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Halloween 2016

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I came here to see if anything would be new this Halloween to see if I might return to GW2, not looking too good thus far…

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The #1 Thing ArenaNet should improve NOW?

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Right click bag→open all.

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Imminent economy crash? Good thing? P2skin?

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Deflation =/= economic crash…

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Luck Sink past 300%

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Greed knows no bounds.

There are 2 scenario’s which allowed you to cap mf to 300%

  • You are filthy rich and bought your way to 300% mf through ToT bags or whatever means
  • You salvage items bought from the TP to resale the broken down materials for a profit

There is zero reason to give people gold (because that is what this sink is about, turning something you have no use for into something profitable) for essence of luck, non.

But here is an idea:

  • Turn in a stack of exotic essence of luck for a stack of bloodstone dust/dragonite ore/empyreal fragments

Okay, this argument annoys me. Regardless of whether or not someone rushed their progress on magic find, the fact remains it has a finite ceiling. After which the items it was created to give a point don’t have any use again. So there has always been a need for a sink for luck. I could see this when the system was introduced so why couldn’t Anet?

Luck was added September 3, 2013, so slightly over 2 years, wow such a rush.

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Luck Sink past 300%

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Lol, people saying that they shouldn’t have “rushed” MF etc. Anyone who was around when it was introduced and wanted to have 300% could easily have it by now. If you’re very casual (which is most players), then no, you wouldn’t have it maxed yet.

I wonder what percentage of the playerbase has all of their characters in ascended gear. Almost certainly a minority, yet we still have eaters for ascended mats. Just put out something that eats those 250 luck clumps and call it a day. I’m ok with increasing the cap as well as long as the drops in game wouldn’t need to be rebalanced again and thus mess up the casuals.

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Preview on precursor crafting feedback

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I see people asking for low cost high grind pre’s… I never thought that this is what was being asked for by the majority of people. I thought people were just wanting a way of obtaining them without having to rely on mystic forge RNG… and that part seems fair enough to me.

If they were to make pre’s too cheap to obtain then the T6 market etc. would spike and just make up that cost difference anyways, so I don’t see the point in that. If you were to make a high grind, then you could have spent that same time grinding for gold, so it doesn’t change things much and again I don’t see the point.

We have always had a non RNG way, buying them off of the trading post. So what people wanted is a new way with less cost and more grind.

How those were originally obtained was through forge RNG though. If the supply on a specific pre you want is very low, you’re going to either have to forge one out yourself or pay an exorbitant amount. I see that as a legitimate concern.

What less gold more grind does will just force you into doing specific grinds rather than just grinding out gold in whatever way you choose. If the grind is too easy then the T6 etc. part of making the legendary will go up in price to where there isn’t an overall price reduction.

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Preview on precursor crafting feedback

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I see people asking for low cost high grind pre’s… I never thought that this is what was being asked for by the majority of people. I thought people were just wanting a way of obtaining them without having to rely on mystic forge RNG… and that part seems fair enough to me.

If they were to make pre’s too cheap to obtain then the T6 market etc. would spike and just make up that cost difference anyways, so I don’t see the point in that. If you were to make a high grind, then you could have spent that same time grinding for gold, so it doesn’t change things much and again I don’t see the point.

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Must haves on the GW2 store?

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Bank slots/couple of bag slots for main farmer. Copper fed is nice. If you plan on only playing one character then salvage tools are ok, but all salvage tools (other than the watchwork mining pick) do are save you karma since you can buy all the tools with karma. You would have to gather a lot with the watchwork mining pick to make back the cost as well.

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Does ANET punish individuals?

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MF works, but the effects are far more noticeable with bag/t5/t6 drops (not opening the bag themselves). As time has gone on more and more rewards have been put in chests which are not effected by MF. MF is best when you’re clearing a lot of mobs that drop loot. Some events are still pretty good for this, but even then with the scaling changes the overall number of mobs has been reduced in most of these events.

It’s not like when you hit 300% luck MF precursors start falling from the skies. 3-4x a tiny small number is still a tiny number. It’s sort of like buying 4 lotto tickets instead of just 1. Yes your chances are better, but it’s still probably not going to happen.

The difference in overall drop quality is VERY noticeable to a player… just not so much in the precursor department.

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Bunch of skins/finisher gone in 7 days

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At the very least I’m sure they’ll come back as limited time sales in the gem shop.

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Make Protection -33% condi as well

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You can already fully cleanse conds… this isn’t necessary. Better balancing of burning vs the other conds is though (some of them don’t do enough, burning does too much).

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What makes u not buy HOT?

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Decent sized balance patches coming out only about every 6 months is ridiculous.

Not having very little new content while they work on the expansion makes it feel like I’m in part purchasing what should have been given out during that time.

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I need a Luck Essence eater. We all do.

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Dreamslayer:
Just for a bit of perspective on my part.

  • Did you accumulate 300MF through the standard style of game play by just salvaging your drops all the way?
    or
  • Did you buy your way to 300?

If you made it there by the standard method then I would agree, they should come up with some way to utilize Essences once you max out.

If on the other-hand you bought your way to max, then I would not agree. Rushing to max faster than the system was intended, means you would get the benefits of 300MF way beyond when the bulk of players were intended to achieve it. The plus is you get the increased drop rate sooner than the rest of us. The minus is you now need to wait for the rest of us to catch up.

