Guild Wars 2

First, thank you for putting this in the game. Personally, I think it’s the “cutest” thing in-game at the moment (and I don’t care if I lose man points for saying that)!

Extremely minor bug: While in the Griffon form, toggle to walk mode and when you strafe left or right, there is no animation. The Griffon just “moon walks”, I guess you could call it, from side to side without turning at all.

Thank you again for putting this in game. Had to get the endless tonic for this!

Oh the season of giving! Yes, we give and give more money for that RNG. 20 gem store boxes opened, not a single mini gained. One sided giving for holiday cheer!

IMO, the route of Halloween for the 3 pack gem store minis is the way to go with this event considering they are account bound and can not be resold for any sort of profit at all. Making them account bound should have meant increased drop rates at the very least IMO. I don’t think there would have been any harm in putting the trio pack directly into the gem store since they’re account bound. People want baby + base minis? Buy two just like you had to during Halloween.

But, ArenaNet seems to enjoy gouging money from its customer base. Spread that holiday cheer around and keep giving them your hard earned money for that awful RNG!

-sighs sad and scampers off-

Yes, that 88% drop is my own experience. All the people I play with and talk with on vent say the same thing about not seeing nearly as many dye drops as before the “fix” to the “mistake”. Do they have actual numbers? No, probably not. I’m the only one I know that re-rolled an entirely new character after it happened. I’m sure there are others out there that could compare how many natural dye drops they got on one character before the “fix” and how many on a new toon afterwards. I’m sure the amount of people would be small though (although the Nov patch did piss off enough Rangers to force them into re-rolling, so who knows).

Manoa.5897:

squared.1729:

Manoa.5897:

Clark Skinner.4902:

The above might make sense if we were basing this on the prices on the TP. But we’re also experiencing them almost never dropping. Empirical evidence + the TP reflecting a diminished supply.

I direct you to this post from John Smith, ArenaNet’s economist: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Recent-Market-Shifts/first#post666787

Once again, you’re referring to TP prices and not actual farming drops.

Actually, I was talking about supply (which farming drops are a part) and demand trends earlier in this thread and the price fallout of those trends. Prices are a reflection of the relationship between supply and demand. Since early November, demand has been relatively stable, but supply is down by a LOT. As a result of this change in supply (but stable demand), prices are up by a LOT.

The big question if the hour is why prices are up. The game’s economist indicates that prices were actually deflated as a result of an oversupply caused by botting activities (i.e. overfarming). And the rise in prices is a reflection of supply and demand returning to the levels ArenaNet originally intended without bots (i.e. market balance).

I’m inclined to believe him, as the start of the supply decline (on MANY items, not just unidentified dyes) coincides with the time ArenaNet implemented their anti-botting measures. Not to mention super high-price items like Tier 3 cultural gear, WvW Commander’s Compendium and items needed to craft legendaries make a LOT more sense (i.e. ArenaNet intended us players to achieve more coin through selling items through the market so we could actually achieve these items, but the oversupply from the bots screwed things up for us).

ArenaNet’s been pretty good about reporting when they make changes to drop rates in the patch notes (barring unforseen circumstances like bugs). Until I see large samples of drop rate data that that support claims that drop rates have been nerfed (instead of anecdotal evidence), I’m willing to take our economist’s word on this one. But if you have large samples of drop rate data to analyze that contradict our economist’s take on current supply trends, I’d most certainly love to take a look.

PvE through the entire leveling experience with a 40 to 5 difference is quite certainly a large gap. I don’t keep logs, as such a thing should be clearly evident; as most of the community has felt.

Maybe it has something to do with account infractions. I’m sure I have at least 4-5 on my account while I have been leveling my Warrior and none on my Ranger at the time. If we traveled down this road, it would clearly begin to delve into conspiracy theories, which I don’t believe is the case. Although it would certainly clear a few things up if it was the case.

It doesn’t matter to me what any ArenaNet paid employee economist tells me about the TP, since the bottom line is the actual drop rates which are effecting it. Sure, no bots around, supply is going to go down; that still doesn’t account for the fact that after the “fix”, normal play through’s are seeing a 88% reduction in unidentified drop rates. A percentage drop I’ve personally witnessed as well as many many others.

RyuDragnier.9476:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Stormleaf.1769:

As someone who can happily adapt to bugs until they’re fixed, rather than stopping everything to declare the entire game broken and worthless the instant I so much as hear about a newly-introduced issue, I wholeheartedly support the constant and continual addition of new content.

Thanks for being awesome, ArenaNet. <3

The fact they have you thinking that it’s ok for them to ship a buggy product says lots.

You assume no game has EVER been released without bugs, let alone a MMO. I assure you, there not has been, nor ever will be a MMO released that does not have bugs!

Yet even Nexon (omg, yes Nexon!) was able to fix the majority of release bugs within a month or two of release. Yet here we are, piling on more content updates that are riddled with bugs ontop of previous bugs ontop of more bugs… did I mention bugs? The one person locked in the ArenaNet basement that works on bug fixing needs a raise and a team to help him/her out. We just keep dropping further and further behind. Where have I seen this before? … … … Oh right, no where!

