Curse

Andy_M · Sep 09, 2005, 11:33 PM // 23:33

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Originally Posted by n0b of doom

Actually keys are a gold sink. Why do you think they also decided to give us more skill points but charge 1 plat to use them? Cause they want to take mass gold out of the economy.

Fair enough, but what about us who have never had any bloody cash in the first place ?

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If the ANET's goal is to increase teaming and cooperative play, fiddling with drop rates and access to quality items seems like a very inefficient way to do it. Wouldn't it be more logical that they would make teaming with other players mandatory (i.e., no henchman, and you can't leave town or be in explorable areas alone)?

Logical maybe, if they wanted large numbers of players to leave the game..

Cobalt · Sep 09, 2005, 11:42 PM // 23:42

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Originally Posted by Frank The Tank

This update definitely accomplished their first agenda, and that was nerfing the farming bots. There is no need for anybody to go and buy E-bay money, so now they can have that weapon they couldn't afford.

Not exactly;

I have seen the green shields and green axes go for 500k-1 freaking million already which is absurd but will keep Ebay gold sellers in bussiness.

MSecorsky · Sep 09, 2005, 11:45 PM // 23:45

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Originally Posted by Andy_M

Fair enough, but what about us who have never had any bloody cash in the first place ?

Logical maybe, if they wanted large numbers of players to leave the game..

Hey, the fight to Grenth's alone netted me over 2K gold in a full group on gold drops. The whites in the new areas sell for at least 50 gold at the merchant... it adds up fast. There's plenty of gold out there for the taking. You just need to take it off of things.

The high prices on greens will crash quickly, the market will soon have plenty.

Talik · Sep 09, 2005, 11:46 PM // 23:46

Not be sound out of place, but I'm clueless as to the cost of these keys ..
Ive been stuck of GW for atleast a week due to computer repairs .. Shitty timing..

Thanks in advance.

Kaospryx · Sep 10, 2005, 12:30 AM // 00:30

There's different keys for each area. Shiverpeak and Ring of Fire keys are 600 each, Miner's are 750, and I think UW and FoW keys are 1.5k each.

Numa Pompilius · Sep 10, 2005, 01:13 AM // 01:13

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Originally Posted by yc525

if they dont like pvp, they should not be playing guild wars

Complete and utter bullsh!t.

Seissor · Sep 10, 2005, 09:52 AM // 09:52

Ive blown 40k on keys, and have gotten below 30 items that are worthwhile, i find too many retarded canes and wands...ohhhh a stick

Andy_M · Sep 10, 2005, 12:49 PM // 12:49

At least it wasnt a stick......of pruning...

sidepocket13 · Sep 10, 2005, 12:50 PM // 12:50

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Originally Posted by Andy_M

At least it wasnt a stick......of pruning...

i got 1 of those once, i was like wtf? then i salvaged it and now i have a staff wrapping of pruning! woohoo!

Cobalt · Sep 10, 2005, 01:37 PM // 13:37

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Originally Posted by sidepocket13

i got 1 of those once, i was like wtf? then i salvaged it and now i have a staff wrapping of pruning! woohoo!

Cool you can now be the official; Guild wars gardener.

Oh and the area by Bloodstone Fen is getting a little overgrown so chop chop!

Talik · Sep 10, 2005, 02:02 PM // 14:02

Ohh, interesting new feature.. Now I really want my comp back..

Kai Nui · Sep 10, 2005, 03:32 PM // 15:32

The box says it will be based on the player's skill level, not hours played. We were playing for hours trying to get money to buy a good weapon or what not, but now that we're getting them easy, just pick up a few keys and go around and you'll get something really good. I've unlocked a lot of runes in the past few days aswell. Keys are like the PVP alternative to faction. I completely love all the new changes, it's made this game more of what I thought it should be. In Grenths Footprint the area isn't just walking along a path and killing stuff, but it's a playing field that weaves in and out of itself and then connects to the new Sorrow's Furnace which is like the dungeon we've been waiting for like the Catacombs were. This game is really shaping up to be great, and having the rarer items more common is allowing this game to be fun for once.

sidepocket13 · Sep 10, 2005, 03:38 PM // 15:38

i buy my keys 3 at a time. I know that i have a 99% chance that the item i get WILL NOT be worth as much as i spent on the key. but i must unlock all chests, its an obsession! i dont care if the item is worth less then the key itself. i will make it up in $$ from monster drops on the way to the chests.

wiz12268 · Sep 10, 2005, 05:00 PM // 17:00

If Anet is trying to force people into the PvP arena I would guess they are going to lose about 80% of the guys playing the game now.

PvP stinks unless you are already well established, any newplayers that try to get in quickly see that. Even when they join a supposed great guild they are not allowed to get on the 'A" PvP team, they are force to the JV squad and unreated GvG battles.

The people that are in the Tombs and HoH are the same exact teams over and over again, Hell I can even identify the Korean symbols now because I see the same ones winning over and over again.

That is why PvP sucks for a lot of people. They can't get a gold(good) weapon, they can't get on a good team. Same story different plot.

Anet is basically trying to make it fun for the newer people. Unfortunately they fail to realize that the newer players are clueless to the hierarchy of the game as a whole, most are happy to quest and do the story line the first time thru. What they need to do is something to keep the players that have done everything happy. This update was a decent first step, but I have already done most of the newer quests already, so it tok be about 2 weeks less than I thought it would.

So once I do the very last quest then what? BAck to the same old same old. Solo farming was what I used to do. But if I am not going to get any coloered drops what good is it going to do? Not even talking about making money (I have almost the max amount now) but talking about the excitement of having a nice drop and iding it. I know the chest do that, but I KNOW I am going to get something there, and I PAID for it. Granted 700 isn't much, but I still paid for it. Not to mention that 75% of my chest drops are armors now.

I probably will buy up all the jewels I can and sink my gold that way. Put the game away for a few months and buy the expansion pack when it comes out. I am sure that will be the M.O. for a lot of players that have a few hundred hours into the game already.

Enigmatics · Sep 10, 2005, 09:22 PM // 21:22

That's the relative post I've read.

Pandora's box · Sep 10, 2005, 10:25 PM // 22:25

I've only seen crappy purple items from the new chests yet. Of course I'm not buying tons of keys. Even gold items I find on monsters go 99% straight to the merchant. It would be interesting if the drops were with fixed suffixes and prefixes, but random items for so much gold...

Batou of Nine · Sep 12, 2005, 01:03 AM // 01:03

Lol. The very first chest i opened gave me a gold staff. Hale Fire Staff of Fortitude, Max dmg mods werent too shabby +4en and +27 hp...

Ever since, all purples...man was i baited!!