Not sure if this came with the current update of if it’s a bug at all, but the dungeon vendor has three additional tabs in the Sorrow’s Embrace armor section for me. Offering a set of shoulder armor (medium/light/heavy) for the low price of a set of furnace pauldrons (medium/medium/medium). Currency tooltip visible.
Didn’t know you get kicked back in if you leave. That explains all the afking. Still prefer people joining the uphill battle though. Being outnumbered all the time sucks.
A game has ten players, one deciding to go afk ruins any chance for the game to become an enjoyable experience for the other nine. Non-participants make people stop enjoying/playing pvp altogether. Especially if they decide to ruin team chat while standing around. At least have the common courtesy to just kitten off entirely. Still annoying but might make the match not affect mmr/ladder.
Cannot fathom the arrogance of feeling justified in ruining the game because someone perceives the matchup to be: not sufficiently balanced/not enough fun/already lost with 300 points to go. And then blaming the other players or the game devs.
But this might be like preaching to the choir. Can’t a player count as if not present (left the game) when inactive for over a minute? (Something that isn’t fooled by putting the self heal on auto-cast.) They often hide in an obscure corner of the map. Ater baiting in chat or stating something like hotjoin team/gg/good luck.
Assuming there is any sort of penalty for leaving the game. Wiki says dishonor isn’t active. Or, if possible, add a report option with a low chance of abuse.
Is going afk during the match a reportable offense, and if so, which option should one pick? Happens sometimes when you’re 100 points down in unranked or ranked. They don’t always fly off the handle.
According to this we may have either 10 or 16 mmrs. How large is the mmr reduction for starting on a new profession? Second line under the configuration header:
What does 0.25 mean? Does this value vary within a certain range? Is the rating gained by playing mesmer uncoupled from the rating on necro? Or does it affect the ‘core’ rating as well as a specific profession multiplier?
Aye the NPCs really need a buff. The elite guards are made of paper and deal virtually no damage. A single player can take out the entire base in a short amount of time. Archers and guards not prioritizing NPCs is of great benefit to the enemy.
Would be cool if we could build some anti personnel turrets with supply. Guards are just there to harass abandoned skritt. I’d prefer turrets.
The game mode was amazing. Having a real sense of progression and running around dealing with various objectives > being confined to certain spots to maximize points per tick.
During the match, around the actual start, another queue popped for at least three people in the match. It filled up partially before going away again. I did not click accept. Afterwards the number of participants went from 5v5 to 3v1.
A minute or so later another queue popped during this match which I did accept. Picked a map again. Was then placed in a new 5v5 which had just been made (in waiting for players phase with well over a minute on timer). No further queues appeared nor did any of the people present there seem to know about multiple queues. Possibly unrelated but this match was completely lopsided.
Have had a second queue pop during a match before, a while ago. Showed up for all participants but didn’t seem to affect the match. Perhaps because all accepted. Don’t remember if the map selection had the same result or if it had any effect.
Should consider player performance before and after disconnect/absence as a factor in the amount of points deducted. Point deduction purely based on invisible win chance is a bit crude. Especially if win chance is calculated by comparing wildly fluctuating MMR values.
Most enemies do not respawn. Only saw some respawns in Drakkar Spurs, where the corrupted ice shards and the elementals that fight kodan icehammers do reappear.
The new change is amazing, no longer need to sacrifice stats for MF gain. Drops are more valuable and there’s constant progression. The Diablo paragon system was a similarly great idea.
The dungeon rework makes it a waste of a slot essentially. On the same boat as the MF gear. Would not have invested my time-gated laurels in Gold and Magic Find things if I’d known that they’d be useless 6 months down the road. Low ROI with my playstyle
Was also worried about my utility slot amulets becoming obsolete; but luckily they did cover that with the versatile omni-infusions.
Every update has changes that have not been documented. Always have to check the wiki for a more complete image; which leaves me wondering what else they left out of their notes. Would like a minor updates/fixes section.
