The problem with making sword#3 spawn a clone next to the target like scepter/focus/GS is the interaction with portal. Mesmers won’t be trying to pull you off walls anymore; instead we’ll stand below walls, then wait for some unsuspecting guy to walk too near the edge and do a iLeap->swap->portal. Even cannons/oil can be used for this.
With luck, mirror blade can also spawn your clone beside a target that has just walked through a tower/keep door. If the same bug happens iLeap clones you’ll see mesmers spamming their iLeaps at people trying to duck into towers, hoping to get lucky.
The 2nd part of the chain (swap) would need a LoS-to-clone requirement added and even that might not be enough. All walls would probably have to be made taller.
It really sucks that our only melee weapon has such a crippling (hurr) bug, but I’d rather not have a much bigger problem.
I don’t think solving this would be a problem with the currently existing LoS/pathfinding mechanism. Even if you fail to swap and immobilize, at least the clone gets to its target and cripples which is better than nothing.
Well yeah, then give everything to everybody for free. I don’t have enough time to work an a second exotic set too, so I’m bound to using the condition spec I’m running now. Boohoo. And WoW is worse in almost every way you can possibly imagine, I played that long enough.
Did you actually ever complete a large volume transaction in gold to gems transfer or the other way round? Even if some people bought huge amounts of gold, I’m 99,% sure they still couldn’t even touch that market in the slightest. But I’m also pretty sure John won’t tell us anything about the volume of gems purchased because that’s data internal to their business, unlike asking about ectos for example. I wouldn’t tell anybody either. Also if you compare the data of gems and other goods at gw2spidy, I actually don’t see anything that would lead me to the conclusion that the market was manipulated. All I see is the steeper inflation I’d expect with a new economy as it turns into a stable state.
My account shows it has a mobile authenticator linked to it, but I can login to my account on the website and can login to the game without having to enter the authenticator code. When I used the Blizzard authenticator, it required me to enter the time sensitive passcode every time I fired up the game or tried to login on the website. This is apparently not the case here. Is there a way I can require the use of mobile authentication every single time I login to the website or to the game?
It remembers the subnet you were in the last time you logged in, you won’t be asked for a code if it didn’t change. That’s a rudimentary protection against foreign hackers at least which is better than nothing. Should only happen if you enable it though, you just cannot edit the table of allowed subnets later.
Everybody else just plays the game at absolutely no disadvantage.
This is false in regards to WvW, one piece maybe nothing, but they do stack up eventually, so in case you have a main, this toon, when equipped in full ascended jewelry and backpack, for example, will have en edge over full exotic character in terms of stats.
Which isn’t the case as of now and if you just collect laurels you’ll be able to get that ascended gear too without much hassle, or by any other ways they’ll add in the future. And if you’re not a regular player the worst thing that’ll happen is that you won’t have ascended gear for every slot. And again the difference is marginal.
I’ll admit I don’t WvW as much as I likely should. When I do though, I tend to avoid the larger battles due to culling and those pesky stealth thieves who seem to pick my Anet tag out of the crowd and proceed to stick daggers in my spine.
When I WvW, I tend to run off into areas where I can get the drop on someone who is running to an objective that is contested. Rangers are really powerful in 1v1, especially when you can get the jump on someone and have good daze\evasion. When I am caught up ikittenerg trying to push back another zerg, I tend to keep my pet in pacifist mode so it doesn’t go running off to its death.
In a 1v1-3 situation though, double hyenas and a trusty spider can be a real game changer and difference maker.
Yeah, those thieves are quite a pain in WvW…
Don’t worry, those semi-perma-stealth thieves are an annoyance for pretty much everybody.
I’m now on full exotics and I couldn’t care less about ascended. Maybe I’ll go for a legendary in a year or so when there’s other ways to get a precursor, already have 250g and some mats. By that time, I’ll probably also have enough laurels for ascended gear or whatever is the best equipment tier then. I totally don’t miss anything, I’m still awesome in PvE and WvW and in PvP it doesn’t matter at all. So whatever you’re ranting about, it’s absolutely your personal choice. If you want to grind, feel free to do so. Everybody else just plays the game at absolutely no disadvantage.
You can disable email authentication if you prefer to have your account hacked. https://account.guildwars2.com/recovery
Good luck, or should I say farewell.
I can understand the logic for repair costs at higher lvl’s (broken), but travel costs should be separate as is does not fall under the same category (technically). We are just traveling.
