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PvP Backpack after Season 8 ends.

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Seeing how it’s the last season of the year, I’m a bit scared. Any idea what happens? Do the achievements lock/reset? Am I doomed if I don’t finish it now?

Searching online I found some conflicting reports. Some say there will be a new legendary every year and thus progress will reset while others say it will still be available next season. Would be nice if somebody cleared it up.

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How much money does Anet have?

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More than me

Nerf Ventari Rev

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I think it fits very well with the current theme of being thrown around all over the place like a ping pong ball until you get stuck somewhere.

Land spear confirmed!

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I was just watching GW2 Live and they were talking about land sharks. So now you have a use for underwater weapons in the desert…

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets their big toe bitten off.

Suddenly I can't win a match

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Apparently, you are bad and should learn how to play. Did you lose? Of course you lost, you are bad. What? You had many wins the previous day? Well, you just got carried.

Did you know-

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Used to be pretty active on the chat, but I had too many cases of the talking and planning turning into sheer hostility as the game progressed. I just can’t be bothered these days, usually nothing of note is said anyway other than insults after the fact.

Lets open a new wanted feature: Housing

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Please no. Housing is just another pointless money sink. :s

Like mounts, at least according to some people.

HoT masterys in PoF maps

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Also, how do you know that this strategy does damage to the game?
Maybe it attracts more new players, doing exactly the opposite than damaging it?

Is attracting new players worth giving the middle finger to those that have been supporting you for 5 years? Because that’s how I feel. If you throw my progress every time out of the window, it makes me less likely to continue playing/buying, much like the “new” player will feel the same when the next expansion hits.

Is it actually damaging? Nobody knows yet, we’ll see in a few years.

Edit: Standalone means you can play it without HoT, it does not state that there can’t be optional content where HoT masteries are required.

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HoT masterys in PoF maps

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I mean, Just because it’s stand-alone doesn’t mean that everyone needs to get everything.

So let’s say you don’t own HoT, but PoF.
You paid for that expansion.
Wouldn’t it be a shame to not have access to 100% of it, despite having paid the full price?

I mean I do understand that some players would like to make use of the masteries they worked for.
But a standalone expansion should stay a standalone expansion. Everything else wouldn’t be fair to those who don’t own HoT.

I don’t see the problem with some optional hard-to-reach masteries that require updrafts etc. which are always more than required anyway. Yes, you paid for the expansion and you can do everything else in it but in the end, it’s an MMO, there’s years of character progression involved, there’s no avoiding that.

Is it really worth throwing everything previously aquired away so that people that just got the latest expansion feel they have everything? In the future they will also feel their own progress being sacrificed for the new batch of players. I personally don’t feel that sacrificing the long-term for the short-term is worth it, it does damage to the game.

I need some help guys, i just dont have fps

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I remember shaders on high killing the framerate on my previous GPU, they don’t even look that good, everything just gets glossy. I’d go with medium, maybe try disabling ambient occlusion as well.

HoT masterys in PoF maps

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I have a fear that they will. The moment they said stand-alone expansion, the first thought I had was bye bye HoT masteries. It would be great to have some difficult to get areas that require updrafts or mushrooms but I’m almost convinced that it will be all mount-related which is a shame and a wasted opportunity.

I mean, Just because it’s stand-alone doesn’t mean that everyone needs to get everything. It would be great motivation for people to get HoT instead of just the latest the greatest. They always said the mastery system was a way of character progression, but I don’t see the progression if we just leave everything we learned behind after every expansion.

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Are you ready for the Crystal Desert?

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Absolutely ready for the desert…without making any changes whatsoever to any character…so…yeah.

Guild wars 3

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What would a new game achieve though that they can’t cram here? A little better graphical fidelity? I guess, though PoF has proven that the game can still look great. Maybe core Tyria could use a pass with a new paintbrash but a whole new game for that?

It’s just a massive undertaking, they would have to rebuild the entire world from scratch when they can barely keep up with content demand as it is. Why throw everything away and start again? What would the playerbase gain? A few years with barely anything to do? What would anet gain? Risking losing existing players?

It sounds like a lose/lose scenario to me. I wouldn’t expect anything for the next 5 years at least.

Lopsided matches

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It’s actually a lot better in this season. In 40 games, I’ve had like 3 compared to the previous one which was every other game.

Why am I still getting blowout matches?

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I’ve never seen a matchmaker in any game that is able to prevent blowouts. It’s just a fact of PvP.

I can agree with that, if we’re talking about once in a while, but getting something like 4-5 blowouts in rapid succession shows that something is very wrong.

