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Be honest....do you spend more time

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Forums for sure, but that’s only because I work graveyards at a job with not much to do at night but with internet access.

6months later whats the word

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Dunno about crossfire but SLI is working fine for me, gets me 95-100% GPU useage on both cards.

Forum infraction issue/question

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Im getting real sick of typing this out so im going to keep this short and sweet and use mostly quotes from my various e-mailes/pms to support.

Yes I tried e-mailing support about this, I also pm’ed the community rep. Support trolled me and no response from rep in over a week so here I am hoping to finally get some resolution to this insane issue.

This happen on Wednesday night not last week but week before.

Here is a point by point timeline of what happened:

- Make post in thread titled " What do you find most fun on this game?" saying “Reading the they deleted my guild thread 2 posts down from this one right now.” Anyone who remembers that thread I sure will agree it sure was entertaining while it lasted.

- roughly two hours later the “they deleted my guild thread” gets deleted, no surprise there.

- About 30 min after that I get a PM stating:

“Your post in What do you find most fun on this game? was infracted by a moderator:

Reading the they deleted my guild thread 2 posts down from this one right now.

Moderator Note:

Please do not make posts that contest the actions of a moderator. If you wish to appeal the action of any moderator, please send an e-mail to forums@arena.net for review.

This infraction serves only a warning. Additional infractions may award Infraction Points which can negatively affect your account. Infraction points may cause loss of privileges, including forum suspension.
•Your message was deleted.

This is an automated message generated by an infraction given by a human moderator. If you believe you have received this infraction in error or wish to make an appeal, please send an e-mail to forums@arena.net."

- Thinking that this was just a honest mistake and they didn’t check the timestamps of my post and the deleted thread(I mean they cant honestly expect us to be psychic can they?) I sent this good humored e-mail to support pointing out there mistake:

“Want to explain to me how exactly that post contest actions of a moderator(at the time it was posted), it was made well over a hour if not two or three before the deleted my guild thread mysteriously dissaperared(i dont even know where it went).

I dont own a time machine or a delorian that can do 88mph with a lighting rod and a flux capacitor.

I dont think you can infract someone for contesting future actions of a moderator that havent even happened yet.

Please explain how i am supposed to magically know actions that your moderation staff is going to take in the future so i can avoid making post about those future actions so i can avoid these infractions in the future."

- To which I get the response of:

“Greetings,

Thanks for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Community team with your inquiry.

Threads can be edited by their authors. Posting “Reading the they deleted my guild thread 2 posts down from this one right now” can only be taken as contesting the actions of the moderators. Whether that’s how you intended it to sound or not, that’s the way it comes across and as such, had to be removed."

- Note that my post had not been edited, and even if it had it would have reflected that with the timestamp anyways noting the last time the post was edited. So basically saying we(the support staff) are to incompetent to be able to check simple timestamps so are going to go ahead and essentially troll me and tell me that indeed you are supposed to be psychic.

I mean seriously how can one receive a infraction for something that hasn’t even happened yet.

cursed shore chest

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You guys know the little chest in CS thats in the belly of the pirate ship in the SW corner of the map.

The one beside the big chest that spawns the champ pirate.

Did they remove it with the patch, i went to find it and it wasnt there anymore, i know it was there on saturday.

WvW achievement scaling is unreasonable.

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Yeah im going to have to agree with you on this one, Anet didnt do the math on this at all.

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It is not that big guilds cooperate more it is that more people even if playing solo pile up more influence. That system is prefering pure number and not the level of cooperation. Small guild can cooperate way better and still have not enough influence. The system doesn’t reward “doing” but “beeing in”.

At least someone else gets it.

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This game is very alt unfriendsy.

I reccomend you just run a main with maybe a single other char and wait for Anet to hopefully make it more alt friendly.