I would expect that ANet can see what percentage of players have maxed out and plan accordingly.

I reached 300% MF within the first couple of months after its release. This was in between when ascended weapons and ascended armor was introduced. I bought cloth items to salvage to stock up on for later use/sale.

“Faster than the system intended” – citation needed for what they “intended” Personally I wasn’t even after the luck itself. I was after the cloth mats.

We have been given additional luck outside of salvaging from seasonal bags, dailys, and they have been in bl chests. There has been plenty of time for people to max out their MF if it was something they desired.

It’s something that is useless to some players outside of one back item recipe, yet they are still being given more. Some players don’t care about their MF. A luck eater would be great for both of these types of players.

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Mounts [merged]

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You don’t need mounts with the amount of waypoints there are in this game.

Seems to be just a desire based on people having had them in previous games they’ve played.

A-net could make some money if they introduced them into the gem shop though.

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Mounts [merged]

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Can the mobs waypoint? No? Can we still waypoint? Yes. No troll done by A-net & still no need for mounts. K.

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The harassment and blocking

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Solution is already in the game. If you don’t want to hear from some one, then block them. Problem solved.

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Elitism alive and well in the community

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Thankfully you can make your own party with whatever restrictions or no restrictions. Everyone can play how they wish. No problem here to solve.

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The Dye is too high!!!!

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All of this over frekkin’ dyes? Seriously? It’s not as if you can’t make your toon look good without the electro dyes… just get creative with other color combinations.

I swear people just want these dyes because they are expensive and rare thus special snowflake. -.-

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Is this for REAL?

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This is also from WvW. WvW is not balanced for far more serious and severe reasons than burning.

I enjoy WvW but I don’t go there for a balanced fight. If you were looking for better balance, I suggest you go to PvP.

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Convert Badges of Honor/Spirit Shards to Gold

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way to kill your own farm by sharing it with others

Most WvW people already knew that you could make a profit by buying and upgrading siege…

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Hide AP from other players.

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What they are doing is trying to judge how experienced you are. AP is the only way they can have a clue if you’re new or if you’ve been around a while.

If a party only wants players who have been around a while, why do you want to force yourself into a party that you know doesn’t want you? There are plenty of parties that don’t require ap, meta, zerk, whatever. If there isn’t one currently up, you can just make your own party. Let them play how they wish to play.

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Holographic Shattered Dragon Wings

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I already have these wings. Others gaining access would not diminish my own shattered holo wings what so ever. A free account bound skin doesn’t have any added value to me if others can’t have it. It’ll still work or not work with an outfit either way. Seems rather selfish to me that some one would deny some one else the use of an untradeable free skin because their ego apparently depends on it.

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Where's the 22. july patch?

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Both the, “couple of weeks,” and the, “intention,” give them some wiggle room. Hopefully updates on those intentions are in the works.

A couple is 2. The intention does give them an out, but many players are pretty sick of them using weasel words and phrases to get out of stuff. I would personally much rather them say X amount of time and then come out and say sorry it’s going to be late, but I’m not everyone and I know others would react differently. If they come out with a very good/large update next week I’ll accept the delay with no hard feelings myself regardless though.

I think that players are just a bit worried since balance patches in the past have been slow… to say the least.

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Return of Aetherized: My dream goal of GW2

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I would like to see it come back. I don’t understand the whole special snowflake I have it you can’t type of mentality. It doesn’t depreciate what you have if some one else has it too. I like how they are limited time, but that does not mean that they won’t or shouldn’t ever come back again.

That poll is pretty meaningless though… it lacks any sort of a representative sample (people attracted to this thread will already have an interest in seeing them come back in general).

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Stupid meta bullies ppl

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It’s about as logical as calling some one names for liking strawberry ice cream instead of chocolate.

To be fair people who like chocolate ice cream more than strawberry are heathens and should be burnt at the stake.

I won’t even get started on the people that put chocolate syrup on top of chocolate ice cream…

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Three Precursors (Spark) in < 3 weeks

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So a friend of mine recieved three Sparks from the MF in a span of less than 3 weeks? Been on this game since 2013 and never gotten a pre from bags or forge. As much as I am happy for him, I get really frustrated everytime a new Spark gets linked on my chat.

Is this purely RNG loving him and hating me or is there something hes doing right? As far as i know hes been throwign in random rares obtained from SW and has a magic find of 85%.

(yes im jelly)

MF doesn’t effect the forge. Most of the rares obtained from SW are from the rare gear bags, pac man, and lost bandit chests (the only one that is effected by MF). It’s pretty uncommon to get rares off of the mobs there unless you’re off somewhere killing the hyenas or something and even then it’s not common for me to get rares off of those with 300%+ base MF… I mostly just get t5/t6 off of them, but that’s still worth it to me while doing a chest train.

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Stupid meta bullies ppl

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I do understand there is a content where experienced/metabuild/metequip plays a relevant point – lets say lev 50 fractal.