I dropped out of that bag of di**s the moment we were lied too. I re-rolled Warrior to be safe. God forbid I play a class I enjoyed.

Are you a Ranger by chance? You should really see the lack of communication there. Oh, and what was said, was a lie and every last Ranger that reads those forums knows it.

Jon Peters plays a Warrior. That’s your best bet for any sort of reliable feedback, roll Warrior!

Edit: Yep, dissatisfied.

Manoa.5897:

Clark Skinner.4902:

The above might make sense if we were basing this on the prices on the TP. But we’re also experiencing them almost never dropping. Empirical evidence + the TP reflecting a diminished supply.

I direct you to this post from John Smith, ArenaNet’s economist: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Recent-Market-Shifts/first#post666787

Once again, you’re referring to TP prices and not actual farming drops. When I leveled my Ranger, by the time I hit 80, I had about 40 dyes from play through(drops). When I leveled my warrior post “fix”, I am currently level 78 and have gotten 6 dyes, 1 of which was GIVEN to me out of my guild bank because I was pist I didn’t have a decent white dye.

Drop rates have been killed. It’s that simple.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

I changed the title to reflect that it is a personal opinion.

Can we edit Jon Peters posts about fixing Rangers too then? Because clearly those were personal opinion and not fact…

/incoming infraction

Well, I suppose Rangers got more changes then Warriors this time around. ;-) I re-rolled Warrior from Ranger. I still hope the Ranger class gets brought in-line soon, but I’m not holding my breath… Oh wait, Rangers are Aquaman reincarnate; never mind, no breath needed.

Leveled a warrior in PvE since the “fix” from 1-72 so far. I’ve gotten 5 dyes that entire time. Nope, nothing wrong with that at all… /sarcasm

After reading Jon’s reply, I’ve decided to retire my Ranger and re-roll to Warrior as my main. After playing the Warrior for a little bit, I was amused to see just how much better a Warrior is at being a Ranger.

Jon’s reply here reassured me the Ranger class is going to be a train wreck for a long time to come. I got to the point it was literally no fun at all to play my Ranger when it was the most fun class I played in Beta.

Good luck Rangers.

RNG boxes are not going to stop until players as one big collective STOP buying them out right. If everyone takes a stand and stops buying them, then maybe, just maybe, they’ll listen to us.

Personally I’d just like to see all event items in these chests put on the Gem Shop for purchase individually. We haven’t seen a single permanent cosmetic item go up on the shop since release. We’ve only seen town clothes for events.

It’s simple, just stop buying the chests no matter how much you want an item out of it. Chances are, you’re not going to get anything you want anyway. We’re just allowing ArenaNet to take advantage of us by buying these things; and they’ll continue to do so until we all collectively say enough by not buying them at all and hurt their income.

It’s all about making money, and if they’re not making any, they’ll finally notice we’re fed up with it.

I defended you ArenaNet. I waited patiently for fixes to class breaking bugs. I’ve invested $50 a month into the cash shop since release, purchased the Collectors Edition and dropped an initial extra $50 into the cash shop on release day (head start).

I was even willing to wait longer if you could have just fixed ONE, just ONE of the major problems facing Rangers like pet AI and them being able to hit moving targets. That’s all it would have taken to make a large portion of Rangers semi-content for you to roll out future Ranger fixes.

14 bullet points, 5 of which are under water. 9 of which are practically useless fixes for Wv3 (great, spirits still get insta-gibbed).

Jon Peters, what the flying ugh is this junk we’ve just received? Is this because bots use Rangers, so you’re not going to get them fixed correctly? That would be an absolutely absurd reasoning and I hope it is not. Bot problems need to be addressed as bot problems, not as bots are Rangers problems.

I can’t even begin to describe the feelings I have knowing I now need to roll another class because Rangers just are not a priority for fixes; even though they are the most broken class in the game. I’m not even talking about a little broken; the gap is tremendous!

I need to go for a walk to get out all this angst I have inside me. Gear treadmill would have been “ok” in some small way if my favorite class to play got fixed, but nope. Now I need to let it all out and put an end to spending money on this game. I feel cheated…

@Bruno Sardine.2907 : As long as it doesn’t spill over into the rest of the world, I personally don’t see a problem with it. I welcome it in fact; so all types of players can enjoy the game for what they personally enjoy doing.

First, before I think on the subject of the Ascended gear, I just want to say what a HORRIBLE job the interviewees did in those articles. The use of their wording is horrendous and practically instills the notion of rage into people who are vehemently against a vertical gear grind. Also, shame on ArenaNet for not taking the time to make sure they clarified their article or even post a response or official post on how exactly this Ascended system will work.

If this system of gear is ONLY available within the dungeon and the stat increase is ONLY effective within the Ascended dungeon system, then fine. By all means introduce a raid like mechanic to help retain that certain demographic of players who enjoy the gear treadmill. I would welcome it so that those other players can enjoy the game as well. I’ll state it again; only if this gear is effective within the Ascended system and NO WHERE ELSE.

