Guild Wars 2

A bit of constructive criticism over this area:

http://www.killtenrats.com/2012/10/27/gw2-annals-of-horrible-game-design-mad-kings-clock-tower/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KillTenRats+%28Kill+Ten+Rats%29

Swifter.6451:

My highly below average computer did just fine.

Try it at 10-15 fps and you’ll understand what I mean (Yeah, we got potato-computers)

I COMPLETLY agree with original poster. I have “God Walking Amongst mere mortals” of GW1, 100% of GW2, all the other jumping puzzles, and this is beyond difficult. This is plain sadistic.

Guild wars is not a platform game because it doesn’t have a precise jumping system NOR a polished camera. The other puzzles were fine because you had time to correct your camera and make them. This is way to fast for people with below average computers or with physical disabilities. I would like to play this puzzle with an analog gamepad and automated camera, not having to control at once camera with the mouse and strafe and foward with the keyboard when my standard keyboard can’t process more than 2 strokes at once.

Either the speed of the goo should be slower or the plataforming easier. I guess than a “lock camera” option would be nice too, but that’s nonexistent.

This puzzle predates the mmo-manifesto and all the spirit and hype gw2 was built. From my guild only two people were able to make it. Both guys with high-end computers. For me, after 8h continuously trying, this is exasperating.

The ACTUAL DEVELOPER of this puzzle, Josh Foreman, put a comment on youtube saying that he only expected 5% of the players to be able to make this. So this is your “friendly” approach to players without high-end computers, anet? To casual players? (and I’m not casual at all)

To be worse, there are a lot of other issues already comented by other people: The Norns and Chars blocking the view (I had to make one eventualy, because otherwise anything I did was futile), the stupid cutscene at the start and the repetitive and annoying “tic toc” npc on each round.

Bumping the thread to see if anyone else is experiencing this

Hi, some weeks ago I crafted (tailor + artificer staff) the tier 400 Magic Find (explorer) set, and combined with magic find jewelry I noted a drastic increase on better quality drops, specially on select crafting materials (bones, claws, venom sacs, and all that things). Almost all mobs gave me one of those.
The average quality of gear drops was also improved from junk trophies and whites to blue-green and even regular yellow drops.

As I do not like the appearance of tailor male exotic armor I transmuted it with the tier 1 of cultural human armor last week.

Since then, I’ve found that the quality of the drops is back to the previous state, as if I wasn’t using any magic find gear, apart from the rings/pendants I stil wear, but the change to worse has been pretty evident.

I would like to ask if there is some bug on the transmuting system which doesn’t properly set the Magic Find stat to the new item, or everything is fine and I’m only having bad luck (Or Cognitive-Bias :P )

Thanks for your help

Kozai.8269:

I’m almost positive from my experiments that the market processes small buy or sell orders before large ones, and I suspect it is working as intended. It is the equivalent of the “diminishing returns” found with mob farming, but for marketing.

Thus, the “casual” player who puts their 17 copper ore up after running around the starter zone sees it cleared in a few seconds, and goes on their way, happy. The “marketeer” who puts in 10 orders for max stacks of 250 each waits, making it more tedious to earn gold by flipping large stacks of fast traded items. This fits with the design philosophy of the game, that its hard to earn a lot of gold quickly, but you also don’t need a lot of gold to succeed in it.

A separate question, of course, is how it processes multiple buy/sell orders of the same size. Hopefully that would be FIFO.

I completely agree with you. Anyway, some clarification from the staff could get us out of doubt.

^This.

OP post can’t be serious

AndrewWaltfeld.4621:

No to the FIFO system as it people would clog up the system with large orders that prevent people from getting their orders done as well or would take forever. Effectively making price blocking a tactic.

-First, I was talking about sales, NOT orders. In any case that’s not true because actually people could if they want make a blocking tactic too, making large orders and cancelling-reordering them as necessary.
Between 2 systems which have pros and cons we have to choose the one who is more convenient to the average “legit” player, and LIFO is more fair than a system which is mainly based on luck (to get your item sold or your order completed before anyone comes after you and lists the same order/sale)

AndrewWaltfeld.4621:

As for the LIFO system… as far as I know it doesn’t work like that. Because I’ve posted items after people and the numbers are ticking down as people buy 1 or 3 or whatever, the sellers don’t change – but I was the last in. So I don’t get my goods sold.

Rhaynne.9467:

I’ve actually seen both of these things. I have matched the lowest price and gotten thesale before the other seller, which I actually don’t think is fair. I have also listed and seen the listing go down but it wasn’t my item that sold. So… I have no idea how it works. Some clarification would be good me thinks.

That happens when many people post items at the same time as you, which isn’t uncommon.
Of course some kind of clarification from an insider would be awesome.

I think Black Lion Trading is not the proper forum for this question, but I’ll answer anyway:

1: No
2: No
3: No
4: Yes
5: No