But what is out of my understanding are groups like “Meta, gearcheck, 2nd ele only” for Ascalonian Catacombs P1…. I call these metatards and I am not sure if I should lough at them or feel pity… especially when I do full run with random PUG of 60+ people and after finishing ….these are still looking (not sure how many they kicked in between because they where not up to their standard)

How other people want to play shouldn’t concern you. You shouldn’t be bashing them. If that’s how they enjoy playing the game then who are you to tell them they are wrong (as long as they aren’t harassing other players). There is nothing wrong with wanting a good group and being willing to go watch a video or whatever while you wait for similarly minded players. It’s about as logical as calling some one names for liking strawberry ice cream instead of chocolate.

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Stupid meta bullies ppl

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Absolutely, and rangers aren’t even bad! There are a LOT of poorly played rangers out there, but the profession’s potential isn’t anything to complain about. Hell, in PVP/WvW I constantly hear people complaining about being killed by them. And in PVE spotter + decent damage and some other possible utility they are quite nice as far as I’m concerned.

But this game has a very different social structure around it. I can’t help but feel that it’s limited content plays a part in that.

If you’re looking to make a fast and efficient run, kicking ranges because there are so many bad rangers out there is an understandable thing to do. Anyone welcome type parties would be glad to have you though.

In PvP I don’t hear many complaints about rangers anymore. That’s all ele and mesmer now.

WvW… is WvW. People complain about everything under the sun in WvW because of how severely imbalanced that game mode is.

I agree how the dev’s have decided to do gw2 has limited content, GW2 caters far more to the casual crowd than it does to the hardcore crowd. There aren’t very many hard things to do for experienced gamers.

Verbal abuse is never warranted regardless of how you wish to play or your class though. Unfortunately trolls and harassers exist in all games (please report them), but I see fewer in GW2 than I do in most other games.

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Stupid meta bullies ppl

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I think the biggest problem i’ve seen is elitist people join casual groups and expect them to go fast and rushes everyone. I think that’s where most of the issue is.

Jerks are jerks. The people that respond to this type of thing by joining zerk groups just to grief are nothing but jerks as well.

This is a major point I dislike about this game and it’s community. Not only does ANet force people to play together in their open world, making it even worse with megaservers. But, you have a community that follows right along and believes that anyone wanting to play with certain types of people instead of everyone is somehow and evil that must be purged and feels morally right in annoying them. It’s pathetic. It’s why I still look at my old games as having a far better community no matter how many times I see people praise the GW2 playerbase. In my other games people respected eachother’s desires, following a live and let live mentality. It was very nice.

PS: ‘Who’ followed by ‘respond’ = kittenpond, the kitten filter never fails to entertain.

It’s a very small minority of players who believes that their style of play is superior to other styles of play. It’s an even smaller sub group of that who feel strongly enough to badmouth the other styles or ask for a style to be purged.

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I think the biggest problem i’ve seen is elitist people join casual groups and expect them to go fast and rushes everyone. I think that’s where most of the issue is.

It happens both ways, but in my personal experience more frequently I’ve seen casuals try to force themselves into speed runs than speed runners trying to get casuals to speed up. If you only play casual runs, you’re going to see one side, if you only do speed runs, you’re just going to see that side. I do both casual and speed runs and very rarely have issues in either.

When I do see people complain in casual runs it’s usually after multiple wipes. That doesn’t mean that they are speed runners or elitists. They’re are plenty of players that are willing to go with anyone even at a slower pace as long as they are good enough to down the bosses.

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New to GW2, not having fun

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Yeah, this game isn’t for you. Everything you listed is a hallmark of this game: no gear treadmill, no holy trinity, being able to get gear however you want (dungeons, pvp, crafting, buying it off TP), and when it comes to leveling the journey is as important as the destination. Basically this game isn’t a rush to level 80 so you can grind a bunch of dungeons so you’re able to grind even more dungeons.

It sounds like you love everything about the standard MMO, and all the things that GW2 tried to modify/do without. So yeah, unless you can break out of that frame of mind, this game isn’t for you. But at least you gave it a try.

“This game isn’t for you”?

Research: ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 MMO Manifesto, "we just don’t want players to grind, “no grind to get to the fun stuff” “no one enjoy grinding”

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-15-guild-wars-2-players-upset-at-the-apparent-arrival-of-an-end-game-armour-grind

“Guild Wars 2 maker ArenaNet has been criticised by players for having what looks like double-standard”.

It’s a tiny bit of problem that some times gets overblown since ascended gear isn’t required for anything other than very high level fractals for the agony resistance slots. For the lower level fractals you can do it just with ascended jewelry that you can get with laurels which you get just by logging in. It’s really not a big deal at all IMO.

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Stupid meta bullies ppl

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This holds true for both casuals and speed runners.

It does indeed, but most established players already have the luxury of being in several guilds, most of which will (presumably) be full of people who think like them.

They can easily run with any one of those guilds, if they have very rigid requirements.

Whereas, newer players and (to a certain extent) more casual players, are often on their own.

Not only that, but (as I have already said) newer players are far more likely to, accidentally, join the wrong groups and/or be too shy/inexperienced to want to form their own.

Therefore, the default setting should be queue and join an everything goes run.

I realise the compromise here may be to, also, allow the current list system to run alongside what would be the new queuing system and if so, then so be it.

Anyone can join a guild and run with people like themselves. I constantly see advertisements in map chats for anyone welcome guilds. Casuals can just easily run with those guilds.

Learning to join what type of party isn’t rocket science. Even if I had never played a RPG before, I would be able to deduce that speed run =/= anyone welcome. They can wait for an anyone welcome party just as a speed runner can wait for a speed run. No need to try to force others to play how you wish to play.

