You know what would be AMAZING? White back slot items. That way, I can move around these SOULBOUND Mad King books. Even better, make all the Halloween items account-bound. I still have that dumb 10-slot bag sitting on my main.
You sound upset. Unfortunately, pets being a thing has been around for quite a while. People just didn’t know how to use them. Now, even the most casual of player can learn how to use pets! Isn’t that great? I for one, love cats. Cats are good, and fluffy, and lethal. Did you know that there is an estimated of 2,912,000,000 cat kills of varying species every year? That’s a good number, considering how lethal they can be. Guild Wars 2 just accurately portrays their lethality.
I’m actually perfectly fine with the current ranged options for my guardian. The range is outstanding for 2 out of the 3 scepter skills. Both Orb of Wrath and Smite have a range of 1200. Only Chains of Light has a shorter range of 900. My only real issue is the slowness of Orb of Wrath. Other than that, I think the scepter does a decent amount of ranged damage. It certainly isn’t going to win any awards for having high, sustained DPS. However, I don’t use it because I want to do massive damage. I use it more for Smite and Chains of Light.
I get that people feel neglected because the guardian can’t do massive amounts of damage at a distance (Smite is crazy good if you have a high crit chance and can snare your target). But I think the limited ranged options says a lot about their design goals for the class.
The whole class is built around the concept of always being in the thick of battle, while buffing and supporting those around them. There are many ways to accomplish this task of course. I think giving the guardian a stronger ranged weapon would make the class way too powerful. It’s already extremely powerful.
Having said that, it would be nice if the scepter had a symbol skill associated with it. Maybe turn Smite into a symbol that has a chance to cripple your target(s) while also providing a boon for allies?
The bad thing about smite is that it’s short and, like most AoE skills, the enemy can just walk right out of it.
I don’t have the attention span to care about content that comes out every at the end of each month, to be honest. I just do it, get the points, and go back to forgetting it ever existed until the next part. It’s not good design. Though, the latest part did make me a little happy but mad at the same time because THAT was how F&F should have started, not going up and down Wayfarer’s fixing signs. There was literally no impact for the first two parts. As a storyteller, what you guys should be doing is making things with more oomph and then fill in the things between that and the end. The Karkaland guys did it right, though it failed to do anything significant afterwards. Dying to invisible karka was probably the most amusing thing there.
No Jesus Beam ever. If ArenaNet would change the guardian’s Ray of Judgement so it’s actually a bloody beam, I’d use it more. They should just take the Howling King’s scream and shrink it down a little, I think.
As for our current ranged weapon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSJ0pqRwjuU
This makes me chuckle every single time.
Hammer is good for those HP-sponge bosses, like the HOTW bosses. In that case, just go full writs and stand there and never die while you eat popcorn or something. It’s the ultimate lazy weapon.
Working as intended.
I know you’re incredibly cool and witty with your posts, but stop. Just stop. I’m not saying don’t complain if you don’t like changes that happened, but there’s no need to make 50 threads where people are throwing insults everywhere.
Yes, warriors took a blow because quickness was nerfed, but lets be real here: it’s not like this is the spot that they intended warriors to be in, and it’s not going to stay this way. Quickness needed to get nerfed eventually, and it’s probably a lot easier to see how to buff warriors by getting rid of it first. Should they have put in buffs to the warrior right away? might have been a good idea, even if they weren’t long term solutions. They didn’t, so lets move on.
Quickness is an extreme problem at lower tiers of the game. Whether you like this or not, and whether you care or not, does not matter. The quicker this change is made the quicker we’ll see spvp grow at the bottom. If you want arenanet to spend time on pvp, and possibly devote more time to pvp, then the bottom needs to grow. End of story. There are some other things that need to be changed (backstab burst, tank eles, and many other things), but this is a start. A start that should help people that are getting into the game to stay with the game.
Quickness also pigeonholes warriors into making their entire build about getting a frenzied 100blades off. You can look at this nerf as a way to see what direction to take future buffs without making warriors “overpowered.”
Lastly, stop spamming the forums please. If you actually care about the future of the game (and if you don’t, then why are you still here?), then you have to understand that all these posts are doing nothing but deterring newer players from wanting to play. We don’t need a separate thread for each person’s opinion on how the warrior sucks now. We don’t need a separate thread for each person that is “quitting” the game. I don’t want to be mean, so I’ll leave it at that.
Thank you.
No. There’s literally nothing to do anymore but complain. WvW is done and over, PvE is garbage, and PvP is getting nowhere. There’s nothing FUN to do except grind, grind, grind all these 20 something currencies which may or may not be useful in the future. I’m looking at you, Fractal Tokens.
if the minority complain, could be their problem, if almost all players complain, it’s obvious there’s something wrong..
and could be so easy for anet satisfy us, just give us what we want, not what THEY think we want
Unfortunately, they’ve been doing whatever they want since the beginning of the game. The only thing I can remember off the top of my head that ArenaNet actually took back was when absolutely everyone complained about the jumping nerf.
