Guild Wars 2

But the game does exist and I do play it. If they want to continue to be successful in this market they do, in fact, need to update it. There are plenty of suggestions that are universally beneficial, or for things that should have been fixed or implemented forever ago. There are things that need to exist but don’t. This just isn’t one of those things.

But I will concede, you are right. You could go to just about any thread here and say “This is something you want, not something you need.” What you should take away, though, is most of them don’t claim otherwise.

I think that, more than anything, is what keeps bringing me back here. Nobody needs this. I mean hell, look at it. Nobody is willing to leave this game if they didn’t get this, but people are if it was implemented. Based on that, while nobody needs this to exist, there are actually people who apparently do need it not to in order to continue playing.

Scrambles.2604:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Scrambles.2604:

Kal Spiro.9745:

In any respect, based on the way the game has been built, presented by the Devs, and frequently updated, I have to disagree. I think you should have to join, if not build, a guild of like minded people to stay safe from the unclean masses. You’re right, you shouldn’t be required to play with me, any more than I should be required to play with you. But, I’ve never had any trouble finding like minded players without /inspect, so I don’t see why it would improve my time now. You guys are the ones that want to band together, so band and leave us alone, then there remains no need for this thing.

TL;DR – There isn’t a need for /inspect, so I never felt it.

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just because you don’t need it doesn’t mean others also don’t need it.

Personally, i don’t have all the skins memorized and i don’t feel like alt-tabbing to dulfy every time i see a shiny i don’t recognize. With /inspect being such a ubiquitous feature in MMOs, i think it would fit in well in GW2, especially when there is such an emphasis on gear skins and collecting shinies in this game.

For someone so concerned about elitists, i find it funny that you seem to have forgotten what it’s like to be a new player that doesn’t know every facet of the game.

Oh good, I don’t have to edit afterall.

Nobody NEEDS this. You don’t need it. You want it. This is something you want. Maybe you want it so you can enjoy the variety of play the people partake of. Maybe you want it so you can check out the nifty outfits people are wearing. Most people want it so they can dictate how someone should and should not play and what is and is not an acceptable build. Nobody needs to do any of those things. They just want to.

I would love to have a way to view the name of a cool piece of armor so I could preview it on myself. But I don’t want to compromise with the ability for people to dictate other peoples play styles to acquire it. I don’t need that either.

Yeah, I don’t like how my Norn apparently cradles her torch while loping. I would also prefer it be more symmetrical. It won’t happen, but I’d like it if it did.

Taralom.9562:

I’m all in for this, it helps promote socialism in my honest opinion

There you have it. Elitism and /inspect makes you a Socialist.

Scrambles.2604:

Kal Spiro.9745:

In any respect, based on the way the game has been built, presented by the Devs, and frequently updated, I have to disagree. I think you should have to join, if not build, a guild of like minded people to stay safe from the unclean masses. You’re right, you shouldn’t be required to play with me, any more than I should be required to play with you. But, I’ve never had any trouble finding like minded players without /inspect, so I don’t see why it would improve my time now. You guys are the ones that want to band together, so band and leave us alone, then there remains no need for this thing.

TL;DR – There isn’t a need for /inspect, so I never felt it.

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Harper.4173:

You’re asking why he’s in a rush to do the dungeons – same reason I’m in a rush- GOLD. I want to get the max amount of gold possible for my time spent in that dungeon. Since the gold reward is FIXED the only way to fix this is to spend as little time inside as possible.
And yes – an inspect function is necessary. I should’t have to build a guild just so I know the people are " safe" to play with.

To what end? Why is that fun?

In any respect, based on the way the game has been built, presented by the Devs, and frequently updated, I have to disagree. I think you should have to join, if not build, a guild of like minded people to stay safe from the unclean masses. You’re right, you shouldn’t be required to play with me, any more than I should be required to play with you. But, I’ve never had any trouble finding like minded players without /inspect, so I don’t see why it would improve my time now. You guys are the ones that want to band together, so band and leave us alone, then there remains no need for this thing.

