Guild Wars 2

MDK.1502:

Wow, you guys are hilarious. If this was any other game all you’d get for Halloween was an npc giving out pumpkins… ANET have gone WAY beyond the call of duty for this event, giving us more jumping puzzles and new maps, 2 new types of pvp games, and a new dungeon … FOR FREE. Not to mention the update that’s coming in November.

If you’re so mad and think you’re hard done to for this FREE and original content, I suggest you leave … the community will gladly be rid of you. All I see is cry cry cry, get a life for god’s sake

not for free:
2 million cpopies sold
a heavily pushed gem shop

in a game 2 months old… we paid for it.

And you can’t argue that they could decide not to do anything at all. Since they can’t: they have to keep their playerbase amused with events, it’s about all they have going that’s possibly new.

They are forced to do this to keep their players interested, and yes: we already paid for it.

note: the community might be glad to be rid of us, the company itself would not be. And if the funding slows down, the development will slow down.
Once the money gets tight, I would like to see how much Anet still gives ‘for free’.

guide.1487:

Remember THEY didn’t overhype it, WE overhyped it with the constant complaints and omg omg omg omg once in a lifetime thing.

oh yes they did… making it world wide because it was too special to see later on Youtube…

Read their posts about it, they hyped it up beyond believe, seeing what it turned out to be.

The player hype came after that, because it was announced soooo special, that many feared to miss it.

Philosofen.8736:

mastershke.8145:

I had been praying that the reward might have been one of the skins in soulbound on acquire form, but once again Anet proves that they dont care about us.

Ye indeed. They dont care about us at all by working hard as hell, giving us free events that we can enjoy.

Sorry, but you’re acting like spoiled brat.

nothing is free in this game, sorry but you sound like a naïve brat.
Why are we calling each other ‘brats’ or other insults on a forum? Is it that hard for you to disagree without falling to insult?

2 million copies sold, way over their estimate, and a heavily promoted gem shop, for a game only 2 months old… think we paid for quite a few events by now.

This said: I expected no real reward, and don’t care that much about that part of the discusion going.

DenverRalphy.4185:

If they didn’t market and/or hype it… there’d be a mob of people screaming that they missed it. Dang’d if you do, dang’d if you don’t.

there was a mob screaming they didn’t want to miss it, maybe you didn’t notice.
And they were screaming simply because… it was hyped up as a big event that you just shouldn’t have missed.

Except going from ‘crumbling statue’ to ‘no statue’ there was absolutely nothing in the game world to be missed.
A cutscene that short doesn’t count as an event.

So they’re only ‘danged’ because they hyped it, not because being ‘danged’ was inevitable.

But at least, when the crashing is handled, it will prove a fun instance.
Not arguing that it’s all bad.
Just that it was hardly worth the name ‘event’.

I expected, or hoped for, a dynamic event, not a cutscene and a little icon saying a 5 man instance opened.

I was pretty unimpressed with the whole thing.

This doesn’t mean i’ll be unimpressed with the instance itself, just with the hyped up ‘event’.

think the complaints are about 2 issues:

1. waiting for what turns out to be a small cutscene is a bit underwhelming.
It just opened the instance, which most agree on that it’s fun
I guess most expected something epic as a dynamic event, not the cutscene.

2. the instance crashes all ver the place for many. So that’s the biggest complaint: not that it isn’t nice, but that it is crashing.

small note: you guys always have to throw in a sneer at wow, don’t you…

I was expecting an event, as in: dynamic event.

Nice little cutscene, but i’ll hold on the instance a bit till things get sorted.

I hope that it’s great by itself, because i sort of feel stupid waiting for an hour for that cutscene alone…

you didn’t miss much in terms of the timed event by itself.
It was indeed a small cutscene that opened an instanced place for 5 people (at the lion’s statue)

I’m sure the instance itself will remain open from here on, and that’s where the real event should be I guess (since it can’t have been that cutscene…)

Watching a tpvp on stream is a lot of running over rooftops, getting random effects on characters not even in combat.
Once the fighting starts it’s loads of flashing particles and funny tumbling characters.

