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Set of Minis for gem store loyalty

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When I go in a new sandwich bar, I get a fidelity card. I get one stamp every sandwich I buy. When I reach ten stamps, I get one free sandwich the next time, so one sandwich in eleven I get is free.

In comparison, you have bought only one sandwich and you want the free one already?

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Please use UTC

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ArenaNet,

Two things about Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The first is: please, implement a UTC-clock in the game. We currently have the options between “server time” and “local time”, this is not enough for international guilds. We have lot of people from various locations and to communicate, we use UTC. Why UTC and not server time ? Because it’s the worldwide standard, used everywhere, everyday.

The second is about your communication. You always communicate in terms of Pacific Standard Time (PST). Ok, you’re a Seattle-based company. But your audience is worldwide. Switching timezones is confusing, so usually people know their own time and UTC. Plus, currently you force people to know not 2, but 3 timezones: their own, UTC for the daily resets and timing and yours for communication. Don’t force your customers to use third-parties.

So please, consider your worldwide audience and use UTC more. It’s beneficial for you and for us.

Edit: tried to remove the Question tag as I accidentally had clicked it. Of course, it doesn’t work. Sorry for that guys.

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Questions about fractals

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Well, a lot of answers were given to a lot of players, but given that the titles of the topic mostly don’t say anything, I’ll be clear and ask legitimate questions. Most have already an answer in the various topics, but not all.

Rewards and fractal-specific items

  1. Do we lose the karma mechanism?
    Before it was possible to get karma based on this formula 6400 + 8 * (min(10,<personal level> – <played level>)) * <played level>
    This is one of the last places where you can get decent karma. This was not wondrous, but non-neglectible as well.
  2. Does the fractal weapon skin drop chance change?
    It was stated (rather surprisingly) that fractal weapons already dropped from level 10. Do you change the chance? Because if they drop in level 10 as often as they do now, I’m fine with it. Also, for higher levels, do you change the drop chance? (Please no) I read that a box will have a chance to drop so we can choose the skin at higher levels. Has this a correct chance to drop? I mean something between 1:2 and 1:4 regarding skin drops.
  3. Besides infusing, can we spend our stacks of Shards of Crystalized Mist Essence?
    Shards are only used to infuse rings. Not even the backpack. One answer was that the new rune and the new sigil were craftable using the vial, globs and/or shard. But hey, I stacked on them for months and I’d like to craft something that will be useful to me as a fractal player, not some random toughness-based boost.
  4. Will we be able to spend our pristine fractal relics on something else?
    This is also a no-brainer: they stack, they stack and all our characters have ascended, infused rings. So there is actually nothing we can spend those on.
  5. Will I still be able to buy +5 AR infusion from BUY-4373?
    I’m quite sure these will be removed, but we never know.
  6. What will I be able to buy with fractal relics?
    Well, some people have piles of those (well, not anymore since they are in the wallet, but you get what I mean). I have all my pve chars filled with 20 slot boxes and ascended capacitors, I still need something like 40 AR total accross all my chars (that’s 3k relics, which is a fraction of what I have), that leaves me with nearly nothing to spend my fractal relics on. What can I buy with them?
  7. Do we finally get some XP as well?
    Well, we barely got half a bar of XP for a whole run of fractals in 40+. Does this change? Can I finally get skill points for playing fractals?
  8. Why did you change the daily reward to account-bound per 10 levels?
    People are crying everywhere about the alt-unfriendlyness direction of the game in both PvE and WvW. Why attack the fractals as well? To make them like other dungeons? Ok, but why do you do that with dungeons in the first place? I’d really love an answer to this. We love our alts, you apparently don’t.

