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1c undercutting is destroying competition

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1%, 4.99%, same system. All that it does is lowers the cost of monopolists to maintain their price lock on low volume items, and increases the cost to buyers on high volume items.

If I’m trying to hold Dusks at 600g, and you post at 599.99.99, I can either let you get one of my sales, or pay 30g to buy up your undercut and relist at my price. At 1% that goes down to 24g, 2% it’s 18 etc…. Every time you step up the “meaningful undercut” you make it cost less and less for me to keep a stranglehold on the market.

That’s bad for buyers, and bad for 99% of sellers (those who don’t have 10k in their bag to buy up an entire supply of precursors).

On high volume items, the difference is smaller per item, but astronomically higher over time due to, well, volume. 2s isn’t much on one sale, and you likely wouldn’t notice, but when you start handling thousands of transactions a day, that can add up to a 100g a day raise for a single mass volume trader (I know a few who would make that easy based on volume alone). This only moves wealth from the poor to the rich, that’s bad for buyers and 99% of sellers (those who don’t have 10k in their bag to buy up huge volumes of fast moving items).

At absolute best, this is a lose/break even/lose for buyers (they lose if the volume is low, they break even ONLY if the supply/demand intersection is exactly where the current price is and never moves, and they lose if the volume is high), and a win for sellers only if you already have massive reserves of gold… if you don’t you never will.

If you want to sell fast, price to sell fast. Why are you so against this? If you don’t care about selling fast, price to make profit. If you don’t care about either, why aren’t you just selling to a vendor and leave those of us who want to make gold the freedom to do so!

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here, I will give you a concrete numbers example from an item I just happened to have open on my gw2spidy (I’m not going to tell you what it IS because I don’t want you to see what it’s doing right now and cost me gold).

In early December, this weapon was selling for a hair over 30g, in volumes of 16-18 per hour. One hour later the price dropped to 29g, an hour after that 28.5, then an hour after that 25. Let’s see how your 5% undercut limit affects the system and how it “helps” buyers.

At zero-hour the price is 30g.
an hour after that the price is still 30g (not a 5% movement, thus sellers are going to default to the higher price)
an hour after that the price is still 30g (still not 5% from the last hour)
finally, 3h later, the price normalizes to 25g and the systemic balance is restored.

assuming a best case scenario of only 16 buys per hour, that makes a total of 40g scammed from buyers on this item alone. It’s not even particularly high volume of trade, the higher the volume the higher the differences between what players would be listing at and what players should be listing at.

Considering this will be happening mass-scale on every item over 1g (and there are a LOT) under your system, power traders will become your new best friend. It will take more gold out of average players and put it into the hands of those who know where the price points are than currently. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Those who know the markets will try to manipulate the price to stay as close to 4.99% over market value and reap a free 5% raise in market earnings.

Let’s take another example, not one from the AH this time, but an example none the less. Dusk. For the sake of argument, let’s assume I have 10,000 gold in my bank, and I want to corner the market on Dusks to raise the price from 300g to 600g (cause we know that would never happen….). I drop 3k and buy up every Dusk on the TP below 600g and relist them at that price (current gross: 6k). Now, you come in and try to sell your Dusk on the TP. Since your 5% system forces you to list for 570 or less, I can buy your Dusk instantly and relist it at 600 for no loss of gross. The 30g I pay in listing fee is 100% made back from the higher relist. It costs me nothing. If you list for LESS than 570, I make profit. You are forced to list at MY price, the buyer gets screwed, and the price NEVER drops.

The higher the price, lower the volume the BETTER for them as the less likely anyone else is to break their monopoly. While not as good as a 5%+1 system for market manipulation a 5% or less would still mean that they could artificially inflate the market value and keep it that high basically forever. As they could control the vast majority of the TP supply (see: Dusk), it would guarantee less loss in relisting an undercutter for the consortium price.

More monopolies, more market manipulations, less buyer freedom. This is NOT a good system for ANYONE.

