Don’t worry bruh, they cater to the entitled players with participation awards. However, if you want to win, it’s going to take practice with a dedicated group.
She has a really simple experiment. Use any screen shake and buff applying skill (both in one skill pref) and throw greens in the toilet. If it comes out rare, you got the luck factor.
My wife has been coding games for 18 years and she has the most insane RNG I’ve ever seen on every game. She swears by secret modifiers and can usually sense within the first few minutes of character creation if the account is “lucky” or not. She’s gotten several precursers in the mystic forge, using various methods that would look like superstition to any sane person, but it just keeps working. She calls the phenomenon quantum interaction and described something about attitude, and syncing up the “mood of the code.” She’s gone to elaborate lengths to accomplish some seemingly impossible tasks in games using sheer “luck,” and has it down to a pretty finite science, at least as far as her accounts are concerned. I’ve watched her get the best drops first try every time on some toons that she deemed “super lucky” and other ones where she forgot to do her luck experimenting she has literally deleted them just for their invisible unlucky factor.
So… can confirm. There is a secret luck factor. She swears it isn’t in the coding, however, and there isn’t anything you can do except delete the unlucky toons and make new ones. It’s not a seed, it’s a combination of factors that affect each character made. You try a few random activities out specifically for “luck sensing” at the beginning of the account and will eventually be able to tell which ones are lucky and which ones aren’t.
Failure and practice are the path to skill.
If someone whispers you hatefully, they are not skilled.
Not at life, not at learning, not at failure, and definitely not at PvP.
There are good people in the community. The rest are just small minded people who cannot accept their own failures to gain knowledge. They are people who must lash out and blame others for their failures, and therefore they will never learn. Forgive them immediately for their hate, as their lives must be miserable. If their “fun time” is building hatred within themselves and leaking it out to others, it is a sad life indeed.
I never played cele on my ele, and I wrecked cele eles every time. You’ve been playing your class wrong from the start if you think that’s what you needed to win.
I KNOW it was there because I used to have to find out which class of the day was being “favored” to break ANet’s punishment for winners. After just about every solo 10+ win streak they would start force-feeding me the kittentiest players in the game. I’d have to find the “class of the day” to reset the punishment. It worked nearly every time once I’d found the class and could continue on with my win streak uninhibited.
I called this a long time ago, the class-specific coding has been there for a long time, but they broke it to be frozen. It used to rotate daily. Now, from reading lots of the QQ, it appears the arbitrary bonus classes were getting daily is a more prevalent force in match determination, and appears to no longer rotate.
Okay listen I understand that Dragon Banner is a REALLY useful weapon, to make guilds want to work together and level up so they can have access to.
I however have an idea, in regards to making it better..
FIRST- Make a mastery for that kitten allowing it to double field radius.
SECOND- make them a little kitten easier to obtain!
THIRD- Make them hit stronger, my Zerker Rev only takes 6k from Dragons breath.
Anyways that concludes what i had to say. Dragon Banner Better GW2016!!
Dude, if the single diamond can carry 1 amber and 3 saphs against 5 saphs or higher, he kittening earned that win imo. It’s only if he gets into emerald or lower that I would even begin to care.
The point is that an AMBER should SUCK. So you’re taking a rallybot/man down into a match to lower the que time. Half the time that amber is going to rush in and die, and potentially rally any downed players you might have earned.
It’s putting a monkey on your back to lower your que time. I don’t think it’s that wrong. Yes I agree there should be a better system. No it is not cheating, according to the current rules of play. Until it’s all fixed just understand that any ruby queing with an amber is risking screwing himself just so he can play a little.
Hahaha, I disagree in complete sincerity. Yes, some classes are easier than others to spam skills and have it actually DO things (aka chronomancer/guardian), but to play effectively you have to be skilled. You wont see NEW mesmers using double elites and actually landing it except maybe once in a blue moon. They forget how. They’re spamming.
You WILL see new guardians cc-spamming, but they don’t recognize things like reflects or stability, so it can be easy to trap-bait and reflect their true shot and make them hurt themselves.
The more map and class aware you are the easier it is to spot new players and bait them out of proper gameplay and rotations, thereby making your team more effective.
The two classes that used to be the easiest to play became the hardest. Thief and warrior were overpowered. Now they take incredible demands of skill to play correctly, but when played correctly they can be insanely effective.
Two classes became the most beginner friendly. Two classes became elite only. The rest are fairly skill gated.
