Guild Wars 2

SwiftFishy.2643:

Well the game is very boring to me now

What was the point of this thread then? You’re going to buy an expansion for a game you don’t even like now? Quit your BS.

Karka are brutal, resilient kitten masters that will destroy you and proceed to roll about atop your corpse and grind your remains into a fine paste to strengthen their exoskeleton.

There you go. Karka are metal now. Take a seat.

Sunshine.5014:

The first reply got it.

pdboddy.4162:

Lol no. Your sig file gives you away.

Sunshine:

Gray out the HP for future condition damage
Already quit PvP. Just log in here and there to troll.

The elementalist forum, ladies and gentlemen.

You all realize you’re being played right? OP does this like every month or so.

There’s a clock built into the game on your mini-map that you can set to your local time. It renders the GW1 reminder moot. You’re without excuse.

It’s called personal responsibility. Don’t kill yourself playing video games.

That’s waaay up there in undignified and embarrassing ways to die, considering how utterly avoidable it is.

Welcome back!

Bbear.7830:

And welcome back meeflak, ‘flowers’ are waiting for you in Heart of Thorns

Aye, just beware the ‘blooms’… and the bugs… and… well, a lot of things. The jungle is dangerous! Make it your own and it has plenty to give though.

Hovercar.1702:

Do pants not exist in Tyria?

Yes. They exist in Tyria.

anduriell.6280:

The montage is nice and i like the music… But my god those were really really baddies… worst even the pugs from vizunah square server.

when you see a DH attacking with the LB at melee range all the time instead swap you know there is something wrong there.

Yeah, a lot of them are baddies.

No one would watch a montage of failure. Or rather, make one of themselves in that role. It does show those players exist by extension.

People act like only pros play WvW and bad players are super rare and never happen so this video doesn’t count.

I don’t know why everyone tries to dismiss everything by saying “but they were bad players”. Okay.

I mean what did you expect? It’s WvW roaming. Rather, what are your expectations? Random LB druid solos top BG server guilds single-handedly? lol

It’s good for what it is and it makes their point. LB is viable in WvW.

anduriell.6280:

The guy is not great either, that minute were he takes out the DH trapped in his roots using PBS was cringeworthy….

But hey, you still liked it right?

Come on man. Us mere mortals can only dream of aspiring to your level of greatness whereby our every rotation on every class is perfect every single time always.

Jerus.4350:

Obviously committing suicide to pick someone up is dumb

And for every one that get’s that, there are ten wannabes that will sacrifice not only themselves but the rest of the team to play hero on the internet… to no avail.

That crap gets old real fast.

Jerus.4350:

but like say Bloomhunger ground pound, someone caught in that you can jump into the safe spot in the middle of that attack and pick people up, I’ve been successful many times, but it really helps when it goes 2, or 3X faster having the rest of the team work together.

Sounds like a great way to cause a team wipe.

Why not let the single downed player be defeated and simply have a person or two pick them back up while the rest of the team leads Bloomhunger around?

Why would you risk a team wipe to pick someone up from downed in the middle of Bloomhunger’s ground-pound attack?

One misclick or a bit of latency and the whole things over. Do you realize you’ve basically created the scenario you’re adverse to finding yourself in?

One guy down, 2 or 3x people trying to rez in Bloomhunger’s ground-pound attack… one or two people left alive.

Screw those guys, right? Selfish kittens! Now end yourselves so we can do this again!

Jerus.4350:

Couple of us try to pick the guy who died up and end up dying ourselves only to have that last person try and solo the rest… it’s a group thing

Did you think for a moment you guys trying to pick up the dead guy is probably the reason you died?

And what did it accomplish besides dragging your team down even further?

There is a time and a place for it. If it’s going to cause a team wipe, picking up the dead guy isn’t that time.

When the last guy(s) up are trying to salvage the fight because of the incompetence of the ones who failed, that’s on the ones who failed. Not the other way around.

That said, I’m all for a /gg in fractals and other places. Because I’m rarely going to obligate failure in any other capacity.

