How much health did you have by the time the vault hit?
I believe a 22k vault could happen if all the stars aligned in a once in a life time moment.
Mordremoth; The rifts are OUTSIDE the map
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Posted by: Azure Prower.8701
Restart the mission and pray it doesn’t happen again.
#HeartOfBugs
I believe you are confusing addiction with entertainment.
Don’t tell me you’re surprised. Or do you really believe they make a game to pleasure US. No, it’s to make cash. And lots of it.
If they fail to have a game that legitimately entertains and instead causes nothing but constant frustration. Then they fail as a game company to retain the good will of their customers. You know, where their cash comes from.
If they succeed in obtaining cash from people who don’t know any better. I believe one calls that a scam.
Simple solution: Pick guardian. It’s basically the same armor archetype and weapons set.
Whilst I have a little more time to spare to play the game. Many friends I play with, don’t.
This gives me limited time to enjoy the game with them and get things done. Seeing as for example, we don’t progress through the story with out each other. We get as much done as possible in the limited hours we are given together.
Yet we constantly run into things in this game that simply wastes your time.
First and fore-most time waster is the bugs. Last night we were doing Bitter Harvest and attempting the achievements. Long story short. I as the instance owner had to jump off the spinning helix to go forth and clear the second path for the achievement. This how ever didn’t stop you from spinning even whilst gliding. When you land on the ground, you get throw into a wall and stuck with no way to get out. That’s an hour wasted to re-do over.
Second time waster is unskippable scenes and dialogue in story. I understand the first time around. But the second? Third? Fourth? etc. Just more forced time waiting to add to the barrier to content.
Third time waster is the grindy barriers for the new masteries. You are quite limited to what you can do at first to get any where with this new system. Making it quite hard to progress, let alone be able to do stuff with friends who aren’t up to the same masteries as you are. Not only that, there are not one, but TWO gating methods to earn your masteries. The first is unlocking through grinding experience and the other is grinding achievements for mastery points. It’s simply only there to slow your pace in consuming content and to waste your time running the same events over and over.
Fourth time waster is the amount of junk you’re given. Bags with more bags inside of them. Bags full of junk gear which only serves to fill up your bag and waste your time clicking to see them one at a time at a vendor. Why do our bags get purposefully filled up with junk that could easily just be given as pure coin? To encourage the buying of gems for bag slots obviously.
Fifth time waster is the major meta events. Standing around waiting for a meta event to start whilst taxing people in. Hoping every one else can be competent in completing the meta event. Have it crash or fail any way to have you show little for your time invested.
Sixth time waster is the gold expense and grindiness to obtain basically any thing. Fully encouraging you to convert gems into gold to be able to afford any thing. Or expect grinding for weeks on end at your favourite nerfed, gold out-put event. Just going to show how the cash shop and gold buying in this game inherently affects the course of it to reduce your enjoyment unless you buy gems.
Next topic is if this game is value for your money?
The core game in the first couple of years of release. Yes. Yes it definitely was.
Is the Heart of Thorns expansion?
No. No it is definitely not. Especially with its detachment from the core game and basically changing the game for the worse in order to stretch out the thinly spread content.
It should have been red flags when Arena Net advertised Season One as an ‘expansion worth’ of content.
Now the game has gone Free to Play with paid for downloadable content that is just as overpriced as its cash shop. It’s becoming as bad as the Free to Play Korean grinders I used to play a decade ago and that’s saying some thing.
The current state of the game is appalling.
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This expansion was more of a patch I’m beginning to think…
The players asked for an expansion, there never was one. You were all sold the living story 3, packaged and sold as “an expansion.”
It should of been a red flag when Arena Net advertised Season 1 as ‘an expansion worth’ of content.
I blew through the story in less than an hour.
Blatant exaggeration.
Quite so. Especially with all the forced wait times to sit through all the unskippable scenes and dialogue after the first time around.
It’s either SoS or SOL.
Does that mean we ignore the world outside the game?
Yes.
To those complaining about Warriors. Thief says hi.
I didn’t expect such a negative response. :x
As more than one person said, this is a game, real-world politically-correct agendas don’t need to infect it for their own sake.
^ This.
It has been represented quite distastefully in this game.
SJWs need to go back to tumblr.
Solution: Play WvW until you have all HoT hero challenges complete.
