Guild Wars 2

Sarcasmic.6741:

Foss.4830:

Please explain how this bug works? Its RNG. Just because you do 10 runs doesnt gurantee that your going to get a ring. Hell you could do 200 runs and not get a ring. Doesnt mean its bugged. Just means that your very unlucky lol.

As I stated previously they are going to add other ways to get the rings so really why complain about it? Unless your one of those people who thinks everyone should get a ring 100% of the time :/

The point is, this system for rewarding the rings should never have been rng, or at least /entirely/ rng. When agony resist is required to progress beyond a certain point, you can’t have a system where a player may never get that resist to continue. It’s asinine. I have guildmates who are well over 12 runs and still have not gotten a ring either.

An easy way would have been, each time you reach a new tier, you’re given a random ring. Once guaranteed. You get your very first lvl 10-19 daily chest, you get one randomized stat ascended ring. This still keeps some randomness/luck, but allows for thwarting the core mechanic of fractals. Then, beyond the first guaranteed ring, the current system could continue. That way you could still progress, or you could keep trying your luck for stats that you might find more useful.

Your right it never should have been all RNG. The devs admitted this already. However I doubt they are going to make it a guaranteed drop from any chest. Most likely they will make them craftable through the MF like the back pieces or adjust the drop rates slightly. or both.

Calae.1738:

No one will complain about RNG until it affects them negatively.

That alone is reason enough to remove it. Besides, nothing in 10+ dailies is not RNG; it’s a bug. I garuntee you it’s a bug. Arenanet can’t admit it so we’ll never really know.

Just like some people never get the bonuses from WvW since launch. They still haven’t fixed that bug. For all we know; there could be a bug in the game that have certain players on permanent loot DR or something similar.

Please explain how this bug works? Its RNG. Just because you do 10 runs doesnt gurantee that your going to get a ring. Hell you could do 200 runs and not get a ring. Doesnt mean its bugged. Just means that your very unlucky lol.

As I stated previously they are going to add other ways to get the rings so really why complain about it? Unless your one of those people who thinks everyone should get a ring 100% of the time :/

Also

Robert Hrouda.1327:

changed thread title from ‘fagtal’ to ‘fractal’ since I’m sure it was a mistake.

Lol.

Cynical.2097:

Foss.4830:

Cynical.2097:

0/12.
That’s almost half a month of GRINDING. <— Grinding. Grind.

Pretty sure they’ve already admitted it was a mistake to make that the only way to get the rings and it will be changed in the future. Just deal with it for now or go and do something else. Personally i got my ring on my first level 10 run. then 2 days later got my 2nd. Most of the people I play with also have 2 rings. I dont think the rates are insane.

Must be nice. I’m 0/12. I get on every day and try my luck.

I guess you are just more deserving than I am.

Its all RNG man idk what to tell you. Not the end of the world. Just keep at it and eventually if you dont find a ring you’ll probably have enough to forge your back piece lol

Cynical.2097:

0/12.
That’s almost half a month of GRINDING. <— Grinding. Grind.

Pretty sure they’ve already admitted it was a mistake to make that the only way to get the rings and it will be changed in the future. Just deal with it for now or go and do something else. Personally i got my ring on my first level 10 run. then 2 days later got my 2nd. Most of the people I play with also have 2 rings. I dont think the rates are insane.

Treplos.5182:

I noticed that my food buffs were disappearing -for no reason- in Fractals. It has happened so many times and was very noticeable but always attributed it to lack of attention and/or losing track of time or something. So, I did a little test to check out what was going on.

I used a food and an oil, both lasting for 30 minutes. After a quick FoTM round that lasted for about 17 minutes , I looked at my buffs and lo and behold, the food was gone, while the oil had about 13 minutes left. I did not die or get downed! What gives?

I know that food should persist through death/downed and map changing (right?), so this is really baffling -.-.

For what reason would food simply vanish? A bug? Some condition I am unaware of?
Also, has anyone else noticed it?

Ive noticed this too. Seems to happen after a wipe when everyone goes back to checkpoint and occasionally when switching to a new fractal.

Found an exotic “Trident” last night that was account bound. Would really be nice to have these nameless items removed from the game and replaced with stuff that people actually want. Preferably not account bound.

Someone in my guild said that he was able to solo some of the fractals. No idea what build hes running though.

I fail to see the reasoning behind completely removing the waypoint system from dungeons. Could someone please clarify this for me? Are you trying to remove death zerging? If so wouldn’t it be easier to just add timers to respawns while your team is in combat? For example. First death theres no timer. 2nd death 15s. 3rd death 25s 4th death 45s and so on up to like 1 or 2 minutes. At least people would have a chance to get back into the fight but it would be less zergy. The current system just plain sucks. I dont wanna sit on the ground doing nothing while my team is forced to either leave me there dead or risk being slaughtered by AOEs as they try to rez me.

Yeah I die like 100x more on my warrior/thief than I do on my mesmer….melee classes just get completely trashed in this game.

