Yup I Play when SoR sleeps, and JQ dominates. Getting backdoored by 60+ in my prime time play gets old, because JQ can field 20-30 pug across all map and have FoO float and backdoor any action BG makes, because SoR won’t even take a camp for about 6 hours of play. Gets old quick, its why many want kain, if not kain anyone for that matter to split the forces so its not a non stop backdoor fest, by the more populated server.
Do you understand how 24 hour coverage works? " if not kain anyone for that matter" You realize Kain is the only server that can field coverage during that time. SoR isn’t alone in coverage gaps. KN is no competition for BG and JQ during the other times though.
KN will only make a closer match for BG and JQ. No one thinks Kain will come up and take 2nd or first place. (Or even do better then SoR) The point is Kain will slow down JQ in BGs weak time slots making this already close match even closer.
The point is – NO they won’t. They’ll only make it more competitive in the one specific time slot you play in. Weaker in the others.
That may be true but Kain has great coverage when JQ cleans up BG. If BG can keep up the same pressure during the other time zones and kain slows JQs PPT during our off hours BG can have a much better chance at winning. But your right with out SoR in the other time zones its hard how BG and JQ will do with out SoR there.
The problem is that reducing the ppt will not secure the first place for BG and secondly Kaineng before even attacking JQ might actually secure the easiest points first and have BG run at 0 ppt during WM prime time. Also, with little challenge from Kaineng during N/A prime time JQ will have nothing else to do but focus BG and reduce the points even more.
Overall, I would say be careful what you wish for because it may not be what you want.
Depends on how it would work out, as it stands now JQ is running 400+ PPT at this time leaving both BG and SoR in the dust. Even if BG gets beat out during this time, the idea is kain would stop JQ from getting that 400+ PPT thus lowering the lead they gain during this time.
Now NA prime time is a different story, Its hard to speculate what would happen with out SoR being a strong 3rd presence.
So essentially, you don’t want a balanced 3 way fight, you want someone to “slow down” JQ while you sleep so you can win? The Tier would be a disaster if Kain moved up. They would get demolished in all but 1 time zone. SoR is a stronger server they just play the way they want, and that’s for fun, not the scoreboard. When the rest of the tier realizes the score means nothing, maybe these threads wouldn’t be filled to the brim with doo doo.
And that map chat is exactly why a lot want Kain here, I would think JQ REALLY wants Kain in T1 more than anyone, when 20 mans are getting steamrolled no matter where they pop thier little heads out, yes they do get bored. Not sure about the rest of the world but Spring finally hit the Pacific Northwest in NA and that has to take a toll on numbers as well, across all servers of course but if one server has 100 extra people that is really going to effect those timezones. Is is spring in Asia?
Get over it already. Kain isn’t getting anywhere near T1 unless SOR quits completely. T2 is quite close and competitive. They are where they belong. Stop asking for other servers to do what you can’t in every single post and just live with how it is. It’s unbalanced, get over it and move on. The whole game has turned to kitten, and the constant whining in these threads is pathetic.
Anyone complaining about this is a bad thief. End of story. What is it that all of you told everyone else? Oh that right, now you can go roll whatever class you can’t beat and learn to play. You abused this terribly broken mechanic for far too long. Get over it and L2P.
Rangers are in a terrible spot and anyone that tells you otherwise is in denial. The only thing I ever use my ranger for is farming sparks or bags. They are fundamentally broken on almost all levels.
In dungeons, my Guardian, Warrior, Mesmer, and to a lesser degree Thief all vastly outperform the ranger. Equally geared and equally competent, any of the other classes I have listed will far outperform my ranger in every aspect of the dungeon.
Pet’s need a serious fix and then you can start addressing the Ranger itself. They would be better off just getting rid of the pet and fixing the Ranger. It’s obvious that they have no clue whatsoever how to handle any type of pets in this game.
No. Plain and simple. Learn to do more than just AE tag mobs. These changes were made because people sat there all day tagging mobs. Champions were the perfect addition.
