Guild Wars 2

I see that’s a hot button issue with you Xehanort. Keep asking for a display option that’s only applicable to Rangers in PvE to be made a priority fix.

sirian.4981:

So far so good. I recently doubled my money by investing in an item that boosts move speed on siege golems(WvW tourney skyrocketed the price).

Wait…..WHAT!? I thought with the NPE patch they also made it to where boosts no longer affect golems. Or was that only for common boons like Swiftness?

I seem to remember reading in one of the patch notes that they removed a lot of effects on golems that you could get from using skills/traits before entering a golem.

Sokia.3710:

sirian.4981:

So far so good. I recently doubled my money by investing in an item that boosts move speed on siege golems(WvW tourney skyrocketed the price).

Wait…..WHAT!? I thought with the NPE patch they also made it to where boosts no longer affect golems. Or was that only for common boons like Swiftness?

I seem to remember reading in one of the patch notes that they removed a lot of effects on golems that you could get from using skills/traits before entering a golem.

I think the big one is Speed/Traveller runes.

And Candy Corn, though that’s less reliable.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I think the big one is Speed/Traveller runes.

And Candy Corn, though that’s less reliable.

Oh, I see. He’s saying that he made money on stuff like Speed/Traveler runes. That actually makes a lot of sense, because if they made it to where boons are removed when you enter golems then it means that Speed/Traveler runes would be one of the few methods left of increasing golem speed. Before, we would just exit the golem and stack a ton of Swiftness, then hop back in the golem. But, one of the patch notes said that you can’t do that anymore.

sirian.4981:

Harper.4173:

The problem is that in a game that’s supposed to be an action-adventure MMO with unique and dynamic combat, beautiful visuals and a potential for very rich lore the best rewards are obtained by playing the trading post.

This is why I recently started learning how to play the market. We will see how it goes. If it isn’t fun I will most likely quit the game, because no matter how good I get at the game I won’t be 1/10th as rewarded as the guys who master trading.

So far so good. I recently doubled my money by investing in an item that boosts move speed on siege golems(WvW tourney skyrocketed the price). That would have taken me many hours to do otherwise. With TP I did it with an hour of work and a week of waiting.

Exactly – it’s not even active gameplay.
Buy now – wait for spike – sell – rinse and repeat. I’m not saying it doesn’t take knowledge and ability to know what to get and when to sell and whatnot but honestly it’s mostly waiting.

I’ve been doing it for about a year now and while I don’t invest huge sums I usually make more money than I would by actually playing the game. Which is a problem.

I tried sending Chris a message but his inbox was full again, so I’ll post it here:

I messaged you before about playing together and have held off leveling my new character, just in case (I tend to level up fast). If you’re stressed out and don’t want to play anymore it’s ok. It’s been good of you to try and talk with people in the thread even though it doesnt seem to be your job and I know a lot of people are upset.
Take care,
eye

I just wish that it doesn’t have to be just Chris posting here imho. I know there are busy people in the staff, but still it would be nice.

Feel better soon Chris!

Iason Evan.3806:

Iason Evan.3806:

The Exotic Collection is only the exotics out of the Champ Bags making named exotics more expensive and therefore providing less means of forging a precursor because their cost now is prohibitive to do so.

Astralporing.1957:

Wait, what? That doesn’t make sense. In fact, since a lot of those named exotics are a sideeffect of precursor forging, the cost of making a precursor (after calculating gains from selling any more costly forge byproducts) should go down.

The named exotics like “Crystal Guardian”, “Bonetti’s Rapier”(The Champion Bag named exotics) etc. have gone up in price significantly for the most part because they are a part of the new collection system. Those used to be the cheapest named exotics because they were the most readily available. It’s not the case anymore.

So? How exactly this causes less means to forge precursors?

Hi Chris!

Any word from Leah and her team regarding the problem I mentioned before?

And it’s good to know that you’ll be well.

Thanks so much for letting us know, Chris. I imagine they got a massive workload and all that judging from the hotfixes I have downloaded each day since the Feature Patch came out, but I’d hope you could help in convincing them to make fixing the Personal Story issues top priority, at least in relation to the missing and bugged quests.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

Thanks for all your kind messages, I should be up and about tomorrow.

