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If they put the tonic in there for a ton of pristines, I’ll be furious, as I just dumped 500 pristines on rings for matrices, as they’re virtually useless to me at this point since I have all the weapons, and 2 mawdreys. I kept some because I may need a ring or 2 down the line, but beyond that, there’s not a single item I need them for.
So, you’re finally doing all of this, after I spent 3 weeks grinding trying to find out where the money is, blew 500 pristine relics on rings for matrices to open encryptions and try to make money, only to salvage 50 rings to make 8g. No word on fractal tonic I’ve been after for, well, forever, can’t fix fractal collection, and now you’re telling me that it was all for nothing, and you’re going to nerf what I’ve gathered and buff what I’ve lost. No apology, no reimbursement, no nothing.
Not to mention, this method, this approach, has literally burnt me out on fractals in 3 weeks, when I used to run 2-3 a day, and be happy. I’d get an ascended chest or 3 a week, a few rings, sometimes a skin, since then, nothing.
This is absurd. I could probably do swamp/molten duo/maw/aquatic blindfolded now because I’m forced to do low fractals I have zero interest in doing with people who have no clue what they’re doing, I often end up just soloing all the low fractals now. There’s only one I can’t solo, and that’s cuz I can’t be at 2 places at once in underground facility.
So now here’s what’s going to happen. People will do their daily. Then do swamp or aquatic or molten or whatever is fastest to finish the stupid 3 for the daily, and then go farm molten at 40 until my eyes bleed because you announce all this before it happens instead of merely stating increases in certain areas, you flat out tell us matrices are going to go up in price, but down in value for keys, keys will still cost us money, so we have to pay money to try to make money still, salvaging has cost me a small fortune due to 500 rings and 20backpieces and like 30 accessories and several extra weapons/armors that yielded me all of a few balls of dark energy….and I accidentally salvaged vision crystals. Why in the kitten can you salvage those? for what? An augor stone? maybe a bloodstone brick?
These changes are ridiculous and announcing this has shot the market to hell already. New challenging mistlocks? No, they’re stupid. They require condi and boon removal, the ability to dodge, or stability. These aren’t challenging mistlocks. The previous mistlocks were harder than these. Not to mention, I think Mai trinn is harder at 25 than it is at 50 or 100…..No aquatic levels after 75? Why give out millions of breather recipes then? They’re useless, irrelevant and not required.
So, do I “trust” your “increase” in rewards, like was stated when this was released? Or do I farm 40 til my eyes bleed, sell the encryptions and make money while I can, until people find out these increases STILL cost more than you make. Not to mention, I could run a 30 40 and 50 for dailies in under 2 hours before, yet now it takes me sometimes up to 4 hours to complete them all. I won’t go to Magus because you haven’t fixed the map completion bug, I wanted it to be new content but you forced story completion before exploration, I’m almost disappointed I bought HoT now.
And the fact that it took 3 weeks to announce it’ll be another month until anything is done, when you chose to release halloween and HoT on the SAME DAY, knowing both would have problems, bugs, etc, just downright silly.
So disappointed in fractals now it’s not even funny. And the tonic drop rate? Does it even drop? From where? anywhere?
So now it’s 20s and 5 relics to open an encryption….and hope that your word on the increase is an actual increase, because I’m sick of losing money doing fractals. But, thanks for the heads up, farming 40 til my eyes bleed, here I come….because the ONLY profit in fractals right now is farming that and selling the encryptions.
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Beyond that, salvaging ascended isn’t a huge deal to some of us. We have extra rings, accessories, amulets, armor and weapons from when fractals dropped good stuff. I still have 4 ascended chests in my bank waiting to either be used or salvaged and have already gotten 14 balls of dark energy….So you must obviously be new to fractals…
One key for free? Wow. That’s AMAZING. Especially when I get 4-6 encryptions from the levels I do (currently personal lvl 80). I do my daily low ones, but still, I end up with WAY more encryptions than keys/matrices. So, I have to buy them. At 20s a pop, specially with matrices near 40s already and for what? only to get 10s garbage back. It might be nice to the new people to fractals, but to the experienced veterans of fractals, this is pure garbage, garbage loot, and a nearly garbage format…And no 50+ or 75+ daily? Come on.
And the research pages are for the legendary fractal back piece. Something I want. Bad.
