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Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Will Tormented skins be “in season” till 4/15 or will there be a patch before then?
Check out the blog post about new items in the gem store on tuesday. IF tormented weapons will rise in price on 1st of April, they will mention it in there.
Got a link? I don’t see any new BL items on the feature patch stuff
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Will Tormented skins be “in season” till 4/15 or will there be a patch before then?
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Kindof dangerous to have nothing for 10days
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
The only thing dangerous to GW2 right now is ESO. Place is going to be a ghost town in less than a month.
it would have been nice that ESO have been dangerous for GW2, like that maybe the dev would have wake up to really take care and update the game with something else than pointless farmfest gameplay…
It will be competitive and force Arenanet to be on their a-game. Both games have one of the same major draws: A zone with open world PVP between 3 factions with siege.
Heck, both games are headed by ex Mythic (Dark Age of Camelot) developers. Colin leading GW2 development, Matt Frior leading TESO development.
Aside from that the similarities are that both games have a zergy feel to them both in PVP and in landscape PVE (no tagging, open world events (GW2 does these open world events better, it’s probably its strongest aspect is frankly, its landscape events), and both games focus on active defenses rather than passive defenses. The difference is TESO uses a trinity, which is bad and good. It’s bad due to the fact that you have to wait on healers almost always, but good because unlike GW2 dungeons, not everyone is doing the exact same thing. It feels like a team, where GW2 dungeons feels like you’re soloing the content next to 4 other people, not like you’re playing with them in a team. You’re all doing the exact same thing: dumping damage on the boss and dodging. Tanking in TESO is actually quite a bit of fun because of the importance of active defense and block timing.
I’m hoping that eventually Arenanet can realize that making everyone zerker DPS was a massive mistake and very boring. Figure out a way to make interrupts a viable role in dungeons, eliminate the penalties on healing power for heals that aren’t self heals, make an armor set that grants healing power, boon duration, and something else (currently you might as well “support” in zerker gear, while doing DPS) and maybe make some enemy attacks not dodgeable so there’s an actual use for heals, vitality, and toughness, even if you’re mostly focusing on self heals.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Kindof dangerous to have nothing for 10days
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
I was REALLY hoping that this patch would have something to do for the next couple weeks before ESO launch.. instead.. they took content AWAY.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
No cinematic zoning into Lion's Arch?
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
Patch notes said there would be one… I didn’t get one… I don’t suppose someone has a youtube of it.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Belladonna of Dreams cost 650gold, which is about £115 if bought with gems. That skin costs substantially more than $7.50. Comparatively BL weapons are cheaper than this skin, so following that logic, good value.
Drawing erroneous comparisons helps no-one. Bottom line, keys are expensive, it’s a gamble, don’t like it, don’t buy it. Want the skins, but don’t want to spend money? Buy them on the TP, they aren’t that expensive.
Using Gold prices to Gem prices is not an accurate measure as Gold to Gem Prices are volatile.
Gem to Dollar prices are stable.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Oh no! You opened a handful of RNG boxes and didn’t immediately get the random thing you wanted out of them? You poor things.
Oh wait, no. It’s RNG, you’re not guaranteed a scrap, give it a rest.
The RNG chests shouldn’t have booby prizes at least.
Why not? They can’t all be winners, that defeats the purpose. It’s gambling after all.
RNG is fun when every outcome is good but some are better than others. it’s not fun and is frustrating when there’s booby prizes everywhere and only a few outcomes are good.
If every outcome of the chests was something you couldn’t get normally in the game, it’d be fun, nobody would feel just plain ripped off when they spend money on it, because you’re getting things you can’t normally get in game.
But when you get a bunch of booby prizes you can get normally in the game, you end up feeling angry and ripped off.
Don’t go to Vegas, you are obviously ill suited to gambling.
This isn’t Vegas, this isn’t the lottery. People are not spending money to win more money. They’re spending money for textures in a video game.
You really don’t understand what gambling is, do you? Money, a new car, virtual do-dads, it’s all the same thing. You are paying for the CHANCE to get something you want. What you have is the FAR greater chance to get NOTHING you want. That’s how it works. If you got something you wanted every time you wouldn’t need to keep getting more because you would probably get everything you wanted in a finite number of “rolls.” Since you only have a chance at getting something good, though, you will keep throwing your money at the screen hoping to win it big.
Welcome to the world. It’s cold outside.
Let’s take a matter of scale into play as well.
People spend $1-2 for a chance at $12-$40 million dollars, or more if the jackpot is larger
The risk (compared to the reward) is infinitesimally small, the chances are extremely long, but hey, the potential payout is life changing.
