Guild Wars 2

Melee is now only the cleanup squad after most of the fight is over.

I think the unique skins you can get nowhere else are a pretty good reward. Would be even better with a collection achievement for getting all 19 though.

Sirendor.1394:

As others have said… PPT is pointless because it only gives a measure of the number of players that fight on the servers. Server with most people or most coverage -> guaranteed PPT winner.

People don’t care about things they don’t have an individual impact on. Fights however are the one thing I still play WvW for occasionally. The combat can still be thrilling and it’s a display of your individual skill if you are roaming. Zerging, not gonna talk about that.

Not true, all players in the whole world wont help you if they are slacking in spawn or look for fights only. 10 people who PvD will win a matchup if the other 2 servers will only look for fights.

Its hard enough to get one Mini Lama, now we need to get 5 of them?

Killing 1000 Giants only takes 20-30 hours if you do it right.

blakdoxa.7520:

Malediktus.3740:

T1 is the place to be if you dont enjoy looking 10min+ for a fight.

You can keep your 100+ ques. I’m on FA now and I just can’t even bother with it being so close to crossing over tiers.

That was maybe a year ago. On SFR (#1 EU) we dont even have queues on all maps during primetime all the time, usually only EBG has queue and not even a long one.

T1 is the place to be if you dont enjoy looking 10min+ for a fight.

Not stability is overpowered, but CC is. Nothing is more infuriating than loosing control over your character. I know at least one MMO game which removed some of the more annoying CCs like fear from their game because its so annoying.
And I would argue CC in this game is even more annoying because you die faster and there are more ways to CC people in this game.

It depends what you do. In crowded areas like tequatl GW2 can use around 60KB/s for me. In less crowded areas like story instances its like 2KB/s

So 10GB is around 45 hours of playtime in crowded areas, other activities like downloading patches etc not included.

I guess they could delete the achievements/titles and recreate them exactly again. So all people who legitimately have the HoM points and a linked account would gain the new achievements.

with rbg -1,-1,-1?

Wanze.8410:

Malediktus.3740:

Well most of the accounts are new. 10 of them are from first 10€ weekend, another 19 from 2nd weekend. I guess they will just keep stockpiling up as months pass by. I imagine by the end of the year I will have over 100 of them if they keep popping up at the same rate.

I know i rather look at excel sheets than at character select and login screens for 1-2 hours every day.

More like 15min, it takes me max. 30 seconds per account unless I do more than just collecting the login chest of course. Quick loading speeds because of SSD help a lot.

Considering each account makes about 60g per 28 days (without considering stuff like black lion kits) its 28x 30 seconds = 14min. 60g/14min = 4.28g per minute. Not bad for something you dont have to spend attention to and can read a book or look at TV at the same time.

Well most of the accounts are new. 10 of them are from first 10€ weekend, another 19 from 2nd weekend. I guess they will just keep stockpiling up as months pass by. I imagine by the end of the year I will have over 100 of them if they keep popping up at the same rate.

I have at least 25 of these kits across all my accounts. And yes I have no clue what to do with them
So far I only use them to salvage items with valuable runes in them and keep them in bank for all eternity if there is no exo with good rune/sigill

Very few people are interested in looking at spreadsheets all the time to see how they can maximize the profit out of everything. I know I want to play instead of looking at excel sheets or similar.

Kedarrian.2905:

Of the list of items i would like to see stack in this game, and specifically the tiers of salvage kits, BLSK’s are somwhere around bottom priority on that list.

They are pretty easy to burn through salavaging level 80 dungeon armor for insignias.

Not everyone farms dungeons, let alone to salvage the tokens.

lordkrall.7241:

Aye, would be nice with a tournament. But I would suggest waiting a few weeks in order for people to adapt to the new Stability changes.

Watch out, if you wait too long for something you might die of old age… or in this case of boredom and people quit the game. Since the final episode of S2 there were only filler patches without any content for any of the gamemodes.

I wish there would be something useful for my 10m of karma. Already got all cultural weapon skins and some extra stacks of obsidian shards. Converting it to linen is too much clicking for me.

They probably used an anagramm generator like http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ and picked one which sounded remotely good :p

Devildoc.6721:

Bacon.4918:

Devildoc.6721:

From what I can see so far their solution is throwing out bans for simply making a character on the day of the patch. Seems like you’re going to nail a lot of people who were not attempting to exploit that way.

What makes you think they are going to ban people for this?

I’ve seen screenshots on other forums and sites.

I cant find any screenshots on the fansites I know of, not even on reddit.

I just looked and I would raise the price from 4g 30s to over 12g for giant eyes if I would buy a stack for Immobulus in one go. Madness.
Buy orders are useless for this item, too. You get outbid way too fast unless you order one at a time.

Kedarrian.2905:

Malediktus.3740:

I like the change. Now I can put all people on block list who attempt to randomly kick people so I never have to do dungeons with them again.

The LFG tool will still group you with people on your block list.

I am aware of that, but people in your group will be marked blue in your block list. So I can either kick them before we start or look for a new group.
I currently have over 1000 people blocked so it happens frequently that I meat people I already blocked

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Well at least it prevents people who haven’t even played gw1 to get the hom skins.

