Guild Wars 2

Just talk about FGS exploit, trinity, zerker exploit, stacking or crafting.

phys.7689:

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taking things to an extent that is illogical, is illogical.
random elements increase variability and test more different types of skill sets. Its pretty hard to make something incredibly replayable without adding uncertainty. Dealing with the unknown, or having every playthrough be different does more for replayability than just having the same thing again and again.

Solving the same problem 100 times is not more of a challenge, or more entertaining than solving 100 different problems.

I am a proponent of more random elements, and unpredictability in fractals. It doesnt have to impede progress, adding random extra goals, events, and very different levels will make it a lot more entertaining and replayable. And fractals is definately the place for it.

If they wanted replayability they could for example add infinite scaling.

I don’t know how many times you have played fractals, but there definitely isn’t any unknown or different playthroughs. Even with rolling “fixed”.

As I have said before, in my opinion randomness doesn’t belong to a high end content. Eventually luck will be the deciding factor whether you can get through or not.

Look, I know you want to promote your “random extra goal” idea but could you please stop mixing it with discussion about rolling? There is a quite big difference between forced and optional randomness.

Purple Miku.7032:

Holy hell, I’ve finally found someone with the same mentality as me. Hello!!!

I’ve been trying to push forth my ideas for implementing randomization methods into dungeons for a long time. Games are much more exciting when you have a whole world to explore and they lose their excitement when you have nothing new left.

Exactly what you said.

Content with great replay value MUST have an element of surprise. Uncertainty is a good thing and makes activities more thought-provoking and engaging rather than arduous and repetative.

And what if dungeons and fractals were truly random? There could literally be zero competition. Difficulty and length of every run would be affected by luck. Lupicus records already suffer from random mob behavior. Also if the content was hard enough, then there would be a risk of getting stuck if you get some hard events.

Do you realize how much content they would have to add to keep an element of surprise? Just few random events there and there wouldn’t do because you would have already seen all of them after couple of runs. If they just tweak some enemy parameters (color, amount) then it barely makes any difference.

Personally I would rather see them working on a more skill based content. Lots of encounters could use some extra mechanics to make them more complex. Also removing linearity would be a big step for competition as it would allow different tactics.

So if they don’t want to give any compensation they can just delay the communication and it suddenly becomes perfectly fine.

Some of you support really weird stuff.

Heiltdo.2891:

Ignore the grumpy old elitist and have fun with your hammer, play however you want.

And if you find someone that tells you you’re in the wrong just /block him/her, we don’t need more toxic people in this game.

Yes, go to play group content and intentionally choose a worse option. They are just some random people so who cares if you make it harder for them. Even better if everyone wipes multiple times.

I would be really fine removing all this armor non-sense and giving everyone base 15k health.

And then tweak from there.

And how would they scale it? Just dividing every health by 5 would make most fights extremely easy for me.

It’s actually really easy to dodge. Just ask your Guardian to give Aegis and pretend you did something.

As long as old ways don’t give any advantage then they should be perfectly valid because they are comparable. If they do, then penalty of X seconds can be applied.

For example on arah p1, if you have timed a full run you can easily figure out time from first gate to last boss. If old record used sigil stacking then maybe like 15 seconds of penalty can be applied.

Bottom line is that new fractals will probably be really easy for scale 80 players and whole reset thing is just pointless slap in the face. We want challenge. Not some stupid grind.
All this time we have waited for challenge and now what? Grind to 50, figure out a hole in their system because they just can’t edit one line of code properly, grind to 80, notice that it’s not that hard and then get thrown back to 30 next year?

And please don’t give me this “instabilities will be hard and exciting”. It is aimed at casuals. We have no reason to believe they know how to make good content. And you will probably stop doing them one week later so why do you people care so much?

But I promise I will be very interested if you find someone with scale 80 who is excited about the new patch.

Most people don’t have a clue about efficient. In lots of pug runs the biggest slowdown comes from bad tactics and execution, not build.

Obviously a better build is better but that’s not what most people should be worrying about.