I’m more likely to leave.

Rather if dead salty baddies want to kick me for being better than them, by all means. That’d both save me the effort of leaving on my own and act as a highlight to my skill.

Conceding you suck and requesting someone else to carry/die with you? By all means, kick away! Don’t be shy now!

A non-issue from any angle you want to look at it. Staffs is technically correct. The best kind of correct.

Dunno where you’re getting a 10 sec CD. It’s 30 secs sans traits unless it’s bugged or something.

Boon duration increase only applies if you have a warhorn equipped. They did change it recently so the Sand Squall effect will trigger regardless of weapons used.

No warhorn needed for that bit.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

What they could do is allow people who made the bat-shoulders an opportunity to convert it into an infusion, so you could get the same effect regardless of which armor or outfit one equips.

I like this idea.

CAF 3 into 2 works without a hitch. Mouse clicking VS key doesn’t seem to matter anymore. Ran around with it tonight in pvp, seems fixed. Couldn’t get it to drop me.

Which is fantastic.

If anyone else is still having issues, please speak up. For me though looks to be all patched up. Thank you based devs!

Zera.8907:

Supreme.3164:

FlOwMaKeRs.8623:

Archer’s are always my favorite class in every mmo.. but in this game I feel so hurt with the ranger u dont even understand..

The archer in this game does not exist actually…now the ranger is a paladin and cleric mixed.. WHICH is very boring and takes the role of the ranger.

Why ranger specialization should be a " Healer"? why??!! wtf is this… It has to do something with the history? because it’s ridiculous!!!

Make ranger great again?

Maybe don’t follow the meta blindly, have the courage to go out there and actually learn to play ranger . It’s a devastating class in the right hands and build diversity is extraordinary ( most pets sucks though)

Longbow ranger doesn’t work?….

http://www.grabber.xyz/2016/06/guild-wars-2-epic-gameplay-druid-wvw-montage-crowd-control.NTI8nHmOpEx.html

1) You cannot expect to pewpew 24/7, the ranger is a devastating class because can swap from melee to range without losing pressure and the swapping it’s not random

2) You actually need to know how to counter other professions

I run the same exact build in PvP and own left and right every 1vs1, I cover a different role respect to staff druid which is a pure healer but I still can hold my own against anybody and with the potential of killing every single meta out there

That was impressive as hell, great job. What chest piece skin is that? I’ve never seen that before.

Looks like the glroious pvp track chest piece. And agreed, that was a kitten fine montage. Minus the music choice. But yeah, GG and sound advice.

Bob.7189:

CETheLucid.3964:

…It’s working much better now compared to the initial release (completely borked), but it still needs some looking at.

Not for me. CA is still broken. In 3 hours of play tonight it worked on only 2 occasions and only long enough for me to heal one time before getting kicked out. And no, I did not change anything, including any settings. I do use the mouse to click the interface. I will try using the keyboard next time and see if I have better luck.

What is the point of having a druid if CA is broken? Or of having an interface if it doesn’t work?

Yeah, I occasionally get random drops. It’s still busted just not completely unplayable. It was far worse at the initial update.

If you’re saying there hasn’t been any improvement for you since the last update, I’m sorry to hear that. Not my experience. Some are even saying it’s completely fixed for them, which is also not my experience.

Obviously something is amiss and I’m sure they’re working on it.

I’d argue in this instance it’s definitely something with the game since the last major update. Prior to it, no one had any issues with CA form.

I’d suspect something from the SoTW fix for CA form and/or some kind of new desync issue, since that last update involving desync issues vastly improved it.

Upon transform, chaining CA skill 3 into skill 2 seems to fairly reliably cause the drop. Not always, but most of the time that’s when I get dropped out of it. Sometimes it’s random.

Any other combo after the initial transform seems to work fine, even 3 into 2. Just can’t do it to start with.

Occasionally (after hardcore CA druid shenanigans) I even have a weird thing where I’ll auto jump into CA form when I fill up my charge.