I have cleaned down my inbox now. So i will get your messages. Eye, Guhracie etc how about Thursday?

I have asked for someone to post an update on the Story Steps and we should be deploying more fixes to NPE soon thus allowing us to have a more meaningful discussion.

Thanks for all the updates and thoughts. And FYI I have been reading this forum and the CDI when i haven’t been asleep.

Chris

Feel better, Chris. I’m going to be out of town on thursday. I’ll drop you a message when I’m back in town.

Dear Mike O Brien and Developers

I played Guild Wars prophecies, Cantha, Elona and Eye of the North, each one was pre-order and I played for years afterwards in wait of Guild Wars 2. Over the course of development I have gotten to know a few of you. The moment CE was announced to release I ordered two copies. over the course I have multiple characters (level) It’s been close to a year since I last played GW2, I stopped for a number of reasons in the direction you took the game in which I wont go in to here I’ve posted a few times and so in a positive way and constructive criticism. Yet I see nothing has changed, or you have gone the reverse of your word when I check in from time to time. If you are really listening,

Bring me back to Guild Wars 2

Zehnchu,

1/2

So I’ve got a massive headache and nothing to do before eating, let’s give it a try, hoping that helps Chris a bit once he’s not sick anymore (and the other devs that have to answer some questions). I went back to page 28 ; I wanted to make his work a bit easier once he’s able to answer the questions, but while I was at it I went a bit further in case somebody joins the thread/want to see if his question has been answered and wants to check the recent answers. However my main goal was to ease up his work a bit, listing all the questions here would be kind of a pain after 32 pages*50 posts. :^)

I do not pretend it’s perfect, as I said I’m kind of sick and the massive walls of text that represents 5 pages (200 – 250 posts) are really hard to read for me already ; I tried to go through the multiple discussions going on at the same time between players and all, but it is very possible that I forgot some questions, put some that have already been answered once (in which case I think Chris will remember what he already answered anyways), put questions that can’t be answered for now or things like that. Really just trying to help so he doesn’t have to scroll through thousands of words for each post and don’t overlook some, but it is all up to my memory and my ability to scroll through the said pages and multiple quotes discussions, so I can only hope it’s not too faulty ; apologizes if I did it wrong. You can tell me on the forum or preferably by PM if I missed something, or if a link is wrong, etc., I’ll try to correct is as soon as possible, and even sooner if you can link me the right thing. Again, I can only hope I didn’t do too bad.

Q : Future of SAB, implementation of new weapons and what’s wrong with NPE https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412294
A : Coming up

Q : Personnal Story https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/32#post4418596 (followed to those concerned by it)
A : -

Q : Less waypoints, more challenging new zones, new pvp modes/maps/HoN substitutes https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/29#post4407089
A : -

Q : Dungeon stealing issue https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/29#post4404354
A : -

Q : Story Steps & NPE & playing appointment
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/32#post4418472

Q : People who master the TP can make crazy amount of money https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/4414395
A : -

Q : Better rewards for TA runs https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414335
A : -

Q : “Please, can we at least get an update on the eldritch abomination known as the engineer hobosacks?” https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4416871
A : -

Q : Has anyone on the team seen the “the Future you Want survey” thread ? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4416346
A : -

Q : "What was the rationale for leaving the Blood Magic traitline entirely untouched in a balance pass that was looking to improve sustain for Necromancers? " https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4415196
A : -

Q : More frequent balance changes ? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414797
A : -

Q @ Chap : Warrior recent balancing https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4411482
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414604
A : -
Q @ Chap about frost spirit : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4410847
A : -

2/2

Q : there’s been a bug with Developpers HP pool, players are looking after Chris’ health https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414599
A – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414619 https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414643 https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4414696

Q : Can ANet be more transparent about the things they can’t deliver in time https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4413983
A : -

Q : Where does the dev team see room for improvement in the game? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4413945
A : -

Q : Are racial features to come ? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4413871
A : -

Q : Ingame voting for upcoming content https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/31#post4413739
A : -

Q : Public test server ? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412442
A : -

Q : Multiple questions about rewards https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412361
A : -

Q : traits system and warrior “unfun” mechanics ("being able to chain stealth and be immune to CC) https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412329
A : -

Q : Too few skills avaible / way to equip skills making fights too repetitive https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412322
A : -

Ongoing discussion :
Releasing the patchnotes early to have a discussion about it :
Chris : “It is going to be much more efficient to have a discussion once the live environment is as designed. Much more efficient.” https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412471
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4412569

What I didn’t put was either discussions between players, posts that didn’t bring many constructive ideas and/or where only pointing out mistakes or previously named expectations, or… well posts I forgot.

