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So, when is the Engi getting nerfed in sPvP?

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Engineers are the strongest PvP profession.

Feature Build Balance Preview

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So where are the rest of the changes?

WvW Perplexity Runes

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Does the Superior Rune of Torment 6 piece bonus have a cooldown? Or can a Mesmer use 3 Mantras in a row for 6 torment stacks?

Elementalist health/armor design philosophy?

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if you want to do damage while not dying, you use a focus
you can complain that specific builds lack defensive measures, but you can’t complain that ele lacks defense mechanics

Yeah, eles have enough defensive stuff for a single build…it is just spread over every single weapon and utility…

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Dangerous precedent: Watchwork Pick

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If vol, who is married to an Anet dev, says something is wrong, then you know there is a problem…

WvW Perplexity Runes

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Is the ICD on the interrupt confusion stack per target or a universal cooldown?

Universal. You can no longer interrupt two players at once and have them both get the stacks from it. You can only have the 6th proc once every 8s on one target (at most).

Cheers. Seems it is more for roaming now, and not the OP zerg rune it used to be.

WvW Perplexity Runes

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Is the ICD on the interrupt confusion stack per target or a universal cooldown?

Dangerous precedent: Watchwork Pick

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Not a bug as they are advertising it on their own website. Here is how they describe it: “A recent breakthrough in mining technology has let us make a new infinite mining pick. This self-repairing pick has a chance to add a Watchwork Sprocket to the rewards when used to mine ore veins!

Ah, I had not seen that.
Since that is the case, I would say this is definitely crossing the line.

Well like I said earlier they are trying to test how far they can get. People complained about the first unlimited pick aswell but later people didn’t care anymore and we got more of them + they got more expensive. Now they are trying to give people another incentive to buy them.

The increase in cost is because they changed them from Soulbound to Account bound though.

They hired a former Nexon ‘expert’ for monetization, afaik. Doesn’t this say everything?

They did hire say expert several MONTHS BEFORE the release of the game though. So it is not something new. And if she did all this, one would wonder why she waited over a year with it.

Are you talking about John Smith? How do you know who they are?

They are talking about Crystin Cox, she is responsible for the cash shop model for Maple Story.

Ah. Cheers.

Molton Alliance Pick Idea!!! 20% Chance

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I think it should have a 20% chance to completely melt the node, making it inaccessible to everyone.

Dangerous precedent: Watchwork Pick

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Not a bug as they are advertising it on their own website. Here is how they describe it: “A recent breakthrough in mining technology has let us make a new infinite mining pick. This self-repairing pick has a chance to add a Watchwork Sprocket to the rewards when used to mine ore veins!

Ah, I had not seen that.
Since that is the case, I would say this is definitely crossing the line.

Well like I said earlier they are trying to test how far they can get. People complained about the first unlimited pick aswell but later people didn’t care anymore and we got more of them + they got more expensive. Now they are trying to give people another incentive to buy them.

The increase in cost is because they changed them from Soulbound to Account bound though.

They hired a former Nexon ‘expert’ for monetization, afaik. Doesn’t this say everything?

They did hire say expert several MONTHS BEFORE the release of the game though. So it is not something new. And if she did all this, one would wonder why she waited over a year with it.

Are you talking about John Smith? How do you know who they are?

Official Preview of Feature Patch?

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Im hoping the updated runes are also previewed then. I get all excited thinking about the new build possibilities if done right

That would probably explode the trading post.

Superior Rune of the Suckness

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Any chance Superior rune of the Suckness (Sunless) will be changed to something not horrendous? I would like to actually be able to make some gold from a Tequatl kill.

Elementalist health/armor design philosophy?

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There is no design philosophy behind the ele. The class lost it during the beta.

Lag a problem?

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Sometimes the event generates immense lag.

Please reconsider base-health values

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This is mainly an Elementalist issue.

Dragonite Ore

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I am a dungeon runner and having to waste my time in something as boring as repeating Temples and the same 3 boring events over and over and over and over with ALL my characters in order to get that rubbish, that other people not interested in crafting Ascended are actually trashing from their inventories makes me more than mad.
We don’t need an item to convert bloodstone, we need to reduce the drop of it and fill the gap with dragonite ore! Make it so that from a box you get either ore or bloodstone, because this way it’s ridiculous. I have like 10000 bloodstone and in days of grinding I’ve barely gotten 1000 dragonite ore.

