Guild Wars 2

Yenn.9185:

Alukah.2063:

Flip a coin 1 million times, get head 1 million times.

0.5^1million = very unlikely. I’m not gonna put my argument of “it can happen” into that miniscule chance. It’s more practical to think the opposite.

I’m fine with that, as long as you don’t end up calling shenanigans on the stated chance if it happens (like several in this thread seem to imply).

Thanks for the warning, and I’d urge you to send a ticket. Anet’s customer support team is very forgiving with player mistakes, you might get your item back (or at least the skin).

LS doesn’t mean they can’t add new maps/races, I think about LS as a big expansion being divided in very small updates, they would still release all content that would come with an expansion, but slower.

andytango.2950:

Guys, 100 tries is actually a decent sample. Getting only 15% shows that he is either extremely unlucky or the 40% chance isn’t what it seems to mean.

The first seems more accurate.

I do hope some day people will learn that as long a there is a chance for something to happen, no matter how big is the sample that chance will not go away.

Flip a coin 1 million times, get head 1 million times.

Are you talking about an old update? I’ve been around here for like a month and a half and those electrical fields have always been there.

Zerole.7306:

Aeolus.3615:

Zerole.7306:

You can be in overflows for the tower. I get what you are saying, it will be interesting how they handled that.

what happens to the tower on a server when players from that server inject the anti toxin in an overflow zone?

On a buffer overflow, i imagine only the tower of the overflow ends, and if you save on the overflow player on the server might decided to end it.

Dont get me wrong im at work, so still speculating on the process how Anet is envolving something that does not fit in the game engine, talking about chooses, events decided by players, it does not make sense with overflow system…

I might be missing something, but as i understand this, the tower will only fall after the bloom has been injected a number of times. It’s like a server wide thing. I injected the bloom last night, and tower is absolutely still standing. There appeared to be a progress bar for the how many times it had been done, and was barely moving. Given that the overflow isn’t persistent (I don’t think? ), is that progress wasted?

As far as I understand, when you enter an instance it is hosted in your home server, and you have to enter an instance to inject the anti-toxin.

I don’t recall they removing the old good looking gear from dungeons / faction NPCs.

Yes, they are focusing more on gem skins, but the free alternative is and has always been there.

rizzo.1079:

Adam.4103:

Charak.9761:

So instead of buffing other methods of gold acquisition, they nerfed one of the viable options.

Great, back to TP flipping cause Anet doesn’t understand how proper rewards should be rewarded.

Why should mindless farming in a zerg reward people? If you want good money do dungeons.

Because I have more fun running with the zerg in FG than I do trying to memorize the unfun dungeons. Because the game is about fun, not making good money.

They didn’t nerf the fun, they only nerfed the good money.

SoPP.7034:

Balthazar temples ALL CLOSED on NA servers. Saw it open on one EU server, which doesn’t help.

I can pursue Obsidian shards else where, but just wanted to say Balthazar temple is still fail.

You have to check that page several times a day, I know Jade Quarry and Blackgate usually do it every 2-3 days or so, though it only remains open for a few hours.

I hope they fix the scaling in that event, it would have higher uptime if it wasn’t for that 90% chance to fail.

There’s a sticky thread about it.

JJBigs.8456:

it should detect, ele aoe move, guardian symbol of swiftness aoe – stand in it. . definatly think 1200 range spells need a nerf

The counter to 1200 range are:

1- Reflect projectiles
2- Ranged attackers – the fast ones are hard to dodge once they start attacking faster than your stamina is recovered.
3- Anet works with the twisted logic that ranged = weaker not only in term of armor, but also damage.

Naur.9820:

So what? It is still valid. Instead of starting a new topic I did what most forums usually wants players to do: searching old topics and post on those. More logic that is failin?

Most forums want you to search older posts to see if they solve your issue, not to necro-post.

You’re replying to people who may not be here anymore, or might have changed their mind in those two months, or the circumstances might have changed, or (as example, doesn’t apply here) the topic has been resolved.

