This dailys description is misleading…if I misunderstood it, then so did 1,000’s of other players…
Not so bad, now I know to look for clumps to harvest…
Agree with the OP, its a terrible daily, takes for too long for a daily. You after do 20 offshoot spore events to complete it, so its 4x as long as the other daily, daily event completer where you do 5 events.
Should be 5 or 10 spores.
Also, YES THEY HAVE NERFED SPORE DROP RATE, shock, horror. I was getting 10-15 after completing 1 toxic offshoot event first night from some of the events, now its 3-5.
Waypoints are being evaluated currently. There will be changes to that aspect of WvW that we look at in the upcoming tests. Based on how that works out, we would then move any of those changes into the live game once they had been tested. We aren’t discussing the specifics just yet, until the test is live.
Just for the record I love waypoints and so do many other players. They help make WvW a fast paced experience, with constant combat.
If you were to remove waypoints or force players to run more from point to point (boring downtime, with no combat/action), it would make WvW worse not better.
You can read up on every change you missed here:-
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates
As you can see, far too much to cover.
However, if you want the latest bling, you need to get ascended gear/legendary. Start collecting laurels for your trinkets and get your crafting upto 500 for acsended gear.
Its basically a big expansive, grind that’s designed to take you 100’s/1,000’s of hours. In the meantime they will add more grind to keep you playing…
NERF EVERYTHING! NERF IT NOW!
Instead of power creep lets have power slump…YEA BABY!
This is not a conspiracy…
Viz are actively pursuing alliances as a new tactic/strategy since the start of the league.
Who can blame them? Its very, very effective and 100% ensures there domination of the gold league.
Other servers can cry all they want…
Btw its not just national alliances, they will ally with anyone (errm perhaps not SFR), they simply offer the other server 2nd place and a easier week.
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I have done instance twice on 2 different characters and the 2nd time you don’t get the 3 exotic champion loot bags. Which are of course the best part of the loot!
So its not worth doing on a different character, although it does not seem to give you any choice, kicking off the instance straight away even through I had already done it.
25 SP’s is approximately equivalent to 5g… you’d think Anet would have considered that when making the prices.
Who in their right mind would spend 5g plus all those spores when they can just use SP’s.
Closer to 10g, if you use them wisely. So 10g versus 5g + 250 freely farmable widgets. Not looking so obvious now ….
It’s faster to farm those 25 skill points than 250 “freely farmable” widgets. Even if you do only the living story.
Actually it isn’t, I got a 100+ in just over a hour.
Sometimes when you harvest you get 2-3 swipes and 10-15 of them, other times around 4-5 and sometimes just 1. Its like a 33% chance at either.
Some players don’t realise skill points can be turned into gold, 5+ gold to be exact.
So Anet’s pricing is spot on really.
Could we talk about Tequatl?
Please don’t we are all trying to forget it exists…so stop bringing a sore subject up.
Tequatl, ascended gear best just ignored…
The light version looks more like heavy armour…
Got to agree the male versions are great.
The female especially light are ‘not so good’ but I am sure someone somewhere will like it…
A dev said previously this new skill is permanent and with us forever.
Also, they seemed to indicate you could buy the new skill, like you buy skills now by using skill points…
Doing the LS just saves you skill points apparently…
This was a post last week, so hopefully is still correct and has not been changed.
So Wintersday speculation?
Not as good as last years, judging from Halloween…
Wow, that’s awesome…its kinda scarey in a clown sort of way too.
Buying one for my Charr now.
Its officially, according to Anet devs NOT TROLLING.
Its a added difficulty to completing those JP’s and fully working as designed and intended.
Do we think the league is over after week 1 of 7?
For example its now a certainty Viz will finish 1st in Gold league, Des 1st in Silver league.
If so, its not much of a league is it?
There have been many, many times where I can’t even see my character full stop…so skill tells etc…are totally impossible.
Its a case of dodge/spam skills and pray for divine intervention in those situations.
I wonder if we could get a screenshot of Tequatl in ‘prison’ on every server, with no one around at all?
I wonder if Tequatl is happy or sad no one visits anymore?
Back, ‘in the day’, I heard he was very popular with many thousands visiting him everyday…
Really happy this morning, Viz/Pik both attacking Sfr EB keep in lovely blobs, even waiting for each another to attack at the same time. Was great though, no need to run around, walking bags/loot coming right to me…
Made over 20g a hour from Viz/Pik jointly attacking, its great…love being targeted by 2 servers…I am 100% sure the loot we get from the other servers will far outway the rubbish loot Anet hands out for winning the league…
Keep it up Viz/Pik, keep on coming…you do the hard work, I will collect the loot…
I hope you after make your way through the tower, from bottom to top, with various challenges in your way.