And there’s NO incentive to complete ANY of the sets of levels. A fractal crate? basically 40 pristine relics, that’s not a reward, that’s garbage. 5 pristine and 1 golden? Pure garbage, and not even as good as the lower tier. Elite is 10 pristine and 2 golden relics, still garbage. Master, yea yay you get a golden weapon. What’s the incentive? I’ve not received a golden relic yet, and as far as I know, they only come from those boxes, which is 3 total, not enough for a weapon, or salvaging a golden weapon, which you can’t do until you hit 100. You need 4 for a random weapon….you have to complete all 100 so far, to even get a weapon and 3 golden relics…Unless they drop somewhere else that no one knows of yet…or is not listed on wiki…
This is not how “everyone” feels, just the majority of the regular fractal runners, myself included, I’m disgusted by the current format for rewards. The rewards are total garbage, it usually COSTS you more money to open the fractal encryption than you get from it. And all you get are recipes, I have over 100 already. And I’ve gotten, I think….2 rings? This is absurd. The rewards are garbage and I’m only doing the daily one for the stupid research pages I need for the back piece. Beyond that, they’re dead to me…until they improve the rewards. seriously, 15-20s to open an encryption that returns u a 1s recipe and a 10s piece of garbage? That’s a loss. A pure and total loss.
Still need to answer the operating system question. Depending on which, many have or do try to take over the natural driver of the video card, and, in most cases, depending on how much pron you have and ya know, family photos or whatnot, reformatting and eliminating windows updates can relieve the issue, be installed one at a time with restore dates, and the proper update can be eliminated. This ended up working for me when my game would crash, and I run SLI, i9, 3 monitors, so a silly little game should not be doing this. I cut off all updates beyond SP1 on win7 and have had very few issues since, no more often than the regular old crash..
A couple mails sent, but none have replied so I guess I’m still looking. This is the time of day my guilds are dead, and I’m wide awake. 4: 30am here.1 person has spoke in guild chat in the last hour.
I’m sorry, but if you haven’t realized the meta zerk is and has been dead, then you haven’t played long enough, or played enough difficult content. The only reason it was ever atop the list was it is direct immediate damage, and generally single target. The fact is more and more content requires organizing mobs, killing multiple mobs, and not single target pure damage. I can take a condi necro to fractals and wipe out every last elemental in the shaman fractal in a couple seconds. Tell me what zerk warrior does that. Not even a zerk ele can compare to what a necro can do in situations. A pet is even valuable when used properly, making rangers position, at least those who can play one properly, much higher.
Every class can hold its merit in virtually any situation when used properly. Following these meta zerk builds only creates horrible players because they’re not learning the class or mechanics, they’re learning how to deal the most damage the fastest, and that is it. They’re not learning what the, or any class, is truly capable of.
Well, to begin. 2 key drops in over 9000 hours played. Since this change I’ve completed 9 maps, working on my 10th without a key drop or a key as a map completion reward, an I’ve looted a total of 7 black lion chests. I see no increase anywhere, except the price of skins slowly beginning to get further and further out of reach.
Beyond that, in the 4, almost 5 map completions I’ve done, and the fewer keys I’ve received than before, the zero dropped keys I’ve had, I’m actually seeing fewer black lion chest drops than before as well.
There was no increase. And I’m seeing fewer and fewer rare drops than ever before.
If anet wants to truly make money, give the customers what they want, what they ask for, what they BEG for, yet continually ignore. The account bump? I have hundreds of transmutes because of map completion giving me those instead of keys, so no value, 20 account bound dyes? I have every natural dye unlocked, what good is a dye I cannot sell? Experience boosters??? Come on, I already have a stack of those. So 800 gems for 5 black lion keys. That’s what you get. The jump start? The bag slot? it’s 50 gems cheaper and all you get is extra boosters, and with the increase in gem prices, it’s not a deal.
Get real folks, this isn’t a money grubbing top player game, it’s a horizontal progression game. If you want people to actually spend money, again, give us what we want and what we ask for. Stop selling us boosters and garbage and start selling us stuff we actually continually ask for!
I love how everyone assumes people key farm to sell to make money. Personally, of my key farms, I think I’ve sold maybe 2 or 3 skins, and that was because I was more desperate for gold at the time than I had desire for said skin. The amount of people who farmed to sell could barely make the skins affordable to the average casual player, and that in itself is not fair.
