Guild Wars 2

Well, I was’nt aware there were siege troll…

Since the problem come from, if I understand well, alone player spamming siege ; give power and priority to the squad :

- Disable area siege cap for non finished siege (I was’nt aware there was one actually)
- A player joining a squad loose his ability to deploy siege (why he would do that, if he join a commander)
- A player in a squad build as a priority a siege from his commander.

That’s mean a commander will lead thanks to the mechanics of the game and not only on the goodwill of other player, and thus avoid the troll more efficiently. In addition a commander should be able to force player in his squad to build ONLY his siege by checking a box or something.

But what if a second commander come in and refuse to un-tag even if he don’t have a squad ?
-First, as i said earlier, only his squad is able to build as a priority the siege of his commander, but you can add a requirement by saying that only a squad of 10+ people can do that. So even if player join the wrong squad, he have a chance to build the good siege.

OR

-When two contesting commander are close of each other, they should be able to spawn a box where nearby player vote for the one they want to follow. Like in democracy, if 50%+ of player choose commander one, every voting player join the squad of the winner while he gain a buff like “commander adrenaline” or something, preventing any other constestant to be a commander near him for a span of, let’s say, 30 minutes.

“Commander Adrenaline : you have been chosen to be the leader of your army, any commander tag in a range of 2500 around you disappear on the map for squadless player, you can disable this buff by cliking here”

You can also add build area, for example : only ram can be built in less than 500 unit of doors…

With all these new mechanics, a player can always troll others by spamming siege everywhere but player in squad will basically ignore it. And since roamers don’t follow commander nor build siege to troll everyone, and players following a commander are in his squad, problem solved. I guess…

The toxicity of our city, of our city

You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder?
No, somewhere between the sacred silent,
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder

Methal.9045:

Cursed Shore 50+ people intentionally failing this event so they can wow farm it, and raging like animals at people who want to finish it…

Claims of 100+gold and hour luring more people to it all the time.

None of the other events are doable because of the amount of jerks farming this thing.
Not to mention it screws up people who want to actually finish the event so they can do the next one.

You know, by not doing this event, you prevent to appear only 3 of them and 2 from defending the points but don’t take these two in account because they are basically the same. There are like 50-60 event in cursed shore… And you know what you earn by finishing the event chain ? NOTHING. I mean you gain 2 useless karma vendor. If only there were mechanics like in Dry Tops with tiered vendor, or like in the karka zone where you need to keep all of the 4 camp… but no, there is no such mechanics in all orr.

And by the way it’s impossible to gain 100+ gold by hour with this farm even if you sell everything on the TP (except if you loot a precursor), you gain like 1 gilded chest per minute if people do it perfectly for as much as 10-20 gold per hour (actually you earn the same thing by farming champion in AC story), and you are very (un)lucky to get in an organised blix map because farmer use the same technic than guild that do organised tequatl and wurm. If you care that much to finish the event you can always relog and everyone will be happy. As you see now, you fight for nothing, and you troll everyone.

Also, you can make more money by playing the TP.

timmyf.1490:

Hi manddras, thanks for the idea! I’d like to make two points:

1) Early in this thread, I proposed a Practice Mode for Fractals where you could choose a single Fractal and do it with a group. Do you think this would help solve some of your problems?

2) The problem with a “solo mode” is that many of the encounters require group coordination, so it wouldn’t work. Think about Swamp, one you seem to know. You need at least 3 players to grab the wisps. Well, maybe solo mode has just one wisp, so that’s solvable. The Dredge Fractal, however, has puzzles which cannot be easily changed to solo versions.

I think we should separate “I want a solo mode” from “Fractals are too difficult to get into” because they are (to me) different problems with different solutions.

1) Yes, sort of, but where will you find 4 others players to practice these fractals after..? why not being solo while you are in a team with 4 powerful Npc doing and explaining stuff to you ?

