Guild Wars 2

All the suggestion would do is to make it even harder for lower levels to find dungeon groups. Ive seen plenty people not minding bringing lower levels along.

Heck, even did fractals level 2 with 3 sub-60 players last night.

The profanity filter isnt an excuse to swear. Personally I dont care much, but ANET does.

It might not be so much the randomness, but rather the dimnishing returns mechanic that seems to be messed up for some people. Not saying that its been changed, but Im quite sure its not working properly for some people. Not able to test anything right now, going away over christmas but I hope people in this thread will make proper reports in the other thread. Please keep this thread open for discussion and the other thread for the facts.

Then of course there is the veteran/champion loot issue..

Also, I suggest you read through the entire thread. Yes, the entire thread. There are alot of good posts here along with details, thoughts and concerns. Dont just rely on bug reports.

Try killing someone in sPvP, playing a match or something and see if anything changes. It might just be a display issue. Had it happen lots of times with the events in the normal daily.

After they added karma jugs to dailies and monthlies, no problem.

Now that would be nice!

It was just an example..

Lets replace level 21 with level 10, hows that? No agony! Imagine that the person at fractal level 2 has full exotics. Hey, perhaps have even played higher on his/her main!

Also, ascended gear is accountbound right? So.. imagine his/her main getting ascended gear, for the alt. The alt goes on to fractal level 21 WITH agony resistance. Awesome.

Same, I get transformed every time I use any halloween food.

Well…

Its the most fun flop and the awesomest fail I have taken part of in a long time. Finished it with all dolyaks alive on my second time around with no communication with the rest of the team. Everyone worked together brilliantly. Its not anets fault that some people are just bad. But yeah, it would have been more fun to do it with friends, on that I agree.

I loved mad kings and I love wintersday. Each one was great fun. Some things were better for wintersday, some worse. As for “bohoo, no exotics”. You shouldn’t expect exotics on a seasonal event. Mad kings was a bit over the top on exotics i’d say. Especially the labyrinth pre-nerf. Skins were also harder to aquire than wintersday although cooler looking.

Also, toypocalypse ftw!

I play alot, but never really farm. I do events, explore and the like, not just in once place but in many, on varying alts. According to their original statement about the DR I shouldnt be affected by it. That is, it shouldnt affect normal (non-farming) gameplay. Yet, I am affected by it. As a matter of fact, I get crap drops most of the time in the first hour. Heck, getting a green makes me almost feel lucky. Rares? Hardly ever. Exotics? Forgettaboutit! One, one exotic as a drop from a mob ever since I started playing at pre-release (even dungeon, dragon or fotm yields hardly any rares ever or exotics except for a few special cases.. like the karka chest or the champion chests in the labyrinth on halloween before they nerfed it). My luck was bad enough before the 15th nov… if it was bad luck at all.

Simply having karma and gold accountwide would do wonders.

Ok, so the world is supposed to end today, but lets not start the gw2 doomsday talk already. We’ll simply have to wait and see what comes up in january/february. Im thinking once wintersday is over we’ll start seeing tidbits of info coming up of whats to expect in january and then later whats coming up in february.

Another note: Whats to be expected, that can mean anytime between now and infinity. I mean, sure they said they want to give us personal housing and guild halls, but that might be something coming two years down the line for all we know.

Anyway, Im glad they made wintersday what it is, they did a wonderful job. Now Im looking forward to what next year will bring.

Munrock.3092:

You can get monocular head gear for medium armour users.

Spectacles with heavy armour? “Punch here for massive damage.”

Wearing glasses with heavy armor doesnt make less sense than toggling off the helmet (and thus have no helmet at all except for the stats)

Rewards from both champions and veterans were supposed to already have been boosted. Obviously they werent. One little vague answer in the latest AMA, other than that, complete silence from the devs, which is very disheartening.

I never had any problems getting 100% in that zone. And yes, you cannot view a vista if you are in combat.

None of the vistas are unreachable, and they arent guarded by a zillion dredge, you just need to be careful, pick your fights and try to sneak past where possible.

To date, Ive ever only gotten one exotic as a drop from open world or a chest, even fotm or dungeons (karka chest and halloween event chests excluded) and very few rares (rare mats excluded). My very first exotic drop was from a random mob in malchors leap yesterday after playing normally (was exploring, doing events I ran across and personal story) for three hours The rest ranged from junk to greens.

