Guild Wars 2

Lostwingman.5034:

PFFT
Yea…sure…

Yeah, that’s the narrative when the community is in fear of trolls all day everyday.

“UR OBVIOUSLY TROLLING I USE LAWYER SPEEK NAO”

Trolls don’t give a kitten one way or the other, and the fact that people live in fear of them means they’ve won regardless.

Makes for more interesting conversation though. Funny how you went from “strawman and logic” to “PFFFT I don’t belief you!”

Okay. ^^

Lostwingman.5034:

Yep, here’s this. Not like we’ve heard this before. The fact that you use that example shows you have zero understanding of what many of us are complaining about.
Sure, if all six of your turrets are manned by competent people in TS Teq is very doable.
Now then, go find examples of pugs on turrets shooting adds and the event succeeding.

The common gamer not on your guilds TS has not learned the mechanics. It’s most peoples first time.

They don’t know how to work the turrets, or that if they do man a turret they should use #2 and only focus on Tequatl, leaving the adds to the people surronding them.

They are not yet competent. I never argued that. Two. Days. Old.

Lostwingman.5034:

Irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how old the event is when there is such a glaring problem as the turrets and how easy it is for a bad one to kill an event.

Not irrelevant. You expect the community, the random to instantly know these things or else it’s a bad update. You’re impatient.

Give it time.

Astralporing.1957:

CETheLucid.3964:

Lostwingman.5034:

CETheLucid.3964:

Learning is bad? o_O

I’m sorry, you won’t be able to 1 spam zerg this. You will be required to think and communicate with your fellow gamers just a wee bit.

Prime example of how the people who use the “lel u just use 1 nd zerg” strawman understand the event the least.

Right, because you don’t have to think or communicate with your fellow gamers at all. You can just faceroll this event. I was just building strawmans like a kitten.

You caught me.

Yep, you were building a strawman. By assuming that those who failed didn’t communicate, coordinate and acting according to a strategy, but just "1-clicking and zerging.

And by that logic, you’re assuming to know for certain that I assumed this much regarding those who failed.

Using a common example of 1 spam zerging regarding why people fail, isn’t necessarily me assuming to know that’s exactly the reason why others have failed the event.

Again, BG did it in less than a day. They didn’t do that by 1 spam zerging. My 1 spam zerging comment is just an example to reinforce the point I’m making.

You can’t faceroll this event. Not yet, anyway. People are still learning. The content is two days old.

Lostwingman.5034:

CETheLucid.3964:

Learning is bad? o_O

I’m sorry, you won’t be able to 1 spam zerg this. You will be required to think and communicate with your fellow gamers just a wee bit.

Prime example of how the people who use the “lel u just use 1 nd zerg” strawman understand the event the least.

Right, because you don’t have to think or communicate with your fellow gamers at all. You can just faceroll this event. I was just building strawmans like a kitten.

You caught me.

Fungalfoot.7213:

CETheLucid.3964:

LOL, he’s from TC!

Yes? As am I. Difference is that I was there whereas he obviously wasn’t.

Okay, I’ll take your word for it. ^^

Fungalfoot.7213:

Aberrant.6749:

^If you’re doing this you’re doing it wrong.

I take it you weren’t there for the first downing on TC, then? Because that’s exactly how it was done.

LOL, he’s from TC!

Astralporing.1957:

Digivolution.8029:

Tequatl is really fun, you’re just baddies. Keep complaining and don’t learn from previous encounters with him.

Thank you for illustrating exactly why this encounter is poisonous for the game.

Learning is bad? o_O

I’m sorry, you won’t be able to 1 spam zerg this. You will be required to think and communicate with your fellow gamers just a wee bit.

Dagraan.2854:

ShunsuiKouKyoraku.9106:

kulle.6542:

i agree with op. i stopped playing gw2 for now, no point.

Good riddance.

you know the people like him are the life force of Gw2 this game will die in maybe a month if all the “baddies” leave.

or are you 1%ers gonna pay the bills to keep this game running?

Well aren’t you just the most adorable march on wallstreet 99%er? Because those people have such a great track record….

You overvalue yourselves. Most ‘baddies’ could care less about Tequatl and are off doing their own thing.

The ‘baddies’ at Tequatl are in the process of learning and will be tommarows ‘goodies’…

Or, at least another new tryhard kitten screaming at everyone else for the same stuff they used to do when they were learning.

Tequatl will always provide a rich incentive to play; unique ascended gear. Free unique forever use pick axe’s.