Running fractals

  1. What are the fractal tiers you thought of?
    I would say that tier 1 is Swamp, Underwater and Snowblind. Tier 2 is Ascalon, Volcano, Uncategorized. Tier 3 is Thaumanova, Underground Facility and Cliffside. Boss is Jade Sea, Molten Facility and Aetherblade. What can you say about this?
  2. Why are we limited to 50?
    It seems that we can get more Agony Resistance, then why limit the fractal level again to 50. You already know that we will get back to that level in no time. Plus you add leaderboards, so I don’t see why you limit them now. You stated somewhere in the forums that you will open levels above 50 in the future, but why wait?
  3. What do you want to achieve with the leaderboards?
    Well, this question has not found any answer anywhere. So I’m really wondering.
  4. Did you reduce the length of Underground Facility?
    This fractal is unnecessary long (not hard, but long). Did you finally revamped it to shorten the time?

Future of the fractals

  1. When can we expect more levels?
    You know we will get to 50 in no time. So when can we expect to go higher? This way, well… we can meet some challenge. I welcome the idea you implemented to go from 30 to 50, though I dislike the idea that the difficulty and AR requirements will be lowered. But as of today, this doesn’t feel enough to keep the usual fractal runners interested. The community takes this as a serious nerf.
  2. Can we expect a whole lot of new fractals?
    Currently you baited us with 3 new fractals, but 2 of them are actually bosses. I’m a bit disappointed, to be honest, as I would have loved to play the 3 new fractals in a row (randomly, yes, but still ;-) ) plus we go from 9 to 12, so there are still a lot of times where we will meet the old fractals. Granted, the fact that we have boss fractals make the chances higher that we will get a new fractal amongst our run, but that’s quite meh. I’d seriously have preferred something like 7-10 new fractals.

I know all those questions won’t find an answer, but thanks for any answer we can get!

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

[Merged] Fractal level reset is equity wiped. Discuss.

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My guess is the average developer fotm level is 20-30, so they choose 30.

Did you mean “highest”?

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New crafting discipline coming soon?

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800 gems to avoid paying 40s every full moon? I’ll pass.

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Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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Great, the maw just failed without any explanation, yet we seemed to be enough on the map to do it.

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Whoever designed the molten alliance fractal

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How do you have a job?

Really? Do you know how it’s difficult to live without a job? You probably are still being cared for by being a teenage or by studying, not having to spend any dollar that you earned. Yes, I categorized you but I won’t judge you because hey, I know what it means to be cared for because I’ve been a teenage and I’ve been studying. I’ve also been workless and I’ve also been paying for things with money I earned working. So actually without judging you, I’m sad for you that you haven’t matured enough yet. I hope it will come soon so people won’t have to suffer from this kind of remarks from you. :-)

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[SUGGESTION] Saved Builds

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A player can unlock over 20 bag slots in his inventory and carry thousands of items…

Actually, 8 is the current maximum.

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Bored of leveling.

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Remove the levels from this game and you have… exactly the same game. The levels are only here to hinder the player.

I started playing in September 2012. There was a lot of interactions at all levels in all maps. It was fun. I was disabled at that time and I made a lot of encounters, I had fun with people.

Now? Not anymore, no one goes out in the map to help the lowbie, to have fun with him. Everyone knows the game, everyone knows the zone we’re in. We don’t share any new experience with someone: we only repeat it again and again (5 level 80’s with 4 on the grill).

Yeah, if I ask, one guildy will come and play for 1 hour or something, sometimes saying “oh, I never noticed this”, but soon he’ll come back to WvW or to his dungeon.

I don’t make any new friends in lower-level zones anymore: only in level 80 ones, where we have the challenge together. There is no more adventure.

I don’t understand how new players make it, because all I see when I level a lowbie in open world is maybe 2-3 people on the map, with different levels and all they care about is levelling, just as I do. It feels like we’re forced into levelling that way, forced into something not fun. I try to interact with them, but they don’t like playing in a lowbie zone, so they’re not having fun and they’re not in the “mood” to make new friends. I keep trying, but there will be a point, where I won’t be able anymore. Actually, when we level our char, we are not players: we are only level grinders, getting to 80, one heart, one waypoint, one skill point at a time.

