Guild Wars 2

ham.8209:

Envy.1679:

Hardcore modes never work out in online games because people lag.

One dropped packet during a fractal and all your progress is lost.

Also, since you cant come back the rest of the group suffers aswell. Nobody will even want to play with you because if you die theyre left with 4 people.

you sure never played guild wars 1 . in that game with HM it never was a problem at all and no lag what so ever or any thing that you speak of . and there was no fractal
on top of it . all there was pvp and they did not let hard mode happen at all in pvp. also too people did not play together on the same map like they do in guild wars 1 every one had there own maps . and every thing was good even in missions too

The hardmode in GW1 is not even close to what OP is asking for. Jaysus, you guys aren’t even reading the OP post.

xiune.9812:

You have never played eve online have you? I have seen an entire alliance of 3 corporations lose everything due to one person dyeing in that game. And yes I said we should have the option for a one time death character that people could opt into at creation, I also said this was a base idea and many times stated that we will need to mold it to fix issues and work. Do you have a hard time reading or are you just lazy?

What are you even talking about bro. Have you even read the OP?

If you look very close at the OP you may be able to figure this out.

Dude you’re making 0 sense.

OP is asking for a permadeath with presumably losing the gear you were wearing at the time.

In order to compare this to Eve online when you die you have to completely lose your skill advancement, which you dont.

You never played Eve online have you?

Please read the OP post and then reread what you wrote. Once you do, you’ll realize how much hot air you’re spewing.

xiune.9812:

They dont work, is what im saying.

And the real world disagrees with you. Most games have a death penalty and some of the longest running games have very harsh penalties.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/28/eve-online-hits-500-000-subscribers-heads-into-second-decade/
Here is a short list for you if you like http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/24/the-perfect-ten-death-penalties/
Yes, hardcore may be a little hardcore for the current population in these forums but there are many options that are far greater than nothing.

Eve online isn’t even hardcore in the sense what we’re talking about.

When you die in Eve you return to a body in a clone. You don’t lose everything. Only implants and the ship and cargo you were carrying, while the rest of your ships, money, and items were safely tucked away in a station somewhere. You don’t start over.

That’s not permadeath like this thread is suggesting.

Death penalty (or even harsh death penalty) =/= permadeath

What are you even talking about bro. Have you even read the OP?

xiune.9812:

This looks like “a solution looking for a problem,” instead of the other way around

useless items has been an issue for over 20 years in games. GW2 attempted to address part of this issue by disallowing levels to raise in their games. The lack of death penalties allowed the issue to shift to a zerker meta instead. Have you ever heard the phrase “wp if you’re dead?” That is due to everyone running glass cannon builds a literally face rolling into content until it is dead. Some type of death penalty would stop this dead in its tracks.

Everyone is the ultimate authority on what they don’t like, but not everyone has aptitude in game design.

without stating what they think they may like in return or offering ideas to correct the issue we are expecting game developers to be mind readers. If they could do that they would not need to work as game developers. Often the people coding these games have high levels of social awkwardness (no offence devs I work with coders and they can be… odd at times) even though they can program almost anything given the time that does not mean they know what the average person is looking for. Even if the offered solutions are not optimal they offer a general consensus that can be modified. Nothing in this game is unique it has all been borrowed from other ideas in other games and modified in this form.

Hardcore modes never work out in online games because people lag.

except death penalties have been used in some form (yes even as far as one time death) for 20+ years now. If they can make it work on dialup internet, I am sure they could make it work now.

I know theyve been used.

They dont work, is what im saying.

Hardcore modes never work out in online games because people lag.

One dropped packet during a fractal and all your progress is lost.

Also, since you cant come back the rest of the group suffers aswell. Nobody will even want to play with you because if you die theyre left with 4 people.

GW2 has a kind of sugar coated taste that I dont like. For example most deaths scenes are simply implied or hilariously animated.

There are no “shocking” moments in the game really. It’s all watered down for kids.

Can we get a scene of something evil actually brutally killing someone for once?

I want blood >:(

Taygus.4571:

could it be to minimise server load with the mini change? as everyone and their dog is running with a mini?

That doesnt affect the server. animations you see only affect your computer. Thats why they can put an animation option in the options menu.

You could literally run around in a T pose on your screen and you would look normal to other players with normal animations.

sigil of demon slaying works vs elementals

so you can have +20% dmg to elementals from sigils

I dont think thats intentional

things like cities and new races require a lot of effort input but dont neccesarilly output a lot of meaningful fun content.

They could have the entire development team work on a new race and city and maybe some new mobs to go with the new leveling zone for a 3 months or however long that takes.

But what does the guy who is not even interested on any of those things get? absolutely nothing.

