Buying Gems does absolutely nothing for ANet. That money goes to NCSoft, not ANet. NCSoft can choose to put that money toward ANet or anything else they choose.
If you don’t want to buy Gems, don’t, and don’t feel like you’re not supporting the game because that isn’t the case. You’re also not supporting the game when you do buy them.
I am now deeply unsettled to hear I have no way to directly support the Anet team.
Could Anet make something like the account subscription without needing NCsoft’s permission? or maybe a deal could be made for most of the subscription money to go to Anet.
Probably not, but I honestly have no idea how that works anyway.
Don’t you think ANet knows what the Warrior can and can’t do? Don’t you think that if someone makes a claim they would try to reproduce that claim to see if it is or is not true? Do you have so little faith in ANet’s ability to do their jobs that you can’t have anyone speak out against something they may even think is true?
Buying Gems does absolutely nothing for ANet. That money goes to NCSoft, not ANet. NCSoft can choose to put that money toward ANet or anything else they choose.
If you don’t want to buy Gems, don’t, and don’t feel like you’re not supporting the game because that isn’t the case. You’re also not supporting the game when you do buy them.
Yes, I’m pretty sure I’m currently wearing a Rabid coat with Cleric stats because of this.
+1 for /inspect
i don’t want it so i can judge you based on your gear, as your gear only tells a small part of the story.
It would be nice to be able to tailor my gear and skills to the gear of my teammates, without having to bother them to ping everything.
and i personally don’t have every skin memorized and dont want to alt+tab to dulfy every time i see a shiny i don’t recognize.
lastly, I understand that it is a widely held belief that /inspect promotes elitism, but please realize that /inspect can be a very useful tool, like the chat window or /join, but also has the potential for abuse, like a chat window or /join. Just because a tool can be abused doesn’t mean we should outright deny access to it.
Don’t let the small minority of jerk players ruin it for the rest of us. I’m sure they could add a “block inspect” feature or something to satisfy you guys that would prefer to not interact with other people in a multiplayer game.
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.
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Pointing out where one area of the game is also broken is no excuse to keep a different area broken. Are you suggesting that until every single type of content is unskippable, then there’s no point in updating any type of content to be unskippable?
No, I’m pointing out that that is not a reasonable definition of leech. Perhaps it would have made more sense to you if you had quoted my entire post.
You missed my point entirely. I wasn’t saying that all these cases are like portaling through jumping puzzles, I’m saying that applying the same logic used to justify skipping jumping puzzles to other areas of the game makes the cases seem ridiculous and unjustifiable. Because they are.
Anet wants people to cooperate, but there’s no cooperation in portaling through a jumping puzzle. Its one person doing all the work and the others doing none of it.
No, you missed THE point entirely. You CANT just skip content on your own. You can’t do it. Therefore no body is just being handed the reward. Someone has to be willing to do the content, one way or another, in order to give you the opportunity to skip it. In some cases that opportunity is built so hard into the system that it’s just a matter of fact. In others, like JPs, it requires very specific circumstance which are not the norm.
Do you know how many times I’ve even seen a Mesmer at a JP, let alone used that portal? Once. At the Aetherblade puzzle, and I’ll grant that there were a ton of them. I only used the portal after I’d already gotten to the goggles and still hadn’t found the chest, because that puzzle was very confusing and poorly set up, in my opinion. I had actually been a single jump from the chest, but I didn’t even see it there.
So in all the puzzles, I “skipped” one, and had the opportunity to skip only one. Maybe your server is just jam packed with altruistic Mesmers, but I’m from Tarnished Coast, one of the most active servers in the game and I can tell you ours isn’t.
As for cooperation, how is that not cooperation? It’s not like the Mesmer is breaking his back to lug someone through the thing. The Mesmer is making the choice to help this person, on their own. They don’t have to do it.
“In the spirit of cooperation,” is a phrase that is thrown around sometimes. What it means is, “I’m going to give you something for nothing. I’m giving you this thing in the hope that you will do something in your power for someone else down the road, preferably me, but not necessarily.” This is also known as, “Paying it forward.” So yes, a Mesmer portaling someone simply because they are a Mesmer and happened to be there or even because they happened to see someone in need is cooperating.
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No they haven’t, because JPs are 100% useless right now, but in the future they will award T7 mats, and that is where the problem comes in.