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and if the market price on twilight is actually 2990? Are you going to list for 3k or 2970 and lose out on 20g? I know I’m not, screw the buyer, they can pay the higher price. They undercut by more than that not because “it’s polite” but because 3k isn’t the market price of that item (as evidenced by the fact it has yet to sell at that price point).

As soon as players are prevented from pricing accurately they will default to higher prices rather than lose out on profit, this is the very opposite of “good for the consumer”.

1c doesn’t matter, and now 2s doesn’t matter… tell me, what DOES matter? How many gold do you have to give up on every single item listed before you care? It can’t be >5% because if it is then monopolists run wild, and it can’t be =<5% because then we have exactly the same system we do now where I can undercut you for less than the listing fee it would take for you to relist your item at my new price.

Take some responsibility for your own actions. If you want a fast sale, price for a fast sale and accept the loss. If you want max profit, price for max profit and accept that it will take a while to sell. And if you screw up, and price too high, than accept YOUR screw up.

Precursors need fixing?

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how high is your magic find? You can make a good rare-quality magic find set + rune + jewelry, add some Chocolate Raspberry Cream food and you should get the lot for around 5-8g. Combined you will have around 150% MF.

That’s a LOT more yellow and orange drops.

actually no, you get a noticeable increase in blues and greens, not yellows/oranges – it’s basic % math.

really? than I’ve had the most absurdly high luck on yellows and oranges over the last while since exactly the day I made my MF set.

MF increases the odds of getting loot at ALL rarity levels, not just blues/greens. (yes, 150% bonus to one drop in two hundred is not nearly as impressive as it is to one drop in 15, but it is still an increase)

Undercutting - Seller's Informal agreement

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I agree that this simply won’t work, but that doesn’t mean something doesn’t need to be done. having a free market is a good thing, but many people don’t have the common sense needed to make it work. Currently on my server, almost every item in the TP that I’ve come across, except for high demands such as crafting items, have dozens of sellers that are pricing at 1 c above the vendor value. Now think about this for a second. The TP charges a percentage of the sale so these people are actually selling their items for LESS than they would get than just dumping their junk at an npc. I’ve actually found that in many cases i make more profit dumping into npc’s than trying to sell to other players and that’s just sad.

If the items are of such low demand that they can’t even move at 1c over vendor, nothing short of a radical drop rate / salvage change is going to alter that. Supply > demand.

My suggestion on how to fix the economy.

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actually power traders counter inflation by siphoning hundreds, thousands of gold a day out of the system via fees.

Inflation is caused by mobs dropping gold. As more and more gold is added to the game, the value of each gold goes down. The only way to stop inflation is to make mobs drop nearly zero money (or at least less money than is being taken out via waypoint fees, repair costs, and TP fees).

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the reason why a % based undercut system fails is thus:

Since the relist fee is 5% the only two limits that matter is a 5% difference (or less) and 5%+1c (assuming a high enough value that the 1c is not lost due to rounding errors)

at 5% or less limit, relisting for the person undercut will come at a loss. This is the exact system we have now, only with more restrictions on what the second seller can put his listing at. If the actual supply/demand intersection is 3% less, the second poster is systemically prevented from listing at the correct price. They can either match (and screw the buyers out of 3%), or undercut by 5% and lose out on 2% of the value of the item (I know which I would do, and it wouldn’t be the one that gives the buyer the better deal).

At 5%+1c, it creates a monopolists dreamland of near infinite flipping profit. If the limit was greater than 5%, by even 1c, it would allow heavy traders with deep pockets to guarantee profit on cornering a market. Since no one can list their auction close enough to mine such that the relist fee would be greater than the profit I would make from simply buying up their supply and relisting at my determined (and artificially high) price, I can continue to do exactly that until my pockets run dry. If demand is sufficiently high that my inflated price sells, that could go on indefinitely.

