Due to excessive messaging. <———REALLY, this has got to stop ANET it is now beyond ridiculous. After sending just 2 messages in map chat I get this and can’t send messages again for a good 20 minutes. Please fix this or at least explain the reasoning behind this because it is ludicrous.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Actually going off today I’d say solo around 10-15+ an hour, in a group probably 20-30+ an hour. Easy stuff, and tons of bloods. Those numbers would be way better if EVERY mob actually dropped “something” hehe
That would be around 20+ hours played in a single day. You play 20+ hours in a single day much?
With 2900+ hrs on occasion I do. -LOL }:þ
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
So…this started happening a long time ago, was there ever a solution to it? 2-3 people start a group then kick at the end boss denying others from tokens/chests…any way to report it?
Yes, it can be reported and has been. ANET has a post about this very thing and is called griefing. Pay no mind to Nick as he may be one of those very people.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
instead of the upgrade the Fervid Censer has + defensive infusion
this means it cannot take exquisite gems
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given that currently agony is present in exactly one location in the game (fractals) which many players have no intention of participating in (ever) why are the items being itemized for playing in that area of the game being released elsewhere when they give no benefit over normal items in every other aspect of the game?
while im sure many will argue you can just transmute them to whatever other backpack you prefer, the same is true in reverse if they had proper upgrade slots.
this returns me to the original question of why were they itemized this way, should we be expecting every karaka to have agony in the future?
If I remember correctly, defensive infusion means you can add defensive stats such as toughness, vitality and healing power. If you have an offensive infusion slot, it means you can add power, precision or condition damage stats.
Both defensive and offensive infusions can be used to add agony resistant stats if you so desire, but if you don’t want to add agony resistance because you don’t think you are going to need it, you can opt to add the 3 defensive stats I mentioned for that particular backpiece you gave as an example.
What he said along with you can also add AR along with either healing, precision, toughness or vitality using a Mystic Toilet recipe.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
the interesting ones are hella expensive. check out culture gear, order gear, dungeon gear. there are some truly unique things in there
I’d probably buy some well above my level and use transmute stones. My problem is using the TP it is hard to tell what they look like worn since it only shows a button image.
I did that for my pistol just taking a guess and I got lucky that I liked the one I got.
I suppose I could always buy it, put it on and if I don’t like it resell it but I might take a loss then.
You can preview all items on the TP, just right-click and click preview.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Agreed May actually consider trying for the ascended version of the karka backpiece considering you need 100 flowers and you can get 3 guarenteed per day (for a month).
Have fun doing it 34 days in a row, ASSUMING they aren’t a seasonal bloom.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Just saw a complete group of around 20/30 people get one shotted by an event of champion karkas. I take it back that the content is for groups, annoying one shotting champs with out of control animations are not fun in my book.
That and being repeatedly snared/immobilized by them, why no cool-down on that annoying skill.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
This keeps coming up in another thread of mine so I thought I might move it here.
Are there still people out there that experience the lopsided loot issues? The kind I’m talking about are where you’re in a group of friends doing an event and that one guy that gets everything every week walks away with 4 times as much loot as anyone else?
How about, where you’re in a group doing an event and not only do you get all greys 100% of the time it stops after about the 8th kill because DR still kicks in for mobs that appear only for events.
Or how about this one. You try to farm materials (T5 because you can’t ever get a T6 to drop even when mars is in retro) and you kill 6 mobs only to start getting bones? (and it’s no exaggeration when I say 6 mobs total)?
Keep in mind this is with or without magic find with the same results for both.
Because I’m quite sure it’s not just me, it’s not my imagination, and I had tons more coming in the first month of the game launching prior to the new dungeon focus in Nov.
I’ve tried those boxes with and without magic find, and all I get are more karma bottles. Anyone else get those all the time from the RNG laurel/karma boxes they put into the game? Talk about frustrating!
I’d like to hear from the people who are affected by this, please no derailing or flaming
Not only this, also the skill/server lag is still very omnipresent during events along with the low FPS that was supposedly tweaked with the last update.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Nice, now that you agree it is simply not a big deal, you should be able to understand why it is pretty selfish to refuse it instead of allowing people who want it to have it.
Don’t be a hypocrite.
The same can be said for those that want it. There is two sides to this.
-Why should you be allowed to have it, when others don’t want it?
-Why should we not be allowed to have it, when others do want it?
Either way is selfish to assume that you should or shouldn’t be allowed to have them, regardless of what others think.
It boils down to this.
The reasons why people don’t want them, is cause it wouldn’t fit in this game. The franchise has never had mounts and never will cause they just don’t fit. And as well, they would hog up the screen like no tomorrow like they are already doing in other games. Want to go to the Trading Post npc? You have to deal with tons of mounts piled up around them. Ever tried to talk to a quest npc in like WoW for instance, and everyone is sitting on their mounts around them, making it almost impossible for you to get to the npc? Yeah, we don’t need that here.
I get that people want vanity mounts or even speed mounts in GW2. Collectors and those that are used to other MMOs think this game needs them cause other games have them. It’s the same argument about capes.