All adding a queue would do is add to the problem. It would be tossing in players who want different types of runs together. Speed runners would need to kick out people until they get like minded people. Casuals would have players leaving the party and have to re-queue when speed runners joined and then left. It would just cause more frustration and resentment.

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That’s all nice and fancy, but most people don’t read LFG or they simply ignore it.

I don’t know about most, but it’s not rare for people to not read the LFG. That’s a problem that no one can really solve. All anyone can do is try their best to inform the others as far as what type of party it is.

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Yes, it’s inherently silly, because they are treating the game like a job they dislike.

Worrying about exactly how much gold per minute they’re making and not even including the admin time, of vetting other players, in their calculations.

That is silly, in more ways than one.

Just because you feel that playing in such a way to be like a job does not mean that other players feel the same way. What you enjoy in a game is entirely subjective.

If they would prefer to wait to get a better party and spend that waiting time doing other things (like watching a show, doing homework, whatever) I wouldn’t say they are worrying about how much gold per min. they are getting. They are just choosing to do different things with their time.

Trying to justify one style of play over another style of play is silly.

You may say that, but I am basing this analysis on what I have, frequently, heard other people say.

That they can (and do), basically, fully fund the game (including all gem purchases) based on their dungeon and fractal runs.

A lot of people openly boast about doing this.

Just because you may not do it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

What you hear other people say is a poor way to come to a conclusion. Only A-net really knows who is spending what.

People need to realise that they cant and shouldn’t try to control everything around them.

This holds true for both casuals and speed runners.

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There’s no excuse to be a jerk just because you are bored with the content. And no, I never join speedruns on principle, nor do I support trolling speedrun groups by not following their meta (or approximate idea of it, in some cases.)

I respect the need for some players to farm as fast as possible for a skin, but one could do it without resorting to calling other “bads” for not following the Meta (or judging a player by the gear they use, as if meta-rules applied somehow to those who don’t care about them); one of my biggest pet peeves is whenever people refer as others with the pejorative “play how you wants” (as if anyone didn’t play how they wanted, meta or not.) This human extreme competitiveness in which it’s OK to put down those that aren’t supposedly “good enough” is awful-this isn’t a business or even a basketball game.

Kudos to all of those who are respectful speedrunners and don’t care about what others use, happily enjoying their farming runs with guildies/friends/like-minded players. If you are good, you know it-no need to insult those who don’t share your playstyle views.

I would have just said there is no reason to bash anyone without seeming to imply that speed runners are just bored with the content.

I see nothing wrong with asking to see gear. If you’re joining a full zerk speed run and you don’t have it, they aren’t jerks for kicking, the player joining either didn’t read the LFG (their bad) or were trying to join a party where they knew they wouldn’t be wanted (again their bad). Heck if you get kicked for whatever reason, you just didn’t fit their criteria. There is no inherent reason to take offense at it.

Wanting fast, smooth runs doesn’t make them extremely competitive.

Heck, even if they are being somewhat competitive and getting a party in LFG there is nothing wrong with that either (it would be VERY rare to see some one “extremely competitive” using LFG in the first place). I would suggest that it would be more easily done with other methods, but I understand that some times the people you regularly run with can’t always be available. I agree they shouldn’t be doing any name calling though.

No one should be trash talking anyone else for their playstyle. If you don’t have fun playing whatever way, then don’t play that way. As long as you’re with people who want to play that way, there should be no problems.

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Then be clear in your LFG comment. Also if it take 50 minutes to run inefficiently when it takes 30 to run efficiently then spending more than 20 minutes vetting players is silly. It’s like cruising the parking lot for a close spot for your health club because the extra 50 yards to walk is so tiring.

I disagree that it’s inherently silly. I find it totally reasonable that some players would rather spend 20m watching a video while making a better party rather than spend 20 extra mins dealing with a group that would take 20m longer to do a run.

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Best farming method for gold?

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Smash those dungeons OP. AC 1, 3 and CoF 1, 2 (iir) are fast. You can buy yellow gear with marks if the gear is level 65 or greater and salvage it for ectos. I got all my money that way… It took a while. In the end I had enough AC marks to get the AC collection achievement. Oh and be prepared to want to kill yourself, it’s a mighty slog.

If you’re going for those achievements I would highly recommend doing PvP dung reward tracks. You’ll get 3 exotic weapons and 1 exotic armor + some tokens each time you complete the track. After you have all the weapons, then I would hit up the dung itself to finish off the armors.

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Your elitist is a caricatured portrait of “The farmer”. The farmer is a part of the hardcore – as you said.
Highly efficient he enjoys earning rewards to buy new skins with and does everything in his power to get as much loot as possible.
Seeks out other players who want the same thing and excludes players that don’t since he doesn’t have time to mess around and since wasting time ruins his game experience.
Kicks certain classes because experience has shown they’re most of the times a liability (BB rangers) and kicks non-zerkers because he’s there for the fast farm not to role play or watch dungeon cutscenes.
Kicks you for being low AP because it’s not a teaching run and higher AP has a better chance of finding an experienced player. Not full proof but better.

This is exactly the type of player that Anet shouldn’t cater to.

