It jacks up the price of everything on the TP, screwing most of us out of equipment and materials because we’re not unethical, amoral kitten.
This doesn’t make any sense at all.
You won’t convience people that running sparks is reliable way to get it done.
If sparks fixated on party members and didn’t kitten around, it’d be much, MUCH easier to do it “properly” instead of the 4-1 spark trick.
Does it even work now? Wasn’t it “fixed”?
Did they not test what climbing it did?
Judging by the amount of features in FotM, they didn’t test it out of general principle.
If minimal DPS was Simin’s only problem, I’d agree.
But she’s featured beyond comprehension and Rob’s “fixes” hardly do her good.
You’re saying ‘slot selling’ as if it’s a bad thing.
Lupus is fine, don’t touch him.
There are no bugs in the game. Only features.
Don’t nerf the one of the only two challenging bosses in normal dungeons. Adapt and he’s easy.
What this guy said.
Who’s the other one? Simin? Alpha?
Gear checks plus rng = fractals. He just described what they did.
Good point.
Doesn’t mean this kitten is good, especially in this game.
Easiest way to make dungeons last is to add gear-checks.
Yes.
And the some RNG.
NO NO NO. There’s enough RNG bullkitten with the ring kitten as is.
But yeah I agree, dungeons are simple. However I must say I have noticed some boring bosses actually be challenging with just 1-3 guys.
You guys duo’d Simin yet?
What seems to be the problem, my good man?
Don’t forget how annoying it is just to get a shot at farming the Lightning Elementals in Orr.
That too; and when you finally control Dwayna, there’s about several thousand people there playing Tag Wars 2.
I know people will talk about earth elementals for Onyx and stuff like that but ALL Lodestones do NOT have a set Drop% You could farm Earth elementals for Onyx for 1 hour and get 1, the next day you could farm for 10 hours and get 0, Because the drop rate is not SET.
No, that’s exactly how probabilities work.
if it was say 1% you would see 1 every 100 kills. this is NOT the case, Lodestones are on a drop rate that that is way more complex. Imagine a dice roll from 1-5000. anytime 3567 is rolled an onyx lodestone will drop.
No, a 1% drop rate means that for sufficiently many kills you’d see 1 drop in every 100 kills on average.
The problem is 1) Charged Lodes are in incredibly high demand thanks to anet putting a gorillion recipes required absurdly high amounts of them; 2) Horrible horrible drop rates; 3) DR on motherkittening EVERYTHING, god forbid we actually get loot; 4) kitten CoE with it’s horribly low drop rate.
Please refrain from commenting on things you know nothing about.
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Core drop is still way too low. Guarantee a lode after each path and I’ll be farming this like there’s no tomorrow.
If I recall correctly, that always was the case. They are simple invulnerable to all damage.
Didn’t they just reduce all your damage to 0 instead? If so you could at least pull them in.
The sparks just spawn around the alter now and you can’t even pull them with skills or pull abilites (frozen grasp, thief wire, guardian GS).
Surely you jest. Do they still have their ranged attack?
Tell me, does Randall still melee Lupus and feeds him grubs?
Disregard that, she’s unkillable thanks to idiotic spark AI.
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I don’t know what you mean by 4-1? Is there some key mechanic we missed to the boss fight?
I wouldn’t say ‘key’, but this feature works as follows:
1. Start fight as usual, let her stealth.
2. While stealthed, one guy traps 4 sparks.
3. Let her regen to 100%, she should destealth.
4. DPS her down to 50%, she will stealth.
5. One guy grabs one spark and runs to the spot ASAP as possible.
6. Nuke, nuke, NUKE her down with every DPS ability you got.
I was wondering whether or not they removed this feature. I know she can’t be DPS’d down while stealthed anymore.
Why do I get the feeling nobody that can make a difference will view this post simple because it seems sarcastic?
They’re celebrating Christmas while not removing features and adding unnecessary invisible walls to dungeons.
Did they remove the 4-1 spark feature?
Because they couldn’t come up with a better way of artificially gating content.
That is a cheap kitten cop-out and you know it.
As if it prevented us from figuring this out anyway.
Don’t you understand? They based whole fractals design on personal story missions where you can’t reconnect and join from different servers except overflows.
The obvious fix would be to have Fractals work like normal dungeons, considering they already have 25 of those in-game.
They weren’t testing it because they tested personal story missions a long time ago and probably didnt thin’k about disconnect issues because personal missions are pretty short so it’s not needed there.