One of the biggest problems we’re seeing is laziness. People are looking up meta builds instead of finding their own, and raging about how unfair the game is because they aren’t facerolling people out of the box.
The game is broken because my team should have won but didn’t.
I did well but still lost.
You have to talk. You have to plan. You have to instruct, you have to listen. If you are soloqing and raging about the game because you’re losing, I have only one response:
Hi, Anet has not been unresponsive. They have already pushed out tweaks mid league which they weren’t going to do. They changed guild league mechanics almost instantly when it was broken and being abused. They are definitely listening. There’s just not much they can do about it right now. They’re aware it isn’t working as well as they had hoped, go check the reddit where they’re actually talking about this. The devs seem to respond more there.
I don’t mind the e-sport trend. Hell, it’s bringing new players and money for the game. It’s a legit idea, and it’s exciting imo, but anet needs to stop hopping projects so fast that nothing is done right and nothing gets fixed.
Cry me a river says Sera. Meanwhile real teams are being kicked out of their spots, losing out on the opportunity to win trophies for their guild halls. By the end of this, if the exploit isn’t fixed, you wont be able to stay in the top 100s from the swarm of fake teams. But no, lets do nothing. Lets patronize the ones who give a kitten . Sera, shut up and uninstall. You obviously can’t even read. The problem is not that a single guild has 5 teams, or 7. It’s that they have 1 that has remade itself 50 times to farm amber spvpers, get easy wins, and push everyone else out of the leaderboard spots. How does 5 wins 0 losses against ambers = 1900 points and qualify to push out teams with 35 wins 2 losses or 18 and 1? It’s a broken kitten system. We can’t win prizes for our guilds, they’ll win 5. And god only knows what place you’re REALLY in among all the fake teams if you have any hopes of actually competing.
Not that that game was any good, but the story was immersive because the scenes kept changing as you played. Blade and Soul manages a good deal of change too, but it is pretty instanced as well.
RaiderZ managed to do it. Totally different game style but… I imagine it’s possible. Just not with the kitten team ANet’s got developing stuff for them right now.
Ranks have no real meaning when brand new teams are getting top 10 in a matter of minutes, demoting real teams who have been winning for hours-days because they found a kittening hole in the system.
That’s the thing, with the abuse of the system there is no real progress. These are all the same people deleting and recreating their teams over and over again. You can’t make it onto the leader board and stay for more than a few minutes without a new TEAM PZ BS team kicking you out.
First, let me point out, there are investors riding on your Guild League.
There are cash money investors that have put $200,000 into your Pro League tournament, and you threw in a system that could be abused, and IS being abused, which will account for 4 teams challenging the bottom 4 pro league teams in 7 weeks.
There has to be accountability. Team PZ and The Abjured (Part of the mist initiative) are CLEARLY abusing the system.
Disqualification from Pro League? Is that a bit much? Maybe. Maybe they should get a medal for pointing out how stupid you were to allow such a huge hole in your system.
The fact is, guild teams need to be permanent. You can only create 7 a month, and once deleted, they cannot be reformed for 1 month. Until you can fix your broken kitten code, you MUST implement this feature to stop the abuse and allow real teams to rise on the scoreboard in a legitimate manner.
I will not even go into how much you effed up the pip system. There are HUNDREDS of posts below that do.
I will simply state that you have a real problem, with real investors expecting you to really deliver. The only way to fix this is to patch the game right kittening now with guild teams set to be permanent, or irreplaceable without a set time limit for recreation.
There is an exploit in the guild rankings. TEAM PZ can be seen doing it, with multiple teams on the leaderboard. It needs to be fixed, it’s unfair to the rest of us.
Ok so here’s how it works: Currently the function gyro is predisposed to finishers not revives. This IS an unintended preference, I am sure.
To get it to work with revivals at the moment, (again only works on DOWNED, not dead, so usually npcs are out), have target selected and run at them. You usually will only see function gyro appear when you are IN RANGE to revive him by hand, but it will typically pop up there and you can run along on your way.
Not really. Bought for self and wife. Love all the new content. Expected nerfs and rebalancing. The story is engaging and interesting, and at some parts ridiculously hard. I’m a little bummed because the hardest stuff in the open maps was nerfed, and I reeeeaaally liked the challenge. It meant you had to coordinate with people, or get really skilled. I dislike the new WvW maps only in their size. Everything else about them is cool. Kinda wishing I had bought the cheaper deal during BW3- They were selling non-beta weekend HoT for 39.99. We weren’t sure if it would include an extra account slot, though, so we did the next tier up.
