Guild Wars 2

Malganis.7468:

Bright.9160:

It’s because of server limitations. 1 byte can have 256 ‘items’ stored in it, meaning that every stack you have only takes up 1 byte of server space. Were they to increase it, it would put a lot more pressure on their servers.

In fact, if you break the 256 limit, you’ll break the game. Fun story: there was a bug in GW1 where you could use heroes and disconnects to get a bigger party than normal. The highest I ever went with it was making a 20/8 party, but someone I know actually tried to go higher and higher. When he reached a 255/8 party, his game crashed.

TL;DR: it’s never going to happen due to server limitations.

Except when you consider our dungeon tokens in the wallet are unlimited, not 250, then that theory breaks. There has to be a different reason why we’re capped at 250. Especially when you need 250 or more for some crafting or mystic forge things.

pretty sure items have more properties than tokens; tokens probably have about 3 properties and nummeric value; items have more properties than that
tokens are always on account while bank and bags are their own tables basically

oh and i highly doubt that dungeon tokens are unlimited; they probably cap at w/e number kind was set for them (probably something like “long” in C++)

Leamas.5803:

With how much memory is in computers these days and hard drive space is so cheap it might as well be free how many people honestly believe it’s a memory/space issue? It’s not like all this stuff is kept in server memory, only the session will be kept in server memory and only while you’re playing and everything else will be loaded down to the client PC memory at start up. This is the only possible way it could be done. The player profile, and everything therein, including the inventory items WILL be stored on the server hard disk storage array, but I would be surprised if it was anything but a single file containing numbers.

So let’s assume there is the 1 byte limit. How much memory do most computers have these days? I venture most have at least 16G, where gaming machines will usually have more like 32G or more. There are 1000bytes in a kilobyte and 1000kilobytes in a megabyte and 1000megabytes in a gigabyte and if a machine has 16gigabytes of RAM, and GW2 uses 800M of that, it is 800,000,000 bytes (This is how much it uses on my laptop). At most people can have a few hundred stacks of stuff with a fully expanded bank…that’s only a few hundred bytes out of 800 million and people are claiming they can’t expand the slots due to a lack of memory? Sounds fishy to me….poor design if this is truly the case.

you forget that people want fast access to their profile and items, meaning memory has to be fast -> fast memory is very expensive -> a lot of fast memory is very costy

now if they really stored everything on hard disc and just sent you data upon login, do you realize how long it would take to drag chilli peppers from bank to own inventory?

besides that, server hardware differs from normal PC hardware by a lot and is very expensive as it ment for industry, requires higher stability/security etc. and companies making servers try to sqeeze as much money as possible out of customers since customers are actually firms and not just privat person with relatively low budget

you also forget that we don’t pay monthly sub, server maintenance alone is quite costy tho

now to solution: since technically going beyond 250 would be with given budget not possible, what they could do is make stacks of stacks:
meaning if you double click (or use w/e command) on 100 chilli peppers they convert into 1 stack of chilli peppers which again can be stacked into 250 stacks of chilli peppers
if you use w/e command or double click(arguable) on stack of chilli peppers you get 250 chilli perppers

if THAT amount of stacking is not enough for you, then ….well its time to sell lol

oh on side note: 1KB = 1024 bytes btw not 1000
also i believe limitation isn’t only by memory but also by data base; certain data bases support only such long entries/blobs

confusion is absurdly op in pvp and wvw..especially perplexity runes, dont forget it—-

SpecterMAT.7306:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Warriors are pretty strong right now, but will be seeing changes in an upcoming patch.

We like how they can be tanky, and we like how they can do DPS if they want. We also like the CC they can bring. We just don’t like them doing it all with 1 build.

Can you please share the 30/30/30/30/30 build with me?
Because everytime I deal lots of dmg, i lose all my defense and my CC.
If i’m a tank,i lose my dmg.
And so far I haven’t seen a proper middle way.
I think these things exists only in other people’s mind,whom are not warriors.

so delusional

the problem with that toughness though is that thief scaling is horible; if you give same toughness to warrior for example they get way more out of each point

i ran full toughness/condi build on my thief before; it is pathetic how survivability is just slightly (something like 6% dmg redux) better than zerker

servers done it many time

ironically FSP done it before too lol

ranks are fine, accnt bound would be nice but w/e

looks like some grafik filter got changed

logged in game today, had all 24…..

