Guild Wars 2

zerospin.8604:

If you crossed the finishing line, the game should recognize it and stop bugging you with the kickout message. It’s pointless and extremely annoying. Not only are you forced to wait up to 4-5 minutes (my current record is leaving me with about 4min 45sec waiting time. yey..), but in that time you are constantly bugged with tat stupid message. I can’t even go afk.. -.- And no, I can’t leave and rejoin because for some reason the game makes sure I get back into a race with the same waiting time as the one I left! It’s like purposeful griefing.

Either that, put you in a race that’s already halfway done (so you don’t get a reward) or put you in a race at the start with about 40 seconds left so you have no way of completing it.

Hahahahaha, @Wolfheart, I wear the default PvP skin simply so my opponents won’t know my level of skill in HotM. It works quite nicely, as I get people trying to bullrush me as if I’m an underleveled in WvW.

What baffles me is that they can read the soulbound, but they can’t read this part…

The whole purpose, I feel, is for it to be as annoying as possible.

If players could disable it with a button (or key) what’s to prevent players from just auto-piloting said button and then making major mistakes all over again?

The implementation of this is fine, and while it hurts the smarter player, it helps the average player.

I hate to sound mean, but in any online game, the “average player” is a mindless player who typically can’t carry their own weight.

But that eliminates the whole purpose of time-gating it and getting people to do their daily Gift of Quartz (has a chance of granting Charged Quartz).

If they’re of no value, then they should be easily obtainable without the aid of a forum you never visit. :D

His screenshot shows the same distance as in the preview window, so unless he’s playing on a really low resolution (where the preview window will shrink itself), there should be no difference.

Also, all that detail is in the preview, having previewed all of the skins on the first day (and seeing the same image as above, albeit without the 45 degree angle).

The ear “problem” is also visible in the preview.

I don’t have the minis, nor do I have the intention of sharing them with people I do not know.

I’m just saying, if you want to be trustworthy, open up. All you’ve done here is write “I’m trustworthy because I came onto the forums and have a lot of ingame stuff, but I don’t have all the ingame stuff because I need this.”

2600 hours and you can’t/don’t have 4 exotic mini’s is really, really sketchy, as well. If you truly had 2600 hours, 4 exotic mini’s should be a joke.

People can and should (in my honest opinion) apply my point to these chests in general.

No, they are not causing inflation. Yes they do give a lot of gold, but they give it over the course of a long time.

So then why not give you all your retroactive chests on day one?

Well, I went over this in another thread, which can be found here.

If you are going to read that, keep in mind that 90% of players have less than 4000 achievement points, so my point is slightly nullified.

However, to reiterate the point I wrote of over there, if this chest (and things like Celestial Armor/Charged Crystal Quartz) was/were obtainable immediately with no delay upon the day of the patch, then inflation will occur. This is pretty much guaranteed.

Why?

Demand. Demand for T6 mats would rise pretty high. Currently, T6 demand has stabilized to what it was before the patch, but on the day of the patch (with the new Zephyr Reward Chests) the price of T6 mats skyrocketed to ~700% (looking at you, Gossamer, looking at you).

Imagine if people were also able to make Celestial armor immediately.

Imagine if people were to get free gold off of chests to fuel their drive for items.

The prices would have jumped and probably would stay high for a lot longer due to a lot of players wanting mats and some players wanting it now versus others waiting it out, and then caving in and buying.

Anet did a smart move with the time-gating. In regards to the Charged Quartz time gating, if there was no time-gate on that, then there would be no point to the home instance node (which has a chance of giving a Charged Quartz). In regards to the Achievement Chests… well, it’s nearly impossible to get 500 points in a single day, so unless you link a fully HoM’ed GW1 account, you’re not going to be a candidate for 2 chests in one day, which means this time-gate doesn’t affect players after this mad-rush of chests.

Just some more food for thought.

Considering this is your only post on the forums and you posted no evidence of anything, I see no reason that anyone should trust you.

