Percentages prior to the Nuhoch lane fix are pointless to analyze. It sucks that it took so long, but that’s the situation we have. I have no doubt you are right that many people gave up already or are frustrated, which is unfortunate.
I did the event twice yesterday. The first is the one I mentioned above, where one lane didn’t have enough dps. That map was well organized by players, not one big guild. I bet we could have saved it if the commander had communicated after the first burn that they needed more dps. The other was a completely disorganized map still trying to get people to the confluence and find commanders as the Gerents were emerging. I knew that map wasn’t going to beat the event, but they actually did better than I expected and made it past the first burn.
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If you do it with pugs, it fails 9/10 or 95/100 or even 99/100. Get over it, people don’t want to try so hard to fail over and over again, then meta abandoned.
Don’t go with TTS, try with pugs every run and tell us how you feel.
I have completed this fight in a pug and if you had actually read what I wrote you would have seen I said a map organized to that degree isn’t remotely necessary. The Nuhoch lane was just fixed a couple of days ago. You had to be lucky to complete the event prior to that point. Now that the event is working properly, give it a chance. Maybe your bad attitude is making the event fail.
The wiki says that you need to salvage exotic weapons for the inscription recipe. I did that with no success. And so I am looking for help and advice.
The inscription recipe is known to players and made and sold on the TP, so the recipe must be available. And yet I cannot seem to learn it.
No, the wiki does not say you need to salvage weapons for the recipe. Exotic cavalier inscription can not be crafted and there is no such recipe. You salvage for the inscription itself. You then use the salvaged exotic inscription to craft the ascended version.
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The thread title is a blatant lie.
And, I know this will come to a shock to you, but believe it or not, not all of us get in a map with a mega guild created for fighting these things.
It isn’t a lie, and you don’t need a map organized by a mega-guild to do this fight. The only thing required to organize this fight is to have people who want to complete it, get them to the confluence ahead of time, and have 4 people that can run the lanes (even that may not be necessary eventually).
I think people would have this fight down completely by this point if it hadn’t been for the spore bug in Nuhoch lane, which is now fixed. People are still learning some of the best strategies, but that will all get nailed down soon. There are certain things that may not be immediately obvious (like getting back to spores early for Nuhoch lane.
My favorite tip, that I just learned yesterday: fight the Gerent under its belly. Orange circles will not hit you there. I’ve beaten the fight and never seen that done. As with the OP, the lane I was in killed the Gerent on the second burn phase (but not the same map as one lane didn’t have sufficient dps on the map I was on).
Which brings me to the real issue that is going to make completing this fight routinely a royal pain: dps. This isn’t Tequatl, where you can take until the three minute mark to get to the first defense phase and still win. SCAR lane needs strong dps, but the others also do to a certain degree.
My suggestion for this fight: rework Ogre lane so that breaking the Chak eggs places some kind of debuff on players. This debuff would have a damage effect on the player but also increase their damage significantly. The damage taken by players should be mitigated by toughness. Players in glass cannon gear should melt in this lane, making soldier/cleric/knight gear necessary, much like reflects are needed mid in Silverwastes. This would give a place for players wearing tankier gear to thrive during this fight.
Believe the eye is before the wizard (after giant).
Eldrin buddy… your ascended is still Bis Stat wise and if Stat swap is a problem for you…. you can craft every ascended set with every Stat and it solves your arguement. … that is if you are still ignoring your other options, like finding better guilds, pugging (yes it’s hard now but won’t be for long and is doable… I’ve pugged first 2 bosses 2 weeks in a row), or paying for a raid boss kill…..
Eldrin already has multiple ascended sets. It has already been explained that this is, in fact, superior to legendary (because of having multiple sets of runes). Eldrin has also been told by multiple people that there are guilds that don’t require people to speak on voice chat in order to raid. Those have been ignored.
Any nerf of this skill will make hammer useless in PvE instantly.
L2p. Learn to evade. It is easy.
Not if it is done the right way (assuming it is truly needed once the cruel repercussion trait is changed). CoR is absolutely a vital skill in PvE. For damage, but also for tagging enemies. I adore this skill and have thought about this quite a bit. I believe it needs to remain on a low cooldown because of the way the skill is used in PvE. Increasing the energy cost could allow it to remain spammable but not infinitely so. The damage for the three hits could be adjusted to make the last one a bit more modest if necessary.
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Ah, thanks for the explanation. I have taxied into TD before, but not recently.
Yeah, a single macro that activated all the facets would be a no-go.
