The required level for the guaranteed rare is 40, although I have been grouped with guildies many times for dragon events and several who had not done it yet(right after reset) and did not get the guaranteed rare chest, so, there is definitely a random bug in this area.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
To me is the introduction of “Stealth” that was added to Rangers “Hunter’s Shot” in the July 23 patch, please make it activate when character is below a certain health and not on every single use, please adjust this. TY ANET.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Ok despite what anyone says you CANNOT change the definition of what your doing.
You are taking an event, one that has a specific goal to KILL the rison and champ, and making it continue on over and over without completing it just so it will give you loot beyond what it was ment to give and in turn halting the progress of other players who wish to complete and move further in the game instead of helping them by completing the event.
THIS IS EXPLOITATION pure and simple because you are NOT doing the event as it was designed.
Farming – what your trying to put off as what your doing, means to gather loot around the world, not sit in one place and exploit an event to make it give you loot. <I fit in under this category being a solo farmer never staying in one spot longer than 1 hr due to DR then move on.>
My opinion: this type of exploitation is no better than botting and should be delt with accordingly and is also very rude to others who are there to play as intended!
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The first defense line of any exploiter. So let me get this straight. The definition of an exploit is the following:
You see a strange behavior happening giving you profit beyond what is normal. You observe that you can repeat it. You repeat it to get profit beyond normal. You’re exploiting.
Prove me that you are not using this pattern to the letter in your case and I’ll withdraw that accusation of exploiting.
I am a solo farmer who farms mainly for materials that is used to help my guild(mats for upgrading WvW siege) and guildies(any other mats they may need) and of course the rares/exotics I may come across(for my benefit). I have no desire for a legendary, so, I’m not farming for that and the money I make from this is very menial and minimal.
You, sir/madame, need to look up ANETs definition of the term exploit.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
If you want the dungeon open, just do it. Or you could be courteous and guest and leave them, but it doesn’t matter either way. They can’t stop you and there is no reason to try and stop them.
Farming IS NOT an exploit, sheesh.
O.P. just ignore them and continue what you were doing to open Arah. People like this give legit farmers like me a bad name.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Is there really nothing that arenanet has to announce on this yet?
I too think it’s time they stop dodging this bullet and let us know if they plan on bringing optimizations out of the years 1990’s and into the 2000’s.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
If ANET would actually start working on optimizations for the game, firstly, graphics optimization, it just MIGHT fix the myriad of graphical issues in the game.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
There is no MF nerf(To make worse or weaken, usually in the context of weakening something in order to balance out a game). It is being incorporated differently is all.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What is so fun about farming? I really don’t get it.
I’m a farmer and I have fun at it by exploring every nook and cranny of the areas I may be in at the time and killing everything on my route and gathering every node along the way and sometimes hitching a ride on any zerg train that may pass by for a little event bashing.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
From what I understand MF as it is now will be removed and replaced with something else.
You misunderstood.
MF buffs like boosters/food and account rewards will be staying, the stat on gear is gonna go. OP is asking if the achievement bonus will be increased to make up for the huge loss in MF
You are correct I neglected to say MF on armor/weapons as we know it will be replaced.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I still don’t know why people farm the events there, rather than just do some quick dungeons. Sure, the amount of champions you slay might be a little bit higher, but the coin, experience, karma and loot from dungeons compensates more than enough.
Or has the zerg degenerated so much they can’t even farm simple dungeons?
The Zergs are burning down all the dailies in that area which can’t be done in dungeons, it’s not about the coin/rewards received.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Well from all the attention this is generating, those zergs and myself will soon log into the game go to queensdale and find everything nerfed, after all that has been ANETs M.O. for the game.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Looking below the surface, it’s obvious there’s a pattern here. ANet seems to be sending fluff items to players that have purchased things via the gem store.
Is it for buying items in the store with gems, or for purchasing gems with money? I used gold to get gems during the time period and did not get the kite, so I think it is the latter.
It’s for buying gems whether using RWM or exchanging IGM for gems and there was a certain amount that had to be purchased AND a time-frame on said purchases.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
taking a page out of the nerf to RTL which now has a 40sec CD if you do not hit an enemy i propose the following change to stealth.
if you go stealth and get hit you come out of stealth, the reveal debuff lasts 100% longer and all stealth abilities cd are increased by 100% there problem solved.
- It rewards skillful players that do no get hit.
- and punishes those that do get hit.