Now, if I could level my characters in a rich universe like Skyrim or Fallout, then I wouldn’t mind as I started Skyrim and Fallout (1, 2, 3 or even NV) each a dozen times, each of those started game got finished. But everything in the open world seems so empty. It’s beautiful, but empty.

What’s the point of playing a boring solo game for 50-100 hours to finally enjoy the multiplayer mode afterwards?

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Veteran player, very frustrated.

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All we are saying, Malafide, is that they could have implemented the new bosses, mechanics from 51 or even 81 without resetting everybody to 30. They didn’t, we strongly disagree with that choice.

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Why are we wrecking the WvW matchups when...

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Seriously this is not fair. We were in tier 9 on 9, yes 9. And according to millenium.org, we’ll be pushed to tier 1, gaining 23 places! How is it possible for us to compete in tier 1? First week will be good. Challenging, but good, but after that all the servers will start to come to higher levels and we’ll go down to our normal tier (between 7 and 9) in a matter of 4-5 weeks. So during that time we’ll get steamrolled every single week.

And higher servers? Well they’ll get to steamroll every week until they reach their normal rankings.

To counter that, we do all that we can to avoid pugs taking towers. The “big” guilds of WSR will not even go on the enemies’ borderlands to ensure we don’t get too many points… That’s not fun.

No, this decision was a really poor call as the servers were already adjusting themselves: we only need to look at Gunnar’s Hold and Ruins of Surmia, as well as Blacktide.

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[KING] Fractal Tournament - 4000G of Rewards!

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If you want to avoid the “math geeks”, disallow rerolling and open the points.

But you give the numbers 48 hours before start, so there will be math geeks no matter what. We all have good estimates of the difficulty and time of fractals at scale 50. It’s not because you run those daily that those who don’t are completely clueless.

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How to handle staff guardians?

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I tried something different that also worked!

I took my phalanx warrior. A guard pinged Empower as we pinged our banners. In turn, I pinged my Strength runes and said that staff is not necessary in this setup (1 staff/blast ele, 3 wars of which 1 phalanx, 1 guard). He switched and didn’t use his staff at all for the whole three paths !

I was impressed!

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I wanted to try out pve and a dungeon

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This is described in the Dungeons FAQ: if you want to play a dungeon but none of the LFGs appeal to you, create one.

Also, the thief was more than probably exploiting. Not that it’s impossible to do it legit (because it is) but because the ratio of people doing it legit and doing it with exploits is much higher on people using exploits.

The problem with Arah is that it’s a gigantic Jumping Puzzle. Nearly every mob can be bypassed one way or another. While ArenaNet doesn’t fix that, you’ll see those sells.

So what I suggest is that you take a look at the FAQ first (in the sticky of this subforum), most of the questions a newcomer asks himself are answered. If you find new questions that have no answers, make sure to write them down so we can expand the FAQ if it’s relevant enough.

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June 3rd Patch Notes - almost missed it.

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It’s also the best update the guardian has ever received since beta.

Wait… is it the only one?

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Your Top 10 GW2 problems that need fixing!

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3) General noob unfriendliness. This game makes it very hard for new players. Important concepts go unexplained virtually forever. If you don’t have friends to ask, you may as well just quit.

I strongly disagree. GW2 is my first MMO ever. I had no problem whatsoever to understand the game and the mechanics. Maybe you mean specifically-GW2-noob-with-a-MMO-history then? Then the problem isn’t GW2, but the others MMO that have convolutions and you are used to those.

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What sigils to use per profession?

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Wow, what a question! It’s quite simple in appearance but hard to fully answer.

You have to have several weapon sets.

What we usually have is weapons for the night dungeons (sigil of the night), weapons for the critter-specific dungeons that are not night (like sigil of undead slaying for Arah or sigil of outlaw slaying for CM & Cliffside), weapons for open world (force, accuracy). Finally we have weapons specifically for stacking. Now which stack to use depends on your build.

