Guild Wars 2

Man this thread with the other makes me laugh. Not a dig at any specific person but…

“We’d like to thank our Gw1 players, go make them a small token prize to mark them, but don’t do anything that big to create an advantage”
“Ok, so no gear or too many boosters or anything. Any in game items will feel like it’s biased. Let’s just give them a sticker shaped like a gold star”
“Hey, guys, for your work in Gw1, you get this gold star”
(Most sane people) “Yay!”
“Dude, that’s totally not fair, I want that gold star too”
“But you didn’t play Gw1”
“YEA BUT ITS NOT FAIR”
“It’s just a gold star”
“I DONT CARE I WANT IT”
“You do realize if this star didn’t exist, you’d never would have wanted it. This game has lasted almost a year without it. You only want it because you see other people with it. "
“You suck! I’m quitting!”
….
" Dude this star is lame, I did more! I want my star to be bigger"

Developer: T_T I never realized we had 3rd graders in our audience.
Developer 2: Let’s just send them a postcard next time.
[Repeat same situation but with a postcard]

Deal
With
It

This is as constructive as I’m going to be on the subject.

The retroactive rewards for achievement points are supposedly gated at one tier per day, and the first weapon unlock is tier 2 (IIRC), so the earliest we’ll start seeing people’s screenshots is tomorrow.

Dulfy has a gallery of some of the weapons to tide us over, though!

Medazolam.3058:

If you don’t like WvW, then there are a lot of achievement points (not titles, those are practically impossible in a game’s lifespan to obtain) you wont be getting.

Yes, but they are all neatly tucked away in the WvW tab, which I politely ignore, and are not sitting there mocking me on the LS tab, where I’ll likely get all the other achievments without much trouble.

Oh, and I play on a Tier 1 server, where our competitors have 24/7 coverage. A 10 man group trying to get through during Sky Pirates was insufficient to overcome the gankerfest.

And to be clear, if they added a section of the LS achievements that were all WvW or PvP focused, and had a meta achievement to wrap all of those together, I’d be perfectly fine. Having a meta achievement that 90% PvE, but you have to go WvW, is just obnoxious.

Really boggles the mind that they’re doing this again.

As i first laid eyes on the leaked patch notes, i knew i would be making this build… it took me a few days to perfect it, and a lot more days to actual record and edit it, but i have remade my initial glass cannon guide…

Guild Wars 2 – redefining the glass cannon necromancer (perfected tutorial)

I have finally find a way by which people that are looking for a shorter version of the entire guide can now have what they want.
At the same time people that want to hear the whole story, how and why everything was designed this way… they can, within the same video.

I have also went further in depth then ever before with the explications behind my decisions on why this particular combination of skills, traits, utilities and damage rotation… by adding a proof of concept in terms of math calculations of the actual DPS over a benchmark of 30 seconds.

FINAL STATS:

3501 Power (+875 from 25 stacks of might)
51-54% Critical Strike Chance (100% Critical Strike Chance while in Death Shroud)
106-110% Critical Strike Damage
1934 Armor
19372 Health
10% Boon Duration
————
+ the ability to act as a debuffer – by adding up to 24 stacks of vulnerability on a target
+ up to 75% overall damage increases
+ the ability to have amazing DPS even while having a DPS uptime of 100% = highest overall DPS
+ the ability to stack 25 stacks of might on your own

This new way of doing things, while it is a great effort… has brought me a “burst” of positive feedback in the day since i uploaded the video… so i really hope you guys enjoy as well.

If i missed anything or if you have any questions feel free to comment here, on in the comment section on youtube.

Enjoy

Playing a game everyday is an achievement. For those who can spare the time each day to collect them I say give it to them that’s the reason they are giving you achievement points in the first place for them.

anet wants people to log in everyday having them not count is counter productive.

This game is not a spitting contest let people have their guaranteed rewards. To much in this game already is not guaranteed and luck based.

How we communicate is everything, those truly out there to train, teach, and share knowledge will take the time to review their form and style of communication to reach the largest audience. For example, L&D basics tell us to deliver training material in Visual, Audio and Kinesthetic means. If someone delivers in only one style they are not taking into consideration the audience’s needs.

The same applies when sharing info on a communal forum for the betterment of the community, try to deliver your content in a way that will reach the majority of people and not the minority. And always attempt to stay away from indirect pronoun statements, as they will the majority of the time, be taken in the wrong context.

Delivering cryptic content only serves the individual delivering it, as anyone who does not understand the cryptic content could feel cheapened, stupid, and a myriad of other negative emotions, not a message I would want to deliver to individuals when trying to help and share knowledge.

Lets break down the initial post:

First it states its a PSA, giving the reader a belief that this will be a post to assist and inform.