Huh? When will u possible want all activated at The same time? I guess OP is new to to game or just facesmash keyboard. And want to have a macro to use all keybind åt once.
First of all it’s stupid idea. NEVER use all your cds st once. Learn your rotations (pve) and be careful with important cds (pvp)
You might make an effort to understand the profession before telling other people how to play it. First off, activating the facets doesn’t trigger any cooldowns. Second, one of the popular skill rotations with Shiro/Glint is to activate all Glint facets to purposely run out of energy (thus deactivating all facets including Facet of Nature) before invoking Shiro).
I got my full ascended gear (minus amulet cuz no laurel) in just over a month as a f2p player by just doing normal gameplay.
I’m confused. F2p players get no login rewards, meaning no laurels (as you said). Purchasing the recipes to craft ascended gear requires laurels for each individual recipe. Given that ascended gear drops are exceedingly rare and getting even one in that span of time would be cause for tremendous celebration, how exactly did you acquire ascended gear?
I swear I got 4 yesterday from one. Maybe it was infused and I didn’t realize it…
Its says a lot about a company when they are willing to loose a lot of customers that have thrown a lot of cash at them.
Stop complaining that money can’t buy everything – some people like that SKILL is required for rewards. Try joining a guild that is working on Raids and EARN your reward.
You might try reading the entire thread. This was not even remotely their complaint.
Presumably they should dye the same, being heavy armor from the same set and not appearing to be made of different materials. I suggest you report it as a bug.
The chest and shoulders are not from the same set.
Lots of armor sets have different material properties and therefore appear different when dyed the same color. This is nothing new.
I don’t mind it at all. Having goals to work toward is a good thing. And it isn’t as if profession X is worthless unless you have hard to acquire stat set Y. It’s a question of balance, and it may well be that certain things are more cumbersome than they need to be (leadership runes, perhaps), but working toward a goal and achieving it can be quite satisfying.
I’ve done this one solo and also in big groups. the key here isn’t just killing all the Chak, but keeping them away from the larvae by getting rid of the closest ones. I think there may be multiple spots the larvae like to go, but I usually pick one spot and focus on that. I’m not sure, but it may be that if you kill all of them it just makes them respawn faster.
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Generally speaking, I agree. I don’t think a daily reset is necessary, but cross-instance would be a huge benefit.
The damage is not the problem, its the 2 second cooldown on the skill.
I disagree. It may be A problem, but it isn’t THE problem. Again, the ability can only do that kind of damage every 15 seconds, because of the trait.
I believe that the 50% damage component should simply be split up into multiple damage packets, say 5 of 10% each. Alternatively, the cooldown could be reduced and the bonus decreased accordingly. The trait would still be powerful, yet the crazy spikes would be eliminated. Then there could be a more sensible look at whether the core ability needs an adjustment, and if so, by how much.
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When did this first happen? I’ve spent a ton of time in TD and never seen that happen.
Nothing is getting nerfed right now. You have already made a thread saying there should be more weapons. Please stop making multiple threads about the same thing.
Dont really want to change it much.
Something i have in mind is to normalize it damage, rather than keep it based on distance. Depending on what damage value we take increase cd/energy. Change CoR to send out energy in a similiar fashion as tremor to prevent double hit.
Ah, ok. You said “rework” and I thought you had something more extensive in mind.
Join a Sparkfly fen map within 5 minutes of the event starting and you will get into an overflow map that will still have plenty of people to complete the event successfully. Stand by his feet during burns and there’s a very good chance you will get this in one or two tries.
This is still a problem.. Just wanted to bump it up so someone might take notice or let us know they are looking into it at least.
Change your underwater legends to Shiro and Mallyx.
And imo also notice how good lb on dh is (meta) while our hammer has no place whatsoever.
I get you want a ranged weapon better suited to pvp, but many of us love hammer as is. Wouldn’t adding another ranged weapon be a better option?
The amount of organization needed is actually quite minimal. It’s a very simple case of meet at the confluence, split into four groups, and run up the lanes.
Having said that, it should definitely be easier to get everyone into a zone together.
The 17k hit is due to a trait called Cruel Repercussion. The trait is on a 15 second cooldown and adds 50% damage to an attack after an attack is blocked. The trait needs to be redesigned because it creates these silly damage spikes.
The base ability may or may not need an adjustment, but they really need to do something about the trait first.
Double hit is how it works
And we know this was intended how? And I don’t see why they couldn’t tweak it to prevent that from happening unless the target is running away.
