evilbob

Haze, on 26 November 2012 - 01:59 AM, said:

I watched a significant portion of it.  But its nine minutes+ long and half of it is him talking about how this AH is more complex then WoWs.  Its almost 2 minutes into the video before he actually starts talking about what the video is about.  Frankly, its about 7 minutes too long and is describing a pretty simple concept that most of us have already figured out on our own.

A video is just a bad way to portray this type of information, and a written guide would be much faster and more effective at communicating this info.

The problem with playing the TP is that if you start telling everyone your methods it immediately stops becoming profitable.

evilbob, on 26 November 2012 - 09:07 PM, said:

Anet needs so stick content in zones that will keep casual players in those zones.  Make this content lucrative for casual players and all.  That way they can enjoy staying in zones while getting loot to sell to hardcore players, etc, etc....



To me, this is a casuals game that doesn't really appeal to as many casual players as it should.  Anet needs to help casual players, which in turn will help hardcore players like myself.

Alleji, on 26 November 2012 - 08:59 PM, said:

What I'm getting from his statements, and I could be reading what I want to into them, so grain of salt: they never said there would be no vertical progression. They intend to pursue vertical progression at a glacial pace, using ascended items, which will be the highest tier for the foreseeable future. They realize that making ascended available solely via FotM was a mistake and intend to make components available throughout the game/from multiple playstyles.

So, in essence, there is grind for the best stats on an extra slow treadmill-anything you do repetitively could be considered grind-but it's "not grind" in that you get to grind how you want to.

That's my perception, anyway. Anyone else care to chime in?

Also, there's nothing to be gained by not reading, the least we can do is let ANet have their say, then respond. You don't want to go all Two Minutes Hate without the best possible appraisal of the situation, do you?

Asking for community feedback was a smart move. My favorite, however, is this question.

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ridwansameer, on 26 November 2012 - 09:00 AM, said:

I'm inclined to think that the character time count started on the head start  but for some reason the account time count didn't start until actual release. But thats just a theory?

As to the OP:
Anet has stated a few times since the last update that they're still working on dungeons and are going to be changing how loot and tokens work in a future update to make them a more enjoyable experience (yay!) So thats one thing down

I have to say that the fact that the trading post is the best way to make money annoys the --- out of me. I'm someone who really enjoys the exploration side of the game and it bugs me that even though I'm out there experiencing the actual game content, it is people who sit there fiddling with the trading post who are getting the best gear and making the most gold. It ends up feeling as though Anet places little value on actually taking part in all of this content they've implemented >.>

Ascended gear would've been perfect without additional stats except for the agony resistance.

They will go back up. Logic dictates that the few rich players simply buy the precursors at half or more price then sell them at the original. It's what I would do, and what everyone with an eye for the market would do. The only thing acomplished here is to deepen the pockets of the already rich players out there, essentially handing them more monopoly on the Precursor market.

Lordkrall, on 06 November 2012 - 09:40 AM, said:

Using anecdotal evidence as grounds for sweeping generalisations makes for great arguments!

You know, I've no idea where people are getting this "ANet have poor customer service" from, I'm yet to see anything on the web about how bad its been through the company's life, and I for one have had excellent customer service, also the reason they ask for so much info from you is so you can prove its you.

I've known a french gaming company to ask for a picture of your driving licence before they help you, now thats bad customer service, and illegal in some parts of Europe.

