I would rather see expansions over temporary content, but, I don’t pay ANETS salary so they must do what NCsoft tells them to do, so, I just play the game as they give it to me.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I just finished the Shadowbeast meta-event, in fact I guested to another server because I missed the one on my home server. The bonus chest contained Dusk.
I have yet to get one after hundreds and hundreds of of event chests as well, precursors are a myth. {:þ -LOL
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I don’t like the new animation, I bought a harvesting sickle, not a mining pick or a whatever you use it as now I dont like runing around on southsun picking passion fruit, but that doesnt mean I want to smash them to pulp…..
Or if you insist on making them have these animation, give those of us who dont want it the option to buy a unlimited sickle without the added new animations?
Huh? It’s a scythe not a pick, look at it good and it swings vertically not slamming down like the pick.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
1) Ranger – period. Broken/useless profession, this is not news. Players need to be discouraged from playing this.
2) A second Necro/Engineer. One of these hogs the condition limit themselves, having another is a big drain. I will, however, ask the Necro if they are a power build before removal.
I often kick others for weapon choice as some are objectively bad, but thats another story.
Don’t be hatin on my Ranger.{:þ I hold my own and do good damage with 9500+ crits that happens pretty regularly.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Oh lord of RNG. Please forgiveth the blasphemous tongue of Im Mudbone.1437 for he is not sane. Through thy mightiness bless us with thy prosperity, to cleanest our selfish needs. So thou shall hear of thy laurels and bounties thy have delivered.
Still lovin it.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I was wondering, If you take the Boat From LA, why do you end up in an Asura gate? I think if you are going to take a boat, you should arrive at a boat on the other side. Add a gate in the Asura Gate Plaza leading to Southsun so therefore you could have a boat and Asura gate to travel.
I agree with the boat part and as far as an Asura Gate for Southsun, there is now one near the Fractals gate.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I quit farming the day I noticed I was only getting one tier 6 mat per 2 hours.
Unless you have a serious bug with your loot tables or you refuse to rotate somewhere else when DR kicks in, I don’t see how this can possible. I never spend more than 30 minutes at Pent/Shelt at a time – and that’s the only farming I ever do in this game – and I get four or more T6 mats from bags every time. And most of the time I’m not even running MF food/buffs.
You are either the luckiest person on the planet or you have a dev in your pocket(j/k). since day 1 I have only found a little more than a stack of Cryst. Dust.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
You guys realize this is not a target based game like WoW but a collision one like TERA, right? If you fire a projectile at target A, and secondary target B is in the path of the projectile, you will hit B, not A. Similarly, if you swing your single target melee skill at target A and target B is between you and them (keep in mind most melee skills really have a range of 120 or 150 which is roughly two character models away) you will hit B, not A. It’s not a deficiency of targeting, it’s one of positioning.
This is wrong for the simple reason that I have on many occasions targeted A while B is between me and A and killed both A and B with the one shot.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I as well have some of the same issues with targets getting routed somwhere else and I can live with that, my biggest gripe with targeting is the total dropping/losing your target lock requiring you to re-target said target.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I destroy the Karma items for the joy of freeing up a bag slot. The mystic toilet brings me no joy at all.
well it really helps to bring in extra profit by un-soulbinding items and turning them into a sellable exotic
When I want gold, I go to the glitched camp in Brisban Wildlands. I, quite literally, stand in one spot and collect loot bags from the neverending mobs (mobs that are so glitched that their loot isn’t affected by diminishing returns).
Butter and chocolate = an easy 100g+ per 8 hours of farming. Not to mention the crafting mats and magic items.
The mystic forge does nothing but consume your gold while you gleefully watch with bated breath.
Way to with admitting to exploiting. DING!
I didn’t glitch the mobs out. I am simply doing what I am supposed to…..defend the camp from invaders. If Anet considers it an exploit, then they should fix it. I’m not stopping them. I’m merely taking full advantage of the mechanics the game has provided me. In other words, I’m playing the game rather than the game playing me.
I think it’s called taking advantage of a situation you clearly knew(by your own admission by calling it glitched) was not intended instead of reporting it. If i’m wrong you have my apologies.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I destroy the Karma items for the joy of freeing up a bag slot. The mystic toilet brings me no joy at all.
well it really helps to bring in extra profit by un-soulbinding items and turning them into a sellable exotic
When I want gold, I go to the glitched camp in Brisban Wildlands. I, quite literally, stand in one spot and collect loot bags from the neverending mobs (mobs that are so glitched that their loot isn’t affected by diminishing returns).
Butter and chocolate = an easy 100g+ per 8 hours of farming. Not to mention the crafting mats and magic items.
The mystic forge does nothing but consume your gold while you gleefully watch with bated breath.
Way to with admitting to exploiting. DING!