Like, I didn’t even press it and whoosh I’m in CA form. One part cool, one part game messed me up.

It’s working much better now compared to the initial release (completely borked), but it still needs some looking at.

Tiscan.8345:

CETheLucid.3964:

It’s apparent they’re aware of the issue or else there wouldn’t have been any improvement at all. It was pretty much unplayable before the update.

Who knows… one of the devs could have changed something totally different and the “improvement” could be a side-effect of that change.

It would be nice if one of the devs could post an info here that/if ANet is aware that they pretty much broke a whole Elite-Spec with their changes (and so far, its not mentioned on the bug-tracker – https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/98802888). 7 days without any of the devs saying anything about this bug is pretty bad.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred when reporting players in PvP.
• Fixed a bug in which the server and game clients could desync NPCs and creatures, causing them to appear in the wrong locations. Additional desync issues are still being investigated.

Matt Stacey.7415:

Everyone welcome the newest troll to the ranger forums

It’s apparent they’re aware of the issue or else there wouldn’t have been any improvement at all. It was pretty much unplayable before the update.

At least now I can reasonably use it in PvE.

I wouldn’t recommend taking it into PvP or WvW just yet unless you’re ballsy and aware it isn’t always going to work out for you at the moment.

Definitely shouldn’t take it into ranked until it’s fixed.

The very last update seems to have improved it somewhat.

If I’m quick enough, I can hit CA skill 3 and then go into CA skill 4 somewhat reliably without getting dropped out of CA form.

But it’s not always a sure thing. Seems to randomly drop out occasionally.

It’s a noticeable improvement from before but it still feels broken at worst and very finicky at best.

I think at this point it’s time to unnerf the range of RtL. A little bit maybe? If they’re feeling extra generous maybe the CD a tiny bit, but come on.

At least give us the range back. This was one of the skills that sold me on making an ele to begin with.

Ele has so much more going for it and I don’t regret making one, but man. I miss zapping around everywhere.

CyberDiva.3214:

ArenaNet has always been really awesome when it comes to bug fixing. What people need to keep in mind, though, is that sometimes it can take a while to track down the precise line (or lines) of coding that are messing things up. From a programmer’s perspective, I can tell you that sometimes it can be extremely frustrating and it isn’t always a super-fast fix. So please have a little faith in them, and a little patience, they do a wonderful job. It just might not be an immediate fix as much as we hope it will be. They are constantly reading these boards, as they’ve said in the past, though they can’t always respond to every single post. That’s a lot of work!!! So I’m confident that they hear you and will get things resolved as soon as they can.

Sure, absolutely. In the mean time though it really puts CA out of commision for a lot of us. Good time to play with non-druid builds.

It’s a pretty big deal so I can see it being a priority fix.

This really messes with my rotation. I don’t have a fancy mouse to rebind keys to. I’d like to see this fixed soon. In the mean time I guess I’ll mess with non-druid builds.

Ayrilana.1396:

CETheLucid.3964:

Ayrilana.1396:

CETheLucid.3964:

Ayrilana.1396:

CETheLucid.3964:

Ayrilana.1396:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings when signing up to the game, as well as the ‘Take a 15 minute break for every hour of gameplay’.

It’s not called out specifically as they just generically bring up the subject.

You warrant and represent that You have no economic, physical, emotional, psychological, or privacy related considerations that would be adversely impacted by Your use of the Game.

Section 11(a)

I mean, is there something more you wanted out of that?

No?

Alright. I don’t see the point highlighting in the EULA what another poster had already made clear reference to, but you do you.

They said “I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings” but did not mention the EULA. I added onto their post by providing the specific section (although it was generic and didn’t call out anything specifically) and provided a link.

I see no point in what you’re attempting to suggest.

Please don’t troll. Thanks.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong about adding onto what someone posted by providing a direct source/link that was teamsters to what they were talking about.

Let’s say that there’s another thread where someone asks for the policy in P2P trading. Someone responds that they remember it was okay but would not be supported by Anet. I then post the exact post from Anet on this with a link to it. Would you then respond to my post there, as you just did here, questioning why I posted?

