cant get in game right now, what does the outfit even look like? and the glider?
Been looking to upgrade as well, anyone know about this MOBO?
GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 ATX Motherboard
also been thinkin aboutthis combo deal… any advice?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2449187
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Esports here is gonna FLOP Harder then Jim Henson did on SNL…
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This almost feels like… they are pushing away the vets and relying on freebs to fill the gap back in so they can continue with underwhelming expectations(or no expectations a freebs typically haven’t seen the game prior.)
It’s the most used skill by my ele(I bet not only mine). It looked so powerful. Now you made it look like burning kitten. Bring the effect back to us, minimize for others. It’s so simple.
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Or just implement global option “minimize skill effects”. Let the gamers choose. Is is really that hard?
This was what I was thinking actually. Make an option in the graphics option tab that either has a bullet to click or slider bar that allows for 3 options: OFF>>>MIN>>>MAX
I think this would be the best option for it, dont know how easy or hard that would be for them to do, but It would be the best option IMHO.
Now we know why they removed visual clutter. Oh wait….
Less people around? probably related to the 4 big games that came out last week + raids.
We’ll be back to normal eventually.
I doubt it, it was dying before those games were released, the only way to save this sinking ship now is to nerf it into pew pew so that people return to the maps to finish their achieves and gear grinds.
AFK raiders ruining Verdant Brink meta
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Posted by: JaddynnStarr.5201
Require T4 to open the raid, problem solved.
This is a horrible idea. it forces players to play things and ways they dont want to play for the sake of selfish interests. No one should be forced to play a particular way just to access content they really want to play.
Yet afking in a map so people can’t. Play the content they want is fine? I’m being forced to not play VB because of raids. Yeah, you are right it’s completely fair……..
Dont put words in my mouth, instead ask me my alternative. I dont like it that the entrance is in VB like it is either, but forcing players to do a 2 hour meta before being able to run a raid is even more lame then having a Meta be 2 hours long to begin with. No one will participate in your map or the raid if it is done this way.
@swift yea we all understand Anet flubbed this and thats how it is currently running, but one bad idea isnt made better by another equally bad idea.
spider farm still nets over a million xp per hour… twice as fast as any meta… If they are gonna nerf it, it will have to be less then 350k per hour in order for Metas to be a comparable alternative. People pushin Metas as the fastest are just white knighting, and trying to get their own maps full so they can get the rewards they are after for that map. 90% of the people I see fighting the farms are the ones after their bladed chest box is all… when they finally get it, I bet you wont see very many complaints about it at all.
But spider farming is so boring… Already got all the bladed chest boxes unlocked for the 3 armor types. I haven’t gotten back to the new expansion area for a week now. Game got boring too fast. XP rewards are so pitiful and grindy…
yea, it is boring, but the question asked wasnt about fun, it was just about whats the fastest…. I agree, its boring as hell, but it IS effective (and fast).
spider farm still nets over a million xp per hour… twice as fast as any meta… If they are gonna nerf it, it will have to be less then 350k per hour in order for Metas to be a comparable alternative. People pushin Metas as the fastest are just white knighting, and trying to get their own maps full so they can get the rewards they are after for that map. 90% of the people I see fighting the farms are the ones after their bladed chest box is all… when they finally get it, I bet you wont see very many complaints about it at all.
Im not sure thats the reason tho. It was such a smalll, small farm, that it inherently didnt take away from anything else in the zone. And when they nerfed it, it was only slight drop in xp. This is still a viable farm.
Alternatively, you could always do a verdant brink spider farm but that’s so unengaging I don’t know how people stand it.
lGot “SLIGHTLY” nerfed.
Fixed that for ya. Its still a viable way to get xp, it just isnt quite as fast as it used to be. But still tons faster then any Meta event or train.
AFK raiders ruining Verdant Brink meta
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Posted by: JaddynnStarr.5201
Require T4 to open the raid, problem solved.
This is a horrible idea. it forces players to play things and ways they dont want to play for the sake of selfish interests. No one should be forced to play a particular way just to access content they really want to play.