I wonder if you realise the irony of your statement…

Well, I defended these new events at first..

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The problem with the Marionette, is that 1 guy can ruin it for everyone. When your party defeats its warden, the walls should go down letting you fight the ones next to you.

Also the camera sucks, as usual.

Please reconsider base-health values

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It is very evident from the marionette: warriors shrug off the sword hit, etc while elementalists are downed by it.

Dat PvE berserker gear!

So warriors are allowed full berserker gear and spec, but eles have to go full bunker? Thanks for highlighting the problem for us.

Like the full zerk warriors who spend more time running than killing which seems to generate qq in this forum? Yep. Good problem to have.

Thanks for that completely irrelevant comment.

Please reconsider base-health values

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High burst can be a defensive mechanic. It forces people onto the defenisve.

Dragonite Ore

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Many servers start massive boss kill chains at server reset.

Dragonite Ore

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Empyreal Fragments is a bigger problem….

A trader for both Dragonite Ore and Empyreal Fragments would be nice.

Please reconsider base-health values

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It is very evident from the marionette: warriors shrug off the sword hit, etc while elementalists are downed by it.

Dat PvE berserker gear!

So warriors are allowed full berserker gear and spec, but eles have to go full bunker? Thanks for highlighting the problem for us.

Glyph of Elemental Harmany - Protection

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Fire – Immune to Burning. Casts AoE Might.
Air – Immune to Blind. Casts AoE Fury.
Earth – Permanent Stability (like all other Earth Elementals have). Casts AoE Protection.
Water – Casts AoE Regen.

I think giving them these would be enough.

But yeah, the cast times on most of the Glyphs are far too long.

Please reconsider base-health values

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It is very evident from the marionette: warriors shrug off the sword hit, etc while elementalists are downed by it.

D/D Signet Condi build: thoughts?

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Why wouldn’t you go with a settler’s amulet rather than carrion to boost the healing potential of your signet?

I was thinking of that, but I liked the +Condition Damage from Carrion more. Plus, the thought of only having 10.8k ish health is scary lol. I suppose it would be easier to heal up to full health though…worth a shot.

Believe it or not, the lower your health is, the more effective healing power is in conjunction with high toughness. You can also run Rune of the Undead to match your condition damage with Settler’s that you would normally get out of Carrion.

Um, no. More health is always better, unless you are trying to stay above 90%.

Um no. Your health is a buffer, and the lower it is, the more effective healing is at keeping you sustained. If you lack condition removal, the toughness does no good, but an ele should be very good at removing conditions. Please don’t force your opinion on people, because it’s wrong. More health decreases the potency of your healing power.

I am just going to pretend you are trolling now. No way someone could actually believe this.

Glyph of Elemental Harmany - Protection

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Now if only Glyphs were viable.

D/D Signet Condi build: thoughts?

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Why wouldn’t you go with a settler’s amulet rather than carrion to boost the healing potential of your signet?

I was thinking of that, but I liked the +Condition Damage from Carrion more. Plus, the thought of only having 10.8k ish health is scary lol. I suppose it would be easier to heal up to full health though…worth a shot.

Believe it or not, the lower your health is, the more effective healing power is in conjunction with high toughness. You can also run Rune of the Undead to match your condition damage with Settler’s that you would normally get out of Carrion.

Um, no. More health is always better, unless you are trying to stay above 90%.

D/D Signet Condi build: thoughts?

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Pity Dagger earth 1 sucks.

Celestial Staff Water Embargo

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@Ozoug: The amount of +crit dmg it provides is disproportionately large compared to the other stats. It should not be the same as zerk when all the other stats are lower than the secondary stats on zerk.

The fact the +crit has remained so high this long should be considered a bonus. It should not be a surprise to see +crit on celestial come into line with the other stat bonuses it provides.

Yes, they need to make Celestial even more useless to please your sense of aesthetics…

Please reconsider base-health values

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Different health levels are fine. However, the massive variation in health, and the seemingly arbitrary nature of allocating health levels (elementalists get screwed) is NOT fine.

[UI] OVERRIDE target is out of range

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Agreed. All other games do it because it makes sense.

Skills stop working - really common bug.

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It is to do with failing to pick up an object off the ground, either due to moving or someone else picking it up first. It happened CONSTANTLY with the snowballs.