I know you’re incredibly cool and witty with your posts, but stop. Just stop. I’m not saying don’t complain if you don’t like changes that happened, but there’s no need to make 50 threads where people are throwing insults everywhere.
Yes, warriors took a blow because quickness was nerfed, but lets be real here: it’s not like this is the spot that they intended warriors to be in, and it’s not going to stay this way. Quickness needed to get nerfed eventually, and it’s probably a lot easier to see how to buff warriors by getting rid of it first. Should they have put in buffs to the warrior right away? might have been a good idea, even if they weren’t long term solutions. They didn’t, so lets move on.
Quickness is an extreme problem at lower tiers of the game. Whether you like this or not, and whether you care or not, does not matter. The quicker this change is made the quicker we’ll see spvp grow at the bottom. If you want arenanet to spend time on pvp, and possibly devote more time to pvp, then the bottom needs to grow. End of story. There are some other things that need to be changed (backstab burst, tank eles, and many other things), but this is a start. A start that should help people that are getting into the game to stay with the game.
Quickness also pigeonholes warriors into making their entire build about getting a frenzied 100blades off. You can look at this nerf as a way to see what direction to take future buffs without making warriors “overpowered.”
Lastly, stop spamming the forums please. If you actually care about the future of the game (and if you don’t, then why are you still here?), then you have to understand that all these posts are doing nothing but deterring newer players from wanting to play. We don’t need a separate thread for each person’s opinion on how the warrior sucks now. We don’t need a separate thread for each person that is “quitting” the game. I don’t want to be mean, so I’ll leave it at that.
Thank you.
No. There’s literally nothing to do anymore but complain. WvW is done and over, PvE is garbage, and PvP is getting nowhere. There’s nothing FUN to do except grind, grind, grind all these 20 something currencies which may or may not be useful in the future. I’m looking at you, Fractal Tokens.
Maybe you should try getting to the orb before the opponent does by out-ele’ing the other elementalist. Just a thought.
This was a much needed change. I approve. Boss events had become too popular for all the wrong reasons.
The only reason people flocked to meta-events in the first place was because the meta chest loot is far better than any other chest loot in the game, including dungeon chest loot.
The only way I could see any possible fix is to upgrade dungeon chest loot to be closer to meta-chest loot, but instead, like always, ArenaNet goes with with the least popular idea.
Wow so entitled, anet doesnt have to give you any functionality they dont want to, check your priviledge
This, and… DS is designed to be a transformation.
When transformed (and most times, when carrying an item) you cannot do basic actions because you’re busy with what you’re doing.
Infact the dev also said DS is designed to be a transformation to use when on low health to continue fighting or to prevent spikes when fighting – not a tool to “bypass” some fundamental mechanics such as being vulnerable while ressing or buying yourself seconds of cooldown with in-transformation swapping.
DS was never meant to be a normal state you use for every purpose.
“use when on low health to continue fighting” is how kittens use it.
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Troll changed so it’s kittening annoying.
Anet, why is the new scream animation not the Ray of Judgement?
I had level 80s parked everywhere. So, with this patch, they basically made them useless. Thanks, Anet.
I. Hate. Crabs. Southsun is a very beautiful place, yes, but it’s also a godawful place to be. The only reason people went there before was because of the ori node. With its removal, it’s now a wasteland.
Magic Find doesn’t work and is generally crap. There’s a cap on how many un-soulbound precursors/named exotics are around in circulation before it stops dropping. The cap is raised whenever a major patch comes, but it’s still stupidly low and possibly rigged. I’d check spidy for the possible influx of precursors after each major patch, but there seems to have been a small data wipe. This is all speculation, of course.
I think the thread opener doesn’t have any friends and is just looking for congratulations from somewhere. Either way, this shouldn’t even be here since it doesn’t contribute anything worthwhile to the forum.
Gold is too precious to just throw around for the sake of science.
ArenaNet Drone detected.
Come on, guys. It’s GUILD WARS. At least we’ll be able to get- oh, wait. Well, more guild grinding is a start, I guess.
Just wanted to give a quick update on this topic. We’ve completed verifying every update from the november release, and there were zero changes to anything what so ever that would have negatively affected loot in any way/shape/form. We can officially confirm this as an X-files level conspiracy at this point.
We’re in the midst of evaluating every loot table in the game and running massive random roll evaluations table by table, as well as evaluating every system game wide that causes a player to qualify for items to determine if any issues exist in those systems from launch.
Will update again when we have another round of concrete information.
