I agree the open world needs better loot and at least some farming spots. It is just that this one is particularly bad since by not completing it blocks a dungeon (and the completion of the personal story). However, if people want to farm it before it get nerfed, I guess go ahead, nothing stopping you. If people want the dungeon open or to complete the event, then can just kill the giant. Those people can just block anyone who gives you excessive grief, and report anyone who uses reportable language. we all know there is no way this spot remains unchanged for long.
well there is one this time you can enter in as a group, I assume the others may present too much of a chance for exploitation or being in a group offer too much of an advantage. just a couple possible reasons.
We have already seen in a previous interview within the past 2 weeks from Mike Z, who (AFAIK) said that the box sales + gem store is more than enough to fund the company (which is the reason why we won’t have to pay for boxed expansions).
The real quote is as follows:
I pressed him to tell me whether there would be a Guild Wars 2 expansion this year and he shook his head to indicate no. What about next year, I asked?
“If we do this right,” he answered, “we will probably never do an expansion and everything will be going into this Living World strategy.”
Back on topic:
For those that cry RNG I agree it is still RNG but the odds are in your favor.The Black Lion Chest now has a common chance to drop Black Lion Ticket Scraps and a rare chance to drop Black Lion Claim Tickets, which can be redeemed for Aetherblade weapon skins.
Regarding on topic: Agreed , this is exactly the system that many people on forums said they wanted.
There are some “elitist” who just can’t live without being 2 minutes faster.
There are three things you can do:
- Learn that dredge fractals exploit
- Find another party or (even better)
- Don’t do PUGs and do it with guildies.
yeah, I pretty much do the 3rd option only now, so much more fun.
I’ve got 2 so far, but not for awhile now, over 40 ranks
Can’t have your cake and eat it too
maybe that is a bit harsh, I mean if you really want to support a candidate, you will not get the rewards that the other candidate offers (fractal, discounts, achievements, mini, etc). feels very much like a real election in that sense.
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This is the reason some of the recent farming areas have been nerfed (i.e. lyssa), it is negatively affecting gameplay of some players by abusing a mechanic of the game event. I would not be surprised if Anet uses that exact phrase when the nerf to the loot from the grubs and such get removed from the game.
Yet it’s very different from the Lyssa/Union farm. The thing that was so controversial about that was people could literally stack in 1 spot, the mobs would run to them, everyone would just auto attack and loot the pile of corpses at their feet. At least with this event people are required to be active, run around to tag mobs, actually stay alive, and use skills other than auto attack
Very different? Depends, I agree there is more ‘play’ involved with may save it from a nerf. However, it still comes down to purposely preventing an event from being completed to maintain the spawning of loot dropping mobs. History has shown Anet does not allow this to remain for long as there are many examples of this being ‘fixed’ in the game already.
This is the reason some of the recent farming areas have been nerfed (i.e. lyssa), it is negatively affecting gameplay of some players by abusing a mechanic of the game event. I would not be surprised if Anet uses that exact phrase when the nerf to the loot from the grubs and such get removed from the game.
Just do it anyways. Sadly you can’t fix a community that tries to exploit everything.
yeah, just do it anyways if you have the people
they specifically mentioned the removal or limiting of culling in PvE in the last paragraph
So from the looks of it about 2 people in this thread think AR is a problem? not gonna get the dev attention, time to move on, this is a non-issue
I wouldnt expect a reply. Whatever they do to compensate is potentially open to abuse if they say before hand.
this, im surprised they even announced it so far out, abuse potential is huge
Your post implies this armor is a new tier, it is not. It is a stat spread as you asked in your post, it is better at some things but worse at other stats. There is grind for it only due to the fact the charged quartz are bound and not sellable and the resulting armor needs to be crafted by you, this you need 400 crafting in the area.
WvW outnumbered buff
the destruction of customer trust has become the business model imo. not having a PTR so people can help work out design flaws or bugs, not releasing information prior to launching a patch even by 1 day, teasing things like a design of a whole new armor set and then discovering it was meant for the store alone, and releasing an achievement patch without the retro to when they made the promise of improving the rewards system and including the retro back to the time of the promise, pretty much left a permanent bad taste in my mouth and others. My friends refuse to come back to this title. In fact, some of them are seriously considering boycotting all titles supported by NCsoft from here on out because of the way the economy and combat was done in this game.
People don’t how serious customer trust is these days.
seems like most of your issues are not about customer trust or even remotely close to being about the free kite for gem buyers. People want skins in the gem store, highly asked for (see thread about items we want in the gem store). I know you are mad specifically about the salvage achievements being capped thus you feel like you lost 1000s of achievement points, but you must see why this had to be done.
2-600 euros a month on gems here, i feel like the kite is the least i should get in return.
Did you not get the gems that you were paying for ?
