Smeerlap.2698

5 year player, have bought a ton of gems over the years via IDEAL.. (I am from Netherlands) and now i can't - only via Paypal, Credit card and paysafecard which i don't use and have Paypal= a **** company absolute ridiculous how to just add bank accounts and their retarded rules.

Made an exeption for ONCE to buy some online gems but no more in the future .. IDEAL was excellent - i use it for MANY transactions online.

Will rebuy the game if i can link my EXISTING ACCOUNT to STEAM.

I have 95% of my games on steam, i use ORIGINS for Battlefield 3-4 and UPLAY for Assasins Creed Origins-Odyssey-Valhalla.

Let me use my 4+ year account on steam - i will NOT start all over (7 characters) .. thanks. ;)

Straight to the point (4 year player 334 MP), this *quest* is never available.. i don't have time to *camp* Bjora Marches all day long - and what is with the *priming* - can it be anymore vague ?.

Sick and tired of this - for WEEKS i have been in Bjora waiting and looking, what the hell is up with this dumb designed quest.

Pissed off mode disabled. :s

> @"Hawkz.1260" said:

> > @"Smeerlap.2698" said:

> > Pet will disappear on MOUNT attack skill vs mob/enemy - using tail swipe, battle maul or any other mount attack when NOT attacking a enemy will keep the pet summoned.

> >

> > https://streamable.com/2dasu

>

> Try to make a video changing Pet while attacking. Now it's impossible.

Eh ? you see the pet un-summon when i use mounted skill don't you ? if i dismount without attacking something you can clearly see the attack pet still there, what is impossible ?

All pets work fine if my character attacks, switch pet and all commands works fine, just not with dismounting attacks - pet disappears .

Pet will disappear on MOUNT attack skill vs mob/enemy - using tail swipe, battle maul or any other mount attack when NOT attacking a enemy will keep the pet summoned.

https://streamable.com/2dasu

Loot loot and loot, and more important some goal to work towards (PVE) as i am not a raider, WvW or PvPér. :o

Currently semi-retired from the game but what would get my interest back would be legendary PVE armors to work towards to, and please not 1 set that would take 25 metric tons of materials and 5000 gold but reasonable achievable in about 4-6 weeks play.

I got 7 chars and none of them i consider an "alt" so that would keep me buisy for a while. ;)

It would require you to do, world bosses, map events, dungeons, meta's and you would basicly be visiting many many maps to do stuff and collect **tokens or some currency** sure you still need the materials, gifts etc etc.

So maps would automaticaly be visited and played again by players that rarely or never even go (back) there, because there is not really a reason to.

Note: I wouldn't mind buying a gemstore item for example **glob of divinity** 250 gems - an item to upgrade ascended armor piece (with the actual gameplay collected items - gifts etc) because developing new (PvE) armor cost time and money, i get that.

Just thinking out loud, i don't think it's gonna happen but who knows - 6 armor pieces x 250 gems x 7 characters.. hmm thats good money Anet - make it happen :+1: B)

Can not pick one sorry, i think they are all very good.

Most iconic / memorable to me would be Claudia Black (star gate SG1 series actress) voicing for (Dragon Age *Morrigan* & Mass Effect) her voice is just wonderful.

Ay ay many triggered fanb - players .. game is dead yes - fact.

No loot improve, no new armors (the armors for everyone - not just the elitists), legendaries still HUGE gold sinks, no goals to work to means the end of this game, can't escape the reality of stubborn management.

It's not gonna change, have ranted (and many others) about this for several times for many times.

Silly thing is that even the characters go ** Nice gear! - You can never have to many treasure! or Mine all mine !! ** when picking up a random something worth 20 silver, pathetic.

Was gonna play some GW2 today, decided to look at the forum on what's the talk these days.. but got reminded there is no reason for me to login anymore, none !