Eh, it’s quite alt friendly in my opinion. It really depends how you define alt maybe? I see alt as something which is second to your main character. i.e. my main will always be the one geared first and most well geared. My alts will have good gears but not have the newest top of the line goodies straight off release. Personally, i’ve been able to gear at least 3 of my alts with ascended accessories and full exotics ( and different exotic armor sets/weapons for different situations. The only thing my alts don’t have is the ascended amulets and maybe the fractal capacitor. my last 2 level 80s are currently still in the progress but it is by no means hard to gear an alt appropriately with exotics. The total cost is usually around 20-30g in gold to gear in exotics and maybe 1 week of dungeon runs if you don’t want to buy the exotic armor. You can also get most accessory type items via karma merchant which I have in abundance.

Assuming you love to run fractals all the time its not so bad. If you dont however love to run fractals all the time and need to use the heavily gated and super alt unfriendly laurel system it will take you over a year and closer to two years to earn enough larels to outfit all your toons with ascended accessories, and thats assuming you just use the 5 provided slots it will take longer if you have more toons.

And they havent added ascended armor/weapons yet, when they do i could easaly see it taking 5+ years to outfit all alts using laurels.

what if your useing both Laurels and Guild tokens???? Hell when a guild has all the missions unlocked you could get an 1 acended a week.

This is assuming you are in a large guild, which i am not.

well who’s fault is that. ((and my guilds not large ether but we all enjoy working together for a gole))

Just FYI ((and i know its just a name )) But you are playing a game Called ->GUILD< – War’s.

and dont kid yourself even without acended gear there are huge advantage’s to being in a good guild. ((such as not needing to buy most mats or most exotic gear and almost alway’s heaving a reliable group to run stuff with. as well as info about whats going on in parts of the game you may not be in. ))

I would prefer to play with my RL friends rather than be a nameless number in a large guild, and i dont believe the players should be punished for making such a choice.

Some (need to be implement!) suggestions

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1. LFG tool

2. Last logged in info for guilds

3. Fixing ranger pet AI

4. Adding server capacity to avoid overflow.

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This game is very alt unfriendsy.

I reccomend you just run a main with maybe a single other char and wait for Anet to hopefully make it more alt friendly.

Eh, it’s quite alt friendly in my opinion. It really depends how you define alt maybe? I see alt as something which is second to your main character. i.e. my main will always be the one geared first and most well geared. My alts will have good gears but not have the newest top of the line goodies straight off release. Personally, i’ve been able to gear at least 3 of my alts with ascended accessories and full exotics ( and different exotic armor sets/weapons for different situations. The only thing my alts don’t have is the ascended amulets and maybe the fractal capacitor. my last 2 level 80s are currently still in the progress but it is by no means hard to gear an alt appropriately with exotics. The total cost is usually around 20-30g in gold to gear in exotics and maybe 1 week of dungeon runs if you don’t want to buy the exotic armor. You can also get most accessory type items via karma merchant which I have in abundance.

Assuming you love to run fractals all the time its not so bad. If you dont however love to run fractals all the time and need to use the heavily gated and super alt unfriendly laurel system it will take you over a year and closer to two years to earn enough larels to outfit all your toons with ascended accessories, and thats assuming you just use the 5 provided slots it will take longer if you have more toons.

And they havent added ascended armor/weapons yet, when they do i could easaly see it taking 5+ years to outfit all alts using laurels.

what if your useing both Laurels and Guild tokens???? Hell when a guild has all the missions unlocked you could get an 1 acended a week.

This is assuming you are in a large guild, which i am not.

Your best lulz moments in GW2

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I was hangning out most of the way up breeched wall about 80
% up, i already had the vista/skill point but had been helping some guildies and randoms with it.

I was going to go AFK for a while and left my human thief dancing on the wall, on a 1ft wide part…… Now as most of you know the human thief moves side to side a little while dancing…….

So about 20 seconds after i started dancing just as a norn guardian was coming up to me on the wall my toon did the moonwalk part of the dance right off the side and fell to his death.

