Guild Wars 2

Hear hear. Having taken my main to about 55% of world map completion, I’ve changed focus to levelling my Guardian… and, if I decide that he’s now going to be my main, the prospect of having to do all those areas again if I ever want to complete this achievement is daunting to say the least.

Greep.6394:

I heard of someone trying to get a refund and they were told they don’t have the ability to give for purchases 6 months or more ago. The game has not been released for 6 months.

So: Guys. Last chance to get a refund if you prepurchased. Or rather, for most of you it’s too late, but some of you still have a few moments left.

Do you have any more information on this? We purchased two copies here at home, and we have been debating whether to ask for a refund, but we pre-purchased on 29th April.

It has been a very kitteny week. This whole ANet’s betrayal (I’m sorry, I don’t have better word to describe how we feel) affair has just made it significantly worse

I had been waiting for the famous post detailing the changes before I passed judgement, but I think now is the time to say something.

The post itself left me a bit confused. I get the feeling that most of it was written in terms of what was being added – and then, afterwards, the bits about ANet being aware that GW2 players (specifically) want to avoid grinding at all costs were added later on, possibly due to all the complaints around the web, including these forums, as a form of damage control. The end result is something that looks inconsistent, somewhat paradoxical even.

We’re somehow to believe that these new end-game content and associated mechanisms are not grindy at all, yet, we won’t have any other option but to do it lest we be left with inferior equipment. Yes, the stats are only “slightly” better, but they are still better – and this is a slippery slope for a game that promoted the principle that you shouldn’t have to go through hours of repetitive end-game content for something like this. The fact that Anet remains vague on what other methods will be available in order to obtain ascended/infusion items only reinforces this notion.

Plus, as someone who has played LOTRO for about 3 years, I’ll just say, as others have before me, that this looks very similar to ‘radiance’, which was introduced with the Moria expansion in order to counter ‘gloom’. You couldn’t enter many of the dungeons without it and as more and more end-game content was added to the game, the entry radiance requirements, as expected, kept increasing for the new dungeons.

Sound familiar? I’m not being over-dramatic. I’m a LOTRO lifetimer (i.e., I can play at any time without having to pay a subscription) and a huge Tolkien fan, but I left after Mirkwood. I don’t have patience for that kind of stuff. GW2 was offering me something new and appealing that was different from all other MMOs so I jumped into the bandwagon, but now it looks like ANet is trying to take that away from me. Very disappointing.

Sparkie.3465:

You can buy and learn the recipes at any time. If you come across a karma vendor that sells recipes, and you like collecting recipes or suspect the recipe will be useful to your profession, just buy it.

You don’t even need to be trained in the appropriate crafting skill to learn the recipe. Also, you can give the recipes to alts if you prefer since they’re account-bound now.

None of the leveling karma recipes are so spectacular that they are must-have items of phenomenal cosmic power. They’re just neat optional rewards for completing a heart – exactly like the other rewards on heart karma vendors.

I believe you’re missing the OP’s main point. The idea is that, ideally, any crafter would like to know beforehand which hearts should be completed and which karma vendors one needs to talk to in order to obtain this or that other recipe. At the moment, you can’t even check a vendor’s items unless you’ve already completed the respective mission.

Sure, as your statement implies, I’d be a knob if I saw a karma vendor selling a recipe I would like to have and didn’t buy it. The point, though, is that it would be useful to have a list of all the recipes that can be acquired that way so that you can pick which hearts to focus on and know where to go. I know I’d love to have something like that (and I’ve searched for one a while ago, but couldn’t find anything — by the way, thanks, Dulfy, keep up the good work )

Of course, you could always say that one should do all the hearts in the game and, as someone else said, take screenshots of all the karma vendors and their items, but, for the love of God, how realistic and practical is that? It runs counter to everything ArenaNet’s philosophy is supposed to encompass.

Thanks, guys! That was really helpful

Hi everyone. I’ve been looking for the armour pieces for this set and I found this link which says:

“Dry Bones armor is sold by Karma vendors in level 15 to 40 areas, such as: Kessex Hills, Brisban Wildlands, Snowden Drifts, Gendarren Fields, Lornar’s Pass. "

I’ve been checking the lists of vendor items for these locations in the official wiki, and I couldn’t find any references to either the pieces themselves or their respective recipes. Am I just being blind/daft? Where can I get them (or another set with an similar look)?

Thanks