The reason I posted was because when I sent in a support ticket on this issue, I was asked to do a post on the forum so the developers would see that it’s something that’s bothering players.
I have often experienced people exploiting the pvp league system by teaming up with lower rank players to lower their MMR. Because of this, if you lose to them (which you likely will, it’s more skilled players trying to get up against lower skilled ones) you end up losing up to three pips, usually two. This is due to them having a lower MMR from their amber buddies and so they are calculated less likely to win by the match making algarithum. But when you lose two pips, they gain two, making them want to do this more and more. And this isn’t simply people “playing with lower ranked friends”, these are people teaming up with players with names insinuating that they are there specifically to help exploit for pips. (I won’t name any due to call-out rules)
While I realize this exploit is being fixed in the next season, I feel that those who have abused this in the current season should have this behavior punished.
Has anyone else come across groups like this?
Both ANet and the forums know about this. Why are you even bothering to post in the first place? Contribute something new or post in old threads.
And how on Earth do you propose punishing players? How do you distinguish between legendary players playing with their amber friends and those that wish to exploit the system?
I have often experienced people exploiting the pvp league system by teaming up with lower rank players to lower their MMR. Because of this, if you lose to them (which you likely will, it’s more skilled players trying to get up against lower skilled ones) you end up losing up to three pips, usually two. This is due to them having a lower MMR from their amber buddies and so they are calculated less likely to win by the match making algarithum. But when you lose two pips, they gain two, making them want to do this more and more. And this isn’t simply people “playing with lower ranked friends”, these are people teaming up with players with names insinuating that they are there specifically to help exploit for pips. (I won’t name any due to call-out rules)
While I realize this exploit is being fixed in the next season, I feel that those who have abused this in the current season should have this behavior punished.
Has anyone else come across groups like this?
So, the game went into overtime, my team was at 315, theirs at 360. It ended when we downed their Lord. But we didn’t get the score points for killing the Lord, only the personal points for ‘Lord Kill’, causing us to lose the game. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
I suggest a merchant for returning items you may have accidentally bought, namely ones that use currency different than gold, such as bandit crests and geodes. I’m sure many people have bought items only to find out your character, or another one of your characters, already has the item/recipe. The best place for such a merchant would likely be in Lion’s Arch, perhaps by the Event Merchant.
- More focused on completing events than just tagging as many as possible. Rewards based on Map’s total event completion, perhaps? This would also make for more organization instead of random zerging
- Waypoint cost during the events reduced or completely removed
- EXP from Mobs (however minuscule it may be) for lower level characters to help incentivize and level them up for future events
-Event currency added to character wallet, even if just temporarily for the duration of the event
-Don’t put items previously available on the gemstore as rewards. Many people spent real money to get those and to make them available during an event is a smack in the face.
I suggest an option to have API keys include your characters’ crafting professions, their crafting level, and recipes. Not just for the two active professions, but also for the inactivated ones as well. This way sites utilizing API keys could allow people to better search through their characters’ recipes and which professions they have.
How many times should a person need to complete the track before they receive a llama? If it is 1, I completely disagree. I’d be fine with your suggestion if every track complete gave you a component. Combine 4 of them together to get a mini llama.
In other words, if you do the track 4 times, you can get one.
That sounds like a great idea. You’d get 1 token each time you complete the track, and you could click to combine the tokens into one mini llama or toss them in the Mystic Forge to make it.
Currently the Mini Llama is only available with community run sPVP Tournaments and the sPVP Ladder System. There is also the occasional opportunity to win a drawing for one during Twitch streams of these events. I suggest the Mini Llama be available in a repeatable reward track.
Reasons:
1. Community events only allow a certain amount of people to try for the llama.
2. Not everyone, especially those with busy working lifestyles, are able to join in these community run events due to scheduling conflicts.
3. The Ladder System means only 500 people out of the many MANY players will get a Mini Llama during each Ladder season.
4. Some people cannot handle the emotional stress of a tournament.
When you post either in support or opposition of this suggestion, please state your reasons why and keep the conversation friendly.
I suggest that the Crab Toss achievement “Crab Toss Champion” should work like the Sanctum Sprint achievement “Speedy Sprinter”. For Speedy Sprinter, the top three people get progress towards the achievement with 1st place getting three points, 2nd get two, and 3rd getting one towards the achievement. Both of the achievements require a total of 250 wins/points, so I feel it would make sense for “Crab Toss Champion” to work the same way.
This is very annoying bug that really needs to be fixed. I’ve lost over 15 runs to the fact that the candy cane bridge after the presents gives fall damage as you run down it. If possible, I’d like a dev to comment to assure that this will be fixed.
Honestly, instead of giving an unidentified dye for each duplicate they should just give you that specific dye back as item you can sell. ESPECIALLY for people who bought more than one of the expensive dyes like Pyre and other limited event dyes.
I think sending out an in game mail with an item that would grant the achievement when used would be better. If it’s removed and some people got an AP point chest due to it, it means there could be issues of them earning the same chest twice when they get some more achievement points again.
It’s possible that for those who got it that it was enough AP to get them to a chest, so simply removing it would cause issues with people perhaps getting that chest twice. Instead, I think anet should send out an in game mail with an item that would grant the achievement when used.
Gun Devil, do NOT click any of the links in that email. That email is a well known phishing scam. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/e-Mail-from-ArenaNet-Please-read-merged/first
You’ll notice that in your email if you hover over the links they aren’t actually the links listed. If you’ve clicked any of those links quickly change your passwords for your email and account, and I suggest adding two-step verification to your guild wars 2 account as well.
