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I am not saying its ALL they can do. Also not saying that this is what ALL thiefs do. But roamers that just gank people trying to regroup is so incredibly frustrating and does nothing for WvW except give them a quick way to get badges. Yes ele can do it to but not as easily because if a thief is going to lose he just stealths and walk off. Therefore surviving him does nothing for me. Only him when he wins. There has to be better ways to make thieves less bursty and more viable in other ways. I am aware at the last game state they talked about this but why was no nerf mentioned. If I run over 2.5k defense I shouldn’t be able to be taken down in less than 20 seconds including my heal. Its ridiculous.
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Of course ignored…..
2 bugs that really need to be addressed. Especially the skill Merciful Intervention.
The point is as others and myself have stated, there simply needs to either be more supply so that they are around 1g each not 3g. Or there needs to be more ways to get them so we can continue to play the game the way we want. Its not so much the time spent to get it. Its the fact you have to do only max profit things for this item vs a legendary which takes doing a lot of different tasks.
Telling people to buy them is ridiculous. Your asking me to make 700g in a reasonable time. As I need 350 for my weapon. This is not attainable even in a month.
No one is forcing you to get 350 lodestones; it’s your choice to go for a weapon that requires 350 charged lodestones.
sooooo what your saying is if i want to enjoy the game as much as people with no lives i must do only what maximizes my profits for the 8 hours a day i play so that i can be done with the game because im so angry by the time i attain said weapon? Don’t be ridiculous. The drop rates are simply too low on this item and there is no way to argue that. People farm them for that 3g per hour blah blah but it would be much more balances as the price would of the item if it were in greater supply. Also the weapon takes roughly 80 skill points and 250 each of ecto and ori and its not a friggin legendary. The majority of the community agrees that time/reward ratios are not what is going to keep people in a game.
Sounds like you just need to deal with it. If you want something bad enough, you’ll go through a lot of abuse to get it. Or just bust out the CC, buy some gems and convert it to gold. No one is forcing you to farm, no one is forcing you to play the TP, no one is forcing you to do anything you don’t want to do. You’ve put it into you own head that in order to enjoy the game, you need this weapon that requires 350 charged lodestones. And yet, you don’t have the stamina to actually get that weapon. You need to figure out what exactly it is you want to do with the game.
What I’m trying to state is nothing in the game should be THAT hard to attain. I am ok with saving as I play and buying them. But unless I literally grind grind grind every day for 6+ hours doing only things that earn max income for literally about a month or two would I attain these. My problem is not working for it. My problem is that it is one of few if not the only recipe for an EXOTIC not a legendary that requires 350 of something that a legendary only requires 100 of. That is the problem. If I only needed 100 of the lodestones and other mats then it would not be such a big deal.
In beta, obvious before cap, a friend and I in wvw ran myself a warrior cc and him a staff ele. we could stop a zerg just the 2 of us at a gate. he start aoe, i drop down which fall damage knocked down. when they got up i use burst hammer, when they got up i stomp, only a few would survive from stability and running but case in point definitely would only need to uncap ele IF they did it at all. im still for it hitting more players than unlimited.
if im going to pay $10 for an animation it better be a gem bought legendary weapon
Is this conversation tied to the full moon or somthing?
Charged lodestones are brutal to acquire. We tread this ground literally once a month. They came down quite a bit when the Orrian Jewelry boxes came out, and that’s about all that has changed in the landscape.
Amazing how they can’t simply edit 1 number to make a vast amount of the population happy.
Telling people to buy them is ridiculous. Your asking me to make 700g in a reasonable time. As I need 350 for my weapon. This is not attainable even in a month.
No one is forcing you to get 350 lodestones; it’s your choice to go for a weapon that requires 350 charged lodestones.
sooooo what your saying is if i want to enjoy the game as much as people with no lives i must do only what maximizes my profits for the 8 hours a day i play so that i can be done with the game because im so angry by the time i attain said weapon? Don’t be ridiculous. The drop rates are simply too low on this item and there is no way to argue that. People farm them for that 3g per hour blah blah but it would be much more balances as the price would of the item if it were in greater supply. Also the weapon takes roughly 80 skill points and 250 each of ecto and ori and its not a friggin legendary. The majority of the community agrees that time/reward ratios are not what is going to keep people in a game.
Telling people to buy them is ridiculous. Your asking me to make 700g in a reasonable time. As I need 350 for my weapon. This is not attainable even in a month.
I have 11 alts, I bought one. Enjoying the volcanic animation as I play ^^ I don’t need my other 10 alts farming ore. Cheap $10 purchase, can’t wait to see more cool animated items ideas from anet.
Fan boy, nothing wrong with us wanting either a little cheaper or account bound. I have spent roughly $200 on this game so don’t call me cheap. But I want to feel I’m getting my money worth. Worst exchange rate ever in gems to gold and this is over priced as well. Everything else so far in the Gem shop is reasonable.