Player.2475:

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My deaths went up from 18 to 57 before I could finish it.
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I guess this explains it. With only 18 deaths you probably haven’t tried anything slightly challenging which would encourage you to learn to play your profession effectively.

Purple Miku.7032:

I actually agree with OP in most of the things he’s said.

It’s the primary reason why I want nothing to do with PvP on this game… there is nothing exhilarating about knowing that I gain nothing and lose nothing on the outcome of the fight I’m in. I want to risk not yawn.

In PvE the fact that you can die as many times as you want with no consequence other than having to waypoint (or wait for the others to get ooc if you’re in a dungeon) leads me to believe that part of the reason there are so many people reluctant to care about getting better at the game is because they’re not encouraged to. Players won’t care about survival if they don’t lose anything from death.

There’s a lot of upsides and downsides to games that have loss associated with failure, so it’s worth discussing instead of immediately dismissing like so many others have been on this thread.

Every pug secretly stacking passive defense and running away at first sign of wipe doesn’t sound very enjoyable to me.

Since DnT site is functional I don’t see any rush with this. I would say it takes me like two weekends to set this up. Improving current static site and setting up SVN/FTP for everyone (and teaching them to use) would probably take a weekend.

This weekend I will create the database, add some dummy data and create basic dynamic page (will only show current 5 man records). Next weekend I add some basic filters and create the database interface. Third weekend I will polish and fix bugs. I can probably do some stuff during the week too but not going to rely on it.

So current roles and responsibilities so far:

Head administrator
That’s me

• site management (adds features, updates rules when they are decided)
• staff management (appoints staff, manages permissions)
• problem solving (drama, staff issues, site issues)
• calls in rule meeting?
• calls in votes when an record attempt gets contested?
• resets records after balance changes?

Rule meetings
Debby [iV] and Menno [iV] (haven’t asked yet)

• Hosts rule meetings when requested (by head administrator?)
• Contacts people
• Ensures that the meeting goes properly
• Coordinates with the lawyer for updating the rules

Lawyer
Nike (I assume he is posting as hybrid, please correct if wrong)

• Updates the rule text
• Sues people

Approvers
Ravi [DnT], Spoj [rT], Iris [Noob], Rising Dusk [VZ], Snowball [KING], Mhenlo [SC] (amount seems fine for me at this point)

• Tags a record attempt with a post to reserve it (so people see it is being worked on)
• Approves or rejects the record attempt in a clear case
• Requests help in unclear cases (asks other opinions to prevent any conflicts)
• Votes when a case gets conflicted/contested (vote called by head administrator?)

Issues/unclear things:

• Who decides when a record attempt gets contested? Could approvers somehow do it? Should a vote always be done (allows trolling to increase workload)?
• When a rule meeting should be called? Every 4th month? Decided by someone?
• When to reset records after a balance change? Could this be done by approvers if their decision can be contested? How severe nerfs should cause a reset?

Record attempt process

• Make a post on official forums
• Attempt gets tagged by an approver within 48 hours.
• Record gets approved or rejected within a week.
• Anyone can contest the decision with a reason causing approvers to vote.
• Decision by a voting can’t be contested without a 100% proof.

Seems fair?

Jerus.4350:

Wethospu.6437:

You have to be really careful when playing. Once my finger accidentally slipped and landed between two keys and I accidentally pressed two keys with one finger.

I immediately closed GW2, shutdown computer and cut the power cord. After a week I had enough courage to log in again. Luckily I didn’t get caught and can still keep playing.

^ best post

I’m pretty sure facerolling would result in an instant ban.

Manuhell.2759:

Wethospu.6437:

A boss can easily have 1 million health while in PvP players have like 20k. Should damage skills also get additional effects (like control) because they are less efficient at killing the target?

(direct) damage skills still have the same effect, even if they do relatively less damage due to the high hp pools; Still, bosses usually just tank damage, since they don’t dodge at all (and neither properly use defensive or healing skills). That high hp is their only defense, since they lack a proper AI.
Damaging conditions may have some other issues.
Interrupts have their effect completely denied 5/6 of the time.
And they aren’t even in equal numbers, anyway – there are much more skills dealing damage than CC skills..

