Guild Wars 2

Sariel V.7024:

Raedwulf.3712:

Be honest, for once, Anet. YOU, not us, YOU released code that set your players against each other. Your decision, not ours. Fixing it is… It isn’t “good”. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Just what is going on behind the scenes? Who is making the decisions? Why are they making those decisions?

Never attribute to malice what is easily explained by ignorance.

Not that I’m calling the devs stupid, but you seriously need to chill. The testing for these couldn’t happen in an actual play environment. There weren’t 200 real players lusting after a priestess’ death to compete with the need to have one wraith spawn half a map-area away. There isn’t a large contingent of devs trying to make an established event chain fail to farm champs while the testers are pushing it forward towards the one that gives the goodies they want. The mindset is not the same and never will be.

Now it IS the testers job to consider modes of failure, but often times it takes cultural intervention before some of them will come to light. Unfortunately, we’ve been down this road before. , so this possibility should have been seen coming. But think a little bit before you go accusing people of snickering into their sleeves as they purposefully set people into a rage.

People are angry, Friend. I am angry. I have had to restrain myself from lashing out at some random new player, for just playing the game. I mean, it is really bad design, and yeah, sure it may simply be a matter of complete and utter ignorance that highlights ANets DIRE need to test things, or it could be by design, which highlights a whole different kettle of very stinky fish. Regardless, people are angry and that is not going to get solved by the usual PC sugar coated nonsense. They need to start owning up. They have lost the trust of many players, me being one, and regaining that will not be with more sugar and candy.

Sooooo done with this game.

Cant stay on for longer than 2 seconds… but only sometimes. Seems completely random. Accept in Swampland fractal. There, it is always just “switching” off.

I give up on this class. GG Anet.

I doubt I will be buying gems anytime soon. Not until this nonsense stops.

Waiting for the Redit post to trend. Fantastic publicity Guildwars is going to get when that happens.

Rushes… ha! The whole system is poorly done. Half our guild did not get credit for finishing the puzzle today, and no-one can tell me why.

This used to be something we looked forward to. Now its just frustration. Members don’t even want to do it any more, and I don’t want to tell them why they are not getting rewards…

It pathetic.
WHY DID THIS NEED CHANGING????

Fay.2357:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Fay.2357:

Dalent.9358:

MAGpie.7962:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ascended Drop Rates
We’ve noticed some changes to ascended drop rates that are below what we were expecting.

If you tell a computer, 10%, it will give you 10%. If you tell it, 1%, it will give you 1%. Please tell me, how you can “EXPECT” less than the value YOU put in? Are you kidding me?

You know, I would respect you a lot more if you you man up for a change.

Except that’s not how that works. At all.

That’s absolutely how it works. There are many very complex systems in this game. RNG boxes are not one of them, so don’t try and white-knight by pretending that coding an RNG box takes any amount of skill or experience, because it doesn’t.

You literally just slap an RNG with a if check onto every item in the loot table. If RNG produces a number above a threshold, then it appears in the box. This is not complex, and saying that they ’didn’t expect rates to be this low’ is either flat out lying or admitting they literally don’t have the first clue of how either math or coding works.

Not saying you’re wrong but it’s crossed my mind more than once that their drop equations are more than RNG. Could be a multivariate function taking into account things as simple as magic find or as diverse as individual performance, chat during encounters, hours played etc.

If that’s the case, then it falls under the option of ‘flat out lying’, since it’s been stated repeatedly and loudly that stuff like magic find or amount of time played has no bearing on box drops unless otherwise explicitly stated (PvP reward track chests).

Bankers and politicians have a few things in common when it comes to telling the truth. And as long as this type of “politicking” goes on from Anet’s banker, the company will never regain my trust.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ascended Drop Rates
We’ve noticed some changes to ascended drop rates that are below what we were expecting.

If you tell a computer, 10%, it will give you 10%. If you tell it, 1%, it will give you 1%. Please tell me, how you can “EXPECT” less than the value YOU put in? Are you kidding me?

You know, I would respect you a lot more if you you man up for a change.

Agree with every word Brazil spoke. 100% agree.

Are they really INTENDED to be soul-bound.

And if so, WHY???

This:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBwI9nCUIAExOpN.jpg

This is what needs to happen to this “event”. So OP, please help the rest of us forget about it and put it to rest.

Sol.6213:

Pretty much agree with the OP. I think that if they ran upright and didn’t have such weird hyena necks that more people would like them.