An artificial % based undercut cap is a lose/lose for buyers across the board. Either the % is lower or equal to the listing fee, in which case any item near the actual supply/demand intersection will be stuck at a higher price than it should be (with no actual advantage to sellers who have been undercut)… or the % is greater than the listing fee and monopolists will run wild cornering markets with nearly zero risk.

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I can tell you exactly the price

the price it sells at before supply lets someone else post below you.

That is of course assuming that “selling it fast” is a primary goal. Maybe you need the gold to exploit another market, maybe you need it to buy an underpriced precursor, not for me to say.

If selling it right away is NOT a primary goal (you want to maximize profit for example), then the correct price is exactly at the intersection of supply and demand. It will take longer, as people will undercut you to sell quicker (see above), but they are leaving money on the table that you are willing to spend time to pick up.

Ultimately there is only two outcomes: Your auction sells, or it does not. If it does not that means the price is too high and all the undercutters in the world won’t change that fact. Demand at your price is too low given short term supply. You have no one to blame but yourself.

If your auction DOES sell, then all the undercutters in the world won’t change that fact. They may make it take longer, but you are making more money for that longer time than they are.

I think a little Econ 101 may be in order, this may be stuff you already know, but is good for the kids at home

Supply curves (usually a straight line actually) are negative. That means they slope down to the right. As supply goes up, price goes down. Demand curvers are the opposite, they slope up to the right… as demand goes up, so does price. Where they intersect is the point of highest profit.

Pricing below that point means that demand is higher than supply at that price. The item in question will very likely be snapped up quick, however the seller “left money on the table”, meaning that they could have sold the item for more money. The difference between what you sold it at, and what you could have sold it at is lost.

Pricing above that point means that supply is higher than demand. This is a worse case as it means that more items will enter the market than leaving it. While you “might” sell at this price point, there is a LOT of risk that someone will undercut you and leave you priced above the point at which the product begins to sell. If there is a large number of items entering below you, and quickly enough, you may never sell. The payoff for this risk is that if you get a buyer who is not very wise, who comes in between the point where you list your item and before the point where the next person lists theirs, you can get a far higher price.

So ultimately it depends on your goal: Do you want to sell fast to use that gold for other ventures? or are you ok with waiting for the item to move at a price you see as more accurate? or are you willing to risk over-pricing your item in the hopes of getting a higher value but knowing that you could have to relist and lose your 5%?

If your goal is to ensure no one undercuts you, you will have to list it quite undervalued to ensure a fast sale.

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sigh

no, you should have listed it low enough to sell BEFORE they listed. Be that 1c or 100g.

If supply > demand at your price, more items will enter below you than are bought up, so you will not sell. You priced too high, sucks to be you.

If supply < demand at your price, you sell very quickly, but you could have asked a higher price, thus you lost out. You priced too low, sucks to be you, but sucks less as you can use that gold in other markets to offset that loss.

If supply = demand at your price, you still sell, not too quickly but at the maximum amount. You got top coin for your item. You priced exactly right, thumbs up.

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Sigil of Generosity is cheap….

just got 80

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I’m far from a pro, but I’m running 10/0/30/20/10. Lots of stealing, stealing gives stealth, might, fury and switness, stealth gives more might, running +might duration runes…. stuff blows up fast and I’m “fairly” robust. Not bunker quality by ANY stretch, but fine enough for lazy pve.

getting 10 stacks of might solo is really fun

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oh man, can I quote that?

Precursors need fixing?

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how high is your magic find? You can make a good rare-quality magic find set + rune + jewelry, add some Chocolate Raspberry Cream food and you should get the lot for around 5-8g. Combined you will have around 150% MF.

That’s a LOT more yellow and orange drops.

BLTC Suggestion: being able to buy a gift

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only other thing would be to in-game mail them the gold to buy gems… however that could run afoul of the gold-selling trackers.

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It’s a LIFO system when the price you sell your product for is less than the current price.