Barabbas.8715:

Caring about nonsense like this is immature. Maybe they should have made this game rated 18+…

i don’t think it would help

there are plenty of 18+ year old “males” that think females belong in the kitchen basically and threat them like a thing

i played quite few games and sadly there are such people who just hate females for w/e reason

warriors all in one feature gets nerfed….:o

JonathanSharp.7094:

Warriors are pretty strong right now, but will be seeing changes in an upcoming patch.

We like how they can be tanky, and we like how they can do DPS if they want. We also like the CC they can bring. We just don’t like them doing it all with 1 build.

yesss…. he understood us…now hopefully the changes will be appropriate too

Miko.5726:

ONE Year the Warrior was not VIABLE in sPvP. So calm down. Mesmer is still easy mode, Ranger too. And Necrotics – Nuff said! Ele is overnerfed and need some love.

oh so by that logic whatever class was weak should recive huge buff and be OP for few months..because..it is “fair”

sry game balance doesn’t work like that

skyhammer really needs to go…

is this real life? s/d being weaker than stealth build, what???

so basically you are saying that every other class should be building to counter warriors…. isn’t it the definition of OP?

Worth getting? Any thoughts?

Right now i am running sigil of fire for wvw…

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

The promised change might have been the new Antitoxin Spray heal skill that removes confusion.

except that heals sucks in wvw and has long CD, i tried it out

my guildies are switching to those confusion runes, i see a lot of thieves with them now, 2 days ago i encountered hammer train consisting of hammer warriors abusing those runes as well…..what is next? let’s give them to tower/keep lords eh?

i don’t understand why anet is so obessed with confusion, it is really annoying and lame condi to deal with, especially if you are not warrior or guardian; in most cases it means you have to run or die; i am personally sick and tired of seeing every mob now using confusion and a lot of ppl abusing perplexity runes in wvw

the whole confusion train needs to stop already sigh

spiritus.7983:

Coldin.2840:

If someone /waves to you, it means they are not looking to fight.

if you are in www you ARE looking for a fight.

except campers don’t fight, they just stand on the platform above you and prevent you by all means to proceed further, that is called griefing not fighting; if those ppl end up in actual fight they usually run for their life or get downed pretty fast as they suck in actual combat

ppl who don’t suck don’t need camping ppl like this; only morons who don’t even know how to pvp abuse that kind of crap

Killthehealersffs.8940:

Enjoyluck.2618:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDhWCwlXX20

soon everywhere

I see it and i raise it ! :P
,,, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUyJisI_tA

08:15 my favorite part :P

that was the reason i quit wow actually, got sick and tired of seeing only warriors on arena… and wow devs preaching that warriors are fine heh

silentnight warrior.2714:

Cynz.9437:

silentnight warrior.2714:

Cynz.9437:

i specced into d/p thief and play with warrrios… can’t beat them, join them -_-

ppl can defend warriors all the want, but daily practice just shows how stupid easy and effective they are compared to other classes; they really need to change warriors where they have same trade off as other classes:
- you go for dmg? you lose some survival or CCs etc.
- you go bunker? you lose dmg
- you go more moblity? you lose dmg

etc.

I can understand that if they do that to all classes. Right now i´m thinking about other classes that can go full zerker and have very good surviability.

depends on class.. but the trade off needs to be in game or none at all; because some classes have huge trade off and other don’t at all

it is not healthy to for a game have such differences between classes, it wil just end up in everyone rolling fotm, getting bored of it and quit game; surely they could roll something else but getting rolled by fotm they would eventually just get frustrated and quit

I agree with you. All classes speced to bunker should deal less damage. All classes speced to burst should have way less surviability.
But even then should be some diferences in the way classes manage that because the gameplay is totaly diferent from class to class in gw2.

yeah i agree

i can bring a thief as an example as i play it a lot (but surely not saying they are absolutely fine, lol s/d): if let’s say thief decidedes to invest into survival it is usually involves stealth or dodge in some kind; if thief decided to trait more into dmg it is usually involves some kind of active aggressive moves/dmg like steal, crits etc. but it doesn’t give them extra survivability for example (outside of trait that converts 5% crit into vitality which is roughly 1k HP extra but really not a game breaker)

i think it can be done that classes have to trade off dmg for survival or survival for dmg etc. and still stay in “style” of the class

silentnight warrior.2714:

Cynz.9437:

i specced into d/p thief and play with warrrios… can’t beat them, join them -_-

ppl can defend warriors all the want, but daily practice just shows how stupid easy and effective they are compared to other classes; they really need to change warriors where they have same trade off as other classes:
- you go for dmg? you lose some survival or CCs etc.
- you go bunker? you lose dmg
- you go more moblity? you lose dmg

etc.