From a spectator point of view, i think this game is pretty unclear to follow any precise actions.

Players might object against action bars, but for a viewer just to see a characters hands move, in the midst of a big fight, without knowing who’s doing what… I can’t tell how entertaining that ends up to be.

In order to have an audience that understands GW2 pvp fights, you at least need to have a good notion of GW2 pvp itself.

Every debuff, every cc goes so very fast, that it’s hard to make out much, unless you know all professions pretty well.

Every game suffers this to some degree. GW2 suffers this to a very large degree…

Aether McLoud.1975:

LOL at people making the wow comparision. Arena started what, 6 years ago? And it took them a frakking long time to get anything close to competitive pvp in there. They even said on multiple occasions that arena was the worst thing they ever implemented.

GW2 didn’t start 6 years ago, or when WoW started.

It started when there was a huge public for pvp in MMO’s who were used to several things.

It’s one thing to fix some bugs and such, but no one can claim GW2 didn’t know what the demands of the current pvp scene were.
GW2 pvp was designed with the current state of MMO pvp in mind, not the state of WoW’s launch or first arena or any other point in the past.

It’s no excuse that it’s new, when it comes to offering features. The only excuse could be that it takes time before you grow a big audience.
But than I have to ask: if 2 million buyers don’t supply you with a decent number of pvp’ers to start with, than what will?

Somehow they missed the boat in making the best use of the playerbase they aquired in beta and on launch.
At this point the concern is not how to keep them here anymore, the concern has already shifted to ‘how to get them back.’

Yes: it’s without sub fee. But people are overly optimistic if they think players will simply return in a few months, when new pvp changes are made.
They might, and let’s hope they do. But once the pvp community labels a game as ‘no good pvp’ than it’s pretty hard to attrackt a large audience ever again.

They weren’t ready, I’m afraid it’s that simple.

NightShadow.1429:

Kimbald.2697:

NightShadow.1429:

Kimbald.2697:

If the debvs do something as drastic as making it a one time event for ALL timezones to share, than it must be something they consider pretty darn awesome to see.
In terms of enjoying this game and the event, it sounds like the end of the world to miss it.

You might be right that it might be blown out of proportion, but it’s the dev’s themselves that are doing the blowing here.
All the players are doing is believing it’s going to be as awesome as the devs claim, so they don’t want to miss it.

(I have my reserves, but I always do when things get announced very big, especially in this game. But you can’t take my cynical critical self as a general measure for other players)

I’m not saying I completely agree with how they are handling things, I’m just getting tired of the kittening. I know that I have a few Asian games I play and I’m normally S.O.L when it comes to events that happen, because it is during THEIR play times. It happens. Of course Anet is going to promote the event… they want people to go to it. I just don’t think it’s the end all everyone is making it out to be.

The whole point of this thread was also to clear up the misconception that this is the finale, which I’ve been seeing in post after post after post and it’s simply not true.

one thing is to say it’s not the finale.
But you clearly stated that because it wasn’t the finale… people shouldn’t get upset about missing it. Which is besides the point, since the dev’s make it out as something you wouldn’t want to miss, or even see later on Yuotube. It’s something you HAVE TO be there.

If you didn’t mean to write this in your original post, than don’t write it.

Your post wasn’t : hey, it’s not the finale.

Actually what I didn’t mean to write in my post was to wait to see what it was before resuming complaining… not that people need to stop kittening. Which I still stand by…. Lot’s of kittening isn’t going to do anything to help except aggravate others. I still don’t think it’s going to be that big of a deal honestly. People are getting all out of whack over pixels. I’ll tell you what, I even understand when people complained about the BLC because a lot spent real money on it. This is totally different and doesn’t effect yourself or your wallet for anything.

Like I said, this is most likely going to be something that would be ridiculous to try repeating and so they went with the next best thing which happened to be choosing a date and time when there were the most concurrent players on.