But. . .a 1c undercut is essentially the same price.

then you should have listed yours lower in the first place. If supply is higher than demand at your price, you won’t sell…. if demand is higher than supply, then both will sell and you will make more money. (and if demand = supply, you make the MOST money)

It all comes down to which side of the supply/demand intersection you are on.

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anyone else notice how this is only focusing on sell orders and not a peep on buy orders?

I’ve been overcut by 1c on my buy orders FAR more than my sell orders.

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it makes no difference at all, which means I would equally buy either yours at 10g or the other guy’s at 9s99c and BOTH AUCTIONS WILL SELL. How is this hard, both of you sold, you made more money, you “won”, you “beat him at TP pvp”, you are the better trader. LIFO, FIFO, no difference since both sell.

And we are both talking about high value, low volume items. Again, so we are clear, both auctions sold, only the higher one took longer but made more money. For people like you, who have no “must sell it now” goal, this selling faster thing a 100% non-issue, all that matters is that it DOES sell (and, as we have established for this example, it does). For you, a 1c undercutter means nothing. I totally fail to see why you think this is important to you if selling quickly isn’t a goal for you. I’m kinda curious how selling slower is suck a concern for you when selling quickly isn’t a concern by your own admission.

For people who DO highly value fast sales, (IE: not you), a 1c undercutter can be a serious issue if they price badly. This requires them to price very accurately, especially for high value, low volume items. They need to know the supply/demand curves far, far better than you would as they need to make sure that they sell fast (to allow them to use that gold elsewhere) without leaving too much money on the table. This is the exact same thing that happens when players decide between making a sell order or filling a buy order. Get the gold now, or get more gold later.

Fast sellers often need to undervalue the sell orders so that it moves quickly, and enough that few other players will undercut them, but not so much that they lose profit. The lower the supply, the more reward there is for selling low (as odds are good that demand will be high enough that someone will buy your item before another one is supplied).

The key here is hitting the intersection between the positive demand curve and the negative supply curve (short term). Pricing too high, especially on high value, low volume items, will result in a very, VERY long wait for a sale (basically until inflation raises the effective price to your value). This has an opportunity cost as you can’t spend the gold on other market ventures until your item sells. Likewise, underpricing will cause your item to be nearly instantly scooped up due to the high demand and you lose out on the difference between the price you listed at and the intersection point.

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Try something for me…. for the next moth, for every single item you list, put 1c in your bank, see how “nonsense” it becomes… When I sell a 250 stack of ore, 1c adds up in a hurry.

Paying for faster sales, or higher volume is a key point in supply/demand economics, especially in near infinite long term supply, finite long term demand systems such as what we have in GW2.

If getting a faster sale is NOT your goal, then undercutting by 1c is irreverent to you. If your price is accurate, and I’m assuming it is (because if it isn’t, then undercutting by 1c doesn’t matter), then your auction will still sell. Yes, it will take longer, but it will still sell. That it sells today, or next week is not important to you (as you said, a fast sale is not your goal). I fail to see how other people paying to get sales quicker, because it IS their goal, affects your goals in any way.

If their paying to sell faster IS affecting your goals, then you may want to add “fast sale” to that list, and price accordingly.

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I perfectly got your point, even repeated parts of it.
The thing you do not understand is, relisting costs money, so the ‘stubbornly standing still’ part is not true, because if your price is perfectly fine and will sell some time later, why would you give up money.
I am talking about low volume high price markets.
Say one item sells every 3 days. Even if your price is good, someone else undercuts you with 1copper, so you will have to wait 3 days longer, just because that person gave up on 0.15 copper profit. And that is not good.

Wrong, it’s perfectly good. High price, low volume only shows this situation in even more stark contrast. In your example, both auctions sold, only you made more money than the other guy because you knew that people were still going to pay your price. Supply/demand intersected at your price. The guy who undercut you, sold quicker, but left money on the table. He/She paid for that quicker sale, a sale they would still have got had they not undercut you.

The key thing to remember is that BOTH auctions sold, only yours sold for more money.