Not only do they ruin the game for any other type of player that, probably normally accidentally, crosses their path; but they also make Anet next-to-no money, as they “earn” gold too fast to to ever need to buy gems.

Making Anet no money directly might be OK, if they made the other players they interacted with happier and more likely to stick with the game (and open their wallets); but when, in actual fact, the reverse is true…

So, thinking like a business person here, this is the type of player I would refuse to support, if I were them.

Speed runners do make other players happy, mainly others who wish to go through dungeons efficiently. Casuals also make other players happy, mainly other casuals.

Casuals are not all hugs and sunshine, speed runners aren’t all mean jerks who are destroying the game (and vice versa).

Neither side harms the other unless one tries to force themselves into the other side and demand that they be allowed and that everyone else in the party play in their style. It’s just as bad when a speedster goes in a casual group and does this as it is when a casual goes into a speed group and does this.

Your claim that casuals spend more is just as dubious as if I were to claim that casuals can play slower thus they obviously have more free time to go and do dungeons, and thus gain more gold overall, just at a slower rate (which I’m not claiming just to be clear).

Some people do speed runs because they don’t have a lot of time to play. These types of players are probably not earning too much gold, and may well have excess income due to their other activities.

I do both speed and casual runs. I’ll do speed runs when I don’t have a lot of time. I’ll do casual runs if I feel like I’m in the mood for helping out casual/inexperienced players or I have an abundance of time.

Being self righteous about your playstyle doesn’t make sense. Whatever your way of playing the game, it’s not inherently is better than how others choose to play. Just different things different people enjoy doing differently.

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Players you’ll find in GW2:

The newbie:New people, no money, no tomes. Help these guys out.
The casual:The mass majority of GW2. Give them tips when you can. Don’t be kitten troll to them.
The hardcore:The 1% that has all dungeon paths completed, legendaries completed, and numerous level 80 characters. The most knowledgeable when it comes to various questions.
The Elitist:The 0.5% of that 1% that insist you run a certain build, run with certain gear (zerk, celestial) and dps, dps, dps. Highly delusional when it comes to having fun in game (the 20k dps uptime delusion rages on) , hates certain classes (BB rangers, Necro) because “reasons” kicks you out of pugs because you aren’t zerk, kicks you because you aren’t a certain AP threshold (subjective) blames you when you’re still alive when they get instantly one shotted and all around the most toxic group in the community. Avoid at all costs.

Your elitist is a caricatured portrait of “The farmer”. The farmer is a part of the hardcore – as you said.
Highly efficient he enjoys earning rewards to buy new skins with and does everything in his power to get as much loot as possible.
Seeks out other players who want the same thing and excludes players that don’t since he doesn’t have time to mess around and since wasting time ruins his game experience.
Kicks certain classes because experience has shown they’re most of the times a liability (BB rangers) and kicks non-zerkers because he’s there for the fast farm not to role play or watch dungeon cutscenes.
Kicks you for being low AP because it’s not a teaching run and higher AP has a better chance of finding an experienced player. Not full proof but better.

I do agree with you on the last part though – unless you are one avoid them at all costs since they’d like it better like that and you’d be doing everybody a huge favor.

Different people have fun by doing different things in a game. Nothing wrong with what any type of player does unless it’s being done to harass the other types of players. No one way of playing is inherently more fun or better. Attempting to besmirch the other styles of play isn’t at all productive.

I am not doing anything of the sort. I am The Farmer type of player. I was explaining how they work.
It is under no way shape or form an offensively oriented post. I enjoy that type of play.

The comment you quoted with was. “Highly delusional when it comes to having fun in game” Basically saying that how other people play can’t be fun for anyone else because it’s not fun for them.

This whole thread is like some one calling some one else names because they like chocolate ice cream and not strawberry…

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You don’t get to just ban classes regardless of LFG entry. Its why zerk pugs are seen as people of questionable character.

Oh? Why CAN’T I ban classes based on my LFG entry? Why are YOU entitled to come and ruin MY experience and the experience of others who want to play my way by not reading the LFG?

This is why non-reading leeches are seen as people of questionable character.

How dare people be intolerant of my intolerance! <- You

You’re not asking for tolerance by joining a speed run as a non-speed runner. You’re demanding to be accepted into that community without adhering to the rules of that community. They already tolerate your casual runs by not trying to get your type of party banned.

These threads always sounds like 2 kids fighting in the back of a car.

Just stay on your side or I swear to dwayna I’ll turn this kitten car around right now.

If you think certain classes can’t speed run then you not only lack understanding of game, you are being a terrible player for any community/meta/pug/guild/run.

So you’re still just refusing to adhere to the rules of whatever community, k. It’s unreasonable for you to think a community like that would accept you. If you don’t want to be accepted by that community, then there is no problem. It’s only when a person that doesn’t adhere to the rules of a community demands to be accepted into that community that there are problems.

Telling other people how they wish to play together is bad doesn’t do anything productive. Let people play how they wish as long as they are not trolling or harassing.