It would be nice to have 2 versions as well, a easy version…perhaps no to little reward but you get achievements and a harder version, which gets increasingly harder the higher up you go, with a reward chest at the end of each level.
Finally, a nice scarey, spooky surprise at the top because its that time of year…
If this new heal skill does not heal for much is it overpowered?
Will players really choose it over a heal skill that removes 3 conditions, heals for a good amount and only has a 20 sec cooldown?
I think your judging too quick…can already see the threads when its released…new heal skill pathetic/useless, why bother…
I do that as well, join hot join, well I am waiting for solo queue…
Waiting is really boring…
The number of times I have been cruising to a easy win in hot join only to after leave before the end to go solo queue and then get destroyed in sole queue…
Its a shame not to get any reward for your time in hot join especially when you contributed greatly to the win…
Btw…if hot join gives no glory or no rewards full stop, I would never play hot join again because there would be no point and I assure you 90% of players would do the same. Its pointless without any reward…
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Am I the only one that enjoy the LS
Yes, just you and Anet.
I agree with the majority of what the OP said…
But I would like to add, why no DEFENSIVE achievements like:
Defend sm 3 times
Defend keeps 10 times
Defend 20 towers
Build 10 AC’s in a sm/keep/tower
Pay for a ugrade at any fortification/supply camp
There are no defensive achievements at all, its no wonder most players assume defense is worthless…
The commanders that are really bad are the one’s who stand around a lot doing nothing, also those that go around the map with a big zerg only to capture a couple of camps/sentrys. You only need 2-3 players to capture camps/get bloodlust.
Zergs are for taking towers/keeps/sm.
Gold
1. Vizunah
2. Piken (have a alliance with Viz)
3. SFR (useless at defending anything, taking supply camps and capping bloodlust, no chance at winning)
Silver:
1. Desolation (very clever getting into silver league)
Not alots changed since the Queens pavilion event but Halloween is a really fun event and you may want to give that ago.
Anet are currently collecting player feedback on the game in 3 separate threads and hopefully will address some of the main issues in the future.
Its same in the EU tier 1 as well, sometimes you can’t use your skills for upto 30 secs…whenever you come near a 3 blob fight its like getting close to a black hole, time slows and lag increases.
This is only going to be around for 3 weeks…then back to the normal rubbish loot…
I like the temporary change…
You can exchange the candy for skins from the vendor in LA, you can see vendor from where you exit the mists even…
The skins are HUGELY overpriced however and you may after farm PvP 24/7 for the next 3 weeks to get them.
How will we know the overall score? Who’s in the lead from week to week?
It would be good to know…so I can get the kitchen sink out and throw it at the server I need to throw it at…
Someone correct me if I am wrong but…
I don’t think you will need to do any of the JP’s to get the meta achievement…
It’s just there for the players who like the jumping…
Remember its not finished and its being beta tested by WvW players, so problems can be ironed out…
This is great news for me, I am on Seafarer’s Rest and I log in to play WvW and can’t because of queues…often I have given up and logged off to play another game. So good idea, also involving players is great because we will end up with it being good…cause players who play know the game the best and know what works well.
WvW
1. Leagues, you need to put a system in place where any server in a particular league has the chance of winning, otherwise no point in leagues. Some kind of handicapping system, for example in Horse Racing in handicap races all horses carry a different weight, so in theory all horses should cross the finish line at the same time. They don’t but often winning distances are by a nose, a neck etc…making it very exciting. You can do this in WvW, I know you can.
2. Queues, I am on Seafarer’s Rest and the queues are often hours long. It causes me to just go and play other games instead.
3. Alt friendliness, you really should go out of your way to encourage alts, not discourage them.
PvP
1. Rewards…PvP is the least rewarding part of GW2, essentially there really is zero reward atm.
2. More build diversity options.
3. New game types other than conquest by standing in a circle.
PvE
1. Rewards.
2. Ascended gear grind/grinding in general.
3. Living Story vs Expansion.
They have introduced more RNG (yeah…not) in the ranking chests…
Opened 2 tonight…
2 greens, 16s in one, nothing else. That’s a NERF in my book…
2 greens, 10 BoH, 25s. That’s a bit of a BUFF.