If getting funds quickly was your goal, well, you need to pay for that with a lower price.

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if the difference between your price and your price -1c is"nothing" than your price is too high for the item.

If your price was where it should be, then -1c would put it undervalued at which point I’m losing money.

The problem isn’t that people are undercutting you by 1c, the problem is that you are listing items for high enough that they can still undercut you and not lose out. If the utility value of the item is at least as high as your price, then yours WILL sell, and the guy who undercut you will only lose money. If the utility value is NOT at least as high as your price, then your price is too high.

how are supply/demand curves so hard for people to understand… if they intersect your price point, you sell, if they do not, you are overpriced… be it by 1c or 100g, you are still overpriced.

And if the -1c makes you start losing money then that means that at the current price, you are getting nothing for it.
At that point, what’s even the point of selling it?
If that should always be the case then why does the TP exist at all?

If an item can sell for 1g reliably and quickly, and I list it for 99s 99c. I lost 1c, and you lost nothing. Both our auctions sold, only mine sold undervalued and I paid the price for it. You made more than I did because you knew better what the item was worth.

On the flipside, if you list your auction for 2g, and it can only reliably sell for 1g, and I list mine for 1g99s99c, I may well snipe your sale because I know what it’s worth and have more accurately priced my item. Both may never sell because the next guy may come in at 1g99s98c before mine has even moved (supply/demand no longer intersecting our price points). That backlog won’t start to clear until the price reaches 1g. We risked our listing fees to post above price in the hopes of catching a sucker, some days it pays off, others not, hence risk

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1 copper more or less does in no way show if your item is listed too high or not.
It is simply someone else getting in front of you in the waiting line without any effort or realistic loss.

If your item is in the right price range you are going to sell some time, that is right. But sometimes that 1 copper can take your item 2 days more to sell.

again… if supply is high enough, and demand low enough such that a 1c undercut makes your auction unsellable, or take 2 days to sell, then the supply/demand curve is not intersecting your price. It’s not “cutting in line” it’s “the line is progressing while you are stubbornly standing still expecting the front of the queue to come to you”

Lower your price if you want a quick sale. How is this hard?

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if the difference between your price and your price -1c is"nothing" than your price is too high for the item.

If your price was where it should be, then -1c would put it undervalued at which point I’m losing money.

The problem isn’t that people are undercutting you by 1c, the problem is that you are listing items for high enough that they can still undercut you and not lose out. If the utility value of the item is at least as high as your price, then yours WILL sell, and the guy who undercut you will only lose money. If the utility value is NOT at least as high as your price, then your price is too high.

how are supply/demand curves so hard for people to understand… if they intersect your price point, you sell, if they do not, you are overpriced… be it by 1c or 100g, you are still overpriced.

What thieves steal from Mesmer?

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And several of the steal abilities are several times better than anything available to the profession it was stolen from.
A necro would LOVE to have a fear even remotely as good as Skull Fear, while Consume Ectoplasm is Signet of Inspiration on some pretty amazing steroids.

again…. “class ability on a 45s cooldown” vs “utility skill or weapon skill on a fraction of that cooldown”.

Don’t compare Skull Fear to a normal necro fear, compare it to death shroud, burst attacks, 4 shatters, virtues, toolbelt, atunements, and pets (as a complete package, not just their f2 skills)

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some of which are also as low as a six second cooldown. Plus constant damage from the pet, an extra thing for mobs to hit, the ability to keep a good % of your damage while downed, and that’s all without traits.

Changes to aegis

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sorry, but if you eat a full duration, frenzied 100 Blades to the face you deserve to die. (and if you had retaliation on, so does the warrior).

Aegis is our burst negation tool, protection is our multihit tool (not counting dodge, which you really SHOULD be using). We also have a 2s block in our heal. If between 30% less damage, all our sources of regen, two dodges and a 2s block you can’t handle multihits…. sorry, this is now a L2P thread.

What thieves steal from Mesmer?