It will not. As I explained quite clearly in the other thread no mesmer is going to want to run a jump puzzle just to port other people up to the end on a frequent enough basis to make any impact on your Tier 7 mats. You are creating a problem where none exists and IF by chance that should happen in the future then deal with it when it does happen but I would lay odds right now that it will not.
The first thing that will happen when JPs start giving out T7 mats is that guilds will organize mass raids where a few mesmers port the entire guild through to collect mats on a regular basis.
That is awesome, and I am totally in favor of that. I will benefit from that absolutely 0%, but I still think that’s great.
“How does it affect YOU? It doesn’t, so it doesn’t matter.”
If you apply that logic to the problem of portaling through JPs, what’s to stop you from applying it to every single aspect of the game? There’s nothing special about JPs that warrants some kind of special exemption, so if you say you should be allowed to skip them, because it doesn’t take anything from other players, then you could say that about the entire game too.
In order to skip a JP you need someone who is not you and is willing to do the content for you and then give you the boost. Typically this is done out of the goodness of their heart, sometimes it’s charged. If you’re willing to pay gold to get to the end of the JP does that make it alright? I mean I’m pretty sure gold is the equalizer, it can even get you a Legendary without having to go through all the effort of making it.
Now lets follow the original logic. You can’t skip content on your own. Someone else has to do the content for you and let you skip it.
- Don’t like running dungeons to get the weapons/armor? Just give them to players who don’t want to run the dungeons, its not like its taking anything from anyone else, so what does it matter?
One 5 people can enter a dungeon instance. If you aren’t participating in the dungeon you are taking up the spot of someone who might have been willing. You’re not taking up anyones spot in a JP. If you can find four people willing to run the dungeon without you participating, though, that’s their choice and they’re allowed to do it.
- Don’t like exploring the world to get the gift of exploration? Just give it to players who don’t like exploring, its not like its taking anything from anyone else, so what does it matter?
There is no way for this to translate as no one can complete the content for you and then get you the reward.
- Don’t like killing world bosses to get guaranteed rares? Just give them to players who don’t like killing world bosses, its not like its taking anything from anyone else, so what does it matter?
The game already works this way. You might have to kill something, or at least hurt it, but as long as you participate in the minorest of capacities, once all the other players complete the content for you you get the reward.
- Don’t like working up the gold to buy high level gear? Just give them soulbound to players who don’t like earning money, its not like its taking anything from anyone else, so what does it matter?
You can always buy gold with real money, so the game already works this way.
- Don’t like all the endless farming required for a legendary? Just give them soulbound to players who don’t like farming, its not taking anything from anyone else, so what does it matter?
As I already said, you can buy a legendary that someone else went through all the effort of making already, so again, the game already works this way.
And you can’t say “Anet obviously doesn’t mind people not doing content but getting rewarded for it” just because there are other areas of the game that have this same quality" because that is what this thread is TRYING TO CHANGE. I have a difficult time understanding why any sensible person would be opposed to making it so you have to DO CONTENT to GET REWARDS. Its baffling to me. What kind of games do you usually play? Those farmville type games where all you have to do is click on kitten to win?
What you’re not understanding is, what you’re trying to change is, in fact, ANet’s apparent vision of how the game is supposed to work. So, who is actually in the wrong here?
There’s that word, “leeching” again.
Yeah, I don’t get this. Someone who joins a dungeon group, then doesn’t actually fight anything and gets the chests and reward at the end is leeching. They were expected to pull their weight and didn’t.
Then fix THAT and don’t use it as an excuse to keep broken content broken.
Was there a point to this comment?
Why is it your business at all? Your success is not contingent on the success or failure of others. Once you stop begrudging others, it will set you free to achieve more than you can imagine. Law of Karma dude. The more you desire to thwart others, the more thwarted you become. You and the other guy Kal Spiro, who made threads focusing so much energy on thwarting other, must be terribly frustrated people.
Wait what? I haven’t made any thread. If you’re responding to someone you really need to quote them cause I can’t follow which side of this debate you’re even on. If you do mean me, I’m not frustrated at all. I’m at work and don’t have anything better to do so I’m speaking out about the things I believe in.
I’m not thwarting anyone, anyway. It’s not like this will ever happen. It doesn’t need thwarting, it was thwarted the moment it was posted.