I might not completely agree on what you say here, but I find it much more reasonable than your original post.
I don’t see the need of reacting against your statements now, not anymore.

That a mod removed the caps is nicer too

It’s putting me of leveling a bit, to be honest.

But than people say it’s not an issue, and that there is awlays someone around to help.

Often there isn’t, and I actually want to tackle that veteran alone, it’s a challenge… but I can’t handle the respawning mobs leading to it.

My latest server is better, it’s the fifth I tried I think.
But still: rather empty mid level maps + high respawn rates = no fun gameplay

saurus.8290:

act 4 is clearings after halloween party ;p

ah, that’s what those brooms are for!

NightShadow.1429:

Kimbald.2697:

If the debvs do something as drastic as making it a one time event for ALL timezones to share, than it must be something they consider pretty darn awesome to see.
In terms of enjoying this game and the event, it sounds like the end of the world to miss it.

You might be right that it might be blown out of proportion, but it’s the dev’s themselves that are doing the blowing here.
All the players are doing is believing it’s going to be as awesome as the devs claim, so they don’t want to miss it.

(I have my reserves, but I always do when things get announced very big, especially in this game. But you can’t take my cynical critical self as a general measure for other players)

I’m not saying I completely agree with how they are handling things, I’m just getting tired of the kittening. I know that I have a few Asian games I play and I’m normally S.O.L when it comes to events that happen, because it is during THEIR play times. It happens. Of course Anet is going to promote the event… they want people to go to it. I just don’t think it’s the end all everyone is making it out to be.

The whole point of this thread was also to clear up the misconception that this is the finale, which I’ve been seeing in post after post after post and it’s simply not true.

one thing is to say it’s not the finale.
But you clearly stated that because it wasn’t the finale… people shouldn’t get upset about missing it. Which is besides the point, since the dev’s make it out as something you wouldn’t want to miss, or even see later on Yuotube. It’s something you HAVE TO be there.

If you didn’t mean to write this in your original post, than don’t write it.

Your post wasn’t : hey, it’s not the finale.

Penguin.5197:

As a Charr I only have one thing to all you Asura who keep complaining to us:
Grow up.

:P

I’ll shave your legs and put a pink ribbon in your tail if you keep looking down on us.

If the debvs do something as drastic as making it a one time event for ALL timezones to share, than it must be something they consider pretty darn awesome to see.
In terms of enjoying this game and the event, it sounds like the end of the world to miss it.

You might be right that it might be blown out of proportion, but it’s the dev’s themselves that are doing the blowing here.
All the players are doing is believing it’s going to be as awesome as the devs claim, so they don’t want to miss it.

(I have my reserves, but I always do when things get announced very big, especially in this game. But you can’t take my cynical critical self as a general measure for other players)

The very reason why they do it on one set moment, is because they find it this awesome that people would want to experience it instead of seeing it on Youtube first.

That is the whole reasoning for doing it at the same time in all timezones together.

But because it’s not ‘the finale’ suddenly it’s something people shouldn’t complain about missing?
While the dev’s just do all of this because it IS something you don’t want to miss…

NightShadow.1429:

Licht.5168:

It is the finale.
ANet said they moved it to today because it was the day and time period that had the highest number of players playing the game at the same time. It was initially on the 31st, but people complained about it being in the middle of the work week, causing them to reconsider and move it to today.

Then why would the keep calling it a one time only special event instead of saying the Finale. That doesn’t make sense…. It’s not the finale, the finale is most likely going to be repeatable on the 31st.

“DO NOT MISS Act 3 of Shadow of the Mad King which kicks off at the lion statue in Lion’s Arch at noon Pacific (12:00 PM Pacific Time/19:00 GMT) on Sunday, Oct 28 with a very special, one-time only surprise!”

It’s the beginning of Act III… Not the finale…

and that makes it something people wouldn’t mind missing, even if your reasoning was correct?

1. you can only know what it is when it’s over.

2. At that point the people who don’t want to miss it, would have missed it…

3. But you want people to stop complaining about possibly missing it… till we know what it is?

1 2 3 does not compute very well for me.

