Guild Wars 2

Rhys Kitikion.3724:

Chrissle.8690:

Ever considered the fact that ANet might have more european players than american and that´s why it´s in the evening in europe and afternoon in USA? You didnt think this was only an american game right? And if they have more european than american players then yes they are thinking about who is paying their bills.

Despite that they may be thinking of those who are paying their bills (which um.. since its a buy one play forever thing anyways..). There is a flaw in their thinking.

Instead of doing the event say.. at the same time.. EVERYWHERE in the world..

They have a time they do it on the European servers when there are the most people online for Europeans…. so.. 18:00-19:00 GMT/UTC ish..

Then they have a time to do it on the “American” servers when there are the most people online in that region… so.. 02:00-03:00 GMT/UTC ish..

The only thing this still doesn’t solve is the issue where the people in the Oceanic region still get screwed, since say like Australia’s prime time is roughly 11:00-12:00 GMT/UTC (Please correct me if I am wrong on my time zone stuff). The only way to solve that is to give them their own servers, which I may think might never happen :/

Some people used to put money into the game by buying keys/items/costumes etc. That is what actually keeps the game going, not box sales. Box sales might get some of the money spent on development back, but it’s those continued micro transactions that make continued production possible.

Considering that we have yet another massive money grab in the form of gambling, I would say consumers are speaking pretty clearly about spending money on the game. Dwindling player numbers, and people like me that refuse to pay anymore because of Halloween should send a clear message that we don’t like the current way things are going.

Chrissle.8690:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Lucid.7310:

The event starts at 3PM EST, I usually leave the office around 4PM, and get home around 5PM. Where will I be headed to meet up with people experiencing the event that is already 2 hours in?

I think Anet has forgotten who pays their bills. I will give them a hint, it’s not the kids using mom/dad’s credit card.

I"m off, but I feel so bad for people that continue to be screwed over by “one time events”, and missing things. We live in a culture that promotes the unemployed, a government that actively pays them to stay unemployed (even provides them health benefits to stay unemployed), I wish that this place was different.

I hope for Christmas there are no “one time events”. Sure we may not be at work, but we also have families.

Ever considered the fact that ANet might have more european players than american and that´s why it´s in the evening in europe and afternoon in USA? You didnt think this was only an american game right? And if they have more european than american players then yes they are thinking about who is paying their bills.

Maybe they do. I know most of the people here that played have quit (almost everyone I know). So yes, it’s a very real possibility. Of course that also means for one of the events you guys will be playing at around midnight your time on Sunday, while USA gets to play at prime time.

Lucid.7310:

The event starts at 3PM EST, I usually leave the office around 4PM, and get home around 5PM. Where will I be headed to meet up with people experiencing the event that is already 2 hours in?

I think Anet has forgotten who pays their bills. I will give them a hint, it’s not the kids using mom/dad’s credit card.

I"m off, but I feel so bad for people that continue to be screwed over by “one time events”, and missing things. We live in a culture that promotes the unemployed, a government that actively pays them to stay unemployed (even provides them health benefits to stay unemployed), I wish that this place was different.

I hope for Christmas there are no “one time events”. Sure we may not be at work, but we also have families.

Kelo.4370:

As with my previous thread on this topic.

Mesmer portal needs to be changed in just the number of people that can use it at one time I don’t care how it is used just that it at current is the strongest skill in the entire game. Please make it 5 players max or at least have some manner of internal cooldown on like one person every 0.5 seconds or 0.1 seconds so you can’t have 100 people instantly.

This game is slowly becoming Mesmer vs Mesmer instead of World vs World

Cap it at 5 people, problem solved. It doesn’t stop the tactical feel because you can have 4 people and 1 more mesmer go through the first port and the second mesmer can open a new one etc. That takes time, and involves more tactics though. It still gives defenders time to react though, without removing the ability or destroying it’s usefulness in moving golems/players.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Hee Haw.7164:

Vulnerability increases damage the target takes. So while it doesn’t cause direct damage in and of itself, it is increasing the damage of your phantasms, your teammates, and even your auto-attack.

Why is this bad?

