Guild Wars 2

Nevermind, they made it under Honor. I didn’t see it the first couple of times I looked.

Disregard.

I can’t seem to find any falling skill for guard, I think it was called protector’s impact.

Seriously they can’t have removed the falling skill, those are some of my best go-to utilities when doing odd things. It’s still there on warrior thankfully.

Used to be able to do that in the idea lab without needing to revive, then they implemented the jail. For awhile just going into the idea lab sent you straight to the jail, you couldn’t even do your story.

I use RMB + A & D for strafe, I remapped Q & E to more useful things.

Zephyra.4709:

I believe the ascalonian dungeon weapons change from literal weapons at day to weapons with a blue-ish glow at night? The great sword does it and same with the LB.

Also when underground. IMO some of the better skins out there that aren’t so rare.

The real Anet solution is to allow more bank space.

Seriously, it draws revenue for the team, it gives people more digital room to store more digital pixels, and it unbalances nothing as the luck is vanity at this point. Same with all the other garbage we collect over the years.

What say Anet? More space so we don’t have to discard stuff that doesn’t become valuable until much later when most have thrown them away **cough**miniframes**cough**!

@Pax,

why do you have your PCs in the attic? Genuinely curious.

Best jumping tip I can offer: put the camara almost directly above you to avoid overshooting jumps when that is a problem.

Secondary jumping tip: Steer with the mouse, not the keyboard. Actually that is probably more important.

It works, and it works better as a self-heal than water. It seems to find a comfortable place at around 60% crit, beyond that cooldowns create diminishing returns.

Would it be a good compromise between the new and old system if the prices for blue traits were cut almost to nothing, green traits were set at half what they are? In addition to the quest unlock option as well of course.

It just seems to me that the only real change that is forced on anyone is the huge expense in skill points just to have a decent stable of traits for various builds. Lower that cost somehow and you deflate the argument of how it used to be better for certain styles/builds.

Or, here’s a thought, instead of specific quests for specific traits, how about quest lines that open a choice of traits?

Actually, I would be happy if they would simply provide a list of everything that is completely worthless and will never be offered again.

I culd probably empty an entire bank tab if I just had some confirmation that things can be safely dumped. I don’ want anything for it, I’m good with just trashing it. In fact some things I am pretty sure are actually trash at this point, like the orphan letter, etc.

If I just had some confirmation that was the case, i would be cool with it.

Actually that would be something they could work with. Add markers of some kind, and then for some really nasty bosses just blank out the health bar altogether.

Ralanost.8913:

Nike.2631:

Is there some reason you’re not packing them down into vision stones?

How many vision crystals do you need? There are ways to get vision crystals that are basically free. Lots of achievements or pvp tracks give vision crystals and you can buy them for 20 skill points. But unless you are crafting the armor, vision crystals are useless.

where can you buy them for skill points? What about the lesser versions? That is what i really need.

It was a good backup while it had the bleed, then why they took that of I will never understand. There was absolutely no balance needed to nerf the thing, it had already been nerfed to death.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

RollingBob.8502:

wow that is a great idea for the morning guild regulars catching coffee!

three people with full nodes would be pretty simple to coordinate once worked out. Maybe 5-7 total if everyone followed a script. That beats farming blades for the time required. Lots of usefulness there.

That isn’t any kind of exploit is it? Seems legit to me, but hey I didn’t understand why they had the great snowflake ban of ’12

I’m pretty sure you can only gather once a day per node and that if you go into another instance, it won’t be available the second time.

Oh I misunderstood. I guess that is common sense or we would have home instance trains everywhere.

wow that is a great idea for the morning guild regulars catching coffee!

three people with full nodes would be pretty simple to coordinate once worked out. Maybe 5-7 total if everyone followed a script. That beats farming blades for the time required. Lots of usefulness there.

That isn’t any kind of exploit is it? Seems legit to me, but hey I didn’t understand why they had the great snowflake ban of ’12

maybe an end to the endless tokenization, all the currencies that need bank space and then often end up being seasonal or worse, potentially gone for good? EWven the LS currencies seemed to change with the wind.

I never understood why people thought the LS was bad for the game.

There seemed to be various new JPs and dungeons opened as it went along, new areas and things to do, and no one was forced to give up anything they liked.