Be warned, readers.

Please, upload a picture of you previewing it and having it look different. I’d like to see the comparison.

I feel like your logic was thrown out of the window for this one because you wanted the shiny asap. (Skritt moments!)

Honestly, I don’t think it’s bad that they’re throwing this many tokens at us. It’s simply bad because we’re getting them all immediately.

Remember, these rewards are taken out of context for us players that have thousands of AP.

Try to look at these rewards for players just starting the game. It’ll take them a while to hit 100 and by then they might be still figuring out they’re “mains” profession. Hence: starter chest with gathering tools and a bag (also more boosters then other chests).

Now, they’ve been playing for a while, probably about 50-100 hours at this point. They finally made it to 500 achievement points. Oh, what’s this? We just got this new thing called Badges of Honor and Blueprints? Maybe I should figure out what to do with them.

Introduction to WvW complete (not really because most players won’t actually do that, but… whatever).

Now, you’ve been playing for nearly 100-150 hours. Note: By now, if you’ve been sticking to one character, you should be nearing 80 if not 80 already. You’re at 1,000 Achievement Points. My favorite weapon is X, so I get Zenith X skin. Oh, I also get some more of that WvW stuff, and what’s this? A PvP Chest? Let’s figure out how to use that!

Insert introduction to sPvP.

From there, it becomes a routine reward, but it’s not something players get everyday.

Remember, if you count living story, you get ~900 AP every month (assuming you do EVERYTHING). This means that you get 1 chest every other week, give or take a few days. So getting 100/200 Badges of Honor (average 150 per chest, not including the super crazy chests that will probably give 300+) every 2 weeks of hardcore grind wars 2 (getting every achievement, INCLUDING WVW DAILY ACHIEVEMENTS) is quite reasonable.

Also keep in mind that the final chest, for now, is at 10,000 AP.

So, all in all, the Badges of Honor are ridiculous when being gained on a daily basis due to the retroactive part of this system, but when taken in the correct context of the system, it’s reasonable.

tl;r: Chests give an average of 10.7 Badges of Honor per day if you do every daily/monthly.

Or… you can use your radar.

Portal distance is radar range. Look at your minimap for the radar and pay attention to landmarks on the minimap to figure out distance via radar.

Wait, let me get this right. You rush to buy a helm, then figure out what they look like?

The highest rank chest is currently 10,000.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement#Achievement_rewards

All your questions are answered in the link provided.

I’m quite sure they’re not going to release something where you pick it and can’t use it at all. That’s quite ridiculous. While Anet’s QA team has been getting a lot of verbal abuse, I’m certain they, as well as the dev teams, are competent enough to figure this one out.

Harrier.9380:

Esplen.3940:

both WvW and PvP would get achievement chests at a far faster rate than PvE due to the amount of accessible points.

This, Sir, is a BIG FAT lie.

About 85-90% of my time with GW2 was spent in PvP. As of now I have ~820 achievement points from PvP, out of ~6400 total.

Which means PvE (in which I spent 10-15% of my play time so far) gave me about 5600.

Thanks for taking my words out of context. I was saying that BECAUSE YOU DON’T GET AS MANY POINTS IN WVW AND PVP you would GET CHESTS FASTER FROM THEM BECAUSE OF THAT. It was putting his idea into fruition by verbally creating a scenario with his system in place (PvP, WvW and PvE each have their own rewards based on how much AP you have from each.)

Like you said, it’s ridiculously easy to get points from PvE, which means that PvE gets a chest every 500. Now if we go to PvP and WvW, you’re going to end up getting points every 100/250 AP instead, because of the amount of available points.

Does it make a difference?

Yes, let’s ask Anet to change a third party website. While they’re at it, can they also change my gmail to an edu, because I am a student?

Wait for them to fix it. It’s already being worked on.

Evade is defaulted to “V”, you can change that hotkey…

Double-tap to evade is a bad option to have on because it destroys precision mobility. If you have no care to partake in jump puzzles or map exploration, feel free to keep it on.

