I’m sorry but there is no way 5 people took out 40 golems that were TRYING to get into a gate. That gate would melt in literally seconds. And one person on burning oil is not going to do that much damage in that time. Have you seen youtube videos of large groups of golems attacking gates, even reinforced gates are simply gone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ecNLdjha0
Had some good fights out there tonight, lots of fun keep battles! Here’s hoping this continues throughout the week, its really anyones match at this point.
The biggest problem I see, at least as far as PvP goes, is that with the condi meta out there you will still get just wrecked by them if you don’t trait towards removal. This completely nullifies most of the buffs they gave guardian, I know meditations are good for damage builds but you can still be destroyed by conditions through the healing.
Purging Flames might reduce the duration by 20% but it has a cooldown and requires you to stay put, which allows condi classes which use mostly ranged attacks free reign to get away from you while continuing to pressure you while you sit there in your little circle.
I honestly think as far as dungeon design goes the Anet crew are getting stronger and stronger. More dungeons like this is a step in the right direction for this game. Hats off to you guys seriously, the encounters were fun to figure out and challenging without being ridiculous. Keep it coming!
It’s going to be Precursor fixes, but they don’t want to release info so early maybe as to upset the economy more. It’s a long shot but hey, one can hope!
Its balance to a degree as well. Take the current condition heavy meta at the moment. Now instead of on 2 necros stacking stuff on you to 25 they can put 50 stacks total. Can you imagine the backlash that would bring. Everyone would run conditions then because no removal in Tyria could shed them quick enough to make a dent.
It seems to be that the 6 Bonus for Rune of the Traveler gives the buff while in golems. We tested this the other day when we noticed one was moving significantly quicker then the rest. It only happened with rune of the traveler equipped in gear.
I’m not sure if this is another topic already but there is a secret area in the beginning of this zone you get to after jumping across the plants and use the hand thing you get to access a cannon. It leads to a poison water maze but I have yet to figure out what it actually does. I can post screenshots later!
Just saying, I got my legendary weapon to show off in WvW and kill people with it. It isn’t like everyone cannot get the gear. On a side note, I believe there is another post where Devon Carver states that WvW is not fair. I think that pretty much sums it up ;p.
While I am not in saying GS needs a buff to damage in any way you cannot be trying to fool us into believing that build is anything but a gimmick in the above thread. It is nearly impossible to keep Aegis up for that 20% and a few others. There is no way you would have damage modifiers even close to that. I know because I was farming with this spec for a while for laughs. Not to mention the fact that with this build getting looked at the wrong way starts instant meltdown.
That said, GS damage is not needed to be buffed. I do think that more ways to keep the target around to get hit would be great. Sure we have lots of gap closers but in a game like this when they have just as many gap creators it gets to be a pain to actually get any damage on target like that.
I don’t think you can just craft as many as you want right away, you need quite a few things to craft the Vision Crystal that are all account bound and only the bloodstone dust seems to be fairly easy to come by, the other things dropping from world bosses and wvw champs. 500 of each is necessary to craft one so that will be a time gate of sorts.
Magic find is a horrible stat, any way they get rid of it is for the best. This is the best option they have I think. They are not sitting around thinking of ways to rip off the players.
Celestial gear is fine without magic find. It is not like the reduction of it will cause you to do less damage or die more often in battle. I guess I don’t see the issue. I made Celestial gear on my guardian but only because the stats worked out to be slightly better then the ones I was wearing for my build. The magic find wasn’t even enough for me to care about honestly. 18% extra chance on something that already rarely drops is still extremely rare.
I used to run a burst spec with spirit hammer/gs. Those were the days, I could 1vX people with consistency. 1v1 it was a train wreck if the other player didn’t see it coming though (probably partially why it got nerfed). They could take the damage increase away and make them not attack-able again! I ran gs and sc/torch and people didn’t know what hit them. Ever since that change though I have yet to find a really fun burst build =/ always looking though.
Would you pay money for a book that gave each class a few distinct poses? Say Guardian and Warrior would hold the sword in the ground in front them, or off to the side. Thieves could do something tricky with daggers or pistols, etc. Thoughts?
Anybody think of the chance that those items will be converted into account wide magic find boosts? Perhaps through a vendor or some other means. So having a full set of magic find gear would get you a decent amount of permanent magic find account wide? Just saying, to me this seems like the least disruptive way to fairly compensate for the loss of magic find as a stat.
Just a quick on the side note to whomever said Aegis blocks 100000 attacks while its up, learn the moves before you go about saying things. Aegis blocks a SINGULAR move while its up. It blocks one move then its gone. If aegis you are seeing is blocking unlimited moves please tell me where to get it because that would just be great.
Also people in general hate not being in control of their character, Fear plays right into this. Being feared often while taking damage and not being in control of it infuriates people, whether its a l2p issue or not thats just the way it is. I personally use condi removers and stability often, but it does not make getting feared, knockback, knockdown any less frustrating!
So basically what condition classes are saying is use ALL of your available choices to make your class unique condition removers. This way there are 2 specs in the game, one spec puts tons of conditions on you and the other just tries endlessly to remove them. This does sound extremely fun does it not? I run heavy condition cleanse on my guardian but having to spec that way for every class would just plain be boring. So much for class diversity eh?
Ugh, this I actually just made Sunrise last night, and 5 achievement points for months of work seems so cheap. At least give us something for each step like creating each gift rewards 5 points, its not like you can farm those easily. It does tend to cater to the easier things in the game giving the most points, which is completely backwards if you ask me.