If less people play Tequatl, the more valuable that gear will become. People will want that gear, or else the oodles of gold it’ll be worth.

That’ll motivate people to plan and take 15 mins of time to win what they might accomplish in a week+ of farming.

Moreover, it’s been two days since release. BG beat it in less than a day. Let’s give it a little more time, hm? Yes?

Kain Francois.4328:

It’s a UFO!!!!!!

That reminds me of those stories in Mexico with the “flying corpses”. Very Orr appropriate!

Kal Spiro.9745:

I don’t get it…
Trahearne is not that bad a guy, why all the hate?

Not even worth the effort man. Just let them have their fun. You do have to admit, it is pretty funny for what it is.

“Giant Trahearne is attacking! Man the ion cannons! We need an expert on giant Trahearnes out here statim! Now! Now!”

“What could he possibly want? What did he do to Tequatl? The update is a lie!”

I lol’d.

Call it intentionally vague writing to make humans interesting characters in general. Human myths and stories say a lot of things, and many of them have proven to be true.

Loose ends can be built upon. Any good writer leaves themselves a little leeway to invent new scenarios and plots.

You can be an an Ascalonian in game. You can choose your heritage in the personal story. Krytan, Canthan, Elonian, Ascalonian. No Zyphyr option though. They’re new.

Me? Ascalonian and proud, sir.

Zhaitan is forever dead. Really. It’s very likely. Probably. Possibly.

Though it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a godlike undead being (and by extension, the macabre machinations he raises and creates) can’t seem to stay dead.

As far as it concerns our times though, Zhaitan is very likely “dead” in the sense that his power has been defeated. He can’t feed or do any more harm to anyone.

Zhaitan is in all likelihood hopelessly unable to raise himself anytime time soon within the current millennium.

Or else indeed he is really truly dead and all that remains of him are the remnants of his reanimated corpses and higher creations.

This new event is the only thing honestly calling the “truly dead” thought into question in my mind.

Very interesting event, it’ll be nice to see how this plays out and what’s up with Tequatl in general.

The art is really top notch, reminds me of Pacific Rim just a bit.

Chadramar.8156:

Depends on what sort of games you’re looking at. I’m talking about ones that actually have a story and characters, i.e. RPGs or adventures. When voice-acting was on the rise, the protagonists I played were generally “silent” in the sense of not being voiced, but they certainly weren’t “silent” in the sense of not interacting with anyone or playing no role in the story.

In the “living story” our character does not exist because we never participate or are acknowledged in any of the interactions that advance and explain the plot, even though we do all the dirty work as usual.

I was personally invited to this recent shindig by the Queen of Kryta. I just finished participating a few mins ago.

The asura emissary Vorpp is currently depending on my efforts to get intel on Scarlet’s attacks and invasions.

On a personal level, the story doesn’t progress without me. I get this whole process moving and I’m indispensable to that end. I’m the one who ends up “getting it done.”

You’re free to feel you’re not heroic or helpful or not mentioned enough I suppose, but I don’t feel that way at all.

But then, I’ve never been one to demand a pat on the back.

Maybe you want more personal references or more “I’m the big hero, praise me!” moments? I dunno.

I mean could you elaborate on what you mean when you say that we don’t exist or participate in the Living Story?

Dystopiq.5218:

It could be because of this.
:P
http://puu.sh/49pDO

Let’s explore this:

You killed the kid. With a snowball.
Parents thank you.
Kid drops loot.
Apparently, his sister is a necromancer.

So, where do we begin? Who here needs some internets therapy?

Why do people want to win the event?

lol

Because the goal would be to win..?

I’m pretty sure they didn’t want you to intentionally fail the event for farming. The consolation prize is to reward your effort if you fail.

But, this is why we can’t have nice things.

You panzies remember that if they end up nerfing this or if the next living story the formula changes; it’s your own fault.

Stay classy, pr0 farmers.

The heroes in most games tend to be mute, silent characters.

Ours by comparison interacts with the world a bit, but in general most games tell their story from the NPCs.

To people that have this complaint, do you hate Zelda games because Link hardly says two words and confirms most things with a nod of his head?

Never played a Zelda game I didn’t like, and I can really appreciate my character isn’t a mute and exceedingly valuable to the story that unfolds.

Trahearne needed me. Trahearne didn’t steal my glory. I was never in it for glory.

It began as a duty for my people that branched out into a broader unite and save the world deal.

To that end the fact that my character, a human, has charr raising war banners in my honor tells in no small part that I’m a pretty popular guy for it all.

nica.5829:

Don’t feel like he took my spotlight but he took my sword T__T

I like him actually, but I find it hilarious reading what others think of him! XD Such passionate hatred!