Gmail is filtering out some of the email for the Mists Beta because it’s flagging them as fishing scams due to wording. Check your spam box and you should see an email regarding the email about confirming your email change. (And to ignore the confirm email because it means things are working)
That would be a bit strange since other skins are not. Perhaps instead a gem store item for a high price (1500-2000 gems) that could duplicate a skin. Except for those that are legendary of course.
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Or like someone else posted on a different thread, make it so skins/items gotten through achievements are able to be withdrawn from the achievement panel like the zenith skin. If they have stats, just make them a skin.
+1 to all of this….
ALL skins we get from achievements should get put into our achievement panel.
ALL of them. The ones we got with stats should just go in as skins.
Mad Memories (skin only) (Shadow of the Mad King)
Fused Gauntlets (Flame & Frost)
King Toad’s Backpack Cover (Super Adventure Box)
Scelerite Karka Shell Backpack (skin only) (Secret of Southsun)
Fervid Censer (Last Stand at Southsun)
Shattered Dragon Holo-Wings (Dragon Bash 2013)
Storm Wizard’s Backpack Cover (SAB: Back to School)
Wings of the Sunless (Tequatl Rising)
Slickpack (Twilight Assault)
Gasmask Skin (The Nightmares Within)
And the other achievement items could go in there too just in case we’ve deleted them or want one on another character:
Majory’s Journal
Infinite Watchknight Tonic
Zephyr Sanctum Model
Mini First Mate Horrik
Mini Watchknight
Mini Ellen Kiel
Mini Evon Gnashblade
Mini Toxic Nimross
Mini Candy Corn Elemental
Mini Liadri the Concealing Dark
Mini Clockheart
Hot Air Balloon
Flames of Kryta
Something like the harder the difficulty chosen, the higher the drop rate of a event specific rare item. But the item would still be available at the lower difficulties too, just a lower drop rate.
So like…
Easy 1%
Medium 3%
Hard 6%
While I loved Liadri and got both of her achievements (Regular and 8 orb), I feel it wasn’t fair to those who didn’t have the gold to buy new gear or didn’t have classes that were best for beating her.
It’d be nice to see the return of Liadri difficulty level npcs that could be accomplished as a bonus but not truly necessary for the player to gain their meta achievement.
So, I’ve been trying since the Gauntlet release to get the 8 orb ‘Light Up The Darkness’ achievement. I’ve been able to get 8 crystals tossed at her, but fail each time due to being dropped. I get her down to around 30-40% health.
Here is the build I’m running, including gear, food, and skill setup. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYEQJAqYlUmiP3ey5E95EymCgqC5eYUOVT1pgriPA-jQxAYrAm8KiGbboIas6HMVJRUtMAVTA-e
I have 7 on Mouse Button 4 (Back Button),
6 on Mouse Button 5 (Forward Button),
and 8 on Mouse Button 3 (click on scroll wheel).
Any help would be absolutely wonderful!!!
Chances are, since Arenanet has done updates to nerf farming and other things yet not Liadri despite public outroar, they’re simply ignoring the issue.
+1 for Nerf
I’ve defeated her and have done all the event achievements for past events, including jumping puzzles.
While I think Liadra and her basis are a great idea, I think a few tweaks would help immensely. The first is a bug fix. The Cosmic Rifts are glitched where ranged attacks, even up close, are obstructed. If this is actually intended, perhaps a statement release about that, or simply make it range-able or remove them from phase 2 all together.
The next few are suggestions. Perhaps make the light orbs last longer and can be picked up by rolling over them, and/or making it so you can move while tossing them/targeted not AOE. Having it be targeted could perhaps help with some of the camera angle issues. Maybe even more pools of light or some-such, or other suggestions already said.
This should help those who have issues with her flawed design, and also help those going for the 8 orb achievement.
This is an absolutely horrible achievement. The fact Anet hasn’t even given a response on the matter or changed the achievement blows me away too. They had changed the Wintersday Dolyak achievement which was achievable with coordination, why can’t they change this one that relies on sheer dumb luck?
Absolutely nothing has been done for a friend of mine who got caught in the massive wrongful ban. And because she replied to the support ticket via her phone email, ArenaNet decided her account was unsafe and refuses to do ANYTHING. Many people, including myself, have responded to tickets via their smart phones so that things don’t have to wait for them to get home for solutions to progress.
Her ticket number, so maybe things will actually get some progress done.
So there wouldn’t be so much ‘abuse’ of it, the items would of course be non-salvageable so that people wouldn’t just keep creating characters to get items in the mail. And if it went the route of your NPC idea, perhaps you could be able to choose the type of armor when it was duplicated.
Much like how another MMORPG had for one of their events with achievements, I believe that items earned during events such as Mad King Slippers and the Mad Memories should be mailed to other and future characters in the manner that collectors items are mailed to all characters as well as the items being account bound. This would only be for accounts that had completed the quests to get these items, I.E. the Clock Tower and/or the Mad Memories quest line. This would allow for people to allow their characters that weren’t created at the time or high enough levels as their main to enjoy the spoils of their mad jumping and questing during events.
Basically, if you earned an item from a world event like Mad King Slippers or the Mad Memories book on one character, all other characters created and to be created would receive an account bound version of it in the mail.
The floor was literally dropping right as I did, but I still did it!