Guild Wars 2

Just strange to me as it has never happened, but the past few days its been happening really often.

With the latest patch it seems that my character location is not saved sometimes after I swap. Most recently I went from Malchor’s Leap to Brisban Wildlands, farmed a bunch of iron nodes, and then used swap character to go to the selection screen. It now showed the characters location as the old “Malchor’s Leap” instead of Brisban and loading in puts me at the “Watchful Source Waypoint” in the Zinder Slope area of Brisban (I had logged out around the Gallowfields Waypoint). Also happened when i got stuck in combat at the Not So Secret chest (also a bug!) and logging out put me back at the entrance to Gendarren…

Not sure if this is known or perhaps just a bug on my side. I do use -sharearchive

His name was Gold X X XXXX with the X’s being other letters so his name is not posted.

So I’ve played with this same guy twice today who throws RANKED matches. Report/block obviously has no effect on matchmaking, so why does Anet not have any option to better report these people? Not only has he thrown 2 matches on my team (on different characters, he didnt know who I was) but then on a third game, I had a teammate instantly quit because he said the SAME guy has thrown 2 matches with him. The guy is entering ranked to throw matches for no apparent reason other than to get on peoples nerves. Clearly people are reporting him and it’s clear nothing is happening from it. It’s sad that people like this are allowed to continually throw match after match.

I mean, why else would I log in to a trap?
(I know the /stuck option is available, but it was neat!)

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The odds of getting 4 bad players is the same as getting 4 good players. That’s terrible logic.

I’m now 20-11. I love playing teams of 5 with unlimited sustain vs a group of pugs. 5 man teams should only play the same.

The reason I hate the “pip” system, is EVERY time I lose, i lose a pip. 5 man team vs pugs? Take a -1 pip. It’s not a very well designed system as a whole.

MF may not, but I’ve noticed most of mine have come from Item Boosters. (In the sense that they give me an extra chance of up to 3 harvests per node.) So if you have those, they seem to help.

186 nodes, 6 Vials. Trust me, I feel your pain. That’s with 8 characters all running 30% MF food on top of my passive 116% bonus. This is after hitting every location of coral listed on the wiki (more than once). Someone should do more research into the drop rates for these because it is horribly imbalanced compared to any other material I’ve had to gather for the collections I’ve done.

Conncept.7638:

insanemaniac.2456:

Beast Sos.1457:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Your post is predicated on conjecture, straw-man arguments, anecdotal evidence, and other logical fallacies.

~EW

W.e you say man…lmao

he pretty much right bro lmao

No he’s really not.

Conjecture is the formation of a conclusion while excluding evidence. Unless somebody round here has ears inside ANets office, he’s used all the evidence he, and we, have, being largely personal experience and viewpoint.

Straw man fallacy… doesn’t even make sense in this context. It’s attacking an argument that your opponent didn’t make. Who was his opponent prior to this persons post and what argument did they make? Especially seeing as he was the very first poster after the OP.

Anecdotal evidence, is just evidence based on personal experience, already covered that.

In short, he’s just somejerk getting off on making other people feel inferior using buzzwords he doesn’t even know the meaning of.

Excluding any financial statements from Anet on earnings / cost relativity. In fact, he offers NO evidence whatsoever to back up any single point he’s made. Personal Experience and Viewpoint =/= evidence.

“Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position”

Straw-man arguments because he’s saying “Anet isn’t doing X” when he really has no idea. He’s attacking them based on zero evidence provided. I think it’s a pretty clear misrepresented version of what Anet is doing, since he has no idea.

As for anecdotal evidence, “there is a larger chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.”

Such as saying that all the content is boring…

Any other questions?

I too have been more successful in PUGs than with my guilds. It’s fun meeting new players to attempt challenging content with and I think the social aspect of the game is very important. It’s the same idea as meta’s where it requires lots of organization with new people and I think having an LFG raid tool would be beneficial to that.

WvW is certainly not dead on many servers. Unless you’re NA playing at 3am.

Profits from sales go toward keeping the company stable, keeping servers up, paying employees, benefits, development, support and hundreds of other things. It’s clear that you have no idea the amount of work and financing a company like Anet needs. The game is FTP for many people, and these sales you’re talking about from base and HoT expansion; guess what? One time deal. That means that money needs to last until they release another expansion to replenish funds. If you think gem purchases are enough to sustain a large company and enable them to constantly push out new content then you really aren’t as smart as you think you are.

If open world pve is boring, dungeons are boring, and raids are boring; why are you playing the game? Don’t expect Anet to cater to you because you’re bored when there are thousands of active players who aren’t anywhere close to bored. You sound like a spoiled child.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Your post is predicated on conjecture, straw-man arguments, anecdotal evidence, and other logical fallacies.

~EW

Nicely sums up your argument. Too bad you’re too biased to realize it.

So I’ve seen reports in the past staying Anet doesn’t intend to create a Raid section of LFG, and I’m curious as to why.

The reasons I seen were because they were meant for organized groups and deemed too difficult for PUG groups to complete. I guess Anet underestimated the player base, because completing with PUGs is exactly what we have done! =D

That said, I think it’s a fair request to ask for a Raid section of LFG.

It’s not so much that there are multitudes of people looking for raids (the majority of the player base probably haven’t completed Vale Guardian) but that I don’t think it really falls under “Open World Content.” The thing is is that some of us, like myself, who don’t have the time to run with an organized raid group at specific times on specific days require LFG to find a group. And our posts often get lost in the sea of advertisements. (I can’t say I’d be against a separate section for HoT content/meta’s either….or even having that combined with raids.) Especially now that Fractal LFG’s are split into four different groups, surely we could have OWC split into more if it isn’t going to get a new section?

I know right now, this isn’t a very big issue (more of a slight annoyance) but with the introduction of new raids coming in the future, I’m sure it will entice more people to attempt them and thus need to find groups for them. I’m sure all of this has been discussed internally with Anet staff and I’m just curious about the outcomes of those conversations and the points for/against that have been brough up. So, is there any chance we see something like this in the future?

I don’t know whats happening now. Yesterday I was farming him post patch with about a 95% success rate but today something is different. I’m getting a 30% success rate if that. He’s attacking with full damage every time even though he’s blinded 100% of the time. I’ve tried many variations of my build and nothing is working so I don’t know if he got changed again or not, but I wouldn’t put it past Anet.

A Massive Headache.1879:

Why does quality assurance make so little by comparison?

Probably because their job is mostly to play the game…. They don’t really add anything to the creation process except for sorting out (usually) minor bugs. They don’t need to create the code to bypass the bugs or write the storyline, etc.

There are two types of people in this thread
- Those who agree with OP
- Those who don’t comprehend what OP is saying

Possibly the best post I’ve ever seen on this board. You should get a job with Anet and fix this mess of a game, OP. +1m

Oh no, people are making money so they can buy equipment and weapons they like. This must be fixed, pronto. It’s much funner playing 6 hours a day to make 3g.

So I went to challenge deadeye and when i got into the gauntlet i used my skill 3 Shadow Shot and nothing happened. When i look around, Deadeye disappeared. Not only did he not teleport, but he was nowhere to be found. Eventually i just ran into a mine and killed myself. I sure love wasting 20 silvers worth of tickets to fight no enemy.