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[cyclopsje]

Protoss, on 15 January 2013 - 05:19 PM, said:

He mentions guild exclusive content. The problem is that in our guild folks pretty much stopped logging in because they don't care about the game any more. Which means that those of us in tiny guilds are potentially locked out of this content or we need to find new guilds.


Maybe the better idea would be to FINALLY separate WvW from servers and turn it into a PvP game?

I dont think small guilds are locked out and besides that we wont know till it goes live or more details are given. Jumping to conclusions is allways bad. WvW is pvp with some pve elements in it for giving small groups something to do i guess while waiting for more or while traveling the map. If you dont like the pve part in there nobody is forcing you to do the pve part. But some might like it.

[Ritualist]

cyclopsje, on 16 January 2013 - 08:20 AM, said:

I dont think small guilds are locked out and besides that we wont know till it goes live or more details are given. Jumping to conclusions is allways bad. WvW is pvp with some pve elements in it for giving small groups something to do i guess while waiting for more or while traveling the map. If you dont like the pve part in there nobody is forcing you to do the pve part. But some might like it.

Hence, potentially. I'd love to hear more info though. ^^
As for WvW - I don't mind the PvE in it. My problem with it is that they are tying WvW to servers, while I would prefer if they would separate the two and threat WvW as a PvP mode. Create a temporary battlefield (make the battles last for a few hours), allow folks to enter and once the map is filled, create a new battlefield. Basically hot-join Structured on a larger scale, with more PvE elements. That way WvW population isn't dependent on server populations, but is rather dependent on the game population.

[Waar Kijk Je Naar]

So uhh... any update on... ahem...uhh... town clothes?

[Skibba]

scaur, on 16 January 2013 - 03:36 AM, said:

Everything they said were interesting on paper. Don't bring your hopes up

Agreed. Aion, Rift, SWTOR. All of them have promised so much but very little of their 'State of the game' 'On the horizon' 'Things coming in the next 3/6/12 month' posts.

The only thing keeping me playing at the moment is the fact there is no monthly sub.

[Illein]

About the Guild Missions - could be me, but since they mentioned time constraint and such things - could it be they are thinking about creating challenging Speedruns/DPS races to those?

Not quite sure what direction they're heading with that, would be fun, I suppose!

[escada_assassin]

Just in case I missed something - but did they say anything about better drops from mobs or dungeons end chests? Anything about more ways of getting certain materials (T6 or lodestones comes in mind)? Anything about no more RNG or DR? Anything about getting cash a little easier for those who actually just wanna play the game and stop the mindless farming on certain areas / dungeons (as in stop running same dungeon over and over again just because it's easy and gives you nice cash - nice cash as reward, not end chest drops)?

[Gilles VI]

ilr, on 16 January 2013 - 12:16 AM, said:

Good stuff, I might actually come back and play it again if they can keep even half of these promises  (especially the one about new gear tiers, for the love of god Anet, don't add anymore stat-based Treadmills to a game that's barely even 6 months old yet and took me 2 months of constant playing just to get 10g in ... I used to make 500 plat in GW1 after 2 months of daily casual-farming!).

Just casually do AC once per day, takes ~1hour and gives 4g, I just think you're not even trying.

Mallybum, on 16 January 2013 - 12:39 AM, said:

Anybody else curious in what the Mystic Binding Agents do?

Probably work as the mystic slivers, thus replacing another ingredient.

omar316, on 16 January 2013 - 02:16 AM, said:

Alot of great stuff being said.

Really looking forward to the implementation.
But the time frame is worrying. If it's 2013, well, we got 12 months and if we're only going to get even 1/2 of those in another 6 months it would be pretty much a death blow.

A good way to save this situiation would be to give a definite time frame and then posting monthly updates on delays or even giving us interim updates.

Hell give us a PTS lol.

Read the article/blog, it clearly states for alot of stuff "early 2013", which if they use the same definition as every other english speaker, would mean the first couple of months, maximum 5 months.

draxynnic, on 16 January 2013 - 03:41 AM, said:

Not to mention that legendary weapons require wuvwuh tokens. I know at least one person going for a legendary that doesn't want to PvP for it, and thus is trying to do it via jumping puzzles, with the same effect re:taking up valuable slots without contributing.