Relaxing is awlays a good thing, but I can’t follow your reasoning, or how this post would help anyone who doesn’t want to miss the event.

Finale or not, it’s a timed event that people could miss.

Tai Kratos.3247:

I actually don’t feel that I have a negative attitude in general towards GW2. I was a huge GW1 fan, and, although it may not seem like it, I love GW2. The only reason why I am so hard on GW2 is because I enjoy the game so much, so I talk about what I don’t like so the game can become that much better. Problems won’t be solved by praise.

For example: I absolutely hate CoD, not only as a game but also for everything it stands for in gaming. But I don’t waste my time carefully critiquing because I don’t care about it and it isn’t worth my time.

I find that a very respectable point of view, just adding this here so you wouldn’t think I’m all for negative feedback alone.

a vigilante in game!
Epic.

Neighbourhood patrols, and the occasional pogrom or witch hunt going wrong (and those were always wrong…).

Who needs pvp servers?

The simple difference between asking what the difference between zooming and FOV is, and writing a post telling people how stupid they are for not realising they are the same…

OP could have done the first, but chose the second.

I hope he doesn’t mind getting burned over this.
He’s awfully quiet by the way.

Same could be said for pvp: it has potential, but it lacks diversity for example.

Also the game is a great social game, in terms of letting players work together.
But at the same time it often neglects solo players are having a hard time accomplashing much if truly no one else is around.
Any MMO should cater to solo play as well, this one does that rather limited, even when leveling.

The goal of avoiding grinding for gear, has led to the total emphasis on rare cosmetic rewards in everything (instances, pvp, events, crafting). These very skins end up being the biggest grind many have seen since EQ days (to generalise just a wee bit).

I can follow your point.
It’s not that the game is bad, it’s actually pretty good oin many aspects. But it does have a lot of unused potential, as well as a lot of missed opportunities.

There is the slim chance further expansions will better that, but the playerbase isn’t always patient.
Many avid defenders of the game should realise it’s in their own interest if the game keeps it’s large playerbase.

It’s a bit odd that they made several models for the same, instead of one model for each weapon to start…

Hopefully for all those disapointed at this, future events will start on the skins that were left out now.
(allthough i can’t imagine them having no sword skins at all for example)

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Charr are preventing me from completing the jumping puzzle. Can I report them for griefing?

The puzzle is 10x easier once all the charr fall off.

yes you can report them for griefing. Just use the report feature in game.

Aren’t you asking if any moderator at all would take you just the first bit serious?

The answer to that is slightly different than what I typed above, as you would have guessed yourself.

I find it a bit odd that everybody here is trying to find workarounds for the only real solution to the problem:

they should fix the block bug.

This sounds stupid, I know, as I realise they are working on it.

But no one can actually believe that any of the suggested alternatives will ever be used by everyone:

- not using maces at all? Some will, always. It’s their choice and build, a bug shouldn’t limit that.
- using the maces but promising not to abuse the bug? Seriously? No control whatsoever to see if it was on purpose or not.
- appealing to the fair play of gamers in pvp? Not sure what to add here…
- ban the maces? As if Arena net would take such a strong measure for a mere bug they’re working on.

I have a solution too, and it’s just as unlikely:

- this game should have stayed in beta a bit longer.

Don’t think i’m trying to put all of you down here, or that i’m just trying to be cross here.
I really think that no solution can be found that would be followed by all.
Nothing posted here is really realistic.

Everybody is saying they don’t abuse the bug, yet everybody sees it being abused by others… that alone shows the unrealistic nature.

MaXi.3642:

as said, if you dont like playing against premade teams, go play hot join… tournaments are what they should be now…

hot join – free for anyone, cant join as premade, only alone
free tournament – free for anyone, can join alone aswell as premade
paid tournament – need to pay tickets, only for premades

1 for solo players, 1 for good solo players/“bad” teams, 1 for good teams, this IS balanced

I would actually agree IF spvp hot join was 5v5 instead of 8v8.