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The BL kits are still good and do return more ectos than the master. If you knew the problem was being investigated then why buy BL kits or use the ones you were saving? Couldn’t go a day or two without breaking down your supply of rares?
He was running tests to help determine if they were also affecting the Black Lion Salvage Kits. Please read more than one post by that poster to determine this.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Since my reply was deleted as I quoted a deleted post let me restate:
I am all for transparency, however, I am not upset by a change this minor being left out of the list when it is obvious to me what they did and that it had absolutely no affect on the item or game-play.
It was my post you replied to and mine were deleted as well incurring an infraction even though it was honest and truthful. Seems like double standards for posting is going on because there are FAR WORSE posts/replies on these forums than what I stated. ANYWHO, if I offended anyone, so sorry.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
An Anet official still hasn’t reply, so I would like to kindly ask again: Can people expect a compensation of any sort?
I contacted support, their first reply so far was that they won’t even refund the 300 gems I spent on the last stack of BLKs. That was a really minor thing to ask for that should be a given considering I paid real money for it. I’m really not impressed by that attitude towards customers. If something’s free and bugged, well bad luck. But that was a real money transaction.
+1 IF what you say is true, why they would reimburse 1 and not all who SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTED, very easy for ANET to confirm whether you did or not. Hope they reconsider if so.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
EDIT: i was just contacted in game by a moderator. THANK YOU ANET for the quick response and compensation. This has deffinetly made the ecto bug a little less painful.
id just like to know if there were ANY plans to compensate the people who lost untold amounts of gold, ectos, rares, gems, ect while this whole process to figure out the Ecto salvage bug was going on. This affected ALOT of players but not all.
i my self spent ~20$ on gems( and then blk kits) only to get half the return rate for ectos over the last 3 days.
I really think that just sweeping this under the rug and chalking it up as "unintended bug so its not our fault " is the absolute worst decision possible.
PLEASE Anet restore some of my faith in you and compensate people with something… Anything!
-Thanks
Congrats, all those who SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTED should be compensated. Good job ANET.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Eh, all I lost was 2 Rares, so I’m not going to make extra work for the ANet support staff. I agree that the people who did the hard research salvaging hundreds of Rares/Exotics to prove the bug should be compensated for their work though.
+1 I agree totally.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Good luck with that in that if you are compensated then so should everyone because it would be close to impossible IF AT ALL to check EVERY ACCOUNT to see if they were affected by this because not everyone salvages rares/exotics.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Bots don’t care, botter will profit greatly from the scarcity.
Care to elaborate on the blank statements lol? Is there a Botter community actively discussing this issue as well?
I’d like to know this as well, because, I’m sure they at least monitor these talks. I’d also like to know JUST HOW a botter will profit greatly from the scarcity of drops, very ludicrous.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
@Erasculio: obviously they are smart enough to notice, that this time there are a lot more players with relevant sample sizes showing a significant decrease of the ecto-rate. If you had taken a closer look, you could have noticed that difference between the regular patch-whining and this thread.
Let’s wait and see how disappointed you really are, when they acknowledge this bug.
@Conncept: just to stay correct: the OP salvaged 166 items. He bought them with 5000 CoF-tokens.
No, they’re not as smart as you think they are, you actually think they test these patches before they put them in, and if they do test them they don’t do it thoroughly in anyway or else we wouldn’t be getting 10 more bugs every time they try and fix 1 bug with a simple 8 file patch.
They could avoid so much work by adding a test server players could log onto and play the new content for a couple days and give them feedback on.
That’s why ANET has the ALPHA SERVER to test things before it’s released(they just may be doing it hurriedly). You’re grabbing at straws now.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
So what’s the worst drop (that can be sold) in the game? What’s the drop that you hate getting the most?
Personally, I hate getting black lion chests. With a sell price of 4 and a buy price of 3 on the TP, they’re practically worthless. In fact, are they literally the worst drop that can be sold? Is there anything else that drops – that you can sell – that’s worth less?
In fact, I’m thinking of deleting all my BLC’s in protest once I get 250 of them
Also: putrid essences — when you see you got a yellow item and it turns out to be a putrid essence .. that’s pure disappointment!
I say the BLC’s, I have 6 stacks and halfway on 7th. -LOL Hoarding them JUST IN CASE
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
~SNIP~ Also you can’t farm in a small area of the DR kicks in, you need to travel and take part in events to reset the DR :p
Honestly the invasions and stuff don’t happen as much when there are less people, when the current story is over the majority of people will leave and it will quieten down a lot.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Sorry for the snappishness. All the pessimistic doomsayers / elitist idiots get me riled. XD
I’m FAR from being an elitist or pessimistic, I’m a glass half full kind of guy, I just tried to offer my opinion for pure PvE players that do that 100% of the time and nothing else your snide reply was a bit much.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What I find amusing is that everyone just goes along with the idea that there should even be a need to farm, instead of mechanics being implemented to naturally have players acquire what they need through normal game play.