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But why not let the thieves steal a skill, that randomly applies 2 random boons and apply 2 random conditions or smth like that. That would reflect the Staff abilities way better.

cause that is terribly underpowered for a class ability on a 45s cooldown.

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there is one other area that I would love to see addressed:

Legendaries.

First up, any kit user doesn’t really get one. Since so much of our gameplay is centered around kits, this is actually a major reason why my engie will NEVER get a legendary (unless I someday end up with 10k gold and can just poot one out because I want to)

Secondly, of the three legendaries that engies have access to, not one fit the theme. The shield is obviously Guardian based, the rifle doesn’t suit our “shotgun” animations, and the pistol…. the pistol…. let’s not talk about that.

As the end game is so centered around visual progression as opposed to stat progression, I see this as a pretty serious issue (not as major as some of the ones listed by the OP, but not one that can be ignored forever)

Shortbow might be the best group weapon

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none of the grenades are blast finishers (oddly enough)

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some things are good vs multi-hit and not so good vs single hits (Retaliation), and some that are good against nukes and mediocre vs multi-hits (blind/aegis).

That’s the nature of balance. Nothing should ever be “the best in all cases”, if you have that then you’ve failed game balancing 101.

Adding even 1s of block to aegis would make for absurdly powerful block chains. Virtue of Courage passive, VoC active, Shelter, Retreat, Renewed Focus then VoC active again = 9s of invincibility, you can even add Shield of Wrath (3 blocks, not really an aegis) for more.

Yes, you need to blow cooldowns to the moon to make that happen, but still nine seconds where absolutely nothing in the game can hurt you. I hope that sounds OP to you.

Thief Heal Mechanic

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yes, if you stand around and to absolutely nothing, then after four seconds it is roughly on par with what other classes have instantly after their heal activates.

That means, no back stab, no Tac Strike, no pistol Sneak Attack. That also assumes that your foe has no channelled attacks and no AOEs.

HiS is roughly on par with other “utility heals” like Shelter (guardian), Mending (war), Glyph of Elemental Harmony (ele) etc in terms of actual health healed. However, there is no real burst heal alternative for thiefs to use to get a big heal right away.

HiS and Signet of Resolve both have the same cast time, as often as you are interrupted using SoR, we are interrupted using HiS… only HiS heals for FAR less instantly and still less after the regen in finished.

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flamethrower.

nuff said. While leveling it’s one of the most powerful tools we have (if you are leveling PVE that is). Damage is good, control is good, and who doesn’t like lighting stuff on fire?

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another way to look at it: HiS only has 3 effects, but the “heal” is split up into “weak upfront heal” and “weak regen over time heal”. Both do the same thing, only instead of getting it all in one useful burst (like Guardians, Warriors, Mesmers etc…) it comes in two steps. The total healing is about equal, but only if you survive for the full regen, and it isn’t purged/stolen off you.

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If you think HiS is the best heal in the game I strongly suggest you broaden your experiences.

The upfront heal is anemic at best. When you pop a heal, you generally need healing NOW, not over the next 4 seconds. When compared to other burst heals such as Signet of Resolve (guardian), Healing Surge (warrior), even Ether Feast (mesmer), the burst is only 2/3rds and on a similar cooldown.

The condition removal can be useful, it also can be utterly pointless depending what is on you.

Is it a good heal? sure… is it the “best heal in the game”? not a chance. I would swap it out for nearly any other class’s burst heal in a second.

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My mesmer used to be my main, she is now my third fiddle behind my engie and thief, specifically because of how slow it is to get around out of combat.

In combat, she’s fine and able to jump around like a jackrabbit on crack, but out of combat…. it’s just painful. Running back from dungeon wipes, trying to get back from a waypoint, even just running over to get a harvesting node… it’s so very slow compared to my two other toons.

I want to love mesmer, but finding myself so far behind everyone else while running back, making everyone wait for me to catch up, or getting there just in time to watch the mobs all die isn’t fun.