Here, the risk is $1.50 a pop, and the chances are very long (not quite 1 in 200,000,000 long but still pretty long to get a full ticket), and the payout would be worth $7.50 if it were for sale in the gem shop straight up.
That’s the worst gambling I’ve ever seen. I can go into a casino right now and play nickle video poker on a $1.50 and make $10 (I almost never actually blank out and go home empty handed, and even if I do, you get complimentary beer so it ends up in my favor anyway) with pretty good odds.
Even if they put a scrap in every single chest guaranteed if it didn’t get a ticket or a backpack skin, and took away the booby prizes so everything was gemshop or chest exclusive, you’d still be paying $15.00 for an item that’d be worth $7.50.
It’s not just gambling it’s BAD gambling, and they don’t even give you complimentary beer.
The community defines the worth of a thing, not you exclusively. The community keeps buying them, therefore they must feel the potential payout is worth it.
Weapon skins that are sold straight up on the gem store are sold for 600 gems, that is $7.50.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
When you bare in mind that they didn’t (I assume were unable to) even keep a undestroyed version of LA running alongside this LS version, for the story instances that take place in it, the idea of them running 2 different versions of Orr at the same time (especially as it’s larger and so much more goes on there) doesn’t seem feasible.
Also how would they implement this? If my Orr maps are different because I’ve finished the story on my character, then I wouldn’t be able to play in the same Orr maps with friends that haven’t finished the story. It’s not like they’d instance the 3 maps that make up Orr.
If they could find a way to do it, I’d love that, as it does annoy me some what that even though I teared through Zhaitans armies and went on to kill him there are swarms of risen controlling the place. But theres no way (I can think of) in which they can do this whilst keeping it accessible to everyone.
Guild Wars 1 did it, there were 2 versions of Cantha, before the Afflicted were purged and after.
Check and mate.
It only took six years to come up with the second version of Cantha.
That’s because it took 6 years to actually have a purge of afflicted.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
The scepter of Orr is still out there with Livia and she controlling the undead and the new and improved tequatl. In other words:
THERE MUST ALWAYS BE A LICH KING!
Come on now, you know they won’t tie it into something from GW1. Guild Wars 2 Devs have done their kitten dest to separate the game from GW1 as much as possible so they pretty much share the same game name, same world name, and some of the same locales but that’s about it.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Oh no! You opened a handful of RNG boxes and didn’t immediately get the random thing you wanted out of them? You poor things.
Oh wait, no. It’s RNG, you’re not guaranteed a scrap, give it a rest.
The RNG chests shouldn’t have booby prizes at least.
Why not? They can’t all be winners, that defeats the purpose. It’s gambling after all.
RNG is fun when every outcome is good but some are better than others. it’s not fun and is frustrating when there’s booby prizes everywhere and only a few outcomes are good.
If every outcome of the chests was something you couldn’t get normally in the game, it’d be fun, nobody would feel just plain ripped off when they spend money on it, because you’re getting things you can’t normally get in game.
But when you get a bunch of booby prizes you can get normally in the game, you end up feeling angry and ripped off.
Don’t go to Vegas, you are obviously ill suited to gambling.
This isn’t Vegas, this isn’t the lottery. People are not spending money to win more money. They’re spending money for textures in a video game.
You really don’t understand what gambling is, do you? Money, a new car, virtual do-dads, it’s all the same thing. You are paying for the CHANCE to get something you want. What you have is the FAR greater chance to get NOTHING you want. That’s how it works. If you got something you wanted every time you wouldn’t need to keep getting more because you would probably get everything you wanted in a finite number of “rolls.” Since you only have a chance at getting something good, though, you will keep throwing your money at the screen hoping to win it big.
Welcome to the world. It’s cold outside.
Let’s take a matter of scale into play as well.
People spend $1-2 for a chance at $12-$40 million dollars, or more if the jackpot is larger
The risk (compared to the reward) is infinitesimally small, the chances are extremely long, but hey, the potential payout is life changing.
Here, the risk is $1.50 a pop, and the chances are very long (not quite 1 in 200,000,000 long but still pretty long to get a full ticket), and the payout would be worth $7.50 if it were for sale in the gem shop straight up.
That’s the worst gambling I’ve ever seen. I can go into a casino right now and play nickle video poker on a $1.50 and make $10 (I almost never actually blank out and go home empty handed, and even if I do, you get complimentary beer so it ends up in my favor anyway) with pretty good odds.
Even if they put a scrap in every single chest guaranteed if it didn’t get a ticket or a backpack skin, and took away the booby prizes so everything was gemshop or chest exclusive, you’d still be paying $15.00 for an item that’d be worth $7.50.