Beware: Marionette skill bug

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It is to do with moving and (failing at) picking up items or failing to pick something up because someone else picks it up at the same time. Anet really need to fix it.

Best way to make money with Ectos?

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People quit making Ascended armour because the cloth mats are so stupid.

So what will be the next "big" rune?

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Superior Rune of the Suckness. I mean Sunless.

Liadri Vs Teq & Wurm

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Liadri was the epitome of bad design.

Elementalist Arcane Shield

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The skill itself is nice. The cooldown is just far too long, and the cooldown reduction trait is just not viable.

[Elementalist] Cleansing fire

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I dont think its fair to compare skills cross-class. I think there is a reason ele utilities have higher CDs, presumably because of the utility of having 4 attunement weapon sets at their disposal which a class like guardian doesn’t have.

That is why eles have 4 weak attunements. This should not impact utility skills at all.

Rox vs Taimi. Another player vote?

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Rox wins the creepy vote.

Endless amounts of mob and no loot.

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Put a champ box on the guys inside the portals.

Which servers completed Marinette?

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SoS had a bugged server that let only 10 people in. Does that count?

I hope you buffed Rune of the Sunless

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Ah. Cheers for the info.

Scarlet, Mordremoth, and the Pale Tree

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Sylvari are dragon minions.

I hope you buffed Rune of the Sunless

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Is the rune and sigil patch today, or at a later date?

I hope you buffed Rune of the Sunless

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It is always depressing defeating Tequatl and getting this ‘exotic’.

This is the rune, in case anyone is wondering:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Sunless

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Flamekissed

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You know, in looking at all the situations with players and their different needs, I really believe the best course here is to wait for the introduction of the replacement armor set. From what I’ve been told, it’s going to be really nice. Please keep in mind we’ve already made it clear that Customer Support will try to resolve the individual concerns that you may have once the armor change is made. Each of you may have slightly different situations. But since the armor is not out now, and because we will be happy to address your concern after you’ve had time to appraise the new set, doesn’t it make sense to wait and see?

This is a difficult situation you’ve placed yourselves in here:

You create an entirely new skin for the flamekissed light armour – the heavy and medium will have had less effort placed on them and are deemed by some as “lazy reskins” by comparison.

You reskin an existing light armour set – will be compared in terms of quality and rarity to the original removed set. You started off with a reskin of one of the most sought after armours in the game. Mmany reskins of existing armours will be considered a downgrade regardless of added fire effects.

If you go for a reskin of an existing set it’s going to have to be pretty amazing.

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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RedStar.4218:

Yes some players might have bought gems specifically for this armor. But that doesn’t change the fact that in the future they have 800 gems they can use to buy something else they want.
And honestly, I’m pretty sure that for most buyers, this wasn’t their first time using their credit card to buy gems. When Anet releases a new skin, they will probably buy it. Or the one released after. Or after.

Point is : they aren’t going to lose those 800 gems. There’s nothing disingenuous about that.

No the point IS lots of folks feel bait and switched.

How can you feel bait and switched thought? There offering you a refund bait and switch would be telling you we have product A then u buying Product A it being product B and us saying tough luck no refund. There offering to do the right thing? I have mentioned it numerous times. How can you feel baited and switch when you rent a product. When you rent a car if the rental company does not have said promised car in stock you get the next best thing.

And how are they going to fix the other things, like give people their old armor back, Money spent on Hairkits/ Dyes to match armor up. Weapons to match the new armor.. just seems many are being shortsided with there solution not realizing the problem is much larger than more complex than.. (you get your gems back whats your problem) attitude.. ANet Mods and Devs are acting the sameway.. u work for them ?

There will still be a flame armor and their changes will still match so nothing will go to waist. In the end they customized to match the theme not the model of the armor.

One of the biggest aspects of the “endgame” is kitting out your character in specific armour parts. You can have items that are similar in theme but very different in style.

As it stands the replacement flamekissed light armour is going to have to be outstanding to in any way lessen the impact of this debacle.

Based on past trends Anet will probably reskin a terrible light set and be genuinely surprised at the outcry.

You really think they would be that stupid to come up with another recycled set after all this? I’m pretty sure the new set will be amazing and most people won’t even want the refund.

Counterpoint – The other flamekissed sets.