I do think all the time gate BS and overabundance of currencies was a terrible rat hole that too many MMOs go down, but the LS I thought was pretty nice way to offer new things.

Maybe I missed something that the LS hurt?

I have (had) a warrior built with toughness, condi and precision, set up as bleed warrior (power was not neglected just not pronounced, i think knight and lionguard). The low damage solo was evident, even after they started to melt, but the thing was I could run through an NPC/mob zerg, whack as many as possible and generally not only grab aggro but pretty much keep it as long as I was the only bleeder, even with some other melee class trying to tank. Have not tried any of this since ascended though, and rifle was nerfed so bleed warrior is not even a decent goal. But…

The aggro assist from the bleeds was pretty evident and testable by adding other bleeders. It seemed to me then that condi was as good as raw damage because it allowed you to do other things, kiting dodging juking and spreading it all to various mobs, while self-clening/healing. And the groups I played with, we weren’t exactly playing the meta; someone wanted to play a given way that was fine, we experimented a lot with the mini-bosses at the time. Disclaimer- This was while everyone else was running karma trains in Orr (remember those?).

Ayrilana.1396:

I think silk is just fine. What we need to do is fix the others so they’re the same as silk.

+1

the wooden toy staff.

So the trait blademaster that has been broken since launch, is that going to ever be fixed?

It would be so useful for a bleed warrior, even though you nerfed rifle for no apparent reason, basically killing a pseudo-alternative to the zerker war.

I don’t know, I have to wonder who has been buying some of the things I’ve been selling. I know they are worthless or at best worth very little, and yet I throw them out there matching the already inflated low price and they sell out leaving a higher more inflated base price. And it happens at a specific time in the week. This has been going on for a few weeks. I would not be surprised if it was some bot gone rogue. Which is cool by me. Thanks for the loot!

Belzebu.3912:

RollingBob.8502:

Belzebu.3912:

things

The seed is randomly reset in a typical RNG function. It can be made to repeat if that is what you want. And while ultimately an arbitrary rather than random pattern, consider attempting to recreate a sequence from a simple RNG function if you only know the first number.

Loot tables are static but magic find and it’s counterpart DR are not.

Not really randomly reset because in computing there are no “true” random, all it is done is create several layers or algorithms where the resulting number is based in hard to follow values, like current used CPU clock for example, and based in that result get another parameter to base the RNG and so on.

EDIT: I know that theoretically one can predict the results of a RNG if he knows all the variables, but in reality it is just impossible to do.

Right, arbitary vs random being pretty much semantic differences for the same thing in this case. It doesn’t matter because the differences we do know that are applied to the resultant permutation (the loot table lookup) are huge. Magic find as the obvious example.

Donari.5237:

At least the ESC menu can be toggled off by tapping ESC again, so if it flashes up it only blocks your view for a second.

My problem, that is entirely of my own making, is that I have my Dodge and PVP keys right next to each other. Combat gets heated, I hit Dodge, only to have the WvW scoreboard fill my view when my finger’s already moving back to my skill keys. Ouch.

May I suggest mapping dodge somewhere else that you don’t ever use and then mapping that key to a thumb button on a gaming mouse? Unless you are a point-and-click, if not you’ll find putting that dodge into your fluid movement/direction hand (your mouse hand) you have much more intuitive control.

Belzebu.3912:

What the other person said that random is an illusion and knowing all the variables there is no random. He is 100% correct.
Even in a simple example like a coin toss, if you know the angle, the force, the distance of the arc it will make, the air pressure, mass of the coin, air resistance of the coin and all the variables, you can predict with 100% of success the results.
Same with in game RNG, every software needs a “seed” to generate a random number, most of the system use among that seed number things like current time stamp, machine mac-address and so on, and an ANet dev already said that account info isn’t used in the RNG, so if some genius know all the parameters needed to create the number, he will be able to predict for sure what will be the result.

The seed is randomly reset in a typical RNG function. It can be made to repeat if that is what you want. And while ultimately an arbitrary rather than random pattern, consider attempting to recreate a sequence from a simple RNG function if you only know the first number.

Loot tables are static but magic find and it’s counterpart DR are not.

tigirius.9014:

Welcome to the ugly side of DR.

This happened before in the past. Whole dungeon runs on all three paths suddenly stopped dropping a single treasure chest.

