Showing Highly Rated Posts By Kaos.9162:

Account bound WXP

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Maybe they plan to give it to us when someone gets Ultimate Sentinel (500,000 successful SM defenses)?

"We want more viable Elementalist builds"

in Elementalist

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

My favorite theory is that they’re gradually going to nerf everything down to the same level of suck.

signet of vamirism bugged?

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

While I’m glad it’s getting fixed, it makes me really sad that something as major as this doesn’t get a hot fix, while some relatively minor PvE things have…

New Legendary Weapons?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Silvary : pls arena net tell me why?

in Sylvari

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I have never thought of them as tree elves- but rather sentient plants modeled loosely on human form because of the Pale Tree’s interaction with humans.
Also I like to think that when she birthed the Sylvari she wanted humans to feel a kinship with them.

This made me wonder what the game would be like if they were modeled after Ventari, rather than humans. Plant-centaurs would’ve been more fun, IMO.

Incoming: WvW Leagues

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

However, there will be smaller rewards doled out along the way, and even if you don’t participate in WvW, you could be on the receiving end of some goodies if your server does well.

Anet, WHY would you add something as stupid as this??? This is just another reason for PVE carebears to populate winning servers and do absolutely nothing for it.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all got rewards for what the PvE players are doing?

[Suggestion] Younger Female Human options

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

It might make the personal story a bit weird too. A really young or really old character being best friends with Lord Faren would just be creepy.

WvW no longer required for world completion

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

It’s possible to get the gift of battle without doing any WvW now. You literally don’t have to leave your spawn zone with this change.

Wvw Ranks?

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

When it’s ready ™

Edge of the Mists coming next week!

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

It’s going to be amazing to see the champ train meet the hammer train, lmao.

Steam Ogre

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

This thread is hilarious, people miss what, one champ bag because they can’t be bothered to pay attention to map chat and they accuse the people doing the event of being griefers?

Violation of the law of conservation of mass

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Magic.

Attachments:

Will Condi ever be viable ?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I’m not sure people understand what “viable” means. I’ll admit some hybrid builds are viable, but no pure condi build is viable currently.

If by some miracle you could maintain 25 stacks of bleed, permanent burning, and poison and 3 stacks of torment then with 25 stacks of might you are doing a maximum of 6000 dps. That is HALF of what a power based build currently does. That is in no way “viable”. GW2 is easy enough that it is DOABLE, but it is NOT VIABLE.

Conditions need to first have the cap removed and then have their damage roughly doubled in PvE by some method to be “viable”.

vi·a·ble
?v??b(?)l/
adjective
capable of working successfully; feasible.

Condi builds are viable, but they’re far from optimal in PvE.

Account bound WXP

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Feature only patch, and account bound wxp apparently isn’t one of those features. Thanks, Anet. Some time before next year would be nice.

Edit: also, the ability point reset letter you sent us says it’s in preparation for the inaugural WvW season, talk about lazy, couldn’t even write us a new message.

(edited by Kaos.9162)

Map Completion - Metrics on Player Anger?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Because they’re not encouraging. They’re coercing.

Now where you draw that encourage/coercing line is debatable. But we do have clear example of encouraging already (Mist warriors hawking the Mist war, achievements under dailies and monthlies, etc.) But I laid out the basics of achievement design, and by those design rules, PvP simply should not be mixed into what is clearly a PvE meta. Putting it in there is done only to get people who really want that Meta to do something other than that meta. And “coercion” I think is apt description of that level of force.

co·er·cion
k???rZH?n,-SH?n/
noun
1.
the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.

Map completion gives you an optional reward to get a legendary. They’re encouraging you to try WvW by making it a requirement for an optional reward.

Mists not in Tyria WvW not World Completion

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

saddest thing you've withness

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

One time an uplevel tried killing me in WvW…he accidentally aggro’d a boar, and then another one. He died to the boars without me doing anything.

WvW Achievements

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Devon posted more than a year ago that they’re aware of it and are working on it, so either he lied, they’re really slow, or whoever was working on it is no longer working on it. That or it’s such a complicated process that it’s taken them more than a year to do it.