Answered posts :

Q : talking more with the playerbase
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4411813
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4411773

Q : Can we gossip about the devs’ sportive teams preferences ?
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4411818

Q : What’s Chris’ job, also regarding NPE
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/30#post4411802

Q : Forum coverage
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/29#post4404086

Q : More frequent balancing, class group utility, balance in different game types
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/29#post4405626

Q : FPS drops / stuttering https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/4412450
A : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Communicating-with-you/page/32#post4418951

I hope that’ll help you a bit. :-)

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Malkavian.4516:

Hi Chris!

Any word from Leah and her team regarding the problem I mentioned before?

And it’s good to know that you’ll be well.

Hi Malk,

I have asked them to post an update but they are super busy. So if they don’t today I will swing by and then update on their behalf. I have been forwarding yours and others info to them and they have been using it. So thank you very much.

Chris

This post on Reddit has a nice summary of some of the issues with the Lvl 70 + 80 personal stories – http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2ghcku/so_there_are_quite_a_few_plot_holes_now_in_the/

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chap might reply to this. I play a warrior (PVT Shout Heal) and to be honest and quite happy with the changes. He knows more than I about balance however so i will bring it up with him tomorrow morning.
Chris

So did anything come of this discussion?

See, Chris… PVT Shout build is probably near the top of LEAST impacted Warrior builds, as a result of this adrenaline nerf.

Running around spamming Shouts and swinging a hammer, as you hurl yourself into Zergs, is still fine after this adrenal change. And as a PVT shout heal warrior, I’d tend to suspect you’re zerging it up quite a bit in WvW, because… well honestly, that’s all they’re really good at. PvP it’s a fairly meh build, Guards/Eles/Engies bunker better.

You’ll never “miss” with your earthshakers in a crowd of 15 people. And Soldier runes wipe condi’s fast as anything. You can even trait to gain almost a bar of adrenaline per shout.

So, try a roaming build or competitive PvP build.

See how the adrenaline loss-on-miss feels versus an experienced player who can reliably avoid your bursts 75% of the time.

See how that 75% miss ruins your condi-clearing from Cleansing Ire, leaving you up to your ears in condis. You’ll quickly understand why warriors feel LOCKED into Longbows combustive shot.

Gavian Whishaw.2930:

rojak.1894:

Hi Chris,

Some of us have been facing stuttering/spiking FPS issues since the Sept patch. Wonder if you could look into it and let us know if it’s something on your side that can be fixed? Or if it’s a graphics card compatibility thing? Unchecking Hi-Res Textures doesnt resolve it.

• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-latest-patch/first
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2g9cpt/performance_issues_since_patch
• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Noticeable-stuttering-issues-since-the-patch

We are definately looking into these. I am very happy they are posted in the tech support section, makes it a lot easier to round up the info. Thanks!

Oh gods, please. T_T
This may have been badly timed with my new router, but everything I try gives me no relief. Time to take a gander at those threads, and thanks for looking into this!

@Chris Whiteside

I suggest the dev team hold a weekly survey, done using a modified "rate your experience" window. (you know, the one used in Beta, and on your test server, yes I’ve been on your test server)

Rather than a simple "rate 1,2,3,4,5", have it modified to be a multiple choice selection.

For example, weekly, it would give players this popup (which should be re-openable if the player did not select an answer) that would provide 5 "hot topics" from the community, to gauge the views of in-game players by gathering a "vote".

Since we always get this speil about how the forums only represent a small fraction of the playerbase, then it only seems logical to expand the information gathering process to include the majority of the playerbase (people playing the game) rather than focusing purely on the internal/private testers.

