Let us impess you Anet. I spent a good 1/4 hour today in LA with two other bell musicians playing Xmas music today. I hope this wasn’t a fluke chance encounter. I almost can’t wait for the season to pass so I can stop spending so much time writing and performing the “holly jollies”.
Give us the tools to play on 3 octaves with half notes. We will stun you, if you do.
Huge oversight not having a party option for this. It’s lame a heck being forced to pug this. Looks like a fun event, ruined by being forced to run with a random group.
There’s a clever method game companies get around gambling laws.
When they offer you a RNG item, all they need to do is make sure the “boobie” prize is at least worth the price of the random box. That way, you are getting something that is worth at least the price of the RNG item. So technically it’s not a gamble, since you’re guaranteed to get something “worth” your money in return.
Have you wondered why you always get a buff item? Have you wondered why these buff items sell individually for the cost of the RNG item alone? This is why.
This is one of the greatest additions to the game. I don’t think it should be overly easy to aquire though (I had to sell a ton of stuff to buy one).
I’ve been getting a kick writing Xmas music and playing it around town. It brings a smile to people’s faces and a crowd gathers each time I go through a set. What surprised me was the generous tips flying around!
Very cool. I’d like to see some other instruments in the future!
Developers? Anet Rep? Guy trying to sell pizzas in a monkey suit (seems like the same quality of service…..)?
Can we get some input on the service that’s not working here?
You’d think they’d pay attention to something they messed up on.
/end wishful thinking
…on a side note:
Splitting stacks of tonics does infact fix the issue. I guess the only solution Anet can come up with is to send me multiple endless halloween tonics to split stacks on…….
Yes, that’s correct. If you add the “new” ones to the older bugged tonics, they become unsaleable, and look like the picture above with only the options use or destroy.
It sure would be swell if we could get a response from an anet staffer on this one. Even “we’re aware of the problem, and looking into it”.
All halloween tonics that were existing prior to the patch that was supposed to remove the soulbound/account bound flag on them hasn’t gone according to plan.
What’s happening is that a patch was implemented that was supposed to make all halloween tonics (both crafted and those found in the ToT bags) tradable/sellable.
What actually happened, is that it’s not working on any tonics that were existing prior to the patch. Only the ones made or found in ToT bags AFTER the patch are working as intended.
I purchased a quantity of ToT bags from the trader and opened them. All the regular were tradable. When I stacked them with some of my pre-patch tonics, they took on the unsalable quality of the originals.
I appreciate the gesture of you guys trying to compensate us, but this isn’t really working out. Is there going to be a redo for those of us lead astray from opening these on a low level character?
However, all players should be treated the same when they aquire a rare item. How would you feel if you got a precursor that was soulbound, while everybody else that found one was able to sell it?
Originally it was soulbound (it said so in the description). There was a patch that was released that was supposed to enable all crafted halloween tonics to be listed on the trader. When that update went live, my endless was no longer soulbound. I could use it on any character.
However, I am unable to sell it or mail it. This seems to be an oversight. I hope it gets corrected.
100% not a buy order. One was listed and available for purchase. In fact, at the time there were several buy orders placed, the top offer was about 40 gold.
Weird. I just posted this same topic….with the same title.
Anyways, my EHT was originally soulbound. After a certain update that allowed crafted halloween tonics to be sold on the TP, my tonic became unbound (along with all the generic halloween tonics).
However, this is what I see when I right click on my endless tonic, and all my other halloween tonics for that matter……. (no option to sell):
Oh no, you can’t do jumping puzzles today. Truly the end of the world.
That’s ok, I made Anet’s jump bork my own. I trolled our guild leader with it. I told him the patch introduced a one time account wide bonus for the jumping puzzle chests in WvWvW.
After a few misses and some choice swear words….we had to let him in on the patch boo boo.
Funny, last night I was running about a empty zone, was standing next to this ore node, when all the sudden poof out of nowhere, this asura appears next to the node, farms it, and then poof disappears. Now since it was a iron node, I doubt highly he was logging in, farming it, and logging out, more likely it was a teleport bot.