When this happened before people didn’t resist it they knew what the culprit was and they demanded it be fixed but I think we need to go a step furter.

DR needs to be removed entirely because when have you ever played a tabletop MMO or a console game and had it retroactively take away the loot you just found?

That’s exactly what DR does in this game, it makes it gone.

Oh and to those who keep saying it’s RNG, RNG actually let’s you get something, it might not be what you want but it’s something. DR makes it so that that something doesn’t exist for you and in the case of their account system, doesn’t exist for your account.

^^^This, so much this.

And that is why people swear RNG varies by account. They are only half right. It is the account, but it is the DR score, not the loot tables themselves. Just like magic find affects the loot rolls, DR affects it too. I suspect the explosion of magic find has prompted them to increase DR penalties.

I did not know this existed so it did do some good here in the forums, thank you! Now off to check it out. This is why I sometimes browse the forums. I could care less what the latest ragequit of the day is, but tips like this are priceless.

see my other post, it has lots of links explaining the changes.

tl;dr
No need to do the dailies or monthlies anymore, just log in every day and its done, you get even more laurels plus potentially some cooler stuff, over the course of the month.

This is the same problem southsun survival had for awhile. People were getting placed in instances where others were leaving and it never allowed the instance to reset.

When SS was doing this it seemed easier to work around during off-peak server hours, I don’t know how much the megaserver change affects this.

If that’s what you want to do then why not do it?

I’m a laurel hog but the ascended mats might be tempting to me right now.

Nabrok.9023:

Sorry, I wasn’t asking why you gave up on AP, but why you think this is a bad change for those pursuing AP.

I don’t consider it bad or good, it is neutral to me. But there are plenty who do care about AP expressing everything from disappointment to downright disgust. Whether that be real or perceived, they have my sympathies.

Nabrok.9023:

RollingBob.8502:

Moment of silence for those of you who actually liked the AP treadmill, but I had given up on APs some time ago and laurels were the only strong play driver for me.

Why? This change makes it easier than ever to keep up with your AP, and come January those who have capped dailies will have another 2-3K AP open up for them with the combined monthly/daily cap.

well the occasional extra laurels were nice of course, and I have no reason to turn down a few extra gold or some karma. But the nebulous value of a few percent this or that increase, skins to a mostly incomplete armor set, titles that i wouldn’t be displaying anyhow, and some consumables I either never used or could get elsewhere; these things really didn’t prompt me to run the AP game.

Right, there have always been the odd laurel rewards here and there. But mostly it was the 40-odd laurels from daily/monthly.

Moment of silence for those of you who actually liked the AP treadmill, but I had given up on APs some time ago and laurels were the only strong play driver for me.

In fact now I don’t even have to play. Just keep an old scroungy laptop alive that will log in. 5fps? no problem! Its just a menu choice and a click. Maybe harvest some blade shards and sprockrets, candy corn and crystals, charge a crystal at my krait shrine, play some ebayRP at the TP, discuss the latest movies in the chat window. LOL!

Can’t say I am upset about that. I can play how I want to play or not at all. Not sure if that is what they intended, but it definitely removed the grind of playing from the grind of time-gated content.

JTFC! thank you everyone for the slew of answers, appreciated, LOL!

ah thanks.

But I see only 35 per month, not 55?

I guess that is actually cool for me, it makes the dailies something I can completely ignore.

Can we also ignore monthlies as well (from a purely laurel-centric viewpoint)?

I sympathize with all the complaints about the dailies, but I can also live with this, I’m pretty neutral here, except for one thing:

How to earn laurels now?

Maybe I missed it but completing 3 dailies did not appear to grant a laurel.

I know the AP chests grant a few.

Monthlies is anyone’s guess until they roll over, but that is a quarter of my laurels, dailies are the other 3/4, for the most part. Are they leaving too?

Maybe laurels will now drop elsewhere or something?

Still shows on my necro. Tier 3 of death magic, unlockable by killing karka queen in southsun. Not too difficult to get just make sure you have your southsun waypoints and hit the boss train when she spawns.

I didn’t think about utils, thats pretty sharp. I generally favored using a pet in the world but in rata sum of course that didn’t work. Thanks! I’ll try it!

I tried the rata sum lab and that was the first time they ever did like that (my first try in the lab of course). It also looked like a big waste because there were only about 5, I don’t waste the potions for that few. Unless maybe you teamed up with someone, i could see how that would work.