#1: Champions
It also doesn’t help that some players will outright ignore them and would rather tag the regular mobs – I know cause I do it.
Exactly why they implemented it the way they did. Now you can’t freeload while others kill the vets/champs. This is one of the only changes in the patch I like.
I love watching all the MF users in dungeons cry “noooooo”, “elitism”, etc. However, it’s easy enough to realize it on the first fight and kick them then.
P.S : Due to the high amount of traffic across current Tc/K/BG and JQ/SoS/SoR threads of this upcoming match-up, ive decided to kick-start this thread to keep postings unified.
so typical of a JQ guy to post about next week before this week is finished.
No wonder everyone hates JQ.
Why don’t you head over to your tiers thread. Nobody really cares for any of your posts or trash opinions in any thread I’ve seen.
As someone who pretty much ‘exploits’ guesting to maximum benefit, I think guesting was probably the worst thing you could do to remove server community and loyalty.
I don’t know if I would call it exploiting. It is a failure on Anet’s part to think ahead, and with the lack of a PTS to sort this stuff out before it is made live.
The snowflake jewelery would like to have a word with you. They called that an exploit even thought it was their failed testing that lead to bans.
These events don’t deserve to give rares. You get tons of people at the event killing a mob with little to no difficulty. 30 seconds of autoattacking and you get a guaranteed rare. I showed up to Teq (right after Shadow Beh), hit him with about 5 skills and got 2 rares and and exotic while never being hit. That’s plain stupid. These events are stupidly easy and deserve nothing more than they originally gave.
Open world needed better drops, not these faceroll events.
Really? Already cries of “nooo! my small guild”?
No one is seriously suggesting that small guilds had the intention of going for T3 Bounty to begin with, right?
Hey, genius, read above. 1 million! LAWL. Squirm back to your zerg you call a guild plz. I like to know the people in my guild.
It’s true, I can only voice regognize half of our teamspeak server.
Small guilds will eventually be able to get all the guild missions, just not as fast. Real life is full of things like this to. I’m sorry if you feel left out, or if your guild will go through a hard time now. My guild was in need of this scale of things to do for months, so we embrace it fully.
Good luck to you
You don’t think small guilds need things to do? LOL – get over yourself. We’ve done about everything you can in the game, just not with 500 members who may as well be strangers.
It’s not you I am mad at, it’s the implementation of the earrings as you can see by my post above.
I’m glad you guys had fun, that wasn’t my issue.
I will bow out of your thread and probably should not have hijacked it in the first place. My issues wasn’t with you or your guild, just the implementation.
Why should the size of the guild matter at all? That’s my question. Take the earrings off the guild currency and I could care less who does them and how fast.
This is the first time they added any sort of gear that not all players have the same equal chance of getting at the same time.
Rings – Fractals – thoes were not closed off for anyone
Back – Crafted by anyone or purchased in fractals
Amulet – Laurels – Everyone the same timeframe
Earrings – Much, MUCH faster if you are in a large guild and might I add cheaper. This makes no sense.
That’s like saying the weapon needs to now come from WvW for X amount of badges, or 100 Laurels and 50 gold. What’s that, you don’t WvW? Ahh that’s ok champ, you can get it eventually…..
It should be hard. Very very hard. It should have been from the start. But the difficulty should have come for the type of challenges advertised by the developers. From the main gameplay. Not from the side game that is the BLTC.
Hey, it was hard throwing all the stuff in the forge.
I actually agree with you but I just couldn’t resist. When it finally popped out I had a sigh of relief, then I thought about friends who are still trying and have surpassed the numbers I used. Luck, to this scale, should not be the factor.
This is just my opinion, of course. The new scaling system now unleashes Champions and many more Veterans, and it ruined the farming. Many people getting downed, too few normal mobs.
It would have been much better if the mob normal mob numbers were increased, and perhaps one Champion. I asked for scaling, but this is NOT what I had in mind.
Personally, I would rather have it the way it was before, than the way it is now.