People farm because Anet wants people to farm. Keeps people in game.
HUH! Are you serious? Just the opposite is true.
Really? What would you like to put forth to support your statement? There have been no statements from anet that say they are against normal farming (quite the opposite), there are mechanics in game that support the idea of farming, there is a complete stat for armor that supports farming. The only thing negative instituted in game is DR and from the statements directly from anet devs it’s in there to directly fight bots, not normal farmers.
I haven’t heard of a single farming spot being closed. I have seen and heard them fix bugs that people were using to farm unlimited spawns. There is nothing to support anyone saying they are getting zero drops. I’m sure they get plenty of drops, just not exactly what they want.
Thanks for your two links to Guild Wars 1, which have absolutely nothing to do with this game. Plus I looked at both of those a while back during another topic. If you follow the link sources to where the developers actually comment, they blatantly say they have nothing against farmers, and they want people to be able to farm.
Edit: Farming is not standing in one place with a macro, as far as I’m concerned that needs to be removed from the game.
No farming spots were closed only nerfed in the way of drops have been dialed way back or cut off, have you checked out the Pent/Shelter area in the past 2-3 weeks as compared to lets say 2 months ago? If so you can’t miss the FACT that known mobs that used to drop loot no longer do.
The two links are indeed from GW and if done there(albeit minamally there) it has very evidently been carried over to GW2 with a vengeance and I blame that part on NCsoft not ANET. There was a statement made by ANET that farming was to be discouraged.
I agree the standing in one place with actions using macros is just wrong, this I don’t do when farming, I am all over the world map in efforts to not be hit by the DR.
How little you know. DR has been a part of Guild Wars since 3 months after release. I’ve seen your type of posts 7 years ago in GW1 threads about DR. Nothing new to see here.
If you thought you could farm in an a.net game, you were clearly wrong. Go play any other NCsoft game. In lineage and aion you can farm to your heart’s content. In Guild Wars, you can’t. That’s a good thing imho.
Get a grip. You’ve got no idea what you’re talking about. Vayne may have forgotten a lot about GW1, but my memory for that game is almost encyclopedic.
Can we leave Vayne’s memory out of this please? It’s very sensitive.
Of course I remember the stuff Anet did for anti-farm, but then there were things you could farm too…even solo farm. 55 monks farming orr tokens or vatteir farming come to mind off hand. Every year those stupid earth insignias would go up in price and even sell out around Christmas time.
But yes, Anet has always had some anti-farming policies, and rightly so in my opinion. But you could always farm feathers. lol
One of the things I made my GW fortune on, as well as running CoF. -LOL
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What I find amusing is that everyone just goes along with the idea that there should even be a need to farm, instead of mechanics being implemented to naturally have players acquire what they need through normal game play.
People farm because Anet wants people to farm. Keeps people in game.
HUH! Are you serious? Just the opposite is true.
Really? What would you like to put forth to support your statement? There have been no statements from anet that say they are against normal farming (quite the opposite), there are mechanics in game that support the idea of farming, there is a complete stat for armor that supports farming. The only thing negative instituted in game is DR and from the statements directly from anet devs it’s in there to directly fight bots, not normal farmers.
I haven’t heard of a single farming spot being closed. I have seen and heard them fix bugs that people were using to farm unlimited spawns. There is nothing to support anyone saying they are getting zero drops. I’m sure they get plenty of drops, just not exactly what they want.
Thanks for your two links to Guild Wars 1, which have absolutely nothing to do with this game. Plus I looked at both of those a while back during another topic. If you follow the link sources to where the developers actually comment, they blatantly say they have nothing against farmers, and they want people to be able to farm.
Edit: Farming is not standing in one place with a macro, as far as I’m concerned that needs to be removed from the game.
No farming spots were closed only nerfed in the way of drops have been dialed way back or cut off, have you checked out the Pent/Shelter area in the past 2-3 weeks as compared to lets say 2 months ago? If so you can’t miss the FACT that known mobs that used to drop loot no longer do.
The two links are indeed from GW and if done there(albeit minamally there) it has very evidently been carried over to GW2 with a vengeance and I blame that part on NCsoft not ANET. There was a statement made by ANET that farming was to be discouraged.
I agree the standing in one place with actions using macros is just wrong, this I don’t do when farming, I am all over the world map in efforts to not be hit by the DR.
How little you know. DR has been a part of Guild Wars since 3 months after release. I’ve seen your type of posts 7 years ago in GW1 threads about DR. Nothing new to see here.
If you thought you could farm in an a.net game, you were clearly wrong. Go play any other NCsoft game. In lineage and aion you can farm to your heart’s content. In Guild Wars, you can’t. That’s a good thing imho.