If this system affects sPvP, WvW or the ability to just casually enjoy the game, then I am completely against this system and ArenaNet needs to seriously reconsider the demographic of players they are trying to attract to their game.

I also have concerns about exclusivity with this Ascended content. We already see organized groups not allowing certain classes (cough Rangers cough) into the fold because of the lack of viable and worthy builds those classes have. I’m also concerned about the “future” of the Ascended system adding harder levels of progression without giving incentive for players who already went through the “first tier” reason to help people go through earlier tiers to get caught up on the treadmill.

I sincerely hope the system is designed to only be effective within the Ascended system itself. I also hope they will balance certain classes so that they are not socially excluded from being able to do the content. I will wait and see how the system plays out and hope my primary concern of exclusivity is unfounded. I was sad to see that there is still no word on Ranger balancing and class fixes.

I hope we all can find enjoyment in the game; and if ArenaNet implements this system correctly, we can. Thanks for reading.

@Healix “a ban is never given without some kind of evidence to back it up”

I’d like to point out infractions, deleted posts and over zealous mods on the forums. Could be the same exact thing happening with bans in-game. So what if he is in the same area? A simple mod message asking him to respond and talk with him would have solved it being in question. Also, a bots activity is extremely easy to spot compared to someone who is not botting, but running in one area.

I understand that, but at what cost to paid players?

Great thing to add it to the game. Bad timing due to server restrictions and one time event in my opinion. Horrible timing without server adjustments.

They already extended the deadline once, no need to do it again. There was plenty of time to get them.

And seasonal costumes shouldn’t be there all year round. Heck, I feel they should only be there once, and next year, different costumes. They are a symbol to people saying “I have something you can’t get anymore” and that is perfectly okay with me.

Careful Ashlotte, I said the same thing basically but with more humor and got “infracted” since the mods don’t seem to have a sense of humor. Nor the ability to piece together the fact that I was indeed contributing my opinion on the subject that a blade of grass obstructed his view. Really, grass really does obstruct you…

No, no and… no. If I wanted gear progression, I’d go play one of the other many MMO’s that have it. If that is what you’re looking for, there are plenty out there for you needs. If you want a B2P game that does it, just wait, someone will do it soon.

What Loki said. I use a Drake in PvE for this reason; it allows me to stack mobs on the pet while it hits a group of them while I aoe them all down.

Rifle = no thank you.
Crossbow = yes please.

1. Pet AI
2. Pet F2 activation
3. Pet NPC aggro range (I moved half a step forward, pet moves 40 feet in-front of me… what?!)
4. Remember my Pets names ALL THE TIME.
5. Offer a perma stow pet option. Even if it doesn’t give buffs for combat, I hate having to re-stow my pet every time I miss a jump or a fly bites me.
6. Fix Trait skill lines (ie: get pet traits out of lines they don’t belong and vice versa).
7. Re-visit a lot of the skills. Most of them are useless.
8. Condition removal options.
9. Base damage across the board.

Finally, my biggest gripe with my Ranger is the Longbow… What is so “long” about it for a class the weapon, let’s face it, is really designed for? Eagle Eye is bugged so I can’t even auto-attack at 1500 range. Longbow needs to be over-hauled for Rangers. Increase the range spectrum by 300 making Eagle Eye (fix auto attack when trait is active please) top out at 1800, 1500 without. Or just add another tier for that extra 300 range for increased damage on-top of the current max range. Decrease 5 cool down. Increase 2’s base damage. Add some might to 3 or add an escape mechanism (double tap within so many seconds to jump back). Add a small snare to 4. There are MANY options to make Longbow viable. In my opinion (see that trolls? My opinion is not necessarily yours.), Longbow should be an optimal weapon choice for keep/key point defense; yet we get wrecked at range when it should be a key component in warding off invaders.

I love my Ranger and it will continue to be my main. These are just my thoughts. Whatever changes come down the line, I hope for the best.

Yes costume brawl stays.

What DigitalKirin said. Some instances of the CT are just bugged out. I would leave the instance and rejoin a new one.

An official word on when this will be would be amazing. Some of us would like to plan for it.

Well that’s a let down… Why does it feel like Nexon is creeping into this game? =\

Quarmia Siannodel – My Sylvari Female Ranger.

Here are a few shots of my ranger and a Happy Halloween picture for everyone! As of this post, my Ranger is level 51. I am using the Krytan Armor Skin for my armor and a Centaur Bow weapon skin I’ve been transmuting along the way.

I agree with having a dungeon finder. Also, I would like to see options for story mode or explore mode (with explore mode giving options to select which path(s) you would like to participate in) as queue and filter options.

This can only strengthen the amount of people that will get to see dungeon content. Please, do not dumb down the difficulty just because of random groups. Keep the difficulty inline as it is (disregarding any future balancing issues to fix things). Don’t be like that other game and nerf the ba-jebus out of the content please.

Please seriously consider putting this in ASAP; as well as the guesting system. Thank you for listening.