This! Poor Trahearne.

(“Now his haters are making him sympathetic! Kitten that Mary Sue!”)

Ash Legion territory is around the Ebonhawk lands. We can only infer it is further east off map in the Fields of Ruin, but it is mentioned as bordering the Crystal Desert.

Pretty fitting we don’t have an exact location on the Ash Legion homelands. They’re sneaky.

Ferik.3127:

Noalani.6384:

Well, I’ll give you that, you don’t have to gamble. But it’s either that or spending an insanely amount of gold on a weapon skin… and there are still a lot of people asking why farmers exist…

Guild Wars 2 frees players from Grinding-Hell-For-Stats, then invites them to the dilemma between Grinding-For-Cosmetics & Pay-to-Win

And if you don’t want to do that, the Pearl Carver you can make is just as powerful as the $$$ pretty skin version. So it’s a non-issue. It doesn’t actually mean anything.

This game has some of the most aesthetically pleasing “trash” skins and assorted gear that you can get just by playing the game, of any MMO I’ve ever played.

Furthermore with this update, several of these skins have been “ungated”. As in, you don’t need it right this very second or they’re gone forever.

You can make several of these a long term goal. You don’t need to spend $200+… unless you need it right this very second, right now.

Then, maybe.

Nageth.5648:

Zindrix.1750:

Nageth.5648:

Eh, Logan just needs to loosen up a bit (which is why I like Anise constantly mocking him).

They’re both competing for the same girl. Think about it.

Doesn’t change Logan needing to lighten up a bit. I’m hoping that Logan eventually realizes this and introduces Caithe to Anise and we fix two members of DE in one shot. (And then we’d have both Caithe and Anise teasing Logan.)

Actually if you play the human noble story, you might get the idea she kind of fancies Logan. But yeah. It’s apparent to everybody he has it bad for the queen.

Anise is militant about her duty. Logan is also. Though to be sure, Logan has an extra chip on the table in that regard.

You do get the impression he is getting sick of being left in the dark. Logan could have been trusted with that intel, of all people.

I think what bugs him is that Jennah went along with.

Maybe Logan’s going to get tired of that mess and chill with Rytlock and DE again! :B

Somethings going to develop there at any rate.

bears.4719:

For some kinky reason i like her.

Yay, I’m not crazy! But I might be kinky. This requires further thought…

bhagwad.4281:

This isn’t the place to bring up the atheism/god issue. Suffice to say I think agnosticism/atheism is the null hypothesis. The reasons are more appropriate for another place.

Coming to farming….if I’m not mistaken, Anet has publicly commented that farming is very much a part of their intended gameplay. Some people will farm. Others will not. Of course they’re concerned about making it too efficient. Hence the regular balancing. But that doesn’t mean they’re against farming as such.

Also, from a marketing point of view it would be MMO suicide to frown upon farming. Like it or not, a huge proportion of the player base (including myself) loves to farm, get better gear, and get rich even if it seems boring to others. The fact that so many people form large groups to farm champions means that lots of people like it.

Anet wants the game to make money and be successful. Even had they not said that they accept farming as part of their game, they would be absolutely dumb not to cater to us farmers. That’s why we play. And we form a large portion of the player base.

As long as we’re not exploiting something like a coding bug etc, farming is fine as far as Anet goes.

Here’s a threat in which an Anet employee responds and is obviously aware of the fact that people are farming the gauntlet. In fact, it seems they planned this and wanted us to farm the hell out of it. In the first reply he responds with a smiley instead of expressing disapproval.

Almost everything that happens in the game of GW2 is intended by Anet. A few specific instances like the cultural weapons gaffe and the snowflake exploit slip through their fingers. But something as big as farming as a whole? Totally intentional.

It was your example. Suffice to say, I disagree with you.

And since the atheist side has yet to prove beyond a reasonable doubt what they claim, their thoughts are a matter of belief.

Ironically enough, much like those of faith in a Creator.

One of em’s wrong, and we’ll all eventually find out who. One side clearly has a higher stake in all of this than the other though.

I would hope civilly, both sides can agree to disagree and still be intellectually viable per the stalemate of that endeavor in the present.
_

Back to farming, I have no protest about what you said there. We agree. Yes. Anet did foresee if not outright planned for the QG to be a farmers little slice of heaven.