This means development time has to be put into things that add meaningful content that the majority of people will actually play. New mechanics, new end game content, more “leaderboard” type stuff and new ways to earn achievements and rewards.

This is already apparent in every content patch thus far, so its safe to assume they wont waste development resources on things like a new playable race or leveling zone. Doing so would only delay content that the rest of the playerbase wouldve played that they couldve developed instead.

WoW was able to excuse the new panda race by making them apart of the new class and they were able to design a new area because it came along WITH an area for the endgame content, which was pretty smart and was a really good way to manage their resources.

its fine to dream about such things, but realistically suggesting things that fall in line with meaningful type content has a higher chance of actually being considered by the developers.

Im sure most of the developers would love a lot of stuff like a new race to be added into the game but at the end of the day they are a business and their moves need to generate money and a new race is not worth the input for the ammount of output it produces

So I can see if its worth bursting a squishy or if theyre tank.

its a guessing game as to who is full tank and who is dps

Paint tool sai is probably my best choice for straight up painting. None of the bloat that photo shop comes with that youll never use. Its very well optimized too. Itll run great on even crappy pcs. Many pros use paint tool sai.

and this is the same thing but i used a piano instrument instead of a harpsichord https://soundcloud.com/nijju-music/fear-not-this-night-piano

:D

I have also noticed not getting rewards despite doing upwards to 80k or so damage to the champ before it goes down in large zergs

You guys might think im exaggerating or being sarcastic.

Im not.

I dont know how it happens, but sometimes when fighting necros they do something that makes me unable to move or use movement skills for nearly a minute.

Its 100% sure not a condition, its definitely a bug.

I swear one time i was fighting a necro, and when he realized he was losing he just ran away right after applying this snare bug, like he purposely did it.

Dem Morrowind physics.

Larger Guilds have the ability to trigger bosses whenever they want.

but yea, that audio clip is bugged.

Does anyone else notice that they already had a “megaserver” technology since release? called “overflow” Now we are literally just permanently in overflows.

like to me they did 2 things:

removed the default server
attempted to make it easier to get grouped in your friends overflow.

voila, megaserver.

Did you just call an anime an anima

Anima is a summoned aeon in final fantasy lol.

We have literally 5 people, send help.

earlier today, a MASSIVE 10 man zerg completely destroyed us. There was nothing we could possibly do about those numbers.

Our big WvW guild couldnt even stop them. Those 2 mesmers didnt even stand a chance.

Is it good for leveling your characters level?
Is it good for leveling your wvw level?

Ive never done it, and dont know really what it holds. Im on a server where its common to literally have 10, or less than 10 people on wvw. Today i hopped on eotm, and i was shocked to see we have like a 50 man zerg running around.

Initiative regen needs to be nerfed. No reason a thief should be able to burst, and then be able to stealth for 2 seconds, and then appear 30 feet away from shadow shot, etc.

They can usually get away even if they step on a stealth trap. id be fine if they had a lot of mobility, id fine be fine if they had a lot of stealth, but having a lot of both at the same time is frustrating to play against. There’s literally no counterplay in most people’s builds against them. Not only does that makes it frustrating, but not having a way to counterplay is antifun.

infinite necro wells would probably end up being the most op thing in the game/

Lazarus.3970:

Envy.1679:

i know in rift “multiboxing” was perfectly legal.

in case you dont know, multiboxing is 1 guy with like usually 5 or so characters with the same exact set up stacked on top of each other. he uses 1 keyboard to control all 5 of them simultaneously. effectively making him as strong kitten (wow as “5” is blocked) people (but stronger since hes so coordinated)

Im assuming since its also an mmo, that gw2 would have a similar policy. Not that you’d something that exorbitant for what you’re doing.

That would undoubtedly get you banned from 99% of games. Controlling 5 characters at the same time doing the same things is putting yourself at a greater advantage over normal people. You would be able to take on almost anything alone because you as an individual are in control of 5 characters where as a normal group would be 5 individuals in control of one character each.

The OP just wants to do PVP with one account and during downtime, do PvE with the other account. He as an individual is never controlling more then 1 character at any given time.

It sounds like it would get you banned, but at least in rift there was even an official response to the thread complaining about people doing it, saying it was not actually against the TOS. Im pretty sure people did it in WOW too, though im not sure if it was legal there. I just know there was someone with like 90 accounts multiboxing them all.

Vol.7601:

Envy.1679:

i know in rift “multiboxing” was perfectly legal.

in case you dont know, multiboxing is 1 guy with like usually 5 or so characters with the same exact set up stacked on top of each other. he uses 1 keyboard to control all 5 of them simultaneously. effectively making him as strong kitten (wow as “5” is blocked) people (but stronger since hes so coordinated)

Im assuming since its also an mmo, that gw2 would have a similar policy. Not that you’d something that exorbitant for what you’re doing.

