Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Too bad there is still no forum “item/item mechanics” despite suggested a few times, so I just ask here I guess:
It says for 6-rune bonus “5% chance to summon a golem”.
5% chance on what? Getting hit? Hitting? Critting? Swapping weapons?
Edit: Just got a moderator msg “moved to players helping players”. So that means players have to figure out broken tooltips on their own I guess.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
That makes it obvious they have fired the whole original dev team and the new devs have to check out the code and learn it. Basically this is the only explanation why they “don’t have the tools” for something super basic as that. Either that or they’re just bullkitten you.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Levelling a human was basically slaying centaurs + undead from 1-80.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Glyph of elementals is much better, 1 minute uptime, 2 minutes cooldown.
Hounds are just very situational, so you have fun for 30s and then you’re waiting…zzZ.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I wrote two slightly different LFG lines in map chat with 10 minutes between them and got locked out of /map AND /say chat.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Try to turn off “reflections” in the graphics options.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Since the dev team seems in dire need of external help, here’s an idea: Make “invulnerable” mobs freeze in place for 5 seconds before it actually resets, as a warning, so the attacking player has sufficient time to realize it and reposition himself to make the mob attackable again.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Basically the problem here, which the OP touched, is that P2P people might lock out non P2P-people from certain content in the future, if for example gems are only affordable by real money.
And yeah, I also find the black lion chests dropping offensive, although at the same time funny because they’re so crappy – as someone said “The best item you can get out of a black lion chest is a black lion key”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I get rooted like 20x as often as I get stunned, add root break to mistform please, it only makes sense.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Why doesn’t Arenanet fix the wrong tooltips on traits, sigils, runes?
I just don’t get it. I mean there are even forum threads for them. All you have to do is sit down, look through 40 traits (or w/e) for one profession, verify the short tooltip, it takes what, 30 minutes?
I mean those are very basic interface flaws that make it that more aggravating when you revolve your build around them just to find out oh hey they don’t work as described.
I just cannot understand this. Someone explain whyyyy they don’t fix the tooltips!
It’s like, you go to an elementary school’s math course and the teacher is like “ok kids, 1+1=3” and you’re like what? And you ask the school headmaster “why do you keep that teacher?” and he’s like “huh, sorry no idea what you mean?”, it’s like you’re in a bad dream or some sort of comedy movie, but no, the tooltip stuff is for real o_O I don’t get itttt.
I mean you don’t even have to change code, just string resources.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well current rumor has it that because Arenanet decided to put a lot of critical calculations onto the client side to save money on the server side, thereby as a side effect making most cheats/exploits easily possible it also is responsible for the excessive CPU-heaviness of the game. So in a sense you’re paying for their server hardware if you upgrade your rig. Enjoy your 400 EUR game (or 500 collector’s edition).
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Yo Arenanet, there are various certifications available for software testing engineers and companies that create software based on international quality standards, maybe it’s time to go that route and hire one. I’m not trying to troll you, but the amount of obvious bugs that should’ve been removed during mid-beta is pretty ridiculous. I mean aren’t you really afraid/embarassed by this reflecting back on you or something?
Look, if you say “hey guys sorry, we will need 15 EUR from each subscriber to hire competent personnel and write decent code” I’d say – No problem! Here, have 20 EUR! After all I’d have been fine with paying subscription for this game easily (I’m not fine with the gem store at all though, but that’s another story.) Just get going the non-ridiculous route and it’ll be cool. You’re not a band of garage coders doing kitten in their spare time where noone cares how bugridden it is, I don’t think that could’ve eluded you, come on get a grip!
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Mesmers are definitely the most powerful class at the moment. Whether it’s OP or not, dunno. But if you play it right, a mesmer cannot be caught/killed in a 1v1 situation and can force you to flee.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Agree with OP. If you think teleport costs should scale with level, scale hearts/event rewards too then.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I heard a rumor that you can buy booster items from Arenanet’s store that increase damage and armor by 5% in WvWvW. Anyone tried that (I’m not into this stuff)?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, so what rigs are you using at ArenaNet? Let us know please!
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well have they actually acknowledged it as a bug or is just everyone hoping for it to get fixed while they hope for everyone to forget about it and not bothering anymore?
Seriously, I would have preferred a massive bug fix patch 100times over a seasonal event patch. Don’t get me wrong, I like seasonal events very much, but please direct all your forces into fixing the BASE GAME FIRST. It’s like building cool stuff..on sand. Thanks!
Alternatively, pay me as beta tester. That will work, too.
I know I’m strict, but I’m so for a reason. I’m frigging tired of sorting out runes and traits to find out they DONT WORK as they should/tooltip says.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Arcane Shield trait, still claiming it triggers at 25% health, does indeed trigger at 10% now. I just had it happen to me. Nice that they didn’t change the tooltip though, in hopes that people won’t notice until they got used to the trait being crap now.
Was pure luck noticing this because now you usually die in 95% of all cases before this trait triggers anymore.
Oh and is arcane power still “bugged” too? (as in, mysteriously not matching the tooltip anymore, without any patch notes. I mean the 2 attacks vs 5 attacks “bug”.) I’m not using it anymore so I wouldn’t know.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I wonder if the CPU-heaviness of the game is also based on putting all the load of stuff usually the server ought to do onto the clients actually.
In that case they might be saving some money while the actual game costs people 350 EUR :-p 50 for the game and 300 for upgrading your rig to enable it to do all the calculations that Arenanet’s servers dont feel like doing..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I don’t even understand why is there a need for such extreme RNG? did devs run out of ideas and this was the easiest way out of it?
