lol, “effort”. You can do half the levels for just a few gold by crafting… or all for a bit more.
Yeah, you could, but I didn’t so thanks for the idiotic and pointless reply, here’s one for you.
No need to state that, I already expected your reply to be idiotic and pointless as you didn’t have a point in the first place People using the word “deserve” in conjunction with video games are generally not to be taken seriously.
Whilst I can see some of the reasons why (Overflows/Chumps guesting), this news is awful.
I’ve made 8 characters, all classes, all 80. Mainly because I wanted to play all the classes at top lvl in PvE & WvW (sPvP is total toshballs and I completely ignore it because it’s rewards aren’t interchangeable)
Now I shouldn’t even have to say why this update shafts me, it should be obvious. Yes I spend a lot of time playing; But then again I have worked for this, everything I’ve got I deserve 100% (I deserve well more if you ask me but my luck on drops seem to be awful).
A few days ago I did T the Sunless 6 times in 1 day using 6 of my charaters to gain the rewards – I don’t guest for World bosses, I stay in my humble home server (So I’m not creating overflows in a server that isn’t mine). Now explain why don’t I deserve rare drops for each character?
Do you even know how long it takes getting 8 characters to 80? And now I’ve got 8 80’s… I’m ready to really kick it into top gear, and you’re saying that regardless of all my hard work I can no longer claim the rewards. Telling me that I might as well just have 1 character… like an effin’ noob…
You should only get 1 per day yeah. Because YOU haven’t put the time and effort into this to have more than 1 character, so you can have 1 – Thats fair.
I, on the other hand have 8, and if I use all 8, I should get 8 rewards. Its taken me 8 times longer so why no cake?
Being treated like some illegal farmer when I’m just trying to get the most out of the game, not cool.
lol, “effort”. You can do half the levels for just a few gold by crafting… or all for a bit more.
This is not a solution. It is Anet telling me its pointless to have more than one chars. This actually hurts a part of the player base imo. Anyway its not the first time they do it and it will probably will not be the last:)
If you have multiple chars only for farming a guaranteed rare at the few world events that give such a chest, then you’re right.
To be honest, last time I played WoW several years ago the open world dragons have not been anywhere remotely as easy (say: stupid and boring) as the dragons in GW2. Hell, fighting world bosses like Doom Lord Kazzak actually was challenging.
i kittening hate this game and where its gone and yes i will leave
Well I guess you’ll leave this forum first, I just tried to report your posts but they’re all already reported. I don’t think the moderators are too happy with people swearing and insulting developers.
After reading Martin’s answer on here this doesn’t seem that bad. The guaranteed rare will come once per account. But you can still come back with alts and do it and still have a CHANCE of a rare coming out of the chest. Also it looks like the precusars and exotics are still coming out of the chest.
So when doing the event on an alt, you could end up with a precuser, exoctic, rare, green, or a blue. Back to having a chance at something, with the a guaranteed rare once per account. I think I like this change. Should help keep the overflows down, but still be able to run the events with alts to try my LUCK on getting something.
Exactly, thank you for partially restoring my faith in humanity.
You mainly play a necro, what if I’d come to the necro forums telling you what I think you don’t need to make up for your lack of utility in PvE just because you do well in other aspects? Jesus…
Focus gives 12s swiftness at a 25s recharge without boons/traits. Try that again. And try not to compare completely unrelated utility to this problem, just because one thing ain’t broken doesn’t mean everything else isn’t. Basically, stop trolling.
Me too, better make Signet of Inspiration give only swiftness when out of combat.
That’d remove some rather neat functions like opening a surprise attack with Fury or starting with Aegis when jumped.
Those chances are so rare because the signet already is so unreliable that it’s pretty much a negligible occasion. It was just an example of how it could work though. The signets currently aren’t really balanced anyway, just compare the laughable utility of Signet of Domination compared to Signet of Midnight, and even the latter would be better off with 20% boon duration.
Temporal curtain grants the casters swiftness bonus to allies too, so that’s 18 seconds of run speed for all from me (here’s a possible clue as to why it doesn’t stack btw).
Even if it doesn’t stack intentionally, it should at least be replaced by new swiftness. Can’t even count how often I’ve been running over a temporal curtain with just one to three seconds of swiftness left. It’s counterintuitive, inconsistent and annoying.
mmm… I knew Anet would nerf the rewards somehow… So I will do extra efforts to gather the 250 ectos for my legendary before the nerf.
I’m playing maybe twice a week for a few hours, not since release and I didn’t reach level 80 until this year, I never farmed any events, I have only one character with which I’m playing mostly WvW and I already have 100 ectos. Gathering a stack of 250 ectos within reasonable time really isn’t a problem. We’re talking about people with too much time salvaging loads of rares for several full stacks of ectos within relatively short time here, flooding the market. And while we’re on it, the gem exchange conspiracy theory is quite stupid considering it’ll probably hurt black lion kit sales more than increasing them since there will be less rares for salvaging.