Yes, better Anet fixes the achievements first before they fix this portal stone. Or they will have much more work to fix.

One can apply real physics to MMORPGs wherever it makes sense. Easy mode point and click arrow carts need to go.

I like the change. Now I can put all people on block list who attempt to randomly kick people so I never have to do dungeons with them again.

And I find it lame that melee is dead in WvW now. Shooting with ranged weapons at each other and spamming symbols is not my idea of fun. And many people seem to think the same. The queues on SFR are much lower than before patch, because many people are unhappy with stability changes and FOV + ac junk.

Sorel.4870:

Malediktus.3740:

With the new FOV update arrow carts are extremly OP because they do not need any skill to aim (point and click) and can shoot through obstacles.
My suggestion would be to make them work like mortars/trebuchets. That way it would take at least a bit of skill to use them and they would get obstructed by walls, roofs etc.

I support this idea. Maybe broaden the AoE circle a bit to compensate, but that would be more balanced.

edit: I didn’t read you carefully, but why would they be obstructed by walls? Their only purpose is to shoot over walls!

Because they are shooting in an arc. If you build the ac at the bottom of a wall it should not be able to hit the stuff right behind the wall.

Scribbin.2307:

Anet could always make a new title for those that earned GWAMM in GW1 legit.

No. GWAMM is the best title, even close 3 years after release. Even the 25k AP title sounds like trash compared to it.

Kolisch.4691:

Is it possible to just erase all the HoM achievements of anyone not linking a GW1 account?

Does not fix the issue of people who only got lets say 10 HoM points, but now have 39 + GWAMM.

Naevius.3185:

TheHaldir.6598:

So you think everyone who is new to the game who created new characters, BL Key farmers and players who just wanted to make a new character should all be banned? …

That’s why I said ‘appropriate’ bans. I’m (fairly) sure they can tell who jumped in just to exploit the bug.

Sadly its not obvious. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to start new characters. Black lion key farmers delete and create characters several times per day.

With the new FOV update arrow carts are extremly OP because they do not need any skill to aim (point and click) and can shoot through obstacles.
My suggestion would be to make them work like mortars/trebuchets. That way it would take at least a bit of skill to use them and they would get obstructed by walls, roofs etc.

There are 16581375 possible color combinations with 256,256,256 RGB, looks like Anet can cash in a lot

acey.6142:

It doesn’t work anymore they patched it last night.

proof?

It funny how Anet immediatly responded to the class specific weapon and armor vendor problem, but is silent about this.

You dont get double AP chests. They are once per account. When they fixed collection achievements a lot of people lost AP and some people got below chest treshold. They were not able to earn it again.

And if Anet doesnt fix this and slaps loyal GW1 players into the face, I definitely will not buy a GW3 if it ever comes out.

I heared this bug is still working, is it true?

Its very hard to remove unfairly gained skins again. People can transmute it on their existing items and they can store the skins in their bank etc. So its much more effort than just removing it from wardrobe.
If they have the skins on any of their items they can just unlock it again after Anet removed it from wardrobe etc.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

They don’t have to roll back an entire patch to fix this. They have retroactively ‘fixed’ other issues with achievement points. I’m sure they can fix this too.

It took them 6months to make a fix for that. Considering all the testing involved to not break it even more (eg. removing the wrong achievements or from people who legitimately earned them), I would expect a fix to take minimum a month.
If they fix the HoM portal stone before they fix this bug, they also have to find a way to remove ill gained skins from your wardrobe (never happened before so far).

Full reset sounds like a good idea to me

They better dont fix it before they didnt rollback all the people who exploited GWAMM. Or they can also get all the skins unlocked

I think the keeping the integrity of the game and long term achievements is more important than a few lucky drops.
But maybe Anet can write some kind of script to fix the achievements (similar to bugged black lion collections), but I suggest disabling the hall of monuments portal stone until then, to prevent people to unlock the skins.

Maybe there are rare cases where it doesnt work. But it sure works for the majority of people who give the bug a try.

Smitty.9432:

It’s only the title and achievement points, it’s not like people are getting the HoM skins which is what really matters.

Only because the game crashes when using the portal stone. I am sure you could buy them if you could enter the HoM. And the titles from GW1 are the best titles of the game even almost 3 years in. So its a very big deal.

There are several threads about this already. Everyone who reads the forums knows how to reproduce it already

did you try using your hall of monument portal stone? i heared that one also triggers it

Its a guaranteed bug. It worked for everyone I know who tried it.

Its a terrible update. Despite being 6 days late its full of bugs. Stability change is also horrible and the camera changes make arrow carts even more OP.
I rate this patch 0 points out of 10.

Its the worst update in GW2 history. 6 days late and still the most buggy patch ever.

I wouldnt have deleted it, you lost the chest forever, there is no way to reearn it. So you lost permanent account buffs and possibly skins.

Ignavia.7420:

I really don’t want to be rude, but this bug has to be fixed as soon as possible and any incorrectly awarded achievements have to be reset. Those achievements were not exactly easy to get and I personally don’t want everybody being GWAMM.

Exactly, I already know several people who reproduced this bug on purpose in hope Anet wont fix it.

Ok a friend with 0 HoM points tried this and he gained 39 HoM points and God walking amongst mere mortals.
This bug needs immediate attention