It would look something similar to:

-------------------------------------------------------
PvP Survey
Vote for your top priority:

- New Maps (_)
- New Gamemodes (_)
- PvP Balance Focus (_)
- PvP rewards (_)
- Ladders and Seasons (_)
- Other (please provide information in
the CDI located in the sPvP forums)
-----------------------------------------------------------

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Jerus.4350:

Chris any comment on the group/dungeon stealing issue?

I have spoken to a friend at work and he is investigating. I expect I will have something to report on monday.

Chris

First, hope you’re feeling better.

I don’t mean to be a pest but any info on this? While it hasn’t happened to me personally it has happened to friends and it’s just sapped any desire to run dungeons for me, and well… that was the main thing I did in this game.

The WvW season is at least filling in as something for me to do though.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi Jerus,

I had asked that someone update in the thread but that doesn’t seem to have happened. I will get on it again.

Chris

Appreciate it, and all you’re doing lately.

I do think there should be sort of a list of questions asked and their answer on those kind of threads, though, I mean like a first post edited when a new question pop, and maybe put the list on the website later on for those who don’t go in the forums so they can still be informed – that way there would be much less identical questions and less answers to give, and more players feel like ANet is listening, although it would be boring and perhaps hard to do at times.

Snowmoon.1758:

Olba.5376:

Dude, where’s Cantha?

And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then?
And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then?
And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then?
And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then?
And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then? And Then?

Andddddddd Thhheeeeeeennnnnnnn??

Then….Elona….then the WORLD! Mwahahaa!

I just want to say: “Thanks so much!”

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

Remember we were talking about how to improve communication from a personnel and structural level. Well the personnel level is right here along with an update on fixes to NPE:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Changes-Coming-to-the-NPE/first#post4419233

I hope everyone will join me in giving Gaile a warm welcome back. Personally I am super happy.

Chris

HURRAY!!! Welcome back Gaile!

JonathanSharp.7094:

Dand.8231:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chap might reply to this. I play a warrior (PVT Shout Heal) and to be honest and quite happy with the changes. He knows more than I about balance however so i will bring it up with him tomorrow morning.
Chris

So did anything come of this discussion?

See, Chris… PVT Shout build is probably near the top of LEAST impacted Warrior builds, as a result of this adrenaline nerf.

Running around spamming Shouts and swinging a hammer, as you hurl yourself into Zergs, is still fine after this adrenal change. And as a PVT shout heal warrior, I’d tend to suspect you’re zerging it up quite a bit in WvW, because… well honestly, that’s all they’re really good at. PvP it’s a fairly meh build, Guards/Eles/Engies bunker better.

You’ll never “miss” with your earthshakers in a crowd of 15 people. And Soldier runes wipe condi’s fast as anything. You can even trait to gain almost a bar of adrenaline per shout.

So, try a roaming build or competitive PvP build.

See how the adrenaline loss-on-miss feels versus an experienced player who can reliably avoid your bursts 75% of the time.

See how that 75% miss ruins your condi-clearing from Cleansing Ire, leaving you up to your ears in condis. You’ll quickly understand why warriors feel LOCKED into Longbows combustive shot.

Hey what’s up man.

Before this change, it was the case that the Warrior Dogged/Cleansing specs were able to pretty much just spam their burst skills and remove condies. We had a lot of players (on forums and in person, talking to them at Gamescom) talking about how they wanted to have more play/skill to this, and they also wanted (if they were players who played AGAINST this type of Warrior) to have more counter-play.

This change means that Warriors need to be thinking ahead to their condition cleanse, as they will no longer be able to get them without risk. It also means that missing a burst skill can hurt the Warrior more than it did before, so even if you’re not running Cleansing, an opponent making you miss your burst skill can be a really big, really impactful moment in a fight.

This change means that some Warrior specs will need to shift/adjust, and you’ll need to do more “setting up” of your burst skill (to give it a higher chance to land) if you’re relying on Cleansing for condie clears.