Tomorrow will be 20 days and the day after that, 21.
After you’ve maxed your masteries. What is the point of exp again?
You don’t gain additional mastery points or any thing. Which is quite lazy, especially when you’re using forcing optional achievements to be “content” for progression.
How is not f2p am I delusional ?
1) the $100 I spent on the expack says it’s not f2p
2) the f2p you’re referring to is much closer to a free to try. An extended trial version with numerous restrictions on trade, chat, where you can go and when, character limit, whispering…. among other restrictions.SWTOR is classified as f2p. It also offers a sub and requires you to pay for expansions.
Don’t fool yourself.
Guild Wars 2 is free to play. Welcome to your overpriced, cash shop centric game. Enjoy.
Unless you paid actual money you can’t post on the forums. You’re posting on the forum so this means you paid money to access the game. Therefore for you, me and for everyone else here, it’s not f2p but b2p.
What ever makes you sleep at night. Keep telling yourself that. I’ll be waiting here in reality when you’re ready to join us.
Just because you paid before the switch to free to play, doesn’t mean it isn’t.
How is not f2p am I delusional ?
1) the $100 I spent on the expack says it’s not f2p
2) the f2p you’re referring to is much closer to a free to try. An extended trial version with numerous restrictions on trade, chat, where you can go and when, character limit, whispering…. among other restrictions.
SWTOR is classified as f2p. It also offers a sub and requires you to pay for expansions.
Don’t fool yourself.
Guild Wars 2 is free to play. Welcome to your overpriced, cash shop centric game. Enjoy.
am I delusional ?
No. But seems many of the people that play this game are. I don’t understand the mindset of people so eager to be exploited by these predatory business practises. Unless they of course have invested interest in the company or in-game, which causes them to be bias and their opinion not to be trusted.
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The problem is that central tyria is full of smoke and mirriors. Invisible walls and half made terrain abound!
Since masteries only work in PvE, it only makes sense that mastery points are earned there.
Since none of the masteries do anything at all in WvW or PvP, why should you go there for mastery points? I don’t get your logic.
Really? So there’s an invisible energy barrier that prevents legendary weapons from entering WvW and PvP?
Tell me more.
Just go dragon hunter. Already making my transition there. It’s obvious Anet doesn’t care for thief any more.
That’s nothing, I once saw a thief being able to heal themselves to full by simply doing damage and not using a healing utility.
As a guardian. This is unacceptable.
dash – remove 3 condition which are most hated by thief
trick withraw and RFI – will remove those 3 and 2 more if traited
stealth SA – will remove dmg conditions
SS – remove 3 condition
sword#2 remove 1 condition can be spammblethief got less massive condition cleanse but can clean with a lot of skills
so guard may cleanse every 40 sec with 2 skills F2 and utility but thats it usuallyBasically to be of any use you need to waste traits on condi cleanse, and most of those clears are for movement impairing condis, sword 2 is a waste or ini if you spam it to condi clear, SS is basically a must if you want condi clear,
Even the shadow step utility is not a good condi clear. It only clears upon using its return function, not on demand.
Basically either wasting the shadow step for a mere 3 condi clears or being clairvoyant to know when you’re going to be condi-spammed and use the shadow step preemptively.
I can’t believe ANet made us pay for an expansion. I mean who does that? No one makes people pay for expansions, what makes Anet think they’re so special that they think we should have to pay for an expansion.
I believe it issue is making people pay for some thing they’ve already had being repackaged as new.
Whether Heart of Thorns expansion is value for money is quite a valid question.
But of course, if you continue to support shady business practices. You deserve to be exploited.
Hard to sort old information from new in that thread.
Wasn’t too sure. As condition guardian had been quite strong in recent times. Though the new long bow and trap skills seem to focus more on power based damage. Unless I was missing some thing.
>>>3 months ago<<< i had 76 silver, played a lot of sw and the lab at the recent halloween festival (that even got me 5 free 20 slot bags lol), now i’m sitting on over 600g – more listed on the tp and all this just by playing and a bit of crafting here and there.
Not paid out a single penny of my own money to ‘get’ gold either, best thing is just play the game, gather as you run around maps.
I have one account and two characters, only one of those is a level 80 too. i have my own guild with 50 storage Oo, i dont get how your NOT making gold in game, it is everywhere lol.
