To the op, you wouldn’t have had a problem in my party I ran AC story 5 times in a row for last months monthly. Did it last minute as I was leveling up a new ranger. I did the runs with lvl 27 gear on a level 28 Ranger. Pretty much full glass too. Ran through it in under 25 minutes each.
As mentioned, you need to use the boulders, interrupts, and conditions. Ralena and Vassar was the only issue I ran into. The can be such a fussy couple at times ;-)
Try it again. I think you’ll see how easy it can be.
Wendy…. when you enter EB, just ask if “Do we have a port in the JP?” If they say, “No!” Then ask if anyone knows when? You might get a civil reply. Either way, simply come back at another time.
If it was me and I knew you were friendly, I’d let you up there. A week ago we had all 3 worlds jumping it at once, completely friendly. Then a handful of morons had to show up and ruin it. When someone is bowing, you are supposed to stop!
For spending Karma here and there, why waste it when you should be using boosters. A solution would be to have the slider/input box they have in crafting. I recently bought 1000 items and was tired of clicking too.
I’m with you… more hair styles, please?? Was just thinking of this an hour ago. I imagine they are holding back a lot of content for some kind of expansion pack later in the year. I’d much rather have hairstyles now though.
It’s about the economy. For events though, that first day of the Mad Kind was pretty fun. Christmas event wasn’t bad either. I enjoyed the PvP snowball fight (whatever it was called) event.
When you look at things, it seems to be obvious when “The Dev’s” makes their choices to control the economy that get under our skin. Then there’s the artist’s whom we seem to like their work. The problem I see as a long term problem is, we’d like to reward one and not the other.
Originally, I had the “Let’s reward Anet for a great game” feeling. I bought Gem’s every month. Then that washed away with how agitated I was getting which each FotM run. How gated wealth was/is in Dungeons. It just turned me off. Now I pretty much never want to buy gem again. That’s a long term problem.
Anet needs to give us more freedom, appearance items, and things to build or cultivate. Endless killing really isn’t fulfilling. Silly achievement points aren’t fulfilling to me. Give us housing like Farmville. Look how well that works for them. When we’re happy and feel fulfilled, then we’ll be much more inclined to reward them again by buying gems.
Either that or increase drop rates of White, Celestial, and Abyss. My Guild theme was supposed to be Angels. Yet, not once has White or Celestial dropped for me. Even crafted several rare grey’s for it even.
This game should have had a disclaimer on the price tag. $60 for the game. $120 is you want a your characters in White or Black.
<rant>Seriously, I was just short the daily by one salvage item. Which I was salvaging 10 items when it stopped counting at nine. Not that I didn’t do the tenth. Surprisingly, this annoyance has happened before. Like you couldn’t put a 5 minute grace period on it? Considering how bleeping important you made laurels to be.
This is just another in a long list of things that brings such frustration into a game. Games shouldn’t cause negative emotions like this. Never have I had a game that caused such negativity than this one.
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That’s assuming the same person is logged into the account. The gremlin was on for a lot of hours and was refreshing his siege. First it was spamming treb’s in EB keep. Then the next day the rams and arrow carts in JQ BL Garri and EB keep. It easily could have been more than one person doing this. I know it was more than one account doing the trebs.
Anyway, this has revealed that WvW balance is quite easily broken. At our level of play, once being siege capped, you are going to lose ground quickly. On two maps simultaneously and it’s a no win scenario. It’s just that simple.
This isn’t something a Dev can program around. They need real living breathing humans moderating the game. It’s the only solution that can fix this quickly.
My response to all this is, “play naked!!!” Well, at least my characters are :-)
Talentless, no flaming warranted for asking. Winning is the satisfaction and sense of doing well that comes from not only obtaining an objective but, how you achieved the objective. As they say, “It’s not the destination but, the journey.” Well, the journey has been derailed for many :-)
I think many of us could handle the Gremlin, as I call it. What’s disheartening is the non reaction from Arenanet. That this part of the game we so enjoy is now broken. It really depends how you play WvW. If you play for PPT, wow this is broken. If you play for badges, then it’s business as usual.
Wobels.1679… sure, let me DPS this fortified wall down for you. I’ll let you know when it’s ready
There’s only so much you can do when you can’t build siege. Beyond that, why should we? We kicked up our game 2 days ago to compensate. After 24 hours of the situation only getting worse and worse, why should we continue being subjected to this? When the frustration of playing over takes the fun, then it’s time to stop. Anything else is just unhealthy behavior.
That’s why we’re on here venting. Because it’s a healthy release!