Because if i’m running a condition build, staff is my main. Condition builds rely on condition damage and that is what i want my illusions to give, DAMAGE (bleed/burning). Vulnerability does nothing to condition mez and since staff is so slow i feel like 1% of damage increase (not even condition damage) is a waste, complete waste when you could be stacking bleeding/burning with your clones.

I always just thought of the condition damage as supplemental.

Ryuujin.8236:

I doubt you really are a mesmer as countering this is trivial. (if you are, then you’re a bad mesmer and should be ashamed :p)

Decoy, or Mass invis – you’ve now dumped your target lock and they have to find you again in order to repeat the process.

If I recall correctlyi there is only one siege that can move.

You guys in this thread can accuse the OP of anything you want. I do in fact play Mesmer. I can also tell you we are the single most broken profession in WvWvW.

I have never seen an entire group sweep for guardians, thieves, necros, elementalist, warriors, or rangers. Now mesmers, I have seen a group NOT sweep for them. I have used them to do the same.

The OP is correct, the skill has got to change. Right now mesmers are the best/second best at killing enemy siege. In wvw we can take out enemy trebs in places no other profession can. Because while they can get in the 1200 range they also have to have los on at least something, (top of a wall etc) in order to cast. Mesmers don’t.

I’m sorry that people can’t, or more likely won’t, accept that this is broken. It is though, it’s a clear exploit of game mechanics. It’s going to get it changed just like it did our blink when people abused it in a similar fashion.

Sedistik.7106:

Lots of conspiracy theories here. Kind of funny to read.

For the vast majority of the players on these 3 servers – thanks. These past few weeks have been very entertaining. Supa Pimp would especially like to thank all of those AR and GoM members who have proceeded to help me level up. Some very fun fights (especially when all 3 servers were fighting over the same piece of territory at the same time).

Sure would like Arena to render some of you guys though (before I take a dirt nap).

Screen shots help break through the conspiracy theories though. Unless you think someone convinced the other side to stand there while they were being made. Don’t worry, have some more to post when I get a chance.

I personally don’t think its either side entirely doing it. I do think there are select groups (and I include my own server in this) that work with the other side. It’s pretty easy to do if you happen to have say a guild on each side on the same ts/vent/skype.

I do agree that lots of the other people posting have no evidence at all. Not screen shots, or chat, or anything like that. They are probably just angry. If you just take today though there was a group of GoM that would consistently come to the rescue of AR. It was so predictable we managed to pull off a few ambushes because of it. After those two I posted we were chased back by the group of AR/GoM. A few ambushes later though and things seemed to be back to the regular 3v3.

Just clearing it up that I don’t mean to say it’s all of GoM doing the teaming up thing. A few, but then again we probably have some doing it on BP too. If they do they aren’t open about it on chat, knowing the people from BP the way that I do they would call them out on it and wouldn’t take part in that nonsense. I would like to believe the general wvw population on GoM/AR are the same.

Got some great screens of GoM defending AR. Awesome match guys =/

uploading screens incase people think it’s just bad mouthing.

http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/8546/gw657.jpg
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7960/gw655c.jpg

Will upload some more later from yesterday

jkctmc.8754:

Anvil Rock really doesn’t have the numbers. Surprisingly enough I’ve seen as many as 15 people a day in WvWvW just doing map completions, so they can get back to dungeon hunting.

They need to increase xp’s given for defending keeps/towers by at least five times what they are now, and every time the timer ticks down to ZERO you get xp’s just becuase you held off the force that long.

They should also increase the drop rate on Badges of Honor, and put a greater variety of armor/weapons in the WvWvW world. This way people get out of dungeons, and compete in WvWvW on the lower populated servers like Anvil Rock.

You can lie about AR not having numbers all you want. Fact is you guys have numbers, it’s just we have more when it isn’t a work day. On work days AR far outnumbers BP. Just look at how things are right now. You guys are dominating, and we have the outmanned buff. Now later today once people are out of work, we might take it back from you. For now though it’s about 10 of us trying to defend against your zerg. We can’t hold, but we can stall. That is until the rest of us leave for work.

It’s pretty typical to come home and see all red. We take it back, hold it till sleep. Goto work, you guys take it back. Just how things are.

Lightsbane.9012:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Schwahrheit.4203:

Mesmer is the most broken class in-game. You are simply garbage if you can’t carry with this broken class. Seriously can’t wait til it gets nerfed to balance so enjoy it for now.

