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Well, firstly, i’m a casual type player. Logging in every now and again to complete a dungeon or just to do a couple of events or farm for 30 minutes.
The other day the Mystic Toilet was one of the daily tasks, so I threw in 24 Greatsword, and out popped Dusk. Having no need for the sword, or ever wanting it I promptly sold it for a fair amount of gold. I’ve since spent a bit on things I wanted (dyes, skins, useless stuff really) and am left with 700G.
I am a shortbow Ranger. I only play my Ranger. I will never play another type of character seriously enough to invest in them. I was the same in GW1 with my Necro.
My question to you:- Would you buy The Lover (precursor for The Dreamer), leaving me with 180G, and work towards it, casually. Or would you spend the money on other things, level Huntsman to 500 and craft an Ascended Bow? Given the potential up-coming precursor changes I’m undecided.
An alternative is that I can blow 100G on the fun of the Toilet, and if all else fails just buy The Lover.
Showatt – You are presenting a very logical answer as to why ANet are doing what they are doing, however I disagree with a few of your points, as you will probably disagree with mine.
ANet lack a fundamental feedback tool – a PTS or whatever you may call it. Their decisions are based on feedback here – on the forums – and other sources such as in-game bug reports, comments on social media, comments in the gaming press etc.
Therefore the decision they make is what they feel is best. Will they change this patch release? Not a chance. Have they taken the right step? Only time will tell.
I personally am both opposed and in support of this patch.
I support that they have addressed the huge gap in time/luck/whatever between Exotic and Legendary which may also help the current situation with pre-cursors.
I oppose that the Exotic sets that so many of us (i’m not going to say community) have worked hard to get, be it through grinding Karma, crafting or buying the items from the TP in the belief that ANet would not introduce another tier of gear, are possibly becoming obsolete.
The one screenshot we have, of the Ring, shows what I would call a significant increase in all three stats on the item. Nowhere does it suggest that this is usable only in the new area. If they get this much negative feedback about a ring – an item that was specifically chosen for display by ANet – I dread to think what the rest of the Ascended set items will bring us.
“If you really are the majority, and if the majority of players are so opposed to the idea, and if the game is doing fine and requires no such dramatic changes, why the hell is this happening? ".
I can answer that one. It’s being changed because people were pissing and moaning that they couldn’t get their Legendary quickly enough. This inclusion of an intermediate tier is directly aimed at them.
Just because you seem to agree with a change doesn’t make you right, does it?
Welcome to GW2.
Let me get this right. You have 15 character slots in GW, and the names are important to you (well, at least two more names). You want the privelege of reserving all 15 names, however you are unwilling to pay to utilise 7 names, in total, let alone all of them.
Sorry to bang on about research, but if you had done any you wouldn’t feel entitled to your names, given you’ve joined the game probably 2 months after launch. Feel thankful that any of your names were reserved at all.
Cheers for the replies guys.
@Pvp – Not looked at the TA gear in terms of dungeon running (don’t like TA) but will have to check it out.
@Ryke – Yeah, that was my thinking too. I’m guessing toughness would be more important than vitality…
@Xiss – That’s going to be my Dungeon set (I think), if you are on about the Whispering one you get via Arah tokens.
Rampager it is.
I’m a level 80 ranger who’s just hit 400 in Leatherworking and i’m about to plan out my crafting priorities. I’m a condition-based Ranger, and plan to stay that way, at least for the time being.
In terms of crafted gear, Traveller would provide me a +MF set. Berserker is the go-to for crit-based builds. For my normal farm/dungeon set i’m a bit torn. You have Carrion which gives us +Power, +Condition and +Vitality (HP). On the other hand you have Rampager which gives +Power, +Condition and +Precision (increasing the critical hits).
What would you go for, and why, as a general all-purpose set. I am swaying towards the +Vitality of Carrion at present. Am I wrong to overlook Knight, Valkyrie and Cleric?
I think income is fine. Compare it to the other large MMO that launched recently (SW:TOR), and we have it good here in GW2. In SW:TOR the rewards from Operations are equivalently less than in GW2.
In no way should you be able to run a 30 minute dungeon and get 24s in the current economy. No way. People that say otherwise are either annoyed that they missed out on this “oversight” or have been so spoiled.
To close – running a Dungeon (for straight up coin) should not be an option. Dungeons are for loot, tokens and for the challenge.
To be honest it sounds like on of the following:
1) You’ve changed your keybinds in GW2
2) You have a keyboard that requires you to activate your F keys (otherwise they do things like open up the internet, etc)
3) You have a macro set up somewhere
Only a few of our skills allow us to place a groundmarker – these being Traps if traited, and the Longbow #5 skill. May have missed one or 2, but they are the main ones.
The whistle sound you refer to could be the pet swap whistle, or some other skill, hence I think your F1 key is macro’d to a key string or something similar.