Yes`? And i still believe that we high spenders deserve some items like the kite, without whiners clogging the forums.
since you classify yourself as a ‘high spender’ just buy the kites. problem solved.
I have reported 3 bot rangers who keeps running in a small area together farming loot bags since November last year, and I reported them again this February, and they are still there in the same spot to this day. Good luck with your reporting.
yeah there are still some bots in the game (more than there should be), but anyone who think there hasn’t been a massive, and I mean massive, reduction since launch hasn’t been paying attention.
No, keeping the current system allows the greatest variety (as of now) of approaches to obtaining the achievement specific rewards.
you will likely get the next chest in about 7 hours, at the usual reset time
An in game calendar would be nice, not everyone checks the forums or the website
If you don’t like WvW, then there are a lot of achievement points (not titles, those are practically impossible in a game’s lifespan to obtain) you wont be getting.
Yes, but they are all neatly tucked away in the WvW tab, which I politely ignore, and are not sitting there mocking me on the LS tab, where I’ll likely get all the other achievments without much trouble.
Oh, and I play on a Tier 1 server, where our competitors have 24/7 coverage. A 10 man group trying to get through during Sky Pirates was insufficient to overcome the gankerfest.
And to be clear, if they added a section of the LS achievements that were all WvW or PvP focused, and had a meta achievement to wrap all of those together, I’d be perfectly fine. Having a meta achievement that 90% PvE, but you have to go WvW, is just obnoxious.
You play on a Teir 1 server that never has control of the jp? Seems like there would be an organized effort to retake it, even my sever got together to retake the jp for people wanting the achievement. Besides that, I respect your opinion on WvW in a mainly PvE meta, but you know what that say about opinions. It is possible the dev may change these types of things in the future.
If you don’t like WvW, then there are a lot of achievement points (not titles, those are practically impossible in a game’s lifespan to obtain) you wont be getting.
yeah most of the major sites have the previews up
As I personal hate CoF I used to farm cursed shore once for my first legendary (I never farmed for the following legendarys anymore).
I used to get 6-10 gold per hour at cursed shore. And no, this was not before event spawn time was nerfed. According to your messurement u really suck or I am a cursed shore farm god.
If you had gone back to CS before posting this, you’d know that the drops in Orr have been nerfed so hard it’s not even worth it to farm there anymore.
I disagree with this, after a long break from being in CS I went back these last two weekends as found the loot to be rather surprisingly good. For example, yesterday I got three rares from one plinx run, and many others from the shelter/pent/jofast camps, me and another person in my group both got an exotic drops (1 each). Also got a lot of moldy bags so al bunch of T6 mats and dragon coffers (got a jade weapon ticket). HOWEVER I do realize the pent/jofast/shelter events do not pop as often as they did, but if you expand what events you do (all contested wps, plinx, pirate, escort mia, and the other events) you can keep pretty much active all the time. I have seen more people in CS recently, so it is possible others are getting decent lot as well. This is just my opinion based on about 10 hours of doing CS events this each of these past two weekends in full MF gear and in full groups.
When talking about drops, hours played isn’t nearly as a meaningful stat as total kills. I know we don’t have access to that number, but I am sure you get the point.
Why do people think we will be SPENDING points?
Isn’t that quite stupid?
yeah I imagine at certain point levels, we will be allowed to purchase new stuff (with gold or laurels), not actually spending our points
jumping PUZZLE, right?
cant really see finding the caches as a ‘grind’, I mean there are only a handful of them. however, if you have already done the jps or minidungeons, then I can see not wanting to do it again. the ‘grind’ is killing the pirates at the same nodes that the holos spawn at, that is not really my definition of fun.
glad the wiki helped ya, that event is buggy as heck
yeah best to just buy the regular ones and open them.
me 25 rich coffers, no tickets
~600 regular, 3 tickets
well the wiki gives a few suggestions. try those and let us know if it worked
I would expect the type of ‘major event’ type of stuff in the first expansion. Right you know the world in and out, so if something happens (like the searing), if will affect you more now than if it happened only a few months after launch. I do think they need to use the living story to further enhance our relationships to the major NPCs, so when they are killed/kidnapped or betray us, we actually care more. I believe that are working towards that now.
For example, a plot line I would suggest: inspector kiel has been around for a bit now. Maybe after a few more living story ‘chapters’ working closely with her, she gets bumped off or something and we chase down the criminals to a new Sea of Sorrows map where we find an elder dragon at the bottom of the sea. Sets up nicely for an expansion this fall. just a possibility.
Now this is a thread I can get behind!
I would love to have the option to at least hide the kit backpacks.
Darn, when I saw the little red bubble next to the thread I thought Devon had come in here and said the orbs were coming back.
I don’t understand why they’re easy to hack. But then I don’t understand how people hack anything in a game.