Hate to say it, but yes in WVW Mesmer is the most brokenly op class there is.

People will rage, but that’s just the truth. I hate thieves backstab, but honestly mesmers need to be balanced before anything else gets changed. Then they can balance thieves etc.

people base the OP of mesmer on staff and sword/pistol mesmers. that’s quite possibly the dumbest thing ever. they’re SO easy to kill.

Just so you know I’m not one of those that just thinks mesmer is op. I have a mesmer, he is OP. That’s not even up for debate. Thief is OP when you do a backstab build, but if you actually want to play a non gimmick build they are weak. I don’t know how they plan to balance that nightmare.

With my mesmer, I just don’t think they can balance it. s/p is stupidly broken by the way.

Schwahrheit.4203:

Mesmer is the most broken class in-game. You are simply garbage if you can’t carry with this broken class. Seriously can’t wait til it gets nerfed to balance so enjoy it for now.

Hate to say it, but yes in WVW Mesmer is the most brokenly op class there is.

People will rage, but that’s just the truth. I hate thieves backstab, but honestly mesmers need to be balanced before anything else gets changed. Then they can balance thieves etc.

phooka.4295:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

What server are you on. I’m on Borlis Pass right now and it’s pretty bad. There are still people, but seeing anyone outside of LA yelling for groups is a bit rare past the starting zones.

Abbadon’s Mouth[DE].

I rarely see people yelling for groups but there’s people running around all the time, so I team up with them for champs / vets, I get ressed or res others. Mostly without formal grouping, though. It does happen that people ask for groups in chat, but it seems that’s not a thing over here; it’s quite rare. But then again, I never really noticed it even when after head-start, you could barely join the game.

I think what happened here was people pushed through all of the content super fast. Relatively soon after release we had people in LA doing the lfg X exp when I was still in the starter zones. It peaked last month. Picked up again at halloween, and now is dead again. I probably picked one of those servers that push for pve progression and then migrate to another game while waiting on new content. It’s almost impossible to do many of the events because there just aren’t people around to do them.

I’m certain on a more casual/pvp/regular server I would be having a blast. I didn’t level as fast as the “herd” so now I’m pretty much screwed. 5 hours spent yesterday trying to find people to run any story mode, group of 3 is as far as we got.

munkiman.3068:

I use SweetFX and it’s not bannible. It’s a DX injector, it does nothing to the code or the client communication with anet servers. It’s the same as using ATI or Nvidia settings to manipulate how the game looks. There’s no official word and i doubt there will be, since they won’t be supporting the client as long as you run it with an Injector. I would assume they’d rather not have people run it since it may increase the support ticket requests.

Pretty sure programs that did nothing more than change the FoV would fit as doing nothing but manipulate how the game looks. They are against the rules though.

phooka.4295:

Strange.

Our guild just had a massive influx of people coming over from Runes of Magic. I see continous overflows in Lions Arch again. There’s people running all over the world, including the mid-level zones around 50.

And all of this after transferring to this server with the guild a week or two after launch because of the long queues for WvW on our old server that was much, much more densely populated.

Clearly, the game is dying. Abandon ship!

What server are you on. I’m on Borlis Pass right now and it’s pretty bad. There are still people, but seeing anyone outside of LA yelling for groups is a bit rare past the starting zones.

Since apparently server merges aren’t coming in any time soon at least we could all transfer to where there are a few people. None of my friends log in anymore anyway.

BTW to the guy that mentioned he can’t play with his friends, you guys should all transfer to BP. Then maybe I could see 3 or 4 people not afking all the kitten time.

chtiyonki.6284:

It is, sometime I have already swiftness on me (20sec for the exemple) and when I walk on the symbol, instead of gain 10 more sec, I’m just downing to 10sec.

Just report the bug in-game.

Yeah the over writing swiftness is a pretty big issue. IF you can find a group in wvw (ours is pretty empty all of the time =/) staying with them sucks as a guardian if you use your speed boost. I learned not to use it, but sometimes you will see new guardians that think they are helping but aren’t.