Bc it has 3 different pulses? If it wasnt for that it could be simply one hit based on range. Jalis road can hit multiple times too
Yes, but two can hit a stationary target, which seems odd, doesn’kitten
Double hit is how it works
And we know this was intended how? And I don’t see why they couldn’t tweak it to prevent that from happening unless the target is running away.
I like it. For my tastes, it isn’t super garish; I’m glad it isn’t any more than it is.
I think they could increase its energy cost in WvW and leave it as is everywhere else. Before that though, they should get rid of its ability to hit people twice since that seems to be the biggest problem when flinging it into a zerg.
If that’s doable (differing cost in WvW) seems like a solid plan.
Yeah, a single macro that activated all the facets would be a no-go.
every dam week, new outfit, new outfit, new outfit…
WE WANT ARMOUR SKINS.
but hey, expecting anet to get a clue is a bit ambitious.
And the reason we don’t get any (from what I have heard repeatedly) is because players complained about armor skins being sold in the gem store.
Well, Nuhoch lane spore respawning was supposedly fixed today, though I haven’t tried it. That should help a great deal.
I’m a long time player of the game. But this rev/herald setup is really confusing.
I’ve managed to buy the first skill, Infuse Light. But how to I buy the other skills? if I click the arrows over skill boxes 7,8,9,0 it only gives me the option to buy facet of darkness, facet of elements, and facet of strength. The build Im following doesnt use these.
It feels like there should be another bar in the skills section for Dragon Stance, so I can buy skills on that. I’ve got Dwarf, Demon, Centaur, and Assassin Training bars in the skills menu. So how do we buy skills for the Dragon stance?
I noticed on the build Brazil does, his specialisation picture is different than mine. He’s got a dragon face on his. On mine its shoulder armor piece.
So can anyone explain how we buy skills for the dragon stance?
If the build you are following does not use those facets, then it doesn’t have Glint equipped as one of the two legendaries (you can be a herald without equipping Glint). Perhaps if you linked the build.
LOL… every time someone lines up a fresh QQ about this skill, it’s description gets more and more impressive with each telling. Hits up to 15 people ???
that is correct. The ability is comprised of three attacks, each of which is capable of hitting 5 targets.
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Anyone that can’t detect the rising sense of frustration that many players have with this game, it’s myriad of bugs and incidences of broken content and the failure of ANet to adequately engage with the players is delusional..
Oh, I would absolutely agree that there is a rising sense of frustration and that the development team could do a much better job engaging with the community right now. For me, that isn’t the same as being ignored. But as I said yesterday, I think feeling ignored is an understandable response to the distinct lack of communication post-release compared to what we experienced prior to release. Players that feel like they are being ignored can and should express that, but should also understand that not everyone feels that way and should not speak for the community as a whole, since we aren’t all the same.
Legendary armor is not just cosmetic
How so? I appreciate your plight, but if doing the raid isn’t an option, why not simply take the massive amount of gold you have accumulated and buy multiple sets of ascended gear to suit whatever needs you have? And you could convert some of it to gems to purchase more bag space to carry it if need be. Carrying multiple gear sets could be viewed as an inconvenience, but it is actually the superior alternative since you can have different runes in each set (and as far as we have been told, legendary armor won’t provide the ability to swap runes freely without removing/destroying the runes.
One last question. Are you able to listen in teamspeak if you don’t have to talk? I’m quite certain you could find a guild that would allow you to type in chat instead of needing to talk over a microphone if that were something you were able to do.
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Whether you think he’s speaking for himself or the community is irrelevant. The OP is correct about the fact that the developers are ignoring the players. There are so many examples of that now it is indisputable.
You are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled not to share it. Do I think there is a lack of communication? Yes. Do I wish there were more? Yes. Do I think they are ignoring players? No. Apparently it isn’t so indisputable.
Just did underground facility fractal and got the Ice boss. That guy’s aura when hit by the lava is barely above his knees and you can’t even tell it’s there most of the time. Our lever puller kept thinking he missed.
Uhm…wow. That’s….wow
Won’t argue with that. I’ve actually completed it once, but would like to do it more (I’m a weirdo that LIKES TD) and I know a bunch of people are frustrated with it.
Heck, I’m still waiting to finish the personal story because of the issues with the last fight.
There are LOTS of things that need attention, for sure.
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Flameseeker… got new effects
What? Didn’t notice anything and nothing listed in the patch notes.
Footsteps and blue aura with a trail of New Krytan characters.
Thanks. How the heck did I not notice footsteps? Have to check my graphic settings later…
This fix has absolutely nothing to do with the meta event. While an acknowledgment that they are aware of the problem and are working on a fix would be greatly appreciated, interpreting a bug fix to a mission as them ignoring Nuhoch lane is silly.