It just an extra toll booth. Totally unnecessary.
I agree with Vol.5241 in terms of charging a certain rate (Fixed) without any inflation, but hell I am just ranting.
Until recently, I said they should couple travel costs to the zone’s average level, not the character one (they could just have used the sidekick level system). Since the loot you get in low level zones has been increased, this isn’t really necessary any more. Travel costs simply don’t matter once you’re level 80.
The best solution would be to remove it. It was a good idea but it’s been nothing but an inconvenience.
That would be just another workaround. Only because it’s an inconvenience for you, that doesn’t mean it is for everybody else. They just have to solve the root of those issues: no server hopping for event chests.
The source problem is the crap loot you get from almost any activity in this game. When this is the case, you can’t really be surprised that people desperately flock to the few activities whose chance of getting even just a simple rare is not another outstandingly accurate approximation of the absolute zero.
Yeah, at least 10 rares per day without any effort really isn’t sufficient. Let’s just hand out free legendaries to everybody and remove the gold sinks, yay. Totally works in Diablo III, doesn’t it? Oops… no it doesn’t because the game suffers from heavy inflation. Guess why.
Pretty much sums up what it’s like to try and discuss with you. We won’t confuse you with facts, you already have an opinion. Take things in that direction if you want to. That’s your best argument and that’s okay.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721
Prices are dropping, who cares about these details. You can now easily gain 10 rares within a short time just by doing some open world events, doesn’t take more time or effort than completing a daily, and use BLKs to salvage them fore ectos. It’s not rocket science.
What’s way more important now is the supply/demand ratio or price for high level mats and lodestones…
You easily notice that on German servers as you’re suddenly talking to people in various foreign languages when put on overflow. At least I guess it’s more common on NA/EU servers to hear different languages than on the few “strictly” German ones.
Anyway, the solution is: one chest per event per day. No matter on which server. The current guesting hopping seems more like an exploit than anything else, why should you be able loot the chest on another server but only once on your own servers.
WvW players will lose months upon months of stats that they’ve compiled and people will be pigeonholed into playing one main or stuck without any recognition or progression to speak of because they like alts. There is a guy in my guild with 10 fully geared and max leveled characters. He will now be forced to choose one, and if it is a grind, he won’t get recognized with the nice shiny titles he should be getting for his WvW play.
Most people just come to WvW with badly equipped, upscaled chars and are more or less useless though. So it’s good they’re discouraging twinking in WvW.
I’ve accepted that grinding laurels for the ascended gear is useless, since they are adding another tier of gear above that (and I’m guessing a new currency then too).
Funny how these things work. ANet says they’re not adding another tier in 2013, people hear they’re adding another tier in 2014.
One chest per character per day, and a maximum of maybe five chests per account. Problem solved without punishing anybody, because nobody can tell me he’s actively playing more than five characters per day on different servers except for the sole purpose of farming world events.
You’re not even supposed to grind for “max power”, this is meant to happen over a long time and it doesn’t make you more competitive against other players, only in siege battles. The mostly random WvW zerg still dictates the winner.
Main problem is that there’s no setting, or a combination of settings, you can turn down to significantly reduce the CPU load so the game stays above 30FPS all the time. Which is the absolutely minimum for such a game to be playable at all. The heavy stuttering even makes it worse. But since WvW zergs are just a brainless AoE massacre it probably evens it out…
Suffice to say, the TP is not the sole means to a Legendary, rather just one means.
So you’re going to throw something from four to maybe several hundred exotics into the mystic forge for a chance to get a precursor and farm the materials yourself? I can show you how many lodestones and so on I got after 250 hours of PvE, good luck farming them all. There’s a reason those materials are expensive.
You shouldn’t be farming lodestones in the first place.
Dear god no, signatures with images are pure hate. Nobody looks at them anyway, they’re just a waste of space and make every forum page more confusing.
Suffice to say, the TP is not the sole means to a Legendary, rather just one means.
So you’re going to throw something from four to maybe several hundred exotics into the mystic forge for a chance to get a precursor and farm the materials yourself? I can show you how many lodestones and so on I got after 250 hours of PvE, good luck farming them all. There’s a reason those materials are expensive.
Rangers have their highs and lows like every other class. They have really good DPS, but they have to work at it a bit more than other classes like warrior or mesmer. It’s possible just not as easy.
Eh… did you just compare warriors to mesmers in terms of sustained dps and effort. Mesmers definitely have advantages, but clearly not these and especially not at the same time.