But, this change does not promote build diversity(stronger build still strong, weaker builds got even weaker) and does not actually help warrior in any way other then handicap them even more for nothing (warrior does not have high skill ceiling, bringing up their skill floor does not make sense)

Before the patch, most of the burst skills are already easily avoidable, which means we already have difficult time landing our burst skills (earth shaker, evis, arcing, killshot, etc are all easily avoidable),
that’s why we WERE and still ARE forced to use longbow.
What happened if we missed our burst skill (other then longbow)?
we do not proc cleansing ire = less condition removal and less damage and skill goes on full cd
we already need to set up our bursts in order to do stuff. no offense, but those people who said warrior are spamming bursts and no punishments and keep cleansing conditions, are either noobs who can not dodge, or they meant longbow and hammer (huge aoe makes them spammable to proc cleansing ire, changing adrenaline is not the solution.), but again, longbow f1 is still spammable post patch, it only makes other burst skills even worse.(like the guy who complaint about killshot got even more useless because of this patch)

There are also adrenaline related traits and skills like healing sure and signet of fury that are affected by this change.

Also the new greatsword rush, it just never hits, ever.
personally, i really love the greatsword, i think it has potential to be tpvp viable, i would suggest giving it a boon removal ability, reduce the cast time of hundred blade and the f1 buff is nearly not enough imo.

And for axe 5, i personally believe that, no matter how much damage you give it, it will be useless, unless it’s insta kill like damage. it needs utility, like reflect.

Any chance the WvW forums can get some ANet love? We’re having issues with a few players creating a toxic environment in WvW, and there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it besides beg on the forums for some divine intervention. This has been an issue since at least the Spring Tournament, yet there’s been no communication between ANet and WvW players regarding this behavior.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Anet-s-stance-on-siege-trolls/first

Lack of communication and inaction on this issue have only made it worse, now players flaunt this behavior and even get paid to do it, knowing that ANet won’t do anything about it. Tarnished Coast has at least one player who did this all during the Spring WvW Tourney, was reported in droves, and yet here they are in the Fall Tourney, doing it all over again on the same account, because nobody did anything. It’s extremely discouraging.

I sincerely hope somebody sees this and we can get some sort of official stance / dialogue going. A lot of players take WvW seriously, and this is becoming a significant problem.

Thanks.

Mike O Brien.4613:

I know some are concerned about whether ArenaNet is communicating with you and listening and responding to your feedback. As you saw with yesterday’s announcement, we do. All of us at ArenaNet play the game with you, chat with you and read your forum posts, and work on the things that we think will most delight and entertain you.

We’ve set a clear policy in the past year: we don’t talk speculatively about future development. We don’t want to string you along. Creating fun is an uncertain business: sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t; sometimes we go back to the drawing board over and over before we get something right. If we make optimistic promises and then can’t deliver on them, everyone suffers. So when we attend a trade show or give an interview, we’re there to talk about what we’re getting ready to ship, not to speculate on what we might ship someday.

Don’t read that as meaning that we don’t want to talk with you about the longer-term roadmap. The intention of the CDI threads is to talk with you about the roadmap. We want to talk design philosophy with you and hear how you want to see the game evolve. When those discussions trigger development, we’ll work internally until we have something we’re proud of before we’ll announce it.

A lot of the questions I’ve seen posted this week are as simple as this: does ArenaNet have an agenda to never do something? That’s almost never the case, and if it is the case you deserve to know and we’ll make sure we get more clear. In general the simple truth is this: when we’re not currently working on something, it’s because we’re working on something else instead that we think is more important for the game and community.

Our developers post on these forums on a voluntary basis, and in addition to developers, we have a community team who can clarify and be the bridge between players and developers. They’re ready to engage you on these topics. And I know it’s hard for the community team to engage players across all the forums and sites where these questions are being discussed, so I’m going to support the team in consolidating and focusing as necessary, so that we can be clear to the community where you can go to get a response.

See you in-game,
Mike O’Brien

Personally I think the policy you’ve set in place is having repercussions that are hurting your game immensely. Mainly that when you shelter us from what you’re developing until its nearly released, you are sheltering yourselves from the criticism/assistance we could give you on its development.

What happens right now is that a big system/features is revamped/released and its not exactly pleasing to the community(like the new trait system in the april feature pack of the NPE in the september feature pack) and then its too late to make the big changes you need to the system because its nearing release for it. Then what follows is the community being stuck with the poorly designed system for months and months and months until its fixed again. Thats a very poor way to go about things imo.