Best case, this is a minor oversight. Worst case, this is a malicious way of kittening over players.
I could’ve sworn this is the Augury Rock / Crystal Desert / Ascension theme in GW1.
My group experienced this feature.
Watching Maw just chill there while we were getting our NO RINGS or RINGS WITH kitten STATS was kinda fun.
Arah is easy. Just ask the guy who solo’s Lupus on a regular basis.
after you learn to use the tradepost correctly, 2k gold is not that far
Tell me your secrets, master.
I’ve been running CoE daily for about a month now with the same 4 people. How come I receive 1 core per two paths if I’m lucky and one dude receives at least 3 cores in the same 2 paths?
This has been going on consistently for a month now. Explain this bullkitten without using the words “lucky” and “RNG”.
Skipping is not a problem and therefore does not need a “fix”. We’ve already seen what the other “fixes” did to Arah, Bjarl, etc.
Lodes for tokens, why hasn’t this been implemented at release?
You can’t even do the leave 1 prison open trick anymore, that’s also “fixed”.
Wait, what? The 4-1 spark thing got “fixed”? Please elaborate.
Does she not destealth at 100% -OR- does she require 5 sparks to destealth every time now?
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Good day sir.
It’s alright, now you can enjoy the agony of bugged cliffside 10 times in a row to receive your non-infused ring.
I dont know but if they did its because this game is not about farming your as§ off.
ANY high-tier exotic or legendary holder laughs at your statement.
350 charged lodes for Mjolnir, not farming your kitten off, pick one.
So if they make it so that you can buy them for tokens but they are still account/soulbound which means people with mass amounts of tokens will just sell them for easy silver, get it?
What seems to be the problem, my good man? I’ve been converting (dungeon) tokens to dosh for quite a while now. I’d love to be able to do that with my fractal tokens and sell off a soldier/zerker/whatever ring every 10 days once I’m done farming mine.
The problem is that they are scared of people hoarding mass amounts of tokens, they can buy x amount of rings then sell them
As if this is a bad thing.
We’ve already established that Thief DPS is much better than Warriors
Only in your delusional imaginary world. The next time you post your “proof” screenshots, make sure they weren’t taken on mobs who have 0 armor. You might as well as take screenshots on Arah2 endboss and “prove” Thief DPS is better than Warrior DPS.
Mesmer only good for Time Warp. LOL indeed.
As someone who used to main a Mesmer, this is 100% truth.
Did you get any good loot?
Disregard that, I need to learn2read.
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Loot bug(feature)
What is this feature you speak of?
Grenth
I haven’t been in Orr in ages, did they remove drops from Grenth trash as well?
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No farming allowed. No dosh allowed. You must buy gems to progress.
62k melee damage in 3 seconds? Wow you people are so ignorant.
I can and do that downscaled to level 65. Step your game up, son.
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Do you want me to equip a sword and emberass Warrior some more?
Yes.
I play a Warrior I know what I’m talking about.
Just because you play a (95% probability of a 5-signet zerker Orr set) warrior doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about.
Anyone who plays a Warrior and a Thief will tell you that Warrior is not even half the potential of a thief.
Posting combat logs of autoattacks does not impress me. Post your solo Lupus kill.
cc or stability skills. They help.
Aye. Doesn’t make these packs any less annoying though.
just because you do big numbers doesn’t necesarely means you do better damage , only proves your ignorance
Just because you do more damage, doesn’t necessarily mean you do more damage? What the kitten am I reading?
Come to me whit a hundred blades that hits 62.522
Do you really want me to 100blades a pack of 5 mobs and do 100k damage? ’Cause I do that on a regular basis.
Pray to your deity of choice Balth isn’t bugged, get enough people to run the 3 metas and pray to your deity of choice you got enough DPS to burn the priest down.
Please just scrap MF. There’s no point. Kill it now. Kill it.
Rob runs MF gear. Won’t happen bro.
Only question I have: WHY?
HotW was way too easy and not nearly tedious enough.
Oh and buff the kitten chest loot. Receiving 3 blues over and over again is NOT fun.
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The simplest solution is to have the instance reset to it’s pre-path choice state without leaving and having the party ported to the entrance waypoint.
But we can’t pick simple solutions, can we?
People complain because she’s bugged beyond redemption and any attempt to “fix” her pushes her to borderline unkillable.
They are annoying if you don’t know what to do.
They’re annoying even after you’ve run the path god knows how many times.