Ember.4326:

Sigh, people who don’t have the slightest clue or haven’t even bothered to go through the intro and try backstab out call out numbers like 19k bs, jesus be with us. Highest I ever managed to land was 14.4k backstab and ironically, that was against another thief >_> Got some 700-800 games on my thief.

Also show me one class without a stun breaker ability. Oh it was on cooldown? well boohoo, kinda happens to thieves too when the only stun breaker they run (shadowstep) is on cooldown and a warrior/mesmer/glass ele catches you with one CC, you blow up.

I can survive bs thieves on my ele just fine, unless they catch me with all cds down. Then I die, and that is absolutely fine. But if I have time to get protection up between the steal CnD -> bs, there won’t be a problem with that thief anymore.

Oh well, maybe they nerf that. Time to bust out more bow condi builds, god people cry in whisper like mad when they can’t get their head around how that build functions.

Yeah 20k low end is blatantly full of kitten. If you got hit for 20k your probably pure 100% glass cannon using some ability to make u take more damage. the only time ive ever hit for 20k was on a glass warrior using frenzy.

The only nerf that I have read about wasnt even really a confirmed nerf. One of the devs replied to a topic stating that they are “Investigating” thief burst damage. Which to me means that they are well aware that it needs a strict adjustment.

To everyone else my advice is to not run glass builds anymore till its fixed. Been running my mesmer with a decent amount of toughness and while the spike gets me low it doesnt kill me outright. Gives me enough time to pop off decoy and get my clones rolling. Toughness will save your life.

I play all classes mainly because it helps me better understand how all the abilities work and how to defend against them. If I get my kitten kicked hard by someones build after the match ill hop on that class and try to replicate the build. Play around with a bit and see what the weaknesses are. If you dont do this and your looking to improve in PvP id recommend it. It will improve your game.

Socks.4159:

Online games like this actually have code to prevent people like you from cutting the net connection to avoid dieing. You will have ‘keep alive’ counter on your connection on the server, and only once this times out with the server consider you to be out of the game. My experience of GW2 suggests is around 30 seconds…so here’s what actually happened to you:

1. You tossed your toys out the pram.
2. Hit alt-f4
3. Your character stood helplessly still inside the game for 30 seconds while the mysterious but cool thief did everything he ever dreamed of doing and then some to your body.
4. Your body disappears.
5. Thief laughs and does it to someone else.

He got that kill.

This is actually false this games pvp has no feature that keeps your character ingame when you logout. Furthermore all you have to do is hit the “Goto the mists” button on your PvP panel and it cheats them out of the kill. No logout required.

monepipi.5160:

Edelweiss.9815:

Actually, the thief is pretty much the only class that has any hopes of just DPSing down bunkers, other classes can’t even come close to it.

Ahaha…nope. Bunkers are the hard foil to BS thieves. Want to kill a bunker? Grab a necro.

Killed a bunker earlier with my mesmer 1v1. well timed interrupts and smart use of phantasms makes them pretty easy.

Archaon.6245:

They can all roll mind wrack mesmers, hb wars, condition damage thives or maybe granade burst eng…and still own people harder than before with BS And crying will restart all over again…..and so on….so you’ve better to nerf every damage dealing skill in this game, but anyway someone would still cry about it..

No…they absolutely do NOT need to nerf every damage dealing ability in the game. They just need to make it impossible to do 20k+ damage in under 2 seconds. If every class in the game had that ability sure nerf away. But as far as I know no other class even comes close to touching the thieves spike capabilities. Honestly im just tired of going into games that have 5-6 thieves.

and yes people will always find something to cry about. In this case I think its a valid reason though. Theres just no defending this build. It needs to be nerfed. Hard.

are people really defending backstab spikes? My main is a thief and even I think that crap is OP. There is no reason you should be able to kill another player that fast. an 8k crit once in a while is acceptable. That kind of damage should not be sustainable over such a short period of time though. Throwing in added survivability with stealth abilities and pairing it with a shortbow and a skilled thief can get out of pretty much any situation unless hes being heavily focused. How anyone can possibly sit there and defend this is beyond me. This is nothing more than the flavor of the month.

Apparently anet agrees because im 99.99% positive gaile or one of the other reps made a post in response to another topic like this stating that they are currently investigating thief burst damage(and probably burst damage in general). My guess is that a massive nerf is incoming. Advice to all you bursty thieves out there. Prepare for it by learning some other builds.

Just hit rank 14. at the end of the match I opened the chest…however at the exact same second the load screen came up for the next match. When I loaded in I checked my bags and sure enough. No loot. And my chest is gone. Cant imagine that is intended. Hopefully a fix will be added at some point. Personally I know better than to make that mistake now. Just a slight annoyance.

Im also having really serious issues with this. I interact with the F key why on earth would you force us to also have it so the right mouse button does that too. Please for the love of all that is holy implement a “fix” for this soon

Just happened to me too during a raid on the capricorn game. Not fixed sadly. First time this has happened to me.