I assume that was because it was a city instance and not open world, all my other spots are open world solo, backing up what Yumiko said above.

Your 6 jewelry/accessory slots are covered without crafting, consumables are plentiful in the TP. There are a few odd crafted consumables that might be account bound but the only one I can think of is the twisted portal.

From a technical standpoint, legendary weapons are sellable and ascended armor drops, but neither is really a reliable source for most so these are the only two things that crafting gets you in terms of gameplay.

Theres achievements and the like, skins, and the pure enjoyment some people find in it, but it isn’t necessary or even strongly encouraged if you are good with exotic gear. My son does no crafting at all on his toons and doesn’t want for anything. He does dabble in the forge occasionally for mystic kits and upgraded siege, but that’s a little different.

I’ve never seen them spawn with the same hit points as ambients. Never.

They aren’t overly tough, but they don’t go down in one hit like a crow or frog.

probably engineer, as the gear choices are limited but made up for by offering lots of kits and toolbelt skills.

But at 80, in level 80 areas, you can definitely feel the differences in various stat builds, which is the other side of gear. So in that respect everyone is gear dependent.

I don’t mind crafting but it isn’t really an important part of the game for me.

For those that just hate it, I don’t see why they can’t provide an NPC that could craft ascended for you if you bring them certain things, quest items etc. They could have blah skins, maybe cost more overall in materials required, and even potentially have a few days order time as a gate. But i wouldn’t force major RNG on them beyond the normal RNG of material drops.

I don’t see how that would negatively impact anyone.

I hate GS on warrior.

I like it on guard as a mainstay.

Mesmer and ranger, I keep one handy just for a change, I like other setups with those roles though.

Wait, did someone say we might get motorcycles?

I like the ranger suit myself. The only outfits I don’t care much for are those with the glowing blue skin. But if others like them, so be it. I much prefer outfits to gear skins as I share my gear and don’t want to spend tokens every time I swap out my main.

SKATE.1394:

One thing worth noting, is many players suspect there are multiple levels of diminishing returns. There are also different types of diminishing returns with separate flags, on event rewards, on dungeon rewards, on loot drops, for example.

Based on personal observation, and the observations of other players, it’s my belief that diminishing returns on loot drops has various levels. The more you kill a mob of a certain type, and/or the more you kill any mob within a given zone, you’ll start to see more and more ‘empty kills’ where instead of averaging loot every 2-3 kills, it might start taking 5 or more kills between your average drop, and slowly increases. Whether you inevitably reach a point where no loot will drop at all is still unknown, but that’s the conclusion that was drawn by some people given how the maize balm farm worked.

There’s also per-character flags for diminishing returns, as well as account accrued. He never specifies what type of diminishing returns he rarely sees “in any given hour”. If it’s the absolute ‘no-loot-at-all’ limit, then it’s completely expected that that number would be low. If it’s account wide, then of course that number should be low as well. But what about the initial steps of diminishing returns on loot that many of us suspect exist within as little as 30 minutes (depending on how fast you’re able to kill mobs)?

I can guarantee there is. And I don’t believe for a minute it only affects a handful.

But it also seems pretty easy to remove as well.

I wondered if they changed something. It did seem to ease off some, much harder to get to a point where you know you are being penalized, an. It will take several days testing to see if there is a very noticable difference, but it also does seem to reset easier. Maybe that is what they changed, so that the ones falling through the cracks weren’t penalized for simply playing the game .

Gong.2637:

The mouse cannot control movement nor can it control directional targeting.

You are incorrect here; the mouse allows movement control just like almost any other FPS/RPGS that allow camara adjustment on the same controller. “Button on the right, smoother control it allows” as Yoda would say

You are comparing this game’s UI to a genre of games with mechanics left over from 15+ years ago, where the center aim point was always fixed to the camara and the mouse only has to control that aimpoint. It was born of a different time, and its simplicity allowed something closer to 1st person instead of iso 3rd person with the rigs most people had. Some people continue to prefer that in their gameplay today but it is extremely limiting for the player. Compare assassin’s creed movement along near rails to the freedom of jumping puzzles in GW2.

Your strong hand should never leave the mouse unless you knock your Dr Pepper off the desk. Once you get confortable with that a whole new world will open up, especially with newer games. Seriously.