Guild Wars 2 - The daily hearts in Lake Doric are over-tuned compared to other LS3 maps |
- The daily hearts in Lake Doric are over-tuned compared to other LS3 maps
- My Hopes for the February 22nd Balance Patch
- [Discussion] Make the gem store great again!
- I literally cant play, constant 3k ping
- My attitude towards outfits
- I've made a full orchestral transcription of the "Heart of Thorns" Main Theme.
- FIX THE MORDREMOTH FIGHT......
- Depression
- TIL: If a piece of armor comes with a "natural" color that you don't own, you can dye that channel back to that color at any time.
- Just a big ol' post from a guild decorator (share your halls!)
- sylvari hair doodle
- Announcing the launch of Padl 2.0 (with new and improved website!)
- Skill Balance Coming 2
- Stuck in pvp queue, need help
- So.. Whats about the Frozen exotic Weapon fragment?
- Mistward achievement bugged
- Is it me or login servers are outraging?
- Will Anet ever address the fight against Mordremoth?
- Now that DPS Meters are legal, is there a repository or list of all actively developed or functional meters that I can browse?
- Quick Guide to Lake Doric - Jade and Leather Farm
- Starting GW2
- Down in Southsun Cove
- Abaddon-Statue missing from Scribe recipes
- Do you salvage exotics that aren't sell-able or do you throw it in the Mystic Forge?
| The daily hearts in Lake Doric are over-tuned compared to other LS3 maps Posted: 19 Feb 2017 10:12 AM PST Title. The other hearts in all the other zones feel like they fill up at a relatively normal pace, but in Lake Doric it feels way over-tuned. The repetitive grinding feeling really sets in hard when doing the hearts in this map, that I didn't feel so much in the other LS3 maps. The contrast becomes really apparent especially when I try to complete the other LS maps for all their dailies, and the hearts in those maps seem to fill normal but these ones just take ages. Killing enemies feels like it does not give near as much as it should. I defended for almost an entire event in the South village and after grinding the entire thing I still did not even complete the heart, despite killing dozens and dozens of White Mantle... and for example the one where you have to run into the village, grab one piece of corn, then run it out of the village to find one starving seraph and the item is consumed, and it gives you a tiny FRACTION of completing the heart. It takes roughly 20-30 seconds to do this, so if you imagine you'd need to do this roughly 30+ times to fill your heart, you're looking at over 15 minutes for this heart alone. (I know I know, there are multiple ways to fill the hearts, but the design ethos for hearts in the original GW2 was you could complete any heart you wanted in multiple ways... but as is, some 'methods' in Lake Doric are rewarding vastly inferior amounts of heart-completion.) Again, my point here is that I don't think the hearts are tuned correctly for completing participation. Also and equally important, I feel like ANet has departed from their original 'heart' ethos in that I feel like I'm now competing again for quests with other players, something I have never felt until now in the game (but I sure feel it in every other mmo!): I have my rations let me just give it to this.., oh no some other players beat me to the hungry Seraph.. better wait. Oh no I need to take this flower... gone. Oh let me plant this flower in this flower bed... oh man someone else got their first. Surely I can't be the only one who notices the difference? Time yourself on Ember Bay completing hearts then come try to fill hearts in Lake Doric. There is a stark contrast. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My Hopes for the February 22nd Balance Patch Posted: 19 Feb 2017 05:23 PM PST
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| [Discussion] Make the gem store great again! Posted: 19 Feb 2017 04:01 AM PST A slightly long post, so TL;DR at bottom.
The last few NcSoft's quarterly earnings reports showed signs of stagnation and a generally decreasing trend for GW2. This makes me sad. GW2 is an amazing game. With the last few patches we've been getting amazing story (white mantle, dragons awakening, current events with their small teasers), amazing new content (new fractals, raids, new maps with each LW episode), amazing QoL changes (shared inventory slots, salvage all, consume all, and lots of small bits and pieces that improve the gameplay), even PvP received a massive improvement with Season 5. However, the earnings keep going in a downward direction. That makes me sad because I really enjoy this game, ANet seems to have a clear direction with their ideas and where things are going, and I'm sure we'll be getting lots of goodies in the next months.