JonathanSharp.7094:

SNIP

How do you feel about the state of burst skills overall, though especially the less AoE ones, when considering both that change and the OOC removal of adrenaline?

My other concern is very minor compared to my other complaints, but for Sylvari characters, as early as character generation after fighting the first boss, he used to be naked. Now he is clothed. A little weird considering he is practically a newborn sylvari and wouldn’t be born with clothes.

I am curious, assuming that theoretically you reverted the story back to what it was before, is there any way you (or customer service) could bring certain characters back to a particular Personal story episode?

Glad your feeling better there Chris, here is a topic for a glance over while your resting up.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Exotic-drop-rate-problem

This is one of my main problems with the game like everyone else that has commented in that thread and the never ending threads on the subject. being a gw1 vet and knowing what the system was back then for loot and rewards it would be nice to finally have a decent discussion about this part of the game and why the team decided to go on the uncle Scrooge wagon, lol, and if there is a chance that it is time to do something more positive , if possible, for the players and update the RNG, Loot Tables , drop rates or what ever it is that gives so much heart ache to everyone.

it would even fix the issue with the pre cursor hunt/crafting , if the drops were normal like back in GW1 days.

Anyways rest up and hope you recover quick

cheers Phabby

I must agree on some points with Simon here. I don’t think adrenaline changes were for the best and quite honestly a lot of burst skills always looked strange to me because of how ridiculously easy they were to dodge without necessarily offering much rewards – rifle, I’m talking about you. The old adrenaline decay was good; forgive my frankness it’s completely ridiculous to lose all the adrenaline when out of combat when there are some skills that rely on having them ready from the start, when you have so many traits and skills that scale on full adrenaline and when you litterally can’t stack enough adrenaline before the fight ends (aka every single player of open world PvE can’t use his class mechanic while not fighting vets)

Overall I don’t think there should “unusable tier” weapons in mode, unless there are more weapons to compensate or you could swap weapon skills between a few to adapt as it has already been suggested quite some times I believe. I also believe the game has a potential for a huge dynamic and fun perspective and should remain that way.

2/2 dam character limit

I think overall weapons could have more synergy between themselves, some kits looks kind of weird, sometimes.

I also agree on axe 5 : useful for tagging mobs in PvE, not for much otherwise. Reflect is a good idea, otherwise perhaps making it stack vulnerability?

Those are just ideas, of course… but I honestly think you could consider reworking some spells a bit. I’m fairly sure the community will help you a lot with that if you ask them.

Off topic, but I’m suddenly remembering last year’s Halloween and the rewards and… please tell me we won’t need bazillions of festive items to craft the recipe then just as much to craft it, or something like that, this time, right ? I mean there were even people doing the maths and showing it was impossible to collect it in less than several years, unless you buy off the TP, last year, I… didn’t really understand how it could come to that…

JonathanSharp.7094:

Dand.8231:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chap might reply to this. I play a warrior (PVT Shout Heal) and to be honest and quite happy with the changes. He knows more than I about balance however so i will bring it up with him tomorrow morning.
Chris

So did anything come of this discussion?

See, Chris… PVT Shout build is probably near the top of LEAST impacted Warrior builds, as a result of this adrenaline nerf.

Running around spamming Shouts and swinging a hammer, as you hurl yourself into Zergs, is still fine after this adrenal change. And as a PVT shout heal warrior, I’d tend to suspect you’re zerging it up quite a bit in WvW, because… well honestly, that’s all they’re really good at. PvP it’s a fairly meh build, Guards/Eles/Engies bunker better.

You’ll never “miss” with your earthshakers in a crowd of 15 people. And Soldier runes wipe condi’s fast as anything. You can even trait to gain almost a bar of adrenaline per shout.

So, try a roaming build or competitive PvP build.

See how the adrenaline loss-on-miss feels versus an experienced player who can reliably avoid your bursts 75% of the time.

See how that 75% miss ruins your condi-clearing from Cleansing Ire, leaving you up to your ears in condis. You’ll quickly understand why warriors feel LOCKED into Longbows combustive shot.