TheZeus.8617:

I am a guardian and I do not condone it but I have been INCREASINGLY seeing guards using the svanir/stun break/ swap elite skill and i have to say it’s sad. Anet need to look into fixing this fast. I find it funny that even after using invul/book heal they still cannot take the point… anyways Anet please look into this issue as we all know it is a growing one amonst guards. I report those i see doing it but that is not enough. Should hotfix it b/c a lot of paid tourney people say and do anything to win. Exploits and all.. Sad day to.

Have they said it’s an exploit yet? I think it’s clearly taking advantage of mechanics, but at the same time everything involved seems to actually be doing what it’s supposed to be doing. To fix it they will have to either change some skills, or change runes.

Kita.7819:

If you’re looking for mobility with Guardians, don’t worry. Between our leaps, warps and swiftness we can outrun even the fastest thieves.

What game are you playing, it sounds really cool. Yeah, that’s sarcasm. Either you are playing against the worst thieves in gw history, or you are making stuff up. There is NO class that can catch a thief. Ele comes close, but that’s it. It doesn’t even matter about swiftness because EVEN if guardian could keep it up full time (goodluck with the guardian swiftness bug) the guardian can have at most 3 teleports. The thief on the other hand doesn’t even have to use his utilities to get one. Now if he does you are already outclassed.

Flashing blade has a shorter range than IA, 600 to 900.
Judge’s intervention has a 1200 range, except the thief also has a 1200 range that breaks stuns, and he can return to it to cure three conditions. His also requires no target, etc.

As for me, Norn. Went human first just for the lore, got him to 80. Norn is about halfway there. Snow leopard is better than any of our current elites (imo). Long stealth, a pretty big dash. Looks amazing also.

Vaulken.6983:

Uproller.1849:

You mean you can kite mobs in orr without triggering even more kitten mobs for you to kite?

2 coniditon removals, stun break, cripple, immobilize, blind and 3 mobile attacks yes I can kite pretty kitten good.

Do I have fun doing it. No.

What does it say about their map design when the best part of it the map is when you are leaving it?

ame team, different game.

so, the only thing in the ENTIRE game you like is hearts? really?

this isn’t the game for you then.

Don’t understand how this can be the same team that made gw1. GW1 was such a great game, and it was well thought out. It made playing seem fun. Almost the exact opposite of GW2.

Banquetto.9521:

Kelliak.9152:

5) Water combat is god awful and makes you wonder why it was implemented in the first place if you can’t even use your character’s carefully selected abilities.

Water combat does indeed suck.

But when you say “you can’t even use your character’s carefully selected abilities”.. it makes me wonder if you’re not aware that you can assign a set of utility & elite skills for underwater combat? It’s a separate set, so your bar is empty when you go underwater until you do assign skills.

I didn’t realize this myself until last week.. after playing through several beta stages and two months since release (/facepalm)

Actually a good portion of those utility skills, and almost all elites, do not work under water.

Btw, I was infracted for the post that everyone was agreeing with. Posts seem to be disappearing around here. =P

The part about people helping is only going to get worse as more zones become empty. Right now at least 4 to 5 maps are empty. Doing anything group related is out of the question, unless you bring your own group.

With the upcoming patch they are adding yet another area, meaning that the little population left will become even more spread out. Meaning that there will be fewer people around to do group content.

For anyone that thinks I am wrong, please go fraps running through straits, or brisban, or blazeridge. Then post it telling us how those zones are just so full.

illgot.1056:

not unless it is a nice weapon or armor skin. I bought 2 holiday outfits and only found the Witch costume amusing because she rode the broom.

The fact that both outfits were character only and I have no where to store the extra costume (except on another character) makes it less desirable.

As for keys, no, I never spend money on keys, they are too much a gamble.

Wife got the witches costume, and out of everything we purchased for halloween that was the absolute best. She could summon the cat, ride the broom, overall it provided far more enjoyment than the keys.

As for how much I spent, not that much this time. Since the game started? Over 200$ so far. Not much compared to some, but it’s a good bit over a few months. I never regretted it until Halloween though. As I said at first it didn’t matter to me, I figured I was just unlucky. When I saw how they had intentionally just made the drop rate low to get money though, well that really put a huge damper on the entire holiday for me.

My friends that spent real money on it are also going to hold off during Christmas. I wish Anet would send out like a customer satisfaction survey to people that make money purchases to get an over all feel of how good players feel about their purchases. So far I’ve never seen anything like that though.