Also, on the making money part. Go check spidy. Ecto prices have barely changed since the beginning of the game, they’ve varied from 20-50s each. Farming 4g for a ticket back then was easy. It took me 15 ectos. Now I it’s at least 75 ectos. That is not economic increase. It wasn’t harder to farm money back then, it was simply harder to save and build it up because everyone needed everything. Now they release garbage on the gemstore that’s generally hardly worth paying for, the recent sale shot gem value through the roof, and probably made them tons of money. But instead of holding logical sales and introducing items, let’s make it more difficult for the average Joe to go get a skin they may want. Because, lets face it, how often does anything beyond a booster, a tome, a transmute and some other bound garbage drop from a key, along with my stack of boosters, that make a key even worth it? Nothing. This will not increase sales, it’s horrible business and it will only deter people from spending money on a game that continually makes spending actual cash on it less and less desirable.
I used to spend $50 a month on the game getting various items from the gem store, account upgrades, stuff that made sense. Now they sell garbage skins, packages of deals that are in no way deals, stupid skins, and now want to increase the cost of a key that, for about 99% of the time, drops garbage?
This is not good business.
Also, as a side note. I’ve been doing map completion in preparation for HoT. Key drop rate from completion was claimed to be around 30%. I’ve completed the entire map on 4 characters now and received 4 keys. given there are, I believe, 25 maps that keys are possibly dropped on, and I’ve now completed 100 maps, that’s a 4% drop rate. And I’ve not seen a key drop yet, and still only heard of 2 people getting them as drops. I’m now completing on my 5th straight character, completed 7 maps, and all have been transmute stones. What am I going to transmute? This new fancy skin I just didn’t get?
I pay for items on the gemstore that hold merit. I buy character slots, bag slots, collection storage upgrades, stuff that actually add to my account. If I wanted to pay real money to gamble on a nearly zero-sum scenario, I’d go to the casino and play slot machines.
And as far as silverwastes and chest runs. I stopped doing those a while ago when I opened 600 champ bags and got 4 rares and no exotics. Since I’m done with ambrite, no use to go back there either. There’s no incentive fort his stuff..
A lot of this came through natural game play, well before there was even a mawdrey. I have extra character slots that I dont really play anymore that are full of 100 stacks of any given ascended material. But why should I have to wait 3 more months for star of gratitude when people who missed either release of mawdrey or princess can readily go do that and get it. And I’ve refined it all, due to excessive obsidian shards lately, and i mean thousands, I’ve sold 3 stacks of clovers to the vendors now. I can make more vision crystals than I’ll ever use. I’m at the point where with those and ascended rings, I have no inventory space, anywhere. If I want to play a certain class, I have to figure out where to move 100 stacks of this stuff. Because if I don’t, and I delete it, it’ll become far more valuable. That’s just the law of bad rngesus…
9088 hours played since the early release and hours in beta. 2 key drops, one precursor drop, if you want to call it that. It was venom, and only worth 20g at the time. I’ve not seen anyone I know loot a key yet either.
Thanks for moving it, I couldn’t find it, but here it is. It likely won’t get any attention but I don’t want to throw out hundreds of stacks of these items if I may need them some day or they could be worth more than 3 gunk covered pellets…
I’m a chronic insomniac, on a NA server in a NA guild. It’s no rep requirement, and I expect the same from a guild. I don’t want a child guild, I want an adult guild where real topics can be discussed without every other person getting offended, as people are offended by everything these days.
I fractal, pve, pvp, and am a member of Attuned, a world boss and world event guild that also looks to set speed records and do interesting things. I just want a social guild that’s rated R that’s talkative, and based on an pacific island area time zone where more people will be on to talk to while I cannot sleep.
Please send a whisper or invite. my account name is on the post, and you can whisper or join my party on the name “QQY” (yes a simple 3 letter name, helps for ferrying in Attuned events.
Thanks in advance, and hope to hear from someone soon!
Can we PLEASE make mawdrey/princess (and release star of gratitude again as I was in the hospital when it came out) eat WAY more a day, or give an option like the karmic converter to either eat small amounts or whole stacks…and limiting to 3-6 a day is ridiculous.