The quantity of drops seems dismal now.
What does everyone else think?
I think it’s perfect. Any other questions?
Now you actually have to fight instead of AE tag and move to the next group.
Really? Already cries of “nooo! my small guild”?
No one is seriously suggesting that small guilds had the intention of going for T3 Bounty to begin with, right?
Hey, genius, read above. 1 million! LAWL. Squirm back to your zerg you call a guild plz. I like to know the people in my guild.
LOL there was no exploit you clowns. The daily system changed and once implemented they became active. You had a couple of hours to do that days current “new” daily before the reset.
The change is fine. This comes from a warrior that built his build around the food. The food is still useful if you have an “oh kitten” moment and miss a dodge. What you cannot do anymore is sit in front of an entire group of mobs and not even bother to move.
I ran my same build in fracs last night that I have since they were implemented. Did my health get lower at times? Sure because I missed something. Did I die every 3 seconds? Nope, in fact, not downed even once.
Stop crying about the food. It was a crutch and was way too easy with it. It’s still easy without it, you just can’t mindlessly facetank the entire instance now.
Sorry I don’t like that idea. I shouldn’t be able to get an armor set from a dungeon I never ran.
Why not? This line of reasoning usually associated with the fear of losing prestige or ego through some sense of accomplishment.
Maybe because some dungeons take 10 mins while others take an hour? Sorry, but this is an MMO, there has to be prestige and accomplishment or there just isn’t any point. To convince yourself otherwise.. well, you might as well go play a single player game.
There is no prestige in this game, get off your high horse. Nothing at all is “hard” to get. It’s luck, and yes, I have my legendary so you can throw that response out the window.
I’ve got Arah look mixed with CoF look. I could care less if someone bought Arah gear without ever running it. Lose the kitten, people aren’t gawking at your gear talking about how cool you look or how amazing of a player you are when you stand there and pretend to be afk.
I expect to completely stop playing GW2 in a few patches due to this, and other games being released. That or just take an 8 month hiatus then come back for like 2 weeks, then leave again.
That’s all the game is good for to be honest. The initial “oooh” period is gone. The company is completely out of touch with its player base. Terrible communication, etc, etc, etc. It’s a short stay MMO while you wait for other things. not saying those other things will be any better, but that’s MMO’s today, just a revolving door.
All I know is I rolled through there for the first time since patch and saw a wipe in progress at Shelter’s Gate, with about 15 players already dead. For this reason alone, I support the changes.
I agree. I ran through there and saw the champion facerolling all the MF gear/taggers/leechers and got a great laugh. You know the kind of people that went to the events just to ae tag a mob and move to the next group. Yeah, I loved watching them fall over dead.
Personally, I see it very fitting. My small guild loves to do Fractals, Dungeons, and WvW. Now, we are kinda screwed with the guild missions and will most likely only be able to get the earrings through dailies since I won’t join a spam guild just for gear.
I want to see the large spam guilds cry when they have to go into WvW for a certain part. Then I can go back to the guild events post and quote it over and over where they claim everything is “fine”
WvW should absolutely have certain pieces exclusive to it.
This is what you are going with? There is nothing that says “guild” like 500 spam invites, of which you know maybe 30 people.
Fact is they left out “guilds” due to the requirements and rewarded the laughable 500 spam guilds, you know, the ones in every game that people place on ignore because of their constant spam recruitment of accepting anyone who can turn on a computer.
I’m honestly disappointed in all of the people transferring from SoS.
As I said in the other thread, we play the game to have fun. WvW was not and has not been fun for3 weeks. Enjoy your complete lack of NA coverage and PvDooring Tier 3 keeps from breakout events.
There are currently 3 ways to get a precursor (random world drop, Mystic Forge and Trading Post) with another one slated later (scavenger hunt). If you don’t currently like one of the ways to get a precursor that’s in the game now, then you should wait until the scavenger hunt is released and determine if THAT way suits you better. Who knows how long that will be though.