For profession-specific answer, please refer to your main guide.
- Guardian : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first
- Warrior : http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-101513/
- …

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Update on the MegaServer roll-out plan

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Anything short of complete removal of the scheduled events will be a disappointment.

All is said.

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Skip several Living Stories to fix bugs

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Please, please, skip several living stories to focus on bugfix.

This is a great game. I enjoyed it every single minute I played it, but the more you release, the more you break existing things and we don’t see them fixed.

There’s this methodology named release early, release often. You’re following it nearly to the letter and it’s good! But the main problem with this methodology is that it introduces bugs more often too.

I would ironically say that the only permanent content that you add are the bugs, but well, I see GW2 evolving with each release and I like it and so far the contents outweighs the bugs.

Please take your time to polish the game and actually test it, even old features, because that’s where the bugs are the most introduced, not the new content. There will be a time where I’ll estimate the cup will be full and I will leave. I don’t know when or what will trigger it but currently I wish it’s really the latest possible.

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Update on the MegaServer roll-out plan

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Hello!

Here’s some clarification, as I understand that this whole thing is quite complicated to grasp.

  • The roll-out plan ultimately include all maps in the open world, including the cities. The speed at which we’ll roll out the system will depends on how the system performs versus our expectations, but the goal is to ultimately cover the whole open world.
  • The roll-out is done on a per-map basis. Once a map uses the MegaServer system, it uses it for all Worlds (that is the point of the MegaServer system). The “map population” I am referring to is the average population on the map across all Worlds.

Thanks for your comments!
— Samuel

Can you provide the average population per map per <relevant period of time>?

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6/28 Far Shiverpeaks/Whiteside Ridge/Blacktide

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Tanks for all the words, FSP :-)

If you will, we let you the points farming and we take the badge farming. OK ? ;-)

Have fun!

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You roll a guardian? Take human!

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Actually there is a reason to play a guardian other than human.

I don’t think the numbers are strong enough for me to change what I want to play, if I like playing it. How many times out of 100 is that one skill going to save me or my party?

It’s like saying don’t play anything that isn’t absolutely the most efficient thing…and yeah some people play that way, but many people don’t…probably most people.

Efficiency in an RPG isn’t as important as being happy with your character in an RPG to a whole lot of people.

As I said, I play a norn guardian and I’m very happy with it. But well, I come to min-max now, and in that context, I’m sad to see that I have not the best option available to me and that my racial skills are… funny, yes that’s all: funny. The only racial I ever use is the wurm one to avoid some hits against Old Tom in the Uncategorized fractal, because wall or shield don’t work here. I can use one racial skill for 1 mob I play once every three days in an average. Wow, that’s some racial skill!

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Make better patch notes

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We DON’T have to know everything they do and that is the point.

If so, what is the point of patchnotes anyway? Just to advertise new things we can buy with gems/money?

Greetings.

N,o but the major items: Skill changes, etc. is what we need to know. The small stuff we don’t need to know.

What about the 4 pages of “updated skill fact”? We need to know that?

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Why there should be a dps meter

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Fror.2163

Already been answered twice in this thread, once at the bottom of the second post, and once with the seventh post on this page. Please at least read responses to arguments already made before you make the same argument 3 people made before you.

So you can be pedantic with people, but we can’t be with you? Oh kitten …

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ac p2 WHAT DID YOU DO ?

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(… and who runs ac p2 anyway?)

hmmm… everybody, since it’s an easy path?

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Guild bank: can't stack items

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Let’s say my guild bank has a pile of 50 mats. I want to add 50 of the same to that pile, I can’t, no matter whether I have rights or not: I have to withdraw the items then compact them then put them back alltogether. Items should be stacked automatically when we drop a pile onto another.

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Choose Scarlet death !

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I see only one death for her: hanged, drawn and quartered because she’s the incarnation of the betrayal of Arena Net’s writers.

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"Last seen online" for guild roster

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I don’t want you to have that info, that is private life matter. You may know the last time I represented your guild. Since it’s your guild you may have access to that piece of info. The last time I connected? No way: that’s my life.

