Guild Wars 2

He doesn’t look like he’s suffering. In fact, if anything, I think it needs to look a little more exasperated while not moving, and the movements need to have little splashes of water.
I mean, we still have plant elf people. Who we shouldn’t. We should first deal with that filth that was been allowed to stand on Tyrian soil for this long. Then we can return to our massive fish torture because we are jerkfish.

But seriously, it’s an animated fish. Don’t like it, don’t spend your money/gold on it. Don’t like other people having it. Tough. Maybe ANet should implement a “Hide minis” option instead so we don’t have to listen to the whiners over a regular old animated fish.

Players rezzing also are considered more threatening as well.

MAGpie.7962:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ascended Drop Rates
We’ve noticed some changes to ascended drop rates that are below what we were expecting.

If you tell a computer, 10%, it will give you 10%. If you tell it, 1%, it will give you 1%. Please tell me, how you can “EXPECT” less than the value YOU put in? Are you kidding me?

You know, I would respect you a lot more if you you man up for a change.

Except that’s not how that works. At all.

Narth.6094:

I did a quick dps calculation to compare the dps between a power build that focuses on power compared to one with condition. With 900 power, in clerics gear it took about 1 minute and 8 seconds to kill the target golem in Heart of the Mists, auto attacking with sword which is the highest dps for sword.
With 900 condition damage, just using the mace autoattack and and the #2 skill, it took about 44 seconds to kill the target golem. Mace/Shield condi in Apothecary gear is probably the best bet to maximize both healing and damage in a support role.

I hate to digress here, but in all my time, I have not been able to figure out how anyone does a DPS calculation without some form of in-game meter. How do you do it?

About a year ago, I completed my Legendary, Frostfang. I had been having a lot of fun with Axe at the time in Fractals and dungeons, and just wasn’t a fan of Conditions. I also loved the way it looked in general

Fast forward to now, and I slowed down on my Necromancer. I don’t want to not use Frostfang because I’ll feel like I wasted materials to make it, especially since Tooth of Frostfang was a gift. But at the same time, it seems Axe just isn’t cutting it anymore, and I don’t want to stop playing my Necro just because of that. And I’m still not sure I’m a fan of conditions.

So, are there any good or recommended axe builds for Necro for PvE?

Bandini.6185:

Chest farming in Silverwastes is your best option for the mats you need to craft Vision Crystal. If you dez what you drop, you will also get a good amount of T5 ore and wood. If that’s not enough for the time-gated refinement, another good spot is Orr, especially around Pagga’s Waypoint.

Regarding T2-T4 ore and wood, I usually go to :
- Blazeridge Steppes, Terra Carorunda Waypoint for Iron (need 90 a day) and Tukawa (30 a day)
- Bloodtide Coast, exit of Lion’s Arch, for Iron, Platinum (60 a day), Tukawa and Pine (60 a day)
- Timberline Falls,Thistlereed Waypoint for Platinum and Pine
- Gendarran Fields, Snowblind Waypoint for Gummo (120 a day) but not sure if there isn’t a better place somewhere else

My guess is that you won’t get enough T2 wood, but if you gather everything you see, and dez everything you loot in Silverwastes, you will have enough money to buy the remaining wood you need.

This is the exact answer I was looking for. Thank you very much You are a scholar and a saint.

I think my question got a little confused. I want to craft everything. And before every day I would farm the materials. But I can’t remember what zones for what items. I’m only looking at weapons for now, so I only need Ore and Wood, but I don’t want to go across all of Tyria just to find what I need. I only want to farm what I need for that day (assuming I make the time-gated and refined part once a day), then go on to other things.

Edited this into main post.

META = Most Effective Tactic Available. And so, instead of saying that the whole time, you say Meta. Acronyms, yo.

I just returned after a long hiatus, and I seem to have fallen out of the loop with Ascended Crafting in general, but mostly the rhythm I had. It seems I struggle to make my daily CDs, and I was told it’s on an account-wide cooldown now instead of discipline specific.
I have 500 Weaponsmith, Artificer, Tailor, Huntsman, and I think Leatherworker. I want to finally finish my Spinal Blades backpack, get a full set of Ascended Weapons (only have a Greatsword and Focus currently), and also help my girlfriend get up to that crafting level as well, as she loves the skins.