Nooooo, save the silly bards! :O

Need moar hobo-tron and his crazy bookah side-kick that talks to and get angry with inanimate objects!

bhagwad.4281:

Every religious belief is the result of prior indoctrination/thought. No baby is born into the world with a prior understanding of either god or religion. Hence agnosticism/atheism is the null hypothesis because it is the default position to a fresh outsider.

Of course, just because something is the null hypothesis doesn’t mean it’s right. It’s just the starting position.

But let’s not get into this. My main point is that in this context, varying styles of play are all acceptable is the null hypothesis. If anyone claims otherwise (as it perfectly their right to do so), they just need to substantiate that claim and not put the burden of proof on the other person.

Your argument is akin to saying rocks are atheists because they don’t believe in anything and this is therefore the default position and the null hypothesis.

Of course they don’t. They’re rocks. They can’t. They don’t think.

If you are an atheist, you became one after considering it. You were not ‘born’ an atheist. This was not your default position.

Babies are neither capable of critical thought nor indoctrination.

People have to come of age before you can teach them anything or for them to be able to think about it for themselves what they believe.

Thinking people, the majority decide the null hypothesis, and for the longest time it’s been a religious one in every part of the world.

Atheists and other people who claim there is no God, challenge the convention and must bear the burden of proof.
_

To bring this back on topic and keep things in perspective…

Playing the game in any other way then was the intention of the creator, you must prove to the other players who may frown upon this that what you’re doing isn’t a bad thing.

Arguments can be made both ways and it’s pretty much an endless debate.

We can tango and go back and forth on this here ad nauseum, but ultimately Anet lays down the law.

Anet has a vision and they know what they want to do. That said, players do have a voice and the greater majority may well dictate the course to a certain degree.

This game was not built to be farmed. Anet didn’t sit down one day and say “Hey, let’s make GW2 the best grindy farmy kind of MMO ever!”

It was built to be played in a semi-casual kind of way. Farming is an activity people do to make money to get what they want faster then just casually playing the game.

Most people don’t care what farmers do with themselves, but if it get’s to a point where their actions can hurt the in-game economy or disrupts their personal game time (think Lyssa farm); it’s a bad thing and they do care.

Farming is kept in check by Anet, while permitted to a certain degree. Anet recognizes some players like to farm. Anet doesn’t hate farmers.

Most of their living story stuff has something nice that farmers can farm. To the point that some people are complaining!

We’ve got posts in the Queen’s Jubilee section of people complaining that they can’t do anything else except farm, because… reasons.

Or because “Anet made the Queen’s Jubilee so good that nothing else is more profitable”.

lol’…

bhagwad.4281:

Erasculio.2914:

bhagwad.4281:

The null hypothesis does not need to be proved.

In other words, you know you have no basis in which to support your opinion, so you won’t even bother trying to make arguments defending it. Trying to hide behind excuses – which, coincidently, is what exploiters have been doing this entire week – has been proved to be rather ineffective.

Lol. Either you don’t understand what it means to assume a default position in a debate and require proof to the contrary, or you’re just prevaricating to cover up.

The first is fine…it’s ok not to know something. Just ask and I’ll explain. The latter is just bad form and shows you’re stuck and are trying to get out of it.

FYI, in case you truly don’t understand, this is akin to a religious person asking someone to prove the non existence of god. Whereas the burden of evidence is on the religious person to prove his/her affirmative declaration.

bhagwad.4281:

Just as a quick follow up to help you understand the scientific methodology, here’s a one minute video explaining what the null hypothesis means and where the burden of evidence lies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TfNFL_xEmQ

The problem with this however, in this particular example, is that most atheists automatically assume that theirs is the null hypothesis.

Atheism is a relatively new belief. Atheism is the new thought, the challenger to the conventional understanding, not the other way around.

Any honest person will accept that the default position is one that supposes a Creator God. It falls on the atheist to prove that there is no Creator and no God.

At the risk of inciting a religious debate, I won’t go any further then to say that atheists have not achieved that goal.

It remains but an argument, an opinion. Not a matter of fact.

If there is one nerf I wish they would relax, it’s the RtL nerf.

Not the cool down mechanic. You can keep the cool down and the halves if you hit something part of it there. That’s fair.

Just the distance bit. I want my pre-nerf RtL distance back. I want to zoom across the field like I used to be able to.

I don’t need to spam it like in the past, but come on Anet, be merciful. Gimme mah old RtL distance back. Pleeeeeeeeease?

/puppydogeyes

Kodiak.3281:

It all comes back to the same problem the Ele has always had.

