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I look at all the nifty wardrobe items in the cs, and think I’ll grab that. Then I see that it’s only for in town, not usable in combat, blah blah blah. So I change my mind, and don’t bother with the purchase.
So why not allow wardrobe items to be displayed at all times? Why such a silly restriction?
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JC is very easy to level. It’s the professions that require blood, bones, etc. that are problematic to level. I’m not too lazy to farm, I spent hours farming and getting maybe enough mats to make one item. My problem is that I’m tired of spending my gaming hours farming for little to no result instead of doing the more fun things like WPvP. Crafting is an integral part of character progression for me and right now, I feel like I can’t go anywhere without spending tons of coin I don’t have. I like gathering, I don’t like spending money on things I should be able to get on my own.
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My creative way to cut costs was to get the mats myself. Not really a practical option anymore. And as I said, having to line someone else’s pockets constantly just to level anything but cooking (love that profession) and jewelcrafting is just asinine. We shouldn’t be pigeonholed into throwing cash at the TP, it should be an option, not a necessity.
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I don’t care about TP profits; I don’t post on it. I do care about spending HOURS farming an entire zone and not getting enough mats to make ONE (1) item. That’s just ridiculous.
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I still don’t understand why we even have to buy tools by the stack. If I bought a pick that broke after the first use I certainly wouldn’t buy another, and I’d never buy a whole stack of them. /shrug
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Can’t use crafting to to level until the drop rates are adjusted. Unless of course the endless grind for mats (blood, bones, etc.) is how we’re supposed to level via crafting?
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I don’t have a problem with the auction house, per se, but when it’s the only way to advance my profession, then i do indeed have a problem with it.
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The point is being able to explore the world, gathering the mats i need, not grind cash to line the pockets of some stranger on the auction house. Sorry, just not my idea of good game play.
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I can’t afford to buy all the mats for every item i need to craft, so looks like I’ll keep playing other things ’til they fix this mess.
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Crafting for me is a major part of progression, so when the rates were so buggered I could clear an entire zone and still not be able to make a single item, I logged out and haven’t been back in some weeks.
Have they fixed this issue or is it still next to impossible to reliably level crafting?
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Is the drop rate bad…or is it just because so many people are crafting right now? I do agree about the butter thing though…but complaining just because you can’t get what you want? They increase the drop rate, price of mats goes down, and even further when most are done with crafting. How are you gonna handle that?
Anything in life rewards creativity, this game is no different. Crafting is already so easy as it is in this game to max. The most efficient way to grind for mats are usually not immediately obvious…most just take the obvious route without spending much time to think about optimizing their action. Of course it’s always easier to just complaint and hope dev will spoon feed you.
A. I very rarely bother with the auction house, so I couldn’t care less about how higher drop rates would effect the prices. I peek from time to see what the price of mats are, but I absolutely refuse and simply cannot afford to spend 1-4 silver per blood, bone, claw, etc, especially when I need 15 per crafted item.
B. I, and many others aren’t expecting to be spoon fed anything. I understand the whole carrot and stick system; I use it with my kids. However, A-Net has the carrot so far out on the stick that it’s really not worth trying to reach. What I do expect is to be able to craft effectively. As it stands, I can clear a zone with 100% completion and still not have anywhere even close to the fine mats I need to even make one item, forget trying to actually level my profession at all.
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Is it that low? I don’t seem to have a problem with farming mats. I think it may just be randomized. Basically your lucky or your not.
I farm mats like crazy for my guildies and the mats they don’t need I make bank off of on the TP. I don’t see the problem.[/quote]
It’s worse. I can clear three hearts, a few poi’s, fight my way to some vistas, and walk out with only a few blood and/or claws or bones. Now, take those 3 and subtract them from the 15 I need for one item, and you can start to see why many of us are unhappy. It’s not even remotely fun atm. I enjoy this game, but having to ruthlessly kill EVERYTHING in the zone for even a measly few of the mats I need and the fun begins to quickly fade away.