So, now that all the backstory is gone, what is the ideal method to craft ascended weapons with spending minimal gold?

EDIT from below post: I think my question got a little confused. I want to craft everything. And before every day I would farm the materials. But I can’t remember what zones for what items. I’m only looking at weapons for now, so I only need Ore and Wood, but I don’t want to go across all of Tyria just to find what I need. I only want to farm what I need for that day (assuming I make the time-gated and refined part once a day), then go on to other things.

Okay, maybe you’re not understanding my question.

1.) Who/What is leeto?
2.) I can’t give you which armor, sigils, runes, weapons, trickets, traits, etc. unless you tell me what you want to do with this build.

EDIT: Okay, I see who Leeto is. If you want, just mimic his build. He posted it.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW4Yjc0UebPN+1wfbCchaqnA6DIAaBqbj04ZB-TZBFwACOCAIuAAy3foaZAAPEAA

I’m gonna need a little bit more from you for that. You’re looking for a Death Shroud build that uses Daggers. Where do I start this list…

What are you aiming for? Power? Utility? Defense? Bunkering? Counter Zerg? Burst?

This is the best Asura Necro. I may be biased.

I approve of this post

I just want new weapon combos in general. Elementalist Pistol? Necro Sword? Hammer Mesmer?

Edenfer.9816:

@Taygus: it’s already the case, remember the “Watchwork Pick”?

@Wanze: I prefer if all items (not cosmetics) were available in-game. It’s not about gold.

@Dalent: of course subscription games are not for me, that’s why I played guild wars 1 in the first place. I still remember reading an interview with one of the founders of arena way back. He was explaining how servers don’t cost as much as game companies lead you to believe and how he was sure the gw model would work.

@Brother Grimm: it’s not free, I’m paying for it with “time” (playing the game) as a currency. It’s practically the same thing as farming gold then exchanging it for gems (they don’t make money from it) but it’s more fun for me.

We have armor in game right? Does it stop people buying armor skins from the shop? No. All I’m asking for is a basic version of the item without removing the shop versions with their amazing flashy effects.

You said nothing to defeat my point that you are not entitled.

All the items are available in-game, so please, stop trying to say they are not. You can log into the game. Play the game normally. Sell normally. Save gold. Talk to a Black Lion Trading Post representative. Purchase gems with gold. Go to the Black Lion Shop. Buy the infinite use gathering tool of your choice, or armor, or whatever it is your heart desires. All in-game, without once having to open your real-world wallet.

If you want more uses, you can always grab the Laurel gathering tools for 2 Laurels, that have double the uses the regular tools do. Advanced Mining Pick for example.
The only extra they should add, is as you stated, a Mystic Forge equivalent (or crafting, why not?) that gives you, let’s say, 500 uses of a Mining Pick. But still limited.

Edenfer.9816:

It would be great if we were able to craft permanent gathering tools.
Ascended level, requiring different crafting professions or quest items etc.
Without flashy effects of course as opposed to the store ones.

Logically the store shouldn’t offer items we can’t find in the game (permanent is different from having 250 charges). Store items should only have unique skins and graphical effects.

What do you think?

P.S: on a side note, buying a game item for almost 1/5 the price of the entire game is outrageous.

As someone else mentioned, you buy the game, you play for free. ANet needs to make money off this game somehow. Paying 20% of the game cost in cash for an item is bad for you? Then you’d never survive a subscription based game. Paying 25% of the cost of the game every month just to keep playing? And that’s not even bad.

You’re not entitled to anything you can’t get out the box. If you want an unlimited use gathering item, buy it.

Yeah. I haven’t added any yet because, personally, I grabbed the items I wanted first and went to add those, but was beat to the chase there. So now I’m playing catch up.

I’ve never had positive experiences with build websites. It literally just gives the build 99% of the time. And we all know it’s more than that. And when it’s with a profession like Ranger I don’t fully understand, it takes so long just to get the concept

Greetings all. I’ve been working on Frostfang for some time now, and the only thing I’m missing is the Gift of Fortune, and my Icy Runestones. That said, I was initially making it for my Necromancer, which I struggle to keep myself playing these days. I don’t want to sell my first Legendary, but I really don’t want to throw it on my Necro. I have a Ranger that’s 80, and no more character slots (so I have yet to be able to try Warrior). Are there any Ranger builds that utilize Axe commonly, or should I just stick with my Necro (or worst case buy a character slot and chance a warrior)?