Luigio.3265:

dunno must be your servers, because in mine (full/high 99 percent of the time i admit) i always find people to do events , plenty of levelers so far, a lot of people are on their 2nd toon by now so its probably that too…

however , i have to ask…why stay on a low pop server when the transfers have been free and unlimited up until now that they have a 7 day cooldown?

i realize there is guild progress and upgrades that youd lose but …

You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Look at what happens when people do that.

You have a High pop server, and a low pop server. People do like you say and the low pop server goes further down, while the high pop server starts having a queue. People don’t want to transfer to the low pop because they would rather have a small queue than be put onto a server where there is no one.

They should have simply never allowed free transfers to anything medium or above in population.

This isn’t new. I’ve posted about this several times. Other people have too. Plenty of posts are either closed, removed, or moved. That’s just how it is.

To be honest I haven’t met a non-group event I couldn’t solo, and I can solo most of the group events. That may not be everyone’s experience, though.

You don’t seem to get what he’s talking about. The way leveling oes for humans is queensdale, kessex hills, gendaran. Most people playing (on my server, can’t speak for all) skip their starting area and hit queensdale. Then they do kessex hills, go back to their area and run through story as fast as possible. Meet up in LA and do gendaran.

Why? Well it might be because there are so many humans. This was a discussion the other day in queensdale though. It was generally accepted that humans just have the best starting area. I don’t know if it’s the skill point locations, or just the enemies. I have to agree, I’ve mostly avoided it but after playing through Queensdale it does feel like the best starting area available.

For those of us that spent real money on items, do you think you will buy again at Christmas. This isn’t for people that come in with the “lulz I spent 0 money”.

Personally I have spent a fair amount of real money on the game, but I dont’ plan to spend any more for awhile. Not till I see how they plan to handle the Christmas event. If it’s just another money grab I’m going to dodge it. I won’t be falling into the same trap as many did this time of buying on the first day.

Just wanted to get other opinions from people that actually purchase gems with money.

tom.7468:

because its fun? wvw is my favourite thing to do in gw2.

It can be, but the uneven servers… it’s just not working right. Bioware had to learn this with illum, and now anet is going to have to learn it. Its already pretty bad, and they so far aren’t willing to lift one finger to fix anything.

Doesn’t matter, this game is doing worse than SWToR did about the same time. Forget the tortanic GW2 is taking it’s place.

They are removing the ability to choose how to do things. It’s like Anet forgot all of those interviews, and articles praising their renown system. Hell their own manifesto. They are going to have to learn the same lesson bioware did.

Just hope next month they require X amount of tPvP victories to complete it.

I’ve always been against them forcing PvE players into wvw for map completion/monthly. Now they are trying to punish the PvP players by wanting to push them into more PvE content.

I can’t help but think that this is just one more example of how many people are playing the game still. If they feel the need to force doing instances on people, what exactly does that say.

I think a MUCH better option for the monthly would be

X many players killed in wvw/spvp/tpvp, or instances completed. That way PvE players can do their dungeons, while PvP players can continue to actually enjoy the game.

They really need to make a forum just for those of us that spend actual money. We are the ones that pay the bills after all.

Fact is I won’t spend another dime on the game. Christmas MIGHT change that, but that’s a very big might. Over all I’ve lost my faith in Anet almost completely. They are not the same company they used to be.

I know they burned plenty of people with this event. The only way to get through to them though is to cut them off. I’ve since removed my card from the system, and that’s that. I could have bought a years sub to WoW for what I’ve put into it so far. Up until this event I didn’t regret it at all. I felt like it was good because I wanted to support Anet. Seeing this though has changed that feeling.

50$ wasn’t as much as some people. I don’t even mind that I didn’t get any skins. What I mind is the way everything was handled. The first few days I was thinking “hey, I didn’t expect anything. I got nothing, so it’s cool”. As it went on though it really became apparent that this was just one big money grab.

I love the other one. It’s simple and fast. While I want them to stay, I can understand the need for them to go. That way, there is a proper end to these things, and the goodbye will be rather bittersweet.

You are overlooking one problem. Almost everyone I know that pvps liked those maps better than the current ones. Would be funny if RR ended up attracting more pvp than spvp.