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I'm now grinding dailies without noticing

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Yesterday, I came home late and launched GW2. Given my day, my brain was in off mode.

The guild was active in WvW so I joined. I had my part of fun. Great. I played for about 1 hour, then I saw I had only three dailies out of five done (and only one WvW-related daily).

I checked the hour and thought “yeah, I can do AC story before going to bed”. At least I do a dungeon, not some stupid gatherer/craft daily. 20 minutes later I’m out of the dungeon and I’m at 4 achievements out of five.

What’s left? Oh cool, some Maguuma event and some underwater killer. That will be easy and I won’t do those stupid gatherer and crafts. I go to my underwater spot in Maguuma Jungle and farm mobs. Daily done.

Additionally, I’m now at 3 events out of 4. It would be too bad not to finish it. Let’s finish and see if the flame thingy is on in Metrica Province. Aye it is. Good, I’ve done my dailies.

Hey, curious, what were the other daily achievements? Oh, only craft / gatherer left? (+ kill dollies, other wvw achi) Easy, well, hey 2 achievement points are 2 achievement points. So let’s go to Frostgorge, gather and craft the result.

Cheers, it’s done. I played two hours. Good. Time to log off, yeah I’m in time. Good job, I’m now closer to the next achievement level.

What did I do in my dailies that I liked?
- WvW
- Soloing a champion in Metrica Province

What did I do in my dailies that I’m not fond of?
- Gathering again
- Crafting again
- Killing underwater again
- Farming mobs in Metrica Province again
- Doing the same events in Metrica Province again
- Doing a dungeon story again where I’d have preferred an explorable.

By doing my dailies I’m not rewarded for playing I like to play, but I’m rewarded for the way Anet wants me to play.

Even more now that the achievements reward gold, laurels and other stuff. My brain was off and what did I do? I maximized my achievement gains. That’s not how I want to play, but that’s how I’m playing when my brain’s off. I didn’t enjoy the parts of the daily we have to do.

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Where are my tickets?

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Fror.2163

Ok, let’s reformulate.

On EU, a lot of players received properly their rewards right after the reset. Some other players on EU did not, despite having all their achievements done and also, they got their “nth place” achievement in the WvW achievement panel.

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An Appeal for Better Policies

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I would like to quote an e-mail that I received from the support regarding the wvw rewards.

I think this relates to the transparency issue you mention.

We suggest you check the website, forums, or social media for updates on the situation.

When I read that, I thought that they were mocking me. I need to check 4 places to find a piece of information? Yes 4, at least: the website, the forum, Twitter and Facebook?

Can’t ArenaNet focus in one place (their news website) then put references to that article on the other locations? I think this is misinformation by obscuration. There are 4 buttons below to follow them. It doesn’t mean you have to get 1 to have access to all information, no: it means that I have to have access to all 4.

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Easiest CoE path?

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Taht’s why all pugs I met do in this order: p3>p2>p1. p1 is still the most popular so disbanding after fail on that golem part is less problematic to finish.

While pugging, I encountered all the following scenarios on that golem p1.
1. we name the guy 20 times so he comes to the switch, “oh I didn’t know you spoke to me”
2. 4 people go on the switch, only 3 activate. “sorry, what do I have to do with the switch?”
3. “3, 2, 1, activate”
“interrupt: X isn’t activating. X please activate when we say. 3, 2, 1, activate”
“interrupt: X isn’t activating. Dammit X, press F. 3, 2, 1 activate "
X dodges out
“You told me to press F, I pressed F. F is my dodge button”.
4. And finally, the great classic “we see that we are bad at this dungeon, so let’s do 1-1-1-1-1”.

So I don’t understand why p1 is the most popular. There is no reason. My worst experience always were on p1. p1 isn’t the most easy because you don’t dodge. p1 is the hardest because of pugs.

