Guild Wars 2

Third time is the charm?

Lobsters.3869:

Does that mean ur letting more ppl on zerg servers inside WvW?

Does what mean that?

Please include the context when starting a new thread.

yes, or mix&match with carrion.

The other option, if you want to be closer to the hybrid archetype would be to drop all the trait points in Death Magic(go 30/30/0/0/10 or 30/20/0/0/20) and change the Staff for Axe+Focus. Plus the rune change I mentioned earlier.

What are you saving them for?

This is what the AP rewards are for.

rewarding time-in-game is silly as it has no direct connection to effort or accomplishment, someone could’ve been afk for half that time.

A higher camera would get bumped down even more in caves.. would be a huge pain in a lot of JPs.

Since you went with Rabid gear over Rampage.. I’d change the runes to get a bit more perception. Ideally you want it at/over 50% including food buffs.

best option is Traveller as it will also free up one of your skill slots(I’d replace it with Corrupt Boon).

Overall though, Your stats, traits and staff are leaning a lot more on the condi-bunker side than a real hybrid… which might mean you’re better off going 100% that way and not wasting any points on perception.

as long as you have one achievement on “watched”, it won’t list any others in your sidebar unless you watch them also.

I think the crafting recipe for it was available during the Queen’s Jubilee, not sure if that vendor is available elsewhere at the moment.

Otherwise, you have to buy them off the TP

Echoing everyone else to say that roaming happens in Borderlands, not EB.

Zoid.2568:

So ArenaNet keep nerfing builds to make them less efficient. Dhuumfire is getting a HUGE nerf. Not worth playing a hybrid Necromancer build anymore.

the Dhuumfire change is bad because it won’t nerf the builds they actually want to nerf, it’s going to push the more varied middle ground builds into either going 100% power/DS or 100% condi buker.

It’s going to do the opposite of what they want.

runeblade.7514:

Never said that.

No, I did.

you were replying my post, therefor, that was the context.

that’s how comments work.

drkn.3429:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

if WXP is obtained purely by time investment.. what in this game doesn’t also qualify as a purely a time investment?

getting to level 80? time investment
making/testing a build? time investment
attaining gear? time investment

tPvP.
Unless you consider ‘experience’, ‘battlefield awareness’, ‘understanding’ and all that just a ‘time investment’.

No, but then I don’t consider any of the other things as being “purely a time investment” either.

that was my point.

timmyf.1490:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Opposition isn’t the same thing as griefing.

Then we need a new term for people who enjoy killing players who have no interest in player-to-player combat.

When I see red, I don’t stop and ponder their intentions or what they are interested in doing.. if you don’t react first, you’re the one putting yourself at a disadvantage.

Opposition isn’t the same thing as griefing.

runeblade.7514:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

except that axe AA has over triple the range of any of the cleaving AA.

So do ranger axes, but that doesn’t stop them from aoe damage.

bouncing != cleave

Soulstar.7812:

When are we getting new classes, housing, maps, race, and weapon types?

Just assume that none of those things will be added to the game in 2014.

felivear.1536:

What other game, of this size and success, does this? Why keep the players in the dark so much?

What other game of this size and success releases patches with this frequency and amount of content?

not very many.

if WXP is obtained purely by time investment.. what in this game doesn’t also qualify as a purely a time investment?

getting to level 80? time investment
making/testing a build? time investment
attaining gear? time investment

except that axe AA has over triple the range of any of the cleaving AA.

lorndarken.3702:

Condition removal hogging up 89 % to near 95 % says no to cc

What are these numbers meant to represent?

89% to 95% of what?

Dondarrion.2748:

Oh man, I hope you screenshotted it and reported him for scamming.

Nothing that he did constitutes as scamming. He asked, OP said no, end of story. I’m not picking up any signs of malice here.

A scam would be if you did pay the money for his transfer but then never heard from him again.

even if the problem was also mine, “just shut it down for everyone” would be a completely asinine solution.

Solstice.1097:

You were clear. For a longer path, that yak could move a little faster, so that all the paths took the same time.

So each individual yak would have different walking speeds? that sounds.. messy.

Solstice.1097:

People already waste supplies so what you’re saying is it doesn’t make sense to make any changes to what supplies are used for because they’re currently being abused??

No, this specific change doesn’t make sense because it provides more motivation for griefing as it becomes a much more effective disruption.

What happens while upgrades are currently being built? supplies are often at zero between supply runs, would this feature only be active if no upgrades are currently being built?

Solstice.1097:

There would certainly be some balancing involved, but the speed, HP, and capacity of dolyaks would likely be the only balancing needed.

Perhaps I didn’t make it clear: currently, each of the towers/keeps receive supplies at different rates. this is based on the length of each yak’s path(and on how many yaks deliver to a given objective).

making yaks go faster won’t change the relative difference in supply rate between objectives.

Solstice.1097:

I think balancing the game around griefing is a mistake. To combat griefing there could be better reporting options and actual actions taken against known griefers, not changing the way you look at designing the game.

I strongly disagree. being aware of potential exploits is a key element of proper design.

there is PvE content that uses supply?