Very much agree that the event timer is too long in TD.
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Flameseeker… got new effects
What? Didn’t notice anything and nothing listed in the patch notes.
So … 14k dmg aoe / 1200 Range / 2 seconds cd is ok ? we talk wvw here.
(not include roaming here this is not wvw)
For the five hundred and thirty-seventh time, it is NOT a 14k aoe on a 2-second cooldown. Not even remotely close. That kind of damage requires a trait activation on a 15-second cd, among other things. We can have a conversation about whether or not the ability is too strong, but not if people insist on taking edge case examples and pretending those occur every 2 seconds to satisfy some agenda.
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Just read the new patch note… Sigh… Still no improved rewards for fractal…
Guess i’m not gonna touch that content for another moment then…
I suggest converting matrices while they are worth two keys, and hoarding keys for the time being. Even doing a single fractal when there is a general daily fractal can net you 5-6 keys for minimal effort.
Agreed with OP. Especially the sound has to go, it is so annoying I have to play with instruments off whenever I play herald.
And it would be far more annoying to those of us that love it if it were removed completely.
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I think the majority of posters just want to feel like they matter as customers and that the things that are important to them are also important to the Dev team, even if the players don’t always get exactly what they want.
Oh, I agree. And I’m not sure that Anet management (or whoever it is who makes the calls about communication) understands this, or cares if they do understand it.
I think they do, but I also believe they don’t always think in terms of player psychology. For instance, half the problem on the forums right now is that before the expansion came out we had much more open and direct lines of communication with the development team. This set the expectation among players (rightly or not is irrelevant, we are talking human nature here) that such dialog would continue. A number of people have expressed the opinion (which I don’t share, just to be clear) that the developers “took their money and ran” and I think this is precisely the result of what has been a dramatic decline in communication. There may be excellent reasons for this, but again they do not matter in the eyes of the players expressing these opinions.
Another example was the elite specialization debacle, which they have acknowledged they mishandled. If you read between the lines, you could see what was about to happen unfolding. Players talked for weeks about how they couldn’t wait to dive into the expansion with their elite specializations. Required numbers of points were datamined and no one took the opportunity in any of the (which I recall being plentiful) threads on the subject to say, “hey guys, I can’t give you the exact numbers, but it is going to be a significant investment of time and will require playing part of the expansion”. The biggest hint of the impending disaster came (I think) just a couple ofdays before the release of the expansion with a cryptic comment about how they couldn’t wait until we could explore the new areas and (roughly) “start unlocking” the elite specs.
There are plenty of other possible examples. Mind you, there is nothing unique about this. I’ve seen it in every mmo I have played, the Aion summer event from a few years back that resulted in all the cities being filled with characters jumping in place or running against walls being my favorite.
I think so many problems (e.g. Broken reward structures) could be avoided if more developers spent a bit more time thinking like players.
I’ve spent virtually all of my time in HoT as a Herald, which I adore.
Some will find this strange, but my favorite map is Tangled Depths. It can be rather perplexing at times, but I really like how each of the areas is like its own little mini zone. VB has so much going on I have barely scratched the surface of it. Tarir meta event is fun and rewarding.
I don’t care for the story all that much, to be honest. I find it kind of superficial, with a number of events that occur for no other reason than because certain things needed to happen. I also found very little in the way of skins etc that I have any remote interest in.
Hoping to make some progress in the raid tonight. I am very much interested in getting started on legendary armor. Hoping that fractal rewards will become more enticing as well.
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Most likely it’s a holiday thing; she is listed as the Forum Communications Team Lead, which pretty much means her main responsibility is responding to/consolidating feedback from (or having a team do that for her) hooligans like us who type stuff all the time. Gotta say that she probably earned the break the minute she stepped into the forums, haha. Okay, maybe not all of us are that bad. =P
Probably. She was support team, I believe, prior to getting the forum communications title though, so it’s hard to say for sure what all responsibilities they put on her. Forum communications may be a sometimes role and her role may be shifting over time as well.
Office politics, changing priorities, and all that.
Yeah, there is a lot of negativity to take in. Can’t say I’d jump at the job. Would certainly be a unique kind of challenge though. Part of me would want to try that sort of job, just to see what kind of mood and presentation I could sow among forummers from that kind of position.
I think the majority of posters just want to feel like they matter as customers and that the things that are important to them are also important to the Dev team, even if the players don’t always get exactly what they want.