Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I want to make a Sigil of Concentration which requires 25 Freshwater Pearls. Those cost near 5g each on the TP, so I thought I would do a little experiment to see if it is feasible to gather these myself and craft one.

I set out with;

• An Advanced Harvesting Sickle – Apparently they are “Highly efficient at gathering resources and uncovering rare components.”
• Enchanted Gathering Boost – 33% chance at extra resources when gathering.
• Item Booster – +33% Chance of Extra Gathering Strike and 10 seconds of Swiftness after Gathering.
• Guild Gathering and Swiftness Banner – +15% gathering critical chance.
• Guild Enhancement: Critical Harvesting – +20% gathering critical chance.

With enough banners and map swapping, I managed to use the entire 125 uses of the Advanced Harvesting Sickle on Mussels alone with all these buffs present.

The result? Not a single Pearl. I got 14 pieces of Mother-of-Pearl and 182 Mussels, but not one Pearl.

This is far too low a drop rate, if even with all the boosters available, its still a tiny chance (like 0.5%) and virtually impossible to gather oneself.

hotcarl.8621:

…she spawned near the one waypoint I didn’t have on the character I was on.

lol

This should not be a bannable offense period. If I want to talk about star wars, I’m going to talk about star wars. Thats why you have options to block people and filter your chats on and off. If anet makes this a reportable offense, then where does it stop? Soon talking about the weather will be taboo.
Anet needs to worry about running their game and fixing bugs and stay out of personal affairs. They will sink to an all time low if they start catering to all you crybabys that whine here instead of blocking people in game and filtering chat.
So yeah, if I want to engage in a star wars conversation, I’m going to without Anets permission. If they want to ban me now, then so be it. It wouldn’t be much of a loss anyways.

• you got there 10 minutes early and did not act to acquire a waypoint where the boss could spawn.

This could have been avoided if you took the time to accordingly acquire the waypoint since you got there 10 minutes early and as stated, were waiting around for 8 minutes.

• you didn’t have the waypoint on that character.

This could have been avoided if you had the waypoint on another character, or simply have acquired all the waypoints on the map for when the boss even does eventually start.

• the boss “literally” died 30 seconds later after you get to it.

This could have been avoided if you were on a character that has relatively good mobility such as the following:

- near perma swiftness Engineer (traited)
- Thief equipped with teleports/shortbow
- sword/WH + GS Warrior
- Ranger with RaO elite skill + GS

These classes are generally fast, mobile and can get to places with ease.

• you never know when or where the boss will spawn.

This can be improved via situational awareness such as:

- being in the middle of the map/where a large portion of players are
- watching the minimap for the big, red icon that indicates the boss’ position on the map
- having all the waypoints unlocked so that you can use them if the boss spawns too far away from your position

• you can’t think of another boss event where the boss dies this quickly.

Fire Elemental (after pre event is over). doubt KQ dies in literally 30 seconds.

You get there 10 minutes early but don’t get the way point. I’m not sure what to say.

@ hotcarl:

Seriously?

Stay at the camp in the middle (there is no waypoint), wait till the event goes to 4/4 secured camps and than (if its already spawntime) look at your minimap where the boss-symbol appears. If its at your place, go make damage. If its below or above your position, open the map and use a waypoint. Its takes not more than 10 seconds to reach the KQ. Also KQ isn’t dead after 30 seconds.

laokoko.7403:

You get there 10 minutes early but don’t get the way point. I’m not sure what to say.

Oh, I missed the part with the missing waypoint, because he wrote it happend five or six times. So again @ OP, seriously? I mean, seriously? You missed KQ once because of a missing waypoint and learned nothing from that? Thats a bit sad…

Celtic Lady.3729:

Zephyra.4709:

This thread makes me not want to talk about any new movies in map chat now because I might get reported and banned.

Thanks, Gaile.

You’re being deliberately obtuse. This isn’t about casual conversation where someone accidentally lets slip a spoiler for someone else. This is a clear case of griefing that has no point and the player engaging in this should at least get a temporary (1 week or so) suspension.

That someone who accidentally let slip a movie spoiler might offend someone who then reports them, be it that the person reporting interprets the so called spoiler in a way which is offensive/spamming aka a reportable offense as indicated by Gaile’s post.

May as well not talk about any upcoming/new movies we like in map chat else it might be a spoiler to someone and could get us reported and banned.

I understand why this sort of thing is wrong, and I think it’s terrible that some people are getting enjoyment out of purposely spoiling movies that others haven’t seen. However, I don’t see why this particular subject is receiving special treatment.

Over the years, I’ve observed far worse behavior go unpunished… including verbal abuse, griefing, bug exploitation, spamming, et cetera. The players that I reported never got banned. Furthermore, there isn’t even an option for specifically reporting “hacking” or “exploit abuse” under the report menu despite how important those issues are. Don’t tell me that “movie spoilers” is going to be added to the list…

i’m glad that i know how to turn off map chat..

some people seems to have no idea how…..