It’s not just gambling it’s BAD gambling, and they don’t even give you complimentary beer.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
I kind of feel like we are underestimating just how corrupted Orr is. Sure we reversed the continuing corruption. But Zhaitan (the lore version, not the actual in game version) was immensely powerful and one would assume the corruption at the heart of his domain runs deep. For all we know, it could take anywhere from a week, to a hundred years to become habitable again. As for the undead, just remember how many thousands he threw at us and how many we found in Orr. The undead will likely linger on for awhile, especially while who knows how many of his lieutenants are still out there.
That’s a cop out and you know it.
This game was heralded to have lasting change based on player actions. This is one of the biggest character actions in the game and there is no change that derives from it. Even taking the cathedral events replaces the undead with spirit creatures for awhile until the event cycle starts again. Surely killing Zhaitan A YEAR AGO (I guess since nobody else is using spoilers there’s no point spoilering) has an effect on the world.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Guild Wars 1 was instanced -_-
Guild Wars 2 is not.
GW2 is also instanced. The instances are persistant, but it is instanced, with a loading screen between zones, all you have to do is build a version of Orr not populated by dead, and possibly more solo/small group oriented rather than zerg oriented, when a player loads into one of those 3 zones, it will be dependent on whether they’ve completed the story or not which version of the zone they go to.
Possibly you can make an NPC that allows you to travel to the old version of Orr similarly to how you can talk to an NPC to let you revisit the old version of Cantha in GW1.
Either way, I go mining in Orr every day and I just think to myself.. Zhaitan is dead, why do I still see so many undead? Why is Orr still corrupt and uninhabitable?
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
When you bare in mind that they didn’t (I assume were unable to) even keep a undestroyed version of LA running alongside this LS version, for the story instances that take place in it, the idea of them running 2 different versions of Orr at the same time (especially as it’s larger and so much more goes on there) doesn’t seem feasible.
Also how would they implement this? If my Orr maps are different because I’ve finished the story on my character, then I wouldn’t be able to play in the same Orr maps with friends that haven’t finished the story. It’s not like they’d instance the 3 maps that make up Orr.
If they could find a way to do it, I’d love that, as it does annoy me some what that even though I teared through Zhaitans armies and went on to kill him there are swarms of risen controlling the place. But theres no way (I can think of) in which they can do this whilst keeping it accessible to everyone.
Guild Wars 1 did it, there were 2 versions of Cantha, before the Afflicted were purged and after.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Why isn’t Orr phased between a version of the land that exists for people who have completed the main story and a version for people who have completed it?
It doesn’t feel much like a “living world” when you’ve killed Zhaitan and cleansed the source of Orr over a year and a half ago, and yet the land remains the same: crawling with Zhaitan’s minions?
It’s also not the hot end game open world zone anymore, it’s pretty much dead as a zone, very few people do the cathedral events anymore, the camps are always contested and the waypoints inaccessible throughout the zone. It’s 3 zones designed to have zergs running through it round the clock but those zergs have dissipated.
Orr needs a redesign for those who have completed the story that #1. Addresses the facts at the end of the story and reflect that, and #2. Either bring the crowds back to Orr to keep it functional, or altering the zones to be functional with fewer people.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Oh no! You opened a handful of RNG boxes and didn’t immediately get the random thing you wanted out of them? You poor things.
Oh wait, no. It’s RNG, you’re not guaranteed a scrap, give it a rest.
The RNG chests shouldn’t have booby prizes at least.
Why not? They can’t all be winners, that defeats the purpose. It’s gambling after all.
RNG is fun when every outcome is good but some are better than others. it’s not fun and is frustrating when there’s booby prizes everywhere and only a few outcomes are good.
If every outcome of the chests was something you couldn’t get normally in the game, it’d be fun, nobody would feel just plain ripped off when they spend money on it, because you’re getting things you can’t normally get in game.
But when you get a bunch of booby prizes you can get normally in the game, you end up feeling angry and ripped off.
Don’t go to Vegas, you are obviously ill suited to gambling.
This isn’t Vegas, this isn’t the lottery. People are not spending money to win more money. They’re spending money for textures in a video game.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Oh no! You opened a handful of RNG boxes and didn’t immediately get the random thing you wanted out of them? You poor things.
Oh wait, no. It’s RNG, you’re not guaranteed a scrap, give it a rest.
The RNG chests shouldn’t have booby prizes at least.
Why not? They can’t all be winners, that defeats the purpose. It’s gambling after all.
RNG is fun when every outcome is good but some are better than others. it’s not fun and is frustrating when there’s booby prizes everywhere and only a few outcomes are good.