…….or you can post on the forum, its completely up to you shrug
Found the problem in your argument. Silverwaste’s gold output has been nerfed recently.
So your condescending post just makes you look ignorant.
In other news. Buying gems and converting them to gold is a reliable way of obtaining gold in this F2P game!
When is fix for map completion rewards?
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Posted by: Azure Prower.8701
I don’t want to start 100%-ing HoT maps until the map rewards for completion works for those who have 100%-ed Tyria.
What is the gear meta for Dragon Hunter currently? Berserker?
Don’t you just double click two slivers to make a fragment?
I destroyed it with out any repercussions.
The Jungle Provides - Totems of the Itzel
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Posted by: Azure Prower.8701
Oh… just you wait for rabbit achivement in Tarir trial.. .
That one just doesn’t seem well thought out at all.
Yea, I’d like this too. They’ve got wings for a reason.
Also, I’ve heard it auto-hides when going underwater?
It’s like they half-baked something and put in on the store.
Any thing to make a quick cash shop sale.
Boo. Hiss.
So far I’m having an easier time going through HoT on every other class after first going through it with Thief. Even though my thief has the best gear.
I’m quite positive… that Thief sucks.
Prediction:
Gunslinger will be an elite spec with rifle. They’ll put buffed ricochet in it. It’ll be a GM trait in the same tier as a capstone rifle trait so you have to choose between them. The other gunslinger traits will have a common theme of pistol/rifle/utility choices. People will be mad about it for a week just like feline grace/daredevil. Then everyone will forget about it after a few months.
Cool. See you in 3 years for your prediction to be verified then.
Critical Strike > mostly people pick this because of Healing on Crits Damages on Grand Master trait
Drawing attention to it will just cause them to nerf it to be in line with all the other croptastic trait lines we have.
RIP pve thief if they touch critical strikes grandmasters.
How do you get gold?
Easy.
Whip out your credit card → Buy gems → Convert to Gold.
It’s obvious how the game is designed.
That would make too much sense.
Bring back SAB!
For PVE:
Rune: Strength.
Sigil: Strength.
Seems a little OP no?
If you’re having trouble with thieves as a necro. I’m sorry. But this is a learn to play issue.
Either you’re bad at playing a necromancer or the thief was super human. I doubt the latter.
Necro/Reaper is the number one class at the moment. Thieves/Daredevil is closer to the bottom of the chain.
Suddenly one thief outsmarts you and the entire class is OP. Yeah. No.
Thief/Daredevil band wagoner to Dragon Hunter, signing in.
Staff on Daredevil is very lack luster. I’m trying to give it a go. But the whole thief profession is just falling apart.
If you want to PVP… Hell… Even PVE. Don’t go thief. Anything but thief.
Thief is high risk, little reward.
Ahh, the hidden gear tread mill reveals itself.
Mordrem Snipers not affected by Reveal?
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Posted by: Azure Prower.8701
Reveal is meant to be the solution for the thief stealthing QQ. Nothing else.
Spoiler end of story: Are you happy now?,
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Posted by: Azure Prower.8701
Flat tone of voice
“This won’t end well.”
The whole game is built around the cash shop. It inherently affects the course of the game in order to encourage buying of gems to convert into gold.
Thus every thing has to be as grindy as possible.
A workaround for this is probably to use one of the Infusion Extractors; I was about to say that I didn’t have this problem with my Infused Rings, then remembered that I used those to extract the infusions first…
That doesn’t work. Even if you remove all of the infusions, the old infused rings don’t show up as being usable in the forge. The only infused rings that seem to work are old non-infused rings that have been infused after the HoT patch or newly infused rings that drop from the fractal encryption boxes. Likewise, if you buy a ring from the vendor in FotM, that ring can be infused and then attuned without trouble.
If a ring was infused before HoT, the forge doesn’t recognize it as being part of a valid recipe even if its infusions have been extracted. It’s quite frustrating.
I did make use of those. They even destroyed my expensive precision infusions and reverted them into a regular +5 agony resistance.
I haven’t experienced the infusion extractors destroying infusions/converting them problem at all. And I’ve extracted a lot of infusions (well over 50). A few of them were fine infusions too.
Well, that’s all good for what you’ve experienced. It’s how ever happened to me and had to ticket support to get a replacement of such an expensive infusion.