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I take it you didn’t play GW1 and have absolutely no clue how amazing and life-changing the template system there was. I mean, literally, the day they introduced the template system, I wouldn’t be surprised some people spontaneously ejaculated because of how mind-numbingly awesome it was.
You mean the GW1 with something like hundreds of different skills, only 8 of which you could run at any one time along with skill points for “traits” that directly interacted with specific skills? So any time you changed out your skills you would probably want to replace all of your points, both of which you could do for free any time as long as you were in a city. Yeah, I can see how the ability to quickly build and save templates would be useful in a game like that, with so much variety. And I suppose I could accept the ability to link them so other people who want to emulate you can do so.
My point exactly.
If you dont PUG or dont have the patience to help pugs/newbs, you are obviously running with a close group. I am sure you have no problem getting “builds” from them.
Because when I trial people, or take friends of mine who are in other guilds on runs and they ask me what build they need to run, it’s pretty useful to just ping it, instead of manually having to type all of it out, and then trying to remember the numbers of all the traits they should take.
This is where you lose me, though. “What build they need to run.” Why should they need to run a build? What content is actually so difficult that there is requirements on such things? This is where the concept sweeps into elitism, saying that someone needs to run and play a certain way because another way is wrong.
Since PUGs are all trash, why would you want to contaminate your eyes beholding trash builds?
Because if -in the off chance I do have to take a PUG to fill up a group-, they do contaminate my eyes with their trash builds, I can choose to politely ask them if they can run another build or remove them from my party. That way I don’t have to carry them, and they don’t have to “run with elitist scum”.
Which is the problem in the first place. Way explain the oppositions point so succinctly.
Again, this feature has zero value and should only be coded when they have finish every other useful feature imaginable.
God you’re thick. You have absolutely no idea how incredibly useful a template system is. It allows you to save your builds, load them up with a single click of your mouse, share your builds, ping them to people etc. I know many people that play both WvW and PvE and they always have to manually change between their WvW and PvE builds. Do you have any idea how easy it would make their lives if they could just open their list of saved builds, click “load up PvE dungeon build” or “WvW havoc build” or whatever, and having all the traits set for them immediately?
Sorry, but if you can’t see what kind of an amazingly useful feature this is, I don’t know what you find useful. Culling of other players in PvE, but not the culling of monsters? Yeah I guess that was pretty useful.
Oh wait it wasn’t.
To be honest, templates is pretty much in my top 3 of QoL features they need to implement. I’d like to see you name some features you deem more useful than it.
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.
So to me this system holds absolutely no value and I can’t understand why anyone would feel the need for it. But, I also understand that a lot of people do want the ability to save templates. I’m ok with that. The thing is, this isn’t a thread about building templates, regardless of what you’d like to convert it into. This is a thread about inspection, and that’s where it crosses the line. There is only one reason for inspection, (short of the minor ability to see the name of a piece of armor someone is wearing to get it yourself,) and that is elitism. The ability to tell someone they’re not good enough and to make them require your validation before they can play. That’s not what this game is about and it isn’t what it should be about.
I like how it is only the same guys that complain about this and keep going on and on while the counter has been given. And when there is no hope they go full extremist and talk about removing the whole class.
Way to not understand Sarcasm. Honestly, that sounded like an actual argument? Did you not read the whole thing?
What I like is that it’s the same people arguing for it too. It’s you, and that other guy, and everyone else is telling you it’s a stupid idea. I think that’s more telling than anything else.
No, mesmers don’t camp on Puzzles. But when anything of value is in there, there better be one or people won’t be able to show of their special skins they “earned” which is a sad thing about a game that is all about skill and skins/looks.
Now I know I haven’t given you time to answer this in your own thread on the subject, but please, enlighten us. What skins are you guaranteed to get every time you open a chest at the end of a JP. What skins are there at all? I’ve never gotten one, that’s for sure.
Like I said in my post. They could better make a daily mail system that sends in every reward from every chest because effort isn’t given anyway.
Yeah, totally. But wait, I thought you said Mesmers DON’T camp puzzles. And I know I’ve never seen anyone demand a Mesmer portal them. Some have begged, sure, but rarely. So I’m still missing this guarantee of prize that you’re implying.
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There is no permanent content this year. Don’t listen to rumors, listen to the devs. They’re actually pretty open and vocal about these things.