Avoid necro-posting and save yourself an infraction, if older discussion don’t solve your problem start a new one, don’t revive old ones.

nirvana.8245:

Alukah.2063:

Question from a non-WvWer, are team colors supposed to be rotated during season 1 or some servers have set colors? (like Maguuma being red all 4 rounds)

They did the colors according to who was ranked highest coming into leagues. The schedule here shows the color plan:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Season-1-Schedule

JQ was ranked 1st going into leagues so they are green every week. SOR was ranked second and is green in every week they are not matched with JQ. BG was ranked 3rd and is green in the one week they are not matched with SOR or JQ etc etc

Green = highest rank, Blue = Second highest rank and Red = lowest rank in a matchup.

And there goes all my hope to finish my map completion.

/cry

Thank you.

I agree with a lot of what OP is saying, but dang, this whole thread is just a big flame bait for champ farmers and a lot of them are biting.

Question from a non-WvWer, are team colors supposed to be rotated during season 1 or some servers have set colors? (like Maguuma being red all 4 rounds)

Volrath.1473:

Is it so hard to give us a time in GMT or CET?

18:00 GMT.

There.

I started playing a bit over a month ago and I have 620k karma leftover after buying a PVT set and getting obsidians for ascended (i actually got 2x more than what I needed, “just in case”).

I honestly can’t relate to karma being hard to get, when almost anything gives you karma.

I still prefer external services for voice chat, it works better to create a real gaming community not restricted by game, I can switch to any game and still interact with my friends from other games.

RaynStargaze.6510:

i think none of you played TERA where all dungeons are in insanely small spaces which kittens the camera up horribly and people ask you to tank mobs with your back against a wall which causes you to entirely lose sight – roflmao

gw2 camera is pretty alright as far as im concerned

“The camera is worse in X game, therefore ours is fine”.

How about both are bad and should get some improvement?

I think it’s this meta event http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Operation_Southern_Advancement

STRanger.5120:

coglin.1867:

STRanger.5120:

kokiman.2364:

Jatacid.3725:

I do wonder if I’m the only one that feels this.

You should because the game you are talking about is an MMORPG, those games are designed to be time wasters. It’s kinda weird that you don’t want to invest much time with games but yet choose one of the most timeconsuming genres out there.

It’s more like a MMO, not MMORPG. RPG as a genre is dead for a long time already, so please do not mistake it with present games. Thank you.

RPG fan

this doesn’t even make sense.

Maybe to you, but it makes perfect sense to a player who loves RPG genre. Do you know what RPG means at least?
Also, this was discussed on these forums as well, what this term means exactly.

“I consider the RPG genre to be dead, so please don’t use that term even though it’s just my personal opinion”.

Personal opinions apart, (back to the topic) it’s pretty much the same in all MMORPG, they are a trap for your free time.

>The arc is about Scarlet.
>People get surprised that she’s involved.

Behellagh.1468:

lordkrall.7241:

Behellagh.1468:

You may have considered it a major selling point, I considered it a footnote. And at no time did they ever say that it would be an “affordable” way to do so.

I have pointed out that those with the mindset to buy gold to buy a precursor or legendary that now it’s 70% cheaper than a year ago. Right now it’s around 4g per $1. And the now nerfed champ farmers are complaining they need gold to boost up their crafting skills to so they can craft their ascended weapons. Well there you go, 4g per $1, what are you waiting for.

I understand, you what to play a game for “free”. Just like TV and movies are “free” and music is “free”. Just buy some gems you cheapskates or ignore the cash shop because the days of “cheap” gems for gold is long gone and isn’t coming back.

Hm?
Was this meant for me, because what I said was more or less exactly the same as you, but with fewer words

Only the first part. I never heard ANet advertise the exchange as a feature for casual players.

Key point of the first part of his statement: “if”.