If my HB deals 20k damage I need one HB to kill a 20k target. If boss has 1m health I have to use it 50 times.

Compare that to interrupts. I need to use 6 interrupts for an interrupt. 50 >> 6

Yes, high health is their only defense against damage. But so is defiance against control.

If there are more underperforming damage skills, perhaps they should be fixed before fewer control skills?

A correct comparison should be about having bosses with a reduced health pool compared to now (let’s say, 100k hp) but they are damaged only by a single hit out of 10.
Sounds fun?
No, it would just be annoying. Extremely annoying

It wouldn’t really matter much because time to kill would stay same. But it would be pointless so of course current system is better. But your comparison doesn’t work for defiance. While damage can be split to smaller pieces, an interrupt can’t be.

What I’m trying to say is that they should fix what is broken. Bosses have bloated health bars because they are against 5 players so it’s completely fair that you need 5 interrupts to interrupt them (that’s why I’m suggesting reduction of one stack).

Additional effect for control skills won’t fix the control. It only reinforces dps meta because you get more damage while control is still pointless.

Simple fixes to make control meaningful:

1) Make interrupts cause full cooldowns for PvE enemies

2) Reduce one stack (5 players -> 4 stacks)

3) Encounter design
* Add special attacks to some bosses which temporarily remove defiance.
* Add devastating special attacks to bosses which are hard to deal with blocks and dodges.
* Add strong defensive skills to bosses which have to be interrupted if you want to kill the boss fast.
* No defiance but fight against 3 – 5 (weaker) bosses at the same time
* No defiance but use stability instead
* No defiance but give boss frequent stun breaks

Apparently there are quite many dungeon halting bugs. Also there are some positive bugs which violate restricted record rules making them harmful in records and tournaments.

Goal of this topic is to collect as much info as possible from these bugs so I can document them on gw2dungeons.net.

There are lots of questions so feel free to contribute!

AC Story

Kasha doesn’t become hostile.

• Reproduction: Trigger multiple cutscenes at the same time?
• Prevention: Ensure cutscenes trigger separately (if you split).
• Fix: No known fix.

AC P1

Hodgins doesn’t start the burrow event (first scepter)

• Reproduction: Get Hodgins killed at the flame corridor.
• Prevention: Make sure he is alive before entering the room.
• Fix: Run to the far corner to make Hodgins magically spawn on the table.

After P2, Howling King doesn’t spawn

• Reproduction: Run straight to the boss area
• Prevention: Do the usual cave-in event.
• Fix: Do the usual cave-in event.

AC P2

Detha doesn’t begin building traps

• Reproduction: Detha is in combat when going to the trap area?
• Prevention: Kill enemies. Use stealth to skip (don’t get in combat). Get whole team and Detha out of combat before going to the trap area?
• Fix: Getting Detha killed may help

AC P3
Tzark doesn’t start the collector event

• Reproduction: Get Tzark killed when he talks at start of the collector event.
• Prevention: When skipping, run to end of the room to lose aggro from ghosts.
• Fix: No known fix.

Tzark bugs at somepoint

• Where?
• How to reproduce?
• How to prevent?
• Fix: Get Tzark killed.

Grast’s shield doesn’t work properly

• Reproduction: Allow Rumblus to interrupt Grast during shield (his stability only works once)
• Prevention: Kill Rumblus fast or use area stability
• Fix: No fix needed.

CM Story

The secret button can’t be pressed and the event is stuck at 2/3 separatists killed.

• Reproduction: The champion may miss and be in some other area.
• Prevention: Unknown.
• Fix: Search the initial area (where you killed the golem) and the basement.

TA F&U

Path doesn’t start after selection.

• Reproduction: When talking to Morrigu, choose other option than starting the path.
• Prevention: Choose the path first and then other talk.
• Fix: No known fix.

Path doesn’t start after selection.

• Reproduction: Multiple people talk to Morrigu at the same time.
• Prevention: Only one player should talk to her.
• Fix: No known fix.