If every outcome of the chests was something you couldn’t get normally in the game, it’d be fun, nobody would feel just plain ripped off when they spend money on it, because you’re getting things you can’t normally get in game.
But when you get a bunch of booby prizes you can get normally in the game, you end up feeling angry and ripped off.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Oh no! You opened a handful of RNG boxes and didn’t immediately get the random thing you wanted out of them? You poor things.
Oh wait, no. It’s RNG, you’re not guaranteed a scrap, give it a rest.
The RNG chests shouldn’t have booby prizes at least.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Knights are too much of a gate to Scarlet now
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
…I’ve killed the holo everyday since its release…I think people are too used to running WBT.
The knights really aren’t hard at all. People need to split up the zerg, dodge the huge AOE, and pay attention to what phase the knights are in. Its that simply.
I prefer the “new” knights. Didn’t make much sense having a giant zerg killing one at a time and they died way too fast.
The thing that needs to change is the reduction in damage they take by 2/3 even if you have the buff.
Basing the amount of might stacks and such based on what TTS does with voice communication is not the norm. Most people are only going in with might they can give to themselves, and are not coordinating fire fields and blast finishers.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Yah, I did for a key last night and got those supply bags, which was annoying. Imo they shouldn’t be in there. I recommend waiting until those bags are gone also.
But won’t Tormented weapons be out of season by then?
Really I feel sorry for anyone who actually spends money on black lion keys right now, they’re getting duped HARD because yeah, it took 25 chests to get 5 scraps for me, I had 5 left over from a prior key farm.
Black lion chests need to NEVER have crap that you can just get normally in game. Those are considered booby-prizes and make people feel like they wasted their money.
I mean the unidentified dyes (dye packs are fine), scrolls of knowledge (tomes of knowledge are fine), essences of luck, and mystery tonics.. those all need to be removed, along with wintersday gifts (when they’re in season) and alliance bags.
I won’t spend a wooden nickle on keys until the booby-prizes are all gone.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Knights are too much of a gate to Scarlet now
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
I’d point out to any Dev that Zerker isn’t a higher form of playing. Nor is Zerker a harder or more skillful form of playing. Especially when bosses can one shot you! Such high damage Boss attacks make every gear stat have virtually the same survivability.
Meanwhile, with the Zerker nerf incoming, why would anyone wish to buy more of it???
The recent updates did not improve the events at all. If anything, it was as step in the wrong direction. Because now those of us in Zerker are just getting annoyed that the events are still failing.[/quote]
Zerkers will still do more damage than any other stat combination.
This just slows all damage in the game down, it does not make any other combinations better, because like you said, all sets have virtually the same survivability because Anet wants to reinforce active damage mitigation instead of passive damage mitigation. So what do you do? You go max damage.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Boneheart: I looked it up on Merriam Webster…
Race (noun)
1: a breeding stock of animals
2a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock
2b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristicsSpecies (noun)
biology – a group of animals or plants that are similar and can produce young animals or plants : a group of related animals or plants that is smaller than a genus; a particular group of things or people that belong together or have some shared qualityI’m not saying you’re wrong by looking it up, I just like posting definitions when someone says “look it up” :p
Good on you. I feel bad for thinking you might pick and choose, but that’s to be expected.
Well when we’re talking about race as it applies to humans it’s ethnic groups, but we’re all the same species.
When we’re talking race in a fantasy setting with multiple intelligent speaking species.. races mean different species, as in, they can’t breed.
Explain half-elves, please.
I was so relieved Jory was alive, the kiss didn’t even register until about two minutes later.
Depends on the specific fantasy world but in Tolkien at least it’s explained that they are both Children of Iluvatar, and therefore they can breed. It’s explained that neither Elves nor Men can breed with Dwarves though.
I’d assume it’s because men and elves share enough common DNA to have fertile offspring.
But Jeff Grubb has said Norn and Humans are biologically incompatible (despite one trying to marry your GW1 character and other Norns talking about being part Elonian in GW1 as well), so I don’t think Norn and Charr would be biologically compatible either.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Personally I want these romantic relationships to be left out all together. The most you should get of it is the whole “aww, Logan loves Queen Jenna” but you never actually have to watch them indulge. All of that is kept behind the scenes.
When we saw the *SPOILER*kiss between Marjory and Kassamerr*/SPOILER* I let out an audible eew. I would have done the same thing if it had been any couple, kitten or hetero. That kind of stuff should be kept between the characters. This isn’t a romance game, and I don’t want to see it take the crappy action movie route where romances are thrown in just because sex sells. =/
I think romance is a natural part of any story, but the way it’s handled here is pretty bad and hamfisted.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Knights are too much of a gate to Scarlet now
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
Anet managed to suck all the fun out of a previously fun event by designing it around TTS. Catering to a single guild is not a good idea. Most open world events especially overflows are massive unorganized PuGs with no voice communication.