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Aberrant.6749

Players you’ll find in GW2:

The newbie:New people, no money, no tomes. Help these guys out.
The casual:The mass majority of GW2. Give them tips when you can. Don’t be kitten troll to them.
The hardcore:The 1% that has all dungeon paths completed, legendaries completed, and numerous level 80 characters. The most knowledgeable when it comes to various questions.
The Elitist:The 0.5% of that 1% that insist you run a certain build, run with certain gear (zerk, celestial) and dps, dps, dps. Highly delusional when it comes to having fun in game (the 20k dps uptime delusion rages on) , hates certain classes (BB rangers, Necro) because “reasons” kicks you out of pugs because you aren’t zerk, kicks you because you aren’t a certain AP threshold (subjective) blames you when you’re still alive when they get instantly one shotted and all around the most toxic group in the community. Avoid at all costs.

Your elitist is a caricatured portrait of “The farmer”. The farmer is a part of the hardcore – as you said.
Highly efficient he enjoys earning rewards to buy new skins with and does everything in his power to get as much loot as possible.
Seeks out other players who want the same thing and excludes players that don’t since he doesn’t have time to mess around and since wasting time ruins his game experience.
Kicks certain classes because experience has shown they’re most of the times a liability (BB rangers) and kicks non-zerkers because he’s there for the fast farm not to role play or watch dungeon cutscenes.
Kicks you for being low AP because it’s not a teaching run and higher AP has a better chance of finding an experienced player. Not full proof but better.

I do agree with you on the last part though – unless you are one avoid them at all costs since they’d like it better like that and you’d be doing everybody a huge favor.

Different people have fun by doing different things in a game. Nothing wrong with what any type of player does unless it’s being done to harass the other types of players. No one way of playing is inherently more fun or better. Attempting to besmirch the other styles of play isn’t at all productive.

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You don’t get to just ban classes regardless of LFG entry. Its why zerk pugs are seen as people of questionable character.

Oh? Why CAN’T I ban classes based on my LFG entry? Why are YOU entitled to come and ruin MY experience and the experience of others who want to play my way by not reading the LFG?

This is why non-reading leeches are seen as people of questionable character.

How dare people be intolerant of my intolerance! <- You

You’re not asking for tolerance by joining a speed run as a non-speed runner. You’re demanding to be accepted into that community without adhering to the rules of that community. They already tolerate your casual runs by not trying to get your type of party banned.

These threads always sounds like 2 kids fighting in the back of a car.

Just stay on your side or I swear to dwayna I’ll turn this kitten car around right now.

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The rune isn’t that bad to be honest. Its used much in WvW/GvG and PvP.

In PvP it’s free so that part wouldn’t change the price on the TP though.

Speculation by investors.

That’s an oxymoron. XD

I am not an ox or a moron.….

No no no he’s saying you’re a very clean moron : P

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I have somewhat noticed better loot as my MF goes up, but not enough to farm luck for it though. I just play the game, and salvage stuff to get my luck. I have a copper-fed salv-o-matic that I use on greens and blues so it adds up. I also use the artificing skill to combine luck so i dont have to click as much. And as someone else mentioned, the Trick-or-Treat bags can give luck as well.

If you know the general prices of the mats you can salvage to make $ while gaining. I wouldn’t recommend just salvaging everything that drops since much of that is going to be a $ loss (like anything that gives t5/t6 leather is nearly a total loss).

I just watched shows while putting in buy orders and salvaging so it was in the background and felt like I was just watching stuff. It’s certainly not for everyone though.

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Precursors have such a low drop chance that having 3 times that (300% mf) isn’t going to make much of a difference.

No actually, it has a huge impact. You should get three times as many precursors (btw, 300% mf is more like 4 times the drop rate)

What you wanted to say I guess is that having 300% mf won’t be noticeable.

i think what he was trying to say is that 4x 0 is still 0.

or rather 2×0.000001 is still basically nothing.

Think everytime you buy a lottery ticket, you now get two. Still got no chance of winning the jackpot, just better chances of winning the most basic prizes.

Indeed. 3x diddly squat is still pretty much diddly squat.

3x t5/t6 mat drop chance is much greater. Large skulls/linen salvage item/totems are far more common off of grawl for me as well now for another example.

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There are plenty of anyone welcome/casual/play how you want type runs. Don’t see one? Start one yourself.

I’m for letting people play how they want without criticism weather that be speed or anyone welcome/casual/play how you want. Unfortunately I see a lot of bashing coming from the anyone welcome/casual/play how you want side aimed at the speed side (ironic).

Just find players that play in the same way that you do and enjoy. Don’t try to shove yourself into a party that doesn’t want your playstyle, that’s what causes problems.

I’ve played a lot of mmo’s and this one is one of the better ones when it comes to having a selection of play styles in parties.

Unfortunately, it is not exactly that simple. Let me give you an example of my last casual dungeon I ran. I joined party with description “casual, non speed run p3” (it was CM btw). All right, I get in. The last to join was thief. ( funny fact: I have never seen CM party without thief). We start doing dungeon and people are stealthing and skipping everything. I didn’t want to complain immediately, but then we got a bit over half dungeon and then I asked “wasn’t this group advertised as non speed run? I get reply: Yeah, but we have thief now, so…”
That was the stupidest thing I heard in a while.

Just so you won’t say this is one exception or rare thing, check out this thread I made not that long ago: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/People-are-not-reading-LFG/first#post5110869

So, even tho I have spend a lot of hours in gw2, I have to agree with people who say dungeon experience is terrible for anyone but speedrunners.
Also it’s not just dungeons, it’s also world events. Anyone remember Marrionette event? People there were just horrible, they insulted each other because event failed. I understand some people could do a better job of using their brains, but still, such filthy chat that I’ve seen there…. So, yeah, community is not all that as some make it out to be.