Not my intention to troll you.

I just feel in this particular topic (as opposed to your example where it would be appropriate to add such information) you’re being a tad fastidious over a non-issue.

It didn’t warrant all of this.

I figured a simple OK would be enough to end this line of conversation as opposed to what you took from that as “I TROL U LOLOLOL”, so I’ll just be blunt and tell you that our conversation is over.

Savvy?

Ayrilana.1396:

CETheLucid.3964:

Ayrilana.1396:

CETheLucid.3964:

Ayrilana.1396:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings when signing up to the game, as well as the ‘Take a 15 minute break for every hour of gameplay’.

It’s not called out specifically as they just generically bring up the subject.

You warrant and represent that You have no economic, physical, emotional, psychological, or privacy related considerations that would be adversely impacted by Your use of the Game.

Section 11(a)

I mean, is there something more you wanted out of that?

No?

Alright. I don’t see the point highlighting in the EULA what another poster had already made clear reference to, but you do you.

They said “I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings” but did not mention the EULA. I added onto their post by providing the specific section (although it was generic and didn’t call out anything specifically) and provided a link.

I see no point in what you’re attempting to suggest.

OK.

Ayrilana.1396:

CETheLucid.3964:

Ayrilana.1396:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings when signing up to the game, as well as the ‘Take a 15 minute break for every hour of gameplay’.

It’s not called out specifically as they just generically bring up the subject.

You warrant and represent that You have no economic, physical, emotional, psychological, or privacy related considerations that would be adversely impacted by Your use of the Game.

Section 11(a)

I mean, is there something more you wanted out of that?

No?

Alright. I don’t see the point highlighting in the EULA what another poster had already made clear reference to, but you do you.

Ayrilana.1396:

penelopehannibal.8947:

I’m sure somewhere there actually are epilepsy warnings when signing up to the game, as well as the ‘Take a 15 minute break for every hour of gameplay’.

It’s not called out specifically as they just generically bring up the subject.

You warrant and represent that You have no economic, physical, emotional, psychological, or privacy related considerations that would be adversely impacted by Your use of the Game.

Section 11(a)

I mean, is there something more you wanted out of that?

Was curious and started reading up on photosensitivity and ran into a pair of lens tints that might help people who have to deal with it.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00463.x/full
https://videogameseizures.net/2012/03/11/life-with-zeiss-z1-f133-protective-lenses/

Last I checked, Arcane is still broken and not giving us the correct CDs for element swapping. Why would they nerf CDs that are already latently crippled?

If they fixed Arcane, it would bring Arcane back into play, but we’d also have to sacrifice a trait line for it. With Tempest that leaves us with Fire and Air.

See where this is going?

As a gamer if I suddenly developed this sort of condition if I’m being honest, I’d probably risk it myself. But I say that as someone who isn’t married with kids.

I can sympathize with you and OP, but you have to know if something happens that’s not on Anet or anyone else.

Even if Anet fixed up the area in question, took every lighting precaution into detail as a whole, the nature of your condition is relatively unpredictable and a natural change in lighting could end up triggering an episode.

That’s a risk you choose to take. I’m sorry that it’s something you have to contend with. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Changer the Elder.2948:

Ah, all the lovely times I got yelled at for knockbacking solely for being the only ranger in the group.

I still have yet to see how exactly did I do it while holding an axe and a warhorn, but I assume it’s just us rangers being magical that way.

Allison The Strange.4519:

CETheLucid.3964:

Allison The Strange.4519:

CETheLucid.3964:

Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.

I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.

-snip

I was speaking to it from an aesthetics angle.

Where do you get the idea I was arguing pet mechanics? Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are much cooler than two kinds of beetle and a pocket raptor.

I think they made the right call overall for the pets that we can tame in HoT. That said, the tiger pet is just a reskin of at least like two pets we can already get.