Grats Pita. It looks much better on a Charr. People can hate all they want, but I think you look badass

Riaky, on 22 October 2012 - 06:16 AM, said:

For people who didn't play the market when the game was first released and focused on pvp or other things it is hard to say gold is very easy to come by. However, I've been farming for about 2.5 weeks without any help and all I need is my precursor weapon like many other people. The market is much harder to play now and has resulted in me losing alot of gold already, so telling someone to play the market to make gold easily isn't true because it is a gamble now more than ever. The people I know that have a precursor either got lucky with the forge/drop, exploited early in release, or worked the tp in its infancy.

evilbob, on 11 October 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

It's based on how quickly you are getting karma. Karma DR is easy to get rid of. You just have to pace out your events. Once you see 350 for an event, either go to an event that will take at least 5+ mins to finish or wait a few mins. I don't know the exact time when DR resets. I can farm an entire day with only hitting DR a few times. I have not grinded with a booster, so I have no info on how DR is effected with it.

evilbob, on 12 October 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

I'm on Sorrow's Furnace. Highest I've seen it up to was 12% before it reset. I did not use any crafting boost consumables though I'd be interested in trying on the character if I get one out of a chest or off of the Gem Store. I tracked the numbers I had to refine at each level and the number of discoveries each tier took to get to the next one. They all came out fairly similar after maxing 15 professions.

I'll craft the components myself if the mats to make it would cost less than what the component costs on the Trading Post. In each profession, there were 3 to 4 component pieces that were like that through out the entire profession so it's more of an exception. It really is just comparing the cost of the mats versus the cost of the component. Besides those few components and material refinement, I do not craft anything myself and only level through discoveries.

BTW, after maxing out Huntsman and Tailoring, I gained an additional 4 skill points over lvl 80.

I find it tedious to make gold by any of the methods that work.  So I pretty much gave up on wanting anything that costs gold.  If it costs gold and I can live without it, I do.  My money goes to siege in WvW and books and waypoints and green armor for whatever alt I'm on that needs it at the moment.  I never have more than a gold or two anymore, and I don't care.  I refuse to play like this is a job-boring and tedious and annoying.  Does that make me less effective in WvW?  Sadly, yes, but oh well.  It's a game.  I ain't gettin paid for this!

After several days of consistent teaming with my old COH guild... and several weeks of teaming with a circle of 4 other friends, I can say with certainty that the problem isn't GW2.    ...This isn't Rose tinted goggles either, the Guild I put nearly all my effort into (& 10g worth of Crafting supplies for people who never came back) since launch that started with ~100 members... is down to 3 ppl now.  So I'd argue it affected me more than most people.

The problem is most guilds along with most MMO's (and a few FPS's) that built all social interaction around Compulsive codependency-Structure.  "Structure" refers to how we're conditioned towards Introverted or Extroverted behavior by various incentives.  The vast majority of players who already left only looked at Structures of Exploration, Crafting, and WvW and then left when they ran out of "things to do" that appealed only to them.  The people who stay... stay for activities that mostly benefit someone else.

This also explains the incredible 180 turn the First Game originally took when the first half year of prophecies has what I can only describe as one of the worst Communities I had ever seen yet in a year's time it gradually became one of the Best communities surpassing even some of the smaller more tightly knit MMO communities out there despite how it wasn't even a real MMO.

A lot of the people who already left ...and this doesn't even have to be pointed out directly b/c we all know it.... were coming directly from MMO's based on Forced role teaming and compulsive gambling structures for Raiding to fill occupancy quotas (Even a few places in GW1 had it too).  Even the most structured content here (dungeons/sPvP) have no such gambling structure to them; where in, even if you had that full set of gear already, there's was still that lottery ticket everytime you completed it with other players.

I see Gw2 right now as a Solution looking for a Problem.  That solution being excessive freedom, which most people just aren't prepared for, especially the TV & Playstation-generation which never had to use its imagination like the Book-Generations & MUD generations before them had to.  I think it's a gamble in itself that will only pay off LATER after they've added a bunch of other systems/content to the game in the years ahead.  Systems much like those added to GW1 which took a niche PvP game with NO repeatable PvE content, and converted it into a rich Single player 3rd-person RP-RTS with daily socializing incentives.   I can't predict which new elements will be added to this game, but I'm pretty sure they will fill in a lot of holes and one day people will see this "excessive freedom" and need for Extroverted motives --plus Imagination-- as a visionary foundation that greatly enhances the fully-fleshed-out game of the future rather than depressing demotivator it feels like currently.