Seeing as it is 8v8 it has absolutely nothing to do with the tournament form of conquest.

And a good solo player in a pugged tournament group still gets beaten by a half decent premade, even if he himself is better.
That’s part of the issue too: there simply is no format where good solo players can do good pvp.

For a game claiming to be a pvp game, it offers next to nothing to solo players.
This is a major issue for the future of pvp in this game, as well as an obstacle to create an audience for e-sport.

DragonM.2170:

Worst idea ever … srlsy for PUG games you have a hot joins deal with it … stop crying about ohh i cant play pug vs premade its so hard to JOIN GUILD ? Tournaments are based on TEAMS and if you are so leazy to add some friends or ask on guild chat or even spam in hearth of mist (classes needed lvl and so one ) blame your selfs only. Nobody gona do it EVERYTHING for you…

if you were right, than the dev’s wouldn’t have created the option to join alone.

Since they did, it’s to them you should be telling that they are wrong, not us.
You say we should blame ourselves, but since the devs created the option you’re blaming them for this in the end.

Everybody in this thread knows that you can make a team. That’s not really the point.

The option to join as pug is there, all we ask is for it to be seperated from teams.

The REAL question is: since you can join alone, is it fair and good for the game, to be forced to play against premade teams?

You missed that. All you are saying is that the option to join alone shouldn’t even be in the game.

As for hot joins spvp: that’s not 5v5 and is an utter mess. Nothing comparable to a tournament.
And ‘hot joining’ tournaments isn’t a seperate option, wich is exactly the point of this thread. Joining tournaments alone puts you against premades… So it’s not an option to avoid the issue. It IS the issue…

Basically you’re making a lot of noise, but saying nothing to the point.

Bobudo.7943:

Temp.6035:

Because if everyone is the same model, you run into the problem that you can’t tell which one is you.

Make everyone a different color skeleton!

or make norns big skeletons, and asura small skeletons… oh hang on.

Maybe just the colors.

So simple it’s brilliant…

Not that people should complain, or even that they shouldn’t complain…
but how on earth would you know for certain what is going to happen?

Other people can have lucky guesses too, but that has nothing to do with the fact that some people just want to be there.

My own view on it is that it’s impossible to do a timed even with a game crossing so many time zones.
I would have looked for something else.
But this aside.

How can you be telling people to stop speaking their concern, just because you think you know what will happen?
Very odd argument I would say.

My above post sounds harsher than I want it to be.
Can’t edit it, so just adding this here.

I just can’t really understand how you can first complain (a bit) about the whole magic find thing, and than go on about the chests as if that was a lesser loss.

Both are examples of the same, and I still think losing real money is a lot worse than losing game money. In both cases it’s about not really knowing what you were buying into.
In both cases people seem to get disapointed at their purchase.

That’s it. In trying to get my point across as clear as I could, I might have come out a bit strong

Kasaski.1795:

Kimbald.2697:

Kasaski.1795:

Turimbar.2108:

There’s a running saying in my guild,

“There’s no farming in Guild Wars 2, because it is not allowed.”

Just another example of something that may have been a touch overpowered being nerfed into silliness.

Extremely true, im just barely managing to get over 1 gold (used to have 3 but spent it all on keys) and thought id just be able to get more gold by farming for items, with my 196% magic find, im barely able to get anything above a few whites and 2 blues maybe 1 green in about 3 hours… pissed off about the money i spent for magic find items, and not getting anything out of it.
i guess this is how people are feeling with the chests then.. but honestly dont cry to anet because you spent all of your saved up real bucks and didnt get anything out of it, that was your choice, yes the regular drops should be a tad better, but you spent your REAL money on virtual items, well not even items really, keys…

you spend virtual money and are complaining you didn’t get anything. Than I have more sympathy for those complainers who spend real money… I truly do.

i wasnt complaining about the chests.. i was complaining about all item drops in the game, and how rare everything seems to be (even if its a crap item). i managed to get the crossroads from the skele champ chest in mad king realm without opening a single chests (i did open 3 later for curiosity). anet is trying too hard to keep the gold to an absolute minimum for the non extreme hardcore players.. if gold becomes less rares, gem prices are going to be much higher.. so anet really has not much to worry about.

