Guild Wars 2

Ceridwen.6703:

Buttercup.5871:

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Yes. My epilepsy ranks as an unseen disability, but I did not enjoy how I was treated after throwing it down in IT class when I was a teenager (I was never allowed on a computer in school again). I did not enjoy it when, with resulting injuries still apparent on my face, my friends and acquaintances seemed to melt into the background for an entire week until I looked “normal” again. I got myself into computer gaming, despite all the advice to the contrary, but that’s my positive. For me, it’s definitely true that the last thing I want is to be marked as so* different as to be totally alien (a degree of different is okay); but no matter how big the difference is, the desire to be accepted is overriding. Most people, with or without disabilities, want that, and for some it comes easier (and for some, never at all). Still the want is universal, and by using imagination and empathy, it’s not hard to go that little bit further in everyday life to accept others for who they are (not what). Like Buttercup says, it’s that seeing of the world around you.

My grandmother has been using a wheelchair for a long time now, but when she first started, it was astonishing how people suddenly started talking over her, asking whichever family member was helping her whether she (my grandmother) wanted a cup of tea or not. Such people usually got told to ask my grandmother directly. A wheelchair is not something which writes someone out of existence. Nor is any disability.

And to the point of the mini. I like the idea of a mini Taimi, because she’s cool, full stop ( regardless of if she keeps making me think Cait Sith). I don’t need to donate to charity by way of purchasing said mini – I kinda think we should do that anyway, without a mini being involved simply because it’s the right thing to do – but it doesn’t hurt if a percentage of proceeds goes directly to an appropriate charity – or how about a day or weekend where any gem purchase outright has a percentage donated (but there should still be a mini Taimi!)?

*I have not said kitten here. I said as and then so.

Exactly. Actually, you showed me the core of what bugged me with the OP’s request. People with MS or another condition, they don’t want your pity. Let me repeat this: they do not want your pity. Christina is not her cane, and Ceridwen’s grandmother is not her wheelchair. Let’s assume for a second that the OP’s request was granted. What would happen? Someone pops out a mini Taimi, and immediately shows that he or she has condition that is “worth” Anet’s pity. “Hey, look, it’s a mini Taimi. Awwwww, it must be someone with a condition then.” Do you really think that anyone would want that? They don’t want to stand out because of their condition or handicap. They get that enough in real life, and it ain’t pretty. They want to stand out because who they are and what they do, just like anyone else.

If anything, Taimi should be a symbol of strength. Not pity.

If you want to fully understand this concept, there is an absolutely brilliant film out there called The Intouchables. A major French production of 2011, nominated by almost every major film festival in the world (including the golden globes) as “best foreign film”, some of which it won. It’s often hilarious and serious at the same time, and zooms in on the core of this discussion like no other film I know does.

To your TL;DR:

What if you have the “wrong tools” – let’s say my molten pick gives azurite crystals – and 3 months down the line your precursor requires 10.000 sprockets to craft? Should I fill up 40 bank slots with sprockets now, in the event that happens? What if it requires 10.000 pristine snowflakes, and I wasn’t in time to get the “unlimited ice pick”?

There is no end to this, you’ll be coughing up 1k gems with every new currency that is introduced. If you don’t, well, your fault! You’ll simply pay an enormous bill later on. But that’s later right? Let’s not get worried too quickly

Vol.7601:

Double negatives in the title >:|

/shoots self

It’s a trick commonly used when the positive is also untrue.
He can’t say that precursor acquisition is fair. Cause it isn’t.

kokiman.2364:

Eternity is the combined legendary, right? You knew how it would look like so why do you complain now?

This response makes no sense, and reeks purely of spite. Why is he not allowed to state his opinion regarding what is by far the most expensive item in the game?

And he’s right, it is a ripoff. There is no added benefit to making this weapon, other than the “account medal” you get on your login screen. On combining sunrise and twilight, worth some 4500g, you lose the footprint effect, and you no longer get to choose which effect you prefer at that time; “day” and “night” will dictate how your weapon looks when you whip it out.

(In fact, it’s incredibly silly that neither sunrise nor twilight are even counted as legendaries, as making either of these weapons will not award you with the “legendary” account medal – only eternity will.)

And no, I don’t have eternity, and I don’t have sunrise or twilight either. In fact, I’m not even aiming to get either one. This doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion on it though.