I can understand that if they do that to all classes. Right now i´m thinking about other classes that can go full zerker and have very good surviability.

depends on class.. but the trade off needs to be in game or none at all; because some classes have huge trade off and other don’t at all; the problem with warriors is that they are waaaaay too effective in comparison

it is not healthy to for a game have such differences between classes, it will just end up in everyone rolling fotm, getting bored of it and quit game; surely they could roll something else but getting rolled by fotm they would eventually just get frustrated and quit

that is what happend to wow pvp over the course of time, the developers payed little attention to what is going on on arena, there were HUGE difference between classes so in some seasons you would come into arena and see literary every team have a warrior (mind you arena there is 3v3) so many just rerolled warrior or quit; ppl who reolled warrior got bored and quit -> arena population became reallly small compared to previous expansions

it saddens me that anet hit that warrior affection as well; i really hope something will be done soon

i specced into d/p thief and play with warrrios… can’t beat them, join them -_-

ppl can defend warriors all the want, but daily practice just shows how stupid easy and effective they are compared to other classes; they really need to change warriors where they have same trade off as other classes:
- you go for dmg? you lose some survival or CCs etc.
- you go bunker? you lose dmg
- you go more moblity? you lose dmg

etc.

i love the change, i hate it when i would support my team and would end up with least points because if it since some roles don’t always get to capture or hold points

joke is…archiv is bugged, many ppl are stuck at 23/24 despite visiting all 24 locations :/

i do not like medium female armor any bit… -_-

i thought it was funny

it crackles me out how some people cry about lack of “male” heroes…. go play any game made about till now…. yeah every kitten hero is a…oh surprise… A MALE

every female in those games are….oh surprise… some hepless maidens or some wanna be soldiers that usually fail pretty fast lol

nobody cries that all those characters are kitten males yet it is a problem that for living story we have quite few females show up: enjoy dem curves, kitten

JTGuevara.9018:

Jordo.5913:

So the little picture preview we get of the next patch in line is up…and it pretty much confirms Scarlet’s involvement, since the next patch will probably have us heading into the tower.

The question is, what is that thing behind her?

Did the krait prophets actually return?

Is it a massive Nightmare Court boss?

You’ve GOT to be kidding me. They NEED to kill her off so a real class of villain can show up or this living story is DONE. Stick a fork in it.

It’s gotten to a point that Scarlet is just dragging this charade on and on. This chick is not a villain. This chick is a bootleg Joker. The Joker, at least, knew how to be funny & sadistic. This chick is neither. I also don’t like the fact that the developers made her look like such a hotshot at the expense of other characters.

It’s gotten to a point when a lot of people are complaining about her now & want her gone.

i think she is doing great job…at being annoying lol; once it comes to finall confrontation i bet ppl will kill her with pleasure hahahaha

funny thing, i don’t even mind her but i am srsly annoyed by all those hard confusion mobs; as thief main i just wanna /facedesk all day when i am forced to fight those mobs; you are basically forced to run condi removal build on a thief to have a chance otherwis you just sit forever in some condi + confusion and can’t do junk

look at the history of games, almost every game had main hero…… as male….

females were usually some whiny housewifes basically

i like how this game doesn’t run typical road and let only males do all the work

as for lore, my guess would be that in countless wars many males died as soldiers so females kind of have to handle things now; same thing happend in one african country where most males died during wars and females ended up ruling the country which, fun fact, was best thing that happend to the country in a while

help please srsly don’t want to visit all locations to 4th time

2 things happend while looking for obelisks:
- after 1st. obelisk i went to talk to NPC
- somewhere around 16 obelisks the game got hotfix so it kicked me out of the game for patch however after patch i checked all obelisks again but still stuck at 23/24

same issue, checked all locations 3 times by now, all say i checked them but i am still at 23/24

my guess is that maybe while i was hunting obelisks patch happend or because after getting 1st obelisk i talked to NPC