@unrelated – Kal – i ran a run of AC with some people from TC a few days ago. They refused to skip and generally wasted a lot of time in the run. I can’t help but feel your name is familiar. Did we run in the same run by any chance?

Oddly enough I did run AC recently, but unless you were guesting I don’t think the one guy who pugged in was you. I’m crap with names though, so I couldn’t say for sure. We did the ghost eater, and I “tanked” the graveling trap part. At least one of the group had never done the dungeon at all, and none of us had done it since they apparently changed the end fight.

Sky.7610:

There’s so much ignorance in this post. As previously noted, your $60 one time purchase is not a incentive for Anet to continue expanding the game, the very profitable gemstone is. Having said that, why not increase accessibility to this gem store while making a modest profit off of this $10 deal? This would not make Anet more poor than they are now. Any extra box sales at this point is just icing on the cake. Also for your 2nd point, there’s countless of free MMO,MMORPG,MMOFPS games out there with microtransaction and I assure you that they are still in business.

Sorry, but there are two things wrong with this.

1) It can’t be a gem store item, that would require already having access to the game since you can’t buy things off the gem store without getting to the gem store. So while it’s cool to gauge things in gem values it makes no sense from a retail perspective.

2) Use and purchase of gems does nothing to server ANet, nor GW2. All Gem purchase profits go directly to NCSoft and bypass ANet entirely. NCSoft owns the Gems and sells the Gems to be used for ingame purchases, and then does whatever they want to with the money they get. They can choose to bring it back to supporting GW2, but they can just as easily use it to boost production in Wildstar, or make Lineage 3. It’s entirely up to them.

So, assuming ANet gets the value of box sales, the end result is, ANet gets $10and then all the money ANet could have gotten for the rest of the price of a normal “box” goes to NCSoft to do kitten-all with. In this case I’d much rather them continue to sell these for $50.

If all sales, regardless of source, go to NCSoft, though, then I completely support this idea, because I think it would be a very good introductory package into the game.

Ayrilana.1396:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Sorry, but you should know everything about your character by 30. The only thing left is traits which only accent your play. Very few traits alter how your character plays. Also by the time you’ve reach 5000 achievement points, OR been playing for a year you should have a good idea how to play your characters and how other classes work. At least somewhat. If you can’t and don’t then it really doesn’t matter if you artificially boost your level or not, you’re still not going to get it either way.

Wrong. Achievement points does not relate to skill. You can have only one character the entire time and have no idea about other classes. You also don’t get all of your abilities unlocked until around level 60 if you do map completion.

The way you level and the way you play after you reach level 80 is normally entirely different. Builds are also something to consider as well. I can level necro with berserker gear and then try to play as a conditionmancer when I hit 80. These are two very different play styles.

It’s not any particular trait that affects how you play but all of them together. This is known as a build. I have to point this out since it seems you’re alluding that this doesn’t make a difference. Over the course of leveling you will learn the class’ strengths and weaknesses.

This is obviously a difference of play styles because I honestly can’t conceive of why you would ever do that. You’re right, you probably won’t unlock all your skills until about level 60, but by level 30 you should have all the skills you intend to play with on a regular basis, unless you’re seeking a tier 2 elite.

By level 30 you should also have decided what kind of play style you are looking for, crit or cond as per your description. From that point on all you’re doing is enhancing that playstyle.

Still, so what? Even if someone couldn’t cope and was terrible as a result of boosting their level, what does it matter? They’re not going to be any worse than any number of terrible players already playing that leveled the normal way.

I’m good with gw2skills.net. It lets you choose everything, skills, traits, armor, weapons and upgrades. I don’t see a value in displaying the current incarnation of my character when I can show what the intended final value is going to be.

That’s why the description of your template idea isn’t any different than /inspect and is just as worthless. If you’re saying make gw2skills.net into an ingame function so I can build the path from level 1 fine. But I don’t need anyone to know where I am before I reach my goal. Neither do you.