I think the general concensus in the community is that the main reason for the decreasing earnings is... the gem store. In its current form, with the current set of items it offers and with its major lack of diversity, the gem store simply doesn't provide enough incentive for players to spend their money on the game.
The problemLet's break down what we have in the gem store right now:
I see a few major problems with this.First of all, many cool NON-SEASONAL items are only available occasionally. It's fine if the Snowflake Glider is only available during wintersday, but it's not fine if Bunny Ears, Cat Ears, Aviator Sunglasses, Wide-Rim Glasses, Black and White Wing Gliders are not available at all times. Some stuff is just freakishly overpriced and not functional enough to justify spending so many gems. Things like the Upgrade Extractor which is useless for 99% of runes and sigils, and yet costs the same as the most expensive sigil currently in game (Sigil of Concentration at 60g+). Or Transmutation Charges, which drop in ranked PvP like Hardened Leather from centaurs (oh wait...).
Gem pricesWhen you buy gems, you pay €20 (and I'd assume $20 in NA) for 1600 gems. Let's look at some of the existing items and their prices:
The permanent gathering tools are fine. Outfits are fine. Gliders are fine. All of those took time and effort from the designers and they look cool. The only issue is, as I mentioned before, that some aren't always available. Account upgrades are fine. People will always want more character slots, more inventory and bank slots, bigger material storage. Everything else is not fine. The prices are a complete mess. Why would I pay €3 for a revive orb if that can get me 3 keys and a chance to get 3 revive orbs? (/s ofc, but still proves the point)
How can this be fixed?What's missing? An incentive for players to spend money. What's the point of having all these cool items in the game if you don't let your players buy them?
ConclusionThe way I see it, changes like these are likely to increase the gem store traffic, which would increase gold-to-gem prices, encouraging more players to buy gems for irl money, which would in turn increase gem-to-gold prices for the players who don't have time to farm in-game. It would increase earnings, allowing the game to grow, bringing more players and giving those players more amazing content... making the community, ANet and NcSoft happier.
TL;DR - Game is not as profitable as it should be considering all the new content we've been getting. Gem store is the problem. Item prices in the gem store are a mess. There is not enough good stuff in the gem store. There are lots of items that could be added in order to add incentive for players to buy gems. Black Lion Chests can be reworked. For more details on proposed changes read 'How can this be fixed?'. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I literally cant play, constant 3k ping Posted: 19 Feb 2017 04:31 PM PST Hi, I want to say first that this is something that is happening to a lot of people, atleast from my guild. We are all spanish, so therefore we are from Spain. Since the last big patch I literally cant play the game. It randomly disconnects me, I have 4k constant ping, and this is not related to my ISP connection since I have 5-30 ping in any other game. This just happens on GW2. I dont think it is fair that no one has looked into a solution yet to this because since your patches are really bad, the endgame content is stale and the time we can sneak into a game we paid cant be used I think there is no other solution to leave the game. I hope an Anet employee can say something about the issue, it is really baffling and pathetic that Anet hasnt even said a word about this issue. Do you even work at your offices? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 09:14 AM PST I present to you my outfits: http://imgur.com/a/UD5IK As you can see I have exactly one outfit and this is the one many players got for free. I hate outfits. I hate the fact that Anet says armor sets are too much work while releasing a new outfit every few weeks. This is not even about the fact that it costs gems. Its about not being able to combine outfits with anything else. I want my own look, no prefabricated outfit where I cant add any personality and where I look like anybody else. TL;DR I would pay gems for armor sets that I can combine with my armor. Not for outfits. EDIT just to clarify, I understand that outfits also have positive apsects! Its the fact that we get 40 outfits before we get a single armor set that bothers me. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I've made a full orchestral transcription of the "Heart of Thorns" Main Theme. Posted: 19 Feb 2017 06:43 AM PST Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD9UHMAdPaE I hadn't found any full orchestral scores anywhere, so I had a go at transcribing one. I then made an audio recording using the transcription to test its accuracy. Any comments/criticisms are always welcome! And many thanks to Maclaine and Lena for creating such awesome music for GW2 (and do publish the official scores if you're able!). [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIX THE MORDREMOTH FIGHT...... Posted: 19 Feb 2017 05:37 AM PST | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:41 PM PST I would just like to thank the GW2 community for the warmth and patience with people who do not always know each other, I have always been treated as a friend by all the players I met during the game, even if I did not have much contact, I am going through an extremely fulfilled moment of my life, I lost friends and people who were close to me and I reached the point of suicide, but my mother never let me be weak, so I started to get into the game more often because I realized that there I can get distracted a bit and have fun. My depression is not healed and I think it will take a long time for me to get out of it, so I ask all players to remain kind to anyone they meet, in or out of the game, you never know what the other person might be going through and sometimes a smile or a gentle gesture can brighten up the day. Thank you. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 09:47 AM PST Something I just learned through random experimentation yesterday while messing around on my SO's account. She had just gotten the Council Watch Chestguard from the personal story and was very upset when she accidentally dyed over the natural black that came with the armor and applied it... 'Lo and behold, finding the black dye and re-applying it worked, but only on the channel that black came with, even though she had yet to unlock it. This may be common knowledge but I've been playing this game since launch and had never known that. For most of us long-term players with tons of dyes this may be pointless, but for many new players, feel free to experiment without worry! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Just a big ol' post from a guild decorator (share your halls!) Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:06 PM PST Hold on to your hats, this is a big one, TL;DR at the bottom Well with all the hype over the new raid and the upcoming balance patch, I thought I might bring some love to our guild halls. So right off the bat I'll admit I've probably spent upwards of 5,000 gold on decorating guild halls (yes multiple). I love the guild hall. It's my baby. I've always loved decorating in any game that lets me, and Guild Wars 2 has been no exception. Here's mine (Vial of Salt), show me yours! Since the release of Heart of Thorns, we've seen some really positive changes in scribing, and a few triumphs with new decorations. What I love about scribing is that as a profession, it really lets your personality shine through. With the severely reduced costs since release, it has become much more accessible even to casual players. It's still pricey enough that you have to make decisions about what you really want. It lets you tackle small projects at a time... "Do I want to decorate this room... or this one next?" "Do I want to make my garden next, or get some more trees to brighten up the hall in general?"... etc. The cost right now naturally spaces out your "progression" on decorating, and elongates your journey to that 2k decoration cap. Now that's some of the good stuff (and Uzolan's is way up there, but I'll talk about that later), but what I really want to talk about is the future of decorating. There are some really great opportunities that ANet is missing, some of which could even go into the gem store to help bolster their earnings. This is a topic I've seen thrown around a few times, and it is desperately needed. No matter how beautiful you make your guild hall, it feels sterile. Sometimes you have a few people running around, but we could really use more movement. Now I understand that the guild hall is very.... bumpy. There's a lot of clipping in weird places you wouldn't expect, but one way ANet could really cash in on this is by making them gem store items. Assign them a fixed (but large) patrol, maybe even have them interact with others if they happen upon eachother. Then, sell it for 250 gems or so. Make a new NPC to manage which are active at any given time, and give appropriate assignable permissions for the NPC's use. I would buy a disgusting amount of these. So I don't think I've seen this idea yet. What I would love to see is a guild upgrade that allows someone to "consume" an infinite tonic to add it to the guild tonic stores. Then, make a decoration which when used grants a random (or chosen) tonic appearance from the unlocked ones for 5 minutes. This would be a fun reason for people to farm tonics, or even put more of them in the gem store. Also, I just love goofy things to do while you're bored and hanging out in the guild hall. Decorations that incorporate a "Journey" I'm talking about Uzolan's Mechanical Orchestra here. For those of you not in the know, there is a journey to rival the first step of most precursor journeys just to learn the recipe. Then you need a gift of music, and a gift of magic to finish it off. This thing is amazing. It's a big decoration, and it produces music, and it is so very satisfying when you pass it just to know the work it took to get it. I want so, many, more, of these. I would even want them to be more challenging (the journey, not the materials), because as I said, scribing lets your personality shine through. It shows people what you spent time and effort on, and big projects can bring a guild together; and after all, that's the whole point of the guild hall, isn't it? Bringing guildmates together. I would even suggest they tie some of the collections into guild missions, because boy do