DinoDoll.3682:

SirOrangeALot.3760:

ok so if 5% can finish it and think its fun that makes 95% that can not complete and probably think its not fun at all

i’ve spent like 7+ hours trying to get to the top… i’ve never been able to do it and still think its fun there goes your theory!

Not really, the forums are far too small to get any kind of a scientific result. I doubt we will see another one of these though. If anet goes through and sees that only 5% completed it and that only say 10 or 20% even tried it compared to the work it took to make it, well there is no point. I would much rather they spend the time making things that everyone can enjoy. I could be wrong and a huge amount completed it. I don’t know, and I’m not really going to guess. If they continue to put in things no one is interested in though, well that’s just more wasted effort on their part.

I spent 15 hours going at it. Hundreds of attempts and hundreds of failures.

That really says it all right there. I couldn’t care less about the clock tower, but wow. That’s just

Siphaed.9235:

I’d like to see this mini-game stay for a long time…forever. There are many reasons for this.

1) It’s a mini-game, this game is lacking those (Keg Brawl and Costume Brawl..that’s it!).

2) It’s fun!

3) It’s addictive.

4) It’s unique to the game (what other DoTA style PvP games do we have?)

5) More PvP! (we need more!)

6) Asura of the Corn… (yes, being a tiny Asura and popping out of the corn with a sickle in hand, stabbing people with it…well, we’ve all seen the movies).

Sure there needs to be tweaking to it; like take out the Mad King’s voice, change the Pumpkins to magical orbs, and change the skeletons into Minotaurs or something. There we go, it’s now a year-around event that’s got flair for every season.

Anyone else want this to be a keeper post-Halloween 2012?

I hope so. At first I really thought it was just meh, but once I really started playing it I got hooked. My friends even came back from LoL just to play this. They had quit the game pretty much, but they all liked RR.

I wish they would put it into the game so badly.

Asura themed map, where you collect golem cores and put/throw them into a collector to send out golems.

Charr themed where you collect devourer eggs and throw them into a nest to hatch devourers.

etc

I would be happy if they even kept the current map. It’s really pretty, at least to me. I hope they keep it around.

Doesn’t matter how much you want it, it’s not going to get implemented. I want it also. I have a computer that can run the pretty graphics, it would be awesome if I could actually see them.

TheUndefined.1720:

I’m sorry, but this is entirely false.

I’ve completed the scavenger hunt 100% on a level 9 (first half) then at level 14 (second half). It was a blast! Popped on Demon’s Souls soundtrack, and made it an intense journey.

I also did it with a level 4 (first half), and plan to complete it as a level 9 (second half) with my other alt.

It wasn’t nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. Just make sure you go by water as often as you can, pick up -close- waypoints, and if there are fights wait around until you see a few level appropriate players go in first then follow behind them.

The -only- time I had a problem was in Bloodtide Coast with the Risen Kraits since they were ranged. I just chose a different path since there are two different zones you can go to.

Not at ALL for higher levels. I’ll post screenshots with my books to prove it if necessary.

I tried waiting, but veteran shadow skelk spawn on the boat. They shadow step to me and one shot me, on my level 30. Again, my own fault though.

Wesley.4590:

This should not be a problem since you don’t have to fight anything to get these pages. Also, it’s not ANet fault that you are low lvl, lvling is very fast in GW2. And as others mentioned before, you could just ask someone to help you get there. Since the Act 2 book is called “Mad Memoires: Complete Edition” I don’t think Act 3 or 4 will bring new pages into the world.

If you are in the area you get attacked on some of the events. I think it would be great if the next phase requires completing all of the temple events to complete. That would actually be pretty funny.

Wesley.4590:

This should not be a problem since you don’t have to fight anything to get these pages. Also, it’s not ANet fault that you are low lvl, lvling is very fast in GW2. And as others mentioned before, you could just ask someone to help you get there. Since the Act 2 book is called “Mad Memoires: Complete Edition” I don’t think Act 3 or 4 will bring new pages into the world.

My problem isn’t that it’s a different level. It’s not even Anets fault. I blame myself on thinking about it further. I expected the same company that we had in gw1. That is my own fault. Now that I know what I’m dealing with though I will just adjust my own habits accordingly.