It’s never been a question if you can pull it off and make it happen. It’s just a lot of extra work to pull off to get the same results another class can do with faceroll ease.

This. ^

My suggestion is to make the conditions we apply with our weapons simply last longer.

Perhaps buff Glyph of Elemental Power so that our chance to trigger the effect goes up to 35%+ and that the conditions we apply with it last longer then they do now.

This make a condition focused elementalist build a legitimate threat, and it buffs the quality of life for pretty much every other spec without making it OP.

It would force a cleanse from the victim any which way.

Whereas at present, unless you’re a dedicated condition spec working your kitten off to almost be on par with other condition specced classes, your conditions are being ignored.

By simply making them last longer and with a suggested Glyph of Elemental Power buff, this isn’t actually making them any different then what it is now, but making the application, the actual condition play easier.

You’ll still need to invest a bit in condition damage if you want it to matter any, but for folks that can and would spec for it, the quality of life for this play goes way up.

It becomes a legitimate threat, the condition specced elementalist becomes very dangerous in it’s own right. As it should be.

We’re not chain fearing you, but we’ll have our own flavor of condition destruction.

For people that dabble in it and where it’s more of a secondary thing, it becomes more then a simple after thought.

Not enough on it’s own to matter, but relevant enough where it demands a cleanse to bring that DPS down.

It makes our conditions mean something.

Whereas now we can make it “work” to a lesser degree then most other classes condition spec, with this proposed buff we would be strong, a viable condition class.

Not OP. Just serious.

And seeing that the vast majority of elementalist skill applications do apply conditions, I would think that is the goal.

Erasculio.2914:

Now, I’ll guess. I think ArenaNet has the numbers to realize that the great majority of players don’t care about fun or interesting Dynamic Events. I think ArenaNet has realized that the great majority of players wants to farm. And I think ArenaNet has realized that there is no point in all the work required for building interesting and fun Dynamic Events, when it’s much easier to just build more farming grounds, which are more popular than the events anyway.

:/

I care. I’m still waiting on that dynamic event they mentioned about the skirtt and the koda.

Lol, this thread.

“Hey guys, my friend laughed at ele”
“LOL BECAUSE ELE SUCKS”
“No, ele is very strong in most areas of the game.”
“OK Fine, Ele sucks in tPvP. That’s what I meant all long!”
“Further, unless your r40+ in tPvP you can’t have an opinion! Hahaha!”

Hm.

Because only tPvP matters. Gotcha.

I’m not complaining about complainers or trying to troll, I’m just being honest. If we get a buff due to the complaining I… wouldn’t be hurt by this. At all.

I even offered a fair suggestion. By all means, continue the QQ train.

But in general, if I may offer a suggestion, the people that can suggest something honest without the “this class is unplayable garbage and i had to re-roll QQ” rhetoric, they tend to come off as more sane and sensible.

Someone worth listening to. Some people here could suffer to give that a try.

If you won’t and you continue your empty rhetoric to that end, don’t be surprised if lots of people (devs included) see your posts as nothing but a bunch of QQ.

Even if there might be a sliver of wisdom to be found within.

Zumy.6318:

Condition buff? Are you out of your mind?

silvermember.8941:

ThiBash.5634:

Your friend just doesn’t get the profession. No worries, not many people do. Those that do know most complaints are way over the top (and having been on both sides of the fence, I can say it’s not nice to hear you need to shap up to play ele, but sadly I have to admit it’s true).

I am sure that is totally the problem. It is not the classes it is most people, oops I mean noobs, having the problem. Afterall ballers like you don’t have a problem.

Over the years are I have played MMO, they always people like you that claim they are no issues with a class, it is because everyone else is bad, they are a pro at that class.

The reality generally is that be good at the class, but they are only good against noobs. Elementalist is one of those classes that against noob it is a strong class, in PvE there is almost no thinking involve so the elementalist in that scenario is also great. IN WvW, most of the flaws in the elementalist is made by the fact that gear+food + the downtime between fights is+ effect of the nerfs are less significant in PvE, but mainly because a lot of WvWers are not PvPer.

I’m a force of nature in WvW on my ele.

We’re in a pretty good place right now overall. Some things could stand to be buffed a little, maybe some old nerfs can be relaxed a bit.

Sometime soonish, they’re going to balance/re-work condition damage so multiple condition people don’t mess each other up. That’s going to be really nice for us.

In general something elementalist needs a look at is it’s condition power. Many of our weapon sets rely heavily on condition damage.

To be something of a threat, to at least be a little competitive with the necro in that regard. Necro can keep and deserves the condition master crown.