Kwll.1468:

Maybe we can get a dev to comment on when we should expect critical quality of life improvements that pvp desperately needs and less of this sort of stuff. Just sayin’.

You’re asking for the one and only piece of info they cannot and should not give.
You can ask them what the future rewards are that they currently have in mind. You can ask them how they will implement the reward system. But you can’t ask them “when”.

Reason: if they say “end of December”, and it’s not good enough in December but it’s launched anyway, it all falls apart, backfires and kills what is left of the s/tPvP community. If at the end of December they say “we’re not ready, it will be February” the community explodes and people leave. Cuz they mad bro!

ETA’s don’t work, and they know it. If you want answers, ask something else.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
-Stanley Marcus

Dear Stéphane,

Don’t confuse those data on your screen with the people on this forum. Condescending is the word that keeps coming back. Why do you think this is?

If you think that you’re right, despite the unparalleled sample size telling you you’re dead wrong, consider the following quote as well:

“The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.”
— C. Northcote Parkinson

No, I’m not trying to be a wise guy. I’m trying to get through. Like Red aptly explained as well. Because I care.

No. 3. Moose
No. 2. Black Raptor

And the winner is:

No. 1. Owl Griffon

niconori.7235:

it’s supposed to be an exclusive or sacred item. now it seems like anyone could have it. this is dumb as kitten anet

Wait what? The buy price is at 2600g currently, and you say anyone could have it?

You know most people don’t own a legendary, right, but want to? And that for 2600g you can craft almost any legendary you want?

No item should be “sacred” in any event, that would be really messed up. Some things can come close to that, if they are items that can only be obtained through the display of extraordinary skill (e.g. winning a PvP world tournament). But certainly not some random drop from a black lion chest, that’s simply bunkers.

“Jory, look what I got. Two greens and a blue. Woot. Let’s do this again in an hour. "

@Tolunart: they don’t have to, no. But it’s one sure way to alienate your paying customer base.

Wow. We’re still discussing this in the absence of any feedback from the devs. The silence on this is deafening. I’m truly surprised, I had not expected this. I really started believing these guys would be different. I mean, to their credit, they made some really good decisions until this moment.

A-guys and gals, if you’re reading this, I’d rather have you tell us your strategy for the future now, than find out over time. Be honest, fess up your dirty sins, and we might understand, we’re all grown ups. But this, this doesn’t work. The silent treatment doesn’t cut it anymore. If I wanted that I’d still be playing Aion.

I do agree with some of the OP’s sentiment that the attention and focus in this game has shifted too much to the gemstore. We need to regain a healthy balance again.

Account bound gemstore dyes, and skill-based exclusive armor skins would be a leap in the right direction. Let Evon go on a well deserved holiday for a while, give our wallets and our naive notion of integrity some time to catch up with the flurry of gemstore activity of the last three months.

It’s simply gemstore overkill now.

I’ll do my best, but I must emphasize that my summary is not intended to cover everything that has been raised by all players in the threads I listed above. So here goes.

Legendaries are supposed to be acquired over time. Every legendary knows this process. They are designed so that, over time, you can obtain every item necessary for your legendary through normal, intended gameplay – with the exception of the precursor. Herein lies the core of the issue with silver doubloons.

- The item cannot be obtained through normal endgame gameplay (such as lodestones, through participation in dungeons).

- The item does not drop for level 80 characters, even if you spend your time in the “right” (I believe level 25-35) zones. Your character has to be under level 35 to obtain it in those zones. Therefore, the item can only be acquired in two ways:

1. opening bags dropped in level 20 to 35 zones. You need approximately 70 bags per doubloon, meaning you need about 17 thousand 500 bags. That is not regular gameplay, and certainly not regular in the sense that you’re spending all your time in a zone that is not designed for level 80 endgame gameplay.
2. forging pebbles/nuggets. From experience, I have learned that you’ll need approximately 100 pebbles/nuggets per doubloon, meaning 25 thousand pebbles/nuggets. It should be clear this amount of nuggets/pebbles aren’t gained through regular, intended gameplay.

- The item cannot be upgraded, unlike lodestones.
- The item does not follow the same rule as a similar item, “transmogrify: gold doubloon”, available in the artificer crafting panel.