BG just took Lowlands a little while ago. I have a screen cap of the same person standing idle beside the oil (and untouched) while we lost it. This person even goes out of his way to turn all our siege inward. Which, we all know Treb’s, mortar’s, and cata’s take some time to turn.
Until something is done, WvW for PPT is completely broken….. Update or no update.
No matter what transpires by end of day, BG… in the eye’s of many, you didn’t earn any of it. To those “good” Apples, sorry your efforts were spoiled. I assure you though, it’s nothing like the frustration and anger felt, day after day, by being helpless to do anything about this. And watching Anet condone this pathetic behavior…
Do you really believe a Guild would kick players just so the could fill the queue with their own? When all they have to do is fill the queue already. Then believe such behavior wouldn’t come with harsh consequences either? Like full Guild ban’s or something of such nature if they were found being abusive.
I’m pretty certain the OP and I must be on the same server. Because we’ve been handicapped by a person siege capping us most of the week. To have your hands tied by one person and be completely powerless to do anything simply sucks. Arenanet themselves have been less than useless on this. Because the only action I can see they’ve taken is removing a screen cap a fellow player posted of the person doing it.
The ability to kick a person could exist in WvW and be based on a fixed percentage of the population on the map. Just like it is in parties but, on a larger scale. The same could be said of dismantling siege. After this past week, it’s obvious something needs to be done. They either needs GM’s or give us the power the police ourselves more.
You were not “perfectly sieged up defensively”. Nor does your position sound like it was fortified. Otherwise, you would have held the position.
From my perspective, If S.W. goes, WvW will go down with it. It’s a pivotal skill that is required. Unfortunately, WvW is design as all area’s of combat are designed. To keep an effectively high turn over rate to induced an adrenaline response in the player. Thus, if you think Zerging is bad now, just wait until you have no way of stopping treb’s. The sensation of everything being paper or disposable will just go up and up.
Trust me, as a T1 Ele who’s ‘defended’ walls for easily an hour straight, it’s not that easy. S.W. is also not rewarded in game for the individual. The world as a collective makes out on the PPT.
Please remove the Dolly Zoom from all parts of the game? It’s very unsettling and this games FOV isn’t that good to begin with. There are still people that get headaches and motion sickness.
For those wondering what it is, it’s that effect that takes place after a Dragon or the Maw goes down. It’s used very infrequently in Cinema for creating a state of disorientation. Why after we win should this occur is just bad directing even.
Please feel free to comment on this… There are still many camera issues that have been neglected.
We should have, dare I say, a choice in selecting the material traits so we can dial in appearances. Appearance is extremely important in making a character. Why they limited us to a few looks and a couple of dyeable zones, I have no idea.
I’m well aware, educated, and yet still am amazed where some people come from. I simply would not take what is not mine, nor have I earned, period. A person could leave a million dollars on their front lawn while on a month long vacation and I still wouldn’t take any of it. More so, I’d do my best to stop anyone from trying to steal it.
Where such a deep lack of empathy and values comes from amazes me.
….This game isn’t for you if you like to be good….
Let’s be serious, this game is very crude in that the reward system is based on senseless killing. Acting selfishly is highly rewarding too. With that as it’s core values, no wonder the social aspects are so weak.
I’m all for smash and bash in a game but, I’ve never experienced a game that felt this off about it.
We’ll most likely all be on the next “IT” game before housing, farming, or anything life related is introduced into the game. Maybe when it is we’ll come back to it but, I do not see this having the longevity for that honestly.
This game has grind because there is only one real method of getting what you want, by killing. With all the gold sinks, every time you want something the simple equation is (kill x #) = desired item. So yes, the repetitive nature of this can certainly feel like grind. Especially when you factor the number of hours that are required to achieve most items. Gold generation simple feels extremely slow and uphill. There’s very little sensation of achievement when they change the gear before many have even acquired the previously desired items.
The constant nerf’s and shifting around of the game dynamics makes it feel grindy too. Because you feel like you are playing catch up. Honestly, when was the last time you had a moment when you said “Yay” or “Awesome” in the game? That’s the grind, how the games feels…
Another fix would be Arenanet themselves could create an in game timer. This way it uses no user input.
Right now I’m quite annoyed and feel the same frustration others have shared. I said freak this and logged after several hours of just standing around because of timers manipulation. The fun of this game is going downhill fast. Can’t we get something else to do but kill stupid S… for profit? How about growing and tending something everyday? What kind of people make a game where the sole profit comes from killing?? Even the new WvW Xp will not reward building but, killing only.
I know… I veered off topic It’s just really getting annoying that they CAN do this but, don’t.