The situation you described it most definitely not legal and would be grounds for a ban.

Multiboxing itself is legal, yes. You can have two accounts up and logged in on the same time (although running two accounts on the same client is questionable)

But you cannot be actively playing both at the same time.

Can you quote the part of the TOS that forbids it?

This thread is a dissapointment

i know in rift “multiboxing” was perfectly legal.

in case you dont know, multiboxing is 1 guy with like usually 5 or so characters with the same exact set up stacked on top of each other. he uses 1 keyboard to control all 5 of them simultaneously. effectively making him as strong kitten (wow as “5” is blocked) people (but stronger since hes so coordinated)

Im assuming since its also an mmo, that gw2 would have a similar policy. Not that you’d something that exorbitant for what you’re doing.

Beldin.5498:

Orpheal.8263:

Anet can add improvements there, but these improvements surely will never reach that extreme detail, like this one. Therefore is GW2 already far too old in its whole game engine.

Has nothing to do with age. Just look at the character editor from Perfect World International .. that game is a lot older and for me has still one of the best character editors since you are not bound to any presets and create any face you want from any other face just with the sliders.
You can even save and load your characters there and blend in images.

All later games from perfect World however have much worse editors with just same boring presets.

Actually APB reloaded has a much better character editor than perfect world.

ferr.6403:

You have never seen EVE Online? I think in EVE the creation is better and the result too o.O Where all this hype come from

Are you serious? BD creation has everything EVE does plus a lot more. it is not better.

boysie.4851:

No offense, but this update just made the game almost unplayable for my daughter who spends a lot of time dressing up her characters before questing, etc. Just took the fun right out the game for her. Not being able to change wardrobe items with out paying gems is greedy and kind of makes me regret spending money on this game and letting my daughter even play it. It took me a while to even figure out what happened, then when I did and saw how many gem/gold piece it would take per change of outfit I was flabbergasted to put it mildly.

Am I missing something here? How does it make sense for it to cost nearly 15 gold pieces to change a pair of gloves? Again, am I missing something here, I feel I must be.

You realize you already had to pay to change the look even before the patch right? transmutation crystals werent free.

best hiding spot na

Becka Williams.4978:

Envy.1679:

Becka Williams.4978:

I don’t think using gold to gems is technically “free” but allright.

Do you spend real life money on it? no. pretty sure thats what free means.

Well, you have to spend time earning the money. It’s not like you get it away as part of a quest.

Thats obviously not what OP was asking. He specifically asked if you had to spend money.

Becka Williams.4978:

I don’t think using gold to gems is technically “free” but allright.

Do you spend real life money on it? no. pretty sure thats what free means.

qazqazqazqaz151515

Dont listen to the guys saying you cant. Theyre wrong. You can use the black lion trading post to change you gold into gems. once you have enough gems, you can use them to unlock another character slot.

Strange because the banners wont even do that for allies.

A dev posted here 4 hours ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Asura-whisper-Durmand-Storyline-Bug-Spoiler

A dev posted here 5 hours ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Make-Balthazar-back-non-tradebale

A dev posted her 6 hours ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/skins-json-and-skin-details-json

A dev posted here 7 hours ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-topics-Achievement-bug-no-chests-dailies-stuck

A dev posted here 9 hours ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Tournament-of-Legends-Update

And the list goes on in such a fashion.

You really suck at finding dev posts apparently.

Deli.1302:

That’s your loss.

Uhtameit.2413:

Envy.1679:

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Envy.1679:

MercilessLemurs.7459:

Envy.1679:

nicknamenick.2437:

Spicyhash.7605:

Is that the spawned weapon? Does ANet even have the letters Q and A in their alphabet?

yes its the spawned weapon and it must be broken or something..
a single skill that hits for 8k on heavy armor in PVP where you don’t have food/buffs etc etc and low ferocity.. something is wrong with that skill..
The guardian did not want to tell but he even says it hits 12k on most classes.
that’s insane for a PET!!!

heavy armor/light armor/medium armor makes absolutely zero difference when it comes to how much damage you take. Its about which amulet you are using, not what armor you have that determines how resilient you are.

Class weight does effect base armor.

A light armor with a soldiers amulet will be a loooooooot tankier than a heavy armor with zerker. The difference between the base armor is so small its irrelevant.

It’s roughly 300 stat points actually.

base lvl 80 exotic armor coat (draconic) 363
Equivalent lvl 80 exotic light armor coat(exalted)314

the base armor difference is exactly 49

Not even close to 300 difference. And not even close to make a meaningful difference in any situation.