As for running with you. No thanks. I’ve already established that I’m not in a hurry. I like to play the game for what it is, not for a prize dispenser. I like to watch cut scenes and enjoy the stuff between the bosses too. I even like to clear a path from time to time rather than skipping all the junk. Even if I had a build you would find acceptable that would still be how I like to play and we would not get along, cause you’re in a rush to finish it.

I prefer the suggestion from quite a long time ago that would force any enemy corpses within a secured facility to respawn at their home base once the engagement ended. So if you take a keep, when you’ve claimed the keep and then pushed back any counter attack events all corpses from the previous owner, or whoever get forced to respawn, no accepting or anything, they just respawn. If someone comes to take your keep and you push them back, when the event finished anyone who was inside the keep respawns whether they want to or not. If they’re outside they stay there, but if they’re inside they go away.

That aside, burning bodies could be fun.

Bright.9160:

uknortherner.2670:

You could have the best build in the world and still be useless at playing it. Stats/builds are irrelevant if you have no skill.

Yes, but there are several factors that will determine a player’s ability to pull their weight in a group.

- Gear
- Build
- Skill
- RNG of the encounters

The last one is obviously not possible to take into account, so that leaves us with 3 factors. The more factors you can eliminate, the bigger the chance the player is going to pull their weight.

Oh, and stop saying that crap about “a good player can run a bad build and do better than a bad player with a good build” or anything along the lines of “good build =/= good player”. Because an actually good player wouldn’t run a bad build to begin with. A player with a good build is either a bad player running a good build, which will show itself during the run, or a good player running a good build. A player with a bad build is going to perform sub par no matter how you twist or turn it, because if he was a good player, and he’d run a good build, his performance would be significantly better, hence there is no reason to take someone with a truly bad build no matter what.

And once again you say nothing worth taking note of. You scoff at my cleric spec. Like I care. Yes, I do less damage, but I also survive your RNG argument because I built my character specifically for that situation. You want damage damage damage because the game makes life easier, as long as everything goes right in those circumstances. Me, I know better. I don’t need the dungeon to be over in an instant cause I actually like playing the game. I don’t know why you’re in such a rush for the same reason. But where you die when the RNG gods frown, I get hurt and keep going. The only thing in any dungeon that has ever consistently slowed me down are my companions. The only thing that has killed me is trying to res them instead of leaving them to rot because they couldn’t take a hit.

You know how your build works. You know how to play your character. But you don’t know a kitten ed thing about me, how I play, nor what I’m capable of. So in what way, exactly, are you qualified to judge me based on numbers on a spreadsheet?

You are the absolute worse type of person in any MMO. You aren’t willing to just play the game. You can’t take the good with the bad and deal with it. If it isn’t the most you can’t deal with it at all, but you don’t have to. You don’t need /inspect because you don’t play with other people. You only play with your people already. Therefore this tool wouldn’t even be needed by you. I also understand you’re advocating templates, but if you want templates to be your salvation join a templates thread. This is about /inspect, which we don’t need.

I agree. Perminant until actively dismissed with no cooldown. If this happened I might actually create a character for the sole purpose of being a watchknight.

Why does a post that gets more people to look at it deserve anything? Maybe they have a really catchy or flamboyant title. That doesn’t make the content worth a kitten .

Equinox.4968:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Harper.4173:

As to the inspect feature : it has to happen. Why? Because it’s terrible having to carry people around.

This is the problem, right here. You are an elitist. You feel that just because someone isn’t playing the game just the way you want YOU are somehow being imposed upon if you are “stuck” working with them.

You are not carrying people around. That isn’t how this game works. Just because they might not be killing things quite as fast as you like doesn’t make them deficient.

The problem is you and your rude expectations. I’m not going to say you’re doing it wrong, because the point is to do it the way you want to. But that also means not imposing your view of how to do it on anyone else either.

Besides, you’ll “carry” people who have great gear but no skills. Gear alone means very little. The best player might be ungeared, and the worst might have fine gear. How does gear tell you anything at all? The best possible stats mean nothing without experience and intelligence.