Hey what’s up man.

Before this change, it was the case that the Warrior Dogged/Cleansing specs were able to pretty much just spam their burst skills and remove condies. We had a lot of players (on forums and in person, talking to them at Gamescom) talking about how they wanted to have more play/skill to this, and they also wanted (if they were players who played AGAINST this type of Warrior) to have more counter-play.

This change means that Warriors need to be thinking ahead to their condition cleanse, as they will no longer be able to get them without risk. It also means that missing a burst skill can hurt the Warrior more than it did before, so even if you’re not running Cleansing, an opponent making you miss your burst skill can be a really big, really impactful moment in a fight.

This change means that some Warrior specs will need to shift/adjust, and you’ll need to do more “setting up” of your burst skill (to give it a higher chance to land) if you’re relying on Cleansing for condie clears.

What about the decay when leaving combat?
Burst skills cant be used anymore in pve because you always start empty.. mobs are dead before having some adrenaline.

Cant we give it a +10 or +5 sec before its starts to decay?

JonathanSharp.7094:

Dand.8231:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chap might reply to this. I play a warrior (PVT Shout Heal) and to be honest and quite happy with the changes. He knows more than I about balance however so i will bring it up with him tomorrow morning.
Chris

So did anything come of this discussion?

See, Chris… PVT Shout build is probably near the top of LEAST impacted Warrior builds, as a result of this adrenaline nerf.

Running around spamming Shouts and swinging a hammer, as you hurl yourself into Zergs, is still fine after this adrenal change. And as a PVT shout heal warrior, I’d tend to suspect you’re zerging it up quite a bit in WvW, because… well honestly, that’s all they’re really good at. PvP it’s a fairly meh build, Guards/Eles/Engies bunker better.

You’ll never “miss” with your earthshakers in a crowd of 15 people. And Soldier runes wipe condi’s fast as anything. You can even trait to gain almost a bar of adrenaline per shout.

So, try a roaming build or competitive PvP build.

See how the adrenaline loss-on-miss feels versus an experienced player who can reliably avoid your bursts 75% of the time.

See how that 75% miss ruins your condi-clearing from Cleansing Ire, leaving you up to your ears in condis. You’ll quickly understand why warriors feel LOCKED into Longbows combustive shot.

Hey what’s up man.

Before this change, it was the case that the Warrior Dogged/Cleansing specs were able to pretty much just spam their burst skills and remove condies. We had a lot of players (on forums and in person, talking to them at Gamescom) talking about how they wanted to have more play/skill to this, and they also wanted (if they were players who played AGAINST this type of Warrior) to have more counter-play.

This change means that Warriors need to be thinking ahead to their condition cleanse, as they will no longer be able to get them without risk. It also means that missing a burst skill can hurt the Warrior more than it did before, so even if you’re not running Cleansing, an opponent making you miss your burst skill can be a really big, really impactful moment in a fight.

This change means that some Warrior specs will need to shift/adjust, and you’ll need to do more “setting up” of your burst skill (to give it a higher chance to land) if you’re relying on Cleansing for condie clears.

My thought is that this change dramatically affects much more than cleansing ire, with adrenaline being the core mechanism unique to warriors (as documented & elaborated on other threads in the warrior forum). Also, counters already existed (i.e. evade, blind, block, etc.), whereas counters to such counters are harder to come by (if the warrior is not using a bow). Cleansing ire activation via burst skill also could not be exactly “spammed” in that burst skills already had a cooldown (with loss of adrenaline from misses & from ooc state in effect adding another sort of cooldown on top of this), although weapons swapping previously could of course allow back to back attempts at (different) burst skills.

Overall, if Cleansing ire specifically was targeted by this change (as opposed to adrenaline for other uses, burst skill related and otherwise), a more surgical and precise intervention, such as adding a “cooldown” to cleansing ire that only activates on “miss” of a burst skill) could be implemented instead of an across the board hit to adrenaline. As-is, my perception in playing my warrior is that the changes to adrenaline from multiple angles (& especially the new formula for drop in adrenaline out of combat) hit too hard, hit too many traits & utilities besides the burst skills themselves & apart from cleansing ire).