Ok, not sure if this has been suggested yet. I see the good sides of the HP/Mastery nerf and the bad. The good is they are mostly now solo-able. The bad: this makes it way less interesting, and breaks the heart of the HoT purpose, which was the challenge.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ I want to suggest a two-part larger mechanic that would incentivize players helping each other, thus allowing you to restore (un-nerf) the original HoT content.
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[ Side note: I’m not sure if it’s true that there will be 3 total elite specs for each class when all is said and done, or if it will stay as one. If it is going to be 750 total hero points needed to unlock all 3 specs, that’s even more reason to use this idea. ]
Change 1: |-Optional-| Map completion with Notarized Scrolls
Give WvW Notarized Scrolls of Heroics the option to decide if they are map-unlock hero points or are floating hero points, that do not map unlock. Yes this means you could collect an infinite number of hero points, essentially. It also means you can decide if you want the game content to auto complete or if you want to actually do the challenges. Simply add a checkbox that retains the decision the player has made, every time they consume a HP scroll that reads: " [ ] Use as a contribution for map completion." When selected, it will map complete a hero point. When unselected, it just adds a hero point from nowhere’sville.
Change 2: Add Proof of Heroic “Fragments” for assisting/bring back hard content
In the same vein you could bring back the HARD challenges for the hero points and give hero point fragments to people helping. On the Champion challenges say they have to do at least 10% damage or whatever, and give them a “hero point fragment.” 10 of these can be exchanged for 1 notarized scroll of heroics.
Is it very much? No. Is it enough? Probably. In fact, almost certainly.
We like to help each other, just reward us for doing so in a way that matters.
We don’t want full bags or full friends lists for helping each other. We want the same achievement we are helping others accomplish, usually. I know a lot of people would be willing to stick around and help complete these for dozens of others if it means they aren’t wasting their time or falling behind to do so.
That was essentially the problem with the harder content. It was COOL content, and I think a lot of us liked it, but we had exactly zero reason other than “because we’re nice” to sit around and help each other. We ALL want to unlock our elite specs, and many of us are working on more than one character.
I have NO idea how you could add assist mechanics to non-monster challenges, but if you can come up with clever ways to reward for helping with those, you will see results there as well. *Maybe proximity/party tests? If party member A has already completed but is in party with member B AND is standing within 100 meters of the hero point, member A gets a fragment when member B gets the HP. *
I would only use these for HoT content, although Orr is a pain in some places as well. If you have any intent to use this for central Tyria as well, give them a fragment of a fragment. 10 pieces to exchange for a fragment, so 100 for a notarized scroll.
I personally would make these fragments account bound, not soulbound, as it means you can be helping people on the class that is actually helpful, while farming resources for the next class.
Is it abusable? Sure. Get the whole guild to do a hero point one after the other with you in party. MAYBE you’re lucky enough to have 100 people online. What do you get? The equivalent of 1 extra HoT hero point for loads of coordination, but 100 people have walked away with that hero point. So is it really abuse? I don’t think so.
I have heard a lot of whining about proofs of heroics not being account bound. In some cases this is a fair complaint, because if you’re running WvW with a group, you may not be on your favorite class- you may just be filling a needed role. However, as the rank up chests are currently NOT soulbound, I think it’s perfect. If you are sincerely interested in working on another class you have the option to transfer them, it just takes a little work. This is exactly how it should be, since it is SO MUCH EASIER to get HPs in WvW than in the rest of the game.
Change 3: Add “Proof of Heroics Fragments” to PvP reward tracks
As far as PvP players, perhaps implementing the fragments alongside transmutation charges and tomes of knowledge on their pvp reward tracks would be a good idea. Just because they play one part of the game does not mean they should be excluded from the rest.
Thank you to anyone for your comments. I hope you like this idea, and I sincerely hope they implement it, because I would love to see HoT back the way it was intended! It’s true most people couldn’t solo the harder challenges, but the talented people could. It was engaging and fun. All that was needed was a reason to stick around and help others.
tl;dr – Restore “hard” challenges. Add fragments of heroics- 10:1 notarized (1 HP, not 10) for helping on the hard stuff. Add them to PvP reward tracks. Add the option to NOT map complete when consuming notarized scrolls. Possibly add fragment fragments for Tyria assists. (Not nearly as hard, not nearly as big a reward.)