Exactly, I consistently out played my groups in dungeons with sub par gear in a spec people scoff at, with a class people have no faith in. But if anyone carried anyone it was me carrying them, because I know how to play my character.

Player Character.9467:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Player Character.9467:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Player Character.9467:

Faranox.4217:

Vick.6805:

I can’t speak for Khunvyel, but I think 20 levels is excessive because there are far too many ways to level to 80 without actually learning the character. So, we end up with players who have no clue how to play their level 80 effectively.

And how long do these players exist in this ‘ineffective’ state? A day of play? 2 days? Learning to play a class doesn’t take very long. I don’t think this is enough reason to keep these scrolls from simply granting +20 levels.
No one who has earned one of these scrolls is NEW to the game. They know what’s up.

Really? There’s still people complaining about being kicked for running mf gear.

That is a state of the elitists running dungeons and not willing to accept that viable doesn’t mean optimal. That has nothing to do with someone who doesn’t know how to play their class, or the game.

See, here we have another ineffective player who doesn’t actually know how to use their class. Part of knowing how to play is pressing that dodge button and not being a cleric spec lbow ranger.

That’s cool, I’ll laugh at your corpse while I solo the boss then. I don’t mind. I won’t res you though, cause the only thing that gets me killed in dungeons is ressing the shmoes who thing dodge is the only answer to everything.

Me I have damage resistance, massive regen and invulnerability on top of my two dodges. You feel that damage is the only answer, but one misstep and you’re out. I do a bit less damage, but take much more to go down.

GL outhealing 20k autos. Oh wait, you can’t.

Don’t have to, I’ll just take 0 damage instead. Cause I can do that. I was going to make a relevant argument, but I realized we’re in a completely different thread to where that argument actually is relevant.

Simple fact is: Anyone getting these +20 scrolls will already know how to play their class, or else nothing is going to help them anyway, so it makes no difference if it bumps them to 20 or 80. It amounts to the same thing.

SlyFoxSays.5342:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Um, you realize the cause of that “agony” is poison, right?

Poison is called poison. Agony is based off moving. Your argument is invalid. By that logic all degen is “poison.”

Are you seriously not able to follow your own argument?

You claim that the condition should be changed to “agony” because when you get stung it is agony. What I was asking, which you have apparently answered in the negative, is if you realized that the agony you feel from a sting is due to poison. You are getting poisoned and poison is agonizing, but it’s still poison. The powers do exactly what they’re intended to do already. This was the point.

In this case cripple is more useful for keeping them from running away because it slows them down. Poison also reduces their ability to heal themselves or be healed, which is also better.

Lastly, Agony is a mechanic in Fractals. The condition you are looking for is Torment. And while I would agree that Agony is how you feel while poisoned, I don’t know if torment is entirely relevant.

Player Character.9467:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Player Character.9467:

Faranox.4217:

Vick.6805:

I can’t speak for Khunvyel, but I think 20 levels is excessive because there are far too many ways to level to 80 without actually learning the character. So, we end up with players who have no clue how to play their level 80 effectively.

And how long do these players exist in this ‘ineffective’ state? A day of play? 2 days? Learning to play a class doesn’t take very long. I don’t think this is enough reason to keep these scrolls from simply granting +20 levels.
No one who has earned one of these scrolls is NEW to the game. They know what’s up.

Really? There’s still people complaining about being kicked for running mf gear.

That is a state of the elitists running dungeons and not willing to accept that viable doesn’t mean optimal. That has nothing to do with someone who doesn’t know how to play their class, or the game.

See, here we have another ineffective player who doesn’t actually know how to use their class. Part of knowing how to play is pressing that dodge button and not being a cleric spec lbow ranger.

That’s cool, I’ll laugh at your corpse while I solo the boss then. I don’t mind. I won’t res you though, cause the only thing that gets me killed in dungeons is ressing the shmoes who thing dodge is the only answer to everything.

Me I have damage resistance, massive regen and invulnerability on top of my two dodges. You feel that damage is the only answer, but one misstep and you’re out. I do a bit less damage, but take much more to go down.