ANet isn’t in the habit of just handing out titles for nothing. They’re hand out achievements for the littlest things, but not titles. So again, this isn’t a thing that’s going to happen, especially not for something like Events.
I’m starting to think you don’t fully realize just how many DE’s there are. That’s not even including LS or Meta Events. Out of all the available Titles we have for PvE, some of them are a lot easier, ( <——— understatement from Hell right there ) to get, making this Title a lot harder to get by default because of the time it’d take to trigger both the success and the failure aftermath events.
They don’t hand out Titles, you say? Combat Healer says “Hi”.
Having gotten map completion I’m well aware of the number of events. It’s also possible I don’t fully understand your suggestion, but honestly your explanation make me want even less to do with it.
I said they weren’t in the habit of it, not that they never have. Combat Healer took me a while anyway, I worked for that one.
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?
I don’t see fighting in Jumping Puzzle, why does that come up so often? I do, however, see Puzzle, and it seems to me that a direct route from beginning to end is a nice way to solve a puzzle.
No one will ever be equal. You have a very skewed concept of equality.
I’ve been rewarded many many times in this game for things I didn’t even know were happening, let alone that I was participating in.
How much effort is really involved in getting mats now? Why is it bothering you that everyone would have easy access to a new max tier?
If you’re not afraid they will get better than you, or even as good at you, why do you care at all?
I don’t follow this one. Are we talking about the Harpies? Yeah, I have seen a lot of groups screwed because of people with crap connections and skills who couldn’t handle the jumps. This won’t change anything, they still will have the same disadvantages they did before.
I know I felt proud when I got the achievement kills with a longbow, considering my main is a Longbow Ranger… oh wait, I didn’t even notice it. Risen, I was proud when I’d killed the requisite number of Risen… no I missed that one too. Most achievements don’t mean anything.
I love JPs. The only reason people say they’re boring is because they can’t do them for whatever reason. I guarantee you that things you can’t do are pretty kitten ed boring.
What looks, skins and skills are gated behind Jumping Puzzles? I suppose there might be new looks involved with the ascended gear, but since JPs aren’t the only source of mats that’s not the case. So I’m lost at how this is an argument for anything.
Jumping is an activity. Jumping puzzles are an advanced level of that activity requiring skills that are rarely ever used anywhere else in the game.
Compeletionist is also a factor. People who NEED to have that achievement cleared up but really have no other way to get it. Also people are trying to clear out their Dailies and don’t want to be forced into WvW to do it based on what the rotation is that day.
The insignificant difference in stats between each set of gear proffers no legitimate advantage to anyone in WvW.
Easy Precoursers lowers the price. That’s a good thing. It makes them more available to those that want them without having a significant impact on the effort necessary to make a Legendary since currently RNG or rediculous amounts of gold are the only way. The economy is already trash and pretty stupid, so all the better.
First we begin with magic find, then we move on to “zerk is the only way”, now “no portals in JPs”. With the way other people want to dictate on how I play my game I should make them pay me for the cost of the game, my computer, my power bill, may as well charge them for my munchies and Pepsi as well. Wait why play in the first place? Let them play for me! After all that is what they want.
The funny thing is the first two MAY affect you but only if I am in your party. Portals in JPs do not affect you as JPs are personal rewards, not group ones.
Mesmers already play for you in JPs
You know the obvious answer? It isn’t to disable portals. We need to get rid of Mesmers, because apparently the only thing Mesmers do all day every day is sit at the end of Jumping Puzzles help people up.
That must be why I never got into Mesmer, all the JPs on my server were taken and I just didn’t feel like I had a purpose.
Actually… I can’t remember the last time I even saw a Mesmer in a Jumping Puzzle, let alone one at the end of one portaling… Isn’t that strange considering how remarkably prevalent they apparently are in them?
Two words, Money Sink. Considering how often people complain about it, it must be an effective one too. I’ve seen it before and I still disagree. Just pay your insignificant fee and move on.
I’d like an ‘inspect’ option that only shows the base armor and weapon names (no prefix, suffix, stats, or runes/sigils), just because sometimes I see armor that I like and have no idea what it is.
This I support 100% +1
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.
Are you kidding? You’re complaining about the handfuls of silver you’re losing while making golds from the events? Seriously? One green drops, you just paid for the waypoint. I’m emptying my inventory 3 or 4 times during the event and I have plenty of inventory space.