Playing 3 years casual, stuck on ascended stuff on 7 characters all infused up for the last year, just not going anywhere... PVE legendary armor maybe ANET ??

I don't care if GW2 is not *that* kind of game, let us *progress* in something!

Something people can sink bank items into besides truck loads for a legendary weapon (Mythical or Cosmic armor just to invent a name that give some sort of aura every 5 min in a fight) besides being forced to do raids/WvW and gather crazy amounts of stuff.

Meta maps or maps with rewards have not been updated for a long time, just like the non exciting loot system.

Funny how people get all red faced when GW3 comes up *Ohh noes I will lose this or that* well newsflash.. you already lost it.

Items, skins.. everything you bought from the gem store & you time playing the game.. I don't get these knee jerk reactions.

Gw2 is decaying, and has passed it's prime.. simple fact.

I spend alot of money on this game in 3+ years and was glad to do so.. Gw2 is the best MMO's I ever played.

Don't like PvP in this game, raids are an unpleasant experience.. and PvE well after 3 years anyone would have seen it all by now, so what's left for a casual like me (5-6 hours a week).

Time for Gw3, bring it and take mah money, this game I won't spend a cent on anymore and haven't for the last 6 months.. no offence.

The Gem Store makes money, it's the source of income for A-net.. but just like discussed in *rewards/loot* topics the **good stuff** is not in the game.

You have to buy it, none the less I have not been inclined to login and play for weeks.. if only just to craft my daily things and logout until my materials/gold runs out.

Then it's thanks for the 3 years and goodbye.

GW3, where you can *TRADE* your current account (if you have been playing for over a year) or first 3-5 characters for some sort of starter pack.. calculated by arenanet in day or so.

Bring it and take my 1000 Euro per year.. DO IT !! :p

Claw of Khan-Ur also, boring brown bear paws and barely visible.. i'm not even using the skin right now even though the *equip* effects are nice.

Try these settings..

And in General Settings turn OFF *Player Names*.. makes a huge difference in FPS when many players in one place.

And get another 8Gb of RAM. ;)

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Elite Skill need a bit of change, meaning shorter CD and tuned so it's no a *i win* kind of skill.

On all my characters i so rarely use them, sometimes i just forget completely that they are there, well.. on some characters.

Really like to use different ones just to mix it up a bit, Hounds of Balthazar anyone ? =) but the *other* ones are usually far superior, shame really.

Imagine i could swing a golf ball from my country (Netherlands) to ehh lets say New York and make a *hole in one* ... that's how rare we are talking.

> @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> > @"Smeerlap.2698" said:

> > > @"MachineManXX.9746" said:

> > > > @"Smeerlap.2698" said:

> > > > The rewards are simply not good enough, this has been mentioned for YEARS.. this is not an *entitled* thing, give me moar for free.

> > > > Been playing for 3 years and have done (like many of you and then some) many events and meta specifically, but at no point I was WOAHH this is cool, and there is so much more arena-net can add to the *loot* table in general.

> > > > With meta's you sometimes get that 1g exotic or that stupid orichalcum ring recipe you have received for a million times.

> > > > Just do DS, and really milk that map, get the pods, events all of it.. at the end open everything.. besides the Amalgamated Gem and some Ectoplasm Globs I sometimes think what just happened.

> > > > Where did the *loot* go after opening all those purple boxes and bags, globby gloop, broken fang, spikes, broken lockpick, some wood and ore that I have a ton of already, what's going on?.

> > > >

> > > > Have a lot of map currencies and very little to spend it on (there are mini's - endless tonics and novelties but I don't care for that), and what karma I have I spend on Obsidians.

> > > >

> > > > Just an example, there is an achievement called *Exotic Hunter* where there are several Exotics worth 30-40g.. why are these not in the loot table map wide?.

> > > > I could buy the last 5 exotics, but that means I have to burn 200g for the achievement, I didn't actually achieve anything besides paying for it so I am not gonna do it.

