Defend the Advanced Arcanomics Lab in Mount Maelstrom.
The Veteran Destroyer Harpy (lv 65) vs my lv 66 guardian who never dies. I was nearly full health and somehow got downed in one swooping attack. There was absolutely no chance, and this stuff is normally very easy on my guardian.
Not a Group Event.
Even had food & potion of destroyer slaying.
Waiting around for help has been fruitless of course. Pls fix.
Fought them again after finding someone else who would help. We both nearly died. 1 hit brought my health down 50% (twice), and in my combat logs there was no hits larger than 1,500. I have 10,138 health. Something is fishy.
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^True, my AoEs can knock 5 people down to 50% but they just heal and my skills are spent. I can’t ever kill anyone without coordination with at least 1 other player. Doesn’t matter how fast i whip out my skills, they just don’t kill anyone because of red circles, sluggishness, long cooldowns, and spread out damage.
Conversely I was hit by a Kill Shot for 14,000 today. 1 attack. 14K. What.
Next week is going to be bad for Crystal Desert. Having to fight both FA, IoJ and DragonBrand at once.
The week after that, the new superpowered FA should be bumped up a tier and we can enjoy a good match again.
I feel like this is some sort of joke. So backwards.
I am going to shift my mindset to believe that the game is ending when these changes take place, so I should try to get everything I want to get done before that point so I can easily leave when it all goes pear-shaped.
They really just need to get rid of the function. No one needs to Ctrl-Click an item to put it in chat. Ever.
Shift Click is better and never results in accidental spam.
I find it very contradictory to everything Anet has done up to now.
They have made changes so the game is less worthwhile in PvE. They have made dragon events take longer. They have given us worse loot in PvE.
They have incentivized everyone to flood into FotM instead.
This video is promising that the opposite is intended in the future. I don’t get it.
Crystal Desert seems to be the Singaporean server.
Healing and buffing would also be good to factor in, though probably harder.
Sometimes a monster will just pick on one person, and because of this, that person is busy healing, dodging and defending (or even being downed) while others are doing damage. That means the one taking the heat is least likely to do enough damage to merit loot.
The way I see it, that player is taking one for the team, and should have just as much chance for loot as the others who weren’t hit once.
Snowflakes came from gifts and activities. Are they going to be put into loot bags or something or are they melting now that wintersday is over?
Anet Chris was in LA last night. I asked him this question. He didn’t answer it, instead he answered the person who asked his favourite food.
Sorry to disappoint all of you, but at least now you know that Chris likes Chinese food. :/
I really thought I’d be able to play WvW by now. I didn’t think it would take half a year for the game’s optimizations to be added.
Ural’s Delve at the skill point, a Veteran Spider appeared as a Dynamic Event.
Note that I first defeated a regular veteran spider before the event started, out of nowhere. It wasn’t a very nice surprise.
Yes, this happened to me yesterday and I wanted to report it here. I thought the first Vet was the skill challenge, and then the second comes out with 2 adds, and it’s a CHAMPION despite being called a Vet. There was no way I could have done this solo. I was kitten lucky another player joined in after I waited a while.
A skill point deep in a cave that requires more than 1 person. Bad design. The fight took us about 15 mins, with 4 downs.
Also that grawl cave has a vet for every 2nd enemy. I tried fighting through them all 1-by-1 but the vets would respawn faster than I could kill the last one.
I’ve had several examples of stupid instant respawns and reported about half of them in-game.
Can you make it so respawns don’t attack the person who killed them?
I’m getting tired.
It would be better if I wasn’t the only one I know online at any time.
Combat mechanics are getting boring.
Renown Hearts are all the same for me, because you get less loot if you do anything other than “kill dredge/harpies/ogres”.
Gathering won’t make me rich.
Crafting was my favourite part and it’s actually better to buy most crafted stuff than make it yourself.
Loot sucks everywhere, no reward to do anything.
It seems like the game is being made harder and harder in order to keep us from being able to do/get everything too soon. But the tradeoff is that we’re having less fun the harder it is made. Going too far in either direction will make us quit.
It has happened twice now going into WvW
Lately I’ve seen quite a few times where I go to a new map, I wait for it to load, and I’ll see a flicker of my character standing there, and then it returns to the map loading screen for another equally long loading session.
Just passing through to get to the next map.
Another player in map chat answered me eventually, telling me about the ramp that wasn’t at all apparent by looking around or at the map. :\
I was trying to get to the next map and fell into an enormous canyon I somehow didn’t see straight ahead of me. Cannot find a way out. it’s near the SE entrance.
I worked for Microsoft for a short time. In our training, they told us explicitly to never ever ever apologize to the customer for doing something wrong. We could say “I’m sorry you have had a bad experience”, but we could NEVER admit wrongdoing, as it could be used against us in a lawsuit. It made me hate working for them.
