Posts by Showa

Let's see what cool/usable combos we're getting

What skins are new for pre other than summit axe?

It gave me a nice axe, glad to see the skin added into another source

50-150 daily active users, that's kind of less an opinion more-so a fact, but again ok.

At least spare Smash from a warning for his clarification So effective guys/gals.

This is a mildly active (at best) 2005 infrastructure forum, you guys act like an "unnecessary bump" is going to spoil the stew. But ok.

When doing so results in exercising common sense

They delete the buyer's post announcing a 24 hour cut-off for sale to end also. So great adhere without exception to a rule even if it creates confusion. Is this most effective Greg? Really?

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Its insane how everybody thinks his opinion is the most important.

This game doesnt belong to you. You are just in this extremely comfortaböe position to be able to still enjoy a 20 year old game without any costs. They even give us new Updates and even content. You are not alone in this game and those updates do not break the game in any sense. You are crying about a 5 hour window of now prenerf items dropping while bots have been flooding the market with purples for the last 10 years or more.

Yes there are "better" items now with the inscr ones, but that was the case since inscr got introduced in nf and still ppl prefer os ones. "Perfect" os purple still exist and u can still use those if u prefer that.

Stop crying and enjoy what you are getting offered.

Low quality take

You guys should jump in front of this and make some type of announcement unless there's already been one made. Before people who don't know this statement was made and drop xxxa-xxxxa on triple mod shields/offhands from pre. Some type of buyer's beware notice.

Yeah for sure, I like MA a lot. I have a lvl 15 triple badge war that I lookforward to getting LDoA on and going post.

I want more new players not less. But I'm just thinking if they go the route of everything is of little to no value economies; then please A Net stop neglecting PvP so much (again its not even mentioned on Guildwars.com that this game has PvP modes. Well planned and maintained economies in MMOs can be a great thing because they also give people who enjoy trading for the sake of doing it as an activity something and its also something competitive. I love being rewarded for my time and effort even in a video game. I get this q9 summit axe with some cool mods, great I love it. In 3 weeks its probably worthless and I'll not be upset by this but merely wondering can there be an additional incentive to grind this new fun content a lot?

I don't know. Pre gear progression drew me in because it required effort. It's why I like Savage raiding in XIV. Guild Wars 1 post searing is zero effort gear progression. Everything is essentially worthless aside from rare skins.

For me an incentive is always better than lacking one. It's a video game so I get that playing for fun alone is fine. But that's it for me, it is fine not great. I am appreciative of the grind gets rewarded potentially concept in MMOs. I have played many over 25 years. Maybe that's an old-school take. The paradigm shift of MMO's towards "everything in the game is easy to obtain, of cheap/little value and we make money on the real currency cash shop" is what kills many of them for me.

Also I get it: we play to have fun. Even if the drops are all turds again in a week I'll still be playing it rather often with the 80 member Pre-Searing focused guild I lead. It's just the lack of incentive or presence of additional incentive(s) impacts my decision-making on how frequently/for how long at a time I want to play something in any given video game not just Guild Wars. Right now I juggle 3 MMOs and I'm always thinking about how do I want to spend my gaming time.

I also note that I consider GW2 the worst offender with direct gem to in game currency conversion. I'm also someone that is harsh on companies/corporations. I do dd on companies and what they provide/services they offer all the time. When they don't have a long-term/longevity plan I often short sell them.

Again I think the prior weapons being worthless is not the issue; it is the incentive to farm pre for more than just the experience pts alone. I don't like that it's amateur night of consistent busted update after busted update it all. Love the new content, not a fan of the execution. Also, it wasn't just pre it was the entire game that was declining (as I noted all the PvP modes being literally unplayable at times). Reforged is a chance to save this game and keep it long-term playable. When Guild Wars 1 becomes unplayable I just play other MMOs.

If they messed up again and patch out 3x I'm just taking a break from farming in this game for awhile and only doing PvP really.

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Ty, seen the 3x

Is there any confirmation of "of the _________" mods dropping again?

Yes the rarest thing in the chest:

Sorry if I break a rule by multiple post won't happen again if so but I want to clearly showcase this is what we are dealing with as a community, or rather have a history of dealing with:

This person had the same issue and the SAME Guild wars 2 moderator sent the SAME bs reply. https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/co…out_botting_gj/

I will add though my only other interaction with support was to "recover" my account or rather have the email switched to an up to date one since recovering my university email was going to be a hassle. The interaction that time was great and a total 180 different experience. So maybe at least the customer support side of things has improved since all that happened to me.

To bring it back totally on topic: to hell with Guild Wars 3 (are they kidding rn?). Get Reforged up and running, competently, and shoot for competing/contending with Jagex's OSRS. All the marbles, go big or go home. Pre has been a sort of testing ground and certainly is with the new quest chain and dungeon. Stop fumbling the ball, ask for community input and/or assistance. It comes down to NC Soft really. Give Reforged to someone who cares and gets jobs done like Stephen full throttle both the reigns. See my PfP for what I think about NC Soft. (Yes I know Stephen is Game Director) but I know how NC Soft in actuality does their MMO's dirty.