Harper.4173:

As to the inspect feature : it has to happen. Why? Because it’s terrible having to carry people around.

This is the problem, right here. You are an elitist. You feel that just because someone isn’t playing the game just the way you want YOU are somehow being imposed upon if you are “stuck” working with them.

You are not carrying people around. That isn’t how this game works. Just because they might not be killing things quite as fast as you like doesn’t make them deficient.

The problem is you and your rude expectations. I’m not going to say you’re doing it wrong, because the point is to do it the way you want to. But that also means not imposing your view of how to do it on anyone else either.

Diamandis.7483:

No! =/ nothing about this kinda system in the game feels right about it. I would only support it if you could help a guildy or friend directly and only them with such a feature as in if they are on your friends list and you are on their list. If they add this feature they should also just change all waypoint fees to 1-2g while they are at it too cause well that makes sense too right!? Then you could also add debuffs to the entire player base for all those who do not wanna be inspected to reduce movement speed by 99%!! Genius! oh I think I might be in favor of a inspect feature if they fix our op movement skills and waypoint abuse then

None of this makes sense, nor is it a good argument for anything. You’re not helping here.

Um, you realize the cause of that “agony” is poison, right?

Ayrilana.1396:

Grimwolf.7163:

Some level ranges are far harder than others to pass. The ~20-40 range for example is completely insane due to a lack of good events and massive level jumps between each stage of the personal story.

Not with the new account XP buff. I just leveled a character doing map completion and all dynamic events as I saw them. This was all within a week averaging 1.5-2 hours a map for perspective on time spent. I only came across one instance where I was not above the level cap for the map which was around 55ish I believe.

I have a suggestion for the EXP scroll. Make it useable at any level but it grants ONLY the experience it would take to bring a level 1 character to level 20. This is about 116k EXP rounded up. This is more equitable.

Not ever, the game is designed to be a consistent leveling experience. Since you don’t need to be in a level appropriate zone to get level appropriate XP there is no time that you don’t continue to level at the same rate. If you’re not getting at least one level every day on any character you happen to be playing, you’re not playing at all.

Player Character.9467:

Faranox.4217:

Vick.6805:

I can’t speak for Khunvyel, but I think 20 levels is excessive because there are far too many ways to level to 80 without actually learning the character. So, we end up with players who have no clue how to play their level 80 effectively.

And how long do these players exist in this ‘ineffective’ state? A day of play? 2 days? Learning to play a class doesn’t take very long. I don’t think this is enough reason to keep these scrolls from simply granting +20 levels.
No one who has earned one of these scrolls is NEW to the game. They know what’s up.

Really? There’s still people complaining about being kicked for running mf gear.

That is a state of the elitists running dungeons and not willing to accept that viable doesn’t mean optimal. That has nothing to do with someone who doesn’t know how to play their class, or the game.

I’m hoping we can toilet them for something cooler.

Vick.6805:

Faranox.4217:

Khunvyel.3972:

I wouldn’t mind it be changed to “set character to 20 if below 20” with the addition of; “if 20+, you get +5 levels”. I find +20 unconditional levels too excessive. +5 is okay.

Why do you feel it’s excessive?

I can’t speak for Khunvyel, but I think 20 levels is excessive because there are far too many ways to level to 80 without actually learning the character. So, we end up with players who have no clue how to play their level 80 effectively.

I do like Drakkon’s idea of just making it award a set amount of exp. I’d actually suggested the same thing in an older thread.

Sorry, but you should know everything about your character by 30. The only thing left is traits which only accent your play. Very few traits alter how your character plays. Also by the time you’ve reach 5000 achievement points, OR been playing for a year you should have a good idea how to play your characters and how other classes work. At least somewhat. If you can’t and don’t then it really doesn’t matter if you artificially boost your level or not, you’re still not going to get it either way.

Drakkon.4782:

Jordo.5913:

Change it to “grants 20 levels of experience”!