The employees might want to apologize but can’t. Still there are ways to show sympathy.
It’s the internet. It’s like this everywhere.
It’s also like this in real life.
If something is bothering them, that motivates them to express it. If it makes them happy, there’s nothing motivating them to stop playing and explain it.
Negativity is still feedback and will be used to make the game better.
It’s NOT POETRY.
It’s a song with lyrics adapted to GW2.
I sang along as I read. Well done!
I’m glad they posted actual things that were fixed. But since this company has broken all trust with me, I don’t rely on this to be the only 3 things changed in this patch.
There wouldn’t be an instant negative reaction in past updates were accompanied with patch notes that explained what changed.
At this point, each update makes me worry about what has been taken away, made harder, or changed in a way I don’t like. There’s no transparency in “general bug fixes”. There’s no reason to hide positive changes, rather those are something they should be bragging about as it’ll make us happy.
We got doubles of all the lodestones-
Glacial Lodestones (Ice elementals) -> Corrupted Lodestones (Icebrood)
Molten Lodestones (Embers) -> Destroyer Lodestones (Destroyers)
Charged Lodestones (Air Elementals) -> Crystal Lodestones (Branded)
Onyx Lodestones (Earth Elementls) -> Piles of Essence (Risen)I’m expecting to see new pairs and new recipies using them as Bubbles and the Sixth dragon are introduced.
Wow, thanks for the nicely organized chart.
I hadn’t thought of them as doubles, and I thought Bubbles must be the dragon for Glacial, and 3 more dragons for onyx, charged, and molten. This makes a lot of sense.
And Crystal does make sense to me for air, because of all the lightning Kralkatorrik & minions use. They’re both purple too, where Corrupted & Glacial are both blue; molten & destroyer are both red; and onyx and essence are both black.
Onyx & Essence makes sense too, in that one is earth, and one is used-up and returning to the earth lol. These creatures probably eat onyx and the vile essence is their leavings! We put manure into soil to make things grow, although I doubt evil manure would help plants.
Jormag is the ice dragon. His minions are the icebrood. Yet they don’t drop glacial lodestones, they drop corrupted. Why?
Tested the swirling winds yesterday and it’s true, everyone still takes damage from the arrow cart. Didn’t get to try it with the others. 30 Second recharge on this, means it can be up at the most 30% of the time. Would take 4 eles to keep it up, and they would be gimped by having to use the worst weapon and having to pair it with crappy scepter.
I’ve almost never seen an ele use focus in WvW. I have pulled it out a couple of times, but avoid it because we can’t weapon swap and if I can’t get out of combat mode, I’m using a piece of crap as my off-hand.
I don’t know about tripling the rewards, but I would love a way to make hardcore dungeon runners treat me a little better when it’s my first time. You can even ask in map chat LF1M, first time
and inside, the pugs will say “why are we not skipping the trash??”
It feels like a cheap one-night stand, where the one is using the other to get what they want. It’s really unfriendly and often degrading. If a group all want to speed through a dungeon, that’s cool. But anyone who doesn’t want to is treated poorly and it’s hard to distinguish and sync with others who want to experience that dungeon a few times before it becomes … industrial in its gameplay.
Yeah elementalists don’t have a secondary weapon slot. Every time we change weapons (usually S/D to Staff), the dagger gets placed in the wrong bag and is hidden amongst loot. I’ve almost sold many items because of this.
Soulbound bag is a great idea.
I’m not sure that mongering is the right word.
Anyway, it won’t work. Anet would be the ones deciding which players would get the job, and they’d choose those that brownnose the most.
I’ve been on forums where moderators and administrators had their own code of conduct. An effort to prevent power from being abused. It gave a mistreated user something to base a complaint against. Although that rarely happened because the mods there treated people well because of the code of conduct keeping them in line.
It would even be an improvement to auto pick up loot that you’re standing near. That way you wouldn’t need to press F, notice the loot or worry about not reviving someone. You’d never lose loot in WvW ever.
Bots are programmed to pick up anything anyway, it’s no skin off their back. The trip to the sparkly pile is the only thing that does slow them a bit.
With the number of characters & names on screen during wvw, it’s hard enough choosing a human target (even harder choosing the human out of a bunch of clones).
Pets usually rush in front and it’s hard to click around them to attack real players. But if we do take the time to kill a pet, it doesn’t vanish like a clone, making it still distracting. We see a red name moving on the battlefield and it appears as an actual enemy.
Could you either hide them (I think that might improve rendering) or turn them into unnamed, non-selectable objects?
Can someone define what “the meta” is in gaming?
I log in because it’s habit now. I don’t have anything else to play. When I get in, I can’t think of anything I want to do.