NC Soft in a nutshell:

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%97%94%EC%94%A8%EC%86%8C%ED%94%84%ED%8A%B8/%EB%B9%84%ED%8C%90#s-2.4

Also, we have a game (Guild Wars 1) that was originally PvP focused and the role-playing aspect of PvE just took off way better than was initially expected. Where is a single mention of the existence of PvP in this game on Guildwars.com? Jagex runs and moderates their own discord with 250k+ members. You are telling me A Net cannot make their own properly moderated GvG discord? Come on they need to there's like 30-35 guilds in mATs since reforged. GvG can be confusing for brand new players to figure out how to get into. Forming a core is not for everyone but PUG GvG can at least help people start to figure out the mode a bit. I don't want to see them be short-sighted and cause more of the game to end up needing life support like the PvP modes. Fortunately it seems a lot better for most modes than it was a little over a year ago when I took my last break from GW 1.

Also the trash reply the Guild Wars 2 moderator sent me in customer support that time was followed up by my restatement of the facts and showing them screenshots attached. They didn't reply again they closed the tickets. Coincidentally about 1 or 2 weeks later Stephen showed up in RA lobby with his GM tag and started mass banning the alts these people were trying to "shutdown" RA with on a regular basis with names like Aasdkj Jashsah. It was unreal to me how that GW2 moderator shit on me. It made me uninstall GW 2 and never play it again.

And the point I make by all that: A Net has a serious track record of letting parts of this game completely die/get abused by botters and alt farmers (PvP). It's why I laugh when people go "lol u dk what ur talking about me g10 u g5" I'm g5 because I move on to greener pastures sometimes the dark ages in sections of this game last for years at a time. We have to hope the gems don't just become tenguslaying mods of pre.

I tell you what has never left me, and on another PC I have all the screenshots of the evidence I sent attached to customer support and their ai/thoughtless/didn't look at it replies. I got suspended for a week for macro after I entered RA one night and there were 4 accs sitting doing nothing. Killed them left the match and in lobby I get message "have fun getting banned" from the owner of those accounts presumably who was farming gladiator points. Initially a Guild Wars 2 moderator told me we cannot do anything and cannot divulge our evidence in this matter. I send them all the screenshots of the bots and tell them show me I am running a macro this person farming alts in RA mass false-flag reported me. No reply. At times they are completely incompetent, downright lazy, and disloyal to their loyal customers/players. I have high hopes but I don't know what to expect, actually sadly I do.

The 25 gold value dyes too...this is total amateur night from a major gaming company and their dev team. We get LDoA and want to keep the character in Pre-Searing then we need an incentive to grind a farm(s). I'm not gonna spend tons of time farming for Charr Kits. I am rewarded more for spamming RA matches or doing GvG (the rp you can trim capes with or convert to z keys).

They messed up bro when it comes to the short-sightedness of shafting pre-searing farming. I'll still play pre a lot to help guildies and get exp. But man I can't see myself sitting for four hours grinding a run many times over without knowing there is an RNG I get a bonus for my time. A bonus of something worth substantial value. I've been shot at for this hot-take by people who don't get it. They are like haha too bad soo sad old stuff worthless. That doesn't matter really. It's that going forwards everything is getting dirt cheap after only a week of game-play. I really wish A Net would take a good hard look at OSRS and the polling system they implemented for new/prospective content. There's a reason Jagex sold for 1.1 billion estimated USD and has years where they are triple Guild Wars 1+2 revenue. Players like us have to do basic Q C for them and say um Stephen you forgot axes in the chest big bro.

And really the Maz's chest man I am 100% on the same page. Ppl bug me about this double chest, faster level 3 re-entry, come farm chests, etc. and I am like man I really don't care I'm just not motivated to get double or triple turds instead of one turd.

The other issue is (and no one wants to see reforged pop off and build momentum more than me): this is now two botched updates in a row. First Lucky Weekend drops (anniversary coded in instead) now the pre-golds debacle. A Net please clearly the team is in over their heads and needs assistance from the greater Guild Wars community. I'm 244 months deep into Guild Wars 1 and played 2 during university, I am used to A Net pretending they know what is ultimately best and what the majority wants then acting on it.

HoD sword and a q8 plagueborn shield with 60/-3

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Ic, I nabbed at price given of 120 ecto. Let me peek at a q9 tac skele with +10 charr -3 hex but that was nfs :(.

Think the charr dual mod shields make more of a market for themselves if the post version of the dungeon is mostly same same and has something worth farming.

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Keep in mind some people are just selling these 1-5k each too. But Fire is the highest in demand req in Pre-Searing.

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Aegis +10 charr 2a

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5-30 pre black dyes imo, prices are crazy right now and there will only be more of these flooding in.

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