/shrug 10 bucks is 10 bucks to me. And Idk about the fanboy comment. I spent around 800 dollars over the last 2 months on the game because it was fun, and I could. I support games that I enjoy. If I’m a fanboy for that, then ok. Again, it is 10 bucks, people at mcdonalds minimum wage in cali make that in an hour. As for gold – gems, takes me a day to make 20g. So kinda lost on the problem here. But to each their own I guess.
You are also missing the gold sink economical issue account bound versions would cause over time. But whatevs.. I have one, mining ori and mithril with lava feels pretty epic with my fused bow, 2 daggers, and greatsword.
As I stated I have spent roughly $200 so its not that I’m unwilling when I can but even as someone who tries to spend money on the game I can’t afford a pick axe for each character and your rich kitten is nuts to suggest everyone should. I will say again that success they have had or not they could have even more success if it were cheaper.
If you completly uncap it, you give zergs more power as well as small groups. Which means a zerg of 20 eles would decimate everything.
I really don’t think it would, due to cast times, recharge, and the ability to just go around an AoE wall. That would be a group of 1 trick ponies that once hit their meteor shower are left to die by those of us with CC or that can walk through that damage unscathed. In strategy there is always a counter.
I gotta agree for the most part. I have 7 mini pet Priests of Balthazaar or whatever he is and I can’t sell em. So kitten frustrating. I don’t want even 1
Too bad it isn’t more rewarding to farm the whole thing.
This is a general problem with the entire game imo.
Corrupted lodestones are another. I’ve put in ~10 hours of farming and gotten only one.
I’m sure all the statistics monkies will tell me that my sample rate is too low. But here is what I say. If you have any item with a drop rate that is sub (and I mean SUB) a full percentage to drop than you clearly hate your players.
I would rather get 1-3 an hour of a rare material and need more of them than need only a few and the drop rate be so bad that you are lucky to see one a week. There HAS to be a reasonable rate of reward to effort or otherwise you just feel like you’re having your time wasted.
I expect a certain amount of farming in a game and I understand the rock/hard place that a developer is in with trying to balance play time to high level gear acquisition. But the way drop rates are right now the only thing I feel is that the grind is making the whole game less and less fun to play.
Thats exactly my point and I agree. A big portion of this game, especially with the implementation of transmutation, is looking awesome. I spend forever on google, TP, and at vendors trying to mix and match what I want to look like and setting my goals. Now I get to weapons and kitten if it glows or sparks or is on fire you better give up the next 2 months of your life getting it. I know they don’t want people who play a lot to get bored but those people are going to farm that crap quick no matter how long you make it take. I’ve seen entire guilds trading off helping each other get legendaries. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that but if someone is dedicating 8+ hours a day doing nothing but farming the exact same thing over and over again to get it then hott kitten let em have it in a week. They deserve it. But going a week of farming every day and feeling like your making no progress is just stupid. There is a serious lack of reward in this game period outside of dungeons. I can’t remember the last time I found some random eventless champ in a mountain, spent half an hour fighting it, and got better than a blue or maybe kitten green that I probably can’t even use. Exploration rewards jack crap in this game and drop rates on good loot or mats is just obismal.
Sorry OP but your just wrong. What it really boils down to is this game holds the hand of skill-less players and makes end game a time dump not a skill/reward ratio. Those kinds of things cannot be balanced as there will ALWAYS be a best or fastest way to run a dungeon or farm an event or blah blah. Deal with it.
the price for charged cores and loadstones and any other thing is not desided by any in areanet atleast not directly.
any of the loadstones are rare drops so given that it is going to take a long time
The supply is so low though that they are a bit ridiculous. There are pretty few items you could need 350 of for ANYTHING in this game that are over 1G each. Plus other mats such as 250 ori and such.
My thoughts:
-To start just increase the cap, or like others said remove limit and make sure damage is escapable.
-As for stacking Ele on a tower for defense, I see no problem just stack ele to counter in your attack. No different then 2 roaming thieves backstabbing a single target from stealth before they can realize they have been hit.
-As for zerg crush what about a penalty for being near more than 20 people in wvw? There are zone buffs for when your outnumbered so why not take this mechanic to a smaller opposite level. The more people within a 3-4k range (weapon range) the more penalty to your stats you suffer.
I think the major problem is that CoF has more profit not ONLY because it can be run fast but because it has level 80 rares for 30 tokens making almost garunteed ecto every day which equals money money money. I think lodestones are much more a problem then simply profiting as a casual player. I made 25ish gold cycling between cof and orr farming in roughly 12-14 hours of gameplay BUT I was not enjoying myself. I feel that drop rate increases on some items or maybe diversifying how you can get some things could be good for the game. If I have the same chance to profit farming events in orr as I did running CoF then it wouldnt be such a grind to explore. I remain on the fact I will always state I farmed for charged lodestones for 3 hours and got not 1 with over 100% MF. This is not crying to ask for an increase in such an item (just example) when I require 350. And yes I was farming the right enemies. Killing roughly 5 per minute.