There are dungeons I still haven’t completed and gear I want to get but there are never enough people in my guild to do them, and I have no idea how to find a fitting larger guild. With bad rewards in PvE and difficulty of Orr, I have no motivation to complete the last 2 maps. I feel really stuck and unmotivated.
Got one recently and when I saw the icon I had to think for a second to remember what it was.
I think the only thing anyone can respond with really is, “Sorry about your luck”.
It’s not like they had no idea that players could trade them in for less than the gem store. They programmed the exact number of commendations for every item type, and would base that on the cost of these items.
Just because it’s possible (but generally isn’t) cheaper to get keys for less gold than buying through the gem store at full price, it doesn’t mean Anet has made an accident. Maybe they wanted to provide a way for smart players to get keys for less. Maybe that was the whole point, to incentivize us to remove the oversupply of almost every item in the TP.
I didn’t do many keys before because I don’t love anything that comes in the chests. There comes a point for every BLTC item where gem inflation will make them pointless. (ie repair cannisters or mystic forge stones). This happened for me for keys long ago.
I traded for lots of gathering tools, which are running out now. But to remove keys or mark them up isn’t necessary. It’s not like you can make money opening BL chests. You just get boosters and bags of gold which give you a net loss anyhow. I would be disappointed if they changed the inventory of Lyns. I’d probably never open a BL chest again.
Considering all of the requests for support from people who think they didn’t get their items because of this bug, Anet could save themselves some work by fixing it.
Can we get this fixed?
It has been bugged for a long time.
Inbox won’t receive new messages unless there are 8 or fewer in the mailbox. We never know it’s full because the icon doesn’t turn red until there are 10/10 messages (which can’t happen anymore).
is this in wvw? do you have team colours enabled?
I was scratching my head yesterday as my armor already was blue, and team colour was blue, but some parts were black and my dyes wouldn’t change it. Until I realized everyone else was also in blue & black.
People spread lies to make prices shift so that they can buy/sell for profit.
Their profit come from other players via dishonesty. Not friendly behaviour.
Also, it results in more wealth removed from the game due to fees. There are more than enough gold sinks making us poor, and for the rich to remove 30g from fellow players to keep 15g for themselves is not good.
The other case with rich people buy all of a certain item up and reposting them all for a higher price just makes an insanely rich person richer and they leech from the rest of us. If you have that much gold, you could stop using the TP completely and still never spend it all. The game to them is hoarding as much gold as possible, which is sinister considering it doesn’t do them any good but does the rest of the players bad.
Oh I see, it’s like the camera is attached to the character’s head.
I don’t think there’s anything wrogn with either setup. But it isn’t logical for it to use one mode when moving and another mode when standing still.
You will just have to use left-click to turn in those cases I guess.
I don’t understand what you mean. WHen I hold right-click, and move my mouse, the camera turns, whether I move or stand still.
I’ve had the sound affecting me since launch. It happens in many maps, including lion’s arch. I have full screen windowed mode, and when I alt tab out, the game audio mutes but this sound still happens!
At least they fixed the problem where I’d hear random voices in the game when no one was around.
I feel pretty safe saying a criticism in map chat, expecting to not be disagreed with. I think all long-time players have to be honest about things that might have bugged them a bit at the start and are now driving them nuts.
Also, forumers are more invested than just 3-hr a week players.
Also also, criticism and suggestions are made by people who still have hope the game will improve. The truly negative ones quit.
Because some recipes enabled you to get keys for half the price of the gem store, which is not the way it was intended.
So when the keys went on sale at the BLTC, were the customers exploiting by acquiring them at a lower-than-MSRP?
What you seem to forget or ignore, is looking at the total number. You have yet to answer my question as to why, on peak hours, there will be 6 to 7 servers full, and then no servers full during off-peak hours.
Once you answer that question logically with your rationale, then maybe I might start to believe you.
As the other person said, you’re arguing against empirical evidence.
It’s not evidence. You’re taking words on your screen and interpreting them in a way that makes sense to you. There’s a disconnect between what info we are given and the conclusions that should be drawn. None of us can connect the two, only Anet can if they choose.
Well since the rewards accumulate through the wvw week, you will notice it the most on thursday/friday before reset.
And the better your server is doing, the better the rewards. So on a bad week you don’t get as much.
On one hand, a person with a lot of responsibilities considers these things when deciding to exploit. ie the expression “I have kids, I can’t take that risk”. Think of guildies as the leader’s kids.
But the guildies shouldn’t be punished. I think Anet would agree if they had unlimited time to fix things. I can’t see it being a huge chore to make someone else a leader and hope they will squeeze it in.
It’s because they fixed the WvW bonuses so they now work. Hover over the wvw icon at the top of the screen to see what your server’s hard work has given you.