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Is there a way to run the game client through a SOCKS proxy? My standard school internet connection is mediocre at best, but I have access to an SHH server that I can tunnel out of for a much better connection. How can I run GW2 through this proxy server?
fenduru – drop tables have been changed, and those are affected by MF.
It’s fine to have some RNG drops, better or worse, but not affected by a lousy, selfish, greedy statistic that no one really needs. That’s the intrinsic problem – your MF doesn’t, in any way, help your teammates or team in general. Each and every other statistic does – you kill faster (mobs have less time to kill your teammates, everything goes faster), you die less (less time wasted to revive you, less possibility of a party wipe), you heal for more, your boons are up for longer (on your teammates as well).Literally everything you spec into SOMEHOW positively affects your party members. But magic find. It’s not even about min-maxing or finding the most useful setup, it’s about the sole fact that magic find is against the core principle of teaming up for dungeons and promotes selfish attitude.
I do not necessarily disagree with that. I also have no problem with your opinion that Magic Find shouldn’t be part of the game. That is 100% valid discussion, but it does not belong in this thread. Like I said, this is not a change. They added items to the drop table… they changed nothing about MF mechanics.
Furthermore, people are reading the first post and STILL making these ridiculous claims about how its changing the game and forcing people to use magic find gear, even after Robert clarified his original post (both via a subsequent post and an edit to the OP).
People are legitimately freaking out about nothing. This just reminded some people that magic find exists and they think “oh right, that’s something I should be mad about”. There was no change regarding magic find.
I read the change to Dragon’s Tooth where the blast finisher would trigger at the location of the spell, not of the caster. While this changes my play style a bit, it is a completely fair change.
That said, it is not working. If I stand on top of a mob and cast Ring of Fire then use Dragon’s Tooth, no area might is triggered. I also tried it with Fire Wall. Nothing.
I can’t speak about other combo fields, but at least the fire ones aren’t working.
I really can’t believe how many people are WHINING about magic find. If you think that there should be no MF in the game, that is a perfectly valid opinion and you should discuss that elsewhere.
A content designer described in more detail, and was very up front about the mechanics used in these changes. NOTHING MAGIC FIND RELATED WAS CHANGED! MF has always affected mob drops in all forms of PVE. I do not find a designer being up front about how existing mechanics will be unchanged for new content is “encouraging people to run MF gear”, “hurting pugs”, etc.
Stop complaining about every little thing. Every stinkin’ post a developer lays out tons of GREAT improvements, and instead you look at one word (that is not a change) and harp on it like it is the end of the world.
Open information is always better than no information. This sort of reaction is only going to make devs less inclined to explain specifics of how things work. Then you can all complain about how the devs aren’t transparent or open enough. Grow up please.
@Nathriel, it is a very straight forward dungeon. If you can play this game in general you should be able to do this dungeon. Either way, it is the 4th part of the “Mad King’s World” achievement, so jump on in there.
Level appropriate gear is CRUCIAL for dungeons. But yeah, AC is a tough one when it is your first dungeon. Keep an eye on what each mob does (hints under their name when you target them). These are a big help.
Also, make sure you have AoE circles on. I didn’t for a while because I preferred to not have them for aethstetic purposes, but they are too valuable to go without.
I just ran into this bug today. Standing on top of the door and interacting with it worked.
I ran into this last night. Had to restart twice, but it worked today.
I don’t get dizzy like some people report, but a lot of the time I can’t see the world in front of me. Such a beautiful gameworld that I just don’t get to look at.
This is an option in your game settings. Make sure AOE circles are enabled.
Might makes me right.
It would be lovely if we could get any sort of update on this. The old dungeon issue thread is riddled with these problems but being ignored.
This and other threads aren’t being seen.
Dungeons are the thing I like in this game… but I can hardly ever play them the way it is now.
Even people that aren’t having these problems are strongly affected. When a party member gets disconnected and then can’t get back into the dungeon, you’re entire dungeon run is basically wasted.
Same for AC (story and exp) on Yak’s Bend.
Can only enter the instance once… some people report logging out/back in resets this.
This has been bugged like this since BEFORE the patch!
The number of posts in the existing thread is growing. I don’t think they’re being seen though.
I know there is a stickied thread, but I don’t think it is getting any attention since it is for a closed issue from launch.
Many people on my server (Yak’s Bend) are unable to enter Ascalonian Catacombs (either mode) more than once. I can’t tell how to get it to reset exactly. Some people have reported logging out/in works for them. For me I have to delete my local.dat, and even then it doesn’t always work.
Symptoms are like this:
First time entering the dungeon? No issue.
When you leave the dungeon, you are greeted with the “enter story mode?” prompt without trying to walk into dungeon.
Whenever you log in and are zoned into the plains of ashford this popup is always there (this popup never mentions explorable mode).
Clicking “enter” doesn’t do anything. Then walking into the portal will not always give popup, but when it does the button does nothing but close the dialog.
This is a huge issue and needs to be looked at. I haven’t seen any talk of this on the forums outside of that outdated sticky thread, so I figured I’d bring this to the dev’s attention. Sorry if you’re looking at that old thread, feel free to move this there. But any communication would be greatly appreciated.