Anet, you might as well remove all content from the map other then the Meta events. There are too many people complaining that anything other then Meta events, interupts their playstyle and fun. Recently you have nerfed several areas to reflect your support of said complaints, so I respectfully request you nerf the remaining content of all the HoT maps until such time that these other players have no more use for the Meta events and want to do the remaining content of the maps. The slow removal and agonizing restrictions of how we can do content any other way but those prescribed by you, is just unecessary. Therefore again, I request you nerf everything NOT Meta.
I can give advice vs canach and his shield. If you watch his throw pattern, he will throw a fire bomb, you dodge that, then watch him throw a tiny detonator. when the detonator is in mid flight, hit your shield and it will reflect the detonator back at him. sometimes he reflects it back at you, but you just play ping pong with it and eventually it hits him and starts to break his bar. do the same thing for the 4 bombs he throws at you after the detonator. keep repeating this until his bar is broken. Then drop canachs shield and dps him to death, you wont need it anymore after that if you do it right. If the bar reapears, just start doing the pattern again is all. takes a bit o practice to get the timing, but very doable in less than 5-7 minutes once you get the hang of it.
Hahaha yea, i thought to myself “wtf?” this map is gonna take a looooooong time to figure out heh. Hope to see your guide one day!
They seem to be cherry picking what they infract. I have a friend that got infracted and had a post deleted for accidentally hitting the space bar when he used the “what the @@@@” abbreviation, yet I see thread titles using the same abbreviation floating around the forums with no action taken. Makes me wonder if certain Moderators have a grudge ya know?
@one prarie…
I dont think its as much about lack of time playing the game that is the issue (or comparison to the state of other MMOs’ expac releases). I think it is more that people expected the game to be more finished, and in line with what they were being told, than it is. Im not so sure bug fixing will alter the foundation in a way that it will turn this game around to be what they originally told us HoT would be. Cuz it is not the same.
except its a third cheaper to buy. and a hell of alot easier to get.
Well, per unit it is cheaper but compared to a single oil, its a whole different story, and that’s what you need in any recipe.
Also, ectos come regardless of game mode.
True, but you have to consider that ectos are the most basic form of an item. ectos are used in recipes just like flax is. flax is the most basic of its type as well. Compare recipes containing ecto’s vs those containing flax. there is no comparison, ectos are 3-4 times more expensive in recipes then flax is in the oil(in comparable amounts used.)
for example, ectos are 35s atm, flax are 10s. to use the 20 flax
To make 1 jar of linseed you need 20 flax seeds (2g), 5 mill stones(25s), 1 mill basin (5s) for a total of 2g 30s. Thats the cost to produce one COMPLETED linseed oil.
the pure cost of JUST ectos is 35s. To properly compare base to base, you use a recipe that requires 20 ectos (remember we used 20 flax) which would cost at its BASE, 7g. That is over 3 times the price of what it costs to make a linseed oil.
The only way to make a comparison between linseed and ectos is to compare them under different values. I.E. compare oranges to apples. As it stands you were comparing them that way, but they are not comparably equal any other way.
I would think in a company that size, that they would have different people to do the bug fixing vs updating the customer facing website. In which case, there isn’t much of a reason why it couldn’t be done. Although, sometimes getting designs, graphics, etc finalized can take some time. I would have thought that would have actually all been done prior to launch, but you never know.
Indeed, there are seperate divisions within Anet that handle these things. Just because bug/dev team is doing fixes, does not mean web designers and arts team cant do what they normaly do. I see alot of times people think all members of a company arejust interchangeable. The fact is they are not. There might be a few that can be roaming between places, but not all web developers are game coders or artisit, and vice versa.
I like the idea too, but I can see a problem with it for guilds who have 400+ members… most people have 4-10 alts on average and at the least thats 1600-4000 NPC’s in that small map… might get a bit overcrowded. Then you have to come up wit ha system that randomly grabs an npc and paths it to the map terrain, x2 cuz there is 2 diff guild halls. But I love the idea of populating it with NPC’s to some extent.