I have all my chr slots maxed with characters all around the lvl 50 range….with 3 80’s….so the scroll of experience is worthless to me

this way people who are trying a new class in a spare chr slot can get to 20 instantly or faithful players can get a 50 alt to 80 faster

Good idea, but I have a better one, that is also just as easy to program: “Grants the XP equivalent required to go from 1 to 20”. Now no one feels like they’re getting too much XP, leveling too fast, etc, and those with 80s can get bonus skillpoints from a few extra levelups (need those for making the high end stuff, I hear).

I like this one. By granting the XP it takes to level from 1-20 it becomes progressively weaker the higher your level, but never totally worthless.

I just got my third one of these and I have nothing to do with them.

I don’t understand. Everything in the game isn’t enough casual things to do?

This thread seems mislabeled. It looks like a desire for some possible minigames, but mostly just random extra junk in the game.

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Also if you’re going to bring up the leaderboards, can you at least say where they are? I’ve played this game for a year with over 1k hours and I didn’t know gw2 even had a leaderboards until the achievement rewards came out, and without a google search I still can’t find them. To me, and a vast amount of players, the leaderboards don’t mean anything.

Tab at the top, Community, Leaderboards is the only thing in it. The leaderboards don’t mean anything to more than 100 people, I’m pretty sure. The top 100, 1000 at the most, people are the only ones who actually get placed on the leaderboards, and they’re the ones with 10,000+ AP.

MAGpie.7962:

If this exist, I apologize. I could not find anything with the search, however:

Toooo many dailies. Yeah, it is great to get those points, but heck, when I get home from work, I get showered, get dinner and sit down and get the dailies done (or try to) and then try and get an hour or so to do something I would like to do. Trouble is, by then, its bed time. So, the whole week goes by where I am in a way compelled to… well, do what the daily table dictates and not playing the game.

I don’t like that.

Ok, yes, “you don’t have to”. I know… but I do want the points, and I don’t want to be left behind either. So… yeah, I have to.

Whats the chances of just slightly modifying the dailies to “Hey player, here is a list, choose any 5”, and cap the point at 5. So if you do more, well, you still just get the 5 points for the ones that count.

I dono, I just feel that the dailies are just getting heavier and heavier. I mean today, sit and read the list: Ambassador, Kill Scarlet, Maguma events… Wait… Kill scarlet! Really? That is 45 minutes I could have been in WvW! Really guys, please think about this.

Sorry, but you’re doing it wrong. The idea is to be able to finish the dailies by doing what you’re doing anyway. If you can’t, then don’t. It isn’t going to hurt you to miss a day. You absolutely don’t need to do more than 5.

There will also be plenty of Living Story dailies to finish the meta you don’t need to kill scarlet, or whatever more difficult ones there might be.

I really wish people would get it through their heads that these are a bonus to playing. It’s not a requirements and it’s not a job. The only one who is making it like that is you. If you don’t want it to be like that, stop treating it like that. The moment you realize you can just not do it and the world won’t end you’re life and play time will get a lot better.

TehPwnerer.7215:

Septemptus.7164:

Draco.9480:

I think we need the inspect option to see other player’s armory, traits and achievements. Each game has that option but gw2 doesn’t have it.
It’s hard to tell if the person is skilled or not without checking his gear, of course gear doesn’t always show the player’s skill, But we need at least some clue who do we take with us to the group or any sort of event. I’m also curious to check people sometimes when I’m bored. It’s a basic option in any MMORPG.

Never.
I will quit the game if they add this (comes from person with 9characters geared with exotics)
I had enough problems with CoF farmers who forced me to ping my gear each time I joined party for daily run.

NO MORE gear checking or any other hate generating options.

Thank you.

Then quit. Or join a good guild that won’t make you ping gear. Or stop farming CoF p1 like a casual. Having an inspect feature is not elitist and people already require you to link gear for pugs. This would be no different. It would however help players like me who are interested in seeing other people’s armor and weapon skins.

But yeah if you quit nobody but you will care so I guess do what you want.