Ath.2531:

leprekan.7248:

Nothing was stopping you from doing that before they nerfed the Champ farm. You saying this was a step in the right direction screams that you are just supporting Anet blindly in this or don’t actually have any real game goals requiring a lot of gold. Anet doesn’t need to nerf another thing in this game. If they are unhappy with people farming something they need to BUFF other alternatives not nerf the already very LIMITED opportunities that currently exist.

The champ farm was more than just the silver per box it was also Tier6 mats … 2 birds one stone, which is what made it so efficient. If it is easier to obtain gold it frees time to actually DO OTHER THINGS. Having to grind for longer to make less just forces people to choose to grind and only grind or leave the game. For the love of common sense Anet please wake up and realize that.

Even though i can agree that nothing was stopping me from doing that before they nerfed the champ farm you coudn’t be farther from the truth in your assumption that i have no real game goals requiring a long of gold.

I have farmed my way to crafting a legendary, ascended weapon and on my way to crafting another ascended weapon + backpiece before the end of this week. Having already gotten another 2 gifts my longer term goal is to craft another legendary when the new ones are announced.

The reason i said that this is a step in the right direction is because i fondly believe that this will indirectly push people in acquiring gold in more varied ways than repeating the same route for hours on end. When i was farming in Orr for 3-4g an hour there were no other equivalent alternatives.Now there are. Quite a few actually. Please do try them as a proof of concept before saying they are unequal in terms of income.

Don’t get me wrong. I am an avid farmer and i continue to farm, albeit in a different style. But the Champ farm in my opinion is the single worst way i have encountered for farming in my life.

Do try this:
1) Do 3 dungeon speed runs. (at least 2g upon finishing each one) for over 4.5g + ascended mats
2) Check http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html and guest to a server that is currently doing 1-3 temples. You can guest to 2 servers a day. So doing 3 temples a day is easy for around 1g per temple in loot or less + ascended mats
3) Do a Scarlet invasion when it pops up for up to 5g in gold

After doing these 3 things, sell your mats or what not and count your gold. If you havent made at least 10g within 2-3 hours then i’ll take my word back.

This is better for tracking temples and all other meta events that reward a chest + a bonus chest (guaranteed rare / chance for exotic)

http://us.gw2stuff.com/

All those events are my main form of farming, jumping through different chain of events keep things fresh, switching between that and dungeons should give a decent income, with the small chance to get precursors.

Raine.1394:

In GW2, too often your only mistake was entering combat.

The Truth™

For me it depends, mainly on the rewards. If the content is not that bad I could do it just to get over it, but -for example- today I was made aware that we are being forced to run fractals in order to use two of the same trinkets with the same kind of infusion, which along to ascended backpieces being available only through fractals made me think about how “tryhard” (lack of better word) a developer has to be to make equipment upgrades only available through unwanted content.

Becka Williams.4978:

It was supposed to be a surprise?

Scarlet being involved, no.

This not happening in PvE and only in WvW, yeah. Quite an odd way to introduce the “real culprit”.

I just saw that in a WvW offshoot event, I never saw that in a PvE map before… Has this happened before?

They can modify any monster or area not directly related to the living story, which is pretty much every map except for the currently explorable zones of Orr.

And no, Orr should not be cleansed, or at least the currently explorable zones.

I have to assume that many of you missed or chose not to read this thread, but here’s something to highlight:

BobbyStein.2315:

• Pacing: …we made the conscious decision to pace out her character development over multiple game builds. In other words, we haven’t gotten to that part of her story yet, but since nobody outside the building has an idea of what’s to come I can understand the reactions that she’s “one-dimensional” or conveniently powerful. We’re aware of the perception and feel that future releases will have content that develops her character.

“we haven’t gotten to that part of her story yet”

Want it shorter? Here: be patient.

If the feedback was that her story is developing too slow I’d fully agree, but you guys are criticizing a content in development as if it was the finished product.

LordByron.8369:

oZii.2864:

LordByron.8369:

P.S. 10% difference (or more) is not an extremely small boost…

The weapon damage is where the damage is at so it looks like 1.10 and the Normal exotic damage looks like 1.0.

sry i read “tailoring” and was thinking to Whole ascended stuff..