Its a known bug, and I do hope it will be fixed soon. At least they fixed the issue for melee somewhat. Ranged attacks seem to suffer from similar issues still, not just those using bows, guns and rifles but also “magical” weapons such as scepters and staffs for example.

Im fine with how conditions work against players and mobs at the moment, even though I would like to see a raised cap for how many stacks of bleed etc there can be. What I am not fine with however, is how worthless conditions are against objects like catapults, burrows in ac, whatever.

I will try to farm a bit tonight and see if I notice any differences.

Sorry OP, not gonna happen. Do you have any idea how much people would exploit this? Do as Oranisagu suggested, and move to a safer location after you are done fighting so you can finish writing the report.

I wish I would get good drops the first hour, but.. no.. Doesnt matter if I’ve been on for 10 minutes or 10 hours.

Well, temporarily for an hour, perhaps twice total since the lost shores patch.

I wouldnt have any issue with the DR either.. IF it was working as intended for everyone, which it clearly isnt.

Thank you for this! Please remember to communicate changes like this better in the patch notes when you make them. For example

-Previewing of armor classes other than your own is temporarily disabled as we work on improvements and bugfixes for the preview system.

That wouldnt be so hard would it?

At the very least, dont deselect the salvage kit after clicking yes/no on a green/rare/exotic/whatever. As a matter of fact, why even have it deselecte if you accidently try to use it on a non-salvagable item.

Area loot would be another good solution. Badges of honor should not come in loot bags though to be honest, they should just end up in your inventory/collection tab to be honest. As a matter of fact, why even have it as an inventory item? Alot of mmo’s have or are starting to implement ways of storing currency thats not inventory based. Lotro did this with the wallet change a while back.

Its not just a rumor, they said that you will be able to do everything in LA after tixx has stopped in all the other citiies, including getting the final reward anytime you wish up until wintersday ends on the 3rd.

I havent lost all faith in ANET yet, but my faith in them isnt actually improving. They still got the chance to set things right or at least communicate how they would like to set things right. I love the game, I want to see it improve. I want to keep having fun playing it. I want to feel equally valued no matter if I play fractals, regular dungeons, open world pve or wvw. This was their stated intention.

The inteded “fix” to previewing shows makes no sense and I bet they do think in their little world that this is something people would appreciate, even though its beyond doubt that this fix is something almost nobody wanted or needed. As a matter of fact, they removed a highly useful feature within the previewing system.

Their silence on the loot issues. We have gotten one tiny piece of reply in the recent AMA, but thats hardly enough.. especially when alot of non-trivial issues get their attention and communication. The fact that there is a 22 page long thread on this issue without a single answer speaks tons.

They dont want us to grind, yet they add alot of things that basically needs grinding, and on top of that nerf legitimate ways of aquiring the things needed.

Bots are a problem, sure. But regular players, even those who do not farm, shouldnt be punished as a part of the solution.

This, and more. Please ANET, please restore my faith in you. I beg you.

xerca.6135:

And another note: You can still preview all the weapons, even though most of them clip through almost every armor! So I do not buy that clipping is really that much of an issue. I do not care if the coat I am previewing is clipping through the light skirt I am wearing. I can just take off said skirt and preview again to get an idea of how the coat would look like.

Quiet, dont let them know or they’ll remove all weapons in the game! :P No really, that seems to be the way they are thinking with this change.

Oh, but I do appreciate the positive changes.. but its becoming increasingly harder to ignore the negative changes.

They do listen, except its selective hearing.
They do have transparency, except its a one way mirror

Apparently its intentional, can I have some of what the dev behind this was smoking?

Didnt they say they would give a longer advance warning for these kind of things? Whatever happened to that?

I have 8 characters and often on the lookout for nice looking armor for them. I like to be able to look at other peoples armor when they link it in chat (to show how it looks or if Im just curious). WHO CARES about the graphical glitches in the PREVIEW. There are several armors that cause clipping issues and other oddities already, heck my female necro has the feathered armor that shows her buttcrack.

ANET, you have very strange priorities…

When you sober up, please revert this uncalled for “fix” please.

I did it, even though it was bugged, got the intended rewards.

Your’re pretty much just nerfing fun here.

Seems to be a rising trend.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Bring-Previewing-back/page/2#post1029050

Once I might have voted for gw2, but serious bugs and terrible desicions on anets part.. I think I shall not vote for gw2. Voted for Max payne 3 just in pure spite.