Sorry, I can’t get past Farming CoF like a casual. Casuals don’t farm. Either they are casual because they don’t play hard, or they are casual because they only have an hour to play. In either case farming isn’t a thing, therefore that statement makes no sense.

+1

Panicore.9035:

uknortherner.2670:

Those other games don’t have a personal story.

Thats why I stated a possible solution for that if you´d spent some more time reading through the thread.

You did, it’s just also a terrible idea.

If a guild is going to try to force 100% rep it is their problem to enforce it. There is no reason to waste ANet’s time making a mechanic that goes against the design of the game in order to support it.

To what end?

Naffy.1493:

Race is purely cosmetic, just like sex, hair, body etc. And who gives an eff about personal story? Its lame as hell. And cultural armor. OMG, so hard! Oh wait, just change the owned armor to the new culture.

ANet will not do this because they too busy developing the new mini game which is a Tyrian style American Gladiators.

Hmm, possibly, just possibly ANet cares about the Personal Story. You know, being the ones who wrote it and all. The fact that you don’t care about it doesn’t make it an unimportant aspect of the game.

What if you don’t like the new cultural armor? Nothing you are suggesting actually changes anything.

Gold sink. Time sink. Gem sink. Take your pic. These are the reasons it’s not going to happen.

The only thing in this post that makes any sense is that the Thief doesn’t get a 66% cooldown increase on weapon skills.

The answer, though, is to cause chill to give thief a 66% reduction in the speed they regain initiative. That’s the closest thing to fair you’re going to get.

Giving Elementalists an arbitrary immunity to any condition because thieves have one built into their very mechanic is not balanced in any way.

Sorry, nothing you’ve suggested here is of any interest to me. You are not speaking for the community and what you want doesn’t take precedence over what anyone else wants.

Panicore.9035:

Kal Spiro.9745:

“We’re not actively working on …,” is PR speak for “No, you can’t have this and we have no interest in doing it.”

Now that you have a translation you can assume ANet has weighed in.

Im not entirely sure they used those exact words, therefor I didnt really quote them. Nonetheless their last statement about this “issue” is a couple of months old, and I believe a new statement from arena net would be justified. Just to clear things out, and stop even more of posts calling for a race change, cuz right now they are daily on the forums :p

Why do they need to keep answering the same question month after month just because it keeps getting asked.

How about this. Assume the answer is no. If it isn’t no they’ll let us know because they like letting us in on things like that. Since they haven’t, the answer is no.

Oh noes, I’m spending way too much on WPs this event cause I have to keep jumping around the map to get to the portals. Just because I pay for the WP with the event reward doesn’t change the fact that I don’t want to have to pay for it in the first place, and also that the massive amount of gear and mats more than makes up for an paltry expenses I might have.

Or, you know, any other lame excuse why these insignificant costs are in any way an imposition to anyone.

The only people who have a right to complain are WvW, but they don’t pay for WPs, only repairs and build changes. But for them the answer isn’t to effect the costs, it’s to work on the rewards.

“We’re not actively working on …,” is PR speak for “No, you can’t have this and we have no interest in doing it.”

Now that you have a translation you can assume ANet has weighed in.

Why not just skip the middle steps and give us all max stats in everything? Make us able to one shot champions. I mean that the direction this sort of thinking is pointed, right? You don’t get a second set of runes because you don’t, too bad. It’s a cute idea but it’s not worth posting about.

You’re allowed to put as many sets of runes in your armor as you like, up to 6, you just can’t have them be complete sets.

I’m guessing it’s a server thing then, because mine has not had an issue for the invasions I’ve managed to be involved in.

I feel that the reduction in Champion spawns has been successful in getting people to move forward in the event.

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IceBlink.4317:

After reading the whole thread, I’m of the opinion someone got charged to be ported and is now moaning discreetly about it.