They were easy to hack because of the fact that if you managed to fly or teleport hack you could do that and pick them up and take them right back to your base.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane….. nope it just our orb being flown to the enemy’s base. dang.
seriously, is there no way to prevent or detect flying or teleporting people in WvW? I understand in the regular game world people log in all over the place, but not in WvW. I am no programmer or anything close but wouldn’t the monitoring of movement be much easier in just WvW?
I miss the Orbs, they were fun and added a lot to WvW imo. dang hackers ruin it for everyone.
2000 hours…. Take a break man, play some other games. Sounds like burnout
Engineers could use some legendary love soon, maybe a legendary kit/pack or something. The developers have acknowledged this on the forums already but also said it is not a high priority.
It certainly appears that there will be two types of dragon coffers with the one from the gemstore either always containing or have a much better chance at containing the tickets. We will know for sure soon.
I got one in the second crate to drop for me, now I have one ssc pistol but would love a pair.
Only if they really want to kitten people off for no good reason.
MF is def worth it, just keep in mind that you need to use it over a long period of time to notice the difference. just tossing it on wont make you next drop an exotic but you will get more exotics over a long time of play.
Good question, I was in the same bind so I figured why take a chance. odds are it will stay for a couple weeks, since you can still get tickets up until the 11th (at least) so you got to give people at least a little time to cash them in. but you don’t want to be singing ’vendor, vendor where have you gone?" with a unusable ticket stub in your hand.
Yeah, this. it certainly ‘appears’ that they have heard the anger against RNG real money transactions. I would expect the Rich Dragon Coffer to be a bit more costly (maybe) but of course it has a guaranteed skin ticket.
It is indeed very logical that something from the store would be more expensive than something that drops in the open world yeah.
What on earth are you talking about? I believe that the Rich Coffers will likely be more expensive than previous gem store chests.
I hope it’s just as good as Wintersday and Mad King. Those were the best GW2 days of my ~1500 hours dedicated to this game. I would gladly pay 50$ just for an expansion pack much like Wintersday/Mad King.
Personal Wishlist
New Activites
Large amount of decorations in Lions Arch
Recipes
New, temporary currency(like the wool socks)
New skins
WvW DecorationsI especially hope that there is a jumping puzzle. That would complete everything.
I def agree with the jumping puzzle, just really an all around awesome aspect to the game and the holiday events.
There’s speculation that for Dragon Bash, there are two tiers of RNG chests:
1. Rich Dragon Coffers are only available from the Gem Store, and they contain a guaranteed skin ticket.
2. (Normal) Dragon Coffers drop from mobs and from activities, and contain a rare chance for a ticket.
Yeah, this. it certainly ‘appears’ that they have heard the anger against RNG real money transactions. I would expect the Rich Dragon Coffer to be a bit more costly (maybe) but of course it has a guaranteed skin ticket.
The armor/weapons sold by the merchants does not have a special skin. It is a stat combo only.
I hope you understand how increadibly disappointing that is for everyone. There was a lot of hype at the idea that there might actually be new skins after all this time, since we’ve gotten tons of new weapon skins but absolutely zero new armor skins and armor is what people really want.
it was stated that there would be no new skins/armor for this phase of the living story
Bet there are loads that buys keys and open chests without knowing they can’t get the skins anymore.. Not everyone is on the website or forums everyday. Easy to miss out on stuff like that..
Good point, maybe use an up to date list of possible items in the chest in the key item description.
Does it seem odd that the keys are on sale when there are no special items in the chests?
Gamble that something will be added to the chests that you would like enough to buy keys to gamble for the something you want? RRNG?
Not odd, now that they have no promotion items in the chest (removed fused skins) they are losing a steady money flow, so they went on sale… same with the mini’s, disgusting really…
Disgusting? Dropping the price on a totally optional item that you can hold onto for as long as you want and use at your choice of time is disgusting?
So basically from what people posting are observing it sounds like WvW and PvP are getting some growth but not yet back up to what it was at launch, and PvE is pretty much only people running Dungeons and living story?
And the world zones are barren, because people are only doing the challenging or rewarding content, so hearts and DEs have pretty much fallen off the face of the game from the perspective of the majority of the player base? Which is kinda sad, because that’s where ANet would have spent a huge portion of their time.
That’s what it sounds like is going on to me.
SPvP nearly died completely. Now its just barely alive, wouldn’t call it growth.
No overflow in southsun on TC today.
I wish there was no overflow in southsun on TC today, getting my whole group there has been a pain.
They should just make it so the events, like the temple I question here, just fail if not completed in a set period of time and then have period of time before they can be activated. Purposely not completing an event so there is constant mob spawns is obviously not what is intended, have the event fail and then a cool down would fix this.
I run about 350 MF, I’ve got about 8 crates (one weapon ticket!) in about 10 hours there doing events and stuff