If you do have suggestions for builds, I’d love to see them.

CrockD.8257:

[…]convenient hub[…]level of convenience[…]

I see a trend here. You don’t NEED or DESERVE a convenient spot to do everything in on place. Go explore the world. You can WP instantly. It’s not like you have to wait 3 minutes for a tram or flight or something.

It’s a convenience. Thus it has a price.

I wish they also would have Ascended Trinket options. I have a vampire-style build on my Necro, and this stat combo is really nice. I partner it with Clerics gear on my Ele and Zerker gear on my Necro. All in all really nice buff to my healing for my team on both.

But that said, it is really obnoxious to have to pay so much to get the patterns. I have gotten a few (albeit not the Tailoring ones I need), and sold to buy others, but I’d rather just pay the 5 Laurels and 3g everyone else has to.

Ragnar.4257:

Dalent.9358:

How are WvW players forced into PvE? And the game does address PvE and PvP players. That’s why PvP is different altogether.

Are you serious?

How about the Gift you can only get from dungeon runs?

How about nearly every weapon/armour skin in the game that isn’t crafted?

Again, I hate WvW, so I stay as far away from it as possible. So yes, these two factors I overlooked.

Apollo.6573:

The idea behind a Legendary weapon is that it is supposed to be somewhat completionist. With the introduction of achievement chests, 500 badges of honor is easy to get without getting into WvW, and WvW is a big part of the game.

It’s supposed to be a ‘show-off’ that you’ve played most of the core content, and played long enough to be ‘worthy’ of a Legendary.

Which makes sense. But then why is PvP not counted? Only 2/3 of the game is.

CeruleanRevolver.6085:

I only think this is fair. Legendary is supposedly a process which takes you to all parts of the game, not just PVE only.

I was annoyed when badges were given out as part of achievement chest.

And again, PvP is still left out of the equation. I agree Badges should have never been added to the chest. But I don’t think the requiring of Rank is a good solution

Anen.1742:

Dalent.9358:

So, now not only do we need Badges of Honor from WvW for a Legendary, but we also have to have a certain WvW rank for it?

What are you talking about?

You now need Rank 30 in WvW to buy the Gift of Battle.

Umut.5471:

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.

How are WvW players forced into PvE? And the game does address PvE and PvP players. That’s why PvP is different altogether.

Apollo.6573:

You’re only ‘dragged’ or ‘forced’ into content if you are chasing achievement points – which should not be how you play GW2.

In order to make a Legendary, you need a Gift of Mastery. In order to get the Gift of Mastery, you need the Gift of Battle. In order to get the Gift of Battle, you need 500 Badges of Honor. And now, on top of that, you need 30 WvW Rank. I didn’t want to step into WvW to begin with. Why not just add an item component that requires you to have Dolyak rank in PvP and use Glory to get it too?

So, now not only do we need Badges of Honor from WvW for a Legendary, but we also have to have a certain WvW rank for it? Why not just add PvP Rank in there too?

I get some people like WvW, but there is NOTHING fun about it in my eyes. I refused to care about Legendaries initially because of the need of Badges of Honor, but the achievement chest made that easier. Luckily I got my Gift of Battle long before this change, but now we’re dragging people into content they don’t want to be a part of even more than before.

EDIT1: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Gift-of-Battle-rank-requirement-update
EDIT2: By no means am I saying it is fair that WvW only players have to do PvE content for a legendary. But I’m not a WvW player, I don’t know what goes into it, and I am the WORST person to advocate anything for WvW players. So, those WvW players who think it’s unfair, give it a whirl. Come up with an alternative. I can’t, and I haven’t looked for one, because again, I don’t care about WvW. I’d rather have either three MF recipes to get the legendary (one requiring only PvE, one only WvW, one only PvP), or have separate legendaries of each weapon type for each (we already have 3 Greatswords, might as well?)
EDIT3: I wouldn’t be as bothered with WvW requirements for a Legendary if they also added PvP requirements. I’m all for the whole “legendary means you’ve been adequate in all aspects of the game” theory IF it touches all aspects. They probably won’t, because that would require giving PvP Legendary skins and I don’t know why they haven’t done it yet.
Idea: When you craft a legendary, instead of getting the item, get a “[Insert Legendary Name] Chest” that has the Legendary item itself, and the PvP Skin. That way the Mystic Forge still only spits out one item.
EDIT4: As for “buying” WvW rank, you’re asking the PvE players to spend the BoH from chest and their Laurels on rank. Okay, fine. 60 Laurels (aka 40 days of dailies and 2 monthlies) and 1500 Badges of Honor later, do I even have the 500 Badges I need? Maybe, maybe not. Don’t make assumptions.

