Good PUG is good.
I tried this dg with pug. This was my first time there and we manage to almost kill last boss – we were killed when she had <25%HP and I didn’t have time for second attempt
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So I think you don’t have to give up on this dungeon. Especially when it’s quite fun and challenging.
Ok, I get your meaning. I know that my ranger is pretty durable but when we consider only normal fights then there was only one where I felt like I could stand better then others. Every other I had same problems: had to roll as much as I could. I was in pug.
Could AN make this more melee friendly? Probably they could. I need to go there with my thief to see the difference.
OT: I didn’t count boss fights to be honest. It died quite fast when walls were involved and I didn’t pay to much attention to it because I was fighting for my own life. Especially when it was my first time.
But I swapped pets whenever I could. On last fight it depended utterly on luck. I mean…when it has it’s god skill ready it could last long enough.
But I know that pets are easy kill. I just used to it. I don’t play as a beastmaster as opposed to GW1 so I don’t know how fights would go on when I had traits to make pets stronger. Maybe if I would sacrifice some of my fighting abilities or survivability and didn’t get equal buff for pet I would be more upset on how things are.
Yes, because the mechanics are so bad there is a steep learning curve and some types of characters are just down right useless against some of the bosses. Especially pet classes. The pets die every ten seconds and are completely useless so half or more of many classes DPS is just gone for most of the fight.
I don’t think it’s true. I tried this DG yesterday with my ranger and I had no problem with my pets. They died of course but this wasn’t so much more then everyone else in my team was downed. I think you should consider to choose proper pet for tasks like this. Fortunately for me, two pets that I like, can be used as a tank because they can be invulnerable for a shot time and heal themselves with some attacks.
We’ve manage to get to the last boss and almost killed it. We would probably killed it at the second attempt but I couldn’t stay so don’t know if my team succeeded.
I like this red ribbon. But it’s quite irritating that it isn’t visible all the time. Wooden skins from Wintersday have similar detail but you can see it regardless of angle. So it can be repaired.
Because these items are only available for a limited time and the only way to get them is via the luck of the draw – even if you throw money at arenanet. I think that’s wrong. If I – and anyone else who thinks things like this are wrong – don’t speak up (aka cry and complain), things will never change.
Yeah, I can’t argue here. You’re right on some degree. There were very nice ideas posted here. Like those pointed by Eivene But ideas for improvements isn’t exactly the same as complaining and whining. What constructive will come from crying that RNG is bad when it’s clearly not the problem here?
I would summarize this like this:
- limited time – good, makes something more exclusive
- making it random drop – overall good, for the same reason as above
- don’t giving ability to sell ticket or skin – very bad
- making chests tradable – neutral, some may say that it encourage people to spend gold for gambling and some would say that you should be strong and control yourself
You may not have cried and complained then, but here you are crying and complaining now because you got only one. ;-)
No, I don’t. :P
BTW When I was wondering about those chests and my gold I made some limit that I would not cross. Maybe all of you should make same mental limit? You know how much gold you have. You also now how much you would pay for skin. So it’s easy to estimate your limit. But don’t buy chests for all of this. Only 1/3 or something like that. If you get ticket you won’t loose more gold. And if not you will always have some more to spend. I got my tickets between 1800-2400. My limit was capped at 40g. I used it all because I wanted to try to get two skins (sword and dagger for my thief).
Actually it’s not ridiculous, it’s perfectly natural to see something and want to acquire it through either work or tradable goods. It is far more ridiculous to dangle something in front of someones face and never give it to them no matter how much time or money they invest into acquiring it.
And while it is similar to the Mystic Forge, and dissimilar from mob drops, the problem is that you can’t work towards the item in question without relying on RNG. […] I like these skins far more than many of what you can buy on the TP.
I can agree with you about possibility of selling ticket through TP. It would be much better this way but only when drop would be a little lower (yes I know what I’m saying).
But I still think RNG here is not as bad as many claims. I spent something like 40g which gave me 3 tickets. When I would like to buy some rare exotic skins I would have to pay so much more…
Some paid more and didn’t get it….and that’s still fine. I’m sorry but it’s their problem if they spend real money on this. And if they spend only in-game money then I don’t see any problem here. It’s still RANDOM DROP. Like from any mob, Mystic Forge or any kind of standard MMO drop. Leaving selling ability aside, the only difference is that you get chest before real drop game begins.
And what would happen if AN would made this drop as any other? I mean. What if this ticket would drop straight from mobs? Of course with the same chance. Then it would be fair, wouldn’t it? Because there wouldn’t be any option to get ticket through gold so there won’t be crying about loosing gold…Of course then people would complain about drop chance (which is exactly like RNG).
So there is no way of making people happy. Even if this skin was more common…because then there would be complaining about not getting anything that is rare enough…
Maybe you’re right but I still believe that there may be some people at AN that could read all of this complaining in a wrong way and make wrong decision based on this. That’s why I wanted to put my thoughts about this.