These issues, in a nutshell (which is not intended to be comprehensive!) should make it abundantly clear that either 1) the introduction of silver doubloons into the recipe “gift of the juggernaut” was a bug/oversight, or 2) the developers forgot to implement the recipe “transmogrify: silver doubloon”, which seems the most likely of these two scenarios.

I can hear you thinking: what about option 3) it was intended? I, and many others before me over the past year, simply cannot imagine – due to the reasons listed above – that this was the case. It directly contradicts everything Anet has ever said regarding intended gameplay. That is why I seek an answer. And why hundreds of players have sought this answer over the last year. Yet they never received one. And that, unfortunately, only compounded the problem.

Vetrie.7804:

So, whats so awesomke about current LS?? Please tell me becouse I have a hard time having fun with this crappy LS atm. Its boring, made for 10 year old children.

No. Just no. While I am in awe of the OP’s constructive suggestions, these kind of comments (10 year old etc) are out of place. Keep it constructive, don’t degrade the awesomeness of this thread with unwarranted vile which adds nothing.

I really hope a dev will pop his/her head here, even if it’s just to compliment the OP on the sheer work that went into this and on the constructive attitude that is neigh unparalleled on this or any MMO forum.

Ok. Now the pro-text notifiers are showing their cards en masse. They want to “play the game instead”, while making sure they have the highest bid out there on any and all products on which they are bidding. What. The. Kitten. This is kittening me off again, and I promised myself to stay away from this toxic mess. You know who use that argument as well, each and every time? Botters. They’d rather create a program for the not-so-fun stuff. So that they can “enjoy the game instead”. Well guess what, you’re not the only ones.

And it’s always the same programmers that enter these threads, too. The persons that created the notifiers.

You, mister programmer/notifier user, have a MAJOR advantage over normal players who (1) presume a notifier is against the TOS + code of conduct (which it is, don’t make me show you again) or (2) don’t know about these programs because, and here is the real deal they shouldn’t have to.

Don’t deny your in-game advantage while stating it in the same thread. Just don’t go there.

As a former mass salvager I have never encountered such a low return rate with that sample size. Not even close. This indeed deserves to be looked into, I hope John will pick up on it.

(On a side note: it would explain why the dust to ecto price is no longer in sync – dust should be a kitteneaper with the current ecto prices).

They are testing the waters. They are waiting because they want to gauge the responses. For them this is big business, so they need to see whether it is necessary to:

a) pull the idea completely or,
b) tone down the idea to a level the community “can live with”.

Option b) is “bad cop, good cop”. Once they tone it down, they’re the “good cop” implementing an idea that nobody really wanted in the first place – but people are just happy the really bad idea was toned down.

Again people arguing that it’s allowed. I’ll copy and paste my answer from before. I’ll give you the TL; DR in advance: it’s not.

Use of these programs is governed by several instruments. I’ll include relevant sections from two of them, below, namely the User Agreement and the Third Party Program Policy.

User Agreement

1. Definitions
p) Service — Any online service provided by NCSOFT for the Game.
q) Software — Any software provided by NCSOFT related to the Game, including but not limited to software installed on a computer owned by You or someone else, along with any subsequent versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches to such software.
8. PROHIBITED AND IRREPARABLY HARMFUL ACTIVITIES CONCERNING NCSOFT
You acknowledge that You may not, without signed written consent from a legally authorized representative of NCSOFT, do any of the following:
(h) Use, or provide others with, any service related to the Game, including but not limited to:
- any service that interacts with the Software; or
[…]
(i) You acknowledge that You may not, without signed written consent from a legally authorized representative of NCSOFT, do any of the following:
- Use, obtain or provide data related to operation of the Game, including but not limited to:
- software that reads areas of computer memory or storage devices related to the Game;
- software that intercepts or otherwise collects data from or through the Game;
- software that redirects communications from any Software or Service; or
- software not provided by NCSOFT which creates or maintains any communication to the Software or Service, including but not limited to any software that emulates the Software or any part thereof as well as any server that emulates the Service or any part thereof;

Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/

Third Party Program policy

“Our general policy is that anything that gives advantage is forbidden; anything that imbalances the game in favor of one player over another is strictly disallowed.”
“Does this program allow someone to play faster, better, longer, or more accurately than someone who doesn’t use it?”
“Does this program allow someone to ‘play’ when he/she is not at the computer?”
“Does this program allow the user to gain undeserved rewards?”