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hammer is for old folks

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Every hammer guardian that has ever played spvp

Remove me from that list please: I don’t sign this.

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Bored of leveling.

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Shakkara, thanks for the link. It put a word on all my thoughts regarding levels.

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RoF vs. WSR vs. AS

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I was not on the pictures, but i reported it. There is a report feature ingame, feel free to use it, but there’s no reason to put this here, except if you want to create drama.

You shouldn’t report those pictures because there are no feature ingame. If two or more ACs are popped, we have no way to distinguish which AC is the one exploiting and we cannot report the guy. And if we report all the ACs controllers, but only 1 is actually exploiting, we risk ourselves a suspension. So, no, don’t say there are report features ingame.

Also, the fact that you, AS (not you Eolehyene or your guild in particular), keep using those cheats even though people blatantly know it’s a cheat (resizing the window to such a ratio is intentional) then try to remove proofs indicates something that I find rotten.

And yes, before you say it, I know a moderator agreed with you and actually removed the post. I disagree with that action completely.

Try the other side around? Take picture of a WSR cheater? I don’t mind. Take it, post it. I’ll even try to find the identity of the guy to report him.

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[Suggestion] Anti-stacking buff change

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Range is exploiting: you avoid the melee mechanics.

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Dec 10th Patch Poll

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This way of ranking is ridiculous.

Guardian has 10 pages? Well, given the number of changes regarding that class, I’d say it’s wayyy more than needed. The problem with Dec10 patch regarding guardians is that there is no significant change at all. So 10 pages on nothing is indeed a lot.

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Dredge Fractal(Game Mechanics Development)

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Well people who use the mechanics in the guide do not have many issues.

Do you know that Obal has a hard time finding people to play fractals “the right way” for those videos?

With that in mind, let me translate the quote above: “the top players in the game still have issues completing the fractal the normal way but do it way better than the rest of us”.

Well if people want to play it in a way that makes it more difficult and annoying then that’s their decision. However, they can’t cry nerf as a result of it. It’s really sad if people would rather look for way to exploit than try a proven way that makes it easier. It’s difficult finding people to do it this way because they’re clueless that this method exists as most learned from the wiki or relied on previous exploits. The fact that people complain about infinite respawns shows that they’re unaware that these methods exists.

WTF are you speaking about?

You say the videos show great gameplay to beat the flaws of the game. I answer that Obal, who makes those videos, has a hard time making those videos because even the top groups don’t even always use proven techniques. And now you answer some gibberish about something not in the quote. If you want to answer to specifics, please do, but don’t quote every post in this topic to say again and again what you’ve already said and most of people agree on.

Also, you’re using flawed reasoning. I complain about those broken mechanics yet I effectively know how to beat the fractal thanks to experience in dedicated group similar to the methods described in the video. So stop this kind of sophisms please.

I know you want to preach the good way of playing fractals, but please don’t front oppose everyone that disagrees only with 10% of your ideas.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

I stopped farming cheevos, I feel relaxed

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Fror.2163

Since the achievements started rewarding stuff, I’ve been an achievement kitten. I did them all (except for Liandri, but that’s because I couldn’t win that fight, as sad as it is). It was time-consuming and couldn’t get out of my head: I had to do them. Getting five dailies weren’t enough: I had to do them all!

Since last update I gave up and wow, I’m enjoying the game again. I play more of what I like and well, I get rewarded for it. Slower than other people, but I don’t care anymore.

I haven’t set a foot in SAB and it feels good. I really enjoyed the first one when it first came out, but I don’t want to play this now. Bummer, it will be gone when I’ll probably want to test it out, but I don’t mind. This permanent grind with such an intense pace (new content every two weeks) is just not working for me. I prefer to run dungeons or WvW with my usual groups and get my stress in there rather than a permanent one for getting all achievements from Scarlet or SAB.

The only thing I’m sad with when I think about this is that I will not enjoy all the content made available when I want it. But that’s another topic.

I now feel relaxed and I just wanted to share it.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

No fractal skin box ever dropped. Proof? API!