SE P2

Infinite waves of enemies spawn during the escort event

• Reproduction: Kill the first boss while NPC is dead.
• Prevention: Ensure NPC is alive when killing the first boss.
• Fix: No known fix.

Door doesn’t open after escort event

• Reproduction: Kill the first boss while NPC is dead?
• Prevention: Ensure NPC is alive when killing the first boss?
• Fix: No known fix.

Door doesn’t open after escort event

• Reproduction: Kill 4 champions before 2 elites
• Prevention: Kill elites before champions.
• Fix: No known fix.

Glowing rock event doesn’t start after killing Taskmaster

• Reproduction: ???
• Prevention: ???
• Fix: No known fix.

End golems don’t turn hostile

• Reproduction: Get NPC killed after blowing up the door
• Prevention: Use stealth to prevent getting aggro or clear the enemies, make sure NPC is alive before you get down
• Fix: No known fix.

SE P3

Dredge cart bugs?

• Reproduction: Someone disconnects or leaves.
• Prevention: Don’t disconnect or leave.
• Fix: No known fix.

CoF P1

Slavedriver doesn’t trigger

• Reproduction: Kill the initial enemies real fast (< 9 seconds).
• Prevention: In highly coordinated teams, wait a bit.
• Fix: No known fix.

CoF P2

Magg doesn’t interact with magma stone

• Reproduction: Stand on top of the magma stone?
• Prevention: Stand bit further away?
• Fix: Move bit away?

Magg teleports to people at the waypoint instead of the magma stone

• Reproduction: Last people entering the waypoint is not in the explosive room.
• Prevention: Make sure you are clearly in the room before waypointing.
• Fix: Get Magg to the explosive room and retry?

Can’t hit the end boss Stone

• Reproduction: Target Stone and try to use melee attacks.
• Prevention: Remember a good spot or use untargeted attacks.
• Fix: Try to find a right spot/bit higher ground or use untargeted attacks.

http://youtu.be/t6EZZmogouU

You really can’t expect random people to hold your hands or be nice to you. I mean sure, I would do that but half of the people are more evil than an average person.

Do what you can to help yourself. Find friends/guilds, make a clear lfg telling your intentions (preferably with CAPS so all idiots are able to read it), keep spamming them that it’s a casual run and so on.

Enforcing random groups is contrary to all kinds of challenging content.

Ashen.2907:

Wethospu.6437:

So we agree that it’s possible to have intended and designed content without dodging? Thus dodging is not that integral part of the combat.

Again you are focusing on the rewards. Rewards are not content. They are the prize for playing and completing the content. Adding reward doesn’t make things more difficult because the content already exists.

We already have challenging PvE content. We only lack proper rewards for doing it. That’s why I consider it absurd when some people say “PvE lacks hard content so it can’t have prestige rewards”.

I am not focusing on rewards. My only reference to rewards in our discussion, out of multiple paragraphs of commentary, was to point out that in the one instance where Anet intended dodge to not be used they made a point of telling us so by providing a reward.

One instance, an exception to the norm as represented by all but 100% of the game does not represent the design intent for the game as a whole.

A player handicapping himself is not making the content inherently more challenging, he is just choosing to lower his performance.

If your definition of “intended” and “design” is based on whether it gives any reward, then yes, you are focusing on rewards.

There are plenty of content which me and others can clear without dodging. I would say over 75% of PvE content is like that. If you use tanky gear it’s at least 90%. Anyways, not exactly sure what you are trying to prove here. My point was that it’s possible to have intended and designed content without dodging.

So in your opinion if I pick an option to lower my damage by 50% the content doesn’t get harder but if I pick an option to increase enemy health by 100% then the content gets harder?

If not, are you then saying that fractal scale 50 has equal challenge as scale 10 because only health and damage changes?

NewTrain.7549:

Ashen.2907:

A player handicapping himself is not making the content inherently more challenging, he is just choosing to lower his performance.

Truth.

Any task, no matter how mundane, can be made difficult with arbitrary additional restrictions placed on it. I challenge people to perform their morning commute wearing a blindfold after downing 7 shots of tequila. That must mean their morning commute is inherently difficult, right?