“Hey everyone. This is a fix that is working as intended. As these armor types were never designed to be worn together, it resulted in some graphic issues when previewing them.”

Not sure what they are smoking. The positives of being able to preview off-armor far far outweighs a few harmless clipping issues or whatever.. that only happens in the preview window. What will they come up with next?

Alexandra, thats a lousy excuse for this change. I think there is a bug in someones desicionmaking. Im afraid of what you guys will come up with next.

The fact is the positive side of being able to preview off-armor far outweighs a few graphical glitches and I hope someone will be smart enough to revert this to its previous state.

KingClash.3186:

GW1 vets will notice this is just like being “coded” and “non coded”
But in GW1 if you were coded from over farming ectos in UW for a week straight stopping for a month would reset it (i commonly went on hiatus and would notice my loot improve 10 fold)

But here that dosnt seem to be the case as many have quit for a month+ and came back to see if it has changed and it hasnt…

My guess is its working as intended, BUT its not resetting the “coded” status (DR is pretty much the same thing different name i suppose, but coded was area/time based and not number of kills/number of events based) probably do to a bug or some such nonsense.

If it isnt resetting, then it isnt working correctly. And it shouldnt take a month, or even days of not playing in order to reset it. A couple of hours should do it. AND it shouldnt follow you to other zones. The way it was supposed to work according to anet was that if you farmed too long in one zone, you could switch to another and keep farming there and wouldnt be affected by the dr of the previous zone. The previous zone(s) dr would reset after a while (a couple of hours? cant remember).. At first when implemented the dr kicked in far too early, which they fixed. The thing they said was that if you just play normally (not farming) you shouldnt be affected by DR. Clearly its not working as intended unless they suddenly went back on their word without saying anything.

Oh and another thing, it does seem to affect some people alot more than others. As if something in the database for some accounts/chars is corrupted or bugged in regards to DR and the like.

Because yes, this is not about simply having bad luck. With or without MF this happens (although some say it gets worse the more mf you got). If you are affected by this, grouping will most likely not improve your chances.

The reply on the AMA, what does it mean? Possibly jack squat. I do hope they are working on this, they would be pretty dumb if they didnt. It should to be honest be high on their list of things to fix.

And the worst thing? Their silence on the issue..

Could you explain it a bit more? What event does this? Or are you talking about heart quests?

I can count the number of times Ive been downed at rumblus due to his screech, both as melee and ranged on my one hand. He does not need a nerf. Also since its a cone attack, the further from him you are, the wider the area affected.

Agreed, exploits should just be fixed and not detailed. Bugs however…

There are plenty of threads saying bad things about the game that havent been removed.

I used to love ANET as well, and have been defending them and the game several times both in-game and elsewere, but the last couple of patches they have brought in some serious bugs, some yet to be acknowledged or fixed as well as some really bad desicions on their part. I feel I can impossibly hold ANET in high regard as it stands.

I still love the game however and wont be quitting anytime soon.. unless they continue to make bad desicions and keep ignoring legitimate concerns and issues. I really hope they will get their junk together and make this the game it was ment to be. There is still some faith in ANET, please dont ruin it.

Agreed, it would be very useful.

You can always try to kite the skritt outside the circle while one person stays inside of it.

Kain.3485:

in my response to this, today in like 3-4 hours of fractals/tequtal and jormag i got 11 rares, 1 exotic, 1 precursor. I don’t think the drop rate is broken

It does seem more clear that some people are getting lucky, while others have consistently bad loot. However, if you followed this issue any you’d know that fractals are really not what we are having an issue with. Fractal chests were fixed as well, so the chest drops scale better with difficulty.

The problem that many many people, in the other long long thread have and probably others who dont know better, is that its gone far past just being bad luck. Its like we are hit with a permanent bugged DR no matter what we do, no matter high much magic find, drops are still crap most of the time, be it from dragon chests or open world, heck even dungeon chests.

Not to mention that the stated guaranteed loot from champions and improved loot from veterans.. is nowhere to be seen.

AND the fact that they seem to be purposely ignoring this issue. For what reason? I feel that a blogpost on this is in order! An official blogpost.

At the very least I would report for spam.

Sometimes there is not even a gift at all.

I also find storymodes often to be harder and more time consuming than explorables. Adding a repeatable reward of some kind (like tokens) that was worth it, would be a great incentive for people to run them as well.