I agree they probably should have said something when they decided they were going to do a lot of skipping, but again, the problem is that the type of players were mixed.

As soon as you saw what they were doing, why didn’t you say something if you had a problem instead of waiting for half the run?

They were just skipping stuff because they had the option to. That in itself doesn’t make it a speed run. I still wouldn’t call it a speed run unless they were asking for you to change to a meta build zerk. The title didn’t say not skipping killing everything. Not a big deal overall imo.

If they would play like they did in a real speedrun party, they would get kicked. So no, that was not speedrun. Plus his response clearly indicated that he wanted to go for no skipping first, but since we got thief, that changed, which is kittenbag move and unfair to people who joined because they wanted what description says. One thief is enough to tell you how you will play? Ok.
How long I stayed in dungeon and why doesn’t matter a bit. What matters is there was false advertisement. Would you like me posting speedrun LFG, but then I would start killing everything along my way? How about if that would happen to you regularly?

World/living story events do force casuals and non-casuals together and that causes issues. I agree with that part. Even then, at most I would usually just see things like “omg come on it’s not that hard” It was extremely rare when I would see verbal abuse, and when it did happen, people were called out on it. It’s not ALL rainbows and sunshine, but the vast majority of players are great.

This is obviously an opinion, because we all have different experiences, so I can’t say you’re wrong, but in my case, most players were not great.

I joined party with description “casual, non speed run p3” does not mean no skipping to most people. Also sorry for editing my post a bunch, it’s a bad habit of mine to hit reply before I’m done with my reply lol

Did you check the link I provided? You will see there that I used “non skip” descriptions all the time and I got same results.

I read part of it as I’m going off to bed atm. My bad if I missed something while glancing over it.

If people not fully reading the LFG is problem for you then I would just make sure that everyone knows that you want a non-skip run when they join. I haven’t done non-skip runs in a long time so idk about that specific niche of casual runs now-a-days.

I still wouldn’t besmirch the general gw2 population for casual players not fully reading the full LFG title while trying to create a niche group though. They are just casual players after all.

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Precursors have such a low drop chance that having 3 times that (300% mf) isn’t going to make much of a difference.

Where I notice having more mf the most is with t5/t6 drops, blues, greens, and rares. I noticed a reasonable uptick in loot quality every +50% mf or so. It adds up as you go up in mf and the better rewards and thus better income are more noticeable over time. It’s not just oh hey I have 300% mf from luck now precursors are falling from the sky :P

Is it worth it? Depends.

What are you salvaging for your luck? Is it profitable to do so or a loss vs npc-ing or selling it on the TP?

How much do you play and how you play? If you’re mostly doing world boss events where popping the chest with 300% mf doesn’t matter then obviously not. If you’re doing dungeon runs, maybe. If you’re killing a lot of things while doing events, then probably.

If you’re not a hardcore farmer, but still play quite a bit, I would suggest getting your mf from luck up to 150%. Getting 150% mf from luck requires 11.5% of the total luck you need to get to 300% mf from luck. So for 11.5% of the effort you get 50% of the reward from the stat which isn’t bad at all.

I just maxed mine out primarily because of the time when I did it which was in between when ascended weapons and ascended armor came out. During this time cloth blues and greens were still dirt cheap and salvaging some metal armor/weapons was also very profitable. So I put in orders, saved the cloth, sold the metals, and got luck as a side product. Overall it gave me quite a bit of gold to max out my MF. It was a LOT of clicking though as you can imagine xD

If anyone is interrested there is a link in my sig for some information. While it’s quite dated by now and some bugs have been fixed (like I don’t think spcific lvl ranges of bows give metal anymore), the principals will still work.

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It almost sounds like people are complaining about fighting against stealth off point in PvP or away from things they are capping in WvW. Those points and cap areas severely limit what the thief can do because of the stealth =‘s no capping. Why are people fighting in totally random areas? o.O The point of these modes isn’t to 1v1 or 2v2 or whatever in remote areas.

WvW is also by far the least balanced part of this game and has far more serious balance issues than stealth. I enjoy WvW but I don’t go there for nice even fights. If you want something better balanced, then go to PvP.

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There are plenty of anyone welcome/casual/play how you want type runs. Don’t see one? Start one yourself.

I’m for letting people play how they want without criticism weather that be speed or anyone welcome/casual/play how you want. Unfortunately I see a lot of bashing coming from the anyone welcome/casual/play how you want side aimed at the speed side (ironic).

Just find players that play in the same way that you do and enjoy. Don’t try to shove yourself into a party that doesn’t want your playstyle, that’s what causes problems.

I’ve played a lot of mmo’s and this one is one of the better ones when it comes to having a selection of play styles in parties.

Unfortunately, it is not exactly that simple. Let me give you an example of my last casual dungeon I ran. I joined party with description “casual, non speed run p3” (it was CM btw). All right, I get in. The last to join was thief. ( funny fact: I have never seen CM party without thief). We start doing dungeon and people are stealthing and skipping everything. I didn’t want to complain immediately, but then we got a bit over half dungeon and then I asked “wasn’t this group advertised as non speed run? I get reply: Yeah, but we have thief now, so…”
That was the stupidest thing I heard in a while.