I'm all for PvP, especially non-structured PvP like wuvwuh, providing rewards that are valuable in other modes, but I don't think it should be the only way. Best way, perhaps, but not only.

Actually almost everyone that got his legendary is doing it via jumping puzzles.
If I would focus on it, I could get my 500 badges in 2 days with jumping puzzles with playing 8h/day.
This weekend I did my monthly 50 kills, took 3h and got 11 badges...

[Shiren]

Jairyn, on 15 January 2013 - 03:27 PM, said:

Umm...squee?

Hurray for a reason to leave Lion's Arch!

Did they remove the TP from LA and place it somewhere else?

[Gilles VI]

Shiren, on 16 January 2013 - 11:25 AM, said:

Did they remove the TP from LA and place it somewhere else?

There are TP merchants in various little towns all over the world.

[beadnbutter32]

Since Colin has pretty much been the poster boy for GW2's PR, and we know how well they delivered on that manifesto thing, more of the same buggy half baked stuff mixed with the same old vaporware.

[Shiren]

Gilles VI, on 16 January 2013 - 11:31 AM, said:

There are TP merchants in various little towns all over the world.

It was a tongue in cheek comment about how the TP is the primary way of obtaining most of the end-game exotics. It's far more efficient to farm the TP than it is to farm Orr or dungeons.

[escada_assassin]

Shiren, on 16 January 2013 - 12:34 PM, said:

It was a tongue in cheek comment about how the TP is the primary way of obtaining most of the end-game exotics. It's far more efficient to farm the TP than it is to farm Orr or dungeons.

Should they remove rewards from dungeons or drops from mobs because of that? Maybe ANet doesn't yet know that playing the game isn't rewarding, while playing the TP is.

[Ritualist]

escada_assassin, on 16 January 2013 - 01:25 PM, said:

Should they remove rewards from dungeons or drops from mobs because of that? Maybe ANet doesn't yet know that playing the game isn't rewarding, while playing the TP is.

The only way they couldn't known that, is if they aren't playing their own game or/and listening to the feedback.

[escada_assassin]

Well, here's my vote for removing all rewards world wide, since playing the TP is obviously better than doing anything else in game - and it's normal too. That should be in the next update.

[Gilles VI]

Shiren, on 16 January 2013 - 12:34 PM, said:

It was a tongue in cheek comment about how the TP is the primary way of obtaining most of the end-game exotics. It's far more efficient to farm the TP than it is to farm Orr or dungeons.

• My stupid comment was just a comment on his stupid comment about not leaving LA for TP, you can already leave LA because of other TP merchants over the world.
  Yeah I know it's lame, forgive me, I'm in middle of finals right now..
  
• It is more efficient for some people, for those people to make a profit, other people have to earn the gold first.

[Steadfast Gao Shun]

A lot of it sound good, though I was secretly disappointed that new jumping puzzles aren't being released for the January monthly.

[timidshadow]

I'm glad to see that my jumping puzzle obsession will one day yield rewards!

[BlairPhoenix]

Protoss, on 16 January 2013 - 06:38 AM, said:

I meant commenting on the BLOGPOST. You are aware that you responded to my post with a comment about my bitching rather than ANYTHING I bitched about?

You are aware you're STILL deflecting? Still waiting for an answer to my original question.

I don't see how I could not be aware of what I wrote? Does it actually matter what I was commenting on? I'm not arguring the things you're 'bitching' about, I'm arguing the validity of your 'bitching' in the first place, and your deflecting isn't really helping your case any. And to answer your first question, despite you not giving me the same courtesy, I already in a way implied that I liked at least one thing in said blogpost, enough to question that you did not. Excite me though? No, because vague information without any sort of time-table are simply words, and words are wind. Blogpost is a whole lot of nothing, so there really isn't anything TO comment on until we get more concrete information.

[Astalnar]

I might be getting old and senile in some distant future, but until then: Didn't they promise server transfers to be available to everyone and free of any kind of charge with only minor time limitations?

[Lordkrall]

Astalnar, on 16 January 2013 - 06:33 PM, said:

I might be getting old and senile in some distant future, but until then: Didn't they promise server transfers to be available to everyone and free of any kind of charge with only minor time limitations?