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros

Trade post notifier

From Zicore’s website, although this service is not exclusively offered by Zicore, the notifier is described as follows:
It now also notifies, when you have sold or bought stuff. You also can enable notifications of transactions, when someone is over/under-cutting you.

Source: http://notifier.zicore.de/

You can be notified of being undercut in 2 ways: with, or without using your “session key”. If you use the session key, the notification is based on “live” information. If you don’t use the session key, you’ll be notified based on information from GW2 Spidy, which is “old”, cached information. People that download this program obviously want an edge over other traders, so one can safely presume they will use the session key to get live notifications.

Conclusion:

I believe the User Agreement and the Third Party Policy are crystal clear on this issue. Using the “session key” for live notifications of undercutting is a direct violation of User Agreement Rules 8 (h) and (i), as well as the Third Party Policy.

People that use a notifier create a huge advantage over players that don’t use a third party program. This a no-brainer any way you look at it.
The only possible reason I can think of why nothing is done to combat these clear violations, is that there is no way to enforce them.
Never issue a warning you can’t enforce. And since it can’t be enforced, no warning can be issued, either.

Nonetheless, unless and until the user agreement and third policy will be adjusted on this issue, and in the absence of Anet’s explicit approval, I’m staying away from these programs.

I can screenshot the jump in price on 2 September of the crossing, if you like. While interesting, you don’t need any more data than spidy already provides. It’s there for all to see. One day before the patch of 3 September, the item jumped to a price which it had never reached before, for reasons no one could remotely speculate on in advance. The jumping puzzle conversation, while interesting, is irrelevant. If I, with no interest in this item, had posted the spidy data on this item with a similar argument the OP makes, the resulting conclusion would and should be no different.

And please, for the love of this game, stop comparing this situation to the obvious speculation on wood for weapons and silk for the upcoming armor. That made sense. This doesn’t.

I would pay for this. I love the convenience of this area. And the fact that I’m there with 1 click on the pass.

It’s one of the best convenience items I’ve seen in the game. And the area is pretty, too.
Pwetty please? Introduce a permanent pass?

This is idea is worth a lot of money. I smell a new cash-cow.

That’s just wrong. You don’t hack at a precious plant like that. And you certainly shouldn’t be hearing the sound of METAL.

That’s not my experience. Karma booster, karma banner, and the guild-wide karma increase for 3 days, can all affect the amount of karma you get. I think the max you can push it to is 7650 karma per jug.

600 gems is a bargain compared to getting a ticket yourself. Trust me, some people literally begged Anet for this at a suggested gem price of 2000 gems.

This is, especially considering their quality and popularity (and anet’s previous extortianist gambling RNG #%^*%# track record) truly a bargain. It’s a giant leap in the right direction. I very much applaud it.

Vol, with all due respect, how do you know this to be true? Are you an alpha tester? If you’re not, and this is info has been relayed to you – directly from an alpha tester or indirectly – it doesn’t comfort me. A few months ago, I was told a bit more general stuff via via as well regarding an upcoming patch, on which I didn’t act (nor did I want to, but that’s beside the point). But it did concern the economy, I can tell you that.

Other than that: even if they don’t provide all the patch notes, as you say, it would surprise me if they would implement anything to do with the economy at the last hour. That stuff needs testing as well. So anyone stepping up to the forge and having a go at the crossing would have found out it was disabled.

Does it matter? Even if he currently only has 10 gold, his argument is backed up by experience. And I find his argument credible, ie. the precursor market is mainly dominated by (1) a few people that gamble, and write it on the forum so that (2) a lot people panick, and buy their precursor at an increased price, driving up the price even further, and unknowingly fulfilling the gambler’s prophecy.

It’s a well known phenomenon, I believe. People like Soros made their money like this; He speculated on overvalued currencies. He sold his Pounds, and later, his Bahts, he explained why he did it [these currencies are overvalued!], and people followed him in his speculation. As these people also sold all their Pounds and their Bahts, those currencies literally crashed as a result. Soros is now one of the richest people on the planet.