There is no permanent content this year. Don’t listen to rumors, listen to the devs. They’re actually pretty open and vocal about these things.
ANet isn’t in the habit of just handing out titles for nothing. They’re hand out achievements for the littlest things, but not titles. So again, this isn’t a thing that’s going to happen, especially not for something like Events.
You guys will seriously complain about anything. If ANET was giving every single person a free mini pet/100gold/new set of armor/charecter slot/$1000.00 USD, you guys would find SOMETHING to complain about.
Well first off, the mini pet is stupid and the armor doesn’t go with any of my character concepts. I suppose I could use the new character to make a concept for the armor… I was expecting a single thousand dollar bill, not a check, that was lame.
There’s that word, “leeching” again.
Yeah, I don’t get this. Someone who joins a dungeon group, then doesn’t actually fight anything and gets the chests and reward at the end is leeching. They were expected to pull their weight and didn’t.
When a mesmer puts down a portal at the end of the puzzle and another where players can reach it without doing the puzzle he is doing a service for those other players. It has no value to the mesmer, he already finished the puzzle. Therefore those players are being given a gift, and are not expected to do anything for it. So, in what way is this leeching?
I would say you’re on the wrong server, but mainly it’s the new event. Once all of this settles down things might return to normal again. If you’re still seeing no one doing events, then I would say it’s a problem of servers. Generally people do events, they just aren’t right now because of the value of doing the LW event and how strenuous it is.
So no, I see no value in a title for events. Events are just things that happen. That would be like getting the title for kills on your favored weapon on your main. It’s silly, because of course you’re going to get that.
Is being forced to do something you really don’t enjoy doing in order to get something that is gated behind that thing fun? Pretty sure that’s another no.
Nobody is forcing you to do jumping puzzles, so I don’t see how that argument is valid. Jumping puzzles won’t be the only way to get t7 mats when they’re released. It’ll just be a super easy trivial way since people can portal through them with literally no effort. I don’t agree with you that you should trivialize content and give rewards to people who never actually did anything, just because they don’t think the content is “fun”, and its stupid to strip away the challenge in content just because people think getting something for nothing is “fun”.
I think you managed to get hung up on the wrong question. No body is holding a gun to your head and saying do this. BUT, what is meant by forced is, in order to get the prize at the end you have absolutely no choice but to do the entirety of the thing. The prize isn’t a requirement, no one is forcing you to seek the prize. But in order to get the prize you’re forced to do the content.
You think that is how it should be. ANet does not. ANet very clearly does not by the fact that almost no content in the game actually works that way. If I really want the prize I am willing to go through the content to get it, and generally won’t skip it because I find the content fun. If I don’t find the content fun I simply won’t participate, prize or otherwise. But I understand that I’m me, and not everyone else, so I don’t try to impose my playstyle on everyone else.
There also seems to be this misconception that portals just happen cause a player wills it into being. Like someone who doesn’t want to do the puzzle just says, let there be portals, and bam they can get through, or that there is simply always a portal at all times and it’s silly that everyone doesn’t just take the portal cause it isn’t like it ever goes away. Someone, who happens to be playing a Mesmer, has to make that portal happen from the end of the puzzle. It is only by the will and grace of another player entirely that this is even possible.
It seems like most of the people against this are expecting, or even demanding, a more hardcore environment than GW2 was ever intended to be. This game is casual, VERY casual, and intended to inspire people to work together. I’m sorry but absolutely no amount of you saying jump from that rock to this one is going to effect how capable someone is at doing that. But removing the jump with a portal, that’s being helpful.
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But you’re portaling through the jumping puzzles. You’re already NOT a part of them. You’re skipping them entirely and grabbing the reward. And if the “why do you care? it doesn’t take anything away from you” argument is valid, then why not just give everyone everything for free? Why should anyone care about that? It doesn’t take anything from anyone. If you lag too much to play the game, I don’t see why you should expect to be rewarded on the same level as people who do play it.
It’s the fun test.
Is getting everything for free and never actually playing the game fun? Typically, I’m pretty sure the answer would be no.
Is doing jumping puzzles fun? For me the answer is a resounding yes. For others an emphatic no.
Is being forced to do something you really don’t enjoy doing in order to get something that is gated behind that thing fun? Pretty sure that’s another no.
Does it take away your fun to have the option to skip something that is really a rather minor aspect of the game in order to get the thing gated behind it? Generally this is a no.