All I will say about this dungeon is that a little coordination goes quite a long ways here. People run around like chickens with their heads cut off on the boss fights and yes it is very tough. I ran this with a pug group and they did this exact thing. But we got our stuff together explained what to do and low and behold, we defeated the bosses. Maybe you have to change up some traits, maybe try a new weapon combo, but its just not as “impossible” as people claim it to be.
I remember raids where 1 person could cause the entire group to wipe, no exceptions. At least here you can solo (with practice) Frizz, and heck pretty much 3 or 4 man Mai. If you think about it, someone is down frequently so people are constantly trying to res them. It’s not often you have a full group going at it. But imagine if everyone tried to stick to a plan. Should make things pretty easy.
I would agree with this to a point. I think the devs believed that SM would change hands frequently, which just is not the case. I know on our server we usually dominate and pretty much hold SM the entire time, it changes hands maybe 3-4 times in a week. At attacking it a bunch for the achievement, say 1000 captures would take years.
Oh ok, the tooltips must not be working correctly then for the damage portion. I have not noticed a change. Everything I seem to read online is vague or inconclusive! Thanks for clearing that up.
I may be wrong but it seems that increased burning duration is detrimental to guardians. The way I understand it the duration takes the same damage and spreads it out over a longer period of time. This is great to keep the target burning but more often then not it is cleansed away long before it gets to do anything. So in essence 4000 burn damage over 4 seconds (1000/sec) is so much better then 4000 burn damage over 8 seconds (500/sec) assuming you could buff it to 100% burn duration. Cleansing the burn kills the damage and you do less damage in the end. Things like the new torch skill that increases duration by 20% and reduces skills by 20% seems like a bit of a nerf to torch as well as the buff. Please correct me if I am wrong.
From what I heard on Guildcast the devs are looking to make things more permanent after hearing that players wanted them to keep some of this stuff in the game for more then just 2 weeks. I guess heres hoping they are actually listening right?
Hey there!
Jaded [Jade] is a fairly well established casual PvX guild that has been on Darkhaven since launch.
Our leaders have a lot of experience with mmos and have been together for years. We are a family-style guild looking to form long-term friendships through PvE and PvP. We have a forum (check us out there jaded.boards.net) a Facebook and a vent.
We are looking for people who want to have fun and hang out together. We like to have an active chat and a community of helpful members that are willing to go out of their way for each other.
Even if you aren’t on Darkhaven you can still hang out in guild chat with us, guest with us now and then or run some dungeons cross server until you feel we are worth the transfer :p
Things you can expect from joining Jaded:
-friendly guildies
-dungeon parties
-PvP, both WvW and Structured
-guild missions and events
-new friends
-an abnormal love for Quaggans
Some of our Guild Boosts include:
-10% Magic Find boost at all times
-5% Experience boost at all times
-15% Karma Boost on Saturdays
-Guild Stash, Treasure Trove, and Deep Cave all unlocked
Jaded is mostly comprised of members between the ages of 18 and 81. We are most active during North American evenings. Our guild missions are on Sat and Sun at 8:30 EST.
Guild Co-Leaders:
- Takiya Delyll
- Arentide Delyll
- Luto Locke
Officers:
-Duh General
-Lucien Blackmoon
-Kaira Zuki
-Spidel
If we sound like the right home for you, introduce yourself at our forums, contact some of us in-game through whispers and/or the in-game mail system. We’ll get back to you asap to answer any questions you may have.
Hope to see you in game
-Tak
Only problem with the above post is that they have to come from somewhere. If everyone bought from the TP the supply of lodestones would be non-existent fairly quickly, then no money would be made at all by Anet.
Are the PvP Guild Shoulderplate models available in PvE anywhere? I know they share a similar skin with Banded but these just look nicer. I have looked quite a bit but have yet to find an answer.
To be honest most games would make you pay for things like this. In fact, most games would never even attempt this type of thing. That being said, they hopefully get those other skins out there as soon as possible. Having already set a design idea for the weapon sets I would think creating the others wouldn’t be too terribly time consuming, but what do I know… they made the game and I did not!
I have been getting much the same loot from FoTM, rares cores and the occasional lodestone, even exotics. I think you are just on the RNG naughty list as of now. It has happened to me as well. I salvaged 19 rares to get 1 ecto with BL kits the other day.
I just wanted to say thank you to Anet for having such awesome customer service. My account was terminated for some reason last night and by the morning they had it investigated and back up! I really appreciate the quick response, and that I do not have to start over!
A little something I created in Forza 4 to take a break from the game. For those that don’t know, this had to be completely made from scratch using random shapes. Even the letters were custom made. I hope you like it, it took me forever!
Honestly they would not put them in at that tier price even if they implemented it. Why should one person only have to pay 100g while someone else is required to pay 200g for a legendary?
I agree with an above post, this is more about creating items from thin air then profit, as yes the system will equal out eventually. However it does mess with the economy on a whole quite a bit, raising prices of ore and dropping prices of ectos, and conversely anything involving ectos. The economy here does even eventually to make up for it, but a few people become very rich off this and destroy the economy for other people. Its just bad all around for the game.
I cannot see how you see this as anything other then a bug or oversight on Anets part and choose not to take part in it. The amount of people banned was less then 200 and doing something thousands of times is an obvious exploit, for those that were just over a hundred or so its still an exploit just not to the extent. There should have been something from the devs about it no doubt but just because someone doesn’t tell you something is wrong doesn’t make it any less so.