That’s just naive. Please make a serious reply if you want to discuss something.

Are crystals allowed?

Just don’t expect anything.

Folk.2093:

Say what you want but as someone who mainly plays the support guardian role I’ve seen way to many zerkers drop like flies at the slightest mistake. Now maybe you guys are the minority and are as good as you claim to be (that’s not for me to say yes or no to) but my overall experience is players in full zerker are downed and dead way too much. If it’s truly a learn to play issue then I wish all those guys I’ve seen die in 1 second would learn to play or swap to something more hardy.

There’s a reason why Guardians don’t drop like flies at the slightest mistake. And that has nothing to do with their armor/health.

They can always reset our gold so I can’t see why they would be worried. It’s just a number.

If you do 79 you get to 80.

It’s most likely content which didn’t make it for launch.

The thing is pretty much no one really cares that you cleared dungeon fast by using faceroll comp or severe exploits. You can easily see this by observing people’s reactions to speedclears.
If we are going to have some rules (kind of point of this topic) then might as well go one step further and actually make it fun and interesting. And if we want people (even developers) to get interested on this kind of a thing it must be interesting.

I honestly don’t really appreciate destroying the dungeon forum community. Feel free to move it to bottom of the page but please leave it.

I promise to buy 800, no, 1600 gems if you do this.

Warrior perspective: http://youtu.be/0A8mLHDHiQU
Mesmer perspective: http://youtu.be/fwdWZIcUgKQ

Great ending to our trilogy!

Sanderinoa.8065:

Solori.6025:

Because why bring anything else when you can just Zerk your way to victory.

http://youtu.be/4DDuIlRsf-0

http://youtu.be/i1WzkNLZXZ0

This better be a joke.. you’re really going to use some of the best players in the dungeon community to claim the gear they use is overpowered? Please tell me more about how you could do this by just equipping zerker gear.

Next to that, last time I checked zerker was an armorstat or playstyle, not a build. I personally switch between about 4 (trait) builds. Oh and does assassin’s gear also count as zerker? Because I dont mind switching to that if nobody complains about it.

I would also be mad if no one linked my videos.

But I’m bit curious why he decided to link Skeletal Lich which is a complete faceroll. AC end bosses would have been much more interesting!

I would prefer them to reroll trait hunt asap, refine it without any pressure and then put it back.

And rebalance costs of newer skills / traits. They shouldn’t be based on people who have played for months and have dozens of gold and skill points. If people have too many skill points add more and easier ways to spend them. For example skill animation customization (can be disabled in PvP).

deSade.9437:

PLZ I want mini Kholer. PLZ.

If he pulls nearby minis and slaughters them then I’m in!

It’s not about the people who don’t know the rules. It’s about the people who break them on purpose. Unless we enforce each party member to record their view there will be some blind spots. Camera turns left, people drink stuff on right. Or something else subtle like trait manipulation to change utilities.

I’m not saying these things will happen but it’s good to be prepared so everyone knows what to expect.

Enemies (particularly AI) need serious buffs (in no particular order):
1) Enemies dodge out of Hundred Blades, AoE’s and similar stuff.
2) Enemies can move while attacking (especially melees).
3) Ranged keeps distance even when players “disappear” behind corner.
4) Projectile-based enemies move if unable to hit because of anti-projectile.
5) Projectile-based enemies move closer if player zig-zags.
6) Enemies are aware of each other. They avoid stacking but still move as a group (when players attempt to pull, go behind corner, etc).
7) Melees leap, snare, etc.
8) . . .

codpin.6542:

@haviz
So basically, a player that uses what the game offers him to kill a boss faster is somehow, by your judgement, less skilled then some other player that runs around him for 10 times longer?

I bet you travel around the country with a horse, because using a car is so stupid and mainstream.

His point probably is (and if it isn’t then it’s my point) that you shouldn’t feel good/awesome because you can drive 40 kph. However, going by foot at that speed…

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Strength_Booster

Kal, could you please go to suggestion/bugs forum and tell everyone to shut up? I mean most likely they won’t be heard either.