So, they want me to go back to WoW? Done.

As I understand it, one reason the Spool of Silk Weaving Thread requires 100 Bolts of Silk (double what others in its range require) is due to the mass amount of Silk in the economy. As I’m also understanding, part of the reason the Watchwork Mechanism requires 500 Sprockets (100x what anything like that requires) is also due to the same reason.

All in all, I think making recipes have higher cost just to quickly remove material from the economy is a really bad and under-thought decision. Sure, we remove the materials, but then what?
Example: We only get 7-11 Sprockets per day from the Gift of Sprockets. At that rate, it will take about 100 days to make two Exotic Armor pieces, or one trinket. 50 Sprockets for one trinket, and 150 per armor piece makes more sense to me.

Sure, if it was left at the “normal” cost, it would cause a flood in the market initially. But then it would stabilize. And new players who get the recipes wouldn’t have to wait even longer to craft the stuff.

Wanze.8410:

I think its because of condition and boon duration on them. Those are quite powerful stats. There is a reason why they didnt put those on celestial stats as well.

And just for your information, right now its not possible to craft any ascended keepers gear. While its possible to craft the ascended keepers zealot inscription and insignias, they forgot to add it to the list of stats to choose from when you learn a recipe for an asc armor piece or weapon.

This is false. The reason is the recipes are like normal ones. So you’ll have to find/buy the Keeper’s Leather Gloves pattern.

What I want to know, on top of this, is why no Ascended accessories?

JJBigs.8456:

Loot comes if you succeed, do the meta properly. Loot isnt rewarded for staff guardians spamming 1, not contributing to the event. Loot would make people farm it over do the objectives. Keep the event loot free please.

No Staff Guards. No engi spamming nades doing 50 damage to tag. No mindless bots running over event doing nothing but tagging. I like it this way.

This. Remember the Portal Events when they happened every hour, people wouldn’t complete them, merely farm the champs. This is their fix for that. And considering these events don’t last as long, I think it’s great.

Kaellok.8143:

This is probably my biggest criticism of GW2. For all the epic monsters I slay, I sure don’t get any epic loot. I don’t expect to get an ascended item on the first drop. Hell, I don’t even expect to get one on the 100th drop. But getting random blues and greens after killing a mighty foe is kinda disheartening. One of the things I enjoyed in other MMOs was that every time I ran a dungeon or world boss, I was always excited by the prospect of getting a sweet piece of loot. In GW2, I don’t even bother. Perhaps I’m being whiny, but it just never seems like you are never sufficiently rewarded for your effort.

One thing other MMOs lack (at least from my experience) is shared-tagging. And by that, I mean 3 random people can hit a mob, and all can get individual loot. Almost all bosses are world bosses. Killing the big ones always gets you a rare (Jormag, etc.). I don’t seem to have the problem you have, but I don’t know what your MF% is at either (which is another discussion entirely). The other thing is personal loot. If you and me kill a boss, we don’t have to see each other’s loot. You could get a precursor, and I could get a green tunic. Best I can say is that RNG is RNG.

Same thing happening to any gear with Critical Damage will happen to Celestial.

For an all-stat gear, Critical Damage was WAY too high in comparison to gear that relied on it. It should have been lower to begin with. It needed to be nerfed anyways, and now it is. It’s getting both the nerf it needs, and the overall Feroity nerf (which all Critical Damage gear except Valkyrie needed)

And yes, this is coming from someone who played a Celestial Ele. I’m not saying the Critical Damage wasn’t nice, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t too high for the gear.

Also, if you bought everything for your ascended gear, that’s your fault. If everyone wasn’t looking for a quick buck, they’d have more items for when stuff like this happens, because it ALWAYS happens, and people are still shocked.