Just so you won’t say this is one exception or rare thing, check out this thread I made not that long ago: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/People-are-not-reading-LFG/first#post5110869

So, even tho I have spend a lot of hours in gw2, I have to agree with people who say dungeon experience is terrible for anyone but speedrunners.
Also it’s not just dungeons, it’s also world events. Anyone remember Marrionette event? People there were just horrible, they insulted each other because event failed. I understand some people could do a better job of using their brains, but still, such filthy chat that I’ve seen there…. So, yeah, community is not all that as some make it out to be.

I agree they probably should have said something when they decided they were going to do a lot of skipping, but again, the problem is that the type of players were mixed.

As soon as you saw what they were doing, why didn’t you say something if you had a problem instead of waiting for half the run?

They were just skipping stuff because they had the option to. That in itself doesn’t make it a speed run. I still wouldn’t call it a speed run unless they were asking for you to change to a meta build zerk. The title didn’t say not skipping killing everything. Not a big deal overall imo.

If they would play like they did in a real speedrun party, they would get kicked. So no, that was not speedrun. Plus his response clearly indicated that he wanted to go for no skipping first, but since we got thief, that changed, which is kittenbag move and unfair to people who joined because they wanted what description says. One thief is enough to tell you how you will play? Ok.
How long I stayed in dungeon and why doesn’t matter a bit. What matters is there was false advertisement. Would you like me posting speedrun LFG, but then I would start killing everything along my way? How about if that would happen to you regularly?

World/living story events do force casuals and non-casuals together and that causes issues. I agree with that part. Even then, at most I would usually just see things like “omg come on it’s not that hard” It was extremely rare when I would see verbal abuse, and when it did happen, people were called out on it. It’s not ALL rainbows and sunshine, but the vast majority of players are great.

This is obviously an opinion, because we all have different experiences, so I can’t say you’re wrong, but in my case, most players were not great.

I joined party with description “casual, non speed run p3” does not mean no skipping to most people. Also sorry for editing my post a bunch, it’s a bad habit of mine to hit reply before I’m done with my reply lol

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There are plenty of anyone welcome/casual/play how you want type runs. Don’t see one? Start one yourself.

I’m for letting people play how they want without criticism weather that be speed or anyone welcome/casual/play how you want. Unfortunately I see a lot of bashing coming from the anyone welcome/casual/play how you want side aimed at the speed side (ironic).

Just find players that play in the same way that you do and enjoy. Don’t try to shove yourself into a party that doesn’t want your playstyle, that’s what causes problems.

I’ve played a lot of mmo’s and this one is one of the better ones when it comes to having a selection of play styles in parties.

Unfortunately, it is not exactly that simple. Let me give you an example of my last casual dungeon I ran. I joined party with description “casual, non speed run p3” (it was CM btw). All right, I get in. The last to join was thief. ( funny fact: I have never seen CM party without thief). We start doing dungeon and people are stealthing and skipping everything. I didn’t want to complain immediately, but then we got a bit over half dungeon and then I asked “wasn’t this group advertised as non speed run? I get reply: Yeah, but we have thief now, so…”
That was the stupidest thing I heard in a while.

Just so you won’t say this is one exception or rare thing, check out this thread I made not that long ago: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/People-are-not-reading-LFG/first#post5110869

So, even tho I have spend a lot of hours in gw2, I have to agree with people who say dungeon experience is terrible for anyone but speedrunners.
Also it’s not just dungeons, it’s also world events. Anyone remember Marrionette event? People there were just horrible, they insulted each other because event failed. I understand some people could do a better job of using their brains, but still, such filthy chat that I’ve seen there…. So, yeah, community is not all that as some make it out to be.

I agree it would have been nice if they had said something when they decided they were going to do a lot of skipping, but again, the problem is that the type of players were mixed.

They were just skipping stuff because they had the option to. That in itself doesn’t make it a speed run. I still wouldn’t call it a speed run unless they were asking for you to change to a meta build zerk. The title didn’t say not skipping killing everything. Not a big deal overall imo.

As soon as you saw what they were doing, why didn’t you say something if you had a problem instead of waiting for half the run btw?

People not reading LFG’s = mixing of casuals and speedy types. To help prevent this I see a lot of the speedy type runs ask for gear links and ap which weeds out a lot of the problem (until the casual types come and complain that they are getting kicked out).

It’s very rare that I’ve ever seen a speedy type join a slower run then complain. Usually it’s more complaints that the group has wiped far too many times with little to no progression in the dungeon rather than some one wanting a very quick run. That’s more I don’t mind if this is a little slower but please at least be competent rather than omg the boss isn’t dead in 10 seconds.

From reading your other post, it sounds like you’re not specifically saying no skipping in your LFG title. That’s an important thing to include if that’s the type of run you wish. Most don’t consider casual to mean no skipping. Most just consider it to mean you don’t need to play meta.

I’ve done tons of dung runs with both speed and casuals and have had very few problems.

World/living story events do force casuals and non-casuals together and that causes issues. I agree with that part. Even then, at most I would usually just see things like “omg come on it’s not that hard” It was extremely rare when I would see verbal abuse, and when it did happen, people were called out on it. It’s not ALL rainbows and sunshine, but the vast majority of players are great.

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