Why is the community so easily discouraged?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

  • They have, in fact, acknowledge some of the issues in WvW this week.

Got a link for this? If they have acknowledged it, it hasn’t been anywhere I’ve looked.

Incoming: WvW Leagues

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Devon said in another thread that your rewards are based on the server you’re on when the season starts, so that should help stop people from bandwagoning mid season, hopefully.

Not so shiny anymore...

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I got all excited because I got a wooden chest drop earlier, but no. Just a vote token labeled in Chinese…
edit: I hear it’s Korean?

(edited by Kaos.9162)

How You Would Ruin Things

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

First, get rid of the megaservers so this would work. Then, get rid of legendary defenders in WvW, and make the portals to LA from WvW work for opposing servers, with pvp enabled. Basically make WvW what the mist war recruiters make it sound like.

Cant talk in Guild

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Set yourself to invisible, then back online. Temp fix.

BlackGate server full

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Just a question, when you delete all your characters to move servers, do you still keep things like increased bank space bought with gems? And money if put in the bank before you delete and move?

The bank stays if you delete all your characters to move servers, yes. At least with the stuff in it, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an anet post telling someone they could stash all their stuff, delete their characters, and move. I would imagine that your bank upgrades stay also, then.

The Maul buff was bigger than advertised!

in Ranger

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Watch, next month we’ll see that they’ve reduced it to the stated values because it was bugged…

Too many 000's?

in Players Helping Players

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I bet you’ll get those 985 giants before I kill the 995,000 yaks I need for Yakslapper…

T8: 5/24/13 HoD-FC-ET

in Match-ups

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Anet ruined fight night :<

How did they run fight night? ALSO WHERE IS FIGHT NIGHT? I AM OUT FOR BLOOD RIGHT NOW AND SEE NOTHING!

My guess is that it was when they gave us “a new build will be available in the next hour or two” and then kicked us out six minutes later.

When will we see dueling?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

That’s actually reasonable, for how duels should work. Which means the pro-duelist crowd won’t like it, since they can’t gank folks who don’t want to duel.

That’s not open world dueling, that’s an open pvp server. This thread is about the ability to challenge someone to a duel, not the ability to have a free for all.

Map Completion - Metrics on Player Anger?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I’d rather play the game the way I want to play it.

/colin

I’d rather be able to get a legendary entirely from playing WvW, but it just doesn’t work that way.

WvW no longer required for world completion

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I’m somewhat confused by the complaining about the fact that that there’s no longer anything “forcing” players to do WvW if they want legendaries. I mean, granted, I’ve never actually crafted a legendary so maybe I’m wrong, but doesn’t this still exist?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Battle

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Taste_of_Liquid_World_Experience

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Large_Achievement_Chest

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heavy_Achievement_Chest

Like I said earlier, you no longer have to do any WvW at all.

April Fools Speculations

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

It would be nice if SAB came back, as well as getting something original that we haven’t seen yet. Pretty sure it won’t happen, but I can dream…

Living story in WvW? Again?

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Do these living story elements inside WvW actually get new people interested in WvW though? I’ve never seen anyone doing them outside of protecting yaks, and I imagine people that never come to WvW don’t even know they exist.

edit: if this thread is about living story stuff inside edge of the mists, I’m not a big fan of it, but at least it’s outside of the normal WvW maps.

(edited by Kaos.9162)

Bloodlust [merged]

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

That took what, less than an hour?

And now finding people to duel, one of the things I enjoyed, is completely ruined.

You really think this is because of the orb buff? You’re just aiming the blame elsewhere if you ask me. Instead okittennowledging that your server is weaker than the leading server, you come up with the silly idea that the game is doing something wrong.

Without the orb buffs, chances are pretty high that you’d still be getting slaughtered. Only difference now is that you’ve got a new feature to blame, instead of lack of server coverage, lower server population, possibly even lower player skill. Maybe your server is focussing too much on zerging – Neglecting small group play, etc. etc.

Evaluate the orb buff for a few weeks. Evaluate your server’s behaviour. Don’t judge badly because you’re losing. Be constructive.