Personally, I’ve found GW2’s vision of the warrior as the most compelling class in the game from the initial hype over a year before release, through the beta weekends and through today, but the changes to adrenaline have hit to hard and too broadly such that the fun factor of the class is overwhelmed by its new limitations. Removal of cleansing ire entirely would be preferable to the overall adrenaline hits IMO; the warrior was much more fun to play before cleansing ire was added, than it is after the gutting of adrenaline systems. For me at least.

Thanks for consideration of this issue. Opinions may differ, and though many may have agitated for changes to cleansing ire, many also (judging from warrior forums, as well as input from my in-game circle) have had their game play dimished by the adrenaline changes (again, well beyond and independent of the cleansing ire trait itself).

JonathanSharp.7094:

Dand.8231:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chap might reply to this. I play a warrior (PVT Shout Heal) and to be honest and quite happy with the changes. He knows more than I about balance however so i will bring it up with him tomorrow morning.
Chris

So did anything come of this discussion?

See, Chris… PVT Shout build is probably near the top of LEAST impacted Warrior builds, as a result of this adrenaline nerf.

Running around spamming Shouts and swinging a hammer, as you hurl yourself into Zergs, is still fine after this adrenal change. And as a PVT shout heal warrior, I’d tend to suspect you’re zerging it up quite a bit in WvW, because… well honestly, that’s all they’re really good at. PvP it’s a fairly meh build, Guards/Eles/Engies bunker better.

You’ll never “miss” with your earthshakers in a crowd of 15 people. And Soldier runes wipe condi’s fast as anything. You can even trait to gain almost a bar of adrenaline per shout.

So, try a roaming build or competitive PvP build.

See how the adrenaline loss-on-miss feels versus an experienced player who can reliably avoid your bursts 75% of the time.

See how that 75% miss ruins your condi-clearing from Cleansing Ire, leaving you up to your ears in condis. You’ll quickly understand why warriors feel LOCKED into Longbows combustive shot.

Hey what’s up man.

Before this change, it was the case that the Warrior Dogged/Cleansing specs were able to pretty much just spam their burst skills and remove condies. We had a lot of players (on forums and in person, talking to them at Gamescom) talking about how they wanted to have more play/skill to this, and they also wanted (if they were players who played AGAINST this type of Warrior) to have more counter-play.

This change means that Warriors need to be thinking ahead to their condition cleanse, as they will no longer be able to get them without risk. It also means that missing a burst skill can hurt the Warrior more than it did before, so even if you’re not running Cleansing, an opponent making you miss your burst skill can be a really big, really impactful moment in a fight.

This change means that some Warrior specs will need to shift/adjust, and you’ll need to do more “setting up” of your burst skill (to give it a higher chance to land) if you’re relying on Cleansing for condie clears.

Sir, what about the point that conditions are out of control. ANET felt that direct damage was too strong but the exact opposite can be said about condition damage. Condition damage has been buffed, through runes, traits, and skills. More conditions have been added like torment.

Never mind that condi users can just run around and kite and drop bombs and this requires the least amount of skill and they have to give up the least amout of stats like Rabid can be super tanky and still deal alot of damage via conditions. While as direct damage users have basically 5 stats they need to max and not 3.

Shouldn’t anet be more worried about that if we want to justify nerfing warriors because like you said its too easy?

How about the fact that by making these changes to adrenaline anet nefed warriors in PVE so badly that they have now gone to only being needed for banners. And they were already far from Top DPS being out dpsed by guardians even.

I dont have a problem with the changes but many of us feel that ANET is trying to hold warriors to a standard higher than other classes while there profession mechanic is not higher than any other class.

I think before ANET decides to make such changes they should worry more about all of the other cheese in the game most of which is 100 times worst than this.

@ JonathanSharp

Saying: you’ll need to do more “setting up” of your burst skill (to give it a higher chance to land) if you’re relying on Cleansing for condie clears.
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The problem with setting up a burst is that those skills suffer just like Rush does..(bulls/bolas)
So now i have to use a CC before landing a different CC to land a burst what could be a CC

And also CI is a must have for warrios in pvp.. the class is all build around CI at this point..