2) That’s why i suggested that some fractal could be in an alternative or parrallel story of one fractal. I see something for this puzzle in Dredge fractal solo-version (my nightmare) : time gated switches (like in this asura jumping puzzle, i don’t remember the name) in a puzzle-jump that open a door… While being chased by dredge (like SE p1).

Maybe casual player want to get ascended gears with fractal but they lack time. I think the solo-mode IS a solution for “Fractals are too difficult to get into” (along with the “practice mode”)…

Proposal Overview
To put Fractals reachable for newcomers and/or making it easily trainable alone

Goal of Proposal
Today it’s hard to find a group for newcomers or those who were not interested in fractals before (i’m actually interested in fractals, but because of the time to complete one serie and the difficulty to find a group that accept you as a noob : you need about 5 hours to finish a serie) since pro group are running it daily for loots. The goal is to be sure that newcomers will know what to do, how to do and when they must do something.

Proposal Functionality
Fractal is a place in Mist where you can relive past story of tyria. So why not make solo version of these fractals just like the Mission Pack of Guild wars 1 (you made something somewhat similar with the Thaumanova reactor). You can also put exclusive reward or/and make a rising difficulty like regular fractals for solo players.
You can even put in past living story event as a reminder

Detailling the idea : Solo fractal mode

The player enter alone in the hub and choose the Solo Mode, he choose the level he want to enter just like regular fratal and begin his journey.

- The fractals can the same than regular (in which you are followed by mercenary, or not) suited for 1 player.

- If not, the fractal can be a alternative story in a same fractal like : Being the Mossman in the swamp killing intruders, or playing a human before the attack of the charr in the Urban fractal, or playing an Asura trying to contain Scarlet outside the Thaumanova reactor, or a villager whose village is attacked by grawl who want to kidnap people to make a sacrifice in a volcano (leading to the volcano fractal) and so on…

- These fractals can be completely different than regular and tell another story in an another place.

- Just like Mistlock Instabilities, there could be random Mistlock Paradox in these solo fractals resulting a different story end/boss/encounter (some paradox depending on the level in which the player is, some will be obviously more difficult than others)

- Just like the “Baby mode” in the SAB, you can add an easy mode fractal where Dessa is much more explicit about what to do.

Some rewards can be exclusive for this new mode and other similar than 5-man fractal, so even hardcores gamers will find something to do in this new mode.

I have in mind mechanics mixing Super Adventure Box and 1v1 Boss fight in Queen Jubilee.

Oh, and please, reduce hugely the time needed to complete some fractal or increase strongly the rewards for the longuest one.

Associated Risks
Well… some profession may be not very suited for this new mode where some will be overused, unless a skill bar exclusive to a fractal… And a lot of work for you guys…

To sum up :
1) Make solo fractals like Mission pack of Guild Wars 1 or Super Adventure Box.
2) Make fractals accessible for newcomers and slightly shorter.
3) Make more lore/story fractals.

(i’ve made a post earlier but i’ve added so many thing, so i made a new post)

Anet, instead of knowing that bug and do nothing for those who find this kind of code/bug/ or anything else, that should be bannable, and try it without knowing that, WHY NOT send an in-game mail at everyone saying that THIS code/bug/ or anything else to do, is currently an exploit and should be not be used ?

Yes it will advertise the code/bug/whatever, but EVERYONE would be warned if they use it, they will be banned.

I have a similar issue, but the loading circle disappear, i cannot see “currency exchange” (nothing happen when i click on either bars), “trading post” only show research bar and not items, “Sell on trading post” aswell, idem for “my transactions”…

this issue began with the new update… and i can’t sell my stuff anymore

Okay, so Fresh Air is really useless in pve. Thank you mates.

When i see Fresh Air i say : “Sounds good, with… eh…” and then i say : “…With what Fresh Air would be good ?”

Why i can’t see where this trait is useful ? Maybe because i do mostly PvE, but really, i can’t see any use of this…

on the contrary, the new earth trait is very obvious…

Explain it to me please.