This kind of DPS race and coordination requirement belongs in instanced dungeons. Not open world events.
I’ve succeeded plenty of times on overflows. People just need to learn to dodge. So often on servers that fail it’s because over 75% of the players consistently get pulled every time.
We’re still talking about a massive PuG. I’m dodging almost every pull (I’ve gotten pulled a few times thanks to getting stuck in a channeled animation) but I see a lot of people get sucked in, yes. I can’t dodge for all those other people too.
What really killed the fun of this fight is the ridiculous damage resistance they gave the knights. Even with the attunement buff I’m doing 1/3 of the damage I do to normal mobs. Prior to the patch I was doing about 1.5x the damage I do to normal mobs when I had the attunement buff.
Meteor shower in berserker’s gear with tornado up hitting for only 3000 a tick? That’s pathetic damage. The same skill combination the other day was doing 10000 damage a tick, heck, the lightning bolts thrown out by tornado were doing 3000. Now they do 1000.
It was too many changes to the fight all at the same time. All because ONE GUILD did the previous fight in 3 minutes.
Anet you want to make challenging stuff for TTS? Put it in an instanced Raid Dungeon.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Knights are too much of a gate to Scarlet now
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
Anet managed to suck all the fun out of a previously fun event by designing it around TTS. Catering to a single guild is not a good idea. Most open world events especially overflows are massive unorganized PuGs with no voice communication.
This kind of DPS race and coordination requirement belongs in instanced dungeons. Not open world events.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
I haven’t even logged in to try the new version, and I’m horrified by this. If you run to a knight that’s already full, chances are by the time you’d make it to another knight, it’ll be dead or almost dead, and that’s if it’s not full, too. Anet should have just made it so if you helped kill a knight, you got credit/drops for it. This new change has zapped all the fun out of it, and definitely goes against the ‘play the way you like to’. And it’s just going to reward campers, while giving casual players the short end of the stick.
Don’t worry about them being dead.. now you do 0 damage to them without the buff and about half your normal damage when attuned. Before you did like 2x normal damage while attuned, so they died VERY quick if group was on the ball. Now they die really slow even with people all using the attunement and using might.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
How are you supposed to do the 6 minute achievement when you’re doing 1/4 of your normal damage vs them.. and that’s WITH the attunement?
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Boneheart: I looked it up on Merriam Webster…
Race (noun)
1: a breeding stock of animals
2a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock
2b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristicsSpecies (noun)
biology – a group of animals or plants that are similar and can produce young animals or plants : a group of related animals or plants that is smaller than a genus; a particular group of things or people that belong together or have some shared qualityI’m not saying you’re wrong by looking it up, I just like posting definitions when someone says “look it up” :p
Good on you. I feel bad for thinking you might pick and choose, but that’s to be expected.
Well when we’re talking about race as it applies to humans it’s ethnic groups, but we’re all the same species.
When we’re talking race in a fantasy setting with multiple intelligent speaking species.. races mean different species, as in, they can’t breed.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Rox and Braham please. They seem like they can be good together.
I’d prefer couples be at least… biologically compatible.
No this isn’t “racist” races are all of the same species..
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
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I don’t mind that there are homosexual relationships portrayed in the game but they do seem to be more celebrated and prominent than any heterosexual relationships in game. The only heterosexual relationships that are noteworthy are not really there as it is.
There’s Logan and Jennah, which is one sided on Logan’s behalf with Jennah just using his feelings for her to make sure she has a devout protector, and there’s the 2 Asura in the personal story in Arah, in which one of them dies before their relationship is really cemented.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Two relationships that are not relationships. Oh I suppose one of the sylvari personal stories has another failed relationship as one converts to the Nightmare court.
There are 3 homosexual relationships in personal story/living story: 1 male male (Sylvari personal story), and two female female, Caithe/Faolin, and Kasmeer/Marjory
It’d be nice to have a SUCCESSFUL male female couple you know, just to balance things out.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
I haven’t gotten a reply on #345799 for 4 days now. I’ve been waiting on an account restoration hopefully before the watchwork mining pick is no longer available (under 12 hours from now) as I bought one on the day my account would be restored to, but the restoration might take place before the purchase happened.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
e-Mail from "ArenaNet?" Please read! [merged]
in Account & Technical Support
Posted by: Devildoc.6721
always mouseover links without clicking to see where they REALLY go. anywhere but something.guildwars2.com/ or something.ncsoft.com/ is never a legit address. The ones to really be aware of are like something.guildwars2.com.kissyouraccountgoodbye.cn/ always make sure the end of the domain is guildwars2.com or ncsoft.com with no more dots after that.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
If you’re using hotmail or gmail you can check your email account’s last history.