If it were up to me I’d have shelved the tiger for the pocket raptor (preferably) or one of the beetles.

Well for starters it was never mentioned once in entire post if we are only talking aesthetics, functionality, or both. As for aesthetics I’d agree Anet actually did a half decent job on the pets except the bristleback… That thing has a butt ugly face I just can’t forgive…

There was nothing in my intial post to indicate I was arguing pet mechanics though.

I can respect your opinion and I agree with it for the most part in that almost every pet in the game outside of most of the HoT pets needs to be reworked in some way.

But I didn’t say anything to invite your opinion on the issue?

I mean, why did you quote me and go on a colorful tangent about pet mechanics? Just… kinda came out of no where with that. lol

Gaile Gray.6029:

(Ok, guys, no rude comments about the handling fee. I’m talking the straight up transaction here, and it is exactly that: straight up.)

Gnashblades’ gotta eat too.

He’s never been known to renege on a deal or otherwise fail to deliver on the agreed price of a thing.

The BLTP is the perfect middle man and you only go down from there. Anything outside the TP is at your own peril.

lukejoe.1592:

….that would be more convincing than a free trip to lvl 80 for that character I have to pay an extra $10 to create.

Just curious, why would you need to pay $10 to create a new character in HoT? You obviously have HoT if you have the level 80 kit.

Are you out of slots? Because that’s all I can think of, and that’s an insanely misleading way to present the scenario.

Most people won’t need to purchase an additional $10 character slot. You don’t even have to do that.

You’d be choosing to do that.

Allison The Strange.4519:

CETheLucid.3964:

Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.

I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.

SS was awesome till it got nerfed… Now its decent & still the best pet for sticking to people…

Wyverns are absolute bovine excrement who can’t hit a moving target whatsoever…

Bristleback was amazeballs & then it was nerfed but was still amazing… Then it got nerfed again… and again… and again… Now its only decent & nothing too special but still craps all over the vanilla pets. Then again the vanilla pets have never once been buffed since launch afaik & were constantly nerfed.

Honestly I’m glad we didn’t get more pets. They would have either been disappointing like the wyverns or nerfed into mediocrity. Anet refuses to give rangers the proper development time so my thinking is, the less attention we get the better because it’s usually something bad when we are looked at.

I was speaking to it from an aesthetics angle.

Where do you get the idea I was arguing pet mechanics? Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are much cooler than two kinds of beetle and a pocket raptor.

I think they made the right call overall for the pets that we can tame in HoT. That said, the tiger pet is just a reskin of at least like two pets we can already get.

If it were up to me I’d have shelved the tiger for the pocket raptor (preferably) or one of the beetles.

Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.

I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.

PBS is great for breakbars. It’s awesome at saving teammates from a stomp. It’s a great utility skill and it has a time and a place.

That time and place probably isn’t for knocking the non-BB mobs out of the melee range of everyone’s hard hitting attack though. But that’s life with randys.

It’s not a ranger problem. Other classes with knockbacks do the same crap. It’s a people problem. People are stupid.

If you’re in a group with them, call them out on it.

50/50 chance you meet a person and they learn something or you get an opportunity to remind them that they are stupid.

Sure. Why not? In terms of emotes, that certainly seems like a low hanging fruit.

scerevisiae.1972:

I’d venture that axe #1 should have a bleed as well, and remove the might.

No thank you. I’d prefer to keep the might.

Someone get the Iron Legion on this, stat.

Bonus points if there’s a cool mount/dismount animation when you get hit by something or get OOC with the new travel buff.

Lightsbane.9012:

Hexinx.1872:

It also had guild halls which served as your home map for your guild versus guild battles. It was very much true to its name.

DING DING DING.
maybe it’s time to bring that back so we can stop the ‘lol it’s called that for the lore’ arguments.

Except it’s not called that just for the lore. Pay attention.

Northwinds.3045:

No guilds

Bunches of lots of guilds. Almost everyone in game that you’ll meet is in a guild.