The karka queen section of the last set of update notes still leads to numerous confused Southsun adventurers. Don’t understand why this isn’t edited out. Not much to localize about a deletion. Yes it’s mentioned elsewhere, but not where everyone checks for updates.
- Guild leaderboards. The guild name is already indicated upon match start. Though this might require a new ranking system.
- Special, more rewarding, monthly tournaments hosted by ArenaNet.
- Separation between spectators and players. So the number of spectators doesn’t interfere with the number of players.
Dislike that the minor traits are not optional. Would love to have an off switch on some. Agreed on the reanimator, which is more of a hindrance rather than a bonus. Never lives long enough to actually reach a target, but does manage to ruin some aggro while it’s there. Really prefer that slot being empty instead.
Silly idea to put a random aggro bolt into the speedboosting traitline. Avoided speccing that far to avoid the combat mode trigger and its massive speed reduction. Slot’s better off being empty!
Beats me why they didn’t split RTL into a pve and a pvp version. Reducing it by 75% is a pretty massive change. Going to have to constantly swap weapons from inventory for running around now.
Also they didn’t really nerf bunkers as much as every other viable build.
The number of bunker eles in spvp might actually increase with these nerfs. They reduced ele mobility, survivability and damage. Bunkers have enough survivability to make up for the reduction and aren’t as affected by the mobility and damage nerf.
I agree that the wave should do more damage (range, recharge). But I’m sure everyone can agree that it’s lacking in the patch notes. Otherwise it’s going to be regarded as a bug that needs fixing.
Why I like hotjoin:
- No roster queueing and match start waiting timer
- Map variation
- Bigger teams
- When someone leaves you can get a replacement
- It’s possible to face people from all levels; much better and worse
The tournament system has way too much waiting time and constant leavers ruining any chances of a decent match. I’m not going to jump through hoops because of a silly reward chest or a higher rating on the kittenboard.
Yes custom arenas might offer what hotjoin does now, but then I’d have to worry about the match rules.
Leaving a rated match quickly and requeueing should be discouraged. It ruins the chances and rating of the other 3-4 people in the team. Would love a system that gives an hour downtime after the 2nd leave of the day.
To expand on the above; I’ve tried a pae kernel hack. It did indeed not solve anything. If anything, GW2 picked up a habit of randomly freezing. Mainly when typing or opening the guild roster. The thing Nitro linked does work. Haven’t had any errors anymore since I’ve used the “bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072” in prompt. (and threw out the kernel hack again)
A party full of people new to the game aren’t going to finish this without a guide or an entire day to spare. Doubt they’d get past the spiders at the start.
Experienced people are more likely to bring yellow cultural armor, various weapons and modify traits and utilities per encounter. And know where to stand and to dodge.
But Anet said (paraphrasing) that they design dungeons to be hard, not for everyone to roll through. They might redesign the other dungeons later to make them harder as well. I like the changes; they’ve given all bosses more damage and abilities and reduced their health. There are more dungeons that could do with a change like that. E.g. HotW bosses and grenth in Arah.
Just saw that they sell leather bags for glory and now I’m wondering what the rank 50 and rank 60 glory vendors offer in the leather bag department. Nothing on dem wiki’s.
Rank 1: four and eight slot bags
Rank 10: 10 slot bag
rank 20: 12 slot bag
Reviving this thread as there is more data supporting OPs hypothesis. (i.e possible bloating causing issues) Several people are reporting load time decreases and FPS increases after deleting/renaming the local.dat file.
It seems that the corpse loot in dungeons got reduced as well. Previously I got a consistent 7+ silver off of a certain champion and 21-22 silver off of the final boss. Currently don’t receive any gold at all from these. (intentional?) Also receive the bugged token and gold rewards. E.g. 15 or 30 for paths/dungeons I haven’t done before.
Would love more detailed information about game mechanics like DR in Developer Updates like in GW1. Or know what the base magic find chance is!