If they want to keep the gate, what I suggest they do is flip the binding. Make the regular crystals account-bound, and make the Charged ones sellable. This creates a better market for people who want to speed up the process of making them, and gives people who have multiple stacks of them a slightly better purpose. I gave away 500 Quartz Crystals to a friend so he could spend the next 20 days to make 4 items, which I would have gladly just made for him myself with my 100+ Charged Quartz.

Plus, changing it would fit with the Ascended materials: the minor product is account-bound, but the end product isn’t, but then the crafted product is account-bound again.

What letters are you guys talking about? I haven’t seen anything about this.

For the people saying “more than 1 main”, I classify main (and will modify the question to include this) as the “go-to” or “primary” character. If someone says “Get on GW2” what is the first character you plan to get on? I’m aware some people have a PvP main, WvW main, PvE Support main, etc. Same thing for favorites.

This is just a small, unofficial, public survey about GW2 players. I’d appreciate it if you take 2-3 minutes to answer it. This has nothing to do with the game itself, just the people who play it.

Form/Questionnaire
Responses

And for those that don’t like tinyurl links or forum hyperlinks:
Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PPBZTbq1tahwd_GU8anrGuKwIsr8sYdDXp_PMQD7Eks/viewform
Responses: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PPBZTbq1tahwd_GU8anrGuKwIsr8sYdDXp_PMQD7Eks/viewanalytics

Most questions are required. Why you picked your gender, other info, and the best race question are not, and thus those results will not be accurate really. Also, the playgroup allows you to pick more than one answer, so there is potential for that to be skew as well.

Thank you for your time, and let’s see what we get

EDIT: I’m a kitten , and the “how long have you been playing” question was not mandatory. It’s active now, but those results will also be slightly skew too. I caught it with only 8 responses submitted.

Sanduskel.1850:

Dalent.9358:

I don’t ever recall a promise like that in the slightest.

Posted about a year ago. Anet seems to have a fetish forcing everyone to do fractals, lol.

Yeah, been searching through forums and update post and whatnot, and I see nothing of this sort. At all.

Or you could not go for a single point AR upgrade. I have +5 in my rings, and will not be upgrading them until +8 at least. 1 point of AR will only make a difference across 5 pieces of gear.

I don’t ever recall a promise like that in the slightest.

Fun. I enjoy fractals, and I was fine with them not giving gold. So now it’s just a perk. I do like the Fractal Weapons, and the fact it lets me save my Laurels for amulets and not rings.

Just might not be your thing. But keep going. You might change your mind.

Vials aren’t hard to come by, and neither are globs or shards, which you can simply just downgrade in the Mystic Forge. Without an ascended back, you should be fine in 20s Fractals.

Not saying it shouldn’t be fixed, as it should. But there are ways around it, and if it means I have to run fractals with you guys to get you that vial….
Join up and we’ll do it!

The only things wrong with this is that many of the people I know (including myself) were under the impression that, like most LS instances, this would scale. It seemed to not be the case and require 5 people. The lack of being able to checkpoint/waypoint when your whole team is out of combat seriously needs fixing, as this is not in line with the rest of the game. Yes, your whole team can die and insta-rez at the start, but again: not in line with the rest of the game.

I’ve been able to level up (granted I was 29 before patch), but have not been getting daily credit either. I’ll ask around to friends to see if they can test.

Have you logged onto all of your characters? You may have done a Fractal on one before and they’d be level 2, so it might be stopping you from leveling until you log into that.

Well, firstly, the new ones will prompt you to use them as a skin. It’ll still show a sigil slot for some reason though.

Secondly, the box to choose is only a chance, and higher chance at higher levels.

Except we wouldn’t have been gods. We’d have been humans.

Sarie.1630:

Abaddon did it.

Wait, what?

No, Scarlet caused the fall of Abaddon, duh.

I never believed the election was rigged, but now I’m not so sure…

Ezekiel.1985:

Not exactly helping me on the details…lol

I edited my above post to give more detail, and will edit it again with a tiny bit more. Like how we have to stabilize colliders and get a reactor core.

Nevermind, don’t need to edit the top.

Portals have random things in them. All vets from what I saw.

