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  1. So...I didn't buy Heart of Thorns because I didn't want to go there. Now they give it to me something I didn't want for free and now the dailies are harder to do because some of them require that I go to HOT. I don't want to go there. Can we please make it so we can do ANY of the Dailies available to all of players?
  2. Some accounts get Fire Elemental. Others get an Adventure today. What decides what you get? https://gw2.altervista.org/gw2-utils/daily This site has some numbers next to the dailies, but I don't know what they mean. Does anybody else know what dictates what daily options you are given?
  3. So I was going through the skyscale thing and had to go down into the dwarven ruins in the Desert Highlands and unlock the doors. Got some consumable trash that gave me an achievement. Some broken pieces of old weapons. Like I said. Got an achievement for it and shrugged. Stuff was useless. But could consume for karma or something and my bags were full. So i did it. Turns out they are the pieces for the Stonespite Cleaver which is some exotic weapon you have to take the pieces to the dwarven forge to get. OK.Go back to get them again. Not there.Go back with another character to get them. Not there. So...what do I do? How do I get them? Or do I now have no chance of ever getting that weapon because I consumed some consumable trash to free up my bags to be able to keep playing?
  4. Yeah...those are just about PvE in nature as long as someone doesn't take a disliking to you nabbing their land and comes hunting. ;) I haven't found a zerg in action yet, but I figure I will one of these days. If it's anything like the other zergs I've been part of in the past, it's going to be a wild ride. Hehehe.
  5. I didn't realize the WP was free. Or the rest. Nice. And no...it really wasn't a big deal. But seeing two guys able to cut through everything we could do with such ease was really...disheartening in a way. It's like they barely worked at it. Also rather aweinspiring. Those guys knew exactly what they were doing and did it like clockwork. And they cleaned our clocks rather well. ;)
  6. You could say the same thing about real life. The vast majority of people are ablebodied in most ways. But we still build buildings with easy-access door handles for people who can't grip, ramps for people who need wheelchairs, and stuff like that. We live in a world where we make alternate ways of doing things for those who can't physically do things the "normal" way. And as the years go by, I've seen that normal has become far more accessible to all by doing this. How many doors that used to be a couple inches above the pavement now have a small ramp heading up to them? Most. This is how we design real life because we want everybody to have a chance to live it. Why shouldn't we design games the same way? Yes, there are people who want more challenges. Absolutely. Gear the game so hardcore players can do challenges and such. But don't ignore the other far more casual gamers that make up the majority of most games these days. Now in this case, ANet is addressing the issue it seems, and other players are often helping as well. Portal Mesmers are pretty awesome to my mind, and I try to help as often as possible with my portal mesmers as well. Sit around at high-demand places for a while and you can make real money from tips. ;)
  7. I actually tried WvW today, and I'm about as good at PvP as I've ever been. AKA...Not good. ;) An amusing thing happened, though. There were a couple experience guildies wandering around, taking forts and such, and we were taking stuff around the edges. Well, they decided they didn't want us taking their supply depot, came at us from behind, and tore us apart. A few minutes later, they conquered another fort we were close to with some other soldiers on my side nearby. They rode out on warclaws and took ALL of us apart. A few minutes later, I saw them riding towards us in the distance and told everybody to run. We turned and ran. I kept expecting them to run us down from behind, but they didn't. Either they didn't see us, which I doubt, or they saw us, recognized us, and figured they'd put the fear of god in us enough that we wouldn't mess with their territory anymore. Which we didn't. ;) In the end, as others have echoed, I really just want everybody to have the same options when it comes to the dailies. We can choose what we want to do or not. I just dislike the idea of having options taken away from us because we bought more than other players. It doesn't seem fair I guess.
  8. Thanks for the tips. I've never done PvP or WvW but that sounds very interesting to try out.
  9. Dailies ARE meant to be trivial. Small things you do on a daily basis to bring players back into the game each day for a few minutes so ANet can market the various gem store sales in hopes of bringing in money to support the game for the long run. The more people log in each day to do the dailies, the more money ANet makes from impulse buys for that shiny new coat or dragon skin. And part of that, is making the dailies something people can do quickly and easily and get a sense of accomplishment for it. The dailies are the hook that ANet uses to reel us all in to buy stuff. ;)
  10. Blame the player. Very helpful. I will note that not all players are professional gamers. Most are casual players in fact. It is a simple fact of the gaming world.
