So after the countless posts about this you’re telling us you’re just finding out about this oversight? Does not give me faith in Anet in the least if this is the case. People have posted about megadestroyer and other world events for over a month now……
I have an 80 ele and necro. I would never even dream of taking my necro into wvw over my ele. The classes are worlds apart in usefulness in pvp. I see necros as easy targets that provide little resistance……
100% yes please. Everyone I know with alts has to keep a freaking list of some sorts now since anet puts these things in but doesn’t think to provide us with the right tools to deal with them. Keeping track of events across 8 of my characters is not what I would call “fun gameplay”. I like doing these events, but it seems anet doesn’t like us doing them.
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what do you mean Alt friendly?
My brothers the teacher so I’ll just point you to www.google.com Plenty of places to learn what it means there.
Month after month my alts become more useless with the nerfs you put in. How about some things are are alt oriented or just plain alt friendly?
Yeah I have but what’s that got to do with pushing “1”??
We did the video in PvE, and I did my testing in PvP. Are there occasional glitches? Of course, ANet isn’t that great at doing AI programming. Are there repeat offenders? Yes, Bone Minions and Flesh Golem are pretty notorious for staring you down while you die.
That said, if you are having issues more than 10% of the time, its your fault. Realize that the coding isn’t perfect, learn how they work, and work with them. It isn’t an ideal scenario, but suck it up and deal with it.
Sorry but you’re totally wrong at least in my case. I sent a bug report in maybe my character is just bugged or something because in my testing I’m sitting around 60% here from pushing “1”. Hard not to believe something I’m seeing with my own eyes. So suck it up yourself because I’m not content with the bugs I hope for fixes.
worked 4/6 times not a good average so far for attacking…..
edit I’m doing nothing but pushing 1 and it’s worked 4/7 times
It does work, I’ve sat in Heart of the Mists for over 10 hours testing minion aggro, and Bas and I release a video via SOAC that showed it in action.
I just tested it for 1 minute and it only worked 2/3 the time.
Step 1: Target enemy
Step 2: Press 1
Step 3: Press 1There you go, minion aggro.
Doesn’t work for me. Any other suggestions?
They “can’t” fix this because it isn’t an issue, there are rare glitches with Flesh Golem and Bone Minions where they will “stick” to an old target, or miss the aggro cue, but if you’re around 50% attack rate, its your fault for not knowing how to control your minions.
Please tell me how then? I push “1” and they should attack that target right?
I just want new world bosses(with chest) and balances(good ones).
They need to change many things about bounties just to make then “fun”. All I want is fun injected somewhere in the bounty line……
I’d just like an “attack” icon so they’d at least do that once in awhile….
I use scepter/staff and I’m guessing my minions have a less than 50% attack rate. Using scepter1/staff/1 does not help at all with raising the attack rate for me. Been like this for months and I can’t believe they can’t fix this. If Anet needs help I know more than a few people that could have them attacking within a day…….
edit: I’ll add every necro I’ve talked to ingame has the same problem. Minions just don’t attack at all they just stand and watch the fight…..
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Just wondering. I just can’t fathom how they still don’t attack after months………
I assume you’re talking about world events. They are not “once per character” but once per account.
And they don’t limit how you play. If you want to kill Tequatl 50 times as day you can. You just don’t get the guaranteed rare. Play however you want, but stop complaining about not being able to farm.
Do you even play this game? Seeing how most of your info is wrong I assume not. Please only post if you know how the mechanics of the game work. I’m not talking about rare chests I’m talking how the second crap chest is still only once per character when they should have taken that limitation out when they put in the 1 rare a day limitation in.
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Both just hurt your legit player and do nothing against bots. Please also stop putting limitations on how we can play and let us decide how we want to. Not sure why once per character is even in anymore when you already changed the way loot works at events. Should only have one limitation(if you must decide how we play) and not both.
So we can keep track of what one time events have been done on each of our characters per reset. If you’re gonna impose these laws on how we can play can you at least give us ways to keep track of these things? A simple checklist per character would work for me. Or you could just let us play how we want, but I’m starting to think that’s too much to ask…….
The bounty system needs a lot of work to make it actually FUN. Finding all these guys and killing them in a 2-2 1/2 minute time frame when they could possibly have HUNDREDS of different locations and such is anything but…..
I agree TS. The DR system in this game is just horrible and hurts real players nonstop…….
Please lessen the random timer anet
Everyone waiting with me at Maw right now is saying the same thing OP. Not sure what anet is thinking making fun things to do in game unbearable. We’re all still waiting here for it still, but now we’re waiting an hour+ random time. They should think about making things more fun not less.
Between the dr system, laurel system, this most recent change, etc etc etc it really seems Anet dislikes anyone having alts period. Not a big fan of this nerf it just seems like punishing us because they can’t get there own loot sytem right.
Definitely not guesting on Blackgate(only a fool would). We have overflows on MaW which noone guests too. Our server is just packed…..
You’re on TC OP. It’s a very overpopulated server.
Guesting is fine. Population on the top servers isn’t. Pretty easy to see…..
Not guesting it’s an overpopulation issue. Especially on servers like JQ,BG,Desolation etc anything near the top 3 tiers. On BG we have overflows on Maw(event noone guests too). It’s pretty easy to see, but seems people like blaming all there problems on everyone else……
That update happended some days ago but suddenly your alts are useless because you would not get the chest with the guarantied yellows more than once? Afaik you get normal droploot still. As well you could change in between and do more different events.
Yeah if they’re not getting the event loot they would be useless.