But to assume someone is selfish cause they don’t want others to have them cause they don’t want them, is just hypocritical. Because those that do want them, are expecting everyone that doesn’t want them to just “deal with it” if they don’t like it. It comes around to the whole, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it scenario. Yeah, but they still have to deal with everyone that does like them, running around everywhere on them and blocking npcs and such with them. So you are still affecting their game, whether you want to believe it or not. But not having mounts, doesn’t ruin your game in any way at all. Cause the game never had them to begin with.
Majority rules and the majority says no(count the yea’s and no’s I did). ACTUALLY, ANET rules since it’s their game so what they say goes.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I have seen a warrior rally 5 times using his third downed skill and rejoining his group to kill someone..
I think your credibility is in a downed state.
Even on the Ranger I can use my “Downed Skill #3” and my pet will rez/rally me whether the pet was dead or not(now the dead or not part is a bit excessive)
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Probably not. As you can see there are a lot of people who don’t want them, which to me means there is a lot of people who are bad at collecting things like that so..there ya have it.
There’s really no valid excuse not to have them in an mmo(where people collect things) so you see people resort to it being against lore or some other silly excuse. Hell, even if they implemented mounts that are purely cosmetic and don’t increase speed at all, I bet they’d still get all worked up over it.
That is already here with the witches broom that is so ludicrous.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
There’s no reason to not have AR though since it’s so easy to get for early fractals. The backpieces from the southsun event is 5 AR right there making 10-19 easy.
Sorry on having to correct you, but, NEITHER the Fervid Censer(Rare) or
the Sclerite Karka Shell(Exotic) has any AR on them only the ability to be upgraded(at a heafty price).
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Yeah, what server are you on to be so lonely? BG has plenty of activity. There is currently new content added that is being done as well, everyone is probably at Southsun Cove.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I ran it 53 times and only once did someone in my party get lucky (jetpack).
Ten shouldn’t have given you anything.
All this tells us is Anet’s DR and RNG are working as intended, and all because of players like you …
I have been playing since game launch, and I am pretty sure I have not yet done any one particular event, let alone a dungeon, 53 times. I might be getting close to this on some events, but this is over 8.5 months, not 2 weeks …
As long there are players doing things like this, the rest of player base will suffer from crap DR and RNG.
@OP
You want to complain about not getting your mini-pet??
Blame the players running the same content 53 times in 2 weeks …
Best retort in this thread. +1
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
If it wasnt a bug wouldnt it show me as having less than 100 percent completion? if what youre saying is true the problem now is finding that 1 waypoint
THAT’S the bug.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Guild Wars 1 always had rare, to the point of being almost unobtainable, minipets in their games. The prices on the rarest ones were astronomical, the type of jaw dropping, “you got to be kidding me, I’ve been playing this game for years and don’t have that sort of money”, price. Even a semi rare pet could cost 100k plat. I don’t know how much that would translate in Guild Wars 2 money, but 100k plat wasn’t cheap.
The Guild Wars franchise has always been about grinding for the shinies. About getting the rare vanity item to show off with. The game was marketed on this and minipets are just one of the vanity items.
So far the game has made most vanity items attainable thru a little work. Aside from the gem store RNG, which is another topic. >.> Having to grind for a few days to get money for a particular vanity item isn’t bad. At least it’s obtainable. And it’s part of the games philosophy.
Making money in the Original GW was extremely easy, 13 mules and 2 playing characters all maxed in gold as well as my bank, that’s 100 plat on each character and 1 mil in the bank. GW2 is a grind for in game cash unless you play the TP which I suck at.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Yes, I know about this, and see from it that the “Settler Negotiator” does indeed give a +200MF boost so that would give me +403MF but only for the time doing the Settler part of the event.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Same, 5+ hours on that kitten of an island with only 193MF and also not one crate was dropped, just the normal rubbish. Game working as intended.
Wait how can you only have 193 mf when the buff alone gives you +200?
+200MF buff? Where? I missed that one. My base MF is 113 then when I can find one the “Communal Boost Bonfire” adds +50%, then an “Omnomberry Bar” adds +30% and a +10% “MF Banner” = 203%MF. If your talking about the buff that the “Settler Negotiator” gives you it only says “Significant increase in MF” with no mention of what percent boost being given.
EDIT: miscalculated, my base MF is +113 not 193.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
IRONIC, ANET don’t want us to farm yet they graciously dangle treats in front of us that forces many to farm for whatever is needed to obtain these treats because they are the ones unable to pull out a credit card or don’t have the funds.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
It’s not a skin, it’s a complete back-piece with stats. +20 Toughness, +14 Healing Power and +14 Condition Damage with an Unused Defensive Infusion Slot.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Waypoints are always contested because nobody is doing events that contest them. And why should they, there is no incentive to do them. But that doesnt mean zone is dead, there is always plenty of people doing dwayne and lyssa events.
edit: On a second tought, yea those are probably chest farmers that appear when event timer is up, so it is possible that zone actually dead.
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Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I NEVER ask for payment nor tender payment when I(not a Mesmer) assist someone or am being assisted doing something in the game, it’s called common courtesy with a thank you once done is all that is required for any future assistance.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
May actually consider trying for the ascended version of the karka backpiece considering you need 100 flowers and you can get 3 guarenteed per day (for a month).