The norn whispered me to tell me he had been playing since beta and that was by far the funniest thing he had seen in game. And i must admit i was laughing for about 10 min.

Can you get in trouble for bugged events?

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i would defend myself by saying ‘’i thought the event was mean to spawn lot of mobs’’ so dont worry tbh.

exactly.

That and the fact that these events usualy last 10 min or so, so if you just happened by and started joining in you wouldnt even notice something up probably till about 20 min into it.

So tons of people are going to be farming this bugged event with no ill intentions untill they find out its bugged which will take a while.

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Actually i forgot about the earring’s in my reply above, it would take you over 3 years to outfit all alts in ascended via laurel system not 2. Yeah this game definatly not alt friendly.

Can you get in trouble for bugged events?

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IMO they cant blame you for their buggeed coding.

no but they clearly know its bugged and would be exploiting the bug and THAT is what is bannable

If they clearly know its bugged its on them to fix it not on us to avoid it.

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This game is very alt unfriendsy.

I reccomend you just run a main with maybe a single other char and wait for Anet to hopefully make it more alt friendly.

Eh, it’s quite alt friendly in my opinion. It really depends how you define alt maybe? I see alt as something which is second to your main character. i.e. my main will always be the one geared first and most well geared. My alts will have good gears but not have the newest top of the line goodies straight off release. Personally, i’ve been able to gear at least 3 of my alts with ascended accessories and full exotics ( and different exotic armor sets/weapons for different situations. The only thing my alts don’t have is the ascended amulets and maybe the fractal capacitor. my last 2 level 80s are currently still in the progress but it is by no means hard to gear an alt appropriately with exotics. The total cost is usually around 20-30g in gold to gear in exotics and maybe 1 week of dungeon runs if you don’t want to buy the exotic armor. You can also get most accessory type items via karma merchant which I have in abundance.

Assuming you love to run fractals all the time its not so bad. If you dont however love to run fractals all the time and need to use the heavily gated and super alt unfriendly laurel system it will take you over a year and closer to two years to earn enough larels to outfit all your toons with ascended accessories, and thats assuming you just use the 5 provided slots it will take longer if you have more toons.

And they havent added ascended armor/weapons yet, when they do i could easaly see it taking 5+ years to outfit all alts using laurels.

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This game is very alt unfriendsy.

I reccomend you just run a main with maybe a single other char and wait for Anet to hopefully make it more alt friendly.

Can we please see if we'll be put in overflow

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Meh, he makes sense. Game could just throw a popup at you saying ‘the zone is full, would you like to join overflow?’

I know, i agree with OP, i just dont see this thread still being here in a hour.

Can you get in trouble for bugged events?

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IMO they cant blame you for their buggeed coding. What are you supposed to do just not go to to that map zone because they cant program?

I wouldnt farm the event for hours and wouldnt go out of my way to go there but if i happened across it i would probably put some time in on it.

Map Completion Frustrations

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you can always go the gold/gems route

Yeah true, i could farm CoF P1 for a week just to earn enough gold for a few transfers, but thats a waste of gold, and something everyone didnt have to do untill they took away free transfers. Why should us new players have to shell out real life money or grind a high amount of gold for map completion when it was handed to old players for free?

Honestly its my guess the release date was pushed up by NCSoft which is why the whole server transfer thing wasn’t pay from the get go . I highly doubt transfers were ever intended to be free at all

Thats irrelevent to the fact that anyone who played last year got a free pass and now Anet is holding out there hand to collect money for server transfers for new players trying to do the same thing. Its not right.

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You shouldn’t have to transfer to another server to complete the map.

Map completers need a new skill. Call it infiltrate. The skill allows you to stealth your way through walls to needed poi and vista. You cannot see any other players (no spying) and can only interact with a vista.

This is a valid suggestion. I would be ok with this for sure.

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you can always go the gold/gems route

Yeah true, i could farm CoF P1 for a week just to earn enough gold for a few transfers, but thats a waste of gold, and something everyone didnt have to do untill they took away free transfers. Why should us new players have to shell out real life money or grind a high amount of gold for map completion when it was handed to old players for free?