Now, the precursor people are doing the opposite. They’re saying: look, there’s all precursors that are undervalued. They publicly compare them to the prices of all the other precursors, and buy enough of them so that the price spikes. Now, low and behold! People will follow them in their argument and start buying them too. So the price goes nuts, and stays nuts.

It’s not the speculators that drive up the price, it is, in fact, the people that panick as a result that drive up the price.

And then, one day, a little birdie from arenanet implements a lil’ update in the loot tables…. and everyone is poor again. Except the speculators of course; they have already sold their precursors at top prices long ago, and have moved on to the next market.

Please note that the recipe “transmogrify: silver doubloon” is missing in the artificer crafting window. On the other hand, the recipe “transmogrify: gold doubloon” is available in-game.

Silver doubloons are required in crafting the gift of The Juggernaut. A total of 250 of them are needed. Currently, it costs 475 gold just to obtain the silver doubloons.

I cannot imagine that this was intended game design. Due to the level of the item, it cannot reasonably be acquired through normal, intended game play at level 80.

I kindly ask you to please add the missing recipe “transmogrify silver doubloon” to the artificer craft, where it belongs. I note that some posters have gone at great lengths to guess the reason behind this missing recipe. No poster, however, addressed it on the bug forum, where I believe it belongs.

Info: The current total cost of crafting the Juggernaut is roughly 2027 gold.

@Mirta: while I find it admirable that you’re trying to catch botters, you’re not playing a game in order to police it. To be quite frank, I’ve never seen a friend list being used in this manner. All things considered, it’s rather disturbing that a friend list can be used in this manner, because effectively, you’re stalking botters. Or, to put it more correctly, persons that you believe to be botters (sorry, I’m a lawyer, I couldn’t help myself).

It’s getting really sickening.

The forge doesn’t distinguish in output between sets 1, 2 and 3. In other words, forging 4 minis from set 3 may result, for example, in a jackalope (set 1) or an enraged twisted nightmare (set 2). Or simply a random rare mini from set 1, 2 or 3.

Maybe that helps alleviate some of your concerns.

Vayne.8563:

Greed’s a lot harder to prove.

When a company turns its game into a virtual casino, I’d say “proof” is not the biggest problem. The problem is: how do you force the company to change its course? Voting with your wallet, I saw someone say. Yes, this is indeed the best way. It doesn’t work in practice though, because people like to gamble. It’s the very thing casino’s thrive on; gambling is addictive. Combine this with a gaming addiction, and you get a very explosive combination. Now tweak the game mechanics (droprate) here and there, and it’s big bucks. Bonus: contrary to casinos, you don’t have to pay out. The bank doesn’t just mostly win, it always wins.

Casinos, for good reasons, have age limits and, in some cases, attentive staff to protect people who cannot (yet) handle the responsibility to gamble. I worked in a casino, I know about addiction; heck, half the regulars at my table were addicts. They were rich addicts, but addicts nonetheless; glazy eyes, no joy when winning, short-tempered, all the signs you’re supposed to look out for, and more. It was a very sad sight.
But who is looking out for the players at the GW2 roulette table? The company whose investors require it to make a profit? Or you and me?

The sad thing is, I don’t have an answer to this problem. People will simply quit as a result, as with all the other MMO’s I saw die these last years as a result of poor choices by the company running it. And yes, players will rather quit than not buy RNG boxes – either because:

(i) they didn’t get the skin they wanted for the umpteenth time (and constantly see others running around with those skins),
(ii) they’re fed up with seeing some of the nicest skins in the game in temporary RNG lockboxes, or
(iii) they realize they’re being scammed.

Either way, decisions such as these by a gaming company will cause the players to doubt the company’s true motives on every decision it makes, now and in the future. Usually, the next thing that happens is that the community will harden (“yea yea yea, we’ve heard the ‘gambling’ argument already, like we care”), causing even more players to leave. Mostly, those players that leave first will be the players previously defended the game and its creators to the teeth, providing them with a moral compass and ensuring a civil atmosphere on the forums and in map chat.
It’s the same downward spiral, every time.

Anet can turn this around by removing RNG lockboxes and sell its skins in the store. The game could run for years, and remain successful until Guild Wars 3 comes out. I doubt that the company will change its current RNG course, but it’s possible. People will inevitably jump ship if it won’t. And that’s not just Anet’s problem; it will become mine and yours, too.

