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Actually, none of them are more likely than the others. It always goes in the order of excort → kill pirates → champion fight, then repeats (it doesn’t do it randomly). They all happen 1/3 of the time, though I suspect you might find the escort one unfinished more often because people are less likely to want to try to do it.
seems that anything that can make people a few silver that doesn’t involve mindlessly zerging champions anet will nerf.
For one, they did nerf some aspects of zerging the champions in the pavillion.
For two, is mindlessly repeating the exact same fight over and over really any better than mindlessly zerging champions?
I don’t really understand why repeating the same challenge should give extra loot at all – it’s just begging to be farmed in such a fashion. Either the loot will be so terrible that people fighting it the first time (and likely dying a few times) will get practically nothing for their time spent, or the people who have practiced fighting it countless times will get loot stupidly fast.
Personally I think that repeating the same fight with the same gambits active should give either diminished returns based on how many times you’ve fought it, or nothing at all (if you fight it with a different set of gambits this shouldn’t apply). Then maybe increase the rewards from beating it the first time, and I think it would be better off.
diminished returns
Quaggan says nnnoOOooOoooOooo
Diminished returns/things that can’t be repeated constantly are necessary in games if you don’t want people to mindlessly grind and still get decent payouts. There’s no getting around it unless you just want to spend the entire game grinding.
I don’t really understand why repeating the same challenge should give extra loot at all – it’s just begging to be farmed in such a fashion. Either the loot will be so terrible that people fighting it the first time (and likely dying a few times) will get practically nothing for their time spent, or the people who have practiced fighting it countless times will get loot stupidly fast.
Personally I think that repeating the same fight with the same gambits active should give either diminished returns based on how many times you’ve fought it, or nothing at all (if you fight it with a different set of gambits this shouldn’t apply). Then maybe increase the rewards from beating it the first time, and I think it would be better off.
What I saw in that video was a warrior killing her in the 2nd phase, not bursting her down before the 2nd phase.
the second phase has about 5 ish seconds before it spawns and does anything, he killed her in the transition before she could do anything.
No, he did not, he killed her after she used the whirling attack which is an attack that is only used during the 2nd phase. There is no time where the boss just stands there idling.
What I saw in that video was a warrior killing her in the 2nd phase, not bursting her down before the 2nd phase.
why is it the only reliably good strategy is to go complete zerker and nuke her before she even spawns the second phase?
You have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about because that strategy is not even possible let alone reliable.
You keep talkinga bout it being luck dependent and such, but there is practically nothing random in the fight. While I do agree that 1 shot kills are pretty lazy design mechanics – it’s very silly to claim that it’s all about RNG because you aren’t able to pay attention to what’s happening around you (the instakill AOEs do follow a pattern, there is no ‘RNG’ to that).
Personally I think the biggest problem is that it’s really difficult to see the red circles/instakill AoEs beofre they hit while you’re in the arena – I found while observing people that they were pretty easy to see but while fighting Liadri I often couldn’t see where the red circles actually were.
The timer might be a little too strict, but I don’t have much of an opinion on that since I never actually ran out of time on any boss in the gauntlet anyway, but people with tanky items would likely have a harder time (retraiting is one thing, but people shouldn’t be expected to replace an entire set of equipment).
As far as the camera angles go while running around at the edge of the map – I never found that a problem. I’m not sure why you actually would want to be running around at the edge of the map for Liadri since it’s much harder to run out of range of the AoEs there since it has a cone shape. Similarly adds spawning behind you shouldn’t be a big problem if you aren’t at the edge of the map, as long as you keep moving.
Never seen the first bug before personally, but as far as the 2nd ‘bug’, the answer to that is simple. The crystals do not just spawn, you have to pull the visions of moratliaty into the light spots to get the crystals to appear.
The results are within the margin of error. The race is ‘officially’ dead even.
/sarcasm on
Nothing seems fishy at all about that. Nope, not a thing.
/sarcasm offWhile you are playing Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet is playing you.
What would be the motivation for rigging the election?
Also what is the margin of error? (I know the concept; I’m asking you for the approximate number.) I think that the margin of error would be very low for a count such as this, where each vote is electronically tallied and (likely) received in a single location. Other counts, such as political elections, are not like this.
The close margin is interesting, but thinking that the election is a conspiracy is still not plausible to me given that I can’t imagine a motivation for rigging it.
Also, Smooth Penguin is speaking for flavor. Please do not take him seriously.
After all, no one that votes for a smelly, evil charr such as Evon can be trusted.