So my guess is bots are still around, and the ones that got banned will be right back on new accounts, since Anet only does something about them like every 2 months anyway.
Stand at the key chests in WvWvW Boarderlands. You’ll see these punks teleport in and out grabbing the keys, then blinking out again. They move so fast, it’s hard to get a report on them.
i havent seen bot trains indeed…but i have seen something else
a player gathering a tree\node\herb then disappears, then appears near another to gather then disappears again and so on
I dunno if this is a bug, exploit, new hack or me becoming crazy…i’ve seen it more than once though.
There’s a popular cheat tool players are using that allows them to teleport to nodes, jump puzzle chests, and just about anything else you can imagine. I hope these little kitten are next on the hit list.
I see a win/win senario for doing so. The prices will drop to a more reasonable level for the precursors if this happens. More to the point, the chests will actually have something worthwhile in them for a change.
This equals happy Anet and happy players. We just might start buying keys….
Don’t want to grind for acended gear? Here’s a tip: Don’t.
Why should all the players that want to keep striving for something be hobbled by the compulsively completist players among us?
Here’s another tip: This isn’t Pokemon, and you don’t have to catch them all.
One thing that bothered me in all the years I played GW1, was that there wasn’t “slightly” better equipment beyond a simple skin. I didn’t like the fact that you could buy a blue level 20 from a city vendor that had the exact same stats as the cool 100K+100e item that you found or bought.
Again….this is a good thing. Slightly, is slightly. You’re not going to miss out on much by not reaching for the top tier gear. If you don’t want the gear but feel compelled to acquire it….go see a doctor. You need help beyond what a game update can do for you.
While technically not “market manipulation”, there is something somebody is doing to make a lot of money quickly by briefly increasing the price. It’s also not a result of “market speculation”. It’s definitely not caused by a “whoopsie” in missing a decimal point while entering a buy price.
1000s of peppers were sold during that price spike. I saw it happen in real time. A stack was sold without putting a dent on the availability during that short time.
…as for the strawberries, they trippled in price just before the halloween update, and were reset immediately after it went live. I could throw out wild accusations, but the purpose of the post is to show the irregularities that people are using to make scads of cash on.
I’ve been watching a couple items on the TP. I regularly sell strawberrys that I gather everday, since launch in fact.
Shortly before the halloween patch, they jumped in price to over 1.5 silver. As soon as the halloween patch went live, they returned to the normal price range. See the attached screenshot, showing this spike (one month of activity shown)
Much more disturbing, was a spike that happened about an hour ago on chili peppers. The second screen shot shows a spike of a factor of 6.5 times or more. They went from 4 silver to 26 silver and then back down. The screen shot attached shows today’s activity (image is in the second post).
The puzzle IS fun. It’s well made, and a blast to play.
What isn’t “fun”, is how players are tortured with trying to even see what they are doing. This needs to be instanced, or at the very least capped in size to 5 (like a dungeon).
I’d like to see Anet’s staff try the puzzle with a smaller model character and 15 Charr/Norn characters rubbing their backsides in their faces while they try. In fact, I think they should be FORCED to do it. Put the Anet staff’s paycheck in the chest, and make them finish it before they get paid that week.
See if they like looking up Norn skirts and sniffing Charr butt for a change!
I would also like this to be solo… as far as I can see, everything else about this is fine.
This would be the ultimate correction. The puzzle itself is fine, the lack of Anet’s foresight kills it for players using models smaller than a mack truck.
This morning, I had an overflow of the clocktower to myself. It was fun!
I had no wait times when I failed, so I could try again straight away. I could actually play the puzzle. It was a hoot.
Then the other player started to fill in my instance. Using a small human character, I was quickly swallowed in a sea of Charr and Norn kitten I could not see my model for any of the jumps.
I have a strong animosity when I play the clocktower towards other players, thanks to Anet’s lack of foresight. I know I’m not alone in this.
How about forcing a “ghostly” model on all the players that join the puzzle? Make this right Anet.