Psycho.2316:

I did it on my level 10 without a problem so… yeah it’s called gets your friends and your guild mates to help you

Then please, post the screenshot of you with the act 2 book.

This was just more bs from anet.

Also yes you could have it in low level areas. There are too many that have no one in them. Put 3 books in each starting area, and you can completely avoid the artificial level requirement that was put in for no more reason than to arbitrarily make this event as screwed up as possible.

OH..you think the lore might not fit. Sure, sparkfly fits..but not ascalon? Please, anyone that mentions lore hasn’t a clue about the lore.

ostracize.8316:

If you can’t be online Sunday at noon (or 8pm in Europe) then you can’t expect a company to cater to you like this. One time events are going to happen, and they chose (albeit a little late) the exact right time to do one.

Some of us came from a game called Guild Wars 1. We foolishly believed that this game, being called Guild Wars 2 and all, would be similar. Yeah, we were silly. Yeah I guess we deserve to learn the hard way. Of course there is only one way to really show a company how you feel about them. That..is with a pocket book, or in my case a plastic card that I’ve removed from the account

a·chieve·ment [uh-cheev-muhnt]
noun
1.
something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.; a great or heroic deed: Completing the Mad King’s Clocktower is a momentous achievement.

If they added in a timed iq test puzzle, so that you needed around a 160 to pass. For me that would be quite easy. Of course making it timed would be a requirement. For some of us this would be nothing, for the vast majority of you it would be considered impossible. Yet that would still clearly fit under your definition of Achievement. Does that sound fair to you though?

I’m not complaining about the puzzle, mostly because I play platform puzzle games for fun. The puzzles here are more gimmick than challenge. Oh, you can react fast enough? Well let’s see how well you do if we make the camera have a seizure. Oh, you still managed to do it, well let’s see how you do if you can’t see. That is not a challenge, then it becomes luck.

So far Anet is becoming a company that is all about the zero day exploits. What they will probably do is change the event soon so that you only get whites from it, and call it o.k.. I think this halloween event is making me really dislike them.

jayderyu.3751:

I dont’ understand why people are getting upset about losing keeps?

If you spend 4 hours taking keeps during your prime time. You go to sleep, go to work. That’s 16hours for 2 other parts of the planet’s own prime time to do their work.

Keep in mind that they have their own prime time. This isn’t a problem with Anet game. This is how the planet works. Might as well scream at the chinese for production of good when your sleeping even though it’s sunny at their side.

And then. when you come back on line of course the keeps are theirs. If they were still yours you would have nothing to do. As another poster said.

Your only really happy when your winning.

I thinkt he problem isn’t with the game. It’s with the fact that the maps are small compared to a full standard world PvP mmo. The Mists really is a small place. That small place is going to change hands often unless your server outclasses the others. Maybe if the maps were 4 times bigger each, interlinked by stream loading or portles, but only 1 spawn point in each zone in their own borderlands. Then the battle would feel like it’s own world.

As it is right now. Keeps are meant to change hands often. There is nothing for it. So complaining about it amounts to complaining that Oblivian is a RPG, that Street Fighter is about 1 on 1 fighting, that Call of Duty is an FPS, Final Fantasy has heavy narration. These games are made with a play style in mind and so is WvW. WvW is working the way it’s designed by similar match ups. Including the effects of your non primetime.

IP locks, simple solution to the problem right there.

Same, first time I heard it was from the facebook link. I wish that this would play in game. I am just playing it in the background. It’s a shame because it’s such a great track. I hope they fix it to play in game.

The free devil horns aren’t enough? What more do you people want?

Speaking as a Charr…NO. See at character creation I had to have horns. I wasn’t given a choice of being born the only charr without horns. I shrunk them as much as I could, but they are still there. What’s more is they apparently cover up the horns you get.

Draxius.7839:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Draxius.7839:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Draxius.7839:

@Ring – You said it yourself, the thing you were doing where you simply kill a mob in 3 seconds doesn’t work any more. The next step is adapting and doing something different.

Roll warrior

Not only will you kill those mobs just as quick, you will be able to do it without feeling squishy.

You know how sometimes you have to dodge, well imagine never having to do that. Imagine getting 300 health per second regen, a 12% passive damage increase that stacks with your a 20% damage increase on a big sword you can use to smack things around with.