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I transferred servers early one, when it was free to get my WvW completion. I knew that there would be a charge at some point for server transfers, so while they were free, I transferred. It was before guesting so I couldn’t do anything but dungeons with my guild for a week but in the long run it was worth it.

I’m not sure unethical is the right word to use here considering how long the free world transfers went on for.

Yeah because everyone started playing the game when it was released… not.

Everyone didn’t but probably the biggest percentage of those playing did.

Right, but people like me, and EVERY SINGLE PLAYER who starts from here on out will have this issue.

Its nothing but a cash grab, plain and simple.

If they think people are going to pay the rather high server transfer prices just to get world completion they are dreaming.

My main is at 6x% map completion now, if i get to 99% and still server is in # 1 WvW and i dont have access to the 66% of the POI, vista in WvW i need and they havent fixed it by then i will probably leave the game, ill wait a few months but my server has been # 1 so long by such a large margin i dont see that changing any time soon.

They need to either allow free transferes again so new players can get map completion same as old players did, or allow WvW to be accessed from guesting.

This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.

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I transferred servers early one, when it was free to get my WvW completion. I knew that there would be a charge at some point for server transfers, so while they were free, I transferred. It was before guesting so I couldn’t do anything but dungeons with my guild for a week but in the long run it was worth it.

I’m not sure unethical is the right word to use here considering how long the free world transfers went on for.

Yeah because everyone started playing the game when it was released… not.

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It’s not even that; they’re not leaving changes in place long enough to see if the community will naturally balance them out.
They keep fiddling instead of waiting to see. They have no confidence in the changes they make, so why should we have confidence in them?

I dont think anyone has any confidence left in them after this latest announcement anyways.

I mean seriously think about this.

They release patch that draw a large majority of the playerbase out of dungeons, WvW, PvP and back into the open world to the point its causing performance issues and overflow.

If you talk to any other MMO dev and ask them what they would do if they had so many players showing up every day to do world events they would tell you they would be throwing a party because that is generally what you want, players out in the world doing events.

Anets reaction on the other hand? Oh no to many players are out in the world doing events, must nerf them again!

Doesnt really make any sense to me.

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The more I think about this, while agreeing something needed to be done, this looks like yet another panic patch with no finesse or thought having gone into properly designing a solution.
ArenaNet are bouncing from pillar to post at the moment.

They have been flip flopping for a while now, thats why i said in my first reply to this thread that since its obvious they like telling us how to play their game by limiting the loot/gold/income/drops to very specific locations i just wish they would pick something and run with it and stop flip flopping.

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Both. The limit that you could open the chest once per day and character was there before. So now you have: 1 guarantied yellow for each account and event and day plus the ability to loot the chest once with each character and event and day.

Oh im aware that what was ment, its just that the way it was worded in those 2 quote is , well lets just say less than clear and leave much room for different interpetation, which is probably why there are so many confused people.

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Wow, I really wonder what’s wrong with some people in here. Martin stated this as clearly as possible, there’s no way you couldn’t understand this:

You will get one guaranteed rare drop per boss per account per day. You still have the chance to get pre-cursors/exotics/rares from the regular dragon chests every time you play an event. It is just the guaranteed rare drop that has been restricted.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mega-Boss-loot-changes/page/2#post1657551

Yeah how could anyone possibly misunderstand someone who contradicts themselves with each new reply.

The only thing that will be changed is that the guaranteed rare drop will now be account bound. Everything else remains the same. You will be able to open the regular event chests once per day per event per character as before. You will still have the same drop chances as before.

So which is it, still chance at exo/rare/etc every time you kill the dragon or everytime you kill the dragon per day per character.

One can assume its once per day per character as that makes sense but is clearly not what was said in the first quote.