Scarlet did it. /thread

EDIT:
Okay…yes, Scarlet did it. She was summoning portals that were messing up the whole affair. Apparently the Inquest, with Scarlet, had found the matrix of magic that covers the planet, and the reactor is directly on an intersection of it. They are trying to use Dragon or Chaos magic (not 100% sure which), and things go REALLY far south, and Scarlet sorta edges things more south. Then, right as we sorta calm it down, there’s an anomaly that spawns above the reactor, and it’s a really weird-cool looking person, and a pretty nifty fight, and just as we destroy it, the reactor goes critical, and we all wake up in a white room before being extracted by Dessa.

Oh, and Dessa legit can’t ever leave the Mistlock Lab. She tries. And fails.

Linnael.1069:

… Was sitting on a Fractal Hammer, hoping I wouldn’t have to blow gems to transmute it.

Now? Can’t even transmute it. Can’t even equip the the trashy no stats item…

We knew for a long time it current items weren’t changing. So don’t know why you had hope.
As for the actual bug, well, it’ll get fixed.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Dalent.9358:

Want mounts? Go play nearly every RPG.

fixed that :-)

Really, why all this hate against mounts? Be cause they are in other games? Remember it is pretty usual that you have a horse or other riding possibilities in most RPGs. Stop associating it only with WoW.

It would be a great addition. Another nice thing we could collect and much more less useless than the minis.

Okay, yes, nearly every MMORPG. My reason against mounts here is that maps are small enough with enough waypoints in each map to make mounts unneeded. And what about in cities, and other smaller zones (like Bazaar). Mounts would need disabling in those zones to prevent overcrowding that already exist. But again, maps are small enough with enough waypoints within.

Okay, lots of craziness since I last posted.
People, keep in mind that 50+ was NOT meant to be obtained. They hardlocked it, but people had already gotten it back, and they could carry others up. Good or bad, cheating or fair, it is still an exploit. So those of you 50+ and as high as 81/82, sorry, but whether you admit it or not it was an exploit. Calling it an abusive exploit is to each person’s own desire, but if you need the definition of exploit, here it is:
exploit – verb – make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).

As for leaderboards, pretty sure those are going to get capped at 50 as well since that’s the new hardcap still. So all you 50+ people would be rolled back anyways. You went above and beyond KNOWING it was not intended. You went above and beyond KNOWING you probably shouldn’t have, but did it for the fun and challenge. So, for being dropped several levels, I do not feel bad for you. It’s like sneaking into a movie and never getting caught, and the one time you get caught you’re mad.
Until you complete the Mistlock Instabilities, don’t say you won’t have that challenge. You, nor I, nor anyone but ArenaNet has any idea what those contain. Oh, and probably Scarlet. Cause I bet she has something to do with those.

So, those of you who are level 50, I do feel sorry for your time. Do I think they should give you one reward chest per level they drop you (one of the new ones with gold)? Yes. I think everyone who is 30+ should get one of those chest per level, up to a maximum of 20 chest (for level 50). Those above 50? Well, I already said my two copper on that, so they understand why I say they will only get 20 chest as well.

JMar.3254:

Dalent.9358:

Relativity.3264:

Dalent.9358:

all you 50+ people would be DESTROYED in fractals 50, and would probably start over anyways

you’ve never played

Don’t quote me out of context. Cause then context gets screwed up and sends the wrong message. Can’t believe you think I’ve never played.

Also, difficulty curb is relative. Could simply mean agony curb. Easy for some, hard for others. Could mean more targeting circles. Etc. etc.

I believe he meant you haven’t done the new 50, so you have no clue if we’ll get destroyed or not.

Knowing the top PvE guilds and how the developers play, I’m willing to bet they will not get destroyed.

My point was that no one has done it, so don’t assume anything other than it’s literal fractal number. I quoted him out of context because, well, I was doing the same he did.

Maybe destroyed was a bad choice of words, but I’m willing to bet it will be worth it.

Relativity.3264:

Dalent.9358:

all you 50+ people would be DESTROYED in fractals 50, and would probably start over anyways

you’ve never played

Don’t quote me out of context. Cause then context gets screwed up and sends the wrong message. Can’t believe you think I’ve never played.

Also, difficulty curb is relative. Could simply mean agony curb. Easy for some, hard for others. Could mean more targeting circles. Etc. etc.