Necro’s forte is unmatched condition spec with that massive health pool, and the elementalist is damage. Lots and lots of damage.

In that interest, I’d like our conditions to be enough to panic people more then they do now.

The initial hit is the money maker, but the conditions we leave should be something that needs to be removed in a timely manner.

Unless I seriously stack condition damage, ele conditions are ignorable.

And if I stack that 1k or so of condition damage to be a threatening condition spec, I either hit like a wet noodle or I’m too glassy.

I want to think a perfect solution to this would be to simply make some of the conditions we can apply last just a little longer so our conditions can punish people who won’t cleanse them.

This would make the pure condition spec truly formidable, whereas right now a pure condition spec ele has to work harder then any other class rolling condition damage.

It would have the added bonus of making elementalist conditions in other specs feel like more then an after thought.

Before proposed condition buff: “Oh, that guy hit me”.
After proposed condition buff: “Oh, that guy hit me… and I’m on fire! I need to get this off!”

Other then that, can’t really complain about much else. OP, your friend is silly.

Motoko.2875:

1) Tons of people who helped create those “fast selling” numbers have quit due to the severe disappointment of GW2.

I’m Motoko.2875, and this is not BS! My proof is there! … Somewhere. Keep looking, pretend I don’t have to qualify my claims.

It all makes perfect sense when you do that.

Motoko.2875:

2) I know a good majority of people who are making those “busy servers” busy merely because there is nothing better out and they are waiting for that next game.

On the off chance that my first statement didn’t convince you, allow me to contradict myself and tell you all those numbers that I said were gone are actually in game.

But not for long! New games are coming and they’re all gonna leave. Then you’ll see! Hahahahaha!

Darkbattlemage.9612:

Perhaps the Black could also symbolize the Flame Legion or Charr Renegades as the Aetherblades do have Charr members.

Flame Legion and charr renegades wouldn’t work with humans. The Aetherblades are composed of all races.

Mejo.3198:

CETheLucid.3964:

Mejo.3198:

It’s weird that the human man and woman have the same max height but not the same min height.

The human male and female at max height in that chart I posted are both also using the bulkiest body build. The max male and female are both the biggest and bulkiest.

They’re roughly the same size.

The shortest human male and female for size comparison are also using the slimmest body type available.

The shortest female can be both slimmer and slightly shorter then the shortest and slimmest male.

If you fiddled with the body types on the female to make her a little more robust, she’d be about on par with the slimmest shortest male.

Aha, thanks for info!

No problem. Don’t worry if you end up not liking max height/five inches down, you can change it later with a Total Makeover Kit.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Total_Makeover_Kit

Well, that’s interesting. Good find!

Dranul.2094:

Magnetron.5823:

I do not agree with the last person who comments on this, the game mode WvW, is made to fight like who have the most people, and who have the most coverage. Yes it sucks to have less people in you server but it is like USA fights SWEDEN.. USA will win because they have more people.

You will face another server next week, just try to have fun. WvW cannot be balanced.

We farmed them for 90+mins. Its not that we couldn’t live and kill.. But try stopping 100 guys of which over 50% of them, have access to a res (of which they all equipped) and having a keep lord rez over 60+ times is ok with you?

Your missing the point. Waypointing in 100 every 3mins becomes a joke, resetting the cap EACH rez is a joke (it never used too!).

Mechanics stopped us winning the keep, not the 100 players. Skill needs to be rewarded don’t you think?

Or are you a fan of “bring more numbers = win”? WvW is / has turned into Zergball, more and more servers avoid fights and play for WXP.

Not asking for balance, not complaining about blobs or coverage, we fight 20-30 vs whole zone, I don’t care about that. I’m saying the mechanics make it IMPOSSIBLE to take garrison from 100 people – the mechanics (flawed) when combined just make it worse.

Skill did win. They used their utilities efficiently and held you off.

You couldn’t stop them. They had superior numbers. You apparently couldn’t rally more to help. They did, and eventually threw you out.

You were a commendable smaller force to essentially farm them for a while there. Well done. But they beat you.

The end.

bubumochi.8512:

Please tell us how can we stop those golems.
3/4 omega Can melt a reinforced gate on a matter of seconds, a gate that require far more time and supply to obtain.
Witch is the “Ninja trick” We are all missing, please teach us.
Thanks so much for your help.

No trick really, basically you and a larger group hide at a harder to reach supply camp and build golems for a really long time.

Hope the few people who might see what you are doing are stupid enough to leave you alone and not say anything to their server.