Well, disable them in JP areas like the OP hypothesized maybe? shouldnt be too hard to do.
Another idea I was thinking of on this, is that maybe enable gliding AFTER the map has been 100% cleared. That way they can still force you to clear the map like originally planned, but allow you to glide thru it afterwards. What do you think?
except its a third cheaper to buy. and a hell of alot easier to get.
thats the way the flaxen crumbles….
Its really no different then insta lvling an 80 or doing a 500 craft profession in 2 hours… I wouldnt think anything will be changed about it.
I agree, I feel there is no need for people to be upset when it is perfectly legal to instant level a character to 80, or to level 500 in crafting by just clicking your mouse button for a few seconds.
really toxsa… worst idea ever….. EVER??? just cuz you dont like it doesnt mean its the worst idea ever… my idea is EXACTLY what they did with legendary weapons… and what they are continuing to do with the new ones. Do you not like the special effects of the legendary weapons? no? ok, sell yours off then if you have any then plz.
I dont think the Legendary armor would be a good idea. I think instead focus on some new skins that you could quest for like you would a precursor in the new system. Stats all stay the same, but you can get a shinnier version of what you have, or maybe an altogether new skin. We all want variety, skins suffer as it is for armor in choices. Or heres a thought… maybe to coincide with blast finishers and combos, maybe make the armors do special effects or moves?
first and foremost, Thanks for the chance to try the stress testing portion of the beta! Now for my opinions of the testing…
This was a whirlwind experience! there was a small learning curve at first to figure out what weapons did what and what was effective against what. No problems there except I found that some of the skills were clunky to activate, and I found that even though I had enough power, it would take 2-3 key presses of the same skill to get it to activate. Lag wise, I didnt experience much and typically the times I did was just before all the events popped, or the Wyrven landing on the platform. I have a fairly decent rig, consisting of 16 gig ram and geforce 650 gtx’s and a 3.0 gig processor. I played it as well on a slower rig that I have,noticed quite a bit more lag. maybe due to bloom and particle effects? anywho, it seemed vid card dependant.
Mechanics of the game, gliding was weird possibly due to the new camera angles and all, but seemed it would pop open and instantly i was spawned about 3-5 meters above where i popped the glider. I would recomend a less amount of time to have the glider open, say after 2m fall? maybe that will lessen the lag in the opening of the glider to spawn about where you pressed the key from. Jumping seemed fine, I didnt have any issues with that. That was about all i had time to play with on that stress, but overall, playability seemed ok, not alot of internet lag, i think most is in the clients end. I look forward to actually playing in the beta portion now!
On a similar topic, I have noticed a recent trend some trolls have engaged in. its simply ringing the highest note on the bell over and over again for sometimes hours on end. I like the player music for the most part, and hate having to swap between the options screens all the time to reduce player music. Some of the songs people play are really quite good, but hearing a high c above c tone for a solid hour is just well, ridiculous! Is there anything you Anet fellows and gals can do to either make the sound options easier to get to, say… a radial button next to the map button at the bottom right for that, or make a way to report players who abuse that to try to irritate people?
Changing "We don't rez the dead" mentality.
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Posted by: JaddynnStarr.5201
the biggest reason for this mentality is the fact they are placing timers on big events…. Take away the timers, people will be more willing to rez on the fly. With things getting tougher and the possibility of loss, just means people are going to migrate towards the fastest best way to kill it and quickly. In all honesty it doesnt take long at all to hit the nearest waypoint and run back. I think it all boils down to laziness, most people dont want to put the effort in to running back when someone 2 feet away "might " rez them. They all cling to that hope, and they are usually rewarded by being rezzed 90% of the time.
Please give Specialization info this week
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I just hope the reason for no NDA isnt because this is just living story 3.0 …
Something else to consider, We are going to be running through toons faster than ever now, as people will tend to migrate to the fastest way to farm events in these maps. Infact it may not help some of the other maps at all, as likely it will be we all congregate at the fastest events to complete, or chain of events…