No idea wether overall its a buff or nerf…
I should imagine…eventually, when you have opened a couple of 100 to let the RNG even out, it will equate to a very tiny buff…if they got there maths right…which is a BIG IF…
I agree with this…
I don’t know if Anet have information on how often individual skills/traits are used though…if they have not, then never going to happen…
There are loads of utility skills, elite skills, racial skills and traits for all classes that less then 5% of players use. Makes sense to either buff them or merge them with other skills/traits or replace them entirely.
They are apparently working more on skills/traits over the next 6 months or so…
I don’t think this is aimed at WvW forums in particular at all…
The sPvP forums have loads of hostile posts and all the individual character class forums have loads of way over the top posts calling Anet/individual staff members.
Anyone permanently banned will just post on Reddit or other non official GW2 sites instead…a lot of players already do, avoiding this forum completely because of over the top moderation.
Wasn’t any of the pitiful buffs to staff completely undermined by the AoE nerf?
Quit playing Ranger when SB was nerfed to 900 range.
Nothing in those patch notes would make me want to play Ranger again…
Enjoying other character classes anyway, so who cares about Ranger…
You can do 1v1 to 8v8 duels or anything inbetween in a custom arena to your hearts content…
Unless you are too cheap to buy a custom arena? In which case you don’t want it really…
Anyone else picture an overly-excited camel walking around yelling “Patch Dayyyyy! Yeah!”
They should have an asura riding a yak that wanders around LA doing this to help inform players.
I support this idea.
I’ll second that. Though maybe it could be a baby Quaggan on the yak?
Maybe a baby quaggan leading the yak with an asura on top?
A skritt out in front shouting, “free shineys” with a baby quaggan leading the yak with an asura on top…
That might get noticed…
I still only see greens/blues…
I have a feeling most ppl would buy an expansion of any type if they put it out. As things stand they are giving us free expansion like content so i am not sure why ppl think paying money would make it more enjoyable. I guess ppl are fooled into the idea that money buys happiness? You realty got to question ppl ethics who think this way.
The LS is not giving players the kind of content they want…new zones, new character classes, new legendary weapons, new weapons with new skills, more skills etc…
A lot of the LS is 1 dungeon which is not so different from a lot of dungeons you done before or reworking world bosses which some like, some don’t, plus of course another list of achievement points to tick off…oh and another back piece…
The quality of each LS varies considerably, some are good, some are dire bug ridden versions of hell…
Why does Anet hate alts?
I know its really weird and makes no commercial sense whatsoever…
They should encourage all players to play alts because the more alts you have the more chance you would buy stuff from the gemstore for them and possibly with real $.
But, I long a go came to the conclusion that the people at Anet think very differently from how I think…they just have strange ideas and make weird decisions…
Why does Anet hate alts?
I know its really weird and makes no commercial sense whatsoever…
They should encourage all players to play alts because the more alts you have the more chance you would buy stuff from the gemstore for them and possibly with real $.
But, I long a go came to the conclusion that the people at Anet think very differently from how I think…they just have strange ideas and make weird decisions…
Yes…but it would not matter if it was Cantha based.
Any GW2 expansion I would buy, because I have played 2000+ hrs, so GW2 is great value for money.
I would like new character classes and a whole new clump of zones, not bothered about new races since racial skills are all rubbish.
But where is fun if you just craft it?
Because crafting for me is no fun when you have to kill half a forrest and mine more than the 7 dwarfs to get one lousy item? With 8 chars this is going to take me longer than I live.
Hire the dredge to do your mining…and all those loggers in queensdale to do your chopping…
Maybe you should play each character more or play fewer of them. If all you do in this game is max gear your chars then retire them to play an alt, I don’t really have much sympathy for your difficulty in getting ascended weapons.
So much for GW2 to being alt friendly and so much for the community in GW2…both apparently suck according to the above poster…
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No, I like the invasions…
Apparently they are not permanent anyway…once Scarlet is caught/dealt with they will stop…who knows that may happen soon…
So, if you like the AWESOME loot you get from invasions make the most of them.
Well, they did say it was a experiment…
But, it is dumb, why remove content, why force everyone to do everything in 2 weeks?
The modern world is hectic, with lots to do…people work, go on hoidays, unexpected events occur etc, etc…having content around for such a short time, deleting content altogether it just does not fit the modern world.
I have seen dozens of those threads from returning players, saying nothing has changed and they are correct in the main..come on Anet its just putting players off…