If you read the title of the post, it says “the strong get stronger”. I think you may have missed the point…

Will PPK reduce fights

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

It’ll be interesting to see what happens. I imagine uplevels will catch even more abuse once this kicks in, and that the game’s going to become blobbier in general.

HATE BLOODLUST & being outmanned

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Can’t give outmanned stat boosts, people would get bullied to get off the map, so let’s just give stat boosts to the server causing outmanned, so those people never come into WvW in the first place!

WvW Titles

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

The unpaid intern they put to work on this probably just isn’t with them anymore, bringing progress to a halt.

Ascended Gear

in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

It wouldnt be fair if it was 50% but it still wouldnt matter because there is no gear requirements. Crying for the sake of crying with no real arguement wont make your point heard.

Doesn’t matter? WvW says hello.

ArenaNet just shortened the Personal Story...

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Does it still come as a surprise to you that they still do things like this? As you mention here and as I’ve read other places, it isn’t really unprecedented…

Choose Scarlet death !

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Spontaneous combustion. It doesn’t even have to be on screen, a poorly written ending for a poorly written villain.

2 vs 1 Server planned matchup. Is this legal?

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Yes this is in fact illegal. Please be sure to provide the internet police with the appropriate account names/fraps recordings/other circumstantial evidence so that we can be sure that justice will be swift.

Be sure to alert Interpol as well, this might be an international conspiracy.

But seriously though, I think at one point Anet said that it was part of the design that two servers could gang up on the third server if they wanted to, so I think planning a 2v1 is fair play.

(edited by Kaos.9162)

A civilized discussion on rewards

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

The lack of anything but greens ever dropping from the chests aside, I like them. Compared to never getting them, we get a decent amount of silver per chest, and the free sieges and badges are nice little additions. Again, they may not stack up to pve chests, but they’re a whole not better than nothing at all.

(edited by Kaos.9162)

Matchup Feedback [merged]

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

TIER 8 SERVERS COMING TO AN END FC, ET ,AR
I heard a rumor that the tier 8 servers are going to be disbanded or the 3 servers with the lowest population. And that all players from (Fergusons Crossing, Eternal Battlegrounds and one other server) will get a free server transfer to upper tier server and these servers will cease to exist. It is supposed to happen at some time after the Fall tournament. Thank the gods. I joined Fergusons Crossing because I had a friend in it. Little did I know the implications of picking a server. You would think developers would have noticed and solved these issues of being grossly outnumbered in every battle. It makes the game no fun at all and if anything irritating. Now that Im in it, half the guilds I joined are planning on transferring out within the coming weeks. But I don’t have the money for this. I hope if this does happen that guilds will transfer together so we can still play with each other.

Eternal Battlegrounds is getting disbanded? You seem like a credible source of information…

Immobilized for what seems like hours

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

step 1: play warrior. step 2: get melandru runes, -condi duration food, and dogged march, step 3: laugh as immob. doesn’t even slow you down.

Some ANET interfered with our GvG

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

You know, if the guilds down there are guilty of wasting everyone else’s time then the dev is just as guilty, he’s sitting there not contributing either…

World Ability Points Reset?

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Giving the tournament npc the ability to reset wvw points once per character during the season might be a good alternative.

How big is the initial download?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Patched and up to date my install takes up 19.4 gigs. Hard to say what the download’ll be since there are pretty frequent patches, and the end file size isn’t always the same for everyone.

WvW Forum Specialist!

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

I’d be impressed if you could get anet to come comment on what the hell is going on with WvW achievements.

Though good luck in dealing with both sides you’re trying to help communicate here, lol.

Communicating with you

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Thanks for the update, the communication goes a long way.

Don't Reward Bad Behavior

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

Part of the problem with this, I think, is that you can’t necessarily tell when something has been done through legitimate means or not. If I’m just walking along and see an open gate or wall or whatever, I probably won’t guess that it’s the result of someone hacking or exploiting.

Applied Fortitude and Strength to be removed

in WvW

Posted by: Kaos.9162

Kaos.9162

First, we wanted to reduce the costs of ability lines to make them feel more attainable, even to the majority of WvW players with a world ranking under 300

Glad to see they’re catering to the casual player base again, because ranks are too hard to get, apparently.