Hope they just continue on their merry way capping places of least resistance (Hint: Often times, they do just that).

Hour+ later, golem zerg. Just need one or two camps to do this.

It’s not insurmountable. Again, if people would speak up and say “hey server over at this supply camp number of people are building golems”.

Golems are also really, really slow. Even with some mesmers, it’s gonna take time for them to reach their destination.

If you see a golem zerg en route, get your forces to meet them before they reach their destination. Make the golems a priority. A couple of stealthy stabby thieves would be great for this.

Another legit strategy would be to kill their portal mesmers. You just made slow into an excruciating grind for them.

Even if they wipe you, if you can do any substantial amount of damage to their golems before they arrive to wherever they’re going, when they make it to your keep or garrison, they won’t last against a well fortified location.

Golems cannot heal or be healed. They do not regen health over time or when out of combat. They cannot be buffed (except with the mesmers Time Warp).

They cannot be defended in anyway outside of themselves. In that regard all they have is a bubble shield on a very long cool down.

But yeah if the prices of golems doesn’t self correct in price, I suppose they may need a nerf.

Benjamin.6235:

Perhaps we could ask them to not put in such changes until they give us a GvG mode then. That’d be the least they could do. Thing is that it’s actually a bit serious. GvG is all that’s keeping some of us here. Get rid of that for a month or more and a lot of us are gone and not coming back. If that doesn’t sound like a problem, you underestimate that population and/or how much they contribute to a server.

Well, that’s not selfish or anything.

Less people in WvW because QQ GvG? Less que for me. Bye.

More interesting fights with serious game changing objectives and consequences? Yes plz. Gives us more to do in WvW, something else to fight over/win back.

It’ll be much appreciated it.

shenhua.2186:

In general I hate really small or large races, so Asura is out and so is Norn and Charr.

I’m left with Sylvaris who look really strange in anything not TA or Cultural(just my opinion) or Humans. So I’ll go for humans.

I seem to be seeing WAY more of the cancer that is Asura all over the world. Everyone and their mother is running around playing one it seems. But this might just be bias on my part due to me hating them so much.

Aww. They’re not bad at all once you get to know them. It’s a trust thing. They have good and bad like every other race. The good tends to outweigh the bad.

Not too different from us, except that every one of them is blessed/cursed with obscene brilliance.

It does tend to go to their head and they end up with too smart for your own good syndrome, causing all kinds of mischief and chaos.

But the ones that get a handle on their egos go very far and they reveal themselves to be very thoughtful, even caring people.

… Just, avoid the ones you don’t know who are overly eager to offer you food and drink randomly. It won’t end well.

Humanity owes much to the asura, if not especially the Ebonhawk Ascalonians.

Jawfish.5782:

So, every NPC and Players in Tyria are all good?

No, some PCs are selfish and stuck on themselves. Some are cool. There are good and bad NPCs. That should be obvious.

Fafnir.5124:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Playing as bad guys won’t work game.

But I would like to play a hero with a dark side (mercenary, real thief, spy, or letting us choose which factions to help in a LS).

IT\t does you let the bad guys and good guys carve out territories in game and kill each other. It would be simple too have a setting under game options titled affiliation which will change depending on living world and give you a sub title. Of Course there would be a neutral option too. It would be one way to let people shape the world as they want it. let people fight on side they want during living stories not the side you decide Anet. This would make a true living world.

WvW says hi.

Mejo.3198:

It’s weird that the human man and woman have the same max height but not the same min height.

The human male and female at max height in that chart I posted are both also using the bulkiest body build. The max male and female are both the biggest and bulkiest.

They’re roughly the same size.

The shortest human male and female for size comparison are also using the slimmest body type available.

The shortest female can be both slimmer and slightly shorter then the shortest and slimmest male.

If you fiddled with the body types on the female to make her a little more robust, she’d be about on par with the slimmest shortest male.

Astralporing.1957:

somsom.5201:

John Smith.4610:

This is incredibly hyperbolous. In the last week, the median player earned less than 3 gold in the new content (that’s discounting all players who earned less than 1 gold).

The ENTIRE week? You have to be kidding.

There is NO way the median player earned ONLY 3g from the new content in an ENTIRE week.

3g is like 20 minutes of play in DR or CS. You can’t tell me that the median player played less than 20 minutes in either of those places over a week.

Median, not average. It’s entirely possible – of course, it would mean that a lot of the people (over a half of active players) are not interested in this new content at all.

