Dagre.2185

well they can use it in their own home instance so no need to quit.are you really sure nobody is in your home when you're not there? creepy anyways, same as banners. if OP clicks on others banners and never drops any, i've got nothing nice left to say. everyone better be clicking my food when i drop it. waste of my golds otherwise. grumble

well, i mean, you'd think after half a decade they could finally release it. typically takes about that long to release a fully featured and polished game. but anyways, that 'feature' would have been fantastic years ago. at this point, the only use it'll have is to make wvw seem more populated. might as well just do the megaservers like open world now. just add a queue for people trying to get in with guildies/friends and make it easier to see a list of all the phases. the only difference this alliance system is going to have compared to megaservers is purely perception. oh and my server being a link now, since i've returned, i have to say that this perception really doesn't matter overall.

just go in and do whatever you feel like doing. that's what everyone does anyways. as you spend more time in there you'll figure out the way things are and then still do whatever you feel like. wvw basically works like any open world group/event. pugs will be more disorganized than guild groups. voice helps also. its as laid back as pvp gets in gaming, pretty much best place to start. you'll likely die a lot, get over it. :D you'll learn the rest over time, its really not a big deal. the odd rare baby will make a fuss, but its rather rare and not something to pay any attention to. i've always preferred more organized guild groups. i just have more fun that way but since i've been back i've just been going pure pug and derping around. having a good time at it also.

about as epic as doing it with 80 people. actually, i'd probably feel far more satisfied solo'ing a scaled down version than zerging it. that said, with populations slowly dwindling like always happens when a game has been out for years, it would be nice to lower that minimum a bit at this point. not everyone plays at peak server times and there's a very noticeable difference in populations/activity at those times.

Funny enough it works. can't be working that well if they can't spare the funds to work on core parts of their game.

yeah, battle pets is fun and well done. not really my thing but i do a bit of it during end of expansions. there's people that only battle pet in that game and you can level up to cap just doing battle pets and there's also pvp. definitely a ripoff but then again, everything blizzard does is a ripoff. they just tend to polish it right. as for not full featured. maybe. but i prefer they don't do it at all if they aren't going to make it outright fun to play. their own twist on the battle pet thing is a good idea for the 'new' thing if they plan on doing another expansion or the next version if they're continuing with gw long term. it would likely make mini's a new cash cow, they could even sell mini skins/outfits at that point. especially if there's some player vs player option. they have to do it properly though.

Point 2 is wrong, u can mess with auto loot in the options menu. Ok, so there's one exception where you can turn off a mastery...because they added it to the options menu. That doesn't change the fact that simply putting this option into the menu instead of making it a mastery would give players greater control over it.it would give the same control. just wouldn't have to grind it out. i dont' know any new players that aren't irritated with the grind for autoloot either. especially so if they WvW. at least they added the mastery nodes in tyria to alleviate that grossness. also, i can't see any kind of logical reasoning for locking autoloot behind mastery at all. it makes as much sense as locking the ability to change resolution or use your bank behind mastery to me.

the only thing that gets on my nerves is the flashing when you havent' picked a skill/talent. i quickly pick random talents just to get rid of that obnoxious flashing. that said, not sure what is so difficult to have a toggle for 'new player tips'. unless their code is complete chaos. not a big deal to me but its a basic option in the vast majority of games.

everyone on my friends list is on when i'm on. 100% activity. though i should probably point out there's only one person on there. though there's a bunch of people on my stalker list which is rather creepy, i'd like to remove them without blocking, i assume block would do that, never use that feature.

there's no rules. kill them all. and this is coming from someone that's usually the one that ends up deded.people just like to harass and whine their way to the top but it rarely works out for those peoples. take a look anywhere, not just games.i assume there's an ignore feature if you get annoyed. i just ignore that kind of stuff, let em keep sending tells but don't reply, usually sets them off even more but it ends quicker than a reply.