They have never said that.
Server transfers were always meant to have a cooldown and a cost, but they have put that cost on hold until they are ready with Guesting (which is more or less sever-transfer but no access to WvW)

[Zestiva]

just a question.. when exactly is the server thing gonna happen? Hopefully not within 7 days....

[Mr_Finesse]

Zestiva, on 16 January 2013 - 08:20 PM, said:

just a question.. when exactly is the server thing gonna happen? Hopefully not within 7 days....

With the January 28th update.

[Zestiva]

Mr_Finesse, on 16 January 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

With the January 28th update.

tyvm, gives me time to find that perfect server

[Lordkrall]

Zestiva, on 16 January 2013 - 08:20 PM, said:

just a question.. when exactly is the server thing gonna happen? Hopefully not within 7 days....

The free server transfers will end on January 28th at which time they are also adding Guesting.

https://www.guildwar...ting-is-coming/

[Saleem]

Hmmm dunnou what to make of this blogpost.
It sounds very vague to me on what they really are adding.
It sounded like fixing and polishing the game which is great though as the game still is too rough on the edges and feels unfinished.

[ilr]

Gilles VI, on 16 January 2013 - 11:24 AM, said:

Just casually do AC once per day, takes ~1hour and gives 4g, I just think you're not even trying.

What the f***** f*** are you talking about?
When I was playing, it only gave 20 something silver.

& Accordign to the Wiki:  http://wiki.guildwar...mbs_(story) (8 silver)
http://wiki.guildwar...bs_(explorable) *(12-26 silver).

Do you even read half the crap you type out day in day out?  I mean it's nice to know some things haven't changed but this isn't one of them

Edited by ilr, 16 January 2013 - 10:15 PM.

[Lordkrall]

ilr, on 16 January 2013 - 10:14 PM, said:

What the f***** f*** are you talking about?
When I was playing, it only gave 20 something silver.

& Accordign to the Wiki:  http://wiki.guildwar...mbs_(story)��(8 silver)
http://wiki.guildwar...bs_(explorable) *(12-26 silver).

Do you even read half the crap you type out day in day out?  I mean it's nice to know some things haven't changed but this isn't one of them

We are talking about Explorable, and clearly you must ignore every single drop in the whole dungeon including from chests.

[ilr]

Lordkrall, on 16 January 2013 - 10:15 PM, said:

We are talking about Explorable, and clearly you must ignore every single drop in the whole dungeon including from chests.

Again:  Explanation is required here,  hence the specific phrase:  "What the f***** f*** are you talking about?"
Bear in mind as well, I haven't been playing for 4 months now.  If a new source of revenue has been added, it would be HELPFUL for you to detail every bit of it since the last Explorable I ran.... the Mursaat path of Orr, only gave us ~80silver after killing & looting EVERYTHING along the way.  The same effort in GW1,  IE:  total DOA clear & loot, would gross FORTY TO FIFTY Plat.

[Lordkrall]

ilr, on 16 January 2013 - 11:20 PM, said:

Again:  Explanation is required here,  hence the specific phrase:  "What the f***** f*** are you talking about?"
Bear in mind as well, I haven't been playing for 4 months now.  If a new source of revenue has been added, it would be HELPFUL for you to detail every bit of it since the last Explorable I ran.... the Mursaat path of Orr, only gave us ~80silver after killing & looting EVERYTHING along the way.  The same effort in GW1,  IE:  total DOA clear & loot, would gross FORTY TO FIFTY Plat.

They have added additional drops to most bosses in most dungeons, including a bag of coins which give quite a few money each, they have also increased the drop rate of rare/exotic items and such, all which can be either sold (rare for around 20s each and exotics for about 1g+) or salvaged for ectos which can sell for quiet a bit aswell.

[Shroomhead Fred]

Lordkrall, on 16 January 2013 - 11:23 PM, said:

they have also increased the drop rate of rare/exotic items and such, all which can be either sold (rare for around 20s each and exotics for about 1g+) or salvaged for ectos which can sell for quiet a bit aswell.

They have?  I'm not seeing it.

I hate running regular dungeons now.  I count myself lucky if I come away with a single rare in 3 runs.  They must've upped the chance by 0.01%.  I still run CoE regularly for a chance at charged cores & lodestones, I don't know why I persist as I only get cores to drop once a blue moon as well.  For the time I put in, it just doesn't seem worth it.