> > > > There are also many Dye's worth 5g to 50g, put that in the loot map wide even if it's very RARE drop.

> > > >

> > > > Same goes for Exotic weapons and armor, many many of them worth 10 to 100+ gold.. just put it in the rewards (world bosses, or just random monster drop).. why not ?.

> > > > It's so not rewarding doing a e.g Tequatl and get that 10 silver SPOON, again.. not saying a 50g exotic should be rewarded every time, but c'mon!

> > > >

> > > > The whole idea (exciting) for me personally is when I go play a map for a few hours, there IS a probability that I get something nice.. it can take a week or a month or even 3 months.. at least I would KNOW there are some really nice item's (in gold terms 50-150g worth or *xxxxxx* whatever you want to put there) on the map.

> > > >

> > > > Now I KNOW the best you can get is a 20 silver recipe or a 2g exotic, maybe that's why I for the most of the time just farm wood and ore.. I really like most of the maps, there is just no reason for me to play them much or do events.

> > > >

> > > > This has been on my mind for years now, sorry if it's seems like a rant.. i like this game or else i would have walked away at least a year ago, but loot can be *better* or improved in any way arena-net see fit, just improve it, cheers.

> > >

> > > You seem to not understand how the economy works.

> > >

> > > All those "Exotic Hunter" weapons actually are on the loot table. They are just very rare. The fact that they are rare is why they still have value. Same with precursers. Everyone gets excited when they get a precurser as a drop. They have value because they are very rare.

> > >

> > > ANYTHING that's on any loot table has to be extremely rare in order to ever hold it's value. If not, it will become just another junk drop.

> >

> > You are completely missing the point, 3 years I play and never did I get a precursor or anything that worth more then 5-10 gold, rare is fine but I think it's just a bit TO rare.

> > How many more years do I have to run around and get those 5 weapons for Exotic hunter? tell me, or a precursor for that matter.

> > If they didn't drop in 3+ years I am confident they won't drop in the next 1-2-3 years.

> >

> > But this isn't really about that, there is just not enough stuff/items in *loot* that makes it worth while.. if I play on a daily basis for 2-3 hours several maps, DS, AB, SW.. in a month time you would at least expect a nice drop, but no nothing.. just worthless stuff and maybe an exotic worth 2 gold.. that is what my post was about.

> >

>

> If nice things dropped more frequently, wouldn’t that make them closer to being worthless? People want more rewarding content except that if they got that, they’d farm the kitten out of it until it wasn’t rewarding anymore.

I get what you say but I think no, there are no *nice* things atm.. we could argue *hey we got chack egg, queen bee or precursors* etc.. but we all know the chance of getting that is the same as getting hit by an asteroid.

I get that arenanet needs to balance things out, but if people want to farm and end up with 50k gold at the end of the year, good for them and it only means they play the game and do events - metas - fractals etc.

POF maps - Istan and several others have low players for a while now, and I think this has to do with rewards.. correct me if i'm wrong.

> @"MachineManXX.9746" said:

> > @"Smeerlap.2698" said:

> > The rewards are simply not good enough, this has been mentioned for YEARS.. this is not an *entitled* thing, give me moar for free.

> > Been playing for 3 years and have done (like many of you and then some) many events and meta specifically, but at no point I was WOAHH this is cool, and there is so much more arena-net can add to the *loot* table in general.

> > With meta's you sometimes get that 1g exotic or that stupid orichalcum ring recipe you have received for a million times.

> > Just do DS, and really milk that map, get the pods, events all of it.. at the end open everything.. besides the Amalgamated Gem and some Ectoplasm Globs I sometimes think what just happened.

> > Where did the *loot* go after opening all those purple boxes and bags, globby gloop, broken fang, spikes, broken lockpick, some wood and ore that I have a ton of already, what's going on?.

> >

> > Have a lot of map currencies and very little to spend it on (there are mini's - endless tonics and novelties but I don't care for that), and what karma I have I spend on Obsidians.