True. On the other hand, people don’t have the patience to step back and think. What will this mean in the long run? Well, the amount of nodes giving pepper is cut in half, whereas the nodes that were cut were the most popular nodes, giving a better chance at vanilla beans. And because of the now altered loot table on mature/verdant herbs, the price of vanilla beans should start to drop over time.
Tldr price of pepper should rise over time, whereas the price of vanilla beans should drop over time.

OP did you actually try to get the recipe yourself? I’m at over 800 chances and quite frankly I’m getting quite sick of the grind. Had I gotten 3 recipes myself, the buy price of it would not be 1500g as I would have grinded my butt off for more. Instead I got zip.

It depends whether precursor crafting will be tied to the introduction of new legendaries. I could well imagine that they allow you to craft precursors to the “second series” legendaries only. In which case precursor prices for the 1st series legendaries -ie. the current legendaries- may well go up instead of down (because less people will try to mystic forge them, decreasing their supply).

He didn’t say that in 0,001 percent of the cases people manipulated, he said that in 99.999 of the manipulated cases people lose their money bigtime. And that therefore, 0,001 of those cases is successful.

Thank you for your mature responses guys.

Listen, if you buy something in a store, and you later feel you’ve been scammed, you go to the store, right? So let’s say you enter the store, and you tell your story to the lady at the front desk (Gaile), and you ask for a refund. Now, she’s kindly telling you to write a letter with your complaint, to be sent to point A (BLTC forum). Which is what you do, right? But after a while, when you don’t get any letters back, what do you do? You go back to the lady that directed you to point A, and tell her that you did exactly as she told you, but you’re not getting any response. And you tell her again, politely but more firm this time, that you really want that refund.

That is what is happening here. And I completely understand it.

Bah that really sucks! Well, at least you didn’t have to pay for the coffers, but it still sucks monkeyballs. I really hoped you’d get a ticket, you’ve been exceptionally unlucky during this event when it comes to tickets.

Yes, I agree, they did a very good job with these achievement chests. And the skins you can unlock are actually good skins, as well. They didn’t go for the cheap and easy road, but they actually took a step back and looked at what is best for the future – the road ahead.

And the road ahead includes concurring China with GW2. This reward system will be a proper incentive for the hopefully massive amount of new Chinese players in the future.

The implementation of the new reward system was a job very well done.

People want DPS. Rangers don’t have a lot of it. What DPS rangers have will be reduced even further; it’s taken away in one place (pets), but not returned in full in the other place (the ranger). On top of that, our very class mechanic, pets, will become a negligible nuisance. Again.

In short, our DPS, the one thing this class lacks and, unfortunately, the one thing everyone requires for cooperative competitive gameplay, is reduced to unacceptable standards for that kind of gameplay. Rangers have never been popular. The majority of rangers are not playing the ranger well, yes, that doesn’t help their image, but that is not the problem; the problem is that those same unskilled people would dish out tons of damage playing other classes.

The sad thing is, many players that chose to invest in their ranger will just leave. Patience is limited, as the OP hinted at. And players leaving is bad for everyone.

If it did show more skin than pole dancers I would have bought it. At least pole dancers don’t wear baggy pants.

On a sidenote, did you know that poledancers are trying to lobby for pole dancing at the Olympics? Awesome.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

You’re also forgetting the one important fact of the Scientific Method I was trying to make. And that is, the conclusion is often theory. Did you catch that? Theory. Observed data results in theory until the theory can be proven as actual fact. Basic stuff Mr. Lawyer. You should know this.

Mr. Lawyer here, reporting. Ever wonder why the standard of proof is “beyond reasonable doubt”? And not “beyond any doubt”? I’ll tell you: because usually, it’s impossible for a chamber to “prove” or to be “100% sure” that the crime charged occurred. Based on the evidence led at trial, it decides whether the Prosecution’s case was proven beyond reasonable doubt. In doing so, it weighs the available evidence, assesses the credibility of witnesses and looks at, amongst others, the reliablity of the documentary evidence admitted at trial. It’s not a matter of following a mathematical equasion, even if you would want it to be so.

It exploded after Nike did a guide on GW2 Guru on the new meta warrior which included these new runes.