Does it take away your fun if someone else is able to skip the thing they really don’t like even though you do, taking into account that it is a very minor aspect of the game? For me that’s a big no.
Does it take away less of your fun that their ability to skip content is directly dependant on another player completing that content the way you do and allowing them to skip it, that they can’t just walk up the bunny slope and get it?
The game is supposed to be about cooperation, isn’t it? Fun test aside, this interaction should actually be a good thing.
The tasks leading up to opening it take several hours. Not great for anyone but the hardcore types with time on their hands. So why are we WvW players forced into this just to grind for a bit of gold in the Pavilion?
To be fair, the invasion events seem to give more money than the pavilion farming did anyway.
That has been my experience too. I made 5 gold in under and hour in Blazeridge Steppes without even selling any mats.
It can be soloed in 15 minutes at most.
The tasks leading up to opening it take several hours. Not great for anyone but the hardcore types with time on their hands. So why are we WvW players forced into this just to grind for a bit of gold in the Pavilion?
If you’re a WvW player, why are you in the pavilion instead of in WvW? No one is forcing you to do anything. You are making the conscious choice all on your own.
How could a race change ever be urgent? This makes no sense right from the title.
No, also no, and might I add, no. Too bad, so sad. Deal with, or make a new character.
I guarantee that T7 mats will be avaliable from things besides JPs. Mini dungeons are confirmed for holding T7 mats, and I’m sure you’ll be able to get it from lots of different places.
If you can’t do content, you shouldn’t be rewarded for it. Its that simple. If you think your lazily portaling though every JP to stock up on T7 mats is justified because if you couldn’t do it, then poor little Timmy with his 56k dial up internet on his Mactintosh 128k in rural Iowa couldn’t do it either, then you’re basically just talking out of your kitten . If you can’t do JPs, you don’t get JP rewards, just like if you can’t do dungeons, you don’t get dungeon rewards, if you can’t do WvW, you don’t get WvW rewards, if you can’t do PvP, you don’t get PvP rewards, you can’t do world bosses, you don’t get world boss rewards, and if you can’t do temples, you don’t get temple rewards.
Funny that. I don’t do WvW, nor PvP and I have a ton of Badges of Honor and PvP skins, which I believe are the rewards for those two areas. World PvE makes no difference, just follow the group and you get the reward as long as you hit something with something. Dungeons are the only relevant argument, but that’s not very helpful since the reward for dungeons is skins so it should be more restricted.
What I can do, however, is Jumping Puzzles and I have completed, on my own, every single one of them, including the ones that were temporary.
I don’t really care about T7 mats, I won’t be “farming” them. But if someone else wants to and wants to skip the actual puzzle, I still say let them, cause it doesn’t effect me. It doesn’t diminish my skill, and it doesn’t diminish my reward when I complete it myself.
Sorry, but that is your own fault. I saw the requires 5 and figured that’s what it meant because the last ones before then were Halloween and Wintersday and those required a group. Just like I did for Halloween, though, I ignored the warning and took a look inside. What did I find? Something solable. From then on, I have always peeked before assuming.
The reason it is labeled at 5 man is because it’s default text. It’s not special per dungeon/instance because at the time it would have been silly to implement it that way. Perhaps they should change that, if they can, but I would like to think they would have already if it was in any way simple to do so.
Sometimes you hardcode something for simplicity because it is obvious it will never need to be variable. When you find out it does half a year later it’s a little too late to do anything about it.
There are people are are unable to do these things for a variety of reasons. There are other people who have the means and disposition to let people through. It’s just a crummy chest and an achievement. In what way does this discourse hurt or in any way effect you?
I know some people have difficulties in these things because of certain reasons. Although it is still possible for them to actually complete them, with or without the extra help of others (without portal).
Also, for now these chests are sill useless. But they will contain T7 mats. Which may lead to crafting ascended armor and precursors.
So what you’re saying is, they shouldn’t be allowed to have T7 mats, Ascended gear and Precursors because they’re either not good at jumping puzzles, don’t like jumping puzzles or aren’t able to complete jumping puzzles because their system/connection isn’t up to the task?
Why not? Once again I have to ask the question, in what way does this effect you? Why is your success contingent on someone else’s failure? Why can you not just be happy with your own achievements and ignore everyone else?