Redrenna.7216:

i was also stuck on 23/24 but it turnd out i was missing the one in Treacherous Dephts(mount maelstrom).that might be the one you are missing.

as stated before i visited all obelisks few times just to make sure…. all of them say i already checked them…

anyone know how to fix it maybe?

checked all 24 locations twice, some of them 3 times…all say that i already checked them yet i didn’t get archivement…

after i got first obelisk i did talk to the NPC so it might be the reason…

Terrahero.9358:

Issue has been around since start. Would be great if something could be done about it, but untill then a word of advice: Dont drop a ton of expensive siege when you know there is a patch scheduled.

the issue is that most of them aren’t scheduled…-_-

Spent 5g on omega, minute later, hey your game will patch in 10 min. Good bye omega golem, good bye superiors…:/

Can something done about it? Superior sieg is not exactly cheap -_-

Basedgod.7328:

Sorry, but im hungry for small fights.

And the EB JP is a great place to do them. No inflated stacks that cheapens encounters, no random mobs for enemies to rally off, no walls to run behind, no siege to build.

/wave at me and I will fight you. Put up a fight and I will let you go.

fighting is fine…but let’s be honest majority of campers in JPs don’t fight; they just literary grief you with knockbacks and CCs from above so you can’t jump up nor fight back; most annoying spots like this:
platforms inside well
the infamous lamp room

the sad part, as i stated before, when i actually got to catch those campers, they did suck in actual fight heh

i can just laugh at the poster above me

yeah it would be nice….sometimes i wish i could buy stuff i am kind of forced to go pve when i would rather pvp

Velron.3729:

Every time I read someone complain that Warrior is OP I see it translated by my brain as :

“I’m really bad. I don’t bring stun breakers, or waste them if I do. I also waste all my dodges on auto attacks. I can’t survive for even 8 seconds and waste all my CC during that 8 second immunity.”

Fragg – Engineer | Lil Zek – Warrior PVP R43
[DA] Decisive Actions – Jade Quarry

i lol’d

necro and another warrior….

Valentin.2073:

it’s kind of confusing for someone who is not a veteran in spvp. i really dont see warriors op. i’m not a pro but i can still beat a warrior 1v1 as a ranger.

1. you are ranger
2. the point is not that you can’t kill warrior; the point it is how little effort it takes to play warrior and still stay alive for extended period of time while humping the point; play as poorly on any other class and you would get dealt with pretty fast

Valentin.2073:

thieves and eles have AI’s too and only warriors and guardians dont but they can choose to trait for a rockdog.

so warriors and guardians are the only rightfull classes?

thief guild is so crappy though…long CD and gives our your position… -_-

besides those are temporal, while necro and ranger pets are permanent

Knote.2904:

All this proves is that a warrior played extremely poorly w/o even trying can live for 30+ seconds of constant dmg pressure lol.

Do the same exact thing with another class where you barely do anything and see how long you last.

ahh someone understands

they care, it is just solution isn’t that easy to implement and it costs money

Ikaros.7812:

Morphman.6312:

Might end up with people running away more just to keep the k/d ratio above a certain number

I think warriors and thieves are already preparing for such a change.

thives kind of have to since even rabbit can one shot them; warriors on other hand..mmmmyeaaaaaa

BL JPs are actually ok, you can fight back there; EB JP on other hand is absurd, you don’t even get a chance to fight someone who keeps preventing you from proceeding further

luckily, i play thief so i can come from behind those campers but how many other classes can?

the problem with EB JP is that if you get just one step ahead you can effectively prevent entire group of proceeding any further with just 1-2 ppl

i love pvp, but in such situation you don’t even get to fight back so i can hardly call it any pvp, more like griefing; most of the people i caught camping sucked in actual fights in the end

i personally find unfair are things like:

eles, necros, engis etc. can destroy any sieg on the wall regardless where you place it
any omega golem rush makes hours of upgrading keeps useless
kitten bugs and hax that ppl keep exploiting
perplexity runes being stupidly broken

etc.

never complained about 1v10 etc, it is war after all

i run zerker thief and i don’t get hit as hard by glass cannon thief… were you naked or something?