Instead of changing the timers to being completely random (which I think is what puts the “dynamic” in dynamic events, but I digress) they opted to nerf it only for people with multiple 80’s. Hilarious. I wonder how many of these alt-crazies will stick around if things continue down this path.
Yeah right, because you clearly participate in those world events with all of your alts in one day because you like to play them so much and not because you simply want to farm the chests. At least be honest. And obviously you don’t get the change as well, you’ll still get a chest with every character, just not the guaranteed rare. That must be really hard to understand. Maybe the greed is blinding.
Btw, why do people have so much difficulty understanding the message?!?!?
Most of the posts are questions and replies about what Isaiah (the Dev) has written.
Read the messages carefully before asking the same questions over and over again.
I also don’t get this. The initial post by Isaiah has already been pretty clear, then Martin even explained this further and people still don’t get it? The community’s reading comprehension seems to equal that of a six year old… even my little sister would have understood this by now.
That’s right, thought you get it down with Inspiration VIII (+20% focus CD) and some points in the Chaos line (I personally have 20 for the Chaos X’s staff buff).
I’m doing that as I’m only playing WvW in groups. So I’m putting 20 in inspiration (helps with a glamour build at least), have to use the focous and signet of midnight and still have ~4s swiftness downtime.
The right way to play at the moment is to zerg rush stuff. Wheter it’s dragon bosses or guild bounties, or even karka farming or running through dungeons using exploits and short cuts. You’re not supposed to casually enjoy this game.
The trolling is strong with this one. I’ve actually had the most fun casually exploring the huge world on my own by far. I also like to trade and help out people in low level zones and story dungeons. Lots of stuff to do.
It’s fun because people don’t get it. You can spam glamour fields from everywhere if traited for blinds/confusion accordingly (behind a gate for example) and people will happily kill themselves. Plus you apply mass blinds, which reduces the zergs dps while giving your allies quickness at the same time. Simply fun.
PS: in PvE it sucks so badly, you’ll play WvW forever…
As far as people needing to “line up” just pew pew into a crowd and you’ll do massive damage.
5 Stacks of confusion on 5 people isn’t actually “massive”, even at the 1800 condition damage I’m currently at. Plus it’s channeled and only 900 range. If the enemies aren’t stupid or aoe cleansed, it’ll do pretty much nothing and will only work in WvW zergs. It’s a nice addition, but it doesn’t really improve the scepter in general.
Make our stealth and swiftness stack, that would be a good start. Do the same for condition durations and so on. There’s way too much arbitrariness and exceptions people don’t understand in almost every part of the game already (the defiant mecanic and its exceptions as another example).
5 uses for portal & other area affecting skills or there is NO justice in this game
I actually asked for this before.
5 uses per Portal (1 reserved for the Mesmer!), but CD reduced to ~25s.
I asked for that too, but I doubt it’ll happen. Then it would at least take a little coordination and several mesmers to port a zerg and the portal would also be more useful in PvE.
I can see only one situation where Mantra heals are viable, and that’s a WvW Zerg standoff, requiring both sides to simply shoot at eacher, and not pushing.
Imo the portal’s cooldown should be reduced to its original value but the exit should be a channeled spell, that would make it more balanced. But I guess the removal of culling will already help, so let’s wait for this.
Right now culling kills 2 birds with 1 stone; it reduces the load on their servers and our clients. However, some of us have fancy clients and would like them to send us all the data. Unfortunately for now; due to technical reasons; they can’t.
I’m still worried about CPU usage though. I hope they figured out what uses up so many CPU cycles in WvW and that it doesn’t get worse without culling. As I said before, my GPU is pretty much bored.
Here’s a great quote from the Shroud of the Avatar dev team on “culling” which immediately made me think of GW2:
“Most people are shocked to hear that one of the most expensive systems on large scene MMO servers, is mob/character visibility. Not the actual ray testing to see if they can be seen but the logic of figuring out which entities should be updated of others actions.” ~ Chris Spears, Tech Director for Shroud of the Avatar.
I’m sure they’d love to fix it for PVE as well, but eliminating it completely is Expensive.
Who cares about mob culling in PvE? This wasn’t a problem since the Karka event took place, and that won’t happen again (hopefully). There’s exactly two places where player culling is annoying, just like in WvW and the same system should be applied: in large events where there’s mainly one big enemy, like a dragon (it should be easier to render some mobs than 100 enemy players) and in LA where you feel alone most of the time because you see only a few people. From an RPG and immersion perspective, fixing the culling in LA is actually way more important than fixing it in WvW – that’s not considering gameplay though.
The website is actually redirecting you based on your browser language, not geolocation.
If you add English to your browser languages in the browser’s settings, it won’t auto-redirect you to the Spanish site. This has been tested as working on Chrome, but not Firefox.
Cool, works for me with Chrome, thanks for the tip. Those redirects are sometimes broken unfortunately, like in this case.
I also don’t think they couldn’t solve this problem, looks more like they just don’t want to. Everything in the game is focused on power anyway, there are three legendary greatswords and on all power is the major attribute, hell even staff and torch are made that way, in PvE confusion is pretty much useless and other conditions are way too short and/or inefficient compared to raw power and finally capped. It’s a bit ridiculous.