What does this have to do with Assassin’s Signet?

Read the last line in your post. I was directly responding to your advice to the guy. My main is a warrior, I know how easy it can be and made the suggestion.

I don’t think telling someone who clearly wants to play his thief to roll a warrior is legitimate advice though

Maybe, but you did say try something different. It is all true though, what I said about warriors. I read this forum because I also enjoy playing a thief. If I want easy mode I have that already. So if that’s what someone wants (and it seemed like he did) he can play there.

Incase you care I like playing a class with good condition damage, warriors is pretty craptastic.

Draxius.7839:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Draxius.7839:

@Ring – You said it yourself, the thing you were doing where you simply kill a mob in 3 seconds doesn’t work any more. The next step is adapting and doing something different.

Roll warrior

Not only will you kill those mobs just as quick, you will be able to do it without feeling squishy.

You know how sometimes you have to dodge, well imagine never having to do that. Imagine getting 300 health per second regen, a 12% passive damage increase that stacks with your a 20% damage increase on a big sword you can use to smack things around with.

What does this have to do with Assassin’s Signet?

Read the last line in your post. I was directly responding to your advice to the guy. My main is a warrior, I know how easy it can be and made the suggestion.

Incurafy.6329:

Wtf are you talking about? The nerf to Assasin’s Signet was 100% required and has turned out to be an awesome balance tweak. Instead of a single attack being buffed, we now have 5 attacks being buffed. This opens up the paths for new builds such as Unload/blind builds and more.

Excellent tweak Anet, well done.

Seems like he’s more worried about the attitude of the company instead of the actual change. This has happened with several games, and it never sets a good standard when a company makes nerfs based on forum QQ . Sure this one change may have been entirely needed. It’s already set a precedent though.

Think about it this way. If you knew that all you had to do was make a post to get another class nerfed, would you do it? Say you saw one that you genuinely thought was too strong, would you make a post knowing that’s all it would take to nerf them?

Not saying I agree, or disagree, with the change. I do understand what happens when a company goes down that path though.

Draxius.7839:

@Ring – You said it yourself, the thing you were doing where you simply kill a mob in 3 seconds doesn’t work any more. The next step is adapting and doing something different.

Roll warrior

Not only will you kill those mobs just as quick, you will be able to do it without feeling squishy.

You know how sometimes you have to dodge, well imagine never having to do that. Imagine getting 300 health per second regen, a 12% passive damage increase that stacks with your a 20% damage increase on a big sword you can use to smack things around with.

Wayfarer.2051:

I wish Necros and Engies got this much love.

I wish rangers got as much love as..well anything. Though I will admit necros are in a horrible place right now.

Yes, warrior is my main. I play a little of everything but my warrior was my frist 80. That said, necros are in a bad place. They need some bug fixes sooner rather than later. Rangers are in a worse spot than necros. Imagine if your 1 was a self cc that not only rooted you, but if you dodged away it would drag you back to your target kicking and screaming.

Glad to see the banner fix. Even with this spear is still the only weapon to use underwater.

But guess what?

They’re makin money.
And will continue to make money.
And will do it in ways you like, and in ways you don’t like.

This one little halloween event isn’t going to put them in the sinker and they’ll probably do it again next year.

The overwhelming confidence I guess some players had in those chests for this thing was obviously misplaced. Lessons will be learned and their money WILL be spent in other ways.

Yeah, Anet isn’t going to be hurting from this no matter which way any of us decide to slice it in our bitter rage.

I mean, that’s the truth.

While I don’t disagree with the people who say “hey, it was a chance and you took it. You lost, so what. No one made you take a chance”. I will point out that you are wrong. First Anet is not based on a subscription plan like WoW. So if they lose customers that will actively drop large amounts of money on the game, that is a pretty big loss.

I remember playing SWTOR at first, and the sentiment was that if you didn’t like it you could leave. It seemed there were enough people to carry the game on, even if a few didn’t like it. Well now look at it. WoW* is another example. Something companies are having to learn the hard way is that if you kitten off your players they have a tendency to stop paying you.

• With WoW I’m referring to how badly Mists of Pandaria did compared to Cata, WotLK, or even BC.