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Would prefer ones that actually look good and are useable in combat like the Lich costume for GW1. There is no point to having town clothes at all.
Okay I have to break down and ask, can someone explain why people keep throwing in “kitten” and “Kittening”? I just don’t get it.
It’s an automatic profanity filter on the forums. Any swear word gets changed to kitten.
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“Traditionally GW1 never released any Halloween Content until midnight pst.
If they keep the tradition going you still have 4 hours to wait.”
Midnight PST would be the 23rd not the 22.
I wish Anet would realize that people on the East coast have jobs and can’t be up til 12-1am waiting for an event to start. To us that’s the 23rd not the 22nd.
Transmutation stones don’t exactly make this a non-issue. You cannot buy the cultural armor of other races (you can’t even see it on their vendor). You would have to find armor as world drops or from dungeons with the stats you want to transmute.
You guys are arguing with someone who places “an” before words beginning with consonants.
How to obtain the mats or the degree of hindrance is not the point of my post. That would be QQing. My point is that changes made to combat exploiters should have no effect on me whatsoever because I was playing the game correctly.
What would you suggest? The issue was, people didn’t have to go out and farm materials, because they could buy them with low amounts of karma. What alternatives do you have to stop people buying cooking materials, while still allowing you to buy them?
And there was the other issue: how easy it is to gather cooking materials just inside towns. Personally, I think it’s great that you enjoy cooking. But I disagree that the system should not be changed for you. Even if you weren’t exploiting it, it doesn’t change how easy it was for you to get materials, does it? Is that fair to people who chose other professions? To the armorsmiths and weaponsmiths who need a stack or better of any given smithing metal, on top of crazy amounts of blue crafting materials that have to be farmed from enemies, just for a chance to get any significant advancement in their professions? And yes, I’m aware people could just as easily pick cooking up, but, that brings us back around to the doing things for enjoyment point you made.
Yeah, it was a fix to stop exploiters. But it was also a fix to the ease of the profession. I don’t see where cooking deserved to be special in that regard.
Cooking wasn’t meant to be easy though. It was meant to be an advanced profession, by acting as a karma dump.
Unfortunately, it was not functioning as a karma dump very well.
Instead of fixing the karma dump portion of it, they removed it. The correct change would be A. increase karma prices or B. plug the holes that are allowing people to gain karma at a break-neck pace.
The had it in GW1. Chances are high they will add it to GW2 once the system is worked out.
Lightyears, the mats are really easy to get. I was just doing STUFF and ended up with 150 sticks of butter and a whole lot of chocolate. I really think you are overreacting, and I’m also one of those people that thinks rushing to 80 is a ridiculous thing to do. (My main is level 36. I’m enjoying the game slowly.) I love cooking, and while this is a small hindrance, it is in no way as enjoyment-breaking as you’re making it out to be. Heck, if you were on my server, I’d mail you all my butter and chocolate just because I know I’d be able to get tons more without even trying.
How to obtain the mats or the degree of hindrance is not the point of my post. That would be QQing. My point is that changes made to combat exploiters should have no effect on me whatsoever because I was playing the game correctly.
It IS in the list of changes.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-September-8th-2012
Detailed patch notes need to be released during the maintenance time, or immediately after the client has patched. Not two days late.
I know we’re still in the early stages of release, but Anet cannot seriously be SO busy that one employee cannot simply copy and past a txt file onto the forums when a patch hits.
I stopped playing the game as of today because of this change.
I logged in this morning before running errands for the day to bust out some crafting only to find the butter I needed, as well as many other mats, had been removed from vendors.
Now before you call me a drama kitten or say I’m qq’ing… let me explain exactly how I see it:
I play chef for fun. I don’t do it for levels, I don’t do it to sell rare dye on the TP, I don’t do it to get from 70-80 easy as pie. I legitimately like cooking in the game. I find it enjoyable to throw together ingredients that make sense and see that blue drumstick pop up so I can craft something, even if it’s too low to get experience for. This is a fun activity for me.
I am not upset because now I have to go out in the world and kill god-knows-what for a random chance at getting the materials I need. If this had been the system in the first place, I would probably still enjoy chef as much as I have the past two weeks.
What irks me is this:
I did not abuse dolyaks or static events to get fast levels and stockpile vast amounts of karma. I did not look up some quick-guide to cooking on the internet to blast from 70-80 in an hour without leaving town. I used the system as it was intended.
But because certain individuals felt the need to abuse the system, just to rush to 80, my experience has changed.
I played the game correctly. I didn’t abuse obvious bugs. I didn’t take the quick-way to the top using things in ways they were obviously not intended for. When you make changes to stop exploiting, you make changes that impact the exploiters. You do not however change things for the people who are doing it right.
I cannot and will not support developers who practice this procedure.
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