PS: let’s not even talk about condition builds in PvE. Sigh.
yes iruwen i know about the subsampling, alot of people here think the in game supersampling is a form of AA, when its just higher res textures, and sub sampling is lower res(game looks very retro in subsample mode…LOL)
It’s not about texture resolution but sampling resolution. It can be seen as some kind of AA, although it’s very inefficient. Here’s two shots of supersampling combined with external downsampling (2880×1800 to 1920×1080), notice the grass and the trees in the background: http://i.imgur.com/TBhLK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CwA1P.jpg
Legendaries don’t have better stats and ascended stats advantage is still negligible, there’s nothing to keep up with. Also you can now complete your dailies (didn’t check the monthly yet) in WvW and get the same ascended items too.
Not a ton more, but memory usage increases since e.g. pointer size doubles.
the in game “supersample” setting is not true super sampling, its just higher res textures(they even say such if you read the description of it in game and in the wiki last i checked) it can cause problems for some systems because it uses to much vram/system ram.
There’s a separate option for texture resolution and if you don’t see the effect of supersampling vs native, try setting it to subsampling which makes it pretty clear. It also says this in the tooltip.
They said ascended gear will be available in WvW. I didn’t get any laurels for dailys/monthlys I completed before laurels were introduced either. Your arguments are flawed. Also getting karma for exotic armor is easy in WvW. You can also put it exactly the other way round: if I had known what would be added in the future, I would have started playing WvW instead of PvE earlier.
I’m laughing when I read some posts in here speaking of paychecks and rewards. Guess what, when I’m playing WvW I don’t even care, because it’s fun. As long as I gain enough coin to repair and upgrade I’m fine. I don’t need progression because I haven’t forgotten that this is a game. And ANet is putting a lot of work in WvW and there’s still a big WvW patch upcoming.
No dude u are kind of wrong about Dx11, lets see, it can boost CPU performance by doing 2 things, basically multhithreading is much better on DX11 protocols which means it could potentially be more efficient rendering the game by using 4 core CPUs, not going into details here, just watch some new dx11 engines and how they perform on games like BF3 and Crysis 3, don’t tell me BF3 is not a CPU instensive game cuz it is a FPS, that is not true, it is actually way more CPU intensive than any MMO out there due the complex models, advanced lighting and physics, full destructive enviroments (do u have any idea how CPU intensive that is and why no other games does something like that????), a multiplayer 64 players map in BF3 is about twice CPU intensive than any WvW scenario the diference is the engine optimization for dx11. Also by adding new features as tasselation u can create more complex models with tons of poligons and make em easier and faster to render by the GPU, but ofc this kind of stuff would requiere a full revamp of 3D models which is not gonna happen.
You’re mixing up a lot of things here and DX11 is not a protocol, anyway it’s true that it introduced multithreaded rendering which can help in some situations. BF3 as a relatively limited and straight forward shooter isn’t more CPU intensive than an open MMO though, the latter is far more complex and the load probably doesn’t even increase linearly with the large number of players. Also the environments in BF3 are fare from being completely destructible and there is no DX9 renderpath you could compare the performance to on equal hardware and so on. If ANet could make full use of DX11’s multithreading capabilities (multiple threads assembling deferred contexts and then combining them into a single command list), I agree that this could relieve some burden from the CPU. If they only switch to DX11 without utilizing these capabilites, the performance could even be decreased though (which is actually the case with a lot of DX11 compatible games where the DX9 renderpath is still faster). WoW is actually a good (and unfortunately rare) example of how it’s done right, although I don’t know how much of this gain is due to multithreaded rendering because iirc the DX11 version has been out and performed better before such support was added to NV’s and AMD’s drivers. Afaik Civ 5 was the first game to actually use this.
GW2 already supports traditional CPU multithreading of course, the main goal should be to reduce the general CPU load though.
You mean like PvE players who have full ascended gear and legendaries and piles of cash and now want to join WvW on equal footing with people who have been doing that for months?
Arenanet needs to recognize that they have been giving WvW players the shaft since the game came out. We are way behind PvE players.
That’s why they increased the WvW loot now. And I cannot buy a title or ability with gold as far as I know. I wholeheartedly agree exotic equipment should be available for badges of honor in WvW though, I have no idea why they didn’t do this.
Time and time again i go from mmo to mmo and I find that devs feel the need to change something that was working or people enjoy
Well, a lot of people complained about it beforehand, so criticize them and not ANet, they just did what these people called for.