I call kittens. We used to be able to get a couple dyes every day, but now we get lucky to even get one every three days or so. And it’s not just me.
We’ve completed verifying every update from the november release, and there were zero changes to anything what so ever that would have negatively affected loot in any way/shape/form. We can officially confirm this as an X-files level conspiracy at this point.
I’m sorry if I’m being blunt, Colin, but that feels a bit like an offish response. Something certainly isn’t right, far from it, and 20+ pages worth of player feedback attests to this fact.
According to the November notes:
The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.
Firstly, there is no specification as to the increased amount, 1% can be considered an increase, but by all logic 1% means nothing in practice.
Secondly, it refers to places in the world, and what that means exactly is a mystery. Do you mean those not involved in events – so the event count as the reward – which is pure poppykitten, as they all deserve to be rewarding in equal measure.Today I killed 10 veterans in Dredgehaunt, none of them dropped anything, and I don’t mean sucky drops, they literally dropped nothing, not a scrap. Clearly that’s not a conspiracy. You guys should go kill some karka, which requires twice the effort to kill, but rewards as terribly as the rest.
I got a grays and whites from level 80 champs a couple times.
You didn’t have to kill everything in sight in GW1, why do it for GW2? I’m just generalizing here, but I’m guessing that most of the people who complain didn’t play GW1 at all.
Most people do 10-20-30 for relative ease, but for better drops it’s better to go do a higher level in their respective tiers.
can we get a devs answer to why we can’t trade Prestine Relics for ascended amulets? What’s the reason behind this!? Ascended gear was ‘born’ in fotm, every ascended gear should be available there.
Slow players progress down probably
can we get a devs answer to why we can’t trade Prestine Relics for ascended amulets? What’s the reason behind this!? Ascended gear was ‘born’ in fotm, every ascended gear should be available there.
Ascended gear is just a part of gear progression, it shouldn’t be available only in fractals meaning it doesn’t have to be available there as well. People were moaning about lack of options beside fractals, you can do it now ;p
Pretty sure anet wanted players to obtain ascended gear through many ways they could have had them bought with laurels and relics
I can’t wait until the Closer to the Stars gear tier. It’ll be a whole ‘nother level of gear grinding requiring multiple stacks of ectos, hundreds of laurels, and thousands of fractal tokens and possibly a new form of currency. Maybe it’ll even get us closer to 100 AR? I, for one, would like to see more fractals before anything else since I’m utterly bored with them now.
I already made a thread, but yeah. It’s quite crappy.
So, what? I won’t be able to use these hundreds of pristines I have to get ascended necklaces? Tokens are now worthless.
I’d rather Anet just fix the exploits when they are reported instead of sitting on the issue for months on end.
You do know that many class bugs, PvE DE bugs, and heart bugs, item bugs, and so forth get reported and don’t get resolved for months, right? Heck, some still haven’t been resolved.
For the record, the way the game’s headed, ArenaNet’s only going to encourage more elitism. It was more prevalent in FoTM because nobody likes bads 30+ and with the incoming dungeon patch to make it so a dead person can’t waypoint every time he dies and the party’s still in combat, there will be more “No Bads Allowed” because, really, who wants to take along a person who keeps dying and refuses to get better? It just hinders the team.
Gigantic Lupicus is easy. Actually, Arah in general is easy. It’s just tedious. Also, I love Gigantic Lupicus.
Is it just me or does it seem like all the people who complain about skipping and other things that were present in GW1… didn’t play GW1?
It’s common in all groups to run full guardians and warrior groups, and maybe stick a necro or a mesmer in there at the cost of one less warrior or guardian. It’s because every other class is trash and, currently, it’s Guardians and Warriors 2.
I don’t expect people to do this, and I get caught in combat with two melee weapons and have to /sleep through the entire encounter, lol
All things considered, AC is a pretty boring dungeon. So much that rather than the entire encounter, I want to /sleep through the entire dungeon. I did it way too much that it makes me sleepy.
It’s fun, and easy. Just dodge the red circles.
Welcome to Guild Wars, MMO #8543 hope you enjoy your stay. I hope you don’t expect some kind of happy fun land here, because you will find none of that. You should learn to get used to the verbal abuse and think long and hard on why you all failed. Then get better. Really, that’s the best advice I can give you. But, hey, at least you aren’t playing Mario Kart, right?
So you think the developers don’t want player feedback?
Maybe I’m over reacting but my poor engineer is really in the ropes here.
My ranger’s sitting at a dragon and my engineer’s sitting on a node. That’s how much I hate these classes.
You know what I like most about this? Now that I think about it, instead of solving actual current issues, ArenaNet’s causing more.
No waypoint rez use in dungeons until the whole party wipes. It seemed pretty clear to me, though I don’t know if maybe I missed something? It’s to prevent people from just WPing as soon as they die and running at the boss mindlessly without any actual tactic. Party wipe >WP > regroup is what they’re going for.