Yes, so I should sit on everything I have to make 2 legendaries because I’m not lucky. That makes a boatload of sense. The only people that defend this current system already have them via luck or exploits. End of story.
What about people like me that bought one recently by saving up money?
You think money is my issue? I could go buy one right now if I wanted. I refuse to buy one from the TP knowing full well how many exploited to get them. If I had a friend who got one, I’d gladly pay them.
The problem I have with the system is luck, plain and simple. Limiting this item to luck with how terrible and patterned the RNG in this game is pathetic and shows the complete lack of imagination and vision that Anet has.
There are currently 3 ways to get a precursor (random world drop, Mystic Forge and Trading Post) with another one slated later (scavenger hunt). If you don’t currently like one of the ways to get a precursor that’s in the game now, then you should wait until the scavenger hunt is released and determine if THAT way suits you better. Who knows how long that will be though.
Yes, so I should sit on everything I have to make 2 legendaries because I’m not lucky. That makes a boatload of sense. The only people that defend this current system already have them via luck or exploits. End of story.
How come no one is complaining about the Venom precursor?
Stop using this stupid example in every thread. If 95% of the game was underwater, then you’d have a point. As it is now, you are just trolling to troll like you do in almost every thread.
Everyone gets it. You got lucky with your stuff. We know, you post it everywhere. Personally, I’m going with the godskull exploit but you can deny it all you want. Precursors are not fine, they are not even close to fine, and they need changed. Feel free to keep trolling every single thread about them though if that’s what makes you feel better about yourself.
Well, I did Salvaged it, and it took me 3 months to craft it
to be perfectly honest I can’t remember if there was a pop up warning or not since I wasn’t paying much attention
This is exactly why they should not fix this. It’s time for people to pay attention to what they are doing and stop trying to have others fix problems for them.
This goes for society as a whole, not just in games.
No. You the PLAYER played on a specific CHARACTER. (see how annoying that is). No other game anywhere lets you loot after killing with a different character. You want the loot with one character, run the instance with him.
Congratulations Tyrantis you seem to get decent drops however the threads were about those of us who do exactly the same as you but get hardly anything.
We don’t want loot upping we just want the same loot as you !
Yep Powercat seems like a dodge to me too and a great way to get rid of both the threads and bury the issues.
You’re playing with a random generator. The fact that your loot is not good always does not mean that there’s something wrong with it. I ran CoE for days now getting only blues. Went to metrica province to complete my daily, smacked a mob and got a yellow. It’s random. Sometimes you get unlucky for days, sometimes you get real luck streaks.
See, there is a problem with this generator. I run the same groups every night. We do a fractal and then we do a number of dungeons. My account (doesn’t matter what character I am on) get almost no loot EVERY NIGHT compared to the rest of the group. We have some folks that get exotics every night along with multiple shards of mist in the Fractals. All of my drops are usually grey and white with blues in the chest. This is not a sometimes thing, this is every night. Our group has 2 very lucky, 2 sometimes lucky, 1 unlucky. This never changes and is standard for at least the last month.
Random is random, this is a pattern.
No they clearly looked into the issue and it’s fixed, it’s okay, just do more damage. It’s not a grinding game at all either.
Thanks for the laugh, I got a good chuckle.
Sadly, I don’t mind the grind. What I do mind is the grind with nothing to show for it….ever.
Congratulations Tyrantis you seem to get decent drops however the threads were about those of us who do exactly the same as you but get hardly anything.
We don’t want loot upping we just want the same loot as you !
Yep Powercat seems like a dodge to me too and a great way to get rid of both the threads and bury the issues.
You’re playing with a random generator. The fact that your loot is not good always does not mean that there’s something wrong with it. I ran CoE for days now getting only blues. Went to metrica province to complete my daily, smacked a mob and got a yellow. It’s random. Sometimes you get unlucky for days, sometimes you get real luck streaks.