It gives you random PvP items out of any available PvP items (don’t think it drops limiteds, though).

Lutinz.6915:

Esplen.3940:

Depth? In a game that revolves around players mindless clicking and getting rewarded for bashing the 1 key? Oh wait, there’s auto attack…

I said story not combat system….. What does the combat system have to do with the Living World story?

It to go hand in hand. Most players don’t need to think while they play, so they don’t tend to think while they play. It’s a reason why zergs are so rampant in every method of play.

Depth? In a game that revolves around players mindless clicking and getting rewarded for bashing the 1 key? Oh wait, there’s auto attack…

This is what you’re looking for.

Mistress Red Death.3078:

Esplen.3940:

Also, please don’t quadruple post. There’s an edit button to allow you to add more to a response.

figured that out, and cleaned it up

You didn’t clean up anything, you just deleted some of your replies instead of merging your quadruple post.

And to say that nobody read your post, you have no suggestion in your OP other than “add some directions” to which I responded with “people can’t read instructions”.

If you want more examples, look at Living Story guidelines, mail messages with Show Me, and all sorts of assorted information that gets overlooked by the majority of players.

In fact, just scrolling through the forums will show you multiples of the same “problem”, namely with the Achievement Chests and people not reading/understanding them on the first and second day.

Leo Paul.1659:

Why does it have to be 9000 for 1 armor headpiece?! WHY Anet?! That is just too much!

Because it’s supposed to reward dedication.

kitten, I was counting for one armor because meff op.

Also, please don’t quadruple post. There’s an edit button to allow you to add more to a response.

Mistress Red Death.3078:

Soulbound to ONE character that can’t use them, I don’t want to trade them, I want to use them stupid.

Again, if it was accountbound, you’d still complain because you want to use them. Trust me, that’s how forums for video games works. If it’s better, someone complains. If it’s worse, someone complains. If it’s good, someone complains. If it’s bad, someone complains.

It’s fine the way it is. Making it account-bound or even telling people about the PvP locker wouldn’t help anything. Why would it not help? First off, if you were going to destroy the item, you’d see Deposit Collectible. Second off, look at the Achievement Point weapon rewards. They clearly state that you can redeem multiples of them but people complain that they’re soulbound and they got them on the wrong toon.

Mistress Red Death.3078:

My point is: I got soulbound stuff that i can’t use. I don’t play PVP so i didn’t know the ‘trick.’ Some people won’t be told the trick. The stuff should not be soulbound it should be account bound. Having to perform a trick to get to that end result is dumb and a waist of my time.

I would like to be rewarded with something I’ll use, who wouldn’t, I don’t get a lot of exotics, so when i got 5 soulbound I couldn’t use. I was really mad. I know the trick now. But I SUGGEST, not having to know it.

And if it was accountbound, you’d complain that it was eating your inventory because you still wouldn’t know the “trick”.

Junkpile.7439:

I don’t wanna do meta events in new zone so how i get home node? Any way to get it from www?

I just wanna stare at my inventory and watch it get bigger. Y no living inventory?

You get chests based on what current retroactive reward you are on. The next chest to be opened is the 2500 one (if you’ve logged in for all the other chests, being 100, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000) which is a heavy chest.

Mesmer can handle all of that… at later levels. Earlier on you are squishy and slow as all hell.

That’s just one method of doing it. You don’t have to have a character dedicated to doing that. Heck, I just charge it on my main whenever the new daily rolls around.

Flame and Frost is a great example because everyone goes to “Flame and Frost” when thinking about content that ANet has done right.

Dragon Bash had terrible characters, but the event itself was great.

Bazaar is still at the “Dragon Bash”-ish phase of the event. The next part will most likely be released in 1 week (the tuesday after this tuesday).

Explain to me why you need an aggro system when you don’t have a tanking system.