> >

> > Just an example, there is an achievement called *Exotic Hunter* where there are several Exotics worth 30-40g.. why are these not in the loot table map wide?.

> > I could buy the last 5 exotics, but that means I have to burn 200g for the achievement, I didn't actually achieve anything besides paying for it so I am not gonna do it.

> > There are also many Dye's worth 5g to 50g, put that in the loot map wide even if it's very RARE drop.

> >

> > Same goes for Exotic weapons and armor, many many of them worth 10 to 100+ gold.. just put it in the rewards (world bosses, or just random monster drop).. why not ?.

> > It's so not rewarding doing a e.g Tequatl and get that 10 silver SPOON, again.. not saying a 50g exotic should be rewarded every time, but c'mon!

> >

> > The whole idea (exciting) for me personally is when I go play a map for a few hours, there IS a probability that I get something nice.. it can take a week or a month or even 3 months.. at least I would KNOW there are some really nice item's (in gold terms 50-150g worth or *xxxxxx* whatever you want to put there) on the map.

> >

> > Now I KNOW the best you can get is a 20 silver recipe or a 2g exotic, maybe that's why I for the most of the time just farm wood and ore.. I really like most of the maps, there is just no reason for me to play them much or do events.

> >

> > This has been on my mind for years now, sorry if it's seems like a rant.. i like this game or else i would have walked away at least a year ago, but loot can be *better* or improved in any way arena-net see fit, just improve it, cheers.

>

> You seem to not understand how the economy works.

>

> All those "Exotic Hunter" weapons actually are on the loot table. They are just very rare. The fact that they are rare is why they still have value. Same with precursers. Everyone gets excited when they get a precurser as a drop. They have value because they are very rare.

>

> ANYTHING that's on any loot table has to be extremely rare in order to ever hold it's value. If not, it will become just another junk drop.

You are completely missing the point, 3 years I play and never did I get a precursor or anything that worth more then 5-10 gold, rare is fine but I think it's just a bit TO rare.

How many more years do I have to run around and get those 5 weapons for Exotic hunter? tell me, or a precursor for that matter.

If they didn't drop in 3+ years I am confident they won't drop in the next 1-2-3 years.

But this isn't really about that, there is just not enough stuff/items in *loot* that makes it worth while.. if I play on a daily basis for 2-3 hours several maps, DS, AB, SW.. in a month time you would at least expect a nice drop, but no nothing.. just worthless stuff and maybe an exotic worth 2 gold.. that is what my post was about.

The moment I thought I was a Wall Street Broker and invest *smart* in Intact Mosaics, like a fool I bought 5250 Mosaics over the year 2018 for 3-4 gold a piece.

Just to see them go down and down and down to a price of 12 silver today, it is glorious, best moment evahhh! :s

Estimated gold spend 16000 :3 estimated worth now 600 gold <3 =) ;)

Behold my EPIC failure.

> 

**Admin, I don't know how to make the .jpg weird frame smaller.. out of my league.. feel free to edit it, thanks.**

The rewards are simply not good enough, this has been mentioned for YEARS.. this is not an *entitled* thing, give me moar for free.

Been playing for 3 years and have done (like many of you and then some) many events and meta specifically, but at no point I was WOAHH this is cool, and there is so much more arena-net can add to the *loot* table in general.

With meta's you sometimes get that 1g exotic or that stupid orichalcum ring recipe you have received for a million times.

Just do DS, and really milk that map, get the pods, events all of it.. at the end open everything.. besides the Amalgamated Gem and some Ectoplasm Globs I sometimes think what just happened.

Where did the *loot* go after opening all those purple boxes and bags, globby gloop, broken fang, spikes, broken lockpick, some wood and ore that I have a ton of already, what's going on?.