actually, buying just the base game unlocks all expansions except the current one. anyone with a subscription has access to everything but the current expansion. that and you can pay monthly sub with gold now. takes about 2-3 solid days to farm up a token which is the equivalent to sub cost. can even turn it in for battlenet balance and buy their other games with it, or the expansions themselves. haven't spent a nickle on wow for the last 3 expansions and i have all the games in battlenet also now. Yes, they literally changed that last year until which the price was a lot higher (https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/116436/you-dont-need-to-buy-world-of-warcraft-anymore). That still leaves people out 60-70 bucks for the current expansion (nearly double of PoF's launch price and 3-4 times the cost at which PoF goes currently) with a subscription fee on top. GW2 is dirt cheap compared to WoW. I present to you racial skills. Available in instanced pvp content. Never balanced and usually favoring 1 race heavily. Has the human racial been reworked yet or are the top 100 2v2 ranks still human only? Now obviously this was available for everyone. All it took was a faction and race change, which Blizzard offers at a premium cost. Get back to me about balance for WoWs competative mode once they actually get it balanced. Haven't managed to do this so far and I played a lot of competative WoW in the past. they changed that like 6 years ago. i think even more, it was during pandaria. i never had to buy pandaria when i skipped it and got draenor when that came out. so maybe even 8 years ago. Very doubtful. I was active for both Draenor and Legion and I had to purchase all past expansions until it allowed me to get the current one for my account. That article I linked is from 2018. I doubt it would have made big news last year if they had implemented this 6 years ago. During Legion it was alliance only in the top 100. So racial flipped back, fine. Are you going to reroll or rather pay for a faction and race change? Take a guess what most people do. This entire comparison is hilarious. 1-2 Months of WoW's subscription pay for PoF. The mere fact that people mention WoW when complaining about cost for an expansion purchase is an insult. dig a little deeper instead of clicking the first link you find. its been years since you had to buy every expansion and if you played warlords of draenor you would know this so at this point i know you just flat out lie to try to get your point across and i'm done with this discussion. oh and i never complained about cost. had no issues buying the last expansion. i pointed out i don't give my money to companies that lack ethics.

actually, buying just the base game unlocks all expansions except the current one. anyone with a subscription has access to everything but the current expansion. that and you can pay monthly sub with gold now. takes about 2-3 solid days to farm up a token which is the equivalent to sub cost. can even turn it in for battlenet balance and buy their other games with it, or the expansions themselves. haven't spent a nickle on wow for the last 3 expansions and i have all the games in battlenet also now. Yes, they literally changed that last year until which the price was a lot higher (https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/116436/you-dont-need-to-buy-world-of-warcraft-anymore). That still leaves people out 60-70 bucks for the current expansion (nearly double of PoF's launch price and 3-4 times the cost at which PoF goes currently) with a subscription fee on top. GW2 is dirt cheap compared to WoW. I present to you racial skills. Available in instanced pvp content. Never balanced and usually favoring 1 race heavily. Has the human racial been reworked yet or are the top 100 2v2 ranks still human only? Now obviously this was available for everyone. All it took was a faction and race change, which Blizzard offers at a premium cost. Get back to me about balance for WoWs competative mode once they actually get it balanced. Haven't managed to do this so far and I played a lot of competative WoW in the past.they changed that like 6 years ago. i think even more, it was during pandaria. i never had to buy pandaria when i skipped it and got draenor when that came out. so maybe even 8 years ago. and horde is the preferred race for racials. everyone has access to racials, they can make any character they want and then they can also just buy tokens with gold to have a race change or faction transfer if they don't want to level another toon up. its not restricted behind any pay wall even if people can pay if they don't want to level. mind you, with the new allied races, most people have leveled toons on both factions by now. oh and they've tweaked racials a few times. you can also make horde/alliance characters on same server and the limit of characters is somewhere around 50. nothing in there forces anyone to spend money to be on par with other players. interestingly enough, the top players dont' even play the cookie cutter race. speaks volumes about the negligible difference that makes.

actually, buying just the base game unlocks all expansions except the current one. anyone with a subscription has access to everything but the current expansion. that and you can pay monthly sub with gold now. takes about 2-3 solid days to farm up a token which is the equivalent to sub cost. can even turn it in for battlenet balance and buy their other games with it, or the expansions themselves. haven't spent a nickle on wow for the last 3 expansions and i have all the games in battlenet also now. another thing blizzard would never do is unbalance pvp in such a way that you'd have only some people have access to a mount in instanced pvp content. blows my mind that any developer would consider that ethical at all. if they're that desperate for cash they might as well just go entirely f2p and sell spammable health potions for cash only. or go the archeage way and make it so you have to spend $2000+ to be competitive. the expansion is cheap, i have no issues buying it money wise. i refuse to give my money to a developer that pulls stunts like these though. and this is coming from someone that doesn't have an issue with elite specs even though a solid argument can be made that elite specs are just as bad.

haven't played in a couple years or so. i read about the mounts with expansion. i figured since it was tied to expansion that they weren't added to wvw. i was just redownloading the game as i found out mounts are a thing in wvw. considering wvw is what i tend to spend most of my gw2 time doing i'm not sure i'll even finish downloading the game at this point. just wasted the day hyping the game up to my gf so she'd play something other than wow. flying mounts yes. still plenty of pvp with ground mounts only first half of each expansion. then again, blizzard themselves even admitted flying mounts was one of the worst things they ever did to the game. rentals would be nice. all i know is that i won't be buying an expansion solely to have mounts in wvw. it feels like a slimy f2p monetization decision and i never give those types of games a penny as soon as i encounter that type of design. glad i ran into this issue before i bought us the expansion. anyways, i've looked around and haven't noticed anything about rentals in wvw. hope its in, i'm disappointed so far.