Vote for Kiel. Vote for truth.A close campaign may stimulate players to log more game hours than usual in order to support their candidate.
It may also cause active players to rally their friends, who may be taking a break from the game, to log back in to help them sway the election.
Wealthier players may spend more IRL cash on gems so as to exchange the gems for gold in order to buy other players’ votes. Isn’t the going rate something like 10 votes per gold at the moment?
EDIT: To calculate the margin of error, I used this formula and came out to ~3% but many of the factors involved were educated guesses.
http://statistics.about.com/od/Inferential-Statistics/a/How-To-Calculate-The-Margin-Of-Error.htmThose are reasons for posting false vote numbers. I fail to see how those are reasons for rigging the election.
Also, how did you get 3% using that formula? With a 95% confidence interval, the sample size needed to get 3% is roughly 830 to 1500. Aren’t we dealing with a sample size considerably larger than that?
Also, the margin of error calculation there assumes that it is a sample size that is negligible in size compared to the entire population – the vote tallies don’t even count as a ‘sample’ because it contains all the votes – there is 0 margin of error (at the time it was posted at least).
As far as rigging the election and such goes, it really seems pointless to me to try to rig the election. I don’t think they really care which of the 2 candidates win – if they had predecided on which fractal they were making for instance, they could’ve simply not had the fractals as part of the vote and replace it with something else, and then make the fractal they wanted anyway without rigging the election. They don’t need to jump through all these silly hoops to have a rigged election. Not to mention the huge risk of someone leaking that it was a rigged election, resulting in a very high risk for virtually no reward situation.
The even bigger problem than the difficulty of the trials, is taht the strategy required is utterly stupid. The context of the event, and the way to get silver/gold medals for it, and just common sense implies that you’re supposed to be able to actually fight off the pirates. You’re not supposed to just hide in the back and pick off the plunderers – but as far as I can tell it’s the ONLY strategy that works.
It’s just silly design – personally I think all of the pirates should chase you around instead of just standing idle while you kill the plunderers, and of course with vastly lower stats.
And who’s to say the Fall of Abaddon will play out much differently than other dungeons/fractals? Maybe it’ll be pretty much the same as the ascalon fractal (another one set in the past). We simply don’t know anything about either fractal – and it’s silly to suggest that you know in advance which fractal will be better when we pretty much know nothing about them other than their names.
Just for the sake of playing devil’s advocate – even if they showed a bar representing who was winning at the time, there would still be no way to prove that it wasn’t rigged (ie. that they just decided who should have what % of support at what time, and not using the players votes still).
The point is, if they really want to rig the election, having a bar showing who’s winning at the time will not make it any easier to notice. That said, it would be pretty stupid and pointless of them to rig the election in such a way. Why would they want to alienate the majority of the playerbase by rigging the election?
Before anyone brings up the key discounts, I’m going to point out that they can have a discount for them for whatever reason they want – they wouldn’t need to jump through the pointless hoops of having a rigged election.
The idea of being unable to track any explicit action in the game is silly. If they weren’t able to track it, they wouldn’t have been able to make it an action in the first place.
As far as the actual thread goes though, I would say the fact that people can’t even agree at all on which side is being favored is proof that neither side is really being favored.
Do you really think that someone is going to dump 10000g, just for a very small chance of influencing the election (10000g will be pretty small compared to the combined playerbase of every server combined) – and then even if they did change the outcome, they almost certainly won’t buy that many keys that the discount would be worth more than the money they spent.
While I agree that in theory it’s possible for the rich people to rig the election.. I don’t think it would be in their best interests at all because they would have to spend way too much to have a meaningful impact (have you seen how commonly the tokens drop? Multiply that by the number of players that play the game and..), and the discount almost certainly won’t be that big relatively speaking.
In addition as far as I know, you also get support for the candidates by representing them (they haven’t made the specifics of how it works clear though) – if you just buy thousands and thousands of buttons, you still won’t be able to actually use them all.
I think building snowmen and catapults everywhere is much easier, doesnt require team coordination (pug friendly) and works much better than the above.
Yeah this is pretty much what I did – just place it wherever you find the snow/scrap, after the 3rd round or so I don’t think anything ever hit the doiyaks again – by the end the doiyaks were all at full health. Don’t waste your time actually trying to kill the mobs with the weapons (except using the rifle against Toxx of course), your time is much better spent building siege typically.
It doesn’t matter what you build or where you build it (within reason) – if you spam siege, you will win pretty much. Actually trying to fight with the weapons is a complete waste of time (except against Toxx of course). To me it seems like fighting the mobs is the only reason to fail.