  11. I write stories for my night job...so I write stories. ;) As for the dailies. They do give modest AP and gold, which makes them worth doing. That said, some days do come and we just shrug at the daily and go...well...that's not going to happen today...
  12. I'll start by saying that my family owns six different Guild Wars accounts. Guild Wars 1 with all expansions and Guild Wars 2. We play them all and enjoy them. The top two are the oldest and most advanced. The oldest was my first account back when Guild Wars 1 was in beta, back when the Charr burned Ascalon with FIRE rather than crystals. Man was The Searing a mindjob to see the first time. I STILL hate the Charr after that. ;) The top two accounts have Guild Wars 2 and both expansions. I wanted to play the story. And dang was Heart of Thorns tough at times. And Living World 2 and 3 had me sweating a few times. The other four accounts didn't have any expansions at all, and one thing we noticed was that the dailies were completely different. One person can do most of the core dailies without any problem. They're usually pretty easy, and you can usually do them in five or ten minutes easy peasy. An event completer could take a bit longer depending on the time of day and population in the your specific shard, but even that isn't hard by any means. But you add the expansions, and suddenly options disappear. You can't do Jungle Worm today. You need to do an adventure. You can't forage in Maguma. You have to go to Heart of Thorns. No event completer in Caledon for you. Go to Dragon's Stand. Or let's throw out something else so we can hunt a bounty in Vabbi. None of these replacements are EASY. Your average single player alone won't be able to do them. At least not in my family. We're casual gamers and roleplayers, not platformers. Other people may have loved Mario Brothers as kids. We did Final Fantasy. We have to group together to go into the expansion areas. That's work. I feel like we're being punished for getting the expansions by having a harder time doing the dailies. And being able to glide is not worth that extra aggravation. That's why none of the lower four accounts have Heart of Thorns. We don't like going into that cesspool any more than we have to, and I try to keep that have to at a minimum. Path of Fire with the mounts was another story. Those mounts are dang useful and so we've got them on all six accounts now, and it is something amazing to see a phalanx of family and friends swooping around at once. But it's still annoying to have to go and kill a bounty with SIX DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS each day. Granted, we group up to keep it from being too many trips, but organizing time to go on a hunting run is a bit closer to a non-trivial task when people have school, work, and other stuff on conflicting schedules. Now if we could do the core dailies on our own schedules, then we could spend more time when we are together doing other stuff that is interesting. Rather than the daily grind. Maybe going off to slay a dragon. I'll say it again. I feel like we are being punished with harder dailies because we gave money to ANet so we could have an expansion to make the game funner to play. And yes. The mounts are awesome. But I don't like that the tradeoff for getting the mounts is harder dailies. And the gliding from Heart of Thorns? Oh no. NEVER worth having to go into that cesspool on a daily basis. If ANet let us do the core dailies we would buy Heart of Thorns in a heartbeat. That's the only think stopping us from getting it. The aggravation of being FORCED to go into Heart of Thorns on a daily basis. A place we hate with a burning passion almost as badly as we hated the Imperial City in Guild Wars 1. A vertical hellscape of annoyances where you can see where you want to go but can't because it is way above or way below you. Let us do the core dailies. Don't punish us for getting the expansions. Allow us to spend more time doing story or pursuing other collections together, rather than having to take time out of our coordinated schedules to finish off an "easy" daily. Yes. I know. Not every family has six accounts. Yes, I sometimes ask myself how much money we've spent over the last ten years or so on SIX different accounts and I kinda wince. But...we'd spend more money in a heart beat if we weren't going to be punished in game for doing so. The gliders are nice. But we don't want to be forced to go into Heart of Thorns just to finish a daily grind. Make it an option. I'm all for it. If people want to go there, I'm happy for them. But give us the same option to do the same core dailies that every other generic Guild Wars 2 account can do, and please stop punishing us for buying the expansions. We spent money to do something fun. To unlock a different way of playing the game. Not to have harder things to do when we aren't really looking for a challenge on that particular day. Or maybe I AM looking for a challenge. Maybe I feel like slaying a dragon today. But the daily today is to do an event completer in Dragons Stand and to kill a bounty in Vabbi, and after a half our of that, I'm not so interested in hunting down a dragon after all. Come on guys. Give us access to all the core dailies again. Please.
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