There are people are are unable to do these things for a variety of reasons. There are other people who have the means and disposition to let people through. It’s just a crummy chest and an achievement. In what way does this discourse hurt or in any way effect you? If people want to throw down portals and other people want to bypass the puzzle, let them.
If it’s a new puzzle that I haven’t beaten before I won’t accept a portal, cause I want to complete the puzzle on my own. If I’ve been through it already then I might take it just to get the chest. It doesn’t hurt anyone and it helps some people who either lack the skill, disposition or connectivity required to complete otherwise.
I’m sorry, but why are people following commanders in PvE? Commander is for WvW. It doesn’t mean anything, but it is supposed to signify someone with tactical sense in WvW. It certainly doesn’t have anything at all to do with anything in the brand new event that just came out.
If people are causing the event to fail because they’re following around commanders doing kitten all, you need to get another server with not so many sheeple. You don’t need to be trying to restrict commanders from doing what they want. They aren’t forcing people to be idiots, the people are doing that all on their own.
If someone wants to buy a commander tag and run around doing their own thing, that’s their right.
Rights cannot be purchased for 100g.
Then it’s their privilege.
Buy a new gfx card or tone down your settings! THIS IS AMAZING. love you anet!
There is no consumer hardware on the market that can deliver 60 fps in a reasonable configuration (ie, not 4x SLI Titans) using high settings when many players are on screen. The game engine scales poorly. Rather then address this issue, or design content that doesn’t force hundreds of player to one area, we’re given stop gap measures like culling options. It’s sad.
I’m using a 650, or there abouts, without SLI and I have my settings pumped all the way up. I haven’t even experienced a stutter in the heart of the zerg during these events.
Get a better system, get a better connection, or lower your settings. Those are your options.
Oddly enough I used basically the same outfit, just using the norn T2 legs instead of the jeans, after seeing this I picked up a pair to see how it would look, I kind of like it honestly.
She looks ready to either brave the zombie apocalypse, or go tomb raiding. The first pic more so.
But.. but he fell down the big hole! I haven’t finished the new content (possibly never will as the zerging is just so tedious) so I guess I haven’t seen the part where they reveal he’s alive?
Too bad…. all my hopes crushed!
So he fell down a hole. I jumped down that hole once and nothing happened to me, I’m sure he can manage. Besides, there is an achievement for saving him, so he must be alive.
Get more dedicated people on your server to actually play the events. Perhaps.
I don’t see any petitions for Sieran, or Forgal. You cant have your partner back if we cant have ours.
Also when a person becomes risen, their ghost separates from their body. So even if you could somehow heal tybalt’s body, he’s still gone.
Sieran is annoying and Forgal is a jerk. Tybalt is amazing.
It’s not going to happen.
Why not?
In my opinion, Ascended gear needs something extra to make it a whole lot more interesting than Exotic. This idea would hit the spot.
IT already does. It has better stats.
This belongs in the bug forums.
This isn’t a bug. It is how the game works.
So you were doing an event in one zone, then left the zone and thought you’d somehow get credit? Why would that be a thing when it has never been a thing because that’s not how the game works?
Also, why would you assume that the overflow is on the same schedule as your home server? That is also not how the game works and never has been.
If your suggestion is to change that and have all the servers on the same schedule and also make it so that you get credit for participating in an event even if you leave the zone, then make that suggestion. Your little anecdote on it’s own isn’t very useful.
To what end?
First, since when is 115 small?
This problem you are citing is a failing in the design of the puzzle itself. It has come up before without the addition of random extras. It really needs a way to get people who are stuck outside inside.
They aren’t going to limit participation, though, because the whole point was that actual small guilds (not yours) who aren’t able to access them can run them thanks to larger guilds (like yours) who can. The puzzle itself needs to be altered, not the system that governs it.
So, if I’m reading this right… The Suggestion is for them to do the thing they’ve already presented as their intent on at least three separate occasions.
TL;TR – Stay the Course.
Sorry, there is nothing about this that is a good thing.
Why do people constantly wait to the last minute, or even this far into it. You had two weeks to do three of them. There shouldn’t be anyone who’s suddenly run out who actually intended to do it at all.
It’s not going to happen.
ele with a torch is a redundant concept considering fire attunement
Considering fire attunement, what is redundant about a torch? How are these things related in anything but a conceptual way?
I would definitely go for this. I constantly lose track of my cursor.
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