Ever since my account got hacked I’ve been seeing this dozens of times a day now.
Successful sign-inToday 11:29 PMUnited States
Security challengeToday 11:26 PMUnited States
Incorrect password enteredToday 11:15 PMChina
Incorrect password enteredToday 4:14 PMChina
The legit login being myself, the Chinese obviously being hackers attempting to get in since they now know my email address
I know it’s stereotypical but I really think we should be able to set up network BLACKLISTS to go along with setting up network whitelists on our accounts. I can guarantee you ANY sign in on my account from China would be illegitimate and I think a lot of people would agree with me that if they could black list networks they’d blacklist the entire country of China.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
ah I didn’t know they fixed that glitch
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Look at it like this. I already know your forum name, it’s displayed right next to your post. I have no idea what your email address is, so why would using your forum name be more secure?
Your email address sometimes shows up on your friends list in game instead of your forum account. I don’t know what causes it but it happens. I thought you could try to message someone over the forums and it’d show their email as well.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
I have a serious question about account security here.
It’s pretty common sense that having multiple factors for logging in increases security, and that each factor should be unique in order to prevent one compromised account from compromising ALL of your accounts… so why do we log in with our email address? if they know your email address, they’re already halfway to hacking your account, and vice versa.
Most other games require you to log in with your forum username, battletag, etc.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
BTW, if Gaile reads this, the relevant ticket number is 345799. I’m awaiting a restoration of my characters to before the account was compromised, as multiple characters are stripped of gear including stuff that I paid RL money for, gold all gone, bank virtually emptied, even the completed gift of mastery and gift of bifrost were vendored.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
In my defense, I got a spook about replying to the original ticket because they asked for specific information, which I gave them and I thought “what if it’s a spoofed ticket, I mean the ticket thread was started by a hacker asking for my password to be changed for him”, so I thought to put in another ticket because maybe that ticket was not valid. No response, I thought maybe my email was compromised. Changed the password, made sure my 2 step authentication was working properly, then decided I’d better give them another way to contact me through a backup email. Still no response, then I thought maybe my entire machine was backdoored, so I gave another way to contact me, my cellphone number.
scans and everything came clean, I still have no real idea how it could have been on my end, but understand when you’re compromised and don’t know how, your imagination runs wild with possibilities and when you call for help and nobody answers.. you wonder if it’s getting through. I don’t really have much faith in auto responses.
Still. Your CSR’s need to verify a person’s identity BEFORE they send a password reset link.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
“Social engineering” is the single most effective hacking tool there is. I am sad to see this from Anet, but not surprised. After 16 years in the IT industry, I have almost seen it all, and have seen this type of thing happen many times before.
You should post the ticket number so Gaile can look in to this. The support rep may need to be spoken to if what you have said is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it.
I’ve called out the specific Arenanet employee in the email chain with Arenanet as I was trying to get my account back, so I’m pretty sure they’re well aware of the employee’s failure.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
As someone who has been compromised before in another game, I can say that if things happened as you say, it’s very likely that your email has indeed been compromised by some method. There are many attack vectors that can be used to strike a computer, anti-virus/firewall or not, including automatically executing trojans that latch themselves into advertisements on other websites.
There are plenty of reasons why your other accounts may not have been touched. The bank account is an obvious one; most banks would still require your PIN or something of the like in order for you to log in. As for the rest, perhaps the hacker didn’t know about them, or targeted GW2 specifically.
More importantly though, if you haven’t done so yet, you really need to ensure that your email (and computer, of course) is secure. That’s the only real way they could have intercepted the password change request and, perhaps more strikingly, the authentication emails you receive when you try to log in from an unrecognized location.
EDIT: As an addendum, you should strongly consider getting a smartphone; not just for GW2, but for other applications that allow for two-factor authentication. Remember that the whole point of two-factor authentication is to split authentication into two different categories: something you know, and something you own. It’s the closest you can get to being “safe” while connected to the Internet.
My email is has 2 factor authentication, I have to type in a code texted to my dumbphone in order to log into it.
For it to have been on my end I’d have to be backdoored with some NSA level remote access stuff, undetectable with any virus scans or hijack this, and going right through a firewall, and the trojan will have had to have executed through noscript, where I enable only a few trusted sites and enable script by script individually.
also the flagrant disregard to verify the identity of the help request is something that needs to be addressed. “Can I get a new password?” “Okay, here you go” is just abysmal.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
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I had a strong password. It was unique, it was dozens of characters long using caps and lowercase, numbers, special characters.