I’m not sure where this goes, but I cannot find the suggestion portion. Please move this as necessary.
Mantra of Resolve goes into cooldown with the use of any heal skill unless charges are prepped. If it’s already cycling down, the cooldown process will begin again at 20s.
I’ve come across all these bugs, and more. And not one single fix on the patch today regarding mesmers. Mesmers are all but completely broken. I’ve played it since beta (even though it’s been broken since then) and now I hardly even touch it since this last patch. I’d list the few other bugs I’ve found, but what’s the use? They don’t care about mesmers.
Yes, there have been a number of small bugs for mesmers, here and there, since forever.
Yes, there are numerous bugs that have popped up since the Specializations patch (big surprise here).
Yes, they didn’t patch any of the mesmer bugs today. Nor did they patch anything for thieves.
Please be patient with the development staff: There’s only so much they can do within two weeks; especially without proper QA test servers, or what not (so I hear).Less than two weeks, even: I don’t know their deployment processes, but it wouldn’t be far-fetched to say they only had five to seven working days from the day they published the initial specializations changes, to the day they had to wrap up for the next patch deployment.
If you’re not willing to list the bugs you’ve found, that’s your choice, but be warned: it may just be interpreted as complaining about something that doesn’t exist.
I highly doubt they have been intentionally just ignoring all the new problems that have popped up from the Specializations patch. If they didn’t care about mesmers, we wouldn’t have gotten so many improvements in our specializations vs the old trait system. However, it’s a free world, you’re free to pick and choose which changes to take for granted and which ones should be glorified/vilified.
Why would I list more bugs when they haven’t touched the ones already listed, and most of these are more important to actual game play than the minor ones I find. If these bugs listed here got fixed, then yes, I’d gladly add to my list, but my complaints are already on 3 other posts about mesmer bugs as it is. It’s complaining, yes, because it’s been an issue for nearly 3 years now, that’s where the “they don’t care about mesmers” comes in.
I’ve come across all these bugs, and more. And not one single fix on the patch today regarding mesmers. Mesmers are all but completely broken. I’ve played it since beta (even though it’s been broken since then) and now I hardly even touch it since this last patch. I’d list the few other bugs I’ve found, but what’s the use? They don’t care about mesmers.
I hate the reply that it’s not blocking progress. As this is a horizontally progressive game, the side stuff, the acquisition of assets and items is the progression in the game, therefore the achievements and the rewards of those achievements are the progress, therefore it is blocking progress. And paying gems for just the story? That’s ridiculous, the achievements are part of the living story just as much as the actual story is, otherwise perhaps a gem price to unlock the story then a separate gem price to unlock the achievements would be needed? Ridiculous. And the time it’s taking to even get attention to the issue, and no answers of any sort on a timetable or possibility of a fix is even more frustrating.
“PAYING” customers don’t deserve this, whether they’re new and paying gems for the content or been here since beta and had to put off living story stuff due to real life.
So they fixed a bug that let us swap with a dead clone, but fail to fix the fact that if a clone isn’t on perfectly flat terrain, that it will actually reach its target within the leap time…Why anet, why? Why nerf mesmers more while failing to fix the bugs first??
Any mesmers notice that Deceptive Evasion doesn’t work through most, if not all of the prime hologram battle?
Honestly, what kills me the most out of all of this is the fact that mesmer is constantly nerfed, almost to the point of non-existence anymore, while bugs that have been around for a year or more sit idly ignored.
While I’m grateful that DE will not be nerfed in the upcoming “balance” just the mere thought that they think that mesmer needs more nerfing before fixing it to its proper status is ridiculous.
It truly makes me wonder if even bringing these up will only result in further nerfing and whether or not I should mention other bugs that I may be aware of…
Great, now that the AFKers have created this laser from the sky in that general area, if you’re knocked back there by scarlett, or simply dodge there to avoid the dynamic hologram’s aoe, you’re targeted.
This has become silly…
Kill the loot, kill the drops, kill half of the space we have to fight the biggest pain of a hologram.
Great fix.
Hologram 55mins of Determined. BUG
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
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Yea, I’m getting extremely fed up with all of this. Bug after bug after bug after bug. Nearly every friend has quit and now I’m considering the same. To think I was going to spend some money today on keys to get a torment skin…real glad I didn’t.
Probably time to find a new game I think.
