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I think they tried to solve three things with this change:
1. Find some way to spend extra crests
2. Increase reward for repeating LS on multiple characters in long term
3. Experiment with different ways of gaining reward
1st thing is obvious – after you bought 3 recipes and tonic you don’t have anything to spend those crests on. Keys and extractor are self-sufficient, you get about the same amount of crests after you use them as you spend on them.
2nd thing – if you complete LS chapter on 4th character (remember, I said about longterm solution) you only get rare shoulder that has a value of about 40 silver according to TP, and you can’t salvage it right away, so it becomes kind of useless thing. But if you get a key – it has a higher value, about 3-5 gold (counted by dividing price of item that you can get for 1 ticket by amount of keys you need to get one ~70/20). So new reward will be better in long term.
3rd – remember that Anet always tries to experiment and try different things. So they implement this option, get resulting statistics, analyse them and decide which way is better or maybe even produce some other way (choice of Armor box/key at the end of the chapter). Some good statistics would be – how many times per player LS chapter was completed in a week, that will show how popular it is. Or max amount of chapter completions per player. Or total chapter completions.
“Crafting profit” is counted wrong. It should be “Sell Price*0.85-Craft Price” instead of “Sell Price-Craft Price*1.15”
They removed being able to die in the starting Story Mode Instance LONG before this change happened… just so you know. You can die in 1-15 zone … I died on purpose a couple times to test.
Yes, and boss battles in tutorial would finish automatically even if you don’t attack the enemy, so this is not a last patch effect too. Tried it on earth elemental in human story during keyfarms few times before the patch. It’s done specifically so that you can’t hold that area forever (it locks during the fight). Just started new character to test how new leveling feels and it does not look bad. You are not restricted from most things like gathering or dodging if you know where to get tools and how to do it. You are restricted from some skills because you don’t actually need them at that time.
I am not sure why everyone is talking about total achievement points unlocking reward when it was clearly said that individual achievements will unlock them:
New and Improved Achievement Panel UI
Learning about achievements has never been easier! Our revamped UI will make it simple for you to keep track of specific achievements and rewards. You can also look at individual achievements in detail to find point breakdowns, potential rewards, and helpful tips.
There is no extra section for total daily or monthly achievements, so the reward for them will stay the same as now, or even if section will be added, it won’t mess up other individual achievements rewards, it will be a separate progression. As I imagine, it will work like this: you finish Krait slayer achievement – you unlock something, you finish each personal story achievement – you unlock something else. There may also appear new types of achievements, that group others in the same section like we have seen in living story, so Complete 5 out of all Slayer achievements – unlock one reward (for example 5 laurel + new skin), 10 – unlock second reward (for example another 5 laurel + another new skin).
I agree that numbers would make much more sense and would be comparable to +25% bonus to damage that was mentioned in first post, if they are additive. Two last lines provide additive effects, so why other lines would not? I also would like to hear a clarification to this issue, but even without it we will discover it as soon as someone gets to 60 points and spend them on Supply line.
Similiar mechanics are in many dungeons, CoF has the 2 bits rozc said that I’d forgotted, first one requiring 3 people to simultaneously carry something the other part requiring a full 5.
Some of this requirements can be avoided. For CoF path 1, if you have mesmer in your party, 2 people are enough to pass the first place you mentioned. If you have ranger in your party – 4 people are enough to pass the second place.
I’ve seen some suggestions to providing better rewards for killing champions in the world but would like to add one more now that Laurels are available as rewards for achievements. Once a week in a new Achievement section called “Weekly Champion Hunt” a set of 7 achievements is generated. Each of them provides the race and area of champion and killing this champion rewards player with 1 Laurel. If you finish all 7, you get nothing extra, so that you won’t have a feeling that you certanly must complete them all.
What I see as positive here:
1. Players get extra income of Laurels, so they don’t feel like they have to do each daily, so daily becomes more optional as it was before
2. Weekly means they have enough time to complete it so they don’t have to rush it, and also they don’t need to wait whole month if they complete it at day 1
3. This addition gives players extra incensitive to go into areas they explored before
Negative:
1. Some players, that don’t have high level characters may become blocked of completing this achievement
2. Price of items that can be bought for Laurels will need to increase due to increased income, or else ascended items will become too common
I am sure developers already have some ways to gain Laurels planned except achievement, but I want to see other player’s reaction to this idea. If it’s good or not at all.
What difference does it make? You have 24 hours at 4pm game time.
Theoretically speaking, if the reset happens to be exactly in the middle of your daily gaming time, you only get 50% of the time to finish it.
You still have 24 hours to complete it, not half of that. But you need to know the exact time when it happens for you. So if you play the game from 10-16, for example, and reset happens at 12, start doing your daily right after reset, that way you will have the same 6 hours to complete it (12-16 of first day+10-12 of next day). Don’t leave your daily for next morning. This could be a problem only if you skip days playing, then yes, you only have half the time on them.
Got the box just now. Thank you.
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Got mail 12 hours after this post. Thanks.
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I think there was a fix for this problem during today update, although it is not listed in patch notes. I was able to get to the top of the stairs in Uncategorized fractal without crashing. You guys should also check it (can do it alone, without a party) and if it is true for you too, then there is no more problem. Thanks to people who reported this bug, who made a ticket, who contacted support until they confirmed the problem and certanly to those who fixed it.
Some more people with the same problem: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Game-Crashing-in-new-FOTM-dungen/page/1
Try using the -repair function
Tried, it did not help.
Got disconnected after about three hours, when Ancient karka almost returned to the cave. Could not connect for more then 20 minutes after that. Watched ending on youtube, it was epic. So I am sad that I missed it.
I don’t know why you can’t finish your monthly guys. Just gather a team of people who goes there not to finish all three fractals at once, but for fast run for one or two of them. And say to them that if you meet Uncategorized fractal, your team should leave it. If they are understanding, you will be able to finish you monthly achievement. Works best with guild members. They like to help and understand other people problem. Just don’t go there as normal and then surprise them with your disconnect. Tell them of your problem before the run. Ohh, and also when you crash, be sure to submit report to ArenaNet at least once.
Maybe we should find what is similar in our cases.
Mine:
OS – Windows XP Pro, SP3
Video – ATI Radeon HD 5700
Proc – Intel Core i5, 2.80GHz
Memory – 3GB
World – Vabbi
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I have the same problem. When jumping from 12th to 13th plate in Uncategorized fractal (map with Harpy Hunters at the beginning) game is always crashing. Tried to change skills, jump naked, repair gw2 files, use alternative characters, change video setting to best performance – result is always the same.