Trading post taxes and other tariffs

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no.

It would serve to only further drive players from low-pop to high-pop servers. Lotteries, so long as the expected payout is extremely low (preferably negative), could work… otherwise it’s just another source of inflation.

Optional Subscription

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I would personally love an option for recurring gem purchaces. I’ve wanted to buy ~$10 a month (new finical situation will finally allow this) and being able to have it automated would be awesome!

if you could set it for as little, or as many gems as you like, this could be awesome.

Thief Appearance

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Where’s the Samurai?

Thievery would have been completely against the bushido code that Samurai subscribe to and would likely commit seppuku if caught . Not only that but they were the equivalent of a Knight in Europe so medium armor wouldn’t exactly be a fit for Samurai armor . Not exactly the best example there .

Bushido (and chivalry) only really applied when dealing with others of equal or greater social status. A samurai could walk up to a peasant’s house, say “give me everything you own”, and if they didn’t he would be well within his rights at the time to cut their head off and make the same demand to the next person in line.

Heck, it was common for them to torture and kill people who didn’t bow fast enough or deep enough for their liking. Or, just because they wanted to test the edge on their new sword, or because the sky was cloudy and they wanted to see red… basically any reason they wanted.

IF the other person was a peasant.

Bushido wasn’t all sunshine and roses and honour…

Remove the map markers until discovered.

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you can remove the markers in the world map screen.

[suggestion] Roleplaying subforum

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what it says on the tin.

Given how AWESOME gw2 rp is, it’s a shame that we need to rely on 3rd party sites to organize guilds, events, discuss play styles etc…

1c undercutting is destroying competition

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if your listing is constantly getting undercut, then your listing is overpriced for the demand.

And the 1c undercut is completely negligibly less overpriced.

but, if they are not listed faster than they are being bought, you will still sell. If they ARE being listed faster than they are being bought, you will not sell, and your price is too high.

Whether it is 1c or 100g, if the demand curve doesn’t intersect your price point, your price point is too high.

1c undercutting is destroying competition

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if your listing is constantly getting undercut, then your listing is overpriced for the demand.

If balance be truly your goal....

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speculation and wild accusations != proof.

I can speculate that you don’t play engie either, I would be just as wrong, but I can do it.

Game devs, especially system devs, are very often required as part of their contract to play the game for a minimum number of hours (my previous employer would check the login times on our accounts, if we were short, we got cited). I would bet my last dollar that there are at least 100h of engie time alone across the ANet offices in a given week.

So unless you’ve got nothing more than “this change didn’t make sense to me, an armchair dev with no actual professional experience and no inside knowledge about what can and can not be done technically on ANet’s systems”… please, by all means stick to wild speculation and blind guesses.

If balance be truly your goal....

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They do not actually play their professions adequatly to properly gauge balance.

[citation needed]

Every game company I’ve worked for had between 5 to 10 hours of mandatory play time every single week, while at the office. Not including the 10-20 you were expected to put in at home after a game went live.

so I call BS unless you know something for a fact.

Eng still highest dps class

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is there anything that compares withOUT using the grenade kit? I’m too damn young to be getting arthritis from pressing the 1 key twice a second.

Wishful thinking Guardian changes

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GLWT

/10char

The Warrior is designed to fail?

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wait, the OP wants to be as good, at range, as the RANGER? the class with “range” in it’s name?

jeeze, no pleasing some people.

Cannot buy gems

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have you contacted customer support?

Still grenade spec or GTFO...

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two people IN CHARGE OF changes != two people total.

get your facts right.

Different offers for different languages

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now I wonder how much gold I’ve spent that I didn’t have to..

Engineer needs a total rework.

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so in those 22 years in the military, how many games did you make? how many million copies did you ship? how many “worlds” did you build?

None?

Well, maybe the guys with 22 years experience doing that should stick to doing that and you should stick to being military. I know which I would rather have commanding troops and which I would rather have making my games thank you.