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Your best bet is just to spend the cash and transfer server. Which i find idiotic and is one reason ill never have 100% map completion.

My server has been # 1 in WvW for months and always same color so i cant get map completion either.

I think its stright up unethical on Anets part to require you to pay as much as the game cost to transfer to 1 or 2 other servers then back to your own just to get map completion.

How do you guys make all your gold?

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TP is incredibly INCREDIBLY boring, I run CoF p1 in zerker group… there are loads of groups that don’t require 1 mes+4 war though, so you’re good anyways.

You must be joking.

You think playing the TP is boring yet run CoF P1 speed runs? They are just as if not more boring than playing the TP.

Guild Missions [merged]

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Just join a large guild, thats obviously what Anet is trying to force everyone into.

This game has totally gone from play it your way to play it as a faceless number in a large guild while farming world events for only chance of decent loot available in open world.

Way to go Anet.

How do you guys make all your gold?

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Do people still take non mesmer/zerker warriors in Cof?

Not really no, everyone seems to be looking for 4 zerk warrior and a mesmer for CoF, with 1-2 of the warrior being able to be swapped out for thiefs if needed.

How do you guys make all your gold?

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absolute fastest way is speed farming CoF P1.

Although Orr farming can yield good results still even with the event nerf they added last patch.

And if you have a fast character thief/ele running around the high level maps and farming ori/omnoms can yield very good incom per hour.

Are you going for a legendary?

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I would go for one if it wasnt soulbound, the fact that i cant share it among my alts is just one more thing to add to the Anet hates alts list and the sole reason I will never jump on the legendary treadmill.

Actually, I don’t think this is a bad thing.
- In WoW I get to share all my accomplishments with all my characters (mounts, titles, etc.), making ones “main” character seem more vague. Used to be that one would get more acquainted with ones character, but this sharing between them? It kinda takes that away, imo.

I dont so much mind exotic and down in grade stuff being soulbound, but ascended and legendary have such huge grinds involved to get that making them soulbound makes it impossible to keep alts geared up unless you play the game 12 hours a day for months and months, and even if you did play that much with DR that isnt even likely to go well for you.

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A test server wouldn’t have caught it. The number of internal testers just wouldn’t be enough for the sheer volume of players that were mobbing world bosses.

If 90% of the players/testers on the test server are farming events and doing nothing else no matter what that number of players is that would have given them a idea that this was coming.

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The longer this thread goes on the more mad people seem to be getting.. you are having a laugh if you didn’t think this was a change coming sooner rather then later in some form :P

Players railed against Anet for introducing a gear grind.. and here we see players just doing it to themselves for the sake of it, plenty of people on my server (desolation eu) pretty much farm these bosses all day long.. they time them and camp them till they spawn.

It’s completely correct for them to try to fix this kind of playstyle.. anything else is just wrong tbh.

You are forgetting the fact that they never needed to fix it untill they themselves added it a few weeks ago. It was not an issue a month ago,

Whats the point of adding something just to take it back a few weeks later.

This is exactly why we need a test server.

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they had also just changed pent/shelt to where it’s pointless to try and farm that event.

No there is just a new game to it now, now you stand at the back use ranged AoE to tag mobs and avoid the champs at all costs as all they do is slow you down from tagging other mobs. I use my thief now as my warrior cant kite worth kitten, i just tag mobs and if i accidentally aggro a champ i just kite him till event is over and he dies when event ends.

Its not as good as it was because champs do replace some numbers of mobs but if you completly ignore the champs you can still get 80%+ of the drops you used to from those events.

K thanks for explaining that. I quit doing that event right before they made that change. The drops seem different from when they were at the first part of the game because now u get a bag with one thing in it or porous bones. I think you used to get more but I’m not completely sure.

The loot system is completely different now than it was when the game started.

Most people have gone to selling the heavy moldy bags instead of opening them, as they go for 2.5-3.5 silver on TP per bag.