“As for ruining Alts, how many chests can you get per day? Someone not constantly farming all event will have to cope with the chest they are getting as well and will have the same problem. Please don’t tell me that you can’t gear up your alts anymore because you don’t get multiple chests from every event.”
The problem wouldn’t be gearing them up. I’d have no reason to gear them up if they were useless. I don’t do dungeons or wvw on a regular basis so I’d have 7 alts sitting around totally useless. Might as well erase them and give me extra bank slots if that would ever go through.
Make it account wide 1 chest event per day problem solved. And yes there is a loophole to getting multiple chest per character per day its been reported but still has not yet been hotfixed.
That would only cause even bigger problems. Like making alts useless with that. Need a much better solution than ruining alts.
You can call it an exploit all you want, but it’s still not one. Also guesting isn’t your problem it’s the high population server you’re on. I’m on Blackgate and we don’t have a guesting problem at all. We have an overpopulation problem all of which shows up for these events now.
Not guesting. Your server population is too high. Especially on JQ,TC,Gandara, and the other top tier ones. Like on Blackgate the 2 guesters I saw at my last event didn’t have much impact. It was the 400 people from my own server showing up. Open your eyes…..
I’m not against the idea of guest being thrown into overflows or something like that to make room for the real servers population. It wouldn’t affect me since I only go to lower population ones. Not sure how much of an effect it would have on the top 6 or so servers though since it seems to me that even without guesting Blackgate would still be packed. Guest to the lower servers guesters! Believe me, it’s a much much better experience……
Sounds to me like you’re on a high population server. That’s more of a home population problem not a guesting problem. Anyone guesting is smart enough after doing one event on a high population server to guest to low population servers from that point forward. I’m on Blackgate and we don’t have a guesting problem. We have a “everyone on our server shows up now” problem.
You can call it an exploit all you want but it isn’t.
Once per account is a very very big limitation for me. Why should I be punished for using alts? I’m sorry if some people only use one character, but that’s there choice.
Limiting gameplay and the use of alts just doesn’t seem like a good solution to me. Don’t we already have enough limits to deal with? (DR,once per char,condition limits, etc, etc, etc)
Move to a smaller server. Your server population is too high and the loot is too good to pass up.
If you’re anywhere near in the top 2 server tiers then it’s not a guesting issue for your server. It’s a “too crowded home server” problem. You’d have to be a couple straws short of a hay bale to guest to a high pop server for events……
They aren’t fixing it. They are REMOVING it…….
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They already announced it was gone next patch……
Guesting is a very minor part of the problem. Everyone from your own server is going to these events so even without guesting you’d have the lag and overflows. Very few people are dumb enough to guest to high population servers just to do these events. All it takes is once to know it’s a much much better idea to guest to low pop servers.
Guesting is not the problem. Your own server is.
So the largest server in the game has a population problem and you are blaming other servers for this? I’m sorry but I don’t agree that guesting is the problem there. Here on Blackgate we have the same problems and I don’t see what guesting has to do with it(a minor part of the problem overall). I think it’s the mass amount of guilds that still seem to be transferring. The loot drop change driving an amazing amount of players to these events could be part of it also. Also anyone who’s done one event on a high population server knows that guesting to a lower population server is so much better.
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faster more efficient on high pop
It’s neither of those things. It’s slower since if you don’t get there plenty ahead of time you go to the overflow. You also can’t use anything other than autoattack most of the time unlike a low population server which has no lag at all.
Guild used to have 2-3 of us at most for these events. Since the patch 3 days ago we usually have 2-3 groups. It’s a population and loot problem not guesting. I’ve been guesting to dragons since they started guesting and have never been in an overflow. I also would never be dumb enough to guest to a high population server for these chests and I hope no one I know would either since it’s so much better/smarter to do them on lower population servers.
As a member of the Blackgate server I can with all my heart recommend Kaineng or Tarnished Coast for population and WvW. They both have some awsome wvw guilds running around and both seem to have great communities. TC probably has a bigger pve crowd(probably too big at this point) while Kaineng has the bigger wvw crowd. Both being tier2ish servers so population shouldn’t be a problem on either.
That’s the major problem they face. You think it’s getting worse and worse while I think it’s getting better and better. They have to figure out a way to please us both.
That’s the problem though. I bought the game based on the manifesto. You obviously didn’t.
Nope I didn’t. They’ve also never lied to me. I knew vertical progression was in the day the game was announced in pc gamer years and years ago.
You “knew” it, even though they claimed otherwise?
Where did they claim otherwise? Is there more than one manifesto video?
“We have never said there would be no vertical progression.”
Chris Whiteside
“Any quote you see on the internet is true”
—Abraham Lincoln.
In any case, what they did say, in fact, is that characters could reach maximum stats/power level very shortly after hitting max level, and that any grind would be strictly for cosmetic items.
Whether or not Chris Whiteside or any one else now claims otherwise does not change the fact that this is what they promised and talked about on more than one occasion. I don’t want to characterize Mr Whiteside or his comments except to say that they run counter to what other people at Anet talked about.
I’m in the middle of several things right now, but I’ll track it down for you in a short while.
If you won’t take my quote seriously then why would I ever take yours? I don’t know though because I’ve read 1000000 of these progression threads and have never seen them saying the game would be strictly a horizontal game.
Birdemic-level number generalizations are not helping your case.
I’m sorry please go count up all the past progression threads for me and pm me the number and I’ll edit my post to show the EXACT number of threads. Thanks in advance.
Not for a billion $$$ am I pm-ing you anything.
Ok you can just count them up and post them here then and I’ll edit my post with that number.