I’m sorry but I have to say this: you’re really whining too much. There is element of randomize here and that’s how it suppose to be. This is optional content that you’ll get if you’re lucky enough. What’s the difference between this and random drop from monsters? In GW1 there were named foes that could drop named weapon. Some of this drops where really low and you’d have to kill foe to even get chance to roll a dice. And that really wasn’t a piece of cake. So yeah, you’d have to farm to get skin/stats combination you want there.
Come on…here you can kill anything (not farming) and get chests (got ~400 this way) or buy them through the TP (bought ~2000). I found 3 tickets and a lot of other things that I probably never use. I spent some great amount of gold on this and yet I’m satisfied. Why? Simple. Look at prices of some rare exotic skins…So even if I get only one ticket it’s still be something relatively cheap for something that I wanted to get.
And it wasn’t even hard to get prerequisite to roll a dice.
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I don’t know how did you came up with this idea and thought it is good in any way.
Right now I have no idea how many allies are with me so I have no idea if I should fight or run from invaders. I can’t tell when I should try to help someone because I don’t see him.
Really bad move. Culling is bad in any way but when previous one was active at least I knew how big my group was so we could make tactics based of our number. Right now it’s horrible experience.
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Ok…so I see here that there was already some kind of new distribution? Why I wasn’t confirmed anyway about it? I’ve created ticked 120826-014153 – you can see how old it is.
But I’ve closed it because you wrote that you will do something about it and because I thought that you have so many others, more important problems that I didn’t want my ticket to lay there only to occupy space.
I wrote this in topic that I’ve created but maybe here it won’t go away so quickly:
I have an idea to make game better for everyone.
I remember seeing somewhere posts about level downscaling leaving player too powerful for area his was at the moment. I noticed that too. It was even more problematic when I entered Norn lands with my Charr. I could kill everything without any effort…and that’s just boring.
I know – exploration. But I would like to explore with some challenge all the way.
But I know that there are some who like to go easy route and like to get feeling of superiority on starter areas. That’s why it’s best to make tool to combine both approach.
Make option to change level of difficultly.
Yes, it’s that simple. All you have to do is make something like “Normal”, which will be exactly like it is now and “Hard” that would lower character level for about 2-3 more levels.
That shouldn’t be too complicated to implement since you already have downscaling.
Please make this change.
I have an idea to make game better for everyone.
I remember seeing somewhere posts about level downscaling leaving player too powerful for area his was at the moment. I noticed that too. It was even more problematic when I entered Norn lands with my Charr. I could kill everything without any effort…and that’s just boring.
I know – exploration. But I would like to explore with some challenge all the way.
But I know that there are some who like to go an easy route and like to get feeling of superiority on starter areas. That’s why it’s best to make tool to combine both approaches.
Make option to change level of difficultly.
Yes, it’s that simple. All you have to do is make something like “Normal”, which will be exactly like it is now and “Hard” that would lower character level for about 2-3 more levels.
That shouldn’t be too complicated to implement since you already have downscaling.
Please make this change.
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Oh c’mon. Almost no feedback? I’m starting to think that “Suggestion” is new name for “Off-topic” or “Spam” – sub-forums where no one really reads anything…
I know this issue is not some important one when compared to all the bugs and account problems but it really made be sad. And no explanation is even worse. How should I get some AN answer here? Should I report it as a bug in game itself? But then I’m pretty sure it would be ignored.
I would like to see at least model from GW1 with it’s low-res textures and not too many polygons. It would look as warthog at least…
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Yes I know. That’s why I wanted to highlight it. I want to believe that AN knows this too.
But it’s hard to stay with your vision in game industry where money has so much impact on what we’re playing. My wish is that game stays with it’s principles as they are now. New content are always welcome. But this should be new content like one called Sorrow’s Furnace in GW1. Not like some other expansions and updates in other games that simply raises level cap to open more time consumption.
I’m not sure is this a proper sub-forum for this topic. If not then feel free to move it somewhere else.
Story:
On of three main classes that I liked to play in GW1 was ranger so I had quite obvious choice on what class should I choose in GW2. (other were necro and dervish) The whole time I spent in GW1 I was accompanied by warthog. I had it with me on each character. That’s why I wanted to grab it in GW2 as soon as I find juvenile version…but what was my disappointment when I discovered that there are no warthogs in GW2.
Problem:
Of course I know that there some animals called this way. But they don’t look like warthogs at all! It’s more like some mix of rat and a barrel. You can see the difference in attachment:
- Photo of warthog in the wild.
- Screen from GW1 – you may see resemblance to the one from photo.
- Screen from GW2 – look at this head…rat’s head with rat’s nose…and this torso like it just ate some barrel…one ugly creature.