they need some love too. Again, you could have the collection starter for these massive decorations be gem store items as well. Jumping Puzzles and self-made rewards I think one of the most common uses of the guild hall is to make a jumping puzzle (or 4). There is so much more we can do to make these enjoyable. Two specific items I've "suggested" in the past were an item that removes all skills when you're near it so you can't use class skills to "cheat", and a launcher of some sort, to take you from area to area for puzzles. Of greater importance to me personally is an RNG reward box. In my head, this would be tied to a guild hall upgrade, and would open up a new bank tab. In the tab, certain rows correspond to certain chances to be looted. Then, allow the crafting of a reward chest decoration. Once per day, if looted, it rewards items from that tab. Put that at the top of your horrible salt-inducing jumping puzzle and you've just built more fun into the game for people. The guild gets to decide how valuable of items to put in there, and since it doesn't "produce" new items, it doesn't impact the economy if say, I feel like putting a precursor in there at a .5% drop rate. When they announced that bosses were going to drop items for scribes, I was extremely excited. While the trophies look nice.... they were a huge letdown personally. In my mind we were going to get decorations for each boss for their environment. Example: Mordremoth Mandible would make models from Dragon Stand. I was hoping they'd even be interactable, like a very expensive noxious pod you could make for the guild, that was actually harvestable once a day. Perhaps even generate a "spawner" for enemies from the region, so you could make a menagerie (again, making movement in the hall). Also, the raids are beautiful, it's such a shame that the only thing we can craft from them is the trophy the boss drops. I also just want to see rarer items. Like chak egg sac rare. I'd love to see multiple ones that could drop off each boss (or world content, or harvesting nodes, or dungeons, or WvW/PvP kills whatever feels thematic for the item). Make the item soulbound, and on use it gets put directly into your currently represented guild's decoration storage. Getting mega rare drops is always fun, let's add some more! Besides, people like to show off their guild halls, and getting one of those would surely be a "centerpiece". Plus, it gives people incentive to farm if they really really want a specific one. Miscellaneous Decoration Ideas I know there's a lot that could be added, but as far as generic craftables we really should have, they're kind of the top of my list.
We're a lot better off than when scribing first launched, but there are still some things that are missing that feel pretty basic when compared to other games. I'll freely admit I don't understand the technical aspect of what goes into these changes, but I know they've been done elsewhere.
One final note undeserving of it's own section, please don't do the caudecus decorations again. Just straight up purchasing feels really bland and unimaginative. Make them tied to achievements for the recipe, then craft them next time. At least it was cute that the butler stole them all... maybe he could have even sent you on journeys to "recover" these pieces. And that's it! My fervent hope is that they're already implementing some of these things for the next expansion, which they've been so tight-lipped about it's hard to even know if I should be excited! I really do love the guild halls, and everything that comes with it. I wish I could volunteer at ANet just to make it even more incredible than it already is. Also any of you silent devs out there who read this, let me know if any of these things are already being talked about <_<. I want to feel the hype. Hope you enjoyed my post! TL;DR: Scribing is much better than it used to be, but ANet is missing a lot of solid opportunities to make money and/or give players more to do. Show me your guild halls! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 03:04 PM PST http://i.imgur.com/6VLYYRM.jpg Started out with a grass type hair since fancier leaves will be much harder. ~shrug~ I'll get better at them as I go. I'm ok with it for a first try on sylvari, though I wish I'd done the gold highlighting a bit stronger. I may retouch that later. If you'd like to see more hair doodles I toss them all here: http://purpletabby.wixsite.com/clockwork-wolves/sandbox [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcing the launch of Padl 2.0 (with new and improved website!) Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:30 AM PST Hey guys I'm back again. If you missed me the first time, a couple of weeks ago I launched Padl, the Parser for Arc Dps Logs. As you might know, at the time DPS meters were a question mark hanging over the head of the playerbase, raiders in particular. Even with that I went ahead with sharing Padl with the community in an attempt to show how DPS meters and logging tools can be used to extrapolate amazing amounts of data to help players, squads and guilds improve themselves in a raid environment. The feedback I received was mostly positive and supportive and I thank you all hugely for that! In the short time Padl 1.0 existed (approx. 