Hey Anet, this guy has connectivity issues, could you please turn WvW off for every other player.

no one wants to play if this one guy has problems.

Since all the towers/keeps receive supplies at different rates, it seems like another balancing problem waiting to happen.

Also, doesn’t this give griefers even more reason to use up supplies? not only would they be burning off your supplies, they’ve be actively degrading your defenses.

Odie.5061:

Maybe it’s something else, like there is a limit of 2 on-crit conditions applied per crit. So if traits get calculated first, I would get 2 of burning, bleeding, or vulnerability, and only in situations where none of those are applied, will the sigil even have a chance to go.

I’m ~95% certain that i’ve had 3 on-crits proc from the same crit hit, 2 of which were from traits.

afaik: trait procs all have a separate CD, sigils share one(except for Torment which currently has its own(bug))

Frostgorge, starting at the NW WP(drakkar’s something)

Vol.7601:

This is exactly why I told people emphatically not to waste karma. Even yet people are touting ‘converting karma to gold’ lately.

I have no sympathy for people who blew all their millions of karma on those Orr boxes just for a chance to get lodestones.

hum.. those Orr boxes are also how you get Obsidian Shards.

CEDWYN.5392:

Devon Carter (or whoever put siege timers) got a promotion. The siege timers are a genius way to force you to waste siege (because no one likes scouting/refreshing). This ultimately reduces the supply of elder wood and mithril as well as increases trade post anet fees for selling thousands / millions of siege plans.

This entire post is complete BS.

The siege timers were a critical addition that was requested by the player base as the only workable solution to limit siege griefing.

The suggested change to Dhuumfire won’t make necros weaker, it’s just going to split the middle and push the extremes.

ie: it would no longer be worth it to run a hybrid, better off going full condibunker or full power.

so.. what specifically led you to conclude they were bots and not just bad players?

I don’t think we need any leaps, but in total agreement with DS2 being ineffectual.

Whichever class you bring, it has to be able to counteract the focused fire that the necro will be receiving. The necro should be doing most of the damage, your job will be helping to keep him alive with heals and CC

I was giddy all day when I first noticed that the bird went underwater.

A1: as soon as you are both done the tutorial, you can use the Asuran Gate(big purple portal) in each of your home cities to reach Lion’s Arch and meet up there, or one of you can use the same portals to join the other in his/her home city.

A2: yes, they don’t interfere with each other so you can just take turns with you helping him do his and him helping you do yours.

A3: Tarnished Coast is the unofficial RP server for NA, and I believe Piken Square is the one for EU. TC is one of the busiest servers though so you might find popular zones/events to be quite crowded.. but outside of Queensdale(human starting area), you probably won’t see that many ppl in the early/mid-level zones.

A4: No mounts, Way Points and Gates are the only way to get around beside walking everywhere. there’s no unlimited sprint per say, but most classes will have options to get you a 25% speed buff and/or will allow you decent uptime of the Swiftness boon(33% speed buff)

My main problem with this elite is that there’s no easy way to practice playing in Moa form… so every time I get transformed, it’s a few seconds of panic as I try to read a tooltip or remember what Moa4 is supposed to do.. and by then I’m long dead anyway.

Please continue to underestimate roaming necros, we appreciate all the free kills from overconfident opponents =)

if the process of assembling a group, preparing for the encounter and then implementing that plan isn’t fun for you… use common sense and maybe don’t stand around for 2 hours waiting for something you don’t even enjoy doing?

like, go do content you do enjoy?

What I meant was: if you dislike content, that’s reason enough to stop doing it.

Sytherek.7689:

If enough people quit doing content they dislike ANet will likely listen.

people quitting doing content they dislike is something they should do for themselves, not because it “sends a message”.

You forgot to define what problem you were addressing in your OP.

Waffler.1257:

And all that work landed you on NSP, sounds like time well spent.

Indeed, I love my home server’s community and our WvW tier is perfect for me.

minbariguy.7504:

Yes. They could do away with the ridiculous notion of temporary content altogether. That would fix the issue quite nicely.

much like burning a house down fixes the squeaky door hinge issue.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Well, yeah. For the 100th time: deadlines for content (and achievements) should be communicated in game (on the achievement pages).

….

How hard can it be?

Considering that they don’t know the specific time that a new update will get pushed… how would you like them to go about it?

option 1: they use their best estimate. problem case: patch goes up an hour early, ppl complained that they were promised more time.

option 2: set a hard time for achievement to end, regardless of when patch gets pushed. problem case: “I couldn’t finish the achievement in time but the patch isn’t even live yet, come on you owe me more time!”

any other ideas?

the updates to runes and sigils will be in the next feature&balance release, which should be late March.

Hule.8794:

Why? Because Anet said that they will separate features and LS. Features will have only 2 updates per year.

I’m going to assume that you’re serious and correct you:

there will not be only 2 features updates per year. they said they would alternate feature releases with living story releases, not with living story seasons/arcs.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Harpy Feathers 5 seconds cd, stealth for 3 seconds.
CoF p1 Accolyte ‘safe room’ is closed now.

Thanks for some info with actual details.

Both of those sound like logical fixes for exploits