It’s not that I’m not interested as a casual-ish gamer, it was incredibly done. The story is awesome, and I can’t wait to see where this is all going.

It’s a great update in general. But I’m also not there farming 24/7.

I just feel like doing other junk both in game and out. I really don’t care if I’m missing out on the once in a lifetime million billion gold farm.

It’s not that important to me. I like how that seems incredible to some people. lol

When I do go there to farm though, it’s nice. I like it. It’s good money. I can see why the pavilion attracts the farmer type. It has everything all in one place.

It says to the user “farm me :)”.

Doing something over and over ad nauseum isn’t my cup of tea though. So I stop and come back to it later. Everything becomes fun with friends.

I have a few who rarely have time to get on due to work.

They hadn’t gotten the balloon achievement, and it was a great time running around everywhere to get the balloons, even though I had it already myself. I had a blast.

The other night in doing that I met her out in Orr in Cursed Shore (no balloons!), and we just decided to randomly take on the risen giant champion together.

It was a longer fight. We didn’t really get any help beyond one or two people passing by, but eventually we defeated it. It was challenging!

Pretty much the same deal happened the other night with another dear friend and a champion troll out in Sparkfly Fen.

I remembered that troll used to own me back when I first began the game, it was satisfying to take it down.

We were handsomely rewarded due to the new champ loot system, it was wonderful.

We might not have done that prior due to champs not really giving you much of anything.

John Smith’s statements reassure me both that I’m not alone in my way of thinking (as in I’m not a minority), and that I’m right in not worrying about it.

Other things will come and are coming. Y’all have a good time in the Queen’s Pavilion. :3

Here’s a superior height chart that actually uses in game models, anyway. Humans and Sylvari are very similar to one and other.

Even the shortest norns tend to be on par with the tallest of the other races. They only get bigger from there.

Charrzooka’s excellent on keep defense in WvW and general trolling to that end.

Meriem.3504:

If your playing Charr you are playing a bad guy! :x

Former bad guys. We’re the Piccolo/Vegeta of the bunch these days.

… Most of us, anyway.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

You didn’t need to use anything so poorly written for the argument. I think we are all smart enough to realize they probably pay their programmers more than the garbage men. That said, it’s still really bad programming so they don’t deserve much. The last few living stories have been a clinic on what not to do when it comes to game programming. It screams of spaghetti code,

Free of charge > Quality carefully thought out research post

Took me like 30 seconds to gather all that. It’s common sense really. If people want to get pedantic about things, I’ll only play that game so far.

In the grand scheme of things, it really doesn’t matter what you say when you reduce your arguments into a form of lynching-with-words on the devs.

You invalidate your complaints when you preface it or end it with “lol the devs suck” or “it’s the devs fault I’m being such a greedy pig with this lucrative farm lolololol im done u can nerf it now or else my gold will be worthless QQ”.

If Anet is guilty of anything, it’s being naïve to the ravenous nature of some it’s community.

sazberryftw.3809:

Gabby.3205:

Everything about her is an illusion.
She is actually a guy. A guy that walks around naked all day long.

At least that would make her interesting…

You find naked magical crossdressing men interesting? :o

Lucky.9421:

CETheLucid.3964:

Lucky.9421:

48k for QA? lol no..

Try 28k to 33k. And that’s in Bellevue. An expensive part of the country.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/ArenaNet-Salaries-E255820.htm

Sure buddy.

Link has statements from Anet employees themselves, rather than being just some article from a gaming site. Which is what your link was.

Manoa posted salaries with visas going back to 2006 where the lowest salary (in 2006) was 35K for the Chinese localization specialist.

The average tends to be 64K and with costs of living certainly having gone up over the years and my link being as recent as 2012 as a general estimate, the truth is probably around there.

The QA guy makes above what a trash collector makes, which is the point I was making to begin with.

Moving into the Glassdoor bit with KillerAngel, Anet actually has a fairly decent rating on Glassdoor (for what it’s worth: http://www.workplacedynamics.com/blog/uncategorized/how-accurate-are-job-review-sites/) for it’s number of reviews and none of the reviews are gushy one-sided things. They were very honest.

It was an interesting read, appreciated the link.

With regards to you, your link tells us what one guy (maybe) makes, in respect to himself. You’re basing this off of one salary data entry that may or may not be anonymous.

We can’t even know how the company works internally that this one guy get’s paid this sum while another guy may get paid something else due to his position as a temp VS regular for example.

Regardless, I’m not going to make an account on Glassdoor to argue semantics with you. You’re clearly more invested in this then I am.