2 weeks), I received over 5000 log uploads from players interested in seeing how they performed in raids. To make things even better, ArenaNet has allowed us to use DPS meters without fear of repercussion and opened the door to a wonderful world of data gathering and stat tracking, so a huge thank you to the devs as well! Anyway now that I have the introduction out of the way, here is Padl 2.0! Since ArenaNet gave us the go-ahead to use DPS meters I've been hard at work completely rewriting it for new features such as graphs and improved readability. Here's what a parsed log looks like. Unfortunately a couple of features from Padl 1.0 aren't quite ready yet (boons being the big one) but should be done sometime this week. I also have plans to add more functionality such as mechanic tracking and squad group setup. Once again it's late and I'm tired so my GM /u/Tsplodey will be around to answer any questions he can. Thank you to my guild members for their help with beta testing, especially Bob for his valued contributions. Happy parsing! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 05:42 AM PST Last post till Wednesday. Put a remind me to this and check it after the balance patch. Also check [2]. Tempest will get a DPS nerf (probably still top DPS on large hitboxes but might compete with thief on small ones). Engi gets something similar to Ranger's Spotter giving 180 condi damage to 5 people. Warrior's banners, Druid's Grace of the Land will affect 10 people now. Thief's Vault (Staff 5) will be affected by quickness (the DPS boost I talked about in the post above). I won't say more for now but if you have some time try cook a Breakfast Pizza. The taste is somehow wierd at the beginning but it's quite an experience. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 08:19 AM PST Hi, I'm stuck in a pvp queue where some members haven't accepted it seems. If I dismiss it remains it still stays in the pvp window and says "match is about to begin there". Whenever I relog, change maps, use a WP or watch a vista the window pops back up and the only available button is "dismiss". This has been going on for over an hour now. http://i.imgur.com/WxOgcLh.jpg Anyone experienced this before or got any suggestions on fixing it? ig name: Magari Azdaja P.S: my problem is NOT this: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/pvp/Queue-abandoned edit: 3 hours later, nothing changed, unable to play pvp and for pve I keep getting the pop-up from above, submitted a bugreport edit2: 4h later, either a relog on another pc fixed it or it was reset by itself [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| So.. Whats about the Frozen exotic Weapon fragment? Posted: 19 Feb 2017 03:11 AM PST https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Frozen_Exotic_Weapon_Fragment This boys were ONLY avaiable as a "Guaranteed" reward on the seasonal BLC, and some random achievments. They are need in 3 to exchange for a piece of weapon. I have 1 leftover on my bank, that I can in no way acquire more to exchange. Are these just lost in the time, and doomed to be sold for 50s? If so, seens really bad designed, since they made a npc vendor exclusively for it. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 06:26 PM PST To get the leg guards I need the scale legs skin unlocked. done! but... it didn't register. I have it in my wardrobe but its not registering. I've even bought it on TP twice, switched characters and logged off, then back on again. I've already sent a bug report but I wanted to know if anyone else has ever experienced this? and if so did you find a way to fix it yourself? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Is it me or login servers are outraging? Posted: 19 Feb 2017 01:27 PM PST | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Will Anet ever address the fight against Mordremoth? Posted: 18 Feb 2017 08:33 PM PST Flying to avoid Mordremoth's AoE attacks is bugged to oblivion. Sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes I fly off the fucking map and I'm removed from the instance. The fight is nice in concept, but when it's bugged to the gutter, it's just frustrating and makes the boss fight a battle against RNG to see if the bugs will fuck you up or not. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Quick Guide to Lake Doric - Jade and Leather Farm Posted: 19 Feb 2017 01:23 AM PST
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| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:48 AM PST I don't know which race of class is best for me. I like mages, so there's a start I guess. Any beginner advice? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 19 Feb 2017 01:01 PM PST I stumbled across some Charrs in the Black Citadel Local Council guild this morning. I could not resist sneakily joining in on their beach dance! Not sure what you cats were up to, but it made a fun little moment for me XD [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abaddon-Statue missing from Scribe recipes Posted: 19 Feb 2017 05:19 AM PST Anet should add it, they could use they same model that is already in the Priory. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do you salvage exotics that aren't sell-able or do you throw it in the Mystic Forge? Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:22 PM PST For example: Fractal 40 farm nets you some exotics that aren't sellable [link] [comments]  |
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