Northwinds.3045:

and no wars …

The Elder Dragons. That’s your war. It’s an existential one, no less. Guilds. War. Guild Wars. Guild Wars 2.

Northwinds.3045:

what am I missing

Probably the shift in direction from the first game being largely about factions and guilds fighting one and other towards more an effort to fighting against apocalyptic genocide by these nigh forces of nature that don’t care about the world around them and are hungry for some yummy magics.

Though guilds still regularly compete against one and other in PvP and WvW.

Obtena.7952:

CETheLucid.3964:

DutchRiders.2871:

Obtena.7952:

Shiyo.3578:

Harper.4173:

I honestly don’t get how DS is not farmable.
Get into map – people start doing stuff – tab out and wait.
First camps are taken – go to each one and open the 5-7 chests at each camp – tab out again.
Second camps are taken – go to each camp – open the 5-7 chests – tab out again.
Repeat until event is over. Loot all the end-map pods.

You’ve gotten all your pods.
You’ve watched you favorite youtube video/movie.

Where is problem?

Auric basin chests pay for themselves with aurlium lumps you get per opening(grands). You do not get any currency back from opening noxious pods, and machetes are much more expensive.

Noxious pods also give much less loot.

They do not pay for themselves because you do not get enough lumps to buy another key from each chest you loot. It’s not even a relevant point to your argument from what I can see.

Here is the problem with your complaint. it seems to me that you think Anet is not aware that they have created the perfect storm to allow people to buy keys and use them in this chest phase of AB … yet you have to think at some level, THEY designed it that way. They purposefully made keys available for sale with lumps, opening chests gives lumps and loot and there are Grand chests available to open when completing the meta on a given map.

Seems to me that you aren’t giving Anet much credit for being aware of how the game THEY designed actually works. I’m betting this; Anet was at least knowledgeable enough to know people would buy keys and optimize their loot collection from Grand chests, so at a minimum, the ability to log multiple characters to loot Grand chests in a specific map instance isn’t going away.

map hopping … Again, I don’t think Anet is so unaware of how their game works that they didn’t see this coming and in all honesty, it’s not something they can fix without completely screwing over how players work around their broken megaservers … so that’s not going away either.

It is very easy to fix the reward imbalance between AB and other zones, severely limit the amount of keys you get from the auric events.

Or they could fix the map jumping and not nerf key drops.

Actually, no they couldn’t because as I’ve already outlined, it’s a perhaps unintended, but necessary approach to getting around the megaserver issue; even Anet has acknowledged it.

Two different issues.

LFG taxi, map jumping is fine. No one has an issue with changing maps.

Being able to open the AB meta chests as many times as you have characters to load into the map/can find a map that succeeded at the meta is the probable oversight I’m talking about.

I could have made that more clear, sorry.

To reiterate, I don’t personally care that people character swap/maphop to farm the chests but I’m opposed to suggestions to nerfing keys for the sake of an (probably) unintended farm.

That’s backwards logic. If they feel the farm is too much, they should solve the problem by making it impossible to open the chests multiple times per map/charcter.

Whether they nerf it not, makes no difference to me. But don’t nerf the intended playstyle for the sake of a farm people figured out.

It’s a nerf for everyone. The people choosing not to farm AB chests didn’t do anything to deserve a soft nerf for the sake of the farmers.

The farmers still get nerfed. That won’t make anyone happy.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

I’d appreciate a short quest for those who own Belinda’s GS skin to upgrade it to the one infused with her spirit.

But there’s only one Belinda. She can’t infuse all those replica swords with her spirit! Can she?

:<

DutchRiders.2871:

Obtena.7952:

Shiyo.3578:

Harper.4173:

I honestly don’t get how DS is not farmable.
Get into map – people start doing stuff – tab out and wait.
First camps are taken – go to each one and open the 5-7 chests at each camp – tab out again.
Second camps are taken – go to each camp – open the 5-7 chests – tab out again.
Repeat until event is over. Loot all the end-map pods.

You’ve gotten all your pods.
You’ve watched you favorite youtube video/movie.

Where is problem?

