Originally Posted by lyra_song

The only way to make things EQUAL for newer players is to make things CHEAPER, not more expensive.

Originally Posted by lyra_song

Ascalon Arena is not a good example. Its full of twinkers already. It needs fixing itself.

Originally Posted by lyra_song

Besides, having a vamp bow while level 10...not very smart since you are dropping points into all your marks to get the requirement, and that would make you have very little in Wilderness survival to self heal.

Originally Posted by lyra_song

I vote yes on rarer SKINS of weapons, but they MUST be equal to stats of collectors or easy to get weapons. That way, owning them gives you ZERO advantage.

Originally Posted by lyra_song

Thats why they NERF and BUFF. Or in case you havent noticed? Guild Wars is one of the few online rpgs that actually tries to balance its PVP system sincerely.

Originally Posted by Haggard

On the GW website somewhere it actually says they can sell you a limit of (6 or something) account codes over the internet off the same credit card, after that you must buy additional copies of the game.
So we can't buy more than 6 accounts off the same credit card, but we cant OWN more than 1?

Originally Posted by Haggard

On the GW website somewhere it actually says they can sell you a limit of (6 or something) account codes over the internet off the same credit card, after that you must buy additional copies of the game.
So we can't buy more than 6 accounts off the same credit card, but we cant OWN more than 1?

Originally Posted by warkst

I don't agree, that makes things easier for the richer.


Then fix it! By not letting people get stuff they aren't supposed to be able to have yet!


I can get 10 in marks on lvl 9 only using minor runes, and STILL have 5 in wilderniss.


Okay, of course there must be collectors with the same items, but at least make them a bit hard to reach, because if you're just going to trade 5 frigid hearts (which you can get in under an hour) with a trader just outside an outpost,... that's just making it TOO easy.


True, they try hard and succeed, but it could still be improved. Maybe the Guild Wars Developement team can add a check for green items in the Ascalon Arenas and forbid you to enter if you have any in your inventory? Just a thought

Originally Posted by Soul Shaker

4.Collectors MUST have easy access. Otherwise it puts the player at a disadvantage to PvP.

Originally Posted by leeky baby

i think what screwed up the pricing system was the green items? they are so cheap and made gold items worthless unless a rare skin.

Originally Posted by Manda Panda

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What is with people thinking that tedious=challenging?

That's the whole point of Guild Wars. The challenge is playing the game, not getting the stuff you need to play the game.

Originally Posted by warkst

You call it challenging to get beaten to crap by some guy with enough money to get stuff he's not supposed to have yet? I call that unfair.

Originally Posted by warkst

I would like to make a suggestion about the Player-to-Player and the Player-to-Merchant trades.

First of all, I'll introduce myself. I have been playing Guild Wars for over 500 hours for now, from somewhere in July 2005 and I have noticed alot of things changing. Some changes, that have been around for some time already now, have seriously damaged the game in my opinion. But more of this later.

The most important way of getting your desires in surely money. Also in Guild Wars, money is very important. But as you well know, there are problems with money-buying over Ebay, money that usually comes from sweat shops in Korea. (One can spot this time-killing job when he would visit Augury Rock, international districts.) Of course the Guild Wars developement team tries to find these people and shuts down the accounts of those that buy the money, but it's impossible to eradicate all "cheaters" like this.

What's wrong?
The problem is basically very simple: The game got too easy. Everyone can get what he/she wants, and for a cheap price, 6 or 7 items aside. If you decide to make a new character, it's not difficult to get socalled "Perfect" items in Ascalon City. Then all you need to do is buy Superior Runes for the amazing price of 100gold and there you go, you can already wield your max damage weapon.
A long time ago, you were priviliged to have Superior Runes. They were really really rare and just any Superior Rune could give you about 30-60k, Vigor and Absorption aside. That whole concept of having "rare" armor got deleted by adding the Rune Trader. Same goes for the Dye Trader though.
No problem, you still have those Perfect Weapons, who can easily sell for over 100k! Then you decided to add green weapons, that sell for 5-50k and are easy to farm.
Due to these changes, Dye, Rune and Weapon markets collapsed. Prices fell way down, and people could just get richer and richer, which would make the game way less exciting, since you got everything anyway.
Then there were the genious "money sinks": 15k and Fissure of Woe armor. Now that was a very good idea and all, but what's it worth, they have the exact same stats! Isn't it normal that if you pay at least 20x the cost of your previous armor, you at least get something a BIT better, aside a different look? That's what went wrong:
The economy.

(All the above is an actual mind flow from me and many gamers i know in real life or from my guild. This is actually where the suggestions begin.)

How could you fix this?
Player-to-Merchant
I'd begin with REMOVING the Dye and Rune traders. A bit late now, since everyone allready has got everything he/she wants, but I think it would be important for beginning players and players that make new characters. Doing this before the release of Guild Wars: Factions in Europe and America would mean a huge rise in prices, so everyone gets the same chances for the expansion. "Won't this just encourage more people to buy money via Ebay?" you'll ask? Yes, but you could track if an account suddenly gains a ridiculous amount of gold, but doesn't give anything in return. Then you can easily root out the "cheaters", and give them a harsh treatment. Also: reset their accounts, no warnings, THEY cheated on YOU first, and thought they could get away with it.
Assuming you excecute this plan, you'd also have to make green items alot harder to get, and i mean alot, like the new UW items. But then still they're easy to get. So maybe create higher level creatures? There aren't many very difficult areas in the game. I found: 3. 1) The part outside Lion's Arch, when you go north 2) Thunderhead Keep Mission 3) The Ring of Fire islands group. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but you might want to take an example from these areas and creatures.
Another way of solving this, would be creating weapons that exceed the "perfect" weapons from now, but make them really hard to get, nearly unique. World of Warcraft has succeeded in creating uniques, and their market is very good. Not only because they actually have very good weapons and nearly no traders whatsoever, but also because their weapons require a certain level, not an amount of attribute points. I'm not saying you should just copy the whole WoW system (that's illegal anyway), but it's certainly a good example. Many of my friends stopped playing GW when they discovered WoW, because it's just more challenging and exciting. I stayed, basically because I like Guild Wars better, and because I think it can be a better game, just because it's free.
Player-to-Player
Another thing WoW has, is the Auctionhouse. In opposition to the Trade Channel, you can just "put items on the Auctionhouse" and other people can come and perform search actions to find just what they want. Then the buyer and seller have a little chat and exchange items and gold without any problems. The Auctionhouse is just so fantastic, because you don't need to spam some channel to tell others you're selling, you jsut "put it on there" and then others can just come in and find what they seek, with a simple menu-submenu system.

Anyway, to make things short, in my opinion you could:
-Remove Traders [Dye and Rune] (keep the merchants).
-Make harder-to-get items, taht are worth to get them.
-Make Money Sinks worth it (add another 20 armor to FoW armor for instance, or more energy bonusses for tattoo/scar, etc).
-Make better weapons, and make them rarer.

Well, I'm just a fool with a vision, stating my opinion. If you read all of the above, you deserve a medal. Cheers.