We’ll never know how truly sophisticated Arenanet’s control over the economy is. I’d wager it’s very advanced. How elegant and flexible the loot tables are at monitoring global supply and each items relative values. The protocols in place for adjusting supply for the sake of stability and manipulation. People call it “RNG” but, nothing is truly random.
What all these numbers and graphs do not explain is turnover rates. Commodity value on Ecto’s would be interesting to know.
Geotherma.2395… Wow, you must do some serious power farming to get 90 in a week, GJ! I’ve never seen numbers like that myself. Though the big 3 in rare have alluded me after 1k+ hours of game play.
Specifically, this patch was to be a correction to revert back the drop rates on Dyes to prior Nov. 1st. What’s odd and why I used the word inflation is because it applies. Fore after this patch, pricing increases rapidly after this patch. Not just on Dye’s but numerous other items as well.
These dates, Nov 1st and Nov 5th, are significant. I don’t know what they did under the hood of the economy to create this.
On November 1, we introduced a change that unintentionally increased the drop rate of Unidentified Dye. Today’s game update corrects the drop rate for Unidentified Dye."
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Well I’d like to say, I think you broke it! :-) Please look at the all graph’s and the explosive inflation rate after this patch. How is this an acceptable inflation rate? There was such a nice consistency until after this specific patch on this specific date. Why has this issue not been addressed?
Great video.. Thank you for sharing it. Yes, GW2 is highly extrinsic in nature. Slaying and killing, over and over, is not something I wish to do. I hold no malice toward most forest animals. Yet, I joylessly kill them in bulk for an extrinsic item. Right now, I’d like white dye for all my characters. Which is quite expensive…..
Rukia.4802 “How about some real fun, not frustration. Again, it’s FRUSTRATION, not FUN ANet… you have the two bass akwards.”
digiowl.9620 “Likely because trashing hordes of mobs quickly is boring, it is not as mentally fatiguing as trying to keep up with mobs that can one shot you for the same duration.”
See the two mindset’s? One seeks fun by feeling uplifted. The other by feeling frustrated and fatigued. One once a more peaceful laid back approach to fun. The other wants intense struggle. For the Arenanet dev’s, I believe they think we all want an adrenaline filled rage fest fueled by frustration and struggle. Which is not a healthy state to be in for any extended duration or high frequency. Which GW2 players seem to do both. I hope they hire some new developers to balance gameplay. Here’s to hoping we get some more social activities and customization. Many of us will have more fun then!
For the Krait themselves, they also are more difficult in WvW. Soloing them used to be challenging. The first time I tried after the patch I went, Whoa… WTH??? So I can understand it might have been a bit of a shock to others.
All Norn here! The Shiverpeaks are my favorite region. Hoelbrak is the best city I think too. The grandeur and music is great. Which is a pretty big deal for me in picking a race. Thus it’s all Norn, all day…. Also, you can make them short to just barely taller than the tallest human setting.
For the other races, I can’t stand Ascalon. I’ve been at 93% Map completion since the fall and just can’t bring myself to go in there. That’s how much I despise it. Maguuma is too cluttered, overgrown, and unstructured to me. Thus, I really don’t like the region either. Kryta isn’t too bad except for the Harathi Hinterlands. That’s just a terrible map really.
I did try a female human a couple of times. End up deleting it eventually as I really don’t like the run cycle. Since that is all we do, it’s been the deal breaker. Because I could always level up in the Shiverpeaks and in WvW.
The game was sold on the notion on no gear grinding. For those that do not like dungeons, gear or gold is very difficult to come by. Thus, they have chest in PvE. Perfectly good response to solve the “gating” issue.
The only outstanding issue is overflows surrounding these events. WP’ing is completely useless because you’ll end up in the overflow. As I just did minutes ago for Jormag.
The answer could be pets. With the latest patch it removed any usefulness to the skill “Guard” from Rangers. Rangers really have no unique or really useful purpose in WvW. If a pet could sniff out stealthed enemies and continue to track the target, Rangers would have a purpose.
If this is about balance, this suggestion would help in multiple ways.
Going to agree, Mesmer’s and walls are a bit OP. Besides the pulling issues, what about phantasm’s/clones appearing inside gates and on walls? This is one of those things I believe the dev team does on purpose. They have this, “The more I frustrate them, the more they’ll love me” mentality.
If that little stub along the wall can obstruct my rifle shot, then it should prevent any other skill from breaching it. Also, when you think about it, why would anyone not have built those taller???