This still isn’t fixed???
I truly hoped they were fake because this effectively destroys a mesmer and they already said they’d leave deceptive evasion alone so eliminating clone death on casting of a new clone would do exactly the same thing.
Mesmers have already been nerfed to the point of extinction and if this patch went through I’d likely be headed to a new game..
You forgot the Time Warp nerf…
Thanks for hearing our cries to leave Deceptive Evasion alone.
-Every Mesmer
The mechanics and process of the whole fight makes it far more appealing, especially to people like myself who don’t care to be involved in huge community aspects (I won’t even do teq anymore).
The new Wurm will be another teq. Everyone will flood blackgate or TTS overflows and only the lucky few that maintain their afk long enough will get to participate.
How did mesmers once again become the major problem in the game? This is ridiculous. So sick of having to change my build every time some other class whines that it’s too OP. Well, it’s not. How often do you EVER hear about ANY group wanting more than one mesmer, if they even want one? 3 in the top 100? 3% out of what should be, if it was truly even, 12.5%. And generally the only reason a mesmer is ever even wanted is because we’ve had to find bugs and glitches to make ourselves viable in any form of play.
What do mesmers have left? There’s no class diversity because you constantly force us into what you deem necessary as a class.
I’ve also heard countless times that “mesmers broke the game” and I don’t doubt that’s true, but that’s because you are forcing us to find ways to play a class and make it viable while you do your best to destroy it.
And even after all of this, warriors are STILL not getting any kind of valid nerf to the zerk meta, it’s just getting reworded into ferocity….So while people are complaining about zerk warriors, you’re nerfing a dying class and just changing the name of critical damage to ferocity for warriors…
I wonder how long until we have to find a new exploit to make ourselves useful once again..
-Twyzted
This was mildly annoying before this most recent patch, and now it’s beyond cumbersome. It’s a constant reminder EVERY TIME I open my achievement panel I’m at 82/83 hints. I’m missing the full mailbox one. My guild spammed me mail to no avail.
Just another annoying thing about this game. It’s all seriously starting to add up to I am just losing any desire to play this game anymore.
It’s never one big problem, it’s always a multitude of minor problems that make the game aggravating to play…
I’m, also stuck at 37/38 diving places. I’ve gone through all of them twice in the past few days, even the annoying new jump puzzle dive. And nothing…
EDIT: I created a new character, went through the annoying intros and emails, then deleted the new emails I got from the new character creation and it popped up. But only after deleting the new intro emails first. Hope that helps anyone. Now if I can figure out the stupid diving
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Seriously this is an awful set of changes. From Into the Void, to IC, to Blurred Frenzy there is a set of utterly unwarranted changes that force us into one style of play and a limited couple of weapon sets.
For a patch that allegedly promoted build diversity this is worse than a fail, it’s a charge in the opposite direction.
Sure we now have a potential interrupt build, but the interrupt mechanic is inherently not something you can build around. And in return we’ve lost virtually every build except shatter and had our main MH weapon needlessly nerfed.
\o/
Mesmers already have a seriously limited set of weapons. I’ve been playing mesmer since beta and my mesmer has been officially benched. This patch completely destroys my build and leaves me with almost no options beyond becoming another cookie cutter shatter build.
What is a mesmer now? It’s an occasional tool, something I can port with, or avoid something with. Other than that, this is trashing the class. Adding a second to into the void destroys its purpose as more than a speed buff. If my enemy has a second to react to it, what good is it?
Buffing interrupts? Come on, they do so minimal damage, if any, it’s ridiculous.
Torment? Seriously? On one scepter skill? Thanks for nothing!
I’m thoroughly disappointed in ANET here and seriously thinking about what my next game purchase will be (I was going to buy gems but after this, I have no faith).
I’m really not even sure I want to play anymore……not if you’re going to willingly destroy stuff we’ve spent months perfecting and creating.
I run triple monitors, each in varying displays as I like HD HQ and the ability to have the standard 4:3 when desired. Everything from 1920×1080 to 1600×900 and my 4:3
The problem is in the text when it’s in windowed mode. What I’ve found is when I need the TP or to read something illegible I have to ALT-ENTER to go to full screen mode, which completely dominates my monitors. This does allow me to read it, but it makes it impossible to research stuff and use the game at the same time.