I never gave it out to anyone.
I never clicked on any fishy links, I always hover over links before clicking.
I use antivirus software, I use noscript in my webbrowser except for for trusted sites.
I lock my doors, nobody except me has physical access to my computer
I was logged into my email, which I leave logged in, because if someone were to compromise my email password remotely, it would log me out, which would cue me to start changing other passwords and contact emails, and calling the bank.
Yet despite all of this, my account was lost for 8 days. Characters were stripped, bank emptied, gold gone.
How you ask? Because the RMT hacker asked an Arenanet employee to give him a new password to my account! I never got the password reset email, somehow they did. I don’t believe I’ve been remotely backdoored, because all my other game accounts are intact and were never touched. My steam account was never touched. Had they had remote access to my machine, or email, they would have had the ability to do a lot more damage than just GW2. I was only made aware of the compromise 7 days after it happened, when I got a survey email for the ticket to see how I liked arenanet’s “service” for my account (I’ve been working a lot lately and haven’t had time to game at all).
Arenanet needs to take additional account security measures. Guild Wars 1 requires knowing a character on the account’s name to log in. My GW1 account as I’m checking now, is intact. Arenanet employees need to verify a requester’s identity before sending password reset links, and they absolutely need to check to make sure the email they’re replying to is valid and not a spoof.
Having a login and password is not enough, unfortunately some people including myself do not have smartphones (I have no need of internet access on my phone aside from authenticators, apparently) so smartphone app only authenticator is not an option for everyone (why not sell a Fob?). I wish it were possible to feel safe that my account will not be stolen again in the same manner, but with the current policies and current account security measures, I can’t help but worry when the next time an RMT hacker will get my password on request due to Arenanet employee incompetence.
If you dare try and blame this on me, and say I caused my account to be compromised somehow, I will drop the name of the CSR and post a screenshot of the email (with my own information hidden) and I will out your incompetent employee. Seriously when you get a support request that is “Could I get a new password here?” and no other information, no reply to the emailed ticket after the password reset link is sent out, does that not raise red flags for anyone?
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Not true. I’ve made it over the blue presents often as an asura. All classes jump the same height/distance. The key is learning your race and how to do jumping puzzles with it.
The technical height and distance are supposed to be the same, but the animations work out to not quite being as high or long. Thats why the hang at the edge and teleport on top.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Hate to burst the bubble of all the kittens who are telling others to skip the blues. Everything you say about the presents is complete kitten. Skipping the blues doesn’t avoid the exploding of presents. Skipping the blues doesn’t give you a handful of extra seconds.
The amount of people on presents at a time and the duration the blues are active affect the explode speed of presents. IF 4 succesfully leap the blues, ALL presents will be exploding before all 4 even get close to the top. Same as 1 jumping on the blues long after they spawned, they’ll explode faster because they been around a while, but not as quick as 3+ sitting on presents.
If you want to get past em with a decent success rate, figure out a path you can hop very rapidly and wait for all the others to do their attempts. Hence, wait a week or 2 before attempting the repeater. (BTW some fool on the forum mentioned the repeat to +15 seeing only +1. No you don’t need to do the puzzle 300 times, 60 times is the cap).
Also don’t come here saying i know didly squat about the presents i’ve completed this puzzle 42 times in 2 hours. I’m just gonna wait a week or 2 to complete the last batch, hoping there will be less peeps breaking my presents then.
Okay, I’ll break it down. Not everyone can make the jump without the blue presents, they have to wait. If 4 people go early before the blues, any person who needs the blues will hit exploding presents when they try to go. If everyone waited for the blue, everyone could make it up.
If selfish people go without the blue, they strand people who need the blue, they will probably never be able to complete the puzzle.
I’ll have you know that Asura have slightly shorter jumps (both in distance and height) because of the animation. Often time if a jump is perfectly max height for a human, an Asura will come short of the top, but might teleport on top once they’ve hung on the edge for a split second.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
Holy moly this thread. The jumping puzzle is perfectly fine and expertly crafted. The constant damage serves to give you a sense of urgency. The disappearing snowflakes is to break up the crowds. The presents are really the only true challenge in this JP. Wait for someone to YOLO a partial present setup (I see people make it all the time, but I’m not that good) or wait for a “victim” to fail it so the presents reset.
The single wind gust can be dodge-rolled through. I have never been knocked off by the wind gust. The rolling snowball part is really just a matter of strategically using the peppermints and avoiding the Skritt.