You mean to say I got charged for porting and moaning about it? You also said you are the one who read whole thread, I also mentioned in one of the replies that I am the mesmer myself and port, oops PORTED people to JP chests until all of them stopped saying “Thanks.” And I am not the only one they’ve been rude to I believe. I think until this community will become nicer they do not deserve the un-earned credit, THIS COMMUNITY IS NOW TREHEARNE!!

I don’t understand Trehearne’s a nice guy.

Llyren.3904:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Llyren.3904:

Dustfinger.9510:

not everything is reportable. But aside from something any thick skin can solve, elitist attitude ruins communities. an idea like this has been proven time and again to only encourage elitism while providing very little benefit at all.

Everything is reportable that is not solved by being willing to communicate with others.

Shoving “the other” into “the devil” category does you no good.

/inspect has never hurt anyone, it merely fosters communication.

So, “They won’t let me play with them because I don’t meet their irrelevant and unnecessary standards,” is reportable? ANet will make them play nice?

Devil is and the devil does?

/inspect has hurt everyone who wanted to play the game the way they like but were not able to because other players felt their way was insufficient. It does not foster communication. “Tell us your build or GTFO,” is not communication. “We don’t like your build so GTFO,” is also not communication.

“They won’t let me play with them” is solved by communication. They want X build, I am unwilling to play with X build. Ok then, we’ll go our separate ways. We are all here for our own enjoyment, and not hired entertainers or tour guides.

“Tell us your build or GetTheSwearingOut” is solved by /report.

There where more statements or questions like “People who think that inspecting is not used to weed out people without giving them a chance are delusional.”“Devil is as Devil does”

The above is solved by communication. Sometimes you will need to advertise your own purposes and form your own groups to find like minded players. Do not play with those you view as “the devil” That will only ruin your own happy fun playtime.

OR, you could just not have /inspect and save everyone the trouble. That seems like the best option.

You need to transmute it into a white helmet. White unupgraded armor is not bind on equip and will make the hood account bound. If you bind it to anything blue or above which is bind on equip is automatically makes that item bound to the transmuter.

Scrambles.2604:

Kal Spiro.9745:

The main question I have to ask is, what is the ratio of people who would abuse it vs those who would not? Also what is the general evolution of the community as a result? In my experience the ratio is typically high in favor of abuse, and the evolution is toward a less friendly and more abusive standard.

It is also my belief, based on experience and comments that those in favor of it, primarily, coincide with those who would abuse it, while those against are those who would not.

Lastly, it absolutely isn’t a desire not to interact with people. It’s a desire to not be told how I should play by other people. To not be looked down on because I play the way I like and not the way they like. And to not be belittle for that choice which is entirely mine to make.

Its hard to determine a ratio, because:

1) you would have to poll the entire player base with a reliable measure to determine “proclivity towards elitism.”

2) you don’t notice the players that “use /inspect” correctly, because correct use implies they did not impede your gameplay in anyway, therefore, how would you notice when someone uses it correctly?

On the otherhand, players that use /inspect “incorretly” are the players that go out of their way to make your life miserable, so they stick out more in your memory, and are perceived as a greater percentage.

How dare you use reasoned argument!

Linguistically Inept.6583:

Kal Spiro.9745:

If the content isn’t made to be skipped, why is such a large amount of content skipable, and why have they never done anything about it?

stopped reading after that.
im sure its been repeatedly stated that they’re attempting to design encounters to prevent skipping… changes to how stealth works and bug fixes

I’m thinking you should have read more then. The fact that they’re trying to make it so more has to be done in Dungeons has just about zero impact on my arguments at all.

Bright.9160:

Kal Spiro.9745:

See, the problem here is two very different value systems. I honestly don’t understand this need people have to swap builds. I have one build per character, that’s what I run and that is all that I run for the life of the character. If I want a different build I’ll make a different character.

I don’t need something, therefor I’m pretty sure no one needs it.

Yeah, got it..

And this is where you lose ALL credibility, not that you had much, as you purposefully omit the part where I go on to say that I understand that there are people different than me who do want templates and that I don’t have a problem with it. Just so you could make a snarky remark that seems legitimate, despite being completely contrary to what I actually had to say.