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High drop rate = low prices.
Low prices
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people who farm mats to make money don’t make money
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we stop using trading post
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TP is useless
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NO ECONOMY
Grow up and look at why they did it instead of kittening and complaining constantly.
Your babies make me sick.
I’m sorry that my desire to farm my mats rather than pay another player for them “makes you sick”. I like being self-sufficient. I don’t like paying 1-3 silver per tooth, per blood, per scale, etc. Right now, it takes 8-15 scales, blood, bones, etc per item. Now, do the math on that. Would you really want to constantly spend that amount of cash on mats?
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It would behoove everyone in this thread to understand that there is more than one way to get that uber-item you are looking for and that most certainly involves it not dropping on the mob you just killed.
I’m not after any particular “uber-item”. I’m after crafting mats and they just aren’t dropping at an even remotely decent rate.
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It’s simply not worth it to me to pursue anything beyond cooking and jewelcrafting. The drop rate is so low, that even when I break down to buy what I need on the auction house, sometimes, it’s not there either. Preferred playstyle aside, this is an issue that needs to be addressed, regardless of how deep the pockets of some players may be.
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While I am very much relieved to see the holy trinity tossed out with the trash, I would’ve like the option to build a stronger support class(es). I like water magic, but it just doesn’t feel very strong in healing compared to what i’m used to from other games.
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The long lockout when you switch attunements is puzzling as a design choice
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I guess I’m just kinda slow as far as ele skills go. I solo with fire, group exclusively with water ( i love healing) and use air to get from point a to point b as quickly as I can. I use earth occasionally just to keep from getting bored.
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Same server, throw your name on a list, dungeon finder would be great. As much as I like this game, I really, really don’t like sitting in a zone i’ve already cleared just in case I can get in a group for the zone dungeon. I want to be able to post my class and dungeon of interest and then go to whatever zone pleases me.
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Thin out the mobs in many zones. I don’t really have time to actually see the world as I’m always in combat. Even when I kill something and stop to look around, they respawn in seconds, sometimes even two will spawn in that spot. I want to be able to enjoy the world, not be constantly, constantly fighting.
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We do need more fluff and fun activities. While I do love this game, running from heart to heart tends to get tedious. There should be more than fetch rabbits and save the world activities imo. I loved in LoTRO where I could smoke a pipe and fish during my down time.
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I wouldn’t say they’re ineffective, just that they are too short in duration to be reliable.
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I don’t bother with them mostly because the field/wall that we shoot through to get the combo only lasts a few seconds and to me, it’s just not worth, A. moving in to position to hopefully use it, or B. wasting a skill slot on something that only lasts a few seconds.
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I don’t mind the anti-farming, but I do mind not getting crafting mats at all. Be it 10 minutes or 10 hours, my drop rates seem to be the same. /shrug
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, there is still only half there.
The only profession I seem to be able to level with any kind of efficiency is cooking and jewel crafting. My other crafting professions are seriously lacking as RNG completely hates me. I can farm a recommended area for hours and only get 1 totem or 3 scales, etc. Impossible to level a profession in tandem with my level like this.
Most of the fine mats are pretty reasonably priced, so just buy them from the TP. I’ve leveled my weaponsmith and jeweler simultaneously and spent maybe 20s total for mats in the TP. Rest I have gotten from adventuring (and killing pretty much every mob I come across – this helps).
I’m a completionist. I rarely leave a zone until I’ve found every vista, poi, and completed every heart. This involves a lot of killing, and when I’m finished with the zone, I might have enough mats to earn one crafting point. Drop rates need to be adjusted I think.
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Allow us to attack/use abilities while falling. Sometimes I like to jump off a wall in WvWvW or sometimes I just fall off, but while I’m in the air, I can do nothing. I want to be able to attack, through down a targeted ground effect, etc, while still in the air.
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, there is still only half there.