This JP is fine as it is. I’m no JP expert. Heck the Halloween JP probably took me hundreds of attempts before I figured it out. And you know what? If I got so discouraged that I rage quit the whole thing, I’d STILL be able to get the meta. I would just move on and find something else to do.
@Devs: Thanks for a great and challenging jumping puzzle that looks pretty freakin fantastic too!
The fact that you have to wait for someone who’s dumb enough to make a go for it (you know they’re just going to be starting over from the beginning) is part of the problem. You may stand at that platform for several minutes because nobody wants to go and reset the presents.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
For anyone who’s dying to the “wind” during the snowflake portion, that’s not actually wind gusts knocking you off. That animation (with the freezing sound) plays whenever you’ve fallen off the JP and get ported back to the start. I suspect that it’s a case of lag where your client thinks you’re safe, but the server thinks you’ve run off the edge and fallen into the void, and so ports you back.
Not much advice I can really offer for that except to exit and rejoin an instance with hopefully better ping.
No there are definitely 2 gusts of wind once you’re past the first set of present platforms.
The worst part is you can’t dodge it, you simply have to wait, while your life ticks down.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
I’m sick of the snowflake part. It takes too long and is very boring. The penalty of dying and having to repeat it for, what now, the 800th time?, is not worth any reward the put at the end. I would consider trying the Jumping Puzzle if I did not have to do the Snowflake part AND THEN the rest. IMO the should be separate, then it would be worth the worthless reward.
snowflake part is okay.. cept when the timer screws you over and they break apart at your feet. That comes from keeping the timer from last year where everyone was going at once on a set clock rather than going at your own leisure. The present part makes you want to curb stomp the other players around you.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
You know, for me, it just seems against the spirit of GW2 for them to make content that makes you hate the other players around you and want to strangle them for screwing you over. With the exception of PVP, the spirit of the game has been one of jolly cooperation. But this puzzle and the clocktower puzzle are anything but cooperative.
Hind sight GW2 JP team, don’t make puzzles that make you interact with people in a negative way, unless it’s specifically a PVP activity.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
I don’t care about WPs or Keys.
Abaddon has/had a better story. Period.So the Fall of Abaddon is a better story than a story we haven’t even seen yet? Glad you can read the future then. Tell me what else you know about in that crystal ball of yours.
Again, anyone with any critical thinking skill could tell you the story of Thaumanova reactor.
1. Inquest sabateurs
2. Some McGuffin plot device “Chaos Magic”
3. Reactor goes Chernobyl
4. Scarlet is revealed to be the mastermindThat’s really all there is to it.
GW2 NEEDS some more connections to GW1. The devs need to stop trying to make GW2 have absolutely nothing to do with its own lore history.
Been saying that since the voting began months ago and to this day I can’t believe people voted for Evon. Couldn’t agree with your entire post more.
Yes GW2 should just be an updated GW1, we wouldn’t want the sequel to be its own game or something. Lets not get crazy here. I understand theres a difference between little nods to the first one (Nods you can find around the world that have been there since release if you take the time to look for them) and just flat out telling the same story. But that’s what you’re asking them to do. Tell you the same story in a different game. Guild Wars needs to move forward, Anet needs to move forward, you need to move forward.
You’re lying to yourself if you think the abbadon fractal would be any different. We’d find out that Scarlet was somehow involved, and maybe behind the entire thing. If anything we saved you from seeing something you care about so much being injected with Scarlet.
It needs ties to the old game, not just references hidden as easter eggs.
GW1 had a good story and strong storytelling. There’s no reason to not at least tie the history of GW1 to GW2
GW2 is still its own game, in a lot of ways. Asking for the WORLDS to at least be shared between the two games is reasonable.
If “Moving forward” means more Mary Sue Sylvari written by one of the worst writers I have the displeasure of reading from, then count me out.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
If Scarlet isn’t dead by TESO I think I’m done with this game.
Lol. Have fun.
I tested it and, man, it sucks.
Grats on violating the NDA.
I have my own reasons for wanting to play it. I’ve seen the combat and I’m actually picqued about not having tab target autoattack combat.
Violating the NDA? I haven’t revealed anything about the game. I just said that it wasn’t particularly good to my liking or others’.
Apparently, sharing your opinion suddenly reveals everyone everything about the game itself. I’ll be more careful.
Even revealing that you participated in the beta is violating the NDA.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer
If Scarlet isn’t dead by TESO I think I’m done with this game.
Lol. Have fun.
I tested it and, man, it sucks.
Grats on violating the NDA.
I have my own reasons for wanting to play it. I’ve seen the combat and I’m actually picqued about not having tab target autoattack combat.
Zapp – 80 Asura Afromancer