See, there is a problem with this generator. I run the same groups every night. We do a fractal and then we do a number of dungeons. My account (doesn’t matter what character I am on) get almost no loot EVERY NIGHT compared to the rest of the group. We have some folks that get exotics every night along with multiple shards of mist in the Fractals. All of my drops are usually grey and white with blues in the chest. This is not a sometimes thing, this is every night. Our group has 2 very lucky, 2 sometimes lucky, 1 unlucky. This never changes and is standard for at least the last month.
LOL – 1 dusk on the TP at 800 gold. Yeah, these prices aren’t out of whack. Wish I was around for the godskull exploit that they never banned ppl for or took away their precursors. This item itself has become as big of a joke as Anet.
Whatever they bring, it will be intense until you do it right and then you’ll find it trivial..
The problem with this statement is that there are very few fights that this applies to. I never watched videos prior to a fight and never needed more than 1 reset to figure it out.
The fights are simple due to the lack of trinity. Sure, even with trinity you get used to the fights, but GW2 cannot have many of those fights because they have no trinity. Boring, uninteresting fights.
NOTE: JQ is the top server on tier 1, they gain every location in all of wvw, maybe not at the same time, at least 3 times a week. it is extremely simple, with some patience to finish off all the wvw maps within a week if you are on jade quarry
This I will agree with…for the people on our server. I finished 4 alts in all the PvP zones last week (main was done quite a while ago).
However, there are many servers that will never hold those points and people should not have to pay to leave their server to finish map completion.
i wholeheartedly agree with that as i had to transfer to finish my wvw map, but the point was that the majority of people who spend their time to kitten about how hard it is to get a precursor are probably not even putting in the effort as they don’t put that effort into accomplishing far easier tasks
let me reiterate that i know a few of the characters associated with the accounts that argue the points that precursors are too hard to get
Just want to pose a question to you…from someone who thinks precursors are out of whack.
Map completion complete on 3 characters – 100%, 2 others at 78ish (with WvW done), 1 noob alt with WvW done and about 14%.
All dungeons complete except Arah 4 (close but not quite finished)
Fractals 28 with 30 AR
More dungeon tokens than I know what to do with.
More Badges of Honor than I know what to do with.
Few hundred Dragons events
Never have seen a precursor as a drop, a chest, or a forge.
So, with the above info, would you say I have “played the game” enough to have a precursor?
If your answer is yes, the problem is with the game and the RNG. If your answer is no, I’d like to know “why” other than you are unlucky.
NOTE: JQ is the top server on tier 1, they gain every location in all of wvw, maybe not at the same time, at least 3 times a week. it is extremely simple, with some patience to finish off all the wvw maps within a week if you are on jade quarry
This I will agree with…for the people on our server. I finished 4 alts in all the PvP zones last week (main was done quite a while ago).
However, there are many servers that will never hold those points and people should not have to pay to leave their server to finish map completion.
if everyone has it, is it really legendary? of course you want a Lamborghini for the price of a civic…everyone would jump at that chance.
Even if the price of precursors dropped to something more reasonable, say 200-300g,
they would still cost a fortune because of everything else required to make them.
why not invest that money into a precursor? everything for a legendary is farmable, as i stated people complain about the precursor while paying 500+ for the mats for the gifts…in for a penny in for a pound, wouldn’t you say
I paid nothing but my time for my mats and gifts. All I need is the precursor and I will never buy it off the TP. That’s not legendary, that a cop out. They need to come up with something other than the mystic crapper (or the LOL AFK autoattack Dragon chests) to get this item.
You want to see real mythical/legendary items, check EQ when they were introduced. Then check EQ 2 when Mythicals were first introduced. That’s a true legendary, not this piece of crap luck system.
Most of this game is not difficult. There are annoyances, but no real difficulty. I am sure a ton of ppl will disagree with me but without the trinity, you cannot build proper fights.
Dragon events are not hard. Sit at one spot and spam auto attack until its dead.
Exploits for the early precursors. Those were not removed.
Failed Karka event handing them out in mass.
No, they are not fine. Take away every single one that was given at the karka event or gained through the early exploits and I would have no problem with the current system.