Which is a lot more effort than just sticking a ton of Quartz on an alt and having him login to get a Charged Quarts then swapping to do your dailies.

You remember the beginning of Flame and Frost? Help Refugees!

You remember the beginning of Dragon Bash? Fight Holographic Minions!

You remember the beginning of Bazaar of the Four Winds? Collect Sky Crystals!

You don’t want kill 100 of these and open 100 of those, so ANet just sends you off to explore the world. But apparently exploring the world is killing 100 of these and opening 100 of those, because that’s your main complaint.

The EB JP is technically a non-combat area. It’s just also in a PvP zone. :D

It’s not that nobody likes it. The effect is the same as on Bifrost, but it’s ridiculously tiny and, therefore, hard to see.

People want shiny, big effects.

Point #1: If you sPvP’ed you’d know this. If you don’t, well, you’ve gotta learn sometime.

Point #2: Not sure what your point is here. Good job on having an opinion, though!

Point #3: Does it really matter? You loot a soulbound item off a locker, and can return it to the locker for your entire account.

Point #4: You realize how much effort it would be to differentiate PvP and PvE rewards? Additionally, if they were to do that (and they’d also differentiate WvW rewards, which they technically already do via WvW chests), both WvW and PvP would get achievement chests at a far faster rate than PvE due to the amount of accessible points.

To put it bluntly: You got free kitten, stop kittening.

Critical proc items have an internal cooldown of 1-2s (usually), if none is shown.

Gabby.3205:

Esplen.3940:

But comparing it to getting 2 full dungeon armor sets, you can easily tell which one takes less effort and time.

It depends on the dungeon, really.
I mean, if you have like 10 berserker warriors and you run CoF p1 everyday multiple times with them with 4 warriors + 1 mesmer groups, you will get 2 full CoF armor sets before you could ask yourself why would anybody have 10 berserker warriors.

And if you had 10 berserker warriors, you wouldn’t need a celestial set.

I do agree, however a lot of players will just trash them. Perhaps they should have just given players a free tradeable box containing 10 usages of the game. If they don’t want it, they can sell it on the TP.

See: discussion here

Player Character.9467:

He’s not comparing the effort, he’s comparing the time gating.

Because getting Celestial gear now is so much more different than in 25 days.

If you needed it that badly, that fast, you should be mining your Home Instance and running Sanctum Sprint. They both offer chances at Charged Quartz Crystals.

You’re not even reading what I wrote.

Anyways, @imagansta, as far as I can tell, swords on Guardians are just fine.

But comparing it to getting 2 full dungeon armor sets, you can easily tell which one takes less effort and time.

Player Character.9467:

Esplen.3940:

On a full zerker Guardian, 15% crit chance will add (assuming 100% crit damage)…

0.15 * 2.5 = .375 or 37.5% more damage.

The 2.5 is 250% crit damage because base crit damage is 150% + the 100% bonus crit damage from stats).

Just saying.

That’s… not how the math works… the obvious giveaway being that the impact of an increase in crit chance is dependent on the existing crit chance. This is where diminishing returns from stacking only a single stat comes into play.

More relevant example, 40% crit chance, 100% crit dmg (on hero panel)
=base*1.6
55% crit chance, 100% crit dmg
=base*1.825
40% crit chance, 115% crit dmg
=base*1.66

In this scenario, 15% crit dmg was only a 3.75% more dps while 15% crit chance is 14.0625% more dps.

Actually, my math was the damage impact on your overall dps. Which means that assuming 100% crit dmg, a 15% crit chance would be the difference between 37.5% damage. If you were to compare crit chance to crit damage, that’s a difficult equation that goes ridiculously in-depth but can also be found (solved): here

Just because my math doesn’t fit your interpretation doesn’t make it wrong.

Also, I was telling him that 15% crit chance is still useful and/or comparable to a flat damage increase. Traits aren’t necessarily supposed to give you optimal damage, they’re just supposed to give you bonuses which you yourself work around to get optimal damage.