Yet i wouldn t consider it a small boost because adding all those small boosts people says to ignore you end up with a HUGE boost.

Sorry, when I said “small boost” I meant “small impact”.

It quite depends on the content you spend most of the time on, perhaps it does help in sPvP, but in PvE the impact of using ascended weapon would be what, killing a mob half a second faster? I don’t think that’s worth 143g (artificer) + 60~70g (mats) to craft the weapon, and I guess WvW should be something similar, given that the whole thing is zerg oriented.

Maybe when Ascended armor is here, adding both small boosts it becomes a decent boost, but right now I wouldn’t even consider it unless I’m drowning with gold, really bored and with nothing else in queue to buy.

The boost from exotic → ascended is extremely small, not worth to upgrade unless you have enough spare gold and are extremely bored.

Seras.5702:

I think that Anet should, with each LS update, add just a little more of Orr healing. Just a beach to start…which spreads further inland. Then another coast or tiny island. Perhaps a single temple spreading some healing, and revamping that particular temple’s event chain to a defend rather than attack style.

Over time, we’d see the fruits of our victory against Zaihtan. Then, when Anet finds the time is right, release a LS patch that is focused on the healing of Orr and big changes and a progression to the next chapter in our war against the dragons.

As long as the Personal Story exists, it will always restrict the Living World.

There are certain things that just cannot change, Orr (three explorable zones) cannot be fully cleansed (or even partially) without messing the story for those who still haven’t gone through it. We could say that those maps are set in an specific timespan, it doesn’t matter if you visit them after you finish your Personal Story.

I pretty much fully agree with Kaos.9162 and RedGlow.2715 on this.

So much hate for Scarlet, sometimes justified, most times just blind hate.

At least wait until the full story is out before bashing the writers, this is just the beginning of the Tower of Nightmares.

Arimahn.3568:

Phasing zones is hell of a technology.

The problem with Orr isn’t really the Risen there (They thankfully made them more bearable), it’s that the entire place has no purpose. Nobody does Temple events, nobody really farms there except maybe to get saplings and ore and so forth. And why would they? Champ trains are more profitable. Dungeons don’t require you to go there. The visuals are depressing.

Every server does every temple event several times a day (except for Balthazar).

If you see temples contested is just because they go back risen hands in about 1~2 hours after the event.

While champ farming is the most efficient way to get money, it’s not the only efficient way. Doing all these events is -by far- a lot less boring and monotonous than champ farming for hours.

I prefer 2 week updates, that way if you don’t like the update you have a shorter wait time for new stuff to come out.

The second bug is triggered by the distance of the party members to the front of the airship, if any member of your party goes past the reward chest both dragons will reset to full HP, the whole party must stay at the front.

A third bug would be that Destiny’s Edge NPCs don’t leave the airship cabin unless someone goes inside while mobs are around, they are supposed to come out and help as soon as the dragons start attacking the airship.

Soo I bought a PVT set for PvE (mainly dungeons) and I was wondering, which runes should I get for this set?

(I also have a zerk set which I’ll switch whenever I need more dmg)

I think the reason why this thread is getting so many mixed opinions is because people are thinking about very specific scenarios when talking about this new trait (like someone thinking about dungeons or random PvE content, while others thinking about specific sPvP builds/combos)

This change might be decent in sPvP, but I feel like PvE in general was the most affected.

I’ve used it successfully before, with those mass-deaths in teq and in dungeons, cd is high yeah but people shouldn’t be dying that quick in a dungeon. I only use earth if more than 1 is down or air if the person is still being attacked.

The most annoying thing of this is the casting time, but i guess it’s there to cancel the skill in case the person dies.

After this, I’m dropping Air Magic to 0. Thanks for ruining that skill.

Maybe it’s time to move to another class, one that doesn’t suck and is favored by the devs.