Where did you get the data that the increased revenue from the DLC stuff you suggested will offset the revenue lost from people that won’t want to support your proposed payment system? There’s already a ton of complaints about needing to pay for LS2 (and that’s something initially given out FOR FREE).
I’m sure Anet’s marketing department knows better than any one of us here how they should monetize their game.
If you want an example of what happens to a game when developers focus on trying to nickel and dime their customers instead of creating a solid game, look at Archeage.
However, if you’re using a meter that parses the text in your combat log on your screen and displays it in an overlay, Anet is as likely to detect it as having someone sitting next to you plugging the numbers into a calculator.
The drop rate of ascended weapons and armor is similar to pre-HoT levels, except it takes a lot less time to do 56, 67, 77 than a full 50 run from before HoT. That’s also not considering the liquid rewards from encryptions.
The next elite spec will cost 2500 skill points to max, and the hero points in the next zones will give 100 points upon defeating a raid boss. Calling it now.
Not sure if I lack the skill, i did not try long and hard enough in Anet´s raids to say yes or no to that. We know for sure that I lack the resolve.
And to tell you another truth, I honestly don´t care for legendary armor anymore, Anet won in making me meh about GW2 right now. Curiousity drove me into this thread, I am probably more addicted to threads like this as I like to admit.^^
If you don’t want to raid in the first place, why do you care how accessible it is?
You can always make a herald and faceroll through all the bosses.
This is what I find so frustrating that I can’t play my main character and progress forward with things I’d like to do.
I get you, but unfortunately that’s one of the problems with this kind of content. People want to complete it with the least amount of problems as possible and that means only taking the classes they deem best for such.
Just gear up some high demand roles, watch some videos to learn boss mechanics, and find parties with LFG. The raids aren’t so hard that pugs can’t complete them.
Tbh I honestly don’t know why they don’t increase the amount of bag slots you can buy on a character. It’s zero work on Anet’s part and a lot of people will pay for them.
OP: You’re gonna have a really hard time convincing the playerbase to pay for subs when the lack of a sub is one of its biggest selling points.
I know they need to make money, but they won’t make any money by kittening off everyone and making people quit the game. I’m sure their sales department knows this, which is why we don’t have a sub right now.
Unfortunately thief/daredevil isn’t really wanted in raids right now. There’s other classes that do what thieves do (power dps) but also outputting more support while being innately tankier. Thieves’ strengths (mobility / stealth) don’t really contribute that much to raids.
Maybe in a few months they’ll be top tier again, who knows.
If you want to run the game at playable rate, pretty much any new laptop (even with integrated graphics cards) will do the trick.
If you want to max out the game on the highest settings, look for a gaming laptop with a GTX 970M or better, and at least a mid grade i5. You can probably get one for under $1000, I recommend Clevo / MSI.
So I was looking around for someones calculation on this.. There was none, so feel free to spread this.
•Every Cycle of the Bells is (18Bags/7mins),
•Most people say they can average 11 cycles of the Jumping Puzzle an hour, (11cycles*10bags = {110Bags/1Hour}*{1hour/60mins} = 1.83333 * 7minutes = 12.83Bags ). So if we reverse that you need (18Bags/7min = 2.5714Bags/min*60min/hour = 154.28 Bags/hour) Meaning you need too do 16+Cycles to match Bells.
•Someone earlier mentioned (50Bags/Dungeon), too make it worthwhile you’d have to do the dungeon in 28minutes. (50bags/18bags = 2.777777)
•Don’t do Toypocalypse its not worth it.
So if you can’t do the 11cycles or more of the jumping puzzle. I highly suggest bells. “10k drinks * 1.2 bags/drink (80% drop rate) = 12,000 gifts” – Errant Venture 12000Gifts / 2.5714Gifts/mins =4,666.71Mins Or 77.78Hours Or 3.24 Full Days
@current market value of 7S.72C. the value of 12000Gifts is (7.72*12000Gifts = 92.640 Gold)
You got some of the math wrong there.
7s 72c * 12000 = 926g 40s
Also each jumping puzzle round lasts 30 mins, so you would get 220 in an hour at the “average” rate.
“I want X, but I don’t want to do Y so they should cater to me and make it so I can get X without doing Y!”
We’ve seen this with legendary armor, backpieces, and now this.
Newsflash:
For almost every person playing this game, there’s bound to be some reward they will never be able to get. The game was never designed such that playing how you want will get you any reward you want, nor should it be.
From my experience you can only get them from mobs that drop items. I got my shards from running 57 and 58 (Ascalon and Weapons Test) for the huge amount of trash mobs. You’re not gonna get any if you just do swamp / molten boss every day.
If you’re unsure go with one of those overlay types that read and parse your combat log. I don’t think it’s against the TOS but even if it is, they have no way of knowing.
Anything that reads memory is against the TOS I believe.
