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This isn’t broken
You just need to buy some gems and exchange for gold and buy silk… I really don’t see what the problem is here????
The only problem is that if everyone followed that advice, they still would not be able to get enough silk, as the primary supply on the TP is barely enough for 1,500 spools of Silk Weaving Thread. Less than 100 people can pay to win (effectively buying their ascended armor) before the primary supply is exhausted.
Sure, there is still supply tied up in T5 armor and crafting components that can be salvaged, and invariably in speculators’ banks, but your glib reply is not the answer to this problem.
Actually the amount of silk available on the TP has barely changed since the ascended armor went live. You would be surprised ’there’s lumps of it round the back’… Wanze prolly has a few containers full he’s forgotten about….
This is a bad idea in my humble opinion. Players with experience will know the visual signs for what fields they are in already and the game can do without dumbing down further.
I don’t know what you are talking about, but being a little forced in WvW is better than solely being forced in PvE. The game has to adress both pve and pvp players.
Perhaps there should be legendaries for each?
What if OP or someone else invested tons of time and money to get a berserker’s set of ascended gear? And now it’s nerfed. Fair?
It’s not like he can come up with another set of gear in a day or two.
Berzerker gear isn’t getting ‘nerfed’ more than any other gear that uses crit damg and, in fact, will be better off than say assassin’s or celestial. Zerkers wear the gear b/c it has the highest DPs general speaking, so, with the other DPs sets getting the Nerf bat as well, I’d be really interested to know what other gear it is you believe he would be interested in switching too. Oh wait, that’s right…zerker will still be the highest DPs set making this argument completely rediculous.
Not if the risk now outweighs the reward. Which is is likely in pve and doubtless in wvw.
Chemiclord, So because you aren’t good enough to do dungeons in zerker gear you think your within your rights to grumble about others that don’t want to play with you… Ok, fine, you know we are all winners it’s the taking part that counts!
Actually I jest, I was aware of this issue and that attitude of some players does stink but to say that justifies a change like this is just wrong. Most players by far are perfectly able to play zerker and this must surely be a true minority grumbling here.
Your welcome too.
Fanom, you are correct it is the wvw that this affects by far the most which is a shame as it is a more challenging area of the game. If anything that and pvp is what the game should be balanced for and pve the lesser concern but I guess we all have our own preference there.
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Is Anet destroying the game? Well, In my humble opinion everyone is missing the point here. These changes to zerker that also affect celestial were said, by the devs, to do with balance for pve…
Now if you think about that it makes no sense. Pve doesn’t need balance because it doesn’t matter…
1 – Everything in pve dies when you hit it a few or more times there’s no challenge it’s all a dps race and no one cares whether or not something dies a few seconds quicker because someone is wearing zerker gear, after all it could be argued there is a risk reward scenario that already balances that. I don’t see anyone moaning that such and such a player plays well enough to wear zerker and it’s not fair boo hoo it just doesn’t register it’s a non issue
2 – no one in their right mind would say celestial needs a nerf it’s crap anyway in the vast majority of builds and professions
So what’s the real reason… Well, the thing is these sets are well defined, one is the best dps and one is the most balanced, supposedly, or at least thought of that way. That makes them popular sets and now we are getting somewhere.
With ascended armor it costs a fortune to make. Most players likely to expend the most gold and therefore $$$ already made their armor sets! A good portion of which would be celestial and zerker. So by making a bogus nonsense balance change it forces those spending players to play more and spend more to rebuild again. This is the only logical reason there can be! So are they destroying the game? Maybe, but not yet as there’s nothing else to play right now. Anet are just milking it dry in the meantime.
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will but it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work this angle out
This isn’t broken
You just need to buy some gems and exchange for gold and buy silk… I really don’t see what the problem is here????
Don’t forget that Celestial is about to hit with the nerf stick on critical damage though…
Then it may be useless. Having said that whatever you build ANET will most likely kitten it at some near future point and you’ll need to respec… they can’t sell gems if everyone has what they need can they. My 2c on it
Thanks for all your feedback guys it’s awesome, and sorry for the delayed response I have been working late
I will take your advice and respec a new rig. I’ll see what’s available in the next day or two and check out the chips you have recommended and see what I can put together. I’ll run it by you when I get it specced.
Thanks again
Crumps
Guys, thanks very much for your input, lots to consider.
I think what I will do is pick up a used quad X9650 and see what difference, if any, it makes going from 2.4ghz duo to 3ghz quad. If it makes no difference I’ll sell it again and respec the whole thing.