It then opens up with “I find your ignorance amusing…” Which of course is a direct attack on the individual reading the post, since there has been no referent to the pronoun made at any stage.

We then continue with a base equation that has no valid backing, and moving onto a “your welcome” showing an expectant request from the reader that after being fooled into the post, belittled and then given a half displayed equation that they should be thankful and of course creating a pre-disposed requirement to thank.

You then continue your PSA still using the referent pronoun which of course the reader has now taken onto themselves as the source of that pronoun, you move onto a belittling statement advising that if the reader does not know some supposed (no context) information on the scepter that you are questioning their actual proficiency as a Mesmer. (Directed attack)

You finish up with another cryptic statement followed by a laugh, which at this time can only be directed at the reader due to the multiple referent points that were never defined.

Perhaps next time, spend a few minute’s re-reading your post before posting to make sure that the message which I am sure is in there somewhere, is delivered in a way that will assist and encourage others to investigate and learn.

Hopefully they work more like HoM points where you don’t actually spend them; if you xxx number of points, than you can get yyy

Hey everyone, as you all know, the Aetherblade jumping puzzle opens up this week! (It is still unclear if the jumping puzzle opens up today July 1 or tomorrow July 2). Here are some info to help you get started.

Where: Gendarran Fields – just south of Broadhollow Waypoint

http://i.imgur.com/OKgzIjM.jpg

Difficulty: It is not as hard as Mad King’s Clocktower but it isn’t something most people can finish in 5 minutes. While the puzzle is not timed, there are many steam jump pads inside the puzzle that can take a bit of practice to get used to. On some of the jumps, a mistake can be fatal and you will be forced to restart.

Rewards: You will be given an exotic shoulderpad (soulbound on acquire) in the puzzle chest. Unfortunately the skins are not new (for light it is the stately set, for medium it is the prowler set, and for heavy it is the heavy plate set).

Along the way, you will find three Aetherblade caches inside the puzzle. These caches are like normal jumping puzzle chests and generally doesn’t give you anything good.

Guide: Here is a video to help guide you through the puzzle (spoiler obviously). Note that the puzzle ends at 5:36 and the rest of the video show you how to get to the optional diving goggles at the very top for your #38th location for the Dive Master achievement

Added another video showing you how to get down from the very top using diving goggles for the dive master achievement

Additional link: A longer writeup with some pictures can be found here:

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/01/gw2-not-so-secret-aetherblade-jumping-puzzle-guide

Have fun!

I really think that ANet didn’t think it through that far.

There was no conversation that started “Why aren’t more people running shatter builds.”

Instead, I think the discussion was “IC is too powerful to be an adept minor trait, let’s move it up a bunch”

The impact of that move was probably not completely thought out.

Carighan.6758:

Bloodgruve.6038:

Build diversity? Every build now has 25 fewer points to work with because of the Illusionists Celerity change. All has been said already. My Mesmer is sidelined until something else is done.

Blood~

Or you simply play without that trait. It’s not necessary, and builds work mighty fine without it. Ofc it’s a very strong trait, but hey, that’s why it’s 25 deep into one tree.

Get off that horse dude, seriously. There’s more people around these forums with design or development experience than just you.

For situations like IC, there are two correct ways and one incorrect way to address them. Did it need to be addressed? Yes. Did ANet address it in the worst possible way that they could have? Also yes.

Correct way the first is if the trait is (nearly) universally taken, then absorb it into the base numbers and put something different in its place that makes for an actual choice. Correct way the second is to restrict access, but apply countervailing buffs to affected skills, or other traits which affect said skills, so that specs which lose access will remain at the same overall power level. There were many buffs in the patch, but none aimed at counteracting the effect of losing IC.

The incorrect way is to restrict access with no countervailing buffs, as that has the effect of a significant classwide nerf to all specs other than those which retain access.

Unless you’re trying to argue the position that virtually all mesmer specs other than IP Shatter were that overpowered and in need of a significant nerf (and good luck doing that without becoming the laughingstock of this forum), ANet screwed up big time on IC, no matter how you slice it.

Further, I would like to note that the IC change was not in the leaked set of patch notes which now appear to be from a late beta version. This means that the IC change was likely made at the last minute and likely poorly thought through.

Shemsu.8721:

Molten facility was fun and epic but not hard

That’s exactly what temporary content should be: fun and epic, but not excessively hard.

Let this dungeon be hard when it becomes a fractal (as they have been hinting it will become). While it’s temporary, it should be doable by an average group with any class composition. Think of it as advertisement for the future fractal.

Rudi.9230:

now they make gem store down so ppl cant buy rich coffer and get chance to get compensation recipe ~_~

what so you want to buy one now because you are trying to cash in on a known error and you whining because you can’t????

BAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH and Double Baaahhhhhhhahahahha

ShAdY.7586:

Obsidian Scantum Achievement made me report 20 people, at that point I stopped counting and I am still lieing on the ground, reporting everyone who lays a hand on my mates.

the only thing this will accomplish is getting yourself banned. reporting players for things that are not offences is a bannable offence.

1. Overall, I rate this dungeon an ‘B+’

2. The mechanics of the first boss were awesome to figure out. Was running in a pug and nobody had a clue what we were doing, so it took a bit of time to get everyone one the same page about the phases of the fight. Pity you only ever get that one time where you’re figuring stuff out.

3. The fact that the boss fight is all about the mechanics and getting into the the flow is fantastic. MOAR STUFFS LIKE THIS KTHX!

4. One minor critique of that fight is that through no fault of your own, the lightning walls can come into being directly on top of you. If the golems are close by when this happens and go after you, you’re going to die, and there is nothing you could have done about it.

5. Moving through the rest of the dungeon had just the right amount of mobs to fight and little things going on to keep it from getting boring.

6. The final boss fight is excellent mechanics wise. Again, it’s a blast figuring these things out. I’m as big a fan of Dulfy as anyone, but I really recommend avoiding her site until you’ve gone through yourself at least once.

7. My critique of the last fight is simply that it’s too long. It’s hard to get a shadowstepping enemy to stay where you want them to, and you have to burn off 10 shields. That takes a while. Then, when she unleashes the cannon, those barrages also last too long. I swear I felt like the last one was never going to end, and it’s not like it’s scary. If you survive the first thirty seconds, you’ll almost certainly survive the whole thing.

8. Inspector Kiel should be made invulnerable. She’s not really any help during the fights, and her ‘dying’ doesn’t do anything, so just have her wander along, taking in the sights, while the players do all the work (this is exactly what NPC’s should do anyway…they’re not playing the game, we are)

9. I want dodging to be part of the dailies during this entire event. First time I ran into those lightning spamming pirates I swear I had 10 evades in the first few seconds of the fight.

10. MOAR DUNGEONS LIKE THIS! Better yet, let’s keep this one while you make more. Yes, the last fight was bordering into the tedious, but most of the dungeon was all about figuring out the fights and getting into the flow of things rather than just big bags o’ hit points with one-hit killing power. So much better this way.

You can’t be “ripped off” if you didn’t participate. You CHOSE not to buy and are thus NOT ENTITLED to a chance to get a recipe.

Please review the MANY threads that have already referenced the missing recipe that cited the original text of the website announcements that clearly indicated that the recipe should have been included. The websites do not currently list the recipe because they discovered that they did not include the recipe.

Your problem goes back to the beginning when you relied upon the wiki for your information instead of the official announcements.

Oh look…. 6 days ago, before they mentioned anything about the fix.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/dragonbash/Rich-Dragon-Coffers-Are-there-recipes

And even on the wiki talk page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Rich_Dragon_Coffer

I’m sorry, get over yourself. The Rich Coffer in the Gem Store has always said there was a chance for a recipe. I bought one to try my luck to no avail and wound up with 11 taffy for my 100 gems. There have been comments elsewhere asking about what recipe are they talking about. Maybe if you’d pay attention to things in the game and gem store you might not get all uppity and QQing over Anet trying to fix a problem for those that bought the rich coffers from the gem store.

Rudi.9230:

All players that purchased a Rich Dragon Coffer before the fix above was added will receive 1 Dragon’s Revelry Starcake recipe via in game mail as compensation. This compensation is scheduled to be delivered in a few days.

this item suddenly appeared
i always check gw2db and no idea about this item but suddenly release
http://www.gw2db.com/recipes?filter-recipe-date-added=4%2f30%2f2013
:(
i feel not fair about this
u should tell all player before release the patch or give 1/2 day before compensation to player who buy rich coffer too ~_~

nice filter on

Try and see it from the perspective of those that bought Rich Coffers. They had (1) no knowledge of the recipie and (2) zero chance of obtaining one. Yet they still bought them.

The compensation is very fair and generous from ANet, and I’m sure it’s appreciated by those it’s intended for.

nice filter off

What you’re asking for is ridiculous from then sense that with the current knowledge, purchase of a Rich Coffer yields a gauranteed return. Further it should be insulting to the intelligence of anyone reading this that you would think they can’t see this post as anything but the thinly veiled whine for free stuff as it is.

Rudi.9230:

yeah it means if we buy now we will not get compensation

It’s in the coffers now, if you buy now you might get it. They’re getting compensation for buying coffers previously because they had no chance to get what should have been in there. You don’t get compensation for a situation that never affected you previously.