Bit suspicious that it’s a so big issue to show an unedited full-run.

www.youtube.com/wethospu should be pretty thorough (bit old though, not that dungeons have changed much).

Then there is also this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/links/Compilation-of-dungeon-solo-videos-3

List out of my memory (probably not 100% accurate):
ACS: doable
AC1: you need help with burrows
AC2: you need help with traps (or just bug Detha)
AC3: burrows might be problematic but should be doable
CMS: doable
CM1: doable but Bloody Victoria is really annoying
CM2: doable but you need tricks at keg part
CM3: doable
TAS: doable
TAF: doable
TAU: should be doable (annoying fight though)
TAAE: you need help with various parts
SES: doable
SE1: doable
SE2: no idea, probably very problematic
SE3: doable
COFS: doable
COF1: you need help with boulders and gate lock
COF2: you need help with bomb part, end might be rough
COF3: you need help with start and capture event, rest is doable
HOTWS: doable but end fight is quite tough
HOTW1: doable
HOTW2: ?
HOTW3: very hard fight at mid, ?
COES: you need help with hacking and who knows what else
COE1: you need help with lasers and hacking, alpha is really hard
COE2: you need help with lasers, alpha is really hard
COE3: you need help with lasers and destroyer, alpha is really hard
ARAHS: you need help with start, long but quite easy
ARAH1: you need help with shoggoroth
ARAH2: doable
ARAH3: doable
ARAH4: you need help with simin

I’m 13 and I never kick people.

5 signet is worse than 4 signet + FGJ!, and that’s just start of that slippery slope.

Seveleniumus.5973:

In theory yes, in practice – no…
Not everyone is perfect in this game and not everyone has 24/7 spare time to “get better” in every dungeon there is + WvW +sPvP in this game. If one can not survive, zerker gear is worthless. I run a war with 3k armor and ~28-30k health and I’m often the last man standing and many times are left to solo the last dungeon boss, when all the “standard” zerker teammates go down.
I also like the basic idea of being able to sustain some punishment and being able to run through trash mobs like they’re nothing, I can not do that with zerker gear as every smallest mistake can get me downed.

If I can solo most of the dungeons with my Berserker Warrior that says something about being practical (with 5 guys it’s a lot more easier). You are feel free to try with your PVT-gear.
As you said, with Berserker-gear you have less room to make mistakes so people want to kill stuff as fast possible. Then if you have few guys rolling with low damage bunkers/tanks it gets much harder for glass-cannons because fight lasts longer. Also if you are supposed to be a tank and you aren’t protecting your teammates then what’s supposed to be your role?
Yes for skipping PVT-gear is obviously better because you aren’t dealing any damage, however all skips are quite easy.

Pukknub.7368:

For me it’s kinda the opposite, why do people buy berserker gear?
Being that squishy is not good in my opinion. But I prefer survivability over damage in almost every game.

In PvE, people just want to get it done fast.

Lafiel.9372:

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Berserker gear pve is only strong if the person who wears it is skilled. Others who wear it just end up dying 2-3 seconds into a boss fight – constantly.

How much stronger do you think PVT-gear makes you? About 2 times stronger? So you last 4-6 seconds instead?

All content should be easy enough to need any special team-combo.

High end content definitely shouldn’t be soloable (unless it scales). But forcing it with stuff like pressure plates or something similar isn’t the solution.

mahariel.4981:

Wethospu.6437:

mahariel.4981:

Sublimatio.6981:

mahariel.4981:

A way up to the boat in Arah path 2 was blocked off. This is great, again.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that At least they tried.

It’s the thought that counts, even if they didn’t block off all the points to the boat.

I was trying to be nice anyway, and then I got a post infracted because I wrote that ArenaNet can’t stand the idea of interacting with the dungeon community since that’s apparently a personal attack towards their staff despite the fact that they moved my thread to trashcan dungeon forum.

Actually you didn’t. Personal attacks instantly max out your infractions and give 2 weeks ban.