Im mixed on if thats a good idea or not as i prefer to open them however i did add up the cost of materials i got from 100 bags and compared it to what i would have got if i sold them and it worked out to make more sense to sell them and then buy what mats you need.

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they had also just changed pent/shelt to where it’s pointless to try and farm that event.

No there is just a new game to it now, now you stand at the back use ranged AoE to tag mobs and avoid the champs at all costs as all they do is slow you down from tagging other mobs. I use my thief now as my warrior cant kite worth kitten, i just tag mobs and if i accidentally aggro a champ i just kite him till event is over and he dies when event ends.

Its not as good as it was because champs do replace some numbers of mobs but if you completly ignore the champs you can still get 80%+ of the drops you used to from those events.

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So people are going to log in, hit the 2-3 events on their server that happen to be up when they log in then guest to another 8-10 servers to hit the rest of the events that arnt up on their home server.

Myself personally i never guested ever even after the rare per chest patch, i just spent longer amounts of time on my weekends running events on my server with all my level 80 toons and getting my rares.

To your bolded statement above – obviously you never guested, else you would know that you can only guest to 2 servers in a 24-hour period.

This is good to know. Can you go freely back and forth between your home server and the other two or not in that 24 hour period.

Sorry if my reply seemed a little insulting – guess I’m in a crabby mood! Thanks for not calling me on it.

To answer your follow-up question, yes, you can freely switch among the 3 (your home and 2 guest servers) throughout the 24-hour period. Simply go back to the character select screen and change your server as you wish.

No worries, like i said a few posts up to another poster this is the internet, you have to have a thick skin or you dont survive. If you take anything personally on the internet you are doing it wrong

And thanks for the answer

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I would go for one if it wasnt soulbound, the fact that i cant share it among my alts is just one more thing to add to the Anet hates alts list and the sole reason I will never jump on the legendary treadmill.

Why are infusions so terrible?

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20% MF on amulet is ok but i agree the +4 stat ones are laughable.

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I have a feeling that during peak concurrency there will still be overflow issues and ofc ppl will still guest during said times.

People will still guest because the timers are to long, i mean seriously if anything its going to get worse now that its only 1 per account because people will want to hit each event every day or they will miss out.

Before it wasnt a huge deal, as long as you had 4+ lvl 80’s you could spend a afternoon hitting all events in all lvl80 toons and stock up on rares, now that wont be a option you will have to hit them all once a day.

So people are going to log in, hit the 2-3 events on their server that happen to be up when they log in then guest to another 8-10 servers to hit the rest of the events that arnt up on their home server.

Myself personally i never guested ever even after the rare per chest patch, i just spent longer amounts of time on my weekends running events on my server with all my level 80 toons and getting my rares.

I would just log in quickly and do dailys each day in 20-30 min and only do events if they happened to pop while i was in that map anyways, just got rares on weekends when i had the time it wasnt a huge concern and i didnt put alot of thought into it.

Now that this isnt a option and i have to get them everyday im going to guest everyday to maxamize my time spent. Ill probably extend my daily playtime to 60-90 min so i have time to do dailies then guest to whatever server has events up to catch them all in the time i have. Why wait a hour for a dragon when on another server one will be up in 60 seconds.

Did you even read my breakdown of the change? It affects nothing!

You can alt all you want and still have good chances at rares. The only difference its not 100% chance for all the possible rares (1-3 from what I see now before this fix starts). The rates are so high even without the guarentee, you’ll still get a rare on top of the change.

I’m right and you’ll see.

No way. See my interpretation several posts above yours. The subsequent chests will revert back to pre-buff levels, watch and see. In other words, it’s only worth doing each event once per day, period. That’s the whole point of this change…

I agree with you and think that is exactly what is going to happen as well.

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So people are going to log in, hit the 2-3 events on their server that happen to be up when they log in then guest to another 8-10 servers to hit the rest of the events that arnt up on their home server.

Myself personally i never guested ever even after the rare per chest patch, i just spent longer amounts of time on my weekends running events on my server with all my level 80 toons and getting my rares.