So roughly 50 per armor piece? now let’s remember, we have 6 armor pieces…6*50…that’s 300. Right ! Thank you.

If you want to do the whole set then exalted then its still less than 300 and the difference is closer too 400 than 300. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glkQwKA5_PU

my original point is that the guy could be walking around with zerker heavy armor and get hit for a ton. but a tanky light armor could be much more of a tank than he could be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQjCF8MENw

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Envy.1679:

MercilessLemurs.7459:

Envy.1679:

nicknamenick.2437:

Spicyhash.7605:

Is that the spawned weapon? Does ANet even have the letters Q and A in their alphabet?

yes its the spawned weapon and it must be broken or something..
a single skill that hits for 8k on heavy armor in PVP where you don’t have food/buffs etc etc and low ferocity.. something is wrong with that skill..
The guardian did not want to tell but he even says it hits 12k on most classes.
that’s insane for a PET!!!

heavy armor/light armor/medium armor makes absolutely zero difference when it comes to how much damage you take. Its about which amulet you are using, not what armor you have that determines how resilient you are.

Class weight does effect base armor.

A light armor with a soldiers amulet will be a loooooooot tankier than a heavy armor with zerker. The difference between the base armor is so small its irrelevant.

It’s roughly 300 stat points actually.

base lvl 80 exotic armor coat (draconic) 363
Equivalent lvl 80 exotic light armor coat(exalted)314

the base armor difference is exactly 49

Not even close to 300 difference. And not even close to make a meaningful difference in any situation.

LumpOfCole.4701:

With the new wardrobe system, I was able to pull off an outfit that is Maximum Gentleman.

Enjoy!

Ringmaster Hat (Gem Store)
Illustrious Shoulders (Light Ascended)
Arah Chestpiece (Arah Tokens / Arah PvP Path)
Exalted Gloves (Crafting)
Exalted Pants (Crafting)
Illustrious Boots (Light Ascended)

Click here for animated spin: http://a.pomf.se/efxqel.webm

dem McDonald’s colors

Katz.5143:

Meh, I can’t figure how how to get an image to show. Why can’t this have some simple buttons to push to insert images and such. /sadface

it does…

MercilessLemurs.7459:

Envy.1679:

nicknamenick.2437:

Spicyhash.7605:

Is that the spawned weapon? Does ANet even have the letters Q and A in their alphabet?

yes its the spawned weapon and it must be broken or something..
a single skill that hits for 8k on heavy armor in PVP where you don’t have food/buffs etc etc and low ferocity.. something is wrong with that skill..
The guardian did not want to tell but he even says it hits 12k on most classes.
that’s insane for a PET!!!

heavy armor/light armor/medium armor makes absolutely zero difference when it comes to how much damage you take. Its about which amulet you are using, not what armor you have that determines how resilient you are.

Class weight does effect base armor.

A light armor with a soldiers amulet will be a loooooooot tankier than a heavy armor with zerker. The difference between the base armor is so small its irrelevant.

Could not weapon swap the ENTIRE match, even after i died in a matched game. Dont know why, the weapon swap button was just greyed out the whole time.

nicknamenick.2437:

Spicyhash.7605:

Is that the spawned weapon? Does ANet even have the letters Q and A in their alphabet?

yes its the spawned weapon and it must be broken or something..
a single skill that hits for 8k on heavy armor in PVP where you don’t have food/buffs etc etc and low ferocity.. something is wrong with that skill..
The guardian did not want to tell but he even says it hits 12k on most classes.
that’s insane for a PET!!!

heavy armor/light armor/medium armor makes absolutely zero difference when it comes to how much damage you take. Its about which amulet you are using, not what armor you have that determines how resilient you are.

Andar.9107:

Envy.1679:

OneManArmy.9732:

Harper.4173:

Sadly you’re wrong.
It’s – "ping zerker gear or kick " from now on. No longer does the current dps of a party afford to carry slackers.

this^

less damage – zerk more viable.
classes like necro/engi/ranger – no no, only high dps classes – thief war ele
if before patch i wasnt care about party gear or classes, play how you want – i have enough dmg to cover your ptv/bearbow kitten . now I care, i dont want to carry ptv/cleric/bearbow etc.

in other words – zerk or kick.

you guys sound like you are upset at anet and now you want to rebel against them by doing the thing they didnt want you to do. like little kids.

Non-zerkers aren’t non-viable cause zerker is so good, they’re not viable because they don’t work.

You can complete dungeons just fine without a single zerker in the group. Saying that dungeons are 100% impossible without zerker is just pure ignorance.

guessing something to do with using the api in your own software?

Rihivan.7506:

effectively your crit damage has been sliced in half.

Oh oh.. so now its 50% damage reduction? xD