Wouldn’t work because any AOE skill will hit any stealthed object without prejudice, no skill there. I don’t like stealth either, but, it’s working as intended and it works well.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
No amount of anything would make me pay money on this game anymore, they had their chance to add serious content and balancing for almost a year, now my money goes to other companies that do add meaningful content..
So now the community and ANET now knows nothing you bring to the community table no longer has merit and your posting privileges should be removed if all you are going to bring is contemptible comments.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Silly spells that say things like “Puts random debuffs on the target every second”. Who even knows or cares about things like that.
Huh? You’re going to have to expand on what you mean, because right now it’s kind of vague.
As for the gear treadmill existing only in late game (it’s more of a step than a treadmill), what do you call replacing your gear as you level?
What I understand from this is that the skill tool-tips are vague, give us an option to turn tool-tips off(wish we had the GW1 UI manipulation in GW2).
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
One of the best things from GW1 was the ability to save build templates, GW2 needs this ability as well, but, don’t see how it would be implemented seeing as how it costs to re-build your character.
I guess if you walk to a trainer, you could load a build for the same price versus retraiting.
That sounds plausible, just save your builds with your trainer and the cost is charged to switch builds, good call.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
no its not , if you wanted an obnoxious instrument get the trumpet
The most obnoxious instrument is that kitten bell when most just stand there hitting one note over and over and over, Ad nauseam and over again the trumpet is breath of fresh air.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
One of the best things from GW1 was the ability to save build templates, GW2 needs this ability as well, but, don’t see how it would be implemented seeing as how it costs to re-build your character.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Do a friend search for the name “Leon Draken”, if it comes up with the ability to befriend then I would surmise it to be a clone but even that isn’t 100%.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I’ve dropped into Queensdale twice in the past couple of days to charge some quartz crystals, and I’ve been disappointed by what I’ve seen. A zerg of players have been running a circuit of champions for exp/karma/loot/monthly achievements/whatever. That they’ve turned my favorite zone into an mindless assembly-line grind isn’t what bothers me, it’s how they’re treating other players who don’t know or don’t care to follow their champion-killing routine.
Both times I stopped in I saw members of the zerg shouting down, brow-beating, and being needlessly rude to those who did anything to interrupt their circuit. They’re acting as if they own the zone and anyone who doesn’t follow their rules isn’t welcome. It’s not something I expected from what has generally been a very friendly and helpful community.
Hopefully what I’ve seen has been an anomaly. If not…well, unfortunately there’s not much I can do about it other than voice my displeasure in-game and here on the forums.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand the problem you are having, I frequent Queensdale for dailies and assorted achievements and have run down many of the events you mentioned and have not witnessed any bad treatment between the zergs and other players. What is there to running in killing the champ that disrupts your game-play?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Is this supposed to be a good news? No one liked them… and i can assure you that for lev40+ EVERYONE will be skipping these two. So this is just two additional fractals everyone will skip like they skip dredge/shaman/cliffside. GG.
Funny, I see a lot of people screaming about wanting those dungeons back….
like the kind of people who’ve missed these and want to try them now… No one that was doing them/done over 5 runs of each cares.
I ran them both over 5 times. I am very excited to see them return. You don’t speak for everyone so don’t act like your opinion is the be-all end-all of what the community wants.
oh but i’ve spoke to a lot of people about these two when they were available, no one liked them. on this forum im not surprised to see so much positivity about these two mini dungeons because most people here are fanboys who go crazy even if they add something as minor as a ONE new mini pet… Both of these mini dungeons are far from ‘fun’ or great.
I unequivocally loathe all dungeons, I ran them both just once and will say that the “Flame and Frost” mini dungeon was actually fun and like I said I absolutely hate all dungeons.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I could login to Guild Wars and in start a new character, play for about 30 hours and be max level with max gear having earned the gold for it in that time, and just play the game after that for it’s stories and challenges without ever having a thought cross my mind about am I playing with handicapped stats.
That’s no where near a possibility in Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars felt much more about enjoying well thought out quality content and stories. Guild Wars 2 distracts from that way too much with it’s grind.
You could login to Guild Wars 2 and start a new character, play for about 30 hours, and be max level with nearly max gear (green) around which the entire game was balanced.
Then if you like you could play for a few more hours and get exotics.
Hear, Hear. Best response yet, except, to use several instead of few.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I got it went ‘meh’ and merched it without looking at it. 61s and never even realized until after the fact, never went back to get another so I guess I’m safe, but, will give up the unfair gain if asked.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