Hm maybe NCSoft told them to make it similar to Aion?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
but since this is free to play I’m assuming you ask the clients for critical information
That’s like the most severe accusation against a development team imaginable in an MMORPG (well ok, except for generating loot for themselves).. any official statement?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, so what sort of PC do the developers use? I want to know too.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Whenever I invoke the map or change its zoom state it becomes a horrible 0.3 fps jerk fest.
Basically I just give the mousewheel a push, lean back and wait until the dia show has finished, and hope the zoom state I get at the end is usable for seeing what I wanted to.
Moving the map is similarly bad.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
If you have results of what FPS you get in Lion’s Arch with an NVidia card, let us know please! Will be very interesting.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Just don’t allow to rally by killing your target, only allow others (or yourself) reviving you.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Buying an intel chip is worth the money because not only are they faster, they also consume less power than AMD chips which will save energy and make up for the CPU price easily if you use your PC a lot.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Gems are equal to real money though, because they offer a way to exchange between the two, so it would seem logical that it doesn’t matter if you spent real money on gems or not, you still lost a real money value there, because gems can be exchanged for real money.
Imho they would only be eligible to say “hey you didn’t spend real money” if they didn’t allow those real money transfers in their game.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
All (GW2) audio stopped working about a week ago after an update, same for some other people.
I’ve posted 4 times about this with no ArenaNet response, wtf?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
The thing is, RTL is now additionally bugged. 7 out of 10 times I used it, it stopped my character movement and didn’t resume until I released the movement key and pressed it again, a huge annoyance.
Also, stealth nerf is baaaad, Assrenanet.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Or in other words:
If humankind exists indefinitely and does never get wiped out by any sort of crazy event, then there will be a person who, on flipping a (perfect) coin will get 100,000,000x ‘head’ in a row (should be doable within one’s life span if not slacking off), that’s what makes math so fascinating at times.
Well except if all humans agree on stopping flipping coins :/
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Seeing so many people crying about losing gambles, I remembered a forum posting on AION forums. Someone who tried acquiring a certain item with relatively low odds failed so often that his actual chances of failing this badly were around 1 in 15000. For those who don’t really understand gambling, basically this means you have 15000 lottery tickets in front of you and 14999 of those give you a “win”, only one gives you a “loss”, and he picked that. In the actual game it was basically repeatedly failing over and over and over on attempts to get the item, based on chance.
Now, if several million players play a game, there WILL be tens or even hundreds who will have this happen to them, and some who will encounter even worse “bad luck”! This is the, uh, both cruel and funny side of gambling guys.
As an additional note, because I think many people do not understand this, I’d like to add that your past results in a truly random gamble can never affect your future results (you know those sad people who think writing down the numbers/colours that were drawn in the last 100 games would give them a hint of what “has to come” next..).
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, 2 people chimed in on my last posting of this sort.
Basically, I didn’t change anything about my “setup”. Just after the patch from I think 5 days ago, next time I started GW2, there was just no music or sound coming out of it. (All other applications/games still work as usual, it’s just gw..)
I looked at output device, volume sliders and voice ducking slider, but none of those were the problem.
Also, one other person reported that it stopped working for him at the exactly same time.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Nice changes in general. Except as incisorr said, the 20s cd on mist form can be a bit much. Also, I’m not sure if glyph of renewal’s resurrection can now still be applied meaningfully in actual gameplay, with this nerf.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
everyone reporting “cpu bottleneck” seems to be using an nvida card.
Are there any reports of people getting poor fps on an AMD card actually?
Because there was one dood claiming he uses a Q6600 and AMD card and had great performance..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
it happens to users of nivida cards it seems.
Someone complained who had like the top end i7 cpu.
Someone with a q6600 and AMD card said it was fine… etc
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
1000 karma is gained by completing 3-4 higher level or WvW events, takes at most 30 minutes.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Would be nice if there was finally a response to this problem. No music, no sound.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Arenanet doods, you could give a temporary item on 1/3 chest probability or sth, that lasts for a day or so? Dunno if that would satisfy the whiners but it can’t hurt either.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
no.
A game should load textures once, initially, into your graphics card memory.
It might do that noticably on the fly, meaning if you enter a new area you will get stuttering for a bit when you first turn around and thereby “explore” it, until all textures have been loaded, this is what happens.
A game will never dispose of loaded textures and requiring to reload them again except if the graphics card memory is insufficient to store all of them though.
My guess is that a graphics card with 512 MB should have enough memory for loading a zone mostly fine, unless you switch to highest texture quality.
An SSD is still MUCH slower than your RAM, and buying one just because gw2 doesn’t do initial texture loading well is a real waste. That said, an SSD in general is nice, so if you want to speed up your loading in general by a factor of 2-3 (most tests gave about this result) get one.
When AGP bus systems were on their peak, AGP could use additional system RAM if your graphics card RAM wasnt enough for textures. This system RAM is still much faster than any SSD could possibly ever be. Still it would result in really poor performance! So, no. An SSD is not a solution to texture loading problems other than during the inital first couple of seconds you entered a new zone.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
It seems people with AMD cards have much higher fps than those with NVidia cards?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
lol “broken”, nope. There’s no way even a single 3rd rate programmer wouldn’t be able to fix whatever caused this. It’s definitely disabled on purpose, probably because someone found an exploit and they’re still not sure how to reproduce/fix it or something.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