Hearte.6852:

Reading through most of these threads, it’s not hard to figure out why the sub-forum is being ignored. A huge percentage of the posts are venomous and directly insulting. I feel sorry for any newer players who stop by this forum, simply because they may get the impression that the GW2 community is terrible, which is untrue as a whole. The moderators already have their hands full with cleaning up the nonstop offensive posts.

It’s great that at least you are so friendly and constructive instead of calling everyone terrible or venomous.

“We expect all community members to be respectful of one another and that includes our staff. Do not engage in personal attacks against ArenaNet staff. Please note that abuse of staff members or moderators in forum posts, private messages, or email appeals may result in forum account termination. You have been warned.”

Is the message I got.

Apparently you are more equal than me. Have you bought any gems lately?

As you said, PvE is about the damage. So of course people get “excited” of new damage traits.

Warkupo.1025:

10% isn’t a massive amount. Anything under a second is reduced by such a small amount that I can’t see the investment being worth it as a grandmaster trait. Generally speaking, when you are trying to approach damage increase through increased speed once you get to around 0.5s any additional improvements are so small that they are not worth doing.

1.0s -> 0.9s
0.75 -> 0.675s
0.5s -> 0.kitten
0.25s -> 0.225s

450ms is apparently a bad word when I state it as a fraction of seconds.

It’s actually X/(1 + 0.1), not (1 – 0.1) * X. So 1.0s -> 0.91s. While improvement for one attack is small, you have to keep in mind that you get lots of attacks during a fight so it adds up.

Something to keep in mind is rounding. If it works in our favor then we might see bigger improvements.

Another thing to consider is cooldowns. Issue with Axe is that the damage is backloaded. You should finish the chain before using any other skills to not lose damage. If higher attack speeds makes cooldowns match worse then this won’t be so good. However, it may also make them match better.

Also attack speed doesn’t mean more attacks but more autoattacks. But I guess it won’t make big different with Axe as all skills have pretty similar dps.

Also on top of the ~10% more damage, we get more hits so more adrenaline and more on-hit effects (for example Rending Strikes).

Chickenshoes.6250:

Wethospu.6437:

Makes me kind of wonder why can’t we have all these good things automatically. Anyways I won’t buy because there’s no guarantee it will be best-in-slot.

Cuz Anet wants money and if everyone had it it would be less cool

Yeah, was just dreaming about game where devs would be “hmm this seems bit inconvenient for users, let’s remove it”.

Generally speaking things should go fine as long as people aren’t approving their own records. But what is important how we avoid drama and bias calling when something gets rejected. I don’t think the individuals matter that much as long as the whole community is represented. Like one approver from rT, DnT, SC, etc.

So everyone could approve and reject non-related stuff on their own but if their decision gets contested then additional approvers would be used. This could be handled for example by a vote from all non-related approvers.

It would be helpful to know if majors guild have interest of having one approver because if all have one it should be more than enough for our needs.

After that we can see if we need extra persons to manage the record table.

How much over 30? 5 or 50? :P

Sure, we all appreciate their efforts but we don’t just want our efforts completely forgotten. Few tweaks and most of the complainers would fully support the change.

phys.7689:

Wethospu.6437:

So am I a really bad player when I died like 10 times when trying to solo Spider Queen without dodging and with melee skills only (and eventually got it done without taking ANY damage)?

Maybe my character should have been sent back to tutorial for some basic training?

it doesnt have to be a penalty like that anyhow. The Point is to negatively reinforce death, or postively reinforce living in certain circumstances.

lets say the dungeons, had challenge mode.
greater rewards, or special rewards.
conditions for success are;
cant die/limited deaths
reward scales based on time to complete
amount of unique enemies slain

Open world version might be like, a running buff to rare item drop rate, (that effects chests) that gets lower with each death, and gets worked off with experience gained. (like GW1 but with item rarity/gold bonus instead of hp/mana reduction.

the precise implementation is up for debate, but the idea is, make people want to live.

and lets be honest, you might be the man, but if you could solo the whole dungeon without dying, you would be more of the man.

Sorry for wasting your time but not actually interested of discussing this seriously.

I like to think I was the first one who soloed Lupi. Makes me feel good.