There’s already a cost for this in terms of repair costs so it does reward better players as it is. COlin says that they don;t want people to play like this but its PvE what does it matter, especially given there’s an inbuilt cost to bad players as it is. And what about revive orbs I presume players will still be able to use those. I bet the gem shop will see an uptick in terms of those sales.
The logical endpoint of this change will be more dungeon elitism in terms of what groups are looking for.
Fract 30+
>See a PUG with [LUCK], MF gear, MF Booster
>Instant Kick
Now the same thing’s going to apply to dungeons.
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Elementalists are getting hella nerfed. Nothing about the issue with Engineers effectively being a non-class. The only good ideas are the ones that address culling, sPVP, and Fractals. My head is full of kittens.
Is Colin serious? Okay, well. One more reason to not bring PUGs along.
To be fair, they say a lot of things and promise little. Words like “We’re looking into it.” and “We’re monitoring… so and so.” pretty much means that they won’t be getting to that issue in the foreseeable future. Give it some time. Just gotta wait, yunno? A couple years, maybe, considering that it took them six years or so to create a minion user interface in GW1.
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>LF RUN ASC TO LA
Very, very basic idea: Make them account-bound.
1. We can’t transmute it since no white or non-soulbound blues exist for backslot items.
2. I want to re-create my character, but I don’t want to lose the book.
That’s it. I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks that the books being soulbound is an inconvenience.
Rather than taking chests out of dungeons, they should improve the loot for dungeons in general. I dislike getting blues all the time in Arah and CoE.
“Magic Find” is a placebo. It makes you think it actually does something, but it doesn’t actually do anything. Not since the introduction of DR, anyway. It used to be all the craze before then.
I actually don’t mind getting items from an RNG as long as I’m not paying real money for it. I’d even say I look forward to farming Lunar Fortunes each year in GW1 for a chance to get a Celestial Mini. (And for the record I don’t do it to sell them, I do it to get one to keep. Which is lucky because except for one year when I got 3 in a row I’ve only ever gotten 1.)
I also like that I know if I don’t get it I’ve got the option of buying one from another player. Yes they’re insanely expensive (although the price usually crashes by the end of the event) but it’s do-able.
What I do have a problem with is having to pay real money to play an RNG and having no other option. Which is why I’m trying for the bell and trying to forget about the festive minis.
As much I loved them, I somewhat doubt they’ll bring them back. Doing things like Lunar Fortunes wouldn’t be profitable, real-money wise. If they did bring them back, it wouldn’t be the same. It’d essentially be like this Wintersday’s mystery boxes, I imagine.
Another whiny thread from someone who doesn’t understand what the words “random” and “rare” mean?
And don’t even try the “there was no RNG like this in GW1” lies. Go ahead and name one everlasting tonic that isn’t acquired via RNG.
Also, the unbreakable bell gives you near-unlimited potential to annoy everyone around you. If it were a common drop, everyone with ears would be really angry.
This isn’t about some weapon skin, it’s about playing a fun mini-game. By keeping them rare they are locking out content from a lot of players once Wintersday ends.
All of the other Wintersday content disappears after Wintersday…
The birthday tonics were 100%, but the chance of getting the one you want was RNG.
So. King John Smith’s statement basically stated that crafting anything with ectos that has a high profit return rate is considered an exploit. Okay, ArenaNet.
You’re missing the point here. The recipe allowed you to basically produce ectos out of almost nothing (mithril) and an initial investment of only one ecto.
Yeah, I know. It was kind of a joke. Furthermore, it wasn’t worth it since, as was stated before, you actually need to be using BL kits for it to be profitable. If you try using Mystic, it’s not worth it at all unless you get super lucky. Which isn’t often enough, considering RNG Wars 2.
The confusing part is trying to determine what is considered an exploit and what isn’t.
There’s a very thin line between what actually is an exploit and what the developers consider an exploit.
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So. King John Smith’s statement basically stated that crafting anything with ectos that has a high profit return rate is considered an exploit. Okay, ArenaNet.
Every time I hear about Spy Kits and Portal Guns, I cringe.
You should really get them out of dungeons, they’re doing a lot of harm to the game.
Are you bloody joking? That’s like saying consets shouldn’t be used in GW1. They were there for a purpose: to make things less tedious. In GW2, consumables are here to make things less tedious and a bit more entertaining. Same principle. They exist to inspire player ingenuity in getting around tough situations, rather than being railroaded into a certain playstyle. If a content designer believes that there should be only one way to get through an obstacle(his way), then he’s not doing a very good job at being a content designer. Doing so makes the content have zero entertainment and is a sign that the person in question is not particularly innovative. Tedium does not equal fun.