To your bolded statement above – obviously you never guested, else you would know that you can only guest to 2 servers in a 24-hour period.

This is good to know. Can you go freely back and forth between your home server and the other two or not in that 24 hour period.

how do I know when meta events are up?

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Use a magic 8 ball.

seriously though use gwtemple

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I read what you said, Its just with the way Anet has handled loot dro kitten ues since launch i think its alot more likely the event chests will go back to the way they were before where you never see rares all blue with 1-2 green, and only rare will come from this new chest.

But i guess we need to wait and see.

“No no no no!” Like the dredge ingame often say.

Why wait when you can read what they said will change?

In the next release we will adjust the way that world mega bosses award their loot. The current chests will stay lootable once per day per character, but each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest (visually similar to daily achievement reward chests) that can only be acquired once per day across an account.

[Our intention with this change is to keep providing rewarding loot for world mega bosses while avoiding overwhelming participation in boss fights (and overwhelming the economy with rares) from players cycling through each character slot for each boss every day.

I bolded the parts to help you read the points more clearly.

Insinuating another player can’t read isn’t helpful for discussing the topic and ANET can change anything they please at any time as this change proves so your technique for trying to prove you are correct by copying and pasting isn’t needed but thank you.

He might be right, or the poster directly above you may be right, i dont mind him telling me to read more this is the internet, if you dont have a thick skin you dont survive

We will know soon enough either way.

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This game is like watching someone run a casino. I wish all the many issues causing players to leave this game would be addressed with the same urgency seen with this decision.

Oh and why hasn’t a dev responded to the guild missions thread. Why does that thread sit unanswered but this one was answered so quickly?

Simple, they dont want to admit they want to kill smaller guilds. This would immediatly cause a large number of players to leave the game.

If they say nothing about it and just let the players who prefer small guilds slowly leave the game as they figure it out then it looks alot better for Anet as it isnt a mass surge of people leaving but a small but steady stream.

You just ignored all the people above you trying to calm you down and make you understand that you had a misunderstanding >.<.

None of us will know what changes were really made until this is implemented and there is still RNG that can be used as a reason for a big change to the chest loot.

The game I just went back to playing after about 2 years has the exact same drops and I can farm crafting mats all day if I choose to. It’s so nice to be able to play a game the way I want to play it again and not have to worry about DR.

Yeah DR is annoying, my warrior got stuck in a perma DR state for weeks where i coudlnt get drops from anything ever. Had to stop playing warrior for 2 weeks to get it to reset DR and now im scared to play that character more than 60 min a day for fear of becoming stuck in DR again.

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I think you’re misunderstanding the loot changes. If you don’t guest, and do exactly as you do now by running all the events on your own server, then this change won’t really affect you. You get one chest on the side of the screen with the rare for each event. It moved from the chest to that chest on the side, and it becomes a reward that is account bound, so you can’t guest on another server to get it again.

What i was trying to say is:

Now i dont really do events daily, just on weekends, say i run 10 events, i do that with 4 characters i get 40 rares, thats good enough for me for a week and spent 1 day on the weekend doing this as it stands now.

With this change I will no longer be able to run the same event 4 times in a day with 4 diff characters because i will be limited to 1 rare per day. So to obtain the same 40 rares i now need to run those 10 events over 4 days not just on one day.

For someone like me who works 12 hour shifts this could be an issue.

As i said in my first comment in this thread its obvious Anet likes telling us how to play their game i just wish they would pick something and run with it instead of changing it up all the time.

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I have a feeling that during peak concurrency there will still be overflow issues and ofc ppl will still guest during said times.

People will still guest because the timers are to long, i mean seriously if anything its going to get worse now that its only 1 per account because people will want to hit each event every day or they will miss out.

Before it wasnt a huge deal, as long as you had 4+ lvl 80’s you could spend a afternoon hitting all events in all lvl80 toons and stock up on rares, now that wont be a option you will have to hit them all once a day.