I have 11 alts, I bought one. Enjoying the volcanic animation as I play ^^ I don’t need my other 10 alts farming ore. Cheap $10 purchase, can’t wait to see more cool animated items ideas from anet.
Fan boy, nothing wrong with us wanting either a little cheaper or account bound. I have spent roughly $200 on this game so don’t call me cheap. But I want to feel I’m getting my money worth. Worst exchange rate ever in gems to gold and this is over priced as well. Everything else so far in the Gem shop is reasonable.
Mjolnir is not even a legendary yet it takes 350 to craft. Currently there are 900 on the TP which means out of hundreds of thousands of players only 3ish people could even craft this buying from TP. Also farming that amount of gold would be ridiculous. Now I understand legendary weapons taking forever to farm but this is not a legendary even if it does look cool. It just has an effect. Doesn’t do anything special when swung, doesn’t leave a trail when you walk. Its just electrified. Yet it might take longer and as expensive if now more than a legendary. I have run for over an hour several times with over 100% magic find against sparks and air elementals and not gotten a single charged core or charged lodestone. There needs to be a better way to do this. Anet you have done a great job of giving us options on how to obtain exp/SP, karma, gold blah blah blah but I don’t want to be forced to do CoF runs 8 hours a day for a month just for a kitten weapon. Thats just crazy. I want to enjoy the game and play with my friends. Not tell them I can’t go do stuff with them because it doesn’t help me get my hammer. I play around 8 hours a day if not more and I just cannot get these stupid stones no matter what I do. Why do legendary weapons take 100 but this hammer 350? Why must I be forced to grind the same thing every day for hours upon hours making the game boring just to obtain skins.
:edit: What I’m really thinking needs to be done is an increase in drop rates. Not everyone likes farming but not everyone likes dungeons. I prefer to farm. You gave us orr and options for attaining gold and end game but then made it too difficult to farm. I just want to attain roughly 2-3 per hour of farming. Also make it only take 100-250 to craft this weapon so it at least roughly makes sense.
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I enjoy many aspects of the game including jumping puzzles but this is the third such jumping puzzle since the Clocktower of Halloween and the stepping stones in the Lost Shores that I haven’t been able to do despite trying often.
To address those who for some reason think that platform gaming is a basic skill we should all have there is a vast variety of abilities in every individual in the world. You cant please everyone but I am an able bodied and relatively intelligent 40 (odd) year old player who has been playing computer and video games since Ping Pong and if I’m struggling I’m sure there are many people sadly and unfortunately even way below me in ability struggling so the balance hasn’t been struck well.
Also in reply to the people who say move on from that puzzle if you cant play it. I’m getting annoyed I can’t get to enjoy a challenge at my level which I’m pretty sure isn’t that low. I don’t want it to be made too easy for others just have an alternative lesser difficulty and if you feel the reward should fit then make it that less rewarding for those on easy difficulty.
The feeling that comes with being excluded to content even indirectly because of difficulty is to just ignore it and in the end if most challenges in special holiday events have such a high difficulty of challenge then I am going to stop feeling any reason to join in, try and be involved in those events just to fail again so ignoring Wintersday, Halloween etc for the most. Then this can become a downward spiral which adds a reason to others I may have to build up to me jumping ship to another MMO.
This isn’t just about me , though I’m sure many people will say it is , but I believe there are many casual players out there who never visit these forums that are also being put off by the difficulty. A hint to Anet if you want to make as many people as possible interested in your holiday events introduce levels of difficulty for a wider player base to enjoy.
Ps. Although these forums are well moderated there is still much ignorance, arrogance and offensive behavior and attitude that I do expect someone to insult me or my intelligence so I wont be visiting to read any replies to me. I’m just happy to be able to let my thoughts be known.
This was well put. I already have next to nobody in RL to play this game with which is the main fun in an MMO. My friends just don’t enjoy the game which is fine to each their own but I just feel these types of events make me annoyed enough to play that much less. It may seem “dumb” or “immature” to some to stop playing a game for such reasons but for casual non-grinding people that don’t have time to dedicate 8+ hours a day into this game there isn’t much to look forward to as things such as legendaries are un-achievable and events require you to be on at certain times or days and the perma content throughout an event being too difficult it just is a bunch of small things that add to frustration until I finally just log out.
COMPLETE FAIL!
I am ok with different difficulties as long as the rewards aren’t different. As a casual player I find the whole seasonal things all together frustrating. But as for the jumping puzzle goes. I suck at them as a Norn, I can do them ok on other classes but I can barely see and I don’t see why it should be timed. I absolutely hate it and just one more thing that makes it annoying and not even want to play the game during seasonal holidays if there is stuff I can’t even earn. I could do them if they weren’t timed but as of now I’m done with Guild Wars 2 during holidays.