Why Making SPVP P2W?

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I guess every game is p2w. I mean, how can you win if you don’t pay to buy it, right? Hell, even for supposedly free games I still need to pay for internet, electricity. computer parts. Free my kitten butt.

I love the Ranked match making

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Are you bad? If so, you should be losing most games. If you’re playing better than everyone though, then there’s a problem.

That doesn’t make any sense. If he’s bad, he/she should be matched with other bad players, isn’t that the whole point of match making?

1v1 Mode

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What we need to measure the skill of individual players is a system where they are being matched with 4 brain-dead dummies and seeing how much they can carry a game.

…….oh wait

If you're good you can carry any team...

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The whole notion of “carrying” is taken way out of proportion. Sure, you can to some extend but if people really feel like being stupid, there’s not much you can do unless you can be at 2 places at once and 1v4.

How to save pvp

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Burn it in a sea of flame methinks.

No punishment for afkers/griefers

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Just some advice, threatening does not work in general. If they’ve done something report them, block them and move on. Threatening them only makes you seem like a kitten and often makes things worse.

Uneven Matchmaking

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Yeah, matchmaking is a joke. One moment I’m being stomped repeatedly 500-100 and the next game I win 500-5 against some players probably playing for the first time. It’s a mess and I don’t have any faith it’ll be sorted until it’s too late and everyone has moved on.

How Is This Fun For Anyone??

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Is just a necro fest, spam chill spam chill , death shroud and game over. Teams running 3 necros, there is no way to clear all the condi bombs. The dev’s think this was a good idea?? We now have to play this for the rest of the season?? I"d rather sit this out and hope they fix it soon.. This is NOT fun for me!

You know why you see what you see? I mean you act like the necro class in its current form is something the necro players invented. Its not! Its a class like any other created and implemented by arenanet. So first, dont blame the players. Second, try this one for size, anytime I to go into pvp with the build and weapons I actually like I lose. And not only lose Im also useless. You see I happen to like the greatsword for a reaper but equipping it pretty much means Im limiting myself to only 1 weapon for like 90% of the time. I dont like the dagger, I dont like the axe, so there go pretty much all my power options. Whats left for me if I want to have some success in pvp? Bloody condis is what is left and that is what I use like it or not.

Not sure why you went on the defensive there, the OP didn’t seem to put any blame on individual players.

the never ending losing streak

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It’s not the losing that gets me. Sure, a streak can get very annoying but it’s not the end of the world if you had a decent close match. They can also be good learning experiences.

What really has me at the brink of quitting the game is those 500- 100 matches that happen way too often. In fact, I just had 2 in a row. Losing is one thing, being farmed is quite another. L2p does not apply here, it’s just horrible matchmaking, no other explanation. There’s not excuse for these types of games happening at that frequency. It destroys any kind of motivation to play.

Why Dragon Stand is a Pain in the kitten

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What about the map design itself? Running around in endless circles again and again and again. Somebody will make a mistake at some point and you will have to continue running around and around until frustration, boredom and tedium keep rising and more people start screwing up. Then it’s the “blame people” phase and then everyone leaves. I don’t know who can possibly find that fun.

Definition of Pay2Win

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Expansions simply overtake the main game and become the main game themselves. Sounds legit

Couldn’t have said it better myself. That’s how MMO expansions tend to work, they add new features and completely rebalance everything while the rest of the game becomes an afterthought. When was the last time somebody did Burning Crusade content seriously?

Definition of Pay2Win

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It seems like the “pay to win” term is becoming broader and broader. I guess we can start including games like counter-strike, Call of Duty and Rainbow Six in there since in order to win you need to have the game, and in order to have the game, you need to pay so there you go.

that is buy2play, not pay2win

No use posting. These guys think HoT IS the game in its entirety and not simply an addition.

Correct. HoT IS the main game indeed, while the F2P part is the addition, just something extra to grab a few people here and there. Certainly not the other way around.

Definition of Pay2Win

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It seems like the “pay to win” term is becoming broader and broader. I guess we can start including games like counter-strike, Call of Duty and Rainbow Six in there since in order to win you need to have the game, and in order to have the game, you need to pay so there you go.

that is buy2play, not pay2win

Like Heart of Thorns then. Interesting.

HoT is both buy2play and pay2win since it does include anything other than pvp stuffs.

Since we re focusing on balancing stuffs on pvp forum, we disregard pve content which is b2p, thus is p2w.

Still doesn’t make sense. This entire situation is contradictory. Until recently there was a group of people that did not have access to PvP at all, which was apparently fine, and by giving them access to PvP for free there is now the complaint that they need to spend money because not absolutely everything is being given for free.