I know what you were complaining about.
And than you went on to say others shouldn’t complain about their real money.

I read the post, I stand by my point.
Losing virtual money on magic find is far less than losing real money on a rotten deal you expected to be better.

What makes you think magic find was better than it is?
It’s a bloody GAMBLE!
You MIGHT get more drops, where was the guarantee on exactly how many?
No one forced you to get magic find gear, stop being entitled because you didn’t get the drops YOU wanted!

(you didn’t write like this, I just want to make the comparison clear)

See what I’m doing here…

Now repeat that with real money, and tell me what’s worse to lose.

Echo: use it in your own charcater!

Even in books and films, and certainly in myths, hero’s go down to the underworld. They officially die sometimes.

That’s what you did: you went out to the realm of the dead, only to be entered by… being dead.

If your character suffers no other death than these, than it’s just part of a true hero’s story.

It’s to avoid double dipping from the trait lowering flamethrower and Elixir gun cooldowns I think.

Those skills are called ‘elixirs’ but for the game they’re not, apparantly.

Only elixirs in the game are the single skill elixirs it seems.

I understand the double dipping, but I can’t understand the naming choice to call them ‘elixirs’, not for the life of me.

Xocolatl.6890:

There are a lot of kinks to work out for Engies, that’s for sure.

we’re engineers, if only they would allow us to tinker on it ourselves… but no: they have to play it stubborn and really want to do it themselves!

One thing is funny though: the several posts suggesting what nice and divers medium armor you could get, all sort of look the same when I look at the pictures and follow the links or names…

This game has a BIG plus in terms of medium armor: it finally looks like leather again!
(compared to some of the things other games call ‘leather’ or ‘mail’)

This game has a BIG minus as well: while it looks good, it also looks a lot the same.

I watched a stream a few days ago. It was team Paradigm.

They had Jon Peters joining them for a match (maybe more, just saw one with him). At least, that’s what it appeared to be.

Either way: they had like 240 viewers and were amazed at the numbers being so high.

It’s not that they are bad or anything. I just fear that the pvp community in and around this game, isn’t all that big anymore.

With the launching of paid tournaments, I hope it’s going to be some new injection to the game. But for the moment that isn’t happening yet.

This goes beyond the pvp being good or bad, or balanced or not. Opinions may vary on that.
But if you don’t have players, because of whatever reason, you don’t have a real pvp scene.

Kagemitsu, if someone in one of those groups of yours behaves like an idot, they will get trouble for that in your guild I suppose.

There’s more to a pug than just not playing with the same people.

On topic more: if they can’t seperate completely (which they should) than at least have a matchmaking set that only the last pugs who can’t fit a tournament, are put against premades.
Fill the tournaments with pugs till you have either no more pugs, or just a few pugs too many.
Same for the premades.

If the leftovers of both have enough to fill a tournament too, than throw them together while giving the pugs a headstart or something.
or a better consolation price.

When you’re low level, and not spending any real money in the shop, this event ends up being rather limited in fun…

Bit sad, for a holliday.

only disabled for thiefs, balance measure I’m afraid.

All others got the icon mentioned.

simple solution, so you can still put them on the ground as use yourself when immobilized:

one click: consume
double click: put on ground for others

or simply use them once dropped, but that would be too logical (so what yukishiro said)

No matter how fast you run, you always ‘eat’ them while moving in a straight line.
Yet you can never simply use one while standing still…

Very odd design here.

1. You take it out of the bag.
2. you manually put it in front of you (watch the animation)
3. you can’t reach it????

Yep Optics, for a day or so I saw it on the forum 3 times, I made the first reaction to the one with the most views

Bugged probably, since the others never got reactions. But that could just as well be because my first reaction sort of ‘opened’ that one.