Say they design an entirely new amazing flamekissed light armour set. Now the heavy and medium sets are just lazy reskins by comparison.

This is a pretty poor situation Anet have made for themselves.

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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RedStar.4218:

Yes some players might have bought gems specifically for this armor. But that doesn’t change the fact that in the future they have 800 gems they can use to buy something else they want.
And honestly, I’m pretty sure that for most buyers, this wasn’t their first time using their credit card to buy gems. When Anet releases a new skin, they will probably buy it. Or the one released after. Or after.

Point is : they aren’t going to lose those 800 gems. There’s nothing disingenuous about that.

No the point IS lots of folks feel bait and switched.

How can you feel bait and switched thought? There offering you a refund bait and switch would be telling you we have product A then u buying Product A it being product B and us saying tough luck no refund. There offering to do the right thing? I have mentioned it numerous times. How can you feel baited and switch when you rent a product. When you rent a car if the rental company does not have said promised car in stock you get the next best thing.

And how are they going to fix the other things, like give people their old armor back, Money spent on Hairkits/ Dyes to match armor up. Weapons to match the new armor.. just seems many are being shortsided with there solution not realizing the problem is much larger than more complex than.. (you get your gems back whats your problem) attitude.. ANet Mods and Devs are acting the sameway.. u work for them ?

I hate to break this to you but that’s not there problem. Lets say you decide to go out to a fancy restaurant to eat. Make reservations to go to said restaurant you go buy a new suit/dress get your hair done rent a car etc. When you get there the restaurant is closed even thought you had reservations. There not responsible for your other transactions. That was your call to spend all your gold/cash on those item’s. They already said they will be returning items you transmuted over to you.

But the restaurant is closed. And people are justifiably not happy about it. Some people did get into the restaurant on time and ordered the steak. Now who knows what they’ll get? Lobster? A salad?! It’s a madhouse! What kind of terrible restaurant is this anyway?!

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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RedStar.4218:

Yes some players might have bought gems specifically for this armor. But that doesn’t change the fact that in the future they have 800 gems they can use to buy something else they want.
And honestly, I’m pretty sure that for most buyers, this wasn’t their first time using their credit card to buy gems. When Anet releases a new skin, they will probably buy it. Or the one released after. Or after.

Point is : they aren’t going to lose those 800 gems. There’s nothing disingenuous about that.

No the point IS lots of folks feel bait and switched.

How can you feel bait and switched thought? There offering you a refund bait and switch would be telling you we have product A then u buying Product A it being product B and us saying tough luck no refund. There offering to do the right thing? I have mentioned it numerous times. How can you feel baited and switch when you rent a product. When you rent a car if the rental company does not have said promised car in stock you get the next best thing.

And how are they going to fix the other things, like give people their old armor back, Money spent on Hairkits/ Dyes to match armor up. Weapons to match the new armor.. just seems many are being shortsided with there solution not realizing the problem is much larger than more complex than.. (you get your gems back whats your problem) attitude.. ANet Mods and Devs are acting the sameway.. u work for them ?

There will still be a flame armor and their changes will still match so nothing will go to waist. In the end they customized to match the theme not the model of the armor.

One of the biggest aspects of the “endgame” is kitting out your character in specific armour parts. You can have items that are similar in theme but very different in style.

As it stands the replacement flamekissed light armour is going to have to be outstanding to in any way lessen the impact of this debacle.

Based on past trends Anet will probably reskin a terrible light set and be genuinely surprised at the outcry.

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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Those who say “we wouldn’t have bought 800 gems”, stop saying like this was the first and last time you ever use gems. “After this, it was the last time !”, see you in a year and let’s see if you never used gems.

You’re being a little disingenuous here.

While there may be people who state they will never again buy gems, which in a lot of cases we all know won’t hold, there are distinctly people who did buy gems specifically for this armour, and potentially would not have were it to look like something else.

Yes some players might have bought gems specifically for this armor. But that doesn’t change the fact that in the future they have 800 gems they can use to buy something else they want.
And honestly, I’m pretty sure that for most buyers, this wasn’t their first time using their credit card to buy gems. When Anet releases a new skin, they will probably buy it. Or the one released after. Or after.

Point is : they aren’t going to lose those 800 gems. There’s nothing disingenuous about that.

No. The Point is – Some people may not have bought those 800 gems at all.