As for the culling issue with PvE… The issue is a self-inflicted problem brought on by one very specific NON-Programing change by the powers that be…Guesting!
You’re mixing up culling and overflows, among other things.
My PC is weaker than yours but my performance is pretty good o.O. I’m on Win8 though. 60 FPS in most zones, 30-40 FPS in Lion’s Arch. WvW, playable FPS. Btw, I have an i5 2500k, 16GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 560.
I also get 60FPS on most zones, except dragon or other large world events and WvW, and I also get the same FPS drop in LA. And in WvW, of course it’s “playable” most of the time. But first of all the perception of “playable” is very subjective, and secondly it gets unplayable when it would be important, in large battles. And that is solely because of CPU usage, which unfortunately cannot be reduced by any setting, even when you set everything to low, including subsampling, the FPS drop to below 30 as most of it only affects the GPU. There’s a minimal gain with shadows for example, but even that’s negligible overall.
There was a thread about this, they did it because of performance reasons, every condition is tracked individually and they won’t change it in the foreseable future. So a pure condition build will always be inferior while a pure power build is totally fine.
Hoodies? Really? What’s next…….Nike and Sketchers shoes? Talk about breaking immersion. It just seems as if Anet is just wildly shooting in the dark with no real direction.
I just tried the clothes ingame and there’s absolutely nothing “immersion breaking” about them, unless you think the fact that a hoodie is actually called a hoodie does that. They absolutely don’t look off, maybe try yourself instead of just ranting based on what you read.
One important thing to keep in mind is that this change ensures that all characters within visibility range will be reported to your client. So, even if you choose to turn the WvW character settings down to their lowest (i.e. nameplates only on most characters) while you still won’t see models for every character you will at least see nameplates. In the end it was important to us that no matter what your settings all the players in range will be visible in one way or another.
One of our goals with this patch was to turn off culling without degrading performance. We have attempted to have the default settings mimic the current performance environment as closely as possible, with options to go up or down depending on your machine specs. I strongly encourage everyone to play with the settings a bit to find out what is the right fit for you.
Did you also work on the insane CPU usage in WvW? My GTX 670 almost idles at 25% usage, even with supersampling and so on, in heavy fights while my Core i7-920@3,7GHz is heavily loaded. I’m seriously worried that this will get even worse, my GPU won’t have any problems rendering additional details, but any CPU not overclocked to way beyond 4GHz already struggles to keep up now. And considering the minimum setting will be to show nameplates at least, I’m afraid the CPU load will be even increased. And I somehow doubt you actually tested this with >100 players in a real world situation.
Hm, those fields also only affect five targets, just like most AoEs. There are very few that don’t. And the unfriendly ones are the ones with a red ring (which is missing for a single skill iirc, there has been a thread about this lately).
/e: judging by your other posts, you’re very busy complaining about almost all other classes or saying eles have been nerfed to death…
Pretty much sums it up. I like the new clothes and I don’t think “ANet just doesn’t get it”. I’m switching to town clothes sometimes. What you’re probably missing is the concept of “fun”. I agree they should add way more clothes especially useful ones from a RP perspective, but I still like what they did so far.
I tried out scepter with crippling dissipation and debilitating dissipation, and I just don’t feel like it’s worth the sacrifices you have to make. At least not with my play style. I was finding almost immediately that the enemy wasn’t close to the clones when they would be replaced… in fact it seemed like with my play style the clone getting replaced was always the farthest one away from the mob, which was kind of frustrating.
I can only say again what has been said above: 100% MF makes a 0,1% chance a 0,2% chance. 1000 oder 10000 drops would probably be an adequate sample size.
In high volume trading, I could make the same profit (100 gold) in the absence of taxes by buying 1000000 units of item X at a price of 1000000 gold and then sell them at a price of 1.0001 gold per unit (i.e. 1 gold 0 silver 1 copper) and make a profit of 1 million units x 0.0001 = 100 gold.
A selling tax makes high volume trading much more difficult and requires a much larger margin (in other words, for a million units, you would need a much larger price change than just 1 copper to make the same profit)
Exactly what I’m currently doing, with a 20-40% benefit, depening on how long I want to wait. I don’t put much effort in it except for a little bit of clicking though, somebody spending more time on this could probably do way better.
Unfortunately, Debilitating Dissipation is in Chaos and Crippling Dissipation is in Domination. I wish they’d either remove confusion from the tooltip or add it back in so we finally know what’s the deal with the scepter’s auto attack.
Whatever they do, they just shouldn’t add more currencies. It’s more than enough now with Karma, Laurels, Gold, Tokens, Badges and so on, this is becoming ridiculous.
also, the numbers tend to confuse ppl.. say you have a 1% chance of getting a rare weapon from a drop, 300% MF only bumps that up to a 4% chance.. so don’t expect rares and exotics to start raining down.
Thanks, I wanted to write the same. And often the drop chance is probably way below that. Plus it doesn’t has any effect on chests.
People using the word “deserve” in conjunction with video games are generally not to be taken seriously.