Really? I literally know of no-one who ever complained about AC exploration needing to be change…
Many people said the bosses HP needed to be lowered and special attacks/more abilities should be added. People complained that trash was too easy and just tedious due to high HP – now the hp have been drastically lowered and the trash now have stronger abilites.
I expected the price to fall with the loot increase, was a bit surprised it actually incrased for a moment after the patch, but naturally people spent ectos on ascended gear before the increased drop rates kicked in. Also glad the price of Onyx Lodestones slowly drops.
Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in march.
Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.
Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.
That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!
We’ll have a blog post coming up sometime in the next month to go into more details about the culling fixes and what you can expect.
I’m afraid this will cause even more severe FPS drops than many of us, even those with high-end hardware and CPUs clocked beyond 4,5GHz, currently experience, did you work on this as well? http://i.imgur.com/I1f1SC1.jpg
GPU usage drops to ~25%, CPU is probably more loaded than the graph shows… or there’s something else limiting in the client, memory isn’t a problem. There’s something very wrong, playing around with core parking and HT doesn’t help, further overclocking does, my Core i7-920 won’t be stable beyond 3,7GHz though and I doubt clocks beyond 4,5GHz should be a requirement for such a game. Changing the graphics options does pretty much nothing at all.
The two problems deserve different solutions. If a player is in queue for a bit, but needs to log off to do something else, that player shouldn’t be punished because they didn’t leave the roster first. This is a completely fixable problem. Punishing people who knowingly dodge is a much more difficult problem.
Yes, they should be punished. The other option is to punish the rest of the team, which is what’s happening now. “log off to do something else” is fine – if it doesn’t hurt anyone. The deserter penalty system is well-proven and working fine in a lot of other games, GW2 doesn’t have to do everything different just for the sake of being different/better/nicer than the others.
Ether Clone (third activation of the Mesmer’s Scepter Ether Bolt chain skill) doesn’t apply confusion as it should:
“Shoot out a third bolt of energy that confuses your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt.”
Since the Scepter is clearly aimed to fit tightly into confusion/glamour builds with its confusion and blind effects and already is inferior compared to the sword’s effect for example, this is very annoying.
Since… always. The swiftness granted by Temporal Curtain doesn’t stack with any other source of swiftness, not even Temporal Curtain itself. Which is highly annoying considering a Mesmer’s access to swiftness already is very limited and unreliable.
It seems pretty childish to complain now when you don’t get the rewards for things you did in the past. I did a lot of events and killed a lot of veterans and champions in PvE, so I should be getting a compensation for the loot I missed before the loot system was changed? And shouldn’t I get laurels for all the dailies I did in the past? When they change the way you get precursors, should everybody who bought one get a gold refund? This happens everywhere in the game all the time as it evolves. If you did a lot of WvW in the past you’ll probably also do a lot of WvW in the future, so you’ll gain those titels a lot faster than any random player doing WvW from time to time. Deal with it and don’t be selfish and demanding, I guess you played WvW because it was fun before, not for any rewards, otherwise you have other problems.
I was exchanging 12000 gems for gold lately and the price for 6000 constantly jumped from ~99g up to ~102,5g. There’s a lot of fluctuation in this market, seems it’s either relatively small or there are huge transfers happening.
We had them in story before launch, but what we found is that we couldn’t strike a balance between the amount we give for completing story mode, and the difficult difference. Our feedback was that rather than face the challenge of Explorable dungeons, high skill groups would just afk faceroll the much easier story mode content for the guaranteed smaller token amount. We tried several things, but couldn’t strike the balance, so we removed tokens from story mode as a reward and put them into explorable mode only as a reward.
I’m sure you agree that, if you could find additional means to encourage higher level players to help lower level players run through story mode dungeons, it would be better for the game overall.
I did five different story mode dungeons yesterday to complete the monthly, we always had at least three level 80 players in our group. The rest knew the dungeon but played twinks. I severely doubt you’ll have a problem finding a group for any story dungeon using http://gw2lfg.com, and I doubt even more that even the most random low level group will fail to complete any of the story modes; I really don’t see any reason for a special reward, you already get one at the end of the dungeon and those are really easy and short in story mode. I’ve never been in a dungeon before and I didn’t die except when we hit the random troll in AC and the first golem boss in CM as I wasn’t aware of their mechanics and they hit pretty hard. Any death after that was caused by heavy lag (up to ten seconds).
GG