Questions:
- Could you bring back warthog from GW1 where it looks like it should look?
- Why did you change it so much in a first place? It couldn’t be evolution. Even over 200 years are nothing for evolution.
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Ideally, we would see some people move from worlds with extreme queue times to worlds that need additional people and start building up active wvw communities there as well.
Yeah, it would be great but in my opinion it is far from happening. And it’s really simple why. People that focus on PvP would like to play in Worlds that are on the top of the ranking (obvious). People who aren’t PvP oriented will choose Worlds that are higher in ranking because of prestige (and bonuses of course). And because of that only server’s capacity will be major factor here.
There are of course people who choose Worlds based on some other factors. I’m at Ruins of Surmia because Lakeside County is no more :P and it is somehow nostalgic for me as GW1 player.
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@Draghmar, there was another thread, if you weren’t in it, about the C2D – with your video card, your CPU is HUGELY bottlenecking you. Someone in that thread upgraded to an i5 on my suggestion and their performance has seen a HUGE increase.
Yeah, I probably even posted there. I know that my CPU is too weak for this game. Especially when I learned that GW2 really likes 4+ cores.
I would have to change my motherboard, cpu and ram and that would cost me something like 700$. Plus I would add Samsung 256GB 830 SSD and that is another 300$.
But I’m considering buying Clevo P370EM and selling my current desktop to get device I could play in any part of my home.
Bottom line – GW2 needs more then two cores and decent gpu.
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Here, check out their review, they test it for 10 commonly available GPU’s over a wide price range.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html
Thx for this review but it’s outdated because they used beta client. We need to wait for updated review to see true benchmarks.
BTW I didn’t post how game runs on ma hardware: C2D E8200@3.48GHz, 6GB RAM@867MHz, GTX 560Ti. Works flawlessly…if I’m in EotN. Normally I have ~20fps max. When fighting in WvW it can drop to ~6fps. So it’s hard to play this way. Changing setting doesn’t impact performance too much so I have almost max (w/o supersample, FXAA and Ultra LoD)
Right now I’m in the middle of deciding what to buy to play smoothly.
I started topic about this issue (mcl pasted in his updated post) and I want to add few things:
- I don’t have any network problem. No lags, no dc, no long logins.
- I don’t have this problem in PvE or at least I didn’t noticed it.
- In most cases it work in a way that group of our world kills something that is invisible whole time. Players from other world doesn’t “pop-in”. They mostly stay invisible until they die.
- If it was normal lag then if I would stand long enough right beside fight everyone should appear. But it’s not working this way. I’ve tested this because there was some fight and I didn’t know whats going on, why my world is fighting with air. So I stood there for a while.
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Short answer: Servers start on day one of launch and run linear until endgame.
I must say that it’s a very interesting idea.
But it’s too restrictive for average player in my opinion because you either join and play from some point, loosing some things that were in the past, or you don’t play at all waiting for server to reset.
What you described is something like global chained dynamic event. STAKLER was designed this way but they didn’t manage to implement this to work well enough…and that was single player game.
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There are lots of people who would like to know how is GW2 run on some GPU and CPU. I found nice comparison that could answer most of those questions so I decided to put in topic form, maybe even as the beginning for others to put their findings.
It’s Polish site, so obviously it’s written in Polish but most important thing – graphs, are quite easy to understand. So here it is
And here is direct link to translator but it’s far from perfect
Maybe it would be good to have another option to see Devs posts but there are two right now: Dev tracker and two arrows around AN nick in post which redirect you to next (or previous) AN in topic.
I don’t want to start this dispute because this is kind of topic I really like and I could easily move it beyond OP’s content and even beyond forum in a state it is right now.
So to be short: not i5 but i7, laptop not because of portability but dimensions and way to play in different places of my home without too much hassle. :P But I still didn’t choose what to do (ratio), which is quite normal because I need long time to decide what to buy – almost four months to buy Eizo.
I have 560Ti from MSI as well with E8200@3.48GHz and I can confirm your experience. I would say that I have average 20fps during PvE. In WvW it’s great when I can somehow play when there is siege.
Yeah, it’s hard to guess that you’ll need to wait for some event to finish, especially when NPC said that no one can use his device without any suggestion how to change his mind.
But after event successfully finished I could go this catapult and use it. What I’m disappointment though is lack of flying animation. It just teleport you (with loading screen) at the top of the tower.
Yeah, I know. But there are many who have similar setup to mine. That’s why I wanted to point out that it’s not so obvious about performances.
It’s exactly like you said: cpu almost constant 100% and gpu 40-50% max. I’m waiting right now to upgrade my hardware either by replacing cpu (which means also motherboard and memory) or buying Clevo P370EM. But I have to wait when this notebook will be available in my country to see with my own eyes (or maybe better hear it with my own ears).