The only profession I seem to be able to level with any kind of efficiency is cooking and jewel crafting. My other crafting professions are seriously lacking as RNG completely hates me. I can farm a recommended area for hours and only get 1 totem or 3 scales, etc. Impossible to level a profession in tandem with my level like this.
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My humble suggestions:
1 Make the party invite more obvious. I have a wide monitor and don’t immediately notice that little green check mark up in the corner.
2 Allow some of the vanity/town gear to be transmuted to armor. There’s a lot of things I’d spend money in the gem store to buy, but I don’t since they are “town clothes” and I spend nearly all of my time out in the world where town clothes are pointless.
3 Previewing gear pre-purchase on the trading post would be great. I like to cruise for transmute options, but I won’t buy what I can’t see.
4 Please allow us to use the “discover” option in the crafting window without having to pull everything out of the collectibles tab, thereby having little or no room to actually craft/discover new items.
5 Grabbed this from a previous post, and I agree with all of it:
WvW:
• Queue for all 4 WvW areas.
• Show what battleground I am queued for when queued for only one.
• Show Queue time. both how long I have been queued and estimate.
• Ability to see WvW score when in overflow.
• Auto-Loot bags. Miss them all the time, they contribute to lag as well.
6 Would love to see all “Soulbound” items (gear/weapons) adjusted to be “Account Bound” items. I love giving hand-me-downs to my alts and with so much else being shared across an account, I don’t see why this cannot be the same.
7 First person camera. Hate not being able to take decent screenshots because my toon is always there, muddling some of the most beautiful nature scenery.
8 Why doesn’t my ranger have a quiver? Or any of my bow users, really.
9 Let me queue for more than one WvWvW map at a time. Sometimes the queue can be 2-3 hours (sometimes more) and being able to queue for more than one could increase my odds of getting into some action.
10 When I dismiss my pet, please leave it dismissed until I summon it again. Every time I fall off a rock, my pet pops out again. Gets annoying for me and the other people trying to rock hop to the Vistas.
That’s really all I can think of at the moment. If you (A-Net) take the time to read this, I give my thanks to you for doing so.
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When I use it on a downed player, they don’t get back up. When I help a downed player as normal, they don’t get a buff from the glyph, nor do I.
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Ascalonian Catacombs Story Mode. Got in one time, but rest of group had their own version of the dungeon. Left the dungeon and have since been unable to reenter. We reformed the group, same result; none of us can enter the instance. Pop up message doesn’t do anything, and walking up to the instance does nothing as well.
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I salvage cloth and leather items, vendor the rest unless it has a sigil upgrade on it.
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I too would like to have the nifty dungeon sets, but I gave up the repetitive dungeon grind when I left WoW to come here. I don’t mind doing a dungeon a few times, but to have to actually live in it to get what I want out of it, is just silly. I don’t mind grinding for vanity gear, but I would also like for the carrot to be on a shorter stick. That would make it believable. Right now, that carrot is so far away, I’m not even bothering to reach for it.
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I have the opposite problem. I tend to lock on random targets further away than what I’m actually fighting (without ever using the tab key). This has killed me many times in PvP.
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I’ve had the Glyph of Renewal signet for a while, and it never seems to actually do anything. I target a downed or dead player and activate the sigil and nothing happens. I target a downed or dead player and rez as normal and nothing happens. To the best of my knowledge, the only thing this skill does do, is waste a skill slot.
Glyph of Renewal:
Glyph. Revive allies with different attunement effects.
Air: Revive and teleport an ally to your location.
Earth: Revive three allies.
Fire: Revive an ally; you’re revived the next time you’re downed.
Water: Revive an ally with full health.
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I’ve noticed that when I kill something, oft times, it’ll respawn almost immediately, and sometimes, albeit rarely, two or more of that npc will spawn on that same spot.
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Flanking Strike
Dual Wield. Evade and stab your foe in the back twice. First strike removes 1 boon.
Sometimes it works, but much more often, it just sends me flying sideways away from the fight, costing me precious seconds to get back into position.
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