There isn’t a rule specifically against spoilers. They are just twisting the grieving clause because players are upset by something (when aren’t they).

Pretty iffy to act upon such silliness…

IMO I think if it just comes up in a normal map chat conversation nothing should be done.
but is someone actually just throwing spoilers in map chat out of context repeatedly it should be considered spam/abuse (If someone is using whisper/mail to send only spoilers its basically is abuse/spam)

Taltevus.3289:

The people arguing against this not being rude, making this more difficult than it needs be, and diluting the obvious in my opinion are the exact kind of people likely to do such a thing.

It is just as easy to whisper, party up for a private chat, whatever…Stop feigning helplessness.

You really shouldn’t make assumptions.

I haven’t seen the movie. Might get around to seeing it. Haven’t had it spoiled in GW2, in spite of being in LA and DR quite a bit since it came out. Wouldn’t care much if it did get spoiled. It’s just a movie. Tbh, I think it’s a little ridiculous how upset people get over it, calling for reporting, bans and denouncing the hope “for the entire community” because they read something that spoiled a surprise. In some cases, yes, it’s intentionally rude. However, there’s plenty of rudeness that goes on. It happens. Move on. It’s silly to try and make some sort of reportable policy for someone spoiling a particular movie because it’s popular and people have a vested interest in it.

Spamming is against the ToS and there’s a report feature there for it. In that case, report and get over it.

msalakka.4653:

Four pages of back-and-forth about Star Wars spoilers?

Really?

The Force is strong with the Q_Q generation :/

Four pages of back-and-forth about Star Wars spoilers?

Really?

How is this even relevant to GW2. If it had of been any otehr film than Star Wars, this thread would have been deleted long ago.

God, people are such lemmings.

I would think a dev would say “this is a ‘civil case’” and want nothing, impersonal, to do with it b/c obvious ‘1984esque’ implications. My logical side argues, ‘well this is their world and they, ultimately, call the shots’.

What a pickle.

TBH you shouldn’t be on the internet if you care about spoilers. You’re gonna be spoiled one way or another regardless, all you can do is disable all the chats.

MithranArkanere.8957:

What I see more likely is the following, in this order:

• Janthir region.
• Crystal Desert.
• Northern Shiverpeaks
• The Depths of Tyria.
• The Sea of Sorrows.

Good list, although I would put Crystal desert on place 1. Why? Because of the egg and the legacy of Glint in that area.
And I have to insist on Ring of Fire, Anet!

So I see it like this:
Crystal Desert
Northern Shiverpeaks
Janthir area
Blood legion homelands
Sea of Sorrows
Depths
Unending Ocean area

Cantha can and will happen now that Arena-Net is their own publisher and NCsoft cant tell them what to do. So they are going to be adding alot of stuff that NCsoft probably said “No blah blah you make money so we can improve our kitten-tastic game aion”

SamTheGuardian.2938:

RoseofGilead.8907:

That was an image Daniel Dociu submitted for Into The Pixel. It’s not related to GW2 at all. :p And I definitely don’t see Anet going in that direction for any part of the game, honestly.

Thanks for the info! Why is it copyright to ArenaNet if it was just submitted to The Pixel? Maybe a direction they started down and abandoned so the image was property of ANet but he was given permission to use it?

Probably because he (and a couple of other artists also working at Anet at the time) had to submit their work through a major studio for that showcase. That’s my assumption, anyway.

Swagger.1459:

Edit- the forums are wonky and I deleted my previous post.

I understand that “spam” is an issue, as is using the lfg tool for unintended purposes, but I honestly don’t see an issue with discussing things in chat that don’t involve breaking the rules or any form of ingame NDA…

When are players allowed to discuss Star Wars? After the entire playerbase has verified they have seen it?

Are players allowed to discuss real life stock market stuff if they choose?

I’m not being sarcastic, I’m just wondering where these fine lines are? I would hate for map chat to turn into one person mentioning Star Wars then players jumping on them saying… “The devs said you can’t talk about Star Wars 7 so I’m reporting you”, then customer service taking the time to review every Star Wars related report needlessly…

One again, “spam” I get because it’s “spam”, but to discuss something in chat that doesn’t break the current rules or any ingame NDA is not wrong by any means…

I think definitions should err on the side of tightening rather than broadening because broadening things would encompass more people. Let’s say that to be a whatever-ist you need to meet certain criteria such as having certain beliefs. Then the definition expands, and the problem with this is you too would become a whatever-ist due to an arbitrary shift in goalposts.

This logic applies to trolling. Sure there are people who deliberately “spoil” in order to troll but most are simply careless, likely because it’s inconceivable to some people that they’d feel strongly about it. He may simply want to talk about the new Star Wars and invite people to a conversation, but is suddenly deemed a “troll” despite not insulting anyone’s race, religion, fandom, swearing at others, intending to cause grief, or personally calling others out as “noobs” or whatever and I don’t agree with this.