Get a grip. You’ve got no idea what you’re talking about. Vayne may have forgotten a lot about GW1, but my memory for that game is almost encyclopedic.
I never said anything about there being no DR in Guild Wars and I was a farming fool with 13 mules all maxed in gold as well as my bank all from farming. Man, what are you on? Show me ONE POST you mentioned. You haven’t got a clue of who I am. Encyclopedic GW memory, yeah right, step slowly away from whatever your indulging in because it is scrambling your brain. Have a great day.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I keep running into this weird effect that happens once or twice in about a 5 minute period were when I go to attack someone and I use my #3 skill for rifle or my 100b or any skill for either weapon and you hit the button but it activates and nothing happens and the character sits there doing nothing. Im not lagging the #1 skill works but when I go to use other ones it kind of freaks out and does nothing, no confusion or blinded or whatever. Has this happened to anyone else running a warrior? I find it really frustrating when you are in a fight vs someone and at that key moment you use your skill to melt your foe and it FAILS to work, ultimately leading to your own demise.
It is most definitely lag but not on your end, it’s SERVER lag.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I asked this in another thread and will ask it here too, for all the know it alls and others.
Why is it JUST CoF p1 that ANET allows to be farmed and not ALL dungeons/paths? Anyone have insight/thoughts on this?
Cause they can’t just nerf the rewards in the dungeon like they do in open world. They are probably working on redesigning the instance like they did to other dungeons and that takes more work.
This is right. CoF is probably going to get the AC treatment, maybe a bit harder since it’s a higher level dungeon.
Sorry makes absolutely no sense, they changed the other dungeons but not this one. What is harder/different about this one dungeon/path that makes it harder than the others to change? NEXT
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I asked this in another thread and will ask it here too, for all the know it alls and others.
Why is it JUST CoF p1 that ANET allows to be farmed and not ALL dungeons/paths? Anyone have insight/thoughts on this?
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
what a pointless thread, there are bug threads in each profession sub forum
What’s pointless: my trying to get an ability fixed the developers have zero idea how to address? Or you actually making a reply to a thread you just called pointless?
They sure fixed that super fast, like within the past 10 or so hours, makes me do like Arsenio Hall and go HMMMM. Party poopers. -LOL
Come on ANET let us have a LITTLE FUN.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
What I find amusing is that everyone just goes along with the idea that there should even be a need to farm, instead of mechanics being implemented to naturally have players acquire what they need through normal game play.
People farm because Anet wants people to farm. Keeps people in game.
HUH! Are you serious? Just the opposite is true.
Really? What would you like to put forth to support your statement? There have been no statements from anet that say they are against normal farming (quite the opposite), there are mechanics in game that support the idea of farming, there is a complete stat for armor that supports farming. The only thing negative instituted in game is DR and from the statements directly from anet devs it’s in there to directly fight bots, not normal farmers.
I haven’t heard of a single farming spot being closed. I have seen and heard them fix bugs that people were using to farm unlimited spawns. There is nothing to support anyone saying they are getting zero drops. I’m sure they get plenty of drops, just not exactly what they want.
Thanks for your two links to Guild Wars 1, which have absolutely nothing to do with this game. Plus I looked at both of those a while back during another topic. If you follow the link sources to where the developers actually comment, they blatantly say they have nothing against farmers, and they want people to be able to farm.
Edit: Farming is not standing in one place with a macro, as far as I’m concerned that needs to be removed from the game.
No farming spots were closed only nerfed in the way of drops have been dialed way back or cut off, have you checked out the Pent/Shelter area in the past 2-3 weeks as compared to lets say 2 months ago? If so you can’t miss the FACT that known mobs that used to drop loot no longer do.
The two links are indeed from GW and if done there(albeit minamally there) it has very evidently been carried over to GW2 with a vengeance and I blame that part on NCsoft not ANET. There was a statement made by ANET that farming was to be discouraged.
I agree the standing in one place with actions using macros is just wrong, this I don’t do when farming, I am all over the world map in efforts to not be hit by the DR.
I have been, and occasionally still drop by pent/shelt. I seldom stay for longer than 30 minutes tops, usually on my way through to somewhere else. Not speaking for anyone else, I get the same stuff I always have. Bags, blues, greens, occasional rare, whites, and greys. For about a half hours farming I get about 20 or 30 bags, which is really all I’m after anyway.
The fact is, if farming actually ever gets nerfed, you will see it’s effects in game. Currently, T6 mat prices are still affordable, and have remained close to the same. That to me reflects that no real nerfs have hit farmers.
If the drop rates actually get nerfed, it will be more than farmers coming onto the forums to complain.
Check out the spiders in tunnel between Pent/Shelt no drops anymore.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I dont like runing around on southsun picking passion fruit, but that doesnt mean I want to smash them to pulp…..