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Fror.2163

Hello,

To this day the fractal skin box did not drop at all. No one ever got this item.

All rare items, from unique skins to precursors to ascended weapon boxes drop all day and no one is complaining about them missing. Also, they are indeed listed in the API.

When I run the API to fetch all known items, nothing similar to the fractal skin box is present.

Could you please perform a double-check that the box is indeed on the loot table and accessible to us?

Thanks!

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

Best ranged aoe/single target?

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Fror.2163

The best single AOE skill is, according to the wiki, Smite, a guardian skill.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

I want a precursor quest, not a craft

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Fror.2163

What happens when someone finally posts a guide to the precursor quest? That means it won’t be that hard anymore.

Well, may there be guides! That’s why I said : “use random wisely”.

If there is one riddle to solve, make it so there are actually 100 and one is taken randomly.

If there are paths in front of you, make it so only one is the correct one, randomly, but you know once you have progressed far.

You will never get rid of guides, but you can make it so these guides are helpful only to a point thanks to random numbers.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

Not gonna vote

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Fror.2163

Gnashblade offers:
- Temporary reduced prices on Black Lion Keys
- Fractal in Fall of Abaddon
- Rotation of Crab Toss and Southsun Survival

Kiel offers:
- Temporary reduced waypoint travel prices
- Fractal in Thaumanova Reactor
- Rotation of Crab Toss and Southsun Survival

Say no to those propositions! Not any more Human or Asura dungeon. Not any more false reductions! Take what is real

What is gonna have my vote is the following:
- Permanent reduced beverage prices
- Fractal in a Kodan ship
- Rotation of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball!

Vote Norn (and Dragon Ball)!

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

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Arah P4

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Fror.2163

Define both “good MMORPG” and “good community”.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

Can Ranger/Necs qualify for LFG "Speedrun"

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Fror.2163

If the player is full actual dps according to the meta, I don’t see why you cannot let them in. Zerker engi, necro or ranger are interesting to have. They may not actually do as much dmg as a zerker war, but I’m quite sure that they’re better than 90% of GS-camping warriors.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

[Suggestion] Make the shouts not attack

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Posted by: Fror.2163

Fror.2163

Currently if you’re near an enemy (red) or a neutral creature (yellow) and you use a shout, you will try to attack that creature. This is an annoying behavior that is annoying when you barely can pass some creatures as you can go in combat. Going in combat is quite annoying for my scenario.

Except for the lore, I see no reason to have my character try to make hit to a creature.

The same should be applied to warriors’ shouts.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

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Fractals Take Too Kitten Long

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Posted by: Fror.2163

Fror.2163

I think their current implementation is one of the few things they didn’t mess with in this patch.

The current implementation being, according to Dulfy,

  • Fractal 1: Underwater, Swamp, Urban Battleground, Uncategorized
  • Fractal 2: Uncategorized, Snowblind, Urban Battleground, Molten Furnace, Cliffside
  • Fractal 3: Aetherblade, Grawl, Thaumanova Reactor, Dredge, Cliffside.
  • Boss Fractal: Jade Maw, Molten Berserker & Dredge Firestorm, Mai Trin & Captain Horrik

Though I foresee that Uncategorized will be rerolled if seen as first.

You are sure to not get Grawl and Dredge! You can still get Cliffside and dredge or Cliffside and Grawl, but that’s about it. As I said, I can’t play currently, so I don’t know how the two new boss fractals are positioned on the difficulty scale, but I See this as an improvement already.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

The Eternity issue

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Fror.2163

I own Sunrise and Juggernaut. I want something special too!

Get real and be happy you can merge the two into a single, better looking one and still have access to the previous skins.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

Does Anet need more time?

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Fror.2163

This kind of thread has been posted already several times.

I still sign it as it’s important!

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

Dredge Fractal discussion

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Fror.2163

I definitely want to watch a dev-stream of this fractal in level 41+.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)