Auric basin chests pay for themselves with aurlium lumps you get per opening(grands). You do not get any currency back from opening noxious pods, and machetes are much more expensive.

Noxious pods also give much less loot.

They do not pay for themselves because you do not get enough lumps to buy another key from each chest you loot. It’s not even a relevant point to your argument from what I can see.

Here is the problem with your complaint. it seems to me that you think Anet is not aware that they have created the perfect storm to allow people to buy keys and use them in this chest phase of AB … yet you have to think at some level, THEY designed it that way. They purposefully made keys available for sale with lumps, opening chests gives lumps and loot and there are Grand chests available to open when completing the meta on a given map.

Seems to me that you aren’t giving Anet much credit for being aware of how the game THEY designed actually works. I’m betting this; Anet was at least knowledgeable enough to know people would buy keys and optimize their loot collection from Grand chests, so at a minimum, the ability to log multiple characters to loot Grand chests in a specific map instance isn’t going away.

map hopping … Again, I don’t think Anet is so unaware of how their game works that they didn’t see this coming and in all honesty, it’s not something they can fix without completely screwing over how players work around their broken megaservers … so that’s not going away either.

It is very easy to fix the reward imbalance between AB and other zones, severely limit the amount of keys you get from the auric events.

Or they could fix the map jumping and not nerf key drops.

I honestly wouldn’t care if they left it well enough alone. I wouldn’t care if they fixed the map jumping thing. Anet is the final voice on the issue at the end of the day.

I thought the guy saying one has to do the AB farm was using crappy logic, and I think the same of you.

Suggesting a nerf to key drops as an end to curb a farm that’s probably an oversight to begin with? That’s a bit backwards, don’t you think?

Come on now. I really don’t care if you AB chest farm, but don’t suggest they nerf the keys for the folks (probably the majority) who choose not to do so.

If your side is going to go that far, I’ll sooner side with the folks who want it fixed.

Vargamonth.2047:

danielrjones.8759:

I don’t do the multi loot thing. I was just wondering why you think it’s unfair? I could care less if people do it. It doesn’t affect me in anyway. I agree it most likely isn’t what Anet intended. I just don’t understand why you’re upset with people making a little more gold. Jealousy? Investments going south?

Probably because it’s an obvious case of reward unbalance. There’s no reason for AB meta to have such a big reward.
For those who like it, it’s awesome. For those who don’t, it means either to spend a good amount of time on something you don’t like or getting behind economy wise.

I don’t have feelings one way or the other about this, but this is just some crap logic right here. Because it’s profitable, you must do it? Really?

Who’s holding a gun to your head and forcing you to do this?

But maybe I’m exaggerating. I mean after all there are just absolutely no other possible ways to make money in the game… right? None!

We must AB chest farm or by the gods we won’t be able to so much as eat, let alone clothe ourselves in the latest Black Lion apparel and accessories!

Lol…

If it was just one guy capping the point and your ranger didn’t want to jump down and contest it, yeah. That ones dead weight.

But hanging out on the high ground shooting people is a legit tactic in the right situations.

Sorry your guy was half-baked.

Putting it on IT would be OP. Putting it on TA would promote build diversity. I think some of you are confused about the traits.

IT is the regen and vigor on aura proc. TA is the shout based trait folks are talking about wanting to add a CD bit for shouts.

Both of these traits are in the master tier. Meaning if they did add a CD reduction bit to TA, you wouldn’t be able to also take IT. You’d have to pick between the two.

I think it’s a good idea.

While we’re at it, hard CC is everywhere right now. Harmonious Conduit should give at least two stacks of stability for 4s instead of just one.

I think that’d make it a more competitive choice and promote diversity in tempest builds.

Wolfric.9380:

If you give tempestious aria a CD reduction you unnerf (and buff slightly) non pure auramancer builds …

Invigorating Torrents shares it’s trait tier with Tempestuous Aria. In the event they added a shout CD reduction functionality to it, you’d have to pick one or the other.

It’s fair.