I think they should have buffed the other runes even more because we’re still down to only a few good choices. I mean, who chooses a rune that makes you res faster over high damage? The person you’re ressing likely did a lot more damage than you and – when ressed – will get better loot because his damage contribution is higher.

Edit: it’s not 1 in 70 bags, I just tried it. A lot. It’s about 1 silver doubloon per 250 bags. Or more, if you’re unlucky. So at best, it would take over 60 thousand bags in order to get 250 silver doubloons.

Says on the wiki Doric had a summer estate in LA. And that two remaining stones (a bloodstone and a keystone) are assumed to have ended up in Tyria.

I don’t think the OP’s theory is that crazy. Hey, maybe that’s even how Zomorros got access to all them bloodstone shards Myani is selling.

I’ve been trying it too for the last few days. Knight’s + melandru runes + lemongrass soup. While yes it makes you more survivable – in some situations – I’m not too impressed with my loot, ie. my damage contribution in WvW and PvE. It’s a big trade off, and I wasn’t even dying with my previous armor.

I absolutely love it. Bought two finishers that I otherwise would not have bought (which means I now nearly have them all). It’s a very good move, they should have done way sooner. Busineswise, it’s a very smart one, too.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Buttercup.5871:

Exactly. Actually, you showed me the core of what bugged me with the OP’s request. People with MS or another condition, they don’t want your pity. Let me repeat this: they do not want your pity. Christina is not her cane, and Ceridwen’s grandmother is not her wheelchair. Let’s assume for a second that the OP’s request was granted. What would happen? Someone pops out a mini Taimi, and immediately shows that he or she has condition that is “worth” Anet’s pity.

All it would be, is a gift to brighten someone’s day. How can that be wrong? It’s the little things that matter.

With all due respect, I think you’re mixing up your “day” with the one of people that have to use a cane or a wheelchair every day to move around. You have to realize not all good intentions lead to good results. I mean, what is worse than having a cool mini that, upon receiving it, you can’t use because you do not want to stand out for the reason it was given to you in the first place (and you certainly do not want people’s pity)? Yet, at the same time, how does it make you feel not using such a special gift when you know no one else has it but wants it? All you’d do is put someone in an impossible position every time they log in.

My absolute no.1 favorite pet of all mobs I’ve encountered thus far is:

The snow owl griffin.

Bloody awesome animal, kudos to the designer. Agree 100% with above posters to please please please please make this a charmable pet?

Pwetty please?

On a sidenote, I agree raptors are cool too. In PvP, it’d be friggin scary if one of those babies comes racing at you with 30% increased petspeed. Add a nice roar and half the work is done.

Shadowmoon.7986:

Anet pRNG is suspect at best. I base this on the fact that I keep getting the exact same items over and over again. There are around 10 named exo I get, never any others, and I constantly get them. Then there are multiple instances where WvW rank up chests give me the exact same 2 green items (level, prefix and suffix). Once I thought it was a fluke, but when it keeps happening. Same with fractal weapons, I keep getting bows, others keep getting daggers.
Then there is fact that Anet hides ALL their drop rates. Why is this important, because it keep people doubts if they suspect that pRNG is rigged. Also to keep people playing and wasting their time and spending gems on RNG boxes. I wonder how many rng key would sell if people knew the drop rates right in front of them.

What he means with pRNG is pseudo RNG. I posted about this earlier in this topic.

When people say “RNG is RNG” they’re wrong. True RNG and pseudo RNG may look the same, but when push comes to shove they’re really not.

Read this. I’ll take 2 quotes to get yor attention:

“These characteristics make TRNGs suitable for roughly the set of applications that PRNGs are unsuitable for, such as data encryption, games and gambling. "

“Because PRNGs generate random numbers by using mathematical formulae or precalculated lists, using one corresponds to someone rolling a die many times and writing down the results. Whenever you ask for a die roll, you get the next on the list. Effectively, the numbers appear random, but they are really predetermined.”

Bumping for awareness. I see a lot of valid questions asked on the crafting forum right now, which will never be answered. The guy that’s forging superior sigils/runes, for example, should post his question in the BLT section as it’s a very good question that needs player feedback and, ultimately, dev feedback. Since the latter in practice never happens here, players won’t visit the crafting forum and provide the feedback that question deserves.