She runs with our guild of 18ish in WvW but when we fight against enemy guild teams and zergs, whatever, the lag is just silly, usual fps isn’t tooooo bad apart from that. Shes at work so i can’t ask her what fps shes getting exactly and I haven’t looked at it. Mines reasonable though so connection is fine.
Another consideration, at this time we both just spent all our gold and laurels on ascended celestial sets with Divinity / Traveler runes and apparently celestial is now being nerfed (Why??? Kitten knows!) -now we have made them- so we might drop the game and respec when the next RvR / WvW game comes out if we aren’t given the choice to swap stats. We wouldn’t have built the sets last week had we known, they are not that great to begin with but Im guessing they didn’t think about the negative effect the change to zerker would have on other sets. Im too tired of farming boring PvE to start again we just want to play WvW but now Im off topic grrrr…
Thanks again for your input, Nice specs there NeedCoffee and SolarNova – I am considering your specs as upgrades for her, and me now lol…
Regards
Crumps
Hi, I am upgrading my wifes pc for her since she suffers so much lag and low fps in WvW.
The fastest quad core available for the motherboard she has (Abit in9-32x max) is the QX9650 at 3ghz… (circa £60 used)
The fastest Dual core available I can find is also 3ghz, she will be upgrading from a E6600 2.4gz.
My first question is…will the quad make a big difference over the duo? And will this upgrade be worth doing, or will the difference be small at best?
Her GPU is is a gtx 680 so no problems there though she only has 4×1gb RAM so my second question is- Is the RAM worth upgrading to 4x 2gb also..or more?
If we are not looking at a decent boost (IE make the game playable) I’ll just build her a new PC, thx in advance to all you techies that can advise.
Sorry if I aven’t included any relevant info pc’s knowledge isn’t really my thing I know how to put one together but thats about it…
Regards
Crumps
Bubby, why don’t you just kitten, buy some gems, convert to gold, buy some more mats and make new armor! Everyones happy right???
Yeah right, it’s not fair, it’s not right, it’s just a way for ANET to farm the player base for more $$$
I feel your pain, I am in the same situation, as is everyone else that crafted ascended armor already and if it doesn’t affect you yet it will… The nerf stick that forces more investment in the game, changing builds for no good reason, is coming to a build near you very soon!
ANET don’t want a remedy for the silk issue. They already have the perfect remedy… players have to buy gems, convert to gold, then buy their silk for their armor…
Then, as in the next patch spoke of in the live stream, they nerf the stats on your armor, so you have to buy more gems to convert to gold to buy more silk so you can make more armor….until next time.
Working exacty as intended…
I, as has everyone else, have spent ages making my (celestial) set of ascended gear for my WvW build. Time, gold, laurels, gems/cash etc and it’s not even finished yet, it never is before the next change comes in. It’s not perfect as a set for me, or anyone else for that matter, but I know a lot of folks that have made it as it’s a good all round balanced set if you use all stats and the crit on it makes it Ok….ish. Anyway, the reasons are irrelevant it was a decision I made based on the perameters that ANET made, whether the set is good or bad or OP is not the point.
The point here is that ANET are changing something that p(l)ayers have invested heavily in and had I known about this change in advance I may have made something else so therefore they should alloy players to change their sets if they are affected right?
I mean, if I buy cucumbers at the store when I get home I expect a cucumber in my bag, not a kitten banana…
Anet surely understands this will mean changes for people and would want to give us the chance to take the cucumber back and get what we wanted right, I mean what difference does it make to them??? After all this is about balance yes… so what if we change our gear for another set as they are all so well balanced right it won’t make any difference yeah?
Certainly looking through these threads no one seems to have a good reason as to why this would balance anything anyway…
But there must be a reason! So heres the rub! Every time they have a ‘balance’ /cough ‘update’ it means that players will invest more $$$, in more gems, to update their build, especially since the players that have the build they farmed for are less likely to want to farm it a second or third time etc. So we are more likely to buy gems (to spend on crazy silk etc – who made an xmas bonus on that one?) and rebuild if we want to have the BiS, which many players do. It seems to me looking through these threads there’s just no other realistic explanation for this change.
We farm drops, Anet farm us! Simples.
Anyways, if those affected aren’t given the opportunity to change their gear I won’t invest any more in this game, im just done, it’s just not worth it when stuff changes so fast, you make something one minute and the next it’s all change.
Any other games coming out with WvW soon please let me know?