Medium armor for the most part is sooo boringly normal.
And to make it worse: it’s mostly the same over and over.

I started with an engineer and a ranger, Norn, Asura… but even the Norn female looked just boring.

Than I made a human elementalist… female.
Dam, was I blown of my socks at the difference.
If that is what she wears during the day in combat, I wonder at what she might wear at night for leisure…

Albane, you suddenly sound like the kind of guys screaming with tickets at the queues of a concert or match…

You selling posters too?

Run with the group, join the zerg as much as you can.

Not being sarcastic, it’s really what you’re supposed to do in spvp.

It will show you how the maps are constructed without getting lost at first.

It wil protect you from smaller fights where you lack experience.

It will give you the only kills you’ll get for a while.

It will show you how points are won.

It will give you acces to more glory points than going out alone.

In spvp you get little to no reward for trying to defend a point. It’s simply useles because when a group of enemies arrive, you won’t survive anyhow to stop them for any significant time.
‘Defending gets you nothing but killed in spvp’

I don’t agree with the strategy of zerging that I posted, but I do believe that’s the only sensible thing a new playe can do in spvp.

Box face made fun of it, but what he says is actually a result of what I describe as well.
The system just promotes zerging.

Just a sidenote: I totally dislike that you guys still need tickets won in free tournies to enter.

Why? Because it means free tournies are still pug vs paid tourny premade earning tickets.

For the rest: of course I wish you lot have short queues. An maybe shorter waiting times between fights as well…

I find it odd that it isn’t cross server already. Do they expect this incredible fload of teams on each server?

Zenith.7301:

Kimbald.2697:

Zenith.7301:

Quite frankly I would like to see such set in PvE as well, considering that even with 33% confusion duration trait and 20 points in domination my Confusions from Cry of Frustration at best ticks twice on regularly attacking mobs, and I’m lucky to get one tick on bosses.

Or maybe the confusion from Cry of Frustration can be increased baseline in PvE at least.

Not arguing, merely asking:

is confusion ever wasted on pve mobs?

I actually figured they would always do ‘something’ and get the damage anyhow. Never considered they might not.

I ask because I haven’t tackled much pve mobs that wait a long time between actions, except one or two event ‘giants’.

Confusion is often wasted on PvE mobs, yes. 4 additional seconds baselines to the duration of confusion in PvE would help a lot.

The trouble is that bosses don’t do attacks that trigger confusion often at all. Abominations are other mobs that do a lot of damage but attack slowly.

Thanks. Hadn’t given it any thought outside of pvp at all thus far, hence my question.

Dinks.2478:

@Kimbald.2697 If you read my other posts on these forums, I’m far from the type of person to blindly defend anet. I just got off a forum suspension for quite the opposite.

However I just disagree with these people. I think they’re use to other games where things are handed to you. I understand what you think their expectations were, I don’t understand their responses. If they thought they were going to be given these items with such good odds. Why did they feel the need to spend hundreds of dollars on keys before hand?

They got better odds, when they were given extra chests to try to open. Even if the technical odds remained the same the act of opening extra free chests gave them better odds.

Nice to see you argue instead of spout oneliners that aren’t even in one line

I stand corrected on your white knight status.
Seriously, not being clever here. I just can’t follow many of the things you said here. My only way of placing them was assuming you tried to defend the game.

To the question: why did they spend hundreds of dolars beforehand?
I would say: because they trusted arenanet to be handing out holliday gifts by giving a fair droprate.
It was the excitement following how Anet announced the shinies in the boxes for the event.
‘a chance’ and ‘unique’.
Not ‘rare’ and not anything else that would have suggested it was just the same droprates normal chest items had.
It all sounded like fun for the holidays!

And if you get a second lottery ticket for free, you are indeed given better odds in some way. (not mathematically I think, but for each person it’s another chance for the same)
But do you really think that was what people expected it to be this time around?
It sounded like ‘ooh sorry, we’ll make up for this mess’ to me.
While it was: ’here’s another, now shut up’.