I doubt those minor changes would make the people that love them already love them less.

Sorry to say, but if the charr got more “humanized” they would loose their charm for me. Roll a human bro.

If I wanted to play a furry, I’d play… hell, I dono. Furries go to Narnia. But hey, if you’re into that…

Personally, I like the Charr a bit different. Makes em a lot better.

The Charr is superb as a race.

But here is a tip for you, OP: If you want something that looks like a human, roll one.

Accountability. Responsibility.

Its a 4 day event…. This, should have been tested. Its a joke. A bad one.

Almost 2 weeks now. Its just unplayable…

Well… was fun while it lasted. Back to an average ping of 900

Was playable for me today. Even ran a fractal without issue. Nothing on my side changed. So yeah, where ever it was, I hope it stays fixed.

Haven’t been able to play this whole week…

EU… and I DC every 5 minutes…

Special “guild event” happening this week, and I have an average ping of 1.5k+ for the last three days…

I know where this is going. -_-

Yeah… its not actually helping me knowing that I am getting packet loss…. I still cant play…

Will try. But right now, with that ping, I am lucky to just log in, never mind actually launching the game and staying in long enough to get an ip. But will try.

Just some further info:

Ping in GW right now: 2484 (avr. 1200+)
Ping in WoT: 280 – 300
TeamSpeak ping: 160 – 180

I am getting the nagging suspicion anet did not anticipate the influx correctly.

I have been experiencing extreme lag as well. The game is currently unplayable for me.

Game has been completely unplayable for the last 2 days now:(

Lag is so extreme I can’t even log into open world areas, and LA is simply unthinkable right now. I dare not set foot into any dungeon or fractal.

And its not my connection. World of Tanks is running just fine.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Guys, the stab change was made specifically around the new champs and event bosses with HoT. That’s it. It’s in an old post, which I just don’t want to try to find. It wasn’t balanced around pvp or any existing pve content. They totally screwed up the entire game because of HoT. No one in WvW likes this. It has totally lagged the game even more due to the higher amount of calculations necessary and communications back and forth. No one in WvW likes the change. It was never an issue in existing PvE.

They didn’t want groups fighting the new champs and event bosses to have perma stability. That is the sole reason why they did this.

So, make changes for things that is not even in the game and break the rest of the game for the 5 years it takes to make the new content.

Trahearne: “Well Done.”

stof.9341:

Which part of “just make the PvE look a little more like PvP” did you not understand?

The part where that is a far less practical enterprise than simply viewing it as two very different game modes.

You are suggesting changing every mob in the PvE environment to “reflect” in some way or another a PvP build or mechanic. Players are limited to a small number of things they can do, per class. This is not the case in the PvE environment. And for good reason. AI. It is simply not as intuitive as human player. Therefore, the developer must compensate by making the mobs a little different. THis is where they failed. See, when they changed the stability FOR (AND ONLY FOR) PvP, they failed to roll out that change in PvE… as, its is likely a very impractical thing to do…

That is why it HAS to be viewed as 2 entities that may have a lot of similarities, but is 2 parts of a venn diagram.

Ardid.7203:

MAGpie.7962:

It was already stated that there will be no new emotes in HoT. Soz guys

Did they even talk about this thopic at all? Where!?

In here somewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWOzwVlacQ

stof.9341:

MAGpie.7962:

What about an immovable, uncritable object that spams AOE knock-back as its auto-attack? That sound fun to you? On, and you also have a debuff that kills you if you don’t cleanse it by a fire, that the object targets soon as you light it. Oh, and it has adds and literally blinds you every 25% of its health…. Yeah… tons of fun with no stab.

I was saying that having PvE work closer to sPvP wouldn’t be bad. So can you tell me which class and spec you use in your scenario to make that monstrosity? oO

ONLY, if everything else in PvE does as well.
And here is my monstrosity: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Snowblind_Fractal I face him almost daily.

But since you seem to have only PvP point of view, you really should perhaps be diligent in this thread. Allow me to elaborate and perhaps clarify: It is not that PvP stability is bad, its that its bad everywhere BUT in PvP… Something PvPers don’t seem to care about. And to be fair, why should they, its a totally different game mode. Trouble is, that same courtesy does not go the other way. PvE, is NOT considered when balancing, and this kind of nonsense continues to occur.