So people are going to log in, hit the 2-3 events on their server that happen to be up when they log in then guest to another 8-10 servers to hit the rest of the events that arnt up on their home server.

Myself personally i never guested ever even after the rare per chest patch, i just spent longer amounts of time on my weekends running events on my server with all my level 80 toons and getting my rares.

I would just log in quickly and do dailys each day in 20-30 min and only do events if they happened to pop while i was in that map anyways, just got rares on weekends when i had the time it wasnt a huge concern and i didnt put alot of thought into it.

Now that this isnt a option and i have to get them everyday im going to guest everyday to maxamize my time spent. Ill probably extend my daily playtime to 60-90 min so i have time to do dailies then guest to whatever server has events up to catch them all in the time i have. Why wait a hour for a dragon when on another server one will be up in 60 seconds.

Did you even read my breakdown of the change? It affects nothing!

You can alt all you want and still have good chances at rares. The only difference its not 100% chance for all the possible rares (1-3 from what I see now before this fix starts). The rates are so high even without the guarentee, you’ll still get a rare on top of the change.

I’m right and you’ll see.

I read what you said, Its just with the way Anet has handled loot dro kitten ues since launch i think its alot more likely the event chests will go back to the way they were before where you never see rares all blue with 1-2 green, and only rare will come from this new chest.

But i guess we need to wait and see.

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This game is like watching someone run a casino. I wish all the many issues causing players to leave this game would be addressed with the same urgency seen with this decision.

Oh and why hasn’t a dev responded to the guild missions thread. Why does that thread sit unanswered but this one was answered so quickly?

Simple, they dont want to admit they want to kill smaller guilds. This would immediatly cause a large number of players to leave the game.

If they say nothing about it and just let the players who prefer small guilds slowly leave the game as they figure it out then it looks alot better for Anet as it isnt a mass surge of people leaving but a small but steady stream.

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I have a feeling that during peak concurrency there will still be overflow issues and ofc ppl will still guest during said times.

People will still guest because the timers are to long, i mean seriously if anything its going to get worse now that its only 1 per account because people will want to hit each event every day or they will miss out.

Before it wasnt a huge deal, as long as you had 4+ lvl 80’s you could spend a afternoon hitting all events in all lvl80 toons and stock up on rares, now that wont be a option you will have to hit them all once a day.

So people are going to log in, hit the 2-3 events on their server that happen to be up when they log in then guest to another 8-10 servers to hit the rest of the events that arnt up on their home server.

Myself personally i never guested ever even after the rare per chest patch, i just spent longer amounts of time on my weekends running events on my server with all my level 80 toons and getting my rares.

I would just log in quickly and do dailys each day in 20-30 min and only do events if they happened to pop while i was in that map anyways, just got rares on weekends when i had the time it wasnt a huge concern and i didnt put alot of thought into it.

Now that this isnt a option and i have to get them everyday im going to guest everyday to maxamize my time spent. Ill probably extend my daily playtime to 60-90 min so i have time to do dailies then guest to whatever server has events up to catch them all in the time i have. Why wait a hour for a dragon when on another server one will be up in 60 seconds.

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The change is fine, as the whole guesting and alt swapping thing is a little out of control. The problem is that unless they are increasing dungeon and fractal loot and aren’t telling us here, there still is no real loot-related reason to do dungeons or fractals, other than you’ll just run out of world events to do faster.

Dungeons and Fractals should drop as good or better loot than world events. As it is we just did a 30+ frac, got 2 rares and a bagload of blues. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

CoF P1 is still by a very very large margin the best way to make gold per hour.

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I really hope the loot in the main chest doesn’t revert back to all greens and blues like it was before the patch.

This is also my concern, i had been getting 2-3 rares on a regular basis, if it goes back to all greens/blues with a single rare per account per day from this new chest its going to push people back to dungeons again, and make the PvE maps deserted, again.