Have a lot of map currencies and very little to spend it on (there are mini's - endless tonics and novelties but I don't care for that), and what karma I have I spend on Obsidians.

Just an example, there is an achievement called *Exotic Hunter* where there are several Exotics worth 30-40g.. why are these not in the loot table map wide?.

I could buy the last 5 exotics, but that means I have to burn 200g for the achievement, I didn't actually achieve anything besides paying for it so I am not gonna do it.

There are also many Dye's worth 5g to 50g, put that in the loot map wide even if it's very RARE drop.

Same goes for Exotic weapons and armor, many many of them worth 10 to 100+ gold.. just put it in the rewards (world bosses, or just random monster drop).. why not ?.

It's so not rewarding doing a e.g Tequatl and get that 10 silver SPOON, again.. not saying a 50g exotic should be rewarded every time, but c'mon!

The whole idea (exciting) for me personally is when I go play a map for a few hours, there IS a probability that I get something nice.. it can take a week or a month or even 3 months.. at least I would KNOW there are some really nice item's (in gold terms 50-150g worth or *xxxxxx* whatever you want to put there) on the map.

Now I KNOW the best you can get is a 20 silver recipe or a 2g exotic, maybe that's why I for the most of the time just farm wood and ore.. I really like most of the maps, there is just no reason for me to play them much or do events.

This has been on my mind for years now, sorry if it's seems like a rant.. i like this game or else i would have walked away at least a year ago, but loot can be *better* or improved in any way arena-net see fit, just improve it, cheers.

Festival is fine, the rewards not so much..the advanced back items (wind, lightning, sun catchers) was the reason for me to do the festival.

Just like last year spend about 1000G materials for Zephyrite boxes and got nothing to cheer about, feels like a material sink sorry and leaves me with a somewhat sour taste.

Winter Heart, Queen Bee, Chak infusion, Festive Confetti, just wondering if these rewards are really in there.. or is it just a carrot dangled in front of a donkey.

There are no legendary weapons in this game, just really expensive ascended.. with a purple color. :)

Just FORBID it period, it's dumb and should not be allowed.. there are thousands of people logging several characters running around gathering, doing events you know actually PLAY the game.

And here we have bunch of lazy slackers gather stuff with barely any effort (don't care if it's economy relevant or not) .. freeloaders that's what they are.

There is no excuse to do this, if you can't play or have to do dishes or WHATEVER.. park you character and do your *real life stuff* then play when you can.

If I go to work and sneak off in a storage chamber and play 3 hours of poker with my co-workers I can't say, well I AM at work am I not ?.

This is the same thing, and the fantasy that some are behind their keyboard is mehhh, sometimes I saw these groups at really late times or early in the morning.

Times when barely anyone is in the map and here we have our AFKérs spinning their Necro or Automating their skills.

None of them respond to chat or messages, NONE.. and they suppose to behind their keyboard? .. sure sure :s

And i see the humming stop after about 30 seconds now, which is all fine and cool.. but mount and dismount and the *hum* is back so while I appreciate it stops after a short while this just won't do.

Still think this hum is not needed, players can surely well see and know that facets are *enabled* .

This is a small thing to do, arena-net doesn't need to set a guy on this for a whole day or week.. supporting this game for well over 3 years now with significant money, maybe I can ask for this small thing ? or is that to much to ask?.

But it's all good, the *player instrumentation* did the trick, so I am happy.

> @"Orion Templar.4589" said:

> > @"Turkeyspit.3965" said:

>

> > It's simple to ask for 'options', but not quite as simple for ANET to deliver them.

>

> We shouldn't disparage people for asking for options. It's up to Anet to decide the viability of implementation. I'd tend to agree that the facet sound is annoying, and I'd like to be able to turn it off without impacting any other sounds (such as player instrumentation.) If Anet thinks adding such an option is too costly, that's fine. But I still think it's worth voicing an opinion.

You LEGEND, player instrumentation did it .. thanks very much !