It was already stated that there will be no new emotes in HoT. Soz guys

stof.9341:

MAGpie.7962:

I think you are confusing Fun with Frustrating.

As long as there’s no D/D Celestial Elementalist it should be fine :o

What about an immovable, uncritable object that spams AOE knock-back as its auto-attack? That sound fun to you? On, and you also have a debuff that kills you if you don’t cleanse it by a fire, that the object targets soon as you light it. Oh, and it has adds and literally blinds you every 25% of its health…. Yeah… tons of fun with no stab.

stof.9341:

It’s not bad really, and said from the point of view of someone that doesn’t really PvP recently.

I mean, the game balance is more PvP oriented? Sure, just make the PvE look a little more like PvP. It’ll only be more fun to beat I think :p

I think you are confusing Fun with Frustrating.

Anet does everything around PvP now. Look at the so called Elite specs. All PvP specs… purpose built for PvP… and labeled, “Elite”. Play PvE? You’re not l337 according to Anet.

THAT, is the issue here. An agenda that’s been driven so hard, large portions of the game is simply being left smoldering in its wake.

I’d sign for Avenger.

EsarioOne.9840:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

GUYS! We won’t have the worst name anymore! I’m OK with this.

Nope, we still do >.<

Yeah, we sooo do. In fact, we don’t have a name or title, or any form of flair. We have a Job Description…

Yip. Missess got it for herself as well, same problem. Seems to paste the last character she was on into the back for some reason.

So… what about the elephant in the room?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/DragonHunter-name-feedback-merged/first

BEST
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Since wallet!

Game gets balanced in PvP… I hate it, but it wont change…

Fine in PvP. Wont get nerfed.

Still waiting for the rest of that story, Turtle.

I just finished the Jormag Defense Guide collection, and only got 8 AP for unlocking the Jormag Defense Guide, as apposed to the 10 listed.
To be fair, not really a big deal but there is a bit of a lesson in principle that is coming from this, and a warning.

Background:
My current assumption is that it happened because I had all the weapons done already, and was only waiting for the super rare Scale. I also did not have the Karma item. So everything except those 2 items.

I finally bought the scale, double clicked, but only got the 3 AP for Tier 2, and not the 2 AP for Tier 1 of the collection as well. I then went to buy the Karma item to complete the collection, hoping it would fix it. I received the 5 AP for Tier 3, but the Tier 1 reward is still outstanding.

Opened a ticket, but was replied to that unfortunately the tools that can help me solve this does not exist.

Oh well…

But anyhow:

TL;DR: If you intend to finish this set and wish to get all the AP for it, get the scale first and make sure you get the rewards step by step. If you don’t, accept the fact that you will not get the full reward for spending your 800+ gold.

Lyger.5429:

MAGpie.7962:

Weeeee. What I win?

Erhmm I think you mean what do we win Poor ranger yet another week goes by. I’m looking forward to thief more but ranger was one of the first to be announced…. I’m guessing engi will be last but thief is possible because it wasn’t even in trailer.

Yeah… we… ofc I meant we >.>

Weeeee. What I win?

YuiRS.8129:

Nothing today. Next revel in September.

Forge is a silly name. Maybe Forgemaster or something like that.

Still a better love story than Dragonhunter…

Warrior I think, though I am kinda keen to see thief.

IrisTheCasual.3742:

The prejudice can be ironic sometimes. This conversation happened when a pug for level baby 19 fractal was formed.

So this was a matter of… ELEtism…

Muddled and confused concepts is a good summery of it indeed.

Mordeus.1234:

Funnily enough, the Herald sounds like it would have been a good alternative to the Dragonhunter name. Not to mention it sounds like it would have made a fitting Guardian elite specialization too.

It also eats away at the argument that you can’t call an elite specialization after something already existing in the game. In this instance, we had the Heralds who are members of the Order of Whispers and are also town NPCs. So names like Seraph, Warden, etc… are now open for consideration thanks to the rev’s elite specialization conflicting with other “heralds”.

And you don’t even need to do that. There are more than enough words in the language to describe something that actually relates to the them:

• Paladin
• Overseer
• Sentinel
• Keeper
• Curator
• Preserver to name but a few

I am starting to suspect that anet is trying to break the guardian elite spec away from the original motive of a “guardian” in the light of this newly revealed Herald spec, placing a higher importance on the new class by devaluing the older.

40 Something pages, and still nothing in regards to this from Anet. It’s… disheartening.