Thank you Shinji, we were getting kinda’ bored with the décor on Garrison already. We heard you did demo work for free so, we figured what the heck. Though you might as well leave your bag’s on the cart. You won’t be staying very long ;-)
Call the Citadel if you need anything. Time for bed and we’ll see you tomorrow
Just venting that the SOR I’m coming across this week are exhibiting the worst sportsman I’ve seen. Clean up the behavior please SOR. Learn some manners… that is all.
btw… for the overly exaggerated conversation of our coverage on JQ. Presently, we have one map at a full queue. Our numbers are not the only reason we’re good.
Kaimick…. if you go into any area that scales with blues or greens on, you’ll scale to the more than the equivalent 80 in greens or yellows. You’d scale more toward Rares/Exotics because blues and greens are the best lower level characters can have. A 50 in Rares would scale very well indeed. Especially an Ele with it’s inherent healing capacity.
Though yes, play style does make a difference too. But, you’ll also hit a hard ceiling in Fractals without better gear.
“This would remove the entire transmutation stone system and a major revenue source for ANet.
The OP would rewrite the very nature of the game nearly from scratch."
Umm… yeah, no it wouldn’t. You would still need transmutation stones. You’ll either have one of two situation. You like the look or you like the stats. Then you’d simply purchase the new stat’s and STILL transmute them unto the existing appearance item. Or, you buy a new appearance item and transmute them onto the existing stats. Nothing changes….
A more elegant system would be to not list all the items by armor classes in purchase panels. Give us the choice of all appearance items and have the game check your armor class and give you the appropriate stat’s when purchased. Again, it’s separating stat’s from appearance.
How anyone can attempt to apply a logic argument to a game that has Dragon’s and magic in it, I don’t know either. A pair of undies can be “Heavy Armor” if they are enchanted
Nothing on this yet? I thought maybe the issue was the item has to be in your inventory first? Again, spent Gold on food trays. It was food that people ate. The functions label on the tray is literally “Eat”. It should work
I chuckled when I read 5 Golem attack. To me, 5 Golem’s isn’t a rush
oh, and where are these places in PvE where you can have hundreds of Gold? That’s only available from Dungeon Runners. You are not getting that much gold from meandering about Orr even.
I hated yesterday’s daily. I sat in Kryta for the hour before reset and couldn’t get my daily in. Players we nuking the events in seconds! And, here I thought the Shaman had it rough in Wayfarer
For today’s daily, I started a Brawl Party in Lions Arch. Around the Mystic Forge I placed tray’s of food. With my Witches Costume on I placed cauldron’s all about. Then others with the Mad Kind costumes started food fights. It was a hoot! Not even a costume, foods, or tonics were required. Today should have been one of the easiest daily’s ever! You had 3 available to you right the in Lions Arch. You had Food, Forge, Costume brawl and hopefully FUN!
If nothing else, I’d love them to separate appearance and stat’s in Armor. Armor restrictions are simply that, restrictions. It’s annoying when you see appearance items and can’t have them. All this does is create frustration…
Last night in LA I held an impromptu 3 in 1 Daily Party ! :-) Placed tray’s of food all around the Mystic Forge. Put on my Witch’s costume and popped Cauldron’s all over too. For an hour and a half we had a riot! The only downer was, all the trays of food I dropped didn’t count toward the daily. I’d complain about the Gold loss but, it was a lot of fun.
Please fix this so all food counts. Also, while I have your attention, more brawl and food in the daily. It was a creative use of the daily and a lot of fun!!!! Hoping to host more party’s.
Orr does seem better. BUT, the Risen pulling you had to go. Who needs a kittening speed bump every 20 ft. Those things ruined any sense of flow and fun in Orr for me.
Why should all dragon’s be considered evil in this game? For a fantasy based game, this one really doesn’t have much creativity. Nor a lot of grandeur or magic to it. It’s "Grunt… grunt… I kill… I kill… " Wp to the next kill zone.
Instead, how about add something magical, whimsical, and fun! Being able to use a mount sounds like FUN! Even if it’s just within an instance or particular zone only. I’d bet if you make a second village/city like LA with mounts, people would flock to it. Make it something like Divinity’s Reach but, more pristine, bright, and lush with greenery. A White Citadel type of city with flying and riding mounts. Sounds awesome to me!
You have to admit, the designers went for a dark and morbid visual quality in most area. Some odd blend of tribal, steam punk, and deathThey should watch some Final Fantasy 13 videos for design inspiration.
I ran AC story 5 times in a row for last months monthly. Did it last minute as I was leveling up a new ranger. I did the runs with lvl 27 gear on a level 28 Ranger. Pretty much full glass too. Ran through it in under 25 minutes each.
