aware of your current attunement and the attunement of the hologram you are fighting.

So basically, what you’re saying is:

• Mesmers are useless, unless they want to spam 1. After all, it’s not like their core mechanics was to summon illusions…
• Rangers, whose particularity is to use a pet, cannot use a pet…
• MM necros and turret engineers who have chosen to build their character this way because they actually like it can’t play either…

We must not forget that condition builds are lethal against Knights and if you wanna have a chance to kill the cannoneer you NEED to play melee.

What happened to the old “Play your character the way you like”? To me we don’t have a choice anymore. Rangers in general and condition builds were already depreciated but there, they are just completely useless. You even ignore the core mechanics of some classes…

Problem is with ranger you HAVE TO use the pet because Anet decided for some idiotic reason that we can’t stow the pet while in combat, so we are pretty much scr**ed with all these poorly though out events, its obvious no dev plays ranger or at least its obvious the people who created these events and achievements have no idea how rangers work… or they simply don’t care.

This achievement requires that you never be downed but in the text description this requirement is not mentioned, it is not mentioned either in this post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/escape/Battle-for-Lion-s-Arch-Open-Issues-and-Tips/first

where you say :

…
All of the Battle for Lion’s Arch achievements have been tested for their functionality and do unlock correctly; I have a few tips/notes for each:
…
No More Tricks, Scarlet

• This achievement requires a good deal of skill and awareness, make sure you are watching for the red telegraphs that show where the Holograms will fire next and make sure you do not run through any active scorch marks during the fight, good luck!
  …

no mention that you can’t be downed, so “all achievements” have obviously NOT been tested since this one is clearly bugged.

Autumn Frazee.3158:

…
All of the Battle for Lion’s Arch achievements have been tested for their functionality and do unlock correctly; I have a few tips/notes for each:
…
No More Tricks, Scarlet

• This achievement requires a good deal of skill and awareness, make sure you are watching for the red telegraphs that show where the Holograms will fire next and make sure you do not run through any active scorch marks during the fight, good luck!
  …

All achievements DO NOT unlock correctly, this one for example requires that you NEVER be downed or you don’t get the achievement, where is that requirement in your text? where is it in the achievement description?
or is it a bug, if it is then correct it don’t say everything was tested since it was obviously not.

Maybe it’s my inner-paranoid in action here but i can’t help but notice that they don’t mention at all the fact that the Knights don’t drop any loot at ALL, just a very vague :

1. How the Knights distribute their rewards to Players

Autumn Frazee.3158:

…In regards to the Assault Knights, we are currently working on issues with:

1. How the Knights distribute their rewards to Players…

What rewards? there is currently no rewards at all to any player, that is the issue.

Looks like they have time to merge threads but not to write 6 words
“we are aware of the issue”
see took me 2 seconds and i ’m not even paid to do it like they are.

Their statement is pretty clear (imo)

…will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core…

and not
… a chance to drop a deluxe gear box and an assault knight power core …

Looks like they decided to play the ostrich, ignore the issue, pretend everything is peachy and hope we all go away

also that second statement seems improbable to me, that would mean that only 5 players in all that participated would get a box.

Zanshin.5379:

My guess is they want to wait until they know what’s causing the bug before talking about it. It’s like the 3rd bug in a row for just one update. They’re starting to look bad.

A few words like “we are looking into it” seem to be too much for them, great communication skills these Anet people have.

Killed all 3 no loot from any, it was the first time i killed any in 2 days, so how the hell are we supposed to get any cores, before they were a rare drop now they are no drop, why is this not being addressed by Anet?

Have the same issue, don’t know if today’s patch was supposed to correct this but it didn’t.

I noticed this also, like in your screenshot i have 9 achievements completed and it says 8/10.

It doesn’t really bother me, i ‘m not always crafting anyway so it’s a minor inconvenience and they do have to make some money if we want to keep getting content,
but it’s obvious that they did this to “encourage” people to buy the pass.

And this after they clearly answered someone’s question about it:

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/madness/When-will-Scarlet-s-Secret-Lair-be-closed

The question was clear, there is no excuse for misleading people.

same here, not a major bug but very annoying.

This sucks, i went by what they said and didn’t change all my cyphers and now this.
Good job misleading players Anet.

I want one too… or more than one, make it happen

Love most parts of the game, only one thing that really bothers me and that would be my question :

TP preview, when ?

and kinda related: when will the preview for other armor types (like medium armor user ability to preview light or heavy ) be back ?

Iris.5918:

Providing a fair gaming experience for your CUSTOMERS should be more important than any “It’s just one time because it changes the world”. Not to mention that nothing has changed on the map after we beat the ancient karka, they are still all over the place…

I couldn’t agree more with this.

Another big patch and still no TP item preview, very disappointing, that is pretty much my only complaint about this game (apart from the numerous event, skill point, vistas etc… bugged but this patch seems to correct a lot of those, at least in the patch notes).

And yes i know that they said multiple times that they are working on it, but almost 3 months since launch and still nothing.

TP is a joke, it’s missing some of the most basic features like armor filtering and especially item preview and even then they can’t seem to make it work properly, it’s always down, no wonder the economy is crap in this game.
And Anet seems to treat the matter as if it doesn’t have much importance, no announcement on the main site about why and how long it will be down, only some posts on Twitter that most people don’t watch.
What’s the point of having akittensite with an “Announcement” section if they only seem to know how to use friggin Twitter.

- Get thekittenTP to work properly and add a preview feature.
- Correct all that is broken and bugged in the game (and there’s a lot).

then add new stuff.

What the OP says may be true on his server but not in many others like in “Gate of Madness” when i click on the cattlepult i only get the “temporarily Disabled” message too, so IT IS bugged.

Same thing here, after this last patch a lot of audio dialogue is being skipped, i noticed it mostly in personal story dialogue and some NPCs like it says on previous posts, chat bubbles but no audio.

agree, very annoying, let’s hope that it is only an oversight and that it will be implemented soon, that it is not already is ridiculous as it is already possible in every other part of the game including the cash shop.
This is a most basic function in any other MMO’s AH (or equivalent name) and should have been implemented from the start.