Definition of Pay2Win

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It seems like the “pay to win” term is becoming broader and broader. I guess we can start including games like counter-strike, Call of Duty and Rainbow Six in there since in order to win you need to have the game, and in order to have the game, you need to pay so there you go.

that is buy2play, not pay2win

Like Heart of Thorns then. Interesting.

Definition of Pay2Win

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It seems like the “pay to win” term is becoming broader and broader. I guess we can start including games like counter-strike, Call of Duty and Rainbow Six in there since in order to win you need to have the game, and in order to have the game, you need to pay so there you go.

Suggestion: Mounts [Merged]

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if you want mounts, go play WoW, in that game there is plenty of mounts

I will never understand this way of thinking. Guild Wars 2 has many features inherited from other popular MMOs. Is that a bad thing? Should we avoid features that would complement the game just for the sake of avoiding them? Perhaps we should start removing other popular features also found in WoW and focus on making the game the most hipster possible, rather than the most fun.

Edit: Remove gliding please. Aion had it first.

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Shadow Assassin Outfit

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I feel the same way about the Herald back piece. Just be patient and it’ll come

NPC mounts? Are you kidding?

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Well, you can always press “F” to steal their mount, just beware of the cops.

when dungeon is dead

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There’s a ridiculous amount of things you can do to make gold.

No, after ANet’s latest purge of gold income, there’s really not.

I don’t know about that. In the past 4-5 days I’ve made a large amount of gold. Getting a feel for the new economy (what sells now, what doesn’t) can take a while but once you do, in combination with halloween stuff, you can make quite a bit of cash and I’m not even doing well compared to some other people I know.

I hate Mordrem Snipers

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If there’s 1-2 of them it can be an interesting and fun fight but in large chaotic battles with 3+ of them, it’s hell and not in a fun way. It can be hard to even notice their lines with all the effects from everything and one knockdown from something else is insta-death. Certainly could do with some tweaking.

This is unplayable as solo.

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So, where’s my OPTION?

Probably where the money from your wallet were.

masteries are pure content streching

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Let me tell you a story…

I was frantically searching for hero points in the first map in order to unlock the elite spec on my necro. After wiping at several of them, I finally found an unguarded one by gliding down toward the bottom of the map.

I was so happy when I discovered it, the feeling of exploring and being rewarded for it was almost overwhelming. Then I found out I couldn’t click on it and the npc kept saying I wasn’t worthy. Locked behind some mastery I assume. Instantly turned the game off.

We Don't Make Grindy Games

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“Do you see that cool spec we’ve made? Would you like to play the new and interesting story like that? You would, wouldn’t you? Well, you can’t. Once you finished with the game and if you’ve been a good boy, maybe we’ll let you try it”

They should replace the dragon icon with two gears and call it “Grind of Thorns”

Season 2, currently unfinishable

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On the final episode, on the pact getting assaulted part, you are supposed to free three soldiers in order to continue but only two ever spawn. Just to make sure it wasn’t me missing the last, I looked up some videos and it really isn’t where it should be.

Please fix asap, I don’t want to move to the expansion without finishing Season 2.

How much will gw 2 heart of thorns cost?

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They should just make the Expansion free.

and let their staff/workers eat sand ?

Why not? Works for me.

"LFM Berzerker Wars ONLY!!!"

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Something needs to be done about 100b. It’s the reason we are godly in PvE and crappy in PvP. I’d rather be just decent in both. How about reducing the damage but allowing movement?

Arcing Slice again

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I’ve been away for a while so excuse me if I’ve missed anything, but do we have any idea if it’s being looked at? I’d rather have something a little more useful and it’s not like we have so many skills to use that nobody misses it. Replacing crit chance with crit damage, giving it a huge dmg buff, pretty much anyting would be welcome at this point.

Being able to hit stuff with Rush a little more often would also be nice but let’s leave that for a different thread.

Upgraded graphics card zero performance gains

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Unfortunately, cores don’t matter as much in games as arcitecture/frequency/cache. Still, getting a decent cooler and overclocking would be quite cheap and possibly yield good results.

Upgraded graphics card zero performance gains

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Being an MMO with hundreds of characters on-screen, it tends to be harder on the CPU and yours isn’t exactly brand new. It does really sounds like you’re experiencing a CPU bottleneck. Perhaps an overclock would increase performance significantly.

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Can't login

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I was playing just fine until earlier today but for the last 3 hours or so I can’t login into the game. Getting 42:1000:7006:854 .

Is something going on or is it just me?